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dez. naturaliEed American citizens. Will be
surrendered by the government to Consul
General Lee providing that they Will agree
to abandon the island Of Cuba.
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NEW YORK-The American missionary
gragatipNl churches. especially through
out New Hngland, to observe tomorrow
as n memorial Sunday OF '"rhe Times Of
Abraham Lincoln"
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famine ReI;..

sa'et that ,, s,ua'y 49,, is officially
Md on ,hs s', ,. persons are now en-,
'nsre scarcity prevails Il, ''''eF-
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n rhey win leave Cuba.

Havana. February l2.--Ambrosio Care
>, ,ynaoe sandoyal and Fernando Herman
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Now Orleans. February G.-Wcather
cloudy; track heavy.
SIX furlongs--charm. Van Brunt, Hills
boro, Time l:2S.
HALF mlle-Our Lszae Memo. Oninoor.
Time 5Gh
Milo and n six,oenth-R hett Goode, Do
mingo. linuptte. Time 2!nh.
one mile-i,ob Clampitt. Banl Cad, Pl-
rate ZINE 1905.
one nane-.poubic Dummy. Oldham. The
phercrnt Time i;HA.
FIX furlcnps.-Robort Bonner, Henerca,
IalIaeh 1.up .p1n
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viENNA--Count Wolkenstein. chief Of
the cmperor's house. committed suicide
last evening.
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Hot springs shoot.

Hot Springs. ARK. Feprls,ry 12.--Thc
beautiful weather today had the effect
OF bringing ONT q large crowd at the mid
winter shoot. many ladies' being IN attend
ahcc, Summaries. Extra miss and ont,
W entrance every man ", thirty yards,
birds cNtri, three birds limit. nineteen en-
tries, Bartlett, Pnrmaoc, Settle, Elliot,
out Aralght and divided the money.
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Carson. Nov, February l2,-The supcr.n-
tcudcut or tho Western Union Telegraph
company arrived In Carson today and
brought with him from san Francisco n
force OF operators Tho company wili put
In eight moro wires to connect Carson
wiih the ou,alde world for the use Of press
Reporters. An entire building will be used
for that purpose.
IN the ruce track here and carpenters Will
40 To work on II ID, once. Corhctt VIII
commence training Mt htS Quarters ct
Shaw Springs one week from today.
Mono of tho Fltzsimnons men are on The
ground ms vet hut he viii undoubtedly
train AZ Steamboat Springs, twenty miles
IRON here
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stage Of the Brooklyn Academy Of Music.
Ihe Amtu,cam players were Pillsbury.
SS,h m,.s nuiriI,e Berry, Hyn,:s,
the order named. The British players
wsre blackburn. Locock. Atkins, Law
renee. Minis. IseillnShan,. Blake. Jackson.
Shortly after 10 o'clock tho british UNI.
rire profcssor J. G. Rice. called play and
the game oponcd as follows:
knights defense.
Table a--showal,er vs. Locock, ruy To-
Fable a--Mkins vs.. Burrine. Vienna
laple ..--psrry VS.. lawrence. sos.
Tabs B--Mills vs. Hymca French de-
Table s--liodges VS.. Bclllnxham. Ruy
Table 7--Biake vs.. pelmar. French dc.
fersc.
Table e-Clolc vs. iced. PIX.
Table 0-McCutchcon VS.. Jacobs, couu-
ter center camlnt
Great R,ltain played white on tho ode
numbered tables and tho Americans or
the even numbered boards.
After seven and a halt hours play "
she match. play was adjourned this oven
Ing o. 10 o'nlock The results SO FAR AZ.
tanned are not very favorable to tn,
Amerhsa tenn. McCutcheun actually los
HIS game. lSurfilic and Helms are hinos
beaten. while only Showaltcr may b.
looked upon as q CERTAIN winner for tn,
team. However things may alter In to
mcrows play and tho Americans ma,
stlll come out victorious
II Is tho second annual eMtcrnauono
match between these countries, Last yea
the Americans beat their opponents b,
4ia to ST. games, by request Of the man
ayers of the l,rlfsh team the years con
test has TO take place on ten boards.
White the iritshers were seated in thu
princes ruom. Hotel Royal, on TIN
Thames. tho sceno OF cotntstt at this enc
was the BROOKLYN Academy OF Music
There was a large attendance I'm the acad
cmv and tho excellent arrangements mad,
by the Brooklyn Chess club were muci
admired by tho spectators.
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six Day Bicycic Race.

Plttsburg, February is,--rhc feature IN
the elk day bicycle race today was tho
collapse of both the leaders this evening.
at about o'clock Gimm was taken from
the track by his manager, who clmn,'
that ono or the trs,lncrs had given the
rider too much brandy, About forty min
utcs were required to get the Clevclanucr
In sinpc again, IN tho meantime Waller
had made a gain Of NttcNa miles and wHi
gorg at good gnN when Gimm returned
to tho track rheir relative positions re-
manned nearly the same until about II
o'clock, when Wallcr was taken s.ck With
cramps IN tho stomach and retired from
she track. when Waller resumed hia work
Glmm had made M all but two miles OF
HIS loss.
Gmm 1891, Schock 1890. Han 1000, Forster
9Sl- Ruckcl 9s2.
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LITERARY MATTERS.

considerable space is devoted in the
North American Review for April to
1.-The Uprising in Greece Sir Charles
w. Dixie, M. r., presents an English
view of the affair, and the Greek Consul
General at New York, Demetrius N. b.
tassi claims that the present conduct of
Greece has enlisted the sympathies of
the entire civilized world, and Justified
her people in their claim to be reckoned
with as an important element in the re-
generation of Eastern Europe.
The Hon. Andrew d. White, our new
ly appointed Ambassador to Germany
will carry the prestige of a fresh literarv
success when !. he crosses the sea. His
warfare of Science with Theology in
Christendom" has attracted more serious
attention than any book of it's general
kind published for long time. and it's
sale is said to continue to be very large.
The book has aroused much interest in
England, where all the principal Journals
have devoted large space to its considera-
tion.
-Messrs. d. Appleton and COMPANY
NAHO"HSS oh"N "hSy nave OcCOuie Lne pub
fishers of list of Mr.. Garland's books.
which is headed by his new work entitled
''Wayside Courtships. - The stories in this
book deal with the same theme, the in
fluence of woman, exerted often nv
chance, upon this or that career and the
quality of the treatment shows the adj
vance of this strong and talented Am eri-
can writer. Other new books by Mr.
Garland will be announced later The
publication of ''Wayside COurtships', will
be accompanied by the appearance of new
editions of Mr.. Garland S vigorous studies
of political life, "A Member of the Third
House and Spoil of Office, - and also Of
his graphic story, Jason Edwards. ;,
These books will be issued in a uniform
edition.
We are glad to learn that the MacmiI-
Ian Company has in preparation cheaper
edition of Miss Kingsley's Travels In
West Africa, Congo Francois, Corisco
and Cameroons. This book, whose author
is a niece of the late Rev. Charles Kings
ley, is one of the brightest books of travel
ever published, and has attracted a great
deal of notice. In England il is already
in its fifth edition. here its price, SC. SO.
has made IL move more slowly than will
be the case when it is issued in a less
costly form.
The Nation, after mentioning the high
scientific value of some of Miss Kingsley,s
work, expresses the general feeling very
well in saying, altogether the book Is
unique, not only because it is more like
the familiar conversation of a bright
woman than set narrative, but also be-
cause of the region described, the objects
of the travels and the traveller herself"
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English public-house system, we
Christians are directly implicated and
to us is sounded the challenge out of
Gods eternity, "Who is on the Lords
sideW
Physiologically, total abstinence is
advantageous. Theologically, it is
Christlike; philanthropically, it is in
6uential. The one destructive argu-
ment that can be urged against it is
that it is unconventional, and con-
ventionality is the god of society. But
the resistless logic of the man of Ma
zareth has proved that conventional
ity, social custom, and even religious
propriety vanish into thin air before
the pressure of necessity.-Address
IN Westminster Abbey.
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Synod of bort was opened on the
18th of November, 1913. Theology was
mystitied, religion disgraced, Christianity
outraged; and after 152 sittings, during
six months display of ferocity and fraud,
the solemn mockery was closed on the
9th of May. 1919. by the declaration of
it's president, that its miraculous labors
had made hell tremble.' Grattan's
Netherlands.
The Jerusalem correspondent of the
Jewish Chronicle mentions that steam
or has at last been put upon the Jordan
which makes the journey from Jericho
to Tiberias, 1. e.. from the Dead sea,
along the Jordan, to the Sea of Galilee,
in five hours. Recently four Jewish
families have settled in Jericho. having
rented for five years from the sultan a
large area of fruitful land for Gull
tivation and to be irrigated from the
Jordan.
Verses from the Koran and other
passages considered sacred are gener-
ally stamped on the fabrics used as
prayer rugs by the Mohammedans, and
it is criminal in oriental law to ex-
port such pieces. This is doubtless
because use by the occidentals means
the treading of the sacred words under
infidel feet. A few years ago an Ameri.
can succeeded in getting two such
pieces as near home as Paris, but the
inducements offered him to return them
to the oriental dealer were potent
enough to effect their purpose.
The Pope has issued new "Apos-
tolic Constitution, regulating the
Inder Erpurgatorius with the object of
meeting the requirements and ideas of
the church as they exist at the end of
nineteenth century. Unbridled writing
in the press is, according to Leo Kill,
the chief weapon in the hands of the
enemies of Christianity. The Pope con.
firms the edicts of several of his pre-.
decessors, and says nothing about the
regulations made by others. The read
ers of the Index are especially warned
by the Pope against books of magic,
prophecy, soothsaying. and spiritualism;
also against books protesting to narrate
visions and miracles unless these have
received the sanction of the ecclesiasti.
cal authorities.
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CANON WHEREFORE ON THE
DRINK TRAFFIC.

The Imagination of man is not able
to conceive any hell more foul than
the drink-cursed slums of densely
populated English town. You who
are shielded by the purer surround
ings of your quiet homes imagine
that we are fanaticaI, and speak in
terms of exaggeration. 1t is because
you do not know what drunkenness
is, and we do, because we have de-
scended into hell. Michael Angelo,
before he painted altar-piece of the
Conventual Church of Florence, had
the collins of the newly buried opened
and placed beside him, that the hid
eous anatomy of death might be
! burned into his soul, enabling him
to reproduce it with terrible effect.
In like manner the hideous anatomy
of drink cursed men and women is
burnt into our minds, because again
and again we have descended into
hell. But we remember those words
of Whittier:
Still Thy love, o Christ arisen,
Yearns to reach those souls in prison:
Through all the depths of sin and loss
Sinks the plummet of Thy Cross.
Never yet abyss was found
Deeper than that Cross could sound
True; but that Cross now, in this
dispensation, must be carried down
into those bells by good, loving, con-
secrated men and women, who have
realized the inspired challenge, "Who
is on the Lords side?" who have
courageously adopted this blessed
line of self denial for others, and
gone forth to
"Rescue the perishing, care for the diving,
Snatch them in pity from sin and the
grave"
A Manchester clergyman, referring
recently to the awful waste of infant
life through the growing intemper-
ance of women, told us he was sum-
moned to baptize dying baby in
one of the slums of Manchester, and
found the little waif of humanity ly-
ing in a chair surrounded by four
drunken women, all too helpless to
hold it. In maudlin sentiment they
asked him to pray, and in the an.
guish of his soul he prayed, Father,
take this little one home; leave it not
in this human hell" That Manches-
ter incident is being repeated hun
dredfold in every great city that is
spotted over with the leprosy of the
state permitted recruiting grounds
of the felon, the harlot, and the pau
per, and in all the misery and profit
gacy, and cruelty and wickedness,
and disgrace and social demoraliza-
ton which are the direct fruits of the
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POULTNEY BIGELOW DESCRIBES
NANSEN.

Nansen is Viking come to life, that
we. latter day degenerates. may have a
taste of the blood that bounded in our
ancestors. The best type of white man.
hood that know is to be found far up
along the Norwegian coast, amongst
those hardy Norsemen who sail their
open boats out into the storms of the At
lantic. and do daily deeds of courage
that are unnoticed because so common.
Ii we could imagine the Apollo Belve-
dere looking less like fabby funky.
and more like boating man in train
ing, we could get near to approaching
the manly beauty of this explorer. His
shoulders and head and neck are 30 we'll
proportioned and poised that l found
myself merely staring at him with no
other feeling than delight in the proper
tons of perfect man. AS he stood by
the Prince of Wales receiving the costly
gold medal which had been struck in
his honor, we could note how greatly he
lowered over those about him; nor is the
Prince of Wales singularly short man.
Nansen left upon me the impression of
a singularly harmonious mind, reposing
in and controlling singularly harmon
ious body. In Irvings Life of Washing
ton there is a picture of tall. dignifed,
self-contained, self controlling. and yet
enthusiastic gentleman, who inspired
confidence and affection wherever he
chose to seek it, and who occupied the
leading place in his country's history
merely because he lived and died faith
full to his moral ideals. Such is the i'm
preston left by this Norwegian an i'm
preston created by dozen things which
he did not say or do. He did not brag;
he did not criticise others: he claimed
nothing. but spoke as though his gal
liant crew had selected him as their
mouthpiece to tell. in simplest language,
the facts OF their long cruise in the Arc
tic. Nansen's voice is like music, rich
and deep. 1t would carry for miles, and
reach sailor on the royal in a gale of
wind, yet can modulate to a melodious
cadence, as. for instance, when, last
night, he told about his Christmas spent
in stone hut, constructed by himself
and his only companion; when his
thoughts reverted to the Christmas tree
at home. and the little children
clapping their hands and dancing
about in happy anticipation. There
was not creature in Albert Hall
that could not hear every word that fell
from his lips. and this without the
slightest raising or straining of his ma
tural voice, Throughout the evening |
kept marvelling at his constant exhibit
ton of modesty and good taste in the SO
lection and treatment of his episodes.
He had hundred opportunities for
tactless remarks. but he never utilized
single one. Had he been reared in di-
plomacy he could not have more pleased
those who listened. There was in his
delivery no sign of embarrassment, no
hurrying, no repetition, none of the
dreary dragging so common on these &C.
casions.-Harper's Weekly.
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brothers keeper" in our labor and
not his slayer, or not those who shall
drive him in despair to STAY himself.
The pulpit would prescribe one hour
of Gospel, at least, to be mixed with
sixty hours of business, the dose to
be taken regularly every week.
2. Accepting Immortality as a
fact, suicide is not an antidote for
misery. If men have not learned to
live happily here, it is very doubtful
if they shall know how to live so
elsewhere. They may escape ills of
the flesh and fly to ills they know not
of. One law prevails over the spirit
ual life of man here and there. Up
one unbroken stairway the spirit as
cends. The way of the Lord is per-
feet. Wherever deaths door may
open to the individual, the ascent is
made still step by step. May be, we
need all the discipline, all the sorrow,
all the suffering which God appoints
to us here. He leads his saints from
tribulation, and promises his help to
the oppressed. If on the rungs of
the ladder which is let down from
serene skies that the lowliest may
rise to excellence, that the humblest
Jay be exalted in worth, men have
not begun to mount, death shall
leave them still at it's base, and in
spiritual fortunes they shall be poor
er than in material; they shall lose
earth and gain nothing by shifting
this scene from their eyes. Very
lowly learners must they be in the
beyond. God shall be a Father for
ever. His care shall WOO the spirit
and win it at length. But the vacan-
cy of soul he shall not fill where
masterful selfhood has not been de-
veloped, and shall leave it, in his
goodness, for each to occupy by a
character in his likeness as he hath
given us his nature image.
3. Example is to be followed, if
good, yet never without preserving
the integrity of ourselves. We can
not lay too much insistence on nur-
turing the strength of individuality.
If we go with men or do as other
men, let it be with convictions of our
own. Let us be able to stand alone
if necessary and to ourselves be true.
Let us part from the herd and rise
to some mount of spiritual vision
where there is room for but one to
stand, and learn the supremacy of a
soul which is but little lower than
God. And when we find us in COM
pany, let us be sure that those with
us are going our way and each his
way. We have been losing the indi-
vidual in the mass. He must stand
up and be counted for what he is
and may become by a belief in his
sovereignty over the earth at his feet.
Too many of the evils of the world
are due to the moral weakness of the
individual. One by one are we amen
able to the divine law. Singly do we
appear at the judgment bar of God.
LA CROSSE. Wis.
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reward for our efforts, and leave the
rest with God, that patience can make
us perfect. lacking nothing. God
reignsl That is enough for me.
With that faith, l will work to do his
will though the heavens fall. Then
"Let us run with patience the race
that is set before us, looking unto
Jesus, the author and finisher of our
faith"
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APPLEToN's HoME-READING BooKs.-Tbe
Story of the Birds. Rv I NJ pan
kett. d. Appleton Companv New
X0rlr --R"iy, ANCW
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SERMON.
THE UNWRITrEN BEATITUDE.
BY REV. CHARLES r. EAST,
(Kansas City, Mo-

"Let us run with patience the race that
is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the
author and tinisher of our faith. He :
brews xii, 1.
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Hghes. Leavening Power-Laest U. s. Govt Report
R3&!a4l! q! RsklR$ Rsxds$z
ABSOLUTELY Pure
Bloody Family Quarrel.

Lancaster. Ky, Jnne 5S This after
noon, on the public square, Marion Sc
bastian was shot dead, five balls having
penetrated his body. A coroner's jury
heard testimony Immediately and Its
verdict was that 5 ID. and Jack Turn
er and an unknown party fired the shots;
also that S. ID. Turner. who is brother
in-law to Sebastian, was principal In the
killing. S. ID. Turner had married
daughter of j. =. Nave, a rich farmer.
Nave's present wife is Sebastian's sister.
At Kuave's suggestion his daughter, the
wife of Turner, with whom she lived un-
happily. deserted him. A suit by Turn
er against his fatherinlsw for $lO,O
damages for alternating his wife's affec-
tions resulted in giving Turner $3.50
Sebastian was a witness and his testimo-
ny favored Nave In the fight to y
Turner fired first. He and Sebastian
held each other by the left hand while
firing with the free right hand. Turner
was not hit. All were well-to do farm
ers, and this tragedy is likely to start a
bad family feud.
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eddiBg Trip In = Balloon.

Chattanooga. Tenn. June 27.-This
afternoon, in the presence of several
thousand persons, William Robertson,
an employe of the Wild West show now
exhibiting here, WAS married to Miss
Cynthiana kenna, a charming belle of
Hill City, a suburb of Chattanooga. The
ceremony took place in the car of the
balloon and as soon as the words that
made the couple man and wife had been
spoken the ropes were cut and the coup
lie started on bridal tour through mid
air. A stiff breeze WAS blowing. and the
balloon WAS carried over the Tennessee e
river. At q height of about $50 feet the
bride became frightened and jumped in
to the water. She was rescued by some
men in boat. The groom made the
ascent safely and descended a distance
of 900 feet in his parachute safely.
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Lightning Kills COnVicts.

Dakota Ga, June 2S During a ter
rifle thunder storm lightning struck a
convict camp near here last night, and
as reault four convicts are dead The
camp is at the lumber mills of Greer
Brothers, and about 80 prisoners were
at work. Two of the convicts, negroes,
were instantly killed; two others, white,
died from their injuries few minutes
after and 10 were shocked SO badly that
they are dying.
About 20 of the fe.ons dashed past
the guards, who were panic stricken,
and made good their escape. After the
guards recovered somewhat they got out
their bloodhounds, and the dogs were
put on the trail. but owing to the heavy
rain which fell the tracks had been
well covered up. Only two of them were
captured.