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SELFISH THOUGHTS. Rev. Dr. Talmage Urg*s a Life of Helpfulness to Others. PRACTICAL LESSONS DRAWN From the Captivity of Job, Who Prayed for His Friends. ^ The Efficacy of Prayer.. In this disoourse Dr. Talmage wars on narrowness of view and nrges a life helpful to others; text, Job xlii, 10, t4And the Lord turned the captivity ofJob when he prayed for his friends." Comparatively few people read this last chapter of the book of Job. The "earlier chapters are so fall of thrilling incident, of events so dramatically portrayed, of awful ailments and terrific disaster, of domestic infelicity, of staccatopaassage, of resounding address, of omnipotency proclaimed, ot utterances shoving Job to have been the greatest scientist of his day an expert in mining and precious stones, astronomer and geographer acnd zoologist aad electrician fluid poet, that most readers stop before they get to my text, which, strangely ! and mysteriously, announces that "the Lord turned the captivity of Job when lie prayed for his friends." Now. will you please explain to me how Job's prayer for his friends halted his catastrophes? Give me some good reason why Job, on his knees in behalf of the welfare of others, arrested the long processions of calamities. Micd you, it was not prayer for himself, for then the cessation of his troubles would have been only another instance of prayer answered. But the portfolio of his disaster was rolled up while he supplicated God in behalf or Eliphaz the Temanite Bildad the Shuhite the Temaaite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zopbar .* vr it . T i I tnexo&axxiMiiiue, juaust corneas &o>uu that I had to read the text over and over again before I got its' fall meaning ? "And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends." Well, if you will not explain it to me I will explain it to you. The healthiest, the most recuperative thing on earth to do is to stop thinking so much about ourselves and go to thinking about the welfare of others. Job had been studying his misfortunes, but the more he thought about his bankruptcy the poorer he seemed, the more he thought of his carbuncles the worse they hurt, the more he thought of his unfortunate marriage the more intolerable became the conjugal relation, the more he thought of his house blown r?Ai?A fowifirt aoomor? fVio ? UVTTU VJO.KJ WViV bVHAUW BWVMAV>* vy clone. His misfortunes grew blacker and blacker. Bat there was to come a reversal of these sad conditions. One day he said to himself: "I have been dwelling too much upon my bodily ailments and my wifes temper, ana my bereavements. It is time I began to think about others and do something for others, and I will start now by praying for my three friends." Then Job dropped upon his knees, and as he did so ^ the last shackle of his captivity of troubles snapped and fell of. Hear it, all ye ages of time and all ye ages of eternity, "the Lord turned the captivity of j Job when he prayed for his friends!" I The fault with most of us is too much self concentration?our health, our fortunes, our advancement, our social position, our achievements, our losses, our defeats, our sufferings, our persecution, j our life, our death, our immortality. Of course there is a lawful and righteous selfishness. In a worJd and in a ! time of suoh activities and rivalries and temptations we must look after our own interests and our own destiny or we will go uuder. Do not wait for others to take care of you. Take care of your ~ self. But it will not hinder our preservation and prosperity if we enlarge the sphere of our wishes and prayers so as to take in others, The law in the natural world would do well for the moral and spiritual world. The. centripetal force in nature would throw everything in toward the center and the centrifugal force in nature would throw everything out from the center. But the centxipeta and the centrifugal workbeautif'ully together. The one fore9 that /would throw everything toward the center is balanced by the force that would throw everything outward. Our world, with its own interests, feels the pull of other worlds. No world no nation, no community, no man, no woman, can afford to exist only for itsself or himself or herself. The hour in which Job has that soliloquy about the enlargement of his prayerd so as to take in his friends and he put into execution his good resolution, was the hour when he felt a tonic, a sedative, a nervine, a cataplasm that helped to cure his body and revived his fortunes till they were a hundred percent better than ever before, for the record is "the Lord gave i-v : is ? ?J UU ItWiue as uiuuu as jllo uau > sad tended to make him a wonder of longevity, for he lived 140 years after hia troubles were gone. Oh, what a mighty medicament is the contemplation of and the effort for the welfare of others! "N "Bnt," says some one, "it is easy enough for Job to pray for his friends. Anybody can do that. There are those to whom we are obliged for years of kindnsss. They stand so close to us in sympathy and reminisccnce and anticipation that it is easy for us to pray for their welfare." Weil, I see you do not understand that these friends of Job were the most tantalizing and exasperating friends a man ever had. Look at their behavior. When they heard of his bereavements and the accidents by whirlwind and lighting stroke, they came in^nd sat down by him a wholeweek, seven day3 and seyen nights, and the record is "none spake a word to kim." What a disreputable and wicked silence! Mind you, they professed tc be religious men and they ought to have been able to offer some religious consolation. Instead of that they were dumb as the sphinx which at that time itooc" in the African desert and stands there still. Why did they not say something about reunion in \he heavenly real mo with his children who had been slain? ?- Why did they not talk to him about the satisfactory explanations in the f ature world of things we do not understand in this world? Why did they not go to the apothecary and buy a poultice that would have soothed the carbuncles, or some quieting potion thai would calia his nerves, or a few drops of febrifuge that would cool his heated frame? No! For seven days and seven nights they did nothing and said nothing for his reliaf. They must have almost bored him to death. After these three friends had completed their infamous silence of a week they began to lecture Job. First, Eiiph*z the Temanite opens with a long nfcnrv ahrmt a. dream which he had in the night and irritates the sufferer with words that make things worse instead of better and sets nim in and attitne of j d?fens8 against the lecturer. Then ! comes Bildad the Shuhite, who gives the invalid a round sco'ding snd calls him garrulous aod practically tells him that he deserved all that he got and that if he had behaved himself aright he wouldrnot hsve lost his home } or his children or his estate, tie practically says: "Job, I will tell ycu what is the matter with you. You are bad; you are a hypocrite; you are now getting paid for your wickedness." No wonder that there came from Job an | outburst oe ine'gnation which calls out I the other quondam friend. Zophar the ! Naamatnite, who begins denouncing i Job by calling him a liar and keeps on ! the discourse until Job responds to all I three ef them in the sarcastic words, "No doubt but ye are the people, and j wisdom shall die with you." Oh, what friends Job bad! Heaven deliver us from having one such friend, ! to say nothing of having three of them. | It was for such friends that Job prayed, I and was it not a religious triumph for him so to do? Wou!d you, the very best of you, be in very devout mood and capable of making intercession for people who had come to you in a day of trouble and said: "Good for you. You ought to be chastised. You are being taken in hand by eternal justice. If you had behaved yourself aright, you would not have been sick or impoverished or made childless." Oh, no, my friend, you would not have felt III-. T?V. lirt rvi>ot7o^ fiio IIH.V UUU WUCil UC ytojvvk aw uwutv..., but more like Job when he cursed the day of his nativity! Nothing is so unhealthy as to get mad. It is a shock to the whole physical organization as well as to your mental and moral condition. It is no unusual thing for people to drop down dead in a ntof anger. You people who weigh over 200 pounds avoirdupois had bi tter never lose your temper, for at such times apoplexy is not far off. Get the cqnipoise of Job in the text, and it will help you in business directions. Praying for all offenders you will have more nerve for large undertakings; you will have a better balanced judgment; you will waste no va'uab'.e time in trying to get even with your enemies. Try this height of prayer for your antagonist today, and if you fail try it tomorrow. UU UUUi. jv/u auvvupa^u wuu A should not wonder if, in addition to the moral and religious strength it gives you, it should add a hundred per cent to your worldly prosperity. Job xii, 10, ''The Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before." What we all need is to get out of ourselves and go to helping others, whether friends or foes. As beautiful an instances of how this can.be done I found last summer in London iu the person of Florence Nightingale, the heroine of hospitals and of battlefields when there were no hospitals. The lounge on which she lies prostrate is a throne of power, and, though she has passed into the eighties, she trains nurses for sickbeds, and her influence is now felt among the wounded in South Africa, while her memory is full of the story of Balaklava, Sebastopol and Inkerman, where England and France and Russia er&nDled. She told me that she had i not been hat>py until she undertook to alleviate suffering and that since she began that work she had never seen an unhappy day. To that work she consecrated her life, her classic attainments, her social position, her brilliant personality. Her whole life for others, and her face shows it. I think so much of heaven is to be found in no other human countenance. Tennyson's ''Charge of the Light Brigade" is not more thrilling to me than the womanly bravery and sacrifice that took care of those who were slroFfrom the saddles of the '"immortal six hundred." My text enthrones prayer and gives it a scepter to wave over our temporal and eternal life. Under Grod is cured Job and fixed up his finanoes and restored his home and made him so robust of health that he lived 14 decades. "But," some one says, "I do not believe in prayer for friends and foes, because I do not think that God is go -V lag bU OUKUKC LJJ.U 19DD Ul itcivmo- uvoause we ask him so to do." Neither do I tbiak that (rod will change the law of nature at our request, but I am sure that he answers prayer through natural law. Not a physician of any skill, allopathic or homeopathic or hydropathio or eclectic, but has some time been surprised that what was thought to be a fatal disease suddenly relaxes its grasp of the patient, and he recovers. Not one law of nature has been fractured. Prayer may have given the sudden turn to that iilnes?. A business man may be in difficulty inextricable?mortgages against him foreclosing, goods to be sold for some reason become unsalable, new invention in machinery making the old machinery of his factory worthless, ail kinds of commercial troubles pouncing upon him at once. Most business men have at least, once in their ll.es, been put in such agonising crisis, but the harried merchant or manufacturer gets out of it. Creditors become more lenient, the wheels that were made useless for making one kind of fabric turn out to be good for making another style of fabric, the atocs of goods that could not be sold comes into unexpected ae , maud, and whereas all things were against him ail things are now for him. No law of nature is broken and no law of tra<le. Prayer may have given that extrication. God, by making a laT, does not tie his own hands with it. If you are free to do what you are asked to do, is not God just as free, or are < you mightier than your Maker? i What a scene it was when that whaling ship, after a cruise of three years, 1 approached a New England harbor! From the shore the mother knew that it was the ship in which her son was sailing. But a hurricane struck the ship and destroyed it on the rocks, and 1 the wreokage was strewn on the beach, i But the mother continued all night in prayer for her son's safety, and in the morning a knock was heard at her door, *nd the door opened, and ' in came her long absent boy, ex- | claiming, ''Mother, I knew you would pray me home!" But you need not go so far for illustration. I have in my own life had answers to prayer ! so pointed, so direct, so startling, that I dare not recite them lest I be misunderstood. I could pick many Btartling instances right out of this audience. ' You dare not doubt the integrity of 1 those who present such evidence- You 1 would believe them as witnesses in any court of law standing before?judge and jury, and certainly you ought to be iieve them when they give solemn tes- 1 timony as to ""hat they have seen and i felt in answti to prayer?silent prayer, audible prayer, ejsculatory prayer, intercessory prayerN extemporaneous prayer, liturgical prayer; prayer in the ; morning to start the day right, i prayer in the evening to correct the mistakes of the day, prayer at the be- i ginning of the year as we launch out upon its uncertainties and prayer at the close of the yaar reriewing the vicissitudes of the 12 months; prayer for ourselves, prayer for others; not formal and heartless prayer, which is of no more use than the prayer of the heathen of Timbuktu, who writes his petition on a board and then washes it oS and pitches the water in a cnp, giving it to the sick to drink for his recovery; or the prayer of the people of Tibet, who put their petiiiou ia a cylinder aDd turn the crank, and as many timrs as * ? ? p tbe cylinder furD9 is toe prayer orfered; or the prayer inlndia, which is made in behalf of thewealthy by the people hired to read tb8 Koran day and night for the benefit of the employer. Prayer is what some one hap called "the slender nerve that-m^vetH the vl scles of omnipetence." Prayer is the heaithfnl respiration of 'he soul. It is the whisper of helplessness into the ear of help. It 15 laying hold of almightiness, omnisoienoe at one and the same time. Prayer is tbe laying hold of a pulley fastened to the heavenly throne. Prayer is the first breath of a newborn sonl and it is heard in ? 1 t* til _T T - * trie iast gasp 01 eanmy cnnsuau experiences. Prayer! In an instant it mounts the highest heavens. Neither seraph or archangel ever flew swifter or higher than the infant's petition at her mother's knee. What an opportunity is prayer! Why not oftner use it praying for ourselves and, like Job, praying for others? What better work would we do, what better lives would live, what better hopes would we entertain, if we multiplied and intensified our prayers! Some one asked a soldier of Stonewall Jackson the secret of the great general's influence over his men. "Does your general abuse vou, swear at you, to make you march?" "Swear," replied -the soldier. 'No!'' Ewell does the swearing; Stonewall do8s the praying. When Stonewall wants us to march, he looks at us soberly, just as if he were sorry for us, and says, 'Men, we have got to make a long march.' We always know when there is going to be a long march and right smart fightiDg, for S ocewall is powerful on prayer just belore a big fight." When Stonewall Jackson was asked the meaning of the passage, "in constant prayer," and he said: "If you will not mistake and think I am set ting up myself as an example, which I am not, I will give an illustration from my own habit. I have so fixed the habit of prayer in my mind tnat I never raise a glass of water to my lips without a moment asking of God's blessing. I never seal a letter withont putting a word of prajer under the seal. J never take a letter from the post without a brief sending of my thoughts heavenward. I never change my olasses in the seetion room without a minute's petition for the cadets who go out and those who come in." Don't you sometimes forget? said a friend. He replied: "I think I can say that I can say that I soarcely do. The habit has become almost as fixed as breathing." "But," says some one from a different section of the country from that in which General Jackson lived, were his prayers answered?" Yes, as earnest prayers are always answered, in God's way, and God's is always the best way, while our way may be the wrong vay. In all the tossing of this life lay hold of the rope of prayer mentioned by John Newton, who was converted on shipboard from being a blasphemous sailor to beoome a great preachcr of righteousness and who said: "'When I first amused myself with going to sea, when the winds rose and the waves became rough, I tumbled and tossed about like a porpoise in the water. At last I caught hold of a rope that was floating about, and then I was enabled to stand upright. So when a multitude of troublous thoughts invade your peace, :>r when the winds and waves of temptation arise, look out for the rope, lay hold of the rope and stay yourselves on the faithfulness of God by keepiQg'his promises. My hearer, I will tell you the time when you can afford to cease praying. It will be when you have no sins to be be pardoned, no sorrows to be comforted, no more friends or foes who need your intercessions. Qaeen Elizabeth said to Walter Rileigh, ''Releigh, when will you stop begging?" Raleigh, replied, "When your majesty leaves off giving." And your time, my hearer, to stop praye; will be when God has no more pardon and mercy and strength to bestow and the recourses of the Infinite are exhausted. Havelock knew the value of prayer when he arose at 4 o'clock in the morning for his devotiens. The soldiers of the Fourteenth Massachusetts regiment showed that they knew the joy of worship when tney took a delegate of the Coristian commission to see what they called their ''praying place." Now, if Grod has during these remarks shown us the uses, the importance, the blessedness of prayer, suppose we try to do what Job did when he prayed for his exasperators. Many of us at the .beginning of this subject felt that while we could pray for oursevles and pray for those who were Lnd to us, we never could reach the high point of religious experience in which we could pray for those who annoy us and make us feel worse instead of feeliDg better. That was a Matterhorn, that was an Alp, to the top of which we feared to olimb, but we * t 1- A.i. 1 : 4. _ _ I. maDJt vj^u. mat uy hid ummpuicub grace we have reached that height at last. Let us praj! 0 Christ, who didst pray for thine assassians, we now pray for those who despitefuliy use i as and say ail manner of evil against . as. For their eternal salvation we supplicate. When time is no more, < may they reign on thrones and wear ' coronets and sway scepters of heavenly 'i dominion. Meanwhile take the bitterness from their soul and make them soon think as well of us as they now think evil. Spare their bodies from pain and.their households from.bereave- 1 ment. After all the misunderstand- ' 3 a : .f a:. i;r? I lDgs ana euuuru verdict# ui mis me t*io over, may we^keep with them eternal jubilee in the mansions on -the hill. And as thou didst turn the capitivity of Job when he had prayed for those who had badly used him and health same to his body and prosperity to his estate, now that we hive by thy grace been able to make supplication for our antogonists, cure our diseases if we are ill, and restore our estate if it has been scattered, and awaken gladness in our homesteads if they have beeu. bereft, and turn the captivity of our physical pain or financial misfortune or mental distress. 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The Louloa Glebe Wednesday afternoon publishes a letter from a Belgian gentleman who has been traveling to Pekiu via the Trans-Siberian railroad. He describes under date of September 6th, what he s*w on the Amur river. His account surpasses in horror those previously published. "The scenes I have witnessed during the three days since the Bteamer left Blagovetchensk," he says, "are horribk beyond tbe powers of description. L is the closing tablau of a fearful human tragedy. Two thousand were deliberately drowned at Morxo, two thousand at Rabe and eight thousand around Blagovetohensk, a total of twelve thousand corpses encumbering the river, among which were thousands of women and children. Navigation was all but impossible. Last week a boat had to plough her way thiough a tangled and mangled mass of corpses lashed to- * gether by their long hair. The banks ( were literally covered with ocrpses. In J the curves of the stream were dark, * futrid, smelling massess of human flesh r and bone, surging and swaying in the f steamer's wake and wash. The captain t vainly ordered full speed ahead. The i sight and smell will be ever with us * ' From Blagovetchensk to Aigan, 45 kilometers, numerous villages studded I the bank, with a thriving, industrious * population of. over 100,000. That of t Aigun ^as 20,000. No one will ever f know the number of these who perished t by shot, sword and stream. ^Not a vil- 1 lttge is left. The silence of death was * around us, the smoking ruins of Aigun * on the right, with broken down, crumb ling walls and shattered, roofless . houies." ( What It Mean*. ? The re-election of William McKin- ^ ley means the indorsement of every vio ^ lation of law. every wilful perversion < f j the principles of tree government made g by the party in power during the past i tour years, it means mac me ancient landmarks set up by the fathers for the guidance of the servants of the people are to be devoted to vandal destruction by men intrusted with political power; that the century-and-a-quarter-old system of government of the people, by the people and for the people is to be relegated into disuse and in its place is to be erected a government of the trusts, by the trusts and for the trusts; that c the Declaration of Independence? A which not only nerved tne arms, ir- J radiated the minds and magnified the * souls of the heroes who fought, bled ^ and endured all manner of hardships in the days of Lexington, Banker Hill, t and VnrVf.rtwn. font rvrnvpd t a fountain of courage and hope to their des cenGants and was a "bow of promise" to people in other lands struggling for freedom and self government?is an outworn asd useless document no longer to serve -as the guide and inspiration of a republio grown populous, prosperous and mighty through adhesion to and obiarvanoe of its grandly truthfi 1 pro nouncement*; that the constitution whioh has been the rock, the stay, the palladium, the protector and interpreter of our entire fibrio of laws is a thing to be put aside, to be disregarded at the whim of the president and congress, a3 no longer controlling and limiting their powers: that these agencies shall conduct the functions of government according to the directions of anoligarohy of commercial combines by virtue of whose corruDtine money they li hold office and place; that we are to t swing loose from the moorings of a Re- 1 publican essence in government and E give the lie abd the scoff to our splendid . and heroic past by becoming eervile imi- t tators of old world empires and king- i doms that are upheld by bayonets, con- a ducted for the benefit of a privileged t class and builded upon the toil and ? blood of unhappy millions. g The New Issues The New York Churchman, probably the ablest church newspaper-maga j, zine published in this country, bas this g to say on the issues of the late election: c "The victory of Tuesday ends all dis- d cute as to currency standard. This e eliminates an issue w hioh has perturbed ^ American politics for over a century. ? There remain, however, 'Jta other two S great issues which ioomed upon the a horizon in serious form for the first j, time during the past canvass. One was c the attitude of the United States upon I foreign affairs, and the other was the Q demand for the use of the powers of the general government in order to restrain, to regulate and to load with in- 5 creased taxation, the great accumula- ? tions, some of them by individuals, but t! most of them held by great bodies of e stockholders, whose growth constitutes tl ihe most important social phenomenon P of the pa?t twenty years. These two e issues remain to be fought out, and * they will come up for settlement in 19U4, without any question like the 0 currency to aid and support those who ti are defending these great accumulations, <3 or to hinder the attack of those who be- G lieve that they are not paying their fair ^ 9hare of the expenses of the govern- * ment." These are the issues upon p which Bryan will bs nominated and t< elected in 1904. He is the logical can- r< didate as long as these questions are unsettled. p The Blacks on Top. ^ A dispatch from Honolulu says Rob- I ert Wilcox, the independent socialist eandidate, has been elected Hawaiian ' delegate to congress by a small majority, over Samuel Parker, Republican, jj Much depression has resulted among ^ ail whites, as Wilcox was strongly opposed by Republicans and Democrats alike. His campaign was an anti-white a sanvass, with promises on the part of * * _ 1 . l X n some 01 ms campaign workers mat n *; he wsre elected. Queen Liiioukalani tshould be restored to the throne. The result of the rote shows the native bitterness over annexation to be still ap- a parent. The independent native party 0 carried the house of representatives by ^ a large majority. It is likely as a re- p suit of the election that congress will ^ be asked to establish some limitations a upon the voting privilege. Many of 8; the whites want a property qualifies- a tion for voters. It is argue-1 that in j voting upon a simple colorlin9many of a the blacks have shown themselves un- t' fit for universal suffrage. c : ?. f Ha Could Tell. t:. t Last winter, writes W. E. Curtis, in a a. rtur "D j. Kttl.. ? I LLC VUlCBgU JACVJUIU, WTTUI2.WC1U UUli U1CU c were standing : 2 front of the main en- fj trance t'* t-ie 8enate Chamber, when h Senator Chandler, who, as you know, is r a great wag, anda friend came through 1< the door. One of them, a little girl of c 11, burning with curiosity, stepped up c to them and asked: "Mister, how ? much does it cost you to go in there?" t "You better ask that gentleman com- s ing up the corrider," said the Senator I from New Hampshire, pointing to Sen- s ator Clark of Montana, who was lei?- t urely approaching the entrrnce. * r r ^ SOME GIANT SCALES Sew Ones That Will Weigh a Load of 130 Tons. Everybody Is perhaps aware that the argo scales upon -which entire freight :ars with their loads of many tons are weighed are considered Immense, but -vith all their Immensity Uncle Sam las gone all the railroads in this counxy one point better, says the "Washington Times, by installing at the navy rard one of the largest pair of scales u the country. This machine can outweigh the largest railroad weighing nachine by fifty tons, and Jta results nust be accurate to the pound, while ailroad scales are considered good ;nough If they approach anywhere iear fifty pounds of being correct The lew scales are placed on the track gong south from the great gun shops ind Just opposite the forge shop. They ire forty-eight feet long and twelve 'eet wide, and rest upon a cement base )uilt upon long plies. The ground Is somewhat low, and it was necessary to jtillze the services of pile drivers to secure a stable foundation, which Is me of the requisites of an accurate veighing machine. The cost was about 51.200. Much of its fine and sensitive balanclg apparatus was manufactured for special use in the new machine, and he completed structure is considered a nodel and marvel of modern mechansm and American Ingenuity. In order to illustrate the accuracy of Jie counterpoise of the machine to a eporter the superintendent of the rards and docks picked up a half brick hat was lying on the ground near by md tossed It on the huge platrorm of he machine. He then consulted the ong brass lever in the reading box ilong the side of the scales and found hat the record of the of the brickbat vas just a pound. Turning to the reporter he said that :he machine was so sensitive that It :oi"'ld weigh anything from a pound of lugar to a trio of 13-inch naval guns, md weigh them accurately, though it vlll probably eke out a long existence it the famous gunshop without having he chance to weigh an ounce of the 'ormer. The capacity of the new icales Is 150 tons, or double the cajaclty of the old scales, which has just )een replaced. A 13-inch gun weighs ibout 55tons, and it can be readily seen that the new scales can weigh wo of the monsters, reclining on a 'orty-eight foot track, and not tax its :apacity~to any great extent All the lew guns of the navy yard will be velched nnnn these colossal scales. Story of " The Lost Chord." In London, in the early part of this lecade, Col. Wentling -was a frequent visitor at the houses of many of the lobility, and became acquainted, hrougb his excelent knowledge of mu:1c, with many of the best musician* if the English metropolis. "It was while there," said Col. Wenling, "that I first heard the story of he birth of 'The Lost Chord,' a song hat has been sung in every quarter of he globe, and which will live forever, f ever there was such a thing as inpiration, the song was inspired. "There are very few Englishmen rho do nnt remember Fred Sullivan, he great comic star and brother of Sir Lrthur Sullivan. He played in all the irlginal Gilbert and Sullivan operas, md has. never been equalled. He was ater followed by George Grossmith. '"-v - - .1 ox- A tttoa -n/v "voe uay our aiuiux ouunu nao jliverified that his brother Fred was very 11. He made every effort to reach the louse where his brother was lying at he point of death, but arrived too late o see him alive. The two brothers vere devoted to each other, and the )low was a bitter one for Sir Arthur le was closeted with the body of hi? >rother for two hours, at the explraion of which time he came down stain .nd went to the piano. Throwing the astrument open he began to play, and he bar, 'The Lost Chord,' was evolved. L"he composer sadly put his new com ositlon on paper and stored it away. "The song Is the wall or a tnroDing leart, the grief of desolation. All hrough its beantiful harmony can be < leard the strain of grief. So profound .n impression did the association of he song with the death of his brother nake on Sir Arthur that he is said to iare, even at this late day, an aversion o nearing it performed. New York >un. A Quaint Ceremony in Madrid. The Queen Regent held at the palace n Madrid the ceremony of the investi;ation of eleven Grandees of the first lass ,who have succeeded to Duke:oms, Marquisates and Earldoms creted between the years 1368 and 1610. 1 "hey were invested in the order of heir precedence, the Duke of Medina loeli, the Premier Duke and Premier >eer of Spain, possessing twenty titles nd ?1150,000 income, coming first, foljwed by the Marquis Astorga, Count | (ropesa, Dukes Arcos, Luna, Aliag, luescar. Baena and Arion, the Mar uis Santa Cruz and Connt Castrlllo. The Queen stood surrounded by the igh dignitaries and ladies of the ourt in the royal anti-chamber, where \ tie aew Grandees, accompanied by i heir sponsers, who are Grandees of i he same class, were successfully ushred in by the Lord Chamberlain and j tie Lords-in-Waitlny. All the Grandees resent uncovered when a new Peer ntered. and remained so until the sov- 1 reijsrn said to the new Grandee, "Cor- 1 r your head and speak," which he had 1 d do in a short discourse on the merits f his ancestors who preceded him in , itle. After the Investiture the Gran- , oes passed before the Halberdier Guards drawn up on the palace stairs, ' i order that the Guards might Know 1 hem and pay them the usual honors rhen they enter the precincts of the alace, where alone they have the right ) remain uncovered in the presence of ?ytlty.?Pall Mall Gazette. "To prove my love," he cried deserately, "let me tell you during how lany weeks I have scarcely closed my yes in sleep, during how many days have eaten only " Here, with an Imperious geiture, she raved him to silence. "Statistics prove nothing!" ihe said. Ah, but what a cold dictum! It waa i*e an icicle plunged into his throbing hear*!?Detroit Journal. Little Edwin?Manama, what is liquid it? $ Mamma?I don't know. Ask your pa-a. He'a always going out betwee* k ae acts "to get a little air." c Eaten by Cannibals. j The steamer, Moscotte, which has ^ rrived from the South seas, brings tales ] f cannibalism and massacre by the { lacks on the savage islands. For the \ ast two years, the Mascotte has been r radio? between cbe Solomon Islands , nd New Guinea. Her deck, rails and ^ ailes bear marks of cannibal spears nd bullets. The schooner arrived at [emali, in the Admiralty group, just < fter the murder of Herman Matzke, ? < bo trading agent there. Captain Mac- t o and a boat's crew went ashore and 1 ound the Copra House looted and the i rader's home a wreck. In the yard of y he latter a big spot was still sizzling, 1 nd in it were some bones of the trad- i r. The cannibals appeared and opened < re with gnns found in the agent's ( Louse. Captain Macco and his crew t etresied to the schooner and tamed oose all the available arms and the annibals were driven of. The Mas- . otte mst the German sloop-of- war, ] leadle, near the Carolines, and notified J he captain of the murder. Both the { chooner and the warship returned to ?emali. The native villages were then helled. Eighty villages were destroyed ^ iy fire, 16 natives were killed and 20 1 rere taken prisoners, t ? M I I THE B Grove's' The formula i know just what yo do not advertise th< their medicine if yc t i ..: _: ~ iron -aiiu. yuuimt pu form. The Iron malaria out of the s Grove's is the Ori Chill Tonics are im that Grove's is si are not experiment and excellence ' ha only Chill Cure sc the United States. OLD TSTDIAK LANDS. A Louisiana Grant Thrt Troubles the Government. After a quiet of several years the Houma land grant has again come to the front to occupy the attention of the United States courts. Probably no public lands in the country have given the United States more trouble than those of the Houma Indians. There have been more lawsuits over them, conspiracies, riots and disturbances than over any other part of the federal domain. The question has frequently figured, in local politics and more than once has obtruded itself oa congress. The Houma Indians occurs'>4 nnrt of santh Ijouis C iana when the Trench landed thereThere was a Houma village on the present aite of 2*ew Orleans. The Indians were quiet and peaceable; they gave the whites no trouble. In consequence the whites had a great deal of trouble themselves. The Indians were gradually crowded out of all the fertile lands they owned, and took refuge in the swamps on both sides of the Anite river in Livingston and Ascension parishes. In 1829 the tribe became totally extinct and the lands were thrown open by the government to settlement. It was found, however, that there were old French and Spanish claims to them '? -? *- - o i_v I ?ior xne opauisu pucu. wcu vwius three or four thick on every acre of land in southern Louisiana. An attempt was made to oust the squatters in Livingston parish, but they proved a rather lawless lot, and as everybody in that section was a squatter the matter wai finally settled by perfecting their titles. There was the same trouble in Ascension parish. The government opened the land to public settlement in 1S39, and again in 18S5. Quite a number of entries were made In the atter year, but when those who had entered the land attempted to take possession of their property they found it already occupied by squatters, both white and black, who had held it for several generations without the slightest title. This brought up the old Livingston i. _ m*. _ xx irouoie. xae bquauers xcauocu iu leave, and threatened to resent any attempt at dispossession. After much parleying- a compromise was finally reached whereby the squatters agreed to pay a certain sum of money, either in lump or in installment, pmrided they were left in their possession. But again in 1897 the United States land office threw these lands open to entry for the third time and many entries were made. The occupants of the lands, squatters and others, began a new mode of war. They declared that they were being pestered) by land speculators, that the entries were fraudulent and not in good faith and intended to milk and ffeece them; and they organized a committee known as the "Land Investigating Committee of Ascension parish" to investigate the matter and see who were the men instrumental in getting up these land entries. The committee devoted much time and attention to this m^ter and reported that the entry scheme was oemg woritea. iroin vneaus, ianas i being fraudulently entered there* com- I pelling the occupants of these lands tc any them from those who got titles through the United States land office. The squatters and other occupants 3f the public lands in dispute, who constitute a large part of the population jf the eastern half of Ascension, beieve that by this criminal proceeding, ind the conviction of the men making these entries, they have put an end :o the troubles from vrhich they have suffered so long and which have compelled them to organize again and igain to keep their farms. They have nade it too hot, they say, for the land speculators. But if congress or the CTnited) States land office could interfere md prevent further trouble and disputing of titles in the Eouma land [Tant it would prevent a great deal of 11 feeling, smooth down politics and >revent litigation over a question that las been "before the court* for nearly TO yeara. School House Burned A dispatch from Yorkville to The State says the graded school building saught on fire Friday morning about 11 j'clock, caused by a burniBg chimney, [t is a total wreck. All the ehildren ;ot out safely, but a number of them ost their books and wraps. The furni.ure was all lost by fire and breakage, rhis building was formerly the old fenale college. It was sold some years igo for $6,000, but cost muoh more than ' mi. t :i nnn ,nai. J.D6 laeorauuo uu n was ??,vuvi Good Advici.?The Gibson Record ;hus advises the farmers: "Get your vheat in the ground and get in shape ;o live, good time or bad times. The rideawako farmer who makes his flour, neat, syrup and potatoes, never knows ?hen hard times come. If meat goes ligh, he has it to sell instead of buy; f flour goes up he is all right, don't jare which way the wind blows, and we san't see why all the farmers don't do :his way." Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator h? )een used in my family and I am per 'ectly satisfied that it is all, and will lo all. vou claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. 0. Dorsey. P. 8.?I am using it now myself, [t's doing me good.?Sold by The Murray Drug OoM Columbia, S. 0., and all Iniggiatfl. tf itx&i Chills rasteless Chi s plainly printed on every u are taking when you take ?ir formula knowing that y< >u knew what it contained, it up in correct proportions a acts as a tonic while the ;ystem. Any reliable druggis ginaS and that all other titations. An analysis of oth( perior to all others -in ev ing when you take Grov> ving long been establishe Id throughout the entire i No Cure, No Pay. Price Showing Their Hands. Senator Scott comes out as favoring a large standing army and makes a plea for an increase "especially in the artillery branch." Do we need field artillery to suppress the frequently suppressed Filipinos to settle the Chinese question or to proteot our costs? Not especially. It is needed, says Senator Scott; because "for the purpose of quelling riots in the cities it will be every bit as effective as infantry"?or more so, we should say. Mr. Bryan you may remember. gentle reader, was denounced as a dangerous agitator when during the campaign he declared the Republi-: cans wanted a large standing army to man forts near the large oities for the purpose, of intimidating labor. Mr. Bryan's idea is now confirmed by this prominent and isfluential Republican senator, so Mr. Bryan's reputation may yet be cleared. Senator Scott reminds us of Lord Salisbury with his habit of "thinking aloud" things that, for pol- j icy's sake, were best kept quiet It was Senator Scott, you will remember' who at the dinner to Roosevelt.just before the eleotion ventured to suggest that the trusts are verv desirable things?an opinion in which his party associates then and now fully agree, but which they confide not to the publio. The State. What China Will Pay A dispatch to The New York Herald i from Washington says: Secretary Hay is much irritated over reports from Pekin showing that the ministers are determined to punish every influential Chinaman who they think is responsible for the recent outrages, and showing also that the indemnity to be demanded will reach $600,000,000. The secretary is anxious that the powers shall submit demands that can be accepted by China. Officials at Washington hold that examples should be made only of those conspicuously guilty, and that the amount of indemnity shot^d /iarf?in1cka nnf- mora frpian i$AA AAA AAA VVlMiJVV **V?***W*V Y"WjVwwj vvv* It is pointed out that if all the leading men are sentenced to death, they will, in self-defense, organize a resistance, which will necessitate farther military operations, the end of which no one can foresee. IBE LEAKS INDEED. 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