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KEY. DIE TA I M AGE.
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject; “Wholesale Divorce .’*
Text: i. What, therefore, God bath joined
Jogether let net man put asunder.”—Matthew
tix., 6.
That there are hundreds and thousands of
tnfelicitou3 homes in America no one will
ioubt. If there were only one skeleton in
(he oloset, that might be locked up and
rbandoned. but in many a homo there is a
Skeleton in the hallway and a skeleton in all
the apartments
icriptive “Unhappily married” are two words de
of many a homestead. It needs no
orthodox minister to prove to a badly mated
pair that there is a bell They are there now
Sometimes a grand and gracious woman will
be thus incarcerated, and her life will be a
crucifixion as was the case with the‘great Mr* Sigour
ney, the great poetess and soul,
Sometimes a consecrated man will be united
to a fury, as was John Weslev. or united to a
vixem, as was John Milton Sometimes blame,’ and
generally, [Thomas both parties are to and
Carlyle was an intolerable scold, and
bis wife smoked and swore, and Froude, the
historian, pulled aside the curtain from the
lifelong squabble at Craigenputtock and Five,
Cheyne Row.
Some say that for the alleviation of all
these domestic disorders of which we hear
sasy divorce is a good prescription. God
sometimes authorizes divorce as certainly as
He authorises ut mnzes marriage, muri-iace Thnvp i have just inetiamiich as much
regard for c-e lawfully divorced as I have
for one lawiullv married But vou know
and A I know / that wholesale nomsaie divorce ai voice is is one one of or
our National , scourges, lam not surprised
at at this mis when wuen 1 1 minx think of oi the tne mnuences influences which wi.icn
fla/;Si‘n C ° S ***"“• ■**• I !
For many years the platforms of the noon
try rang with talk about a free love milieu
aium. There were meetings of York" this kind held
In the Cooper Institute and’ New ’the Tremont
Temple Boston wZ’en all over mosrnromt land
Some some of o the mo women who wno were were mosr promi
themi occasions r’aaSj
tion. the Popular for such were
tyranny of man. the oppression of the
marriage relation, women’s rights and the
afflnlues. Prominent speakers were women
with short curls and short dress, and very
long tongue everlastingly at war with God
because they were created women while on
the platform sat meek men with soft accent
and cowed demeanor tie apologetic for mascu
terma’gant linity and holding parasols while the
orators went on preaching the
doctrine of free love.
That camr amn of about twenty years set
more devils into the marriage relation than
will be exorcised in the next fifty Men and
women went home from such meetings so
permanently confused as to who were their
wives and husbands that tlmy never got out
of their perplexity, and the criminal and the
civil courts tried to disentangle the “Iliad" !
of woes, and this one got alimony and that ! I
one kept" got 5 a limited divorce and this mother
the children on condition that the
father could sometimes come and look at
them, and these went into poorhouses and
those went into an insane asylum and those
went into dissolute public life and all went
to destruction The mightiest war ever
made against the marriage institution was
that free love sometimes campaign sometimes under
one name and under another
An other influence that has warred upon
the marriage relation has been polygamy in
Utah. That was a stereotyped caricature of
the marriage relation and lias poisoned the
whole land. You might as well think that
you cau have an arm in a state of mortiflea
tion and yet the whole body not be sickened ;
as to have these Territories polvgamized and !
yet faction. the body Hear of the good Nation not feel the putre- ]
it, men and women of
America. that so loug ago as 1862 a law was !
passed by Congress forbidding polygamy in
the Territories and in all the places where
they had jurisdiction. Twenty-four years
the passed along and live administrations before
first brick was knocked from that for
tress of libertinism
Every new President in his inaugural j
tickled that monster with the straw of con- !
self demaation, and every Congress stultified it
in proposing some plan that would not
work. Polygany stood more intrenched, I
and more brazen, and more puissant, and
more Bucbanuau, braggart, and more infernal. James | I
a much abused man of his d»y,
did more for the extinction of this villainy
than most of the subsequent administra- i
tions. Mr. Buchanan sent out an army, and
although it was halted in its work still he
accomplished more than some of the admin
istrations which did nothing but talk, poisoned talk,
talk. At last, but not until it had
blow generations, polygamy * has received its death
Poiygamy in Utah warred against tbemar- !
riage relation throughout the land. It was
impossible to have such an awful sewer of
iniquity sending up its miasma, which was
wafted by the winds North, South. East and
West, without the whole land being ° affected
by
Another influence that has warred against
the marriage relation in this country has
been a pustulous literature, with its millions
of sheets every week choked with stories of
domestic wrongs and infidelities and massa- i
that cres and there outrages, decencies until it is a wonder to me |
are any or any common !
sense left on the subject of marriage. One
half of the newsstands of all our cities reek
ing with the filth
“Now,” say some, “we admit all. these
evils, and the only way to clear them cut or
correct them is by easy divorce.” Weil, be
fore we yield to that cry let us find out how i
easv it is now
I have looked over the laws of all the States,
and I find that, while in some States it is
easier than in others, in every State it is
easy. The State of Illinois, Ust’of through its Leg
islature, recites a long proper causes
for divorce and then closes up by giving to
the courts the right to make the decree of
divorce in any case where they deem it ex
pedient. After that you are not surprised
at the announcement that in one couutv of
the State of Illinois, in one year, there were
833 divorces. If you want to know how easy
it is, you have only to look over the records o(
the States. In the city of San Francisco 333
divorce* in one ve-ir and in twrntv vpin
in New England* ° 20 000. I* that ” not easy ‘"■’i
enou'di'*
If the same ratio continus-the ratio of
multiplied divorce ami mulf r.l e l causes of
divorce-we are not far from the time when
our courts will have to set apart whole days
for application, and all you will have to
prove against a man will be that he left his
newspaper in the middle of the floor, and al!
vou will have to prove against a woman will
be that her husband's overcoat is buttonless .
Causes of divorce double in a few years—
doubled in France, doubled in England and
doubled in the United States. To show you
how very easy it is I have to tell you that in
Western Reserve, Ohio, celebrated the proportion of
divorces to marriages is one to
eleven, in Bhode Island is one to thirteen, in
Vermont one to fourteen. Is not that easy
enough? in
I want you to notice that ency oi
divorce always goes along with (he disso¬
luteness of society. Rome for 500 years had
not one case of divorce. Those were her
(lays or glory a nr! virtue, 'men tnejreign or
vice began, and divorce became epidemic. If
I you want to know how rapidly the empire
] i went What down, ask Gibbon. this country and in all
we want in
lauds is that divorce be made more uni
more and more difficult. Then people be
fore they enter that relation will be per
sauded that there will probably be no escape
from it except through the door of the sep
uleher. Then they will pause on the verge
of that relation until they are fully satisfied
that it is best, and that it is right, and that
it is happiest. Then we shall have no more
marriage in Iud. Then men and women will
oof enter the relation with the idea it is only
a trial trip, and if they do not like it they
can get out at the first landing. Then this
whole question will be taken out of the friv
olous into the tremendous, and there will be
D0 more i okin S about blossom3 111 a
bride’s hair than about the cypress on a
coffin.
Wbat we want is that the Congress of the
United States change the National Constitu
tion so that a law can be passed which shall
be uniform all over the country, and what
sha11 be right in one State shall be right in
al1 tbe States, and what is wrong in one State
will be wrong in all the States.
How *» it now? li a party in the marriage
relation gets dissatisfied, State it is achieve only necessary libera
to move to another to
tion from the domestic tie, and divorce is
effected so easy that the first one party knows
°f H 19 b Y seeing in the newspaper that Rev.
P r * Somebody marriage on March relation 17, 1895, member introduced of the
a uew a
household who went off on a pleasure excur
^°n Chicago. to Newport Married or at a the business bride excursion s house. No to
Cird f: There are States of the Union which
practically put a premium upon the disin
tegration of the marriage relation, while
there are ouioroouts. other States uw like oiurowunew our own New York xora
State, idiocy that had for a long time the pre-emi
nent of making * marriage ” lawful at
. % , . f
lw A, e inu Ioun
T,ie Congress ^ of * the United States needs . to x
tTn mova f or „ chance aw" inti of the commUtelnot Natinml rnnstitu
and to
"P of si "Sl» gentlemen, but of men of fain!
h es : and their famlbe3 111 Washington-who
shall , good, honest, righteous,
prepare a com
prehensive. everything uniform law that will control
from Sandy Hook to the Golden
Horn. That will put an end to broken ties
marri-iees STd That will send divorce law
yem le tated for
P. eo P a .f fany years on the ques
tj on of f how shall they get away from each
other to planning how they can adjust them
selves to the more or less unfavorable circum
stances.
More difficult divorce will put an estoppel
to a 2 reat extent upon marriage as a finan
fial l0 tbe speculation. relation just There as they are go men into who Wall go street in
to purchase shares. The female to be invited
into the partnership of wedlock is utterly
unattractive and in disposition a suppressed
Vesuvius. Everybody knows it but this mas
online candidate for matrimonial orders,
through the commercial agency or through
the county records, finds out how much
estate is to be inherited, and he calculates it.
He thinks out liow long it will be before the
old man will die, and whether he can stand
the refractory temper until he does die, and
then be enters the relation, for he says, “If
* cannot stand it, then through the divorce
law I’ll hack out.” That process is going on
aH the time, and men enter the relation with
out any moral principle, without any affec
b° n .and it is as much a matter of stock spec
ulation as anything that transpired yesterday
in Union Pacific, Illinois Central or Dela
ware and Lackawanna.
Now, suppose a man understood, as he
ought to understand, that if he goes into that
relation there is no possibility of his getting
out > or , b no probability, k th he would He be would more slow
P ut | 9 “«« « yoke. say
toMmself, wmd “Rather whole fleet than a of Caribbean whirl
w,th a shipping in its
arr ? s ^Y a me * zephyr ott llelds o£ sunshine
aD n gardens of peace. >1
Rigorous divorce law will also hinder wo
aien rom the fata mistake of marrying men
* 0 reform tbem * If a young man by twenty
dve 7®““ °/ or thirty years of age have
the habit of strong drink fixed on him, he is
“ certainly bound for a drunkard’s grave as
tnat a train starting out from Grand Central
Depot at 8 o clock to-morrow morning is
bound for Albany. The train may not reach
Albany, for it may be thrown off the track.
The young man may not reach a drunkard’s
p rava - for something may throw him off the
that u v ' oa the train °/ e that N. ilbabl starts G bat to-morrow the Probability morning is
at 8o clockf or Albanywill get there, and
the probability is that the young man who
h a 9the hant of strong drink fixed on him
before twenty-flye or thirty yeara of age will
arrlye at a drunkard s grave. She knows he
drinks, although he tries to hide it by chew
c ^ ove9 * Eveiybody knows he drinks,
Barents warn; neighbors and friends warn,
' S1 marry blln ' sne 'J’ 111 reform him.
If she ^ unsuccessful in the experiment, why,
then thedivorce law will emancipate her De¬
oause habitual drunkenness is a cause for di
voree in Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Con
necticut and nearly all the States So the
poor th ug goes to the altar of sacrifice If
>' ou will show me the poverty struck streets
m any city, I will show you the homes of the
women whc [ t0 ^ form them *
ou ® ' :ase 0, ‘ t of 10,000 it may be a successful
experiment. I never saw the successful ex
® ut ba T^ a riga y? u f dlvo y£ e ^ aw >
and that woman will say,^ 1£ f I am affianced
to tnat man. it is for ale.
A- rigorous dn orce law will also do much
to . ha sty and inconsiderate
mar
F ia - es - Under the impression that one can
ba ® a91 lY released people enter the relation
without Inquiry and without reflection,
Romance and impulse rule the day. Por¬
baps the only ground for the marriage com
P act I 9 that she likes his looks, and he ad
?! ure 3 * b e graceful way she passes around
the ice . abo cream each at other the picnic! » a11 It is all they
know ut - 13 tbe prepara
Hon f for life. f A woman that could not make
aloaf of bread to save her life will swear to
caerl3b . and ob ? y f. c hnstl au will marry
? u albeist, and that alwajs . makes con
{ olaed wretchedness, for if a man does not
beUe / e th ® re ia a God he ??. neither to be
rusted , Wlth a d 1 llar , no ^ wlth >’°\ lr h f e on S
happiness. Having people brought read much about love
* n a e ^Hage, up in ease will
g°aml starve a
By the wreck of 10,000 homes, by the holo
« au f‘ of 10 - 0d0 6acnlb ‘® d m en aad
by tbe v hearthstone , of the T family, whicn is
the cornerstone of the State, and in the
naal ? °J. that 7 hobat h set a P tbe “D’
institution, martial and who hath , made the t break
in§ of the oath the most appalling
of all perjuries, I implore the Congress of
the United States to make some righteous,
uniform la w for all the States, and from
oe f n to ° cean ' 011 this sub J ect of marria ge |
»nd divorce. I
Let me say to the hundreds of young peo
in This hoime t ns 1 a ternoon, before you
give your heart and hand in holy alliance use
all cautions. Inquire outside as to haoits,
exp]0 J e tb ® disposition, scrutinize the taste,
question the ancestry and find out the am
bitions. Do not take the heroes and the
heroines of cheap novels for a model. Do
not put your lifetime happiness in the keep¬
ing of a man who has a reputation for being j
a little loose in morals or in the keeping of a I
woman who dresses fast. Remember that, .
while good looks are a kindly gift of God, j
wrinkles or accident may despoil them. Re
member that Byron was no more celebrated !
for his beauty than for his depravity. Re
member that Absalom’s hair was not more i
aulendidtfc.au his habit- 1 were despicable. '
j Hear it, hear It! The only foundation lor
! happy marriage that has ever been or ever
will be is good character.
Ask God whom [you shall marry U yon
marry at all. A union formed in prayer wui
be a happy union, though sickness pale the
cheek, and poverty empty . the: bread tray,
and death open the small graves, and all tne
path of life be strewn with thorns from t* 1 ®
marriage altar with its wedding march and
orange blossoms clear on down to the last
farewell at that gate where Isaac and Rebecca,
Abraham and Sarah, Adam and Eve parted,
And let me say to you who are in this re¬
lation, if you make one man or woman hap
py, you have not lived in vain. Christ says
that what He is to the church you ougntto
be to each other, and if sometimes througn
difference of opinion or difference ot dispo
sition you make up your mind that your
marriage was a mistake patiently life the bear longest ana
forbear, remembering that at
is short, and that for those who have been
badly mated in this world death will give
quick and immediate bill of divorcement
written in letters of green grass on quiet
graves. And perhaps, my brother, my sis
ter, perhaps you may appreciate each otner
better in heaven than you have appreciated
each other on earth
In the “Farm Ballads American . poet
our
puts into the lips of a repentant husband
after a life of married perturbation these sug
gestive words:
^nd w jjen she dies I wish that she would be
laid fry
A.nd lyins? together in silence perhaps we
will agree,
And if eyer we meet in heaven I would not
think it queer
if we w love each other better because we quar
reJed here .
And And let let me me «nv say to to those those of oi vou you who w_o are are in in
happy rw married union avoid first quarrels; with
, aave no unexplained nnrresnrmdenco correspondence witn
former adnurers; cultivate no suspicions; in
a moment of bad temper aA do not rush out and
te “ tbe neighbors, do not nnt let let any nnv of oi those those
gad-abouts of society unload m your house
their baggage oi gab and tittle tattle; do not
''f * e “™ foTiubloT ol
so devilish <Jo not that be so you proud will d not or go make smbborn^or up. ±ie
member that the worst domestic misfortune.
and most scandalous divorce cases started
from little infelicities The whole piled smashed up
train of ten rail cars telescoped eJrtVZT and i
aUh, foot of an .mbanhmen. 100 fee. doiyn
oame to> that coUhe grei"
three inches off the track, borne of the gre^t
est] domestic misfortunes and the wide re
sounding divorce cases have Started from
little misunderstandings that were allowed tc
go on and go on until home and respeotabih
ity and religion and immortal soul wen
down in the crash, crash!
And fellow citizens as well as fellow Chns
tians, let us have a divine rage against any
thing that wars on the marriage state,
Blessed institution! Instead of two arms to
fight tli9 battle of life, four; instead of two
eyes to scrutinize the path of life, four; in
stead of two shoulders to lilt the burden ol
life, four. Twice the energy, twice the
courage, twice the holy ambition, twice the
probability of worldly success, twice the
prospects of heaven. Into the matrimonial
bower God fetches two souls. Outside that
bower room for all contentions, and all bick
erings, and all controversies, but inside the
bower there is room for only one guest—the the
angel of love. Let that angel stand at
floral doorway of this Edenic bower with
drawn sword to hew down the worst foe of
that bower—easy divorce. And for every
paradise lost may there be a paradise here re¬
gained. And after we quit our home
may we have a brighter home in heaven, fa- at
the windows of which this moment are
miliar faces watching for our arrival and
wondering why so long we tarry.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Tf.w t nous avd shoe operatives struck in
London for a shorter day’s work.
The labor riots in British Honduras ended
in fourteen men being imprisoned.
ing The waiters of order St. Louis, that they Mo., shall are shave protest¬ off
against an
their whiskers.
Sanitary pottery operators of the United
States met at Trenton, N. J., and formulated
a new constitution.
Miles Crowley was at one time a steve¬
dore on the Galveston docks. He is now a
Congressman from Texas.
One hundred and twenty diamond cut¬
ters from Antwerp sailed from Liverpool for
New York on the Majestic.
Fifteen thousand of the 23,000 miners in
the Pittsburg (Penn.) district responded to
the order calling for a strike.
It is reported that three large tin plate
mills are to be constructed at Baltimore, Md.,
aggregating in cost about $750,000.
Unemployed members of the Machinists’
Union at Baltimore, Md., have succeeded in
establishing a co-operative machine shop.
Company The Philadelphia controls and Reading Railroad
now seventy-nine coal
operations, employing 18,000 men and boys.
J. A. Hamilton, a blacklisted American
Railway Union conductor, committed suicide
at Denver, CoL, because he could not get
work.
Silk weavers are flush just now. They are
working overtime at increased wages, as the
manufacturers have more orders than they
can fill.
On the refusal of the great match factories
of Pantin and Aubervilliers to increase wages,
the labor union ordered a strike in all the
match factories in France.
The strike of the shoemakers in Haver¬
hill, Hass., having been declared places. off, there
was a great rush to secure Only 200
out of 500 were reinstated.
Knights of Labor Musicians’ Assemblies
in different parts of the country have adopted
resolutions protesting against the tour of the
United States Marine Band through tho
country.
The largest steel mill of the Bethlehem
(Penn.) Iron Company resumed order operations
on a twelve-thousand-ton for a Geor¬
gia railroad. Employment was given to 1500
idle workmen.
A lockout of employes in the Leicester
The (England) mills was considered imminent. of
trouble is due to a reduction wages,
made neees&u~y by the influx of American
goods, which are flooding England.
^ Coast seamens wages, according t to the
last monthly report of T. J. Elderkin, Gen
eral Secretary of the National Seamen’s
Union of America, vary from $18 to $22 per
month, according to the nature of the voy
age.
Durixo the past six months 403 employes
of the Proctor A Gamble Company, at Ivory
dale, dividend Ohio, near twelve Cincinnati, received of the an ex¬
tra per cent, wages
Aeems paid to them. The profit-sharing plan in use
to be generally ” J satLsfaetory.
Two hundred women and girls employed
in the spinning department of Hall’s worsted
mills, Jamestown, N. Y-, struck because the
stools they had been allowed to sit on were
taken away by the foreman. The stools were
put back and the girls returned to work.
Fire In a Texas Town.
rri„„ Ten buildings in a. the 1 business •___ por
tion . of .Pivine. Texas, liaye keen burn
td. Lofts, (50,000.
WASHINGTON NOTES
ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
Tbe president has appointed Jas. H.
Collins to be collector of customs at
Nashville, Tenn.
The cruiser Colombia, now on her
way to South America, carries dis¬
patches to Admiral Meade. Neither
the state nor navy department will
confirm this report which, however,
comes from a reliable semi-official
source. It is asserted that the com
munications which Captain Summer
carries relate chiefly to the Allianca
affair.
Secretary Carlisle has appointed
William Martin Aiken, of Cincin¬
nati, Ohio, supervising architect
of the treasury,to fill the vacancy that
occurred on September 20, 1894, by
the resignation of Jeremiah O’Rouke,
of Newark, N. J. The salary is $4,500
per annum. Mr. Aiken is about forty
two years of age, and was born in
South Carolina.
The division of mining statistics and
technology of the United States geol¬
ogical survey has received from Dr.
William C. Day, the special agent in
charge of the statistics production’of of stone, a
statement of the marble
in Georgia in 1894. This product,
which comes entirely from Pickens
county, 481,429 cubic feet, valued at
$716,385, as compared with $261,666,
the value in 1893, an increase of 174
per cent, Georgia ranks second
among the marble producing states,
Vermont being first.
The statement is made upon good
authority that the decision of the
United States supreme court on the
constitutionality of the income tax
wdl be rendered before Monday, April
15th. Treasury officials, charged with
collection of the tax have been very
anxious to obtain Borne informal as_
surance on this point, inasmuch as the
extension of the period within which
returns must be made by taxpayers in
order to escape the 50 per cent penal¬
ty, imposed by law, expires on that
day.
Internal Revenue Receipts.
Collections of internal revenue from
all sources for the eight months of the
current fiscal year, as compiled by
Commissioner Miller, show the re¬
ceipts to have agregated $100,532,464,
an increase over the the eight months
of 1894 of $5,180,622. The principal
sources of revenue were: Spirits
$59,095,538, an increase of $4,085,-
763; tobacco, $19,761,742, an in
crease of $1,069,999, fermented liquors,
$20,118,768, a decrease of
oieomargeriue, $1,108,276, a decrease
of $228,184 and miscellaneous, $436,-
320, an increase of $343,324. The re¬
ceipts for February were $1,701,-
445 less than for February 1894.
Among the itmes of receipts for
February is one of $11,818 on
account of income tax uflder the new
law. This is the first time any re
ceips from this source has been re
ported.
The Great Pension Drain.
Commissioner of Pensions Lochren
estimates that there will not be any
decreased amount appropriated for
pensions during the next three years.
The amount appropriated for the fis¬
cal year of 1896 in round numbers is
$140,000,000; for the present year the
amount was $150,000,000. The reason
for the absence of any perceptible de¬
crease is that the falling off, owing to
deaths and other causes, is about
counter-balanced by first payments
in pensions allowed. As cases
allowed from time ,
are to time
there are large first payments,
some times for arrears, and always
dated from the time the application
was filed. The decrease in some
classes of claims are quiet great, as in
the pensions for the war of 1812, which
have decreased about 50 per cent in
the past year. After three years when
it is expected the majority of claims
will be adjudicated, and there will be
few remaining first payments, Com¬
missioner Lochren expects there will
then be a rapid falling off in pensions,
as they have now reached the age
when it is to be expected. He then
expects the pension appropriation will
be diminished in size very materially.
Spam I* Investigating.
Advices of Friday state that the
Spanish naval commander at Havana
is still investigating the firing upon the
United States Bteamship Allianca by
the Spanish gunboat Conde de Vena
dito. As evidence of the thoroughness
with which the Spanish government is
looking into this matter, it is stated ! j
that the investigation made by the na
val commander will be entirely sepa- j
rate from any report made by the j
Spanish captain. When the naval !
commander shall have finished his -in- !
vestigation his report will be cabled to |
Madrid. Tbe full text of the Spanish
captain’s report was forwarded to i
Spain as soon as it was placed in the
hands of the Havana authorities. j
It is officially stated that Spain will |
make no reply to Secretary Gresham’s
cablegram through Minister Taylor
reearilinar tbe Allianca case until the
naval commander’s report shall be j,
the hands of the foreign office of 4 j
fairs. that it would The Spanish be unwise government to f ee jJ
commit j{,
self to any reply until it first shall
have been placed in possession of a U
the information bearing upon the ac .
tion taken by the captain of their
gunboat.
TRADE NOTES.
Bradstreets’ Report of Business f 0 »
the Past Week.
Bradstreets’ report on the condition
of business the past week says:
< < Improvement in general trade i 8
more marked, but not general. It
more conspicuous at larger New Eng.
land points, notably Boston and Provi¬
dence, at New York, Pittsburg, Cin¬
cinnati, Louisville and other centers
along the Ohio river valley to St,
Louis and as far west as Kansas City,
Similar reports come from Chicago |
Milwaukee and St. Pai>l, the fi r6
named announcing that smaller quan¬
tities of 4 per cent, money are being
offered, the banks working steadily
toward a 5 per cent, basis and loans
continuing to improve and reserves
being lower than for a year past.
< t Prom other citios a better feeling
is reported, based on the recently de¬
veloped strength in cotton, wheat and
flour. The widespread prevalenbeof
the inquiry whether this upward
movement is the beginning of a per¬
manent recovery from the two years
of depression is of iteelf significant,
Wool remains unchanged, although
the volume of business is smaller, be¬
cause it is between seasons with dress
goods mills and Austrian wool are
more popular. No changes in quota¬
tions are noted for coffee, sugar or na¬
val stores. On the other hand cotton
has jumped up 5-16d.
“At Nashville, Memphis and Savan
nah the week’s volume of business is
reported slightly in excess of a weekB nl
ago, increased demand being agricultural! noted
groceries, hardware and prominent!
implements. At no other ex-1
southern cities are gains reported trouble!
cept New Orleans, though has!
with the dock Jreigbt handlers At|
resulted in a loss of business.
Charleston, Chattanooga, Atlanta,
Jacksonville, Birmingham and Gal¬
veston trade is of moderate or fair
volume, with collections slow.
RKDYVINE’S BOND
Is the Subject of a Suit in the Atlanta;
Courts.
The old Itedwine case is being re¬
vamped in the Atlanta, Ga., city court,
The case now on trial is that of tit
Gate City bank against the Fidelity
and Casualty company of New York,
ant ^ * ts most of the important
te8ti m°ny taken in the Bedwine cast!
bcmded will be gone 111 the over with. of ten Redwine^ thousand
sum
dollarB to tho bank b Y the Flde it !
and^Casualty^company. He He defaulted defaultj
in the sum of one hundred ^ thousand
dollars and a little over, and the ban!
the officials applied of his bond. to the The company faj
sum company
refused to pay it, claiming that™
officials as far back as a year befora
the default knew that Redwine M
been bank crooked flicials in entered his transactions. suit for the Tij iH
o
covery with interest, of the ten well thousand the recover doliahj
as as
of the sum of twenty-five hundred doll
tained lars damages alleged of the to have failure been of sffij til
on account
company to pay the bond.
PRAYERS VERSUS PHYSIC.
The Young Wife of a Christian ScieiH
tist Dies and He is Blamed.
Mrs. Ella Samis, the wife of a bbc b:r- j
smith at Los Angeles, Cal., gave
to a child two weeks ago. During®
confinement she was denied the s
medical attendance and even skill*
nursing. Instead of providing husbw
cine and nourishing food, the
a titioner Christian of that scientist, belief summoned whose sole a tr** P rJ j
ment consisted in praying for : j
young mother’s recovery, After tM
days set in. of this Even treatment then homely a violent renae ^ 1
were despised, prayers constituting
whole treatment.
The woman died Friday morm
and the husband will be sumin 0 '
before a coroner’s jury to explfl iC
action.
tOUK FI RFMEN im K " L t KD
While Attempting to Save a pend
Hotel j
The gt Jllmea H tcl „ t Den”
.
Col., destroyed by lire S«t« >
was
night and four firemen lost their
Every room in the house was occnp
and when the flames were disco^j warn ^
steps were taken at once to lieS
guests oi their danger. All the g
escaped without injurv. in con; 3 .
The unfortunate firemen, °fjj
U y with four others, were g r
about iu the bliuding hotel,° smoke the i Q J
rotunda of the when
an d cement floor gave way, pr eCi|
basement, v M j
the°four ting them into the
unfortunates were J
and suffocated. The other fo ar
men managed to climb out, aclit ^
badly bruised and lacerated smoke- a |
ly overcome by the dense
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experience, The most in unfortunate the future, a P me 60 ^, & M
consolation by a recollection cl'*
present condition.