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BUTI.Elt. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1§§|
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NUMBER 46.
EEV. DB. TALMAGK.
CT CEOOKTiY.V DIVCXU’S SUN
DAY SKR3XON.
Subjsc-: /‘Tlie Gardena ortlio Sea.”
■ITfT: "The ».-«•£» were wrapped about my
head—Jonah 5.
‘‘The Botany oi the.Bibl«'; or, Gol Amons:
the Flownrs,” is a fascinating sa.»jes£: I hold
in my haul; a bod’: _w-iiclr I brought fro n
Palestine, bonn.l in olive wood, anl within
ir *r« i>r *ssj-l flowers which have not only
retained their color, but their aroma. Flow
ers from Bethlehem, flowers from Jerusa
lem, flowers from Gethsemane. flowers irom
Mount of Olives, flowers from Bethany, flow
ers from. Siloam\flowers from the valley of Je-
hoshaphat, red anemones and wild migno
nette, buttercups, daisies, cyclamens, camo
mile, blueheilg, ferns, mosses,-grasses and a
wealth of flora that keep ma fascinated by
the hour, and ever}’ time 1 open A it is a new
revelation. It is the New Testament of the
fields. But my text leads us into another
realm of the botanical kingdom.
Having spoken to you in a course of ser
mons about “Gol Everywhere'*—on “The
Astronomy of the Bible; or, Go 1 Among the
Stars;” “The Ornithology of the Bible; or,
God Among the B rds* The Ichthyology
of the Bible ; or, God Among the Fishes ; v
• *Thp Mineralogy of t he Bible; or, God Among
the Amethysts;” “The Coimholozy of the
Bible; or, God Among the Shells;” “The
Chronology of the Bible; or, God Among the
Centuries”—I speak now to you about “The
Botany of the Bible; or, God iu the Gardens
of the Sea.” Although I purposely take this
morning for consideration the least observed
and least appreciate 1 of all the botanical
products of the world, we shall And the con
templation very absorbing.
Tu all our theological seminaries where we
make ministers there ought to be professors
to give lessons in natural history. Physical
science ought to be taught side by side with
revelation. It is the same God who inspires
the page of the natural world as the page of
the Scriptural world. What a freshening up
it would be to our sermons to press into
them even a fragment of Mediterranean sea
weed! We should have fewer sermons
awfully dry if we imitated our blessed « ord,
and in our discourse, like Him, we would
let a lily bloom, or a crow fly, or a hen
brood her chickens, or a crystal of salt fldsh
out the preservative qualities of religion.
The trouble is that in many #f our theo-'
logical seminaries men who are so dry them-
• selves they never could get people to come
and hear them preach are now trying to
teach young men how to preach, and the
student is put between two great presses of
dogmatic theology and squeezed until there
Is no life left in him. Give the poor victim
at least one lesson on the botany of the Bible.
That was an awful plunge that the recreant
prophet Jonah ma ie when, dropped over the
gunwales of the Mediterranean ship, he sank
many fathoms down into a tempestuous sea.
Both before and after the monster of the deep
swallowed him, be was entangled in seaweed.
The juugles or the deep threw their cordage
of vegetation around him. Some of this sea
weed was anchored to the bottom of the
watery abysm, and some of it was afloat and
swallowed by the great sea monster, so that,
while the prophet was at tlio bottom of the
deep alter ho was horribly imprisoned he
could exclaim and did exclaim in the words
of my text, “The weeds were wrapped about
my head.”
Joauah was the first to record that there
.aro growth* upon the bottom of the sea as
well as upon land. The first picture lever
owned was a handful of S3aweeds pressed on
a p*ge, and I called them “the shorn locks
of Neptune.” These products of the deep,
whether brown or green or yellow or pur
ple or red or intersSot of many colors, are
most fascinating. They are distributed all
over the depths an l from Arctic to Antarctic.
-That Gcd thinks well of them I conclude
from the fact that ho has made 6000 species
of thorn. Sometimes these water plants
are 400 or 700 feet long, and they cable
the sea. One specimen has a growth of
15 f, 0 feet.
On the northwest shore of our country is a
S MW-’c l with leaves thirty or forty feet long,
amid which the sea otter makes his home,
resting himself on the buoyancy of the leaf
and stem. The thickest jungles of the trop
ics are not more full of vegetation than the
depths of the sea. There are forests down
there and vast prairies all abloom, and God
wilks there as he walked in the Garden of
K lea “in the cool of the day.” Oh. what
cntrnncement, this subaqueous world! Oh,
the God given wonders ot the seaweed! Its
birthplace is a palace of crystal. The cradle
that rocks it is the storm. Its grave is a sar
cophagus of beryl and sapphire. There is
no*night down there.
There are creatures ot God on the bottom
of the sea so constructed that, strewn all
along, they make a fir namsnt besprent with
star.*, constellations and galaxies of impos
ing luster. The sea feather is a lamplighter.
The gymnotus is an electrician, and he is
surcharged with electricity and makes the
deep bright with the lightning of the 3ea.
The gorgonia flashes like jewels. There are
sea nnoir.on-s ablaze with light. There are
the st.4r.1sh and the moonlsh, so called be
cause they so powerfully suggest siellar and
lunar illumination.
Oh, these midnight lanterns of the ocean
' caverns; these processions of flame over the
w ;ite floor of the deep ; these illuminations
tr.res miles down under the sea; these
gorgeously upholstered castles of the Al
in igoty in the underworld! The author oF
the text felt the pull of the hidden vegetation
ih« Mediterranean, whether or not he aD-
preciated its beauty, as ho cried out, “The
weeds were wrappei about my head.”
Let my subject cheer all those who had
fri-nls who have been buried at sea or in
our great American lake3. Watch of us
brought up on the Atlantic coa3t has not had
k indred or friend thus sepulcherei? We had
the ”3 el ess horror of thinking that they were
denied proper resting place. We said: “Oh,
If they had lived to come ashore and had
then expired! What an alleviation of our
trouble it would have beon to put them in
some beautiful family plot, where we could
have planted flowers and trees over them.”
Why, God did bettor for them than wo could
have done for them. They were let down
into beautiful gardens. Before they had
reached the bottom they had garlands about
their brow.
In more elaborate and adorned place than
we could have afforded them they were put
away for the last slumber. Hear it, mothers
and fathers of sailor boys whose ship went
down in our last August hurricane! Tnere
are no Greenwoods or Laurel Hilis or Mount
Auburns so beautiful on the land as there are
banked and terraced and scooped an d hung
in the depths of the sen. The bodies of our
foundered and sunken friends are girdled
and canopied and housed with such glories
as attend no other Necropolis.
They were swamped in lifeboats, or they
struck on Goodwin sands or Deal beach oi
the Skerries, an d were never heard of, or dis
appeared with the City of Boston, or the Ville
de Havre, or the Cymbria or were run down
in a llshing smack that put out from New
foundland. But dismiss your previous gloom
about the horrors of ocean entombment.
When Sebastopol was bo3iegoi in the
Anglo-French war, Prince Mentchikof, com
manding the Russian navy, saw. that thi
only way to Keep tne Englisn out of the har
bor was to sink all the Russian ships of war
in the roadstead, and so 100 vessels sank.
When, after the war was over, our American
engineer, Gowan, descended to the depths
in a diving boll, it was an impressive spec
tacle.
One hundred buried ships! But it is that
way nearly all across the Atlantic Ocean.
Ships sunk not by command of admirals,
but* by the command of cyclones.
But thev all had sublime burial, and tne sur
roundings amid which they sleep the last
sleep are more»impo3ing than the TaiMahal,
the mausoleum with walls incrusted with
precious stones and built by the great mogul
of India over his empress. Your departed
*■' ‘ ones were buried in the gardens of the sea.
fenced off by hedges of coralline. .
The greatest obsequies ever known on the
land were those of Mo3os, where no one but
• God was present. The sublime report of that
' entombment is in the book of Deuteronomy,
which says that the Lord buried him, and of
those who have gone down to slumber in the
deep the same may be said, ••’The Lord buried
them.” As Christ w:is buried in a garden, so
your shipwrecked friends ani t^ose who
could not survive till they reached port were
put down amid iridescence—“In the mid9t ot
the .garden there was a sepulcher.”
It has always been a mystery what was the
particular mole by which George G. Cook-
man, the pulpit orator of the Methodist
Church and- the -chaplain of the American
Congress; loft this Ufe after embarkihg for
England on the steamship President. Jfciroh
11th, isili ?iw aare? arrived port.'
m
N.o one ever signaled her, and on botu -....
of the ocean ft has for fitly years been ques
tioned what became of her Bat this I know
about Cookman—that whether it was iceberg
or conflagration imdSaa or collision be had
more garlands on his ocean tomb than if, ex
piring on land, each of his million friends
had pat a bouquet on hi-T casket. In the
midst oi the garden was his sepulcher.
Ent that brings me to notice the m'snomer
in this Jonubitio express.---- sf the text. Th»
prophet not only mvje a mistake by trying
to go to Tarshish wui-n God told him to go
to Ninevab, bnt he ma te a mistake when he
styled as weeds ihese growths that enwrapped
him on the day he sank. A weed is some
thing that is useless. It is something you
throw ou: irom the garden. It is something
that i-hoies the wheat. It is something to
be grubbed out from amongdhe cotton. It
is something unsightly to the eye. It is an
invader of the vegetable or floral world.
But this growth that sprang up from the
depth of the lie literranean or floated on its
surface was among the most beautiful things
that Go I ever makes. It w.ie a water plant
known as the red colored alga and no weed
at all. It comes from the loom of infinite
beauty. It is planted by heaveuiy love. It
is the star of a sunken firmament. It Is a
lamp which the Lord kindled. It is a cord
by which to bind whole sheaves of practical
suggestion. It is a poem all whose eant03
are rung by Divine goodness. Yet we all
make the mistake that Jonah made in regard
to it and call it a weed.
“The weeds were wrapped about my head.’"
Ah, that is the trouble on the laud as on the
sea! We call those weeds that are flowers.
Pitched up on the beach of society are chil
dren without home, without opportunity for
anything but sin, seemingly without God.
They are washed up helpless. They are ealleJ
ragamufflas. They are spoken of as the
ratings of the world. They are waifs. They
are street arabs. They are flotsam and jet
sam of the social sea. They are something
to be left alone, or something 11 be trod on,
or something to give up to decay. Nothing
but weeds. They are uo the nefcety stairaof
that garret. They are down in the oellar of
that tenement house. They swelter in sum
mers when they see not one blade of green
grass, and shiver in winters that allow them
not one warm coat or shawl or shoe.
Such the city missionary found in one o'
onr city rookeries, and when the poor womaD
was asked if s le sent her children to school
she replied: -‘No, sir, I never did send ’em
to school. I know it, they ought to learn,
but I couldn’t. I try to shame him some
times (it is my husband, sir), bnt he drinks
and then beats me—look at that bruise on
my race—and 1 teii him to sea wbat Is comin
to his children. There's Peggy goes sellin’
fruit every night in those cellars in Water
street, and they’re hells, sir. She’s learnin’
all sorts of bad words there and don’t get
back till 12 o’clock at night. J.f it wasn’t for
her earnin’ a shillin’ or two in them places.
I should starve. Oh, I wish they was out of
the city. Yes, it is the truth. I would rather
have all my children dead than on the street,
but I cau’t help it.”
Another one of tboS9 poor women found
by a reformatory association recited her
story of want and woe an 1 looked up and
said, “I felt so hard to lose the children
when they diod, bnt now I’m glad tiiey’re
gone.” Ask any one of a thousand such
children on the streets, “Where <lo you live?'
and they will answer, “I don't live no
where.” * They will sleep to-night in ashbar-
reis, or under outdoor stairs, or on the
wharf, kicked and bruised and hungry. Who
cares lor them? Once ia a while a city mis
sionary, or a tract distributor, or a teacher
of ragged schools will rescue one of them,
but for most people they are oaiy weeds.
Yet Jonah did not more completely mis
represent the red alga about his head in the
Mediterranean than most people misjudge
these poor and forlorn and dying children of
the street. They are not weeds. They are
immortal flowers. Down in the deep sea ot
woe. but flowers. When society and the
church of God come to appreciate their eter
nal value, therd will be more C. L. Braces
and more Van Meters and more angels of
mercy spiraling their fortunes and their lives
in the rescue.' .
Hear it. O ye philanthropic and Christian
and merciful souls—not weeds, bnt flowers.
I abjure you as the frien is or all newsboys’
lodging houses, of all industrial schools, of
all homes for triendless girls, an l for the
many reformatories and humane associa
tions now on foot. How much they have al
ready accomplished I Oat of what wretch
edness. into what good homes! Of 21,000 of
these picked up out of tho streets and sent
into country homes only twelevo children
turned out badly.
In tiie last thirty years a number that no
man can number of the vagrants have been
lifted into respectability and usefulness and
a Christian life. Many of them have homes
of their own. Though ragged boys once and
street girls, now at the head of prosperous
famines, honored ou earth and to be glorious
in heaven. Some of them have been Govern
ors of States. Scale of them are ministers of
the g03pel. In all departments of life those
who were thought to be weeds have turned
out to be flowers. One of those rescued lads
from the streets of our cities wrote to another,
saying: “I have heard you are studying for
the ministry. So am L”
My hearers. I implead you for the news
boys of the streets, many of them the bright
est children of the city, but with no chance.
Do not step on their bare feet. Do not,
when thev steal a ride, cut behind. When
the paper is three cents, once in a while give
them a five cent piece and tell them to keep
the change. I like the ring of the letter the
newsboy sent back from Indiana, where he
had been sent to a good home, to a New
York newsboy’s lodging house: “Boys, we
should show oursolves that we are no fools,
that we eau become as respectable as any oi
the countrymen, for Franklin and Webster
and Olay were poor boys once, and even
George Law and Vanderbilt and Astor. And
now, boys, stand up and let them see you
have got the real stuff in you. Come out
nere and make respectable and honorable
men, so they can say. ‘There, that boy was
once a newsboy.’ ” My hearers, join the
Christian philanthropists who are changing
organ grinders and bootblaeks and news
boys aud street arabs and cigar girls into
th03e who shall be kings and queens unto
God forever. It is high time that Jonah
finds out thnt that which is about him is not
weeds, but flowers.
As I examine this red alga which was
about the recreant prophet down in tho
Mediterranean depths, when, in tho words
of my text, he cried out, “Tho weeds were
wrapped about my head,” and I am led
thereby to further examine this submarine
world, I am compelled to exclaim, Wbat a
wonderful God we have ’ I-am glad that, by
diving boll, and “Brooks’ deep sea sounding
apparatus,” and ever improving machinery,
we are permitted to walk the floor of the
ocean and report the wonders wrought by-
the great God.
Study these gardens of the sea. Easier and
easier shall tho profounds of the ocean be
come to us, and more and more its opulence
oi color and plant unroll, especially ns “Vil-
leroy s submarine BBht” has been construct
ed, making it possible to navigate under the
sea almost as well as on tho surface of tho
sea, and unless God in His mercy banishes
war from the earth whole fleets of armed
ships far down under the water move on to
blow up the arg03les that float tho surface.
May such submarine ships be used for laying
open tho wpnders or God’s- workings In tne
great deep and never for human devastation!
Oh, the marvels of the water world I These
so-called seaweeds ore the pasture Helds and
the forage of the innumerable animals of the
deep. Not one species of them can be spared
from thes economy of nature. Valleys and
mountains and plants miles underneath the
waves are all covered with flora and- fauna.
Sunken Alps and Apennines and Himalayas
of Atlantic and Pacific oceans. A continent
that once connected Europe and America, so
that in the ages past men came on foot
across from where England is to where we
now stand, all sunken and now covered with
the growths of tho sea as'it once was covered
with growths of the land.
England and Ireland once all ’one piece of
land, but now much of it so far sunken as to
make a channel, aud Ireland has become an
island. The islands, for the most part, are
only the foreheads of sunken continents.
The sea com-norlng the land all along the
coasts and crumbling the hemispheres wider
and wider become the subaqueous do
minions. Thank God that skilled hy-
drograpners have matte ns map3 ana charts '
of the rivers and lakes and seas and shown
us something of the work of the eternal God
in the water world.
Thank God that the great Virginian, Lieu
tenant Maury, lived to give us “The Physical
Geography of the Sea,” and that men ol
genius have gone forth to study the so-called
weeds that wrapped about Jonah’s head and
have found them to be coronals, of beauty,
and when the tide receded these scientists
havo wadoa. down and picked up divinely
pictured leaves of the ocean, the ifntnralists,
Pike and Hooper qnd Walters, gathering
from the bench pt Lons island Sound,
them!
Bidpr, sioagett pwstnteg t&e« fm
shores of Key West, and Professors Emerson
and Gray finding them along Boston harbor,
and Professor Gibbs gathering them from
Charleston liarbor, and for - all the other
triumphs of algology, or the science o£ sea-
weed.
Why confine onrselves to theold andhack-
neyei illustrations of the wonder workings
of God, when there are at least five great
.seas fall or illustrations as yet not marshaled,
every root and frond and cell and color and
movement and habit of oceanic vegetation
crying out: “God 1 God! Ho made us. Ho
clothed us. He adorned us. He was the
God of our ancestors clear back to the first
sea growth, when God divided the waters
which were above tho firmament from the
waters which were under the firmament and
shall be tho God of our descendants clear
down to the day when the sea shall give np
its dead. We have heard His command, and
we have obeyed; ‘Praise tne Lord, dragons
and all deeps.’”
There is a great comfort that rolls over
upon us from this study of the so-called sea
weed, and that is the demonstrated doctrine
of a particular providence. When I find
that the Lord provides in the so-called sea
weed the pasturage lor the thronged marine
world, so that not a fin or scale in all that
oceanic aquarium suffers need, I conclude He
will feed us, and if He suits the alga to the
animal life of the deep He will provide tho
food for o’ r physical and spiritual needs.
And If He \ lothes the flowers of ihe deep
with richness of rob9 that looks bright as
fallen rainbows by day, and at night makes
the underworld look as though the sea were
on Are. surely He will clothe you, “O ye of
little faith!”
And what fills me with unspeakable de
light is that this God of depths and heights,
ot ocean and of continent, may, through
Jesus Christ, the divinoly appointed means,
be yours aud mine, to help, to cheer, to
pardon, to save, to imparadise. What
matters who in earth or hell is against us if
He s for us? Omnipotence to defend us,
omnipresence to companion us and infinite
love to enfold and uplift and enrapture us.
And when God does small things so well,
seemingly taking as much care with the coil
of a seaweed as the outbranching of a
Lebanon cedar, and with the color of a veg
etable growth whioh is hidden fathoms out
of sight as He does with the solferino and
purple of a summer sunset, we will be deter
mined to' do well all we are called to do,.
though no one see or appreciate us. Mighty
God! Boll iu upon our admiration and holy
appreciation more of the wonders of this
submarine world. My joy is that after wo
are quit of all earthly hindrances we may
come back to this world and explore what
we cannot now fully Investigate..
If we shall have power to soar into the at
mospheric without Intigue I think we shall
have power to dive into the aqueous without
peril, and that the pictured aud tessellated
sea floor will bo as accessible as now istothe
traveler the floor of the Alhambra, and all
the gardens of the deep will then swing
open to us their gates as now to the tourist
Chatsworth opens on public days its cascades
ani statuary and conservatories for our en
trance. “It doth not yet appear what we
shall be.” You cannot make me believethat
God hath spread out all that garniture of
the deep merely for the polyps and Crustacea
to lodk at.
And if the unintelligent creatures ot the
Mediterranean and the Atlantic ocean He sur
rounds with such beautiful grasses of the
deep, what a heaven We ir-v expect for our
uplifted aud ransomed souls when wo are
unchained of the flesh aud rise to realms
beatific! Oi the flora of that “sea of glass
mingled with fire.” I have no powerto speak,
but I shall always be glad that, when the
prophet of the text, flung over the gunwales
of the Mediterr mean ship, descended into
the boiling sea. that which he supposed to be
weeds wrapped about his head were not
weeds, but llowera.
And am I not right in this glance at tho
botany of the Bible in adding to Luke’s mint,
anise and cumin, ard Matthew’s tares, and
John’s vine, aud Solomon’s cluster of cam-
pbire, and Jeremiah’s balm, and Job's bul-
rusn. and Isaiah’s terebinth, and Hosea’s
thistle, and Ezekiel’s cedar, and “the hyssop
that springetii out of the wall.” and the
“rose of iiiiaron and lily ot the valley,” and
the frankincense and myrrh and cassia
which the astrologers brought to the man
ger at least one stalk of the alaga oi the
Mediterranean.
And now I make the marine itoxoiogy of
David my peroration, for it was written
about forty or fifty miles from the place
where the scene of the text was enacted:
The sea is His, and He made it, and Kis
hands formed the dry land. Oh, come, let
us worship and bow down; let us kneel be
fore the Lord, our Maker. For He is our
God. and we are the people of His pasture.”'
Amen.
SHIPPERSON’S ESTIMATE
GEORGIA NEWS BOTES
All Orcr He State.
01 tie Aunt ot tie Hon Crop lor
He Says it Will Bo About 6,800,000
Bales With au Average Season.
A New York dispatch of Saturday
says: Alfred B. Shepperson, author
of “Cotton Facts,” has furnished the
Southern Associated Press with the
following opinion as to this year’s cot
ton crop. Mr. Shepperson is neither
n buyer nor a seller of cotton, hut
possesses unusually good facilities for
accurate information covering the en
tire cotton belt. In his estimate of
the yield Mr. Shepperson says: “The
old cotton has now been about all
marketed and it is probable that the
commercial crop of this year will not
differ appreciably from the actual
yield. I estimated the actual yield
of cotton last season at 6,400,000:
the. difference between that and
the commercial crop being made up
from cotton from previous crop. Com
pared with last season’s yield the pres
ent indications point to the following
gains, viz: 366,000 bales in Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana, being 20
per cent.; 200,000 bales in Arkansas,
being 33 per cent.; 240,000 bales in
the two Carolines, Georgia and Flor
ida, being 15 per cent. The total of
the-gains is 800,000 bales. The yield
in Texas is estimated at 1,750,000, be
ing a loss of 400,000 hales. This de
ducted from the estimated gains will
leave a net gain of 400,000 bales upon
last year’s yield of 6,400,000 bales.
Tennessee will probably make abont
the same crop as last season. Some
correspondents, whose facilities for ob
taining information aro excellent and
whose standing are of the highest,
do not think the gain in Alabama,Mis
sissippi and Louisiana will be over 15
per cent, and the gain in the Carolines
over 10 per cent, while I am informed
that the commissioner of agricnlture
of Georgia estimates the yield of
Georgia will not exceed that of last
year.- The receipts at the ports for
the week just ended were 20,000 bales
more than the corresponding week last
year, and it ns probable that this
week’s receipts will be liberal. Early
receipts are no indication of the extent
of the crop, for a small crop may ma
ture quickly and be promptly mar
keted. - ■ ■- -
Colored Democrats of Yirginia.
At a general conference of the Vir
ginia state league of colored demo
cratic voters held at Bichinond Thurs
day night E. A. Bandolph was elected
chairman. A series of resolutions
were adopted, which are to be issued
in the form of an address, urging the
colored democratic and independent
.vpterslto support’the, democratic state
ticket, this fall. They also 'endorse
President Cleveland 'ianil hia Course
toward our entire, inj/ernstioug} and
foreign relations, 11
Cochran has $1,700 surplus in the
treasury aud there is a movement on
foot to begin boring an artesian well.
* * *
A bill is to he brought before the
next general assembly to incorpo
rate Warm Springs, Meriwether coun
ty.
* * *
Wilcox county has a new judge.
Governor Nor then has appointed Hon.
T. L. Holton to the position of judge
of the county court made vacant by
the resignation of Hon. Hal Lawson.
* * *
The International Brotherhood of
Bailway Track Foremen held its sec
ond regular annual convention in At
lanta the past week. Bepresentatives
from all parts of the United States
were present.
* * +
Nash B. Broyles has been appointed
United States commissioner for the
Northern district of Georgia to suc
ceed Judge C. C. Haley, whose death
two weeks ago created a vacancy in
the office.
The postoffice at Hull station on the
Georgia, Carolina and Northern rail
road was broken into recently by un
known parties and about 700 one and
two-cent- stamps stolen, besides a small
amount of merchandise from the stock
of the store in which the postoffice was
quartered.
* -* *
The district convention of the Asso
ciation for the Suppression of Out
rages and Lynchings, was held at
Waycross a few days ago. The meet
ing was fairly well attended, consider
ing the brief notice on which it was
gotten up. A committee was appoint
ed to prepare and issue a call for the
state meeting, which will be held ai
Macon, Ga., October 19th.
* * *
Mr.W. A. Paschal, of Waycross, ha:
harvested 20,000 pounds of choice Lay
from the ground on which a eroj) of
oats was harvested this year. The hay
was properly cured nud is now gather
ed in stacks over the field. He will
clear over $100 from his crop of hay.
This shows what can be done ou tilt
farms of south Georgia. There is
money to be made by saving the hay-
after the crops have been harvested.
“Good roads and better roads”
should be the cry from end to end of
Georgia. It is impossible to estimate
to what extent this state has been held
back by bad roads. The wheels of
progress have stuck in tho mud.
A triumphal march has been hindered
and stopped by deep gullies or impass
able swamps until at last we cry,
“Give us gpo^l roads or we cannot
move on.” Tne advent of good roads
in this state will mark a wonderful in
crease iu its prosperity, and we main
tain that no real improvement will be
made in the agricultural situation un
til we have good roads and plenty ol
them.—Macon Telegraph.
* V *
Colonel Jesse L. Blalock, one of the
oldest and best known citizens of
Georgia, died at his home at Jones
boro, a few days ago. Colonel Blalock
was seventy-six years of age at the
time of his death and has spent all of
his life at Fayetteville, where he was
born, and at Jonesboro. The Blalock
family has resided in that section of
Georgia for nearly a century and is
among the best in the state. ' Colonel
Blalock was a lawyer by profession,
but of recent years he has practiced
but little, devoting the greater part of
his time to his financial interests. He
was possessed of considerable proper
ty, in Fayette and Clayton comities,
which he looked after with an active
interest unusual in a man of his ad
vanced age.
A novel point of law was made in
Judge Van Epps’ court at Atlanta re
cently in the case of the Grand Bap-
ids, Mich., Furniture company against
L. DeGive. The furniture company-
sued Mr. DeGive for material furnish
ed and obtained judgment. Mr De
Give went before the city court,
tlirongh his attorney, and asked that
the judgment be set aside on the
ground that he represents a foreign
power and cannot be sued in the state
courts. The attorneys for the plain
tiff filed affidavits alleging that Mr.
DeGive was accredited to the United
States before the war, and that since
that time Georgia had been out of the
union. Judge Van Epps reserved his
decision.
At the last session of the Ware
County Teachers’ association, held at
Waycross, a resolution was adopted
urging that monthly institutes be abol
ished, and the five days combined with
the annual session, making ten days to
be held consecutively. Another reso
lution called for more promptpay to
the teachers’. A third resolution de
clared it to be the sense of. the meet
ing that all public school funds shonld
be" disbursed proportionately as per
registration, and that they should be
paid to teachers according to registra
tion and not by actual average. A
uniform system of text books was pro
nounced “disadvantageous.” Eepre-
sentatives in the legislature will be
asked to embody these resolntions in
legislation.
* * *
C«eor«ia ? s Cotton.
Georgia’s cotton crop will fall short
of that of last year. That is the out
look as viewed by Commissioner of
Agriculture Nesbitt. When his esti
mate wns sent’out on Ihe first of the
month, the indications pointed to a
crop not at ail in excess of the crop of
last year and the commissioner stated
the case plainly, i Since then reports
from over two hundred corre
spondents representing all sections of
the state, pht an even worse view on
the situation. These show thnt the.
falling off, particularly in north Geor
gia, is much greater thnii was first es
timated, andtheindications are that Hie
crop will beJ.0 per - cent off from'-that
of last year. Letters received within
tfie last few days from Bul k, Screven,
Murray, Baker and: Sumter among
others, aud all tell the same story.
It looks litre ivph.ovt crop.
Farmers’ Nntioifal Convention.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the entertainment of the
delegates to the national farmers’ con
vention which is" to he held in Savan
nah Dec. 12 to 15. Governor Northen
will welcome the delegates to Georgia,
while Mayor McDonough will extend
them a cordial welcome to the city.
President J. O. Waddell will welcome
the delegates on behalf of the State
Agricultural Society. There will.be
speakers on the list from South Caro
lina, Mississippi, Georgia, Kansas,
Nebraska, Ma.ine, Illinois add other
states. The convention was held last year
in Lincoln, Neb., and Vice President
Purse, after a hard fight, succeeded in
’ securing it for Savannah this year.
The resolution nnder which the con
vention was brought here eilncluded a
guarantee that the expenses of the
convention to an omountnot to exceed
$500 would be paid and that the usual
rednetion in hotel rates would be se
cured, two things with which Savan
nah never has and never will find any
difficulty, in complying when a body
like the National Farmers’ convention
consents to pay them a visit.
Peabody Work in Georgia. . N
The Georgia holders of Peabody
scholarship in Vanderbilt university
have gone to Nashville.' - Bepresenta
tives holding Peabody scholarships
tiro: Miss Ell&L. Huff, Columbus;
Miss Lizzie McCord,. Zebnlon; Miss
Lillian J. Porter, Tallapoosa; Miss
Helen Proffet, Atlanta; Mr. Walter
Bountrde, Emanuel county; Mr. Ewell
E. Treadwell, Greene county ; Miss
Leona Wright, Meriwether; Miss Lucy
H. Green, DeKalb; Miss Mamie' Dru-
ble, Terrell; Mr. J. J. Nash, Walton
Miss Lucy Anderson, Atlanta; Mr.
W. G. Adams, Thomas county; Miss
lone M. Bailey, Savannah; Miss Mary
M. Brooke, Canton; Miss Mattie
Crowley, Lnthersville; Mr. Jason
Scarboro, Bulloch connty; Mr. Tonita
Short, Wilkes county; Miss Maud
Smith, Atlanta; Mr. B. Whitmuth,
Logansville; Mr. H. B. Davis, Cov
ington; Mr. W. P. Bailey, Newton
county; Mr. H. B. Howard, Cohntta,
Each of these receives from the Pea
body fund $100 a year, traveling ex
penses to and from Nashville and some
books. Georgia receives from the fund
for this purpose about $4,000. In re
turn each recipient binds him or her
self to teach two years in Georgia or
refund the money.
* + *
Advance in Naval Stores.
The receipts of naval stores at Savan
nah have been unusually large during
the past three weeks. This is on ac
count of the shipments which would
go to Brunswick being sent there.
The large receipts have not had tho
effect of weakening the market, how
ever, as prices have been steadily ad
vancing recently and the demand
seems to be on the increase. The mark
et for rosins hns been firm for several
weeks. " There is agood demand for all
grades, mediums and pales being
specially sought after. These grades
bring higher prices than the quota
tions when separated from the general
ot. Although the stocks of spirits
turpentine and rosin on hand and on
shipboard are more than double that
at this time last year, they are not
really on the market, bnt have been
sold, and are waiting to be shipped.
One firm doing business in Savannah
owns about one-half of the stock on
hand. The price for spirits turpen
tine is abont the same as it was this
time last year. Common rosins are
about 10 cents cheaper, while medium
and pales are bringing more than they
were last year.
A Story of Insinuation.
Aud Presented iu Pointed aud Reada
ble Paragraphs.
remarked the oolonel,
bachelor, “ makes a man
“ Marryin
who was a
brave.”
“I don’t know about that,” doubtful
ly replied the major, who had been mar
ried three times: “I don’t know about
that. None but the brave dare marry,
though. I’m sure of that.”
“ My original statement stands unre-
futed,” said the colonel, “and foi
further corroboration let me cite the case
of Smith.”
There was a little laugh, none the less
significant on account of its Bize, for all
the party knew what a woman Smith had
for a wife.
“Now, I remember,” continued the
colonel, “when Smith married. The
bride was fair, and Smith was in love,
and he brought her out to a post in the
west, where a monthly Indian fight was
the rule rather than tho exception. The
first year we could hardly drag Smith out
on an expedition and if there was a
chance for a fight, I’ll swear that Smith
acted almost cowardly. The next year
he braced up a bit, the following year a
bit more and after he had been married
five years he was perfectly willing to fight
a whole army of red-skins and stay on
their trail for six months if nScessary and
never say a word about returning home.”
The colonel looked up quietly as he
heard another little laugh.
“Smith has been married twenty years
now,” he went on, “and I am glad that
Indian fighting is- over, for I really be
lieve Smith would be only too anxious to
go right out now and exterminate every
aborigine between the Mississippi and
the Pacific.”
This time tho colonel smiled himsell
and bowed profoundly. as Mrs. Smith
passed by.—[Detroit Free Press.
Tho Irish Kerry Cattle:
These cattle having been kept for ceu
turies bn the exposed and mountainous
pastures of the County of Kerry, where
the storms of ’■ the Atlantic sweep with
violence, are, as m ; gnt be. expected,
small; bnt from the uoted excellence of
the herbage in that locality, where the
fields are always green, they are fine
milkers and yield the best of beef. Thej!
are black or red in color, rough as to
their coat,.and hot at all handsome, ex
cept it he. under the. rule that “ hand
some is as handsome does.” For many
of these little cows, hardly three feet
high and weighing only 300 pounds, will
give more milk and butter,'the latter'
especially; than' the average of cows
twice their size and weight. They are
very, hardy, bnt their small size has been
the reason for their unpopularity \'n
'America. A few only of them have
been imported, and these have gone out
of sight, s Of late the breed has been
improved by a mixture which has given
rise to tho Kerry-Dexter oattle, now be
coming popular in England for parks
and small family cows'. The milk of
these- cows is very rich in butter, and th6
average of some herds has been over one
pound a day of tho best kind of butter
per cow. Tho calve? sro not larger than
The Hamilton Woolen company, at
Ameshiuy, Mass., started np on full
time Tuesday. All the hands will now
find steady work, although at a reduc
tion of WageB. f
The Lancaster gingham mills at
Clinton, Mass., resumed full time
.Tuesday with an average reduction in
wages of 14 per cent. The Everett
and Pemberton mills at Lawrence also
started np.
The Farham street theatre at Oma
ha, Neb., was completely destroyed
*by fire Monday night and was a total
loss. Estimated loss, $272,000. Six
persons, five of them firemen, were in
jured by the falling walls and one
fireman is missing.
Leopold Peck and Henry Sondheim,
of the firm of Hardman, IPeck &jCo.,
piano manufacturers at • New York,
made an assignment Monday to Joseph
Ullman, with preference to’ the Mer
cantile and Second National banks
and William Kraus, for all debts due
them.
Beliablereports received from: all
parts of Southwestern Texas show [hat
three-fourths of the cotton crop'has
been picked and about half marketed.
The crop has been gathered in a lnjrry
in the last ten days. There will be no
top crop. The crop will be 40 per
cent short of last year’s yield in smith-
west Texas.
A cable dispatch of Wednesday frpm
Buenos Ayres says: The ports of Rio
de Janiero and Santos are declared
blockaded by Admiral Mello. His ob
ject is to cripple the iradcs of the city
to such an extent as to force the sur
render of Bio. Trade is parnlized in
consequence of the blockade and even
the banks are closed.
Advices of Monday from Kisseng):n
say that Prince Bismarek has had an
other set hack, and will now scarcely
touch food. It is also reported thjit
his right hand is apparently complete
ly useless. It is said he salutes \vi(h
his left hand and signs his name alio
with the left. He also ..complains «
pain day and night, and has certainly
aged in looks and is very decrepit.
A Knoxville special says: The tritil
of the sixteen Coal Creek soldiers \vh!>
aro charged with the lynching of mine:
Dick Drummond,at Briceville last Au
gust, was begnn in the Anderson conuti
circuit court at Clintbn Monday after
noon, the soldiers having beer
turned over to the civil authori
ties. A large crowd aro at Clintoiy
awaiting developments in the famous
case.' i
A dispatch from Des Moines says:
The greatest political sensation of the!
Iowa campaign this fall was sprung]
Monday morning by Senator L. B.;
Bolton, of Harrison county, who, in aj
letter to Chairman Scott, of the popu
list central committee, announces that;
he has bolted the democratic ticket 1
and will support Joseph for governor.
Senator Bolton has been a democratic
leader in the Iowa general assembly for
sixteeiy" s.
Snrguuu General Wyman Monday
ordered Surgeon DeSaussnre to Way-
cross and WareBboro to inspect cases of
sickness at these places which had been
reported to Jiim. Dr. DeSanssnre ar
rived at Waycross Tuesday morning
and went direct to Waresboro. He
found that there were no suspicious
coses there. Dr. DeSaussnre returned
to Waycross in the afternoon and after
inspection pronounced the city all
right and free from any suspicions
sickness.
A San Francisco dispatch of Wednes
day says: The steamer Joan r the ten
der of the Pacific steam whaling fleet,
brings word that Copts in Porter, of
Newport, while in pursuit of whales
reached the eighty-fourth parallel.
The sea was unusually free of ice this
year, otherwise he conld not have
gone so near ihe pole. The Greely
party, in 1882, attained an altitude of
83 degrees, 24 minutes. Captain Por
ter says the condition was so favorable,
that if he had dogs and sleds, he thinks
he might have taken to ice. and reach
ed the pole.
THE LEGAL"BATTLE
Over llie Central Railroad Renewed
at Washington.
A Washington special says: The
scene shifts from the qnaint, s iffy lit
tle United States court room in Savan
nah to the conference chamber of the’
supremo court of the United States.
Justice Jackson anil the galaxy of law
yers renewed the struggle Thursday
morning over the remains of the pros
trate Central railroad of’Georgia.
Major Bacon, of, Macon, made the
first argument-. He made an able,
earnest plea for the saving of the
Sonthwestern railroad. His con-,
tention was that the Central railroafT
should be first sold: and its assets
exhausted before the Southwestern
should be sacrificed. He was followed
by Mr. Beaman, of the firm of Evarts,
Beaman & Chonte, on the same line.
The terminal’s connsel, Henry Craw
ford, followed Beaman. He took the-
position that- the ; South western slioul
be held jointly liable with the Central
and Macon & Western.
The contention is oyer the-five mill
ion of the tripartite bonds on which
the Central,: Maeon .& Western, and
Sonthwestern; are joint seenrities.
- The Work of Wrecker*... - - -
i The worst wreck in Hie history of the
MobilnandNew Orleans division of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad oc
curred at.GnlfpOrt,. Miss., at 1 o’clock
Thursday morning. - Passenger- train
No.-2, consisting' of three sleepers, pas
senger and smoking coaches, mail and
baggage and express car and engine
and tender, went into an open switch.
Investigation showed that the switch;
whioh had been properly set and look
ed, had-been forcibly opened. Three
negro tramps who were stealing a ride
were kille^ ' - - ;' •
Bismarck’s Book.
Prince Bismarck is said to have
sold his memorial to ft Soi’.ti) German
publisher for OO.oiiu mo• on ouii-
-ditionthev be_ pub^liod immediately
CROP STATISTICS.
Some Figures from Commissioner Nes
bitt’s Beport for September.
The cotton crop of Georgia is no
greater than it was last year, all re
ports to the contrary notwithstand
ing. . That is the opinion of the Com-
missioners of Agricnlture Nesbitt; and
his opinion is based on reports from
the most reliable correspondents in
all parts of the state. The department
system of securing crop estimates is
as complete as snch a system conld he
and these reports are reinforced by
personal observations by the commis
sioner in all parts of the state. A
feature of his report is a reference to
the reports of the weather bureau.
These reports, says Commissioner
Nesbitt, are often confounded with his
own, and as there is a wide divergence
of' opinion between the state and
the weather bureau findings he
has no desire to receive credit for re
ports that are not his own.
COTTON.
Begarding cotton the report says:
“In the August report the estimate of
the department on onr staple crop was
that it would not exceed that of last-
year. The reports received from onr
large number of correspondents for the
present month verify this forecast and
we are satisfied that, notwithstanding
the small increase in acreage and the
large increase in thense of commercial
fertilizers, that the prospect is snch
that the yield will accord with onr es
timate.
“The estimate of the weather bureau
has been confused with that of this de
partment and through the press many
reports have been circulated that the
estimate of the department was that
the crop would exceed that of lost
year 100,000 hales. We regret this
exceedingly, as we are anxious that no
confusion shonld arise or question as
to the future or present report of the
department.
“Lastyear the almost total absence of
a top or second crop had tho effect of
greatly reducing the yield. This year
we are confronted with the same condi
tion in even a more marked degree and,
notwithstanding the lateness of the crop
it will be virtually all gathered during
the month of^October. For this rea
son large receipts may he expected
during this month, with rapid de
crease immediately after. The early
maturity and absence of a top crop
are due to the changeable character of
the season; wet weather followed by
drought, parching winds and the une
qual distribution of rain throughout
the state, which we have illustrated.
“It will be seen from reference to
the tabulated statement that the con
dition and prospects since theSemtem-
ber report has fallen off 5 1-7.
“To the figures of tho correspond
ents we are able to add the personal
observations of the commissioner, who
has visited a large number of counties
since the last report. These observa
tions and inquiries corroborate the es
timates of: correspondents.
COEN.
'Notwithstanding the gloomy out
look as a result of want of rain, the
yield of this crop with the increase
of acreage will exceed that of
last year, and in this connection it is
gratifying to note that the tendency
of the Georgia farmer is towards inde
pendence of the growers of the west.
HOG / PRODUCTS.
While in several localities tlie chol
era has greatly damaged the pork
prospects, yet, considering the state
at large, we are pleased that we are
able to congratulate our farmers on
the fact that the reports evidence that
’act that the yield in Georgia of
"eorgia-enred hams and bacon will be
eater than for a nnmber of years.
ien we recall that in ante-bellum
ys the state produced one-fifteenth
;f the hog meat of the union we can
|ee no reason why Georgia shonld not
. this industry. become a source of
ipply instead of demand.
FIGURES FOB THE STATE.
Total yield compared to an average:
-otton, 74; corn, 89; sugar cane,
2-5; sweet potatoes, 95;'tobacco,
13; prospect of pork compared to last
; 3ar,104.
Clearing house exchanges indicate a!
1 ttle gain in the volume of business,
l ling for the week 19.5 per cent, be-
1 w those of the same week last year.
I foreign trade exports again exceed
h it year’s, and for the same month
a out 24.6 per cent, while imports
slow a decrease for the month of
albntSO per cent. Yet foreign ex-
cl rage has risen so far that exports of
g< d to Germany might he made with
lit le loss, and it is believed that’ calls
fo repayment of gold obtained on
lo ns from Europe in July and Au-
gi it affect the rate more than current
hi liness. Though a return of part of
th gold has been expected, -and the
ba iks have now' on hand more than
th y need, the treasury stock is so low
th; t.a renewed outflow would be re-
ga ded with some apprehension. The
re1 lm of money from the interior
•coi tinues large, and plainly refleots
les activity than usual at this season
in lomestic trade and industry.
MINERS DROWNED;
Thljrty-Seven Unfortunates Caught iu
a -Flooded Mine. .
Tte Mansfield mine, a few miles
froi t Crystal Falls, Mich., caved in
Thi rsday night and a. ; number of
min irB were entombed beyond hope of
resc is of any of them alive. The ao-
cidcit occurred during the night.
The water of- the river rushed into the
mine and the men were entrapped like
ratsj It is not possible that any es
caped. ■ Most of the victims ore CJor-
niahlmen and nine-tenths of them are
men;with large families.: The number
of the victims is nowiplaced at- thirty-
seven. Mansfield is on .isolated sta
tion on the Chicago ancLNorthwestern
railroad. The mine, was tho- only ac
tive one ih the Crystal Falls district on
account of its being a producer : of
high-grade bessemer . ore. It had a
producing capacity of about sixty
thousand tons per annum, and gave
employment to about one hundred
men. The Mansfield mine has always-
been considered a dangerous one to
work in, and TJmrsday^night’s disaster
oftm been predicted.
For drinking chocolate, the French-
iest way ia to serve it in four-cornered
but the-prettiest way is in
ifowu cups that raatoh the
id aro extremely
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