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Badly FriHhtened.

Dwellers in the tropics must constant-
ly guard against the many poisonous
insects and reptiles which lurk in Gre
vices and damp corners. The cent?
pede, for example, Is unpleasantly So
cial in habits, while its dread nelghbor,
the tarantula, whose bite means par
alysis or death, frequents old houses
as we'll as stables and courtyards.
We had fight the other day, writes
q lady from the West Indies, which
has made us very particular about
searching our sleeping-rooms. 1t all
arose from the ramblings of a small
ccntipede. who would not stay at home
Tut wandered across mammals face in
the night, and stung. her badly when
she tried to brush him of. ~~@>
Her face was go swollen and pain
full the next day, that I suppose we
were bit nervous about the danger
to ourselves. I know that when went
to take my siesta at noon I looked
about my room carefully, but seeing
nothing, wrapped a shawl about me
and fell asleep. -.
Waking opened my eyes lazily,
taking in the objects about me one by
one. Suddenly my blood ran cold. On
my pillow, scarcely a foot away, was
a cluster Of dark, hairy little legs, be
tokening the presence Of the tarantula
With one bound I was in the middle
Of the floor, seizing the baby from his
crib, and threw open: the door, calling
wildly down the corridor, Help!
Quick, a cacatav ~
Sleepy faces appeared at all the
doors, but sleep gave place to horror,
and we armed ourselves hastily for
the combat
Tarantulas are very vicious when at
tackled, and have been known to jump
six feet; so we proceeded cautiously
Segnda, the cook, going first with an
axe. We looked through the room, but
found no trace Of the tarantula. Then
we searched more carefully, and final
ly made an exhaustive examination of
the minutest crannies, but still moth
ing.
At last the genius of the party sug,
gested that lie down as before; and
she proved her theory-that the knot
ted fringe Of my shawl was the bug.
bear that had turned us all pale with
fright!
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Hasty Choice.

An amusing anecdote is told of Lord
+ liverpool, a prominent peer during the
Pitt ministry, who made, at least in
one case, the mistake Of acting before
he had sufficiently though over the
matter in question. Mr.. Pitt had some
intention Of creating a new order of
merit, and asked the opinion Of the
cabinet ministers as to the color of rib
bon which should be used. Lord Liver
pool called upon him, one evening, and
announced that he had made his seIec-
ton and was ready to show it. A
You see," he said, with q Well-satis-
fed air, .I have endeaYored to combine
such colors rs will fatter the national
vanity. Here is red for the English
flag, blue for liberty, and white to de-
mote the purity, Of motive"
It is excellent cried one Of the per-
sons present. i. :s -
1.-The king will be greatly pleased
with it," said another. s<&,Es
You had better take it down to
Windsor" added third. &
Yes" said Lady Hester Stanhope,
the king will be delighted with it: I
myself think the scolors charming; for
I know exactly how they will look,
as have seen them very often.'
"Seen them? Where?' asked Lord
Liverpool.
s'Why, in the French soldiers cock
ades''
He had overlooked the tricolored
flag, symbol Of revolt and democracy,
as well as another national ensign, of
which no reader in this day will need
to be reminded. He was thunder
! struck.
"What shall do, Lady Hester?' he
| cried II have already got five hundred
yards Of ribbon made What can do
| with itY' r.~,
But there was nothing to do with it
| and so Lady Hester assured him.
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q Curious Legal Tenders.

Here is a note for coin collectors /,
is probable that no boy who has col
lected the tokens Of various nations
has ever before heard of the circulat-
ing medium which a Mexican traveller
once discovered while travelling through
the great republic on its southwestern
borders. AS the story goes, the travel
er bought some lines, and gave the
girl who sold them one dollar in pay
ment. By way OF change she returned
him forty nine pieces OF soap the size
Of asWeet biscuit After expressing
his surprise, policeomcer who Wit
messed the incident informed him that
soap was l1Ka1 tender IN that coun,
try.
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feelings was when, at the age Of 81,
a fortnight after his brothers death,
he was giving out the words IN the
hvnnI .$s3 81 -
My company before is gone,
And I am left alone with Thee.

i 3s:% Z. ( : . ~ ! -
There is scarcely child in the king
dom who has not learned to lisp his
Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild, = and
his .''Hark! the Herald Angels Sing"
has become part and parcel of an Eng
lish Christmas. It is worth noticing
that his hymn originally began, ssHark!
How all the Welkin Rings,'' and is
very different in many: lines from what
we sing to-day, The version. now so
universally adopted is: probably from
the pen Of Martin Madam IN 1850.
And not only Christmas, but Easter,
too, has been enriched 81 one Of. his
hymns, for he was the author Of eChrist
the Lord Is Risen Today And here
I may add, as. a curious fact, that the
authorship Of the other Easter hymn,
"Jesus Christ Is Risen To-day" is IN
known. But it belongs to this period,
as it first appears in 1862, and the last
stanza was written by Wesley.
have not mentioned a .woman's
name as an authoress of a hymn, but
some Of you may know that beginning,
"Father, whate er, of earthly bliss.'
This was written by Annie Steel, who
was a great sufferer all her life, so that
these words were not, as is sometimes
pity or Pharisaic resignation.
1t is to a Welsh Calvinist, William
Williams, that we owe, s'Guide me, O,
thou great Jehovah" He was one Of
those Influenced by Lady Huntington,
a lady Of whom George III. said to one
Of his Bishops, Il wish there was a
Lady Huntingdon in every diocese in
the kingdom" &C.,.
0n6 Oix fyxyn lJJot 11n
hymns from the paraphrase Of z1773,
':How bright thy glorious spirit shines
by William Cameron, q Midlothian
minister, and '"rhe. people that in
darkness sat- by John Morrison; but
the latter has been altered into it's
present shape by the compilers Of
Hymns Ancient, and Modern, 2, y -
A Strange, Career. ,..
! I allude.. to the Olney HYMNS in
speaking Of Cowper, John Newton,
who was Cowpcr's coadjutor in the
work, was one Of the leading .Evangeli
calls. His strange and chequered ca
reer reads like romance The epitaph
which he wrote for himself sums up
his history: "Once an infidel and liber-
tine, servant Of slaves in Africa
Never was theresa complete instance of
a Prodigal Son. After starting life as
a midshipman' he, deserted, was put
into chains and publicly whipped.
More hardened than ever, he went on
another voyage to Africa, settled in
+ the Island Of Plantains;; and passed q
miserable, dare devil life III the ser
vice Of a slave-trader. His father sent
for him. In his return during a ted
tous voyage endangered by violent
! storms, he studied Thomas a Kempis
From that moment his conversion be-
gan. He began to preach, and was
presented to the Vicarage of Olney
where his friendship for Cowper has
! become historical. The striking poem
! hp1inningA =
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OLD HYMN WRITER'S,
SONGS PRODUCED IN THE EIGH-
TEENTH CENTURY.
isaac Watts and His Works-Top-
i lady, Who Wrote Crock of Ages,
-Charles Wesley's Six Thousand
r Hymns-A Romance-of Hymnology.

The hymns Of the evangelical school
are in many ways the most interesting
and important, as they are certainly
the most numerous They are the tok-
en- and accompaniment zof that great
religious revival which began in the
middle Of the eighteenth century. It
has always been SO. Hymn-writing
has attended each reformation of the
Church. The two Saint Bernards in
$ the Middle Ages, Luther at the Refor-
nation, Keblcs during the 'rractarian
movement, Heber in the spread Of for
eign missions, all promoted and illus
trated their teachings by hymns. And
so it was in the middle Of the last cen
tury. 49,, X r.
The book which may: be said to have
had most effect in starting the move
ment was Laws Serious Call,", a
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olncE Suuueh CONVERSIONS
There are two other cases of sudden
conversions which led to the compost
ton Of hymns. The first is that of
John Cennick, who as a youth was
reckless and prof1igate, but one day
while walking down Cheapside, his
view of life suddenly changed. Des-
pair and depression, seized him. He
retired from his friends, lived as a
common laborer, and tried to support
life on acorns, leaves and grass.
Gradually the light returned, and he
found much comfort in Whitfelds
"Diary." From him we have "Child-
ren Of the Heavenly King" and. that
stately advent hymn, ''Lo, He Comes,
with Clouds Descending" which was
subsequently improved by Charles
Wesley, and which was the first at
tempt to render in popular words the
old Latin hymn .Dies Irae."
The second case is that of a man
named Thomas Oliver, a shoemaker by
trade, whose whole character was
transformed by one of Whitfeld's SER
mons. He BECAME an itinerate
preacher, and his horse, which he rode
for twenty-five years, is said to have
carried him a hundred thousand miles.
1t is curious to reflect that this cob
bier is the author of what Montgomery
has called the most majestic lyric in
the language. 1t begins, ''The God of
Abraham praise" and we sing it in
an abbreviated form to the grand tune
t'Leone," for which it was originally
written. and which received it's title
from a Jew of that name who used to
sing in a London. synagogue 1t was
one of the hymns particularly dear to
Henry Martyr, the Indian missionary.
Two more and have done. One is
O, Thou, from whom all goodness
flows, s*~ <..E
A hymn composed by DR.. Hawels, who
was mainly instrumental in converting
the people of Tahiti, an enterprise to
which he was stimulated by the ac-
count of that island in Captain Cooks
Voyages" J.
The last is
All hail the power OF Jesus name,
Written by Edward Perronet John
Wesley called him the Archbishop Of
Methodism and he was the intimate
friend Of Charles, who frequently al
1udes to him as Ned in his Diary
Sunday Magazine.
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Phillip DOIllPiLHc.

I Soar to Tracts Unknown and again,
when Mine Eyesrings Break in
DEATH" an expression. due to a current
belief that death produced this effect
on the eyes.
Mr.. Gladstone has written a very
fine rendering of it: in Latin, beginning:
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An Easy one.

Now" said the medical professor at
the quiz, 'tell me whether. this. is
male or female skeleton. 2
Female" replied the man at the
foot Of the class
Right, but how do you knoW?''
Z saw the jaws work just as you
spoke.
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complained Of the Unsatisfactory char
acter Of the existing hymns. Watts
accepted the challenge and wrote a
new hymn mn every Sunday for two years.
DR. Johnson said of him, and he was by
no means indulgent to Congregational
hymns, Watts has done better than
others what no man has done weell,'''
and Montgomery, in 8 moment when
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In evil long I took delight,

describes his conversion.
To this man we owe, "How Sweet
the Name Of Jesus Sounds" "Come
my Soul, Thy Suit Prepare" and one
which always seems to be extremely
beautiful, though little known:
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And again.. !,
Death, like narrow sea, divides
That heavenly land from ours.

4 It is interesting to remember that this
very water inspired the late Poet Lau-
sreate's touching lines, Crossing the
Bar" On his tomb at Stoke Newing-
ton you will find the brief but well de-
served .epitaph, ,s" ;.
+ '.Isaac Watts, the Father of the Eng
Elish Hymns..a r ..2 49,:
i To Phillip Doddridge we owe one or
two famous hymns. Like Watts, he,
too, preferred to remain a Non-con-
formist in spite of his friends to draw
him into, the English Church. He was
the: author Of that spirited Advent
/ hymn, IIark the Glad Sound, the Sa-
Eviop Comes,"'$ and eye Servants of the
Lord So much adissension has ragged
round theEucharist that it is a pleasure
sto remember: that he, a Non-conform-
list, wrote the words, "My God and is
thy table spread? ?'rr:. It was not only
written by :dissenter, but it was in
corporated in the English Prayer Book
On the blank leaves at the end, by a
university printer who was himself a
dissenter, and it is now an accepted ia
vorite with, high churchmen. God Of
Bethel" ," is his too. This was Living
stones favorite hymn, and it was sung
at his funeral at Westminster Abbey
in 1874. The verse beginning
Oh spread thy covering wings around
Till all our .wanderings cease.
must have sounded peculiarly appro-
pirate to the weary pilgrimage Of the
great traveller.
I$# -" Top1ady. -''"7sie>
& Augustus r Toplady claims our atten-
iEhon next. #Hew as: one Of the Calvin
lists of whom I have spoken, and as
such, 9 stout opDonent of John Yves
ley. He enjoys the distinction of hav:
ing written what is probably the most
popular hymn in the English language
Rock Of Ages, It was the favoptte
Of two such widely different minds as
Dr. PuseY.s and Prince Albert; and
when the Sunday, at. Home" instituted
a few years ago, a competition for a
list Of the best 100 hymns, out Of g..
/ 500 lists which were sent in, Crock OF
] Ages, was placed first in 1915. The
original version contains two lines
which are different from the one We
generally sing. Toplady wrote, when
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Other Sudden Conversions.

Why should I fear the darkest hour?
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en- thusiasm was perhaps stronger than
Judgment, ranks him next to. David.
Cne hymn Of his, sSss

& There is a land Of pure delight,
q Where saints immortal reign. ].
is said to have been suggested by the
! view of the New Forest across South
ampton Water. You remember the
imagery Of the hymn. ..
Sweet fields across the swelling food
8 Are, dressed in living green.
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must have sounded peculiarly appro-
pirate to the weary pilgrimage of the
great traveller.
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Oh spread thy covering wings around
Till all our. .wanderings cease.
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Grave her lips, but twihkles hido
In her eyes Of brown.

Papa greets his little maid
With a smile and kiss,
Sweet the cup comes BY such
Charming maid as this!'
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GOV. M'oRAw.s POLICY.

He Considers the Federal Authorities
Need No Help
Gov. McGraw was asked last night
whether he contemplated any steps TO ar
rest the Coxeyites who we're reported TO
have stolen train, and answered:
''As the property OF the Northern Pa
cific railroad 10 in the hands Of the United
States courts and the officials Of the
United States government are fully pre-
pared to cope with the difficulty. I shail
not take any action. II any part Of the
Industrial Army should remain behind at
PuyalIup. shall deal with any emergency
there as 1t may arse"
While the governors statement clearly
enough indicates that he has no immedi-
ate intention of calling out the militia,
the local companies are kept in readiness
for call at any time, - they have been
for the last week. Last evening Company
d drilled on Third and Union streets in
three squads. and. when dismissed. the
men were instructed to leave word where
they could be found II they were not going
right home. They had knapsacks packed
and were ready for service. but no call was
made and none IL expected unless there
are serious Developments At Puy aiiup in
detail is left all night in the Armory of
each company. and considerable. force
could be assembled in . couple Of hours
Henry Shepard returned to Seattle yes
tsrday afternoon shorn Of his title Of gen.
eral OF the Industrial Army. and stated
that he had quit .'ths army" lie stated
that the men became discontented aud
we're constantly kicking. When he re-
turned to camp Tuesday night. after being
in Tacoma, q meeting VAS held At which
the spirit of discon tent was manifest and
be resigned his command. He vas candid
enough 10 say that he would have been de-
posed anyway.
Shepard says that when he took the
army to PuyaIiup he had been assured by
Jumbo Cantweli from Tacoma that he had
q train promised sure for Saturday; that
Just before leaving here Cantweil tee
phoned from Tacoma for the Seattle army
to be sure TO reach Puyaiiup by O'Clock
Saturday afternoon 10 be in time for tho
train. The Seattle army arrived al Puyai-
iup first. and after waiting some time
Can.weIi appeared riding in buggy. 20
the great disgust of the footsore man. An
hour or two afterward some eoInmissary
wagons drove up, and at o O'Clock IN the
evening the army came struggling in.
Shepard says he has clean receipts for all
the funds he handled. Es isit sure the
army would try 20 capture train. as
CAntweu had repeatedly urged this plan.
while he fShspare) you'd not sanction IL.
He reports about 600 men now as Puyas-
lap out Of loo who went there.
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Going Across the Mountains in
Small Detachments.
STEALING RIDES ON TRAINS,
The Groups to Be Consolidated Into
Regiments at Spokane.
One Hundred Men Board . Freight
Train. and the Railroad stdssracks
h-Geu. Shepard Succeeded by T. J.
Jeffries-Jambo the Ruling Spirit.

TACOMA. May s.-fSpeciall-In attempt
ing TO steal a .shingle train between
Meeker junction and Buckley tonight
Jumbo. general of the the Tacoma Coxey-
ties. outwitted the United States mar
shals, but IN turn was ouswitted by
the officials of tho Northern Pacific
road Jumbo's war map provided
for his men to get on the
train in small numbers all along the road
from Meeker junction to Buckley and keep
on increasing their numbers until they
actually had control, but after the train
left Buckley and there were 100 aboard.
Superintendent Joe McCabe gave orders TO
have the train sidetracked at Palmer,
lust to show" as another official stated,
that We and not the army were IN con-
troll" The locomotive and caboose Of the
train which the Jumboites boarded re-
turned here at q. m. Friday. When the
Jumboites leave the train the North
ern Pacific will start 10 east. There
is nothing perishabls in the train,
every car bcang loaded with
red cedar shingles. Jumbo went to Hot
Springs tonight ON the overland pass
enger train. which carried the United
States marshals to Palmer to drive
the Jumboites of the shingle train.
Jumbo rode ON . first-class ticket.
IL his men had been more dis
Greet and permitted only one or two dozen
men aboard, they would have gone
through all right, as everybody is anx-
ious to see them out OF the country, and
railroad men are no more than human.
The members of the army merely climbed
on the train. as they had on other trains
during the day. but in this instance they
climbed on in greater numbers. However,
the railroad officials claim they got of in
every instance when told to do 80 by the
conductor. But they kept climbing on
until there were over 100 aboard. The
train was ordered s,detracked at Palmer,
and the locomotive and caboose
were taken back to South Prairie,
thus stranding the Coxsyitcs who
had enjoyed the short ride. Marshals
were at once sent out TO take charge Of
the compsny's property and prevent tho
Coxeyites from interfering with trains. II
only two or three dozen Coxeyites had
boarded the train they very likely would
have gone through without causing any
disturbance or encountsring interference.
The plan now seems TO Be- to have the
army proceed to Spokane in small squads
and make that point . rendezvous. and
then proceed East via the Great Northern.
The militia drilled tonight, Company @
under Capt. Howells demonstrating that
il could prepare In heavy marching order
and 90 to the depot from the armory in
nineteen minutes.
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PoRr TOWNSEND, Nay a-lspeciaL T.
John woodlsy. aged 6s years. died at his
farm in chlmaeam valley today Of
paralysia
gJohn woodley vas one OF the oldest
settlers in Jefferson county. and vas one
of the first elected commissioners 81 that
county after ITS ORGANIZATION. He wss
also sheriff of Jefferson county in 1850
He ams chief Of q volunteer fire DEPART
nent. the Tigers, In San Francisco in ls5z
He leaves q widow and several grown up
children. A.. residents of Port Townsend. ]
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honorary pallbearers were: Secretary OF
State Gresham, Senators Wilson. Teller
and Chandler. Admiral Greer, Theodore
C. Moves, Jesse b. Wilson. Hon. @. y.
Boynton. Col. Fletcher. Maj John NJ.
Carson. J. ii. Warner and Chris L. Magee.
The active paIIbearers were members OF
the staff of the Post
There was . large attendance. among
those present being Hon. J. 2. Garrison.
Ma, Goodwin. members of the Grid Iron
Ciub. of which the deceased was presi-
dent: member. of the Press Club and staff
Of the Post Among the floral tributes
we're pieces from the Grid Iron Club. Loyal
I.gion. National Rifles, trustees Of Prince
ton college. Press Club aud many friends.
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Weadock, Eliis. Hepburn and Ray. AT 4
o'clock CatchinKs sought to have the gen.
eral debate closed at S O'Clock. Some or
position vas developed among the Repub-
iicans. when Catchinss moved to close the
Debate In twenty minutes, and on this de-
mand the previous question Was ordered
and the motion agreed to. Debate was re-
sumed and Boatner opposed the method
OF Improving the Red river in Louisiana
according to the present plan. At $50 p.
N. the house adjourned.
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lE8sONs IN
French. Music
And German
civBN BI AkRlNcl1lxi

.AtrERENCEs-R REV. pavtd q Garrett g.
Hsfes reetory: Mira I. a J. Hunt. Yarrow, Late
xsshins,on. Rev Wallace Mating. 1890 unt
sessify street AMI parents Of former pupils
.Isr further Information Apply 70 the MISSED
wtNThRboUHNR 7i6 Eleventh street CITY
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GEN. sHEPAED DkuMMKD OCr.
Camp Breaking Up and the iadassrfais
Moving spokane.

PuYaILup. May s. - Special - Last
night ssx the warraest time since the In
dus,r.ags have besn organized. The air
fairy smoked around headqaaYters- At
10 O'Clock Gen. Shepard and Gen. Potter
were 20 have their report OF moneys
handled by them ready, but 10 Was nearly
ffxhsa they appeared from ths little
room nea. the cofnmisssry department
where they had been for two sosid hoars
trying 20 patch mp story that
,hey thought would satisfy the boys, but
when the iong-seoked for report was read
aad only dated - far back As Camp Maple
the soldiers began 10 kick. and xhen 1t was
discovered that only Is cents remained In
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FUNERAL OF FRANK BArToS.


WARRINGTON CrrY. May 3.-The funeral
Of Editor frank Hatton of the Washing
ton City Post, took place this afternoon
from his residences. The Episcopal church
burial service Was read by Bishop Hurst.
OF the Methodist church, and the inter-
ment Was at Rock Greek cemetery. The
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wAsHTssros CRY. Msy s The time OF
the house from II TO o'clock uas taken
up ia consideration OF the river And kas-
Dor biil speeches vsss made ty Cannon.
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