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RIOT AND FIRE | I RAGE IN MANILA I ?n Outbreak of Incendiarism s ! AMMiwaitifiil fiv FiShtifl^ in II *AVV??mw _ tlie City Results in An finormons Property Loss. THE BETOLT FS CSBGXED. 4 Attack the Result of c Conspiracy to i Exterminate All Americans. Le Filipinos in Attempt to DeKstroy the City?Th? Flres Were Started r??,the Santa C,ui> San N'colas and f Tondo Qnai iv - -Our Troops Fired on I' While Flghtl nZ the Flames?The Casualties Were Few, But the Property - w_ -r,? nnnn?_FIames at One Timo IB JUOflB XB JCdUW Threatened th? Whole City?The >*?W tive? Are Completely Cowed By the Prompt Work of General OUs. f Manila (Br Cable).?The Philippine insurgents h?vQ Qred the city, and a groat part of th-? city wa< heavily damaged. There was dghting in the streets. The plot to massacre Amerloaas came to a head Wedoesday night. It was a failure. It was uppress^d with the loss of but few men. Tho started In three parts of the city. Flame3 burst forth simultaneously from sAQta Cruz, 8an Nloolas aad Tondo. From fhese points the flames spread in all directions. In a short time the greater part ?>' the city wa3 on fire. Native snarpsnootera lurcea oeaiaa corner buildings and shot at every American fa sight. Notwithstanding the continual firing of the hidden sharpshooters the 1^1 American garrison turned out and fought TO the fire. In many cases they had first to drive away the lurking assassins. SB i Seven members of the Minnesota Begljnent were wounded while making a dnsh into the burning Tondo quarter. Captain N. M O. Bobinson, of Company C, wo3 seriously wounded. Bugle calls rallied the troops from some of the outlying encampments, and they quickly spread through all parts of the I city. The fire lastei all night and the town I was not entirely safe untilthe morning. 9 All danger is now past. The native F rebels in the city have been completely I eowed by the prompt work of General Otis [ and tbe other commanders. It is evident that the incendiaries and assassins believed that the whole town would be destroyed and with it the foreign residents and the American soldier;. The property loss will be exceedingly heavy. Strong guards are now posted in all parts of the cit>, but it is not believed that another massacre nlot will be attempted. PLOT OF THE FILIPINOS. 4Ihn Document Issued by an Important ^Officer" of the Insurgent Government Inciting the Natives to Riot and Massacre. Washington, D. C. (Special).?The following dispatch was received from General Otis: "Manila, February 21, 1899. "Adjutant-General, Washington: "Following issued by an imporantant officer of the insurgent government at Ualolos, February 15,1899, for execution during that evening and aight in this city. Otis. "First?You will 60 dispose that at 8 o'clock at night the individuals of the territorial militia at your order will be found united Id all of the streets of San Pedro, armed with their balos and revolv<ers, or guns and ammunition, if convenient. "Second?Filipino families only will be respected. They should not be molested, but all other individuals, of whatever race they may be, will be exterminated without any compassion after the extermination of nnnv of nrt<*nnaHAn "Third?The defenders of the Phllif. piQ63 in your command will attack the guard at Uilibid and liberate the prisoners and prP3ldiario3, and having accomplished this they will be armed, saying to them: 'Brothers, we must avenge ourselves on the Americans and exterminate them, that we may take our revenge for the Infamy and treachery they have oommltted upon us; have no compassion upon them; attack with , vigor. All Filipinos en masse will second you.' "Long live Filipino Independence! "Fifth?The order which will be followed in the attack will be as follows: "The sharpshooters of Tonda and Santa Ana will begin the attack from without, and these shots will be the signal for the militia of Trozo, Cinondo, Governor Tanner'* Indictments. Tho State's Attorney at Carllnvllle, 111., a lew days ago entered nolle prossequi iu the three indictments round against uovernor Tanner by the Grand Jury which investigated the Virden coal miners' strike. Tho indictments against Governor Tanner charged him with omission of duty in not sendiug troops to Virden to prevent the riot of October 12. French Pretender Active. The D uke of Orleans lias reached Brussols, Belgium; It is said that he considers the time ripe for a revolution in France. Minor Mention. A telephone line connecting Berlin with Paris via Brussels is in course of construction. A Chicago syndicate has secured options oa most of the flsh traps in Puget Sound, Wash. The next German Surgical Congress will meet at Berlin from the 5th to the 8th of April. ; Ice thirty-eight inches thick was Harvested from Lake Winnebago, in 'Wisconsin, this winter. The death rate in Michigan in January was 16.2 per thousand. This is the highest rate known in the State, and is ascribed to th? prevalence of grip and kindred dls^ eases. . ___ Qulnto and 8arapaloo to ro out Into the street and do their duty; those of Pako, Ermita and Malate, Santa Cruz and San Miguel will not start out until 12 o'clock, unless they see that their companions need assistance. aixta?me muitia or ronao wtu stars out at 3 o'clock la the morale;?; If all do their duty our revenge will be complete. "Brothers, Europe contemplates us; wo kuow how to die a9 men, shedding our blood in defenoe of the liberty of our country. Death to tyrants! "War without quarter to the false Americans who have deceived us! "Either lndeneudence or death!" There is no fourth paragraph ia the insurgents' statemeat as furnished to the press. OUR FLAG OVER NEUEOS ISLAND. Inhabitant* Volnntarlljr OfTer AUejjianco to the United States. Manila., Philippine Islands (By Cable').? The Stars and Stripes wore voluntarily raised over Negros Islaud by the iaTIaIIA Kl? thu iiituiknuvs aiioi iuu taiuuioui nunv #/ %u?vr Americans under General Miller. Four native commissioners arrived here to offer the ulleglance of the inhabitants and ask American protection. i They have informed General Otis that its nhabltants were ready, anxious and willing to accept any proposition the Americans might offer. The insurgents have been driven from the island entirely. The General assured them that the Americans would provide an acceptable Government. The Negros Commissioners wera delighted with their reception. ELECTIONS IN PENNSYLVANIA; Republican Municipal Officials Elected in the City of'Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Penn. (Special).?Coroner Samuel H, Ashbridge (Rep.) was elected Mayor of Philadelphia, to succeed Charles F. Warwick, by a plurality of at least ona hundred thousand over Dr. W. Horace Hoskins(Dem.). and the Prohibition, People's and Single Tax candidates. Police Magistrates, Select and Common Councllmep. School Directors, and other minor ward and division officers were also elected. Taroughout the State candidates for city, town and borough officers were chosen, but the elections were generally quiet. In Lebanon, Dr. Samuel Wise, an antiQuay Republican, was elected State Senator to succeed General J. M. S. Gobln, Lieutenant-Governor of the State. lu Cumberland County, Edgar S. Manning (Rep.) was elected to the State Legislature to succeed his father, who recently died. Democratic Mayors were chosen in Har .toknrw enil Altnrm.i. Tn a numhsr of I * L STREET, MANILA. ses Id the city, which are built of InSaratnairefore, easily destroyed.) counties there were interesting contests j for school directors, whore women were . candidates, and In Snydertown, Nortbum- ; berland County, one of these candidates, | running on the Democratic ticket, was defeated by her husband, a Republican. CHARLES DENBY SAILS. The United States Philippine Commit* : sloner Starts For Manila. 8an Fbancibco, Cal. (Special).?The Japanese liner America Maru, which sailed a few days ago for the Orient, carried about halt a million dollars' worth of freight and CHABLE3 DEN'BT. (A Member of the United States Philippine Commission.) treasure. Among her pas33nger3 wa3 Charles DeDby, a member of ths United cjfrtf/vo T>KII(iM\nlna PrtmrnUillnn. Obavoa 4 UIII|/^/|/IMV ?. SUFFOCATED IN A TRUNK. A Maryland Man Accuses His Wife of Killing His Son. Fbedericetos, Md. (Special). ? Mrs. Clara Wachter, of Lewistown, twelve miles from this city, was brought to this city a few days ago and pirrendered to the police by her husband. The charge against her Is the murder of her sixteen-year-old son, Robert E. Lee Wachter. The woman is forty years old, The husband and father said that on arriving home he missed the boy, who wa3 weakmlnded. He could get no satisfactory answer from his wife, and found his boy's body locked In a trunk in one of the upper rooms of tha house. The mother had wrapped nor son ugauy m ? umuioi, ?uu pushed him into the trunk, where he was suffocated. Five Killed In & Dynamite Explosion. The premature explosion of a dynamite charge in Mine No. 2 at Blocton, Ala., a few days ago, killed live miners and Injuring several others. The explosion resulted from the igniting of afterdamp caused by a "windy shot." The Grant to France Revoked. The Sultan of Oman has revoked the grant of a coaling station to the French, under the British admiral's threat of a bombardment and the fact that the British warships Eclipse, Sphinx and Kedbreast ara j lying oil the port ot Muscat. Convicted of Murder on His Birthday. The jury in the case of Arthur Hagan and John H. Chauce, charged with murder at Boston, a few days ago, found Chance guilty of murder in tue second degree. Hagan was acquitted, unanco was tiiirtytwo years old mat day. The two men were accused of murdering Charles L. Russell, a clerk in a drug store under the United States Hotel, on April 4 last. "The Oldest Postmaster" Dead. John Logan, the oldest postmaster in tha United States, Is dead. Ho was appointed postmaster of Cross Roads during the administration of President Van buren, in 1837. He was elaatr-elaht years old. _L obTtalhage's sermon. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE 8YTHE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "Advice to Commercial Drummers"? Many Are the Temptations That lleaet Traveling: Men?Christian Association* Necessary. T?tt. ?'TVin ohftrlnta shall rftefl in thf> itreets; they shall justle oue against anstber !n the bread ways; they shall seem .lVe torches; they shall run like the lightalngs."?Nahum ii., 4. It has been found out that many of the arts and discoveries which we supposed were peculiar to our own age are merely the restoration of the arts and discoveries Df thousands of years ago. I suppose that :he past centuries have forgotten more :hun tbe present century knows. It seems :o me that they must have known thousands of years ago In tbe days of Nlnoveh of the uses or steam and its application to swUt travel. In my text I hear the rush of :he rnll train, tho clang of the wheels and '.he jamming of the cur couplings. "The Jbariots Miall rage in the streets; they ?balt justle one against another In the broad ways; they shall seem like torches; hAv chnii run lite the iitrhtninirs." Have you ever taken your position in the ?ight far awny from a depot along the ;rack wuiting to see the rail triiu come at full speed? At first you heard in the distance a rumbling, like the coming of a ?torra, then you saw the flash of the head'.iRht of the locomotive ap it turned the ?uive; theu you saw the wilder glare of the 3ery eye of the train as It came plunging toward you; then you heard the shriek of ibe whistle {that frenzied all the echoes; then you saw the hurricane dash of cin3ers;"then you felt the jar of the passing ?Hrthquuke and you saw the shot thunderbolt of the express traiD. Well, it seems :hat we can hear the passing of a midnight express train in my text, "The chariots 5hall ruge in the streets; theyjustle one igainst another in the broad ways; thoy jhall seem like torches; they shall run like :he lightnings." I halt the train long enough to get on .toard, and I go through the cars, and I 9nd three-fourths of the passengers are jommercial travelers. They are a folk peculiar to themselves,, easily recognized, it home on all the trains, not startled by :he sudden dropping of the brakes, familiar .vitb all the railroad signals, can tell you ivbat is the next station, how long the train .Till stop, what place the passengers take luncheon at, can give you information on ilmost any subject, are cosmopolitan, at lomo everywhere from Halifax to San Francisco. They are on tha 8 o'clock morning trnin, on the noon trait, on the uldnight train. You take a berth In a ileeplng ear, and either above you or be-1 aeath you Is one of these gentlemen. There are 100,000 professed commercial travelers ;n tbe United States, but 500,000 would not include all those who are sometimes engaged in this service. They spend millions of dollars every day in the hotels and in tbe rail trains. They !iave their official newspaper organ. They aave their mutual benefit association, about 4000 names on the rolls, and have already distributed more than 5200,000 among families of deceased members. They are ubiquitous, unique, and tremendous for good or evil. All the tendencies of merchandise are toward their multiplication. The house that stands oack on its dignity and waits for customers to come, instead of going to seek bargain makers, will have more and more unsalable goods on the shelf and will gradually lose its control of the markets. While the great, enterprising and successful houses ?rill have tbelr agents oti all tbe trains, and "their chariots will rage in thestreets, they shall justle one against another In ihe broad ways. They shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightatogs." I think commercial travelers can stand a sermon of warm hearted sympathy. If you have any words of good cheer for them, you had better utter them. If you have any good, hone6t prayers In their behalf, they will be greatly obliged to you. I never knew a man yet who did not like to be prayed for; I never knew a man yet that did not like to be helped. It seems to me this sermon is timely. At this season of the t'<?nr there are tens of thousands of men going oat to gather the spring trade. The bitter curse of Almighty God will rest upon that commercial establishment which expects its employes to breaK the Sabbath. What- ricrbt has a Christian merchant to sit down in church on the Sabbath when his clerks are traveling abroad through the land on that day? Get up, proteased Christian merchant, so actlag. You have no business here. Go out And call that boy back. There was a merchant in 1837 who wrote: "I should have been a dead man had it not been (or the Sabbath. Obliged to work from morning until night through the whole week, I felt an Saturday, especially on Saturday afternoon, that I must have rest. It was like ?oing into a dense fog. Everything looked dark and Rloomy as if nothing could be saved. I dismissed all and kept the Sabbath in the old way. On Monday it was all sunshine, but bad it not been for the Sabbath, I have no doubt I should have been In my grave." Be ashamed to sell foreign fabrics or fruits anless you know something about the looms that wove them or the vineyards that grew them. Understand all about the laws that control commercial life, about banking, about tariffs, about markets, about navigation, about foreign people? their characteristics and their political revolutions as they affect ours; about the harvests of Russia, the vineyards of Italy, the teaflelds of China. Learn about the Rteat commercial centres of Carthage and Assyria and Phoenicia. Bead all about the IVfaHts?! r\f V\nrf*ru*n mltflitv In trftdfl mightier In philanthropies. You belong lo the royal family of merchants. Be worthy of that royal family. Oh, take my advice and turn the years of weariness into years of luxury. But you have come now near the end of vour railroad travol. You begin business. Now, let me say, there are two or three things you ought to remember. First, that all the trade you get by the practice of "treating" will not stlak. If you cannot get custom except by tipping a wineglass with somebody, you had better Dot get his custom. An old commercial traveler glve& as his experience that trade got by "treating" always damages the house that gets it In one way or the other. 0 commercial traveler, though your firm may give you tne largest salary 01 any man iu your line, though tbey might gire you ten per cent, of ull you sell, or twenty per cent, or fifty per cent, or ninety-nine per cent., they cannot pay enough to make It worth your while to ruin your soull Besides that, a commercial house never compensates a man who has been morally ruined In their employ. A young man la Philadelphia was turned out from his employ because of inebriation got in the service of tho merchant who employed him. and here is the letter he wrote to his employer: "8ir?I came into your service uncorrupt in principles und In morals, but the rules of your bouse required me to spend my evenings at places of public entertainment and amusement in search of customers. To accomplish my work in your service I was obliged to drink with thom aud join them In tlielr pursuits of pleasure. It was not my choice, but the rule of tho house. I went with them tc Ihe theatre and the billiard table, but It was not my choice. I did not wish to ko; I went In your service. It was uot my pleasure so to do, but I was the conductor and companion of the simple ones, void alike of understanding and of principles, ia their sinful pleasures aud deeds of deeper darkness, that I might retain them as your customers. Your interest required it. I have added thousands of dollars to the profits of your trade, hut at what expense you now see, aud I know too well. You have become wealthy, but I am poor indeed, and now this cruel dismissal from your employ is the recompense I receive for a character ruined and prospects blasted in helping to make you a rich man!" Alas for the man who gets such a letter as that! Again, I charge you, toll tho whole truth about anything you sell. Lvlng commercial travelers will precede you. Lying 'commercial travelers will como right after oomfi afAno HA nAf 1 of )Ull iliw wuo Ottiuu oiytw. i/v ?*-<w vuuu unfair competition tempt you from the straight line. It ban awful bargain that la man makea when be sells his goods and 'bis soul at the same time. A young man in one of the stores of New York was selling Some silks. He was binding them up when 'be said to the lady customor, "It is my :duty to show you, that there is a fracture In that silk." She looked at it and rejected ?pr . t the goods. The head of the Arm, hearfnft of it, wrote to the father of the young man in the country, saying: "Come and take your son away. He will never make a merchant." The father came in agitation, wondering what his boy had been doing, and the head men of the firm said: "Why, vour son stood here at this counter and pointed out a fracture in the silk, and of course the lady wouldn't buy It. We are not responsible for the ignorance of customers. Customers must look for themselves. Your son will never make a merchant." "Is that all?" said the father. "Ah! I am prouder of my boy that I ever was. John, Ret your hat and come home." But It Is almost night, and you go back to the hotel. Now comes the mighty tug for the commercial traveler. Tell me where be spends his evenings, and I will tell vou where he will spend eternity, Hnd I will tell you what will be his worldly prospects. There is an abundance of choice. There is your room with the books. There are the Young Men's Christian Association rooms. There are the week night services of the Christian churches. There is the gambling saloon. There Is the theatre. There Is the house of infamy. Plenty of places to go to. But which, 0 immortal man, which? 0 God, which? "Well," you say, "I guess I will?I guess I will go to the theatre." Do you think the tarrying in that place until 11 o'clock at night will imy hmHlv liAnlfh np vnnr flnrtnolnl I"u'" """"J -?? J prospects, or your eternal fortunes? No man ever found tbe path to usefulnoss, or honor, or happiness, or commercial suecess, or heaven through the American theatre. "Well," you say, "I guess, then, I will go to?I guess I will go to the gambling saloon." You will first go to look. Then you will go to play. You will make $100, you will make $o!)0, you will make $1000, you will make $1500. Then you will lose all. Then you will borrow some money so as to start anew. You will make $50, you will make $100, you will make $600. Then you will lose all. These wretches of the gambling saloon know how te tempt you. But mark this: All gamblers die poor. They may make fortunesgreat fortunes?but they lose them. "Well," you say, "If I can't go to the theatre, and If I can't go to the gambling saloon, then I guess?I guess I will go to the house of Infamy." Commercial travelers have told me that in the letter box at the hotel, wltbln one hour after their arrival, they have had letters of evil solicitation In that direction. It Is far away from home. Nobody will know It. Commercial travelers have sometimes gone In that evil path. Why not you? Halt! There are other gates of ruin through which a man may go and yet come out, but that gate has a spring lock which snaps him in forever. He who goes there is damned already. He may seem to be cnmnnratlvelv free for a little while, but be is only on the limits, nnd the Satanic poiiee have thoir eyes upon him to bring bim in at any moment. The hot curse of God is on that crime, and because of it there are men whose heaven was blotted out ten years ago. There is no danger that they bo lost; they are lost now. I look through their glaring eyeballs down into the lowest cavern of hell. O destroyed spirit, why comest thou in here to-day? Dost think I have the power to break open the barred gateway of the penitentiary of the damned? There is a passage in Proverbs 'I somewhat hasitate to read, but I do not hesitate long: "At the window of my house I looked through my casement and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths; a young man, void of understanding, passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night. Ho goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, till a dart strikes through his liver." But now the question is still openWhere will you spend your evening? 0 commercial travelers, how much will you give me to put you on thtf rlRht track? Without chareinz vou a farthlnj? I will prescribe for you a plan which will save | you lor this world and the next, if you will take It. Go, before you leave home, to the Young Men's Cbristian Association of the city where you live. Get from them letters of introduction. Carry them out to the towns and cities where you go. If there be no such association in tbe placo you visit, then present them at the door of Christian churche, and hand them over to the pastors. Be not slow to arise In the devotional meeting and say: "lam a commercial traveler. I am far away from home, and I come in here to-night to seek Christian society." The best houses and highest style of amusement will open before you, and Instead of your being dependent upon the leprous crew who bang around the hotels, wanting to show you all the slums of the city, on the one condition that you will pay their expenses, you will get the benediction of God in every town you visit. Remember this, that whatever place you visit bad influences will seek you out. Good Influences you must seek out. While I stand Lere I bethink myself of a commercial traveler who was a member of my church In Philadelphia. He was a splendid young man, the pride of his widowed mother and of his sisters. It was his joy to support them, and for that purpose he postponea nis own u?y. xia thrived in business, and after awhile set up his own household. Leaving that city for another city, I had no opportunity for three or four years of making inquiry la regard to him. When I made such inquiry, I was told that he was dead. Tne story was, he was largely generous and kind-hearted and genial and social, and he got into the habit of "treating" customers and of showing them all the sights of the town, and ho began rapidJy to go down, and he lost his position in the church of which he was a member, and he lost his position in the comr irr'-.l hcuse of which he wa3 the best ag d his beautiful young wife and his s.jk '1 mother and his sisters went into destitution, and he, as a result of his dissipation, died in Kirkbride Insane Asylum. O commercial travelers, I pray for vou the all sustaining grace of God. There are two kinds of days when you are especially in need of divine grace. The one, the day when you have no success?when you fail to make a sale?and you are verv much disappointed, and you go back to your hotel discomfited. That night you will t>e tempted to go to strong drink and rush into bad surroundings. The other day, when you will especially need divine grace, will be when you have had a day of great success and the devil tells you you must go and celebrate that success. Taon you will want tbe grace ot God to restrain you from rollicking indulgences. Yes, there will be a third day when you will need to be Christians, and that will be the last day of your life. I do not know where you will spend it. Perhaps In your house, more probably in a rail car, or a steamer, or the strange hotel. I see you on your last commercial errand. You have bidden goodby to the family at home for the last time. The train of your earthly existence Is nearlng the depot of the grave. The brakes are falling. The bell rings at the terminue. The train stops. All out for eternity. Show your ticket now for getting into the gate of tbe shining city?the red ticket washed in the blood of the Lamb. NO DRINK AT NAVY YARDS. Secretary Long Cut* Off a Privlloffe ol Sailor* and Marine*. The sale of all Intoxicating llqnors to " ? 1 ? ?i ?? ?Mi" nftnnlmH t r\ aliino ' R.1:]ora unu luuiiuus wimo un...-..-- . stationed at navy yards or while employed J ou receiving vessels or at naval stations ! io prohibited in a general order issued to I the service l>y the Secretary of the Navy j at Washington. In his order Secretary Long says that j after carefully considering the question of serving liquor to sailors he has concluded that the practice is injurious to tlie naval servico and works much harm, and that th? value of the sailor and the marine will be advanced by the curtailment of his liquoi i supply. For several years the navy has i allowed bluejackets in mosses on warships when at navy yards, either in commission or In ordinary, to purchase in moderate quantities beer and other malt liquors which were served usually at tholr meals. Sailors on receiving ships und marines at navy yards had tue sumo pnvuc^o. The practice was recommended by naval officer.-', who bellovod it would tend greatly to discourage wholesale drunkenness oc the part of sailors and marines when they hadliberty and would improve the personnel of the service. Officers commend the system as a highly beneficial one and urge its continuation. The Secretary's action Is Bald to have been based on repeated protests made by temperance societies throughout tho country, w&ich have opposed the Government's giving sanction to the sale of any kind of Intoxicating liquor? to sailors and marines GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. FRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE 1 WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. 'Four Feet on the Fender"?The Reflection of God-Christians Should Slngl'he Surprise of GrHce?A Prayer for All Soals?A True Thought. Four pictures I see, in a frame quaint and ^ olden, i Aglow in tbe twilight, half gloomy, half i golden, ^ Where big beechen logs, all the fireplace f filling, I From out their rude caskets their rubies are ( spilling, < To roll o'er the hearth in a river of glory. i The wind in the chimney is crooning a story; ] On walls and on ceiling (he shadows are i shifting, i ind down the wido flue a few snowfiakes ' are sifting I Where brother and sister sit, winsome and 1 slender, t And face answers face, with " four feet on t the fender." i ] Then later I see the young man and the ? maiden, i Whose low, wooing language with fervor is j laden. < I hear his fond question, In fear and in i trembling. Her gracious reply without guile or dls- 1 sembling; 1 Then every blithe robin that ever had nested I Within the brave beach tree, or ever had i rested " ] Inside its green tent, when it stood in t?3 < tbieket, i Seemed singing again with the shrill little 1 cricket. i Oh, sweet was their song whf>n the lass did < surren er. i And hand answered hand, with "four feet ] on the fender." ] Once more I can see tho same happy pair i mated, Enclosed in the paradise love has created. i Around them the children, with riotous i laughter, Flood all ttw room from the rug to the ] rafter. ] They piny in the splendor the Are is flinging i Across the broad floor, and the kettle u ] siliging 1 Its cheery defl to the storm that is piling < The gables with snow, and the wee baby smiling i In dear mother's arms make the father's face i tender, < And heart answers heart, with "four feet od j the fender." We sing of the paradise where we are going; j Oh, fair are its gardens with pure waters flowing, ] The amaranths blooming, the azure skiea , arching \ Above tbe white host of the ransomed ones , marching! But I, sitting here, in my loneliness yearn- j tug For one who has gone whonce there U no returning, . Oft picture that place as my own Father's dwelling. Where she whom I love to the angels la telling That kindly old death soon her sweetheart will send her, And heaven will begin, with "four feet on th* fendei. ?Rev. Robert Mclntyre, D. D., in Congregationalism / " The Keflection of God. Light, by its* very nature, radiates. It strikes one spot only to slant from li; to another. A boy may sit in his window and catch the whole disk of tbe sun in his handglass, and dazzle with it some puzzled neighbor clear across the road. Sometimes in war the signal servicemen stand on a hilltop and flash the light from one mirror to another. until at last there is transmitted fat across the country the plan of their campaign. Under the same principle of radiation the messages of God are transmitted to tbe world of man. The mirror of one pure life catches the light on its undimmed surface, and then the light slants on to other lives, . and across the years the purposes of God are conveyed and made plain.. It takes a very small mirror to reflect the whole circle Ul lUOMiU, UM1HM1JV 1UU.O lli?n ? insignificant life to.transmit in aclear image the reflection of the light of God. And thai is wbat gives life significance?not how great It is, but bow pure is its-reflecting power; not its receptive, but its transmiasive capacity. ? Fraucis Greenwood Peabody, D. D., in "Afternoons in the College Chupei." ChrUtiang Should Sing. Some people seem to take a morbid delight in making themselves and other peopio miserable. If they have no real troubles to worry about, they manufacture artificial ones, and their mills never shut down. The; grind out just about so much misery, whether the market is brisk or dull. They are like old, rusty pianos, that have not been tuned for vHiina. Thev are so full of discordant elements that no harmony can be evoked from them. Play on any lcey and you evoko nothing but a jangle. . They whine and sigh, but they never sing. And yet a Christian,above all others,6hould be forever singing at the heart. A sure recipe for cheerfulness is to be always on the alert for 9omo pleasant thing that may happen to us. A washerwoman in a miserable tenement house was asked how she kept singing in her disheartening surroundings. "Oh, because there is always a breeze in our alley." 8be might have said it was because she had a siuging heart within her. To every such soul God givcth songs in the night.?Louis Albert Banks, D.D., in Preachers' Magazine The Surprise of a race. One spoke the other day of the surprises Df a great sorr w which had just been pasaed through. It was all surprises, for it was the first sorrow; but strangest cf all was the surprise of grace which came to brighten the darkness aud to fill the loneliness with love. Some of it came through human affection?friends had brought wondrous warmth and tondernoss. "I never knew I had so many friends until my bereavement came." Soma of it came through words of divine comfort which had been read or heard a hundred times before, but which now. in the darkness, for the first time revealed their precious meaning. But besides these, and most wonderful of all, there came a strange blessing of heavenly peace, which seemed to 1111 the bereft hearts as with an unseen prcsenco of love, pouring itself through all the home as a holy fragrance. Thus it is that they who wait on the Lord have their strength renewed in every need, in every sorrow.?J. K. Miller, D. D. A Prayer for AH Souls. We most earnestly beseech thee, 0 thou Lover of mankind, to bloss all thy people, the flocks of thy fold. Send down into our hearts the peaco of heaven, and grant us also the peace of this life. Give life to the souls of nil of us, and let no deadly sin prevail npainst us, or any of thy people. Deliver all who are in trouble, for thou art our God, who settest the captives free; j who givest hope to the hopeless, and help to the helpless; who liftest up the fallen, and who art the haven of the shipwrecked. Give Thy pity, pardon and re- ( frcshinent to overy human soul, whether in affliction or error. Preserve us in our pilpriinairo through this life, from hurt and rlfiufpiir jmrl ivrnnf flint nrii m n nnM n 11 liruu 1 ' as rini.-tiaiis, well-pleasing to Thoe and freo , . from sin, ami that we may have our por- , (ion and lot will) all Thy sniLts. Amen. i It is a deep, true thought which tho old i rn'r.-i r-ili'xl wlmn they drew Jo'm as likest J to his Lord. Love make* us alike.?A. Mac- ' lareu. i I OPERATION RESTORED REASON. A Tumor I;eiuoved From the liruiii of a I.unutic Mnkea Him Smic, I Professor Fenger, in Mercy Hospital, Chi- ( cago, has performed.succeiisfully tho opera- , tion oi removing a brain minor. This is thought to be the first operation of tbi1 ) kind in tho world. The subject was a Ger- j man butchor named Joseph Sepie, v/ho lias been iusano for several years, ills insanity being caused by a tumor on trie l>ruiu pressing on tho optic nerve. Hopi>* was considered very dangerous and u.? :>iought n hopeless lunatic. The X ray msoiosod the I tumor and the operatleu eiiMied. The * inau's sanity was restored, as vva-i also ills " proper sight, he having heretofore Been 1 double ' rHE SABBATH SCHOOL." NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MARCH 12. Reason Text: "Chriat Healing the Blind Man," John ix., 1-1 i?Golden Text: John !x., 2?Commentary on the Day'* Lesion by the lie?. O. M. Stearns. 1. "And as Jesus passed by He saw a man vblch was blind from his birtb." In Acts II., 2, we Bee a man lame from bis birth rlio was healed through Peter and John. These cases of Infirmity from birth are suggestive of the truth that we are all sinners )y birth, by nature the children of wrath Eph.il., 3). The cases of infirmities which iome after birth are suggestive of the after nanlfestatlons of the sin that is born in us. 2. "And His disciples asked Him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" The reasoning of Job's friends Is brought to mind 'whoever perished being Innocent," and many such like words (Job iv.,7),but when :he Lord summed up the matter He said ;hat these men had not spoken of Him right :hlngs (Job xili., 7). While it is true that whatsoever a man soweththat shall he also reap, yet we cannot judge from seeing one tick or suffering that therefore they are reaping from some sowing, for whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and II we enlure chastening God dealeth with U3 as ivith sons <Heb. xli., 6, 7). 3. "Jesus answered, Neither hath this nan sinned nor his parents, bnt that the works of God should be made manifest in liim." This mams blindness was not the result of any special sin on the part of his parents. ThlsTfe what our Lord says. He does not say that his parents were not sinners needing a Saviour, but He does Bay that this affliction of having a blind son was not a judgment npon them, bnt rather an occasion for God to be glorified. There are many nowadays who think that a blind or iame or sickly child is an affliction upon the parents for some sin against God. 4. "I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day. The night cometh (Then no mau can work." A carpenter wants material on which to use his tools and show his skill, a doctor or a surgeon wants patients, and the worse or more hopeless tte case the more credit to the physician for bringing a cure and health. Dur Lord often repeats the truth that all His works are commanded by and wrought by the Father who sent Him, and more than once it is written that as the Father sent Sim so He sends us. It is equally true that as God wrought in Him so God works in as, for while we are commanded to work we are also told in the same connection that it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do. It was His hand which prepared all the good works we are to walk In. 5. "As long as I am in the world I am the light of the world.V This is oft repeated (chapters 1., 4, 9; vlll., 12; xii., 46). And in the 3ermon on the Mount He said to His disciples, "Ye are the light of the world." we must rememoer mat toe me is mo ugui, and the life Is that which men see and read. Words may amount to but little, bat a holy | life is unanswerable. We am certainly not equal to it. We cannet live the Christ life nor do His works, bat if we are willing and yielded,He will live the life and work the worts. "'Paul said, "I live, yet not I, but Christ, liveth'in me." <5. "When He had thus spoken, He spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle, and He anointed the eyes of the blind man J with the clay." Sometimes He works just [ by a word, sometimes by a touch and at other times as here. He uses means, but whether by a word, a touch or other Instrumentality it Is God who worketb. In the clay we have the dust of the ground and His spittle?something of earth and something of God. Is not a saved sinner just that?something human, something divine? And we are His workmanship prepared for good works. 7. "And said unto him, Go, wash In the pool of Siloam (wfilch is by interpretation sent). He went his way, therefore, and washed and came seeing." How often in this gospel does Jesus speak of Himself as sent of God. How suggestive, therefore, is Siloam of Him who was and Is truly the sent One! Tbe oiay is to be washed off into Siloam. He who made the clay and uses it receives it back to Himself. The clay has no honor. It is not to be saved and laid up as a precious, thing, but to be washed off into' Siloam. Some of us slick so close to people'a eyes that they cannot sae. 8. "The neighbors, therefore, and they whioh before had seen hicn that he was Dima sata, 19 mis not u? wuu out auu bepged?" Formerly a blind, helpless beggar, holding oat his hand to every passerby for the alms they might be pleased to give, but now upright, with opened eyes, seeing like other men and enjoying what he saw as none others did, for he baa never seen before. He Is in a new world?the snn, tbe sky, the trees, the flowers, the faces of his friends, but, best of all, a little later the face of Christ. 9.'"Some said, This is he; others ?ald, He Is like him, bat he said, I am he." Whatever others knew or did not know, he could say, One thing I know?that whereas, I was blind, now I see" (verse 25). They might argue all they pleased?he had thf conscious joy of possessing what he never possessed In all his life before, and they could not gainsay It nor take it from blm. Argument' is not prolitab'.e; possession is. 10. "Therefore said they unto him, How wore thine eyes opened?" And when he told them they would not be persuaded, but asked bis parents, and so their questions went on, alt to ho profit. The weapons of our warfare are spiritual, cnstlng down reason or Imaginings (II Cor. x., 4, 5, margin). 11. "He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay And anointed mine eyes and said unto me, Oo to the pool of Slloam and wash. And I went and - - tt . ^ > washed, and 1 received signt." ue ioiu u simple, straightforward story and stuck to it and Insisted that the man must be of God or He could not work such miraoles, for it had never been heard of before that one born blind should have his eyes opened. The Pharisees were so blinded by their views of their Sabbath day and so incensed by this man who paid no attention to their traditions that thuy would not listen to the man's story of his eyes being opened, and so they cast him out. Then Jesus found him and said, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? The young man, never having seen his benefactor, said, Who is He, Lord, that I might believe on Him? Being told that he was talking with Him, he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshiped Him (verses 35-38). The goodness of God brought him, and thus another was added to the Lord.?Lesson Helper. IMPORTANT CHEMICAL DISCOVERY l Substance Found Which Will Renew Oxycen In' Vitiated Air. An important discovery has been anlounced in the French Academy of Medline by Georges Jaubert. He has been exleriinenting on how to supply air or renew i" ?ir Mr n mnn in* hermetically nclosed space Kite a diving bell. The disloverer's hypothesis was that seventy-nine jar cent, of the nitrogen contained in reipirable air remains intact after twenty>ne per cent, of the oxygen has been conumed, and the same nitrogen, mixed with k new supply of oxygon, becomes resplrable lir when the carbonic acid and the vapor irodticed by breathing are removed. Jaubert found that his hypothesis was lorrect. The mo3t importaut question vas the generation of oxygen. It appears bat he discovered a chemical substance, vhich, by conta-jt with the atmosphere, lears vitiated air of all impuro gases proluccd by respiration and rofurnlshes utomatically the requisite quantity of xygen. The author states that six or ight pounds of this substance will enable , man to livo for twenty-four hours in a .iving bell. The Debt Statement. Tfoo monthly statement of tha Treasury department at Washington shows that in r,mnHrv tlin nuhlic deht increased S23 . 43,4687' Tho'cash in tbe Treasury deceased during the same time $20.180.019. t would appear, therefore, that the Govrnment "ran belaud" over $43,000,000 in unitary. No San Joie Scale in Uennanr* Professor Frank, of the Agricultural Jniversity, of Berlin, Germany, has re>orted to the Prussian Government after a iix months' investigation that the San rose scale is non-existent In Germany, but hat a similar insect, the "aspidiotus tstreae formis," is indigenous. A TEMPERANCE COLUMNJ "'1 THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. . | 1 Th? DpvII'h Drinking- Sonr.WhT the Sfe. loon la Not a Necessity?It Is Prepoa? teroaa to Speak of It as tbe "Poor Man's Clab"?Does Incalculable Harm* Here's a (air, young boy. Hunt hi? down! Hunt him down! He's his mother's joy. Hunt him down, i We must have recruits; whom It kills It lit* tie boots. Hunt him down! Hunt him do.wnl Hunt him down! Down! Down! | See that clean, young man. Hurl him down!, Hurl him down! Give him his first dram. Hurl him down! I Toll him there's no harm. Let him feel thasiren's charm. Hurl him down! Hull him down! Horli - ,v''j him down! Down! Downl j And the Dure young girl. Drag her downti Drag her down! Tnf a fooKlAn'u htKIhI T\ ? (? f V? a* /IawtiI 1 XLt bv laouiuu 3 tTUUli 1/ L 05 uoi uviifui Blemish her fair name. Stain her deep] with all our shame. . Drag her down! Drag her down! Dragi her down! I Down! Downl Hear the preacher talk! Pall &lm downP Pall him downl , '/*f All oar plans he'd balk. Pall him down! ' Twist our thuaib-screws down, ttil we starts him out of town. Pall him down! Pull him downl Pull him down! . Down! Down! h-w And the aged mother. Bring her downf Bring her down! Cries and tears we'll smother. Bring her down! , , -,-M Her gray halr3 in woe, to the silent tomb must go. . Bring her down! Bring her down! Bring her down! ' JHE Down! Down! ?Henry F. Cope, j Training: School* of Hell. To the Editor: I have read with some in* terest the late discussion upon the saloon question. To say that I am "surprised" at the stand whioh some of otix eminent clergymen have taken in favor"of its propagation as a workingmari's club, and fostering it as a "necessity," is patting it Ta onanV f Ko > h T nm ohA/iva/l1 'k * uuuuijt A v kuo kiuiu, x aiu ouwmyu completely. How In the face of modern progress is Christianity and the advance in civilization these super-educated gentlemen can pub- ^ Holy state that the drinking saloon Is ft) "necessity" is preposterous in the extreme. Yet they who have pledged themselves to] the defence of Christ ^nd His gospel have dared to sanction the continuanoe of these. "training schools of hell." They are noth-i lng less. Here are trained, by the agents of Satan,' men to become murderers,.thieves, wmn sins, burglars, liurs, swindlers, suicides,: . ; / wife-beaters, inhuman fathers and bus-; bands and a host more whioh do not' ap-i pear in the regular category v^f criminals, > but are just as vile as the more hardened! ones. The list of professional and other',' Vj? criminals directly traceable to the drinkj r ? saloon is too extensive, and too'w?ll known1 to yourself as editor of a paper. , ,'v3 These clergymen may as well teach the people tbat the "gambling and opium . 3S dens" are a necessity, the bookmaker or race course also a necessity in modem. ' civilization. Yet St. Paul distinctly states in bis epistles "no drunkard cat enter the kingdom of God." Why then should'these so-called ministers of Ood advocate the continuanoe of the resorts which produce drunkards? On the face of it, they proYe themselves not ministers of Ood, but of thej evil one, for they are traitors to God's cause in advocating the saloon in any way whatsoever. , , > ' If tbe saloon be a necessity, then annul the laws punishing the logical product of saloons, and let loose upon society a horde . A3S of criminals of every class. Saloons makoj criminals, nuu are resyuuaiuic iu auviaij i for overcrowded prisons, Insane asylums, J- V#3 poorhouses, eto., etc. Closo the saloons: and society will be the better and more dig-' nlfled; less paupers, less labor ttyables, ani Improved condition generally In every ;? branch of civilization. The natloo, too. Will become an example to other nations of a standard of morality never before attained in the world's history. i But it Is, a natural assumption, and a logical deduction or Inference, that the clergymen who defend the saloons and would <lab them "poor workingmen's clubs,", have either their ohuroh rolls so full of propria-, r.'" tors of these dens of wickedness, or probably a good sprinkling of brewers and distillers, tbat tney are afraid to voioe th? yjv!g true feelings of their conscience, and to ^maintain a good salary for themselves pre fer to stifle that at the expense of tnelr own souls' salvation. All I would say to these "blind guides" Is, beware! / ; The leaders of the nation, though uot students of God's law, are wiser tban they, ? for (God be praised for It) tbey have inserted in the New Army bill a clauso prohibiting the sale of the vile stuff in the iarmy camps. They have realized the incalculable damage resulting from It to the army. Down with the saloon! and prosperity follows as a natural result. E. E. Bbadeock. ' : '58 Hantsville, Ala. Strong Words From Dr. Cuyler. In a resent stirring and eloquent speech piven before an immense Audience in Rochester, N. Y.,Rev. Dr. Theodoro L. Cuyler said be believed tbat total abstinence was the only safeguard, and he bad not much. faith In saving wreaks. He said: I "The business of the church isn't to supply poultices, but to keep people from needing poultices. Don't spend vour time pulling people out of the river, but go ten miles upNlagara and keep men from jnmplngln. Start your boys ana girls aright in abstinence. Buoy all Boonester with signals of jwarning to keep out of the saloons of destruction. Plant yourselves firm on th? rock against the liquor traffic; Put on the armor and enlist in this spiritual crosada , of humanity. | "I come to ring the alarm bell and hoiat the danger signal. Wherever there's a ;drlnk there's danger. I pray that every johuroh bell shall ring the alarm, and every Sabbath-school shall take up the tocsin. land every citizen shall repeat the song, and If Rochester is all aroused and you lead the way, we in other towns will follow your white plume when It conducts us on to victory." * Teuiperanca Notes. The army cuntoen attached to the regiments is an abomination in the sight of ,God and all men not either mentally or physically besotted.?New York Christian. ? 'Advocate. J Lord Kitchener's recent victory in Egypt was won for him by an army of teetotalers, who made phenomenal forced marches 'through the desert under a burning sun and in a climate famed for its power to kill or prematurely age the unacolimated. The British Registrar-Genoral's reports show that deaths from intemperance among men have increased fifty-eight per cent., and among women by 100 per ccnt. The canteen system, in full blast ia many regiments in our various camps, is a I most demoralizing thing.?Central Cbris| tian Advocate. ' t..t Money is rreeiy spent tor nquor, vui auuscribing to a paper or buying a book is looked upon as the extreme of extravagance. ; Canon Wilberforce, of Westminster Abbey, in a recent temperance address ia i London, said that there had been an enormous increase in Intemperance in England during the last thirty years. . "A hot milk sign inn drug store window on a cold night always delights my heart,'* says a white ribbon woman. "The bicycle in summer and the drug store hot beverage | in winter are our allies, and we appreciata I them, too." Let it be borne in mind by every friend of the soldier that though American hostilities against Spain in Cuba have suspended, the war of government saloons against American soldiers in America is still on, and rum's victims are found in every camp. The army canteen has been gotting in its disgraceful work in our army camps, and many parents who freely gave their sons *~ * ??? nt t!>oir hAVe b(?6Q. heartsick over the temptations which hava beeu thrust upon them by the establishment. of the army canteen. J