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Bf 'S BATTLES. Talrtmge Draw? from thom Loa? ENCOURAGING WORD8 \ Por Thoso ?ngegod In tho Bat-1 ties cf Ufo, Clod's 80! dior? Never Turn Back ward. In thin dlsoo?rso Pr. Tolmago fol lows Joshua on his triumphal marah and speaks encouraging words, to who aro engaged in tho battles of this lifo; text, Joshuaii b, "There shall not tiny maa be ablo to'staud boforo thoo . Moses",was doftd. A boautifid tradi tion says, tl>o Lord kissed him and in ::?K?t aot drew forth tho soul of tho dy ing lawgivor. Ho had boon buriod, only ono pors?n at tho funeral, tho samo ono who kissod him. But Qed noyer takos a man away from any plaoo of usofulnoss until ho hao eomo OhOi toady to roplaoo him. Tim Lord doos not ge looking around amid a groat va riety of candidatos to find somo ono oSpooially fitted for tho vaoatod posi tion*. Ho makes ? man for that plaoo. Mosos has passod oil tho stogo, and Joshua, tho boro, puts his foot on tho platform of history BO solidly that all tho agos coho with tho troad. Ho was a magnifient fighter, but ho always fought on tho right sluo, and ho novor fought unless God told him to fight. Ho got his military cquipmont from God, who gavo him tho premiso at tho Start, "Thoro shall not any man bo ablo to stand boforo thoo all tho dayB of thy lifo." God fulfilled this promiso, al though Joshua's first battle was with tho spring froshot. tho noxt with a stono wall, tho next loading on a.rogimont of whippod oowards and tho next battling against darknoss, whoolin? tho sun and tho moon into his battalion, and tho last against tho king of terrors, death fivo great viotorios. As a rule whon tho goncral o?an army starts out in a war ho would liko td have a small battle in ordor that ho may got his own ooufago up and rally /D troops and got thom drilled for great r oonfli?ts, but tho first undertaking Of Joshua was groator than tho lovoling of Port Pulaski, or the ansoult of Gib raltar, or lho ovorthrow of tho Bastillo. It was tho erossing of tho Jordan at tho limo'of tho spring froshot. Tho snows of Moaht Lebanon had just boon melting, and thoy pourod down into the vafioy, and tho whole valley was a raging torront. So tho Canaanites stand on ono bank, and they look aoross and soo Joshua and tho Israelites, and thoy laugh and say: "Aha, thoyoan not disturbuS until tho freshets fall 1 lt isimpOBSibloforthom to rc nob us," But ofter nv/hi?o thoy look aoross tho water thoy soo a movement in tho army They say: "What is tho m?Wr noVk-JWhy, thoro must bo a paolo among thoso't?oops, -ajioV thby aro going to fly, or perhaps thoy aro going to try to maroh aoross tho river Jordan Joshua is a lunatic." But Joshua, tho ohioftain, looks at his army and orios, "Porwaru, marohl" and they siart for tho bank of tho Jordon. Oao milo ahoftd go two priests carrying a glitter ?flfltfbox four foot long two foot wido. #$*?40<tbp aili of tho covenant. And thoy como down, and nosoonordo thoy just touoh tho rim of tho water with thoir foot than, by an Almighty fiat, Jordan parts. Tho army of Joshua marohos right on without getting thoir feot wet, ovor tho bottom of tho rivor, o path of ohalk and brokon sholls and gobble?, until they got to tho othor auk. Thou thoy lay hold of tho olean der? and tamarisks and willows and pull themselves up a bank 30 or 40 foot '.??rh, and having gainod tho othor bank they - clap thoir Bhiolds and thoir oymbals andVing tho praises of tho G od of Joshua. But u& so??r>r .havo thoy roached tho bank than -tho w?torvbn gin to dash and roar, and with a terrific rush thoy broak looso from thoir strange nuohovago. As tho hand of tho Lord God is takon away from tho thus uplifted wat ors-waters porhaps upliftod half a milo-thoy rush down, and nomo of-tho unbelieving Israelites say: "Alas, alas, what a misfortune I Why oould not thoso waters havo staid parted? Booauso porhaps wo may want to go hack. 0 Lord, wo aro -ongagod in a risky busi ness. Thoso Canaanites may oat us up, How if wo want togo baok? Would it not havo boon a moro complote mira olo if tho Lord had parted tho wators to let us como through and kept them ?iartad to lot us go baok if wo aro do eatod?" My friends, God makes no .provision for a Christian rotroot. Ho clears tho path all tho way te Canaan. To go tbaok is to dio. Tho samo gato . koopors that swung baok tho amothys ; tine and crystalline gate of tho Jordan ' to tot Israel pass through now swing shut tho amethystine and orystallino ?ato of tho Jordan to koop tho Israolitos rem going baok. Victory ahead, but water 30 foot doop boland, surging to death and darkness and woe. But you say, "Why did not those Canaanites, whon they had suoh a sp?ondid chan co, standing on tho top of tho bank 30 or 40 foot high, oomplotoly demolish thoso . poor Israelites down in tho rivor?" I - will toll you why. God had made a promiso, and ho was going to koop it. "Thoro shall not any man bo ablo to Stand boforo thoo alb. tho days of thy - lifo." , But this is no plaoo for tho host to Stop, Joshua givos tho eommand, "Forward, marohl" In th? distanoo thoro is along grovo of troos, and at tho ond of tho grovo is a oity. It is a city with arbors, a oity with walls Booming to roaoh to tho hoavons, to buttress tho . very sky. It is tho groat motropplis that commands tho mountain pass. It is Jorioho. That oity was afterward oaptuvod by Pompey and bnoo by Horod tho Great and onoo again by tho Mo hammedans, but this campaign tho Lord plans, There shall bo no swords, no i battering ram. Thoro shall bo only ono V Weapon of War and that a ram's horn, \ Tho horn of tho slain ram' was somo \ times taken, and holes word pune tuted in it, and thon tho musioian would put tho instrument to his lips, and ho would run his Angora ovor this rudo musical instrument and. make a groat doal of ewoot harmony for tho pooplo. That was tho only kind of woapon. 3ovon priosts were to tako those rudo, rusti? musioal instruments, and thoy were.to So around tho oity evory doy for six ?yo--onoo a day for six days-and thon on the sovonth day thoy woro to ?;o around blowing thoso rudo musical nstrumonts sovon timos and thon at tho oloso of tho sovonth blowing of tho ram's horns on tho sovonth day tho peroration of tho whole socno was to bo A shout, at which thoso groat walls should tumblo from oapstono to baso. Tho sevon prioste with tho rudo mu sioal instruments pass all around tho oity walls On tho first day and sooro a foiforo. Not so muoh as a pioooof plas. torbroko looao from tho wall, not t?o much ns a loo?onod rook. not so ruuoh ?fl a pioo? of mortar; lost from it? plaoo. '.'Choro," Hny thouubolioviog laraolltoa, "did'I not toll-you BO? Why, thoao tninistors aro fools. Tho idoti of going around tho oity with .tuoso musiool in strumenta and expecting in that way to dqstroy it. Joshua has boou apoilod. Ho thinks booauao ho has ovorthrown and oonquorcd tho aprlng froahotho oau ovor* throw tho stone wall. Why? it la not philosophic. Do you hot soo thoro ia no rolation hotwcon tho blowing of thoso, musioal instrumenta and tho knooking down of tho wall ? U is u?t philosophy. V And I flupposo thoro woro many wiso aoros who Btood vi ith t hoir brow knittbd and with tho forefinger of tho right liffV to tho forefiogor of tho loft hand arguing it alf out and ahowing that it was not po??iblo that auoh aoausooould produoo suoh an ci?oot, And I supposo that night in tho ?u?arapm<mt thoro was plenty of caricature, and if Joshua had boon uoinin?t?d for any high military position ho would not have roooivod many votos. Joshua's sto?k waa down. Tho sooond day tho prioats blowing the musical instrument" go around tho oity and again a failure. Tho third day and a failure fourth day and a failuro fifth day and a failuro, sixth day and a fail uro. Tho sovonth day comes, tho clim aotorio day. Joshua ia up oarly in tho morning aad oxaminos tho troops, Walks all about, looks at tho oity wall.. Tho prioats start to make tho circuit of tho city. They go all around onoo, all around twico, throo. times, four times, five timos, nix times, acvon timon aud a failuro. Thcro ia only ono moro thing to do, and that is to uttor'a great ?hout. I soo tho Israolitish army straightoniog thomsolvosup, filling their lungs for a vooiforation auoh aa oovor waa hoard be fore and no vor hoard after. Joshua fools that tho hour has oomo, add ho orios out to hie boat, "Shout, for tho Lord hath givon you tho oity." All togothor tho troops shout: "D->wn, Jcriohol Down, .J 01 ioho ! ' And tho long lino of solid masonry bogiria to quiver and to movo and to rook. Siand from undorl Sho falla I Crash go tho walls and to mp lea, Hie towors, tho palaooa, tho air blaokonod with tho du9t. Tho huzza of tho victorious Israelites aud tho groan of tho oonquorcd Canaanites oom minglo, and Joshua, atauding thoro in tho debris of tho walli, hears a voloo saying, "Thoro thall not any man ho ablo to stand bof ero thoo all tho days of thy Hie" Only ono homo eparcd. Who livos thorc? Somo groat king? No. Somo woman distioguishod for groat kindly doods? No. She had boon oonspiouous for hor oiiuios. It is tho house of Hahab. Why was hor houso sparod? Booauso abo had hoon a groat sinnor? No,' but booauso sho ropontod, demonstrating to all tho ages that thoro is morey for tho ohiof of sinners. Tho rod oord of divino injunction roaohing from hor window to tho ground, so that whon tho .pooplo aaw tho rod cord thoy know it was tho divino indication that thoy should not disturb tho premisos, making us think of tho divino oord of a Saviour's doli ve ranoo, tho rod oord or a Saviour's kind noaa, tho rod oord of a Saviour's morey, tho rod oord of our rosen e. Morey for tho ohiof of Kinnora. Put your trust in that dod, and no damago shall bofall you. Whon our world shall bo moro terribly aurraundod than waa Jerioho, even by I tho trumpets of tho judgmont day and j tho hills and tho mountains, tho molal bo non and riba of nature shall break, thoy who havo had Rahab's faith shall h&vo ll ahab's doli veraneo. Whon wrapped in firo tho realms of other glow And hoavon's last thunder shakes tho earth below, Thou, undismayed, shnlt o'or tho ruins amllo Aud light thy torch at nature's funeral pile. But Joshua's troops may not halt boro. Tho command is, "Forward, marchi" Thoro is tho oity of AL It must bo taken, How shall it bo taken? A scouting party oomos back and says: "Joshua, weean do that without you. It is going to bo a vory oasy job. You must stay hero while wo go and capture it." Thoy march with a small regiment in front of that oity. Thc mon of Ai look at thom and givo ono yell, and tho I sj Vrtolit?B run Uko roindoor. Tho nortbJ$H3 troops at'ilull 1?4M&. not makojwml rapid timo as thoso israelite's* with tho i Canaanites aflor thom. Thoy novov out such a aorry figuro as whon thoy wore on tho rotroat. You who go out m tho battloa of God with only half a foroo instead of your taking tho mon of Ai tho mon of Ai will take you. Look at tho ohuroh of God on tho rotrcat. Tho Bornoaian oannibala ato up Munson, tho missionary. "Fall baok!" said a groat many Christian pooplo. "Fall back, 0 ohuroh of God I Borneo will novor bo takon. Do you not BOO tho Bornoaian oannibala have oaton up Munson, tho missionary?" Tyndall delivers hiB loo turo at tho Uuivoraity of Glasgow, and a groat many good pooplo say: Fall baok, 0 ohuroh of God I Do you not BOO that Christian philosophy ia going to be over? oomo by wordly philosophy? Fall baokl" Geology plungos its orowbar into tho mountains, and thoro aro a groat many pooplo who say: ' Soiontfio investiga tion is going to ovorthrow tho Mosaio aooount of tho creation. Fall baokl" But friends of God novor havo had any right to fall book. J oshua falls on his faoo in changrin. It ia tho only timo you ovor soo tho back of his hoad Ho falls on bia faoo and begins to whino, and ho says, "O Lord God, whoroforo hast thou at all brought this pooplo ovor Jordan to dolivor us into tho hands of tho Araoritos. to doatroy us? Would to God wo hvl boon content an dwelt on tho other sido of Jordan. For tho Canaanites and all tho inhabitants of tho land shall hoar of it and shall onviron us round and out oil our namo from tho earth." I am vory glad Joshua said that. Boforo it scorned as if ho wore a supernatural hoing and thoroforo oould not ho an oxamplo to us, but I find ho is a man? ho is only a man. Just as Homo ti m os you find a man under ?overo opposition or in a bad stato of physioal hoalth, or worn out with over work, lying down and sighing about be ing dofoatod. I ara onoouragod whon I hoar this cry of Joshua as ho Hos in tho dust. God oomos and rousos him. How docs ho rouso Min? By complimentary apostropho? No . Ho says, "Got thoo up. Whoro you Host thou upon thy foaoo?" Joshua risos, and, I warrant you with a mortiflod look. But his old oour ago oomofl baok, Tho foot ?was not his battle. If ho had boon in lt ho would havo gono on to viotory. Ho gathers his troops around him and says: "Now, lot us go up ?nd oapturo tho oity of Ai. Lot us go up right away." Thoy march on. Ho puts tho majority of tho troops bohind a lodgo of rooks in tho night, and thon ho sonds ootnparitivoly small rog imonts up in front of tho oily, Tho mon of Ai oomo out with a shout. Tho small regiments of Israolitios In strat agem fall baok and fall baok, and whon all tho mon of Ai havo loft tho oity and aro in pursuit of tho noattorod, or noomlngly fjoattorod, toglmonts, Josh ua stands on a rook-HL soo his looks flying in tho wind an ho points hisnpoar toward tho doomed oity, and that is tho signal, Tho mon rush out from bohind tho rooks and take tho oily, ?nd it i? put to tho toroh, aud thou thoso iBraoHtos in tho oily march down, and tho flying Israolitoa rolurn, and between .thoso two wave? of Igraolitieh piowosa tho mon Of Ai aro dostroyod, and tho Israolitos gain tho viotory; and wb?? 1 soo tho ouriing .smoko of that dostroyod oily on tho sky, and whilo I hoar tho huzza of-tho Israolitos and tho groan of tho O?najmitoB, Joshua hoars souiothing louder than it ail, ringing and echoing through bia soul, . Thoro shall not any man be ablo to .stand before thoo all tho days of thy Ufo." But thia^ ia no plaoo for tho host of Joshua : to stop. ,4Fowar,d,. marohl orIOB Joshua to tho troops. Thoro ?B tho oity of Oiboon. It baa put itsolf undor tho protootlon Joahua. Tildy sond word: "Thoro aro fivo kltiga af tor us, Thoy Aro going to doatvoy ua Sond tronua quiok. Sand us holp right away," Joahua lias a thfoo days m&roh, moro than doublo qutok. On the morning of the third day ho ie be foro tho oncmy. Thoro aro. two long linos Of battle. The battlo opona with groat slaughter, but tho Canaanites noon diaoovor somothing. Thoy say. '.'Thatia Joahua. That ia tho man who oonquored thc spring froshot and knocked down tho stono walls of Jor ioho and dostroyod tlu. oity of Ai. Thoro is no uso fighting." ' Thoy sound a rotroat, and aa thoy bogia to rotroat Joshua and bia hoat spring upon thom like a panther, pursuing thom ovor tho rooka, whilo tho oaUpulta of tho sky pour a volley of hailatonos into tho val ley, and all tho artillery of tho heav ens, with ballots of iron, pound tho Canaanites against tho lodgoa of Bath horon." "Oh," says Joshua, "this is ahrcly a viotory I ' "But do you not soo tho sun is going do/pu? Thoao Am or?os aro going to got away af tor all, and tuon thoy will como up Bomo other timo and bothor us, and porhapa de stroy us. Soo, tho sun is going down. Oil, for a longer day than aaa ovor boon soon in this eb mato!" What is tho matter with Joshua? Ha? ho fallon in an apoplotio tu? N). Ho is in pray er. Liok out whon, a goodman mokoi tho Lord hia ally. Joshua raises his faoo, radiant with prayer, and looks at tho dooonding sun ovor Giboon and at tho faini< orouoont of tho moon, for you know tho quoon of tho night Bometimoa will linger around tho palaoos of the day. Pointing ono hand at tho do oonding aun aud tho other hand at tho faint oroaoont of tho moon, in tho namo of that God who ahaped tho worlda and movos tho worlds ho ories: "Sun stand thou still uponUiboort, and thou, moon, in tho valloy of AJ?lonI" Thoy halted. Who thor it was by rofraotion of tho sun's rays or by tho stopping of tho wbolo planetary system I do not know and do not oaro. I loavo it to tho Christina Scientists and tho infidel aoiontiats to sottlo that question, whilo I toll you I havo soon tho samo thing. "What?" tfav you. "Note tho sua etanding still?" Yoa. Tho samo mir aolois porformod nowadays. Thowiok od do not live out half their day, and thoir sun sots at noon. But lot a man start out in battlo for God and tho truth and against sin. and tho day of hia usofulnoas ia prolonged and pro longed and prolonged. But it is timo for Joahua to go homo, lio is 110 years old. Waaaington wont down tho Potoma.* and at Mount Vor non oloaod his days. Wollington <Uod poaoofully Apsloy House. Now, whore shell, joshua roat? Why ho is to havo bia greatest battlo now. Aftor 110 years ho baa to moot a king who has more Bubjdota than all tho proaont population of tho oarth, his throne a pryamid of skulls, hia partorro tho gravoyards and tho oe motones of tho world, his ohariot tho world's hoarao tho king of terrors. But if this is Joshua's greatest battlo, it in going to bo Joshua's groasoat viotory. Ho gath ors hia frionds around him and gives his valediotory and it ia full of rom i?iaoonoo. Young mon toll what they aro going to do. Old mon toll what thoy havo dono. And as you/liavo hoard a fgrandfathor or .groat-'grandfa orseatod by tho,,ovtfning fire toll of |M?nraoujth,?r' 'Yorktown and thon ?lift che orutoh or staff as though it woro a musket to fight and show how tho old battles woro won, so Joshua gath ors his frionds around hia dying oouoh, and ho tolls thom tho story of what ho has boon through, and as ho lives thoro, hia whito looks snowing down on his wrinkled forohoad, I ask if God has kopt his promiso all tho way through. As ho lioa thoro ho tolls tho story ono. two or throe timos-you havo hoard old pooplo toll a story two or throo timos ovor-aud no answers: "I go tho way of all tho oarth, and not ono word of. tho promiso has failed, not ono word thereof has failod, not ono word thoreof has failod. All has oomo to pass; not ono word thoreof has fail od/' And thon ho turns to his family, as a dying paront will, and says: "Chooso now whom.you will Rorvo, tho God of Israel or tho god of tho Amoritos. As for mo and my houso, wo will sorvo tho Lord." A dying paront oannot bo rookloas and thought loss of his ohildron. Consont to part with thom forovor at tho door of the tomb wo oannot. By the oradlo in whioh thoir infanoy was rooked, by tho bosom on whioh thoy first lay. by tho.blood of tho covenant, by tho God of Joshua it shall not bo. Wo will not part, wo oannot part. Johovah Jiroh, wo tako thoo at thy promise. "I will bo a God to theo and thy sood aftor theo." Doad, tho old ohioftain must bo laid out. Handle him very gontly. That snored body is ovor HOyoors of ago. Lay him out; otrotoh out thoso . foot that walked dry shod tho parted Jor dan. Gloso thoso lips whioh holpod blow tho blastat whioh tho walls of Jor ioho foll. Fold tho arm that liftod up tho spear toward tho doomed oity of Ai. Poid it right ovor the heart that ox ulted whon the five kings foll. But whore shall wo got the h ur ni shod gran ito for tho hoadstono and tho footston?? 1 bothink myself now. 1 imagino that for tho hoad it shall bo tho sun that stood still upon Gibeon, and for tho foot tho moon that stood still in tko valloy of Atalon. A Fishy Story. A dispatch from Jaoksonvillo, Pla., says tho most daring and uniquo high* way. robbery in tho history of tho south was oommittcd in thooontor of tho oity on a priuoipal thoroughfare lato ono night. John S. Smith, a young busi noss mao, waa on his wAy homo, whon,. at tho oornor of Monroo and Laura stroots a woll-drossod whito woman stoppod in front of him and holp him up. Ho did not know, howovor, ho had boon robbed until ho had loft her? Thon ho found that in tho olovorost prpfossioual mannor she had oxtraotocl throe $100 bills and Aro $20 bills, a total of. $'100, from his pookotbook. Means a Bcaroitv. A dispatch from Manohostor, lang land, says that cotton men thoro think that Molli's cstimato of tho cotton orop moans a soarolty, and that botero ?optombor tho spinnors mostly will bo. working on shott ^mCi '?? '?'-?--T -~---i-r~-*!." ?'f ??/? -r KRUGER IN FRANCE,: Tho Old Boer Moro RdceWed .VA withQroat Demonstration, ? :?' : . '.i, y A PATHETIC PICTURE' Was Presented by tho ?ood Old Manas Ho Doclaros His Pooplo Will Bio* Fighting. , Proaidoat Kruger, of tho Dutph Bo puldioa of South Afrioa, arrived in Marseilles, Franco, Thursday', and was rocoivcd by the oiitiro population with groat demonst ration. Tho .delirium of enthusiasm whi?h marked ovor^' Btop of his progross from tho timo ho lauded from tho ship until tho hotel was roached WSB a revelation oven to tho pooplo of Marsoillos thomsolvos. It fully cquallod if it did net surpass tho frantio domen strations of patriotism with whioh F?anoo oponod hor arms to Maj.- Mar chand at Toulon on bia roturo from Fashoda. Yot tho grandour of this domonstra lion, porhaps, ranks Bcoond in import anoo to tho om ph a ?io manifesto: of "no oompromiso," whioh Mr. Krugor doliv orod iu a low vOioo but ono vibrating with emotion, aooompanlod by onorgot io gostures of tho right hand, .stirring the hoarts of all within hoariog. ,.,Tho last' scntonoos of his> declaration' woro uttered with a vigor and dooiaion whioh boro out bia reputation a? tho incarna tion of iron wdl and stubborn rosis tanoo. His moro dolivory of a- doo laration of auoh far roaohing import anoc'toHtifiefl to tho indopodonoo of his oharaotcr; as it '': ea m o as a surprise, oven to his most intimate political advisors who up to tho last, woro in igncranoo of his d?termination. An unfortunate ooourronoo nt tho hotol on tho main beulovard alono mnrrod tho oha'raotor of tho d?mon tration, whioh up to that momo nt had boon unanimously and oxolu?Tfoly -a tributo of sympathy and admiration. "Vivo Krugor,,? "Vivo los Boors," and "Vivo la liborto," were tho ories that formed a hurricane of ohooring and swept over tho Oity. Unfortunately tho highly roprchonsiblo foolishness of half a dozen poisons in throwing small coins into tho orowd as Mr. Krugor passed, aotod like magic in conjuring up an anti-British on thurn, whioh it nooded all tho promptitude and energy of tho polioo to provont boooming a no nous disturbance. Tho hotol romainod for tho rest of tho day in a state of siego whilo atone timo a procession acvoral thousand strong marohed in tho direction of tho British oommlato, shouting. "Down with tho English," and raming other threatening eries. Tho result was that a strong body of polioo was oompollod to disperso tho d< monetralion, although it waa not found necessary to niako moro than a fow tomporary arrests.. Throughout tho ovoning, however, largo bands of students and other youths maroljr.d up and down in front of Mr. Krugrvr'o. ho tol and of tho hotol whioh wrs the soone of the unfortunate inoidoct. ohooring in ohorus for . Mr. Krugor and tho Transvaal and dcnounoivj? Sag land. Thoso demonstrators w?rmmoro noisy than dangorous, and ino ' p'olico wisely loft thom to roliovo their foot ings by shouting, instead of interfering with thom, whioh..might have created disordor .-' Mr. Krugor was borne on nu irresist ible wayo of enthusiasm from thc land ing otago to his hotol. Tho broad stroots and boulevards through whioh tho rou to lay prosontod a porfoot sea of human boings, all gathered thoro prompted by tho unanimous dosiro to wo loo mo tho aged Boor statesman. From tho moment tho whito 12 oarod bargo loft tho sido of tho Golderland with Mr. Krugor, who appoarod to bo in good hoalth, ait ?ng in hor stern sur rounded by tho Boor roprosontativos, inoluding Dr. Loyds and Mosers. Fisohor and Wossols, a storm of ohoor ing broko and novor ooasod until Mr. Krugor ontored his hotol. lil voa thon a v ist oonoourso of pooplo romainod in front of tho building until .Mr. Kruger appearod on tho balcony, aoknowlodg ing tho acclamation s of his thousands of admirers, who oontinuod ohooring until thoy woto hoarse with shouting, Hopi}ing to tho addresses of welcome of tho presidents of tho Paris and Mar soillos oommittoos, Mr. Krugor spoko in Dutoh and in a low voioo, aooom panying his words with onorgotio movomonts of his hat, whioh ho hold in his right hand. Ho said: "I thank tho president of tho Mar seilles oommittoo and tho prosldont of tho contrai oommittoo of tho indopon donoo of tho Boors for thoir wolocmo. I thank all this population assombled in groat oonoourso to groot ino, for al though I am woak from mourning for tho misfortunes of my country, and al though I havo not oomo to sock fes tivities, still, I,, novortholoss, aooopt with all my hoart those acclamations, for I know thoy aro diotatod to you by tho omotions whioh aro inspirod in you by our trials and by your sympathy for our oauso, whioh is that of liborty, whioh awakonod you. I am truly prom and happy at having ohoson; as my point or landing a port in FraSaoe, to sot foot on freo soil and to bo reooivod by you as a froo man. But my first duty is to thank your govornmont for all tho tokous of intoront that again only reoontly it was ploasod to givo mo. I boliovo ICngland, had she boon bettor informed, wt dd novor havo ednsontod to this war, and sinoo tho ox position of Jamoson, who wished to soizo tho two ropmSlios without tho necessity of firing a ri flo shot. I hav? novor ooasod to do mond a tribunal of arbitration whioh up to now, has always boon refused. "Tho war waged on us in tho two ro publios xoaohed tho last limits of-bar barism. During my lifo I havo had to fight many timos tho s&vagos of tho tribes of Afrioa, but tho barbarians wo hav? had to fight now aro worse than tho others. Thoy ovon urgo tho Kaffirs against us. Thoy burn tho larras wo workod SO hard to construct, and thoy drive out our women and ohildron, whose husbands and brothers thoy have killed or takon prisonors, loaving thom un pro tooted and rooibos, and often without broad to*oat. But, whatovor thoy may do, wo will novor surrondor Wo will fight to th\ond. Our groat, imperishable oonfldonoo reposos in tho otornal in Our\Glod. \Wo know our Oauso is just and if tho <j us tico of mon is wanting to ua Ho, tifo eternal. Who is mastor of all pooploJand to Whom belongs tho futuro, will novor abandon ua. . ' i. "I assuro youghal if tho Transvaal and tho Orango Froo Stato must loso thoir indopondenoo it will bo bopauso all tho Boor p/oplo have boon dostroyod with thoir w>mon ?nd ohildron," Tho dool/r&tion that tho Boors' not (nuron?or dispollod at onoo any im pression that?Mr, Kruger intends to*Q oopt a oomprowido from tho British govoi nmout. His ?hoounoomont was greoted with a roar of ohoora and oriosi "Vivo Krugor, vivo los Boers, vivo la liborto." Tho SUD was shining down on Mr. Kruger and ho bold his hat to shado his oyos from tho glaro, whloh, opparr ontly, was painful to his oyos. AB ho J stood in this attitude, Iiis hoad slightly 1 bowod, with his hair brushed book, bo Was an unutterably patbotio figuro, whioh at onoo won tho sympathy and rovoronoo of ovory porson prosont. Tho spoeohmaking ovor, a proooaslon was formed an?VMr. Kruger* was os oortod to his hotel amid tho aoolama tiona of the crowds, whioh Mr. Krugor rop'oatcdly aoknowlodgod.. S009 aftor arriving at tho hotel, in responso to a thunderous ovation; ho appeared on tho balcony aod ropoatodly bowod, but as somo ton minutes elapsed without a sign of abatomont in tho en thusiasm he speke a few words, whioh wero interpreted in Fronoh by Dr. Loyda ant) worofoliowod by a renewal of tho froiiay. Finally, to tostify his gratitudo, ho took in his hand a oornor of tho Fronoh tri-oolor that^ was flying from tho balcony botwo?n "tho Trans vaal and Freo State flags and pressed them to his hoart again and agaio. Tho onthusiastio po?ple ohoorod him until ho withdrow to his rooms, whioh ho found half fillod with bouquots and garlands presented by his admirers. Tho prefoot and mayor then oallod to pay their respoots, tho latter making an eloquent spoooh in sympathy with the Boors. - Mr. Kruger replied briefly, dedaring how docidy ho had been touched by tho unexpected warmth of hio roooption in Marseilles and by tho sympathy of tho Kron oh people. Aftor luncheon and a little roposc Mr. Kruger descended to tho hall of the hotel, whore ho reooived tho dologa tions. This proved too fatiguing and ho asked that tho addrossos- bo pre sented to him in writing and thon with drew again to bis apartments, whore ho passed tho cvoning quietly, roooiving no ono. Dr. Loyd s ro pr es on tod him at tho banquot givon in his honor, whoro all tho Boor officiais and mombors of tho prQ. iJogy committees were present, and road tho following message from him 1 I am fatigued and am in mourning. Moroovor, I novor attend banquets. Othorwiso I should havo liked to havo spout a few minutos with you and to thank you. I shall novor forget tho warm wolcome I have had in your beautiful,city. Your roooption of rn?, ha's surpassed all I could have oxpoctod' oven from tho city whioh gave Franoo hor admirable national hymn, that 'Maasoillaiso' whioh is tho song of all pooplcs whoso iudopondonoo is threat ened and who aro struggling against invadors. v , "I would that your aoo?amation could havo bcon hoard by all thoso Boers in South Afrioa who oro onoampod in our mountains. Thoy would thank you from tho bottom of their hearts. I thank you in thoir behalf. "Gould I havo boon with you I should havo also oxprcsacd my thanks to all Franoo and would havo raised my glass in honor of her woithy president, M. Loubet." Dr. Loyd J thon Said: "In tho namo of Prcsidont Kruger I havo tho honor to drink to tho^ hoalth of tho prosidont of tho Fronoh" repub lic.'* .. ,^_ A Narrow Esoape. : T. N. Coff or, of Charleston, Illinois, ? prominent' young attorney arid Dom oorntio politiolan, has just oscapod de struction in what seems a miraculous manner. Ho gavo out Friday tho do tails of an attempt on his lifo by moans of a "proscnt" from some unknown pt ison, a box containing dynamite It oamo to his offioo by oxpross last wook and he opened tho paokago while tho express mossongor was still thoro, Too label was typowritton and said: "Sample puzzlo box. To opon pull string with quiok jerk, tho result will bo surprising." Mr. Coffer gavo the string, whioh protudod from a holo, a jerk, but it broko. Tho box was then pried opon, disclosing throe, big sticks of dy n unite wrapped in coministibuloa and li?los bored in thom with fuses at tached. A hundrod match hoads glued to a uti ck wore intended to ig ni to when tho string should draw a piooo of sand paper across thoir hoads- About half of thom woro ignitod with tho first pull of the string, but in samo miraculous mannor smothorod and only a sulphur smoll oamo out when tho box was opon ed. There was onough dynamite in tho paokago to wreok tho wholo side of tho pubiio square in whioh Coffer's of fioo was looatod. Tho paokago oamo from Aurora, but tho oxpress agont thoro has no oluo to tho eonsigneo. Coffer does not know of an onomy in the world. Do tee ti vos havo boon sot to work by Mr. Coff or and tho Amorioan Express Company. Burglars At Work . A dispatch to Tho State says burg lars forood opon tho front door of tho storo of Mr. J. B. Gillam Jr., at Loo's, three milos oast of Blackville, Wednes day night, and robbod tho safo of $30. belonging to Mr. Gillam, about $20'in cash and about $11 in postago stamps belonging to tho postoffioo, whioh is looated in Mr. Gillam's storo. Tho safo was blown to pieces by dynamite, tho explosion of whioh wrookod Mr. Gillam's offioo and contents. Tho thiovos oarriod off ovooything of valuo from tho safo They wore not inter rupted, Yid aro ovidontly oxporionood mon in J business. No one know about j iVobbory until Mr. Gillam wont di /to opon his storo Thursday morning._ TUB IRL K. HICKS 1901 ALMANAC Whatovor may be sMd af tho soiontiflo oausos upon whioh the Itov. Irl II. Hioks base,1? his yoarly. foreoasts of storm and weather, it is a ro markab lo faot that spooifio warnings of ovory ?roat storm \ flood, cold wavo and routh, havo boon plainly printed in his now famous Almanao for many years The latest startling proof of this foot was tho dostruotion of Galveston, Tox as, on tho vorv day named by Prof. Hicks in his 1900 Almanao, as ono of disaster by storm along tho gulf ooasts. Tho 1901 Almanao, by far tho flnoBt, moBt oomploto and boautiful yot pub lished, is now toady. This romarkablo book of near two hundrod pages, splen didly illustrated withoharts and half tone engravings, go6s as a promium to evory subsorlbor who pays ono dollar a yoarfor Prof. Hloksrjournal, Woun andWoiiKB. Tho Almanao alono is sont propaid for only 25o, Ordor from WORD and WORKS Publishing Oom jjauy, 2201 Looust Stroot, St. Louis, A Figuring Idiot. Tho Atlanta Journal says somo ohoos ful statistician has figurod out that in tho United States somobody is murdorod ovory 20 minutes during tho night, and that ono out of ovory 200 Amorioans moots doath at tho hands of an assassin, What on acquisition this follow Would bo to tho funny story dopartmont of Harpor's Wooklyl WEYW3R1A6 A SATIRIST. Ho Makes a Good Point on hie Por mo v Critics. Tho Augusta Ubroniolo says? Gon; i Woylor has not had to wait vory long for what ho dooms his vindication. Ho has isBUod a oharaotoristio statomont, and it has largo olomonts' of truth to aubsloiitiato tho position takon. Ho refers to tho faot that his military oon duot in Cuba brought him into execra tion, osp?olally among what aro oallod Anglo-Saxon pooplo?. Ho profesaos t? havo aotod as a soldior, who has boon ordorod to surpross. robolllOn, and took up tho only oourso likoly to suo ?ood in doaling with a m?ngrol foo. io now ratnor derisively points out that tho British govcrnmont has com manded Lord Ki tob oner to adopt his polioy in tho Boor country. "Ho might havo taunted tho Wash ington administration for act holding up Kitoh?nor to publio shaino, os it did him? but ho may rosorvo that for a sooond lottor. This administration is no longer in the business of condemn log Woylorism when praotiood by tho British or of sympathizing with ro publies in any part of tho world when throntouod with dostruotion by Euro poan imperialism, Wo, as a nation, aro about to introducto Woylorism in tho Philippine island-?, and aro hold back, oonscquootly, from a lopreaohof Great Bridan ia tho Tianbv*al. This looks Uko a mocstroui de pw turo from tito polioy of tho-fathers'of tho ro publio. but what) aro you going to do about it? I"At prosont, howovor, Goncrol Woy lor ls "tho -mau who laughs," and whon ho comos to tho Philippine question, in anothor lottor, ho may make "An glo Saxoniom" look more hypocritical than otherwise It is not ofton that a or aol man go ts suoh swift, so oallod "vindioatlon," but Woylor. oven if ho is not to bo oxoiHcd for his atrooity, may bo pardoned for having somo ox. ultatiou when ho seos Unelo Sam and John Bull following hts Cuban plan in South Afrioa and Luzon. Wo think it a rathor lamontablo andpathotio thing, but Woylor has somo right, in tho promises, "to grin horribly a ghastly amilo." Talking Through His Hat. Capt. ll mort J. Lowry, ono of tho loading bankers of Atlanta, in stalk .with a Now York Tribune reporter a few dtysago, doolarod, in effeot, that tho majority of the pooplo of Goorala aro Republicans at heart, and would havo juuoh proforrod voting for MoKinloy but for the foar of Negro domination. Tho Atlanta Journal oxplains, that "he has mi s takon tho vio wo of a small oirolo of unoompiomising gold .mon liko him soif-bankers and hoads of big busiuoss ontorprlso8-who plooo tho m moy issue above all otlior questions, for a universal sontimont in . favor of Republicanism. This olomont has brushed aside ?vory other consideration ignorod all tho other great quostlons at issuo, in tboir eager noss to have tho man ro-olootod whom thoy rogardod aa? I roprcsonting tho safost policy for tho man of wealth." Tho poodle of tho> South, it adds, "aro not blind tewh-it. MoKinloyism and Hauuajsm moan and thoy aro just as unalterably opposed to> tho policios whioh thoy roprosdnt as they wore opposed to tho Ro publio *n party in tho days of reconstruction. I And thoro is nothing scotional in this fooling. It is. opposition based on prlqoiplo." < " . . Was Sorry Ho Spoke William Smalls, alias "D alioo,' Prod Ladson. alias "Squash," William Whito and Caesar Williams, m o mb ora of a gang of white thiovos who have boon giving, troupdo -to.tho polioo for years, ? furnished tho ohiof intorost in proooodings in tho Court of G?noral Sessions Wednesday. In May last thoao four, togothor with William Frasier, alias "Blaokmoor," and Tom Johnson, broko open one of tho waro hou s os or tho Southern Railway and got off with eighteen sacks of sugar. "Blaokmoor" was wanted on othor ohargos and was sont up at the Sum mor torm of tho Court upon son toncos aggregating ton years. Johnson is still at largo." "Dahoo," "Squash," Whito a"ud Williams woro oonviotod Wednesday and fivo years givon ?i oaob, with an ad ditional 6ix months for Whito and BOV on for Williams. "Balloo" made ? play to tho galleries as ho was takon out? saying ho didn't oaro if it was ton years. HO was a surprisod nogrb whon Judge Buchanan ordered him brought back and mado his sontonoo ton years.-Nows and Oourior. An Old Man. A dispatoh to tho Atlanta Journal from Washington, Ga., sayS tho oldost man in tho world lives a fow milos from. that town, He is old Caesar Bookor, a negro, a?d ho is 126 years old. Ho was born a slave in Virginia and his memory of ovoats ooourring ovor 100 years ago is vory bright. He is a mdst iatorosiing talker and children liston by tho hour to his ntorios. Ho ? was owned as a slavo by Richardson Book or, who has boon dead for- fifty years. Ho has a daughter living at Thomson who is OB years old. Old Coo s av has flovon ohildron living and a small army of grandchildren. Thoy are soattered among tho plantations along tho Sa vannah rivor. Ola Oaosar is halo and hearty and appoars to bo enjoying a renowal of his youth. Ho is ono of tho most interesting personages in Wilkes oountv. For Negroes Only. At Sioux City, Ia., a s tato lodgo of tho African Monarobs of Amorioa has boon instituted. Tho organisation is tho first fraternal insuranoo eooioty organizod for colored pooplo oxolusi voly. Sinoo tho foundation of tho Afrioan Monarchs anothor association has boon organised in Illinois, but tho Monarohs wore tho pionoors. Tho lodgo-at-largo just installed in Sioux City will have jurisdiction ovor tho state lodgo will at oneo begin their efforts to ostablish subordinate lodgos throughout tho stato. An Old Woman's Story. Tho poyorty striokon oondition of Adolia Burton, who olaims to have boon a confidential norvant in tho family'of Jefferson Davis during tho oivil war, was brought to tho attention of tho polioo in Ohioftgo Friday and ho.r wants attondod to. Adolia Burton, who was , disoovorod in a lonoly hovel on tho South Side, doolaros that whon tho {.rosidont of .tho Confederate Statos Hod o osoapo oapturo sho was oft truster! with private effoots of tho fugitive^ Sho was born in sUvory 87 years ago. ?urtt TUom Down, Nino young oolorod oaoldidaton for holy erdors wore turnod down by Bis hop Tannor, of tho Afrioan Mothodist ohuroh. in'Memphis, tho othor day, bo oauso thoy aid not know tho dato of tho flood. Bight of thom foilod, to make any roply whatovor to , tho quostien, Tho ninth said.ho thought tho Q al vos j tou flood ooourrod this vc*? W?GEQTIVB FIGUES Hanilsora? 8howln<t! for tho G? cuy. . ; In 1,880 thoro woro 18 cotton millo ib South Carolina oapitaliwd at '$?<?$fy OOO; in Columbia today thoro aro six milla capitalized at $1.150.000. In 1880 all tho millo in South Carolina had 95,038 candios:, iu 1900 clio mills in Columbia have 240,000 spindles, In 1880 all tho mills in South Carolina had 1.925 looms?; in 1900 tho milla if? Columbia havo over 6,000 lo?iag* In 1880 tho mills in S^uth Carolina had 2,600 operatives: in 1900 tho nulls iu Columbia will havo over 4,500 opor ativoa. In 1880 thoro. waa only ono mill In South Carolina with ovor 13,? 000 spindles^ and that was Granitoviilo, with 24,000: in 1900 four of tho six Columbia mills avorago 55,000 spindles oaoh and ono of thom hoB four times as many opindlos as Granitovillo had 20 years ago. Only by Buoh oompar? ison s ns thoso oatt . a j ust idoa bo had of tho extraordinary growth of 1 cotton manufacturing in South Carolina, and especially in this oity. ; Tho iaore&so in tho cfiioionoy of tho mills in p?o portion to thoir capital in tho last two decades IQ hardly loss marvoloui. At illustrations wo may oito tho f<tot that in 1880 Granitovillo abd Vauoluso with only 34,000 spindles botwoon thom, wero capitalised at $1,000,000, while in 1900 tho .Granby mill of this oity, with .(55,000 spindles, represents an in vestment of only $900,020; and tho f ur thor f not that 20 yoara ago tho Pied mont mill, thoo having Only 10.624 spindles, omploycd #334,000 capital, whilo in 1900 tho. Kio (viand mill of this oity, with nearly 27,000 epindlos, ha? a oapital of only $300.000. Tho . proa; ent ability of our mills to operate from two to threo times as many spindlos to tho thousand dollars invostea aa thoy used lo do is.in a mensuro tho success of SouthjGarolina's proormnont>.sucooBS ia cotton manufacturo, Its great man ufaoturing development hos j boon ro cont and no old factor loo can oompoto on - qual terms with its new and su perbly equipped cotton mills. Colum biaStato. Hector's Cotton Statement. Seoretary Hester's wookly Now Or leans cotton oxohango statomont issued today shows adcoroaso in tho movement luto sight oomparod with tho seven days ondiog. thia dato last year, in round figures. 41,000. , - For tho 84 -days of tho floason that havo elapsed tho aggregate is ahead of tho 84 days of last yoar 215,000. Tho ^mount brougt into sight during tho past wook has boon 371,805, against 412,384 for tho sovovn days ending Novombor 23 last year. ThdsmoVomonfc_s,inao Sojjtc^apor let shows roooipts at, Rll^??hod^ H?at'oS ports 3,073,825, against 2,768.954 last yoar ; ovorlan d' . across . t i io . ? M i ss i s s i p p i, Ohio and Poto mao ri vorn to northern mills and: Canada, 389,287, against 514 836 labt yoar; interior ateoksin'ox ooss of those, hold nt tho oioso of tho commoro?al yoar, 625,189, againBt 477, 388 last yoar; southern mill takings. 383,426,;ag?inBt 395,574 last yoar. Forign exports . for tho> weok hayo beea. 186,715, against.1.32,295la?t.yoar. Tho iotW( takings of ' Ambrioau mills. ? ??bth aUd south and Canada, thus far for Boason havo boon 986,661, against 1,245,186 last yoar. Thooo inoludo 596, 044 by northern spinners, against840, 279. ,/ . . *;M - / Stooks at tho seaboard and tho 29 leading southern interior oontoros havo increased during the ivook 86,638 halos, against ah ihoroaso during tho Corres ponding ported laBt Boason of 102,678, and aro .nqw 397,666 smaller than at this dato in 1899. 2 How's Thiel, Wo offor One Hundred Dollars Ho ward for any oaso of Catarrh that oan not bo ourod by Hall's Oatbrrh Cure. F. ?J. CHENEY & CO Propa., Toledo, O. Wo, tho undersigned, bayo known F. J. Ohonoy for tho last 15 yoars and bo Hoves him porfootly honorable in all ' business transactions and financially able to oarry out any obligations made by thoir firm. Wier & FrwAX, Wholosalo Druggists, I Tolodo, O. WALPINO, KINNAN & ' MARVIN, Wholosalo Druggists, Tolodo, O. ; Hollis Catarrh Curo L taken inter nally, noting divootly upon tho blood and muooua surfaces of tho systom. Prioo 75o. per bottlo. Sold by all Druggists, Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills aro tho best. A Heinous Crime Ho oho s tor, N. Y., bau no vor had a doopor mystory to SJIVO th*n that dis oloscd by tho finding of tho doad body of Mies Theresa Koating hohind a bill board, a short diatanoo from Dav's otroct Thursday morning. Tho autopsy | whioh was hold at tho inorguo by sev eral pynioiana showed that tho girl had boon criminally assaulted and ohokod to death. Thoro ia up to the prosont momont absolutely no ohio to hor slayer, although tho wholo dotnotivo foroe of tho oity is working on tho oaso. Noithor is it known whothor the crime was committed by ono or more men. Found Him. Two bad mon at Oom, Idaho, started out to hunt a oiti?.om whom they did not liko. 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