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THE WTLM CSrGTOKs; MESSENGER. TUESDAY, JANUAB, Y 7, UW2. Washington, Jan. 5. In this Dr. 'Talmage's first discourse for the new year be speaks words of encourage ment to all the timid and doubting. The text is Exodus xii. 2. 'This month shall be unto you the . beginning of months; It shall be the first month of the year to you." The last month of the old year has passed out of sight, and the llrst month of the new year has arrived. The mid night gate last Wednesday opened, and January entered. She deserves a bet ter namerXor she Is called after Janus, the beafl defy who, they supDosed. presided ovi'lr'Virs and so might be expected to preside at the opening of the year. This month was of old called the wolf month because, through the severity of its weather, the hungry wolves came down seeking food and devouring human life. In the missals of the middle ages January wa3 repre sented as attired In white, suggestive of the snow, and blowing the lingers, as though suffering from the cold, and having a bundle of weod under the arm. suggestive of the warmth that must be kindled. Yes, January is the open door of the year, and through that door will come what long processions, some of them bearing palm leaves and some myrtle, others with garlands of wheat and others with cypress and mistletoe. They are coming, and nothing can keep them back the events of a twelvemonth. It will. I think, be one of the greatest years of all time. It will abound with blessing and disaster. National and in ternational controversies of momentous Import will be settled. Year of coro nation and dethronement, year that will settle Cuban and Porto Itican and Philippine pnd South African and Chi nese destinies. The tamest year for man? a decade pas has dug Its mil lions of graves and reared its millions of marriage altars. Wp can expect greater events in this year than ever before, for the world's poDuIation has so vastly increased there are so many more than in any other year to laugh and weep and tri umph and perish. The mightier wheels of mechanism have such wider sweep. The fires are kindled in furnaces not seven times but seventy times heated. The velocities whirling through the air and sailing the seas and tunneling the mountains will make unprecedented demonstration. Would to God that be fore the now opening year has closed the earth might cease to tremble with the last cannomde and the heavens cease to be lighted up with any more conflagration of homesteads and the foundries that make swords be turned Into blacksmith shops for making plowshares. Grasp Prnt Opportnnltle. The front door of a stupendous year has opened. Before many of you there will be twelve months of opportunity for making the world better or worse, happier or mere miserable. Let us pray that It may be a year that will indicate the speedy redemption of the hemisphere. Would to God that this might be the year In which the three great instruments now chiefly used for secular purposes might be put to their mightiest use In the world's evangeliza tionthe telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph! Electricity has such po tent tongue, such strong arm. such ewlft wing, such lightning foot, that It occurs to me that it may be the angel that St. John saw and beard In apoc alyptic vision when he started back and cried out. I saw another angel flying In the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the e;rth and to every nation and kindred aud tongue rod people" They wwc tongues of fire h:tt sat on the heads of the d!sciples at the Tenteccst. and why not the work! called to God by tongue of elec tric CreV Prepare your batteries and inuke ready to put upon the wires the world wide message cf "whosoever will." furthermore., this month of January has the greatest heigbt and depth of cold. The rivers are bound In crystal c hains. The fountains that made high est leap in the summer parks now toss not one jet. for every drop would be a frozen tear. The sleds craunch through the hard snow Warmest attire the wardrobe can aCord is put on that we may defend ourselves against the fury of the elements. Hardest of all the months for the poor, let it be the sea son of greatest generosity on the part of the prosperous. IIow much a scut tle of coal or a pair of shoes or a coat . or a shawl may do in assuagement of suffering between the 1st of January and the 1st of February God only knows. Seated by our warm registers -or wrapped In furs which make us In dependent of the cutting January blast, let us not forget the fireless hearth and the thin garments and the hacking cough and tbe rheumatic twinge of those who through destitution find life In winter co agony. Suppose each one of us take under charge one poverty stricken household or one disabled man r one invalided woman. On our way home from such a charity, though the wind may be howling and the night tempestuous, I should not wonder If yre coald hear a voice that was beard on Galilee and at tbe gates of Naln and by tbe pool of 'Cethesda saying, "Inasmuch as ye till to them, ye did It tome." t Victories of the Trout . Oh, the might of the coldl The arc tic and antarctic invading e temper Ite tone! The victories of the frost usMrhen ihe Thames In 1203 became firm as any bridge and the Inhabitants crossed and reexossed on the ice and1 booths and places of temporary amuse ment were built on the hardened sur face; as when many years ago New York harbor was paved with Ice so that tbe people passed on foot to the adjoining islands. But the full story of the cold will never be known. The lips which would have told It were frozen and the fingers that would have written It were benumbed. Only here and there a fact appears. In 1C01 the cold was so terrific that the wolves en tered Vienna. In 14GS it was so cold that wine was cut with hatchets and distributed among the soldiers. In 1234 a whole forest was killed by tbe cold at Ravenna. In 703 the Black sea was frozen over. As we go further Lack the frosts are mightier, but as we come further down the frost lessen. The worst severities have been halted, ind the snows have lost their depths, and the thermometers announce less terrific falls of temperature, and the time will come when the year will be one long summer of foliage and bloom. While the world's moral condition will be reformed, the worst climates will be corrected. You could not have a millennium with a January blast pos sible. Behold, also, as it Is possible in no other month of the year, the wondrous anatomy of the trees in January, the leaves of the last year all gone and not so much as a bud of a new botan ical wardrobe appearing, the trees standing with arms stretched toward heaven, one of the greatest evidences of the wisdom and the power of the Creator. The leaves appear only once and then die, but these great arms are stretched up toward heaven In silent prayer for scores of years, now mailed with Ice, now robed in snow or bowing to the God of the tempests as be passes in the midnight hurricane. In July the trees stand glorifying the earth; in January they stand defying the winter. Under the same tree the child plays with his toy and. growing up to manhood, sits under it in senti mental or philosophic mood and, hav ing passed on to old age, rests himself under its shade. In these January days the trees seem to say: "The leaves that rustled their music in the last summer are dead and gone, but the leaves that will adorn this uncovered brow and these bare arms shall bavo as mueh beauty and glory as their predecessors. Only wait. There, are beautiful and lovely things to come In my tree life, as there are beautiful and lovely things to come in your life, O human specta tor." Oh. the tree! Only the Almighty and the Infinite could have made one. Gothic architecture was suggested by It But for the arch of Its bough and the pointing of its branches the ' St. Chapelle of Faris and other specimens of Gothic arch would never have been lifted. No wonder the world has taken from it many styles of suggestiveness the laurel for the victor, the willow for the sorrowing, the aspen for the trembling, the cypress for the burial! But, unlike ourselves, they cannot change their place and so stand watch ing all that passes. Some of them are solemn monuments of the centuries. Thank God for trees, their beauty, their shelter, their interlacing branches not only for the trees in June time coronation, but in January privation of everything but graceful structure! Let the iconoclastic ax not be lifted against hem. "Woodman, spare that tree." , The Increasing Daylight. Behold also in this January month the increasing daylight. Last month the sun went down at 4:30, but in this month the days are getting longer. The sunrise and the sunset are farther apart. Sunlight instead of artificial light, and there is for our dear old bat tered earth growing light. "The day spring from on high hath visited us." We shall have more light for the home, more light for the church, more light for the nation, more light for the world light of intelligence, light of comfort, light of rescue, light of evangelization, light from the face of God, light from the throne. But, you say. the light In creases so slowly, each day of this Jan uary only one minute longer than its predecessor, the sun setting the 1st day of January at 4 o'clock and 43 minutes, the sun setting the 2d day of January at 4 o'clock and 44 minutes, the 3d day of this month the sun setting at 4 o'clock and 45 minutes, the 4th day of January tbe sun setting at 4 o'clock and 4G minutes. This evening it will Bet at 4 o'clock and 47 minutes. The day enlarges very little, and the reign ox suuugut is not mucu iucreaseu, uui i do not despise the minute of increas- ' m i , . . f I- i . . ing light each day of this January, and do not despise tbe fact that more light is coming for the church and the world, though it come slowly. As we are now in this season gradually going toward the longest day of nest summer, so our world is moving forward toward the long day of emancipation and Chrlstly dominion. It may now in the state and the church and the world be Jan uary cold, but we are on the way, to July harvests and September or chards. Do not read your almanac backward. Do not go out and ask. the trees hung with icicles by January storm whether they will ever again blossom in May and leaf in June. We are, moving to ward the world's redemption. The frozen tears will melt, the river of gladness will resume Its flow, the cro cus will come up at the edge of the snowbank, the morning star will opon the door for the day. and the armies of the world will "ground arms" all around the world. The January of frost will be abolished, and the balm and radiance cf a divine atmosphen will fill the nations If -ou do not see it and bear it for yourself. I thin!; J at the utmost your rra ndchildren wil! I see and lirar it . The heavens will t ! j part In the coaS'ct between righteous ' ness and .sin. and that will settle it. find settle Jt aright, and settle It for ever. : In this very month of January. 1613. two months after a great battle had been fought between the army of tne king and the army of parliament, shepherds and travelers between 12 and 1 o'clock at n!gbt beard the battle repeated in tile s!:;'C3 the s-nnd of drums, tbe clash of cms. the groans'of dying men and then the withdrawal of the scene into complete - silence These shepherds and tra voters repeat ed in the neighboring towns what they heaid. and large numbers of peo ple, expecting that all was a decep tion, went cut en the fallowing night, and they beard the rnuic uproar and tumult In the besveas the two armies in battle The king, hearing of this Feemlng ccmbat in the heavens, sent embassadors to inquire Into the mys tery. In the night they also heard the conflict and came back to the king and took solemn oath as to this mysterious occurrence. Whether those shepherds and trav elers and embassadors of the king were In delusion I cannot say. but this I know that the forces cf God and the forces of Satan are now in combat, the heavens as well as the earth In struggle as to who shall win this world for blessedness or woe, and, as the armies of God are mightier than the armies diabolic, we know who will triumph, and we have a right to shout the vic tory through our Lord Jesus Christ. The King of Kings, the Lord of Hosts, the God of Joshua and Ilavelock, leads in the conflict. I have no fear about the tremendous issue. My only fear is that we .will not be found in the ranks and fully armed to do our part In this campaign of the eternities. , Again, I remark that the month of January has seen many of the most stupendous events in the world's his tory and a rocking of cradles and the digging of graves that have affected nations. In this month American In dependence was declared, followed by Lexington and Bunker Hill and Mon mouth and Valley Forge and York town. January saw the proclamation that abolished American slavery. Though at the time there were two mighty opinions and they were exact ly opposed those who liked the docu ment and those who disliked it there is but one opinion now, and if it were put to vote in all the states of the south, "Shall slavery be reinstated?" there would be an overwhelming vote of "No!" The pen with which the doc ument was signed and the Inkstand that contained the ink are relics as sa cred and valuable as the original Dec laration of Independence, with all its erasures and interlineations. The In stitution which for seventy or eighty years kept the nation in angry contro versy has disappeared, and nothing is left to fight about. The north and the south today are in as complete accord as ever were flute and cornet in the same orchestra. The north has built Its factories on the banks of the Chat tahoochee and the Roanoke, and the south has sent many of its ablest at torneys into our northern courthouses, its most skillful physicians into our sickrooms, its wisest bankers into our exchanges, its most consecrated minis ters into our pulpits all this, the re sult of the proclamation of Jan. 1. 18C3. Birthdays of Great Men. Furthermore, I notice that January has been honored with the nativity of some of the greatest among the. na tions. Edmund Burke was born this month, the marvel and glory of the legal world; NFenelon of the religious world, Benjamin Franklin of the philo sophic world. William H. Prescott of the historic world, Sir John Moore of the military world, Robert Burns of the poetic world, Polycarp of the martyr world, Peter the Great of the kingly world, Chrysostom of the sacred rhet oric world, Daniel Webster of the statesman world. In this month, at Hampton court, 1C04, a new translation of the Holy Bible was ordered. There were Bibles of all kinds abroad, some of them translations from Hebrew and Greek by Incompetent men, and the church and the world cried out for a Bible translated by a group of the good and the learned. King James disliked the Bibles abroad and appointed a commis sion of fifty-four men, afterward re duced to forty-seven. Those men pre sented the world with a Bible that held mighty sway among the nations for more than 250 years, the revision of the Bible thirty years ago being found ed on that revision, which began under King James of 1C04. The old transla- j tion. made more than two and a half centuries ago. sustained the martyrs in the fire, illumined the homesteads of many generations, was the book that was read aloud at the embarkation of the forefathers from Delft naven. cheered the weary voyagers on the Mayflower, comforted them in the wilds of America, was the book on which the first American concress. as well as the last, took the oath and with which all the presidents of the United States have solemnized their entrance Into office. Is the book that has advanc ed the world's civilization as no other influence ever could and which now lies on the table, of more homes than any book that was ever printed since Johann Gutenberg borrowed money of Martin Brether and John Faust to complete the art of printing. What a January in the world's history the January that gave the ages a book like that: Time of Sadnen. But January, like all the other months of the year, has had its sadnesses and Its disasters. During this month died Linnxns. the botanist of Sweden and the world, who called the roll of the flowers and shrubs and trees, putting them Into com panics, and calling them by their nanies. his beautiful statue standing In a park of Stockholm, a rose in bronze held In his right hand. Dur ing this month expired Francis Eaccn. and Garrick, and Galilei, and Louis VL. and William Pitt, and Francis Jef frey of the immortal pen. and Disraeli the first, and Edward Everett, and Bruce, and Catiline. In this month died Peter the Geat. the man of whom It was written- "He gave a polish to hh people and as himself a savage. He taught them the art cf warfare, of which he himself was ignorant. From the sight cf a siralt boat oa thf rivVr Moskwa he erected a powerful fleet. making himself an expert and active shipwright, sailor, pilot and command cr. lie changed the manners. cutoma and laws of the Russians and iivel in their memory as the father of his coun try." But I cannot read the epitaphs of one i out of a hundred illustrious graves in ; this lirst monih of the year. Many of those well known gained half their re nown and did half their work through the help of those of whom we know little or coth:ng. Lord Herschel is known all the world over and will be known through all time, but little is said of her who was born this first month of the year and without whose help he never could have been what he was hi3 sister. Caroline Lucretia Au gusta. She helped him hunt the worlds. She repaired and adjusted bis tele scopes. he ciphered out his astronom ical problems. She was his amanuen sis. She planned for him his work. She discovered seven comets and made "A Catalogue cf Nebula and Stat Clusters." The month of January In troduced her to the observatories, but she has never been properly introduced to the world. Treparlns For the Future. According to my text. "This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you." Through it make preparation for the other eleven mouths. What you are in January you will probably be in all the other months of the year. Prepare for them neither by apprehension nor too san guine anticipation. Apprehension of misfortune will only deplete your body and glcom your soul and unlit you for any trouble that may come. On the other hand, if you expect too much, dis appoinment will be yours. Cultivate faith in God and the feeling that he will do for you that which is best, and you will be ready for either sunshine or shadow. The other eleven months of the year 1902 will not all be made up of gladness or of grief. The cup that is all made up of sweetness is insipid. Between these Just opened gates of the year and the closing of those gates there will be many times when you will want God. You will have questions to decide which will need supernatural Impulse. There may be illnesses of the body or perplexities of mind or spir itual exhaustions to be healed and comforted and strengthened. During the remaining twenty-six days of this month lay in a supply of faith and hope and courage for all the days of the eleven months. Start right, and you will be apt to keep right Before the ship captain gets out of the New York Narrows he makes up his mind what sea route he will take. While you are in the Narrows of this month make up your mind which way you will sail and unroll your chart and set your compass and have the lifeboats well placed on the davits and be ready for smooth voyage all the way across or the swoop of a Caribbean whirl wind. The Moimter Abomination. Rev. Solomon Spaulding was tot some time In poor health, and to while away the time he wrote a preposterous religious romance. One Joseph" Smith somehow got hold of that book before it was printed and published it as a revelation of heaven, calling -It the "Book of Mormon," and from that pub lication came Mormonism, the monster abomination of the earth. Rev. Solo mon Spaulding might have been better engaged than writing that book ol falsehoods. However much time we have, we never have time to do wrong. Harness January for usefulness, and it will take the following months In its train. Oh, how much you may do for God between now and the 31st of next December! The beautiful "weeping willow" tree was Introduced by Alex ander Pope into England from a twig which the noet found in a Turkish basket of figs. He planted that twig and from it came all the weeping wil lows of England and America: and your smallest planting of good may un der God become an influence continen tal and international. Now that the train of months has started, let it pass, January followed by February, with longer days, and March, with Its fierce winds; and April, with its sudden showers; and May, with Its blossoming orchards; and June, 'with its carnival of flowers; and July, with Its harvests; and August, with its sweltering heats: and Septem ber. with its drifting leaves; and Oc tober, with Its frosts; and November, with its Thanksgiving scenes; and De cember, with Its Christian hilarities March on. O battalion of the months. In the regiments of the years and the bricacp-s of the centuries! March on and join the months and years and centuries already passed until all the rivers of time have emptied Into the ocean of eternity, but none of all tbe host ought to render higher thanks to God or take larger comfort tr make more magnificent resolve than this tbe first month cf the new year. But what fleet foot hath the months and years! People lightly talk, about how they kill time. Alas. It dies soon enough without killing. And the lon ger we live the swifter It goes. Wil liam Bryant said an old friend of his declared that the going of time is like the drumming of the partridge or muf fled grouse in the woods, falling slow and distinct at first and then follow ing each other more and more rapidly till they end st last in a whirring sound. Bvt Dr. Young, speaking of the value of time, startiaslj exclaimed, Ask deathbeds!" rCopyrli;::t. I5C1. -eu'.s'Kloiwch. T. rCJ lVSDDDSOa (QQL?0 Jest so rare as water dissolves sugar, Just oir will Kodox Dysfet ' OA Cole digest your food; on the same genenl principles. It con - tains the same elements ss Nature's digestive fluid, so why tront It act in exactly the same manner? It will. -Itcan'tbclp it. That's why It never fails to cure tne worst cases of Indirection and dyspepsia where other remedies have f3 tied. A 3 i t tie Kodoi D ystetsia Cvmi after meals willprevent that ten ible distress and belching so often experienced. "For years 1 sought a remedy In Tain until I tried Kodol Dyspepsia Cubx. It ha? no equal as a stomach and dyspepsia remedy and I hare tried all I could find. M. G Edwards 1422-lOth Ave., Altoona, Fa." Dtt caraifc fcsUp fesait do yea rjocc Prepared by ELO.De Witt & Co... Chicago. The tL bottle contains 2H times the SOc. zlza When you suffer from biliousness or constipation, use thd famous little If rer pills known as DeWitt's Littto EARLY fltSERS. They never gripe.. TUCKER'S Granite and Marine nooiiments. Hk3(1mpps. Irnn fencing 6 DESIGNS FURNISHED ON APPLICATION 4 ! ! ! 4 P. 0. Box,277, Wilmington, N. C. Hot Waves Explained Raleigh, December 31. The idea that man may alter the op erations of nature b the sUsnlficant chansres which he is able to bring about on the earth's surface seems to have a special fascination for many people. and is advanced again and again in ex- planation of unusual phenomena, in snite of all proofs to the contrary by men of scientific attainments. Thus the removal of forests and the cultiva tion of land was long supposed to af ffcc.t the climate of a region, though the unchangeableness of climate Is now no longer questioned by intelligent per sons. On a smaller scale were the fu tile attempts to make rain by explo sions In the upper air, which were con lemned bv a llscientific authorities. In Austria thev still bombard the clouds to prevent hail! The occurrence of the recent severe hot wave in the west, al though such heated terms are bv no means uncommon, and have been noted at irregular intervals since the establishment of the Weather Bureau in 1870. has called forth from the fertile mind of Mr. E. B. Dunn, of New York. anexplanation of the cause of hot waves, which I must take the liberty of characterizing as "unique in its absur dity,' and which would hardly be wor thy of a serious reply were it not for the injury it may do the cause of irri gation in the semi-arm regions of the west. In brief this remarkable exDlanation of hot waves attributes them to the moisture from irrigation ditches in the west; these ditches are supposed to giv enough water vapor to the air to form areas of low barometer., which are sta tionary for weeks at a time because tne amount of moisture is not sufficient to cause their forward movement, and thus hot air is drawn into them from the surrounding country for hundreds of miles, intensifying the hot wave. This theory is not only entirely con trary to our knowledge of the science of meteorology, especially the law of storms, but it lacks even the merit of plausibility. In the hrst place it does not explain the accumulation of heat, and attributes to the comparatively small operations of Irrigation an influfl ence on climate out of all proportion to the cause assigned, since these hot waves are felt over thousands of square miles, even over half of the United States at the same time. And, In the second place, areas ol low barometer are not originally formed b moisture at all, "but bv a portion of the air becom ing heated above the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere; thus an ascensional current of air Is produced at he center and the warm air flows in from all sides, and moisture plays an important role only after the ascending currents have been started. Therefore the vapor of water has nothing to do with the origin of areas of low barome ter, for if it did storms would form con tinually over every ocean, over every lake, and over every well-watered country like the southern states, whleh is not the case, while they do originate most frequently in the arid regions and on the Rocky Mountain slopes. Again, hot waves In the east are generally co incident with an area of igh barome ter on th South Atlantic Coast, and no a "low." It may be worth while to enter a little more fully into the question of the cause of hot waves, which are so often extremely destructive to agricultural In terests, treating the subject from a scientific standpoint. Heat waves are chiefly due to a. sluggish circulation of the atmosphere, and come from two sources. In the first place the air near the equator, heated by the tropical sun. rise3 and flows northward to about the latitude of 30 degrees north, where It forms a permanent suttroDlcal area of high barometer, in which the warm air slowly descends to th earth's surface. In summer a portion of this high pres sure area covers the southwestern United States for long periods of tlm As the air slowly falltowards the sur face, not only does it retain much of Its original heat gained in the tropics, but It is also warmed dynamically, that is. tv the compression It undergoes at lower levels. The warm air settles over the gulf and Atlantic states and keeps the temperature at a very high point until the stagnation of the air Is de stroyed of the movements of 5me storm. The most remarkable recent hot wave of this character was that of Au gust Sth to September 10th. 1900. Here. then, we have hot waves in a region of j abundant moisture, where, according to Mr. Dunn s theonr. ther ought not tr occur. The other cause which !s chiefly ef fectlve In the- WMt t h nn nrh t ! r r of the air over the Rockv Mountn!r plains, and the slow movement of tba low barometer areas thus formed. : In this case also the duration of the nest, ed term Is- due to the stagnation of the atmosphere. As warm air ii draw the low area from the south and east "ver thousands of miles, coming la part from the Gulf of Mexico. In art from Ihe lake region. It certainly contains originally plenty of water-vapor, but this Is not condensed Into cloud and rain because of the high temnerntnrs j gnd tlrcr ascent of the air In the In. I denile law. and because thy sir in the low has become warmed to a gieat height ro that the aendins" current crinS yen Branch Yard, Goldsboro, tl C cannot reach the degree of cold neces sary for condensation: the conditions are unfavorable for djnamic coollnc and the vapor collecting In the upper air acts as a screen to t revert radiation and collng at night from the heated ground. Thus the accumulation of heat, continues until the nuimal circulation ol the atmosphere Is icstored. In the whole process, covering thousands of square mHes, how Insignificant must be the part played by the moisture from a few miles of irrigation ditches, which are supplied from the natural water ways of the region, and therefore do not absolutely increase the amount of moisture available, but merely conserve it, and lrect it to purposej useful to man. The unprecedented warm wave of 1901 prevailed for forty days from Juno 20th to July 29th. and as most severe lyfelt In the region of the central Mis sissippi valley and noxthwest. The long duration of the hot waves was due du to the continual reformation of slug gish areas of low barometer at one time over Utah, then over Wyoming or Mon tana, and again in Canada, all probably portions at the great circumoolar low pressure. The theory that hot waves are caused by irrigation In the west is condemned bv the entire scientific staff of the weather bureau. The subject of Irriga tion is of vital importance to agricul tural and all other interests affecting civilized life In nearly one-third the area of the United States, and the whole noble work of reclaiming this vast region and rendering it fit for the habitation of man, as well as an abun dant source of wealth, should not be checked by the acceptance of a theory manifestly so unsound. C. P. VON HERRMANN. Section Director. STOIIIA. Bean th Bigrntur of Ihe Kind Yoa Rare Ahtars tozgt Hair Ilalslne- Alilermanlc Merlin.. "The most peculiar and at the same timft the most hair-raising cltv council meeting I ever knew anything about t waa held out in Raton. N. M.. while I was mayor of that town." said Mr. V. K. Symons, of Savannah, Ga., at the Raleigh yesterday. Mr. Simons is tho superintendent of motive power of tho Plant System of railways and Is on hia way south from Philadelphia, hor" he La having constructed at the Baldwin locomotive Works an entirely new de sign of locomotive a four-cylinder, crank axle, compound engine. Mr. Sim ons has been pretty much all over the country in the railway business and ha held some Important and responsible positions west and east. At the time of the great Santa Fe strike. In 1K94. ho was mayor of Raton, deputy sheriff of the county, deputy United States mar shal for the district, and mastD chanic of the Santa Fe. - :-1, "And I was a walking araerVwhV continued. T carried all kind of gun, and was loaded for bear at all, time of every day and night for nine days. The time I speak of wan when nubile senti ment out there was hot In favor or the trlkers. All the aldermen were for them and I was told that If I attempted to go to the council meeting I would be killed. My friend tried to dtosuade me. but I felt it my duty to stick to the road and to preside over that meet ing It was to be held at 8 o'clock in the evening. I strolled over with the United States marshal, who measured six feet four inches, and we were both loaded down with weapons. As I enter ed the council chamber there- was .a who had been Imported to kill me. an J one of the aldermen was In the chair, about to bring the meeting to order. I walked un and took the gavel away from him and sat down. I had It in one hand and a gun In tne other. I lakf two Jx shooters on the desk In front of me. and leaned a Winchester rifle against mv chair. The marshal stood f behind me armed the same way. The aider men wasted to take action for the striK. ers. bus I ruled everything of that kini out of order, and it was.it Io.-jt until the meetlne adjourned' Washington Post. Bean tie ? ItS IfclTa feJLft213 lzX Intelligence of Insanity. Insane peeple frequently make state rsents which give evidence- of keen In telligence. An instance of this kind oc curred a day or two ago in Judge Hon ham's court- A Scandinavian wornaa. from on nf th ran town&vai iinrtf- going examlnatlan as taher mental cent dltion. Her husband, a weazened. rn ferior looking fellow, had tld tbe story of , his wife's condition, and she took in everv word he said, v ? She was then interrogated and aas wered all the crue'at Jons about herlf and her children in a vague, rambling manner. Finally she protested that there was nothing the matter with her. "Do Ton tnk that yoar husband la out of his mindr asked the doctor: Ky don't tank so. Ay tank he nver hav mlr3 t ben cat of." replied the woman. Despite her coining sanity on thla patet she rta cnrtUd,--PuIath tletrs Xrtbcne,; -