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I 4 THE BROOKLYN CITIZEN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1893. RELIGIOUS NOTICES. PULPIT AND PEW. supported, too, by members of Congress who were sent to Washington to protect and advance the public Interests. f)e Brooklyn tftfyetv Nos.

397 to 403 FULTON STREET Opposite the City Hall, lUosIvtn th Entire N.w. publlsha1 Association T.l.fi-aphlo Enured at tk Brooklyn (It. Fort Offloa Booond-ClaH Matter- lies can live on eight cents per day, this enables Wm to save considerable sums. The coolies must work five days a week, seven hours a day, unlesa excused for special reasons. The planter supplies the coolies with hospital accommodations, if needed, and with education for their children, if there be any.

After the cooliea. five years of service are over, he la free, and may return home or remain in the colony. Many remain. It will thus be seen that the coolie is kindly treated, is able to save money, If he chooses, and enjoys many advantages rot within his reach in his native land. Unfortunately, Mr.

Ireland does not give us any light on the important question as to what happens when the coolie will not work. Perhaps if he had, the picture would not have been so bright THE FRENCH "REPUBLIC. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11. The circulation of TEE CITIZEN it greater that that of any other Brooklyn paper. It it conducted with an eipeeial eye to the family circle.

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The Filipino Junta at Hong Kong propose to appeal to Christendom to stop the career of the murdering Americans, and it is announced that they have succeeded in exciting great indignation against us. Such appeals as this are generally the last recourse of a defeated aggressor. That the Manila fight was brought on by Aguinaldo deliberately there is every evidence besides the report of General Otis. A rising in the city had been plotted, to be simultaneous with the attack on our lines. The savage did not reckon with the civilized mans prescience.

Otis, and Dewey were apprized and were ready at all points. If the attack was not concerted and timed for its effect on the defeat of the ratification of the treaty at Washington. it was a strange incident that, simultaneous with the attempt to pass our outposts at one point, firing should have begun all along a line of seventeen miles. The appeal to Christendom is about as amusing a characteristic of Malay craft as has thus far appeared. The Hong Kong Junta have not forgotten the almost pitiable appeals by.

proclamation of the President of the United States to take pretty much everything in sight, an autonomy they never had, the full privilege of self-government under the most paternal of protectorates almost anything but bloodshed, against which the moral sense of the American people revolted. The Filipino made his choice with his eyes open. He counted on a support here that could not exist after his first hostile act. He fired the first gun and became friendless in this nation bv that act. Now let him surrender at discretion, and he will find the Americans themselves the representatives ancl highest types of Christendom.

We will be as considerate towards the Malays as the nation was with the surrendered South. But unconditional surrender first and the heap big talk afterwards. THE GOVERNMENT MUST OWN THE CABLE. to the young people of the church. He will take as bis subject Th Farmer'! Son, Who Became a General and State man." Thd Rev.

M. Wllsob, pastor of Unity Church, will have for hla subject to-mor row morning Th Materialism of Great Cities." In the evening The Rev. John W. Chadwick will deliver a lecture on Lincoln. The evening -services will con' tinne the special aeries of discourse and addresses designed to nourish tha higher life and larger faith.

They are encouraged and assisted by the Unitarian Club, of New York, which ie interested in giving broader extension to the liberal gospel. Mary and Martha" will be the subject of the sermon to-morrow evening by the Rev. Dr. Overton, pastor of the Greene Avenue Presbyterian Church, this being the seventh in the course on The Friends of Jesus. Mr.

Overton will also occupy the pulpit at the morning service. The Rev. Robert MacDonald, pastor of the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, who spoke on the subject, Wanted, a Man, attracted a large audience at the Central Branch Young Mens Christian Association, No. 502 Fulton street, last Sunday afternoon. Mr.

MacDonald will speak on the same subject Sunday afternoon, Feb. 12, at 4:15 o'clock. Special music will be rendered by Mr. E. S.

Chapin, bass soloist. First Reformed Church. All young then are invited. The Rev. H.

Moment, D. will address young men at 4:15 Sunday afternoon at the Prospect PaTk Branch Young Mens Christian Association, No. 359 Ninth street. At the First Baptist Chnreh, Lee avenue and Iveap street, the Rev. Milton F.

Negus will preach to-morrow morning on Our Perfect Reaper, and in the evening the eloquent colored lecturer, Mrs. William Scott, will apeak on behalf of her people. Mrs. Scott was born a slave, but is a rare orator and singer. The following selections will be by the Temple Choir under the direction of E.

M. Bowman, at th Baptist Temple, Rev. Cortland Myers, pastor, on Sunday at 10:80 a. m. and 7:80 p.

Morning Worship- the King, Haydn; 0 Love the Lord, Sullivan; High In Thy Glory, Beethoven; organ selection, Largo, Handel; Rescue the Perishing, Doane; postlude, Offertorie in Wely. Evening The Gospel Bells," Martin; We Praise Thee, God," Calkin; Hear Our Prayer, Bowman; solo, The Holy City," Adams, Mr. Theodore B. Cornell; Scatter Sunshine," Excell; sermon topic, "Th Wedding Belle; "Under His Wings," Sankey; postlude, Petri. At St.

Clement's Episcopal Church, Pennsylvania avenue. Lenten services will begin next week, Preparations have been made as follows: To-morrow morning at the 10:30 service a special sermon on Preparation for Lent will be preached by the Rev. A. Fleming, M. associate rector of the Church of the Epiphany; a solo "Charity," by Faure will be gang by Misg Heathfield, late soprano soloist of Christ Church.

Victoria, B. and now leading soprano at the Chnreh of St Michael, All Angels, New York. At the 7:45 p. m. service the sermon will be preached by the Rev.

H. A. Grantham, M. late chaplain in Mexico, hie subject being Christ's Brethren. The soloist ie Mr, F.

E. W. Bohn, tenor, of Brooklyn, end the choruses by-the vested choir of nearly forty voices. Mr. W.

A. Ferris, of Brooklyn, will give a short organ recital at the close of evensong. On Ash Wednesday. Feb. 15.

the Holy Eucharist will be celebrated at 7 a. m. Matin Litany and sermon at 10:30 a. m. First evemong at 5 p.

m. and choral evensong and sermon at 8 oclock. During Lent a course of addresses on the Life of the Lord Jesus Christ will be given on Friday evening at 8 oclock, illustrated by dissolving views. Th stereoptl-con exhibitions will be by Mr. Southward Henderson, and the descriptive addresses by visiting clergy.

The lecture on Friday evening will be by the Rev. E. D. Weed. An organ recital will be given by Mr.

H. T. Love, member of the Royal Academy of Music, London, late professor of the Lop-, don College of Music, and organist of Grate Church. Jersey City. Mr.

0. H. Martin, first tenor of Emmanuel. Jersey Oity, will be the soloist, and Mr. John Goldie, cornet-ist, will play selections on the cornet, with organ accompaniment, at intervals.

Rev. Arthur W. Byrt, superintendent ot the Brooklyn Church Society, will preach to-morrow in the morning at Eighteenth Street M. E. Church and in the evening at Swedish Bethany M.

E. At Warren Street M. E. Church, Rev. S.

Povey will! preach In the morning and Chaplain Steele of the Brooklyn Navy Yard at night. The Pleasant Friday Night" next week will be a Lincoln celebration, at which Dr. O. F. Bartholow wil Ispeak and members of the well-known Creole Quartet will sing.

sacred cantata, Ruth, will be sung at All Souls Chnreh, South Ninth street, on Sunday evening, Feb, 12. Soloists for the occasion will be Miss Ida Rose Myers, soprano; Miss Mary L- Booth, contralto; Mr. W. F. Boate, bass, assisted by an enlarged chorus under the direction of Mr.

Robert Rongbsedge, tenor." This cantata Is one of the mdst popular compositions by this eminent writer, and the record ot the choir of AU Souls Church i such as to guarantee a great musical treat in rendering this work. At the Church ot Divine Communion, Bedford avenue and Madison street, on next Sunday evening, regular religious services will he held as usual, consisting of congregational singing, vocal and Instrumental music. Prof. Angus Wright presides at the organ and give a voluntary. Prof.

Adolph Whitelaw wUl render two violin solos. Rev. Ira Moore Courtis, the pastor, will give a short Bible talk, after which be will demonstrate the truth of spirit commuulom At Twelfth Street Reformed Church, Twelfth street, between Fourth and Fifth avenues, Rev, E. Lloyd, pastor, a praise service will be given by the choir nnder the direction of Mr, E. E.

Hand, organist Lazarus (P. A. Schnecker) will ba rendered. The chorus consists of thirty voices, with Miss Grace Smith, soprano; Mrs. E.

E. Hand, contralto; Mr. Royal Stone- Smith, of the First Presbyterian Church, baritone, and Mr. Charles Hoge-man, of the Reformed Chnreh of Yan Felt Manor, tenor. i The' LenteO order of services of ths Church of ths Incarnation Gates avenue, between- -Classon and Franklin avenues, Rev.

3. G. Bacchus. D. rector, is as follows: Ash Wednesday servlet and sermon, 10:30 a.

m. and p. Tueedsye, Wednesdays, Thursdays end Saturdays, at Friday evenings, 8, with full choir and sermon. Sunday 'evening preachers MethoiUit-Eplicopal, BOUTS fiECOVD 8T M. E.

CHURCH. REV. Ir. Raynor Pardington paator Nlnaty-thlrd an. nlvaraary aarvloei eomraenoa to-morrow.

Barmon by Rv. B. Uphata, D. D. IX.

ot Drowi leolofflctl Seminary. by Th BURNER AVEM.H. CHURCH. REV. H.

Baattys paator Sermon on Tha Iaat aermon In couraa on Tha History of a Struggle and a Triumph." SUMMERriELD M. E. CHURCH, REV. DR. Rhay Thompson paator Barmon to-morrow evening on "Tha Earmar'a Bon Who Breams a General and Statesman." WARREN BT.

M. E. CHURCH-REV. R. 8.

Povey will preach In tha morning and Chaplain Steele, ot tha Brooklyn, at tha evening aarrlos. Bnptlat. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, REV. MILTON F. Nefm pttorMornlng rreon.

Our Perfect Rapr. Mrt, William Scptt, tha loquant ool orsd lecturer, will apeak. EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH. REV. DR.

Hunipaton At evening eervioe sermon oa Some Title 0f Our Lord-The Lamb of God." BITH AVB BAPTIST CHURCH. REV. C. F. williame paator In the evening the Uth eer-2on i serlee of "Sermons from the Book of Daniel subject, "Ip the Hong Den.M Congregational, CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMS.

CORNER OF Henpr and Itemeen ete1 The service of divine In this church on Sunday, the Utb will be conducted In the morning by Rev. Charles JD. Jefferson. D. of the Broadway Tabernacle Church, New York; In the evening by the pastor.

Dr. 9 ton-e evening subject, The Night Bide of Life. Hours of service 11 a. end 7.48 p. m.

Sunday schools. Home and Chapel, 2:46 p. rru: Society of Christian Endeavor, In Conference Room, 10:16 a. IBWI8 AYE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Rev. Dr.

R. Kent pastor Second sermon la course to men; subject. The Best Proof of Im mortality. CENTRAL CONGREGATIONAL CHtTRCH Rev, Dr A. J.

F. Behrends pastor Half-Hours with Jesus subject to-morrow evening, What Jesus Had to Say About Children." Preebyterlaa LAFAYETTE AVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Special young peoples service. Rev. Dr David Gregg, pastor, will address on the thtme, Marketable Young Men and Women." BEDFORD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. REV.

W. Hutchins pastor Sermon at Friday evening service on "Our Debt to the Past." Usual services to-morrow GREENE AVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Rev. D. H. Overton pastor Subjeot of sermon at evening service, Mary and Martha;" seventh In the court on the Friends of Jesus." ProtetanrEp ecopal.

CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION, GjlTES ve, between Classon end Franklin eves, Rev, J. Bacchus, D. rector Service and sermon, 10:80 and evening topic. The Church the PIUerand Ground of the Truth Ash Wednesday; 10:80 a. m.

and 8 p. Friday evening, Saturday, 4:20. Welcome. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY. CLINTON and Montague its, 8.

D. McConnell, rector 8ti vice and sermon at 11 and 4:30. 8T MARY'S P. E. CHURCH.

CLASSON AND Willoughby eves Pulpit occnnied to-morrow evening by the Rev. Dr. John Clarence. ffllecellaneens. 6T.

CLEMENTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH, PENN. eylvania ave Commencement of Lenten er vices to-morrow at 10:30. Special musical pro gramme and eervioe. CENTRAL BRANCH, Y. M.

O. meeting 418 to-morrow afternoon; subject of address, Wanted, a Man." Speolal muslo. Ad mission free. UNITY CHURCH. REV.

D. M. WIMON-Ser mon to-morrow morning on The Materialism of Great Cities." PROSPECT PARK Y. M. C.

A. Men's meeting 4:15 to-morrow afternoon. Alt men welcome. Rev. A.

H. Moment, D. will deliver gddreee. CHURCH OF DIVINE COMMUNION-USUAL services at 7:1.1 to-morrow evening. Spirit demonstrations by Rev.

Xra Moore CourMss. TWELFTH STREET REFORMED CHURCH, Twelfth st, between' Fourth and Fifth ave. Praise eervioe by the choir to-morrow. are Rev. Dr.

R. Marshall Harrison and Lindsay Parker, 'and the Keys. A. B. Kinsolving and E.

Miller. The rector will give tolks on the Christian Life" Saturdays, 4:30. An all-day anniversary reunion of present and former pastors and members and friends of other denominations will be held at Russell Place M. E. Church, corner of Herkimer street, near Saratoga avenue, tomorrow.

The programme will include the following: Junior League at 9:30 a. in charge of Mies McAlister, leader. Preaching at 10:30 a. by Rev. Theodore L.

Cuyler, D. D. Sunday school at 2:30 p. in chaTge of H. B.

Lamberson, superintendent. Love feast at 3:30 p. in charge of Rev. Arthur W. Byrt.

superintendent of the" Brooklyn Church Society. Epworth League nrayer meeting at 6:30 p. in charge of Darwin King, first vice-president. Preaching at 7:30 p. by Rer.

John J. Foust BUREAU OF CHARITIES Has Immediate Heed of 150 to As" 1st Several Families. The Citizen has received the following communication; The Bureau of Charities appeals for $50 with which to assist ssreral families who are in urgent need and who are unable to help A very respectable blind man, who ie ill, needs money tor food and rent He ha a pension, but that is Insufficient for his support A woman who has been deserted by her husband has three young children; the old', est has scarlet fever and has been removed to hospital. The woman herself is very ill. Money is needed to pay a nurse who can remain day and night.

A womaimcurably 111, and who will not be received at any hospital except at Flat bush, needs the care of nurse. The only son is detained from looking for work be cause he has to care for the mother. He Is confident that if some one will render this service be will he able to get work end prevent tending his mother to the Almsboute. A woman whose husband is a consumptive and will not live long, and who Is almost worn out from supporting the family for several years, has one son 16 years old who obtains irregular employment as a printer, but who is constantly breaking down in health. The family Is very respectable.

They have been visited regularly by the Red Cross Nurse, but are needing "money at present for rent, The bureau knows about these families and earnestly recommends them to those who are willing to help and who are glad to be sure that their contributions will be bestowed where they, are deserved and needed. Any who are willing to contribute money or clothing can commnnicate with Wm. I. Nichols, general secretary Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, No. 69 Scbermerhorn street.

Danee Given by Mr. and Miss Miller. Leonard Miller end his sister. Miss Jean-, nette Miller, gave sn Informal dance last evening at their home, No. 19 8pencer place.

Palme and potted plants decorated the parlors. The hostess was assisted In receiving by Mrs. Miller, Mrs, McAvoy, -Mrs. Feary, Miss Cowenhoven, Miss Begins McAvoy and Miss Elizabeth Arnold. A string orchestra iurnlshed music-for-the dancing.

Kupper was served at nud-nigbt I THE FATE OF ANDREE. There is probability in the etory that has found Its way through various places and peoples all the way from Yeniseisk, Siberia, that a cabin constructed of cloth and cordage. and three dead white men. together with a number of instruments the uses of which the Tunguse tribe of the region could oot understand, were found there on Jan. 1, and that the dead men were the Polar explorers, Prof.

S. A. Andree and his balloon companions. Dr. Ekbolm and Scientist Nils Strinberg.

If the story is false, it hee been concocted with sk.ll: but why any one should take the trouble to put it together in plausible fashion to deceive the world for a time, does not appear. The Chief of Police of the province has gone to inveeti-gate, however, and the truth or falsity of the report should be announced authoritatively within a few days. Unfortunately, there is every likelihood that it is true; for balloon voyaging in such a region is even more perilous than by vessel or sled, and few experta have believed from the first that Andree party would ever return alive. THE EARTH. We have got from London a report of au imeresting lecture on "The PISn of the Earth, which was delivered a fortnight ago before the Royal Geographical Society by the eminent physicist, Dr.

Gregory. In reference to the shape of our earth lie remarked that, so far from being a Rpherend, -it was not even an -bat nas "shaped like a peg top," with its mo-e elongated position toward the South Pole. He also descanted npon the shape of the earths continents, remarking that despite their apparently capricious distribution and their extreme variableness in shape, geographers have believed that the arrangement of land nd water on the globe nas based on a regular plan; but, of course, snid he, that plan could only be recognized in broad outline, for the shape of the land masses depend on the structure of'Yhe earth. form which vary indefinitely. The discovery oUAmerica upset the old theory wh-ch provided for a radical pau.

In his opinion, the existing distribution of land and water areas was completely explained by the tetrahedral theory first advanced a quarter of a century Dr. Gregory dwelt npon three -striking faefs, which are now aocepted by geographers. One is the concentration of land in the northern hemisphere and of sea in the southern hemisphere. The second the triangular shape of the geographical units; for the continents are triangular, with the bases to the north, while the oceans are triangular, with the bases to the sonth. The third striking fact is the antipodal arrangement of oceans and continents.

The North American continent is antipodal to the Indian Ocean. The elliptical mass of Europe and Africa is antipodal to the centra area of the Pacific Ocean. The comparatively small continent of Australia is antipodal to the comparatively small basin of the North Atlantic. The South Atlantic corresponds, though less exactly, the eastern half of Asia, while the Arctic Ocean is precisely antipodal to the Antarctic land. There is matter of interest to all geographers in this disquisition addressed to the Royal Geographical Society by Dr.

Gregory. Hence we commend it to the notice of the physicists of the Brooklyn Institute, the Pratt Institute, and the other learned societies that add to the eminence of this borough. COOLIE LABOR IN THE TROPICS. In the Popular Science Monthly Mr. W.

A. Ireland, who has had considerable experience in tropical lands, lays down the startling proposition that our new possessions cannot be made commefciaily profitable, even to the private individual, unless they are supplied with laborers Imported to work under contract He backs up his statement by trade statistics of various colonies, showing' that with very few exceptions it is only those supplied with imported coolie labor that have a considerable trade. According to Mr. Ireland, tropical products are such that the producer must have a large and reliable supply of labor at han to assure the harvesting of his crops. A strike in a coal mine means loss to the owner, bnt only the loss of profits on the coal he might have sold; neither the coal in the mine, nor at the mines mouth, will deteriorate during th dispute with his employees.

On a sugar estate, however, a strike in the season of gathering the cane would loss of the entire crop, and presumably the ruin of the planter. But Mr. Ireland insists that coolie contract labor it not slave labor; and he describee the system in rogue In British Guiana for obtain-ing it. The Guiana planters send' to the colonial agent in India a statement of the number of laborers they require. i The requests are carefully examined; and if any estate seema to have asked for too many laborers, the number i cut down.

Sub-agents of the colonial agent then scour the country for coolies who will volunteer to emigrate under contract, and these being collected and examined by medical inspectors, enter Into a contract with the colonial agent acting as the representative ot the planters. They are then sect to Guiana in charge of a medical inspector, and on their arrival are distributed among the planters; bnt thsy are under the continual, inspection of the colonial govern-ment, "which acts throngh numerous keep the planters up to their side of the contract Each coolie and his family must be supplied with a suitable house, free of rent, and must be paid a minimum wage of twenty-four cents per day for men, and sixteen cents a day to women. At coo Notes of Services in the Various Churches To-Morrow and DURING LENT. Special Musical Programmes Ninety-third Anniversary of South Second Street M. E.

Church Pulpit Supplies for St. Marys P. E. Church-Mrs. William Soott at the First Baptist Church Dr, MacDonald's Address on Wanted, a Man Reunion at Rnssell Place M.

E. Chnroh. Interesting services have been arranged in honor of the ninety-third anniversary of the South Second Street M. E. Church, of which the Rev.

Dr. Raynor S. Pardington is pastor. An invitation has been extended to all those, who now are or have been members of the church, to attend the services. A number of prominent-clergymen have consented to take part in the services.

The services, which will begin to-morrow and close on Sunday, Feb. 19, are as follows: To-morrow, a reunion service will be held all day. The Rev. S. F.

Upbam, D. LL. professor iu Drew Theologlcnl Seminary, will preach the sermon in the morning. In the afternoon there will be a Sunday School reunion, with addresses by former members of the school and L. Vaughn, superintendent.

Justice Charles E1. Teale will lead the Epworth League service in the evening. Monday, Feb. 13, will be' observed as Lincoln Day. An opening service will be held at II a.

conducted by the Rev. E. H. Dutcher, pastor of the North Fifth Street Church, with addresses by Dr. George Adams, of the Central Church, who will speak on The Religious Aspects of the War of 1861-63.

In the afternoon at 3 oclock the Rev. C. P. Corner, of the Union Church, will conduct the services, and there will be an address by the Rev. D.

G. Downey, M. of St. John's Church. In the evening the pastor will lecture on "Lincoln, the Martyr President.

On Tuesday evening the Rev. Dr. E. Payson Ingersoll, pastor of the Immanuel Congregational Church, will speak, and on Wednesday evening the Rev. Dr.

W. C. P. Rhoades, pastor of the Marcy Avenue Baptist Church. The opening service on Thursday evening will be conducted by the Rev.

Dr. J. D. Weils, pastor of the South Third Street Presbyterian Church, and the address will be delivered by the Rev. Dr.

John F. Carson, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church. On Friday evenings the services will be conducted by the Rev. William Hamilton, pastor of the South Third Street M. E.

Church, and the discourse will be by the Rev. Dr. Charles L. Goodell, pastor of the Hanson Place M. E.

Church. The Rev. Dr. R. J.

Kent, pastor of the Lewis Avenue Congregational Church, will to-morrow evening preach the second sermon in course of Sunday night sermons to men. The subject being The Best Proof of Immortality. The remaining topics and dates are as follows; Feb. 19, The Best Proof That the Bible Is Inspired: Feb. 26, "The Best Reason for Being a Christian." These sermons were specially for men.

During the absence of the IteT. W. W. Bellinger, rector of St Marys Protestant Episcopal Church, Classon and Willoughby avenues, his pulpit will be occupied on Sunday evenings as follows: To-morrow the Rev. Dr.

John Clarence Jones, rector of St. Thomas Church; Feb. 19, the Rev. Dr. John W.

Brown, rector of St. Thomas Church, Manhattan; Feb. 26, the Rev. Dr. Reese F.

Alsop, rector of St. Annes Church on the Heights and archdeacon of Northern Brooklyn; March 12, the Rev. Dr. S. D.

McConnell, D. C. rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity and archdeacon of Northern Brooklyn: March 12, the Rev. F. Burgess, rector of Grace Church on the Heights; March 19, the Rev.

Dr. J. Lewis Parks, rector of Calvary Church, Manhattan; March 26, the Rev. Dr. William M.

Grosvenor, rector of the Church of the Incarnation, Manhattan. Mr. Bellinger expects to be back in St. Marys on Easter Day. Before the Congregational Clerical Union of New York and vicinity on Monday morning at 11 oclock, in the United Charities Building, Fourth avenue and Twenty-second street, Manhattan, the lecture will be delivered by Professor Thomas Richey, of the Episcopal General Theological Seminary.

His subject will be What is the Bible? In his series of Short Talks to Young People under the general theme of Half Hours with Jesus, the Rev. Dr. A. J. F.

Behrends, pastor of the Central Congregational Church, will have for his topic tomorrow evening What ffesu Had to Say About Children. An after-service will follow. To-morrow evening the special monthly young people's service, followed by a parlor meeting for greeting, will be held in the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian The pastor, the i Rev. Dr. David Gregg, will occupy the pulpit, taking for his sub-ject Marketable Young Men and Women.

There will be special music, The Victory will be the subject of the sermon to-morrow evening by the Rev. H. H. Beattys, pastor of the Sumner Avenue M. E.

Church; this being the concluding sermon in the coarse on The History of a Struggle and a Triumph," Boat-tys will also preach at the morning service. The Rev, C. F. Williams, pastor of ths Sixth Avenue Baptist Church, will be in his pulpit at both services to-morrow. In the evening he will preach the fifth in a aeries of sermons from the Book of Daniel, the subject being In the Lion's Den." These sermons are especially intended for young people.

At the Friday evening services In the Bedford Presbyterian Church the meeting will fee led by the Rev. Wf. J. Hntcblns, pastor, the subject being "Our Debt to the Past Mr. Hutchins will be in his pulpit at both services to-morrow.

In Emmanuel Baptist Church to-morrow, the pastor, the Rev. Dr. John Humpstone, will preach both morning snd evening. At the second eervlce he will deliver the fifth sermon in the course on Some Titles of Our Lord," the special subject being "The Lamb of God. The Rev, John Rhey Thompson, D.

pastor of the Summerfieid M. E. Church, will to-morrow evening continue the course of sermons which, aro proving such a help 1 No matter which way the Dreyfus controversy in France be looked at, the conclusion is inevitable that no man can look for justice in that country if he he accused of anything that touches the standing of what they call the Army. -This term, as used in Connection with the Dreyfus case, does not reict to the rank and file, or to the officers in general, but to a ring of rascals at the head who sacrificed Dreyfus to shield themselves, and depended on race prejudice for a popular endorsement. When the Government showed a disposition to see that the accused man h.ui a fair trial, these fellows threatened to losign, the implication being that this vvould arouse the whole army against the Go'ornment, and the result would be ita overturning.

And there as not a man in the Government on the ciiil side that had ie strength of purpose to doty them by using the police powers of the State and those conferred by the Constitution against them. Treason was in their hearts, bnt there was riiine to take them by the throat and squeeze it out of them. This was because the Government feared the people, feared that in their terrOT of what Europe might do if their present army organization wag even temporarily disorganized, they would promptly sacrifice the Government to the army. And now, when oue House of the French Parliament passes a bill to send the Dreyfus case before only one side of the Court of Cassation this is to please the army the country i again in an uproar; and If the "army were of one mind as to the claimants to the throne. Bourbon or Napoloonic, the French Republic would disappear overnight The rumor of a proposed consolidation of all the steel shipbuilding concerns on the Lake borders, furnishes food for thought for anybody who still harbors the notion that the shipbuilding interests cannot take care of themselves without a subsidy.

A Shipbuilding Trust would control prices on the one hand and wages On thi other, and instead of being given a subsidy, the tariff protection should be taken from it. Desperate times in Nicaragua just now. General Reyes is in revolt, and President Zelaya has sent another general with a thousand men snd a cannon to put him down. No wonder the pigmy Agimdllo has an idea that he is a great man. Daily reports of what he says have sweilrd his head.

MEN AND WOflEN. Mr. McKinley is, said to receive about two hundred letters a day. Charles de Lesseps ha8 at lasfe returned to Paris after years of exile due to his Panama troubles. The French Govern ment has decided to remit his fine.

Governor Wolcott, of Massachusetts, is a good skater, and the other day was among those on the ice in Boston Common. Mrs. McCumber. wife of the Senator- elect from South Dakota, was formerly a resident of Fargo, where she was employed assistant manager of the Western Union Telegraph office. While still Miss Jennie Schorning she was transferred from Fargo to the Wahpeton office, where Attorney McCumber wooed and won and she is now the mother of two children.

Slatin Pasha ig about to leave the Egyp tian army in order that he 'may spend the remainder of his days among his friends in Austria! He had enough of the Soudan during the advance on Obduiman. He left Vienna for Cairo at the age of 17. and aix years later wag appointed by Gordon Governor of Darfur. General Miles' hand has been read" by a palmist, who finds in it daring, tempered by caution, an ability to develop qualities suited to the occasion, and -a promise of political honors In later life. The King of the Belgians anxious to visit the Congo State, and will probably do so in April.

Sir Henry Blake, the new Governor of Hong Kong, recently announced that at his levees men. would he expected to put in an appearance in top hats and frock coats, and there was great consternation in the little colony in consequence. The hats were the trouble. There were only about half a dozen nail kegs" in the place, and It was not expected that the local batter had any in stock. To the joy of all, however, he rose to the occasion, and was just able to supply the demand, Leo IIL yiJ enter upon the ninetieth year of bis age March 2- and the twenty-second of bis supreme pontificate Feb.

20. Two hundred and sixty-two Pontiffs have preceded Leo XIIL Bernard Carter, of Allensvlllc, says he is champion long-distance horseback rider of the World. Every day in the last twenty years he has ridden thirty miles on business, and hunting and other pleasure trips have brought his average up to 12,400 miles a year. Up to date Carter claims to have ridden 248,000 miles on horseback. John V.

Quarles, the new Senator from Wisconsin, is a graduate of the University Of Michigan, and, being a football enthusiast, attends nearly, every game played by the eleven pf that oollege, i Malabon is a small Filipino town some five or six miles north and eastward of Caloocan, the latter the scene of conflict of yester-' day. A considerable body of Aguinaldos troops occupied Malabon, retreating Caloocan. I The latter place was the scene of some fighting this morning, our jtime. The place is near the Bay of Manila, and the Monitor Mon-adnock and the gunboat Charleston moved up to a position opposite this town and shelled the Malays out of it with, to all appearances, great loss to them. The fijttf of yesterday, we are happy to be able to state, was onesided.

The total American loss is Sported at three, only, killed and wounded. This, con-jlering the fact that our men as-ulted an entrenched position, is Remarkable. The advance of the infantry had been preceded by a heavy fire from the monitor and gunboat, as well as from the battefy and the Third and the Sixth Artillery regular batteries. Subjected thus to fire of shrapnel from light pieces in front and the heavy guns of the vessels on their flank, the Filipinos would be steadier soldiers than we imagine them to be, not to become demoralized before the infantry moved to the attack, It will be observed that our Western volunteers have had a chajj.ce to distinguish themselves, nd they have evidently improved and made the most of it. The States represented in the affair at Caloocan were, in part at least, (California, Colorado, South Dakota, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Utah and Wyoming.

The volun- teers from these localities have had their patience sorely tried during investment so to speak, of I Manila, and that they were exceed-jufingly enterprising in paying off the if, score when they had the chance Vand in convincing the Malays Jjiat their forbearance of months was 'b, not from fear 0f the prowess 0f the Filipinos, goes without saying. We know of old the gallantry of jthe sons of the West In the Civil they were practically invinc-I'-lf ible. They were sometimes re-, 1 pulsed, never really defeated, if These young fellows who have suc- I I 'i ceeded their fathers are of the same jij; stamp and mould. As a matter of 'J sentiment we could almost wish II1 them foemen better worthy of I their steel than the wretches whom Aguinaldo represents. With defeat comes the inevitable 1 1 whine of the semi-barbarian.

The Filipino agents at Hong Kong are moving heaven and earth to produce the conviction that the collision was precipitated by the Americans. They assert that Admiral Dewey, without notice, sent the hips of his fleet along the coast 'id bombarded Fando, Mala je The Presidents message to Congress urging that action be taken to provide snch means as may seem suitable for the establishment of a telegraph cable system across the Pacific, ought to have an Immediate effect, because there is nothing in the question that any school child of average intelligence cannot promptly comprehend. The wrangle there has been in Congress on the subject, and the sole reason for the delay in acting upon the bills submitted, have been due simply to the struggle of adventurers to fasten themselves like leeches on the public treasury and the determination of some honest members that they shou.d not succeed. The President says truly that the time has now arrived when a cable in the Pacific must extend as far as Manila, touching the Hawaiian Islands and Guam on the way. and that as it will take two years to procure and lay it, the project ought to be proceeded with at once.

AU that is wanted is the authority of Congress, and he says "Two methods of establishing this cable communication at once suggest themselves first, construction and maintenance of such a cable at the expense of the United States Government, and, second, construction and maintenance of such a cable by a private United States corporation under such safeguards as Congress bhall impose." The President adds: "I do not make any recommendation to Congress a to which of these methods would be the more desirable." As to that, he is right enough, perhaps, and especially as Congress, or at least, the job. bers in Congress might resent his suggestion and make use of it to carry through one of the corrupt measures now before that body. Bnt that is no reason why the newspapers of the land should refrain from expressing their opinion on the subject; and we take this occasion to repeat our own that the only propejMeWpursue is to make the cable Government enterprise, pure and simple. Represeentative CorUss of Michigan has already exposed to th fuU the audacity of the Scrymser Companys demand that the Government shall make it a present of the cable it proposes to lay by giving it the franchise for nothing and a aubsidy that would pay the first cost and that of coat of operation in a very few years; and the other company, ita rival, is on a par with it; and both should be disposed of at once. The Government is preparing to take soundings in the Pacific go as to ascertain the best route for the cable.

This is the hardest and most important part of the whole task. It is to be done at tha expense of the Government; and Is it tote believed, that these jobbers who want to establish a private business with public money, are to have the benefit of all this, besider the franchise, the aubsidy and the monopoly? The audacity of the proposition makes it hard to believe that anyone would present it; yet It has been presented, and I.