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T " REV. DR. TALMAGE. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "Reformation of Habits." Text: ,;When shall I awake? I will seek It yet again." wuu an msight into nunan nature such as no other man ever reached, Solomon, in my text, sketches the mental operations of one who, having stepped aside from the path of rectitude, desires to return. With a wish for something better he says: ''When shall I awake? When shall I come out of this horrid nightmare of iniquity?" But seized upon by uneradicated habit, and forced down hill by his passions, he cries out: "''I will seek it yet again. I will try it once more." Our libraries are adorned with an eleprant literature pointing out all the dangers and perils of life?complete maps of the voyage, showing all the rocks, the quicksands, the shoals. But suppose a maa has already made shipwreck; suppose he is already off the track; suppose he has already gone astray, how is he to sret back? That is a field comparatively untoached. I propose to address myself this evening to such. There are those in this audience who, with every passion of fhftir ?mil krA rflaHv M hAflf thla ! discussion. They compare themselves with what they were "ten years ago, ami cry out from the bondage in which they are incarcerated. Habit is a task master. As long as we obey it it does not chastise us; but let U3 resist, and we And we are to be lashed with scorpion whips aud bound with ship cable, and thrown into the trask of bone-breaking Juggernauts. During the war of 1812 there I tPQ j o chin cof r?ri firo incf oVmva Vi n ?-ti Falls, and thvn, cut loose from its mooriugs, it came on down through the night, and tossed over the falls. It was said to have been a scen? brilliant beyond all description. Well, there are thousands of men on fire of evil habit, comins down through the rapids, and through the awful night of temptation; toward the eternal plunge. Oh, how hard it is to arrest them! God only can arrest them. Suppose a man. after Ave, or ten, or twenty years of evil doing resolves to do risht. Why, all the forces of darkness are allied against him. He cannot sleep- nights. He gets down on his knees in the midnight, and cries, "God help me!" He bites hi9 lip; he grinds his teeth; he clenches his flst in a determination to keep his purpose. He dare not look at the bottles in the windows of a wine store. It Is one lon?, bitter, exhaustive, hand-to-hand fight with an inflamed, tantalizing and merciless habit. When he thinks he is entirely free the old inclinations pounoe upon him likea pack of hounds, with their muzzles tearing; away at the flanks of one poor reindeer. In Paris there is a sculptured representation of Bacchus, the god of reve.ry. He is riding on a panther at full leap. Oh, how suggestive! Let every one who la speeding on bad ways understand he is not riding a docile and well broken steed, but he is riding a monster, wild and bloodthirsty. eoine at a death leaD. How many there are who resolve on a better life, anci say, "When shall I awake?" but, seized on by their old habits, cry, "I will try it once more. I will spek it yet again." Tears asjo there were some Princeton students who were skating, and the ice wa3 very thin, and some one warned the company back from the air hole, and finally warned them entirely to leave the place. But one young man, with bravado, after all the rest had stopped, cried out. "One round more!" He swept around and went down, and was brought out a corpse. My friends, ttare are thousands and tens of thousands I of men losing their souls in that way. It is the "one round more." If a man wants to return from evil practices, society repulses him. Desiring to reform he says, "Now I will shake off my old associates and I will find Christian companionship." And he appears at the church door some Sabbath day and the usher greets him with a look as much as to say, "Why, you here! You are the last man 1 ever expected to see at church! Come, take this seat right down by the door," instead of saying, "Good morning! I am glad you are here. Come. I will srivavou a first-rate seat right ud by the pulpit." Well, the prodigal, not yet discouraged, enters a prayer meeting, and some Christian man, with more zeal than common sense, says, "Glad to see you; the dying thief was saved and I suppose there is mercy for you." The young man, disgusted, ihilled. throws himself on his dignity, resolved he will never enter the house of God S again. Perhaps not quite fully discouraged about reformation, he sidles up by some highly respectable man he used to know, coing down the street, and immediately the respectable man has an errand down some other street. Well, the prodigal, wishing to return, takes some member of a Christian association by the hand, or tries to. The Christian young man looks at him, looks at the faded apparel and the marks of dissipation; instead of crivinc him a warm grip of the hand, he offers him the tip ends of the long fingers of the ieft hand, which is equal to striking a man <n the face. Oh! how few Christian people anderstand how much force and gospel there is in a good honest handshaking. Sometimes, when you have felt the need of encouragement, and some Christian man has taken you heartily by the band, have you not felt thrilling through every fibre of your jodv. mind and soul sin encouragement that iwas just wbat you needed? You do not know anything at all about this unless you know when a man tries to return from evil courses ie runs against repulsions innumerable. We say of some man, he lives a block or two from the church, or half a mile from the ahurch. There are people in our crowded cities who Uveathousand miles from church. Vast deseris of indifference betweem them and the house of God. The fact is, we must keep our respectability, though thousands and tens of thousands perish. Christ sat with publicans and sinners. But if there comes to the house of God a man with marks of dissipation upon him, the people almost throw up their hands in horror, as much as to say. "Isn't It shocking!" How these dainty, fastidious Christians in all our churches are going to get into heaven I don't know, unless they have an especial train of cars, cushioned and upholstered, each one a car to himself. They cannot go with publicans an 1 sinners. Oh! ye who curl your lip of scorn at the falleu, I tell your plainly, if you had been surrounded by the same influences, instead of sitting to-day amid the cultured, and the refined and the Christian, you would have been a crouching wretch, covered with filth and abomination. It is not because you are any better, but because the mercy of God hia protected you. Who are you that, brought up in Christian circles and watched by Christian parentage, you should be so hard on the fallen? First of ^11, my brother, throw yourself on God. Go to Him frankly and earnestly ami tell Himthese habits you have, and ask Him if there is anv heln in all the resources of I omnipotent love to give it to you. Do not go with a long rigmarole people call prayer, made up of "ohs" and "ahs" and "forever And ever, amens!" Go to God and cry for help! help! help! and if you cannot 3ry for help, just look and live. 1 remember in the late war, I was at Antietam, and I went into the hospitals after the battle and said to a man: "Where are you hurt?" He made no answer, but held up his arm, swollen and splintered. I saw where he was hurt. The simple fact Is, when a man has a wounded soul, all he ha; to do is to hold it up before a sympathetic Lord and get it healed. It does not take any long prayer. Just hold up the wound. Oh, it is no small thins when a man is nervous and weak and exhausted, coming from his evi! ways, to feel that God puts two omnipotent arms around him and says: "Younjj man, I will stand by you. The mountains may depart, and the hilis bo removed, but I will never fall you." Rlassnd he fl-od for such a posnol as this. I "Cut the slices thin," said the wife to the husband, "or there will not bo enough to so all around for the children; cut the slices thin." Blessed be God there is a full loaf foreverv one that wants it. Bread enough and to spare. So thin slices at the Lord's table. I remember when the Msister Street Hospital in Philadelphia was opened during the war, a telegram came saying, "There will be three hundred wounded men to-night; be ready to take care of them;" and from my church there went in some twenty or thirty men and women to look after these poor wounded fellows. As they came, some from one pyt of the land, some from another, no one asked whether this man was from Oregon, or from Massachusetts, or from Minnesota, or from New York. There was a wounded soldier, and the only question was bow to take off the rags the most gently, knd pat on the bandage, ana administer the cordial. And when a soul comes to Ch*. Ha does not ask where ycu came from, or what your ancestry was. Healing for nil your wounds. Pardon for all your guilt. Comfort for all your trouble.1!. Then, also, I counsel you if you want to set back to quit all your bad associations. One unholy intimacy"will All your soul with moral distemper. In all the ages of the church there has not been an instance whero a man kept one evil associate and was reformed. When a man deliberately chooses bad association because he likes it, that man has started on tho road down. Oh, I do not care what you call it, that association will desEoil your soul. After you are destroyed, ody, mind and soul, what will they do for vouV what will they do for your family? They will not give on* cent to support yoar children after you are dead. Tti^y will"not weep one tear at your burial. They will chuckle over your damnation. T hnH a pfirn frienrl nfr W/?af TTo ttaq full of welcome when I went there to live. I Hh had splendid personal appearance. There is not a grander looking person in this house to-day than he was; and to this grand personal appearance he added all geniality and all kindness of soul?tender as a child, a beautiful and loving nature, and I loved him as a brother; but I saw evil people coming up around him, evil men coming up from bad places of amusement, and they seized hold of his social and genial nature, and they began to drag him down, and he went further and further. I used to say to him, "Now, why don't you stop these bad habits and become a Christian?" for I talked with him just as I would talk with a brother, and he understood me, and I understood him. I said, "Why don't you give up these things and become a Christian?" "Oh." he said to me one day, loaning over his counter?just after I had assed him for a hundred dollars to help educate a young man for the ministry, and he had given me the money before I had the story half told?"if it will do the young man any good, here is a hundred dollars." Right alter mat conversation i. sum, -now, yvu are a splendid fellow; why don't you give up your bad habits and bo a Christian?" "Oh," he said, as the tears ran down his cheek?, "I can't. I should like to be a Christian. You see, I have got these habits on me so. sir. I cun't get rid of them. I have been coins wrong longer than you would think for, and I can't stop." Sometimes, in the moments of repentance, he would go to his home and embrace his little girl of eight years convulsively to his heart, and he would cover her with adornments and strew toys and pictures all about ner, aoa taon iruiu uot ucaumui jJimvuw? the beautful presence of his little child?he would go to the intoxicating cup, and to the house of shame, as a fool to the correction stocks; and there these bad men kept pushing him on, a ship, full-winged, crashing into tbe breakers. I was called to his deathbed. I hastened, and when I got into the room I was surprised to find him in full everyday dress, lying on the top of the couch. I put out my hand and he greeted me very cordially. He said: "Now, Mr. Talmage, sit down right there." I sat down and he said: "Last night, just where you sit now, I saw my mother, though she has been dead twenty years?yes, air; just where you sit now she sat. I couldn't have been mistaken. I was ? ?I j- 1.? T ?? ?v,<? ;,,Q? QO WIU?5 nwatvo an x am uwn, oun jui juji where you ait. Wife, I wish you would take these strings off that they are weaving around me; I wish you would take them off; they annoy me very mucn in this conversation." I saw he was in delirium. His wife said: "There is nothing there, my dear; there i3 nothing there." Then he resumed the conversation, and said: "Yes, my mother sat just where you sit now. I knew her. She had the same spectacles, and the same cap and the same apron, and the same dress. It must have been her, just as she looked, twenty years ago?she has been dead now twenty > ears. And sitting there she said to me, 'Roswell, 1 wish you would do better;' and I got up out of bed, and I knelt beside her and said, Mother, I wish I could?I wish I could do better; I would like to do better. Won't you help me? You used to help me. Why can't jjou help me now, mother?' But soon I said. "Now we will pray." I knelt to pray. He did not realize anything I said, I suppose. Then I got up and said "Good-by! irood-bv!" That aitrht he went to God. Arrangements for the obsequies were beins? made, and they said, "Ob. it won't do to bring him to the onurch; tie has been so dissolute." I said, "Bring him, bring him; he stood by me when he was alive, and I'll stand by him when he is dead. Bring him into the 3hurch." The Sabbath came. As I stood in the pulpit and saw his body coming up the aisle, I felt as if I could weep tears of blood. I stood there that day and I said, ':This man had his v.rtues, and a good many of them; he had his faults, and a good many of them; but let that man in this assembly who is without sin cast the first stone on this coffin lid." i On the one side of the pulpit sat the beautiful child, as radiant and sweet faced as any i child that sat at your table this morning. I She knew not the sorrows of an orphan I child; she was not old enough to realize them. Sometimes when I think of that awful scene, her face haunts me like a beautiful face through a horrid dream. On the other side ot the pulpit sat the man who had destroyed him. They had put the wormwood and the gall into "that orphan's cup. They pushed him off the precipice. I stood tnere and told them that there was a God and a judcment and a hell for those who destroyed their fellows. Did they weep? Oh, no, not ouetear. Did thev sigh repentingly? Not one sigh. Did they say, "What a pity that we destroyed him?" Oh, no. They sat and gazed at the coffin as vultures at the carcass of a lamb whose heart they had ripped out. That night,though ray friend lay in Oakwood Cemetery, I heard afterward that these men went rifjht on with their iniquities, destroying themselves and destroying others. Gather up all the energies ot body, mind and soul, and appealing to God for success, declare this day everlasting war against all drinking habits, all framing practices, all houses of sin. Half-and-half work will amount to nothing. It must be a Waterloo. Shrink back now, and you are lost! Push on, and you are saved! A Spartan General fell at the very moment of victory, but he dipped his finger in his blood and wrote on a rock, near which he was dying. "Sparta has conquered." Though your struggle to get rid of sin may seem to be almost a death struggle, you can dip your finger In vour own blood and write on the Rock of Ages "Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!" Some one said to a Grecian General: "What was the proudest moment of your life?" He thought a moment, and said: "The proudest moment of my life was when I sent word home to my parents that I had gained the victory." And the proudest and most brilliant moment in your life will be the moment when you can send word to your parents in the country that you have conquered your ovil habits by the grace of God, and become eternal victor. Oh! despise not paternal anxiety. The time will come when you have neither father nor mother, and you will go around the place where they used to watch you, aud find them gone from the house, and gone from the field, and gone from the neighborhood. Cry as loud for forgiveness as vou may over the mound in the church yard they will not answer. Dead! Dead! And then you will take out the white lock of hair that was cut from your mother's brow just before they buried her, and you will take the cane witn which your father used to walk, and you will think and think, and wish that you had done just as then wanted you to, and would Rive the world if you had nover thrust a pang through tlieir do.ir old hearts. God pity the young man who has brought disgrace on his father's name! God pity the young man who has brokeu his mother's heart! Bettor if he had never been born? better if. in the first hour of his life, instead of being laid again?t the warm bosom of maternal tenderness, he bad been coffined and sepulchred! There is no balai powerful enough to heal the heart of one who has brought parents to a sorrowful grave, and who wanders about through th ; dismal cemeterv, rendinsr the hair and wringing the ??.l nh that to-lay, by all the memories of the prist, and by all the hopes of the future, you would yield your heart to God! May your father's God ami your mother's God be your God forever! Carrier Pigeon Itegulntlons. Fear of the treasonable use of carrier pigeons in France led to the promulgation of most stringent regulations. The Paris Government's decree stipulates that every person wishing to possess carrier pigeons must obtain the authority of the Precept; and every person receiving pigeons must, within two days, make declaration to the municipal authorities. The police oommisoarv mnut alwn.v? he nrtiient whrtnthonlcr. J eoos are freed. J / THE NEWS EPITOMSZED1 ( VTashlngrton Itemi. The mystery surrounding the death of A. H. Pile, Secretary of the National Committee of the Silver partv, whoso body was c found floating in the Potomac River near o Washington, has not beeu solved. v At the supreestion of Commandant Sicard, ? of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, acting Secretary r McAdoo appointed a court of inquiry to e meet at the Navv Yard to investigate and re- v port upon the accident to the dry dock. I( The Italian Mlnistor applied to the State ii Department for information concerning the C lynching of three Italians in Louisiaua. r An appeal to the United States Supreme 0 Court has been tnken in the Lincoln gold bond Injunction case, in which William J. Brvau, Democratic candidate for President, is the principal plaintiff. Jud^eSamuel Shellbarger. Member of Concress for several terms, <?x-Mmister to Por* ' 1 *r*nr\v v.?rtro ft nrnm inonf In re. lUljlli nuu wi j yer of Washington, i9 daad. He was born in Ohio in 1817. President Cleveland has pardoned John Lyons, sentenced in Arizona to three and a half years' imprisonment for robbing a postofflce. Dijubt as to the prisoner's guilt led to the President's action. Postmaster-General Wilson has decided not io take any part in the coming campaign. He will sail for Europe on October 12, accompanied by bis wife, and will remain for about two mouths. Dome* tic. BECOBD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS. Per Per Cltibi. Won. Lout. ct. I Clubs. Won. I/ML ct. Baltimore.63 28 .692 Brooklyn.42 50 .457 Oiueinnati65 30 ,684 Philadel. .41 50 .451 Cleveland 58 34 .030 New York40 54 .426 Chicago.. 57 40 .588 WTshint:'n35 55 .389 Pltt.?bure.52 41 .559 St. Louis.29 64 .312 " Boston....50 42 .643 Louisville23 67 .256 * Albert Bacon, at Sheffield, Mas9., shot and f< killed a colored boy who had assaulted his o little daughter, thus forestalling his neigh- v bors, who were hunting the assaulter down, c1 Celia Rose, daughter of an Ohio farmer, E confessed to poisoning her father, mother ? and brother. a At Columbus, Ohio, Miss Minnio Rhode ?( committed suicide in the presence of her fiance, J. \V. Fritz, an insurance agent. They ' had a misunderstanding, and she came to his r office to talk it over. After exchanging a ^ few words, she produced a bottle containing ,( carbolic acid and swallowed the contents. Q Judge Wilborn, of the United States Circuit Court, handed down, at Los Angeles, Cal., au important decision bearing on the relations o! the Government to the railroads, t He decided that the land grant roads cannot charge the Government full rates. TTnhArt A MATxrfnn r.mfpcjcnr of mn.t'hA maticsat Yale, died in New Havon, Conn. An incendiary Are destroyed the dwelling ' house and buildings on Spring Hill farm, in e Somerset, Mass., and caused a loss of $15,- q 000. The place is owned by William Perry _ Hood, President of the Somerset Foundry. Ten cows, seventy-flve tons of hay, five horses and about 175 chickens were burned. It was the revenge of a discharged employe. The Sonora portion of Nogales, Arizona, was attacked by a party of sixty Yaqui Indians, religious fanatics, A battle followed, lasting four hours, during which seven Indians were killed, one wounded, and one taken prisoner. Four Mexicans were killed. It has developed that Harry K. Brown, exchange clerk of the Bullion and Exchange Bank of Carson, Not., who left San Francisco, Oal., suddenly aoout two months ago, is a defaulter to the extent of nearly $75,000. Ahftiif flffr inmotoa r\f fha Ullmlm V % Reformatory attacked two keepers in a futile attempt to escape. Four workmen were suffocated by sulphmric acid gas at the chemical works of More I'failiips, in the outskirts of Camden, N. J. The victims were Joseph Devlin, James Mullen, An ire w Adler and George Garrison. i ' / Mrs. Mary E. Lease, of Kansas, spoke to- a < large audience, in Cooper Union, New York City, on the silver question. Mrs. Amelia Knoctig, of West Manchester, N. H., forty-Ave years old, hanged herself. She was despondent because of lack of work. Her husband is in Germany. Walter Price, aged twenty-one, a tinner, and his brother Lawrence, aged twenty-five, a clerk, fought at their home in St. Louis, ( Mo., about the favor of a young woman. Walter struck Lawrence with his fist and c killed him instantly. I Secretary Herbert, of the Navy Depart- J ment, made an address before the Naval ? War College in Newport, R. I. 1 In two sessions of the Christian Alliance J camp meeting at thfi camp grounds, Old Orchard, Me.,$101.324 was raised for foreign missions, and nearly 100 persons volunteered their services as missionaries to be sent to j foreign fields. Miss Marion Burnham, aged fourteen rears, daughter of William A. Burnham, of Boston, was drowned in Lake Champlnin, ( near Westport, N. Y. Miss Maggie Moulder, j i nurse, who accompanied the young lady, and who went to her assistance, also E irowned. t Stanley White, the sovonteen-year-old son ? Di John J. White, ol Jefferson avenue, Brook- ' frn ,1 ?,1 ~l.il,,, Knnflnnn I ' ryu, n uium uoh in iu uui uuauuu^ via *ake Kiamisha, near Fallsbursr, N. Y., in ; Jain sight of nearly a hundred spectators v ?n the shore. A fool rooked his boat. An Executive Committee of nine was ap- v pointed at Indianapolis, Ind.. to aid in pushins the campaign of the "National Demo- v cratic party." W. D. Bynum, of Indiana, ( was elected Chairman. 0 Highwaymen held up and robbed a stago S aear Port J ervis, N. Y. Soldiers on duty at the Brown Works, in ^ Cleveland, Ohio, where a strike is in pro>?- J1 ress, revolted, and several were locked up in 0 the guardhouse awaiting court martial. Citizens complain of outrages by the militiamen. The floating grain elevator Ceres was sunk j in New York Harbor by collision with the Cunard Steamship Etruria, outward bound for Liverpool. Much excitement prevailed in the New b York cotton market owing to a heavy drop t in prices after there had been a big rise. There was also a hmvy fall in railway securities. n Walter Scott, a Chicago business man, was g instantly killed by lightning while riding ? home on his bicycle. v Walter L. Chamberlain, a business man ol e Jacksonville, Fia., disguised himself and at- 3 tempted to rob a bank by threatening the t cashier, A. S. Hubbard, with vitriol. Hub- j bard shot and mortally wounded Chamberlain. , New Jersey Gold Democrats held a meet- t ing in Jersey City nnd took steps toward t lorming un organization to take part-in the i third ticket movement. Several death.? have resulted from the excessive heat in New York City and Brooklyn. By the falling of a scaffold at Covington, t Ohio. Emanuel Fox was killed and Hamer j Maddox was futally injured. Boyle, Hartley <fc Co., Philadelphia carpet i dealers, have failed for about $250,000. Rev. J. C. Hall, a prominent Methodist preacher of St. Paul. Minn., was arrested on the charge of poisoning his wife. Trenton, N. J., has had a disastrous flre, < which resulted in the death of two firemen, severe injuries to several others and the de pirucuuu ui um uitku |imui ui iuo neuiuu Fire C!ay ami Porcelain Works. Ex-Governor George T. Anthony died at f Topeka, Itansns. Ho was born at Matfleld, N. Y., in 1824, and was the seventh Governor , of Kansas. \ In a collision between Cleveland (Ohio) ' militiamen and strikers whc were stoning a i house occupied by non-union men sQots were exchanged, and Private Perkins received an ugly bullet wound in the leg. , The American National Bank, of New Orleans, has closed its doors. Foreisn Note*. < The Sultan ot Turkey has conferred the Order of Nichau-i-Chefakat (second class) ' upcn Miss Clara Barton. 1 The British House of Commons rejected some amendments to the Irish Land bill and sent it back to the Lords. J The Porte refused to make any concessions to Crete bovond those extended to the Island ' people by the Halepa Convention. 1 Li Huug Chani? has accepted the invitation of the Dominion Government to visit Canada. I It is reported from Mexico that a British warship has seized Clarion, of the BevillaQigedo group, as a coaling station. I . ...4 . ' - ; " : /.ygit , LI HUNG CHANG COMING. China's Viceroy to Vlult the United State* In September. LI Hung Chang, the Viceroy of China, is o visit America! The representative of the ildest civilization in the world, the man ?ho, in fact, though not in name, is the real overelgn of his kingdom, is to meet the repesontatlves of the youngest civilization, ach one a sororeigQ in his own right. Hf rill come here in September from Eng. und. He has been in France, in Germany, n Russia. All the great Governments of th? )ld World have put themselves in gala ar ay to do him honor. They have vied with ne another to astonish him by displaying LI HUNO CHANO. II possible evidences of their puissance, of ielr potentialities" for defence and ofJnce. This appeal to the admiration of the id man has not been made merely through anity. Li Hung Chang is a prospective listomer of the most meritorious calibre, [e is all powerful in China. *And as China i anxious to renew its armaments of war so s to put itself on an equality with the ounger A at ions, ne is an odjbci 01 luisrcai > the great manufacturers of guns and pro> sctiles, to ship builders, to all dealers in exlosives and other destructive agencies. It s not every day that a country is honored y such a wouid-be purchaser. Good reaan, therefore, why we should put ourselves n our mettle as other Nations have done. ALABAMA'S NEW GOVERNOR. ater Return* Swell the Majority of Jo* seph F. Johnston. With all the districts now officially heard rom reports from Alabama give Joseph P. ohnston, Democratic candidate for Govrnor, a majority of more than 40,000 over k>odwyn, the Populist-Republican fusion JOSEPH T. JOHNSTON. Just elected for .Governor of Alabama.) andidate. The Legislature is also heavily )emoeratie. The fusion ticket was weak in he districts, as well as on State offices, and he Republicans and Populists together will >e able to count scarcely forty votes out ol 33 on a joint ballot. The fusionists charge nat tney were -counteu uui. THREE ITALIANS LYNCHED. *oalsiaua Mob Hangs the Mea Together and Then Riddles Their Bodies. A mob of about fifty persons attacked the Jounty Jail at Hahnville, La , and took out hree Italians, accused of murdor. The irisoners cried and begged for mercy, but he crowd took them to a stable a short dis* ance away, gave them two minutes in Phich to pray, and then strung all three of hem up by their necks to the rafters. The lynchers stood around a few minutes intii the bodies ceased to struggle and then opened Are from their Winchester rifles on he dangling forms, literally riddling them vith bullets. One of the men lynched, Lorenzo Saladlno, ras known to have a grudge against Jule? xueymand, who was killed while standing in his front porch in Saint Charles Parish, laladino was arrested. The other two were brothers, Deceno and tngelo Merceiso, who were confined in the nil tor the murder of an aged Spaniard oo me of the plantations. RACE WAR COSTS LIVES. .hree Colored Men tviuea ana many Wounded by White Railroad Laborers. The race war ia Polk County, Arkansas, Las broken out in earnest, and as a result of he first battle, three colored men are dead, Ight wounded, and many have beon run out if the county by the whites. The trouble 3 between white and colored laborers imployed on the grading works of he Kansas City, Pittsburg aud Gulf RaiU ray, near Horation, Ark. The white labor;rs are determined that the colored people hall not work on the road, and are being >acked up by citizens of the couuty, who lave armed tnemselvos. Thursday night a lot of whites, composed ol Italian, Swede and Hungarian laborers, ogether with a number of natives, made a aid on a camp occupied by colored laborer? vlth the results stated. Four Drovrned in Lake Michigan. At Benton Harbor, Mich., Frank Yerring on, James Butrlck, W. M. Moneke and Hartin Manning were drowned while bathing n the lake. Yerrington's wife was bathing vlth him. Fatal Trolley Accident. A fatal trolley accident occurred on the Columbia and Donegal Electric Railroad jne mlli outside of Columbia, Penn. A :rowded car was returning from Chickies Park when a gear wheel broke and the :ar was thrown over a twenty-foot ambankraent, fallincr into a creek*. Five passengers were killed outright and two score injured, many of them very seriously. The dead are: Chief Burgess. H. 31. Heiss, of Columbia; Adam Foehlingor, mutorman, Columbia; James Ludlow, Sea flirt, N. J.; Henry Smith, Columbia; William Fiukerson, Columbia. Twenty-nine passengers were seriously injureu. Out of tiio Coimiion Kun, | A borax combine is announced between I Chicago and English companies. Vincent Ray, a Chippewa Indian, who died Jhe other day in Superior, Wis., lelt an estate A $75,000. The pan-American medical congress is to ae hela in the City of Mexico on November 16 to 19 inclusive. The French have proclaimed a state of ilege in Madagascar in all districts occupied jy the insurgents. The fisheries of Canada yield annually B20,000,000, of which one-half comes from :ho deep fisheries. Twj thousand Latter Day Saints missioniries are sold to be on a orusade in England. : ' ' 'ir.-vi FOUR-FIFTHS OF A COTTON CROP. Government Report Shows Prospect* Have Fallen 12 Points. The August returns to the Statistician to the Department of Agriculture show a reduction in the condition of cotton during the month of July from 92.5 to 80.1, or 12.4 points. The condition same time last year was 77.9, which was the lowest average for A.u?ujt ever given. Thff averages of the States are: Virginia. 86; North Carolina, 93; South Carolina, 88; Georgia, 92; Florida, 84; Alabama, 93; Mississippi, 78; Louisiana, 70; Texas, 69; Arkansas, 65; Tennessee. 89. Heavy rains in July damaged the crop, especially on bottom iands in Virginia, North and South Car* olina. Florida and seme portions of Georgia Over a large area in Georgia the crop is in fine condition and promises a full yield, A drought which extended over Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas for several weeks produced more or less damage, and in many counties complaints are made of rapid shedding ar?d premature ripening inn oioominsr ut the top. borne counties in Mississippi and Arkansas report the crop as irreparably damaged from xrougni anu excessive near. Some counties in Texas report the crop In good condition, fruiting well, and promising an average yield. But over the dronzhtjtricken district where rain has tallen it has jome too late to be ot benefit. The continued drought and hot, dry winds have done considerable damage in some counties. There' is complaint or too much dry weather in Tennessee. Otherwise the crop is doing "airly well. The crop over almost the entire cotton 5elt is maturing rapidly and is earlier than 'or many years, partly from early planting ind partly from premature ripening. REPORT ON CEREALS AND POTATOES. Agriculture Department Notes Improve' ment in Corn Only. The report of the Statistician for the Department of Agriculture for August indicates au improvement in the condition of corn over that reported last month of 4.4 points, or from 92.4 to 96. The average of the prinjipai States are: Ohio, 105; Kentuoky, 102; Indiana. 105; Illinois, 106; Iowa, 103; Missouri, 85; Kansas, 109; Nebraska. 108. Condition of spring wheat has fallen since Inly report from 93.3 to 78.9. a decline of 14.4 points. The conditions by States are as follows: Michigan. 83; Illinois, 83: Wisconsin, 32; Minnesota, 80; Iowa, 84: Kansas, 55; Nejraska, 55; South Dakota, 89; North Dakota, 10; Washington, 90: Oregon, 90; California, 109. Condition of oats has fallen slnco last report 19 points, or from 95.8 to 77.3. Spring rye condition is 88, against 98.6 in July. Barlev has fallen from 88.1 in July to 82.9 tor August. ? The average of buckwheat la given as 99.5 per cent, of last year's area. Conditions of tame, 96. Condition of Irish potatoes 94.8, against >9 in July. Condition of tobacco, 86.5, against 91.5 Tuly 1. Beports on the European grain crops are tenerally favorable, 'i'he wheat crop protn368 to be up to the average. Forage crops vlll be short in Great Britain if drought coninues. GERMAN SILVERITES. Cher Show Kenewed Activity and Will Take a Cenaaa Id the Reichitag. Several SDeoial disDatchea from different >oints In Germany show that the bimetallists here are about to begin an active moveannt They intend to take a census on the sub* ect in the Reichstag. Emperor William's ecent study of the financial question has iau3ed most of the activity. The Imperial Chancellor, Van Hohenlohe, md the other high officials express a destre o reopen negotiations with England next pripg. But the strong views of Sir Michael licks-Beach, the English Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the apathy of even Mr. Balour when bimetallism becomes a question if public policy, shows that the German upiroachea stand a smy.ll chance of success. BOLT KILLS HER LOVES. The T.ady Was Sitting by His Side, Bnt Was Uninjured by the Lightning. Dr. W. L. Pressey, of Bangor, Me., was intanlly killed by lightning while sitting on a rerandah with his arm around his fiancee's vaist. The accident occurred at the summer :ottage of Dr. Pressey's family at a picturiami a hnt mHrflrl snot near Isleshoro. on the ilaine coast. Miss Brown, the dead physician's sweotleart, lived in Eoston and has been spendng a part of the summer in Maine. The :ouple were sitting on a verandah of the lottage watching the tremendous thunder [term which swept over a part of the coast, vhen a bolt of lightning struck the cottage ind killed him instantly. Miss Brown was uninjured by the lightling, but was prostrated by the shook to her lervous .system. Bryan'* Itinerary. The second dav of the Bryan trip to New fork closed with the candidate's arrival in Chicago, where he received a noisy recepion. Greetings all along the route from )es Moines, Iowa, elicited many speeches torn Mr, Bryan. When Chicago was reached tfr. Bryan addressed twelve thousand perions from the veranda of the Clifton House, eiteratlng his silver views. Great enthusiism was manifested. The next day, Sunday, Candidate Bryan received many callers in Chicago, attended church at Engiewood and eft for the East at 11.30 p. m. Good View of the Eclipie. Miss Mary Proctor, of New York, daughter jf the late Professor Richard A. Proctor, the veil-known astronomer, telegraphed from Prnn/ih?lm Nnrwav. that a fine view was lad ot the total eollpse of the sun from the ieck of the American line steamer Ohio, which wwi then off the island of Stot, Norway. The sky was absolutely olourlless and :he atmosphere clear. The duration of the ?clipse wa3 one minute and thirty-five secmds. A Bold Charge of Treachery. The Executive Committee of McKlnley League of New York sent a long letter to Mark Hanna charging Thomas C. Piatt and Fred S. Gibbs with plotting treachery to the .National ticket in the interest of the State machine. Lasker the Chess Champion. Lasker, by winning his game with Tarrasch. clinched his hold on first place and the world's choss championship in the Nuremberg (Germany) tournament. Boat Overturn* anil Five Drown. Five persons were drowned in the Delaware River, near Bridesburg. a suburb of Philadelphia, by the overturning of n rowboat during a i;a';e. The victims are: Rose Breinen^er, Rosie Breiuens?er. Amelia Hoiman, Charles Minnick, Cincinnati, visitins? friend? in Bridesburg; Jolin Treusler. With the exception of Miuniek, the dead were residents of Philadelphia. Dlil Not See the Eclippe. observations of the totai eclipse of the miii made in Europe were not satisfactory owing to cloudy weather Uaomfflg Burnt Larnli. A Duluth railroad line which is booming the town of Matchwood oilers forty acres of land near there to each family that will clear and cultivate such a plot, besides half rates to go and examine the place. The land has recently been burned over, and the clearing is rather nasty and yields no protltablo lumber. An original rtncn, There is a mysterious individual operating In Phoenix, Arizania, known aa "Jack the Slitter,'' who slits the ears of helpleas Intoxicated men whom ha flcda waofiacLmi around. W'? HORRORS OF THE HEAT. People Died as If a Plague Was Sweeping the Land. All records of deaths from heat were broken in New York City on the eighth day of the hot spell. The list of those who in that day gave up the struggle with life because of the high temperature was 122. In Brooklyn twenty-one were reported; in Jersey City, N. J., and Its environs eighteen died. The sun killed nearly one hundred persons in New York City and laid low 350 more by heat prostration and thermic fever. The dead bodies of the stricken ones lay without care for hours, and when the overworked Coroners' physicians arrived to grant the re movai permit tney were a menace to noaitn. The hospitals were taxed to thoir fullest caEacity to care for the sick and dying. Cabs, uckster wagons and push cart3 were converted into temporary ambulances to meet the needs of the hour. Bodies of dead horses were strewn in every I block, where they were left for hours before the vans arrived to remove them. Three days of the hot term elapsed before men began to die. In Ave days over 300 died. The hospitals have saved thousands who were stricken. New fork City was not alone in Its suffering. Men died at Long Branch and at Bath Beach, at Coney Island, and the lists of dead in Jersey City. Staten Island and Brooklyn were appallingly long. When men die at the seashore from the effects of the weather It is little wonder that Coroners are overworked. jsvery city in tne country sunereairom mo intense heat. Boston's official temperature was not above ninety degrees, yet the weakening effects of the two previous scorchers has shown itself in a larger mortality list than on any day of the year. The dead number ten. The possibly fatal cases are as many more, while the number of prostrations are hard to estimate, but will run well toward fifty. From all over New England the same story of intense heat comes. The Waltham (Mass.) mfin in tViA Rnflton Subway were forced to stop work. The letter carriers iu Mllford could not deliver the noon mail, for the mercury touched ninetyeight. At Marlboro, Mas3.. ten horses in th? water works basin died from effects of the heat. The excessive heat at Terre Haute, Ind., caused a number of prostrations. For the fifth day the 100 mark was reached. Mr. J. G-. Joyce, joint olerk of the Norfolk and Western Railroad and Bay Line Steamship Company, died at his desk in the Bay Line office In Norfolk. Va., overcome by ,heat. William C. Cosgrove, of the United 8tates Navy, fell in the navy yard at Norfolk, Va., while proceeding aboard the Maine, and died in a halt hour. I The temperature in New Haven, Conn., was ninety-three degrees and three deaths resulting from prostration by the heat and sunstroke ocourred. Three deaths from the heat were reported at Philadelphia. The thermometer reached ninety-eight degrees. The heat at Montreal, Canada, was intense, and business was almost wholly suspended In consequence. ANDREE'S BALLOON SICHTED. It Was About a Thousand Mile* North* west of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Indian Superintendent Yowell, of British Columbia, wired the Dominion Government | that creditable information had been re- 1 ceived from two Indian parties, separated ' by a considerable distance at the time of observation, that the Andree balloon had been sighted in latitude 55.15 N.. longitude 127.10 j W., pursuing a nearly northerly course. Dr. S. A. Andree Is the chief engineer in the Boyal Swedish Patent Department, who conceived the project of reaching the North Pole by balloon. Accompanied by Nils Ekstrom. Andree started from Spitsbergen some time in June. On July 1 a balloon passed westward over Winntoeg. Manitoba, at a great height, f and it was" presumed that it was Andree's. The point at which the Ottawa despatch reports it as bavin? been seen is about 1000 miles northwest of Winnipeg. ' < Death in a Fire Trap. A disaster, appalling in every detail, was the burning of the six-story building at No. 465 Greenwich street, New York City, which ( caught fire at a time when every floor was i crowded with workers. Beginning at the basement, the flames swept swiftlv upward, overtaking many in their flight to the escapes. Of these three lost their lives, and nine or ten others were seriously, if not mortally, injured. The dead are: William Gray, thirty-five years old, Superintendent, succumbed in a heroio effort to save the lives of his subordinates; Phoenix Hass, seventeen years old, jumped from second storv and fractured his spine; J. Muller, thirty-three years old, found beside that of Gray, <?n fifth floor. Michigan Visited by Destructive Winds, Four distinct storms visited Michigan during twenty-four hours and they carried widespread destruction of property and a large loss of life in their wake. In the Detroit River four people are known to have been drowned. The yacht Corsair capsized off Belle Isle and One of the crew was drowned. A boat containing throe people was swamped by the high waves off Wind Mill Point, and only j one of them escaped. At Benton Harbor j four men were drowned while attempting to swim ashore, and all along the east coast line are reports of casualties on the water, and the number of deaths will no doubt exceed twenty. The property damaged by the four storms will be over $250,000. Bryan In New York Citv. W. J. Bryan, Mrs. Bryan and the party which accompanied them from the West, arrived at Jerse" City over the Pennsylvania Railroad on ? evening before the notification. The Democratic candidate for President was warmly greeted by a crowd in the station. After making their way to the ferryboat, hard pressed by the crowds which surrounded them, Mr. Bryan and his friends were oonveyed across the river to Desbrosses street. New York City. Here carriages were in waiting, and the party were driven to the home of W. P. St. John, Treasurer of the National Committee. Mr. Bryan was cheered by people in front of the house, but declined to make a speech. New York City liank Shut. The Murray Hill bank, a Stute bank in New York City, was closed by the State Superintendent ot Banking, F. D. Kllburn. There is little prospect that the bank will resume business. Bad loans had cut dow n the surplus and slow investments made the prospects of gettiDg in cash remote. Had Hiccoughs Six Days and D^ed. Alfred B. Potter, a prominent citizen of Fairport, N. Y., died from hiccoughs. Four physicians had been in constant attendance lor six days but were unable to relieve him. Silver Talk Close* a Bank. The Security Bani?, 01 jjuium, minn., failed to open its floors and Is now in the hands oi the State Banlt Examiner. The unexpected withdrawals of deposits, believed to have been p red pita ied by the free silver sentiment in Duluth and the fear that sold would command it premium, are given as the cause. The d?oosits are approximately half a million dollars Bli; Contract for Brick. A brick concern in Epping, N. II., recently received an order for 4G,0i}0,000 brick from j a Boston :irm, the contract to be finished in three years. Absolute Anarchy l'revalls tu Crete. It is stated that the r -volutionary assembly which has been established in Crete, under the Presidency of Gerokostaros, now ninety-two years old, will issue a proclamation shortly, which will be a signal for a general uprising in the Island of Crete. A state of absolute anarchy now prevails in the district of Leraklion, where the Mussulmans have burned four m::r) villages. Saw lli* >oni} IJiovvii. George and Isaac Ferguson, aged ten and eight years respectively, wre drowned while wading in Swift Wallkill River, Middletown, N. Y. Their father was unable to swim and saw both of them dro waBd. ' - ' :-'W$ . ' '[{ &-! TEMPERANCE. JACK SPBAT. Jack Sprat was very fat, His wife wan very lean, Aud not a bone for pussy cat Was ever to be seen. Jack Sprat bad got no hat, His wife had got no money, Aud not a single little Sprat Had ever tasted honey. But Jack Sprat soon altered that, And gave up being beery; Then Mrs. Sprat got wull and fat, And looked so bright and oheery* Then Jack sat with Mrs. Sprat Within their pew on Sunday, And little feet went pit-a-pat To school upon the Monday. ?Youth s Temperance Banner. LET THE BAB-B00&I3 A.5SWEB. Under this caption, the Patriot Phalanx Jays: We do not wish to assail the bar-rooms unjustly. We would not make an unfair charge against them. We want to give them credit tor all the erood thev do. We will Draiaethem tor all the benefit they confer upon society. A3 we are totally uniformed concerning the blessings the - saloon gives to the world, tve must make a few inquires, and we beg the bar-rooms to come forward with an hoa eat answer. " How has the saloon helped civilization? What has the bar-room done to protect the households and homes of our people? When and how has it shielded our daughters? What has it done to ennoble our sons? What has tho dramshop done to promote social order? When has the saloon posed as the upholder of the laws of the State? Hew has the publlo drinking place added to the activity of legitimate trade? When did the liquor traffic ever defend the weak against the strong? What aid has the saloon given in building ap the grocery or drygooda or furniture rtore? How has the bar-room helped the laborer to obtain a competence? , A iaS What useful purpose has the whisky busl- y ness served in promoting public enterprises?Does it help to establish mills? or to opea .: JS mines.'' or to bulla factories? . k Does tho saloon crown man with honor? V, Does it send solace to sorrowing hearts? Has It promoted woman's happiness? Has it scattered dowers in childhood's path? Does it put food in the workingman's cupboard? Has it ever filled a mother's soul with. holier hope for her son's future? Has it ever lifted a shadow from the heart of a wife or sister? Does the bar-room lndace the study of the Bible, attendance at Sunday-school, or sympathy with the church? Does It teach a high code of morals? Is it an insplrition to noble deeds? Does it repress evil passions? Does it cultivate the best tendencies of the human heart? Does it make its patrons purer and bet* ter? v Has the saloon introduced cleaner methods Into politics? Has it made candidates less corruptible? Has it put purity, and patriotism, and principle into the hearts of voters? Dnftd it- molrfl {fa nntmna wnrfMar nf nnH. Uc trusts? Does It create a?truer and more efficient class of public servants? Does it help legislators to enact better laws? Does it cause courts and juries to act more justly and impartially? * Does it make oar lives and property mora secure? Does it lessen the population of the prisons, poorhouses and insane asylums? Who can tell us of just one heaven-approved deed done by the dram shop? , A WOMAN 8 MOAK. . Hear the despairing cry that one of the women of San Francisco addressed to the, editor of the Examiner: 4 "Liquor keeps *s where we are. The gin holes, curse them! Their keepers, God for-i give. Tne laws which make them possible,} curse them! curse them!! curse them!!! Be- form us? How, when rum makes three Bvflrv wflfllrV RAfnrm 11a? Hrtfnnr vnnr laws! How I laugh?laugh with a despairing shriek at the attempts of some kindhearted and well-meaning people to reform, as without reforming and informing themselves! Reform, when the greatest enemy to moral reform is standing open day and night in thousands ol places in San Francisco? What colossal nonsense! The law smiles and Christian law-makers wonder. Heaven is impoverished; hell is enriched. My hot head is against the window pane; my aching heart is bursting." TO BECLAIM DRUNKARDS. The League of Love, a branch of the Salvation Army, will put into operation in New York City a new plan for saving of drunkards. It is proposed to patrol certain parts of the city at night with ambulances driven by a Salvation Army lassie. There will be two members of the army besides the driver in eaoh ambulance and whenever drunken men and women are found on thu streets they will be bundled into the ambulance and taken to the Salvation Army Shelter, where they will be allowed to sober up. Of course, no one will be restrained and taken against their will. The patients will, li they wish, be allowed to pay lor tneir lodging and breakfast after they have become sober. The ambulances will be painted red and and white and drawn by white horses. I 8A.VE THE CHILDREN. The Journal of Hygiene publishes a suggestive article entitled "The Greater Temperance," bv Charles H. Shepard, M. D., In which he says: "Judging from the past experience, there seems but little hope for the adult inebriate, but we may at least save some of the vounger generation." He adds: "When children shall have been taught and thoroughly indoctrinated with the right principles on the subject there will be a regenerated mankind.' Doctor Shepard thus Indicates what should impress more fully the friends of temperance everywhere, the fundamental importance of juvenile temperance work. NEVER TJSEFCTj. Doctor Frank Hamilton, one of the moat competent army surgeons in his day, once said: "In my own mind the conviction is fully established by experience and observation that the regular use of alcoholic stimulants by man in health is never useful.. I make no exception in favor of cold or heat or exposure and fatigue, nor in favor of old drinkers, when considered as soldiers." THE DOWNWARD START. Raid Mrs. Lake in one of her late lectures: "Every man starts out to be a moderate driftkajc, 'a man anions: men,' as he puts it. He enters-i?2.the social custom of drinking. He takes it oncls twice, thrice. Gradually he creates an appetite and he awakens to find that he has a tersibia^burning thirst which even drink itself can noFS&Uafy." TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Fill man with whisky and he can give the pig points. It is only those who are in the power of rum that cannot see its harm. The man who has not decided that he will never drink, has more than half decided that he will drink. The Indians of Eastern Washington are iai.l to have taken steDs to Drevent the sale of liquor anions them by unprincipled white mcu. According to the National Temperance Almanac there are eighty-flve papers published in this country that are devoted to the temperance cause. Doctor Norman Kerr warns medical practitioners against employing alcohol or auti-. pyrin in the treatment of influenza. Why is it that a town, when giving a "writeup" of its industries, never boasts of the number of its saloons and the genial laloon keeper? The notion prevails among a great numbee of otherwise sensible people that alcohol in the form of wine and whisky is a "cure-alL" And this despite the testimony of the agea 11 1 ' - - L 1 ? i-i .1 ,\l monfnl mat aicouoi m nay lurm is uouilu?ui.u ?< the health of the body, 30 much so that it may <rell be termed a "kill-all." Ball Temai Stallion. A Peru (Ind.) man is out about $1000, tlM , value of a stallion and a bull, whloh fought I to the death on his farm. The ball died first* / /