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this chapter opens. They Were allies .por
ting lot the overthrow-of the Lord's Israel.
Ion Snow that if a lion roar a flock ol
kids will shiver and lihddle together. One
lion would conquer a thousand kids. The
battle opens. There are a great multi-
(ude of Syrians under General Ben-
hadad, strong ns lions. The Israel
ites are few and,weak, like two little flocks
of kids. Who beat? The'lions, of course.
Oh, no; the kids, for it nil depends whether
God is on tho side of the lions or the kids.
After the battle 100.000 Syrians lay dead on.
the field, and .27,000, attempting to fly, came
along by a great wall, which toppled and
crushed them to death.
Which was tho stronger weapon—great
Goliath’s sword or littlo David's sling?
David had five smooth stonesfromthebrook.
He only used one in striking down Goliath.
He had a surplus of ammunition. He had
enough to takedown four more giants if they
had appeared in the way. It all depends up
on whether God is on the side of the shep
herd boy or on the side of the giant
There have been many in our day who
have ventured the opinion that Christianity
is falling back, and that in 50 yeara it will be
extinct. They found their opinion on the
assumed fact that the Bible is not as much of
a book as it used to be, and that portions of
it are repulsive t» the people. I reply by
asking, Which one of the publishing houses
of New York, Philadelphia, Boston o{■'Chi
cago is publishing the Bible to-day with the
omission of n singlo verse or chapter? Arc
not our publishers intelligent men? And
would they, contrary to their financial inter
ests, continuo to publish the Bible without
the omission of a single chapter or a single
vereeii it were becoming an unpopular book
and the people did not want it?
If Harpers or Appleton or Scribner or Lip-
pincott should publish a Bible with the
omission of ono chapter, they would not sell
10 copies in 10 years. The fact that through-
ought Christendom there are hundreds of
printing presses printing the word of God
without tho omission of a chapter or a verse
proves that the Bible is popular, and the
. fact that there are moro being printed in
this deoade than any other decade proves
that the Biblo is increasing in popularity.
I go through the courtrooms of the coun
try. Wherever I And a judge’s bench or a
clerk’s desk I llnd the Bible. By what other
book would they take solemn oath? What
is very apt to be among tho bride’s presents?
The Bible. What is very apt to be put in the
trunk of the young man when he starts for
city life? The Bible. Yoltairo predicted
that the Biblo during the nineteenth century
would become an obsolete boob. Well, we
are pretty nearly through the nineteenth cen
tury. The Biblo is not obsolete yet. Thera
is not much prospect ofit becoming obsolete,
but I have to tell you that that room—the
very room in which Voltaire wrote that pre
diction—some time ago was crowdod from
floor to ceiling with Bibles for Switzerland.
Suppose tho congress of the TJnitod Statei
should pass a law that no Bibles should be
printed in the United States.
If there are 30,000,000 grows men and
women in the country, then there would be
30,000,000 poople armed against such a Law.
' But suppose the congress of tho United
States should pass a law that Macaulay’s
history or Charles Beade's novels should not
be read—could you got half as large an army
or tho fourth as largo an army? In othoi
words, there are, as you know mid I know,
a thousand men who would die for their
Bibles where there are 50 men who would
die for any other book. The fact that there
are now moro Bibles being printed than
ever before, that publishers find it a financial
interest for them to continuo the Bible,
E roves thnt this book is still tho most popular
ook on the planet.
“But,” say those who are antagonistic,
"Christianity is falling back from the fact
that the church is not ns much respected ns
it used to be and it is not as influential.” I
reply to that with tho statistic that one de
nomination—the Methodist church—accord
ing to a statistic given by one of the bishops,
dedicates on an average a new church every
day of tho year. Threu hundred and sixly-
flve new churches in ono denomination in a
year and over a thousand new churches built
every year iu this country. Does that look
ns though tho church wero failing in its
powerand wero becoming a woruout institu
tion? Around which institution in our com
munities gather the most ardent affections?
The postolllcc, tho hotel, tho courthouse, the
city hall or the churches?
Why, when our obi Tabernacle was burn
ing there were hundreds of men standing in
the streets who never went to thureh, tears
mining down their checks. It is because the
church of God stands nearer to tho Ameri
can peoplo than any other institution. Men
may caricature the church and call it a col
lection of hypocrites, but when their chil
dren are swept off with the diphtheria for
whom do they send? To the postmaster, to
the attorney general, to tho aldermen, or to
tho pastors of the churches? And if there
be not room for the obsequies in tho private
house what building do they solicit? The
academy of music, tho hotel, public hall,
courthouse? No, the churches. And if
they want music on tho sad occasion do
they select the ‘\MnrsoiiIais3” hymn, or
“God Save tho Queen,'' or our own grand
National air? No. they want the old hymn
with which we sang their old Christian
mothers to sleep. They want tho Sunday-
school hymn that their little girl sang tho
last Sabbath nftemoon sho was out before
she was seized with tho awful slokness that
broke father’s heart autl mother’s heart. Oh,
you know as well as I do—I shall not dwell
on it any longer—.lie church of God, instead
of being a wornout institution, stands nearer
the sympathies of the people than it ever
did and eclipses all other institutions.
But our antagonists go on and say that
Christianity is falling back, in tho fact that
infidelity is bolder now and more blatant
than it ever was. I deny the statement. In
fidelity is not near so bold nov; as it was in
the days of our fathers and grandfathers.
There were times in this country when men
who wero openly and above board infidel and
antagonistic to Christianity could bo elected
to high office. Now, let some man wishing
high position in tho State proclaim himself
tho foe of Christianity and an infidel, how
many States of tho Union would he carry?
' how many counties? how many wards in
Brooklyn? Not one.
Ah, my friends, infidelity in this day is not
half as bold as it used to be. If it comes
now, it is apt to come under tho disguise oi
rhetoric or fantastic sentimentality. I know
if a man with great intelligence does become
nn infidel and begins an attack on Chris
tianity it makes great excitement—of course
it does, and people como to the conclusion,
weakminded Christians come to the conclu
sion, that everything is going overboard be
cause some man of strong intellect assailt
Christianity.
If a man jumps overboard from a Cunarf
steamer, he makes moro excitement than al'
the 500 sane passengers who continne in the
berths or on the decks, but does that stop
tho ship? Docs that’wreck-all tho 500 pas
sengers? It makes great excitement when a
man leaps from a platform or a pulpit into
infidelity, but does that hinder oar glorious
Bible from tnkhig its millions into the skies?
I tell you infidelity is not half as bold now as
it used to be.
.Do you suppose such things could be
enacted now as were enacted in the days oi
liobespierre, when a shameless woman was
elected to be goddess, and she was carried
on a golden chair ton. cathedra), and the
people bowed down to her as a divine being
and burned incense before her—she to tako
the place of the Bible, and of Christianity,
and of the Lord Almighty? And while that;
ceremony was going on in tho cathedral, in
the chapels and in the corridors adjoining
tho cathedral scenes of drunkenness and de
bauchery aud obscenity wero enacted such
as the world had never seen. Could such a
_ thing ns that transpiro now? No, sir. The
police would swoop on it, whether in Paris
or New York. Infidelity i3 not half as bold
now as it nssd to. be.
“But.” say our antagonists, “Christianity
Is falling back because science, its chiel
enemy, is triumphing over it.” Nqw, I deny
that there is any war between science and
reveiarron.' There is not a fact fn science
that may pot be made to harmonize with the
statements o f the Bible. So said Hugh Miller,
so said -Joseph Henry ; so said Professor
Hitchcock;' so said Professor Silllman; so
said Professor Mitoholl.
If the scientists of the day were all agreed,
- ibd they camo up with solid front to attack
be a wort-between telescope and telescope,
Leyden jar and Leyden jar, chemical appar
atus and ohemioal apparatus. They do not
agree on anything.
Do yon suppose that this Bible theory about
the origin of life is going t# be overthrown
by men who have different theories—50 dif
ferent theories—about the origin of life!
And when Agassiz comes ont and. puts both
feet on the doctrine of evolution and says in
regard to many scientists. “I notice that
these young naturalists are adopting as the
ories'in science things which have not passed
under observation.” Agassiz saw what we
>11 see—that there are men who talk very
wisely who know but very little, aud that
just as soon as a yonng scientist finds out the
difference between the feelers of a wasp and
the horns of a beetle he begins to patronize
the Almighty and go about talking about
culture as though itwerespelledc-u-l-c-h-a-i
—culohar!
It makes me sick to see these literary fops
going down the street with a copy of Darwin
under one arm, and a case of transfixed grass
hoppers and butterflies under the other arm,
talking about the “Survival of the Fittest,"
and Huxley’s “Protoplasm,” and tho “Nebu
lar Hypothesis,” and talking to us common
men as though we were fools! If they agreed
In their theories and came up with solid facts
against Christianity, I say perhaps they
might make some impression, but they do not
agree. Darwin charges upon Lamarck, Wal
lace upon Cope. Herscnel even charged
upon Ferguson. They do not agree about
the gradation of the species; they do not
agree about embryology. What do they
agree about?
Herschel wrote a whole chapter of what he
calls “Errors In Astronomy.” La Placesayi
that tho moon was not put in the right placo.
' that if it had been put four times the distance
from our world there would have been more
harmony in tho universe. But Lionville
comes up just in time to prove that the Lord
was wise and put the moon in the right place
How many colors woven into the light?
Seven, says Newton. Three, says Davie
Brewster. How high is the aurora borealis?
Two and a half miles high, says Lias. One
hundred and sixty-five miles, says Twinig?
How far is the sun from the earth? Seventy-
six million miles, says Lacaille, 82,000,000
miles, says Humboldt; 90,000,000 miles, says
Henderson; 104,000,000 miles, says Mayer.
Only a little difference of 28,000,000 miles I
These men say we do not agree in religion.
Do they agree in soienee? Have they come
up with solid front to assault our glorious
Christianity?
“Gentlemen of the jury, have yon agreed
upon your verdict?" the court or the clerk
says to the jury, having beon out all night,
on coming in. “Have you agreed on your
verdict?” If they say yes, .the vordiet is
taken and recorded. If they say, “No, wt
have not agreed,” thoy are sent back to the
jmy room. It one juryman should soy, “i
think the man is guilty of murder,” and an
other juryman should say, “I think ho is
guilty oi manslaughter,” and another jury
man should say, “I think he is guilty of as
sault and battery with intent to kill,” thf
judge would lose his patience aud say, “Gc
back to your room now and make np a ver
dict. Agree on something.”
Well, my friends, there has been a great
trial going on for centuries aud for ages be
tween Skepticism, the plaintiff, verses
Christianity, the defendant. Tho scientists
have been impaneled and sworn on tho jury.
They have been gone for centuries, some o:
them, and they come back, and wo say.
“Gentlomon of the jury, have y<
upon a verdict?” They say, “No, we have
not agreed.” Then we say, “Go back for a
few more centuries and then come in and see
ii yon can agree, see if you can render some
verdict.” Now, there is not the meanest
prisoner in the Tombs Court who would be
condemned by a jury that did not agree, and
yet you expect us to renounce our glorious
Christianity for such a miserable verdict as
theso men have rendered, they themselves
not having been able to agree.
But my subject shall no longer bo de
fensive ; it must bo aggressive. I must show
you that instead of Christianity falling back
it is on the march, and that the coming relig-.
ion of tho world is to be tho religion of (he
Lord Jesus Christ 10,000 times intensified.
It is to tako possession of everything—of nli
laws, all manners, all customs, all cities, all
nations. It is going to he so mighty as com
pared with what it has been, so much mors
mighty that it will seem almost like a new
religion.
I adopt this theory because Christianity
has gono on straight ahead notwithstanding
ali the bombardment, and infidelity has not
destroyed a church, or crippled a minister,
or rooted out one verse of the Bible, and now
their ammunition seems to ho pretty much
exhausted. They cannot get anytbingnew
against Christianity, and ii Christianity has
gone on under the bombardment of cen
turies and still continues to advance, may we
not conclude that, as the powder and shot of
tho other side seem to bo exhausted, Chris
tianity is going on with more rapid stride?
I find an encouraging fact in the thought
that tho secular press in this day and the
pulpit seem harnessed in the same team foi
the proclamation of the gospel. To-morrow
there will not be a banker on Wall street ot
State street or Third street who will not hav<
in his pocket or on ills table treatises oi
Christianity, calls to repentance and Scrip
lure oassaees. 20 or 30 of them, in the re
ports of the Christian churches of this city
and other cities. Why. thnt thing would
havo boen impossible a few years ago. Now
on Monday morning and Monday evening
the secular press spreads abroad more re
ligious truth than all the tract societies nt
tho country spread in the other six day--.
Blessed be the tract societies ’ We hail then:,
and wo hail these others.
I say It would havo been impossible a feu-
years ago. Hundreds of letters would have
conic (o tho secular newspaper offices,say
ing, “Stop my paper, we lmve religion on
Sunday; don’t give ns any through tho
week. Stop my paper.” But I have boen
told that many of tho secular papers have
their largest circulation on Monday moraine,
and tho whole population of this country are
becoming sermon readers. Besides that,
have you not noticed the papers proclaiming
themselves secular almost every week have
religious discussions in them?
Go hack a few years when tltpra was not a
decent paper in the United States that had
not a discussion on the doetrino of eternal
punishment. Small wits made, merry, I
know, but there was not an intelligent man
in the United States that ns a result of that
controversy in regard to eternal punishment
did not ask himselt the, question. “Wlmt is
to be my eternal destiny?” And somo years
ago when Tyndall offered his prayer gauge
there was not a secular paper in the United
States,that did not discuss tho question:
“Does'God ever answer prayer! May the
creature impress tho Creator?"
Are not all these facts encouraging to ev
ery Christian and every philanthropist?
Besides, that, tho rising generation nro be
ing saturated with gospol trutli as no other
generation by this international series of
Sunday-school lessons. Formerly the chil
dren were expected only to nibble at the lit-
:lo infantiio Scripture stories, but now they
are taken from Genesis to .Revelation, the
strongest minds of the country explaining
the lessons to the teachers, andthe teacherT
explaining them to tho classes, and we art
going to have in this country 5,000,000 youth
forestalled for Christianity. Hear it! Hear
it!
Besides that, you must have noticed, if you
have talked on these great themes, that they
are finding ont that while science is grand
in secular directions, they cannot give any
comfort to a soul in trouble.
Talking with men on steamboats and in
rail cars. I find they are coming back to the
comfort of the gospel. They say, .“Somehow
humun soienee doesn’t comfort me when I
have any trouble, and I must try something
alse.” And they are trying the g03psl.
Take your scientific consolation to the
mother who has just i03t her child. Apply
the. doctrine of the “survival of the fittest. ”
Tell her that her child died because its life
was not worth as much as the lifoof one that
lived. Try that it you dare. Goto the dying
man with your transcendental phraeso'logy
and tell him he ought to have confidence in
the great “to be.” andthe everlasting “now,”
and the eternal “what is it?” and go on with
your consolation and see if he is comforted.
Go to that Woman who has lost her: hus
band and tell her It was a geological neces
sity that that man passed out of existence,
just a? th? megatherium disappeared in or-
are finding out themselves—and
science do not help them when there leTa
dead babe in the house. They are coming
back to our glorious old fashioned sympa
thetic religion.
Oh, young man, .do not be ashamed to be
found on the side of the Bible. Do not join
those young men who in this day put their
thumb in their vest and swagger about tho
street andthe stores talking about the glo
rious nineteenth century, about its light be
ing sufficient without any Bible and without
any Christ and without any God. The time
is coining—we may not live to see it, but I
should not be surprised if. we did see it—
when this whole country is to be one great
ohuroh, the forests the aisles, the Allegheny
and the Booky Mountains the pillars, tho
chain of inland lakes the baptistries, and the
worship the hallelujahs chorus to Him who
was and is and shall be evermore. Oh, come
over to the majority—come under the ban
ner of Emanuel.
Vernon was the son ot an English squire.
He was brought up in great elegance. There
was a man working on the plaoe of the name
of Balph. Vernon used to often talk with
Ralph. After awhile Vernon went off to
college and came'back with his mind fail of
skepticism. He talked his skepticism to
Ralph, the workman. After awhile Vernon
went from home again, was gone ior years,
came back, and among his first questions
when getting homo was, “Where is Ralph?”
“Oh ! ,r said tho lather, “Balph is in prison
waiting for the day of execution."
Vernon hastened to see Balph. Balph,
looking through the wicket of the prison,
said. “Vernon, how good you are to coma
and see me 1 I am glad to see yon.* I hardly
expected you would come and see me. I
don’t blame you; I don’t blame anybody; I
only blame myself; bnt, Vernon, I want you
to promise me one thing. Will you?” Vernon
replied, “I will.” “I want you to promise
mo never to talk skepticism in the presence
of anybody. You see it might do them barm.
When you used to say there was nothing in
the Bible, and it didn’t make any difference
how we lived, we would come out happy al
the last, somehow it had a bad influence up
on me, and I went from bad to worse until 1
am here, and I must dio for my crimes.”
By almost superhuman effort the sentence
was changed, and he was to be transported
to another country for life. The ship going
there was wrecked on Van Diemen’s Land.
Among those who perished was Ralph, the
victim of Vernon’s skepticism. Vernon tells
the story to-day with tears and a broken
heart, but it is too iate! Ob, do not talk
skepticism I Let God be true, though every
man be found a liar.
TRADE REVIEW.
Dnn & Co.’s Report of Business for
tlie Past Week.
B. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade
for the paBt week says:
Improvement has extended fromthe
banks to the mills.- The condition of
great industries hns distinctly mended,
though still seriously depressed.
More important by far than any rise
in stock in the fact that more works
have resumed during the past week
than have stopped operation, so that
tho producing' force of the country,
after months of constant decline, has
begun to increase. Dispatches men
tion twenty-eight textile and thirty
metal works which have resumed,
some only with part force, while
twenty-five textile and nine iron works
have stopped. It is expected that
most of tho Fall river mills will start
soon, the hands assenting to reduced
wages.
The money markets are more
healthy; the premium on currency has
almost vanished; the embarrassments
in domestic exchanges have well nigh
disappeared, and while very little
money is yet available for commercial
or industrial loans, there is some re
lief in that respect also. September
1st the output of iron furnaces in blast
was only 85,500 tons weekly, against
107,042 August 1st, and 181,551 May
1st; so much less than half the pro
ducing forces were_ engaged, and yet
the manufactories were so stagnant
that unsold stocks of pig iron in
creased 22,000 tons a week in August.
It is stated that farther reductions in
tho output have been made since Sep
tember began. Soft steel has reached
the lowest point on record—$20 at
Pittsburgh, and substantially all rail
mills in the conntry are idle, but
there is a somewhat better demand for
hardware, wire rods, barbed wire and
contracts for architectural implements
and supplies are reported at Chicago.
In cotton mills resumption of work
is quite general; the paper business is
doing better, the Troy paper and the
Blinois glass works are starting and
also several shoe factories.
While the money * markets have
greatly improved, they are yet far
from the normal condition, and the
crops are in doubt. The monetary
situation has changed but little, for
there basbeenan abundance of money,
and only confidence in employing itia
lacking.
Failures for the week have been only
323 in number, against 385 last week
and 430 for the week preceding, and
25 in Canada against 33 for the same
week last year. While one large mort-
The rate of taxation in Sumter
county is $9 on the $1,000.
A great many fish were killed along
the coast around Savannah and other
parts by the great hurricane.
An attempt is. being made by citi
zens of -Macon and Vineville to secure
the annexation of the latter.
■•**'■*
The naval stores crop will'be largely
decreased on account of the agreement
of the association to cease working ,old.
boxes after August 26.
* * *
The question of the removal- of "the
county site of Macon county from
Oglethorpe to Montezuma is exciting
a great deal of discussion between these
towns.
* * *
Chatham connty is to have a bill
passed by the next legislature provid
ing for registration of voters in the
city and county elections to prevent
corruption in elections.
* * *
School Commissioner Bradwell is
deeply interested in a study of the
amounts appropriated by the other
states for educational purposes. The
facts he secures will he used in his-re-
port to the legislature.
* * *
The county commissioners of Bibb
county fixed tbe county rate of taxa
tion for 1893 at 83 9-10 cents on the
one hundred dollars. The combined
state and county rate will be $1.30 on
every one hundred dollars.
* * *
Macon’s $200,000 worth of bonds
have been printed bnt not signed os
yet. They are to be taken by the lo
cal bond commission, according to
contract, but efforts will probably be
made to prevent this by opposition
parties.
* * *
Mr. J. M. Singleton, of Dekalb
connty, proves to be the boss turnip
raiser of the state. Last year he ship
ped one hundred barrels of turnips to
Atlanta from a two-acre patch, realiz
ing two hundred dollars from their
sale. He says he will beat last year’s
record this year.
* « *
The Central railroad authorities
will hereafter charge storage on all
baggage left in the baggage rooms
along its line for more than twenty-
four hours, for the second twenty-four
hours twenty-five cents, and ten cents
for each succeeding day, not to ex
ceed one dollnr for one month.
' . - * * *
All the buoys in Brunswick harbor,
which were blown out' by the storm,-
have been replaced and Colonel Gbod-
year has resumed work with dynamite
on the bar. Careful soundings show
twenty-three feet at all points acroa» J
the bar at mean high tide, making a
gain of from 18.3 feet iu July, 1891,
when work was commenced, of 4.2
feet already obtained. - Tbe gain cer
tain to be obtained will be 4.7 feet.
Tbe Brunswick Times says the spec
ial from Waycross was a fake. We
thought so when we read it: “A lying
correspondent a few daye since sent
out a special relating a most atrocious
oecurrence in Coffee county, in which
it was stated, with revolting particu
lars, how a negro brute had two white
girls tied out in the swamps. There
was so ranch suggestion of falsehood
in the story that it fell short-ranged.
It is now pronounced wholly false.
Such liars need tar and feathers.”
* * *.
The Athens Manufacturing Com
pany have resumed work at their im
mense cotton factory. The Geor
gia factory ■which burned down
last year, has been rebuilt and
will start np again. Other factories
in the city which have been closed
during a part of the financial strin
gency are booked to begin work again
in a few days and all the factory people
in the city are happy. Confidence in
money matters is completely restored
and prospects fora big fall business
were never brighter in Athens than at
present.
* * *
Borne is excited over the sensational
addition to the Sngarman murder that
has developed on the finding of Cary
Sheats’ half decomposed body within
a mile of where Sugarman’s remains
were found. The other is the arrest
of Josh Young and Emanuel Whisnant,
two young white men who live near
Borne, and who were arrested on war
rants for the murder of the two men.
If Borne is excitement, the section of
country where the bodies were found
is at a pitch of terrible intensity. The
murders are the most foul ever com-
gago company swells the aggregate of lnftted in that 6ee{iion and cannot be
liabilities for tbe week, the average of exceeded in their cruelty.
the other failures was lower than
usual, 262 being for less than $5,000
each, and only four over $100,000
each.
“Tito” Hague.
Did you ever stop to ask yourself oi
your knowing .friend the meaning of
“The” in the place named The Hague?
If you are looking for something that
will knock the above-mentioned knowing
friend off his feet just ask him the sig
nification of the three letters quoted in
the headline. When he fails to answer
the question tell him that the “The” as
it occurs in the instance cited is simply
the anglicized form of the Dutch word
“S Gravenhaaz" or “ S Gravenhaze,”
either of which in the Dutoh language
means “the count’s hedge," or “the
count’s grove” or '■ ‘ woods.” Originally
the location now occupied by the city of
The Hague was the hunting grounds of
the Counts of Hollaud. About the year
1240 a palace was built-in the grove.
Presently a village sprung up around the
palace—still it was called “ the count’s
hedge,” and finally and lastly a large
city, which in the Dutch language had
Us original signification, but which .in
modem parlance has been evoluted into
“The Hague.”—[St. Louis {Republic.
In 1730 New York seat' to England
70,000 barrels of flour.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun says:
Tbe enterprise which is being further
ed by the Negro Exposition Company
of Augusta promises to be very cred
itable and beneficial to the colored
people of Georgia. The first annual
exhibition will be held in the Augus
ta exposition buildings from Decem
ber 4th to December 8th and promises
to be a very interesting affair, when
tho colored people of this state will
show to the world what they are doing
and what they ore capablo of doing.
The premium list, just issued, is said
to be quite, attractive, it was the
work of a job office owned and oper
ated by negroes.
The wreck of the City of Savannah
has been abandoned by the wrecking
company which had her inspected.
Announcement to this effect has been
received from General Sorrell, general
manager of the Ocean Steamship
company, by Beceiver Comer. The
Merritt Wrecking company sent' the
wrecking-steamer Coley to see what
could be done with her, and it- is re
ported that raising her is impractica
ble. This-company went out in the
interest of the underwriting com
panies, audit is probable that after
this report" they will abandon her.
The Savannah was built in 1877 'fit a
Everybody should read-the paper KHil
There ib still considerable talk about
the recent changes of the schedule of
the Georgia railroad. ^ The people
down the lino from Atlanta as far as
Stone Mountain are getting up a peti-
tion to have the accommodation run
as far as that place, leaving Atlanta at
3:16 o’clock. At present._it only goes
as far as Claxkston, returning to At
lanta early in the afternoon and then
to Covington for the night. If the
train that comes to Atlanta at 5:45 is
changed to come to Atlanta at 1 o'clock
in the day, this will leave the people
below Olarkston without any afternoon
train to Atlanta at all unless the ac
commodation leaving Atlanta at 3:15
o’clock is allowed to run as' far as
Stone Mountain, as the petition asks.
General Manager Scott 'says he is
looking into the matter and is desir
ous of getting a full and free expres
sion from the people as to what they
really want. He is experimenting
with the schedules, making them suit
the people according to their own de
mands. '
* * *
To Contest tlie Willi
G. W. Dye, one of the wealthiest
planters in northeast Georgia is dead,
and haB left his fortune of over half a
million to a negro family who attend
ed him for the last fifty years. Dye
was never married. He owned 3,000
aores of land and raised a great quan
tity of cotton. No member of his
family was living with him, and his
attendants were faithful negroes. To
these he left his estate. His executors
are leading citizens in Elbert connty.
Dye was 84 years of age.
His will has been filed for probate.
A caveat will be filed by Colonel W.
D. Tutt, Mr. J. N. Worley, Mr. Mil-
F. Beese and Mir. H. J. Brewer, at
torneys for the relatives of Mr. Dye.
This will provides that Mr. Martin
Dye, a brother, shall have the interest
on $1,000 dnring his life. He gives
to his nephew, a Mr. Hawkins, of
Oglethorpe connty, $2,000; to Bev.
John H. Grogan $1,600, and all the
remainder of his estate to his old ser
vant, Lucinda Dye, and her nine
children. Mr. Dye left about $40,000
in cash, about 3,000 acres of land, 100
hales of cotton and other personal
property, including a large sum in
notes. A heated and lengthy legal
contest is expeoted.
• * *
The Gate City Guard Disbanded.
The Gate City Guard at Atlanta has
been written out of the service of the
state by Governor Northern This was
not unexpected. The expiration of the
time allowed for re-inlistment render
ed such a move legally necessary.
This ends the existence, so far as the
state is concerned, of one of the oldest
and most honorable military organiza
tions of tbe state. In the latter fifties
while Atlanta was yet a village, this
company was organized by the flower
of Atlanta’s chivalrous yonng men.
When the war came on the Guard was
among the first to march to battle, and
right brave soldiers they made. After
the war t^o* survivors came hack and
helped /Vrebuild the destroyed city.
Some or them are now living and hold
honorary membership in the company.
The dissatisfaction among Atlanta
military companies over tho aid given
them by the state is a familiar chapter
of newspaper reading. Several
months ago the enlistments of the
Guard "expired. The adjutant general
mailed the officers of the company
blanks for re-enlistment and made
them familiar with the law about the
matter and the time given for return
ing the lists filled out. The time for
re-enlistment expired without the lists
being filled ont, and the governor ac
cordingly disbanded the company.
* * *
Delegates to the Farmers’ Congress,
The Farmers’ National Congress
will meet at Savannah December 12th,
13th and 14th, 1893. At the request
of Hon. B. F. Clayton, of Indiana,
secretary of the congress, Governor
Northen has appointed the following
delegates to represent this state in the
congress:
From the State at Large—B. B.
Baxter, Sparta; B. T. Nesbitt, At
lanta.
First District—G. M. Byals, Savan-
nan; W. A. Wilkins, Waynesboro.
Second District—J. L. Hand, Pel
ham ; O. A Barry, Cnthbert.
Third District—Harper Black,
Americus; Dudley Hughes, Danville.
Fourth District—W. C. Wisdom,
Wisdom’s Store; J. A. Thrash, Jones’
Mills.
Fifth District—Joseph Kingsberry,
Atlanta; Sam H. Broadnax, Walnut
Grove.
Sixth District—J. H. Mitchell, Zeb-
ulon; B. N. Lamar, Milledgeville.
Seventh District—James H. Harlan,
Calhoun; Dr. Beasley, Stilesboro.
Eighth District—W. H. Mattox,
Elberton; Henry dcJarnette, Eaton-
ton.
Ninth District—J. H. Nichols, Na-
cooohee ; James B. Brown, Canton.
Tenth District—George C. Gilmore,
Wartfcen; Tom Hardeman, Louisville.
Eleventh District—A. P. Brantley,
filacksliear; B. L Denmark, Quitman.
The work of keeping tho channel ol
the Missouri for 1,649 miles above Sioux
City, la., clear for navigation, is no light
undertaking. Two Government snaff
boats, the steamer Gen. McPherson and
the steel scow Mandan, arc engaged all
through the open season in puiling.snags
out of the river bed and clearing away
■ the driftwood. The steamer is a curiosity
In her way,being a stern wheeler equipped
with compound engines placed on
each side of the boat, like ordinary high-
pressure steamboat cylinders, aud having
a Scotch m&rine'boiler, air pumps, and a
full condensing apparatus. The exhaust-
from five auxiliary engines and even the
waste of the capstan cylinder cocks
-are condensed and re-fed to the boiler.
She has a complete “snagging outfit,”
including a pressure pump .for washing
earth from the roots of snags and stumps.
The steel scow is fitted with eteel sheere,
steam capstans, steam saw, and dthei
implements for raising snag3. Last
season these boats removed 851 snags,
including rocks, projecting trees, stumps,
and channel boulders. Two wrecked
steamers were also taken out of the
channel. A great deal of miscellaneous
work was also done, • Such as rescuing
stock at high water, trimming trees on
the banks, and sluicing out months oi
streams.- As to the need -of this work,
it is diminishing, fast, for it is said that
during the past ten years the river traffic,
owing to the building of railroads; has
steadi v decreased, until it is pow. almost
The Philosopher Does Not Exactly
Agree With Bishop Keener.
with cotnmnnlsilo principles and fn my
these publications are doing a world of
They are educating the working people to the
idea that there should be a division—a division.
In tbe anfnl days of the Freneh revolution
three eommuuiBts went into the Bank of Both-
childs and oried “liberty, equality, fraternity
—we have come for our money.” The Jew
said “all right, X have 60,800,000 francks in
the bank. There are 60,000,000 people in
France; here, are yonrs,” and he threw three
francs upon the counter. "Now go tell the
ri st to come on and get theirs,” said ho.
Bnt we have not come to that and I bo|
never will. It becomes all onr consii
people, whether poor or rich, whether cm-
' ployera or employed, to be reasonable and tol
erant, and to respect the rights of others and
teach otbars so to do—Bill Ass in Atlanta
Constitution.
Let us tote fair with the figures. Bishop
Keener says in the Nashville Christian Advo
cate that “tho mercantile world in the sonth &
now controlled by the wholesale gambling and
massive frauds of cotton futures; that the cen
ters of New York. Liverpool and New Orleans
have yielded to thia colossal sclrme of hazard
until the production of the staple has no effect
upon its market value."
He says that “during the past three months
tbci e have been sold in New York and elsewhere
56.000. 000 bales of cotion.” This would bo
224.000. 000 hales for the year’s crop. All of
thiB, he Faye, “is purely imaginary value except
the 8.000,000 bales that were raised and this
ideal cotton that was not-made wonld yield
57.840.000. 000, and th’sis tbe figuring against
which the planter has to make headway. All
tho gambling dens in this conntry and in the
Badon-Badens of Europe ore child’s piny cam-
pared with this hugo monster that envelopes fn
its colls the fortunes and even the lives of
myriads.”
Gambling in futures is a sin. Betting on
anything is a sin, for it is a mode of getting
something far nothing. It is demoralizing in • „ . •
the extreme and remits in rnin to thonsanda of , collecting pitchers,
those who engage In it, bnt I cannot sec how
dealing in fntures affects the price ot cotton,
for in its analysis it is betting whether it wilt
New gold is a brilliant shade lot
brunettes.
Ermine is to he the fur of the im
mediate future.
Black relieved by white is again a
favorite fashion.
Mrs. “Jennie June” Croly’s fad is
"White silk serge is much used foe
dresses and neglige waists.
Leather bindings will supersede vel
vet on the bottom of dress skirts.
A soft, uncrushable silk called
regence is very popular in Paris.
Especial attention is just now being
go up or down. There were no 56,000,0 0
hales bought or sold, neither real nor ideal.
Tne speculator says to the bucket shop, ‘Til :
bet you that cotton will go np within thiitv I
days and X will put up a margin on 260 hales.”
“All right,” says tho bucket shop, “put np $600 1
and Til tako the bet.” Cotton drops instead! _ .
of rising and the $500 goes np the apout and given to the making-up of challies.
the speculator is a sadder hut not a wiser man. I ,, „„„„„
Another speculator bet the other way, perhaps. I Many society women are adopting
and won, and of course he tries it again. The the gentle Italian dove as a household
shop will bet either way, and like the dealer in |
t£°^ The wreath effect prevails rather
the cotton. The slop knows its consumers and . than the bunch for trimming women s
the average of ail the bets, and can ledge to small hats,
snit it.
Now that is the way I understand it. It is
no getting np a corner on cotton. It iB simp y
backing a man’s jndgment with his money.
That $500 was the stake; and while it repre
sented 250 bales, it was really the valno of on
ly fifteen bales. This solution wonld reduce
the bishop’B figures from 50,000,000 hales to
8,400,0.0 bales as the amount lost or won in
three mouths. What if has to do with fixing
tho price I cannot see. Liverpool still fixes ihe
price and has ihe India crop to help fix it and
it seems to be uniformly fixed every year in
proportion. It is tlie farmers really who fix
tlie price when they fix the acreage to ihe crop.
England-America agents still examine carefnl-
iy and cautionsly into the crop condition of ov-
cry county in the sonth. England knows tlie
condition and extent of tho crop in Bartow
county better to-day than any farmer in it, ior
she does not rely npon one source of information
hut on several There is not a-buyer or dealer
in Georgia who does not rely npon the last re
ports sent him from some great house in New
York that i-* connected with English or New
England mills. I cannot eeo where the bucket
shops come in or how they can inflnence the
price. Millionaires like the Inmans put large
moneys in cotton every year and make money,
for itis their business, and thoy understand it,
bnt they run no bucket shops, nor do they
make colossal fortunes by speculation. They
hack their judgment with their money and are
able to hold their j
Corduroy silk chiffon is a French
material with more body than the
plain chiffon.
Long Empire scarfs of chiffon or
lace thrown over the shoulders give a
quaint touch to the costume.
Unconventionality has marked the
wedding journeys of several prominent
brides and bridegrooms recently.
A pretty idea for decorating finger
howls is to have a bowl of larger size,
so that space for flowers is left be
tween.
It gnaws at the hearts of English
women that at their garden parties
American girls carry off the social
honors.
Those who are good social prophets
tell us that maids of honor will be
quite out of fashion for weddings next
season.
A story is told of a New York mil
lionaire’s wife who has been for the
last three years “traveling all over
profit. I remember-a Charleston coffee merl -Europe trying to match a pearl.”
chant by the name of Samuel Farrar who made Some of the women of China are be*
in thirty yeara a million do lara by dealing in ginning to comprehend the follow of
£c ffCC and H it 1 ™ SK y P e Trfand compressing the feet A missionary
months and days, and tho price of cofTeo for has been enlightening them on the sub-
every day was marked, and-a green line marked ject.
tbo ups and down, ihe rise and fall, and it was . Hartwell Catherwood, the
averr crooked line. Then there was a straight , J , ,, _ . (IA ij -vy- v,.„ v * »
red lino that split tho difference and showed brilliant author of Old Kaskoskia,
tho average pries for tho year. Brazil was the began her literary career when a mere
markot where lio honglit. If the crop was childascontributortoaBoston juvenile
short he made allowances far it and raised the
red line according to his best judgment nnd magazine.
his most reliable information. “I buy," said j H Dutch Guinea the women carry
he, “when the price is below tiiat tine. I sell on persons a ll the family sav-
when it is above. JnBt so it is with shrewd . “ . ,, ”, , , . ,
men everywhere. . mgs m the shape of heavy bracelets,
I believe there is too mnch odinm heaped anklets, necklaces and even crowns of
upon rich men, too much malignant abuse of „ 0 l d and silver,
money kings and millionaires. I reckon we ° _ , , , . . ,
would all get rich if wo could—even the preach-| Miss Dod, the laay tennis cnam-
ers. It grieves me to hear some of those pnliti- pion of England, onlyrecentlyoelebra-
eians trying to array the poor against the rich ted ier twenty-first birthday. She is
and to stir up strife and bitterness among the , . ™T7' “ ,,
people. It did not uso to bo that way. Men who also an exoellent bicyclist and golf
prospered were respected in my yonng days— player, as well as a singer and pianist.
com^dered ST*®; &T ' One of the particular occupations of
approvingly of Abraham and Job and Solomon the average woman just now is the Br
and tell us of their great wealth, and how Ihe ranwement of some simple, inexpen-
Lord blessed them. I believe that there are ° T nfh er rlnrnhlo and as nenrlv as
good men now who are rich and they do pood sive, rather durable tea as nearly as
with their money. If they did not I don’t possible unsoilable dresses for World s
know what wonld become of the poor and snf- Eair wearing.
feting when pestilence or famine or storms af- j _ ,, . ,, ,,, ,. ■
flict them. | It seems that among the attractions
Bnt thero seems to boa feeling of unrest and t at the World’s Fair is a straw hat
bittcmesB am tig ceriain classes all ovtrtho braided by the busy fingers of her
Queen Victoria. It isn’t
tho rich and by the government. I see in a , much as a hat, hut as an example of
Romo paper that they have organized in Chul's royal industry it is valuable.
district, in Floyd county, “a tread brigade,” | _ . .
and havo 400 members and they havo signs | Bombay 8„ems a very progressive
and grips and passwords, and have sworn that sort of place. It has a Sorosis and a
they Will have 10 cents a ponnd for iheircot- • copying doss. Becently at'a competi-
ton, debt or no debt, and they wi 1 hold it at ^ e | amination over one hundred
the muzzle of a ’tnnd.ester." Surely that Parsee „ rls cooked tt l ong list of In-
c&u t be BO. Is it possible tost tho spirit oX , ,, • «
anarchy and communism is taking hold of our aian delicacies to show their proh-
peoplu? Bread brigade l Why, there is not a ciency.
S^hSnrott^iUrto^l Probably the youngest telegraph
abundant everywhere. It used to roll in here ; operator in the country is little Miss
from tho west by tho carload, but it don’t como Mattie Quin, of Bouseville, Penn. She
now. There are hundreds ot farmers in Bar- j . „tj ot1 j
tow who will have com and fodder and meat to 1 « se , ven - Y e “ a ° ld > ?£"l for “ 7®“ , 8lie
sell. Our farmers are better off today than has been able to handle a key uncier-
anv oilier does in tho community. They come' standingly, within the limits of her
and go when they please. They have hoalth vocabnlarv
and strength and good wafer and are n- ver vis- i '
ited by storms or pestilence, such as have late- - The favorite amusement of the
ly como upon our seacnast. They have cattle Queen of Italy is mountaineering, and
and hogs, and chickens nnd eggs and “gnrdeu gfo j UB t started on a long holiday
pass” and the schoilhonse and the church are ^ the Alps. Her Majesty has a ten-
notfar away—what a pity t-i ey cannot for a ~ , . , 1 J ,
little while look in upon the poor of Enrops denoy toward stoutness and possibly
and havo their hearts touched with gratitude that accounts for her devotion to so
that they live in this blessed land. Libor is onfivn n.-rmrsnit
too hard upon capital—too tlireaton'ng—too ex- . active a pursuit.
acting. These may seem strange words for mo | At a dinner given m honor of a
to use, bnt they ore (rue. I am as hostile to young girl inst entering society in
monopolies and trusts and combines as any- i, . livfvripR •
body, bnt whon I read of these great. trikes in £ allB servants wore white liveries,
a time like this, it shocks my sympathy. V\ hat the guests were twelve young girl6, aji
are theso organizations anyhow, but monopu- in white, with powdered hair; the to
nes? The-watchword of most of them is “if w fm-nighing and decorations and as
you don t pay so much, we wfll quit and when . ,, . . ,
wo quit nobody else shall take our places." many of the different sorts of food
That did not nso to bs tho l iw and how it as possible were entirely in white.
comes to be the law now, I cannot understand, i , .. -e
But wo are gratified to seo snelt kind rela- 1 . Among the peculiarities of Quaker
iions between Mr. Thomas and hi« omp'ovees ism, a correspondent points out, Qnak-
on our road "from Atlnn’a to Nashville. That eresses aTe not allowed to wear gold
is aU right and wo hop i it will continue ornaments or to have their ears
The mystery is how a railroad can pay ils ... . . ,
men at all while our whole financial sys- pierced for earrings. If a mother per-
tem is paralyz'd. There is hard- mitted her daughter to .nndergo this
ly enough freight" business now to pay operation both mother and daughter
for tho axle grouse. _ Ono day last week there would he “read out” of meeting.
HOW ABOUT
When the Queen of England dies
her.motal remains will rest in the gray
granite sarcophagus with the late la
mented Prince Albert’s ashes. Under
neath the arms of the Queen aud
Prince Albert on the monument is in-
were only seven loaded cars going north ,
over this great road, so I was told. Below At- I
lanta there is nothing to load and yet tho lease
of ilie Western and Atlantic costs 8120 a day.
Railroads and factories have their troubles,
and but fen make a fair rate of in'ercat on
their cost. The wonder is that any sane man
will invest in th- m where strikes and violenoe m
Pr NowIdo not wish to be misunderstood. 1 soribed: “Farewell, well beloved, here
I have respect for all these organizations where at last I will rest with thee. With
they respect the rights of other people, but Cbrigt I will rise again."
when those i mployed on one road say to their
employers you shall not cany any freight that , Prineess Hans Henry, of Fless, is
comes over another road where there is a strik<', gjg reigning beauty in London just
their demand sh cis Ihi jnd, ment and tho gjj-3 CJld society journals are go-
common sonso of mankind. When the strikers ing into raptures over her at a great
assault and-intimidate others who would gladly te g h jg only nineteen yeat3 old,
work, or when they allow violence to be done -* . T , . q , „„
and the track loro up and the locomotives dis- and one Jenkins declares that she is,
oble3.it is simply an outrage upon the law of like her name, ‘Daisy,’ being lhfantile-
the land and if p.misted in will surely bring I v fair with wondering blue .'eyes, and
tljis.government into a monarchy like those of i _ >>
Europe, where it takes a standing army of half , she looks even younger than she is.
a million soldiere to protect citizens and their [ Our American girls de 'not take
todl^:the,hroi«t HoUanJ. dresses
should remember that strikes are nottol-rated trimmed with black Batin, which have
among government employes, nei'hcr 'in tbe / been- received with. s$ much, favor in
army or naval or publio works or Ihe railway pwia-nd They ore too severely sim-
inail service. Strikers do not dare now to atop . 5 .
ihe locomotive aud the car that carries the pie and resemble nothing so. much as
United States mail- | furniture covering. They cost a good
Well, of course, those brotherhoods have- an i; 00 for plain gowns, for the
answer to alHhis, aqd I havo read it ell. Fa- I . ’ . - "hoc mm
and periodicals come to me weekly that nicety of then: pjaiang has mui
oqt ejgnity to capital and are tainted -With their eucceES. -3^
■A" pgisfe i
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