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MURDERED Bf IMMIS.; Scotch-Indian Family, Accused Of Witchcraft, Put to Death. SHOT DOWN IN NIGHT ATTACK. lembevg of the AIcTaviah Family Sliot as They Encapetl From Their Burniug Hoihc?Only One Person K?capeilFamily Suppose*! to liave Caused an Outbreak of Scurvy. Victoria, B. C. (Special). ? Word lias 5oea received bv the department of Indian MTnirs aud by the police authorities of fresh trouble, which is very serious in its haracter, among the Indians of Upper Giard, probably two-thirds of whom are still resisting the inroads of civilization. Naturally the progressive one-third of the aatlve population are subjected to considarable persecution, and it is said in adtrloes just received, brought by way of Dense Lake, by special messenger to Indian Agent Todd. tDat this has culminated !n the murder of seven members of a Scotch Indian half-breed family of the iaioo of McTavish. The story as related by the special messenger and mail bearer E. T. Pope, who is now iu Victoria, indicates thnt the original i murder may have been followed by.-the ! killing of Stewart, an indian ffiTfeaniat, j and two coiTMi-uii^ag^piltc^d from Luke j murderers. &iu. the McTavish family adopted many j - ?i.? '...af/vma 14nd hoiiefs of the whites, Ul IUO <tie enmity of their neighbors became intense. With the comiug of an epldomic of scurvy last fall, the Indians were ripe for aerious mischief. Two old women, prompted undoubtedly by the revengeful medlclae men of the tribe, seized the opportunity to start the cry that the sickness and death had been brought about by witchcraft, a term that nover falls to cross the terror of Indians of the northern wilds. A council was held, the fact being kept secret from the McTavishes, and It was agreed that there had b?en no scurvy before white men came to the camp. The fact was emphasized that the MoTavlahes followbd the ways of the whites, and thereupon they wete convicted and a night attack on them wa9 planned for their destruction. Setting Are to the McTavish dwelling, the savages shot their victims as they escaped. Only one of the family of eight succeeded in reaching the shelter of the forest and ultimately theCasca trading camps store of Lake Town. Mr. Pbpe is manager of the store. < Constable Stewart, with two men, started out at once under the guidance of the sole .. _? ?i.. k?nlaoa 'nmllv Jn Arrnqt the survivor ui tuo iiaj/?o? ? murderers and the trio had uot yet returned w!??u Mr. Pope left his home, Commissioner Porter of Telegraph Creek was then preparing to send, an effective posse to solve the mystery and take energetic action in the case. GERMANY TO RUSH HER NAVY. . < By 190S Slie 1* to lt.ile the North Sea and Beat America Twofold. * Beilis (By Cable).?An American naval officer now in Bnrlin, who enjoys exceptional advantages for gathering information regarding the German navy, asserts that the German Government has made all the preparations necessary to finish the construction of the new warships by 1908, Instead oi 1016, as the Naval Augmentation bill seemingly provide?. ' . In IMS the German navy, according to thts officer, will have thirty-seven battleships, varying from 11,000 to 13,000 tons, , ' and thirty large and forty small armored i cruisers, thus exceeding in fighting poweiv the navy of Frauco. Before the end of 1905 I ?still according to the same informant? j Germany will be mistress of the North Sea, I and her fleet will beat the American more than twofold. TERRIBLE HEAT IN SOUTH AMERICA. So Many Deaths That the Grave Digger! r Go ou Strike, v--. '*.>&? Boexos Atres (By Cable).?The terrible beat continues. There were 287 sunstrokes Monday and 1S7 Tuesday, The fatal oases show a-dlmunition, but many bodies a??1 decomposing at the cemetery, owing to the strike o( the grave diggers for higher wages. The maize crops are scorched and promise only a small yield. i , f ' "' ij! v Montevideo (By Cable).?Numerous sun-' strokes have occurred here, many provfng fatal. The maize crop Is alm03t totally lost. SPANISH PRISONERS REBEL Overpower Their Filtpln6 Guard* and Await the Arrival of American Troops. . Manila (By Cable).?Thje Insurgents at Nueva Caceres, on the east coast of Luzon, .fearing nn attack, transferred 309 8panlsb prisoners to Llbmnnan, fourteen miles.from Nueva Caseres, In Camarlnes Province, i When they arrived there the prisoners rebelled. They armed themselves with sticks and stones and fought and overpowered their irnards. Then thoy built barricades and are awaiting the arrival of the American troops. i Japueae Review of American Soldiers. The event of the week at Yokohama, Japan, was the arrival of the United States transport Grant with the Forty-eighth Beglment, United States Volunteers (colored), on board. In consflqnenoe ot the' ;breaking out of the plague la Honolulu the 'Grant was obliged to put In At Yokohama 'lor coal. Permission having beeu?granted by the authorities, a parade of the regiment was held and a great crowd witnessed the unusual spectacle of an-airmed body of American soldiers landing upon the shores t: .of Japan. Charged With Note liaising. City Detective John Morgan assisted Detective Helan, of Washington, in arresting George B. Stolles at Hamburg.;. Peun., who is charged at Washington, D. C., with raising a note from $500'tc $5900 and also with otbur falsification* | amounting to $112,000. He accompanied. Detective" Helan to Washington without resistance. Oi>po*Stlon to the Canal Treaty. There is much opposition in CongrL-33 to the new Nicaraguan Canal treaty because It does not permit the fortillcation of the water-way by the United Sta:e3. Sixty Girls lturned to Death. The steamship Empress of China just arrived at Vancouver, B. C., brings a report from Nagoya, China, that sixty girls were burned to death in u factory fire in thai town. In a gunpowder factory at Sea veyuents, Chlua. a pot of saltpeter wuj upset and the building caught llrt>. A powder magaziue close by exploded and 2X I Chinese were killed. t General Otis to Come Home. Major-General Otis will bo detached from ' duty in the Philippines and ordered bomi as soon as the new commission arrives ii Manila. Minor Mention. The press of the City of Mexico i3 fight ing the increase of the liquor truffle in tUa; j country. ' Yale has more than throe hundred ath jlotes iu training for her teams for the sea sou of 1930. | Many Frenchmen now firmly beliovotha' iGreat Britain andFranceare drifting slowly but surely toward war. I The Borough of Hopewell, Pcnu., hasn'1 lenough men to till all the offices, and i< 'wants to have its charter annulled. I Brigadier-General Kobbe'd expedition ii jthe Philippines has resulted iu the per jmanent occupatton of nine towns by th? American trooos. BULLER AGAIN ADVANCES His Army Succeeds in Recrossing the Tugela River. Attack* IJoer* at Two Points, Beinii Checked at One Place. But Taking a Hill at the Other. * London (By Cable).?General Buller rocrossed the Tugela River on Sloaduy morn- I 1 "~ Asfl/inlfa/1 fhu DrtJi* t\AciHnna r\n I lug auu assauucu %.uk> UV '4. j he north slcle. The British carried 9ev- | eral positions, and :it last accounts were still holding them. A dispatch to the Standard from Spearman's Camp says: "The force under General Duller is again advancing to the relief of Ladvsmith, and, after two days of severe fighting, it may i fairly be said to have made a good first step on the road to the besieged town. "The movement was begun at ail early hour on Monday morning by way of Potgieter's Drift. The Eleventh Brigade, forming a part of the Fifth Division under General WarreD, tnade a feint attack upon the kopjes immediately on our front. The assault was delivered at the outset under eover of naval guns on Mount Alice, and . subsequently uuder that of field batteries, j "The infantry advanced steadily toward I the Boer Intrenched position at fir&kfon- { tein, and kept the enemy busily employed, i While tbis diversion was ,being made the j remainder of the Infantry told attack, whj^|g*p^oTriR!*.ed_3tHiday night jW"42r"irtWutAllce, moved along at the foot of Zwart's Kop In the direction of our right. jS&F 'A ponton bridge was thrown across the Tugela by the engineers under the fire of , enemy. The first battalion to move across in the forenoon was the Durham Light Infautry, of Geuoral Lyttleton's brigade. They advauced against Vaal Krantz, which lies on the most direct road to Laiysmith, and after two hours' splendid work they got within charging distance of the Boers. -v- . "The first of the lcopje3 was carried by them at the point of tue bayonet with the utmost gallantry., A.lmo3t simultaneously the First Battalion. Rifle Brigade cleared the seoond kopje,And, after moving across the long ridge, the bivouacked on the spot. "The feint attjpbk' at Potgieter's Drift, haying served its pttrpose in preventing the concentration^' the enemy at cue critical point, the Eleventh Brigade fell back to the river.,. . & "In the ooorse of^the operation both the Infantry and tlijj'.artillery Uud been subjected to n severe ahelt^re. "Yesterday (Tuesday?' at 4 In the afternoon, the enemy, euctftr&ged doubtless by their suoc&as at Sploz^ Sop, endeavored to reoapture tue position taken by us at V nal Krantz. They were be&jtjjn b*3fe, however, "The aheJJLand majtfinare poured In by ttie Boers has.bWaRevere, but ourt,6MjB^tW>ly apeaklnn fow prjaoSors laiSjjjyji rae of cbnrce. utmoatatubbornfiesa. Tbe BrltlaMnahmuvrlng and the Rooaracy of aim onfmp part ot the British artillery during the' fl&htlui* OS Monday wire beyond pnibe. There Is not the slightest likelihood that the Boers will auccee&Jri dislodging us f^om the positions we.have,gained, and tbe prospects ot the relief ol 'Ladysmith are decidedly "op"[uU" :M- g BOER STOag^/OF THE FIGHTING. Beat till gela. " The tro^nj She driver at the j Poat aad:atM<iH^^H9r> the object of i tract tot; materials and work necessary fori ^t%iSMM CUB VBIBIgnunui ui buvu. vauai, tu ira pmiui I for ob appropriated from time to time, nggg to succeud In the aggregate $75,OCO,WjQt/? provided tbat the compensation paid fttfj the State of New York for its right <and title shall be paid out of fees col- j lected from vessels using the canal after the Government hns purchased it, and provided tbat compensation so paid the State shall never in anv one year exceed twenty-flve per cent, of the net amount of such fees received during that period. The bill went to committee onrallway^^yH canals. v-~ "O-'* -k ' I A LIVE MAN DEAD LEGALLY. Georgia Court Decides That One Indifferent to His Klglits Dies Presumptively. Atlajcta, Ga. ^Special). ? Judge J. H Lumpkin, of the Atlanta Circuit, has declded that a^Wtjnaat f?r an estate who is alive and Was^^eseut in the court is dead legally, The J'fidge said: "Plalntlfl te'sttfled that lie had been living in Texas and did not know until 1390 of bis father's 4*mth or the division of the estate; but .wnere 6ue leaves a State and cuts Qff 411 /ooiflomunication with friends and relatives be becomes, presumptively at least,' dead Jo the world. I scarcely think the statute of gelations will stop and wait on blm yanjf more than the village of Falling Wateg?|mMted*tho awakeuiog o' Rip Van IWSQgwprthe wife of Enoch Arden awaited hte^mtOru. Besldus be returned In 189S and inflfy tfae facts or could have known tb^^ftflly Ibut did notsuetill 13W." Fell Dead In the Dentist'.'* Chair. Ernest L. Partridge, of Charlton. Mass. fell dead a fowv days ago from a dentist', chair. H9 tojd Dr. Hitchcock lie wanted thirteen teeth pulled. As the operation was to be extensive, he was placed partiallj under the Influence or ether. As tbeseventl' tooth was uxtructed he tell buck dead.' ^ Military Strength of the Kopublic. According to a communication sent to Congress by Secretary Root on the militia force of the United States, the total number of men available for military duty, but uuorganized, is 10,343,150, with an aggregate organized strength ot 10G.339. Early Spring Vogotabics l'rom Cuba. The Ward Line steamer Mexico, arrived at Now York City from Havana, Cuba, with a large consignment of fresh vegetables, consisting of tomatoes, potatoes. Leans, okra, egg plant and onions. These vegetables are grown in Cuba, which appears 1.1.4 ?n?(.,or Hf*?.,nil.1.1 na i to uo miiKiug ? uiu ? producer of early spring vegetables. Monthly Inspection in Havana. , The Governor of Havana, Cuba, ba9 is jsued orders for the monthly inspection o1 'all public schools, hospitals, asyluras, char Itable institutions and prisons in the de parttnent. . .. THE PHILIPPINE REPORT. Plan of Government is Recommended For the Islands. . NO WITHDRAWAL IS POSSIBLE, The Provinces Should Be Taroed Into Counties and a Large Measure of Qoin? ltule Given the Towus?Men of In. tejjrlty and Ability Needed to Teacfa Cnir.PnlA 1118 nanvoi* oo??-*?w?v.. WAsnisoToy, D. C. (Special).?The President hiis submitted to Congress the first volume of the report of the Philippine Commission. It is a volume of 264 pages, including the appendix, and is signed by Professor Schurmann, Admiral Dewey, Colonel Denby and Professor Worcester. The principal subject dealt with is the plan of government proposed by the commission, which includes a discussion of the Spanish Government existing prior to the war, the various reforms desired by the Filipinos, and the Constitutions proposed by them, together with the conclusions and plans suggested by the commission. The report covers many other matters X'Oane&ted with the social administration of the iiHandSr -faetoliibArft^rt3ttesr-<^v cation, secular and religious orders, the Chinese la the islands, the pabllo health, currency, etc.. as well as the condition and needs of the United States In the'Thilip* pines from a naval and maritime stand* point. Tne second volume oI the report,-which will not be ready for several weeks, will contain a detailed description of the climate and natural resources ot the islands. The chief interest in the report nat.urally eectres in the plan of Government pro posed by the commission, 'xne commission announces itself unqualifiedly In favor of .a Government of the Philippines analogous to that of a Territory of the United States, with a Governor appointed by the President. They say it is desirable that the inhabitants of the archipelago should enjoy a large measure of home rale. In local affairs, the towns to enjoy substantially the rights and privileges of to pros in a Terfl?" tory. . The provinces should be vested with substantially the functions of a county, id $ Territory; thia system might be appli^ta to Luzon and tj]Ei? yiscayan Islands at once, and a beginning might be^ made on the coast of Mindanao. The Sulu archipelago calling for speolal arrangements with t^e Saltan, the commission say, nee#rittot be considered in tills connection* / v.: The Filipinos could manage ta?tc own towu nud county affairs thrortgjk their own officers, who tbey could elect,-iirlth no help from American officiate/ except such us would bo involved la controlling local government at Manila. Thesuffrag<? should be restricted by edaoationad^Qf! property qualifications or both. ( .V . '* '* This system would uecessltate^jlMnMLt^ body of American officials of great Sfflli* itv and integrity, and of patleqga and tact.; la dealing with" other races, *^d ..oiogits account the commission recSmmtad-xJaK^ they should be paid 4j?h.^lagies. The commission say they ooold Ijo called, sto visors or comtmssloneraf&nd that one>lfl| 200,000 natives would suffice. Afl ^Pwouid be the duty of,such conflH^ BTOTers to report upon thelt vworlc ,to';. tw central Government at Manila.'Their main function would be to advise town and county councils in discharge of their duties, and to watoh the collection of revenues and Its expenditures. Our government ot the Philippines, the commission Insists, must be adapted to the Filipino. The commission, while not undertaking the difficulty of governing the Philippines, is disposed to believe the task easier than is generally sapposed. The Filipinos, they say, are ot unusually promising material, I possessing admirable personal and domestic virtues and being naturally peaceful,docile, I and deferential to constituted authority, j The educated among them, though conI 3tltutlnga minority, tlieysay, are far more j numerous than is generally supposed, and i the commission bears scrong testimony to j their high rahge of Intelligence and social I refinements. Those picked Filipinos would be of Infinite value to the United States iu the worlt of establishing and maintaining civil j government throughout the archipelago. HOME AND CHILDREN BURNED. Four Little Ones Cremated at a Fire al I Bourton vllle. ' Katonah, N. Y. (Special).?The house ot I George Finnns, at Bourtonville, about four miles west of this village, was destroyed by fire and four of Finans's children were 'ijurned to deatb. Tbe children were JesImaged Ave years; Jennie, aged four I yeart; Warren, aged two years, aud Carrie, ftged nln? months. The parents were away from the house at the time. U'lffhe supposition is that some of the elder children, while playing with flro, started kthe blaze, and that they were overcome bj K&oko before tlioy realized their danger. HHhlv a few charred bonus were found in Kft ashes ot the building. Mrs. Flnans lu badly burned by approaching tbe Hnniing .Structure in her anxiety for Lei SpnSH' ARMY FOR SOUTH AFRICA. ^' li the Largest Force England Hill Krer Fat In the Field. Loxdox (By Cable).?Mr. Wyndham's'remarkable declaration (a<the House of Commons that Great Britain will have in o j fortnight 180,000 regulars in South Africa, | 7000 Canadians and Australians and 20,000 South African volunteers is received with wonderment. Of this total 213,000 troops, with 452 guns, all are now there, with the exception of about 18,000 that are afloat. Beyond comparison, this is the largest force Great Britain has ever put Into the Held. At the end of the Crimeau War she | had 8<?ra- ed together 8).000 mou. Welling j con tic v uerioo uhu -j,uuu iuou. TREASURY SURPLUS. i Keceiptu Exceed Expendituro* For the j Fiscal Year to Date About 8:50,000,000. Washington", 1). C. (Special).?The surplus of Government receipts over expenditures for fcho current fiscal year increased steadily during the month of January aud is now about $30,000,000. T!ie January re! :eipts were $48,01*2,164, the customs yielding $22,094,278i1nternal revenues =>22,770,856 and miscellaneous sources $3,138,02!?. i'lie expetfoltares for January amounted to 539,139,097.' f >, : ' White Fan Road Blockaded. The storms prevailing along the Skntr. way route to Dawsont jKlondllce, have stopped train a on thft^blte. Pass and Yuion lna" l.he preliminary enumeration the popu* latlon of Cubajaid PoortoJSico., They give uuoa 1,D/3,?4V, *oout .w.wvpiess *u;in lu 1887, and Pu?rfo. BlC0r.957,'679r as against J 806,708 in 3897. , Newy Ul?*nm;4. Handball is becoming quite a fad lu Sno Francisco, Oal. Japan has sent 200 toon of coal to Germany to experiment in coking. The bubonic plague Has Appeared' at Noumea, New Caledonia Islands. A large flsh pond will be built, off Bohoboth, Del., to supply food ilsli for'New York ! City. Coals and coffins are the most expensive as well as the scarest necessities ia London at present. Tbe gold supply of the United States surpasses that of any other country, accord<nfr to Assistant Uuited States Treasurer Uahlemuu IDK. TAIMAQE'S SEEMON. I SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. | Subject: A Warning Sounded?The Talent of the Church of Christ la Undeveloped and Itn Energy Dormant? The Enemy Profit# by This. [CopyrlRht 1900.] Washington*, D. C.?In tbis discourse Dr. Tftlmiige show9 how the cause of rl^ht ; eousness uag lose many ot us weapuu? a,uu how they are to be recaptured and put into effeotive operation; text, I. Samuel xifl., 19-21: "Now there was no smith found throughout ail the land ot Israel, (or the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them sworda or spears. But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man hi9 share, and his coulter, and his ax, and his mattock. Yet they had a file for the mattock, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads." What a galling subjugation for the Israelites! The Philistines bad carried off all the blacksmiths and torn down all the blacksmiths' shops and abolkhed the blacksmiths' trade In the land ?f Israel. The Philistines would not even allow these parties to work their valuable .mlnas ot brass and Iron, nor might they make any swords or spears. There were only two awords left in all the land. Yea, these Philistines went on until they had taken all the grindstones from the.land of Israel, so that if an 'Israelitish farmer^ wanted to sharpen his plow or his aje he had to go over to the garrison ot the Philistines to get It done. There waaonly one sharpening Instrument '"lefTlT'tfiMaEtdKjW* that wtoaflle, the farmers and mecnanU>g.-Mjjn? nothing to vrhet up the coulter and Ufl. pickax save a simple file. IntfUltty wf^ hindered and work practlcWly disgraced. The great Idea of these Philistines was to keep the Israelites disarmed, They might get Iron qat of the hills to mako swords of, but they would not hare anv iblaoksmlths to weld this iron. If they got ih* iron welded, they would have no grindstones on whloh to bring the ixutmments of agrlculture or the military mkpons up to an Oil, you poor. weaponle& Israelites, reduced to a file, how I pltyyoul Bat these Philistines were nof fowT?to keep their heel on the neck of G?d'0.wJ^areD. Jonntlian, on his hands , and JbM&v climbs up a great rock, beyond whichwere the PhiiistinM, and ills armorbeaj^;,oiLhia hands and k^ees, climbs nptBs mm^ Tpck, and these two men*' with their.iw04wgrds, hew to pieces the Philistines, foe LWd; throvr'lng a great Uittdt upon 0Vlearn!^wV^P^hi8 surest that it is dangerousfor;the?arch.of God to allow its weapons to.^ar'ih the brads of its enemies. Theao* Israelites might again and atraln have'obtilned a supply of swords S^it^Sftoo late foMhem to any retugging along 1 "Where are-yfru going with those tbings?" Iffh'eyidjr, .'fOb, we are golog, over to the raanjtaoa..tft itho Phfltatlnar to get these thjn/^abijrpeiied!" Isay, "j'You foolish - menl^Wttjrdon't yoa sharpen them at 1^001 ' c*b," they say, "the black'smlt-hV shops are all tern down, and we ffcaye nothing left us bat a tile!" So It Is In the churoh of Jesus Christ to: 'day. We are too willing to give up our weapons to the enemy. The world boasts that it has gobbled up the schools, and the oolleges, and the arts, and the sciences, and the literature, and the printing press. Infidelity is making a mighty attempt to get all our weapons in its band and then to keep them. You know it is making this boast all the time, and after awhile, when tho great battle between sin and righteousdoss has opened, if we do not look out we will be as badly off as these Israelites, without any swords to fight with and without any sharpening instruments. I call upon the superintendents of literary institutions to see to it that the men who go into the classrooms to stand beside the Leyden jars, and the eleotrio batteries, and the microscopes and telescopes, be children of God, not Philistines. The Tyndalleau thinkers of our times are trying to get^ all the Intellectual weapons in their own grnsp. We want scientific Christians to capture the science, and scholastic Christians to capture the scholarship, and philosophic Christians to capture philosophy, and lecturing Christians to take bnck the lecturing platform. ! We want to *enu out against ooauunei huu | Strauss and Renun a Theodore Chrlstlleb f of Conn and against the Infidel solentists of the day a God-worshiping Silliman and Hitohcock and Agassiz. We want to capture all the philosophical apparatus and swing around the telescopes on the swivel until through them wo can see the morning star of the Redeemer, and with minerillogical hammer discover the.Rock of Ages, and umla the flora of all realms And the Rose of Sharon and the Lilly of the Valley. We want some one able to expound the first chapter of Genesis, bring to it.the geology and the astronomy of the world, until, as Job suggested, "the stones of the field shall be in league" with the truth and the stars In their conrse shall j fight against Sisera. Oh, church of God, . go out and recapture these weapons! . Let men of God go out and take possession of the platform. Let any printing presses that have been captured by the enemy be recaptured for God, and the reporters, aud the typesetters, and the editors, and the publishers swear all allegiance to tie Lord God of truth. Ah, my friend, that day must come, and if the great body of Christian men have not the faith or courage or the consecration to do it, then let some Jonathan on his busy hands and on his praying knees climb up I on the rock of hindrance and, in the name I of the Lord God of Israel, slosh to pieoes those literary Philistines. If these men will not be converted to God, then they must be overthrown. IfAk'ain, I learn from this subject what a large amount of the church's resources Is actually hidden and buried and un'develI oped. The Bible lutlmatos that that was a | very rich laud, this laud of Israel. It ! says, "The stones aro iron, and out of tha j hills thou shalt dig brass," and yet hun' | dreds and thousands of dollars' worth of j this metal was kept uuder the hills. Well, j that is the difficulty with the church of 1 God at this day. Its talent is not develI oped. If one-half of its energy could be I brought out, it migut take ? he public in' lqulties of the day by the throat and muke I them bite the dust. If huipan eloquence J were consecrated to the LordJesus Christ, j It would In a few years perauadethe whole I earth to surrender to God, There is | enough undeveloped energy in this city to I bring all the United States to Christ, j enough of undeveloped Christian energy In the United States to bring the whole world to Christ, but It is buried under strata of ludifference and uuder whole mountains of sloth. Now, is it not time for the mining to begin and the pickaxes to plunge and for this burled metal to be brought out and put into the furnaces aud turned into howitzers and carbines for the Lord's host? The vast majority of Christians ia this j day are useless. The roost of the Lord's I battalion belong to there3erve corps. The I most of the crew are asleep in the hammocks. The most of the metal is under the hills. Oil, is it not time for the church of God to rouse up and understand that we j want all the energies, all the talent and all ! the wealth enlisted for Christ's sake? I I like the nickname that the ivigiisu soldiers gave to Blucher, tlio commander, 'i'hey called hiiu "Old Forwards." Wo have had enough retreats in the church of Clirlst; let us have n glorious advance. And I aay to you as the general salSSWben bis troops were afriglited? rislug up in lite stirrups, Li la hair flying In the wind, lie lifted up liis.voice uutll 20,000 droops beard Mm crying oat, "Forwafcd, tb? whole llnel" We want all the Jaymen enlfeted. Miiilsters are numerically too small. They do the best they can. They are the most overworked class on earth. Many of them die of dyspepsia because they cannot get the right kind of food to eat or, getting the right kind, are so worried that they take it' down in chunks. They die from consumption coming from early and late exposure, If a noveliost or a historian publishes one book a your be is considered industrious. But every f^K^'ul pastor ^ust originate enough tho;^^t for three or Tour volumes a year. .inters receive enough oalls in a year fi<-/m men who have maps ! and medicines and lightning rods and ploi turos to sell to exhaust their vitalltyB They are bored with agents of all sorts. Thev are set in drafts at funerals and poisoned by the unventilated rooms of invalids and waited upon by committees who want addresses made until life becomes a burden to bear. It is not hard study that ; makes ministers look pale. It is the in- | f?nity of interruptions and botherations to ' which they are subjected. Numerically too | small! It is no more the work of the pulpit i to convert and save the world than it is ! the work of the pew. It men go to ruin, j there will la as much blood on your skirts , as on mine. Let us quit this grand farce of trying j to save the world by a few clergymen, I and let all hands lay hold of the work. I Give us in all our churches two or three aroused and qualified men and women to help. In most churches today five or ten men are compelled to do t all the work. A vast majority of churches j are at their wits' end how to carry on a j prayer meeting if the minister Is not there, j when there ought to be enough pent up I energy and religious force to make anuet- i Ing go on with such power that the mln'ster would never be missed. The church stands working the pumps of a few ministerial cisterns until the buckets are dry and choked, while there are thousands of fountains from which might be dipped up the waters of eternal life. Before you and I have the sod pressing our eyelids we will under j God decide whether our children shall grow up amid the accursed surroundings of vice and shame or come to an inheritance of righteousness. Long, loud, bitter will be the our&etbat ssorches our grave if, holdlng within the church to-day enough men and women to stive the city, we act the coward or the drone. I wish I could put enough moral explosives under the conventionalities and majestic "stupidities of the day to blow them to atoms and that then-with 50.000 men and women from all l|ta!nfHg?f|MgLpwing nothing but Christ nrii tiller' ,{^0 werld to Him, we might move upon Tnee^eWyTaw5?Wter4 For a little while heaven would not have trumpets eaough to celebrate the victories. ' v Again, I learn from this subject that we sometimes do well to takeadvuntageof the World's grindstones. These Israelites were reduced to a file, and so they went over to the garrison of the Philistines to get their axes and their goads and their plows sharpened. Thd Bible distinctly states It ? the text which I read at the beginning of the service?that they had no other Instruments now with whicn to do this work, and | the Israelites did right when they went over I to the Philistines to use their grindstones. I My friends, is It not right for us to employ j the world's grindstones? If there be art, j if there be logic, If there be business faculty on the other bide, let us go over and em ploy It for Christ's sake. The fact is we j fight with too dull Instruments. We haclc and we maul when we ought to make a cleau stroke. Let us go over among sharp business men and among sharp literary men and find out what their tact is and transfer It to the cause of Christ. If they Lave science and art it will do us good to rub against it. uln other words, let us employ the wor Id's rgfIndstone3. We will listen to their music, and we will wutch their acumen, and we '#111 use their grindstones, and will borrow their philosophical apparatus to make our experlmonts, and we will borrow their printing presses to publish our Bibles, and we,will borrow their rail trains to carry our Christian literature, and we will borrow their ships to transport our missionaries. That was what madn Paul such a master in his day. He ncjt only got all the learning he could get of Dr. Gamaliel, but afterward, standing on Mars hill and In crowded thoroughfare, quoted their poetry,.and grasped their logic, and wielded their eloquence, and employed their mythology until Dlonyelus, the Areopaglte, learned In the schools of Athens and Heliopolis, went 1 down under his tremendous powers. gTuat was what gave Thomas Chalmers ! his powor in his day. Ho conquered the I world's astronomy and compelled it to ring out the wisdom and greatness of the Lord until, for the second time, the morning stars sang together and all the sons of Ood shouted for joy. That was what gave to Jonathan Edwurds his influence In his day. He conquered the world's metaphysics and forced it into the service of God until not only the old meeting house at Northamp* tOD, Mass., but all Christendom, felt thrilled by Ms Christian power. Well, now, my friends, we all have tools of Christian power. Do not let them lose their edges. ! We want no rusty blades in this fight. We >. want no coulter that cannot rip up the glebe. We want-no axe that cannot fell the trees. We want no goad that oannot start the lazy team. Let us get the very best grindstones we can find, though they be in possession of the Philistines, compelling them to turn the crank while we beat down with all our might on the swift revolving wueel until all our energies and faculties shall be brought up to a bright, ! keen, sharp, glittering edge. Again, my subject teaohe3 us on what a small allowance Philistine iniquity puts a can. Yes, these Philistines shut up the mines, and then they took the spears and the swords; then they took the blacksmiths; then they took the grindstones, and they took everything but a file. Oh, that is the way sin works! It grabs everything. It j begins with robbery and ends with rob. bery. It despoils this faculty and that faculty and keeps on until the whole nature is gone. Was the man eloquent before, it generally thickens his tongue. Was he flue ; in personal appearance, it mars his visage, j Was he affluent, it sends the sheriff to sell ' him out. Was he Influential, it destroys | his popularity. Was he placid and genial j and loving, it makes mm splenetic ana | cross, and so utterly Is be ohanged that i you can see he is sarcastio and rasping and | that tlie Philistines have left him nothing { but a file. ."Ob, ;tuo way of the transgressar Is | hard!" The cup Is bitter. His night is ! dark. His pangs are deep. Hl3 end Is ter rifle. Philistine iniquity says to that man, ' "Now, surrender to me, and I will give you j all you want?music for the dance, swift I steeds tor the race, imperial oouch to j slumber on, and you shall be refreshed ! with the rarest fruits in baskets of golden filigree." He lies. Tbo music turns out j to be a groan. The fruits burst tbe rind I with rank poison. The filigree is mt>de up ! of twisted reptiles. The couch is a grave.'1 Small allowance of rest, small allowance j of peace, small allowance of comfort, j Cola, bard, rough?nothing but a file. 80 1 It wus with Voltaire, the most applauded ; man of his day. Seized with hemorrhage of tho lungs In Paris, where ho had gone to be crowned as the idol of all France.he sends a messenger j to get a priest, that he may, be 'reconciled to the cburcli before he dies. A great tor- | ror falls upon him. Philistine iniquity had promised him all the world's garlands, but | iu tlve jast hour of his life, when he needed a solacing, sent tearing across ms cuu< i science and bts nerve a file, a tile. So it j wa9 with Lord Byron. His uncleanness Id ; Eugland only surpassed by bis uncleanness In Veniofe; tben going cn to the end bis brilliant misery at Mlssolonghl, fretting at bis nurse Fletcher, fretting at himself, fretting at the world, fretting at God, And be who gave the world "(Jhllde Harold" and "Sardanapaius" and "The Prisoner ol Chillon" and "The Siege of Corinth" reduced to nothing but a file. Ob, sin has a great facility for making promises, but It ha9 just as great facility for breaking tbetu! I learn from this subject wbat a sad thing it is when tbe cburch of God loses its I motall Those Philistines saw that if they could only get all the metallicjOeapona ! out of tbe bands of tbe Israelito^ll would bo well, and therefore they took rneswords and tbe spears. They did not want tbena to have a single metallic weapoD. Wheu the metal of the Israelites was irone, their strength was gone. This is the trouble with tbe church of God to-day. It is surrendering its courage. It has not enough j metal. I 6h, i3 it not high time that we awake out of sleep? Church oI God, lift up youi j lioailut the oocblng victory! The Philistines j will go down, audthe Israelites will go up. I We are on the winning side. I thiulc just now the King's horse* are being hooked up | to the chariot, and when He does ride down I i the aky there will be such a hosannu | among His friends aud such a wailing among His enemies as will make the earth tremble aud the heaveu sing. I see now [ the plumes of the Lord's cavalrymon | to?slng iu tLe air. The archangel before the throne has already burnished his trumpet, and then he will put its golden lips to his own, and he will blow the loBg, loud blast that will make all the uations free. Clap your hands, all ye people! Hark! I hear the falling thrones and the dashing down of demoltsned Iniquities. "Halleluiah, the Lord God omnipotent relgnethl Halleluiah, the kingdoms ot this world are become the kingdoms of out Lord Jesus Chrlatl" Mother'* Ralny|Da|MH^^^H>^H ii Ism on?Re diance?Taking Life Prayer for At-oiie-ment, Sometimes there's a rainy day; an We lay off a spell, we men. Pa talks politicks and reads the papers, And w-f boys putter'round and cut up oapers, 1 Au' whittle, even down to little brother. But dunno as I can recollect a rainy df.y for mother. Seems as if she worked harderthenthan any other day, Trying to keep things straight and put away, Stirrin' up the Are so it won't seem dreary, Cookin' up 9omothing extra then, makln' tilings more cheery; Pickin' up pa's slippers, or something or another. 1 Uu,'. believe there ever was a rainy day for mother But then she don't complain. Just keeps workin' on. Sometimes she has a pleasant word, sometimes a bit of song, And lots of times I fancy she has a tired look " An' then I'd feel lots better if she's rest or read a book. An' then I wipe the dishes, or do something or another, Ah' wish with all my heart there was a rainy day tor mother. ?Florence A. Hayes, in Zion's Herald. The Difficulty of Submission. '*he term conversion as it is commonly ^ usei^jQigggg. almost remission. It meanuJ^ ^tuTningahou!^reve!9?iJ ^W^^ou^fhe abandonment of one's purposa^or life hlthorto, or of one's neglect to have a positive purpose, and the substitution of a distinct, earnest, controlling intent to serve Ood by loving and imitating Jesus Christ . To speak of the conversion of any one is tc be understood to mean that a radical and permanent change has taken place in him, and that henceforth the supreme object of his life is loyal obedience to Ood. Wherein, then, lies the difficulty of conversion? Why is it not natural and easy, when one is convinced, as all are convinced at times, of sinfulness and need of redemption? It lies in the ingrained hostility of the human heart toward th? commands 01 uqq wnicu can lor enure ?uuordination of self and for consecration to Him and His service. There are person! whose lives are so worthy that conversion ? when it occurs produces little apparent change in their daily conduct. Yet thej would be as ready as any to testify to the difficulty experienced in submitting them selves to the will of God. Reflecting the Divine Radiance. In the British art exhibit at the Cclumbiac exposition there was a remarkable picturt of a blacksmith's shop. All the homely details?the smoky walls and rafters, the lurking shadows, the forms and faces of tht men showing in the half-lights?were por- ' trayed with singular lldelity. But the greatest artistic triumph alppeared in the mar vellous reflection, upon a boy's face, o: light from nn unseen forge. The ruddj glow, illuminating the sturdy figure and honest features of the rugged fellow busj with his work, was simply wonderful. Nc need to picture the red flames of the forg< beyond; their existence was distinctly evident. The bright reflection proved theii presence and their power. 80 it Is always A vivid reflection is invincible proof of lighi somewhere. While hands are busy with common work, the face may shine witl radiant reflection of liarht divine, and th? quiet life may be illuminated, if the workei will keep near to the Unseen Source.?Julia H. Johnston, in "Bright Threads." Taking Life as It Comes. TVe do not know when or where the wavt of (rouble is to sweep up against us as t great roller suddenly heaves up out of i tranquil sea; but just because of such awful surprises we build in cloudless days where the flood can never "reach us, high up upoc the rock. That is the message of Jesus tc many a life which wants to bear of othei things, ks the disciples wanted to know o! that which Jesus did not reveal. Many a ! mystery of life and death is undisclosed by Him, many a problem which distracts the mind is left unanswered; but along the way He opens moves forever the hope and peace \ of man. Not knowing whither we are going we take our life and duty just as they como and across all the uncertainties of joy and trouble, and achievements and regret, and life aod death, that may await ua, the voice of Jesus calls, "I am the way!"?F. G. Peabody, D. D., in Afternoons in the College Chapel. A Prayer for At-ono-ment. . 0 blessed Father, we thank and praise thee for all the mercies thou hast poured today on us and on all men, and the love that has averted so much evil from us all. Forgive us, for thy dear Son Jesu3 Christ's sake for all the evil we have done or the good we have- omitted to do. Keep us this nigh) from artl.works of darkness, and whether wo wake or sleep let our thoughts and deeds be iu accordance with thy holy will. Preserve us from all dangers and terrors of the night; from iestle9s watching and sorrowful thoughts; from unnecessary or fretful cares and imaginary fears; from sickness and from violent or painful death. Let U9 wake tomorrow renewed in strength and cheerfu. spirits; may we arise with holy thoughts and j o forth to live to thine honor,to the service < f our fellowmen and the comfort and joy o; i ar own households. Amen. Letting God Break the Rreari. ' That is just It," said the old lady. "Bt little children. Live in little bits, and be content. Don't wi9h or worry for a bij> Eiece of anything. The big piece is thf ord'9. Take the bread as He breaks it tc you. Remember the bigness?and the multi plying?is all in His heart and yours. Even crumb signifies the whole loaf. Don't crowd and struggle among things or against otnei people. Come in, nearer, out of the scram hie, close to the Giver, where there,is plentj of room. Come out of the wilderness, into the home. And then be patient with the rest till they come in. Till they realize. I mean, that they are in. Tuat th<> Lord's house is in the midst and ail around."?Mra A, D. T. Whitney, in "Square Tegs." Trusting Ood'i Arithmetic. There is subtraction as well as addition in God's arithmetic. God is always adding new gifts and blessings?we cannot foot up the columns, they are so long. But sometimes He takes from our list of pleasant things. This gives us pain?we are not always willing to have Him do this. But it our faith were simpler, we should know that God's subtractions are as much part of the working out of the great sum of love and wisdom as are His additions.?VVoll3pring. Christ Died Tor Our Sins. "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures." That sentence sums up the whole Bible. The four gospels teach us that Christ died,and the rest of the New Testament that he died for ou r sins. And the Scriptu res? i. e., the Old Testament?were in some mysterious fashion, by type, by allegory, by ' ethical and spiritual teaching, desifjued to I prepare the human race for the truth which ] in the New Testament was revealed, that J Christ died for our sius. Many persons seem to think that they are ] to enter into the misery of the Lord when , hoy become Christians, instead of the joy if the Lord.?Mr. Moodv j To ben roiiace ocmnps m duuk iuiui. The PsstoCflce Department at Washing- ! ton, D. C., has perfected a.plun to sell post- ' age stumps In book form. It Is proposed to ' offer for sale two-cent stamps fn books of 1 twelve stamps at a cost of twenty-five 1 cents each. The books will be of a size ' convenient to slip Into the vest packet, 1 with wax paper between the stamps, and with tho division of mail matter into classes, the rutes of postage and other kindred Information printed on the out- ' side. The Department expects the snlus tc leturu a not annual profit of $200,000. \ The Country'* Poultry Supply, There are in the United .States 375,000,006' chlokens and 40,000,000 othor fowls such ns ducks, geese and turkeys. lng v1 to receive opens Hla o r evidentm9"nnit?jesu3 "3ynngogue."^^Hfl^^^B^^^H| was in after the IhI^^HH^HH^HH tivlty. They could only be ereo^^^B^flfiD ten men in easy oircuinstances (cal^^Bw^^^H of ease") could be found to attena^^Hg^^H ? ? *?... ^ - a xue people sac wiiu tuoir iact? iuwui^bm the temple; thete were "chief seats" fo^^^Hj the elders, and the women sat by themselves, "Sabbath day." We should, on the Sabbath day, always avoid work, conversation and reading unfit for the Lord'a day, and give ourselves to spiritual exerolses. This was His custom. . If He needed the moans of grace surely we do. "Stood up." They stood .tp jread'the Scriptures. but sat down to'teacj^-pfjawhole congregation stood durlnjf'tbB^eadlSfiW"'^?^ 17, "EsafaaJA?Greek form of Isaiah. ' w*~> "The boolff' Th? roli. The 8crlptures were wrltftn 0n parchment, with two rollera, ao as they were read, one was rolj^on aQ(j the other rolled off. ReadIcg the Scriptures should always be a part of divine worship. "It was written."?Isa. 61:1-2. 18.' "Spirit is upon Me." This was Riven Him at His baptism. "Hath anointed Me." I have been set apart for this very purpose. This is the drat great qualification of a true preacher. "The Gospel." Oood news contenting Himself, His mis- "i sion, and the deliverance He brings. "To the poor." This was the crowning proof that Jesus was the Messiah. When John sent asking regarding His Messlahship His reply was, Tell John, the poor have the Gospel preached unto them. The troubles that afflict humanity and that are to be abolished by Christ are described as (1) poverty, (2) captivity, (3) blindness, oppression, ins uospei reiiciies au classes and all forma of suffering, disease and spiritual tondago. Health, deliverance slgbt and liberty are promised. "The broken-hearted." Through a sense 'of their sins. See R. V. "The captives." Those In bondage to sin, evil habits, or the devil. "The blind." Spiritually blind. A great light has now come, and the sight of such may be recovered. 19. "Acceptable year of the Lord." A reference to the year of Jubilee. Lev. 25: 8-17. This was the year when (1) Debts and obligations were released. (2) All Hebrew servants were set frea. (8) Each resumed possession of his inheritance. This was a type of gospel times. The gennine jubilee year koos beyond the go'frpel picture. The liberty proclaimed Is son! liberty. ) 20. "Closed the book." Boiled up the hill. "To the minister.*'. ..Jtyie ruler of the synagogue or his servant^ ."Sat down." See on verse 16. This Indicated that He was through rending and was now about to teach. "Eyes fastened on Him." Many things contributed to arrest their attention. 1. The report of His teachings 5 1?1.1? ? ? V. i A l? AnA/l Arl liua IUJgUlY WUfUS WUIUU uuu lucwu Him. 2. The remarkable character of the words Ho bad read. 3, Hl9 manner and bearing. 4. The fact that they knew Him. so well. 5. The unction of the Holy Spirit upon Him. ? 21. "Fulfilled in your ears." These words ftfe merely the subject of His discourse, the whole of which, no doubt, was Intended to convince them that He was the Messiah of wbom these things were prophesied. Christ's great theme was'always Himself.* His demand Is not "Believe something that I may tell you," but "Believe In Me." ; 22. "Bear Him witness." Gave signs of approbation. "Gracious words." This , passage and John 7: 46 give us some Idea of the majesty and sweetness, which characterized our Lord's utterances. Hi9 words Jprnng from his heart. "Is not this ' Joseph's Son?" How caa 'it be possible that the son of this obscure family?a carpenter who has made furniture for our houses, a man without education, without rank or office?that He should be the Messiah, the King of the Jews? 23. "Proverb." Or parable. Denoting any kliid of figurative discourse. "Physician, heaNthyself," That Is, they would ask why He^dld not perform miracles In . Wazaretn?at uome, instead or at uaper* DHuin, The unbelief of its inhabitants hia-' ir dered the exercise oTHis powers. The best modern equivalent tv"Charlty begins atr **. home;*' do something here. Work a miracle and prove to us that "y^iare the Mes24. "In His own country." Nop?5jh?i^ Is received in his owu country as he is else-^y where; and it is Gcd'3 way to send His ^ messengers to strangers, as In the case of Elijah and Ellsha, wbo were sent to be the ministers of God's mercy to Gentiles. It Is very difficult for any people to believe in tbe greatness or power of one who has grown up among them. This is the reason He gives for declining to work miracles la Nazareth. 25. "I tell you." He now proceeds to show how Elijah and Ellsha, two of their greatest prophets, had gone to the Gentiles with their blessings, and that by divine direction, while many In Israel were suffering unnoticed. "In the days of Ellas." See 1 Kings 17:1-9. "The neaven was shut up." There were two rainy seasons, called the early and latter rains. The first fell in October, the latter in April. The first pre parea tue groutm ior iuo accu, mo i?udl ripened the harvest. As both of these were withheld consequently there was a great famine. 26. "Save unto Saropta." Greek form for Zarepliatb. Elijah was not sent to the widows of Israel but to a widow of Zarepbath?a village on the east coast of the Mediterranean, between Tyre and Sidon. 27. "Eliseus." Greek form for Elisha. The meaning of these two versea is, God dispenses His benefits when, where, and to whom He pleases. No pcrsou cau complain, because no person deserves any good from His hand. Jesus might justly do the r.irae in the displays of His grace. Thus He showed that His blessings were intended for the Gentiles as well as the Jews. Nauman the Syrian." 2 Kings 5:1-11. 28. "Filled with wrath." They seem to Lave drawn tbo conclusion that He considered the Gentiles more precious than the Jews, in tho sight of God, aud at once the whole cougregatlou rose up in frenzied fury to make away with Him. 29. "Iirow of the hill." Nazareth spreads itself out upou the eastern faco ot a mountain where there is a perpendicular wall of rock from forty to fifty leet high. 30. "Passiug through." Hiscscape from Ihera was no doubt miraculous. They desired to see a miracle and here they had 3'ie. i KLONDIKE MAIL SERVICE." Coute From Val<le? to Eagle Will B? Covered monthly. Adviae3 from Dawson, Alaska, report that United States Mull Carrier Holcomb lias arrived at Eagle from Yaldes, completing the first winter trip as carrier of Government mail from the seat of the fukon, h distance of 430 miles. Holcomb said he bad a perilous trip. H? encountered many hardships, and during the trip ten of bis twelve horses died or had to be killed. He had a working force of eleven nen, who were employed constructing cabins for mail stations, one for every twenty miles. Prom now on the Department hop?s to ;ive monthly mail service between Valdes ind Eagle. One consignment of mail has already come out over the new route. From the coast terminus of the trail a telephone line extends eeventv-five miles inland, aud It is the iutentiou of tfie Government to extend the line through the Yukon next summer. Herring In Chicago Klvcr. Since the water has been turned on in tbe Drainage Canal schools of blue herring and lake perch are now found in the clarified wutor of the Ciilengo River. A Renting P!*c? For Tramps. Chicago is talking of establishing a lodt;lughouse for trumps.