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G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT.
Heroes of the Late War Assem
ble in Pittsburgh.
Tito Imprramre Parades Naval Veterans
Elect Officers Some Interesting Statis
tics A Commander in Chief Chosen
The Ladles' Organizations.
OLD SALTS IX IJXE.
Pittsburgh, Sept. 12. The full
forces of the Grand Army are in the
city and have complete possession.
The parade of the naval veterans
took place Monday. Over 1,000 men ,
tinder the command of Rear Admiral
J. B. Osborn were in line. The old j
salts were cheered nil along the (
line of march, which extended through !
the principal down-town streets. .
along Fifth avenue and Smithfield j
street and over to Alleghney.
I'arade of the I.anil Heroes.
Pittsburgh, Sept. Pa., 12. Forty
thousand men who fought to save the
union marched through the cities of
Pittsburgh and Allegheny. The old
familiar war tunes, to which they
and their comrades rushed to vic
tory or to death, filled the air
and echoed back from the surround
ing hills. The music made their
hearts beat as in the stirring times of
thirty years ago, and brought the flush
of patriotism and courage to their
cheeks.
On every street corner and vacant
lot rose tier after tier of human faces,
and as the veterans passed cheer after
cheer greeted them. Every window
along the route, the fire escapes and
roof tops were crowded, while the
sidewalks were packed solidly from
the building line to the wire rope
stretched along the curb to prevent in
terference with the free movement of
the parade of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
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Ml 0k wrml iMPf
EXECUTION OF A CHINESE SOLDIER.
When Japan declared TTarapalnst China, the omperor of the latter country issued an ediet
malcinc desertion from the army a capital ofler.se. Our illustration shows the peculiar manner
In wuijh one of the oCet-ders was punished for sliowiug the white feather.
The decorations of the two cities j
were most lavish. It was stated by
men who had attended many previous
encampments that while individual
displays may have been excelled ia
other cities, they had never seen dec
orations on such a generous and gen
eral scale. Hardly a dwelling, no mat
ter how poor or how far from the route
of parade, but at least had a flag, and
visually a display of bunting as well,
while the business houses in ever
part of the cities made a gorgeous
showing.
Their Last Parade.
This was probably the last time the
veterans will turn out in such force,
as it is seriously contemplated by
the grand army officials, in view
of the advancing age and infirmi
ties of the members, to abandon this
rnost attractive feature of the national
encampment. Therefore they proposed
to make the last parade a success, and
tramped over the two miles of route
with the same determination that
characterized them when they
inarched against the southern armies.
Gov. Pat tison, of Pennsylvania, with
his staff and a number of notable men
and women from all parts of the coun
try, occupied the reviewing stand in
the Allegheny park, and saluted each
division as it swung around and passed
in review.
Election of Officers.
The National Association of Naval
Veterans met during the morning and
elected the following officers: Commo
dore, Will E. Atkins, Cincinnati; cap
tain and shipmate, George C. Ireland,
Brooklyn; commander, S. V. Shaw,
Zanesville, O.; lieutenant commander,
J.J. Oilman, Boston.
After the pariwle the veterans pre
pared for the earnpfires and reunions
in the evening. Every hall and public
"building in Pittsburgh and Allegheny
held an enthusiastic crowd of old sol
diers and their friends. The guest of
honor at all of them was Gov. McKin
lev. lie was billed to speak at three
or four different places, and wasrapid-
lv driven from one hall to another.
The avel Falls.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 14. There
ycerc no vacant seats in the Grand
opera house Wednesday morning when,
the twenty-eighth national encamp
ment of the Grand Army of the Re
public was opened formally. Precisely
at that hour Commander in Chief John
C. II- Adams tappe 1 the table with his
avel of eedur aud gold and declared
30 bushels, good Dear- fc mwnri 1
o 500 yotioe apple trees, 1 1 I atinTGat)snlesarasnperfor
m a u m ssr m m m
the encampment opened. Gov. Patti
Bon gave welcome to the delegates in
behalf of the state.
These exercises over, the encamp
ment went into executive session and
the delegates settled down to listen to
the reports of the national officers.
The closest attention was paid to the
annual address of the commander in
chief, upon a large number of topics.
The membership of the order, he said,
is as follows:
lleglnnlnR of the End.
"One year br'o there were In pood standing
897.223. There have been pained during the
year, bv muster-In, 16.T.V2; by transfer. 0.354;
ty reinstatement, 14,033; by reinstatement
COL. THOMAS . LAWLEB.
from delinquent reports, 2,M9. Total gain, 89,
661. Agzrepate, 43'i.txl
"There have been lost, by death, 7.283; by
suspension, 34.803; by dishonorable discharge,
134: by delinquent reports, 16.671. Totul loss,
67,801. The number remaining in good stand
ins' June 30. 18U1. was &W.083.
Various Department Statements.
The report of James F. Meech, adju
tant general, .shows a decrease of 400
posts during the last year, or at least
the lack of reports from that number
of posts. According to the figures
given, there was expended in charity
this way for the six months ending
December SI, 1S33, the sum of 100,-
40.03 and fcr the six months ending
June 30. 134. 5103,204.07, a total for the
year of SU03.TbO.10.
The twenty-seven departments re
porting give the following statistics:
Number of soldiers' and sailors' graves
decorated by posts, 232,35s; number of
soldiers and sailors buried during the
year ending last Memorial day, 4,022;
cemetery lots owned by posts. 532;
number of soldiers and sailors buried in
potter's fields, 752; unmarked by proper
headstones. 10.232; number of posts
holding Sunday memorial services,
2.225; number of posts holding Memo
rial daj" exorcises, 2,232; number of
comrades who took part in the exer
cises, 1S2.100.
Will Meet Next at I-ou'ovllle.
Henry Watterson delivered an ad
dress urging the claims of Louisville,
Ky , to the next encampment. The
ovation tendered Mr. Watterson at the
conclusion of his effort for his own city
was a magnificent tribute to the elo
quence and feeling of the representa
tive selected by Louisville. It was
properly voiced later by the unani
mous decision of the heads of the
grand army to break over a precedent
and take the next national encamp
ment into the erstwhile enemy's coun
try south of Mason and Dixon's line.
to Louisville. St. Paul, the only other
contestant, gracefully retired, under
assurance, it is believed, of the en
campment for the following year.
ti. A. It. Officers.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 15. Afterone
of the most heated contests in the his
tory of the order CoL Thomas G.
Lawler, of 'Rockford, 111., has been
elected commander in chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, defeat
ing hi-s only opponent, CoL Ivan N.
Walker, of Indianapolis, by the nar
row majority of 11 in a total vote of
643.
The Other Officers.
The other elections for national
board positions were soon settled, as
there were but few contests and all
were withdrawn before taking the
ballot. The successful candidates
were: Maj. A. P. Burohfield, senior
vice commander in chief, of Pittsburgh;
Charles II. Shute, junior vice com
mander in chief, of New Orleans; O.
W. Weeks, surgeon general in chief,
of Marion, O.; Rev. T. II. Haggerty,
chaplain in chief, of Missouri.
The Ladles Organizations.
The- Daughters of Veterans met dur
ing the morning and elected officers.
Mrs. Ellen M. Walker, of Worcester,
Mass., was chosen president.
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It Cures
The Ladies of the Grand Army of the
Republic met and received greetings
from the other women's organizations
here. The national inspector, Mrs.
Mary E. Gordan, of Kansas, reported
that the organization has over 10,000
members and has expended $35,000 dur
ing the year.
Mrs. Emma Wallace, of Rockford,
I1L, was elected president.
Grantl Illumination.
As a fitting close to the magnificence
and splendor of the event came the
last thing on the official programme,
the fireworks and general illumina
tion Thursday night. The entertain
ment was of a magnificent sort.
Every decoration and illumination
was displayed to the best advan
tage by thousands of dazzling
lights. The mammoth mottoes "Grand
Army of the Republic welcome"
placed on the great hills overlooking
each city, were lighted. Search lights,
operated from points of equal vantage,
swept the city with their piercing
rays, while the climax was reached by
the thousands of private illuminations
on all the principal streets.
The fireworks were set off from a
barge moored in the center of the
Monongahela river, near its junction
with the Allegheny, set pieces being
erected on the opposite bank. This
left the entire wharf along the south
side of the city open to sightseers,
while the hills overlooking both rivers
commanded excellent views.
RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA.
Unties to He Kelmposed on American
Products Ottlclul Notice.
Washington, Sept. 13. Consul Gen
eral Williams at Havana under date of
August 24 has sent a dispatch to Act
ing Secretary of State L'hl, a copy of
which has been transmitted to Sec
retary Carlisle, giving the transla
tion of a telegram received on the day
previous by the governor-general of
Cuba from the minister of the colonies
at Madrid, directing the latter to re
place the duties on American products
in that island and in Porto Rico as
soon as the new tariff bill went into
operation.
This is the first official notification
received by the treasury department !
of the restoration of duties 03' any
countrj' which was a party to the re
ciprocity agreement provided for by
the McKinley law. This action
of the Spanish government will re
impose duties on many articles
exported to Cuba from the United
States, including meats in brine, ba
con, hams, lard, tallow, fish, oats,
starch, cottonseed oil, hay, fruits,
woods of all kinds, agricultural imple
ments, petroleum, ice and coal and re
stores the reductions made on corn,
wheat, flour, butter, boots and shoes.
MANY HOUSES BURNED.
Supposed Incendiary Fire Devastates SO
Acres of Da Hon.
Massii.i.ox, O., Sept. 12. Twenty
acres in the heart of the village of
Dalton, O., were devastated by fire
early on Monday morning Forty
seven houses were destroyed. The
insurance is almost nothing. Assist
ance was sent by special train from
Massillon, Orville and Canton. The
village water supply was soon ex
hausted, and then wells and cisterns
were emptied. Early in the morning a
welcome rain began to fall and the
flames began to die out. The fire is
supposed to have been of incendiary
origin.
The fire originated in a stable, and
while the direct cause of its origin is
unknown it is presumed it was prompt
ed by tramps taking quarters there for
the night. The entire loss is estimat
ed at S250.000, the heaviest losers be
ing the Royal Insurance company.
The post office and its entire contents
were included in the flames.
The citizens are frantic with grief
over the loss of their business blocks
and residences, and homeless women
and children are seen on every corner
crying bitterly. All the telegraph wires
were burned down, and the only com
munication with the outside world is
by train.
EATING THEIR PONIES.
Chinese Soldiers In t'orna Arc Said to lis
Starving.
Shanghai, Sept. 12. It is reported
that the Chinese forces are cornered in
northern Corea without supplies and
are killing their ponies for food.
The Japanese forces north of Seoul
are suffering from the effects of
the rain. Much sickness is also
reported to prevail in the Chinese
camp. It is rumored that 33,000
Chinese troops are encamped on the
north bank of the River Imchin, wait
ing for favorable weather to attack
the Japanese position a few miles
south of Imchin. It is reported on
good local authority that the mikado
of Japan, accompanied by the minister
of war and marine and his general
staff, is proceeding to Heroshama, a
point where the troops of Japan gather
to embark.
RATES CUT DOWN.
Minnesota Kailway Commission Issues an
Order That Will Help Farmers.
St. Pail, Minn., Sept. 12. The rail
way companies of Minnesota have been
given a disagreeable shock by the state
railway and warehouse commission,
which has issued a general order cut
ting rates on all grain 15 per cent. The
decision was in the case of Elias
Steenerson, who asked that the Great
Northern railway be compelled to lower
rates from Polk county to Duluth and
Minneapolis 33 percent. The commis
sion took into consideration the fact
that wheat had fallen largely in price,
and, on the other hand, that railway
earnings had largely diminished and
split the difference, giving the farmer
and the railway company each half
the benefit. Representatives of the
railways say the cut will bankrupt
three of the largest grain-carrying
roads in the state.
Valuable Horses Hurned.
Wayne, .I1L, Sept. 12. During the
storm Sunday night lightning fired
one of the barns on Mark XV. Dunham's
Oakland stock larm. Five thorough
bred Norman Fercheron horses in the
barn were cremated. Loss, 512,000; no
insurance.
i.T rr".';7,tlnT, Ir.sWtT nr.d Tenth.
. Inn hoi: 6 lor ISVvrith written pmsrantee
ECLIPSED.
Robert J. Paces in Wonderful
Speed at Terre Haute.
lie Heats All Turf Records, Going a Mile
la the Itemarkahle Time of 2:01 1-8
Other Kecord lirohcn on
the Speedy Track.
"time" laid out.
Terre Haute, Ind.. Sept. 15. Fri
day was the greatest record-breaking
day ever recorded for any track.
Robert J. paced a mile in 'J:01a, smash
ing1 the world's record, which he made
himself at Indianapolis. Curbonato
lowered the 2-jear-old pacing record
from 2:10 to 2:00. John R. Gentry
made the stallion record for pacers
2:03;', making the mark in a race. Di
rectly tied Carbonate's record of 2:10 for
2-year-old pacers made earlier in the
week. Joe Patchen paced the mile in
2:04, beating the stallion record of
2:054, which had been held good
until earlier in the day, when Gentry
set the new mark and "Sweet Little"
Alix trotted a mile in 2:04,'-'.
It was 3:20 o'clock when Robert J.
started to beat his own and the world's
record of 2:02a'. The atmosphere was
sultrj', but the clouds had disappeared
and the wind had gone down. The
king of pacers made a bad break in the
second scoring, but got away well in
the center of the track on the third at
tempt that he might the better get
around the first short turn of the four
cornered track. It was seen that he
was at his best, and when the quarter
was caught at :3"J hope grew strong.
The runner which was making
the pace came alongside Robert J.'s
sull3' near the half, which was made
in 1:00 !4, and the 0,000 people rose up
and cheered. The three-quarters was
reached in l:30?-.4, making the middle
half of the mile in the phenominal
time of :503, or at the rate of 1:50 for
the mile.
He came home strong and went un
der the wire with the apparent courage
and effort of his first quarter. The
time, 2:01, was put up at once. There
was no dispute among either the
official timers or the many ex
pert timers among the horsemen gath
ered in line with the wire at either
side of the track. The cheering
which began with sight of the figures
had not ceased when Geers came back
to the wire with the great pacer. The
track was covered with people. Some
of them caught (Jeers upon their shoul
ders and carried him to the fence in
front of the grand stand, where he was
received with cheers.
Alix made a mile in 2:01'. She was
not equal to the task of lowering it.
She acted badly in starting, and the
good judges of trotting saw that the
racing queen was being asked to do
too much. She went to the quar
ter in 31J-J, a half-second faster
than Wednesday, when she scared
at some dirt; to the half in 1:02?'
Nancy Hanks' time on the same track
two years ago, and a half-second
faster than she arrived there two days
ago. She went to the third quarter in
l:3.i, just as she did on the other occa
sion, but she could not come home fast
enough. When the 2:04 was shown
there was not a ripple of applause.
The mile was a great one for the little
mare, considering what she had been
called upon to do this year, but the
crowd was unappreciative.
Soon afterward Joe Patchen was
brought out. He was sent to beat tho
stallion racing record of 2:05 which
held good until Gentry's mile was
made earlier in the day. He won the
first quarter in :30, the half in 1:01?4',
the three-quarters in 1:32 and the
mile in 2:04. Joe Patchen's 2:04 is the
fourth 20:4 mile over the Terre Haute
track. Mascot, Nancy Hanks and
Alix have the others to their credit.
Directly, the black son of the whirl
wind Direct, started to beat the 2:10
mile made by the 2-year-old colt Car
bonate several days ago which took
one-quarter of a second from. the 2-year-old
record made by Directly a
few weeks ago, but he could do no
better than tie the now record. Later
in the afternoon Carbonate was sent
to beat his own mark of 2:10 and did it
so handsomely that next to Robert
J. he was the idol of the day. At the
first quarter the watches caught 81,
and it was feared that Jack Curry was
sending him too fast. Geers with the
runner came up with him at the half
in 1:03 and the 2:07 gait v.-as thought
to be crowding the gray colt so fast
that he could not get home ahend of
the 2:10 record, but throe-quarters
was passed in 1:35, and he came under
the wire in 2:00.
MURDERER SHOT TO DEATH.
Kxncution of Knorli 1J ill nt I.r!il t'ltj',
I'tah in ::! .ntntly.
Lehi Citv, U. T.. Sept. 15. Enoch
Davis, wife murderer, was executed
Friday by being shot. He chose this
mode of execution in preference to
hanging. Six deputies, each armed
with a Winchester, were stationed in a
tent lo feet from the pen. In
the tent were six loopholes to
shoot through. About thirty . offi
cers and reporters were pres
ent, but no ministers. At 10:40 Davis
was placed on a chair with a plank at
the back. The doctors pinned a black
mark over the heart. At 10:43 the
marshal cried: "Make ready, take aim,
fire!" Six shots rang out. Davis
moved sliffhtly and at 10:45 gasped
faintly. Death was practically in
stantaneous. Four balls pierced the
paper.
Duel Kesults Fatally.
Miphlesijoro, Ky., Sept. 15. At
Beech Fork, George Wilson, deputy
sheriff of Leslie county, and William
North, a prominent Bell county
farmer, exchanged six shots each, the
last one passing through Wilson's
heart, killing him instantly. North
was slightly wounded- The dispute
grew out of a tax settlement.
Short lu Her Accounts.
Pittsburgh, Ta., Sept. 15. Ladies
of the G. A. R. have determined to
proceed against the bondsmen of Mrs.
Annie E. Grubbs, a former treasurer,
who is said to have embezzled 500.
Tiy mail
to cure or
A fftvivinTr nt T
NIAGARA'S FORMATION.
Story of the Great Lakes as Read In th
Korku,
Much newlight on the Quaternary his
tory of the great lakes tributary to the
St. Lawrence river has been contributed
in three recent papers by Mr. F. F. Tay
lor, all published within the short time
since Mr. G. K. Gilbert's writing on
"The Niagara River as a Geologic
Chronometer." Supplementing the
earlier observations and studies of
Whittlesey, Newberry. Gilbert, Spencer,
Lawson, Leverett, Wright, Baldwin
and the present writer, among others,
these latest explorations and discus
sions by Mr. Taylor enable us to form
a very definite and closely-connected
historical statement of the relation
ships of the ice-damned lakes which
preceded the present Laurentian lakes,
and of their dependence on the gradual
departure of the ice sheet on the ac
companying northward uplift of that
region.
The largest element of uncertainty
in the estimate of seven thousand years
for the post-glacial period, from the
retreat of the ice sheet to the present
time, drawn from the rate of recession
of the falls of Niagara, consists, as
Mr. Gilbert has shown, in the proba
bility or possibility that some consider
able next following the melting away
of the ice upon the area crossed by the
Niagara river the outlets of Lakes Su
perior. Michigan and Huron may have
passed to the St. Lawrence by a more
northern course, flowing across the
present watershed east of Lake Nipis
sing to the Mattawa and Ottawa rivers.
Mr. Taylor's observations now indi
cate, however, if interpreted on the
hypothesis of glacial lakes (which is
believed by Mr. Gilbert and by the ma
jority of other geologists of America
to be the true view), that the gracial
Lake Warren, filling the basins of Su
perior, Michigan, Huron and Erie, con
tinued with its outlet flowing past Chi
cago to the Des Plaines, Illinois and
Mississippi rivers, while the country
including Lake Superior, the northern
part of Lake Huron and Lake Nipis
sing that is, the whole northern side
of Lake Warren as uplifted about
three hundred and fifty to four hun
dred and fifty feet along its extent of
six hundred miles from east to west.
The existence of Lake Warren was
terminated by the recession of the ice
sheet from the area between Lakes
Erie rand Ontario.-when the Niagara
river began to flow and to channel the
gorge six miles below its receding falls,
from which the computation for the
time since the Ice Age is derived. The
Niagara gorge measured the time after
the outflow past Chicago cease 1, Lake
Warren being then succeeded in the
basins of the uppor lakes, above Erie,
by the glacial Lake Algonquin, while
in the Ontario basin the ice-bound Lake
Iroquois outflowed past Rome, N. Y.,
by way of the Mohawk and Hudson to
the sea.
Seven-eighths of the differential up
lifting which carried the watershed
east of Lake Nipissing above the level
of Lake Algonquin had taken place be
fore the northeastward retreat of the
ice sheet uncovered the Niagara nrea.
For some later time the ice barrier
must have remained upon the Mattawa
and Ottawa areas, forbidding any out
flow there from Lake Algonquin: and it
seems very probable that within that
time the continuation of the uplift had
raised the watershe'd so high that no
discharge from the upper lakes ever
passed over it. During the ensuing
existence of Lake Iroquois the Ontario
basin was undergoing a rapid north
ward uplift, which doubtless was
shared by the Nipissing area, so that if
any outflow occurred there it must
have been 'very brief, being ended
when the land east of Lake Nipissing
rose higher than the present course of
outflow by the St. Clair and Detroit riv
ers to the Erie bas:n and Niag
ara river. The duration of the outlet
to the Mattawa could probably have
been only a few hundred years at the
longest, if it ever existed. With this
possible exception, the present vol
ume of the Niagara river has been
maintained during all the time of its
gorge erosion. Only an insignificant
addition to the estimate of seven thous
and years can, therefore. le required
by the division of the waters of the up
per lakes.
The view held by Taylor, Spencer
and Lawson, that the high shore lines
around the great Laurentian lakes are
of marine formation, seems to lie in
consistent with the total absense of
marine fossiliferous beds overlying the
glacial drifts in all that region. So far
as the sea did extend, after the further
recession of the ice sheet permitted it
to come into the St. Lawrence and Otta
wa valleys and into the basin of Lake
Champlain, marine fossils abound, but
none are found above the Thousand
islands at the mouth of Lake Ontario.
We may, therefore, confidentally ac
cept the Niagara gorge as a measure of
all the time since the departure of the
ice sheet from the northern United
States.
In a recent paper in the "Journal of
Geology," Mr. And-ew M. Hansen. f
Norway, notes the approximate con
currence of about tiirty independent
measurements and estimates of the
duration of the post-glacial period
which have been made in North Amer
ica and in Europe, all coming within
the limits of five thousand and twelre
thousand years. He accordingly says:
"With full regard to a legitimate cal
culation of probabilities, it may be pre
dicted that the number of seven thou
sand to ten thousand years is as near
ly an exact estimate of the duration of
post-glacial time as can ever be ex
pected." Ware Upham, in Nature.
Higher Education Doomed.
Stranger Did Miss Finehand. who
lectured on the higher education of
women, make many converts?
Sweet Girl Mercy no. She can't be
over twenty, and yet she had two deep
wrinkles between her eyeB. N. Y.
Weekly. .
The polo, or ole, is an Andalusian
dance of oriental origin. The music ia
slow and melancholy, while the disce
Ls full of wild contortions of the body,
thefedt being hardly lifted from th
floor.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Mount Union college is said to be
the first Methodist college to admit
women.
There are 539 Baptist churches in
S'.t eden. with 30,5ri5 members and 013
ministers.
It is stated that an East London
Episcopal clergyman has opened a shop
for the sale of crucifixes and images of
the Virgin.
Thirty-five scholarships, worth fif
ty dollars each, have been established
for the daughters of Presbyterian rul
ing elders in the college for women,
Columbia, S. C.
Our Chinese college at Singapore
has won the queen's scholarship, worth
one thousand dollars a year for four
years, besides the prestige and inilu
ence which it gives to the school.
Dr. Olaus Dahl, who has Wn
elected to a professorship in the Uni
versity of Chicago, has been for some
years at the head of the department of
Scandinavian language and literature
at Yale college.
The archbishop of Canterbury, at
a diocesan conference at Lamlxrt
palace, expressed his earnest condem
nation of dinner parties and dramatic
entertainments, which seem to be on
the increase in every part of London,
on Sunday.
The Unitarian church claims its
origin at Vicenza in Venice in 151,
whence the sect spread to Poland.
The3" were called Soeinians. and ob
tained a foothold in England in lClT.
John Riddle was the founder. The first
society in America was formed in Phil
adelphia in 1740. .
Efforts for better Sunday observ
ance in England are progressing. S;r
John Burns, the managing director of
the Cunard Steamship Co., has given
directions that no ship of that company
in the Mediterranean shall work cargo
on Sunday in ports abroad any more
than they would at home.
The adult Bible class in the Sum
mit Hill chapel, Birmingham. En
gland, during the past year has in
creased from two hundred members to
over one thousand. This is a result of
its soeial scheme -and house-to-house
visitation, which have also added large
numbers to the congregation.
A Bible and training school for the
young women of the east lias been
opened at Cazaduo under the super
vision of the Pacific Coast Young Wom
en's Christian association. The Pacific
coast work was established in !
with headquarters at San Francisco,
and is under a coast committee with a
traveling secretary. Since its estab
lishment twenty-six organizations have
been formed. Two of these are in cities
Los Angeles and Sacramento while
the others are in colleges.
Dr. William H. Park, surgeon in
charge of the Methodist hospital of
Soo-Chow, China, has been made chief
surgeon of the staff of Li Hung Chang,
the great viceroy, and has received the
honorary mandarin button of the fifth
degree. Dr. Park owes his rank to his
success in saving the life of the aide-de-camp
of Gen. Li Hung Chang, who"
had received eleven frightful sword
cuts. Five of them were across the top
of his head, ranging from three to six
inches in length, and every one of them
down into the lx.ne and one of them
through the skull. The man was taken
to the Methodist hospital and attended
to by Dr. Park and his assistants. On
his recovery the Chinese general was
so gratified that he made the hospital
a present of a large sum of money and
conferred the above degree upon Dr.
Park.
PUNISHED FOR CURIOSITY.
A Learned Chinese Do-tor Pars Pearly
for a Little Innocent Sightseeing.
It is dangerous to gratify curiosity or
to violate precedent at the Chinese im
perial court. The empress dowager is
a great stickler for etiquette. Recently
she required the services of Dr. Li
Te-ch'ang, vice-president of the impe
rial academy of physicians at Peking,
for one of the members of her suite at
Eho Park palace. The learned doctor
had never been inside these famous
palace-grounds, and his curiosity was
fired to see the many curious objects of
which he had heard wonderful tales.
So he bribed a palace eunuch to show
him around the grounds.
While the two were leisurely walk
ing about and enjoying themselves, the
empress spied them. She at once dis
patched servants to punish their effron
tery. The eunuch was seized, thrown
on his face, and accommodated with
fifty blows with the bamboo on the
calves of his fat legs. The doctor was
docked three months" pay and received
a severe reprimand, while his assistant
was ordered never to venture again
into the empress's presence.
The affair created a sensation, be
cause of the high position of the physi
cian and of the humiliating punishment
dealt out to him. N. Y. Sun.
Marines and Mariners.
Outcroppings of jealousy between
sailors and marines aboard United
States ships tre common enough. The
marine is that awkward thing, a lands
man at sea. He is a soldier, clad in a
soldier's uniform, receiving a soldier's
pay, and subject to the drill and disci
pline of the army rather than of the
navy. Doubtless he is a more shapely
person from a technical point of view
than the Jack tar, but he is vastly less
picturesque and human. He is, on the
whole, hardly so well paid as the sailor.
N. Y. Sun.
Disraeli was nicknamed Dizzy,
from a contraction of his name: the
Gay Lothario of Politics, from his fa
cility in adapting himsell to circum
stances, and Vivian Grey from one of
his novels.'
John W?sley always declared that
he owed all his usefulness to his moth
er. She was one of the most remark
able women who ever lived. Her letters
are classic.
Never let us be discoursed with
ourselves. It is not when we are con
cious of our faults that we are the
most wicked. Fcneloa.
