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I HOE SMITH RESIGNS. Cleveland's Secretary of the Interior n 4>a d a4i ? ^ ueuuca iu iiumc. HE WILL SUPPORT BRYAN. fTI# Beilen&tlon is Accepted?The President Expressed Rejrret, but the Secretary Felt Bound to Go as He Could Not 'Advocate the Chicago Ticket and Consistently Remain In the Cublnot. Washington, D. C., August 24.?The resignation of Hoke Smith, of Georgia, as Secretary of the Interior has been accepted by President Cleveland to take effect on September 1. It is understood that his suo essor has been agreed upon, but the an* /V# Klo annA^nrmanf nrill nrftK UUUULCLUOUl V* oj/jA/iwvuiv-uk " ?" ably not be made until Secretary Smith has . DONGOLA. THE OBJECTIVE POIK formally given up the roins of the Interior Department Political reasons only have caused the 6reak in th? President's Cabinet, and it can be stated on high authority that the personal relations between the President and the Seci cetary are as olose and cordial as ever. It can be further stated that the resignation Is the result of an earnest request made by Mr. Smith, and that in accepting it the President did so with extreme reluotance and regret. The Secretary declined, when asked, to say positively that his resignation had been accepted by the President. He admitted that It is no tonger possible to conceal the fact that he is packing his books and other personal effects to leave the city, and that this circumstance alone might justify one in inferring that he would soon sever his connection with the Administration. Prom a friend of the Secretary it was learned that several personal letters passed between the Preeident and Secretary Smith before the resignation was Anally accepted. The first was written by Secretary Smith a SOKE SMITH. (He has resignod his position in Cleveland's Cabinet.) Jay or two after the nomination of Bryan, in which he explained at length the circumstances which would compel him to support the Chicago ticket, and olosed by referring to the necessity of his resignation from the Cabinet. A reply was received from the President iome days later, and several other letters were exchanged before the President, under date of August 16, finally accepted the resignation. Mr. Smith declined to discuss his future plans, excepting to state that he would re| sume the practice of law and his other business affairs In Atlanta. He will probably make two speeches during the campaign in his own State. In these speeches he will advocate the election of Bryan and 8ewall, but he will oppose the silver platform adopted by the Chicago Convention. While remaining a Democrat, Sec? ??? Smifh trill ??(it deviate in the slightest from the position on the money question which he assumed In Georgia during his joint debates with ex-Speakor Crisp. It Is believed that by supporting the Chicago nominees and opposing the platform Secretary Smith will gain many friends in Georgia, and while maintaining his standing as a Democrat will not compromise hl3 flnanolal record In the slightest. Tin Workers Visit McKinley. A delegation of fifteen hundred tin workers called on Major McKinley at Canton, Ohio. They came with tin hats and tin caps and tin horns with more mouthpieces than a dozen men could cover. They came with bands and steam calliope and cannons. They came from New Castle and Elwood and Wampum, Penn., the centre of the tin plate industry of America, and their spokesman was Colonel 0. L. Jacksoo, a former Representative in Congress with Major McKinley. McKinley addressed them on the tariff and the currency. Watson No tanger Editor. Thomas E. Watson has resigned the editorihip ol the People's Party Paper, published at Atlanta, Ga., to devote his whole time to his campaign. Four Barnetl to Death. At Huntsville, Canada, fire destroyed a fram9 house occupied by Mrs. Qualfe, her daughter, Mrs. Phillips, and four children. Mrs. 8p9ncer Qualfe nnd two children were visiting them. Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Spencer LQuaife and the latter's two children were burned to death. Boy ot Twelve Commits Suicide. The lifeless body of Edward Ordell, the twelve-year-old son of George Ordell, of jeannette, Penn., wa9 discovered by nis riother hanging Irom a joist in iae ccuur. he cause of the suicide is unknown. The Labor World. Cleveland (Ohio) teamsters recently organized. Fall River (Mass.) union spinnera do not worn overtime. San Francisco (Cnl.) shoeworkers have formed a union. 8aa Francisco (C.il.) garment workers are battling against sweaters. Troy (N. Y.) barkers want the Board of Health to suppress nickle shops. Union sailors complain of dull times in New York and other Atlantio ports. The Indiana Bicycle Works, of Indianapolis, employing 1500 hands, closed down Indefinitely. . ENGLISH ADVANCE UP THE NILE# ? I I British Forces In the Soudan to Ptub on ' to Dongola. , ^ I London, England, August 24.?Interest In , the Anglo-Egyptian expedition to the Sondan, which waned somewhat during the period the troops were awaiting the rise in the Nile, has been revived by the receipt of intelligence that the preparations for the resumption of the advance have been completed, and that the troops will go forward from Kosheh within a fortnight. The whole force is ready for the advance. Simultaneously with the news of the immi'nent advance of the Anglo-Ecyptian foross come advises from the Congo Free State that I tno t rencn expedition unaer uaron jjnani? < has reached the White Nile and occnpled Lado. Lado, the place whore Baron Dhnnls has arrived, is north of the territory proper of the Congo Free State. It i9 situated on the White Nile, some 325 miles north of the Victoria Nyanza. The Belgians, it is believed, will go further north in the direction of Khartoum, while the Anglo-Egyptian expedition proceeds south from Semneh; thus the Mahdists will be caught between two flres, and the result, it is hoped, will be the final extinction of Mahdlsm. Now that it Is announced that an immediate advance of the English forces in the Soudan upon Dongola has been decided [T OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITION. upon, the question arises why It was ever thought necessary to pretfnd that the expedition was for the defence of the Egyptian frontier. The mask was so transparent, and it has been so quickly drooped, that it seems to have bean hardly worth while to put It on. TUP I CDCD DikiniT i MI. h.1.1 w?? wni^iuil L/unUi Hit Record Was One Sheriff and Four Soldiers. The bandit leper of the Hawaiian islands is reported dead. Koolau was his name, and his record was one Sheriff and four soldiers killed. Three years ago the Hawaiian Government undertook to remove to the Governmental leper settlement a band of lepers which had settled in the little valley of Kolalau, on the island of Kauai. All of them oonsented to go except Koolau, who resisted. Accordingly the Sheriff went to remove him forcibly. But he was well armed and killed the Sheriff. This resistance to authority caused the Government to send two companies of soldiers to arrest him. Koolau retreated into the mountain fastnesses, which are almost inaccessible. The troops tracked him, however, but the trails were so narrow tbey could only come upon him in Indian file, and, being a good shot and a desperate man, he killed the soldiers as fast as they came in view. After four had been killed the remainder withdrew, and Koolau was permitted to retain his residence in the little valley. The news comes now that he is dead, and that his wife, who had remained faithfully with him, buried him in tho valley which had been his stronghold. LICHTNINC WAS FATAL Much Damage Also Reported From Storms in inaiana and onto. Dispatches from points in Indiana and Ohio report severe storms accompanied by muoh destruction of property by lightning, and some fatalities. Near Rome City, Ind., a large barn was destroyed by lightning, and Arthur Foss, aged fourteen, was killed. At Ellwood, lad., lightning demolished Rev. T. J. Weight's residence. All the family escaped Injury but Mr. Wright, who was horribly burned and paralyzed from the waist down. Greensburg, Ind., reports heavy damage to crops and several bridges washed away. Mrs. John Baumgardner, of Wabasb, was struck by lightning and fatally Injured. Lester Bliss and Neill Bliss, at Delphos, Ohio, wore killed by lightning. At flobart, Ind., the dwelling of a man named Smith was demolished by lightning, and the entire family of nine persons were killed. CROPS FAIL IN LOUISIANA. Safferine and Even Destitution Reported in Several Parishes. A moss meeting was held at the Court House, Ruston, La., to take measures for relieving the destitution in the parish. In one community, iu mo western part 01 ine parish. a committee found twenty-one white I and four colored families living on bread and water. In another part of the parish sixty-eight families are reported as asking for help. The average corn and cotton crop gathered in the different sections will not be onesixth of last year's. The failure not only applies to the staple crops, but also to peas, potatoes. peanuts and vegetables. Such suffer* ing has not been known since 1849. John F. Cliamberlin Dead. John F. Ohamber'.ln, the Washington hotelkeeper, who had been critically ill at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga, N. Y., died while unconsolous a few nights ago. There i probably was no man in the United States who enjoyed a wider acquaintance of an intimate character with men distinguished In public life und was at the same time more genj erallv and genuinely liked. Mr. Chamberlin was Dorn in Pittsfleld, Mass., in 1836. Bryan Opens His Eastern Campaign Candidate Bryan opened Lis two weeks* j speaking campaign in the East at Tivoli, N? | Y. About 2000 farmers were in the audieno* and beard him discuss tbe financial issue. He was followed by Senator Stewart, of vada. Six Thousand Christians Butchered. According to the report of tha Cretan Reform Committee 6000 Christians have bean butchered on the island since Novomber, 1895. Shot and Killed His Sister. Peter Fisher, seventeen yoare old, employed as an errand boy, while playing with a Fiobert rifli at his home in New York Citv shot his sister, Elizabeth Fishsr, in the left side of the neck, just below the loft ear, the ball penetrating the brain. Hhe died a few minutes later. Fourteen Seamen Drowned. The Italian ship Francesco Clampa reports . having sunk the French fishing boat Moaette. August 20, forty-flvn miles northwest of tiie Scilly Islands, off Ireland. Ten of her crow were saved, but fourteen were drowned. Minor Mention. TUn.n o-n 1 11? _I? thniiann/1 t."?L - i? j\i iu x axis uvet ua1; bi&vuoiuAv* American female art students. Bicycles seem to have taken the place of brass candlesticks for wedding presents. The metric system will become obligatory in Paraguay from the 1st of January, 1897. It is reported that cattle in Arizona ure dying from starvation, the laclsof feed being due to the drought. Plans are being considered for the establishment of an immense union terminal railread 3tation at Chicago. All the arrangements for taking the next general census of the Russian Empire are completed. It only remains forthe Emperor to fix the ezact date. REV. DR. TALM1GE, SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "The Great Trial." Text: "We have aa advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."?I John 11., 1. Standing in a court room, you gay to yourself "At this bar crime has often "been arraigned; at this witness stand the oath has often bcpn taken; at this jurors' bench the verdict has been rendered; at this judge's desk sentence has been pronounced." But I have to tell you to-day of a trial higher than any Oyer and Terminer or Circuit or Supreme or Chancery. It is the trial of overy Christian man for the life of his soul. This trial is different from any other in the fact that It is both civil and criminal. The issues at stake are tremendous, and 1 shall in my sermon snow you, nrst, wnat are the groundi of complaint: then, who are the witnesses in the cause, and lastly, who are the advocates. When a trial is called on the first thing is to have the indictment read. Stand up then, 0, Christian man. and hear the indictment i of the court of high heaven against thy soul. It is an indictment of ten counts, for thou j hast directly or indirectlv broken all the ten commandments. You know how it thun- ] dered on Siual and when God came down how the mountain rocked and the smoke 1 ascended as from a smoldering furuace, and the darkness gathered thick, and th^ loud. I deep trumpet uttered the words: 'The soul | mar sinnoca, u snail cue: Are you ^umy, , or not guilty? Do not put in a negative plea 1 too quick, for I have to announce that "all i have sinned and come short of the glory of ; God. There is none that doeth pood; no, I not one. Whosoever shall keep the whole law, yet offend in oue point, ho is guilty of ; all." Do not, therefore, be too hasty ia ; pronouncing yourself not guilty. i The lawsuit before us also charges you i with the breaking of a solemn contract, i Many a time did we promise to be the Lord's. We got down on our knees and said: "0. i LorJ, I am Thine now and forever." Did you keep the promise? Have you stood up 1 to the contract? Have you not sometimes , faltered when you ought to have been true? Have you not been proud when yoc ou?lit | to have been humble? Have you not played i the coward when you ought to have been | the hero? I charge it upon you and I charge it upon myself?we have broken the con- ] tract. ] Still further; this lawsuit claims damages i at your hands. The greatest siandor on the the Christian religion is an inconsistent pro- j fessor. The Bible says religion is one thing; i we, by our inconsistency, say religiqn is \ some other thing, and what is more deplora- ] ble about it is that people caa see faults in i others while they can not see any In tbem- i selves. If vou shall at anytime find some i imacrtiuiu uiu ^usbip. wuu luipericuuvus from the crown of her head to the sole of her foot, a perfect blotch of sin herself, she will go tattling, tattling, tattling, all the years of her life about the inconsistencies of others, having no idea that she is inconsistent herself. God save the world from thu gossip, female and male! I think the rua'.ei are the worst! Now you have heard the indictment read. Are you ready to plead guilty or not guilty'/ Perhaps you are not ready yet to plead. Then tne trial will go on. xae witnesses will . be called, und we shall have the matter de- j cided. In the name cf God I now make pro- i clamatiou: Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! whoever i hatli anything to oiler in this trial in which j God is the plaintiff and the Christian 90ul t the defendant, let hCm now step forth and < give testimony in this solemn trial. < The first witness 1 call upon the stnnd in behalf of the prosecution is the world?all < critical and observant of Chrlstiau char- i acter. You know that there are people ( around you who perpetually banquet on the < frailties 'A God's children. You may know, < if you have lived in tne country, that a crow < cares for nothing so much as carrion. There , are those who imagine that out of the faults ; of Christians they can make a bridge of 1 boats across the stream of death, and they l are going to try it; but, alas for the mistake! When they get mid-strea ni away will go the i bridge and down will go their souls to perdi- 1 tion. 0 world of the greedy eye and the t hard heart, come on the stand now and testify in behalf of the prosecution again3t this t Christian soul on trial. Wnat do you know i about this Christian man? ''Oh, says the ( world, "I know a great deal about him. He t talks about putting his treasures in heaven, i but he is the sharpest man in a trade I ever t knew. He seems to want us to believe that i he is a child of God, but he is just full of \ imperfections. I do not know but I am a t great deal better than he is now. Often- j times he is very earthly, and he talks so lit- i tie about Christ and so much about himself, f 1 am very glad to testify that this is a bad 1 man." < Stop, 0 World, with the greedy eye and hard heart. I fear you are too much inter- i ested in this trial to give impartial evidence. ( .Let all those who hear the testimony of this i witness know that there is au old family ( quarrel between these two parties. There i always has been a variance between the f World and the Church, and while tho World ] on the witness stand to-day has told a great \ deal of truth about this Christian man, you must take it all with much allowance, re- t mftmhflHnir that thm* Qtill lrrtpn thft old ffrildco c good. 0, World of the greedy and the hard heart, that will do; you must sit down. The second wilnesss I call in this case Is Conscience. Who art thou. 0 Conscience? What is your business? Where were you born? What are you doing here? "Oh," says Conscience, "I was born in heaven. I I came down to befriend this man. I have lived with him. I have instructed him. I have warned him. I showed him the right and the wrong, advising him to take the one and eschew the other. I have kindled a great light in his soul. With a whip of scorpion I have scourged his wickedness, and I have tried to cheer him when doing right; and yet I am compelled to testify on the stand to-day that he has sometimes rejected my mission. Oh, how many cups of life have I pressed to his lips that he dashed down, and how often has he stood with his hard heel on the bleeding heart of the Sou of God! It pains me ver> much that 1 have to testify against this Christian man. and yet I mast, in behalf of Him who will in uo wise clear the guilty, say that this Christian man has done wrong. He has been worldly. ' Ho has been neglectful. He has done "u | thousand things he ought not to have dono, 5 and left undone a thousand things he ought to have done." That will do. Conscience. ' You can sit down. 5 The third witness I call in the case is an ' angel of God. Bright and shining one, what : does: thou here? What has: thou to say ' against this man on trial? ;4Oh." says the 1 mgei, "I have been a messenger to him. I have guarded him. I have washed him. With I this wini* I have defended him, find often- J limes, when he knew it not, I led him into ' -:reen pastures and beside still waters. I ' matched from turn the poisoned chalices. When bad spirits came upon him to ' lestroy him, I fougnt them back with infinite 1 ilerceness, and yet I have to testify to-day J :hat he has rejected my mi33ion. He has 1 :iot done as he ought to have done. Though I came from the sky, he drove me baok. ] Though with this wing I defended him, and 1 hough with this voice 1 wooed him, I have ] > announce his multiplied imperfections. I ' 'are not keep back the testimony, for then I 1 hould not dare to appear again amongst 1 *.ie sinless ones befoje the great white .'hrone." There is cn'.y ono more witness to be called in behalf of the prosecutiou. and that is the 1 ;reat, the holy, the august, the omnipotent Spirit of Gcd. We bow down before Him. lolv Spirit, knowest Thou this man? "Ob, ( says uie Holy one, "l know mm. i ; :uve striven with him ton thousand times, md though sometimes he did seem to repent, ; :e foil l^ack again as often from his first esile. Ton thousand times ton thousand ha? j 10 grieved Me, although the Biblo warned lim, saying: 'Grieve not tho Holy Ghost. , Quench not the Spirit.' Yes, he has driven J Ic back. Though I am the Third Person of ; .he Trinity, ho has trampled on My Mission, , tnd tho blood of the Atonement that I brought with which to cleanse his soul, ho [ sometimes dospised. I came from tho throne of God to convert, and comfort and sanctify, and yet look at that man and see what he is compared with what, unresisted, I would have made him." The evidence on tho part of the prosecution has closed. Now let the defense bring on the rebuttal testimony. What have you, 0 Christian soul, to bring in reply to this evidence of the world, of the conscience, of the angel and of the Holy Gho3t? No evidence? Are all these things true? "Yes. Unclean, unclean," says every Christian goui. What? % Do you not begin to tremble at tho thought of condemnation? We have now come to the most interesting part of fbfc great trial. The evidence all in. The advocates speak. The profession of an advocate is full of responsibility. In England and the United States there have arisen men who in this calling have been honored by their race and thrown contempt upon those who in the profession have bean guilty of a great many meannesses. That profession will b9 honorable as long as it has attached to it such names as Mansfield, and Marshall, and Story, and Kent, and Southard, and William Wirt. The court room has sometimes been the scene of very marvelous and thrilling things. Some of you remember the famous Girard will case, where one of our advocates pleaded th? cause of the Bible and Christianity in malterly AngloSaxon. every paragraph athunderbolr. But I turn from the recital of this memorable occasion to a grander trial, and I have to tell you thai in this trial of the Chri?i?m. for the life of his soul the advocates are mightier, wiser and morn eloquent. The evidence all being in, severe and stern Justice rises on behalf of the prosecution to make his plea. With the Bible open in his hand, he reads the law, stern and inflexible, and the penalty: "The soul that sinneth, It shall die." Then ho says: "0, Thou Judge and Lawgiver, this is Thine own statute, and all the evidenee in earth and heaven agree that the man has sinned against these enactments. Now let the sword leap from its scabbard. 8hall a man go through the very flames of Sinai unslnged? Let the law be executed. Let judgment be pronounced. Let him die. I demand that he die!" 0. Christian. does it not look very dark for thee? Who will plead on thv side' In so forlorn a caus'? Sometimes a man will be brought Into a court of law, and he will havft no friends and no monev. and tho Judge will look over the bar and say: "Is there any one who will volunteer to take this man's case and defend him?" And some young man rises up and says: "I will be his counsel;" perhaps starting on from that very point to .a great and brilliant career. Now, in this matter of the soul, as you have nothing to pay for counsel, do you think that any one will volunteer? Yes, yes: I see One rising. He is a young man, only thirtythree years of nge. I see His countenance suffused with tears and covered with blood, und all the galleries of heaven are thrilled with the spectacle. Thanks be unto God, "we have an navocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." Oh, Christian soul, your case begins to look better. I think, perhaps, after all, you I may not have to die. The best Advocate In the universe has taken yotir side. No one was ever so qualified to defend you. He Knows ail ine law, uu na uwruuum, im no i penalties. He i9 always ready. No new turn of, the case can surprise Him, and He i will plead for you for nothing as earnestly as though you brought a world of treasure i to His feet. Bes'des that. He ha9 under- | taken the case of thousunds who were as i forlorn as you. and He has never lost a case, i Courage. O Christian soul! I think that, sifter all, there may be s jme chance for you, , for the great Advocate rises to make His I plea. He says: "I admit all that has been proved against My client. I admit all these sins ay, more; but look at that wounded hand of Mine aDd look at that other wound- I si hand, and at My right foot and at My left toot By nil these wounds I plead for his I jlearance. Count all the dipps of My tears. I Count all the drops of My blood. By the i humiliation of Bethlehem, by the sweat of j Glethsemane, by the sufferings of the cross, i demand that he go free. On this arm he hath leaned; to this heart he hath flown; In My tears he hath washed; on My righteousness he hath depended. Let him go free. I im the ranscm.* Let him escape the lasb;l took the scourging. L^t the cup pass from , trim; I drank it to the dregs. Pat on him :ho ?rown of life, for I have worn the crown jf thorn*. Over asainst my throne of shame ( set his throne of triumph!" Well, the counsel on both sides have spoken, and there is only one more thing now remaining, and that is the awarding 01 :he judgment. If you have ever been in a jourt room you kuow the silence and sol- j jmnitv when the verdict is about to be renJered'or the judgment about to be given. ( ibout this soul on trial?shall it be saved or ihall it be lost? Attention! above, around, jeneath. All the universe cries- "Hear! , iear!" The Judge rises and gives this decision, lever to be changed, never to be revoked: ( 'There is, therefore, now no condemnation :o them who are in Christ Jesus." But. my friends, there Is coming a day of :rlal in which not only the saint but the sin* ler must appear. That day of trial will | iome very suddenly. The farmer will be at he plow, the merchant will be in the countng room, the woodman will be ringing his ix on the hickories, the weaver will have lis foot on the treadle, the manufacturer vill be walking amid the buzz of looms and he claoklng of flying machinery, the counsel may ">e at the bar pleading the law, the nlnister may be in the pulpit pleading the ?03pel, the drunkard may be reeling uinid J lis caps and the blasphemer witti t&e o(itn raught between his teeth. Lo! The sun hides. Night comes down , it mid noon. The stars appear at noon tolay. The earth shudders and throb3. There in earthquake opens and a city sinks as a srocoaile would cruuch a child. Mountains roll in their sookets and send down their jranite cliffs in avalanche of rock. Rivers sause in their chase for the sea, and ocean, iprearing, cries to the flying Alps and Himalaya. Beasts bellow and moan and snuff up he darkness. Clouds fly like flooks of iwift eagles. Great thunders beat and boom ind burst. Stars shoot and fall. The Alnighty rising on His throne, declares that :ime shall be no longer, and the archangels j :rump repeats it till all the living hear, and :he continents of dead spring to their feet, :rying: "Time shall be no longer!" Oh, on >n that day will you be ready? I have shown you bow well the Christian ;vill get off in his trial. Will you get off as yell in your trial? Will Christ plead on your lidc or against you? On, what will you do n the last great assize, if your conscience is igainst you, and the world is against you, ind the angels of heaven are against you, ind the Holy Spirit is against you, and the Liord God Almighty is agJlnst you? Better ;his day secure an Advocate. CRUSHED BY A BIC METEOR. Strange Death of a Mexican Family and 1200 Slieep In Arizona. Dr. P. M. Smith, of Hagerstown, Md.. and 1 party of mining men who lmve just reurned from the Rinsey mines, Arizona, report the fall of an immense meteor, which struck the desert about two miles north of Sail's ranch and about the same distance south of the Itip30y mines. Members of the party who were camped at Hall's say the :oncussion was terrible. The air for miles iround was ill led with sulphurous gas. The iieteor came down red and smoking. It covers about two acres of ground, npp aring to be imbedded hundre is of feet in !ho earth, and now forms a great mountain In tho desert. A herder's hut and ccfrral svere in the meteor's path. Tho herder, his wife and three children, all Mexicans, together with about 1200 sheep, went down under tho mighty mass. Major Thomas Hays, of Louisville, Ky., who was of the party, was overcome by the phenomenon. "It was the most brilliant, grand and awoinspiring sight I ever witnessed," said the Major. "It is simply beyond the power of tongue or pen to express. The heat from ' the meteor is so intense that it will be severil days before the mound can bo examined losely." -r-^vo/-?Lj I nn crcr mr.u I v/nui i wu Flaming Gas and Oil Well Makes a Grand Spectacle. Tho Ogden fW. Va.) oil fields was the scene a few nights ago of the most brilliant spectacle ever witnessed in the country. The famous Newbauks oil well, which is also a strong producer of gas, took lire through accident, burning tho derrick and several thousand barrels of oil. When the pressure was reduced at the mouth of the wellthe gas broke the spouting oil Into sprays, throwing it into tho air more than one hundred feet. The flame was in tho shape of a huge torch, the spraying oil forming into glistening drops in the air and dropping in a dazzling shower, while the smoke, densely black, ascended way above the mountain. The hills for miles around were covered by sightseers, who had come from all over the region. The loss to the owners is enormous, as the well was producing 209 barrels a day. There was no way to pul out the Are, as the gas and oil pressure were constant and the roaring heat of tho flames territic. Oregon Cows for Cnina. A number ot milch cowb from Oregon,were shinned to China recently. ( RELIGIOUS READINGf. "PtODS COWARDICE." While thoroughly in sympathy with all rhrioHnn mriflt'stv "sulf-rooro.sslon ami K?n tleness, when these lovable virtues are nut carried to excess, we cannot but lament tho fact that the world finds any occasion fot scoffing at what it is sometimes pleased to call the ''pious cowardice" of Christians. That there is some basis for such a charge seems hardly to bo denied. Many Christian?we will not say most, but many at least?do lack aggr>adveness, responsiveness to opportunity and the call of duty courage of conviction, and in general the thoroughgoing manliness, the ''grit and grip," which the world's people rightfuilj admire. That this is a serious charge we are fully aware, but, believing that a.man's worst foes are the unworthy in his own household, we are constrained tc point out for the eood of those we love certain things which serwir to 'u? faults of weakness in Christian character "Pious cowardice" is evidenced in man? ways. Look at the almost invariable arrangement of any religious gathering, for instance?the congested condition of tho back seats and the lonesome emptiness of bare rows of front benches. Look at the extreme modesty of church people in making way for each other^upon working committees ; the quiet but'flrtn deference to others tf*>niin(it{n(T noMnnal testimonies arn ITUOU r colled for la prayer meetings ; the timidity with which otherwise aggressive singers join their voices to the uplifted hymn : the shy unwillingness to have others see what one puts into the contribution plate; the shrinking tendency to pass on in reproving 3ilence when the opportunity occurs to speak a brave, decided word in rebuke of irreverence or in defence of piety. It does seem to us that very many professing Christians need a little more of what the world calls the "up-and-coining" in personal character. There is too njucn selt-represiion, shrinking, desire to escape responsibility or prominence; too much dodging behind ono-another's shoulders, willinguess co melt into the background, and general feebleness of front all along the line. This Is not the spirit of conquest?c^rtninlv not n.?.? lilfft th? nresent. The church u?;e is Christians strong in personality now if she ever did. She ioes not lack strong, aggressive leadars, but. the backbone of her infantry is not is strong as it ought to be. Too many of (ier rank and Hie are imperfectly lined-up. Too many volunteers are distrustful of their jwn soldierly qualities. At the least hint ot friendly pressure from h comrade in the line, they step timidly out of the ranks and 50 marching along in the rear. Brother Ejhristians, let us cultivate a little more selfjonlldence and aggressiveness! Let us march up and fill those front seats at the prayer-mei'ting, as if we were afraid neither ^f the devil's hate nor the ministers' sympathy. Let us cease to hang back svhen responsibility and work are being portioned out. Let us be no longer afraid lo stand up for our convictions, no matter ivho questions them. Let ui be bravo in jiving and in doing; ready m emergencies ?quick even to anticipate the emergency; Irm in anion as well as in purpose?good soldiers of Christ, who was Himself .he Jravest soui that ever dwelt upon earth. 3o shall we honor the grandest of all causes, ind win the grateful approbation of our Lord and Master. GROWTH. Growth always means change. As soon night we expect the year to pass over our tieads without leaving traces of age in the iilvered hair and furrowed cheek as to expect to have an abiding type of Christian jxperience. As the stalk matures its fruit ihe blade becomes of less account. It has done its work. The question for us to ask is not, Do I ff-el as I once did ? Do I think just as I once did? but rather, Have I made progress and growth in the spiritual life? Manhood ought uot to measure itself by the standard of childhood. Spiritual growth jught also to be symmetrical as well as ;onstaut. A tree that has spent all its * ? u TTr<irt ti I ?-*UU vimm-j ... will attract mores attention th in its weilformed symetrlcal neighbor that bears abuniant fruit; but wtio doubts which is the best tree? It often happens that those who sultivate a single spiritual grace to the neglect of others get their reputation noised abroad, but this does not make them the best types of Christian character. Spiritual growth is not spontaneous. The benefits of divine truth and religious ordinances do not flow in upon ths soul like water into a sponge. The believer's life in all its activities must seek after and be earnestly receptive to the gracious influences and power of the Spirit. "Consider the lilies, how they grow. They toil not"? but with what intensity and activity of life, in obedience to the laws that govern all growth, they reach out after and receive through light and air and soil the nourishment thev require. Thus it comes to pass that the sunlight is woven into the very texture of the lily's blossom. It is the same miracle of life, transmuted into character, that makes the result of spiritual growth so wonderful. The soul in the humility of trust receptive to the Divine love and help, verifies the Saviour's promise: " He that abidoth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit."?Christian Work. LEAFY TABERNACLES. "The simplicity, freedom and spontaneity of the early religions were manifested, 3ays Henry Wood, "in a sympathetic oneness with nature and an instinctive feeling of her divinity. The people assembled for worship or sacrifice at natural shrines or 1 - nonnnv r\t hflflt'Mn I UUUUt l?UO VL vuuuj/j V* ? rather than in temples made with hands." The splendid rites of Semitic idolatry, were found on high hills; and the lire worshipers delighted, in their high places, to Kreet the dawn. The sin, in these cases, was not in the places or times, but in the quality of the worship; in devotion to nature rather than the God who ma'de nature. The Druids worshiped in the deep and dark forest. The place was befitting ; the sin was in the dark rites they observed there. About our open-air worship there has always seemed to us to be something at once cheerful and serious. Th? old time camp-meeting came close to nature; it was also felt to be close to God. The voice of God was heard in the sigh of the breeze and the s uis: of the birds. Muny a soul has felt the appropriateness and beauty of such scenes of worship; for there God has revealed Himself in mercy and love, commanding Ilis blessing, even life forovorinure. I.ET ME KNOW THEE. Lor.l Rive me a straightforward, accurate, imperious knowledge of myself?a knowledge that endures no lies and permits no equivocation : a knowledge that is not morbid or timid; an open, manly, sunshiny knowledge of my evil and my good. Bui with the disclosure of my weakness disclose also thy power. With my sins show me a Is.) thy forgiveness and thy salvation. With my virtues show me, far ahead of me, the perfection thou dost require. Let me not know mvseif unless I can also know thee.?A. It. Wells. It is not well to concentrate our thought too much on faith, lest we hinder its growth. Look away from faith to the object of faith, ami faith will spring of itself. It is the bloom uf the soul's health. See to it that thy soul is nourished and at rest: then faith wui be as nutural as sceut to a flower or bloom to a peach. I)o not ask if thy faith is of the right sort: all faith is right which is directed toward Him whom God hath set forth to reiliUMli.in nf It? I htmwn hearts. ? llev. F. 1>. Meyer. Tho greatest work has always hand in hand with the most fervent* moral purpose.? Sidney Lanier. A Ruse of Froo Silver Men. Silverites of South Dakota have devise 1 a way to make the State pay their share of the Bryan campaign expenses. They were short of ready money, the party managers refused to accept contributions of farm produce, .tnd the farmers hit upon the scheme of orgauizIncr nrniriM nrrJf hnnta <tnH liirnim* rtVAP fA the campaign fund the bounty of $2 for svery acalp. They have already secured in this way several thousand dollars. Chicago Is Literary. The report of the Chicago Public Library ihows that 1,173,586 volumes were circulated luring the year ending June 1, which breaks :he world's record for free circulating libraries. * - ' > ' 1 ... . _ * * SABBATH SCHOOL. 1 INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 13. Lesson Text: "David's Gratitude to God," II Samuel xxll., 40-51? Golden Text: II Samuel xxll., 2?Commentary. 40. "For Thou hast girded me with strength to battle. Them that rose up against me hast Thou subdued under me." The whole of this chapter is repeated in the book oi Psalms as number 18, the Holy Spirit thus calling special attention to this portion of His writings through David. In chapter xxiii., 1-3, It is written that whatever the sweet psalmist of Israel spake it was thu Spirit of the Lord speaking by him. It is ws't" rot- us when we recognize the whole Bible as wrftrtfrijy the Spirit of God for onr benefit. Verse lsLtbk chapter says that David spake these worani&t^to Lof4. when delivered from Saul and all his enemies". - In this first verse of our lesson and throughout the psalm he acknowledges that God had do*e everything for him. 41. "Thou hast also given me the nooks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me." There are many things in the Psalms which the church cannot appropriate or apply to herself. It is not for us to nave the necks of our enemies or destroy those that hate ns. These things are peculiar to Israel and to the King of Israel, the Son of David, when He shall come in His glory to destroy Israel's enemies and establish the kingdom. Oar mission as members of the body of Christ is to suffer meekly even for well_doin?r; to be cast out, hated and killed tor tits sake, ana yet to take It all patiently. 42. "They looked, but there was none to 9ave, even, unto the Lord, but He answered them not." As It Is written In Mtc. 111.. 4. "Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but He will not hear them, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings." And in Prov. i., 28, "Then shall tney call upon Me, but I will not answer; they shall seek Me ?arly, but they shall not find Me." Those who seek simply from fear and only because thev (lrend His iudarments may not expect to be heard. But see the contrast In Jer. rxix., 18. 43. "Then dlrl I beat them as small as the 3ust of thefarfh." See a similar figure In [I Kings xii., 7, and Mic. vll., 10. Tc be thoroughly subdued is very humiliuting, but averyttilng or person that is exalted against God must be brought low (Isa. 11., 11, 17). To be cheerfully subject and willing to be subdued for God's glory is very blessed, and It Is the privilege of every be iever to be as 2lay in the hands of the potter for God's glory and for our highest good (Isa. lxlv., 8). 44. "Thou hast also delivered me from the 9trivings of my people." Some of these jtrivinss are included in the long wars between tne houses of 3aul and David and the later strifes throughout nil the tribes of Israel (chapters lii., 1; xix., 9). Trouble Trom enemies without is bad enough, but trouble within a nation or church or family Is much worse. Yet from all He is able to deliver. When He speaks of being head of the nations and a people whom He knows aot serving Him, we thins of the sure 1 en._M In Q_<; HtfrCltJS U1 X/ilYlU Ul iotk. it,, U-V. 45. "Strangers shall submit themselves onto Me. As soon as they hear they shall be obedient unto Me." This also makes us !hink of Messiah's reign when "they that dwqll in the wilderness shall bow before Him, and His enemies shall liok the dust" (Ps. xsi'. 9). Sons of strangers shall build up Zion's walls, and their kings shall minister unto Israel (Isa. Jx., 10). The word 'oubmit" is in the margin rendered "lie or yield feigned obedience. ' It is the same in Ps. Ixvi., 3, and margin, and points to those who in the millennial reign of Christ will only be nominally subject and will follow Ihe devil when he is loosed from the pit (Rev. xx, 7-10). 46. "Strangers shall fade away, and they 3ball be afraid out of their close places." They shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth. They shall be afraid of the Lord our God and shall fear because of thee (Mic. vii., 17). It shall be a firm rule, as with a rod of iron, and those who have evil in their hearts shall fear to doit because of the swift judgments that shall be sent on "J?? in/1 frmanfa Af fhfl evuuucra. iuc an IUI tribulation period shall not soon be forgot* ten. 47. ''The Lord liveth, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of the rook of my salvation." In the Lord Jehovah is the Rock of Ages' strength (Isa. xxvt. 4, mar* (fin). He is the God of truth, tne living God, the King of eternity. At His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide His indignation (Jer. x., 10, margin). 48. 4,It is God that avengeth me and that brlngeth down the people under me." It was one of the blessed habits of David's lift to see and acknowledge God in everything. When he had Saul in bis power and might easily have slain him, he preferred to leave him to God. When Absalom drove aim from his throne, he said, seeing God's hand <n it Him do to me as seemeth good unto Him." When Bhimer cursed and stoned him, instead of letting Ablshal kill him, be said that if the Lord wanted him to endure this he would not even ask why (I Sam. xxvi., 10; II Sam. xv.. 20; xvi., 10). 49. "Thou also bast lifted me up on high above them that rose np against me. Thou hast delivered me from the violent man." Lj the morning of the resurrection, the morning without clonds (chapter xxlii., 4), nor morning when Goa shall help Israel CPs. xlvi., 5, margin), when the upright shall have dominion over the wicked CPs. xlix.( 14). when our Lord shall come in His glory and by the brightness of His cominjj destroj that wicked one, the man of sin (II Thesa ii., 3. 8), then shall we see the complete fulfillment of these things of which David sang and of which he in his own experience had remuifcable but only partial fulfillment. 50. "'Therefore I will give thanks untc Thee.O Lord, among the heathen, and I will ? ? ^ sing praises unto rny name. cruuo putpose with Israel in the past and in therutun Is the same and that is to make Himself suet a name through them in the eyes of all Na tions that all the Nations may turn to anc submit to the one living and true God foi their good (Josb. iv., 24; II Sam. vii., 23, 24. Ezek. xxxvil., 27, 26; Rom. xi., 12, 15). 51. !,He is the tower of salvation for hii ting and showeth mercy to His anointed unto David and to his seed forevermore.' While David was His anointed, he was a typ' of the Me-siah, Son of David, in whom til the promises will surely be fulfilled. Thi New Testament begins and ends with th? Son of David (Math, i, 1; Rev. xxii., 16). fo: it begins and ends with Israel and the king r'.om of God on earth. The sure and everlasting covenant of God was David's comfort in his dying hour (chapter xxiii., 5) There is nothing so sure as the promises oJ GoJ.?Lesson Helper. LI HAS A KEEN SENSE OF HUMOR. Chamberlain's Single-Barrel Eye Glass Couies the Chinese to Laugh. Tho feature of LI Hung Chang's character which most struck those who escortel hlra around Europe was his good humor. He is perpetually on the grin. When Mr. Chamberlain was introduced to him in the British House of Commons Li was convulsed with laughter at the Colonial Secretary's monocle. He kept pointing at it like a child, and Anally burst into a lotm guffaw that drowned the voice of the member who was addressing the house at that momeni. Mr. Chamberlain, who is becoming an accomplished courlier, ma Jean admirable pretense of enjoying t&e joke. It is perfectly true that when Li espied two legislators sitting in their places wearing the now fashionable yellow waistcoats, he observed to Mr. Cureon through an interpreter: "These, surely, are two of the great men of your assembly." They happened to be nonenitic^, whoso names even were unknown to Mr. Curzou. When Li was having an interview with Lord Salisbury he immediately noticed the British Prime Minister's peculiar habit of jogging his left knee up and down whenever seated. Li Qxed his eye on the Premier's knee, smiled broadly, and tlien oogau to jog his own knee in mimicry. This rather disconcerced Lord Salisbury, who diverted his attention by firing an awkward question at him about the obstructions to trade offered by the Chinese Government. Fealtv Proclaimed In Bit; Type. In Warren, Fountain and Benton Counties, Indiana, the farmers have become so much wrought up over the money question that they have put up either bier 10 to 1 or gold standard signs in front of theic houses. For eight miles on the road leading, >j&3t into Indiana from Rossvllie, III., every farmer has his sli?n out. / ' ; 'lx * TEMPER4NCE. WHAT WE CAK DO. Oh, what can we do, my brothers, To speed the cause along? We can speaJc a word to others; We can cheer them with a song: We can give them hearty greeting; We can shake them by the hand: We can bring them to the meeting; We can help them firmly stand. > Oh, what can we do, my brothers, To haste the longed-tor day When the weeping babes and mothers Shall wipe their tears away? Wh can sow the seed and reap it; Wo can help the sad hearts sing; r' . We can sign the pledge and keep it In the strength of Christ our king. * ??? hahmless cideb. At a meeting of the McLeansboro (Tll.T nr n m tt ? . a: - ?T. U. X. U., ? BUUIT 11111B URU, lUt) "The cost of four classes of cider," was assigned to a speaser who related the following incident: "A few months ago two boys rode to s country store. One of them Dought and drank four glasses of 'harmless cider.' Then they. Tent to a country church, disturbed the congregation, who were holding a social, and starting home, overtook others. "The boy,only .nineteen years old, who had drank the ciddr, began a quarrel with another young man, and before the others realized what wa? taking place had killed bis companion, and he was the son of a widow. The boy, otly nineteen years old, was sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years. So two homes afe made desolate by four glasses of older. \ "Not until the anguish <>f thi? widowed motner s nean as sue sac ?u?iwfui? *vr*. bounding step of her boy an$ heard instead the tread of those who bore hf r the lifeless form of her boy, can be estin*ted, and we know the cost of four glasses orsjder? "The boy murderer was sent to\ the penitentiary from our town a few w3$te *1P>? and yet we are, 'they say/to have saloons next year. Not If the W. C. T. oL-fftP UTTERLY USELtSS. At a temperance mass meeting in St Paul the Rev. Jobn Omelner called attention to HR the utier useles9nes9 of the liquor traffic. ^HBj Liquor wa9 uot nourishing. God could no more be blamed with creating alcohol than with creating carrion, for alcohol was the product of corruption. Nor, again, was aU" cohol a medicine. Within the last twentyfive years some of the world's greatest physicians have declared that there was no disease, no surgical case, that could not b? treated bettor without alcohol. Doctor Davis, known to all his profession, had declared. after long observation, that alcohol afforded but a temporary relief at the most, and that persons who recovered under itsadministra. tion would nave recoverea sooner unaej other treatment. The saloon had been called *'thepoorman> club." So it would always be. Its constant patron would indeed remain a poor man. ' Intemperance was especially the carse o( the laborer. Yet Terence Powderly of th? United States, and John Burns, of England, had said to the workinptmen: "Unless you give up drink, there is no hope for you. When you had given up drink, the laboi question is solved." Liquor was not a food, not a medicine, not a permanent source ol pleasure. THE SOT A SUICIDE. Tbn Right Rev. Monsignor Thorpe, of Cleveland, daring a sermon on the great evii of modern days, said a m<*n who wiU squander his money in destroying his health, who will ruin his constitution, who will burn his liver and corrode his stomach by lntoxl cauiDg ttrimts, 13 n muruoror; uc uiuiusn himself. Those to whom my words would apply are, perhaps, in this precious time ol Sanday, hanging about some saloon, wasting their time and desecrating the Lord's day, , while wife and family are at home, cold and cheerless and hungry, because the money of the father's earnings is being spent for drink. What a spectacle for little children growing up to see a drunken father. There Is n<3 struggle to meet him at the door with a kisj of innocent childhood, to climb his knee and caress him as he sits down by his humble fireside. There is no supper, no food, and all because of the unthinking, unfeeling father's desire for drink. The responsibility of man to man is exacting, but the re0DOOSt< bllity of parents to children is a thousand times more exacting. Put temptation from you: say that you will not degrade yourself so as to destroy the soul that God has given you, and which one day you will have to render an account for. \ A HELPIHO HAND. ' A cabman signed the pledgo for Rev. Charles Garrett, but soon after broke It. unH achnmfid hfl triad to keep out ot the way of his friends, bat Mr. Garrett was uot to be put off. One day he found the poor, miserable man, and taking hold of his hands he said: "John, when the road Is slippery and your cab horse falls down, what do you do with him?" "I help him up again," replied John. "Well, I have oome to do the same," said Mr. Garrett affectionately; "the road was slippery, I know, John, and you fell, bat there's my hand to help you up again." The cabman's heait was thrilled. He caught his frlsnd's hand in a vise-like grip and said: "God bless you.sir! you'll never have cause to regret this. I'll never fall again." Ana to this day he has kept his word.? National Temperance Advocate. IN ENGLISH BANDS OF HOPE. There are now in England about three millions of children who are being trained to be total abstainers in their Bands of Hope. This means far more than simply taking the pledge. It means knowing why they take it, and how to keep it. It would be no easy task to trick one of these well trained children into taking any kind of drink containin olnnHnl honuiiap thnr wniild know wh*? it was and fiow it came there. This training also prepares thorn to become teachers} while in this country the scarcity of teachers is the greatest hindrance to the work.? Youth's Temperance Banner. WORSE THAK APPEAItS. The horrors and degradation produced by the drink trafflo are not to be measured by any ordinary calculation of its first cost, noe are its depredations to be judged only by its effects on the business interests of the community. Its awful results are more injurious as a narcotic on the moral sensibilities of the people; and when conscience is blunted, the anchor of our civilization is gone.? Sacred Heart Review. WELL NAMED. At the intersection of two of the principal streets of Toronto stand four prominent establishments, the Government palace, whera the Lieutenant-Governor resides; the Collet? of Upper Canada; St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, which is considered the finest specl * xt in AmflKJrtij on/I II]f II U L IN uriiiaa (Ui;UlkCVlUlV IU aiuvuvn, u**v? a popular saloon, which, In the local annals, are characterized as "legislation, education, salvation and damnation."?Chicago Record. TEJCPEBAXCE WOKK T HAT TELLS. A saloon keeper on the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad complains that tha temperance advocates have been the cau3? of the reduction in his receipts from ?3000 to less than $700 a month. In other instances along the line of the same railway business has become so dull that the saloons wore Anally closed, all because of the worfc of the temperance advocates employed on the road. TEXFERAXCE SEWS AND NOTES. Of the nine thousand five hundred and A fcriy-two in-patients of London Tempeiance Hospital, alcohol has been used in seventeen eases only. Sorrow is supplied with a lif? preserve* that makes the effort to drown it in rum im? possible. The devil tries to write tho Lord's : .ame t on every barrel of whisky he ships to the heathen. In Zurich. Switzerland, 2790 of the insane patients were aggrava;ed eases of alcohollo Insanity. A San Francisco sir! deems the suicide of ? ?"?<? Ur nrocuni'rt ilffrpr hrt hlld a juuufi men tu ? heen oh a week's spree a case of accideutal shooting because, siie says, he was too much of a gentleman deliberately to do so ugly an act under such circumstances. Michigan has passad a law fixing a heavy ? penalty upou railroad companies for the em-# plovment of persons addicted to the use ot intoxicants. " \