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nI .E G LAh D THE LATTER APPEARS TO BE LOSING HER GRIPP filar Innuences Beginning to rredomlaato in Clilna to the Commercial Sorrow of I the Anglo-Saxons-IIecent Slgn1Rcant Droves on all Sides-Li flung Chang In Disfavor. WAsnn ares , Sept. 26.-Reports to officials and to the diplomatic repre- i i sentatfves of Eastern countries fndi- cite that the Slavonic , or Russian , influence - fluence is becoming dominant and that t the Anglo-Saxon , or English influence , which has been hitherto uppermost in the developient of the Ehst , is being systematically and surely eliminated from the control of China and the East. The advance of Russian and the retirement of British influence has come by almost imperceptible stages , none of which has been sufficient in itself to attract marked attention , but all of them combined sliow that llhissia is seeking complete supremacy. A striking illustration of the change in China has come to the attention of the officials here. An American who recently arrived in Washington , after being in China for some time negotiating - ating for the building of a railroad with American capital , found the Rus- siah influence so strong that he went to the Russian ambassador at Pelcin to learn if the project would be viewed with favor by the Russians. The ambassador - bassador said : ' 'Ycs , Americans and American capital will be welcome in the development of China , but British capital is not wanted. " In the most emphatic manner the ambassador made known his opinion that British influence in China was at an end and that Russia had openly entered upon her course of controlling and developing - ing China. In an indirect way the United States has become involved in this evolution of Chinese affairs. The present on- < litiOn was foreseen by Great Britain before the Rosebery government went out of otlice. Lord Kimberly addressed a hate to this country suggesting joint notion in the scttleuhent of the China- .lapan war. It has since been disclosed - ' closed by British officials at 11'asliing- ton that the purpose of Lord Kimberly - ly was to cement English against Russian - sian influence. The United States declined - clined Lord llimberly's overture , and as a result Russia has been left free to execute her broad plan of bringing time Eastern world under t1ic influence of the czar. It appears also from an official re- 4 port rccrived here , dated the latter part of August that Li llung Chang is again in disfavor and that the leaders ' ' of the ignorant native factions arc uppermost. The viceroy of Nankin is the head of the opposition , and the reports - ports reaching otficials here show that this Nankin viceroy is the new power in China. A purely normal title of " Chancellor" has been "Imperial conferred - ferred upon Li , but It has no powers or duties It has been found , however - ever , that Li is the only man capable af negotiating the new commercial treaty with .Tapan and he has been named for this duty. A serious hitch ltas occurred on the treaty owing to the Japanese demand that Japanese courts shall have extraordinary juris- dietion in Clhina , while no such Chinese .warts are to be allowed in Japan. This is a humiliation which the Chinese resent. POSTOFFICE STATISTICS. ruts of Interrct In Ilcari to Western Offices-The Cook Cuig's Work. WASUINGTON , Sept 2a.-According to the report of time Fourth Assistant Postmaster general during the last fiscal - cal year Oklahoma had the greatest increase in time number of postoflices -69 , while the Indian territory's was 60. Nineteen states showeddecreases , with Kansas leading with the greatest loss-53. postoflices established during - ing the year numbered : In Kansas , -10 ; in Missouri , 115 ; in Oklahoma , Oo ; in the Territory , 78. Postofiices discontinued - continued : In Kansas , 93 : in Missouri - souri , 35 ; m Oklahoma , 29 ; in the Territory - ritory , la. Fourth-class postmasters resigned : In Kansas , 316 ; in Missouri , : :96 : ; in'Oldahoma. 90inthe ; Territory , 103 Fourth-class postmasters removed - moved : In Kansas , 7 ; in Missouri , l ; in Oklahcina , : O ; in the Territory , 13 Pourtli-elass postmasters deceased : In Kansas , 19 : in Missouri , 2t : ; in Ok- lahcana , : ' ; in the Territory , 7. Attie end of the postofliee year Kansas had 1,701 postoflices , Missouri 2,72. ; , Oklahoma ltio'tnd the Indian territory 419. These states lead the Onion : Pennsylvania ; 4,950 offices ; New York , 3.i2 ; Ohio , 3.301 ; Virginia , : ,1ST ; North Carolina.2S76 and Texas 2,7O. : ; . A peneeful year is looked for in the postalervice , the expectation being 1arrcly based on the favorable reports from the Indian territory. During the year 1,561 postottces , fifty-four mail trains and stapes and sixty-nine letter boxes were robbed , the work of . the Cook hang. TO REFORM THE LORDS. TL o L ntion Choaiclo Makes Public Alreged Conservative Plans. LONDON , Sept. 28. - The Daily Chrpuicle , an organ of the Liberal party , states to-day that the leaders of the Conservative party intend to make thgl honse of lords an elective body , either adopting the principle already "xisting in relation to Scottish - tish peer : sitting in the house of lords , or having the house of commons elect an uoper chamber from the peerage. It is aso , according to the Chronicle - icle , intended to give the peers , the right to forego the house of lords' prerogatives - rogatives and enter the house of corn- 'lions. t LEAvENwor.Thi , Kan. , Sept. S. _ Early yesterday morning Daniel Mc- Council , aged a4 , was run over by a Missouri Pacific freight 'train , four miles below this city and fatally in jrred. It is supposed that he was ly 'fig on the track asleep. Old Soldiers Favored. r EINGSTON , N. Y. , Sept. 2S.The question of exemption from taxes of the property of veteran soldiers in this state , purchased with pension money , has just been decided in the 1 ? airmitive by Judge Alton B. Parker -in special term. . . . Ik - , IRISH WAR PLANS. Foramtlon of fililtary Companies Irecom- mended to StriIco When Opportune. ' CulcAOo Sept. 2o.-The Irish convention - tion adopted the following : Resolved , That this convention recommends - ommends the formation of military companies whercverpracticable , in order - der to foster and preserve the military spirit of the Irish race , and to be prepared - pared for action in the hour of Eng- land's difficulty. After the resolutions were disposed of J. J. O'Connell of Chicago presented the following as the reportof the committee - mittee on organization and ways and means : "The new movement" organization shall be known by the style and title of the Irish National Alliance. It shall have for its object the securing - ing of the independence of Ireland by any means within its power consistent with the laws and usages of civilized nations. The qualifications for membership shall be good moral character , birth on Irish soil , or decent from Irish parentage - entage on paternal or maternal side , or both , and the taking of the following - ing pledge of honor ? " 1 hereby pledge my word of honor to aid with every means within my power in conformity with the constitution and by-laws of the Irish National Alliance , in securing - ing the independence of Ireland. " The election of officers of the newly created Irish National Alliance was declared - clared in orderandresulted as follows : President , William Lyman , New Yorlc ; vice president , O'Neill Ryan , St. Louis ; treasurer , Ii. V Fitzpatrick , Chicago ; executive council , J. J. Donovan - evan , Lowell , Mass. ; Chris Gallagher , Minnesota ; Martin Kelly , Tennessee ; Captain Mangan , Wisconsin ; J. Slice- by , San Fransisco ; J. M. Kennedy , Anaconda - aconda , Mont. ; Thomas .1. Dundon , Ohio ; Thomas' II. Greevy , Pennsylvania - nia , and James LatvlerTexas. The convention closed with the singing of a new Irish song , composed by firs Teresa Beatrice O'Hare of Cleveland , Ohio , called "God Bless Ireland , " after which the delegates arose and sang "America" and "God Bless Ireland. " CULBERSON IN EARNEST , Governor of Tens Cals the Legislzture in Session. Avsrtc , Texas , Sept. -Governor Culberson has issued a proclamation calling a special session of the legislature - ture for October 1 , that will be rc- quired to pass a law that will knock the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight into a cocked hat. The governor issued the proclamation last night after a lengthy consultation with his cabinet. Be gave the press correspondent as the reason for his action that in the present - ent condition of the law , fight man alters are liable to pull oft the fight while the courts are rowing over it ; that the chief justice of the court of criminal appeals has ruled against the state , and now there is a mandamus case pending in the supreme court that may go in an entirely different line , thus raising a conflict between the two highest courts in the state. In order to settle alt possible contention he issued the call , convening the legislature - islature next Tuesday in this city , and sets forth the purpose of the call as follows. First-To denounce prize fighting and kindred practices in clear and un- ambhs terms , and to prohibit the same by appropriate pains and penalties - ties , putting the law into immediate operation , and making necessary provisions - visions for its enforcement , so that the proposed exhiliitiou of this character within this state may be prevented , the undoubted will of the people upon the subject respected and this affront to the moral sense and enlightened progress of Texas averted. Second-To consider and act upon such other matters as may be presented - ed , pursuant to section 40 , articles 3 , of the constitution. SURPLUS IN TREASURY. September Statement or Itcceipts and Expenditures ottlie Covernment. WAS1lINGTON. Sept. 2S.-For the second - end time in the last twelve months the forthcoming monthly statement of the receipts and. expenditures of the government - ernment for September will show an excess of receipts over expenditures. This surplus , tvhith has now reached $112 , 74-i , will probably be increased to about G2,00o,00C by the end of the month , by which time the receipts are expected to reach $26,250,000. The only other exception to the deficit rule during the year was in Jnnc last , when the receipts exceeded the expenditures by nearly $1,000,000. The October figures , however. are expected to show a deficit of about $5,000,000 , as during that month the pension and interest payments alone will approximate $11,000,003. The receipts - ceipts on account of customs have shown a gratifying increase of late , as have those from internal revenue sources , although in a less degree. Yesterday the treasury lost $ ; 0.000 in bold for export to Canada , leaving the true amount of gold reserve at the close of business $04,013,153. To Lie Near Kit Carson. Dr t. NoirrE , Col. , Sept. ? 8.-Ar- rangenhents have been completed whereby the remains of the noted scout and Indian fighter , Colonc' Albert henry Pleifler , are soon to be removed from Del Norto , where they were buried in ISSO , to the National cemetery at Santa Fe , the government - ment bearing the exnenses. The body of Colonel Pleif'er ; ' will be interred by the side of that of Kit Carson , at Santa Fe , in compliance with a wish expressed by Colonel Pleif er just prior to his death. A Venerable Man Struck by a Train. ATcrosox , Kan. , Sept. 2S.-C. 1i. Lee , aged 02 , was struck by a Missouri Pacific passenger train to-day and fatally injured. lie is Atchison's oldest - est citizen. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. At the Hinshaww murder trial in Danville - ville , Ind. , front seats were sold for $2 each. A meteor fell at hot Springs , Ark. , accompanied by a vivid flash of light and a hissing noise. EMAAGE' S 1 SERMON. STRIKING LESSON FOR MEN AND WOMEN OF TO-DAY. "And There Wore Also with Iilm Other Little Ships , and There Arose a Great Storm"-Mark , lv : 36. 37-Delivered Sunday , Sept. 22 , 1893. f t'GAO. IBERIAS , Galilee a n d Gennesaret were three names for the same lake. It lay in a scene of great luxuriance. The surrounding hills , high , terraced , sloping , gorged , were so many hanging - ing gardens of beau- ty. The streams rumbled down through rocks of grey lime stone , and flashing from the hillside - side , bounded to the sea. In the time of our Lord the valleys , headlands , and ridges were covered thickly with vegetation - tation , and , so great was the variety of climate , that the palm tree of the torrid and the walnut tree of rigorous climate wogs only a little way apart. Men in vineyards andolive gardens were gathering - ering up the riches for the oil-press. The hills and valleys were starred and crimsoned with flowers , from which Christ took his text , and the disciples learned lessons of patience and trust. It seemed as if God had dashed a wave of beauty on all the scene until it hung dripping from the rocks , the hills , the oleanders. On the back of the Lebanon range the glory of the earthly scene was carried up as if to set it in range with the hills of heaven. No other gem ever had so exquisite a setting as beautiful Gennesaret. The waters were clear and sweet , and thickly - ly inhabited , tempting innumerable netsand affording a livelihood for great populations. Bethsaida , Chorazin and Capernaum stood on the bank , roaring with wheels of traffic and flashing with splendid equipages , and shooting their vessels across the lake , bringing merchandise - chandise for Damascus and passing great cargoes of wealthy product. Pleasure - ure boats of Roman gentlemen , and fishing smacks of the country people who had come down to cast a net there , passed each other with nod and shout and welcome , or side by side swung idly at the mooring. Palace and luxuriant - uriant bath and vineyard , tower and shadowy arbor , looked off from the calm , sweet scene as the evening shadows - ows began to drop , and Hermon , with its head covered with perpetual snow , in the glow of the setting sun looked like a white-bearded prophet ready to ascend in a chariot of fire. I think we shall have a quiet night ! Not a leaf winks in the air , or a ripple disturbs the surface of Gennesaret. The shadows - ows of the great headlands stalk clear across the water. The voices of even- Ina tide , how drowsily they strike the ear-the splash of the boatman's oar , and the thumping of the captured fish on the boat's bottom , and those indescribable - scribable sounds which fill the air at nightfall. You hasten up the beach of the lake a little way , and there you find an excitement as of an em- barkation. A flotilla is pushing out from the western shore of the lake- not a squadron with deadly armament ; not a clipper to ply with valuable merchandise - chandise ; not piratic vessels with grap- pling-hook , to hug to death whatever they could seize , but a flotilla -laden with messengers of light , and mercy , and peace. Jesus is in the front ship ; his friends and admirers are in the small boats following after. Christ , by the rocking of the boat and the fatigues of the preaching exercises of the day , is induced to slumber , and I see him in the stern of the boat , with a pillow perhaps extemporised out of a fisher- man's coat , sound asleep. The breezes of the lake run their fingers through the locks of the worn-out sleeper , and on its surface there riseth and falleth the light ship , like a child on the bosom of its sleeping mother ! Calm night. Starry night. Beautiful night. Run up all the sails , and ply all the oars , and let the boats-the big' boat and the small boats - go gliding over gentle Gennesaret. The sailors prophesy a change in the weather. Clouds begin to travel up the sky and congregate. After a while , even the passengers hear the moan cf the storm , which comes on with rapid strides , and with all the tercrs of hurricane and darkness. The boat , caught in the sudden fury , trembles like a deer at bay , amid the wild clangor of the hounds. Great patches of foam jire flung through the air. The loc ened sails , flapping in the wind , crack like pistols. The small boats poised on the white cliff of the driven sea tremble like ocean petrels , and then plunge into the trough with terrific - rific swoop until a wave strikes them with thunder-crack , and overboard go the cordage , the tackling , and the masts , and the drenched disciples rush into the stern of the boat , and snout amid the hurricane , "Master , carest thou not that we perish ? " That great Personage lifted his head from the fisherman's coat , and walked out to the prow of the vessel , and looked upon the storm. On all sides were the small boats tossing in helplessness , and from them came the cries of drowning men. Dy the flash of lightning I see the calmness - ness of the uncovered brow of Jesus , and the spray of the sea dripping from his head. He has two words of con- mand-one for the wind , the other for the sea. He locks into the tempestuous heavens , and he cries , "Peace ! " and then he looks down into the infuriate waters , and he says , "Be still ! " The thunders beat a retreat. The waves fall flat on their faces. The extinguished stars rekindle their torches. The foam melts. The storm is dead. And while the crew are untangling the cordage Q T . . . and the cables , and baling out the water from the hold of the ship , the disciples stand wonder-struck , now gazing into the calm sky , now gazing into the calm sea , now gazing into the calm face of Jesus , and whispering one to another , "What manner of man is this , that oven the winds and the sea obey him ? " I learn , first , from this subject that when you are going to take a voyage of any kind you ought to have Christ in the ship. The fact is , that these boats would have all gone to the bet- tom if Christ had not been there. Non , you are about to voyage out into some new enterprise-Into some new business - ness relation ; you are going to plan some great matter of profit. I hope it Is so. If you are content to go along in the treadmill course and plan nothing - ing new , you are not fulfilling your mission. What you can do by the utmost - most tension of body , mind , and soul , that you are bound to do. You have no right to be colonel of a regiment if God calls you to command an army. You have no right to be stoker in a steamer if God commands you to be admiral of the navy. You have no right to engineer a ferry-boat from river bank to river bank if God commands you to engineer a Cunarder from New York to Liverpool. Bud whatever enterprise - terprise you undertake , and upon whatever - ever voyage you start , be sure to take Christ in the ship. Here are men largely - ly prospered. The seed of a small enterprise - terprise grew into an accumulated and overshadowing success. Their cup of prosperity is running over. Every day sees a commercial or a mechanical tri- umph. Yet they are not puffed up. They acknowledge the God who grows the harvests , and gives them all their prosperity. When disaster comes that destroys others , they are only helped into higher experiences. The coldest winds that ever blew down from snowcapped - capped Hermon and tossed Gennesaret into foam and agony could not hurt them. Let the winds blow until they crack their cheeks ; let the breakers boom-all is well , Christ is in the ship. Here are other men , the prey of uncer- tainties. When they succeed , they strut through the world in great vanity , and wipe their feet on the sensitiveness of others. Disaster comes , and they are utterly clown. They are good sailors on a fair day , when the sky is clear and the sea is smooth ; but they cannot outride - ride a storm. After awhile the packet is tossed abeam's end , and it seems as if she must go down with all the cargo. Push out from the shore with lifeboat , long boat , shallop , and pinnace. You cannot save the crew. The storm twists off the masts. The sea rises up to take down the vessel. Down she goes ! No Christ in that ship. I speak to young people whose voyage - age in life will be a mingling of sunshine - shine and of darkness , of arctic blast and of tropical tornado. You will have many a long , bright clay of prosperity. The sky is clear , the sea smooth. The crew exhilarant. The boat staunch will bound merrily over the billows. Crowd on all the canvas. Heigh , ho ! Land ahead ! But suppose that sickness - ness puts its cup to your lips ; suppose misfortune with some quick turn of the wheel , hurls you backward ; suppose - pose that the wave of trial strikes you athwart-ships , and bowsprit shivered , and halliards swept into the sea , and gangway crowded with piratical disasters - asters , and the wave beneath , and the skyy above , and the darkness around are filled with the clamor of the voices of destruction. Oh ! then you will want Ohrist in the ship. I learn , in the next place , that people who follow Christ must not always expect - pect smooth sailing. When these disciples - ciples got into the small boats they said : "What a delightful thing this is ! Who would not be a follower of Christ When he can ride in one of these small boats after the ship in which Jesus is sailing ? " But when the storm came down these disciples found out that following Jesus did not always make smooth sailing. So you have found out and I have found out. If there are any people who you think ought to have a good time in getting out of this world , the apostles of Jesus Christ ought to have been the men. Have you ever noticed how they got out ci the world ? St. James lost his head. St. Phillip was hung to death against a pillar. St. Matthew was struck to death by a halb r'd. St. Mark was dragged to death through thmh stree .s. St. James the Less had his brains dashed out with a fuller's club. St. Matthias was stoned to death. St. Thomas was struck through with a spear. John Huss in the fire , the Albi- genses , the Waldenses , the Scotch Cov- enanters-did they always find smooth sailing ? Why go so far ? There is a young man in a store in New York who has a hard time to rnaintain his Christian character. All the clerks laugh at him , the emp'cyers in that store laugh at him ; and when he loses his patience they say : "You are a pretty Christian. " Not so easy is it fcr that young man to follow Christ. If the Lord did not help him hour by hour he would fail There are scores of young men today who would be willing to testify that in following Christ one does not always find smooth sailing. There is a Christian girl. In her home they do not like Christ. She has hard work to get a silent place in which to say her prayers. Father opposed to re- ligion. Mother opposed to religion. I3rothers and sisters opposed to re- liion. The Christian girl does not always - ways find it smooth sailing when she tries to follow Jesus. But be of 'good heart. As seafarers , when winds are deed ahead , by setting the ship on starboard - board tack and bracing the yards , make the winds that oppose the course propel the ship forward , so opposing troubles , through Christ , veering around the bowsprit of faith , will waft you to heaven , wh n , if the winds had been abaft , they might have rocked and sung you to sleep , and while dreaming I _ .z bwd- of the destined port of heaven you could not have heard the cry of warning - ing and would have gone crashing into the breakers. Again , my subject teaches me that good people sometimes get very much frightened. From the tone and manner - ner of these disciples as they rushed into the stern of the vessel and woke Christ up , you know that they are fearfully - fully scared. And so it is now that you often find good people wildly agi- tated. "Oh ! " says some Christian man , "the infidel magazines , the bad newspapers - papers , the spiritualistic socleties , the importation of many foreign errors , the church of God is going to be lost , the ship is going to founder ! The ship is going down ! " What are you frightened - ened about ? An old lion goes into his cavern to take a sleep , and ho lies down until his shaggy mane covers his paws. Meanwhile , the spiders outside begin to spin webs over the mouth of his cay- ern , and say : "That lion cannot break out through this web , " and they keep on spinning the gossamer threads until they get the mouth of the cavern covered - ered over. "Now , " they say , "the lion's done , the lion's done. " After awhile the lion awakes and shakes himself , and he walks out from the cavern , never knowing there were any spider webs , and with his voice he shakes the mountain. Let the infidels and the skeptics - tics of this day go on spinning theories , spinning them all over the place where Christ seems to be sleeping : They say : "Ohrist can never again come out ; the work is done ; he can never get through this logical web we have been spin- ning. " The day will come when the Lion of Judah's tribe will arouse himself - self and come forth and shake mightily - ly the nations. What then all your gossamer - samer threads ? What Is a spider's web to an aroused loin ? Do not fret , then , about the world's going backward. It is going forward. You stand on the banks of the sea when the tide is rising. The almanac says the tide is rising , but the wave comes up to a certain point , and then it recedes. "Why , " you say , "the tide is going back. " No , it is not. The next wave comes up a little higher , and it goes back. Again you say the tide Is going out. And the next time the wave comes up a little higher , and then tea a higher point. Notwithstanding all these recessions , at last all the shipping of the world knows it is high tide. So it is with the cause of Christ in the world. One year it comes up to one point , and we are greatly encouraged. Then it seems to go back next year. "Te say the tide is going out. Next year it comes up to a higher point and falls back , and next year it comes to a still higher point and falls back ; but all the time it is advancing , until it shall be full tide , "and the earth shall be full of the knowledge of God as the waters fill the sea. " Again , I learn from this subject that Christis God and man in the same per- son. I go into the back part of that boat and I look on Christ's sleeping face , and see in that face the story of sorry and weariness , and a deep shad- on , comes over his face , and I think ho must be dreaming of the cross that is to come. As I stand on the back part of the beat looking on his face , I say : "He is a man ! Ho is a man ! " But when I see him come to the prow of the boat , and the sea kneels at his presence - ence , and the winds fold their wings at his command , I say : "He Is God ! He is God ! " The hand that set up the starry pillars of the universe wiping away the tears of an orphan ! When I want pity and sympathy , I look at him , and I say : " 0 Lord Jesus , thou weary One , thou suffering One , have mercy on me. " "Ecce 'homo ! " Behold the man ! But when I want courage for the conflict of life , when I want some one to beat down my enemies , when I want faith for the great future , then I come to the front of the boat , and I see Christ standing there in all his omnipotence , and I say , " 0 Christ , thou who coudest hush the storm , can hush all my sorrows - rows , all my temptations , all my fears. " "Ecce Deus ! " Behold the God ! * ' ' There i9 one storm into which we must all run. When a man lets go this life to take hold of the next , I do not care how much grace lie has , he will want it all. What is that out yonder - der ? That is a dying Christian rocked on the surges of death. Winds that have wrecked magnificent flotillas of pomp and worldly power came down on that Christian soul. All the spirits of darkness seem to be let loose , for it is their last chance. The wailing of kindred seems to mingle with the swirl of the waters , and the scream of the wind , and the thunder of the sky. Deep to deep , billow to billow ; yet no tremor , no gloom , no terror , no sighing for the dying Christian. The fact is that from the back part of the boat a voice sings out : "When thou passest through the waters , I will be with thee. " By the flash of the storm the dying Christian sees that the harbor is only just ahead. From heavenly castles voices of wei- come come over the waters. Peace drops on the angry wave as the storm sobs itself to rest like a child falling asleep amid tears and trouble. Christ m hath hushed the tempest. religion and Ieform. Seven Pines , near Richmond , Va. , is a prohibition town , each purchaser of a lot being required to sign an article forfeiting the-title if liquor is ever sold on the premises. Special rates are also given to total abstainers. The New York Sun says that 6,700 of the 7,000 saloons in New York are controlled - trolled directly or indirectly by one of the great liquor monopolies , and the , saloon keeper is practically subject to the demands of these monopolists. Mr. Norwood , the agent of the American - ican Bible Society in Venezuela , reports - ports exceptionally large sales of the scripture by his colporteurs in parts of the country which have never before been visited by any Bible society agent = . + yam , r s w7 i m i t A CRIME AN CUN DUEL. The ffiwslans 11'cro Chivalrous Enoa ht to Admlt Their Gun's Defeat. While the flag of truce was flying a . .a Russian officer of artillery went up to k ask Sir Richard Airey If Gen. Dacres , ; commanding the English artillery , was 1 a on the ground. On Sir Richard an- ; F < f sf1erlnlt In the negative the officer said : ! , + "Your that slxty-eight-pounder gun your people call Jenny is a beautiful gun , but we think we have one as good . In that embrasure , " pointing lip to the mamelon , "and we would like to have a ' f fair duel with her. " Airey took up the challenge at once , and everything was arranged for 12 o'clock noon next day. When the time arrived all the batteries on both sides ceased firing. A largo f number of officers , French and English - lish , were assembled at our lookout stn- f tion , behind the twenty-one-gun battery - tery , to look on , says a writer in an English paper. Our sailors' gun detachment - . tachment mounted on their parapets r and took off their lints , saluting the . Russians. The Russians returned the compliment. The English gun was given the first shot as the senior gun ; - - kit it struck the side of the Russian em- brasure. Then they fired-a very , good shot , too. The third shot from J went clean through the Russian - embrasure and up went two gabions. ! 3 ' ' The blue jackets jumped up on their parapet and cheered , thinking they had beatc'L their opponents. Not a bit ! A muute afterward down went the gal- ions and out came the Russian gun t again. Several more shots were fired from both sides , all very good ones. , 't Jenny got a nasty thump , but it did ' I her no harm. At length , I think the f seventh shot from our side , we saw the Russian gun knocked clean over. Our fellows cheered vociferously and the Russians , mounted their parapet and . took off their hats in acknowledgment of their defeat. All the batteries then j opened again. Thus ended the great gum duel lie lyas n I.ittlo LaItd ) . The Rev. Dr. Meredith , a well-known clergyman , tries to cultivate friendly relations with the younger members of his flock. In a recent talk to his Sun- day-school lie urged the children to speak to him whenever they met. The next day a dirty-faced urchin , smoking ; a cigarette and having a generally disreputable - reputable appearance , accosted him in the street with : "Hello , Doctor ! " The clergyman stopped and cordially - ly inquired : "And who are you , sir ? " "I'm one of your little lambs , " replied - ' plied the boy , affably. "Fine day. " And , tilting his hat on his head , he swaggered off , leaving the worthy di vine speechless with amazement. Liked to Iitis Tall Men. Lillie Smith , a good-looking young woman , who , when arraigned in Brooklyn - . lyn , the other day. , gave her name as Jane Doe , was sentenced to jail for j three days by Justice Laimbeer. She ! , . persisted in hugging and kissing all the tall men whom she met on the streets. They objected and her arrest followed. BEYOND THE SEA. At Charleville , France , lightning lately struck the church steeple while ' two choir boys were ringing the bells. One of the boys was killed instantly , i Some weeks ago a dentist at Liegr. Belgium , while extracting a'tooth of s workingman , received a slight scratch 1 on the right hand. Later ihtlanhina'lon ' ' set in , and ultimately the arm had t , be amputated. The Hungarian wine dealer ho Ihas hi' ierto provided Prince Ferdinand o , Bulgaria with select wines announces that iris conscience does not permit him to have any more dealings whatever witht that potentate so long as th latter is under suspicion o having connived at the murder of ex- Premier Stambouloff , the friend of Hungary. JETSAM. The San Francisco Call is to have a new fifteen-story building , costing $500,000. The Kalama , Wash. , Bulletin has for its motto : "Grab All in Sight , and IIus- tle for More. " Under the new Oregon game law sportsmen are permitted to kill but 20 ' upland game birds a day. English curates are thinking of forming themselves into a professional union , on the plan of the trades unions. After having repaired the damage : a done to the Parthenon , the Athenian Archeological society will begin the work of excavating the lower slopes of the Acropolis. A tanning concern In Seattle his received - ceived in one consignment 115 bales of deer skins , weighing eighteen tens , and representing , probably , several thousand - sand dead deer. The herring have turned their noses in the direction of the Eastport , aIe. , sardine factories , and ixisiness is rushing - ing among the packers. The price , however , is verylow. . Dr. Boar has gone to the Faroc islands - lands to study the breathing apparatus of the diver birds. In the same ship went the Ehlers expedition that is to investigate leprosy in Iceland. George Aug'istus Sala's library , consisting - sisting of some 5,000 volumes , was recently - cently solti at auction in London for x851 , an average of 51 cents a volume. Among the volumes were some rare books and some exquisitely bound. A peculiar form of asphalt paving has recently been tried in France. The asphalt powder is heated to 120 degrees - grees and molded under a pressure of about five and one-half tons per square inch into blocks , which are afterwards set in cement mortar. Great wit is sure to madness close allied - lied , And thin partitions do their bounds di- vide. -Dryden. I - - - l - 11