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:*<vv^ tTHE AMERICA'S COOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOg in. | Details of the Race jjj? | Between Columbia g*!! I and Shamrock, | oooooooooooococooocoooooco MEMOKABLE ?^7 contest may coo- , K/il fidently be expected / Pi / 1 \ when Sir Thomas | " . ?*r\ . Lipton cornea over ' ''-J/here iQ the fall to \ A-merica'8 Cup. The race will x be the tenth since jthe proud day when the eagle first ac, " perch upon that c trophy. Bat it is not time to be (Tl frightened yet. The British papers are doing their best to scare us, but SIR THOMAS J. LIPTON. Sa] (Challenger for the Americp; 'z Cup.) ha vro should keep up our courage for fat the present. That the Shamrock, Sir sw Thomas Lipton's challenger, is a dan-1 un serous craft is hardly to be doubted, I Vi Tsut .that she will defeat the Columbia I Au is not yet a foregone conclusion. We | thi ?^||| <A. sail was Jroppea over the stern to prevent ] , lines of tliu y lave been told that the Shamrock had j mi a concealed centreboard, and that this H Tvas what would beat us. We have C. read that she bad a way of putting her all chain cable up her bleeve and taking ' it out for the purpose of the race;Jth that she hail a hollow keel in which i Sc nil sorts of dangerous expedients could ! ali be concealed, and that she was in bii general a craft more tilled with mys- is teries than our own Fetimore Cooper's at "Water Witch. But the lines of a Mi yacht, like murder, will out. Her ou dimensions may be kept secret, yet 1 they, too, will ultimately be known D< with something approaching exactness, sei The dimensions of the Columbia ar< have been obtained from men who thi MWA 1?A J 1 AOf*?tinM iUnVM /I f ll I xiitvo uau iucauo ui iudlu, uuu ? are trustworthy. They put the yacht's co length over all as 131 feet; beam, 22 ag leet 2 inches, aai draught, 19 feet 10 pe . .... CUP DEFEr \ \ \ \ \ T _ {\ V^fSi jhos. Her painted 'water jasured 89 feet 6 inches, and it lieved that she would float, rigged, at about 89 feet 8 < jhes. The following table of dii WM. FIFE, JR., THE DESIGNEE. APT. WRINOE. CArT. HOOAB1 ie Shamrock's designer and her skippers.) ms of the two yachts is taken i } London Daily News. Columbia. Shnmi Ft. In. Ft. ngth over all.... 131 4 132 iter-line length. 89 10 89 am 24 24 aught . 20 20 hsplacement ? Columbia, \ irurock, 147 tons. Sail area?Coiun 910 square feet, Shamrock, 14,125 sq t. The Columbia, which is the t p defender designed by Naths een Herreshoff, is owned jointl; mmodore J. Pierpont Morgan Oliver Is'iliu. both of the ] rk Yacht Club. Roughly speak 3 will cost to build aud ran al 25,000 for the season, of which srreshoffs will receive about 81 0, which includes the hall, rigg Is and extr3 spars. The Columbia in C. Oliver Is s a capable amateur manager, nous racing Sag, the black and atiow-taii, nas Deen cameu lphantly to victory on the Titc gilant and Defender. No patr uerican doubts he "will be succef is year. He has in Mrs. Iselin launch of THE ^ >H*r\aocK, photographers getting a picture o acht.) ast charming mascot in the vrc is aids are Woodbury Kane, Her Lee?Is$ and Newberry D^Tho . excellent yachtsmen. ? His empper, unaries x>arr, is or e smartest in tlie world. He otchinan, but has long been na zed. He is the only man of for *th who will sail on Columbia, thirty-five years old, and was 1 Gourock on the Clyde. In C ite Allen, Captain Barr has a t ghly able and experienced off The crew of Columbia hail f ;er Isle, Me., and a better lo imen never broke a biscuit. Tl 3 thirty-nine all told, and tei em sailed on Defender. Man; em have been captains and mate astiug vessels. They are a li ile lot, and handle the Colambi; rfection, s'DER, COLUMBIA T N ^ i i *y \ its /T FIRST th. o\ ofFitePs *ftl / IPRWK A-AUEN In VY\ 7 si H V/ * \V'^;aptainI\ i" BARR _ tb' _ ' *** [?> tal ~~ Qc < line The Shamrock's skippers, Hogarth sal was and Wringe, are men just a little ovei P* rhen thirty years of age, and yet both nave j >r 9 been sailing in class matohes for sev- Tt nen- eral years. Hogarth has had charge : Ot of most of Fairlie's successful boats, j Gc | and AVringe made another Doat oi . fj" Ailsa when he took her over from Jay. ! Hi The designer has, therefore, complete j sp: confidence in them. The crew con- | 3 . sists of no fewer than fifty men, thirty ; p|< ^ Scotchmen and the rest Englishmen? j CL four officers, boatswain, two boats- ] tr( wain's mates, carpenter, carpenter's fi mate, sailmaker, nine leading seamen, thi twenty-seven able seamen, two stew- flo ards and two cooks. In addition, we Tom Ratsey and six sailmakers will \ look after the canvas. Of the ship's | th . ?, aa , by N ^ cr THE HTJLL OF THE COLOMBIA. "t ie^,u company, only ten have not sailed in n< America's Cup contests before. red ^he contest8 between two such t*1' yachts as Columbia and Shamrock, j manned by such men, cannot fail to Jo iotic be 0f magnificert interest. jf. isful Ul ai Simplicity of Tagal 'Women. The natives of the Philippine N Islands?that is the pure bred natives or aborigines?are called Tagals. Thej are of the Malay race and are about at> wild and unsophisticated as any of the j savage peoples of the world. They ara not an ill-favored race, and I some of the women are very pretty. The illustration is made from a photo- w[ graph of a native Tagal peasant girl, of Her family evidently has had the bene- llD fit of contact with civilization, as hei ? b dress indicates. Some of the Tagal ca ^ wvtvtAn atoK/M-otalr 1\n t. in* f.ll ? I n r , IT V/UIOU U1COO OiOUVIWVWJJ j w-w ? - ?\ 4 country places, it is said, they are - go = v__-i i? i here / y*Vw to! a of /2r xT ?w p of tagal peasant girl. ja0' is of ir ?????^?? qq the, wholly unconsciorti of the feeling ol los a to modesty as appli-.d. to dress so com* jj? i mon with the womea of Eorop?, I 0j V V V HE SABBATH SCHOOL I i rCCr\M rnMMCMTe T i CrirMM iivji>iml_ lujju11 uwi1iiiii.i1 w FOR AUCUST 20. bject: The River of Salvation, Ezek. ^ zItII.i 1-12?Golden Text: "Whoeoevet Will, Let Him Take tlio Water of Life Freely," Rev. xxli., 17?Commentary. rNTBODCCTiou.?We have here descrlbod tlio prophet the holy waters, their rise, j tont, aqptn ana ueaiiaK virtue, xuia | rer, In the place and character of its . Igln, in the gradual increase of it, and A >o in the healing, vitalizing properties of ? waters, may bo regarded as a type of 9 gradual development of the plan of [ration; and they may be regarded as n ure of the rise and-progress of religion the soul. They suggest a picture of our I arlous Christianity in its origin, diffusion d general results. I. "He brought me again unto the door A the houso." Ezeklel, after having made a whole compass of the co^rt of tho peos is brought back by the north gate into e courts of the priests; and having A ached the gate of the temple he saw iters which had their spring under the reshold of that gato that looked toward a east. "The waters came down from >i der from the right side of the house." J ley did not therefore come to tho temple, if intended for the purposes of washin? q a sacrifices, carrying off the filth and eplng every part clean and wholosome; t they issued from It, and proceeded to fresh and fertilize other places. The rr ophecy of Zechariah (chapter 14:8), that ing waters should go forth from Jerusav* hnlP rtf fh<xrr? fntrnrd thrt fnrmfir QfiA. d half toward the hlndor sea; and St. hn's vision (Rev, 22:1), of a pure river 'J water of life proceeding out of the rone of God and the Lamb, explain this '! rt of Ezekiel's vision and direct us in ? application of it. It is to be under>od of the Gospel of Christ which went 1 ;th from Jerusalem and spread itself intbe countries around; and of the gifts d graces of tbe Holy Spirit which acrapanied it, and by virtue of which it j Tused its influence far and wide and proced the most blessed effects. At Jerusan Jt was that the Spirit was poured out r on the apostles, that they might carry ese waters to all nations. ^ 1-5. "The man that had the line." The gel described in chapter 40:8. "Were to s ankles ...knees loins a river that lould not pass over." This may be ap[ed to the gradual discoveries of the plan " pnlvation. 1. In the patriarchal ages. In the giving of the Jaw. 3. In the nistry of John the Baptist. 4. In the (1 manifestation of Christ by tbe Holy >ost. Or this vision may be applied to J 3 growth of a believer in the grace and owledge of God; or to the discoveries a nltent believer receives of the mercy of >d in his salvation; and also a type of e progress of Christianity. 1. "Very many trees." So long as tbe bolder, the prophet, followed the f? " 1 t< iasurer, iae Hagm, uo aun uuiuiu^ ui iud 69 on the bank. The looking forward J ve Ezeklel the knowledge of the progres e fulness and depth of the waters; not 0 til ho looks back does he come to know ' a fertilizing, enlivening effect of these a iters. 1J i. "These waters Issue out." Had the 1 ophet desired to follow the waters ? rther, his desire would have been met by * 8 saying "these waters go out." They J1 Ice their departure thence, so their 'J ogress is directed out "toward" and ^ o" the Dead Sea. "The waters shall be J aled." Typical of the gracious work of 11 >d's Spirit. c ). "Everything shall live." Life and ? Ivation shall continually accompany the t( eaohlng of the Gospel; the death of sin 9 ing removed, the ltfep ot righteousness ? all be brought in. 'Multitude of fish." J te Dead Sea has become a sea of life. ? it of death there arises, by tho grace of " >d, a rich llfo. The seals a symbol of w 9 world; accordingly men appear ns the * Ing creatures In the sea, as tho fishes. 9 thorto they were only dead Ashes, un- { Irltual, unsaved men. j? 10. "Fishers shall stand upon It." lies- * agers of this salvation, who are em- ^ )yed all o?er tho world to gain sinners to irlst. "En-gedl." At the southern ex- v :mlty of the Dead Soa. "En-eglalm." | ? the northern extremity of the Dead | a. "As the flih of the great sea." In 1 a days of salvation a river of life shall a w from north to south and from east to ist. No longer shall there be only small c d quickly-dying fishes moving here and 1' ero before the mouths of the fountains; u e whole Intervening water, dot waste u d dead, shall then become alive and arm with tho fishes of the great sen. I 11. "Miry places marshe3." Those | it reached by the healing waters of tho tspel through their sloth and earthly- h Indedness are given over to their own ! , tterness and barrenness. Tho Go?pel j t the only heallnpr medicine for the j sorders of our fallen nature, and J ey who will not receive it in I t e love of It romaln incurable and are i J, andoned to final ruin. The salt comes to consideration here, not as seasoning, , ten, but as the foe of fertility, life and ' osporlty. The thought is this: Only P oso who bar themselves against the gra- ' ous stream of divine lovo and are un- n Ming to regain health are henceforth to 8 i given over to the curse, continuing to . ;lst as monuments thereof. Around the D a of death there llDgers on a death unto J? -*k b IUIU. ( 12. "Trees for meat." Salvation must j u esent itself for the terribly sick heathen | a orld, above nil, in the form ot saving \ ? uce. Beside the nourishing fruits, there- i * re, are named also the healing leaves, j 3 be figure of tho fishes refers to the extent, i 0 le greatness of the community; this fig- I :e of the trees to its nature, in so far as | Jte ilivine grace transforms it into truly i J ring members, who themselves bear rich , h uit and thereby bocome n means of life 1( id recovery to others also. "Fruit ac- * rding to his months." This stgnMes a ngtant dl$po3itIon, desire, resolution and " ideavor to bear fruit, not in their owe isdom, power or goodness, or any good5ss in themselves, bat by the contlnua! ipplles of divine grace. Whoever may ! j. i the instrument of planting them, it i? j vine grace which gives the increase. I J Teachings.?It is profitable to consldei ! j ? what extent the Gospel has spread. II profitable to consider what has beet t( 5ne through the Gospel. We may bf tj nong tho trees that ,',row near the rivet ! salvation. We r.ay bo fishers of men 'e may make our dves a blessing to others one who refuse salvation may h??? ^ is from sin. a RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH. " c i Exposition For Showing Them to Ba ? Given in New York City. ft The Southern Exposition will be held in e a Grand Central Palace, New York City, c >m October 31 to November 25. Its aim c II be to display the commercial resources o the States beyond Masou and Dixon'j s e, and to show what use has been made a them. It is believed that the ex- c sition will be a vast benefit in attracting ii pital to the Southern Stares. The a esent Is the most auap.clous time for a p Ird of a centuty for the display of Southa products in the North. A now era of od feeling is abroad, and a warm recep- r - wlai^ra la ftQQnrAfL >11 IU1 OUUIUOIM ?I0??V?W rhe mineral wealth of the South will be 1 Itably illustrated. The exposition will ve the following departments: Flue arts, t 3tory, et-*.; commerce and manufactures; ricultural, horticulture ai.d farm impln- t )uts; machinery, geology, minerals and Inlng; forestry and forest products; Oman's department, education and negro * partment. The Advisory Committee Includes such 1 ominont men as General Joseph Wheeler, ivernor A'.lon D. Chandler, of Georgia: a jvernor M. B. McSweenev, of South irollna; Governor William 0. Bradioy, oi >ntucky; Mayor R. H. Dudley, of Nashlie; Mayor Watkins. of Cnattanooga; . ayor J. G. Woodward, of (Atlanta ; C. P 1 untlngton, ex-Mayor Frauklin Edson, 11 :-Justlca Roger A. Pryor, Captain Hugh Garden, Congressman E. E. Settle, ol c s,-itueky; Governor Danlal L. Russell, o t >r?h Curolfna; trans minora auu uieu mint-Governor William L. Cabell, ol sxas. A Sweetheart of Lincoln Dead. Sirs. Mary Love Lawless died at Lexinga, Ky., aged eighty-two. She was a estheart of Abraham Lincoln, andrelgn< belle of her day. Her maiden iiamo was plin, and her home was at Mount Vevn, Ky. fler husband is Jumes R. Lawis, a Mexican War veteran, who survives r. Hhe leaves a daugher, Mrs. L. Sco^t, dow of the late Lieutenant John Scott, tUe United States Army. . - i TEMPERANCE COLUMN. HE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST I IN MANY WAYS. L Modern In*tanc??An Army Offlcei Who Believe* the Liquor Traffic is a Great Carte to Oar Soldiers?It Id tin Enemy of Discipline. Who said Jim's dead? pruess there's some mistake. It don't seem more 'n six months ago, in' 'taint above a year, I knfltf, That I bid him good-bye, au' said to him L?t's take a drink fer friendship, Jim, Jest one 'er the old time's sake." Jim shook his head, 'n' said re had never teched a drop; That he'd promised his mother he wouldn't drink, l,h' he 'lowed she'd cry, 'n' what 'ud sb? think If she knowed he had broke his word, had Jim, in' she alovin' 'n' trustin' him, An' Jim her support an' prop. Bat I laded 'a'chaffed, S' called him some names, ye see. 'N' 'lowed that such 'fraldies wa'nt worth 110 price, 'hat he wouldn't be likely to cut much Ice, If he hadn't more man Inside of his clothes 'han to want ter refuse a partin' dose With an old time friend like me. 'N' Jim prave in, did Jim, ' S' drunk quick, 'n' held his breath, < I said, "Here's luck to ye, old fel'," S' Jim said, "Better say luck to ." > Well. < I never had heard Jim swear afore; I "hen he went like shot outside the door < With a face white 'n' scared as death. j Who said Jim's dead? flruess there's some mistake. nmnL-9 TTIIIail a. wnmnn flPflMin' the track? [is mother? P.'in his engine smack Into an open switch, 'a' then fas killed himself 'n' the fireman? Mighty quick work things make. Sorry fer Jim, ferhlm me was sorter chums one time. I 'low that Jim got swamped on drink S* yet he wa'nt the feller you'd think That 'ud go to extremes?but one can't tell. ust a year ago. I remember well, Jim thought drink was bad as a crime! ?S. B. McManus, In Ram's Horn. A Touching Incident. I have read of a town meeting in Pennsylvania where the question of license was a be decided, writes a correspondent of be Herald and Presbyter. As the queslon was about to be put there arose from ne corner of the room a miserable female, rrinkled and gaunt, and stretching out er arms in a shrill voice she cried: "Look pon me. You all know me, or once did. ou all know that I was once the mistress ' f the best farm In the township. You all 1 now too, I had one of the best?the most < evoted of husbands. You all know how I 1 ad five noble-hearted, industrious boys. 1 fhere are they now? Doctor, where are < bev now? You all know. You all know ' liey lie In a row side by side, In yonder 1 hurcbyard; all?every one of them Ailing 1 drunkard's grave! They were all taught j 3 believe that temperate drinking was afe?excess alone ought to be avoided; ' dtbey never acknowledged excess. But ' saw the gradual change coming over my imlly and prospects with dismay and orror; I felt we wer?i all to be overrbelmed in one common ruin. I tried to rard off the blow. I tried to break the pell?the delusive spell?in which the lea of the benefits of temperate drinking ad involved husband and sons. I beegej, prayed; but the odds were against me." .nd, with her arms flung high, and her all form stretched to its utmost, and her olce raised to an unearthly pitch sho exlalmed: "I shall soon stand before the idgment seat of God?I shall meet you here, you false guides, and be a witness gainst you all!" She spoke and vanished. But when the hairman put the question, "Shall any cense be granted for the sale of spirit- ' ous liquors?" the response was unani* j iOU3?"JNO!" Total Abstinence In Hot Weather. Avoid alcoholic drinks If you want to Inure yourself In these torrid days against eat prostration. Whisky is first a stlmuint and than a depressant. It overworks he heart tor a time, and then there is inguordueto lack of material on which o labor. Vitality is lost and probably at he critical time. Under the influence of Iquor the mind Is deceived as to the real ondition of things. Temporarily stimuited by Its action, a man is liable to exose himself more than he ordinarily rould, or to exert himself more than Is eedful. Heat prostration or direct suntroke is the result. A curious phase of the whisky drinking ablt is that its victims imagin or try to t lake themselves believe that liquor may , e used in all emergencies. In winter they j se It to protect them against the cold, j nd in summer its refrigerating qualities i re extolled. But those who put any , houRht into the matter may see for them- ( elves the absurdity of such conflicting , laims. ( As a matter of fact, neither in summor ( or wiDter is alcoholic drink necessary. ( 'hose who abstain fr ;m its use,utter.y, are , appier and healthier than the people who t 50k upon It as a panacea for ail ills, and , rho use or abuse 1: accordingly. Try letIng it severely alene and notice the bene ciui resuns. Crimea Traced to Drink. f ? Liquor selling amons; the Indians has c een pretty well suppressed. For sixty l ears the Government has attempted to t nforce prohibition among its wards in In- , ian Territory. Congress made it a penal j flense to carry whisky or auy other in- ( >xicating liquor into an Indian reserva- , [on, and a similar penalty was imposed ' J pon its sale to Indians anywhere. To en- I , Dree this law the courts have been in- ( reased and huudreds of deputy marshals i ' ? >---> I- | ' ave oeen empioyeu uuiu m luu D<i aloDg the border. Years ago, when the Indians were practlally ulone upon their reservation, it was J 'difficult task to control their thirst for ! re water, but when 350,000 white men were dded to the population the problem be- ' arae almost Impossible of solution. If be an be kept sober the Indian makes a good itizen down there, but when be gets n few | uncesof Are water into his veins all bis avaee Instiocts and passions are aroused f nd he becomes a demon. Ninety-five per ' ent. of the crimes of all kinds committed a Indian Territory can be traced to drink, nd nearly all the business of the courts Is , rovlded by the whisky peddlers. The Cruaade in Brief. ' The saloon is an incubus upon all indus- i ry. | The saloon is a legalized drunkard fac- i ory. ' Don't try to quarantine the salooo, but lelp to kill it. By their fruits ye shall know them?ap- ' ily this to the saioon. In the keen competition or me mea caa- i . lot afford to iudulge in liquor. If the saloon is wrong, .13 all admit, can ( ,ny amount of money make it right? License is not iutended to stop the li[uor traffic, but to perpetuate it by law. The old false and foolish notion that ' ager beer is a comparatively harmless Irink has been effectually exploded. The Chicago Tribune, having kept a recird of crime for ten years, declares that he saloon busiaes of the United States is j lirectlv chargeable with a total of 53,4')8 nurders during that time. The Modern Woodmen, an insurance and : odge oiganlzatiou, with :)50,000 members, j las recently refused to chauge its law so 1 is to ailmlt liquor dealers to membership, j n spite of great pressure from the liquor ilement. All the Methodist churches of New Zeaaud have excluded fermented wine from he communion service, but the Primitive Jethodists have gone farther and have ' nade total abstinence a condition of church < nembershlp. f - ?-vtv; GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN." PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Hie Voice of tlie Departed ? The lrac* Shown the Mind?May Keep in Toucb With the Father?A l'rayer for Dead and Living?No Excuse for Laziness It singeth low in every heart, We Dear it each and all? The voice of those who answer not, However we may call. Thoy throng the silence of the breast, We see them us of yore. The kind, the brave, the true, the sweet, Who walk with us no more. 'Tis hard to take the burden up Since they have laid it down, They brightened all the joys of life, They softened every frown. But, oh! 'tis good to think of them When we are troubled sore, Thanks be to God that such have been Although they are no more. More homelike seems that vast unknown, bince they have entered there. 'Twere not ao hard to follow them, Wherever they may fare, It cannot be where God Is not, On any sea or shore, What e'er betides, thy love abides, Our God for ever more. ?John W. Chadwick. Tito Fato Shows Uie Mind. Beholding the husbandman, with hia sickle and the ripe grain, we see the signs the harvest-field. Beholding the mason, with, tbe white dust upon his hands, we recognise the quarry and chisel. The scent 3f violets clinging to his garments tell us the friend has lingered long in the flower garlen. Thus the outer afmosphere betrays the man's inner lift, for it travels witfi man just as light travel! with itj candle, as pertumo travels with the orange bough. Standing at the corner of a Atroot, Spurzheim used to try to road oaeli life history written upon the facial pa7"bmer.t. Upon one face he saw groat furrow* plowed by care and anxiety; ho ta-v tho lines of fear and remorse, tbe lines of hope and peace; be saw some faces illuminated with joy, as if a lamp were burning behind the facial tissue, for, it is said, there is no thought that is good in the mind but soon looks ?ood in the facp. Heart qr .ties are artists that work, indeed, behind tnd screen, yet at last they strike through the canvas and become manifest in the facial illumination, Contrariwise, men there are so long inured to vice and crima that sinful thoughts within have so disposed of the facial tissue without as that the countenance has in it some :ointf 01 me won,ana soraetnmg 01 coe imp, md something of the crawling serpent, and :ho man himself seems only a bundle ol noral obliquity, wrapped up in nerve and :lssue Character cannot he hid. Moses' tace must shine even as Christ's faoe, in a regnant mood, was transfigured before His wondering disciples.?Newell Dwight Hlllls, [). D. May Keep in Tonch With the Father. The cares of dally life, the temptations which beset even the best of us, the viilssltudes of every one's experience, the bewilderments and anxieties which harass even :he most carefully sheltered life, ail cooperate to interfere between our Heavenly Father and ourselves. They take off ,oar attention from Him and seem to focus it on worldly interests. Sometimes they even ;emptus to believe that communion with Him s but a dream. Yet, if once we have known t, nothing ever can wholly blot out the conviction of its genuineness and power. The richest blessings of life are due to it. We may lot attain the success for which men comnonly strive. Wealth may not come to us, :ulture may not be attained, honors may jass us by. We may not even be able to 'eel ourselves conspicuously useful In out )wn spheres. Positive disappointments and listresses may harass us, grave disasters nay crush for the time. Yet, whatever happens. the soul that has once known true :ommunion with Ood is able in and through c, and in spite of every hindrance, whether >f prosperity or adversity, to keep in touch, f it will, with its Father. A Prayer for Dead and Living. A'l our years are thine, 0 God. and thou lqst brought us safely on 6ur way of pilgrimage and spared us when others havo lallen at our side. We thank thee for tin nemory of true and honorable lives and foi he hope of meeting those who have gone )efore us to the place of rest. If thou sh< ippointtbat we mustsoon follow,prepare our learts to part from eartb, content that we nay dwell with thee. If thou hast given us nauy years upon the earth, help us to grow )ld with faitbful and obedient hearts till I II o kUU. iLIUu suaib can us ku a ui^uoi n wia ?uu nofo delightful rest. So may we serve thee md our generation and pass in peace from rieads on earth to the great company of he redeemed. And may all the years of sarth be thine, and all the hopes of heaven ire ours through Christ our Strength. Lmen. No Excnie for Lazlnem. It would not be wandering far from the ruth to say that God has little if any more patience with laziness than with sin. Either 3 thoroughly destructive to all real manlood and to all worthy effort. No fcuman jeing in a normal condition of body and nind has any ri^ht to be lazy. There is no )xcu3e for it. There can be no excuse lor t. Indisposition to exert oneseif,inioience, :onstitutional weariness, laziness, or whatjver may be the name by which the thing is jailed, is the source of all the vain excuses hat are so frequently made for the failure :o accomplish satisfactory and commendable esults. When the Cloud* Lift. XO0 IOW I00I-H1WS tSill ill ill. iuo utuo ui lome Alpine country may look high when leen from the plain, as long as the snowy lummits are wrapped in mist; but when a ittle puff of wind comes and clears away he fog from the lofty peakh.nobody looks at ;he little green mils in front. So the world's jinderances, and the world's difficulties and :ares, look very lofty till the clouds lift. Vnd when wo see the great white summits, jverything lower does not seem so very high ifter all. Look to Jesus, and that will Iwarf all difficulties.?Alexander ilaclaren D. D. An emptied heart is a wonderful interpreter of others' griefs. The power to be a irue helper of others, a binder-qp of broken learts. a comforter of sorrow, is the most livtae of all enduements: surely, then, it is ivorth while to pay any price of pain or suf'erlng to receive the divine annointinpr to tuch sacred ministry. It was in suffering hat Jesus was prepared to be in the fullest sense and in the deepest measure our sympathizing frieud.?J. R. Miller, D. D. ,Joy and sacrifice have been thought injo'mpatible. To make a sacrifice was to ?ntr TV> hfl rRllffious wa9 to nar U&OVTCt** I w;. O--. ? row life, and to cut off a part of its income. The true thought id tha very reverse. It a to conceive of the joy as from God; it is ;o enter into a higher and larger meaning of oy; It is to hold the joy as one holds any laored trust,?Rev. C. F. Dole. A sun-dial in Spain ha9 this appropriate notto engraved upon It: 'I mark only the jrlght hours." Let this be our motto. In ife lot us forget the dark days and rememjcr only the bright ones. Lut us forget the svils others have done us, and remember >nly deeds of kindness.?Anon. When God says Yes. be does it witbnut irudginR. Year'* Counterfeiting Record. The report of the Secret Service submit. nui.i ali.lrra I6U Iyy UUifll IT lilllO, Uk Iiasuiuft?wi?, u^viiw bat during the year ended Juno 30, there vere arrested for making or passing counorfeit money ami kindred crimes 679 perions. Of these 218 were convicted uud 293 ire awaiting action of the courts. New KorU State led wltli ninety-eight cases; Pennsylvania had seventy-seven. Precious Stones Foani Last Year. According to George P. Sunz, special igent of the United States Geological Surrey, the value of all the precloua stones ound In the United States ia 1S9S was J160,920, as compared with $136,675 in 1897. "t r : ? CUBAN PAPER UNDER BAN General Ludlow Orders the Suspension of El Keconcentrada, Order Says Publication is a Disgrace U the City and Opposed to Morality?Office is Closed. Havasa (By Cable).?Seldom since tb? American occupation of Cuba has the Mill. tary Government been obliged to interfere in civil affairs but the course of El Reconcentrado bavins made the exercise of for bearance no longer possible, an emphatic order has been issued by General Ludlow for the suppression of the paper. The order has met with the hearty approval of ? all except that element of the population which made use of El Reconcentrado to further its views. General Ludlow regrets the necessity fot a stop which may seem to those not ao< quaintea wun tae circumstances to do as interference with the rights of tbe press, but be felt that his duty called upon him to take action in the matter, and, consequently, he issued the following order: "Whereas, The publication known as El Reconcentrado Is an obscene sheet, dailf , uttering by assertion and innuendo, vile personalities against not only the established authorities of the city, but the best people of Havana; and "whecgas, The continuance ofsuoh publication is a disgrace to the city and to the Cuban people and is opposed alike to public and private interests and to morality; therefore, "It is orderel, That the publication be suppressed, that its directors and writers be arrested and that its issue be no longer permitted. The police authorities will take possession of the promises an\l adopt such means as are neeami to prevent ine pupiication o( the paper la question. Tblt order will be construed as applying not only to El Reconcentrado, but to any publication attempting to issue slanders and obscenities regarding public and private persons within the jurisdiction of the Department of Havana. In case sucb paper should appear, the facts will be immediately reported through the Mayor." Senor Cervantes and others connected with the paper were arrested after having fled upon first hearing of the action o! General Ludlow. The Military Governor's action is said to have been forced upon him because there is no civil law to prevent the circulation ot obscene literature. Merchants and public offloials express themselves as pleased with the action of the Military Governor. HE FIRED THE FIRST SHOT. The Soldier Who Began the War In the Philippines Tells Abont It. n... u /cs I? 1 \ TV 1111 mm * ft DAK XAAnuiouu y.? Ti uiiau utaj son, of Company D, of the Nebraska BegL ment, is the man who fired the shot which started the war with the Filipinos. It brought death to a FlHpfno lieutenant and was fired at Santa Mesa, a suburb ot Manila. Private Grayson told his story after lauding from the transport Hancoclc. Said Jj PBIVATE WILLIAM OBATSOX. (He killed the first Filipino who fell lntha present war.) "My companion on the outpost on tbe eventful night was Orvllle Miller. Miller and I were half sitting, half kneeling at tbe end of a lane, when we beard the soft whistle of a Filipino. It was answered by several, and we knew ml3chlef was brew- / Ing. Suddenly, close by us, rose a Filipino as if he had come out of the ground. I challenged him and he challenged my obai ienge. $ "Tbat meant fight. I beard the oliok of, rifles, and without a moment's hesitation I. let fly. Mr Filipino tumbled over, and! Miller and I took to our heels up the lane. "We retreated until we reached the water. pipe line. Then the entire outpost, thirtyin all, came up, and we all peppered away, at the enemy. The action spread, and in' fifteen minutes the engagement was general from Caloocap tp the bay. Everybody seemed to be satisfied with the first shot,; and there never was any investigation. about It." FROM ENGINEER TO REAR-ADMIRAL Tamea Entwlitle lietlred With the Second. Highest Itank In the Nary. Washinotox, D. C. (Special).? From. engineer to Rear-Admiral is the advancement won by James Entwlstie, one of the heroes of the battle of Manila Bay. Entwlstle was in the navy during the Civlli War and has served Unole Sam on the seas' ever since. When war was declared with' Spain he had risen to be fleet engineer with Admital Dewey's squadron. He was on the Olvmpia, at the Admiral's side, during the battle, and his promptitude was auch tbat he was complimented afterward bvDewev. He received a commission as Captain soon after the great battle in Manila Cay. Captain Entwistle was near the age limit, and was sent to bis bome, in Paterson, N. J., with the expectation of being retired. A few flays ago be received a letter from Acting Secretary Allen, of the Navy Department, informing him of hie retirement under tbe provisions of the Personnel bill. Tbe letter also informed Captain Entwistle that he would hereafter have the rank and three-quarters of the sea pay of a Rear-Admiral. He has juat receired a fine medal of the sort ordered by Congress for all the heroes of Manila. An Aator Become a Briton. The Official Gazette, London, announces that Mr. William Waldorf Astor was naturalized a British subjecc on July 11 of tho present year. Having been naturalized ironorii nnt nf 1870. Mr. Aster's 'hildren?Waldort Astor, John Jacob Astor and Miss Pauline Astor?become British labject?. It co3t hlai $S0 to become a British subject. Shamrock Sail* For America. The Shamrock, the last hope ot British yachtsmen, as she Is described in London, has sailed on her mission to recapture tbe America's Cup. One of the conditions laid? down by the present holders of the trophjr Is that the challenger must do the voyag* across the Atlantic under her own sail. Acting Chief Justice of Samoa. Unltod States Consul Osborne, at Apia, will act a3 the Chief Justice of Samoa until Hm Trpnttf PflWApil select a successor to Chief justice Chambers, who resigaed that post. The Labor World. Day laborers in the rubber forest of Brazil receive $2 to $2.50 for twelve hours' work. Memphis, Tenn., enjoys tho distinction of being the best organized city in the South. Truckmen, pavers and curb setters and foundry helpers have organized at Syracuse, N. Y. Labor unions all over the country have committees at work making arrangements to celebrate Labor Day this year in a befitting manner. The old National Leaiue of Mushianj now only exists until it can be legal!) amalgamated with the fast increasing anil progressive American Federation of Musicians. A