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Show I Heads WorK of "Relief. GoTernor Joseph D. Sayers of Texas, : who has general supervision of the movement throughout the country for ; the relief of the sufferers in the bis storm, is a Mlssissippian who removed to Texas as a child. He was educated , In the state, fought in the confederate army, and was several times wounded, studied law, and in 1878 was elected lieutenant governor. He was first ftto Go-Oemor of Main. John P. Hill, who will be the next governor of Maine, is one of the few physlclains of the country who , have entered or hare been successful In the political field. He abandoned practices many years ago to become a publisher. He was born only forty years ago at Eliot, Me., and was educated at the South Berwick academy. He afterward after-ward studied medicine and took his degree of M. D. from Bowdoin Medical school. After he made a success of bis publishing business Dr. Hill in-Vested in-Vested his profits in industrial enterprises enter-prises la his own state. He is interested inter-ested In several electric railway plants and Is a director in a number of them. He is one of the developers of Augusta's Augus-ta's big shoe factory and is the builder and owner of numerous valuable business busi-ness blocks in the same town. His career ca-reer in the legislature has extended GOV. SAYERS. elected to congress in 1884, and was returned until his recent election as governor. He is fifty-nine years old. In Lanman's biographical annals of congress Governor Sayers Is given an unusually long notice. Canada 1b beginning to realize that however great the timber resources of a country may be they are not inexhaustible. inex-haustible. The United States is but now coming to a realization of the same fact, and as a result the extinction extinc-tion of the timber supply is threatened and afforestation has proceeded slowly. slow-ly. The northern forests of the Dominion Do-minion of Canada stretch northward 3,700 miles. A new forestry association associa-tion Just organized at Ottawa is arousing arous-ing public sentiment against the wasteful destruction of these vast forests for-ests and it has been promised the cooperation co-operation of the Canadian minister of the interior. If the Canadians are wise they will set apart a certain portion of their timber as a forest reserve and also will take steps to provide for the replenishing of that which ia destroyed. de-stroyed. "Drop Jfetuspaper WorK. Joel Chandler Harris has resigned his position as the leading editorial writer on the staff of the Atlanta Constitution, Con-stitution, and will hereafter devote his entire time to literature. The announcement an-nouncement of his retirement from journalism has created a genuine sen- i ' JOHN F. HILL, bver eight years, and because of his . activities in that body he became well known in the state. ' Ex-Secretary John Sherman has sold fiis property in Mansfield, O., and will eave there, with his daughter, Mrs. 1 iJ. L McCallum, for Washington, where e will make his home. His Mansfield roperty, which includes several acres 'in the residence portion of the city, lias been laid out in lots. Waldersee's Mission. Europe is making much mystery out of Count von Waldersee's mission to China, It is said that he bears special -and secret instructions from the emperor, em-peror, and the Paris Figaro is deeply concerned about William's "intentions," "inten-tions," which, it says, will only appear ap-pear when the German generalissimo arrives at Pekin. It is this mystery tu; rending Ven Walrieis'p which inakes 'the international situation in China-at the present time one of very great tensity. A Berlin journal says the emperor has declared that the German troops will not leave Pekin if It becomes necessary to mobilize every corps in the German army. On the other hand, there are some who pretend pre-tend to know that the czar is well acquainted ac-quainted with the kaiser's plans, information in-formation of which has been conveyed to the Russian ambassador by Count von Buelow. Meanwhile the allies JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, sation all over, the south, but his friends and admirers all agree that It is a wise step and will be profitable and helpful to him in many ways. .For many years Mr. Harris has been contemplating this change. Various publishers made him tempting offers, but journalism, like the tar baby of his folk-lore tales, held him fast, and he could not tear himself loose. Recently he has received so many orders for literary work that he decided decid-ed to leave the newspaper with which hfe has been identified for a quarter of a century and which he has done so much to build up. The Belgian hare as a fad Is a thing of the past The craze is over and now the dangers lurking in it are beginning be-ginning to suggest themselves serious- ly to the public mind. It Is realized that an animal possessed of such wonderful won-derful fecundity is liable to become a destructive pest if it escapes from captivity. cap-tivity. Repressive legislation is, therefore there-fore deemed necessary. The board of supervisors of San Diego county, (Cal.), has taken the initiative by passing an ordinance prohibiting the liberation of a Belgian hare or permitting permit-ting one that may have escaped to remain re-main at large or unconflned. Michael T. Farrelly, late legal adviser advis-er to President Kruger, from whose pen is announced a work on the "Settlement "Set-tlement in South Africa After the War," Is an Irishman who commenced his career at Trinity college, Dublin, where he gained many honors. ''' ' ' COUNT VON WALDERSEE. must await the arrival of the great German strategist, whose presence will go far to clarify the situation. Judging from the remarkable growth of Portland, Oregon, has gained decidedly decid-edly in population and in wealth during dur-ing the. last decade. The city had 46,-885 46,-885 inhabitants in 1890. It has 90,426 now. This ia a gain of 94.95 per cent, and Is. the largest percentage yet recorded re-corded with the exception of that of Atlantic City |