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mp": 1 DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE Br THE NOTED DIVINE Subject: Advice For the Vacation?Take the Itlble Alone?Pleasure Seekers Admonished Not to Leave Keligion Behind?Tetu ptat Ion t at Waterini; Places. [Copyright, Louis Elopaeb, 1890.] WASHixoToy, D. C.? At this season of the year, when all who can get a vacation are taking it, this discourse of Dr. Talmace Is suggestive and appropriate. The ten is John v.. 2, 3: "A pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, hav.ng Ave porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water." Outside the city of Jerusalem tnere was a sauatlve watering place, the popular re sort for invalids. To this day there is.a dry basin of rock which shows that there may have been a pool there 360 feet long, 130 feet wide and seventy-flve feet deep. This pool was surrounded* oy flvo piazzas, or porches, or bathing houses, where the patients tarried until the time when they were to stop into the water. So far as refnvlgoration was concerned it must have been a Saratoga and a Long Branch on a small scale; a Leamington and a Brighton combined?medical and therapeutic. Tradition says that at a certain season of the year there was an officer of the government who would go down to that water and pour In it some healing quality, and after that the people worfld come and get the medication, but I prefer the plain statement of Scripture that at a cortain season an angel came down and stirred up or , troubled the water, and then the people came and got the healing. That augel of j God that stirred up the Judaean watering place had bis counterpart in the angel of i healing who in our day steps iuto the mineral waters of Congress, or SLaron, or Sulphur Springs, or into the salt sea at Cape May and Nahanr, where multitudes who .< are worn out with commercial and profes- i , clonal anxieties, as well as those who are < afflicted with rheumatic, neuralgic and i splenetic disejises, go and are cured by the i thousands. Tliese blessed Bethesdas are i scattered all up and down our country. i We are at a season of the year when rail j trains are laden with passengers and bag- j ? ? Kn mftnnfolna onH fha 1 glLtfV Uil L LI CI I YVUJ IV uivuuvuiug uuv. bUV , lakes and the seashore. Multitudes of our citizens are away for a restorative absence. The city heats are pursuing the people with torch and fear of sunstroke. The long, silent balls of sumptuous hotels are all abuzz with excited arrivals. The antlers of Adirondack deer rattle under the shot of city sportsmen. The tront make fatal snap at the hook of adroit sport ?meu, who toss their spotted brilliance iato the game basket. The baton of the orchestral leader taps the music stand on the hotel green, and American life has put on festal array, and the rumbling of th3 ten-pin alley, and the crack of the ivory balls "on the green baized billiard tables, and the jolting of the barroom goblets, and the explosive uncorking of the champagne bottles, and the whirl and the rustle of the ballroom dance, and the clattering hoofs of the race courso and other signs of social dissipation attest that the season for the great American watering place is in lull play. Music! Flute and drum and cortaeta-piston and slapping cymbals wake the echoes of the mountains. Glad am I that fagged out Amerlcau life for the most part has an opportunity to rest ami that nerves racked and destroyed will find a Bethesda. I believe la wateriug places, iney t recupernte for active service many who i were worn out witli trouble or overwork, i They are national restoratives. Let not j the commercial firm begrudge the clerk, j or the employer the journeyman, or the 1 patient the physician, or the church its t pastor, a season of inoccupation. Luther ^ used to sport with his children; Edmund i Burke used to caress his favorite horse; 3 Thomas Chalmers, in the dark hour of the t church's disruption, played kit* for recreation?so I was told by Lis own daugh- c ter?and the busy Christ said to the busy c apostles, "Come ye apart awhile into the ? desert and rest yourselves." Aud I have ] observed that they who do not know how to a rest do not know how to work. Bat I have 1 to declare this truth to-day that some of < our fashionable watering places are the 1 temporal and eternal destruction of "a | multitude that no man can number," and < amid the congratulations of this season ] and the prospect of the departure of many 1 of you for the country I must utter a warn- 1 ins, plain, earnest and unmistakable. 1 The first temptation that is apt to hover 1 In this direction Is to leave your piety at home. You will send the doj? and cat and 1 canary bird to be well cared for somewhere < else; bat the temptation will be to leave < your religion in the room with the bliuds | down and the door bolted, and then you will come buck in the autumri to (lad that i it is starved and suffocated, lying stretched | on the rug stark dead. There Is no sur- < plu9 of piety at the watering places. I j ner~r know any one to grow very rapidly < In grace at the Catsklll Mountain House, ( or Sharon 8p'rings, or the Falls of Mont- t moreucy. It is generally the case that the * Sabbath Is more of a carousal than any < other day, and there are Sunday walks and < Sunday rides and Sunday excursions, i Elders and deacons and ministers of reliK- j ion who are entirely consistent at home, | sometimes when the Sabbath dawas on f them at Niagara Falls or the White Mouu- < tains, take a day to themselves. If they go to tbe church, it is apt to be a sacred parade, and the discourse, instead of being a plain talk about the soul, is apt to be what is called a crack sermon?that Is, i some discourse picked out of the effusions i of the year as the one most adapted to ex- j cite admiration, and in those churches, t from tbe way the ladies hold tbeir tans, j you know that they are not so much im- ' pressed with the heat as with the pic- | *? ? i-oortimnoQa r\9 onlf /^iar?lnuo<l fnnhirou 1 Four puny souls stand in the organ loft and squall a tune tbnt nobody knows, and ( worshipers with $2000 worth of diamonds i on the right hand drop'a cent into the i poor box, and then the benediction is pro- i nounced, and the farce is ended. The | toughest thing I ever tried to do was to be j good at a watering place. The air is be- | witched with the "world, the llesh and the i devil.'^There are Christians who in three ; or four weeks in such a place have had i such terrible rents made in their Chris- ( tian robe that they bad to keep darning it i uutil Christmas to get It mended. ( The health of a great many people , makes an annual visit to some mineral spring an absolute necessity, but take your i Bible along with you and take an hour for i secret prayer every day, though you be surrounded by guffaw and saturnalia. Keep holy the Sabbath, thoush they deride 1 ?rrvn no a hir?n??il T'nrltiin^ Stnnil r.ff from gambling beiis and those other institutions which propose to imitate oa this sale the water the iniquities of Baden Baden. Let your moral and your immortal health keep pace with your physical recuperation and remember that all the sulphur aud chalybeate springs cannot do you so much good as the healing, perennial Hood that breaks forth from the "Rock of Age*." This may be your last summer. If so, make it a fit vestibule of heaven. Another temptation hovering irounJ nearly all our watering places Is the horse racing Dus'.ness. Wo all admire the horse, but we do not think that its beauty or speed ought to be cultured at the exp-nse of human degradation. The horse race is not of such importance as the human race. The Bible intimates that a man is better tbau a sheep, and I suppose he is better than a horse, though, like Job's stallion, his neck be clothed with thunder. Horse races in olden times were imder tlie ban of Christian people, and in our day the same institution has come up under fictitious names. And it is called a "summer meeting," almost suggestive of positive religious exercis-.'s. And it is called an ' agricultural fair,"'suggestive of cverjthing that is Improving in the art of farming. But uuder these deceptive titles are the same chcatinu, and the same betting, and the i same drunkenness, aud the same vagabondage, ana the samo abomination that | were to be found under the old horse rac- | in-? svstem. Long ago the English fovernmcnt qot I through looking to the turf for the dragoon | itud the light cavalry horse. They found : out that tlieturf depreciates the Steele, and It is wor?e yet for men. Thomas Hughes, the metr.her of parliament and thy author Known all the world over, hearing that a new turf enterprise was being started in this country, wrote a letter In which he eaid, "Heaven help you. then, for of all tho cankers of our old civilization there is nothing in this country auproaehing in unblushing meanness, in rascality hoMing its head high, to this belaudod Institution of fev. . v _ . - . xS&e&ti ..." r-.< ' ^ ~ r- ; , V . the British turf." Another famous-sports, man writes, "How many fine domains hav? been shared among these hosts of rapa cious sharks during the last 200 years, and, I unless the system be altered, how man} more are doomed to fall into the same gulf?" With the bullfights of Spain and the bear baitings of the Dit may the Lord God annihilate the Infamous and accursed horse racing of England and America! Another temptation hovering around the watering place Is the formation of hasty and lifelong alliances. The watering places are responsible for more of the domestic infelicities of this country than nearly all otber things combined. Society Is so artificial there that no sure judgment of cbnracter can be formed. They who form companionships amid such circum- j stancps go Into a lottery where there are twenty blanks to one prize. In tbe severe j tug of life you want more than glitterand splash. Life is not a ballroom, where the music UOUIUOS HUU Ui;w UliU ^lUUUO and graceful swing of long train can make up for strong common sense. You might as well go among tbe gayly painted yachts ot a summer regatta to ilud war vessels as to go among the light spray of the summer watering place to flud character that can stand the test of the great struggle of human life. In the battle ot life you want a stronger weapon than a lace fan or a croquet mallet. The load of life Is so heavy that in order to draw it you want a team stronger than that made up of a masculine grasshopper and a feminine butterfly. If there is any man in the community who oxcite3 my contempt and who ought to excite the contempt of every man and woman it is the soft handed, soft headed dude, who, perfumed until the air is actually sick, spends his summer in striking killing attitudes and wavlugsentimental adleux and talking lnfluiteslmal nothings and finding his heaven In the sec of a lavender kid glove. Boots as tight as an inquisition. Two hours of consummate 3kill exhibited in the tie of a flashing cravat. His conversation made up of "Abs!" und "Ohs!" and "He lies!" There is only one counterpart to such a man as that, and that is the frothy young womau at the watering place; her conversation made up of French moonshine; what she has in her head only equaled by what she had on her back; useless ever since she was born ami to be useless until she is dead nuless she becomes an intelligent Chris:ian. We may admire music and fair facos ind graceful step, but amid the heartle-sless and tbe Inflation and the fantastic Influences oT our modern watering places seware how you make lifelong covenants. Another temptatlou that hovors over the catering place is that of baneful litera:ure. Almost every one starting off for ;he summer takes some reading matter. There is more pestiferous trash real among he Intelligent classes in July and August ban in all the other ten months of tbe rear. Men and women who at home would lot be satisfied with a book that was not i really sensible I find sitting on hotel piazza i >r under the trees reading books the Index I >f which would make them blU3b if they | enow that you knew what the book was. 'Oh," they say, "you must have intelectual recreation!" Yes. There is no need j hat you tak? along to a watering place 'Hamilton's Metaphysics" orsome ponder- j >us discourse on the eternal decrees or 1 'Faraday's Philosophy." There are many j >asy books that are good. You might as i veil say, "I propose now to give a lit- j :le rest to my digestive organs, and instead of eatiDg heavy meat and vegetables | t will for a little while take lighter food, a j little strychnine and a few grams of rats- . sane." Literary poison iu August is as jad as literary poison in December. Mark :hat. Do not let the frogs of a corrupt | printing press jump into your Saratoga | irunk or White Mountain valise. Are there ; lot good books that are easy to read? j >ooks of entertaining travel, books of con- { jenial history, books of pure fun, books of ?oetry, ringing with merry canto; books ot j lne engravings, books that will rest the nlnd as well as purify tbe heart and elevate the whole life? There will not be an iour between this nnd your death when ou can afford to read a book lacking in norm pnuuipie. Another temptation hovering all around >ur watering places i9 intoxicating beveriges. I am told that It la becoming more ind more fa3blonnble tor women to drink. ! care not how well a woman may dress, if be has taken enough o( the wine to flush ler cheek and put a glasslness on her eye ?h? is drunk. She may be handed into a ?2500 cariiage and have diamonds enough to astound the Tiffanys'?she is drunk. 3be may be a graduate of tke best young ladiea' semiuary and the daughter of some mau in danger of being nominated for the presidency?she is drunk. You may have a larger vocabulary than I have, and you may any in regard to her that she la "convivial," or she la "merry," or she la "festive," or she is "exhilarated," but you cannot with ail your garlands of verbiage cover up the plain fact that it is an old ' fashioned case o[ drunk. Whether you tarry at home?which will be quite ua safe and perhaps quite ua comfortable?or go Into the country, arm yourself ngaiust tempt .tlon. The grace of God a the only safe shelter, wheth r in town >r country. There are watering places lccesslble to nil of us. You cannot open i book of the Bible without finding out iorne such watering place. Fountains )pen for sin and uncleanness. Wells of ?alatlon. Streams from Lebanon. A Sood struok out of the rock by Mosea. Fountains in the wilderness discovered by Hagar. Water to drink and water to bathe in. The river of God, which is full of water. Water of which if a man drink he shall never thirst. Wells of water in the valley of Baca. Living fountains of water. A pure rlvor of water as clear as crystal from under the throne of God. These are watering places iccesslble to all of ua. We do not have a aborloua packing up before we start?only :he throwing away of our trausgres-ions. So expensive hotel bills to pay. It is 'without money and without price." No otig and dusty travel before we get there, [t is only one step away. In California in Ave minutes I walked iround and saw ten fountains all bubbling ji> and thov were all different, and in five minutes ? can pro through this Bible parterre aud And you fifty bright, sparkling fountains bubbllug up into eterual life? tioaliug aud therapeutic. A chemist will go to one of these .summer watering places uid take the water, and analyze it,aud tell you it contains so much of iron,and so much of soda, aud so much of lime, and so much r>f magnesia. I come to this gospel well, this living fountain, and analyze the water, iind I llnd that its ingredients are peace,parilon,forgiveness,hope,com'ort, life, heaven. "Ho, every one tbat tbirsteth, come ye" to this watering place! Crowd around this Lethesda. Oh. you sick, you lame, . you troubled, you dying, crowd around this Bethesda! Step iu it, oh, step in It! The angel of the covenant to-day stirs the water. Why do you not step iu it? Seme of you are too weak to take a step in that direction. Then we take you up In the arms of praver and plunge you clear under the wave, hoping that the cure niav be as sudden and as radical as with Captaiu Nanman, who, blotched aud carbuncled, stepped into the Jordan, and after the seventh dive chiua up, his skin roseate complexioned as the Uesli of a little child. NO LAYING ON OF HANDS, Clilcazo Justice Keotrict* Faith Curlst* to Faltli Alone. Justice Everett, of Chicago, recently imposed a itim of $100 and ousts or Mrs. Honrilcka Blitch, a follower of Alexander Dowie, the "Divine H?aler." on conviction of violating the Medieai Practice act in administering to Mrs. Auneta Flanders, who died uuier the faitu '*dlvlno-heaiing" treatment. The Dowie treatment comprises the laying on of hands. Justice Everett held that under the law these healer.* must resort only to spiritual and mental means of treating the sicL'. When material means are added the State law governing the [ raetiee of medicine is violated. a To the faith healer even the ordinary means to assist nature ar>? denied hereafter, l>ce.iuse the Court held that ail that a physician or surgeon did was to assist nature. Au appeal was taken. Tiifhlel'tt Gift to Churches. The will of Joseph B<>!:oist, who died receu'ly at Kansas City, Mo., prove* to he t most rtMunriiiibli' tlouunnMit. Aiiiiou!::i n? was rui lulldel, Bf?noiat l<;ft nil hut .r lilGO o! bis fortune of 61.jlJ.000 to r"!lij:o::s and charitable orjrau;zntiou?. Tim Christine Brothers Coliogo. of St. Louis, i? th?? principal legatee, jetting about tiO.OOO. Bo uoist iett his four sifters an<l his hall brjthi-r almost nothing. Il?s had not at tended church for thirty-Qvc yeara prior tf , his death. - - . 1 VAR CLOUDS OVERAFRICAl The British Proposals For a Joint quiry Rejected by the Boers. &n Engtlah Colonial Office Official Sayi War It Xow the Only Method of Settlement. . Londox (By Cable).?The Colonial Offlce, la confirming the dispatch telegraphed from Cape Town saying the Transvaal GovI ernment had handed its reply to the British agent at Pretoria, says that Sir Alfred Milner has telegraphed a message to that effect. All that the officials of the Colonial Of* flee would say In regard to the matter was: ' The reply is not a complete acceptanseof the proposal of Mr. Chamberlain." President Kruger has refused to submit to the demand of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain for the appointment of a court of Inquiry. He may have done so diplomatically, or hedglngly, but that his answer is regarded by the British Government as tantamount to a positive refusal Is now an established fact. The Colonial Office Is normally noncommittal. but there are other evldencee which amply justify the statement. The report that President Kruger has I proposed new terms Is somewhat verified by the guarded comment of the Colonial Office official! and the Irritability displayed there. There Is not the slightest doubt that they believe war Is now the only way to settle the controversy. They would far rather have had a curt, defiant answer than the temporising reply which the Boer President has sent. Great Britain would have then plain grounds for h ulclc commencement of hostilities. Undi-r the circumstances which it Is believed now exist ag> gresslve action needs considerable explanation to justify It In the eye.? of the world and the English minority,who still declare war would be an outrage. However, If Mr. Chamberlain ha3 his way, It is believed President Kruger's counter proposals will meet with scant attention, and unless the Boers completely back down, which is not likely, the crisis wll' develop quickly into war. A special dispatch from Cape town say* there Is great danger of an outbreak ol violence on the frontier and that the scum of South A'rlea are enlisting and a>e be- i Ing sent to Pltsanl and Jameson on the border. Afrikanders For Feace. Pbetobia, South African Republic (Bj Cable).?Sunday was obsTved throughout tbe Orange Free State and Cape Colonj with humiliation, prayer, and sermons ad vocatlng a peaceful solution of the crisis Mr. Snytler, a leading Dutch Reformet preacher hero, referred to the close tiei uniting the Cape Dutch to those of the Transvaal, which be added, were member! of the great Afrikander family. If war wai declared, he asserted, Great Britain woul<! commit a "benious crime before God anc man, resulting In civil war In Cape Colony." There is evidence of growing uneaslnes: at Johannesburg. Great crowds gather a1 the railroad station, expressing disapprov ai at the departures for Cape Colony an( Durban, Natal. Kruger'* Prayer. Berlin (By Cable).?Tbe JJeuesten Nachricbten publishes the following dispatch from Pretoria: "President Kruger a fev days ago personally conducted a churct service, prior to holding an official recep tion. In tbe course of the ceremony hi prayed that, If war were unavoidable, Go( i might find right and truth on the side ol the Afrikanders." KILLED BY TARGET SHOOTERS. The Death of Frank XtadcIlfTe In Holmes nrn-ff, l'enn.. fc-xplalneu. Philadelphia (Special).?The shooting ' ofFfADk Radcllffe trbile driving with hi* wife on Aabourner street, Holmesburg.wa; purely accidental, but eight young mer have been held to await the result of thf Coroner's Inquest. The prisoners are J. H. Hahn, William R. Beale, Samuel Painter, Frederick Keuger, Jacob Kinnel, Frederick Hahn, Paul Spiel and Thomas Whitehead, ot Tucony. Tne young men had been practicing tarsret shooting with a rifle. They say they saw Radcllffe und his wife drive up the road while they were shooting. He f assed on and they resumed the sport, n a few minutes Radcllffe drov? back, and the young men saw blm pitch forward just as oue of them fired, which one the yoancr men refuse to tell the police. Spiel and Whitehead ran to Rad viituc, nuu mo UkUUiJ nk/rtiioioii. o^ici wu; irresteil, and upon Information given bj him the others were apprehended. INDIAN TR0U3LE IN ARIZONA. Cffo Hundred Braves Kill and Scalp a Gambler?Troops Ordered Out. Winslow, Arizona. (Special).?Two hanired Indians In Foreman Mink's grading flying at Navajo Springs, Arizona, are threatening to exterminate alt tbe whltas In that section. They wore paid off recently and proceeded to gamble and drink heavily. A gambler named C. H. Landreth, aftet a quarrel witb some Indians, assaulted one of tbom, shooting and stabbing him seri.usly. The tribe armed themselves with alfthe weapons In tbe camp, sbot tbe trambler seven times, scalped him and mutilated bis body. Troops from Tort Wingate hare been ordered to tbe scsne. A TRIPLE HANGING IN KLONDIKE , Two Iudlans and n White Man Executed For Murder. Seattle, Wash. (Special).?Passengers on tbe steamer City of Topeka, from Skug J way, Alaska, bring news of the first iega1 i execution in the Klondike. A triple hang I iug occurred at Dawson on August 4. | The persons hanged were two Indians | Dawson Xautuck and Jim Nantuck, anc | one white man, Edward Heuderson. HeudersoD was convicted of murderina | his partner, named Peterson. on the tral i near Marsh L 'ke, in September, 13'J7. Tilt I Indians were convicted of murdering Willi iam Mahan and injurinc his partner, James Fos9, oa the McCllnton Piiver iu May. I 1303. Nine Soldiers Drovrneil. While a reconnoitering party of th? Twenty-fourth Infantry, under Captalc I Crane, was crossing the Mariquina P.ivej la the Philippines on a raft the hawsei broke. The current, being very swift ai that point, canted the raft to capslz* drowning uino enlisted men. Drowned Her?elf and Child, i Mrs. Jennie Weston droivnod herself and ! her litt'e son in a cistern at Tierre, South i Dakota. There was no one else at home j ?xoept a daughter, an ! the deed was not ! known until the youtig wo.nau wakened i lext morning. ?: General Wheeler in Manila. Tiie transport Tartar, with Geuer.il Josj ?pli Wheeler and hit daughter, troops ol ! :he Nineteenth Infantry and more tliau I ?1,30\',000 in col'. on l-oard, has arrived al Manila. General Wiiec;er, wlio i-i well | .anded and reported a: nead iU.irters. The Labor World. Durinpr a recent streo -car strike In Enu ! Claire, Wis., the Mayor refused to put policemen on the car.-, claiming that to do ! io woald be a violatiou of tho antl-pa-s [ law. j The farmers of Xebra?ka ire offering ; withes for laborers than Lave boeu j :>aid In that (juartor Jor :nauy years, tut j .bey are uo: getting us many as tliey j araut. Twenty labor anil sovpq fraternal organi izations de-or.el a meeting hall ami moved *t Albany, N\ Y., because the proprietor of I .he building where tb^se organizations ! net r-'puiriJ ?li? sarv? witu aoa-uaioa I nuterial 4 mSOLDIERS H Fight Over the Payment of Former I A- M... Cnn4l/.?n insurgents uecu oanuagui FAULTY LISTS CAUSED TROUBLE. Cabans Attacked Gendarmes Guarding I the United States Pay Office?Fire Men Dead and Tan Wounded?Feared That They Would Not Receive MoneyOrder Was Soon Restored. Santiago de Cuba (By Cable).?Five men ire dead and ten wounded as the result of i fight between gendarmes and disappointed Cuban soldiers at Cuevltas, three miles 'rom Santiago, where the payment of the 3uban troops was In progress. Five thouland Cubans had gathered there to receive ?ay, and, after three days, only 590 had )een paid. Thousands who had been disippolnted at other points had come to 3uevitas, as the last place of payment In :he province. The Imperfect lists canse great dissatis faction, and a rumor circulated tuac tne Paymasters would leave alarmed the mea who had Dot been paid. They began to jollect in groups and to show their annoyince. Finally their threats became sori5US. Captain itallat, with twenty gendarmes, was present to preserve order among the ippilcanta, and the United States troops protected Colonel Moale.ttie officer having Jbarge of the payments. 8uddenly Captain Ballat, who was mounted, was surrounded by a mob, struck by stones and bottles.aud /*\AH/AOUD, SULTAN of SULU' ?iPSfi THE SULTA^^^SIGNED A TREAT! THE UNIT] (hot Iq the arm. His men promptly fired i volley into the mob, three persons being instantly killed and thirteen wounded, two )f whom died a few hours later. Colonel Moale's guard promptly surrounded the money office, but took no part | n the fighting. For a few minutes there was a lively coailct, carbines aud machetes being used !reely. Cnptaln Ballat was the only gendarme wounded. All the dead were colored 3uban soldiers. Payment was resumed under a heavy *uard. General Castillo, Civil Governor Santiago de Cuba, was at Cue vitas at the Ime and soon restored order. There is no doubt that the inaccurate 1st will cause a great deal of hardship. Many veterans have vainly followed the United States Commissioners for six weeks, only to find that their names are aot lister). General Leonard Wood, Military Governor, does not, however, anticipate serious trouble. FILIPINO MAYOKS iy JAIL. , riiey Are Arre?t#rt For Giving Aid to the Kebel Catine. ; Manila (By Cable).?The Mayor of Baliaasr. the first town in wi.ich civil govern ; meat was estaulis-hed by General Lawton, j who has been arrested for alleged treachsry to the American cause, has been j orouuht to Manila. He is specifically ac:used ot soliciting funds for the use of the insurgents and communicating with the enemy. He9aysthathe Is the victim of jplte. It is believed that he holds the rank of Colouel in the insurgent service. The Mayor of San Pedro Macatl, with Ave accomplices, was arrested in a brickyard near the town. There is abundant I jvlden *e that they ^ere recruiting for the I Filipino army. General Joseph Wheeler and his daughter have visited the hospitals in Manila. I They expressed great satisfaction at their j condition. It is the intention of Miss I Wheeler to devote herself to hospital | nursing. Mother and Sou Drown. Mrs. Anne Teeples and Herbert, her eight-year-old son, of Charlestown. Ind., met with a tragic death at Fry's Landinsr, twelve miles above Louisville. Ky., on the Ohio River. They were members of a fish j lng party, aud while the men were away | from the camp tilt boy went bathing ami j got beyond his depth. His mother, hear| lng his cry, sprang Into the water after j htm. Both tiie mother aud son were j drowned before assistance could reach theai. Platform of the IVIisalnilppi Democrats. The State Democratic Convention met at ! Jackson, Miss. Judge Longlno was noiuj inated by general acclamation, all four of | his opponents having withdrawn. The ; platform reconfirmed the allegiance of Mississippi Democrats to tbe principles enunciated iu the Chicago platform', and Indorsed \V. J. Bryan as the man who stood as the greatest exponent of those principles. A plank was inserted declaring hosj tility to trusts, and announcing tbe lutenI tiou of Mississippi to do ail lu her power to I "control or destroy them." The platform > declared in favor of the primary method j of selecting State oRlcera. Typliol<l Fever Kpldemic. Many cases of typhoid fever are reported in New Haven, Conn., and its suburbs. Iu ! Woodinont ha'.f a dozen casos have been j traced to impure water. In Fair Haven a stable near a large well Is regarded as the I . I mi.~ n--.? ? !/?! Im I CJl!I*ti OI SRVITill '.Mjm. 1I1C Illsi. mum ! the epidemic was Harold, the eigliteenj year-oM son oi Alderman U. L. Lambert. Oeneral Merritt Meets the I'rcsldent. | General Merritt conferred with President j MeKiuley untl said afterward that there ! would I e no "immediate chance" in I he commanding officer of the army ia the "liiliroluea. /?-, ?*=*? * : v SULTAN OF SULU AN ALLV. 1 Mahommedan Chief Acknowledges Sovereignty of the United States. 9 He Signs a Treaty?All Port* Held By Spain Are Retained) I5j America? He Will Be Glren a salary. 1 Maxila (By Cable).?General John C. : Bates has returned from the Sulu Islands j with a treaty signed with the Sultan. The = Sultan agrees to ail the American terms j proposed and recognizes the absolute s sovereignty of the United States, wliicb, ? the authorities declare, he never did for { Spain. An Important clause of the treaty gives ' Americans the right to purchase land. The 1 United States retain all the ports which the Spanish formerly occupied, and reserve j the right to open others at our discretion, j The Sultan collects no revenues, but ' will receive an annual salary, maintaining = law and order. Several of the principal [ chiefs are also salaried. The Sultan's ! mother is largely responsible for the happy j conclusion of affairs. i I DEATH AT CRAOE CROSSING. 1 ??? ( Train Ran* Into a Driving Party and , Kills Three Periona. I Seabbioht, N.^J.(Speclal).?The West End j Express on tho New Jersey Southern Rail- ; road, due here at 6 o'clock, ran into a car- i rlnr-A iiAntnlnln<r n. drlvlnff na.Ptv at tha I North Borough crossing. Tlireo of the occupants were instantly killed, and the other three more or leas badly Injured. The dead are: Miss Louise Terry, twenty-two years old; Miss Juanlta Terry, her sister, thirteen years old, and Charlos { RECOGNIZING THE SOVEREIGNTY OF [?L> BTA'i'JES. W.Trlppe, Jr., seven years old. The Injured are: Mrs. Charles W. Trlppe, internal injuries and shock; the Trlppe baby, two months old, slightly hurt, and Louise Farr, the nurse, slightly injured. Mrs. Trlppe is the wife of Charles W. Trlppe, who is a Sanitary Inspector of the New York Health Department. The Misses Terry were slate s of Mrs. Trlppe, and had been stppplug with her at her summer residence here. The train w;is in charge of Engineer Martin Maloney, and a few days before his train ran over and killel a. mua at Highlands. MILITIA CUARD A NECRO. Georgia Troop* Etcori mm rrom uaneu to Savannali to Prevent Trouble. Dahien, Oa. (Special).?A serious rac9 riot was threatened here a few days ago aud troops were ordered from Savannah by Governor Candler to maintain order and escort Henry Delegal, a negro assailant, to tlio Savannah Jail for safe keeping. The negro was arrested, charged with au assault on a white woman, committed several months ago, and was lodged lu the jail to await trial. A report gained circulation that the prisoner would be lynched, and a lartre number of negroes assembled at one of their churches. They were heavily armed, and threatened vengeince on the white men if Delegal was lynched, declaring they would protect him at all hazards. Governor Candler was notified of the j threatened trouble, aud ordered two bun- | dred of the Savunnuh militia to the scene. The troops arrived aud Delegal was es- I corted to Savannah, despite objections raised by the negroes. TRADE HURT BY "CORNERS." England Attributes Opening of New Wheat Iteglons to Speculation Here. Washington, D. C. (Special).?Consul I Halstead, of Birmingham, England, has ! written a letter to the State Department ! in which he reports that mauy persons in | Euglaoil believe "that to those eugace<l in | vriie.it cornering operations lu the United j States, we owe the competitive opening up j of va3t areas of wheat land lu Russia, India i South America and Egypt." The present I 1 corner ia copper, which has caused prices to no nearly sky high, he says, may result ' : In Injury to the coppe? mining lut-rest? In the United States parallel to the loss caused to America by the comers In whoat. Mr. Hilstead quotes a Ions article from 1 Eugiueeria;? to support his theory. < THE MALARIAL MOSQUITO FOUND | ' | i Major Unit Ueport* Shccom in Hi? lie- | | eiirche* in Sierra Leone. | i London (By Cable).?Major Ross, who J was sent to Slorra Leone, Africa, by the j j Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases to 1 try to discover the malarial mosquito, has ! 1 wired to Professor Jones, th? Elder j Domster of the School, that the ; . lius lieen found !iad asking tli.it the Gov- < ernuieat soad men to hint at <?(? ?. It in ; believed that tlie Government will :-ou*l i medical exports to assist in the researches. j < Slaje Itobbers fiet S.IOOf). i ' I i The 5tage between Salmon City and lied j Hock was held up half a mile inside t he | I Idaho line, eighty miles from Dillon, i ' Mou., by four men. H. T. Reillv was u passenger. He had more than >.jQflO in irol'i dust, which he was taking to Dillon. ' Tin) rot hers took it, and then, mounting J horses, which were concealed in the tim- I her, escaped. J j Germany liars American l.eef. Germany's action in liarring the impor- < tation of fresh lieef from ii?lgiu:? is in- ] t fn.i.l^.l a hlow to the Uuit-M States, fol- 1 v li\vii!;i the rtf:noval of cestrlc.ion i ' I A:nurican !)ocf by ' .. '..' ' v - - ' CHE SABBATH SCHOOL. NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 10. Inbject: Encouraging the llatldera, Bag:. 11., l-9~Golden Text: Has. II., 1? Memory Verses, 4, 5? Commentary oo the Day'* Lesion. 1. "In the seventh montn (October), one ind twentletn day." The seventh duv of be feast of tabernacles. Lev. 23:33-36. ?hls was 'a thanksgiving festival, and the all to praise aud thanksgiving in an un* Inishea temple might naturally suggest tloomy and desponding thoughts, especi- 1 illy after a poor harvest and a depressing leaaon. This state of mind was the mov- 1 ng cause of Haggai's message of encourigement. 2. "Speak." The message was to the :lvil ruler, the ecclesiastical ruler, and the people. 3. "Who is left among you." It was Ixtv-slx years since Solomon's temple was , laairoved CB. C. 5361. and there could have >eea quite a number present able to de- , icribe its splendor. "How do ye see It low." They noted Ave points of Inferiority; n the absence of (1) the sacred Are; (2) the ( Jheklnah; (3) the ark and cherubim; (4) the Jrlm and Thummlm; (5) the spirit of proph>cy. But the connection of the second emple with the Messiah more than coun* erbalanced all these, for He is the antitype i )f all the five. God's estimate of tnings i? rery different from man's. Zech. 8:6; com)are 1 Sam. 16:7. However low their estinate of the present temple from its oat* :vard inferiority, God holds it 8nperlort Sech. 4:10; 1 Cor. 1:27, 23. Besides the richless of the sculptures in the former temple, everything which admitted of it was >verlald with gold. The porch that was in !*ont of the house, twenty cubits broad 'about twelve feet), and ;120 cubits htgh [about seventy-three feet), was overlaid fflthin with pure gold; the house glistened Pith precious stones. Six hundred talent9 )f gold (about $21,600,000) were employed ;n overlaying the Holy of Holies, "in comparison as nothing." What was the use of )o much self-denial, and such hard work, !or a temple of so little value? Why not Irst get rich themselves and then build a yorthv temple? 4. "Be strong.'' This threefold exhortation to the government, priesthood and nxnnlA ta t)m sump A3 wrs trlven to the great Israelite soldier. Josh. 1:1-10. "And work." Have courage, and then act It out. Be strengthened by faith, and prove your taltb by your works. Be dlvlnely'lnaplred, and then wort with Inspiration. "For I am with you." The greatest strength is to have Jehovah with us as our strength. Not In man's "might," but in that of God's Spirit. The chief glory of the temple Is not Its splendid building, but God's presence. "Salth the Lord of Hosts." The frequent occurrence of this expression, found here sis times (vs. 4, 6, 7, 8, 9), Is a feature of the prophecies of Haggal, Zecharlah and Malachi. It Is of the nature of an appeal to the power and resources of Almighty God, either, as here, to awaken the confidence, or, as elsewhere, to subdue the rebellion of the Jews. 5. "I covenanted with you." It was now a long time since the original covenant with the nation had been made (Ex. 19:24), and the nation bad passed througn many phases and fortunes since that tLne, and these returned exiles might well be doubtful whether, after all that had come and gone, they could count themselves heirs to the promise made to their forefathers. "My spirit remalneth." To Inspire you, as He did the leaders and prophets of old; to work just such wonders for you as He did for them. "The word." "My spirit." Tbe two reasons for tbe call to preserving energy in working for God: 1. The covenant God bad made with them in tbe past. 2. Tbe abiding of His Spirit with them in tbe present. "Fear ye not." Let no discouraging fears have place in your mind or weaken your bands. 6. "Yet once, it is a little while." A single brief space until a series of movements is to begin, which are to end in tbe Advent of tbe Messiah, "tbe desire of all nations." Tbe shaking of nations Implies judgments of wrath on tbe foes of God's people, to precede the reign of the Prince of Peace. In their past history God had shaken tbe nations many times?EgyDt, by the plagues and overthrow; tbe nations dwelling in Canaan; the Assyrians Is Hezekiab's time; the great nations in Nebuchadnezzar's time before the Jews were made captives for their sins, tben his empire was shaken, and Cyrus came to the head, In order that tbe people might return; and, again, the kingdom of his successors was shaken, so that Darius might be king and lend bis aid to tbe rebuilding of tbe temple. Soon was to begin again a new era of tbe shaking of the nations as seen in Daniel's visions, by which the redemption of tbe world might :ome. The Jews in Haggal's time hesitated about going forward with the work, through dread of the world-power, MedoPersla, influenced by the craft of Samaria. The prophet assures them that this and all ova fA fn11 hafnpfl TVfpa. JIUCJ. ?yUi lU"purro?o div fcV ww?v.v M ? | 3lab, who Is to be associated with the tern- [ pie, therefore they need fear nought. There Is scarcely a prophecy of the Old Testament which does not to some extent refer to Christ's second coming. 7. "Desire of all nations shall coma." This glorious title of Christ seems to refer :o Jacob's prophecy (Gen. 49:10); that to Him shall the gathering of the people be. Balaam, In the land of Moab, hud spoken of a Star that should rise out of Jacob; and Job, in the land of Uz, spolte of his living Redeemer. There was a general expectation at the time 6f Christ's birth, throughout all the civilized world, that a great Restorer of the golden age whs about to ap pear. "I will fill this bouse with glory." \s the first temple was filled with the cloud of glory, the symbol of God (1 Kings 8:11. j 2 Chron. 5:14),.so this second temple was j lllled with the "glory" of God (John 1:14), veiled in the flesh at Christ's first coming, | when Ho entered it and performed miracles j there, but that glory Is to be revealed at [ His seooud coming. Mai. 3:1. 8. "Silver gold Is mine." Ye are dls appointed uc tun nuacuuo ui iu?g ^tuvu- I metals In the adorning of this temple, as jompared with the first temple. I could j adorn th!s temple with them, but I will j adorn it with n "glory" far more preciou*. J 8cripture saith not: "Great shall be th j beauty or wealth of this latter house abov? > the first," but the glory. !). "Ia this place will I give peaco." An assurance that amld9t the threatened shak- i !ng of the nations the people of God should I be secure, undestroyed by surrounding | jonvulsions. And the house of God was i preserved during the terrible onflict be- j tween the Persian und Greek empires, j "This place." At Jerusalem where Messiah made peace through the blood of His cross. Col. 1:20 This peace begins by removal .if the dllHculty in the way of the just God accepting the guilty. Isa. 9:6, 7: 53:5. PHILIPPINE FATALITIES. List Embraces Twenty-three Officers, C99 Privates and Fourteen Civilians. What purports to bo a full list of fatalities in the American Army in the Philippines up to June 2 has been compiled by Fred F. Eitell, of the Manila Freed om, who ilairos to have obtained it from the records of the Surgeon-General's office at Manila. The total uumoer of fatalities is 73G?23 officers, G9!) privates and 14 civilians at- | tached to the army. A remarkable feature i of the record is found in the statement that the number of officers killed in battle Is out of all proportion to the number of privates killed. On the other hand fewer officers died from disease, proportionately, .haii privates. Out of the 23 officers dead, 1G were killed In action, 2 were drowned and 5 died of lisease. Of the GO;) privates, 291 dieii of wounds received in action, 'J were killed iccld?nta!ly, 23 were drowned and 7 committed suicide. One hundred and six died if typhoid fever, S'.? of smallpox, 47 of | lyseatery. 2s of pneumonia, l'J of malarial [ever ami 14 of meningitis. The remainder lied from various diseases. Of the 14 deaths anoicivilians, 7 wer? ,'rom smallpox and J from gunshot woundi received in action. lian'.cmplcy Act Not Popular. Tho Lankru^tcy act lias been in operaion over a year, and during that time there iave been (lied in Now York City 1331 r.etii;.s with the Clerk of the United States ' ? J I . .? run i-uuri aim i-.' uavu >??t-u i?rantt;.l, T!ie a": lias n :t beeu as ovular as expocte-i. E#:i'uates vrcro rr.a<l?* I v!???!i t:inet wa.i pas9>.*il tliat fro.n five hou-?a:;<! to ttiti-.au t'lousamt persoa* voukl take advantage of it tlie first year, is it was buiiuvo.i tbut there n re at least >uo liuaJr-.' i thousand por.-ious Iu the city vith juJ.x-uonts h .n^ina: over ttie:n. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. . 1| PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. thy Hand Compelled?Remodeling Broken Clay?"The Lord's Mllllonalret"? A Prayer for Cleanliness of Heart?' I ;'j Will Not" a Banishment. If there be good In that I wrought, Thy hand compelled It, Manter, Thine; Wheie I have failed to meet Thy thought I know, through Thee, the blame is rniaau* One instant's toil to Thee denied Stands all eternity's offeqce; Of tKof T AiA mlfK Thflfl f/\ i?nMa To Thee, through Thee, be excellence. Who, lest all thought of Eden fade, . Bring'st Eden to the craftsman's brain, Godlike to muse o'er his own trade And manlike stand with God again. The depth and droam of my desire, The bitter paths wherein I stray, Thou knowest who has made the Are, Thou knowest who has made the clay One stone the more swings to her place In that dread temple of Thy Worth, It is enough that through Thy grace I saw nought common on Thy earth. * Take not that vision from my ken; / 0, whatso'er may.spoil or Speed, Help me to need no aid from men That I may help such men as need. ?Eudyard Kipling. Remodeling Broken Clay. God told Jeremiah to go down to the potter's house, and tiiere he saw the potter take a piece of clay and place it on a wheeL ' As he stood there to watch, the potter shaped it; It rose beneath his band Into fair and lovely shape. But just us it waa complete, and it seemed as though nothing more was needed, it crumbled beneath his hand. Some part of it lell upon the wheel,' some part upon the ground. Jeremiah thought that the potter would take another place oi ciay ana mane mac ciay mini .-a* bis plan, but, instead, be stooped andj gathered the broken clay with his band, picked it from the ground, and' kneading it with bfs hand he placed it once more upon the yrheel and began to make vJb tbat clay again; and presently a vessel as fair as possible stood complete, ready to be taken to the kiln to be baked and made permanent Away back In your life God' took you and placed you upon the wheel, and for these many years Ood has sought to make you fair. But I know not why, I cannot tell?God knows?yon know?there has come a flaw and break, and you are a piece of broken pottery Your life is a marred life, yourideal a broken ideal,and all around there lie the littered pieces of the man or tbe woman .:5m tbat you might have been. But now what shall you doV God put you in that place '$ for a high purpose, but you bave missed your mark. Shall God take another man and give him your wealth, another woman and give her your position? . . . Not yet, not yet. He might take another piece of clay and make another vessel, but instead . He comes again to seek you. Tbe hand of God is laying hold upon the broken pieces of your marred and spoiled life, and if yoa will let Him, He will now begin to complete . your nature, by making.to be what He meant it to be years ago when you were . .'lain cradled at the foot of the ocoss.-Bev. F. B. Meyer. V "The Lord's Millionaires." Is it dark? Some very good people may answer this question by saying, "Yes, it is a dark hour with me, and I would be thankful to get some light." This is not strange; those who love God and whom God loves are not always prosperous; He never promises constant sunshine to any of His children. A very righteous man in olden times said,-'He hath set me in dark places." Hard as it is to believe, yet it is a revealed truth, that whom God loves He chastens,and oftentimes it is probable that He does it because He loves them. Chemists do not throw sand or gravel into their crucibles; it is only the ores which contain gold or silver which are subjected to the heated furnace. Hot fires often make very bright Christians. I have known hundreds of Christians to be badiy demoralized by prospferity.hut I have rarely known one to be spiritua^y^damaged by adversity. Sharp blizzards/ar^ very apt to 1 T.ja| drive a true Christian under safe cover of Christ Jesus. When his worldly assets ran low, bis heavenly assets appreciate. Christian courage shines splendidly In the dark; Y-1OT and a stout heart chants the brave old song, "Although the flgtrae shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines yet I will .'jaS rejoice in the Lord,and joy in the God of my salvation." It is very uncomfortable to be poor; but grace is not graduated by income, nnd the man who has a clear conscience. and the Lord Jesus within him and the atmosphere of lore all around him and the glories of heaven before h m is one of the Lord's millionaires.?Bev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D., in Zion's Herald. A Prayer for Cleanliness of Heart. 0 heavenly frieud, whose love disdained not mortal life and death, we bless thee for the grace of every day's companionship with thee. Thy patience and compassion never fail, and thou hast set before us the hope and glory of thine own eternal life. Deal gently with us, 0 most loving guest and friend, cleansing our troubled hearts that we may grow like thee. Beprove and purge our faults that we may overcome them by thine aid. Teach us to bring forth fruit in righteousness. Give us the joy of fellowship with thee in work. When sorrows and perplexities surround our path may our souls abide in the secret of thy presence and share the perfect peace of those whose hearts are stayed on thee. Keep us from every idle thought and foolish word. Coufirm in us all mire desires and holy ambitions by thy loving care, and shine through us tor helpful light on other jives. Amen. "I M il Not" a Banishment. The sweet and intimate-and helpful re- >-^aj latiorsh:p between God and man. between Father and child, becomes impossible, is forfeited, when man ceases to walk humbly with God. The first shadow of presumption on the human side is like a wedge of darkness, riving asunder God and His child. * 1 will not," set tip against God's ' Thou shalt," is iiko a self imposed verdict of eternal banishment for the wilful son. God must walk straight on in the path of His changeless law and his farseeing purpose. He cannot go aside with the child. It the child departs, it must d? alone. This is* the dreadful thing about rebellion against God. God cannot transgress, even to overtake and recall the wanderer. God must go on, ju-?t as the planet goes on in its orbit, though the blazing, wayward meteor flies off into space. Where Money is Useless. Death makes every man financially bankrupt. The moment he dies ho becomes poqr. There is nothing in the Beyond which be can purchase with cash. No shroud, therefore, has a pocket. The gold from no mine, the money from no mint, passes cur- ' HS rent in heaven. The angels carry no purses, and the jingle of coin is never hfcard. You will not get what you want by paying for it, neither will you lack what you need because you have no money. What you have and whatyu lack will depend wholly on your deserving.?Kev. George H. Hep worth. > 3 The best proof of the divinity of the Christinm religion is tho daily life of the Christian himself?not his words and professions. but his conduct and spirit: not his Sunday garb, but his ev??ry-day tone: not his church ways, but his heme waik.? Bishop Vincent. A Town of Colored People. Oberton is a village in tho Choctaw Nation, in Oklahoma, of ubout 503 inhabitants, all of whom ure colored, l'lie postmaster is a colored man, the notary public is colored, and there is .1 colore 1 marshal. The town lias not yet been incorporated, but likeiy wiil be soon, at which timo tho entire set of o fillers will be colored. Tilers is 'onsidera^Io bu.>ine?s enterprise among t<o:ue of tho people of the neighborhood, which comprises a circle of about li:ti}-.'u miles. Railroarl Mileage For Tins Vear. It is estimated that 5000 miles of now railroad, representing an investment of flOiar?. w'li be built in tho (Jnltoi