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1 FIT) TTrri A : o VOL. XII. SALISBURY. N. G. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 19, 1899. NO. 25. i dr. t alm AGca oebhow Th Cainent DiYinaV . Discourse. Onnday. Subject: "Hold Fast to the Bible!. . wu Draws Fret the 8 word f Eleazar A H Grasped1 Ilia Weapon So Bhewld We Cleave to tho Old Gospel. ; . Txxt: "And hli band clave unto tbt , sword. II Samuel xxiii., 10. What a glorious thing to preach tho G 08 pell Soma suppose that because I bare resigned a fixed pastorate-1 will cease to preach. No, no. I expect to reach nor than I ever have. If the ord will, four times as muoh, though in manifold places. I would not dare t bait with sueb opportunity to declare the ttuth through the ear to audiences and ts the eye through the printing press. And here we bare a stirring theme put before us by the prophet. . A", great general of Zing David was Eleazar, the hero of the text. The Phil's tlnes opened battle against bins, and his troops retreated. The cowards fled. Eleazar and three of bis comrades went into the battle and swept the - field, for four men with God oa - thjlr side are stronger than a wbcle regiment with Ood against them. "Fall baekf" shouted the .commander of the Philistine lumy. The ery ran alo the host, -J3all back!' Eleazar, baring swept the field, throws htmsolf on tbe ground to rest, but the mus cles and sinews of his hand bad been so long bent around the hilt of bis sword that the bllt was Imbedded In the flesbattd tbe gold wire of the bllt bad broken ttrough thefcklnof tbe palm of the band, and he could not drop this sword wbtcn'he bad so gallantly wielded. "His band clave unto the sword' That Is what I ealt magnificent fighting for the Lord Ood of Israel. And wo want more of It. , I propose to show you bow Eleazar took hold of 'the sword and how tbe sword took hold of Eleazar. I look at EJeasar's band, and I come to tbe conclusion that be took tbe sword with a very tight grip. The cowards who fled bad do trouble la drop ping , their swords. As they fly OTer the rocks I bear tbeir swords clanging in every direction. It is easy enough for them to drop tbelr swords, hat Eleazar's hand clnve unto the sword. In this Christian conflict we wapt a tighter grip'of the Gospel weap ens, a tighter grasp of the two edged sword of the truth. It makes me sick to see these Christian people who bold only a part of the truth and let the rest of tbe truth go. so that tbe Philistines, seeing the loosened grasp, wrench the whole sword away from them. Tbe only safe thing for us to do is to put our (thumb on tbe book of Genesis and sweep our band around the book until the New Testament comes into the palm and keep on sweeping our band around the book until the tips of tbe fingers clutch at tbe words "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." I like an infi del a great' deal better than I do one of these namby pamby Christians who bold a' part of the truth and let tbe rest go. By miracle God preserved this Bible Just as 1t is, and it is a Damascus blade. The sever est test to which a sword can be put in a sword factory is to wind the blade around u gun barrel Ilka a ribbon, and then when the sword Is 1st loose it flies back to its own shape. So tbe sword of God's truth has been fully tested, and it is bent this way and that way and wound this way and that way, but 4t always comes back toils own shape. . Think of it! A book written nearly nineteen eenturles ago, and some of it thousands of yens ago, and yet in our time the average sale of this book Is more than 20,000 copies ever week and more than 1,000,000 copies a year! I say sow that a book whloh is divinely inspired and divinely kept and divinely scattered is . a weapon worth holding a tight grip of. Bishop Colenso will come along and try to wrench oat of your hand the five books of Moses, and Btrauss will come along and try to wrench out of your band the miracles, and Renan will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the entire life of the-Lord Jesus Christ, and your associates in the office or the factory or the banking house will try to wrench out of your hand the entire Bible, but in tbe strength of tbe Lord God of Israel and with Eleazar 'S grip hold on to it. You give up tbe Bible, you give up any part of it, and you give up par don aud peace and life In heaven. Do not be ashamed, young man, to have tbe world know that yon are a friend of the Bible. This book is the friend of all that is good, and it is the sworn enemy of all that is bad. An eloquent writer recently gives , an Incident of a very bad man who stood In a cell of a Western prison. Tbls crimi nal had gone through all styles of crime, and he was there waiting for the gallows. TUO convict standing there at tbe window oftbtr-cell, this writer says, "looked out. and declared, 'I am an Infidel.' He said that to all tbe men and women and chil dren who happened to be gathered there, I am an Infidel.' " And tbe eloquent writer says, "Erery man and woman there be llered him." And the writer goes on to eay, "It be bad stood there saying, 'I am n Christian,' every man and woman would - bavesnld, 'He is a llarl'" This Bible is the sworn enemy of all that Is wrong, and it Is the friend of all that ia good. Ob, bold on ltl Do not take part of ft and throw the rest away. Hold on to all of it. There are so many people now who do not know. You ask them it tbe soul is immortal, and tbey say: "I guess it Is; I don't, know. Perhaps it is; perhaps it isn't." Is the Bible true? "Well, perhaps it is, and perhaps it isn't. Perhaps it may be, figuratively, and perhaps it mny be partly, and perhaps it may not be at all." They despise what they call the apostolic v creed, but If tbelr own rreed were written out It would read like this: "Ibelleve in nothing, tbe maker of heaven and earth, and in nothing which it bath sent, which nothing was born of nothing and whloh nothing was dead and burled and descend ed into .nothing and rose from nothing and ascended to nothing and now sitteth v at the right hand of nothing, . from which It will come to judge nothing. I be lieve in the holy agnostio church and In the communion of. nothingarians and in the forgiveness of nothing and the resur rection of nothing and In the llfethat never shall be. Amen!" That is the creed of tens ot thousands of people In this day. If you have a rolnd to adopt such a theory. I mighty, Maker ot heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ ana in tne noiy oatnono church and ia tbe communion or saints aud in the lire everlasting. Amen!" t Oh, when I fee Eleazar taking such a stout grip of the sword in tbe battle against sin ana for righteousness, I come to the con clusion that we ought to take a stouter grip of God's eternal truth the-sword of righteousness. As I look at Eleazar's hand I also notice his spirit of self f orgetfulness. He did not notice that the hilt of the sword was eating . through the palm of bis band, lie did not know it hurt nlm. As be went out Into the conflict he was so anxious tor tha victory he forgot himaelf. and that hilt might go never so deeply into the palm of bis band, it could not disturb bim. "His band clave unto the sword." Ob; my brothers and sisters, let us go Into the Christian conflict with the spirit ot self abnegation. Who cares whether the world praises us or de nounces us? What do we care for misrep resentation or abuse or persecution in a conflict like this? Let us forget ourselves. That man who is afraid of getting his hand hurt will never kill a Philistine. Who cares whether you get hurt or not If you get the victory? Ob. bow many Christians there are who are all the time worrying about the way tbe world treats themi Tbey are so tired, and they are so abused, and they are eo-tempted, when Eleasar did not think whether he bad a hand or an armoraloot. All he wanted was victory. W see how men forget themselves in worldly achievement. We have often seen mn woo, in order to achieve worldly sus ce?s, will forget all physical fatigue and .all annoyance and all obstacle, Jost after the battle of Yorktowa In the American Be volution a musician, wounded, was told bo must have bis limbs amputated, and they were about to fasten him to tha ; surgeon's table, lor It "rwas long before tbe merciful discovery of anesthetics. He said: "No; don't fasten me to that table. Get me s violin." A violin -was brought to him, and be said, "Mow, go to work as I begin to play," and for forty minutes, during tbe awful pangs ot amputation, be moved not muscle nor dropped a note, while ha played some sweet tune. Ob, is it not strange that with tbe music of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and with this grand msreh of the ebureh militant on tbe way to become tbe church triumphant, we cannot forget ourselves and forget alt pang and all sorrow and all per ecotion and ail perturbation? - We know what men accomplish under worldly opposition. Hen do not shrink baek for antagonism or for hardship." You have admired Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico," as brilliant and beautiful a history as was ever written, but some of you may not know under wbat disadvantages It - was written that "Conquest of Mexico" for Prescott was totally blind; and he had two pieces of wood parallel to each other last-' ned, and totally blind, with his pen be tween those pieces of wood, be wrote the stroke against one piece of wood telling bow far tbe pen must go in one way, tbe stroke against the other piece of wood tell ing how far tha pen must go the other way. Ob, bow much men will endure for worldly knowledge and for wordly success, and yet bow little we endure for Jesus Christ! How many Christians there are that go around saying, "Oh, my hand; oh, my nand, my hurt band I Don't you see tbere is blood on the sword?" while Eleazar, wiih the bilt im bedded in the flesh of bis right hand, does not know it. - Vast I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, -: While others fought to win the prize : Or sailed through bloody seas? What have we suffered in comparison with those who expired with suffocation or were burned or were chopped to pieces for the truth's sake? We talk of the persecution of olden times. There is just as much per secution going on now in various ways. In 1849, ia Madagascar, eighteen men were put to death for Christ's sake. Tbey were to be hurled over tbe rocks, and before they were burled over the rocks, in order to make tbelr death the more dreadful in an ticipation, they were put in baskets and swuegtoand fro over the precipice that they might see how many hundred feet tbey would have to be dashed down, and while they were swinging in .these baskets over the rooks tbey sang: .' ; : Jesus, lover of my soul, " - Let me to Thy bosom fly. While the billows near me roll. While the tempest still is high. Then they were dashed down to death. Oh, bow much others have endured for Christ, and how little we endure for AJhrlstl We want to ride to heaven in a Pullman sleeping cor, our feet on soft plush, the bed made up earl, so we can sleep all the way, the black porter of death to wake us up only in time to enter the golden city. We want all the surgeons to fix our hand up. Let them bring on all the lint and all the bandages and all the salve, for our hand is hurt, while Eleazar does not know bis hand is hurt. "His band, clave unto the sword." As I look at Eleazar's band I come to tbe conclusion that he has done a great deal of bard hitttng. -1 am not surprised when I see that-these four men Eleazar and bis' tbree companions drove back the army ot ! Philistines that Eleazar's sword clave to his hand, for every time be struck an enemy with one end of the sword the other end of tbe sword wounded Mm. When be took hold of tbe sword, tbe sword took hold of him. - - Ob, we have found an enemy who cannot he conquered by rosewater and soft speeches. It must be sharp stroke and straight thrust. There is intemperance, and there is fraud, and there is gambling, and tbere Is fust, and there are 10,000 bat talions of iniquity, armed Philistine in iquity. How are they to be captured and overthrown? Soft sermons in morocco cases laid down in front of an exquisite au dience will not do it. You have got to call things by their right name. You have got to expel from our churches Christians who eat the sacrement on Sunday and devour widow's houses all, the week. We have got to stop our indignation against the Hittites and tbe Jebusites and the Gir- gasbltes and let those poor wretches gov and apply our indignation to tbe mod ern transgressions wblch need to be dragged out and' slain. Ahabs here, Herods here, Jezebels here, the massacre of the infants here. .Strike for God so hard that while you slay the sin tbe sword will adhere to your own hand. I tell you, my friends, we want a few John Enoxes and JohnWesleys in the Christian church to day. The whole tendency is to refine on Christian work:. 'We keep on refining on it until we send apologetic word to iniquity we are about to capture it. And we must go with sword silver ehased and presented by the ladies, and we must ride on white palfrey under' embroidered hous ing, putting the spurs in only just enough to make tbe charger dance gracefully, and then we must send a missive, , delicate as a wadding card, to ask the eld black, giant ot sin If he will not surrender. "Women saved by the grace of God aad on glorious mission sent, detained from Sabbath classes be cause their new hat is not done.- Churches that shook our cities with great revivals sending around to ask some demonstrative worshiper It he will not please to say "Amen" aud "halleluiah" a little softer. It seems as if in our churches we wanted a baptinot oologQQ and balm of a thousand flowers when we actually need a baptism of fire from the Lord God ot Pentecost But we are so afraid somebody will criti cise our sermons cr criticise our prayers or criticise our religious work that our anxiety for tbe world's redemption is lost in the fear we will get our hand hurt, white Eleazar went Into the confict, "and his band oiave unto the sword." But I see in the next place what a hard thing it was tor Eleazar to get bis band and bis sword parted. The muscles and the sinews had been so long grasped around the sword be could not drop it when be proposed to drop it, and bis tbree com- i rades, I suppose, came up and tried to help hand, hoping the sinews and muscles would relax. But no. "His hand clave unto tbe sword." Then tbey tried to pull open tbe ' fingers and to pull back the thumb, but no sooner were they puUed back than they closed again, "and his hand clave unto the sword." But after awhile they were suc- . cessful. and then tbey noticed that the curve in the palm otthe hand corresponded exactly with the curve of the hilt. "His band eiave unto tbe sword." . You and I have seen it many a time, i There are in the United States to-day I manv affed ministers of the GosDel. They are too feeble now to preach. Ia the church records the word standing opposite, their name Is "emeritus, or the - words . are "a minister . without charge." -They were a heroic face. They had small salaries and - but tew books, and they swam sprinjt freshets to meet their appointments, but they did In tbeir day a mighty work for Ood. They took off more of the heads ot Philistine Iniquity than you could count from noon to sundown. , lou put that old minister of the Gospel now Into a prayer meeting or occasional pulpit or a sick room where there is some one to be comforted, and it Is the same old ring' to his voice and tbe same old story ot pardon and peace and Christ and heaven. His hand has so long clutched the sword la Christian conflict he cannot drop It. ' "His hand clave nnto tbe SWOrd." y-y, :-' ...v . " The Czar aad Two Emperor to Meet. There will be a meeting of the Czar, the German Emperor and Emperor Francis Joseph at Sciernevice, Bussia, upon the oc casion of a great hunting patty next au- rwyu ; . - 1 iMMllR ffiMMIIBMIIIH- Dl FITE THOUSAND PEOPLE 15 . SEW TORE E3TTERTAISED BT COL. BRIAN 15 A BAXQCET SPEECH. NEBRASKAN DECLARES CHICAGO PLATFORM IS STRONGER THAN EVER. . ...... . ? Gathering Was the Largest of the Kind Ever Held Ia the Metropolis All Klada of People Were Freeeat to See aad to Hear Mr. Bryan Knthuslasm Ban Blot and a Pandemonium of Cheer TVsre Ia Order. The dollar Jefferson dinner of the Chicago , platform democrats at the Grand Central Palace, Kev York, Sat nrdsT night, in point of numbers, was one of the biggest affairs ever held in the city. Nearly 3,000 men and women sat down at long tables in the various rooms , .of the big palace. There were all kinds of people there, dressed in all kinds of clothes. There were four Japanese and three Chinese present, but the Chinese were merely spectators, and eat np in the second gallery. They said they had come to see Bryan. ! The main nail presented a different aspect from that of the Metropolitan opera house at the $10 dinner of the Democratic club. There wera no flow er embellishments, but just great long avenues of tables covered with plain white plates. ' The only ornaments were bunches of celery and graniteware coffee pots. The boxes about the hall were festoon ed with flags, with silken banners sus pended between the flags. ' At the back of the stage were two American flags draped, one bearing the portrait of Jefferson and the other that of Bryan. Small portraits of Bryan were inter spersed between tbe flags' on the bal conies. - On the stage was an immense floral horseshoe of carnations, roses and he liotrope, it had, worked in flowers, the words, "Women's Bryan League. ".Be low the red carnations in white roses was the name "Bryan." Surrounding all were the numerals "16 to 1." Back on one of the cane-bottom chairs was a magnificent boqnet of roses, American Beauties. But not even on the guests table was there a single flower. There were. 150 policemen in and about the place.. ,The women to the number of 475 dined in the. long hall jnst off the second gallery. They sat down to the tables at 5:30 o'clock. The first ex citement of the evening occurred when the Russian-American Democratic As sociation, 250 strong, ffom the eighth assembly "district, marched in. They were received with -cheers. . There was no concerted attempt to seat the 3,000 diners simultaneously. All were told to go in and sit down. About 7 o'clock nearly every seat of the men's tables was occupied, and the service began. Over 600 waiters began work shortly before 7 o'clock. The menu included soup, fish, roast beef, turkey, ice cream, coffee and cigars. - Three thousand bottles of wine were served. William Jennings Bryan did not ar rive until shortly after 7 o'clock. Crowds on the outside signaled his ap appearane by tremendous cheering. He came in a cab, and was escorted through a. tremendous crowd to. the waiting room outside the main hall. Then he was escorted to the guests' table, a long table in front of the plat form. Following came the speakers of the evening. The band played "Hail to the Chief" as Bryan was hurried down one of the main aisles. There was . tremendous cheering and waving of napftins. Diners stood on chairs and tables waving frantically. The demonstra tion lasted for five minutes. The crowd was a thoroughly repre sentative one, and before the dinner was concluded hufadreds of the diners left their seats and began to shake hands with Colonel Bryan. This was stopped T7ith much difficulty. At 9 o'clock the committee and the speakers ascended to the platform. Bryan received a vociferous ovation, the diners in many instances again standing on chairs and tables and the women waving napkins wildly. James It. Brown-called the meeting to order, and introduced George Fred Williams, of Massachusetts, who was given a fine reception. The crowd in the galleries meantime had increased, and there were at least 5,000 people in the hall. The mention of Henry George's name evoked an extraordi nary demonstration. O. H. P. Belmont was next intro duced, and read from manuscript. John Clark Bidpath spoke on "Thomas Jefferson." When Mr. Bidpath said that Jefferson stood above Adams and Otis, and was the most intellectual democrat that ever lived, a hundred voices shouted: " " "No, no! Bryan I" - At the close of Mr. Bidpath'a speech a horseshoe of flowers was presented to Colonel Bryan, who arose and bowed.- :; - v MlMSTEfc TO BRUSSELS. Uwnim Towasead Appelated To Sae - ceed Bellamy Storer. The president has appointed Law rence Townsend, of Pennsylvania, to succeed Bellamy Storer as United States minister to Brussels, Belgium. Mr. Townsend ia at present United States minister at Lisbon, and his transfer leaves a vacancy in the Port uguese mission, for which a selection has already been made and will short ly be announced In introducing Mr.- Bryan", Chair man Brown said that Abraham Lincoln had come out of the west to save the nation and, another man had come from the west to save the nation. A perfect tempest of applause from the men and women broke out. The applause subsided, but started again. The band ctrnck up, hut could scarce ly be heard as it played "The Stars and Stripes Forever." .Hats " were thrown up into the air; women waved their cloaks and handkerchiefs. There was a - maelstrom of discord. - Bryan raised his hand deprecatingly, but the more he did this the more the crowd cheered. It was a wild, frantic demon stration. It lasted for at least five min utes. . : - ...:- Talks of Democracy. Mr. Bryan began his speech as fol lows: ' - - . Mr. Chairman, Democrats, Ladies and gentlemen I esteem it a great privilege to be permitted to attend this, probably the largest banquet ever given in the United States. (In terruption of cheers for Bryan.) I appreciate the kindness which has been manifested by your action aud by the words of those who have preceded me. I shall carry back to my western home new courage from your meeting and shall be glad to tell the people in other states that in New York there be those who are true to the principles of democracy, aa written in democracy 'a latest creed." (Cries of "bravo J") ; The object of .this banquet was to give Chicago platform democrats a chance to celebrate the birthday of Thomas Jefferson. (Cries of that's it.) There was a banquet given in honor of Thomas Jefferson two nights ago and the discussion of the price per plate obscured to some extent the difference between that banquet and this. A democrat has the right to pay what ever he pleases for a dinner, if he has the money. 1 ' . ' C' vThe charaoter of a political banquet is determined not by the cost of it, but by the sentiments which are woven into the post-prandial oratory. " We have not one word of hostility to utter 1 toward those democrats who left the democratic party in 1896. Far be it from, us to criticise any man whose judgment or conscience leads him put of the democratic party. When' the republicans met at St. Louis; some of-the republicans-left the republican party rather than adapt themselves to the platform written out, at ot. Ijouis. . A party is an association of the peo ple for jhe purpose of giving force and effect to political opinions held in com mon. They talked to us about har mony! The only kind of harmony that is . possible is harmony between those who think and act together to give force to their common opinions. There can be no harmony between those whose opinions are as antago nistic as the opinions set forth in the Chicago platform and in the Indian apolis platform. All that we ask is that, those who come into the democratic party .shall be a-part of the democratic party. His references to the Chicago plat form and his declaration that his nomi nation had not come from bosses was received with, tremendous cheers. - He caused great enthusiasm when he de clared that the Chicago platform was a menace, to those who robbed others, and he created a furore when he stated that the platform was disliked by those who had their hands in the - pockets of the people. The speaker declared that an income tax should be enacted and that gov ernment by injunction should be dis countenced. - Tumultuous applause greeted his reference to the drafting of the sol dier and the unwillingness to tax-the rich. He said: "The war has shown that when this government deals with an individual its power is unlimited, but that when it deals with property its power is lim ited. It can draft the citizen, but it cannot touch the dollar. J1n the hour of peril the nation can take the son from his mother, and the husband from his wife, and stand them up in front of an enemy's guns, but it dare net lay ita finger upon the wealth of the rich and make them 'con tribute their share." (Tremendous cheering.) In reference to . his nomination Mr. Bryan said: "It is a compliment to receive a presidential nomination from any na tional convention,bu$ I am proud that my nomination came from a conven tion, not of bosses," but of democratic citizens. (Loud ' applause.) It- has vindicated that platform and-every plank of it is stronger today than it was when the platforn, was written.' SPANISH HIXISTERS SELECTED. Consols Named For United States, Cuba, . Porto Rico and Philippine. The official 'gazette published . at Madrid contains a royal decree ap pointing the Duke de Arcoa to Je Spanish envoy 'extraordinary and min ister plenipotentiary to the United States. ;The decree also creates con sulates at Havana, Manila, Hoilo, San Juan de Porto Rico and Cienfuegos. Senor Larrea, now Spanish consul at Antwerp, is transferred to Havana. IDBMIS 1 DDI P0WECS ARE USA IH0 US AS TO PROG RAH TOR C02ISISS10XERS. THEY!LL GOTO SAMOfi TOGETHER Bepreeeatatlves of Three Governments Are Empowered to Deal With. ta Situation aa Tbey Tlad It. A Washington special says: After hearing from the -British and German embassies Friday morning the state department was enabled to announce positively and finally that. the three parties to the Berlin treaty had agreed upon - the instructions' to be given their Samoan commissioners, and that it was certain that the commission would leave San Francisco on the 25th instant for Samoa on the Badger. . The instructions to the commission ers are : identical, the three govern ments having accepted a form which compromises the differences that have existed up to this point. ' The commission is empowered to deal with the situation aa it finds it in the Samoan islands upon its arrival, This applies to acts necesrary to place the affairs of the islands in a peaceful and satisfactory condition for the time being. Whatever the commission does in this direction is understood to be of a temporary character and subject to the approval of the three powers.; As to the merits of the bitter contro versy between the representatives of the different powers on the island which led up to the unfortunate out break of April 1st, the commissioners are expected to make , a thorough and ampartiaV investigation and report the results to their respective governments. The latter, will by ordinary diplomatic exchange, apply any corrections that seem to be necessary. . The commissioners will have no power to alter the treaty of Berlin. They mey make recommendations , to that end, and where they are unani mous, it is probable that their recom mendations may be accepted; for changes in the treaty. - At the British and . German embas sies thd Samoan commission is con aid ered settled beyond further question and all attention is now being given to the departure of the commissioners. .. The German ambassador, Dr. Yon HolIeben,;called Friday on' Secretary Hay and communicated an official dis patch from the Berlin foreign office, saying definitely and positively . that the commission matter had been set tied, - and tnat tne commissioners should leave at the earliest possible moment It is understood that the German communication removes ail question of doubt by reciting the text of the note delivered on Wednesday by the British ambassadort Berlin to Baron Von Buelow, the Germ'an min ister of foreign affairs. Baron Sternburg has received his -instructions from Berlin. It is ex pected that the foreign office will send "supplementary instructions to San Francisco so as to reach him before he sails. Mr. Elliot, the British commie sioner, . has ; received preliminary in structions concerning matters of de tail. The main instructions are to leave at once, but by mail if sufficient time is permitted. There will be no joint meeting of the high commission in Washington, and the members of the commission who are in the city say there is posi tively no warrant , for statements that any advance decision or line of action will be taken. TESTIMONY KOT ADMITTED. The Prosecution In Mrs. George's Case1 Bnni Artlnit a Snag-. During the trial of Mrs. Anna George at Canton, O., Friday, numer ous threats by Mrs. George against the life of George D. Saxton were testified Ut by witnesses. Many of the state ments were coupled with Mrs. George's story of the alleged wrongs to her at Saxton's hands which she told the wit nesses in connection with her threats. All was not smooth sailing for the state Friday. The prosecution had expected to identify chemical analy sis of the cuticle taken from Mrs. George's hands when she was anested and prove thereby that the discolora tion was due to powder smoke. The testimony was ruled out The witness was not allowed to testify.. HATE NO AMMUNITION. Tbe miplnos May Not Be Able To Use "Captured Gobs. -The war department officials take a philosophical view of the reported capture by the insurgents in the vi cinity of Zamboange of the Arms and armament on - the Spanish gunboats which were to become the property of the United States. They say that General Otis has withheld payment for any of these boats until they were delivered to him at Manila. It is regretted that the insurgents shonld possess the guns, but it is said they will not be able to secure and keep on hand a supply of ammunition for them. - COLTAR TRIAL WEST OYER. Teaaeaaeeaa Charged With Kipaaplag . Arrai-aed la Hw Tork Comrt. The examination -of A. S. Colyer, Jr., charged with attempt to kidnap Nicholas A. Heckman. the principal witness for the state in the case against Roland B. Molineaux, was commenced in police court in New York Friday and adjourned until Monday without any result having been reached.-Magistrate Sims heard the testimony. BRTAX 13 2XILTTUAKEE. Speaks At Jefferson Banquet Oa the lah. Jeer, ".Democracy. ; . v The Jefferson club of -Milwaukee, Wis., observed the natal day of the founder of democracy by a banquet at the Plankiagton house Thursday night attended by over 400 guests. . ' Colonel William J. Brvan, of Ne braska, was the guest of honor and delivered the principal address.. Del egations of democrats were in attend ance from many towns throughout the state and nearly all the democrats from the state, legislature were pres-. ent. ; ,j . J- The banauet hall was beautifully decorated With the national colors and back of the guest J of honor, above a mantel, hung a large portrait in oil of of the third president. . ' Colonel Bryan spoke on ".Democ racy." He said, in part: : "We are now near enough to the next campaign to be able to form some idea of the lines along which the con- J test will be fought, and I am taking no risk when I say that those who, in 1896, gave their allegiance to the Chi cago platform are as united today in the determination that no step taken in 1896 shall be retraced. The plat form applied to the conditions then existing, the principles of which had been democratic from the beginning of the government Suggestions that we abandon the money question some times come from those who deserted the party ia 1896, bat those sugges tions are not supported by evidence tending to show that the position in 1896 was wrong, but was -predicated upon the theory 4b at the issue upon which the party onoe lost can never be revived, and what seems ' most strange, this argument is made by those who have followed - a different course in the past. " "In 1888 Mr. Cleveland was defeat ed on the tariff issue and yet the tar iff was made the mam issue in 1892, and Mr. Cleveland was elected. ; In 1892 Mr. Harrison was defeated on ac count of the McKinley bill, and four years later the author of the bill was nominated upon a platform reaffirming the belief in protection and was suc cessful. "The test ought to be not whether the issue has been presented before, but whether : the position taken is right. If the gold standard was un merited in 1896, it is unmerited today. If its maintenance was a detriment to the interests of the people -of : this country Z then, it is a detriment now. If, in 1896, it was so hurtful that the republicans promised - to jut forth their best efforts to substitute interna tional bimetallism for it, and after the election was still so hurtful that the president sent a commission to Europe to secure foreign aid in. abandoning it, what has happened since then to make the American people accept it as a blessing?" ; - ' - v x THE SAMOAN COMMISSION Will Sail From San Francisco Tor Apia on Naval Transport Badger. A Washington dispatch says: The Samoan commission will sail on the United States naval transport Badger, leaving San Franscisco on the 26th instant. The arrangement was made after Baron Speck Von Sterd berg, .first secretary of the German embassy, had called on Secretary Hay and advised him of his appointment aa the German member of the high commission. - This completed the body, - As the plan to have the members get away on the Mariposa, sailing on the 19th was no longer feasible, the trans port Badger was placed at the disposal of tbe commission. ; She is now ; at Calloa, Peru, on her way around to San Francisco from New York. , She is a large serviceable ship,, with first class accommodations for the commis sioners. - ; U0YERN0E OFFERS REWARD For Delivery Of Sam Hose to Sheriff of . Fulton County. , - . Governor Candler, of Georgia, on receiving official information of the assassination of Alfred Cranford and the assault of - Mrs Cranford by Sam Hose, a negro,' near Palmetto, offered a reward of $250 for the arrest of the criminal and his delivery to the sheriff of Fulton county at the county jail. It is unusual to require that a pris oner be delivered to the, sheriff, of a county other than that in which the crime, was committed, but Governor Candler desires Hose brought to At-' lanta for safe keeping and in order that a lynching may be avoided. - THE COUNT AT VARIANCE. Cuban Master Itoll Shows 48,000; Ameri can Figures are, 13,219. The Cuban army muster rolls, which were delivered to Governor General Brooke, through Senor Domingo Men- dez Capote,- are prepared in new den cal style, the 1,200 broad sheets show ing on their face 48,000 names 6,000 commissioned officers and 42,000 non commissioned officers and privates, Tbe United States military author ities make no attempt to reconcile tbe 42,000 non-commissioned officers and privates indicated by these rolls with She 13,210 given in tbe estimates pre pared under tbe direction of the -provincial governora. : L COAL I ME RESTS C03BI5E. OpUoae Soenred On All Mlaee and Prop erty On the Meaongaala XUver. A Pittsburg dispatch says: The big combination of all the coal inter ests on the Monongaheia river is now and assured fact. Options have been secured on practically all river mines, mine property, coal boats, tow boats, etc The brokers engineering the scheme say the combination will be capitalized at S30,000,OQ3i ' . IllltlffllfiCS! IETF- TORK DC C CHATS KOSC! JEFFERSON'S NATAL DAY. AN YTCK AND BELMONT SPELK rhey. Asserted Their Devotion Te the Prl act plea of the Party Thomas Jaf- ' forsoa Piloted To'Vlctory. ' . k New Tork special rays: TL long-heralded Jefferson day baaquet ?f the Democratio club the ten-dollar" iinner began ai half past 6 o'cloci Thursday evening in the Metropolitan opera house. " Each table was piled with a m ass of rosea and ferns intertwined. So abun dant were the flowers that some of the guests were hardly able to see eh other over the floral banks. v . Conspicuously placed at the west end of the dining hall was the inscrip- Hon: , " "Jefferson. - 1743-1893. Democratio Club." , , , - . This was composed of incandecent ; lights. It surrounded a z pictura ox Thomas Jefferson. Tall silver ' can delabra with shadas harmonizing with the floral effect were on all the tablet. The ffueats . bscran to ; arrive at 6 o'clock, but the dinner did "not besia for an hour and a half after that. : Thraa thousand ouarts of champarne and 3,600 quarts of various light winea , were consumed. . ; To serve tha thousand and mora diners who eccupied the , floor of . the : opera nouse, 130 .waiters were, kept busy from the dozen serving stations. Siztr-one men had nothing to , do from the beginning' to the end Of the feast except serve wine. . - . There were fully three hundred more guests than the 1,600 planned for, but all found seats. This is saia to oe tae largest number ever accommodated at a banquet in the history of .New York The band struck un 4 "Hall to tha Chief" at 7:30 o'clock. nd Richard Croker, arm in arm with John Stanch- field, inarched down the aisle. f -r- With them was Frederick C.Schraub, Robert B. HoosevelL General Catlin and AmosJ. Cammings. The service of the menu was excellent, but some confusion was caused by some of the diners stripping the tables of flowers and ribbons and throwing them to the women in the boxes." Mr, Croker held a levee just before the regular speech making began: The confusion : was very great. Aa the", time drew near for making the speeches the orators were almost discouraged at the pros pect of making themselves heard. Perry Belmont began to speak at 10 o'clock. The uproar was so great tha he could not be heard a hundred feet away. ' J3y degrees more quiet was ob- tained. In opening his speech Mr. Belmont said: : . ; - "It is fitting that this democratio club celebrate the birthday of him whose monument is the declaration of independence-rthe first democratio president, the first secretary of state, the constructor of the first democratio platform, the founder of the demo cratio party.. -. '.; - ,--'"."'. -. " ' Thomas Jefferson was a party man of the democratic type. To him as a democrat, the world, is a debtor for that which was a novelty in political government until his own immortal words proclaimed the doctrine that the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' is inalienable, and to se cure it governments' are instituted, 'deriving their just powers from the , consent of the governed.' - As a law giver, U the northwestern ordinance, framed by him, is his imperishable record."' ' !:: r7 ' " At the close of his address Mr. Bel mont introduced Augustus Van Wyck, the principal speaker, by referring to the latter's canvas for governor. He said Justice Van Wyck has conducted a campaign with honor to himself and credit to the democracy. Justice Van' Wyck was received with great ap plause. He paid much attention to state affairs, dwelling at length on the canal scandals, and then going into, national affairs, he outlined the policy t that the democrats of New York be-' lieve should be embodied in the next national platform. . r . anaoapaBBaaunMoaaauBaaaaBnsMaauun . .4 PBOCLAHATIOS BEIZnCIAL. President of Philippine Commission Sends McKlnWy a Kessag-e. c 1 President McKinley received a dis patch Thursday from Dr. Schurman, president of the Philippine commis sion, now at Manila. The message says that the proclam ation recently issued has done great, good and that the Filipinos are visit ing the commissioners every day to express their satisfaction and desire to become citizens of this country.' The message also stated that the . Filipinos coming into Manila declare that Aguinaldo's government is tyran nical and that many natives are de serting from his standards each day. POLITICIAHS HOLD CAUCUSES. Sew the FlaHdn'e onatorlal Situation , le Progr lea A special from Tallahassee says: The senatorial fight now overtops everything and some fine election eering is going on. ". Politicians con tinue to arrive and each at once en ters into the great struggle forlils favorite. Secret caucuses are fre quent and the latest leaks from them give Pasco 45, Taliaferro 47, and Call 0, press st or vouched for in eauevs -.. f-
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