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VOL. 18. MANY SOULS IN BRINY Steamship City of Rio de Janeiro Strikes Rock and Goes Down. LOSS OF LIFE IS APPALLING Accident Caused By Hea^ Fog. Consul Wildman and i His Family Reported Among the Victims. A San Francisco special says'. The Pacific mail steamer City of Rio de Janeiro ran on a hidden rock while entering the golden gate early Friday morning in a dense fog, and sank in a few minutes. It is thought that near¬ ly 150 persons were drowned, but it is impossible to ascertain the exact num¬ ber, owing to the fact that Purse? John Rooney, who had the passenger list and roster of the crew, is amo -g the missing. At 5 p. m. ten bodies had been re- covered, two white women, one white man and seven Chinese, The most prominent passenger was Rouuseville Wildman, United States cons hi at Hong Kong, who was accompanied by his wife and two children. It is .thought all were downed. The ship was in command of Pilot Frederick Jqrdau when she struck. Ho was res¬ cued. Captain William Ward went down with his vessel. As nearly as can be learned there were 234 people on the Rio Janeiro, as follows: Cabin passengers, 29; second cabin, 7; steerage (Chinese and Japanese) G8; officers and crew, 140; total, 234. The following have been accounted for: Rescued, 79; bodies at the mor¬ gue, 10; total, 89; missing, 145. . CAUGKT IN A DENSE FOG, The Rio de Janeiro was three days overdue from Hong Kong, via Hono¬ lulu, when she arrived oft' the heads Thursday night and tile dense fog fcre* vailing at the time induced Pilo^ Jor¬ dan to bring her to anchor untu he could see his way clear through the 4:30 gateway. o’clock, She when laid the to until atmosphere a^out cleared aud she was started uud>er a slow bell toward Point Bonita. Ail went well uutil 5:40 o’clock, when\she struck. Moat of tho passengers were below at the time and it is believed many of them were drowned in their berths. The first news of the disaster remedi¬ ed the city at 7:30 a. m., and yoon afterward a boat load of rescued p a ®- sengers and petty officers arrived at the dispatched mall dock. to reuder Tugs were immediately service that might be any per¬ needed, but no living sons were afloat when the tugs reach¬ ed ing the peeple wreck. A rescued number by of drdjyn- Italian were fishermen and the bodies of two wllte women, three Chinese and a Japai*se were brought in by the tugs. 1 ie search, for bodies continued all da] All accounts show that the offii ■s gave the necessary orders with ie least possible excitement. Capt. \Y d was on deck when the vessel str 'k and gave orders to the men on watcB to hurry the passengers to the forward. At the same time the quartermaster! on duty sounded the signal for fire dlrill and within five minutes all the nien were at their stations. There was no way of knowing ^he extent of the damage to the vessel, as she teen remained minutes after on an striking even keel the for ro<pk. fif¬ But Captain Ward knew the gravest danger threatened the 200 souls in tiis charge and he gave orders to lower the i lifeboats and rafts. There was not [muah ■after striking, coufusiou until, bow fifteen minutes vessel the of the ■suddenly Ithere plunged under water. Then was a wild.rush for the boats. Two boats had already beeu lower- led and others were getting away as Irapidly ItJrew as the trained discipline of the could prepare them. A thick fog ■enveloped everything, aud as yet ho ■sign ttations. had come from the life-saving PwTth Darkness was all about and [the Rio this had added to horror the One people boat g*5t £>n I cope. dear of the vessel without damage, irhis contained the following person^: ■ Mrs. West, Mrs. Ripley, Chief En¬ gineer Herlihey, Second Officer Cog- Ban, Frank Cramp, J. R. Russell, ■storekeeper Borgg, Water Tender L>. ■bane, ■Paptain Quartermaster R. Mathiesoh, Hetch, of the German navy. ■ This boat got clear of the sinking B-essel and then stood by to help ^n ■sicking up those who had no time ito Ret into the boats aud were in the wH- ■er. Another boat, containing Third Rlfficer Holland and J. K. Carpenter, Hot away, but was drifted around close ■ ji midi film bow of the steamer. Ajs Rhe forward end of the vessel pluuged ■ownward Rat the prow caught the stnal and cut jit in two. The two me Hray the boat were uninjured aud swan) if ^Rne from the sinking steamer just thl to avoid being caught in REGIMENTS COMING HOME. krPfpartineitt Is Xoll^p that Trans ■■|1 Sail From Manila ler, quartermaster at ku the war department arranged for leave Manila Bih Kk the Twenty! rciim lit3- •ant will its E ADEL NEWS swirl of water caused by fcbe settling of the big ship. Carpenter was picked up by the other boat. The fate of Holland is notknowD. A numoer of Italian fishermen who were starting out saw the sinking of the Bio and hastened to gave all +he assistance in their power. - While all this was going on Captain Ward was directing the passengers and trying to keep them from panic. He succeeded only partly, as many of the terrified people rushed to the railing and jump¬ ed overboard. Some of tltese were picked up, others were drovAied. The Chinese crew, to the lumber of over a hundred were terrorised. Some of them huddled in little grciips, chat¬ tering in fear. Others crouched close to the deck mourning pitifully. Many jumped into the sea. Captain War ! remained on deck un¬ til the vessel had settled tok tmeh an extent him. He that then the water was blidge Ingulfing went up the and from there continued to issue his di¬ rections. That the steamer sank almost imme¬ diately after striking is the report of a majority of those rescued. Some of the passengers say that she instantly listed forward and in five minutes she went down, while others declare that she stayed afloat for half an hour after she struck. There are several conflicting stories concerning the fate of Captain Ward. The steward of the Rio says that he stood beside the captain when the ves¬ sel w'ent down. Two other survivors say that they also saw the captain to the last, but Frederick Lindstrom, quartermaster officer of the Captali Rio, em- pbatically declared that li. Ward emulated Admiral Irion, of M. S. Victoria, in going down to h:J I cabin, where ho met his doofh behind locked door. According to bis ntor *, Cap¬ tain Ward, after consulting with Pilot Jordon, came down from* the bridge- He was standing on the deck when the vessel crashed upon the rock. There was aery of “Man thelboats,” but it was apparent that in th% midst of the awful confusion a systematic effort to save the passengers would be of no avail. Everybody was scra|nbling for his own safety. It was at this time that Lindstrom says he saw Captain Ward standing on the forward deck. Suddenly the captain turned and walk¬ ed hurriedly to the cabin, disappe red behind the door, which he closed. A second later the vessel was plunging to the bottom of the sea. THE PILOT'S STORY. Captain Frederick W. Jordan, the pilot of the Rio, was rescued by an Italian fishing boat. To the customs officials he told the following story: - “We auchored about 5 o’clock last night. The weather was thick, and I left orders that when the weather cleared we should go farther in. “At 5 a. m. the fog lifted, i We could see the cliff house and the north end light, and I told the mate to heave short. After we started heaving short the wind came in from the northeast, and the fog settled in thick, and I told the mate to stop heaving. Then the captain came np and said: “ ‘Let her go. We can go ahead.’ “You see, my watch stopped at 5:40. When the vessel struck I ordered all the boats out. The first boat out was half filled with water no sooner than she" struck. I got a ladder and plJeed a woman on it and we began ter de¬ scend. She had a boy of eight years, whom I held in my arms. The woman and I were about half way down the ladder when the Rio gave a tremen¬ dous pitch. I was flung off the ladder. “I saw nothing after that of the woman or the boy. I went down with the ship about fifty feet. I worked my way up to the surface aud got hold of some wreckage. I had sense enough left to turn on my back and drift with the wreckage. j “Then I came across what seemed&o me the top of a house with a Chinamln on it. He helped me to clamber onto the roof, and with him I drifted out toward the north heads. I was thgn reacned by the fishing boat. | PLACED UNDER BONDS. Birdsong Brothers Bound Over to Macon Criminal Court. A Macon, Ga,, dispatch says: The two Birdsong brothers, Tom and Davq, who were indicted for arson and per¬ jury, were Berved with warrants, biri they gave bonds in the sum of $1,000 each and were released. They will answer to the next term of the criminal court. Five Men Horribly Mangled. 1 Five men were caught on the PeniM sylvania railroad bridge at YongstowrM O., Friday morning and killed. Thel were walking on the track on thei* way to work at the Sharon Iron and were* caught by the south freight train. AN UNDECIDED QUESTION. Caban Convention Delegate* May Insist on Absolute Independence. i A Special from Havana says: Noth¬ if ing definite has been decided upon gar ding the question of future rell tions. bled in the Many of the delegates FrR^ asset) convention hall ternoon to talk over the matter b ally. Most of them seem to b pressed with one conviction tl if the convention stood out viga y for absolute independence d SUjRRRhHufould j :JSJl " ADEL. BERRIEN COUNTY. GA.. PR1 DAY, .MARCH I. 1901. «eo»newsiteiis Brief Summary of Intecesting Happenings Culled at Randoip. Finding* In HcK«« Case. Under an order issued Satnrday by Governor Candler and the prison com¬ mission, the county commission- *• r - of Lowndes county must again take charge of the county convicts in now being worked at the McBee camp that county, and they alone must exercise supervision and control over them. This order is the result of the charges preferred against the McKees and the management of their camp by Lawyer John W. Edmondson, of Quit- man. It was claimed by the McKees that Edmondson pushed the case be¬ cause a relative of his operated a camp in Brooks county, and desired to se¬ cure possession of the Lowndes county convicts. At all events the prison commission went into a thor- onwh investigation of the camp, and the foregoing decision was reached by them in consultation with the gov- ernor. This order does not mean that the McKee convict camp must be abolish¬ ed; it simply requires the county com¬ missioners to resume control of the couvicts again. The commissioners may still permit them to do work for the McKees as heretofore, but it must be done wholly under the supervision of the commissioners, who will have to appoint the guards, the whipping boss and all civilian employees in con¬ uection with the camp. The McKees, therefore, will, in all probability, con¬ tinue to retain the services of the Lowndes county convicts, unless the commissioners see fit to remove them to some other quarter or to permit the prison commission to take charge of them. The older of the governor calls to the attention of the grand jury certain charges in connection with the case. Among other things, the evidence taken by the prison commission tends to show that parties not directly con¬ nected with the camp have kidnaped innocent negroes and compelled them to work as if they were convicts. With this the prison commission has noth¬ ing to do, but it is a matter fov the courts. An Atlantlan ReKcueJ. E. C. Howell, one of the passengers rescued from the sunken ship Rio de Janeiro in the San Francisqo harbor Friday, is an Atlantian. He is a son if Colonel Albert Howell. For the pa?t two month Mr. Howell has been in the Philippines and was returning home when the fatal, hidden rock sank the ship to the bottom of the sea. Tliomaston to Have Electric Lights. The election for electric lights was carried in Thomaston the past week by a majority of 14. The city author- ites, under the resnlt, will proceed at once to have established a first-class system of electric lights. The election was very quiet. No espeeial interest was manifested against tho issue. This will add one more feature to the al¬ ready progressive and forward spirit which has characterized Thomaston for the past two or three years. Insurance Men Aroused. An Atianta dispatch says: Unless some action is taken to improve tbe present inadequate water service there will be a general advance in insur¬ ance rates not only on business prop¬ erty but on divellings. The under¬ writers wish to avert the necessity of raising the present rate if possible,and with that end in view will probably hold a meeting to urge upon citizens and property owners generally the vital necessity of issuing water bonds, so that the desired improvements may be made. „ Cold Benefited Fruit. Reports from Laurens, Coffee, Ware and other south Georgia counties say that the cold wave and snow did no damage to fruit trees, but will, as a matter of faot> prove beneficial. The weather up to the time had been un- seasonably warm, and tbe continuance 0 f a high temperature for a week long- er would have resulted in the budding of the trees> Had th i 3 occurred the cold snaps of March would have de- stroyed hopes of a fruit crop. The cold snap has stopped the sap in the trees from rising, thus increasing the chances for a full crop. The same ap¬ plies to vegetables. >ew Trial Asked For :Negrroeg. The attorney for the five negroes sentenced to be hanged in Screven county for murder will not permit ins clients to go to the gallows without further effort to save them. He has already made application for a new trial. His claim for another hearing is based largely on the fact that letters written by two of the negroes to a col- ored minister at Augusta and alleged to have contained confessions were ° pe ° e as evidence u at the hearing. If Judge Evans denies the negroes a new trial the supreme court will be appealed to. “ Hampton’s Cotton Mill. About fifteen cars of machinery for the new cotton mills at Hampton arrived and is rapidly being put in position. Manager Harris says within fifteen days everything will be in to make yarn. The mill has a large warehouse of cotton on hand to run the factory several months. Treasury Warrant* Drawn. *. Governor Candler signed three * ** ■ ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM. rants on the treasury one day the past week aggregating about $680,000. This is the amoua t that h as been paid oat for pensions during the last sis weeks, these li are given to •rants of each pensioner v j§J|fi accnmulat- iag in the state treasurer’s office. Widows “Left Oat In the Cold.” Several widows on the pension roll will not get their pensions this year. There is only §470 left of the $200,000 appropriated by the legislature for pensions. There are fifteen widows to be paid in White county, and Iheir ap- plications arrived a day or two ago. The amount remaining is .nffieient pay only twelve widows, so that of those in White county will-have to do without their pension money this year. No pen,ion, at .11 have been paid in ancT Irwin and Lincoln counties, the widows of those counties must likewise do without their pensions. Pension Commissioner Lindsey has applications for about three thousand mora of the application black. widows under the law adopted by the last legislature. This will make six thousand blanks in all to be sent out, .ad it there are a* many widow, it will practically be lfipossiblo to pay any of them with the meager 8100,000 the legislature La, appropriated tor the purpose. It is said there will be some six hundred applications from Fulton county alone. --- TOUR FOOLIS«.» Mrs. Nation Mtvlies Unique Appeal to Judge to Release Her From Jail. Mrs. Carrie Nation, tiring b of jail Ine, , bas written ... Judge t j tt Hazen letter a demanding release. “I want you to quit your fooling,” she writes, “and let me out of here. If you cause me to miss my engagements I won t feel like a ministering angel unto you. It is time for you to recover yourself before the devil, -'ll your master, ’ makes v. a clean i sweep with you into . hell. You know yju are persecuting God’s children who loves you for Jesus’ sake. Let me out that I may go about my business of saving such poor davils as you.” Detective Released on Bond, Bradley Slaughter was released from the Atlanta, Ga., jail Monday, his brother J. B. Slaughter signing his bond for $1,000. Slaughter was tried and convicted on the charge of larceny and au appeal was taken. Pendiug an appeal he was remanded to the Tower in default of a $1,000 bond. Athens Gets Court. A Washington Special says: The bill establishing the eastern division ef the northern district of Georgia and providing for the holding of United States court at Athens has passed both house and senate. INDICTED FOB EMBEZZLEMENT. Casbler I’orier Alleged to Have Mlsap- propriated Nearly •30,000. A dispatch from Bowling Green, Ky., says: The grand jury after an all-day investigation of the alleged shortage of Lather JR. Porter, cashier of the Warren Deposit bank, returned an indictment against him charging him with embezzlement. His alleged m 7 Mr. p Porter SS did °‘ not w&it for & bencli . „ warrent warrent to to be be issued, issued, but but appeared appeared in in court and executed a bond for $5,000. EDWARD IN GERMANY. EugWr* Ruler Goes to Bedside of Hi* Sister, the Dowager Empress. A special from Cronberg, Germany, savs: King Edward met Emoeror Wil- , iana ■ .r Monday „ , • when , he morning reach- ed Friedrichshoff. King William spent some time at the bedside of his sister, Dowager Empress Frederick. Special dispatches from Cronberg say that neither Cronberg nor Horn- bnrg showed any decorations whatever to mark the presence of King Edward, and that not even flags were were dis- played. DEWET’S FORCES ROUTED. Correspondent of London Paper Actually Reports a Victory For Redcoats. A correspondent ^ of The London Daily Mail with Henniker’s column, '“tag Salary „j.: “General Dewet was routed yester- day by Colonel Plummer, with whom were Colonels Henniker, Corddoek, Jeffreys and Grabbo. This success was preceded by a series of desperate attempts on the part of the Boers to escape from tue water belt of the Orange and the Brake rivers. ” RAID CAUSED * BLOODSHED ‘ * ______ wholesale Liquor Uou, e Wrecked and Guns M ere Brought into Play. As the resuil of a raid on the Cnrtis wholesale liquor house by a mob at Topeka, Kan., Sunday night, J. A. Adams, a carpenter, lies at the hospital in a precarious condition from a pistol shot wound and will probably die. Dr. J. E. Mitchell and Rev. F. W. Emerson were both placed under ar- re st as leaders of the mob, and the Uq "° r tOU8e iS al, “ 05t * ' treCk - . . OKLGDN’ft . »[,vTurv NLA.I seaaiuk, 'iTnp After Long Contest John H. iviitcliell Se- cures Coveted Toga. At Salem, Oregon, John H. Mitchell was elected United States senator at 12:30 o’clock Sunday morning to sue- ceed John W. McBride, whose term will expire next March 4th. His elec¬ tion was accompanied by a combina¬ tion of thirty-five republicans with eleven Democrats, making forty-six votes, a majority of the legislature. Tho result was reached on the twenty- fifth ballot of the day and the fifty* third of the session. REV. T>R. TALMASE. ~ _ The ,_u Sminaat _ .£ ~ Divine ... a 8and Bunaay „ Disoourae Ijmii'h ii • T “ Subject : TTelfHre of the Body-Simple Life Conduces to longevity — Keliglon the Great Henewer — Worry Hastens the Advance of Age. (Copyright 1901.1 Dr. Washington, Talmage D. C.—In this discourse shows how any one can con- 9 uer the effect of years and grow younger yoiXi^enewed'h&tfe’il^sV^ There flies from the ^ majestic out my text most of all the feathered creation—an e ^ le - Other birds have more beauty of such clutch of claw, such expansion of l v '’ e m 8; of such-height dominion. of soaring, such wide- ® 3 Its appetite rejects the Leveling its neck for fr'SFZS&S. Clirv e, it swings itself toward flight, the in spiral STij known live noonday hun- as vffj 1 to a r. that , ,- rears - What concentration of all is sublime in the golden eagle, the creasted eagle, the imperial eagle, the r ia oi' a * ea £‘ e : the booted eagle, the Jean looks ragged and aSiU'^o^'.Si.'S and unattractive, worn like moping in its nest on the o!?n,5, Sfe rags ' But wee k. a hy and the old overgrown, S has rAWftS the against the rocks, surplus and it of bone back beaten its gets less kingdoms mchalSi’d‘“ad bS the of air and light. David, author of the text, had watched these monarehs of the sky, and knew their hab- "f. ^nd one day. exulting in his own pliv- h o»n“l? all the time. think v eagle You make me of an which I saw yesterday, just after its molting ^ season, swinging through the val- n? ho 8ha J h "«\? nd % clin ? around the head u of Mount * Olivet. , O my soul, ‘thv youth is renewed like the eagle’s.' ” X ^The hey fact is tke that people get old too fast, years to run away with dis"ourage"tW^Lme than you have business of'/^ire^Me? be. You ?Ht realize any to 0U to that as the body gets old- VL on toward old to set youn * onlv er ; Coming the molting age and'after vou are in have better season, wings, that vou will take higher flight and in f^ eare Y atmosphere. Our religion & y ^ part as well as the latter part of ray sub- i^ Many is appropriate might turn for the the pulpit. backward and get by changing years physi¬ cal habits. younger The their longer he simpler life one lives the lives. Thomas Parr, of Shrop¬ worked shire, England, was a plain man and on a farm for a livelihood. At 120 years of age he was at his daily toil. He lived under nine kings of England. When 152 years of age he was heard of in Lon¬ don. The king desired to see him, and or¬ dered him to the palace, where he was so richly and his royally health, treated that it de¬ stroyed and he died at 152 years and nine months of age. When Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, made post mor- tern examination of Thomas Parr, he de¬ clared there were no signs of senile decay in the body. The man must have re¬ ^ y ° Uth ’ ^ ^ &nd All occupations and professions have afforded illustrations of rejuvenescence, Hippocrates, 109 the father of medicine, lived years, and among those eminent in the medical profession who became septuage¬ narians and octogenarians and nonagena¬ rians were Darwin, Gall, Boerhaave, Jen- ner laws and of health Ruvsch, that observing they taught themselves the their pa- and literature and science those who lived into the eighties weri Plato and Franklin and Carlyle and Goethe and Buffon and Halley. Sopho- C < You"cannot tdl‘how the number of old a man is from known years he has lived. I have KiT,liSfo?d» people actually boyish in their dig- J hile at twenty, old composed Haydn's Haydns oratoria oratoria, “The Creation,” was at seventy years of aj?e. Hum¬ boldt ” wrote his immortal work, "‘The Cos- mos, at seventy-five. William Cullen Jlcyant, at eighty-two years of age, in my h S fompoa’ed teen years of age. Isocrates did illustrious work at ninety-four, Liontinus Gorgias was busy when death came to him at 107 years of age. Herschel in at stellar eighty years of age was hard at work Numidia, exploration. Masinissa, king of at ninety years of age ^ led a vic- ^ again8t Cartha ' Titian was engaged on his greatest dredth painting when How he died in his one hun- year. often they must hafe ^uTjhe average longevity of those in private life, and with less mental strain and no conspicuous success, is much larger than the average longevity of the re- nowned. There- are hundreds of thou¬ sands of men and women now renewing their youth like the eagle’s, so that the possibility of such a turning back of the years is all around us being demonstrated. Bismarck, long the greatest of German states- men, a while before his decease, paused hia eightieth milestone. When warden. We started for a walk, but it sotto be a run. All those men again and onl'writermer human 1 "Is not life, threescore and ten the bound of accord- ' n 8 to the Bible?” My reply is that Moses ™ Through better understanding advancement of of medi- the’ laws of health and cal science me statistics of longevity have mightily changed since the time of Moses, and the day is coming when a nonagena- Sy ^hirtenS^hehfife the lancet that ‘ofwhole^inera- bled for tions, thing and rarely taken from the every- doe- is now t6 £ s P°<; ket -, mStfeation to o tlfe human race, and thus _ added greatly to the prolongation of life. Electric lights have ^Ihl improved dir^ human which* flSSidW 1 candle* 0 diJeales under other names did their fatal. work, and were considered almost incura- ble n 5 w in a ma -i ority of cases are con ' ’ “vaerisatta. talked which has «vcd million. 0 f }i ves and the greatest scourge of nations, and surgery, which has ad- vanced more than any other science, have done more than can be told for the prolon- gation of human life. ~~ I The X-ray has turned the human body, j it”^ eaSe/m* 1 this^age ^‘renew^ne’s youth than in any other age. and But the body is the smallest , least , x S8TK S2A&JU T? Sg possible all fretfulness out of your life, The doing of that will make you ten years younger. I know many good, Christian neonle who are worm ing themselves out in managing the affairs of the job. universe, They They have undertaken toot big a and fiery are ‘trving ^£ney to have drive all.the too sqng ajpirs of church a team. and state ^h**"***^ on hand, and they tg -ill be divided«p |4ir there mH-b& THr^etitatiglem< S .e S wars such hare Heard rng of. as we never They fear that' Edward VII. will not be as wise a king as his mother was a qn een. They tional are debt. appalled They at fear the accumulated na¬ pieces by of society is going to apprehend reason immoralities. They that America will be over¬ crowded with foreigners. They say the country newspapers is going are getting be so bad that this They to utterly demoralized. are all the time apprehensive of so¬ cial and religious and political calamities, and it is telling on their mental health, depressing stead of renewing their physical their health, and, the in¬ eagle's, they imitating youth like are the eagle who would sit in his nest of sticks lined with grass on the rock, mourning about the woes of the ornithological world, the lone¬ liness of the pelican, the filthiness of the vulture." the croak of the raven, the reck¬ less of the albatross. Would that improve cess'for things? No. that It easrle would which he a would molting pro¬ close, onlv never and and it would get thinner more gloomy and less able to gain food for its young and less able to enjoy a land¬ scape as it appears under a twenty-mile flight on a summer morning under the blue heavens. I do not advise you to be indifferent to these great questions that pertain to church and state and nations, but not to fret about them. Realize that it is not an world, anarchy but that has divine charge of affairs At in this a government. the head of fhfs universe is a King whose eve is omniscience and whose heart is infinite love. His government is not going to be a failure. He cannot he defeated. Better trust Him in the management of this world and of all worlds. All you and I have to do is to accomplish the work that is put in our hands. That is all we have to he responsible for. In a well managed orchestra the players upon stringed and wind instruments do not watch each other. The cornetist does not look to see how the violinist is drawing the bow over the strings, nor does the flute player scrutin¬ ize the drum. They all watch the baton of the leader. And we are all carrying our part, however insignificant it may be, in the great harmony. My text suggests that heaven is an eter¬ nal youth. A cycle of years will not leave any mark upon the immortal nature. Eternity heaven will not work upon the soul i» any change unless it be more' ra¬ diance ana more Wisdom and more rap¬ ture. A rolling on from glory to glory! In anticipation of that some of the hap¬ piest people on earth are aged Christians. The mightiest testimonies have been given by the veterans in the gospel army. While some of the aged have allowed themselves to become morose and cynical and impa¬ tient with youth and pessimistic about the are fearful of being crowded out or their sphere many of the aged have been glad to step aside that others may have a chance and are hopeful about the world, expecting demolition, its and redemption they inspiration instead of its are and comfort and helpfulness to the household man as he comes down the road. His smile, his words, his manner, his whole “‘what ^ion ma ^ e tbe 1vor ‘ < * think better of reli- Christians, a good thing it is, all ye aged that you can soon get rid of dulled ear and sight that requires strong eyeglasses and infirmities which make you land of eternal health, where the most ru- bicund cheek of robust life on earth would be emaciation compared with the SK t°o f SrdKSrtfe, SSUX3 and blamed for what you could not help, and picked % at by a hard world, fSEBriS and then ffit *„f are backbiting eternal, depreciation and slander of heav- and shut unknown, for the in gate the S en was io'w"a.KS against them state- planation of things eighty that puzzled you the twenty interrogation or forty or point abolished years, to and have all sa sin ss^fe; a intw v ;ir. the o i.e;a world, ana sorrow to come permitted and why the bad were to live so long 'i and the good were cut off m the ?o struggle, m he while l rc sity of the infamous » ride % prosperously, princes many afoot and beggars shall a-horseback, been and the last honest question have answered. Gibbon in his history says that Moham- med had a dream in which he thought that, mounted on the horse Borak, he as- cended the seven heavens and approached within two bow shots of the throne and felt a cold that pierced him to the heart when his shoulder was touched by the hand of God. That might do for Moham- med’s heaven, but not for a Christian heaven. No cold hand put upon your shoulder doubt, there, no cold hand hand of welcome, of repulse the or but the warm warm hand of saintly communion, the warm hand of God. I congratulate all Christians who are in the eventide. Good cheer to all of you. Your best davs are yet to come. You are yet to bear the best songs, see the grand¬ est sights, form take the most delightful friendships, jour¬ neys, the most elevating and after 10,000 years of transport you will be no nearer the last rapture than when you heaven were thrilled with the first. In you will have what most sire pleases you. Archbishop Leighton’s > de¬ for heaven was a desire for Christ and what purity and love, and he has found there he wanted. John Foster rejoiced at the^ could thought study of the heaven, secrets because of the there universe he without restraint, and he has been regal¬ ing himself in that search. Soutney would thought of heaven with the as a place where he meet learned and the great—Chaucer peare...-He no'doubt and has Dante and Shakes¬ found tjmt sty' of communion. That great and frood J)r. Dick was fond much of mathematics, of time and be said he would'be thought given - that the study, and in heaven I have to no doubt that since ascension he has made advancement in that science. The “twelve manner of fruits" spoken- of in Revela¬ tion means all kinds of enjoyment in ffgav- en, for twelve manner of fruits includes all the chief fruits that are grown on trees. I suppose there will be as many kinds of enjoyment as there will be in¬ habitants. ________RJ You will have | in heaVen just heaven what will you want. Are vou tired? Then be r f st " 4 r e p -f si? d , pictures*?*There n AA will coiuyg on the new heavens, on the jas- per sea, and the walls imbedded with what gSS?”'ihS & SVnd ^Spig 0 f Q 0 d and the Lamb and the uplifted back thrones. Are you who longing have ascended? to «t Then to your loved ones Mime Then it will it be will reunion. be boii|£. Are Here you a and tnere body? m this world yOU will find some One who now four generation'may house, but most have »people dwelt have iir had the same homes—die of childhood, the several home brance, or from prefcnt pccupancy, can- not equal the heaveniv home m the house of many mansions. No sickness will ever come there, for it is promised No there shall the be no door, more pain.” last look _partmg at. front no be seen again, but home with each other, home, fol NO! | To Be Demanded of the \ ithans By the United States; -. DISCUSSES MATTER Naval Stations, Control of For¬ eign Affairs, Sanitation and Ante-War Debt Are Items. A Washington special sny=: The senate committee on relations with Cuba met Saturday to consider a pr\., posed amendment to the army appia priatiou bill providing for the i sition of Cuban affairs. The j a sition was prepared by the Kepubi . >an members of the committee and is said to be satisfactory to most of them. The proposed amendment recites the so-called Teller amenamen to the Spanish war resolution and then cives the president authority to withdraw troops from Cuba when, in hit jrfig¬ ment, the provisions of the Tel r amendment are realized. The prositions embodied iu the pro¬ posed amendment include the follow¬ ing points: That the United States shall Imvo supervision of all treaties with countries made l>y the republic of Cuba. That Cuba shall not undertake to pay the debt incurred by Spaiu i ib war with Cuba prior to or afte intervention of the United State? That Cuba shall agree either to lease or to sell to the United States such coaling or naval statious as in the opinion of the president of the United States may be necessary to the protec¬ tion of the interests of this country. That the United States shall have sufficient supervision of the laws of c.b. -.la**t.™** this country from epidemics liable to originate there. The idea is that these provisions f shall be included in a treaty to . , bo made with Cuba, but that they need not be a part of the constitution. It i 8 understood that tile draft of the amendment containing tnese provis- ions was submitted to the president and the secretary of war, and that they e *P^ sed themselves as being in fav- or °f their wording, The minority members of the com- tee expressed themselves willing to «-»• *? node,.!..ding u t o„ the., general lines. Indeed, some of the most important suggestions were made b the minority, Senator Bntler. of North Carolina, being one of the fore- most movers in the matter. They m- however, upon many verbal amendment*, thua evincing a determi- nation to aid in giving jorm to me provision as well as suggesting its gen- | tenor - * When the committee adjourned there were still important dinetences to be reconciled, and the members separated u} tb understanding that another -i» e be h.w.. M„nd. y . Members on both sides of the com* m j ttee expressed the hope tjjat an v,a reached but all «<>«»*»*, i»d »»» f ar enough To r'emrtpr—H *nat ,, the result u wonia . von i,i p Lfc e attained. auainea , One prominent point to which the committee is giving special attention, although that point may not be em- unsized v or even mentioned iu the proposed amendment, is is the the relation relation of Cuba to the Isle of Pines. There j g BOI q 0 disposition among the Cubans ld t that island so near their shores, , while there is apparently o^nrAutlv no disposition on the part of the united gt a t e s to release that possession, on s d that the island was ac- quired . as a resu „ cj„ • P< ori ; 1 a h wnr QUESTION OF DOUBLE PAY. Charges Made by Bailey Are to Be In¬ vestigated By a Committee. The house Saturday adopted a reso- lution to investigate the pay of its employees as a result of the condition of affairs ascertained daring the re¬ cent debate on the deficiency bill, and the speaker appointed a committee consisting of Mr. Moody, of Massa¬ chusetts; Mr. Overstreet, of Indiana; Mr. LoDg, of Kansas; Mr. Bailey, of Texas, and Mr. Newlands, of Nevada, to make the investigation. CALLAHAN BOUND OVER. Alleged Cudahy Kidnaper Arraigned and Held Onf Bond of •7,500. The courtroom at Omaha was CglljM crow^ ed 1 liars ay when James the allepr<\ kidnaper of Tr , -aigned^^HH befotfe'jiujge Vi In tnree c< grand larceny, i plea'He!H?HRR|[ prisonmebt, be The hearing was then contfHI until Monday to enable Callahan tii to secure counsel and prepare for trii His bail was fixed at $2,500 on ea count, which he did not furnish. PLANTING PECAN TREES. Atlanta Man Setting Out a Grove Nea ciarkaton ' Ga. I i . -corporate limits of Clark.*., Oa„ .3 running back to Peachtree creek,whit be is having planted in pecan southlF^*™ trees. M RooqM' cacM bas Has a a brother oroiutr in m C vmade Rth a led fortnnojtro hu^Rh ia #0 B mM