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A HELPFUL SER110X Dr. Talmage Encourages People Who are in Trouble. THE BLESSING OF A FAMILY. What We are Taught by the Tri umph of Jonathan Over the Philistines. Inspiration in Persecution and New Life in Adversity. This discourse of Dr. Talnage is full of eneouragement for those who know not which way to turn because of accu mulated misfortunes: text, I Samuel xiv, 4. "There was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side. The cruel army of the Philistines must be taken and scattered. There is just one man accompanied by his body guard to do that thing. Jonathan is the hero of the scene. - I know that David cracked the skull of the giant with a few pebbles well slung. and that 300 Gideonites scattered 10.000 Ama lekites by the crash of broken crockery. but here is a more wonderful conflict. Yonder are the Philistines on the rocks. Here is Jonathan with his bodvguard in the valley. On the one side is a rock called Bozez: on the other side is a rock called Sen ch. These two were as famous in olden times as in modern times are Plymouth Rock and G ibral tar. They were precipitous, unsealable and sharp. Between these two rocks Jonathan must make his ascent. The day comes for the scaling of the height. Jonathan on his hands and feet begins the ascent. With strain and slip and bruise, I suppose, but still on and up, first goes Jonathan, and then goes his bodyguard. Bozez on one side. Sench on the other. After a sharp tug and push and clinging I see the head of Jonathan above the hole in the moun tain, and there is a challenge, and a fight, and a supernatural consternation. These two men, Jonathan and his bodyguard, drive back and drive down the Philistines over the rocks and open a campaign which demolishes the ene mies of Israel. I suppose that the overhanging and avershadowing rocks on either side did not balk or disheart en Jonathan or his bodyguard, but only roused and filled them with enthusiasm as they went up. "There was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side." My frio"ds, you have been or are now, son., of you in this crisis of the text. If a man meets one trouble, he can go through with it. He gathers all his energies, concentrates them on, one point and in the strength of God or by his own natural determination goes through it. But the man who has trouble to the right of him and trouble to the left of him is to be pitied. Did either trouble come alone, he might en dure it, but two troubles, two disasters, two overshadowing misfortunes, are Bozez and Seneh. God pity him. "There is a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side." In this crisis of the text is that man whose fortune and health fail him at the same time. Nine-tenths of all our merchants capsize in business before they come to 45 years of age. There is some collision in commercial circles. and they stop payment. It seems as if every man must put his name on the back of a note before he learns what a fool a man is who risks all his own pro perty oni the prospect that some man will tell the truth. It seems as if a man must have a large amount of un salable goods on his own shelf beforeI he learns how much easier it is to buy| than to sell. It seems as if every man must be completely burned out before he learns the importance of always keeping fully insured. It seems as i every man must be wrecked in a finan cial tempest before he learns to keep things snug in case of a sudden euroc lydon. When the calamity does come, it is awful. The man goes home in despair. and he tells his family, "We'll have to go to the poorhouse." Fe takes ndolo rous view of everything. It see.ms as if he never could rise. But .a little time passes, and he says: "Wa.y, I am not so badly off after alJl. I love my family left." Before the Lord turned Adan out of paradise he gave him Eve so that when he lost paradise he could stand it. Per mit one who has never read but a few novels in all his life, and who has not a great deal of romance in his composi tion, to say that if when a man's for tunes fail he has a good wife- a good Christian wife-he ought not to be de spondent. "Oh," you say, "that only increases the embarrassment, since you have her also to take care of." You are an ingrate, for the woman as often supports the man as the man supports the woman. The man may bring all the dollars, but the woman generally brings the courage .and the faith in God. Well, this man of whom I am speak ing looks around, and he finds his fam ily is left, anid he rallies, and the light comes to his eyes, and the smile to his face, and the courage to his heart. In two years he is quite over it. He makes his financial calamity the first chapter in a new era of prosperity. He met that one trouble-conquered it. lie sat down for a little while under the grim shadow of the rock Bozez, yet he soon rose and began like Jonathan to -elimb. But how often is it that physi cal ailment comes with financial embar raasment!. When the fortune failed, it broke the man's spirit. His nerves were shattered. His brain was stun ned. I can show you hundreds of men in our cities whose fortune and health failed at the same time. The'y came prematurely to the staff. Their hand trembled with incipient paralysis. They never saw a well day since the hour when they called their creditors to gether for a compromise. If' such men are impatient and peculiar iand irritable excuse them. They had t wo troubles. either one of which they could have met successful. If when the heatlthi went the tortune had been retained, it would not have been so bad. The man could have bought the very best medi cal advice, and he could have had the very best attendance and long lines of carriages would have stopped at the front door to inquire as to his welfare. But poverty or. the one side and sick ness on the other are 1Bozez and Seneh. and they interlock their shadows and drop them upon the poor man's wy God help him! --There is a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock n the other side." "'Now. what is such a man to do? In the name of almighty Gld. I will tell him what to do. Do as J1onathiani did-climb; climb up into the ,unlibrht of God's favor and consolation. t can go through the churches and show you men who lost fortune and health at the same time. and yet who sing all day and dream 'of hea ;eu all nigzht. If you have any idea that sound digestion, and steady nerves. and clear eyesigzht, and good hearing, and plenty of friends r)i, I y .1oual'n : thec hirIer ::( the faster, t;1 wi up 'ot (lnto the sun ' h i s ' i'' '-i* dhadow (of Iin vdi-m :mad iinzncial eminbarrassment i' ften'i sen It up the quicker ito the mul1ieht oi oI's favor and te ntoonda *f his vlorious. promises. It is a1 ditieilt thing for a ian to feel Il- depende1e upon God when he ials .:10.000 in the bank. andl $5'.0() in Lrvernmtent securitie5. and a block Of stores and three ships. "Well." the ian says to himself. "it is silly for ei to pray f' ive me this day my da:Iy bread,' when mly pantry is full a. the canals from the west are crowded with breadstuffs destined for m1! 1 tore houses.'" 0h. my frien it th Com bineu misfortunes and i tof life have maude you elimb up int the arms of a symipathetio: zlnd contliis1oiiiate God. through all eterntity you Will bless him that in this word --there was a sharp rock (In the one id.e and a sharp reek on the other id. Again. that mai iin thC crisis of the text who has home troubles and outside persecution at the same time. Tle world treats a man well just as lon as It pays to treat him well. As lon as it canl manuiaeture success out of his bone and brin and muscle it fa vers him. The world fattens the horse it wants to drive. But let a man see it his duty to cross the track of the world then every bush is full of horns and tusks thrust at him. They will belit tie him. They will caricature him. They will call his generosity self ag grandizement and his piety sanctimo niousness. The very worst persecution will sometimes come upon him from those who profess to be Christians. John 31ilton-great and good John Milton-so far forgothimself as to pray in so many words that his enemies might be eternally thrown down into the darkest and deepest gulf of hell, and be the undermost and most dejected, and the lowest down vassals of peidi tion. And fartin Luther so far forgot himself as to say in regard to his theolo gical opponents. "Put them in what ever sauce you please, roasted or fried or baked or stewed or boiled or hashed, they are nothing but asses!' Ah. my friends, if John Milton or Martin Luther coilld come down to such scurril ity, what may you not expect from less elevated opponents? Now, some times the world takes after them, the newspapers take after them, public opinion takes after them, and the un fortunate man is lied about until all the dictionary of Billingsgate is ex hausted on him. You often see a man whom you know to be good and pure and honest set upon by the world and mauled by whole communities, while vicious men take on a supercilious air in condemnation of him, as though Lord -Jeffreys should write an essay on gentleness or Henry VIII talk about purity or King Herod take to blessing little childrn. Now a certain amount of persecution rouses a man's defiance, stirs his blood for magnificent battle and makes him 50 times more a man than he would have been without the persecution. So it was with the great reformer when lie said. "I will not be put down; I will be heard." And so it was with Millard. the preacher, in the time of Louis XI. When Louis XI sent word to him that unless he stopped preaching in that style he would throw him into the river, he re plied, "Tell the king that I will reach heaven sooner by water then lie will reach it by fast horses." A certain amount of persecution is a tonic and inspiration, but too much of it. and' too long continued becomes the rock Bozez throwing a dark shadow over a man's life. What is he to do then? Go home, you say. G ood advice, that. That is just the place for a man to go when the world abuses him. Go home. Blessed be God for our quiet and sympathetic homes! But there is many a man who has the reputa tion of having a home when he has none. Through unthinkingness or precipita tion there are many matches made that ought never to have been made. An officiating priest cannot alone unite a couple. The Lord Almighty must proclaim banns. There are many homes in which there is no sympathy and no happiness and no good cheer. The clamor of the battle may not have been heard outside, but God knows, not withstanding all the playing of the wed ding march. and all the odor of the orange blossoms. and the benediction of the officiating pastor, there has been no marriage. So sometimes men have awakened to find on one side of them the rock of persecution and on the other side of them the rock of domestic in felicity. What shall -such a one do? Do as Jonathan did-climb. Get up the heights of God's consolation, from which you may look down in triumph upon outside persecution and home trouble. While good and great Iohn Wesley was being silenced by the magis trates and having his name written on board fences of London in doggerel, at that very time his wife was making hini as miserable as she could-acting as though she were possessed by the devil, as I suppose she was, never doing him a kindness until the day she ran away, so that he wrote in his diary these words: "I did not forsake her. I have not dismissed her. I will not recall her." Planting one foot upon outside persecution and the other foot on home trouble, John Wesley climbed up into the heights of Christlan joy, and after preaching 40,000 sermons and traveling 270,000 miles reached the heights of heaven, though in this world lie had it hard enough-" a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock ouz the other." Again, that woman stands in the crisis of the test who has bereavement and a struggle for a livelihood at the same time. Without mentioning namies, I speak from observation. Alh, it is a hard thing for a woman to make an honest living, even when her heart is not troubled, and she has a fair cheek. and the magnetism of an exquisite p'res ence. But now the husband or the farther is dead. The expenses of the oseuies have absorbed all that was left in the savings bank. and, wan and wasted with weeping and watching, she goes forth-a grave, a hearse. am cotin beindt hecr- ti) contendA for her existence and the existence of her children. When I see such a baittle ats that opent Sshudder at t he ghiastliniess of thle spectacle. 3Men sit with embhroide'red slippers and write heart less csayt\s abott w men's wvages. Luit t ht '1uestioni is made tip of teairs and blood, andl there is more bloiod titan reamrs. (Oh, e womaini fr..'e aiccess t'' all thle reah nts where she can get a livelihto d. fri mi the telegraph otficee to thb- pulpit! Let men's5 waiges.' be cut dowii before hiens arc cut down. MIen have iron in their sous and can stand it. 31ake the way free to' her of the broken hieart. \May cupI of prv aitin, ant give mec nothling hut a windowl .ss liut for shelter for' many vears rather than that after I am dead ther'e sho uild goout fromi my home into thle ,'itiless wirld a woman's arm to tiht the Gettvsh'ure. the' Austerlitz, the W'aterlo o of life oir bread! And vet how mny wiomen there are seated bewen the rock if bieireaveent on i ifloiocimg tif cr -am1 op Vo" them upon 'hcr mTiserable . ' Iher isshrp rek on the eilT idC( d What art. enl I 1t 1i , we eltoius ptrit Iave thy at:t r iess Childrenu. 1 will presevilli alive and let [hy widows triust in Ite. Or get up into the leighits of that other glo riotus proie --The Lord ptreservethI tlhe ;tranTl:vr alnd1 relieveth tithe widw and the fathi erliess. 0 v' swtinr w iLeni ol starvin" wa0es O ve 'vidows t uned (Pitt from fthe onct' 1wainifju IoIe! OC ye female tIeachers kept tn n ieardly sti pend! O) ye despa~tiin womNen seeKing, in vain for work wander: in along the docks and thinking to throw yourselves into the river last niCht! O) ye wonen of weak nerves,'. and aclinc sides. and short breath. and broken heart. you need something iore than humansymlipathy. You needi the sympathy of God. Climb up into his arms. Ie knows it all, and he loves you more than father or mother er husband ever could or ever did. and instead of sitting down. wringing your hands in despair. you had better begin to climb. T['here are heights of consola tion for you. though now '-there is a sharp rock on one side and a sharp roek on the other side. Acain. that nan is in the crisis of the text who has a wasted life on the one side and an unilluninated eternity on the other. Though a man mty all his life have cultured deliberation and self poise. if he gets into that position all his self possession is gone. There are all the wrong thoughts of his exis tence. all the wrong deeds. all the wrong words-strata above strata, granitie. ponderous, overshadowing. That rock I call Bozez. On the other side are all the retributions of the future, the thrones of judgment, the eternal ages. angry with his long defiance. That rock I call Seneh. Between these two rocks 10,000 times 10.000 have perished. 0 man immortal. man redeemed. man blood bought. climb up out of those shadows! Climb up by the way of the cross. Have your wasted life forgiven. Have your eternal life secured. This hour just take one look to the past and see what it has been, and take one look to the future and see what itithreatens to be. You can afford to lose your health you can afford to lose your property, you can afford to lose your reputation. but you cannot afford to lose your soul. That bright, gleaming, glorious, preci ous, eternal possession you must carry aloft in the day when the earth burns up and the heavens burst. You see front my subject that when a man gets into the safety and peace of the gospel he does not demean himself. There is nothing in religion that leads to meanness or unmanliness. The gospel of Jesus Christ only asks.Pyou to climb as Jonathan did-climb toward God, climb toward heaven, climb into the sunshine of God's favor. To become a Christian is not to zo meanly down. It is to come gloriously up-up into the communion of saints, up into the peace that passeth all understanding. up into the companionship of angels. He lives upward: he dies upward. Oh, then accept the wholesale invita tion which I make this day to all the people! Come up from betwen your invalidism and financial embarrass ments. Come up from between your bereavements and your destitution. Conmc up from between a wasted life and an unillumnined eternity. Like Johnathan,. elimb up with all your might instead of sitting down to wring your hands in the shadow. and in the darkness-''a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp' rock on the other sidle." TO MUSTER THEM OUT. Many of the Volunteer Troops to Be Relieved. Late Wednesday night President Me Kinley announced his decision to muns ter out of the service from 75.000 to 100.000 of the volunteers. Those to be 'discharged will include all the branches of the service, infantry, artil lery and cavalry. From a prominent oficialof the administration it is un derstood to be the desires of the Presi dent to ascertain the wishes of the volunteer troops themselves as to re maining in the service. One or two organizations have already indicated a desire to leave the service as soon as the government can reasonably do without them. They are composed largely of business and working men. whose priv ate interests are suffering by reason of their absence from home. So far as the interests of the governmtentwill permit. it is belie' d that the President, in the mustering out of the volunteers. will accommodate himself to the desires of' the men. It may be some time be fore the organizations to he mustered out will be designated, but the reduc tion in the volunteer force will be made as soon as practicable. Imprisonment for Life. The war department received the fol lowing: Ponce. August 15. Adjutant Gen., Washington. Replying to your cablegram. Private Laduke was convicted by a court mar tial for killing Private Stafford; sen tenced to life imbrisonment. the peni tentiary at Leavensworth, Kan., was designated. He is under guard await ing transportation. 0imoe Alexander Laduke was a memiber of Cmpany I Second Wisconsin volun teers. Stafford was a member of the Thirteenth iufantry. regular army. It is eroneously stated in a dispatch from Marinett. Wis.. that Laduke had be~in courtmartialed and shot at P onice. Trouble at Santiago. The conditions at Santiago are caus ing a great deal of uneasiness and :t is believed that more troopljs will be in' dered there very soon. Already erder's have been issued direct ingi thle Filth regular infanitry. now at Tampia, tot po ee'ed at once to Sanit iago. In [ures have b)een made as to the condition of the iinu~nunc r'egi men ts, whiich have niot et sailed, with a view of sending them to Sanitiago . The gotvern ment iteni ds to take vigorouns measures to ptresei've the peace and keep order in Santiingo and lie territory under I nit el Stat es control. As at further step in this di rectioln, the Priesidenit Thiursday d ireet - eidinht [lie Twenty-third iKansats riei c to form'ii pa~rt iii thle amofenpa in of1 uba. Gave His Life for Another. Guard C'has. N. Caste oi the life sauv in c st at ioni i Sulliivaiil~- m d :(9 'tlni' leSto n. was d rownedl IFrliy at e'n o n beond his d1epthI. SebaIt: ' erit iet for h ep were hleaird at tihl staion l and111. Caste was tlle iirst mili lto rep nd. lie Iswamn ouit to te ltty and14 was brin'ing himti in shore whteni seizedJ priesumlyli~l. by eraniips anld went thwn ii lliaelite was saved by thle it her mlenl fr'omt tile +toian (jttC'.;t~\ I \ul w not reor A TALE OF HORROR. The Bodies of Dead Spaniards Beinsi Burned. A di 'spatch froim San tio ays the bodies of dead1 >ipaniar'ds cointie to e cremacte'. (Ver 700 have been lurned so far. Wednesday 71 were to) be burned. Oevr two rails a dozen lodies are stretChed. :'-ss t hem anIth - er diozen. and1 ibenl aboutr :"0 corps e are Stackedl ill ani jnlillense futneral vile 10 Thi. The 1l1e is thlen s:tuirated with kerosene and tie torcb applied. A fall of rain piut )ut the firo. cauin g the bodies to be 0niy hal1 iurned. Around the pile lay -. clliins coitainilg Corpses in a state of lecoilposition. Several naked bodies were strewn upon the around in a state ofi putrefaction. Al together about 70 unburied and uncon simed bodies lay arotn. The stench was terrible. This happened at a cei etery withini the city limits. The authorities and the einetery otli cials say it is impossible to get ni, to work at the cremation. Waages of $1 a day prove no inducement to the natives to work at this gruesomie toil. The unconsumed bodies will be left upon the earth until Thursday. when fine weather may help the work of cre imation. These 70 corpses represent two days' dead from the Spanish camp. The danger to the population from the stench. the presence of the buzzards. vultures and flies is incalculable. Very Poor Soldiers. Gen. Shafter has ordered the Second Regiment of Immunes out of the city of Santiago. The regiment had been placed there as a garrison, to preserve order and protect property. There has been firing of arms inside of the town by menibers of this regiment without orders. So far as known, some of the men have indulged in liquor until they have verged upon acts of license and disorder. The inhabitants in some quarters have alleged loss of property by force and intimidation. and there has grown up a feeling of uneasiness concerning them. if not of alarm. Gen Shafter has, therefore, ordered this regiment into the hills, where discip line can be more severely maintained. In place of the Second volunteer im mune regiment, Gen. Shafter has or dered into the city the Eighth Illinois volunteer regiment of colored troops. in whose sobricty and discipline he has confidence, and of whose sturdy en forcement of order no doubt is felt by those in command Included the Whole Archipelago. The Ilong Kong correspondent of the London Daily Mail says: "The terms ol capitulation of Manila agreed upon Saturday between Gen. Jaudemes and Gen. 3Merritt includes the cession of the Philippine archipelago to the United States. An American naval officer who arrived from Manila on the Zafiro. tells ine that the Americans practically walked into Manila. The operations. he says. were confined to the .Malate side of the city, where the Spaniards had a fort and two lines of trencheF. The troops waded through the Malate river and walked up the beach as though going to lunch, meeting practi cally no opposition. I learn that when Gen. MIerritt went ashore, to receive the capitulation of 3Manila, he experi enced some dificeulty in finding Gen Jaudenmes, who ultimately was found in a church :among crowds of women an d chi ildren. The Commissioners. The President has appointed the fol lowing Ecomisioneris to adjust thle evacuation of Cuba aind Porto lRico: For Cuba: MIaj. Gen. dJames F. Wade Riear Admiral William T. Sampson. Maj. G;en. 3Iatthew C. Butler. For P'orto Rlico: 31aj. Gen. .John M1. Brooke, Rear Admiral Winfield S. Schley. Brig. Gen. William W. Gor don. Glen. Gordon. one of the conmnission ers for Porto Rtico. is the only one of the six appointees who is not widely known. is a prominent citizen of Sav annah. Ga. He was the senior colonel of the Georgia State militia, and served in the ranks of the Confederate army. He is 61 years old, belongs to one of the wealthiest families* in Georgia and is conspicious socially there. He was lrely endorsed in h's State for briga dier general. Assassin Met His Match. An attempt has been made to assas sinate lRobert Bagman. Co. C. Second Georia volunteers. In defending him self Bagman shot and mortally wound ed his negro assailant. James Jackson. Bagman recently received an anony mous letter informing him that he would be killed if lie did not cease his attentions to a young lady of Tampa. Fla. On leaving the young woman s house Bagman was attacked by the ne gro. who 'narrowly missed stabbing him in the neck. As it was, the soldier's clothes were slashed and the skin scraped in two places. Jackson is un der surveilance. but Bagmian has not been arrested. The officers of the Sec ond Georgia think Jackson was hired to kill Bagman. Heading for the Gallows. liccently two atte~mpts have beeni made to wreck railroad trains at 3Iaul din in Greeinville County. About ten days ago a negro boy twelve years of age placed'a spike on the rail and the train ran over it. smashing it slightly. The negro then stuck the spike between the rails where they joined, and the next train broke it off. lie was arrested and confssed. Wednesday three white boys nanmed Brooks, who live near 3auldin, were arrested. and they waived the preliiminary and gave bond. They placed a shovel plow on the track Ionday, sticking it up between the joints of the rails. Strang~e to say'. the train did not jumpil the track. but bi'oke off the phow. Sent Back. Wednesday there arrived att Hlavana from iKey W'est three newspmaper' i'r 'espondec:its none of whom weire per nit ted byx (Gei.lIanc' to land,~i coidii~ eiring their arr'ival in 'pp orttune and in - civenienicinig. anid Lelievinig thiat thieiir prsence before thle airrivatl of the AmerI dieityi. Th le ciorrespjondent s returi'i d tii IKiy We'st oni hoard thei schiionier Courtesies Exchanged. 'hie .\merican cruiiser' Newi~ O rleanis ttempijted to enter the hiarbir ''f San w~ithi a notification! f ihie s-iitniint of the brotco'l. but wvas uunabhle to dlo si 'in ie'ciunit iif the sunken wrecik :at the iii smail boai':t andi' was g!raciiou-ly reccieie auu iinvitaitii ona biard thii ern isir. A Fickle Man. .1 schll l. Noiwak. :i lawer' if ( leve ladl. ()hi''. aftei' tiln yeamrs f miaried'~ li. dixircedl his wiife andl nm'i'ied heri samustre'.s. Thieii lie ivoircedl the seamii'tressanimd renmarriedl his first wife. In less thiani a year they were anvain iivoced, and now Nowak has miar Naine of the Wicers Who R ave ei; Rewarded1. Ai ,mnie uink ioiwii reasoni the adminiii; iStratiOn deci i'd n141ot tO adhere to its foirmrly expreSSed aniouniciement that the pronmitioiis in tlie iiavy would le iade as the result 4f reemoiiuullatlolls lby a biard whosC duitV it should be to) review tihe, aliievemen'uts of naval oili eers throulghout the paniish war. and Friday the navy Iepiartiiient iiiade pubU lie- a list Of promotions1- in the(. north Atlantic leet. previius, p;iblication li . lx 'beell ilaieliiate in -shlle lpartii lars. Tlere :iii :ll iiteriiii cmiiuis siOIS anlld ut mntil the seiate ouifirins or recct thIem. They take date Aug. I 1 9 a '.Ind inl each case are for eniilielit and11 ciulsieu ins coindnet i hiattle: Coinmodiore W. 'F. Sal i soniu advanced eight numbers and app,-intedl a rear au miral from Auzust. IStIS. fir eminent anid coiiicuou1s cIinduct in battle. Takes rank next after liear Admiral John A Howell. Coiiinanodorc 'Winfield S. Schley. ad vanced six numbers and appointed a rear admiral fron ,ne date and for same reasons. Takes ranks next after Rear W. T. 'Sampson. Capt. -John Philip, advanced five numbers and appointeda connodore. Capt. Francis J. ligginson. advanced three nunubers. Capt. Robley 1). Evans, advanced five numbers. Capt. Henry C. liavlor. advanced five numbers. Capt. Francis A. Cook, advanced five numbers. Capt. Charles E. Clark. advanced six numbers. Capt. French E. Chadwick. ad vanced five numbers. Lieut. Com. Raymond P. Rodgers, advanced five numbers. Lieut. Coin. Seaton Schroder. ad vanced three numbers. Lieut. Com. Richard Wainwright. ad vanced ten numbers. Lieut. Coi. .John A. Rodg-ers ad vanced five numbers. Lieut. Coin. James K. Cogswell. ad vanced five numbers. Lieut. Coni. William ). Potter, ad vanced five numbers. Lieut. Com. Giles B. Ilarber. ad vanced five numbers. Lieut. Coin. Newton E. Mason. ad vanced live numbers. Lieut. Alexander Scharp. -Jr.. ad vanced five numbers. Licut. Harry P. luse, advanded five numbers. Chief Engineer Charles J. MacCon nell, advanced two numbers. Chief Engineer John L. Hlannum. advanced two numbers. Chief Enineer Alexander B. Bates. advanced three numbers. Chief Cnigincer Robert W. Milligan, advanced three numbers. Chief Engineer Charles W. Rae, ad vanced three numbers. Chief Engineer Warner B. Bayless, advanced two numbers. Passed Assistant Engineer George W. McElroy. advanced three number and appointed chief engineer. Commander Bowman H. McCalla, advanced six numbers and appointed captain to restore him to his original place on the navy list. The following take rank from the date, but different reasons are assigneat for their aidvancement. Lieut. (Junior Grade) Victor Blue. advanced five number for extraordinary heroism. Licut. Coli. Robert WV. I Iunutington. advanced one number aiid apppointed colonel in the marine crops5 for eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle. Capt. George F. Elliott, advanced three numbers for same reason. First Lieut. Louis P. Lucas. given the rank of eantain by brevet,. in the marine corps for conispicuous conduct in battle. First Licut. Wendell C. Neville, given the rank of capitainl by brevet for same reason. Second Lieut. Louis J. MIagill given the rank of first lieutenant and captain by brevet in the mai-ine e'orps for good judgment and gallantry in battle. Second Lieut. Philip 31. Banno. given the rank of first lieutenant by brevet in marine corps for conspicuous service.in baxttle. Capt. Paul St. C. M1urphy. given the rank of major by brevet in the marine corps for gallant service in battle. Second Lieut. S. Borden, given the rank of first lieutenant by brevet in the marinie corps for distinguished sewdeec in battle. Defends Gen. Shafter. Postmaster A. W. Wills of Nashville. Tenn.. received a letter from Gen. Joe Wheeler Friday. dated Santiago de Cuba, July 27. 189S. in which Gen. Wheeler says, referring to newspaper reports concerning Gen. Shafter: - I think the criticisms upon Gen. Shafter were very unjust. ile has had a hard task. and has performed it suc essfully and well. Hie is a man of more than ordinary brain power and administrative ability. The criticism that lie did not place himself on the fir ing line is ridiculous as on .July 1 he was carrying on two fights at the same time-one at Caney and one at San Juan. He had some reserves. and had to place himself where he culd see both fights and manage the whole af fair, which he did effieiently. With very high regards, Truly your friend. .Jos. Wheeler. Tarred and Feathered. About 250 or 350 men, disguised as "White caps," visited the house of Su sie Colston, near Smithfield. Wettsel county. W. Va.. on Thursday nighitaind dragged the inmates, six women and three men. out of bed in their night clothes. No time was given them to it their clothes, money or valuables. The house was then blown to pieces piee with sticks of dynaniite. The iniiates were tarred aiid leathered and taken to the Sunian house and all lock ed ini a room together till daylight. No apparent effort was niade to discover who did the aet. aind the piopular~ senti ient is that iiothiing wroiig was doiie. Have No Prisoners. This is. we believe, the first war of histiory between civilized nations ini whIiichi one combatant has failed ti hiave ine prmiiner at the clo se. The onily cature the Span:miards made was that of 11lobson ::nud hiis seven imen andiii we re - atureid thiemi at Sanitiaio. The Spani ih prisoes we haive will be releasedi anid sent hom l cif thuey wan to Iii home wu ithiout even au slitairy iiieii ean to bI echange.d uur themi. I Fatal Fire in Russia. T heri. wis a not her great Iirie W\ed nesdayl~i nighit at Nijnii Noivigoirod. capital o the gov eriimient if the saiie iiane. abouti 250 miieis inorthueast of .\luscow. lusia. Th le cit ivwiork house was des ir-yeil the inmia~tes jumping fronm the widiw. ma ny Lecinig killed anid many iore injured. Thlirteen bodies burined to t crisp have already been found in te rumis anid mainy oif the i inmates are GEn. joB wRtEXL.R. What a Prominent United S t;es Army Officer Says of Him. Of all the generals with the arin front f Sant iago l ;air ieneal Wheel- it er now. pririses to cwl out of the caipaign witi the highet reluItaltin tor iorage. strength f p Iturpse. i i tarv foresight and -iolcdier cltiin. The Washilgton ciorrespondent of tie Atlanta .journal Zay- this Was tle opin i1n advaiied by a prominent ariv tit eer at Washill.gt on recently when the AIrer- Loiosevel t controver-y was under discussijon There is ni4 doubt that the Contd'uct ,,f Geierli Wheeler in the S~aitiagI eainimi l!i has won golden opinions from leading officers in the arly. lI private conversatioll they assert the belief that the principal credit of the victory be lons to General Wheeler more than to ainy other general who took part in tile campaign. > trong reasons are ad vaneod fir this opinion. It has been made clear that if it had not been fir General Wheeler's determination the arny would have retreated from the advanced position which it captured in the fight before San Juan. The teie grami sent by General Wheeler to Gen eral Shafter on the night of July 1 clearly indicates this.. In this telegram General Wheeler says that many of the officers had appealed to him to have the line withdrawn and the army take up a position further back. but tha*t he posi tivelv discountenanced this as it would lose the American army much prestige. le urged General Shafter not to pay any attention to similar requests if made of him. That General Wheeler understood perfectly the conditions which con fronted the army when lie took this stand against a retreat is shown by his telegram to General Shafter. In it he said: "The lines are thin. as so many men have gone to the rear with wounded and many are exhausted but I hope these men can get up tonight and with our line entrenched and Lawton on our right, we ought to hold tomnor row. but . fear it will be a severe day. If we can get through tomorrow all right we can make our breastworks strong the next night. .Ile realized thoroughly," said this officer above quoted. "that his forces were in bad shape and that they had hot work before them. But lie saw also that they could win out if they held their ground. and believing that. lie counted not the cost. le at once set the whole ariy to work strength ening- its position. and we learn from officers who have returned froim the front that it was his intelligent direc tion which not only made the Aneri can position tenable, but enabled our army later on to drive the Spaniards into Santiago. Sonie of the officers who took part in the battle even go so far as to say that if it had not been for General Wheeler the victory of Santiago might have been lost and the American forces routed. Even while lie was so sick that lie had to be carried around in a litter. his knowledge of what ought to be done and his directions as to how to do it were of incalculable advantange. "You will take notice that General Wheeler is the only one of the coni manding generals at the front whose name is not singed to the 'Round Rob in.' Just as he refused to listen to the generals who urged a retreat, so also did lie refuse to take part in any conm pint. lie was not unsympathetic to the suffeings of his men. Ihis tele eramis to General Shiafter show how dee-ply hc uwas affected by the- hard ships which they endured. - You can hardly realize the exhausted condition of the troop~s.'he said in speaking of the situation at the front on the night of the battle of San Juan. But he had himself stuck to his duty like a man when racked with pain, and he looked to the mien under him to show a sinmi lar undaunted grit. "A southern man and a Democrat one miight have looked for criticism from him of the conditions which Col onel Roosevelt so forcibly set forth. None came, General Wheeler stood out against retreat: lie stood out against complaint. We give all our generals at the front praise for their gallantry in action, but General Wheeler has shown himself to be the ablest anid truest sol dier of them all." Utilzing Waste Products. After harvest there are numberless articles of produce about the farm for which there seems to be no good use and consequently they go to waste. For instance, in the vegetable garden there are smiall green tomatoes. cucumbers. small musk-melons, onions. eet., not enotugh to take to market. perhaps, or possibly not quite up to the market grade. All these things will miake good pickles for home use during the u-inter if saved, cleaned and put into brine as they are gathered and taken out and put into vinegar when watnted for use. Then there are orchard fruits more or less of which annually go to waste. but which ought to be preserved or dried for fami ly use. In the vegetable gardeni. again there is more or less late green stuff which it will pay to carefully store for winter feeding of stock and poultry when it will bring a return much beyond its present value. Then there is the general result from clearing up which has ne salable value. but which will frm a portion of a compost healp and can be returnied to the land in a year or two at the most in the formi of a valua ble fertilizer. These waste products of the farmi will often mark the line be tween profit and loss. and arc wiell worth considering when fertilizingr even by suce(ssful farmers. Negro Soldier Killed. .A special fromi Hamplton. (a.. says: Sim Neely, ia negro private ini the Twen j ty-tifth inifa ntr-y. was shot and killed at Ilampton Friday night. lie was re fused liermiission to dirinik at a soda founiitaini anid biee:i ne abhusivye. Whlen remostrated wvithi for sweari ng in thle presence ot ladies, lhe assaulted 3Mr. Will 1I e-iderso n uwith hiiis dagger bayio net. I ienderso n drew a pisto~l, but it was kntoced fromt hiis hiand and seur ed bty the negrio. who began shiootinzg. A number oif citizens joi ned in thle fusilade and Neely received woundls fromi which-I he died. Spanish Outrages. Thed ingapore corresplondeniit of the Lodo aily 31l says: --The native -eellin in iitile P hilipines has exten ied ti tht~e hempii pov~ in-es in south uzt n. 11eayt ltihtin 1 occurreal at Pagaha tuan, P ilar and P onsol, the imi mediate ecaule beinr outrages coni t ted by the Spa~niards att Parlatuan. The Spanishi alsi butirned. Ptilar and miassa - cred 5t 0t natives. The irtsiurgent s art a-oeetrating at Albay with tihe titbiert Spaiartis iii thle Galtrillas~i pr~ovle' Five Burned to Death. Thie barn of Pecter Pity, tell mliles nortih of hIrdeptendeni.e. Iowai. . W-. stuck by lightining Thar>ay mieht. Five sins, tihe aldest beI ng 1ixteeni. who were sl eep1in in th ile mohtw. were ttrnel to death. OUR VICTORIOUS WARSHIPS A Griid Demonstration in New York Harbor Saturday: New York' a61d th. nation it! S;i :i-- sinalize d their appreciation of tihe victoiious flecet. An imposing naval pageant of warships has been reviewed in the: harbor of the largest city in the coutntrv with acelamnations of delight and admiration and an ovation from the shore. and f1rom the great flotillas of all sorts of Craft on the water was .i.gnificantly iven to the returning he Long before sunrise a gun was fired from Castle William. on Governor's Island. The people were astir. and crowds were hurrying to the river to be early on the scene. The New York and New Jersey shores were crowded. The river and bay were literally alive with Craft. and the craft alive with people all cheering and good natured. An im pressive scene was when the flags were raised on the forts and the flagship. As the starry banners were raised aloft the bands at the forts and on the flag ships played the Star Spangled Ban ner and the shores rang with patriotic clicers. There was very little friction in car rying out the progra-.L..ac. and no more delay than was expected. The citizens committee left the foot of Cor:land street on the steamer Glenn Island and proceeded down the bay followed by a long retinue of all sorts and descrip tion of craft. At Tompkinsville. the mavor and committee of 10 debarked and boarded the police boat. The pat rol then headed for the flagship with its colors flying and the bands playing. The Staten Island shores were liter ally lined with people and they all joined in a general acclamation with the people on the myriads of -boats. The welcoming ceremonies were short but impressive. The ceremonies over, amid the hoarse shrieking of the steam whistles and hosannas of the throigs on shore and water, the mayor and the committee returned to the Glen Island. Then came the event of the day. There was considerable wigwagging on the battleships and police boats which headed the line. Then came the Glen Island and then the battleships began to slowly move up the bay. There was salutes from cannon and cheers from people and the toots from thousands of whistles made an inde scribable din. Soon the monster pa geant was in line. First came Admiral Sampson's flagship. New York. then Admiral Schlcy's flagship, the Brook lyn, then the Massachusetts, Oregon, Iowa. Indiana and Texas and after them. moving in a mass, all sizes and descriptions with flags waving and peo ple cheering. The battleships iioved slowly and majestically. As Governor's island was passed there was a tremendous re por~t from the guns that did so much ex ecution at Guantanamo and Santiago. The people on shore and afloat went wild. They yelled and screamed. wav ed tlags and jumped up and down in pa triotic furor, and so it was all the way up to Grants tomb, where there was a final demonstration of Patriotic fervor. such as New York has never witnessed before. The Pageant was viewed and cheered by'a hundred thousand people. A Horrible Story. A regiment encamped in Virginia n yar MIanassas. recently invaded a cemn etary. dug up the remains of a Confed erate officer and distributed his bones among themselves as souvenirs. It is almost incredible that any set of men wearing the uniform of the United States army could be found who arc so brutish as to be capable of perpetrating such an outrage. It appears, however. that there are grounds for believing that this horrible story is true and a court martial has been ordered to in vestigate the charge. li is said that the grhouls who opened and robbed the grave~ arc Kansas volunteers. The At ianta Journal very properly says that the matter should be sifted to the bot tom and if the alleged outrage was com mitted and the guilty wretches can be discovored they should not only be drummed out of the service, but also prosecuted under the laws of Virginia and made to suffer the extreme penalty. Murdei- in Greenville. Early Saturday morning the dead body of a negro boy was found on one of the streets of Greenville, S. C. The boy was identified as Foster Stokes. who lived on Mulberry street. lie lef home about dark Friday night. saying he would soon be back home. When last seen lie was with William Blass ingame. a negro man who had sold Stokes a pistol and had two others to sell. The coroner held an inquest and the jury recommended the arrest of Blassingame. Stokes' death was caused by a blow .behind the ear. and when~ found the body was wet land stiff, it having rained heavily Friday night. Blessingame was arrested near Pied mont and brought to jail Saturday af ternoon. His statement is contradic tory, and suspicion is strongly fixed upon him. Another Row. During General Gray's speech at the campaign meeting at Greenville Friday Commissioner Thomas declared lie ((ray) was not reading from the re cord and offered him what he claimed was the record. G ray declined, whereupon Thomas said he dared not, as it would conviet aim of falsehood. "Your arc a liar.' replied Gray amir' yelling and cheering. Thomnas laughed scornfully and Gr d told him lie had gone far enogh a n that lie would put him on notice* h ie would not submit to his insults an longer. The crowd yelled, '"Fighit. fight " an some one took Thomas by the atr .in an and took him back to his seat. A Soldier Murdered. A dlispatchi from Newport N ews, Va. says Private Alonzo Andrews of Co. I One ll undred am1 Sixtiet hi I ndiain re:gient. wias shot andl kil ied by Sat hdl. a negro saloon keep :r in Blood field. a negro settlement in the county Thursday afternoon. O irate dJacol Altmire. of the same er imand. wai wonded in tihe left fiw t bethe samn negro. The negro vum arresedc :ita loded in jail, but th: feeling aga'ins i:n was so) intense. i hit the sherif took himi ont of the' te sn for die keep' ing. lid field is~ *a 0.der matIil lau and a provost gmea.e , at r ls the city. skirmish line wa z' irown out ati Cam Grant Th'lursdaiy nig' it to keep' lie comn pany of which And rews wais a nmembei from breaking --ut to avenge the mur der' of' thei: ' .:n e. Capt. Carmi, Thael Suicides. Thei wi ar deiparu nent Wednesday rev xlrind fon Lakes and. Fia.. stating thu: de ,:i riuen! . had committed suicide e' -! ot ine. ihis hi omne was ini Lexington. Va. ie miarri ed a dlaughiter of' .Jion al idluck' r. Whe'n appoi0n tetd to te connuissar'y dhpartunett lie was with The llolis W MOW1st grgee baking powder knowr. letzli is sheo it goes o0 third erotb4' thes any -ther breo AbsDlutely Pure ROYAL GAKNG POWDER CO., hEW YOM Paid the Penalty. A special from Americus, Ga.. says: The most fienish crime in the history of Sumter county or the whole State, was committed at Friendship. 12 miles west of here Friday nigin. Mrs. James McGarrah and her son, .James Boone, were murdered by a negro man with n. ax while they were in th.eir lhedM.Mter this double murder the fiend outraged a negro woman. tied her to a tree in the woods and mutilated her in a shocking manner. She died also. but not until she had told the murderer's name. He told other negroes that he had 'killed three people Friday night, then K rrow ed a horse and rode away. The mur dured people were discovered by John Boone, a son of the murdered woman, and a crowd at once started after the fiend. He was caught late this even ing and promptly lynched. Neill's Figures Cotton Statistician Neill is out again with his prediction of an enormous cot ton crop, which he puts this year at anywhere from 10.500, 000 to 12.000,000 bales. The persistency with which he deals with such big figurce leads the leads the cotton men to the irresistible conclusion that he is a bear of extraor dinary magnitude, and the English spinnersno doubt. get the benefit of it. Whatever his motive is, there is hardly room for doubt that his estimates hurt. the cotton planter by forcing down the price of cotton in the early part of the season.-Record. Murder and Suicide. R.J. Corbett. the father of Jamar. Corbett, the heavy weight pualist. Tuesday morning shot and kilil li& S wife and then turned the weapon, upom himself with fatal effect. It is.lieved the murderer is demented. He: bas been in extremely poor health, for some time. Death was instantaneous in both eases. The shooting occurred in 'the residence of the Corbett fiuniy, 250 .1ayes street. San Francisco. Supercedes the Protocol The secretary of the navy said after leaving the president that the terms of surrenderof the Philippines superceded the terms of the protocol. If the whole of the Philippines were included in the surrender, the peace commission will not have to discuss the future of the is lands whatever. Ar one period during the rebellion: there were no less than 74 major gen-, erals and 2765 brigadiers on the rolls,. which was far more than there was any - use for. Prsdn Lincoln recoginzed~ this mistake before any body else, but. he consoled himself by .joking abouxt it.. *It is recalled that on one occasion, whena one of these superfluous generals was: captured by the enemy with a number' of men and horses, somebody undertaok: to condole with the President on the~ subject, remarking that the loss of the' captured general's service was a great misfortune to the government. TholA replied Lincoln, "it's the horses r'u tiinking about. I can makeanothe r brigadier gene'ral in two minutes, lbt t horses are scarce and cost $200 a pieon." '. majority of the generals Jim our army are well along: in. years. andt the ages 'r some of them, are given it; the Buffola Express. as. iblows: tGa neral Young is 58, Shafte-63. Whd :r 42 ~ Hawkins will rwe.h.the ratiring: i .ge of 64 this year.. Kent is 62. Lawtomi d5 and Sumner. Bates and Chiaa es eh 56. These are. the general o~eers: i~n Cuba with Shafter.. The age~ of the: generals in camp at home is also advano i. Cop pinger is 6il. Brook is 60O, Ga cbin 56, Sheridan 58, Henry 59, G3rs ham 64, Wilson 61, Butler US2 ad Lee 63. Wade is 55, the youa-gest of i he major generals. A Terre Haut' ., Indiam, dispatch says: M1ajor Ger .eral Shafter was taken prisoner duriny the civil war by General 'Joe' Wheeler and lodged in Libby Pris on, thus pr senting the sti ange sight of the COD federate cavalry leader and captor ser vinr ait Santiago under tne man he e pturcd. Shaftcr was major of the Nic eteenth 3Miehgan in General John (' oburn's brigade, and in M1arch, 162, while on a foraging expedition, the b? iiade was surrounded by Wheel er inmen and many taken prisoners. Sh ftcr was six weeks in prison. A suggestion worthy of attention ere as well in the WXest has been made to the relief societies of Missouri ,by a. volunteer from that state. In a ietter written from Camp Alger he s-ys: "It might be well if the patriotic people would make a donation to our hospital ~'in the way of reading matter. Any Ibook or other publication sent to the: tregiment hospital will be placed there' ~.for the usc of the paticnts. XX hat time a soldier spends in at hospital his life is 1in greater danger thain on a bat te1ield to Imy mind." A returned veteran froml >atit.go warns the ''inmmutne- wit' :re' ce' - to go to Cuba tha-t yellow fever ia not~ Their only foe. The anit iagio :anid k' N, he sas. ''is the most~ indefatWauleI, imur Sdennus.i ,dni ngri - "''II *. 3. and -sets the sick hal cray. A. Thr is ,no p~sile wayX t keep themu m and they 'ar of thetmselves~ Iut maC en ough, fnoth.l - -- A souI~tthertl hoy. anid a C barieston in by birth. received1 the tw ,s osn ob~ ptromnotiotn in tho~se hi' ,ie orti al -* lntrv in (Cuba. The ">rii r ri-adtha Lie utenant luen is :2 vancedi . iv.e points f or --extr'aordQina r'y her u:n . Tisi is the highest pra in nilitary srice Of the thiirty-:-i: .r' rotiuons fr he.roismn. Lieut'entan mue is the riy one to r ec'iv e tis u cepinle praise. TIr HiI nX Wesley was~U -ver rich ,and ne.vr had a lare .aha ananasre to ive awa over.(-> "'.000 itritna his Ilie. lie foutidid in E't,nte :i en terprise S tide thietl 'OVet tani)..it it ditliculties. A. cobbler, who recei'ndti. a loan of $20) I ron this fund. was ole-s >show Wesley Sbefore tihe latter's dent~ibd ,at the pirofits fo his business were M 4,000 a year.