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T A IM AGE'S SERMON. "SUFFER FOR OTHERS” LAST SUNDAY’S SUBJECT. From the Test: "Without Shedding of lllood There Is No Remission of Sins” " Hebrews, Chapter IX Verse sa A Sacrifice That Is Practlcsd by Very rcw Voluntarily. OHN O. WHIT TIER, the lastof the great school of American poets that made the last quar ter of a century brilliant, asked me In the White Moun tains one morning after prayers, In which I had given out Cowper’s fa mous hymn about “The Fountain Filled with lllood," “Do you really believe there is a literal application of the blood of Christ to the soul?" My neg ative reply then Is my negative reply now. The Bible statement agrees with all physicians, and all physiologists, and all scientists, in saying that the blood is the life, and In the Christian religion It means simply that Christ’s life was given for our life. Hence all this tulk of men who say the Bible •tory of blood Is disgusting, and that they don’t want what they call a “slaughter house religion,", only shows their Incapacity or unwillingness to I9UK luruugu iup iifcuir ui ny-w u iw ward the thin* signified. The blood that, on the darkest Friday the world •ter Haw, oozed, or trickled, or poured ftom the brow, and the side, and the hands, and the feet of the Illustrious sufferer, back of Jerusalem, In a few hours coagulated and dried up, and for •Ter disappeared; and If men had de pended on the application of the literal A blood of Christ, there would not have ■M- bicn a soul saved for the last eighteen centuries. In order to understand this red word Of my test, we only have to exercise as much common sense in religion as we do In everything else. Pang for pang, hunger for hunger, fatigue for fatigue, fear for tear, blood for blood, life for life, we see every day Illustrated The act of substitution is no novelty, al though 1 hear men talk as though the Idea of Chriet’e suffering substituted for our suffering were something ab sormal, something distressingly odd, something wildly eccentric, a solitary •plsodc In the world’s history; when 1 could take you out In this city, and before sundown point you to five hun fred cases of substitution and volun i tary suffering of one In behalf of an other. At 2 o’clock tomorrow arteruoon go among the places of business or toll. It will be no difficult thing for you to R find men who, by their looks, show you f; that, they are overworked. They are prematurely old. They are hastening v, rapidly toward their decease. They have gone through crises in business that shattered their nervous system and pulled on the brain. They have a shortness of breath and a pain In th'e back of the head, and at night an in somnia that alarms them. Why are they drudging at business early and late? For fun? No; It would be diffl f cult to extract any amusement out of that exhaustion; Because they are avaricious? In many cases no. Be cause their own personal expenses are lavish? No; a few hundred dollars would meet all their wants. The sim ple fact Is, the man Is enduring all that fatigue and exasperation, and wear W and tear, to keep his home prosperous, p There is an Invisible line reaching from t-J? that store, from that bank, from that i shop, from that scaffolding, to a quiet scene a few blocks away, a few miles away, and there is the secret of that business endurance. He Is simply the champion of a homestead, for which he wins bread, and wardrobe, and edu cation. and prosperity, and In such battle ten thousand men fall. Of ten busln>ss men whom I bury, nine die of overwork for others. Some sudden dis mw finds them with no tiower of re slstance, and they are gone. Life for life. Blood for blood. Substitution! At 1 o’clock tomorrow morning, the hour when slumber is most uninter rupted and most profound, walk amid the dwelling-houses of the city. Here k and there you will And a dim light, be * cause it Is the household custom to keep a subdued light burning; but moat of the houses from base to top are as dark as though uninhabited. A merciful Ood has tent forth the arch angel of sleep, and be puts hit wings fcver the city. But yonder la a clear light burning, and outside on the win dow rawment la a glass or pitcher con taining IimhI for g sick child, tbs food Is eat to the fresh air. This la the altth night that mother haa sat up with that sufferer Ah* has to the last point obeyed the physician a prescription, not glvlag a drop too much or too lu lls. ur a moment too eoon or too late. Abe Is very saatous. for she has buried three • btldrett with the saute dies see, sad aha prays aad weeps each prayer sad aoh sadtag with a bias of I he pals cheek By dial of hiadaoas aha gala the little ana through the ordeal After It te all over, th# mother Is taken down brain or nervous fever eats la. and one day she leaves the cos value coat child with a mothers blessing and gue* up to Jut* 'he ihres In the hiagdom of hen vow Life hr Ufa, Huh •til mu*' The fart Is that there are an un .wanted a umber ml mothers who, after they have navigated a large fam ily of children through all the diseases of infancy, and pa them fairly startod up the towering stupe of boyhood and g«rth«««i have only strength enough Ml lu die They fade away war »all W runeumptlun war fall it nerewwa promts) tea war call H letermHieat nr malarial indtapuatilMa hut I mil M martyrdom of the dusnemle tlrde Ufa lav life lti««»d fat blood AwhatHtw turn' Or perhaps the mother lingers long enough to see a son get on the wrong road, and his former kindness becomes rough reply when she expresses anxiety about him. But ste goes right on, looking carefully after his apparel, re membering his birthday with some me mento, and when he Is brought home worn out with dissipation, nurses him till he gets well and starts him again, and hopes, and expects, and prays, and counsels, and sufTers, until her strength gives out and she falls. She Is going, and attendants, bending over her pil low, ask her if she has any message to leave, and she makes great effort to say something, but out of three or four minutes of Indistinct utterance they can catch but three words: "My poor boy!" The simple fact Is she died for him. Life for life. Substitution! About thirty-six years ago there went forth from our northern and southern homes hundreds of thousands of men to do battle for their country All the poetry of war soon vanished, and left them nothing but the terrible prose. They waded knee-deep in mud. They slept In snow-banks. They marched till their cut feet tracked the earth. They were swindled out of their honest rations, and lived on meat not. fit for a dog. They had Jaws all fractured, and eyes extinguished, and limbs shot. away. Thousands of them cried for water as they lay dying on the field the night after the battle, and got it not. They were homesick, and received no message from their loved ones. They died in barns, in bushes, In ditches, the buzzards of the sum mer heat the only attendants on their it. _ «_* a a . i_ex_i i _ n »»w i/ur Mill iuv luilliliv who knows everything, knows the ten thousandth part of the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of the anguish of the Northern and South ern battlefields. Why did these fath ers leave their children and go to the front, and why did these young men, postponing the marriage day, start out Into the probabilities of never coming back? For the country they died. I,lfe for life. Blood for blood. Substitu tion ! But we need not go so far. What Is that monument In Greenwood? It Is to the doctors who fell In the Southern epidemics. Why go? Were there not enough sick to he attended In these Northern latitudes? Oh, yes; but the doctor puts a few medical books In his valise, and some phials of medicine, and leaves his patients here In the hands of other physicians, and takes the rail-train. Before he gets to the Infected regions he passes crowded rail-trains, regular and extra, taking the flying and affrighted populations. He arrives In a city over which a great horror is brooding. He goes from couch to couch, feeling of the pulse and studying symptoms, and prescribing day after day, night after night, until a fellow-physician says, “Doctor, you had better go home and rest; you look miserable.” But he cannot rest while so many are suffering. On and on, un til some morning finds him In a deliri um, In which be talks of home, and then rises and says he must go and look after those patients. He Is told to lie down; but he lights his attendants until he falls back, and is weaker and weaker, and dies for people with whom be bad no kinship, and far away from his own family, and Is hastily put away in a stranger's tomb, and only the fifth part of a newspaper line tells us of his sacrifice—his name Just mentioned among five. Yet he has touched the furthest height of sublimity in that three weeks of humanitarian service. He goes straight as an arrow to the bosom of him who said; “I was sick and ye visited me.” l.ife for life. Blood for blood. Substitution! * * * What an exalting principle tbis which leads one to suffer for another! Nothing so kindles enthusiasm or awakens eloquence, or chimes poetic canto, or moves nations. The prin ciple is the dominant one In our relig ion Christ the Martyr, Christ the ce lestial Hero, Christ tho Defender. Christ the Substitute. No new princi ple, for It was as old as human nature; but now on a grander, wider, higher, deeper and more world-resounding scale! The shepherd boy as a cham pion for Israel with a sling toppled the giant of Philistine braggadocio In the dust; but here Is another David w ho for all the armies of churches mil Uaat and triumphant, burla the Goliath of perdition Into defeat, the crash of hi* bra*en armor like au eiploalon at Hell Gate. Abraham had at God'a command agreed to eacrltlce bla son Isaac, and the same God Just In time had provided a ram of the thicket as a substitute, but here le another Isaac hound to the nltar. and no hand nr resta the sharp edges of laoeratlon end death, an*! the universe shivers and quakes and recoils and groans nt tha borror All goad «•« have fur .eoturtee bee* trying to toll ahom this Substitute ana Ilk# end every comps'IMS In spired and uninspired, eveegelUdl*. prop It# ti< spueieltc and human fails short, for Christ aae the Ureal Ohltha Adam a typo of Christ hechua# he .•as* directly from God. Noah a type .4 t‘hr tel. hesiuss he dellverqd hie eaa family from the delu«e. Mehthleode. a type af t’hrtm because be had so pred ereaaor or successor luaaph a l«pe **f Christ, he-anas he eaa east oat hy hie hrathraa Mom a type uf t'hrlal, be*esse h« see e deliverer fmm haad *a* Seta sue a type of t'hrlal heeaaas of his etread*h to star the Haas aad • rry off tps Iroa galea of tmp **HI Hy htiviMse a type of rhrtet ta tha aMoeave of hie damtabm leash a upe af t'hrlal hemyoeo af the states* eaa ta a hi. h he three hthMalf far the rae cue of others hot pot topethsi Idem aad hush aad Met»hteede> aad tosoph aad Muasa sad Joshua aad deareoa gad •oiomoa sad Jvsaa* aad they amctd not make a fragment of & Christ a ] quarter of a Christ. the half of a Christ, or the millionth part of a Christ. He forsook a throne and sat down on his own footstool. He came from the top of glory to the bottom of hu miliation. and changed a circumfer ence seraphic for a circumference dia bolic. Once waited on by angels, now hissed at by brigands. From afar and high up he came down; past meteors swifter than they; by starry thrones, himself more lustrous; past larger worlds to smaller worlds; down stairs of Armaments, and 'from cloud to | cloud, and through tree-tops and Into the camel'* stall, to thrust his shoul I der under our burdens and take the ! lances of pain through his vitals, and wrapped himself in all '.he agonies which we deserve for our misdoings, i and stood on the splitting decks of a i foundering vessel, amid the drenching ! surf of the sea, and passed midnights on the mountains amid wild beasts of * prey, and stood at the point where all earthly and Infernal hostilities charged ' on him at once with their keen sabres I —our Substitute' The motft exciting and overpowering day of one summer wss the day 1 spent on the battleAeld of Waterloo. Starting out with the morning train from Brus sels. Belgium, we arrived In about an hour on that famous spot. A son of one who was In the battle, and who had heard from hie father a thousand times the whole scene recited, accompanied us over the Aeld, There stood the old Hougomont Chateau, the walls dented, and scratched, and broken, and shat tered by grape-shot and cannon-ball. There Is the well In which tbrse hun dred dying and dead were pitched. I There Is the chapel with the bead of ! the Infant Christ shot off. There are ' t ontau at tvh(r>h fnr munv hnlirfl | English and French armies wrestled, j Yonder were the (me hundred and six ty guns of the English, and the two hundred and fifty guns of the French. Yonder the Hanoverian Hussars fled for the woods. Yonder was the ravine of Obaln, where the French cavalry, not knowing there was a hollow In the ground, rolled over and down, troop after troop, tumbling Into one awful mass of suffering, boot of kick ing horses against brow and breast of ! captains and colonels and private sol ! dlers, the human and the beastly groan kept up until, the day after, all was shoveled under because of the malodor arising in that hot month of June. ‘•There," said our guide, “the High land regiments lay down on their faces waiting for the moment to spring upon the foe. In that orchard twenty-five hundred mea were cut to pieces. Here stood Wellington with white lips, and up that knoll rode Marshal Ney on bis eixth horse, live having been shot un der him. Here the ranks of the French broke, and Marshal Ney, with hie boot slashed of a sword, and bis hat off, and bis face covered with powder and blood, tried to rally hie troops as he cried: ‘Come and see bow a marshal of France dies on the battle-field.' From yonder direction Orouchy was expected for the French re-enforce ment, but he came not. Around those woods Blucber was looked for to re enforce the English, and Just in time he came up. Yonder Is the field where Napoleon stood, his arm through the reins of a horse's bridle, dazed and In sane, trying to go back." Scene from a battle that went on from twenty-five minutes to twelve o'clock, on the eighteenth of June, until four o'clock, when the English seemed defeated, and their commander cried out: “Boy*' can you think of giving way? Reraem-* her old England!" and the tide turned, and at eight o'clock In the evening the man of destiny, who was called by his troops Old Two Hundred Thousand, turned away with broken heart, and the fate of centuries was decided. No wonder a great mound has been reared there, hundreds of feet high— a mound at the expense of millions of dollars and many years In rising, and on the top Is the great Belgian lion of bronze, and a grand old lion it is. But our great Waterloo was In Pales tine. There came a day when all hell rode up, led by Apollyon, and the Captain of our salvation confronted them alone. The Rider on the white horse of the Apocalypse going out uffulnsit 1 hi* lilapk mvitlrv t\t death, and the battalions of the de moniac. and the myrmidonn of dark ness Krom twelve o'clock at noon to three o'clock In the afternoon the greatest battle of the universe went on. Eternal destinies were being derided. All the arrow* of hell pierced our t'hleftatn. and the battle-axes struck him. until brow and cheek and •boul der and hand aud foot were Incarna dined with ooxtng life; but he fought on until he gave a final eiroke aud the i omiuandei in-chtef of hell and all hla forces fell hack In everlasting ruin, and ths victory Is our* And on the mound that celebrate* the triumph we plant this dav two figure* not In brunt* or Iron or sculptured marble, but two figures of living light, the lion of Judnh * Utb* and Ih* loath that wa* slain Wind ttftvsn Htiitln No Isos than three attempt* to causa ths wlhd to aid ths hfcycte-rtder in driving hi* machine have recently been made Hr Imentur*. on* American and t«* Trench In the * as* of the Amor* I* an and on* of the T«on*h in-nation*, th* apparatus emit ted na the plan of n toy nlndmill h attached to the *«. bln* and geared to the front wheel In aueh a maaner that the force of tho wind an he utilised In tumle* the tshoei T%« third vonttlvame also o-t* on the pttn-ipie «f the nlndmill, hot t*o mutor, in*teed of h«> «g fan* ell facing one noy. te shaped Uha an smp't pnmphte ahelt. eith th* **« meats * tghtty wp«i*l*t end In* Mood ieas>4 I he pte* that aaofmnena of Ihooe devhtoe remain* « he (t»mt*n ■ •I rated FITZ IS THE WINNER. CORBETT KNOCKED OUT IN THE FOURTEENTH ROUND. Terrlllc Flghtlm: l>jf Both Men—Covbett’s Helene* Availellt Notliiug In th* Final Outcome Fltz.lmmon'a strength D«rl<t*a th* Oajr .Now Heavy* weight C ham|Hoo. The lorbett-FItzaimiuona Fight. Caksos, Nev., March H. — Robert Fitzsimmons, < ornishnmn by birth, Australian by training ami Ameri can by adoption, won the undisputed title to champion pugilist of the world iu tiie arena here to-day by defeating James J. Corbett, a Califor nian by birth, the champion since 1RU2, in the fourteenth round of the hottest fight in modern times The decisive blow was one over the heart following a Jab in the neck. As Fitzsimmons passed his wife he shook her by the band and then kissed her. Then he cliinlied into ths ring first. At 11:59 o’clock Fitzsimmons entered the ring amid mighty cheers lie was bareheaded and was enveloped iu a Japanese bath robe. In his corner were Julian, Koche, Stelzncr and Hickey. A half minute later Corbett passed under the ropes and was greeted with even greater appiauso than was his rival. Hehind Corbett were Charley White, Delaney, Jeffreys, McVey, Joo Corbett, Hilly Woods and AI Hampton. Hilly Madden announced the time keepers Just at noon while Fitz walked leisurely around the ring and chatted pleasantly with all the people in close proximity to the ropes, and Corbett uiu a mue jig-siap in ms corner, tuny Muldoon greeted Fitz with: “Hello, Fitz! How arc you'.’” and the Austra lian replied: "Oh, bloody fine.” Madden then introduced George Siler as the referee, and the next moment both men stripped for the fight. Fitz simmons refused to shake hands. The matter of choice of corners was decided last night by a "tosa-up," Cor bett winning the toss. He chose the sonthwrst corner of the ring, wishing to get the sen at his back, leaving Fitz simmons no choice but to take the northeast corner. Time was called at 12:0ft and both men began sparring for an opening. Then “Fitz” forced Cor bett into the corner and tried a left swing. The Rounds. Fitz then tried a left swing, when Jim ducked cleverly and smiled. Fit2 was very aggressive and landed a light one on Corbett's neck. Jim feinted and landed a left book on the stomach and followed with a left hook on Fitz'a jaw. They clinched, but no damage was done in the breakaway. Corbett landed a light swing on Fitz'a ribs and another olinch with no damage came. On the breakaway Fitz landed his left on Jim's head and Jim landed a hard right on Fitz's short ribs. A third clinch and then Fitz landed a heavy right on Jim's head. Jim said, “Oh,” and laughed. Jim landed on Fitz's ribs as the gong sounded for the end of round one. Round 3—Corbett advanced to the center and forced the fight for a min ute. A clinch followed, with no dam age in the breakaway. Fitz gave a short one on the ribs and a loft swing. More clinching, with Jim very cautious and looking for the slightest opening. Jim landed two stiff left swings on Fitz's head. Fit/, swuug his left and right and landed lightly on Corbett's head. The lighting was of rapid char acter, with both men very lively on their feet. Round 3—Corbett started right in with that hard left hook on the body. Fitz got savage and tried his left and right at Corbett's head, hut did very little damage. Corbett landed another left jab on the body anil followed with a right short on the ribs. Jim clinched and then landed a right hard over the heart. Fitzsimmons mixed it up and put the heel of his glove in Corbett's face in the clinch. Jim kept his right working like a piston rod on Fitz's body. They olinelied and Fitzsimmons roughed It on the breakaway. As the gong sounded Fitz seemed anxious to coutiuue, ’ but Corbett laughingly slipped his right glove in Fitz’s face and they went to their corners. uoiimi i—* ornt’ii rntiimi; lanueii igt right again on the body. Fit/ was short with his left, but followed it with a stiff left onjiin'^ stomach aud they clinched. THB| were lighting at a terrific rate audMt was a beautiful content. Fits rushed anti Jim met him with a stiff right hand short on the stomach Fit* was doiug the rushing and bitting and roughing It in the breakaway*, while « orlietl washy long mid* making the cleverer tight, play lug systematically with right and left no the body An eschange of left* at the head amt time waa called Hound I t or bell lauded hi* left on Fita'* Jaw Again that left weal on the jaw Mta'a blows had plenty of steam behind them, but were not a* frequent a* t o« belt a They Winched and eaehaaged compliments with owe arm loos*. t urbetl led a very slow left Fit* lauded bin left on Jim* week and Jim Urea threw a stiff bait round with bis left on litas aoae. draw lag Ini bfoud I be* mtted and fur belt had the better of It tturbett landed another stiff right on the hods and left oti the chin This round ended In fassw of Corbett Hound » The two clinched and Fita triad to wrestle Corbett down amid loud cries of Ob' Ob'* t orhetl landed a light left jab n« the fn*w and I its owe ter ed *u* the Jan to* bell upper *el Fit* kirtel) with right and had Fit# going the Aos'rett*n was liter •ilg euvrred silk Idmal, hut was gght rag like a demon « mbelt we* show mg the signs wf fast worh t it* weal be* an ewe knee and took the Iteae limit Me was full of ffght >m rising .nrhett began slaughtering him with uppercuts, but often led wild and ! missed many well intended blows. Time was called with Fitzsimmons looking very much the worse for wear : and Corbett puffing. Round 7—Corbett began forcing the | tight, but missed a left swing at the head. Then he uppefeut Fitz hard on the face. Fitz began bleeding again, iiut was fighting like a lion. They were both looking lor a knockout blow. Jiin landed a light left on Fitz's sore mouth. Fitz. missed right and left swings, and then tried a left swing, which was ducked by Corbett and countered with a heavy right over the heart. Corliett was very tired. Fitz looked like a stuck bullock, but was as strong as the other man. Round tj—Fitz began forcing it. An exchange with no damage opened. Fitz missed a left swing and was lifted off his feet by a straight jab from Cor bett on the mouth. Fitz. led a right tiand, but Corbett ducked. Fitz landed ills left on Corbett's face and Corbett countered with his right on the body. After some sparring for wind, Fits tried his right at Corbett's head, but was countered heavily on tiie jaw with Corbett's good left. Fitz. had the worst of tilts round when the gong sounded. Round 9—This opened with long range sparring, lioth were active on their feet. Fitz landed below the belt, and was cautioned by Siler. Corbett landed a stiff left on Fitz's wind. Fita rushed Corbett, but did very little damage. Jim was jabbing and clinch ing and uppercuttlng with the right on the breakaway. Fitz landed a very hard left hand swing on Corbett's jaw and tried a right cross, but Jim was inside. Fitz sguin tried a right cross, but he was siiort. He landed ofteuer during this round. Round 10.—Fitz spat blood out of his mouth and then tried a hard left •wing at Corbett'* head and followed with a stiff loft and right on Jim's head and body. He was very much cooler and stronger than Corbett at this stage. Corbett made a swing with a straight left on the mouth and Fits was bleeding rapidly, but forced Cor bett back, apparently being the stronger man. They mixed It up and honors were about even, with both fighting hard. Fitz caught Corbett around the neck and drugged him to the ropes when time was called. Round 11—A clinch opened and then Corbett landed his right on the ribs and was countered with a left jab on the chin. Fit/, was receiver general for Corbett’s left jabs, but was like a bear in strength. Corbett missed a half round hook on the jaw. Fits landed a hard left straight on Cor betts face. They clinched and Fitz crossed with his right on the clinch. They mixed it and Fitz had decidedly the better of this roughing. Fitx fought Corbett to his corner and bad him weak as the gong sounded. Round 12 — Corbett rushed It, but missed with his left and wax encoun tered on the face. Fit/ was bent on rushing it and Corbett kept away. Fits got the worst of it in the rush. More clinching followed and then Corbett landed his left on Fitz's sore note and followed with half a round at the bod3-. He forced Fitz to the ropes and smashed hard on the short ribs. Fitz spit copious wads of blood. Corbett began rushing and landed one. two, rlght^and left on the Cornishman’e face and left on the Cornishman's face and landed left on Fitz’s face again; and followed with a right on the body. He tried a knockout uppercut with the right, but it was a hair too short. This was Corbett’s round. Round 13—Fit/ landed a right short on Corbett’s ribs and a left on the jaw, but Jim found Fit/, with a good left. Fitz rushed Jim over to his corner, but did little damage. Corbett jabbed Fitz lightly on the bead and he was back again with the same on the body. Corbett was sparring beautifully and ducking out of some very dangerous blows. Fitz landed ills left straight and hard on Jim's face and followed with a hard right swing, but it did no good. Jim's glove was in Fitz's face when Madden pushed the button. Round <14 — Corbett led and was blocked. Corbett landed that left jab again on Fitz's head. Fitz countered with a terrible right swing on Corbett's neek uml he had Corbett going back for a few moments. Then he landed n terrible left jab on Corbett's stomach and Corbett went to his knees with a frightful look of agony on lilt face. The timekeepers called the seconds oue. two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, but Corbett came to his feet. He rushed to Fitz and en deavored to strike him. There sia a terrible uproar. Thru Siler decided tiiet Fit* lied won The blow that did the business landrd over t’erbett’a heart and hr colia|med. The last round lusted one minute and ttarroade. t* Ante lb* ■** Duly. Moeron, March l» - In anticipation of the new tariff bill, which Leri petted to go late effect on May I. imposing a duly of 1 cent and upward* par poua* on all togart itupoi ted Into the United stales, the auger iinpnrtare ere net ieel.t eugaged la hutlng up all avail able augar. both >a the ruarkate ut liarmanv and tufa*. for p*urupt ship ment to thu country in an affort to g*t the wmniwlii.i Into the marhat without paying to the g<w*rument the new tna Alleged Mg UeteteellM t en Ago March It la a blit tied la the toper to* court ho § receiver foe the Fee I lie I one end Hoa>e«teed **#*• . lotion, it It charged that Itawltt C Itutta. who until ImInumi wae w* i i* tar* of the aseoeiethm. la * default** end ha* appropriated |tu mi .«# the funds of the aeamioethun Wtrgfct *1 the Pug Me it t %**»•* he* , Marvh It torhett weighed this morning lav pounds — ! three more than when he fought Mitchell I ItMWUMr weighed, ge ctrrd-ng to duitnu between tt« ang let Ju wu taut i*r; plainly that t Utarmwa* noutd no* concede wow* | than twelve pound* to t »«b«tt LOWER CORN RATES. firnifi MnU Be Hhlppetl Boon op Prtrt A Dead Lotn. Though the general manager* of the Iowa railroads have declined to grant reduced rate* for corn, or even place an emergency rate for the month of March, the Iowa board of railroad commissioners is still making an active fight for some, concession. The following is the text of a letter recently sent by C. L. Davidson, chair man of the board, to the presidents und general managers of all Iowa lines. “The situation in Iowa is very seri ous, especially in relation to the corn crop of last year. After careful inves tigation I am convinced that not more than 23 per cent of the corn crop of 18'Jfl can lie saved lieyond the coming of warm weather anil that whatever is done with it, shipping, etc., mnst be done before that time. In addition to this condition of things the number of stock animals in lowu to be fed is not sufficient to consume beyond a small percentage of this grain, in amount not, I think, to exceed 20 per cent of the corn crop. “If I arn correct in the estimates made this leaves at least SO per cent of the crop on hand, which must be ship ped within say, five weeks, or be a loss to the farmers and the freight a loss to the transportation companies. With this situation confronting the people and tiie transportation lines, I write to suggest and urge the necessity of aueh an emergency rate for, say, the month of March, as will carry this corn to a market, and also to ask that you give the subject that early and earliest con sideration which the extreme gravity of the situation demands.” The officials of the Iowa lines, like those of the Nebraska roads, contend that emergency rates would not help the corn growers one whit. They cite many ruses where reduced rates have been put in before to help the farmers und that such cuts have always been followed by corresponding falls in the market, the grain murket never fail ing to take up the slack. They insist, thi'rpfnm fltuf fliotr uimnlir ittui fhn amount they reduce the rates and the farmer gains nothing. Despite the fact that three great corn-growing states, Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas, have united in beseeching the railrouds to grant lower rates in order to move koine of the great corn crop of tin* past season, noue of the roads in these states have yet come down in their rates. Men who watch railroad affairs closely say there Is no probability of any reduction thin spring, even though the three govern ors of tlie three boards of transporta tion should continue to pound the rail rouds on the hack. Assistant General Freight Agent Wood of the Union Pa cific was down to Lincoln during the first part of the week and had a con ference with the Nebraska state board of transportation, but no radical changes came out of that meeting. Grand laland Soldiers’ Horn*. The citizens of Grand Island have set forth a few additional facts in an other petition to the legislature re garding the soldiers’ home. Statements which have been published purporting to be a comparison of the death rate of the two homes are misleading. The petitioners set fortli that “the hospital at the Grand Island home has the ca pacity of thirty patients, while the Milford home has no hospital accom modations, resulting in all the Invalid soldiers being sent to the Grand Island home, while those sent to the Milford home were able-bodied.” Many of the inmates of the Grand Island home arc, in afact, sent direct to the hospital. The petitioners further call attention to the fact that the sanitary conditions of the home are good, as evidenced by the fact that during all the years of existence of the home there have been but 103 deaths and but one of this number has died of a fever. During the first nine months but two deaths occurred, one from consumption and one from paralysis. Shipping Damp Corn. The Peavey elevator company, oper ating in various Nebraska towns, re cently tried an experiment in shipping .lamp corn that, surprised the Arm. Fifteen cars of damp < o -n were shipped through to Galveston, and when it arrived there was reported as dry and in a good merchantable condition. This was attributed to the long haul through a dry and windy country. If true this is important to shippers. Nebraska Honored bv Woodman. Dr. R. Holovtehiner returned last week from St. Louis, where he at tended the national convention of the Woodmen of the World. The Ne braska delegates were emphatically in it*during the convention. Not oulv did they succeed in retaining the head quarters of the order in Omaha hut this state secured a flattering portion of tlie important ottices of the supreme body. , Arrastad for Moot lagging, York dispatch: Isaac H. Doggctt of I imvri niumjf «Kni" brought here anil lodged in the cmintr jail by Sheriff l*riee on the charge of wiling whlabey Illegally. Ten eounU have Iwen tiled again*! him and the caw will ba heard warn. Uiggrtt *•» arreated laat fall for the *»me offeuw but owing to rvutpeltiv for Ida family the eaw w ar ill»mi«wd. Sew Trial Set ilraated. Auburn d!»i«teh The hearing .hi the mothm for a new trial in the Stall will eaw war had before Judge Ram «e. of l,talt»m»mth, Mr«r>, flan* htirg and Htirnhard argued the motion at length on Wtiatf of the eoatertanta. t he motion war denied and the appeal of ttm Stull dUmisaed The auper ode. t.md war llted at lUMani Mr gwnged trrrrrlrriiw |tv a Inch* ehattee Mill (Ml a rt.a-a man, living >*n the Niobrara river, four wide* *outh of Mull* ewaped a violent (h ath The family of Mr ltd * it on a ; vtalt la Iowa aad after doing hi* chore* ltd. at leaded a prater meeting a few mile* from home t*u hit retatu ahoul midnight he I-mad hi* bed riddled With h... S*tnd and huileta aad fr.au the hrwhea window* it war evident a gang uf ruffra* had altr mated to murder him hr drooling th.engh the wtadaws ef hi* bedroom l« whare they t»pg.rw4 he ear rteep ag