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*0 LED TO DEATH Men, Women and Children Lose Their Lives In Theatre Panic. CAUSED BY FALSE FIRE ALARM List of Known Dead Is Seven, While Many Others Are Miss¬ ing—Seen e Was Appalling. A Chicago special says: Seven people were crushed to death and as many more seriously injured in a panic which followed a man’s cry of “fire” late Saturday afternoon in West Twelfth street, Turner hall. About eight hundred people were in the place to witness the performance. The play was “Yidish,” and the au¬ dience, comprised for the most part of women and children, was all Hebrews. The hall stands in a district densely populated by Jews. The play was nearly over when the cry, which caused the panic, was raised, and within five seconds after it rang through the hali tho entire audience was converted into a frantic mob, every member of which was fighting for the safety which lay beyond the doors of the building. The hall is frequently used for dances, and when a theatrical perform¬ ance is given chairs are iet for the spectators. As soon as the wild rush toward the doors began, chairs were knocked down in every direction, the aisles disappeared and the excited peo¬ ple raD, clirned and stumbled over the chairs in their way toward the doors. Aronud the upper part of the hall extends a balcony, which is open only at one end. Here were seated 150 women and children, and the women at the farther end of the balcony, away from the stairway, seeing thattherush toward the exit was blocked to them and their children, began at once to throw the little ones over the railing to the floor ten feet below. The children fell into the midst of the maddened throng and wereatonoe trampled under their feet. It is known that three of the dead were children who were thrown from the Vial cony and were trampled by the crowd, with not a chance for their lives. Follow¬ ing the children, many of tho women sprang from the balcony upon the crowd, and others, swinging over, hung by their hands before they drop¬ ped. The railing of the balcony was broken through in half a dozen places by the pressure brought against by the maddened crowd. On tho main floor the crash was much worse than in the balcony. The main exits from the hall, and only oneB known to a majority of those who frequent the place, are two doors in the south end of the main audito¬ rium that open upon winding stairs, which, eight steps down, unite into one broader flight leading to the rain door at the Twelfth street front. Around these two doors a frantic mass of screaming men, women and children were packed, all struggling fiercely to force their way down the stairs. At the landing where the two flights of stairs winding down from the main hall unite a woman stumbled and fell. In an instant a score of people were down, and before the rush was over four lives had been crushed out in a space four feet by six feet long. As soon as the news of the panic had spread throughout the district, which seemed but a very few minutes, all the Hebrews from that part of the city rushed to the place, bent upon learning the names of the dead and wounded. Men and women fought desperately with the officers in their efforts to enter the building and learn if any of their loved ones were among the dead. The alarm of fire was false, there having been no blaze at any time. The furnace in the building is some¬ what defective and at times allows sparks to pass through the registers. It was the sight of these sparks rising into the room that frightened the man who raised the cry of fire. The hall has several times been the scene of panics, and it is only a few months since a number of children were hurt in a rush for the doors, which occurred during a juvenile party that was given in the place. M’BEE SUCCEEDS ST. JOHN. General Superintendsnt I* Selected For Vice President and General Manager. Captain V. E. McBee, better known BS “Bunch” McBee, general superin¬ tendent of the Seaboard Air Line rail- ■wav, has been appointed vice presi- dent and general manager of the system to succeed Eventt St. John, recently resigned. that the It is reported, however, ap- pointmenfc is believed tobe temporary, President John Skelton Williams when asked about the matter, declined to say whether Mr. McBee s appointment was permanent or not. Captain McBee has been witu the Seaboardfor many years. GOEBEL CANES POSTPONED. f t j ic AlleJ^ i,<, “Accessories” Before ><>n " 0 In Custody. the Fact Were The cases of ex-Governor W. S. T vior ex-Secretary of State Charles i a n 7 ’ Berry Howard with being and John L. T* w ers f' charged to the murder accesso- of xw-lr , . ore the fact m Goebel, were called in the cir- ■jL°° a j a t; Frankfort, Ky., Monday and continued until the . m none of them being in w _ ' IE ^ ADE ~ ; ? i—saw— ■■■■ • k T ■ I© m mm Jt-L |J 3 * | Routed hupinos WERE surprised. Pell flell From Stronghold They Long Boasted as Being Impregnable. A recent issue of a Manila paper gives a graphic and interesting ac¬ count of the capture and utter defeat °* * orce8 of the famous insurgent leader, Geronimo, near Montablan, by Colonel _ J. Milton Thompson and a thousand picked men of the Twenty- second and Forty-second volunteer in- fantry regiments in November last. Geronimo, from all accounts, lived np to his namesake in this country in that he hurled defiance from his mountain fortress in much the same way as Geronimo, the celebrated Apache chieftain, harassed and defied our troops in the west. The insurgent chief was strongly fortified at Pinau- ran, in DeMorte canyon, near Monta- blan, his trenches being strung along both sides for a distance of Bix or seven miles. After the ro-occupation of the presi¬ dential chair, says the article, it was decided by the military" authorities to dislodge Geronimo at any cost. The latter had boasted frequently of the time when the insurgents killed five hundred Spaniards who made an un¬ successful attempt to take Pinaurau. The time for Colonel Thompson’s attack was set for noon on November 22J. The expedition was divided into four detachments. The main one, un¬ der command of Captain Brandie, was in the lead, and while advancing through the bed of the canon was the first to draw the fire of the insurgents. The entrenched Filipinos, believing the detachment to be the entire at¬ tacking party, allowed the column to advance well up the canon in order to more bad completely “boitle” it. When it reached the desired spot the Fili¬ pinos, yelling liko Apache Indians, opened up a vigorous fire, but simul¬ taneously with their volleys came the attack of the Amencaus from four dis¬ tinct directions. Then Colonel Thompson, leading the main body, performed the feat of the engagement in climbiug a steep wall through dirt and underbrush and entered the boasted “impregnable” fortress of the insurgents. The sol¬ diers climbed up the mountain side and when they reached the top there was not a live rebel in sight. The in¬ surgents killed, it is estimated, was fifty and their wounded about a dozen. RIVi R AND HARBOR BILL Bionght I’p In the Iluum and Its Consld- vra'lon Filtered Upon. A Washington dispatch says: The house Wednesday entered upon the consideration of the river and harbor bill. Before it was called up some routine business was transacted. Mr. Burton, member of the river and harbors committee, suggested tbat general debate on the bill be limited to three hours, but there was an im¬ mediate outcry against the proposition from Mr. Cushman, of Washington, and Mr. Boreing, of Kentucky. All attempts to secure an agreement failed. Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, was called to the chair to preside on the commit¬ tee of the whole during tho considera¬ tion of the bill. PHIL ARMOUR FUNERAL. Last Rite* Over Body of Dead Millionaire Were Extremely Simple. Private funeral services over the body of the late Philip D. Armour were held Wednesday at the Armour residence in Chicago. Following tho services at the house the body was taken to the Armour mission where the body ley in state and was viewed by thousands. The service at the house was of the simplest character, carrying out the expressed wish of Mr, Armour and was attended only by tbe family and close friends. At tho conclusion of the services the coffiu was taken by a special fu¬ neral train to Graceland cemetery, where the body was interred in the Armour family lot. COUNCILMEN GIVEN ALTERNATIVE Tb.y Muat Either Tell lhe Truth or Go to the Penitentiary. A special from Scranton, Pa., says: The thirteen ex-councilmen who re¬ signed to escape prosecution for bri¬ bery are to be placed on the stand in the pending bribery cases and asked to disclose what they know of the al¬ leged crookedness in the city hall. If they refuse they are to be prosecuted. ALIVE AND KICKING. Admiral Ccrvera Vigorouily Denies Re¬ port of Hi* Illness. Admiral Cervera, commanding the Spanish fleet which was sunk off San- tj a g 0 by Admiral Schley, cables to Spanish Vice Consul Arthur C. Hum- phries at Norfolk, Va. f whose guest he was while a prisoner of war on parole, that be j g we u, ’ j [ gent Tbe from admiral Cadiz asserts that he in his by message is no means a dying man, and that the reports of bis ill health and dangerous proximity to death which have been widely culated in the press reports are abso- lutely unfounded. ____ CREW ACTED DISGRACEFULLY. ; Passengers Rescued From The Stranded Steamer Tell Ugly Tales. A Paris dispatch says: Ugly stories are leaking out concerning the beha- vior of part of the crew of the steamer Russie, wrecked off Farallon, whose crew and passengers, numbering 102 souls, were rescued by boats from the shore. The Matin publishes an inter- view with a passenger, who 6aid the conduct of some of the sailors was beneath contempt. A DEI.. BERRIEN COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 18. 1901. NEWS ITEMS Brief Summary of Interesting Happenings Culled at Random. Pardon Applications Refused. Fourteen applications for executive clemency, all of which had been acted on adversely by the pardon board, were formally refused by Governor Candler in an order issued Saturday afternoon. The applicants were near¬ ly all felony convicts in the penitenti- ary from various counties, while only a few of them were in for misdemean- or offenses. On a Dumber of applications od which the action of the pardon board was fa- vorah'.e, Governor Candler took no action, reserving bis decision for more consideration. So far no formal application for the pardon of Dolly Pritchett has been made before the prison commission, 3olicitor Thomas Hutchinson, of the Blue Ridge circuit, tli8 prosecuting officer who convicted the wayward mountain girl, made the statement re¬ cently to an officer of the prison com¬ mission that no one would go farther to secure a pardon for Dolly Pritchett when the time came than he. Mistrial In Uaker Case. Afler having been out exactly 100 bcfiirs, the jury in the James L. Baker insanity case at Atlanta was dispersed by order of court late Saturday after¬ noon, a mistrial having been declared. Judge Candler ascertained that there seemed absolutely no hope of a verdict and that the twelve men were irrevoca¬ bly tie l up. He held a conference with Baker’s counsel, and it was decided that if no verdict was made by 6 o’clock a mis¬ trial would be declared. During the five days that the jury was tied up eigat of the jui’ors were in favor of declaring Baker sane, while the four other members were equally positive tbat the wife murderer is now insaue. Every ballot taken in the jury room stood four for insanity and eight against. * * * Costly Factory For Washington. For some mouths a party of gentle¬ men of ability, success aud means havo had control of the Anthony shoals property, near Washington, which has a 5,000 horse power. The terms by which they secured control of the property specify that the power is to be developed speedily in the in¬ terest of Washington. The building of a million dollar cotton factory now seems fully assured. Salnry of Charlton Comity Teachers. The board of education of Charlton county has fixed the salary of school teachers—first grade license, $35 per month; second grade, $25, and third grade, $15. * * % Governor Has Conrtmartial Papers. Colonel George M. Napier, judge advocate general, and judge advocate in the recent courtmartial which tried Captain E. E. Aldred, of the Atlanta Zouaves; Lieutenant G. I. S. Watt and Sergeant P. H. Huff, of the Atlanta Grays, has transmitted the records in these cases through General J. W. Robertson, adjutant general, to Gov¬ ernor Candler for review and action upon the findings. The action of the court will not be made known until the governor has reviewed the records and approved or disapproved the sentences fixed by the court. The total cost to the state of this court, including the services of sten¬ ographers and everything, was $257.75, making it, considering the amount of work done, one of the cheapest courts martial iu the history of the militia of Georgia. Debtor MayEnjoy Homestead. The circuit court of appeals at New Orleans has decided that a debtor may enjoy his homestead and even though he may have waived it. The case in¬ volving the question has been before the court of appeals for a year. It went up from tbe United States court at Macon, Judge Speer deciding that a waiver would bold good. The supreme court of the United States will now be resorted to. Judge Newman, of the northern circuit, decided a similar question some time ago in accordance with the opinion just rendered by the court of appeals. The Georgia stat¬ utes provide than a man may waive all but $300 of his $1,600 homestead. * * * Wilson Released From Jail. G. C. Wilson, postmaster of Mill- edgeville, accused of tampering with the funds of the government in that office, was released from jail at Macon upon bond in the sum of $800. His bondsmen were his Milledgeville friends. Wilson has returned to his home. His case will be heard by the commissioner later on. Georcia win share in Benefits. A Washington dispatch says: In the house Mr. Pearse, of North Carolina, introduced a bill empowering the sec- retary of agriculture to purchase land suitable to the purpose of a national forest reserve in the Appalachian mountains within the states of Vir- ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, ijeorgia, Alabama ana Tennessee, not to exceed iu extent 2,000,000 acres. Five million dollars is appropriated for the purpose. Many Bonds Changing Hands. A good many Georgia bonds are changing hands, while many coupon bonds are being exchanged for regis¬ tered bonds. A day or two ago Secre¬ tary of State Phil Cook registered $24,- 000 of state bonds, coupon bonds having beeii exchanged for the regu¬ lar class. There were in the lot four ORE DOLLJtR PER ANNUM. 81,000 and four $5,000 4$ per cent Georgia bonds due in 1915. Similar transactions have been made from time to time within the last few weeks. Georgia bonds undoubtedly constitute a most desirable security. Home Trustees to Meet on £4th. Definite action in the matter of opening the Soldiers’ Home for the reception of Georgia’s veterans who desire to enter will be taken Thursday, January 24th, as it is on that date that the first meeting of the board of trust¬ ees appointed by Governor Candler will be held. Colonel W. L. Calhoun, one of the members of the board, has, by request of Governor Candler, called a meeting for that date, and each member has signified bis intention of being pres¬ ent. At the close of this meeting it will be known definitely what date will be selected for the opening of the home. The bids for the repairing and re¬ painting of the institution will be let and a time namedMn w hich they shall be completed. In this manner the board will be able to name a date for the opening. In addition to the election of a chair¬ man of the boaid of trustees there will be an election of a superintendent of the home and also of a matron. For these two positions numerous applications have been received, but the positions have been promised to no one yet. The superintendent will be a veteran of ability. An old soldier will be chosen because of the fact that he will be heartily in sympathy with the in¬ The mates, being one of their comrades. selection of a matron will be given due consideration, as this is an import¬ ant position for which it will be neces¬ sary to select a person who wiy see th it the old soldiers receive every care and attention. The furnishing of the home will not be as costly as was at first supposed. This is because of the offers of many military combauies and Confederate camps throughout the state to furnish a room. The bids for the furnishing will also be let at the meeting to be held on January 24th. Fire Destroys Historic Church. Historic old Wesley chapel, a Meth¬ odist church four miles east of Lexing¬ ton, was burned to tbe ground last Friday. A defective flue caused the conflagration. Mrs. Dorougb, the school teacher, and pupils escaped. The building had weat hered the storms of over half a century. This was one of the most extensively known coun- try churches in the state. EXTERMINATED HIS FAMILY, Painter F»e<i Paris Green, Baseball Bat and a Raxor In Horrible Work. At Albany. N. Y., Saturday morn¬ ing Louis Currier, forty years of age, cut bis wife’s throat, broke his son, Archie’s head with a baseball bat, took a dose of paris green and then cut bis own throat from ear to ear with a ra¬ zor. All three are dead. Carrier left a letter addressed to the police which shows that tho murder was premeditated and stating that his wife bought the paris green herself for the purpose of poisoning him but be watched her too closely and gave her a hard death. TO EXPERIMENT WITH TEA. Eastern Capitalists Are Ready To Back Up Project In South Carolina. The announcement was made by the agricultural department in Washing¬ ton a few days ago that two syndicates were being formed to raise tea iu wholesale quantities on the fertile truck lands near Charleston, S. C. Following this was the positive an¬ nouncement that Connecticut million¬ aires had negotiated for the purchase of more than four thousand acres of land fifteen miles from Charleston, where 300,000 pounds of tea would bb bought for the use of the syndicate. The cultivation of this product will open a new industry in the south. LYNCH IXGS ABE INVESTIGATED. Judga White, at Madison, Fla., Instructs Grand Jury to Secure Names of Mob, An investigation is being made into the lynching of the two negroes at MadisoD, Fla., some days ago. A special term of the circuit couit was convened, and Judge White, presid¬ ing, has instructed the grand jury to make a diligent investigation of the lynching, and if the names of the lynchers can be ascertained, to indict them for murder. EX-POSTMASTER SUICIDES. Arrested For Defalcation He Takes a Dob* of Prussic Aoid. At Longview, Texas, Thursday, Samuel Flanagan, formerly postmas¬ ter of the town, committed suicide by drinking prussic acid, while in charge of a Deputy United States Marshal. Flanagan, who was a well known Re¬ publican politician, was charged with misappropriating postoffice funds, Bloody Deed of Wicked Swede. At Jamaica Plain, Mass., Thursday Sevante Anderson, a Swede, shot and killed his wife and probably fatally wounded his mother and five-year-old boy. He then killed himself. FLOUR IS $45 A BARREL. Potatoes, Bacon, Sugar and Rice Can’t B« Bought With Gold In Klondike. According to telegrams received from Skaguay, there is a food famine at Circle and on the lower Yukon amounting almost to a famine in cer¬ tain commodities. Flour is held at $45 per barrel and purchasable then not very ofteD. Potatoes, bacon, su¬ gar and rice are not purchasable at any price, DR.TAUM AGE’S SERMON Th* Eminent Divine’s Sunday Discourse. Outlook Inspiring A _ Tar Subject: The — Look Into the Future— Marvelous Ail- vances Predicted — Religion and Scl- •nee in the Next Hundred Years. 1 Copyright M01.7 Washington, D. C.—In this discourse Dr. Talmage tells something of what he expects the next hundred years will achieve, , and X i declares ______ -I that .1 I rL. the’outlook _ ___AI is . most inspiring; text, II Samuel xxiii, 4, “A morning without clouds.” “What do you expect of this new cen¬ tury?” is the question often asked of me, and manv others have been plied with the same inquiry. ’ In the ■’ realm *- of ' invention '---- x -— I T expect something as startling as the tele¬ graph and the telephone and the X-ray. In the realm of poetry I expect as great poets as Longfellow and Tennyson. In the realm of religion I expect more than one Pentecost like that of 1857, when 500,- 000 souls professed to have been con¬ verted. I expect that universal peace will reign, and that before the arrival of the two thousandth year glasting gunpowder rocks will be out of use except for or py¬ rotechnic entertainment. I expect that before this new century has expired the millennium will be fully inaugurated. The twentieth century will be as much an im¬ provement on the nineteenth century as the nineteenth century was an improve¬ ment on the eighteenth. But the conven¬ \fill al¬ tional length of sermonic discourse low us only time for one hopeful consider¬ ation, and that will be the redemption of the cities. part Pulpit and day printing busy press discussing for the most the m our are addition of the cities at this time, but would it not be healthfully encouraging to all Christian workers and to all who ai ( should toiling to make the world better if we this morning, for a little while, look forward to the time when our cities shall be revolutionized by the gospel of the Son of God, and all the darkness of sin and trouble and crime and suffering shall be gone from the sky, and it shall be “a morning without clouds?” Every man has pride in the city of his guished nativity or residence if it be a city distin¬ boasted for of any dignity or prowess. Virgil Caesar his native Rome, of Mantua, of Athens, Lycurgus Archimedes of Sparta, of Demosthe¬ Syracuse nes and Paul of Tarsus. I should have sUsp' i- c.ion had of base heartedness in a man wli \° . no escepdal interest in the city of his n Mth , ,, residence—no exhilaration at the or enmellishments, evjdence of its prosperity, or its artistic or its scientific advance- ment. .* I have noticed that n man never likes a city where he has not behaved Well! Peo- pie who have a free ride in the prison van never like the city that furnishes the ve- ^ ^ en I find Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna trying to prove themselves the birthplace of Iiomcr, I conclude right aifay that Homer behaved well. He liked th^m, and laudable they liked him. pride We must with not the war on city or must continue to point to its Faneuil Hall and to its superior educational advantages; Independence Piljladelphia must Hall, continue to mint point to iU and its and its Guard College; New York must continue t$ exult in its matchless harbor, and its sl'rtUtP* Washington must continue to rejoice ii is lhe — d,y .J sitir'hnvjug Y a h “' d L”Vr i dT , i„ co .KM r trffl been the pi.ee ot his rmtevitp or now being the place of his residence, I would “What feel like asking him right away: there? mean What thing have you been doing tor. feecn gmlty tntiitnr of outrageous that thing have you jou do Ar. not like the «fjhe Every city is influenced by the character men who founded it. Romulus im- pressed his life upon Rome. The pilgrim New r Fndand er Wi r iSm Penn * SS5"Jf mJWn.moiSii h£ISStiir hoL 'so thl Hpllanderg, founding tfr. York, left th.ir K l if i h il f0l i 0Wln r f 18 « t eneratl PfP et °nB. ua J etfiogy upon the W Washington . who founded , it. I thank God for the place of our resi¬ dence, and, while there are a thousand tlungs that ought to be corrected and many wrongs that ought to be overthrown, while I thank God for the past, I look for¬ ward this morning to a glorious future. I thipk we ought—and I take it for granted that you are interested in this great work of. world—we evangelizing the cities and saving the in ought jto toil with the sunlight our faces. We are not fighting in a miserable Bull Run of defeat. We are on the way to final victory. We are not fol¬ lowing! ing the rider on the black horse, lead¬ us down to death and darkness and doom, but the rider on the white horse, with the moon under Hie feet and the stars of heaven for His tiara. Hailg conqueror, hail! I know there are sorrows and tfffere are sins and there are sufferings all around about us, but as in some bitter cold win- ter around day when we are thrashing our arms think us to keep our thumbs from freez- mg we of the warm spring day that will after awhile come, or in the dark win- ter lights, night we look up and see the northern the windows of heaven illumined by some great victory, just so we look up from the night of suffering and sorrow and wretchedness in our cities, and we see a light streaming through from the other side, and we know we are on the way to morning—more “a than that, on the way to I morning without clouds.” want you to understand, all you who are toiling for Christ, tha'; the castles of sin are all going to be captured. The vie- tory for Christ in these great town3 is going to be so complete that not a man on earth, or an angel in heaven, or a devil in hell will dispute it. How do I know? I know it just as certainly as God lives and that this is holy truth. The old Bible is full of it. The nation is to be saved; of course all the cities are to be saved. It makes a great difference with you and with me whether we are toiling on toward a defeat or toiling on toward a victory. which Now, in this municipal elevation of I speak I have to remark there will be greater financial prosperity than our cities have ever seen. Some people seem to have a morbid idea of the millennium, and they think when the better time comes will to our cities and the world people give their time up to psalm singing and the relating oi their religious expe- rience and as all social life will be pun- fied there will be no hilarity, and as all business will be purified there will o enterprise There is no ground the for such an absurd anticipation. In tim which I speak where now one fortune is made there will be a hundred fo made. ^\e all know business p P y depends upon confidence between man and ™ an ' *ow, when that ti which I speak and all double dealing all dishonesty and all fraud are gone out of commercial circles, tho: ough confidence r 1 t 6 jjJSra ' The |preat business disasters of this lers. The great foe to business is crime. When the right shall have hurled back the wrong, and shall have purified the commercial code, and shall have thun- dered down fraudulent the establishments, and shall have keys put into hands of hon- fg (. men t be of business, blessed ^j me f or the bargain .. akers. I am not talking an abstraction; I am not making a guess; I am telling you God’s eternal truth. In that day of which I speak taxes will be a mere nothing. Now our business men are taxed for everything; city taxes, coun- State taxes, United States taxes, _ ty taxes, license manufacturing manufacturing stamp --- taxes, tnYpa taxes, taxes—taxes, taxes* taxes! Our business men have to make a small fortune every their taxes, . What ... fastens on year to pay our :~.r great industries this awful load" Crime, individual and official. We have to pay the board of the villains who are incarcerated in our prisons; we have to take care of the orphans of those who indulgence; plunged into their have graves to support through the beastly we muni¬ cipal governments, which are expensive just in proportion as the criminal proclivi¬ ties are vast and tremendous. Who sup¬ ports the almshouses and police stations and all the machinery of., municipal gov¬ ernment? The taxpayers. But in the glorious time of which I speak grievous taxation will all have ceased. There will be no need of support¬ ing criminals; there will he no criminals. Virtue will have taken the place of vice. There will he no orphan asylums, for pa¬ rents will be able to leave a competency to their children; of there will be no voting of large sums moneys for some munici¬ pal improvement, which moneys, before the they get to the improvement, drop into pockets of those who voted them; no oyer and terminer kept up at vast expense to the people, no impaneling murder of and juries slan¬ to try theft and arson and der and blackmail; better factories; grand- or ar ohitecture; finer equipage; larger for- tunes ■s; richer opulence. “A morning with- out clouds.” In that better time also coming ung to to these cities the churches of Christ will be more numerous, and they will be lai'ger, and they will Christ, be more and devoted they to the accomplish service of Jesus will gi'eater influences for good. Now it is often the case that churches are envious of each other, and denominations collide with each other, and even ministers of Christ sometimes forget the bond of brotherhood. But in the time of which I speak, while there will be just as many differences of opinion as there are now, there | wiU be no acerbity, no hypercriti- c i sm ’ no exclusiveness. j In n our great cities the churches are not to-day to-day large enough to hold more than a f ouldb of the population. The churches are built—comparatively few of them are ___Jj________________________________ fully the occupied. churches The of the average United attend¬ States ance in _ to-day is not 400. Now, in the glorious he time of whicb x Bpeak there are go i n g to vast churches, and they are going td be all thronged with worshipers. Oh, what rousing songs they will will Bing! Oh, what earnest sermons they preach! Ob, fervent tlme prayers hat they cal,ed will offer.! fash Now ^ ou £ " “ a l ° n e church i« - a place where a few people, , h«v- £ n « at * n d8 “ v ery carefully to their toilet, £ ome ftm , 8,t f, , own 7? ey d ° nat Wan fc ^ jhey hke.a ‘ wholer Mat f to ,• f j S’fSt.nrdi ° f them, they whl eit end listen to th. UWfi s sws itf / rc'iLhld'^Keerv^marT'feels^better ‘S ma 1 fee 8 bt - tter af ^'. he ,| ,a f, „ ^ f^ fjut t€d ail I thesewrongsare “Pe? 4 llv f. „ rp 0 see going . * he to . . be I think ; I hear in the distance the rum- bHr . g of the King’s chariot. Not always in th ; is th e church o£ - . . . f»!» i h e 8t !!S t8 1t0 trvJwn ** 61Ied Wlth ^ r!' P n What ' vdl you do with those who fleece f hat youiig r n ’ gett f ing to ? urloin ni y church and told the story and franti- j ,’o‘'h«, will 6 Sfbrinl ™! SmJS ba°ck in tLs ines. An infinite Father bends over it In sym- ^ pathy. ath y And and to to the the orphan wi ‘ dow He He will be be a husband, r> a and to the outcast He will be a home, day and to the poorest wretch that to¬ crawls out of the ditch of his abom¬ ination. crying for mercy, He will be an all The pardoning rocks Redeemer. will turn gray with age, the forests will be unmoored in the hurricane, the sun will shut its fiery eyelid, the stars will drop like blasted figs, the sea will heave its last groan and lash itself in ex¬ piring agony, the continents will drop like anchors in the deep, the world will wrap itself in sheet of flame and leap on the funeral, pyre of the judgment day, but God’s love wfill never die. It shall kindle its suns after all other lights have gone out. It will be a billowing sea after all other oceans have wept themselves away. It will warm itself by the blaze of a con¬ suming world. It will sing while the filled archangel’s trumpet peals and the air is with the crash of breaking sepul- chers and the rush of the wings of the [ rising dead. Oh, commend that love to all the cities and the morning without j clouds I know will that come! sometimes it seems a hope- less task. You toil on in different spheres, j sometimes with great discouragement, j People have no faith and say: “It does not well amount quit to anything. You might as that.” Why, when Moses stretched his hand over the Red Sea it did not seem to mean anything especially, j People “Aha!” came Some out, I suppose, and said, he of them found out what wanted to do. He wanted the sea parted, It did not amount to anything, this stretching out of his hand over the sea! But after awhile the wind blew all niirht from tbe east, and the waters were gath- ered into a glittering palisade on either side, and the billows roared as God pulled b ac k on their crvstal bits. Wheel into 'fine, O Israel! March, march! 1 earls crashed under feet, flying spray gathers into rainbow arch of victory for the con- querors to march under, shout of hosts on tfi® beach answering the shout of os s amid sea, and when the last line o Israelites reach the beach the cym a s clap, and the shields clang, and tue - £ u sh over the pursuers, and th loan fingered 1 P !a y winds ’ e on the u’hite^ keys ered and the u awful dirge of Lgyptia nw- throw. f^fh/and , , stJitch ,, , tLr j^ tbey , nd oyer the sea, the dness. boiling sea of doesn’t crime and gin and wretche “It amount to anything ” p eop le say. Doesn’t (j od ’ g winds of help will after aw’ be • to b5ow . A ^th will be cleared for the Thfi army th will of be Christian lined with philanthropists, the treasure 0 f Christian beneficence, and we will be greeted to the other beach by the clap- pirjg of a]J heaven > s cymb als, while those who pursued us and derided down us and tried ^ ua wiU & g0 under the sea, d al , will left of them wiU be t hi h and d upon the beac h, the splintered wheel of a chariot or thrust out a riderless ctia *-«.«' • NO. 47. BOERS KILL ENVOYS British P; ace Commissioners Are Flogged and Shot. ACT INFLAMES ALL ENGLAND DeWet Grossly Violates Rules of Warfare—Extreme Heasures Demanded For Revenge. The war office at London has re¬ ceived the following dispatch from Lord Kitchener: ‘•Pretoria, Sunday, January 13 Abont 1,000 Boers crossed the line, attacking both Zuurfontein and Kaal- fontein stations, but were driven off. They are being pursued by a cavalry brigade.” Lord Kitchener reports several skir¬ mishes at different points, with trifling British losses, and adds: “Three agents of the peace committee were taken as prisoners to DoWet’s laager, near Lindle, January 1 Otb. One, who was a British subject, was flogged and then shot. The other two, burghers, were flogged by DeWet’s or¬ ders.” The brief report of the fate of the three members of the peace committee, who were sent to see General DeWet, excites the deepest indignation on all sides. One or two papers express a hope that Lord Kitchener has been misled by false Kaffir reports, but it is .generally felt that he would not have reported the matter to the war office without undoubted evidence. The Daily Mail heads the report with the word “Murder,” and dis¬ claims against any further attempt to coax into submission. “DeWet has placed himself outside the pale of humanity,” says the Daily Mail, “and not proclamations, but large reinforcements, must be our watchword.” The Morning Post says: “This marks the point where the guerilla phase ends and the bandit phase be¬ gins.” All the papers appeal strongly to the government to hurry forward re¬ inforcements, since it iB evident that the Boer leaders havo now become desperate and conciliation is quite useless. REBELS DOOMED TO DIE. Prisons at Manila are Crowded to the Utmost With Captive Filipinos. An Associated Press dispatch from Manila says: Since the expiration of the period within which amnesty was granted to captured insurgents, the in- Burrectos have been sent to Manila in batches of dozens, scores and hun¬ dreds. It is but a month since the military government began retention of prisoners of war and already the quarters fitted up to hold them are filled. Liberty gained formerly simply by swearing allegiance to the United States was looked upon by the insur¬ gents as so easy of attainment that the yankees were set down as being sim¬ ple indeed for being so lenient. With¬ in the past few weeks, however, the insurgents have been learning that sterner war measures are in force, and at present 1,500 insurgents are in con¬ finement in Manila, exclusive of sev¬ eral hundred natives, so-called, po¬ litical prisoners, most of whom may also be classed as insurgents. The question as to what is to be done with these prisioners of war ap¬ pears to be wholly undetermined. On the other hand copies of general orders received from the Philippines at Washington show that a large num- ber of native Filipinos have been con¬ victed for murder and other crimes and sentenced to be hanged or long terms of imprisonment. Lived In Three Centuries. James B. Ireland, centenarian, died at his home at Skillman, Hancock oonnty, Ky., Snnday. He was born June 4, 1797, and bad lived in three centuries. Had be lived until the 4th of next June he would have been 104 years old. SITUATION GROWS WORSE. Aggressiveness of the BoBrs Necessitates Fortification of Cape Town. London dispatches of Thursday stated that the situation in South Africa grows worse rather than bet¬ ter. Lord Kitchener’s dispatches are more laconic than those of Lord Rob¬ _ erts and little else of importance is allowed to come through. The state of affairs has practically necessitated the fortification of Cape Town. L. and N. Dividend Declared. - The directors of the Louisville and Nashville railroad have declared a semi-annual dividend of 2* per cent on the company's shares. BRITONS BECOMING emenl* ■arge iA New York Tribune London says: Earl Roberts has been clo pied at the war office, and itj ed that reinforcements will i * a on a large scale for the moi ! convincing the field that Kruger resistance and thf ii that Lord Kitchener’s over! jL be accepted.