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H|Hhe Blowine Up of the Naval Pow^D H Magazyns Near Toulon. )B ?. ^n?ir\pirr\ ^^VJVtK A H^MNuntu injuncy.^ position of JSimkeieM Powder the Cause of the lM?jk*ter?A Wide DUtrirt M Devaatated?Some oT the Killed Blown Into the Sea and jUrorrried?Relief For the Sufletera-.Exprosion Felt at Nice. I Toulon, France (By enable).?The navaj HB powder magazine of La Gfoubran. between H La Seyae and Touloc, in Uhe Department Hv of Yar, Southern Fi*anc\ Wploded at 2.30 9| o'clock Sunday morning, alany of the sol diers on duty at the magAZ>ae were killed, BB ?nd a number of the inhabitants of the surBBBf rounding district in the buddings which vera razed also fell victims. \ Over sixty corpses were recovered. \ Fifty thousand kilograms of \black powdor exploded. It looks as though a vol canio eruption had occurred, th$ country IW being swept almost bare within a\radlus of two mtles, bouses destroyed, fr?es overturned and distorted, fields leV&stated and covered with stones and biac.'c oust. * 1 A 9 "aUIom Tfrurtfl ftm f i a large ixiiuuoi ui ? ployed to clear away the debris. It is im? possible to ascertain accurately t.'e Inumf>er killed, but It Is believed that no Xewer than a hundred were injured. \ I Although it was a clear night tba explosion was so terrific as to cause a slitebt rainfall. Fortunately, the neighboring magazine? escaped. It is now believed that tbe explosion originated in chemical decomposition la smokeless powder. \ Both the Government and municipal aU* thorltles forwarded relief funds. M. Lockroy, the Minister of Marine, telegrapher | about $2000 toward tbe maintenance of thJL| families of the victims, and a public subT ecription has been opened here. All the bodies found or recovered are f terribly mutilated. Sixteen were found In *-u ~ *y>a oiinro onH it is feared I B VLC uyuc.a* wuv .. ?_ that others were preoipitated into the. sea 1 A vehicle moving along a road near tb< I sea was lifted bodily into the water by the 1 force ot the explosion, two of Its occaI pants being drowned. The f?cene of th? V Tillage of La Ooubran was appalling. The I <sries of the wounded were agonizing, and i the people were aAmost frantic. Telegram? from Nice say the explosion was dlstinctlfelt there. Explosion Kills Seven in Kcssia. St. Petebsbobo, Bussia (By Cable).?A carboy of benzine exploded a few days ago in a third-ckiss railway enrriage on the line to Dwinsk, south of St. Petersburg. The carriage was burned, six women and a tnau were killed, and sixteen others wer# - , injured. A TORNADO IN TENNESSEE. teveral Live* Lost and Great Damaje to f Property. Athens, Tenn. (Special).-tA terrific tornado passed over a portion of Madisonvlll? and Monroe County a few days ago witb -. disastrous results. Early in the evening a ptrong wind arose, and several hours later ? tornado about seventy yards wide, struck e portion of Madlsonville, killing three per?ous, wounding ten or tweve others, and eompletely destroying twelve or flfteei | houses and several barns. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Moser and E. L. HorIon were killed. The wounded are Miss Willie Ervin, Miss Delia Muson, Mrs. E. L Horton, Mrs. L. A. Robinson, L. A. Robinson, Hobart Robertson, Mrs. Rodgers and Professor Charles Kelly. 1 Upper Jtast xenuessBo poiuia niiuus? ? tieavy windstorm accompanied by terrific cains. The rains did untold damage to crops in that section, and tt is conservatively estimated that this torrent, coupled wl:b the recent freeze and bad weather, will mean a loss of a million dollars t' <armer3 in that section. A WEST VIRGINIA FRESHET. Great Damage at Charleston, Which Wai Largely Under Water. Charleston, W. Va. (Special).?The Kan dwna Valley was visited on Sunday by on< of the worst floods it ever has known, After several days of heavy rainfall, th? 12Ik River, in an unprecedentedly short time, covered almost the entire valley, j1 Charleston was almost entirely undet A { water. Four feet surrounded the State ^ / Oapltol. The Mayor and lending citizens opened a relief station and distributed provisions and clothing among the suffering. Considerable damage has been cau3ea 10 the coal property along the Kauawha I River. The Wlnlfrede coal tipple, dry docks and a dozen barges were swept *,way about ten miles above Charleston. The Black Cat coal tipple, near the eas' bank, was destroyed. DEWEY RAISES HIS FLAC. -Saluted as an Admiral by the Fort* and American and Foreign Warships. Manila (By Cable).?Admiral George Dewey raised his flag as an Admiral on the Olympia a few days ago, and was saluted by the guns of the forts, of the foreign warships, the British cruiser Narcissus an<? r*he German cruiser Kaiserin Augusta, au' by the American ships in port. Cables His Heartfelt Thanks. Washington, D. C. (Special).?Admira ? >- o t ??? frt| I JUeway una cauicu oottoimj uuu^ ? wi I <ows: | Manila, March 4. I Please accept for yourself, the President IS ?nd Congress and my countrymen my heart. Celt thanks for the great honor which ha: B fceen conferred upon me. Dewet. I THREE TRAINS WRECKED. J All Plunged at the Same Time Into i 0 Landslide Near Altoona. 1 Altoona, Penn. (Special).?The Pennsyl-^ I -vanla Railroad's "newspaper flyer," wbicb I 4a due in this city at 7.55 a. m., and two )tr?ight trains were wrecked thirty miles east of this city at 7 o'clock Sunday morning by u landslide at Ardenheim. Twenty cars and three locomotlvee were broken up, two of the trainmen killed and two injured. The thirty passengers on the flyer escaped almost without a scratch. The dead are. lEpgineer Robert. McCutcheon, Harrlsburg; Wl?'?iin n C. TrnoHp TTnrHnhurF. Thy jwounded are: Express Messenger Jacob Motter, Harrlsburg, crashed mortally; Baggage Master L. T. Yaaamaa, Harrlsburg acalp wounds. NEW SPANISH MINISTRY, The Compoiltlon of Senor Silvel&'s Con* ervatlve Cabinet. j Madrid, Spain (By Cable).?The new Cabinet has taken the oath of office. The Ministry Is composed as follows: Premier jand Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senor jSllvela; Minister of the Interior, b<?:ior Dato; Minister of Finance, Marquis Villa Verde, Minister of Justice, Senor Duran. Minister of War. General Polavicja; Minister of Public Works and of tbe Colooios, Marquis I'idal; Minister or Marine, Admiral Gomez Imaz. Alaskans Want to Fijfht Filipinos. Alaska has a company of Americau vo'.aateers for war against the Filipinos. They have just been mustered in at SkagSway under Captalu Siebery. Governor Brady, who is now at Washington, has fceen urged to use his Influence to secure active service for the soldiers. The mea Chink that If able to endure Alaskan hardships, they should be good soldiers in the Philippine*. IIniter to Lead Mo More. | Representative Bailey ot Texas in Washk ington announced that be would not be a candidate for theDemoor&tlo leadership in tto next Connreem. Hpino forces roothP H s ^^Bieral Hale'a Brigade Advances Toward H San Tolan and Blarlquina, and m.i.j... ik. Vnmii*. *"?*wuKp? f??o f Is' U GUNBOAT ASSISTS IN THE ATTACK. Native* Secure New Supplies of Smokehsc Ammu- b, j nition and Prepare Tor an Attack. > Max in, Philippine Island? (By Cable).? fc \An advance made-SIonday morning by ^ general Hale's brigaie on San Tolan and (?l >N?riquina. The Americans met with re- ts ,iJtance from the largest body o" the na- P<" tlytes they have yet encountered. jlhe Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming fj regiments, with eight gun3; tho Utah Reg- II; iineijt and two companies of the Oregon resjirpent were engaged. A gunboat also took\Part 'n t'ie flchting. The Twentieth al Infa^ry was nem iu roaoi ir. Th# fighting spread to General Wheaton's j}( brigade, consisting of the California, Wash- o< iagtonan^ Idaho volunteer regiments and the Six\th Artillery. The iiatives were dislodged from their position^ <*nd compelled to retreat. Eight J' Americans were wounded. ,D All the native huts have been destroyed J* at MarlqtUlna. and the country there is pretty we|' cleared. "j Apparency the rebels have secured anew supply of smokeless ammunition recently, ns there hlf9 been a noticeable difference * during the last few days. t The rebel?. anticipating an American ad- ei vance, are b^sy in throwing up defenses in c< every direction, and it is reported that m they are levying men and supplies in f/j every proving0- As a result great dissatisfaction prevails amoug the tribes ordlnarily unfriendly -o the Tagaloj, particularly t? among the Hoc,anos, who assert their desire to assist in1 conquering the Tagalos, If furnished with Arms- 5; The Spanish Commissioners who are endeavortng to secure the release of the . Spanish prisoner? In the hands of Aguln- D aldo, have returned to Malolos to offer $2.000,003 for their release. As Agulnaldo rc ^has been demunfflnjf $7,000,000, It Is not ai Wkely their mlssloi* will be successful * V ?r? s OUR FORCE IN THE PHILIPPIC E3. th \ tr Fo^ty-one Thon?an*' Officers and Men of m i the Army and N*TT In Service. W W>ashi5oton, D. C.\(8p?clal).?!Porty-on? ?1 thousand officers and men of the combined n< army, and navy forces comprise the ap- t? proximate total American strength now at, en roitte and under tjrders for service at m the Philippine Islands. No further rein- m forccmdnts ore now in contemplation. 111 The forces of the tw? services already w stationed* In and about the Arohipelago ft * ? ? lo consists bf twenty regiipenis ?i iuisukj, one engineer battalion, seven troops oi cavalry an J eleven batteries of artillery, an j]1 aggregate \of about 24,500' men. Nineteen J13 vessels, with an aggregat? of 297 officers, 2990 men a?d 25 > marine^ make up the c'? naval continent. oi FRENCH AMBASSADOR RETURNS. a! SI. Jules CmnbOn Besaino* Hi* Dlplo ti: ma tic Position in YFashinfftoo. m New Yobk Ci't uSpecinl).?M. Jules Cam- JJ1 oon, the French Ambassador to this country, who represented Spain in tfee negotia- m tions leadln? to the ,signing ofithe peace ** \ ' | | ^ M. JULE3 CAMBOy. \ protocol and who has been in Paris doring $ the sessiontt of the Poace Commlssioter3, arrived in this city a few days ago on the pr French liner La Champagne. He p"o- ui ceeded directly to Wastiiugton. The vcy- P< age had been pleasant, aad M. Camb?n PC I looked in good health and spirits. be I SIX MILLION ACRES SOLD. fi lo Bid In by the New Union Pacific Company 0f and Will Be'Put on the Market. so Omaha, Neb. (Special).?All the lands ol the Union Pacific Railroad Company in Tj Nebraska covered by the sinking fund ft mortgage of 1873 given by the old company i to the Union Trust Company of New York 0 j as trustee were soli a few days ago for I 8863,814, and were bought in by the new 0 Union Pacific Company. u Sherman R. Day, of St. Paul, the special a master, conducted the sale. Previous to p offering the lands as described in the no- u tice of sale, Mr. Day offered the contracts of sale which are in force on other lands in Nebraska, Colorado, Utah -and Wyom- ? inR, and on which payments are yet due t| from the purchasers. These were sold in a g bunch to the Union Pacific Railroad Com- 0 pany for $900,000, which is supposed tc c represent the amounts due on the con- r, tracts'. In all 6,000,000 acres were sold. The v new company will at once place the landf p on the market. v n MR. CHOATE PRESENTED. J o I Lord SalUbur; Introduced the Ambai- t ?dor to the Queen. , Loxdox (By Cable).?The United Statec ^ Ambassador, Joseph H. Choate, and Mrs p Choate, proceeded Monday afternoon to d Windsor, where tcey dined at the castle. jj Royal carriages av.-alted Mr. Choate and his party at Windsor station, and conveyed j, them to the castle, where Lord Salisbury 0 introduced Mr. Choate to the Queen. c I Mr. Kipling:'# Daughter Dead. ? Josephine, the eldest child of Rudyard <3 Kipling, the novelist, died of pneumonia a ? few days ago In New York City. e Hooley to Be Prosecuted. I The Registrar of the Bankruptcy Dj islon * of the High Court of Justice, London, ba? ordered the prosecution of Ernest Terah e Hooiey, a company promoter, against t whom a receiving order in bankruptcy wa? t issued early in June !ast. c Bribe Offered to Attorney fllonnett. * Standard Oil Trust ngents are said t( } have offered Attorney-General Monnett, oi J Ohio, ?400,000 by telephone from tboWiud j sor Hotel, in New York Citv, to drop hi: suits ngainst tha combine. The oiler wu.< J indignantly refused. Tlie Labor World. ( The Chicigo carpenters will ask for a i five-cent pc- Uour increase in wages April l A bill to make eight hours a day's work ! in mines, passed by tho Idaho House, was J rejected by the Seuate. 5 The Thomas Iron Company, of Allen- '( fnmn Pnnn >1 ah advanced the wages of its employes ten per cent. j Coal miners of the Fort Dodge (Iowa) j] district hare decided to ask tor an eight- ] hoar day, beginning April 1. * i The Hatmakers' Association, of Dan- < bury, Conn., has donated 9109 to the looked-out boot and shoa workers of Marl- I lx>ro, Mass. ! ' : )R TALMAGES SEEMO] UNDAY'S DISCOURSE BTititNUli DIVINE. \ abject: "Bundle* of Life"?Insplratl Drawn From a Homely Phrade?LI Spiritual and Physical, la Divinely Pi tected?Bundle* Which Are Blesilnc Text: "The soul of my Lord shall )und In the bundle of life with the Lc iyGod."?I Samuel xxv., 29. Beautiful Abigail, In her rhythmic pi >r the rescue of her inebriate husbai ho died within ton days, addresses Dav le warrior, in tlie words of the text. S iKgests thut his life, physically and illectually and spiritually, is a valual ickage or bundle, divinely bound up a > be divinely protected. The phrase "bundle of life" I beard ma mes in my father's family prayers. Fa y prayers you know, have frequent rep? ons, because day by day they ackno< ige about the same blessings and depl< JUUt lUtJ Biiuuo jruuueo nuu ajuipavu ith about the same misfortunes, and I it know why those who lead at househ* svotions shoula seek variety of compc on. That familiar prayer becomes t lusehold liturgy. I would not giv9 o ! my old father's prayers for fifty elo< onury supplications. Ajrain and aga i the morning and eveniog prayer, I hea le request that we might all be bound i the bundle of life, but I did not km atil a few days ago that the phrase wa Iblo phrase. During the last wpell of cold weath lere were bundles that attracted the i ntlon and the plaudits of the high hea is, bundles of clothing on the way fr< >mfortuble homes to the door of t Ission room, aDd Christ stood in t lowbunks and said as the bundles passe Naked, and ye clothed me. Inasmuch > have done it unto one of the least leso my brethren ye have done ato me." Those bundles are mnltibl g. Blessings on those who pack the iesslngs on those who distribute the lossings on those who receive them, With what beautiful aptitude did Abig my text speak of the bundle of life! C hat a precious bundle is life! Bundle emories, bundle of hopes, bundle i nbttlons, bundle of destinies! Once while a man writes his autobiograpfc i?l it is of thrilllog interest. The story Is birthplace, the story of his strugsli le story of his sufferings, the story of 1 iumphs! But U the autobiography of t ost eventful life were well written ould make many chapters of adventui ! tragedy, of comedy, and there wou )t be an uninteresting step from crac i grave. Bundle of memories are you! Boyhoi emories, with all its injustices from pia ate?, with all Its game with ball and b id kite and sled. Manhood memorii Ith all your straggles in starting?c acles, opposition, accidents, misfortuni ss?s, successes. Memories of the fli arriage you ever saw solemnized, of t :st grave you ever saw opened, of t :st mighty wrong you ever suffered, 10 first victory you ever gained. Memo 1 the hour when you were affianced, me y of the first advent in your home, mei y of roseate cheek faded and of bl1 res closed in the last sleep, memory ithem and of dirge, memory of gre rin and of slow convalescence, memory mes when all things were against yo emory.of prosperities that came in 11 te full tide of the sea, memories of a II: me. What a bundle! Bundle of hopes and ambitions also is i ost every man and woman, especially ie starting. What gains he will barve, what reputation he will achieve, hat bliss he will reach, or what love ill win. What makes college comment ent day so entrancing to all of us as y ;e the students receive their diplomas a: ike up the garland? thrown to their fee hey will be Faradays in science; they w ) TeDnysons in poesy; they will be Willa arkers in surgery; they will be Aleiand amiltons in national finance; they will oraco Greeleys in editorial chair; tbi ill be Websters In the Senate. Or s Ill D6 a JJlury ljyuu iu auuiaLiui lalms, or a Frances Willard on reforrr ?ry. platform, or a Helen Gould lnmlllta jspitals. Or she will make Home 1 idiant with helpfulness and self-sacrifl id magnificent womanhood. Oh, what indie of hopes and ambitions! It is indie of gurlands and scepters fr; hich I would not take one sprig ignonette nor extinguish one spark rilliance. They who start life witho right hopes and inspiring ambttio ight ns well not start at all, for eve ep will be a failuro. Bather would I a i the bundle, and if I open it now It w > because I wish to take anything frc , but that J may put into it more coronc id bosannas. Bundle of faculties in every man a rery woman! Power to think?to thi; ' the past and through all the future, tink upward and higher than the high< nrvanlo of honvon nr tn think dnwnwa itil there is no lower abysm to fatho over to think right, power to think wror >^vor to think forever, for, once havi dun to think, there shall be no termin f^that exercise, and eternity itself sh no power to bid it halt. Faculties veV-fllial love, conjugal love, pateri ve.lmaternal love, love of country, lo q'Ai. Faculty of judgment, with seal dedicate and yet so mighty they c sigh\ arguments, weigh emotions. wel, jrlda weigh heaven and hell. Faculty II, tlJat can climb mountains or turn em, wade 9ea3 or bridge t'uem, acceptl ern'al\eDtlironemeilt or choosing evi L-tlng Oh, what U to be a mc h whatj ^'s t0 be a woman! Sublime a ifliite nuudle of faculties! The thoug f ii6tagWers me> swamps me, stuns n ewidersTme' overwhelms me, Ob, wl buirtle oV Abigail of my text saw 'avlcandlwb'ctl W9 ought to see in eve umai yetlimmortal being! Knot. alr?>tbat ^is bundle of life roperi d^recte(^ Many a bundle h lissed is pay and disappeared bocat tie oddraa V05 dropped, ana no one c nd by e?mlLnat'on for what city or to' r neighb rho?ort was intended" All gr< arrylDg omfan'es have so many mis ected pactagtl9 *hat they appoint days endue to dspi3'- of them. All intelllgj eopl? know t?6 Importance of having a'luable pakmS? ..plulnly directed, t ame of the aeJto whom it is togo plaii rritten. Bagjafe6 master and expressm ught to knonaf *he first glance to wh< 9 take It. The bundle <$ life 'hat Abigail in i ext speaks of '8 plat ly addressed, livinti penmansMP It Is directed heav< rard. Howavei '?ug may be the eartl Itstance It travels its destination is t ternal city of G3(* on bigb. Every miU ;oes away from t?at direction is by so mman or infernal fraud practiced agai; t. There are tlpse who put It on so itber track, who displace it in some wro onveyance, who send it off or 3end it on iy?ome diabolic miscarriage. The va if that bundle is s? we'l known all up a lown the universe \bat there are l.OOO.i iishonest hands wllic1? are trying to deti ?r divert it or to foreiersj^^y^^j n the right direction. .There are so mi nfluences abroad to rain your bouy, m ind soul that iny wouder is not that nany are destroyed for this world and lext, but that there are aot more who lown irremediably. Every buman being is assailed at itart. Within an hour of the time wl his bundle of life is made up the assc jegins. First of all there are the infan iisorders that threaten the body , auncbedupon earthly existence. Hca evers and pneumonias and diphtherias ntlueDzas and the wholo pack of opiden .urround the cradle and threaten its oc jant; and infant Moses iu the urk of b rushes was not more imperiled by tho m ters of the Nile than every cradle is ini] led by ailments all devouring. Iu a /ears there are foes within i.cd foes w Dut. Evil appetite joined by outsidt urements. Temptations that Lr.ve ctt lestroyed more people tnan ncv; inh :he earth. GanJjliug saloons and rumr .93 and places where dissoluteness rel jupreme, enough in number to go ro ind round the earth. Dlscourfigeme jealousies, revenges, malevolences, di< pointments, swindloo, arsons, oonCaj :icns and cruelties, which malce oontis existence cI the human iac9 a worn oient. Was ever any valuable butdie < 1 ? ?Oa fhia ltnn/liA nf Hfft? SU lUi];OlilCu no vuta look at the address and get that bundle ing in the right way! "Thou shalt love Lord thy Qoa wLth all thy heart ted i and mind and strength." Know alBO that a bundle may have more than one invaluable. There ma la it a photograph of a loved one ai Jewel for a carcanet. It mey contain an embroidered robe and n Dora's illustrated Bible. A bundle may hare two treasures. Abigail In my text recognized this wben she said to David, "The soul of my Jord Is hnunrl in thft hnnriln r>f 11 f A with th* Lord thy God." And Abigail was right. We I may be bound up with a loving and sympathetic God. We may be as near to Him as on ever were emerald and ruby united in one fe, ring, as ever were two deeds in one packro age, as ever were two vases on the aama ,g< shelf, as ever were two valuables in the same bundle. Together In time of sorrow, b? Together in time of joy. Together on earth. Together in heaven. Close companionship of God. Hear Him, "I will Lea never leave thee, nor forsake thee." "For the mountains shall depart and the hills be j(j' removed, but My kindness shall not depart Iky from thee, neither shall the covenant of jn. My peace be removed, saith the Lord that &je hath mercy on thee." And when those U(j Bible authors compared God's friendship to t^o mountains for height and. ny firmness they knew what they were m. writing about; for tbey well knew what ,tI. mountains are. All those lands are mountainous. Mount Hermon, Mount Gilboa, jrQ Mount Gerizlm, Mount Engedl, Mount ize Horeb, Mount Nebo, Mount Pisgah, Mount do Olivet, Mount Zlon, Mount Moriah. Mount }lg Lebanon. Mount Sinai, Mount Golgotha. ig|. Yes, we have the divine promise that all kg those mountains shall weigh their anchor!ne age of rocks and move away from the earth before a loving and sympathetic God [ * will move away from us If we love and [nj trust Him. Oh, If we could realize that UD according to ray text we may bound up with that God. how independent it would g a make us of things that now harass and annoy nnd discompose and torment us! Iner stead of a grasshopper being a burden, a world of care would te as light as a * feather, and tombstones would be marble )nJ stairs to the King's palace, and all the jj0 giants of opposition we would smite down ue hip and thigh with great slaughter. )(]. Enow, also, that this bundle of life will ' be gladly received when it comes to the 0? door of the mansion for which It was bound and plainly directed. With what alncrlty l? and glee we await some package that has * hoon ho snmn holld&v ure ' sentntlon, something that will enrich and ornament our home, some testimony of adajj miration and affection! With what glow ^ of expectation we untie the knot and take 0[ off the cord that holds it together in safety, ot and with what glad exclamation we unjn roll the covering and se3 the gift or purlv chase in all its beauty of color and proporqJ tion. Well, what a day it will be when 99 your precious bundle of life shall be opened in the "house of manv mansions," amid ^ . sftlntlv and ancrelic and divine inspection! jt The bundlo may be Bpotted with th9 marks re of much exposure, It may bear Inscription after inscription to tell through what orHe deal It ha3 passed, perhaps splashed of wave and scorched of flame, but all it has 0(j within undamaged of the journey. And _ with what shouts of joy tho bundle of life will be greeted by ail the voices of the 33 heavenly home circle. ^ In our anxiety at last to reach heaven 33" we are apt to lose sight of the glee or wel?gj come that awaits us if we get in at all. We jjg all have friends up there. They will somebe how hear that we are coming. Suoh close 0f and swift and constant communication is ry there between those uplands and these m. lowlands that we will not surprise them by m_ sudden arrival. If loved ones on earth exue pect ouc coming visit and are at the depot 0{ with carriage to meet us, sural* we will be mot at the shining gate by old friends 0f now sainted and kindred now glorified. If (U there were no angel of God to meet us and jjy show us the palaces and guide us to our pe. everlasting residence, these kindred wc ^Id show us the way and point out t'le al. splendors and guide us to our celesat tial home, bowered and fountalned and 9t arched and illumined by a sun that never 0p sets. Will it not be glorious, the going in be and the settling down after all the moving I ohnnf atiH linQfttttncR ofearthlvexDerience? We will soon know all onr neighbors, kingQd ly, queenly, prophetic, apoBtollc, seraphic, )t? archangellc. The precious bundle of life ,jU opened amid palaces and grand marches rd and acclamations. They will all be so glad [er we have got sately through. They saw us j30 down here in the*' struggle. They saw us 0y when we lost our way. They know when we got off the right course. None of ithe ,aj thirty-two ships that were overdue at New ia. York harbor In the storm ot week before yy last was greeted so heartily by friends on [fy the dock or the steam tugs that went out ce to meet them at Sandy Hook as we R will be greeted in the heavenly a world If by the pardoning and pro)m tectlng grace of God we come to celestial 0f wharfage. We shall have to tell them of 0f the many wrecks that we have passed on uj the way across wild seas and amid Carlbng bean cyclones. It will be like our arrival ry Borne years a><o from Now Zealand at 8yddd n0y. l^ople surprised that we got in at all, llj becauso we were two days late, and some )31 of the ships expected had gone to the bot)t8 torn, and we had passed derelicts an 1 abandoned crafts all up and down that awQ(j ful channel?our arrival In heaven all the Ql- more rapturously welcomed because of the t0 doubt as to whether we would ever get 53t tnereatau. 'r(j Once there it will be found that the . m safety of that precious bundla oZ life was lff' assured beeause it was bound up with the D~ life of God in Jesus Christ. Heaven could us not afford to have that bundle lost because ajl it had been said in regard to Its transportat0 tion and safe arrival, "Aept by the power iai of God through faith unto complete salvavo tion." The veracity of the heavens is inles v?lved in its arrival. If God should fail an to keep His promise to just one ransomed jrjj soul, the pillars of Jehovah's throne ol would fall, and the foundations of the iej eternal city would crumble, and infinite u~ poverties would dash down all the er_ chalices, and close all the banqueting halls, tni and the river of life would change its n j course, sweeping everything with desoia;ht tion, and fro3t would blast all the gardens* ]0| and immeasurable sickness slay the imIaj mortals, ana the new Jerusalem become ju an abandoned city, with no chariot wheel uy on the streets and no worshippers in the temple?a dead Pompeii of the skies, a Is buried Herculaneum of the heavens. Lest t(lg any one should doubt, the God who cannot 18e lie smites his omnipotent linnd on the side ua of his chrone and takes affidavit, declaring, rrn "As I live, saith the Lord God, I have * ii jut no pleasure in cue aeata 01 aimiu? uimu. dj. Oh, I cannot tell you howl feel about It, 0[ .the thought is so glorious. Bound up wltli }nt God. Bound up with infinite mercy. Bound ,a up with infinite joy. Bound up with inhe finite purity. Bound up with infinite might, jlv That thought is more beautiful and glorlan ous than was the heroic Abigail, who at )m the foot of the crags uttored, "Bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God!" my Now, my hearer and reader, appreciate By the value of that bundle. See that it is 3D. bound up with pothing mean, but with the !ly unsullied and the Immaculate. Not witha ;he pebble of the shifting beach, but with the j it kohinoor of the palace; not with some me fading regalia of earthly pomp, but with ast the robe washed and made white in the me blood of the Lamb, ng ick OPPOSED TO SUNDAY FUNERALS. luo OOO Flft<sen Clorgrioen Protest In the "IntjQ teregtg of Humanity." preachers of New Bruns1T5 wick, N. jT7-HfftMal?on ft stand against jpjj Sunday funerals. TL?y huve signed the g0 following notice: the "We. the undersignot pastors and rest_0 dent clergymen of the cty of New Brunsh wick. N. J., agree th?t the practice of tjj0 holding fuuerals on Sunday ought to bo Jon discouraged. Our usua duties iu church L11[t and Sunday-school ar' quite sufficient t(le without this addition^ demand on our jugt time and strength, yet .his is not the first 'rjet consideration that prompt3 our action, and Funerals on Sunday noijpel many others Qjcg to labor who are entitled to the rest and !(!u_ sacred privileges that t;o Lord's Day ' TT.,^??iatora. sunerin lUji ormgs to 1IIIJII. uuuur . , 0 * tendents of cemeteries, gravediRgors, liverymen, railroad men, fUrists, carriers and others are compelled to Tfbor because j^-n^ of these services being held Sunday. , I.-* Ilcnee wo deem it wise and just to withajj'," hold our countonanco of such servflf.s, and ^ 0ji to notify our congregations nud the public Qer^ that we do not wish to officiate at funorafo ? * on Sunday. This is done in the interests unil of humanity." D.O, England to KaIao the School-Age Limit. The British House of Commons, by a vote ^ e(. of 307 to 59, passed the second reading ol ^ei* the bill raising the age at which a child 3Ve_ may leave school from eleven to twelve qj." years. The operation of this law will ~c' greatly reduce the? number of half-timu *k? hands working in E ngllsh factories. oouj j A Boom at Pittebar/r. In it , A rravo ot prosperity in Pittsburg started v bo every mill, factory and workshop to It* id a i fullest cupa.*ity. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. 1 PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. *'I That Speak"?All Should Be Servant* * or God?"Un 'I lie fHlim 01 my nnmm ? He Awoke From HI* Slepp ? Life Strewn With Goodnesses. To tho woman of Samaria. As she stood before tbe well, Came a wondrous revelation? From a Stranger's lips it fell. As *be questioned of the future, Reasoned of the Christ to be, Lo! the weary Trav'ler told her: " I that tpeak to thee am He!" Was it stranpe that He should tell her?? Woman, sinner, Jew-cursed raceWas it strange that He should tell her At tbat lonely time and place? 'Twas a secret for the sages! Prophet, priest, yea. seraphim Could but bend entranced to listen Were the secret told to Mm. But a woman! Oh, the w sdom Of the Master! Do we see How stoops to raise the lowest In this, ''I that speak am He?" Never could she read the myst'ry Of the coming of the Lord, Nor in synagogue or temple Hear His vofee explain the word. But her sin-seared spirit thirsted, As the Master knew it would, When He proffered living water, And his words she understood. From the woman of Samaria m Spreads the message far Hnd n^ar, " ' And wo know that midst our duties We the steps of Love may hear. That beside our broken well-curbs We may drop our tolls and cares. Our perplexities and questions, All that mocks and frets, and wears, While we listen for the Trav'ler Coining toward Galilee; Listen till we henr Him saying. "I that spoak to thee am He!" And where'er the Gospel goeth To the lowest of our race, Gladly borne by God's evangels, Messengers of His free grace, Lo! when dull eyes lift and brighten, When slow lips attempt a prayer, Comes the surety that the presence Of the Mighty One is there. Not alone, 0 weary workers, Are you in your ministry; Still He says in your Hamarla: "1 that speak to thee am He!" 'Tis the measaga for the millions. Wise and unwise, sinners, saints, Lay aside your definitions, Creeds, and doubts,and dire complaints, Come and stand with ear attentive On the road to Galilee, Let your thirsting souls receive it? "I that speak to thee am He!" . ?Mrs. 0. W. 8cott, in Zion's Herald. S c All Slionld Be Servants of God, t A man's uttitude toward God is the most T vital, the most practical, the most immedi- 5 ately imperative matter before bim at every moment of bis life. Making all allowances for differences in education, temperament and circumstances, it remains true that every cue ought to determine to be a servant of Ood. Tfiis does not necessarily mean that any two men or women are to live precisely the same lives, to have only identical aims in lite, or to bold exactly similar beliefs. It does mean that each one, in his own circumstances, with whatever natural endowments be may possess, and with all the strength of bis being, ought to determine, once for all. to obey and love God. It is not extravagant, sentimental or unfair to urge upon people in any tactful manner the duty of Immediate decision of this question unless they have already have decided it. It is. when rightly viewed, tbe one most pressing, most solemn, matter in their history. Its decision affects not only tho fat future beyond tho grave but also the years which may lie before some of us in this life, and tbe days and weeks which we call tbe immediate "present. It affects the character and the very atmosphere of life, alike externally and within the heart. He who resolves to devote himself to the service of God is right. Nothing can change that fact. He who resolves tho contrary, , or who even falls to resolve deliberately at all is wrong. And nothing can change that fact. To be right means as much of peace and of happiness as God sees to be consistent with tbe individual's best* development for the present und the future. It means usefulness. It means quiet, serene trust in overruling love and care. It means not only this,but safety. To 1\A iffMnn m on no tlia r\f nil QiidnrnnPP 9 of these things, whatever God may still see fit to grant in the way of blessing. Sooner v or later, too, it means self-condemnation. 1 i "On I lie Paling of My Hand*." < The Orientals have a custom of tattooing j the name of belovo.1 friends on the hand. . . 1 Child of God, thou art photographed where 1 God must ever behold theo, on His hands, 1 on His heart. Thou art never for a mo- i ment out of His thought, nor hidden from 1 His eye. Not on one hand only, but on t both. It is the plural in each casr: "On tho palms of My hands." Not tattooed or ] photographed, the marks of which might i be obliterated and obscured; but graven. [ The graving-tool was the spear, the nail, the t cross. "Don't write there," said an urchin 1 to a young exquisite scratching with a dia| mond on the window of a waiting-room. ' 'Why not?" was the startled inquiry. -Be- t cause you can't rub it out," was tho instant i retort. Glaps will not give up its inscriptions, 1 I nor the onvx-stouu its seal, nor the cameo I its profile; but sooner might they renounce their trust than the bauds of Christ. "He sh"wi-<! unto them His hands and His side." ?Rev. F. B. Meyer. He Awoke From His Sleep. I beard once of a man who dreamed that he was swept into heaven and he was there in tlio glory world, and oh! he was so delighted to tblnk that he had at last made heaven, that he had got there. And all at once one came and said, "Come, I want to show you something." And he took him to the battlements and he said, "Look down yonder; what do you see?" "I see a very dark world." "Look and see if you know it." "Why, yes," he said, "that is the world 1 have come from." "What do you see?" '-Why, men are blindfold d there: mauy of them are going over a precipice." ' Well, will you stay here and enjoy heaven, or will you go back to earth and spend a little longer time, and tell those men about this world?" He was a worker who had been discouraged, like Elijah. He awoke from his sleep and said, "I have never wished myself dead since, ?v. l.. aiooay. A TJfe Strewn With Gooclnessen. Wo are tempted to overlook, and often fah to appreciate, our daily mercies. One hour q of pain is more magnified than twelve hours \ of pleasure. An occasional eclipse of the p sun excites more attention than its ordinary t shining. A desired mercy withheld throws c into the shade a hundred enjoyed. An affliction overclouds the vision and hinders the j sight, or at least tho enjoyment, of many r blessings. Life is strewn with goo fin esses t if wo only note aDd enjoy them. No day is v so dark but what some rays of hope and joy t illumine the sky.?Presbyterian. t ' There is no test for the wicked," k "There remaiueth a rest for tho people of " God." Between these poles of distress and * expectation lies tho territory of our experi- t i euco as sinners, who by God's help strive | and hope to overcome. And in that hop* * and effort comes our present rest.like a bird j J unit IS III ft Mil '>lil IIK'J ^iCi-iuin CJIIU fnrftokeuings of the home that Christ pro- :I pari'*. J COIN Nil YEARS OLD. Hare rind In a Potato Patcli In Ulch? ninnd Township, Penn. J ' I Jacob Rightnour, of Reading, Poan., I Is the owner of a coin which the Pbil&deW i I nhiu Mint officials say is 1111 years old. j I P.ightnour has owned the coin for more i i ; than a quarter of a century, and recently j ! refused ?BO for it. He found the coin ! while picking potatoes on a farm in Richi mond Township. I It was much corroded, and the lnscripi tion indistinct. He dropped the coin In , vinegar, and after three days was able to road the word9 on ono side. La^er he was able to decipher the other side. The in- J I or'ptlon on one aid* wiw "Aaotorlst Con- ' . On the other side were the words: ' ' Inde et Lib." Under this 1a the date, ' "788." 1 l > - 'HE SABBATH SCHOOL. NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MARCH 26. lerlew of tlie First Quarter?Golden Text: "My Sheep Heed My Voice, and I Know x ucuif miu Aticj cuuun uuuu 27?Commentary bj H?t. D. M. Stearns Lesson I.?Christ the True Light (John 1-14). Golden Text, John i., 4, "In Htm Fas life, and the life was the light of Qen." Three of the leading words in this ;ospel and also in John's epistles are light, ife and love. Each is fully seen in Christ. Ve are all naturally darkness, bat He so oved us that He gave Himself for us and ;lves Himself to u9, and when we receive iim He becomes to us both life and light, nasmuch as He is the Creator of all things tow great is the life and light! Lesson II.?Christ's First Disciples (John ., 35-4G). Golden Text, John i., 38, "Betold the Lamb of God." He remained on larth till He had finished the work the father gave Him to do, the great work of .tonement, and by His life had shown us he life men ought to live. Now He wants ill the time till He shAll come again those eho will not only let Him save them, but rho will follow fully in His steps and let Jim reproduce in them by His Spirit His >wn life to the glory of God. Lesson III.?Christ's First Miracle (John I., 1-11). Golden Text, John ii., 11, "And lis disciples believed on Him." At this east and by this miracle He manifested orth His glory. He always encourages lis disciples to patience and faithfulness ?y thoughts and glimpses of His glory. Consider and sae how He did this in the asp of Abraham and Jacob, Moses and oshua, Isaiah, Ezeklel and Daniel, Peter, 'ames and John and Saul of Tarsus. Lesson IV.?Christ andNicodemus (John II., 1-16). Golden Text, John ill., 16, 'For God So loved the world that He ;ave His only begotten Son, that whosoiver believeth in Him should not perish, >ut have everlasting life." No natural nan, however moral or religious, can unlerstand the things of God. He must first eneive a nature capable of understanding hese things. He must be born from above. Lesson V.?Christ at Jacob's Well (John v., 5-15). Golden Text, John iv., 14, 'Whosoever drinketb of the water that I hall give bim shall never thirst." While elJglous, moral people must be born igaln dinners such'vas this woman may be torn again. Even Samaritans may come. Ill may receive the living water which rill be a well in them ever satisfying and lowing forth to bless others. Lesson VI.?'The Nobleman's Son Healed John iv., 43-54). Golden Text,\fohn iv., >3, "Jesus said unto him, Thy son llvoth. ind himself believed and his whole house." n each chapter the way of life and of disiiplesbip is set forth as believing, and in his lesson it is believing without seeing or eellng, just believing His word because it s His word. Lesson VII.?Christ's Divine Authority John v., 17-27). Golden Text, John iv., :2, "This is indeed the Christ, the Savloar if the world." In ihe last lesson a dying toy was healed, now it is a helpless man vho had been suffering for thirty-eight fears, but it is the same all powerful word hat do?3 it, the word by which all things 7ere cfeated. All things were created by Ilm and for Him. He only knoweth the tether, and He alone can reveal the tether. All judgment has been committed o Him aftd likewise all power. Lesson VIII.?Christ Feeding the Five [housand (John vi., 1-14). Golden Toxt, tobn vl., 35, VI am the Bread of Life." He s Ei Shaddal (Gen. xvii., 1), the mighty Jod, who is ttll sufficient. He needs no tdtlce from us, nor any help. He will let ? be His fellow laborers, but the work and ill provision for it Aodall the glory of it ire wholly His. He can work entirely ipart from us, or He may take what we lave nad bless and multiply it. Lesson IX.?Christ at the Feast (John ?ii., 14. 23-37). Golden Text, John vil., 37, 'If any man thirst, let him come unto Me ?rd drink." fBread and water represent hat which our bodies need for sustenance, ind one of the great promises is, "Bread thall be given him, his waters shall be mra" (Isa. xxxlii., 16). While we would lot think much of such a diet it is snggesIve of alL our needs, and all that need is net in Him who is the living bread and the ountain of living waters. The Jews kept he feast; but knew Him not. W? may be rery religious., but it is Himself "alone and lot ordinances that can satisfy. Paul took )leasure and glorified in infirmities that he wonderful power of Christ might rest ipon him (II Cor. xii., 9-10). All that God loes is that His dear Son may be glorified, ind when we receive and worship Him and lonor Him God is well pleased for the tesimony. The Christian must be ready to panel ana oe spent. Lesson X.?Christ Freeing From Sin 'John viii., 12,81-36). Golden Text, John riii., 36, "If the Son therefore shall make fou free, ye shall be free indeed." Those vho think they are all right may, like these self righteous Pharisees, be all wrong. If i man think himself to be something when le is nothing, he decelreth himself. These >Iind Pharisees were sinners and did not enow it. The poor woman was a sinner ind knew it. A sense of sin is necessary iefore one can enjoy the forgiveness of ilDS. Lesson XI.?Christ Healing the Blind Han (John ix., 1-11). Golden Text, John x., 25, "One thing I know, that whereas I blind, now I see." Not only do all hings work together for good to them that ove God, but all things, all events, all oirjumstances give God an occasion to work. The blind and lame, the deaf and dumb, :he sick and dying, weak and the infirm, ill give the Lord an opportunity either to )e glorified in healing them or inmuulfestng special grace by showing forth in their nflrmities His meekness and patience unier trial, for the ornament of a meek and ]uiet spirit is in the sight of God of great jrice (I Pet. ill., 4). Lesson XII.?Christ, the Good Shepherd 'John x., 1-16). Golden Text, John x., 11, ^1 am the Good Shepherd, the GoodSheplerdgiveth His life .for the sheep." In no lense a hireling, never seeking His own *111, nor His own glory, but ahvays the jlory of His Father and the good of men, or men and women are the sheep of Hi9 3ASture, and children are His lambs whom 3e gathers with His arm and carries in 31s bosom (Pb. c., 8; Isa. xl., 11). When ve are willing to forget and deny self and ive only for Him and for others, we win jrovein our daily life that we have His Jpirlt. Alt self seeking and self pleasing ire contrary to His Spirit. We are saved >y beholding Him, we grow by continuing ;o behold Him, and ve shall be :llke. Him when we see Him as He is (John i., 29, 36; [I Cor. ill., 18; I John 111., 2).?Lesson Helper. REPORTER AN ASSISTANT KING. llleged Adventure* of a Boston News* paper Man. Captain Shurtleffe, of fhe bark Gerald .'oby, who has just arrived at Taooma, 7nsh., from China, tells how a Boston relorter has risen within a year to be assisant king of the Tap Islands, whloh are lassed as belonging to the Caroline group. Just before the Toby was towed out of few York Harbor last year several intoxiated sailors were brought aboard by loardlng-house masters. Among trhem ras "Charley," a Boston newspaper man vboso last name Shurtleffe has forgotten, i Becoming sober he was greatly surprised o And himself plowing the Atlantic Ocean tound for China. At Singapore he went ishore, engagod in a flght, and was jailed. Je was released, and went to Hong iong >y steamer, reaching thoro before Shurte'ffe. Ho soon foil iu with King O'Koefe of ho Yap Islands, who had arrived at Hong Cong in his yactit to attend the annual aces. O'Kaefo took "Charley" to become issistant king and ruler of his second largist island, on which O'Koefe is opening new Plantations. Would Abollxh Tifjht Lscln;. Mr. Daggett, of Bear Creek, introduced n the Wisconsin Assembly a joint resoluion lookingto tho protection of the health women in the State of Wisconsin by naking a law to prohibit tight lacing. Ho proposes a commission, to be made up of A o?rl r.na nt . ill CD ILIU III yUl 3 Ul IUU Kftj w ? v. V* :beSeaate, to draft such a bill as ho has in uind. Tl?o Government'* New Cipher Code. The chief signal oflloer of the army at Washington has just completed a new department cipher whloh will ejtect a considerable saving In CAble tolls in communicating with distant stations where cable rates ire high. It Is an arbitrary word cipher, In whloh a single word stands for & long uhraaa or even (or a (nil aentanaa. A TEMPERANCE COLUMN*" wm. . ? .... ..... ... tfl ' Jf IHi UHINK EVIL- madi ivmwrcaii IN MANY WAYS. Join the Band?No Matter How Muff ? Glamour i? Thrown Around Win* 1C It the Same Deadly Irritant Polioa* Wine Bibbing Leads to Dluitcr< Drink reigns almost supreme, How Potent Is Its sway, It prostrates high and low, ( It wrecks both gtiLro- and gay. Tbpu shun. the treaob'roas drlni And boldly take your stand, Amongst the brave and tree? The growing Temperance band. All Use of Wine Condemned. To the Editor: Sir?A. writer who style; herself "A temperance woman, but not a teetotaler," recently filled two-thirds of s column on the Woman's Page In the New York Tribune with suggestions as to th? kinds of wine and the manner of serrin| the same. " -J' xgj Growing enthusiastic? with her subject, ' ahe arabesqued it with the sparkle of gilf , and cut glass, Eohemian and Roman, and /. ' \ :ast about it a spell of aroma and bouquet. antil the reader is reminded of descriptions of bacchanalian feasts In the history of the iead nations. Her advice is decidedly belated; it doef aot fit the intelligence of oartimes. Chemistry shows that the "one-wine, red or white," which this writer -'pays should b? ased "straight through." a borne dinner contains a varying percentage of alcohol. . ', Whether there be In this wine much or little alcohol, the character o? that alcohol la A the same. It is an . irritant, narcotic pol- Hg son. Its best friends cannot deny that St " has the power, when taken even in small quantities, to create a progressive, uncon- v| trollable and destractlve appetite for more. This appetite grows stealtnlly upon th? drinker. The ability to resist It varies with the Individual, and is dependent upon physical conditions, in which hereidity la powerful factor. John B. Qough said, "My father could be a moderate drinker, but lean be only a total abstainer or a gutter drunkard." , The gratification of this appetite ends In jrunkennoss, crime, poverty, misery and madness. Therefore, the family or individual who la drinking the red or white . wine which this so-called; temperanee woman recommends for ttto dally home dinner Is trying'a very dangerous expert- / ment. Elghty-fou/per cent, of our orlmInals, seventy-live per cent, of our paupers. fifty per cent, of the inmates of our Insane asylums began their careers with so-called moderate drinking. No human being can ' foresee when he begins where such tippling ->; will land him. He is dealing In futures. with no knowledge of his chances beyond the factihat the drink he is Imbibing has .' o an enticing power for destruction; but this fact he generally Ignores. Modern chemistry shows that the four ' *? cinds of wine this writer would hare served with a more formal course dinner are the same sort of.liquors, differing only in flavor and tha amount of alcohol they jontaln. Providing for guests four different kinds of poisonous drinks which have the power for harm that alcohol has Is, to say the least,-a barbarian sort of hospital' i Ity, a relic of the days that had not the light or modern science. i Through its action . on tint nerves and oraln, aloohol, of all agents,--is the moat powerful for the destraction of those quali* ties of mind and character that makefi people capable of self-government. It Is. therefore, the most dangerous of all foe* to onr free institutions, which rat upon, the capacity of our people for self-govern- vi ment. % " '>Sj3 To follow this wine-bibbing advice is a a invitation to disaster to that whloh we hold most dear?liberty under law. The pacity for government of the Amerioaa ' people will stand the strain or the coloniat expansion has thrust upon us, if alcohol is abolished from our habits. Commenting on this probability, Adolph Fick, professor of physiology in Wurtzburg University, Germany, in a public lecture said: "There is good reason for asserting that ihe Anglo-Saxon race at no very distant day will free itfcelf from the yoke of alcohol. Whether it will then b* possible for -nil Ifo tioa ?? cuoao rages ami gukiuiuuuR' iu im uov .v. compete with the Anglo-Sagon ia their economical pursuits is a qspstion to fc* thoughtfully considered." Maby H. Humt. Tolstoy on the Drink Question. ' The physiological and mental effects of alcohol are now fully and clearly proved by physicians and men of science, Alcohoi is a recognized poison which impairs digestion, disintegrates the blood and lower; the strength. These are a few of th? physiological effects. Alcohol also produces a weakening and obscuring of tht mind. It has been proved by repeated scientific experiments that it reduces th< working capacity of the mind and body. The mental and physical stimulation which follows the absorption' of alcohol It very brief aDd worthless. 1 ' ^ The Idea that the moderate use of aicohof is harmless is now absurd. ' It injures a person exactly in proportion to the quantity taken, however email that quantitj may be. To-day one can not and dare not say that fhe use or alcohol is a personal concera only; that the moderate use is uninjurious: that every one knows what he is doing and needs no lessons from others. No, it is oc longer a private affair. It is an affair ol the greatest importance to the community. Whether they wish it or not, all men are to-day divided into two camps?those who fight by word and example agains. the purposeless use of a poison, and those who defend that poison by word and example. A.nd we see this fight going on in every land. In Russia it has been carried on with especial energy for tho last twenty years.?Leo Tolstoy. The Great Destroyer of'Anglo-Saxons. Mr. T. W. Russell, mombbr of the Engiish Parliament, hi an address at Belfast, Ireland, referred to the history <jf the members belonging to a young men's society in County Typone thirt^fivp years ago, and declared that everyone whose life had turned out a failure had been rained by drink. He described the appearance of tb? most brilliant of the youthful band laboring on a wharf at New York, brought low bv the mocker. Drink bad tlie country by whun a M. Sullivan lav oc his death-bed he sent for the speaker; pointed oat to him that the Irish part] was going to be captured by the drinkpower, and charged him never to give u; the battle. The public house had become a more potent force in politics than church or chapel. The apathy of Christian men and ministers was astounding. The score and vengeance of a trade grown rich bj widows' tears and children's cries were al> most enough to make one quail. Drink was the great destroyer of the Anglo-Saxor race; Satan's prime ugency in the unmaking of men. The lecturer bad changed some of his views, but those on tbe drink - ^ question ho had never modified in th? slightest degree. Notes of the Crusade. The imperialism in the saloon power imnrtrinllsm to be dreaded. Tills coun- ^^***v ? try can take care of A^uioaldo easier than ^ wo oan of tho sabonkeepar and his vasf ^ uraiy. J It is significant of tho progress that ten- 0 perance agitation is making in Germans that 200 students of the University of Berlin have organized themselves into a totalabstinence club, the first iu the empire. The brewers wLo wero so patriotic at thi outbreak of the war are now kicking vigorously agaiust tho additional war tax on beer. Their patriotism was only oa thf foam after all. One-id ad men have controlled the thought forces in every age of the world They generate an irresistible white heat. There has been more American boys io the army mined by rum since tho beginning of the Spanish War than there will be Cubans and other heathens of our ne*? -i taiAHn l\?* i muripun ini'cuinn.iriflj 'tumiuiuus snicu v.i in the next ton years. Granger County, Ohio, prohibits the sal? >f liquor and there is not a saloon in thtf county. Recently the sheriff ot that countj brought a prisoner to the penitentiary at Columbus. He told a reporter of the State journal that he was serving his second term as sheriff and this mnn was the first he had brought to tho penitentiary. H? attributed this remarkable fact to tho at* sence of saloons In tho county. ?. ... .