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The American people are familiar with th« fact that there is now before thi United States, for ratification, a treaty of peace with England. Few, however, have read the articles of the juoposed treaty. In England and other countries this treaty is being wld dy discussed. Why should not Americans, who are supposed to govern them i • Ives, read and discuss the matter and then write to thoir senators at Wash ington telling them what they think about It? For that reason we publish the entire proposition. It is as follows: The I'nlted States of America and hr majesty, the Queen of the I'nlted Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being desirous of consolidating the re lations of amity which so happily exist between them, and of consecrating by 1!' .ity tile principle of International ar bitration, have appointed for that pur pi.-e as their respective plenipoten tiaries the President of the I'nlted States of America, the lion. Richard Gluey, Secretary of Stale of the I niled States, and her majesty, the Q'.'en of the United Kingdom of Great ) liritnin and Ireland, and tin Right Hon. Sir Julian Patmcefoie, a member <1 tier majesty's most honorable Privy <'*> mcll, Knight Grand Cross of the -Most Mono,able Order of tie- Rath and of the Most Distinguished Order of St, Michael and St. George, and tier ma jesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States, who, after having communicated to "* li other their respective full powers, which were round to be In due and proper form. hr. e agreed to and con cluded the following articles: Article I. The high contracting parties agree to submit to arbitration, in accord ance with the provisions and subject to the limitations of tills treaty, all <1 nest Ions in dlffeience between them which they may fail to adjust by dip lomatic negotiation. Article If. All pecuniary claims or groups of Is ■ uniary claims which do not in the iik i» 11* PVPf’Pil flliiliWiH in uinminf and which do not involve the de termination of territorial claims, shall b< dealt wfth and decided by an ar bitral tribunal constituted as provided in the next following article. In this article and In Article IV the words "groups of pecuniary claims'’ means pecuniary claims by one or more per sons arising out of the same transac tions or involving the same issues of law and of fact. Article III. Each of the high contracting parties shall nominate one arbitrator, who shall be a Jurist of repute, and the two arbitrators so nominated shall, within two months of the date of their nomi nation, select an umpire. In case they shall fail to do so within the limit of time above-mentioned, the umpire shall be appointed by agreement be tween the members for the time being of the Supreme Court of the United States and the members for the time being of the Judicial committee of the Privy Council of Great Britain, each nominating body acting by a majority. In case they shall fall to agree upon an umpire within three months of the date of an application made to them in that behalf by the high contracting parties or either of them, the umpire shall be selected in the manner provid ed for In Article X. The person so selected shall be presi dent of the tribunal, and the award of th<- majority of the members thereof shall be Anal. Article IV. All pecuniary claims or groups of pecuniary claims which shall exceed £ 1 dO.OoO iii amount, aud all other mat ters in difference, in respect of which either of tits high contracting parties shall have rights against the other un der treaty or otherwise, provided that such matters In difference do not in volve the determination of territorial claims shall lie dealt with and decided by an arbitral tribunal constituted us p.jvlded in the next follow lug article | % rl It It* I. Auy subject of arbitration described : in Article IV shall be submitted to the j tribunal provided by Arii te III, the aw«id of whhb tribunal. If unanimous, i ■h ill be final If uol utianiwouv. either I of the contracting parties tuny, within > v months from date of the award d»- ■ mild a review thereof. In inch case tic matter tu controversy »hall be sub m cd to an aruttial tribunal tonslsl w m shall have been a member of the j tniinnat whose award Is to he review ed. slid Who shall he eieitevj va l.iiltivI v .1 iwo by ca h of the htgU contrail Ing parties, anti one, to act as umpire, by the four thus nominated, and to be chosen within three months after the date of their nomination. In case they shall fall to choose an umpire within the limit of time above mentioned, the umpire Khali be appointed by agree ment between the nominating bodies designated In Article III, acting In the mantlet therein provided. In case they fail to agree upon an umpire within three months of the date of an applica tion made to them In'that behalf by the high contracting parties or either of them, the umpire shall be selected In tile matin* r provide! for In Article X. The person so selected shall be the president of the tribunal, and the award RICHARD OLNEY, THE AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE. of the majority or the members there of shall be final. Article \ I. Any controversy which shall Involve the determination of territorial claims shall be submitted to a tribunal com posed of six members, three of whom (subject to the provisions of Article VIII) shall be Judges of tire Supreme Court of the United States or Justices of the circuit courts to he nominated by the President of the United States, and the other three of whom (subject to the provisions of Article VIII) shall be judges of the British Supreme Court of Judicature or members of the judicial committee of the Privy Council, to be nominated by her Britannic majesty, whose award by a majority of not less than five to one shall be final. In case of an award made by less than the pre scribed majority, the award shall also be final, unless either power shall, within three months after the award has been reported, protest that the same is erroneous, in which case the award shall be of no validity. In tho event of an award made by less than the prescribed majority and protest ed as above provided, or if the mem bers of the arbitral tribunal shall be equally divided, there shall be no re course to hostile measures of any de scription until the mediation of one or more friendly powers has been Invited by one or both of the high contracting parties. Art trie \ II. Objections to the Jurisdiction of an arbitral tribunal constituted under this treaty shall not be taken except as provided in this article. if before the elosa of the hearing upon a claim suUtnltted to an arbitral tribunal constituted tinder article ill. or article V, either of the high contract ing parties shall move such tribunal to decide, and thereupon It shall decide that the determination of such claim necessarily Involves the decision of a disputed question of principle of grave genetal importance affecting the na tional rlglt's of sttrh party as distin guished trout the private rights where of it Is Oletely the International repre sentative the Jurisdiction of such ar bitral itIhunal over amh claim shall lto# *attt** utoiftU tot* «tui toy 4»rt»t 141 ton uiKltr VI. %ri|« !«• % in, tto* **»t|i* Uoue which .n.e.u* a paith uia, .Ul or Isttltuo of tbe t tilted rltatee, it •hall be open ,u ,h„ |.fB4„,,B| ltl United States to appoint a judicial offl- I rer of such state cr territory to be one | of the arbltiators under article III. or article V. or article VI. In like man ner in eases where the question in volved is one which concerns a British colony or possession, it shall be open to her Britannic majesty to appoint a i judicial officer of such colony or pos ! session to be one of the arbitrators un der article III. or article V. or article VI. Article IX. Territorial claims in tills treaty shall include all claims to territory and all other claims involving ques tions of servitudes, rights of naviga tion and of access, fisheries and all rights and interests necessary to the control and enjoyment of the territory claimed by either of the high contract ing parties. ArtU'l* X. If in any case the nominating bodies designated in articles three and five shall fail to agree upon an umpire In accordance with the provisions of said articles, the umpire shall be appointed by his majesty the King of Sweden and Norway. Either of the high contract ing parties, however, may at any time give notice to the other that, by rea son of material changes In conditions as existing at the date of this treaty, it Is opinion that a substitute for his majesty should be chosen either for all cases to arise under the treaty or for a particular specified case already arisen, and thereupon the high con tracting parties shall at once proceed to agree upon such substitute to act cither in all cases to arise under the treaty or in the particular case speci fied, as may be indicated in said no tice; provided, however, that such no tice shall have no effect upon an arbi tration already begun by the constitu tion of an arbitral tribunal under arti cle 111. The high contracting parties shall at once proceed to nominate a substitute for his majesty in the event that his majesty shall at any time no tify them of his desire to be relieved from the functions graciously accepted HIH ll’l,US K\l,y»,K»tiTK.TM*: MIU VliUl VIINUTKIt AT WMHIVlTuy .... I by him under this treaty, either for all I casts to arise thereunder or for any particular specified case already arisen. Artlclr \l. In case of the death, absence or in capacity to serve of any arbitrator or umpire, or In the event of any arbitra tor or umpire omitting or declining or ceasing to act as such, another arbi trator or umpire shall be forthwith appointed in his place and stead in the manner provided for with regard to the original appointment. Artlrlr XII. Bach government shall pay it* OWI‘ agent and provide for the proper re muneration of the counsel employed by It and of the nrbitratois appointed by It and for the expense of preparing and submitting the case to the arbitral tribunal. All other expenses con nected with any arbitration shall be defrayed by the two governments in equal moieties. Provided, however, that if io any case the essential mat ter of difference submitted to arbi tration is the right of one of the high contracting parties to receive dis avowals of or apologies for acts or de faults of the other, not resulting in substantial pecuniary injury, the ar* bitral trlbunlul finally dlspoing of the said matter shall direct whether any of the expenses of the successful party shall be borne by the unsuccessful party, and if so, to wlmt extent. — Article XIII. The time and place of meeting of an arbitral tribunal and all arrangement# for hearing and all question# of pro cedure shall be decided by the tribunal staff. Each arbitral tribunal shall keep a correct record of it* proceed ings, and may appoint and employ all necessary officers and agents. The de cision of the tribunal shall, if possible, he made within three month* front the close of the arguments on both sides. It shall he made in writing and dated, and shall he signed by the arbitrator* who may assent to it. The decision shall be in duplicate, one copy whereof shall he delivered to each of the high contracting parties through their re 1 spec-live agents. Article XIV. This treaty shall remain In force for five years from the date at which it shall come into operation, and further, until the expiration of twelve month* after either of the high contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of its wish to terminate the same Article X|. The present treaty shall he duly rati fled by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and con sent of the senate thereof, and by her Britannic majesty; and the mutual ex change of ratifications shall take place at Washington or tn Ixindon within six months of the date hereof or earlier If possible. In faith whereof we, the respective plenipotentiaries, have signed this treaty and have hereunto affixed our seals. Done In duplicate, at Washington the 11th day of January. 1897. RICHARD OLNEY, JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. WRITE TO YOl.Tt SENATOR. It will take a two-thirds vote of the senate to ratify the treaty, which realty means an offensive and defensive alli ance. The senators will take great heed of expressions from the people on the advisability of entering into an alliance of this kind. Action will prob ably be taken In a few days. 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In <l*i futti |n4i . w*»» U*t nit I l**t* ik* t*• nil *Hk IM lilt* until *uu H*l U, *k4 |»m •III t**l a»«r* lik* 11 * lug tb** >i»u 4t4 W» l«r» l **»•• •» g*t In Ik* 4*4 •( III* •* *b*ll Ut>4 tb4i *utking ghh..l b*» b**n b**( Tb* *«f 14 U lull ut MIm4 *4u**m *bn *|h*<»4 Ik*if Ii«m grinding m « Milk f I .« ft;.': TALMAGE'S SERMON. A FARMER S ADVICE LAST SUN DAY'S SUBJECT. From tlie following TrV.: "seek Him That Mskcth the .rira star, ami Orion'* Honk of Amo.. < huptcr 5, \ t*ram ii. COUNTRY farmer wrote tills text— Amos of Tekoa. He plowed the f>arth and threshed the grain by a new threshing tnanhino Just Invented, as formerly the tattle trot! out the grain. He gathered the fruit of the syca more tree, and scarified It with an Iron comb just before It was getting ripe, as It was necessary and custom ary In that way to take from It the bit terness. He was the son < f a poor shep herd, and stuttered; hut before the stammering rustic the Philistines, and Syrians, und Phoenicians, and Moa bites. and Ammonites, und Hdomltes, and Israelites trembled. Moses was a law-giver, Daniel was n prince, Isaiah a courtier, and David a King; but Amos, the author of my text, was ft peasant, and, as might he sup pond, nearly all his parallelisms are pastoral, his prophecy full of the odor 01 new mown hay, and the rattle of lo custs, and the nimble of calls with sheaves, and the roar of wild beasts de vouring the Hock while the shepherd 'uine out in (heir defense. He watched the herds by day, and by night in habited a booth made out of bushes so that through these branches be could nee the stars all night long, and was more familiar with them than we who have tight roofs to our houses, and hardly ever see the stars except among the tall brick chimneys of the great towns, But at seasons of the year when the herds were in special danger, he would stay out In the open Held all through the darkness, his only shelter the curtain of the night-heaven, with the stellar embroideries and silvered tassels of lunar light. t* iiru n inn ui nvi • i mm ' ■« i i .. with his herds! Poor Amos! And at twelve o’clock at night, hark to the wolf's hark, and the lion's roar, and the bear’s growl, and the owl's te-wblt te-who, and the serpent’s hiss, as he unwittingly steps too near while mov ing through the thickets! So Amos, like other herdsmen, got the habit of studying the map of the heavens, be cause It was so much of. the time spread out before him. He noticed some stars advancing and others re ceding. He associated their dawn and setting with certain seasons of the year He had a poetic nature, and he read night by night, and month by month, and year by year, the poem of the con stellations, divinely rhythmic. But two rosettes of stars especially attracted his attention while seated on the ground, or lying on his hack under the open scroi of the midnight heavens— the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, and Orion. The former group this rustic prophet associated with the spring, us It rises about the first of May. The latter he associated with the water, as It comes to the meridian In January. The Plei ades, or Seven Stars, connected wtth ail sweetness and Joy; Orion, the herald of tho tempest. The ancients were the more apt to study the physiognomy and Juxtaposition of the heavenly bodies, because they thought they had a spe cial influence upon the earth; and per haps they were right. If the moon every few hours lifts and lets down the tides of the Atlantic ocean, and the electric storms tn the suu, by all scien tific admission, affected the earth, why not the stars have proportionate effect? And there are some things which inake me think that It may not have been all superstitutlon which connect ed the movements and appearance of the heavenly bodies with great moral events on earth. Did not a meteor run on evangelistic errand on the flrst Christmas night, and designate the rough cradle of our l.ord? Did not the atars In their course fight against Hisera? Was It .Merely coincidental that before the destruction of Jerusalem the moon wsh hidden for twelve consecutive nights? Did it merely happen so that a now alar appeared in eonatellatlon Caaaeopoia. aud then dlaappuar Jual be fore f’harloa IX. of France, wlio waa reaponalble for rtt, HarUiolumew maaa aera, died'.' Waa It without «iKiittt< ance that In the day* of the Itomau Kmperor Jnatlnlaii war and famine were pro red ed by the dltuneaa of the atm. whti-h for nearly a year gate no more light than the moon, although there V ere no cloud* to obacitro it? Aatrolugy. after all, may have been noitirtblttg more than a brilliant heat Ir an Urn. No wundar that ktttoa of the teat, having heard the** two anthem* of the alara, pul down the atom rough ataff of th< hard*watt and took into hta brown hand and rut and knotted Itnana the pen of the prophet and ad tit* I the recreant p*opte of hta time to r< - urn to IhhI utiti; "iteeh blur, • bat makrttt th« *•»** titrrv aud Orton l hi* inm uand whtrh tuto> gate Iti )mn II t it )ud m appro- | pnate fur u* l*»J t It Ih the Brat ptara .tw<u at u we atuat rw, tkat the timt ari ma-le the t'Uladva and thton »> •»' he the tto>t of or dor. It wa» to a *o m h a etar hero and a a:ar there that uttpt*»v*d the in •j'icI h«rd*iiMn hut aevott lit ww«* Btvwjv. and woven a the other |n«p He van that night after nkMH and •• won aft•* aaaaon and d*> ado after <1* fade they bad k#p atep ot light. *a» k an* in It* i wu place 4 *ut rktuod «*tar tlaahlag and ne<*> »-anted tng |*i» at* to f-.-K| the tin* tt*wtut| rtllol tk< I'hiaiht the oetea daughter# of \tlaH" and Virgil wrote In his Aenetd >f"Stormy Orion" until now. they have )bserved the order established for their ■oming anti going; order written not In manuscript that may be pigeon holed. but with the hand of tho Al mighty on tho dome of the sky. so that all nations may read It. Order. Per sistent order. Sublime order. Omnip otent order. * What a sedative to you and to me, to whom communities and nations sometlires seem going pell-mell, and tho world ruled by some tlend ut hap hazard. and In all directions malad ministration! The Cod who keeps aeven worlds In right circuit for nl* thousand years can certainly keep all the affairs of Individuals and nations and continents In adjustment. We had not better fret much, fur the peasant'* argument of the text was right. If Cod run take care of the seven worlds of the Pleiades and the four chief worlds of Orion, he can probably take care of the one world we Inhabit. So I feel very much as my father felt one day when we were going to the country mill to get a grist ground, and I, a boy of seven years, rat In the back part of the wagon, and our yoke of oxen run away with us and along a labyrinthine road through the woods, so that I thought every moment we would be dashed to pieces, and I mado a terrible outcry of (right, and my fath er turned to me with a face perfectly calm, and said; “Do Witt, what are you crying »lx»ut? I guess we can ride as fast as the oxen cun run." And, my hearers, why should wo lie affrighted and lose our equilibrium In the swift movements of worldly events, especial ly when we are assured that It Is not a yoke of unbroken steers that are draw ing ns on, but that order and wise gov ernment are In the yoke? , 1 * * * * Again. Amos saw. as we must see. that the God who made these two archipelagoes of stars must be an un changing God. Thor* had been no change In tho stellar appearance lu I Ilia herdsman's life-time, and his fath er, a shepherd, reported to him that there had been no change In bis life time. Atnl these two dusters hang over the celestial arbor now Just as they were tho first night that they shone on the Edcrilr bowers, the same as when the Egyptians built the Pyra mids from the top of which lo watch them, the same as when the Chaldeans calculated the eclipses, the same aa when Elihn, acordlng to the Hook of Job, went out to study the aurora borealis, the same under Ptolemaic system and Coperulcan system, the same from Callsthenes to Pythagoras, amt from Pythagoras to Hersotoel.Sure ly, a changeless God must have fash ioned the Pleiades and Orion! Oh, what an anodyne amid the ups and downs of life, and the flux and reflux of tho tides of prosperity, to know that wo have a changeless God, ‘‘the same yes terday, to-day, anil forever.” Xerxes garlanded and knighted ths steersman of his boat In the morning and hanged him In the evening of the same day. Fifty thousand people stood around the columns of the na tional capital, ahoutlng themselves hoarse at the presidential Inaugural, and In four mouths so great were the antipathies that a ruffian's pistol in Washington depot expressed the senti ment of many a disappointed office seeker. The world sltH In its chariot and drives tandem, and tho horse ahead Is lluzza, and the horse behind is Anathema. Lord Cob ham, In King James’ time was applauded, and had thirty-five thou sand dollars a year, but waa afterward execrated, and lived on scraps stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexander ths Great after death re mained unburied for thirty days be cause no one would do the honor at shoveling him under. The Duke ei Wellington refused to have his Iron fence mended because it had been broken by an Infuriated populace in some hour of political excitement, and he left It In ruins that men might learn If UMk * WUMIWU “But the mercy of the Iiord Is from everlasting to everlasting to them that tear him. and his righteousness unto the childrenjt children of auch as keep hTs covenani. and to those who rw niemher Ills commandmeuts to do them." This moment “aeek him that maketh the Seven Stars and Orion.” ... T And I am glad that so many testa call us to look off to other worlds, many of them larger and grander and more resplendent, "laiok there,” says Job. “at Mutaroth and Arcturua and his sou*!" lawk there," says St. Johu. “at the moon under Christ's feet!" "laiok there," says Joshua, “at the sun standing still above Olbeon!" “I.oob there,' says Muses, "at the sparkling hi tnanient!" “I.ook there,“ says Amos, t lie herdsman, “at the ttaten fttars and Orion"' Do not let us tie so sad about those who shove off from this world under ( bristly pilotage |*i not let ua lie satiated about our own going off this little barge or sloop or final* boat of w world to g*t on some "tlreat Master t»' of Mc< heaieu* Im not let n. persist in wanting to May In Ihia barn this shed. Ihia ont-lcuiaw of a world when nil the king, palace* at ready imcopted hi men) »l «»wr hew* fionds an- swingtha wide oca their 8.1*4 to tel us In 4 vs* .4*. t#| ‘I in* r < • | Mi t ileli. it. an t i),dt.is*4 U< supine us a Ml ul I »•**! whes l Mel* ialehof ,Vs .terse, ui <t iws "A*« vow foul of the til(l-> fowl** • *h*-l the h<*i.w *'11.11, he rw |dted vi fur »*%*« thet’fw Kne list *4 fur |s>arwu*s. I .mu.I war they mind me of a Miosspcter «p" Msrw i ay . m rmaii *<s m r»t*uil»s th.ii *'*e» taaling a bauh ear#, ha r.iuid gits all (he Mitant point* •* K. and mi* many I .eg gjj