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AN IWENTL 1; "E, DP..T.4MA2E DAWS ALES SN FROM A RUSTIC SCENE work 1% Bo:-.o:ab1. vrd T-nrt S 0.11d Be N~o Inirr, Sayr 'o Cres :. reiact r. Bow moses Fourd Ils Br.itc. U. ef a! nessFr.m !he :-h 1-' Dsn ter WASmFGTOr. ; 1. -cm a r_ tic Bible scene D: a m. this sermon draws prC:i;a slag lesson! :or all c'ass o' e .e. The text is Excdus iii, 1. 'ow Mcses kept the fcct o1f Jet L th r in law. the priest cf Md In me soutLeastern ps. r: o Arabia a man is sittiog by a I s an arid counIry and water :s sctre?, so that a well is of greAt valu sr d il:cts and herds are driven vast distances to have their thirst slaked. Jetb-'o, a MIidian ite sheik and priest wts so fortunate as to have seven daughters, and tey are nractical girls. ar:d yunder they come driving the sheep and cattle and camels of thir father to the waterinr. They lower the tuchets and then pull them up, t'e water ploshing on the stones and chilling their feet, ar d the troughs are filled. Nk ho is that man out there sitting uncorcerned and looking on? Why does he not ccw e and help the women in this hard work cf drawirg water2 Bat-no sooner have the dry lips ana paetirg rnstrils of the flecks begun to cool a little in the brimming trough c the well t'an some rough Beenii stherds break in upon the scene, a7d with clubs snd shouts drive hack the animals that were drinking ad atfrigot these girl. until they fly in retreat, and the flocks of these ill monnered she. herds are driven to the trougns, taking the places of the othter llxks. Now that man sitting by the wel begins to color up, a.:d his eye flashes with in dignation, and all the gallantry cf his nature is aroused. It is Moses, who naturally had a quick temper anyhow, as he demonstrated on one cccasion when be saw an Egyptian oppressing an Israelite and gave the Egyptian a sudden clip and buried him in the sand, and as he showed afterward when he broke all the Ten Commard ments at once by shattering the two granite slabs on which the law was written. But the injystice of this treatment of the seven girls sets him on fire with wrath, and be takes this shepherd by the throat and pushes back another till he falls over the trough and aims a stunning olow be tweed the eyes of another as ne cries, "Begone, you villains!" and he hoots and roars at the sheep and cattle and camels of these invaders ari drives them back, and, having cleared ie place of the desperadoes, he told the seven girls of this Midianite sheik to gather their flccks together and bricg them again to the watering. Oh, you ought to see a nght between the shepherds at a well in the orient as I saw it in December, 1890. There were here a group of rough men who had driver the cattle may miles and here anther group who had driven their cattle as many miles. Who should have precedence? Such clash ing of buckets! Such hooking of horns i Sun kicking of hoofs! Such vehemence in a language I fortunate ly could not understand! Now the sheep with a peculiar mark across their woolly back:, were at the trough and now the sheep of another mark. Itawas one of the most exciting scenes I ever 'witnessed. An old book de scribes one of these contentions at an eastern well when it say's: "One day the poor men, the widows and the oi: phans met together and were drivmng their camels and their flocks to drmnk and were all standing by the water "'side. Daji came up and stopped them all and took possession of the water for his master's cattle. Just then an old woman belonging to the tribe of Abs came up and accosted him in a1 suppliant manner, saying: --B9 so1 good, Master Daji, as to let my cattle, drink. They are all the property I possess, andlIlive by their miik. Pity1 my flock; have compassion on me. Grant my request and let them drink."' Then came another old woman and] addressed him: 'On, Master Daji,1 I am a poor, weak old woman, as you, see. 1Dume has dealt hardly with me.] It has aimed its arrows at me, and its: daily and nightly calamities have de-j stroyedall my men. I have lost my children and my husband, and since< then I have been in great distress. These are all that I possess., Let them crink, for I live on the milk that they] p roduce. Pity my forlorn state. I have no one to tend them. Therefore grant my supplication and of thy kindness let them drink.' But in this case the brutal slave, so far from granting this humble request, smote2 the woman to the ground.' A like scrimmage has taken place at the well in the triangle of Arabia be tween the Bedcuin shepherds andi Moses championing the cause of the, seven daughters who had driven their father's flocks to the wateribg. One of these girls, Zippcrah, her name meaning - little bird," was captured by this heroic behavior of Moses, for, however timid woman herself may bs, she always admires courage in a man. Zipporah became the bride of Moses, one of the mightiest men of all thei centuries. Zipporah little thought that that morning as she helped drive her father's ficcks to the well she was plendidly deciding her own destiny. t Hdshe staid in the house while the other sis: daughters of the sheik 1 tended to their herds her hife would probably have been a tame and un] eventiul lif e in the solitudes. But her1 industry, her fidelity to her father's1 interest, her spirit of helpfulness, brought her into league with one of the grandest characters of all history.] They met sat that samous well, and while she admired the courage of Moses he admired the ilal behavior of Zipporah. - And you will have to go down be fore you go up. From the pit intoi which his rrothers threw him and the prison in which his incarcerated him Joseph rose to be Egypusan prime minister. Elijah, who ws~s to be the] greatest of all the arncient prophets; Elijah, who mnada Ksing Ahao's knees knock together with the prophecy< that the dogs would be his only un dertakers; Elijah, whose one prayer< brought more than three years of drought, andS wh.>se otner prayer< brought drentching showers, the man< who wrapped up his cape of sheepskin into a rotl and with it cut a path through ragirng Jordan for just twot men to pass o'er, the man who withi wheel of tire rode over deat and escaped into the skies without mortu - ary disintegration, the man whot thousands of yerrs after was culedt out of the eternities to stand beside Jeasus Christ con Mount Tabor when< it was ablaze with the splendors of transfiguration - this man could look back to the time when voracious and filthy ravens were his on Jr caterers. See also in this call o: 2oses that God has a great memory, Four hun dred years before he had promised the the deliverance of the oppressed Israel ites of Egypt. The clck of time hasI struck the hour, ar d now Moses is called to the work of rescue. Four hundred years is a very long time, but you see God can remember a promise 400 years as well as y ou can remember 400 minutes. Four hundred years in tade to t2em, .d we may exoect fulillmert in cur heart ard life b!essitgq that were predictcd to our Lhristian ancestry centuries ago. Yoru bave a dim remembrance, if any re membrance at all, of ycurgreat grand rn:her, but God seen those who were :n their knees in 159S as well as tacs' on their kne.es in 1S11. ar-d the b'esr - Engs he promised the former and th-eir descendants have arrived or vill ar rive. While piety is n-. hereditary it .s a grand thir z to have had a pious ancestry. So GLd in this cbapter ca is ao the pedigree of tte peo.le wi-ca Moses was tc. delirr, c d los% it cr dered to s.y t- iat. -The Lord G: of your fathers. thet. Gd of Aarshaizt the Gcd of Isiac a- 13 of Jacb, I hath sent me u-o Yvu-" 1! li tbought be divinel accurate, ct rrV ask, what are we doing by pra e' andt by a holy li:e fr- ':: redemp n cf the next 400 years? Our work JA "ot only with the people of the latter part of the nineteenth century, but with those in the cicsing of the t mntieth century, and the closing of the txen ty first century, the clcig cf the twenty second century, and the cios ine of the twenty-third century. For 400 years, if the world continues to s xing until that time. cr if it drops, then rot withstanding the ir. fluence will go on in other latitudes and long itudes of (oad's uni7erse. No one realizes how great he is for' good or for evil. There are branch ings out and rebounds and reverbera tions anct claborations of indloence that cannot be estimamej. The 50 or 100 years of our earthly sts is only a smalL part of our sphere. The tlip of one wir.g of the destroying angel thai smote the Egyptian oppressors, tie wash of the R:d seaover tne heads of the drowned Egyptians, were all fui ailents of promises four certuries old. And things occur in your i1fL and in m'ne that we cannot acount ir. They may be the echoes of 'LEst was promised in the sixteenth or sev enteenth centu ry. Oa. the p-olonga tion of the divine nemor3 ! Notice also that Mcses was SO yeais of age when he got this call to become Israelitiah deliverer. Forty years he had lived in palaces as a prince. Another 40 years he had lived in the wildtrness of Arabia. I should not wonder if he had said: '-Take a younger man for this work. Eighty winters have exposed my healta. Eighty summers -have poured their heats upon my head, There are 40 years that I spent among the enervat ing luxuries of a palace, and ther follow the 40 years of wilderness hard ship. I am too old. L t me off. Setter call a man in the f rties or fifties and not one who has entared upcn the eighties." Nevertheless he undertook tte work, SInd if we want to know whether he succeeded ask the bandoned brick kilos of Egyptian tsknasters, and the spl:ntered ctario. wheels strewn on the oeach of the R 'd sea, and the timbrels which Miriam lapped for the Israelites passed over and the Egyptians gone under. Do not retire too early. Lire Moses yc.u may have your chief work to do after 80. It may not be in the high plaes of the field. It may not be where a strong arm and an attiletic foot and a clear vision are requirec btut there is something for you yet to io Perhaps it may be to round coff he work you have already~ done, to emonsmrate the patience you have ben recemtrending all your lifetime. Prhaps to stand a lighthouse at the :nouth of the b..y to light otners into iarbor. Perhaps to sho w how glorn mus a sunset may come after a stormy ly. If aged men do not feel strcng mough for any thing else, let them sit tround in our churches and pray, and erhaps in that way they may accctn - lish more good than they ever cd . the meridan of their life. It makes .is feel strong to see aged men and women all up and down the news, ;heir faces showing they have been on he mountain of Lransfiguration. We want in all our churches more menI ike Moses, men who have been ;hrough the deeps arnd climbed up the1 ;helled beach on the other side, We want aged Jacobs, who have seen adders which let down heaven into heir dreams. We want aged Peter-. who have been at Pentecosts, and aged Pauls, who have made Felix tremble. here are here and there those who eel like the woman of 90 years who aid to Fentenelle, who was 85 years f age, "Death appears to have for otten us." "liush." said Fontenelle ~he wit, putting his finger to his lip. ~o, my friend, hou have not been orgotten. You will be called at the ight time. Meantime te bolily cc upied. Let the aged remember that by ir ~reased longevity of the race men .are iot as old at 60 as they used to be at i0, not as old at 70 as they .used to be i0. not as old at SO as they used to be it 70. Sanitary precaution bet ter un terstood; medical sCience further ad ranced; laws of health more thorcuga y adopted; dentistry continuing for onger time successful mastication; iomes and churches and court roms Lud places of business better ventilated -all these have prolonged life, ann ne and women in the close of this entury ought not to retire until at east 15 years later than in the op--n ng of the century. Do not put the arness off until you have fough: a ew more battles~. Think of Moses tarting out for his chief work an oc ogenaian; 40 years of wilderness life fer 40 years of palace life, yet j tst >eginning. There lies dying at Hawarden, Eng and, one of the most wonderful men hat ever lived since the ages of time >egan their roll. He is the chief citi an of the whole world, Three times iss he practically been king of Great ritain. Again and again coming 'roen the house of commons, which be iad thrilled and overawed by his alcquence, on Saturuay, on Sunday norning reading prayers for the peo ie with illumined countenance and >rimmng eyes and resounding voice, aying: "I believe in God the Father amighty, msker of heaven and earth tod in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our ord," The world has n other such man to ose as Gladstone. Tne church has no ther such champion to mourn over. shall never c. ase to thank God tha' mn Mr. Gladstone's invitation I visited iim at Eawarden at~d neard f rom his >wn lips his belief in the authenticity f the Holy Scriptures, the divinity of sus Christ and the grandeurs of;he1 world to comne. At his table and in. ,he walk through his grounds I w.as mpressed as I was never before, an d >robaly wilt never t~e again, wit h he majesty of anature all consecrated1 o God and the word1's betterment. In he preser~ca of such a man wnat have~ hseto say wao pro.ess o i ha >r religion is a p2u. n-m.us a:;:d eak and cowardly and unreasrt be ffair? Matchless William E. Glad tone: Still further watch this spectacle o& renuine courage. No wonder whena toses scattere.d the rude shepherds lac woni Zipporah's heart. What mat ter a it to Moses whether the cattle or the ;even daughters of Jethro were driven ~rom the trougns by the rude herds nen? A stnse of pustice nlrea Lts ourage, and the wor~d wants mare of Lhe spirit that will dare almost any-i thing to see others righted. All the~ time at weils of comfort, at wells of water. steu n aI Sr~ "".,1 - b th e s- -~ rr l And ;1:0 - -62" ili further in i c t" at if C-C as ay V . w r you t c "a h e ' ju r . was Eyp r~dAa'.s 1 e W!thc their e-owd-dp uti ~ n man the L-r :: a at I southern 2om of the tr-al c' Ara b i t h ~ e r c ks im r;. r:. If: chepe: d who k-,. L-"ncz nfJ re, -is fa 'er ini h pi shi -k. S3 God -.; ,. iudithd take you o-t froa 1,6. i t huma: race if he wa-as i anyt L especaI. There ,s cn!c jaa (:wr. qualified. OcuEr mIn .a cIurage ike Vos-.. o0:-r 'I taleliso M .' , : a r iheir isras J ofltr mnei wer- a tslsNr but n,3 !t:eA -d6-eu: qua'itafs :n he ee'.cp r Mloses., srkd God , wz-- o-.aK 's no mi,;s rightplc D> ::c! fea: y-u wil k e d IG :d c ant liI Uta C, t, y-jL!r na-me, T aU: fe.t Ur s, y Cou ty M perhmni.L ara ;o r c-%o'.:.rA and in what .d or ci-y or aro neizhborihooa or ouse e will not have t,) senad out sc -u's Explorers t> fitd --our r ce place of stoppinz, a d whn he -n Noa he will rake it as pin thst he means you as h made iz plaia that hei needel Moses. He calLed r:s name twice, as afterwsard wh-n he caIled the great apostle to it.-' gehtiles called twic3, saying "Saul. Saul," aud when he calkld the troubld iise keeper he ca'lhd her twice, saying. MrLha, Marth a," td w-Ea he cai ed th1 prop""t to niS i-S he e 1l 1 Lirn twice, sayingz -Sokuci, Sme. and now ,-hen h -.ants a _e.ive-er hcalls tw.c-, s.'Vi-:g " seM -s_ ". Y s, if GA has anything for us to Jo he wi-l c_-11 us twice by nan:e. At the frst announceanent of cur n'me we nay think it posioe that we misun d'rstod he sound, but after he c:'JIls us twice by name we k'now he meaus us as certainly as when ne ittce ::p - tIe names of Saui or Martin er S.am uel or Moses. You see, relgion isa tremencus ersonality. W\e aHl have the general call of :alvition. We hear it in songs, in s-rmons, in pra lers. We hfar it year after vear. Bt after awhile, tLrcugh our own suddtn a nd aarin in or t ath f a ply maite, or a zeno1nmate, or a collen mate, er :he dece"ise os a Uusia-ss partner, or thea 'c~'~i of a r.C.' dc ceighbar, w"e Cte e--eel call t happiness. and w'e knowi~ mears us. You have~ totie the ia which Gd calls us tiaT. ailures of in;'es'ueni' t -o s ch T" es, two persecutats, t'o 'erean mnts, two di~Se. 23es e' Stiil further, noic ta " : e 1. c' Moses was -'ite i' .eters f firi. On the Sinas' reiu u'.thr"i thrn cush ca?led'"-e 'c""sci rar an brittle, sand it e-asly g'c dowa tu tcuch of tea llimn. It cra ~e a'd sees one of thes ba' on -- . ga soeloek at io t ' orat no e i" burnirg, yet clu-uplir.:; no la p~iri ng no stem,~c eyt r"" no .tnes. was a s'xpena' u-a tire tha did 't ng bush wasthe erl. Your canl n.l prob-ay can i" ke. ters of fire. Miisters get thaer c.l to preach in Jetters on pgap l:pa.a ment or typewrittenD,i 'cu i does no amount t muca'uti'''' c- td next call inletter of ~" dr. -i will not amountlto muc i1 --use uls~-' ui ti some where nea';"you id ci t r -'ing busb. It :'ay be 'ons: aunnz misortune. It may b Ic andi bu'u g in the fire cl .he worlk scoria hate ormi::repesent~ati-Y. Bs' 6 ~ en to the crackiia" 0- the urnin bsh! Oh, what a fa-e- naung u' and inspr ig character tthis Moses: H r-tem all other stories campar d wa t's U: grahy of Moes. Fr-om th 'i f her bth nz house o. .he lhtranuti, daughb'er of Paaran, se ba~ in the ti'a.iu tradie c' papy.ri a leaves made water tzght b iuen hs infatntile cry is neard~ among li mrle p.lacas, and pr.nrexne hus tom wita thetr luiiabe' ; or am en b the roadside drop their wora to Icos oa him when as a boy '. rass:-d, s: beuti'ul was he; tsvo bo'.Lvis pu fore his infant eyes fr enic to ae..a nsti ate his wisdomn, th onbrv :ontaining rubies and the' ote: c::n taining coals of fire, sutlicien .'ywi was he to take th ea~s; ~ Da a:in lydirected, iLe took .te cal and pua: them to tis mo~u'.t, :.n h s to'gu was burned, and~ he was I-fa s -~ merer all his days, so tha' h .i decate-i, :n Eodous ir, 1U. "I am cia v ofj pech and o& sloto e ufo and oni 'antil he set tirmi foot amxmg the emU n biing basalt, and ~ts ear wsntda nea by thsunderouas "'su sa ~alt the reclief of the Lrsemes who wr cour~seI becauie with"ou' 'coppeu .traW wLtey wm re. r, ' a Lom n brcas, the s o-y U. taeir 'ppremon foanQ catsd~ed on tm~~-.: tou of.R ere atThetet x an . w-- 'ssme wereipteed by venom'ous ser nf si sen crates cf ibi~e, : ~ eds y iig birds, .i tla L ~ iya j in t l aost could mac s~al. I~ a thus surprisng Use e.nemyi, w-o ' g' ti hey ust ua an e: r':-. to avo~. aiin ti drop q uilI for '::naw'ie ages i m ' r:s-.in mM te ma~n of w cm i'.l:.a ir. No hm v. N:cort Gen. *.' . 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U licc Staq cru*er Marble a 'un b _at Nashvi'le and th( ujir er-r Windom steamed up a t a-:cr f'' Cienfuegas early Weissday~"? morrir w'ith orders tc ecb!C' car~reire Havana with nt o deCb.J This task was ac. em d bu ry after a tErric r u wr~hips ard sever a thouwd & In toops, whic]: : s lay ccrcea'ed br le ire o::s dbre st work s. On( r ar z a si. namre R bgan, of thE : . i;!ed in one of tht t ma! bea's, ard six othei o s e v, rely wotnded. In ad. i,umbe.r on Doard th' di - iz:cr wcunds ia aftr he arrival of t:e war Sci ti Cilr-fue- -s, four boats wer( u: ched a.,d truceeded in shore for th e tjrp-se of gapwiing for the cable in crde" to cut it. The warshipslay-t about 1 01 0 vares or more off the har jor. I. -as observed that the Spanis! :rkops id assembled ashore, but il sesno krown thatheavy gunshac bcen pl ctd in a masked battery anc -h&, the old lignthouse, far cut on s c of iard. bad been transformec into a fo:-m:dable fort. When thf jrrmanders of the Marblehead anm 'he Nashville called for volunteers tc man ine bstsz ard cut the cab!e, thf Lie!:. 1. 1R W'asiow, 'of tt. Us., t- k cmizaad of the Na.h - . s Te siore surroundini e etranc: of tie harbar was firs thel;ed -nd then the boats prcceedrc a. T e wrA of tiding the cabl ,as s-owly and cautiously proceeded witn. Ls cable was ceep in the chaunel and was fcund with ddfficul 0Y. We the relays of the canle ha< .nei setereA whea the Saaniard: oned tire. ~ .Le marines ii the boats replied a Urc?, and a machine gun from thi 'orard la uch s;nt in a stream o b.iikts, whue heavy stiells from thi warcbips drove the Spaniards firo ,i:e r 1b pi.s at tme shore, many ol tiem se, kiag refuge in the lightbous( for;, wLich was afterward torn t( pieces by a shell from the Windom. As Ltere were great numbers of Span ia'ds in and benind the fort at th< 4 m: taere is uo doubt that many ol 1he= were ktiled. Nita desperate courage the Ameri can sailors remained catmly at thei pcits a;d suc::ceded in dragging ul :.e second relay of the cble and sev -iinz it. ,even men badly woundet was the count, and one of them, Rea gan, u:ed while on tie way back t< Lhe snip. Lieuteuant Winslow wa. shot in the band, a number of other were mcr. or less iajured. Oa tue N&.shville Captain Maynar was standing forward, with an ensign vhen a Spinish bullet passed througi the tns;gas shoulder and struck May nard on the chest, near the heart wounding him only slightly. Ta< Marblehead was strucK scores of timu by builets from machine guns, an( the Nsiville suff-red to about thi .me extent. Tre Windom also hat many marks of the fray. Her shell blowing up tie lighthouse and scatter ing the Spaniards in all directions enId the !attle. C U N3FOR OU-d 5.;LD. .R . Fri. Kind UTacio shim Wd Arml His volan ters With. It :s stated by the cilisers of th' quarermaster general 's bureau tha e.x wecRs from now the governmen wiui be able to clotie and equip 100, 000 mun for the field. Tue most im toorst diticuity lies in the matter o r.ilu. At present Unele dam har oarly tcere than a stiic:nt numbei ,iax mdern rifl~s for the reguilar army ??e mihuas of the states are arie< witQ the old-fashioned Springfield And:,ia?ilar out of date weapons. Whe: it is said that a Spring fid r:ls shoot 25 bu?neis a minute with a range of 4, Guu yarcs, against 40 shots a minute a 6,000U yards fr tne nleW regulatior Krag-Jorgensen a very imperfect no uos is gived of the ddferencs of effac .iveness between wne two weapona lhe d fferenne iles mainly in the in c~ad'danger space" where the Krag Jorgenseis um~d. Tne velocity o. tue paj~cule lired by the Krag Jrgenees is ao great tfnat its coursi is .nrouUgh tue air is nearly horizoatil, so tha. ? wouta kiui a man who stooc .v nae~ e weea the muzzle of the an laa d.s.aac of Laree miles. A Sprxmgt ti. nutiet. on tne other hant ag a-. il l at t wo miles, bun if proper y aun.u or sucn a range, .would gc o.:er the nead of a man standing 21 a way. Tne w at department nat already ord exed luO,00--Krag-Jor geses aa in is benieved that thes4 .epos can cie turned out at the rate o 1,000 a day whea all the resources ,i the anA arm factories are lully uz~d. iiaie mnust, ea..se, ho wever, bfre th t rat: '.i produc.ion is am ta:d. andi amaniiine a large part 0. sur troops mlit ?iave to get along WitnJ oinek Lumnur guns. Nearly all of tne iitantry (ii ine imuuia are armed wit soci~noe.d i of 45 catioer, while the Axvary are pro vmted wima Sprinfil Reigton, dyencer, and Stiarge car ciics Oi 45 anu 50 caioer. mne sup p.y o: aamm~unition for the rifles will ue pieliuf i, tne Franstord arsenal in iauauepmia is no.a turxiiug out 150 uu cartr.dges a cray for the Krag Juraecser ak.a lte uou:put will pres adyL1 rean 3003,U0 p~r diem. Many oa tui yriaaneat rartes and caroines, we- repjiaced wban K~rag Jorgensens wiu proucaciy pass into tne haas oJ ne taban auixiuaries. Tne nti artulery used by troops vill cosa m?amny of 3 2 inch breect .teilg rLiles, waich tirow proj:ctiles egh.Lg 16i poaunds a dis.ance of four Inies. .10im ut tne states posse si some f inese cam ndus and 31 states nave one r more Ciatng guns. Kahid by LighLtnn. A lightning bolt dealt death to a rowd of negro gamblers Sunday af rnocn a: (2olumtia. A't~rwards at ine b.ase or a iaree and handsome tree could be seen the bjdits of two of the s cung negoroes stretchmed ou.t upon the ground cold and stff. In the hand of e nvis tightly clasped a deck of pising carC'. It was a dreadful pic ure to gaze upon and many negro wmen stood about and talked to each >. e, takin g the pcsition that it was a mani~estation of Divine vengeance mun those who disregarded tbe Sab Si day and playei cards onSuaday. tae cro , Jit was said, had been coi'caps sme distance a way nierain canie up and they ad uarad under the big tree to get shel rlt udo to play a game of cards C.et l N u oapolia, the Panal sec ar f ae,d:-clares the Vatican o'p- desires prayers for, the speedy nclicu.ion of peace, but in the event coLtied w at he will ask the bless igs of he aven on the Spanish arms. T-i glo:ious Commodore Dewey rs uttermy destroyed the Spanish l :t n the Pacitie Oceao, and has ~au the Failipine Islands from naia. Toese isiaads o ver which the tars and sir ipes no v float are richer AN LMPO..TAN. CASt. A Trt iat'e ofthe Law in a fereros to Lynching. A case was tried at the recent term of the Court of Common Pleas for Orsngeburg County that is of general interest. It was that of Isaac Brown, administrator of Lawrence Brown. It was a suit for damages against the ccunty, since Lawrence Brown met death in January last year under cir ci ir stancf s wnich suggested lyr ching. Circumstautial evidence brought out at the trial went to show that he was .ynched becs.use he was believed to be a firebug and that the destruction of ruch valuable property was due to him. The following paper, picked up rear the scene of the alleged lynch ing, was cifere. in evidence by the plaintiff, and was admitted, notwith standing the obj -ctiors of the defend an t: S"Notice to all whom it may concern -Judge Lynch's court Is in session tonight for the protection of our pro prt.y. And by the help of God we I will convict and execute any man, woman or child that tries to destroy our property with fire. We will pro tect our homes and our property, and i our neighbors shall no; suffer loss I from the hellish 'firehugs.' Let this ) be a warning to others. Citizens." I The county submitted no testimony > in its behalf; but asked the court to dismiss the case on the ground that the law unitr whick the action was orcught only contemplated an action where the person lynched was taken from the custody of public officers by the lynchers. Judge Aldrich said tte I question in his mind, was "whether Site act and constitutional provision I were designed to stop lynching in general more than to stop the conni V 3Lce of officers of the law in per I mitting lynching or not preventing i it." His constru.tion was that both sections of the act should be takcn t together, and they referred only to the lyxching of prisoners or persons in the ' nands of officers of the law. As the ) testimony aid not bear out facts suffi cient to base a verdict for the plaintiff in the face of the above ruling of the court, the jury was directed to find for the defendant. Why nust it DoWS liks Us. The Atlanta Journal says that in no other country outside of 8pain is pop ular feeling so strong against the Unit ed States as it is in Austria. The ex tent and bitterness of this feeling is not by any means due wholly to the fact that the queen regent of Spain is a1 Au trian archduche3s; Austria his an accumulation of grievances i against our government which cause I her to sympathize intensely with Spain L in the present war. The record goes back as far as 1823 L when Russia, Austria, Prussia and France formed the Holy Alliance and appeared to move against the South , American republics which had recent i ly thrown off the Spanish yoke. 5 While Austria was only one of the four powers which formed this league, Mettemich, for many years the master spirit of Austria, was more responsible for it than any one else and when President Monroe warned the Holy alliance that it must not interfere in - the western world Austria took much greater offense than any of the o~her allies. t This feeling was still strong in 1846 t when the rebellion in Hungary oc curred and received so much sympa thy and encouragement from the pec Spie of the United States. The ova tions given to Kossuth when he came to this country in 1851 aroused Aus trian ire to a still higher pitch, and in i 1853 an event occurred which intensi s fled even further the anti-American -animosity in Austria. This was the rsuofKoszta by a United States .man of war. Koezta, one of the Hungarian ra bels of 1849, escaped to the United -States after the war, took the prelimi nary steps necessary to secure full citizenship in this country, but while in Smyrna, Turkey, in 1853, on busi ness, was seized by order of the Aus trian consul and put on board the Austrian frigate Huzzar, in that port. Captain Iograham, commander of the American sloop of-war St. Louis, learning of the affasir, sailed to the place where the Austrian war vessel was stationed, de manded Koszta's re lease, and declared that if he were net given up by a certain hour that day Lse would be taken by force. The St. Louis was instantly cleared for a fight. This frightened the Austzians into surrendering Koszta to the French consul, and he was released and bailed (or the U~aited States. Tivelve years later when the United States .refused to countenance the usurpation of Mexico by France, Aus tria had a fresh cause of complaint. Maximiliam, brother of E nperor Franz Joseph, whom Louis Napoleon had drawn into his Mexican scheme and placed on.the throne, was captuzr ed and executed. Instead of charging his death to Napoleon the Austrian government and people held the United States responsa~le for it. So there has not been a tim. in seventy five years when Austria has not had a quarrel with us. That she w.>uld be against us in this war, so far AS her feelings and hopes go, was to o , ex pected. ________ Mzdsred Bia ohild. Coroner Dukes and Dr T. A Je-f fords were called on i.. u~u.y to hold an inquest upon a y oung child about fif teen months old on Mr. J. J. Quiatlebaum's place, on Limestone, aoout eight miles from Orangeburg the result of which is that William Sheppard, colorei, is n1o in jail charged with murder. Vne physician four d horrible lash a inds on the body of the child, ben:des en the stomach, apparently mace 'y violent pressu-e or stamping. Sit oird is the step father of the little v.. '.n and got into an ugly humor about s'me domestic matt-r and proceeded to avenge himself upon inn-.c-nee, an~d when the mnot'ier and wif ,r.drtrokz to interhue Lurned L.is ag- r upa)L Lr also, givirng her a severe beating. Notwithstanding this, however, she tried to shield Sheppard in her testi mony before the inquest, but being warned gave all facts. Tne jury re turned a veridict of mu-der agains~ William Sheppard, and he was at once arrested and is now lceked up. Spanish Spy suteldes, George Downing, alias Rawlings, the man arrested las Sunc'ay under suspicion of being a spy in the ser vice of Spain, hanged himself at the Washington barracks Sunday, shortly after ^ o'clock. A towel and a silin handkerchief were used as the in The Royal Is the highest grade baking powder known. Actual tests show it goes one third fartbcr than any other bread. I POWDER Absoutcly Pure nomYA "10C sC- c., NEy. A OCattOlle Address. The archbishops of the CV r,.e church in the United States hE v, sued an address er dorsed by Mvi,. nor Martinelli, the papal lef,.t U, this country. The address breat. a the spirit of the loftiest patriotis:n 4 a is one of the most - Lq.... -,L appesal s that has been made to cit'z ns 0' this' country since war ?ir.p" v , - clared. Tne arcLrooza, z., Lv k Catholics in the UaiLed %t stes: "We are not now engaged in a war of section against, secuon, or e.ate against state, out we are united as crne man against a foreign enemy ana a common foe. If, as we are taughat by our holy church, love of coua.ry is next to luve of God, a duty imposed on us by all laws human aid divine, then is our duty to labor aLd to pray for the temporal and spiritual well being of the brave who at e battling for our oeloved country. Le us faitnful ly beg the God of battles to crown their arms on land aid sea with victory and triumph, and to stay unnecesary effusion of blood and speedily to re store peace to our beloved iana a-d people." This is a noble sentiment nobly ex. pressed. We are a t war with a Cath olic county, but cur flag willihave no more devoted followers,; no more val iant defenders than our fellow-citiz-r s of the Catholic faith. At a great Cath olic gathering in New York last week Bishop McQaaid made a stirring ad dress, in which be said: "This na tion is now at war, and with a Cath olic country. This is our country, and we will stand with it, ready to shed cur blood. The Catholics of the United States will be the first in the struggle." These words were ap plauded to the echo by the large as semblage of Catholics to which they were spoken. They express the feeling and determination of the millions of Catholic citizens of the United States. Fue at Bambarg. A special dispatch from Bamberg to the State says a destructive fire occur red there Thursday night. It origina ted in the livery stable of D. H. Counts & Co., and was discovered at 8.30 o'clock. The d weling house cf Mr. W. F. Patrick and a small house belonging to Mary Guignard, a colored woman, were also burned. Several stores narrowly escaped burning, and the gocds in them were badly dam aged by water and removal. The losses are covered by insurance. Mrs. W. F. Patrick died at 9 o'clock Thursday night. Toe circumstances of her death were peculiarly sad.- dhe has been in a dying state for weeks. She had to be carried out of her burn ing house and died a short while af terwards. Great sympathy is felit by the whole town for the doubly he reaved family. Expired in Chnrch. A special dispatch from R~cc Hill to The State says services at the First Presbyterian church Sunday morning were suddenly closed by a sad .calar ity. Mr. Andy B. Smith, president of the Telephone company and presi dent and treasurer of the Eectric Light company, and one of &ck Hill's prominent business men, sud denly threw up his hand, gaspe d, fell back over the seat anud was dead be fore he could be carried out of t.'e door near whicha he was sitting. T wo physicians were by him and he had every attention, but tono avail. He never spoke or made any noise. Mr. Smith was as well as ever when comn ing to church and conversed cheerful ly with friends on th a way. He was about 41 y ears old and married. Gross Earnirg of Bai~r Jads The railroads are having good busi ness these days in the transportation of men and munitions of war and the business of the present time stows a gratifying increase ove r the corre sponding time, last 3 ear. The grcess earnings of 33 roads for: the fourth week in April as made up from re:urrs seceived by the United State Investor, were $6,331,254, ag ainst $5,100,399 for the fourith week in April,,,1897, an in crease of $1.230,855. TI iety--wo roads show increases, and one de crease. Since January 1, the roads referred to above earned $80,681,882. an increase cf 10,762,9C8 over the $69. 918,979 reported for the cornespording period of 1897. For the lcnger pira d all show increases. During the umon of April 32 roads earned $20,143,6(5, an increase of $2,751,716 over the $17, 391,889 reported for April, 1897. spanish Flee; L :ca ea The Spanish fiet has oeen located at Cuaracao, which is about twelve handred miles east of Cuba. THE Louisvlle Cour:er-Jou:-a fin s -more to admire in Admiral Deway than his fighting qualities. I' say s: "Admniral Deewey is a Chevalier Bay ard of sailors. To refrain from firing upon a powerful shore battery be cause the crowded city of M!atila was in exact range was as genero'm: an act as ever honored a. warrior in fik heat of battle. The whole s-ory oa the er. gagement shows that the American commander while a vt ry iaunderbolt of war was as cool and calculating as if he were maneuvering 1 is iguedrcn ..f Bar harbor." THE New Eoglsnders have b~e4 thrown into a state of terror almost. by the fear that the Spanish tleet will swoop down upon that coast and <'e stroy the summer resorts and small pleasure crafts in the waters therc~ about. They are making urgent ap peals to the naval department for prc tection. HosoR Rear Adm'r a S.impson f 2r releasing the Spanish lieutenant who was -captured while trying to reach his wife and a baby he had never seen! We can afford to let such prisonera go.