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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.