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IN STRENGTH OF GOD. i WE MUST STRIVE TO OVERTHROW every abomination. Hew. nr. TMmntce Prrnchra n Pnw rrfnl Sermon tunlnst Evll-Wc Mum 11,. Pol He. nw <lle Wrentier. of Old, In Combating; Sin. [Copyright. by Am riean Pr*'Sj» Asso ciation.) " amhngton, Nov. 6. —ln this discourse I>r. 1 ahnafre selects one «>f the boldeet fig ures of the Bible to present most practical and ' Ticonraging truths; text, Ephesians vi, 12. “We wnstio not against flesh and !'lo<«l, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Squeamishness and fastidiousness were never charged against Paul's rhetoric. In I the war against < vil he took tho first Weapon he could lay ids hand on. For il lustration, he employed tho theater, the an ria, the foot ra<-<-, an<l there was noth ing in the Isthmian game, with its wreath of pine h aves, or Pythian game, with its wreath of laurel and palm, or Nernean game, with its wreath of parsley, or any Roman circus, hut he felt he had a right to put. it in sermon or epistle, anti are you not surprised t hat in my text he calls upon a wrestling bout for suggestiveness? Plu tarch says that wrestliyjg is the most ar tistic and cunning of athletic games. Wo must make a wide difference totwecn pugilism, tho lowest of spectacles, and wrestling, which is an effort In sport to put down another on floor or ground, ami w<—ail of u«—indulged in it in our lx»y hood day-if wo were healthful and plucky. The am-icnt wr< -tiers were first bathed in oil and then sprinkled with sand. Tho third throwdwtided tho victory, and many a man who went down In the first throw or s< oml throw in the third throw wason ♦ op, and In opponent, under. The Romans did not like this game very much, for it w i-i n< t savage enough, no blows or kicks being allowed in the game. They preferred the hr t of hungry pantheron the breast of fallen martyr. Tn wrestling, the opponents would bow In apparent, suavity, advance face to face, put. «!<.•<, n I " ’h foot solidly, take each other by the artm. at;d push each oi her backward and forward until the work Legau in real earnest, end there were contort ions and Htr.'iiigulations and violent strokes of the foot of one cont'-stunt against the foot of the other, tripping him up, or, with strug gle that threatened apoplexy or death, tho defeatcii fi JI and the shouts of the specta tors greeted tho vict< r. I guess I’aul had seen i,onio such contest, ami it reminded him of the struggle of the soul with temp tation : nr! the druggie of truth with error and th' struggle of heavenly forces against Apoliyonie powers, ami he dictates my text t<> an amanuensis, for all his letters, save the one to Philemon, seem to have been dictated, and as the amanuensis goes on with his work I hear the groan and laugh ami shout, of < art hly anil celestial belliger ents. “\Vn wr< tie not, against flesh .and lile .d, Liit, against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of t his world, ,against, spirit uni wickedness in high places.” Polite Atliletcn. 1 notice that as these wrestlers advanced to throw ea< h other they bowed one to tho other. It was aci vilify, not, only in Gre cian and Roman games, but in later day, in all the wrestling bouts .at. Clcrkenwell, England, and in tho famous wrestling match during the reign of Henry 111, in Ft Giles’ Field, between men of Westmin ster and people of London. However rough a twist, and hard a pull each wrestler contenuiLateil giving his Opponent, they approii lied each other with politeness and suavity. The genuflexions, the affability, tho courtesy in nowise hUidered the de cisiveness of tho contest'. 'Veil, Paul, I see what you mean. In this awful strug gle between right and wrong, we must not forget to ho gentlemen and ladles. Affability never hinders, biitsalways helps. You are powerless as soon as you get mad. Do not call rumsellers murderers. Do not call infidels fools. Do not. call higher critics re] >nb.at. s. Do not. call all card players .and t heater t'oers children of the devil. Do not, say tiiat, the dance breaks through into hell. Do not deal in vituper ation ami billingsgate and contempt and adjectives dynamitic. The other side can beat, us at that. Their dictionaries have .'mere objurgation and brimstone. Wo are in the strength of God to throw flat on its back every abomination that curs. ; tho earth, but. let. us approach our mighty ant nirt witli suavity. Her cule.-:, son of Jupiter and Alcmena, will by a precursor of smiles bn helped rather than damaged for the performance of his •“ 12 labor.:.” Let us bo as wisely strategic in religious circh s as attorneys in court rooms, who are complimentary to each other in the opening remarks before they como into legal struggle such as that which left Rufus Choate or David Paul Brown triumphant, or defeated. People who into a rage in reformatory work .-accompli h nothing but the depletion of rJts'ir own nervous system. There is such a thing as having a gun so hot, at. the touehhole that it explodes, killing the one that, sets it. otf. There uro some reforma tory meetings to which I always decline to go and take part, because they art) apt to become demonstrations of bad temper. I never like to hoar a man swear, even though ho swear on tho right side. Tho very Paul who in my text employed in illustration the wrestling -match behaved on a memorable occasion .as we ought, to behave. Tho t ranslators of the Bible made an unintentional mistake when they rep resented Paul as insulting tho people of Athens by speaking of “the unknown god i whom ye ignorantly worship.” Instead j of charging them with ignorance the orig- i Inal indicates be complimented them by 1 suggesting that, they were very religious, bur as they confessed that there were some things they did not understand about God he proposed to say some things concern ing him. beginning where they had left j otf. Thesame Paul who said in one place, i ‘ Ho courteous ” and who had noticed the : bow preceding the wrestling match, here exercises suavities before ho proceeds prac- ‘ tically to throw down the rocky side of the Acropolis the whole Parthenon of idolatries. Minerva and .Jupiter smashed : up with the rest of them. In this holy war polished rilles will do mon\execution than blunderbusses. Ixd our wrestlers bow as they go into the struggle which will leave all perdition under and all I heaven on top. The Test o€ Strength. Remember also that these wrestlers went through severe and continuous cotfrse of preparation for their work. They were put upon such diet as would Ix'st develop their muscle. As I'aul says. ‘‘Every man that, strive h for the mastery is temperate in all things.” The wrestlers were put under complete discipline—bathing, gym nastics. struggle in sport with each other to develop si • ngt.h and give quickness te tkid' O oi bi .■■■•! trip of foot, stooping to | lift < eh otli rot? the ground, suddenly rushing form rd !enly pulling back ward putting the 1< : f ci behind the oth er's r'-h to ■ : an i :,.' i . g his --ppenent otf I’.i- I ;.’ >me, hard tn; .ling for days and week- and month-, so that when they met it was giant clutching giant. And, my friends, if v.e d< n t want ourselves to be thrown in this wrestle w :h the sin and error of the world " bad totter get ready b< Christian discipline, by holy self de ni;.], bv eor< mt practice, by submitting to .1 vine supqrvi-;d and direction. Do not bev'rudge the time a ul the money for that yo’in n :u» who is in preparation for the ; j n it , . • i.two yuirs in grammar seh -ill and lour years in college and three veers in th.. logical seminary. I know that nine years are a big slice to take off o' a man's a-tix. life. b'i’ if you realized the i. ’r ,O -tn - 'LI of the archangels of evil : n *-ur tii .<? vvi’h which that young man i< .•)■ .' to wrestle you would uot this k nine of I''?-'’' on were too muc . , .• ~t.d ministry was e y- cu- 1 - iri r but not in this til . ... . .. ■ im ,’S -■•••d colleges. A I, . . v... : • the Other day a letter }l < ; ,.. x .... },. i b called topreach ti> - ■ \ - ~’n t’-.e word • iod” with a Bini-.U .7! .ii.u of a man i« not called to . . h t <p, 1. Illiterate men, pre u; i r ■ - -i, . in.to for their own i >, . ■ tural ’.osago, “C. • v. co, n ;-l 1 till it.” Y ' b • it , .-.h <!. i’rvpara- tju.. iv- d ; ah.suluUly neees- « sary. rg-j Rr. Uewnian and | F-r. Fundinand, on the platform of Brig- j ham Young's tabernacle at Salt Lake i City, gained the victory because they had i so long txven skillful wrestlers for God. ' Otherwis<- Brigham Young, who waa him- • self a giant, in somts things, would have thrown them out of the window. Get j ready in Bible claKse<»: Get ready in Chris- I tian End.-tvor meetings. Get ready by | giving testimony in obscure places lieforo . giving testimony in conspicuous places. 1 Vltahly Mrtsj ssle. Your going around with a Bagster's Bibl. , with flapa at the edges, under your arm does not qualify you for the work of I an evangelist. In this day of profuse gah I rememlx-r tiiat it is not merely capacity • to talk, but. the fact that you have some- I thing to say, that is going to fit you for I the struggle into which you are to go with i a smile on your face and illumination on your brow, Imt out of which you will not come U4>til all your physical and mental ami moral,anil religious energies have hen taxed to tho utmost ami you have not a nerve left nr a thought unexpended or a prayer unsaid or a symjmthy unwept. In this struggle Is-tween right and wrong acxsqit no challenge on platform or in newspaper unless you are prej:ared. Do not misapply the story of Goliath the Great and David the Little. David had lieen practicing with a sling on dogs and wolves ami bundits, and a thousand times had he .-wired a stone around his head be fore he aimed at, the for. head of the giant and tumbled him backward, otherwise the big foot, of Goliath would almost have covered up the crushed form of the son of •lesso. Notice also that the success of a wrestler •lepemied on his having his feet well planted F iore he grappled his opponent. Much depends njion the way the wrestler stands. Standing on an uncertain piece of ground or bearing all his weight on right foot or all his weight on left foot, he is not rea<ly. A slightcuff of hisantag onist, will capsize him. A stroke of tho h< <4 of the other wrestler will trip him. And in this struggle for God and right eousness, as well as for our own souls, we want our feet firmly planted in the gospel —bol ii feet on the Rix-k of Ages. It will not do to believe the Bible in spots or think some of it true find some of it un true. Yon just make up your mind that the story of the garden of Eden is an alle gory, and the epistle of James an interpo lation and that the miracles of Christ can be .-wconnted for on natural grounds, with out any belief in the supernatural, and the first, time you are interlocked in a wrestle with sin and satan you will go un der and your feet will be higher than your head. It will not do to have one foot on a rock and the other on tho sand. Tho old book would long ago have gone to pieces if it, had been vulnerable. But of the millions of Bibles that have been printed within the last 25 years, notone i-hapter has be< n omitted, and the omis sion of one chapter would have been the cause of the reject ion of the whole edition. Alas, for those who while trying to prove that Jonah was never swallowed of a whale, themselves get swallowed of the whale of unbelief, which digests but never ejects its victims. The inspiration of the Bible is not more certain than tho preser vation of the Bible in its present condi tion. After so many centuries of assault on the book would it not boa matter of economy, to say the least—economy of brain and economy of stationery and econ omy of printers' inst—is tho batteries now assailing the book would change their aim and be aimed against some other books, and the world shown that Walter Scott did not write ‘‘The Ixuly of tho Lake,” nor Homer “The Iliad,” nor Virgil ‘‘Tho Georgies,” nor Thomas Moore “Lalla Rookh,” or that Washington’s farewell address was written by Thomas Paine, and that the war of t ho American Revolu tion never occurred. That attempt would be quite as successful as this long timed attack anti-Biblical, and then it would bo new. Oh, keep out of this wrestling bout with the ignorance and the wretchedness of the world unless you feel that both feet are planted in the eternal veracities of the took of Almighty God! Science of Wrestlinß. , Notice also that in this science of wres tling, to which Paul refers in my text, it was the third throw that decided tho con test. A wrestler might be thrown once and thrown twice, but tho third time he might recover himself, and by an unex pected twist of arm or curve of foot gain the day. Well, that is broad, smiling, un mistakable gospel. Some whom I address . through ear or eye, by voice or printed page, have been thrown in thoir wrestle witli evil habit. Ayo, you have been thrown twice, but that does not mean, oh, worsted soul, that you are thrown forever! I have no au thority for saying how many times a man may sin and bo forgiven, or how many times he may fall and yet rise again, but I have authority for saying that he may fall -190 times, and 490 times get up. Tho Bible declares that God will forgive 70 times 7, and if you will employ the rule of multiplication you will find that 70 times 7is 190. Blessed be God for such a gos pel of high hope and thrilling encourage nient and magnificent rescue. A gospel of lost sheep brought homo on shepherd’s shoulder, and the prodigals who got into the low work of putting husks into swines’ troughs brought home to jewelry and ban queting and hilarity that made the raft ers ring. Three sketches of the same man: A hap py home, of which he and a lassie taken from a neighbor’s house are the united head. Years of happiness roll on aftei years as happiness. Stars pointing down to nativities. And whether announced in greeting or not every morning was a “Good morning” and every night a “Good I night.” Christmas trees and May queens I and birthday festivities and Thanksgiving i gatherings around loaded tables. But ! that husliand and father forms an unfor tunate acquaintance who leads him in cir cles too convivial, too late houred, too scandalous. After awhile, his money gone : and not. al.le to bi'ar his part of the cx- I pense, he is gradually shoved out and ig ■ tiered and pushed away. Now. what a I dilapidated home is his! A dissipated life , always shows itself in faded window cur | tains, and impoverished wardrobe, and de jected surroundings, and in broken pal ! ingsof the garden fence, and tho unhinged I gate, and the dislocated doorbell, and the disappearance of wife and children from ! scenes among which they shone the bright est, and laughed the gladdest. If any , man was ever down, that husband and fa ; ther is down. A Powerful Foe. Tho fact, is he got into a wrestle with evil ! that pushed and pulled and contorted and exhausted him worse than any Olympian game ev< r treated a Grecian, and he was thrown—thrown out of prosperity into gliii.in, threavn out of good association in to bad, thrown out • health into invalid ism, thrown out of happiness into misery. But one day while slinking through one ; of the back streets, not w ishing to to rec i ognized, a good thought crosses his mind, | for lie has heard of men flung flat rising again. Arriving at his house, he calls his wife in and shuts the door and says: “Mary,l am going to do differently. This is uot what I promised you when we were married. You have Ikoii very patient with n o and have borne everything, al though I would have had no right to com plain if you bad left me and gone home to your iaiher's house. *lt seems to me that one? or twice when I was not myself I struck you. and several times, I know. 1 celbal you hard Fames. Now I want you to forgive me. I niu going to do better, and I want you to help me.” “Helpyou?” ' sh ' says. “Bless your soul, of counsel wi;. help you. I knew you didn’t, mean it when you treated me roughly. All that j is in the past. Never refer to it again. Totiay let ns begin anew.” Sympathizing friends come arennd and kind business people help the man to sometbiug to do. so that he can again earn a living. The children soon have clothing so that they can go to school, j The old songs which rhe wife sang years ago come back to her memory and she sings them over again at the cradle or while preparing the noonday meal. Do mestic resurrection! He comes home j earlier than he used to, and he is glad to ! spend the evening playing games with the ' children or helping them with arithmetic \ or grammar lessons which are a little too hard. Time passes on, and some outsider i suggests to him that he is not getting as i much out of life as he ought and proposes ! an occasional visit jo acenes of worldlings® ' and dissipation. Tie consents to go once, and, after much solicitation, twice. Then his old habit comes back. He says he has been lielat.d and could not get back until midnight. He had to see some western merchant that*had arrived and talk of business with him before he got out of town. Kindness and geniality again quit the disposition of that husbandand father. The wife’s heart breaks in a new place. That man goes into a second wrestle with evil habit and is flung and all hell cackles at the moral defeat. “I told you so!” say many good people who have no faith in the reformation of a fallen man. “I told you so! You made a great fuss about his restored home, but I knew it would not last. You can’t trust these fellows who have once gone wrong.” So with this un fortunate, things get worse and worse, and his family have to give up the house, and the last valuable goes to the pawn broker’s shop. But that unfortunate man is sauntering along the street one Sunday night, and he goes up to a church door, ami the congregation are singing the sec ond hymn, the one just before sermon, and it is William Cowper’s glorious hymn: There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Emmanuel’s veins. And sinners plunirM beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains. Victory tfirouuli t hrisf. He goes into the vestibule of the church and stops there, not feeling well enough dressed to go among the worshipers, and he hears the minister say, “You will find the words of my text in Luke, the nine teenth chapter and tenth verse, 'The Son of Man is come to seek and save that which was lost.’ ” The listener in the vestibule says: “If any man was ever lost, I am lost, and the Son of Man came to save that which is lost and he has found me, and ho will take me out of this lost con dition. Oh, Christ, have mercy on me.” The poor man has courage now to enter the main audience room, and he sits down on the first seat by the door, and when at the close of the sc -vice the minister comes down the aisle the poor man tells his story, and he is encouraged and invited to come again, and the way is cleared for him for membership in a Christian church, and he feels the omnipotence of what Peter the apostle said when he spoke of those “kept by the power of God through faith unto complete salvation.” Yet he is to have one more wrestle before he is free from evil habits, and be gdes into it not in his own strength, for that has fail ed him twice, but in the strength of the Lord God Almighty. The old habit seizes him, and he seizes it, and the wrestlers bend backward and forward and from side to side in awful struggle, until tho mo ment conies for his liberation, and with both arms infused with strength from God he lifts that habit, swings it in air and hurls it into the perdition from W’hich it came and from which it never again will rise. Victory, victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ! Hear it, all ye wres tlers! It threw him twice, but the third time he threw it, and by the grace of God threw it. so hard he is as safe now as if he had been ten years in heaven. Oh, lam so glad that Paul in my text suggests the wrestlerand the power of the third throw. But notice that my text suggests that the wrestlers on tho other side in the great struggle for tho world’s redemption have all the forces of demonology to help them, “We w’restle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of tho darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” All military men will tell you that is nothing more unwise than to under estimate an army In estimating what wo have to contend with the most of the reformers do not recognize the biggest cp posers. They talk about the agnosticism, and the atheism, and the materialism, und the Nihilism, and the Pantheism, and the Brahmanism, and the Mohanu'iedanisni, as well as the more agile and organized and endowed wickednesses of our day. But these are only a phri of the hostili ties arrayed against God and the best in terests of humanity. The invisible hosts are far more numerous than the visible. It is not so much the bottle; it is the de mon of the bottle. It is not so much the roulette table; it is + he dem vof the rou lette cable. It is not so muc'i the act of stock gambling as it is the demon of stock gambling. It is the great host of spiritual antagonists led on by Aziel or Lucifer or Beelzebub or Asmodeus or Ahrimanes or Abaddon, just as you please to call the leader infernalistic. Can you doubt that the human agencies of evil are backed up by Plutonic agencies? If it were only a aommon war steed, with panting nostril and flaunting mane and clattering hoof, rushing upon us, perhaps we might clutch him by the bit and hurl him back upon his haunches, but it, is the black horse cavalry of perdition who dash down, and their riders swing swords which, though invisible, cleave individuals and homes and nations. I tell you Paul was right when he suggested that we wrestle not with pygmies, but with giants that will down us unless the Lord Almighty is our coad jutor. Blessed bo God that wo have now and further on will have in mightier de gree that divine help! Tritinipli of Righteonsnens. Tho time is coming—I know it will quicken your pulses when I mention it— when tho last mighty evil of the world will be grappled by righteousness and thrown. Which of the great evils will survive all the others I know not, whether war or revenge or fraud or lust or intem perance or gambling or Sabbath desecra tion. It will not be “tho survival of the fittest,” but the. survival of the worst. It will be the evil the most thoroughly in trenched, most completely re-enforced, most patronized by wealth and fashion and pomp, most applauded by all the prin cipalities ami powers and rulers of dark ness. It will stand, with grim visage, looking down upon the graves of all the other slain abominations —graves dug by the hot shovels of despair and surmounted by such epitaphiology as this: “It biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.” “The wages of sin is death.” “Her house inclineth unto death and her paths unto the dead.” “There is away that seemeth right to a man, but the end thereof is Swath.” Yes! I imagine we have arrived at the time when we may say, Yonder stands the last and only great evil of all the world to be wrestled down. It stands, not only looking upon the graves of all the entombed and epitaphed iniquities of the world, but ever and anon gazing up ward in defiance of the heavens and shak ing its fist at the Almighty, saying: “Nothing can put me down. I have seen all the other enemies of the human race wrestled down and destroyed, but there is no arm or .foot, human or angelic or de illc that can throw me. I have ruined whole generations, and I swear by all the thrones of diabolism that I will ruin this generation. Come on, all ye churches and all ye reformatory institutions and all ye legislatures and all ye thrones! I chal lenge you! I plant my feet on this redhot rock of the world's woe. I stretch forth my arms for the mightiest wrestle any world has ever seen. Come on, come on !” Then righteousness w’ill accept the chal lenge, and the two mighty wrestlers will grapple, while ail the galleries of earth and heaven look down from one side, and all the fiery chasms of perdition look up from the other side. The two wrestlers sway to and fro and turn this way and that, and now tho monster evil seems the mightier of the two. and now righteous ness seems atout to triumph. The prize is worth a struggle, for it is not a chaplet of laurel or palm, but the rescue of a world and a wreath put on the brow by him who promised, “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown.” Three worlds—earth, heaven and hell—hold their breath while waiting for the result of struggle, when, with one mighty swing of an arm muscled with omnipotence, right eousness hurls the last evil first on its knees aval then on its face, and then roll ing off and down with a crash wilder than that with which Samson hurled the tem ple of Dagon when he got hold of its two chief pillars, but more like the throwing of satan out of het-ven, as described by John Milton: Him the Almighty power flung i Headlong flaming fu ni the ethereal sky, With hideous rv.in and combustion, down I To bottomless perdition, there to dwell . In adamantine chains and penal fire I Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the suace that measures day and night i To mortal man, he, with his horrid crew, ! Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf, | Confounded, though MACON NEWS MONDAY “EVENING, NOVEMBER 7 1898. A Bonnie World. Aye, that suggests a cheering thought, that if all the realms of demonology are on the ether side all the realms of angel- I ology are on our side, among them Gabriel , and Michael the archangel, and the angel of the new covenant, Snd they are now talking over the present awful struggle and final glorious triumph, talking amid i the alabaster pillars and in the ivory pal- j aces, and along the broad ways anti grand j avenues of the great capital of the uni- I verse, and amid the spray of fountains with rainbows like the ‘rainbow round the throne,” and as they take their morn ing ride in tho chariots with white horse® bitted with gold that were seen by John in vision apopalyptic, and while waiting in temples for the one hundred and forty and four thousand to chant, accompanied by harpers and trumpeters, and thunder ingsand halleluiahs like the voice of many witters. Yes, all h aven is on our side, and the “high places of wickedness” spo ken of in n»y text are not so high as the high places of heaven, where there are enough rest-rve forces if our earthly forces should to overpowered, .or in cowardice fall back, to sweep down some morning at daybreak and take all this earth for God before the city clocks could strike 12 for’ noon. And the cabinet of heaven, the most august cabinet in the universe, made up of three—God the Father, God tho Son and God the Holy Ghost—aro now in ses sion in the King’s palace, and they are ■ with ns, and they are going to see ua I through, and they invite us as soon as we 1 have done our share of the work to go up • and .leth Jl snd celebrate the final vic i tory, taut i.-, more sure to como than to- I morrow's sunrise. While I think of it, the ; Scotch evangelistic hymn conies upon me I and stirs tlio strong tide of Scotch blood that rolls through ley arteries: Its a bonnie, bunnie warl’ that we’re livin in , the noo, An sunny is the lan’ that noo we aften traiv’ll throe, 1 But in vain we look for something here to 1 which oor hearts may cling, 1 For its beauty is as naething tae the palace o’ 1 the King. ■ I We like the gilded summer, wi’ Its merry, nierrj’ trend, ; An wc sigh w hen heavy winter “lavs its beau ties wi’ the dead, : For. tho’ liuiniie are the snaw'flakes an the 1 dimn on winter's wing, 1 i It's fine to ken it daurna touch : the palace o’ the King; | Naenicht shall to in heaven an nae dcsolatin 1 sea, 1 An nae tyrant hoofs shall trample i’ the city : 1 o’ the free: 1 A TEXAS WONDER. Hall’s Great Discovery. 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New York, Nov. s—iA5 —iA special to the Herald from Washington says: The army investigation commission will soon go to Santiago and very probably, though not certainly, to Porto Rico. This is according to the announcement made several -weeks ago. They met no opposition on the part of the president who .was understood to acquiesce perfectly in the decision of the commission. As much information as possible will be gath ered and it is believed that the evidence to be taken subsequently will then toe bet ter understood. The time of going has not yet been decided upon. Information from a member of the com mission is that the reports from the heads of staff departments will be first read. ; General Corlinz’s report has not yet been received and it contains over 300,000 words. Then other reports will be read, after .Which the commission will hold ses sions in New York. It is not probable that the commission will go to Santiago until after the New York sessions. 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By Associated Press. 1 Seattle, Wash., Nov. 5. —Japanese ad vices received on the steamer Rio Jun Ma ru say that a bill has been submitted by the government to the diet providing for the registration of foreign firms establish ing branches in Japan. Since the amendement of the currency regulations the Nippen Ginke has with drawn one yen paper notes to the amount of seven million yen, leaving about fifty five million yen still in circulation. The charter granted for the construction of the Formosan railway expires on th 15th of November and an arrangement has been made for a foreign loan for a | period of ten years. Work will be started at once. The adoption by the Formosa authori ties of the gold standard is another reform which the Gotoshimpel. chief of the For mosa administration bureau wishes to bring about. It is estimated that it will cost 1,700.000 I yen to repair the damages caused by the recent typhoon in Formosa. The purchase of public loan bonds un dertaken by the Japanese government as a means of relieving the financial strin gency and which was introduced by Count Inouye. ex-finance minister, was suspen ' ded on the 10th instant. The total of the 1 bonds purchased amounts to 38,000.000 rn face value, about 36,000,000 yen in cash 1 paid. The average amount of daily pur chase was about 10.000 to 20.000 yen. I • CASTOR IA ' For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of The Best Plaster A piece of flannel dampened with Cham berlain’s Pain Balm and bound on to the affected parts is superior to any piaster. When troubled with a pain in the chest I or side, or a lame back, give it a trial. You are certain to be more than pleased Pain Balm is also a certain cure for rheu matism. For sale by H. J. Lamar & Sons, druggists. RESCUE FROM i MARIA TEO Thrilling; Account of the Sink ! ing of the Spanish War Ship, SEAS MOUNTAIN HIGH, I Ran All the Time and Work Requir ed Greatest Bravery and Coolness. By Associated Prere. Ft. Monroe, Va., Nov. 7. —Ensign James C. Summers', who was officer of the deck of the \ ulcan when the Maria Teresa was abandoned, describes the scene thus: The gale in which the Teresa was tossed began with a fierce squall five minutes before 1 o’clock on the morning of November 1. The wind and sea rose at 1 o’clock. From the Teresa’s bridge came the wig wag signal by lamp “Signal Merritt to steer to windward.” The Mer ritt ait once changed her course to north east. It had been north. To us the fact that the Teresa must be kept head to sea was in itself ominous. All signals were made to us by wigwag flag from the Teresa. We repeated them to the Merritt or Leonidas. “At noon the gale had increased to vio lence and all three vessels labored heav ily in the sea. The Teresa plunging deep ly, took much water on board over the boks, and often when righted she shipped seas amidships. Her starboard engine only was being used. It was turning thirty eight revolutions when last reported. The forward wrecking pump was sending out a large stream over the bow. “At ten minutes past noon the Leonidas then fully a mile ahead was signaled ‘do not go so far ahead.’ Thirty minutes later the Teresa signaled, ‘can Merritt run to Walling’s Island safely.’ The 'Merritt answered ‘no,’ promptly. This was the first intimation of the real danger at hand. “Almost simultaneously with the Mer ritt’s next signal, ‘give your orders,’ came this from the Teresa, ‘tell Merritt to cast off and come within hail.’ This was done and her crew hauled in one hundred fathoms of hauser while on the way to as sist the Teresa. The latter then signaled, ‘w'e shall abandon ship. Tell Leonidas to stand by us to windarwd. Do not oast off our lines.’ Lieutenant Geo. P. Blow im mediately planned the Vulcan’s part in the scheme of rescue. Being almost-sure that the Teresa’s starboard engine would be kept working to the last, it was decid ed to hold on to the hawser, thereby giv ing the Teresa sufficient steering way to enable her helmsman to keep the heavy sea on her starboard ibow and still be to leeward of the Vulcan, enabling the latter to use oil to advantage where the rescuing boats began. “From the first the heavy laboring of the Teresa gave the impression that she would founder suddenly and that all of her peo ple would be overboard at any moment, either swimming or drowning before our own eyes. Assistant Paymaster Robert IH. Wood. United States Navy, was detailed to note the time that each signal was sent and repeated. Oil was the first requisite. Mechanics passed it up in buckets from the hole. Those on deck filled small rub ber bags with it. The effect was imme diate in smoothing the heavy sea near the wreck. “Rubber life belts were brought on the deck and filled with air ready to throw to men in the water. A bow line was made in every rope’s end by which the men could be hauled out of the sea. If the ship had foundered before her people were ta ken off. it was the commanding officer’s intention after cutting the hawser, to place bis vessel to leeward and then work up to the windward of the men in the water and pick them up. “Half the charges were extracted from some six-pounder shells and they were fit ted over the ends of ears to Which small lines were attached. These were to have been find from the gun across the spot where the men might have been seen in the water. “After the Teresa began to fill it be came impossible for the Vulcan to keep her head to windward, but being practi cally waterlogged -she made an excellent breakwater for the boats, even after she fell off in the trough of the sea. “(Directed by Lieutenant Gilmer, the crew and engineer force equipped two life boats with oars, life preservers and oil bags. They were launched from the top of the deck house and by means of long lines were veered astern, in the 'hope that they would reach the Teresa, but the heavy sea carried them far to windward; they fouled the hawser and were finally cut adrift. “At 2 o’clock in the afternoon the ‘were ship,’ just astern of the Teresa 'and came up under her lee just in time to -take off the first boatload of rescued persons. The wreckers and volunteers from the naval vessels had succeeded in lowering one of the two surf boats hanging from davits on the Teresa’s port side. Pulling quickly clear.of the ship’s side, the boats crew composed of the wreckers men, went about saving the people in a systematic way. “There was less than four hours of day light left in which to rescue 114 persons, including eighteen Cuban sailors, and such a sea as was running would have daunted any life boat crew. To have attempted to go near enough the ship’s side to let her people climb down into the boats meant certain destruction to the rescuing party. 3o while the boat was towed by its painter from the ship’s lee quarter and was kept clear (by two men at the oars and by the steerman in the stern, another line was used to send down the men from the ship. “Each man slung in the center of this rope was hauled through the water in most cases to the boat and then tumbled in over the bow. It was slow but a safe process, as the result proved, for by 5 o’clock every man as far as we could see was safe on board the Merritt. “The force of the gale and height of the sea may be best understood by the fact that although nearly 230 fathoms of haw ser separated the Teresa from the Vulcan, the watchers on the latter vessel, owing to the heavy seas, driving rain and spray, were only able to see the boats of the res cuing party at long intervals when they came out of the trough of the sea. The Merritt herself, although a splendid sea boat, was buried in the trough of the sea at times so that only the ends of her mastheads were visible. The first boat lowered made in all four round trips be tween the Teresa and the- Merritt and the second made three trips, so that to rescue all hands the boats had to make the pas sage through those heavy combing seas fourteen times, and right gallantly did those brave fellows accomplish the work. Lucky indeed was it for those rescued that the boats were manned by pastmas ters at the oar and helm. “For two hours men with axes, under the direction of the executive officer had been statibhed aft, ready to cut away the hawser at a moment’s notice, in case the Teresa should founder during the transfer of her men. Every Vulcan man watched the ship with an anxious eye as she plunged ‘forecastle under’ the head seas clear to the turret coming out again with the water streaming from her hawser pipes and showing the heel of her ram above the big sea. Forty-four Shipmates of theirs were aboard the doomed vessel, and it was yet a question whether their rescue could be effected before dark. “Heavy rain squalls beat the seas down a little at this time, but the wind blew harder than ever. Struggling for a foot hold on the Teresa’s rickety bridge her signal man, Crossett, wigwagged to the Vulcan at 4 o’clock, ‘don’t cast off the tow lines yet, two more boatloads will clear the ship.’ We replied, ‘all right; will hold on until the last.’ “High upon the bridge, eilhoutted against the leaden sky and bracing him self against the fearful rolling of the Te rasa as she wallowed in the seas, stood the man at the wheel. He was alone and probably the last perron to leave his post, for it was not until the final boat was re • ceiving tts quota of men that he lashed the wheel, came down the bridge and lad der and went aft to leave the ship. “It was not until 5:11 o’clock when Lieutenant Blow and his officers were cer tain that last boat load had been taken off that the order was given to ‘cut away.’ Two blows of an axe severed the lines, and as the links of the chain bridles cut through the stern chocks, the Vulcan’s crew, led by Chief Engineer Gardiner C. Sims, United States Navy, gave three ringing cheers as a salute to the stars and stripes flying as if in defiance of the ele ments at the Teresa jackyard and also to the bravery of the Merritt’s men. who had made such a gallant rescue of their ship mates. «* “Twenty minutes later it was so dark that the Teresa was only a black speck against the horizon and at 6 o’clock noth ing could be seen, while the gale howled and the sa rose higher than ever.” BLACKMAILERS. Newly Appointed Consul and His Wife Ar rested in New York., By Associated Press. 1 New York, Nov. 7. —William A. E. Moore, who has been staying at the Gren able hotel with his wife, Fayne Moore, were arrested by Central office detectives last night on the charge of atempted ex tortion and blackmail. i Martin Mahon, the proprietor of the New Amsterdam, hotel is the complainant, and Charges the prisoners with having black mailed him out of $167 and a diamond pin and with attempting to extort an addi tional $5,000. Moore had in his possession the appoint ment by President McKinley as United States consul to Durban, Indian River, South ,r I-;.-; wife is said to be the 1 daughter of ex-Ohief Justice Sitrahn, of the supreme court of Oregon, her home ‘ being in Salem. Ore. Moore said he had not yet gone to the station in South Africa to which he had been appointed, as he i expected -another appointment in the place > of lit as consul to Budapest. Hie home is i said to be in Cleveland. CA.STOTITA.. Bears the st Ihe Kind You Have Always Bought T" Plies, men. ruee i Dr. Williams’ Indian Pile Ointment will cure Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles when all other ointments have failed. It absorbs the tumors, allays the itching at once, acts as a poultice, gives instant re lief. Dr. Williams' Indian Pile Ointment is prepared only for Piles and itching of the private parts and nothing else. Every box is warranted. Sold by druggists or sent by mail on receipt of price, 50c and. SI.OO per box. 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