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felOfl'tsh' t''Apdstilhtl of I Ur tfrti fh-Mt \\ dit
a Fleck and l.est a Kingdom—Impres¬
sive Lessons Unin n From an Old l.lblo
Story—Tho litter Fiilllifv of Fraud*
Tnxr: "And Samuel said, Wlint nioancth
then this bleating of the sheep In mine
ears mid the lowing of the oxen which l
t Semite] -iv;, lb
The Amrtiekttes thought they ihbt con¬
quered Odd mid flint .lid woiild not carry
Into execution l\cd-mer,b ljis, Ihreafs Isl'iudiloi against them,
They led Mu lr battle
and out o( bat tle amt left no outrage un¬
tried. For four hundred years this bad
been going on. ami they gay, "G-od either
dare not punish us or He has forgotten to
do so.” Lot us see. Samuel, God’s
the prophet, tolls Saul to go down and slay them all
Amnlokites, not leaving one of
alive; also to destroy all the beasts in their
possession—ox, sheep, camel and ass,
flnrk, I hear the tread of aiff.OGO men, with
monstrous Ills shield Saul at dangling their head, liisMdd, tibHiw‘ hold¬ with
armor, ill
ing 111 Ills hand il spear, niilhdie lit the waving of
which tlie great liosl 1 or bulled. 1
SCO s niolib curling Against, the sky.. Now
there tlie tl’hdlc 11 g thick cb'itd ui >f h, eimriot ihpl fipW I See
eity rising a of siriokd
behind steeds of lire. It is Saul that set, the
city ablaze. Tho Amnlokites battle and Israelites
peal, meet; the trumpets of blow peal Tlien "II
and there Is a death hush.
there is ri signal waved, swords, iimiS cut and
Illicit, javelins ring oil shields, MU
from trunks and heads roll Into the dust.
Gash after gash, the frenzied yell, the
gurgling of throttled throats, the cry of
pain, the laugh of revenge, the curse hissed
between clinched teeth an army's dcntti
groan. Stacks et dead on all sides, with
eyes unshut and mouths yet grinning volt*
geitnee Huzza for the Israelites! Two
hundred And ten thoitsitlid sUloUhl, jtteji for wave their
btltnioS God jiiltii (hid chip their vieteiy. tile liofd
given tlidui thd is
Yet that victorious army of Israel con¬
quered prophet. by sheep and told oxen, (led, through
the Sanniek HAnl to silly nil
file Amalekltei’ rtml hi shiy Saul, i'll tlie beasts in
their possession, but thinking ho
knows more than God, live saves Agag, the
Amalokjtish king, and drove of sheep
and a herd of oxen that he cannot bear to
kill. Saul drives tho shoe)' and oxen down
toward home. He bus no Idea that Samuel,
the prophet, will find out that he lifts saved
these sheep and oxen for himself. Samuel
comes and asks Saul the news from the
battle. Saul puts on n solemn face for
there Is no one who can look more Soli >nin
tlmn ”f bat'd your fulfilled genuine hypocrite, i:he Command and lib.says,
of the
Lord.” Samuel listens, niul lie hears the
idea drove that of sheep a prophet's little way off. Saul had no
the ear would bo so
acute. Kamuel says to ,Saul, "If you have
done as God told you and vlnlh all the,
Amnlokites And nil the beast ju tljeir pos-
Nessloit; what mine ttteanelU the the bleating lowing of of the
sheep In ears and the
oxen that I hear?” Ah, one would have
thought that blushes would havo con¬
sumed the cheek of Saul. No, no! He says
tho army not himself, nf course, but the
sacrilleo, a :■ mv—had saved the sheep and oxen for
and then they thought It would
be too bad anyhow to kill Agag, tlieAmalo-
kftish king. Samuel takes the sword, and
takes be slashes the Agag of his L> ■pieces, coat In mid then oriental he
skirt true
style and rends R in twain, as much ns
to say, ‘‘You, Haul, just Jlkn that, shall bo
torn away from your empire and torn nwny
from your throne.’’ In other words, let
till tile tuitions of tilt) earth lieitv tht' story
that SlUil, by disobeying, God; Won it llocic
bf I sliohp, learn but lost a kingdom.
from tills subject that God will
bus oxposo fulfilled hypocrisy. divine Here Haul pretends he
tho commission by slay¬
ing all the beasts belonging to the Anutle-
kites, and yet at the very moment he is
telling tho story and practicing the delu¬
sion the secret comes out, and tho sheep
bleat and the oxen bellow.
A hypocrite is one who pretends to be
tvhat lie is not or to do what lie does not.
Haul was only a type, of a class. Tho mod-
era hypoerito looks and awfully solemn, whines
When ho prays during Ills public de¬
votion shows a great deal of the White of
Ills eyes. Ho never laughs, or, If lie does
laugh, lie seems sorry for It afterward, as
though he had committed some great in¬
discretion. The, first time, he gets a chance
ho prays twenty minutes in public, and
when he exhorts ho seems to imply that all
the race are sinners, with one exception,
his modesty forbidding the stating who
that one is. There are a great many
churches that have two or three ecclesiasti¬
cal Uriah Hoops.
When tho fox begins to pray, look out
for your chickens. The more genuine re¬
ligion a man has tho more comfortable lie
will be, but you may know a religious Im¬
postor by the fact that he prides himself on
being uncomfortable. A man of that kind
is of immense damage to tho church of
Christ. A ship may outride a hundred
storms, and yet a handful of worms in the
church planks nmy sink it to the bottom. in The
of God is not so much danger of
tin* cyclones of trouble and persecution
that come upon it as of tho vermin of
hypocrisy danger to that the fold infest it. Wolves unless are of no
of God they look
like sheep. Arnold was of more damage
to the army than Cornwallis and Ids hosts.
certillcate! Oil, wo cannot deceive behind God with a church
He sees tho curtain as
well as before tho curtain. He sees every¬
thing inside out. A man may through
policy hide his rood character, but God will
after awlillo tear open the whited sepulcher
and expose the putrefaction. Sunday
faces cannot save him. Long prayers
cannot save him. Psalm singing and
churchgoing cannot save him. God will
expose him just ns thoroughly as though
He branded upon Ids forehead the word
successful “Hypocrite.” lie may think he lias been
in tho deception, hut at the
most unfortunate moment the sheep will
bleat and the oxen will bellow.
One of the cruel bishops of olden time was
going to excommunicate one of the martyrs,
and he began In the usual form—“In Hie
name of God, amen.” "Htop,” says the
martyr. “Don’t say‘In the name of God!”’
Yet bow many outrages are practiced un¬
der the garb of religion and sanctity. When
in synods and conferences something ministers of the
gospel erly end are unkind about to abput say member, unbroth- they
a
almost tho always begin by being assault tremendously
pious, ponding venom of their flavor of the corres¬
to the heavenly pre¬
lude. Standing there, you would think
they were ready to go right up Into glory
and that nothing kept them down but the
weight of their boots and overcoat, when
suddenly the sheep bleat and the oxen bel¬
low.
Ob, my -dear friends, let us cultivate
simplicity of Christian character! Jesus
Christ said: “Unless you become as this
little child you cannot enter tho kingdom
of God.” We may play hypocrite success¬
fully now, but tho Lord God will after
awhile expose your true character. You
must know tho incident mentioned In tin-
history of Ottaoas, Handoiphus who was asked to kneel
in the presence of i., and a when
before him he refused to do it, but after a
while he agreed to come in private when
there was nobody in the king’s tent, and
then br> would kneel down before him arid
had worship, arranged but the servants drawing .of the cord king
it so that by a
the tent would suddenly and drop. Ottacas
after a while came in, supposing lie
was in entire privacy knelt before Jiaudol-
ptius. The servants pulled the cord, the
tent dropped, and two armies surrounding
looked down on Ottacas kneeling before
Randolphug. If we were really kneeling to
the world while we proD-s the to b“ has lowly
subjects of Jesus Christ, tout al¬
ready dropped and all the hosts of heaven
are gazing upon our hypocrisy. place, God's
universe is a very public it. and you
cannot hide hypocrisy in
I learn it furl her from this subject sins tloW
natural Is,to try to put off our on
other pfopR Saul was charged with >b s -
<b‘it' The tyim says It was not he j
ho did hot save two slump; fib the 1 shoulders Il.l l(, <’
Irving other people. to throw It off on la tho
Human nature same
aiilu,', luflill.iigos, "flp’ Adam, confronted with litssln,
ffoipan tciiipto l me. and I did
eat.' And hid woinnll ili’i rVd It tlppl) Did
serpent, and If. tho serpent eoulu have
spoken It would havo charged It upon tho
devil. 1 suppose tlmt tho eating ronl state of tho
case was that Eve was the apple and
(lull Adam saw It and hogged and coaxed
Until lie get A piece of If t suppose that
Adrtnt wasjiist its rriiteh to bliiide ds five was.
Veil kill cannot throw, off the f-epponslldlity dt
IliiV .lipI'll il tlie Shoulders df othoi h people. i
turn . Here is young milii Wild say.-. Iqiovt
doingjvreng, hut 1 have hot had any
chance! I had,a fathci ,\vl»o disciple ,deapj*ed (led
mid ri illOthot Who win, ;; of g.odlesif
fashion, I am not to blame foi ni l .(!•!.*; tt Is
my bringing up. Oil, no; that young man
has been out In the world long enough to
see wliat is right and to see whirl is wrong,
and In the great day of eternity he cannot
throw Ills sins upon bis father or mother,
Imt will have to stand for himself and an¬
swer before God. You have had a eon-
selenite, yml have had A Dibit' nud *he luflii-
Ouee Mil iff the Itoiy Spirit. Stand for yoUtaftlf
or Herd for (A ydi|rs<f!f. il hiisinesti .rijitri. jle “I
rigid sitys,
know f don’t do exactly In ti.tdb, bgt
all I he dry goods men do It and fill the hard¬
ware men i,lo this*, throw' and I am not respon¬
sible,- shoulders y on cannot oldiei off yoursin upon
tho ol in-’toheuls. God
will hold you responsible for what you d-
and them responsible for what they do. I
want to quote one passage of Scripture for
you 1 think II Is In Proverbs "If thou he
Wise; 'hop shall be Wise for thyself, it but if
tllou seoriu-st lin’d duiiio it lit*. It 1,’l'tit 1 "
1 learn further from this subjiVI Haul xtfhitt
God meant by extermination, was
told to slay all the Amalokitos and the
beasts In their possession. He saves Agag,
the Amalekite king, and some of the sheep
and oxen, God chnstlsos him for it. God
will not stay In the smtl that Is half His
and llitlf jit the devil’s. There may bo more
sins , oilr ..souls than f liero Were
Amititjkiws; unto' iis IT \ve idtist Agag, kill Hero them. li tjliris- (Veit
lie we spare “t Is
tldn. siiys: vtlll drive otti itll thd
Aipalpkltes of slij from iny, heart, lfero Is
jealousy is bihlkbiUng , down down gnoo I Irit Amnlojiito. that Aqialokite,” Hero'
goes
and what slaughter be makes Among his
sins, striking right niul left! What is that
out yonder, lifting up Ills head? It Is
Agag it, is worhlliness. It is an old sin lie
cannot boar to strike down. It is a darling
transgression ho cannot afford to sucrillce.
Oh, my brethren, I. appeal for entire conse¬
cration, Some of the Presbyterians call
It believe, the “higher drill It life." “perfection." The Methodists. I do not
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care whilt you citli It, “without holiness ltd
man flhtiii sue with,their the Lord.” I know men who
n re living soul In perpetual coin-
munlon with Christ tttid day by /lay aro
sight ’ dt; I
walking within of heaven. believe How them.
know? They toll mo so. I
They would not lip about It. Why cannot
wo all have this consecration? Why leave slay
some of bletit the sins In our sou! and
others to itiid hollow for our exposure
and condemnation? Christ will nocstiiy lr*
the same house with Agag. You must give
up Agag or give up Glirlst. Jesus says:
“All of that heart or none.” Haul slow tho
poorest of the sheep and the meanest of
the oxen and kept some of the fluent and
tjio fattest, and there are Ghrlstlans who
have slain the most unpopular of their
transgressions and saved those which aro
most I'espectrible, It will not do. Eternal
war Agrigl against all the Amaleklt.es- no mercy
for subject
1 learn further from this that It is
vain to try to defraud God. lloro Haiti
sheeii.imd thought lie had cliented God oilt of those
Oxeit, hilt ltd lost bis el-owii, lie
lost Ills empire. YUii cannot cbortt God out
of a single ij cent. Here Is it mini who lias
made 10,000 in fraud. ]i iforo ho died
every dollar of R will bo gone, or it will
give him violent unrest. IloroisaOltris-
Iinn who has been largely prospered. that He Is
has not given charities to God tho benevolences. proportion God
due in and
comes to the reckoning, and be takes it all
away from yon. Ifow often it lias been that
Gliristliin men have Imd a large estate and
it is gone, The Lord God came into tho
counting room and said: “I have allowed
you til havo it’l tills property for ten, III'-
teen or twenty years, and you have, not
done justice to my poor children. When
the beggar called upon you, yoil hounded
him off your steps; when my suffering chil¬
dren appeal'-d to you for help, you had lie
mercy. I only asked for so much or so
much, but you did all." not give it to me, and
now I will take it
God asks of usoiio-sovontli of our time In
tbo way of Habbatli. Do you supposo we
ean get an hour of that time successfully
away demanded from Its true object? No, no. God
has one-seventh of your time,.
If you take one hour of that time that is to
lie devoted to God's service and instead of
keeping his Habhath use tt for the purpose
of writing up God your accounts or making
worldly gains, will get Unit hour from
you in Homo unexpected way. God says to
Jonah, "You go to Nineveh." He says:
“No, I won’t. I’ll go to Tnrshisli.” Ho
starts for Tarshlsh, Tito sea raves, tho
winds blow and the ship reeks. Come, yo
whales, and take this passenger for Tar-
sliishl No man ever gets to Tarshislj
Whom God tolls to go to Nineveh. Tho
sea would not carry him; It Is God's sea.
The winds would not waft film; they aro do
God’s winds. Let a man nttuinpt to
that which God forbids hint to do or to go
into a place wln-rc God tells him not to go.
tho natural world as well ns God Is against
him. Tho lightnings are ready to strike
him, the ilrcs to burn him, tho sun to
smite him, the waters to drown him, and
tlie earth to swallow him. Those wl ioso
princely relies are woven out of heart¬
strings, those whose tine houses are built
out of skulls, those whose springing foun¬
tains are the successfully tears of cheated oppressed God? nations,
have they will demonstrate. It will bo
The last day
found out on that day that God vlndleuted
not only his goodness aud ills mercy, but
His power to take‘-are of Ills own rights
and tho rights of His church and tho rights
of His dead, oppressed children. and Como, from ye mar¬ the
tyred awake come up
dungeons where folded darkness hearsed
you and tho chains like cankers flesh pooled
loose the skin and wore off tho and
rattled on the narrowless bones. Gome, yo
martyred dead, from the stakes where
you were burned, where the arm the uplifted of
for mercy fell Into the ashes and cry
pain was dr owned in the snapping of the
flame and the howling of the mob; from
valleys of Piedmont and Hmfthfleld market
and London Tower and tho highlands and of
Scotland. Gather In great procession
together clap your bony hands, and let to¬
gether stamp your moldy foot and tint
chains that bound you to dungeons all
clunk at once and gather all the flames
Jliat burned you In one uplifted Gather arm of fire all
and plead for a judgment. into lake and
tho tears yo ever wept breathed a Into
gather nil tho sighs yo ever piercing chain
a tempest until the heaven
clank and the tempest-sigh and the thun¬
der groan announce to earth and Hell and
heaven a judgment. Oh, on that day God
will vindicate tin- cause of the troubled and
tho oppressed! It will be seen in that day
that though we may have robbed our fel¬
lows, we never "liave successfully robbed
God. friends, into
.My Christian ns you go out
the world exhibit an open hearted Christian
frankness. Do not be hypocritical If In any¬
thing. You are never safe you arc. At
the most inopportune moment the sheep
will blent and the oxen bellow. Drive out
the last AmaJeklte of sin from your soul.
Have no mercy on Agag. Down with yout
sins, down with your pride, down with yout
wor Idliness. 1 know you cannot achieve,
this work by your own arm, but almighty
grace Is sufficient—that which saved Joseph
in the pit, that which delivered Daniel in
the den, that which shielded Hhadrach in
the lire, that which cheered Paul In thl
shipwreck.
THE SA1IBATII SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JULY IS.
Lesson Tr\l: 'Tiuil at TlioHmilfMlm nn<1
f.U*rrn# M Art's xvll., 1 -1 :i—(Solilcii
Mill., | 'otiHiu-nl.-irv on (iie
Dii.v'h I.ohhoii bj* O** Kev. I>. i\l. WimriiH.
1. "Now, whoa they had pass'd .'lirou^Ji Jo
TIiaHH.'iIonloa, AmphimvltH and Aj'oiloina, thoy t*amo of
wliuro was n Hyniifyotfim
Mio Jaws," 8nu this company of men in
this ttVI'ld for (tod. They have no aim hut
to tumor iliat, Their ono thought i* to
hiagnify tho' Lonf Jo.dl# Chrisl (I’ldl.
tfoutro'l 'Hid to' tie- this ifoiy end I liov * fir'd Under Iho
fids of (Ihost passing through when*
t.o\Vn or that and only Lydia's
Jf« illjvot*. *i]i tho Whothor road in prison In tho ot'lii
niM.-ir, ( or synagoguo, (lod and
their one busBo 1 ?** is to glorify
make Him known. Thossauhfhv* v\ v as ahoul.
100 miles sent Invest of Philippi, sd that it
must have boon sovoral days' journey; but. <»f
as is usual in Scripture, tho inddontH
through" tho Journey are omitted. They “passed
and 'Vnnio lo."
3> “And Paul, os his manner was, went
In Until Ilium, mid three Mablmlh days
reusiuied With ifloiii <nlt of I ho Scriptures.”
<l To tho ,Je\v Orst" was OVci. 1 Paul's prin
1 l\d*' id going after the people with tho
gospel (icoiii. ... b"b' end who' ean tell what
wo are losing by not dibit hiding to net on
this principle, both with the ^drhad and
*Mtb g|fi,M fpr rnissions? Ifo had luit one
to\l-buo'il, *1’“ Scriptures, lTlci« which he fully
believed was mi .‘ft bI fjmiiMh any ouo
thoroughly for every no) goon IWfU (IL'lflui.
ill., Id, 17). He was full of tho opm/dme
• >f men; hut, being I he Lord's messenger,
lid carried the Uorii’s mesHiigo ( Hag. b. III).
need's ■ C^pdndhgand lidfe vtirfored /f fleglng fill'd ffsep i hat again Christ must from
tlie unto deed, nndl,h/b Christ.” tills•feMim 'lid! jev/s' whonG pfeneli look¬
you is svvwd
ing for a Messiah to sit on David’e fli'nmo
and subdue | h<*|r enemies and make ist'aef,
ns In the days of Solomon, the first nation
mi perfectly earth, and right,, In this ex peel, at ion they were by
for I Ills was promised
the' prVplietS dm! III., will PMSj/och. yet; surely bo fulfilled 17).
(Isii. ix., (»,7;.fer. xlv.,<i,
Hut It ttn^just ns plainly foretoidand fore-
shadoweu, Midt, the' Messiah would also
Huffcr and did, and Msn fr<^n the dead be¬
fore He would thus reign as David’s son oil
1 ’odd’s throne (den. Ilf., 15; Isa. II ltd JTs<
xvl. and x.vN., et<*,).
4. "And some »>i thorn hebovod and eon-
sorted tude) with Paul and Nilas,” rfnd a multi¬
of men and women, the verse ge'es on
t o say. .7ust; as in den. L* I he Spirit moved,
God spake, and the work was done, so hero
and so always His word will accomplish His
Pleasure and prosper In the thing whereto
lie sends it ((sa. I v,, II). It is ours to be
faithful messengers; it Is If is to accomplish
t he work. There is perfect rest in His work
when we are willing that He should dolt
all and as He pleases, we believing in HtS
hand for His pleasure.
5. “But the .lews which believed not,
moved with envy, took unto them certain
lewd follows,” Then followed a niob and a
riot ami an assault, for the devil was losing
some of Ills property, and he was stirred
mightily, as at Philippi, diid to do Home what and to
resist the truth flic power of God,
so for a time the saint;. njUsi- nulflir with
Christ. Peiiowship with Mini in suffering
is a. great privilege not appreciated by the
saints us it should bo (Phil. 1., 20: ill., 10;
Cel. I., 21).
<». “The e that have turned the world up¬
side down have come hither also." Not
finding the apostles, they took .Jason and
Other brethren to the city rulers with these
and other accusations. It was gundy ijulte
a compliment: to say that these men bud
power l<) turn the world upside down.
There ought Id hdve been enough of tho
supernatural In I,lint to make thorn stop
and consider, but when men are blinded
by anger they consider neither their words
nor their deads. The facts In t he case are
that the wo/'jd Is In fl sense upside down
because of sin, and Jesds, whom these men
preiielmd, is the only one who cun set it
right side up (!•]/., xxh, 27).
7. “These all do contrary to the dee,re ,oh
of Ca’.i'ir, saying that I,hero Is another
king, one tlcsus.” Cienar is tho earthly, the
under the God of this world that is,
devil. Jesus is the heavenly, representing 1
the only living and true God. God manifest
In the flush, and we must choose one or the
other, IIIs own to whom lie came chose
Cn-sar instead of Him (John xlx., J2), and
C;esar they have had from that day to this.
The world and the church, the worldly
person and the (Mn'istiaii, are as opposite
as darkness and light and can no more as¬
similate than water and oil, but they Home-
times try desperately hard to mix up, Hue
•las. Iv., 4; John II., lr, 17.
H, “And they troubled tho people nml
the rulers of the city when they hoard these
things. M Ho. when Christ was horn King
of the Jews, Herod and all Jerusalem were
troubled ( Math. II., 2), and when lie shall
fiomi) in Ills glory the world lying In tho
winked mm siiail bn groafcly troublod (Kov.
i., 7; xi., iH), and thoir troubles may imvor
and, for ail who <1 i<; in t.holr sins shall liavo
torrnojjt for ovor ami over (Hov. xiv., II;
Mark lx., 43, 44).
10. “And Um brethren I in mad lately Hunt
away Paul and Nilas by night unto Berea.”
Ho they move on in His name, witnessing
unto Him, and again wo hud thorn in a
Hynagoguo of tho Jews. The Muster's fn-
•jriictlon.M were to pass on when not want-
el (Luke x., 10; Math. x. t 28), but some
llnd it hard oven yet to obey those orders,
and tho more they aro not wan tod tho morn
they Hoorn to stay, to their own and others’
discomfort and doubtless to tlie grief of tint
Holy Hpirlt. noblo those In
J J. “These wore more than
ThoHHfLlonlra in that thoyreeolvod tho word
with all readiness of mind and searched tho
Meriptures dally whether those things were
ho.” How foolish to have, remained amid
the opposition, of Thes/ialo/dea when this
open door awaited them whore tho people
Were ready to hear and receive the word!
What blessing those are missing who are
not willing to follow where He leadeth and
let Him manage tin He pJeusethl No will
but If Is, and no way but i/is is tho only
true way.
12, "Therefore many of them hollo veil; and
also of honorable women which were,
of mon not n few.” Tills Is almost tho re¬
verse of verse i us to men anil women.
Again, and Ids werij accomplished saved. The Ills pleas¬ Hpirlt
ure, many were work
moved, the word was spoken, ami the
was dear. The next verso tolls of tho per-
slstonne of tho devil In sending Ids servants
from Thessalonloa to stir up persecution,
and so It will he till he shall ho shut up In
tho pit for a thousand years. Hut tho saints
havo naught to feur, for our Lord shall not
fall nor he discouraged. Ho shall boo of
tho travail of Ills soul and shall ho satis¬
fied, and every purpose of tho Lord shall ho
performed flsa. xlll., f; 1111., 11; Jar. Ivlh,
t'J). ■ Lesson Helper.
Luck of a Ho rso Shoe;
A Middletown (Conn.) lady bicy¬
clist, who is known to be somewhat
superstitious, recently picked up a
horse shoe and attached considerable
importance to tho find, unit is usually
regarded as an omen of good luck.
She hung it on the handle hur of her
wheel and continued her ride, /After
a few minutes she punctured a tire.
After the damage wus repaired she
collided with a Meriden cyclist who
was scorching. Both riders were
thrown, although neither sustained in¬
jury. The following day she was near¬
ly run down by un electric car, and
the next afternoon her confidence in
horseshoe luck was somewhat shaken
when she was thrown from her wheel
in front of the postoflice, badly sprain¬
ing her wrist.
VOL. V. NO. 49 .
UNCLE SAM'S COMMISSION MEETS
BAGLA N It’S KEI'UKSEVI'A 11VES.
ROTHSCHILD IS TO BE CONSULTED.
Ihlilsk SlnifKmni (Jive No Intimation at*
Yet I ndieatlng Their Intentlou*
Regarding the Matter,
Au important eonferoneo was hold
at the foreign oflico at London Mon-
tiny' between Senator Wolcott, former
Vice President Stevenson and General
Pallid, the members of tlvo United
States bimetallic commission, and Am¬
bassador 11 ay and Lord Salisbury, Sir
Michael Hicks-beach, chancellor of
tho exolioquor, Arthur Halfour, first
lord of the treasury, and Lord Georgo
Hamilton, secretary of state for India.
Tho conference, which lasted an
hour, was preliminary to the carrying
on of further negotiations on tho sub¬
ject of intcrmitiomd bimetallism.
The Americans did most of the talk-
ini'. Salisbury inquired wliat
Lord were
the powerH of tho American cormnis-
ptiouers and wan informed that they
sirt/id authorized to make arrange¬
ments for tho holding of au interna
tio/ml conference to negotiate) a treaty
of intefnationa! bimetallism which
they might submit to their govern¬
ment for ratification.
It was stated also that France was
ready to co-operate with the United
States, (treat Britain and (lermany in
reaching an agreement for interna- •
ttonal bimetallism.
The British representatives present
made no statement indicating their in¬
tentions in the matter.
HoMinrlillU (‘tilled In*
Consultation* of high British olli-
(•ials will bo hold before anot hor meet¬
ing with the Amoncim oommissionorH,
and in Iho nioiiutiiuo Iho latter will
privately discuss tho question with
Ibimii do Ibdhschihl and oilier finan¬
ciers and endeavor to secure their
support. accompanied Messrs.
Lord Salisbury toluneU-
Wolcott,Stevenson and Payne
eon at Windsor on Saturday, where
they wore received by lie*, queen and
presented to her majosly their com¬
missions as special envoys. jfprnial.
The reception was entirely
LUHL4DV CASK IN COURT.
HTIiioswoh I'lxpltiiii lloiv IVliiiillioitH i»n\ur
Wcro I,:u»U»mI So Culm.
United SlaleaO'muiviHKioiver Be.dmond
Hmit li reHiime.d (be. taking nf tesl inn my
In the nleaniHliip Ijftr,radii foifeitiuo
case nf; VVaaliingloii Monday. Jeremiah
The witliCHHca heard were
Hurley, Alvim Lund and Harry Han¬
non, nil of whom were employed on
(he Laurada early in (lie current alleged year,
when the uxpedit i m to < Julia i:
to liave taken place. Lund wan a liro-
man and the other two were miilorH.
Tlie tcHtimony was to the effect that
tho Laurada left Baltimore on I'ebru
ary 2(5, 181)7, with Captain Hnghcain
eommand. She ]<roee(ided to Barnegat, of
N. J., where a cargo of munitions
war was taken on board, and front
that place (Ins boat proceeded to Sun
Salvador and the mmiitioiiH wore
landed in <Juba.
COAL ntlf ES ADVANCE.
TIio Strilto Arbitrntorn Hold a McHlng in
rUlHhing.
A Hpeciul from Fittaburg Hays: Uio
minora’ Htriko in canning the price of
coal to ntill advance and Monday if.
was selling at an increase of J60per
cent, since the commencement of tho
struggle. in pertaining
The feature matters
to the strike was the presence in the
city of tho joint arbitration board,who
aro endeavoring by every means conclu¬ pos¬
sible) to bring to a peaceable
sion the strike now in progress.
The, board held an informal session,
and in the intervals interviewed quite
■i imnibor of operators, tho log ma-
j ity of whom are in favor of arbitra-
mill, provided all of flic operators w ill
abide by the decision rendered.
One of the dissenters is VV. I’. Dear-
mitt, president of the New York A
Cleveland Gas Coal Company. Ho
declares lie lias nothing to arbitrate,
and says the strike is the result of the
m ichinations of the politicians.
INSUIMIKNTS ACTIVE.
They Are Holding Their (Mvn liegnrdh'ss
of lining Oreally Outnumbered.
Information received by Junto Cai’il-
lo, a Guban patriot at Jacksonville,
Fla., from Ids brother, Colonel Vin¬
cente Carillo, :nider date of Santa
Clara province, Juno 24th, shows that
an active campaign is being carried on
and that the Cubans are holding their
own despite the presence of Spaniards
much greater numbers.
An exciting engagement is reported
to have taken place between General
Weyler’s troops, numbering 40,OOP
men, and those under General Carillo,
commanding the fourth corps of Gen¬
era! Gomez’s army.
SHOT BY BURGLARS.
An Atlanta l > nHi* , t..an Attempted Their
Arrest and I* I5;idly Wounded.
At b:fo o’clock Tuesday morning, at
Atlanta, Policeman It. L. Albert at¬
tempted to arrest two negro burglars
when lie was fired on and perhaps
fatally wounded. The bullet from 4lie
burglar’s gun .struck him in tho stom¬
ach. Albert tired five times at the
fieeiiig men, but was unablo to bring
them down.