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w . v E& ' fe V f> t ? f DE. TALMAQES SEKMOxN. ; SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BYTHE NOTED j DIVINE. 8abject: "A Great Man Fallen"?A Enlosry ( of the Late Justice Field?One of the } Most Notable Characters of Onr Times ' Whose Life Is Worthy of Emulation. ' Text: "Know ye not that there Is a ' prince and a great man fallen this day in , Israel?"?II Samuel 111.. 33. ' j Here is a plumed catafalque, followed by * KIdr David and a funeral oration which he < dnHr<?r.? At the tomb. Conoernlns Abner. 1 the great, David weeps out the text. More appropriately than when originally uttered we may now utter this resounding lamentation, "Know ye not that there Is a Erince and a great man fallen this day in srael?" [ It was thirty minutes after six, the exact ' hour of sunset of the Sabbath day, and while the evening lights were being kindlod, that the soul of Stephen J. Field, the lawyer, the judge, the patriot, the statesman. the Christian, ascended. It was sun , down In the liome on yonder Capitol bill, 3 "Washington, as it was sundown on all the t surrounding hills, but in both oases the sun- c set to be followed by a glorious sunrise. 1 Hear the Easter anthems still lingering in i the air, "The trumpet shall sound, and the i dead shall rise." < Our departed friend came forth a boy ? from a minister's home in New England, i He knelt with father and mother at morn- i (ng and evening prayer, learned from ma- f ternal lips lessons of piety which lasted * I him and controlled him amid all the varied t and exciting scenes of a lifetime and helped e him to die In peace an octogenarian. Blot n out from American history the names of t I,' those ministers' sons who have done honor i to judicial bench and commercial circle and P nntlnnol T aMalntnM Anil PppaMftntlal ohftfr. T and you would obliterate many of the r W grandest chapters of that history. It is no n L small advantage to have started from a I home where God is honored and the sub- t r ject of a world's emancipation from sin c and sorrow is under constant discus- p slog. The Ten Commandments, which b are the foundation of all good law? b Roman law, German law English 5 law. American law?are the best foun- c dation upon which to build character, and y those which the boy, Stephen J. Field, so 0 often heard in the parsonage at Stocs- a bridge were his guidance when a half cen- n tury after, as a gowned justice of the Su- a preme Court of the United States, he un- ^ rolled his opinions. Bibles, hymn books, a catechisms, family prayer?, atmosphere y sanctified, are good surroundings for boys s and girls to start from, and if our laser i( Ideas of religion and Sabbath days and y home training produce as splendid men 0 * -? ? D.i?i?ni.i/1 I SOU wuuieu Its lug UIUIU ucuunu x uiuuuiv k Sabbath and Puritanic teachings ha7e pro- t ri duced, it will be a matter or congratulation t r and thanksgiving. X. Do not pass by the fact that I have not t yet seen emphasized that Stephen J. Field t was a minister's son. Notwithstanding 0 - that there are conspicuous exceptions to y the rule?and the exceptions have built up j , 11 stereotyped defamation on the subject? y statistics plain and undeniable prove that y a larger proportion of ministers' sons turn n out well than are to be found In any other t ?nnaolrtf?li.ol tuhla T.pf nil frhft nflPflnn/> I ? - r a? yj of all denominations of Christians where.' children are growing up take the consola- \ tion. See the star of hope pointing down ], to that manger! . C Notice also that our departed friend was ^ a member of a royal family. Thertfwero \ no crowns or scepters or thrones in that \ ancestral line, but the family of the Fields, (] ^ like the family of the New York Primes, j< 4lke the family of the Princeton Alex- p nnder9, like a score of families that I might j; B mention^ if it were best to mention thom, i H were "the children of the king," and had \ W put on them honors brighter than crowns n and wielded influence longer and wider t W than scepters. That family of Fields traces t B ?n honorable lineage back 800 years to ^ ' Hubertus de la Fold, coadjutor of William s r tho Conqueror. Let U9 thnnk God for t I such families, generation after gener- tl tion on tho side of that which is right d and good. Four sons of that coun- j try minister, known the world over for ex- q traordinary usefulness in their spheres, ti legal, commercial, literary and theological, and a daughter, the mother of one of tho T associate Justices of the Supreme Court. *; Such families counter-balance for good f those families all wrong from generation to J generation?families that stand for wealth, * unrighteously got and stingily kept or ? wickedly squandered; families that stand ? for fraud or impurity or malevolence; ? family names that immediately come to ? ?very mind, though through sense of pro- ' priety they do not come to the lip. The ? name of Field will Survive centuries and bo F a synonym for religion, for great jurispru- * denoe, for able Chrlstianjournalism, as the names of the Pharaohs and the Ctesars , etand for cruelty and oppression and vice. r While parents cannot aspire to have ? such conspicuous households as the one ? the name of whose son we now celebrate, j; all rmrent* niav. bv fidelity in nraver and holy example bave their sons and daugh- ? f tere become kings and queens unto God, ? to reign forever and ever. But the work : has already been done, nnd I could go through this country and And a thousand ? households which have by the grace of ? God and blessing upon paternal and ma- * terLal excellence become the royal families of America. ^ Lot young men beware lest they by their j| behavior blot such family records with h some misdeed. We can all think of house- t holds the name3 of which meant everything f honorable and consecrated for a long E while, but by the deed of one son sacri- e flced, disgraced and blasted. Look out a how you rob your consecrated ancestry of 0 the name they hnnded to you unsullied! Better as trustee to that name add some- s thing worthy. Do something to honor the b Cld homestead, whether a mountain cabin T or a city mansion or a country parsonage. fi f Rev. David Dudley Field, though thirty- t two years passed upward, is honored to- v day by the Christian life, the service, the u death of his son Stephen. y Among the most absorbing books of the E Bible is the book of Kings, which again v and again illustrates that, though piety is r not hereditary, the style of parentuge has c much to do with the style of descendant. c It declares of King Abijam, "He walked in ji ?'' fKfl eina r\ f hln fof^or nrlil/>K'ka rlnno t Oil kuu oiuj vi ui9 nuivu uv uuu uvuw j before him," and of King Azariah. "'He did \ that which was right in the sight of the c Lord, according to all that his father Araa- ? ziah had done." We owe a debt to those c who have gone before In our line as cer* j tainly as we have obligations to those who ^ subsequently appear in the household. Not ' so f acred is your old father's walking staff, a , which you keep in his memory or the eyeglasses through which yonr motherstudled the Bible in her old age as the name they bore, the name which you inherited. Keep it bright, I charge you. Keep it suggestive of something elevated in character. Trample liot underfoot that which, to your father and mother wa3 dearer than life itself. Defend their graves A9 they defended your cradle. Family coat of arms, escutcheons, ensigns armorial, lion couchant, or lion dormant, or lion " rampant, or lion comnatanr, may attract attention, but better than all heraldic in- < scription is a family name which means from generation to generation faith in God, self sacrifice, duty performed, a life well lived and a death happily died and a heaven gloriously won! That was the kind of name that Justice Field augmented ' und adorned and perpetuated?a name ' honorable at the close of the eighteenth I century, more honored now at the close of 1 the nineteenth. ' Notice also that our illustrious friond I was great in reasonable and genial dis- i sent. Of 1042 opinions he rendered, none ' were more potent or memorable than those H or a A nrltilA ho TCJW in SRIAH IOiDOHtV 1 and sometimes In u minority of one. A | ; learned and distinguished lawyer of this i country said lie would rather be author of Judge "Field's dissenting opinions than to j bo the author of the Constitution of ^the United States. The tendency Is to go with the multitude, to think what others think, to say and do what others do. Sometimes the majority are wrong, and It requires heroes to take the negative, but to do that logically and in good humor requires some elements of make up oot often found In judicial dissenters or, Indeed, In any class of men, There are so many people In the world opposed to everything and who display their opposition in rancorous and obnoxious ways that a Judge Field was needed to make the negative respected and genial and right. Minorities' under God save the world and save the shuroh. An unthinking and preolpltate "yes" may be stopped by a righteous and ke role "no." The majorities are not alm vaj-3 right. The old gospel hymn deilftres It: tfumbers^are no mark that men will right utj iuuqu; V. few were saved in Noau's ark to many millions drowoed. The Declaration or American Independence was a dissenting opinion. The Free Dhurch of Scotland, under Chalmers and lis compeers, was a dissenting movement. The Bible itself, Old Testament and New Testament, is a protest against the thesries that would have destroyed the vorld and is a dissenting as well is a divinely inspired book. The decaogue on Sinai repeated ten times, "Thou >halt not." Foragestocome willbequoted 'rotn lawbooks in court rooms Justice field's magnificent dissenting opinions. Notice that our ascended friend had such i character as assault and peril alone can levelop. He had not come to the soft :ushions of the Supreme Court bench stepping on cloth of gold and saluted all along he line by handolapping of applause. Country parsonages do not rock their mbies in satin lined cradle or afterward lend them out into the world with enough n their hands to purchase place and >ower. Pastors' salaries la tne eariy part >f this century hardly ever reached 3700 a rear. Economies that sometimes cut iato he bone characterized many oi, the homes >f the New England clergymen. Thef young awyer of whom we speak to-day arrived n San Francisco in 1849 with only $10 n his pocket. Willtarastown College was >nly introductory to a post-graduate ,'ourse which our illustrious friend took vhile administering justice and halting ufflanism amid tbe mining camps of Caliornja. Oh, those "fortv-nlners," as they rere called, through what prlvatlona, hrough what narrow escapes, amid what ixposures they moved! Administering ind executing law among outlaws never las been an easy undertaking. Among uountaineers, many of whom had no retard for human life and where the snap of listol and bang of gun were not unusual esponses, required courage of the highest aetal. Behind a dry goods box surmounted by allow candles Judge Field began his judlial career. What exciting scenes he ia?sed through! An infernal machine was landed to him, and inside the lid of tho ox was posted 111s aecision in iuo x-ueuiu . ase, the decision that bad balked unprin- j Ipled speculators. Ten years ago his lire rould havo passed out bad not an officer (tbe law shot down bis assailant* It took long training ot hardship and abuse and misinterpretation and threat of violence nd flash ol assassin's knife to flt him for the ! igh place where be could defy legislatures nd congresses and presidents and tbe ' rorld when he knew he was right. Hardbip is tbe grindstone that sharpens intel?ctual faculties, and* the swords with rhlcb to strike effectively for God and ne's country. Notice also bow much our friend did for be honor of the judiciary. What momen- . ous scenes have been witnessed in our i Inlted States Supreme Court, on the tench and before the bench, whether, far >ack, it held its sessions in tbe upper room f the Exchange at New York, or afterward for ten years in the City Hull at hlladelphia, or later in the cellar of onder capitol, tbe place where for many ears tbe Congressional Library was kept, I , sepulcher where books were buried alive, he bolecalled byJohn Randolph "the cave ' r Trophonlus!" How suggestive the invitation which Filliam Wirt, the great Virginian, wrote j is friend Inviting him to yonder Supreme lourtrooiu: "To-morrow p. week will come q the great steamboat question from New ork. Emmett and Oakley ou one side, febster and myself on the other. Come own and hear it. Emmett's whole soul ) In the case, and he wiil stretch all his owers. Oakley is said to bo one of the Inest logicians of the age, as much a , 'hoclon as Emmett is a Themistocles, and : Webster is as ambitious as Caesar. He will j ot be outdone by any man if it is within , he compass of his power to avoid it. Come j o Washington. It"will be a combat worth | rltnesslng." The Supreme Court has stood j o high in England and the United States j hat the vices of a few who have occupied l hat important plnce have not been able to Isgrace it, neither the corruption ot j 'rancis Bacon, nor the cruelty of Sit reorge Mackenzie, nor tlfe Sabbath desecra- i Ion of Lord Castlereagh. To that highest of all tribunnls Abraham : >incoln called our friend, but he lived long ; nough to honor the Supreme Court more i ban it had ever honored him. For more j han thirty-four years he sat in the presnee of this nation and ot all nations a aodel judge. Fearlessness, integrity, deotion to principle, characterized him. No ribe ever touched his hand. No profane rord ever scalded his tongue. No blemish f wrong ever marred his character. Fnlly [ualttted was he to have his name assoclaed in the history of this country with th? ;reatest of the judiciary. To have done well, all that such a proesslon could ask of him, and to have made hat profession still more honorable by his rMIant ana sublime lite, is enougu ror aslooal and international, terrestrial and elestial congratulation. And then to exire beautifully, while the prayers of his hurch were being offered at his bedside, he door of heaven opening for his enrance as the door of earth opened for his eparture, the sob of the earthly farewell aught up into raptures that never dio. es, he lived and died in the faith of the >ld fasuioned Christian religion. Young man, I want to tell you that Jusice Field believed in the Bible from lid to Id, a book all true either as doctrine or istory, much of it the history of events hat neither God nor man approves. Our riend drank the wine of the holy sasrauent and ate the bread of which "it a man at he shall never hunger." He wa3 thoup lid down, out and out friend of the church f Christ. If there had been anything 11ogical in our religion, he would have couted it, for he was a logician. If there lad been in it anything unreasonable, he rould have rejected it, because he was a ;reat reasoner. If there had been in it anyhlng that wonld not stand research, he rould have exploded the fallacy, for his Ife was a life of research. Young men of VashlnRton, young men of America, young aen of the round world, a religion that pould stand the test of Justice Field's >enetrating and ail ransacking Intellect oust have in it something worthy of your onfldence. I tell you now tbnt Christianty has not only the heart of the world on ts side, but the brnln of tbe world also, 'e who have tried to represent the religion if the Bible as something pusillanimous, low do you account for the Christian faith if Stephen J. Field, whole shelves of the aw library occupied with his magnlQcent lecislons? And now mav the God of all comfort ipeak to the bereft, especially to her who vas the queen of his life from the day when is a stranger he was shown to her pew in he Episcopal Church to this time of the liAnrf TTa /thancvo/l aHu Pfthflfl hilt lid not chaDge religion. for the church in yhich he was bora and the church In vbich he died alike believe in God the father Atraighy, Makdr of heaven and sartb, and in Je9us Christ, His oulv begot:en Son, and In tbe communion of 9ainls, ind In the life everlasting. Amen. SERMONS TO CO TO LOWEST BIDDER rhe Georgia Prison Commission's Plan to Get Chaplains. It is reported that the Prison Commis sion of the State of Georgia is soon to advertise for bids for theservices of chaplain? in the convict camps. Hitherto it has been the custom to pay i3 a Suuday for a sermon from some country pastor, and as there was always a plethora of ministers near the camp, there waj some little rivalry as to who should earn the -512 .1 month. Under the new reform system, however the law forbids tbut the Stato should spend anything directly for religious services, ci nt least there is "no definite appropriation for this purpose. To supply the deficiency the commissioners will pay tbe ministers out of tbe funds obtained from the work ol the convicts. Since there aro so manj preachers anxious to increase their revenue in this manner, advertising for bids has been suggested, the weekly right to preacb being allotted to the lowest bidder. It Is probable that the subject will be thus solved. It Is looked on as a matter of business, and not as cheapening religion. The commissioners say that as the ministers fight for the positions, it is just as well that the State should have the advautage of the competition. It is not true that tbe point has been raised that inflicting the "lowest bidder" on the convlots Is in violation of that olause of the Constitution of the United 8tates forbidding cruel amd unusual punishments. .. A TEMPEBANCE COLUMN. THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST Ifcl MAMV \A(AVC I'ncl* Hiram'* Advice?Intoxicants fn Manila?Pure Alcohol Under Otler Names Causes Demoralization In Oar Army?A Serious Problem. My Uncle Hiram used to say, "My iad.take my advice, And never buy an article until you have the price. Be like your uncle, pay your bills, and you'll not have to Lret, And never (here he'd fiercely stamp)?no, never be In debt!" I watcht my Uncle stamp his foot; His words imprest me more Because his creditors had put A keeper In his store. "Tobacco is a filthy weed!" my Uncle oft would cry, "And only fit for nasty hogs that wallow In a sty. Oh, do not cloud your youthful brain with smoke or chew orsnulT, 'Tis only human pigs, my boy, that evei use the stuff." And from this text would Uncle draw A speech with precept ripe, And only stop to take a "chaw," Or pause to light hts pipe. "Shun liquor, boy!" said uncie ill; quue driuk, my ladl" he said, "Nor taste nor touch nor look not on th< wine when it is red; 'It biteth like an udder,' yes, and stingeth somewhat worse; I bid thee shun the flowing bowl, for 'til the nation's curse." And with the words of wisdom blent From Uncle's lips would come A very strong and healthy scent Of old New England rum. Oh, blessed sage of childhood's hour, oh, Uncle dear, to thee And thy advice I owe my all, and all I hope to be. I would not steal, I would not drink, 1 would not smoke nor chew, Because I feared that, if I did, I'd grow to be like you. So bless you, ancient counselor, With blessings deep and ample, Not for your sermous, no, but for Your horrible example. ?Joe Lincoln, in the L. A. W. Bulletin, Seductive Philippine Beverages* Among the serious probloms confronting Oeneral Otis at Manila none hRS caused greater agitation man tae inarming eueuta produced upon American soldiers, particularly the enlisted men, by a seductive beverage which they procured in native shops, and which produced such physical and mental demoralization as to give rise to a suspicion that tho army of -occupation was being systematically drugged or poisoned to render them helpless to resist an insurgent attack. Tliis native drink was generally known as vino. It was exceedingly palatable and inexpensive, but a single drink of it unfitted a soldier for active .duty for tho succeeding twenty-four hours, while frequent potations sent the soldier to the hospital for a long period of illness. When the source of tho trouble was discovered General Otis was disposed to prohibit tbe traffic in vino altogether, and to that end referred the matter to General Hughes, Provost Marshal-General of tho city, with a request for suggestions looking to a practicable course of action. General Hughes investigated the trouble, and bis recommendations have been followed. As long as Manila was crowded with troops the vino industry, unrestricted, was exceedingly lucrative, but now that most of the Americans are in the field, practically all the shops where it had been sold are closed. General Hughes's indorsement on the case was as follows: Headquarters ) Provost Marshal-General. > Manila, January 18. 1 r.espectfully returned to the AdjutantGeneral, Department of the Pacific and Eighth Army Corps. I have avoided all discussion of this subject until I havo sufficiently informed myself of the actual facts, and while my information is not yet as full and complete as I should like to have it, still I feel that [ hazard nothing in what is stated below. There are quite a number of articles on sale at the wine shops in this city that are about the same thing. They aro a whitish liquor, and usually flavored; and sometimes tinted by some innocent elements. They are called numerous names?anisado, vino, beno, Scotch whisky, etc. The base of all of them Is simply alcohol. Commer3ial alcohol is manufactured here extensively from the refuse of sugar houses. It is very pure and strong, and can be sold at a price that is far below that at which any other intoxicating drink can bB produced. The wine venders take this alcohol of commerce and dilute it, perhaps add a cheap flavoring, may be an innocent coloring element, ami sell it'under any name they see at to bestow upon it. Any one familiar with the old bottle trade can tell about it by giving the various prices of labelled and not [labelled bottles. A Scotch whisky bottle with a perfect label Is a very different article of trade from ono' of the same kind without a label. The police are Instructed to endeavor to supress the sale of these strong alcoholic drinks to our soldiers, and persons found selling them to American soldiers have their permits revoked. There are occasionally shops that get fruit alcohol and put it on sale as a beverage. This material :s;apt to produce a very delirious; or confused condition. Wherever such shops are found the police are to withdraw the iconses from the places. If commanders will be careful to report the places wbore men have obtained the drink which produces the effect mentioned it shall be tho effort of this office to take su:h measures as will prevent a recurrence. Wage* and Wliliky. The young man who thinks ho can afford to take two or three glasses of beer or whisky each day and never miss the sum he spends would do well to reckon up how much these drinks would amount to in the course of a year. Some years ago three young men in Columbus, Ohio, carpenters by trade, engaged to work for a builder, promising to stay with him until a certain piece of work was completed. They were to receive the same wages, and were to draw them as they chose. The work lasted from spring until Christmas. On the final settlement one of young men, who frequented the tavern, and was a prettv hard drinker, found a ?- -i iJ- - J ??. . a AA PA mu? ..... J oaiance 10 ma credit ui xuu secuuu, who was a somewhat more moderate drinker, had $11; the third, w&o was a teetotaler, had $150. The first and second wore very seedy clothes, and were in debt. The third hud a good suit of clothes ac.d no debt. Surely total abstinence pays!? Temperance Banner. The Crusade in Brier. Intemperance is an accursed thing. It degrades tbe mind, it demoralizes the whole moral being, and, If not renounced, means everlasting ruin. Man is but dust; as soon as he gets the babit of absorbiug liquor bis name Is mud. An attempt is being made to arrest the growing consumption of alcohol amongst military classes in France. A sories o( posters have been placed in tbe barracks of tbe garrisou of Paris showing the ravage? made by alcohol on tlio human system. Agitation of the temperance question throughout Alabama has caused tho saloon keepers of Birmingham to close their places of business on Sunday. In a recent treatise on alcoholism by Trull it is stated that in England seventylive per cent, of all pauperism Is due tc drink, and in Germany nlnotv per cent. In Germany drink loads to lfiOO cases of suicide a year and supplies the insane asylums with 3000 victims. A temperance demonstration is to be made atjthe Paris Exposition by opening ou tbe grounds a very largo temperance restnurant together with what are termed "Kiosques deTemperance," from which all alcoholic drinks will be excluded. xne uongo tree sme uus piuuiuuou mi transport by railways of liquors to bo sold to tho natives. The Congo railway extending into the interior has just boen opened. The liquor business is now practically limited to coast towns. THE SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MAY 14. Subject: "Christ Betrayed and Arrested,'* John xvlli., 1-14? Golcen Text: "He la I ** 1 a J ? JLJ OB1MOCU ?uu Akcy CV.1QU VI 1111., 3?Commentary. 1. From 12 midnight to 1 o'clock Friday .norning, April 7, A. D 30. "When Jesus had spoken these words." The discourse and the prayer at the supper in the upper room. "Over the brook Cedron," or Kedron. Cedron me&DS "The Cedars," or "Black," and is ^commonly supposed to refer to the dark color of the water or the gloom of the ravine. The brook was the ravine, or path of a winter torrent, between the city Rnd tho Mount of Olives. There is little water in the Kedron even in winter. "Where was a garden," ororchard of trans, including olive trees. It was < named Gethsemane?Oil-press. It whs one of the many gardens surrounding Jerusalem, and probably belonged to one of the friends of Jeaus, for "Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with His disciples" (v. 2). "Into the which He entered, and His disciples." From the other evangelists we learn that, leaving eight of the disciples near the gate as a guard, Jesus took Peter, James and John farther into the garden. , Again leaving them, He went a short distance beyond, and prayed in an agony that caused Him to sweat, as it were, crreat drops of blood. Three times He returns, and finds the disciples sleeping at their post. 2. "Judas knew the place." This statement, was made to show how It was that Judas could find Jesus. "Jesus ofttimes resorted thither." It'was a quiet resting place, for retirement, prayer, perhaps s eep, and a trysting place also where not only the twelve, but others, also, may have been wont to meet the Master. 3. "Judas then, having received a band," or cohort, usually consisting of three hundred to six hundred Roman soldiers from the tower of Antonia. "From the chief priests." Who had obtained them from the Roman authorities. Two or three days before, Judas had plotted with the Jewlsn rulers to betray Jesus into their hands for thirty pieces of silver (shekels of sixty-four to sixty-six cents each), and this night after leaving the upper room, and while .Taenia rrna xcifh Wla Hfa/tfnlaa around the table, where He had instituted His memorial supper, and was praying for them, Judas was with the Pharisee?, arranging the details of his treachery, receiving a band of men and officers to go to the usual resorts of Jesus at midnight, and take Him into custody. "Cometh thither with lantern j and torchos." Although the full moon was shining, many a place in the narrow streets and in the gardens would be be dark, and it might be necessary to search for Jesus in the shady recesses or rock tombs and caves with which the Kedron valley abounded. With the Boman cohort was a great multitude. 4. "J?3us knowing." Nothing came to Jesus as a surprise. He was a voluntary sacrifice. "Went forth," from the shady retreats of the garden and from the company of disciples, and faced the Boman soldiers, and asked them, "whom seek ye?" 5. "Jesus of Nazareth." The answer may perhaps reveal the light in which Judas bad represented Jesus to the Boman authorities?of Nazareth, a Gallleanjirone to revolt. "Jesus saith I am ife." The he Is not expressed in the Greek; hence it is in italics in the text; and I am to Jewish ears was the name of Jehovah. Judas, if not the chief priests, must have noticed the significant words. "Judas also.. .stood with them." This is mentioned to showthat he, too. thouirh badly bold by beinar possessed of Satan, fell backward to the ground with the others, conscience-stricken and afraid. 6. "They went backward," not fell backward, "and fell to the ground." Apparently this was the manifestation of asuperhuman power from Jesus. 7. "Asked He them again." To emphasize the reasons for this exhibition of power. 8. "If therefore ye seek Me, let these go their way." Jesus, the Good Shepherd, seeth the wolf coming, and fleeth not, because He careth for the sheep. He would save the disciples; for they were needed to carry on"His work. He also tested them as to how closely they would, of their own accord, cling to Him in His hour of trouble. 9. "That the saying might be fulfilled." The saying is quoted from Christ's prayer "Have I lost none." No power can prevent Christ's guardianship over us, or, like a wolf, destroy one of the sheep In His fold. So we can trust Jesus, for never has one been lost who trusted in Him. 10. "Then Simon Peter." The act was characteristic, impetuous and bold. "Having a sword drew It." First the disciples asked Jesus if they should defend Him with the sword (Luke 22: 49). But Peter, without waiting for an answer, begins the defense. Probably he wished by this blow to prove his readiness to risk his life for his Lord, and to fulfill his vow (Mark 14: 27-31); In all probability it was also his design to give a signal to his frlend9 and the Lord Himself to rise in arms against the foe. "The high priest's servants." Not officer, but a personal slave; R. V., bond servant. He was probably one of the loremosi OI me urrcstiofj party, "idu cut i off his right ear." Peter was not likely to strike with any other but a right good will; and no doubt the blow was Intended to cleave down the aggressor. 11. "Put up thy sword." Eecause you are opposing the plan of God. "The cup." Sorrow and suffering and death, represented as a bitter medicine put In a cup for Him to drink. Exactly the amount designed to W?o drank was placed In the cup. "Shall I not drink it?" Shall I rebel against God's known will, and refuse to carry out the divine plans for the redemption of the world? 12. "Then the band ? tookJesus." Some of the more eager ones had taken hold of Jesus before the attempt of Peter (Matt. 26: 50); now the guard took possession of Him, pinioned Him, and let .'Him away. ! Jesus protests against their violence, as if [they were taking some brigand chief of a lawless band, while His whole life was opposed to this view (Mark 14: 48, 40). At this time not only Peter, but all the disciples forsook their Master and lied. They were forbidden to defend Him; 90 far as they could see they could only quietly yield J themselves up with Him, or escape in the 1 darkness. They were encouraged to do 1 . this by Jesus' request to the officers to let 1 them go (v. 8). And yet it was a dlsap- 1 'polntment. The disciples failed in faith | and courage when their great trial came. ! 13. "And led Him away to Annas first.'] J Jesus was led first to Annas, because thisj old man had formerly been high priest* and, though deposed by the foreign power that ruled Judea, was still the legitimate! ! high priest according to the law of Moses, 1 the office being for life. 14. "Now Calaphas." Why la this fact 1 referred to here? Perhaps to show why I they took Him to Caiaphas, as one commit- < ted to condemn Jesus, since he was willing j to destroy even an innocent person to savij ;the nation from what he considered a grciii peril, from the Roman power. ( HAYES'S FUNERAL PICNIC. \ I Dancing and Feasting Two Years After j Ills Death According to Hit Will. , A novel funeral was held a few days ago t nt White Oak, Ind. Two years ago William t llr.ye? dieil, leaving a large estate. Dur- I ing his life lie was very eccentric. In his t will ho provided that his body was to be i taken up and placed in a vault two years after his death, which was Sunday. The trees in the park where the remains were placod were to be decorated with red, white s and blue ribbons. Fiveplatforms for danc- i ing were to be erected, two brass bands i wore to furnish the music, and the crowd c I preaeut was to feast on Jlvo Dead 01 came, ? tweDiy head of sheep and a lurge Dumbor u of ho^s and chickens. Fifty kegs of beer wore to bo dispo?i>od to the crowd. In caso of a failuro to enrry out these provisions of tho will, l'iorco Hayes, his only child, was to be (.lisiuheritod. Two thousand persons were in attendance, and the terms of the Will were fully complied with. 'V Failicr of Twenty-seven Children. Riley b'liepard, of Anderson, Ind., has just become a father for the twenty- | seveuth timo, and now lays claim to tuo j * " 1 * 11 ? ran n ra maiana rocoru. ah ui mo allvo and arc a hardy lot. The family is somewhat a puzzle in names. There are, for instance, threo Johns. The eldest is | called John, the second la John, Jr., nnd the third, now a man, is Johnnie. 8hop- j urd, the fr.ther, is sixty years of age. I t GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PREGNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. True Offering*?God's Constraining Hand ? The Law of Cost ?Three Million Prayer* a Day?Adjustment to God'a Plan?Stopping Spiritual I.eaks. Twas a right goodly feast they had spread In the house of Simon, that day, And a multitude eagerly thronged To hear what the Master might say. But He, the dear Lord, was a-weary; Like ashes from highway and street A .i4.ua.A^ LJ la normnnf And clung to His sandaled feet 'Mid silence that fell, as they waited, There entered one, gentle of mien, With face of a sorrowful woman, With form of a stately queen. Straightway to the side of the Saviour, Unheeding the gazers, she pressed, And, kneeling before Him, she gathered Those desert-worn feet to her breast. In the flood of her tears softly laved them Till once again stainless and fair, Then soothed them with kisses, and dried them On the soft, silken veil of her hair. And rising and bending above Him With reverent love, on His head Most precious perfume, from a casket As rich and as costly, she shed. Ah! little she recked of the scoffers? The scathing reproach on her cast? Had not the Great Master delivered Her soul from the sins of the past?. So much bad been pardoned this sinner Notatninge that her heart should o'orbrim With yearning to render some service With love, deep and boundless, for Him. And we? Ah! we cannot, like Mary, The Saviour In person now greet, With odors most rure to anoint Him, Or weep out our tears on Hit* feet: But hearts that shed Incense of praises, And hearts that shed perfume of prayer, Most precious to him of all others, May the weakest of us to Him bear. ?Lucy It. Buck, in Zion's Herald. God's Constraining Hand. A man never knows what his intellect can do until ho brings it into subjection to the Son of God. He never knows what his heart c^n feel until he gives it to the Lord. He never knows what bis life can be until it is transfigured by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. "Do not spoil my life," the river cries, as the hills in the distance come up to meet it. The great, lazy river has been sprawling across the plain, too shallow to float a ship, too weak to turn a wheel, again and again losing itself in swamp and sand. ' Do not trouble mo." the river cries, as the hills draw closer and closer. "I want to live! But tho hills pay no attention to the river's prayer. On they come and the river chafes against their bases. But while it chafes and freta and scolds, the current deepens and increases in volume and momentum, until at last a thousand ships are .sailing on its surface, and its shores are musical with the hum and whir of factories and mills. The jubilant hilis look down upon the redeemed river, saying: "We came that you might have life and that.you might have it more abundantly." That is what Christ would do for us. He constrains us that He may enlarge us. He lays His hand upon us that He may lift us up. 0 men and women ! some of you are wasting your lives because you have never consecrated them. You at% allowing your existence to flow out over the sands of society and business,and your life is lost. You know you are are not living. No man truly lives who is not living unto God. Give yourself to the Lord of life. Let His constraining hand tak'h hnld nf vnn fnr T-TIg trnrri ia tniM* **Mv yoke is ea*?y.";iDd My burden is light."? Charles E. Jefferson, D. D. ? The Law of Cont. Jesus pressing His way through the crowded street knew that some one had been healed by touching Him, for He perceived . that virtue bad gone out of Him. Work done always costs energy expended. All the operations of nature from the growth of a grass-blade to the burning of a star are carried on at the expense of energy. The sun warms the planet and creates our harvests only by burning up. On the farm the products of the soil cost. Nature will not herself fill the barn. Virtue must go out of human brains and hands, and mix with her element?, and then the hills will wave with wheat and the valleys rustle with corn. The chief difference between the savage and the civilized man is, that the savage puts nothing into nature and gets out only what he caa pick up; the civilized man puts virtue, his own power and skill into nature and gets out an abundance. In the factory the piece of furniture or web of cloth costs the combined skill and toil of many hands. In the artists studio the picture costs intense thought and patient effort. Three Million Prayers a Day. Tuat cull for two million souls and twenty million dollars as our Twentieth Century Thank Offering weighs upon me day and night. How can it can be met? My answer is: By one genuine prayer daily on the part of every communicant. That would mean 2,900,000 prayers each (Jay for three years, all united, fervent, effectual, directed to one and the same end. For my myself I utterly despair of success unless we can get a new, united, and irrelaxible hold on the Arm that is Almighty. With God we can meet this or uoy other call He sends. . Without Hira our faces will surely be covered with confusion. Who will covenant with the present writer in the promise of at least one prayer each day for the complete accomplishment of this great work of faith? Even two millions of souls and twenty millions of dollars look small in the preseuce of 2,900.000 prayers each day.?President Warren, in Zion's Herald. Adjustment to God's Plan. The secret of a serene, strong, inspiring life Is a life in tune with Qod's keynote. Many a man has at least a subconsciousness of an imperfect adjustment of his lifo. Somewhere, in some way, self is-grating against duty just enough to give a perhaps undefined impression of discord. And, juflt as one tosses aimlessly on the bed when uncomfortable in sleep, constantly seeking ease in new positions, so the imperfectly adjusted lile is characterized by fltfulness, aben?--*iindedne.48. peevishness, cynicism? mptoms of a ctaving for peace. 8uch -i usually has a vague expectancy that. ?ouc uay or other, ho too will posssess such ixperiences as he hears described by others. Some time he too will reach his best estate, evil 1 live a life calm, strong, elevated above petty harassing. But that can be attained :o now. Adjustment of the life to God's revealed planis the remedy.?Sunday Schoo' rimes. Stopping Spiritual Leak*. It is not trouble that troubles, but discon;ent. It is not the water without the ship, nit the water that gets within the leak ivhich drowns it. It is not outward affile iou that can make the life of a Christian iad; a contented mind would sail above these waters. But when there is ti leak of diseon- ( ent open aud trouble gets into the heart < ben it is disquieted and sinks. Do. there- I ore, as the mariners, pump the water out md stop the spiritual leak in thy soul, aud 10 trouble can hurt thee.?Thomas Watson. Compassion is tho first word which deicribes tho spirit of Christ. It is a deep vord?deeper almost than love, as tho ' nother knows who has seen her child in the 1 Niritim of fever. Christ came to bring in f1 ho roign of righteousness, but before aud 1 ifter justice is pity.?W. 11. Nieoll. DOG DIES FROM CONSUMPTION. rVnlmal Believed to Ilave Caught Disease from Young: Mastejr. 5 Tho denth of a dog from consumption has ' |ust occurred in Lambertvillo, N. J. John 3. Curtis, of tho Lamberviile Spoke Mauu- i tacturiug Compauy, owned the animal?a \ pug. The dog was strongly attached to ; VIr. Curtis'sou William aud frequently slept n the same bod with him. Young Curtis ? vas a victim of consumption and died a ^ fear ago. , Tho pug's nature, usually lively, changed. [Ie kopt close to the ho.vse and seemed do- . spondent. A few months ago be had a ' hemorrhage of the lungs and daily grew j :binner. , ' ' ... * IS. QUAY NOT GUILTY < lurv Acquits Him of the Charges ol * ? W Misusing Public Funds. HE [S APPOINTED SENATOR, After Twenty Hoari' Deliberation. tht Jarjr Decides That He Did Not Uli< use State Fundi?Jory Stood Ten U Two at Firat?The Scene in tht ."V CoartrooiQ?Three Ballots Taken. Philadelphia, Penn. (Special).?The trial of ex-Senator Matthew Stanley Qua] >n the charge ot conspiring to use Stata funds on deposit in the broken People's Bank of this olty for his private gain ended on Friday tn a verdict of acquittal. Almost llmultaneously Governor Stone announced At Harrlsburg that he had appointed Mr Quay to the seat in the United States 8en< ate recently vacated by him, which the Legislature failed to All at its session jast ended. The verdict or the jury acquitting Mr. Quay was announced at 11 o'clock. There were comparatively few persons In the courtroom. There was an attempt at a demonstration, bat this (was repressed by the court. officers, whose* loud shouts of "Order!" and "Sllencel" were effective la quieting those jubilant spirits who wished to give vent to their satisfaction by cheering. Mr. Quay, with a broad smile oa his face, responded pleasantly to tbe greetings and congratulations of those who crowded around him, A. few of his political friends were there, and these men were vociferous in their expressions of satisfaction at the outcome ol the trial. Though the jurors entered irto a bond oi secrecy It was learned that three ballots were taken before the verdict was reached, On the first ballot they stood ten for acquittal and two for conviction. Then one man was won over by the majority, and in the morning the last man who stood b?' twHen Quay and freedom gave In. QUAY APPOINTED SENATOR. Governor Stone Immediately Acts On the Receipt of the Verdict. Habbisbubo (Speolal).?Immediately on receipt of the news that Mr. Quay was aa< quitted of the charges against him, Governor Stone appointed him United States Senator to fill the vacancy until the next Legislature meets and notified Vice-President Hobart as follows: "Sir: By virtue of the power vested In me as Executive of the 8tate of Pennsyl? vanlu, under Article I., Clause 2, Sectlpn 3 of the Constitution of the United States, 1 hereby make temporary appointment ol the Hon. Matthew Stanley Quay to be United States Senator from Pennsylvania until the next meeting of the Pennsylvania T artlolofni-a fill tha voftiinflv nnw Arlaf. Ing in this State. Very respectfully, "William A. Stone, "Governor of Pennsylvania." .'Precedent Bar* Him From Senate. Washington, D. C. (Special).?Matthew S. Quay, In 9pitf,.of "his appointment as Senator by Governor 8tone, will probably get no nearer the Sennte of the Fifty-sixth Congress than Jthe Marble Room. Precedents are all against his taking his seat by virtue of appointment from the Governor. The Senate is on record as holding that where a State Legislature convened for the purpose of electing a United States Senator falls to do so the vacancy cannot be filled by a Gubernatorial selection. COUNTERFEITERS CAUGH The Makers of the 8100 Silver Certlflcati Arrested In Pennsylvania. Washington, D. C. (Special).?The makers of the counterfeit $100 silver certificate. the most dangerous form o( bad money ever discovered by the 8eqret Service officers of the Treasury Department, were arrested in Philadelphia. Accomplices ol the engravers were arrested in Lancaster, PenD. The engravers are Arthur Tayloi and Baldwin Bredell, of Philadelphia, and as far as known the preduetion of the $100 bill was their first experience as counterfeiters. Their accomplices in Lancaster are William M. Jacobs, William L. Kendig and James Burns, the latter an employe in Jacobs's factory. Jacobs and Kendig are cigar manufacturers, and Jacobs especially is recognized as a leading citizen of the town and has always had a good reputation. When arrested it was found that his stock of cigars amounted to $40,000, and his accounts showed that he bad a large amount of money deposited in bank. His factory and his bank accounts were taken possession of by the agents of the Govern ment when he was arrested. A Former 17. S. Attorney Accused. Philadelphia. (Special).?A sensational arrest was made in this olty in connection with the capture of the gang of counterfeiters who issued the $100 silver certificate. Harvey K. Newitt, who was Asslstan United States District-Attorney in this city under President Harrison, was taken into custody by Secret Service men, charged with bribing Detective McManus, of the Philadelphia office. He was held in $15,000 ball, which was furnished by a wealthy friend. VOLUNTEERS TO COME HOME. Fourteen Tlionaaod Regulars to Thoie Id the Philippines. Washinotox, D. C.?Fourteen thousand regulars are to be sent to reinforoe Gen. eral Otis at Manila as soon as the necessary marine transportation can be provlded. It is not expected that the bulk of the large body of reinforcements can reach Manila until the end of the rainy seasoD, which has just begun. With tho regular troops already ordered and on the way to Manila General Otis will have an effeotive force of 21,728 men in addition to the recruits being sent there every few days for the regiments already In the Philippines. This force is to be raised to thirty-flve thousand men by the time aggressive operations can be pressed in the early autumn. After a conference between the President, Secretary Alger and Adjutant-General Corbin it was decided that the volunteers rhould be returned to the United States in the order of their arrival at Manila. Instructions to do so have been sent to General Otis. It is the intention of General Otis to send home all the volunteers. The first expedition will reach San Francisco between 5 and 10. There are about 12,000 volunteers to be sent home Lieutenant Lang: DUmlaaed. President McKlnley, at Washington, ha3 approved the sentence of dismissal in the jase of Lieutenant Clarence E. Lang, 3econd Artillery, and has directed the War Department to Issue an order dismissing him from the army. Hotel Proprietor a Suicide. John Preston, aged flfty-flve years, proprietor of the Greenwood Hotel at Towania. Penn., committed suicide by blowing Dut his brains with a shotgun. Preston was well to do, aud no reason can be advanced for the suicide. Newny tileaninzi. Germany la strengthening her fleet in the Paciilc. Orders for twelve now torpedo-boat deitroyers of thirty-one knots speed have een given out by the British Admiralty. 1 rt?. Tn/Unn rtnnfrrflQQ la fn ha a fanf_ AUV/lUOl JLUVtMftl* \S\SKf,*. V.?.? *V K/W V tWUV jre of this year's Omaha exposition. It irill be more extensive than that of last pear. The British budget for the ensuing year ibows an estimated expenditure of $564,'35,000. an Increase of $30,490,000 over last fear. The new Chief of ToUce In Harrlsburg, ?eun., has Instructed th? patrolmen not to irrest Innoffenslve Inebriates, but/^ escort ;hem to their bojaea. / .-J '"*^3 lijiipir is (uptii] I ? VMM W4IA4 ** VA** ' 11 4 f Sereral MacArthur Drives the Insur-j gents Out of Their Last Stronghold. / , HEROISM OF THE KANSAS TROOPs) 1 Tlllplno* Boated by 6000 of Oar Soldleri?i Colonel Fanston.ot tlye Twentieth Kan-j ' ?ai Lead? a Bold Party Across ? Bride*; 1 Under Fire?Armored Car Used toOpen the Advance?Oar Caiualtlei. j Manila, (ay uaoie;. ? uenerai iiacajr :hur's division, 6000 troops, annihilated* ' the insurgents at C&lumplt Wednesday. | Agulnaldo's troops made a stubborn re1 tlstance, but were driven to the bills.' Eight Americans were killed. Galumpit is :he key to the whole of northern Luzon. | General MaeArthur's division fought its way to the Filipino trenches before Calum-i 1 pit on Tuesday, advancing four miles I Boitly through woods and jungle, ana crossing the Bagbag River. This was accomplished atji cost to thflr' ' Americans of six killed anil twenty-eight? wounded, the First Southi Dakota being1 the heaviest loser. i . ?' .jm After fording the river the South Dakotans pursued the insurgents to the out-! 1 skirts of Calumplt; but the town was found! ' to be so strongly protected that General Mac Arthur deemed it best to withdraw tbe : tired fighters and to go into camp for a night's rest before making the final assault. The fiagbag River was well fortified, and ' the Americans were compelled to approach i across an open space fr6m which the rebels had cleared every obstruction in sight. . The bank of the river, a high blufT, was surmounted with trenches, capped with rocks, loop-holed and partly hidden by \ bashes. ' General Wheaton's brlgadd approaohed the river along the railroad, leaving camp beyond Malolos. General Hale's brigade was earlier on the march, and swept westward toward the railroad. The armored train was being pushed by Chinamen, tb? . Twentieth Kansas advancing in extended order on the left and the First Montana.' with the Utah Light Artillery, on the right., The rapid-fire guns on the train opened! the fight at 11.30 a, m. about a mile fromj the river, their popping alternating continuously with the boom of the 6-pounders. 4 Tne Montana regiment and the Utah ar? tillery batteries at the same time entered^ the jungle, from which the Insurgents, who were occupying a large, straggling village; of huts, poured heavy volleys. In thai course of an hour the Americans bad forced a passage through the woods to ths open space in front of the river, and the artillery, immediately on wheeling into that open, began shelling the Filipino trenches. In the meantime Company K, Twentieth! Kansas, led by Captain Boltwood, per-< formed one of the most brilliant achleve-i i M ments of the campaign. The legiment was, being held In reserve, and Company JL\ charged a quarter of a mite over a cornfield to the bank of ttye river, near the bridge, where the Insurgents from a trench were peppering the armored train, thea about two hundreds yards down the.traok. | The company found shelter in & ditch. | Colonel Frederick Funston called for vol-; unteers to cross the river, and the colonel ' himself. Lieutenant Ball, a private of Com-j danv K, a private of Company E, Trum^ peter Barsfleld and Corporal Ferguson, ofj uompnny 1, crawiea at our lruu Kiruera^ While this was going on the men of Com-j pany E, from the ditch, poured in a heavy Ore on the trenches in the endeavor to divert attentioa, but the Filipinos got tha range from a trench down the river, and their bullets soon spattered the water under the structure. i , Having reached the broken span, the small party of Americans slid down .the' caisson, swam a (ew yards to the shore and' > crawled up the bank, the Colonel leading, , the way to the trenches, revolver in band, , while the few remaining Filipinos bolted. General Hale's troopa,'fln the right, had the hardest fighting. TKqy followed the i north bank of the river, nearest the town, ! trom the east, with the First Nebr*ska on. * -m| , the left and the First South Dakoca and the k~. Fifty-first Iowa beyond. The country to I be traversed was mostly jungle, but the i Filipinos stood their ground, even in the . open spaces. . I ~ - m General Hale's right joined GeneraL Wheaton's left soon after noon, a curve ia; 1 the river enabling the Americans to pour t an enfilading Are into the enemy's trenches. y i About this time the cheers of the Kansas! ' troops announced that the Americans had' * ) ) crossed the river. - General Hale's men be-l > gan to ford the Cbico branch of the Bagi bag stretching to the northeast. The Gon-? 1 oral himself plunged in up to his neck, andi ) the regiments, all carrying flags, floundered I across the stream. : i The guns of the Utah Light Artillery were dragged over next and formed into an extended line, to advance" upon the trenches beforo Calumplt, from which th? Filipinos were pouring continuous volleys. I It is difficult to estimate the insurgent losses, but they had not less than seventy ' tilled, many of them by the artillery. j NECRO LYNCHED BY A NEGRO MOB.: Shot in Hie Cell at Ualcna, Kan., by Fifteen Masked Men. 1 , Galena, Kan. (Special).?A negro murderer was lynched by a negro mob early Tuesday morning. He had strangled a woman of his race. The mob's victim was Charles Williams, an intelligent but worth ess negro, about thirty years of age. ; Sunday night they quarrelled and he * :hreatened to kill her. On Monday her lead body was found. She had been strangled. Williams was arrested, and th? Coroner's jury declared that she was' jtrangled to death by Williams. ? At 3.30 o'clock a mob of fifteen masked aegroes went to the city jail, tore off tha lock with axes, and whlltr some remained Dutslde four entered the jail and battered 3own the door of Williams's cell. One ofc :he men had a rope. They ordered Will-* lams to come ont, but he protested his innocence, and seizing two bricks that were (n his cell, prepared to defend himself.! Then some one suggested that they shoot him. Four shots rang out. One bullet entered his heart and death was almost instantaneous. i The mob then qufetly withdrew, leaving the dead body in the cell and carefully fastening the jail door to prevent the other prisoners from escaping. Mo arrests bav* oeen made. ~.r P^piian 1VT llllnn Former Governor Lord, of Oregon, hn3 declined the offer of the mission to Persia. .. j He was an applicant for the Peruvian mission. Caught tlie Measlei bj Mall. Thomas Marshall, a SIouz Indian, twen* ty-two years old, died a few day* ago from black measles at the Government training school at Carlisle, Penn. He received a letter from the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, stating that his brother and sis- * tor had died from malignant measles. The ^ infection was, doubtless, carried in the en- ^ velope. The entire school has been quarantined. Don Carlos Issues a Manifesto. . Don Carlos, the Pretender to the Spanish throne,is said to have sent a fresh manifesto to his adherents. Tired of Life at Fourteen. Mary Seitber, fourteen years old, com nitted suicide at her mother's house ir , Newark, N. J., by taking a dose of carbolic acid. Six weeks ago the girl was arrested for stoaling $3 from her employer, a tailor, and was fined $15. Hor father, who was separated from his wife, tried to raise th* money, but failiug iu his efforts, killed himself with carbolic acid at his wife's home. The girl had been brooding ove# the matter. Ohio Judge Die* Aged 100. Judge Lester M. Taylor, the oldest resi? dent of Northeastern Ohio, dle.l a few dayi Ago aged 100 years, at hi* home in Clarldon. Qeaiga County.