Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1895, Page 19

PP LOP SRE OOOO PERERA ELSE COREER OREO CERO OLOPP LES. AAA Anaahat s PEPS The first symptom of dyspepsia is usually distress after eating, followed by nausea, POPOL EOPPEE SS SHOPPED EOD EPO LELE EES FPO PEELD SEO RE OER ERPRERERVOVORE LEOSEESE EESTI FOCCEOEPEECEE®ETPES OCS ELEC E9999 POSS OO RED a EXRARERAEKS ‘ THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1895-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 2 19 SEEFOEECE EE S- OF OO COE SOLS OS OEE SEES SOFC OOO OLE 982 FEPOL PLOT OVE SOSOEOOS OD eee ee: coor AAs CFEFECE maureen. Poe eo: ad SSEEEEERCEEES EEEEEEEEE SEES EE x SESESS loss of appetite, headache, pain in the side, constipation, dizziness, palpitation of the heart =-0ften erroneously supposed to be heart disease, feeling just after meals. as the health fanatic dictates. will cure dyspepsia. Ripans Tabules At All Druggists, 50 Cents B s Don’t use every quack medicine. NS TABULES meal, or if these are too active, use but two a day. rn 4 Another symptom is that full, “bloated” The health fanatic will tell you to regulate your diet---take care of yourself---it’s excellent advice, but how few of us can do it---business---sccial and family duties.often interfere. little selfish world all to curselves, fenced off from everything---so it is impossible to live No need to,.if you take the proper remedies. It’s impossible to live in a Not one tabule---but a systematic course of them, say one after each Do not confound Ripans with these secret quack medicines---its formula is GOOD ENOUGH to give the widest publicity. Ripans Tabules are compounded of Rhubarb, Ipecac, Peppermint, Aloes, Nux Vomica and Soda. : Or by mail if the price (sec. box) is sent to the Ripans Chemical Co., 10 Spruce Street, New York. WHOLESALERS: F. A. Tschiffely, 475 Pa. Ave., Wash., D.C. E. S. Leadbeater &.Sons, Alexandria, Va. xx} EEE SEEECRERERCRR RAR ARRRRRREEEE BEER ERE EERE EERE ERE ESB ERER ROR RE EES S TS PERS RS RSSGSATARARERASESTRRTERES SESS Sigipeieisisisrisieteesieses SSeS Se ERTS OES ECESPEETESSS SSA ee peuaeeyeseeeeese eee ee ee OPPO CE LECCE REEA CER AEOOECE IN MID PACIFIC Hawaii's Good Citizens all Eager for Annexation. LATE DISTORBANCE ————— ECHOES OF THE Great Expectations Based on the Nicaragua Canal. OF THE COUNCIL _——_ LAWS S Star. Correspondence of The Evening . HONOLULU, March 20, 18%. felt/here about Some surprise is naturally fa certain degree of credence which seems to have been given in the states to the absurd statement that Capt. Davis, who landed the rifles and ammunition, had been tcrtured in the prison, in order to make him testify. This story first appeared in the Call of San Francisco. Its author is unknown here. When learned, we fancied it too ridiculous, upon the face of it, to do any mischief. Probably the amount of public credulity, as well as of hostility, to this government was underrated. It has seemed necessary to make explicit denial of the allegation. Before leaving here Davis made aflidavit to his entire exemp- tion from compulsion as to his testimony. Paul Neumann never failed on the trials very sharply to question any prisoners who Lecame witnesses for, the government, in order to elicit the fact of any undue pres- sure being put upon them. He never was able te accomplish anything in that way. Davis was very glad to disclose the whole story of his agency, and of his accomplices, in order to escape penalty. He is.a good sailor, and for some time commanded a good steamer belonging to one of the two coasting lines. This place he lost through 4runkenness. He has a sterling, good wife, 't treated her badly for some years, when she got a separation. Being alto- ether on a down 5 aor he was a fit tool rr Gulick and Seward, but had no scruples abcut disclosing the whole business to get Eimself out of trouble. The partisans of the monarchy are by no means all men of the worse class. But among those who went into the late insur- rection it would be hard to find any very valuable citizens. This community does not suffer in the least by the weeding out of that crowd. Its average respectability and decency haz been materially raised by the operation. About half of those persons arrested under martial law have been re- leased for lack of sufficient evidence against them. The permanent detention of most of them would have been small loss to the community. Martial law was terminated on the 1Sth. The military commission ended its last case ten days ago, and sentence upon the nine native rebels last convicted was pro- meunced last week. They received five years each at hard labor, which was the unishment awarded to most of the com- Ran natives who took up arms against the overnment. In all those cases the pres! lent remitted a fine of $5,000, imposed by the commission, according to the statute. John A. Cammins got off with only a fine to that amount, which he paid. Very few of the insurgents possess any property. It fs unlikely that many of the heavy fines rominally imposed will ever yield much return to the public treasury. The Rebel Convicts. ‘The rebel convicts, white and native, are gned to varlous forms of labor. ear the usual striped uniform. It has been an old practice to employ the prisoners In labor upon the roads, espe- cially in quarrying stone for steam crush- ers. Long files of them pass morning and evening through the streets, generally one or two of them carrying a ball and ckain, the penalty for attempting to escape. They are rather a healthy-looking set of hards, heving good diet and steady, not severe, labor. None of the whites lately sentenced has yet appeared on the streets as a convict. Gulick and Ashford are physically unable to labor, and Seward rearly sv. Bowler and Walker are labor- ing on mason work upon the prison prem- ises, of which there is much to be done, and they a:e experts at it. The cost of suppressing the insurrection is likely to foot up over $100,000. Fortu- rately the treasury is in fine condition, un- der Mr. Damon's admirable management, and the public credit never was so good. ‘The sale of six per cent bonds is steady, and all the money wanted for special pub- lic works is thus obtained readily from local investors. The government is carry- Ing on quite a line of important public works, both by borrowed money, according to special provision, and also from the regular revenue. Of the former class: is harbor deepening and enlargement. A new dock is about to be excavated by suction dredge, of capacity to hold our largest ecean steamers. A thin layer of coral has to be peeled off the surface. Below that is only mud. Considerable extension of our harbor room is practicable by this process. It wiil not, however, be able ever to meet the rapid demand for space which will follow the opening of the Nicaragua canal. The great fleets of Nicaragua steamers soon to cross the Pacific must do their coaling at Pearl harbor, ten miles west of the city. But Honolulu will need to make all possible room for other shipping. Our space is already often crowded. Of the latter class of public works paid for from regular revenue, and now in progress, is the enlargement of the city waterworks. Two ten-inch artesian wells have just been sunk nearly 600 feet, yield- ing a flow of ever 5,000,000 gallons a day. A Blake pump is being erected to force this, with 150 feet pressure, into the mains. Some three miles of new mains are being laid to receive the new supply. These are twelve, ten and eight inch pipes. The new wells and pumps will end the water famines pestering the city every summer. We obtain an exhaustless reservoir under our feet in exchange for the uncertain sup- ply in our mountain valleys. The latter will continue to supply the higher levels of the city. Council-Made Law. The councils, which continue to exercise legislative powers until the special session of the legislature, which will soon be called, have been engaged for ten days past upon a series of enactments made necessary by the various proceedings under martial law and by the exigencies of the late rebellion. The present circumstances verify the wis- dcm of that provision of the new constitu- tion of the republic, by which the advisory council was continued in existence until it shculd give place to a similar council to be chosen partly by the legislature, and by which also the combined executive and advisory councils are continued in the legislative powers which they exercised under the provisional government, which preceded the republic. But for that pro- vision the government would have been most seriously embarrassed about secur- ing some indispensable legislation necessi- tated by the circumstances following the late insurrection. = Protecting Government Offictals. One of the most important enactments was one of indemnity, securing officers and supporters of the government against vex- atious prosecutions for acts of a possibly irregular character performed by them in the defense of the government during the continuance of martial law. The act declares that “All proclamations and orders published or made, and all acts, matters and things commanded, directed or done, or to be commanded, directed or done by the president, or by any officer of the government, or other person acting under the authority of the president, for the purposes and during the time herein declared, that is to say, cn, from and since January 6, 1895, until martial law shall be declared to be no longer in force, whether done in a district in which martial law was proclaimed or was in force, or done in a district in which martial law was not in force, in the proclamation or furtherance of martial law, or in the suppression of in- surrection, or in the establishment of a military tribunal, or in the arres' prisonment, deportation, trial, conv or sentence of any person charged treason, misprison of treason, ¢ to incite or commit treason, or disloyal or seditious practice, or with any act or conspiracy dangerous to the peace or to the safety of life or property or in the arrest and detention of persons held for ‘investigation, are hereby declared to have been done within the constitutional author- ity of the president and are confirmed.” An act supplementary to the above was also passed, specially providing for the evidence of due authorization of such acts as those specified above. There was entire unanimity in the councils as to the neces- sity of these provisions. Some disagree- ment arose as to the expediency of the plain talk in the first section of the pre- amble, which referred to various crimes committed by ‘wickedly designing per- son: The minister of finance, S. M. Da- mon, deemed the language needlessly harsh toward the insurgents. It was too much like “rubbing it in.” He believed we ought to try to “bury the hatchet.” These views found little support. The necessity of such a preamble reciting the circumstances were forcibly presented by Hatch and W. O. Smith. Mr. Damon's ability as a financier is unquestioned, and his services to the treasury invaluable; but his colleagues have often experienced in him a tendency adverse to necessary firmness and severity —too great inclination to make things plea: ant. To talk now of “burying the hatchet is, to say the least, premature, in view of the well-known deep bitterness of the de- feated party, who would make another in- surrection tomorrow if they were free and could hope for success. The government has no alternative but to keep its heel on their necks until affairs become settled. While their leaders lie’ in prison under heavy sentences there can be no burying the hatchet. g Another important act passed is one pro- h:biting the landing here of refugees from justice or criminals, or of persons who have escaped hence to avold trial, and es- pecially the ¢eturn here of any person de- ported under martial law or banished by sentence of any court, unless they receive permission from the minister of foreign af- fairs. Considerable penalties are append- ed. ‘The master of a ship landing such persor is also Hable to penalty. This act will reach the cases of men like Creighton, who is reported to have expressed his in- tention of returning here from San Fran- cisco as soon as martial law terminates, since his agreement to be exiled is not binding, being made under duress of im- prisonment. Creighton, however, is not re- garded as being so dangerous an enemy to this government as C. W. Ashford and some others who have been compelled to leave. Suppressing Seditious Publications. Another act regarded as of much im- portance is one for the suppression of se- ditious newspapers, the chief provision of which is as follows: “If any person is convicted of the offense of the publication of a seditious Hbel with reference to the publication of words in a newspaper of which he is an editor, pub- lisher, owner or proprietor, the judge or magistrate trying the case may, in addi- tion to the sentence awarded against such person, suspend the further publication of such newspaper for any period not ex- ceeding four years. Every such suspen- sion of the publication of a newspaper shall extend to and include any newspaper that may te started in place of such sus- pended newspaper, having the person so convicted of seditious libel as an editor, publisher, owner or proprietor thereof.” Let it be noticed that the conviction of such editor or publisher is before a jury, and that there is nothing whatever of the nature of a censorship or of summary proceedings which can be deemed violation of liberty of the press. There has been since the deposition of the queen a class of daily and weekly papers, chiefly in the native language, which have been filled with violent diatribes against the govern- ment of the most seditious character. Lit- tle notice has been taken of their utter- ances hitherto. It is now felt that the time has come for the government to as- sert its authority, and put an end to these mischievous utterances. Exiling Dangerous People. The last act to be mentioned is one which has undergone much adverse criticism as being too summary an interference with liberty. It was passed, however, by a unanimous vote. Even Mr. 8. M. Damon expressed his cordial approval of the act as one vitally necessary to the public safe- ty. In substance, the dangerous persons act provides that any person having law- less intentions hostile to public order or to the government may, upon complaint to the attorney general, the sheriff or their deputies, be brought before a circuit judge and there summarily examined. If it be shown that such intention existed the per- son shall be adjudged dangerous and shall be sentenced to expulsion from the Hawali- an Islands. If the judge is not fully con- vinced he may place the ‘person under a bond. If the bond is not furnished the person shall be committed and shall re- main in custody until the bond shall be so executed. A person so expelled cannot return for six years without consent of the cabinet. If he does he is guilty of a misdemeanor and will be imprisoned the balance of the six years. Appeal may be had to the su- Ppreme court in banco. The object of this act is to enable the government to rid itself promptly of a class of dangerous characters, who frequently enter these islands with mischievous or revolutionary aims. The Citizens Guard. The Citizens’ Guard have lately been improving their organization. This is not a regular military body, not uniformed or drilled. It consists largely of householders, who are organized in squads of thirty or forty men, each under sergeants and cor- porals, for the purpose of guarding and patrolling the streets in their own vicinity. In case of alarm of disorder or insurrection they are prepared to occupy their assigned stations at once with their rifles. On the night of the 6th of January last every im- portant street corner in town was thus occupied by armed guards in one hour after the alarm was given, and numbers of native insurgents were turned back who were on their way to co-operate with Now- lein and Wilcox. They remained on duty for ten nights, when a mounted patrol re- lieved them. The experience then gained suggested many improvements in their or- ganization, which have been adopted. Each member of the Citizens’ Guard wears a silver badge. On the termination of martial law the president issued a general order warmly acknowledging the service of the military, the volunteers, the Citizens’ Guard and all persons co-operating in the suppression of the rebellion. Special thanks were given to the many ladies who liberally supplied food and refreshments to those on duty. We think little here of queens and such People, but you Americans like to hear about this queen that was. She was ob- served this morning sitting at her window in the executive building and listening to the strains of the government band. She is made as comfortable as restriction on her movements permits. Stories of Mrs. Dominis. To illustrate the yery determined and despotic spirit of this perverse sovereign, I will give a couple of incidents, which I have received from an ‘absolutely reliable source. Early in 1991,,a day or two after Liliuokalant became queen, Mr. S. M. Damon, who was well’acquainted with her and had enjoyed her cenfidence, visited her and pointed out in wis Very persuasive way the importance of selecting for her cabi- Ret men of “respgnsible” character. She abruptly replied: “IJ Intend that my min- isters shall be responsible to me!” and turned her back upon ‘Mr. Damon. The other incident is this. After the queen’s attempt on January 14, 1893, to promulgate a despotic constitution, and the violent agitation, which that act cre- ated, her very attached friend, Mr. J. O. Carter, perceiving the great peril in which she had placed herself, at once drew up a m of retraction of her attempt in plain and positive terms. This he carried to her ministers and Bge upon them as an urgent necessity ert her deposition. They fully agreed wh Mr. Carter, but were unable to move the queen. It was not until Monday morning, the 16th, when the movement of the citizens had become ex- tremely menacing, that she yielded at all. Even then all the ministers could get from her was an extremely guarded admission of partial retraction of intent to change the constitution, not at all such as Mr. Car- ter had judged necessary. Her reluctant and partial yielding had no effect upon the citizens, who knew too well that she was past mending her ways. A later circumstance may be of interest. Mrs. Dominis was arrested on the 16th of last Janyary in the morning. At a later hour her house was searched by officials, her buried arsenal unearthed, and her pri- vate papers txamined by the,chief justice. An agent of the ex-queen was present during the search, by special arrangement, and the house was carefully guarded. Dur- ing the following night some twenty of her adherents assembled on the premises, and early in the morning a somewhat prominent person was sent up at his own request by the marshal and arrested them. He was encountered in the act by the at- torney general, to whom ,he signified his intention of returning with his men and searching the house. That official prompt- ly prohibited his doing so, for two reasons. One was that the government had given Mrs. Dominis positive assurance that her house should be thoroughly protected—the other, that there were over $10,000 worth of jewelry and valuables exposed to loot- ing by a squad of irresponsible men go- ing through the house. A severe alterca- tion ensued, necessitating a threat to arrest the importunate individual. The valuables were shortly after removed to a place of security. All for Annexation. Since the preposterous fake about Capt. Davis being tortured a story has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle about the government being at odds with the Ameri- can League, which wants annexation,while the government now opposes it, and that the government is enlisting 300 men in San Francisco to help it fight the league. The whole story is absolutely false. The gov- ernment continues steadfast fer annexation. Their relations with the American League are perfectly cordial. They want no sol- diers from abroad. Their citizen support- ‘ers, including the league, supply all the military help required. We have just been regaled by an extra- ordirary congeries of inventions about us, rehearsed by Mr. Thomas G. Shearman to H. W. Beecher’s old church people. He-ap- pears to be laboring under a special antipa- thy to the American board and its mis- sionaries. As a sample of his terrible charges, may be named the election of our senate “by about 200 of the richest men on the island.” The reality is that there were several thousand electors of senators, a majority of whcm were mechanics and skilled laborers. Another sample: He says “the mission- ary government, finding the natives would not work for less than 25 cents a day,” im- ported Chinese ard Portuguese, so as to cut down their wages. I testify, from per- sonal knowledge, that ordinary laborers’ wages in the country districts thirty years ago, were 50 cents a day, and fifteen years ago had risen to $1 a day, which they are now. The rest of Mr. Shearman’s appalling facts are of similar value. Most of them have not previously come to light. If he evolved them “out of his inner conscious- ness,” that department of his interior mechanism must have been in a deplorably unsanitary condition. KAMEHAMEHA. ——._—_ The Railroad Hog. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. The railroad hog had piled the space next to him in a car seat with his bundles, and when a gentleman asked him if any one was to occupy it, he replied that the bun- dles belonged to a man who was temporari- ly in the smoking car. “All right,” said the gentleman, “I will sit in the seat till he comes,” and he pro- ceeded to remove the bundles. Pretty soon the owner of the bundles ar- rived at his destination, and he started to gather up his effects. But the gentleman at once put a veto on this, with the re- mark: “You can’t take these bundles; you yourself said they belonged to a man in the smoker.” The fellow got mad and abusive, but the gentleman was inexorable. Finally the conductor was called in, who delivered his dictum as follows: “If the bundles are not claimed by any one on the train, then, by coming around to the depot tomorrow and identifying them satisfac- torily we will give them to you.” The man’s face was as red as fire with rage, and he shook like gelatine, but he could do nothing. So, amid the laughter of the passengers, he rushed out of the car to jump off just as the train was pulling out around the station. And he meckly came around to the depot for his bundles the next day, but swore revenge upon the man who played such a practical joke upon him. Charging for “No Cigar: From London Truth. Having incidentally referred last week to the city waiter’s reckoning “No bread, 14.,” I have reaped a rich harvest of “‘chest- nuts” from the same tree. After inspect- ing them carefully I have come to the con- clusion that the following is the best speci- men. It is credited to a waiter at “Rvans':”” “Chop and potato, 14d.—1s. 44. Cigar? No cigars—is. 8d. ‘Waiter, - sir, please.” THE WHISTLING PILLOW. It Filled the House With Horrors and Made Night Hideous. From the Kansas City Star. Mr. John G..Rumbie was a man after his own name. You could always tell when John G. was about because he was always “kicking” about something. He had the dyspepsia and was troubled with insomnia. He had tried all the well-known cures and yet only averaged about three hours’ sleep a night. He was a queer-looking character, was John G., he was so awfully bald, with a pink shining dome surrounded with a rim of stubbly’ hair. He looked sallow and discontented and lean, and alto- gether disgusted with life. His wife was very fond of him and pet- ted him as much as he would allow. One day some one suggested that he get a rubber pillow. It was argued that the pillow would keep his head cool and allow him to go to sleep. He was willing to try anything, so he bought the pillow. That night he inflated it, and as he placed his kead on it he said to ne wnt tht is the thi: “Ah! is is e . Iu preety nds this, sure, Wish Ta eS ‘ore.”” off to sleep without ey ase His wife was dehghted. An hour or two later she awoke with a thrill of horror; she felt something on her feet, she was sure it was the hand of the midnight assassin. As soon as she could get her voice she gave vent to a shriek that brought John G. on to the floor with a bound. “Murder! she yelled. “Somebody's got me by the feet.” John G. struck a light and investigated. It was the rubber pil- John G. put the pillow in place and went to sleep once more. Mrs. Rumble was just dozing off, she was still very nervous, when she heard a low, continuous whistle. She sat up and listen- ed. She was sure it was a signal from a burglar under the bed to an accomplice down stairs. Her heart seemed to stop beating for a while and then she shook her husband awake and into a sitting posture. Then the whistling ceased. Stay she whispered. “I heard a whis. is very room. Som: ree ry e one is under “I can’t hear no whistle,” said John crossly and sleepily, and straightway drop- ped off to sleep again. The whistle sound- ed again and she shook John once more. John got up and Ht the gas and looked around the room. Then he noticed his pil- low was very flat and the whistling-robber mystery was solved. The cap on the tube of the pillow had worked loose in its jour- ney around the bed and John’s head had been pressing the wind out of it; when he arose and took away the pressure the whistling ceased. Mrs. Rumble’s nerves had had all the rubber pillow they could stand and John will have to go back to counting sheep if he wants to sleep, for his rubber pillow is up in the attic behind the old hair trunk. —__-+-e+___ Small, but Vigorous, From the Savannah (Ga.) News. Out on Summit avenue, near the corner of Angier avenue at Atlanta, there is a baby that weighs only two pounds. It is a boy, and on his arrival two wecks ago he weighed only a pound and a half. The baby is the son of F. O. Hanna, a shoe- maker. “He has one other child, a girl, but she weighed at her birth about as much as the average baby. Mr. Hanna has a brother, a great, big, tall man, who weighed at his birth only one pound. The baby, in spite of its small size, is thriv- FINANCE AND THE PEOPLE. ‘Their Hard Common Sense Will Solve the Pending Problems. John Bach McMaster in the Forum. Under the baleful influences of such Pericds of distress as that thrutgh which we are now passing, men of sense and judgment lose faith in the success of” éemccratic institutions and the wisdom of trajority rule. It is easy enough, they say, for the great mass of our fellow-citizens to form a fairly correct judgment on a ques- tion of pure politics. But when the ques- tion to be dealt with is so intricate and complex as to be beyond the comprehen- sion of the great mass of men, is it safe to leave it to be decided by majority rule? In the light of our past history the answer is, yes. Of all the people of the earth we are the most practical and the least theoreti- cal. Experience, not theory, has ever been cur guide. The very Constitution under which we live is a signal illustration of this. It was quite as much a business as a political necessity, and beafs all over it the marks of a bitter experience. The dreadful state of trade, forzign and interstate, the dis- orders of the currency, the lack of a uni- form circulating medium, the hopelessness of trying tu support a government which could not tax, these were the considera- tions which outweighed all others, and moved our ancestors to frame and adopt the Constitution. Any student of politics could have told them, and many did, that it was idle to expect that thirteen ‘petty republics could regulate a common foreign trade as successfully as one central gov- = ut not till the experiment had n made and failed were the people rae ee ing and is as hale and hearty as most babies of his tender age. se Demands the Cash. From Judge. An honest old negro, wearing very rag- ged clothing and carrying a fine, large ham on his shoulder, was met one morn- ing by some college boys in Oxford, Ga. “Hello, Uncle Ike!” said one of them; “If you can afford to buy such good vic- tuals, why don’t you get some new clothes?” “Ah, Mars’ John,” he replied with a smile, “my back gib me credit, but my stomich deman’ de cash.” bestow on Congress sole power to at trade with foreign countries, between. the states, and with the Indians. Any student of finance could have told them that thir- teen kinds of paper money issued on no security and maintained by tender laws and force acts could never become the circulating medium of a great people. But not until they had tried it, not until they bad brought themselves to the brink of indvstrial ruin by the experiment, were cur ancestors willing to declare that nq state shall coin money, emit bilis of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin gore in payment of debts. oth cases were extreme; yet the; striking illustrations of the Tact that In this country all questions of great im- portance are finally settled, not by Presi- dents, nor by Congresses, nor by the leg- islatures of the states, but by the hard common sense of the people, whoy in their own good time and way, have heretofore settled all questions wiscly. ——+« A Distirguished Amateur. From Punch, “Ach! Dat is a putiful song, Lady Pea- cocke, and you bronounce Cherman very vell. Pot vy do you blay ze aggombani- ment in B natural?” “The song’s written in B natural, Herr Maestro.” = “Ach, zo! Ther vy do you zing ze melo in B flat?” ad “Oh, reaily, Herr Maestro! I don’t pre- tend to be a professional, you know! I only sing to please m: ds.” ———_-+ e+ —__—_ A Suspicious Declaration. From the Atlanta Constitution. “If,” said the editor to the office boy, “ycu should happen to see the major com- ing around the corner with his shotgun, let me know of it at once.” “Yes, sir. Is he huntin’ fer somebody?” “I don’t know for certain, but I heard him giving his experience at prayer meet- ing last night, and he told the brethren that life was short, and warned them to prepare for death. We might as well be om the safe side, you know.” —- eee Something Queurious. From Life.