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HBLINBIIX rOUND BUILT? Jury's Verdict in the Famous Murder Case in New York City. I DRAMATIC SCENE IN COURT ROOM Jury Iteturne*' r. Verdict of Guilty o? Murder in ilie Flr*t De?n?e Att?rDeliberating Nearly Klgtit Honrs? i .. .r it., rum) - A Lons and due mm i ui my Coatly Trial?KenderJnc the Verdict. New Voitx Cur (Special).?Roland Darnbam Molineux was found guilty of murder in the Ilrst degree in causing the death of Mr3. Katharine J. Ada^s by moans of poisoned bromo seltzer seat to Harry S. Cornish. The prisoner took the announcement composedly. His father and his two broth ers Were in court, but bis mother and wife went home at the close of Recorder GoiT's charge. The Court's charge occupied over i four hours. I Tho jury was out for nearly eight hours. They asked that they bo allowed to have the writing and other exhibits of the 3Iol- | Ineux case :o be used in their deliberations, i Ilio exhibits were given to the jury. j Before agreeing upon n verdict tne -jury tigaiu sent f or other writings of the case, j They asked that the three writings made ! by Molineux at the request of the prosecu- I tion bo sent to the jury room. One of these writings is a copy of tho poison pack- ' age address. Ten minutes after tliia copy I written by Molineux had beon placed in I <he hands of the jurors the doors were opened and the jury announced to the oourt ofTloer that tho verdict was read}-. i No time was lost after tho jury came in \ At 10.55. Recorder GoiT went at once upon j the bench, and Clerk Rrophy usked the ft fateful question: "Gentlemen, have you agreed upon a I verdict?" Foreman Martin arose and said: "We ! tlAVO." The defendant was asked to rise in bis | place. "Gentlemen of the jury, look upon the | defeudant. Defendant, look upon the | <nrv " (jnlil tho clerk. 1 more witnesses migti: nave ngureu m f the records of the case. f , The Molineux trial is, in legal parlance, the case of the People vs. Boland Buwhana jMolineux. The prisoner was accused of Imurdering Mrs. Katharine J. Adams by i poison sent through the mails to Harry 8. Corni3l). ' v '?& Mrs. Adams' death occurred at her flat, 61 W^st Eighty-sixth street, oa the morning of December 23, 1893. The arrest of Boland B. Moliueuxwas made on February 27, 1899, after a Coroner's Inquest whi<rh ilosted three weeks. This verdict found him guilty of causing the death of MVs. Adams. J When the case was presented to tb'o 'Grand Jury of March, 1398, an indictment ;'was found. It was overturnted by,the decision of Justice Pardon 0. Williams. . The case was presented again to the May Grand Jury, which refused to find an indictment. Again the District Attorney jpresented^tbe case to the Grand (Jury of Si. ,the following month and u trial count was returned. ; The story of the trial followed in almost an oxaoJ^fashion ttjat of the Coroner's Inque3t*#The two witnesses of importance presented by the prosecution whose testimony was novel and sensational were \ Mamie Melando and Budolpli Heiles. The former told of her finding the fam . ious blue paper with interlaced crescents in l ? drawer of a sideboard in Boland MoliV ;neux's room in Newark, and Holies testified K ,-that bo bad caused to be written at the deB tendant's suggestion a letter to Frederlok W iC. Steams & Co., asking about the charao9 iter of Alvln A. Hamster. (But the suddenly announced detdrralnatlon o( the defence not to call any witnesses to the stand and to rest on the prosecution's case on the ground that they bad failed to make a case, did surprise everybody. It took the prosecutor's breath j away and forced him to the U?ue. The result was that bis speech showed lack of .careful preparation. The charge of the Bdoorder was a' lonfe one, aud made in the most careful and ! [judicial way. He reviewed the oase and ; presented it to tbe jury Injts first exhibition as a perfect whole. j The money spout on the <jase since its injception by the people is enormous. Costly [experts, detective work involving great .outlays and other expenses aggregatiuz.it la roughly estimated, $100,000, have been 'Incurred for tho result as stated^:1 SEVEN BURNED TO DEATH. it A Mother and Six of Her Children Perished aud Oiily One Escaped. :y, ' Petersecbg, Vn. (Special}.?Tha housa ot Martha Smith, In Sussex County, noar iStoney Creek, was destroyed by flre, aud 'she and her six children wore burned to "death. Oulv one member of the ramily, a :boy, escaped, and he did ao by jumpiug ifrom n two-story window. How th? llro ,'orlginated is not kncwn, but it is supposed . to have been the work of an iuoeudlary. Soudanese Mutiny Trivial. Official investigation shows that only a L .few Egyptian officers, all of them young * ,men, were Involved in the trouble with the Itwo Soudanese battalions, whom they had ladvlsed not to obey the order to elv* up cartridges. Noi.eof the senior officers is jin any way implicated. A court of inquiry .will sit Immediately to investigate the aff fair. Canada's War Expense*. > Canada's war expenses for the organiza. E tion and maintenance of hor two contin[ jgents for South Africa up to July 1 will j amount to 32,000,000. [ The Labor World. The pie wagon drivers of New York City I havt) formed a union with forty members. [ Severnl thousand men are necessary to I gather the Hudson ice crop, at a cost oi I *600,000. [ The cigarmakors of Louisville, Ky., have Ik levied an assessment of fifty cents pet K Jmamhop frvr tl-r mnrvfha tn hnnm fhft hlllrt I A careful census shows that there are 75,000 citizens of New York who earn tUeii I dally bread while the masses are tucked K? away in bed. K ' There have be9n sixteen fatalities and Br 290 non-futal accidents among workmen at the Paris Exposition since work on the till dines began. j INVASION OF FREE STATE i I | General Roberts Opens His fampaisn With a Cavalrv Dash. ON THE ROAD TO BLOEiYIFONTEIN. j liritish Force PaMasc of .llodder River od j tsocr * mnK-* i vi> L.aacerij inKen-L.itI lie Opposition r?:id SinaM Loss to Oea- j eral French, Who Led the Advanco? i Invading Army Numbers 30,000 Men j London (By Cable).?The British army, | for the first time since the war began, Is insido the Boer frontier. Lord Roberts, with at least 40,000 infantry, 7000 cavalry and 150 guns, with artillerymen, has turned the Magersfonteia line3, b'efore which the British forces have been encamped for ten weeks; and, with haif of his corps, he already is operating on Free State territory. The dispatches of Lord Roberts sketch three days' work. The forward movement began on Sunday, when Colonel Haunay I set out, with a brigade of mounted infan; try for Baraah, on the Klet River, eight miles from Jacobsdal, one of the Boer supply bases. I ' On Monday General French, with the oavalrv division, seized the crossing of the | Rlet River at Dekll's Drift, south of Tacobs'la! and eighteen miles east'of Honey Nest Kloof. Ha skirmished with the Boers I and cleared the way for 20,000 infantry, who followed across. On Tuesday, with his tKire? cavaiiy bricrades and the horse artillery, General : Frouch rode to the Modder Blver, a dls; tance of twenty-five miles, and took three fords, with high ground, beyond the river and Ave Boer camps. Ho had a few casualties in brushes witbtho TCi Pr hiiNn fJ r>nc\rn 1 h nAfir hflB flrflH himself on Geueral Ojfonje's main* llQ3 of communication with Bloemfonteln, and 20,000 Infantry with seventy-two guns are beiug pa9hed ud to suj^port hlru there. Lord Boberts's dispatches,wired from inside the Tree State and on the Riet Rivei j left him on Wednesday morj&ing. Hi? advance had not been ojSpo3eA' by the Boers [ in force. ... , ' The forces iramediatei?atthe disposal of Lord Roberts are pia?s1OEt>ifi0,000'Jn a'pericral way. Tbese frgtfw#** revealed by the commands mentioned indispatches as ! having been added to the (ftvtoloos known | to be with Lord JIathuen. Possibly^Lbrd Roberts has 10,000 or 20,000 morei.;.:^#'1: It is now realized that the incidents at Rensburs have beetiseen out ol nil propor- j tion. Merely 1 skeleton lines^were main- i tained there, while troops', were being ! aScxetly and rapidly concentrated on'tht Modder River. The facility with which ! 30,000 men already have been f*ent beyond > the mil terminus shows that Lord Kiteh- j eaer has be?)n,fuUy successful in organic : ingttensporff' flota,how supposed to b? | down the line^-sendin^forward more troops > nnd getting together, more transports. ; Abont Ave in^e>,g>f.ox nnd mule vrngoi; 1 trains are' estlmfjretl for each division, sc ; that Loi d Etfdhener, who is reputed tc ; hava'arbiSHHthan a circus manager in ! handling...dHMg transport, has immease , xope, >ab!e course tlie Boers wouW^^^^^^^^eeveut Irish P?^w)^8U^p.l8l?ralty. Cobs. iBj; populace , New Yom CtTi C. A. Chic kerin j,- - of Gopeityajfen,' N. Y. was focnd dead outflldetlio Grand Unioi Hotel early Tuesday morning, having beenkilled either by fclUnfrtfr jnmping from a fourth-story wlnddwi>f*&tt hjtel. He Had been lying there some tlrae\before beiug discovered, a.od hla .olothi^fo yaa satu rated wicu rata, uik ,was> ^ lils way from bl? i hoow J^MBpenUagen where his family Hvw.?f^jMHngton. H< bad coinpl.Hiued or^ff?tog3G|0? rheurna ttsm. The polloftMSory la^pfOonRrossman Chlckerln&t$t* drugs? secure rellel from palm aQd^MKtbo drafts droVe hi a: temporarily friends incline tc the belief that flH to the window loi fresh &lr and:ftt$fcjBKfr^When the rootn was entered alter to0*Sndi?g of the body the bed-clothing waa^jfajogled and twisted showing that'thffjMBwed man halrtrlec unfluccessfuIly^gBiE^ The wlndow^wus OICh;;rIe3 A, ChfflBHIff was bora In Lewi: j County,: N?rin^?^p<n 1843. graduating ! from Lowvtito^Aoademy, whero bo wa: later a teaoberv 3A;tter*erving iu the Stat* j Legislature lie vwnt to Washington as a . fKa TmonK'-fAM rfh I neprwsemuuvo auiu tuv invun-,uu?? Dlstriat, serving llrst i^tke T?Ifty-ttiird Congress, and havlnigf ueen re-elected regularly since that lime. Mr. ChickeriDg wd? active in Bepab^puu politics in his district, and served for 'a time as a member of the Executive Committee of the State Committe0* - | x- German Emigration to Urazil. A society has bdifcu formed in Berlin, Germany, to promote emigration to Southerr Brazil. , Cutlfornla'4 legislature Adjourned. - The extra session of the Legislature or California adjourned sine die, huving ac complished tnost of the purposes for which Governor Gage called it together. I> eieoted a United States Senator and passe; several bills of Importance to'tbe Htato. Canal District. Depopulated. Superintendent Ross, o! the abandoned Delaware and Hudson Canal, says tb? couutrv alonsr it3 route Is fast being de- < populated ar.d will relapse into a wilderness unless the proposed Delawararaad* K; gston Railroad is built along the canal. Koer-British War Noted. The Durban Weekly Review has bssff suppressed for criticising 13uller. It is said that 800 men have gouo in small'1 parties from Chicago to the Transvaal. Thn nrlce of carbolic acid has gone uj seventy-five per ceut. because of the demand for it to make lyddite for British shells. Statistics from our Agricultural Department prove that the Boer3 have well stocked their larder lor the preseut emergency. The Orange Free State has now called out every available man, including the leading merchants, who expected to enjoy Immunity. DR. TALMAGPS SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject, The Responsibility of Thone Who Are Woll and Strong?Physical Knercy Ifot Indicative of Spiritual Power? Fijjht the Battle* of the Weak. [Co;>yriclit lSilo.] W\saiwoT3tf. D. C.?In this discour33 Dr. Talmagp sets forth tiio responsibility of those who urn strong and well, as in a former discourse lie prenohed to tlie dis abletl and "the shut in." text, Judges xiv.. 1, "Anil Samson wont down to Timuath." There am two sides to the character of Samson. The one phase of his life, if followed into the particulars, would administer to the grotesque and the mirtliful, but there is a phase of his character fraught with lessons of solomn and eternal import. To these graver lessons wo devote our sermon. This giant no doubt in enrly life gave evidences of what he was to be. It is almost a!ways so. There were two Napoleons ?tbe boy Napoleon and the man Napohon ?but both alike; two Howards?llie boy Howard and the man Howard?bul both alike; two Samsons?the boy Samson aud the man Samson?but both alike. This giant was no doubt the hero of the playground, and nothing could stand before his exhibtt|otf of youthful prowess. At eighteen years of age he was betrothed to the daughter of a Philistine. Going down toward, Timnath, a Hon came out upon ' him, and, although this- younar giant was weaponless, he seized,the" monster bv the long mane and shook him as a hungry hound shakes a March hare and made his j bones crack and left him by the wayside bleedina: under toe emit lap: ot Uls flat and, 'I tbe grinding heft of his heel. 1 There he stands, looming up above other 'men, a mountain of flesh, his arms bunohed 1 with muscle that oan lift tbe gate of a city, 1 taking an. attitude defiant of everything. J HIb hair had never been cut, and it rolled j down seven groat plaits over bis shoul- 1 ders, adding to bis bulk fierceness and ter- 1 rdjr. The Philistines want to conquer him, and therefore they must una out wuere the secret of his strength lies. There Is an evil woznt^ IIvIdk in the val- 1 lpy ot-Sorok by the name of Delilah. Tuey : appoint her the agent in the ca3e. The Puillstlnss areseorSted lnthe same .build- ' ing, ana then Jpelllah goes to work .and .; coaxes 8ams<Mi to tell what is the secret ^of. > his strenWto Y,W?il," he says, "if you take seven green- Withes such as they, fasten' 1 Wild beastiTwith and put them around.me 1 I Bhould bp perfectly powerless." So she hinds him wlth tbe seven i?reea wftWfc. : Then sheoUipS tier-hands and saysSPTtofliy " come-rthe'tnlllstlaos!" and he waHw.out' ! as though therVwere no Impediment. She 'j coaxes him again'and says, *'Now,.tm me,' J the secret or this great strength." .And he J replies, "It you should take some ropestl^ffc-; 1 bavo never been u?ed,and tie me with them I should be just like other men." ..^JheJlas. him with rope.';, claps her hands ana shouts, 1 ''They come?the Philistines!"'' He waU&i out as easily as ho did befixegr-not a slbfg&fr obstruction. S!:o coaxeiqHfc again, offlgtra he says, "Now. if you ?hmflfejake^th seven long plait3 of hair audfHhflgMtonso'fc lopm weave them into a , get away." 8o the house'fHKfrror^H up, hnd the shuttle flies bacKffcAjIbd for-3| ward, and the long plalt/i oXJ||1m4vwoven lutoawph. aud walks out as easily db/ie dlj^ before, drag*: sjing a part ot the loomijyltt^Wm. But after awhile slie'persuades' hfW?o tell the truth. He says,-' "Iff:> take a razor or shears and cut/off tWaljwjt. :) hair, I should be powerless and.lar.'fhe' nanus or my enemies, eiwusoa biuu^o, uuu that she may not wake him up daring the process of shearing,' help is called la. You lcuow that tho barbers ol the East have such :i skillful way of manipulating the head to this very day chat, Instead of wakiug up a. sleeping man, they will put a rnaa wide awake sov.ncl asleep. I her.r the blades of the shears grinding against each other, and I see the long locks fallincr off. The shears or razor sccomplishes what green withes and new ropes and house loom could cot do. Suddenly she claps her hands and says. ''The Philistines be upon thee, Samson!" Ho rouses up with a struggle, but his strength is all gone. He is in the hands of his onimies. I hear the crroaa of tho giant as they take his eyes out, nnd then I see hiin 3ta;?(jerinjj on in bis blindness, feelincr his way S3 he goes ou toward Gaza. Tbe prison door is open, and tho giant is thrust in. ' He sits down aud puts his hands on the mill crauk, which, with exhausting hori- 1 zontal motion, rocs day aftor day, week after woek, month alter month?work, work, work! The consternation of the world in captivity, his locks shorn, his eyes punctured, grinding corn in Gaza! First of all, behold iu this giant of the text that physical power is not always an index of moral power. Ho was a hupre man ?the lion found it out and the 3000 men t.wbom he slew found it out; yet he was the subject of petty revenges and outglnnted ? 1 1-- T ? f.. . rhrnnrlnn JHUk jUtocredlt - upon physical stamina. ^ BpIW. those who sue:n to have great SHPatfdn for delicacy and sIcIcuops of constitution. Inever could seeany glory in-weak nerves or siok headache. Wliatwyf-effort in our day 19 made to malce the :ineir!MjPj<women mora robnst should have HNm oI every good citizen as woll as SKWH Christian. Gymnastics may be ' Good people sometime? ascribe tv a ' wfykod hMWjjarbat they ought to ascrhe ' The body and soul ma /. 'j^a^SSBX^Bilghbors that they ofteu catch ?ao^vother'a diseases. Thoso who never saw'tfslek day and who, like Hercules, show tbe giant in the cradle bare more to anipqir for than those who are tbe subjects of ilfelonsc Infirmities. Ho who can lift twice as much as you can and walk twice as fur and work twice as loug will ! have a double account to meet in tbe judgment. How oftfn it Is ft hat you do not find physical energy indicative of spiritua. power!,: clear head is worth more than oof? di^yjjcUhiierpetuftl vertigo, if muscles wii-li tU^pJa^ot health in thorn aro worth moraTwiun those drawn up in chronic "rheumatics,0 if an eye quick to catch passing objects is better than one witli -.1.1 il- 1 fl.an ftrt.l TT? Ill \1SIUU UlIU auu UIIUOIIUIU, mou MWU u lit require ol U3 efficiency just in proportion to what He Las given as. Physical energy ought to be a type of moral power. Wo ought to have as good digestion of truth as we have capacity to assimilate food. Our spiritual hearing ought to be as good us our physical hearing. Our spiritual taste ought to be as clear as our tongue. Samsons in body, wo ought to bo giants in morul power. But while you And a great many men who realise that they ought to use their money1 aright and use their, intelligence aright, bow fewmeu. you And ejwire of the fact that they ought to use their physical organism aright! Wltb ,every thump of the, heart there lj something paying: "Work!' Work!" Anc^lMt weJ^pujj4'Cpmplnlathat we have no tools j God.gives us our hands ?odever yfcnuekle and with everyjoIut,fitid;.yith;ev iy muscle saying to n?,l'?ay hold and do sqnetbing." But how on?n It is that mo a with physlcal strength-slo-wot serveCtttlst! Tie/ are R^ftj^to lift ^l^liis'-suuikiju^ai^'ir a It 19 a roobtJ^iriefol tact that rnuuh of t lia ^aaiEeirt.oCJh&' cliarcb Had of tbe.world mnit be ttjosdoomparativeIy invalid. P.isbarA wx(er, bymtsou of his idiseases, all hlj^days sUtiugvJa tliu door of tlia. tomb, yettw^brimdjnj than one hundred volumes an(k#8^ataK outac influence for God that wlfl ?uduro ?s long as "The Saint'a Everlasting Rept^p-? .1 ward Payson', n&mr kaolpBg A weHilay, yet bow bo pr^acbe&aflibow he wroto, helping thouands of ajfiag souls like him self to swim frf a ^ea of glogr. And Bobert SfcOheyne, a walking skeleton, yet you know; wb?t ha did in Dundee and how ft? sUopfe. Scotlud with zeal lor God; Pb'.lip l^oftraldfle, ailvised by bis friends, because atBis illness, not to enter tbe ministry, yet you know what he did for the "Btse and Progress ot nelig!on^yMB|nBbi|^^]ieworld. he could not lira a fortnight, y?t at tbat very time enteriug upon philanthropic enterprise* that demanded the greatest endurance and persistence; Robert Hall, (suffering excruciations, so that often tu th? pulpit while preaching ho would stop and lie dowu on k sorti, then getting up again to preach about heaven until the glories ol the celestial city dropped ou the multitude, doing more work, j-erhups, than almost any well man in his day. Ob, how ortea is it tbat men with great physical endurance are not aa groat ic moral and spiritual stature! While therf are achievements for those who are bent all their days with sickness ?achievements of patieuce, achievements of Christian endurance?I call upou men of health, men of muscle, men of nerve, men of physical power, to devote themselves to the Lord. Giants iu body, you ought to Se giants in soul. Behold al30. in the stor7 of my text, Illustration of the fact of the damage thai strength can do if it be misguided. It seems 10 :ne mac cms ra;m spem ;t Kreiu deal of bis time in uoing evil, this Samsori ot my text. To pay ? bet which he lmd Io9t by the guessing of bif? rlddlo lie robs and kilU thirty people. Ha was not only gigantic ia strength, but gignutic in mischief, and u type of those men in all ages of the world who, powerful In body or mind or any faculty of social position or wealth, have used their strength for iniquitous purposes. It Is not the small, weak men of the day who do the damage. These small men who go swearing and loafing about your stores and shops and baakiug houses, assailing Christ and the Bible.and the oburah?they do not do the damage. They have no influence. They arft vafmin that you crush with your foot. .But it is the giants of the day, the mi3guide4 gtants, giants in. physical power, or giants in mental acumen, of giants In.social position, or giants tu. wealth, ' who the damage. The men with sharp: pens that, stab religion .and throw'-poison all through 0*c literature, themenwho use the power of wealth to sanction iniquity and bribe justice and'mako tratb and jionor bow tp their golden scepter. Misguided glant^r. lookout for them! In the middle and Iui ter part of the last century uo doubt there were thousands of men in Paris and Edinburgh and London who hatad Ood and blasphemed the name of the Almighty, but they did bat little mischief?they ' were smaiL-men, Insignificant men. Yet there were'glants in those days. Who can calimlate.the soul havoc Of a Rousseau, goIng OA twUh a' very enthusiasm of Iniquity >wlth fiery Imatf^atlon seizing upon ;a!lt'. the lmpulslv^'Aa^ures of his day? Or -'.David ^HaawfcVwho .'employed bis life as a" dDtder eioploifc Its sum mer, in spinning Out slrten weba to trap tUn-unwary? Or Voltaire, tfce moat learned manotbla day, iaaroballng a great host of skeptics and leading tbem out . la the darlc land of infidelity? (Or Gibbon, who showed anuncontrollable grudge against religion In bla. hlatory.of one of the most fascinatp^^^-^f^j^^world'a existence?tb| iw^w^^^ftoOtirtetlan heroes of whom' ^.OUf meitpfstout physical health, men of grwj^eAtel staturo/men of high social Hjmn/mon or srreat power of any sort, I Kiat you fi> understand your power and I WHiyi)\x to fcnow that that power devoted to'Qod-wlll be a crown on earth, to you typical of a crown in heaven, but misguided. bedraggled in sin, administrative ot evil, God will thunder against you with Qia condemnation in the day when millionaire and pauper, master and slave, king and subject shall stuud side.by side in thejudg men and money bags and judicial crime and royal robe 3bali be riven . with the lightnings. Behold also how a giant may be slain.of a wtfman. Delilah-started the train of circumstances that pulled down tbe temple of Dagon about Suinson's ears. And tens of thousanis of glauta Lave gone down to death and hell through the same fascinations. It seems to me that it ia high time Miflf tmlnif ;inrf nlntfnrm nnd nrlntinff press speak out ajralnst the impurities of nodern society. Fastidiousness nnd prudery say, "Better not speak; you will rouse u|> udverse criticism; you will make worse what you want to make better; better deal In glittering generalities; the subject is too delicate for polile ears." But there comes a voice from heaven overpowering the mincing sentimentalities of the day, saying, "Cry aloud,-spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show My people their transgressions aud thehouseof Jacob their sins." Tiis trouble is that when people write or speak upon this theme they are apfto cover It up with the graces of belles lettres, so that the crime is made attractive instead of repulsive. Lord Byron, in Don Juan, adorns this crime until it smiles like a May queon. Michelet, the great French writer, covers it up with bewitching rhetoric until it glows like the rising sun, when it ought to be mada loathsome a.i a smallpox hospital. There are to-day influences abroad which, if unresisted by the pulpit and the printing press, will turn our modern cities into Sodorns ?ud Gomorraljs, lit only foe. the storm of fire nnd brimstone that wb elmed the cities of the plain. You who are seated in your ChHstian homes, compassed by moral and religious restraints, 'o not realize the gulf of iniquity tlr jounds you on the north and the souti .nd the east and the west. V7hile I speak there are tens of thousands of men and women going over the awful plunge of an Impure life, and whilel cry to God for mercy upon their souls I call upon imnrahnl tn Hio Hnfnnflft of voiir JVU IV -- ? homes, your church and your nation. There is a banqueting hall that you have never heard described. You know all about tbe feast of Ahasuerus, where a thousand lords sat. You know all about Belshazzar's carousal, where the blood of the murdeted king spurted into tho faces of the banqueters. You may know of the scene of riot and' wassail where there was set before .Scopus oue dish ot food that cost 8100,000. But I speak now of a different banqueting hail. Its roof is fretted with lire. Its floor is tessellated with Are. Its chalices are oliased with Are. Its sons: is a song ot (Ire. Its walls are buttresses of lire. Solomon refers to it wheu be says, "Her guests are iu the depths of hell." If, theL, we are to be compelled to go out of tho world, where tire we to go to? This body and soul must soonBart. What shall be tho de*tfny of thefotjHrl know? dust to dust. Cut what shaluSkthe destiny of the latter? Shall it r6j|into the companionship ot the while robbed, whoso sins Christ lias slain, or will go down among the unbelieving, wlio trted to gain the world and savn their souls,; but were swindled out of both? uiesgeu db uoui We have ft Chiiinpion! He Is so styled in the Bible: A Champion whc litis conquered dentil and hell, tind He Is ready to fight all ouc battles-froia.tbe llrst to the last. *' Who |/j thia.that come^h--up from Edom with dyed garments {torn Bozruh, mighty to save?" In the light of this subject I *?nt to call your attention to a'^tkot which may not have been rightly oonsldeijed, and that is the fact that we mast be brought into judgment for thoomploymont ol jur physical organism. Shoulder, bralu, Uaud, foot ?we must answer lu judgment for Hre use we have Wade of thorn; Have thejfcbeen nsed for tbo elevation (ttvpoulety or ibr its depression? Ia proportfcNt. as our fam In strong and outete|?elastitnftll our acfcunt attest be intensified. ,Thousands oflnerrooturafe preached to Invalids. I prwusli this sehnou to stout men and healthful women. Wo must give to God ah amount forright use ef*hl* physical organism. i.?iC2fc?onvn(ii'fltivelv little to XCHWU lurtlliua UK>s yv.u, Jiwount for perl?aAjk-*!r!iey could not -lift Xvrptbiy pouudsl They coald not walk biilf n niil^ltijoftfr Bllthig down to rest. Yet ho>ynuoh"'inany of them accomplished' llMTOtf im^JadigOH'nt, standiug.beslde the mwiand women friio usdoaitffytja pbyal call eiuTfry aud y?t contm medvtiiKt eneita iti n cou^rtpraMon of relffriodI'?iitbri8ia<'ni> bow will we feel ttbu^ieal SJ^inen of tbc strong nrm nnd the stout what utti nre you .tonkin# of voar phjfijcal Torce** Will you bobble toBUind th?eeflt of th*fduy wben we must answer tor th* use O very talent.whetherlt whert a phyalqa ener^v or u mental' acumen oiraspiritual power? The day approaches, and I sea one who In this world was invalid, and oishe stands before the throne of God to sosjm. she sajf. "I w.ib stek all my days. I hW: bQt little atMiMth. hot I did a^ well klud m "*** BfojHWfcfcftd more sulMrlnn." Aa^OhrU' wlffsMy, "Well doue, faithful ftfcriM." j Seattle, Wash., ciaime the remarxabl ^ra&athWeof.elKht per thousand lu 1899 GOD'S | PRE.CNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. The Snow- IMrd*?Benediction of (ioodneiM ?Eternity and to Come?Cure Wnr by Warfare?Looking Ever Onward?Without Haate or Jte*t. TVhrtn n*in(AP winHu a rA hlrtroinO' And clouds are full of snow, There cornea a Sock of little birds A-flying to and fro; About the withered garden, Around the naked Held, I In any-wayside shrub or tree That may a berry yield. You'll see them flitting, flitting, And hear their merry song; The scattered crumbs of summer's feast Feed winter birdlings long. But when the snowdrifts cover The garden and the Held? When all the shrubs are cased in ice, And every brook is sealed. Then come the little snow-birds, As beggars, to your door; They pick up every tiny crumb, With eager chirps for more. Like wandering musicians, They 'neath the windows sing; All winter long they stroll about, And leave us in the spring. Off to the land of icebergs, ,To islands cold and dreur, They fly before the summer cornea To frolic with us here. Give them a hearty welcome! It3urely were not good That they who sing in winter-time ~ Should ever lack for food. Benediction of Goodness. A good man is the greatest treason that any .community holds. . He is the living protest against sin; he is the public library whose books are daily read by all the people: he is the onen sanctuarv into whinh I sorrowing and tempted hearts flee for comfort and protection: he is the dally benediction of God to the souls of men. Goodness is the sun that gives energy to a system that it has gathered about itself by the laws of its own being. It belongs to the universe which is God. Goodness must consist, therefore, with endless bestowraent. Under its warm rays the finer 3eeds break into life and "climb to a soul."' The gentlenrasof its heat is refr shment and quickening to nil that droops and is about to w ither uwav. Goodness is God'.s spirit energising through men. Since thi3 is so, the secret of a gracious life does nol lie in tho culture of manner or in the external refinements of social custom. The life that is a benediction is the life of downright goodness and truth. Longfellow had entered into the secret of all truly gracious influence when he described the passage of Evanp??lij)? from the place of prayer to the j sphere of her toil: 'When she had passed.it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music." ' ' Eternity l'att ami to Come. . Hare it: "The eyes of the Lord are In every place." "His eyelids try the children of men." "His eyes were as a 'flame of Are/', "I will guide thee with mine eye." Oh,;'tho eye of Godfso'full of pity.se fuIPo! power, so full of love, so full of indignation, so full of compassion, so full) of. mercy. How it peeps through the darkness ! How it outshines the day! How it glares upon the offender ! How it beams on the penitent soul! Talk about the human eye as being indescribably wonderful?how much moie wonderful the great, searching, jveiwhelmiug eye of God! All eternity past'and all eternity to come on that retina. Tho eye3 with which we look into each I nfKnr'c funa fu on^rfnef T f ofun^a f rlf. ten" twice on oar face aud twice on mine unless through casualty one or both have been obliterated. "He that formed the eye,'shall be not see?" Oh. the eye,of Qod! It seas our sorrows to assuage them, sees our perplexities to diseutaugle them. If we fight Him back, the eye or an antagonist. Cure War by Warfare. Christ cures the sick, not by what He does to them, but by what He does in them, and by what He thus arouses th?m to do in and for themselves. God delivers us'from our appetite, our pride,our vanity,our covetousne'ss, not by taking from us our sinful appetites and passions, not by plunging us impotent into an angel-troubled bath andbrinsus out potent,we passive all the time, but by stirring up within us a will and purpose to vanquish every sin and unworthiness, and by giving 1:3 the power in the effort to exercise it. For every St. George the dragon la vanquished only by the heroism wrought in St. . Georgb's heart. The Apollyon is not taken out of the path of Pilgrim; God conquers Apollyon for him, because God puts courage and resolution in Pilgrim's heart. Let no man pray fbr victory unless he ia willing God should answer by giving him a battle to fight.?Lyman Abbott, D. D. I.noklns Ever Onward. We have seen men who lived for years in the shadow of some great sorrow. They seemed to think to forget the loved and lost, even for an hour, would be disloyalty. But that klfid o? morbid memory which unfitted' them for the active duties of life was a reproach to God. But how canr we forger? * The apo&tlo tells. Wot by re9olvine to. That direct effort of the' will, bv tlxiug the - attention on the past, will deepen its impression. No. we must reach forth unto the things which are before. We must anticipate If we fix our gaze earnestly and lovingly upon the future, its radiance will dim the pa^t. If we press toward the mark for the prize of oui; high culling, we shall have no time or inclination to brood over the past. We are not saved by morbid recollections and godly sorrow. We are saved by hope, and hope stimulates to activity.?Churchman, ' ? Without Haute or Rent. It Is in ourselves that the real changes come?in our relation to God and to each other?if they come at all. Special remindet.s otthe succession of the years and the passing of the age will have done their office if they recall us from too much dependence upon, or confidence in. the great results oi outward change. The race renews its youth; the individual must expect to pass away. There constant help is for u.?, but it is the same help and hope which we have always had. All hope of progress- is asso dated with the favor of God. There is room for rejoicing in many visible improvements of comfort, mariners and morals, but the working of God,which brings this about, has its own erflu and prooeeds without hasie, as it is always without rest. Losing the Di'oft'x. It is said that the gardeners sometimes, when they would brinR a rosfe to "riehei flowering, deprive it for a season of lighl nnd moisture. Silent and dark it stands, droppiDg'one fading leaf after another, and seeininRljtgoing down patiently to death But when every .'Jei&f is dropped, and th* plant stands stripped to the utmost, a new life is evaiTtben working in the bubs, frotr which sbalr spring a tender foliage and o brighter wealth of flowers. So, ofteD, it celestial gardening, 'every !e?t of earthlj ioy must drop before a ne,w and divine bloom visits the soul.?Harriet Beechei Stove. ; ? 'Si I v - i * I came acrftsis that troublesome ocean tc be inspired ineducational matters.?Mr. A J. Shepbeard. The spirit ecmu's fl/st ia the cleanfdag and then in tbepowpr o[ God.?Walton Merit Smith. ? % ' ij. ^Qrush^l^ttliatones for sin In the tont. AppendlcltU fcl nb IJ? Cleveland. An Appendicitis Club is.belflg ottcanlzod *fnXW??elaiid. Onlv those who havo su(4mh' from appendicitis MMjiw;a surgeea's certificate to show tfca* they have falnfli'gone an. operation, axs eligible to membership. A preliminaryrifgantzatlcm has already been formed sad the elab already has tea members la good standing, It la proposed lo hold; meetings oaoe a month aud have an annual dinMtt, at jtfjilch appendicitis will bd the oaj^MDject ? Women Arrestee in flew XorK City. Twenty-OQ^^otUMd sevoa hundred and nluety arrest* ot women lu the boroughs of Manhattan aud Bronx were made lu the Mark 21-3 .1?Gol^^HgH^H^H Verses, siry on the Day's ? Connecting Links."After Jesus iretU Ho wont to Capernaum and ' definitely called Andrew, Peter, Jameraml| Jahn the secoud time. They now left ul~ and followed Him. a 21. "Into Capernaum." Christ now makos , Capernaum His homo, and the ceutor of His ministry for more ttian a yeilt. It is called His own city (Hatt. 9:1), and hero 'is a citizen He paid the half shekel. Matt. 17:21. His mother and brethreacamo here with Him. John 2:12. "The Sabbath Day." His llrst Sabbath in Capernaum. "The synagogue." This was the gift of a centurion. Luke 7:5. Schools and colleges were often connected with the synagogues. They we're tbe centers of religions and intellectual life. "Taught." "It was common to call upon any suitable person to apeak in the synagogue services." "It la not unlikely that at this time Ho repeated what He had said at Nazareth." Luke 4:1630. It was truth that produced results, whatever may have been the subject. 22. "They were astonished." At the matter, manner, spirit and authority ot His teaohlng. "1. At the range ot Hla intellectual gifts." 2. Tho force of His illustrations. 3. His acquaintance with'tlfo human heart. 4. His deep knowledge of the Divine law." "Authority." He spoke as one commissioned by Gorl and He laid great stress upon Himself. He said, "I say unto you," without quotiug their teachers. "He was, 1. Dignified. 2. Original. 3. Convincing. 4. Consistent." "Not as the scribes." The scribes were without spiritual life, their manner was cold, and, with an unholy ambition, they sought their own and not God's glory. They could only insist on the observance ot petty rules invented by men like themselves. Christ ilnvo r? n ttn fn a^arnnl nFio/iln)ua itrltl/ih bore the impress ot the DIvlna approval. 23. "A|ram with an unclean spirit." Luke says lie bud "a spirit of an unclean devil" j and "cried out with a loud voice." Lul?? | 4:3.1. There has beea much dlscussioh repardlng this "unclean spirit." Many hold that those who were said to' have devils were simply diseased people, and that their strong paroxysms were only "flts." Wo cannot agree with this, however, and must insist that, difficult as It may be to uuderstand, yet freal demons did inhabit this man and those referred to iu verse 32 "This country abounded in demons, 1. Be- I cause they wore then advanced to the very height ot impiety. There was not a nation under heaven more wicked thau they were, 2. They were addicted to magic and so in. vitod evil spirits to be familiar with them.'- , "Cried out. "Au evil spirit is stirred tc I Its depths ivhen in contact with Jesns." 24. "Let us alone." The devil always ; desires to be lot alone, and bad men do not ! want to be disturbed with anything good. | We hear this cry the moment we under- t take to deal with unclean things to-day, J such as Intemperance and the social evils i l "Wluif hnrn wn tn fin with Thsn " Vnt-h. 1 ing sit alt. Tliera is ho,concord between : Christ and Belial. "To destroy us." To drive us from ou&abode back to our native place. "I kaowTiiee." Imagine some disease, like the apoplexy, thus addressing Christ! No, Christ is dealing with devils now, and they know: Him well. "The holy one of God." The Messiah, who has come to destroy the kingdom or the devli. 1 John 3:8. > j 25. "Jesus rebuked h|m." Ho does not doaire the testimony of devils to prove His Messiahshlp. Throughout His ministry Christ never for a moment countenances anything that might be construed into a truce with Satan. "HoW thy peace." Literally, "Be thou muzzled." Come out ol him." He speaks with authority. Ho will show who He Is, by casting out tho devil. 26. "Torn him." Or, convulsed him. j Luke says the devil threw tho man, and came out of him, and hurt him not. Never was tlicrs a pprsoapossasaoiby an uucloun, spirit who (fid not suffer a convulsion, per- , haps a tot&l ruia, by It. Sins of uuclga^- . noli sap the foundations of life so that but , Cory few df this class live out half their days. "He came out of him." Even .tho devils obey His word o? <WA;niand. This Is an evldencoofthe groat objoct of Christ's mission, to destroy the works of the devli. It 19 also a proof of His love for lost man. 1 Ihe Pharisees said that Ho cast out devils | by Beelzebub the prince of the dovlls, but truth'wasjthat the very thought of collusion 1 with Satan would be abhorrent to Him. j 27. "What thing is this?" "God's wonders are more wonderful thau the devil's wondors." "Jesus taught by what He did as well as bv what He said." "Tliey do obey Him." Thus Jesus established His mission by the miracles He wrought. And they could not doubt It. 28. "Fame spread abroad." ThismVaclo was wrought In the publlo congregation and those who saw It published it wherever they went, and the peoplo throughout all Galilee were scon discussing Him and His wori. He did not need do7ils to publish Him, and we do not need to compromise with tho world, the flesh or the devil to day la order to be able to carry on His work. 29. "The house of Simon and Andrew." Jesus; Jinnies and John hvi fcnWreH P-olc^s housfc. 30. "Simon's wiie's mother." Peter Wii3 a married man and lived in Capernaum. It is.strange indeed that tho Roman Catholic Church should lay so much 9tros3 on tho celibacy of the clergy wheu Peter, their chief corner-stone,, had a wife. "Lay sick of a fever." Luke calls It a great fever. Luke 4:38. She was prostrated with a burning fever. "They-toll Him of her." This was really a request for healing. Thoy knew He could restore her. 81. "Took her bytho baud." Could anything on this side the unlimited power of God effect such a cure? These proots should demonstrate His divinity to the intelligence of every man. "The fever loft her." Christ has power over disease. He can, and frequently does, heal to-day; aud yet we cannot test the spirituality by the health ol.the body. Somtf of God's best saints have suffered with bodily infirmities and bare baen sick. It is the "prayer oi faith" that saves the slek, and he wbo offers that prayer will see immediate results. "She ministered." She was perfectly recovered. Sho was not obliged to wait a long time for strength to return. 32. "When the sun did set." The Sabbath ended with the sotting suu and then they brought their sick to Him. It would not have been a desecration of the day if they had come before tho sun went down. Jesus had just performed a cure ou that day. 33. "Alltbecity." Not necessarily every person, but a very large company. 34. "Healed many." Matthew says, "all that were sick." Luke says He laid hand* on them. Jesus healed all who came, and ,:they were many. "Diseases....dovila." A distinction is made here that we must not fall to notice; diseases were "healed" and devils "cast out." "Suffered hot." See on verse25. This had been a great day at Capernaum, a dliy Hlied with stirring events. May God give us such days in all our olties. RANCHERS SEEK NEW FIELDS. Texas Cattlemon Start For Argentina to | Engage In Htttineta. The Mallory Line steamer Lampasas sailed from Galveston, Texas, having on board a party of Texas cattlemen, consistJug of William Veck, Jeff Woodward and J. M. Sewell, together with Mrs. Crocker and four auughters, nil of whom are on the way to Argentina to engage In cattle raising. These people are from the San Angeio district, in Tom Greon County, in Western ' Texas. They assign as the reason for leaving Texas that the rango has been cut up into farms, rendering it difficult to secure grazing lands at reasonable figures, bence they are going to Soath America, where pasture lands are open. A number of inquiries h&Ttf been received from 4$ttlemen in ;&e^gfitfi|& Territory, Wyoming and OfclnhomR 'coneerning rates to South America, and k nojober of other cattlemen have signified #Wr intention of goingthere and embarking? thijfjltfiness ? Pupils to Write With Both llttnds. The udvisibility of teaching scholars to write and work as wall with the left hand as ttie right was urged rec latiy by J. Lib9rty Todd in address to the Chicago ToaiUera' Association. mratvDerrie* in season. Strawberries are begluutug to ulppair in the Northern markets. in cmflHB^^H^^^H^MHB^^BH proud In the tliralldorn^^^^H^^BQ^U^BB^Hj the Boer Hark! dista^^D^^^J^^HBH Floats a martial soug. Hall, reinforcements! Right faced Wrong. Than nwnl/a t?a 1 a t*n 1-h Art rtari f To your captain still bo true; Ere the triumph that is coming, There is glorious work to do. ^ Banish weariness aud sighing. To our runks recruits are hiolog. Rejoice, Columbia! the Right shall win the day. O'er the hillsides thoy are ooming, with their banners white and gold, Through the city and the wlldwood, swelling iiumltdrs yet untold; From the valley, plain and mountain, strong recruits we still may soe, Eager for the captain's order, "Charge! and sot Columbia free." Hark! o'er our campflres Sounds the martial song. Hall, reinforcements! Right faces Wrong. /. .. , t ; Yes, the time of waking comoth, and the hour is close at hand j When King Alcohol, defeated, shall be driven from the laod. See! the mist is swiftly rising 'neath the glory df the sun, J Boon the conflict will be over?300a the victory will be won. Hark! through fierce battle Rings the martial song. Hail, reinforcements!. Right face3 Wrong. A Suggestion to rrofesaor Atwater. Professor W. 0. Atwater, of Wesleyan University, whose experiments in the matter of the use of alcoholic liquors as food | are familiar to the temperance people throughout the country and have been much commented upon during the past* jix months, is again being vigorously^ quoted by the pro-liquor press as having attacked the sclentllic accuracy of the temperanceinstructlou text books now in i use in the public schools. The New Voice ( entertains profound respect for Professor Atwater as a scholar and as a gentleman, iindU thoroughly convinced of his hon-i esty in the position he has taken and of the essential accuracy, so far as they have been carried out, of hts experiments. We say this without any disposition to concede the cn^e at issue, but morely as a recognition of the fact that certain valuable and interesting data have been gathered by Professor Atwater's labors. Professor Atwater has discovered that a subject shut in an air-light chamber and fed ; partially with alcohol doos not exhibit the | well kuown symptoms of poisoning tiat ! the use of alcohol produces in every day ! life. If new upon the strength of this, be j feels that ho must assail the teachings of the 1 text books concerning alcoholic poisoning, i we beg to suggest to hto ths.t there is anj other universally accepted belief that 1 ought at the same time^o be assailed. It la I this: We have always beeu told that oar- ^ i bonic acid gas, as exhaled from the humaa body or cosing from othersources, ispreja-' | dicial to the physical health, and that a man obliged to live in an atmosphere heavily charged with that gas would sufifer serious lnconvenlocce from it. Every praj* 1 Ileal work upon hj-glcno devotes muclr spacc to this idea and to cautfens based 1 upon it. Now tho fact is, as the writer of k this editorial is told by the gentleman under whose immediate supervision Professor Atwater's experiments were conducted, that tho subject who was shut up in tho calorlmetre und who there confined did 1 not exhibit tho usual symptoms of ulcoholic poisoning, was all that time living without apparent evil results In an atmosphere heavily charged with carboalo acid ; gasNow we submit that If Professor Atwater fools that, la view of the discovery that .v' a man may, in the caiorimetro, take alco-? ) hoi in certain moderate quantities and not ! And It a poison, but rather seem to develI op energy from it, he must attack the teachings of the text books which hold that alcohol is a poison, ought ho not also to equally attack tho common bollef and . the universal teaching that carbonic acid jas Is polsouous? - <* ' id"' Girls Clieckljg luteuiparance. | Mrs. L. II. N. Stevens, President.of tho 'y j National Woman's Christian Temperance , Uoion, writing ot '.'What Girls CuuDo to * Check [ntomperance." says: - ' I "First, the example ot her owu life should I be that of total abstinence. On the Queen's Jubilee Day, In Jane, 1897, at the banquet table cf the Lor.l Mayor of London, a young woman was urg9d to havo her glass tilled with wine. Sue firmly declined, spying in a sweet, strong voice, 'I never taste that wbich I know may do another harm.' This coursc was safe for herself, but, more than that, she set a safe example for others about her, and she will never know the eood which came because of her decision and her bravery in declaring it, Girls should be self-respectful; to take wine or alcoholic liquors because invited to do so shows a lack of courace aud self-reliance. Young women should reaulre that the young men with whom they associate should be as good as they themselves are. Are they total abstainers from principle? Ev the same token, the young men should be total abstainers. "If the yoiiDR women of our Nation,with so much of life before them, with all of their enthusiasm and ability, would be strict total abstainers from ail that cau in toxicate, includiupr wine, beer and cider; ir they would try in all reasonable ways to win others to do the same; if tliey would stand opposed to tbe traffle in alcoholic liquprs, tlie day would be greatly hastened when the shadows cnusod by intemperance shall flee away, and when nothiu? iu the sbape of stroni; drink 'shall hurt or destroy in all God's holy mountain."' Tou Cannot Drink Without Injnry. A man Is like a thermometer. His spirits are equable?neither joyous uor sad. He takes a drink. It fills him with joy. When he recovers from its effects the reaction carries him just as far in the other dlreotiOD. Yon cunnot take a drink of whisky without au injury, Oitlier mental or physical. Let it alone.?New i'crk I Journal. The Saloon in the Way. Dr. J. G. Evans, a prominent Methodist minister, speaking ot the twentieth century movement of bis ohurch to raise ?20,000,000 and secure the conversion of a million souls by the close of 1901, says: "With the saloon out of the way It would be far easier to raise $3>,000,000 anil win two million sonls than to raise 820,090,000 and win (i million souls to Clirist, witu 25'J,WJ saloons in fall blnst In -tholr work of pauperizing men And damning souls, aud especially when this awful crime is perpetuated through the suffrage of Christian voters whose prayers oresollcitod lor the conversion of souls." r- A Tlie Cnnndo I at Bd?f. In Portsmouth, England, ffsome streets there Is one drink shop to every Uvo houses. . A.n order recently wedt Into effoct that sweeps liquor from all restaurants ana eaclng-housos oonnected with the Southern Pnclilii Railway Company. Liquor licenses have been t^ued ia Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, for this year on the condition that saloons must not be open later than 10.30 p. ra. The liquor dottlors would sell their country as heartlessly as Jmlas Iscarlot did Jesus for thirty pieces of silver If by u bargain they couid mako with a political party they might have uulimlted privilege to pursue their nufurlous business. lloland Mollneux glanced boldly at tbe foreman, whose next word was to mean so much to him. "How say you, srentlenaen of the jury?" was the clerk's next question. Looking jlolineux squarely iu tho eye and half defiantly, Matthias L. B. Martin, the foreman, said: ! "We find him guilty of murder in the first degree." Molineux gave a queer little jerk, as if he felt an electrie shock, threw back bif head, but remained standing. His face was a little more (lushed, his. eyes a little more steely in their expression, Ills hands thrmt firmer into his trouserivpockats, as he glanced back at the jury} c ' The clerk went ahead with the dread work of convicting a man legally of taurder and omitting no neceesary step. ' "You sny you find the defendant ?a!lty j of murder in the first degree?" continaed the clerk. . ' "We do," said the foreman. : "Aud so say you all?" asked the clerk. All nodded. Mr. Weeks asked that the jury be polled. This was done. Tlio Mollneux trial will ro on record aa the longest yet tried in the history of criminal jurisdiction in New York County, It lacked but a few duys of three full calendar mouths when the caso finally went to the jury. The effort to set a jury began on November 1-i, 1899, and lasted through the remainder of that month. The taklncr of testimony began on December 4, 1809. Ninety-two witnesses were examined, 212 jpiooes of evidence ilcured a3 exhibits, and > ,had the defense not determined against j' the necessity of making a case as many,