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    Members cl the First Regiment Hare Hzd
Enough War.
WOULD LIKE MUSTER OUT
Tlielr Knlrjr Into tli« (.'Ilf of Mitullit •ml
Ilir herthti Itcuilereil There Private
l.ynUe of Turk Kills K Do.il iiiho With
mu Aci'IdrnUI Mint.
The following correspondence to file
Lincoln Journal from Nebraska's First
regiment, now doing duty in Manila,
will he road with Interest. It bcaru
date In August:
"Well, have you heard yet when we
are going home?” says our brave sol
dier Notching up his sorry-looklng
overalls to another brave warrior who
Is trying to tie up the ends of an old
pair of drawers so thut they will an
swer as well for socks. And they are
not the only ones. That Is the only
and all-absorbing topic with us now.
Once we wondered when we would gel
to the Philippines. Then we put In u
month wondering when we would get.
Into Manila. When at list we stood
Inside Its frowning walls we wondered
how the thing hod been (lone. We
wondered then what we would do with
the Hpanlards, and we wondered what
Undo Ham would do with t:s. Finally
we stopped speculating upon ull else
and have been wondering ever since
when we were to be sent home. Alto
gether with the common soldier this Is
a very wonderful world.
One of the hoys remarked the other
day that he was afraid the govern
ment wan going to try turning us Into
Filipinos. Judging from the coats of
sunburn and the coats of native make
which the Nebraska boys are wearing
the changing process Is not likely to
take so very long a time. Others have
ventured the proposition that the army
Is to be kept here for an unknown
length of time pending possible Inter
national derangements. Whenever this
supposition Is mentioned It calls forth
n general wall of woe, for almost with
out exception the boys are anxious to
get home ns quickly ns possible.
Home one very aptly expresssed the
sentiment of the regiment when he
remarked, "I enlisted to light, and
when there Is no more of that, I want
to get hack to plow corn.” Barrack life
at best Is not present. It savors too
much of Incarcerafon to suit your In
dependent, volunteer soldier. In the
face of danger lie will bear restraint
In the Interest of discipline and play
his part with the precision of a well
constructed machine (that Is If Ills of
ficers don't, get rattled|. In the bar
racks, however, It Is different. There
Is likely to be, "discipline be hanged,”
and when restraint Is put unon him
he holds Indignation meetings the
same as any other American citizen.
He urralgns the government and In
dicts his officers Just as though he * ere
at homo, and then subsides, eats his
hardtack, smokes a cigarette and goes
to sleep In a corner.
The following I found the other day
on a stray bit of puper, evidently torn
from the page of a diary belonging to
one of our boys. Because of the cir
cumstances under which It was writ
ten It becomes well worth the repro
auction.
"Before the lnsldp gates of Manila,
and Inside Its frowning walla, noon.
August 13. IH98, (an unlucky day for
Alphonso XIII.)
“People of Nebraska: We, of the
vlctorloua army of the United Staten
and Dewey took u big city which aeema
r#t moan-grown walla, amelia bad In
every ulley-llke atreet, nnd hasn't a
bite of bread within Ita eonflnea.
"We don't know yet Juat how much
1n pound precloua blood of our broth
era It haa coat UR. Three thouaand of
the Spaniah aoldlera crowd the walla
and baatlona, gazing all moutha and
eyea at the boya of the First Nebraaka
as they atand renting before their gates
while one of our boya from California
Ilea dying at our feet, struck by one
of the bulleta from the enemy’s last
fire. We have heard that other regi
ments have loat but know not to what
extent. (One’a aenaibllltlea become
deadened to auch things in times of
war.)
"Kven though It la true that we aa a
regiment t >ok very little active part
In the capt ire of »’ <• city, neither also
did any ol the .and forces. Yet wo
were prepared to contend every Inch
of ground with the enemy and would
have covered ourselveH with gore and
glory if he had but given ua a chance."
Heading the above recalls forcefully
the dav when we all formed In line
of battle Juat within gun range of the
fated city and rested while Admiral
Dewey’s fleet drew up to bombard Ita
undent walls. Then came flfty-llvo
minutes of roaring from the giant guns
tauch a performance as amply supplied
our wanting Fourth of July celebra
tion.) Although we rested near the
bay, Intervening trees bid the cruisers
ao that our view of the firing was much
obscured. Lieutenant Corcoran of com
pany A was stationed aa signal officer
on the beach and was In a position
to witness both the firing nnd the
plucea where the mlaalea struck, lie
says that It wns n sight 'hat he would
not have missed for uuyi.ilng. 11 dges,
ditches, barb-wire fences, broken bot
tles, sharpened stakes and masked bar
ricades of curth hiding sharpshooters
would have demoralized any assault,
making the loss of life fearful and
turning the battle into a carnage
Viewing these works I think m 11 of
us experienced a sense of satisfaction
In leallzlng that we would never h«
called upon to attach such a formidable
position in the dead of ltl”bt, but
marched unchallenged around its un
covered flank next the bsach.
Hp« ulutlng floating wild con lectures
•ml gaping about us like children we
marched on and up the sand of the
beach and toward Manila Ou the first
ramparts the guns were silent, ami
there proudly floated the American
flag flow we cheered when we saw It.
and further on what applause we gave
that now hlaturh* baud of IViluriiln
which rising to th« exigency of the
occasion played "Hot ’time" aa we
went mar* hlng by
Then roue more wails Lines of
walls square* of walls, walls standing
and walla shattered and all surmount
ed by ugly rows of lagged glass hot
list sunk Into the mortar Kvery on*
! of Bufflcivnt importance to keep a tom
i cat or mangy <1 >g has a huge atone
! nail thrown about his small patch of
: ground.
And while we were marching with
I Nebraska leading the "roc tsion that
: flanked all these walls by wading the
skirts of the aea, roving parties of the
enemy begun to tire, their bullets whis
tling close over our heads so that our
officers ordered 11s and themselves to
lie down behind low stone parapets for
| protection. We soon resumed our
| march, however, with the bullets pat
; terlng Into the sea all about us. To
i the bullets and firing *.e paid little
1 attention but prepared ourselves with
1 no small measure of exultation t;> fight
j our way through every street of the
city, When w» found that there was
to he no fighting we were grievously
! disappointed. Had the Spaniards pos
sessed the nerve to make a last des
perate stand there would have been a
struggle unparalleled In the annals of
history. With ns well Into the city
the enemy might have surrounded us
and In a house to house fight take such
revenge as they never had before. With
us mixed up In the elty Dewey could
have done nothing. Whatever the cost
however, we would have won In the
end a victory to he proud of.
As you know, though, we didn’t Arc
a shot that day. Our guns Itching In
our hands were of no more value than
Shovels. Before we were nware of It
we stood before Manila’s garrison, and
our fighting chances were over.
Friday afternoon, August 22, about
f, o’clock Mylton Lynda of company A,
accidentally shot and killed u native
boatman. Mo didn’t know Ills gun was
loaded.
Young Lynde was resting with two
companies about thirty feet from
where a canal flows Into the river
i'uslg. The three were waiting for the
corporal of the guard to post them on
the new relief. While they waited two
Filipino boatmen paddled In a little
canoe up to the side of the canal next
to the hoys. The water being low
only their heads appeared over the
stone abutment. One of the guards
called the attention of his companions
to the excellent turget which they pre
sented, whereupon Lynde brought hlu
gun to hlH shoulder, aimed at the man
In the stern and pulled the trigger. The
gun was fired and the native dropped
to the bottom of the boat. "My Hod,"
cried Lynde before the report had died
away, "who put that, load In my gun?"
Kven then the three did not realize
that any harm had been done, but
when they saw the man lying In the
boat dead, the unfortunate soldier
broke down entirely.
A crowd of natives quickly gathered
and were with difficulty kept back by
the guards. While Lynde was being
conducted to quarters many followed
crowding closely about his escorts
with sullen angry mutterlngs, but at
tempted no act of violence.
Lynde, nearly heart-broken, was
confined at regimental headquarters
and the next morning the remains of
the native escorted by the regimental
band and First hatalllon were given a
burial with military honors; and his
friends generally were made to under
stand the nature of the accident, to
gether with the keen regret It caused
both officers and men,
Mylton Lynde contends that some
one unknown to him must have loaded
his rifle, for he says that lie has not
put a cartridge Into It since coming
Into the city. He has always been of
exemplary character. He ha> always
done his duty as a soldier and a man,
thereby holding the respect of all who
knew him. He will he tried by court
martial on the charge of negligence
In the use of firearms.
His father Is a minister of the gos
pel at York.
Kiponlllon Fliiniirlally a Unecees.
ICveryono Interested In tho welfare
of the western country will be pleased
to hear of the wonderful financial suc
cess of the Tranu-MIssiaHlppl Expwsi
tlon, now nearing the close of Its five
montha’ run In Omaha. If Its gates
were closed today, there la money
enough In the bank to pay every dollar
of Indebtedness and return to the
stockholders large portion of the Htock
subscriptions. If there Is any truth
in the old saying that “nothing sue
reeds like success," the month of Octo
ber should be marked by a prosperity
unprecedented in the history of expo
tlons.
According to the books of Secretary
Wakefield, the finances of the exposi
tion on September 26 stood as follows:
Cash balance in bank.$128,001
All liabilities. 68,000
Net balance. .$ 60,000
For some time past all bills have
been paid whenever presented with the
proper voucher.! and the cash surplus
has steadily accumulated. When the
above figures wore given out the ex
poaltlon had thirty-six days to run.
October, on account of the peace jubi
lee celebration, and other attractive
features, is expected to draw by far
the greatest crowds of any of the five
months of the exposition season
The exposition will close Novem
ber 1.
(Irrnt Hay for Veteran*.
In s'-me respects the most striking
feature of peuco Jubilee week at the
exposition ut Omaha will he the friend
ly meeting of the Blue and Cray on
"North and South Handshaking Day,"
October llili. and on "Army and Nuvy
Day" and "Veteran Soldiers’ Day," Oc
tober 12th. Ureat efforts huvn been
made to secure a large attendance of
fe.u ral and confederate veterans for
this occasion, and there Is no doubt
[hut the gathering will he one of the
most memorable of Its kind In the his
tory of the country. The tlrund Army
of the ItepubUr. through Its comman
der In chief, the Women's Belief
Corps, through Its natlonul president,
and the I laughters of the Coufederaey,
through their natlousl president, have
been Invited to be preseut, and the In
vitations havw been given very wide
publicity. A uutnlier of piotuluent
speakers have accepted invitations to
deliver addresses at cam pit res to be
held morning and evening of the two
da>a named It will tie a fitting ac
companiment to the celebration over
the close oi the war of KM that the
men who bore the brunt of the Haht
In the early sixties shall stand upon
the same platform and address the par
ticipants In that great struggle
I The oil run which was recently sunk
asai Hunter lit the bluffs will he
worked A Stuck mm paliy has been
incorporated sad preparations tu sink
wslta wilt be begun linmediatsly
TALMAGE’S
SEBMON,
“THE HOUNDED REINDEER"
SUNDAY S SUBJECT.
"As tli« Hurt Punteth Aftir fh*
Hm«r llroski, Ho ft’antAth Mj Soul
After Tlivti, O (Jodi" rmlim, Chap.
XMI, VerM I.
Washington, I), C., Oct. 2.—Dr. Tal
inage, drawing his Illustrations from
a deer-hunt, In this discourse calls all
the punued ami troubled of the earth
to come and Blake their thirst at the
deep river of Divine comfort. Text:
Psalms 42: 1: “Ah the hart pantetb
after the water brooks, so panteth my
soul after thee, O God.”
David, who must Home tlmo have
seen a deer-hunt, points us here to a
hunted stag making for the water.
The fascinating animal called In my
text the hart Is the same animal that
In sacred and profane literature Is
called the stag, the roebuck, the hind,
tho gazelle, the reindeer. In Central
Syria, In Hlble times, there were whole
pasture-fields of them, as Solomon sug
gesta when he says, "I charge you by
the hinds of the field.” Their untlers
Jutted from the long grass os they lay
down. No hunter who has been long
In “John Brown's tract” will wonder
that In the Bible they were classed
among clean animals, for the dews, the
showers, the lakes washed them an
clean as the sky. When Isaac, the pa
triarch, longed for venison, Esau shot
nnd brought home a roebuck. Isaiah
compares the sprlghtllness of the re
stored cripple of millennial times to
the long and quick jump of the stag,
naylng, “The lame shall leap as tho
hurt.” Solomon expressed his disgust
at a hunter who having shot a deer la
too lazy to cook It, saying, "The sloth
ful man, roasteth not that which he
took in hunting.”
But one duy, David, while far from
the homo from which he had been
driven, and sitting near the mouth of a
lonely cave where he bad lodged, and
on the banks of a pond or river, hears
a pack of hounds In swift pursuit. Be
cause of the prevloua alienee of the
forest the clangor startles him, and he
says to himself: “I wonder what
those dogs are nfter?” Then there Is a
crackling In the brushwood, and tho
loud breathing of some rushing won
der of the woods, and the antlers of a
deer rend the leaves of the thicket, and
by an Instinct which all hunters rec
ognize the creature plunges Into a pool
or lake or river to cool Its thirst, and
at tho same time by Its capacity for
swifter and longer swimming to get
away from the foaming harriers. Da
vid says to himself: “Aha, that Is my
self! Saul after me. Absalom after
me, enemies without number nfter me;
I am chased; their bloody muzzles at
my heels, barking at my good name,
barking after my body, barking after
my soul. Oh, the hounds, the hounds!
But look there,” says David to him
self; “that reindeer has eplushed Into
the water. It puts its hot lipH and nos
trils Into the cool wave that washes Its
lathered flanks, and It swims away
from the fiery canines, and It Is free
at last. Oh, that I might llnd In the
deep, wide lake of God's mercy and
consolation escape from my pursuers!
Oh, for the waters of life and rescue!
‘As the hart panteth after the water
brooks, so panteth my soul after the?,
O God,’"
j no Adironuacka aro now populous
with hunters, and the deer aro being
alaln by the score. Taking one sum
mer with a hunter, I thought I would
like to see whether iny text was accu
rate In Its allusion, and as I heard the
doge baying a little wny off and sup
posed they were on the track of a deer,
I said to one of the hunters In rough
corduroy: "Do the deer always make
for water when they are pursued?" He
said: "Oh, yes, MlBter; you see they
are a hot and thirsty animal, and they
know where the water Is, and when
they hear danger In the dletance they
lift their antlers and sniff the breexe
and start for the Racquet or Boon or
Baranac; and we get Into our cedar
shell boat or stand by the ‘runway’
with rifle loaded and ready to blaze
away.’’
My friends, that la one reason why I
like the Bible so much—Its allusions
are so true to nature. Its partridges
are real partridges, Its ostrlchea real
ostriches, and its reindeer real rein
deer. I do not wonder that this an
tlered glory of the text makes the
hunter's eye sparkle and his cheek
glow and his respiration quicken. To
say nothing of Its usefulness, although
It is the most useful of all game, Its
flesh delicious. Its skin turned into hu
man apparel. Its sinews fashioned Into
bow-strings. Its antlers putting han
dles on cutlery, and the shavings of its
horn used re a pungent restorative, the
name taken from the hart and called
hart.'•horn. But putting aside Its use
fulness!, this enchanting creature
seems made out of gracefulness and
elasticity. What an eye, with a liquid
brightness as If guthered up front a
hundred lakes at sunset! The horns,
a coronal branching Into every possi
ble curve, and after It seems complete
ascending luto other projections of ex
qulslteness, a tree of polished bone,
uplifted In pride, or swung down for
awful combat. The hart Is velocity em
bodied. Timidity impersonated. The
enchantment of the woods. Ita eye
lustrous lu life and pathetic In death
The splendid aulmat a complete
fhythm of muscle, and bone, and color,
and attitude, and loromolloa. whether
couched In the gras* among the shad
nwa or a living bolt shot through tIt
forest, or turning at hay to attack the
hounds or rearing for lie last fail un
der the buckshot of the trapper It Is
a splendid appearance that the paint
er’a pent il falls to sketch, and only a
hunter s dream on a pillow of hem
lock at the foot of Mt ttegia ts able to
picture. Whan, twenty tnilee ftom
any eattlement It corns* down at evea
tide to ike lake # edge to drink among
the Illy pod* and, with It* sharp-edged
hoof, shatters the crystal of Long
l.ake, It 1* very picturesque. But only
when, after miles of pursuit, with
heaving sides and lolling tongue and
eye* swimming In death the stag leaps
from the cliff Into tipper Saranac, can
you realize how much David had suf
fered from hid troubles, and how much
he wanted God when he expressed
hlmaelf in the words of the text: “As
the hart panteth after the water
brooks, ro pnnteth my soul after thee,
O God.”
Well, now, let, all those who have
coming after them the lean hounds of
poverty, or the black hound* of perse
cution. or !he spotted hounds of vicis
situde, or the pale hounds of denth, or
who are In any wise pursued, run to
the wide, deep, glorious lake of divine
solace and rescue. The moot of the
men and women whom I happened to
know at different times, If not now,
huve had trouble after them, sharp
muzzled troubles, swift troubles, all
devouring troubles. Maqy of you have
made the mistake of trying to fight
them. Somebody meanly attacked you
and you attacked them: or they over
reached you in a bargain, and you
tried, In Wall street parlanr*, to get a
corner on them, or you have had a
bereavement, and, Instead of being
submissive you arc fighting that be
reavement; you chnrge on the doctors
who failed to effect a cure; or you
charge on the carelessness of the rail
road company through which the acci
dent occurred; or you are a chronic In
valid, and you fret, and worry, and
■cold, and wonder why you cannot he
well like other people, and you angrily
blame the neuralgia, or the laryngitis,
or the ague, or the sick headache. The
fact Is, you are a deer at bay. Instead
of running to the water* of divine con
solation, and slaking your thirst and
cooling your body and soul In the good
cheer of the Gospel, and swimming
away Into the mighty deepn of God's
love, you are fighting a whole kennel
of harriers.
I saw In the Adirondack* a dog lying
Heroes the road, and he seemed un
able to get up, and I said to some hunt
er* near by, "What Is the matter with
that dog?" They answered, “A deer
hurt him,” And I saw he had a great
swollen paw and a battered head,
showing whrre the untlers struck him.
And the probability Is that some of
you might give n mighty clip to your
pursuer*, you might damnge their bus
iness, you might worry them Into Ill
health, you might hurt them as much
as they have hurt you, but. after all, It
Is not worth while. You only have
hurt a hound. Better be off for the
Upper Saranac, Into which the moun
tains of God's etprnal strength look
down and moor their shadows. As for
your physical disorders, the worst
strychnine you can take Is fret
fuluess, and the best medicine
Is religion. I know peoplo who
were only a little disordered,
yet have fretted themselves Into com
plete valetudinarianism, while others
put their trust In God and corae up
from the very shadow of death, and
have lived comfortably twenty-five
years with only one lung. A man with
one lung, but God with him, Is better
off than a godless man with two lungs.
» (law whole chains of lakes In the
Adlrondacks. and from one height you
can see thirty, anil thpre are said to be
over eight hundrrd In the great wil
derness of New York, So near are
they to each other that your mountain
guide picks up and carries the boat
from lake to lake, the small dlstame
between them for that reaaon called a
''carry.’* Anil the realm of God's
Word Is one long chain of bright, re
freshing lakes; each promise a lake,
a vpry short carry between them, and
though for ages the pursued have been
drinking out of them, they nre full up
to the top of the green banks, and the
same David describes them, and they
sreni so near together that In three
different places he speaks of them as a
continuous river, saying: “There Is a
river, the strenma whereof shall make
glad the city of God;'* “Thou shalt
make them drink of the rivers of thy
pleasure*;” “Thou greatly enrlchest
It with the river of God, which Ib full
of water.”
Hut many of you hav* turned your
tiack on that supply, and confront vour
trouble, and you are floured with yi nr
circumstances, and you are fighting so
ciety and you are lighting a pursuing
world, and troubles. Instead of driv
ing yoi !n!o the cool lake of heav® ,ly
comfort, have made you stop and turn
around and lower your hcud, and It Is
simply antler against tooth. I do not
blame you. Probably under the same
circumstances 1 would have done
worse. Hut you aro all wrong. You
need to do uh the reindeer does In
February and March—It sheds its
borne. The Kabbtnleal writers allude
to this resignation of antlers by ih«
stag when they Ray of a mun who ven
tures his money In risky enterprises,
he has hung It on the stag's home,
and a proverb In the far Fast tells a
man who has foolishly lost hie fortune
to go and find where the deer sheds
her horns. My brother, quit the au
tagoulam of your clrcu lust a tires, quit
mlsunthrophy. quit complaint, quit
pitching into your pursuers, tie aa wIms
as. nest spring, will lie all the d*er of
the Adirondack*. Shed your horn*.
Through Jesus Christ nuke this tiou
your tlod and you can withstand any
thing and everything, and that which
uff rights others will Inspire you. A*
In time of an earthquake when an old
Christian womrn was asked whether
she wa* scared answered: "No, | am
glad that I have a Uod who cau shake !
th* world;” or, as !u a financial panic, ■
when a Christian merchant was asked
If he did not fear he would break. !
answered. "Yes. I shall break when
the Aft let h Psalm breaks la I he day
of trouble. | will deliver thee and 1
«h 11 shall glorify me,” oh. Christian
men and woman pursued of annoy •
aacea sad esaaperalluna. renumber
thal this hunt, whether a still bunt
>r a hunt la full cry. will auoa ha
f—
over! If ever a whelp looks aahimed
It Is
and ready to sink out of sight
when In the Adlrondacks a de<r by
one tremendous plunge Into Big Top
per Lake gets away from him. The
disappointed ranine swims In a little
way, but, defeated, swims out again
and cringes with humiliated yawn at
the feet of his master. And how abash
ed and ashamed will all your earthly
troubles be when you have dashed Into
the river from under the throne of
God and the heights and depths of
heaven ure between you and your pur
suers! We are told In Revelation
22:15: “Without are dogs.'' by which
I conclude there Is a whole kennel of
hounds outside the gate of heaven, or.
as when a master goes In through a
door, his dog lies on the steps waiting
i>r him to rotno out, ao the troubles
of this life may follow us to the shin
ing door, but they cannot get In.
"Without are <loga!’’ I have seen dogs
and owned dogs that I would not bo
chagrined to see In the heavenly city.
Some of the grand old watchdogs who
are the constabulary of the homeg In
solitary places, and for years have
been the only protection for wife and
child; Home of the shepherd dogs that
drive hack the wolves and bark away
the flocks from going too near the
preelplee; anil some of (he dogs whose
neck and paw Landseer, the painter,
has made Immortal, would not find me
shutting them out from the gate of
shining pearl. Some of those old St.
Tlernard dogs that have lifted perish
ing travelers out of the Alpine snow;
the dog that John Brown, the Scotch
essayist, saw ready to spring at the
surgeon lest In removing the cancer he
too much hurt the poor woman whom
the dog felt hound to protect, and dogs
that we carcsaed In our childhood
days, or that In later time lay down on
the rug In seeming sympathy when our
homes were desolated, I say. If some
soul entering heaven should happen
to leave the gate ajar, and these faith
ful creatures should quietly walk In,
It would not at nil disturb my heaven.
But ail those human or brutal hounds
that have chased and torn and lacerat
ed the world, yea, all that now bite
or worry or tear to pieces, shall he
prohibited, "Without are dogs!” No
place there for harsh critics or back
biters or despollera of the reputation
of others.
Oh, when Home of you get there It
will be like what a hunter tells of
when pushing his canoe far up north
In Ihe winter and amid the Ice-floes,
and a hundred miles, as he thought,
from any other human helnga! lie
was startled one day os he heard a
stepping on the lee, and he cocked the
rifle ready to meet anything that earn*
nenr. He found a man. barefooted and
I Insane from long exnosure, approach
ing him. Taking him Into Ills canoe
and kindling Area to warm him, he re
stored him and found out where he
had lived, and took him to hla home,
find found all the village In grent ei
elfement. A hundred men were search
ing for this lost man, and hla fam
ily and friends rushed out to meet
him; and, ns hod been agreed nt his
flrst appearance, hells were rung and
guns were fired, and banquets spread.
Well, when some of you step out of
tills wilderness, where you have been
chilled and torn and sometimes lost
amid the Icebergs, Into the warm greet
ings of all the villages of the glorified,
and your friends rush out to give you
welcoming kiss, the news that there
Is another soul forever saved wll} call
the caterers of heaven to spread the
banquet, and the bellmen to lay hold
of the rope In the tower, and while tbo
chalices click at the feast, and the
hells clang from the turrets, It will be
a scene so uplifting F pray God I may
be there to take part In the celestial
merriment. "Until the day break and
the shadows flee away, he thou like a
roe or a young hart upon the moun
tains of Bether.”
Mr. Curtou'i Salary.
The Indian vice royallty wub In time
paat regarded aa the one (treat, flnanclal
prl»e among satrapies, hut It la under
stood to have become, in part, no doubt,
by reason of the fall In the rupee,
much reduced In value. Jhe salary
(f 125,000) is not iargc for a functionary
who has to maintain bo much pomp
and circumstance, but the allowances
for expenses are on a very liberal scale.
In the case of other governorships It
is almost impossible to "do the thing
well” and to effect any saving out
of the salary. It may he observed
that wealthy men very rarely accept
these positions. In fact, it may be
questioned whether a wealthy man has
ever held the vice royalty of India.
Lord Brust-y, Lord Jersey and I/ml
Aberdeen, among governors, are rare
exceptions, and the first named, as
governor of Victoria, when the salary
had been reduced from $50,000 to $35,
mjo, refused to take It if a further re
duction were made.
No (evidence,
A man wus on trial lu Western Am
erica on a ( barge of catching a certain
tish that weighed less than two pounds.
The constable who made the arrest
testified to latching the prisoner with
the fish In hts possession “Where are
the fish?" asked the lawyer fur the
defendant. "Why, they wouldn't keep,"
answered the officer. "What did you j
du with them." "Well, l knew that i
they wouldn't keep, see I—disposed of]
them." "Hut what did >ou do with
them?" "My wife rouked them." "And
you ate them?" "Yes." "Your Honor
I ask that his rase be dismissed."
"•'barge dismissed and defendant dis
charged," ruled the Justice of th«
Peace, "on ground that the arresting
officer ate the evldence."-"Tll-lllta.
Ske l eal wl Hue.
Her Mother -"I saw him klsa you,
I am terribly shucked' I did nut (or
t moment lmagln»*:i. would dare lot
take such a liberty!" Herself "Nor
i i i nia in t«. i | bet him he I
dareh l!' Mehuboth Sunday llereld. i
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON II. OCT. 0. 2 CHRON.
VII: l-IO.
Holden Teit “In Alt Thy Waya Ac
knowledge lllm, aa<l lla Khali Hired
Tliy Hath*—Pro*. 3: 0"—.lelionbapuat’*
Uuoil Kol(o,
Tin* aertlon Include* the work of Je
hoahaphat for a quarter of a century,
and It* Influence on the kingdom of Ju
dah <2 Chron., chapa. 17 to 20).
Huggeatlona to Teacher*,—The aeoond
prrlod of the hlatory of Judah, like tho
tlret, l» one of reformation and proaperl
ty under n good king who nought to build
up hla people in true religion llrat, and
then, aa a natural concomitant, In rdu*
cation, Juatlce, anil peaceful proaperlty.
Here, too, ah In the cnee of Aaa, there
wbh a flaw In the diamond, a lly In the
apothecary’* ointment. We naturally
etudy the whole life of Jehoahaphat, and
not merely the few aelected veraoa, or
we ahall in Ira the meaning of thta quar
ter of a century. We ahould ever keep
In view what wa* going on In the other
kingdom. The map and the chart ara
helpful.
Illatorlcal Netting.—Time -Jehoahaphat
r* gned twerity-flve year*, from li. O. *14
to wttt, or. Itev. Chron. 174-SM. Place The
kingdom of Judah. Itulera Jehoahaphat,
king of Judah; A hah, of Iarael; Menhad
ad I., of Hyrla. Homer may have, ac
cording to Hcrndotua, lived not far from
the lime of Jehoahaphat. l’ropheta— Kll
Jah, In larad, Jehu, the non of flananl,
Jehaclrl, and Mlcnlah, In Judah,
HI* name meuna "Jehovah la Judge;’*
wa* the won of Ana anil Asuhah. lie be
gan to reign when lie waa Jf. yeara old.
mid relgn*d twenty.five yeara. Ilia waa
one of the heat and moat proaperoua
relgna In all Judali'a eglatence. li give*
ua an IhKlght Into the true road to proa
perlty, untl by hla one failure warna ug
iigalnat on* of our chief danger*.
I. "He etrengthened hlnrmelf again*!
larael.” Which nation hnd attacked hla
father Akm. He defended hi* border* In
auch u way that thara waa llttla danger
of attack.
2 "lie placed forces," garrisoned with
troops, "In all the fenced,” fortified, "ct
•••* of Judah." Th* fortifications which
had been begun by Bolnmon, curried on
hy Itehohoaii*. and with Icaa vigor hy
Abljali and Aaa, Jfhoshaphat continued
on tli* largest seal*. He built "palaces"
(or "caatl*#") Hnii "cities of atore"
throughout Judah; and following tho pre
cedent "wisely" a*t by ftehoboain, he
plMc.-d In them hia alx younger aona
(chap. 21: 2, I), ua well na other "prince*,"
choaen from the "boat" (chap. IT: 7).~
Hlnnlcy. "Bet garrlaoua." Military pouts,
with commander**, aoldlera, and auppllea.
In alrateglo places, In addition to tho
dtlea referred to above, "in th* cltlea
I of Kphrulm,” I’rohnbly on the southern
border* near Ida own kingdom. "Which
Aaa hla father had (aken." They were
lliat taken by Aaa'* father Abljali (chap.
12: 19), but held, defended, and strength
ened by Aaa, who probably aided hla
father In capturing them, ao that, they
went In hla name
2. "The Lord tvan with Jehoshaphat."
Strengthened, blessed, defended, prosper
ed him. Whoever la on th* lord’s aid* is
on the aid* of blessing. "He walked In
the Drat way* of his father David." Ill*
active, devoted, curliest, religious ways.
In all (he first part of hi* reign till he
fell In the matter of Uriah. "And sought
not unto Itaallm." ilaallm, the plural of
Baal, Is uaed on account of th* grsat
number of Images of Huai, and the var
ious forms under which he was worship
ed. Dual and Its licentious worship had
many attractions for the people,
t. "But sought to the Lord " To seek
to the lg>rd Is to strive to find out what
(Jod'a will la. and then to do It with all
the heart. "And not after the doings of
Israel." "H* observed with scrupulous
fidelity, and employed hla royal Influence
to support, the divine Institutions as en
acted by Moses, abhorring that spurious
and unlawful calf worship that formed
now the estahllahed religion In Israel."—
D. Brown, D. D.
». "Al| Judah brought . . , presents."
I. #., ‘free-will offering*,” In addition to
th* regular tuxes. They expressed their
loyalty and good-will In this way. "Hlch
es and honor In abundance." His pros
perity waa greater than that of any king
since the day# of David and Holornon (1
Chron. 29: 2*; 2 (,’hron. 1: 12).
2. “Ills heart waa lifted up.” Not with
pride, but wUh courage and hope. Je.
hoshnphat waa emboldened, by hla sense
of tho dlvlno favor reatlng upon him, to
go farther than ho had ventured at first.
Ho Degan hy ssttlng an example of faith
fulness to Jehovah. Ho proceeded to use
his heat eufleftyor* to extlrpato Idolatry,
—Cook. r‘Took away high places ami
groves." Or pillars of Astnroth. In
chap. 20 : 33, It Is said that "the high
places were not taken away (all of
them); for as yet the people had not pre
pared their hearts unto tho Ood of their
fathers.” f
7. "Bent to hla princes." The peculiar
yon*{rujtlon, which doe# not elsewhere
occur, seem* to bo u*ed In order to mark
that the prince* were 3iot sent as teach
ers themselves, but only had the duty
committed to them of seeing that tho
people were taught. The actual teachers
wero the priests and Lev! tea *f the next
\ erse.— Cook.
7, H. The five princes, nine !,evlte*, and
two priests, named In these verses are
otherwise unknown.—/.ochlsr. Hut It Is
a good thing to have such names go down
the ages and "echo through tho corridors
of time."
9. "And they taught In Judah." They
hud a campaign of education. It wus
pi actu ally a Sunday-school work. Schools
were Instituted us the only means of
making the reformation thorough and
permanent. "Vice will always find op
portunities; It Is little use to suppress
evil Institutions unless tho people are
educated out of evil propensities. He
would take away the Inclination as well
as the opportunity for corrupt rites."
The text-book was th# "hook of the
law of the l-ord.” All of th* Bible that
had th#n been written. There was no
printing, and copies were scarce and ex
pensive. “W* may be sure it was a
grand anil noble enterprise, and may
trust that It bore along with It waves of
the waters of salvation,"—Cowles.
10. The fruits of the king's policy wer*
seen In many directions. (|) "The fsar of
th* laird fell upon all the kingdom*."
They realised th# power of his blessing,
and ths strength of his defense, so that
they dared not attack Judah, but brought
! presents of |>*aee Instead (v. II), (J|) It
i brought buslnoae and prosperity (vs. 12.
| ID, so that Jehoshaphat * reign wa* long
i remembered as one of proverbial spleu
dor
HONfcV FROM THE ROCK.
){*roi*tu ranuot b* estimated by th*
dollar.
diva oo quarter lu tin: It will y|««
non* to you.
War ’’tro* the tyrant littld* out. ro
vrating the slav*.
There ar* many valuablM a hero the
wayfuier lay* down hi* l«^.
Th* i>* of ala will not h* qu*ooh«4
by th* uw of a rot* water apray.
Handle* with diamonds and tough* j
*IU tailor*, all to th* *aa>* hall.