JOSHUA'S BATTLES.I
Talmage Draws from thr'm Les
sons in Ch'ristian w o'am'.
ENCOURAGING WORDS
For Those Ergaged In the Fat
ties of Life. G:d's So!
diers Never Turn Back
ward.
In this discourse Dr. Talmage fol
lows Joshua on his triumphal march
and speaks encouraging wo'rds to ali
who are engaged in the hatle &'t.t
life; text, Joshuai, 5, 'The ry shall nt
any man be able to staid bIr ne>
all the days of thy life.,
Moses was dead. A beauiu trani
tion says the Lord kissed him and in
that act drew forth the soul of tre dy
ing lawgiver. He had been bu:iea,
only one person a the funeral, the
same one who kissed him. Bat God
never takes a man away from ar.y place
of usefulness until he has some one
ready to replace him. The Lord does
not go looking around a-id a great va
riety of candidates to find some one
especially fitted for the vacated poi
tion. He makes a man for that place
Moses has passed off the stage, and
Joshua, the hero, puts his foot on the
platform of history so solidly that all
the ages echo with the tread. He way
a magnificent fighter, but he ahvays
6gght on the right side, and he never
fought unless God told him to fight.
Ho got his military equipment from
God, who gave him the promise at the
start, "There shall not any man b- ahie
to stand before thee all the days o: ti
life." God fulfilled this proise, a
though Joshua's first battle way With the
spring freshet. tie next r -n a store
wall, the next leading on a reie.nt vi
whipped cowards and the ncx. bstting
against darkness, wbeelin the sun and
the moon into his battaion, and the
last against the king of ar:ors, death
five great victories.
As a rule when the gcercral of an
army starts out in a war he v.culd like
to have a small battle in ord:r tbat he
may get his own courate up ard raly
his troops and get them cr il.e d fcr :rea:
er conflicts, but the first uaderaking
of Joshua was greatertban the Lkv:ing
of Fort Pulaski, or the assault of G ,b
raltar, or the overthrow of the Basti.le.
It was the crossing of the Jordan at
the time of the spring freshet. The
snows of Mount Lebanon had just been
melting, and they poured down into
the valley, and the whole valley was a
raging torrent. So the Canaanites
stand on one bank, and they look across
and see Joshua and the Israelites, and
they laugh and say: "Aha, they ian
not disturbus until the freshets fali: it
is impossible for them to reach us." Bat
after awhile they look across the water,
and they see a movement in the army
of Joshua. They say: "What is the
matter now? Why, there must be a
panic among those troops, and they are
going to fly, or perhaps they are going
to try to march across the river Jordan
Joshua is alunatic." Bit Joshua, the
chieftain, looks at his army and cries,
"Forward, march!" and tthey s-art for
the bank of the Jordan. One mile
ahead go two priests carrying a glitter
ing box four feet long two feet iwide
It -is the arn of the covenant. And
they come down, and no sooner do they
just touch the rim of the water with
their feet than, by an Almighty fiat,
Jordan parts. The army of Joshua
marches right on without getting their
feet wet, over the bottom of the river,
a path of chalk and broken shells and
pebbles, until they get to the other
bank. Then they lay hold of the olean
ders and tamarisks and willows and
pull themselves up a hank 30 or 4') feet
high, and having gained the other
bank they clap their shields and their
cymbals and sing the praises of the Ga'd
of Joshua. Bat no sooner have they
reached the bank than .the waters be
gin to dash and rear, and with a terrific
rush they break loose from their strange
anchorage.
As the hand of the Lord God is
taken away from the thus uplited wat
ers-waters perhaps uplifted half a
mile -they rush down, and some of' the
unbelieving Israelites say: "Alas,
alas, what a misfortune! Why could not
those waters have staid parted? Because
hap we may want to go back. O)
rd, we are engaged in a risky busi
ness. Those Canaanites may eat us
up. How if we want to go back? Would
it not have been a more complete mira
eleif the Lord had parted the wate's
to let us come through an-1 kc tt them
parted to let us go bank if we ar dec
feated?" My friends. God makes no
provision for a Christian retreat. He
clears the path all the way to Canma.
To go back is to die. The same gat~e
keepers that swun& back the amethys
tine and crystalline gate of the Jordan
to let Israel pass through now -swing
shut the amethystine and crystalline
gate of the Jordan to keep the Israelites
from going back. Victory ahead, but
water 30 feet deep behind, surging to
death and darkness and woe. B it you
say, "Why did not these Canaanites,
when they had such a splendid chance,
standing on the top of the bank 30 or
40 feet high, completely demolis ose
poor Israelites down in t- I
will tell you why. c a
promise, and bx
"There sl'
stand
1 .ommand,
-c e of trees, and at the
-..ve is acety. It is acity
-,ors, a city with walls seeming
reach to the heavens, to buttress the
yery sky. It is the great metropolis
that commands the mountain pass. It
is Jericho. That city was afterward
captured by Pompey and once by Herod
the Great and once again by the Mo
hammedans, but this campaign the L )rd
plans. There shall be no s words, no
battering ram. There shall be only one
weapon of war and that a ram's horn.
The horn of the slain ram was sonme
times taken, and holes were puncture-1
in it, and then the musician would p-ut
the instrument to his lips, and he would
run his fingers over this rude miusical
instrument and make a great deal of
sweet harmony for the people. That
was the only kind of weapon. Sevee
priests were to take these rude, rustic
musical instruments, and they were to
garudthe city every day for six
d.ays-once a day for six days-and.
then on the seventh day they were to
go around blowing these rude musical
instruments seven times and thecn at
the close of the seventh blowing of the
ram's horns on the seventh day the
peroration of the whole scene was to be
a shout, at which those great walls
should tumble from capstone to hase.
Tae seven priests with the re mu
sical instruments pu all aro'end the
city walls on the first day and s'core a
ter b o frc-n the wail, not so
h a- n ;:ned tock, not so much
A !";.. of morar inst from its pha.
r a heunbelievicg Israelites.
"did I rot tdil you ro? Why, those
- Sers are nols. The idea or going
u the c:ty with those muisical in
.:rumer's and expccing in that wly to
des-roy it. 1ochua has been spoiled. He
t inks because I e has cv rthrwn and
conquered thesprinz freshet he can over
ttrow the sto.ne wa! Why", it is n't
thilosophi;. l > r;m no-t -w'e there i n)
relation between th bIO of thL sc
mutsiaI iustrt: n" a"d he k nockin
doven ofuth. .M ,t . . . . . Wi
And I :u~r:is ;r' wre ;-y we
*.r.WlO-.Oh)d'o D . ticif.r ? wtt
. w ,i r the right
h} t i ef'-: r of the left hand
a-e ir it l o:h rnd .howing that it
v.s r~:Jossibl~e t hat such' a cuse co-uld
pr, iu.-e sah an c;.et. And I supposo
h -i:t in the e. camp-i unt there way
pl. '-y .f ea-ieature, and if Joshua had
,cct nor.inated for any hig military
positio, he wou d not have received
many votes. JjsLua's stock was down.
Te second day the priests blowing the
musical instruments go around the city
and again a failure. The third day and
a failure, fourth day and a failure fifth
day and a failure, sixth day and a fail
ure. The seventh day comes, the lim
soterie da, Josbua is up early in the
morning a ,d ex tmines the troops, walks
a about. look. at the city wall. The
oriests s art to make the c rcuit of thi :
etty. Tey go all around onoc, all
aound twie, three timn,; four times,
five times, six tiua3 seven times and a
failure. TX.. re is only one more thing
to do, anrd that is to utter a great shout.
1 see tt:e Isracltish army straightening
zheselves ut, fiuiig their luogs f r a
vo:iieratica such as never was heard be
fore and never heard a' ter. Joshua feels
that thl hour has c )me, and he cries
out to his hlest. "Si )ut, f ir the Lord
hah geve y u the cty ' A:: together
L te trop p -shout: "1) vn, J. rieho!.
) wn, Jerich:' An the long line of
s-lid mutot..r ieci:s to qu:er ari- to
move aad to r -k~ aS-i irom under
She ftl-s! Crash go the walls and temp
ins, the towers, the palaces, the air
ackened with the du-t. The huzza of
the vietooais Israeites and the groan
of the conquered Cacaaites com
ming'e, and Joshu;, standing there in
the deIs of the wa4 hca-s a voice
sa.inz, 'Thee hal.t sany wan be
able to sand bef re thee all the days of
Only one hu' spared. Who lives
ther' Sme grat ig? N>. Some
woman cisti.:g":ihed ifr great kindly
deets. Na. Sie had betn conspicuous
for her crimes. It is the house of Rahab.
Why was her house spared? Because
she had been a great sinner? No, but
beaeuse she repented, demonstratiag to
all the ages that there is mercy for the
chief of sinners. The red cord of divine
injunction reaching from her window to
the ground, so that when the people
saw the red c-ri they knew it was the
divine indication that they should not
disturb the pre.uises, making us thick
of the divine cord of a Saviour's delive
rance, the red cord or a Saviour's kind
ness, the red cord of a Saviour's mercy,
theredcord of our rescue. Mercy torthe
chief of sinners. Pat your trust in that
God, and no damage shall befall you
When our world shall be more terribly
surrautded than was Jerich', even by
the trumpets of the ja<.gment day and
the hills and the mountsins, the metal
bones and ribs of nature shall break,
they who hive had Rahab's faith shali
have R ahab's delivernece.
When Wr apped1 in fire the reaims ofener
glow
And iiesven's last thun ier shabkes the earth
below,
Thou, und ismyt d, shalt o'er the ruins smtile
And sight tmy torch at natures funeral pile
B-ut Joshua's troops may not halt
here 1The command is, "Forward,
maroh!' There is the city of Ai It
must be take-n. How shall it be taken?
A scouting party comes back and says:
"Joshua, we can do tnat without you.
It is going t) be a very easy job. You
must stay h-:re while we go an-i captu-e
it." They march with a small regmit
in front of that city. The men of Ai look
at them and give one yell, and the Is
raelites run like reindeer. Thbe northern
troops at B-ull Run did not make such
rapid time as these Israelites with the
Canasanites after them. They never cut
such a sorry figure as when they were
on the retreat. You who go out in the
battles of God with only half a force
instead of your taking the men of Ai
the men of Ai will take you Look at
the church of God on the retreat. The
Bornesian cannibals ate up Munson, the
missionary. "Fall back!" said a great
many Christian people. "Fall back, 0
church of God! Borneo will never be
taken. Do you net see the Bornesian
cannibals have eaten up Manson, the
missionary?" Tyndall delivers his 1ec
ture at the University of Giasgow, and
a great many gocod people say: Fall back.
0 church cof G:d' Do you not see that
Christian philosophy is gaine to be ovor
come by w >rdly philosophy? Fail back!"
Geology plunges its crowbar into the
mountains, and there are a great many
people who say: "Scientfic investiga
tion is going to overthrow the Mosaic
account of the creation. Fall back!"
'But fri-ends of God rnever have had
any right to fall back. Joshua falls on
his face in changrin. It is the only time
you ever see the back of his head He
falls on his face and begins to whine,
and he says, "OU Lord Go-3, wherefore
hast thou at all brought this people
over Jordan to deliver us into the ha'd
of the Amorites, to destroy us? W-.uld
to God we hra been content an dwvelt
on the other side of Jordan. For the
Cananites and all the inhabitants of
the land shall hear of it and shall
environ us round and cut off our name
from the earth." I am very glad Joshua
said that. Before it seemed as if he were
a supernatural being and therefore
could not be an example to us, but I
find he is a man, he is only a man. Just
as sometimes you find a man under
severe opposition or in a bad state of
physical health, or worn out with over
work, lying down ad sighing about be
ing defeated. I amc encouraged when I
hear this cry of Joshua as he lies in the
dut. God comes and rouses him. H ow
does he rouse him? By comphtmentary
apostrophe? No . He says, "-Gt thee
up. Wnere you liest thou upon thy
feace?" Joshua rises, and, I warrant you
ith a mortified look. But his old cour
ge comes back. The fact - was not his
battle.
If he had been in it he would have
gone on to victory. He gathers his
trooris around him and say s:"N ,
!ct us go up and capture the city of Ai.
Let us go up right away." They march
On. He puts the maj rity of the troops
behind a ledge of rocks in the night, and
then he sends co-uparitively smnall reg
iments up in front of the city. The
men of Ai come ouat with a shout. The
sall regiments of Israelities in strat
agen fal back and fall back, and when
el the men of Ai have left the city and
arc in pursuit of the scattered, or
seemia~lj scattered, regiments, J ch
a stan is on a rock-I s-je his lock
iying in the wind as he p~ints hisspear
toward thej doomed city, and that is
the signsl. The men ru'h out from
sr it is put to the torch, and then
these Isra-lites in the city mae'i down.
and the fi;ing Isra,-lites ret'i, and
b -tween tucse two war (I . aitish
prowess the men W Ai ar' c" =proved.
and the brieli:es teis t he vi t ry: and I
wLile I see mhe cur.iZ sa'k' f that
desttoyed (I-y on the ~y. aiod whl' i I
h"ar the burz of the lraelite4 and
the g-oin (f the (namrite, Joshua
hea-s s aehing l'uder than it all,
ringing and echoing through his soul,
'"'here s :all not any man be able to
s'ani before thee all the dais of thy
life.'
Bat this is no plaee for the host of
Joshua to stop "Fanard, msreh!
cries Jeshua to the troops. There i;
the city of Gibeon It his put i'elf
under the protection Joshua They
send word: "There are fire kings.after
us. They are going to destroy us I
Seni troops quick. Srnd us help
right anvy, ' .o-hua h1,s a three days
march, more tha2 double gaiek. On
the morning of the third day he is be
fore the enemy. There are two long
lints of battle. The battle opens with
great slaughter, but the Canaanites
soon discover something. They say:
" 'batpis Joshua. That is the man
who conquered the spring freshet and
knocked down the stone walls of Jer
icho and destroyed the. cty of Ai.
There is no use fi;hting " They sound
a retre:, and as they begin to retreat
!oshua and his host spring upon them
like a panth-:r, pursutag them over the
rooks, while the e-tadpults of th sky
pour a volley of hailstones into the val
ley, and all the artillery of the heav
ens, with bullets of iron. piund the
Ca2aanites against the ledgas of Bath
horon. "Oh," says Joshua, "this is
surely a victory!' "But do you not see
the sun is going don? Ta->se Am
ories ar.e going to g t away after all,
an- than they will come up som other
time and bother us, and perihaps de
stroy us. Sic, the sua is going down.
Oh, for a longer 'ia; than has ever been
seen in this climate!" What is the
matter with Joshua? Hi; he fallen is
an apoplet c ti ? N. 1I3 is in p:ay
er.
Look out when a good man make;
the L.ord nis all;y. .Jothua raires his
face, radian: with prayer, and locks at
the decending sun over Gibeon and at
the faint cre-eent of the moon, for you
know the guaen of the night somtimes
will iinrer around the palaces of the
d ty. Pointing one hand at the de
eending sun sad the other hand at the
faint creset of the m.)on. in the name
of that God who shaped the worlds and
moves the woilis he criz8: "Sun
s:and thou still upoaGihbeo, and thou,
moon, in the valley of Ajslon!" They
halted. Whether it was by refraction
of the sun's rays or by the stopping of
the whole planetary system I do not
know and do not care. I leave it to
the Christian Scientists and the infliel
scientists to settle that question, while
[ tell you I have seen the e tme thing.
"What?' say you. "Not the sun
staoding still?" Yes The same mir
ace is performed nowadays. The wick
ed do not live out half their day, and
their sua sets at n)on. But let a man
stsrt out in battle for God and the
truth arid against sin, and the day of
his usefulness is prolonged and pro
longed and prolonged.
But it is time for Joshua to go home.
He is 110 years Ald. Wasaintgton went
down the Potomac and at Mount Ver
non closed his days. Weilington died
peaefully at Apsley House. Now,
where shall Joshna rest? Why he is
to have his greatest battle now. Alter
110 years he has to meet a king who
has more su'-j ets than all the present
population of the earth, his throne a
pryamid of sku'ls, his par:erre the
graveyards and the cemeteries of the
world, his chariot the world's hearse
the king of terrors. But if this is
Joshua's greatest battle, it is going to
be Jo.shua's greasest victory. H e gath
ers his friends around him and gives
his valedictory and it is full of rem
iniscence. Young men tell what they
are going to do. 0 d men tell what
they have done. And as you have
heard a grandfather or great- grandfa
er seated by the evening fire tell of
Monmouth or Yorktown and then lift
up the crutch or staff as though it were
a musket to fight and show how the
old battles were won, so Joshua gath
ers his friends around his dying couch,
and he tells them the story of what he
has been threugh and as he lives there,
his white Ieis snowing down on his
wrinkled forehead, 1 ask if God has
kept his promise all the way through.
As he lies there he tells the story one,
two or three times-you have heard
old people tell a story two or three
times over-and ne answers: "I go
the way of all the earth, and not one
word of the promise has failed, not
one word thereof has failed, not one
word thereof has failed. All has come
to pass; not one word thereof has fail
ed." And then he turns to his family,
as a dying parent will, and says:
"Choose now whom you will serve,
the God of Israel or the god of the
Amortes. As for me and my house,
we will serve the Lord.' A dying
parent ecannot be reekless and thought
less of his children. Consent to part
With them forever at the door of the
tomb we cannot. By the cradle in
which their infancy was rockedi, by
the bosom on which they first lay, by
the blood of the covenant, by the God
of Joshua it shall not be. We will
not part, we cannot part. Jehovah
Jireh. we take thee at thy promise.
"1 will be a God to thee and thy seed
after thee."
Dead, the old chieftain must be laid
out. Handle him very gently. That
sacred body, is over 110 years of age.
Lay him out, stretch out those feet
that walked dry shod the parted Jor
dan. Close those lips which helped
blow the blast at which the walls of Jer
icho fell. Fold the arm that lifted up
the spear toward the doomed city of Ai.
Fld it right over the heart that ex
ulted when the five kings fell. But
where shall we get the burnished gran
ite for the headstone and the fontstone?
I bethink myself now. 1 imagine that
for the head it shall be the sun that
stood still upon Gibeon, and for the
foot the moon that stood still in the
valley of A!alon.
A Fishy Story.
A dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla.,
says the most daring and unique high
way robbery in the history of the south
was committed in the center of the city
on a principal thoroughfare late one
night. John S. Smith, a young busi
ness man, was on his way home, when
at the corner of Monroe and Laura
streets a well-dressed white woman
stepped in front of him and help him
up. He did not know, however, he
had been robbed until he had left her.
'Then he found that in the cleverest
professional manner she had ertracted
three $100) bilis and five $20) tiils, a
total of $410, from his pocket book.
Means a Scareitv.
A dispatch from Manchester, Eng
latd, rays that cotton mvn there think
that Nei-l's estimate of the cotton
rop means a s~arcity, and that before
September the spinners mostly will be
KRUGER iN FRANCE.
The Od B ar H r R. caived
Wi+.OGrey D rm .ssati :n,
A PATHETIC PICTURE
Was P:'sented by the Getd
Old Man as He Declares
His Pe p'e Will Dia
Fighting.
Presidcnt Kruger, of the Datih Re
publics of South Africa, arrived in
Marseilles. France, Thursday. and was
received by the entire population with
great demonstration. The delirium of
enthusiasm which marked every step
o' his progress from the time he landed
from the ship until the hotel was reached
was a revelation even to the people of
Marseilles themselves. It fully equalled
if it did not surpass the frantic demon
strations of patriotism with which
France opened her arms to Maj. Mar
chand at Toulon on his return from
Fashoda.
Yet the grandeur of this demonstra
tion, perhaps, ranks secard in import
ance to the emphatic manifestos of "no
compromise," which Mr. Kruger deliv
ered in a low voice but one vibrating
with emotion, accompanied by energet
ic gestures of the right hand, stirring
the hearts of all within hearing The
last sentences of his declaration were
uttered with a vigor and decision which
bore out his reputation as the incarna
tiun of iron will and stubborn resis
tance. His mere delivery of a 4ee
laration of such far reaching impirt
ane'etifir s to the indepedence of his
character. a+ it cane a< a surprise even
to his most intimate political advisers
who up to the last, were in ignorance
of his determination.
An unfortunate occurrence at the
hotel on the main bsulevard alone
marred the character of the demon
tration, which up to that moment had
been unanimously and exclusively a
tribute of sympathy and admiration.
"Vive Kruger," 'Vive les Boer'," and
"Vive la liberte," were the cries that
formed a hurricane of cheering and
swept over the city. Unfortunately
the highly reprehensible foolishness of
half a dozen persons in throwing small
coins into the crowd as Mr. Kruger
passed, acted like magic in corjiring
up an anti Britisti ou.burst, which it
needed all the promptitude and energy
of the police t0 prevent becoming a se
rious disturbance. The hotel remained
for the rest of the day in a state of
siege while at one time a procession
several thousand strong marched in the
direction of the British consulate,
shou'i g. "Dosn with the Engiish,"
and ra:sing other threatening cries.
The result was that a strong body of
police was compelled to disperse the
dmnstratioo, although it was not
found necessary to make more than a
few temporary arrests. Throughout
the evening, however, large bands of
students and other youths marched up
and down in front of Mr. Kruger's ho
tc.l and of the hotel which was the
scene of the unfortunate incident,
cheering in chorus for - Mr. Kruger and
the Transvaal and denouncing Eng
land. Tnese demonstrators were more
noisy than dangerous, and the police
wisely left them to relieve their feel
ings by shouting, instead of interfering
with them, which might have created
disorder
Mr. Kruger was borne on an irresist
ible wave of enthusiasm from the land
ing stage to his hotel. The broad stree ts
and boulevards through which the
rute lay presented a perfect sea of
human beings, all gathered there
prompted by the unanimous desire to
welcome the aged Boer statesman.
From the moment the white 12 oaredl
barge left the side of the G-elderland
with Mr. Kruger, who appeared to be
in good health, sitting in her stern sur
rounded by the Boer representatives,
including Dr. Leyds and Messrs.
Fischer and Wessels, a storm of cheer
ing broke and never ceased until Mr.
Kruger entered his hotel. Byven then
a vast conc-.urse of people remained in
front of the building until Mr. Kruger
appeared on the balcony, acknowledg
ing the acclamnations of his thousands
of admirers, who continued cheering
until they were hoarse with shouting.
Rleplying to the addresses of welcome
of the presidents of the Paris and Mar
seilles committees, Mr. Kruger spoke
in Dutch and in a low voice, accom
panying his words with energetic
movements of his hat, which he held in
his right hand. He said:
'it thank the president of the Mar
seilles committee and the president of
the central committee of the indepen
dence of the Boers for their welconme. I
thank all this population assembled in
great concourse to greet me, for al
though I am weak from mourning for
the misfortunes of my country, and al
though I have not come to seek fes
tivities, still, 1, nevertheless, accept
with all my heart these acclamations,
for I know they are dictated to you by
the emotions which are inspired in you
by our trials and by your sympathy
for our cause, which is that of liberty,
which awakened you. I am truly proud
and happy at having chosen as my
point of landing a port in France. to
set foot on free soil and to be received
by you as a free man. But my first
duty is to thank your government for
all the tokens of interest that again
only recendly it was pleased to give me.
I believe England, had she been better
informed, would never have consented
to this war, and since the expedition of
Jameson, who wished to seize the two
republics without the necessity of firing
a rifle shot, I have never ceased to de
mand a tribunal of arbitration which,
up to now, has always been refused.
'The war waged on us in the two re
publics reached the last limits of bar
barism. During my life I have had to
fight many times the savages of the
tribes of Africa, but the bar barians we
have had to fight now are worse than the
others. They even urge the Kafiirs
against us. They burn the farms we
worked so hard to construct, and they
drive out our women and children,
whose husbands and brothers they have
killed or taken prisoners, leaving them
unprotected and roofless, and often
without bread to eat. But, whatever
they may do, we will never surrender.
We will fight to the end. Our great,
imperishable confidence reposes in the
eternal in our God. We know our
cause is just and if the justice of men
is wanting to us He, the eternal, Who
is master of all people, and to Whom
belongs the future, will never abandon
"I assure you that if the Transvaal
and the Orange Free State must lose
their independence it will be because
all the Beer people have been destroyed
with their women and children."
The declaration that the Bers would
not uender dispelled at ance any im
pression that Mr. Kruger intends to ac
cept a compromise from the British
government. His announetnent was
grroted with a roar of che'rs and crics:
"Vive Kruger, vive Ics IBrri, vive Ia
Iirrrte."
The Fun wag ebinirg down on Mr
Kroger arid he held his hat to shade
his eyCe from the glar -. whieh, appar
'ntly, wai pair fal to }.i- ryes. As he
!-tord in thi- a-ti:nie, hi, hl'4d sightly
niw;.C. rith bi, hair tr i,h-d bask. he
waQ Fn cu''rably pit}.e ic figur .
which at once won the syn parhy and
reverence of (very per;.n present.
The speechmaking over, a procession
was forued mnd Mr. Kruger was es
coited to his hotel amid the acclama
tions of th c:owds. which Mr. Kruger
repeatedly acknowledged.
Soon after arrivimg at the hotel, in
response to a thunderous ovati~n, he
apptared on the balcony and repeatedly
bowed, but as sone ten minutes elapsed
without a sign of abatement in the en
thusiasm he spoke a few words, which
were interpreted in French by Dr.
Leyds and were followed by a renewal
of the frenzy. Fnally, to testify his
gratitude, he took in his hand a c)rnor
of the French tri-color that was flying
from the balcony between the Trans
vaal and Free State flags and pressed
them to his heart again and again. The
enthusiastic people cheered him until
he withdrew to his rooms, which he
found half filled with bouquets and
garlands presented by his admirers.
The prefect and mayor then called to
pay their r soects, the latter making
an eloquent speech in sympathy with
the Boers.
Mr. Kruger replied brit fly, declaring
how deeply be had been touched by the
unexpected warmth of his reception in
Marseilles and by the sympathy of the
French people.
After luncheon and a little repose Mr.
K-uger descended to the hall of the
hotel, where he received the delegs
tions. Thit proved too fatiguing and
he asked that the addresses be pie
sented to him in writing and then with
drew again to his apartments, where he
passed the evening quietly, receiving
no one.
Dr. Leyds represented him at the
banque-: given in his honor, where all
the Boer officials and members of the
pro- B .er committees were present, and
read t-.c following message from him
"I am fatigued and am in mourning.
Moreover, I never attend baniuets.
O.herwise I should have liked to have
spent a few minutes with you and to
thank you. I shall never forget the
warm welcome I have had in your
beautiful city. Your reception of me
has surpassed all t could have expeeted
even from the city which gave France
her admirable national hymn, that
'Maaseillaise' which is the song of all
peoples whose independenc3 is threat
ened and who are struggling against
invaders
I would that your acclamation could
have been heard by all those Boers in
South Africa who arS encamped in our
mountains. They would thank you from
the betuom -f their hearts. I thank
you in thcir tehalf.
'Could I have been with S on I should
have also expressed my thanks to all
France and would have raised my glass
in honor of her worthy president, M.
L iubet."
Dr. L: d then said:
"I the name of President Krager I
have the hoinor to drink to' the health
of the preaident of the French repub
lic." __________
A Narrow Escape.
T. N Coffer, of Charleston, liiinois,
a prominent young attorney and Dem
ocratic politician, has just escaped de
struction in what seems a miraculius
manner. He gave cut Friday the de
tails of an attempt on his life by means
of a "present" from some unknown
p: rson, a box containing dynamite. It
came to his office by express last week
and he opened the package while the
express messenger was still there.
Tre label was typewritten and said:
"Sample puzzle box To open pull
string with quick jerk, the result will
be surprising." Mr. Coffer gave the
string, which protuded from a hole, a
j erk, but it broke. The box was then
pried open, disclosing three big sticks.
of dynamite wrapped in combustibules
and holes bored in them with fuses at
tached. A hundred match heads glued
to a stick were intended to ignite when
the string should draw a piece of sand
paper across their heads. About half
of them were ignited with the first pull
of the string, but in some miraculous
manner smothered and only a sulphur
smell came out when the box was open
ed. There was enough dynamite in
the package to wreck the whole side of
the public square in which Coffer's of
fice was located. The package camne
from Aurora, but the express agent
there has no clue te the consignee
Coffer does not know of an enemy in
the world. Detectivas have been set
to work by Mr. Coffer and the American
Express Company.
Burglars at Work
A dispatch to The State says burg
lars forced open the front door of the
store of Mr. J. B. Gillam Jr , at Lee's,
three miles east of Blackville, Wednes
day night, and robbed the safe of $30
belonging to Mr. Gillam, about $20 in
cash and about $41 in postage stamps
belonging to the postoffiae, which is
located in Mr. Gtllam's store. The
safe was blown to pieces by dynamire,
the (xplosion of which wrecked Mr.
Gillam's office and contents. The
thieves carried off eveeything of value
from the safe They were not inter
rupted, and are evidently experienced
men in the busine-s. No one knew
about the robbery until Mr Gillam
went down to open his store Thursday
morning.
THE IRL R1. Hrs 1901 A LNAC
Whartever may be said af the scientiflc
auses upon which the Rev. Irl R.
Hicks bases his yearly forecasts of
storm and weather, it is a remarkable
fact that specific warnings of every
great storm , flood, cold wave and
routh, have been plainly printed in
his now famous A' manan for many years
The latest startling proof of this fact
was the destruction of Galveston, Tex
as, on 'the very day named by Prof.
icks in his 1900 Almanac, as one of
isaster by storm along the gulf coasts.
lhe 1901 Almanac, by far the finest,
ost complete and beautiful yet pub
ished, is now ready. This remarkable
book of near two hundred pages, splen
idly illustrated with charts and half
one engravings, goes as a premium to
very subscriber who pays one dollar a
year for Prof. Hicks' journal, Woan
and WORSs The Almanac alone is
sent prepaid for only 25c, Order from
WORD and Weairs Publishing Com
pany, 22u1 Locust Street, St. Louis,
o. _ _ _ _ _
A Figuring Idiot.
The Atlanta Journal says some chees
ful statistician has figured out that in
he United States somebody is murdered
very 20 minutes during the night, and
hat one cut of every 200 Americans
meets death at the hands of an assassin.
What an acquisition this fellow would
e to the funny story department of
~arper's Wreell!
WEYLEWAS A SATIRIST.
He Makes a Good Point on his Former
Critics.
The Ai:g ist.a Chronicle says: G n.
Weiler has not had to wait vary l."ng
for what he deems his v ndioati.on. He
has issuM a characteristic Fttement.
and it I as large elements of truth to
Fubsiantlate iC pliden taken 1l
ref ra to the fact that his militarj con
duet in Cuba brought him into x :cra
tion, espe:ially amog whit are called
Anglo Sax 'n peoples. He professes
to have acted as a soldier, wh, has
been ordered to surpress rebellion, and
took up the only course likely to sue
ceed in dealing with a mongrel foe.
He now rather. derisively points out
that the British government has com
manded Lord Kitchener to adopt his
relicy in the Boer country.
"He might have taunted the Wash
ington administration for not holding
u: Kitchener to public shame, as it
did him, but he may reserve that for a
second letter. This administration is
no longer in the business of condemn
ing Weilerism when practiced by the
British or of s3mpathizing with re
publics in any part of the world when
threatened with destruction by Enro
pean imperialism. We, as a nation,
are about to introduce Weylerism in
the Philippine islands, and are held
back, cins quently, from a ieproach of
Great Britian in the Tianov,.al. This
looks like a monstrous dep iriure from
the policy of the fathers of the re
public, but what are you going to do
about it?
"At present, however, General Wey
ler is "the man who laughs," and when
he comes to the Philippine question,
in another letter, he may make "An
glo Saxonism" look more hypocritical
than otherwise. It is not otten that a
cruel man gets such swift, so called
"vindication," but Weyler, even if he
is not to be excused for his atrocity,
may be pardoned for having some ex
ultation when he sees Uncle Sam and
John Bull following his Cuban plan in
South Africa and Luzon. We think it
a rather lamentable and pathetic thing,
but Weyler has some right, in the
premises, "to grin horribly a gbastly
smile.'
Hetter's Cotton Statement.
Secretary Hester's weekly New Or
leans cotton exchange statement issued
today shows a decrease in the movement
into sight compared with the seven days
endings this date last year, in round
figures. 41,000.
For the 84 days of the season that
have elapsed the aggregate is ahead of
the 84 days of last year 215,000.
The amount brougt into sight during
the past week has been 371.805, against
412,384 for the sevevn days ending
November 23 last year.
The movement since September 1st
shows receipts at all United States
ports 3,073,825, against 2,768.934 last
year; overland across. the.31.ississippi,
Ohio and Potomac rivers to nertaern
mills and Canada, 389.287, agains;
514 836 last year; interior teceks in ex
cess of those held at the close of the
commercial year, 525,189, against 477,
388 last year; southern mill takings,
383,426, against 395,574 last year.
Forign exports for the week have
been 186,715, against 132 295iatt year.
The totai takings of American mils.
noth and south and Can ada, thus far
for season have been 986,661, against
1,245 186 last year. These include 596,
044 by northern spinners, agaiuaLt840,
279.
Stocks at the seaboard and the 29
leading southern interior centeres have
increaned during the week 86,638 bales,
against an increase during the corres
porading pericd last season of 102,578,
and are now 397,666 smaller than at
this date in 1899.
Talking Through His Hat.
Capt. R ibert J Lowry, one of the
leading bankers of Atlanta, in atalk with
a New York Tribune reporter a few
d sys ago, declared, in effkot, that the
majority of the people of Georgia are
Republicans at heart, and would have
much preferred voting for MeLinley
but for the fear of Negro domination.
The Atlanta Journal explains, that
"he has mistaken the views of a small
circle of uncompromising gold men like
himself-bankers and heads of big
business enterprises-who place the
money issue above all other questions,
for a universal sentiment in favor of
R epublicanism. This element h as
brushed aside every other oonsideration
ignored all the other great quest~icns at
issue, in tbeir eagerness to hsve the,
man re-elected whom they regarded as
representing the safest polio, for the
man of wealth." The people of the
South, it adds, "are not blind to what
McKinleyism and Hannaismn mean an d
they are .just as unalterably opposed to
the policies which they represent as
they were opposed to the Republican
party in the days of reconstruction.
And there is nothing sectional in this
feeling. It is opposition based on
principle."
Was Sorry He Spoke.
William Smalls, alias "Dahoo,
Fred Ladson, alias "Squash,'' William
White and Caesar Willianm% members
of a gang of white thieves who have
been giving trouble to the police for
years, furnished the chief interest in
proceedings in the Court of General
Seesions Wednesday. In May last these
four, together with William Frasier,
alias "Blackmoor," and Tom Johnson,
broke open one of the ware houses of
the Southern Railway and got off with
eighteen sacks of sugar. "Blackmoor"
was wanted on other charges and was
sent up at the Summer term of the
Court upon sentences aggregating ten
years. Johnson is still at large."
"Dahoo," "Squash," White and
Williams were convicted Wednesday
and five years given each, with an ad
ditional six months for White and sev
en for Williams. "Dahoo" made a
play to the galleries as he was taken
out, saying he didn't care if it was
ten years. He was a surprised negro
when Judge Buchanan ordered him
brought back and made his sentence
ten years -News and Courier.
An Old Man.
A dispatch to the Atlanta. Journal
from Washington, Ga., says 'the oldest
man in the world lives a few miles from
that town. He is old Caesar Booker,
a negro, and he is 126 years old. He
was born a slave in Virginia and his
memory of events occurring over 100
years ago is very bright. He is a most
interesiing talker and children listen
by the hour to his stories. He was
owned as a slave by Richardson Book
er, who has been dead for fifty years.
He has a daughter living at Thomson
who is 98 years old. Old Caesar has;
seven children living and a small army
of grandchildren. They are scattered
among the plantations along the Sa
vannah river. Old Caesar is hale andt
hearty and appears to be enjoying -2
renewal of his youth. He is one of
the most interesting personages in
Wilkes county.
THE PROFESSOR.
He Was Frank to Tell the Young Man
What He Thought.
H. A. Cuppy, Ph. D., who is now a
sucessful editor in New York, studied
at Franklin University, where he was
graduated; at Oxford, England, where
he got his degree, and at Heidelberg.
Professor Jowett, whose "Life and
Letters" are important literary contri
butions, was one of the most interest
ing personalities to Doctor Cuppy
when a student at Oxford. In his col
lection of anecdotes about the profes
sor he tells of a walking tour which
one of the matriculates took with the
pedagogue.
"It was a great thing to get an in
vitation to walk with the professor,"
he said the other day, "and the young
man who was the fortunate guest was
so embarassed that he was unable to
carry on a sensible conversation. Af
ter they had been on the road for
about thirty minutes the pupil finally
spunked up courage and remarked: "A
nice day, professor.'
"'Do you really think so?' was the
far-away answer of Jowett.
Another half hour passed, and the
boy stammered out:
"'Nice road, professor.'
"The teacher responded: 'Do you
really think so?'
"The matriculate began to boil in
his bones and to get even more fright
ened, but he managed to again blurt
out, 'Clouds seem to be filling up with
rain, professor,' to which the answer
was:
"'Do you really think so?'
"The two returned to the college
ground and the professor said: "Well,
young man, we have been walking for
several hours, and everything you said
has been as stupid as it possibly could
be.'
"His companion replied: 'Do you re
ally think so?'
"The professor looked at the young
man a moment. Then he smiled and
grasped his hands warmly. From
that time on conversation never flag
ged during their walks." - Saturday
Evening Post.
A Summer Evening.
It was a warm night and the mu
sical tinkle of silver against marble
from thp ice-cream place across the
way could be caught by a trained
ear in the unbroken silence of the
front stoop where they sat.
"I'm afraid," she remarked with a
speculative air, "that the manage
ment of that new ice-crca.n parlor
have made a mistake."
"How's that?" he inquired, only
languidly interested.
"Why, although the ice-cream is de
licious and very cheap, they serve
it with spoons instead of forks, as
their exclusive patronage Is accus
tomed to. The dishes, too," she went
on dreamily, *are rather large for
fashion, though"
But her neat, boiler-iron, double
rivetted hint had struck in, and soon
in the quivering glow of the electric
light they were sauntering over.
The Vicious in Boston.
"Yes," replied the Boston parent,
"a boy soon acquires vicious habits if
he Is suffered to mingle with street
boys. Once I thought otherwise, and
permitted our Emerson to choose his
playmates, as chance should throw
them in his way. It wasn't a week,
sir, until that boy, in spite of his her
editary tendencies and the careful
home training he had received, was
asking me hypothetical questidas that
simply reeked with casulstry!"-Puck.
Would Fill the Slli.
Mr. Bigheart-Wiggins, old boy,
we've raised $50 to get the boss a
Christmas present, and we want some
thing that will make a great show for
the money-something that will look
big, you know. Can't you suggest
something?
Wiggins-Sure. Buy. $50 worth of
rice and then boil it.-'-Baltimore Am
.ricaa.
A Handy Panacea.
"I wish you would do something
for my husband," said the anxious
wife; "he seems to be worrying about
money."
"Don't be alarmed, madame," re
turned the doctor, reassuringly; 'Tl
relieve him of that."-Philadelphia
Record.
Just So.
"What is an island?" asked the
teacher, addressing her Interrogation
to the class in geography'.
"An Island, Ma'am," replied Johnny
Broadhead, a studious lad who had
Porto Rico in mind, "Is a body of land
entirely surrounded by politics."
Puck.
City Airs.
Rubberneck Bill-This here camp is
puttin'on city airs. They was a Greas
er killed of escapin' gas last night.
Bughouse Jake-What you givin' us?
"Fact Ef he hadn't of ta .ed too
much he might be livin' now."--Indi
anapolis Press.
The Boor Weapon.
"The prisoner," wrote the British
officer, reporting from the field, "claim
ed to be a non-combatant; but when
he was searched no fewer than six
Bibles of the most effective modern
type were found upon his person."
Detroit Journal.
Dead Easy.
Hoax--My wife always takes me
along -when she wants a hat I can
pick out the very latest styles.
Joax-How do you manage it?
"By lookingat the pies tags."-Phil
adephia Recead.
A Heinous Crime
Rochester, N. Y., has never had a
deeper mystery to solve than that dis
closed by the finding of the dead body
of Miss Theresa- Keating behind a bill
board, a short distance from Davis
street Thursday morning. The autopsy
which was held at the morgue by sev
eral pysicians showed that the girl had
been criminally assaulted and choked
to death. There is up t~o the present
moment absolutely no clue to her
slayer, although the whole detective
force of the city is working on the
case. Neither is it known whether
the crime was committed by one or
more men.
Turn Themi Down.
Nine young colored canididates for
holy orders were turned down by Bis
hop Tanner, of the African Methodist
church, in Memphis, the other day, be
cause they did not k oow the date of the
food. Eight of them failed to make
any reply whatever to the question.
The ninth said he thought the Galves
THE DRYEST STATE
RAIN FALL VARIES FROM THREE TO
TWENTY-FIVE INCH ES A YEAR.
The People Do Not Concern Them
selves Much About the Rain, But
They Have a Fine System of Irri
gation.
Arizona has some timber in the
mountains and grass in the valleys,,
but these grow in spite of the fact that
Arizona is in the dryest part of the.
United States. Even within the bound-,
aries of this one territory, however, thei
rainfall varies from over twenty-five.
inches a year at Camp Goodwin in the;
mountains to three inches a year at
Yuma on the desert. Twenty-five inch-j
es of rainfall a year means, perhaps, a!
possible crop. Three inches a year
means no water at all. The people of
Arizona do not, therefore, concern
themselves much with rain. Tiey talk,
about it once in a while, and on occa-,
sions an inch or two comes down in
a solid chunk and is called a cloud
burst, but such a rainfal has little re
lation to the possibilities of the soil
from a productive point of view.
The settler in Arizona first seeks run
ning water, and then, with confidence,
settles himself upon the land and
straightway proceeds to get rich, for
running water upon Arizona soil is like
unto a gold mine-it produces wealth.
This has been the system ever since
the memory of man, for there are Ari
zona ditches which are nearly 400
years old, and the present generation is
not quite sure what manner of people
dug them.
It is within the memory of man, how
ever. when Arizona was almost a
trackles desert, overrun with fierce and
warlike Indians, and it is within the
memory of even the children of Arx.
zona that all this has changed; deserts
have been made to bloom and all war
like Indians have either been sent to
the happy hunting grounds or are used
for exhibition purposes in wild west
shows and Eastern expositions.
All this has been done by ignoring.
the usual way of watering the earth
and by utilizing the melting snowbanks
as their waters raced toward the sea.
Fifteen hundred miles of artificial wa-'
ter courses, or ditches, have these am
bitious and industrious Arizona people
dug, and 500,000 acres of this wonder
ful valley lands grow rich with green
things of the earth in response to the,
water from these ditches. It is not all
fun to settle on these arid lands, and it
is no easy task to have dug these.
ditches, but the results have paid ten
fold to those who dared the task.
Great mining camps are always near
by. Miners always have money to spend
They want the best the earth can give
them, and the irrigated lands of Ar'
zona have been paid for with the
money dug from the bowels of the vol
canic hills.
The running streams of Arizona are
now doing all they can and still more
water is wanted. To get this the peo
ple of the valleys not so favored with.
preparing to store the little that falls
from the clouds at some seasons of the
year. In the mouths of rugged can
ons they will place great rock dams.
The melting snow and the winter rains
will here mingle and lie quiet until the
drought strikes the valley below and
the parched vegetation calls for their
use. Then the stored water will be
loosed, to add more greenery, hence.
more wealth, to the dryest place In
America.
An East Side Doll.
"I wish," said a young lawyer, who
has an office in New York and a home
in Brooklyn, "that I had kept account
of the queer Incidents I have noticed
in the course of my walks through the
east side on my way to the ferry. One
of these incidents-it happened one
rainy day last week-made a particu
larly strong impression on me. I was
hurrying along Cherry street, holding
my umbrella between me ann" a fine~
driving rain, when I noticed a little~
girl ahead of me. She was a very little
girl, not more than 5 or 6 years old,~
poorly dressed and quite unprotected;
from the rain, so far as an umbrellat
went
"I hurried along, vaguely thinking
about how wet and cold and miserable
the child must be, and reiterating -In
my mind a determination, to which I
often come, not to go home by the fer
ry, but to take the bridge for'ihe ex
pess purpose of escaping the sight of
the children down there. When I
came quite up to the child she turned
sudenly and faced me. She looked up
with the most engaging smile and said
quite simply but pleasantly:
"'My dolly's a'seep.'
"I looked down and discovered she
was nursing in her little arms a whis
key bottle, quart stzed and una~orned,
save for a white label discolored by the
rain. What did I do? Oh, I ac
quiesced in the dolly theory and ex
pressed a few of the adult Idiocies usu
al under under those circumstances.
Then I took a good look at the shining
eyes in the child's rain-wet face and
went on. But In spite of any care In
impressing on my mind the fact that
her eyes were happy, I haven't been
abl togetrid of the recollection of:
that dolly."-NewYokSn
Dog Leaves Home to Live With Foxes.
Casade Township, Lycoming coun
ty, has a dog that was stolen by foxes,
and which now lives in the woods with
the sly animals that stole it. N. y.
Maloney, a farmer of the township,
had had several chickens stolen by the;
foxes. Mr. Maloney was not the only!
person who missed some of his chick
ens. There were others. Some of the
neignbors waited with shotguns for the
thieves, and four or five foxes were
killed.
Instead of doing that Mr. Maloney
put a six-month-old pup in a kennel
near the chicken coop. He thought the
dog would frighten the foxes away;
but he was mistaken. The first night
that the pup was put on guard the
foxes made a raid, and, besides one or,
two chickens, stole the dog. It was
thought that the foxes had killed the
dog; but several nights ago the dog
was seen going along the edge of the
mountains with two foxes. The dog.
has assumed the slyness of a for and
can run nearly as fast as the foxes.
"We have walked eleven miles this
morning without stopping," said one
Filipno soldier, discontented-ly.
"That's so," answered the other.
"We might as well join a golf club and
be done with it."--Washington Star.
For Wegroes Only.
At Sioux City, Ia., a state lodge of
the African Monarchs of America has
been instituted. The organinition is
the first fraternal insuranCe Eoeiety
organized for colored people exclusively.
Since the foundation of the African
Monarchs another association has been
organized in Illinois, but the Monarchs
were the pioneers. The lodge-at-large
ust installed in Sioux City wilt have
jurisdiction over the state lodge will at
nce begin their efforts to establish
subordiate lodges throughout the etate.
An Old Woman?'s Story.
The poverty stricken condition of
Adelia Burton, who claimns to have been
a confidential servant in the family of
Jefferson Davis during the civil war,
was brought to the attention of the
police in Chicago Friday and her wants
attended to. Adelia Burton, who wa
ddscoverd in a lonely hovel on the
South Sides declares that when the
president oi the Confederate States fled
to escape etpture she was entrusted
w ith private cifects of the fugitives.
Shem was on in aVery 7 year ae.