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FAVORS EXPANSION. Dr. Talmage Discusses an Ab sorbing Theme. POINTS OUT THE WAY For the American Peopie to Per form a Mighty Work. They Hold the Key to the World's Redemption. In this discourse Dr. Tahnneag steers clear of the rolitical entanglements of our time and recommends that whieb will meet the approval of all who hope for the perpetuity or our republie and the welfare of other lands: text. G er esis xxviii, 14, Thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the cast. Since the Americano-Hlispanie war is concluded and the United States embas sador is on the way to Madrid and the Spanish embassador is on the way to Washington the people of our country are divided into expansionists and anti expansionists. From a different stand point from that usually taken I discuss this all absorbing theme. I leave the political aspect of this subject to states men and warriors and pray Almighty God that they may be enabled to right ly settle the question whether the is lands in controversy shall be finally an nexed, or held under protectorate. or resigned to themselves, while I call at tention to the fact that a campaign of moral and religious expansion ought to be immediately opened on widest and grandest scale. At the close of this war God has put into the hands of this country the key to the world's redemption. Heretofore the religious movement in pagan lands had to precede the educational. After in China and India and the islands cf the sea the missionaries have labored over 50 or 75 years the printing press and the secular school came in. Now to better advantage than ever before religious and secular enlightenment may go side by side, and so the work be accomplished in short time and more thoroughly. Starting with the fact that in Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands at least three-fourths of the people can neither read nor write, what an opportunity for school and printing press' Within five years every man in those islands may be taught to read not only the Bible. but the Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States and the biography of George Washing ton and of Abraham Lincoln. It seems to me that the government of the United States ought by vote of congress afford common schools and printing presses to those benighted re gions. Our national legislature by one vote appropriated $50.000,000 to give bread and medicine to Cuba. Why not by a similar generosity give $50,000,000 for feeding and healing the minds and souls of those ignorant and besotted archipelagoes. In the name of God, I nominate a school for every neighbor hood of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phi lippines. As soon as the gavel falls at 12 o'clock of next Dec. 4 on the table of senate and house of representatives and the roll has been called and the preliminaries observed let some mem ber of our national legislature, with mind and soul and voice strbng enough to be heard not only through those halls, but through Christendom, propose a measure for the mental and moral dis enthrallment of the islands in contro versy. Whathas made American civiization the highest civilization the world has ever seen? Next to the Bible and the cburch, schools, common schools, schools reaching from the A tlantic to Pacific, and from British America to the gulf of Mexico. Five years under such educational advantages and the whole subjiect that keeps our public men agitated, some of them to frothing at the mouth; will settle itself. Give those islands readers, spellers, arithme tics, histories, blackboards, maps, geographies, globes. Let the state legislatures at their next meeting, some of them assembling in early autumn, take parts of those islands under their especial educational patronage. What is needed is state and national action in this matter of schools. Then let the editorial associations of the United States, as many of such or ganizations as there are states, resolve at the next convocation to establish in every region of those islands a prit-ing press, to be supported by people of this country until it can become self sup porting. Each of these state editorial associations sending out to those islands at least one editor and two reporters and eough typesetters, down will go the ig norance and superstition of those is lands as certainly as the Spanish f'eet under Cervera sank under the pounding of our American battleships, and into their every port will go intelligence and love of free institutions as certainly as into the harbor of Manila went Ad miral Dewey on that famous night when he was not expected. Hoe's printing press! Nothing can stand before its bombardment. Editors of American newspapers and publishers of Ameri can books! Take the ordination for such a magnificent service. Eloquence on yonder Capitol hill cannot meet the exigency. Epigrams of political plat forms or in state legislatures will not hasten the desired consummation one week or one hour or one moment. When Cubans and Porto Ricans and Filipinos see the morning and evening newspapers thrown into the doorways and hawked along the streets of Havana and Santiago and Manila, those who cannot read by the force of curiosity will learn to read so that they may know what information is being scattered, and that which may be missionary ef fort at the start and carried on by Americans sent forth to do the work will soon be done by educated natives. Porto Rican editors! Porto Rican re porters! Porto Rican typesetters! Porto Rican publishers! It was a great mercy to take those islands from under the heels of despotism, but it will be a mightier mercy to emancipate them from ignorance and degradation. The expansion of the knowledge and intellec tual qualification of all those islandy regions is the desire of all intelligent Americans. Awake all you schools and universities and printing presses to our opportunity! Still further, here is a wide open door for Christianity. First of all, we have the attention of those people. The heathen nations are for the most part soporific. The American missionaries heretofore had great difileulty in get ting heathendom to listen. They excited some com nent by their attire, so diffetent was the parting of the hair, and the saape of the hat, and the cut of the coat, and the forma tion of the shoe of the evangelizers, but the questions constantly arose in re gard to the missionary: "Who is he?" "What is he here for?" And then the interrogator would relax into the preiou stupid indifnne. But that e-ordition of things h as passe The Iuss of cur Ameriezn navy have awak ,ed those population,. They do not ask who we are. They have found out. They are now listening to what American civilization and our Christian religion have to say on any subject. Now is the time. While their ears and eyes are wvide cpen. to tell them of the rescuing and salvable and inspiriting power of the gospei of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. The steam :'ri!nting press which secular education lants ti.ere may be us.ed and will be used to :rint religious newspapers and tracts awn sermons and mighty discuss ior'of qu.stious temporal and etern al. The coufrtable homes of those populations, % Len ;hristianizd, stand ing side by side with degratied huts of hose who remain pa ans, wil! be revo lutionarv for good. The Porco Rican and the Filipino will comc out from his tneleansed and low roofed and unin viting kennel and say to his neighbor of beautiful household. "Why cannot I have things as you have them?" And when he fiads that it is the Bible, with its teachings on family life and personal purity and exalted principle, and the church of God that proposes the rectiti2atiou of all evil ind the imi plantation of all good. he will cry out, -Give me the Bible, and the church, and the earthly alleviations, and the eternal hope which have wrought for you such transfiguration." Now. church of God, now all Chris tian philanthropists, is your opportuni tv. Nothing like it has occurred since Christ came. Perhaps there may be nothing like it till his sceond consing. Here is a definiteness of aim that is most helpful ai..d inspiring. The mil lions of dollars given for the redemp tion of the world and the thousands of glorious missionaries who have as volunteers gone forth among barbaric nations, were given and enlisted under a great and immeasurable idea. But when they come to add to the great and immeasurable idea the idea of defin iteness we will infinitely -augment the work. More than 300,000,000 of hea then in India. more than 300,000,000 of people in China, and more than imil lions of heathen than can be guessed outside of those countries, sometimes stagger and confound and defeat our faith. But here in these islands of present controversy we can farm out the work among the churches. and in five years, under the blessing of God, not only fit the people for the right of suffrage, but prepare them for useful ness and heaven. The difference be tween the general idea of the world's evangelization and some particularized field of evangelization is the difference betwc en the improvement of agriculture among all nations and the improvement of 75 acres put under one's especial care and industry. By all means let the general work go on. But here is the specific field for religious concen tration and development. This is not chimeical or impractical. I read this morning that the American Missionary association of the Congregational Church has already begun the work at San Juan, Utuado and Albonito, and all denominations of Christians, in six months, will be in those islandy fields, and we all need with our prayers and contributions to cheer them on to take for God and righteousness those regions which our American navy has captured from Spanish perfidy. It has been estimated that this Americo-Spanish war cost us $300,000, 000. It would not cost half of that to proclaim and carry on and consummate a holy war that will rescue those archi pelagoes from satanic domination. Who will volunteer? I beat the drum of a recruiting station. Who will en list under the one starred, blood striped banner of Immanuel? Cuba and Porto Rico ar d the Philippines are stepping stones for our American Christianity to cross over and take the round world for God. We need a new evangelical alliance organized for this ene purpose. In all denominations there are those with large enough hearts and who have been thoroughly enough converted to join in such an advanced movement; men who, putting aside all minor differenc-.:s of opinion, "believe in God the FAther Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only begottyn Sen,'' and who wouldi march shoulder to shoulder in such a gospel campaign. The result would be that those islands, after a scene of gospelization, would assort themselves into denominations to suit themselves, and some would be sprinkled in holy baptism, and others would be immers ed in those warm rivers. and some would worship in religious assemblage silent as the Quaker meeting house, and others would have as many jubilant ejacuations as a backwoods camp meeting, and some of those who preach ed would be gowned and 4urpliced for the work, and other; would stand in citizen's apparel or in their shirt sleeves preaching that gospel which is to save the world. Mark you well that statesmanship, however grand it is, and wise men of the world, however noble, cannot do this work. IMere secular education does not moramie. Some of the most tho roughly educated men in all the world have been the worst nen. Quicken a man's intellect, while at the same time you do not make his morals good, and you only augment his powers for evil. Geography and mathematics and meta physics and philosophy will never qual ify a people to govern themselves. A urrupt printing press is worse than no printing press at all, but let loose an open Bible upon those islands and let the apocalyptic angel once fly over them and you will prepare them to be come either colonies of the United States government or, as I hope will be the case, independent republic. God did not exhaust himself when he built this nation. Those islands will yet have their Thomas Jeffersons, qualified to write for them declarations of independence: and George Washing tons, capable of achieving their liber ties; and Abraham Lincolns, strong enough to emancipate their serfdoms; and Lougfellows and Bryants, capable cf putting their hills and their rivers and their landscapes into poems; and their Bancrofts and Prescotts to make their histories; and their Irvings to write their sketchbooks; and their Charles O'Conors and Rufus Choates to plead in their courtrooms; and their Daniel Websters and John J. Critten - dens to move their senates. The day cometh-hear it all ye who have no hope for those islands of be dwarfed and diseased illiterates-the day cometh when those regions will have a Christian civilization equal to that which this country now enjoys, while I hope by that time this country will be as superior to what it now is as today Washington and New York are better than Manila and Santiago. Do you see by this process of gospelized intelligence those archipelagoes will as a r ation be protected from the two woes prophesied in regard to this country, the one woe prophesied by the expan sionists? The other woe prophe sied by the anti-expansionist? It is said by those who would have ,,s sa ii ale can lay our hands on as a nation that unless we enter the door now open for the enlargement of our national domain we will decline the mission which God in his providence has assigned us. But surely no woe will come upon us or upon them if we Christ'anize tneni. as we now have the opportunity of doing. The political technicalities are nothing as compared with the importance of this movement. I implore all political expansionists to augment us in this work of moral and religious expansion, for unless those islands are moral;zed and elevated in intelligence and nabits we do not want then, and their annexation would be political damnation. On the other hand, I implore all antiexpans'onists to take a hand in the gospelization of Cuiba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islans. The only way to prepare them to take care of themselves is to give then the Ten Commandmen ts that were published on Mount Sinai and let them hear the groan of sacrifice that was breathed out on the heights of Gol gotha. What they most want is the gospel, the pure gospel, the omnipotent gospel, the gospel that helps heal the wounds of the body, and irradiates the darkness of the mind and achieves the ransom of the soul. But on this platform the so called expansionists and so called antiexpan sionists will yet stand side by side. Though I am not a prophet or the son of :t prophet, within five years, if this religio educational work is properly at tended to. there will be a Cuban republic, a Porto Rican republic and a Philippine republic, none of them on a large scale. but they will all have their schools and printing presses and evangelical churches, their presi dents, their senates and house of repre sentives. their mayors and their con stabularies, and as good order will be observed in their cities as now reigns on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, or Broadway, New York. Christ has started for the conquest of the nations, and nothing on earth or in hell can stop it. The continents are raridly rolling into his dominion, and why not these islands, which for the most part are only fragments brok en off from continents, the interval lands having been sunk by earthquakes, allowing the ocean to take mastery over them? Each mother continent has around it a whole family of little con tinents. If the continents are being so rapidly evangelized, why not the islands? If America, why not Cuba and the Bahamas? If Asia, why i: the Philippines and the Moluccas? Africa, why not Madagascar and Helena? The same power that bree. them off the mainland can lift tL mt into evangelization. In the old book, which has becom a new book by reason of modern disc iv eries, especial attention is called to the islands. "Declare the Lord's praise in the islands," commands Isaiah. "Let the multitudes of the islands be glad thereof," says the Psalmist. "All the islands of the heathen shall worship him." writes Zephaniah. "He shall turn his face to the islands," prophesies Daniel. "The ihabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee," fortells Ezekiel. "Hear it and declare it to the islands afar off," exclaims Jere miah. You see from this the islands are not to be neglected. Perhaps they are the Lord's favorites, as in house holds if there is any favoritism at all it is for the weakest. The islands too small to take care of themselves have the eternal God to take care of them. Let nations look out how they tread on the islands, however small and weak, for they are omnipotently defended. They may not be able to marshal large armies or to send out navies to sweep the sea, but better than that, they have the chariots of heaven on their side and the drawn swords of the Almighty. I have as much faith in the salvation of the smallest island of the Falklands, of the Canaries, of the Ladrones, of the Carolines, of the Fijis, of the Barbo does, of the Cape Verdes, of the Socie ty islands as I have in the salvation of America. The continents themselves are only larger islands, and the world in which we live is only a still larger island, and the solar system is a group of islands, and the universe is an archipelago studded with islands of worlds sur rounded by the great ocean of infinitude and immensity. So you see when God planned the universe he diagrammed it into islands, and he will look after the interest of each of those islands, how ever small, and England and Holland and France and Germany and America must not treat the smallest and weak est island that comes under their sway any different from the way they treat the strongest nation of all the earth. God may chiefly deal with individuals in the next world, but he deals with nations only in this world, and when persistently a nation practices injustice against other people it is orly a ques tion of time when the offender will find his doom. The path of time is strewn with the carcasses of nations that be cause of their maltreatment of other nations perishei. The higher such of fending empires rise the harder will be their fall. It required the pen of an Edward Gib-' bon, through four great volumes of more than 500 pages each. to tell the story of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," concluding his monumental work with the w~rds: "It was among the ruins of the capital that I first con eived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly 20 years of my life, and which, however inade (fuate to my own wishes, I finally de liver to the curiosity and candor of the public," What, the Roman empire dead! Did she lack warriors? No. Behold her Pompey and her Julius Cx sar. Did she lack lawmakers and law givers? No. Think of the masters of Roman jurisprudence, our American attorneys today quoting these laws in our courtrooms more than 15 centuries after they were enacted. In poetry did she not have her Virgil and Ovid? In history did she not have her Sallust and her Livy? in eloquence did she not have her Scipio and Cicero? In satire did she not have a Juvenal and a Ho race? What pens were wielded by her Cato, and her Terence, and her Pliny! All nations heard the cry of her war eagles, the voices of her oratory and the chime of her cantos. But the day of judgment come for that nation, and Hannibal crossed the Appennines, and the Goths and V~andals s.:oowd, and the Carthaginian fleet assailed, and Numidian horsemen galloi ed, and na tions combined, and Rome sauk. The tourist now on the banks of the Tiber sees the ruins of her forum, the ruins of her Coliseum, the ruins of her art, the ruins of her aqjueducts, the ruins of her catacombs, the ruins of her palaces. If our nation forgets its duty to other nations and practices injustice against other people, however insignificant, it will not take another Edward Gibbon 20 years and through four great volumes to tell the story of the decline and fall of American institutions. By so much as our opportunities have been greater than any nation that ever lived, and the mission to which she has been ordained is more stupendous than any bestowed the alm ighty upon any people, if we forget our God and enact wickedness our overthrow will be quicker and more tremendous, and yonder capitoline hill, with its architectural magnificence, will become a heap of gigantic ruins, to bevisited by the people of other times and other nations, who will read in letters of crushed and crumbled mar ble that which David wrote many hun dred years ago upon parchment, "The way of the wicked he turneth upside down. We concluded a few days ago the an nual decoration of northern and south ern graves. Three years ago, at this season, in memorial sermon I proposed the twisting of two garlands, one to be put upon the grave of the northern sol dier and the other to be put on the grave of the southern soldier, but this year we need three garlands, the third to be put upon the graves of those who fell in this Americo- 1ispanie conflict. The third garland needs to be quite as fragrant and as radiant as the other two. These last heroea braved more than bayonets and bombshell, they braved the pestiferous breath of the tropics, whole battalions, whole regiments, whole brigades, whole armies of death ful malaria. They confronted those oppositions of the torrid climes which no sword can pierce, no agility climb, no stratagem flank, no torpedo explode, no courage conquer. Under the awful charge of visible and invisible hosts about 6,000 men went down, some to instant death and others through linger ing pangs in hospital. If in this third wreath you twist the crimson rose. suggestive of sanguinary sacrifice. and nhe white calla lily, sug gestive of glorious ressurrection, put in also a few forgetmenots, suggestive of remembrance, and a few passion flowers suggestive of the love that mourns the slain, and a few heliotropes, suggeslive of the fragrance of their memory. Then let the night's dew put the tears into the blue eyes of the violets and all the soldiers' cemeteries be so many censers burning incense before the throne of that God who has been the friend of this nation from the time of Lexington to the time of Sin Juan hill, from the guns of the United States warships Constitution and Constellation, at the beginning of the century, to the guns of the United States warships Olympia, Oregon, Brooklyn and other loaded thunders, at the close of tnis century. Remember here and now that those brave boys opened up the way for a kind of expansion we all believe in. They *ng open the gates for the speedy - ,pelization of islands stupid with the :uperstition of ages. They cleared the way for missionaries and Bibles. They set those islandsfree. Leaving to the United States government to decide what shall be the political destiny of those peoples, let us all join in a cam paign o: religious expansion, expansion of affection that can take all the world in, expansion of our theologies until none shall reject their broad invitation expansion of hope that embraces eter ity as well as time, expansion of eff ort that will not cease till the whole earth is saved and the time arrives when the prophecy shall be fulfilled and "they shall come from the north and the south and the east and the west and sit down in the kingdom -f God and the last shall be first and the first last."o Week before last, in this capital of the nation, we set three nights on fire in celebration of naval and soldierly heroics, and there wer'e rockets of fire, and spouting fountains of fire, and bom bardments of fire, and ships of lire sank in billows of fire and those three nights were three garlands of fire; but now we are in softer and quieter mood, and the three garlands of today are woven of blossoms and corollas of all colors and all pugencies of aroma, and we bethink ourselves that this third garland was needed to chain together the northern gafland of other decorative times to the southern garland of other decorative times. Floral chain of three links! For the first time in Go years the north and s'outh stand in complete brother hood. Heroes of Vermont and Ala bama, of Massachusetts and South Car olina, of Maine and Lovisiana, shoul der to shoulder! May that alliance re main until the last oppression is extir pated from the earth and all nations stand in the liberty with which Christ would um all people free. IN MEMORY OF ELLERBE. The State House Officials Pass Reso lutions. At a meeting of the State House offi ials, held Monday in the office of the Attorney General, at Columbia, the fol lowing resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, under the inscrutable provi dence of God, the hand of death has stricken from our midst Governor Wil liam IH. Ellerbe; and whereas, we bow in humble submission to the decree of our Great Creator, be it resolved: First. That in the death of Governor Ellerbe the State of South Carolina sus tains the sad loss of a conscientious and fearless Christiai gentleman as her Second.~ That as citizen, husband, father, friend and public officer he ex hibited qualities of the true man, and in his devotion to the duties of his of fie during his long struggle against death had the sympathy and ad niration of the whole State. Third. That as his official associates we remember his friendship and deplore his death, and in deepest sorrow extend to those who where nearest and dearest to his heart our profoundest regret and sympathy. Fourth. That these resolutions be published in the daily papers and a copy be engrossed and sent to Mrs. Ellerbe. W. H. Timmerman, State Treasurer. M. R. Cooper, Secretary of State. J. P. Derham, Comptroller Genera&. J. W. Floyd, Adjutant General. C. ID. Bellinger, Attorney General. John J. McMahan. Superintendent of Edlucation. One Friend Sho.ots Another. Mr,. Tho-os Watson, bookkeeper in the~ bank at Greenwood, S. C., was ac identally shot Thursday afternoon by Mr, Allie Williams, in the City bank. The shooting took place in the bank building. Mr. ;villiams had two pistols one loaded and one unloaded, and thinking he had the unloaded pistol in his hand snapped it and it proved to be the loaded one, and a ball was did char;ed and entered Mr. Watson's body going into the bowels on the right side I; was at first thought to be a very dan gerous wound, but Mr. Watson was do ing very well Friday morning, and the wound is not thought so serious. The young men are very close friends and Mr. Wi !iiams was prostrated with grief because of the accident. Both Mr. Williams and Mr. Watson are employ ed in the City bank and are very pop "MY LITTLE DAUGHTER." A Pearl from the Facile Pen of Living ston Hunt. She is-sunshine when she'-takes my hand; she is my blue sky without-a cloud when she lifts her little arms to me. When I rest my finger tips upon her little shotlder and walk by her side, she needs no telling to make her feel that it is her strength which is sup porting mine, for a grown man is a weak thing, and there is no prop like a child. I know that her little heait beats faster when I lean thus upon her, for one day she told me so: and her pride in the telling was a gallant bit of fuss and parade. Such perturbation, such a pother with small arms, such a robustiousness of small actions, was never seen before in sneh a small body: I gazed in wonder until I was forced to fold her in my arms to quiet her. This little child, this little pearl from heaven, this daughter of her mother's gray eyes, is as free of human sin as is a ray of nature's moonlight on the water, or as are the little beams of the little break-o'day which issues from the leaves of every white rose. My voice grows soft and sweet when it mingles with hers in speech. I am cer tain then that I am a good man. I remember many years ago-al though it was only last summer-that my soul was sunk in doubt, save that it believed itself a clod. But what des pondency could stand against the refu tation in her crystal eyes? For they are the windows into sinless skies where dwell the angels and God. She is my answer to every hope which wiugs its way heavenward. She is my altar, and at night my once stubborn knees are glad to bend before the sweet picture of her slumber. As I watch her, then some fairy's hand drops dew upon the white leaf of her lip, and she lies a flower in flesh and blood, the breathing restoration of the childhocd of her mother-that childhood which true love must ever long to know. Her face is then a veritable Easter chalice, from which my love of God can drink its fill of adoration. Ah, me! my praise of her is sweet to speak, and yet I fear to let it flow and thicken, for there are those who are not so happy as I, and they might think I babbled..But it is only trueand I must tell it, tht she is my dream of life's beauty, without sleep to clog the dream. She is sweet music without the unrest that sweet music brings. She is love without love's pain. It is because of her that I can look upon the gathering haze of distant hills at twilight, and yet feel no answering mist o'ercloud my eye. She is my north star in the sky of duty. She is my gentleness, my simple joy, my faith, my worship. She is my peace of God which passeth all understanding. A Big Event, The 9th International Convention of the Baptist Young People's Union of America will be held in Richmond, Va. Juyl 13-16 next.A rate of one fare for theround trip has been made by all rail roads traversing this State. Tickets will be on sale July 11, 12 and 13, with final limit to July 31, 1899. An ex tension of the final limit may be obtain ed, enabling one to leave Richmond not later than August 15, provided tickets are deposited with the joint agent at Richmond prior to July 28, and on payment of a fee of 50 cents. The fare for the round trip from Charleston will be $13 15. Special tickets will be sold from Richmond to any point of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway within a radius of 250 miles at a rate of one fare for the round trip. The final limit of side trip tickets will be July 31 on tickets n t deposited for extension, and August 15 on tickets which have been deposited for extension. All parties, whether members of the Baptist Young People's Union of Amer ica or not, and of whatever denomina tion, can avail themselves of these rates and can have arrangements for board while in Richmond made for them by applying to John B. White, 35 Broad street, who is transportation lead er for South Carolina. The following side trips can be made from Richmond: Washington and re turn, (via rail.) $2 50; Virginia Beach and return, $1 75; Old Point Comfort and Norfolk and return, $1 25; James town and return, S1; Naturnl Bridge, including transfer, and return, $5 S0 Luray Caves, including admission and transfer, and return, S6 70. Quite a party is being made up to go from Char leston. Dewey Leaves Hong Kong. The United States cruiser Olympia with . Admiral Dewey on board left Hong Kong at 4 o'clock Tuesday after noon.' There was no demonstration. The weather was wretched. It was blowing and raining hard at the time of the departure. While passing the British cruiser Powerful, the band of the Olympia played the British nia tional anthem and gave a salute. There was *no firing. The Powerful replied with a similar salute and her band riayed "Hail Columbia." As the Olympia passed the Italian admiral's ship, the Olympia's band played the Italian national anthem andl gave an admiral's salute, which compliments were returned. Then the Olympia's band played "Auld Lang Syne," and the band of the Powerful played "Home, Sweet Home." Consul Wildman remained on the Olymzpia until the last minute with a few irie'ids of the admiral, who went aboard to bid him farewell. At 4 'cAlock sharp the ensign was run up to the peak and a large admiral's flag was hoisted at the main. The Olympia moved off with a marine guard drawn up on her poop. The Right Man Killed. J'oe W. Harris shot and instantly killed H. R. Bennett near Odum, Ga., Friday. Both are -:hite. Bennett was a well-to-do farmer and 1.hurch member. Ten days ago, it appears, Ben nett went to the house of Harris in his abseuce and made improper proposals to his wife. Upon his return home the matter was reported to Harris. The men met Friday morning and Bennett was shot dead. Military Prisoners Escape. Four general military prisoners es caped from Governor's island, New York. Thursday night. They sawed the windo~v bars of the cell and reached the ground by a rope. They left a let ter stating that fellow prisoners knew nothing of their plans. Their names are Frank Harvey, Michael T. McCar thy, Frederick Simonds, Carl Decker. Is it the best? Taste and see. Best in taste, best in results. No nauseat ing dose, but so pleasant and natural in efects that you forget you have taken medicine--Life for the Liver and Kid neys. See ad. tf Lime is very cheap, so there is no ex cuse for not using the white wash brush frely. How the Cracksman Manages to Get His Implements of Trade. OF THE BEST MATERIAL. Sold in Every Hardware Store and No Difficulty in Purchas ing Them. They Are Never Carried From the Store by the Man Who Buys Them-Some Places in New York That Made a Busi ness of Manufacturing Them-A Risky Business. One of the show places of New York to visitors from other cities interested in criminology is the large case of bur glars' tools at Police Headquarters. A British detective who came over to see that nothin.; happened to Joseph Chamberlain xhile he was here a few days ago looked it over and said: "Yes, as a collection it is the finest I have ever seen, perhaps the best in the world. But there are few implements in it that would be of much use to the up-to-date safe-breaker. Burglars' tools are like school books and dictionaries. You must get new ones every three or four years." There is always more or less mystery surrounding the tools that burglars work with. Where are they made? Who is bold enough to sell them? What re spectable citizen of ordinary informa tion would know where to purchase a sectional jimmy or a diamond drill? Simplest thing in the world. They are sold in every hardware store on Broad way, and the most notorious cracksman that every picked a lock has not the slightest difficulty in purchasing them. Getting out of the store with these is another matter. A burglar who under stands his business never iakes away his purchases from a hardware store. He knows well that Capt. McClusky has men on his trail and that every time he is seen on the street by a policeman he will be taken to Headquarters for a lit tle questioning, no matter whether there is anything suspicious about his conduct or not. A fine thing it would be for him to be caught with a package of tools in his pocket! The burglar takes no such chances. After spending an hour or so scrutin izing and selecting bits, drills, augers, blades and things of that kind with a care that is exasperating to the sales man attending him, the safe-breaker has his goods wrapped up, pays for them and hands the parcel to a lad, or perhaps a young woman, who comes in with him and loiters about patiently while he makes his purchases. "Here take these goods up to the fac tory as quickly as you can." There is nothing to arouse the sus picions of the clerk. He has made a good sale. The customer lingers for ten minutes or so after the person who took his package goes away. He in spects a new lock or gathers other In formation that is sure to be useful to him some day or other. Then he says good day and strolls up the street. If one of McClusky's men happens to run across him and march him off to Headquarters for a talk, what of it? He has no incriminating parcels in his pockets. He has been laying off since he "did his last bit" and isn't going to give the police any more trouble. Away he goes. At another time and in another store that burglar will purchase a jimmy. Whenever he does the salesman asks him for his card. He produces the cai'g of some carpenter or locksmith-easily obtained-and gives his purchase to somebody who came into the store with him. What is there suspicious about that? And there is nothing more to the dif ficulty of securing burglars' tools or the materials for making them. It is the man who knows what to do with the fine steel instruments after he gets them that is the successful safe cracker. A few years ago there were several machine shops in town where burglars could have their "kits" licked into shape without any trouble.-'There was a Frenchman in Bleecker street, not half a mile from Police Headquar ters, who made such fine blades-thin as paper and keen as a sword-that cracksmen in London and Paris con sidered themselves lucky if they got one of them. There was another famous machine shop in Cherry street, kept by a man named Heinrich. But the police soon got on the trail of these shops. They did not interfere with them. The information picked up there was too useful in following clues. But the burg lars stopped patronizing them. It was tempting fate too much. Men who follow this business say that Philadelphia is the safest city in this country for a burglar to make a home in, and that more of them do live there than anywhere else-outside of the prisons. It is easy in Philadelphia for a burglar to hire a small house and come in at any hour of the day or night without attracting the attention of his neighbors. In New York it is almost impossible. Janitor3 talk; women are curious, and the man who lives a life differing in the slightest degree from his neighbor is pretty sure to have in cuiries made about him. No Interest. It is estimated that fully two-thirds of the whole amount of public money held by the London banks does not bear interest. Defendant Sometimes Wins. ;'nglish law court records show that - defendant wins his case in forty .nout of every 100 cases tried. Russian ('annibpals. Cannibalism is rife in the Russian province of Kassan and "annot be put down, according to the statement of the Bishop of Kasan at the Russian church congress at Kiew. As a rule, only persons suffering from incurable dis eases are eaten. Preferred Queer Diet. A rhinoceros bird, about the size of a turkey, which was recently shot on the Island of Java. bad in its crew a rim from a small telescope and three brass buttons evidently belonging to the uniform of a British soldier. A Colorless Ink. A colorless ink, for use in writing on postal cards, etc., is made by mixinp together sulphuric acid and water, the writing becoming permanently visib!' when the paper Is heated. Gunpowder, It has 'been calculated that ordinary gunpowder, on exploding, expands about 9,000 times, or fills a space this much larger as a gas than when in a solid form. AN OLD CIRCUS MAN'S STORY He Tells How They Found a Place in Which to Bury the Great Giant. "I never told you the exact height of the great giant-what's the use?" said the old circusman. "Youwouldn't believe it if I did; as I've said before it would only make you dis-believe what I do tell you about him, and what's the use? But you can form some sort of an idea about it if from these things that I've told you and from what I'm going to tell you now about his death and burial, because in the course of time he died. *We were under canvas then, show ing three times a day, and moving ourselves, and we were tolerable busy, and we really hl:dn't time to give at tention as we ought to the burying of what had been, after the great giraffe, our very greatest attraction. The dig ging of a grave for him would have been like digging the foundations for several houses in a row and would have takten lots of tine, and the mere cost of the land would be considerable. *Well, as usual. the old *man's horse sense came to the rescue. In looking around for forage when he struck the town he had discovered the bed of an abandoned canal, that they'd stopped using when the railroad was built. This old canal ran through the edge of a ainnt's farm there. and the land was no use to anybody. It didn t pay to plough it because it wasn't worth the tinie and trouble it would take to get horses and plongais up and down the bank. and it wasn't any good for any thing: and the old man bought a strip of that land along there. a few acres ot it. enough for a cemetery lot for the giant. for next to nothing. So you see there we were. with the land bought and the grave dug at very small ex pense and practically in a minute. - "We laid the giant down in the sec tion of the canal-we had bought, and hauled earth from the rest of the piece to cover him up-the old man was wise enough of course to buy land enough to provide for that. When the mound was rounded up in proper shape and due proportions it made quite a ridge: it was a flat country round there, and you could see this ridge for quite a piece. -Of course the old man put up a headstone. and it was much the biggest I ever saw, and quite different from any I ever saw-it was built of brick. The old man hired all the men that could work on it. and they put in a foundation anu built the headstone in half a day. It was something like the si.e of a brick house for general di mensions. only it was very much thick er and tombstone-like in shape, and at a little distance in the level country the ridge with the great stone at one end of it looked like what it was, the grave of a mighty giant. "And so we left him secure in mem ory, as we Thought with the inscrip tion we hail put on the headstone, but a great storm came up before the mor tar had set and blew the headstone down, and there it lay simply a scat tering pile of brick. But the mound remained, as it still does; I saw It there only a year ago when I passed through that country. But with nothing to mark it, exact knowledge of it gradual ly faded, and even tradition had grown indistinct. and the great mound had come tinally to be known simply as the giant's hill." The Climate of Cape Colony. The climate of the Cape Colony, and indeed of South Africa, nay be com pared to that of the south of Europe and the north of Africa, with frost and snow on the highest lands and subtropical belts on the lowest lying parts, as in Natal. Zululand and Mas honaland. It may be roughly said that any part of South Africa is better for those suffering from chest complaint than is the climate of our home coun try, at the most trying time of the year. But those who come to South Africa hoping to escape from this disease should not as a general rule delay on the coast. The Cape peninsula is delightful for most people, but it is not by any means best for those who are constitutionally Inclined to consumption. They must ltve the coast, no matter how many induoimfents there may be for them Ito stay, and climb the tableland which faces them at whatever port they may land. At irregular distances from the sea we have probably nowhere more than a hundred miles of low-lying coast lands before we ascend.Once on the tableland. so far as climate goes, it matters not in what direction health seekers proceed, the climate is equally good. Lived in Cages. Capagerfus is not the only man so unforrunate tis to be shut up in a cage. At tae Castle of Plessis lex Tours one is shown a dark and gloomy place un der a sairw.ay, where they tell us Cardinal La Blaue spent twelve years in an iron eage so constructed that he could neither stand nor .lie in it. He had thle singular good fortune-ne probably would question the adjective -of undergoing a punishment unique in history. In Copenhagen about 1740 there was living an Englishman who had spent eleven years in a cage. He was a gen teman of Lancashire .in the service of Charles NII. of Sweden, and was ar rested for some alleged act of treason. He escaped from prison, took refuge in Hamburg, where lie was safe, but im prudently ventured back, was again arrested and this time, for greater safe ty, was put in an iron cage and stayed there eleven years, when he was re moved to a prison room. He had not been ill any of the time, was quite cLeerful. wrote a volume of anecdotes. tamed a mouse for amusement and never lost his hope of ultimate release. A raper House, A large paper house with sixteen rooms has been erected by a Russ~ian gentlemani upon his country estate at Savinowka, in rodolia. The house was coustructed in New York by an Am erican engineer, and cost $80,000 rou bls. Its architect declares that It will last longer than a stone building. To make the triumph of paper stil more emphatic, the proprietor has re solved that the whole of the furniture shall be made of the same material. An Unhealthy City. St. Petersburg is built on what was formerly a swamp. To the preseant day a strong west wind, combined with high waler in the river, forces water into the cellars. Disaster in Japan The steamer Kinship Marau brings news from the Orient of a large fire at Yamagata, Japan. Six hundred houses and eleven shrines and temples werc destroyed. A number of lives were lost. Thirty nouses were burned in the Abohisa theatre fire at Kobe. A pril .30 One man perished. HELP TOUCR NEWSPAPEs-The fol lewing is taken from the pen of Dr. Talmage: "A newspaper whose col umnrs overflow with ad vertisemnents of buinss meni has moire influence in at tractioe attention to the building up of a city or town than any other rgency that can he emaployed. The people go where tbere is business. Capital and labor will locate where there is an en terprsng community. No power is so strong to build up a town as a news paper properly patronized. It will al ways return more than it receives." TuE fight next year will be on the currency issue. The Republicaus will declare for the gold standard. pure and simple, and the Democrats will stick to silver and nominate Bryan. This is th wa it look to us at this time. FIGHTING IN THE MAST. How the Rapid Fre Guns in the Fight Ing Top are Operated. Fighting in the military mast of the big battleships in our navy will prob ably be the most dangerous duty our seamen will be called upon to perform In the war with Spain, says the Kansas City Journal. Exposed to the full fury of the en emy's fire, with scarcely any protec tion, and with the possibility of having the entire mast shot away, the man On duty in the mast is In a position per haps the most dangerous in all modern naval warfare. The steel barbettes of the present time, save in certain battleships, where an overhead shield is carried, give a protection more apparent than real, more picturesque than practical. And while the military top crews have the advantage of seeing something of the scrimmage, yet they present too in viting a mark to the enemy, and have stations which in battle are pretty sure to be untenable from the beat and smoke. The small arms men have frequent practice aboard ship, and considering the difficulties of the environment, are good marksmen. It is no easy task to fire from a platform placed at the fob end of a pendulum, swinging irregu larly, and the results attained testify to the value of the drill and to the phy sique of the individual. On the larger battleships the mili tary masts are hollow, and access to the fighting tops is gMned through the interior. The ammunition is also pass ed up inside. In the smoke and grime. of battle one can well realize what a hell these places would be. Another thing that must be consid ered is the fact that this will be the United States navy's first practical test of the modern warship. The last ten years have brought about a greater and more sudden change in the out ward appearance of men-of-war than has ever been recorded in the history of naval affairs. This is in the main due to the almost complete banish ment of sails, yards, and the more, or less intricate rigging necessitated by their use, in favor of military masts, or, in some cases, mere signal poles. The military mast of to-day is con-, structed primarily to carry guns, and secondarily for signalling purposes. for it must be remembered that in all cases in which ships have been equip-. peA with fighting tops since their very first inception, the primary duty of the mast which upheld it was to -carry sail for the propulsion of the ship. Some of the masts are supplied with an upper top for the electric light, a peculiarly shaped edifice below to en able three quick-firing guns to be dis charged right ahead, and a species of conning tower below, from which the captain can overlook the smoke clouds and see to direct his ship in action. The later types are all constructed with much tie same Ideas. Some have a lookout, or coniing tower, others have not, but all have three or six pounder quick-firing guns and electric light projectors, and one or two lighter machine guns in addi tion. The small caliber rapid-fire and ma - chine guns employed in tops are sup ported by riflemen,- and in every fight their work of clearing-the guns, sweep ing the decks and superstructures, and of picking off the officers and leading men is, to say the least, azadousi In the galley days the military tops were fairly well protected, but during the sail era the topmen handling the swi vel pieces anid deck rakers, and form ing a special corps of musketeers, had no protection, except what was given by a network of mattress-filled ham mocks. It would take a big projectile to bring a mast down, but then, If it did, great would be the fall thereof. And think of the poor devils -that would come crashing down with It! And think of them even if the mast doesn't come down, perched up there, living targets for shot and shell! The thin plating is of no avail against anything larger than a rifle bullet, and a small shell might pass harmlessly over the heads of the men in an open top which in a closed one would have been burst. by the iron sides and scatter death and destruction within. HOODOOED BY INSECTS, They Keep Settlers Away From Many - Parts of the World. Nothing could more strikingly lluis trate the Importance of small things than the large role which is now attrlb uted to the mosquito in the etiology of some of the most serious and wide- ' spread diseases to which the human - race is subject. It is truly said that what prevents the successful coloniza tion of many tropical countries, and what throws the greatest obstacle in the way of civilization and of good government in vast regions of Central Africa, is not cliirate, not distance from home and not unfriendliness on the part of the natives. The obstacle Is malaria, and now we find that the prevalence of malaria, so far as man is concerned, depends on the mosquito, and that this pestilent little' insect, in addition to irritating and annoying, is the means by which the poison of mala ria is propagatcd and distributed. For years back botanists have known the important part played by birds in the scattering of seed, and of Insects ' in the distribution of the pollen of plants, and it seems not unlikely that pathologists will have to recognize In a muh larger degree than has till lately been done the large part taken by the subordinate forms of life by which we are surrounded-our cattle, our horses, our dogs and cats, our fies, our mos uitoes, and perhaps even our fleas-In istributing disease from man to man, and, as is stated in regard to the mos uito and malaria, in deciding whether the extension of our empire over great reas of the globe's surface shall be possible or not. Three Odd Cities. The famous old city of Ghent, Bel gium, is built on twenty-six Islands hich are connected with one another y eighty bridges. Three hundred streets and thirty public squares are ontained in these islands. Ghent is amous because Charles V and John f Gaunt were born there. It has been the scene of many treaties, insurrec tions and revolts, and it was there the treaty was made terminating the war f 1812 between this country and Eng land. Amsterdam also resembles Venice bccause it is built on piles driven through the earth into the water below. hree hundred bridges span the many canals which divide the city, ten miles En circumference, into ninety Islands. Venice is built on eighty Islands and has 400 bridges, which are very steep nd have many steps. The canals and gondolas of Venice are world-famous. About eighty miles Is the circumfer ence of the city.