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The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18

News from the Philippines may now
and then seem to grow dull and stale
in comparison with the stirring It'd
ings formerly received from those ISL
ands. Yet to the reflective mind each
word of even the simplest dispatch
suggests a romance of industry and
adventure. For every word has to
be flashed under the China sea from
Manila to Hong Kong; thence under
the same sea again, either to Brunei,
in Sarawak, or to Hue and to Saigon,
in Indo-China; thence a third time
under the China sea to Singapore;
thence up the Strait to Georgetown;
thence across and under the Bay of
Bengal to Madras; thence across the
teeming Deccan to Bombay; thence
under the Arabian sea to Alden;
thence up the Red sea to Suez; thence
across Egypt to Alexandria; thence
under the Mediterranean sea to Malta,
TO Gibraltar and Lisbon. or to Mar
settles and thence across France;
thence to London; thence across land
and sea to the western coast of Ire
land; thence with a mighty span I'M
der the Atlantic to Newfoundland. to
Nova Scotia, and so on to New York.
In that itinerary a whole treatise on
geography and more than one vol
ume of the worlds history are in
volved.
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18
MONKEYS OF MAURITIUs.
Keep Their Wise Human-Looking Heads
Moving.


Nothing can be more beautiful than
the view from the back veranda at
Rebuilt as the fine country govern
ment house built by the Chevalier de
la Brillane for the governors of Mauri-
titus more than a century ago is called.
Before you spreads an eXpanse of Eng
lish lawn only broken by clumps of
gay foliaged shrubs or beds of flowers,
and behind that again is the wooded
edge of the steep ravine, where the
mischievous "jackos" hide, who come
up at night to play havoc with the SUI
gar canes on its opposite side. The only
day of the week on which they ven
tured up was Sunday afternoon, when
all the world was silent and sleepy. 1t
used to be my delight to watch from
an upper bedroom window the stealthy
appearance of the old sentinel mon
keys who first peered cautiously up
and evidently reconnoitered the ground
thoroughly. After few moments of
careful scouting a sort of chirrup
would be heard, which seemed the
signal for the rest of the colony to
tumble unanimously up the bank.
Such games as then started among the
young ones, such antics and tumblings
and rompings! but all the time the SEN
tinels never relaxed their vigilance.
They spread like a Gordon round the
gamboling young ones and kept turn
ing their horribly wise humanlook-
ing heads from side to side necessarily,
only picking and chewing a blade of
grass now and then. The mothers
seemed to keep together, and doubtless
gossiped, but let my old and perfectly
harmless skye terrier toddle round the
corner of the veranda, and each female
would dart into the group of playing
monkeys, seize her property by the
nearest leg, toss it over her shoulder
and quicker than the eye could follow
should would have disappeared down
the ravine. The sentinels had uttered
their warning cry directly, but they
always remained until the very last
and retreated in good order, though
there was no cause for alarm, as Box
er's" thoughts were on the peacocks,
apt to trespass at those silent and un-
guarded hours. and not on the mon
KEYS at all.-Cornhill
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18

They all know the tune there. All
the best singers of all the ages will
Join it-choirs of white robed children.
choirs of patriarchs, choirs of apos-
ties. Morning stars clapping their
cymbals. Harpers with their harps.
Great anthems of God roll on! roll
on!-other empires joining the har-
the nations all saved. Anthem shall
touch anthem, chorus join chorus, and
all the sweet sounds of earth and heav-
en- be poured into the ear of Christ.
David of the harp will be there. Ga
briel of the trumpet will be there.
Germany redeemed will pour its deep
bass voice into the song, and Africa
will add to the music with her match
less voices. l wish in our closing
hymn today we might catch an echo
that slips from the gates. Who knows
but that when the heavenly door opens
today to let some soul through there
may come forth the strain of the jubi-
liant voices until we catch it? Oh,
that as the song drops down from
heaven 1t might meet half way song
coming up from earth.
They rise for the doXology, all the
multitude of the blest! Let us rise
with them, and so at this hour the joys
of the church on earth and the joys of
the church in heaven will mingle their
chalices, and the dark apparel of our
mourning will seem to whiten into the
spotless raiment of the skies. God
grant that through the mercy of our
Lord Jesus we may all get there
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18
QUEER Fox-HouNDs IN MAINE
Peculiar Breed Evolved by the Needs
of Aroostook County.

Peculiar Breed Evolved by the Needs
of Aroostook County.
The three chief products of Aroos-
took county, Maine, are said to be po-
tatoes, politicians and red foxes. A
year ago Charles E. Oak of Caribou,
Land Agent and Forest Commissioner
for Maine, told legislative committee
that his country could furnish 100000
fox pelts year for ten years without
diminishing the supply. Hunters from
Boston and Worcester, Mass, who have
shot and trapped foxes in Aroostook,
say that Mr.. Oaks estimate is too low
by half. The great wine-red fox that
will run for days without firing; that
doubles and turns to laugh at the dogs,
and then goes on refreshed from the
exercise, reaches fullest perfection in
Aroostook county. OF the 10000 or
10000 foxes taken in Aroostook this
winter, more than half were caught in
traps. Nearly all the others were shot
while running before the patient and
slow-footed hounds that abound in
northern Maine. The Maine foxhound
is a hunting machine that was devel-
oped for a certain purpose. The result
of fifty years breeding is short
legged, deep-chested, slow-running race
of dogs that will run day and night
without firing, a breed that will an
noy foxes and cause them to run in
more or less restricted circles, and
brighten them enough to cause them to
hole. The Maine hound to be of value
must also be taught to hunt singly, so
that IL hunter takes out half-dozen
dogs for, a days hunt every dog will
pick up track of his own and follow
II to the death. 1t is not a surprising
feat for a hunter with six hounds to
go out in the morning and return at
night with ten or twelve pelts. AS the
skin of the Aroostook red fox is worth
anywhere from slips to $3.50, the oc-
cupation is profitable as well as pleas
ing.
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18

A religious daily, called The New
Daily, has been established in London
and will be sold for half-a-penny. 1t
announces: The idea of this journal
is to advocate daily with all fearless
principles of our Christian profession
from which we have so grossly depart
ed; to promote meditation, to encour-
age criticism and discussion and to do
the utmost possible to supply a good
daily with the least possible parade and
expense"
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18

A new bill authorizes the secre-
tary of the navy to contract for Krupp
armor at S545 a ton. In the naval
appropriation bill of last year, the
limit of $500 ton was fixed upon the
price Of armor. No contracts could
be placed at that price, and the result
is that none of the three battleships
and th-1e armored cruisers authorized
by last years bill have been contract
ed for. For the same reason the bat
tleships Wisconsin, Alabama and IL
linois, which should have been deliv-
cred to the government complete last
year, have been delayed, and their
builders are seeking redress from the
government for the loss incurred
through failure to supply the armor.
Under the new bill, the secretary's
authority to buy armor at $545 ton
applies to vessels before authorized
as we'll as those provided for in the
bill.
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18

A queer case came up in the Senate
recently, illustrative of the mixed re-
lation which Cuba bears to the United
States. Mr.. Stewart presented a pc
tition from certain citizens of that ISL
and in regard to the landing of cable
there, and moved that it be referred
regularly to the committee on military
affairs. Mr.. Morgan, of Alabama
called attention to the Senate rule for
bidding the presentation of a petition
from citizens of a foreign country.
Such a petition must go through the
State Department. Mr.. Stewart argued
that these petitioners did not come I'M
der the head of foreigners, because
Congress had power to legislate on the
subject concerning which they APP
pealed and this view finally prevailed.
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18

A new departure in which Mr..
Moody was deeply interested goes into
effect at Mount Hermon next month.
Hereafter the school will be in practi-
cally continuous session, the year be-
ing divided into three terms of sixteen
weeks each. The new church at Mount
Hermon, formed just before Mr. Moody
died, has already admitted thirty
young men as new members on confess
sion Of faith.
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18

Secret-servlce expenditures OF Great
Britain do not: seem to have kept pace
with the spread of milltarism. They
have been less of late than they were
at the beginning of the century. The
money voted to defray "the charge of
her majesty's foreign and other secret
services" in 1884 hardly exceeded
500 900. and for the last few years has
averaged about $4,000. Yet in 1920
$500. 900 was appropriated for the pur-
pose and in 1914 and the year Of Wa
terloo the vote was no less than $685.
900.
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18

The United States has recently con-
cluded several arrangements for ar
bitration. One is with Great Britain
and Germany to settle claims of
American, British and German resi-
dents in Samoa for property damages
during the disturbances last year. An
other, with Haiti, arises from the COL
lection of tax which is asserted to
have been illegal. There are, in all,
five such arbitrations agreed upon,
and a sixth is pending. The claims
which are the subject of these arbi-
trations are not of the kind which
usually lead to war. The friends of
peace throughout the world are urg-
ing that not only such civil suits as
these but national affronts and in
juries be referred to peaceful tri-
bunals and settled by them.
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18

Purpose give defniteness AMI dignity
to life. the man with a noble purpose
grows to the level of his purpose
Rev. ]. F. Carson, Presbyterian, Brook
lyn, N. Y.
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18

A law now under the consideration
of the congress of the Argentine Re
public provides for the reading of the
Bible in the public schools.
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18

Barbara Frietchie promises to be-
come almost as mythical as the man
who struck billy" Patterson.
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18
beyond Our Conception.

You see my text sets forth the idea
that, however exalted our ideas of
heaven, they come far short of the
reality. Some wise men have been cal
culating how many furlongs long and
wide is the new Jerusalem, and they
have calculated how many inhabitants
there are on the earth, how long the
earth will probably stand, and then
they come to this estimate: That after
all the nations have been gathering to
heaven there will be room for each
soul, room 16 feet long and Is feet
wide. 1t would not be large enough
for you. 1t would not be large enough
for me. am glad to know that no hui
man estimate is sufficient to take the
dimensions. Eye hath not seen, nor
ear heard" nor arithmeticians cal
culated.
l first remark that we can get no
idea OF the health of heaven. When
you were a child, and you went out in
the morning, how you bounded along
the road or street-you had never felt
sorrow or sickness. Perhaps later you
felt a glow in your cheek and a spring
in your step and an exuberance of
spirits and a clearness of eye that
made you thank God you were permit
ted to live. The nerves were harp
strings and the sunlight was a doxol-
ogy, and the rustling leaves were the
rustling of the robes of great crowd
rising up to praise the Lord. You
thought that you knew what IL was
to be well, but there is no perfect
health on earth. The diseases of past
generations came down to us. The
airs that now float upon the earth are
not like those which foated above par
adise. They are charged with impu-
rites and distempers. The most elias
tic and robust health of earth, COM
pared with that which those expert
ence before whom the gates have been
opened, 10 nothing but sickness and
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18

The sea of matrimony swamps many
q eourtahip.
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18

emaciation. Look at that soul stand
ing before the throne. On earth she
was a lifelong invalid. See her step
now and hear her voice now. Catch,
If you can, one breath of that celestial
air. Health in all the pulses-health
of vision, health of spirits, immortal
health. No racking cough, no sharp
pleurisies, no consuming fevers, no ex-
hausting pains, no hospitals of wound
ed men. Health swing in the air,
health flowing in all the streams,
health blooming on the banks. No
headaches, no side aches, no back
aches. That child that died in the
agonies of Group, hear her voice now
ringing in the anthem. That old man
that went bowed down with the in
firmities of age. see him walk now
with the step of an immortal athlete
forever young again. That night
when the needlewoman rainted away
in the garnet, wave of the heavenly
air resuscitated her forever. For
everlasting years to have neither ache,
nor pain nor weakness, nor fatigue.
Eye hath lot seen it, ear hath not
heard it,"
No Separation There.
In this world we only meet to part
1t is good-by, good-by. Farewells
floating in the air. We hear it at the
rail car windows and at the steamboat
wharf-good-by. Children lisp it, and
old age answers it. Sometimes we say
it in a light way-"good-h y"-and
sometimes with anguish in which the
soul breaks down-goodb All, that
is the word that ends the thanksgiving
banquet, that is the word that comes
in TO close the Christmas chant. Good
by, goodby. But not so in heaven.
Welcomes in the air, welcomes at the
gates, welcomes at the house of many
mansions, but no good-by. That group
is constantly being augmented. They
are going up from our circles of earth
to join in-little voices to join the
anthem, little hands to take hold in
the great home circle, little feet to
dance in the eternal glee, little crowns
TO be cast down before the feet of Je-
sus. Our friends are in two groups-a
group this side of the river and a
group on the other side of the river.
Now there goes one from this to that
and another from this to that,and soon
we will all be gone over. How many Of
your loved ones have already entered
upon that blessed place? If I should
take paper and pencil. do you think I
could put them all down? All, my
friends, the waves of Jordan roar so
hoarsely We cannot hear the JOY on
the other side when that group is aug
mented
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18
Reunion Teyond the Grave.

mented.
Reunion Beyond the Grave.
Unbelief says, They are dead, and
they are annihilated," but blessed be
God we have Bible that tells us diff
ferent! We open it, and we find they
are neither dead nor annihilated-that
they never were so much alive as now
that they are only waiting for our
coming and that we shall join them
on the other side of the river. Oh,
glorious reunion, we cannot grasp it
now! Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man, the things which God
hath prepared for them that love
him"
What a place of explanation it will
be! l see every day profound mystic
ries of providence. There is no ques
ton we ask oftener than Why? There
are hundreds of graves in Greenwood
and Laurel Hill that need to be ex-
planned. Hospitals for the blind and
lame, asylums for the idiotic and in
sane, almshouses for the destitute and
a world of pain and misfortune that
demand more than human solution.
God will clear it all up. In the light
that pours from the throne no dark
mystery can live. Things now utterly
inscrutable will be illumined as plain
ly as though the answer was written
on the jasper wall or sounded in the
temple anthem. Bartimeus will thank
God that he was blind and Joseph that
he was cast into the pit, and Daniel
that he denned with the lions. and
Paul that he was humpbacked, and Da-
yid that he was driven from Jerusa-
lem, and that invalid, that for twenty
years he could not lift his head from
the pillow, and that widow, that she
had such hard work to earn bread for
her children. The song will be all the
grander for earth's weeping eyes and
aching heads and exhausted hands
and scourged backs and martyred
agonies. But we can get no idea Of
that anthem here. We appreciate the
power of secular music, but do we APP
preclate the power of sacred song?
There is nothing more inspiring to
me than whole congregation lifted
on the wave of holy melody. When
we sing some of those dear old
memories of the past. Why, some Of
them were cradle songs in our fathers
housel They are all sparkling with
the morning dew of thousand Chris
tian Sabbaths. They were sung by
brothers and sisters gone now, by
voices that were aged and broken in
the music, voices none the less sweet
because they did tremble and break.
The Music OF Heaven.
When l hear these old songs sung,
IL seems as If all the old country meet
ing houses Joined in the chorus and
city church and sailors bethel and
western cabins until the whole CONT
nent lifts the doxology and the scep-
tiers of eternity beat time in the music.
Away, then, with your starveling
tunes that chill the devotions of the
sanctuary and make the people sit ST.
victory. When generals come back
from victorious wars, do we not cheer
them and shout, "Huzza, huzza" And
when Jesus passes along in the con-
quest of the earth, shall we not have
for him one loud. ringing cheer?
"All hail the power of Jesus name!
Let angels PROSTATE fall,
Bring forth the royal diadem
And crown him Lord of ALL"
But, my friends, If music on earth is
so sweet, what will it be in heaven
The Yale expositor., 1900-05-18

A complete History of each of
the Ships In The American
Mapy, BY Edgar Stanton Mac
law. Historian U. S. Macy.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-03-06
WORK OF THE FIREMEN
Heroic Efforts Made to Save the
Building.

Never did tiremen work moro beroi
caiiy than did l;aleigh's fire laddjes yes
tcrday. Heat and danger did nor 80,
them. l
lhey rushed into burning buildinns
'i" rolled out great hogsheads Of tobac-
60 or staggered beneath heavy hurdnn.
81 household goods: when the Dater i
'he entrants failed they seized bl1ckct
ana climbed TO the roofs of Threatened
buildings, and there. half roasted nv rho
h'at. fought back the fire ticnd.
N"ple fellows. these .fircm-n Va
alarm sounds but that they are ready r.
respond with ready hand and wiilino
heart- And just hero. too. much credit
'anIio' be gwen to the colorcl fremen
anu ofler colorcd men of tho cit,
lh"E fought the flames most valianti,.
ara were especially helpful in the work
= SHNlhe The contents Of the hu,pi,~
piildihGS. But for their assistance tbo
losses must have heen much creator
1 lohilhent among those t~iyhtin, tho
Ire were the students Of Shaw Tnir
SHY. Ihey formed themselves ;nto
hncket brigade and saved from dcstr,o
.l"I 'he house Oh Wilmington street
!"S' south OF the warehouse ard vor,,
near II. Ibis was. occupied nv = f,n,il.
W H'sroes. among them Il mother viii,
her s'N-day old baby.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-03-06
NO WATER TO FIGHT THE FIRE
Half an Hour Before the Pressure was
Sufficient.

Shortly before 10 o'clock Yesterday
morning it was discovered that the
warehouse, on the corner Of Wilmington
and CabarruS streets, was on fire. Smoke
was bursting from the roof and the
windows Of the third story at the north
crn end Of the building.
! An alarm was turned in and the fire
men responded promptly. Six lines Of
hose were quickly laid. but when the
water was turned on the pressure was
not sufficient to throw the stream 50
much as to the second story. Even
when all the streams except one were
cut Oil there was no Improvement in
the force and volume of the water.
All this time the fire was spreading
jumping from raftcr to rafter along the
roof OF the big building and dropping
into the tobacco hanging below. The
building being of old heart pine and
the tobacco dry and 1nfammablc. the
flames spread with great rapidity.
Direct pressure was called for. but this
made little Improvement in the streams
Of water thrown from the nozZles an the
hands of the tiremen,- and now the
building was wrapped III flames with 4
brtez" blowing from the east. The
neat was intense and in spite of the
hrc1ntn and their puny streams of water
three buildings acrGSS the street caught
the residence Of Mrs. George II. Will
Hams. the stable of Or. J. a. Sexton
and the residence of Ed Hood.
Still the water pressure was entirely
Inadequate and it began TO lool. as if
al the buildings in the n~eighborbood
were doomed. in fact the Carrolltou
liotcl. the residence Of Mr.. Joseph f..
rogue. and three or four others caught
but were put out by volunteer buckets
supplied the fircmen by the Water
company.
finally. after all danger of further
spread Of the flames was about over.
strong pressure was given by the Water
company and the flames were %extincuish-
ed III 4 few minutes.
The ruins of the warehouse and tbn
mass of tobacco i'll it are still shoulder
ing, and last night two or three still
alarms were sent in to turn on water
and put the fire out to keep it from
spreading.
h warehouse was the property of
Julius Lewis 4 Co, but it was occ,,-
pied by f. l.. Fleming 4 Co.. leaf to-
hacco dealers. They had in il ahout
10000 pounds Of leaf-about half Of #
III hogshcadS and the other half hanging
up. IN all there We're between so ana
~ hoSsheadS. Of these 80, or nearly
half, were rolled out on the street and
saved.
In the warehouse also there was a new
camping cutht for use Of the State at
e~ncampments. The tents were stored
there for safe keeping. The cost Of the
equipment Was $500 and it was stored
on the third floor of the warehouse. Mis-
was insured for $1,000. /
Inc residence occupied by Mrs. vii
Hams was the property Of Mr.. Joscuh
T.. oSuc. Tho Hood residence WAS
owned by Mr.. .. !. Carroll.
here these buildings stood there is
now bI;ickened ruins, representing Il loss
OF about $25,OOO.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-03-06

alton Of the franchise given II. anal
rental paid it. by the city.
The Water Company. on -l. .
hand. made a number of expi--..
and excuses. One was that the ..
WAS turned ON as quick aS a~kei
Ernest Balm who was in char.
water toyer said his official ro,,rr
ed that the pressure was II IL.
with. was increased when the alan.
turned in 10 - and before the H..
over it was 1n5.
Mr.. julius Lewis. prc>iG,ut
Water Company. explained the
pressure by saying that the Dunn.
was not at the water works M tH.
but was IN the city Attending ,e.r-.
Still another s~tockhdldcr -av.
excuse the cold weather. Slyir-
people. fearing their water pine.
freeze had been leaving them r
over night and this had low,r-I ..-
pressure.
And it is possible that there w,r-
excuses and explanations.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-03-06

Ia!eiGh yesterday morning had its
first big fire iii several years.
1t was a big fire simply and solely for
the reason that the tiremen could not
get water TO put IT out.
BY the failure of the Water company
to comply with its contract to furnish
water. two residences and Il stable were
destroyed. These losses aggregate noJ
less than $500.
The other building b;Tned-the ware
house in which the fire originated-could
hardly nave been saved had there been
plenty Cf water, though it is just possible
that with q good strong pressure and
six streams of water the flames could
have been subdued before they reached
the tobacco in the hogsheads on the
first floor and in the basement.
Even as it was a number Of the hogs
heads We're there SmOuldering last night.
burned only OH the outer edges.