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of the occupant of the great white

OF the occupant OF the great white
throne
"Oh God, enlighten the minds Of
earth, cleanse the hearts and make
great and beautiful the souls. Make
glad the heart of despair with most
fruitful showers, the balmiest sum
light, and choicest dew. May I be
more of an agent of Thine to visit
those in prison and to heal the
sick, to bring plenty to the
poor, and peace to the world. Ease
of pain of all the souls that are ush-
cred into eternity during the year.
Make me more and more an agent of
Thine to bring light to those who in
Christian countries live in heathen
dark rkness.-Amen."
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THE NEWS EPiToMlzED
Washington Items.


CONGRESSMAN JOSEPH q. O'NEIL. of Mas
sschusetts. has been nominated to be Assist
ant United States Treasurer at Boston.
SECRETARY GRESHAM intimated to France
that she will not be permitted to forcibly col
lect her San DOMINICAN claim, Us it would de-
stroy an equity held by an American com
pany
THE National Dairy Congress held q three
days session at the Agricultural Department.
The National Council Of Women amended
its constitution. creating an upper and lower
house. Mary Lowe Dickinson was elected
President.
SECRETARY CARLISLE asked Congress to
make changes in various tariff schedules for
the purpose of making clearer the intent OF
the law.
A SENATE subcommittee reported that the
ruinously low price of cotton is due to the
characterization of silver and dealings ii
futures
THE Wsys and Means Committee recon-
mends that England. Russia and Japan be
requested to corporate with tho United
States in protecting the seals.
President CLEVELAND decided the boun
dary dispute between Brazil and Argentina,
in favor Of Brazil.
The House Committee on Elections decided
the Goode-Epes contested election case from
the Fourth Virginia District In favor Of Mr..
Epes, the sitting member. The vote on tho
case was to 4.
The President approved the joint resolu.
ton extending from March l. 1895, to April
Is, 1885, the time for making returns Of in.
come for the year 1894 under the income tas
provisions of the Revenue act of 1894.
The Daughters of the American Revolu
ton, in session at Washington, elected Mrs
]. W. Foster their President General
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GENERAL BOOTHS TOUR.
Returns to England After a Remarkable
American Trip.

Returns to England After a Remarkable
American Trip.
General william Booth, the Commander
in-Chief of the Salvation Army, has sailed
from New York for England on the steam
ship Paris. He has Just completed twenty
four weeks tour of the United States, and
has made record of which few travellers or
public speakers can boast.
He has spoken in eighty-six American
cities, and the aggregate number OF persons
who came to hear him eXpound was 437 900,
at $40 meetings. To speak to this vast
audience he travelled Is, ,453 miles, or thirty
FIVE days, on railroad trains. At a conserva-
tive estimate General Booth uttered more
than 2,000. 900 words in public halls in the
twenty-four weeks tour.
He landed ct Halifax, September 20, 1884,
and started at once on his journey. The
route had been mapped out beforehand, and
the time of arrival and departure at each
city or town was carefully arranged. In
only one instance did General Booth fail to
fulfil an appointment, and then the elements
prevented him. He was snowbound. The
means of transportation has been by fast ex-
press trains, whenever such service was pro-
durable.
Before coming to New York he travelled for
n month through Eastern Canada. From New
York he went to Washington, D. c.; thence
to Pittsburg, Cleveland, Detroit and sew
eral other Of the larger cities in Michigan;
then to Chicago, to Minneapolis. st. Paul,
down the Mississippi to st. Louis; thence to
Denver, Colorado Springs, and on to Caifor-
mia, where he addressed meetings in Los An
geles, Sacramento, San Francisco; up to Van
eouver and back East by way of the Cana
dian Pacific.
Although he is sixty-flve years of age Gen.
eral Booth has endured this extraordinary
strain wonderfully well. He nearly sue
cumbed to the grip at Colorado Springs, but
his indomitable pluck and energy kept him
on his feet, and he succeeded in completing
a roru rem rk a hla tnnr
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

Every drunkard used to boast that he
could drink or let 1t alone.
Tennessee's Legislature will be petitioned
for a scientific temperance instruction law,
and to extend the benefits OF the four mile
law to incorporated towns.
The population of the earth is estimated at
1 1,44o, $50 600 persons. Americas annual
drink bill is but little less than dollar for
every inhabitant on the globe.
Bishop Fallow5, OF Chicago, has bought
out q saloon to run his new temperance
dri ilking-house in. His first act was to empty
the whole stock OF wines and liquors into
the cutters.
One Of the foremost women physicians OF
England. Doctor Anderson Brown, has estab-
Hshed an industrial farm for ineDriate wo-
men. The test Of the practicability of out
door life as a cure for drunkenness will be
made under the auspices OF the Womens
Temperance Association
A sample of ginger vine bought in Lon
don store where only temperance beverages
were supposed to be sold was found to con-
tain ten per cent. of proof spirits
Temperament virtue without pride,
and fortune without envy; that best guardian
OF youth and support OF old age; the precept
Of reason as we'll ~ OF religion; the universal
medicine of life that clears the head and
cleanses the blood and strengthens the
nerves; in word, that secures and perfects
the. digestion. Sir William Temple, 1880. =.
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Foreign Notes.

SIR HERCULES ROBINSON has been reap
pointed Governor Of Cape Colony, South
Africa, as Cecil Rhodes could not get along
with Sir Henry Loeb.
FIRE at Halifax. Nova Scotia, destroyed az
elevator and wharf stored with merchan
disc. Loss, 81 100000.
The Japanese Government has ordered all
its officers now serving in the German army
70 return home at once for duty in China.
NEWS has been received of battle near
Cali, Colombia. in which the rebels were
defeated. Many were killed on both sides
The Government forces captured large
body Of prisoners.
A BILL to make American goods pay al
least twice as much duty in Germany as the
goods Of other countries is before the Reich.
stag.
A MILD type of Influenza has spread over
England. The public offices have become
short of hands. and the service is, conse.
luently, crippled.
The importation of American cattle into
France has been forbidden.
Ii HUNG CHANa's yellow jacket, peacock
feathers, ETC., have been restored to him by
the Emperor of China.
INFLUENZA is prevalent throughout Eng
land.
A WIDESPREAD plot to overthrow the Man.
,hua has been discovered in Kwang-Kung,
kwang-Si, and other southern provinces OF
China.
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MANY MINERS KILLED.
The Result OF an Explosion in New
Mexico Colliery.

Tho Result OF an Explosion in New
Mexico Colliery.
4 terrific explosion OF gas occurred i'll the
White Ash mine Of the Santa Fe Railroad
COMPANY. three miles from Cerrillos. New
Mexico. at II O'clock a. m., causing the
death OF AT least thty-nine miners.
Tho nrst intimati"n Of the disaster was
muff1ei roar. and clouds of smoke and dust
rolling from the mouth OF the mine. Nearly
100 men are employed in the mine, but only
fifty were at work when the explosion oc.
cured Only eleven of them escaped alive.
and some of these were fatally injured.
Twenty eight bodies were taken from the
mine soon after the accident.
Relays of men worked heroically all day
to reach those who we're still imprisoned in
the mine, but little progress could be made
on account Of the ga which permeated every
shaft.
Up TO 1 p. IN. those on the inside could be
heard irving t. work their way out from the
cavei-in mine. Since then the imprisoned
men in all probability have succumbe1 to
the deadly gas.
The scene at the mouth Of the shaft aftes
the explosion was heartrending. One wo-
man, supposing her husband to have been
killed. tried to commit suicide by throwing
herself in front Of a moving train. Her nus
hand was aftevwarl rescued alive. and the
reaction from insane grief to dehrious JOY
was nearly fatal
The mine was known to be badly ventilated
and full Of bad air and gas, and catastrophe
oi this kind has been frequently predicted.
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Sherman, who, in making the motion, ad-
dressed the Senate briefly as to the fitness Of
the nomination, which he said was in every
way deserving and appropriate. The e1eou-
tive session lasted but five minutes.
Matt Whitaker Ransom was born In War
rem County, North Carolina, October 8, 1896.
After an academic education he attended the
University of North Carolina. He was grad
uated there in 1847 and In the same year he
studied law and was admitted to
the bar. He was both planter and
lawyer for several years. He began his polit-
ical career In 1852, in which year he was a
Presidential elector on the Whig ticket. He
was also in'this year elected Attorney.Gen-
eral OF the State. He resigned In 1855 and
Joined the Democratic party. He was a
member Of the Legislature from 1868 to1861.
On the secession Of his State he enlisted as q
private In the Confederate service, and was
at once commissioned Lleutenant-Colone Of
the First North Carolina Infantry. He
was made Bigadier-G General in 1868 and
Major-General in 1865, but the Con-
federacy collapsed before he received
his commission as Major-General.
After the war he resumed the practice oflaw.
In 1872 he was elected United States Senator,
and was reelected in 1876, 1883 and 1889.
The political unheaval last year ended the
domination Of the Democratic party In North
Carolina, and with it Senator Ransom's
chance for further reelection. Senator Ran
som has six sons, all grown, and one daugh-
fer.
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TIE MILITARY CALLED TO ACT.

Narrow Escape From q Riot In Savannah
Over the Lecture OF an ex-Prlest.
Savannah, Co., escaped riot through tho
Intervention of the military. The trouble
was precipitated by ex-Priest Joseph slat-
tery's lecture on the Roman Catholic priest
hood.
For several days efforts had been made
by members Of the Ancient Order Of Hi
bernians to revoke the ex-priest's permit to
deliver the lecture, but the Mayor, upon
legal advice, replied that it could not be
done. Threats were openly made against
the lecturer, and the Chief OF Police and
detail of officers were ordered on duty at the
hall where the Lecture was to be delivered.
The lecture contained no offensive language,
but the crowd which had gathered on the
outside began to hurl stones through the
windows and among the audience. The po-
lice ordered the crowd to disperse. 1t refused
to do SO, and kept shouting and jee-ing.
The Mayor was notified, and, after con-
sultation with the Chief Of Police, de-
eided to order out the military. The riot
alarm was sent in, and in half an hour
eight companies of infantry and troop Of
dismounted cavalry were on the scene. The
lecture was over by the time the military
arrived, and most of the audience had left
the hall. A detail OF mounted police stood
guard at tho entrance. The crowd num-
bered 1000 by this time, largely spectators.
A portion Of it kepting yelling and hurting
bricks at the windows Of the hall where the
eX-priest was. A few shots were fired in the
air by the rioters, but no one was hurt.
The streets were cleared for block in
every direction and the troops remained on
guard until the disturbance had subsidized,
when the lecturer WAS brought out Of the
hall and escorted by squad Of twenty
policemen, surrounded by two battalions OF
soldiers, walked to his hotel. Half an hour
after the ex-priest's wife was escorted from
the hall to the hotel by squad of police
men.
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FATAL FIRE AT HOT SPRINGS.
Three Persons Burned to Death and Fif-
teen Boarding Houses Destroyed.

Three Persons Burned to Death and Fif-
teen Boarding Houses Destroyed.
Fire started In the Ledgerwood bakery on
Ouachita avenue, hot Springs, Ark, at four
o'clock a. N. It Is in the southern part Of
the city, where boarding. houses are numer-
Gus.
In an hour three women had been burned
to death, and six boarding houses, several
store-houses. and fifteen cottages, In all
worth S1OO, ,0e0, had been swept away. The
dead are Mrs. Laura Scammon, Mrs. Henry
J. Mcleod, and Augustine Sttvetto, colored.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. 81. Brownson, OF Macon,
Mo-, Mrs. Peacock, and others were injured,
but none dangerously.
A strong wind famed the flames, but pre-
vented the fire from moving in the direction
of the big hotels and bath houses. The streets
covered by the fire were Ouaohtta, where it
originated; Sealey, Malvern, Woodbine and
Orange.
Twenty-eight buildings in all were burned.
The boarding houses destroyed are the Qua
chita, Illinois, La Clede, Missouri and
Bloomington. Three hundred men, women,
and children were driven to other quarters
for lodging, and most Of them lost all their
clothing.
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WAsHiNcToN's BIRTHDAY.
It's General Observance Throughout the
United States.

It's General Observance Throughout the
United States.
Washington's Birthday was observed gen
orally throughout the Union; in Chicago
Archbishop Ireland delivered an address on
American citizenship"
At Washington Washington's Birthday was
more elaborately observed than it has been
for number Of years, an additional feature
being the patriotic exercises of the National
Council Of Women, now in session In that
city. The entire local militia turned out.
In New York City Washingtons Birthday
was very generally observed; dinners were
given by the Southern Society, New York
State Society of the Cincinnati, Syracuse
Alumni and the Publishers Association. The
New York Society Of the Sons OF the Reyolu-
ton observed the 163d anniversary Of the
birth of George Washington with banquet.
At Albany, Governor Morton signalized his
occupancy Of the Executive Chamber on
Washington's Birthday by signing Assembly
bill No. 1, commonly known as the Lawson
Foreign Flag bill, which prohibits the display
Of foreign flags on public buildings.
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Tho Labor World.

AMERICAN railways have 750,OOO employees.
THE new Labor Commissioner of Kansas,
". j. Bird, was newsbow but few years
ago.
DISTRESS in the mining regions Of Ohio in
creases, and hundreds Of people-men, wo-
men and children-are threatened with star
vatioa. which is only averted by contributions
of charity from other parts Of the State
In British Columbia and Pacific coast
wate,3 1850 men are employed in the fur
seal industry.
GREAT distress exists among the unem-
ployed in London. and relief measures on q
large scale are being planned.
Rev. JOHN A. =. WILSON, of New York
City, denounced the Charities Organization
Society in a sermon on the unemployed.
IT has been voted by the local lodges Of the
International Association of Machinists to
hold convention in Cincinnati on May c.
LABOR COMMISSIONER WRIGHT has submit
ted report outlining plans for providing
homes for the working people on easy terms.
EX-SENATOR HENRY G. DAVIS, of West Vir-
ginia, offers to his State $50 900 in cash and
3 site for the proposed industrial school for
girls. -..--.-.
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SMoTHERED TO DEATH.
Alabama Convicts Entrapped In Mine
Fired by Incendlaries.

Alabama Convicts Entrapped In Mine
Fired by Incendlaries.
Two convlcts and twenty-three mules were
smothered to death In Rock Slope Shaft No.
/, at Pratt Mines, Birmingham, Ala. Shortly
after o'clock the engine room in the slope
was discovered on fire, and general alarm
was given on the outside, for it was known
that twenty convlcts and twenty-three head
OF mules were cut off from the outside by the
fire. After three hours hard work the fire
was extinguished, and the men pushed on.
The body Of John Patton was found lying
across the track. his head badly battered. Ap.
parently he tried to kill himself before being
smothered. A short distance away the Sec
ond body was found. 1t was that OF Louis
Stevens. The twenty-three mules we're found
all in heap. dead. They had kicked one
another fearfully while maddened by the thick
smoke.
The other eighteen convIcts were found In
a bunch near the air5haft, where they had
gathered in hope Of keeping alive. Several
Of them were on the ground. They were hast
lily carried out on terra Hrma and oil brought
around all right.
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PORT ARTHUR STORIES.
An Am erican Correspondent With Oyaina't
Army Has New Theory About Them.

An American Correspondent With Oya,na's
Army Has New Theory About Them.
A new theory of the mutilations at Port
Arthur, China, is advanced by an American
correspondent who is with Field Marshal Oya.
mas army. He says that, while preparing
at Hiroshima to go to the front, his coolie
servant was approached by an old Japanese
doctor, who asked him to procure human
hearts on the next battlefield and send them
to HIN. He offered seventy yen or about as
many dollars, for each heart. When asked
what he wanted o. them, be sad hearts OF
men killed in battle were the best cure for
stomach troubles. He directed the coo!ie to
cut the hearts out, dry them over pan CT
charcoal and send them to him. AS this
coolie received only Sl5 monthly, the offer
vas big temptation to him. 1t was note
worthy that the hearts of all the corpses at
Port Arthur had been cut out. Hence ser.
wants and porters of the army were probably
responsible for the mutilations attributed to
soldiers.
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BATTLE OF THE BROTHERS.
Two Dangerous Families Wiped Out in tho
Virginia Mountains.

Two Dangerous Families Wiped Out in tho
Virginia Mountains.
Near Osborn's Gap, Dickinson County, Va,
Robert and Sam Smith met Ben and Lem
Cox. All four were under the influence Of
liquor. The Smiths, tits said, drew their re-
volvers and commanded the Cox brothers.
who were their enemies, to surrender. In
stead, the Cox boys drew their weapons, and
then O general fight was begun.
The battle lasted for nearly half an hour.
and when the smoke cleared away
Robert and Sam Smith and Ben Cox were
found lying dead on the road, while Lem Cox
was fatally wounded.
The killing of the men puts On end TO two
families that had long been prominent In
criminal circles There were originally eight
Smith brothers, and all Of them met their
death in fights similar to this one.
Two other Coxes were also killed several
wears ago in battle with men Of their stamp.
Ben Cox enjoyed the reputation OF having
killed five men, and his brother Lem had
twice been tried for murder. They all re-
sided back in the mountains and were re-
garded as dangerous men.
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THE FOE OF CHILDHOOD.

The drunkard's children come Into the;
world mentally and physically weak. En- one
lunatic asylum. out Of. some three hundred
Idiots, half were found to be the children OF
drunken parents.-Dr. J. B. HELLER, Leeds,
1874,
OF ftty-two pawnwbrokers In Blrming CHAM,
;orty-three say that the paWning OF chill
iren's clothing constitutes from ten to TWEEN
y per cent. Of the general trade. .-Childsl
Guardian, 1898.
have seen man strip his child in the
treet, and take the clothes to pledge. mi
order to get drink.-Pawnbroker's testimony
IN Child's Guardian, 1888. i
The birds of the air will tear feathers from
heir breasts for the comfort of their young
q the nest, and it Is sad to know that therel
Ire homes where parents strip the the cloth
ng from their children for drink. DIR. Stow:
Ill Rogers, Birmingham, In Child's Guar
iian, 1898. =. ri. z
The Society for the Prevention q of Cruelty
% Children find that, while an enormous
iumpsr of cases of cruelty are not due to
drunkenness, the total child suffering In the
and, due to that one cause would furnish
material for an inferno to which all imAgina-
i've compositions on the place would be
ranquiliz1ng reading for delicate sensibth-
ies.-Child's Guardian, 1888. .
In paper read before the Philosophical;
Society of Liverpool, in 1898, the authors,
Dr.. q. R. Jones and Mr.. H. e. Davies, state
hat nine out of every thousand children
born In Liverpool die by violent means, and
The conclusion could not oe avoided that the
yreat source of this criminal violence is
irink They also state that more OF these un-
timely deaths occur on Saturday night than
upon every other night OF the week.
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THE RIGHT SORT OF PLUCK.

Thirty years ago two Irish Immigrants,
employed as porters in New York warehouses,
undertook to study law. After working from
morning until night packing goods, loading
Trays and making deliveries, they sat up un-
Ill II o'clock In their rooms in a boarding.
house reading law books and discussing
principles and cases.
The ambitious young men were so deeply
Interested in their night work that they fre-
1uently argued points of law during leisure
moments at the store, and naturally exposed
themselves to chatting and ridtcule. With
Irish wit they pared every thrust and never
lost their tempers.
Their companions nicknamed them the
"Judge" and "Lawyer John," and asked
them mockingly whether they thought that
merchants would consult them as lawyers
after employing them as porers. :.
"They may do it," answered the Judge,
"after we have worked up a fine criminal
practice in keeping out OF the penttentiary.
night brawlers like yourselves, who ought TO
be In their beds and asleep" =. ~;
"Instead Of loading your drays, said an
Incorporate clerk, ''you stand there arguing
whether an Injunction could be brought
against the firm for obstructing the esidewalk.
You are your own lawyers and you havefools
for clients"
"Judgment may be affirmed" said claw
YER John" "but not with cost. We have
borrowed our law books and We save money
by keeping out of the saloons. 1t costs us
less to fuddle our brains with law than with
drink. A debauch over Blackstone leaves
better taste in the mouth than night spent
In carousing."
So the laugh in the end turned against the
intemperate clerk. The young porters knew
how to take and return joke. By their
good humor they amused everybody in the
store and it was not long before members OF
the firm helped them to get clerkshipa IN law
Offices.
One Of them is to-day on the bench, and
the other is lawyer with lucrative Prae,
tice. They made their way rapidly, and
neither criticism nor ridicule kept them
ack.-Catholic Review. ),
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INFLUENZA has again secured hold i'll
Berlin.
The idea OF tunnel under the English
Channel has been finally abandoned.
The bill for refunding the State debt ol
Alabama in gold bonds has been signed by tht
Governor.
A NEW diamond-bearins district has been
discovered on the west coast of Tasmania
The geological features of the ground resem
bic those OF tho Kimberley fields in South
Africa.
The fishermen belonging to Hull and
Grimsby, in England, who perished in the
recent gales, numbered about two hundred.
The disaster has created ninety widows in
Hull alone.