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BEV. DRTAIZAGK SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "America for God." Tkxt: "And I beheld another beast coming Hp out ot the earth, and he bad two horns like a lamb, and ho spake as a dragon." ?Revelation xili., 1L Is America mentioned in the Bible? Learned and consecrated men who have studied the inspired books of Daniel and Revelation more than I have and understand th?m hotter agree in saying thut the leopard mentioned In the Bible meant Grecta, and the beer ineant Medo-Persia, and the lion meant Babylon, and the beast of the test coming up out of the earth, with two horns like a lumb and the voice of a dragon, means our country, because among other reasons It seemed to come up out of the earth when Columbus discovered it, and it has been for the most part at peace like a lamb unless assaulted by foreign foe, in which case it has two horns strong and sharp and the voice of a dragon loud to make all Nations hear the roar of its' indignation. Is it reasonable to suppose that God would leave out from tho prophecies of His book this whole western hemisphere? No, no! "I beheld another beast coming up out of tho earth, and he i had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon." Gsrmany for scholarship, England for manufactories, France for manners, Egypt for antiquities, Italy for pictures, but America for God. I start with the cheering thought that the most popular book on earth to-day is the T)ihlj fl^/i mncf nr>nnloii r\n norfh mv rnuov pw|;utiu luomuuvu va v?tt<? to-day is the church, and the most popular name on earth to-day is Jesus. Right from this audience hundreds of man and women would, if need be, march out and ale for Him. Am I too confident in saying, "America for God?'' If the Lord will help me, I will Bhow the strength and extent of the long line of fortresses to be taken and give you my reasons for saying it can be done and will be done. Let us decide, in this battle for God, whether we are at Ball Run or at Gettysburg. Tnere is a Fourth of Julyish way of bragging about tbis country, and the most tired and plucked bird that ever flew through the heavens is the American eagle, j so much so that Mr. Gladstone said to me facetiously at Hawarden, "I hear that the fish in your American lakes are so large that when one of them is taken out the entire lake is perceptibly lowered," and at a dinner given in Paris an American offered for a sentiment, "Here is to the United Statesbounded on the north by the aurora borealis, on the south by the procession of the equinoxes, on the east by primeval chaos and on the west by the day of judgment." The effect of such grandiloquence is to discredit the real facts, which are so tremendous they need no garnishing. The wor3t thins to do in any campaign, military or religious, is to underestimate an enemy, and I will have no part In such uttempt at belittlement. This land to be taken for God, according to Hasse:, the statistician, has 14,219,967 square mile;, a width and a length that none but the Omniscient can appreciate. Four Europes put together and capable of holding and feeding, as it will hold and feed, according to Atkinson, the statistician, If the world continues in existence and does not run afoul of some other world or get consumed by tho fires already burning in the cellars of the planet?capable, I say. of holding and feeding more tnan 1,000,000,000 inhabitants. For you must remember it must be held for God as well as taken for God, end the lost 500,1 000,000 inhabitants must not be allowed to swamp the religion of the first 500.000,000. Not muoh use in taking the fortress if we cannot hold it. It must be held ontll the archangel's trumpet bids living and dead arise from this foundering planet. l. Vnn Tr?nct rflmAmhpf if fa nnltr fthrmf 7 o'clock in the morning: of our Nation's life. Great cities are to flash and roar among what are called the "Bad Lands" of the Dakotas and the great "Columbian plains" of Washington State, and that on which we put our schoolboy fingers on the map and spelled out as the "Great American desert" is, through systematic and consummating irrigation. to bloom like Chatsworth Park and be made more productive than those regions dependent upon uncertain and spasmodic rainfall. All those regions, as well as all those regions already cultivated, to be inhabited! That was a sublime thing said by Henry Clay while crossing the Alleghany Mountains, and he was waiting for the stage horses to be rested, as he stood on a rock, arms folded, looking off into the valley, and some one said to him. "Mr. Clay, what are you thinking about?" He replied, "I am listening to the oncoming tramp of the luture generation of America." Have you laid our home missionary scheme on such an infinitude of scale? If the work of bunging one soul to God is so great, can 1.000.000,000 be captured? In this country, already planted and to be overcome, paganIsm has built its altar to Brahma, and the Chinese are already burning incense in their tempies, ana Monammedanism, drunfc in other days with the red wine of human blood at Luoknow and Cawnpur and now fre.?h from the diabolism in Armenia, is trying to get a foothold here, and from the minarets of ner mosques will yet mumble her blasphemies, saying. "God issrreat, and Mohammed la His prophet." Then there are the vaster multitudes with do religion 3t alL They worship no God, they live with no consolation, and they die with no hope. No star of peace points "down to the manger in which they are born, and no prayer is uttered over the grave into which they sink. Then there Is alcoholism, its piled up demijohns and beer barrels and hogsheads of flery death, a barricade high and long as the Alleghenics and Rockies and Sierra Nevadas, pouring forth day and night their ammunition of wretchedness and woe. When a German wants to take a drink, he takes beer. When an Englishman wants to take a drink, he takes ale. When a Scotchman wants to take a drink, he takes whisky. But when an American wants to take a drink he takes anything he can lay his hands on. Plenty of statistics to tell how much money is spent in this country for rum, and how many drunkards die. But who will give us the statistics of how many hearts are crushed under the heel of this worst demon of the centuries? How many hopes blasted? How many children turned out on the world ac I cursed with the stigma of a debauched ancestry? Until the worm of the distillery becomes the worm that never dies and the smoke of the heated wine vats becomes the smoke of the torment that ascendeth up forever anl ever! Alcoholism, swearing?not with hand uplifted toward heaven, for from that direction it can get no help, but with right band stretched down toward the perdition from which it came up?swearing that It will not cease as long as there are any homesteads to despoil, any magnificent men and women to destroy, any immortal souls to damm. any more Nations to balk, any more civilizations to extinguish. Then there is what in America we coll socialism, in France communism and in Russia nihilism, the three names for one and the same thing, and having but two doctrines in its creed., First, there is no God; second, there shall be no rights of property. One of their chief journals printed this sentiment: "Dynamite can be made out of the dead bodies of capitalists as well as out ol hogs." One of the leaders of communism left inscribed on his prison wall, where he had been justly incarcerated, these words 'When once you are dead, there is an endol everything. "Therefore, ye scoundrels, grat whatever you can?only don't let yourselves I be grabbed. Amen." There are in thi: country hundred? of thousands of these laz] scoundrels. Honest men deplore it whei they cannot get work, but those of whom 1 speak will not do work when they can get it I tried to employ one who asked mo foi money. I said. '"Down in my cellar I havi some wood to saw. and I will pay you fo It." For a little while I hear J the "saw go ing, and then I beard it no more. I wen down stairs and found Ihe wood, but th< workman had disappeared, taking for coin pany both buck and saw. ~ ? j? 1 I. BOCllWlilll, CUUilUUUlMli tlALli UIUUIIIU uicuu IJ'Too wicked to acknowledge God and to< lazy to earn a living," and among the might ijeat obstacles to ba overcome are those 01 'ganized elements of domestic, social an< political tuin. jl There are the fastnesses of infidelity am Bthei9m and fraud and political corruptio; '?nd multiform,liydria headed, million arme abominations ail over the land. Whilo th flightiest agencies for righteousness on eart ?re good and healthful newspapers, an 'good and healthful books, and our chief d ijpendence for intelligence and Chriatai! ,&chievement is upon 'chem, what won Janong the more than 100,000 words in on j Vocabulary can describe the work of ths archangel of mischlef -> corrupt literaturi Mm ? V \ ?r????? What man, attempting anything for God fll and humanity, has escaped a stroke of its III fllthy wing? What cood eausa has escaped wl Its hinderment? What other obstacle in all the land so appalling? But I cannot name more than one-half the battlements, the bastions, the intrenohments, the redoubts, the I fl fortifications to be stormed and overcome if this country is ever taken for God. The statistics are so awful that If we had nothing but the multiplication table and the arithmetic the attempt to evangelize America DU would be an absurdity higher than the tower n n ot Babel before it dropped on the plain of Shinar. Where are the drilled troops to march against those fortifications as long as _ the continent? Where are the batteries that can be unlimbered against these walls? Where are the guns of large enough oaliber to storm these gates? Well, let us look nrrmnH nnrl apo. the first of nlL who is our leader and will be our leader untii the work is done. Garibaldi, with 1000 Italians, could do more than another commander ^ with 10,000 Italians. General Sherman, on one side, and Stonewall Jackson, on the floti other, each with 10.000 troops, oould do Rep more than some other generals with 20,000 j troops. The rough boat in which Washington crossed the icy Delaware with a few Clar half fozen troops was migtttier than the ship vig< of war that during the American Revolu- ?,j tion came through the Narrows, a gun at ., each porthole, and sank in Hell Gate. Oilr leader, like most great leaders, was for j born in an obscure place, and It was an ji humble home, about five miles from , Jerusalem. Those who were out of doors 8p that nifjht said that there was stellar com- den motion, and music that came out of the deei clouds, as though the front door of heaven Cod had been set op*n, and that the camels heard of t His .'first infantile cry. Then He came to the fairest boyhood that mother was ever proud kin; of, and from twelve to thirty years of age ton, was off in India, if traditions there are acou- Stai rate, and then returned to His native land, beei and for three years had His pathway sur- or. rounded by blind eyes that He illumined, ven and epileptic patients to whom He gave hon rubiound health, and tongues that He plec loosed from silence into song, and those Oht I whose funerals He stopped that He might the give back to bereaved mothers their only love boys, and those whose fevered pulses He had Mcl restored iuto rhythmio throb, and whose .? paralytic limbs He had warmed into healthful circulation?pastor at Capernaum, but flaming evangelist everywhere, hushing ciying tempests and turning rolling seas into solid sapphire, and for the rescue of a race submitted to courtroom filled with howliDg miscreants, and to a martyrdom at the sight of which the sun fainted and fell back in the heavens, and then treading the clouds homeward, like snowy mountain peaks, till heaven took Him back again, more a favorite than He bad ever been; but, <? coming again, He is on earth now, and the f Nations are gathering to His standard. Fol- j lowing Him were the Scotch covenanters, '/ the Thebian legion, the victims of the ^ London Hayroarket, the Piedmontese > sufferers, the Pilgrim fathers, the Huguenots, and uncounted multitudes of ? the past, joined by about 400,000,000 of the I present, and with the certainty that all Nations shall huzza at His chariot wheel He v goes forth, the moon unaer His feet and the stars of heaven for His tiara?the mighty leader, He of Drumolog and Bothweli Bridge and Bannockburn and the one who whelmed Spanish Armada. "Coming up from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, ????ofnoco r?f TTifl Cis-up, iU fcivuiuvw w- o mighty to save," and behind whom we rail into line to-day and march in the campaign T that is to take America for*OodL Hosannah! Hosannah! Wave all the palm branches! At ,"vL His reet put down your silver and your gold, p~~~. as in heaven you will cast before Him your coronets. The time is coming?hasten it, Lord?and "" I think you and I will see it, when, as Jo- r 3eph, the wealthy Arlmathraan, gave for the p " dead Christ a costly mausoleum, the affluent f men and women of this country will rise in their strength and build for our King, one Jesus, the throne of this American contl- J? nent. . zl Another thing quoted for discouragement, but whioh I quote for encouragement, Is for- ' eign immigration. Now that from Castle rr" Garden we turn back by the first poor ship F the foreign vagabondism, We are getting . * people, the vast majority of whom oome to pvl make an honest living, among them some ol b the bravest and the best. If you should turn ? .. M - * J -C- Y* 4.U*. ?/-*??< r?r? I ^8111 oucx zrotn iujs laaa tu xjutujjo iuq iui<h6u > wnn ministers of the gospel, and the foreign attorneys, and the foreign merohants, and the foreign philanthropists, what a robbery of our pulpits, our courtrooms, our store- _ houses and our beneficent institutions, and OT what a putting back of every monetary, meroiful, moral and religious interest of the p; land! This commingling here of all Na- tjoa] tionalities under the blessing of God will m a produce in seventy-five or 100 years rece the most magnificent style of man i>ye and woman the world ever saw. met They will have the wit of one race, the eloquence of another race, the kindness of another, the generosity of another, the aesthetic taste of another, the high moral character of another, and when that man and woman 6tep forth, their brain and nerve and mu3ole an intertwining of the fibers of all Nationalities, nothing but the new electric photographic apparatus, that can see clear through body, mind and soul can take ot them an adequate picture. But the foreign population of America is less than one-eleventh of all our population, and why all this fuss about foreign immigration? Eighty-nine born Americans to eleven foreigners! If eighty-nine of us New Jerseymen or etoktv-nine of us New Yorkers or , eighty-nine of us Ohioans or eighty-nine of , us Georgians or e'ghty-nine of us Yankees aro not equal to eleven foreigners, then we are a starveling, lilllputian group of humun- ^ culi that ought to be wiped out of existence. ^ But now what are the weapons by which, $ under our omnipotent leader, the real '( obstacles in the way of our country's evangelization, the 10,000 mile Sevastopol?, are to be leveled? The flr3t columblad, with range enough to sweep from eternity to eternity, is the Bible, millions of its copies going out, millions on millions?this, the monarch of books, that has made all the __ difference between China and the United ,, Slates, between Africa and America; a book b declaring in every style of phraseology that all Nations are to be converted, and does not that include our Nation? If the Apocalyptic angel Is to fly across the con- 5. tlnents, will he not fly across this con- F tinent? The worst insult I could offer you would be to doubt your veracity, and shall ? we doubt God's promise? Then there are all 5: the gospel batteries, manned by 70,000 VjT pastors and home missionaries, over the head of each one of whom is the shield of 2 divine protection, and in the right hand ~ of each the gleaming, two-edged sword t * of the Infinite Spirit: tiunareos ?i w ? thousands of private soldiers for Christ, marching under tr.e one starred, blood striped flag of Emanuel! They are marching on! Episcopacy, with the sublime roll of its liturgies; Methodism, with Its battle cry y nf "The sword of the Lord and John caE Wesley," the Baptist church, with reg( its glorious navy sailing up our gjr Oregons and Saeramentos and Mississippi, (je? and Presbytarianism, moving ou with the 0U? battle cry of "The sword of the Lord and mo John Knox." And then, after awhile will come the great tides of revival sweeping over 0?. the land, the 500,000 conversions In 1837 me eclipsed by the salvation of millions in a day. fav ' and the four American armies of the Lord's ^ host marching toward each other, the eastern | army marching west, the western army J marching oast, the northern nrmy marching ^ south, the southern army marching north. ^ ' Shoulder to shoulder! Tramp, tramp, tramp! Lie ; Until they meet mid-continent, having taken at j i America for God! lic? The thunder of the bombardment is al- Pa' ' ready in the air, and when the la3t bridge of fou ! opposition is taken, and the la3l portcullis of ges ' sathn is lifted, and the last gun spiked, and tw< ' the last tower dismantled, and the last cat | charger of iniquity shall have been hurled Da back upon its hiunches. what a time of re joiclng! We will see it. not with these eyes, 4 which before that will be closed In blessed f " sleep, but with strong and better vision, .. ' when the Lord once in awhile gives us a va- c a " cation amons the dosologios to coino down tov nnrl CAB rht? n!rl lntl'i which I urav may always be the lamb of the text, mild and peaceful, inoffensive, but, in ease foreign Nations assail it. having two horns oi army ^ and navy strong enough to hook them back and hook them down and a voice louder tea * than a dragon, yea, louder than ten thou- me sand thunders, saying to the billows of Asiatic superstition and European arrogance. 3p , "Thus far shalt thou go. and no farther, and * here shall thy proud waves be staid!" g Horseless Carriages Making Headway. r jj Horseless carriages are gaining headwaj j In Paris. Four hundred and twenty-six o: . these vehicles have been registered at the ? [v Paris Prefecture of Police. ^ ir A Growing Navy. it By the 1st of July eight new United State; tni >? warshics will go into commission. DO 00! FOR M'KTNLBl e Action of the Buckeye Stat Convention at Columbus. IODE ISLAND AND KANSAS MEE" iator-Elect Foraker Fledges Himself t Bo Unswerving In His Devotion to Mc run?p?Thn Old Stat* Tioke Renominated In Rhode Island?Tb Kansas Convention. oLcaiBUs, Ohio, March 11.?The mos ible feature of the short session of th ublican State Convention was the speed Senator-elect Foraker, In which he de ea his allegiance to McKinley with grea or. [ want my speeoh to bo short enough, . he, ''for all to read it, and plain enougl all to understand it." lien Mr. Foraker praised MoKlnley an< ie of his qualifications for the Presi oy. The time had oome, he said, for re ming the third promise of the Zaneavill vention, which declared for the eleotioi IcKinley to the Presidency, He said: The Bepublioans of Ohio don't look un ily at Thomas B. Reed, nor Levi P. Mor , nor William B. Allison, nor Matthev liey Quay,the other great leadersHvho hav< i mentioned in connection with that honOn^tbe contrary, if tho St. Louis Con< tion should disappoint us and give the or to one of them, we here and now Ige him in advanco the electoral vote ol o by the largest majority over given in history of the State. It is not that we ) Crosar less, but Rome more. William tinley is our own." 1 ^-?-v WTT.LIAM M'kislet. beflght over delegates-at-large betweai Foraker and MoKlnley factions was anally settled, and the Ohio Big Four will he aker, Bushnoll, Hanna and Grosvenor. dispute was as to the last name. OroB or and Foraker arepersonal enemies. Ir slderatlon of the offer by tho MoKlnlej Ion not to oppose Oharles L. Kurtz, aker's ohtef political lieutenant, for mom of the National Committee, the Forakei Ion withdrew its opposition to Grosvenoi delegate-at-large. lere was a caucus of leading Forakei Ion Republicans, with a view to fixing l slate for the Convention. They deter ed to make General A- T. Wlkoff thelj ildate fcr Secretary of State. 5r Board of Publio Works they decide*! lpport John StlUwell. of Troy, and foi d Commissioner, Representative Black j, of Belmont County. They did not at pt to defeat Judge Williams for re-eleo to the Supremo bench. RHODE ISLAND CONVENTION.' Awmftw W. T.I nn 1ft ATld tho 01(1 Ticket Renominated. ioviDENCE, R. L, Maroh 11.?The Repub a State Convention was held here, witl attendance which surpassed that of an; nt year. Ex-Adjutant-Qeneral Ellshi r was Chairman. He said in his opening K5h: . - ootebjfob o. w. lip?:tt. The party of Rhode Island has alway n partial to the State of Maine, and 1 i year the choice of the party at largi uld fall upon her most eminent states a it wottld rest upon no broken Reed." 'ho tioket of last year was renominated Governor. Charles Warren Lippitl vidence; Lieutenant-Governor, Eawli Allen. Hopkinton; Secretary of State irles P. Bennett, Providence; Attorney aeral, Edward C. Dubois. East Provj ice; General Treasurer,' Samuel Clark tcoln. 'h9 convention made this declaration a he money^question: liWe affirm our be in a financial policy which recognize ry dollar to be of equal value to ever; er dollar." Kansas Republicans for McKinley. Fichita, Kan., March 11.?The Republi is of Kansas, in Convention, declared b; olution their preference for Major Mc iley as the nominee of the party for Pres) it. The resolutions were also consolcu i for the omission of any reference to th netary question. 'he re-election of CyrusLeland, Chairmu he State Central Committee, as KnDsa mber of the National Committee, wa ored, and delegates to St. Louis wer >3en. Raines Bill Passes the S enatc. ifter eight hours' debate the Raine luor Tax bill passed tbe New York Senat< Mbany, by a vote of 31 to 18, four Repub ins voting with the Democrats. Senato irey, of New York City, voted with th irteen Democrats. 80 did 8cnator Cog iball, of Oneida, the Independent. Th ) others who went into the Democrati np on the party measure were: Goorg vis and Simon Seibert, of Buffalo. Insurgents Destroy n Town. l cable despatch from Havana, Cuba, saj t insurgent bands have destroyed th m of San Juan y Martinez, inPinarDi ) province. Argentine Polo Players, 'he Argentine Republic is going to send m of polo players to E ngland next sun r. and much interest is exnre3sed to SB ilr ponies, which are snici to comprls loimens o? ovary kind bred in Sout lerica. Child Labor Investigation. Che Reinhard Investigating Committei pointed by the last New York Legislatur investigate child labor, has finished II irk and will report that no less than twe Irds ot those employed in New York Oil 5 employed in violation of tho Faotory Ii actors' law, wbloh was supposed to affoi am complete protection. ^ THE HALLS OF CONGRESS. The hearings in opposition to the anti tlon bill were begun by the House Art tural Committee. 6 The Secretary of the Interior wants < f?res3 to vote $45,000 to spend in reinde< turn loose in Ataska. Senator Push has presented a bill as that each State shall have a distintive ] |" age stamp of its owd. Mr. Hopkins introduced in the House* appropriation $500,000 for the establishi of a branch mint at Chicago. ? The Senate has passed a bill creatli pet.Tanent retiring list on three-fourths t for the revenue cutter service. Mr. Lloya, a Populist from North C 6 Una, has been appointed a messenger in Senate. This is th& first appointment position of this sort froo the ranks of t Populist party. e Representative Mahon, of Penosylvs introduced a bill in the House approprla $75,000 for the erection of a peace mc ?- ment at Appomattox. Va., on the spot wl Lee surrendered to Grant. Bills havlnar in view the comfort of di i? beasts during transportation across the o< have been introduced in both branch< 1 Congress. They provide for an internatii humane and sanitary congress. I Mr. Fowler, of New Jersey. lntroduc< . bill in the House, the purpose of which 1 take the United States out of the banl business, refund the National debt, ref 0 the currency and improve the banking 1 tem. The seed distribution demandod by ( Kress will probably be of no avail this y " as there are olerks to be appointed and o; work done which will delay the sending of the seeds until too late for this ye 'm crops. i The Senate Committee on Foreign E t tions decided to report the Dinpley bill, ; thorizing the extermination of the fur a unless England consents to further arbi tion without amendment. There was one dissenting vote, which was cast by Si tor Morgan. The House Committee on Labor agreei report favorably the bill to adjust the counts of mechanics, laborers and others der the eight-hour law with an amendn providing that thp amounts found dueth under shall be paid through the mail check, or in person to the claimants. The Senate bill authorizing the holdln a Trans-Mississppi and International E: sition at Omaha, Neb.. In 1898, was fa ably reported to the Senate. Provisio made for a Government exhibit and bi ings therefor, and the liability of the C ernment for these i3 limited to $250,000. The House Committee on Coinage, Wei, and Measures ordered favorably reported bill of Mr. Hurley, of Wisconsin, fixing standard of weights and measures by adoption of the metric system. Begin: July 1, 1893, the system is to be used by Government in the transaction of allbu9l requiring the use of weight and meas ment, and on July 1,1901, it is to be exti ed to the people at large. ! ? ? SPAIN'S PLAN OF ACTION. Will Protest to the Powers if We Fi Cuba?Demonstrations Against Us Madbid, Spain, March 7.?It Is annoui | that in the event of the United States C i ernment declaring its recognition of belligerent rights of the Cubans the ( " ernment will prepare a memorandum n J lng an energetio protest against suoh ac and send it to all of the European Minlsl 1 Demonstrations against the action of | American Senate and House of Beprese; [ tlves were held In Toledo, Seville, Grant r Cadiz and Malaga last evening. The < one of espeoial importance was that at I | aga, where the police were obliged ' charge upon the mob and .to protect unueu OIULU3 UUIUUBIC, r Decreed closing the universities in Mad . Barcelona and Granada have been sigi J and others will follow if necessary. The Cabinet has decided that Spain c not need a loan, and has rosolved to autl ize the fitting out of privateers In the e\ of war. Italian and English ship owi hare telegraphed to the Ministry inquii as to the Intentions of the Government Government has examined proposals mitted by an English shipping firm wl 1 offers to sell two fast cruisers of 4000 i each, and the vessels will probably be bou The Transatlantic Company has offeree , the Government the use of six of their f steamers and the Government has accej i the offer. A BRUTAL CRIME. IVIlii Mary E. Sullivan mysteriously n dered la Paterson. ML33 Mary E. Sullivan, aged twenty-el a music tcacher, was murdorod with In a doors of her home, in Park avenue, Pj gon, N. J., a few evenings ago. Her skull was crashed with a hi weapon, probably a coupling pin. She found unconscious on tne sidewalk besl vacant lot, and died a few hours aftei removal to the General Hospital. She unable to speak more tban one sentence, from that it is believed that her murd meditated either robbery or assault. The crime is a most remarkable one cause of the early hour and the public t at which it was committed and tne admit character of the victim. The police anc hospital surgeons believe that sho was fa hurt while defending her honor. She neither robbed nor assaulted. The victim was slightly built, welg about ninety-five pounds, delicate, with face and magnificent dark hair. She 1 with her sisters and brothers at 193 1 avenue. She was of quiet demeanor, tremely lady-like and of a very exemj character. f THE VENEZUELAN BLUE BOOK 9 England's Claim In Fall in a Folio uine of 443 Pagej. The expected Venezuelan Blue B Q which is entitled "Documents and C< apondence Relating to the Question of I- Boundary of Guiana and Venezuela,'' has :i issued by the British Government. The vol consists of 443 folio pages, with a sepi boot containing nine maps. The book o with forty pages, comprising a Z liminary statement dealing with ' history of the territories from until the issuance of Her Maje I *n Vonaruela in Ml Hiuiliui auuuLu bw , v-? [. 1890. The book is divided Into his Y periods, from the earliest time to 1613,: lG48to 179C and from 1796 to 1840. j j. that period references are made to vai claims and dispatches, ai.d the report e eludes with ? brief summary. William L. 9cruggs, counsel for Venez a before the Boundary Commission, iasu 3 reply to the British case, as stated bj 3 Frederiok Pollock and Lord Salisbury. e fessor George L. Burr, of Cornell Un sity, has been summoned to Washingtc assist the Venezuela High Commission. 3 American Consulate Attacked. >, The university at Valencia, Spain, been closed. Rioters in that city we e the American Consulate, hooted the Co and tue United States, and smashed the q dows of the building with stones and c q missiles. The police dispersed the mob, e had much difficulty in doing so. Holmca'A Day o: Doom. The date for the execution at Phil) 's phia of H. H. Holmes, the convicted : 0 derer of Benjamin Pitezol and alleged i jl derer of twenty-one others, was fl.ve( Governor Hastings. of Pennsylvania, names Thursday, May 7. A New Sea Anchor. a 4 new sea anchor has been invente 0 Michael McCarthy, of Mlddletown, C is The anchor is filled with oil in such a h that the oil is diffused over the waves ai anchor is tossed up and dowz, and so ai paratlvo calm is created in which tho v< may ride out a storm in safety. 3, . 'a Demonstration by Princeton Student ? Students at Princeton College made a s :v figure of the King of Spain and burned a- ofllgy. The demonstration included a pa :d through the town, with banners bea antl-SD&nlsh taacrinH'-ns. MASSACHUSETTS' NEW COVERNOR* _Q_ Bojjeir Wolcott Comes From Sturdy Netr jcu[" England Stock. Lieutenant-Governor Roger Wolcott, who Con- became Chief Magistrate of Massachusetts 3r to on the death of Governor Greenhalge, comes of a distinguished American family. He is a descendant of the famous Roger Wolicott, who was the Governor of Connecticut iln the seventeenth century, and of Oliver i bill ;Wolcott, who was Secretary of the Treasury nen^t L_ , ?1 ? - thei ' ont Q0VEBN0B BOOEB WOLCOTT. ar 3 In the early days of the Republic. Roger Wolcott was one of the signers of the Deoe'a" laration of Independence. n"* Lieutenant-Governor Woicott's term exeals piresnext January, and his success^? will be Itra- elected at the Reneral elections in Novembut ber. The law of Massachusetts is odd in reana lation to the present situation. For twenty years until now there has never been a vai to cancy in the office of Governor. But Lieuac tenant-Govornor Wolcott will not succeed as ? * oikA nr. i uu- vjuvofauf. jl/uiiu^ iug mucas ui iui. utooulent halgo he was "Acting Governor." The Coniere stitution does not transmit the title of Gov, by ernor to the seoond officer of State in the event of the death of the first officer, On the _ 0f death of the first officer the seoond officer isjp0_ aues a proclamation declaring that there is vor- R vacanoy In the office of Governor. The n jg Lieutenant-Governor then ceases to be Aotlild ^ Governor, but beoomes '"Lieutenant}0y. Governor and Commander-in-Chief." ghts SPANISH MINISTER SCORED. ^the Senators Besent Published Criticisms of the i. Their Speeches. ling The public crltiolsms of the Spanish Minnas '8ter' SenorDuPayDe Lome,direoted against ure. certain statements made in the United States 2nd- Senate on the subject of the Cuban war, were the cause of An acrimonious discussion whloh oioupied the whole of the morning's session of the Upper House at Washington. The discussion Was started by ??? Qonofrt* T.r\Ar*n an/1 nVidia OAtnu Qanofnw I 1 Up WMlWtUi. JUUUgVf i>UU nuuw OV/1UW klWW^tVAO confined themselves to conservative statements, others went to the radical extreme of lced deolanng that De Lome merited thereturn}ov lng of his passports. the The action of Minister De Lomo in publishlng certain orltlclsms, both on the Cuban *ov" Resolutions passed ten days before In the lak- Senate and. on the arguments of Senators tion yho supported those resolutions, was the :ers. theme of the exoiting and highly personal the debate. Mr. Lod(?e, whose ability nta- to translate Spanlsn was impeached ida, by Senor De Lome, and whose )nly quotations from Spanish anthoriilal tlea to substantiate the current oharges to of military barbarities In Cuba were dethe nonnoed as spurious, was tho first to strike baok at the letter-writing Minister, and his .rid, complaints of that official's alleged violaled, tlon of diplomatic etiquette were eohoed by other Senators who had been assailed, loes Allusions to the fate of Genet and of Saokhor ville-Weet were made in the heated discusrent gion which followed over Minister De Lome's aers reflections on- the publlo actis of one of the ring legislative branches of the Federal GovernThe ment sub- Messrs. Lodge, Teller, Morgan, Chandler itch and Frye maintained that Senor De Lomo tons had been guilty of a serious breaoh of fht. propriety in issuing his statement directly to to the public. best No definite suggestion of dismissal was pted made, however, by Senor De Lome's orltics, while, on the other hand, defenoe of his action was undertaken by Senator Hale and Senator Gray. lur- INSURGENT CAINS AND LOSSES. One Day's Report of the Progress or Hoight, tllttles in Cnba. 10w Havana advices say the Cuban initer" surgents in an engagement at Mamey lost sixty killed and 150 wounded. Their leader, 3avy Abrew, was killed. According to on unoonfirmed dispatch, JIaceo, the insurgent leader. ;Q? a has been driven out of the province of ' Havana and has retreated into Matanzas. He is being pursued by the Spanish troops and has been prevented from joining forces with erer Gomez. . , w*The insurgents have burned the plantaD''" tlone and buildings at Cacaiban, in^he Trin, ?,? idad district of Santa Clara. The insurgents !atr? have burned the splendid plantation of Aroo ! ,,? de Iris, with the buildi igs, in the district of tptta Guira, province of Havana. was s- 8tnce Weyler's proclamation fully 8000 men . . have joined the insurrection in the province of Puerto Principe. General Gomez has rePal? turned there to raise an army of 25,000, in ivea order that he may by April, in conjunction rarK ^th Maceo's forces and others, consolidate \ ?x" an army of 40,000 men near Havana and be ?aiy prepared for an aegressive campaign. ITALY'S NEW MINISTRY. The Successors of the Crlspi Cabinet Sworn Vol. . . x , 1DIO uracc ai wie \;mnuat. The composition of the new Italian Minis3 ' try is officially announced as follows: 3r ' Marquis di Eudinl. Premier and President , e of the Council and Minister of the Interior. bppn General Rlcotti, Minister of War. lurae Admiral Brin, Minister of Marine. irate Slgnor 8ermoneta, Minister of Foreign pens Affairs; Slgnor Branca, Minister of Finance; pre- Slgnor Colombo, Minister of the Treasury; the Slgnor Perazzi, Minister of Public Works; 1520 Slgnor Ouicciardini. Minister of Agriculture; sty's Signor Costa, Minister of Juatloe; Slgnor iroh, Gianturco, Minister of Public Instruction; torio Slgnor Carmine, Minister of Posts and Telefrom graphs. \.fter Tne new Ministry has deoided Conservarious tivo leanings. The Ministers were sworn con- into office at the Qulrinal, after which ceremony Parliament was convoked. led a Novel Street-Car Regulation. 7 Qir pr0. The Chicago Aldermen are talking of orIver daining a three-cent faro for "stand-ups" in >n to ! screei cars. Americana Sarins 0000 Lives. A Constantinople dispatch says: "The has Americans aro keeping 6000 peo2>le barely Qt t0 alive at Marash, Ar.reniu, with u weskly dole of three pence each." insul Murdered His Wife and Shot Himself. 'Yut Select Councilman Fidel Tritschler shot and instantly killed his wife nt Alientown, Penn.,nn'l then llred two bullets into his bmin. Ho was fatally injured. adel* Soutii American Peace Commission, mur- President Gutierrez, of Salvador, has appur pointed a Pcacn Commission to arrange 1 by j torms betweeu tha Nieur.iguan Goverment He and tho rebels. A Xexv Form of Note. T_ out. t An (1 by I iU umuagu u uc?Y IU1W UI uuic uaj muus onn. appearance, and appears to be coming way I Into general use. It stipulates that princii tho pal and interest shall bo paid iu gold, gold ;om- certificates or greenbacks, thus tabooing sll-' assel I and silver certificates. Alfred Krolger, a Boston boy, fell down in ts. the street tho olher day, aud his tongue protruding, touched an "iron coai hole cover, traw fro20 jj0 coui,j not Up untu a it in 1 neighboring saloon keeper thoughtfully jade brought sf>mo warm liquid and poured on .ring the Iron around his tongue, thawing itloose. J TEMPERANCE. THE WIFE'S NEW STOUT. The story, ma'am? Why, really now, ' "haven't much to say. If you had come a year ago, and then agaix to-day, No need of any word to tell, for your owi eyes could see Just what the Good Templar Order has dom for John and me. A year ago I hadn't flour to make a batch o bread, And many a night these little ones wen hungry to their bed. Just peep into the pantry, ma'am. There': sugar, flour and tea. * That's what the Good Tempiar Order ha.< done for John and me. The pail that holds the butter he used to fll with beer. Ha Jinsn't snent a cent for drink for tw< months and a year. Ho pays his debts, he's well and strong, anc kind as man can be. Teat's what the Good Templar Order ha; done for John and me. He used to sneak along tbo streets, feellns so mean and low, And always felt ashamed to meet the folk; he used to know. He looks the world now In the face; he stepi off bold and free. That's what the Good Templar Order haj done for John and me. Tho children were afraid or him; his coming stopped their play. Now, every night when supper's done and the table Cleared away, The boys will frolic 'round his chair, the baby climb his knee. That's what the Good Templar Order has done for John and me. Ohf yes; the sad. sad times ara gone, the sor row, and the pain; The children have their father back and 1 my John again. Don't mind my crying, ma'am; indeed, it's just for joy to see All that the Good Templar Order has done for John nnd me. ?Scottish Good Templar. ALCOHOLISM AND ITS EFFECTS. At a meeting of the Edinourgh MedicoChirurgical Society Dr. Lockhart Gillespie read a paper, entitled "Statistics Concerning the Patients Admitted Into the Royal Infirmary Suffering From Alcoholism and Its Effects During the Last Five Years." During that period 1264 patients had been admitted (only those were reckoned who were suffering from alcohol and its immediate effects), 935 males and 329 females. In this number there had been forty-four deaths -thirty-eight males (four per cent.) and six females (1.8 per cent.) As to monthly admissions, these were most in January; there was a slight rise in April, a great rise in July and August, and a fall from that time till the lowest number was reached in November. There was an excess in summer, more especially in female admissions. A graphic chart of the above fa$ts closely corresponded to a similar chart of the deaths in the eight principal towns of Scotland for the same period. As to occupation: Males, 461 laborers, of which 271 were outdoor laborers and 19J indoor. The outdoor workers drank mo3t in summer, the indoor most in winter. One hundred nnd nineteen shopkeepers, who appeared to drink most in summer; professional classes, 109 (these drank most in summer, and were more prone to mental disturbances other than delirium tremens); liquor trade. 84, with 32.7 of delirium tremens, but only 2 of neuritis; cabmen, 68, in which class drinking apparently varies with wet weather. As to females, 162 were housewives and charwomen, with 44 per cent, of surgical case3. These were the most pugnacious of any. There were 101 cases of neuritis, chlefiy in summer, and none in the five Novembers of the period covered. One hundred and seventy-seven cases of delirium tremens, with excess in July. Dr. Gillespie's inference from these facts was that drinking varied with the holidays.?British Medical Journal FnEE FICTXJBES. Speaking against intemperance lately at Montreal, Rev. Father Gaffre of that city gave the following powerful description of three classes of drunkards. "Slavery has been abolished In this free land of America, and yet the army of slaves is still innumerable. It is the army of drunkards kept in greater durance than were ever the slaves of ancient Greece and Rome. Whert is the liberty and will of the -drunken man? He has left it at the bottom of the glass on the counter of. a saloon. "Here is a man who has always been respected, but he meets with friends, takes the fatal cup, and a moment after becomes the laughing stock of tho crowd on the street; ae nas Deen iuruou imu u uyc. ' Another has always been noted for his mild disposition, but also is imprudent enough to indulge in strong drinks, and under their influenoe he becomes,cross and angry; he is turned into a bear. "A third has always been a kind husband and an exemplary father, but alas! he is also Induced to taste the fiery fluid, and its effects is to untie the tongue, which then speaks naught but filth acd pollution: he has become?well, the name cannot be men tioned." THE GBEAT QUESTION*. At a meeting in Exeter Hull. London, Cardinal Manning eloquently said concerning the liquor traffic: "What are all our politics compared with this great question. We want a good helmsman at tho wheel, and we want a sober crew on board! And if there be one thing which demoralizes a people more rapidly than any other, it is that which makes the brains of men to reel and tbelr hearts to be passionate nnd inflamed, and the wills of men to be unsteady and weak, in the hour of temptation; and when I know that intoxicating drink is dolus: all this, and that in the great centers of our industry, just there where the people are crowded together, where the National life is intensified, as it were, into a focus?when I knbw that the evil is spreading itself with the greatest intensity. I ask. what are we about? How is it that men who profess to be statesmen and politit waste their time and the time of the lature before they take this subject in hand?",' ? a doctor's wabkino. The late Sir Andrew Clark, the eminent English physician, after saying on one occasion that seyea out of ten hospital patients owed thek'poor health to the use of alcohol, added; '"I do not say that seventy in every 100 are drunkards. I do not know that one of them Is, but they use alcohol. So soon as a man begins to take one drop then the desire begotten in him becomes" a part of his nature, and that nature, formed by bis acts, inflicts curses inexpressible when handed down to the generations that are to follow him as part and parcel of their being. When I think of this, I am disposed to give up my profession, to give up everything, and to go forth upon a holy crusade to preach to all men, 'Beware of this enemy of the race.'" aids to temperance. A. comfortable home often saves a man from the habit of frequenting saloons, remarks a contemporary. Some poor men ao not know how to enjoy themselves in a legitimate and proper manner. They think it is a fine thing to be among boon companions in a ginmill talking a lot of nonsence about the most trivial, commonplace and sometimes unsavory matters. If in their earlier years these same men had been taught to cultivate a love of books and of music and had been brought up in an atmosphere ol true Christian refinement, the saloons would not be so much visited by thorn. mr. murphy's views. Francis Murphy, the famous temperance onitor. has been holding a series 01 mmiu^: in Chicago. As a result, over 2000 have signed the pledge. Concerning the temperanco outlook, Mr. JIurphy says "The temperance cause is making more rapid progress now than over before. There is a demand for men of responsibility and worth, and the man who drinks his 'only a glass' will fall behind. The street railways and steam railways and other corporations will hire only sober men. Tlio great need of the hour is a great revival of pure, uudefiled religion." MOST rOTENT CAUSES OK INSANITY. Dr. Walmsley. au eminent English medical authority, sitvs: "The most potent cause? of Insanity are hereditary transmission and alcoholic intemperance. No iesg than onehalf of all occurring cases of insanity are due to inherited taint; one-fourth of all occurring cases of insanity are due to drink." < 1 *" nHMBflswaMBOBBa ^ i.v,. -rer^mtvi RELIGIOUS READING. H THE READINESS OF OOD. One of the hardest things for a human bdiag to understand, in the Divine character is the readiness of God to forgive, to help, to befriend, to adopt, to bless. "How can Ho forgive me. how can He accept me?" is often the despairing cry. "How can He take me into His heart of love, when up to this very moment I have neglected and grieved and denied Him?" Yes, God's way is different from the human way?so different that no wonder human nature stands perplexed and wondering and doubting. The human way, even if the better spirit had come to a man, would be to forgive gradually with a certain evitable reserve of feeling; to render confidence and help by degrees; and not until the offender had thoroughly proved his change of heart, to take him into one's bosom. and one's life. God's way is not so. The Bible is full of assurances of our HeavenlyFather's immediate response to human repentance and human need. The instant a man cries, from the depths of a broken and contrite heart, "God be merciful to me, a ! sinner!"that instant God forgives and adopts him. Think of taking to your heart one who ! had always cursed and injured you! Yet that is precisely what God does when He accept# the repentant sinner. If you say that the sinner is God's child, and that therefore it is j not as hard for the Heavenly Father to take him to His breast when repentant, consider ?is not the sinner iust as much your brother as he is God's child ? There should be no distinction between the Divine feeling and I the human feeling on the scor^ of spiritual relationship. ! It is not. of course, to be supposed, or urged, that man's way should be like God's i way in this respect. The difference represents just what distinguishes the divine and the human. The lesson which we are to draw from the thought of God's readiness is the lesson of hope, and joy, and confidence in coming to Him. God never stops to ponder over the matter wl e 1 a human soul ' cries out to Him for love and help and forgiveness. He is always in a state of watch1 ful, responsiveness to meet the first prayerbreathings of the human soul, and bless that soul unto the uttermost. And no length of wandering can carry the soul away from Him. out of His love or power. The sweet words of Whittier are always true,? 1 ''I only know I cannot pass Beyond His love and care." Persistent alienation sometimes kills the love of the human heart, but never God's love. Forever and forever He stands ready to welcome the prodigal returning to his Fathers house. Ho long as man has power of will to turn, so long the Divine arms are i outstretched to receive Mm. There is no dead-line of condemnation, save that awful bound which a man sets for himself when he surrenders to evil the last possibility of voluntarily turning to meet the winning love-light in the face of God. ' OPPOBTUJUTX AND POWEB. When opportunity touches an undeveloped man it is astonishing what power is often, displayed; and it is undoubtedly true that* while there are no mute Shakespeares, the world is full of men and women of real power who need only an opportunity to exhibit it. But opportunities are oftener ? made than found, and opportunities would come often to all of us if we held ourselves, in the right sense, at a higher price. We are too easily satisfied with what we have done, and wo too early accept what appear to be the limits of our growth. No man or woman ought ever to accept any limits to development. There is a power' behind us on which we have a right to count,even when we distrust our own capacity. Right methods of life, right habits of urnrlr nnrt annnri aims kflen lis in touch with that divine power which nourishes and unfolds everything which it feeds. Upon this faith as a foundation, we have a right to demand of the new time that it shall give us weight and force and vitality such a0 the old time never save us. We have a right to ask of ourselves . greater efficiency, energy and freshness. Refusing to set any limit to our growth, we have a right to insist that life shall mean more to us and shall do more through us every year than in any previous year. Mr. Story was once showing a friend, who was visiting him in Rome, his recent work. "For which of the things you have done," asked his friend, "do you care most?" "I care most," said the sculptor,"for the statue I am to carve nejtt." It is achievement which brings hope, consolation, and inspiration ; it is opportunity. If we aro immortal, the future is our reality, not the past.?The Outlook. ECONOMY. Too often we think of economy as something belittlipg, practised by those of small, selfish and grasping natures, or by nobler souls from stern necessity. That anyone should exercise economy from a belief in it as the true and natural method of life is usually incomprehensible. Ye; no close observer of the natural world and no careful i student of the Bible can fail to discover that economy js a law of nature and of GodIn the incident at C'ana, Christ usefl what i was at hand. The hungry multitudes in the desert mijst have marveled to IMS him take the meager portion which titer had thought hardly worth mentioning ana convert it into .sustonaneel And if he, whrfof all others had the right to be lavish and extravagant. was never wasteful, wifely no person can feel justifleddn wasting where Christ would have saved. If he,' in every emergeucy, could discover some resource i which needed only power and wisdom to render it effective, ought we fi'ot to M more quick to see, more wise to Improve the capa- 2? bilities of good in the people and things V about us? '' . / mt / . I.EST IS HEBE. My friends, oo^Lent Is here. There is no magic in its day*. It is only ih'at we have resolved till Easter to give-'more time and thought to o^ religious life. All that may come to much or it may come to nothing. I beg yoo let it come to much. And the way to do that is to bring your soul up to the point of whole and genuine confession. By any^discontent you have now with your life, by-anv longing for a better heart, by the * ' ' 1 solemn responsiuimy juu w?c w wuu, uy 4he great, unutterable love of Chri .st I beg ? you not to let this Lent pass without confessing you# sinfulness and being forgiven and. becoming a grateful servant of Jesus Christ. May God grant it for all.?Phillips Brooks. GOD EXTEBETH THE SOCL. Children, on this wise God entereth into the soul immediately without a veil; that is. when a man wholly renounces self?all that he has. One moment in this stato wero more worth living than forty years spent in doing and leaving undone what we pleased. O God ! with what thingsare men taken up while they waste this precious, blessed season of grace and come short of that poor, exalted good which might, and ought unceasingly, to be wrought in them; and so the long years roll slowly by. and they are as one in a sleep never coming any farther, unstirred by God's grace.?John Tauler. We are not writing in the sand. The tide does not wash it out. We are not painting our pictures on the canvas, and with a brush, so that we can erase the error of yesterday. or overlay it with another color today. We am writing our lives with a chisel on the marble and every time we strike a blow we leave a mark "that is indelible.? Lyman Abott. D. D. We arc not to carry others' burdens that they can carry as well as ourselves. True l>.il..f<iln.kaj .lAndi^a in irivin^ unmfnrt nnM comfort means Riving strength to those wha are weary by inspiring them when they hesitate or fail.- David O. Mears, D. D. A Large Gold Output.' Men who are familiar with what California is now producing declare that the State's output of gold and silver ought to be l.ugor this year than for thirty years. This prediction is based on the number of old mines which have recently been opened ami worked by new electric and cyanide processes. In the Sierra Nevadas many good mines were abandoned twenty years ago becausa of the great cost of power and the large waste in . reduction of reiractory ore. Now rich sulphuret ores may bo worked up to ninety-four per cent, of flre-assay value. A noteworthy recent incident of this revival of mining waa the opening of the abandoned Meadow L&ka camp.