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PRESIDENT UPHELD.
METHODIST CONFERENCE DE
FEATS PROPOSED VOTE
OF CENSURE.
a Long Debate the Arrangement
of President Mckinley and Secre-
tary Long Over the Army Cantsen
Matter is Defeated by an Over
whelming Vote.

Chicago, May 2S.-rhc Methodist
pected action in regard to the commit
tee reports on card playing, dancing
and other prohibited amussments. The
official vote by which the minority re.
port was accepted. recommending no
action. was announced as 1893 ayes ant
$50 noes. Then, to the surprise of the
large audience, on motion Of DR.. Buck
ley, the minority report was laid OF
the table by a vote of. 25G to 253.
Bishop Fitzgerald then ruled. how
ever. that the question was no longer
before the house. 1t is extremely i'm.
probable that the matter will again b,
taken mp for action. so the standing OF
tha-a1ethodist church for the next four
years in regard to forbidden amuse.
e will be unchanged.
Samuel Dick.e Of Michigan then pre-
scented the report Of the committee on
temperance. and for the first time the
great Methodist body took on a strong
political appearance. The majority re-
port contained a strong arraignment-of
President Mckinley and Attorney Gen
eral Griggs for their attitude on the
anti-canteeu law. and over this point
the conference debated all morning.
The majority report on that point read
as follows:
We are %chagrined, Inundated and
eXasperated by the puerile and absurd
construction placed on the anti-canteen
law by the attorney general of the
United States. and with all due respect
to the exalted station We record the fact
that we are panied and disappointed a
the course of the president in accept.
ing as final and satisfactory an opinion
without binding force. Such an abuse
of power is notification in its most
dangerous form. Upon the president
as chief Of our army, rests the respon-
sibility for the existence Of the canteen
saloon. an evil which he has ample
power to suppress, a more deadly foe
tocthe soldiers than the bullet or the
tropical heat"
Dr. ]. L. Price of New York present
ed the minority report, which struck
out all of the majority report in whicl
President Mckinley was condemned.
we are here to deal in principles
and not indulge in personalities" said
DR.. Price, amid vigorous applause
This is not simply a question of wheth-
err or not the president of the United
States is at fault. l hold that the cause
of temperance and prohibition and the
cause of the church of Christ cannot
be advanced by this personal arraign
ment of our chief magistrate"
Judge Lore of Delaware, in speaking
in favor of the minority report, paid
a strong tribute to the president, with
whom he served four years in congress
Il love his elemental manhood said
Judge Lore. 'and l hope the Methodist
church will not strike down one of the
most loyal men within her borders
DR.. A. B. Leonard made an impas-
stoned plea for the adoption Of the ma
iority report. I'VE hear much about
government by Injunction" he said
hut this is government by an opinion
of a member Of the presidents club.
/ canno shut my eyes to the fault:
even Of the chief magistrate of the
nation
, 1900-05-29

Proprietors of New York saloons
by pro-Boers decorate their
show windows with fancy baskets filled
with bottled liquors, the whole decor
ated with ribbons Of the Boer colors-
red. white, blue and green. 1t Is said
to be a clever way to attract the trade
Of both Irish and German sympathizers
with the Beers in their fight against
England.
, 1900-05-29
DOES THIS STRIKE YOU,

Muddy competitions. n%auseating
breath come from chronic constipation.
karl's Glover Root Tea is an absolute
cure and has been sold for nfty years
on an absolute guarantee. Price rs
cents and 80 cents. Eggleston, the
druggist.
, 1900-05-29

The directors of a French railroad,
the Campagnie D'Orleans, recently no.
tilted advertisers that after one month
all the posts. pictures and bills an
%nouncing their drugs. pills and embro-
cations along the line of route will be
abolished, so that the traveller VIII
once more be able to gaze upon the
fields and hills and homesteads with
out being reminded at every few yards
Of the tomb.
, 1900-05-29
TRY ALIENS Foo1.EAse.

A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At
and hot, and get tired easily. II you have
amarting feet or tight shoes. try Aliens Foot
Ease. II cOOls the feet and makes walking
easy. Cures swollen and sweating feet, blis-
tiers and callous spots. Relieves corns and
bunions Of all pain and gives rest and com
fort. Try It today. Sold by all druggists AND
shoe stores for 3 cents. Trial package FREE
Address. Allen $. Olmsted. Leroy. N. Y.
, 1900-05-29

After suffering from severe dyspep-
sia over twelve years and using many
remedies without permanent good I
finally took Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. 1t
did me so much good 1 recommended 1t
to everyone" writes j.. E. Watkins,
clerk and recorder, Chillicothe, Mo. 1t
digests what you eat.-A. H. Cordiner,
Druggist.
, 1900-05-29
SOCIETY DIRECTORY

Secretaries OF organizations will
please notify this Office of any change
of officers or other correction desired-
, 1900-05-29

LARAMIE LODGE NO. 3, A. F. and
A. NJ. Meets frst and third Monday
evening in Masonic hall.
G. W, Bramel, W. NJ.
4. L. Gates. Secretary.
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CURRENT VERSE.
April Rain,


Gray threads caught within the forest bloom
A-slantwise. shutfled by the April breeze;
A fog OF buds and rain-unraveled bloom
Is set sdrift between the antiered trees;
And leaf-bud sheathings, closed hour ago,
The edges Of their satin Innings show.
The rain-threads break in little golden ends,
And opals. all a-quiver in the air.
Hang scintilant, slipping sunshine sends
A rainbow here, needle glimmer there.
An uptossed head OF fragrance, dimly white,
The wild plum gIistcns in the feecy light.
The wet, rough rocks, with lichen-laces trimmed,
Shine family green, along the sianted gladts;
The curied brown fungus-cups are even bFimmed
with rain, that steals their dusk tn orange
shades,
And darkles in each hsllowed velvet bell
TO the dim softness OF fairy's we'll
crab trees branches sharp with thorny spears,
A-sudden, turn to wands Of dripping pink
Shaking from bud tips Aprirs jewel-tcars,
That start the birdstoot pansies where they
sink:
And subtle balms are trailcd through every
lane,
From woodlands wet and sweet with z pril rain.
Hattie Whitney, in Truth.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

Municipal Government as Illustrated
by the Charter, Finances, and Public
Charities of New York" by Bird S CO.
Ter, Comptroller of the City, is a small
book which contains much interesting ma
terial for thought and study. AS the con-
ditions which prevail in New York are to
a certain extent common to all large CT
ties, this book will be interesting to phi
lanthropists and sociologists almost ev-
erywhere. Among the subjects dealt with
are public charity, the water supply,
transportation, city development. and the
church in politics, and as certain funda-
mental laws govern the administration of
public affairs in every community, from
the village TO the metropolis, some of
these chapters will be instructive reading
even to the inhabitant of a small town
Mr. Golfer handles abuses with gloves off
and from what he says one may infer
that there is need for outspokenness CIR
certain subjects.
in the chapter on the water supply he
denouncea the Ramapo Water Company
and all it, works in no unmeasured terms
and advocates municipal ownership OF the
city water works. The chapter on trans
portation contains a discussion on the
relative merits OF bridges and tunnels, ad-
yocating the latter as less expensive,
more useful. and more practicable in ev
cry way.
One of the most sensible, clear and in
structive OF these brief essays on munich
pal government is that on the relation of
the church to politics. 1t may be intend
ed to hit Parkkurst and other political
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08
Woman and War.

We women teach our little sons how wrong
And how ignoble blows are, school and church
support our precepts, and inocuiate
The growing minds with thoughts Of love and
peace
let dogs delight to bark and bite."w say;
But human beings with immortal souls
Must rise above the methods of the brute
And walk with reason and with self-eontrol-
And then-dear God. you men, you wise, strong
men.
Our selfannounced superiors in brain,
Our peers in judgment. you go forth to war;
on leap at another, mutiate
And starve and kill your fellowme and ask
The worlds applause for such heroic deeds.
\ on boast and strut: and IL no song Is sung,
No laudatory epic writ in blood.
Telling how many widows you have made,
Why then, pcrforce, you say our bards are dead
And inspiration sleeps to wake no more.
And we. the women. whose lives you are
What do but sit in silent homes
And wait and suffer? Not for the blare
Of trumpets and the bugle's call to arms
For us no waving banners. supreme,
Triumphant hour Of conquest Ours the slow
Dread torture of uncertainty, each day
The bottles battle with the same despair.
And when at best your victories reach our cars,
There reaches with them to our plying hearts
The thought of countless homes made desolate
And other women weeping for their dead
0 men. wise men, superior beings, say,
Is there no substitute for war in this
Great age and era2 II you answer NO.
Then let US rear cur children to be wolves
And teach them from the cradle how 10 kill :
Why should we women waste time and words
In talking peace, when men declare for war?
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

You lack romance your minds all fret I'D fog,
:, IN LONDON, on this black midwinter dag.
Make more house sunshine, with another ioe
On tile warm hearth; then watch with me the
play
OF blue and gold and purple tongues which lean
In quick cdresses TO the new-fed wood;
How eagerly they curli how close they creepi
How passionate the fame is for its food.
How willing seem the rugged blocks to Yield
Fiber and grain and CRIME 10 the fame,
How the pitch laughs and bubbles! seeing re-
vealed
Natures deep secret, that life comes, and came,
Now. and from old beginnings, forth from death.
linus thes-Lwhieh have been trees and spars
Give gladly back their cosmie stuff. their breath
of chemie gases, that the Mothers lips
Nav kiss them to fl, sh being. ..Merest fancies,r
You style it? Yes, that's what these -eaa logs
arci
Brimmins with iancies; by the ton romaaces
Shot in our cellar from the uillbank e.,,,
Lock now the blue turns green; the gold grows
While the Hthe fire tongues lick the copper
And taste the sheathjng rust, and where the
cuddy
Was new gilt. and what transom end remains
White with split nitrates; and that kelson heel.
Soaked with Atlantic salt think these blocks
MT HitdStu iHto - NdiHl port 10 steal
Out of the chill waves, and the mists and rocks,
Out of grim toll, sea slush and savage weather
See if yon trenail did its business well
Where the maui set it, gripping close together
Plank and plank end, tho all the devils OF Hell
Reared from the brine to break them And that
bolt
Mere shipyard iron, how it shoulders hard
Into its place even now No knave or dolt
Drove the loyal fastening! stedfast did it guard
Its little Star. Of bilge. mid storms enough
To loosen mountains. while slept ashore.
This knot of teak again-immortal stuff
As tit to float now. round tb@ world once more,
As when the Burmese in Tennasserim
First telled the shining glory OF its tree.
Since that stout chunk took the adze mark from
hIni
Quid mare non novit? Where's the distant sea
1t has net plowsd? Of keel. or 1udder poss.
Or stem. forefoot. or bend some fragment true
Cleavng the wave, circIing - perilous coass,
Shimming the deadly ledge. in shoals none
knew.
Feeling blind way; seeing the sworder charge.
The white, shark glitter by, the gray whales
sound.
The flying fish dart from the pillows marse
Like birds from meadows; always duty bound
To do its work of honest timber-stanch
To serve the Maker and the men he made
From joyful time, of Indamans proud launch
To time OF wo. when old, worn, disarrayed.
She drove-teak blocks and all-on lee shore.
Now
The good ship broken, and her great deeds
done
Meeklv ii renders in this ruddy glow
The Light and warmth it drew from Asia's sun
To toast your toes and mine. And then to say
There's no to find with London fog!
A store Of brave sea stories blaze away
In those charredNchips Forgive him, good old
log
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

THE STORY OF THE BOERS. Prepared by AI.
thorty OF the South African Republics BY c.
W Van Der Hooet. New York: Harper &
| CHARLES SUMNER american Statesman BY
Moorield Storey. Boston; Houghton, Miffin
Il Co. sl.25.
THE RHYMER. By Allan McAulay. New York:
Charles Scribncr's Sons. $3.50.
PRINCIPLES OF COLONIAL GOVERNMENT
ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT NEEDS OF
CUBA AND PORTO RICO AND OF THE
PHILIPPINES. By Horace n. Fisher. Boston;
THE sroRSiING OF STONY POINT BY Henry
P Johnston, A. NJ. New York: James I.
pEBTs OF HONOR. By Maurus Jokai. New
York: Doubleday & Mcclure Company. Sl.95.
THE NICARAGUA CANAL. BY W. +. Simmons
Illustrated. New York: Harper Bros.
THE BEWITCHED FIDDLE, AND OTHER $40
RIEs BY Seumas MacManus. New York;
Doubleday Mcclure Company.
THE GREATEST GIFT. By A. W. Marchmont.
New York F. NJ. Buckles & Co. sl.25.
AN EvENTFuL NIGHT. By Clara Parker. New
York: Doubleday & Mcclure Company.
A NEW ENGLAND BoYH0oD: And Other Bits of
Autobiography. By Edward Everett Hale. Bos-
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THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. BY J. A. Hob
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sANDBURRs. BY Alfred Henry Lewis Illus
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VENGEANCE is NINE. BY Andrew Balfour New
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MEN WITH THE BARK ON BY Frederic Rem
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tional Library. New York: Cassen Co.
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pSEy.
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In the Netherlands.

THE American in Holland" by Will
liam Elliot Griffis, is quite we'll described
by the subtitle Sentimental Rambles in
the Eleven Provinces of the Netherlands. 3"
The author is evidently lover of the
Land OF Wipdmills," and as a conse-
quence, his book is delightful.
Holland, with its tulips, its canal boats,
its delft, its wooden-shod people. and its
cleanliness, is endlossly fascinating to all
who love quaintness and picturesque beau
ty. There Is charm in the very names
They suggest TO the American, comforta-
Bile Dutch homes Of New Amsterdam, in
the days when the round and placid burgh-
ers, with their long pipes and beribboned
garments. sat gossiping in the "Bouwerie."
Those days are past in this country, but
Holland Is still, to the untrayeled Ameri-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08
when You Hear the Robin Call.

You nav read it May on the calendar,
You may fix your heart on spring,
But until YOU hear the robins song
You will find il no such thing!
For he s sure just when the snow flies,
And he knows springs secrets ALL
You may 6e quite sure Z is May-time
When you hear the robin call
They II tell you the winter Is ended
You win hear 1t everywhere
just for little sunshine
And breath OF April air.
But you may be sure OF one thing:
As sure as that rain will fall,
II is really, truly springtime
When you hear The robin call
Agnes Lewis Mitchill.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08
LITERARY NOTES

The new interest in the Spanish Ian
guage and literature assures a specially
cordial welcome at this time to an English
version OF "SchiIling's German Grammar. -
This grammar is q, textbook very well
known and widely used on The Continent
of Europe. In Germany it has gone through
dozen editions and it has been trans
lated into French and Italian.
This English version is prepared by
Frederick Zagel. 1t is book of about $50
pages, divided into fifty lessons. 1t is pub
lished by Cassell & Co., of New York.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

That night, one looking at the west
might say
That just beyond the heights the naples Jared
Like scarlet banneTs-as they do in autumn
The sun went down with such imperial spendor
Near by, the air hung thick with wreathed smoke,
And not quite yet had silence touched the hills
That had played all day with thunder Of sullen
cannon.
But now the veering wind had found Tue south
And led the following tide up no moon path
Calling the mists-white as the circling gulls-
In from the outer rocks Heavy with rain
The fog came in and all her world grew dark
Dark as the empty west.
Though one should stand
praying the while that tod might bless her
eyes)
pom the seward cliff the long night through
On such night this % moaning windy
think that dawn-if dawn should ever break
W ould only come TO show fhow void thing
Is Earth. that might have been no less than
Heaven.
Yea, as ii was in France so long ago
where the least path their feet might follow
The path Leve'. feet had troddcn but yester
Francis sherman, in The april Atlantic.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08
NOTES AND QUERIES.

How many wards arc there in Chi ago7 ..
What is the mayors salaryY [. u. A.
Thirty-four .. $4,000 year.
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Good Friday, MDcxLv.

Surely, o Christ, upon this day,
Thou wilt have pity. even on me!
Hold thou the hands of Charnisay.
Or bid them clasp, remembering thee.
30 Christ. thou knowest what it is
To strive with mighty, evil men;
Lean down from thy high cross, and kiss
My arms till they grow strong again.
Gas on tina: day drove him back
Into Port Royal with his deadi
Our cannon made the snowdrifts black.
But there, deem, the waves were red).
Yea. keep me, Christ, until La Tour
(oh- the old days in old RochelleD
CCmeth to end this towards war
And send his soul strsightway to HE'LL
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

Mr.. Charles Major sailed recently for
London to arrange for the English dra-
matte rights of When Knighthood Was
in Flower and also TO obtain additional
material for historical novel of English
life which he has had in preparation for
several years
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

Among the flowers sent to John Rus
kins funeral was a wreath of true Greek
laurel from G. F. Watts R. A., with this
message from Mrs. Watts: 1T comes
from our garden, and has been cut before
three times onfy-for Tennyson, Leighton,
and Burne- Jones"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

Where did David Crockett def LII.
He died in the defence of The Alamo,
San Antonio. Texas, March g. 1895,
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

William Archer. whose sketches Of Amer
lean life and customs were recently pub
lished by Charles Scribner's Sons, AMI
whose Notes on the American Stage is
more or less eagerly awaited has youn-
teered for service in South Africa. and has
been enrolled in corps of shaEpshooters
that is being formed in London. Quite re-
Gently he had in the columns of the Morn
ing Leader" of LonGon a rather remarkable
article, in which he said that were lie 4
poet he would write an ode to Mr.. Mauser,
the inventor of the rifle which has been
doing such terrible execution among Brit
ish troops. 1t is almost a confession Of
faith which in the light of the author )
enrolment is a little curious. He closes
with the words: In short. ] realized that
the idea OF England was 20 me nothing
but a many-faced jewel of pride. whereof
no one fact could be dimmed, but the 9TH
ers must PALE in sympathy. And this the
Mauser bullet taught me-"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

On October %. 1877. Two hundred lives
were lost
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

It is true: the orkneys and the Hebrides
were taken by Norwegians in SIG, and
were formally annexed in 1898. In 1897
they were united to Denmark When
James III married the daughter Of the
Danish King. Christian |. the latter gave
the islands as security for his daughters
dowry The dowry was never paid, and
the Islands were turned over to Scotland
in 1890. While held by Norway and Den
mark, all traces OF the primitive popula-
tion disappeared.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

A writer in 'Biackwood's' is weary of
the adulation poured On eminent men by
some others who are rather anxious to
be heard than qualified to speak. H
says: The moral pathologist Of the flu
ture will have much to say of the para
sites of the nineteenth century. a long
chapter will be devoted to that we'll
known variety. the Gladst3ni Toady
Ex-senator locuples), and the cross-refer-
ences to it in the index will be Place and
Peerage. But space will, nevertheless, be
found to do justice TO the idiosyncrasy of
the Toady of Robert Browning. and of the
Toady of John Ruskin.'
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

In England. In 1876. Three years later
company was fully organized and ready
for business there. The first company
was organized in this country in 1858.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

In wha, year did the Blantyre explosion oceurf
J. NJ
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

THE Immortal Garland"is the title of
new novel by j. Storer Clouston.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

Where was accident insurance ars, introduced,
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08
Ship Logs,

You lack romance 2-your minds all fret ID fog.
, In London, on this black midwinter daY,
Make more house sunshine, with another log
On the warm hearth; then watch with me the
play
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

A declares that the inhabitants OF the Orkney
| Islands are of Norwegian ancestry, not Scotch;
| is this true, and if so, is there explanatioB9
| C. q F.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

| Why does the church. in computing forty days
OF Lent, omit all the Sundays during Lent? 9.
How long has the church ohserr-d the Lensen
| regulations? j. A. NJ
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What is the block system?
T. o. N. B.

The railroad is divided into sections,
with signal stations at each end. An &C
cident within any section is signaled at
both that sections stations. In some sys-
tens men give the signals, in others the
warnings are given automatically by cleo
trical apparatus. By the absolute block
system only one train is permitted in one
section at time, but q variation of this
permits second train to enter. the sec
ton before the other has left it, warning
the second Of the others presence.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

They were sixteen ordinances, passed in
1854, at Clarendon. Wiltshire. England, by
council of English barons ara prelates.
Perhaps the most radical was that which
made the clergy subject to tie common
law in criminal cases. When they were
sent TO Pope Alexander Ill for ratification
he rejected them, but most of the provi
sons survived.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08

Ii arose from a custom of Tobias Hob
son, a stablekeeper OF Cambridge, Eng
land. Though number OF Gne horses
were usually kept in his stalls his rule
was that every customer must take the
horse from the stall nearest the door.