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V VL. ‘H’s I j. H. ESTILL. President. J
A HARVEST-FIELD SHADOW.
THE TEXT OF DR. TALMAGE'S SER-
MON—II KINGS, 4t XVIII—XX.
He Discourse" of ■Childhood, It"
Beauty, It* Susceptibility to Im
pressions—lt" Power Over the Pa
rental Heart, and Its Blissful
Transition From Earth to Heaven.
Washington. Aug. 23.—While the reap
ers are busy In many parts of the land,
and the harvests are being gathered, the
scene brought before us in this subject is
especially appropriate. The text is 11.
Kings 4:18, 19, 20: "And when the child
was grown, it fell on a day that he went
out to his father to the reapers. And he
sttld unto his father, my head, my head!
And he said to a lad, carry him to his
mother. And when he had taken him, and
brought him to his mother, he sat on her
knees till noon, and then died.”
There Is at least one happy home in
Shunem. To the luxuriance and splendor
of a great house, had been given the ad
vent of a child. Even When the angel of
life brings a new soul to the poor man’s
hut, a star of joy shines over the man
ger. Infancy, with its helplessness and
Innocence, had passed Days of boy
hood had come—days of laughter and
frolic, days of sunshine and promise, days
of strange question and curiosity and
quick development. I suppose among all
the treasures of that 'house, the brightest
•was the boy. One day there is the shout
of reapers heard afield. A boy’s heart al
ways bound at the sound of sickle or
scythe. No sooner have the harvesters
cut a swath across the field than the lad
joins them, and the swarthy reapers feel
young again as they look down at that
lad, as bright and beautiful as was Ruth
In the harvest fields of Bethlehem glean
ing after the reapers. But the sun was
too hot for him. Congestion of the brain
seized on him. I see the swarthy laborers
drop their sickles; and they rush out to
see what is the matter, and they fan him
and they try to cool his brow; but all is of
no avail. In the instant of consciousness,
he puts his hands against his temples and
cries out: "My head! my head!” And the
father said: "Carry him to his mother,"
just as any father would have said; for
our hand is too rough, and our voice is
too harsh, and our foot Is too loud to doc
tor a sick child, if there be in our home a
gentler voice and a gentler hand and a
stiller footstep. But all of no avail. While
the reapers of Shunem were busy In the
field, there came a-, stronger reaper that
way, with keener scythe and for a richer
harvest. He reaped only one sheaf, but O
what a golden sbeaf was that! I do not
’ Wi.nt to know an/ more about that heart-*
■breaking scene than what I see in just
this one pathetic sentence: "He sat on
lher knees till noon, and then died.”
Though hundreds of years have passed
away since that boy skipped to the har
vest field and then was brought home and
died on his mother’s lap, the story still
thrills us. Indeed, childhood has a charm
always and everywhere. I shall now
speak to you of childhood; its beauty, its
susceptibility to impression, its power
over the parental heart, and its blissful
transition from earth to heaven.
The child’s beauty doos not depend upon
iform or feature or complexion or apparel.
That destitute one that you saw on the
Btreot, bruised with unkindness and in
rags, has a charm about her, erven under
her destitution. You have forgotten a great
many persons whom you met of finely
cut features and with erect posture and
With faultless complexion, white you will
always remember the poor girl who, on a
cold, moonlight night, as you were passing
late home, In her thin .shawl and barefoot
on the pavement, put out her hand and
said: "Please to give me n penny.” Ah!
how often we have walked on and said:
“O, that Is nothing but street vagabond
ism;” but after we got a block or two on,
wo stopped and said: “Ah, that is not
right;” and we passed up that same way
and dropped a mite into that suffering
hand, as though it were not a matter of
second thought, so ashamed were we of
our hard-heartedness. With what admira
tion we all look upon a group of children
on the play-ground or in the school, and we
clap our hands almost involuntarily, and
say: \”How beautiful!” All stiffness and
dignity are gone, and your shout is heard
with theirs and you trundle their hoop,
and fly their kite, and strike their ball,
and all your weariness and anxiety gone
as when a child you bounded over the play
ground yourself. That father who stands
rigid and unsympathetic amid the sport
fulness of children, ought never to have
been tempted out of a crusty and unre
deemable solitariness. The waters leap
down the rocks, but they have
not the graceful step of child
hood. The morning comes out of the
gates of the east, throwing its silver on
the lake and Ils gold on the towers and
its fire on the cloud: but it is not so bright
nnd beautiful as the morning of life!
There is no light like that which is kin
dles! in a child’s eye, no oolor like that
which blooms on a child's cheek, no mu
sic like the sound of a child’s voice. Its
face In the poorest picture redeems any
imperfection in art. When we are weary
with toll, their little hands pull the bur
dens off our back. O, what a dull, stale,
mean world this would be without the
aportf ulneas of children. When I find peo
ple that do not like children, I immediate
ly doubt their moral and Christian char
acter. But when the grace of God comes
upon a child, how unspeakably attractive.
When Samuel begins to pray, and Timothy
begins to read the Scriptures, and Joseph
shows himself invulnerable to temptation
—bow beautiful the acene! 1 know that
parents sometimes get nervous when their
children become pious, because they have
the Idea that good children always die.
The strange questions about God and
eternity and the dead, excite apprehen
sion in the parental mind rather than con
gratulation. Indeed, there are some peo
ple that seem marked fpr heaven. This
porld Is too poor a garden for them to
l*|<»om in. The hues of heaven art' in the
Petals. There is something about
thSlr forehead that makes you
think that the hand of Christ has been on
it, saying: "Let this one come to Me, and
let it come to Me soon/' While that one
tarried tn rbe house, yod felt there was an
ange! In the room, and you thought that
every sickness would be the last; and
when, finally, the winds of death did
scatter the leaves, you were no more sur
prised than to see a star come out above
the cloud on a dark night; for you had
often said to your companion; "My dear,
we shall never raise that child.” But I
scout the Idea that good children always
die. Swmfiel the pious boy. beeamr Sam
uel the great prophet. Christian Timothy
became a minister at Ephesus. Young
Daniel, conaecrea ed to God. became prime
minister of all the reaim. and there are in
hundreds of the schools and families of
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Illi i£IUMS
96 GEORG
this country to-day, children who love
God and keep his commandments, and
who are to be foremost among the Chris
tians and the philanthropists and the re
formers of the next century. The grace of
God never kills any one. A child will be
more apt to grow up with religion than it
will be apt to grow up without it. Length
of days Us promised to the righteous. The
religion of Christ does not cramp the
chest or curve the spine or weaken the
nerves. There are no malarias floating up
from the river of life. The religion of
Christ throws over the heart and life of a
child a supernal beatlty. “Her ways are
ways of pleasantness, and all her paths
are peace.”
I pass on to consider the susceptibility
of childhood. Men pride themselves on
their unchangeability. They will make an
elaborate argument to prove that they
thinJk now just as they did twenty years
ago. It is charged to frailty or fraud when
a man changes his sentimenits in politics
or in religion, and it is this determination
of soul that so often drives 'back the Gos
pel from a man’s heart. It is so hard to
make avarice charitable, and fraud hon
est, and pride humble, and scepticism
Christian. The sword of God’s truth seems
to glance off from those mailed warriors,
and the helmet seems battle-proof against
God’s battle-ax. But childhood; how sus
ceptible to example and to instruction!
You are not surprised at the record:
"Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat
Jacob;” for when religion starts.in a fam
ily, it is apt to go all through. Jezebel a
murderess, you are not surprised to find
her son Jehoram attempting assassina
tion. Oh, what a responsibility upon the
parent and the teacher! The musclan
touches the keys, and the response of
those keys is away off amid the pipes and
the chords, and you wonder at the distance
between the key and the chord. And so it
is in life; if you Couch a child, the results
Will come back from manhood or old age,
telling just the tune played, whether the
dirge of a great sorrow or the anthem of a
■great joy. The word that the Sabbath
school teacher will this afternoon whisper
in the ear of the class, will be echoed back
from everlasting age« of light or dark
ness. The home and the school decide the
republic or the despotism; the barbarism
or the civilization; the upbuilding of an
empire, or the overthrowing of it. Higher
than parliament or congress are the school
and the family, and the sound of a child's
foot may mean more than the tramp of a
host. What, then, are you doing for the
purpose of bringing your children into the
kingdom of God? If they are so suscepti
ble, and if this is the very best time to
act upon their eternal interests, what are
you doing byway of right impulsion?
There were some harvesters in the fields
of Scotland one hot day; and Hannah Le
mond was helping them gather the hay.
'She laid her (babe under a
tree. While She was busy in tlhe field,
there was a flutter of wings in the air, and
a golden eagle clutched the swaddling
band of the babe, and flew away with it
to the mountain eyrie. All the harvesters
and Hannah Lemond started for the cliffs.
It was two miles before they came to the
foot of the cliffs. Getting there, who
dared to mount the cliff? No human foot
had ever trod It. There were sailors there
who had gone up the mast In the day of
terrible tempest; that did not d'are risk it.
Hannah Lemond sat there for awhile and
looked up and saw the eagle in the eyrie,
and then she leaped to her feet, and she
started up where no human foot had ever
trod, crag above crag, catching hold of
this root or that root, until she reached
the eyrie and caught her babe, the eagle
swooping in fierceness all around about
her. Fastening the child to her back, she
started for her friends and for home. O,
what a dizzy descent! sliding from this
crag to that crag, catching by that vino
and by that root, coming down further
and further, to the most dangerous pass,
where she found a goat and some kids.
She said: "Now I’ll follow the goat; the
goat will know just which Is the safest
way down;” and she was led by the ani
mal down to the plain. When she got
there, all the people cried: "Thank God,
thank God!” her strength not giving way
until the rescue was effected. And they
cried: "Stand back, now. Give her air!”
O, if a woman will do that for the physi
cal life of her child, what will you do
for the eterqal life of your boy and
your girl? Let It not be told in the great
day of eternity that Hannah Lemond put
forth more exertion for the saving of the
physictai life of her child than you, O par
ent, have ever put forth for the eternal
life of your little one. God help you!
I pass on to consider the power which a
child wields over the parental heart. We
often talk about, the influence of parents
upon children. I never hear anything said
about the Influence of children upon their
parents. You go to school to them. You
no more educate them than they educate
you. With their little hands they have
caught hold of your entire nature and you
cannot wrench yourself away from their
grasp. You are different men and women
from what you were before they gave you
the first lesson. They have revolutioniz
ed your soul. There are fountains of joy
In your heart which never would have
been discovered had they not discovered
them. Life is to you a more stupendous
thing than it was before those little feet
started on the pathway to eternity. Oh,
how many 'hopes, how many joys, how
many solicitudes that little one has creat
ed In your soul. You go to school every
day—a school of self-denial, a school of
patience, in which you are getting wiser
day w by day; and that Influence of the
child over you will increase and Increase;
and though your children may die, from
.the very throne of God they will reach
down an Influence to your soul, leading
you on and leading you up until you min
gle with their voices and sit beside their
thrones.
The grasp which the child has over the
i parent’s heart is seen in what the parent
will do for the child.. Storm and darkness
and heat and cold are nothing to you if
they stand between you and your child’s
, welfare. A great lawyer, when yet un
known, one day stood in the court room
> and made an eloquent plea, before some
i men of great legal attainments; and a
gentleman said to him afterward: "How
I could you be so calm standing in that au-
• gust presence?” “Oh,” said Erskine, ”1
felt my children pulling at my skirts cry
ing for bread.'* What stream will you
i not swim, what cavern will you not enter,
> What battle will you not fight, what hun-
• ger will you not endure for your children?
Your children must have bread though
i you starve. Your children must be
well clothed though you go in rggs.
You say: ‘’My children shall be educated
though I never had any chance.” What
to you are weary limbs, and aching head,
and 'hands hardened and callous, if only
i the welfare of your children can be
wrought out by it? Their sorrow is your
sorrow, their joy your joy, their advance
ment your victory. And, oh, when the
I last sickness comes, how you fight back
the march of disease, and it is only after a
tremendous struggle that you surrender.
i And then when the spirit has fled, the
great deep Is broken up. and Rachel win
not be comforted because her children are
I I not. and David goes up the palace stairs
■ j crying: 'Oh Absalom, my son. my son,
J would God I had died for thee. Oh Absa
lom, my sou, my son.**
There is not a large family, or hardly a
large family that has not bent over such
a treasure and lost It. In the family fold
is there no dead lamb? I have seen many
such cases of sorrow. There is one pre
eminent in my memory as pastor—Sco
ville Haynes McCollum. The story of his
death has brought hundreds unto God. He
belonged to my parish in the west. A
thorough boy, nine or ten years of age.
Nothing morbid, nothing dull about him.
His voice loudest and 'his foot swiftest on
the playground. Often he has come Into
my house and thrown himself down on
the floor in an exhaustion of boisterous
mirth; and yet he was a Christian, con
secrated to God, keeping his command
ments. That Is the kind of childish piety
I believe in. When the days of sickness
came suddenly and he was told that he
could not get well, he said: Jesus alone
can save me. Jesus will save me. He has
saved me. Don’t cry mamma. I shall go
right straight up to heaven.” And then
they gave him a glass of water to cool his
hot lips and he said: “Mamma, I* shall
take a draught from the water of life after
awhile, of which if one drink, he shall
never get thirsty again. I lay myself at
Jesus’ feet and I want him to do just
what he thinks best to do with me.” In
those days, “Rest for the Weary” was a
new hymn, and he had learned it; and in
a perfect ecstacy of soul, in his last hour,
he cried out;
In the Christian’s home in glory,
There remains a land of rest;
There my Saviour’s gone before me
To fulfil my soul’s request;
There is rest for the weary,
There is rest for you.
Sing, O sing, ye heirs of glory,
Shout your triumphs as you go;
Zion’s gates are open for you,
You shall find an entrance through.
There is rest for the weary.
"There is rest for you, papa; there is rest
for you, mamma.” And then putting his
hands over his heart, he said: "Yes, there
is rest for me.”. And then he asked them
to read “The Lord is my Sh’epherd, I shall
not want. He maketh me to lie down in
green pastures, and leadeth me beside still
waters;” and he cried out: “O, death,
where is thy sting? O, grave, where is
thy victory?”!
Only 10 years old. And then he said.
"Now, I wish you would just turn this bed
so I can look once more on the foliage and
see the sun set.” And they turned the
bed; and he said, “I do so wish that Jesus
would hurry and come and take me.”
They said to him, “Why, are you not
willing to await the Lord’s time?” “Yes,"
he said, "I am; but I would rather Jesus
would come and hurry and take me.” And
so, with a peace indescribable, he passed
away. /
Oh, there is nothing sad about a child’s
death save the grief in the parent’s heart.
You see the little ones go right out from
a world of sin and suffering to a world of
joy. How many sorrows they escape, how
many temptations, how many troubles!
Children dead are safe. Those that live are
in peril. We know not ’That dark path they
may take. "The day aay
they will break your but'Wndrcr.
dead are safe—safe forever. Weeping pa
rents, do not mourn too bitterly over your
child that has gone. There are two kinds
of prayers made at a child’s sick bed.
One prayer the Lord likes; the other prayer
he does not like. When a soul kneels down
at a child’s sick-bed and says: "O, Lord,
spare this little one; he is very near to my
heart; I don’t want to part with him, but
thy will be done,”—that Is the kind of a
prayer the Lord loves. There is another
kind of prayer which I have heard men
make in substance when they say: “O
Lord, this isn’t right; It is hard to take
this child; you have no right to take this
child; spare this child; I can’t give him
up, and I won’t give him up." The Lord
answers that kind of a prayer sometimes.
The child lives on and lives on, and trav
els off in paths of wickedness to perish. At
the end of every prayer for a child’s life,
say: "Thy will.O Lord, be done."
The brlghest lights that can be kindled,
Christ has kindled. Let us, old and
young, rejoice that heaven is gathering
up so much that is attractive. In that far
land we are not strangers. There are
those there who speak our name day by
day, and they wonder why so long we
tarry. If I could count up the names of
all those who have gone out from these
families Into the kingdom of heaven, it
would take me all day to mention their
names. A great multitude before the
throne. You loved <*hein once; you love
them now; and ever and anon you think
you hear their voices calling you upward.
Ah, yes, they have gone out from all
the«e families, and you want no book to
tell you of the dying experience of Chris
tian children. You have heard it; it has
bean whispered in your ear, O father, O
mother, O brother, O sister. Toward that
good land all Christians are bearing. This
snapping of heart-strings, this flight of
years, this tread of the -heart reminds us
that we are passing away. Under spring
blossoms, and through summer harvests,
and across autumnal leaves, and through
the wintry snow-banks, we are passing
on. O, rejoice at it, children of God, re
joice at it! How we shall gather them
up, the loved and the lost! Before we
moupt our throne, before we drink of the
fountain, before we strike the harp of our
eternal celebration, we will cry out:
“Where are our loved and lost?” And
then, how we shall gather thexn up! O,
how we shall gather them up!
In this dark world of sin and pain
We only meet to part again;
But when we reach the heavenly shore
We there shall meet to part no more.
The hope that we shall see that day
Should chase our present griefs away;
When these short yeans of pain are past
We’ll meet before the throne at last.
ANOTHER MINE HORROR.
The Miners Are Alt Renewed, Bnt
Their Escape Was Narrow.
Hazleton, Pa., Aug. 23. While a number
of miners were engaged yesterday morn
ing in timbering up the gang-way of the
Colrain collery to prevent a threatened
cave-in, a further squeeze took place, and
before all the men could get out the col
lapse came.
A man was dragged from under the
falling rocks with his legs broken. A car
was being dragged through the danger
way at the time and another man hap
pened to grab the end while the place was
closing in about him, and was drawn out
■with no worse injury than some bad
bruises.
Peter Like, a laborer, missed the car
and was left in there.
After the disturbance subsided some
what rescuing parties attempted to go
i down after Liko, but could not get all the
: way. Liko was one hundred feet below,
; but his cries could be distinctly heard. In •
the afternoon rescuers attempted to
: reach him. but it was midnight before ;
I they got to the man, and took him out
i alive. His escape from death is marve
lous, as he was carried down with 100 tons
of rock into a cavity.
He is now at the hospital in a critical
t condition, buR may recover.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY. AUGUST 24, 1896.
INVITED DEATH AND IT CAME.
AN AGGRESSIVE ASSAILANT GETS
A BILLET IN HIS BRAIN.
Hoifiicide ut Pembroke in Which
Two Prominent Yonng Men Fig
ure—The Assailed Seems to Have
Complied With the Spirit of the
Law in Retreating "Even to the
Wall”—The Jury Justifies the
Killing.
Pembroke, Ga., Aug. 23.—Willis W. Bul
lard was shot and killed at Pembroke last
night, between 8 and 9 o’clock, by E. V.
Harkey of this place, just after the down
train passed.
Bullard was heard at the depot cursing
and' threatening to kill a negro by the
name of Thomas Fair, who was in the
employ of Mr. Harvey. He had his pistol
drawn and presented on Fair, and in a
very loud and excited manner was curs
ing and threatening to kill him.
Mir. Harvey came by and halted for a
moment near by, and Bullard turned his
wrath on him, and asked him what he
'had to do with it. When Mr. Harvey told
him that he had nothing to do with it,
only that Fair was one of his hands.
Mr. HaYvey started to leave, whereupon
Bullard cursed him and ordered him to
stop, presenting his pistol on him at the
same time. Harvey walked on rapidly
and Bullard following after him, cursing
and threatening, and ran up to Harvey
and around In front of him and presented
the pistol, at the same time taking hold
of Harvey with his left hand, while he
heQd the pistol in his right and near Har
vey’s face.
Harvey caught the pistol, and
Bullard attemped to shoot, but
Harvey’s thumb caught the ham-
nger of the pistol and it fail
ed to fire. Harvey then called for help,
whereupon Glen Hall, a white man,
ran up and caught hold of Bullard, and
the pistol was discharged, giving Hall a
severe wound in the hand. Hall left, and
Harvey still called for help, trying to hold
the pistol and prevent Bullard from shoot
ing.
Bullard’s brother-in-law, a young man
named Brown, was present and Bullard
ordered him to cut Harvey. Harvey jerk
ed Bullard between them, and at the same
time pushed Bullard back and snatched
out his pistol, and fired twice in quick
succession. One of the shots took effect
just below Bullard’s left eye, ranging up.
It penetrated the brain, producing fnstant
death.
Coroner Moncrieff was immediately no
tified, and an inquest was b< td ainl a ver
dict of justifiable homicide -nndered.
ahd was verydaW-trbus." Hs
came to Georgia several yerrs ago front
South Carolina. He leaves a wife and
two small children.
The public exonerates Mr. Harvey in
the act.
RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS.
Meeting of the Knights of the Lever
and the Cord—A Little Row.
Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 23.—The union
meeting of the railroad brotherhoods to
day was made sensational by reason of
the fact that the local trades unions they
Invited to attend, declined, and did so in
such terms as to cause Chief Arthur of
the engineers, and Grand Master Sar
geapt of the firemen to make bitter re
plies to the assaults on the old brother
hoods.
There were 400 or 600 railroad
men present. The Terre Haute trade un
ion were were not represented by as many
as a dozen.
Grand Master Sargeant showed his feel
ings in the intense way in which he de
fended his organization from the implica
tion that it had not been fraternal in its
reflations with the trade unions. Sar
geant said the fireman’s brotherhood
takes no exception to the views of others
in regard to labor, but it will not permit
to go unchallenged the assertion that it is
lying and disgraced.
Chief Arthur followed Sargeant, begin
ing with the assertion that he was there
to defend the engineer. He had seen the
statement that he had said the brother
hood is not a labor organization, and he
wanted to stamp it as a wicked falsehood.
He has always said It was a labor organi
zation, composed of men, and represent
ing a branch of labor he considered to be
skilled labor.
It Is true, It is confined to a class of
labor. If all classes of Mbor were thor
oughly organized in their respective
classes there would be no difficulty tn
each securing its demands.
Mr. Arthur said: “I advise the men to
Shun saloons and gambling dens. If that
is preaching aristocracy, I am an aristo
crat, if I had my way I would close all
the saloons, and there will be no occasion
for a Keeley Institute. The working men
are their ow worst enemies, but the
brotherhoods are making better men of
the men in the train service. If, he said,
the engineers brotherhood has failed to
give protection -to its members, where
ever it has so failed. It has been because
of treachery of the men themselves on
the road where the grievance existed. He
challenged any one to truth
fully contradict this statement.
This was in reference to the statement
made recently that thirty engineers
had been discharged from the Plant sys
tem as part of the policy of the managers
of that system to drive organized labor
out of the system, and no attempt was
made by Mr. Arthur to protect them.
Chief Arthur said that the Brotherhood
had been paid $6,000,000 insurance. To-day
it has 100 written contracts with railroad
companies, and the order has expelled in
one year 370 members for drunkenness,
and it was steadily raising the moral
standard of the engineers. Chief Clark of
the conductors, Grand Master Morrissey
of the trainmen and Secretary Austin of
the Order of Telegraphers also spoke.
FARMERS WILL FEEL THE EFFECT
A Sulphur Trnrt in Sieily Will Put
the Price of Acid Ip.
Washington, Aug. 23.—Deputy Consul
Ritter reports to the department of state
from Cattollca the formation of the An
glo-Sieilian sulphur trust. The capital of
the trust is tt.000.000, furnished by Italian,
| French and English capitalists. The com.
; pany will be known as the Anglo-Sicilian
■ Sulphur Company, Limited, and will have
headquarters in London.
The United States consumes about 110,-
000 tons of the Sicilian product per year
and higher prices, Mr. Ritter says, will
cause great injury to the acid makers
and manufacturers of Che United State*.
NEW YORK’S REPUBLICANS.
They Want Platt For Governor Bnt
He Will Not Run.
Saratoga, N. Y., Aug. 23.—The guberna
torial situation is practically unchanged,
that is, so far as the probable action of
the 758 delegates to the republican state
■convention is concerned. Everything de
pends absolutely upon the decision of
Thomas C. Platt.
There is no doubt of the fact that Mr.
Platt is close to the hearts of all the re
publican local leadens, and they have near
ly all pressed him to accept the nomina
tion for governor. Mr. Platt has again
and again frowned down this testimonial
to his leadership on the part of his
friends, but many of them, seemingly,
have never been in the habit of taking
“No” for an answer. So the question of
Mr. Platt’s nomination was discussed with
renewed vigor to-day, and was the princi
pal topic of interest.
Mr. Platt, however, was firm, and said
that no friend of his would further agitate
the matter. The reorganization men have
been familiar with this attitude of Mr.
Platt, and it was to the surprise of every
one that they joined the Platt men in tak
ing up Mr. Platt as a candidate.
The friends of Lieut. Gov. Saxton and
Stale Controller Roberts, when asked for
an expression of their views, said that
Mr. Platt will undoubtedly get the vote
of every delegate in the convention should
he consent to run.
Messrs. Aldrich and Fish and the other
candidates said Mr. Platt was the only
man in whose favor they would with
draw from the race. All these expressions
were made known to Mr. Platt. It did not,
however, alter his decision. His declina
tion to consider the matter was more em
phatic than ever, and he refused to any
longer discuss it. Mr. Aldrich went to
Mr. Platt several weeks ago and asked
him if he would advise him to continue in
his canvas for delegates or withdraw.
The friends of Mr. Aldrich assert that
Mr. Platt said to him: "I would not with
draw if I were you.”
On this suggestion, Mr. AldricJh kept on
in his hunt for delegates, and claims to
have the support of nearly 325 of the 575
re-organization delegates. It win take 380
votes to nominate.
Hon. HamTlton Fish, the speaker of the
assembly, is as confident as ever of his ul
timate success. He says that he has a
large number of delegates at bis com
mand,but that no one man has enough to
secure the nominatipn. He stated that he
had no fear of Mr. Aldrich’s candidacy,
and that he had reasons for being confi
dent of the result.
Many of ‘the delegates express the opin
ion that Wadsworth will carry off the
nomination.
Secretary of State John Palmer, has tele
graphed that he will be a candidate for
governor (before the convention.
THE GOLD MEN
' ijlMlnnMt -*?-
They Claim That Their Movement
Im Growing-—Vila" For President.
Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 23. Sound
money democrats from the out-country
who drop into the headquarters of the
national democrats here to look over the
ground and size up the prospects for the
convention, declare that the movement is
gaining strength beyond their expecta
tions and is developing a force they little
hoped for when they launched it. Since
the first test of the popular strength of
the movement was made in Kentucky the
leaders have received encouraging reports
of its progress. The turn-out at the pri
mary election for delegates to the con
vention in Illinois yesterday was an agree
able surprise to them. Mr. Bynum re
turned here more pleased with the recep
tions accorded him at Peoria, where he
spoke Friday night, and at Modra, where
he talked to 2,000 people yesterday.
It is generally understood among the
members of the national committee that
the New York delegation shall be per
mitted to name tlhe temporary chairman
of the convention. The supposition is that
it will select Btourke Cockran, though this
can hardly be determined until the dele
gation arrives on the ground, the next
day after the members are elected. For
permanent chairman there has been much
talk of Senator Vilas of Wisconsin, but
during the last few days Vilas has loomed
up In larg'e proportions as a possibility
fqr the presidential nomination, and if
this seems probable when the convention
meets, the permanent clyilrman will prob
ably be taken from the south, and there
is much talk of Senator Caffrey of Louis
iana and ex-Gov, Jones of Alabama for
the position.
■The correspondence of the executive
committee, indicating a large attendance
u;>on the convention, is borne out by the
prolonged engagement that have been
pending in since Friday night in a manner
that at first tickled the bontfaces and now
alarms them.
FOUR TICKETS IN COLORADO.
The Populist" Will Not Fuse and
Silver RepuliHcan" Are Pleaned.
Denver, Col., Aug. 23.—A secret session
Os the leading populists of the state was
held here yesterday. It developed that
the sentiment was not in favor of a fusion
with the democrats upon the plan outlined
by the later at the PuehJo convention,
they preferring an independent ticket.
This course pleases the silver republi
cans, who hope thereby to win the state
on a straight party ticket.
It now seems that four state tickets are
inevitable.
THE EMBANKMENT OPENED.
A Northern Pacific Train Wrecked
With Several Fatalities.
San Francisco, Aug. 23.—A Call special
from Missoula, Mont., says that the west
bound freight train, No. 53 on the North
ern Pacific railway, was wrecked one mile
east of Horse plains on the Rocky moun
tains divisions yesterday morning, and
four train hands lost their lives.
The dead are: Geo. Wrigle, engineer,
Hope. Ida, L. I. Frigzell. fireman, Hope,
Ida., J. W. Bolger, brakeman, Spokane,
Jocko, Ida.
A hugh Alling several hundred feet long
spread, throwing the entire train in
Clark's Fork river. The victims men
tioned were all instantly killed. There
bodies have been recovered. It 1 8 BUp .
posed the slide was caused by the set
tling of quicksand. The roadway is still
Impassible, and the railway office is with
holding details of the wreck.
Locked in With Death.
Waldorf. Aug. 23.—Last night the house
of Epraim Coleman was burned, and two
children, a girl and boy of 10 and 2 years
of age, were burned to death. The motfher
and fattier went to visit a neighbor and
locked the childj-en in the house.
CAMPAIGN IN THE ELEVENTH.
Col. Brantley Meets Dr. Johnson In
Joint Debate.
Waycross, Ga., Aug. 23.—C01. W, G.
Brantley, democratic nominee for con
gress from the Eleventh district, arrived
in Way cross about 10 o’clock last night
from Rigdon's Bridge, in Appling county,
where he divided time yesterday in a joint
discussion with Dr. S. W. Johnson, who
was the populist candidate for congress
tn 1894, and was snowed under by Capt.
H. G. Turner. A crowd,
was present. Col. Brantley was there by
invitation to a pienic, and he had also
accepted an invitation from Dr. Johnson
for a joint debate. He opened the dis
cussion with a speech of an hour, and
Dr. Johnson followed with a thirty min
utes’ talk. A good majority of the pen.
pie were democratic, though several hun
dred populists were there.
Col. Brantley made a etrong and elo
quent speech. Dr. Johnson attempted to
show that Col. Brantley was not in favor
of prohibition, and also that a certain
abominable railroad bill was supported in
the Senate by Col. Brantley about twelve
years ago. When he had finished Col.
Brantley replied. He had no trouble with
showing that Dr. Johnson was wrong. He
made some telling sallies of wit that kept
the audience laughing at the expense of
Dr. Johnson. A number of populists were
reclaimed for democracy, and the general
effect of Col. Brantley’s speech will like
ly benefit the cause of democracy in Ap
pling county. Col. Brantley says that he
expects to be elected by a majority of 5,000
over Ben Millikin, the populist nominee.
AFFAIRS AT WAYCROSS.
Cases Disposed of in the Court—A
Demosratlc Rally.
Waycross, Ga., Aug. 23.—The following
criminal cases were disposed of Friday
and Saturday by Judge Williams in the
county court: Bill Middle ton, found guil
ty of gambling with cards, was sentenced
to twelve months in the chain-gang or pay
SSO and cost; Bully Williams and Jim
Smith, guilty of cheating and swindling,
sentenced to eight months in the chain
gang; Alonza Fields, acquitted of the
charge of larceny from a railroad car. All
the prisoners are colored.
Work will begin early this week on the
remodeling of the rear interior of the
Presbyterian church.. A beautiful arch
way will be built over the pulpit. The
choir will occupy seats in the rear of the
pulpit. The church will be lighted with
electricity.
A democratic rally is advertised to oc
cur on Saturday, Aug. 29, at Blckley, in
the northwestern portion of Ware county,
The following persons have been invited
to make 'W that Dr.
JJfi Wficox o; WMiacdochee, whoTiWha
democratic for state senator from
the Fifth senatorial district; Senator L.
A. Wilson of Waycross, and Col. C. C.
Thomas, democratic nominee for repre
sentative from Ware county.
The second contest of the series of races
between W. A. Lowber, champion of Way
cross, and W. E. Lambright, champion of
Brunswick, occurred yesterday afternoon
on Gilmofe street. Lowber won the first
two out of three heats in a quarter mile
race. The thne was 33 second. Another
race will be run to-morrow for a $lO prize.
FUNERAL OF PROF. RUTHERFORD.
Athens People Turn Out to Do Hon
or to His Memory.
Athens, Ga., Aug. 23.—The remains of
Prof. William Rutherford were laid to
rest to-day, in Oconee cemetery. The
Presbyterian church, the largest religious
auditorium in the city, was filled to over
flowing with friends of the deceased, who
came to pay the tribute of Lhelr affection
to his memory. The services were con
ducted by Rev. W. H. Young, pastor of
the First Baptist church, and Rev. W. R.
Foote, pastor of the First Methodist
church.
The democratic executive committee, at
its meeting yesterday, decided to organize
clubs in each militia district in the county.
The Athens Club will 'be organized at a
monster rally at the opera house next
Friday night, at which Gov. Atkinson will
be the speaker of the occasion.
WATSON TO TAKE THE STUMP.
He Hires an Editor and Will Devote
His Time to the Campaign.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 3?.—Tom Watson will
eever his connection as editor of the Peo
ple’s Party Paper next week.
This paper Is the populist organ in this
stsvte. Mr. Watson practically owns it. He
will hire an editor and devote himself to
the campaign. ,
IN ONE BIG BROTHERHOOD.
I
Employes of the M. K. & T Road
Form a Combine.
Dentsan, Tex., Aug. 23.—The employes of
the Missouri Kansas and Texas railway
system engaged in its train service with
the exception of tihe locomotive engineers,
have united under one federation, and will
hereafter act together in all matters af
fecting their common interests.
Representatives were present from the
Order of Railway Conductors. Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen, Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Fireman and Telegraphers.
TO GO A MILE A MINUTE.
That Is the Ambition of Bicyclist
Emerson.
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 23.—The second at
tempt of Emerson to cover a mile in one
minute on a bicycle paced by a locomotive
which was to have taken place to-day, has
been postponed till Sept. «.
His machine will be geared to 120 inches,
and he confidently expects to clip off the
three seconds of Iris present record of
1:03.
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN DEAD.
He Was a Well Known Washington
Hotel Proprietor.
Saratoga, Aug. 23.—John Chamberlain,
the hotel man of Washington, died at the
Grand Union hotel at 11:25 o’clock to
night.
He was dangerously ill for several days
In the early part of the week, but rallied
two daye ago and preparation were being
made to move him to Washington. Last
night he had a relapse and to-nlgnt he
died.
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MONDAYS
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THURSDAYS
ATTACKED AT HIS ALTAR.
A REPORTER AND DR. MONK PUNCH
HEADS IN THE PULPIT.
Macon’s Latest Sensation— Dr. Monk
Attacked the Press Because It
Spoke of His Sermon as Sensntion
al—A Reporter Takes Exception to
It and a Fight Follows in Church
Alee tins—Dr. Monk Tones Down
His Sensational Charges.
Macon, Ga., Auk. 23.—Quite a sensa
tlon occurred in Mulberry Street Meth
odist Church to-night.
Last Sunday night Dr. Monk, the pastor,
preached a sermon that created a great
stir throughout the city and caused the
vaudeville shows to close temporarily. He
handled the municipal authorities with
out gloves, and the mayor had proceeded
■to bring about the reforms which the
reverend doctor demanded, announcing
that he would depend upon Dr. Monk
for evidence to convict. Everybody has
been anxious to see what the doctor was
going to do or say next. So to-night ha
had a large audience and the newspapers
were expected to furnish reports of the
sermon for the church-goers. .
A reporter, Mr. Adamson, a young man
of about 20 years, was sent to represent
the Telegraph. As soon as he entered the
church a committee waited on him and
insisted that no mention be made of the
sermon. Dr. Monk announced that he
didn’t want his name to appear in the
Telegraph in any connection or en any oc
casion, but Adamson remained at his post
to carry out the city editor’s instructions.
During the course of the sermon Dr.
Monk referred to “A low, designing per
son,” in such connection that young
Adamson thought he was hit. By the
time the sermon closed his wrath was at
fever heat, and while a union meeting was
being held, and all the church people were
shaking hands, Adamson .went to Dr.
Monk in the pulpit and demanded an ex
planation.
The lie. was passed and Adamson and
Dr. Monk clinched. Several other men
joined the minister in trying to put young
Adamson out of the pulpit, and in the
scuffle several licks were passed, young
Adamson getting his face bruised.
After a few seconds the men turned the
reporter loose, and demanded that he re
tire. That he did, but says he took his
time.
Dr. Monk’s objection to the reporter and
his hatred of the Telegraph Were because
he objected to the Telegraph's head lines
referring tv fclx sermon gs sensational.
The doctor said in Ms sermon to-night
that he did hot mean to reflect on the
' " of the people nor in the
vaudeville shows, It having been his be
lief that they were here to-dav and gone
to-morrow. He also explained satisfac
torily his strictures against the city ad- *
ministration.
Another account of the affair is as fol
lows:
Macon, Ga., Aug. 23.—A sensation was
created in the leading Methodist church
in this city to-night, caused by a diffi
culty between Rev. Alonzo Monk, pas
tor of the church, and Tilden Adamson,
a reporter of the Dally Telegraph.
Mr. Adamson reported the reverend gen
tleman a sermon last Sunday, which was
pronounced by the pastor to be correct.
But at Sunday service Mr. Mdnk, in hi«
sermon, was particularly severe on the
reporter, and reflected on him in such a
manner as to cause Mr. Adamson to re
sent it at the end of the service.
Going to the pulpit the young gentle
man demanded an explanation of the doo.
tor’s remarks. An exchange of words an
gered both gentlemen, whereupon ’ they
grappled each other.
Deacons of the church rushed forward,
and an exchange of blows between them
and the reporter followed. The newspaper
man stood fire, and defended hlmsdf as
beet he could against the others. The po
lice were sent for. The congregation was
greatly excited. More than a thousand
people, women and men, stood on tiptoe
to watch the outcome of the souffle. Final
ly order was restored, but the service*
were somewhat shortened by the scene.
Mr. Monk has been particularly severe
on the barrooms and lewd houses of the
city, and Ms language has been the topto
of discussion for a week. The trouble to
night is really an outcome of his sermon
on the bar rooms of Macon.
Mr. 'Monk is one of the ablest ministers
In the Methodist Church, and while many
people approve bls severe attack on the
lower elements of society, there are oth
ers who condemn it as ill advised and in
temperate. '
BRUTAL CRUELTY? ' ’ 7
A Negro Beats and Scratches a Child
and Salts Its Wounds.
Tallahassee, Fla., Aug. 23.—Ned Johnson,
a negro, was brought before Judge Mc-
Griff, on Saturday, on a charge of assault
and battery. The testimony was to ths
effect that he Was living with an unmar
ried woman. An eight-year-old girl was
hired to nurse the woman’s child. About
twelve days ago Johnson tied the little
child down, and beat her in a terrible man
ner, with stacks, straps, etc. He then bared
her body and scratched her with Ms fin
ger nails, and wherever he had broken the
skin in beating the child, he would pull
the places open and fill them with salt,
and threatened to kill the woman if she
opened her mouth about the affair.
But the little girl's grandmother learn
ed of her terrible condition from some one,
and brought her In for Judge McGriff to
look at. He was horrified at the child’s
appearance and condition, and at once is
sued a warrant for the arrest of John
son.
The judge invited State Attorney G. W.
Walker to come in and see the child and
acquaint himself with the case, in order
that facts might be presented to the next
grand jury.
The jury brought in a verdict convicting
Johnson, as charged, ami also against the
woman, as accessory, with a recommen
dation of mercy for the latter, as she had
a young baby.
Judge McGriff fined the woman $5, and
gave het ten days in jail, but he gave
Johnson the limit of the law, a fine of
SSOO and three months in jail.
Ephriam Carleton, a young white man
from the western portion of the county,
was adjudged insane on Saturday and will
be taken to the state asylum, at Chatta
hoochee. ,
Camp meeting Is in progress at Spring
HUI, nine miles southwest of Tallahassee,
and the Carrabelle train took out a large
party this morning for that point.
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