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«?SI ! j&f a r - * 1 f%r<" v*Vl !*•* + wiMMfipM * « # • • ' •- r- y *«> "ae i ty ' . The Too Womantsh Church. The minister wko complains that :§Tthe church \ has 'become too womanish Ignores history. From the banning •roman has been the chief reliance of Organized religion. "Last at the cross #nd earliest at the grave" was not Hrritten yesterday. If there are few inen at church services would it be -worth while for the pulpit to ask itself £/lf the cause is its effeminacy? When the gospel was preached with virility (nen flocked to hear. A glance at the themes of Chicago ministers any Sun- pay discloses the phenomenon that to a Considerable extent everything but the gospel Is preached. The pulpit ap- $eara to be gravitating toward a type >it oral magazine, to discuss literature, lot, politics, economics travel, esthet­ ics, novels, kitchen gardening, cos- &ome8, speculations, poetry„ domestic Science--everything except the gospel. Ipfon get a superabundance of all these things in the newspapers, the weeklies pad monthlies, nor do they find that trhen the average pulpiteer addressee - itilmself to philosophy, science, states­ manship or art, he has anything to Any which, if new, is valuable, or, if $14, was not said better long ago. Author and Diplomat. "p, John Barrett of Oregon, formerly tJnited States minister and consul gen­ eral to Siam.has been appointed by the president a delegate to the internation- JM conference( of American states, |f|rhich will be held in the City of Mex- •Ico. Mr. Barrett made an excellent fecord during the three years he spent In Bangkok as American minister. JOHN BARRETT. tince his return to this country be has on by his writings a widespread rep­ utation as an authority on the com­ mercial problems and possibilities of ihe far East in relation to European And American industry and trade. Mr. jfglarrett is a native of Vermont, a graduate of Dartmouth and a scholar 4>f merit in the science of national Economics. He has made special stud­ ies of the South and its Industries, and §»is writings on that subject are pro­ found and important For several |rear8 he has made bis home in Port­ land, Oregon, but owing to his exten­ sive travels at home and abroad, he has not spent much of his time in that city. .Abie Churchman, Right Rev. William Stubbs, D. IX# bishop of Oxford, died in London, Eng­ land, last week. He was 76 years old and had occupied the Oxford bishopric since 1889, when he was transferred from the see of Chester, over which he had ruled for five years. Bishop Stubbs was an author of international RIGHT REV. WILLIAM STUBBS. repute. As a British historian he oc­ cupied a high place in the estimation of the British people. His constitu­ tional history of England's standard and his cognate works on this subject are widely read &nd prized. He was honored with several decorations, British and foreign, among them the Prussian Order of Merit. The deceased was a cousin of the dean of Ely, who lately visited America. «^V» EjepensixJe JunKft* The British admiralty's estimate of &e cost of the trip of the Duke anfl Duchess of York on the steamship Ophir includes the following Items & Wages of crew, $41,980; victualing and clothing, $9,880; coal, $125,000; naval stores, $3,140; hire of the Ophir, $633,- 600; total, $813,500. The British tax­ payers are a loyal class of people, but when they read In Sir Michael Hicks- Beach's budget statement that the Boer war has added $275,000,000 to the debt, that the deficit last year was $255,935,000, and that they must pay $66,000,000 of new taxes this year, they will read the admiralty's estimate of the expense of the Duke of York's jun­ keting trip with somewhat mixed feel­ ings. The HanKers' "Crust." President Stillman of the National City bank of New York Is quoted as having said that the interests with which he is identified--meaning the Standard OH company and Its affilia­ tions--'Wish to effect an amalgamation of the money and banking powers of the country in the same way that the steel industries have been combined. Mr. Stillman denies that he made any statement of this kind. "Reputed Fiancee of * ; >' Lieutenant Hob-son ML- «Y *. , , as* it ^ "Whiting Gravesgy -llhe reputed flan-? tee of Lieutenant" Liehmond Pearson Hobson, is one of tie beauties of lrmingham, Ala., fhnd is also well Renown in Wash* -jngton society. N<|f J positive announce* pnent of the enk„v -|jpagement has beei^ fnade, and whem- j;|lhe hero of th$f;^ >|Merrimac is asked . ^whether or not the Ireport is true h^ J $miles and sayijU" Nothing. The eni^J Jjgagement, h o wsfcy «ver, is said to b#L'" • 'Ji settled fact b|f ^ ;;:|riends of Mr. Hobf" "*• Kfj«on. During the •Congressional sea­ son the young na- Iral officer and Miss •Craves were much together and they : -jnade a prominent and pretty $gure In the parades of fash­ ionable folk. During her visit Hbere the Alabama girl was a guest of ^Congressman and Mrs. Bankhead. She «$oon attracted widespread attention by • her remarkable beauty. She is of me- brilliant Irish Surgeon Cone, '<!. Dr. Charles Kearns Deane Tanner, "i|h@ Irish national* ,k|st and member - ^ p a r l i a m e n t f r o i | r the Middle Corl Division, died ai V Heading, England last week of conjj * S u m p t i o n w i t l %hich he had been &n constant sufferer. i;;-In spite of his ail­ ment, Dr. Tanner *" took an active pari ; |n parliamentary . , t". 4 yiaffalrs since his election in 1885. He Was an unusually brilliant surgeon and -toccupied the chair of anatomy at rljueen's College, Cork, for many years. He was a bitter rebater in the house, «~and at times threw that body into an • tiproar by his ferocious personal at- - jtacks on members of the cabinet, and toven on fellow-nationalists whom he did not like. He was 51 years old. (David Rankin, the Missouri cattle king, will plant 10,000 acres of corn r this year, employing about 260 men utilising 600 horses. fC dlum height, somewhat slender, her eyes are dark, her features of rare regularity, her hair is a bright chest­ nut and her complexion & clear olive. Miss Graves is a clever violinist and has many feminine graces and accom­ plishments. England's "Big Loan. The British government has issued an invitation for subscriptions to one- half the new loan of $300,000,000, stat­ ing at the same time that the other half has already been placed. There is loud complaint because no explana­ tion is offered. The London Chronicle voices the dissatisfaction of the public when it speaks of the issue as a "dis­ astrous" one, "in which the British taxpayer drops the round sum of £3,- 300,000 in the process of borrowing £60,000,000." Part of it has been float­ ed in New York. tii ^presidential excursion Wftl not eome to an end until June 12, on which fete the president and his party of guests will arrlver home in Washing­ ton after having traversed 21 states and three territories. The train is,with one exception, the finest that modern mechanical ingenuity could devise. The exception is the special train In which W. Seward Webb makes long trips. Mr. Webb has what is admitted to be the finest private car in the world, and the train in which he trav­ els is always most elaborately equipped In every way. Usually when the presi­ dent is about to take a long journey the Pullman Company has some cars just reaching completion which are in­ tended for use on the Congressional Limited, the famous Chicago Limited, or some like trains, are made up into a train for the president's use. Such was the case this time. The train has laenrs train Biiare tne car or secre­ tary Cortelyou. There are three news­ paper representatives and three pho­ tographers representing the great weekly periodicals. There is a special railroad representative to see that all arrangements on the railroads are car­ ried out, and there is a special repre­ sentative of the Western Union Tele­ graph Company to assist in the filing of news dispatches. No individual daily paper is allowed representatives on the train because every paper in the country would want to send a cor­ respondent if it could. So the news­ papers get their reports from the rep­ resentatives of the press associations. Besides the cars mentioned there is a White House car on the president's train. This is virtually a traveling- executive office. The president's clerks occupy it and Secretary Cortelyou will there keep up the correspondence of president can be alone if he chooses or he can entertain bis friends. From the rear of the train he can bow to the crowds as the train moves slowly through a village, or, reaching over the railing, he can shake hands with the enthusiasts who crowd around the president's car wherever he stops for even a minute. Or he can make a speech if he is moyed to do so, and the chances are that he will at many places. Wherever the president's train stops for mofe than a day the party leave the cars and go to some hotel. Metxtco and ^Austria. The Mexican republic and the Aus­ trian empire, after thirty-five years ot real though passive hostility, are about to resume friendly relations. The tragedy of which the unfortunate Maximilian was the central figure nears Its final scene. Most of its great actors" have passed from the stage. The survivors are about to admit that jus­ tice was done and to bury their long quarrel in oblivion. The attempt to set up a European • ;> y " ' E * THE PRESIDENT <3HAKlNCr HANDS AMONG THE CROWD all the modern comforts of limited travel. There is a baggage car which also contains a dynamo to furnish electricity to the whole train, a barber shop and a bath room. Then there is a dining car. This car is manned by a picked crew of the best waiters of the Pullman service. When the train is bounding over the sands of Arizona the waiter in the dining car will ap­ pear at table clad in a snowy jacket with a carnation in his button-hole. This car is stocked with the very fin­ est the market affords. To those who travel with the president all these ^things are free. The president does not use this dining car, but has his own private dining room on the car In which he lives. After the dining car comes the car devoted to the members of the cabinet and their families. This Is a very fine state-room oar and each cabinet officer has his private room. The newspaper correspondents on the pres- THK PRESIDENT SPEAKING T H E R E A R . P L A T F O R M - » • --•r*' »nr the president with all tbe world by mail and telegraph. The president's own car will be his castle. Here he and Mrs. McKlnley will live. They will have their private stateroom* with brass beds and silken hangings. They will have their din­ ing room equipped with silver and cut glass; there will be fresh flowers on the table every day. They will have their observation room from which they can view the country through which the train passes. Here the Later Hun* in the Family. When the sun is pouring down its rays upon the ocean at noonday none of them penetrate to a depth of over 200 feet. Could a diver descend to that depth he would find himself shrouded in darkness as profound as though he were immersed in a sea of ink. Taking into consideration the num- 4er of ships that are on seas and nav­ igable waters of the world, it is esti­ mated that about 1,700,000 of the world's population are constantly - / - -• * In June next, Ruth, the second daughter of Sena­ tor Mason, will graduate from the Washington Col­ lege of Law at Washington, D. C., as a full-fledged attorney and coun­ selor. She Is not decided whether she will hang out a shingle and wait for a practice - or content herself with the satisfac­ tion that if she wanted to practice she could. It has t>een suggested that she might en­ ter the offices of h e r f a t h e r a n d brother, but it is thought more than likely that she will give herself up to musical Btudies connected with the piano and violin. Miss Mason is a graduate of a Chi­ cago high school. In her four years' course there she held 90 per cent average, which en­ titled her to be a teacher without examination. The young lady Is interested in ath­ letics, a player in tennis tournaments Distances MLansas Farmers. When the people who live near Havensville, Kas., want to show visit- on What a model Kansas farm looks like they send them out to the "Watts place." The Watts farm was untllled and idle prairie land belonging to .the government until a few years ago, when Miss Bessie took up a claim of 160 acres and set­ tled down, all by herself, to make the desert blos­ som. She has suc­ ceeded so well that the male farmers of the county are often glad to come to her, for advice and encourage­ ment. Miss Watts was born on a Kansas farm near lSn- glish Ridge. She was one of a large family of children who, as they grew up, started out to make a living for themselves in the world. Miss Bessie looked the field over when it came her turn to paddle her own canoe and de­ cided that she preferred agriculture to Inching school or any of the other oe» and the best horsewoman among the younger Washington girls. She has traveled much in America and in Eu­ rope. cupations in which women more com­ monly engage. She declares that a large share of her success as a farmer is due to the fact that she had a good education before she started and was therefore able to meet and solve prac­ tical problems in an intelligent way. empire in Mexico originated in Louis Napoleon's desire to distract his peo­ ple's attention from his own corrupt government. Mexico's failure to pay certain 'bonds was the immediate ex­ cuse. France and England united in a naval demonstration. England knew that her act would be distasteful to the United States, with which country she had for two years been at the point of war. Seeing that it did not provoke us to hostility, England with­ drew from the conspiracy. The French troops overthrew Mexico's weak gov­ ernment. A Mexican faction invited • Maxmllian to assume a crown that it •had no right to offer. ' When the civil war permitted, the tJnited States came to Mexico's rescue. France was warned to withdraw her troops. Sheridan was sent with an army to the Rio Grande. The Mexican patriots were supplied with arms. The French army retired. The deluded Maximilian remained, to be captured, itried, and executed by the people he had attempted to subjugate. That the Emperor Francis Joseph should cherish against the Mexicans resentment tor his brother's death was quite natural, and yet unreasonable. For, while Mexicans held the rifles that ended Maximilian's life, Louis Napoleon loaded them and the United States pulled the triggers. The Mexicans, though they had suf­ fered the greater injury, were ready to forgive and forget, but the Austrian court long persisted in its rancor. Per­ haps the aged Francis Joseph has learned from his many sorrows the Christian duty of forgiveness. He re­ cently caused to be dedicated at Queretaro, with ceremonies in which the Mexican people joined with sym­ pathy, but without regret, a chapel to his brother's memory. Now he is about to welcome the envoy of the peo­ ple his brother sought to wrong. At last he recognizes the fact that the safety of the people is the supreme law, to which personal griefs must yield. Even the house of Hapsburg at last admits that the only "divine right" is the people's wilL It is calculated that the respectable sum of £12,000,000 is spent annually by about 270,000 visitors who frequent Riveria during the winter season, whic^i lasts about 150 days. This makes an average of £80,000 per day, or £3,333 per hour. Of these, visitors about one-third, or 90,000, are of the English-speaking race--60,000 British and 30,000 American.--Chicago Jour­ nal. A rice kitchen is to be maintained at the Buffalo fair by the Rice Asso­ ciation of America. Rice will be served in various forms, showing its value as a staple article of food. Five former members of the common oouncll of Shamokln, Pa., have been sentenced to jail for complicity in street paving frauds. mami smssattj* Mrs. Margaret Deland, the novelist, has begun a series of flower sales at her Boston home for the benefit of the poor of that city. Lata Cierfi of the Treasury. Miss Clara Greacen is a good ex­ ample of what a young woman can do for herself in the public service without the aid of outside influence of any kind. Miss Graecen, who was originally a Michi­ gan girl, has been employed in the treasury depart­ ment at Washing­ ton for some years. 'In her leisure time she read law and attended the lec­ tures at one of the universities at the national capital. Some time ago she took the examina­ tion and was admitted to practice at the bar of the District of Columbia. Meanwhile she had shown such un­ common ability in her position that when it became necessary to appoint a new clerk in the treasury department Miss Greacen, who had so recently qualified herself for legal work, was selected. She is not yet thirty years old. TRAIN ROBBED IH ARKANSAS. pMtflti Hold Dp tk* Cfc««»w liymi •nd Sb*ot Two KnptoyM. Brief dispatches received at railroad headquarters at Memphis announce the robbery of the Choctaw express train, which left Memphis at 11:40 o'clock' Monday night. Three masked bandits boarded the train at Bridge Junction, Ark. It is not known what booty the robbers secured, but a dispatch re­ ceived at police headquarters stated that the express messenger and porter of the train were injured after resist­ ing the bandits. The Wells-Fargo Ex­ press company usually make their heaviest shipments to the west on this train. Police Sergeant Perry of Mem­ phis, upon receipt of the telegram. Immediately posted officers along the river front with instructions to keep a sharp lookout for the bandits, should they attempt to cross to the city. The train left Memphis with a heavy pas­ senger list De»d Man Drops His Signal. For years Thomas Hall, aged 73, a wealthy farmer, lived near Paducah, Ky., in abject terror of being buried alive. He died on Wednesday, and the Instructions he gave were carried out. They were for his sons to construct an air-shaft into the coffin, run a string through the tube, wrap It around one hand, and attach tb the other end, above the earth, a flag, which he; would pull In case life returned, thus; informing his family he was living,. Yesterday morning a watchman who had constantly guarded the grave, re-- turned, after several hours' absence^ and found the flag down. The mem­ bers of the family disinterred the re­ mains and found the man still dead. Exhaustive examinations of physicians, showed no life. The body was buried; again, the Bons concluding the high winds had blown down the flag. Two hundred persons witnessed the disin­ terring. ... • •; ' Wtti Adopt Go*. Hllw* ̂ General Miles' scheme for an* army of 76,000 men--a regiment for each mil­ lion of people In the nation--has been settled upon by the secretary of war as the best so far offered, and it will be adopted. This Information was given out this evening at the war de­ partment, and can be taken as abso­ lutely trustworthy. The secretary of war and commanding general of the army had frequent conferences today, and the upshot was that the program outlined by General Miles and advo­ cated by him for several months, ajsd ridiculed in certain quarters in the reg­ ular establishment, is accepted by the administration. Stayer of Horaeman Vraod. ,, Attorney W. O. Nicholas, who Bitot and killed Owen Bradley, a well-known race-horse owner and trainer, last Fri­ day, was acquitted Tuesday at Lex­ ington, Ky., on examining trial. Armed, Bradley searched the city six hours for Nicholas. A woman, over Whom the trouble arose, secretly warned Nicholas by note. He was prepared and secured the first shot when they finally met in a saloon. Admiral Dowoy Bring* Salt. •~ir-ifclt was commenced Tuesday In Equity court No. 2 of the District of Columbia that will interest the officers and sailors who were aboard Dewey's fleet when it sailed into Manila bay and destroyed the Spanish warships there. It involves the question of prized money to which they are entitled, and is instituted by Admiral Dewey ^be- half of his officers and men. Balcm Bank CIoim Doors. The bank of Gilbert brothers at Sa­ lem, Ore., has been closed on account of litigation instituted by the heirs of the late William Cooper. A notice on the door is to the effect that the clos­ ing is deemed best in order to protect the depositors. Many women and school children are among the deposi­ tors. The deposits are estimated at from $20,000 to $125,000. MlM Ruth Lone Dlea. Miss Ruth Cardie Long, a well- known singer, niece of Secretary of the navy John D. Long, died at her home in Dorchester, Mass., Monday night. Miss Long had been ill with pneumonia, and the shock sustained by the death of her mother on April 14 is thought to have caused her death.1 She was born in East Boston in 1864. Donlal by Oonoral Wood. •"UrtS" constitutional conventioi haM never voted on or rejected the Piatt amendment. This I can state positive­ ly, notwithstanding the reports to the contrary which have been sent to the United States from Havana." This is the statement of General Leonard Wood, governor of Cuba, who arrived at New York from Havana Tuesday. Cavalry Fight la Layaba*. A detachment of the First Cavalry which was surrounded near Saraiava, Layabas Province, by a large force of rebels had a hard fight for an hour and a half, when Private Muelly broke through the cordon and brought up re­ inforcements. whereupon the insur­ gents retired." One cavalryman was woundcML OSletala A«t Vlthant Pay. The mayor, city attorney, city treas­ urer and all the aldermen of the city of Eureka, 111., have signed an agree­ ment to serve without pay. This ac­ tion was taken because of the bad con­ dition of the finances of the munici­ pality. Will Succeed BfartlaoUL It is understood at Rome that Mon- signore Francois Tarnassi, the present interuncio at The Hague, has been se­ lected as apostolic delegate to the United States. ^ ^ j legislator Dytac la Porwrtgw' : A. N. Martin of Bluffton, Ind:, Wfco formerly represented the Eleventh dis­ trict in congress, but who has since been reduced to poverty, has been taken to the soldiers' home in Marion, Ind. He is afflicted with consumption and the attending physicians say the ex-congressman is in a dying condi­ tion. Bank Robber* Reran S3,OOOw Robbers looted the bank of Ludlow, a private institution in the village of Ludlow, five miles north of Rantoul, XU* aad mmwk ^ , , A COUNTRY A dusty, stone way, whose bord'ring sod Is thick with blackberries and goldenrod; Abrupt, bare hills on one side down. And from the other yon can MI the town; Follow the river's course through mm! ows green, O'er which thick woods and marble ledges lean. A little further, where the road de„. A brook's soft twinkle with some song blends, (Gone from its edge the dear (rid dameTs small cot Half hidden by quaint flowers) lush bagw gamot Makes sweet Its banks, its depths the boys still swim. Or watch the minnows from some willow limb. Upon its bridge how often I have Meed, watching the west, whose glory sessMC to flood With tenderest light the poorhoase stag the gTaves Beside it--turn to gold the brooklefe waves-- aU™ 4 1 , 0 h U 1* °h" d e a r e r t sttfct SC X saw my father and I heard him ««ii He came with sturdy stride and swinging My hand In his--told my day's whole ts3e Or joys, that 'neath his bright ""Wf seemed to grow, While lessened was my every nhn^ha woe, As his sweet words fell on my soul wir» > * o&lm, while we walked homeward through the fragrant calm. --Mary M. McCarthy. JioDet Horseshoeing Kodt Shoeing a fractious horse is not ft task to be envied by any one, and there is always danger of accident te the man who performs the work 1» the ordinary manner, as the anlut seems possessed of the idea that the hoofs were made to defend itself wltht Instead of to be shod. In addition to the danger to the shoer, the animal |g liable to injurt itself in the argument and especially is this the case in sho*> ing colts for the first time, whea fright Is generally the chief faults of trouble. To overcome these difficulties John Cea of Iowa has designed the horseshoeing rack shown in the illustration, the inr ventor claiming that the mechanism will hold all parts of the animal •»» curely In any desired position, at the same time relieving the horse of all strain and depriving it of the power of injuring itself or the blacksmith. * PREVENTS INJURY TO SHOKR. It will be seen that numerous straps and windlasses are provided, whidl will not only firmly hold each fbot, but will lift the animal bodily fron the floor and keep him suspended while the labor is going on. It is also prob­ able that after a few applications of the machine to a fractious horse he could be induced to stand quietly while being shod without the use of the ap­ pliances. ^Another Mcamenicat Confer­ ence. The first ecumenical conference of the Methodist church was held in Lon­ don in 1881. The second met in Wastk* ington, a C., Oct. 7, 1891. The thir* will meet in Wesley's chapel, City road, London, In September next. The coming conference will discuss the present position of Methodism, the influence of Methodism in the pro* motion of international peace, the re­ lation of Methodism to the Evangeli­ cal free church movement, Methodism and Christian unity, Methodism tad education in the twentieth century, and Christianity and modern unbelief; but it will not discuss any question upon which the Methodists have di­ vided. Whether these ecumenical confer­ ences have promoted closer fellowship among Methodists is an open question, but it is contended that the confer­ ences have promoted concerted action among Methodists on Important pub­ lic and religious questions. Reports are to be made at the coming confer­ ence as to means for still further pro­ moting united action on questions of common interest to the laity an^£$||< clergy. ^ Tiny Child tstfcmgelist. Lizzie Slemmer is a little goldMK haired girl of s i x y e a r s who lives with her fa­ ther in Phll- a d e l p h l a . Little Lissie is filled with the convic­ t i o n t h a t she has been c a l l e d t o save sinners-' by singing to them. Foi nearly six months she has been en­ gaged sever­ al evenings in each week singing solos and the chorus singing at revival meet She has become somewhat well know*: locally as "the little Sankey." ant tot*" songs have been especially effecy^i " the meetings held in the Gospel fW||| Mission in Philadelphia. The war in South Africa is < •o- «r 1 " • 'J * .* j :"k l S. J " t' ' ky. : m m l