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A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUcNT DISCCURSE ENTITLED "DOES COD CARE?" * The Iter. Robert MacDonaltl Declare* That tlie Gre.ilest Discovery ot the Twentieth Century Will Be the Discovery of God. Bkooklyx, N. Y. ? "Does God Care?" *as the subject of the sermon Sunday morning by the Rev. Robert MacDona'd, pastor of the Washington Avenue Baptist Church. He took his text from I. Peter w:7: "Casting all your care upon Him, for He eareth for you." Mr. MacDonald said: "The greatest discovery of the twentieth century will be the discovery of God, ond then it will be seen that God does not care." Such is the latest assumption of cience, if a certain learned professor of one of our largest universities is deemed a trustworthy interpreter. He wisely drew the line between Christianity and infidelity as between believing that God cared for us and that He did not care, and | tatcd that the leading scientists were in- j fideLs. Lest such statements upset or weaken the faith of some of us, let us see what the weight of probability is for the realizing of these presumptive prophecies. Let it at I the very start be remembered that any more definite scientific discovery of Cod j than we now have is unlikely. And this I as said, not because we now possess so much, but that we are possessed of so little. Science will doubtless discover more . oboot God. Shame upon our developing ??fol1iflpon/>o if if drtpc nr\t Vvprv Hiscov- I ory is that. But that is a very different thir.g feora discovery of God. His handiwork will be more clearly traced, the working of His purposes more definitely realized; but I think we can trust the Infinite ?One to as successfully outwit the scientific inquisitiveness of the twentieth century as of any that has soul. I am confident that 19W years hence the exclamation of the human mind will be about s it is now?"Who can by searching out find God'" One of infinite retreats is not (going to be taken by surprise. The secret of His presence will ever elude the discoveries of man. The itiystery of His person hall still remain inviolate. Why do 1 speak as though God were antagonistic to human discovery? Because, friends, this learned prophet whose statements we are considering sees the only l&ck to the discovery of God to be the present, incompleteness of human knowledge and the present paucity of scientific means, both of which will be remedied, he is sure, before the present century closes. . I speak as I do because I do not like to luve Him whom we honor as Creator and Father stripped of His mystery and robbed of His volitional power and referred to as you would to an impersonal, objective fact of creatisn. We discover stars and continents and seas and laws and a good many other thipgs. but it does seem to me that Cod Himself will have something to say boat the discovery of Himself. Moreover, I have no right to believe that God will ever be discovered by any man save by Him whom God has discovered. He only finds God whom God has found. I :*m striving to maintain the integrity of the divine revelation as over against that of human investigation. We must take God on IIis own terms, rather than on ours. Therefore, he only discovers God to whom God has revealed Himself, to whom God permits such discover}'. We need not .fear that any future discover}' of God will .negative the revelation we now have through Teaus Christ. Science is mighty, tout not almighty. Not more mighty than ?God. We welcome it in the realm of well defined data, in the realm of demonstra^-ion'and proof. But its advocates need to Beam that the Eternal transcends its sera* tiny and the Supernatural bends not to its demands. Reassure your heart that if you -are so fortunate is- to be a habitant of the .realm bounded by the Christian religion the essence of your faith cannot be harmed. Faith's form, as also the form of .levelation, will be scientifically questioned -and repaired Faith's content examined and modified perchance, but its essence, that spiritual thing we call the divine grace, that precious consciousness of His rare for you, and that you arc living in the light of His face is too sacred to ever bend to scientific formula, and too mystical to be expressed in the cold accuracy of scientific terms There is. for instance, that stubborn thing called conscience to be dealt with. That stands out as a very Gibraltar of protest against the assertion that God does not care. In til die history of mortals conscience has been regarded as God's handwriting <>u the wall, telling man he ainust do the right and must not do the VTong. True, it docs not tell him what is x ght and what is wrong. That is a thing ?: fluctuating standard. Always diiler-e.tcc of opinion about that, because dependent upon the man's intelligence that owns the conscience. And any certain type of intelligence depends upon the age and civilisation in which he lives, circumstances, moral md religious ideals. Thus it is that the truest standard for the enlightenment of conscience is Christianity, t hristian ethics, springing from the Sermon on the Mount, is universally reeoge zed man's truest and highest standard enlightenment. But on what higher authority rests this '8 nse of "oughtneso" as to the doing of r :;ht and wrong? God demands it, we .K>y. The Creator has a right to impose terms upon His creation. We recognize o ;r obligation to Him. Yes, but because the moral sense rests upon an intuition of <jod's perfect, morality. We could not feel any obligation to God unless we felt Him worthy of that obligation. We believe Bim to embody the ideal and perfect moral it v. Km sense of obligation to us. then, is the sanction of our sense of obligation to Him. It is precious to read that "we love H im because He first loved us." It is as true that we are under obligation to Him because He is under obligation to us. Wc never speak of it that way. We seldom, if ever, think of it that way. The more exprpssive side of the divine nature occupies ovr thought God is so pleased to do for as. His blessings are so much more truly +V.A mnnifAuloliim nf Wia )nvp tlian nf nnv other characteristic. But the divine rationality expresses itself iu justice and morality as truly as in love. We are conscious ever of our demerit, insignificance, dependence, sec all divine favor to be an emanation of His love. The Creator must m ike provision for His created. The ne?e;;sity of Hi* own nature demands it. The divine Father, as well as the human father, tnu?t support His child. Conscience in us is i vidence of God's care. And it is eviele e that can never be explained away. So iong is humanity endures conscience will advocate right and denounce wrong, and just so long must man believe iu God s ca t. Does God care? Our very constitution thunders Yes. No valid discovery of <?od in the future can be expected to overthrow the overwhelming weigh', of this evidence. Ven'y, God hath not left Himself without a witness. We need not feu- any future discovery, however supposedly scientific, to offset this constitutional evidence. Whatever the evidence that God does not care we will match and outweigh it by this uc.irer, dearer, stronger evidbnee that He does c *e We have a Roland for their t)liver. 'Alien there are man's religious instincts to be accounted for. These are not. acquired. Neither civilization nor Chri tianity begot them. Wc are not arguing within a circle in referring to these. All I races, wince, yellow, red, brown, black, ig- j jaorant or enlightened, superstitious or i ?anc, cruet or kind, instinctively fee! that C5ol cares Moid you, it is not that He is propitious unto thein. Oftener that He is not. But the very fact of inventing all conceivable means to placate Him, some of them barbarous and revolting, indicates so strongly that it almost proves (Hod's interest in mortals. It is an evidence so universal that it cannot easily be explained away. Every fundamental need in humanity has its satisfaction existing somewhere. Hunger presupposes food. Thirst indicates the existence of water lor its quenching. Nakedness instinctively leads to the necessary coverings for its protection, even though beasts are slain, cotton, flax and wool grown to accommodate it. So with all the hungers of rational being, social, intellectual, moral, religious. They all are evidence of reality somewhere answering to them. None of these is more fundamental and imperative than the religious, that which demands (Hod's care. A most pathetic manifesting of this longing is idol worship. The heathen. God's ignorant children, like ours, demand object lessons that can .>e apprehended by the senses. To make God in their image is the nearest they can get to the sublime consciousness that they are made in His. Better, it seems to us. no God than a wooden one. A spirit of negation and indi Terence would save them so much useless sacrifice and cruel practices and barbarous acts of superstition by way of supp >-ed atonement. But whether better or worse atheism is not a constituent characteristic cf man. Strange, is it not, lhat it is never innate, but always an acqu.red accomplishment. always the sad result of culture else of sin. By nature, and that means by right, God is always the rightful occupant of the throne. But as our selfimportance grows, as we become consciously great in thought and achievement we become al.o great in arrogance, as is all science falsely so called, and the King is asked to vacate the throne, and God is 1- ? A? + 11 n ivorcp nilf. not even uuncu uiu *#i w?v . heartlessly banished. Oil, no. denial is not better than affirmation of God. however superstitiously that affirmation express itself. It is evidence of God's rare much needed to offset a threatened evidence that He has not interest in the human rare. Notice the two possible results to which these religious instincts lead. They are the receptacle into which Christianity fits. Without them the Gospel of .Tesus has no appeal. They cry out for God. Christianity introduces God to them. They want an assurance of God's care. Christianity assures them God cares for men to the uttermost, even enough to die for them. Creation thus prepares for revelation, and welcomes its beneficent approach." There is another result that shows the helpfulness of the religious instinct univer- j sal among men. It is the sorrow that possesses us when we are told it is all a delusion. The moment you convince man there is no God, or, if there is, that He is indifferent to man's welfare, that moment the face loses its complacency, the heart its assurance, the spirit its buoyancy, the mind its sense of satisfaction. "Doubt, disappointment, despair set in. Little to live for, nothing to die for is the cry that will not be comforted. A stolid indifference results that crushes out the heart's music, else wild despair that dethrones reason and inflicts self injury. Let me make a prophecy more dismal in its outlook than that one we are considering of a future discovery that God does not care, a prophecy that if ever that dark day dawns poor humanity in despait will in an hour fall back from all hopefulness, aspiration, joyousness, and by one despairing plunge reverse the life satisfactions of a thousaud years. Greatest of all these is the presence and worth of Christianity to be accounted for. Christianity is a very unyielding fact. It has become too deeply rooted in the earth to be waived aside and crowded out by any discovery, however authentic, that would invalidate its claims. It has been confronted for centuries with conflicting beliefs and scientific evidence against its integrity. The more it is opposed the more fearlessly it asserts itself, comforting the heart, lighting the dark mind, inspiring and reinforcing the spirit. A fact so helpful to humanity in every- conceivable necessity when sinning and needing forgiveness, when weak- and needing'sirength, even when suffering martyrdom at the stake, in the amphitheatre of wild beastin heathen lands, midst persecutions too numerous to be mentioned, but not too many to be valiantly borne, must be con- ; fronted with stronger, surer proof than is i at present conceivable that it relinquish its ho'd upon men's esteem. Yield rt must if it were even proven God did not care; for Christianity was rooted in God's esteem before it found a place in man's. God not only cared, but so cared that He loved, else Christianity, that superb blossom and fruitage of Christ's life and teaching and death, had never existed. Christianity not only embodies God's care, it enshrines Gcd's heart. And the surest thing about it all is that we who have yielded to God's word, caught the blessings of the revelation through Jesus, have all the evidence necessary for the reality of God and His care. What value is proof against God's interest in us, however scientific, to the man who lias seen the Lord, whose sins are forgiven, upon whom God is each day lifting up the light of His face? When once the spiritual life has entered the human heart, all cold, external evidence is ignored, and wisely. Tiien, again, the peace of mind that results from belief that God cares for us euough to ^ share His eternal home with us by and by I is evidence that will die bard, if it ever | die at all, before any external evidence I that this world is all, and that our brief, ! storm-toased existence is forever hushed in j death's long sleep. A man said to roc dur- | ing the weelc, "It pays to be religious, even though it be discovered at the last that I there is no eternal life." The idea was | that present satisfactions are worth the having, whatever the future may reveal. When the divine spark that we call the spiritual life once electrifies the heart, stimulating new loves, imparting new ideals, revealiftg God's love and Christ's mastership, all of which produce blessings of satisfaction and joy unspeakable, all external evidence to the contrary weighs little with that man's belief. And that is exactly what Christianity does. It imparts life. As Harnack puts it, '"It is eternal life in the midst of time, under the very eye, and in the very strength of God." As Jesus puts it. "I am come that ye might have life." Lire is a difficult * ? o"on fr* nvnVA tmng 10 argus ugaiusk, auu v. the fallacy of when men possess it and are reaping manifold blessings from its presence each day. This is whv we affirmed that God must be discovered through internal revelation, rather than through external investigation. The necessary approach, to be successful, must come from Him to us, instead of from us to Him. God must grapple with and subdue man before man can reason- ! ably expect to grapple with and conquer j God. Man's attitude is, Let me under- j stand and I will reverence; let me know i and I will love. God's attitude is, You I must reverence that you may understand; i you mu3t love that you may know. Man's i attitude is as yet in prospect, onlv the dim hope of the scientific few. God's attitude is daily being verified and proven to the world's sin sick, sorrow filled multitudes. All valid external discovery of the future will, I think, be along the line of ' and in harmony with revelation. Even j now there are scientific evid? nces in this direction. Immortality is being scientifi- I cally proven, not the fallacy of it. Much \ verification of Christianity's content and assertions may be expected from scientific research. God's universe is one. His creation unified and harmonious throughout, all true discovery must confirm this, that consistency result. Apostolic testimony is good enough and preferable to all prophetic scientific negation. We believe Peter knew whereof he spoke when he said "Cod cares." So much does He care that you can well afford to cast all your care upou Ilim, for He careth for you. Ifllllll IMIIBMI ? IB | WIT and HUMOR of THE DAY ??a?a???? Source of Joy. Sprinkle, sprinkle, little cart, What a source of joy thou art! How I lovt to see thj suray, Making puddles all the aay! ?Chicago Inter-Ocean. Borrowing. "Did be borrow any money from you?" "Borrow! How can I tell unless he returns it?" Victim of Habit. Patience?"I beat she bas been engaged eleven times!" Patrice?"I bate to see a girl get in a rut like that."?Yonkers Statesman. One of Them. "Is he a war expert?" "Well, bo's one of tbe IS 000,000 people who know just how the war in tbe Far East should be conducted."?Chicago Post. Icrnorance. Husband ? "Does Jack know Miss Peppertree?" Wife (calmly)?"I believe not, for be bas asked her to marry bim."?Town and Country. Natural Deduction. She?"Why do you think Miss Budds isn't intellectual when you haven't even met her?" He ? "Appearances are agains\ her. She's too pretty.."?Chicago News. A Little in It. "I've been thinking of starting In business for myself. I wonder if there's any money in poultry?" "Oh. yes. My wife found a dime in a chicken's gizzard once."?Philadelphia Public Ledger. Bound to Catch On. Inventor?"I should like to get yoa Interested in my improved fly paper." Capitalist?"What makes you tjfink It will be successful?" Inventor?"Because each sheet is got up to imitate a bald head."?Loudon Answers. An Inducement. Lady of the House?"But the book is perfectly worthless." Agent?"Certainly, ma'am. You see, it looks nice on the parlor table, yet your husband can't possib'y sell it for beer."?New York Journal. A Problem in Golf. Redd?"I see it stated tbat a man turns 112,WO spadefuls of earth in digging an acre." Greene ? "Well, how much ea-,th would he turn playing golf in going over the same territory?" ? Youkcrs Statesman. Arrived. Mrs. Cobwigger?"So your liusband thinks his position in society is now secure?" Mrs. Newrich?"Yes. He is so sure about i. that be has stopped hiriug a dress-suit and is having one made to order."?Judge. Always Out oi Season. "Who is this man who is telling us that he has found a way of exterminating mosquitoes?" "He's the same man who last July was exulting over the fact that he had found a cheap substitute for coal."? Washington Star. Proficiency, He was a cornet soloist, indeed, but by no means witless. "Musical proficiency." said he, "is a matter of give and take." "Eh*? Give and take what?" ' "Pains," he said, illustrating his nolion hv riinnincr a few scales.?P'.ick. Something Wrong. "What's the matterV" demanded the slightly fuddled man. a* he got aboard the ear, "ain't this the car 1 want?" "What?" snapped the conductor. "How do I know?" "O, you must a* knowd it or you wouldn't 'a* stoppcu ..a' let me ketch yer."?Philadelphia Tress. Counterfeiter. Finally, they broke in upou the mys- J terious man. "You matte counterfeit money!" tliey , exclaimed. giving voice at once to their worst suspicions. "No, counterfeit wealth." replied the man, and showed tlicm, in proof of his assertion, that Lis only implement was a ticker.?Puck. Same Thing. "Say. give me a synonym for 'expert,* will you?" said the court reporter, nib- J bling his pen. "What arc you writing about?" asked the other. "Expert testimony." "Oil, the word 'conflicting' amounts to the same thing." - Philadelphia Press. An attempt lias been made at Durango, Mexico, to make soap from oil extracted from castor beans, but the experiment was a failure. Only 6330 deaths from cholera in the Turkish Empire were reported for the year ended February 22 last, but experts oelleve the real number was three times as large. If the ocean were dried up, all the water passing away as vapor, the amount of salt remaining would be enough to cover 5,000.000 souare miles with a layer one mile thick. Two Englishmen are said to have invented a kind of wheel w lich makes it possible to transport troops in the African deserts on automobiles at the rate of three or four miles an hour. After an exhaustive iuspoction of electric railways throughout Europe and the United States, a committee ap| pointed by the Swedish Government J recommended that the State railways j abandon sreain ior eiecincuy as u ujvtive power. Radium constantly generates beat, and Wieu Las now shown that it may constantly generate electricity. It gives oft both positive and negative electrons, and the former?several hundred times as large as-the latter?may be held back by a sieve of glass or any other of a variety of substances. In an Insurance office where it wa.? formerly necessary for a fore of clerks to copy names on reference cards to be filed in various places, one clerk now writes the name ou a single card with metallic ink. clamps it in a bolder with a number of blank cirds. and flashes an X-ray through the pack. The Mexican Railroad has erected a monument, with suitable inscription. ' marking the point where the globe is crossed by the Tropic of Cancer. The ! monument is of wood twelve feet high j and twenty-four feet long. On the top there are two arms pointing out the two zones. It is situated 01. a desert ground a few miles south of Catorec. The heat lost by radiation from bare pipes containing steam at 100 pounds pressure has been estimated by Professor S. P. Thompson to be about two tons of coal a year for each ten square feet of pipe surface. Another experiment has found that eighty-eight per j cent, of the .'oss is prevented b.v the ! best mica covering, but that asbestos covering is much inferior to mica, and I cements are less effective still. BEES IN BEDROOM. Nebraska Man Finds the Little Workers Good Company. Just inside his bedroom window, where their humming soothes him to slumber at night and rouses tim to the wakeful duties of the day. J. H. Sears has placed his hive of bees. He has had them there for eighteen months^ and finds them plcasaut and cornpunionable. This location fo:- a bee hive is considered one of the most ur.ic.ne in the anual3 of the apiarist, yet from the storehouse in has there established he has taken away more than fortyfive pounds of honey, netting about $7.r>0. While visiting in the country in the summer of 1902. a daughter of Mr. Sears found a swarm of bees in a hedge. They seemed io belong to no one, and when she returned home she informed her father. The latter used to raise bees <.n the farm, and at once saw the possibilities of the "find" his daughter had made. At tte same time, he did not take into consideration the fact that he had no adequate place to keep them when Le had brought them home. When ne had obtained the swarm, captured in a cracker box, he discovered that his back yard was far too small to accommodate his pets. The only possible place for them was in the bedroom where he slept. Mr. Sears leaves his window slightly open to allow the bees entrance and egress at will. An up-to-date hive is placed for their occupancy, with nil the comforts of the out-of-door apartments, with the addition of hard coal heat in the winter. The bees have already begun to sally forth into the country in search of I the early blos?oms, and at almost any hour the sill of one of the windows of the house at 1329 M street may be J 4-1 -11 ? -J ?.t*K /IuhL- I seen paniaiiy cuvereu nau iuc ucun yellow insects, crawling in or out of the room where is their hive.?Lincoln (Xeb.) Mar. A Loan Sleep. An agricultural laborer in Russia is reported to have slept for seven months. He "dropped off" while at work in the fields, was carried borne and remained slumbering for the period mentioned, watched from time to time by physicians. Curiously enough, he lost so little flesh that no attempt was made to feed him. When he awoke he was as weak as an infant, but after a fortnight's nursing he was strong enough to return to his work. Low Wages For Clerks. The Clerks' Union, of Melbourne, Australia, has asked the Secretary of State to have legislation introduced fixing the hours of employment and establishing a minimum wage for clerks. The spokesman of the union said that Australia was the worst country in the world for retail clerks, that wages did not exceed from $4 to a week and many of the girl clerks worked for as "ttie as $1.25 a week. / 'SCKH Mouasellne Sauce. Put yolks of three eggs in a bowl; add the juice of one lemon; add a little salt and pepper; place the bowl in a pan of hot water; stir constantly until it thickens; add one tablespoonful of butter, melted a little at a time; remore from the fire and add three tablespoonfuls of cream, whipped. Scallop of Mutton. Take the scraps of cold mutton and cut in small pieces; put a layer of the meat in a baking dish, then a layer of stewed tomato, then a layer of bread crumbs; sprinkle with salt, pepper and butter; then put over another layer of meat, tomatoes; salt and pepper to season; spread over the top buttered crumbs. Lrmon P adding. Put In a double boiler the grated rind and juice of two lemons, one cupful of water, one cupful of sugar, and the yolks of four eggs; stir until scalding hot; then add one-third of a box. of gelatine that has been soaking in one-third cupful of cold water; stir until gelatine has dissolved; remove from the fire, let cool; when cold add one cupful of cream, whipped stiff; turn into a mold and stand on ice. Lobater Stew. Heat two tablespoonfuls of butter In a small pan; then add two tablespoonfuls of four; stir this until smooth; take the pan off the fire; add gradually one cup of water in which the lobster was boiled and half a cupful of milk; put over the fire and stir until boiling; then ,add the lobster meat, cut in large pieces; when thoroughly heated remove from the fire and add one teaspoonful of lemon juice; serve hot Carried Bice. Wash in several waters one cupful of rice; put it into two quarts of boiling water; add one teaspoonful of salt; when the rice is nearly tender pour it into a strainer; put over the fire one cupful of stock; add to it two teaspoonfuls of curry powder rubbed smooth in a little cold water; then add the rice to this and cook until tender; serve in the centre of a platter; pour the broth over it, also the juice of. half a lemon; then sprinkle over chopped parsley. Buttermilk Bread. For three good sized loaves use one quart of sour buttermilk, one generous tablespoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful cf butter, one teaspoonful of soda and two and three-quarter quarts of flour. Heat the buttermilk to the boiling point, stirring it often to prevent curdling. Put the sugar in a large bowl and porr the hot milk on it. Now gradually sift into this mixture a quart of flour, stirring all the while. Beat well; then cover and 1 t it stand In a rm room over night. In the morning dissolve the soda in three tablespoonfuls of water, and add it to the batter, together with tM> salt and butter, melted. Beat thoroughly; then gradually beat in the remainder of the flour, reserving, however, half a cup'nl for kneading. Sprinkle the board with flour, a.d, turning the dough upon it, knead for fifteen or twenty minu.es. Divide into three parts, and shape into loaves. Place in buttered pars, and put into the oven immediately, lialie for one hour in a hot oven. aeaa?ass>a?^aias*fc3 til nts for, the Housekeeper. Try serving whipped cream with chocolate layer cake as a desert. Very aour apples used in a sauce or In pies take on a spicy flavor if a few chopped dates are added. A stick of cinnamon scalded ih the milk to be used in chocolate or cocoa improves the flavor for some persons. One yeast cake Ij equal to one teacupful of yeast, a measurement often used in the older, much prized cook hrtnlra A cucumber sliced into tomato soup while boiling will add a delicious flavor. It should he 'skimmed out just before serving. Two or three minced pimolis are added by one cook to her creamed potatoes just before they are served, and the result is sightly as well as toothsome. A tablespoonful of powdered sugar, stirred into a bottle of cream will put off the souring process for at least twenty-four hours, provided the cream is kept near the ice. When you happen to have a few ta-blespoonfuls of jam or jelly left over, try what a delicious addition it makes I to baked apples, dropping a teaspoonful into the core of each apple before they go in the oven. Eggs Benedict, as they are called at the hotels, comprise halves of toasted English muffins, on each of which is placed a thin slice of broiled ham and on that a poached egg. Over the whole is turned Hol'anduise s?uce. GRAY THE FAVORITE ] Delaware Democrats Endorse Him For I President Over His Protest I t DEUfiATES INSTRUCTED FOI KIN The Action Taken After One of the Stormiest Conventions Ever Held / In the State?No Attention Paid to ; Judge Cray's Letter Asking That No Instructions Be Given. - k Dover, Del., Special.?Contrary ttTthe^ " expressed wish of Judge George Gray, the Delaware Democratic State convention by a unanimous vote Instructed Its delegates to the St. Louis national convention to present the name of Judge Gray to the convention as the choice of the Delaware Democracy for President and to work for his nomination. This action was taken after one*?^ of the most stormy conventions ever held in the State. The leader of the opposition to the Gray resolution was former United States Senator Richard R. Kenney who was opposed to the word "Instruct." He onerea a resolution that the delegates be "requested" to place Judge Gray's name before the national convention. The fight between the Gray and the aatl-Gray faction became so bitter _ that the former paid no attention tto Judge Gray's letter In which he aq^ed that the delegates be not instructed. They fought to defeat Kenney, and would not listen to anything that his supporters offered. Judge Gray's letter was written to David T. Marvel, of Wilmington. In It Judge Gray expressed his great anxiety for harmony In the Democratic party for harmony in the Democratic party this year and held that the national convention should be left free to select as candidate for President the strongest and most available man. He, therefore, requested that the delegates selected to represet^O^l^M. ware Democrats at St. Louis fx not bound by instructions, but be left free . to act as the best Interest of the Democratic party seemed to require. Judge Gray knew nothinarof the action of the convention untn informed by reporters tonight In reply to a question as to whether the action of the convention would change his attitude he added: "I have not changed my .attitude at all. I am not a candidate for President. The instructions were against my expressed wishes." Colorado Commends Bryan. Pueblo, Special.?The Democrats of Colorado named an uninstructed delegation to the national convention at St. Louis. The adherents of Wm. R. Hearst captured the caucus held by the second 1 district delegates, but when they at- j tempted in the convention to pass a I resolution instructing for Hearst it was I defeated by a vote of 379 to 108. The I platform endorses the Kansas City I platform of 1900, declares for law and^ I order, but condemns Governor Pea body for deporting men from their homes. Strong resolution commending Wm. J. Bryan was adopted. Hearst Carries Hawaii; Honolulu, By Cable.?The territorial Democratic convention, after a long discussion, has instructed the Hawaiian delegation to the national convention at St. Louis to vote for Congressman W. R. Hearst for President The veto was nearly unanimous. American Jockey Wins. Vienna, By Cable?The America! Jockey, G. Stern, won the Austrian ? derby on Conamore, owned by Count Louis Trauttmansdorff. Atlanta Plumbers' Strike. Atlanta, Special?The union journeymen plumbers of Atlanta went on 1 i strike Tuesday. They ask for an in- y crease of pay from $3.50 to $4 per day, V and a decrease of hours from nine to eight. Unless the strike is declared off within a short time, it will affect work on the new union passenger station and ether large buildings now in course of construction. Cotton Mills 8old. Barnesville, Ga., Special.?The bif cotton mill of the Barnesville Manufacturing Company was sold at public sale here by J. W. Oabanias, trustee tor the bondholders. It was bid in by Capt. Henry Blum, of Savannah, for the bondholders at $50,000. The capital stock amounts to $150,000. The bondholders get the mill with their first, mortgage bonds, aggregating $75,000, while the stockholders and other creditors get nothing. The mill coet $215,000, but has not been operated since 1901. The bondholders will probably organize a new company for disposing of the property. Mayo War Ended. Mexico City, Special.?President D?az has issued a formal decree announcing the end of the Maya war in the Yucatan peninsula, after four years' duration. The war cost many lives, as the climate is unhealthy for troops from the table lands. Many of the Mayas are now peacefully at work on planta^""^ tions, and have settled down to a civilized course of life. The President's decree annuls the decrees of war and re-establishes civil authority In the territory of Quintana Poo.