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OTY 15 SHROUDED
IN SHEET OF
ICE
Wires and Trees
Prostrated.
Are
BUSK SUFFERS HEAVILY
Car Service Paralyzed and the
Sidewalks Made Perilous.
FIRST "SILVER THAW" HERE
ftTWt Lights Xnt Burning, Half the
Telephones Are Out of Order
and General Demorallza-
tion Everywhere.
ISTDUTE .Or THE DAHAGE.
Piriflc Stst's Tel. Tel Oo.llflft.OoO
Portland Oin. Kleetric Co... l.voco
Portland 1 -n-y C-o Ift.OOft
Postal Tel.rraph Cahl Co-.. 2.000
Western Union Tel Co 8.00
Total
..$129,000
It la r.l !t"-ifl fh.t tile total lose to
Portland and vicinity from the ".li
ver thaw" Is several hundred thou
sand dollars. No accurate estimate
can b. mad of the heavy Iran euf
fared by th orehardl.cs. or that of
local stores, Irom th genera de
moralization of business.
Bain that became Ice almost the Instant
It fell yesterday caused financial loss in
Portland and vicinity amounting; to sev
eral hnndnM thotinuida of dollar and
demoralized electrical power and street
railway lervlce. It brought about
by a peculiar meteorological condition
known as m "silver1 thaw.'" The Pacific
6-tates Talephonft & Telegraph Company
Ucne, It Is estimate! altered a loss ot
VlOft.OOn in Portland. and all the electric
jompaBief lost hesvily.
Th storm. ara extended over the lower
tiUt ol tlw TVlllamMn Valley, norm to
U.e Sound country and west nearly to
the coast Tine. In parts of thin 1i utrlot.
however, there wa-s no freeze, th tern-
pasture rsraalnlug above the treeing
Dolnt The greater part of the damajre
is hellved to hv been suffered in fort-
land. Band. Vrcdnity.
The "Bilver thaw" began shortly after
midnight yesterday inornlnjr. Sleet first
bican to fa.Il. which later chantcfld to
rain. As noon as the rain vas precipl-
tated upon the streets, roofs and the elec-
trie wires it froze and as the rain con
tinued Ice, rapidly accumulated.
f Heavy Parnate on East Side.
The greatest portion of the damage
wu don on the Eiut Side, where miles
of telephone poles were prostrated, caus-
Ing the vires to la hopelessly tangled
Except, for gas and lamps, the East Side
and most of the West Side was In dark-
ness last night, the Portland General
Electric Company having turned off the
electric light currents to prevent acci-
9nts.
Service on all the carlines crossing the
Steel ttnd Burrisidft bridges was discon
tinued, and but drregTilar service was
ivn east of East Sixth street, on lines
WORK OF" THK "rtLVER THAW."
Sum total of the "silver thaw" of
yesterday:
Street railway pyttem demoralized,
ears on U 1 t be 1 1 nes ru nnlnjr aero
the Burnslde, Steel and Morrison-
street bridges being' stopped. Serv
ice on "West Side almost at stand
still. Miles of telephone and telegraph
wires prostrated. Nearly 10,000 tele
phones of the Pacific States Tele
phone A Telegraph out of order.
Outside communication by wire
paralyzed In the morning, but con
nections with many of the important
points partially resumed by nisrht.
Flre-elarm telegraph system, out of
order.
No electric llgbti On ft East Side
last night, and. do arc and street
elecrtrle ltsht on the Weat SJde.
Many of the public schools closed.
Every orchard. In Portland and vi
cinity damaged.
Thousands of shade trees In Port
tand t2anaKd, hundred, of them to
such ax extent that, they will have to
b cut down. Some of them torn out
by their roots. Great navoc of trees
stt City Park.
BualaMs in Port land si most sta-
Uorary, and inoree close early.
that run over the Morrison-street bridge
The 0. W. P. can vim partially tied up
In the morn ing: and afternoon, but
nlg-ht the. lines were cleared.
The West Side fared a. trifle better i
incandescent lights hurneci last night
down town, but the street lights were
out. Oars ran on all the lines on trres
ular schedules and gave very 14ttle better
than no service at all. The railway com-
pany did all it could possibly do under
the circumstances.
Indications are that the weather will
moderate and thaw the Ice that - weigh.
down the wirea. It la hoped to resume
res-ular ervioa today on a.11 the street
railway lines. Shotiid a heavy wind rise,
fcwovw. the coMewencri will bs wrf-
ous. as thousands of more totteHns; poles
would topple o-vec In a tr.a. The
officials of the Portland General Klectrio
Company hop to slv the East Slda
lighting service by tonight, : but they
lake no promises.-
Morses Killed -y I-ivo Wlrea-
Several horses were Killed and many
pedestrians had narrow , escapes from
death from trie live -wires.- which -covered
the streets and hung down over the side-
wains. Dozens at persons receive slight
shocks, but no serious accidents were reported.-
AlonK Witliamt.and' Union-ave-"
nues was the greatest : confusion,.- there
not being standing poles Tor wliole NocKv
Had the current last night been -turned
frvto the hluh-power wires that feetl the
street . lamps, " lives might htve been -lost
and perhaps serious fires would hava
suited.
The pupils' of moat of the schools
on the ,East, Side , were .dismissed for
the day 'at 'noon ''as It was thought
that the children mijerht he Injured
while on their -way to school bulldlngrs.
The classes of the. schools that -did
keep open were, -sadly' depleted both
on the East .'Side and the West Side..
The Stephens. . Sunnyslde. - Highland,
Williams-Avenue and . other schools
closed their doors on the' East Side,
and the Couch school and- several oth
ers on the West Side. .
The "silver thaw" was It Its worst
yesterday afternoon at 2' o'clock and
about 7 o'clocjc. the rain, ceased to. fall
and the lce-began .to. melt very -slowly.
When the people arose In the morning
they were astonished to, find everything
outside coated .with Ice several-inches
thick and many people - were awakened
by the ..sound made by the trees and
poles when .they fell..
Danger From Falling - Trees.
As the rain continued, and the tem
perature was still at freezing point, th
Ice grew heavier and heavier. Trees
fell so rapidly that it was dangerous
to walk' along the sidewalks, and thou-
sands of persons who went . to their
work in the mornlns -took-to th center
of the streets.
Early In the morning, the. cars were
stopped on all the lines, the current
being grounder! by telephone wires
falling across the power wires and by
broken limbs of trees. Large gangs -of
linemen were set at work, but as soon
they would repair the breaks in
one block and clear tracks, perhaps In
the next block a giant shade tree would
give away and carry along .with it
a raaas of wires, snapping the .poles
like toothpicks. Conditions grew worse
ill morning to the utter despair of the
managers of the electric companies.
Out of the 22.500 telephones of the
Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph
TODAY'S TTEATITER.
FORECAST FOR F0RTWJJD AM)
VICINITY Rain or snow; sUghUy
warmer: southerly winds.
Tto Indictlosa ar for anow or
rain la this district during the Beit
54 hours, with slight rise in t.m-'
Irntur in Western .- Or-gnn, Wash
Infton and Kerthvra laabo.
The minimum temperature for yfc-
terflay m 31 it pm ana the ihsxl-
mum S2 degcreea If the weather
moderates even tllshtly.' sit predicted,
the "silver thavw" will bs .of short"
duration.
The total precipitation for the 24
hours endlns yesterday at 5 o'cJock
ywtrday afternoon wss l.AT lncha.
The exceiR oyer the normal preclpt-
tatlon since Sectembtr 1 li ' l.M
inch.s.
Company's system about 15.000 were in
working order last night. loe accumu
lated on the wires' that were' not in-
suiated more rapidly than on those that
were protected. The service wires of
the telephone company are not- insu
lated and this to some degree accounts
tor the difference in the losses of that
(Concluded en Fuse, a
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THB rHOTOORA Psl WAS XJ
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HIM
WORST
IN FORTY VEAfiS
China Unable to f eed
- Her Millions.
MRICi MIXED TO GIVE- AID
Relief Would Do Much-to- Re-
move 111 Feeling.
UNREST PERVADES EMPIRE
Parents ' Sell " Children, Brtgandsge
, and . Robbery Are Rife and Re-
- belllon Occupies Most of Army.
. . Dangerous Times Ahead.
"WASHirCGTON'. Jan.- 2S. MaJl reports
from American consular officers In China
which reached the State Department to
day regarding the famine and resulting
conditions further confirm ; the. stories of
suffering and hardship. Coiuml Haj-nea
at Nankin? say? that the famine is ten
times -worse than anything 'known in
that part of the empire for tho past 40
years.
The Chinese officials, he Bays upon In
formation given him by the Viceroy,
admit their Inability to copa with "the
situation. The (sjoverTunent Is trying to
help the starving people to keep -their
cattle and to this end is taking: their ojcen
and bufTaloes In pawn for two t&els
sach. Keeping: them thus until next
Spring, when It will return them.
Relief TTouId : Kill Boycott.
RXr. Hayties declares that -whatever aid
may be extended , by this Government In
the present crisis -will certainly do much
to dispel the ili-feelinfr recently aroused
toy the boycott, the exclusion act. etc.
Consul-General Rogers at Shanghai ad-
4ses the department that the reports eg
to the conditions a-ppearrnr in the news
papers, both forsiRn and Chlneae , sre
for the moat part -sustained by the ln-
VMtigations mae by American tuvnl of
ficers . T-Je says in Jnquio- which he
he' made ri'v-es the jrenerul conrluaion
that the famine--by March 1 -will be
rfegartjfed as:' severe 1 and perhaps .more
so than that of 1S73. by which it is
thouarht lb.O0O.O00 lives were"' lost.'
Says 4,000,000, Are Starring,
The report of Mr. Rosters i aceom-
Tajrileol toya statement -toy- Xr. Henry - M.
Woods of the Southern Presbyterian
msion at Htral AIn Fu. who estimates
that 1O.005.0DO of people are affected by
the. famine. -4.000.000 of whom are starv
ing.' He says there are at present mora
than 500,000 refugees at Tsing Kiang- Pu.
huddled in mat sheds, and that the piti
ful slarht is dally witnessed of parenta of
fering their children for sale at from $3
to U each. Brigandage and robbery, he
adds, are rife..
Hnnger Incites Revolt-
Mr. Rogers declared that the Influence
of the famine conditions upon current
1 affairs can now be plainly seen in the
SCENE AT TWENTIETH AND LOVETOY STREETS SHOWING ROW
v
LOOBlMfl BAST ON LOTlUtOT STBKET.
unrest and discontent of ..t.De, people. From
many places comes rerorts of riots of
greater or less degree, while irv Kiangal
a. 'sta't'ei borrtf-rlnR oh' actual ' rlHon - is
on,', and ' so eeTiousnas the situation-be-
coniA that a goodly portion ".of the
available military force of the Liang-
lan ff Ta Tnen 1 s now In tit e tie Id -
.t xr riBiiharntA onf n Ion. he concludes.
"is" tliat the next tew months ";iu "
th. developjuant of dansrerous things tn
tlon- &zt(3 PlrrumMancf!" "wl 1 1 have., a sreat
effect upon foreign interests,' political "a-s
veil m cwrcial. .:.' --'j '
"The Chinese New Tear which luckily
fall; thin year, belnr in the recond w?lc
of t February. ' ie .watched with no - amall
degree ol uneasiness. - .
A UTOS D EST ROY ED' BY, FIR E
i .; '
Great Garage Burned, Causing Loss
' , ' . ,' ,' of 750,ooo,. ' ' .
-KEW VOBK. Jan.' 28. A loss roughly
estimated -. af. S750.rnr resulted from. A
fire i that . started before rriidnijsht . and
hurnedout the garage of the New Tork
Tranfiportation . Company at Eighth
avenue and -TVest Forty-ninth street,
- t . : . i
' ,Kiso Boom Repaired. r- '
' . .....
KET.?0.iTV-ash.. Jan. 28. (Special.)
The? Metcalf Company's new boom' is
rapidly nearins completion and will 'be
ready to 'receive logs and bolts' within
a day 'or' two." .. - ' ' '." '
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
. - The Weather. , ;
YB5TT5TirAT'f Nfatlrnum temperature,., 32
decrees., minimum.. 31 defcrees.
TODAVS Rain . or , nnow; allg-htly- warmer;
southeastwly "winds.
Torelra
Terrlhle ; mine' explosions la Germany - and
France. Paj? 1.
French . Wshops ' And ' fcaB.s- of compromiBe
Trith state. Paire
Murder nf "Whiteley exposes family ' sJcele-ton-
" PaK R.
Explosion at . Belgrade intenfled 'to, kill
, Crown Prince. Page t.
American 'Consuls call for relief for 'Chi
nese famine avufOrers- Para 1
?saiional. lemocrat8 report against -hip M.Mdy bill.
Pare 3.'-
BftrendRe ana Tillman have tilt about child
labor. T'aae-3.
Sever report on invegtlgatlon of Standard
Oil Company. ' Pajare 2.
- polttles.
Texas T-etrislatare orders Inqnlrr into
ch arpee of corruption in Bailey cam-
falgri. Page 3.
rOTntde. j
Haskln on history of the-Mthodist Church. '
Fage 1- ...
Ian Inquires into Harriman meryer at San j
Francisco. Page 2...
JCIne Jurors secured for Thaw -trtsl. Pace 2
&r?t HarU'i daughter la Main poor
house. Faxa 1.
Avrm mortality of cattla . In Wlzzarda.
Pag 3-
Orearan Ie-Ile4aure. -
Definite plan for sDoliilon of - two normal
schools propofftu, Faie . t v
'v, ' M.f s
Om-nprfef CTft-on Cltj Jrclc .aal c-.vti
. mrlt engineers far" apart on vslustlons
-' of Miat atruftur!. Par 4. -
Facinr Coaet. -
rlallrosd Commisgiorpr, McMillln ' mill tie
sked to return salary he did not earn.
. Pag fV.
CopiTO-wrcisj and Marine.
Export demand for bops fails to materializi
Page 1..
"Wheat -wea-te - and . lowr at Chlcsajo. Pat
is.
RecepaJoTt In , Nevada, mi nine stocks expect-
fi Page 13.
Slow movement of wheat from th interior
affect, .hipping. Pair 12.
Portland and l-aclsxtty.
Portland covered with blanjtft of 1c,
which hrriks wire, bean down tresg
and demoralizes tretcar traffic. Page 1.
Oolonel Frank J. Parker tells of "silver
thaw" of lone; aco. PHjre ft.
Teath of William L. Gould. Fag-e 9.
Local engineers and archlteots protest
aKatnst brinitina pastern man to lay out
parks. Pase 14.
Mayor objects to Council method of
maJcina- appropriations. Paae 14.
Captain Tornbull tells story ot Sellwood
.PiMtofflcs robberj-. Pa 12.
Council apportions annual appropriations of
vajioua city departineRtii. Pag. 12.
TEUSFHOX1C WIRES ARE BELOW;
' r01.ES 18 A-gi,-. . ,
. i t ; ! ! ! i Kfl fSvl
G&SiBLAlJGHTERfi
mm
Second Explosion Kills
IIVlany-Rescuers.;
QElTHaiST MAY REACH 300
Survivors Terribly Crushed by
! ; ,J Force o Shock. -;
.RESCUE WORIO SUSPENDED
Many.- HaTe Hones Broken bt Being
'Hnrlerl Against Walls Another
; - ' - Awful ' Explosion In Conr- :
rieres District- of France. "
' BAARBRtECKEN. - Jan.. 2S. A : fire
damp explosion occurred .this morning In
th Reden coaJ rnlne at St John-on-Saar,
opposite Sarbniecken. and ' caused the
loss - of from 1BO to 30O live.. The mine
is owned by the Prussian gm-oroment.
Up to six o'clock this evening1 77 bodies
had been-brought out and 56 corpses were
known to be underground. Only SO - live -men
have been brought out, and. of
these - the doctors say at least 5 will
die, as they are frightfully Injured.
through havlnpr been hurled against -the
walls, of the galleries b- the forc of
the explosion. An official report given
out this evening- says the number of dead
cannot exceed lOO.
Klre Drives) Ont Rescuers.
-Immediately after (he explosion rescua
workers were hurried from all the ad
iecent mines aj-t9 tool3Iy entei n the
Reden shaft in great numbers. The trorlt
of rescue has been greatly hampered by
the poisonous erases result! ng; from the
explosion ond from a fierce fire that.
broke out Immediately afterwards. This
caused efforts at rescue to be oUspendtKL
and the workers had to be ordered out
of the mine.
Sccoml Eiplpsion Rills More.
Aft-r aT4 the rescuers nad reached day-
tt-tcrit, acordlna; 1 o one wririon, a. serrond
terrific detonation was heard under-
ground. ' But according to 'another re
port.? many of- the .rescuers were .still
below when the - second explosion oc
curred, and it is estimated that the casu-
allty list from the two explosions reaches
a total' of 300 men."
It la regarded u certain . that the low
est levels of the mine are completely
ureckei and the inspectors are delib:'
erating upon further measures to get
control of the fire. The -managers are
discussing the advisability of floodlng-
th?s levels aj the only means of extin-
jruishlng the flames.
I-t is believed that ell the men who
were in the lower levels assuredly are
dead. It will take a full week to enter
and explore the mine.
. Eaploslon Xear Courriere.
LEKS, France. Jan. 28. A terrlbls
dlsaater. invoivin or the loss of many
lives, baa occorrfld in a coal mine at
OF FALLEN TELEPHONE POLES
TTrTE POWER WIRES ' AB011&. ARK tTaNJTRED,
.
Llevin, jirttie 'Courriere district. The
explosion ' was 'caused by fire damp.
JtS panic1 followed the eacplostor. and :
the " greater .pa-rt - of the - population of
the ; ton jushfu' to the. mouth or the
plt.'preventinK the work of rescue until
srendarmes restored' a. semblance of or-
The : Mayor;' of : Llevin, who is an old
rnlner. " is supeHnteridi'ng . the work. of
rescue. - Of the;S12 miners who descended
into the. pit this, morn In ar, 68O had been.
Drought to 'the .surface at 2 o'clocK this
morning. The- bodies of the ehif en-
frlneer and Hls two assistants, horribly
ra.na:led. irere Tocovcred. - It .is not yet
known-how, many; lives were lost as a
result of 'the. explosion. ,t
rLOT TO KILIi CROWN' . PRINCE
;;:;.':'. i .' "
Kxploeiori Follows-- Crary- George's
f Demand for'More Cash.
i VIENXA. . Jan. 2S."- Rnmow hiv
reached here from Belgrade that the ex
plosion which . CK-curred a t the palace on
Saturday evening and which broke tne
windows of . thfi.buildfng was part of a
plot . against Crown Prince Choree, on
whose beha if Premier Fasncs had just
asked the Servian. Parliament for an in
crease . in the civil list' from $24,000 to
$60,000 ' a demand, which ' the opposition
members had strenuously opposed.
. Kaiser. Will .Build Battleships.
BERLIN. Jan.' '. 2S.-FollowinR the
Kaiser's victory at the polls, the an
nouncement . ia made that .iSmnany will
shortly have In 'readiness .five shipbuild
ing yards, where . battleships of the larg
est., class , can bft constructed. At Kiel
warships. "oC 25.0f! tons and '6P0 feet in
length ; will 'be .constructed..
SPORT OF BSD FORTUNE
BRET HASTE'S DACGHTCR ISMATE
OF POORBOISG.
Deserted kr Hntirnl mad FilUiw AVlth
Readings of Father' Works,
Mrs. Steele Is Pauper.'
PORTLAND, Ms.. Jan. 25. Speclal.)
Mrs. Jessamy Steel, daufrhter of Bret
Harte, author of '"The I-Aiclc of Roe.rinsr
Camp" and other-' "Westarn jitOT-lea. is an
inma.te of five oorboiiae here. having
been removed from one ot the leading
hotels a few days ago.
Mrs. Steele had been ill for several
months and vas unatola to pay her s.r
oount at the hotel. When she reached the
poorhouse and realized where fe waa Fhe
became hysterical antr becked the keeper
not to loclc her -up. She wss given one of
the best rooms in the houxe. and Is now
apparently contented. She ' upends her
time writing a play, in which she says
she is to assume the leading role.
Mrs. Steele is 30 yara of ago and still
beautiful. She Is the wife of leather
Steele, who is interested in an irrigation
wmDany In tha Southwwt. . .
. Mrs. . Steele came hers two yATB - a iro
with an -.ttendant. and since then " Mr.
Steele ha visited her hut once, rle sent
her, .money unili last ring, when all
Mmmunication bfttvt??n .them cmpJ.
Mr. .Steele attempted to earn a 'living by
givlnar reading from her father's works,
but her tour was a. financial failure and
she lo.n what money she had sived. Last,
Summer she lived alone In a cottage on
the aeaehore.
THREE- MINERS STIFLED
Shot SUrta Fire In WHlow Mlnr In
. Southern Colorado.
PUBRI.O.' Colo.. Jan. 2R. A special to
the Chieftain from Trinldid. Colo., says;
Willow Hine No.. 5. of the St. Louis.
Pocky Mountain & Pacific Company, near
"Van Houfiten. TN. M. caught fire this
morning from a misplaced shot and ds
etill turning:.
All of th miners except three escaped
and It is believed they have been suffo
cated. 't -
IK j. i
AXTHOCGH OJTE OF THE
T 1
STRONG CHURCH
WESLEY FOUNDED
Humble Beginnings of
, Methodist Body,
REVIVAL OF TRUE RELIGIOU
Protest of Wesleys Agains
Oxford's Evil Life.
PROGRESS IN AMERICA
Hardy. Circuit-Riders Carried Gos
pel to Frontier Settlements.
Prominent Part of Women
in Building ITp Chnrcb.
BY F-TtErvEJtlC J. HASK1X.
Washington, Jan. .-(Special Cor
respondence. hen John 'Wesley died."
id Spurreon, "he left behind him two
ver spoons, a teapot and. the great
Methodist Church." It Is Indeed a great
church. It has IT hranches in tnis coun
try with nearly 7.O00.O00 members enousli
people to replace the population of the
states of Wisconsin, Iowa, ebraKa and
Colorado, if everybody in the common
wealths named should die or for soma
resenn . movs U-hnr Tha -.- .An
rerence of the Methodist Church in
America was held In Philadelphia July
l. l. .J, tnree years before tne Declara
tion of Tnden.nd.nr.. Than yv.m Aniv
10 clergymen present at this first assem
bly. Now there are over 40.000 ministers
of thta denomination In the United State.
Before goina farther- I want to tell
about John Wesley and why he was called
a Methodist. When Charles II died In
England he left a taint of licentiousness -snd
debt on hts country that rasiy de
cades of right living: among his more con-
servatlve subjects could not remove. This
undesirable state of society continued Ions
into the next, century, even to the time
of ood Queen Anne and the Hanoverian
Klr.fs. Cliristianily as then empiwi
in the nation not only tail.vl t reform
the people, but was itself mostly in need
of reform. Tet licentious as the times
we lociariy. freeddm of wb and
freedom of the press were not encouraged. "
iToodoni "Waa Persecuted.
Defoe was pilloried for expressing him-
self too freely in print, and whlppiim
posts, atopics, prisons and tha fcallowa on
Tyburn Kill had each a chapter of perse-
anions to record against those who dared
express religious thought in any but the
prescribed form. Yet there were brilliant
minds and fearless thinkers In those days.
The eloquent Bolingbroke. lniUel and
rake: Walpole. who was busy "keeping;
th English crown on Hanoverian, heads";
that talented statesman, the Earl of
Granville: Chesterfield, "the wit among
lords and the lord among: wits": A-lex-ander
Pope, and Deao Jonathan Swift
were amonj the leaders of tho first thrae
decades of the eighteenth century. '
Into this condition of society, and into
the company of such brilliant men. was
born John Wesley, son of Samuel Wesley
the rector of the Epworth parlsli. There
were 19 children in the Wesley family,
and the little rectory was rather crowded.
Tet somehow they were all carefully
reared and educated. It has always been
said that a man is a sure proof of his
mother's training, and in John "Wesley
and the church he founded can be traced
the love of methodical living and the
austerity and democracy that Susannah
Wesley Inculcated in her teacfTings tn
her sons and daughters. The fifth birth
day of each child was a great event in
the Epworth rectory, for it was then,
that the education of each was begun.
On the preceding- day the house was al
ways set In order, and the giving of tha
first lesson to the new pupil was regarded
as an auspicious event. On the first day
the baby of 5 was started on the alphabet
to be followed soon by reading and spell
ing; in the Holy Scriptures. The principle
was always held before the family that
to commence a child's education waj bet
ter than to give a banquet
Ve-le-ys Early l.lfr.--at
the aa;e of S John Wesley waa
miraculously saved from death when the
rectory was burned. At 10 he was one
of the 44 pupils enrolled in the fajnoua
Charter house school of London, where he
appeared on his entrance day in &
"broadoloth gown lined with baize.'
breeches of dark blue stuff, shirt and,
stockings and stout shoes known as
-gowsers." in 172) he entered Christ's
Church Colleg-e at Oxford and was there
for five years. Later he wa.s a.rt In
structor there and p re p ar ed for Holy
Orders m t& Church of England. Hf
with his brother Charles, and some of
their more conservative friends. (rw
weary of the laac morals and fast living
or the age, and soon turned tbftir 0WJ1
lives Into examples of regular, abstemious,
methodical living;. Their rigid habits of
conduct soon caused them to be referred-
to by a scotim puuiic as "trie Oxford
Methodists."
One great cream that Samuel "Wesley,
the head of the family, had borne In his
heart for many weary, discouraging
years, was that of mnlizins th rwt-
Indla. China, and Abyssinia. 1-Te lacked
funds sjad oould find no one wl Ulnar to
finance the enterprise. When his two
rons, John ana ciianes, were invited
hy Oglethorpe, founder of the Savannah
colony, to so with him as "Tnisloners"
to tl ?vew -World. Mi. oll rector ea-v-e
his hrartj- consent, and the two young
divinity otudentg went aboa-rd the emi-
(Concluded, on Fai S.