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Persons of Gocd Moral Character Can Become Members, First Grade by paying $3.06 and of sickness receive $3OO a w in case death $30.00. $3.00 a week and at Second Grade, $2 admission i _pess §2 per week and s2oin deat}?,nd in sick rade, s§l a week in sickness, $1 to &mber and §lO at death. mr 12 years can join. d the Second for 75 fleflfis. 'Sage has changed his will. Mr. Sage ' has $90,000.000, according to the income tax returns, to distribute to his heirs. It ils understood that he made his will several years ago. He included in the bequests his young relative Charles Chapin. Mr. Chapin is a newspaper writer. It occurred to him a few days after Lunatic Norcross had failed in his purpose*to blow up Uncle Russell that it ‘would be a good thing to call on the old gentleman and write him up. ; ¥ } At that time Mr. Sage was supposed to be knocked all to pieces. Mr. Cha pin found his relative in very good health and was so pleased that he went down to his office and wrote a two-col umn article describing just how Mr. Sage looked. . 'This was well enough at the time. Mr. Sage never dreamed then that he _wonld:Be put on the gridiron of Mr. f‘jfigfi&g‘te‘s cross-examination. The arti iele which Mr. Chapin wrote was of ‘great advantage to Mr. Choate in prod ding the memory of Mr. Sage. When the jury gave Laldlaw a verdict for $40,000 Mr. Sage concluded that Cha pin’s story had something to do with it. Iy is said he called his counsel, Judge Dillon » and had Chapin’s name stricken from the will. ; King of Beasts. “Yhough the lion possesses co’"Jssal strength it is wanting in confidence in itself. Indeed, its distrust is excessive. It frequently happens that, against its inclinations, it leaves & prey which it deems to have been too easily obtain ed, suspecting it to be a bait. Fre quently, owing to this, man and animal, who have been the defenseless prey on the ground, have been abandoned by the brute, and have thus miraculously escaped what seemed certain death. Riches Hidden in Southern States.} With North Carolina preducing gold, ! rubies and emeralds she will soon be | putting on a great deal of style among ' the sisterhood. There are several oth- | er Southern States which have not yet l been given thorough geological explora tiop, and there is no telling what may i be found in their mountain wilder- | nesses. The mineral wealth of Arkan sas, for example, has not been fully! disclosed by any means.—Memnkis Commercial-Appeal. l ~ STATE oF Onlo, City oF TOLEDO, }ss | Lucas County. i ~ FRANK J. CHEVEY makes oath that he is the ~ senior partner of the firm of F.J. CHENkY & LU'O., doing business in the City of Toledo, . County and State aforesnid,and that said firm will Quty the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL. 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Four Murderers Lynched in a (alifornia Town, A REIGN OF DISORDER. | Feartul of the Law’s Delays the I People Took the Administration | of Justice Into Their Own _ Hands Hanged Side | by Side. | Four murderers were taken from the | coun'y jail at Yreka, Cal,, by a mob of 250 | men at 1 o’clock in themorningand lynched, A ltand of citizens, fearing that the law | would not be ca:ried out, and angered over | the atrocity of recent crimes, determined to | take matters in their own hands. - The lynching was the ghastly climax to | the reign of lawle:suess which has prevailed | in Bisikyou county for some months past, | One of the viciims was Lawrence Johnson, | who, on the evening of July 28, stabbed his | wife to death in the towga@éEtna, Another | was William Null who gliet Henry Hayter in the back with a rifie mear Callaban’s on | April 21 Lou s MorBse ad Garland Seem ler, who are suppo A pßave killed George Seers and Caspar Mgi@#hi#ns at Bailey Hill on August 5, were R 3 ;ed_ d At 11 o’clock farmers from all of the sur rounding cou :try began to drive into town, and by midnight the mcb was ready to march to the county jail. Before taking a | step, however, every precauticn was taken | to prevent the plans of the lynchers from being frustrated by the officers ¢f the law. The sheriff and one « f his deputies were de- | | coyed to another part of the town by two | ! members of the mob who were engaged in a | sham figh:, and the fire b:ll was mufflel to prevent an alarm be'ng given ia that way. When the jail was reached a number of the men, all of whom were maskel, awak ‘ ' ened Under Sheriff Radford, and demanded | the keys from him, He posit.vely refusad to | 0j en the docr or to give up the keys, teiling | ! them if they b.oks open the doors he would i blow their brains out. | ‘ Finding that Radford was determined not | to give them the keys, they went across to ‘ 1 the jall and got on top of a stone wall which | surrounded the jail. Deputy Sheriff Henry ' i Brahtiacht, who has be-n sleeping in the jail | | since the commitment of 50 many murderers | ' thinkinz some one was escaping from the i ‘jail, fired two shots out of the window to | a arm C ty Marshal Parks and Depu y Sher- | ‘it Radford. The luiter then opened the I doors, and was immedia‘ely held up Ly the , mob, who took the keys from him and en ' tered the jail, Having no keys to the different ' cells they were compelled t> burst the locks f with a sledge hammer,which they prcceeded | to do at once, | Lawrence H. Jobnscn, who brutally stabbed his wife to death at Etna on Sunday evening, July 28, was the first to receive the ! attention of the mob, They broke the locx | from the door of hi« cell, and placing a rope around his neck .ed him out of the jail and across the street to where the iron rail was ! laid between the forks of two locust tree-, | Johnson plead for mercy, but the silent | -’ gathering gave no heed to his appeals, and [ ! he was quickly strung up, dying from stian ! gulation in a few miuut-s, I | The mob returned to the jail and then E broke into the cell of William Nul!, who shot | | Henry Hayter, at Callaban’s, on April 21, in i i a dispute over & mining property. Nu!il de- l | sired to make a statement, but time was too } valuable to permit any such preliminaries, } i and he was soon hanging a'ongside of [ ; Johnson. | | Louis Moreno, who is charged with having | | killed George Sears on the sth of this month, was takea from his cell and was soon =wing ing with Jobnson and Nul. The last and youngest of the four murder ers to pay the penalty of his crime was Gar- ’ land Seemler, aged about nineteen, who, in‘i company with Moreno, was charged wth having kiiled Caspar Meirerhans at Biley .! Hill on the s:h of this month, A rops | | was placed about Seemler’s neck and he was | ‘ led from the jail in his bare feet. Seemler | begged dor mercy, and his last words weres | ' “Tell my dear old mother lam innocent | ' of the crime.” | Yreka is a little mining town, and yeirs ago was frequ'nt y the scene of mob vio-! ’ ! lence. The su nmary manner in which ja:- { ' ‘ tice was meted out to the four murderers l ' remind. d the pioneers of similar scenes dur=- | "Ing the gold excitement forty years ago, | I when it was not an uncommeon spectacle to l ] awaken in the morning ald :ee the body of | | 8 notorious criminal dangiing from a tr:e, ' . WORK AND ¥ JRKFRS. The President has signed an order ext nd. ing the classifled servieo to inciude all print ers and pressmen employed in the wvarious exeoutive departments, The Lake Angeline and Cleveland Cliffs companies at Ishpeming, Mich., have pulled the fires from under their boilers preparatory to an exiended shut-down, 71he mines are fast fliling with water. | Over 1,0.0 ot\{!he striking clotting opera tives of Boston returned to work i 1 27 shopa their employers having complied with the demands mads by tue Uuited Garment Workers. It s expected that betwsen 810 i and 400 additional strikers will return to work. The Bloomsburg (Pa.) School Furaizhing Company, resumed work on ful tiilie ‘ a month’s idleness, and will ~hip twWgssloads of desks each day for several Wl The Bloomsburg Car Company receiviiiisirorder for 200 cars for the Lehigh Coal ofi Company, and 100 for Frick & Co.ti® © A meeting of window-glass manufacturers will be held at the Hollenden Hou e, C.eves land, this week, for the purpose of forming a national combine. The failure of the West ern manufacturers and workmen to agree upon a wage scale for the coming *‘fire”” will likely b» considered. The Philadelphia ingrain carpet weavers, who went on strike several weeks ago for an increase of 7 per cent.in wiges have won the fight. Ot cf the 61 firms involved all Lut 20 bave 8 gned the new secale g.anting the ad vance, and the remaihder'will doubtiess fol suit at an early day. The loom fixers in the employ of the Har ris Woolen Company, Lippitt Woolen Co. and Perseverance Worsted Company, of Woonsocket, R. L, bave demanded an in crease of wages from $2.10 to $2 25 per day. The demand was refused at the Harris and Perseverance mills, and taken under consid eration by the Lippitt management, At Dundee, Scotiand, without waiting for a reply to a demand for an. imncrease of 10 percent. in their wagess the millworkers have begun a strin® Tenmills are closed VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA of the States : The five-year-old child of Mrs, Margaret L McGuire, living a few miles south of Hunt. ington, was horribly burned by the turning ov rof a large kettle of boiling water, The little one cannot recover, The toard of commissioners appointed to canvass the railroad vote in Stafford, finding it impossible to conclude their labors owing to the bad condition of the registration books adjourned to have a recount on the secand"; Monday in September at Stafford Court House. The new assessment in E3sex county shows a decrease of §11,515, The electoral board of Lancaster county bas ordered a new registration in that countya Sora-hunting on the Rapahannock is about to begin. B'rds are reported abundant. The Tidewater Agricultural Association will bold its annual fair Getober 1, 2 and 8 at Tappahan.gfiég:;}?a{,% It is officially dfmounced that Vietoria Furnace, locoshen, one of the larg est and best ap «}-/__’m blast turnace plants in the South, will g ;fito blast between the Ist and 10th proxime, and’ when it does get down to work it will be run to its full capacity, This means employment to hundreds of hands and thousands of dollars place! incr culaion in this gounty. The industrial revival at Buena Vista con_ tinues, The furnace #in full operation, em ploying a full force of bands, and in addition l to this ail of the other industries are doing well and bave plenty of work ahead of them. Business there in all lines is on the increase and the outlook for the old town is most l promising. | Prof. William Spencer Curre'l, Pb, D., the newly elected professor of English in {Vash jpgton and Lee University, vice Prof. James i A. Harrison, L. L. D., resigned, has arrived l t~ take charge of his chair, Miss Rosa Walker,eighteen-year-old dau.h ter of Mr. and Mrs, Ben Walker, who reside between Oldbham's and Village, in Westmore_ land ccunty, was instantly killed by lightning | while standing in the kitchen door. Giles Trinkle, a well-known citizen of Giles county, was foun ! dead in his bed at Pearis burg. He re.ired the previous night .n his i usual health, i The demccrats of Middiesex and Essex ceunties have nomivated Mr. J. R. Segar for i re-election to ths House ol Delegates. Great things are expected of the coming of the Scuthern Railway Company to Nerfolk ! i and the advent of the sy=tem will be appro- E priately aelebrated Dby the merchants and ' [ business men, it is said. ‘ | Over one million tons of coal have been' ( shipp:d from Lambert’s Point piers since , ’ the first of January, notwithstandieg the | »trikes and consequent depression. The East- i ern coal fleet has not crowded the piers ol | iate te tbe extent the vezse s did last sprny, * Lut as the disturbanee in business is all ovec | the shipments are steadily resuming theu:! former velume, | cSuffelk is mnving to organize a company ! to estallish an electric street railway to take the pl#@#iof the borse cars. Norfolk pariies are :» fead of the movement. The initial | | a%%t , work on the electric road in Portemputh has commenced, the sixty days . I granted ‘the Pottsville (Pa,) company in | which to commence work exniring next . week. Gilmerton, a new town of 1,000 in t habitants at the first locks of “ae Di-mal ' Swamp canal, expects to be connected with E Portsmouth by this eiectric line, ’ | Mr. Cbristian Snead, architect, of Lynch . burg, had a ciose ca |l from a fearful death ! | while in a state of somnambulism at his | hcuse on Clay ctreet. He and bis fa‘her, ’ Mr. W. B. SneaJ, occupy a room in the i s-cond story oi the building on & level with ! the porch. From the outer edge of this } ~purch there is a desceat of thirty fee: or | \ Jore to the street. About 2 o'clock in the morning the young man was seen by his [ ‘ father to get out of his bed and go to the | wind.w. He called to him to awake, bat before b could be roused he had stepped 1 over the porch railing and fell to th:street ! Lelow. Ia his fall he struck a firc-alarm ' wire, which seratched his neek to the chin, ! and his right shoulder was dislocated when ! he struck the ground, Mr. Snead is subject | to scmnambulism, but this ace dent was the I worst of his experiences, When he struck P the fire-alarm wire the bell at the court~' house struck 2. ‘ Tae Sixth Virginia Cavalry held its first , reunion at Fauquier Springs and a pe man- | eat or.anization was effected, Judge David ! A. Grimsley, cf Culpeper, its last colonel, | was elected commander. Seventy-five sur vivors were present. Among the speakers | was Ger. Wm, H. Payne., The next meeting | wiil be at Upperville, Va. } : Five years ago a twelve-year-old son of | B rnard Hagan, a prominent business map | ! Huntington, mjster.ously disappeared | liom home. [Thousanls of dollars were spent in trying to find him, many leading detectives being put to work on the case, but | to no avail. Friday night the boy, nowa | | stalwart youth of seventeen, appeared at his | father’s residence, and ncne of the family ; recognized him for a long whils, There is i great rejoicing in the Hagan hou:ehold. | The boy has traveled all over the United | States under an assumed name, ‘ f CHINA CONVERYS KILLED. Many Were Butchered Puring the Foo-Chow Riots—Affairs at Shanghai. A special despa ch received in London from Shanghai says that many Chinese coun. verts were Lutchered when the American mis:=ion ou side Fuo-Chow was attacked and the chapel and :chool were wrecked by an infariated mob. i Commander Newell, of the United States cruiser Detroit, has gond to Cheng-Tu to | consult with J. C. Hixson, United BStates Consul at ‘Foo-Chow, atcut the landing of marines for his protection and for the pro. tection of the members ol the commission in vestigating the massacres:bs the latter are practically prisoners, f Toe de patch adds that the ;Chinese offi cia/s are jubilant at the defeat of the Ameri can acd British Consuls to ob'ain an open inquiry into the massacres. It isalso sald that the delay is giving the Chinese time to prepare a defense for the prisoners, KILLED FIFTIEN INDIANS. A Massacre by Cowboys in Diamond Valley. Troops Unier Arms. A courier front Diamond Valley reports the killing of fifteen Indiais by cattle men under the leadership of *‘Rys’” Smith. Smith’s reason was revenge fogkhe murder of his father in 1878 in Diam{§R Valley. There is great exc t in town snd through the country. JMRp Aisin 7 adi ness to march ons i SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONATL. LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 1. Lesson Text: ¢ The Fall of Jericho,” Joshua vi., 8-20—Golden Text; Hebrews xi., 30—-Com mentary. . 1’ 8. “The seven ryriests bearing the sevan | trumpets of rams' horns passed on heforethe , | Lord.” At Gilgal the reproach of Egypt was | § rYolled away in connection with the rite of : nimumc?aion. the feast of Passover was kept, and tHe mannd that had come from heaven so faithfully all those forty yewrs 3 | ceased after they had eaten the old corn of the land (chapter v., 8-'2). Joshua also had .| taken second place in command, the Lord Himself being the Cantain of the host (v. 14, | 15). Now under their Captain’s orders they ; | are beginning their march around Jericho, which city was straitly shut up because of Israel (verse 1). ‘ 9. “And the armed men went before the | priests that blew with tha trumpets.” The armed men, the priests, the ark, all the peo ple. Such was the order of the procession | as they marched around the city. The ark - | isthe symbol of the presence of the Lord and | all was being done *‘tha¢ all the people ol ; the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that is mighty, and that they might fear be | fore Him" (iv., 24). Whether the trumpets | were rams’horns or silver, their sound was | suggestive of atonement. ¥~ “*stue of which God can deal with p” f’ | : 10. “Ye shall nog:’s-.....g* nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out your mouth, until the day "{ Ibid you shout.” This was very trying te | their humanity. Their God had divided the L | Red Sea and the Jordan for them, hal fed | them with food from heaven and broucght water from th= rock for them. He was the mightyv God of Jacob, and He was goinz to | make the walls of Jericho fall down fiat, for : l He said lie would (verse 5), and the hearts ! of many must have longed to cry out to thosé scoifers on the walls: “Our God will | bring down those walls. H 2 will conquer | you.” Butthere wastobe nota worl from | Israel till the appointed time. With the ex | ception of the blasts from the raras’ horns | the great host passed round in silen~e, Ses Zeoch, ik, 13, 11. *“So the ark of the Lor 1 ecompzassed the city, going about it »once.” Not a word about the people doing it, “ltis God who worketh,” and “the Lord alone must be ex- | ; alted” (Phil ii., 18-Tsa h , 11). ‘ 12-14. ‘*And thesecond day thev compassed the city once and returned into the camp, so | they did six days.” Day after day the same | procession and the same order. No sound but the horns of the priests. Not a word I from the people—just the silent marching { of the mighty host and the quiet and order lyreturn to the eamp. The walls of Jeriche | stana firm, and probably the scoffers’ hearts grow harder as they find their peace undis turbed, and it is even possible that they find some amusement in watching the daily pro- i cession, the priests and their horns will hav) ! their share of ridieule, and there may have . been many a surmise and even joke aboat wat was under the blue cloth on those I men’s shoulders (Num. iv., 5,6). Infidelity is about the same in all ages, anl the hard speeches of ungodly zinners (Jude, 15) are always plentiful, Itis oursto bear the ark ¢ in patience and meekness and faith, giving ‘ a clear and consistent testimony as to the only way of redemption through the blood ! of the Lamb, and at the appointed time the . walls of infidelity will crumble and the king | dom will be the Lord’s (Ohadiah, 21). ‘ 15. ‘‘Only on that day they cempassed the | | cityseven times.” This is the recorl of tha l saventh day. There must have been unusu ' al interest in Jericho on this day «s they ' heard the sound of the rams’ horns earlier i thas usual and saw the hosts, insteal of re turning to camp, start te eompass thi city a l secound time. Then a third time, and a ' fourth time, and a fifth, and a sixth. The" ¢ interest must have been intense, and we may ' imagine the walls fairly crowded to wateh these unusual proceedings, 16. *Shout, for the Lord hath given you the city.” This was the command of Joshua to the people as they went round the seventh time. How their pent up feelings woulg break forth; what a shout it must have bgf } from hundreds of thousands of voices; shof [ after shout, a prolonged shout that almost, if not altogether, made the earth to tremble! i The eity wasgiven to Israel before ever they ' compassed the city once (verse 2). It wa: theirs by the word of the Lord, now it istc ‘become theirs visibly and actualiy. Many things are ours in. Christ which we will not 1. visibly and aetually enjoy till His appointed © 17. “Only Rahab, the harlot, shall live.’ * By faith she perished not with the unbe l{é&fiffie@ xi., 80, 31). The scarlet cord in ner window was the outward evidence of her faith, and she rested on the words of the - spies whom she had befriended, saying, ac cording unto your words, 85 be it (ii., 21). | Through her faith deliverance came to her | father and motner and brethrea and kindred - (verse 23). She afterwarl married Salmon (who may have been on® of the spies) and '~ became the mother of Boaz (3ee Ruth iv., 21 - and Math. i., 5). . 18, “Keep yourselves from the accursed thing.”” The whole city and all in it were devoted to be utterly destroyed (verse 17, margin, and verse 21), and this was a warn ing for Isriel's good. If we get mixed ug with cursed things we wili bring a curse up on ourselves. The only redemyption from the curse is through Him who was made a curse for us (Gal. iii., 13). This was typiiiz2d in the scarlet cord in Rahab’s window. 19. “Buat all the siiver and gold and ves sels of brass and iron are consecrated unto the Lord.” In Num, xxxi., we read that tho people were pearmitted to take of the spoil and give unto the Lord a portion, cleansing everything by fire or water (Num. xxxi.,23), but in the case of the city of Jericho all was to be the Lord’s, either for destruction or for His treasury. Jericho being the first city taken may account for this— first [ruits unto the Lord. The story of Achan in the following chapter shows the nature and pua ishment of the sin of covetousness, with which see also Aets v., 1-10. 20. ““The wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.” They slew every living thinz and burned the eity with fire (verses 21, 24), and Joshua pronounced a curse upon the man who would rebuild it. It becomes us to say, “Just. and true are Thy ways, Thou King of Nations” (Rev. xv., 38). "“His way is perfeet,” anl some day we sha'l see a perfect agreement between all His doings and the faect that “God is Love.” He is good and doeth good, and the Judge of all the earth carnot but o | right.—J.esscn Helper, : | BRAVE SOLDIERS HONORED. Titles and Dscorations Bestowed by the Em peror of Japan. Malil advic*s from Yokohama, just in by the steamer Peru, state that distribution of honors for services d ring the recent war has commenced in Japan. The highest bonors are conlerred upon Count Ito, the prime minister; Marshal Yamatgata, Mar- Oyama and Admiral Saigo. These four officials are raised from the rank to c.unt to that of marquis. In addition to this promo tion Ito receives two decorations—the Grand O.der of Merit and the Grand Order of the Corysanthemum. Yamatga:a, who o¢om manded the first army corps some months in Corea and Manchur.a; Oyama, who com manded these corps in Liao Tung and at ‘Wei-Hai-Wel, and BSaigo, who served as minister of the navy, will recaive the grand eordon of the Rising Sun and the second grade of the Order of the Golden Kile, Marshal Nozu, who led the Japanese at Piog Yang, and afterwards the first corps, is promoted from viscount to count and re ceives the same decorations as the last three named. Admiral Kabaya, now Governor- General of Formosa, recelves the same as Nozu, : : Vice-Admiral Ito, the naval hero, and Lieutepant-General Kawakami, d the general stafl, are &tfi the randadats Highest of all in’i,eavw' a test Ufix epos q . . ABSOLUTELY PURE ,‘ Old Easter Customs, Among the many curious customs of the olden times was that called “danc ing of the sun.” In Ireland the prac tice was as follows: About eight or nine o'clock on the evening before Easter, . some morsels were put in the pot dfg;fi the fire for the refreshment of the com pany asembled the next morning, but ’ woe unto anyone who should tastej{lf%%fi before the cock crew! At twelve o'clock. a great clapping of hands was heard, with laughing cries of *“Out with the Lent!” Then followed a season of great merriment for two or three hours. All then retired. to rise again u dawn to see the sun gasige. #t was an honest belief amefig : c that the sun really il the sky that morning. They @1 WOt #eßlize that oue could uoti look at the gsun when shining brightly on any mc&i, without seeing it seem to dance. In England the practice was called lamb-playing, and the people looked at sunrise for the reflection of the sun in a spring or clear brook. They also had an idea that the dancing reflec tion was to be seen on no other morn ing. Eggs were ornamented and used in various ways at Easter, pretty much as they now are. The eggs were placed in hot water for a few minutes, and while yet warm a common tallow can dle was used as a pencil to write names and dates or to draw designs on the | shell. The warmth of the egg made this | quite easy. The eggs were placed in a | vessel of hot water in which cochineal or other dye had been dissolved. The‘ shell then became colored everywhere except where the tallow had been ap plied. These marks remained white, leaving white tracing on a eolored | ground. Eating tansy pudding was an other Kaster custom, and symbolized the bitter herbs which were used by the Jews at their Passover; but with the pudding they alse ate some bacon to show that they did not share the Jews’ prejudice against pork. An | Easter ball was often indulged in. 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