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Published Semi-Weekly. VIENNA, - •sa GEORGIA. The Brooklyn Eagle says that within a radius of ten blocks of his office there arc twelve abandoned churches. The population In the same era Is greater than it has been at any time in the his tory of the city. There is a passenger steamer on the Elbe where the warning against speak ing to the man at the wheel is display ed' in four different languages. This is tho English version: “To the helm marlno gentleman, try conversation not" The sale of recent translations in Japan indicates that foreign authors rank as follows in the estimation of tho Japanese: Zola, Doyle, ( Oosse, Lang, Bret Harte, Stevenson, .George Meredith, John Morley, Pate{, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Ian Maclaren, Buskin, Steven Phillips, Tennyson and Mark Twain. Minneapolis Times remarks that medical expert testimony in suits at law has fatten in such disfavor that judges, lawyers and physicians alike are casting about for a way to restore it to respectability. Expert testimony should be candid, impartial and scien tifically true. In practice the reverse la too often the case. The New York police arrested a pro fessional “fake fit thrower” the other day. It was his practice to fall down on tho sidewalk in front of a flno / pri vate residence and pretend to have a fit, whereupon he would usually be carried into'the house, dosed with re storatives and presented with money by the sympathetic proprietor, after re citing a hard luck story. By this means he sometimes made as much as MS or $25 a day. Visitors to Greece are always amazed at tho criminal statistics, particularly at the number of murders. Ordinary crimes—dishonesty, 'and the vices that provajl in other countries—are not general.but murders occur almostdaily. Homicides in the provluce in which Athens is located average annually al most 1 to 1000 of the population. The causes lie mostly in politics. Toe gov ernment has forbidden the carying of concealed weapons, but the law is not enforced. Horrors of Past Few Weeks Make Bartow Man Sad and Meditative. F0EIR ENORMITY CANNOT BE GRASPED Calamities 8eem Now to Increase and Our Hearts Should Go Out In Sympathy to Afflicted Humanity. Tho recent appointment of a com mission to consider the whole question of Russian agriculture and the condl- tlon of the peasantry marks a new de parture in the Internal policy of Hum- sta. The powers accorded to the com mission are of the widest possible, and, In fact, amount to a charge to com plete tho work begun a generation ago with the freeing of the serfs. Thus the entire manner of life with the Russian mujtk will form one of the principal matters of consideration for the com mission, which is empowered to pre sent its proposals for the bettering financially, educationally, economically and In general culture of agricultural labor In all its phases. It is notorious that the confirmed practical joker is the leapt tolerant of jokes at bis own expense. He is never able to see any fun in being duped. This adds much to tho enjoyment ol those who manage to trick him. On one of the big days at the Buffalo Ex position the hotels were forced to make new arrivals double up. A drummer who was an Inveterate practical Joker proposed to have a room and a bed to himself. Ho suggested to his friecd the clerk that should any applicant frr half his bed prove persistent, he should be told that the drummer was just con valescent from smallpox. - The drum mer was aroused from his first deep sleep by a man getting Into his bed. “Hold on there!” he cried; “didn't the clerk tell you I have the smallpox r* “Yes,” replied th newcomer, drawing up the covers, "but that’s all rights I’ve got It myself!” With a yell the drummer leaped from the bed, seized his clothes, dressed in the hall and spent the night In a chair, longing for the morning so he could get himself disinfected. In the meaning he discov- I that the man was a joker hlmselt k The drummer was Infuriated by such treatment. It is utterly impossible for a man to grasp the horronf of Martinique. Ev- erjr individual case has Its heart-rend ing anguish and there are 40,000 of them, and 1,600 more at St Vincent Here are 300 in the coal mines near Knoxville and three thousand mourn ers outside, and every day tells of some new disaster. The world seems to be getting used to calamities and- terrible things. They are now a big part of the battle of life, and If we are not reconciled to it we do not stop a moment to ponder the suffering and crime that Is going on. No, we cannot take it in and the head lines In the daily papers are all that we have time or Inclination to read. Last night my wife and I read the pitiful story of Captain Freeman, of the Roddam, as he told It at tho hospital at St. Lucia while tenderly lying upon pillows, his face and handscharred and blackened, his flesh raw and his eye balls bloody and how one after another of his crew sank in a fiery death until there were seventeen of them dead upon the deck, and this was the only vessel of the sixteen that brought aw.ay a living: soul. Ot, it was horrible and filled our hearts with sorrow and our eyes with tears. But this was only one case and there are thousands who would have had as pitiful a tale to tell if they had lived to tell It. It Is good for us that we cannot know but a small part of the horror^ of Martinique and St. Vin cent and on the seas and rivers—one case Is enough. One case of a mother trying to save her child on a burning boat on the Mississippi river a few weeks ago saddened us all, but the memory of such things soon passes away and wo forget it until another comes. Only last week the papers told of a man, a brute, who got angry with his little boy of sly years and after slapping him to the floor picked him up bodily and raised him above his head and dashed him down and crush ed the life out of his little body and his mother picked him up a corpse, while the life blood spouted from his mouth and nose. The recital made me tick and sad. The little boy, I believe, Is in heaven, but the poor, heart-bro ken mother has to stay and keep guard over the other three. Merciful Father, when will these things cease to be; when will woman learn that it Is bet ter to live and die single than to chain herself to a man whose character tor loving kindness has not Ijeen estab lished In the community. Girls, let me beseech you to take no chances. Be a shop girl, a typewriter, a seamstress, a book agent or anything that is pure and honest rather than the wife of a heartless brute and the mother of his children. Take no chances. The young men ot this generation are a hard lot— not more than two In ten are fit to marry. Count them up in your own community and ask your brother about them- How many does he know who he would be willing for his sister to marry. But I was ruminating about these horrible disasters and the grief that follows in their wake. Death Is not so terrible a thing. Very ofttfn It comes In mercy and is a blessing. A peaceful death to the aged is a triumphant change—the end of trouble and the beginning ot happiness. But it is the time and the manner ot death. Fits Greene Halleck never wrote a more beautiful verse than his apostrophe to death: “Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke And crowded cities wail Its stroke; Come In consumption's ghastly fdrm, The earthquake’s shock, the ocean’s . storm; And thou art terrible—the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know or dream-or fear Of agony are thine.” It looks like some of these awful things are getting close to us. These Windward Islands are on our side of the wor\J, and not so far away. Even now the wind is blowing their ashes on our coasts, and the earth is quak ing under Florida. The explosion-of coal mines at Coal Creek is the first horror ot that kind in our southland, and no pen can picture the scene of those Imprisoned men writing their last loving words to wives and chll- dhen as they gasped for breath—may the Lohd havo mercy upon them and temper the wind to tljo shorn lamb. To all who are in peril and all who are bereaved, we would breathe the poor fisherman's prayer: “Oh Lord, good Lord, I am a broken down poor man—a fool to speak to Thee—I am too old, too old—my lads are drowned —I’ve burled my poor wife—my little lassies died so long ago that Y forgot what they were like. I-know they went to Thee, but I forget*the'lr little faces, though I missed them sore. Mer ciful Lord, please comfort those who have heavy hearts. I cannot pray with finer words; I have no learning— too old, too old; but, good Lord, have pity on them all." It is sad to have to write of sad things, but the wise man said: "It Is better to go to the house of mourning than to the bouse of feasting." It Is good for us all to stop and think and let our hearts open wide in sympathy. Man is to blame for most of his own troubles, and "man's inhumanity to man' makes countless thousands mourn;” but that Is not tse darkest side of the picture. It is man’s in humanity that brings most all of the distress that women and children suf fer. If everybody was good and kind, what a blessed world we would have. May the Lord pity us all is my prayer, and we all die the death of the right eous and our last end be like his.— BUI Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. PAUNCEFOTE NO MORE Ambassador From England and Dean of Diplomatic Coips Dies Dies in Washington City. Lord Pauncefote, the British ambas sador to the United States, died at the embassy at Washington Saturday morning at 6:35 o’clock. The Improvement which had been noted In his condition during the past week received a sudden check about 6 o’clock Friday evening, when it was noticed that he was experiencing dif ficulty in breathing. He rallied some what during the night, but soon after 3 o’clock Saturday morning a distinct weakness of the heart developed and his pulse began to collapse. He died so peacefully that it surprised- even his physician, who feared that the asthnfatlc affection would prove trou blesome when tho end came. At the bedside when the distin guished diplomat passed away were Mrs. Paunccmote, the Hon. Maude Pauncefote, Misses Sibyl and Audrey, Dr, Jung and Mr. Radford, one of the clerks attached to the embassy. AH through' the past winter Lord Pauncefote had been a sufferer from intermittent attacks of asthma and rheumatic gout, but he bravely attend ed his duties so far as he uras able. Immediately upon being notified of the death of Lord Pauncefote, Secre tary Hay dispatched the following ca blegram: ‘ , “Department of State, May 24.—The Marquis of Lansdownc, London: Per mit me to express my deep sympathy and sorrow at the death of Lord Pauncefote. His majesty’s govern ment has lost a most able and faith ful servant and this country a valued friend. JOHN HAY.” The secretary had fully expressed his sentiments In the above cablegram, and all that he cared to say in addition of the deceased peer was: “He was not only a man of very high personal merit, hut he was a good friend of ours.” President Roosevelt drove to the British embassy at 1 o’clock, as soon aa he had'become disengaged from the ceremoniek attending the Roehambeau exercises. He expressed his deep sense ot bereavement at the death of the ambassador, not only in behalf of the government, but also for the peo ple of the country, to whom Lord Pnuncefote had become endeared In many ways. Secretary Hay and the other members ot the cabinet also called at the embassy, leasing their cards and expressing their condo lences. The foreign ambassadors and ministers also left their cards. The late Lord Pauncefote will have a state funeral in Washington that is demtnded Dy all precedents. It will be determined later whether or not a United States war ship wilt carry the r<rains to England. , A large number or messages of Con dolence from all over the world were received at the embassy 8unday, but they were not made public. LATEST FROM FERXIE. Fortj-Mno Bodies Recovered and Eighty are Still Mlsstiff. Two dispatches from Fernle were re ceived at* Victoria, B. C., Sunday night In one A. Dick, inspector, of mines, says: “AH bodies in three mine and high tying positions of No. 3 (49) recovered. Air turned Into west division where other bodies are.” Mr. Armstrong, the government agent days: “Fort/ other bodies re covered; eighty still mlsuing; twenty- A>ur escaped alive; no fire In mine.” DR. CHAPMAN’S SERMON A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED PASTOR-EVANGELIST. Subject: Flute’* Question-Xenons Drawn From HI* Failure to Belie BsWstton— In Bight of the Kingdom of God. Be- laird to Enter It. New York Citt.—The following sermon It one prepared for publication by the Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, America’j best-known evangelist, who is now preaching to over flowing congregation* in this city. It U en titled “Pilate’s Question,” and i* founded on the text, Matt, xxvii, 22: “What (ball I do then with Jesus which i* called Christ? It would dot be possible Ior us either to understand or appreciate this passage of Scripture without studying that which im mediately precedes it, and' likewise that which follows. Next to Jesus Himself the important character on the scene is Pilate, who asked the above question. f One never thinks of him without a shud der, because hd is one of the men who came so very near to entering the kingdom of God, and yet, after all, miserably failed. He came very near faking his place with Joseph of Arimathaea and with Nicode- mus. If, when be knew that Jesus was the Son of God, he had bared his own back to the smiters, or had gone himself to be crucified, there would have been no name in the early history of the church to outshine his. But instead of being in the presence of.God to-day, he is undoubt edly in the lost world. When Jesus passed by the cross and went through the tomb of Joseph of Ari- roathaea, and made His way to the place of ascension, not far from Bethany, and left His wondering disciples, He took with Him into the -skies His hands that had been pierced, His feat, through which the nails had torn their way, His side, thrust through with the spear, and against which the beloved disciple had leaned. In a word; He took with Him His body. But there was, one thing He left; when hang ing on the cross; from His head, His hands. Hu feet and Hia broken heart the blood came trickling down, and not only stained the rocks upon Calvary, but left its mark upon the world as well, and leaving His blood there, the world ia to-day responsible for it. That same blood is upon both the world and men, either for their condemna tion or for redemption. . In a remarkable book which came across the seas some years 'ago, bearing the title of ."Letters From Hell.” and having an in troduction by George MacDonald, the cele brated Scotch preacher, there is a story of Pilate in the loat world stooping down to wash his bands in a running stream. He keeps on, it would seem, almost’ for ages, if time were measured as in this world. Some one touches him and says: "Pilate, what are you doing?” Lifting •**« hands, which become red like crimson as soon as they leave the water, he cries out with n shriek, which eohc:B and re-echoes throughout the world of the lost: "Will they never be clean! Will they never be clean!" Poor Pilate! they never will, for the blood of the Son of God is on' them for condemnation forever. He began to wash his hands when he said to the angry nob: "Take ye Him. and crucify Him, for I find no fault in Him." Ho is still washing his> hands to-day, but in vain. There are special ways of treating texts of Scripture, one of the easiest of which is to take certain words in the verse and em phasize them, and make each word define the outline of the sermon. My text can be treated in this way, and the first word tj emphasize would be, “WHAT.” Reading the text with this in mind we find it saying: “What shall I do then with Jesus?” The inference is we must do something. Wc can not be indifferent. The man who says that ho will not accept Christ, neither will he reject Him, has rejected Him in the very position he takes. There is no middle ground in this matter.- We are either for Christ or against Him. and we must decide which position it shall he. The next words to emphasize would he "SHALL I DO." The particular part of the expression that is emphatic u tho personal pronoun Religion is a very personal matter, and judgment will be, too. There is no one whose eyes shall light upon this printed word but who shall one. day be called to an account for his rejection of the Son of God if he fails to acknowledge Him before men. Rich and poor, high and low, wise and ignorant, for all comes the question, “What shall I do?" Tbe next emphatic word would be “THEN." It might be nsed in two ways. Wc have made a choice between two things, and choosing one then it naturally follows that we must do something with the other, It is easy to understand that choozing one implies the rejection of tbs other. But it might also be taken as a word describing some future time, and I would like to have it mean, "What shall I do in the day oi judgment with Jesus Christ?" When the moon shall he turned into blood and the sun shall be black as the sackcloth of hair, when the “elements shall melt with the fervent heat”—“What shall I do then?” In tbe sixth chapter of Revelation wc read that in tfcc last day men shall cry out aud say to the rocks and bills: “Fall on us, .aud hide us from the face of Him that sit teth upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of Hit wrath is. come, and who shall be able to stand?" But in the closing part of Reve lation we are told, that there will be no rocks and no hills to fall upon the lost and shut out the vision of the face of the Son of God, and they must see Him whethei they will or not, Him whom they have re jected, Him from whom they have deliber ately turned away. _The next emphatic word ia ths name Jesus. “What shall I do then WITH JESUS!" That was His earthly name, and de scribed His earthly life. “Thou sXalt cal HU name Jesus, for He shall save HU peo ple from their sins,” and HU earthly life came to its climax in Hu sacrificial death upon the cron. To pay the penalty of cin HU life waa given up, and if we fail to ac cept Him as a personal Saviour, we delib erately take our atand with those wbc have nailed Him to the cron. When we atand befere God we shall be railed to ae account fer this chiefett of all fins. Foi to reject the Son of God U to crucily Him The . last word to emnhasize would be HU. anointed name, which ia ‘'CHRIST n As Christ Ho stands at ths right hauv ol Cod, oar Mediator and Advocate, loi fear that tome one should ny, "If I should becom-i a Christian, I could not hold out/' Cod teems to sweep away every false {mo ment and false hope whe i He tells ut that liter we have accepted Him aa Jesus, He be-'cmti Christ for tu. and' takes His stand weakness, ard ever bringing to (Joe. s re- membranes His atoning death, tha: put many siu3 may be warned uway and for gotten. ... But another cutline tas also been sug gested as being a proper one to grow put of IbU text. The Rev. R. A. Torrey has made the suggestion that there arc certain things that naturally depend upon wbzt we do with Jccut. Of these I make brie’ mention. . . „ „ , I. Our acceptance before GoJ cepcnui upon what we do with Jesus. "He that believeth on Him is not condemned, but he that believeth, not is condemned al ready, because fcc hath no! believed in the name of tho only-begotten Eon ef God." ^ll? n we* accept Jesus, God accepts us. it we reject Jesus, God rejects us. these are short sentences, but each one is worth a lifetime of study. The vilest sinner in the world accepting Christ U immediately ac cepted of God, ... The most upright man re jecting Christ U instantly rejected of God. The moment we accept we are justified from all things from whifch we could nol be justified by the law of Moses; 'and jus tification is more than pardon, for in par don there may still be the memory of sin, but when God justifies He “remembers against us our transgressions no more for ever." II. Our becoming sons of God depends upon what we do with Jesus. “But a* many as received Him, to them gave He : -inem that believe on His name.” John i: 12. There is a very insidious kind of heresy making its way through the world to-day, which declares there is such a thing as the universal fatherhood of God and the uni versal brotherhood of man; that God is the father of all His creatures, and that every man is my brother. This is certainly con trary to the Scriptures. We become sons of God, not by the lives we live, nor by doing good, nor by reading the Bible, nor by praying without ceasing, but wc become ClOQ 8 " nns Vixr vAnatiarfitinn Tliis is f lip ’a sons bv regeneration. This is the work of the Holy Ghrfgt, and is wrought in us the very moment v/e by faith accept -Tesus Christ as a Saviour. It is not possi ble for us in any other way to come into this world than to be born into it; it is not possible for us ever to enter the king! dom of God except by the new birth. This constitutes us children of God. III. Our having peace -depends upon what we do with Jesus Christ. “There fore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans v: 1. When we remember that peace is the op posite of confusion, of strife, of unrest, we are able to see how great is the blessing which comes to us by the acceptance of- God’s Son. We do not think of peace as •imply an emotion. It is not an experience, but it is that which comes to us with the presence of Christ. He is our peace, and whatever may be a man’s position in the world, if he has rejected Christ, or (in other words) if he has failed to accept Him, he must go forever throughout the world crying, "peace, peace,” but for him there can be no peace. ' IV. Qur having joy depends upon wtat we do with Christ. "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, vet believing, ye rejoice- with joy unspeakable and full of glory.” I Peter i: 8. We also remember the words of Jesus when He said: "These words have i I spoken unto you that My joy might re main in you, and that your joy might be full.” Joy is better thaii happiness. People of the world may have happiness, but only Cod’s children possess joy. Happiness is that which happens to come to us, and those who lay hold upon it are dependent upon their circumstances and surroundings. Joy has nothing to do with circumstance or surroundings, but comes to us because of our faith' in Him who ever lives to pour out upon His people His own presence and blessing. V. Our having eternal life depends unon what we do with Jesus. "He that believ- eth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not seo li'e; but the wrath of God abideth on him." John ill: 38. By nature we have the flesh with us. and we shall always have it with us until our redemption bodies are bestowed upon us. Ii is natural therefore that' there should be n constant warring between the life of God which comes in regeneration and the old nature which is at enmity with God and always must be, but it is a great joy to know' that wo may every one of us so sur render oursejves to Him who is our life, that tho old nature shall be put down ana IlPifl in tllhl'p/ifinn nrwi tvn nnvanliroa “Vi* held 4n subjection, and we ourselves __ more than conquerors.” Finally, let me say that there are three sentences which ought to be written plain ly before every one who is to make this de cision. or who fails to make it. First. We must either accept Him. or re ject Him. Second. We must either let Him come into our. hearts, or we must shut the door and keep Him out. Third. We must either confess Him or deny Him. "Whosoever shall confess Mb before men, him will I confess before My Father which is in heaven; but whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I deny hefore Mv Father which Is in heaven.*’ Matt, x: 32, 33. , There is no middle gronnd. God pity n* if to-day we turn away from Him, for IT MAY BE THE LAST TIME! SPORTING BREVITIES. AH of Cornell's crew are practicing on the lake at Ithaca. Pennsylvania defeated Columbia In their annual dual track meet. A. H. Fenn established n new record of 71 for the New Havcp Golf Club links. The annual cruise of the New York Yacht Club will begin on Monday, August 4. Lakewood I. team defeated, the Coun try Club of Westchester at polo by a score of 8% goals to 4. The Mar8ellle8-Paris bicycle race was won by Lucien Lesna, who covered tbe entire distance In 38 hours and 45 minutes. Kid Carler clearly bested Kid Mc Coy In the six-round wind-up at Phila delphia. There was not the slightest chance for two opinions. Thousands of people have been play- ing plug-pong during the winter months who have become so fond of the game that they will naturally turn to lawn tennis when the sun begins to boll. Word has been received that J. Hop kins Smith, of Portland, Me., (Har vard, *02), Is having twenty-one-footers built to race for the German Emper or’s cup at Kiel, June 2R Sibhlck, of . Cqvrea, Is building one. 1 ; “ '■ . 5 •’ 1.-.* ; Ji-' H