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THE AMERICAN. Tin; 'AMiiiuc an ;v. :,; r:: :: American Dible Study J 1 I 1 t (1 (5 ' I f ' i J i: U ti. i; m . j ih ! i N I i f ru ' i I'" ! wi Si it ! 1 i em ! ml' the i tioi ! I09 iin acq wli( ,'thri he 'c&lh for I I (Ml I S. I .1 tl i Ji'M i 1 11 'W .t V liMtM', .i.i W ti, . I'M tit V Ml', ' I II 1 !! nol'o" IM cii.ntry ti" gr-t thai I I ll h linn derided l.t hold a frrat jnbilet in l. toN r at Chlng-i In eele hiatlon .f lh' consummation tf - hrlwren Spain mnl I ho PnlU'd KUIfn Untight'- a gmwl Idea li watt itntU tin" war I oicr l'ftn-f celebrating prat-it. Colonel John Hay, our ambassador to (n ot Mrltaln, win) In Knit lo assume the dull- of wi'i'i lrj of state at Wash ington, Ik an i liriiMt advocate of the desirability of fortuity; closer relation with "pvrUdlutis Albion." lionet) we tu net know llml the sih''s Irish arc mil fond of llav. Two tif the thit'o men who were will) Uob-on when he sunk tin" Morrlinae In the mouth of Santiago harbor who were claimed by Komanlsls an member of tbclr church havo turned out to Im-Protectant;- th are k -Ily and Mur phy. Motil tk'iie ha not ren t. d. To anyone who buy a copy of the book " Humanism ami Tho Republic" price It IK), we iihall ond In addition several small pamphlet worth fully another dollar of any trim patriot money. Komcmbi r all sistago paid by ui. Bend In your onler by return mall. You c an now make your tholeo for coni;reKiiiHii In the Ninonil Dlnlrlct, David II. Mnreer I tho candldatn of the llepiibllcun parly and (1. M. Illtchem k ot tho fmlon forci . The fllit will bu between thee two, no difference bow many candidate tholr friend may put In the field by petition, an do not waxto your vote If a "decoy dunk" I placed on tho ticket. Tho AruhhUhop of (Jul to, In Kciiadnr, bai lurd an order providing for the Mcummunlrallon of all who would buy, receive or poir any heretical HibUin, Coplra of tho Protectant verilnn of tho Sorlpturoi havo recently been burned la great number on thn corner of the atroeta. There 1 nothing In literature Of which lUiruan eoctcilaatlc have a greater fear than of the Illhle, printed la the vernuoular of the people among whom It I to be circulated. The Joult are not deep. Their appeal to McKlnley a the Philippine Inland Coin in It lee In Kuroi prove that to bo true. No one not a member Of that miirderoua, thieving gang, tin lc bo wa a hopole Imbecile, would, when addrpnlii(f a man who hould be ft well-Informed . this president of thl great rcpubllo ought to Iki, refer to tho hontlllty agalmtt "thn Jcaulta and other renpecled religion liutltn Hon " When did that dlaboMral o Ic ty- tb' HiKilrty of Ji mi become re ipcclablc? fan an organization that teacho tho dNiiiiiahle doctrlnn which that organization teachn 1h a religion loitltutlonv Colonel John Jacob Ator - he who poRNCMic the rlche of a veritable Cri'iuha returned from Kantlao a changed man. Hu I now xald U havo ordered a complete chndule to be made of hi real and personal property, and that be intend to call upon the ac r of New York, or wherever It may lie, to rain- I valuation on their book to the full llurc required for the pur pone of taxation. ll rvldtintly pur- K)e to liereafUr pay hi fair nhare of the taxct levied for the uporl of gov crnmcnt. Wo commend Col Aitor' noble and patriotic example to that collective Cm uui tho Iloman Catho lic hierarchy of Amorlca. Many American Clalhollco or, rath er, many Iloman Catholic in America would like to ice tho Arcbblxhop of St, Paul made "a prince of tho church There once rxlitid a St. Paul who knew nothing of cardinal or archbieh op, and whono 10I0 ambition wan to no preach and practice the peculiar prin clple of the Prince of Peace a to per suado many to abandon the aboiulna tions of pagfcnism. St. Paul declare that "a bishop must be the husband cf one wle" an Inspired Injunction which ,1 l . .. ' 1 1 ( ' H, ts ' if to i 4 m I a 4 1. I Villi.. r f f ' ; i i t p ! ! f. .1 HI t'i a I l"'it. t .. k I ll ll l It "' '! "! U '! if t tl f " I. a ' hti i m n.l '. at. I f li'nt i. ttn .iiti lai t , J.i. tr in t of Hi" Aih l,tt.i.i if -i Pan, Pt-i jeni SU K ifi- I m o o' a pUlthanan Amprliai H l a ll t--r r'ar In th 1 aiU of th hiei ari hjr of tha t hureh of Hmio la Ihlo iountry tlareii not aet inieenilenl!y, or, If h (1 ', ho fa it to a. I until llmo' learn hi plan ami, with a fl -xirlah, annnnni'K that lie want a eertaln thltiif then. hi lh iro',,li'nt aiakei hi plan ili!lc the p op! ee that the t-hureh ha iw'iro.l what hn fcad pre lnu!y c'almi'il a her dm. If thn irov eminent at Vahlndton, nul partleu larly lh prro ilont, I'otillnue to bow to that alien power an. I to all Intent and p ir iv.c. bi i iito' tin' belrayvr of the people that It I MiptMMvl to rpri' nt am) eovern.lt will be the duty of the few men who dure oppose Uoitm to o In the jhiIU and vote .!!. Ily at;dlnt the pivrty which ilanjn trallie their rl(lit and lllxiili for Ueman Catholle I til! u eneo and vote. It n In July, ls, that tho "Invin cible Armada" of the SpanlarJ arrived within night of the liorc of Kngland. The fleet wa cum pined of 130 vcola, currying more tlmn .'10,01)0 men, with .'1,000 gun. Hut the Spaniard proved holplo In the pretence of the KnglUh, who wcra kllifiil cal'or and Hklllful gunner, The Spanlnrd knew not how to vt ho their gun, but tho KnglUh lined tin-1 r Willi lerrlOu effect, In ohm of the ncrlrl of remarkable naval battle that enmii'd, tho Spanlh lut nix teen of their beitt tdiipi, mnk or captured, and A,0n0 men; while of the HnglUh there were nota hundred men wounded an, I killed, forty of tho Spun Uh war vcmuU aero wrei keJ In a torm off the I rlii h coal. Thn whole of the boat ed armada wa dextroyed or dlpircd by bot and itorm. The formidable Spun lh fleet became but a memory. Thu wax the ProU'itant a-ondancy an lured. In the year H'H nation In the New World, ieaklng the tame lan guage a wa ipokon by thu nation of Queen Kll.abelh, flnUhed the work which wa to auaplclouvly begun by Kngland'i great naval commander Drake, FrobUher and HowardIn thu year 15i. Tho Chicago Kvenlng Poll doclarci that: "Now that there I peace It hould ho dUtlnctly underiuod that no army 1 needed in Cuba t hal doe not owe allegiance to the United Stale." If the United Kiatoi own Cuba that i a ound and patriotic declaration. It hould a No bo dUtlnctlv underitood that no army I needed In the Polled Slate tliat doe not owe allegiance to tho I'nlleil H'ute that doe not owe al legiance to the I fnl ted State. The cadet" who are drilling under the auplre of "tho church" and nil the distinctively IrUh regiment hould forthwith be dibandi'd. Foreign mil itary organlittlon In thl country are Incompatible wlih American intllu Hon. What are the I toman Catholic youth of the. land drilling for? To de fend Oid ( i lory y To di nionntrnto that papltare more valiant and valorou tlian Proteatant can be? Or are they merely Indulging in military exercUe for th benefit of their health and a a plcaaant paitimi'V We are rather In clined to think they are drilling to fit themutve to make imploii and ag grelve war tinder the lUg of a over- elgn whoao authority i leant reipoctod In thu land In which ho dwell. It 1 now fifty-two yean ilnce thu flag of the United Stute wa Drat unfurled on the toil of New Mexico. During that time there ha Ix-en a reapetable immigration thither. Yet today Span lh U aald to b tho languago of com merce and of aoclety in the territory. Thi no doubt I largely owing to the fact that the Roman hierarchy have atremioualy oppoHad thu entahliahmcnt of free KnglUh achool in tlioao part of New Mexico where they were most needed. There are important com munltio in the territory In which it hM been practically impossible to en force the teaching of tho rudimentary studies In the English language. Eventually Spanish will havo to give , i a I ) r a l il..' I ( O t( t'IHl i : f f t I ' H . . H . I' rn ,Hh i . . I a. ) III' ,t'l Hi. (.im ! ttm f .t' '(..,) f ' I ' llir (mI a'-n !. r 'i." iii'ih ta I J f " n i'a I a ivi e, v , , !'it, . ihi:t i.'nilmt.J la tl.a I n ih 'a'.nar'' I VMtalhti! ! ,n tin) rirtiin(l ij In I K I'nitol An I IH fc'l lliA l.W.R.IHt-la tJ th-1 ounit j If tha t wpinr f Japaa t an rn'ofi i" tlo toi hln of I nfllnh la ait It piihlle himl that'nltej Htat tertain!y inlil to K. ahin to dil Pii I .o XIII i rvporWd to be clci untodi alh Alrwd; there I a acram li'.e qulla unplrtlua). atrlctly ' (i. the earth, earth" among the cardinal for the ui.eirhli to the all. god chair of St. Peter Of all the opo who have ever rflgned at Koine or at Avignon, Leo ha prtoMv rwen the mot rhrlailan y, tho iuodI lllxTal and the moat learned. Hut ll duel ttot nee e-.ry billow Unit becailae a MiM l peraonally p.oux or acholarly the pa pacy ha HClnally iindergiiue a change in It policy or in it polity. Tho fun dmiieiital law by which the pnpli v la uphold, governed mid ailuated urea inexorable a the law of the Mede and Peraliina. Wo muat not Infer that because a aovarclgn ponllfT 1 person ally humane, and appHrently wcll-dl- Hned the compoaite papacy would not, if favorable opportunity alTordcd, pun la h he re ay and ProteilunlUm and free thought with tho utmixt rigor. The elcmunt I hnt enter Into the compOHl lion of the papacy are tinclianglng ai.d unchangeable, and are oppoatd to the frtc llioughtof the world, In whatever form thill free thought may bo ix preed. The papacy cannot change ll eacntlal nature or reaolvo tho ele ment of which ll I computed Into principle thai ulll coalci-ce with the coiiUltiii'iiU of chrlatlnn civlll. ition and modern progre. l'uck, In Itrf Uin? of Auguntl, ha on tho front page huat of (iladatone and illamarck each placed upon a pud ental facing the beholder. At the foot of the pedeatal alt L.o XIII. Kclow tho huat of Oladatone are the gravis word; ' (iladatono, the (ireat Com moner." Hulow the boat of HUmarck are tho word: "Illamarck, the man of blood and Iron." On the cloak of tho pope are almply tho letter "Loo XII t." Underneath the whole picture are the word "TbeTarcMj 'Grand Old Men.'" It did not teem to bo within the acope of the artlat who doclgnod tho drawing todeilgnatu tho department of human endeavor In which the present pope bad achieved real grcatnoa. L"o I con aplcuou rattier than great. (Maditone wa the friend and tribune of the peo ple, tho champion of theopprcod and downtrodden of every land. I Id cm- ployed hi tongue and bla pen agalual the encroachment if tho papacy and in klrenuou advocacy of civil and relig ion liberty. He did all that lay in hi Kwer to improve the aoclal and K)lltl- cal condition of tho communally of Crcitt llrltaln and Ireland. He ha enhanced tho happlnc and well-being of million of hla fellow beings, Mow id it with Lno? Ho haaopent bla whole I- In endeavoring to strengthen the cord that bind bl people to tho papal monarchy and in seeking to gain new adherents for hla (Killllco aoclal system, He, like hi predecessor, hit steadfast ly refused to recoirnl.o tho authority of the Italian monarchy over the former atate of tho church. A a social and political reformer Loo will hardly bear comparison with (rladslone, with Hor ace Greeley, with Wendell Phillips, with Neal D.iw or with icoro of others that might be named." 1 he Only Uiulroad to Chicago. With a Day Light Train: Leave Omaha ti: 10 A. M. every day arriving at Chicago the same evening at ;!." where close connec tions are made with all lino beyond. This train is f0 years ahead of the Times and is proving immensely Popular with Omaha people. Other flying trains leave for Chicago at 4:.r.5 mid fi.f" I'. M daily. City Ticket OHIce I Pit Karnam St., "The North-Western Line. " Henry F. Dowers, Clinton, la., Is the head of the A. P. A. In this country. Write him about your council and a&k him for Information. a i .it r 1 r I .! H tt H i t..".l !' i u at ' ' .a, at sf ) itiii (la (( I.i h a I hi r all- W c S rn ll r if .' ' ir ti .,' r of r-1 .! I ih no i t an a i 1 i l ' I ih. ) of h a ' ! w-i'in thr f i I fr-oe lb Iri.th e' woag ihr iwt r to rha' i,"' ll"' prf"p' of l'hrll a1 J tfc iNniniiao.n' nf loxl - lrlai-!ntf h"f utla nip! 'o i hang t;.l' Sh)alh f thm Vunlh Ui thn rVt da of t i e wici- a Miwir, hn (-. ano! idgid by a I proVeatanU who leave the Lord dar and aiepl the day shv ha uUhliile.l fori, we alia',1 prteerd to a i iiti'l.li iatloti of the oibi r cba- ge Daniel made against the power that waa to alo after the ovrrtluiw ir diminution of the kingdoiin of the Medc and Peraian and of line a lldore we leave this sul'j.'Ct, ' he shall think t i change lime and l.twr,' (the l; iihuii Catholic bible says, "huil tl.i.jk lilniM'lf Aiit.K to change time and law.") lot ua remember that ll la God linn s and God's law that thir earthly Miwer would think to (badge Man's law U chu'igeablu. New condi lioin n tjiilro new statute or new law. Hut new condi lion are unknown to God. Then fore He madu II is law, a Clirlht tcotlfl s, everlaa: lug; and that "till hiaveii and earth lo-s, one jot or ouo tittle shall in r.o wise pass from the law, till all bo fulfilled. " Heaven and tarth havo not p.tsaed. Cod' law in in force. No human agency can alter It. I tut u human power hit U' tempted to nuke the change. "And ho ahull think lo change limes." If you will go to llm liral chapter of Genesis you will see how God divided time. Ho said "and Iho evening and I ic morning wm the first day." Such wa Hla declaration each day until the evcnlh, then Hu n slud. A glance at your watch and at your calendar will show you that some one has changed Minus tho time of the day and the time of tho day of rest. At midday, which is the sixth hour of God day, you will And some mortal ha attempted to change It to tho twelfth hour, thu making the morning half night and the evitilng or the night half day. Just who thl powerful Individual wn who over-rode and ut aside tho decree of the maker of heaven and earth and all that in them i, we have already hown it wit the Human pow- er which li now denominated or known a the Itoman Catholic church. Kvory one of you remember tho par able which Jesu related about tho man who went forth to sock mm to la bor In hi vineyard. Hu wont forth at the third hour, again at the sixth and finally at the eleventh hour, and that each received the same compensation at tho close of the day tho twelfth hour for the work done,. Had it not been tho practice In .ludea at tho time of Chrlt' ministry to divide lime ac cording to the decree of God, Jesu would not havo tued it to Illustrate a thought, as It would not have been un derstood by the multitude he was teach ing. On page I2l!.'l of the Kncyclop i dla Hrltunnlcu, Americani.ed, you can read a follow: "Kuropeans in general, like the ar dent Kgyptlans, place the commence ment of tho civil day at midnight, and reckon tielvo morning hours from mid night to mid day, and twelve evening bourse from mld-diiy to midnight. In tho early ages of Homo, and even down to thu middle of the oth century after the foundation of tho city, no other dlvialon of the day weru known than sunrise, sunset and mid-day." A civil day 1 a day established by the law of a man-mado government. You will And by consulting tho twenty-third chapter of Lsvltlcu and the thlrty-socond verse thut God left no room for doubt as to what He In tended should constitute a day. That verse read us follows: "It shall bo unto you a Sabbath of rest, and ye shall a fillet your souls; In the ninth day of tho month at even, I'KOM KVKN UNTO KVKN, SHALL YE CKLEimATK YOUIt SAP HATH." No chance to mako a mistake there, Is there!' Ami as the Sabbath was divided just like the other day of the week, how li It possible to mistake the work of man for the work of God? And, ag ain, why should the time of day and of night be changed except to fulfill, -.aw. i i- i H- .i i ami .,. i" i I n' I a h t .( 'I ".- -. t 'I - -'S a 1 1 . . - i ,t d 111 t. ' .' !' 41 t., t 1 1 r re I i ' n i 1 1 l M !! rf, f" ( , r 0' ! -: lt IH. Hi-el t.i iliw I, it a I I ' It l 'I a .1 r '! li at' a w'r-rs.rg 1 tl A mfi. t.s lnrl lia II' UiR a f I.Vt W 2: i! fa. I it iti'nl lhat ths no !n n' ti hiriid from mniK tairrn I a'bwi i ti lt lent Hon h.i i't it il d O nne of Ihrlr own dlvin'tle 'or Ihow of lb Cod of lii'd-s; ttiat thi ll-otin calen dar l.a Ixx n adopted by all HiroM; lhat tho aneient It mian year bogan In March; lb at Jilv an.' Aogua". wer (hang-d ''om i,)ilpt',li aid Stll In order t honor Ju'lu C ar anJ Ail giitu; fiat the arrangement of the vear In the reign o' N .ima by which ln a y w niade th' fir!.t n;onth and Kebroary the la-t mon'h. continii" d till the end of the y.-a' 'l li. r , whi n the D.-remvIr changed the order of t' e months, plac'tig Pehrnary after Janit ary: that tho fl --t Julian year com menced wi'h the tirt-tdi-y of January, the I'i'h ti'fore the birth of Chrl.-i; that the Julian year waa regulated en tirely by the s in and contained .'f'i'l day: Jullii" decreed that every fourth year should have .'I'lb days and the 0 horj ,'tiij diiy i ea'-h; that to bring the vernal equinox to the 2"lh of March, the place it occupied in the time of Noma, he ordered two extraordinary m nth to bo Inserled between Novem ber and Docemb.-r In the current year, th'J flr-t to conxUt of thirty-lhno and the second of thirty-four day, thus changing the ancient year from .'(." to Id day-; that tloj rcgu'at ions of C:e -ar wore not at tlrat suMlclently iinderstnod and the pool. IT', by Intorcalallrg cverv third year ln'eiid of every four h, at the end of thirty six year ha l inter dialed twelve time Instead of nine -tnd yet they claim to l- ln'nlllhie -which mlxlike wa corr -cted by Au gustus; that when the Julian calendar wi Introduced, the q ilnox foil on the 2Mh of March. At the time of th Council of Nice, which was h'dd In It fell on the 2lt; and when the ref jr m alien of the calendar was mudo In I.'jHU, It hal retr.igaded to tho 11 lb. In order to restore thn equinox to Its former place, Pope Gregory XIII di rected that ten day be (uppruased In tho calendar A a mattur of fact the great H uman power that Daniel saw succeed Grecla as a universal kingdon ciuld not have hem more Infallibly pointed out had the prophet given Its exact rame. God said, "Six days shall thou labor, and do ail thy work, hut the seventh Is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, in It thou shall not do any work." Tlo) Ito man power, the church of Rome, say, ' Kctnember my Sunday and keep It holy; In It thou shult not do any work, but thou shall do all thy work In lloi second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and acv'-til t days of the wn-k. He who does not receive thl-i my mark can not buy or sell," God said, "the evening and tho mor ning," cotmtlt.iled tho day, the Human i.owcr suya "midnight nnd mid-day constitute my day;'' and God ays "my year contain .'fill days," and the pagan anil papal power says "my year contains and .'!i'l day;" and God says, "my month ha thirty days," and tho popo of Home says, "my month contains either 11, l!!i, ,'0 or .'11 day," and in each Instance the worn ha left God to follow a power no more stable, no more enduring, but J:ii a fallible at it I Itself. If you want the authority for the statement thai God's year contains .'I'lo day read I he sevent h and eighth chiii ters of Genesis and set down the figure there given. The next article will take up thu re maining clause of tho prophecy con tained In tho li ih verso of the 7th chapter of Daniel, "and they shall bo riven Into his hand for a time and times and the dividing of time." Vtho to Watch. People who are in ilcubt as to the commercial resources of tho Philip pines should keep an eye on thut Infalli ble old Indlcator.Marcus Alor j Ilanna. Watch Marcus. lie has not yet com mitted himself upon the question of Philippine annexation. If he declares for that policy we may he suro that there arc in the Philippine archlpola- f i-i!..' 'i U pa a'' i i.' ia as 1 t W .- ! at M-r t a ! a aM l.i f ' ll P. n t, 'tr I ' .t f ') a , j P at I an.! ss-.- ',.. 4 i'J e -ia an I thai nMa 'is? r i I r-saa At rt-. !.. Mi-n. H I -i p-tty an! h it ot ft.abV. Ktt hi has a a lhat rtn a Joiiar ' mo aar he oiu'' thrr I money In thf vicinity. anJ h I n tug in the d.rrction of Man! a right now - Chicago ChronlcU. PI' llatrrd f IVpalar I dcatla. Spain Decline and Tali was a crh.J, la a roeent number, to Torque mada war against free thought " Torqiiemala," ay Prestxitl. "wa g. d war upiin fieedom of thought In fiery form," from which stab Spain' Intelligence hat been bleeding for four centuries P rro, the conqueror of Pe-u, could not write hit own na-no, Toe story Is told of a Peruvian monarch, who sought to see the name of the god of the Spaniards. Pl.arro could nut write It or read it, though a soldier wrote it on his thumb oall. i'ather Francesco Cucaia, a CariUt, formerly of Sa amanca. wa lately in terviewed in New York, when be 1 re ported to have used this language, o foreign to all American thought, and to which no American of any creed would subscribe: "Then you think, Father Francesco, that tho reason why Spain is losing Cuba, I'orto Klco, and tin; Philipp.no Islands, Is that her ministers are liberal ? " he wa asked. He look his breviary from under hi arm, placed bis long; tapering llng.jr on an open page, and read: "lilt evil to sock for tquaiity, wnleu G jd did not wish, since he established the' hierar chy of d.guiurics In heaven and on earth. It is evil to consult thu will of ihu people, since a multitude of the Ignorant should not prevail against tho the small number of those who conform to the ill of G jd;" all of wnicn, in a c.rtain religious sense, might, in mod ified phrases, bo true, but no v.-r, In application to political mailer under popular govermool, which 1 a "gov ernment of the people, by thu people, for tho people." Father Francesco echoe Torque mada: " The people must slop think ing." General Murlllo, who, at the time of thd SpanUh-Amerlcao revolution :v cnty year ago, commanded tho Span ish force In Venezuela, Kcuador, and New Granada, sucms to have boon the prototype of General Weyler. In bl official dispatch describing the m ens ure ho adopted In entering tho city of Santa Fe do Hogota, bo write: "Kvory person of either sex who wutcapaoloof reading or writing wa put to dealt), ily thl cutting olf all who wore in any way educated, I hope olTcctuaily to check tho spirit of revolution." And Ignorant Spain, today, doe not know how to practice gunnery suc cess fully I -Succeas, New York, 1 hey I'rufess l,nyall). Iterlln, Aug, 27, Trio most Import ant event of tho week In dornosllo pol itic have ). ri the national convention at Creford, Hhenlsli Prussia, and tho attitude adopted by the uclailt p.irty toward tho coming diet election. Tim Crefcld convention for thu first tlmo look a distinctly friendly tone toward tho government. Illshop Hob mil, of Cologne eloqently expressed strictly loyal sen tl fiii-rit.s. A teli grain sent lo hmperor William assuring him of tho loyalty of 7,000 delegates of the Gor man catholics Hsicmbled and his reply to ll were the notable, feature of tho occasion. Another noticeable departure adopt ed by tho convention was a resolution lo establish catholic pcasunt societies everywhere In Germany. This was a strategic move designed to compete with the peasant federation of H.ivarla. It v,a also significant that Iho death of Prince llismark, the author of tho Kulturkiimpf, Instead of being used a a basis for hostile comment, drew -ut a few scml laudai jry remarks, one speaker contending that if Hlsmarck weru alivo and chancellor be would have signed ere now a bill to recall the Jesuits. Wanted, tho reason why the ixipo's loyal warrior son, Majah-G .-nurul Cop plnger is not leading the American army to victory and fame?