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Tlio dispatches of December .27tfi
announce' that Germany : will ma.ke,;a-
naval demonstration ueiuru vouhwu,
' The .dispatches- of December . ,27th
report a Boer victory. ; - !.''
0. M. Woasolls, former chairman of
the .Orange Free State legislative, as
sembly, Is expected to arrive in this
country in January bearing a letter
from Mr. Kruger to President Rooser
velt.
United States Senator William J
Sewall died December 27th at his-home
in Camden, N. J.
A largo number of the people of the
Danish West Indies have protested
against the transfer of their islands to
the United States, and have petitioned
the Danish' ministry not to dispose. of
the . islands -without first submitting
the, matter to a vote of the people.
The press dispatches of December
27th report that Rev. Dr. Charles S.
Herald, pastor of the Bethesda. Con
gregational church in Brooklyn, who
was recently attached with blindness
while Jn,;the pulp.it, announces tbatjhe
has recovered his sight. In speaking
of his recovery. Dr. Herald declared
that God had restored his sight. He
said: "When the surgeon performed
the operation ho said there was no
hope, of my eyes recovering sight. 1
then fought the battle, the most stub
born and most trying battle, l.-.iiaye
ever, known in my thirteen- years' ex-,
peiohceas a preacher of 'thegbspeT
The enemy of my soul, then appeared
and jeered at me, saying, 'Now do you
believe " that the . grace of God is all
sufficient as you have preached to your
congregation for twelve years? Now,
will ho help you?' G6d. heard; my
prayer and did what man could nofc,do.
He restored my sight." " '
President Roosevelt has appointed
Henry C. Payne to succeed Charles'
Emory Smith as postmaster general.
Governor Shaw of Iowa has accepted
thCpdsLliiou of secretary 6l'i$S?tfgS8
ury. ' '
Edgar S. Maclay, the "historian," .
wasr discharged . from the government
service by order of the president. No
reason is given for Mr. Maclay's dis
missal. .
Dispatches of December 26th report
that the Boer forces under General
De-Wet captured four companies of
t British yeomanry with two guns on.
' Christmas eve at Tweefontein. The
British suffered heavy loss.
sAn American syndicate has offered
Russia $18,000,000 for a fifty-year lease
of 'land said to be rich in copper, coal,.
and silver in the Kiarghiz steppes.
Twenty-two Filipinos wero killed in
a hand-to-hand fight with the Twenty
first infantry, December 26th, near
San Jo3e.
It is announced that Marconi will
probably select Cape Breton as a per
manent wireless telegraphy station.
The now constitution of the Metho
dist Episcopal church, whioh was.
adopted at the last general conference
held In May, 1900, and. referred to; the
various annual conferopces, has been
a')prctd. by fc. thiee-foimhs vote.; in
this constitution, womc-n ao given the.
rignt to sit as delegates m tne: general
conference.
It js reported that tho Canadian gov
omment will goon demand a reconven
ing of the joint hjgh commission of the
United States and Canada. The Cana
dian government hopes to secure a
consideration of trifle relations and
of the Alaskan boundary dispute; and
the Canadian ministry is said to be
willing- to make concessions in the
boundary dispute If, by so doing, it
may obtain from the United States
trade concessions.
Eighty members of company F, 18th
infantry at Cheyenne, Wyo., were
poisoned while eftilrtg breakfast De
cember 26th. . None of them died. It is
believed that some one placed poison
on the breakfast meat.'
,T Governor Nash of Ohiorhas prepared
and will introduce in the Ohio legis
lature a bill providing for a corpora
tion tax. The bill combines the fea
tures of tho Littlefleld bill now pend
ing in congress, the New York law,
r.nd some new ideas suggested by Gov
ernor Nash . and Secretary of State
Laylin. It provides for publicity in
the affairs of the corporations in Ohio,
for penalties for perjury in making
annual statements to the secretary of
state, and for an annual tax of all cor
porations doing business in Ohio, both
domestic and foreign.
John R. Rogers, governor of the
state of Washington, died December
26th. He way fifty-three years, of age.
The Illinois supreme court has hand
ed down en opinion in a case wherein
one of the nomts raised was that the
judgment "was erroneous because tho
trial judge too); a nap during the pro
ceedings.:. On this point the Illinois supreme-court
says: "Conceding the ir
regularity of the presiding judge going
to' sleep while a trial is progressing,
we cannot hold the mer6 circumstance
of his having slept four or five min
utes a reversible error; If the judge
was.asldep, as certified, counsel must
havo knowa it, and, knowing it, they
should either, have, suspended the ex
amination of the witness then testify
ing until the judge awoke, or have
awakened him by calling attention, in
a voice sufficiently loud to awake him,
to, the fact that the trial was progress
ing. Counsel did, neither, but proceed
ed with the examination, and after the
judge awoke failed to call attention to
the fact that testimony had been taken
While he was asleep or to object in any
way."
, General Bartholomew Maso, one of
Jhe candidates for the presidency of
Chha, has withdrawn from the contest.
. A New York dispatch to the Chicago
.Tiibune says: On the North German
Lloyd steamship leaving New York the
fiist part of next week there will go
as passengers two children who, alone
and unattended, are beins: shinned
from their old home at Ashland, Ore.,
to . an aunt in Germany. They are
Agnes and Earl Etonhoff, aged, re
spectively, seven and four years.
Their mother put them on the train
at Ashland and telegraphed to the
office of the Southern Pacific railroad
1-ore, and they arrived in New York
t;rd and dusty on Christmas after
noon. On tho train coming east tho
passengers, who learned the story of
the little waifs, took much interest in
them and gave them Christmas pres
ents. It is said tho father of the chil
dren deserted their mother. The fare
of the two children had been paid by
their mother to their destination in
Germany, and railroad officials today
said there was no doubt they would
reach the house of their aunt in safety.
Senator Tillman has written a de
fense of the South Carolina dispensary
system for Leslie's Monthly. Senator
Tillman says that this system is su
perior to prohibition or the license
system ror these reasons: First, li
quor is the only article of commerce
In general use that is consumed at the
time and place of its purchase. It is
safe to say that three-fourths of it is
thus disposed of. The dispensary law
enforces a different method by requir
ing the purchaser to take it away as
he would a package of shoes or a sack
of flour. Ho must go somewhere else
than to the place where ho buys it to
consume it. Second, the element of
personal profit which lies at tho root
of tho saloon evil is destroyed. The
dispensers receive, (fixed salaries pro
portionate to lie amount of work they
do. They don't get a commission on
sales and have no incentive to push
them. Third, "treating" is destroyed,
and this does more for sobriety than
possibly any other feature of tho sys
tem. The man who has bought a bot
tle at the dispensary may treat one or
a half dozen of his friends to one
drink and that will be all. The induce
ment and obligation to reciprocate
which are so well understood do not
exist. Third, at. sundown dispensary
jjloses. It opens at 8 o'clock in the
morning. The legitimate demand for
whisky is supplied during daylight,
and the dispenser, having closed up
his place of business, has no Incen
tive to reopen it to make a sale. Under
no form of license is this possible. Be
sides it is a misdemeanor, to make sales
in any way or at any time except as
the law provides.
The navy department has taken stops
toward the adoption of wireless teleg
raphy as" a plan for signalling between
war ships at sea. The armored cruis
ers nf tho Pfinnsvlvnnln. r.lnss nro to
have their masts and rigging so ar- j
ranged that the wireless system can be
introduced.
The bicycle trust has secured con
trol of the big Hartfort plant, known
as tho Pope Bicycle Works.
. Secretary Long has approved the ma
jority report of the Schley court of
inquiry.
The shareholders in the Panama ca
nal have authorized their representa
tives to negotiate' with the United
States government in order to dispose
of their property an,d to induce the
United States to adopt the Panama, in
preference to tho Nicaragua route.
By order of the president. Secretary
of War Root has written a letter to .
General Miles, severely censuring him
because of his interview approving
Admiral Dewey's minority report.
A dispatch from Gailipolis, O., under
date of December; 24thA to the Chicago
Tribune says: Tho discovery of a
manuscript in a secret drawer of an old
clock reveals a secret of. the French
court and .shows the reason of the
visit to this city in 1789 of the Duke
of Orleans, afterward Louis Philippe
of Franco. The discovery was made
by Cloud M. Wall, who found an old
French clock with a secret drawer in
which he discovered an old parchment
wrapped with a portion of a flannel
skirt of a child, richly embroidered
and bearing a monogram. The manu
script purported to be. a "True History.
or Adele le Alonquon." It was signed
by Louis de Alonquon and dated Octo
ber 15, 1789. It was addressed to
Adele, 'apparently to be given her
whon she grew to maturity. The sub
stance of it was that Adele was the
daughter of the Duke of Orleans. The
mother died at the child's birth, ignor
ant of the rank of its father. The
writer was placed in charge of the
child. The story ran that he became
her preceptor and finally, after the
visit of the Duke of Orleans, to Gai
lipolis it was determined to send Adele
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Adele not being of royal blood, tho
marriage1 was kept secret; Some "por
tions of the papers giving names and
lineage have not been made .public. '.
ThcSword of Bunker Hill.
He lay upon his dying .bed,
His eye was growing dim, ., ;...,
When with, a feeble voice lie called u'.
His weeping ron to him. '.,;" .?
"Weep not my son, my years aro full,"
T bow to heaven's high will";-'.
But quickly from yon-antlers r bring
The sword of Bunker Hill."
The sword was brought, tho. soldier.'s
eye v. ;" ' .r . !"-;
Lit with a sudden flame, -,
And as he grasped the stained .hilt ,.'
He murmured Warren's name,-" -.
Then said, "My boy, I leave you gold,
But what is richer still,
I leave you priceless heritage, "'.' .
This sword of Bunker Hill." ...
" 'Twas on that dread immortal day
We did their hordes withstand,
And dying Warren faintly called. ..
And placed this in my hand; f-O
Tell them fight-on, this sword shall
point
The way of Freedom still, ,'&,
Then, boy, the God of battles blessed
The Sword of Bunker Hill. :,r'-'-il
"Oh! Keep the sWord,n'hiS accents
f:.iled ; ;.
A smile and ho was dead.' !.'
His withered hand still grasped tho
blado .
Had waved when Warren led.
That spirit lives, the sword remains-
With glory glowing still,
And countless freemen bless' with
tears, - "
The Sword of Banker Hill. . ;.
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