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The Crusade in Brief.

The Oakland (Ind.) temperance people
are gaining in their tight against the sa-
loon.
If YOU believe that the liquor traffic is
curse, you must, as an honest man, fight
The clergy of the State Church of Swe-
den. assembled in national convention,
unanimously Detitioned the Government
TO stop the sale OF beer at al military es-
Establishments and camps.
The Northern Pacific Railroad has is
sued an order requiring absolute prohlbl..
tion of the use OF liquor on the part OF all
employees at all times. such IN order IS
in the interest of business.
In Russia the Minister of Finance has
issued an order that hats must lie dotted
TO bartcnders in whisky shops, as they are
Government officials This is an honor
that the American barkceper docs not re-
ceve.
The following question was asked OF Tor
ty.two insurance societies IN America: AS
a rule, other things being equal, 90 you
consider the habitual user OF Intoxicating
beverages as good an insurance risk as
the total ahsta;ncr? II not, why not!
Forty of the societies pronounced emphat-
icaly in favor of total abstinence. One
declared that drink reduced expectation
OF life nearly two-thlrds, and another that,
according to ;ts books, the ratio OF the
death.ra.e was about twenty-six per cent,
IN favor Of the total abstainer.
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A New Lnke Suddenly Created.

A remarkable phenomenon is re-
ported from the Russian rural COM
mune of Schava, in the Government Of
Tzareff Kolisaka. IneXplicable sounds
were heard for several days issuing
from the earth. The sounds varied
from something like the booming Of a
cannon to the screeching Of steam
whistles, and seemed to come from
forest skirting the commune. In this
forest, where the terrified peasantry
gathered in expectation of some ca
lamity, the earth was seen to heave
necessarily. Gradually huge cracks
appeared. water was seen. at last the
earth seemed gradually to sink, water
rose, and there appeared a new lake
of considerable extent, which is now
being examined by geologists.--Phila
delphia Telegraph.
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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Venezuelan newspapers which have
been received at Porto Rico. contain
articles charging that Herbert Bowen.
the American Minister, accepted 169.-
600 bolivars for securing the refer
ence Of the question Of preferential
claims to The Hague Tribunal.
Major General Wood reports from
Jolo that the Sultan of Sulu has ac-
cepted the abrogation Of the Bates
treaty. Evidently the Sultan had ex,
pected it's abrogation since hostilities
began last fall.
A son just born to the Prince and
Princess David Kawananakoa Is the
first male heir Of the Kalakaua line to
be born for many years, and If the
monarchy were still in existence he
would be heir apparent to the Hawai-
ian throne.
Governor Carter has called an extra
session Of the Hawaiian Legislature to
consider the finances of the Treasury
which is unable to meet the warrants
drawn upon it. For the present fiscal
year the appropriations exceed the in
come by $1,5OO,000.
Jose Gomez Brioso, member Of the
Executive Council Of Porto Rico, has
been appointed chief of the depart
ment formed by the consolidation OF
the departments of charities. prisons
and health.
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MINOR EVENTS0F THE WEEK
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The President sent to the Senate the
nomination Of Joseph W. j. Lee. or
Maryland. to be Secretary Of Lega-
ton in Panama.
A money order treaty between this
Government and Cuba was agreed
upon at conference held between
Acting Postmaster General Wynne
and Minister Quesads, of Cuba.
The Senate, in executive session,
confirmed the nomination Of Charles
Dunning White, Of New Jersey. to be
Secretary of Legation at Buenos
Ayres.
A new domestic reply postal card OF
the one-cent denomination will be is
sued soon. 1t will bear the portrait Of
General William L. Sherman on the
message side and portrait Of General
Philip II. Sheridan on the reply side.
Senator Platt proposed an amend
ment to the Postoffice Appropriation
bill, appropriating S2,000,0O0 for the
purchase of the Pennsylvania station
site for new posto6ice in New York.
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FOREIGN.

Smallpox has become epidemic In
the interior of Irkutsk, Siberia. The
authorities have taken measures to
stamp out the disease which has not
as yet affected the troops.
The Ameer of Afghanistan. erron-
eously reported to have been poi.
soned, is well. He is living in the
Baghbala Palace, outside of Cabul.
With a view to facilitating the ar.
rangements of foreign contracts, Aus.
ten Chamberlain, the British Chancel.
lor Of the EXchequer, announces that
there will not be any increase Of the
tax on coal in the forthcoming bud.
get.
Advices received by the Foreign Of.
fee from Morocco say that Blu Ha.
mara. the Moorish pretender, is again
active. Several depredations have
taken place, and it is feared they mark
the beginning Of fresh and serious
opposition to the Sultan.
It is stated that the Government has
put part Of the War Office Reform
Committees recommendations into
operation without awaiting the sane
ton of Parliament. AS result, Cen
erals Trotter. Thyme and Gatacre
have been prematurely retired.
Telegrams from Santiago de Cuba
report that all the members of the
Provincial Electoral Board of Scru-
tiny have been arrested on the charge
of falsifying the results of the cleo
tions for congressman.
The Crown Prince Frederick Will
lam attended United States Ambas-
sador Towers reception at Berlin,
Germany.
The Duke of the .A5:uZzi arrived at
Lima, Peru, on board the Italian
crusier Liguria. The Italian colony
has prepared a series of festivities in
honor of the Duke.
The Bank of England. at its semi
annual meeting. declared dividend
of only four and one-haif per cent. for
the last six months. This is the first
time in seven years that the dividend
has been below ten per cent. per an
mum.
NJ Boris Saraffof the Macedonian
leader. said that the Macedonian i'll
sursents had decided not to raise a
rebellion this spring. but would delay
the uprising to give the Powers time
to carry out their proposed reforms.
The Flora, variety theatre at Ber-
lin, Germany, which is being demol-
isbed, collapsed, and thirteen WorEmen
we're killed.
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to inquire about the vessel destroyed?
Her men committed piracy and muir
der. and they were punished with
death. Do lou want our land? That
cannot be- DO you want intercourse
with US? That cannot be-"
The Admiral said in reply to this
that his intentions were friendly and
that he proposed to make survey Of
the river. He asked to see an envoy
of the King. Two days later Captain
Blake, of the Alaska. started up the
river with the Monocacy and Palos
and four launches to make a trip Of
investigation. He had strict orders
not to fire on tue natives except III
self-defcnse. On the way up the eX-
pedition passed two stone forts. which
had been erected since the French eX-
pedition of 1866. At point nine
miles from the mouth the party came
to some narrows, where the river ran
very rapidly between an island and
the mainland. The island was strong
ly fortified with crenellated -7alls,
through which projected forty or fifty
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DOMESTIC.

W. C. Sears, Democrat, was elected
Mayor Of Sioux City, Iowa, by about
1000 plurality over W. E. Cody, Re-
publican. Most of the Democratic
ticket was elected.
Governor Cummins, of Iowa. who
has been suffering from an attack of
pneumonia, has so far recovered that
the attending physicians declare him
out Of danger.
jamin NJ. Wallace went ashore near
New Inlet, on the Carolina coast, and
probably will be loss.
Burton Warren, son of State Senator
D. NJ. Warren, shot himself on his
ranch, in Jefferson County, Mont, and
Carl Schoedel, cowboy at the ranch,
the alleged cause of the trouble be-
tween Warren and his wife, also shot
and killed himself, on learning that
Warren had committed suicide.
John Maynard, a negro. was found
hanging to a telegraph pole at Mont
gomery, Texas. He had confessed
that he had helped to beat and rob a
number of raiload laborers, one Of
whom died.
Ralph Armstrong, under sentence Of
death for the murder Of his cousin,
Miss Alice Armstrong, committed sui
eide in his cell at Tuskegee, Ala.
Miss Anita Kelly, of New York. got
verdict of $4,000 damages and costs
against a Santa Barbara Hotel Com
pany for the loss of leg in an eleva-
tor accident in July, 1903. She sued
for $4,000. =.
The Chicago car barn bandits, Marx,
Neidermeier and Van Dine, were de-
MED a new trial. The date of the exc
cution was set for April %.
Alderman John ]. Brennan, of Chi
cago, ILL.,. sentenced to year in the
House Of Correction, on a charge of
fraudulent election methods, was
granted new trial.
While J. B. Morrow was preaching
the sermon at the funeral Of jeremiah
Campbell in Newfane, Ky. Mrs. Camp
bell the widow. dropped dead.
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among whom were tl:ree Americans
and two Englishmen. had been MUIR
dered. Minister Burlingame at once
demanded redress from China, but
the Government at Pekin diSclaimed
all responsibility for Korea. so on
January 10. 1867. Commander Schu-
feldt was dispatched to the scene of
the outrage with the warship Wach-
Nsett.
Commander Schufe!dt was unable
to reach the Pingyang River on ac-
count, of ice. but he anchored at a
point fifty miles to the south and es-
tablished communication with the dis
Eict authorities. who denied all knowl-
edge of the General Sherman and
begged the WachuSett to leave. After
sending letter to the King the COM
mander was compelled to return to
Chefoo, having accomplished nothing.
/ A report reached Chefoo a year later
that two survivors of the General
Sherman were in confinement in
Korea. and Commander Febiger. Of
the Shenandoah. was sent to inveS-
tigate. He met with no more success
than his predecessor, and after having
sailed up the Pingyang River for some
distance. returned to Chefoo and re-
ported that to the best of his belief
all the crew of the missing vessel
were dead. No further steps were
taken by the United States until three
years later, when Admiral John Rodgers
sailed for Korea with a fleet consist
ing of the Colorado. Benicia. Mono
cacy and Palos. and on May 30. 1871,
anchored near the mouth of the Seoul
River. He was met by officers who
purported to come from the Korean
court, but as they had no credentials
they were denied an interview. One
of the men presented letter from the
King which was in part as follows:
"This, people and kingdom have
lived in the enjoyment of their own
civilization 1000 years. and we want
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DEFENDS PENSION ORDER
Secretary Hitchcock Replies to the
Senate Inquiry.
Estimated Increase in Pension Payments
is s5, 400, 900 Year-secretary Up
holds New Age Regulation.

Washington. D. C.-Secretary Hitch
cock replied to the Senate resolution
of inquiry regarding the issuance Of
the recent pension order allotting pen
sions to old soldiers over siXty-two
years of age and the probable in
creased expenditures resulting there
from. The estimated increase in pen.
sion payments according to the depart
ment's figures. is $5,4O0,000 a year.
In his. reply Secretary Hitchcock
says the recent order merely regulated
the administration of the act of 1890.
and was not to be considered as en-
larging the provisions of that act or in
any way to affect its just interpreta-
ton.
AS some misunderstanding with ref.
erence to the Interpretation and pur-
pose of this order exists, brief review
Of pension legislation and the admin.
istration in the department is sub.
mitted by Secretary Hitchcock to show
that the order referred to Is clearly
within executive authority and in con-
which had heretofore prevailed in its
administration. He said:
Before the act of June q, 1890. no
pensions were granted except upon
proof that the death or disability for
which the pension was sought resulted
from actual service. This act, how
ever. provides that any person who
had served ninety days or more, and
who had been honorably discharged
should receive a pension Of not less
than Sc nor more than S12 per month
if proof were furnished that he was
suffering from a permanent disability
not the result Of vicious habits, which
incapacitated him from the perform
ance of manual labor in such a degree
as to render him unable to earn a sup
port
DISABILITY, partial or complete, to
perform manual labor is the sole meas.
ure Of the right to a pension under
this act"
The Secretary then quotes notable
decisions and orders in this line, made
by the Pension Bureau in 1S93-97, and
says:
"Although age In connection with
other disabilities has always been con.
sidered in determining pension ratings
under the act, there has never been
any uniform rule for rating the infrm-
tiles due to the element Of age, with
the exception Of the two classes named.
Such ratings, therefore. seem to have
been governed by the varying opinions
Of the many who have been occupied
with that duty. thereby imparting to
that feature of pension administration
something of uncertainty and inequal-
ity.
An order lays down as a convenient
rule Of decision and a rebuttable pre-
sumption Of fact, that one who is 9th.
erwise entitled to a pension and is
sixty-two years of age is partially dis.
abled from earning a livelihood by his
hands; that one who is sixty-five is
more disabled for manual work; that
one who is sixty-eight is in a still
greater degree incapable of earning a
support by manual labor. and that one
Of seventy is completely disabled in
this regard. Certainly, such a pre-
sumption is justified by general expe.
rience in actual life.
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Possible Results Of Drink.

As the drinking season is now on, it is
we'll to reflect that the following diseases
NAV be directly or indirectly caused by
some form of alcoholism: Acute gastric ca
tarrh, chronic gastric catarrh, gastric dlla-
tation, intestinal indigestion, constipation,
gout, cholera morbus, chrome perltonitls'
dropsy of the abdomen, catarrhal laundlce,
congestion Of the liver, cirrhosls (hob'nal
liyer), chronic tubal nephrltis tchromc
Brirht's disease), chronic interstitia! neph-
ritis (chronic Bright's 'disease), diabetes
mellitus, chronic bronchitis, congestion OF
the lungs. oedema of the lungs, lobor pneu-
monia, fbroid phthisis Gnterstitial pneu'
monial, chronic valvuiar disease OF the
heart. dilatation of the neart, chrome
fibroid heart, fatty degeneration OF the
heart, palpitation Of the heart, arterio Sc
brosis, aneurism Of the aorta, meningitis,
brain fever, apoplexy, congestion OF tne
brain, brain thrombosis and embolsm I'm
YOUTH, nervous vertigo, temulentia "a
plain drunkard), mania a potu, dehrlum
tremens, dipsomania (alcohollc insanity,
imbecility and dementia often result from
dipsomania).
Alcoholism predisposes to sunstroke,
chronic pleurisy, Inflammation of the nerve
trunks, spinal congestion, spinal meningl..
tis, spinal sclerosis flour forms, one OF
which is locomotor ataxia), disseminated
neuritis, melancholia, mania. (insanity),
delusional insanity, phagedenlc ulcer, va
rious infammations, a delirium that some
times occurs after injuries and surgical op-
erations (if an old drunliard sustains q
fracture of bone he Is liable to 90 into
deIrium tremers; he may in this state at,
tempt to destroy himself or those around
kim5, erysipelas, blood tumor, fatty IT,
NOR, urinary calculus (from excessive use
of malt liouors), monomania, general par
alysis (paretic dementia), acquired feeble
mindedness, acne rosacea (whisky nose
and cieeks), trifacal neura!gia.-Medicai
Student, in Washington Star.
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE

Poem: Two Journeys, by 8. B. McMan1s
"A Medical Student Tells In the Wash.
ington Star of Diseases That Are Traced
Directly or Indirectly to Alcoholism.
May I talk, Mr.. Sheriff? If you say that
I may,
It will lessen the. length of this terrible
way;
Of this terrible journey so short yet so far
That leads to the prison with bolt and
with bar.
It seems to me now that each moving
wheel,
The engine and tender and coaches all feel
The shame of the burden they're fastening
on
That the stars look in pity and the red
near dawn
Will blush with shame at the sight it
must see, {
Of lost life tortured with cruelty.
Not long time ago as the years are now
told, -
But centuries to me and alas manifold. 4
I came one day over this selfsame road
With a life that with gladness was over
flowed,
For my heart was just leaping with very
Joy
And the world held no better, no happier
boy.
Unfasten these cuffs, let me wipe of the
Which flow for these crucifed, wasted
years.
And to think they have brought me only
to this;
A fathers blessing was on my young head
And the days seemed holy and hallowed.
A sisters caress and brothers smile
Made tourney of Joy each feeting mile.
The white clouds laughed in the deep, still
sky,
And the suns red rays seemed to prophesy
OF kindness to me. The fitting trees
Were like prayers of gladness on bended
While the village spires, as prophets stood,
To bless me with everything sweet ana
good,
And the cities and towns as they came and
went
Seemed to smile at me in calm content
Oh, the world looked fair, so wond'rous
fair!
And my heart was one throbbing, grateful
prayer >.
AS counted my blessings, SO many them
I could find no place for glad amen:
Health, love and courage were my estate
And D.! laughed at fortune and scofed as
fate. =
The world would see that manly man \
Should lead in the hurrying csr2rtn.
I would live to be loved, and die to bo
missed,
Keep my Life as the cup of eucharist.
Oh, that dear days journey with no sor-
row to leaven, +
Remains in my life as q dream of heaven.
You know the rest, and I need not tell :,
How the tempter came and the tempted
fell;
Not with sudden and crushing fall,
Not with the rendering up OF all
I held most sacred in one quick act,
But slowly and surely with fateful tact.
An unwilling drink with friend who
To be followed by one less unwillinsly
quaffed. Il
Another as pledge for old times sake, -
And yet one more for thirst to slake.
Another to drown a homeslck thought
Or the discomfort of lonely lot;
Prayers and pleadings-caress and KISS,
Lost from sight in this deep abyss.
A drunkard at last by slow degrees,
Bound and shackled beyond relcase'
A criminal next-but one step more
The felon's trial-the prison door.
Put on INV shackles and bind me fast,
For this hour stand appalled,, aghast, >,
And nv torture is something cannot tell
It is all that the darkest, deepest hell
Can render of pain. O Christ above
Have mercy on me in Thy pitying love!
1'N'' Rams Horn.
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guns. At the base of the walls were
stationed 1000 Korean troops armed
with matchlocks.
As the foremost launches turned a
bend in the river opposite the fort
they perceived another fort on the
mainland so situated that its fire
would converge with that from the
island battery. At the same moment
the guns in both forts opened fire
on the launches and poured a hail Of
shot round them that lasted for some
ten minutes. By that time the Palos
and Monocacy had come up to the
launches and with few shots from
their guns silenced the forts. The
boats then withdrew down the river.
In spite Of the heavy fire from the
forts only one man in the surveying
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The Houacwlfe's Friend.

A busy housewife appreciates every
little contrivance that helps her to do
her work quicker, while it does not de-
tract from the thoroughness with
which it would have been done had
the ordinary means of performing the
task been employed.
This fact makes even such a simple
thing as a -four sitter an object Of in
terest when it presents features which
add to the efficiency of the user in the
performance of one Of the most inl-
portant little duties Of the Kitchen
the making of the bread. The illus
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party was wounded. This was due to
the fact that the Korean guns were
aimed to sweep a certain point in the
river, and as the launches did not pass
that point they escaped with compare
lively little damage.
Ten days later. on June 10, the boatn
made second expedition up the river
and landed GA men and seven guns.
By a combined attack from land and
water all four forts were captured and
destroyed. The American loss was
three killed and seven wounded. The
Koreans were wretchedly armed with
old frelocks and cutasses of soft iron.
They wore cotton padded armor that
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SAVES FIVE FROM GALLOWS.
Gave False Testimony at First Under
Pressure, Like Chicago Boy.

PRESSURE, Like Cnlcago Boy.
Chicago, Ill.-A child's testimony re.
versed saved five men from the gal.
lows. The result was 4 striking paral.
lei to the case in which some time ago
Peter Van Vlissingen. millionaire,
practically demonstrated that under
police pressure boy named Wiltrax
had given false testimony leading to
the conviction of the boys father for
murder.
An instance Of youthful unreliabiIity
under oath was in the case Of William
Mccarthy and four Polish young men
on trial for murder, the witness being
little girl, Appollina Starosta, who
first gave direct, straightforward, eye
witness testimony. apparently estab-
fishing beyond question the guilt of the
men, and then repudiated it all.
In explanation the child said she had
been instructed how to testify by the
widow of the murdered man. Charges
against the prisoners were withdrawn
on the spot by the States Attorney.
and the five men walked out of the
court room free by order Of the court.
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out and that they did not come back
often. A woman who lived next door
to the Roosevelts in East Twentieth
street told me Of how, passing in the
street, she saw young Theodore hang
ing out of second-story window and
ran in to tell his mother ''If the Lord"
said she. as she made off to catch him.
"had not taken care Of Theodore. he
would have been killed long ago"
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command of the Asiatic squadron.
stormed and destroyed four Korean
forts near the mouth Of the river
which leads to Seoul.
Word reached Chefoo in October,
1866, that the General Sherman. an
American trading vessel which had
been loaded at Chefoo that summer.
had been fired upon while proceeding
up the Pingyans River and that her
entire crew of twenty-seven men,
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lean vessels that traded in those
waters.
Americans have an electric street
railway in Seoul and gold mine in
the north, which employs fifty or sixty
foreigners and 1900 Koreans, aud pays
into the imperial treasury an annual
royalty of S12,500. Americans should
have a special interest in Korea, as one
of our four small Asiatic wars was
with Korea a generation ago. For
years all American was foreign adviser
to the Emperor, and I once heard an
earnest Korean arguing in favor Of