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WILL GO AHEAD SAY RUSSIANS . * 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. • 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. 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