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RICHES. Hare you a little baby boy A few months more than tuo yean old, .With ?oft brown eyes that brim with joy And Milken ringlet* bathed in gold, Who. toddling, tollous you around And p!avs beside you near the hearth; Who*o prattle is the sweetcat wiunH To you of all glad notes of eartn? Hare you a little baby boy Who. when the voice of slumber calla, Reluctant leaves each uttered toy And in your strong arms weary falls; Who. yawning, look* with sleepy eyes Into your own and faintly smiles; TK?h .ikiit* ku li<l* ami nuiet lies. And drift* away to dreamland'* isles? Hare you a little one like this. Woo puts all troubling thoughts to flight IWhen. climbing up. he plants a kiss Of love upon vour lips at night? If ao, then numbly bow your knee And lift your heart in thankful prayer. For you are richer far than he * . Who. chikHea*. u a millionaire! ?W. L. Sanford, in Galveston News. inflRVTm^ ff^\TT/f * f r-y PEAKING of cats," said Colonel Bill Sterett as be laid aside a newspaper account of tbe pet stock show, f T an? moved to nay that every well> organized doc in tbe world ougbt to Je glad to see cats coining forward in tbe sbow business. As a friend of all dogs, 'cept pugs. I'm glad, because if tbe domestic cat has nuy excuse for living outside of play-acting, I've never UI0VV CIW1 II. The wise and witty man from Dallas palled out his nary twist, cut off a two-ounce cbew and resumed: "For nigh fifty years o* my life, trilling to love all animals, including mankind and terrapin. I never could do any better by the cat than give her tbe benefit of tbe doubt. The doubt being considerable, tbe preponderance o' evidence being, so to speak, against tbe cat, I kept her on tbe iralting list till 1 was past fifty, and then I wisped ber off lb? slate tr?n as a bundi ed to one sbot. made a newbook wltb Kldo as top choice, and now ?never mind how old I am?I'm willtsg to back tbe dog. from Llewellyn letters down to pug*, against all cat comers. "Bill Sowers 'sot me* finally against ? cats. Bill married an old maid over at "ZOUS DINGED OLD CAT IS PUTTING TEX MONET IS ZXXE'S CHEST!" Austin, and we all allowed it'd turn out fine for ber because Sowers was a man o* fine sentiments, tender as a woman and powerful partial to pets. - ma.? mm. "rwai auout lour years aner r?iu s wedding I met up with him at Galveston. He was walking along with A Cue-looking boy of about twelve years old. so. says I. hello Bill that your boy? *Yep. says he. Mighty big and sassy for a four-year-old. says i. 'Yep.' ays Bill. How's your wife. Bill? '.Got none.' says be. grinning glad-like; 'I shunted her an' she shunted me.* L So I invited him and 'be kid to go trolling on the bay with me. an' with the Uttle fellow in tbe bow. where be couldn't bear and Bill and me In the stern-sbeets trolling, tbe old chap ops ana yarns me me sicry. M 'Know how I love iLtwgs?* says be; 'well thar was tbe fust trouble. Arabella, sbe was stuck on cats. Day ifter the weddin' sbe landed up on tbe place with seven o' th? orueriest lookIn' grimalkns 'at ever sponged ofTcn a white man. Well. Tillman?you know Tillman?tbe big one-eyed setter, be killed five on 'em fu.?t thing.. When Bella seen me luffn' *be hex in cryln' an' vowed all my dawgs?I had only 'leven then?'ud have to go. Course I ups an' Toars. but tin'iy we comp'tnised by me agreein' to send tbe dawgs over to Junk Duiy's an' sbe submittin' to reduce th' cat stable to Jest one favorite. ) " 'Well. sir. Bill, that thar beast turned out to b? the peskiest, meanest. most owdacious thing 1 ever seen, forever glttin' onder my feet, settin' on Bella's lap. cornerin' th' best they wuz an' makin' Bella talk Itaby talk, till oce (lay I got sure 'nough riled an* kicked tbe blame tabby outeu tbe win fler. Course that fetebea on a hullabaloo an' from that day on tbey want no pence In Bill Sower*' house. Bella wns for bringin' me into subjection t* th* soli-darned cat an' I was fur bring I "x JC3T tiAID FOR TABBY THAT ETKKINO | WITH TWO BAR'LS OF OOOSB SHOT." Jo' her an' th' cat into subjection t* Bill Sowers. It wuz what mougbt be ~al1n,1 n <irin*H frilW. bill I WUZ ffvttin* rilier an' rllier all tbe time becuz Bella was everlastin'ly a-lavishln' herself on the* cat aa' spltln' me every way an' the darned cat could rig up. " 'Course I wuz gettln looesomer an' loneeomer. oot bavin* no dawgg uor no kids, so when Junk Daly's wife idled I sot my notions on adoptln' one o' her kids. That's Mm out thar In |he bow right now. He wus com in' twelve an' a right petit on wbso I landed him ap in th* house no* told Bella I'd adopted him. At fust she tuk to'm near as tender-like as ef he wax a young torn cat. but fust thing I k no wed Zeke. tha's his given name, he begun tyin' strings to Bella's cat's tail an' puttln' paper boots on the durued feline. So Bella begun awallopin' Zeke. an' with me takin' up fur him, and' him figbtin' back at th' cat an' the said cat gettln' back at Zeke. ^e had a lively time for shore. Zokn alun' with mo anil th* cat slen' with Bella, and' fur a spell we 'kep' apart an' bad no track in common. Bella kep' nlookin' solemner an' solemner. a-jjlarln' at Zeke au' a-scowlin' at me till lln'ly sho ups and tells me that Zeke's bin' robbin' ber. She Rot offul serous an' says sh'd been minsln* rings and small Jew'lry for a lonspell an' bed actually found 'em all that day stowed away in Zeke's little tool chest I'd bought fur bis birthday. I ast Zeke an' be ups and swears be never took notbin'. but Bella want satisfied till she makes him admit that he knowed the rings wuz in bis chest all th' time. Course I had t' lick him then, but be never quit swearin' tbat he didn't know bow th' stuff got Inta hla rhp?t " Twant two days after that thar mm 90 ^ i "I WIKT TO TH* DOOR." fust set-to when Bella comes t' me an' says Zeke bas gone and stole a dollar bill oaten ber drawer. Sbe fetched me In my room an' pinted out tbe reenback. all rumply and poked down ' i tbe tool box. So I licked Zeke agin* an* Bella sbe licked blm agin', ua* ? >? lr 1*1 irim a'nirwt hrnlrn ilnwn but still utickin' to it tbat be never stole notbiu*. Lie. .n* Zeke was bad enough on my spirits, but wbat made me hotter'n all wuz tb' way Bella's danged old cat enj'yed tbe leatberin' Zeke was gettin'. Tbat night while her an' th' cat was at tea I put another dollar bill on tbe dresser, tuk a auger an* bored a bole in Bella's door an' another in my door. Then 1 made her fetch up her everlastin' cat an' put it inta the bedroom. When I'd locked both doors after a-ligbtin' a lamp in her room an' anotner in me an Zeke's, I fetched Bella out, leavln' the dang cat inside, an' told ber to set down on tbe floor an' watch at tbe anger bole what tbe cat mougbt do. I went to th* otber door an* lowed tbat I'd speak out what I seen tbe cat a-doln'. "'"Has she begun p'formin'? I ast Bella. "Yep," says Bella, peekin' through at Tabby, "she's a-plyaln' on tbe dresser?she's a-flddliu' with a ribbon 'r suthin?here she comes with a ?It's a greenback. Bill." says Bella, "an* she's agoin' fur your room!" " "An* here she comes." says I, peekin' in my bole, "an' your gol-dinged old cat is a-puttln' tbe money In Zeke's tool chest!" " 'An' so 'twas. Tbat cat wuz the guiltiest lookin' tbief I ever seen when I opened tbe door an' showed Bella tbe money tucked down in Zeke's box. But Bella, she just busted out a-cryin' an' said I wuz a low-down scoundrel fur putt in' up secb a measly trick on a pore cat. That tbar crack settled It. 'tween Bella an' me. I jest laid for Tabbj that evenin' with two bar'Is of goose shot an' th' fur is tiyin* yet. Bella she moved over to her cousin Jlnkinses an' sued me an' Zeke fur a divorce, got it all right, an' now she's sot up in a cat foundry over by tb' schoolhouse in Brazos street. Me an' Zeke is bacbin' over Toole's hardwure store, we got seventeen dawpi. an' when we can't find no better game we go cat huntin" ?John H. Raftery, in tbe Chicago Record-Herald. Th? Feather Indastrr. All tbe black and white plumes come from the male ostrich, the gray from the female. The feathers are not plucked out. as you might imagine, but are clipped off with a sharp knife, leaving tbe end of tbe quill in tbe tlesh. where it remains for two or three months until it "dies." when it is pulled out with forceps. Each bird produces on an average $75 worth of plumes a year. An offer of 11500 was made for Major McKinley and refused. A hen lays from ten to sixteen eggs, and Is assisted in their iucubation by her devoted spouse. Major McKinley is a splendid roadster, easily drawini ? iip? :iml Iu'i> jit ! of tlfteen miles an hour. Ostriches fight by kicking forward with one foot while standing on the other. It seems that they are obliged to keep one foot ou the ground all the time. Each foot is provided with a toe and a brace and a single hliw is enough to kill a man. All the feathers are sent to California to l>e dressed, dyed aud curled.?New York Press. Repaid. At a certain ball in the country the other evening a gentleman undertook to Introduce a compauion to a young but somewhat stout lady who seemed to IH> pining ior a uuuti*. "No. thanks, old fellow; I don't can? to waltz with a cart." A "cart" l.?? understood in the district referred to as a partner who does uot do her share of the dancing, but has to be drawn round. A few evenings later the samp young lady, who had overheard the conversation. beheld the young niau seeking an introduction and asking If he might! have the honor, etc. "No. thank you." she replied; C may be a cart, but I am not a donkey* I cart"?Tlt-Blta. ifi - >* . V. - - T V ' . '3* - " | LOST III SEA OFF CAPE COD Seven Life-Savers and Five They SoueHt to Rescue Drowned. HIGH WAVE UPSET THE LIFEBOAT Heroic Efforts to Save Craw of a Stranded Barge?Boat Capalxed While Return* lag to Shore?One by One the HelpteM Victim* Fell Off Into the Haging Sea ?Only One Man Saved. Chatham. Maw.?Seven brave life ?II- 4k.v An?K^ AMttr A# I H.IVtTti, |)I aillicilllj IUI' CUIIIC Utu Vfc ' tlip Monomoy station on the south end of Cape Cod, met death at their posts of duty, and with them into the treacherous sea which capsized the lifeboat jvent five men from the stranded flarge Wadena, whom they vainly tried to bring In safely to the shore. One man. Lemuel Ellis, through the heroic work of Captain Elmer Mayo, cf another stTanded barge, the John C. Fltzpatrick, was rescued from the bottom of the upturned lifeboat. All the life-savers came from Ca^tahn and Harwich. There Is no Government pension for those whose husbands and fathers are lost in the ilfe-suving service, so that the lot of the families who are left is a hard oue. The names cf those vhj were lost are: Life-savers?Marshall N. Eldredje. keeper. South Chatham; Edgar Small, Harwich; Elijah Kemlrick, Harwich; Osborn Chase. Hanvich; Arthur Rogers. North Harwich; Isaac Thomas Fojre. South Chatham. and Valentine Kickereon. Harwich. From the Barge?William H. Mack. Cleveland; Captain Christian Olsen, Boston; Robert Molanux. Boston, steward of tug Peter Smith; Walter A. Zev?d. Cottage City, and Manuel Enos, Cottage Clt.-. Captain Lldredgp was a widower, hut leaves a sou and daughter. Surfman Small leaves a wife and two children. Surf men Kendrlck. Rogers nnd Foye were married, bat bad no children. Surfranu Chase leaves a jrlfe and two children. Surfmnn Nicker*on leaves a wife and three children. Captain Eldredge sighted signals of distress on the Wadena. He got oat his crew and surf boat, bat It took nearly an hour to reach the barge. By that time the tide bad turned to the eastward, and a fierce cross sea had been kicked np. Captain Eldredge steered the lifeboat under the lee if the Wadena, and one after another the five men dropped into the boat. When about half way In a tremendous sea caught the lifeboat under the stern and she went over, throwing all the men into the wpter. Being used to the sea all the life-savers clung to the boat and managed to pull the Wadena men right along with them. An attempt was made to right lue ihjhi. uui wfiuk iuii ui nnici 111c life-savers only managed to set her partially cleared. Tbey bail some bope. however, of reaching land, until another wave again capsized the boat. Mr. Mack was the tlrst to succumb, and one by one they dropped away until there were only four left, and these climbed on the bottom of the overturned boat. AH were fearfully exhausted. The four men drifted down in tbe direction of tlu> Fitzpatrick. where Captain Mayo, of that craf^ cauicht sight of them. With great daring he dropped a dory overboard and jumpiug iuto it. started after the exhausted men. Before he reached the lifeboat three of them had fallen into tbe sea. Ellis managed to hold on and caught the rope which Captain Mayo threw to him. He was dragged aboard, and then Captain Mayo, being an expert surfman. pulled around tbe point into the smooth water Aid Intwl/wl nnl i? A# tha thll*. iuuurii iur OM? ???" "? *MV ?M?? teen who started from the barge. The disaster is one of the worst that ever happened to a life-saving crew on Cape Cod. CHILD PLAYED BUTCHER. Kaockcd Hla Younger Brother Stu?lew Triced Him Up and Started For a Knife. Middletown, N. Y.?John, the sixyear-old son of Charles Haner. of Marshland, came near committing a murdor in his effort to carry out a desire to pl:i7 butcher. The lad's father Is t butcher, and the little fellow had often seeu his father kill cattle In un old slaughter house near their home, and know Just how it was done. No animal being at haud he selected his younger brother Charles for the ^laughter. Procuring a rope he fastened It about the smaller boy's neck. uraggeu Dim 10 tue. siaugmer uouse, fastened the rope through a riot; in the floor and drew his head down to the floor. Theu seizing a heavy pleee of iron, he struck him on the head, knocklot; hioi senseless. The young butcher then fastened another rope to his victim's feet. and. turning the windlass to which It was attached, triced his brother's body In the air feet first. Unable to find a knife in the slaughter house, the young butcher hastened to the house and asked his mother for one. saying that he was playing butcher and had a cow Just ready to skin. Suspecting something wrong the mo'ber hasten;nl to the slaughter house. She lost no time In lowering the suspended l?oy. who regained con sciolism's* in aiiout two noum, ami i? ; now apiiarently no worse for bis espe- J rience. Fought Don) at Thirr P?wi. Reese Kvans and A. A. Smith fouchl ' a due! wjth Winchesters at I'isht ??'et I distance at Purdy Station. Xev. Each I received injuries from which death J resulted. The quarrel was over a strip of almost worthless lau?l. Ilockrtl the Boat For Fan; Two Drowned. 1 r youiiK men rockcd a boat for fna on a millpoml near Fayetteville. N. C. The iMiat upset and two brothers named Underwood were drowned. IJallard and Hales, their companions, swam ashore. Loii-Loit Brother Fonnd. T nirln T llrntil nf Tv ;il:?Iiin7.no Mich.. has just beard from bis brother, Alexander. whom he has not seen for tlfty ' years, and who was supposed to havo j been murdered by the Ute ludians and Mormons In the Mountain Meadow massacre. Alexander, now seventy years of age. is living at Belgrade, Neb. Heroic Boy Burned to Death. While taking cattle from a blazing barn at Westboro, Mo., a flftecn-yearold boy named Dunn was burned tC death. 1 ?? BLIZZARD IN THE WEST Business Stopped, Railroads Tied j Up and Trains Stalled. Bi(h Wind* Piled Dp Snow In Mountain Drifts and Packed It la Solid Masses ?Canadian Territory Snowbound. St. Paul. Minn.?North Dakota and the Canadian Northwest has experienced the worst snowstorm In many years, and railroad traffic was practically paralyzed. The Northern Pacific and Great Northern Roads were unable to move a wneei unui me lury 01 tue storm abated. Tbe blgb wind pled the snow in mountainous drifts and packed It In solid masses, many deep cuts being entirely filled. Tbe temperature fell below tbe zero mark. Not a transcontinental train arrived at St. Paul for several days. Tbe Northern Pacific reported Its west-bound coast trains, from St Paul, tied up at Fargo, tbe road beyond there being blocked. Every effort was made by tbe road to keep its passengers, who were snowbound. warm and well fed. Tbe Bed River Valley Division of the Northern Pacific, between Frankfort and Winnipeg. was entirely abandoned. No trains attempted to run. and tbe exact conditions on this division were not known by the general offices here, as thn tolftfrrnnh urirno trorn InH Hntvn ?v?v0iupu ? HVO ? tiv vwtttvu uv fvu by tlie burden of sleet that preceded the heavy snowfall. The situation on the Great Northern was equally as bad. The line was tied up entirely between Grand Forks and Williston, X. D., a distance of about thirty-five miles, and all wires were lost beyond Fargo. Thirty miles of wire were down between Fargo and j Cassellton. X. D.. and all comunicatlon with Western Dakota and Montana points was lost The branch of the Great Xorthern running to Winnipeg was also tied up. j Winnipeg was reported entirely cut off j from railroad communication with the outside world. The Canadian Pacific j transcontinental trains were snow- | bound somewhere west of there. The I storm was preceded by a light rainfall j and accompanied Dy nign winds, rne i rain soon turned to sleet and then to ! snow, and this fell withoftt cessation for more than two days. Business of j fill kinds was at a standstill. So far | hs known there was no loss of life, but owing to *he demoralized condition of the wires little news was received from the remoter districts. The farmers, however, balled the advent of the snow with delight, as the ! ground bad been very dry and this j abundance of moisture will put it In I excellent shape for the spring seeding. A dispatch from Devil's Lake. N. D., *a!d a blizzard, the worst in ten years, had been raging. All railroad and other traffic was abandoned. The thermometer was at zero. At A her- j deen. 8. D., the blizzard raged furious- J iy. Trains were delayed and business was at a standstill. From Pierre. S. D., reports said that i It was probable there bad been heavy . losses of cattle and sheep. Reports from Lacrosse. Wis., said that a high j wind blew and small buildings and ! trees were wrecked in all parts of the ; city. Michigan Tcmperatara'i Sadden Drop. Detroit. Mich. ? Between 5 o'clock p. m. and 10 o'clock p. m. the temperature here dropped twenty-six degrees, j registering twenty-six above zero at ! the latter hour. High wlud and flurries of snow accompanied the ttuddtm j fall, which was general throughout the 8tate. In the extreme southwestern part of the State a veritable blizzard prevailed. Cyclone Wrecks Town. Birmingham. Ala.?A cyclone struck ! the mining town of Piper, Bibb County, wrecking forty houses and damaging thirty-five others. Edward Turner, colored, was killed, and John Allen, his wife and three children were se- j verely injured. SUSPENDS BOND PURCHASES. Secretary Shaw Announce# That Ha Will ; Dlacootiaa* Baying. Washington. D. C.?At a Cabinet i meetlnc Secretary Shaw brought up ! the subject of his proposed order dls- j continuing bond purchases, and after j returning to the Treasury Department ; he Issued the following notice: "The Secretary of the Treasury an- ; nounces that he will discontinue, for ! the present, the purchase of United States bonds of the five per cent, loan of 1004, the four per cent, funded loan of 1907, the three per cent, loan of 1908-18, and the four per cent. loan of 102.V Mr. Shaw held a conference with the President at which be received Mr. I Roosevelt's approval of bis contem- j plated action, and the bringing of the I matter up at the Cabinet session was i Incidental t& a statement by the Seen1- I tary of the general financial situation. | which be described in detail. Mr. Shaw's chief reason for the ac- i tlon taken is that in his opinion the ; price or Donus is already too mgu ana is artificially made so by tbe presence of tbe Government in tbe market Calf Ate S2000 Not* and Bill*. Jobn Ammundson, of Porter. Mlnn.t ' was doing some work about bis barn ; and placed his vest containing a $2000 j note and $23 in bills on a nail, when a ! calf with keen appetite ate the note and paper money. Upon the discovery of his loss the calf was killed, and enough of the money was found to prove that it went that way. No trace of the note could be discovered, however. Donri Claim SaTrntern Cum. It is said at Brussels. B.'l^iuui. that t Mr. Kruger has sent a messenger to | South Africa with dispatches tor lien- ! f?ral Schnlk-Berger. Member* of tli?? ; entourage of Mr. Kruger Vsert that j tin- Boers now possess seventeen rap- j tured puns. Ambaiutlor Clayton Accaaetl. Charges of falling properly to protect ; American interests were tiled iu the State Department at Washington against Powell Clayton, United States Ambassador to Mexico. The Sporting Worhl. Yale Is the basketball champion in the Intercollegiate League. Ill 4^iew Lu^iiiuu lurif air iju tuv? tracks which arc menilHTs of the National Trotting Association. George II. Brooke and Hugh D. Scott have won at Philadelphia the racquet double champion .hip of America. The unbeaten :?acer. Dan Patch, record 2:04%. has bccu I cught by M. E. Sturgis, of New York City, for #20,000. The women's golf championship will be at the Country Club of Brookline, Mass., beginning September 25# and coo- j eluding October 4. j IIKOR EVENTS Of THE WHS | I ! WASHINGTON ITEMS. A Republican House caucus design nated F. B. Lyons, of Cuba. N. Y.. as . doorkeeper of the House to succeed 1 William J. Glenn, deceased. The resignation of William M. Johnson, First Assistant Postmaster-Gen- j cral. was accepted by President Boose- : velt. ! President Roosevelt decic'w?d not to j reappoint Commissioner-General of Immigration Powderly. and will name for the place Frank P. Sargent Grand Muster of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. Senor Concha, the new Colombian Minister, presented bis credentials to President Roosevelt. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations decided that the House must confirm commercial treaties to make them operative. The Senate ratified the provision of the Hague conference relating to conduct of war. W. A. Rodenburg, of Illinois, resigned from the United States Clvl Service Commission. ODR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Hfnnlln ripolnrpri n nnnrantlno mrainst - EIods Kong because of cholera at the ! latter port. 1 Glvera. the Insurgent leader. Issued i n proclamation in the Island of Samar. P. I., declaring that be bad succeeded 1 General Lukban, who was captured by 1 the Americans. The editor and proprietor of tbp San ' Juac (Porto Rico) News, H. S. Bird, ] was acquitted of the charge of crimin- j ally libeling the San Juan District Court. Governor Hunt returned to San Juan i from his tour of inspection of Porto < Itlco. He reported good crop proa- i iiects and the island irenerallr nrosnor- < *0118. DOMESTIC. A campaign against euchre waa started bj ministers in Wheeling. W. Va. The Council and Board of Trade of Jacksonville. Fin., decided to furnish a site and $5000 annually to maintain a $50,000 library offered by Andrew Carnegie on these conditions. Four laborers in New York City were buried under a sand bank, two being killed. Remorseful because of his arrest on the charge of insulting a woman. Ed- ( win Douglass, a well educated young ] Englishman, committed suicide in a j cell in a police station in Buffalo, i N. Y. . 1 Three Italians fell from a skiff and j were drowned at Spring Valley. 111. The Central University at Danville. { Ky.. raised the $25,000 needed to se- 1 cure a like sum from Thomas H. 1 Swope, of Kansas City, Mo. ^ An explosion in Edwards's sawmill i at Huntington. W. Va.. killed two and < injured six men. j The steamer European cleared from New Orleans. La., with 1150 horses for ( South Africa. t The severe storm in the Northwest 1 ended, hut intense cold followed, and ] there was much suffering and some ( loss of life in the Dakotas and Hon- ( tana. All the mills in Fall River. Macs., re- 1 sumed except the Sagamore, where la- ] bor troubles were still unsettled. Bellamy Storer. United States Minis- t ter to Spain, denied that his return to this country was connected with political affairs. While leaning over a piece of machinery at Imllanapoiis, Ind.. Mrs. Josephine Stevens bad her hair torn off. She was fatally injured. Six deaths occurred on the transport E Sheridnn. which reached San Fran- c clsco, Cal., from Manila. a Illinois' contribution to the McKinley memorial fond amounted to $33,063. Suddenly becoming insane. Lafe Yerkcy. of Flint. W. Va.. killed his wife with a hatchet and then cut his own throat. On the gallows at Anderson. S. C? Oliver Greer, colored, confessed assaulting a white woman, for which crime be was being banged. Announcement of the gift by Andrew Carnegie of $173,000 for a library ( at Albany, N. Y.. was made. It was feared that a strike affecting most of the textile industries at Fall River. Mass.. would take place. TK~ D?i:i?n.wl Pomnnnr ~ iuc & uuun^iiuuia nauivau wuj|/auj u decided to Issue $30,000,000 of bonds u to corer its Hudson River tunnel and * other expenses. __ jj fc FOREIGN. a The Natal Civil T-eason ^ourt was M disbanded. Hereafter i>ersons charged * with treason will be tried bv court-mar- J1 tiaL J The United States cruiser Albany n and the gunboat Nashville arrived at li VlUefrancbe, France. m A Ore in the nival arsenal at Valparai- f, so. Chile, did $1,000,000 damage. p Ten thousand Russian students try- >' ing to form a procession in St. Peters- j' bur;: were attacked and dispersed by t] police and troops. ti It was reported in Berlin that United ' States Ambassador White will retire next November. f t< Messrs. Raini)riiig:? and Ragsdale j were appointed 10 adjust claims of ; 01 Americans, at IVkin. China. & An Engiisluuan named Kennedy was i J! thrown in prison iu Ecuador. j C1 The Holieuzoilern sailed from Ber- i mudn. where iis officers exchanged *" ' courtesies with the British officials. j ? Venezuelan insurgents displayed in- j al creased acti. itv. and cautured the nort i " of ciuautj nuij .Margarita Island. I're*- j H; ident <'astro, it was said, would Jake ; tlie tscid in person agaiust the rebels. ; The t'olketuiog. by a vo?e of to 7, ' {} approved lia* sale of the l'auisk West Indies to llit* United States. b< King Edward lieid liis first "evening ! *' court." the uiost briiliaut fuuetioa seen , at Uuckin.viuim I'alaee since tin- early > n, days of ijueen Victoria's reigu. j hi King Edward's proposed visit to Ire* c.i land was abandoned, owing to the dig- bi turbed conditions iu the island. m Two German newspaper men were to sentenced to fine and imprisonment >e for print ins a false report about Em-1 iiurnr Will hi til I 1 to Marshal hu defer.toil the Kwanssi rebels at Lungcbow. China, aud ex*' nl pec ted to suppress the rising in a J fx mouth. The Bank of St. Petersburg, rt Azor. ! was insolvent. | *i The Bankers* Commission, at Pi'kin. C11 accepted tht* February installment.1 amounting to l.S2iUMX) taels. of the ' Chlues? indemnity. Trouble over the ^j division caused the delay in the a'.-- ^ ceptauce. in - ?- ? v ' y rr- r> -v -rf)B. TALMAGES SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Iabjp<?t: Th* Good Cellflon Doh tl If Ttal? World?CtirUtlaai'y and til* InMltcUlnflutDn of (lie Ooi|mI 1b bamine**?Can You Get Atone Without It? WxanwcTOX, D. C.?la this diacourje Dr. Tdirnage advocates the idea that the Jhristian religion i* a* good for this world is the next, and will help us to do Anything that ought to be done at all; I Tim>thy iv, 8, "GodlincM is profitable unto ill thing3, having promise of the life that iow is and of that which is to comc." There is a gloomy and passive way of raiting for events to come upon us, and :hore is a heroic way of going oat to meet them, strong in God and fearing nothing. IVhcn the body of Catiline was found on :he battlefield, it was found far in advance >f all jis troops and among the enemy, and the best way is not for us to lie down and et the events of life trample over as. but to go forth in a Christian spirit determined to conquer. You are expecting prosperity, and I am determined, so far as I tiavc anything to do with it, that you shall not be disappointed, and. therefore, I propose, as God may help me, to project upon rour attention a new element of success. Fou have in the business firm frugality, patience, industry, perseverance, economy ?a very strong business firm?but there needs to bo one member added, mightier than them all, and not a silent partner Either, the one introduced by my text. 'Godliness, which is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that low i> as Troll as of that which is to come." I suppose you are all willing to admit that godliness is important in its eternal relations, but perhaps some of you say, "All I want is an opportunity to say a prayer before I die, and all will be well." rhere are a neat many people who suppose that if they can finally get safely out >f this world into a better world they will lure exhausted the entire advantage of ;ur holy religion. They talk as though religion were a mere nod of recognition which we are to give to the Lord Jesus on iur way to a heavenly mansion; as thoagh it were an admission ticket, of no us* ex repi to give m at me door ot neavcn. Ana there are thousands of people who have ire at admiration for a religion of the ihroud and ft religion of the coffin and a religion of the cemetery who have no appreciation of a religion for the bank, for the farm, for the factory, for the warelouse, for the jeweler'* ahop, for the oflice. S'ow, while I would not throw any alar on i post-mortem religion, I want to-day to mfogize an ante-mortem religion'. A relig>. ?L.t j. .1 ?- ... .... _u:i. .... i: wit viiai* in ui uu uac irV Juu wuut /uu inc ?rill be of no use to vou when you die. 'Godlinesa is profitable unto all things, iiaving promise of the life that now is as rail as of that which is to come." And I lave always noticed that when grace is rery low in a man's heart he talks a great leal in prayer meetings about deaths and ibout coffins and about graves and about :hurchyards. I have noticed that the Wealthy Christian, the man who is living lear to God and is on the straight road to leaven, is full of jubilant satisfaction and talks about the dutie* of this life, underitanding well that if God helps him to live tt He will help him to die right. ow, in the first place, I remark that todliness is good for a man's physical lealth. I do not mean to say that it will estore a broken down constitution or Lrive rheumatism from the limbs or neuraltia from the temples or pleurisy from the tide, but I do mesn to say that it gives >ne such habits and puts one in such conlition as are most favorable for physical lealth. That I believe, and that I avow. Everybody knows that buoyancy of ipirit is good physical advantage. Gloom, in rest, dejection, are at war with every g 1_ a. J !aL I )uisanon 01 ;oe nun una wiia every nr >irttion of the lunp. They lower toe viyilitv and slacken the circulation, while exhilaration of spirit pour* the very balm >f heaven through all the current* of life. The sense of insecurity which sometimes lovers over an unregenerate man or jounces upon him with the blast of ten housand trumpets of terror is most depletng and most exhausting, while the feeling hat all things are working together for >ur good now and for our everlasting wel are is conducive to physical health. You will observe that godliness induces ndustiy, which is the foundation of good lealth. There is no law of hygiene that rill keep a lazy man well. Pleurisy will tab him, erysipelas will burn him, jaunlice will discolor him, gout will cnp(i'e lira, and the intelligent physician will lot prescribe antiseptic or febrifuge ir anodyne, but saws and hammers nd yardsticks and crowbars and pickixes. There is no such thing as good physical condition without positive work if some kind, although you should sleep >n down of swan or ride in carriage of oftest upholstery or have on your table II *li? vitriM that vrri> nnurcd from the rine vats of Ispahan and Shiraz. Our reigion says: "Jiway to the bonk, away to he field, away to the shop, away to the actory! Do something that will enlist all he energies of your body, mind and soul!" Diligent in business, fervent in spirit, erving the Lord." while upon the bare iack of the idler and the drone cornea town the sharp lash of the apostle as he ays, "If anr man will not work, neither hrll be eat." Ob, how important is this day, when so luch is said about anatomy and physio>gy and therapeutics and some new style f medicine is ever and anon springing pon the world, that you should undertand that the highest school of medicinc i the school of Christ, which declares thac godliness is profitable unto all things, aving the promise of the life that now is s we.' as of that which is to come." So : you s..art out two men in the world with qual physical health, and then one of hem snail get the religion of Christ in his cart and the other shall not get it, the ne who becomes a son of the Lord Alughty will live the longer. "With lone fc will I satisfy him and show him My ilvation." Again I remark that godliness is good >r the intellect. I know iomc have suposed that just as toon as a man enter* ito th; Christian life his intellect goes ito a bedwarting process. So far from bat. religion will give new brilliancy to lie intellect, new strength to the imaginaion, new force to the will and wider irirg to all the intellectual faculties. Christianity is the great central tire at hirh pliiloiophy has lighted its brightest >rcb. Th? religion of Christ is the fountain ik o: which learning h.n dipped its clearit draft. The Helicon poured forth no :cl? ?n ipiring waters as those whirh fljw o:n undor t!>e throne of God clear as rystai. Religion h.n given new energy to p#esy. cepintr in Dr. Younffs "XiahtThoughts." '.ithing in Cowper's "Taslc," H.immg in haries Wesley's hvmns and rushing with rva.ini.elic splendor through Milton's l'ar.iili*e Lost." The religion of Christ - J 5- - fi -f ... 11 i* r.un.i in ?iunio ana in gaiierr 01 ?n uu>? i Vatican tlie l>ett pictures?Titian * "A?im-ition," Raphael's "Transfiguration.' ubt?n>'s "Dewnt From the Crow." laude's "Burning P.u?h" and Angelo's Last Judgment." Religion has made the ?st mu<?ic of the world?Havdn's "I'reaon." Handel's "'Messiah," Mozart'* "Retiem." I* it possible that a religion hich builds sueb indestructible nioruicnt?, and which lifts it* ensign on the giiest promontorei* of worldly power in have any effect upon a man's intellect it elevation? Now. I commend godliness a* the best ental discipline, better than belies lettres i purify the ta?te, belter than mathemats to harness the mind to all intricacy and aboration, better than logic to marshal to intellectual forces for onset and viery. 4 ?T / /\<ll<nn? i< nrn/it. ?tgain J rcinar* mit kw*m..vo. .? >!e tor one's di*po*ition. Lord Ashley, rfore he went into a great battle, \va? rard to offer thin prayer: "0 Lord, I shall very busy today! If I forget Thee, fort me not." With such a Christian dispotion as that a man u independent of all rcumstances. Our piety will have a tinge of ou? natural mjierainent. If a man be cross and w>ur id fretful naturally, after he becomes a itristian he will always have to be armed [ainst the rebellion of those evil incUoa j as. ?????? Bat religion has ta?f As wMwI aid turer It ou turned Biwhl into (iti itude, deapondeacy into good cheer, ul those who were bard (M un^orernabM and aneompromisiiig have teen made plS* able and conciliatory. Good resolution, reformatory effort, will not effect the change. It take* a nrifhtktf arm and a mightier hand to bend evil habit* than the liand that bent th? bow o? ' ^ Uiystes, and it takes a stronger lasso thas ever held the buffalo on the prairie. j ' AmJi cannot go forth with any fctmsarf weapoAs and contend successfully againet these Titans armed with uptorn mountsiMU But you have known men into whose spirif the influence of the gospel of Christ flint until their disposition wu entirely; . % changed. So it was with two merchants ? New York. They were rery antagonistic. They had done ad they could to iaiort cacn ointr. i ncy were in iuc ?mnr raw of business. One of the merchants vm converted to God. Having been converted be asked the Lord to teach him bow te bear himself toward that business aatagonist, and he was impressed with the fra that it was his duty when a customer , asked for certain kinds of good* which bo had not, bnt which be knew his opponemt had, to recommend him to go to that store. I suppose that is about the hardest thing a man could do; but, being thoroughly eoa* MSB l. ?i a. n.j j a~ il.a - - . ? vertra 10 uou, ov ixtuitcu w uu fwj thing, and, being asked for a certain kind of goods which ne had not, ha aaid, "Yoa go to such and such a store, and yo? wffl Kt it." After awhile merchant No. S . und these customers cooing, so senL and he found also that merchant No. a , bad been brought to God, and be sought the same religion. Now they are good J friends and good neighbors, the gnce of v? God entirely changing their dispositions. "Oh." ssys some one, "I have a rough, jagged, tempestuous nature, and religion -2 can't do anything for me." Do yon know ^ that Martin Luther and Robert New tort and Richard Baxter had impetuous aad all consuming natures, ret the tract of God turned them into the mightiest uso* rs fulness? A manufacturer cares but very little lot a stream that slowly runs through th? j meadow; but values a torrent that l?api| . ' from rock to rock and rushes with mad - ' energy through the valley and out toward the sea. Along that river you will find fluttering shuttles and grinding mill and "J flashing water wheel. And a nature tho ' ^ swiiien. me most cumcu sou ioe mn? tremondous?that if to* nature that God turns into greatest usefulness. Religion will gjre an -equipoise of spirit. _ 5 It will keep jrou from ebuUitiou oi ton* per, and you know a great many fine kri* ncuu have been blown to atoms br b*4 temper. It will keep you from wornnMf about frequent loss; it will keep jrou back from squandering and from Qtssipeiioaj it will give you a kindness of spirit whka will be easily distinguished from that mero store courtesy which shakes hinds violoat* ' ^ ly with you, asking about the health of your family, when there is no anxiety to 'Jfl know whether your child is well or sick, x but the anxiety is to know how many; dozen cambric pocket handkerchief* yvt ??? - t * l j vi in wili lane ana p?r casa sown, it wui pare you for the practical duties of ?nrf>. day life. In New Tork City there vu merchant hard in hie dealing! with bis fellows, who bad written over his banking honse or Us counting house room, "No compromise.?! Then when some merchant cot in a crista and went down?no fault of nie, bat a om* junction of evil circumstances?and all tb other merchants were wflHng to compromise?they would take eeventy-five centa on the dollar or fifty cents or twenty cents jg ?coming to this man last of all, he saids "No compromise. I'll take 100 cents on the dollir, and I can afford to wait." WcIL the wheel turned, and after awhile that man was in a crisis of business, and he seal out his agent to compromise, and the ageai said to the merchants, "Will yon take fifty cents on the dollar?" "No." "Will you take anything?" "Well take 100 centa on the dollar. No compromise." And the man who wrot* that inscription over Ma counting house door died in destitution. Oh, we want more of the kindness of tho * gospel and the spirit of love in our burin? enterprises! How many young men have' found in the religion of Jesus Christ a practical a help? How many there Are to-day who could M* tify oat of their owr experience that god* lineas is profitable (or toe life that bow ia! There were times in their busroeaa etmr when they went here for help and than for help and yonder for help and got no help until they knelt befora the Lora crying for Hia deliverance, and the Lord m> cued them. 4 In a bauk not far from yew. York a village bank?an officer could not balance hia accounta. He had worked at them da/ after day, night after night, and he wee nick nigh unto death aa a result. He km* that he had not taken one farthing fnm that bank, but aomehow, for aome reaaoou inscrutable then, the accounta would not balance. The time rolled on and the merging of the day when the books abouldpeaa under the inspection of the other officer* arrived, and he felt himaelf in awful peril, ' conscious of hia own integrity, but unable to prove that integrity. That morning he went to the bank early, and he knelt down j before God and told the whole atory of mental anguish, and he said: "0 Lord, I have done right, I have preserved my Integrity, but here I am about to be ortrtU.yv.t*n nnloaa fkrttl eilAllMaf rAIW t/1 BJf rescue. l<ord. deliver me." And for on* hour be continued the prayer before God, and then he arose and went to an old blotter that he had forgotten all about, fla opened it, and there lay a aheet of figuris which he only needed to add to anotbir line of figures?some line of figure* be had forgotten and knew not where he had laid them?and the accounta were balanced, and the Lord delivered him. You are an inft* del if vou do not believe it. The Lord do? livered him. God answered his prayer, as He will answer your praver, ob, man of business, ?ra every crisis when you come to Him. Sow, if this be so, then I am persuaded, as you are, of the fact that the vast majority of Christians do not fully test the value of their religion. They are like a farmer in California with 15,000 acres of good wheat land and culturing only a quarter of an acrc. Why do you not go forth and make the religion of Jesus Christ a practical affair every day of your business life and all this year, beginning now, and to-morrow morning putting into practical effect this holy religion and demonstrating that godlirw .j r.rr.hrtiV\\> ii?.r<? at well as hereafter? Hun* can you get along without this religion? Is your physical health ho good yon do not want tbu divine tonic? U your inind ?o clear, so va?t, to comprehensive, that you do not want this divine inspire A tion? I* your worldly business so thor- | oughly established that you have so UN for that religion which has been the help and deliverance of tens of thousands of men in crises of worldly trouble? And if what I have *iid is true then you sec what a fatal blunder it is when a man adjourn* to life's expiration the use* of religion. A man who postpones religion to sixty years ? of age gets reagion fifty years too late. He may jjet into tne kingdom of Uod by final repentance, but what can compensate him for r. whole lifetime unalleviated and unc.imforted? You want religion to-day ia tiie training of that child. You will want religion tc-morrow in dealing with that customer. You wanted religion yesterday to curb your temper. Is your arm strong . enoush to lieat your way through tho Hood*? Can you. without being incased in the mail of tJod's eternal help, go forth amid the a*<uult of all hell's sharpshooters? i'an you walk alone across thesa iTun<l:1in? graves ami amid these gapini eirthqiiakea? Can you, waterlogged ana t.irist shivered, outlive the gale? Oh, how many there have heen who, postponing the religion of Jesus Christ, have plunged into mistakes they could never correct, although they lived sixty years after, and like serpen ts crushrd under cart wheel,l dragging rum!...I ImijiM under the rocks to So tli-;?c men have fallen under the wheel o:' awful calamity, while a vaat multitude of other* have taken the religion of Jesua Lbri?t into everyday life, and, first, ia practical bunines* affairs. and, second, on the throne of heavenly triumph, have illustrated. while angels looked on and a universe approved, the glorious truth that "sodlinc** is profitable unto all things. having the promise of the life which now i* ii well as of that which is to come." (Corrricbt, l*J, L. llofxcfc) '# -