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BRITISH RETREAT. General Boiler's Army, Unable r to Relieve Ladysmith, Recrosses (lie Tagela River. FAILDPiE OF Wffl Boers' Rfsrht Tisiik Impervious to L Attack After Despf rate Fighting: in f Which They Say 1500 British Soldiers Were Killed. General Culler's Report of Defeat?He Says the Difficulty of Securing.a Water Supply Contributed to the Failure?Kerreat Accomplished Without Interference From the Boer*?Bullet' Thinks This Shows That tho Burghers Have Been Taught to.Respect the Fighting Fnwers of the British Soldiers?The Danger of Intervention by Kuropean Powers?England l'repnren For Any l'.-?...nrr_nrrl?ri to the >'uvy. London* (By Cable).?General Bailor ha9 ^ Informed the War Office that his entire force has retired across tha Tusela River, K leaving tho Boers in full control. The following is the text of General Bulier's dispatch, dated Spearman's Camp on Saturday: "On January 20 Warren drovo back the enemy and obtained possession of the southern crests of the high tableland extending from the line of Actou Homes and Hooger's Poort to the western Ladysraith hills. From then to January 25 be remained in close contact with the enemy. ' ?GESERAL Slit HEAVERS BCLtEB. ( He has met defeat twice at the hands ol the Boers iu his efforts to relievo Lady?; smith.) "The enemy held a strong position oa a ransro of small kopjes stretching from northwest across the plateau from Acton Homes, through Spioa Kop, to the left, bual: of the Tugela. J "The actual position held was perfectly j 'teuable, but did not lend itself to an adf vaace, as the southeru slopes were so, / steep that Warren could not get au effecL tive artillery position, and water supply k| was a di Acuity. "On January 23 I assented to bis attackg lag Spion Kop, a large hill?Indeed, a ^ mountain?whioh was evidently the key of I the positioD, but was far more accessible ' from the north than from thp south. . "Oa the night or January418 he attached Kniou Koo but found it Ydrv difficult to bold, as its perimeter was too large, and, venter, which lie bud been led to believe1 existed, in this extraordinarily dry season, was fouod very deficient, .... :-/m "The crests were bold all that da*; against severe Httuclc And a heavv shell Are. Ourtnen fought with great gallantry. Would especially mention the conduct" oL the Second .Qaineronlans and the Third'; King's r.iflijs, who snpported the attack oirl the mountain from the steepest side, ahtf' la each uaso fought tbeir way to the tdp, and the Second Lancashire Fusileers and Beconu Middlesex, who magnificently maintained the best traditions ofthe British Army throughout the trying day of January 24, and Thornycroft's Mounted , Infhiury, wno fought throughout the day k equally well alongside of then*. A "General YVoodgate, who was In com-. band at the summit, having been wounded, the o fleer who succeeded him deolaed on Kr the night of January 24 to abandon the K position, and did so before dawn, January. tp "I readied Warren's camp at 5 a. m. on. January 25, and deeided that a second atBfc tact npon Splpn Kop was useless and t^>r IMS: tofor^tUr^^t wus t0? 3tron? ^ f ''Accordrtflfij^fcpoMgA^^ggjiRTf the force to the aoatWWBMBMKtaT At 6 a. m. we commenced ^ RfEwios the train, and by 8 h. m., January 27 (8aturday), Warren's foice was concentrator sonth of the Tugelawithout the loss'of a 'man or a pound of stores. "Tbe fact that tbotroops oonld withdraw from actual touch?in some easw'the lines were less than 1000 yards apart?.with the enemy in the manner It did la, I think, safflcent evidence of the morale of the troops; and that we were permitted to withdraw E oar cumbrous ox and male transports R across the river, eighty-five yards broad, f with twenty-fooi banks and a very swift ourrent, unmolested, is, I think, proof that F the enemy has been taught to respect oar r* soldiers'lighting powers." BKiriSH DEFEAT AT SPIOX KOP. Boer Story of the Hard Fighting Which Drove Warren's Men Back. Boer Caup, Modder Spruit, Upper Tugela River, via Lorenzo Marques (By Cable).?Some Yryheid burghors forming tbe outposts on the highest hills of the Spion Hop group rushed luto the laager announcing tint the British had taken Spion liop. R^-enforcements were summoned, but nothing could bo done for Falling Tree Kills Tito Men. A falling hemlock tree crushed E iward Beede and his son to de-ith near Kane, Penn. The hemlock had lodged against auouier ireo, rniu ui~j wcin rUur.t<u>>iiii to dislodge It whoa Che wind swayed 5j and it fell on them. Dentist* For the Army. I A strong effort is being made to open the army to dental surgeons, aud a bill has been prepared for introduction to Congress authorizing the appointment of such surgeons with the rimk of Major, so as to allow one for each regiment. Boer-Uritluli War Note*. The British War Office has plnceil an order feor thirty-two billion cartridges iu oases. About 200 telegraphers have been sent out with the various army divisions la South Africa. The peace minority io England have formed a South African conciliation committee, Among the prisoners taken by Lord Dundonnld was a grandsou-in-law of Presldeat Kruger. The American mule must be vacoinated before he can be enlisted In the British Armv service in South Africa In the future, Tbe Admiralty ban passed upon his case. ?ad decree is final. f some time as the lull was enveloped Ic mist. At <la\vn there was a siguitleant Sinn, the Kuflirs Oeeing to their kraals ffoni the hilly. Telegraphic comouitiication with the head laager was also cut oft. At daylight the Ileidelberg and Carolina eontingeuts, who were supplemented, commenced the ascent. There are three spurs, rather precipitous projections, facing the Boer position. Up the^e the burghers, leaving their horses at the llrst bault o? rocks, ascended. At the summit they found the British heavily entrenched. Between the British trenches aud the Boer commaudos there was a stretch of open veldt, which had to bo rushed under a heavy rifle, Ivddito and shrapnel Are. Meanwhile two parties ot burghers-as- j cended the other two spurs', covered by the j Free State Krupp, Creusot and Maxim i guns. The British tried to rush them, tut tliA*r inffintrv f?*l! na h*ifnr? n k^vMia Th? Urine continued with undiminished furv. the Boers advancing step by step until 2 o'clock. ' Then a white flag was displayed and ! 150 British in the first trenches surrendered. They were seut to the head laager. The storming of the rest of the summit was still proceeding. The ears of the beholders were deafened by the tremendous cannonade. * At midnight the British infantry advance, of which the earlier stages had been reported in the afternoon, continued on two of the kopjes east of Spiou Kop. The object of the British was to gain the summits of the?e two kopj.es In order to outflank the burghers who were attacking the trenches. Many were shot down on top of the^opjes, but the British were so numerous TOat the gaps were filled, automatically. They reached the summit of tbflblsecond kopje, but pot no further. Meanwhile the Maxims were belching flame on both sides, while a wall of flame from the Boer Mausers bold back the British centre. Under such pressure they gradually gave way, broke and abandoned their position. The British prisoners speak highly of the bravery of the burghers, who, despising cover, stood on the skyline to be shot at by the Dublin Fusiliers, who were sheltered in trenches. The Boers rushed the trouches, shouting "Hands up, -wfeapoas down." The resistance, however, continued for some time loncer. Then th6 Dublins aud tho Light Horse had enough, and, throwing up their arms, rushed out of the trenches. An unusually high proportion of the British lvddite shells failed to exoiode. The effect 01 the British abandonment ot Splon Kop can hardly be gauged yet, bat it wlil undoubtedly be immense. y TALK OF 1NTERVESTION. British Xmwj to Be Prepared For Any Zfeftd bio Ein?rj;eacj. L0KD0*'(By 'C&ible).?'Tho intervention of one or more of tbe European powers against Great Britain is now more than probable. The whold nation suddenly roalizes this. Every London paper announces it more or i iess directly and calls for the fleet to be j made ready (or action. Dr. Leyda, who 1ih9 been received warmly by high Government officials in Berlin and in other European capitals, suggests that intervention is justified because of England's Inhuman methods of warfare, which are contrary to tbe Geneva convention; the wrongful seizure of ships and th* breaobes of neutrality b^<Tortugul inlavor of Saarland. , 'European intervention is in the atr. Orders sent to thi British battleships at Perim and Aden to join the Mediterranean fleet at once show that the British Admiralty expect to be called upon :it short notice. In her present temper England will not stand Intervention from anybody. Hence" the baste to (rot the fleet in shnpe to stun^ F^wflHF^yiuioed state of construction pw^raMK^DlQflr oI tVe.HiposItioa.wlll oc jlti^l^&^dvortised jifttl, even if it b?d^m^^Mniary to tfork day und sight Tbe'"ipflirlian sectloa Js-tbe subject ot njax^r-'aiforeciHtlve notices in the' pre&s.-j Th?: J The i?* w krt ii Health la about a 4Q<Vin counties in which the disease 1? the rfiosrfcerloiis, the last being that ofCaldwellygfljunty, where nearly flfty per emit, of the MSBple aro 'snfferiuz from the dlJpase. Th?f cause of these resignationjiFtihe InokjBi'mouey wifU wlilclP Th?disease-.j^fi^dirUasLJEore virulent, and^fatallttiMM^^nJgri^rte'l la coDsldloo, shows affllcrWlllianx H. a^qj^^.j?tObicago, has purchased at mastal^pailo the plant oPrhe Patrons NotlOQaj=Banufneturlnc: Company aud 602 acres otl'nnd known as Mildred, ^llL Theprlce was *31,000. Mildred was projectedaome five years ago by a number of grangers who Intended to form a model manufacturing . town where farm implements /or the entire country would be. made. The scheme was a failure. Capture otTul bj tlie Army and Navy. ? ..vu i.lmirul Wntunn & CUL/iD^l?UU uuui >. ..?wvu ?k Manila has bsen received at the Navy Department, Washington, telling of tbe capture of Taal Jiy tho army and navy1. It appears from the dispatch that the gunboat Marietta of the navy performed important service in shelling the insurgent trenches, while taujor Johnson with a battalion of tbe Fifty-sixth Infantry carried tbe bridge crossing the river between Taafi aud Lemlrlng. >.i? Knforclnc Sunday Laws in Tlie Sunday laws in Baltlmor&;jijp? 1 were enforced Sunday with .aitrM^'jqjbr by directiou of the Grand Jury. v Took Cera* Worth Diamonds valued at $ 093 wec^jj^o!4^ ' from thcsafe in the office ol Joseph ison <k Son, manufacturing jewelt^*.10; : Philadelphia. The thief was la p0 session 1 of the combination, ns there were -? on the safe. There was notii'-;. ,?, ? j.* i cate the manner in which."1?. 7. ? . entered the office, and it *9 believed ho was familiar with the pla;e' Smallpox Epidemic Ser'?,l*in M lnlMippi. The new State Boardjf Httalth organized at Jaokson, Miss., by Meeting Dr. Gant. of , Water Valley, Presid3"1- , The smallpox situation was declar'? serious all over the ( State, and oompulsf1^ vaccination recomBlended. V g^j DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON, j SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: The TVotiilers of the Ifnmsn Hand?Our lMiyoical Structure I'roof of Divine Wisdom?-The Kxtended Hand the Symbol of Infinite !Hercy? (CopyrlRUt, Iiouis Klopsch, 1900.] W.\sniNrtTf)\. D. C.?Tlie discourse of Dr. Ta Imago Is a lesson of gratitude for that which none of us fully appreciate and shows the Divine meaning in ocr physical structure; text, I Corinthians xiij, 21, "The eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee." These word9 suggest that some time two very important parts of the human body got into controversy, and the eye became inso- I lent aud full of braggadocio and said: "I | am an independent part of the human sv?- | tem. How far I can see, taking In sprinp: moruing and midnight aurora! Compared with myself what an Insignificant tblnrr is the human band! I look down upon it. There it hangs, swinging at the side, a clump of muscles and ner7es, and it cannot 3ee au inch oither way. It has no luster compared with that which I beam forth." "What senseless talk." responds the band. "You, the eye, would have been put out long ago but for me. Without the food I have eurnod you would bave been sightless and starved to death years ago. You cannot do without me any bofter than I can do without you." At this part of the disputation Paul of my text breaks in and ends the controversy nby declaring, "The eye cannot say unto the* hand, I have no need of thee." Fourteen hundred and thirty-three, times, as nearly as I can count by aid pfc' concordance, does the Bible spealc of'Idle.J human hand.' We are nil familiar Wltfijajflg hand, but the man has yet to be borirafp^ can fully understand this wondrousinatrameai. Sir Charles Bell, the English gar* neon, came home from the battlefield of Waterloo, where he had been amputating, limbs and binding up gunshot fractures, and wrote a book entitled "Tho Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evl dencing ueaign." uueicisso proiuuuu n book tlint only a scientist who is familiar with the technicalities of anatomy and physiology can understand it. So we are all going oa opening and shutting this divinely constructed instrument, the hand, Ignorant of much of the revelation it was intended to tnnke of tho wisdom and goodness of God. You can see fcy their structure that shoulder and. elbow and forearm are getting ready for the culmination in the hand. Tberd is your wrist, with its eight bono3 and their ligaments in two rows. That wrist, with its bands of libres and its hinged joint and turning oa two axes?on the larger axle moving backward and forward and oa t)ie smaller axis turning nearly around. And there is tbe palm of your band, with, its live bcnes, eaqh having a shaft and two terminations. There aro the Angers of that hand, with fourteeu bones, e^'oh finger with its curiously wrought tendons,' flvo of the l>ones with ending roughened for the lodgment of the nails. There is the thumb, coming from opposite direction tc moet the lingers, so that in coa<j junction they may clasp and hold fast that ? "An '1 uolmv f a fnl/a Tliflpa ii rd. WUll'll ucoiiy w v kilaw* the long nerves runniug from.. the armpit to the forty-sir . ^musciijfc so that all are under*! .mftawfit The whole anatomy of your ;har?5g$ : complex, us intricate, as wyicmetfHWfcuseful, as God could make it. Whaf '^h not do? It can ciimb.it can Wty WiM pusli, it can repel,-it, c(VC me,riac?.dt*Mfc clucl), 1'. '-an deny, it run affirm, lt cai?^Rj tend, it can wouvo, it can batlief^t^flHi smito, It cau bumble, it can exait,^lti?Hf 900tbe, it can throw, it cau defy, it cin. wave, it can impreci'te, it can pray. ? ;,k A skeleton of the hand traced ou blackboard or unrolled in diagram or hung in medical museum is mightily illustrative of the Divine wisdom and goodness, but how j much more pleasing when in living action nil its nerves and muscles and bones and I tendons and tissues and phalanges display J what God invented when He invented tbe i Human band! Two .spooltoons of it we | carry at our side from the time when in Infancy we opon them to take a toy till in Ibe last hour of a long life we extend them In bitter farewell. With the Diviue help I shall speak of the hand ns tbo chief executive officer of the soul, whether lifted for defense, or oxtonded for help, or busied in the arts, or oiTerod in snlutnfion, or wrung in despair, or spread abroad la benediction. Ood evidently intended nil tho lowor order of living boings should havo weapons of defense, and hence the elephant's tu?t, and tbe horse's hoof, and the cow's born, and the lion's tooth, and tho insect's stiug. Having given weapons or defonsa to tho lower orders of living boings, of course He would nnf !?:ivn mat), tho hlffllOSt order of liviUCT beings on earth, defousoless und at the mercy of brutal or ruffian attack. Tbe right?yoa. the duty?of self defense i* so #tfldent it uceds uo argumedtution. TUo band Is the Divinoly fashioned weapon of deferiso. Wo niny seldom have to use it, for such-prirposes. but the fuot that we art) equipped insures safety.' Tho hand ii a weapon sooner loaded than nuy gun, aooner dfuwn than any swor<!. Its Angers bont into the palm, it becomes a bolt of Iiso it is against aci-Mcnl! ?a times in all our exportitave with the band warded at would have extinguished broken thuakull or crippled le. While the eye has dis>aok or struck it <lcwa or 5very day thauk God for , and If you waut to hear iirn who tu swift revolution kia had it crushed or at Soa'.h Mountain or San j let me say that he who of tbo bnad'uniitjiircjd and i no other. You cowards iword.cane or carry a pis(OcJkeFbnd better lny asido your deadly weapon'. At the" frontier or in bartmr<ta% Inpds or(jts aa officer of the law about to/tud&pnn arrest such nrmk;g may be neces&jnv but no' Citizen moving in t'ieso regions needs such reinfo.reejMp^^Kyou are afraid to go down these^rtftftrdr along these country roada ,wlth<p| dagger or flroarms, hotter ask yourjjrahdmother to go with vou armed yith scissors und knitting needle. VVliat co\ynrds, it not what intended murderers, uselessly to carry weapons of deutb! Jn our two hands God gave us all the weapons we need to carry. Again, the hand is tho chief executive officer of the soul for affording help. .Tust see.how that Itnn<l is constructed! Hi-w easily yoa can lower it to raise the fallen! IIow easily it is extended to feel the invalid's pulse, or gently wipe away the tear of orphanage, or contribute alms, or smooth the excited brow, or beckon into safety! Oil, the helping hands! There are hundreds of thousands of them, and the world wants at least 1,000,000,000 of them. Hands to bless others; .hntyis to rescue others, hands to -saVfr - where. What are ail these schools and'clrurcliesand asylums of mercy? Outstretched bauds. What are all those hands distributing tracts and car rying medicines and trying to cure blind ayes and deaf ears and broken b.>nos and disordered intellects and wayward sons? Helping Lrnnds. Let each ouo of us add to that number, If wo hnva tfcro, or It through casualty only one add tbat ouo. It these ring .face ofChrlstv^JRf none dibept&ry Schef^' ' fer seems to Hat? put rauCfiatressupon the hand'of GJ?riat. :.ai?d?fed.'the mere* of that band, thtf gentleness of that hand, Is beyond alU-W^I^portrnyat. Home Of His,' mfraflieaHeJ^rfcrined by wml ofi month h" t*5) ^^ n& taCfa' Tij to ln!n!^d to me? '^9 toolc her by the hand." Was the blind mun to have optic nerve restored? "Ho tooi^ hjm "by the hand." Was the domoii .to^bA eiorolfeed' from a suffering mau? "Heftoolf Wra by, tbe hand." The people caw this nrid be-* sougtat Him to put His hand upon their atfiioted ones. HN own hand? free, 300 bow tho Lon sympathized with th? man who had lo8< the uso of his baud. It was a ease 0 atrophy, a wasting away until the arm ^nc liund had bcou reduced in size beyondVi; medical or surgical restoration. More over, it was lib iij;ht hand, the most im [ portant of the two, for the left side in al its parts is weaker than tb? right side, and we involuntarily iu any exigency put out the right bund because we know it i9 th? best hand. So that poor man had lost more than halt ot hi* physical armament, It would not have been so bad if it line heou the left hand. But Christ looked a! that shriveled up rluht hand d.inglinf uselessly at tho man's side aud tben cried out with a voice that had omnipotence ic it, "Stretch forth thy hand," and tb< record is, "He stretched it forth whole as the other." The blood rushed through the .shrunken veins, and the shortenod musclos lengthened, and the dead nerves thrilled, aud the lifeless fingers tingled with resumed circulation, and the restored man held up in the presence of the skeptical Pharisees one of Jehovah's masterpieces, a perfect hand. No wonder that story is put three times in the Bible, sc that if a sailor were cast away on a barren island or a soldier's New Testament gol mutilated in battle and whole pages are destroyed the shipwrecked or wounded man in hospital would probably have at least one of those three radiant stories ot what Christ thought ot the human hand. How often has the hnnd decided a destiny! Mary, Queen ot Scots, was escaping /coin imprisonment ot Lochlever In the dress ot a laundress and' bad her face thickly veiled. Wlien a boatman attempted to remove the veil, sh^ptit up het hand to defend it and so revealed the white and Mir hand of & queen, asrd so the boatman; < JooJc bier back to captivity. Again and , Jg&aln it has. been demonstrated that the-. pSKLbath a language a> certainly as the 5noifth.' Paimtatry, or tbe sciencaJ>y which fcster and d satiny^ art^reiid^lu the J lines oiine a ana, is ywi cruueuauu uuunc tain andftnaatlsfaatory. batvii Ritrolom ' was the m$Sr of aatroaWw^iilchemr wag the-mother oi chemistry it may be. that palmistry will result' In a science yet to be born., . Again, as the chief erebdtlve Officer of the sou), behold thS? haj|d bpsy la the arts! What a comparatively dull plnca this world wfould be without pictures, without statuary, without music, without architecture! Huvo you ever realized what fifty seeming miracles are in; the\ Ave minutes' lingering of piano oitharpJOC flute? Wlio but the eternal God edulqtilibake a hand capable of that swift sweep of the keys or that quick-feeling ofthephifclB of n flute or the twirfc.of tlio fingers aajliitho strings of the hnrp? All the compos8$;<ol music who dreamed out the oratorlMv^d the cantatas of the ages would hMapftd their work dropped flat and use less'Thxt for tho translations of the hand. Under 'the daft fingers of the porformer what cavalries gallop and what butteries boom and what birds carol and what tempests march and what oceans billow! The great architects of the earth might have thought out tho Allmmbfa^ and the Parthenons and tho St. Sophias and the Taj Mahals, but all those visions would unve vanished had It not been for the hand on hammer, on plammet, on trowel, on wall, on arch, on pillar, on stairs, on dome. In' two discourses, one concerning the ear and "theijOtbar . concerning the eye, I spokeiromthe pptent text in the Psalms, "H,e thwsjp^ailed the ear, shall He not boar?,". aftHrme taat rormea icq eye, sunu He not see?" but what use ia tbfc.eye and . uriyit use la the ear If the badjjf-had not t>?H&trung with nil Its nerves adtfc move l ;Mtlx9Hjts .muscled and reticulated with Writs joints and strengthened with all its wooes und contrlvod with all its ingenulflei! The band hath forwarded all the arts land tunneled the mountains through Whloh the rail train thunders and launehed all the ahlppfng and fouglit all the battles and built nil the temples and swung all the cables under the sea as well as lifted to midair the wire tracks on which whole trains of thought rush across the continents and built ull the cities and hoisted the pyramids. Do not culoglzo the eye and ear at the expense of the hand,for the eye may be blotted out, as iu tho case of Milton, and yet i;ls hand writes a "Paradiso Lost" oi?V "Samson A^onistes;" as in tho case of Wifi iam II. Prescott, and yet his hand m% write the cnchantlcg "Conquest of Peru.?-j Or the car may be silenced forever, as in i the case of Beethoven, and yet his hand I may put into Immortal cadences the "Ninth ! Symphony." Ob, the hand! The God fashioned band! The triumphant hand! I: is an opon Bible of Divine revelation, andi tho five fingers are the Isaiah aud theEzekiul and the David aud the Micah and the Paul of that almighty inspiration. A pastor iu his sermon told how a little j child .sppreclated the value of bl3 hand when he was told that on the morrow it tnu->t bo amputated in order to save his life. Hearing thai, he Went to a quiet place anil prayed that Qod would spare Ids haud. The surgeon, coming tho next day to do his work, found the hand so much better that .amputation was postponed, uud the hand got well. The pastor, telllag of this In a sermon, concluded by boldiug up his hand and saying, "That is the very hand that v/a* Bpared in answer to prayer, and I hold it up, a monument of Divine moroy." Again, the hand in tho chief executive officer of tho sou! when wrung in agony. Tears of relief are sometimes denied to trouble. Tho eyelids at such time are as hot and parchcd and burning as the brow. At such time even tho voice is suppressed, and there is no 30b or outcry. Thon the wringing of tho hand tells the story. At tho cIosh or a life wasted in sin sometimes comes that expression of the twisted linger;?the memory of years that will never return, of opportunities the liko of which will never again occur, and conscience In its wrath pouncing upon the soul, and all the past a horror, only to be surpassed by the approaching horror. So a man wrings his hands ov-.-r the casket of h (lead wife whom ho has cruelly treated. So u man wrings his hands at the fato of sons and ilaugliters whoso prospects have I boeu ruined by his inebriety and ueglect and I depravity. S> tl'e sinuer wrings his hands when, after a life full of offers of pardon and peace and heaveu, he dies without hope. When there ore sorrows too poignant for fomentation on.,tbo lip nnd too not lor tue tear giunus 10 ?.-um iu i?-. tors of crystal on tin* cheek, the hnnd raoltos Clio tragedy with more t}mt>hnsl9 than nnvthlngin ".Macbeth" and "King Lear." Again, thu hand is the chief executive of| llcer of the soul ia sal.itatlon. A former President of the United Statoa said: "I think handshaking is a great nuisance, and should be abolished. It not only makes the right arm sore, hut shocks the whole system and unfits a man for writing or attending to other (lutia^. It demoralize.? ' the entire uervous and muscular system!"J JJut while this exercise may he fatiguing it | is also an opportunity. He who knows j how heartily to shake bands has one of the mightiest arts for conveying happiness and good cheor and lifo eternal. After you have shnlion hands with one a Hue of communication is opened that was not opon before. Two hands clasped in greeting are a bridge on which alt sympathies and kindnesses<md oncourageinents and blessixiurs or033 over. , i Hut it is not always in sncb glad greeting that we can employ our right bund. Alas that so often wo have to employ the hand ia farewell salutation! It your right hand retained some impress of all such uses, II would be a volume of foero.woments. Oh, i im I'nn/iiivii In which vonr riffht hand has participated! (Joodby at the steamboat wharf. Gou-thy at tlie rail train wlndouf. Ooodby before tho oponlnp of ttie buttle I Uoodby at tbe dying pillojr. Wo all needed graeo Tor such handshakings, 1 hough on: hand was strong and their hand was weak , and wo will iHM'.l trraca for tho cooilns^ goodbvs, and that graco wo bad bettor seek :*M!e 'amid the fellelti?? aud :itotn?^ uoutoKBU, xuankGod thore wil) aje riojcocdby iuheavoii! And-what'betier use can I mako of tay haudA, which are the cbiof executlV^/fleer , gian how to Spread thein. poatolic beuudictfon ouncod for centuries 'and,, f thousands o (assemblages, and obseqnles, at harvpsi aet'dayB, by all the mlalspel lath1* past as It will b? Ur> of tbe Gospel until tbe ; reaches up Its right hand gtit? hand of the cbnrch brtUqdlctlon wbiob, when it 'i&faave nothing for oufc r h?*ven to bestow: "Jjla# the graco of our Lord, Jesus ChrUt, and' the love of God, aud tbd;oommuntoax>f lft"; Holy Chiost, * bo with you oil forev?r? 7 TJiere ar? 119 schools for m?K alctt W Berlin, .Germany. HIE GREAT DESTROYER. ' SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT | THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Tj.n T? ? ?; r.nnoli *? I rcrorntiniiA?.A Climax by Which the Kamoua TemprriiiH-e Lecturer Thrilled Hi* Hearers?A I'oworfal Illustration. Oo you se-? yonder farmer just planting bis II el J? ' lie does all the work, friends, but I get the yield. lie's drinking the frait3 of lite lands and I his kine, 1 If I wait- a few >ears his whole farm will ' bu mine. Chorus. ' | He's workiog for me. He's working for ( mo. My wife nnd my children he feeds, don't you see? Both houses and lands he is earning for , me. ] He's working for me; yes, working for j me. Do you hear tnat mechanic complain of , his fate? I Cursing trusts and monopolies early and i late? Vet though wages are low and prices are | dear. He still can find money to bay him his ( beer. Chorus. ! My wife and my daughtora wear salttas, ' while he . . la buying me horses and carriages?see? . Th^naeo lhat poor washwoman, wrinkled ( gray: ' i i i J ! quo furu, uuu uwr uusutuiu ov/Uii unutws Ho wiqte worke/blmself; then I used to fret 1 Butjpbalf loaf la bettor than none, to be j jfry wife and daughters have jewels, but [ :--:s she ' , It washing: to help pay my servants for me. I Then there's that policeman with uniform ' g?y. ; He's paid by the town, but the work?well, now say, Wero it'-not lor my business he'd soon lose f his job. There'd be few to "pull In" for this blue- , * coated "bob." j Chorus! i I make the men drunk and he "pulls ' them," you see. Not a man on the "force" but is "solid" : with me. , t A Reminiscence of John B. Gough. j Many and many a day ago, on the then , frontier line of the Valley of the Mlune- ] sotu, in the at that time beautiful village , of Mankato, word went oat that Gough ( had been encuited by the local lyceum ba- , redu to lecture on" temperance. Gough came. H* was received by a committee of men who.hud fought Indians, swam rivers, spoiled the virgin forests,-opened new soil endured poverty, suffered hanger nnd never surrendered their belief In tbe right. Thev escorted bim t'o the opera house and stage. His speech was 'slow at first, gestures few, illustrations not many. The village topers were out in force, and sonje more decent men for whom women were praying to give over the habit of drink. He told something of his own life, of the misery brought by drink, of tbe laws of self-denial and self-sacrifice. He was intense at all times, am! this intensity bore down upon the listeners until he had ma.de them one with himself. Even the email village boy Inclined to cat cali3 and gurgling whistles was silent, .and there came through the sepulcbrlil hall no found but tho raw cry of the winter wind from outside. He made some slight -.comment on the condition of a druiikard'a-family?tho want which came upon them, the loss of self-respect. He described tho degradation of spirit which rested with the habitual drinker and how it that spirit was not destroyed mere sisjulng of the pledge would not redeem. He pleaded for exercise of will power, more potent In affectiug reform than all the drugs and medicines in the world. This'was but developing the minds of his hearers for a climax. Suddenly lio swung one arm high in the j air* and shouted: "A drunkard and his fall to the depths dE everlasting hell ia like the man who climbs to the top of St. Peter's in Rome. Ho is on the very summit of the great dome, ttie blue sky above and the world far, far beneath. He looks down from liis perch, and having nothing to grasp, to hold to, grows dizzy. !Everytblug is wiilrlinc: now before him. His senses leave him. He is swooning. His feet slip. He is off of tne dome. He Is iu the air. He is falling? "Down! ,:Down! "Dov?-!;. ' To Lhft'.jarth beneath and the rain ol himself. "Thus descends the drunkard? - "Down!- Down! Down! "To thy Gros of hell and the ruin of his soul!" The whole exclamation was accompanied , wit.li such use of his right arm and body as j to bring the fearful descent immediately to ' tho eve of the mind. , I A A A AM... ?UA Tk/v A auuuuci iuu uvur iuo auuicuun. alio \ sobs of women were heard. Men felt uncomfortable. Meu and women are llvlugr ( to-day who stilt feel the power of that II- i iu".'ration, uttered by lips long alnce oold. i ?Chicago Times-Herald. . ' i A Terrible Drink Story. Day by <lay Instances are made publio ot \ the disasters due to drink. Tb? wonder Id ( that tlio working classes, who are the | greatest sufferers from the demon, do not , rise and demaud the total ces&SnWfc?>f the ( manufacture and sale of,alcohol as a bt>vcrage. In London a man and hla wife went , { ) bid farewell to a British Army Reservist , who was "Sailing for South Afrlcn. They became .intoxicated, the woman was j knocked flown' by an omnibus and takon to a hospital, lint as she had a dread of bos- , pltnls her husband would not let her remain, being: too drunk to realize the seriousness of her condition. '* When be awoktt in the roornlug he found his wife dead by his side. Equally pitiful stories are heard daily by magistrates and coroners, but half the havoc wrought by driuk is cover published.?Christian Budget. Pr.'??ecuUon of "lirantly Drop*" Seller*. The 3iile of "brandy drops*' by candydealers to school children has now become such a flagrant evil in Jersey City, N. J., that School Superintendent Henry Snyder, Dr. John D. MoGill, who i? P esidtmt of the I'olicu Board, and Assistant Prosecutor V.m Winkle joiued In a plan for .the suppression of the sales by prosooution of the eller.* under tha law prohlbltfng the sale of liquor 10 minors. The Cruiade In Brief. ] The Society of Total Abstainers, just formed in Vienna, is the 11 rat ever established in Austria. ( A large Ainerioau insurance company announces that it will provide a special policy at a loweijrafce for abslalners. Scotland has beaten England in the number of teetotal chief magistrates elected this jear. The provovts of thirty-three towns are total abstainers. Nearly one-third of the towna nnd townships of Ohio are now without legalized saloons, largely a$ the result of the efforts n( UiH A ml. Sn lorn. Ij<?ai;ue. Let us not forget that the chief loss ol ' rjonrnrany In Luzon whs tho loss or out ' >&ood natno at clie hands of the salapn ? to . w/itotliin^ ot the loss of life and health PfondlMgtractor ol the rneu who ware made ^XFfflrbeer which Is consumed throughout, ?* jreMfrld in a single. your would maket|$ ' imfce six feet dcop, tlireo and t|ireerqqt^a^ ' {jliatiired at tbo sugar factorlfli ^ %Qor to a nntffe is l&t!$ ^S?)nod lsc^5SSid^or^N^rt>conted offeDMe* HIE sakha^^^^H INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM^^Hf FOR FEBRUARY 18. Subject: .lesn* at .Jacob's Well, ,1ohn Jr., fi-SG?Golden [Text: John iv., 24? Memory Verse.*, 11-14?Commentary on the Day'* Lesitou. In-tiioduction.?Sycbar, formerly She- ] :betn, now Nablus, Is nt tbo foot of Vlouct Gerlzlm, between Gerizlm and Ebiil. It is noted In the Scriptureaas the j place wbere Abraham flr9t stopped on bis j oming from Haran to CanaaD, where God ippeared to him uud promised to f?ivo the < and to bU seed; and where be ilrst built } in altar to tbe Lord. In tbo fourth cen? ;ury B. C. (about 332) Sanballat erected a , temple on Gerizlm la opposition to tno i Jewish temple. CoxN'ectijfo Li>*kk.?After the interview , with Nlcoderaus at the tlmo of the Passover feust, Jesus and His followers left rorusalem and spent about eight months In Judea. Jesus taught the people and J r His disciples baptized them. Vs. 1, 2. j J When Jesus heard cf the Imprisonment of . John (Matt. 4: 12; Mark 1: 14), and that I 1 the Pharisees were endeavoring to stir up j the disciples of John against His disciples, i He dotermlnod to leave the Jews and go ! Into Galilee. I ' 5. "8ycbar." Or Shecbem, at the foot >f Mount Gerlzim. "Parcel of ground." Purchased ot the children of Hamor (Gen. I ?3: 19), and given to Joseph. Gen. 48: 22; rosb. 24: 32. I 6. "Jacob's well." The well Jacob dug. the word for welt in the Greek means I fountain. At the beginning of the last jentury it w&9 105 feet deep, bat at pres* Hit It is only seventy-flve feet deep. It Is I i?ven and one-half feet in diameter and Is aralled with masonry. "Jesus., .being S weary." He was a man, as well as God, 1 md became weary and bangry. He jourleyed on foot, sharing with HLs disciples he fatigues and hardships of the way. 'The sixth hour." Nbon. There is a dlference of opinion here; several good auhorltles think it was six o'clock in the fc ivenlng. v 7. "Woman of Samaria." This woman v ived In the country. "Give Me to drink." a n this latitude the weather is sometimes c ixceedingly hot at noon even in Docember, a vhen it is cold at night. Jesus asks a favor r md thus opens the way to grant one. t 8. "TO Duy meat. roou. juuu, u ? c bought, had remained with Jesus. c 9. "Being a Jew." His dress and dialect v lisclosed His nationality. "No dealings a vlth tbe Samaritans." The Samaritans r. 70ro tbe descendants of the Ethiopian and v iabylonlsb colonists upon whom the As- q yrlnn conqueror of the ton tribes bestowed e he lands of the captive Israelites. Seo 2 t Cings 17: 24-33. Between these people and <j be Jews a deadly batred existed. t 10. "The gift of God." John 3: 1C. Tho t lessiah, and the salvation He is bringing to i nan. "Thou wouldst buve asked of j] 3iin." Spiritually, our positions are re- ( rersed, It is thou who urt wearv, anil n ootsore, and parched, close to tbo well, t ret unable to drink; ft Is I who can give q hee the water from the well, and quench v :hy thirst forevei. "Living water." The 3 jlft of tbe Holy Spirit. JoUn 7: 37-39. Also i| ailed "the water of life." Rev. 21: 6; 22; v , 17. "Clean water." Ezek, 36, 2G, 27. See n ilso Isa. 55: 1; 53: 11. . a 11. i"Notuing to draw ^Itb." The tfWls u iad, oftentimes. no Implements for draw* v ng water.' , v 12. "Our father Jacob." They wero tot the descendants of Jacob, although ome of the ancient blood might have been * n their veins. 13. "Shall thirst again." Jo3U9 does || lot disouss tbe question of greatness, but i< urns her thought towards spiritual trutb, e is He did Nlcodemus. t. 14. "Shall never thirst." He does not n nean that ono draught shall satisfy us, b >ut that we will always bave In tbo soul a 0 _-.i <?UI,n1l hn in Him" I. Veil Ul 1IY1U? TTniui wuiit. MW M.w. ? Phe religion of Jesus has to do with the f nuer life. Christ puts new principles and n iffectiona within us. "A well of water." c L fountain of water. The supply Is ex- ? mustless. Here is an unfailing fulness of t ove, joy, peace and spiritual strength?a c ull salvation. "Springing up." Whoever has s his living water in the soul already has t ttornal life. The water of life is, 1. Given 0 >y Jesus. 2. It Is pure. 3. It satisfies the h oul. 4. There is a never failing supply, t i. It Is froe. 6. It Is for nil who thirst. n 15. "Give me this water." She did not j| inderstand His meaning fully, but she was t inxious to receive any good He might be [ ibla to impart. v 16. "Go, call thy husband.'* These y words were spoken, 1. Tomaketho woman n consider her owu state. 2. To show her :bat He knew her hoart and secret life. ^ Before she can receive living water she must be convinced of ber depravity. 18. "Five husbands." The Ave had eithir divorced her for immorality, or were lead; to the sixth she was not married. J it this time divorces were very common, " :nd a man put away his wife for any c !aulf. ' 19. "Thou,art a prophet." She speaks * acnaoffnllv nnd rueotrniZQS Him S3 OnO ^ svitli a divine mlssloD. 20. "Oar fathers worshiped." Abraham iDd Jacob. Tbe Samaritans pretended to 3e descendants of tbosc patriarchs. This woman here Introduced tbe question that r-bs causing the* dispute between tbo Jews and Samaritans. If He wero u prophet He jould tell ber whether Mount Gerlzlm or Jerusalem were the proper place for publio worship. To tbe Samaritans, Gerlzlm was the most sacred spot on earth. It bad been, as they believed, the seat oX Paradise. 21. "The hour cometh." The hour hasJ :ome in which spiritual worship is a^out to te established, and "tho Jewish rites tud ceremonies abolished." 22. 'Ye kuow not what." You are 1 Rnorant not only of tbe place, but also of Llio object and nature of true worship, rhe Samaritans believed in God, but they rejected tbe prophetical writings and all ^ otuer books of Soripture oxcept the five books of Moses. Their worship was it (l rnix-d worship. They feared the Lord, and served their own pods. "We know what v wo worship." We, Jews, ackncvUdge , Sod and Hira only, and offer to Hit., the t 3'icriflcos prescribed In the law. "02 the . Jews." The Messlith is of the Jew?. liven the Samaritans believed this. 23. "True worshipers." Ia opposition , to false worshipers whose worship consists . in external acts. "In spirit." In heart, with sincere love and devotion. "In truth." , In sincerity, and in obedience to tbe r truth. "Stieketh such." Desltes such worshipers. 24. "God is a Spirit.-' God is nn in- ,, finite Spirit, filling the heavens and the tJ earth. He peivades, governs and upholds all things. 25. "All things." Necessary for us to know. ' 26. "I. ..am lie." This was the first direct disclosure of Himself as the Mes- ? siah. (I Teachings.?As wnter quenchcs the s thirst, refrwhes and invigorates the bo.ly, ,4 purifies things defiled, and renders the f earth fruitful, so the Holy Spirit 8"tis!lw ^ uud pud Bo's the soul. h v MACHINE DISPLACES LABORERS. J Dock ShoTelera Must Make llootn For an 9 Automatic Utilomder. The announcement made at Ashtabula, > Dliio, that orders have boen placed 'or two c< more automatic iron ore un loaders to be i built at once for use on theOarnegie docks ? at Conneaut carries with it great irapor- ?, lance. For months tests have beon in pro- *< Rro3S on the first anil only autoraatio ore unloader in the world. At first it was believed by many to bo a failure, but/In Its improvod form it Is meeting every antici- ! patlon. tl As gigantic expense is involved in their * construction, the placing of two additional 3 orders is taken to mean that it l\as been & perfected and will soon be adopted at every or?-iecelvlug port on the Great Lakes. This will directly affect thousands of ore shovelers. great scoop, which Is a part of the I raaMtve four-hundred ton machine, dtps I up t?a-tons of ore nt n time. One machine W^gjten hours^u dt^r can dUplRce^ Tallepc Man In tlie World, rrofesaor Virchow, of Berlin, will exhibit ;o his class In pathology a Kansau, L?wis tVllklnn, rujiuiuil to bo 'the tallest man in i ,!ie world, puimiug out the re.nar!;able ivuomalttiea of his skull. , ea n ah! corn ^HmEH Not or pleasure rtow are we living fo^.the long toaN^^H0^HH| What are we .sowing of eternal friiHHHHB 3h, idler, trifler. plensure-seeker, stay What of that endless life beyond tgfday! rVh.it of tho worlc begun for heaven's coneluding. The pattern we shall tlni?h over there? iV'hat of the loves and friendships, hopes and longings, That earth bequeaths to heaven^ diviner air? rhe potter's band may crumble with hi* clay; IVhat he designed survives, beyond today. Ml life's best music swells tho angel chores* Wh bear our songs to heaven,like the lark. S'o living lire is quenched that bums within us; Some Jlame eternal kindles from its spark. Sarth's noblest, sweetest, will not pasa away; :t shall be ours once more, beyomi.. today! . :.aca nour a sentence,ana eaca-yfftr a enactor v.-* Such is the book oflifo,ia sequence clenr. ?arth fills a voltunejfceflfren?ohl how many! But h1 I oao story, written there or here. Itrive then, 0 friend,thb best in tbee to say, Por that divine review, beyond today! ?James Buckhcm, lu Zion's Herald. What th? Atonement Mean*. The atonement must ba spliitual. It must' le a transaction in the realm of spirits, ybicb. however it may be manifested in ? islble act or suffering, is essentially M .notber sphere. Where' wo lay the strese in a certain empirical event, a crucifixion, . shedding of blood, a quid pro quo, we arc egarding it still in the light of he blood of bulls and ram9, tbosa arnal ordinances which can never talcs iway sins. But when wo follow the rork of psalmists and prophet*; id getting ,t the spiritual principle whtoh-.underlays the aaterial sacrifices, we are -Obliged, with the writer to the Hebrews, to treat the sacrifice if Christ in the same way. Through the iternal spirit He offered Himself. The cross, he spear, the nails, the crown of thorns are letails, accidents of the situation. There can ^ ie no qualitative relation between such hings nnd the forgiveness of sins. But that nward and spiritual transaction, tbatvasl Irarna tbat was enacted in the spirit of x Jhrist, of which we gain sufficient though aomentary glimpses in His utterances on he cross may easily be a deed of sucli uality aud moment that it touches the ?hole body of human sin, which also ia piritual, and potentially at any rate bears t away. Evidently a spiritual transaction, rhljjkisnot in space or time, is inconasellrorate with things which are in space nd time. A spiritual transaction, which in iot of the sizo or weight of a hair, a mere ,-orti or thought, may overbalance, outrelgh, the whole n?citerial universe. Blotted PajM Cannot i;? Cleaned. The cycle or each year is liko an opeq Ink, which is closed at the end, on the ever? angthening chain of life. If there Is anj vent in man's history which will bring hire aut up against oternity, it is the last daf o? i year that is (lying. Tho effect of it should e unmistakable. There should be sorrow ver a past with which none should be eatiflcd, and noble aspirations for an opening uture. The past, at best, Is only a blotted cine, which wo cannot obliterate, but God an help us to keep the future clean. Day* re eloquent !n the vividness with which hoy keep the iniquity of the past befor? rod and ourselves. Like grimspectres thej eem to stalk out from under the arches ol ima, pointing to privileges abused, meant f ?raco neglected, and the Gospel unieeded. . . . Life at best is evanescent; end-, tie question presses: Aro wo writing om nines on sands to bo washed out by th? ncoming tide, or on the tablots of immoral souls in God's book of remJMnbrancer f wo deduct all the day3 which' we might rish had be^n unlived, and reckon onl> ? lioso which God Las accepted, life would ot b* more than a span. Time must b? rh? i i,y the work allotted to yt? riaa. A I.lvin; Ctiriat. If tho city of oar heart i3 holf wit.i tii? >resence of a living: Christ, then the deui lead will como to us. and wo shall know hey are not dead but living, arid bloss Him rhe f\i3 been their Redeemer, and rejoice in he work that they are doing for Him in Hij >erfect world, and press on joyously toward >ur own reicniptiop. not fearing even the jrav?, since by its siae stands Hp* whom w? caow and lovo. who has tho kex'& cflf death ^ md hell. A living Christ, dear frlofide; th? >ld, ever-new, cvor-blossfd truth/He.livetUi io was dead: Ho is alive for evermore. Olv hat everything dead and formal mlxht gc >ut of our creed, out of our life, out of oui leart today! Ho is alivo. Doyoubelieva t? What aro you dreary for, 0 mourner? iVhat aro you hesitating for, 0 worker? iVhat are you fearing death for, 0 man? Oh, f we could only lift up our heads and liv? pith Him; live new lives, high lives, lives if hope and lovo and holiness, to which leath should ho noth ng but the breaking iway of the last cloud, and tho letting of ifu out to its completion! Phillips Brooks Thought* of Mr. Moody. Alter thi-, it was noised about, that Mrraiiant-for-Truth was taken with a sumQons. When he understood it he called fot lis friends, and told thorn of it. Then snl<1 ic, "I am jxoiutf to my Father's; and though rith great difficulty I have got hither.yei.no*! ! do not repent me of all the troutds I have ieen at to arrive where lam.- My sword give to him that shall suecve 1 mo in rry lilgrimage, ami my Courage and Skill to . lim that can get it. My marks and ecar.? carry with me. to bo a witness for me. thai have fouuht His battle, who will now b? ny re warder." When the day that he must ? i. ...... mnnt' iu>n.tirin:tnied him I" nrzUK" ?? - J , o ttu- rivor .side. iuio which as ho went, he aid."Death,whero U thy stint:?" And us ho reut down lie^per.he slid, "Giave. where is hy viotor\V" So he passed over, and all the rum puis .sounded for him ou tho other s>id?. -Tho Pilgrim's Progress. A I'rayer for IInipAll our years ar;? thine. 0 Lord, and daily re rcmemberthe loving-kindness which has lied our lives with good. Pardon our mispent time,our failures and transgressions-, nd teach us how to rightly estimate and ullj use the opportunities piesontrd to us. teveal thyself in tho communion of ft? ours of "prayer Show us thy will in the /ord written and by the teaching of by Spirit. Hive us obedient hearts aud uick-discerning ? y<s. Let failli hn pure, nd love abound, und z?al and knowledge rork together in thy cause. Provide for very need and rid our hearts of serious are. Work in us and through us according i tbv need for Urn salvation of (lie worm nil may it bo otir joy to do thy will. So rown tho clays of this and all our years on urtli with love. An<l to our risen and aatrLded Lord be praiso. Amen. It is not a mer<* memorial service. It :ands not merely poluting,ba k to tl?? past, c stands as a symbol^-! a witness of tho ivinest truth of JKlstlfuity?a Iivine hrist in tlxe hearts<s#5Tvin? men.?Lyman .bbott. f^ldtaaaMTMih Ituineri. Genoral'Otis.ift ^report to the War DoJartment at Washington, says that u year n the tropics \7itK army rations hss practically ruined the teetn of fifty per cent, of [he men In the army, nud t <ut the teeth oi |b? rest^rbqjir evidence* of decay. The Stir Department will ask Congress tc take provision for ttie addition 01 dentists Rate of Po?tsm^u Philippines. The postage ou letters, one ounce or less, addressed to the Ladrone or Philippine Islands, under the postal regulation, has been reduc?d to two cents. Ttie foreiga rate of five cents Is still tn torce to Cab* ?nd the Hawaiian Islauds.