Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 38, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 January 1891 — Page 6

JOSHUA’S BATTLES.

Bermon by Rev. T. De Witt Tale mage, D. D.

Word Victures of the Triumphs of Joshua as the Israelite General—The Last Ilierce Battle and Greatest Victory and Rest

" The thirteenth sermon by Dr. Talmage in the Iloly Land series had for its text the, fifth verse of the second chapter of Joshua: ‘““And when all these Nings were met together they eame and pitched together at the waters of Morom to fight against Israel.” The preacher said: : We are encamped to-night in Palestine by the waters of Morom. In this wmeighborhood Joshua fought his last @reat l'aitle, The nations had banded themsclves together ‘to crush this Joshua, but along: the banks of these waters Joshua left their carcasses. In@eed. it is time that we more minutely examine this Joshuaof whom wehavein these discourses caught only a momentary giimpse, although he crossed and recerosiod Palestine, and next to Jesus. is the niost stirring and mighty character whose foot ever touched the Holy - Eand. Moscs was dead. - A beautiful tradition suys the Lord kissed him, and in that act drew forth the soul of the dying law-giver. He had heen buried, anly on¢ person at the funeral, the same ong who kissed him. But God mever tulies a man away from any place of uszcfulness but He has soiae one weady. The Lord does not go looking around amid a great variety of candi--dates to find some one especially. fitied for the vacated position. He makes o man for that place. Moses has possed off the stage, and Joshua, the hero, puts his foot on the platform of history so solidly that all the ages @che with the tread. He was a magnificent fighter, but he always fought on the right side, and he never. fought uniess (rod told him to fight. He got kis military equipment from God, who gave him the promise at the start: ‘““There sim]ili not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” God fulfilled this promise, although Joshua's first battle was with the spring freshet, and the next with a stone wall, and the next leading on a regiment of whipped cowards, and the next battle against dark- ! mess, wheeling the sun and the moon into liis battalion, and last against the Eing of terrors, death—five great vietories. ' | For the most part, when the General ~of an army. starts out in a conflict he wonid like to have asmall battle in order that he may get his courage up and he may rally his troops and get them dvilled for greater conflicts; but this first undertaking of Joshua was greater than the leveling of Fort Pufaski or the thundering down of Gibraltar or the overthrow of the Bastile. It was the crossing. of %he Jordan at = the time of the spring Jfreshet. The snows of Mount Lebancn had just.been melted and they poured down into the valley, and- the whole valley was a raging torrent. So the Canuanites stand on one bank and they ook across and see Joshua and the Israclites, and they laugh and say: “‘Ahal aha! they can not disturb us in time—until the freshets fall; it is impossible for them to reach us.” But after awhile they look across the water and they see a movement in the army of Joshua. They say. “What's the matter now? - Why, there must be a panic nmong these troops, and they are going to flee, or perhapsthey are going to try to march across the River Jordan. Joshua is a lunatic.” But Joshua, the chieftain; looks at his army and ecries: “Forwurd, march!” and they start for the bank of the Jordan. - Ume mile ahead go two priests carrying o glittering box four feet long and two fect wide. It is the ark of the covezant. And they come down, and no sooner do they just touch the rim of the water with their feet than by an ‘Almighty flat Jordan parts. The army of Joshua mareh right on without gettinz their feet wet over the bottom cof the river, a path of chalk and broken whells and pebbles, until they get to the other bank. Then they lay hold of the olecanders and tamarisks and | wiliows and pull themselves up a bank #hiriy or forty feet high, and having | guiaod the other bank they clap their | shiclids and their cymbais and sing the praiges of the God of Joshua. But no sooner have they reached the bank than the waters begin to dash and rosr and with a terrific rush they - bréeak loose from their strange anchorage. Out yonder they - have stopped; thirty miles of distance they halted. On this side the waters roll off toward the salt sea. DBut as ffixe hand of the Lord God: is taken away from the thus uplifted waters—waters perbaps wuplifted half a mile—as the Almighty hand is taken away those’ waters rush down, and some of the unbelieving Isarelités say: ‘‘Alas, alas, what a misfortune! Why could not those “waters have staid parted? Because, perhaps. we may want to go back. O Lord, - we are engageéd in a risky business. Those (‘anaanites may eat us up. How | if we want to go back? Would it not bave been a more complete miracle if the Lord had parted the waters to - et us come through and kept them parted to let us go back if we are de-. " feated?” My friends, God makes no . provision for a Christian’s retreat. He ¢lears the path all the way to Canaan. ~ To go back is to die. The same gatekeepers that swing back the amethystine and crystalline gate of the Jordan to let Israel pass through now swing shot the amethystine and crystalline gate. e But thigis no place for the host to stop. Joshua gives the command: ‘“For- - wargd, march!” In the distance there is a long grove of trees and at the end of the grove is a city. It is a city of arbors, a city with walls seeming toreach fo the heavens, to buttressthe very sky. It is the great metropolis that commands the mofmtain pass. It is Jericho. That city was afterward captured by - Pompey, and it was afterward captured by Herod the Great, and it was afterward captured by the Mohammedans; ‘but this campaign the Lord plans. There ~ shall be no swords, no shields, no bat- ° tering ram. There shall be only one weapon of war, and that a ram’s horn. ~ The horn of the slain ram ,was sometimes taken and holes were punctured _ fin i%, and then the musician would put the instrument to his lips and he would - run his fingers over this rude musical ~ dnstrument and make a great deal WMW{ v the pedpey . That was the only kind of weapon. Seven priests were to take these S amada entis musioal instruments and e L

days, and then on the seventh day they were to go around blowing these rude musical instruments seven times, and then at the close of the seventh blowing of the rams’ horns on the seventh day the peroration of the whole scene was to be a shout, at which those great walls should tumible from capstone to base. :

The seven priests with the rude musical instruments pass all around the city walls on the first day, and a failure. Not so much as a piece of plaster broke loose from the wall—not so much as a loocsened rock:; not so much as a piece of mortar lost from its place. “There,” says the unbelieving Israelites, ‘‘didn’t I. 'tell you so 0? Why, those ministers are fools. The idea of going around !the city with those musical instruments and expecting in that way to dc.?troy it!. Joshua has been spoiled; he thinks because he has overthrown and destroyed the spring freshet he can. overthrow the stone wall. Why, it is not philosophic. Don’t you see there is no relation between the blowing of these musical instruments and the ' knocking ~down of the wall? It isn’t philosophy.” And I suppose there were many wiseacres who stood with their brows knitted and with the forefinger of the right hand to the forefinger of the left hand arguing it all out and showing it was not possible that such a cause could produce such an effect.” Joshua's stock was down. The second day the priests blowing the musical instruments go around the city, and a failure. Third day,-and a failure; fourth day, and a failure; fifth day, and a failure; sixth-day, and a failure. The scventh day comes, the climacteric day. Joshua |is up early in the morning and examines the troops, walks all- around about, looks at the city wall. The }?riests start te make the circuit of the city. They go all around once, all around twice, three times, four times,; five times, six times, seven times, and a failure.

There is only' one more thing to do, and that is tol utter a great shout. I see the Israelitish army straightening themselves up, filling their lungs for a vociferation such as was never heard before and never heard after. Joshua feels that the hour has come, and he criecs out to his- host: “Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city!” All the people began to cry: ‘‘Down, Jericho; down, Jericho!” and 'the long line of solid masonry begins to quiver and to move and to rock. Stand from under! She falls! = Crash! go the = walls, the temiples, the palaces, the air blackened with . the dust. The huzza of the victorious Israelites and the grcan of the conquered Canaanites commingle, and Joshua, standing there in the debris of the-wall, ' hears a voice saying: ‘“There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” . ' ' But: Joshua's troops may not halt here. The command is:: ‘“Forward march!? There: is the city of Ai; it must be talken. How shall it be taken? A scouting party comes back and says, “Joshua; we can do that without you; it is going to be a very easy job; you just stay here while we go and capture it.” They march with a small regiment in front of that city. The men of Ai look at them and give one yell and the Israelites run like reindeer. The Northern troops at Bull Run did not make such rapid time as these Israelites with the Canaanites after them. 'They never cut such a sorry figure as when they were on the @ retreat. Amybody that goes out in the battles of God with only half a force, instead of your taking the men of Aithe men of Ai will take you. Lool: at the Chureh of God on the retreat. The Boramesian cannibals ate. up Munson, the missic. ary. “Fall back!” sdid a great many Chuistian people. “Fall back, O church of God! Borneo will never be taken. Don’t you see the Bornesian cannibals. have eaten uwp Munson, the missionary?” Tyndall delivers his lecture m;l the University of Glasgow and a great I many good | people say: “HFall back,: O Chorch: of God! Donlt you see that Christian philosophy is going to be overcome by worldly philosophy? | Fall back.” = Geology plunges its crowbar into the mountains, and there are a great many people who | say: ‘‘Scientific investigation is going to overthrow the Mosaic account of the creation. Fall back!” Friends of the church have never had any right to fall baclk.

Joshug falls on his face in chagrin. It is the only time you ever see the back of his head. He falls on his: face and begins to whine, and he says: “Oh, Lord God, wherefore hagt . Thou | at all brought this people over Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us? Would to God we had been content and dwelt on the other side of Jordan? For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it and shall environ us round and ecut off our name from the earth.” : God comes and rouses him. How does He rouse htm? By complimentary apostrophe? No. He says: ‘“Get | thee up. Wherefore liest thou upon thy face?” Joshua rises, and, 1 warrant you, with a mortified look. But his ‘old courage comes back. The fact was that was not his battle. If he had been in it he | woulg have gone on to victory. He gathers his troops around him and says: “Now, let us go up and capture the city of Ai; let us go up right away.” They march on. He puts the majority of the troops behind a ledge of rocks. in the night, and then he sends com_paratively small regiments up in front of the city. The men of Ai come out with a shout. The small regi‘,ments—, ‘of |lsraelites in stratagem fall back and fall back, and when all the men of Ai have left the city and are in pursuit of these scattered or seemingly scattered regiments Joshua stands on a rock—l see his locks flying in the wind as he points his spear toward the doomed city—and that is the signal. The men rush out from behind the rocks and take the city, and it is .put to the torch, and then these Israelites in the city march down and the flying regiments of Israelites return, and between these two waves of Israelitish prowess the men of Ai are destroyed and the Israelites gain the victory; and while I see the curling smoke of that destroyed city on the sky, and while I hear the huzza of the Israelites and the groans of the Caananites Joshua hears something louder than it all ringing | and echoing through the soul: ‘““There shall not any man be ‘able to stand before thee a?fthe days of thy life.” : { But this is no place for the hogt of | Joshua to stop. ‘Forward, march!” | eries Joshua to the troops. There. is Gha a 0

under the protection of Joshua. They send word: ‘‘There are five Kings after us; they are going to destroy us; send troops quick; send us help right away.” Joshua has a three days’ march more than double quick. On the morning of the third day he is before the enemy. There are two long lines of battle. The battle opens with great slaughter, but the Canaanites soon discover something. They say: ‘“That is Joshua; that is the man who conquered the spring freshet and knocked down the stone wall and destroyed the city of Ai. :There is no use fighting.” And they sound a retreat, and as they begin to retreat Joshua and his host spring upon them like panthers, pursuing them over the rocks, and as these Canaanites with sprained ankles and gashed foreheads retreat the catapults ofithe sky pour a volléy of hail-stones ingco the valley, and all the artillery of the heavens with bullets of iron pound the Canaanites against the ledges of Beth-horon.

“Oh!” says Joshua, ‘‘this is surely a victory. But do you not see the sun is going down? Those Amorites are going to get away after all, and then they } will come up some other time and bother and perhaps destroy us.” See, the sun is going down. Oh, for a longer day than has ever been seen in this climate! What is the matter with Joshua? Has he fallen in an apopletic fit? No. He isin prayer. Look out when a good man males the Lord his ally. Joshua raises his face, radiant with prayer, and looks at the descending sun over Gibeon and at the faint crescent of the moon, for you know the queen of the night sometimes will linger around the palaces of the . day. Pointing one hand at the descending sun and the other hand at the faint cresent of the moon, in the name of that God who shaped the worlds and moved the worlds, he cries: ‘‘Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thoy moon, in. the valley of Ajalon.” They halted. Whether it was by reflection of the sun’s rays, or by the stopping of the whole planetary system, I do not know and do not care. I leave it to the Christian scientists and the infidel scientists to: settle that question, while I tell you I have seen the same thing. ‘“What!” say you, ‘“‘not the sun standing still?” Yes. The same miracle is performed nowadays. The wicked do not live out half their day, and the sun sets at noon. But let a man start out in battle for God and the truth, and against sin, and the day of his usefulness is prolonged and prolonged and prolonged. But Joshua was not quite through. Therc was time for five funerals before the sun of that prolonged day set. Who will preach their funeral sermon? Massillon preached the funeral sermon over Louils XVI. Who will preach the funeral sermon of those five dead Kings —King of Jerusalem, King of Hebron, King of Jarmuth, King of Lachish, King of Eglon? Let it be by Joshna. YWhat is his text? What shall be the epitaph put on the door of the tomb? “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.”

But before you fasten up the door I want five more Kings beheaded and thrust in: King Alcobol, King Fraud, King Lust, King Superstition, King Infidelity. Let them be beheaded and hurl them in. Then fasten up: the door forever. What shall the imscription and what shall the epitaph beb For all Christian philanthropists of all: agea are going to: come and look at it. What shall the inscription be? ‘“‘There shall not any mam be able tostand before thee all the days of thy life.” : But it is time for Jostma to (o home. Ke is one hundred and ten ;yemrs old. Washingten wengy down the Potomac and at Mount Vernon closed his days. Wellington died peaceiully at Apsley House: Now, where shall Joshwa rest? Why, he isto have his gredtest battle now. After a hundred and ten years he has to meet a .King who has. more subjects than all the present population of the earth, his throne a pyremid of skulls, his parterre the grave-yards and eemeteries of the worid, his-chariot the world’s hearse—the King of Terrors. But if this is Joshua’s greatest: battle it is going to be Joshua’s greatest victory. He gathers his friends around. him and gives his valedictory, and it.is full of reminiscence. Young men tell what they are going to do; old men tell what they have dome. And as you have heard a grandfather or great-grandfather, seated by the evening fire, tell of Monmouth or Yorktown, and then lift the crutch or staff as though it were a musket, to fight and show how the old battles were wom—so Joshua gathers his friends aroumd his dying couch: and he tells them the story of what he has been through, and as he Yes there, his, white locks snowing down on his wrinkled forehead, I wonder if God has kept His promise alli the way through. As he lies there he tells the story one, two or three times—you have heard old people tell a story two or three times over—and he answers: I go the way of all the earth, and. nog one word of the promise has failed, not one word thereof has failed; all. has come to pass, not one word thereof has failed.” And then he turns to his family, as a dying parent will, and says; *Choose now whom you will serve; the God of Israel or the god of the Amorites. As for me and my house we will serve the Lord.” A dying parent can ' not be reckless or thoughtless.in regard 'to his children. Consent to. part with them forever. at the door of the tomb we can not. By the cradle in which their infancy was. rocked, by the bosom on which they first lay, by the blood of the covenant, by the God of Joshua, it shall not be. We will not part, we can not part. Jehovah Jireh, we take Thee at Thy promise. “I will be a God to thee and thy seed after thee.” ‘ :

Dead, the old chieftaim must be laid out. Handle him gently; that saered body is over one hundred and ten years of age. Lay him out, stretch out those feet that walked dry-shod the parted Jordan. Close those lips which helped blow the blast at which the walls of Jericho fell:. " Fold the arm that lifted the spear toward the doomed city of Ai. TFold it right over the heart that exulted when the five Kings fell. But where shall we get the burnished granite for the headstone and the footstone? I bethink myself now. limagine for the head it shall be the sun that stood still upon Gibeon and for the foot the moon that stood still in the valley of Ajalon. : : 2 —When a man dies they who survive ask what property he has left behind The angel who bends over the dying: man asks what good deeds he has sent before him., | i A

| THE KINGDOM DIVIDED. International Sunday-Sgkool Lesson for ‘ s January & :.bl. LESSON TEXT—I Kings 12:1-17. GOLDEN TEXT—Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.—Prov. 16:18. TIME—B. C. 975, immediately after the death of Solomon, - PLACE—The coronation assembly was held at Shechem, between mounts Ebal and Gerizim, then the metropolis of the tribe of Ephraim. PARALLEL ACCOUNT—2 Chron. 10. HELPS OVER HARD PLACES—I. ‘‘To make him King.” It was not for the purpose of revolt that the company had assembled, but to crown a new King, the son of Solomon arnd his natural successor. 2. “Jeroboam.” He was a young Ephraimite, that Solomon had made chief of the forced labor, from the tribes of Ephraim and Marasseh. “Who was yet in Egypt.” Thke prophet Ahijah had foretold that he should be Solomon’s successor over ten t?'bes; and it is probable that, in view of the dissatisfaction of the people, he made some ' attempt to toke possession before Solomon's death, so that, his plot being discovered, he had to escape to Egypt, where he heard of the proposed assembly ot Shechem. 3. “They sent and called him” from Egypt, that he might come and speak to Rehoboam in their behalf. He, having been in charge of the forced labor, knew better than most the full extent of the dissatisfaction ~and gricvances of the people. 4 ‘‘Tny father made our yoke griovous.” The yoke, as lzid upon beasts of burden, has in.all timec and in all countries -been used as a type ot complete servitude. Their chief grievances were the cxcessive taxaticn and theé luxury and cost of Solomon’s’ court. ‘‘Make thou * * * his heavy yoke lighter.”” This the peopie had aright to ask; the temple and.other great works were completed, and there was no longer any need for the lavish expense. 5. And he said unto them, Depart ye yet for tbrec days.” This seemed a reasonabie request, and yet a right heart would have decided instantly in their behalf. 6. “Rehoboam consulted with the old men.” Not old men as in a senge of ago, but used probably as in the expression ‘“‘elders of Isracl.” 7. “If thou wilt be o servant uunto this people, this day.” Tho advice was not that the King should permanently resign the ofice of ruler, but that he should for conce bs led by his people. “Answer them.” Grant their request. 8. “But ke forsook the council of the old men * * * and consulted with the young men.” His first counselors’ advice did not suit his designs, so he sought that of the youy’i’g‘_‘ men, those who had been his companions from his youth up. 9. “And he said unto them.” He put to them the same question he had asled the old men. 10. “My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins,” Whis is not a threat of still ‘heavier impositions; but a boast of his superior strength and firmnezss. 11. “I will add to your yoke.”” Make it as much heavier as the body i 3 than the httle finger. “My father chastised you with whips.” It is quite pcssible that the forced laborers were kept at their toils by the lash. “Butl will chastise you with scorpions.” Asthe scorpion was a kind of whip, having at the end of the lash leaden balls with hooks projecting from them, it is supposed t})is speecch was only uscd figuratively. 13. “And the King answered the people roughly.” His speech was harsh and cruel, and his manner rough and ingolent. 13-14. “Forsook the old merfs counsel * = = spake to them after the counsel of the young men.” He did not follow the advice given him by the wise men of his fatherss day, but told themn the things that suited bis purpose and own mind better. 15. “Ilor the cause was from the Lord.” It was a thing brought about by the Lord. “Ahijah the prophet.” A prophet of Shiloh. He had prophesicd, some time before, that the Kingdom should be divided, and Jeroboam rule over the ftribes. See | Ilinzs 11:30-39. 16 ‘What portion have we in David?”’ The name is put for his house or family. The ten tribes would have nothing morcdto do wfifi’the royal family and renounced théir allegiance.. “Now see to thine own lLouse.” They meant for Reheboam to see to the affairs of Judah, his tribe, and to have nothing more to do with them.

LESSON COMMENTS.

With the beginning ¢f the New Year, we begin our studies in a new part of the Bible. The story is & sorrowful one. lsrael had been prosporous under the reigns of David and Solomwon; but after the death of Solomon we' find, by our lesson to-day, that the people quarreled among themselves, and, by dividing the kingdom, threw away the great promise contained in 2 Sam. 7:10-16; 23:5, where God says that He will make tliem a great people, and that the children of wickedness shall bother them no- more; neither shall they move away fronytheir own land. :

The name Rehoboam means ‘‘enlarger of the people,” and we can picture the hopes and bright visions of the fature that were in the minds of his parents when be was given that name. Butin what strange irony do the acts ef his life contradict the meaning of his name. How many parents of our time look. forward to a bright future for: their c¢hildren, aml yet how many are disappointed, just as Solomen must have been at the results. Where are we tolay the blame for this failure? When we remember that his mogher, in place of. being a Christian woman, was an idola- | ter; a wourshiper of. Molech; that the | young grince grew to manhood’ in an Kostern harem, where he was waited ‘ upon, flattered, favored and courted; encouraged to regard himself as a being of asuperior kind who can scarcely :lo‘ wrong—he had no special . instructor, no business to employ himself in, bat was left v7ith a heathen mother, and had companions, to lead him into wroung ways and wreck his life. Who then was to blame for his being conceited, short-sighted, proud, selfish, tyrannical and weak? Ilis father and mother in part, for his character;; but he, himself, was chiefly to blame for his: failure. He might have comparedi the: religion of his grandfather David with. that of his mother, and thus made his. surroundings a means of reaching to, better things. : Young people should thank God forrestraints, and burdens, and the neces--sity of work, for good parents and their: government, and for Christian training. Parents should not leave their children to seek the ways of the world and evil: companions. We see that the new King: had many dangers battle with. Thers: was danger from the surrounding sub-: ject-nations who had been overawed by, Solomon’s power, wisdom and. ability;. danger from luxury and wealth; dangen in the decline of religious life and degeneracy of morals through the heathen: immoralities permitted by Solomon, " and danger from tribal jealousy. |

FACTS BRIEFLY STATED.

A TON of gold is worth $602,799.20., New Yorx spends about $1,0005000 a year in banquets. _

AX inch of rain means one hundred tons of water on everygacre. Tue last bank failure in Baltimore was in 1837—fifty-three years ago.

It is estimated that Indian wars have cost the Government. $700,000,000.

TEA is probably now in daily use ag a beverage by one-half of the population of the world.

It would take a freight train containing thirty-five cars to transport $1,000,~ 000 in pennies. ‘ A SpANisH patato raised at Clarlksville, Ga., this season, was fourfeet and eight inches in length. ; It takes 22,000 bonnets a year to cover the heads of the female soldiers in the Salvation army. The army has property amounting to more than $3,000,000 in the various countries where it is established. In favorable circumstances the tea plant “flushes” or sends forth a fresh crop of tender young shoots from twenty to twenty-five times in the course of a growing and picking season of nine months, : _ e

MICHIGAN HONORED.

Judge Henry B. Brown, of Detroit, Nom= inated by the President as Successor to the Late Justice Miller on the Supreme Bench. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—The President has relieved the suspense of the country and contradicted a great many stories that have been generally believed by sending to the Senate the nomination of Judge Henry D. Brown, of Michigan, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. It may be said now that the President has never had any idea of appointing Attorney-General Miller to the bench,nor has the position been offered to Senator Spoonér. His preference has been for Judge Brown from the beginning, and he would have been nominated long ago but for the fact that the city of Detroit presented the names of two distinguished lawyers for this position, the other being Alfred Russell, the local attorney for the Wabash road at Detroit, who. had the benefit of such strong support as Secretary Noble, Chauncey M. Depew and George M. Pullman. The Michigan delegation was not united on either of these candidates, Senator Stockbridge and most of the Congressmen being strong for Judge Brown, while Senator McMillan and others leaned toward Russell; but the President intimated recently that if he chose any Michigan man it would be Judge Brown. : ~ The President has also sent to the Senate the momination of Colonel Charles Sutherland, surgeon, to be Surgeon General, with the rank of Brigadier General, vice J. H. Baxter, deceased. : ;

The President has also appointed the following named ' commissioners and alternate commissioners to the world’s fair: David W. Curtis, alternate for Wisconsin ; Louis L. Williams, commissioner for Alagka; Carl Spuhn, alternate for Alaska.

[Flenry Billings Brown was born at Lee, Mass., March 2, 1836. He graduated from Yale College in 1856 and devoted a year to study and travel in FEurope. He entered the Harvard Law School and fin: ished his law studies in. the office of Walker & Russell, of Detroit. He was admitted to practice in 1860, and in 1864 married Caroline Pitts, daughter of Samnel Pitts. He served for some years as assistant United States District Attorney, when he Wwas appointed by Governor Crapo judge of the Wayne circuit, at that time the highest eourt of general law and chancery jurisdiction in Detroit. He gave general satisfaction in that position and in 1868 resumed his practice. In 1875 he was appointed United States circuit judge for the eastern -district .of Michigan, where he has since remained. As judge he has met every expectation and proven himself a worthy successor of Ross Wilkins and John W. Longyear. Judge Brown 1s a little above medium height, stockily buils, smooth-shaven, with a full, square face, and resembles Representative McKinley in his general appearance. He is said to be a man of considerable means.] : :

. FURIOUS GALES.

They Cause Loss of Life, Injfiry to Many Persons and Damage to Property at Barberton, ~ and Detroit, Mich.

AKRON, 0., Dec. 24.—A tornado struck the new syndicate town of Barberton, five miles south of this city, at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.. The only building destroyed was the new shop of the Creedmoor Cartridge Company. All of the frick-work had been finished and carpenters were at work on the ridgepole when the high wind demolished the walls in a twinkling and seven men were hurled from the building and throwa upon heaps cf timbers and brick. The vietimss were: . John Triplett, of Newpord, aged 29: instantly killed; Frank Stuver, of this city, injured ‘internally, ribs crushed, eondition ecritical; Louis Kannalia, of this city, a leg and ribs broken, and shoulders dislocated, may not recover; Isiah Lower, of New Portage, injured internally and'on back of head, condition serious; T. F. Homer, of this city, leg and arm injured; Krank Mallory, of Lafayette, arm injured and shoulder dislocated; Horatio Leib, of New Portage, arm injured and body severely bruised.

- Some¢ of the wounded men were brought tio this city, and relatives of those who eould not be moved went to the scene of the accident. The loss on the building is $25,000.

DISASTER AT DETROIT.

DEeTROIT, Mich., Dec. 24.—During the prevalence of 4 gale shortly after noon Tuesday the eastern Market. building on Russell street just south of the house of eorrection was blown down. Three pemsons were severely. injured and several slightly hurt. Three horses were killed. The badly injured arve: Mrs. J. €. Baumgarden, left arm broken, right shoulder dislocated and sevare flesh wounds; her son 14 David, severe scalp wounds and internal injuries which may result fatally; i Adolphus; Paron, cut about the head. A terrific wind blew here all day, doing comsiderable damage. The ferry-boats at times experienced great. difficulty: in crossing the river, and. one shipped a monstrous sea, causing. great comsternation among the: passengers. E oy KILLED BY FALLING WALLS. - Two Mecan Xose Their Lives and Several! Are Hurt in an Accident.at Chicago.. ~ CHICAE9O, Dec. 23.--While some: men: were tearing down a wall of one of! Armour’s old packing houses at: Fortythird street and Packers’ avenue, the: wall cellapsed and fell, burying several: men in the ruins. Michael Barry andi an unknown man were instantly killed: and William Devine and John Mclnerny were fatally injured. A number of othermen were more or less seriously injuved. » : They Advocate Recipr_o;)ity. GarpeN Ciry, Kan., Dea: 24.—~The Grand Lodge of the Knights of Reeciprocity was organized here Monday night. The founmder of the order is Hom. Jesse Taylar, of this city, whe is its. chief officerx Congressman 8. R. Peters is the representative of Kansas to the Supreme Lodge. The objeets of the. order are to seeure an intelligent »allot, fairly counted, and to foster reciprocity mot only between American nations bat between individuals. The new order is spreading rapidly and applications for charters to organize lodges are coming in every dflvy- i @ - : i Quarreled Over Irish Politics. . LexmNaroN, Ky., Dec. 2¢.—Pat Fahey and Cornelius Sullivan, railroad section -men, quarreled over the Parnell situation Tuesday. Fahey struck Sullivan with an axe handle when the latter cut Fahey’s throat and stabbed him to the heart with a knife. Fahey died instantly and Sullivan fled. : _ Convicted After a Hard Fight, MUSKEGON, Mich., Dec. 24.—Albert 04;1&%8‘6; arrested three years ago for embezzlement from Hon. L. G. Mason, was convicted Tuesday. The case has ~been to the Supreme Court six times. fwmmw relatives. e e A R R G R e R R S I T

THEIR MISSION FAILS. : The Peace Embassy Sent by General Brooke to the Hostile Indians Returns Unsuccessful—Pig Foot's Band Escapes. . PINE Rmer, S. D., Dec. 26.—The peace party failed, as was predicted. Five of the friendlies are in, and report that the rest are on their way in. The enemy are described as crazy; wild and wholly unmanageable. None have come over from the fichters. Itis now believed that the Seventh Regiment will start into the field at onee to subdue these warriors. Ugly ‘rumors regarding the attitude of Little Wound, Two Strike and Big Road are in circulation, but will not be made public until proved true. s

BisMARcCr, N. D., Deec. 26.—Major Carroll made a forced march Tuesday night with fifty-five eavalrymen, covering sixty-five miles in fourteen hours upon the Canon Ball, and arriving at New England City at 8 a. m. 'This was in compliance with orders from Fort Yates by courier to rescue Captain Fountain, of the Eighth Cavalry, who was surrounded in the Cave hills by 500 Indiarns. Two hours’ rest was taken at New England City and Major Carroll contined the forced march southwest in the direction o che Cave hills, fifty miles distant. His force reached Captain Fountain Thursday morning. Aid may have come in from the south, but if not the surroundedl forces are thought to be in a position to hold off the Indians till assistance arrives. b

- Captain Hearst, commanding officer at Fort Sully, has received the capitulation of 174 Uncapapas, including seventy of Sitting Bull’s band and fifty from Rosebud agency. Narcisse Nar--‘cell brought in 412 of Big Foot’s Indians. Irom these ninety-eight stands of arms were collected. The weapons were all’ Winchesters of antiquated pattern. -Sitting Bull’'s men want to remain at Cheyenne and say they are afraid to return to Standing Rock. All have surrendered and the best of care is being given them. All.of the teams of the agency have been started to Duprees to bring in the sick women and children. Many leaders among the Indians were very sullen while making final settlements, and there was a great deal of quarreling among the redskins. ¢

PiNE RipGE, S. D., Dec. 25.—General Brooke has received a dispatch from Colonel Summner saying that the Big Foot and Sitting Bull Indians who surrendered to him two dz):ys_ ago had escaped and were making for the Bad Lands. General . Brooke . at once sent a body .of - troops under command of Colonel Henry to intercept them, but it is feared that he will not be able to do this, as the redskins have a good start.. The circumstances of the escape are mot known. ; : ol .

SCOTCH RAILWAY TROUBLES.

The Strike of Employes Causes an Almost Total Suspension of Traffie—Ncarly 7,500 Men Take Part in the Movement., =

Grasgow, Dec. 25.—There are® no signs of improvement in ¢onnection with the railroad strike'in Scotland. It is estimated that about 7,500 men are now out. on strike, . and - .busi~ ness: . may now said to -be ~entirely at a standstill. On: the North British lines traffic has been suspended, while others are working in an irregular manner. The business people residing in the suburbs are oebliged- to walk from their out-of-town: residences to the city, thereby suffering much inconvenience. In and about Glasgow the price of coal has already advanced seven shillings per ton,. with a prospect of a still furthér advarce in price before long. In addition to the coal trouble;, which seriously’ affects the poorer classes already,. it is said that a gas famine .is imminent. The police are - already taking . steps to provide .. a force of special constables to gmard the city in case the supply of gas should give-out and the city be plunged into darkness at night. All the ship-build~ ing yards and public works-are without fuel; and they expect to be.foreced ta closs their doors unless the strike:is set tled:within a very short time.

RAILWAY BUILDING:

Neariy 5,800 Miles of Track. Laid ix the -~ United States During 1890.. -~ .

New York, Dec. 25.—In.its issue of this week Engineering News publishes summnieries showing by groups of States. the mileage of track laid om exten-. sions. of: steam railway lines. in the Unitesti States wupon - which regular trains.aze to be run to do business as common carriers of both freight and passenger traffic for the calendar year of 1890. According to the figures here presented the total addition to the countuy’s railway mileage between J aléumry 1, 1890, and @ d armary 1, 1897,, was mearly 5,800: miles, or. about 700 miles more - than. wasslhid in 1889. The total. ameunt of railway completed January 1, 1891, was 167,1%2; of this amount 86,912 miles, or over: 22 per cent., have beemconstructed during the last five years. The following table shows.by groups.af States the mileage of track laid durimg the last four years: S _ " 1837. 1888. 1880, -1890. Mew England.....cee.e.. 126 182 80 60 Middle, iit iasain: 208 101 437 328 Central Northern....... 1,751 897 %88 ' 701 South Atlantic ......... 836 L,147 1,085 1,275 Gulf apd Mississippi ’ ! Comlley el BORV L GEY eile LBRY Southwestern ... ...... 5118 1,500 = 851 884 Northwestern .. «0....0.. 3,144, 774 - b 65 978 PPROIfIO. ... ceininavanesis -00 F Y 9RO 604 634 TOtAL ove cmaves vust + 12,667 6,678 5,095 5,776 Sawtelle Must Die. = = DoVER, N. H., Dec. 26.—Sawtelle was found guilty of murderin the first degree Thuusday and was sentenced to be hanged the first Tuesday in January,lB92 [The murder in question was one of the most brutal known ia the criminal records of Naw England. The Sawtelles were small tradesmen in Boston. The brothaers had inherited same property, and Isaag, it.is alleged, always insisted that Hiram had fared better than, he, and so meditated revenge. Last February he induced Hiram to allpw him to take tha former’s little girl Marian with him on a tap to New Hampshire. = While there he telegraphed Hiranmy that Martin was seflousg ill and called him at once to Rochaster, N. H. Hiram met Isaae there. The twe started in a earriage for the house where the ehild was, and Hiram was never again seen akive. Some days later his mangled body minus the head was found in a shallow grave aside from the public read.] . ‘ American Capital in Cube. = . WASHINGTON, Deec. 26.—A dispatch from Havana to the Bureau of American Republics reports that a symdicate of New York eapitalists has within the last few days purchased for $600,000 gold the sufar plantation and factory lknown as San Ramon, one of ' the largest in Cuba, and is making arrangements to construct lines of transportation throughout the estate in order to inerease the cultivated ares and reduce the cost of produetion. The plantation already produces 50,000 e tention to produce from 90,000 to 100,000 hogsheads nextyeas, -. . set S S e BRI RAR B e e

~ SALVATIONISTS IN A ROW. Commissioner Smith Resigns — Did He: - Write “In Darkest England? " ' LoNpoxN, Deec. 26.—The Times an‘mounces that Commissioner Smith, of the Salvation Army, has resigned. His resignation, the paper says, at this critical period in the history of the army is most important because Mr. Smith formed the substantial guaranty that an earnest and businesslike effort would be made to exeeute the practicable part of General Booth’s scheme of social regeneration. : ‘ The Times says the secret authorship of “In Darkest England” is now common knowledge, but the charitable hypothesis assigns General Booth credit for having written at least two chapters of the bdok. General Booth’s explanation is that he supplied a professional writer with materials for the book. We Tbelieve that when the whole story "is revealed it will be found that” the substantial parts < of the ‘scheme of ¢ity.and farm colonies originated with Mr. Smith. General Bootl, reluctantly accepting these, asserts that the ground of difference between M Smith and himself is that while Commissioner Smith opined that it was absolutely necessary to keep the social working ‘scheme as distinct as pos- : sible from the religious work of the” army General Booth's method of inviting donations-despite his apparent willingness leads to the mingling of all separate funds into one common fund, rendering -it obvious that every contribution to a specific department sets a proportionate amount of the general fund free to be spdpt at the diseretion of . General Booth: Nothing but sense of duty, the Times continues/ could have induced Commissioner Smith to resign at such an important juncture. There must be something wrong with the scheme or the management of the funds. Those who promised donations are now entitled ° to withhold them until a full and satis- . factory account of Mr. Smith's resignation is.given. -He was the life and soul of the social-reform wing of the army. 1t is likely that his resignation is destined to be the death blow to General Booth’s more ambitious schemes. -

ALL ASKED TO COME.

President Harrison’s World’s Fa.i;' Proélamation Issued—Xe Invites the Nations of Earth to Participate in One of the ; Graudést Events of Histery., - ' WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—The following proclamation has been issued: ;

“By the President of the United States ot America. A proclamation: G “WHEREAS, Satisfactory proof has been preseénted, to me that provision has been made for adequate grounds and puildings for. the uses of the World's Columbian ~Exposition; and ithat a ‘sum not Jess than $10,000,000, to be used and expended for the purpose of said exposition has been provided in accordance with the conditions. and requirements ©of section‘ 10 of an act. entitled An aet to provide for celebrating the 460th .anniveérsary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, by holding an interrational exhibition of arts, industries, mhnnfactu'rcs, and the products of the soil, mine and 3sea, in the city of Chieago, in the State of Illinois, approved April 25, 18%0. - ° 7

“Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States; by virtue of the authority vested in me by said act, do hereby declare and proclaim that such International Exhibition will be opened on the first day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and ninetythree, in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, and will not be closed before the last Thursday in October of the same year, and in the name of the Government and of the people of the United States, I do hereby invite all:the Nations of the earth to take part in an event that is pre-eminent in human history and of lasting intere st to mankind, by appointing representatives thereto, and sending such exhibits to the World's Columbian Exposition as will most fitly andfully Illustrate their resources, their industries, and their progress in olvilization, » % s e _*‘ln testimony whereof I have hereunto set my ‘hand and. cansed the seal of the United States to be affixed. ik ‘Dore at the city of Washington this twentyfourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and mnety: and in' the independence, the ong hundred and fifteenth. : [Seal.] BENJAMIIF HARRISON. . “By the President: ; “JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretery of State,”

BAD MEN KILLED.

Two Noted “Desperadocs Meet Their De- .. serts at Hinckley, Minn. :

HixckLry, Minn.;Dee. 26.-—The bodies of two desperadoes lie at the eity hospital, having been shot dead by Marshal Booth. " At 10 o’clock Thursday morning Michael, John and Peter Kane, brothers, came into town and in less than an hour had- driven everybody off the street by indiseriminately firing revolvers and flourishing - knives. = They confiscated liquor right and left and were soon hilariously intoxicated. Marshal Booth finally corralled them in an alley and by a liberal display of arms placed them under arrest. He marched them up the street half a block when they broke away and. began firimg at him. The officer;; however, was too quick for the desperadoes amnd sent an unerring -bullet into the head of John Kane, who fell. dead. The other brothers-then turned a corner and attempted to escape up the railroad track toward. Duluth. Marshal Booth followed, firing as fast as he could cock his revolver, and finally planted a leaden; -missile in the back of Peter - Kane’s head. He died from the wound. during the afternoon. Michael . Kane was captured and placed in' jailj, where he is. in momentary danger:of being lynched. The dead: men were single and had been the_ter-. ror-of the:lumber camps of this region. for a.long tizne. They were about 28 or 30 years.of age and hail from Hastings, Minn. Mawshal Booth gave himself up, to Sheriff McLaughlin. - ! ' Liwved to the-Age of 115. SANTA FE, N. M., Dec. 25.—News. of the death of Pedro Antonio Lopez, aged 115 yeaxs, has been: received here. He passed: off very quietly and without suffering; being conscious and especially talkative up to the last moment. He knewr the end was coming and he had his ehildren andigrandchildren gathered around him. Ele talked to them of the service he had done as a soldier under the Spamnish Kings, and he remembered when a certain King and his wife were beheaded, Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette. Lopez was mentioned in connection with the census raport last June on account of his extreme old age. . Triple Tragedy in St. Paul. ~ ST. PAUL, Minn,, Deec. 25.—At 12:40 ‘o'clock this morning Samuel Mickles, who lived at No.| 72 "’%fifl‘enfl: street, returned from Minn Hs, and calling on his wife »and»-!gug‘h-" ter shot” the latter in the face, the girl running out into the street and falling dead on the sidewalk. He then turned his attention to his wife, ‘shoot~ slashing her throat witha razor. Sheis ~dying at St. Joseph’s hospital. Mickles then ran into a back shed and shot him. spondency in business s given.ga {be | cause of the shooting. = .