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TRIBE OF ISKACIIAR.
DR. TALMAGE SAYS THEY UNDER
STOOD THE TIMES.
That In Where They Differed From
the 1
ShniiM i‘rei»nrr t'*>r?>tirrl«m liventa.
Sjin m! of the t.«»»j*el.
•pyrirU. isss fo> *m(ri<an Pn>w Asso
ciation.]
W 'smvi:"f»r, ' ov. U7.—This *<-niton of
Hr Talma* .■•.» is on ?m, icipotion «>f things
i r fit I- :«1 in 1 urges |jv« jwmtdon for
i Tiring text. I Chronicles x!i,
82, “The children <>f I««nchnr, which wens
men that I «d umkrsteiriding of the times,
to know v h t I t-o 1 ought to (in "
Great iril. ,tl it .tribe of bsnchar When
.Jin>b took the <•< tiMis, there were 145,600
n< them. Before the altnanae was bom,
through .u-trolog|..J etn.ly, they knew
from stellar conjunctions all about the
seasons of tic year. Befori agricult urn be
came at. ;irt they wi re ••kiil.'d In the rais
ing of croj s Before [xiliurx became a sci
otn they knew the lemj <-r of cations, and
whenever they mairhod, either fur pleas
ure or war, ;! .<•; marchcil umh-r a three
colored flag- topaz, xnnliriq and earbun
cle But the < ! characteristic: of that
tribe of I-sachurwas thiit they umlerstood
lie i.' <*„ 'i ;icv vuri! not like the politi
»;i! end u e.al ineon.t t-:ente of our day,,
tvf.it i r • i g to guide Ih'.iH by the theo
ries of 1«28. They looked at the divine in
dication* in t,heir own particular century.
Po we ought to nnder-tand tl times, not
tie tiii i v. lon Ann rbn v.ar 12 col< nice
huddled together along the Atlantic coast,
bin • i! ticu - v . u !he i ation di ■ i ne
band in the ocean on oneside the continent
amt tis nth* r 1 .t i in tie. .•,■■■ <>n the
othi r side the continent; times w hich put
N> w Vork Narrows and the Golden Horn
tis the Pacific within one llie-lt of electric
t U" r: j! y - ; •- hen (iod is as directly,
j.- pmiio iv, r. -oh mnly. as tremendous
lj nieir - -mg us tl.rough the uaily news
pa pi I and (heq.T.k rt \ ill i ion of events
ie lie ever fiddn'■-> d the ancients or ad
clr —es ns thrmigh the Holy F.Tipt ores
The voice of tied in 1 ’rovklrnnc is us im
portant os the voice of (»od in typology,
lor to our on n day we have had our Hitmis
vitii thunih-r- of the Almighty, and (Hi
varii . of k..•rifle.', and (I. ths. manes that
sweat great drops of blood, and Olivets of
a . eiiyioii, atid Mount I'Bgaiisof fnrroaeh
lng vi ion 1 lie Lord who rounded this
world d.Odf) years ago and sent his Hon to
redeem it near 1,000 years ago has yet
in licit U> do with H -* radiant hilt agonized
planet May (iod make n« like theehil
dren of L-aelr.r. “which were men that
bad tniderstaiiding nl the times, to know
whflt Lrael ought to do.’
The Dying Century.
The crave of this century will soon lie
dug Tim cradle of another century will
■ mil lio rocked. Them is something mov
ing this we out of the eternities, some
thing that ti.rills me, blanches me, ap
palls me. exiiilnrnti s me, eiiraptmo,i me
ft will Wreathe the otul: go blossoms for
millions of weddings It will beat the
dirge for millions of obsequies. It will
carry the gilded banners of brightest
mornings and the black flags of darkest
midnights The world will play the grand
nut; Ji of its heroes and sound the rogues'
march i f its cmvnrds. Other processions
may iifilt or break down or fall hack, hut
the pr.Mit ssiol) led by that leader moves
Mteadl!v .*n and v. ill soiin be lu re It will
preside over coronations and dethrone
ments I hail it! I bless it ! Iwehayno
it t The twentieth ci aturyof the Christian
era.
What- may we expect of )! and how shall
we prepare h r it ale t he moment mis quea
tloiis 1 |. repose ii v. (.odist iisif An in fam
ilies hijnian nativity is an!ieijmied by all
wnnet ity mid kindliness and solemnHyand
sane and hop. (nine-s, so ought we prayer
fully, hope I 'nJly, indust rlotisly, ooi.fldei.tly
prepare for the ail - ut of a now century.
The nineteenth e.-ritury must not treat
the t via Mirth on i'-s arrival as tiie eight
eenth century treated the nineteenth
Our <eiif l i , v tiihorib tl the wreck of revo
lutions and tho superstitions of ago.
A round it s eratile stood the armed asrivgsin
of old world tyrannies; the “reign of ter
ror, bequeathing its horrors; Robe
spierre, plotting his diabolism, the Jacobin
club, with its wholesale mussivcro; thn
k *;ulllotine, chopping its heheadnietits. Th«
j.i omul quaking with the great guns of
Marengo, NVauram and Badajos All Ku
i-upe in convulsion. Asia in conipnrotlvo
■quiet, jbilt the quiet ness of death. Airiou
in tln'elms hes of the slave iriuie. Ameri
can savagsS in lull cry, their scalping
knives lifted The exhausted and poverty
struck people of An eriia sweating under
the del.t of (jtaOO.IHnO.OOt), which tho Rovo
lutionary war had left them. Washington
just gone into tho long sleep at Mount
Vernon, at d ihn nation in bereavement,
Anvon Burr the champion lilxTlino, lie
coming soon tiller thn vice president. Tho
government of the lad usd States only at)
experiment, most, of tho philosophers and
statesmen and governments of the earth
prophesying it. would bu a disgraceful fail
vvre No poor foundling laid at night on
t,\o cold steps of a umcsipn, to bti picked
uj' In tho morning, was poorer oiT than
tin i century i\t its nativity Tho United
Ht: tvs government laid taken only 12 steps
on i. e journey, its constitution having
been ..’crim'd In 1789, and most of the na
tions v*f tho carl h laughed at our go vers
tin nt iit its llr.-t nt torn pis to walk alone
Mn|» oi Um» oriel.
The bi.'fJiday of our niniti- .ulh cent ury
ocrur/eii in tho time of War Our small
United St.'U.navy under Captain ',l'ritx
ton. eomr.i u dint oo f rigate t 'ans! it ution,
was in eoliivi iM with the French frigates
La \ ongeayvo L’lnsurgente, ami ?ho
hist infant cries of tills century were
■ drowned in the roar of navr.l battle And
political strife on this eontinent vvas rho
limit si, the parties rending each other
with pant-aerii e rage x'lw* I• irt day pres
ont* Ith nineteenth et titur/vvas vituper
ation public unrest, threat of national
deii.obiion asd horrors nationai and in
ternational i adjure you, let not the
twentieth century ho met. in that awful
way. hut with isll I rightness of temporal
valid religious p.ri.'s|x cts
l- irst, U t us put iqwti the cradle of the
new century a new map of the world. The
«>1 JI map was black with tu many harlvar
istns and red will; too many slaughters
and pale with too many sufferings. Let
Us sco to it tl'.nt o.n that map. so far tin
possible, our eountrv froiu ocean to oernn
is a Clirtst-.a: i/.ed ccr.tiocnt —schools, col
leges. churches and good homes in long
line from ocean Ix-ach to avail beaeh On
that map Culm must be free, f’orto Rico
must be frvx* Tho archipelago of tfce Phil
ippines must Ih» fri«6 If cruel Spain ex
jxx f s by procrastination and intrigue to
get back what she has surrendered, then
the warships lowa and Indianaand Brook
lyn and Texas and Vesuvius and Oregon
must lx'sent back to southern waters or
across to tho o'W-t of Spain to silence the
insolence, as decidedly tvs ltvst summer
they sdeiK-ed the Cristobal Colon and
Oquendo and Maria Teresa and Vircaya.
"When we get those islands thoroughly un
der our prouxvtomre, for the lirst time our
missionaries in Ciiina will lx* safe. The
atrocities imposed on those good men and
women in the r.o calk'd Flowery Kingdom
will ik v r be resumed, for our guns will
fx> too near Hongkong to aIU-vv the mas
sivore of missionary settlements.
On that map must lx' pr.t the isthmian
canal, begun if not completed. No long
Toy ages around Cape Horn for the world's
merchandise, but short and cheap commu
nication by water instead of expensive
communication by rail train, and more
millions will ix' added to our national
wealth and the world s betterment than I
have capacity to calculate.
On that map it must be made evident
that America is to 1»* the world's civilizer
and evangelizer. Free from the national
religions of Europe on the one side and
from the superstitions of Asia on the oth
er side, it will have facilities for the work
that, no other continent can possibly pos
sess. As near as I can tell by the laying
on of the ha mix of the Ix>rd Almighty this
continent has been , rdai rod for that work
This is the only country in the world
where all religions are on the same plat
form, and the people have free selection
for themselvoki without any detriment.
When we proejit to the other continents
this assortment of religions and give them
unhindervxl choice, we have no doubt of
their selecting this religion of merry and
kindness and good will- anil temporal and
eternal rescue. Hear it! America is to
take this world for (Jodi
|
On the map which we will put bn the
cradle on the new century we must hare
very soon a railroad bridge across Bering
strait, those 36 miles of water, uot deep,
and they are spotted with Islands capable
of bolding the piers of a great bridge. And
what with America and Asia thus con
nected, and Siberian railway, and a rail
road now j tujectod for the length of Afri
ca, and Palestine and Persia and India
and China and Burma intersected with
railroivd tracks, all of which will be done
before the new century is grown up, tho *
way will i*o op n Jo tho quick civilization
and evangi liz.,tion of the whole world.
The old rnaji w<* u.-. d t<i study in our boy
li ;1 days is dusty and on the top shelf or
•tiitd tiie rubbish of tl ■ garret, and so will
the pro. nt map of the world, however
gilded and beautifully oound. lx* treated,
»:;d an entir. iy t .-vv map will be jiur into
the infantih hand of the cauing century
(*f}*pcl W iflcsfirpad.
The wotk of this o r. j;ry h s hoen to
get r< (.'iy AJ! Jot ■ »-:h i- now free to tho
t.' -» 1 except two little Spots, one in Asia
and or e in Africa, while at the beginning
of the '-entnry there st >d t-M» Chinese
wall in <1 th* re Haiti' <1 the fires’ and there
glittered the swords that forint'l* entranco
to many islands and large reach. , of ccm
tiner’t. i. .rm -ian oru.bn s and Fiji Jp
lar •* connipalism h ive given way, ami
all t!u- jrv-i of all the continenfs are
■ vti»: g *" rt with a t i.eng that lei- I n a
I osirivo and glorious inv itation for Chris
tianity to i-nt'T ’lr !ee raph, tJlephone
Hint i her. T/rnnh are t/* is- cot!s>ternted to
go 'si di.- - jr iixiii’n. un<‘ instead * J the
vol etiiat gains t'ae r;t! i tiou of a few
hundred or a f.w rlior.sattd people within
the chan li v-alir. tiie t v*. iil tprill
the s'ln.l tio ngs am) the telephone will
utter thorn to i,.any n lliums Oh, tno in
fn no advantage that, the twentieth cen
tury ha- ouTwimi t • >■ ■ nth century
had ar the «ar ing'
111 preparation for this coining century
we have fit o in the inb rvening years to
gi" Kline <ie. isiv.j strokes at the seven or
eight great -v.;ls hat cut ■■ the world. It
would be an assault and battery upon tho
coming cent in y hy this century if wo al
lowed the full blow of j r. sent, evils to fall
upon the future \V“ ought somehow to
cripple or minify some of t hose abomina- ;
tions Aleohoiism is today triumphant, i
and are we to !< t the all devouring moil- :
liter that, has throttled this century seize j
upon tho next without first having filled
I is accursed bide with stinging arrows :
enough to weaken and stagger him? Wo [
have vvn t.d about 25 years How
s<>y While we iytve been waiting for tho j
law of ti e land to prohibit intoxicants wo
have done little to quench the thirst of !
appetite in tin* palate and tongue of a !
whole generation. Where are the public j
and enthusiast ie meetings that used to he |
held 3tl years ago for the on«i piirposo of j
persuading the young and middle aged
and old that strong drink is poisonous and J
damning? When will wy learn that we
must educate public opinion up to a pro- |
hibitory law or such a law will not bo ■
passed or if [Hissed will not be executed?
(iod grant that all state and national leg
islatures may build up against this evil a
wall which will bo an impassable wall,
shutting out the alcoholic abomination.
But while we wait for that lot us, in our
homes, in our schools, and our churches
and on our platforms and in our newspa
pers, persuade the people to stop taking
alcoholic stimulant, unless proscribed by
physicians, and then persuade physicians
not to prescribe it if in all the dominions
of therapeutics there may bo found some
other remedy
Seven or eight, years ago on the anniver
sary plat form of t he National Temperance
society, in New Vork, 1 deplored tho fact
that wo had left politic,* to do that which
moral suasion only could do and said on
that occasion, “If some poor drunkard,
wandering along this street tonight,should
see tlurlights kindled by t ins brilliant as
semblage and should come in and, finding
she eiiaraet. r of till) meeting, should ask
for a t-eu , ranee pledge, that he might
sign it and begin a new career, Ido not
believe there is in aij f.hjs house a temper
anee pledge, and you would have to take
out A turn letter envelope or a loose scrap
of paper for the inebriate’s signature.’’ I
found out afterward that there 'was one
such tomp.Tuncu pledge in the audience,
but only one that 1 itouhl hear of. I)o not
leave to politics that which can be dono
now in 10,000 reformatory meetings all
over the oountry The two great political
parties, Republican and Democratic, will
put. a prohibitory plank in the platform
the sumo day that satan joins the church
and turns per.litiou into a 4mip Meeting.
Both parties want the votes of the traffick
ers in liquid death, and it' you wait for tho
ballot box to do the work, first you will
have local option, and then you will have
high livens., and then a first rate law
passed, to be revoked by the next legisla
ture
Redeem the Nation.
Oh, save the young man of today and
greet Iho coming century with a tidal
vyuvo of national redemption! Do not put
upon the cradle of the twentieth century
a mountain of demijohns and beer barrels
and rum jugs und put to its infant lips
wtyjelu' tncss, disease, murder and aban
donment in solution. Aye, reform that
army of Inebriates. “Ah,” you say, “if,
cannot be doneff’ That shows that you
will (v> of no use in the work. “O yo of
little faith I” Away back in early times
I ■’resident Davies of Princeton college oije
day found a mart in uttyr despair because
of Dm thru).! of strong drink, The presi
dent said to him' “Sir, be of good cheer.
You can few saved. the pledge.”
“Ah.” said fr.hedcsi airing victim, “I have
often “signet, tv., pledge, but 1 hr.vo always
bKiken my pledge. *' “Di)t.’’ said the j
idvnt. “J will be your strength to keep
the ;dodge. : will bo your trio: .1 ■ d with
a hiving aria w« and you will hoio y«u
up. When your n. p-< i'e burns, and you
feel that you must gratify it, come to my
houst*. Sit down with me in the study or
with the family in the parlor, and I will
be a shield to you. Aii that lean do for
you with my books, my sympathy, my ex
perience, my society, my love, my money,
i will do. You shall forget your appetite
ami .master it.” A look of hope glowed
on tho poor man's face, and he replied,
"Sir, vvjjl you da aH that?” “Surely I
will.” ‘-Then l will rvoeuiu. ” lie sign
ed the pledge and kept it. That plan of
President DavW which saved one man,
tried on a large scale, will save a million
men. _ I
Alexander the Oreat made an imperial
banquet at Babvhiq. and, though he had
been drinking the hgabh of guests all one
night and all next day, the second night
he had 20 guests and he drank the health
of each separately Then, calling for th*
cup of Hereules, the giant, a upnster cup,
he filled and drained it twice to allow his
•endurance; but as he finished the last
draft from the cup of Hercules, the giant,
he dropped in a fit, from which he never
recovered. Alexander, who had conquered |
Sardis and conquered Halicarnassus and ;
conquered Asia and conquered the world, j
could not conquer hi.mseJf. and there is a
threatening peril that this good land of
ours, having conquered all* with whom it
has ever gone into battle, may yet be over
thrown by the cup of the giant evil of the
land —that Hercules of infamy, strong
drink. Do not let the staggering and I
bloutod and embruted host of drunkards'
go into tno next century looking for in- j
sane asylums and ajmshouses and.delirium '
tremens and dishonored graves.
Another thing wo must ge£ fixed is a
national Jaw concerning divorce. Vt’jPiam
F. Gladstone asked me while walking in
his grounds at Hayyarden. “Do you not \
think that your country is in peril from j
wrong notions of divorce: ' And Ix>fore I
had time to answer he s&id, “The only
gu.xl law of divorce that you have in
America is the law in South Carolina. ”
The fact is that Insjead of state laws on
n.is subject we not'd a nntiocftl law pass 'd
by the *i-nste of the United Htateo and ths
house of repr - ntatives and plainly ietrr
pjvreii by the supnetu*. 'or.rt of the country
Mjjrriasc and fit - eree.
There are thousands of married people i
vln an. unhappy and th-w ought never to
have lx-, n we-'.lod. They were deceived, j
or they were reckless, or they were fools, I
or they were caught by dimple, or hung
by a curl, or married in joke, or expected
a fortune and it did not come. Gr good
habits turned to brutality, and hence the
domestic wreck, but make divorce less
easy and you make the human race more
cautions about entering upon life time al
liance. Let people understand that mar
riage is not an accommodation train that
wfil let you leave almost anywhere. fe\it a
CEf.oigii train, and tbefi tl.oy will hot step
Oh tilt) i tin unless they expect to go clear
through to tie* bis-t depot One brave man
this i-oming v. int r. risiru amid the white
marble of yc-der Capitol bill, could offer
a resolution upon the subject of divorce
that could keep out of the next century
much of the free lovifiin and dissoluteu».«s
which have cursed this t»ntury.
Another thing that we need to get fixed
up before the clock shall strike Id on that
night of centennial transition is the ex
pulsion of war by the power of arbitra
tion Within the next three years we
ought to have, and I hope wiil have, what
t. Sght be called “a jury of nations,”
which shall renb-w verdict on all contro
' rt.-d in: ;mat) tal questions. All civi
lized nations art* ready for it. Great Britain
with a standing urn y of 210,000 men,
France with a ?* .tiding ’army of 580.000
men. Germany with a standing army of
60(i.000 men. L .issia vf.tn a standing
army of 900,000 men. Europe with stand
ing armies of about 3,500,000 men, the
Unimd States proposing a standing army
of b 0.0.' ii: !. What a glorious idea,
that of disarmament! What an emancipa
tion of miti •■■“ and uenturi. s! The czar
of Rub-ia last summer proposed it in
world resounding manifesto. Disarma
ment! What nil inspiring and heaven de
scended thought! In some quarters the
czar’s manifesto was treated with derision,
and we were i old that ho was not in earitost
wU I. he made it. I know personally that
he Bid in.rn it. Six years ago he expressed
to i. the same theory in hi* palace at i’o
terhof, ho then being on the way to the
throne, not yet having reached it. Ilis
father. Alexander 111. then on the throne,
1 to me in his palace the same
s. ntii ants of peace,and Lis wife, the then
* .ij - '•• ill, t in her .-yes, sai l, in
reply to my remark, “Your Majesty, there
w iil never be it !,er grr it war Ixitwecn
Christian n . ions, ” "Ah, I hope there
t ■ *r will lx:! If there should over be an
other great war, 1 am sure it will uot
t >r front this palace.”
! niverwl Peace.
‘ ii a l ■ ,n i ' 1 in' world if Russia and
Ger.iiariy and England and the United
H'eu s . ild safely disband all their stand
ing arnr * and dismantle their fortresses
and spike their guns! What uncounted
millions of dollars would be saved, and,
more t han that, what a complete cessation
of human slaughter! What an improve
ment of the morals of nations! What an
adoption of that higher and better mani-
I festo which was set to music and let down
| from the midnight heavens of Bethlehem
ag s ago! The world has got to come to
j this Why not make it tiie peroration of
the nineteenth century? Are we going to
make a present to the twentieth century
of reeking hospitals and dying armies anil
hemispheric graveyards? Do you want tiie
hoofs of other cavalry horses on the breasts
of fallen men? Do you want other harvest
li< Ids gullied with wheels of gun carriages?
Do you want tiie sky glaring with confla
gration of other homesteads? Ah, this
nineteenth century has seen enough of
war. Make the determination that no
other century shall bo blasted with it.
During the first half of this century we
expended $8,000,1)00 to educate the Indi
ans and $400,000,000 to kill them. Accord
ing to a reliable statistician, during this
century.we have had tho Crimean war,
which slew 785,000 and cost $1,700,000,-
000, and our American civil war, which
slew 1,000,000 men, north and south, and
cost $9,000,000,000, digging a grave trench
from Barnegat lighthouse, New Jersey, to
Lone Mountain cemetery at San Francis
co. And you must add to these the Zulu
war, anti the Austro-Prussian war, and
the Danish war, and the Italian'war, tho
Franco-Prussian war,Chino-Japaoesewar,
Napoleonic war and the Americo-Span
ish war. What a record for this boasted
nineteenth century! It makes all pande
monium chuckle. It has called out all the
realms of diaiiolus in grand parade, eatan
reviewing them from platform of fire as
the demons in companies and regiments
and brigades have passed with banners of
fire ami riding on horses of fire, keeping
step to the roll of the grand march of hell
In the name of the God of nations, let tho
scroll of blood bo rolled up and put upon
th- shelf, never to be taken down. And
by the middle of next century let the
sword and the carbine and the bombshell
become curiosities in a museum about
which your grandchildren shr.il ask ques
tions, wondering what thoso instruments
wore ever used for, but let no one dare tell
them but keep it from them an everlast
ing secret, Jest they too much despise our
nineteenth century and curse the memory
of their ancestors.
Will it uot be grand if on the first day
of the twentieth century tho last will and
testament of the nineteenth Century shall
be opened and it shall be found to read:
“In the name of God, amen. I, the dying
century, do make this my last will and
testament I give and bequeath to my
heir, tiie twentieth century, peace of na
tions; swords, which 1 direct to be beaten
into plowshares, and spears, which must
be turned into pruning hooks; armories,
to be changed into seboolhouses and for
tresses, to be rebuilt into churches, and I
order that greater honors be put on those
who save life than upon those who destroy
it. And if amid the universal peace now
attained those two nations, Spain and
Turkey, do not stop their cruelties, let
tho other nations, banded together, extem
porize* a police force to wipe those coun
tries off the map of pations as a 'wet
spoil}?.) wipes from a boj T ’s slate at school
a hard sum in arithmetic. This last will I
sign and seal and deliver on the 31st day
of December, in tho year of pur Lord 1900,
all tho civilized nations of earth and all
the glprified nations of heaven witness
ing.”
But what we do gs individuals, as
churrhos, as nations, as continents, wo
must do wry soon, if we want the transi
tion from century to century to boa wor
thy f ran.-JU' m for i kray the trumpets of
the nppf.• w idng century and the clatter
ing hoofs of the jf leads on
A 'livtortc
For hMerit al reniinlseer.ee there is r.o
street jn all Uso world like yonder Penn
sylvania avenue Champs lvlysees of Paris
is more brilliant; Princess street, Edin
burgh, more picturesque; Ur.ter den Lin
den, Berlin, mere richly foliaged; Picca
dilly street. London, nu ro populous; Nev
sky Prospekt of St. Petersburg stands for
more years; the Corso of Rome is lined
with mpfp antiquities, but for an intelli
gent and patriotic ApifTjfcaq yonder nv
.mu.' has no equal for suggestsvenesa. Thp
ctbc? flight, while thinking of this sub
jeer, as (e tile yvfiy fji which we ought tq
meet tho new psfifujiy so p»(jf fit hand, I
fell into a sort of dreamy state, in which
the chronology of events «oamed obi iterat
ed, gj)d I saw on Pennsylvania ayenqa
two prcv;.-*<;'?ns, which seemed to meet
each other as till*; cojif qry goes out and an
other comes i:i As ue;vr a# [ p.qpjfj fgj} in
that dreamy state it was the last mgM pf
tiie century aaq J saw the spirits of the
mighties in American ffistory passing
down tin* marble steps of the eapjtpl on
yonder hiii and moving through that
memorable Pennsylvania avenue. There
they come, the departed members of tho
supreme court of n:r nation, led qu by
Chief Justice Marshal) There come tho
distinguished men of our national legis
lature. in v hiefc are Webster and Clay and
Benton and Calhoun aml Preston and
Corwin and Edward Everett and John
Quincy Adams and Hamuol L. Southard
and Rufus Choate and others—soma great
for state-manship, others great for wit,
: others great for eloquence, others great
for courage They pass on through the
j avenue immortal for those who in past
i tim >» tiv<i n Yonder 1 see the funeral
i pageants c. sertiuoi* ;»nd three presidents!
Banners draped in gloom, black
i plumes foil wing tossing black plumes,
i Cato.',fi,,;i.‘s. j-ach drawn by eight white
hors. s, while up; ore guns boom. Yonder
' a nation in tears follow* pm victims of
tho exploded Princeton, the slain secre
taries .J itaty and navy.
inuagura) processions, ac
comranjeJ by vanished music tiiap jias re
turned. the li; y again on iiutes and comets
i Jiiteg ;.go rusted, tsut now repolished, and
l fiuu,” the beating drums, w hich, silent
| for many y ms. are again sounded, greet
ed by the huzza .d ii’indreds of thousands
of voices. Many dcglides hushed, but
again resonant Regiments of the army
of Amori nu Revolution followed by regl
jnents rs tiia army of 1613 and regiments
of the army of 1564 They have pome up
from the encampments in the tomb to take
part in this great parade in honor of the
century on this night passing away
From the windows on both sides—win
dows upholstered again, as in those olden
MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 38 *B9B.
days— ti nump . uT fashi n na
tional car »1 I 1 ng cht upon the pass
ing spec h< 1 Tie*: 3 Marrt lis de I>afayett(J
passe*, t cc i ~y the . f men of the
land, w:. » 1 .ve i cn authorized to wel
come hitu in bci*iif of a nation which he
helped to set fr*o. On through that avenue
pass the throngs toward the presidential
residence, where, to greet them, come out
on the platform built to review the pass
ing century Washington and the Adamses
and Jefferson and Madison and Monroe
and Lincoln Askhat long and brilliant
procession, vanished, bat now a resurrect
.d and remarshaled host, passes before
that reviewing stand 1 see an other Jproces
-ion coming from the opposite direction to
n et this They are the presidents, the
senators, the legislators, the judges, the
philanthropists, the deliverers of the twen
tieth century They come up from the
schools tiie churches, the farms, the cities,
the lamest cads of tho continent Their
cradles were rocked on the banks of the
Alabama, and the Ht. Lawrence, and the
Oregon, and the Androscoggin, and the
Potomac, and the Hudson. They have
just as firm a tread, just as well built a
brow, just a? great a brain, just as noble
a heart, just as high a purpose, just as
sublime a courage passing in procession
one way thr. .h t hat aveuue as the other
procession passes the other way. Yea, the
men coming out of the twentieth century
in some respects surpass those coming out
of the nineteenth century, for they have
had better advantage, and will liavogrand
er opportunity, and will take part in high
er achievements of civilization and Chris
tianity What a meeting on this midnight
12 o’clock, tho two processions of the
mighties t.f two c. nturies! Uncover all
heads and bow reverently in prayer.
Thank God for the good done by the pro
cession coming out of the past and pray
to God for good to lx don • by tho proces
sion coming out of the future. But halt,
both processions! Halt! Halt! Break
ranks! Back to your thrones, ye mighties
of the nine.t. n'h century, and eiijoy the
reward of your fidelity! Back to your
homes, ye mighties of the twentieth con
tury, jour congressional chairs, your ju
dicial benches, your presidential mansions,
your editorial rooms, your stupendous re
sponsibiiities and do the work for the
twentieth century! Farewell and tears for
the one procession! Hail and welcome to
the other procession!
Xew’Year’s Watcli.
It has been a custom in all Christian
lands for people to keep watch night as an
old year goes out and a new year comes
in People as .-"in hie in churches about 10
o’clock of that, last night of the old year,
and they have prayers and songs and ser
mons and congratulations until the hands
of the church clock almost reach the figure
.12, and than all bow in silent prayer, and
the scene is mightily impressive, until the
clock in the tower of the church or the'
clock in tho tower of the city ball strikes
12, and then all rise and sing with snsil
ing face and jubilant voice tho grand dox
ology, and ttiere is,a shaking of hands all
around
But what a tremendous watch night the
world is soon to celebrate! This century
will depart at 12 o’clock of the .list of De
cember of the year 1900. What a night
that will be, whether starlit or moonlit or
dark with tempest! It will bo such a
night, as you and I never saw Those who
watched the coming in cf tho nineteenth
century long ago went to thqjr piliows of
dust. Here and there one will s. 0 the new
century arrive who saw this century, yet
they were too infantile to appreciate tho
arrival. But on the watch night of which
I speak in all neighborhoods and towns
and cities and continents audiences will
assemble and bow in prayer, waiting for
tho last breath of the dying century, and
when the clock shall strike 12 there will
be a solemnity and an ov. nvhelming awe
such as have not been felt for 100 years, and
then all the people will arise and chant
the welcome of a new century of joy and
sorrow, of triumph and defeat, of happi
ness and woe, and neighborhood will shake
hands with neighborhood, and church
with church, and city with city, and con
tinent with continent, and hemisphere
with hemisphere, and earth with heaven,
at the stupendous departure and the ma
jestic arrival. May we ail ho living on
earth to see tho solemnities and join in
the songs and shake hands in the congrat
ulations of that watch night, or if between
this and that any of us should be off and
away may we be inhabitants of that land
where “a thousand years are tis one day,”
and in the presence of that angel spoken
of in the Apocalypse who at the end of
the world will, standing with one foot on
tho sea and the other foot on the land,
“swear by him that livoth for ever and
ever that time shall bo no longer.”
A Story of Colonel Waring,
“I was living in Memphis in 1879,’
said Mr. G. E. Norton, now of Charleston,
“when Colonel George E. Waring, Jr.,
who died the other day, was engaged to
design a sewerage system for tho city. It
was a gigantic engineering problem, and
Waring attacked it with his habitual vig
or. One night while the work was in
progress I had occasion to call on him at
his hotel. I had never met him before,
and when I entered his room was stag
gered by the evidences of concentrated la
bor that met my eyes. Ho was in his
shirt sleeves at a big table, writing furi
ously. His hair was disheveled, his point
ed mustache bristled menacingly, his
writing materia! was in wild disorder and
plye floor %vas lift.-red with sheets of paper.
I concluded that be was deep ip some
stupendous balouiati'pu and made iuy stay
as brief as possible.
“A few days inter I saw him at the
office of tho geworago works. He was
faultlessly dressed, perfectly groomei and
cool as a cucumber, although busily en
gaged in tlio examination of some intri
cate draw ittgs The startling contrast con
vinced me that my former visit had been i
fioul ly inopportune, and I said something
po that effect. 'Not at all,’ ho replied
laughing. ’! was writing a short story I
when you dropp'd in ft’s away I have !
of amusing myself. Ho mentioned the !
title, and 1 afterward read the tale in bis
book called 'Whip, Hpur and Saddle.’ ”
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P. 0. Box 21*, Waco,
Sold by H. J. Lamar & Son, Macon, Ga.
READ THIS.
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Reefton, New .Zealand, November 23,
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! sinee I took the agency of Chamberlain's
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1 more especially of the Cough Remedy. In
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SSBtm.
Besolutioas AJoptEil at saumiag's iDeeting De
claring Against tfie Movement as Being Inim
ical to trie Commercial and Civic Interests or
Hlacon.
A special meting of the Chamber of
Commerce was held Saturday afternoon at
which, in addition to other business, the
question of the commercial interests of
Macon in connection with the prohibition
election, to he held December 1, was ta
ken under consideration. There was a
large representative atendanee, the meet
ing having been duly announced.
The committee on election submitted
the following report, which was unanim
ously adopted:
“Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Chamber of Commerce:
“Your committee to whom were referred
the subject involved in the election to be
held on the Ist day of December, to de
cide whether the liquor traffic shall be li
censed or prohibited in Bibb county, re
spectfully submih that after a careful con
sideration of the question they are of the
opinion that the Chamber of Commerce.re
| presenting the busines interests of Macon,
; and the greater portion of its invested
j capital, is fully justified in declaring it
self clearly on an' issue that involves the
business conditions of Macon. The busi
i ness men of Macon are anchored here by
; investments—are held here by ties not
j easily loosened —whatever, therefore, af
| sects the profit or investments threatens
i losses, or adds burdens that places them
| at a disadvantage in business competition
j with other cities: whatever makes for the
i development and maintenace of busi
ness; whatever makes for public order or
the reverse is, in our judgment, a proper
subject for this organization to consider.
Actuated by this view, your committee
find that the issue presented the business
men of this city in the coming election is
■ whether the liquor traffic shall be per
mitted in Bibb county under a license
system and police supervision or an unli
censed and unlawful traffic. The traffic
under a license system and police super
vision is kept within the proper limits,
UNCLE SAM'S
LAKE MARINE,
John Buil About to Receive a
Very Worrying Lot of
Information.
oust GREAT TONNAGE.
United States Treaty Commission
ers Submit Facts that Open Eyes
of Their Canadian Associates.
By Associated Fress.
New York, Nov. 28. —A dispatch jo the
Press from Ottawa says:
In framing the report for the British the
imperial defense board have been largely
guided by the existing treaties between
Great Britain and the United States. Un
forseeo conditions have grown up since
the treaties were ratified. The military
and naval situation is in many respects
changed. New war factors have arisen;
some have disappeared. Facts are brought
out that will appear incredible in 'Great
Britain relating to the growth of the
American power on the lakes.
The treaties relate to Newfoundland,
Labrador, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the
coasts of the maritime provinces, the fish
ing grounds of British North America and
the Great Lakes. Their consideration
raises the questions affecting the security
of communication from salt water to the
unsalted seas of the interior and the navi
gation of the Great Lakes, canals and
river systems, forming the boundary for
more than one thousand miles. The move
ment in the United State’s for the modifi
cation or abrogation of Teh treaty relat
ing to warships on the Great Lakes brings
that treaty more particularly to the front.
From various sources in the L>nited
States and Canada, official and unofficial,
■a striking aray of facts and figures have
been drawn, which fully bears out the
United States contentions that In case of
j war tlie value of the lake property—hos- j
| tage millions —at stake on t.hb United
■ States side would he Immeasurably great
l er than that on the Canadian and the po
i sit ion of affairs is consequently one in
which the United States is fully justified
in considering adequate measures of pro
tection, even if such measures should be
contrary to thee lause of the treaty.
In the event of the United States and
Great, Britain ever being at war, even
should the former 'be successful in obtain
ing control of the St. Lawrence, ~o Amer
ican warship piorp than l?y feet in length !
could ue sent up from the sea through |
the locks to the interior. It Is not much j
of a warship that measures less than 200 !
feet in length. Great Britain holds the I
mouth of the St. Lawrence apd flu* peeat’
er pars of the seventy miles or so of ca
nals Is oh the Canadian side,
While the entire lake marine of Canada, :
it appears, comprises less than 900 steam
vessels, mostly small, with an aggregate
tonnage Under One hundred thousand,
one company alone out of the many on the
United States side, owns a fleet of close j
oii to one hundred thousand tons. The
lake marine of the United States com- i
prises in round numbers some 3,500 ships j
with a tonnage of upward of a million and j
a half and of this enormous fleet\ fully I
one-half the tonnage.is that of steamers, j
A striking fact is that some 500 of the*e
steamers are of a tonnage of 1,000 to 5.-
000 each. Several lake steamship com
panies at United States ports are found
to own magnificent fleets numbering from
6 to 20 powerful vessels and some of these
fleets are comprised of scarcely any
steamers of less than 4.000 tons.
The United States, too. is shown to have
all to lose and Canada all to gain in the
way of steel plants for shipbuilding and
dry docks. The object of contiguous pow
ers would be to procure ix>sses«iaH of '
points of such vital importance in a na- j
va| struggle. It seems that Oanafta has
scarcely a dock or steel plant o! the larg
est class to lose where modem steamers
equal to those of the United States owners
are constantly putting upon the lakes,
could he built or put into condition for
fighting or where damages could be re
paired. The United States on the other
hand has modem ship bulding yards in
most of the chief ports .on the upper
lakes, fifteen complete modern ste*l
plants and more than thirty dry d«ck3 of
which eight are cf the largest class, ca
pable of taking the heaviest steamers
afloat on teh lakes. It is not surprising
under these circumstances to learn that
the treaty concerning warships on the
lakes is one of the principal objects of
consideration by the imperial defense
board in preparing the material for their
report to the British government.
and yields a revenue which defrays a
large portion of public expenditure. The
burden of expenditure is inevitable
whether we have a licensed or unlicensed
liquor traffic. It costs the city of Macon
$40,000 annually to maintain its "police
force. Under present conditions the reve
nue derived from saloons, wholesale liquor
dealers and brewers contributes about
$35,000 of this,amount. The police force
must be maintained. Indeed it is hardly
adequate now, and with an. unlicensed li
quor traffic wiuld probably not be suffl
• cient. The present cos: of maintaining it
and the probable increased cost under
• prohibition would be an additional burden
; placed upon the property owners of the
i city of Macon. The result would be high
er rents and vacant buildings, or an addi
i tional burden placed upon the renters,
| who are now burdened, to the limit. Nor
j is this all.
“The experience of other cities, notably
Atlanta, proves that prohibition is not
j effective; that the illicit traffic in liquor
i is certain to follow the abolition of the li
censed saloon, and what is known as the
“jug trade” takes thousands of dollars
out of a community that never returns
and cai’-fs more liquor to be used than
under a L L.-.'d system. Atlanta’s ex
perience is a proper guide, in our judg
-1 ment, for the people of Macon. The busi
ness men of Atlanta who contributed
money, time and their best efforts to carry
prohibition in Atlanta, after two years of
I bitter and costly experience, cast their
ballots for a license system under police
! supervision. Such men as Capt. J. W.
! English, ex-May-or Goodwin and many
I other prominent citizens who favored
i prohibition when it. was put in operation
|in Atlanta say- now that after a fair
| trial it proved a costly failure and that a
\ licensed system under police supervision
i is the best method of handling the liquor
j traffic.”
A Narrow Ksnifio.
Thankful words written by Mrs. Ada E.
Hart, of Groton, S. D., “Was taken with a
bad cold which settled on mylungs; cough
set in and finally terminated in consump
tion. Four doctors gave me up, saying I
could live but a short 'time. I gave myself
up to my savior, determined if T could
not stay with my friends on earth I would
meet my absent ones above. My husband
i-was advised to get Dr. King's New Dis
j coyery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds.
I gave it a trial; took in all eight bottles.
It has cured me and thank God I am
saved and am now a well and healthy
woman.” Trial bottles free at H. J. La
mar & Sons' drug store. Regular size 50c
andsl, guaranteed or price refunded.
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Wednesday, Nov. 30
Hoyt's theatre success,
fl BaDiielcf's Honeymoon
How it goes.—New York Journal.
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