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ZOO CITY burned out gBS& eSS Section in Smoul b Ashes. dering Kuins and s reaches millions bdB H ° St De - in History oi Mississippi. "fctttl Uw Declared. City. thp the wealthiest wtwu town in z oo uteissipP delta, i/voatpwi O' 4". nMles * - i ot JacKbuu, T<wd'«on the capital, was ?, hv the Are fiend. Wednesday y. ffeinesuaj night, and as a result , o ,, „,’ e business house in the ' ® Si left standing ,. Oyer i’!wo hun is beildioie were wrecked by the I is estimated be ies and the loss ea MW.OW aal $2,500,000. Th, ? figure will probably cover the , 1 destruction. te fire was beyond all comparison most disastrous that hasi ever oc ed in the history of Mississippi. tfirecB is of people are homeless, seek shelter Wherever offered and ap have been &ent out for food and s visionsi Many are destitute, every eery store and provision house , n jelled up by the flames. ' ie fire started , in the tha residence Eluse, wico of Main * and Mound > origin is unknown, the i? find- first discovered discovered in in the me parlor parior the occu pants say that .here been a fire in the rcom for te. tom building to building the dovzn the west side of Lt [ to Jefferson, thence to the and within half an hour riness structure on the ehad been destroyed, tern Jefferson the fire burned river and then started toping everything in its path henia. a lumber yard. stopping ystono lumber yard, after :a $75,000 lumber stock. teaiizin lo cr ;:hat the fire was -n.T 1 cf the local fire yo: Holmes sent out appeal® . Mid the Jackson fire Lied by Mayor Hemingway, and Kenwood fire department, headed htTiior \ardaman, htirnea to tli joe ii on special trains. The special made a record n. covering the distance of 4o priy minutes. Aa hour after the arrival of lee, it seemed that the fire ww Bt under control, but shortly on it broke out afresh at the C a st Club, destroying that Ting thence to the Magnolia b destroying the wholesale USDs s of the Goyer company, riing a $200,000 stock of goods. Every white church in town, ethodlst. Baptist, Episcopalian, Iterian and Ca'tbolic, were burned. Both telegraph offices, the nd telephone exchange and the o and Mississippi valley Spot. iThe four banking institutions, p p. Club, the express offices, were swept away. The only buildings of petty exposed which escaped l e court house and the Fannie m memorial library, and N queer prank of fate these pirned. all sides. although surrounded by p Under Martial Law. ■Bhe town is under martial law ■ T of Mayor Holmes. The 1)11 of the business district is Ke. Tweniy- ght blocks were ean by the flaimes and only brick walls and te emberri mark the spot where ® e buildings once stood. Of the p number toradred of buildings destroyed .° and fifty were residences many of old i’-'i deter* and occupied by some ? 'tealthiest citizens of the nilRTEf m MINERS HAVE CLOSE CALL [ fre Caught in Burnmg Pit and Fir Hirough Narrow Air Shaft. e took e out Wednesday ffline j s0 - 5, at Wylam, Aka., t-^e Tennessee Coal and “•teny. Thirteen, miners were ■' the flames from the main anc e a nd for a time all hope Tae 0R '? means of escape i‘ t5 ^b ^ an air shaft 360 feot - 'itevn to is shaft a rope was and to. e men brought out one i. I DEMOCRATS | OF ALABAMA Name Delegates to St, Louis, Cho se j Electors and Adopt Piatform-Par ker Sentiment Prevails. j ; ^* e Alabama democratic state eon j ' enlioQ wa -s held in Montgomery on W lednestiay, and dispatched Its 'AOTjt - • in a few hours. While no instructions were given, the resolutions ! adopted re j cited that ’-.t the present time Judge j Alton B. Parker is the most available and acceptable candidate “ ° tor ul the , lam lnaitnon . . for , the presidency, * . j and that the sentiment of the convention is j 1 for his nomination The unite uuiLe nuv rul * was was • put . force, 1 in and an overwhelming majority of the delegates elected fa j ton of „ Parker. _ , ! Edward L. Russell, ; general coun | Bel for the Mobile and Ohio railroad; i I , , tt o tv D. nr MaLory, i, chairman , . . | of the skate democratic committee; ' j William Richardson, congressman ° Ine ,, eighth , . district, x and Rufus 2 j Rhodes, ^ edior of m. The Birmingham News, were elected delegates J at large , the Q St. , T Louis . .______ convention. Richmond , ^ , | i Pearson Hobson, of Greensboro and William H. Samford. ot Troy. — j nominated for democratic electors at j large. Colonel Henry B. Gray, of Rirming , ham, was temporary chairman of the convention, and Carson S. Whitson, of Talladegia, was permanent chairman. Senato-rsi Morgan and Pettus were present and occupied seats on the platform. Each delivered a short ad i dress. Senator Pettits declared that it ! was the time for work, and not speech j i making. conservative Senator spirit Morgan now spoke prevalent of the in the democratic party, and J predicted that Vlth he nomma jon „ a moT mai1 , whom the party could unite a sweeping victory ‘ would be won in No vember. l Richmond Pearson Hobson, who for ; th e q rs t time made his appearance in a state convention, was wildly cheer ed by the delegates. The salient features of the platform which was adopted unanimously fol low : We emphatically protest against the methods of the present chief ex ecutive of the United States in defy ! ; mg the laws of the land, in setting up his discretion in opposition to ex plicit provisions of the national stat j u fi@ s an( j arrogating to himself leg ! isfiative functions. We condemn im perialism in. oitliGr tno ©XGCU'tiivo ,. or judicial departments of the govern Iment, and especially condemn the grant usurpation of power to th } S country has been treated in recent j years, and ihe coruption and extrava ^ of the present national repuo j ij, can administration. j “ Whil e this convention does not in , g ^ ruc it the delegation from to the coming national convention, i J candidates for whom its to the shall , ,, . be cast at su ccrmvonHn-i > * ’ the delegation . i prefers to leave . to cast its vote there for a unit, as ' ma jarity thereof may then decide j | a jj tIie Rights before situation them, it yet is considering the as j before uS . his do hereby eminent declare fitness that for ; 0 gnizing ; p { fi a , ce an d hi s exalted character as j man _ w e believe that Judge j p >r00 k 3 Parker, of New York, is j most available party for the | an( ^ the sentiment of of this state is • r , i I democracy | to his nomination. “The vote of the Alabama to the St. Louis convention shall cast as a unit, as may be decided by majority thereof, on all questions sub mitted to the convent ion.” OLD COAT CONTAINED FORTUNE. A Cast Off Garment Bought at Aucton Worth $50,000. Five $10,000 treasury note:, been found 'n an old moth-eaten pm •chased by Elmer Bckerson, of gc-ta, N. J., at an auction sale of claimed baggrige in a railroad &, t > on . Neither the trunk nor the coat contained tore any marks of cation. Eckerson was about to the garment away, when he the treasure ea arefully wrapped in silk. The lucky buyer is 63 years | a n( j will at once take a vacation . j Europe. JAPS RESUME MARCH TO MUKDEN. Their Recent Retreat Was Only a Move to Bluff Russians. According to the . latest . , . mf i < obtainable, the Japanese have their forw mrd movement toward den. Several columns are though bulk of the invading Uie is still near Feng-Wan g-Cheng. There are persistent reports of bloody battle having taken place tween llong the Japanese army the railroad from Pulantton toe Russians, near Kta-Cboi* peninsula, resulting in the defeat toe Japanese with great loss. A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELCGUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED. “LIFE’S ASSETS. »» The Kev. I>r. Arthur H. floodenon^li Talks Instructively on the Infinite Possibilities That Are !a Mali—U hat We Seed to Know. BntbTOL. Coxn.—T he Rev. Dr. Arthur IT. Gc • • > denough preached Sunday morning on "Life's Assets.’’ The text was from 1 Corinthians iii:21, 22. 23: For all things are J' ours ; whether Paul, or Apolios, or ^f- phas ’ or th f "’ or ‘f" or ’ ife - or deat ,f- ™ things present, or things to come; ail are yours, and ye are Christ’s and Christ is Clod’s.’’ Dr. Goodenough said: ^ an as Pires. His ey.e is on the . VI Man was made to wade erect. His impu.se is to climb. This fact indicates his des The earth beneath us and the world about us contribute to our flight, but they offer us no home. The world, so near to us and so essential to our present life, has 1*.® «n»tations and fetters. Man is mipa | tient of limitations; ne aspires to tne m tinite and the infinite is always above us. j The ^2*?, and nobler determined man’s nature is he the ascend, more rest- No 1 to ! philosophy oi life is true that fails to rec- de ognize this instinct of the soul. Man j sires more room, more room is above, and j above is,, somethin- that attracts and i draws. That lact is man s salvation. j It is generally believed that man had his j origin in God. God is the root from | 5^2 S3 j an d his goal. How noble is man. What i infinite possibilities are in hin. Man is not a waif, aimlessly wandering through a 1 j trackless wilderness, nor an orphan minus voice, a parent’s gui ling hand and tender i Man’s origin and destiny arc one. It is God. he instinctively If your five-year-old "My father.” boy is in If he need is ! cries, naturally cries, “My • in trouble he as | mother.” Instantly the hand. complement Father of and his j needy mother nature is at that he needs. We are to him all j are only larger children, Is with there larger help and more imperative needs. any f 0 f 0 ^ ? e JS do? y ^ZlnutZlp thirsty us. What shall we As the ox turns to the babbling brook, we "My turn Father-God, our eyes to the heavens and sav, j help me.” And quicker than thought the help comes. Here we have the philosophy of happiness and the secret of success. As ! | witnesses to this fact we call to the stand Augustine. Bernard, John Howe, Isaac j Watts and Charles Wesley. aspires The upward God, look wins. The man who to j and holiness, and immortality is the one to whom this text is spoken. “All things | are yours; for ye are Christ’s and Christ j is God’s. thinking i The thing that wise men are I about is life. Bread and acres and dollars are only incidental. God made the acres. God’s sunshine and showers grew the grain from which the bread is made. God fur nished the material to make the dollar. Therefore, acres and bread and dollars are : with good producing because God them, had These something valuable to ^do | are contributions to life, some ox our life j values. Life itself is worth more than all of them put togeth The man who cul tivates your farm is worth more than the farm. The man who builds your home is i worth more thr.n the house. We v\re not paupers. No man, woman or child in this , ric .j ieg Our heavenly Father, the capitalist, has invested largely in us, | He is no spendthrift. He has put feeble thing at the beginning; so is ! acorn, but in the acorn is the j i Ld%erfumeIhe^ily. habe, it contains ag we gee it in the 1 Kepler, a Newton, a Gladstone, a Me ; Knriey. Characte. result, product. , I is a a i ter tells the story of our conduct and | ^ U stry. Character is the fruitage of thinking, our willing, the our loving, Character our | i And character is man. termines one’s value to himself and to ciety This is what makes biography I popular literature of our day. People j have succeeded in life. They have Oil the universe and enjoyed they the did and the books tell us how My young friends, the one thing in world for you to do, is to follow example. Y ou may. Character is no | made thing; it is made^to orclem It i i plan and jiurpose and persistence. not jj ave t0 ma he the machinery I the material; these are furnished. The lection of the web, the feeding oi the the weaving of the cloth is ours, The suit is character, and character is This is the work of life. Human are not equal. Circumstances favor more than others. No doubt of it. then every man has a chance, aye, every man has a probability of and There are possibilities of failure, seem to fail, but there is no excuse failure. Oh. horrible, heartbreaking is failure. May none of you ever what it means. There is a way of from it. Make a right, wisely not to say, use of what is in you, what is about you, give reason the Enthrone conscience. Be religious. every step will be an ascent, every act advance of the soul, and the of being. All things are yours to do with. It was never easier to b& good I now. Perhaps it is never easy to be What makes it easier to be multiplicity good j than it was yesterday? The helps at hand. To read some | and to hear some speakers, The one fact suppose that nobody was good, people. What the world is full of good muttering of ! goodness Not the a S nor the repeating ot a prayer; not reading of the Bible nor going to j Good people are* do these things, but L things not essentially goodness. Goodness I people may do them, too. fellow, co nsideration for the other i ness of temper, gentleness of conduct, nob ness of purpose, love to God and man. js t0 live pjndiy and truly and well. I like the Christ doing good every day ' everywhere. his is the goodness coun t s in our day. And we rejoice to , j ieve that it is constantly on the fj 00 dness is true religion, and true ! j i s goodness. The two are inseparable. | ! ) S a culturing, refining, elevating It is ever making for the best that life capable of. tv hat Hod wants ior His dren is ,-e best. The desire of God human lia~mmcss. to tins end He is tient and indulgent. He is prodigal rifts. He is ever lavishing His little. love He us. God is neither mean nor the great Father, giving Himself for salvation, the enrichment, the perfect piness of His children. God is not the thor of pain. He takes no delight tears- The blessed Saviour ceases- nor His age-long effort to make the sons of earth nappy. The law of the universe, the design of everything ... is happiness, , - Haupi is everywhere, W ander in the ,, woods, ness walk stream. in rest the in . meadow, the ,, valley „ meander anc| ... climb to J'! the 10 hilltop, and in everything and everywhere you will hnd happiness. Jt springs up like a well of life, tilling the air pitii its music, flooding the earth with its joys. How much more docs our heaven.y rather desire you. His children, to be happy. The only condition of happiness is be good. “Blessed are the no or in heart, tor thev shall see God.” Holiness of life maketh rich and tendeth not to poverty. To the untutored, this looks iike an nn possible * tiling, and manv ask: How can T this.' , enough. . All that . GO h.asv is reeded is me disposition, and the enort. F m Oi ad, loo.v at your bank account. Hid you know you had a bank account? Ti ell, yon have. h>ee. please, what stands to your credit, the gut of another. These assets are ours because we live m the twentieth century, and because we are Anglo-Saxons. “All things are yours. Whether Paul or Apolios. or Cephas, things or the world, or things present, or Christ’s to cor in are yours and ye are and Christ is God’s, That is a wonder 'ill statement, It places us under tremen dous obligation, What an incentive to at te-ir.i) something, what The rn inspiration personalities to noo.e achievement. great of history—Paul, Cephas, The world, Apolios. God Past. and present, future. Christ, all yours, to make the goal and win. Then there can he no excuse tor failure. is, A practical question which meets us “How may I utilize these many gifts of God for my own advancement and better ment?” The answer is, “By right appro nriation. jy Just as the parched earth drinks in the gentle rain drops, making the grass to grow; just as the bee sips the honey from tne fragrant flower, so we must learn to appropriate the good in every thing, to our own growth and refinement, Life everywhere is sustained by The appropriat in£ . the outward to itself. great in teliec-ts which teach and bless the to-day are great and capable because To the: of appropriation of knowledge. worlds. It belongs the best of two was once thought that the Christian’s h^naKTonJ limited. The semon and a dreary meeting were all that the Christian any right to. Anything else would his fervor and narrow his vision tarnish his soul. Thank God, that day so far behind us. To-day reach and we know everything within within sight is ours, if we love God, ( to used in the advancement and of our lives. Look at it a moment. Take an Try to itemize the blessings Of the God. Explore the world of art, the of the centuries, it is ours, for God the beautiful. What a store house of sons and inspirations and soul delights the art galleries of the world! The dows in cathedrals and churches have ages been telling the story of Christ. Nativity,” by Burne-Jones, Transfiguration,” is the pride England; “The by ael, the glory of Italy. These are but ples of the beautiful in art, which are for the deli ht and culture of the All sciences nd literatures belong to for God is the Au or of all truth. pea re and Booth and De Reszke, and the host of others like them, are to charm away*our cares and rest of The marketplace crowded with the yield ihe field, the wealth of the mine, the uc t of the factory, is ours, for God is nent in nature and industry and skill. The advance in surgery and cine, the limitless pleasures in this is ours, available and i:e to make life rich and haopv and All this is the product of the past, gift of the good God. Its presence shame badness out of existence. How people be bad when they think of goodness of God? What are we doing life’s assets? They are the raw out of which we may weave the soul’s » <. -v robe; they are c the steps by we ascend to the home of pex-fect and d They are to our spirits what ry and sunlight are to the seed. grow by appropriating things ah extra their use; souls grow by doing the way- The business of life is to all these forces and gifts into life character. The soul must drink in full of God and rise to the perfect life the endless day beyond the stars. What we need to know to-day is proper use of things. That means the exercise of the mind. Others studied and thought for us. The result the locomotive, carrying us sixty miles hour; the electric wire, by which we to a friend 1000 miles away. If is to benefit the owner of it. he must it and use it wisely. So, if we are to the stimulus and rea^ the benefit of accumulations of the ages, as life’s if these are to answer their need, in making of a man—v.c must study think and pray. In the right use oi is the making of a holy character. All that has been said is, we true. But it is not the whole truth. must go a step further. Man lias conditions and soul needs, which nature, nor science, God. r.or Scripture, meet. Man needs a God is where. God is in the sunlight bathes us every day with its warmth glory. He is in the bread which we He is in the music which comes through the air, making God the. heart to for joy. But this is too vague, vast, too impersonal. Can this God personalized? It is God's eternal to adapt Himself to the limitations needs of His children. We do not of God merely as Power, Love or Majesty, the Holiness. God is Love. is ning thing. Love conquers. Love is on drawing home to the Father’s heart His wayu%-d for and God. lost What ones. kind The of heart cri^ (Jjd a Not the of the atheist, not tiie God ihe Deisi^ not the God Eternal of the Theologian, but the God. .Jesus Christ has revealed Him to world. This Jesus Christ and this are ours. This completes the list. is nothing more that can be added. ers, pictures, music, ships, railroads, phones, fellowships, philosophy, friendships, science, religion, loves, man God and Christ. All are yours. complain of poverty any more; never afraid of failure; never again say “I Goodness does not mean exemption the common ills of life. Every life has burdens, every heart has its own sorrow. We would not minimize the which are inevitable. They are not dus, but grievous. Many tears are shed the private chamber. Many feet are ing lonely paths. And blessed be God, heavenly Father knows it all. The Ihe Saviour of Men, is touched with feelings of our infirmities. All the love the Deity, all the power of.the all the compassion of the Lover of is for us. Look up, then. Be of cheer. ’Tis better further on. In pany with the Saviour, nothing can us. The path of the good is as the i light, shining more and more fcrrlo the j j perfect day. I “Loose me from earth's enclosure, from the sun s Contracted circle set mv heart irgc; pji '{- m ; na te rar i SD.i', range | uVOX}eh prov nces of thoueht vet nex* | plo’red* Teach me, bv this stunendoas scaffolding, , C rz*tiona golden artris, to climb to Thee. I Ao Triumphal Entry. I« . ihc . history mat . Christs ; ^ mony ot I entry into Palestine is so ouen raismter- 1 preted. lo the me lite there is Jesus hardly than more speak bit : ter irony in ot to 1 of Ills triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The multitude came out to meet Him, \ | threw their Him, garments the and people palm branches in front of and sang. But i w } uU 0 f the central figure? He saw the j j g rea t city, and wept over it. Wnfat a con tras t was that with the triumphal marcli. ! 0 j a conqueror.—Rev. Dr. A. A. Berle, I Salem, Mass. ^ The Only Standard. I Our churchman s me has paganism m i ft. Nowadays many men are saying “If a pagan is honest, pure and Outside true, why should he need religion? standard of the Christian life there is no of right, j Christ is tne oniy standard.- bishop W u | ham Lawrence, Episcopt ban, Boston. --—■ 1 NEWSY GLEANINGS. i Japan lias 501.“ miles of railroad. King Edward has become a great patron of Irish industries. The President has reappointed Wni. L. Distill as Surveyor-General of Vlas j kn. The widow of Tnvcnlor CJreonhcmgJi j p Oil ns royalties. snP .,i f or $.-,0,000;000 ill Stnndanl The Governor of Mnssfiehuselts h"<? I signed q l>iii to stop the eorruption of eirmloyes by bribe giving. The T’l-’sidpnt nnd Minister of War. of Brazil, have resolved to increase the garrisons along the Peruvian fron tier. A new dicenep railed the g”eon | . unigue sians , quartered lias , broken , in out Chinese , among houses tile Rus- in Mukden. «’ The keel plates of the IflOOO ton battleship Vermont were lairV at the Pore River Ship and Engine Company, Quincy, Mass. Beavers are becoming so numerous in Cascade County. Mont., .as to men ace farming interests by destroying irrigating dams. Dr. C. A. Bm-kiin, by removing cer tain bones in ibe nose, lias discovered a way of greatly benefiting, if not cur ing, consumptives. Peter O. Elliott, arrested some months ago in Washington for sup posed intention to kill President Roose velt. committed suicide in Minneapo lis. Richard 11. Taylor, of 11m United Slates Secret Service, has received a medal for ihe courage displayed on the Nipsic during the Samoan hurri cane of 1889. The Emperor, the Empress and’the Crown Prince of Germany attended the unveiling of a statue in the Thier garten representing Emperor William as a young man. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Zangwill is a in giving lectures on Zionism in London. Alfonso, Kin ft* of Spain, devotes his afternoons to athletics. Harvard has decided to confer the degree of LL. D. upon Senator Lodge. Dr. Davidson, Archbishop of Canter bury, hopes to visit the United States in September. Anatole Lo Roy Beaulieu. French economist and publicist, will deliver a series of lectures at Harvard. Florence Nightingale, seventy-three years old, lives in the home of Sir E. Yerney, in London. She is quite feeble. Massenet will receive a bonus of 8220,000 for giving La Scala Theatre, of Milan, the choice of bis works for the next four years. t The late novelist, .Tokai. numbered among his friends Bismarck, Kossuth, Vorestchagiu, the younger Dumas, Liszt, Ibsen and Munkacsy. Mrs. Fannie Stenhouse, who bad much to do with creating early senti ment against the Mormons, died re cently at Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. McClellan, wife of the New York Mayor, is one of (he most unas suming women in Gotham. She has never cared a rap about society. Captain Robert E. Lee, the youngest son of the famous Confederate chief tain, is at work on a book entitled “Recollections and Letters of General Lee.” Lord Cranborne. now Hie Marquis of Salisbury, is forty-two years old. He lias been in Parliament, with the ex ception of one year, since be was i wenty-four. EVERY CENT GOES TO CREDITORS. Widow and Children of Suicide Bank Presi dent Make Noble Sacrifice. The creditors of the late R. H. Plant will be given every penny of the $760, 00(1 of life insurance taken out for his estate. It. is the wish and desire of Mrs. Plant and her children that the creditors shall have the benefit of the entire estate insurance. On ail sides it is generally conceded that Mrs. plant is entitled to a dower in all the *•<?&! estate of Mr. Plant and to a year’s support for herself and her family. Both these, it is said, have been renounced so that every penny except ihe insurance directly intend ed for his family will go to his cred itors.