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WILL GO AHEAD
SAY RUSSIANS
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Czar’s Attitude Toward
China Causes Anxiety.
GERMANY IS NOT LENIENT
Secret Understanding Is Supposed to
Exist Between These Two Which
Bodes No Good to Others.
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A Washington special says: There
is great anxiety in official circles over
the attitude of Russia und Germany in
China. The announcement that the
general commanding the Russian
troops has said he proposes to go
ahead with his operations regardless of
what the other powers do, because his
government has declared war against
China, is considered by the president
and his advisers as the gravest kind of
n complication, opening up, as it does,
nil sorts of possibilities of continued
trouble.
Germany’s attitude is also being
viewed with alarm. While there has
been no statement from Germany like
that of the Russian general, it is re
garded as significant that tlie German
government declines to accept Li
Hung Chang as un authorized envoy
of China and that military prepara
tions are being rapidly rushed for
ward by the Germans. In diplomatic
circles there is a feeling that the
kaiser and the czur have a little un
derstanding between themselves which
bodes more or less trouble to the rest
of Europe, and which is likely to in
volve this country so long us we are on
the scene with our troops.
According to one member of the di
plomatic corps the opinion prevails
that Russia and Germany consider this
an excellent opportunity to force Eng
land to show her hand and incidentally
to bring about a condition which will
inure to their benefit in more ways
than one. __
The pMjArility of these complica
tions wasjMßchief theme discussed at
Friday'sTnwding of the cabinet und
the understanding is that it was de
termined by that meeting that this
government should take immediate
steps looking to a moro definite ascer
tainment of the views and intentions
of the European powers, and prepara
tions to this und have already boon
taken.
A decidedly unpleasant piece of
new i w hich e inspired to add to the
pessimistic view o£ the situation held
i>V soma officials was tho report from
Consul Johnson of .serious outbreaks
,at Amoy. ■This is in the southern
part of China, much farther south
than ’ Shanghai, and is a point where
there are greater American interests
than thoro are in any other part of
(Tile news of this outbreak was very
much of a surprise to the officials, who
have not thought of the possibility of
trouble in that quarter. An American
vessul aud American marines are to go
there at once for the protection of
American interests.
Russia now has Manchuria at her
mercy. The St. Petersburg corres
pondent of The Mail states that after
Zizikar aud Moukden have been
stormed the subjugation of the pro
vince will be complete.
THE ' ONLY” FITZ.
Sailor Sharkey Knocked Silly In Less
Than Two Rounds.
Whipped into insensibility in less
than two rouuds is the story in brief
of Tom Sharkey’s meeting with Bob
Fitzsimmons at the Couey Islaud
Sporting Club Friday night. Fitz
t minions was the victor, Sharkey the
loser. Fitzsimmons said all along that
when an opportunity presented itself
he would prove conclusively that he
was Sharkey's superior aud settle ac
counts for the injustice done him wheu
he mot Sharkey in California four years
ago.
Sharkey was equally confident that
he would prove to be Fitzsimmons’
master iu the riug, but the result of
the battle aud the brevity of it proved
that Fitzsimmons is still a great fighter
aud able to beat the beet of the heavy
weights.
MORE CENSUS FIUURES.
Department Makes Public the Popu
lation of Many Municipalities.
The population of the following
cities was made public by the census
bureau at Washington Saturday:
Pittsburg, Pa., 321,01(1 apainst 288,-
617 iu 1890; increase of 89,999.
Newark, N. J., 210.070 against 181,-
830 in 1890, an increase of 01,940.
Kansas City. Mo., 103,752 against
132,710 in 1890. an increase of 31,030.
Kansas City, Kan., 51,418 against
38,310 iu 1893, a:i increase of 13,102.
Allegheny City, Pa., 129,896, against
105,287 in 1890, an iuerease of 24,009.
SEEKING ANNEXATION.
Pensacola business League Wants
Western Florida Joined to Alabama.
At a largely atieuded meeting of the
young mea’s busiuess league of Pen
sacola resolutions were offered and
adopted uaauimously favoring the an
nexation of western Florida to
Alabama.
The league is one of the ieadiug
commercial organizations of the city
aud its action regarding the annexation
will be sure to meet with much im
portance.
BILL ARP’S LETTER
Answers Various Questions Fired
at Him By School Girls.
0
RE IN TURN GIVES SOME PUZZLES
HpNt Part of Parental Kxlutenco I to
Pleaite tlie Children, l>eclarea
Bartow Philosopher.
Two school girls down in Alabama
write to know why it is that geese will ,
not eat corn when it is strewn around
the circumference of a circle. They
say that their presiding elder couldent
tell, and advised them to ask me. I
supposed it was a conundrum, or that
there was catch in the question
—a catch like the one, Why will a
guinea pig’s eyes fall out if you hold
it up by the tail? As the guinea pig
has no tail, of course, his eyes are in
no danger. But a lady friend who
raises geese assures me that she has
often seen them tempted with corn or
other grain strewn thickly around a
circle, and they will not venture near
it; but if scattered, they will, after
careful inspection, approach aud eat.
What the circle has to do with it is
past my ken, though we do know that
geese march in straight lines and the
wild geese fly iu straight angles.
A goose is a very suspicious fowl,
aud is always on the lookout for dan
ger. A goose hasn't much sense. In
fact, a goose is a goose; but their de
votion to each other when mated is
beautiful. How faithfully the gan
der will stand by his mate
while she sits on her nest. She plucks
the down from his breast and covers
her eggs. How gallantly ho escorts
her to the grass and escorts her back
when sh“ leuves them for food. How
tenderly they care for the brood when
it comes, and never leave them until
fc/atliered and grown. There are no
divorces nor grass widows in the An
serian family—whut a pity we are not
all geese.
But, speaking of conundrums re
minds me of how a lady caught me
yesterday when she asked me how the
water got into tho watermelon, and as
I proceeded to expound tho chemical
processes that all fruits and vegetables
had to go through, she stopped me
and said: “Oli, major, the water gets
into the watermelon because it is
planted in the spring.” I got even
with her, though, by asking ber wby
was an elephant like a lady’s belt.
When she gave it up, I said, “Because
there is a ‘b’ iu ‘both,” “Wby,” she
said, “there is no ‘b’ iu ‘elephant.’ ”
“There is a ‘b’ in ‘both,’” said I.
“ ‘B-o-t-h’—you can’t spell ‘both’
without a ‘b.’” It takes a little time
to see that. And there is another
conundrum that was classic when I
was young—
“ Charge, Chester,charge-On, Stanley,on!
Were the last words of Marmion.
Had I hut been iu Stanley's plaeo
Tears would have moistened Chester's face.”
The smell of an onion would have
brought a tear or two, 1 reckon. Now,
let those sweet school girls strain their
minds over that, and then let them
search tho scriptures and tell me this.
There is reference made in the Old
and New Testaments to a person who
died as no other person ever died;
whose body never saw corruption;
whose name is never spoken, aud the
material of whose shroud is found in
every household. There is no catch
iu that—it is a fact. Ask the presiding
elder.
I am indulging iu these thoughts to
please tho children, for that is the big
gest aud best part of parental life, aud
is what the world is working for.
Sometimes I cannot help ruminating
upon what pleased me when I was
young and my mind was expanding
into knowledge day by day. How I
did strain over the problem of the fox
aud the goose and the bag of corn.
And there was the elephant puzzle
where an old man died leaving eighteen
elephants to his three sous—one to
have half of them, another one-third
of them and the other one-ninth. But
before the division one elephant died,
and seventeen wouldn’t divide even at
all. So they consulted a wise old
neighbor who had but one elephant.
Ho generously drove his one into the
herd of seventeen and tuen divided
them, giving to one of the boys nine,
to another six and to the other two.
This took but seventeen, and so he
drove Lis own elephant back home
again. How is that? Wasn’t ne a
smart old fellow to satisfy the boys
aud save his elephant?
But by and by these school children
advance into tlieir teens and begin to
choose sweethearts, aud the boys brush
their hair more carefully aud the girls
I cast glances that are shy and sly and
read poetry aud mark the loving pas
sages, and flowers grow lovelier and
the birds sing sweeter and the world
grows brighter, and the days of love’s
young dream have come. Delightful
days, delicious memories—even an old
man loves to revel in them. No won
der the poets wrote so tenderly of love
and the novelists made it the chief
subject of their story. I was rumina
ting the other day about compiling
aud publishing a book —a little book
that could be sold for loss than a dol
lar, a book of geius—poetic gems by
the best authors, and urging every
parent to buy it for the children, for
it would help to mold aud refine their
characters and give them pleasure aud
comfort all their lives.
My good father eueonraged me to
commit to memory some of the sweet
est poems that were ever written. I
can repeat “The Hermit" now, and
“ Gray's Elegy” and “Genevieve”
and “Byron’s Address to the Ocean”
and “HohenlindeD," and sneb as these
were an inspiration to me as I grew to
manhood. If I v teaching school
I would have the : ys and girls to re
cite them. What a book of gems
conld be made of selections from the
old authors, such poeiu3 as have not
been written in fifty years and could
not lie written now. What poet could
approach such beauty of language and
sentiment as that verse from Gray—
“ Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The (lark unfathomed caves of ocean
bear;
Full many a flower Is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert
air.”
or those two verses from Goldsmith
beginning
“And what is friendship but a name,
A charm that lulls to sleep,”
or his sad warning to the weaker sex —
“When lovely woman stoops to folly
And learns too late that men betray,
What art can soothe her melancholy,
What charm can drive her grief away,
The only art her grief can smother
And stifle every burning sigh
And bring repentance to her lover
And wring his bosom —is to die.”
Then there is Tom Hood’s “Song of
the Shirt” that awakened all London,
and his other sweet, sad poem, “I
Remember, I Remember the House
Where I Was Born.” I would include
those heroic poems, “The Burial of
Sir John Moore,” by Wolf, and
“Marco Bozaris,” by Halleck. Never
was a more sweetly sad and tearful
verse written on death than that of
Halleck, beginning,
“Come to the bridal chamber death,
Come to the mother when she feels
For the first time her first-born’s breath.”
And there is Mrs. Heman’s apostrophe
to death.
“Leaves have their time to fall.”
And Longfellow’s “Psalm of Life,”
and Mrs. Smith’s exquisite verses, “If
t Should Die Tonight,” and Tom
Moore’s, “This World Is All aFleetiug
Show,” and Mrs. Barbald’s uuequaled
lines on “Life.”
“Say not good night, but in some brighter
clime
Bid me good morning.”
Horace Smith’s “Ode to the Flowers,”
and his “Address to the Mummy,” of
course, should go in, and tho “Fisher
man’s Prayer,” by Jean Ingelow—bless
her sweet memory, and “The Cotter’s
Saturday Night,” by Burns, and“Abou
Ren Adhem,” by Leigh Hunt, and
that verse by Langhorne that Walter
Scott wept over—that weeping mother
hunting over a battlefield for her hus
band slain—
“ Bent o’er her babe—her eyes dissolved in
dew,
Tiie big drops mingling with the milk he
drew
Gave the sad presage of his future years
The child of misery baptized in tears.”
There was a painting of that sad pic
ture iu an artist’s studio, and when
Sir Walter looked upon it and read
the lines underneath he was overcome
aud wept like a child. Who does not
love to weep sometimes over such
pictures or such poems? My dear
mother used to sing to me “The Exile
of Erin,” by Campbell, and it did me
good to cry—tears are the embalmers
of pity.
Of courso I w'ould not omit some
beautiful gems from Coleridge and
Wordsworth, Montgomery and New
ton, Cowper and Gray anil many oth
ers, hut I would like to make up a
book that would adorn the fireside of
every good family. There is one
poem I have not mentioned, for I do
not know who wrote it, nor do I re
member but a few lines. Its title is,
“Where Shall the Soul Find Rest?”
aud the verse I recall is:
“And thou serenest moon that with such
holy face
Looks down upon the earth asleep in night’s
embrace.
Dost thou pot know some spot where weary
man may rest,
Aud free from care and pain be ever blest?
Behind a oloud the moon withdrew in woe,
And in a sweet, sud voice she answered,
•No.’
*******
Faith, hope and love—best boons to mortals
given,
Plumed their bright wings and answered,
‘Yes —in heaven.’ ”
I would be pleased if some one
would send me all of that poem and
tell mo who wrote it. —Bum Arp in
Atlanta Constitution.
WRECKED BY CAVE-IN
Big Buildings Swallowed Up By Col*
lapse of Earth Foundations.
The large crushing mill at Lawrence,
111., was swallowed as if by magic
Tuesday night by au immense cave-in.
It was among the largest mills in the
district.
The cave-in occnrred without a mo
ment’s warning, forming a perfect
circle. It had been considered dan
gerous for some days, and the force of
men were out at the time.
Another cave-in and the largest in
the history of the mining district oc
curred Wednesday afternoon on the
Ohio ground, taking in purt of the
Nightingale plant, including derrick,
tramway and tanks.
OLD SLAVES TO MEET.
Will Try to Counsel and Uplift the
Younger Members of the Race.
A call has been issued for a conven
tion of ante-bellum negroes to meet
iu Macon, Ga., cu September 25th for
the purpose an association
actiqi^
CHAOTIC IN PEKIN
SAYS MR. CONGER
Oreat Fire Reported as Raging In the
Confines of the Imperial City.
1 ALLIES AWAITING ORDERS
General Chaffee Declines to Pun
ish Chinese Farther.
Advices of Thursday from London
state that fires, fighting and dissen
sion are apparently following in the
wake of the relief of Pekin. The Lon
don Daily Mail publishes dispatches
from the Chinese capital, dated as late
as August 17th, declaring that a great
fire was then raging in the imperial
city. The Russian commander had
declined to accept the decision of the
other generals, not to violate the im
perial precincts and street fighting
was going on.
General Chaffee, so it is asserted,
maintained that the Chinese had been
j adequately punished already and that
| it would be unwise to take the impe
• rial palace. This explains the with
j drawal of the Americans after breaking
three gates, as cabled by the special
correspondent of the Associated Press.
The Russian general, however, main
tained that his government, had de
clared war against China, and that
therefore there were no reasons to pre
vent him carrying hostilities into the
sacred precincts.
Jud'ging from various, and in many
cases contradictory, dispatches that
reached Europe Thursday morning
from Pekin, the commanders eventu
ally adopted a middle course, for a
Reutei telegram asserts that sentries
were placed to prevent looting. Hence
it is presumed that the imperial build
! ings, although captured, will not be
destroyed.
All the dispatches point to the fact
] that, when the latest message received
| in Loudon left Pekin, the command
j ers were somewhat at sea regarding
tbair future action, all awaiting in
structions from governments.
“chaotic,” says conger.
The following was received Thurs
day at the state department from Min
ister Conger at Pekin:
Pekin, Aug. 19.— T0 the Secretary
of State, Washington: The entire city
i with the exception of the imperial
! palace is occupied by Japanese, Rus
j sians, British, Americans aud French.
| It is peing apportioned into districts
for police supervision. The Chinese
army fled. The imperial family and
the court have gone westward, prob
ably to Sian Fu, in the province of
Shen Si. No representatives of the
Chinese government are in sight in
Pekin, and the conditions are chaotic.
The palace is expected to be taken
immediately. Many missionaries h#ve
started for home, while others remain
1 in charge of the Christian refugees,
numbering about 1,000. Conger.
A SUFFICIENCY OF TROOPS.
Soldiers Bound For China Will Be
Diverted to Manila.
The important development in the
Chinese situation at Washington,
Thursday, was the decision of the
government not to send any more
troops to China. All the troops now
at sea, amounting to about 4,000, to
gether with those under orders for
service iu the far east which have not
sailed, amounting to about 3,000 more,
will be sent to Manila.
These troops will sail on the same
route, and upon touching at Nagasaki
will go on to Manila unless there are
developments in (China, not now ex
pected, which ’would make their pres
ence in that country necessary. Sec
retary Root sAid that no more troops
were being se®t to China because they
were not needed. With the arrival at
Taku of the Hancock and the troops
she carried. General Chaffee will have
5,000 available men, which is thought
to be sufficient for all present put
poses. !
Moon Is Renominated.
The Democrats of the Third Ten
nessee congressional district met in
| Chattanooga' Thursday, and unani
mously renominated Hon. John A.
Moon for congress. After making the
nomination, >the convention adjourned
until evening, when it participated in
a Bryan and Stevenson ratification
meeting at the Auditorium.
AMENDHENT MAJORITY.
North Carolina Canvassing Board
Places Figures at 53,933.
The North Carolina state board of
canvassers met in Raleigh Thursday
' and canvassed tbfc vote cast August 2d
on the constitutional amendment dis
franchising illiterate negroes. The
vote was found! to have been for
amendment, 182,217; against amend
ment, 128,285; majority for arnead
-1 meut, 53,932. 1
COAL NOT ADVANCED.
Operators In Temiessee Take Import
ant Action at Knoxville Meeting.
The leading operators of east Ten
nessee held a nieeting in Knoxville
Friday afternoon!. It was decided that
no increase iu ttye price of coal at the
mines will be -made. The operators
declined to givj£ oat any positive state
, meat as to action was taken on
. the miners’ wage scale section.
Deplore Akron Riot.
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