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The Weekly Banner.
JOHN G. HANE1N, Editcr and Prcpristcr.
Sr'Kham, Thursday, August 19.1S97,
Theke is said to be a regular
epidemic of suicides in Paris,
Prance.
Scientists denounce Andree's
"balloon North Pole scheme as a
iraud. v
Three men claim to have taken
S6S,0C0 out of a California gold
mine in four days.
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The "horse blood cure" for
drunkenness is referred to as a
new scientific discovery.
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It said that , canned dog and
horse meat is considered a great
relish by Klondike miners.
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The annexation of both Cuba
and Hawaii cannot be considered
in the light of an impossibility.
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The best medicine for rape
fiends is a three-quarter inch
rope in the hands of determined
men.
Anarchistic threats are caus
ing crowned heads to tremble in
their bo"bts in some parts of the
old World.
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Hawaii is spoken of as a most
desirable point for the coloniza
tion of the American negro. As
sugar farmers they are a suc
cess. 1
The assassination of Capt.
General "Weyler may be looked
for at any time, now that the
anarchists have started the ball
Tolling.
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Populistic encampments are
becoming stale and uninteresting,
lience the meagre attendance
. -upon those being held in this
State. .
The Southern Pacific railway
and the Morgan line of .Steam
ships, acting in concert, have
made Houston the base of their
Tales for Texas freights.
Although Cyclone, Davis has,
been virtually dead as a politician
for the past seven years, he
seems only to have found ifc out
Tecently. Poor fellow !
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Judge "W. A". Randolph, of the
district court at Emporia, Kansas,
lias rendered a decision in a
civil suit declaring 10 per cent
excessive and unlawful interest
in Kansas.
Texas democrats are in good
shape and feel confident of their
ability to land their ticket by the
usual brutal majority next year,
in spite of the hysterical ravings
of the goldbug bolters.
Many of those who are' now
planning ways to get into the
Klondike country, will be
puzzling their brains to evolve a
means of getting out of it before
they are there many months.
. David Bennett Hill is said to
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"be taking a post-graduate course
in a deaf and dumb asylum, and
.hopes to emerge therefrom in a
short time a thorough graduate.
' Dave's tongue has been his ruin.
The Canadians are placing a
cordon of mounted police at the
passes leading to the Klondike
gold fields for the purpose of put
ting a check pn American miners
who are flocking to that country
in droves.
An enthusiastic Texas editor,
in dwelling upon the beautifies
and advantages possessed by the
"Lone Star State, says: "There
are flowers and bees and cows
enough to in this State to over
flow a patch of ground like Mas
sachusetts with milk and honey.
Three young women in Ger
many have been commended for
their thorough work in pharmacy,
andFraulein EvaBosse, a daugh
ter of the German minister of
public worship, has been pro
nounced by Dr. Fraulein, presi
dent of the Imperial Germany
Pharmaceutical Society, to be
one of the most excellent and
gifted scholars he has ever met. J
BUCK FROM CANADA.
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J1Y "OTE BOOK.
Rev.
E. P. Kewsom Returns From
International Epworth League
Conference.
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No religious organization ever hail a
more remarkable growth than the
voung peoples' society known as the
"Epwortn League, whose third Inter
national Convention was recontly held
in Toronto. To attain a membership
of nearly two millions in eight years,
and that too in a single church, is a
j record that is little less than phenom
enal, xae nrst international Ajeaguu
Convention was held at Cleveland, in
1S93, and was attended by about
eisht thousand delegates. The second
convention was held at Chattanooga,
when the attendance was swelled to
fifteen thousand. At our recent con
vention in Toionto the attendance
was estimated at twenty-live
thousand.
Great good was accomplished by
this convention in that religious cu.
thusiasm was generated and the three
great bodies of Methodism in America
were brought into closer union and
fellowship. The Methodists of Cana
da have already united into one body,
and there are those sanguine enough
to believe that the time is not far dis
tant when the Methodism of the
North and of the South shall become
nie. The addresses delivered and
the papers read at Toronto should be
collected together and printed in book
form, and then would the influence of
this great assemblage ot young people
touch the Leagues throughout the
world.
I believe my last paper closed with
the mention of the babbath. services.
Monday morning the Leaguers began
to scatter, some to their homes; some
to other portions of Canada: while
others remained in Toronto, not yet
content with what they had seen. I
was very much humiliated before
leaving Toronto in ihat one of our
Texas party, Bro. Soutield, of Galves
toD so it was reported in trying to
mail a letter in the fire alarm near the
hotel, and not understanding the
combination of the same, succeeded in
calling out the fire brigade. It is
sufficient to stat9 that the fire com
pany found neither the hotel nor Bro.
tionlield on fire and so no damage
was done.
We all had heard so much of the
quaintnpss of Montreal, the beauty
and picturesque grandeur of the St.
Lawrence, with her "thousand is
land" and her '"rapids," that quite a
large party ot us determined to invest
a portion ot tne iragments ot our
change left over from the convention
in a trip down the river to the above
city. Words, Mr. Editor, are limp,
lame, and impotent to express the de
lights and pleasures or this steamer
trip. Itwa3 superlatively "utterly-
ut," if I may De permitted to use
slang. There were two hundred and
fifty delegates aboard our steamer,
the Algerian, sixty of whom were
Texaus well "traveled" and "up-to-
date." "We proceeded to take charge
and have everything our own way.
Having feasted our eyes all .day upon
the beautuui scenery oi quaint towns,
hamlets, forts, churches, farms, and
summer residences that dotted In
endless succession the banks of the
river as we sailed rapidly along
sometimes where the water was
smooth, at other times where it was
exceedingly choppy by reason of the
rapids wo at length grew tired and
repaired to the spacious cabin of the
upper deck. The eveniug shadows
nad lanen upon tne niu-sides while
the moonbeams had now begun to
danco and play "hide-and-seek"
among the waves of the water. With
such poetic surroundings, what else
should we think of but music patri
otic and religious ! Nature makes pa
triots; she also inspires devotion.
Miss Bradfield, of DangerfieM,
Texas, was called to the piano, while
Mis3 Adamit ot the iNortu Texas fe
male College, Mrs. McCord, of Bas
trop, and our inimitable Bro. Green, of
LaGrauge, led the singing. A stran
ger could easily have told tbe section
oi country we were from by the songs
we sang; such as, "Dixie," "Massa's
in the cold, cold, ground," "Old Ken-
luuhy jauuju, uuu uiuuia. nur uiu wa
forget to siug "Columbia," and "My
Country 'Tis of Thee." Then came
some touching religious songs, fol
lowed by a Prayer .and Testimony
meeting, conducted by Miss Nina
Tucker, city Missionary, of Atlanta,
Ga. Many a touching talk was made,
and many were the hearts affected,
and many were the eyes bedimed with
tears of joy, as different ones related
his or her experience. The meeting
proved that the Leaguers could enjoy
themselves and at the same time keep
religious. The testimony meeting
over, Bro. Green was called upon to
preach, which hedid iu a soul-stirriug
manner, not forgetting to ask the Irre
ligious to come forward for prayer.
As our end of the boat could not ac
commodate the entire crowd, Bro.
Mcnk, of Macon, Ga., was called upon
to conduct a service at the other end,
when Bro Green had concluded.
Kingston was reached at II o'clock
p. m. Here wo disembarked to take
quarters at the hotel, where it was
understood he Navigation company
had made all tbe necessary arrange
ments for us, and where we were to
remain for a larger and more substan
tial sfoimer, scheduled to leave at the
early hour of 5 a. r". Much to our
discomforturo and perturbation of
mind, the company" had failed to
make the arrangements promised
witn regard 10 notel accommodations.
So we hud to distribute ourselves m
small parlies auouc owr lie toun. se
curing sleeping Dlace.? wherever pji-
sible. Bv - o'clock a. ni., I nivself
wan rblo to t ire sleeping spai'n on
the ilt-ek of tho steamer anchored at
the pier but had no covering save
the atmosphere and tho canopy of the
heavens. I w.is rewarded next morn
ing with a severe chill. This chill
was prolonged souiowhit by the un
skilled treatment of my medical at
tendants who persisted iu applying
ice cold cloths to my head.
From Kingston It is but a two
hours' sail to Alexandria Bay. Here
the river wideus oat, and upon its
booin lay tho emerald jewels of in
comparable beauty kuown as the
Thousand Islands. No one who has
ever seen them will doubt for a mo
ment that they are the most beautiful
rems that sparkle in the crown of
America's geography. Iu summer
these islands are made the play
ground and trysting place of New
York's wealthy society people.
Handsomely unique summer cottages
and residences adorn these spots of
wooded green. Some of them are
miniature representations of the cas
tles of Kilkenny and of the Khiue
Here the cottager cau engage in bath
ing, boating, fishing, trapping, and
hunting to his hearts content.
I have never craved to be wealthy;
but as I beheld theso islands, covered
with green, and shaded by the large,
J cool, and inviting black maple and
cnesinut, logeiuer wiin me coiiage
and boat house bv the river's brink,
I thought how delighlful it would bo
for one to come here in summer, if but
a lew weeks, and rest from tbe toil,
the care, the bustle, and worry of
the hot dusty town and city, breath
ing the while the pure ozone of the
heavens and feasting his eyes upon
the enrapturing beauties of the land
scape the canvas ot the Infinite
Painter! But as I stood that morning
upon the prow of the boat, charmed
and awe-struck by what I beheld, I
could not help "thinking of the
thousands that toil to make the
wealth, which these islanders were
enjoying. I thought of the sweat
shops, the factories, and foundries
where cheerless men and women
work in winter and summer, from
morning till late at night in tbe grime
and the dust, in the heat and the
cold, with but a scant living for their
reward, let alone a vacation or a rest.
My thoughts were even turned to the
stokers down in the engine room of
our boat who were toiling amid the
heat and soot, while wo the passen-
gers above were enjoying the cool, re
freshing breezes and drinking iu the
beauties of nature. I, howover, laid
the flattering unction to my con
science that it was only three mouths
iu tho year that they had thus to
work, because the greater part of the
year the river is- not navigable by
reason of the ice.
I must not omit to say. that theso
islands were the scene of several
thrilling adventures during the days
of the Cauidiau rebellion. The burn
ing of tbe ,-Sir Bobert Peel" occurred
here in 1S3S. The act was committed
by a band of outlaws, . headed by
"Bill Johnson," a kind ot political
Robin Hood, who had conceived the
idea of conferring on Canada the boon
of freedom-. The story of his deoted
and dariug daughter "Kate." who
rowed him from hiding place, and
kept him supplied with food, gives a
touch ot tho charm ot legend and ad
venture to these rocky mazes. It re
quires several hours to pass through
these islands, the last ot which are
the "Three Sisters." These are the
final pickets of the archipelago, and
passing these you leave the Mana-
toaua, the Garden of the Great
Spirit, as the Indians named the
Thousand Islands, finallybehiud.
iJrockvnie and .frescoa are the
next towns passed. Among the note
worthy places of interest of the latter
town, are aoit Wellington, named af
ter the Iron Duke, the Tomb of Bar
bara Haeck, one of the founders of
Methodism in America, at the little
blue church on the river bank, and
the famous windmill, with its narrow
loop-holes peeping Horn its side.
During the rebellion of 1S37 this
windmill was used as the stronghold
of the "Patriots" under the illHfated
Van Schultze. He with hi3 desperate
men were forced to surrender after
several days' defence and himself
with nine others were executed.
We had already had a foretaste of
the "rapid3," but now passing first
the "Gallops" we entered upon the
Long Sault, with its snow-crested hil-,
lows of raging water, the first of the'
really remarkable rapids of the St.
Lawrence. Thence we pass through
in succession the Cedar, Coteau, Cas
cade, Split-rock, and finally the celo
brated machine rapids. At lachme
an Indian pilot gets aboard, whose
experience of many years, together
with his practiced eye and steady
nerve, enables him to steer the boat
down the steep Incline of the madly
rushing river, and Detween tne rock
and shoal called, the "Charybdis"
and "Scylla." "Shooting tho rapids"
is an exciting experience, it is also
very dangerous, yet because of the
skilled and experienced helmsmen
empioyeu oy iub xuviguuuu com
pany, no fatal accidents have ever oc
curred. Immediately after passing the La
chine rapids, we reached Montreal,
our destination. More than one hun
dred delegates stopped at the same
hotel, the Balmoral. In tbe morning
we arranged to "see the sights," and
for that purpo'e ten carriages were
engaged. As the long procession
started from in front of the hotel,
composed mostly of Texans, the shop
keepers and by-standers on the
streets gazed at us as if they had
never seen the like before. Space and
time admonishes me that I cannot
undertake the task of telling your
readers all we saw.
Iu the first place, I may say Mon
treal is a French Catholic city, the
largest in theDoiuiniou of Canada. The
streets are not so clean as those of To
ronto. Nor did we find that scrupu
lous regard for law and order hero as
at the former place. Mqutreal re
minded me more of New Orleans than
any other city. It has its French
quarter and its English quarter, just
as New Orleans has its French and
American quarters. Here is located
the finest Catholic Church iu the New
World, aa well as the largest hospituU
Among tne churcues visited were
Notri Dame, founded tinee hundred
years ago, St. James Cathedral, the
prototype of St. Peter', Borne, am
the Church of tho Lady de Lourdts
Vt tho latter church, I i uvea ted fif
teen cents iu two image-tot the Saint-,
St. Anthony and the lrgm Mothc
TLe Nun that told me these assured
mo that tho former image was a guar
antee against bad luck, and that tho
latter would waul olTsickuess. When
I showed these hinges to Uncle
George Wilson, he said they were not
half so valuable as an amulet ho pos
sessed, whereupon, greatly to my as
tonishment, Lo drew fortli from his
I iinnlr-ot- n rKliit'a ffrt wliiili iffnr
making a cross mark on the ground
with his foot and spitting in it, ho
rubbed three times across his breast,
repeating in an inaudible voice some
mysterious words. I noticed that af
ter this that the delegates always
wanted to go wherever Undo George
and i went.
Our stay in Montreal was britf,
comprising two nights and one day.
Thursday morning, July 22d, owing
to tne shrunken condition of my
pocket-book I started on the return
journey home. fcix others came with
me. But the greater Dortion of our
crowd went down to Quebec.
Returning, our party stopped one
day at Niagara Falls. So much has
been written about this great natural
wonder that I need not trespass upon
the patience of your readers in
writing of what in a sense is familiar
to every school boy. At Clevelaud
wo visited tho tomb of the lamented
Garfield. As I stood near the casket
that held the crumbling remains of
the "Martyred President" I was car
ried back in memory to the time
more than fifteen years txso when in
Washington City I gazed upon the
pallid face of the dead body of Presi
dent Garfield, which was then lying
in state iu tho rotunda of the Capitol.
At New Orleans I stopped one day,
during which I visited many points
of interest in the Crescent City. I
did not fail to visit the statue of old
Aunt Margaret and the orphan asy
lum she founded. Old Aunt Marga
ret, it will be remembered, came to
New Orleans an orphan. She ever re
mained the friend of the orphan, and
whei fortune smiled upon her she did
not build for herself a luxurious
home, but spent all ler-means upon
the friendless, the poor, and outcast
of the great city, which in the child
hood of her own life had given her
such a cold and cheerless welcome.
In my opinion this statue honors the
grandest womau that ever lived.
A night's ride from New Orleans
brought me back to the land of my
adoption and tbe scene of my labors
Texas, the largest and best State in
the Union.
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The goldbugs are continually
making the charge that Mexico
is onjfhe eve of a financial crash,
when they know that Mexico is
today the ' most prosperous re
public on the continent. Eailures
in business are few and far be
tween. The national offices are
filled by shrewd, honest and com
petent men. Speculating in gov
ernment securities is forbidden,
hence that government always
has on hand a sufficient; amount
of money to defray the legitimated
expenses of government, "without
resorting to the America prac-'
tice of issuing bonds in time of
peacs.
A-priest in New Jersey has
forbidden the young women of
his parish to go on a picnic with
the young men of the Total
Abstinence Society. His reason
is that "they would let the young
men kiss them in the moonlight
if they went." Obviously total
abstinence in this case does not
mean abstention from all the in
toxications of life.
It is now believed by many
that the struggle in Cuba will re
sult in a triumphant victory for
the Cuban patriots in less than
90 days. Spain has neither
money nor troops to prolong the
struggle beyond that time, while
the insurgent's ranks are being
constantly recruited and other
wise strengthened.
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