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IionOrs 70 Err,iinnr

WAsn!So7eS, D. g., July Ii. The
President has Issued an order that the
National flag be displayed at hali mast
upon all the buildings Of the executiy6
departments in Washington until after
the funeral Of John Q. Fremont.
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sEEER1aS. n. Y, July l4.-This town
was partially destroyed by fire this morn.
ing. Excelsior Hall, eleven business
places and seven dwellings were burned,
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
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Tbs Rig LpltrtIeH.

Philadelphia, Il; Pittsburgh, l. (N.L1
New York, |; Cincinnati, tS. u
brooklyn, 10; Chicago, 3. (Asso.)
Philadelphia, II; Chicago, u IN. L)
Boston, l9; Cleveland, s (N.L)
Cleveland, 10; New York, S PL,
brooklyn, 6; Pittsburgh, 9. (P. Lj
Boston, l3; Buffalo, 2. (P.L1
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DHGGAE DESCRIPTION.

The sights at the scene OF the disaster
beeBar description. The sites Of the
Good and schurmeir cottages were
marked only by their foundations, " hile
the ground for Il radius of nu acre or
more is strewn with debris OF all kinds.
Near the cellar OF the Schurmeir house
lies a drive well with twenty feet Of
cast iron pipe, which was literally torn
from the ground. Huge trees, some OF
them two and half feet in diameter,
have been broken of close to the
ground. Chickens without feather
left on them litter the ground.
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VIENNA, July 1.-THE Austrian iron
masters have decided to prolong their
agreement relative to the prices OF iron,
for three yearB from January |.
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ElRE AT DALLAS.
Valuable buildings Burned-Loss Nearly a

'aluanle nuii'lin:| burned-Loss Nearly n
-L Million. !. ..I ..4.
DALLAS. TEXAS. July IA fro Lrole
out in the Goald building Mt 1910
O'CLOCK this morning and is now spread
ing rapidly. The Merchants Exchange
and Could building are almos: con.
sumed aud the en,ire block Viii likely
be destroyed. The loss may amount to
oyer million dollars before the fire is
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A Horrible Affair,

sptetas DtrDise't to the hsielsigeneer.
CHARLEsroS, W. Va, July 1i.-A
special from Catlettsburg, KY, tells OIL
horrible accident by which John Wool.
lord, Justice Of the Peace in Pike
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BOMBAY, July l4.-Forty.four deaths
from cholera have occurred among the
members OF battalion OF Ghoorkas sta
toned at Dharmassala, in the punjab.
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uo,DrnnmIt," l;o.s,. VIII Return.

DunLlS, July 1.-THE ,Freeman's Jour.
nal says that O'Donovan Rossa's period
Of outlawry will expire next winter, and
that be will visit Cork In January,
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TEN III rs LOST.

a Frightful Rniirond Accident Ecar Now
.. Albany, Ipdlan..
New ALBANY, 1Sp., July 1.-THE
Goshorn accommodation train on the
Monon coljidea with freight train Al at
smithville flag station, eight miles south
OF Bloomington, Ind, and eight miles
north Of this city, at s O'Clock this morn.
ing. Ten lives were lost.
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New YoRK, July IA ARRIVED: Steam.
ers Arizona, Liverpool; La Gascogue,
Hayre; Anchoria, Glasgow.
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wind accompanied by a thunder storm.
Hail rs large as medium sized olives was
nnn nj tbn fnutNrn,, ~ NVittn H..

uihh huSsohipauicN ny tuuuueE btOTLl
Hail as large as medium sized olives waa
one ol the features at White Dear.
Besides tho Good and schurmeicr
cottages, the following persons urc
known to have Ind their cottages blown
10 pieces: Moses Milapston, Mrs. J. 7.
Niiianston nnd Mrs. D. G. Shannon.
These were situated Il short distance
west OF Lake Getyais. A MIR. Gao,zke,
living half mile east OF tho lake, had
his house destroyed, az did s. MAIDEN,
living near Little Canada, n mile and a
half west Of the lake. Several OF the
inmates OF this house were injured, hut
none fatally. Besides the houses de.
stroyed, n number OF barns and wind.
mills were blown down. No estimate
can be made ia yet, however, of the
amount OF damage done to property.
The Gotske home, just south OF Lake
Gervais, was also demolished md Mrs.
Gotske severely bruised about tho head.
At Lake Nadnais, Alra. Eastou aud
Mia. Shannon were slightly injured.
Above Little Canada, the Ozier house
was wrecked and three Ozier children
cut and bruised. Other homes were bad
ly destroyed and all sorts OF rumors as
to killed aud injured are flying around.
A party OF Pleasare.seekers are known
to have heen out in boat near Little
Canada before the storm and they nre
reported to be mi.sing. It was also re.
ported in the excitement OF last night
that several boats had left the dock near
Tho Srhurmutpr raaf4uuco hufnrn ~,
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CANTON.

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Earned rtns-Canton, ]; Wheeling. + rw,,
@ 6GSe hit-i'ets: Three b.se hltS~Westluke,
D,btiep. gases.on balls-0E Iiandi6oc, t. i,as,.
even. svSM inr M hit!inE man with ball-llandihoc.
pitci-Gibson. rime-l:32 UmpireWBradbnrv
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At the visit Of tho shah of Persia to Wad-
desden manor, tho country seat of Baron
Ferdinand Won Rothschild, ho inspected all
the treasures and antiquities of the baron,
but was pleased most with u Jewel set mantle
clock, which is n yeritable work of art Tho
central figure OF this clock is that Of an ele-
phant, which, when tho clock is wound, be-
gins to wag his golden tail, move his jeweled
trunk, shake his large cars and turn his small
diamond eyes; thereupon the lotos flowers,
formed of jewels, ut his feet, begin to open,
procession passes by, and from under the en-
ameled leaves Of the bushes snakes and other
reptiles crawl out. The shah was exceedingly
charmed with this costly toy, which had con-
stantly to be wound again for his delectation,
and his behavior demonstrated that the illus
trious shahen-shnh preferred it to all the
treasures owned by Rothschild Articles
had finally to be resorted to to attract his at
tenton to other things, for fear he might ex-
press desire to possess it.-Jewelers' Cir
Culur
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poets. Yet Homer was not n Greek. unless in
the sense that tho white people of America
are European while Burns thoroughly
Scotcll-n birth, feeling, sentiment and all
the events Of his life. 1t does not appear
that he was ever out of Scotland, and, save
very brief intervals, his whole life was spent
i'll SO small an area that the traveller may
easily visit all the scenes associated with his
name in single day.
Moore is sometimes called Ireland's poet,
yet if everything dstinctively Irish were
stricken from his works what mass would
he left! Strike the distinctivelv and en-
phatically Scotch from Burns, and there is
no poet left. Allan Ramsay may be named
as his nearest rival in the peculiarly local
and national line, while Walter Scott is con
fessedly more classical, but it is Burns that
is always Scotch, Burns that makes the
world acquainted with Scotland, Burns that
in his poems seems to breathe forth the very
essence of Scotch feeling, whether of patriot
ism or superstition, local attachment or the
tender passion. 1t almost seems that with a
volume of his poems in hand one might find
his way about the vicinity of Ayr without q
guide and recognize Mt sight the 'aull kirk"
the bridges and every striking scene upon
the doom.
On the 25th of January, 1850, he was born;
on ,he2lst of July, 1T96, he died-ony thirty
seven years of life, and nearly all of that
spent in rugged toll. In the summer of 1856
the first volume of his poems issued from the
obscure press of kilmarnock. and sprang at
once into such popularity that shrewd critics
predicted reaction; for it is q painful fact
that, as rule, the greatest works have grown
slowly into public favor, while sudden and
universal popularity is often a proof that the
production is suited only to the time in which
it appears, that its sparkle and humor please
because of their apt reference to passing
events or harmony with the atmosphere of
the day, and will evaporate rs that atmos-
phere is changed. Not thus has it been with
Burns. His genius was for all time.
A contemporary, Robert Heron, of the
Same locality, testties that "old and young,
high and low, learned and ignorant, were
alike transported with the poems, and plow-
men and maid servants gladly bestowed their
hard earnings to procure the works Of
Burns" AS the first edition was limited to
600 copies it was soon exhausted, and before
a second could be issued, so great was the
anxiety to obtain 1t that copies of many of
the poems were made in manuscript and
handed around from family to family. The
volume, indeed, contained matter for all
minds-for the lively and sarcastic, for the
gay and the thoughtful, for the enthusiast
and, above all, for the proper qualification of
local pride
1t must be admitted, however, that for this
sudden popularity the poems were somewhat
indebted to peculiarly favorng circumstah-
ces There had long been complete dearth
of really Scotch writer's, while of local lyrics
there had practically been none, unless we
except the works of Ferguson which appeared
in collected form in 1773. In Edinburgh
theology and critical and metaphysical works
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holding this position he was sent Us special
commissioner to Peru during the trouble be-
tween that country and Chilli After Presi-
dent Gartieli's death he acted us his fathers
secretary
After this he was made assistant attorney
for the government before the Alabama
claims court in Washington and did some
good legal work. When the court was abol-
ished young Blaine went west and formed
law partnership in Chicago with George S.
Willis, now a partner of tie Hon LYMAN
Trumbull. He made .lauy friends and soon
established good practice.
He finally left the west, however, and went
to New York, and from there 10 Washington
not long before hls father received the ap-
pontncnt OF secretary OF state. The very
night of his arrival in Washington he made
misstcp while nlighting from a cab aud
broke his lcg. Formuny weeks he was unable
to leave his home. Upon his recovery he was
appointed solicitor OF the state department
Walker Blaine had charge OF Ill his fa-
thers strictly private and confidential af-
fairs, and WAS undoubtedly IL young man of
unusual ability. Few men were better
known i'll Washington than was he and he
was very popular, particularly among news
paper men.
Although he was by means a society
man, ho often attended the receptions and
other social events which play so large u
part in Washington life, and in society cir
cles he was general favorite
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interviewing Is an application of, and is
Justified by, the axiom that the shortest dis
tance between two given points is in Il
straight line. Newspapers are published to
furnish information. Information doesn't
seek them; they have to seek it. Interview
ing is just as necessary to get "news' as it is
TO get views" Interviewing began with
the publication Of the first newspaper. But
it took newspaper publishers some time tc
find out that the public is about us much in
tercsted i'll what people Of note think about
what is going on MS in whnt is going on
They are only just finding this out in Eng.
land
There is n good deal Of nonsense written
about persecution by the interviewer. II a
man doesn't want to he interviewed, all he
has to do is to say mo- and stick to it, and
that settles it. There are many people who
like to SEQ their opinions in print, but they
don't wish to have it appear that they seek
publicity for them. Even the most conceited
and egotstical of men desire Il reputation for
modesty. once Travelled fifty miles to inter
view an ex-governor who had requested that
IL reporter be sent to interview him But the
interview was not prcfaced by tho statement
that 'eX-Governor - sent for IL reporter to
interview him" On the contrary, it was pre-
ceded by the observation that the reporter
hnd sought Ex-Governor - and that he .re.
luctantly consentcdn to give his views, etc.
There isa good deal of humbug in this world,
and u reporter sees rather moro of it than
most people. But, of course, the sort of no.
toriety seekers above referred to constitute
but small minority Of those who get inter.
viewed, Epoch.
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for the New York and New Haven and New
York and Harlem roads, one at Twenty
seventh street and Fourth avenue, the other
down town. at Centre street. The cars were
drawn between the two hy horses When
the great Union depot Mt lforty-scconl street
was built, the Twenty seventh street depot
was turned into II garden
Since then there is nothing in the shape Of
4 show that has not been held there AT one
season Theodore Thomas would delight the
cultivated ear Of musical people with his
trained orchestra. Then Moody au1 Sankey
would use tile place for their services They
would be succeeded for few weeks by
menagerie Of wild animals, and the sweet
tones OF MIR. Sankey would give place to the
roar Of the king Of beasts. Dog shows,
horse shows, chicken shows would be the
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I:oulld, North and south.

School teachers have many funny rNreri.
cnces III The mountain districts OF Tennessee
and Kentucky One teacher relates that one
Of his pupils was taken out Of school BECAUSE
he WAS taught there that the earth was
round. The lads father was 50 wrought up
at having such errors Taught in school, and
was so certain that the earth was fat, that
he challenged the schnolnaSter to II public
debate.
They discussed the question s.s To whether
the earth is round or HAT for Il week, before
crowded houses The jury which lad been
selected to decide the question disagreed
''If the arth be round, what's to keep folks
an things from tumblin' oifl'' was, to the
man and to more than half the audience, an
unanswerahle proof for the carths tatness.
The man admitted that there were too
many hills and mountains for the earth to he
exactly flat, and finally, impressed by.some
of tile masters arguments he said: Wal, it
mousht he round up an lown'-north and
south-"but it can't no ways be roul' t'other
way, cause things must fall Off wien it's top
side sleown."
This confused reasoning prevailed wi,llut
least half the jury and audience, who were
willing to grant that the earth might L."
ronud north and south, but not east an,
west.--1outh Companion.
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VOL. 21, NO. 80.


Is.,l Icon for century tii!s@.,rd in l,l'nElar-
ing out al, awful creed, and attacking or de-
Tending it. One who has made Il careful
study of that err, estimates that some ten
thousand volumes, pamphlets and printed
sermons appeared on such questions Us whctli-
er the elect were but handful or more out
Of many billions; whether illumination was
of special divine grace or might be sought
and induced by personal endeavor; whether
God foreknew only because he had foreor-
duinel or because forcknowledge was iuhe-
rent i'll infinite knowledge, and Il score of
other complicated conundruns in slipralnp-
Sarinn theology.
In the country, however, the Doric muse
was struggling for expression through Il
thousand unlcttered peasants. We have
abundant proof-and it is one of the most
curious facts in the nations evclopnlent--
that about this time the mass of the lower
and middle class Scotch had grown weary
of disquisitions and had walked apparently
to the beauty of their country and the poetry
of their common life. Innulncrahe songs
and ballads appeared among the peasantly,
rude, it is true but valuable indiccs Of n poetic
dawn, OF n popular longing. 10 all this feel
ing Robert Burns suddenly gave voice-he
put in tuneful lines what nearly all were
vaguely feeling-and was hailed with a wild
enthusiasm. Even SO it sometimes happens
in America that IL speaker succeeds i'll put
ting into words what the people have begun
to feel but have not yet learned to express
and is at once hailed as u great orator, be
cause he has spoken the peoples mind.n
A second edition soon appeared tApril,
17s7), and such was the enthusiasm that :, 800
copies were subscribed for in a few DAYS hy
1900 individuals. Burns had given meloGi-
Gus form to q popular longing; middle class
and rural Scotland had found u voice To
understand what followed it is necessary TO
briefly review the poets life Robert Burns
was born NJ Aloway, near Ayr, Jan 2tl,
1859, his father being poor farmer, but
man Of sterling worth and intelligence eager
to give his son AS good an education as he
could afford. Il wAs purely English, except
that he studied French for two weeks and
took short course i'll land surveying; but it
was extremely thorough and practical in
English. AT the early age Of eleven he was
gil acute critic in questions Of grammar, and
his earliest letters attest his proficiency. AS
soon as boyish strength was sufficient he was
put to hard farm work.
The most generous estimate does not credit
the Burns family library with more than
dozen miscellaneous books, among which
were Pope's and Allan Ranlsay's works, The
Spectator, volume of English songs and
some rather tedious histories With these
were some theological works one would think
calculated to frighten boy, but Robert read
every one of them and apparently under
stood them, 1t was not till he was - years
Old that he had access to anything that
might be called general library, but "A
poet was born and no Medusa could strike
him dumb
Poetry was in the air about him as well as
struggling i'll his heart; love came and sup
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Inventive Genius in Drcs

There never was time that offered greater
opportunities thun the present for a woman
to exercise her inventive genius in the way
of dress. for almost everything that feminine
brain can conjure up passes without COM
nent as the height OF fashion, so long as 1T
leaves pleasant impression upon the OBJ
server Her sleeves, her corsage garniture,
her whole gowns. i'll fact, are undiscovered
countries for her, She may let herself out
without restraint and indulge in the most
daring exploits and come out victor, with
dainty materialized ideas rs spoils; little
personalities, that make her gowns a part
OF herself, as it were; that give style, an
air, character TINT no modste could i'm
part, unless US close student Of tho patron
ahd her characteristics as the patron herself,
Detroit Free Press.
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What you will lose or gain if you go round
the world is date not day. In travelling
westward each date, commonly called a day,
hides the fact that for each degree of longi-
tude passed over you have added four min.
utes to the twenty-four hours If at noon,
when by custom you change your date, you
will find you have travcrsed fifteen degrees,
then your day" has contained Twenty-Five
hours instead of twenty-four. In going to
the eastward the conditions would be re-
versed, aud your date called a sday" would
contain but twenty-threo hours But, if you
and your friend should stand back to back at
New York and, sturting ut the same instant,
walk straight round the world, each walking
exactly three miles an hour, and never stop
ping for anything, you would both meet and
pass half way in exactly $500 hours, and you
would again meet in New York III exactly
1000 hours,-Cor. New York Tribune.
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INTER- AMERICAN ROADS.
A LINE 70 CONNECT FIVE REPuB-
LiCS WITH THE UNITED STATES.

Extraordinary Ditllculiics in the Way-A
Natural Wealth of the Country to He
Opened,
Thatso Intelligent and practical IL people
as the Americans should build n railroad
three-foairtls of the way around u semicircle
when they have water transportation straight
across it vas so unlikely that few people paid
any attention to the proposition for trunk
line connecting North and South America.
But a modified form of the scheme has gained
some favos, and the legislature of Virginia
has granted charter to n company which
will mai. preliminary surveys. ..5
IT,, ampa.ys plan i. to use water trans
portation from the gulf ports of the United
States to Cartagena in the northwest corner
Of South America. and thence build a rail
road through Colombia, Ecuador and part
of Peru to Cuzco, to connect there with ether
lines running 10 Bucnos Ayres and other far
southern ports Thus, it is clnimel, can New
York be brought within eight DAYS Of Lima
and twelve o Valparaiso. The difficulties
are confessedl. enormous. but they are much
less than these iii the way Of nu all rail
route. ~ 0#"
Down the Pacific coast, as a I first suggested.
the line wollG cross the deepest canyons and
sharpest ridges projecting westward from the
main range. It's construction would bankrupt
nation Along the plateau Of the Andes,
where the lntas had their wonderful high.
way, tue grades wuu. often amount to 900
feet TO the me. East of the Andes the line
proposed from port in Venezuela sou,hward
would cross hnndrcds Of miles of lands over
flowed in the wet season and deadly with
malaria for half the year, and If tic line were
located furtle' west it would have to cross
all the eastward spurs of the Andes All
these arc inlplucticuble, und Of the ro,lte last
proposed the Iracticubllity is not yet proved
1t Is CLAIMED, however, that n central line can
be found from Cartasena to Cuzco by which
streams and cmvous can he followed, as on
the Union Pacific, and the first worl: pro-
posed by the company IS II thorough survey
Of this line.
There is, strictly Speaking, no system of
South American railroads. nor is II system
like that Of the United States nnd Canada
practicable There are, however, several
thousand miles 0f railway built and in pro-
cess Of construction, stretching inland from
various ports. The .hreqnipa and Pu,!o rutisi
has crossed the Andes, and the Lima road re-
4uires only thc completion Of a tunuc while
CMi Is blildiuE one line from ulparaiso to
Il connection with Buenos Ayres and another
from the port of Altofngustl to I'otosi in
Bolivia y line from Buclos Ayrcs is also
being pushed towards Pptosj. and when COM
pete'i these Will form a continuous line across
the south thcrn part of South America, but III
form about like !. fish hook. a
II the proposed irta proves practicable, the
road will certainly be profitable citerpris..
With some connections it VIII make Cuzco
the center OF as cpIuuletn a system ms S1Iytf