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r. I THE REAL BO 3S Simple, Primitive A $ of the Tr You will hear diverj answers as to 1 what kind of people the Boers are. The more short-sighted and intolerant travelers may say that the Boers are a dirty lot who don't use table napkins, an illiterate set of brutes who never heard of Kipling, an utterly unrefined people whose knowledge of art is nil; in short, a backward, stupid, unprogressive, half civilized set who are too thick-headed to know they are standing in the patb of that Juggernaut car, civilization, and must in the end be crashed beneath its wheels. It is a mistake to take Paul Kruger and his surrounding politicians as types of the Boer. Also it is a mistake to take the dweller in the towns as typical. To unearth the real Boer one must seek the wide and solitary th? hidden valit^s. the distant liills, and there, on his farm, draw him / BOERS GATHERED FOR THE L out and study him. Your true Boer despises the town. He is essentially an agriculturist and a hunter. He is extremely conservative, and with strangers brusque and taciturn, but if he tinds you are harmless he can be v very hospitable. He does not drink deep. He is religious,with a gloomy, stern religion which makes him be, lieve, as did the Covenanters, as much in the Old Testament as in the New. He is moral. He does not believe in divorce laws. He marries early in life, and is convinced the highest blessing is an abundance of children. He is sturdily built, us a rule, thanks to his way of life, which is the same as that of his father and his ancestors for many generations?an open-air life, with lots of beef and cabbage and ^ milk. He is a good horseman, and a remarkable marksman. He understands that the man who can shoot straight and without excitement makes, nowadays, the best soldier. | He fears God and loves his country, bat cannot understand the need of a taxgatherer. He is, in fact, the backwoodsman of last century in the United States., come to life again in Africa. At the first hint of gray in the Eastern sky, at the first crow of the cock, the farm household is up and stirring, and breakfast, with the usual strong coffee the Boer loves, is over by the time the sun rises. The men are out and about at once, looking after just the same ohores as on an American farm in the West, save those who are off to replenish the larder by shooting CHURCH AND PARSONAGE TYPICAL OF THE TRANSVAAL. a springbok,a hartebeest or some such apecies of deer. The women have plenty of work about the house. The genuine old Boer farm furnishes itself every necessary to its occupants. jLne mrnnure is oiton maae dy me farmer, or be has great, unwieldy, . carved chests and bureaus which have come to him from his ancestors. He can'make his own shoes. His women dress and weave his own sheep's wool and make their and his clothes from it. There is almost nothing he needs to bqy. He does not care a rap for neckties or collars or store clothes, and a full beard is fashionable. All L KHAA.LS OF KA.FFIR H: he really has to bay is farming implements, and of these he prefers the primitive sort, thoagh enterprising Agents have introduced such things as mowing and other machinerv Lc ' , * ( " 1ft PPC AT HflMF I Uivu n i nv/iTiiw is! ? 1 1 Nays of the People < ansvaal. Jg 1 | During the day he works leisurely, 1 content to make a living out of the . ground. He dines heartily at noon i and sup9 heartily at evening. His day < hardly differs from that of any farmer i in any country, only, if Ue sings at I his work, it is likely to be a psalm 1 that he eiugs. He smokes a great deal while he goes about?a habit derived from his forebears in Holland. , He is fortunate in having no winter? no frost, no snow, only the dry season, when his cattle suffer, and the rainy season, when the rivers and ponds are flooded. His house and barns are low and roomy?simply furuished as to the house rooms. The great featherbed is usually the most noticeable feature, unless, perhaps, he glories in a little I Harmonium lor nis aaugoter 10 pics I out hymn tunes on of a Sunday. Just ORD'S SUPPER, PIETERSBUKG. before the sun goes down, at a time , which varies very little all the year round, the Boer calls his family together, and they have household prayers and pious singing. No lights are needed, or if one is, it is an oldfashioned lanthorn, or, more likely, a rush dip, floating iu a cup of homemade tallow. Ere the daylight has fairly gone the farmer has bolted the door and everybody is in bed. He has no amusements, according { to Enropean or American lights. ( Knowing nothing of theatres or picture galleries, he does not want them. | He hardly ever reads anything save the Bible, and that is a sacred dnty, and with stammering and difficulty. The hunt is bis chief sport, for big or little game, and there is keen rivalry in the display of trophies. Also he has one favorite sport of much the same kind?the shooting matches. Three or four times a day he goes to Nachtmaal, which is equivalent to the Scotch Fust Day or Lord's Supper. In the little market square of the nearest little burg there will stand a modest whitewashed building like a ' barn. This is the church for the dis- J trict, and here at stated periods the farmers gather from all about. They ?! don't take their families to hotels, though some may stay with friends, but drive the two or three days' jour- 1 ney in the big white-canvassed wagon, 1 drawn by from twelve to sixteen fat, 1 white-horned oxen. They make camp 1 7 i OUTSPANJftNG. A BOER FAMILY REST INO AT THE CLOSE OF A DAY'S TREK. ^ i near, the town in a meadow probably by the stream, and live in and under j the wagon during the Nachtmaal, ; cooking for themselves the food thej ( Vi o m Krnn rrlit o1r\rt c* Tha /*rm cry a era _ r Ii? T \J Ul UU^UV UlVU^l a. UV VWUgiWgHtion gathers, during this time, day 1 and evening. Their neighbors meet { between whiles and gossip and per- , haps transact a little business. They , would not belong to the human family < if, of course, the lads and lasses did J not walk and talk and court and exchange vows. These are the great outings, the picnics, of the year, and small tradesmen and peddlers are on ] hand with kuickknacke and trumpery ! to sell to the young folks, so that, : outside the services, the meeting is a kind of fair Sometimes also there may be a wrestling match or jumping matoh between young men, in which all, old and young, will take a deep interest. So the Boer farmer and hunter pur sues his even way, as his people have ever done, and if what he considers the aooarsed gold had never been found in his land, he might so pursue it to the end of the chapter. It is to be feared, however, that foreign capital and railroads and telegraphs and lightning-rod agents have broken " i? ?LP ON A BOER FARM. up his idyllic life forever, or, rathor, will soon do so. It was not, however, all peace. As the American backwoo'dsman was continually on his guard against Indians, so the Boer is ever ready to take the field against a kaffir tribe or the British. Then the plough and the hoe are laid aside, and the rifle is cleaned i?J. ?? t? ? uureillilj, UUt uut liuw lUl a picaoauu | hunt after game. The call to arms is simple; mobilization is primitive. There is no squabbling about volunteering, or enlisting, or-drafting. Except the women, the very old and the very young, everybody responds, even boys of thirteen and fourteen?but the average Boer boy is a pretty stout and healthy lad, and has been taught to shoot since he was ten or eleven. Each man takes his horse and his rifle ind proceeds to the rendezvous of his district. The pastors are with them, md with prayer and psalms the tarmer-soldiers march out to defend their country. A SULU SULTANA'S WORK. The Ruler'* Mother Ha* Made a Flag With Her Own Hands. The Sultana Dowager, as we might call the mother of the reigning Sultan of the Sulu Archipelago of the Philipour. sulu sultan's flag. pine group, writes the Manila sorrespondent of the New York Times, has shown an unexpected practical side of her character lately by actually mauing witli her own hands a copy of the royal standard of Sulu. . The flag is red and the field carrying the five stars is blue. These two colors appear in very many different shades. The four small stars in the blue field are the four principal tribes of Sulu, while the central and largest star is for the Sultan himself. The wiseacres say he would do well to be solffewhat more modest and take a less conspicuous place in the galaxy, as there are two tribes not more than fifteen miles from the capital whose Dattos, or chiefs, are very powerful and who are not on very friendly terms with the Sultan. The Dattos wield the most absolute power imaginable among tneir 101lowers, who seem more like slaves than independent members ' of the community. The Datto is always iccompanied by a sword-bearer, who | FLAG OF THE PHILIPPINE INSURGENTS. has two or more large swords or huge knives thrust in his girdle. Another, and generally one of the younger fol lowers, carries the silver box contain- i ing the beetle root and lime. These substances they roll up in a wad and chew continually, much to the harm ! of their teeth, which get coal black, and their gums, which turn a bright j red. A third follower in the retinue car- I ries the umbrella. A fourth, and the | most powerful and long-haired man of the lot, takes the part of. the beast of burden and carries the Datto himself about on his shoulders. In the lower left-hand section of the Sultan's flag are two implements of j warfare. The upper one, white in color on the red body of the flag, repre sents one of the borongs, or huge j linives almost universally carried in j peace as well as in war, while the I lower, also white in color in the flag, ! is a section cf a spearhead, which im- i plement is only used in fighting and in the chase. I presume there have from time to time been exhibited specimens of the Manila insurgents' flag by returned soldiers who captured them in battle, rhese have golden-colored stars on the white field, representing the chief tribes engaged in the uprising against I jur forees, while the rising sun in the centre standj for the rising of the poung republic as presaged by Aguindo. A BnRbranger'g Armor. The accompanying illustration is a 1 photograph of the armor used by Ned Kelly, the notorious Australian bushranger. Kelly, having been in his AUSTRALIAN* BUSHRANGER'S ARMOR. more peaceful days a blacksmith, says the London Strand, manufactured armor for himself and comrades from old boiler-plates, and to such good purpose did these protective coverings [ serve them that for two years the gang defied all the efforts of the police of Victoria to capture them. They were at last surprised, and many of them shot whilst drinking at a hotel; not,' however, until $400,000 had been spent by the Government in its enJ AA../v*.n 4/k n^nmy\ Aflf fit A ffnnft a rl UOBVl'lO LU OlUUi^y vat i Kelly was tried and executed in Melbourne jail, and his armor, which shows many marks of police bullets, is at present in possession of the Victorian Government. - -i-.. v A-.* -AT.-. >' ^ "* " . I DR. TALMAGFS SEBMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE Br THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject; A Heavenly Guard?MI?slon of the Ani;eli-IIaTe Much to lio wuq the Kvery-day A flairs of Life?A Guardlan Angel For Every One. [Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1899.1 Washington*, D. C.?The brilliant beings supposed by some to be imaginary are by Dr.Talmagein this sermon shown to be real and to have much to do with our every-day life. The text is, Judges xill., 19, "And the angel did wondrously." Fire built on a rock. Manoah and his , wife bad there kindled the flames for sacrlflce iu the praise of God and in honor of a guest whom they supposed to be a man. But as the flume rose higher and higher their stranger guest Btepped into the flame and by one red leap ascended into the skies. Then they knew that he was an angel of the Lord. "The angel did wondrously." Two hundred and forty-eight times does the Bible refer to the angels, yet I never heard or read a sermon on angelology. The whole subject is relegated to the realm mythical, weird, spectral and unknown. Such adjournment is un-Scrlptural and wicked. Of their life, their character, their habits, their actions, their velocities, ~' ' - ? ? cue ?511)10 gives US run IBIIglu yu. nana, auu why tills prolonged and absolute silence concerning them? Angelology Is my theme. There aro two nations of angels, and they are hostile to each other?the nation of good angels -and the nation of bad angels. Of the former I chiefly speak today. Their capital, their headquarters, their grand rendezvous, is heaven, but tLeir empire is the universe. They are a distinct race of creatures. No human being can ever join their confraternity. The little child who in the Sabbath school sings, "I want to be an angel," will never have her wish gratified. They are superhuman, but they are of different grades and ranks, not ali on the same level or the same height. They have their superiors and inferiors and equals. I propose no guessing on this subject, but take the Bible for my only authority. Plato, the philosopher. guessed and divided angels into supercelestial, celestial and subcelestial. Dionyslus, the Areopagite, guessed and divided them into tnree classes, the supreme, the middle and the last, and each hf thu-sa into three other classes, maklnsr [ nine in all. Phllosald that tbe angels were related to God, as tbe rays to the sun. Fulgeutlus said that they were composed of body and spirit. Clement said they were incorporeal. Augustine said that, they had been in danger of falling, but now are beyond being tempted. But the only authority on this sui-ject that I respect says they are divided into cherubim, seraphim, thrones, dominations, principalities, powers. Their commander in chief Is Michael. Daniel called him Michael. St. John called blm Michael. These supbrual beings are more thoroughly organized than any army that ever marched. They are swifter than anv cyclone that ever swept the sea. They are more radiant than any morning that ever came down the sky. They have more to do with your destiny and mine than uny being iu the universe except God. May tbe Angel of the New Covenant, who is the Lord Jesus, open our eyes and toucb our tongue and | rouse our soul while we speak of their deatlilessness, their intelligence, their numbers, their strength, their achievements. Ye9, deathless. They bad a cradle, but will never bave a g rave. The Lord remembers when they were born, bat no one shall ever 9ee their eye extinguished or their momentum slow up or their existence terminate. The oldest of them has not a wrinkle or a decrepitude or a hindrance, as young after 6000 years as at the close of their first hour. Christ said of the good in heaven, "Neither can they die any more, for tbey are equal to the asgels." Yes, deathless are the^e wonderful creatures of whom I speak. They will see world after world go out, but there shall be no fading of their own brilliance. Yea, after tbe last world has taken Its last flight they will be ready for the widest circuit through immensity, taking a quadrillion of mlled in one sweep as easy as a pigeon circles a dovecot. They are never sick. They are never exhausted. They need no sleep, for tbey are never tired. At God's command they smote with death in ono night 165,000 of 8ennacherlb's host, but no fatality can smite them. Awake, agile, multipotent, deathless, immortal! A further characteristic of these radiant folk is intelligence. The woman of Tekoah was right when she spoke to King David of the wi9dom of an angei. Wo mortals take j In what little we know through eye and ear and nostril and touch, but those beings have no physical encasement, and hence i they are all senses. A wall Ave feet thick is not solid to them. Through it they go j without disturbing flake of mortar or crysj tal of sand. Knowledge! It flashes on them. They take It in at all points. Tney absorb it. They gather It up without any hinderment. No need of literature for them. The letters of their boolcs are stars. The da9he9 of their books are meteors. The words of their books are constellations. The paragraphs of their books are galaxies. The pictures of their books are sunrises and sunsets and midnight auroras and the Conqueror on the white horse with the moon under his feet. Their library is an open universe. No need of telescope to see something millions of miles away, for instantly they are tliere to inspect and explore it. All astronomies, all geologies, all ?|| nIMlnannhlaa of tholv fnaf What an opportunity for intelligence is theirs! What facilities for knowing everything and knowing it right away! There is only one thing thAt puts them to their wits' end, and the Bible says they hf.ve to study that. They have been studying it all through the ages, and yet I warrant they have not fully grasped it?the wonders of redemption. These wonders are so high, so deep, so grand, so stupendous, so magnificent, that even the intelligence of angelhood is confounded before It. The apostle says, "Which things the angels desire to look into." That is a subject that excites inquisltiveness on their part. That is a theme that strains their faculties to the utmost. That is higbor than they can climb, deeper than they can dive. They have a desire for something too big for their comprehension. "Wtiicli things the angels desire to look into." But that does not discredit their Intelligence. Jfo one but God Himself can fully understand tne wonaers 01 redemption. It all heaven should study it for fifty eternities, they would got no further tbau the A B C of that inexhaustible subject. But nearly all other realms ot knowledge they have ransacked and explored and compassed. No one but God can tell them anything they do not know. They have read to the last word ot the last line of the lust page of the last volume ot investigation, and what delights me most is that all their intelligence la to be at our disposal, and, coming into their preseuce, they will tell us in five minutes more than we can loarn by 100 years of earthly, surmising. A further cnaracterlstic of these immortals is their velocity. This the Bible puts sometimes under the figure of wing.*, sometimes under tho figure of a flowing garment, sometimes tinder the figure of naked feer. As these .-uperhuinans are without bodies, the.?e expiessions are of course figurative and men a swiftness, '^be Bible tells us that Daniei was praying aou ?1abriel flew from heaven and touched him bCfnr? he cot no from his knees. How far. I I tbeD. illil lbs Angel Gabriel hare to fly in in those moments of Daniel's prayer? Heaven Is thought to be the center of the universe, our sun r.nd Its planets only tbo rim of tbe wheel of world*. In a moment the Angel Gabriel flew from that ceuter to this periphery. Je?U3 told Peter ho OOUId Instuntly have 60,000 angels preseut if he | called for them. Whut foot of nnlelopo or wing of albatross could equal that velocity? Law of gravitation, which grips all things else, has no influence upon angelic momentum. Immensities before them open and shut like a fan. That they are here is uo reason why they should Dot be u qulntillion of miles hence tbe next minute. Our bodies binder us, but our miuds can circle the earth in a minute. Angelic being) nre bodiless and have no limitation. God may *YIIU JI la jiuiui uuwu IU nuiuo uuiiu Id trouble cm the outmost limits of creaI tion, and Instantly au angelic cohort is | there to help it, or some celestial maybe standing at the farthermost outpost of immensity, aDd God may aay "Cornel" and | Instantly it la In Hia bosom. Abraham, V"" )!; -? '-.V *~q Elljab, Hagar, Joshua, Oideon, Manoaa Paul, St. Jobo, could tell of their unhindered locomotion. The red feet of sum* mer liRbtnlng are slow compared with tbelr beglras. Another iemaik I have to make concerning these illustrious Immortals is that they are multitudinous. Their census has never been taken, and no one but God knows how many they are, hut all the Bible accounts suggest tbelr immense number*? companies o{ tbem, regiments ot them, armies of them, mountain tops haloed by them, skies populous with them, John speaks ot angels and other beings round the throno us ten thousand times tea thousand. Now according to my calculation, ten thousand times ten thousand are 100,000,000. But these are only the angels la one nlttce. David cnunturt 20 000 r>f thnm rolling down the sky in chariots. When God came away from the riven rocks of Mount Slnal, the Bible says He lmd the companionship of 10,000 angels. I think they are In every battle, in every exigency, at every birth, at every pillow, at every hour, at every moment, the earth full of them, the heavens full of them. Tiiey outnumber the human race in this world. They outnumber ransomed spirits In glory. When Abraham had his knife uplifted to slay Isaac, It was au angel who arrested the stroke, crying, "Abraham, Abraham!" It was a stairway of angels that Jacob saw white pillowed in the wilderness. We are told au angel le>l the hosts of Israelites out of Egyptiau serfdom. It was an angel that showed Hagar the fountain tfhere she tilled the bottle for the lad. It was an angel that took Lot out of doomed Sodom. It was an angel that shut up the mouth of the hungry monsters wheu Daniel was thrown into the cavern. If was an angel that fed Elijah under the juniper tree. It was an angel that announced to Mary the approaching nativity. They were angels that chanted when Christ was born. It was an angel that strengthened our Saviour in His agony. It was an angel that encouraged Taul in the Mediterranean shipwreck. It was an angel that burst open the prison gate after gate, until Peter was liberated. It was an angel that .stirred the pool ot Slloam, where the sick were healed. It was an angel that John saw flying through the midst of heaven, and an angel with foot planted on the sea, and an angel that opened the book, and an angel that sounded the trumpet, and an angei that thrust in the sickle, and an angel that poured out the vials, and an angel standing In the sun. It will be an angel with uplifted hand swearing that time shall be no longer. In the great final harvest of the world the reapers are the angels. Yea, the Lord shall be revealed from heaven with mighty angels. Oh, the numbers and the might and the glory of these supernals? fleets ol them, squadrons of them, host beyond host, runk above rank, millions on mill* Ions, and all on our side If we will have tbera! Tills loads me to speak of the oSflces ol these supernals. To defend, to cheer, to resoue, to escort, to give victory to the right and overthrow the wrong?that is their business?just a3 alert to-day and efficient as when in Bible times they spread wing or unsheathed sword or rocked down penitentiaries or filled the mountains with horses of fire hitched to chariots of Are and driven by reinsmen of Are. They have turned your steps a hundred times, and you know it not. You were on the way to do some wrong thing, and they changed your course. They brought some thought of Christian parentage or of loyalty to your own home, and that arrested you. They arranged that some one should meet you at that crisis and propose something honorable and elevating, or they took from your pocket some ticket to evil amusement, a ticket that you never found. It wns an ancrel of God. and DerhaDS the very one tbnt guided you to tbts service and that now waits to report some fooly Impression to be made upon youi. soul, tarrying with one foot upon the doorstep of your immortal spirit and the other foot lifted for ascent Into the skies. By some prayet detain him until he can tell you of a repentant and ransomed soull Or you were some time borne down with trouble, bereavement, persecution, bankruptcy, sickness and all manner of troubles beating their discords in your heart and life. You gave up. You said: "I cannot stand it an; longer. I believe I will take my life Where Is the rail train or the deep wave ot the precipice that will end this torment ol earthly existence?" But suddenly yout mind brightened. Courage came surging into your heart like oceanlo tides. You said. "God is on mv side, and all these ad versltfes He can make turn out for mj good." Suddenly you felt tv peace, a deep pence, the peace of God that passeth all understanding. What made the change? A sweet and mighty comforting angel ol the Lord met you. That was all. Men and women of all circumstances, only partly appreciated or not appreciated at all, never feel louely Again or unregarded agalnl Angels all around, angels to ap> ?rovo, angels to help, angels to remember. ca. while nil the good angels ara friends of the good, there is one special angel yom bodyguard. This idea until this present study of angelology I supposed to be fancl? ful, but I find it clearly stated in the Bible When the disolples were praying forPeter'a deliverance from prison and he appeared at the door of the prayer meeting, they could not believe it was Peter. They said "It is his angel." So these disciples, in special near'nest to Christ, evidently believed that every worthy soul haj an angel. Jesus said of His followers, "Thelt angels behold thd face of My Father." Elsewhere it is said, "He shall give Hfs angels charge over thee, to keep thee In all thy ways." Angel shielded, angel protected, angel guarded, angel canopied, art thoul Yes, a guardian angel for each one oi you. Put yourself now in accord with Him. When He suggests the right, follow i . When He warns you agaiost tho wrong, shun It. SeDt forth from God to help you in this great battle against sin and death, accept his deliverance. When teuipted tc a feeling of loneliness and dlsheurtenment, appropriate the promise, "The angel of the Lord encampetli around about them that fear Hi,m and dellvereth them." Oh. I am go glad that the spaces between here and heaven are thronged with tbese supernatural taking tidings home, brluglng messages here, rolling back obstacles from our path and giving us defenses, for terrlflc are the for .es whc dispute our way, and if tbe nation of the good angels is on our sido the nation oi bad angels is on the ether. Paul had it right when he said, "We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against prin* cipalltios, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of thl9 world, against spiritual wickedness in blgb places." In that awful light may God send us mighty angelic re-enforcement! We want all tbelr winp on our side, all their swords on our side, all their chariots on ou r side. Thank God that those who are for us are mightier than those who are against usl And that thought makes me jubilant as to llnal triumph. Belgium, you know, was the battleground of Eugland and France. Yes, Belgium more than once was the battleground of opposing nations. It so happens that this world is the Belgium or battleground between the angelic nations, good and bad. Michael, the commander-in-chief ot: ooe side; Lucifer, as Byron calls him. or Mepblstopheles. as Goethe calls him; or Satan, as the Blblo calls him, the commander-in-chlef on the otherslde. All pure angelhood under the one leadership and all abandoned angelhood under tbe olher leadership. Many a skirmish have the two armies hud, but the great and decisive batile Is yet to be fought. Either from onr earthly liomes or down from our supernal residences may we come in on the right side, IOr Oil lum siuu aru uuu ami uonvou uuu | victory. Meanwhile the battle i9 being ant i iu iirrny, r.iul ihe forces celestial nnA ! lemoniHcal are confronting eacli other. Hear the biom of ttj.: groat cannonade already opened! Cherubim, seraphim, throne-), dominations, principalities and powers nr? begiuning to ride down their foes, and, until the work is completed, "Sun. stand tlior. stilt upon Oibeon, and thou, moou, la the valley of Ajalou!" WorU of One r.Ilssionary Soolety. The Woman's Homo and Foreign Missionary Society cf the Lutheran General Synod supports nine home and eight foreign missionaries, besides assistants and Bible women in Iudia, native schools and . scholars in India and Africa, and the hos- j pltal uiid dispensary m Ouateo:, Africa. j Supporting Lepwrx In (tie Emit. The Mission to Lepers la India and the ! East lias be?m organized live years nnd supports twenty-one asylums entirely, makes Krauts toward eleven others ual lias fourteen homes for children. TOE GREAT DESTROYER. SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Cold Water?A. Pleasant Care For the Liquor Habit?Fretli Fruit Will Take Away the Craving For Drink?Dutllla tlons of >'atnre'? Laboratory Shall e'er cold water be forgot, When we sit down to dine? Ah, no! my friends, for Is It not Poured out by hands divine? Poured out by hands divine, my friend3, Poured out by bands divine, From springs and wells It gushes forth, Poured out by hucds divine. Cold rater, too (tbo* wonderful 'Tii not less true again), The weakest of all earthly drinks. Doth make the strongest men. Dotli uake the strongest men, my friends, Doth make the strongest men; The weakest of all earthly drinks, Doth muke the strongest men. And as the bolls of tulips turn To <i.rink the drops that fell j From summer clouds, then why should not The two lip3 of a belle? The two lips of a belle, my friends, The two lips of a belle, What sweetens more, than water pure, The two lips of a belle? 'Pho atiirdv / ? a lr full mnntr a #?nn.. Doth hold up to the sky, To catch the rain, then drink It up, 'TIs thus the oak gets high. 'lis thus the oak gets high, my friends, 'TIs thus the oak gets high By having water In Its cupsThen why not you and I? Then let cold water armies fling Their banners to the air; So shall the boys like oaks get strong, The girls like tulips fair. Tbe girls like tulips fair, my friends, The girls like tulips fair, The boys shall grow like sturdy oaks, The girls like tulips fair. ?Luolea Minor, In the New York Observer. Antidote For liquor. A. writer in a European temporance jouraal calls attention to the value of fruit as I iiu ailllUUlC 1UI IUD U1UT1UH JtVJt uu stiys: . "In Germany, a nation greatly In I advance of other cjuntrles lri'matters reluting t9 hygiene, ulcobollo disease has been successfully coped with by the adoption of pure diet and natural curative agencies. I bave said tbat tbe use of fresh fruit is an antidote for tbe drink crave, and tbis is true. I have met men who bave told mo that fruit bas often taken away tbe oravlng for drink. It may be asked. How can fruit and pure diet do all this? . Tbe explanation is simple. "Fruit may be called nature's medicine. Every apple, every orange, every plum and every grape Is a bottle of medicine. An orange is tbree parts water?distilled 4n nature's laboratory?but this water Is rich in peculiar fruit acids medicinally balanced, which are specially cooling to tbe thirst of tbe drunkard and soothing to the diseased state of the stomach. An apple or an orange eaten when tbe desire for liquor arises would generally, take away that desire, and every vlctory^ould make less strong each recurring-temptation. The function of fresh fruits and suoealent vegetables is not so much to provide solid nourishment as to supply tbe needful acids and salines for tbe purification of tbe blood. Once get the blood pare, every time Its pure nutrient stream bathes the several tissues in the body It will bring away somo impurity and leave behind an atom ot healthy tissue until in time the drunkard shall stand up purified and in bis right mind."?Chrlstlun Work. A Great Pbyalclan on Moderate Drinking. One ot the most famous medical men of Europe is Sir Henry Thompson, surgeon of the University College Hospital, fellow of the Royal Soolaty, and Surgeon extraordinary to the King of the Belgians. Sir Henry has made an especial study of alcohol and its effect upon tbe human system, and has been most vigorous In his denunciations of. the business.of selling it as a beveraore and of Its use as such, On one occasion he made tills observation: "I have long bad tbe conviction that there is no greater cause ot evil, moral and physical, in this country than the use of alcoholic beverages. I do not mean by this that extreme indulgence which pro* ! duces drunkenness. The habitual use of fermented liquors to an extent far uhort | ot what is necessary to produce that condition, und such as is common in all ranks of soolety, injures the body and diminishes the mental power to an extent which few people are aware of. I have no hesitation la attributing a very large proportion of somoof the most painful and dangerous maladies which come under my notice, as well as those which every medical man has to treat, to tbe ordinary and daily use of fermented drink taken in the quantity which is conventionally deemed moderate."?Presbyterian Banner. The Boj? Got Soared. As a result of the recent visit of Dr. Crothers (editor of. the Journal of Inebriety) to Butte, Mont., whither he was called to give expert testimony in a case before I the courts, the saloon keepers of that city report a perceptible decrease in their cash receipts. So says a leading liquor organ. Tbe doctor, it is stated, "drew suob a dismal picture of tbe dangers of alcoholism, declaring that,every man who bad once been drunk is never afterward perfectly sane, tbat the boys have got scared and bave been thinking in double shifts." The antl-liquor forces would make much more rapid strides toward victory If there were more such specialists us Dr. Crothers in the field to testify by voice and pen to the true nature of alcohol. The mo9t potent arguments for total abstinence in these days?the arguments which cause quickest arrest of thought?are, we believe, to be found in tne scientific phases, of the problem.?Union Signal. Munllft Getting "Civilized." C. ?. Banker, a St. Puul (Minn.) policeman, who joined the Thirteenth Minnesota and is just hocce from service in thePhU lppines, 19 quoteu uy a 01. rsui paper aa saying: "Manila is getting to be a real hot town and it has assimilated Americau ways very rapidly. Oa the Escolta there are some floe saloons, and you can buy American beer tbere?tbat is, if you want to pay eighty ceats 1 bottle (Mexican money) for it. Some of tbe saloons take in ns high as $3900 a day, wblob is not so bad." The Gin-Mill Road. Joseph Cook says that "the road to political preferment runs- through the ginmill," and tbo voting cliuroh appears to have deliberately elected to travel that road in peace rather than run the risk of temporary defeat by fljaklng an heroics effort to remove tbe gin-mill from its path. The Crniade In Brier. Total abstinence is self-discipline. Drunkenness Is individual anarchy. The siiioon never takes a vacation. 'lis better to abstain than to reform. The saloon stnys because we are too lazy to be in eurnesc. Day und night, Sunday and week-day, liquor continues its ruinous work. With the sanction of the law the liquor traffic robs men of money and health und chaructcr. An ordinance has been passed in West Palm Beach, Fla., forbidding females to enter saloons. Cardinal Vauglian declared fn a rccent uddress in London that 60,000 persons a year perished through drink. hince our insc issue more iwv persons in the United States alone have died because the liquor business lives. ? Drink seems to drive care away; for brief momeuts it steeps us In sweet obliviou of all onr miseries, and to this it owes its delusive charm. More deadly than tho Filipinos' rifles aro tho Amerionn prog-shops, and yet we seem to have agreed as a nation that while the Fillptuos are to be suppressed the saloon is to be sustained. The inebriate is a blister to society, ?ays tho New Zealand Tablet, a plague to his family, and a menace to the well-being of children who ure brought up amidst llrnn'.-o'j IHrrOTH'nVs. \. ' <rt SUNK BY A STEAMSHIP, Ferryboat Cut Down in Hudson River With Loss of Life. J Iboat a Hundred Persona Were on Boards Some Paiaengera Swam Aahore and Togl Picked Up Blauy More. New Yobs City (8peclal).?The ferryboat Chicago, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was 6unk In a collision la midstream in the North River with about one hundred passengers on boird, at about 1 o'clock Tues- # . day morning. Many persona lost their . lives. The ferryboat was struck by th? City of Augusta, of the Savannah Line. A ? AMiali vtutMA on/? fKa kl?* fovrrrhAa^ . . 1 act wuu viaou coiuo nuu i>uv ?>ifj *V4* j wvh? i slowly began to sink from tbe weight ot water that rushed la through the woand made by tbe steamship the passengers,who ' 3 were la the lower cabins, rushed to tbe up- > ;.dj per deck. From this point some of the more venturesome sprang Into the water. They swnm to the shore, where men on the piers drew them from the water. Confusion was added to confusion by the fact that there were seven truoks on board. ' many with two horses each. The horses neighed and plunged, and were thrown down by tbe shoclc of collision. They struggled wildly, and fought to break over each other. The rush ot the animal* was such thp.c the Iron gates at one end of the boat were broken out, and several horses and wagons toppled over Into the river, even before the boat sank. In the mldit of this Indescribable con* fusion, the passengers, each for himself, {/si was making every effort to escape what seemed certain death. There were cries of "Everybody take a life preserver!" and' the frightened passengers did the best they could. It seems almost a miracle that all on i board were not drowned, so unexpectedi was the collision and so qulok the sinking ef the ferryboat. , Wimw tvravA ouvad hw Mflmhflflnc fn fchu _* storm deok, where they remained until1 taken off by the Pennsylvania BallroadL '-gH tug Cbauncey M. Depew, with another togi and several small boats that soon gathered' about. Men in these boats worked hard. $11 and bravely, and everything that could b? done to save life was done. * I John Enfield, an engineer, was one of th? heroes of the occasion. He, stuck to hlal ' ' post until the water waa up to his arms and* till the fires were out and the dynamos} r.;3 stopped. When the shock came, nerealV lzed that many lives might depend on bis) coolness. He hoped that the boat would! properly right itself In spite of its frightful' 7 careening, and even in that moment oC deadly peril he knew that an engineer should remain at the engines ready to sendf -.^59 the boat where it should go. ' | The water came rushing in, but he gav* no heed to it, listening only for the sounds of signals from the captain. It swlrledl about him, rose above nia waist, and not: till then did lie make any effort for his own, safety, when he saw that nothing morv could be done. j. . gW Captain Durham, of the Chicago, who.' was rescued, says tbat there were about* one hundred persons on board, and that' when the crasb.came they all grabbed llfw preservers. He says that more than dozen tugs and boaMWMe on the scene of tho ^tanafa?? In on (nAPA^ihlv ahAPt HniA and that their iwork of rescue was praott* cally immediate. ? Captain Durham says that be gave two whistles, signalling that be would gar rjjM ahead,so that the steamer might go astern., There was no response, and the steamer crashed into the ferryboat. " 0. E. Damon, who was on the Jersey Central ferryboat, corroborate* the captain and says that he was standing tor- . ward and saw the accident. He heard tbo two whistles, but says the Ghlotgo was late and did not have the right of way. vj One man, with his wife clinging to his shoulders, was picked up on thQ verge of exhaustion. Another moment and both would have been drowned. Tbe Chicago is one of the oldest boats ot the Pennsylvania Railroad line; she usedco be a single-deck side wheeler and whenthe railroad company changed to double-deck boats she wus one of the first. She bas the1 record for accidents on the Pennsylvania Railroad line, having had -more than all ot the other ferryboats of the Oortlandt street branch put together. She was oommanded by Captain Durham. )&si AFRICAN CANNIBALS ROUTED. Belgian Soldiers Under an American Captain Kill 300. f Lomdox (By Cable).?Mail advice i from Hi a finmyn announce that CaDtain Mohun. formerly United States Consul at Zanzibar, % who Is oopmandlng the Belgian Tanganyika-Congo telegraph expedition, bos reached the Congo Free State, and was engaged, at the end ol July, In a fierce battle at Sangull, where the force coDslstei of ten Europeans, with Captain Mohun commanding,' Shortly after the attack commenced Baron Dhamls, the Belgian commander, dispatched three companies of soldiers to assist Mohun, and the enemy, consisting of cannibal*, who horribly torture their wounded, were finally routed. t % Captain Mohan did great execution with a Winchester repeater. It is estimated that the enemy numbered 1500 men and lost 800 killed and 600 wounded. The Belgian force lost 9 men killed and 47 wounded. The enemy fled to Tanganyika. ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT. : - ? Uflrmaaj in inLioiiigHfi mrottwu iu .w, One of Their Number. Gbaxd Have*, Mich. (Special).?Belief In witchcraft has a firm hold on a community of German settler* a few miles front here. A young German farmer la accused by his neighbors of casting spells and' otherwise practicing the black art. ' One of the neighbors says the young man has exerted myatpflous influence over hia stock, his cattle ace.wlid and vicious, his horses, although they ate well fed, remain as poor as crows.Vv The neighbors are' conniving together to get the young roan ont of the way, andars threatening to hang him. Hearing this, he consulted Judge PAgelson, and he says he will make it warm for his neighbors. Severe Fighting at Ladyainlth. The Boers began shelUng the British oamp at Ladysmlth, Natal, at long range, boyond the reaob of General White's oannon. The British engaged the Boers, and after several hours of flgbtlng withdrew with fc loss of about one hundred men. ???????????? ' US3B A Lyncblnt In Georgia. John Goosby, a negro, wa9 lynohed at Reagan's Mill, about six miles from Maoou/ / Ga.,bya mob from Twiggs County. Goosby. / h few duys ago, stabbed his employer, Jobs f Robinson. Boblnson will reoover. / ty Slain by > Note<l Moonshiner. / W. H. Greer, United States Deputy / ,1 ftevenue Officer, was shot a few days ago / by Bill Hunntcutt, a noted moonshiner, / and died near Elk Park, N* C. Deputy / Sheriff Witt Phillips wa9 fatally shot by / Hunnlcutt when nn attempt at arrest was ' made. Haualoutt has killed five men. Au Accidental Shot Kill* a Boy. j Herhert Gray, twelve years of age, wo* shot and Instantly killed by the accidental dlschar^o of a ?un In the hands of a hunting companion, Frank Smith, ajjed fourteen years, ut Wheuton's Station, Conn. I The Labor World. / Pressmen have organized a <ialon at v,jrt c n wiuiuvia. o. / * Thq girls employed iu London shops v'i number some 60,000." / Mlner.'i ami brlckrankers iu Kansas City, Mo., have organized. The elifbt-hour day has beybn Inaugurated In the Government postal-stamp factory In France. Boilermakers and Iron and steel workers In Blrmlughum, Aln., Uavo been granted an increase iu wages. OalKornla's law requiring corporations to pay wages nt lea-*t monthly has been n*tltutlo<nal. _ 7 / -v i-u T rTi fhr