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Where gold is in the beds OF rivers the
usual way of getting it has been to turn
the current from it's channel and dig
into the sand and gravel at the bottom.
But Mr.. George Burroughs Of the Snake
river gold regions has devised and built
a steamboat for mining under water
This is a sort of heavy craft which sucks
up by steam pumping power the gravel
In the river bed and lifts 1t into the
boat There the heavy stones and rub
bish are separated from the black gold
bearing sand, which is then treated to
get the precious metal The boat which
dredges for gold is lO6 feet long and 20
feet wide. II Is worked back and forth
across the river bed and will excavate
300 yards OF gravel an hour. It works
mn stream
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MrA Lease says It was the wrath of
the Almighty against the American peo-
pie that caused the Mississippi floods
Mrs Lease viii never get a reputation
as a great American statesman If she ad-
mits the hand of an everything provi-
dence In that way.
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WANTF D. Good working msu and
women (frOm country PREFER, d. for
New York state and cities To GOOD
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Oscar Wilde says that for the future
he Will covet neither notoriety nor OBJ
hvion- This much wisdom at least he
has learned nom his years Of imprison-
manA
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Greater New York will elect the
nrst mayor of the consolidated cities in
November
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FROM MANCHESTER.
High School Oommencement-A Sad De
mise--Personal Items.

The Seventh Annual Commencement
Exercises at the Manchester High
School was held Monday night. Nav
3lst, at the First Baptist Church, Prof.
j. Il Blackwell, principal; O. w.
Noon, Musical Director; Miss +. Flora
Noon Organist.
PROGRAMME
March, Junior and intermediate Glass
Music, PEASANTS March. Senior Glass.
lnvuca ton, Rev. @. c., Coleman
Oration; The Beacon Lights of the
Negro Race" Henry E. Harris
Essay; The Love Of Home"
Arena f Muse.
Essay; "Woman's Sphere"
Lottie G Washington
Music, Sailor Song Ch0rus
Essay; THE End Not Yet"
Florence L. Hickman.
Essay; THE Dignity Of Labor"
Susie Z. Hughes
Essay; What Seed Will You Sow ;
Lavinia G. Baker.
Music; Q w. Moon, P, IL. Ross
A. d.. Moon, Miss I. N. Pincham.
Grafton; The Monuments of tn
Mind" Robert B. TAYLOR
Essay and Valedictory. The Road to
Success Charlotte E Deane
ddress to the Graduates:
j Andrew Bowler, Richmond
pOnferring Diplomas;
j Bailey, Member School Board
Address; D. l. fulliam, Supt Schools.
Mr. b Z Owens, a member of the
Board of Visitors of the Virginia Nor
NAL and College Institute, made an
excellent address, complimenting the
race as awhole for the success they
nad made in thirty years, declaring
that there we're no people under the
heavens that had made the progress
that we have considering our chances
Hon J, II. Smyth, capped the climax
when he arose in a most graceful and
pleasing style, pictured the Negro
what he "as thirty years ago and what
he is to-day
Mr.. and Mrs Richard Hewlett have
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It is really touching to see how TIL
czar and the sultan love each other.
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Modern enlightenment begins to find
that the worst disposition which can be
made of paupcr children is TO send them
to public almshouse, where they will
be herded together with adult repro
bates and wrecks. The chances are eight
out of ten that dependent children who
spend "A few years in am almshouse will
themselves become outcasts, criminals
and tramps. The next worst thing to
do with such children is TO place them
In asylums provided only for those Of
their own age. Institution life units
them for life in the world after they
come out Of the asylum. The kindest,
wisest way to dispose of these unfor-
Inmates is to place them in separate
families, at the expense of the state,
under strict supervision of visiting
committee. Here they will be reared as
home children are. The chances are that
with such bringing up they will be-
come good citizens. 1t is at present the
very bad custom to put all kinds Of chill
dren together in the public asylums-
the blind, lame, imbecile, epileptic and
deaf mute with the healthy ones. 1t is
evident ON the face of it that this is ex-
actly what ought not to be done. De-
fective children should be separated
from the healthy and physically aud
mentally normal ones
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Between the island OF Newfoundland
and the barren coast Of Labrador lies
the icebound strait Of Belle Isle. Mr.
II. s. Hammond calls attention to the
fact that through this strait freezing
current Of sea water pours direct down
from the north pole. The freezing cur
rent passes behind Newfoundland, laps
the shores Of eastern Canada and pours
southwark along the New England coast
till 1t strikes the jutting side of Cape
Cod This drives It out eastward again
into the ocean Back il goes till it
strikes the warm gulf stream. The
mingling of the two produces the eternal
fogs of the Newfoundland banks.
Il has always been noted that the
New England coast Is colder than other
places Of the same latitude, and it is a
fact not easily accounted for, even on
the score Of Boston dignity. The east
winds Of the Massachusetts, shores are
especially raw and unl1ind. Mr.. Ham
mond has studied the question and
come TO a certainty in his own mind
that the frigid climate of eastern Can
ada and New England is caused by
nothing else than the arctic current
which pours all the year round south
through the strait Of Belle Isle. II
would naturally do this because of the
more rarefied condition Of the warmer
water south.
Mr.. Hammond has evolved a scheme
for stopping off the current through
Belle Isle and actually changing the eli
mate of eastern Canada and New Eng
land to one corresponding to that OF
New York and New Jersey He de-
scribes his plan in a letter to the New
York Journal
In brief, If a dam is built across the
strait of Belle Isle between Labrador
and Newfoundland it will drive the icy
polar current eastward into the ocear
north of Newfoundland and allow thu
gulf stream to cradle in its warm EN-
brace Massachusetts, Maine, Nova SEQ
tia and all the gulf of st. Lawrence
region It will make Labrador habit
able and give Canada what she long
for-open seaports all the year. I
would free New England from cas-
winds. While bananas might not exact
~ grow In Boston as the result Of shunt
ing OF the polar current, still the col
chills would no longer creep down th
Yankee and Canuck spine as they
now.
The barrier TO be constructed woul
be Dam, with big, big d, 10 mile
long and not quite 400 feet deep acros
the strait. Rocks from the strait coul
be thrown into the sea to build the four
dstion. The cost would be 80 900. O0C
which Mr.. Hammond thinks should b
shared by Great Britain and the Unite
States.
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Really. II people must kill them
selves Ii Is shocking bad taste for them
to drown themselves in the reservoir
that supplies city with drinking water.
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Mr.: William cambridge OF New
York called on us.
-Miss Mary Tucker, OF Hampton,
who was visitor To the session of the
Tents, was the guest Of Miss NJ. l..
Chiles, la West Leigh st. She visi-
ted the Planet office.
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In his quiet way Fred Fleck, livery
stable keeper of New York, is one of
the most commendable reformers of his
time Street boys, ragged little vaga-
bonds, were naturally attracted to the
neighborhood of his stable, where they
teased and annoyed people all around.
Fieck did not set the dogs on them or
have them arrested. He welcomed them
and organized them into a drum corps,
cleaning each one up and giving him a
nice gray uniform. The boys We're in
rapturee- Fleck obtained at his own ex-
pense a good instructor for them, and
although it was almost as hard on the
neighborhood as the original slum boy
annoyances had been, still this was 3
better kind Of annoyance. Flcck had
the satisfaction of seeing these bad
street boys transformed into bright
clean, orderly drum corps. At the dedi.
cation of Grants tomb they marched
in tho procession as proud and hand
some as any other cadets Flick alsC
turned the loft of his stable into 8
gymnasium. From this the next steI
was to secure employment for them anc
start them on the road to becoming use
full citizens, and in numerous cases THU
step has already been taken.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31

! unique, utilizing every square inch
space. The pulpit is on a line between
the yestibule and the corner diagonalIy
| opposite. Folding-doors from either side
| of the ulp1t to the outer walls shut two
| Sunday-school rooms away from the
main body of the church, or, thrown
| open, make one large hall. Built over the
| Sunday school rooms and around the
outer walls are galleries. Space back of
| the pulpit was finished in three rooms
| two parlors and reading-room. Above
J these are the pastors study, a choirroom
and Kitchen.
! In 1890 DR.. Kent resigned his pas torate.
not because of renouncing his Universalist
belize, but because he was too bread in his
views for the average member. he waited
! until the church had found new pastor
Mr.. Whitcomb (who soon went over to
the Episcopal church land then in Octo-
ber, 1884, started new movement, known
as the Peoples church.
at present the Universalist church is
without a pastor, DR.. Rogers having re-
Gently withdrawn. 1t is hoped by the
public that the usual winter course of
lectures, which has given the people an
opportunity to hear such speakers as Ian
Maclaren, will not be omitted.
When the people of Holland Withdrew
from the doctrines of Luther they called
themselves the Dutch Reformed denomt-
nation; the Germans, in the same way,
styled them selves German Reformed, and
under like circumstance the English re-
celved the name English Reformed. AL
of these denominations established them
selves in the United States and the Eag-A
lish and German drew Close enough to-i
gether to unite in one general synod o<s
what is known as the Reformed Church OF
the United States. This organization
greatly desires union with the Dutch
Reformed, but as the former Is much
wider in its view regarding predestination
the latter will not agree.
The Reformed church of the United
States is represented by both English and
German churches in Washington, the lat
ter having been longer established. in
1867 the congregation built little wooden
church in the northwest, and there they
wors hiped until six years ago. when the
pastor, Rev. Gustav Facius, raised S30,0Oo
for the building of the present brick
structure. The sermon, and, lndeed, the
entire service, is in German. Several of
the German ambassadors have wor-
sbiped there and there are always
kindly relations existing between tho
embassy and DR.. Facius, who says he
makes it a rule to call at the time OF, their
settlement in the city.
The church is like other Protestant
churches in it's general work, except that
it does not countenance the Christian En-
deayor movement. DR.. Facius remarked
| to the correspondent: Probably the or
ganization has done wonderful things,
but l think it assumes work not belong
ing to it. II permitted it will get to be
the head of the church." Such is the at
/ titude of this church at large toward that
great organization.
JENNIE S. CAMPBELL.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31
THE BOOK MAN.

Alone he sits within cozy nook
By Curtin's Greene made. deaf to
Cables roar;
He Reades all day the long forgotten
lore
Of goblin, NIKE, pulpocan and spook.
This man is Wise. No Priest nor Hardy
crook
Who Praed in Holmes or at Wilde
SCOTT swore,
So Gay as he who Borrows Moore
and Moore
The Marvells that ne'er Wither in book.
Upon his shelves the Buffers meet the
Popes,
The Bunyans fill the Boyles with Ravs of
Hopes,
And Stockings turn to Bacon on the
Sills;
The Savage Landor Donnes an Usher's
Hood.
While Dickens Burns to Hunt the Grimm,
Gray Wood
And Shakespeare, at the Lambs New
Berkeley Mills.
HOWARD V. SUTHERLAND.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31

ticularly its head, NJ. Leon Gambetta, had
organized three complete armies in the
provinces, which should attack the Ger
man forces in the rear, thereby causing
them to raise the siege of Paris. These
three armies-the Loire. North and East
armies, of whose operations we will speak
in our next article-were marching on
Paris in different directions, and it cannot
be denied that the situation of the COM
paratively small German army before Paris
was somewhat serious during the month
of October and part of Novemb ber, as the
large German forces investing Meiz Strass-
burs and the other fortresses could not be
Withdrawn from their places at the time,
and neither could re-enforcements from
Germany arrive in time to be of much
value to the besiegers. Besides the above
mentioned French armies bodies of Franc
tireurs (guerrillas) were formed in all parts
of the country. the old Italian hero, Carl
baldi, had arrived with mis- sons and ma ny
of his old soldiers, and numerous adven-
tuIers from all countries had come to as
sist the new republic and drive the victo-
rious invaders from French soil. That
under these circumstances the Germans
could continue their victories and bring
France entirely to their feet IS due exclu-
sively to the bravery. endurance and mag
niticent discipline OF their soldiery and to
the superior strategy and military knowI-
edge of their leaders.
Almost since the beginning of the war
the fortress of Strassburg had been be-
sieged by Baden and Prussian troops
under General Won Werder. The fortii-
cations OF the city, built after the Vauban
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31

the general convention, meeting that year
IN Washington, Immediately took steps
toward the rebuilding of the edifice on a
far finer scale. Accordingly the old site
on North Capitol street was abandoned,
and a better one selected in the northwest.
New churches all over this country and
England contributed largely, and now the
beautiful gray sandstone building, costing
in all $120, 600. loitily lif:s its symmetrical
spire-a graceful, and no doubt enduring,
monument OF Sweden borgian zeal. Lang
ford Warren of Boston was the architect.
In the congregation the army and navy
are we'll represented, also literary and edu-
cational leaders. Mrs. E. d. E. n. South
worth, the novelist, is a member. The
congregation is not given 10 changing
pastors, as it has had only fourth the ii ty
odd years of its history, Rev. Jabez Fox,
the first, serving twenty-five years. Rev.
Frank Sewall, pastor for the past eight
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31

While the capital city was being planned,
before the Government had been estab-
iished within il, the Catholics, with their
accustomed zeal, secured Land and built a
church.
ST. Patrick's, the parent church of
Catholicism in The city, dates its history
from 1874, when Rev. Father Caffrey pur-
chased from the United States Govern
ment several lots in what is now the best
business section. No denomination has
grown so re apidly, building so many fine
edilices, as the Catholic whose original
members all worshiped for few years in
this one little brick church on the edge of
the marshes.
In 1904 Father Caffrey was removed
from st. Patrick's and was succeeded by
Father William Matthews, president of
Georgetown College, whose buildings to-
day beautify West W Washington, as George
town is now called. The church was en-
larged after the war of 1912, and from the
Episcopal church of Dumfries, Va, Fathe:
Matthews purchased an organ, said to be
the first set up in the District of Colum-
bia. The first assistant was called in 1922,
Father Matthews remaining pastor un til
his death, in 1854. That Office has been
filled since 1894 by Rev. Father John
Gloyd.
In 1870 the old building was declared
unsafe so two years later it was demol-
ished and new building was commenced,
the cornerstone being laid November 5,
1872, by Most Rev. Archbishop Bailey. A
few of the red-letter days in the history
of this new edifice are as follows: Septem-
Der 30, 1895. new organ, built by Carl
Barckhoff of Mendelssohn, Pa, was fin
ished. and the keys formally surrendered
October l; the day following first mass
was said on the beautiful new altar, this
service being followed on October . by the
pontification of Satolli Bishop Keane
preaching.
The second assistant, Dr. D. J. Stafford,
man of remarkable eloquence, draws
great crowds TO the church on the Sun
days when be breaches. He is very pop
uiar among Washingtonians as lecturer,
Shakespeare being theme on which he
is especially attractive.
All denominations feel that they
strengthen themselves by representation
at the national capital, and this belief,
coupled with the fact that Christians of
every creed have gathered there, has
caused many sects to build churches
within its boundaries. Frequently sister
congregations throughout the land con-
tribute toward the erection of these edi-
tices, thus establish ing what they call a
national memorial church. Thus have
been constructed two of the churches de-
scribed in this article, the National New
Church Temple (Swedenborg and the
Universalist Memorial Church.
The first disciples of Emanuel Sweden
borg IN this section of the country with
drew from the Protestant Episcopal COM
munion to found churches in Westmore-
land County, Va, in Baltimore, and over
h!:y years ago in Washington. In 1889
the church in this city, built near the
Capitol on land given by William Cranch.
son OF the first Chief Justice OF the District
of Columbia was destroyed by fire, and
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-31

trophc which befell France in this so
foolishly provoked war. Bazaine and his
entire army were held at Metz in a grip
Of iron by the German fore s under Prince
Frederick Charles, and ali attempts OF
BazaIne TO break through the lines Of the
besiegers had been defeated, his army was
partly demoTal.Zed, his cavalry and field
artillery as good as useless or account of
the scarcity OF horses, and the provisions
for the 49,, GOO soldiers and for the in ha b.
tants of the town had been exhausted.
On October 26 council of war, compiis-
ing the three marshals, Bazaine, Can
robert and Lebeuf. and twenty of the
higher generals, came to the conclusion
that Metz could not be held two days
longer and that any further attempt to
break through the Prussian lines without
cavalry and artillery was equivalent to a
tremendous and perfectly useless
slau.hter of their own soloiers, Several
army corps had not received bread or any
other victuals for two days, the men were
exhausted and The discipline had become
very loose and was on the oint of disso-
luton. None of the members of the
council saw any way out of the difficulty,
and it was finally decided TO send General.
Jarras to Prince Frederick Charles TO ne
gotiate about a capitulation. This was
concluded the following day, and with
one stroke of the pen the flower of the
French imperial army, more than five
complete army corps. the imperial guard,
three marshals, seventy generals and
1000 officsrs-in all over III. 900 men-be-
came prisoners OF war, and at the same
time Metz, Frances strongest fortress,