Newspaper Page Text
j
%<Wi&
GEORGIA
of
M All Oyer the State.
The Fulton County Confederate Vet
erans’ Association has elected General
Clement A. Evans as president of the
association.
* * *
Mrs. Jeannette Hammond; who was
arrested and jailed in Atlanta on the
charge of being implicated with Lends
Bedwine in the looting of the Gate
City bank, was released a few days ago
'em a $2,000 bond by the Fulton county
, Yand jury, who are investigating this
e lebrated case.
A verdict was reached a day or two
ago in the case of Colville versus Wad
dell, in the city court of Atlanta be
fore Judge Westmoreland. The jury
found for the plaintiff .against the
Georgia State Agricultural Society,
garnishee, for the sum of $533, part of
salary due Mr. Waddell as president of
the association. *
On July 1st George A. Clarke &
Brother, the oldest and one of the
largest firms of thread manufacturers,
will open a branch agency in Atlanta.
This big concern, the factories of
which arc in Newark, N. J., where
over 3,000 operatives are employed,
has now but six agencies in this coun
try—New York, Boston, Philadel
phia, Chicago, St. Louis and New Or
leans. Atlanta will be the seventh.
* * *
The Savannah News says that
prompt settlement of the difficulties
of the Central railroad would be bene
ficial to Savannah and to all the road’s
creditors. Incomes of people in Sa
vannah alone have been cut down at
least $500,000 by the insolvency of the
road. In many instances the entire
income of individuals and families
have been stopped by the failure of the
road to pay the interest on its obliga
tions.
* * *
Uncle Bob Hardeman, treasurer for
the state and bank inspector, has been
going the rounds for the past few
weeks looking in behind the vaults
and counters of the state banks to see
if things are going along according to
law there. He finds that the banks of
the state as a whole are in better con
dition this year than they have been
for a long time. He finds that the
banks are strong and well managed
generally, and will make a good re
port.
A few days ago the Augusta, Gibson
and Sandorsville railrond came forward
with all of its tax" money, and set a
splendid example for all of the other
railroads in the state that are in the
hands of a receiver. A check was re
ceived from the officials of the road by
the comptroller general for more than
$40,000, which pays all of the county
and state taxes of the road for the year
of ’91, and all of the state taxes for the
year of ’92. All the municipal taxes
were duly paid for ’91, and the road is
receiving high praise at the comptroller
general’s office.
Soon will the superb timber of the
Okefenokee swamp bo floating upon the
broad bosom of the St. Mary’s river.
Mr. Henry Jackson, the president of
the company, states that he has just
purchased a complete skidder outfit for
the purpose of handling the huge cy
press logs of the swamp. This ma
chinery will operate in a circle of 2,000
feet in diameter, transporting every
log to the center, which will be the ca
nal. The logs are elevated above the
undergrowth, and carried nlong by
means of a heavy cable to the canal.
The canal is being extended westward
through the swamp and eastward to the
St. Mary’s river.
Governor Nortlien is looking into the
recent outrage in Clay comity, where a
strange negro was burned to death for
murdering Mr. Joe Burnett while he
was asleep in his store. Governor
Northen’B position on tne suujeut of
lynch law is well known, and as soon as
he read of the occurrence in the pajvers
he wrote to Judge J. H. Guerrv and
Solicitor Jim Griggs, of Dawson, in
whose circuit it occurred, and asked
them to give him official information
of the affair. As soon as this is done
the governor will issue a proclamation
offering a reward for those who were
guilty of the crime of burning the ne
gro. The governor is determined to
do all in his power to put a stop to this
indiscriminate lynching of criminals.
I.ct Them be Punished.
Speaking of the recent wliitecap
trials in Carroll county, the Atlanta
Journal says:
The news of the conviction of a num
ber of the wliitecap outlaws in Carroll
county is an assurance that the good
people of that section of our fair state
are determined that the majesty of the
law shall be upheld and a law-abiding
people everwhere applaud their deter
mined effort to rid the state of this
lawless gang. No purer, abler or
braver man adorns Georgia’s judiciary
than Judge Sampson Harris, who pre
sides over the superior court of Carroll
county, and the public con rest as
sured that he will see that the cause of
justice will not suffer. It is to be
hoped, too, that Judge Harris will
make an example of this gang, and
give them the full extent of the law.
Never in the history of this good old
county has a case excited more interest
than the one just ended, and the result
shows that Carroll is not a healthy
place for the class of criminals known
as whitecaps.
* * *
Compiling'the Result*.
The commissioner of education is
busy with the work of receiving the re
turns from the school census. The
enumerators-have all been appointed
and the work is progressing most rap
idly. The work is also moving along
with most satisfactory results to the
department. The figures that the
enumerators are senping in to the com
missioner show that he was not very
much mistaken when he said that the
census would show the state up to better
advantage in the matter of illiteracy.
While some of the counties are not
showing up so well, others are making
up for it and the impression on the
mind of tie commissioner is that the
census will be a most satisfactory one.
He will make ont the apportionment
for the school fund this year to the
counties, according to the result of the.
new census and not according to the
last. There will be some very broad
changes in some of the funds for the
counties. The county of Lincoln, for
instance, will fail short to some extent.
It is shown by the enumerators that
the school population of this county is
not quite so large this year as it was by
the census five years ago. This means
that the county will not get quite so
much money this year as it received
last from the state for the school fund.
But while this is true of ope or two
counties, most of them show an increase.
* * *-
Ex-President IrSvf sialloriX to lift iu State
in Atlanta.
The plans for allowing the body of
the late ex-President Jefferson Davis
to lie in state in Atlanta on the 29th of
May have been arranged and will prob
ably be carried out with but little
change. The special train that is to
take the dead chieftain from New Or
leans to his last resting place in Rich-
mond, will reach Atlanta the day after
it leaves New Orleans, and it is thought
now that the train will leave that city
about the 28th of next month. It will
stop long enough in Montgomery, Ala.,
for the body obthe confederate leader
to be taken to the state capitol, where
it will lie in state a few hours. It
will be the same old building,
in front of which Mr. Davis in
the old days of the 60’s received
the commission as president of the
confederate states of America. It will
be one of the biggest days in Mont
gomery that city has seen for a long
time. From there the train -will move
on to Atlanta without many hours de
lay. It will stop there according to
the programme thus far announced,
four hours. It will reach the city on
the afternoon of the 29th about
o’clock, and tbe body will be taken to
the stato capitol where it will lie in
state four hours. The special train
■will then leave at 8 o’clock for Bifch-
mond, making no more stops until the
final stop is made.
* * *
Major D. N. Speer Dead.
Major D. N. Speer, whose death oc
curred a few days ago in Atlanta, was
well-known throughout the state. At
one time he was state treasurer and his
administration of the office was highly
satisfactory. While treasurer he saved
to the people of Georgia $200,000 by
withdrawing the state’s money from
the Citizen’s bank of Atlanta before
that institution collapsed.
"When the war broke out in 1861
Major Speer enlisted in the confeder
ate service as captain. During the
years 1861-2 he served as a major on
the staff of that gallant officer, General
John B. Gordon.. For the remainder
of the struggle he served as lieutenant-
colonel on the staff of General S. B.
Buckner of the trans-Mississippi de
partment. He was a brave and de
voted officer and as such was frequent
ly the recipient of marked praise from
superiors in command.
After the war Major Speer began the
practice of law in LaGrange under the
firm name of Speer & Speer. He re
mained iu the practice until 1880, and
was recognized as one of the most
I>rominent lawyers of the section.
The citizens of Troup county, in
1880, presented the name of Major
Speer as a candidate for the office of
state treasurer to succeed Hon J. W.
Benfroe. When the election came off
in the fall of the year Major Speer,
although Mr. Benfroe was an inde
pendent candidate, received a majority
of 93,000 votes over his opponent and
he was declared elected. After vacat
ing the office of treasurer he was elect
ed the president of the Exposition
cotton mills, which has occupied the
greater portion of liis time. He has
also held numerous directorships in
the banking establishments of Atlanta,
and also of Newnan, Monroe, Carroll
ton and LaGrange. He accumulated
a large amount of property after com
ing to Atlanta, and has long been re
garded as one of the wealthiest men
in the city.
Weallicr ami Crops.
From the official weather, bureau
bulletin for the bast week, issued
Wednesday by Director Morrill, we
make the following extracts :
In the northwest section of the
state there was a satisfactory amount
of rain during the week, which soft
ened the ground and was generally
beneficial, although retarding planting
operations somewhat. Light frosts
were general in this Bection on Sunday
morning, but, as the air and surface of
the ground were fairly dry, little dam
age was done. Upland corn iB about
all planted and is coming up well;
cotton planting is beginning. Wheat,
oats and grass crops continue to prom
ise well.
Continued lack of moisture in the
northeast is causing considerable grum
bling amongst the farmers, for the
brisk dry winds have dried up the
ground and made it so hard on uplands
that it is there almost impossible to
plow or otherwise work the soil. The
consequence is that the planting of
cotton is hindered and will continue
to be hindered to a greater or less ex
tent until there comes a good wetting
rain, for which everybody is praying
at present. About one-half of this
year’s anticipated acreage of cotton
has been planted up to the present
date.
Corn is up and cotton planting near-
y completed in the west section. In
some early cotton fields chopping has
begun and considerable plowing is be
ing done in corn. Little rain has fal
len the past week and the ground has
been badly dried by the high winds.
Bed lands have become so hard and
dry that cotton is- coming up very
slowly. The stand of corn is good and
small grain shows an excellent appear
ance, though a slow, warm rain is
needed.
The continued drought in the cen
tral counties is keeping cotton from
coming up, and at many points cotton
planting has been discontinued until
rain can .be had. Those who planted
early will have good stands. Without
rain soon, the oat crop will be serious
ly damaged. The warm sunshiny
weather of the past week has rapidly
dried the ridge lands and cotton plant
ed now will not come up.
There has been'practically no rain
in eastern Georgia the past week. At
many points none has fallen in more
«
w
without rain, the yield wiil be short.
• Corn is growing rapidly aild vegeta
bles haye stood the Want of faih so fat,
The latter plantings of cotton are not
tip yet on account of the dry soil The
chopping of early cotton will begin
this week. Coin has a good stand and
plowing has commended.
Droughty weather is prevailing in
the southwest section of the state.
Brisk winds during the past week have
dried up the ground to a considerable
extent," especially on fed iands firhere
it is now quite hard and unfit, for
Working, The temperature haB been
reasonable and but for the want of
rain to bring up iate planted cotton
and to soften the soil, conditions
Would be most favorable foi a contin
uation of the rapid and flourish
ing growth thus far reported in nearly
all kinds of crops.
Although the past week has "been a
fair one for the crops of the southern
section, many complaints are received
of the almost total absence of rainfall.
The soil from lack of sufficient mois
ture is somewhat baked and difficult
to plow. Cotton planting is still in
progress but generally the crop is all
in and much of it up. The melon,
vegetable and fruit crops ate in most
excellent condition but would, as is
the’case with other crops, be much im
proved by a few good showers during
the next week. Potatoes, although all
planted, are not yet up. Beports rela
tive to the oat crop indicate that it is
more in need of moisture than any
other.
Very little rain has fallen in the
southeast counties, and the long
drought has slightly injured the cot
ton crop. Farmers are well up with
their work. The gardens are about
planted and are looking fine. Truck
ers are picking and shipping cabbage
and peas. Planting is still being, con
tinued vigorously at a few points,
while in some places the dry weather
has prevented it.
A Curious Post-Mortem.
REV. DR. TA IMAGE
The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday
Serin on.
Text: "And they all with one consent
began to make excuse.”—Luke xiv., 18.
After the invitation's to a levee Ure sent Out
the regrets come in. One mart apologizes
for nonattenaance on one ground, another
tin another ground; Tije most Of the regrets
are founded on prior engagements; So in
I my text a great banquet was spread, the in
vitations were- Circulated, and now the re-^
“Among the many stories of the late
Sir Bichard Owen,” writes a correspon
dent, “which since his death have found
their way into print, I have not seen one
fioing justice to his skill in identifying
the bones of animals. One was recently
told to me in -which Lord John Bussell
also figures. The statesman and the pro
fessor were near neighbors at Sheen, and
on one occar’on a letter was sent to the
latter inclosing Lord John’s compliments
and a bone as to which he was desirous
of having Professor Owcn,s opinion.
The Professor quickly pronounced it to
be the humerus of a pig. Lord John
afterwards satisfied the Professor’s
naturalcuriosityastowhy.it had been
submitted to him. It seems that Presi
dent Buchanan had sent from America
to the English statesman the present of
‘a choice bear’s ham,’ and the family had
breakfasted off it several times with
pitch enjoyment. Somehow or other,
lowever, suspicion was aroused, and the
oone was sent to their scientific neighbor,
with the result stated ”—[Pall Mall
Budget.
India-Rubber From Turpentine.
Doctor W. A. Tilden discovered some
months ago, observed the Industries, that
tsoprene, which can be prepared from
turpentine, under certain circumstances
changes into what appears to be genuine
india-rubber. Bouchardat had also found;
that the same change .jjould be brought
ibout by heat. The material so produced
resembles pure Para rubber in everyway I
ind, whether is is genuine rubber or not
it may be equally good for all practical]
purposes. It vulcanizes, for instance.
It therefore seems possible that we ma;
soon be able to make india-rubber com
mercially. If this is possible, a fortun
awaits the inventor who can make goof
rubber from turpentine at a reaaonab!
^rice. It is a subject well worthy of th
devotion of prolonged labor.
Modern Icelandic Literature.
The modern Icelandic literature takes
refuge in poetry; and in this field the
best work has appeared. The hymn,
the love song, the idyl, the lines that
let us look into a man’s own heart, the
verses that kindle with patriotism and
liberty—all these have been found possi
ble. Some of the modern work takes
very high rank, though lacking the ex
quisite delicacy of the best Danish poetry
and the fire and abandon of the old
songs of the Edda. The Icelandic epic
is yet to be written, bufj the old Edda
measures' are peculiarly ’fitted for the
loftiness of a great poem, aii may be seen
in the masterly translation of Milton’s
‘'■Paradise Lost,” perhaps the finest ver
sion existing in any language.—[New
York Commercial Advertiser,
AROUND THE HOUSE.
To remove a fruit stain rub with yel
low soap, putting on wet starch, and
hanging in the sun several days. ,
For taking all stains out of fine cloth
ing apply benzine in a circle around the
spot, working to the centre, and spong
ing off.
To take a grease spot out of a delicate
fabric, touch the spot with the yelk of
an egg, then lay a piece of white ribbon
over the spot, repeating with fresh water
several times.
If oil-paintings have become soiled or
fly-specked, they may be cleaned by
wiping them off with a cloth dampened
with warm water. Do not use soap, and
do not rub hard, but a careful washing
will brighten the colors without harming
the paint in the least.
To .Preserve Flowers.
To preserve flowers, carefully dip
them, while fresh, in a perfectly limpid
gum water. Allow them to drain for
two or three minutes, then arrange in .a
vase or glass. The gums forms a com
plete coating over the stems and petals,
preserving the shape and colors long
after they have become dry.—[Detroit
Free Press.
In a German contemporary, the KinzTg-
thaler, appears the following disclaimer:
“Public Notice.—In the stables of the
burgomaster a distemper in the feet of
the cattle has lately broken out.- It has
been stated that in the opinion of tlx.
inhabitants of Kinzig the disease has
been brought into the stables by a witch.
I hereby affirm, in order that I might
not suffer by my silence, that I am not
in any way prejudiced,against the honor
able burgomaster. I also here Openly
declare that I am no witch; nor do J
know anything of witchcraft.—(Signed),
Victoria Seifriz,’’ This appears to have
chiefly; they tape now heading out and,/ tliB
the world is full of skeptics. And let me
say there is no class of people for
whom I have a warmer sympathy than for
skeptics. We do not know how to treat
them. We deride them, we caricature
them. We, instead of taking them by the
soft hand of Christian love, clutch them
with the iron pincers of ecclesiasticism. Oh,
if you knew how those men had fallen away
from Christianity and become skeptics you
would not be so rough - on them. Some
wet-e brought up in homes where religion
was overdone. The most wretched day in
the week was Sunday. Religion was driven
Into them with a triphammer. They had a
surfeit of prayer meetings. They were
stuffed and choked with catechisms. They
were told by their parents that they were
the worst children that ever lived because
they liked to ride down hill better than to
read “Pilgrim’s Progress.” They never
heard their parents talk of religion tut with
the corners of their mouths drawn down
and the eyes rolled up.
Others went into skepticism through mal
treatment on the part of some who pro
fessed religion. There is a man who says,
“My partner in business was voluble in
prayer meeting, and he was officious in all
religious circles, but. he cheated me out of
fSOOO, and I don’t want any of that re
ligion.”
There are others who ‘got into skepticism
by a natural persistence in asking questions
—why or how. How can God be. one being
in three persons? They cannot understand
it. Neither can I. How can God be a com
plete sovereign and yet man a free agent?
They cannot understand it. Neither can L
'They cannot understand why a holy God
lets sin come into tbe world. Neither can L
They .say; “Here is a great mystery. Here
is a disciple of fashion, frivolous and god
less all her days—she lives on to be an octo
genarian. Here is a Christian mother train
ing her children for God and for heaven,
self-sacrificing, Chrisclike, indispensable
seemingly to.that household—she takes the
cancer and oies.” The skeptic says, “I can’t
explain that.” Neither can I.
Ob, I can see how men reason themselves
into skepticism. With burning feet 1 have
trod that blistering way. I know what it is
to have a hundred nights poured into one
hour. There are men in this .audience who
would give their thousands of dollars if they
could get back to the old religion of their
fathers. Such men are not to be carica
tured, but helped, and net through their
heads, but through their hearts. When
these men really do come into the kingdom
of God, they win be worth far more to the
cause of Christ than those who never ex
amined the evidences of Christianity.
Thomas Chalmers once a skeptic; Robert
Hall once a skeptic; Christmas Evans once
a skeptic, but when they did lay hold of the
gospel chariot, how they made it speed
ahead 1
If therefore I stand this morning before
men and women who. have drifted away
into skepticism I throw ont no scoff. I
rather implead you by the memory of those
good old times when you knelt at your
mother’s knee and said your evening prayer,
and those other days of sickness when sh<
watched ail night and gave you the medi*
jaues^rt Just the" right time and turned the
pillow when it was hot, and with hand long
ago turned to dust soothed your pains, and
with that voice you. will never hear again
unless you joiu heria the better country
told yrunever mind—you would-" be; better
by and by, and by that, dying eouc b, where
she" talked so slowly, catching bar breath
between the words—by all those memories I'
ask you to come and take the . same relig
ion, Itwas good enough for her—it is gobd
enough for you.
Aye, I make a better p’ea by the wounds
and the death throea of the Son of God, who
approaches you this morning with torn brow
fMpimhI back cry*
ing: “Come unto Me afl ye who are wear,
and heavy-laden, and I will give, you rests
Other persons apologize for not entering
the Christian life because of the incorrigi
bility of their temper. Now, we admit it is
harder for some people to become Christians
than for others, but the grace of God never
came to a mountain that it could not Climb,
or to an abyss that it could not fathom, or
td. a bondage that it could hot break. The
wildest horse that etfer trod Arabian sands
has been broken to bit and trace: The mod
est torrent tumbling from mountain
shelving has been harnessed to the mill-
wheel and the factery band; setting a thou
sand shuttles all a-bnzz and a-clatter, and'
the wildest, the haughtiest, the most un
governable man ever created by the grace
of God may be subdued and sent out on
ministry of kindness, as God sends an
August thunderstorm to water the wild
flowers down id the grass;
Good resolution, reformatory effort,, will
" effect the change. It takes a mightier
and a mightier hand to bend evil
than the hand that baht the bow of
ses, and it takes a stronger lassc) than
held the buffalo on the prairie: A man
ot go forth with any human Weapons
contend successfully against these
ns armed with uptora mountains. Blit
have known men into waose spirit the
'ence of the gospel of Christ came until
- disposition was entirely changed.. So
is with two merchants in New York,
were very antagonistic. Tney had
all they could to injure each other;
were in the same line of business. One
le merchants Was converted to God:
ng been converted, he asked the Lord
teach him how to bear himself toward
business antagonist, and he was im-
” with the fact that it was his duty
customer asked for a certain kidd of
which he had not, bdt which he knew
opponent had, to recommend him to go
ihat store. I suppose that is about the
■dest thing the man could do, blit being
roughly converted to God he resolved to
that very thing, and being asked for a
tain kind of goods which he had ndt he
d, “You go to such and such a stare and
u will get it.” After awhile merchant
. 2 found these customers coming so
if, and he found also that merchant No. 1
id been brought to God, and ha sought the
me religion. Now they are goad friends
d good neighbors, the grace of God en-
[ely changing their disposition.
“Oh,” says some one, “I have a rough,
'gel, impetuous nature, and religion can’t
anything for mo.” Do yon, know that
trtin Luther and Robert Newton and
chard Bixter were impetuous all com
lining natures, yet the grace of God turned
em into the mightiest usefulness? Oh,
|w many who have beau pugnacious and
:rd to please and irascible aud more both-
id about the mote in their neighbor’s eye
in abont the beam like ship timber in
ur own eye have been entirely changed
the grace of God and have found out
it “godliness is prodtable for the life that
w is as well as for the life which is to
meF’
Peter, with nature tempestuous as the sea
lat he once tried to walk, at one look of
hrist went ont and wept bitterly. Rich
.orvests of grace may grow ou the tiptop of
" .e jagged steep, and flocks of Christian
■aces may fim pasturage in fields of bram-
i androci. Though your disposition may
all a-bristle with fretfulness, though you
ve a temper a-gleam with quick light
ings, though your avarice be line that of
le horse-leeob, crying, “Givei” though
lamnable imourities have wrapped you in
11 consuming fire, God can drive that devil
iut of yottr soul, and over the oaaos and the
.arkness He can say, ‘Let there be light,”
Converting grace has lifted the drunkard
’rein the ditch and snatched the knife from
ha hand of tbe assassin and the false keys
irora the burglar, aud in the pestiferous
[lanes of the city met*the daughter of sin
under the dim lamplight and scattered her
sorrow and her guilt with the words, “Thy
siDs are forgiven—go and sin no more;” Bor
scarlet sin a scarlet atonement.
... Other persons apologize for not entering
tbe Christion life because of the inconsisten
cies of those who profess religion. -There are
thousands of poor farmers. They do not
know the nature ot soil nor the proper rota
tion of crops. Their corn is shorter in the
stalk and smaller in the ear. Taey have ten
less bushels to the acre than their neighbors.
But who declines being a fanner because
there are so many poor farmers.
There are thousands of incompetent mer
chants. They buy at the wrong time. They
get cheated in the salo of their goods. Every
bale of goods is to them disaster. They fail
after a while and go out ot business. But
who declines to ob a merchant because
there are so many incompetent merchants?
There are thousands of poor lawyers. Tney
cannot draw a declaration that will stand
the test. They cannot recover just dam
ages. They cannot help a defendent escape
from theinjmtice of his persecutors. They
are the worst evidence against any case in
which they are retained. But who declines
to be a lawyer because there are so many
incompetent lawyers? Yet there are tens
of thousands of people who decline being re
ligious because there are so many unworthy
Christians. Now, I say it is illogical. Boor
lawyers are. nothing against jurisprudence,
poor physicians are nothing against medi
cine, poor farmers are nothing against agri
culture, and mean, contemptible professors
.of religion are nothing against our glorious
Christianity
Sometimes you have been riding along on
a summer night by a swamp, and yon have
seen lights that kindled over decoyed vege
tation-lights which are called jack-o’-lan
tern or will-o’-the-wisp. These lights are
merely poisonous miasmata. My friends, on
your way to heaven you will want a hotter
light than the will-o’-the-wisps which dance
an the rotten character of dead Christians.
Exudations from poisonous trees in our
neighbor’s garden will make a very poor
balm for our wounds.
Sickness will come, and we will be pushed
out toward the Red Sea which divides this
world from the next, and not the incon
sistency of Christians but the rod of faith
will wave back the waters as a commander
wheels his host. The judgment will come
with its thundershod solemnities, atten led
by bursting mountains and the deep laugh
of earthquakes, aud suns will fly before the
feet of God like sparks from the anvil, aud
10,030 burning worlds shall blaze like Dan
ners in the track of God omnipotent. Ob,
then we will stop and say, ‘*There was a
mean Christian; there was a cowardly
Christian; there was an impure Christian.”
In that day as now, “If thou be wise, thou
shalt be wise for thyself, but if thou scorn-
est thou alone shall bear it.” Why, my
brother, the inconsistency of Christians so
far from being an argument to keep you
away from God ought to be an argument to
drive you to Him. Thejbest place foe a skill
ful doctor is a neighborhood where they are
all poor doctors: the best place for an enter
prising merchant to open his store Is in a
place where the bargain makers do not un
derstand their business, and the best place
for yon who want to become the illustrious
and complete Christians—the best place for
you is to come right down among ns who
are so incompetent and so inconsistent some
times.
Other persons apologize for not becoming
Christians because they lack time, as though
religion muddied the brain of the account
ant, or tripped the pen of the author, oi
thickened the tongue of the orator, or weak
ened the arm of the mechaorc, or scattered
the briefs of the lawyer, or interrupted the
sales of the merchant. They bolt their store
doors against it and fight it back with
trowels and with yard sticks and cry,
“Awav with your religion from our store,
our office, our factory F’
They do not understand that religion in
this , workaday world will help you to do
anything you ought to do. It can lay a
keel, it can sail a ship, it can bay a cargo, it
can work a pulley, it can pave a street, it
can fit a wristband, it can write a constitu
tion, it can marshal a host. It is as appro
priate to the astronomer as his teles so pe, to
the chemist as his laboratory, to tbe mason
as his plumblina, to the carpenter as his
plane, to the child as his marbles, to the
grandfather'll his staff.
No time to be religious herel You have
notime notto be religious. You might as
well have no clerks in your store, no books
in yonr library, no compass on your ship,
no rifle in the battle, no hat for your,
bead, no coat for yonr back, no. shoes tor
your feet. Better travel on toward eternity
bare headed and bare footed, and houseless
andhomeless, and friendless,4;han go
through life without religion.
Did religion make Raleigh any less of a
statesman, or Havelock any less of a so'-
dier, : or Grinaell any less of a merchant, or
"West any less of a painter? Religion is toe
best seourity in every bargain, -it is - the
sweetest note in every song, ibis the bright-
estgem in every coronet. No time to ba re
ligious f "Why, you .will have to take time
to bo sick, to he troubled, to die. Our
world is only tha wharf from whio'a we are
& tmtarfr to swuro'
the friendship df dhrisfe No films to buy a
lanip arid trial it fdr thrifc walk through tha
darkness whidh otherwise will be iliilmiriei
oply by the whiteness oT the tombstones,
N6 timtf to elricate the eye for* heavenly
splendor's,- oi* the hrini fod choral harps, or
.the ear for everlastirigj sod!??, di* the soril f >r
honor, glory and immortality; Orie would
think we had time for nothing else.
Other persons anologiz 3 for not entering
the Christian life because it is time enough
yet* That is very like those persons who
send their trigrets aijd say l *1 will come in
perHaps ac ll or 13 o’clock* I will not be
there at thd operiing of the banquet, but I
will bd there at the close*Not yeti Not
yeti
Now, I do not give any dolefrit view of
this life* ^ There is nothing in my nature*
iidthirig in the grade of God, that lends to
ward a doleful view df human iifd* I have
not much sympathy with A idison’s descrip
tion of the “Vision of llirza,” where he rep;
resents human life as being a bridge ot a
hundred arches, and both ends of the oridge
Covered With cloudy and the race coming
on,- the mdst df them falling down througri
the first spari* and all of them falling down
through the last span* It is a Very dismal
picture* I have not much sympathy with
the Spanish proverb Which says# “Ihe sky
is good; and the earth is good-“that which
is bad is between the earth and the sky.”
Brit while we Christian people are bound
to take a cbeerfril view of life We must al=o
confess that life is a great rincertainty, and
that man Who says, “I can’t become a
Christian because there is time enough yet,”
is running a risk infinite* You do not per*
haps reaii^a the fact that this descending
grade of sin gets steeper and steeper, and
that you are gathering up a rush au'd veloc-*
ity which after awhile may not answer to
the brakes* Oh, my friends, be not among
those who give their whole life to the world
and then give their corpse to God. it
does riot seem fair* While our pulses are in
frill play of health that We serve our
selves and serve the world and then make
God at last the present of a coffin* It does
not seem right tnat wei*un our ship from
coast to coisfc, carrying cargoes for ourselves,
and then waen the ship is crushed on the
rocks give to Goi the shivered timbers It
is a great thing for a man on his dying pil
low to repent-better than never at all—but
how much better, how much more generous,
it Would have bean if he had ropented fitty
years before 1 Jtfy friends,' you will never
get over these procrastinations.
Here is a delusion. People think, “I can
go on in sin and worldiiness. but after awhile
I will repant, and then it will be as though
I had come atthsvery stare.’* That is a
delusion. No one ever gets fully over pro
crastination. If you give your soul to God,
some other time than this, you will enter
heaven with only half the capacity for en
joyment and knowledge you might have
had. There will be heights of blessedness
you might have attained, you will never
reach; thrones ofglory on which you might
have been seated, but which you will never
climb. We will never get over pro
crastination. neither in time nor in eter
nity. We have started ou a march from
which there is no retreat. The shad
ows of eternity gather on our path
way. How insignificant is time compared
with the vast eternity I I was thinking of
this while coming down over the Alleghany
Mountains at noon, by that wonderful place
which you have all heard describsd as the
Horsehoe—-a depression in the side of tha
mountain where the train almost .turns backs
again upon itself, and you see how appro
priate is the description of the Horseshoe—
and thinking ou this very theme and prepar
ing this very sermon it seemed to me as if
the great courser of eternity speeding along
had just struck the mountain with one hoof
and gone into illimitable space. So short is
time, so insignificant is earth, compared with
the vast eternity J
This morning voices roll down the sky,
and ail the worlds of light ar3 ready to re
joice at your disenthrallment. Kush not
into the presence of the King ragged with
sin when you may have this robe of right
eousness. Dash not your foot to pieces
against the throne of a crucified Christ.
Throw not your crown of life off the battle
ments. All the scribes of God are this mo
ment ready with volumes of living light to
record til* nevis of vonr soul emanc mated.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Hebr Krupp, the German gun maker, has
an income of over $1,000,000.
Assistant Postmaster-Gznerat* Max-
Well was a devoted fireman in his younger
days.
John C. Rockefeller, the millionaire
oil magnate, is a great advocate of physical
exercise*
The Duke of Oporto, brother of the King
Of Portugal, is one of th9 finest flute players
in the world.
. Florence Nightingale (who took her
first name from tha city of her birth) is
seventy-three years old.
Josiah Quincv, the Assistant Secretary
of State, is a strong believer incremation as
a means of disposing of the humau dead.
Lord Shannon, of England, is known
among his friends as the ‘‘Cowboy Peer.”
Before his succession to the title he served
on a ranch in Manitoba*
PRlNds Roland Bonaparte, who is de
voted to science, is going to make a study
of the Indians of Mew Mexico and Colorado
during his World’s Fair Visit.
The heir apparent of the British thTone,
Prince George of York, has paid a Visit to
Rome, and has complimented both the King
of Italy and the Pope with a call.
Albert B. Osborne, Mayor of Corry,
Penn., is but twenty-six years old and the
youngest Mayor of any city in Pennsyl
vania, or prooably in the United States.
The highest salary drawn by a diplomat
ist is that of M. Waddington, the French
Ambassador to London. His salary is $60,-
000 a year, besides which he has a large
private income.
Clara Morris, the actress, has ac
cepted an invitation from the World’s Con
gress of Representative Women at the
World's Fair to speak ou the subject^
“Women on the Stage*”
M. Turpin, the inventor of melinite,
begged for one more night in jail, when he
was recently released from a French prison
under pardon* He was busy writing a sci
entific treatise aud wanted to finish the
chapter he was engaged on.
Mr. Pryor, the oldest clerk in the Pension
Office, at Washington, has returned to
work after an abserice of ever a year. He
is ninety yeairs old and has been in the de
partment for forty years. He is an
authority on tbe history of soldiers in the
Revolutionary War.
Thebe died in Jamaica, Long Island, N.
Y., a few days ago Thomas J. Wayne,
grandnephew of “Mad Anthony,” wuo bore
a striking resembance to that Revolutionary ■
general. Mr. Wayne was ninety-two years
old and is surved by his third wife, whom he
married six years ago.
Lady Aberdeen a few days ago made an
excursion by moonlight to Blarney, and
there, by candle light, kissed the “Blarney
stone” in order to qualify herself before go
ing out to the Irish village at the Chicago
exhibition, where she is to be “at home”
most of the time in a cottage.
The twin brothers, Darias and Cyrus
Cobb, of Boston, wno are,fifty-nine years
old. look so much alike that their own chil
dren often mistake them. They married
sisters. Darius is a sculptor aud Cyrus is a
painter. William Hunt, the artist, onoe
styled them “Serious” and ‘‘Delirious.”
Governor John E. Osborne, of Wyom
ing, is the you ages t Governor in the United
States. He is only thirty-four, a doctor by
profession, very gooi looking, of pleasing
address, and went from Vermont to the
West some fourteen years ago, though a na
tive of New York. In his gubernatorial
race he carried every county in the Statej
save one.
The iate Doctor Andrew Peabody, of
Harvard, according to Doctor Edward
Everett Hale, wa3 looking over some ac
cumulated papers one day, when he discov
ered tnat he was $49,000 richer than he was
the year before. Thereupon he wrote to
the-assessors of Cambridge, Mass., asking
those officials to impose a tax on his property
accordingly.
The great Hemet Dam, near San Jacmto,
Cal., is finished to'a height of 110 feet ana
is filled with water to a height of ninety
■feet The lakeis-nearly two miles long, the
widest place being three-quarters of a. mile,
making & surface area of nearly- 750 acres*
“Mobb than a million dollars have been
stolen from the State of- Minnesota, mostly
from tbe schools, through frauds in the
handling of the pine laa Is ot the Common-
wesitbr the Senate Fine Lands Cpawittse
reports* _ . " v ; - ' • .
BILL IBP’S
“Gooff Lord Deliver Us from the Gim
lets and Angers of Reporters.
That man is to be pitied who is constrained
to seek an office for a living. And yet there
are &ome good men who do it. I know some
whom office fits and adorns. General Young
for instance—for he is a courtly gentleman and
will represent our government ia a courtly and
gracious manner. He will keep the peace
withcrat humbling our national pride. He
would hate kept it with Chile if he had been
' there, instead of Egan, 1 bate great admira
tion for snch men and am glad to see them get
office. Office that exercises their grace and
gentility—office that does not require much work
but ia a kind of a genteel sinecure with abun
dant perquisites. We regret to lose him from
Cartersville, to miss tbe genial welcome with
whioh be greets bis friends, bnt if be wants
the office wo want him to have it He de
serves anything that he will ask for. and Mr.
Cleveland has made no mistake in "this case.
Now, if he will keep up his reputation for
sagacity and appoint Bascom Mynck and John
Temple Graves and Camilla Underwood to the
places they seek, Ihe good people of Georgia will
approve It. I am no politician, but I know our
prominent citizens and what they are worth,
bupposo Mr. Myrick was for Hill. .He was not
an (-tfGnsive partisan, and if every Hill man is
to be boycotted, ihenMr. Cleveland will have
to bnil-1 up a party of bis own and a good
many of as will be left out. Mr. Cleveland
said that a public office is a public trust, which
means that the president should have no re
venges—no friends to reward or enemies to
pllnisb. If Mr. Cleveland refuses to nominate
Mr. Myrick simply because be was a Hiil man
it will mortify his friends in Georgia, of whom
I was one—not the first one, perhaps, but
one from the beginning. It already mor
tifies me t-bat Mr. CleveJaud has required Mr.
Myrick to bring the fi.es of his paper for in
spection. It is said, too, that John Temple
Grave'a application hangs fire because General
Gordon is mad with Graves for supporting Pat
Calhoun for tbe senate. I do not believe it.
General Gordon is not that kind of a man un
less be has greatly changed. Ho used to be
large-hearted aDd liberal in hia charity to all of
liis fellow citizens. He had no petty animosi
ties and never mi reed his revenga^fo keep it
warm. Newspaper reporters hunt up sensa
tions and write many things from rnmor that
are not true and their victims are kept bnsy de
nying their false accusations. May the good
Lord doliver ns all from their gimlets and au
gurs and insinuation, 1 , and hence I do not be
lieve that General Gordon is fighting Graves
because Grave* preferred Calhoun. We would
rej -ioe to see John Temple sent to Switzerland
aud I wish that I could go, too, and with h m
climb the Materhom and bear him apostrophize
that hi*tor c and beautiful country in one of
his nulilime.-t flights of eloquence, 'then there
is my fricDd Underwood, who is the best all
round man I evtr knew, and I believe could
fill any place respectably. He has filled many
from the chaplain of a regiment down to the
editor of a country newspaper and did it well.
He is the loving linsband of one wife, the fa
ther of eleven children—most girls—tbe best
Baptise preacher I ever heard, the best- farmer
and gardener, aud with all a most genial com
panion—and jot lie wants to go to Havana for
what I don’t know unless he needs tlicmoneytbat
is in it or wants to convert its sunburnt people
to Christianity and immerse the whole island to
mako sure of their salvation. I don’t know
whether he was a Hill man or a Cleve
land man nor do I care. I do know that
lio is fit for tbe office. Neither of these
men are proftssioual politicians. They never
degraded themselves by cavorting around
and laying plans and schomiug for tbeir own
personal advantage. What a pitiful spectacle
it is to see some of our Georgians wrangling in
tlicffi.hof crimination and recrimination in
order to get offico at Washington. The Atlan
ta papers ere full of the s rife that goes on
from day to day and if I were Mr. Cleveland I
would Bay “Gentlemen yon are not the men I
am looking for,” and I would roleet some good
men who have made no noise and lucked up no
dost abont this business. Tnere are plentv of-
good men in Atlanta who would till these offices
but whoso modesly and conservatism forbid
their asking for them. As a general thing it
is the loud-mouthed, noisy politicians who seek
the offices and get them. I was glad to read
that Mr. Cleveland was going to break.np the
slates and take a hand in the appointments-
Of course he can’t do it all, but he can find out
where the rings are and Irak them. These
political rings that parcel out the offices in se
cret conclave are the curse of onr Georgia pol
itics. It is said that the ring iB already form
ed, that is to fill all onr offices from governor
down, and it includes the successor to Senator
Colquitt. It was these rings that became so
odious to the people that liiey rose up and es
tablished independentism in north Georgia fir
eight years. Itwas these rings that alienated
Alexander Stephens from the democratic pat ty
and that party had to offer him the gnheraato-
rialchair to keep him from running as an iiidfl-
pendent. It was these lings that made possi
ble the success of the people’s party on the ba
sis of the Ocala platform. It was one of these
rings that made machine politics so odious in
New York. Now it is no comfort to know that,
in a city like Atlanta there are several rings
and one ring can fight another and that
the longest pole will knock down the per
simmon. The tronble is that the best men—the
most deserving men—are in no ring at all.
They have got no pole and therefore will not
reach the persimmon. A common citizen like
myself has no more idea of the Bmall machina
tions that are going on to fix the Borne post-
office or tho Cartersville rostoffico or
any other little office than if I had
no choice or voice in the matter. The
rings will fix it upon the principle of “I
have tickled you, now you lickle me.” We
outsiders are ob helpless as a painted ship upon
a painted ocean. And yet, 1 snow, or think
that 1 know, who would be appointed if tho
quiet, conservative citizens had their choice.
Politics is a hard road to travel. It is a
mighty big thing to be picsident of this great
nation, and to he chosen by honorable meth
ods, hut it most certainly belittle a noble mind
to havo to descend into the very shims and
schemes of the small politicians to get into
office. The wrangle, tho hypocrisy, the
Droken promises, the small revenges that are
nec; ssary will certainly lower liis i elf-respect
and leave him clonded in his old ago with
unhappy memories. It bis conscience »'oes
not get seared, how must a sensitive nature
writhe under tbe cardB that the disappointed
publish—cards that accuse him of falsehood or
a betrayal of tiust or of ingratitude and
broken pledges. Sheridan said that “con
science has no more to do with seduction than
it has’wilh politics,” and Shakespeare said “a
politician is one who would circumvent God if
bo could.” So, 1 reckon it is now just like it
was a century or two ago—no worse—no better.
And yet there are many good men in politics—
men whose very virtues have exalted them—
men like Lamar and Black and Blount and
‘turner, who havo never been constrained to
stoop that they might win. There are such
men in every stale and thev are tbe lsaven
that give character to the whole body andmake
onr national and slats assemblies respectable.
Bnt the average politician’s bed is a bard
ono. He makes it himself and must lie on ft.
But still, ho has onr sympathy.
Bill Ann, in Atlanta C. nstilntion.
How patiently the seasons bide their time!
No murmur from the bud that months
ago
Was ready, where the earth inclined; to
blow; j
The birds are happy in their chosen home, j
No doubt there are communings ’neath tha
snow,
And some bright eyes that never close in
sleep,
And some sharp ears that listen well and
keep
Sweet hope alive in little'liearts below;
Then let the winter wgar itself away.
Borne thither on the breast of freighted
rills;
A dream of spring has touched the con-*
stant hills.
And made the valleys patient of delay.
—Mary A. Mason, in Youth’s Companion.
HUHOR OF THE DAY.
A NUMBER of persons in the vlclMfcj
of Toler’s ranch, near Waterville, "Wash.,
heard through the darkness and the
storm recently what they thought was a
human voice crying for help. The neigh-
borho'od turned out and searched for the
supposed wanderer, but without avail,
and the relief party were forced to give
up the hunt, believing the unfortunate
to have perished iii the snow. Not un-\
til several days afterwards, when the
cry was repeated, did they discover that
the sound was caused by a -creaking
windmill., ~ ---- .
Aw ordinary kettle lid engaged -the
attention of a Judge of the United
States Circuit Court and a jury for gJTO
days at Chicago. The plaintiff had been
arrested for the alleged larcency of the
kettle-lid while he was shopping. He
declared that be did not steal it and sued
the proprietor of the store to recover
$25,000 damages. The ease, was m the
nature of a tempest in a teapot, and the
evidence revealed a tendency on tne part
of the pot to call the kettle black. The
• verdict was for the plaintiff. - . --
. .. Advertise in ,-his paper and thu3 in-
Bright periodicals—Comets.
The man with a long head is rarely
head-loDg.—Binghamton Leader.
It is hard to feel at home with people
who Sever make mistakes.—Ram’s Horn.
It’s queer about shops—they’re never
shut up unle33 they’re shut down.—
Elmira Gazette.
There never was so big a fool that he
couldn’t learn how to count money.—
Atchison Globe. \
The figurehead of a college is usually
the professor of mathematics.—Pnila-
delphia Record.
Many a man who “starts off well”
spoils everything by coming back.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Few men who go into maple-sirup
manufacturing make an unadulterated
success of it.—Troy Press.
Some men are like woodpeckers—they
can’t send in a bill without making a
big noise about it.—Truth.
Many a parachute jumper would ba
living to-day if he had never taken a
drop.—Binghamton Leader.
The man who waits for appreciation
generally gets it in the shape of an
epitaph.—Milwaukee Journal.
“Does she make a good wife?” “Well,
it is doubtful. Her husband belongs to
four clubs.”—New York Press.
To harrow one’s feelings is not tho
most profitable way of cultivating an.
acquaintance.—Boston Transcript.
The picket fence was outlined saarp.
The moon was clear and pale.
Her lover tong ago had leftj
But thereby hangs a tail.
—Life.
“The pleasantest way to take cod liver
oil,” says an old gourmand, “is to fatten
pigeons with itand then eat the pigeons.”
-Tit-Bits.
The Professor—“What is happiness?”
The Philosopher—“The condition of
forgetting that you are unhappy.’’—
Chicago News.
A man whose tongue is his entire
capital defies the exigencies, of commerce
and succumbs to nothing les3 than a
paralytic stroke.
He’s a dealer in rhymes and in “rocks,”
An exponent of both avocations,
And can furnish quotations of stocks.
Or supply you with stocks of quotations.
—Truth.
Dives—“I always shave myself. I
won’t trust a barber on my face.” Laza
rus—“I always shave myself, too. No
barber will trust me on my face.”—Chi
cago Tribune.
Bluster—“I made a speech to-night at
the banquet which will make me immor
tal.” Mrs. B—“And it was only last
monththat.yougot your life insured!”
—Boston Transcript.
“Charlie, didn’t you promise to try
and break yourself of the habit of using
slang?” Charlie—“Yes, urammi,anffyou
bet I’m ge’.tia’ there 'with - both feel
don’t you see.”—Inter-Ocean.
“Do play something, please, Miss
Piahothump,” said the hostess, advanc
ing to her music loving guest; “it’s
getting pretty late, but not half the
guests are gone yet.”—Chicago News.
Mr. Nuwife—“So this is cottage pud
ding, eh?” Mrs. Nuwife (proudly) —
“Yes. Can you guess how it’s made?”
Mr. Nuwife—“Well—er I should think
of pressed bricks, dear.”—Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
Johnson—“When I do marry I intend
to marry a sensible girl, if I can find
one." Tomson—“Now, there’s Mis3
Sharpe; she gave me up.” Johnson—
“Just the girl I want. Won’t you in
troduce me?”—Tit-Bits.
No man has ever been able to' explain
so simple a problem as why the brilliant
sun should lavish its light in broad day
light, while only a second hand lumi
nary is vouchsafed to man in the night
time.—Boston Transcript.
“Your travel so much on the cars I
should think you would go armed.”
“Armed!” exclaimed the suburbanite.
“I do. I never travel with less than
fifteen or thirty pounds of heavy bundles
that I could use in an emergency.”—
Chicago Tribune.
Little Mabel—“Mamma, don’t you
think I can teach Fido to talk?” Mamma
“No, dear; what made yon think you
could?” Little Mabel—“Weil, when l
gave him his dinner he growled just like
you say papa doos when his meal doesn’t
please him.”—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Mr. Billus—“Seems to me, Maria, the
children don’t speak half as good Eng
lish as they did before they began to go
to school.” Mrs, Billus—“For mercy’s
sake, John, how can you expect them to
learn everything at school? I wished
you would quit harping on that English,
language fad of yours.”—-Chicago, Tri
bune. ^______ *
Aristocratic Indians.
There are no people in Marne in whom
the aristocratic instinct is stronger or
who have more pride of birth than soma
of those- who live in Oldtown Island.
At present the tribe is greatly agitated
over the question whether an adopted
child shall be admitted to the inner-
circle of the island’s Four Hundred. A
yean or two'ago Mr. aad Mrs. Sabatis
Shea adopted a child from another tribe,
the'ehiid being half white,' as are many ^
ot the Maine Indians. “Owing to the
fact that the child is a half-bresd and
belonged to another tribe,” says an island
correspondent, “there is a certain class
on the island that is trying to prevent
her from having her rights, while Mr.
Shea claims she is entitled to all the
rights .of the tribe, as she was legally
adopted. There are other cases of simi
lar nature, but no trouble was ever made
before, and "Mr. Shea “ S * 8S *
out in a legal way, "
Journal,
I
, -1
L L