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L HANGING OF THE CRUEL HAMAN
TEACHES DOOM OF ARROGANCE
AND REWARD OF FIDELITY.
When the Heart Im Wrong Things
Very Inilgnlfieant Destroy Com
fort —Worldly Vanity and Sin Very i
Anxious to Have Piety Bow Before
I Them—Pride Goeth Before a Fall.
Wrongs We Prepare for Others
Return Upon Ourselres.
H Washington. June s.—The doom of arro
|i gance, and the reward of fidelity arc les
'■k Sons which Dr. Talmage here drawe from
. Mordocai on horseback and Haman afoot.
Esther 7:10: “So they hanged Haman
'.Bos’ the gallows that he had prepared for
y.| Mordecat.”
Here in an Oriental courtier, about the
i; most offensive man in Hebrew history, Ha-
P man by name. He plotted for the des true-
z tfon of the Israeljtish nation, and I won
■ der not that in some of the Hebrew syna-
9 gogues to this day when Haman’s name
g is mentioned, the congregation clench their
L flats and stamp their feet and cry, “Let his
| name be blotted out!” Haman was prime
minister in the magnificent court of Per-
B sia. Thoroughly appreciative of the honor
■ conferred he expects everybody that he
pnstsea to be obsequious. Coming in one
day at the gate of the palace, the ser-
RF vante drop their heads in honor of his of
| flee; but a Hebrew, named Mo rdecai,gazes
I upon the passing dignitary' without bend-
Ing his head or taking off his hat. He was
r a good man, and would not have been neg
ligent of the ordinary courtesies of Ute,but
he felt no respect either for Haman or the
nation from which he had come. So hei
. could not be hypocritical; and while oth
ers made Oriental salaam, getting blear
down before this prime minister when he
passed, Mordecal, the Hebrew relaxed not
, a muscle of his neck, and kept his chin
<»lear up. Because of that affront Haman
gets a decree from Ahasuerus, the dastard
s ly king, for the massacre of all the Israel-
| ites, and that, of course, will include Mor-
I decal.
| To make a long story short, through
y Queen Esther this whole plot was revealed
| to her husband, Ahasuerus. One night Aha-
• suerus, who was afflicted with insomnia,
in his sleepless hours calls for his secre
tary to read him a few passages of Per
sian history, and so while away the night.
In the book read that night to the king
an account was given of a conspiracy, from
. which Mordecal, the Hebrew, had saved
the king’s life, and for which kindness
Mordecal had never received any reward.
Haman, who had been fixing up a nice gal
lows to hang Mordecal on, was walking
outside the door of the king's sleeping
apartment end was called in. The king
told hltn that he had just had read to him
L the account of some one who had saved
L bis, the king’s life, and he asked what re-
ward, ought to be given to such a one. Self
■ conceited Haman, supposing that he him
j? self was to get the honor, and not imag
ining for a moment that the deliverer of
the king's life was Mordecal, says: “Why,
F your majesty ought to make a triumph for
him, and pul a crown on him and set him
“ on a epl end id horse, high-stepping and full
ft Blooded, and then have one of your
princes lead the horse through the streets,
■ crying, 'Bow the knee, here comes a man
Y h ° ha * ,l ‘ Vcd ‘he king's life!” Then said
■ Ahasuerus in severe tones to Haman: "I
uii about your zooundrellsm. Now
■ you go out and make a griumph for Morde
cal, the Hebrew, whom you Bate. iPut the
bast saddle on the finest horse, and you,
F the prince, hold the stirrup while Morde
f * cal gets on, and then lead his horse
through the street. Make haeie!”
What a spectacle! A comedy and trag
edy at one and the same time. There they
go! Mordecal, who had been despised,
now starred and robed, In the stirrups’
Haman, the chancellor, afodt, holding
the prancing, rearing, champing stallion.
Mordecal beqds his neck at last, but It is
to look < swn at the degraded prime minis
ter walking beneath him. Huzza for Mor
decal! Alas for Haman! But what, a pity
to have the gallows, recently built, entirely
wasted! It is fifty culrfts high, and built
with care. And Haman had erected It for
Mordecal, by whose stirrups he now walks
as groom. Stranger and more startling
than any romance, there go up the iiteps
of the scaffolding, side by side, ths hang
man and Human the ex-chancellor. "Ho
they hanged Haman on the gallows that
he had prepared for Mordecal.”
Although so many years have passed
since cowardly Ahasuerus reigned, and the
beautiful Esther answered to hia whims,
and Persia perished, yst from the life and
death of Unman wo may draw living les
sons of warning and instruction. And,
first ws come to the praetlcal suggestion
thnt, when the heart Is wrong, things very
Insignificant will destroy our comfort. Who
woi >id have thought that a great prime
—B minister, admired and applauded by inil
|H lions of Persians, would have been so net
■jg and hßra *** d by anything trivial?
’SB '’nst more could the great dignitary have
■F wanted than hia chariots and attendants,
■ the palaces and banquets? If affluence of
Th}- circumstances can make a man foontented
1 and happy, surely Haman should have
been contented and happy. No; Mordecal'*
refusal of a bow takes the glitter from the
gold, and the richness from the purple,
•nd the speed from the chariots. With n
heart puffed up with every inflation of
L vanity and revenge, it wag impossible for
■* him to lie happy. The silence of Morde-
■ cal at the gate was louder than the bray-
■ Ing of trumpets in the palace. Thus sh.tli
■ it always be if the heart is not right. Clr
■ -cumatauces the most trivial will disturb
■ <be spirit.
It is not the great calamities of life 'hat
M create the most worriinent. I have seen
men, felled by repeated blows of mlsfori
£■ lune, arising from the duat, nev« i desp.m.i
But the moat of the disquiet whi h
■■■h" ” suffer Is from iu-um ;tl. i
,lon by Some beast of prey
easily around and shi>a him, \.t
roaring through the fores* at th
MV ■slighting on Ids btawny neck of a t. w .n
You meet some great loss in bu>l
»''* B with comparative eomiemiiv; i»u,
MB ran ‘blnk of petty trickeries iaili-..s|
Jki*»n you. which arouse ad your eapa ,ty
■I wrath, nnd remain in your heart an
bearable If Vou look !><•!<
■mb 11 '"*' your life, you will tin.! (hat t!t<> most
the vexations and disturbances of
MH spirit, which you fc.t. ware produced by
MM circumstances that w<re not worthy of to-
BH lice. If you want to be happy you must
not care for trifles. Do not I* too minute
EH In your inspection of the treatment you
SHE r«eelve from others. Who care* w:.'t!'.-r
Mordecal bows when you pass or st m.|s
jjM erect and etlff as a cedar? That ao.kl
■■ V'in would n.q mnk» much ch aring m •.,•
(■M <«**•< «>’“ should atop to bind up
glllll little brut ‘v and m r.iteh he rec< twd u • a<.
thick*!, nor will that man ue<oini>ii'i
Mn 9 twuch few the work! or the church a- • (>
MgM t*N» watchful and apprec.itix. of peen
annoyances There ate multitud. •* , f
I’ "I'le «a the ao; ’ I • ops .»nt l\ . x )
U .jmsci » |mk' t n«-i I .-i , t ». |.
aSM ta>s out (hos<> thing* wh»eh ar.- i■ i ■.; ,
amt deserving. Imp tn «t>ymg out w, n <ii
thetr |*»w« rs of x (s.o.n io . w >i> i i ■ ?
&£■ eaiaiol find a Monlcc.d
IgUHg! Again I learn from the !.fe of th, tn i .
■Hutkl<r our t.011.u (hit o t i<< x . x . ( |
mUm *'•* «rr v« t y anxious to b.tv. ;w x !>, xx
m||mß brfotx. tin tn Haman xxa.» .» fair etn’j m
HM t»! entirx' xxoi -I r.»sx. md Mat.!.- , • <•
tx >r» »« ;.t > •.x . : ■ •’ . , , k -.. ■ . -
swre the tt-ags x .' s.s,. t■. | , ...
*m* * that n.ixl <n - !- - ,»t ■ t s xx. t t<x
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acter and nation. Mordecal would, there
fore, have sinned against hie religion bad
he made any obelsqnce or dropped h’s
chin half an Inch before Haman. When,
therefore, proud Haman attempted to
compel an homage which was not felt, he
only did what the world ever since has
tried to do t when it would force our holy
religion in any way to yield to its dictates.
Daniel, if he had been a man of religious
compromises, would never have been
thrown Into the den of lions. He might
have made some arrangements with King
Darius whereby he could have retained
part of his form of religion without mak
ing himself so completely obnoxious to
the idolaters. Paul .might haye retained
the favor of his rulers and escaped mar
tyrdom if he had only been wining io
mix up his Christian faith with a few
errrore. His unbending Christian charac
ter was taken as an insult.
Fagot and rack and halter in all ages
have been bnty the' different ways in
which the world ha's demanded obeisance.
It was once, away up on- the top of the
temple, that satan cbmmandeded the Holy
One of Nazareth to kneel before him. But
it is not now so much on the top of
churches as down in the aisle and the pew
and the pulpit that satan tempts the es
pousers of the Christian faith to kneel
before him. Wljy wps it that the Platonic
philosophers of early times, as well as To
land, Spinoza and Ef6lingbroke of later
days, were so madly opposed to Christi
anity? Certainly not because it favored
immoralities, or arrested civilization, or
dwarfed the intellect. The genuine reason,
whether admitted or not, was because the
religion of Christ paid no respect to their
Intellectual vanities. Blount and Boyle,
and the host of infidels hatched out by
the vile reign of Charles the Second, as
reptiles crawl out of marsh of slime,
could not keep their patience, because
as they passed along there was sitting in
the gate of the church such men as Mat
thew, and Mark, and Luke, and John who
would not bend an inch in respect to their
philosophies.
Satan told our first parents that they
would become as gods if they would only
reach up and take a taste of the fruit.
They tried it and failed, but their descen
dants are not yet satisfied with the experi
ment. We have now many desiring to be
as gods, reaching up after yet another ap
ple. Reason, scornful of God’s word, may
foam and strut with the proud wrath of a
Haman, and attempt to compel the hom
age of the good, but in the presence of
men and angels, it shall be confounded.
“God shall smite thee, thou whited wall.”
When science began to make its brilliant
discoveries there were great facts brought
to light that seemed to Overthrow the
truth of the Bible. The archaeologist
with his crowbar, and the geologist with
his hammer, and the chemist with his bat
teries, charged upon the (Bible. Moses
account of the creation seemed denied by
the very structure of the earth. The as
tronomer wheeled around his telescope
until the heavenly bodies seemed to mar
shal themselves against the Bible as the
stars 4n their courses fought against Sise
ra. Observatories and universities rejoiced
at what they considered the extinction of
Christianity. They gathered new cour
age at what they considered past victory,
and pressed on their conquest into the
kingdom of nature until, alas for them!
they discovered too much. God's worn
had only been lying in ambush that, in
some unguarded moment, with a sudden
bound it might tear infidelity to pieces.
It was rh when Joshua attacked the city
of Al. He selected 30,000 men, and con
cealed most of them; then with a few men
he assailed the city, which poured out its
numbers and strength upon Joshua’s little
band. According to previous plan, they
fell back in seeming defeat, but after all
the proud inhabitants of the city had been
brought ottt of their homes, and had join
ed in the pursuit of Joshua, suddenly that
brave man halted in his flight, and with
his spear pointing toward the city, 30,tXA)
men bounded from the thickets as pan
thers spring to their prey, and the pursu
ers were dashed to pieces, while the hosts
of Joshua pressed up to the city, and
with their lighted torches tossed it into
flame. Thus it was that the discoveries
of science seemed to give temporary vic
tory against God and the Bible, and for
awhile the church acted as if she were
on a retreat; but when alt the opposers
of God and truth had joined In the pur
suit, and were sure of the field, Christ
gave the signa) to his church, and turn
ing they drove back their foes In shame.
There was found to be no antagonism be
tween nature and revelation. The uni
verse and the Bible were found to be
the work of the same hand, two strokes
of the same pen, their authorship the same
God.
Again: Learn the lesson that pride go
cth beforq a fall. Was any man ever so
far up as Haman, who tumbled so far
down? Yes, on a smaller scale every day
the world sees the same thing. Against
their very advantages men trip into de
struction. When God humbles proud men,
it is usually at the moment of their great
est arrogancy. If there be a. man in your
community greatly puffed up with worldly
success,you have but to stand a little while
and you will see him oome down. You
say, I wonder that God allows that man
to go on riding over others' heads and
making great assumptions of power. There
is no wonder about It. Haman has not
yet got to the top. Pride is a commander,
well plumed and caparisoned, but it
leads forth a dark and frowning host. We
have the beat of authority for saying that
“Pride goeth before destruction and a
haughty spirit before a fall." The arrows
from the Almighty's quiver are apt to
strike a man when on the wing. Goliath
shakes his great spear in defiance, but the
small stones from the Brook Elah make
hint stagger and fall like an ox under the
butcher's bludgeon. He who is down
cannot fall. Vessels scudding under bare
poles do not feel the force of the storm,
but those with all sails set capsize at the
sudden descent of the tempest.
Again: This Oriental tale reminds us of
the fact that wrongs* we prepare for oth
ers return upon ourselves. The gallows
that Haman built for Mordecal became the
prime minister's strangulation. Robe
spierre, who sent so many to the guillo
tine. ha«l his own head chopped off by the
horrid instrument. The evil you pra<’tice
on others will recoil upon your own pate.
Slanders come home. Oppressions *x>me
home. Cruelties come home.
You will yet be a larky walking beside
the very charger on which you expected
to ride others .town. When Charles the
First, who had destroyed Strafford, was
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about to be beheaded, he said, “I basely
ratified an unjust sentence, and the sim
ilar injustice I am now to undergo Is a
sensible retribution for the punishment I
inflicted on an innocent man.” Lord
Jeffries, after incarcerating many inno
cent and good people in London Tower,
was himself imprisoned in the same place,
where the shades of those whom he had
maltreated seemed to haunt him, so
that he kept crying to his attendants,
“Keep them off, gentlemen, for God’s
sake keep them off!” The chickens had
come home to roost. The body of Brad
shaw, the English judge, who had been
ruthless and cruel in his decisions, was
taken from his splendid tomb in West
minster Abbey, and at Tyburn hung on a
gallows from morning until night in the
presence of jeering multitudes. Haman’s
gallows came a little late, but it came.
Opportunities fly in a straight line, and
just touch as they pass from eternity to
eternity, but the wrongs we do others fly
in a circle, and however the circle may
widen out, they are sure to come back to
the point from which they started. There
are guns that kick!
Furthermore, let the story of Haman
teach us how quickly turns the wheel of
fortune. One day, excepting the king,
Haman was the mightiest man In Persia;
but the next day, a lackey'. So we go up,
and so we come down. You seldom find
any man twenty years in the same cir
cumstances. Os those who, in political
life twenty years ago, were the most
prominent, how few remain in conspiculty.
Political parties make certain men do
their hard work, and then, after using
them as hacks, turn them out on the
commons to die. Every four years
there Is a complete revolution, and
about five thousand men who ought
certainly to be the next President are
shamefully disappointed; while some
who this day are obscure and
poverty-stricken, will ride upon the shoul
ders of the people, and take their turn at
admiration and the spoils of office. Oh,
how quickly the wheel turns! Ballot-boxes
afie the steps on which men come down as
often as they go up. Os those who were
long ago successful in the accumulation
of property, how few have not met with
reverses! while many of those who then
were straitened in circumstances now hold
the bonds and the bank-keys of the nation.
Os all fickle things in the world, fortune is
the most fickle. Every day she changes
her mind, and woe to the man who puts
any confidence. In what she promises or
proposes! She cheers when you go up,
and she laughs when you come down. Oh,
trust not a moment your heart's affections
to this changeful world! Anchor your soul
In God. From Christ's companionship
gather your satisfaction. Then, come sor
row or gladness, success or defeat, riches
or poverty, honor or disgrace, health or
sickness, life or death, time or eternity, all
are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ
is God's.
Again: this Haman's history shows us
that outward possessions and circum
stances cannot make a man happy.
While yet fully vested in authority and the
I chief adviser of the Persian monarch, and
everything that equipage and pomp and
splendor of residence could do were his,
he is an object-lesson of wretchedness.
There are to-day more aching sorrows un
der crowns of royalty than under the
ragged caps of the houseless. Much of
the worlfl's affluence and gaiety is only
j misery in colots. Many a woman seated
in the street at her aplpe-stand is hap
pier than the great bankers. The moun
tains of worldly honor are covered with
1 perpetual snow. Tamerlane conquered
half the world, but could not subdue his
own fears. Ahab goes to bed, sick, be
cause Naboth will not sell him his vine
yard. Herod is in agony because a little
child Is born down in Bethlehem. Great Fe
lix trembler beenuse a poor minister will
preach righteousness. temperance and
Judgment to come. From the time of Louis
' the Twelfth to Louis the Eighteenth was
[ there a straw-bottomed chair in France
that did not sit more solidly than the great
throne on which the French kings reigned?
’ Were I called to sketch misery in its
worst form. I would not go up to the dark
alley of the poor, but up the highway
over which prancing Bucephali strike the
sparks with their hoofs and between
statuary and parks of stalking deer.
Wretchedness is more bitter when swal
lowed from gemmed goblets than *rom
earthen pitcher or pewter mug. If there
I are young people here who are looking
for this position and that circumstance,
I thinking that worldly success will bring
| peace of the soul, let them shatter the de
lusion. It is not what we get. it is what
we are Daniel among the lions is hap
pier than King Darius on his throne.
And when life is closing, brilliancy of
worldly surroundings will be no solace.
INmth is blind. an<l sees no difference be
tween a king and his clown, between the
Naz<(rene and the Athenian, between a
bookless hut and a national library. ’ r he
fnvolitiee of life cannot, with their giddy
laugh, echoing from heart to heart, en
tirely drown the voice of a tremendous
conscience which says: "I am immortal.
I The etars shall die, but I atn immortal.
One wave of eternity shall drown time in
I its depths, but 1 ftm immortal. The earth
> shall ,’i.ive a shrowi of flame and t? <-
heavens flee at the glance of the Lord, but
1 am uumortal From ail the bights end
depths of my nature rings down, and
rings up, and rings out the word ‘immor-
• tai.’ ” A good conscience, and assurance
!of life eternal through the Lord Jesus
I Christ are the only securities.
■ The soul’s happiness is too large a
j craft to sail up the stream of worldly
pleasure. As ship carpenters say, it draws
■ too much water. This earth is a bubble,
and it will burst. This life is a vision,
and it will soon pass away. Time! It is
only a ripple, and it breaketh against the
throne of judgment. Our days! They
fly swifter than a shuttle, weaving for vs
a robe of triumph or a garment of shame.
(Begin your life with religion and for its
greatest trial you will be ready. Every
day will be a triumph, and death will be
only a King’s servant calling you to
a royal banquet.
i In olden time the man who was to re
ceive the honors of knighthood was re
quired to spend the previous night fully
■ armed, and with shield and lance to walk
up and down among the tombs of the dead.
j Through all the hours of that night his
‘ steady step was heard, and, when mora-
I ing dawned, amid grand parade and *he
sound of cornets the honors of knight
| hood were bestdked. Thtis It shall be
I with the good man’s soul in the night be-
I fore heaven. Fully armed with shield
' and sword and helmet, he shall watch and
i wait until the darkness fly and the morn
| Ing break, and amid the sound of celestial
harpings the soul shall take the honors of
heaven amid the innumerable throng with
robes snowy white streaming over eeas
of sapphire.
Mordecai will only have to wait for his
day of triumph. It took all the preceding
I trials to make a proper background for
i his after-success. The scaffold built
■ for him makes all the more imposing and
i picturesque the horse into whose long
white mane he twisted his fingers at the
mounting. You want at least two mis
fortunes, hard as flint, to strike fire.
Heavy and long-continued snows in the
winter are signs of good crops nejxt sum
mer. So, many have yielded wonderful
harvests of benevolence and energy be
, cause they were for a long while snowed
; under. We must have a good many hard
falls before we learn to walk Straight. It
it on the black anvil of trouble that men
hammer out their fortunes. Sorrows take
up men on their shoulders and enthrone
j them. Tonics are nearly always bitter.
Men, like fruit-trees, are barren, unless
trimmed wdth sharp knives. They are like
j wheat-all the better for the flailing. It
' required the prison darkness and chill to
; make John Bunyan dream. It took Del
! aware ice and cold feet at Valley Forge,
I and the whizz of bullets to make a Wash
ington. Paul, when he climbed up on the
beach at Mclita, shivering in hia wet
clothes, was more of a Christian than
when the ship struck the breakers. Pres
cott, the saw better without his
eyes than he could ever have seen with
them. Mordecai, despised at the gate, Is
only predecessor of Mordecai, grandly
mounted.
MONEY PLENTIFUL AT LONDON.
Speculative Ilu»ine«« on the Stock
Exrbnnge Stagnant.
London. June s.—Money is plentiful and
discount easy. But the latter is expected
to remain steady at the present level in
! view of the Russian and Japanese gold
I demand.
i Speculative business on the stock ex
change is stagnant, but investment busi
ness is increasing in consequence of cheap
j er money, and ail high-class securities
j have improved.
The best markets have been American
• and Canadian railroads, which show all
j round substantial increases, mainly infiu-
I enced by Wall street buying, but there
has also been a fair provincial demand.
Abbott's East India Corn Paint eurea
1 every time; it takes off the corn; no pain,
i cures warts and bunions and is conceded
■ to oe a wonderful corn cure. Sold by all
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A Woaaa ION Years Old.
Gainesville, Ga., June s.—Hall possibly
has one of the oldest citizens of any coun
i ty in Georgia, in the person of Mrs. Me
j Ussa Watkins. She was born Jan. 18. 1791,
; making her now 108 years old. Consider
ing the age. this good lady looks well and
i is in good health.
Wayrrota News IV aif a.
Waycfoss. Ga., June s.—Capt. W. M.
Denton of Bickley is working to get a
daily mail service to his place and to have
a telephone line. Bickley is twenty-three
miles from Waycross.
Rev. J. F. Milbank, rector of the Epis
copal Church, preached the commencement
sermon this morning to the graduating
class of the Waycross High School, in the
First Methodist -Church. AU the pastors
of the tqwn churches and their congrega
tions attended.
A negro boy was arrested for burglary
Friday night. He was charged with steal
ing some Jewelry.
A new post office called Waldermere.
with Fred C. Berwick as postmaster, has
been established on the south side of
I-ikc Harris between likiunond and
Bloom fie kt
SECOND GEORGIA PLAYS HOST.
MANY VISITORS FROM SAVANNAH
AT THE CAMP.
Capt. War Talk Hopkins Does the
Honors—The Savannohians '4'n.ke
Lunch With the Soldier Hoys.
Grandson of Gen. John B. Gordon
Taken From the Ranks of tfr/e Sec
ond Georgia to Act as Aide <on the
Staff of Gen. Shafter.
Tampa, Fla., June s.—The cam’ps of the
Second Georgia were visited yesterday
morning by a dozen or more citizens of
Savannah, who came here to pay a social
visit to their friends and relatives among
the Savannah troops. In the i>arty were
a number of ladies who passed an enjoy
able time inspecting the interesting feat
ures of camp life. The delegation con
sis ted of Mrs. W. R. Leaken, Mrs. Dr. C.
C. Schley, Mrs. E. J. Thomas, Mrs. Eaton,
Miss Eaton, Miss Maggie Cosens, Miss
Margaret Brigham, Miss Addie Barnard,
Miss Coma Young, Mme. JDesbouillons,
Miss Gorman, Miss Barnard Miss Han
ley, Lewis Mercer, John R. Young, and
Mrs. Trenholm Hopkins.
Capt. War Talk Hopkins, as the boys
have dubbed him, playing upon the initials
of his name, was officiating as officer of
the day, and it devolved upon him to do
the honors to the distinguished guests.
They were escorted to Capi.. Hopkins’ pa
latial canvas villa, where the ladies and
their escorts were royally entertained with
all the luxuries of camp Bfe, spiced with
cold lemonade and topped off with smiles
and hearty hand-shaking.
The relatives and friends of the visitors
received numerous kind remembrances in
the shape of packages from, loved ones at
home. The men, while clothed in their
rough clothing, exhibited happy faces, and
were in fine spirits.
The Savannah (delegation remained about
the camps nearly the entire day and sev
eral of them took pot luck with the boys,
seemingly greatly enjoying the novelty of
the occurrence, and the bill of fare served
on pine board 'babies. At night all ot
them expressed themselves much pleased
with their outing.
Hugh Gordon, Jr., grandson of Gen.
John B. Gordon, and a private in one ot
the companies from Atlanta, was to-day
appointed an aside on Gen. Shafter's staff.
Gen. Shafter -seemed determined to have
an aide from, the ranks of the Second
Georgia, as tftiis was his third attempt,
two other tenders of such, an appoint
ment having been declined.
Private Alvin T. Tilley, Company H,
who, while filling the appointment of pas
tor of the Second Baptist Church at Rome,
enlisted as a volunteer, accepted an invi
tation from the members of the Second
Regiment to conduct religious services at
the camps this afternoon. He is a gradu
ate of Oxford, who, by hard work, accu
mulated enough money to pay for his own
education. The entire regiment was out
several hymns were sung and while the
sermon was being preached a shower of
rain came up, breaking up the exercises.
This morning the regiment wtas inspected
by companies in the streets under heavy
marching orders, the object bering to ascer
tain the extent to -which the nlien had been
equipped for fighting service. The inspec
tion was critical and where defects were
found they will be corrected at once. The
men are now fully equipped with every
thing in the way of clothing with the ex
ception of blue uniforms. They are here,
but not issued to the regiment.
This afternoon Col. Brown was inform
ed that the government paymaster would
visit the camps at an early hour in the
morning to pay off the men.
Brown canvas uniforms, hats amd socks
were issued to the members of the regj
ment yesterday, and blue uniforms, am
munition and other supplies am here to
be issued to the regiment Mon Gay, 'when
the paymaster is due with the money to
pay one month’s pay roll to the men.
There was no regimental drill to-day,
but the troops were inspect'Ad by com
panies appearing under heavy marohlng
orders, so that Col. Brown could see just
what the men lack to complete their equip
ment.
Lieut. Herring of Comparry H has been
appointed regimental quartermaster to of
ficiate during the temporary absence from
camp of Quartermaster Hardeman, who
is off on a short leave of (tibsence.
Paymaster Littlefield of the United
States navy has reached, Tampa.
The scenes of life and I activity which
were pictured here a fee/ days ago, have
passed into insignificance as compared
with those enacted in and about Tampa
at the present writing. The hustling,
bustling little town does not take time
enough to catch a few hours of sleep at
night. Every heretofore vacant store in
Tampa is now piled to the ceiling with
government stores, and as rapidly as these
stores are reduced supply trains constant
ly pour into the city replenishing the di
versified stocks of provisions, clothing,
etc., so that there is no shortage of any
thing that money will buy or experience
suggest as among the n<eeds of the govern
ment at the present time. During last
night and to-day thirty-five train loads of
troops, provisions and; supplies have been
dumped into Tampa, and this increase has
added much to the lively picture present
ed to-day by Tampa.
As might be ex'pected, Col. Teddy
Roosevelt’s regiment of Rough Riders, as
they are styled, which command is now
here, has attracted ft good deal of atten
tion, and their camps have been earnest
ly sought, and when found attracted much
attention. The command is made up
largely of cowboys from Texas, Arizona,
Colorado, Nevada, and other Western
states, who are well mounted on Texas
and Montana horses. These animals are
smaller than those to be found in Tenn
e.ssee, Missouri and Kentucky, but a great
deal tougher, and w ill stand hard service.
The riders of these horses think that a
Montana or Texas pony is the horse for
hard work and short rations in case of an
emergency, and boast that their animals
cart cover sixty miles a day and then
jump a sixteen foot fence the next day
with ease, if allowed to spend the night
cropping grass or underbrush. They can
be made to live on almost anything in the
Cancer
Mrs. A. H. Crausby, of 158 Kerr St.,
Memphis, Tenn., paid no attention
to a small lump in her breast, but
it soon developed
CURED BY £«
best physicians
in New York treated her, and fin
ally declared her case hopeless.
Asa last resort, S, S. S. was given,
and an immediate improvement re
sulted ; a few bot-
ties cured her
completely, and
no sign of t he dis-
ease has return- 1
ed for ten years.
Book* on Cancer free; addreas Swift
ftpocdlc Co.. Atlanta. Ga-
The Horrors of
Rheumatism.
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• A woman's account of torture which lasted three
years; of her struggles against the dreadful
and the good fortune that crowned her efforts.
Sucfi suffering as rheumatism causes the
victims upon whom it fastens itself is al
most unendurable.
Sufferers from the worst types of this ter
rible disease will supply the missing hor
rors in the following story from real life.
Those who writhe under milder forms
of rheumatism will be able to imagine the
feelings of the tortured victim.
The only justification for making public
such heart-rending details is the fact that
the lesson taught will be helpful to others,
pointing the way to renewed life and health
to every sufferer from rheumatism.
The story is told by a woman. Her
name is Mrs. Caleb Fenly; she lives in
St. Paul, Ind.
This is her account:
“I am a farmer's wife. I believe my
frequent exposure to the weather caused
my terrible attack of rheumatism. Damp
weather always aggravated it.
44 My limbs would begin to swell at the
anklejoints.
44 This swelling would begin in the night,
at times. I would awake in agony.
44 Daylight would find my limbs purple
tn color, swollen to twice their natural size,
and so racked with pain I could not bear
to touch them.
44 My right arm and both legs were so
drawn as to be almost useless.
44 My skin became dry and yellow.
44 At times my limbs would pain as
though millions of needles were pricking
them.
44 Again they would be numb and I
way of grass, and keep in good condition
without either hay or corn. The Western
ers almost live in their saddles, and when
they leave their horse it is only for a few
moments to visit a friend around the cor
ner and get something to send the dust
galloping down their throats. The men
in their public performances show them
selves to be excellent riders. They look
as rough as you may imagine a reckless
care-devil sort of a fellow can make him
self appear, but in their conduct
they behave orderly, attend to their own
business, and flock with themselves. That
portion of the regiment hailing from New
York, and other Eastern cities, who are
friends and acquaintances of Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, who planned and inaugurated
the scheme to raise a regiment of rough
riders to volunteer their services to the
national government, a.re a lively set of
young men, who have plenty of patriotism
and all the money that they need. They
tog out in the very best of everything,
sticking to military orders as near as pos
sible, smoke cigars three for a half and
drink the best of everything. In point of
fact, it might be said that they have mon
ey to burn and not matches to start the
blaze. Those of this class who are well
fixed, with large roils in every pocket,
think nothing of handing one of their less
fortunate companions in arms a ten on a
twenty’ bill whenever they want one. The
515.00 per month for services cuts no figure
with them in the matter of spending mon
ey, and the cowboys are fast coming to a
similar way of thinking. The truth of the
matter is that in the general mix-up of the
men in this regiment, all of them have an
equal showing pt the canteen, and if I
mistake not, the New Yorkers, will run a
dead heat with the Westerners when it
comes to record making on the battle field.
They are hot stuff and don't you forget it.
The war correspondents here, about sev
enty-five in number, assembled on the va
randa at the Tampa Hotel to-day, at noon,
and had a group picture taken of them
selves, the work being done by
one of the party, who is a New
Yorker, here for the. purpose of
making photographic impressions of the
many scenes and incidents to be found in
this section as the present time. Only a cor
rect picture can give any idea of the ap
pearance of the group. Every character
and style of dress was in evidence, and
some of the suits and equipments of the
correspondents were rich. The picture was
intended to represent the party as it was
about to board the transports bound for
the seat of war. ,
One correspondent, who had evidently
not packed his valise, judging by his sea
side, negligee appearance, wore a purely
white suit, nobby white straw hat, and
white duck shoes. While another, more
on the order of an up-to-date war corre
spondent of the minute man caliber ap
peared in a dark colored duck suit, a heavy
pair of walking shoes, his not too gener
ously proportioned calves incased in kg
gins, all topped off with a regulation
army wool hat of extraordinary size. This
was his outfit, so far as his clothing is
concerned, but by no means all the evi
dence about his make-up, going to show
that he was ready to accompany the in
vasion. This up-to-date young man wore
a belt around his waist, filled with car
tridges, while hanging from his belt vas
a Colt’s 44-caliber, a canteen, and small
case in which was held his note book.
Hanging from a belt swung over a shoul
der w’as a pair of long-distance field
glasses, and in his hands he carried a
Winchester rifle. He had no scalps at his
belt, but may have scores of them before
he gets back.
'rhe long trains of pack mules
winding their way through the
streets to the camps are one of
the sights here of more than ordi
nary interest. The government has sev
eral thousand pack mules, and the pack
ers are having no end of trouble with the
recruits, while the watchers are enjoying
the sport. When a new recruit is to be
loaded, a man has to hold the mule, wnile
two others fasten the pack—generally
about 350 pounds—on the back of the ani
mal. The train then moves, but not far in
good order, as the newly recruited animals
lose their step, commence bucking and
kicking at a lively rate, trying to shake
the load from their backs, and finally fall
down in a vain effort to dump the load.
But that don’t go, as when the mute gets
*on his feet again, he comes up
with the same bundle on his
back weighing the same in number of
pounds and fastened as firmly as ever to
his back strapped there with straps, and
roped in position with ropes. An old packer,
commenting on the antics of the muchly
worried mule, remarked that that there
was no more chance for a mule to dump
his load, when put on properly, than for j
the wind to blow a coat of paint from a
wail.
Clark Howell Woodward, son of Supt.
Park Woodward of the water department,
of Atlanta, reached here to-day at the
head of thirty-five navai cadets, who wih
be put in the signal corps for service.
Necessities of life of almost every char- ,
acter have gone up here, the merchants
adding on a dime here, a quarter there,
and a dollar somewhere also, evidently to
get all the money out of the people they
can while a chance is in sight. Eggs
have gone up from 20 to 40 cents per dozen;
flour, sugar and meat in the same pro
portion. and even the price of coffee mills
and hou.se furnishing goods generally
have advanced No one here sees any
good grounds why the prices on such com
modities should go up, but they have and
the people can’t help themselves. Even
ice haa doubled in price within a week or
could not feel a needle thrust into my flesh.
44 1 was confined to the house three
years, unable to walk nearly half the time.
44 After those three slow years of agony,
during which I spent probably $2,000 for
treatment and tried a dozen doctors, I gave
up hope of any release from pain, but death.
44 1 was cured, completely cured, by Dr.
Williams'Pink Pills for Pale People. They
alone caused my recovery.
44 The first dose gave me appetite.
44 After the second dose I slept soundly,
the first time within a year.
44 1 sent for a dozen boxes. By the time
I had taken the contents of eleven boxes I
felt entirely well.
44 The doctor said I was cured. He was
greatly impressed, and since then he has
prescribed Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People for many of his patients."
Mrs. Fenly, together with her husband,
made affidavit to the exact truth of the fore
going account before Notary P. N.Thomas.
The cure of the severest cases of rheu
matism by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
Pale People has occurred in every state in
the Union, and its power in ordinary cases
is proportionately greater.
These marvelous vegetable pills go di
rectly to the seat of the trouble. They
build up a new cellular structure in the
diseased parts by eliminating poisonous
elements and renewing health-giving
chemical forces in the blood.
They are for sale by druggists every
where ; for 50 cents a single box or $2.50
for half a dozen.
two, due to the fact of increased demand
for it, growing out of the troops being
here, at the quarters of which Ice water
is the leading beverage. So far clothing
shows less advance in price than any other
commodity, as outside of the citizens of
the place, the correspondents are the only
people here who have to buy clothing, the
government furnishing the soldiers with
their clothing from headgear to footwear.
MOZLEY’S LEMOS ELIXIR.
A Pleasant Lemon Drink—Regulate*
the Liver, Stomach, Bowel*
and Kidneys.
For biliousness, constipation, and ma
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For indigestion, sick and nervous head
ache.
For sleeplessness, nervousness and heart
failure.
For fever, chills, debility and kidney dis
eases, take Lemon Elixir.
Ladies, for natural and thorough organ
ic regulation, take Lemon Elixir.
Fifty cents and $1 per bottle at drug
gists.
Prepared only by Dr. H. Mozely, Atlanta,
Ga.
GRATITUDE.
Dr. H. Mozley—Dear Sir: Since using -
your Lemon Elixir, I have never had an
other attack of those fearful sick head
aches, and thank God that I have at last
found a medicine that will cure those aw
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Parkersburg, w. Va.
MOZLEY’? LEMON ELIXIR.
I suffered with indigestion and dysentery
for two long years. I heard of Lemon
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now a well man. Harry Adams,
No. 1734 First avenue, Birmingham Ala.
MOZLEY’S LEMON ELIXIR.
Cured my husband, who was afflicted for
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fered for years with indigestion and ner
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Woodstock, Ala.
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Twenty-five cents at druggists. Pre
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ad.
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
Load From a Shot Gun Sent Into the
Leg of Young Frank Stone.
Frank Stone, a young white boy, 15 years
old, was accidentally shot and badly
wounded near Isle of Hope Saturday
afternoon, by a young negro boy, with
whom he had gone hunting.
Young Stone is a son of Dr. Stone, who
lives near Isle of Hope. He started off on
a hunting trip with a negro boy, and he
was riding a bicycle, while the negro boy
was carrying the gun. The negro with the
gun was behind him, and it was in some
manner discharged, the entire load enter
ing his leg just above the knee.
The boy’s father was sick in bed and
oould do little for him. Accordingly he
sent him in to the Savannah Hospital,
where he has been cared for. He was re
ported some better last night, and was
resting easy.
Public Clocks.
Few great cities of America are ade
quately provided with public clocks of
such a size and so prominent location as to
indicate the time over wide metropolitan
districts. But It is high time to check kid
ney and bladder complaint manifested to I
the sufferer by inactivity of the organs as- I
footed. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters rem- I
edies this as it does dyspepsia, rheuma- 1
tlsm. constipation, biliousness and nerv- i
ousness.—ad. ■
At Chauncey Saturday in a difficulty be
tween Alex. Davis (colored), and George ■
E. Harris, Davis was killed. A jury of fl
inquest rendered a verdict of justifiable fl
homicide.
The I
Ideal B
axative B
Has been endorsed by physicians
for 50 years. What it does it does
gently, yet it does all and more BM
than harsh, disagreeable purga
tives can do. Cures Headache
Liver Troubles. Blood Disorders
and Indigestion. Delicious to take.
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