Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1896, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR hasa Larger Circulation in the Homes : of Washington than all the . Other Papers of the City Added Together, because it Stands Up Always for the Interests of ALL THE PEOPLE of WASHINGTON; does not Strive to Divide the Community into Classes, and Array one class Against the others; Contains the Latest and Fullest Local and General News; and Surpasses all the Cther Papers in the City in the Variety and Excellence of its Literary Features. It Literally Goes Everywhere, and is Everybody. It is, therefore, as an Advertising ‘Medium without a Peer, Whether Cost or Measure of Publicity be Considered. THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1896—SIXTEEN PAGES. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR Program of the Mighty Gathering in July. MEETINGS DAY AND NIGHT ENDLESSLY Distinguished Pulpit Oraters From All Over the Land. TENT MEETINGS gee, Like everything else connected with the fifteenth international Christian Endeavor convention, which will be keld in this city from July 8 to 13, inclusive, the program promises to be “the best yet.” While the Iceal committee of 96 is hard at work providing for all the arrangements at this end of the line, another committee—com- pesed of officers and trustees of the United Society in Boston—is wrestling with the many problems connected with the preparation of the program of exercises. Secretary John Willis Baer has an- nounced a provisional program, more in detail than any outlines of convention meetings heretofore made public, the main features of which are here given. % “Deepening the Spirttual Life,’ is the topic for the opening meetirgs in twenty of the churches of Washirgton. Thus at the very beginning it is hoped to set the standard for the entire convention. Care- fully has the entire program been con- structed, but to no part of it has more thought or time been given than to these Wednesday night meetings. In each church will be two speakers, each speaking thirty minutes. The Speake “Among those who have already promised to make these addresses cre the following: Rev. Smith Baker, D. D., Boston; Rev. J. T. McCrory, D. D., Pittsburg; Rev. J. W. Fifield, Chicago; Prof. Amos R. Wells, Bos- ton; Rev. L. A. Banks, D. D., Brooklyn; Rev. Kerr B. Tupper, D. D., Philadelphia; Rev. J. E. Pounds, ’D. D., Indianapolis: Rev. Cortland Myers, Brooklyn; Rev. W H. Robinson, D. D., Chieago; Rev. J. L. Campbell, D. D., New York; Rev. C. A. Barbour, Rochester, N. Y.;\ Rev. L. Work, D. D., Cincinnati; Rev. W. G. Fen- nell, Meriden, Conn.; Rev. J. B. Morgan, Chester, England; Rev. W. J. Harsha, D. D., New York; Rev. W. F. Wilson, Toron- to, Canada; Rev. Henry C. McCook, D. D. Philadelphia; Mr. W. H. Strong, Detroit Rev. P. T. Stanfcrd, D. D., Boston; Rev. William Rader, San Francisco; Rev. W. B. Derrick, D. D., New York city; Rev. J. W. Hamilton, D. D., Cincinnati; Rev. F. W. Tompkins, Providence; Rev. J. Clement French, D. D., Newark, N. J.; Rev. Lean- der S. ‘Keyser, Springfield, Ohio; Rev. H. M. Wharton, D. D., Baltimore, Md.; Rev. J. L. Withrow, D. D., Chicago; Rev. J. H. Garrison, D. D., St. Louis; Rev. L. R. Dy- ott, Newark, N. J.; Rev. F. E. BE. Hamil- ton, Newtonville. Mass.; Rev. James A. Worden, D. D;, Philadelphia, Pa.; the Rt. Rev. Maurice S. Baldwin, D: D., lord bish- op, London, Ont.; Rev. D. N. Beach, Min- neapolis; Rev. Arnold Strenli, Manchester, England. The Quiet Hour. “At the conclusion of the addresses in each one of the twenty churches, a ‘quiet hour’ will be introduced. It is expacted that we shall listen to the ‘still, small voice’ calling for a deeper spirit of vonse- eration, and that we shall clos2 the open- ing meetings of the convention on We:nes- day, as weil as the closing services on the Monday following, with a season of spirft- ual communion with God that will stir in our hearts a new-born desire for service. These seasons of quiet will be led by Mr. Cc. N. Hunt, Minneapolis; Mr. Ralph Gil- lam, Boston; Rev. A. D. Thaeler, Winston, N. C.; Mr. WH. McClain, St. Louis; Mr. Chas. B. Holdrege, Chicago; Rev. W. F. McCauley, Toledo, Ohio; Rev. Ford C. Ott- man, Newark, N. J.; Rev. P. M. Fitzgerald, Knoxville, Tenn.; Rev. O. W. Stewart, Mackinaw, Ill.; Rev. Chas. Roads, Phila- deiphia; Rev. T. G. Langdale, Clark, S. D. Rev. Chas. A. Oliver, York, Pa.; M: vi liam T. Ellis, Boston; Rev. C. W. Palmer, Lanesboro’, Mass.; Rev. E. T. Root, Balti- more; Mr. George B. Graff, Boston; Rev. Joseph B. Turner, Dover, Del.; Mr. Harry A. Kinports, New York city, and Mr. Ar- thur W. Kelly, Boston. “Mr. Ira D. Sankey will be present and assist in making the meetings seasons of spiritual power. “The following named pastors of Wash- ington churches will preside over these twenty-three opening meetings: Rav. S. H. Greene, D.D.; ‘Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis, Rev. Isaac W. Canter, D.D.; Rev. Freder- ick D. Power, D.D.; Rev. Joseph T. Kelly, Rev. Chas. A. Stakely, D.D.; Rev. Teunis 3. Hamlin, D.D.; Rev. J. G. Butler, D.D. Geo. N. Luccock, D.D.; Rev. W. R. Strick- len, Rev. Theron Outwater, Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D.D.; Rev. R. H. McKim, D.D.; Rev. A. W. Pitzer, D.D,; Rev. Thomas Chalmers Easton, D.D.; Rev. Wm. C. Alex- ander, D.D.; Rev. J. Russell Verbrycke; Rev. W._S. Hammond, D.D.; Rev. R. A. Fisher, D.D.; Rev. Stephen M. Newman, D.D.; Rev. Oliver A. Brown, D.D.; Rev. D. W. Skillinger, and Rev. John Allan Jobhn- son. “In addition to the twenty meetings out- lined above, we are glad to present as another part of the program for Wednes- day three illustrated stereopticon lectures. Rev. George E. Lovejoy of Stoneham, Mass., will picture Armenia and its -eeds; Rev. Frank S. Dobbins, Philadelphia, will give his lecture, “The Celestial Empire and the Land of the Rising Sun,’ and the third illustrated lecture will be given by Rev. Frederick J. Stanley. ‘Thursday Morning, July 9. “Promptly at 10 o'clock President Clark will ‘officially’ call the convention to order in Tent Washington, which will be known as ‘official’ headquarters throughout the convention. Upon the platforra of Tent Washington will be the desk of President Clark. Secretary Baer, chairman of the convention’s ‘business’ committee, and to whom matters of business, resolutions, &c., may be referred, will make his head- quarters at Tent Washington, and will be found at his desk, upon the platform, dur- ing the sessions of the convention. We shall first be greeted by the threa large choirs, each of not less than 1,000 voices. The first familiar face and figure to direct your attention and afterward your singing will be Mr. Percy S. Foster, who, for three’ years, has led our convention choruses, The other two leaders of the large choirs are Mr. Peter Bilhorn and Mr. E. O. Excell. These two consecrated singers raise their batons for the first time at an international Christian Endeavor convention. And right here let me say that more than ever will the music be made an important part of every session throughout the entire con- vention. Mr. Charles 8. Clark, the chair- man of the music committee, has many plans which will meet your hearty ap- provaL Musical Features. “In addition to evangelistic songs by Mr. Sankey, Mr. E. O. Excell, Mr. Bilhorn, Mr. Foster and Mr. Lamb, the committee will introduce soloists from Washington at dif- ferent times during the convention. The Park sisters are expected, and associated with them as cornetists will be Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Burleigh, Concord, N. H.; Mr. Elphongzo Youngs, Washington, D. C., and William Alorzo Excell, Chicago, Il. “You will be welcomed in Tent Washing- ton by Mr. W. H. H. Smith, the chairman of the ‘committee of '96;’ In Tent Williston by Rev. 3. H. Greene, D.D., pastor of Cal- vary Baptist Church, and in Tent En- deavor by the chairman of the board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, Mr. John W. Ross. Mr. Giles Kellogg. president of the California Union, will re- spond in Tent Washington; Bishop Alex- ander Walters, D.D., of Jersey City, in Tent Endeavor, and Rev. Canon J. B. Rich- ardson of London, Ont., in Tent Williston. In addition to the secretary's annual re- port, which will be given jn the three tents, President Clark's ann address will be presented in each meeting. The presiding cfficers in the tents to assist ident Clark at the opening sessions will Rev. H. B. Grose and Rev. T. 8. Hamlin, D.D, Thursday Afternoon, July 9. “The denominational rallies will be held or Thursday afternoon in the vhurches of Washington. The chairmen are all repre- sentative men in thelr denominations, and and churches that were rallies they will have the heartiest support of every Christian Endeavorer. Thursday Night, July 9. “President Clark, Postmaster General W. L. Wilson and Mr. John Wanamaker will be the presiding officers in the three tents. The general topic for these meetings, and also meetings in Central Hall and five churches, will be Christian citizenship. Mr. Frank B. Page of Chicago will preside in Central Hall, Prof. W. W. Andrews of New Brunswick, in Calvary Baptist Church; Mr. Rolla V. Watt of San Fran- cisco, in the First Congregational Church; Rev. E. R. Dille., D.D., San Francisco, in the Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church; Rev. William Patterson, Tororto, in the First Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Way- land Hcyt, D.D., Philadelphia, in the New ¥ork Avenue Presbyterian Church. Speak- ers for these meetings so far engaged are: Rev. R. 8. MacArthur, D.D., New York city; President Wm. F. Slocum, jr., Colo- rado Springs, Col.; Mr. Booker T, Wash- ington, Tuskegee, Ala.; Rev. P. 8. Henson, D.D., Chicago, Ill.; Rey. Alexander Alison, D.D., New York city: Rev. M. F. Troxell, Il.; Rev. Wm. Rader, San ; Bishop Alexander Walters, y City, N. J.; Rev. J. W. Fi- field, Chicago, Ill.; Bishop Abram Grant, D. D., Atlanta, Ga.; Rev. H. K. Carroll, D.D., New York city; Rev. F. EB. E. Hamilton, Newtonville, Mass.; Rev. Joseoh Brown Morgan, Chester, Et Rev. J. T. McCrory, D.D., Pittsburg, Pa.; Mr. 8. E. Nicholson, Kokomo, Ind.; Rev. Richard Richard, Bris- tol, Englan Rev. LE. Roberts, Man- chester, England. Temperance Speeches. “Christian Endeavor stands for total ab- stinence, and is against the saloon and the Mquor traffic. The following speakers will speak upon those phases of Christian clti- zenship: Mr. Neal Dow, Portland, Maine; Rev. Henry H. Russell, Columbus, Ohio; Rev. C. H. Mead, New York city; Mr. Thomas Murphy, New York city; Mr. H. L. Castle, Pittsburg, Pa.; Miss Jessie A. Ackerman, Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. Ruth Baker, Boston, Mass.; Rev. J. W. Hamilton, D.D.. Cincinnati, Ohio; Mr. W. L. Board, Wilber- force, Ohio; Rev. D. F. McGill, D.D., Alle- gheny, Pa. Friday Morning, July 10. “Saved to Serve’ will be the general topic for the entire day. Each year the Christian Endeavor socteties are becoming more and more an evangelistic force, and our conventions are therefore, under God’s Suidance, great energizing dynamos. The meetings will be held in the three tents. The speakers who have accepted invita- tions to make addresses for Friday morn- ing are Rev. John O'Neil, Toronto, Ont.; Rev. H. S. Williams, D.D., Memphis, Tenn.; Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, ey Philadelphia; Rev. C. L. Work, D.D., Cin- cinnati, Ohio; Rev. W. F. Wilson, Toronto, Ont.; Rev. H. M. Wharton, D.D., Balti- more, Md.; President B. L. Whitman, D.D., Washington, D. C.; Rev. Cortland Myers, Brooklyn, N. Y. “In the Calvary Baptist Church, from 9:30 until noon, will be held a platform meeting, devoted entirely to methods of work for the Juniors. There will be brief practical papers upon the various branches of work’ for the boys and girls, to be fol- lowed with informal discussions and open parliaments. The Intertediate Society will also receive merited attention in this meet- ing of practical workers. The program is being carefully prepared, and will be made public later. Secretary Baer will preside, and have charge of this Junior workers’ meeting. Friday Afternoon, July 10. “Note-books will be in demand through- out the convention, but never more so than upon Friday afternoon. Christian En- deavor stands for service, and through the work assigned the various committees it strives to be of the best possible service to the churches and communities. ‘The school of methods’ and committee conferene will be held in churches, and nothing els is planned to interfere with their success. Friday Night, July 10. “That the citizens of Washington may have an opportunity to hear some of the convention speakers, Tent Washington, upon Friday night, will be reserved for them. President Clark will preside, and Rev. J. L. Withrow, D. D., Chicago, will speak; his topic is ‘Meetness for the Mas- ter’s Use.” Rev. Dr. Wayland Hoyt’s ad- dress is entitled ‘Christian Endeavor an Evangelistic Force.” “There are eight large meetings planned for Endeavorers. In Tent Williston Mr. Ira D. Sankey will preside. There will be two addresses, one, ‘Christian Endeavor and Missions,’ Rev. J. E. Pounds, D. D., Indianapolis, Ind.; the other, ‘The Two Cru- sades,’ Rev. A. C. Crews, Toronto, Ont. ‘Tke speakers in Tent Endeavor .will be Bishop B. W. Arnett, D. D., Wilberforce, Onto, and Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D., Philadelphia. “The other six meetings are planned with particularly practical topics of especial in- terest to Endeavorers. Saturday Morning, Jaly 11. “North America for Christ’ will be the central thought for Saturday, the exercises being held outdoors during the day. At 9 a.m. there will be a patriotic open-air praise service, held at the Washington monument. At 9:30 a march fs planned through Penn- sylvania avenue to the Capitol, where brief addresses will be made. This is the first time anything of the kind has ever been planned, and we believe the Endeavorers will be glad to march up the principal ave- nue of our nation’s capital, to the step of ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers.’ Saturday Afternoon, July 11. “The annual Junior rally will be held at 2:30 in Tent Washington. The program is far from complete, but the main feature, an exercise by the boys and girls, is all Prepared, and the Washington Juniors are hard at work now upon it. The exercise is entitled ‘The Juniors’ Love of Country,’ by Mrs. James L. Hill, Salem, Mass. “At 5:30 Saturday afternoon, under the leadership of Mr. Percy S. Foster, the com- bined choirs, numbering about four thou- sand voices, will give a grand patriotic vesper service upon the White Lot, near the White House. It is hoped that the chorus will be assisted by the celebrated Marine Band. “At 8 o'clock will be the opening time for the state and provincial receptions in the thirty-three churches used as ‘headquar- ters.’ These gatherings are entirely under the direction of the presidents of state and territorial unions, Reserve Saturday night! “While the Endeavorers are enjoying their receptions and rallies, the three large tents will be used for meetings for citizens, and citizens only. Meeting for Men. “In Tent Washington a unique, and, we pray, a blessed, service has been planned. It will be for men only. A choir of male voices will lead the singing, conducted by Peter P. Bilhorn. There will be a brief in- troductory address by Evangelist C. N. Hunt of Minneapolis, after which Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D.D., will speak. The meeting is entirely under Dr. Chapman's direction, In Tent Williston and Tent En- deavor the speakers will all be trustees of the United Society of Christian Endeavor. The general topic will be, ‘Christian En- deavor: Its Aims and Possibilities." We hope these citizens’ meetings will bo largely attended. They are an innovation, but ones that we belleve have come to stay. The following trustees will speak in Tents Endeavor and Williston: Rev. J. Z. Tyler, D.D., Cleveland; Mr. John Wanamaker, Philadelphia; Rev. H. C. Farrar, D,D., Al- bany; Rev. ©. A. n, D.D., Boston; Rev. J. T. 7 D.D, New York city; Rev. D. J. Burrell, D.D., New York city; Rev. N. Boynton, D-D., Detroit; Rev. M. Rhodes, D.D., St. Louis. Sunday Morning, July 12. “The regular church services of the morn- ing will be attended; Sunday schools at 9 and preaching services at 10:30. A commit- tee under the leadership of Rev. Teunis 8. Hamlin, D.D., Washington, D. C., will ar- range for the pulpit supply of all the evan- gelical churches of Washington, both morn- ing and evening, and in the delegates’ pro- eee a one complete and ac- curate “At Boston last year is was thought best to close the tents in the aft: yn. As the enter’ lent committee at Washington ass us that all the will be located within the city proper, and none at @ very great distance from the central churches, it has been decided to have meetings on Sunday afternoon. “At 3:30 there will be h denomina- missional Wil be held for gue hour in the samme ten used for denom- Inational entire conventioty and speakers nized ability and consecration w' lected. ae S Hf ety be Waaninetos En. meetings - deavor. Rev. B. Mills will have charge of one, and the qther will be under direc- tion of Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D.D. “At the same hour, in Central Hall, a mass meeting fos Sabbath observance is called. Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D., of Brooklyn, N.Y., will preside, and the speak- ers are Mrs. Henty T. McEwen, New York city; Rev. & B. Davison, Milwaukee, Wis.; Rev. Alexander~#lison, D.D., New York city, and Rev. Wilbur is, Washing- ton, D. C. >} “In the evening the regular Christian En- deavor prayer meetings, to be followed b the second preathing service. Thus wi close one of the most memorable Sundays the city of Washington will ever experi- ence. Monday Merning, July 18. “The closing day of the feast will stand for ‘World-Wide Endeavor.’ In Tent En- eavor will be held a meeting in the inter- ests of the suffering Armenians, It is hoped Hon. John W. Foster will preside. The speakers already engaged for this meeting are Miss Rebecca Krikorian, Miss Margaret W. Leitch, Jaffna, Ceylon, and Rev. B. Fay Mills. “In Terts Williston and Washington the meetings will be under the auspices of the World's Christian Endeavor Union. Presi- dent Clark will preside in one tent, and Treasurer Shaw in the other. The speakers who wil probably be heard from in these two meetings are: Bishop J. M. Thoburn, D.D., India; Rev. Geo. P. Goll, Africa; Rev. Richard Richard, Bristol, England; Rev. Jesse M. Yonan, Persia; Rev. James Brown Morgan, DL of recog- ill be se- evangelistic and ya, India; Rev. Wm. P. Bentley, China; Rev. H. S. Jenanyan, Turkey. “These speakers and others not yet named, it will be noticed, are drawn from many nationalities, and from almost every portion of the globe. “In one of these meetings visiting mis- sioraries will be introduced, and in the other the Endeavor volunteers for the mis- sion fields, home and foreign. Monday Afternoon, July 13. “Monday afternoon Hike Saturday after- noon is left ‘open,’ so that the delegates may have time to visit the points of in- terest without sacrificing any of the ses- sions of the convention. “About 4:30 the officers and trustees will give an informal reception to the officers of local, district and state unions. Full de- tails and plans for this social time will be announced later. Monday Night, July 13. “The closing sessions of the convention will be held in the three tents, Central Hall and five large churches. In each place our marching orders will be suggested by a sermon, and that to be followed by corsecration meetings. Prosident Clark, Secretary Baer and Treasurer Shaw will preside in the tents. “The lst of those who will preach the sermons in the closing meetings so far en- gaged ts given herewith. Others have been invited, but as yet their formal acceptance has not been received: Rev. F. W. Gun- saulus, D.D., Chicago, WL; Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, .D., Philadelphia; Rev. Matt. Hughes, Minneapolis, Minn.; Rey. B. Fay Mills, Fert Edward, N. Y.; Rev. John Fa- ville, Appleton, Wis.; Rev. H. M. Wharton, D.D. Saltimore, Md.; Rt. Rev. Maurice S. Baldwin, D.D., lord bishop, London, Ont.; Rev. L. A. Banks, D.D., Brooklyn, N. ¥. “Among those who will have charge of the closing consecration meetings are: Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D.D., Philadelphia; Mr. Chas. N. hint, Mingeapolls, ‘Minn Rev. B, Fay Millé, Fort Edward, N. Mr. Ralph Gillam, Boston; President Fran- cis E. Clark, Trétsarer Willlam Shaw and Secretary John Willis Baer.” « Sa Sas UNITED AFTER TWENTY YEARS. ee The Queer Train of Circumstances That Kept a Father Away. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. After a separation of some twenty years, Mrs. Mary Sturtevant of Oberlin and her husband, Mr. William Sturtevant of Sierra Madre, Cal., are soon to be reunited. The cirzumstanges surrounding the sep- aration and reconeiliation are very unusual. Mrs. Sturt:vant and her two daughters have for years bétn residents of Oberlin, and during all this time it has been sup- posed by Mrs. Sturtevant and her friends that Mr. Sturtevant was dead. But it has recently been discovered that the long-lost husband and father is very much alive. He has sent for his wife and children, and soon all expect to again be happy in each other's company. Mr. and Mrs. Sturtevant were about twenty years ago residents of Cleveland. They got along well together, and with their three children made up an exception- ally happy family. About this time, how- ever, Mr. Sturtevant became ill. ‘To add to his misfortunes he suffered severe financial losses. It therefore seemed necessary that he go west for a time in the hope of re- gaining health and courage. He went to Colorado, and for several years was in a mining camp. During all this time he cor- responded with the members of his family. About 1881 his wife in Cleveland suddenly eased to receive any letters from him. he made cvery pursible effort to discover his whereabouts. All her labors were in vain, however. During the next eleven years Mrs. Sturte- vant supported ner children by dressmak- irg. In 1888 she decided to move to Ober- lin, in order that her Caughters might have the advantages of a good education. A few months ago it became known to them for the first time that Mr. Sturte- vant was still alive The circumstances are now very remarkable, but only an outline can be given. Last January a friend of Mrs. Sturtevant was traveling in southern California. This friend was in Les Angeles, and was one day making a trip up in the mountains. From the very start this friend became greatly irteresteu in the face of her guide. At last she remembered his countenance, and asked him if his name was not Wilbur Sturtevant. The astonished guide replied that it was, The facts were soon stated by both astonished parties, and as a result the mystery has been cleared up. Mr. Sturtevant informed the lady for whom he was acting os a guide that the day before he inteaded to send his money home in 188i he was rotbed. He does not know who robbed him and never expects to find out. He wrote to his wife in Chagrin Falls that his money had been stolen, but she never received the letter. It now ap- pears that the letter was probably inter- cepted by the robbers. He wrote several times, but the letters were never received. Now, in the meantime what was trans- piring awsy back in Ohio? Mrs. Sturte- vant received no letters from her husband, but continued to write to him He, how- ever, never received any more of her let- ters. Thus all communication was stopped, and it now appears that all these letters must have been intercepted. Thus neither heard from the other. Gradually Mrs. Sturtevant formed tke idea that her hus- band was dead. Sn turn Mr. Sturtevant gradually came to ithe conclusion that his family had deserted‘him. He kept on writ- ing, but got no «answer. He lived fifteen miles from the post office, but for long months made the trip regularly in the hope of hearing from she loved ones at home. Often the trip was made in great danger. Many times did he walk the whole dis- tance through a blinding blizeard. At last he gave up all hope, and disheartened and discou: made up his mind to go fur- ther wcst and live-the ilfe of a recluse. He at ouce started for California, Al- most the whole distance he covered on foot. He spent much time on the way. Several years he spent as a guide in Utah, and not for eight, years did he get into southern California, After arriving in Cal- ifernta he went to keeping bees. He also spent much time as a gyjde, and ts superintendent of the new@urro trail which is being opened to ‘Wilson Park. The Influence of Environment. Americans who think Lord Salisbury’s manners lack the suavity which befits an English peer are reminded thet his lord- ship began life a comparatively poor man with a living to make. When he was thir- ty-five years old, the death of his brother made heir to a peerage and to great estates, to which he soon succeeded, but for years before that happened he was a leader writer on a London newspaper and a contributor to the Quarterly Review and other British periodicals. It is underst that while in the newspaper and business he acquired the haughty and some- what overbearing habit of thought and de- meanor which are proper to those callings, and which became so deeply fixed in him that he could never gain the humbler and more ingratiating attitude which is suited to a mere marquis, ESTIMATE OF KRUGER. An English Editor's Study of the Transvaal President. Mr. Frank Harris, the editor of the Sat- urday Review, has recently returned to London, after a somewhat extended tour in South Africa. While there he studied the Transvaal situation carefully, and talk- ed with all the prominent men, both Dutch and English. In the course of an article, headed “President Kruger as He Is,” he says: . “You call Kruger honest and disinter- ested,” cry his adversaries, with a fine scorn; “how, then, do you account for the fact that he’s worth three or four hundred thousand pounds—all made in the last eight or ten years?” And if one in defense ad- duces the fact that President Kruger has always saved seven-eighths of his salary, and invested his savings in farms near Johannesburg and Pretoria, which have in- creased thirty-fold in value in the last decade—if, in fact, one shows that Kruger’s wealth been accumulated honestly, and that, had he been dishonest, he could easily have been worth as many millions as he is now worth hundreds of thousands, his adversaries, instead of admitting the argu- ment, go on to point out that Kruger has winked at bribes taken by his relativi and distributed monopolies among his friends, and that the administration of the Transvaal government is dishonorably dis- tinguished by incompetence and corruption. “This government differs from all other governments,” said a financier to me the other day in Johannesburg, “ in that here you have to buy not only the masters, but the men. If you want a document from a government department, you have to dis- tribute “fivers’ to the clerks in order to get it in any reasonable time.” All this is probably true. It must be re- membered, however, in extenuation, that the Beers, a few thousand ignorant farm- ers, scattered over a great territory, have had in the last ten years to'constitute a government, which should be able to handle all the details of a complex modern civili- zation, a civilization, too, that has grown, and is growing with unexplained rapidity. Eight years ago there was open veldt, dotted with half a dozen makeshift tents and twenty or thirty bullock wagons, where today stands the town of Johannesburg, with its 100,000 inhabitants, its streets of brick dnd stone, its club, its newspaper offices and its mining exchang=s. The forty miles of veldt along the Rand, which could have been bought in 1885 for @ few thousand pounds, is now worth over £300,000,000. Men who ten years ago were struggling clerks or needy adventurers are today millionaire mine owners, whose names are mentioned with respect in every European capital. Temptations beget faults, and a society that has suddenly shot up from poverty to riches can scarcely hope to be distinguished for honesty. It 1s sufficient, surely, to say here, that if Kruger has allowed bribes to be taken by his relatives and dependenis, if he has given concessions to his friends that tram- mel industry, and has thus enriched parti- sans at the public expense,,his personal honesty has not been seriously impugned. Under great temptation he has been what Hamlet calls “indifferent honest"—honest, that is, after the fashion of poor human nature. For there are those of us who would have our children and relations im- maculately virtuous, as if to atone for our shortcomings, while Kruger seems con- tent to let those near and dear to him fill their pockets as they can, provided his own hands are clean. And tf his personal honesty is indisput- able, even more can be said of his courag: for courage, indeed, is of the essence of the man; he has shown all sides of it—save, perhaps, one. His mere physical courage and insensibility of nerves are extraordin- ary—as perfect in old age as in youth. Kruger’s moral courage marked that it might be mistaken for unacy. Year by year as the Uitlanders have increased in number, and as Johannesburg has grown in wealth and influence, Kruger has dimin- ished the privileges of the foreign emi- grants. Before 1885 it was possible for any one to become a fully naturalized burgher of the Transvaal after a residence of two years and a declaration of alle- giance. Today one may pass one’s life in the Transvaal with the satisfaction of Knowing that one’s children born and bred in the state will be regarded as foreigners. And Kruger {s quite willing to take the responsibility for this retrograde action. As a rule, ft is true, he tells you that the volksraad is responsible for these meas- ures; but pushed into a corner he will not deny his initiative. At the back of his mind there is the. justification, aptly phrased by his chief Hollander adviser, “. the flood rises, we build the dikes higher.” I can say nothing as to Krager’s piety. He belongs to the strictest sect of Cal vinists, is proud even of being a “‘Dopper. It is worth while to explain this word, be- cause it shows the extremely close relation- ship that exists between the Boers and the English. “Dopper” comes from “‘dop,” which is the German “topf,”” a bowl, and is supposed to apply to this sect of religion- ists, because they wore their hair as if the barber had put a bowl upon their heads and cut around it. According to this deriva- tion, which seems the most probable, “roundhead” would be an almost perfect translation of ‘‘dopper.” Paul Kruger is not only a sectary, but also a preacher of considerable eminence. Almost opposite his house there stands a ‘Dopper” Church, and there President Kruger often holds forth to the intense edification of the faithful. In truth, there is a good deal of the orator in Oom Paul, and not a little of the actor as well. AS Cromwell is said to have been an epileptic, so this Boer Cromwell is something of & neuropath. Had he been educated, he would have shown a subtle and wide intel- ligence. Even now, according to Chief Jus- tice Kotze, he will discuss such questions as immortality and the beneficence of the Deity with a singularly fair appreciation of the arguments that make against his own belief, which he nevertheless recurs to, as if yielding to an overpowering instinct de- veloped through generations of pious fore- bears. ——_+—_-cee. RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION. For Eight Years It Has Steadily De- creased. From the Railway Age. For eight years the mileage of annual railway construction in the United States has been steadily decreasing. From nearly 13,000 miles of track laid in the wonderful year 1887 the totals have gone down by thousands and hundreds, until 1895 touch- ed the lowest round gor twenty years by adding only 1,803 miles to our railway sy: tem. But this does not mean that the de- mand for railways is nearly supplied and that construction will continue to decrease. On the contrary, there is room and will be need for additions far greater than the en- tire present mileage of the country. We have now something over 181,000 miles of road. To equal Great Britain in its ratio of railway mileage to square miles, we should have a total of 492,000 miles, to equal the abundant supply of Illinois we must have 522,000 miles, while if Massa- chusetts, with its mile of railway to every four square miles of territory, be the stan- dard, the United States will eventually boast of 772,000 miles of lines. That there is much railway building yet to be done the records prove beyond a doubt. When it will be done depends on conditions yet to be developed. A consid- erable amount of work is already under way. During the first three months of this year 253 miles of track were laid on twen- ty lines, and including these our books a! ready show sixty lines on which it seems reasonably certain that 1,760 miles of track will have been laid by the end of 1896, with a possibility of much more. It all depends on the times, not on the qvestion of finding room or demand for more railroads. ———+e+____ BUTTERFLIES FOR ROTHSCHILD. The Baron After Pacific Coast Beau- ties for His Collection. From the San Francisco Chronicie. George W. Dunn, the oldest and perhaps the most famous naturalist on the Pacific coast, some days ago received a letter from Baron de Rothschild asking him to go on a butterfly collecting tour for him. The baron has a four-story building at Herz, which he intends to fill with these beautiful vari- colored insects. He has specified the lo- calities in California and Lower California from which he desires the butterflies. The baron has learned, w! is pretty well known in California, that the foothills of the Sierras fairly swarm with all kinds and sizes of butterfiles at certain seasons of the year. The county of Mariposa, for in- stance, takes its name from the word meaning butterfly, on account of the enormous numbers of these moving insects to be seen Mr. Dunn been collecting specimens in California and elsewhere on the coast tor forty-seven years, MEMBERS IN TOWN M N. Cal CA ALLEN, W. Y., Nebraska. B., Towa, N, We MORRILL, J. 8. MURPHY, Ed Y. NELSON, me) Minn... PALMER, PASCO, §.,_ Fi: PEVFER. W. VILAS VES WATgU Wyo WETMORE RL. WILSON, J. %., Waebington- WHITE,’ St WOLCOTT, AENOLD, W. AVERY, ‘John, BABCOLK, J. BARHAM, J. A oF ARNOLD, W. RST , Don, ‘Pa. Frank J. B. EB. STON, John M. TURPIE, David, Ww. F. >a. 0. wi BUTLER, Station.” N. CAFFERY, Doretson. 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WRIGHT, A. B., “Mass — A SPANISH ESTIMATE It is hard to understand how public opin- on can be so easily deceived. There are many here who believe that it would be a imple thing for us to defeat the United States in a war. They believe that c try is only a republic of merchants. Thy believe that she cannot fight with European powers, What a mistake! America was not a republic yet when she first defeated Eng- Thirty years later she declared war her to land. with England again and compelle sign an honorable peace, notw! she saw the English burning the Ca’ at Washington. When, after half a ce tury of peace, her inhabitants were divided about the slavery question, and she h fight with her own sons, the world was amazed at the size of her armies, at her battles and at her formidable engines of war. It was then that she produced the monitor. On the Sth and 9th of March, 1862, In Hampton Roads, in sight of Fort- ress Monroe, she gave to the world the spectacle of a naval combat such as had never been witnessed before between two battle ships, the like of which, also, had never been seen before, namely, the Mer- rimac and the Monitor of Eric Against England America is erful. In 1846 she compelled E give up a part of Oregon. In 1871 England had to indemnify her for the damage done the Alabama and other cruisers built in British ports for the enemies of the repub- lic. Recently she has compelled England to consent to her interference in the quar- rel about the boundaries of Guiana and Venezuela. On the American contineni how often she has acted energetically without Europe's opposition! In 1845 she annexed Texas to her territory. In 1845 she com- pelled England to give to Honduras the islands of Rostan. From 1883 to 1867 she openly opposed the monarchy in Mexico. nize Maximilian even establishment of a She did not re as a con: power. She did not attempt even to pre- serve neutrality. She favored Juarez, and when the emperor was imprisoned at Queretaro she declined to listen to the re- quests of France and Austria and interfere to save his life. i Excepting England, there is no nation in Europe which dares now to oppose in any way the United States, at present more pow- erful than ever. When she fought against England the first time she had not 4,000,000 of inhabitants. The second time she had no more than §,000,000. Today she has 62,040),- 000. Then she bad nothing; now she has a strong naval force, and she can put in Arms at a moment's notice millions of soldiers. Her regular army ts small in time of peace, 25,000 mer, but they reach to hundreds of thoasands in the organized militia of the several states. The United States are now a wealthy na- tion, industrious, active, enterprising, with- out fear of any undertaking, no matter how reckless and impossible it looks. In a war against Europe she would ‘splay a hun- dredfold the strength she exhibited in the war of secession. She could hardly be de- feated. Never shall we advise Spain to de- clare war upon the United States! Terms of peaceful arrangement are possible, and we should exhaust them first. =the A Smart Londoner. A smart Londoner watched the daily news- papers for several years, and has made an extensive list of births. As a child's birth- day approaches he sends the parents a list of suitable goods for birthday presents to be found in his stock. It is said his enterprise has resulted in a big trade in birthday pres- ents. ———_—+e-+— A Young Wife's Plan. From Life. “Jack, you used to be so entertaining and brilliant before we were married.” “Ya-as, I suppose I was; but you see I had to rival a lot of fellows who were al- ways hanging about.” “Well, I think I'll entice those fellows back; they'll be glad enough to come.”