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The death of the tfrstborn.
took up his pen and dipped it in the
ink and then sat there, thinking, think
ing, Of his baby. He recalled every
little look, its smile, it's new habits,
added day by day. His heart swelled
at the thought of all that he had
dreamed for his boys future. Was
God good? Was it true, this gospel of
comfort he had been preaching these
three years? Why, then. was he not
comforted? The baby had died Thurs
day night.
Three days now, and yet the world
expected him to go OF with his work.
write sermons, make calls, attend 20
the thousand little details that must be
remembered or some one would notice
and begin to complain. How could he
take up thu burden of life and carry
1t? How could he regain his old enthu-
siasm or help Dorothy? Were they
not both smitten to the dust by this
heart loss? He found himself saying
all this and even half f%earfully asking
himself if Dorothy had not made Z
mistake to share her life with him.
Wudl Coulu ne OueE ueF! WLdC career
was possible for them now in this lit
tie place?
The ink had dried on his pen, and he
sat there holding it, unable to write a
word. Dorothy had gone out to the
well, and when he missed her step il
the kitchen and glanced out of the
window to zee her she was sitting on a
bench he had built under the cotton
wood in the yard, the only tree on the
place. She had left her pail at the
well and sat there looking off toward
the little knoll which he had shut out
of his sight when he drew down his
curtain.
He sat down with a groan, and for
q moment the world seemed utterly
empty and useless to him. He had sat
there for a long time, feeling all the
while that his place was by his wife's
side to comfort her, but hesitating for
the first time since their marriage as
to the right thing to do or say, when
a knock at the door reused him. He
knew some one must have knocked
several times. He went through the
sitting room and opened the. door.
A little old woman stood close up to
the door, and a farm wagon and horse
were out in front Of the fence.
"You don't remember me, Mr.. Kirk"
said the little woman In a voice SO
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A little farther down the street tho
horses were caught and stopped.
Kirk ran up with q crowd Of other
men
"No signs of Phil anywhere" said
n Of the men who had helped to
catch the team.
Hes probably been thrown ont
somewhere"
Drunken men never get killed."
81 wouldn't give much for his
chances IL he fell off in the gully grass
over there said another. pointing to-
ward the district from which the
horses had come into the town.
Malcom's mind was in a whirl.
HE may be near by. We ought not
to leave him without looking for him."
AS he spoke he heard the boys moth
er saying as she faced Dorothy in the
study, "My boy may never be saved"
We've got u hands full looking
after the town. We might as well
face that fact; no rain for two
months, water all out of cisterns and
low in wells and that fire coming
down on us 40 miles an hour" said
one of the business men
Kirk looked around him. The citi-
zen were coming out of the stores
and houses, and the whole town was
reused to face and fight the coming
danger, for it was true. unless the
wind changed or died down, Conrad
was threatened with the fate which
that year befell more than one ranch
and settlement. Y,
II believe Dorothy would tell me
to go" he said to himself. Then,
he spoke aloud: 81 don't feel like Civ
ing young Barton up If he is anywhere
near. We can perhaps reach him be-
fore the fire reaches us. Who will go
with me"
Malcom's elbow.
"Come on then" Malcolm cried. And
together the two men started IN q run
in the direction from which the horses
had come in.
"Was Barton a friend Of yours?'
asked Carver, as he painted by the side
Of the minister.
"No; l only knew him slightly"
what are you trying to find him
for?"
"For his mother"
The men ran on. Over on the near
horizon a line of flame and smoke over
25 miles long marched down toward
them and the town Of Conrad, with a
prairie gale behind it and human love
and courage in it's path.
ITO be Continued
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thin ana feeble that Macon was III
stantly reminded of a call he had made
in the spring on a family living on
what was called 'sThe Forks" eight
miles from Conrad, in a very desolate
ravine between two ridges of land that
formed almost the only hill country for
miles around.
Eyes. l do" he replied. cit is Mrs.
Barton, isn't it,"
The woman's face lighted up family.
Eyes, and I'm in trouble. great trou.
BILE, Mr.. Kirk. and I want you to help
me-"
Malcolm stirred at the shabby, dusty.
wornout figure, and instantly it flash
ed into him that she had probably not
heard yet that his baby was dead. Her
next words told him that was the fact.
1--we come straight here from home.
My boy, Mr.. Kirk. have you e him?
He left the farm Saturday with the
double team and a load Of hay. l
haven't seen him since. l know he is
in some saloon, drinking or drunk. and
the money for the hay all spent. oh,
Mr.. Kirk, for Gods sake help me to
find him and get him home again! For
the love Of your own baby that you ex-
pect to grow up into a good Christian
man to comfort and bless you help me
to get my boy out of this hell and save
him, for my heart is broken when l
think of how he was once as innocent
and happy as your own baby"
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II spoke the last words in such q
tone of hopeless sadness that Dorothy
lifted up her head and looked at her.
"Don't say that!" she said, and the
tears flowed down her face faster.
They were merciful tears. Her heart.
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TO be Continued.
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MALCOLM KIRK
by Rev.
Charles NJ. Sheldon

CONTINUED From Seventh Page.)
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from the fires, when through the dust,
racing in from the prairie, came a
team Of powerful farm horses drawing
an empty hay wagon. The lines We're
trailing on the ground. and the harness
was broken, and as they rushed by
som n shouted, That's Phil Bar
TONS taer"
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-08-30
Marshall's War Horse.

dHShAAi0 w ar HORSE
One Of the leading members Of the
Maryland bar is Colonel Charles Mar
shall, direct descendant of the ia
nous chief justice Of the United States
Supreme Court. During the civil war
he was aid-de-camp to General Robert
E. Lee and went through the battles Of
the war with his chief He was pres
ent at the surrender Of App0mattox.
Colonel Marshall has many interesting
stories Of his military life, and one of
the most amusing was an experience
with a new horse. His old horse had
been shot from under him In the fight
Of the previous day, and he had taken
possession Of an animal that seemed to
suit his work. In the battle a few
hours later he was riding across a field
in which there were numerous stumps.
Suddenly the performance opened. The
guns rOared, and the air was filled with
smoke and noise. Before Colonel Mar
shall knew what was happening the
horse had his four feet on one Of the
stumps and was gayly dancing in
circle In the meantime the firing was
increasing and the situation was any,
thing but comfortable, but the horse
kept on as If he was enjoying II.
1T was not until afterward," said
Colonel Marshall, that I found the
horse had belonged to a circus and had
been trained to do this act amid the
firing Of cannon"
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From Lincoln TO Grant.

My Dear General: do not remem-
Der that you and ever met personally.
1 write this now as a grateful ac-
knOwledgement for the almost ines
timable service you have done the coun-
try. I wish to say word further.
When you first reached the vicinity Of
vicksburg I thought you should do
what you finally did-march the troops
across the neck, run the batteries with
the transports, and thus go below; and
l never had any faith, except a general
hope, that you knew better than that
the YazoO Pass expedition and the. like
could succeed. When you got below
and took Port Gibson. Grand Gulf, and
vicinity, thought you should go down
the river and join General Banks; and
when you turned northward, east Of the
Big Black. I feared it was a mistake.
I now wish to make a personal ac-
knowledgement that you were tight
and 1 was wrong.-Abraham Lincoln,
July IS. 1868.
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This and That.

Two submarine boats will be built al
| San Francisco.
Chinese army has been driven from
New Chwang by the Russians.
Fire in Begonia, Spain. church caus-
ed a panic, and two were killed.
Evidence accumulated that several ac
completes aided Humbert's murderer.
Presbyterians lost $4,000 worth OF
property ut Ichon-Fu, China. Looted 10y
Chinese.
Chinese gamblers in New York had a
fatal row among themselves. Song XII,
was killed.
The Kansas wheat crop this year has
been officially put ut IS,OSl 900 bushels,
breaking the record.
\ Chicago woman attempted to stop
gambling by throwing acid on the play
ers. and tables.
Il. A. L. Mamroev. at one time private
secretary of W. III. Seward, died sudden
IL in New York.
Dennis Coughlin, 'the wealthiest man
in Toledo and northwestern Ohio died
in Toledo. aged SO years.
For participating III Il triple lynchlng
w. Il. Brooks was sentenced to life i'm
prisonmcnt at Palestine, Texas.
The royal arsenal at Woolwich has
been ordered to send 3O,O00,000 pounds
of small arm ammunition to China.
President Mckinley has reprieved un-
til Friday, Oct. >, the Haldeman broth
ers. sentenced TO be hanged ut Tomb
stone, AriZ.
An official report from San Juan says
that the exchange of Porto Rican money
for that of the United States was accom-
plisied ON Aug. /.
Col. William Il. Aylett. who command
ed the Fifty-third Virginia regiment.
pickett's division, at Gettysburg, died ai
Aylctts, Va, aged Ga years.
Since the war between China and
Japan the Celestial Kingdom has bought
over 800 cannon and 100000 rifles of
England and Germany. European Off
GERS, too, have been employed 10 drill
troops.
The cigarmakers' strike, New York,
which began twenty-five weeks ago in
Herbs, Wertheim & Schiffers' factories,
and spread to ten other factories. involv-
ing 10000 men, has been won by the
strikers. Manufacturers agree to uniOa-
ize their factories
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CHINA ARMY TO AID.
Force of 1000 En- Route to BE Diverted
to Manila.

Force of 1000 En- Route to BE Diverted
to Manila.
No more United States troops are TO
be sent to China unless future develop
ments necessitate such action. Even
those now on the way or under orders for
service in China are TO be diverted from
their destination and sent TO Manila.
Such is the order promulgated by the
War Department Thursday. 1t marks,
says Washington correspondent, as far
as the United States is concerned. the
close of military activity in China, un-
less an unexpected crisis arises. Having
secured its principal aim-the rescue of
Minister Conger and other Americans at
Pekin-the Government, in order to OBJ
tain its other demands, will, as far as
possible, substitute diplomacy for force
of arms.
China will now be asked by the United
States to insure to her these three desid-
erata:
/. Restoration of order throughout the
empire.
p Securing for the future safety for
American missionaries and protection for
American commercial interests.
5. Indemnity for the outrages suffered
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RIOT RIFE IN PEKIN.
Fire, Fighting aud Dissension MARX
Rule of the Allies.

Il
Rule of the Allies.
Fires. fighting and dissension are ap-
parently following in the wake Of the re-
lief of Pekin. The London Daily Mail
publishes dispatches from the chinese
capital declaring that great hre was
raging in the imperial city. The nus
sian commander had declined to accept
the decision of the other generals NOT 10
violate the imperial precincts, and street
fighting was going on.
Gen. Chaffee, so it is asserted, mann
tanned that the Chinese had been ade-
quately punished already, and that 1t
would be unwise to take the imperial
palace. This explains the withdrawal Of
the Americans after preaching three
gates, as cabled by the correspondent Of
the Associated Press. The Russian gem
eral maintained that his Government had
declared war against China, and that
therefore there was no reason to prevent
him carrying hostilities into the sacred
precincts. The fires appear to he incen-
diary and TO be caused by the Chinese
A report from st. Petersburg says the
japanese legation there has received a
dispatch from Pekin with the news that
the legationers are all liberated, but that
the allied forces are powerless to quench
the terrible fire which is making great
inroads in thickly built portion Of the
city. The soldiers are too fatigued to
master the disastrous flames, which are
threatening the whole of the capital. The
leaders of the rebels, Prince Tuan and
others. are still in the city, but too Sc
curcly concealed TO be found, although
they are being carefully sought. The
Dowager Empress has fed in an un-
known direction.
A report from Pekin says that Gen.
Linevitch has been given full authority
TO guard and defend the city. Fierce
fighting is also said to be still going on
inside the walls. Gen. Linevitch's ST.
berian army corps has become practical
ly imperative on account Of the warm
weather.
All the dispatches point TO the fact that
the commanders were somewhat at sea
regarding their future action, all await
ing Instructions from their governments.
The foreign residents appear to have been
sent TO Tien-tsin, although the st. Peters
burg correspondent of the Daily Mail
says the ministers will not leave Pekin
until negotiations for indemnity are un-
der way.
Berlin learns that there has been fur
ther fighting west Of Tien-tsin, which
creates the impression that the province
of Pc Chilli must be effectively occupied
before peace negotiations will become
feasible.
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The honor Of being his cOmrade for
two years Mt the academy enables me
to speak more intelligently, perhaps,
than those Of ''the new school," who
have invented absurd stories to Illus
trate his cadet life. 1 remember him
as a plain. common sense, straight-fOr-
ward youth; quiet, calm, thoughtful,
and unaggressive; stunning nOtOriety;
quite cOntented, while others were
grumbling; taking to his military duties
in business-like manner; not a prOmi-
nent man in the corps, but respected by
all and popular with his friends. His
sobriquet of Uncle Sam was given him
there, where every good fellow has a
nickname, from these very qualities;
indeed, he was a very uncle-like sort
Of youth. He was then, and always.
an excellent hOrseman, and his picture
rises before me as l write, in the old,
torn coat, ObsOlescent leather gig-top,
loose riding pantaloOns, with spurs
buckled over them, going with his
clanking saber to the drill hall. He
exhibited but little enthusiasm in any
thing. His best standing was in the
mathematical branches and their an
plicatiOn to tactics and military engi-
neering.-Henry COppee's Life of
Grant"
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Soldiers Scythe Still Hangs There.


Thirty eight years ago young Angus
tus Bliss. of Warwick, quit cutting
brush on his fathers farm, hung his
scythe on 4 pine tree and went off to
war. The soldier boy never came back,
and the Scvthe has never been taken
down from the tree where he hung it,
but has become imbedded in. the grow
ing pine until it is i fixture. This pa
thetic reminder of the great civil strug-
gle Is Il familiar sight to members OF
the Shoemet Club. of this city, as the
tree stands near the clubs comfortable
quarters in Rlissville. hamlet just
across the North Orange line into War
wick. When young Augustus Bliss left
home and parents. to fight his coun-
try's battles. BlisSville was a busy CEN
ter of small industries. traces of which
remain To tell the story of the shifting
OF the scene of manufacturing from the
small country hamlet to large centers.
The tree has witnessed all these
changes, has seen the mill standing
near slowly falling into decay. the pop
ulation changing. but still the scythe
hangs there, summer and winter. n
mute testimonial to the devotion to
duty that animated young Bliss.
His father, Milton Bliss. was engaged
In building the dam standing by. and
se9t(his son to cut some briefs that
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fought desperately. CAPTAIN REILLY.
-Four hundred were Killed, 800 prisoners
taken and six towns burned. The allies
loss was four wounded.
Captain Reilly of Battery +, Fifth
United States artillery. who was killed
before the Imperial Palace, WAS buried
in the legation grounds. Gen. Chatfee.
the British and Japanese generals and
many civilians We're present at the IN
tcrment The Japanese troops have re-
lieyed the Pei-tsang cathedral. where iif-
teen French nuns and forty French and
Italian soldiers have been isolated and
besieged two months. They found that
five had been Killed.
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Accommodated His Clerk.

A good story Of John d. Rockefeller,
the millionaire, is told by correspond
ent Of the Boston Journal:
A newly engaged clerk in the en-
ploy of the Standard Oil Company was
sent to work in small room that con-
tanned health lift. Every morning
at about 10 O'Clock, when this clerk
was particularly busy with figures, a
small, black-mustached man, quiet and
diffident In manner, entered, said good
morning." walked on tiptOe to the cor
ner, and exercised for a quarter Of an
hour. 1t became a bore to the clerk,
who at last, one day, remarked with
considerable heat to the stranger:
How do you expect me to do my
work properly while You are foOling
with that blasted machine? I'm get
ting tired of it. Why don't You put it
where it won't worry person to
death?"
Il am very sorry it annOys yOu." said
the stranger, flushing; Il will have 1t
removed at once"
n Poitei 'oOh IL away "itAiH III uOur
A few days later the clerk was sent for
by Mr.. Flagler, whom he found in ear
nest conversation with the small, black
mustached man. The latter smiled at
seeing him. gave Flagler some instruc-
tions and left the room.
"Will You tell me who that gentle
man is:' the young man asked. light
beginning TO break upon him.
That was Mr.. Rockefeller" was the
reply.
1t was the clerks first acquaintance
with the head of the great corporation
by which he was employed
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by Americans during the Boxer troubles
These granted, the United States mill
tary force will be gradually reduced un-
til. comparatively speaking, only n mere
corporaTs guard is left in the Chinese
empire.
Secretary- Root said that no more
troops would be sent to China, because
they We're not needed With the arrival
at Taku of the Hancock and the troops
she carried Gen. Chaffee will have 5000
available men, which is deemed sufficient
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Terrible Storm at Nome.

Seattle (Wash.) special: A terrific
storm ragged a; Nome, August Is. 1t
wrought disaster along the water trout
and, as a result. the beach is lined with
wreckage and stranded vessels of all des-
criptions. According to a water front
man, ont f sixty-eight steam launches,
only five remained afioat and of seventy
two barges but seven are riding the sea,
the others having either sunk or drifted
ashore. Forty-eight dead bodies were
~ q sho<1 aShova
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were In the way Of stone that were
needed. After the briers were cut the
scythe was hung ON small pine tree
standing near, probably without a
thought Of how long 1t would remain
there. In day or two Augustus Bliss
went to the front. having enlisted for
three years term Of service in the
army some time previous. The young
soldier never came back. He was but
IL years old when he enlisted, Aug 4,
1862, in Company H. Thirty-sixth Mas
sachusetts Regiment. While with his
regiment In the South he was over
taken by fatal illness, and he died in
an army hospital at Mildale, Miss. The
circumstances Of his contracting dis
ease were very sad. He had gone to
get water for his comrades, and his
comrades had orders to march while he
was gone. He tried to Overtake them,
and the OverexertiOn was more than he
could stand, and he was taken i'll with
fever before lie had been in battle. He
was not brought home for burial, but
his name is on the roll Of honor on the
soldiers monument at Orange.
In all these years no one has meddled
with the scythe. 1t has hung there a
symbol and visible reminder to his
fathe: Of his sons devotion to duty. As
the tree grew the scythe has become
imbedded in the wood, until 1t is part
Of the tree. The snath, which has been
forced on the scythe by the growing
tree, Is supported in its original posi-
ton by a small framework. The wood
work OF the holes has yielded to the ac-
tiOn Of the elements and fallen away.
Around the tree, which is probably a
little over foot in diameter at its base.
has been erected a railing.-Springfield
Republican.
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CHINESE USE TORCH.
Mob at Annoy Attacks aud Burns Jap
anesc Temple.

United States Consul johnson at
Annoy, China, cabled the State Depart
ment Friday that a mob burned the Jap
anese temple at that place. Marines We're
landed TO protect japanese officials and
restore order. Pekin advices stated that
the allied troops had surrounded the i'm
perial city and stationed sentries at the
gates. They refrained from entering
pending instructions from their govern
ments. The American troops are en-
camped in the grounds of the Temple Of
Heaven.
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Great Reef Order.

Armour & Co., have received an order
for 6,00O. 900 pounds of ''beef on the hOof"
to feed the soldiers of the czar in China.
This is the largest order of the kind in the
history. of the Chicago meat trade. OPP
ti0ns are said to have been taken upon
every available ship in the carrying trade
on the Pacific. 1t will take 5000 fatted
cattle to fill the order. The cattle will be
sent from San Francisco via Hawaii and
japan,
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TORTURED BY FIENDS.
Horrible Sufferings of Women Mission
aries at Hands of Boxers.


Further details OF the brutal treatment
Of the members Of the American inland
missionaries who fled from Hankow have
been ascertained. Miss Rice was beaten,
knocked down and heavy cart drawn
repeatedly over her body, after which
she was clubbed to death. Miss Huston,
also Of the American mission, had her
skull fractured by blow which exposed
part Of her brain; after suffering this
horrible injury she was starved and tor
tured for twenty days. Her injured brain
mortified and che died in awful agony.
Mrs. Cooper of the British inland mis-
sion was divested of her clothing, tied
TO a stake and left under the blistering
sun and at the mercy Of the flies. After
several days of agony and starvation
death came to her relief.