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The 1782 national banks throughout
the country which have been organized
since March, 1000, have a combined
capital of $104,000,000. It must-be re
membered that this capital is cash
not a drop of moisture. This is al
most the only class of corporations of
.which that can be said.
The English language, according to a
.German statistician who has made a
study of the comparative wjealth of
languages, heads the list with the enor
mous vocabulary of 200,000 words,
German: comes next with' SO.OOO," tJTSn
Italian with 75,000, French with (,
000, Turkish with 22,500, and Spanish
iwith 20,000.
It is a surprising fact that more than
bne-fifth of the entire population of
the United States was enrolled in 1902
as pupils in the common schools. The
iexact number is 15,925,SS7; nor docs
this include all who attended school,
for when the number of pupils in
private schools is added, the grand to
tal reaches 18,080,840. Is it any won
der that the public school system of
this country is the admiration of near
ly all the rest of the world? inquires
a. writer in the New York Tribune,
The amount of schooling that each in
dividual of the population is receiving
on an average is a matter of general
Interest. In 1S50, in the days of Hor
ace Mann and his disciples in New
England and elsewhere, each person
received a schooling, all told, of 420
idays; in 1902 each person's education
occupied 1032 days, or 612 more days
than the average person received in
1850. This means, of course, that the
general average of intelligence is fat
higher than in former years.
Says the Chicago Tribune: Some
idea of the magnitude of the lighting
branch of electrical development may
be gained from a recent bulletin is
sued by the Bureau of the Census,
ffvhich gives the statistics of central
electric light and power stations in
the United Ri2ies from lS8Lo the en'1.
. June, xV-. At the time ! of enu
meration there were 3620 electric sta
tions in operation, representing a total
cost of $504,740,352 for construction
and equipment. These stations fur
nished employment to 23,330 wage
earners, who received $14,983,112 dur
ing the year. "While the details of
power plant equipment are of inter
est to electricians and engineers, pub
lic interest will attach chiefly to the
significant fact that 22.5 per cent, of
the total number of stations were op
erated under the control of municipal
ities. Of the 3C20 stations, Slo were
owned and operated by municipali
ties, supplying 50,759 arc lamps and 1.
577,451 incandescent lamps. The mu
nicipal plants represented a total cost
of $22,020,472, and gave employment
to 2467 wage-earners, who were paid
$1,422,341 in wages. The private sta
tions operated 334,903 arc lamps, 16
616,593 incandescent lamps. The gross
income from private plants was, for
the year ended June, 1902, $78,735,500.
If the women of England are smart
ing under the refusal of the lord chan
cellor to admit them to the practice oi
law they must wring balm from the
compliments and hopes quite gener
ally tendered them from the opposite
sex, declares the Boston Transer'pt.
'Almost every one of these consolers
calls to mind the fact that fifty yeara
ago it would have been extremely
difficult if not impossible for a woman
to be admitted to the practice of med
1 icine IK England and this alone,- al
though it may not be strongly ent
couraging to the present - fair peti
tioners, should buoy them up consid
erably since it seems to prove that in
fifty years, at the outside, members
of their sex will be as plentiful in the
law as they are now in medicine.
And incidental to citing the consid
erable struggle that. women had to se
cure the coveted M. D. these purvey
ors of consolation relate any number
of facts and circumstances as lights
along the way of women's progress
that may convince them the time is
coming when it will be theirs to grant
'or refuse to men the privileges for
.which they sue, and sometimes in vain,
in these day Perhaps these chiv
alrous soothers of wounded ambitions
have gone to unwarranted extremes
in allowing that this may come to
pass, but it should be said of them
that they mean welL" They are en
thused, carried away it may be said,
by their subject, or subjects, to
bounds which they didn't sight when
.- they began their mission of sympathy.
"UL British scientist has it figured
Tit Ux&t days will be fifty-five hours
long in 5,000,000,000 years from bow.
We are going to try and get cn an
ftjfrt-hour basts before that time.
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY TH
REV. DR. ROBERT COLLYER.
He Took For His Subject - light on a
Hidden Way " Kverv Life Should Be
an Open, Self-Contained Providences
Hose Not Heart and Hope.
Brooklyn, N. Y. T)r. Robert Collyen
who recently passed his eightieth birthdiiv-.
C readied Sunday morning in the Second
'mtanan Church. The audience filled
the church and listened with great atten
tion to the eloquent words of the famous
preacher. Dr. Col-er took for his subject
Light on a Hidden Way." His text was
Job m:-s: "Why is light given to a man
whose way is hid ?" He said:
'.'The Book of Job." says Thomas Carlvle,
is one of the grandest things ever written
with a pen: our first statement, in books,
of the problem of the destiny of man and
the way God takes with him On this
earth; grand in its simplicity and epic
melody, sublime in its sorrow and recon
ciliation: a chorr.l melody, old as the
heart of ma, soft as the summer mid
night, wonderful as the world with its
seasfend stars; and there is no other thing
in the Bible, or out ot it, of equal merit.
I suppose it is not possible now to tell
whether the book is a true story or a aort
of Oriental drama. The question is one
that will always keep the critics at work
as long 3 there are rational and what
ought, in all fairness, to be called not
rational schools in theologVi My own
idea is that the rude outline of the story
was floating about the desert, as the story
of Lear o Macbeth floated about in later
times among our own fore-olilers, and that,
like those taveafc dr&inas, it was taken into
the bearish' soi man now forgotten and
came out yfcj;ain endowed with thWi won
drous quality of inspiration and lite, that
will bear it onward through all time But
whatever the truth may be in this direc
tion this i clear, that when Job put the
question I have taken for a text he was as
far down in the world da a man can be
who is not abased by sin.
Job had been the richest man in the
eounlryside, honored by all who knew him
for his wisdom, his goodness or his money.
He was now so poor that, he says, men
derided him whose fathers he would hot
have set with the dogs of his flock. He
had been a sound, healthy mam full of
human impulses and activities; he had been
sight to the blind, "feet tp the lame, a
father to the poof and & defender of the
oppressed He was now a diseased and
broken man, sitting in the ashes of a
ruined home; his fires all gone out, his
household goods all shattered, his children
all dead, and his wife, the mother of his
ten children, lost to the mighty love which
will take ever so delicate and "true-hearted
a woman at such a time and make her
a tower of strength to the man. His wife,
who should have stood, as the angels stand,
at once by his side and above him, turned
on him in his uttermost sorrow, and said,
"Curse God, and die.'
Two things, in this sad time, seem to
have smitten Job with unconquerable
pain. First, he could nofriake his condi
tion chord with his conviction, ef what
ought to have happened He had been
trained to believe in the axiom we put up
in our Sunday-schools, that to be good is to
be happy. Isow he had been good and yet
here he Was. as miserable as it was pos
sible for a man to be. And the worst'of
all was, he could not deaden down to the
level of his misery. The light given him
on the divine justice would not let hint
rest. His subtle spirit, pierced, restless,
dissatisfied, tried him every moment.
Questions like these came up in his mind:
'Why have I lost my money? I made it
honestly, and made good pse of it. Why
is my home ruined ? I never brought upon
it one shadow of disgrace. Why am I
bereaven of my children, and worse than
bereaven of my wife? If this is the result
of goodness, where is cause and effect?
What is there to hold on by, if all "this
misery and mildew can come of upright,
downright truth and purity?"
Questions like tkese forced themselves
upon him and would not be silenced. If
these spirits that troubled him could have
wbispercH "Now, Job, Wa- v.' 1-e jjiof
. I Tit. I. ....... . . ...rni.. Ila
got "Just what you deserve: that you are
a Door, old newter Pecksniff, with not one
grain of real silver about you. Your whole
Efe has been a sham."
The second element in Job's misery
6eems. to lie in the fact that there appeared
to be light everywhere except on his own
life. If life would only strike a fair aver
age; if other good men bad suffered, too,
or even bad men then he could bear it
better. But the world went on just the
same. The 6un shone with as much1
splendor as on his wedding day. The moon
poured out her tides of moulton gold, night
fretted the blue vault with fires, treea
blossomed, birds sang, and young men and
maidens danced under the palms. Other
homes were full of gladness. This man
had sold his clip for a great price; the
lightning had slain Job's sheep. That
man had done well in dates; the tornado
had twisted Job's trees down. Nav, worst
of all, here were Mucked men, mighty in
wealth; their houses in peace, without fear;
their children established in their sight,
eending forth little ones like a flock, spend
ing their days in prosperity and yet say
ing, "Who is the Almighty that we should
fear Him?" While here he was, a poor
wreck, stranded on a desolate shore: a
broken man, crying, "Oh, that it were with
roe as in davs eone b.v. when the candle of--the
Lord shone round about me; when I;
took my seat in the market place, and
justice was my robe and diadem! When I
think of it, I am confounded. One dieth
m the fullness of his prosperity, wholly,
at ease and quiet; another dieth in the
bitterness of his soul, not having tasted
pleasure. How is it? What does it mean?
hid?'13 llSht given to a man M'ose way is
Now, I suppose that not many men ever
fail into such supreme desolation as this,
that 13 made to centre in the life of this
most sorrowful man. "It is the possible
of that which is in itself positive." But
then, it is true that we may reach out in
all directions and find men and women
who are conscious of the light shining, but
who cannot find the way; whose condition
will not chord with their conception of
life, and who, in a certain sense, would
be better if they were not so good. The
very perfection of their nature is the way
by which they are most easily bruised.
Aeen, earnest, onward, not satisfied to be
below their own ideal, they are . yet
turned so woefully this way and that by
adverse circumstances that, at the jast,
they come tol accent-their Ufa a a J-.
and bear it in grim silence, or they- cut
the) ..masts when the storm comes 'and
drift,, a helpless hull,, broadside to the
breakers, to go down finally like a stone.
A young man comes to town from the
country full of purpose and hope. He finds
difficulties confront him; he strives, but
remains poor. At last, when hungry and
aim aione, ine aevii comes a nice
person, probably, but still a devil and
tempts him. The young'man yields. Or,
he succeeds, and then slides into the belief
that there is a Providence that will keep
mm prosperous because he is a good man.
Disaster comes, and he loses his all. in.
eluding nis belief in GoL Or, a maiden,
leaves .her home full of tfust and love.
Under adverse conditions she loses hope,
and asks: "Why is life given when the
way is hid?"
Or, here, in the larger life, is a prince
and leader of men. The roots of his power
begin to ramify through all the land. He
seems to be the one indispensable man of-
tne time. In the sorest need of all, he is
smitten ' down and dies. Or here is a
great cause, reaching back into a great
principle. The light of the divine justice
shines on the principle and so wins men
to it that they cannot rest. Year after
year they will stand, ufferinjo toiling,
dying for their cause; but the. way does
not open. Yet they cannot choose but fol
low tne light. If the light had not shona
so in our own land we might have ground
along in some sort of affinity to slavery.
It was light poured on the conscience of
the nation that brought on the war; it
was light shining through the darkness
that kept the nation steady. Had no
such light shone, we should have con
strncted a new Union with the shackles
of the slave for a wedding ring. But the
light stood like a wall of fire; yet how long
it .was only a light shining on a hidden
way! - Our homes, black with desolation;
fathers, mothers, wives, only putting on a
cheerful look, because they would not, by
their sadness, dishearten the great heart
of the nation. ... -.
: And so, I say. in men and nations you
will find everywhere this discord between
the longing that is in the soul, and what
the man can do. Our life, as some One
said of the Cathedral of Cologne, seems to
be a broken promise made to uod; ; .
Now, in trying to find some solution. 6t
this question, I want to say frankly that
I Cannot pretend td make the mystery all
clear, so that it will give you ho more
trouble; because I. cannot put a girdle
around the world in forty minutes, and
also because a full solution miist .depend
greatly on Our own dissolution;. I believe,
also,, that the man who thinks he has left
nothing Unexplained, in the mystery of
providence and life, has rather explained
toothing. I listen to him, if I am in trou
ble, and then go home and break my heart
Ul the same, because I see that he has not
only not cleared up the mystery, but that
he does not know - enough about' it to
(trouble him. The f'Principia" and the
jS ingle Rule of Three are' alike simple and
easy to" hin.because .he does not know the
Rule of Three. 'And so I cannot be sat
isfied with the last words which some later
hand has added to the book that holds this
fead history. They tell ua how Job has all,
his property doubled, to the last ass and
framel has seven sons Again and three
daughters, has entire satisfaction of all
jhis accusers, lives a hundred and forty
years, sees fouf generations of his line and
then diessfttisfiedi k
Need t say that this solution will not
stand the test of life, and that if life, on
the average, came out so from its most
trying ordeal, there would be little need
for our sermons; For j then,. e"ery life
would be an open, self-contained profit
d ance and the last page in time would vinj
dicate the first. Men do not so live and
die; and such cannot have been the primi
tive conclusion of the history. It has
deeper meaning and a sublimer justifica
tion, or it had never been inspired by the
Hoiy Ghost.
And this issure to", suggest itself to you
ttauble -Would hav lost nothing and
gained very much if hi had not been ss jm'
patient in. coming to. tne. conclusion tnas
God had left him, that life was a msre
apple of Sodom, that he had backed lip to
great walls of fate and he had not a friend
loft on the earth. His soul, looking through
her darkened windows, concluded the hoav
jens were dark. ' The .nerve, quivering at
the gentlest touch, mistook the ministra
tion of mercy for a blow. He might have
iound some cool shelter for his agony he
preferred to sit on the ashes in trie burn1.
Ing sun. He knew not where the next
robe was to come from; this did not deter
aim from tearing to 6hreds the robe that
was to shelter him from the keen winds.
It was a dreadful trial at the best; it was
worse for his way of meeting it; and,
when he was at once in the worst health
md temper possible, he said: "Why is
ight given to a man whose way is hid?"
!s not this now. as it was then, one of the
nost serious mistakes that can be made?
try to solve srreat problems of provi-
ence, perhaps, Avhen I am so unstrung as
ft be entirely untitteq to toucn tneir
ore subtle, delicate, and far teaching har
oniesi As well might x-ou decide on some
xquisite anthem . When your organ is
roken. and conclude there is no music;
in it because you can . make no music ojL
jit, as, in such a condition of life and such
a temper of the spirit, try to find these
great harmonies of God. When I am in
trouble, then, and darknes3 comes down
On me like a pall, the first question ought
to be, "How much of this unbelief abont.
providence and life, like Cowper's sense
3,f the unpardonable sin comes from the,
most material disorganization? . Is the
darkness I feel in the soul, or is it On the
windows through which the soul must
see?" Then, clear on this' matter, the
knan tried so will endeavor to stand at the
first, where this sad hearted man stood
at the last, in the shadow of the Almighty,
if he must stand in ft shadow, And hold oil
to the confidence that somewhere within
fell this trial is the eternal, the shadow of
a great rock in a . weary land. Friends
Speculate all about the mystery, and their
conclusions from their premises are entirely
correct; but they have forgetten to take
Sn the separate sovereign will of Jod, as
forking out a great purpose in the man's
fife, by which ne is to be lifted into a
krander reach of insight and experience
Ihan ever he had before. Job said: "I
buffer, 1 am in darkness and disappoint
JuaMiMrfByL vain rVnia it fa.te."- V
ffrienasVyd: "No, you suffer because you
pave sinned. Rushes never grow without
anire." They were both wrong, and all
wrong. He suffered because that was the
divine way of bringing him out of his
sleek, well satisfied content; and when
through suffering this was done he said: "I
pave heard of Thee with mine ears, but
bow mine eye seeth Thee."
I If I had never gone into darkened rooms,
jwhere the soul stands' at the parting of the
worlds; or sat down beside widows and
little children, when the desire of their
leyes was taken away with a stroke, or
grasped the nanus ot strong men. wnen
all they had toiled for was gone, nothing
eft but honor; or ministered to men
angled on the battiehela beyond an teii
ing; and neara in an tnese places wneve
darkness was on the way, melodies, melo
dies that I never heard among the com
monplaces of prosperity, I could not be so
sure as I am that God often darkens the
way so that the melody may grow clear
and entire in the soul.
There is a story in the annals of science
touching' this principle, that we cannot
struggle faithfully with these things and
leave them as we found them. Plato,
piercing here and there with his wonderful
Greek eyes: . . -
"Searching through all, he felt and saw
. 'a he springs of life, the depths of awe,
To reach the law within the law,"
was impressed by the suggestive beauty of
fhe elliptic figure. He tried to search out
, Is full meaning, but died without the
6'ght. A century and a half after Plato,
lAppolonius came, was arrested in the
same way, took up the question where
IPlato left it, tried to find out its full,
meanings, and died without the sight.
And so, says a fine writer, for eighteen
centuries, some of the best minds were
fascinated by this problem, drew from it
strength and discipline; and yet; in all this
time, the problem waa an abstract, form,
a beautiful or painful speculation. It did
not open out into any harmonious prin
ciple. There was light on the thing, but ao
light on the way. Irt the full time, Kepler
came; sat down to the study; and by what
.we call the suggestion of genius, but ought
to call the inspiration of the Almighty,
found that the orbits of the planets were
elliptical, and he died. Then Newton was
born, took up the problem where Kepler
had laid it down, made;all the established
facts the .base of his mi th tier labors; and,
when he had done, he lwd shown that this
figure, this problem, which had heid men
spellbound through 'the ages, ia a prime
element in the law of universal gravitation
at once the most beautiful theory and,
the most absolute conclusion of science.'
Then men could see how it was, . because"
God had made the light shine on the
thing, that the way was found. From New
ton back. to' Plato, in true: apsotolic order. .
every man, bending over this mystery cf
a light where there was no way. .and wrest-.
f,:n.t,.!i.. ...:.!. n. i i. 1
uug xaibmuiijr ivit.ii ik, uau uub uutj giuuu
more noble in his own soul in the struggle,
but had done his share toward the bolution
found by this greatest and last, who waa
also "born nder the law that they might
receive the adoption of sons.".
So, I tell you, is this restless search for a
condition that shall answer to our concep
tion; this fascination, which compels, us
to search out the elliptic of providence,
the geometric certainty-' underlying . tho
apparent eccentricity And every struggle
to find this certainty; every endeavor -to
plumb the deepest causes of the discord
between what the nature bears and what
the soul believes; every striving to. find
the God of our loftiest faith in our darkest
day, will, in some way, aid the demonstra
tion, until, in the full time, some Newtoai
of the soul will come and, gathering the
result of all these struggles between our
conception of life and our condition
in lite,-will make it the base of some,
.vast generalization, that will bring the
ripest conclusions of the science' of provi
dence into perfect accord with the graad
apostolic revelation. "We know that all
things work together for good to them that
love God.'?
We wrong the deepest revelations of
life when we are not content to let this
one little segment in the arc of our exist-.
ence stand 'in -its bwn simple, separate
intention, whether it be gladness or gloom;
and trust surely,, if we are faithful, the
full and perfect intentior must come out
in the full range of our being. God seldom
nerhana never, works out His visible pur
pose in 036 life, how, then, shall He in one
life work out His periect will 7 ine dumb i
poetry in William Burns, the father,, had I
to wait for Robert Burns, the son: Ber
nardo waited to beerfected in his son,
Torquatd Tasso; William Herachel left
hiany a problem in the heavens for John
Herschel to make clearj Leopold Mozart
Wrestled With melodies that Chrysostom
Mozart found afterward of themselves in
gyery chamber Jbf m$ brain Jind Baymon'd
Bdnheur needed his daughter Rosa to come
ftnd paint Out his pictures for Jrim. Dr.
Beid has said,-that when the bee makes
its cell so geometrically the geometry is
hot in the bee; but in the geometrician that
made the bee. Alas, if in the Maker therg
is no such order for us as there is for the
bee! If God so instruct the bee; if God so
feed the bird; if eien the lions, roaring
after- their , prey, seek their .meat from
God; if He not onr holds the linnet on
the spray, but the ln on the spring, how
shall we dare lose heart and hope?
So, then, while we may not know what
trials wait on any o us, ws can believe
that as the days in which thiH man
wrestled with his 4ork maladies are the
only days that mlSa.him worth remem
brance, and but fof which his name had
never been written in the book of life;
so the' days through which we struggle,
finding no way, butmever losing the lignt;
will be the most significant we are called
to live. Indeed, men of all ages have
wrestled with this problem of the differ
ence between the conception and the. con
dition! Life is full of these appeals, from
the doom that is on us to thcJove that
is over us from the God we fear to the
God we worship. The very Christ cries
oncei. "My God! Why hast Thou for
saken Me?" Yet -if ever did our noblest
and best, 0u apostles; martyrs and con
fessors, flinch finally from their vrust,
that God is light; that life is divine: that
there is a way, though we may not see it;
and have gone sinking of their deep con
fidence, by fire andlcross into the shadow
of death. It is flje, nay, it is truest of
nil, that "men wi' suffered countless ills,
in battles for ihtf le and just," have had
the strongest cdt Sion. like old Latimer
that st Way we$x in those moments
when it seemed
SB impossible. ineir
roueht a commanding
light on the thing
assurance tbat t
re roust somewhere,
Bometime, be hgh
the way. ' ;
Aim High.
If one seems to promote his own per
eonal welfare, it iat the best a low aim,
unworthv of a true man. Selfishuess, or
selfness, even of the highest sort, is ever
below What is fuperior to a man- and any
man and every man should always be as
piring and strivingtoward that which is
eupenor to himself.
There are two vital difficulties in the
way of a selfish man's strivings for his
own personal good, even the highest. In
-the first place, it i3a man's duty to seek
what is more imporigknt than his own per
sonal good; and iirthe second place, the
man who strives to secure his own high
est personal good is pretty sure to fail
in his pursuit. w man who does his
duty and fills his place has some object
of pursuit which heHieems more important
than himself; and.-a the.other hand, on
ly the man who lives for something' out
side of himself is successful in his striv
ing. It is a mis ta. and a folly to strive
in an effort where, at the best, he will
hopelessly fail. Ing every sphere of life
the highst interest bf self comes as an in
cidental consequence of hving for some
thing which one deems superior to self.
Self is at the oesUunwortby of our fife
and endeavors.
A citizen who lhjes for himself, for his
own welfare and happiness, is not likely
to have happiness, or to find true enjoy
ment, or to 8ecurthe , highest personal
welfare. Hia fellow-citizens are pretty
sure to be giving their thoughts and best
regard to those who show themselves
worthy of their devotion and honor.
Striving to gain in one's own way one's
personal good is, ai the best, a low aim.
A better way is living for others, denying
self for the good df others, or in obedience
to God, and to honor Him. Those who
live for self dishonor God and lose their
best selves. Those who live for God. or
for those to whom (hey are sent or set in
the providence of fjod, honor God, and
incidentally have Honor secured to them
selves. Sunday School Times. - .
'PraT,",lgh.,,
- miiai T T
An interesting inSfdeat of how far-reach
ing is the influence of two words, occurred
recently at Liverpool, England, during the
Torrey-Alexander meeting. Mr. Alexander
had occasion to go with a friend to one of
the leading banks in the city, in order
to exchange - some American coinage for
British currency. While he was waiting
at the counter he traced on the blotting
paper in front of him the words ; "Pray
through," which he. had been, using in the
course of an address. . These words formed
the motto of the coivention at the Moody
Bible Institute at Chicago. Almost un
consciously 3fr. Alexander wrote the two
words several times on the blotting paper;
then, having finished his business in the
bank, he and his friend left. Shortly after
wards a customer of the bank came in.
He had been passing through a time of
great anxiety, and while he was waiting at
the counter his eye fell on . the words,
"Pray through." It interested him, and
he asked the clerk who had written them.
The clerk was not able to tell him, but the
gentleman felt it was a direct message to
himself to cease his anxiety and to. con
His crown; be sure that unless you follow
tinue in prayer until the cause of it was
removed, or he wasi given strength to un
derstand the Divine plan.
" Helping: the Poor.' - '
The great need of the world to-day fs
not some one to bear its burden for it,
but some one wbotwill teach it how to
bear its own burden. There is much done
for the poor and afflicted in the name of
charity that falls far short of the highest
helpfulness. On every hand organizations
are springing-up to provide food for the
hungry and clothing for the naked, and
some Christians are foolish enough to eay
that they are 'of more value to the com
munity than the church. To improve a
man's circumstances without improving the
man is to do him more of Vil than of good.'
It is better to open, the eyes of the blind
and thus enable him to provide for him
self than' to give him alms. Thcxure of
pauperism will not be found in the gener
osity of the rich, but in the regeneration
of the poor. W. Weeks, D. D.
PLEA OF CLEVELAND.
Ex-President Urgefftank and File of
" Democracy tcf
Get Together,
In an article written for The Satur
day Evening, Post, former President
Cleveland urges his "rank and file as
sociates? ! of the. democratic ; party to
nnite'and, fake advantage of the Op
portuunities of .next Nbvember. - ;
"I am one of those," he writes, "who.
believe that there is an opportunity for
democratic success in the coming pres
idential election."1
CASHIER SHCKT IN ACCOUNTS.
Explanation - Made as to Why Trout-
man Shot Himself v
rC, H.' Troutman, cashier. of the Mer
chants and Farmers' bank, of Mllledg
vilie,- Ga., who, shot himself, is treas
urer ; of the state- sanitarium and Is
sa'd to be short li hia accounts about
$23,000, , Speculation in. .coitpa ?13
thought to have caused this shortage.
Mr. Troutman is under a $40,000 "bond
and the state is Tully protected.1 -
DOMINICANS HELD RESPONSIBLE.
Killing of American Sailor to be
.-"Avenged by Uncle Sam. . . .
A special from San Domingo , says i
Drastic" action is. purposed ' by Com
mander Hellhe of the United States
cruiser Yankee to apprehend and 'pun
ish the insurgents who shot and killed
J. C. Johnson, the . engineer of the
launch of the Yankee. Orders to this
effect have been received - from the
tiavy department" ,
EPIT01E OF
Gable Reports of Movements of Russ and
jap in ; Momentous Struggle Now ,f
1 V Going on in Far East.
PORT ARTHUR IS REATTACHED
Such Report Reaches jrokio.
Viceroy Alexieff Leaves
the City With Gen
eral Staff.
A. report reached Tokia Tuesday
that the Japanese torpedo fleet re-attacked
the Russan fleet at Port Ar
thur February. 14, and it is thought
that one. Russain warship was dam
aged. : .
Viceroy Alexiqff left Port Arthur
Tuesday, proceeding to Harbin with
General Prlug, the chief of . staff, and
the general staff. .
The London papers attach the great
est significance to the departure of
Viceroy . Alexieff from Port Arthur,
and comment upon the sudden throw
ing of; Russian troops into New
Chwang as indicating Russan ap
prehension that Port Arthur is in dan
ger, and that the Japanese attack may
not, after all, be made where it is ex
pected, on the Yalu. All' the reports
tend to confirm tho impression that
Russia has little or nothing to expect
from sea operations. :
According to special dispatches pub
lished in London Tuesday morning
from Toklo, the Russian squadron has
returned to Vladivostock.
The Tokio correspondent of The
London Dally Mail says in a dispatch
that two Russian warships appeared
off Oki island, in the southern part of
the Japanese sea, on Sunday.
The correspondent at Chemulpo of
The Daily Express makes the astonish
ing statement that Japan has : already
landed 120,000 troops in Korea, 80,000
of whom are extended along the fight
ing front south of the Yalu river.
According to a dispatch to the Par
is edition of The New. York Herald,
four hundred torpedoes, being two
thirds of Russia's entire available sup
ply of these articles, were destroyed
on board the Russan cruiser Variag-
at Chemulpo. .
An Associated Press dispatch from
Tokio, says: The Japanese have cap
tured at least five Russian commercial
steamers, including the Ekatorvos
tay. of the volunteer fleet, the Mouk
ulS!1"' Af gunauu' Aiesaaov."-
These vessels were caught in Jap
anese, Korean and adjacent waters at
various times since February 14 by
small Japanese cruisers and gun
boats. Some of the steamers are ch
prizes.
Russians Freeze to Death.
The St. Petersburg Associated Press
correspondent of Tagliche Rundischau
says that 600 Russian soldiers have
been frozen to death while marching
across Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia,
on the Ice. '
. The correspondent adds that the
temporary railroad across the lake is
not yet completed,, and that a large
detachment of troops was sent on a
22-mile march over the ice covered
lake and that it is presumed that part
Of these lost their way " in a snow
storm and perished.
; Britons ami Americans Threatened, j
Threatening demonstrations have
been made at Ying Kow" against the
British gunboat Espiegle and the Uni
ted States gunboat Helena by Russian
soldiers, whose assaults . upon and de
predations against other foreigners
continue. The civil administrator is
making every effort to arrest the of
fenders and has assured Cap tains Bar
ton and- Sawyer and Consul Millar
that full reparation will- Be made.
RAPIST WILLIAMS DOOMED.
Crime of Rape Denied by Negro Before
! - : Court at Ronaoke.
Htnry. Williams the assailatft . of
Mrs. ..Shields arid her little daughter,
arrived ' in i : Roanoke, Va., Tuesday,
from Richmond with a heavy military
guard. ' At the ' depot an." Immense
crowd bad assembled but it was- un
demonstrative - and ,'the .prisoner was
marched through it to the court house.
."A jury was quickly empaneled. and
Williams was found guilty of felonious
assault affiTfbbbery and was sentenced
to be hanged March' 18.' He was takn
to Lynchburg for safekeeping. . .
CASHIER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
Trusted Employee of Milledgeviile In
stitution. Shootg 'Himself Twice. ;
Claude H. Troutman, cashter of the
Farmers, and Merchants', bank, at Mil
ledgevllle, pa.,, shot .himself twice just
aboye the' Iff t nipple, Tuesday night
with suicidal 'Intent. v; - fu
His "'wife and three ' children were
taking leading parts1 in an s amateur
play at the opera house" at the time.
: He. left letters to the bank president
and his" wife;' contents not known.
ROBBERS LOOT EXPRESS SAFE.
Messenger at Barnttt, Ga., Found His
: ' Money Box ' Short $1,000. "
s One thousand dollars in currency be
ing sent to Auugsta, Ga.; by the Bank
of ; Wilkes, of Washington, was taken
from the safe of the Southern Express
Company between .Washington and
BarnetL "' . "
; 'When Messenger Joe "' Geldennan
opened the safe to- make the. transfer
the money was gone.
WAR NEWS
BRUTALITY LAID TO RUSSIANS
In Line With the Usual Bar
barous Custom , Soldiers of
Czar Wreak Their Ire on
. Defenseless Women.
Advices from New Chwang state
that atrocities are dally perpetrated op
foreigners and natives, both by the
organized police and incoming troops,
which makes it impossible for the civ
il administrator of tho city to control
the situation. It is feared that a reign
nf f0rrni!ahTrrat-if-rrT
neutral powers remain inactive. A cap
tain of" police, with ten soldiers, with
out any provocation, destroyed the
hotel owned by a German, whose three
Japanese guests had registered under
the protection of the civil administra
tor. These Japanese were bound,
stabbed and robbed of food, money and
jewelry. They were rescued with dif
ficulty by United Statts Consul Miller,
together with three women refugees,
all of whom the civil administrator as
sured Mr. Miller would be protected.
- The administration admits the grav
ity of the situation, but declares that
Viceroy alone can remedy. It is be
lieved, however, that the mainte
nance of order at this treaty port and
the prevention of these violations of
international rightr can be insured
only by a instanfinternational procla
mation, supported by an armed force.
A special from Tokio says : The
government is receiving additional cir
cumstantial reports of alleged cruelty
of the Russians toward Japanese refu
gees from Manchuria.
The Japanese consul general at Tien
Tsin has just telegraphed the authori
ties in Tokio, giving a recital of the
story told by thirteen women who just
arrived at Shan-Hai-Kwan. The wo
men were residing at Harbin and start
ed south on February 9 wiih 300 com
panions. One-half of these women
who reached Moukden were ordered to
leave the train- by Russian soldiers who
cruelly abused them and detained the
party, which they finally divided, ih&
men being ordered to proceed to Port
Arthur. The women were sent to New
Chwang, where United States Consul
Miller provided food and transporta
t'pn or them tto Shan-Hai-Kwan.
The women say they saw several
Japanese refugees cruelly beaten and
wounded. They say that tfce Russian
soldiers robbed them of money and
jewstry. Some of the Japanese escap
ed punishment by bribing the soldiers.
The Japanese government and peo
ple are deeply stirred by the reports of
ihe abuse and suffering.
The sinking of the Nakonoura Maru
and the treatment of the refugees are
creating feeling which betokens a bit
ter and relentless war. It is improb
able that the Japanese will retaliate
in kind, whatever excesses the Rus
sians commit.
Korea Opens Door to Japs.
An Associated Press special from
Seoul, Korea, says: The Korean gov
ernment has granted Japan the right
to traverse the country. It is said
that Japanese warships have trapped
three Russian ships off Yongampho.
No details regarding the result of
this naval exploit have beon received.
Japans Seize California Fruits.
Cable advices have been received by
the California Fruit Canners' Associa
tion in San Francisco that their ship
ment of canend goods shipped on the
steamer Coptic a month ago and con
signed to Port Arthur had been seiz
ed by the Japanese government at Na
gasakL VALUE OF HANNA ESTATE.
Fortune. Left by Late Senator Estifat
ed from Seven to Eight Millions.
The value of the estate left by tke
late Senator Hanna is estimated at
from $7,000,000 to $8,000,000. . It is
stated that -he owned at' least 13 per.
cent of. the stock of the Cleveland
Electric railway; capitalized at $23,
500,000. In addition to being largely
interested -In' .vessels, and" Iron mining
properties, he was director the Un
ion National bank, Guardian Trust
Company, the People's Savings and
Loan Company, of Cleveland, and the
Cleveland and Pittsburg railway.
ANTI-TREATING BILL PASSED.
South , Carolina Senate' Favors Clean
Elections in Unique Measure.,
In the . South Carolina senate the
"anti-treating" t at" elections bill was
passed, but it was so changed from its
original shape that it. could hardly be
recognized. The bill provides that any
one" who shall treat a voter within one
mile of a voting precinct shall be guil
ty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject-to
imprisonment ; for thirty, days
with labor. ' . -.
SENATE FIXES A DATE.
Upper House Will Vote Ratification of
. the Canal Treaty February 23. 1
'; A Washington , special ; says : The
senate,7, in. executive.- session, Monday
agreed- to vote on the ratification of
the Panama canal treaty on February
S3. V , " ' -
The bill to pay $150,000 to ex Queen
LlliuokalanI, of Hawaii, failed to pass
the' senate at. Monday's session, the
vote being. 26 to . N ,
E. B NORVELLv
Attorney at Law,
MURPHY, NORTH CAROLINA. .
All business promptly attended to. .
Office in courthouse, near entrance.
F. P. AXLEY,
Attorney at Law,
REAL ESTATE
MURPHY, N. C.
IT
Dillard & Bell,
Attorneys at Law,
: MURPHY, N. C.
Office over Corder's.
R. L COOPER,
Law and Collections,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Collections made anywhere. Practice
in all the courts State, Supreme and
Federal. , ""
PP -W,- S MrCOM
Resident Dentist,
MURPHY, N. C.
DR. W. O. PATTON,
; MURPHY, N. C.
Offers his professional services to
the general public , All calls promptly
attended to.
DR. B. B. T1ERONEY,
SPECIALIST.
Cures Rupture, Varicocele and Hy
drocele without the use of the knife.
Residence, Peachtree street, Murphy,
n. c j . - ,-
N. A. ZIMMERMAN,
Boot, Shoe and Harness Maker,
MURPHY, N. C.
First-class repair work done at mod
erate prices. The patronage of the
public respectfully solicited.
Dr. S. C. Heighway,
Office Over J. E. Fain's Store,
Murphy,
N. C.
BEN POSEY,
Attorney at Law,
MURPHY, N. C.
Will practice in State and Federal
Courts. All business entrusted to us
will be transacted with fidelity and
dispatch. - Office In new courthouse.
m
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7 BRYAN IN MONTGOMERY.
Nebraskan Denies Charge that He
- Voted Against Speaker Crisp.
? William J. Bryan delivered an ad
dress in Montgomery, Ala., Tbursday
night on "Moral' Issues" to one of the
largest gatherings ever seen in the
city. ' : ' .
During' his remarks Mr. Bryan took
occasion to deny the accusation made ;
against him that he voted against
Speaker Crisp, when he . was running
for speaker, because he was an ex-con-,
federate.. He stated .the records will
show that he voted for Mr. Crisp t-wic '
SOUTHERN
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