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P A HELPFUL SERMON. | Dr. Talmage Encourages People Who are in Trouble. ?>ir i-> i re>ciur? r\ tr ft r A ft/t 11 V I nc DLCOJ[l\U v^r n ! nmiui. ; What We are Taught by the Triumph of Jonathan Over the Philistines. Inspiration in Persecution and New Life in Adversity. This discourse of Dr. Talmage is full of encouragement for those who know not which wav to turn Decause 01 accum: mulated misfortunes; text, I Samuel j xiv, 4, "There was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other - - side." The cruel army of the Philistines must be taken and scattered. There is just one man accompanied by his bodyguard to do that thing. Jonathan is the hero of the scene. I know that David cracked the skull of the giant with a few pebbles well slung, and that 300 Gideonites scattered 10,000 Amaiekites by the crash of broken crockery, but here is a more wonderful conflict. Yonder are the Philistines on the rocks. Here is Jonathan with his bodyguard in the valley. On the one side is a rock called Bozez; on the other side is a rock called Seneh. These two were as famous in olden times as in modern times are Plymouth Rock and Gibral-, tar. Thev were Drecmitous. unscalable and sharp. Between th^e two rocks Jonathan must make his ascent. The day comes for the scaling of the height. Jonathan on his hands and feet begins the ascent. "With strain and slip and bruise, I suppose, but still on and up. first goes Jonathan, and then goes his bodyguard. Bozez on one side, Seneh on the other. After a sharp tug and push and clinging I see the head of Jonathan above the hole in the moun Ana tnere is a. uuaueuge; auu ** fight, and a supernatural consternation. These two men, Jonathan and his bodyguard, drive back and drive down the Philistines over the rocks and open a campaign which demolishes the enemies of Israel. I suppose that the overhanging and overshadowing rocks on either side did not balk or dishearten Jonathan or his bodyguard, but only roused aL*> filled them with enthusiasm as they wexit up. "There was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side." My friends, you have been or are now, some of you in this crisis of the text. If a man meets one trouble, he can go through with it. He gathers all his energies, concentrates them on one I point and in the strength of God or J>y his own natural determination goes through it. But the man -who has trouble to the right of him and trouble to the left of him is to be pitied. Did either trouble come alone, he might endnre it. hut two troubles, two disasters. ^ 7 % / two overshadowing misfortunes, are IBozez and Seneh. God pity him. "There is a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side." In this crisis of the text is that man whose fortune and health fail him at the same time. Nine-tenths of all our merchants capsize in business before " they come to 45 years of age. There is some collision in commercial circles, and they stop payment. It seems as if yvvPAwr? TV 71 4- 1^15 T> O YY*l d f\Y\ f.1*1 A c v ci j JLUcLJJL 1uu.DU ?SUU iu^ jauuiv vu vmv back of a note before be learns* what a fool a man is who risks all bis own property on tbe prospect tbat some man will tell tbe truth. It seems as if a man must have a large amount of unsalable goods on bis own sbelf before be learns bow mucb easier it is to buy than to sell. It seems as if every man must be completely burned out before be learns tbe importance of always keeping fully insured. It seems as if every man must be wrecked in a finan ciai tempest before He learns to Keep things snug in case of a sudden euroclydon. "When the calamity does come, it is awful. The man goes home in despair, and he tells his family, "We'll have to go to the poorhouse." He takes a dolorous view of everything. It seems as if he never could rise. But_ a little time passes, and he says: "Why, i am not so badly off after all. I have my v family left." Before the Lord turned Adam out of paradise he gave him Eve so that when he lost paradise he could stand it. Permit one who has never read but a few novels in all his life, and who has not a great deal of romance in his composition, to say that if when a man's fortunes fail he has a good wife? a good ^ * ? i . .it 1 UHnstian wile?ne ougnt not to ce aespondent. "Oh," you say, "that only increases the embarrassment, since you ' " have her also to take care of." You are an ingrate, for the woman as often supports the man as the man supports the woman. The man may bring all the dollars, but the woman generally brings the courage and the faith in God. Well, this man of whom I am speaking looks around, and he finds his family is left, and he rallies, and the light comes to his eyes, and the smile to his face, and the courage to his heart. In hrn wars Tift is finite over it. He makes his financLl calamity the first chapter in a new era of prosperity. He met that one trouble?conquered it. He sat down for a little while under the grim shadow of the rock Bozez, yet he soon rose and began like Jonathan to climb. But how often is it that physical ailment comes with financial embarrassment! When the fortune failed, it broke the man's spirit. His nerves were shattered. His brain was stunned. I can show you hundreds of men ill UILL VJICiCS W UU5C Afi tuut auu uvuioi failed at the same time. They came prematurely to the staff. Their hand trembled with incipient paralysis. They never saw a well day since the hour when they called their creditors together for a compromise. If such meu are impatient and peculiar and irritable excuse them. They had two troubles, either one of which they could have met successful. If when the health went the fortune had been retained, it would not have been so bad. The man could have bought the very best medi% 1 ** ti* r .1 i.1. . cai advice, ana ne couia nave naa tne very best attendance and long lines of carriages would have stopped at the front door to inquire as to his welfare. But poverty on the one side and sickness on the other are l>ozcz and Seneh, and they interlock their shadows and drop them upon the poor man's way. God help him! "There is a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side."' "Now, what is such a man to do? In the name of almighty God, i will tell him what to do. Do as Jonathan did?climb; climb up into the sunlight of God's favor and consolation. I can go through the churches and show you men who lost fortune and health at the same time, and yet who sing all day and dream of hearen all night. If you have any idea that sound digestion, and steadv nerves, and clear eyesight, and good hearing, and plenty of friends are necessary to make a man luippy. / - - | mi n " " 1 you have miscalculated. I suppose that ! these overhanging rooks only made j Jonathan scramble the harder and the j faster to get up and out into the sun- j light, and this combined shadow of in- > valid ism and financial embarrassment I has often sent a man up the quicker j into the sunlight of God's iavor and ! the noonday of his glorious promises. It is a difficult thing for a man to : feel his dependence upon God when lie j has $10,00U in the bank, and $50.0UU I in crovernment securities, and a block i - - - - , I of stores and three ships. "\\ ell. tne ! man says to himself, '"it is silly for me ! to pray. :Give me this day ray daily bread," when my pantry is full and the j canals from the west are crowded with breadstuff* destined for my store- j houses." Oh, my friends, if the com- j bined misfortunes and disasters of life j have made you climb up into the arms j of a sympathetic and compassionate | God. through all eternity you will bless j him that in this world ''there was a ; sharp rock on the one side and a sharp j rock 011 the other side. "' o I Again, that man is m the crisi? 01 the text who has home troubles and outside persecution at the same time. The world treats a man well just as long as it pays to treat him well. As long as it can manufacture success out of his bone and brain and muscle it favors him. The world fattens the horse it wants to drive. But let a man see it his duty to cross the track of the world then every bush is full of horns and tusks thrust at him. They will belittle him. They will caricature him. TKov will call his conerosity self ax grandizement and his piety sanctimoniousness. The very worst persecution will sometimes come upon him from those who profess to be Christians. John Milton?great and good John Milton?so far forgot himself as to pray in so many words that his enemies might be eternally thrown down into the darkest and deepest gulf of hell, and be the undermost and most dejected, and the lowest down vassals of pe) dition. And Martin Luther so far forgot himself as to say in regard to his theological opponents, "Put them in whatever sauce you please, roasted or fried ' 1 1 - ? ? J ? T or Daicea or stewea or uuueu ur jiasucu, they are nothing but asses!'' Ah, my friends, if John Milton or Martin Luther could come down to such scurrility, what may you not expect from less elevated opponents? Now, sometimes the world takes after them, the newspapers take after them, public opinion takes after them, and the unfortunate man is lied about until all the dictionary of Billingsgate is exhausted on him. You often see a man whom you know to be good and pure and honest set uoon by the world and ' ? i r i* :j.:? _l:I. mauiea Dy wnoie commumues, wujic vicious men take on a supercilious air in condemnation of him, as though Lord Jeffreys should write an essay on gentleness or Henry VIII talk about purity or King Herod take to blessing little childrn. 2sow a certain amount of persecution, rouses a man's defiance, stirs his blood for magnificent battle and makes him 50 times more a man than he would have been without the persecution. So it was with the great reformer when he said, "I will not be put down; I will be heard." And so it was with Millard, the preacher, in the time of Louis XI. When Louis XI sent word to him that unless he stopped preaching in that style he would throw him into the river, he re plied, "Tell the king that I will reach heaven sooner by water then he will reach it by fast horses." A certain amount of persecution is a tonic and inspiration, but too much of it, and too long continued becomes the, rock Bozez throwing a dark shadow over a man's life. What is he to do then? Go home, you say. Good advice, that. That is just the place for a man to go when the world abuses him. Go home. Blessed be God for <vnr nrnof. i>nr? fivmnatTlAtlft homes! Bnt there is many a man who has the reputation of having a home when he has none. Through unthinkingness or precipitation there are many matches made that ought never to have been made. An officiating priest cannot alone unite a couple. The Lord Almighty must proclaim banns. There are many homes in which there is no sympathy and no happiness and no good cheer. The clamor of the battle may not have ? ? 1 . 1 1 __ x n _ J 1 x Deenneara outsiae, Dut uroa Knows, notwithstanding all the playing of the wedding march, and all the odor of the orange blossoms, and the benediction of the officiating pastor, there has been no marriage. So sometimes* men have awakened to find on one side of them the rock cf persecution and on the other side of them the rock of domestic infelicity. What shall -such a one do? Do as Jonathan did?climb. Get up the heights of God's consolation, from which you may look down in triumph upon outside persecution and home trouble. While good and great Iohn Wesley was being silenced by the magistrates and having his name written on board fences of London in doggerel, at that very time his wife was making him as miserable as she could?acting as though she were possessed by the devil, as I suppose she was, never doing him a kindness until the day she ran away, so that he wrote in his diary these words: "I did not forsake her. I have not dismissed her. I will not recall her." Planting one foot upon outside persecution and the other foot on home trouble, John "Wesley climbed up into the heights of Christian joy, and after preaching 40,000 sermons and traveling 270,000 miles reached the heights of heaven, though in this world he had it hard enough?;'a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp reek on the other." Again, that woman stands in the crisis of the text who has bereavement and'a straggle for a livelihood at the' same time. Without mentioning names, I speak from observation. Ah, it is a hard thing for a woman to make an honest living, even when her heart is not troubled, and she has a fair check, and the magnetism of an exquisite presence. But now the husband or the farther is dead. The expenses of the obsequies have absorbed all that was left in the savings bank, and, wan and wasted with weeping and watching, she goes forth?a grave, a hearse, a coffin tiAi- Prir lior AVi>JtPTlfr> MWXX14VA A4.V* wv -.V* and the existence of lier children. When I see such a battle as that open, I shudder at the ghastliness of the spectacle. Men sit with embroidered slippers and write heartless essays about women's wages, but that question is made up of tears and bk-oa. and there is more blood than tears. Oh. give woman fxee access to all the realms where she can get a livelihood, from the telegraph office to the pulpit! Let men's wages be cut down before hers are cut down. Men have iron in their souls and can stand it. Make the way free to her of the broken heart. May God put into my hand the cold, bitter cup of privation, and give me nothing but a windowless hut for shelter for many years rather than that after I am j dead there should go out from my home | into the pitiless world a woman's nrm to fi<rht the Gettysburg, the Austerlitz. j the Waterloo of life for bread! And yet how many women there are seated bctw en the rock of bereavement on the one side and the rock of dcstitui -:'V; \ . . : i I . <-._ , . : 1 * , i " I OiV' i n-jsfrtmm+amrnmZZiZL-u** -+** iUJ tiyrr on the other: Bozez 2.1:6. Hciich j interlocking their shadows and dropping 1 them upon her miserable way. "There i is a sharp rock 011 the one side and a \ sharp rock on the otlier side." What are such to do? Somehow iet ! them climb up into the heights of the j glorious promise: "Leave thy father- j less children. T will preserve them i alive and let thy widows trust in me." Or get up into the heights of that other glorious promise, "The Lord preserveth the stranger and relieveth the widow j and the fatherless." 0 ye sewing wo- j men cn starving wages! O ye widows j turned out from the once beautiful j home! 0 ye female teachers kept on niggardly stipend! 0 ye despairing women seeking in vain for work wanderin:; along the docks and thinking to throw yourselves into the river last eight! 0 ye women of weak nerves, and aching sides, and short breath. J T--? i? i / ?/! unu. oroueu uciuu ^'.'u uccu svuicwui^ i more than human sympathy. You need i the sympathy of God. Climb up into i his arms. He knows it all, and he j loves you more than father or mother j or husbaud ever could or ever did. and i instead of sitting down, wringing your j hands in despair, you had better begin to climb. There are heights of consolation for you, though now "there is a sharp rock on one side and a sharp rock on the other side/' Again, that man is in the crisis of the text who has a wasted life on the one side and an unilluminated eternity on the other. Though a man may all his li::c have cultured deliberation and self poisQ. if lie gets into that position all his'self possession is gone. There are all the wrong thoughts of his exis tence, all the wrong deeds, ali the wrong words.?strata above strata, granitic, ponderous, overshadowing. That rock I call Bozez. On the other side are all the retributions of the future, the thrones of judgment, the eternal ages, angry with his long defiance. That rock I call Scneh. Between these two rocks 10,000 times 10,000have perished. O man immortal, man redeemed, man blood bought, climb up out of those shadows! Climb up by the way of the cross. Have your wasted life forgiven. Have your eternal life secured. This lirm-r met tiVr* nn?> Innk t.n mst and see what it has been, and take one look to the future and see what itjthreatens to be. You can afford to lose your health you can afford to lose your property, you can afford to lose your reputation, but you cannot afford to lose your soul. That bright, gleaming, glorious, precious, eternal possession you must carry aloft in the day when the earth burns up and the heavens burst. Yo-i see from my subject that when a man gets into the safety and peace of the gospel he does not demean himself. There is nothing in religion that leads to meanness or unmanliness. The gospel of Jesus Christ only asks you to climb as Jonathan did?climb toward God, climb toward heaven, climb into the sunshine of God-s favor. To become a Christian is not to go meanly down. It i is to come gloriously up?up into the communion of saints, up into the ; peace that passeth all understanding, | up into the companionship of angels. He lives upward: he dies upward. Oh, then accept the wholesale invitation which I make this day to all the people! Come up from between your invalidism and financial embarrassments. Come up from between your bereavements and your destitution. Come up from between a wasted life and an unillumined eternity. Like .Tohnathan. climb ur> with all ' vour might instead of sitting down to wring your hands in the shadow, and in the darkness?"a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side." TO MUSTEE. THEM OUT. Many of the Volunteer Troops to Be Relieved. Late Wednesday night President McKiniey announced his decision to muster out of the service from 75,000 to 100,000 of the volunteers. Those to be discharged will include all the branches of the service, infantry, artillery and cavalry. From a prominent official of the administration it is understood to be the desires of the President to ascertain the wishes of the volunteer troops themselves as to remaining in the service. One or two organizations have already indicated a riAcirp tn Iasva t.hp service as soon .is the government can reasonably do without them. They are composed largely of business and working men. whose private interests are suffering by reason of their absence from home. So far as the interests of the government will permit, it is believed that the President, in the mustering out of the volunteers, will accommodate himself to the desires of the men. It may be some time before the organizations to be mustered out will be designated, but tbe reduction in the volunteer force will be made as soon as practicable. Imprisonment for Life. The war department received the following: Poncc, August 15. Adjutant Gen., Washington. Replying to your cablegram. Private Laduke was convicted by a court martial for killing Private Stafford; sentenced to life imbrisonment. the penitentiary at Leavcnsworth, Kan., was designated. He is under guard awaiting transportation. (Signeq) Gilmorc, Big. Gen. Alexander Laduke was a member of Company I Second Wisconsin volun- . tecrs. Stafford was a member oi tJie Thirteenth iufantry, regular army. It is eroneously stated in a dispatch from Marinett, Wis., that Laduke had been courtmartialed and shot at Ponce. HP xswi"kla <1 + Co-n+iotm JLlV/i'.Uiw C*V The conditions at Santiago arc causing a great deal of uneasiness and it is believed that more troops will be ordered there very soon. Already orders bptrr: - i^^d directing the Fifth regular infantry, now at Tampa, to proceed at once to Sautiago. Inquiries have been made as to the condition of the immune regiments, which have not yet sailed, with a view of sending them to Santiago. The government intends to take vigorous measures to preserve the peace and keep order in Santiago and the territory under United States. control. As a further .step in this direction, the President Thursday directed that the Twenty-third Kansas regiment (colored) be dispatched to Santiago to ?;orm part of the army of occupation of Cuba. G-ave His Life for Another. Guard Chas. X. Caste of the life saving station on Sullivan's Island. Charleston, was drowned Friday afternoon while attempting to save young Edward Schachte, who had ventured out beyond his depth. Schachte *s cries for help were heard at the station" and Caste was the first man to respond. He swam out to the boy and was bringing mm lil SllOre Wiieu aeiiuu pruaumauij by cramps and went down. Schachte was saved by the other men from tlie station. Caste's body was not recovered. \ \ \ V. OTJE VICTORIOUS WAESEIPS. 1 A Grand Demonstration in New York I Harbor Saturday. New York and thu nation fitly Satur- ! dty signalized their appreciation of the j victorious fleet. An imposing naval pageant of warships has been reviewed : in the harbor of the largest city in the j country with acclamations of delight j and admiration and an ovation from i the shore, and from the great flotillas of all sorts of craft on the water was significantly given to the returning heroes. Long before sunrise a gun was fired from Castle William, on Governor's Island. The people were astir, and crowds were hurrying to the river to be early on the scene. The New York and New .Jersey shores were crowded. The river and bay were literally alive with craft, and the craft alive with people all cheering and good natured. An impressive scene was when the flags were raised on the forts and the flagship. As tlie starry banners were raised aiott the bands at the forts and on the flagships played the Star Spangled Banner and the shores rang with patriotic cheers. There was very little friction in carrying out the programme, and 110 more delay than was expected. The citizens committee left the foot of Cortland street on the steamer Glenn Island and proceeded down the bay followed by a Innrr r?f nil sorts nrul dfiSftrm tion of craft. At Tompkinsville. the mayor and committee of 10 debarked and boarded the policc boat. The patrol then headed for the flagship with its colors flying and the bands playing. The Statcn Island shores were literally lined with people and they all joined in a general acclamation with the people on the myriads of boats. The welcoming ceremonies were short but impressive. The ceremonies over, amid the hoarse shrieking of the steam whistles and hosannas of the throngs on shore and water, the mayor and the committee returned to the Glen Island. Then came the event of the day. There was considerable wigwagging on the battleships and policc boats v.hich headed the line. Then fame the Glen Island and then the battieships began to slowly move up the bay. There was salutes from cannon and cheers from people and the toots from thousands of whistles made an indescribable din. Soon the monster pageant was in line. First came Admiral Sampson's flagship, New York, then Admiral Schley's flagship, the Brooklyn, then the Massachusetts, Oregon, Iowa, Indiana and Texas and after them, moving in a mass, all sizes and descriptions with flags waving and people cheering. mi i . . > if :1 1__ 1 I inc oacwesnips moveu siowiy u"u majestically. As Governor's island was passed there was a tremendous report from the guns that did so much execution at Guantanamo and Santiago. The people on shore and afloat went wild. They yelled and screamed, waved flags and jumped up and down in patriotic furor, and so it was all the way up to Grants tomb, where there was a iinal demonstration of patriotic fervor, such as New York has never witnessed before. The Pageant was viewed and cheered by a hundred thousand people. ATALE OF HOREOR. i'ne isoaies 01 jjeaa spaniaras uemg Burned. A dispatch from Santiago says the bodies of dead Spaniards continue to be cremated. Over 700 have been burned so far. Wednesday 70 were to be burned. Over two rails a dozen bodies are stretched, across them another dozen, and then about 30 corpse are stacked in an immense funeral pile 10 high. The pile is then saturated with kerosene and the torch applied. A fail of rain put out the fire, causing the bodies to be only half burned. Around the pile lay 52 coffins containing corpses in a state of decomposition. Several naked bodies were strewn upon the ground in a state of putrefaction. Altogether about 70 unburied and unconsumed bodies lay around. ' The stench was terrible. This happened at a cenipt/>rv witliin rtitv limits. The authorities and the cemetery officials say it is impossible to get men to work at the cremation. Wages of $1 a day prove no inducement to the natives to work at this gruesome toil. The unconsumed bodies will be left upon the earth until Thursday, when fine weather may help the work of cremation. These TO corpses represent two days' dead' from the Spanish camp. The danger to the population from the stench, the presence of the buzzards, vultures and flies is incalculable. Very Poor Soldiers. Gen. Sliafter has ordered the Second Regiment of Immunes out of the city of Santiago. The regiment had been placed there as a garrison, to preserve order and protect property. There has been firing of arms inside of the town by members of this regiment without orders. So far as known, some of the men have indulged in'liquor until they n i i have verged upon acts or license ana disorder. The inhabitants in some quarters have alleged loss of property by force and intimidation, and there has grown up a feeling of uneasiness concerning them, if not of alarm. Gen Shafter has, therefore, ordered this regiment into the hills, where discipline can be more severely maintained. In place of the Second volunteer immune regiment, Gen. Shafter has ordered into the city the Eighth Illinois volunteer regiment of colored troops, in whose sobriety and discipline he has confidence, and of whose sturdy enforcement of order no doubt is felt by those iu command Included the Whole Archipelago. The Hong Kong correspondent of the London Daily Mail says: "The terms of capitulation of Manila agreed upon Saturday between Gen. Jaudemes and Gen. Merritt includes the cession of the Philippine archipelago to the United States. An American naval officer "Manila nn tTir* ff,*\ fir A ?11U til JL I > iivm A'AWUAIW V** WAV tells mc that the Americans practically walked into Manila. The operations, lie says, were confined to the Malate side of the city, where the Spaniards had a fort and two lines of trenches. The troops waded through the Malate river and walked up the beach as though going to lunch, meeting practically no opposition. I learn that when (jleu. Merritt went ashore, to receive the capitulation of Manila, he experienced some difficulty in finding Gen Jaudemes, who ultimately was found in a church among crowds of women and children. ? 1 - 3 Courtesies Jtxcnangeu. The American cruiser New Orleans attempted to cuter the harbor of San Juan de Porto Rico under a flag of truce, "with a notification of the signing of the brotocol. but was unable to do so on account of the sunken wreck at the entrance. Her captain went ashore in a small boat and was graciously received by Capt. Gen. Machias. who accepted an invitation on board the cruiser. ? <fo??iriTwn.i.ii.iimi nf- i- agxJM?i?to? SAVAL PROMOTIONS. I | Names of the Officers Who Have Been j Rewarded. 1'or some unknown reason the admin j istration decided not to adhere to its formerly expressed announcement that tlie promotions in the navy would be made as the result of recommendations by a board whose duty it should be to review the achievements of naval officers throughout the Spanish war. and Friday the navy department made public a list of promotions in the north Atlantic fleet, previous publications having been inaccurate 111 some particulars. There are ad interim commissions and hold until the senate confirms or rejects them. They take date Aug. ]0th, ISfS, and in each case are for eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle: Commodore \V. T. Sampson, advanced eight numbers and appointed a rear admiral from August, 189S, for eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle. Takes rank next after Hear Admiral John A Howell. Commodore Winfield S. Schley, advanced six numbers and appointed a rear admiral from same date and for same reasons. Takes ranks next after Rear W. T. Sampson. Capt. John Philip, advanced five numbers and appointed a commodore. Capt. Francis J. Higginson, advanced three numbers. Capt. Robley- D. Evans, advanced five numbers. Capt. Henry C. Haylor, advanced five numbers. Capt. Francis A. Cook, advanced five numbers. Capt. Charles E. Clark, advanced six numbers. Capt. French E. Chadwick. advanced five numbers. Lieut. Com. Raymond P. Rodgers, advanced five numbers. Lieut. Com. Seaton Schroder, advanced three numbers. Lieut. Com. Richard AVainwricht, ad vanced ten numbers. Lieut. Com. John A. llodgers advanced five numbers. Lieut. Com. James K. Cogswell, advanced five numbers. Lieut. Com. WiHiam P. Potter, advanced five numbers. . Lieut. Com. Giles B. Harber, advanced five numbers. Lieut. Com. Newton E. Mason, advanced five numbers. Lieut. Alexander Scharp, Jr.. advanced five numbers. Lieut. Harry P. Huse, advanded five numbers. Chief Engineer Charles J. MacConnell, advanced two numbers. Chief Engineer John L. Hannum, advanced two numbers. Chief Engineer Alexander B. Bates. rnn nmnl^Arc Chief Cngineer Robert W. Milligan, advanced three numbers. Chief Engineer Charles W. Rae, advanced three numbers. Chief Engineer Warner B. Bayless, advanced two numbers. Passed Assistant Engineer George W. McElroy, advanced three number and appointed chief engineer. Commander Bowman II. McCalla, advanced six numbers and appointed captain to restore him to his original place on the navy list. The following take rank from the date, but different reasons are assigned for their advancement. \ Lieut. (Junior Grade) Victor Blue, advanced five number for extraordinary heroism. Lieu/. Col. Robert TV. Huntington, advanced one number and apppointed colonel in the marine crops for eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle. Capt. George F. Elliott, advanced three numbers for same reason. t?:?x t : a t : , t> t j: irsu xueuu juuuis x. uuuds. gucu the rank of caotain by brevet, in the marine corps for conspicuous conduct in battle. First Lieut. Wendell C.Neville, given the rank of captain by brevet for same reason. Second Lieut. Louis J. Magill given the rank of first lieutenant and captair. by brevet in the marine corps for good judgment and gallantry in battle. Second' Lieut. Philip M. Banno, giYUU Cll? iiWIfc. U1 ill it JLiUUl^iiatiU uj brevet in marine corps for conspicuous service in battle. Capt. Paul St. C. Murphy, given the rank of major by brevet in the marine corps for gallant service in battle. Second Lieut. S. Borden, given the rank of first lieutenant by brevet in the marine corps for distinguished service in battle. Paid the Penalty. A special from Americus. Ga.. says: The most fienish crime in the history of Sumter county or the whole State, was committed at Friendship, 12 miles west of here Friday night. Mrs. James McGarrah and her son, James Boone, were muruereu uy a ucgiu uua.ii >yxm <*n ax while they were in their beds. After this double murder the fiend outra :ed a negro woman, tied her to a tree in the woods and mutilated her in a shocking manner. She died also, but not until she. had told the murderer's name. He told other negroes that he had killed three people Friday night, then borrowed a horse and rode away. The murdured people were discovered by John Boone, a son of the murdered woman, and a crowd at oncc started after the fiend. He was caught late this evening and promptly lynched. Tarred and Feathered. About 250 or 350 men, disguised as "White caps," visited the house of Susie Colston, near Smithfield, "Wettsel county, W. Ya., On Thursday night and dragged the inmates, six women and three men, out of bed in thoir night clothes. No time was given them to 'get their clothes, money or valuables., The h?use was then blown to pieces'; pieces -with sticks of dynamite. The inmates were tarred and feathered and taken to the Suman house and all locked in a room together till daylight. 2sro apparent effort was mn.d? to discover who did the act, and the popular sentiment is that nothing wrong-was done. Spanish Outrages. The Singapore correspondent of the London Daily Mail says: "The native rebellion in the Philippines has extended to the hemp provinces in south Luzon. Heavy fighting occurred at Pagalatuan, Pilar and Ponsol, the immediate cause being outrages committed by the Spaniards at Paglatuan. The Spanish also burned Pilar and massacred 5(J0 natives. The insurgents are concentrating at Albay with the object of cutting off the retreat of numerous Spaniards in the Camarina? province. Fatal Fire in Russia. There was another great fire Wednesday night at Xijni Novgorod, capital of the government of the same name, about 250 miles northeast of Moscow. Hussia. The city workhouse was destroyed. the inmates jumping from the windows, many being killed and many more injured. Thirteen bodies burned to a crisp have already been found in i Pit.! i. _ ^ tlie ruins ana many 01 uic lummus iiru i still unaccountcd for. I \ X r - . .. GEN. JOE WHEELER. What a Prominent United States | i Army Officer Says of Him. Of all the generals with the army in front of .Santiago Major General Wheeler now jtrojj ises to come out of the campaign with the highest reputation for courage, strength of purpose, mil 1 tury foresight and soldierly discretion. The Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Journal says this was the opinion advanced by a prominent army officer at Washington recently when the Alger-Roosevelt controversy was under discussion. There is no doubt that the conduct of General Wheeler in the Santiago campaign has won gulden opinions from leading officers in the army. In private conversation they assert the belief that the principal credit of tlie victory belongs to General Wheeler more than to any other general who took part in the campaign. Strong reasons are advanced for this opinion. It has been made clear that if it had not been for General "Wheeler's determination the army would have retreated from the advanced position which it captured in * 1 o r* T rni i _ 7 _ tne ngnt oeiore can juan. xne ieiugram sent by General Wheeler to General Shafter on the night of July 1 clearly indicates this. In this telegram General Wheeler-says that many of the officers had appealed to him to have the line withdrawn and the army take up a position further back, but that he posifiTr/ilir tViis if wnillrl lose the American army much prestige. He urged General Shafter not to pay any attention to similar requests if made of him. That General Wheeler understood perfectly the conditions which confronted the army when he took this stand against a retreat is shown by his telegram to General Shafter. In it he said: '"The lines are thin, as so many men have gone to the rear with wounded and many are exhausted but I hope these men can get up tonight and with our line entrenched and Lawton on our right, we ought to hold tomorrow, but I fear it will be a severe day. If we can get through tomorrow all right we can make our breastworks strong the next night." _uIIe realized thoroughly," said this officer above quoted, "that his torces were in bad shapp and that they had hot work before them. But he saw also that they could win out if they held their ground, and believing that, he counted not the cost. He at once set the whole army to work strengthening its position, and we learn from officers who have returned from the front that it was his intelligent direction which not only made the American position tenable, but enabled our army later on to drive the Spaniards into Santiago. Some of the officers who took part in the battle even go so far as to say that if it had not been for ri/>farir at ntin cn vawiv^ACH r wnv v* v might have been lost and the American forces routed. Even while he was so sick that he had to be carried around in a litter, his knowledge of what ought to be done and his directions as to how to do it were of incalculable advantange." "You will take notice that General Wheeler is the only one of the commanding generals at the front whose name is not singed to the 'Hound Robin.' Just as he refused to listen to the (ronorolc TtrViA nror/i/1 o retrpflt, SCI n UV W * VV* VV?WJ W v ?v did he refuse to take part in any comprint. He was not unsympathetic to the sufferings of his men. His telegrams to General Siiafter show how deeply he was affected by the hardships which they endured. 'You can hardly realize the exhausted condition of the troops,' he said in speaking of the situation at the front on the night of the battle of San Juan. Butiie had himself stuck to his duty like a man when racked'with pain, and he looked to the men under him to show a similar undaunted grit. "A southern man and a JJemccrat? one might have looked for criticism from fcim of the conditions which Colonei Roosevelt so forcibly set forth. None came. General Wheeler stood out against retreat; he stood out against complaint. We give all our generals at the front praise for their gallantry in action, but General Wheeler has shown himself to be the ablest and truest soldier of them all." A Horrible Story. A regiment encamped in Virginia near Manassas, recently invaded a cem etary, dug up the remains of a Uonred- I erate officer and distributed his bones among themselves as souvenirs. It is almost incredible that any set of men wearing the . uniform of the United States array could be found who are so brutish as to be capable of perpetrating such an outrage. It appears, however, that there are grounds for believing that this horrible story is true and a court martial has been ordered to in1 l Tl ~ ~ " J xl i. vesugate tne cnarge. jh is saiu luul the ghouls who opened and robbed the grave are Kansas volunteers. The Atlanta Journal very properly says that the matter should be sifted to the bottom and if the alleged outrage was committed and the guilty wretches can be discovored they should not only be drummed out of the service, but also prosecuted under the laws of Virginia and made to suffer the extreme penalty. nitaatinilla iJX U_L UCX i-U Uifcbuijojlvi Early Saturday morning the dead body of a negro boy was found on one of the streets of Greenville, S. C. The boy was identified as Foster Stokes, who lived on Mulberry street. He lef home about dark Friday night, saying he would soon be back home. When last seen he was with William Blassingame, a negro man who had sold Stokes a pistol and had two others to sell, f The coroner held an inquest and the jury recommended the arrest of Blassinsrame. Stokes? death was caused by a blow behind the ear, and when found the body was wet and stiff, it having rained heavily Friday night. Blessingame was arrested near Pied- ' mont and brought to jail Saturday afternoon. His statement is contradic tor}7, and suspicion is strongly fixed , upon him. Neill's Figures Cotton Statistician Xeill is out again , with Iris prediction of an enormous cot- 1 ton crop, which he puts this year at anywhere from 10,500,000 to 12.000,000 bales. The persistency with which he deals with such big figures leads the j 1 i.l?~ aaUam tvtsin f r\ flirt irr/iQl I , IUUUS L1HJ i;utl.uu uicu w vuv '> conclusion that he is a hear of extraordinary magnitude, and the English spinners.no doubt, get the benefit of it. Whatever his motive is, there is hardly j room for doubt that his estimates hurt the cotton planter by forcing down the price of cotton in the early part of the T> J season.?.uuuuru. Supercedes the Protocol The secretary of the navy said after leaving the president that the terms of surrender of the Philippines superceded the terms of the protocol." If the whole of the Philippines tfere included in the surrender, the peace commission will not have to discuss the future of the islands whatever. S&SSi The Commissioners, The President lias appointed the following commissioners to adjust the j evacuation"oi^uba and Porto Rico: \ n i n j ? i r* nr 1 J fortJUDa: -*.'aj. ucn. .James r. waae Uear Admiral William T. Sampson. Maj. (ion. Mutthcw C. Butler. For Porto Kioo: Maj\ Gen. John M. JJrooke. Rear Admiral AVinfield S. Schley. I>rig. Ge?. William W. Gordon. Gen. Gordon, one of the commissionen; for Porto Kico. is the only one of the six appointees- who is not widely i _r * -ii-i -i? C known. i? n pruiniiicLit/ uioizeu ui cavannah. Ga. " He wa3_ibe senior colonel of the Georgia State militia, and served in the ranks of the Confederate army, lie is U1 years old. belongs to one of the wealthiest families in Georgia and is conspicious socially there. He was largely endorsed in his State for brigadier general. Assassin Met His Match. An attempt has been made to assassinate Kobert Bagman. Co. C,. Second Geor<?ia. volunteers. In defendin? him self Bagman shot and mortally wounded his negro assailaut. James Jackson. Bagman recently received an anonymous letter informing him that he would be killed if he did not cease his attentions to a young lady of Tampa. Fla. On leaving the young woman's house Bagman was attacked by the negro, who narrowly missed stabbing him in the neck. As it was-, the soldier's clothes were slashed -and the skin scraped in two places. Jackson is under surveilance, but Bagman has not been arrested. The officers of the Second Georgia think Jackson was hired to kill Bagman. A Soldier Murdered. A iliwat/'li frnm XftwnoFfc News. Va.. says Private Alonzo Andrews of Co. I, One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana regiment, was shot and killed by Sam Hall, a negro saloon keeper in Bloodfield. a negro settlement in the county, Thursday afternoon. Private Jacob Altmire, of the same command, was wounded in the left foot by the same negro. The negro was arrested and lodged in jail, but the feeling against him was so intense that the sheriff took him out of the town for safe keeping. Bloodfield is under martial law and a provost guard patrols the city. A - - * * ** . r* skirmish line was tnrown out at uamp Grant Thursday night to keep the company of which Andrews was a member from breaking out to avenge the murder of their comrade. Negro Soldier "Killed. A special from Hampton, Gar., says: Sim Neely, a negro private in the TwenJ ty-fifth infantry, was shot and killed at Hampton Friday night. He was refused permission to drink at a soda fountain and became abusive. When remonstrated with for swearing in the presence of ladies, he assaulted Mr. Will Henderson with his dagger bayoUA^/JAWArt A TATtr o VkTlf if net* I1CUUC1OUU Uivn ?. WUV *w was knocked from his hand and seeur- ( ed by the negro, who began shooting.' 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