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■qtimes g<w> WEEK _ VOTj 4B 1 WIJ. 1 » | ..stabllahtu i&v -»rpurated 188 }• 4* Jt±. J Aj.~ •>(. | FAITH DEAD WITHOUT WORKS. TALMAGE SAILS INTO RELIGION WHICH IS ALL TALK. M’ractice the Tine Criterion of an Upright Life—Real Faith arfd Gen nine Religion Can Not Exist With out Showing Themselves in Good Works—The Old Religion Applied in Every Direction and Not a New Religion the Need of the Hour. Washington, Dec. 20.—This subject of Dr. Taimage cuts through the conven tionalities, and spares nothing of that make-believe religion which is all talk and no practice. The text chosen was James 2:20: “Faith without works is dead.” The Roman Catholic church has been charged with putting too much stress upon good works and not enough upon faith. I charge Protestantism with put ting not enough stress upon good works as connected with salvation. Good works will never save a man, but if a man have not good works, he has no real faith and no genuine religion. There are those who depend upon the fact that they are all right inside, while their conduct is wrong outside. Their religion, most part, is made up of talk—vigorous talk, fluent talk, boastful talk, perpetual talk. They will entertain you by the hour in tell ing you how . good they are. They come up to such a higher life that they have no patience with ordinary Christians in the plain discharge of their duty. As near as 1 can tall, this ocean craft is mostly sail and very little tonnage. Foretop mast stay-sail, foretopmast studding sail, • maintopsail, mizzen top-sail—everything from flying-jib to mizzen- spanker, but making no useful voyage. Now, the world has got tired of this, and it wants a religion that will work Into all the cir cumstances of life. We do not want a new religion, but the old religion applied in all possible directions. Yonder is a river with steep and rocky banks, and it roars like a young Niagara as it rolls on over its rough bed. It does nothing but talk about itself all the way from its source in the mountain to the place where it empties into the sea. The banks are so steep that the cattle cannot come down to drink. It does not run one fertilizing rill into the adjoining held. It has not one grist mill or factory on either side. It sulks in wet weather with chilling fogs. No one cares when that river is born among the rocks, and no one cares when it dies into the sea. But yonder is another river, and it mosses its banks with the warm tides, and it rocks with floral lullaby the water lilies asleep on its bosom. It invites herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and coveys of birds to come there and drink. It has three grist mills on one side and six cotton factories on the other, k It is the Wealth of two hundred miles of mUpturiaffi farm.-t. birds of ch. * UM ■ xea to hail it as i ■ low Atlantic coast. The one river man who lives for himself. The Wither river is a man who lives for others. Do you know how the site of the ancient city of Jerusalem was chosen? There were two brothers who had adjoining farms. The one brother had a large family, the other had no family. The brother with a large family said: “There is my brother with no family; he must be lonely, and I will try to cheer him up, and 1 will* take some of the sheaves from my field in the night-time and set them over on his farm, and say nothing about It.” The other brother said: “My brother has a large family and it Is very difficult for him to support them, and I will help him along, and 1 will take some of the sheaves from my farm In the night-time and set them over on his farm, and say nothing about it." So the work of transference went on . night after night, and night after night; k but every morning things seemed to be as they were, for though sheaves had subtracted from each farm, sheaves l|B.d also been added, and the brothers ’■era perplexed and could not understand. §®ut one night the brothers happened to ■Keet while making this generous transfer |Mhce, and the spot where they met Whs so that it was chosen as the site of city of Jerusalem. If that tradition should prove unfounded, it will neverthe less stand as a beautiful allegory setting forth the Idea that wherever a kindly and generous and loving act is performed, that is the spot fit for some temple of com memoration. k 1 have often spoken to you about faith, ■ but this morning I speak to you about ■ works, for “faith without works is dead.” ■ 1 think you will agree with me in the ■ statement that the great want of this Bwofl<| is more practical religion. We want religion to go into all merchan- dta» B It will supervise the labeling of gOols. It will not allow a man to say that a thing was made in one factory when it was made in another. It will not allow the merchant to say that watch was manufactured In Geneva, Switzer land. when it was manufactured in Mas sachusetts. It will not allow the merchant to say that wine came from Madeira, when it came from California. Practical religion will walk along by the store shelves and tear off al) the tags that make misrepresentation. It will not al low the marchant to say that it is pure coffee, when dandelion root and chiceory and other Ingredients go into it. It will not allow Mm to say that is pure sugar when there are in it sand and ground glass. When practical religion gets its full •wing in the world it will go down the Street, and it will come to that shoe store and rip off the fictitious soles of many a tlnt'-looking pair of shoes, and show that it is pasteboard* sandwiched between the sound leather. And this practical re ligion will go right into a grocery store and it will pull out the plug of all the adulterated syrups, and it will dump into Ute aata-l*arrel in front of the store the C«4«ia bark that is sold for cinnamon, and the bilckduat that is sold for cayenne pepper; and it will shake out the Prus sian blue from the tea leaves, and it will | sift irotn the flour plaster of parts and | bet) edits I and soapstone, and it will by L < h<. ’nical analysis separate the one quart k of water from the few honest drops of k cow's milk, und it will throw out the from brown ■ There has be«t; so much adulteration of Of food that it is an amazement to that there is a hta'.thx man or \x. m.n B Amarlua. Hwt en only knows wh it ;!• > WLt t » the spier into the sugars and the Mttff M:d into (ho a;>othe.-.:iy have made v m . mil gogLe board Os health ti. Mas-a.-mis. ,:s , it >. a gre it un.ni'.t w « I »coffee and found in I not «»t>< par:.;. Moffve. In Kr.gl.u 1 tti« n h a law that the putting of alum u; hr, ad ’’ ethln JCews .. J r tion, does iw but that it may bring I death instead of health to his patient, be- 1 cause there may be one of the drugs weakened by a cheaper article, and an other drug may be in full force, and so the prescription may have just the opposite effect intended. Oil of wormwood warrant ed pure from Boston was found to have forty-one per cent, of resin and alcohol and chloroform. Scammony is one of the most valuable medical drugs. It is very rare, very precious. It is the sap or the gum of a tree or a bush in Syria. The root of the tree is exposed, an incision is made into the root and then shells are placed at this incision to catch the sap or the gum as it exudes. It is very precious, this scam mony. But the peasant mixes it with a cheaper material; then it is taken to Al. eppo, and the merchant there mixes it with a cheaper material; then it comes on to the wholesale druggist in London or New York and he mixes it with a cheaper material; then it comes to the retail druggist and he mixes it with a cheaper material, and by the time the poor sick man gets it into his bottle it Is ashes and chalk and sand, and some of what has been called pure scam mony after analysis has been found to be no scammony at all. Now, practical religion will yet rectify all this. It will g<? to those hypocrltcal professors of religion who got a “comer” in corn and wheat in Chicago and New York, sending prices up and up until they were beyond the reach of the poor, keeping these bread-stuffs in their own hands, or controlling them un til the prices going up and up and up, they were, after awhile, ready to sell, and they sold out, making themselves mill ionaires in one or two years—trying to fix the matter up with the Lord by building a church or a university or a hospital—de luding themselves with the idea that the Lord would be so pleased with the gift he would forget the swindle. Now, as such a man may not have any liturgy in which to say his prayers, I will compose for him one which he practically is making: “Oh, Lord, we, by getting a 'corner’ in bread stuffs, swindled the people of the United States out of ten million dollars, and made suffering all up and down the land, and we would like to compromise this matter with thee. Thou knowest it was a scaly job, but then it was smart. Now, here we compromise it. Take one per cent, of the profits, and with that one per cent, you can build an asylum for these poor miserable ragmufflns of the street, and I will take a yacht and go to Europe, forever and ever. Amen!” Ah! my friends, if a man hath gotton his estate wrongfully and he build a line of hospitals and universities from here to Alaska, he cannot atone for it. After awhile, this man who has been getting a “corner” in wheat, dies, and then satan gets a “corner” in him. He goes into a great, long Black Friday. There is a "break" in the market. According to Wall street parlance, he wiped others out, and now he is himself wiped out. No collat erals on which to make a spiritual loan. Eternal defalcation. But this practical religion will not only rectify all merchandise; it will also rectify all mechanism, and all toil. A time will v«me when a man will w<rK as faithfully W/V hy tke day. You Say- When 1 thing Is Slightingly done, “Oh, that was done by tne job.” You can tell by the swiftness or slowness with which a hackman drives whether he is hired by the hour or by the excursion. If he is hired by the hour he drives very slowly, so as to make as many hours as possible. If he is hired by the excursion he whips up the horses so as to get around and get another customer. All styles of work have to be Inspected. Ships inspected, horses inspected, machinery inspected. Boss to watch the journeymen. Capitalist coming down unexpectedly to watch the boss. Conductor of a city car sounding the punch bell to prove his honesty as a pas senger hands to him a clipped nickel. All things must be watched and Inspected. Imperfections in the wood covered with putty. Garments warranted to last until you put them orr the third time. Shoddy in all kinds of clothing. Chromos. Pinch beck, Diamonds for a dollar and a half. Bookbindery that holds on until you read the third chapter. Spavined horses, by skilful dose of jockeys, for several days made to look spry. Wagon tires poorly put on. Horses poorly shod. Plastering that cracks without any provocation and falls off. Plumbing that needs to be plumbed. Imperfect car wheel that halts the whole train with a hot box. So little practical rellgon in the mechanism of the world. I tell you, my friends, the law of man will never rectify these things. It will he the all-pervading influence of the practical religion of Jesus Christ that will make the change for the better. Yes, tnis practical religion will also go into agriculture, which is proverbially honest, but needs to be rectified, and It will keep the farmer from sending to the city market veal that is too young to kill, and when the farmer farms on shares, it will keep the man who docs the work from making his half three fourths, and it will keep the farmer from building his post and rail fence on his , neighbor’s premises, and it will make him shelter his cattle in the winter storm, I and it will keep the old elder from work- I Ing on Sunday afternoon in the new I ground where nobody sees him. And this practical religion will hover over the house, and over the barn, and over the field, and over the orchard. Yea, this practical religion of which I speak will come, into the learned profes sions. The lawyer will feel his responsi bility in defending innocence and arraign ing evil, and expounding the law. and ; it will keep him from charging for briefs : he never wrote, and for pleas he never > made, and for percentages he never earn- i ed, and from robbing widow and orphan because they are defenseless. Yes, this ■ practical religion will come into the p’-y- I slelan’s life, and he will feel his respon sibility as the conservator of the public health, a profession honored by the fact that Christ himself wis a physician. And it will make him honest, and when he does not understand a case he will say so, not trying ro cover up lack of diagno sis with ponderous technicalities, or send the patient <o a reckkss drug store be- I cause the apo >o<wy, I appens to pay a 1 i peicentage on the prescriptions sent. And i this practical religion wl’.t eo ne to the school-teacher making her feel her re sponslbilty in preparing her youth for j j usefulness and for happiness and for | honor and will keep her form giving a ! sly box to a dull head, chastising him for i I what he cannot help, and sending dis- ! couragement all through the sifter years ! of a lifetime. Thia practical religion will also come to the newspaper men. and it I I wih help them in the gathering of iho I news, and it will help them in setting j I forth the best Interests of society, and tt ! will keep them from putting the sins of I tire wot Id in larger type than its virtues, and its tn -takes than Its achievements, i an ! it will ketp them from misrepresent ing Intervh ws with public men. and ..rvtn i I at t-ting suspicions that never can lx* al- ' I layed; and will make them stanch friends I of the oppressed instead of the oppressor. I Yes. this religion, this*practical religion I will come and put its hand on what is call | ed good society, elevated society, gucccss | ful society, so that people will have their I expenditures within their income, and they ! will exchange the hypocritical “not at 1 home” for the honest explanation “too tir ed,” or “too busy to see you,” and will keep innocent reception from becoming in toxicated conviviality. Yea, there is great opportunity for mis sionary work in what are cahed the suc cessful classes of society. In some of the cities it is no rare thing now to see a fash ionable woman intoxicated in the street, or the rail-car, or the restdurant. The num ber of fine ladies who drink too much is increasing. Perhaps you may find her at the reception in most exalted company, but she has made too many visits to the wine room, and now her eye is glassy, and after awhile her cheek is unnaturally flushed, and then she falls into fits of excruciating labghter about nothing, and then she of fers sickening flatteries, telling some home ly man how well he looks, and then she is helped into the carriage, and by the time the carriage gets to her home it takes the husband and the coachman to get her up the stairs. The report is, she was taken suddenly ill at a german. Ah! no. She took too much champagne, and mixed liquors, and got drunk. That was all. Yea, this practical religion will have to come in and fix up the marriage relation in America. There are members of churches who have too many wives and too many husbands. Society needs to be expurgated, and washed, and fumigated, and Christianized. We want this practi cal religion not only to take hold of whit are called the lower classes, but to take hold of what are called the higher classes. The trouble is that people have an idea they can do all their religion on Sunday with hymn book and prayer book, and liturgy, and some of them sit in church rolling up their eyes as though they were ready for translation, when their Sabbath is bounded on all sides by an inconsistent life, and while you are expecting to come out from under their arms the wings of an angel, there come out from their fore head the horns of a beast. There has got to be a new departure in religion. I do not say a new religion. Oh, no; but the old religion brought to new appliances. In our time we have had the daguerretoype, and the ambrotype, and the photograph; but it is the same old sun, and these arts are only new appli ances of the old sunlight. So this glor ious gospel is just what we want to pho tograph the image of God on one soul, and daguerreotype it on another soul. Not a new gospel, but the old gospel put to new work. In our time we have had the telegraphic invention and the telephonic Inventions, and the electric light invention; but they are all children of old electricity, an element that the philosophers have a long while known much about. So this electric gospel needs to flash its light on the eyes, and ears, and souls of men, and to become a telephonic medium to make the deaf hear; a telegraphic medium to dart invitation and warning to all nations; an electric light to Illumine the eastern and western hemispheres. Not a net' gospel, but the old gospel doing a new work. • Now you say, “That is a very beauti ful theory, but i* it possible to take’s one’s religion into all the avocations and busi- of life?” I wflt 'Mcdica'l doctors who took their religion into every-day life: Dr. John Abercrombie of Aberdeen, the great est Scottish physician of his day, his book on “Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord,” no more wonderful than his book on “The Philosophy of the Moral Feel ings,” and often kneeling at the bedside of his patients to commend them to God in prayer. Dr. John Brown of Edinburgh, im mortal as an author, dying under the ben ediction of the sick of Edinburgh; myself remembering him as he sat in his study in Edinburgh talking to me about Christ, and his hope of heaven. And a score of Christian family physicians in Washing ton just as good as they were. Lawyers who carried their religion into their profession: Lord Cairns, the queen’s adviser for many years, the highest legal authority in Great Britain—nord Cairns every summer in his vacation preaching as an evangelist among the poor of his country. John McLean, judge of the su pieme court of the United States and pres ident of the American Sunday School Union, feeling more satisfaction in the lat ter office than in the former. And scores of Christian lawyers as eminent in the church of God as they are eminent at the bar. Merchants who took their rellgon into every-day life; Arthur Tappan, derided in his day because he established that sys tem •by which we come to find out the commercial standing of business men, starting that entire system, derided for it then, himself, as I knew him well, in moral character A 1. Monday mornings Invited to a room in the top of his store house the clerks of his establishment, ask ing them about their worldly interest and their splrtual interests, then giving out a hymn, leading in prayer, giving them a few words of good advice, asking them what church they attended on the Sab bath, what the text was, whether they had any especial troubles of their own. Arthur Tappan. I never heard his eulogy pro j nounced. I pronounce it now. And other j merchants just as good. William E. i Dodge in the iron business, Moses H. I Grinnel. in the shipping business, Peter I Cooper in the glue business. Scores of men. just as good as they were. Farmers who take their rellgon into their occupation: Why, this minute their horses and wagons stand around all the meeting houses in America. They began this day by a prayer to God, and when they get home at noon, after they have put their horses up, will offer a prayer to ! God at the table, seeking a blessing, and i nekt summer there will be in their fields ■ not one dishonest head of rye, not one dls ! honest ear of corn, not one dishonest ap ! pie. Worshipping God to-day away up among the Berkshire hills, or away down amid the lagoons of Florida, or away out amid the mines of Colorado, or along the banks of the Potomac, and the Raritan, where I knew them better because 1 went to school with them. Mechanics who took their religion into their occupations: James Brindley, the fa mous millwright, Nathaniel Bowditch, the famous snip-chandler, Elihu Burritt. the i famous blacksmith, and hundreds and thousands of strong arms which have l made the hammer and the saw and the adze and the drill and the ax sound in the grand march of our national industries. Give your heart to God and then All your life with good works. Consecrate to him 1 your store, your shop, your banking house, I your factory, and your home. They say ; no one will hear it. God will hear it. That • is enough. You hardly know of anyone else i than Wellington as connected with the vic ' tory at Waterloo; but he did not do the i hard fighting. The hard fighting was done < by the Somerset cavalry and the Ryland • regiment and Kemp's infantry, and the | Scotch Grays, and the Life Guards. Who : cares, If only the day was won? Tn the latter part of the last century a : girl in England became a kitchen maid in i a farm-house. She bad many styles of work and much hard work. Time rolled on, and she married the son of a weaver of Halifax. They were Industrious, they sav ed money enough after awhile to build them a home. On the morning of the day when they were to enter that home, the SAVANNAH, MONDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1896. ! young wife arose at 4 o’clock, entered the 1 front dooryard, knelt down, consecrated the place to God, and there made this sol emn vow: “O Lord, if thou wilt bless me in this place, the poor shall have a share of it.” Time rolled on and a fortune rolled in. Children grew up around them, and they all became affluent, one a mem ber of parliament, in a public place de clared that his success came from that prayer of his mother in the dooryard. All of them were affluent. Four thousand hands in the factories. They built dwell ing houses for laborers at cheap rents, and where they w’ere invalid and could not pay they had the houses for nothing. One of these sons came to this country, admired our parks, went back, bought land, opened a great public park and made it a present to the city of Halifax, Eng land. They endowed an orphanage, they endowed two almshouses. All England has heard of the generosity and the good works of the Crossleys. Moral: Conse crate to God your small means and your humble surroundings, and you will have larger means and grander surroundings. “Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.” Have faith in God by all means, but remember that faith without works is dead.” FIVE PERISH IN A Piano Lamp Explodes and Wipes Out n New York Family. New York. Dec. 20.—A family of five persons were burned to death in their home at 514 East Fifty-eighth street to night. The dead are: Aaron Goldsmith, 45 years old. Mrs. Katilda Goldsmith, 33 years old. Bertha Goldsmith, 10 years old. Hattie Goldsmith, 8 years old. Frank Goldsmith, 6 years old. The only other person in the house at the time of the Are, besides those burned to death, w r as Mary Roska, 20 years old, the servant of the family. She escaped by jumping out of a second floor window to the rear yard and running through the basement hall to the street* in front of the house. The building was a three-story and basement structure of brown stone. Aaron Goldsmith was a member of the firm of Hartman & Goldsmith, wholesale liquor dealers, of 45 Warren street. In the front parlor w T as an immense piano lamp. This lamp undoubtedly exploded, throwing the oil about and spreading the fire in every direction. The flames spread to the two upper floors quickly. From the locations of the bodies when found, Mr. and Mrs. Goldsmith, with their 6-year old son, must have been in the parlor, while the two little girls had just been prepared for bed by the servant on the second floor. BIG BLAZE AT BRIDGE. Five I.nrKe Bn»lnei« Hlocks Hevaged by the Flzmiea. Bridge early this morning, de-'t'royed four large business bltfcks and gutted another, and had an eye on the largest block in town, the Methodist church and the Hotel Windsor. The loss is about SIIO,OOO, and the insurance will not exceed $60,000. The buildings destroyed are the Taft block, owned by A. R. Taft; Gunn block; the old Gredlg block and the new Gredig block, owned by Christian Gredig. The Goldthwait block was partly destroyed. The water tank of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad was also burned. The fire started in the basement of the Gunn block, probably from an overheated furnace. The water tank was almost im mediately in flames and this cut off about the only water supply the firemen had. C. C. Capron, Are warden, sent to Wor cester at 1:40 a. m. for help, but it was 3:30 before a special train with firemen and apparatus got tnere. By that time two blocks were gone and a third doom ed. But for the aid rendered by the Wor cester fire department, the fire would have destroyed the entire business portion of the place. The Forresters, Knights of the Golden Eagle, United Order of Workmen. Odd Fellows. Sons of Veterans and the Grange are all losers. DOUBLY FATAL DUEL. Two Men boot Ench Other Dead in Tennessee. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 20.—A special to the Constitution from Knoxville, Tenn., says: “A Sunday duel, with revolvers, In which both participants were killed, occurred to day in Campbell county. "The scene of the duel w'as nine miles out. Lincoln Baird and William Gailor, two young men, had for some time been at outs. They met at the mill and re newed the quarrel, which resulted in the duel. Both men fired several shots and fell on the ground mortally wounded. “The sound of the shots attracted the attention of the nearest residents, who re paired to the scene, finding both men ly ing on the ground dead." TWO PARADES FOR CUBA. The Island’s Friends to Turn Out nt New York To-day. New York, Dec. 20.—The American friends of Cuba have completed all ar rangements for a big parade and demon stration through the streets of this city to-morrow. The paraders will carry American flags and torches. There will | be five bands of music and ten illuminated floats. The latter will bear pictures of prominent Americans and Cuban patriots, allegorical pictures and appropriate in scriptions. Franz Mayer will be grand marshal. Ada, 0., Dec. 20.—Eight hundred stu dents, headed by a brass band, paraded the streets last night and made a demon stration for free Cuba. Gen. Weyler was burned in effigy. SONS OF THE REVOLUTION. The lowa Society in Sympathy With the Cubans. Davenport, la., Dec. 20.—The Society of the Sons of Revolution in lowa have adopted resolutions commending the Cuban patriots and expressing the hope that their heroic struggle may soon win for them recognition as a free and inde pendent nation. Taylor Looks For a Veto. London, Dec. 20.—The Morning Post will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Madrid saying that Hon. Hannls Taylor, the American minister, declares that he be lieves that President Cleveland will veto the Cameron resolution SPAIN SHOWING GOOD SENSE. CAMERON DECLARATION NOT A CAU SUS BELLI. In Official Circles the Willingness of the Mother Country to Grant Re forms in the West Indies Is Count ed on to Avert Hostilities—ln Ca-«e This Country Recognizes the Cu bans as Belligerents Spain Will Claim the Right to Search Amer ican Ships. Madrid, Dec. 20.—Senor Canovas del Cas tillo, the prime minister, has received the official text of President Cleveland’s mes sage to the American congress, and will shortly make a declaration on that part of the document which refers to the Cu ban question. Conferences have been held during the past few days between the most promi nent men in political life in Spain, with the object of seeking a solution of the prtoblem which confronts the government, and which, it is possible, might cause a war with the United States. It is con ceded in all political circles that the sit uation is grave, but it is thought that the willingness of Spain to grant reforms in the Spanish West Indies should tend to avert any display of aggressiveness on the part of the United States. One point is settled upon, and that is that no reforms shall be put into effect in Cuba until the insurrection shall have been sup pressed, for it is held that to offer reforms with the Cubans still in arms would Indi cate weakness on the part of Spain and would also be derogatory to her honor. Though the popular indignation caused by the receipt of the news of the action of the committee of foreign relations of the American Senate show's little sign of diminution, there have been no manifesta tions against the United States or its rep resentatives anywhere in Spain. That such manifestations were expected, how ever, is shown by the fact that police and gendarmes were detailed to guard the American legation here, and precautions were taken elsewhere to protect the vari ous consulates of the United States, should the excited people attempt to make an attack on them. Orders were sent to the governors of the several provinces to prohibit any anti-American demonstra tions, and from dispatches received to-day from the provincial capitals it is known that the orders were faithfully carried out. Prominent politicians confirm the state ments that it is the intention of the gov ernment, when the opportune moment ar rives, to put into effect in Cuba political and econamiqal reforms which, it is said, will be wider In their scope than those ap proved by the cortes last year. The death is announced to-day of Senor Don Manuel Decerrara, former mlnistei w*- ■ 3 * «• ♦»v* m it B sa!a of him that he at ohe time hind ered the sale of Cuba to the United States. The Epoca, the organ of Senor Canovas and the ministerialists, in commenting upon the situation, says that Spain needs at the present moment, much calm, sound judgment on the part of the public to avoid greater difficulties than those the gov ernment is now facing. As long as pru dence is compatible with national honor Spain has nothing to do save to defend her rights if they are attacked. A recognition of belligerency is not a caus us belli unless such recognition is granted by an interested nation. Formerly Spain recognized the belligerency of the southern states of America despite the protest of the federal government, which did not regard the attitude of European governments in this matter as a causus belli. If the act in dicated by the Cameron resolution shall be consummated, Spain will protest, there by greatly influencing the relations be tween the United States and Spain, but laniards must not forget the attitude of the powers, which, after President Cleve land’s declaration, anent the Anglo-Vene zuelan dispute, abstained from any inter vention. Spain ought to keep account of all these precedents. Prime Minister Cahovas holds that un der the framing of the Cameron resolu tion there will be no armed occupation on the part of the United State in Cuban ter ritory. Though the partisans of the pro posal may obtain the necessary votes to override the veto which he believes Pres ident Cleveland will interpose, and so make the resolution an obligatory act of congress, It would only effect the recogni tion of the Independence of Cuba and lead to an offer of its good offices by the United States to terminate the war. With whatever c’fflclousness the United States may interpose Spain will retain the right to accept or reject the offer of the Amer ican good offices. If the United States recognizes the independence of Cuba she will have then to recognize the laws of neutrality. If she recognizes the bellig erency of the Cubans, Spain will have the right to stop and board American ships at sea. Senor Canovas does not think that the Cameron resolutions need cause serious perturbance. It will only make the rela tions between Spain and the United States more strained, but need not cause a rup ture. He will never consent to foreign in terference in what is a question of Spain’s domestic policies. Spain will regulate her acts so that nobody will be able to say that she made w’ar upon another power, yet she will always repel aggression. The tone of the newspapers generally is more moderate to-day than it was yester day. They contain little to excite the populace. Ex-Prime Minister Sagasta, In an inter view published here, says he considers that the conduct of the United States makes difficult the task of those Spanish parties and statemen who are most willing to sat isfy the aspirations of the colonies. SP.VN THINKS UNCLE SAM A BULLY. Claims This Conn try Is Trying? to Bring; on a War. London. Dec. 20.—The Standard’s Madrid correspondent telegraphs that the feeling Is unanimous there that the people of the United States are treating Spain unfairly and that they want to systematically pro voke her to an unequal struggle simply because the United States has obtained as surances that the European powers will only display platonic sympathies for Spain. The Spaniards are convinced of this, and hence they forbear expressing their deep resentment. Suppressed irritation per vades all classes and parties. The corres pondent adds that It is reported that there has been some display of animosity against the United States in Barcelona and Bilboa. London, Dec. 20.—1 n a leader to-morrow the Standard will say: “There exists in Europe an irritable feeling regarding the tendency of popular opinion in the United States to assume an attitude of excessive ( WEEKLY 2-TIMES-A-W EEK $1 A YEAR 1 XV A 1 Aft < 5 CEN TB A CUFI. t I\V. lUV. I DAILY. *u> A YEAR. f dictatorial presumption toward other pow ers. France and Germany join in re- j proaching Lord Salisbury for weakness in settling the Venezuela matter in a pacific manner. Englishmen do not indorse this sentiment, but they dislike the tone and manner of American diplomacy and wish for more harmony in the traditions of in ternational urbanity. If Spain is driven into a war with the United States we do not doubt that she will enjoy the sym pathy of most, perhaps all, of the conti nental states.” The Standard adds that it does not apologize for Spain's conduct in her col onies, but only pleads for the observance of international law and the rights of for eigners. It concludes by tendering the advice that Spain grant qualified autono my to Cuba. JOY OVER MACEd’S DEATH. Spaniards Run an Excursion Out to Cirnjeda’s Column. Havana, Dec. 20.—The demonstrations of joy over the death of Maceo have not ended. There was a largely attended ex cursion to-day from Havana to Punta Brava in honor of Maj. Cirujeda’s column, which killed the rebel leader. The affair was organized by natives of Galicia, Maj. Cirujeda’s native province, and was made the occasion for a great display of patri otic enthusiasm. Many speeches were made on'the trip predicting the speedy collapse of the rebellion and exalting the performances of the Spanish soldiery. When the excursionists arrived at Punta Brava they were received by the officers of Maj. Cirujeda’s coluifin, and there were further speeches and jubilation. Gifts were presented to the officers of the com mand, and a banquet was given to the men. Most of the prominent Gallejos in the city took part in the excursion. LEE OFF FOR CUBA. He Will Sail With His Family From Tampa To-nig;lit. Washington, Dec. 20.—Consul General Fitzhugh Lee, accompanied by his wife and daughter, arrived in Washington from New York at an early hour this morning, in the private car of President Duval of the Florida Central and Peninsular rail way. After a brief stop in Washington the party continued their journey by the Southern railway train at 11:15 oclock. They will retain the private car to Tampa, where they are due Monday morning, and will leave Tampa for Havana on Monday evening’s steamer. Gen. Lee saw a few friends during his brief stay and it is understood he had a chat with Secretary Olney. He had noth ing to give out as to his plans or instruc tions, and would not discuss the latest phase of the Cuban situation. CADETS READY TO GO TO WAR. The Battalion at Lake City Tenders Laks City, FkL<¥sec? battWfon of Florida State College have patriotically tendered their services to Gov. Mitchell In case war arises with Spain. A mass meeting of the citizens of Lake City will be held Mon day night in the public square to express approval of the course of the Senate committee on foregn affairs in regard to Cuba and to appeal to con gress to hasten to stop the Spanish butche ries in Cuba, and secure the release of American citizens from Spanish dungeons. i SIGNING MEN FOR SOLDIERS* Aifenta of the Junta at Work in Illi nois and Kentucky. Decatur, Ills., Dec. 20.—A person claim ing to be an authorized agent of the Cu ban junta is trying to enlist recruits in Northern Berrien county. He offers $22 a month to the prospective soldiers with three months wages in advance. Louisville, Ky., Dec. 20.—An agent of the Cuban junta, who has visited Kentucky, has companies enlisted in seven or eight towns, and nearly a regiment In Louis ville. M’KINLEY COUNTED FOR PEACE. Vienna Advised That He Will Not Seek a Rapture With Spain. Vienna, Dec. 20.—The Marquis de Hoyos, the Spanish ambassador here, declares that the Spanish government has received posi tive information that Mr. McKinley, the American President-designate, is not in favor of a war with Spain. The Neus Weiner Journal publishes an Interview with Count de Casa Valencia, the Spanish ambassador to Great Britain, in which he says he is convinced that Mr. McKinley will not allow a rupture of the peaceful relations existing'between Spain and the United States. BUTCHERY MUST STOP. Californians in Sympathy With Cu- I ha’s Patriots. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 20.—A mass meet ing in the interest of Cuban liberty was held here last evening. Every reference to the necessity for intervention by the United States brought forth enthusiastic applause, and the statement that it was the plain duty of this government to stop the ruthless butchery, even if war had to be declared to do it, was received with deafening cheers. Resolutions expressing these sentiments were adopted. MISMANAGEMENT BY SPAIN. The London Times Give* the Dona a Dig; in the Ribs. London, Dec. 20.—The Times will to-mor row say that the declarations of firmness on the part of the government at Madrid will not suffice to rid it of its difficulty, which is aggravated by gross mismanage ment. Whatever the constitutional futil ity of the action of congress at Washing ton, its moral effect will be to encourage the Cuban insurgents and depress the Spaniards. COTTON GROWERS WANT PEACE. Harris and Bate Asked to Oppose Cameron’s Resolution. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 30.—A petition, signed by the principal cotton growers in this section, was sent Senators Harris and Bate yesterday, asking them to uss their Influence against the passage of the Cameron resolution, J MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS FIERCE FIRE AT FITZGERALD. I THE BUSINESS SECTION OF THE TOWN IN RUINS. Four O’clock in the Morning the Starting Time of the Blaze—Car ter's Store on Pine Street the Cra dle of the Fire—A Full List of the Sufferers—The Insurance Carried. Probably Very Light. Fitzgerald, Ga., Dec. 20.—This mornin* about 4 o’clock Fitzgerald was visited by a most destructive fire in the business part of the city, and a block of ruins re mains in place of a number of the princi ple business houses of the city. The fire started in Carter’s store, on Pine street, spread rapidly eastward and in a few minutes consumed Dr. Deniston’g drug store and the Margaret hotel. In a short time it had crossed the street and the iron and brick buildings of Mr. Goodman and the Jones’ Clothing Com pany presented no obstacle to the flames. The stores of Harrison Bros., T. S. Price & Co., Holman, Bell, Boyd and Hurst Bros., dry goods, were also consumed, aa well as a number of smaller buildings, on both Pine and Grant streets. It is impossible to estimate the loss as yet, and equally impossible to learn the origin of the fire. Nearly every man in town was at the fire and worked like a hero.to make the loss as small as possible, and to control the fire, but beyond tearing down build ings and hanging wet blankets on threat ended houses, nothing could be done. Every one is rejoicing that the postoffice was moved a week ago. It is altogether likely that the experi ment of wooden buildings will not be re peated, and that the burned district will be at once rebuilt with brick. It is said that several merchants were so fortunate as to save their stocks in good shape. Charred and half-burned shingles were carried more than half a mile from the fire by the breeze. As yet there are no reports of any person receiving any phyai- !' ' i j ' : ’ " ; ' : ~ are the following: The Fox house. Savannah shoe store. Goodman’s drug store. Boyd’s hardware store. ( Jones’ clothing house. • Harrison Bros.’ store. T. S. Price & Co.’s store. Holman’s fruit store. ■ The People’s grocery. Mrs. Pittman’s millinery store. Wettstein’s jewelry store. Mrs. Delong’s millinery store. A number of other small business houses • on both Pine and Grant streets were also burned. Very little insurance can be gotton on j stocks in any of these buildings, so It Is likely that some of those burned out will ( lose heavily. CLEVELAND RETURNS. Secretary Olney Has an With Him in the Afternoon. Washington, Dec. 20.—The President re turned to the white house at 8 o’clock this morning, and attended church a little later with Mrs. Cleveland. He appeared much benefltted by his outing, and brought back numerous fat ducks, which he caused to be distributed among the members of hia cabinet and his personal friends. Secre tary Thurber called to see him, and spent L some time telling him of events that had occurred during his absence, but no offi cial business was taken up, and it is not believed that the President feels called s upon to add anything to the Cuban contro i versy at present. During the day Secretary Olney made his appearance at the executive mansion and had a brief consultation with the President, and while there is no official guarantee for the assertion, it is not to ■ be questioned that their conversation re ferred almost solely to the latest phase in the Cuban situation. 1 FREIGHT DEPOT IN FLAMES. 1 The Illinois Central Loses $75,000 at Jackson, Miss. Jackson, Miss., Dec. 20.—The Illinois Central freight depot here, a large brick building, was burned this morning at 3 o’clock. The depot was packed with freight for Jackson and neighboring towna and is a total loss. Officials estimate the damage at $75,000. The fire is supposed to have been caus ed by the explosion of a lamp, although the night watchman did not hear it. There is little if any insurance. BRYAN STARTS SOUTH. He May Spend Christmas With Friends at Atlanta. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 20.—William J. Bryan left at 2 o'clock to-day for Atlanta, Ga. He will lecture in that city on the even ing of the 23d and may spend Christmas with friends there, but will return tp Lin coln in time to be present at the banquet to be tendered in his honor on the even ing of the 28th by the local traveling men’s bimetallic club. Mr. Bryan was asked before leaving express himself on the Cuban question but declined, saying he had not the tim* nor was he disposed to discusa that queo tion yet.