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SALVATION OF MENS SOULo.*
TALMAGE PREACHES OS THE RAR-
EST OF PASSIONS.
Only One Pernon In Thousand* Pom
neHNed of It—Some of the Lami
nnrieM of Church History Who
Have Been Possessed of It—How to
Inquire the Longing For Saved
Immortalities.
Washington, Nev. B.—Clear out of the
ordinary style of sermonizing Is thl? re
makable discourse of Dr. Talmage.; His
text Is: Rom. 9,3: “I could wish that my
self were accursed from Christ for my
brethren, my kinsmen according to the
fleeh.”
A tough passage, indeed, for those who
take Paul literally. When some of the
old theologians declared that they were
willing to be damned for the glory of
God, they said what no one believed. Paul
did not In the text me|.n he was willing
to die forever to save his relatives. He
used hyperbole, and when he declared, “I
could wish that myself were accursed
from Christ for my brethem, my kins
men according to the flesh,” he meant In
the most vehement'of all possible ways
to declare his anxiety for the salvation
of his relatives and friends. It was a pas
sion for souls. Not more than one Chris
tian out of thousands of Chris
tians feels It. All-absorbing de
sire for the betterment of the phys
ical and mental condition Is very common.
It would take more of a mathematician
than I ever can be to calculate how many
are, up to an anxiety that sometimes will
not let them sleep nights, planning for
the efficiency of hospitals where the sick
and wounded of body are treated, and for
eye and ear Infirmaries, and for dispensa
ries and retreats where the poorest may
have most skillful surgery and helpful
treatment. Ch! It la beautiful and glo
rious, this widespread and ever intensify*-
iniynovement to alleviate, cure phys
icaFlbierortufes. May God encourage
and help the thousands of splendid men
and women engaged In that work. But all
that is outside of my subject to-day. In
behalf of the immortality of a man, the
inner eye, the inner ear, the inner capac
ity for gladness or distress, how
few feet anything like the over
whelming concentration expressed in my
text. than four-leaved clovers,
rarer than *qpntury plants, rarer than
prlma, been those of whom It-
- r ■ i* -r-
* and thumb ofc your left hand names
of those you can recall, who in the last,
the eighteenth century, wfere so character
ized. All the names of those you could
recall in our time as having this passion
for souls you can count on the fingers
and thumbs of your right and left hands.
There are many more such consecrated
souls, but they are scattered so widely
you do not know them. Thoroughly Chris
tian people by the hundreds of millions
there are to-day, but how few people
do you know who are utterly oblivious to
everything In this world except the re
demption of souls? Paul had it when he
wrote my text, and the time will come
when the majority of Christians will have
it, If this world is ever to be lifted out
of the slough in which it has been sink
ing and floundering for near nineteen cen
turies. And the betterment had better be
gin with my<elf and yourself. When a
committee of the "Society of Friends"
called upon a member to reprimand him
for breaking some small rule of the so
ciety, the member replied: "I had a dream
in which all the Friends had assembled
to plan some way to have our meeting
house cleaned, for it was very filthy.
Many propositions were made, but no con
clusion was reached until one of the mem
bers rose and said: ‘Friends, I think if
each one would take a broom and sweep
immediately around hi.* own seat, (he
meetting-house would be clean.’ ” So let
the work of spiritual improvement be
gin around our own soul. Some one
whispers up from tho right-hand side of
the pulpit and snya: “Will you
please name some of the persons in
our times who have this passion for
souls?” Oh, no! That would be invidious
and imprudent, and the mere mentioning
of the names of such persons might cause
in them spiritual pride, and then the Lord
would have no more use for them. Some
one whispers up from the left-hand side
of the pulpit, "Will you not then mention
among the people of the past some w’ho nad
thia passion for souls?" Oh, yes! Samuel
Rutherford, the Scotchman of three hun
dred years ago, his imprisonment at Aber
deen tor his religious seal, and the public
burning of his book, “Lex Rex.” in Kdln
boro, and his unjust arraignment for high
treason, and other persecutions purify
ing and sanctifying him. so that his worka
entitled "Trial and Triumph of Faith" and
"Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to
Himself," and. above all, his two hundred
and fifteen unparalleled letters, showed
that he had the passion for souls. Rich
ard Baxter, whose "Paraphrase of the
New Testament" caused him to be dragg
ed before laird Jeffries, who howled at
him as "a rascal" and "sniveling Presby
terian,’ ’and imprisoned him for two years
—Baxter, writing one hundred and sixty
eight religious books, his "Cali to the Un
converted" bringing uncounted thou
sands into the pardon of the Gospel,
and his "Saints’ Everlasting Rest" open
ing heaven to a host Innumerable. Rich
ard Cecil. Thoma»-a-Kempis. writing his
"Imitation of Christ" for all ages. Har
lan Page. Robert McCheyne, Nettleton.
Finney. And more whom I might men
tion, the characteristic of whose Ilves was I
an ovet towering passion for souls. A. 11
Earl, the Baptist evangelist, had it. I. 3.
Inskip, the Methodist evangelist, had it.
Jacob Knapp had It. Dr. Baehus, presi
dent of Hamilton College, had it, end
when told he had only half an hour to live, j
said, "Is that so? Then take me out of
* my bod and place me upon my knees, '
and let mo spend that time in calling on !
Gp.. for me salvation of the world." And ;
, so he died upon his knees. Then there I
have been others whose names have bean
»known only in their own family or neigh
, borhood, and here and there you think of
one. What unction they had in prayer*
What power they had in exhortation! ir
they walked Into a home every mention
of it felt a holy thrill, and If they vralkeu
Into a prayer-mvoting the dullness an.l
* stolidity instantly vanished. One of them
* would wake up a whole church. One of
* Ah cm would sometimes electrify a whole
city.
- Rut the most wonderful one of that
characterisation the world ever saw or
heard or felt was a peasant in the far
east, wearing a plain blouse like an in
verted wheat sack, with three openings,
cme for the neck, and the other two for
ax ma. H;a father a wheelwright ano
b*- , .
? house-builder, and given to various car
pentry. His mother at first under sus
picion because of the circumstances of
his nativity, and he chased by a Herofile
mania out of His native land, to live
awhile under the shadows of the sphinx
and pyrangd of Glzeh, afterward con
founding the LL.D.’s of Jerusalem, then
stopping the paroxysm of tempest and or
madman. His path strewn with slain
dropsies and ca'talepsies and ophthalmias,
transfigured on one mountain, preaching
/'on another mountain, dying on another
mountain, and ascending from another
mountain—the greatest, the loveliest, the
mightiest, the kindest, the most selt
sacriflcing, most beautiful Being whose
feet ever touched the earth. Tell us, ye
deserts who heard our Saviour’s prayer-,
tell us, ye seas that drenched him witn
your surf; tell us, ye multitudes who
heard him preach on deck, on beach, on
hillside; tell us, Golgotha who heard the
stroke of the hammer on the splkeheads,
and the dying groan in that midnight that
dropped on midnoon, did any one HKe
Jesus have this passion for souls?
But breaking right in upon me is the
question, how can we get something of
thils Pauline and Christly longing for sav
ed Immortalities? I answer: By better
appreciating the prolongation df,the soul’s
existence compared with everything phys
ical and material. How I hope- that sur
geon will successfully remove the cata
ract from that man’s eye! It is such a
sad thing to be blind. Let us pray while
the doctor is busy with the delicate oper
ation. But for how long, a time will he
be able to give, his patient eyesight? Well,
if the patient be forty years of age, he
will add to his happiness perhaps fifty
years of eyesight, and that will bring the
man to ninety years, and it is not prob
able that he longer than that,
or that he will iiva so long. But what
is good eyesight for fifty years more as
compared with clear vision for the soul a
bblion of centuries? I hope the effort to
derive bek the typhoid fever from yonder
home will be successful. God help the doc
tors! We will wait in great anxiety until
the fires of that fever are extinguished,
the man rises from his pillow
out, with what heartiness we
will welcome him into the fresh air and
the church and business circles. He is
thirty years of age, and if he shall live
sixty years more that will make him nine
ty. But what are sixty years more of
earthly vigor compared with the soul’s
health for a quadrillion millenniums—a
millennium, as you know, a thousand
years? This world, since fitted tip for
man’s residence, has existed about six
thousand years. How much longer will it
exist? We will suppose It shall last as
much longer, which is very doubtful. That
will make its existence twelve thousand
years. But what are or will be twelve
thousand years compared with the eter
nity preceding thoso years and the eter
nity following them Time, as compared
to eternity, like the drop of the night dew
shaken from tho top. of grass blade
by .CflW’k, bxxxf on itj way aihtld
ana Arabian, and AtiantiCi and Pa
cific watery dominions. .
A stranger desired to purchase a farm,
but the ow ner would not sell it—would only
let it. The stranger hired it by lease for
only one crop, but he sowed acorns, and
to mature that crop three hundred years
were necessary. That was a practiced de
ception, but I deceive you not when I tell
you that the crop of the soul takes hold
of unending ages.
I sqe the author of my text seated in the
house of Gaius, who entertained him at
Corinth, not far from the overhanging for
tress of Acro-Corinthus, and meditating
on the longevity of the soul, and getting
more and more agitated about its value
and the awful risk some of his kindred
were running concerning it, and he writes
this letter containing the text, which
Chrysostom admired so much he had it
read to him twice a week, and among oth
er things, he says those daring and start
ling words of my text: "I could wish that
myself were accursed from Christ for my
brethren, my kinsmen, according to the
flesh.”
Another- way to get something of the
Pauline longing for redeemed immortali
ties Is by examining the vast machinery
arranged to save this inner and spiritual
nature. That machinery started to revolve
on the edge of .the Garden of Eden, just
after the cyclone of sin prostrated its sy
camores, and tamarisks and willows, and
will not cease to revolve until the last
soul of earth shall get rid of its last sin
and enter the heavenly Biden. On that stu
pendous machinery for soul-saving the pa
triarch put his hand, and prophet his
hand, and evangelist his hand, and apostle
his hand, and Christ his hand, and almost
every hand that touched it became a
crushed hand. It was the most expensive
machinery ever constructed. It cost more
to start it, and has cost and will cost
more to keep it running than all the wheels
that ever made revolution on this planet.
That machinery turned not by ordinary
motive power, but by force of tears and
blood. To connect its bands of influence,
made out of human and Christly nerves,
with all ports of the earth, millions of
good men and women are now at work
and will be at work until every wilderness
shall become a garden, and every tear of
grief shall be a tear of joy, and the sword
of divine victory shall give the w’ound to
the old dragon that shall send him howl
ing to the pit, the iron' gate clanging
against him. never again to open. All that,
and infinitely more, to save tpe soul!
Why, it must be a tremendous soul—tre
mendous for good, or tremendous for evil;
tremendous for happiness, or tremendous
for woe. Put on the left side of the larg
est sheet of pajper that ever came from
paper-mill a slrfgle unit, the figure 1, and
how many ciphers would you have to
add to the right of that figure to express
the soul’s value, each cipher adding ten
fold? Working into that scheme of the
souls redemption, how many angels of
God descending and ascending! How
many storms swooping on Lake
Galilee! How many earthquakes open
ing dungeons and striking cata
clysms through mountains, from top
to base! What noonday sun was put on
retreat! What Omnipotence lifted, and
what Godhead was put to torture! All
that for the soul! No wonder that Paul,
though possessing great equipoise of
temperament, when he thought what his
friends and kindred were risking concern
ing their souls, flung aside all his ordina
ry modes of speech, argument, and apt
I simile, and bold metaphor, and learned
allusion, as unfit to express how he felt,
and seeing upon the appalling hyper hol
ism of my text, cries out: “I could wish
myself accursed;" that is, struck of the
I thunderbolts of the Omnipotent God, sunk
to unfathomed depths, chained into servi
tude to Abaddon, and thrust into fur-
I naces whose fires shall never burn out. if
i only those whom I love might now and
i forever be saved; Mind you, Paul does
not say. "I do wish." He says. "I could
I wish." Even in the agony felt for others
he did not lose his balance—“Pcould wish
myself accursed." I could, but I do not.
I Only one being that ever lived was llt-
I erally willing to give up heaven for perdl-
I lion, and that was the divine peasant
j whom I mentioned a few moments ago.
| He was not only wilting to exchange do-
minions of bliss for dominions of wretch
edness, but he did so; for that he forsook
heaven witness the stooping star and all
those who saw his miracles of mercy, and
that he actually entered the gates of the
world of perpetual conflagration the Bi
ble distinctly declares. He did not say,
w’ith Paul, “I could,” but he- said, "I
will; I do,” and for the souls of" men he
"descended into hell.”
In this last half of the last decade of
the nineteenth century the temperature In
the churches is very low, and most of tins
piety would spoil if it were not kept on
ice, and taking things as they are, ordi
nary Christians will never reach the point
the outcry of Paul in the text will
not sedm like an extravaganza. The pro
prieties in most of the churches are so
fixed that all a Christian is expected to
do on Sunday is to get up a little later in
the morning than usual, put on that which
is next to his best attire—not the very
best, for that has to be reserved for the
levee—enter the church with stately step,
bow his head, or at any rate shut hts
eyes In prayer time, or close them enough
to look sleepy, turn toward the pulpit with
holy dullness while the preacher speaks,
put a 5-cent piece, or if the times be,
hard, a 1-cent piece, on the collection plat-/
ter, kind of shoving it down under tiid
other coin so that it might be, for all that
the usher knows, a 35-gold piece, and
then, after the benediction, go quietly
home to the biggest repast of all the
week. That is all the majority of Chris
tians are doing for the rectification of tins
planet, and they will do that until, at the
close of life, the pastor opens a black
book at the head of their casket and
reads, “Blessed are the dead who die in
the Lord; they rest from their labors and
their works do follow them.” Tne Sense
of the ludicrous is so thoroughly develop
'ed in me that when I hear these Scripture
words read at the obsequies of one of ti'e
religious do-nothings in the churches it is
too much for my gravity. “Their works
do follow them." What works? And in
what direction do they follow them—up
or down? And do they follow on foot or
on the wing? And how long will they
follow before they catch up? More ap
propriate fwneral text for all such religious
dead-beats would be the words in Matthew
25:8: “Our lamps are gone out.” One
would think that such Christians wouhl
show at least under whose banner they
are enlisted. In one of the Napoleonic
wars a woman, Jeannette by name, took
her position with the troops and shoul
dered a broomstick. The colonel said,
“Jeannette, why do you take such a use
less weapon into the ranks?” "Well,”
she said, “I can show at least which side
I am on.”
Now, the object of this sermon is to stir
at least one-fourth of you to an ambition
for that which my text presents in blaz
ing vocabulary, namely, a passion for
souls. To prove that it is possible to hawjfll
much of that spirit, I bring the corpjecHL
tion of 2,990 foreign missionaries. It Is us
ually estimated that there are at least
, missionarigs. make- ajdberal allo.w-
.autyit tht re hCfU.r. bad
I IMRmBs out I's 1 do not t>. -
lieve there is one. All English Ameri
can merchants leave Bombay, Calcutta,
Amoy, and Pekin as soon as they make
their fortunes. Why? Because no European
or American in his senses would stay in
that climate after monetary inducements
have ceased. Now, the missionaries there
are put down on t’he barest necessities, and
most of them do not'lay up one dollar in
twenty years. Why, then, do they stay in
those lands of intolerable heat, and cobras,
and raging fevers, the thermometer some
times playing at 130 and 140 degrees of op
pressiveness, twelve thousand miles from
home, because of the unhealthy climate
and .the prevailing immoralities of those
regions compelled to send their children
to England, or Scotland, or America, prob
ably never to see them again? O blessed
Christ! Can it be anything but a passion
for souls? It is easy to understand all this
frequent depreciation of foreign mission
aries when you know that they axe all
opposed to the opium traffic, and that in
terferes with commerce; and then the mis
sionaries are moral, and that is an offense
to many of the merchants—not all of them,
but many of them—who, absent from all
home restraint, are so immoral ;hat we can
make only faint allusion to the monstrosity
of their abominations. Oh, I would like to
be at thecate of heaven when those mis
sionaries go in, to see how they will have
the pick of coronets, and thrones, and
mansions on the best streets of heaven.
We who have had easy pulpits and loving
congregations, entering heaven, will, in
my opinion, have to take our turn and wait
for the Christian workers who, amid phy
sical sufferings and mental privation and
environment of squalor, have done their
work; and on- the principle that in pro
portion as one has been self-sacrificing
and suffering for Christ’s sake on earth
will be their celestial preferment.
Who is that young woman on tho vrorst
street In Washington, New York, or Lon
don, Bible in hand, and a little package
in which are small vials of medicines, and
another bundle in which are biscuits?
How dare she risk herself among those
"roughs,” and where is she going? She
is one of the queens <rt heaven, hunting
up the sick and hungry, and before night
she will have read Christ’s “Let not your
i heart bo troubled,” in eight or ten places,
i and counted out from those vials the
i right number of drops to ease pain, and
I given food to a family that would other
! wise have had nothing to eat to-day, and
( taken the measure of a dead child that
I she may prepare for it a shroud, her every
. act of kindness for tire body accompanied
I with a benediction for the soul. You see
nothing but the filthy street along which
j she walks and the rickety stairs up w hich
■ she climbs, but she is accompanied by an
i unseen cohort of angels with drawn
j swords to defend her, and with garlands
twisted for her victories, all up and down
j the tenement house districts. I tell yow
j there w'as not so much excitement when
■ Anne Boleyn, bn her way to her cororta
j tion, found the Thames stirred by fifty
' 1 gilded barges, with brilliant flags, in
j which hung small bells, rung
■ by each motion of the wtind.
• j noblemen standing in scarlet and
i wharf spread with cloth of gold, and all
; the gateways surmounted by huzxahlng
i admirers, and the streets hung with crim
son velvet, and trumpets and cannons
’ j sounding the jubilee, and Anne, dressed
l In surcoat of silver tissue, and brow,
gleaming with a clrcdet of rubles, and amid
fountains chat poured Rhenish wine,
passed on to Westminster Hall, and rode
I I in on a caparisoned palfry. Its hoofs clat
, taring the classic floor, and. dismounting,
passed Into Westminster Abbey, and be
tween the choir and high alter, was
crowned queen, amid organs and choirs
chanting the Te Deums—l say. there was
not much in all that glory which dazzles
the eyes of history when it is compared
W'lth the heavenly reception which that
ministering spirit of the back alley shall
receive when she goes up to coronation, i
When she goes in, what welcome on the t
River of Life, Its banks of pearl lined with
splendors seraphic, and in temples of eter
nal worship, whose music is commanded
by swing of archangelic scepter, and be
fore thrones where sit those who
have reigned a thousand years, but have
just begun their dominion. Poor Anne Bo
leyn, in two years after that pageant, lost
SAVANNAH, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 9, 1896.
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life and throne by one stroke of heads
man, but those who on earth have a di
vine passion for souls shall never lose their
thrones. "They shall reign forever and
ever.”
But after all, the best way to cultivate
that, divine passion for souls is to work
for their salvation. Under God save one,
and you will want right away to save two.
Saive two, and you will want to save ten.
Save ten, and you will want to save twen
ty. Save twenty, and you will want to
save a hundred. Save a hundred, and you
will want to save everybody. And what is
the use of talking about it, w'hen the place
to begin is ‘here, and. the time is now?
And While you pray I will in one minute
tell all there is of it: Full pardon for the
worst man on earth, if he will believe in
Christ, whose blood can instantly wash
away the foulest crimes. Full comfort
for the most harrowing distress that ever
crushed a human being. At your first
moment of belief, a process by which the
whole uifirverse of God, ‘‘will turn clear
around for your eternal advantage. For
the mere asking, if the asking be in earn
est, and you throw everythfrig into that
asking, complete solace arjd helpfulness
for the few years of this life, and then
a wide-open heaven, which you can reach
in less time than it takes me to pronounce
that imperial word, flashing with all the
joy that an Infinite God knows how to be
stow—heaven!
In this world God never does his best.
He can hang on the horizon grander
mornings than have ever yet been kindled,
and rainbow the sky with richer colors
than have ever been arched, and attune
the oceans to more majestic doxologies
than have ever Abt been attuned; but as
near as I can tell, and I speak it rever
ently, heaven is the place where God has
done his best. He can build.no greater
joys, lift no mighter splendors, roll no
loftier anthems, march no more impos
ing processions, build no .greater
palaces, and spread out and interjain and
wave no more transporting magnificence.
I think heaven is the best heaven God
can construct, and it is all yours for the
serious asking. How do you like the or
fer? Do you really think it is worth ac
cepting? If so, pray for it. Get not up
from that pew where you are sitting, nor
move one inch from where you are stand
ing, before you get a fqll title for it,
written in the blood of the Son of GoC,
wno would ha,ve all men come to lite
present and life everlasting. If you have
been in military life you knoW what sol
diers call the “long roll.” AU the drums
beat it because the enemy is_.approachlng,
and all the troops must immediately get
into line. What scurrying around ihc>
camp and putting of the arms through
the straps of the knapsacks, and
saying “Good-by" to. comrades
you may . never m£et again!
(Borne of you Germans or BTenchmen may
have heard that long roll just before Se
dan. Some of you Italians may have
heard that long roll just before Bergamo.
Some of you northern and southern men
fit urw*;r*i- 1...
of the- v ; fcwrness. You Know its stirfifigf
and meaning; and A; I sound the
long roll to-day. I beat this old gospel
drum that has for centuries been calling
thousands to take their places in line for
this battle, on one side of which are all
the forces beatific and on the other side
all the force demoniac. Here the long roll
call: “Who is on the Lord’s side?” “Quit
yourselves like men.” In solemn column
march, for God, and happiness, and heav
en. So glad am I that I do not have to
“wish myself accursed," and throw away
my heaven thUt you may win your heav
en, but that we may have a whole con
vention of heavens—heaven added to
Heaven, heaven built on heaven—and
while I dwell upon the theme I begin to
experience in my own poor self that which
I take to be something like a passion for
souls. And now unto God the only wise,
the only good, the only great, be glory
forever! Amen!
KENTUCKY’S SEN ATOM SHIP.
Buckner or Carlinle Mny Get Repub
lican Support.
Louisville, Ky,, Nov. B.—W. H. Stiglitz,
one of the republican members of the
legislature from Louisville, says that in
the event of an extra session he would
not vote for either Gov. Bradley or John
W. Yerkes for United States senator,
even if one or the other was nominated by
the caucus.
I will,” said he, "vote, in case Bradley
or Yerkes is chosen as the caucus nomi
nee, for either Simon Boliver Buckner
or John G. Carlisle. I am for Gen. Buck
ner.”
It is understood that Messrs. Freeman,
Carson and Dodson, three other republi
can members of the legislature from
Louisville, will vote with Mr. Stiglitz.
This may have an important bearing on
the contest.
Up to 10 o'clock to-night the Courier-
Journal had no new figures on the result of
the election in the state, and McKinley’s
plurality stands at 489, with six counties
to be heard from officially.
Whether or not the discrepancy between
the votes for different electors on the
same ticket has resulted in the choice of
one Bryan elector and twelve McKinley
electors cannot be known positively until
the state canvassing board foots up the
vote for each elector.
The democratic leaders still claim the
state, but none of ihetn were in town to
day.
The republican state campaign commit
tee will close up shop to-morrow.' Chair
man Sam Roberts Issued his final bulletin
this afternoon. It is as follows: "Practi
cally complete official returns give Mc-
Kinley 444 plurality in Kentucky, unoffi
cial advices indicating that the four miss
ing counties will Increase, rather than de
crease, these figures. The republicans
elect four members of congress and a
judge of the highest court of the state
for an eight-year term, and by the filling
of vacancies have secured a majority of
tw> in the general assembly on joint bat
lot, whinh insures the election of a repub
lican successor to Senator Blackburn.
LOOMS TO BE LET LOOSE.
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Work to Be Begns on Larprc Orders
at Malone.
Malone, N. Y., Nov. B.—On Monday next,
It is reported that Lawrence Webster &
Co., whose looms have been operated at
less than their full capacity for a con
siderable time, will begin working at full
force to fill large orders previously re
ceived, contingent on McKinley’s election.
A single order so conditioned comprises
5,000 pairs of trousers.
The Chautauqua Ore and Iron Company
has resumed work in the mines at Lyon
i mountain, which have been closed a Ion.?
i time. Surveys are being made for an ex
tension of the Bombay railroad to Hogans
burgh, in this county, and for St. Law
rence river connections.
Utica, N. Y., Nov. B.—The West Shore
railroad shops at Frankfort, employing
men. will start running on full
again 'o-morrow.
SAVAGE WORK BY SPANIARDS.
AN OUTRAGE ON AN AMERICAN
THAT CALLS FOR REDRESS.
A Band of Soldiers Bursts Into His
Residence and an Officer Slashes
Him Witli a Sword—Outside the
House the Craven-Hearted Sol
diery Massacre Unarmed Farm
Hands.
Key West, Fla., Nov. B.—Passengers
who arrived last night from Havana
bring the intelligence of another outrage
committed on an American citizen. Al
though the details are incomplete, the
facts are positive, since the victim has
filed a protest before Vice Consul Spring
er, and the case has been sent to Wash
ington for instructions.
It appears that near the town of San
Jose de las Lajas, this province, a Span
ish force patrolling the country surprised
three rebels, who tried, to sneak into
town. The Spaniards gave chase, and the
rebels lied. In older to discover the hid
ing place of the fugitives, the Spanish
force divided m+o squads of fifty men and
sent them in different directions, and one
of these parties went to the estate own
ed by a Cuban where Frederick L. Cray
craft. a native of Indiana, and only two
years in Cuba, was manager. They en
tered the residence, destroyed the furni
ture and ransacked the premises. T’he
women jjresent were insulted in the most
outrageous manner, except raping. Cray
craft protested that he was an Ameri
can and showed papers. This, it seems,
incensed the officer in command, who
drew a sword and commenced slashing at
Craycraft. He managed to avert death,
but was wounded in the back, receiving
a fearful gash that carried away part
of the flesh. His forearm was also cut
to the bone. The other officer interfer
ing, saved his life. Craycraft was forced
to deliver about $l6O in his possession.
Meantime, Craycraft heard great outcries
outside, and went later and found seven
teen "pacifices" had been killed. There
was not one insurgent among them. All
this was reported last week as a great
Spanish victory.
Letters received from Puerto Principe
give further details of the capture of the
town of Guaimaro by Callxto Garcia. The
whole garrison, 160 men, surrendered and
are still prisoners, although Garcia sent
word to Castellanos that he would deliver
them. Garcia is also attending the officers
tary commanders in sugar districts pro
hibiting grinding on Spanish prop
erties. Orders have also been issued to
seize foreigners residing on «sugar estates,
to kill cattle and destroy inplements and
to simulate a fight in order to scare the
farmers and laborers.
Passengers by the steamer Olivette also
report that numerous insurgents from
the command of Gen. Gomez have enter
ed the province of Matanzas during the
past few days and have caused Gen. Wey
ler to dispatch 0,000 of his troops, station
ed in Pinar del Rio district, into Matan
zas. Considerable excitement exists in
Havana and also in Matanzas, fearing an.
attack on the latter place.
Madrid, Nov. B.—The French govern
ment has communicated to the govern
ment here a list of claims made by French
citizens for losses incurred through the
rebellion tn Cuba. The Spanish govern
ment has ordered an inquiry to be made
into the claims. The relations between
Spain and France are good.
Philadelphia, Nov. B.—Edward Frau of
this city received a letter last week from
Col. Braulio Pena of the Cuban insurgent
army, who has several times been re
ported killed. Col. Pena is a colonel in
command of 500 cavalrymen in the district
of Camaguay, under Gen. Callxto Garcia.
In his leter Col. Pena says: "My Good
Frau: I want you to know that
I am well in this beautiful country of
Cuba, and can say with great pleasure
that ouy cause is progressing without any
trouble. I believe this Island will be free
in a very short time. The Spaniards are
dying of exhaustion, and can accomplish
very little either by sea or land. You
have sent us from America a valuable jot
of arms and ammunition, including,more
than 1,000,000 rounds of cartridges, three
cannons and 4,000 rifles. Our army is ftb’.e
to prevent the carrying of any provis : ons
or goods from the Interior into the cities.
Women and children are living in the in
terior by thousands.”
Havana, Nov. B.—The steamer Julia ar
rived here to-day from Nuevitas, but
brought no news of importance from the
province Principe.
A meeting of representatives of the
three local political parties was held here
to-day for the ‘purpose of considering the
advisability of consolidating for tlhe bet
ter support of the government. After a
long discussion it was decided that the
three parties—conservative, reformists
and autonomists—should amalgamate and
form one party, to be styled the commit
tee of national defence. The executive
committee of the new party will be com
posed of three delegates from each of the
old parties. The conservatives will be
represented by the Marquis de la Apez
tegia, the Marquis of Pinar del Rio and
Marquis Quesada; the reformists by Se
nores Rabille. Alvorez and Ravore, and
the autonomists by Senores Galvez, Mon
toro and- Cuetello.
DAUNTLESS AT BRUNSWICK.
The Filibustering Tng Given nn
Ovation on Entering Port.
Brunswick. Ga., Nov. B.—The tug Daunt
less has bobbed up serenly again at the
Brunswick end of the line, and local gov
ernment officials are again on the look
out for any suspicious movements. The
Dauntless arrived last night from Fer
nandina. She was released yesterday on
bond. Brunswick loves that Dauntless,
and the Dauntless people seem to recip
rocate the affection. Her arrival was the
signal for one long and for half an hour
continuous blowing of whistles from
steam craft. It woke up that part of
Brunswick which was dozing, and every
body knew the Dauntless was here. Her
whistle was recognized among the dis
cordant blasts and shrieks along the bay
front and crowds flocked to her dock.
Capt. Lorn tn and Engineer Devereaux
were warmly greeted. To-day more
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crowds and more greetings have charac
terized the bay front.
All this is not without its effect. The
Spanish authorities know the Dauntless
has arrived. It is to*be expected that the
scenes and incidents, which in part mark
ed her recent stay here, will be repeated.
Men watching men and rumor following
rumor will be the order. The government
is also on the lookout. • It is reported to
night that the revenue cutter Boutwell
will be hereabouts at an early hour. What
the Dauntless will do ife mere speculation.
She may do towing. Owner Bisbee will
arrive next week and put her to work
at something. The Boutwell will probably
stay to see what is done.
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 8. —The steamer
Dauntless is reported to have eluded the
revenue cutters and gone again to Cuba
with, a cargo of arms and ammunition put
on board by the steamer Three Friends off
Cumberland Island Saturday night. The
Three Friends was seized immediately up
on her return to the St. John’s bar, and
brought to Jacksonville by the Revenue
cutter Boutwell. She is charged with vio
lating the neutrality laws by aiding in set
ting on foot an expedition against the
kingdom of Spain.
Polavieja Sails For Manila.
Madrid, Nov. B.—Polavieja, the newly
appointed captain general of the Philip
pine glands, has sailed for Manila. He
succeeds Captain General Blanco.
A PLOT TO STEAL KENTUCKY.
Chairman Woodson Says Gov. Brad
ley Is in the Consprlncy.
Owensboro, Ky., Nov. B.—ln a cummunt
cation to the Southern Associated Press
this evening, Urey Woodson, chairman of
the democratic state central committee,
says: “I have only to say that Gov. Brad
ley, by his telegram of Nov. 6, to Repub
lican National Committeeman Scott of
New York, in which he said Kentucky
has certainly gone for McKinley and will
just as certainly be counted, proves that
he is and has been from the first in the
conspiracy to steal Kentucky for McKin
ley. The republican state chairman only
claims about 400 plurality out of about
425,000 votes, and on Nov. 6, the date of
the governor’s telegram, it was known
to no man that Kentucky had certainly
gone for either McKinley or Bryan, nor
is it yet. That Kentucky’s vote will cer
tainly be counted for McKinley, Gov.
Bradley may know, as he is a member
of the state' canvassing and contesting
board, and may have made up his mind
to hear no evidence of the great frauds
that have been perpetrated in the inter
est of McKinley, though it is not custom
ary for .a just, and upright judge to an
he
pears toe proof; To-flay 1 learned of 150
illegal negro votes in a single county on
the Tennessee border, it having been
Clearly estabWshed that these
voted in Tennessee on Aug. 6. This is
merely cumulative evidence of the frauds,
but if Gov. Bradley’s republican asso
ciates on the state board have also male
up their minds in the case it may not be
worth while to bring the proof before
them. Urey Woodson.”
PAWNEE PEARCE IN PERIL.
Bee Dunn’s Relatives Threaten to
Stir Up a Bloody Riot.
Perry, Okla., Nov. B.—Parties arriving
from Pawnee, thirty miles east of here,
bring news that a riot is imminent In that
town. AM last night many firearms were
stacked in a leading hotel,where the sher
iff had Deputy Marshal Frank Canton,
who killed Bee Dunn, a noted desperado,
Thursday. Canton, from reports, killed
Dunn in self-defense, but Dunn’s brothers
and friends who live in the vicinity of
Ingalls came in heavily armed, determin
ed to kill Canton, and were met by a de
termined set of officers, who have so far
prevented bloodshed. The Dunrf brothers,
of whom the dead man was the leader,
are charged with harboring the Dalton
and Cook gangs.
Deputy Canton is a brave man, and had
an Important position in Wyoming dur
ing President Cleveland’s first adminis
tration.
HAWAII AS AN ARMENIAN HOME.
A Movement on Foot to Import Them
h* Laborers.
San Francisco, Nov. B.—Special corre
spondence of the Southern Associate 1
Press:
Honolulu, Oct. 21.—A movement is start
ed, which ’is meeting with general favor,
to introduce Armenians as laborers on the
sugar plantations. L. A. Thurston be
lieves that they can be transported at
low rates by the large Russian fleet now
carrying railway supplies and Russian
peasants to Vladivostock. The Armenians
could be transferred at Japan to steamers
running to Honolulu. It Is believed that
they will make a very desirable class of
citizens.
REAGAN CRITICALLY ILL.
His Work For Bryan and dewall Too.
Much For Him.
Galveston, Tex., Nov. B.—Ex-Senator
John H. Reagan is critically ill at his home
in Palestine, Tex. Although in his seventy
ninth year, he Insisted upon taking an ac
tive part in the campaign and went on the
stump for Bryan and Culberson. The Ex
posure. and fatigue to which he was sub
jected are thought to have been the cause
of his present illness, and it is not be
lieved that he can recover.
Senator Reagan has been chairman of
the railroad commission of Texas since
1891. He was candidate for re-election last
Tuesday and was successful, having re
ceived a majority of 75,000.
YALE’S CREW QITIE ENGLISH.
The New Haven Oarsmen to Pattern
After the Britishers.
New Haven, Conn., Nov. B.—Robert J.
Cook, the Yale crew adviser, came here
yesterday to see that the candidates for
the eight were given their first work ot
the year properly. They were taken, out
in a shell rigged in the English fashion,
driven with English oars and manned oy
an eight who pulled close to an English
stroke under the coaching of Capt.
Bailey.
The crew went out on the harbor and
made the shell speed along effectively. Mr.
Cook will visit the crew regularly till
rough weather prevents further work on j
the harbor. <
MONDAYS
—a n tr—
THURSDAYS
SELECTION OF THE SENATOR.
THE CAUCUS TO SETTLE THE CON
TEST TO-NipHT.
A Nomination Mast Be Made Before
Adjournment us the Law Requires
the Assembly to Begin Balloting'
To-morrow—ls the Democrat*
Failed to Unite on a Nominee the
43 Votes of the Populists and Re
publicans Would Be Apt to Prove
the Balance of Power.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 8. —To-morrow will
settle the senatorial contest, unless some
thing now Unforeseen and wholly unex
pected by any of the candidates happens.
At 3 o’clock in the afternoon, the demo
cratic caucus will be called to order in the
hall of the House of Representatives.
There is a movement on foot to have the
caucus held with the galleries open to the
public, but whether this ■will succeed is
doubtful. The president is against it, al
though there does not se»m to be any good
reason why, under the conditions sur
rounding the present contest, the publla
and the candidates themselves should not
be .permitted to watch the fight from th®
galleries. The vote cannot be kept a secret
from the candidates and they will know:
who stood by them anyhow. So far as the
candidates are concerned, they are all will
ing to have an open caucus. Some of them
are avowedly supporting, it.
To-day there was a calm in the cam
paign. Many of the members went home
yesterday and will not return until to
morrow and to a man the candidates ob
served the sacred day by keeping their
homes or their private rooms. Those mem
bers who remained in town, and are not
living at the Kimball, also kept aloof from
that political rendezvous. During the af
ternoon the Fulton county members dropp
ed into the lobby and chitted with those
friends whom they met, but they did not
undertake to do any proselyting for the
home candidate, Capt. Howell.
There will be 176 voces in the caucus to
morrow if every democratic member an
swers to his name. This includes Mr.
Nevin of Floyd county, an independent.
He was admitted to the caucus for judge
and solicitor, and although there is con
siderable quiet opposition to admitting
him to the senatorial caucus, he will
doubtless get in. With a membership of
176, it will take 89 to nominate.
As the situation presents Itself to-night,
after taking an impartial survey of tho
field, it can be stated almost as a certain
ty that there will be no nomination on
the ballot; in fact, it is more probabla
Ahu.. .here. b... dcswhi ihaas
chat any man will win the coveted prize at
a dash. Some of the leaders predict that
the fight will be even longer than tips.
They declare that it WHI last ail night. B# -
law the election must be held by separate
ballot in the Senate and House on Tues
day, ;cnd on this account it is imperative
that the caucus make a nomination before
it aujourns in order to eliminate the pop
ulist and republican votes, of which there
are 43, from the contest. If there should
be no nomination by the caucus and these
votes then be allowed to count, there is no
telling what combinations would result. It
is noticeable that- Gov. Atkinson has more
votes pledged to him than any other can
didate. The maximum claimed for him by
his friends is 74, while some of his man
agers admit the number of absolute
pledges to stand by him through thick and
thin is 68. The latter figure is probably
nearer the truth. He is conceded this
number by several of the opposition can
didates and leaders. The governor has,
however, it is claimed, many pledges for
the second and subsequnt ballots, and it
is here that he is believed to have out
generaled his opponents.
The opposition has not yet been able
to effect a consolidation. Their followers
support them for personal and local rea
sons largely, and those among them who
have made pledges after the first ballot,
as a rule, have done so in. favor of the
governor, rather than shifting about
among the field of opposition candidates.
Giving Gov. Atkinson 68 votes, the same
impartial estimate allows Lewis 40. Clay
24. Howell 26 and Robertson 18. Mr. Clay’s
friends, however, claim 36 for him, and.
allow the governor only 56. Mr. Clay is,
however, sure of 24.
Although the end of the fight is at hand,
it is one of the peculiarities of the con
test that there are quite a number of
members yet unpledged; in fact, nobody
knows how they will vote, and the esti
mates are made up by a sort of general
agreement as to their most probable ac
tion.
There is said to be a very close bond of
union between Mr. Clay and Hon. Flem
ing dußignon, and the prediction has
been made that if Mr. Clay’s name is
withdrawn in the caucus, Mr. dußlgnon’s
will then be presented, and Mr. Clay’s
supporters wdl go to him. These, with
some 36 sound money men, are in the
same place, said to be ready to break to
Mr. dußignon also, and enough others
carried along to nominate him by a stam
pede. Mr. dußignon stated to-night that
he hau declined to yield to his friends and
allow his name to be, presented to t!he
caucus as a candidate. If he is put for
ward in the manner described he says
that will be entirely with his friends.
A NEW RAILROAD IN MEXICO.
It Is to Connect San Miguel With th®
Gulf Railroad.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. B.—A special to a
morning paper from Victoria, Mexico,
says: “Gov. Gaudaulupe Maniero of this
city has been granted a concession for the
construction of a railroad from San Mi
guel, a town opposite Rio Grande City,
Tex., to the Gulf railroad. The federal
government will give him a subsidy of
|5 COO for each kilometer constructed. Unit
ed States capitalists will furnish the mon
ey for the enterprise. This road will make
an important link in a direct road from the
Texas border to the City of Mexico.”
KAISER IN PARIS INCOGNITO.
An Improbable Story Printed in a
Parisian Newspaper.
Paris, Nov. B.—The Gaulois publishes
an extraordinary story that the French
government has been seml-officially ap
prised that Emperor William came to
Paris incognito during the- visit of the
czar. The czar, the Gaulois adds, saw
him at Versailles, and several officers
knew he was present at Chalons at the
time of the military maneuvers there. He
attended the gala performance given at
the opera in honor of the czar, and ar
rangements were taken to prevent an un
favorable scene if he were recognized. Tne
story finds few believers.