lish language. But he was poor, and the country was new then in Wisconsin, and he knew but little of the possibilities of this country for a young man, and he got discouraged, and gave up the school, still he was a close student all the time.

At this time he was married to Miss Jane James, a sister of the late deacon John James of Milwaukee, in the C. M. church. They had eight children-one of whom died when a very brilliant boy. The others have grown, and are an honor to their parents and the society in which they turn, and some of them excel in art, science and song.

After he left college he traveled in the Wisconsin Conference for several years in the English work. He stayed his full time in all his charges, except when the church remanded him to some other place; and he received a call to several places where he had been for three years. By this time his health began to fail, and he with his family Imoved to Nebraska. His health recuperated; he worked hard in that new country; he had perfect success in all his ministry. He spent 38 years in the effective work, ten of which were spent in the important office of a Presiding Elder. Five years ago last fall, when he finished his full term on the Hastings District, on account of the health of his wife and some of his children, he took a superannuated relation to his Conference, and moved with his wife, and some of his children, to California, where they live in Pasadena, enjoying a reasonable good health.

Caradoc, one of the most distinguished pioneers of Welsh choral supremacy, has been called to his rest. Though long expected, the end has come as a severe shock to thousands of Welsh men and women, whose hearts have been wrung with grief by the knowledge that one of the most beloved figures in Welsh musical history will no longer aid, with the inspiring influence of his intense enthusiasm, in

developing the musical talent of his loved country. "Caradog is dead" was the sad message which thrilled the entire nation December 4; which later caused the hearts of thousands of our compatriots in America to throb in sympathetic response; which, when it reaches many brave Welshmen engaged in distant lands and upon far-off seas will cause them to weep tears of sincere regret. The veteran conductor breathed his last at his residence, Brynhyfryd, Pontypridd, at about half-past six on Saturday evening, December 4.

In August, 1893, Caradog accompanied by Mrs. Jones, paid a visit to America. in order to be present at the Great World's Fair Eisteddfod. His reception at the hands of admiring compatriots in the States was of a most hospitable and enthusiastic description, and it was in after years very interesting to listen to the dear old veteran as he related the experience of that memorable visit. A most interesting souvenir of the voyage is the diary kept by Mr. Jones, especially as it shows his keen powers of observation, and sense of humor. The incidents he relates are full of charm.

The following is Ap Daniel's translation of W. Cadle Jones' lines in memoriam of the late John Powell, Dunmore, Pa.;

O! how the thought doth fill the heart with gloom,

That one friend more is locked within the tomb:

Oft. led by Grief, we'll visit yonder mound, Where. calm in sleep, his mortal frame is

found:

We'd love to view that cheerful brow once more.

Which oft was balm to bosoms sad and

sore.

Fut ne'er shall we his face see here again, A fact that. sword-like, cleaves the heart in twain:

His speech was quickly turned to silence pale,

His lips were sealed in Death's tempestuous vale:

But. "son of peace," although thy tongue is tied,

Thy virtues will above thy grave abide
He was a father kind, and true of word.
Around his door Want's cry was never

heard:

By watchful care he kept the wolf away, And heaven with mercies blessed him day by day.

THE DEATH OF DAUDET.

In the death of Alphonse Daudet, French literature loses one of its most glorious sons, and Parisian life loses one of its truest interpreters. Though born in the provinces, Daudet stood for all that was Parisian. His spirit was the spirit of Paris. He knew the every detail of its life, and he had studied the traits and characteristics of its people as Dickens studied the people of London. Indeed, Daudet has often been called the French Dickens.

Daudet had risen through the direst poverty to the forefront of the ranks of literary genius. In his early life he had written poetry. He never reckoned that to his credit. Then he was a journalist, and in the facile, graceful work of the Parisian feuilleton he was excelled by few. He wrote plays which were successful. He wrote novels that were translated into many languages, and sold in enormous editions all over the world. From a poor lad, starving on a crust in the Latin quarter, his skillful pen had brought him to be the possessor of one of the greatest fortunes owned by literary men, and had helped him to the enjoyment of all the material pleasures of existence.

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JEWISH COLONY FOR NEVADA.

The attention of the public is being called to a new colonization scheme in our sister state, Nevada. Jews from California have obtained a large tract of land in Smith's Valley, Lyon County,

and thirty-five families have started on a pilgrimage to this new land of promise, to reclaim it and make it the location of happy homes and an altar to the honor of Jehovah. According to reports these Hebrews have great plans for the future. Their intention is said to be to invite Hebrews from other parts of the country to join them. They aim in course of time to make the whole stateof Nevada a Mosaic commonwealth, with Israelitish government and schools of their own. They want to have a legislature of Jewish Elders, and establish orthodox Judaism. This is said to be their ultimate aim and ambition.

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A CAPTAIN'S CRUELTY.

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Secretary Alger has done himself credit and the country a service. Capt. Lovering was guilty of an atrocity which should have been punished by the stripping off of his uniform and his own condemnation to the pillory. He abused his authority as an army officer by inflicting upon a private sol-dier punishments that were almost inconceivably inhuman. For this shameless court-martial sentenced him to be reprimanded. His superior officers have tried to suppress this reprimand by placing one copy on file, and sending the other to Capt. Lovering. Secretary Alger does not deem this sufficient, as no man with warm blood in his veins could. So he has honored himself by ordering that Capt. Lovering's punishment shall be made in some degree actual. He orders that the reprimand shall be read in full to

the assembled garrisons at every army post in the United States. This is right so far as it goes. But why should a man who has shown himself such a brute be permitted longer to wear the uniform of a civilized country?

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A general treaty of arbitration is being negotiated between Brazil and France. It provides that all boundary disputes between the two governments shall be submitted to a condition for settlement. It has already been approved by the Brazillian Senate, though there was some opposition. There is no doubt that it will be finally confirmed by the Brazillian Congress in February. Thus international arbitration makes a gratifying and encouraging advance.

"Autonomy" sounds well enough, but it is easier said than done. Cuba is perfectly ruined. The larger cities are under martial law, and the country people have been gathered in the concentraciones by Weyler's orders. Thousands are thus cooped up in huts of palm-leaves, and the fever has full sway. All the haciendas are destroyed, the tobacco fields are ruined, the sugarcane is rotting on the fields or has been burned, since Weyler prohibited harvesting because the haciendados paid a tribute to the rebels for the privilege of gathering their cane. Men and youths have gone in large numbers to join the rebels, if not from patriotism, at least to escape the pangs of hunger. Here the bayonets of the Spaniards-there the fanatical insurgent leaders. How, then, is the populace to vote on autonomy and the new constitution?

TOO MANY MINISTERS.

We often hear the cry of "too many ministers." With equal propriety might the cry be raised that there are too many doctors, too many lawyers, too

many farmers, too many tradesmen, too many manufacturers, too many teachers. For there are in every department of life an immense number who are either without employment or who are working on an insufficient salary. It is estimated that there are to-day more than a million able-bodied men in this country, ready and anxious to work, who can find no employment; and if we include the women also who feel the need and want the work, the probability is that there are from two to three millions of unemployed. Of course in such a condition of things there are necessarily some unemployed ministers.-Christian Observer.

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TWO TO MAKE A BARGAIN.

The conference at Washington between the representatives of our Government and those of Canada has been fruitless so far as any positive action is concerned. This is not strange when we consider that Canada can make no. treaty, as such function appertains to the British Government, and that Canada has little to offer us in the way of reciprocity. One point gained is the practical acknowledgment by the Canadian sealing experts that Canada's pelagic fishing in the Bering Sea is destructive of the seals and threatens their extermination. It takes two to make a bargain, and so skilled a diplomat as Sir Wilfrid Laurier will not have the wool pulled over his eyes. As for the reciprocity which Canada would favor, it is doubtful whether the President and the Senate could accord these privileges without the consent of the House. The reciprocity provision in the Dingley act is an inconclusive and immature affair, without elasticity, and scarcely acceptable to any of our neighbors. The statesmen who planned it seem to have determined to eat the cake and retain the penny, to expedite our exports while keeping down imports, and that policy, however it may

commend itself to Americans, meets with no favor whatever abroad.-The Ledger (Ind. Rep.), Philadelphia.

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Count Badeni and his cabinet have resigned to avoid bloodshed, and Baron Gautsch, who is more popular with the Germans, has taken the office of Premier. This, however, is not the only important news from Austria. Europe is congratulating itself that at last a strong man has made his appearance, outside of Russia, who is willing to use all his resources against the Turk. The Sultan undertook to punish, after Turkish methods, the agent of the Austrian Lloyd's at Mersina, for giving to some Armenian refugees cheap passage on the company's ships. Upon this Count Goluchowski, the Austrian foreign minister, interfered. He ordered Baron Calice, the Austrian ambassador at Constantinople, to demand full redress for this outrage, and the immediate payment of a railway debt of $1,250,000. The demand was backed up by war-ships at Mersina, and the Sultan was forced to yield. He saluted the Austrian flag with military ceremonies. He discharged the governors of the provinces and the city, and he ordered the debt to be paid at once. All this has come upon European diplomacy like a fresh and invigorating breeze. After all these months of pusillanimity on the part of the six powers, one man has brought the Sultan to his knees, and has shown, as the "Spectator" says, that the "assassin" is a "sovereign whom Europe endures, but who cannot resist by force any reasonable demand which a first-class power is prepared to support with shot and shell."

The governor of Georgia has sensibly vetoed the anti-football bill passed by the legislature of that state. He was requested to veto it by the mother of the young man whose death in a football game caused the passage of the bill. She told the governor that football was

All previous tests of man's ability to cover long distances with the bicycle by almost continuous riding were eclipsed in the six days' race which ended at Madison Square Garden the other day. Never before has the wheel been propelled 2,000 miles in 142 hours. And never before has there been cause for greater admiration of man's physical endurance, with his new engine of locomotion.

Another thing of which America particularly may be proud, is that, in the recent contest, it wasn't necessary to go outside her own borders to find a victor. Charles Miller of Chicago is now the champion long-distance bicycle rider of the world, and next to him is Rice of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Third on the list at the finish was Schinneer, also of Chicago, while Hale, the former world's champion, from Ireland, occupied the fourth place. Behind Hale were half a dozen other riders, each of whom had over 1,600 miles to his credit.

It is fair to say that Rice was looked upon as the probable winner of first prize. Last year, it will be remembered, his final score was only 28 miles less than Hale's, and his experience and training since that time were relied upon to make him a sure victor in this The superiority of his record in that race over that which he made last year proved that the predictions in his favor were well founded. Rice did splendidly, but the flying Chicagoan was too much for him.

race.