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BITTLEK, GEOKGIA, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1893.
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LITTLE ALL-ALONEY.
A
Little All-Aloney’s feet
Pitter-patter in the hall,
And his mother runs to meet
And to kiss her toddling sweet,
Pro perchance he fall.
He is, oh, so weak and small!
Yet what danger shall he fear
When his mother hoveth near
; And he heara her cheering call
“All-Aloney?”
. little AU-Aloney’s face
It is all aglow with glee,
As around that romping place
At a terrifying pace
lungeth, plungeth he 1
And that hero seems to be
All unconscious of our cheers-
Only one dear voice he hears
Calling reassuringly:
not have managed now and then that
they might see each other alone?
How rarely had that occurred—how
continually had that little nuisance of
a nephew dogged them! Had she con
trived it? Had she made Reginald a
defense, a guard against unwelcome
advances ? He was all at once misera
bly certain of it. ’ v‘'
He was warm with mortification, and
cold-at heart with keen nnhappinness.
He had been stupidly slow of percep
tion, that was all. But that was a
thing which could be remedied,
i He rose from the grass, and looked
down at Lucy Winslow with a set
smile.
“Well, I don’t believe I know my
self what I’m tryingtosay, Reginald,”
he answered. “I needn’t say good-by
to you just now, Miss Winslow, for I’ll
REV. DR. TALMGE.
THE BBOOKLYN DHTIXE’S SUN*
DAY SERMON
Subjects ‘A Hunting Scene.”’
Text! ba the marnini hs shall assoar €a
prey, anaat night hs shalldioide the spail."—
Genesis ixiis., 27- 5 -■-
A few nights ago 83Y man .eniirapsi along
*’ aUroadsd as to be ready
the Long Islahd Ml Pi |
for the next mofhing, which was the first
•‘open day” for deer hunting. Between sun
rise and 2n’-:Io6k r in. the afternoon of that
day fifteen deer were shot. Oh the 29th oi
October oat woods .and forests resound with
the shock of firearms ■ and are tracked of
pointers And setters because the quail are
tflen a iaw.ul prize Tor tho sportsman
J On a certain day in ail England you can
hear the crack oi tho sportsman’s gun,
because grouse hunting has begun, and
rery manthat can afford the time nM am-
uinitioh and can draw a bead starts for the
elds Xenophon grew eloquent in regard'
the art of hunting. In the far east peo-
ile, elephant mounted, chase the tiger. The
.merican Indian darts his arrow at the buf
falo until the frightened herd fall over the
rocks. European nobles are often found In
he fox chase and at the stag hunt. Francis
" was calleltho father of hunting. Moses
leelnres oi Nimrod, “He was a mighty
trater beroretho LbrA" Therefore, in ail
ge3 of the world, the imagery of my text
ught t a bo suggestive, whether it means a
[wolf after a fox or a man after a lion.
Old Jacob, uying, is telling tbo lortune.'
|of his children. He prophesies the devour
ing propensities of Benjamin and his de
scendants. With tiis dim old eyes he looks
off and sees the hunters going out to the
fields, ranglng.themall day, and at nightfall
coming home, the game slung over the
shpalder, and reaching the door of the tent
the nunters begin to distribute the game, and
one takes a coney, and another a rabbit, and
another a roe. “In the morning he shall de
vour the prey, and at night he shall divide
RTHtJR CRAIG
tossed bis cigar
away and strolled
around to where a
red-and-blne ham
mock was slung be
tween two oak
trees, in the bi_
lawn which was the
great attraction of
the select summer
hotel—thougli it was summer
longer; there was an autumn scent in
the soft air.
But Lucy Winslow was staying here
still, with her brother’s wife and her
little nephew ; therefore Arthur Craig
stayed on also.
She was Bitting in the hammock,
with little Reginald beside her. Reg
inald alwnyB was beside her; their
fondness for each other was great. It
had been a source of affliction to Craig
all summer.
He told himself that he wasn’t jeal
ous of Reginald, but if a fellow could
get a chance to see a girl alone once a
week or so, it would be a relief. Late
ly he had particularly wished to see
Miss Winslow alone.
“Hello, Arthur!” said Reginald.
“Oh, Reginald,” said his pretty
aunt, Hushing, “say Mr. Craig!”
i , “That fellow that was down here to
see him called him Arthur, and I'm
going to,” said Reginald.
He was eight years old, and had the
blue-eyed, fair-skinned face of a
cherub. But no cherub was ever so
port aud precocious as Reginald.
“Let him, Miss Winslow,” said
Craig. *
He dropped down on the grass at
her feet and looked up at her.
Surely she must know by this time—
“Say,” said Reginald, “you said
you’d take mo boating on tho river
again and you haven’t.”
•‘We’ve been several times, haven’t
we ?” said Craig.
How sweet she looked!
“Oh, well, Aunt Lucy’s always been
along! You said you’d take me, and
you got to!”
•‘Reginald, dear!” his Aunt Luey
remonstrated.
“So I will,” Craig agreed. “Did
you read that poem I gave you, Miss
Lucy?”
“i'eup, she read it,” said Reginald.
“Read some of it to mo. It ain’t any
good. Got a nice cover, that’s all.”
Luey laughed softly.
“It is a beautiful thing, Mr. Craig,”
she said. “I enjoyed every word of it. ”
“You—you saw the passage I
marked?”
Craig’s face was flushed and eager.
“Yes!” Lucy murmured.
She looked closely at Reginald’s
sailor-hat, in her lap.
“I’ll tell you, Arthur,” said Regin
ald, swinging his lithe little legs, .“if
you’d rather take me down to Murphy’s
and buy me two ice-cream sodas—choc
olate first and then strawberry—in
stead of taking me out in the boat,
w’y, you can—it won’t make any dif
ference to me.”
“Oh, Reginald!” Lucy begged, with
a distressed laugh.
“How, that is magnanimous!” Craig
responded. He wondered if his hearty
wish that Reginald was somewhere else
was apparent? “I think I’ll accept
that alternative. That passage I
marked, Miss Winslow—I didn’t do it
idly. There comes a time in a man’s
life when he feels a—a love like that
for some woman.”
Did she know all -he meant? Her
face was downcast and averted. Reg
inald, however; was staring full at him,
and Craig’s inward chafings intensified.
“Say, you want to make a trade?”
■Reginald demanded. “I got a k’leid-
oscope, and I’m sick of it. I want a
printing press. ’Cause you haven’t
got any, but if you’ll buy one and give
me, I’ll give you my k’leidoscope and
mebbe fifty cents or so besides. Say,
’ll you do it, Arthur?”
• “I’ll think about it. Do you want
to run over and see if the mail is in,
Reginald? I’m expecting a letter.”
I Reginaldreflectedandshookhishead.
“I gness I’ll wait till byme-by,” he
said, “and you can go with me, and
we’ll stop at Murphy’s.”
.“Miss WiDslow,” said Craig, des
perately, “I don’t know whether you
know—whether you have guessed—I
don’t know, Miss Winslow, whether
you—you have suspected—”
“My goodness!” said Reginald, with
a high-pitched eight-year-old laugh;
“what are you trying to say, Arthur?”
Craig looked at Lucy. Was she
laughing at him, too? His.face, grew
: warm with the sadden wretched sus
picion that she was.
After all, was he not a fool to think
for a moment that she could care for
him? Of a sudden ho saw matters in
. .... ’ ----- ’
the glasses, for which he saw fit to re
turn no thanks.
“Say,” he observed presently, turn
ing them upon Craig, “she’s crying.
That’s what I come up to tell you. I
thought mebbe you’d like to know.”
“Who’s crying?” Craig demanded.
His heart stood still.
“Aunt Lucy’s crying,” said Regin
ald. “She began to cry soon ’s you
turned round, ’most. I told her
somebody’d see her, but she didn’t
stop, and I wasn’t going to stay there
and her a blubbering, and I thought
I’d come up and tell yon.” Reginald
looked up with his angelic blue eyes
and his cherubic smile. “Say, I’m
going to see what’s in that plush box,
Arthur. You care?” _
Craig strode from the room. He
got down the stairs two at a time, and
rushed around to the red-and-blue
hammock between the shady oak trees.
“Lucy!” he said, bending over her.
“Yon are not—you can’t be crying
because I’m going away, Luey?”
There was a hot flush in the tearful
face she raised to him.
“Oh, Lucy,” he implored, “don’t
bo ashamed of it! If you are crying
about me, don’t you know I am the
happiest man on earth ? I was so cer
tain you didn’t care for me, aud had
tried to ward me off with—with
Reginald, yon know, because be was
forever around. But if you can cry
because I am going away, Lucy, then
I can finish what I was trying to say
to you. Yon know what it was.”
Lucy caught" a sobbing breath.
“But you are going out West!” she
faltered.
“Yes, and you with me 1” Craig re
torted.
Nobody was near them, and he sat
down beside her, his hand warmly
clasping hers.
“How did you know I was crying?”
Lucy queried, suddenly, after ten
minutes of glowing happiness.
“Reginald came and told mo.
Reginald is a trump,” said Craig—“a
jewel!”
“There he comes,” said Lucy. “Oh,
Arthur, he’s got your—your smoking-
jacket on!”
“It’s my bath-robe,” Craig re
sponded, with the composure of a
perfect, all-satisfying beatitude. “I
don’t mind it in the least!”—Saturday
Night.
WISE WORDS.
Love gains every time it is tested.
Home is the fortress of the virtues.
The truthful man is dead ; been dead
a long time.
The real ruler of the man is within
him, not without.
The man who throws a stone at an
other hurts himself.
It is time wasted to argue with a
doubt. Kick it out.
It’s the youngest man who thinks he
has the least time to spare.
The whisper of a slanderer can be
heard farther than thunder.
There is no good quality which does
not become a vice by excess.
A woman is seldom quite so happy
as when she is thoroughly miserable.
Binding fault with another is only a
roundabout way of bragging on your
self.
Some people are kept poor because
they will not believe it is blessed to
give.
The man who is afraid to look his
faults squarely in the face will never
get rid of them.
Ho man is perfectly consistent. He
who is nearest consistency steers the
crookedest course.
The Cats Ate the Crickets.
There is a man in Harlem who has
a much respected aunt. The aunt is
wealthy and eccentric. She came to
live with this Harlem resident, and
having been reared in the country and
having recently come from there she
missed the rural hum of insects and
the agricultural noises of a country
residence.
Being anxious to please his rela
tive and make her' reconciled to city-
life this'Harlem man hired a number
of boys to secure crickets-for him. He'
bought twenty cans of crickets and
tliB spoil." Or it may be a reference to the
habits oE wild beasts that slay their prey alid
then dra" it back to the cave or lair and di
vide it among the young.
I take my text, in tho first place, as de
scriptive of those people who in the mom-
■iag-of.theirtife-g-;vsTfii8uiS3lves up to hunt
ing the world, hut afterward, by the grace o!
God, in the evening of their life divide
among themselves-the spoils of Christian
character. Thereare aged Christian men and
women in this lions", who, if they gave testi
mony, would toll you that in the morning of
their life they were after the world as in
tense as a hound after a hare, or as a taleon
swoops upon a gazelle. They wanted the
world’s plaudits and the world’s gains.
They felt that if they could get this world
they would have everything. Some of them
started oat for the pleasures of tho world.
They thought that the man who laughed
loudest was happiest. They tried repartea
and conundrum andburlesqueandmadrigal.
They thought they would like to be Tom
Hoods or Charles Lambs or Edgar A. Foes.
They mingled wine and music and the spec*
tacniar. They were worshipers of the har
lequin. and the Merry Andrew, and the buf
foon, and tho jester. Life was to them foam
and bubble aud cachlnnation androystering
tnd grimace. They were so fall of glee they
tonld hardly repress their mirth even on sol
emn occasions, and they came near bursting
out hilariously even at the burial because
there was something so dolorous in the tone
or countenance of the undertaker.
After awhile misfortune struck them hard
on the back. They found there was some
thing they could not laugh at. Under their
late hours their health pave way or there was
a death in the housp. Ot every green thing
their soul was exfoliated. They found out
that life was more than a joke. From the
heart of God there blazed info their soul an
earnestness they had never felt before. They
awoke to their sinfulness and their immoral
ity, anl here they sit at sixty or seventy
years of age as appreciative of all innocent
mirth as they ever were, but they are bent
on a style of satisfaction which in early life
they never hunted—the evening of their days
brighter than the morning. In the morning
they devoured the prey, but at night they
divided the spoils.
Then there’are others who started out for
financial success. They seo how limber the
rim of a man’s hat is when he bows down
before some one transpicuous. Tney felt
they would like to see npw tbe world looked
from the window of a 31090 turnout. They
thought they would like to have the morn
ing sunlight tailzied in the headgear of a
dashing span. ’They wanted the bridges in
the park to resound under the rataplan of
their swift hoois. They wanted a gilded
baldric, and so they started on the dollar
hunt. They chase! it up one street and
chased it down another. Tney followed it
when it burrowed in the cellar. They treed
it in the roo
Wherever a dollar was expected to be,
they were. They chased it across the Ocean.
Taey caused it across the land. They stopped
not for the night. Hearing that dollar, even
in the darkness, thriiled taem as an Adiron
dack sportsman is thrilled at midnignt by t
loon's laugu. Tbey chased that dollarto tilt
money vault. They chased it to -the Gov
ernment treasury. They routed it front
under tne counter. AU the hounds were otn
—.ill the pointers and tho setters. They
leaped the hedges for that dollar, and they
cried ‘-Hark away! A dollar I A dollar!
And when at last taey came upon it an 1 hac
actually captured it their excitement wai
like that of a falconer who has successfully
flung his first haws, ‘
In the morning of their life, o’a, how they
devoured the prevl But there came a bet
bl my life I am going to devour the prey,
andln the evening I shall divide the spoils
of Christian character. I only want a little
while' to sow my wild oats, and then I will
be good.”
Young man, did you ever take the census
of all the oid people? How many old people
are there in your house? One, two or none?
How many in a vast assemblage like this?
Only here and there a gray head; like the
patches of snow here'and there iff the field!
on a late April day. The fact is that -the
tides of the years are sd strong that men go
dotmiiiider them before they getto. be sixty,
before they get to be fifty, before they get tc
be forty, before they get to be thirty; and ii
yon, my young brother, resolve now that you
will spend the morning of your day3 in de
vouring the prey the probability is that yon
will never divide the spoils in the evenina
hour. He who postpones until old age the
religion of Jesus Car,sc postpones ft lurever.
Wnere are the men who,'thirty years ago,
resolved 'to hecome Christians in old age.
putting it off a certain number ,df years!
They never got to bd bid, Tbd railroad cot
lisiou; or the steamboat explosion; or tht
slip on the iee, or the failing ladder, or thk
sudden cold put an end to their opportuni
ties. They have never had an opportunity
Since; aid never will have an opportunity
again. They locked the door of beavet
against their soil, and they threw away tht
keys. Tney chased the world; aiii they diec
_ in the chase-. The wounded tiger turned oi
vhem. They failed to take the game they
pursued. Mounted on a swiit courser, they,
leaped the hedge, but the eourser fell ot
them and crushed them. Proposing to bar
ter their soul for tho world, they lost boti
and got neither.
While this is an etteptlf agement to old peo
pie WuQ ar! stttt u.iD’.r ,on ; l l, it is no en
couragement to the young wao are patting
off the day of grace. This doctrine that the
oid may be repentant is 'to be takeil can-
tiously. It is. moilcifie that kills or cures.
The same medicine given to different patients
in one ease it saves life and in the other it
destroys it. This possibility of rep-ntauce
at the close of life may cure the old max
while it kills the young. Be cautious in tak
ing it.
Again, my subject is descriptive of those
who come td a sudden and radical change.
Yotl have noticed how short a time it fr
from morning to night—only seven or eight
hours. You "know that the day has a very
brief life. Its heart beats twenty-fodr times,
and then it is dead, fidw quick this transi
tion in the aharaeter of these Bcnjamites
“In the morning they shall devour the prey,
and at night they shall divide tile spoils.” Ii
it possible that there shall be such a trans
formation in any of our characters? Yes, /
man may be at 7 o’clock in tho morning as
all devouring worldling, and at 7 O’cidck a!
night he may be a peaceful distributiw
Christian,
Conversion is instantaneous. A man passu
into the kingdom of God quicker than dowi
tbe sky runs zigzag lightning. A man may
be anxious about his soul for a great many
years; than does not make him a Christian
A man may pray a great while (that ddcs not
make him a Christian, ■ A man may resolve
on the reformation of his character and have
that resoliltiou going on a grsat while; that
doe3 not make him a Christian. But the
very instant when'hs.flings his soul on the
mercy of Jesus Christ, that instant is lustra
tion, emancipation, resurrection. Up to
that point ho is going in the Wrong direc
tion ; after that point he is going in the right
direction. Before that moment he is a child
of sin 5 after that moment he is a child of
God. Before that moment devouring, thy
ter time to their souk They found out that
an immortal nature cannot live on bank
stock. They took up a Northern Pacific
bond, and there was a hole in it through
which tney could look into' the uncertainty
of all earthly treasures. They saw some
Ralston, living at the.'tate.of 825,030 a month,
leaping from a San Francisco wharf because
He could not continue to live at the same
ratio. They saw the wizen -and paralytic
bankers who had changed their souls into
molten gold stamped with the image of the
earthy, earthy. They saw some great souls
by-avarice turned into homunculi, and they
said to themselves, ‘‘I will seek after higher
treasure.'’
From that time they did not care whether
they walked or rode if Christ walked with
them; nor whether they lived in a mansion
or in a hr.t if they dwelt under the shadow
of the * Almighty; nor whether they were
robed in French broadcloth or in homespun
if they had tbe robe of the Saviour’s right
eousness; nor if they were sandalled with
in jroceo or calfskin if they were shod with
tne preparation of the Gospel. Now you see
peace on their countenance. Now that man
says: “What a fool I was to be .enchanted
with this world. Way, I have more satisfac
tion in five minutes in the service of God
than I had in all the first years of my life
while I was gaingetting.. I like this evening
,of my day a great deal better than I did the
morning. In the morning I greedily de
voured the prey, but now it is evening, and
I am gloriously dividing.the spoil.”
My friends, this world is n poor thing to
hunt. It is healthful to go out in the woods
ind hunt. It rekindles the luster of the eye.
It strikes the Drown ot the autumnal lent in
to the cheek. It gives to the rheumatio limbs
the strength to leap like a roe. Christophei
North’s pet gun, the muckle-mou’d Meg, go
ing off in the summer in the forest had its
echo in the winter timein the eloquence that
rang through the university Jtalls of Edin
burgh. It is healthy to' go hunting in the
fields, but I tell you that it is belittling and
bedwarflng and belaming for a man to hunt
this world. The hammer comes down ontlie
goneap, and the barrel explodes and kills
yon instead of that which von arc pursuing.
When you turn ont to hunt the world, the
world turns out to huntyou, and as many a
sportsman , aiming his gun at a-pahther’s
heart, has gone down under the striped
claws, so while you have bean attempting
to devour this world the world has been de
vouring you. So It was with Lord Byron
So it was with Coleridge. So it was with-
. - i-u™+„ -t- Catherine of Bussia. Henry IL went one
turned them_out to pasture in his bunting for this world, and its Ianees struck
The (
back yard. Bor several nights the
cheerful chirping, of the crickets
proved very soothing to the aged aunt.
The various' cats in the neighborhood
soon became aware of the unusual
number of crickets in this hack yard.
Cats are fond ox crickets, and now the
Harlem man .has cats and no crickets ' for her welding
| in- his hack yard. He says that all the P“^f s 0l 0 f i'°™ 3 ; j a -
cats in Harlem have made his yard a Better ab°--
trysting place and the aunt threatens warm and
} to move back into the country,—Hew j
Id she I York Herald. I
'■ -
through his heart. Francis L aimed at the
World, but the assassin’s dagger put an end
-to his ambition and his life at one stroke.
Mary Queen of Scots wrote on the window
jf her castles- -. 7 - ->■ ’ .. • '
'ive minutes is as good as five years,
•My hearer, you know Very well that the
best things you have done you have done in
a flash, You made up your mind in an in
stant to buy, or to sell, or to invest, or to
stop, or to start. If you had missed that one
chance, you would have missed' it forever.
Now, just as precipitate and quick and spon
taneous will be the ransom of your soul.
Some morning VoU were making a calcula
tion, You got on thetraek of some financial
or social game. With your pen or pencil you
were pursuing it. That very morning yon
were devouring the prey, but that very night
you were in a different mood. You fount!
that all heaven was offered you. You won
dered how you could get it for yohrself and
for your family. You wondered what re
sources it would give you now and hereafter.
You are dividing peace and comfortsand sat
isfaction and Christian reward in your spuL
You are dividing the spoil.
One Sabbath night "at the close of the ser
vice I said to some persons, “When did yon
first become serious about your soul?” And
they told me, “To-night." And I said to
others, “When did you give your heart tb
God?” And they said, “Tb-night.” And I
said to still others, “When did youresolveto
serve the Lord all the days of your life?"
And they said. “To-night,” I saw by the
gayety of their apparel that when the grace
of God struck them they were devouring the
prey, but I saw also in the fibel bi joyful
tears, and in the kindling raptures on their
brow, and in their cxhilarant and transport
ing utterances, that they were dividing the
spoil.
If yon have been in this building when tha
lights are struck at night, you know that
with one touch of electricity they are all
blazed. Qh,T would to God tnat the dark
ness of your soul might be broken np, and
that by one quick, overwhelming; instanta
neous flash of illumination you might be
brought into, the light and the liberty of the
sons of God!
You see that religion is n different thing
from whatsome of you people suppose. You
thought it was a decadence. You though!
religion was maceration. You thought il
was highway robbery, that it struck one
down and left himhaif dead; that it plucked
out the eyes; that it plucked out the plumes
of the soul; that" it broke the wing and
■trashed the beak os it came clawing w.th its
flack talons tnroflga tae air. No, tnat isnot
religion.
What is religion? It is dividing the spoil,
ft is taking a defenseless soul and panoply
ing it for eternal conquest. It is the distribu
tion of prizes by theking'shand, every medal
stamped with a coronation. It is an exhilar
ation, expansion. It is imparadisation. It
is entoronement. Religion makes a man
master of earth, of death and hell. It goes
forth to gather tha medals of victory won by
Prince Emanuel, and the diadems or heaven,
and tha glory of realms terrestrial and celes
tial, and then, after ranging till worlds for
everything that Is resplendent, it divides the
What was it that James Turner, the fa
mous English evangelist, was doing when in
his dying moments he said: “Christ is all!
Christ is all?” Why, he was entering into
light. He was rounding the Cape of Good
Hope. He was dividing the spoil. What
was the aged Christian Quakeress doing
when at eighty years of age she arose in the
meeting one day and said “The time of my
departure is come. My grave clotbes art
failing off?” She was dividing the spoil.
What is Daniel npw doing, the lion tamer,
and Eiijah, who was drawn by the flaminc
coursers, and Paul, the rattling of whose
chains made kings quake, and all the othei
victims of flood and fire and wreck and guil
lotine—where are they? Dividing the spoil.
Ten tfcousa-d tlmrs ten thousand,
TIs finished, all ts fintshen.
Their fight with death and sin. . .
Lift alga your golden gates
And let the victors to. .
Db, what a grand thing it is to he a Ch ris-
lian! We begin now to divide the spoil, but'
the distribution will not be.complcte'd to all
eternity. There is a poverty struck soul,
there is a business despoiled sonl, there is a
Sin struck sonl, there is a bereaved soul—
-why do you not come and get tho spoils oi
Christian character, the comfort, the joy, tilt
peace, the salvation that I am sent to offet
you in my Master’s name?
Though your knees knock together in
Weakness, though your hand tremble in
.fear, though your eyes rain tears of uncon
trollable Weeping—come and get tbe spoil.
- Rest for all the weary. .Par ion for ail tbo ’
guilty. ’ Rescue lor ail the. bestormed. Life
forali the dead. I verily believe that there
ore some wbo'have come in-bera downcast
because the world is against them; and be
cause they feelGplis against them, who
will go away saying.
" Th? clothier Dee covers her nest oi
eggs with a cloth, made from the woody
fiber of plants, and thu3 preserves hex
Joung (rom the sudden changes ox tem
perature.
He—It makes mo a better man every
e I kiss you, darling. She—Oh, my,
irlie! How good you must be now.
[Brooklyn Life.
Capitol,
Routine of tlie lionse and Senate Brief*
ly Reported.
TflE HOUSE.
Monday, Nov. 27.—The hohse
Monday morning defeated the bill in--
troduced by Mr. Fleming to allow tbe
state normal school at Rook college to
admit women" teachers to - the benefits
of that school, Dr. Curry baa [ given.
$1,800 to keep the schooKopen again
uext summer. It is not known
what effect the action of the house
will have on the gift; but it is likely
that Dr. .Curry expected all of the
teachers to have the Denefit of the sum
mer course of instruction, and there
are many expressions of regret that
the house shonld have taken the action
it did. There were 62 votes for the
bill and 33 against it. A motion to
reconsider the hill was made and car
ried. The senate killed the bill of
Mr. Tatum, of "Dade; requiring
tbe state to pay the expenses of
the trial and ctnviction of crimi
nals sentenced to the Dade coal mines,
and who commit offenses in the peni
tentiary that require -trials in the
county. The following hills on third
reading Wef e disposed of; The hill of
Mr. Neel of Floyd, fixing the fees for
witnesses for the state-in criminal cases,
when they reside out of the county,, at $2
per day and 4 cents a mile for actual
miles traveled in getting to the court
house; The bill of Mr. Calvin
-to provide for the appointment
of a physician to the coroner
in each county, having a population of
40,000 or more, was passed; The bill
of Mf, Keel of Bafto#; to authorize
the signing of judgments against sure
ties on bonds on condemnation, as in
cases of appeal. The special order was
the consideration of the bill introduc
ed by Mr. Doolan, to ameiid the regis
tration laws of Chatham County. Mr.
Wilson of "Ware submitted an amend-
mentthatthelawshallnot go into effect
until it is ratified by the voters of
Chatham. Mr. Osborne explained the
hill and urged- that the amendments
he not passed, Mir. Wilsoh said the
people there were divided on this ques
tion, that the delegations had been be
fore the committee and the house
could say what the people wanted.
Mr, Doolan said the people had 6poken
by petition and were in favor of the
hill. That the adverse petition was a
small one and the same names appear
ed as signed several times. After
brief discussion the bill was passed by
a Vote of 99 veia to 2 nays.
Tuesday, Nov. 28—The house spent
mneh of its time Tuesday morning
talking for the women teachers of
Georgia. Notice of a motion to re
consider was given Monday when- the
hill to allow Women teachers to at
tend the Normal school' at Athens
was . lost. As sooii aB the journal
had been fead and approved Mr.
Graham, of Appling, made the motion
to reconsider, and spoke in favor of
admiting the women. Mr. Guerrard,
of Chatham, was not oppbsed to ad
mitting the Women but he was oppos
ed to these normal schools altogether,
and for that reason be was opposed to
reconsideration. Mr. Freeman, of
Tronp, made a sweeping denunciation
of the entire normal school system,
saying he did not believe in preparing
teachers for teaching at the expense of
the people. Mr. Fleming, of Rich
mond, in a strong speech, defended
normal schools, and spoke in favor of
reconsidering the hill. Mr. Reagan,
of Henry; spoke against reconsidera
tion, as did also Mr. Wheeler, of Wal
ker. The previous question was then
called and was sustained by a vote of
79 to 48; so the bill was reconsidered.
The resolution of Mt. Tatum, of
Dade, to authorize the govenor to pay
§403.40 to the ordinary of Dade coun
ty, the same being the amount expen
ded in executing Alex Weyman and
John Rutherford, two state convicts,
came np before the committee of the
whole house. The committee recom
mended that only, the sum of -$300.20'
he paid, and then the resolution was
sent hack to the finance committee.
The hill of Mr. Hodge, of Pu
laski, to authorize certain coun
ty officials to lay open and
work the public roads was passed.
The proposition for Georgia to issue
a series of bonds to fake up a number
of old and unpaid ohes known as con
vention bonds, caine up as ia special
order. The bill to issue'the new bonds
■was introduced by Mr. Bacon, of Bibh.
The bonds, amounting to $20,000 in
all, were issued before the war and
came due about 1870 and .1871; but
they have never been paid through
some irregularity about the time they
came due. Mr. Candler, of DeKalb,
chairman of a committee appointed to
investigate the bonds, spoke until one
o’clock, when the committee rose,
reported progress and asked leave to
sit again. The-house them adjourned
until 7:30 p. m.
Wednesday, Nov. 29. —The special
order of considering the issuance of
bonds to take up the old convention
bonds,, was resumed after the reading
of the journal in the house, Wednes
day morning. The house went into a.
committee of the whole, .with Mr. Hill,
of Meriwether, in the chair. Mr.
Candler, of 'DeKalb, who Was speak
ing when the house adjourned Tuesday
concluded his speech, It was a strong
plea for the state maintaining her in
tegrity hv paying off these bonds,
which he argued was a. just debt, Mr.
Wheeler,' of Walker, introduced an
amendment that no interest be paid on
the bonds.. Mr. Harrison, "of Quit-
man, spoke against -this amendment;
Mr. Sears, of Webster, opposed the
payment of the bonds. Mr. Battle, of
Muscogee, said he was born a demo
crat, raised a democrat, and consider
ing'democracy to behonesty, he favored
the payment .of the bonds, interest and
principal, dollar for dollar. Speaker
Atkinson followed Mr. Battle in
speaking for paying the bonds. Mr.
Bacon, of Bibb, also spoke in favor of
the bill, because, p>
le said, everything
showed ihat it was an honest debt and
it should be paid. Ho was followed
by Mr. Candler, of DeKalb, whp took
of Upson, spoke in favor of paying
tho bonds and the interest. The vote
-was then taken on the amendment of
Mr. Wheeler, of Walker. It was 80
for and 53.against, 'so the amendment
was adopted. The committee - then
arose and reported the bill back to the
house with a recommendation, that
it pass. Mr. .Martin, of Ful
ton,* spoke against the amend
ment when it Caine Up in the house,
but it was adopted by a vote of 79 to
64; thus killing the interest on. the
bonds; which amount to_$25,000, more
than the principal, which is only $20,--
500. At this point Mr. McBride,, of
Haralson, introduced a resolution that
the governor should appoint a com
mittee of. three to investigate these
bonds and report to the next .legisla-
ttifei Mr, Graham, of Appling, want
ed to amend the resolution by appro
priating $3,000 to defray the expenses
of the commission. " The time
of the house * was extended un
til this matter was disposed of. Mr,
Render, of Meriwether, called the
previous question and the call was sus*
tained. The amendment to appropri-
ate$3,000 was overwhelmingly lost and
so was Mr. McBride's resolution. The
report of the committee which was
favorable to the passage of the bill
was adopted. On n call of the ayes
and nays the bill was passed by a vote
of 89 to 57. Mr. Rankin gave notice
that he would move to reconsider.
The house then adjourned until Fri
day morning, as Thursday would be
spent in Augusta,
issue with him on the question of/in-
4-,.J-T—.J 4- +T»m, Statfi
IN THE SENATE. .
Monday, Nov. 27.—A number of new
bills were introduced in the senate
Monday morning, Senator Fleming
introduced the following resolution,
which was unanimously adopted:
“Whereas, we have heard with deep
Borrow of the death of our venerablo
and beloved chaplain, the Rev. John
Jones; D. D.; therefore be it re
solved, that Hie senate of Georgia,
remembering the exalted Christian
character, the stainless life, and
the eminent services so long contin
ued, both as chaplain of the senate and
as a minister of the gospel, of this
great and good man do deeply sympa
thize in the grief and sorrow of his
family and friends, and of the whole
church of which he was so long a con
spicuous ornament. Resolved 2d, That
a committee of eight Senators to be
appointed by the president to wait
upon his family, assure them of
our sympathy, and if consonant with
their wishes, act as pallbearers at his
fnnerol, 3rd. That the senate as a
body 'will attend the funefal of our
beloved and honored chaplain at the
Cential Presbyterian church at 11 a.
m. to-morrow. 4th. That as.a mark
of our high esteem and deep sorrow
the senate do now adjourn for the day.
The following bills were passed: To
anthorize the republication of the Geor
gia reports from 66 to 76th inclusive;
A bill to fix the liability of railroad
companies for wages due employes and
how they shall be paid passed the sen
ate. It was introduced by Mr. Bacon;
A bill to requite tax collectors to keep
an office in the court house. The sen
ate, in executive session, confirmed
Charles Goode Mercer to be judge pf
the county court- of Quitman, and A.
H. Smith to be judge of the city court
of Lowndes county.
Tuesday, Nov. 28.—The senate was
in session for only one hour Tuesday
morning. At 11 o’clock they ad
journed to attend the funeral of the
chaplain, Rev. John JoneB. Mr. Mc
Afee introduced a bill to provide for
furnishing county school commis
sioners with offices, Mr. Monk intro
duced a bill to allow Geo. W. Wil
lis to peddle "in any county. Mr.
Robinson introduced a bill providing
for a new charter for Tallulah Falls.
Mr.' Humphries introduced a bill to
make the bank of Quitman a state de
pository. Mr. Fleming, of Richmond,
presented a memorial from the Yonng
Men’s Business League of Augusta,
asking the honse to pass the bill on
immigration, now before the commit
tee, and to establish a bureau of im
migration for Georgias- .
Wednesday, Nov. 29.—The senate
was engaged most of the morning
Wednesday in Leading bills the second
time. The following new bilis were
introduced: To prohibit the sale of
cotton seed in Stewart county; A bill
to establish a registration law for Lib
erty county; also to require the coun
ty commissioners of Liberty county
to publish the minutes of each meet
ing. The following bills were passed:
A bill to amend the charter of Sav
annah and to regulate elections;
A bill to anthorize the city of Savan
nah to tax poles on thoroughfares;
also a bill to authorize Savannah to
own and operate on electric plant-;
A bill to establish public
schools - in Waycross; .A 'bill
to make the bank at Greenville
a state depository; A bill to incorpo
rate the town of Corner, in Madison
county; also a bill to permit the town
of Milner to issue bonds to construct
school house; A bill to establish a
State Naval Militia. The bill to amend
the charter of the town of Wrights-
ville; A bill relieving Captain Bierne
Gordon, of the Georgia .Hessars, from
the bond for the safe keeping of arms;
A bill to empower the city of Wayoross
to issue bonds to build school houses.
The senate then adjourned to meet Fri
day morning at 10 o’clock.
DISPENSARY PROFITS.
Governor Tillman Gives a Tabulated
.-••" Statement of the Bnsiness.
A Columbia, S. 0. , dispatch of Wed
nesday says:-* Governor Tillman has
furnished a tabulated statement of ex-,
penditures and receipts of the dispens
ary .during the first quarter. The
following is a summary thereof: Total
purchases by counties $185,928.95;. re
mittances $99,883.98; total sales by
counties $166,043.56; Btock onhand in
connty dispensaries $43,826.43; ex
penses of oounty dispensaries $19,-
890.04; total expenses of state dispen
sary to November 1st $72,566.36, of
which $12,878.58 was for constabulary,
over $15,000 freight and over $18,000;
for bottles and flasks.
The amount paid for whisky by the
state dispensary is $70,251.22; cash on
hand $7,514.55; amount due by dis
pensers $82,953.50; bills payable $61,-
027.53. The total profits amount to
$32,198.16.
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of a Day |
Brief ari; Concise Pari
And i
Containing the Gist ofj
rorn All Parts of the
A doubtful rumor is currentin Mon-
tivido that President Peixejto, of Bra
zil has been assassinated.
lajor M. C. Kiser, one ojf Atlanta’s
oldest and most honored citizens, and
one of the. most successful business
men in Georgia, died Thursday
morning.
Wednesday morning a three-masted
schopner was seen ashore on Common
flat' near Cheatham, Mass. Great seas
were breaking over her and not a trace
of her crew could be seen..
It is reported from New York that
the Mail and Express, the late Colonel
Elliot F. Shepard’s eccentric evening
newspaper, has been purchased by Wil
liam Walter Phelps, exminister to
Germany.
A special of Thursday from St. Paul,
Minn., says: A cold wave of great se
verity is sweeping in from the north
east. The signal service reports indi
cate that the temperature will be far
below zero at all points from Helena to
Milwaukee.
A dispatch of Thursday to the
Chronicle from Milan says: Forty-three
persons were killed and 180. injured in
a collision at Limitro station. Nearly
every passenger on the train wasinjur-
ed. It is stated that a majority of the kill
ed and injured were immigrants going
to America by way of Venice7”
There were no new cases of yellow
fever reported at Brunswick Wednes
day, no deaths and no discharges.
Refugees are' coming in by the score.
Entire families are allowed to enter
where their houses have been properly
fumigated. There is a good deal of
discontent among the people about the
non-raising of the quarantine.
A Birmingham dispatch says: The
connty convention of Jeffersonian de
mocrats of this county will be held in
this city on December 8th. Jefferson
connty will set the pace for the state
and considerable interest is felt in the
result. The convention will be atten
ded by Jeffersonians from all over the
state, who are anxious to see bow the
ball will be started off and who want
to learn how to run a convention in
their counties.
General Master Workman James R.
Soverign, of the Knights of Labor,-
arrived at Philadelphia Thursday
night. He was received hy Worthy
Foreman Bishop and H. B. Martin, of
the executive board. Mr. Soverign
declined to say anything further than
that he wonld assume his duties at
once, as he had been instructed to do
and aa the laws of the order required.
There was no enthusiasm displayed.’
Mi. Powderly did not wait to meet
him, but left for his home in Scranton.
The Perry, Oklahoma, Athletic Club
has telegraphed Richard K. Fox, of
New York, that a purse of $30,000
wonld he given to Corbett and Mitch;
ell if the fight could he hro;
The club is composed of bankers, mer
chants and many men of means. The
law oi Oklahoma makes prize fighting
a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine
of $500 and a few days’ jail sentence.
A Milwaukee brewing company .offers
to build an amphitheater with a seat
ing capacity of $100,000.
A Nashville special says: The chair
men of the different local railway or
ganizations left Thursday night for
Lonisville to confer with the Louis
ville and Nashville railroad officials
concerning a revision of wages, which
were reduced several months ago on
account of dull times. The period of
rednetion agreed upon at that time ex
pires on December 11th, and at the
coming conference the question as to
whether wages shall be restored will
come np for consideration.
There is great improvement in the
industrial situation at Nashville. It
was announced Wednesday that the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railway shops will resame with a force
of 300 men who have been idle for three
months. One of the Cumberland mills
has started hp and is making. 900 bar
rels of flour per day. The Nashville
Packing Company, jnstopenednp, em
ploys fifty men. Noel’s new mill at
EstaU Springs will start next week and
make 3,000 barrels of flour daily. One
furnace at South Pittsburg has resum
ed and another will be put in blast
next week.
One hundred and ten men struck at
the Bloomington, IU., coal shaft Mon
day, owing to a reduction of 12 J per
cent in wages. The company made the
reduction owing to the dull'times.
The strikers’ places have been fllled hy
others. Wednesday morning a com
mittee of business men' representing
the strikers was to have held, a confer
ence with Vice President Stevi
who owns one-fifth of the mine.,
foiled to appear, and Mr.
who waited in vain for thei
all business of the shaft
hands of Manager Gx.ahaj
did would b'e sanctione"
president, who had no
the actual workings of
BISHOP TURNER’S CONVENTION
Over Five Hundred Relegates Show Up
at the Meeting.
A Cincinnati special says: Tuesday
morning; Bishop H. M. Turner, of
Atlanta, called to order the national
colored convention, which met, pursu
ant to his call issued September 30th.
To the surprise of all the list of dele
gates reached over five hundred,
with more to come. W. H.
Council], of Jointsville, Alabama,
was made temporary chairman,
with J. H. Willis, of Michigan, as sec
retary. .The permanent organization
was effected without friction asfollows:
President, Bishop 'turner; first vice
president, Dr. Payne; second vice pres
ident, Dr. J. R. Grassland, St. Joseph,
Mo.; third vice president, Sam D. Hill,
Cincinnati; fourth vice president, W.
H. Rllis, Mexico; fifth vice president,
Rev. S. E. Gillem, Louisville; secre
tary, Dr. G. W. Bryant; assistant sec
retary, George W. Williams, Indiana;
assistant secretary, W. H. Steward,
Louisville, Ky.
C. H. J. Taylor, of Kansas City, re
cently appointed United States minis
ter to Bo ivia, made an address, taking
strong ground again'st all mob laws. in
general. His remedy was the enact
ment of a special statute for a speedy
trial of all rapists, fixing* the punish
ment at death- Ho wanted also to
compel the connty in which a man was
lyched to pay his heirs $10,000.
At night Bishop Turner delivered an-
address, carefuiry prepared and full of
deep feeling. He deplored the appa
rent taint upon the race, and declared,
that if even half that was charged
against the colored men of the United
States is true, colored men
themselves shonld band together and
organize for the correction of the evil
by the most radical measures. The
'Bishop’s remedy is in partial" African
emigration. He favors calling on his
nation for a portion of the $40,000,-
000,000, which the country owes the
colored race for daily labor—say $500,-
000,000,—to enable them to begin
African emigration.
PROFITS OF THE FAIR.
The Net Assets Nearly Two Million
Dollars.
A Chicago dispatch says: The re
port of William Ackerman, auditor of
the world’s Columbian exposition, was
officially sent to the board of directors
Saturday. It shows that each day of
the fair the net receipts averaged
$67,096. The average daily receipts
were $89,501, while the daily expenses
were $22,405. The total receipts from
all sources were $28,151,168. The to
tal expenditures were $25,540,537. The
balance ns shown by the auditor is
$2,610,630, lmt from this amount are
deducted such obligations as are in
sight but not included as any part of
the expenditures up to October 31st.
These obligations,, which are for sala
ries, premiums, recoinage of souvenir
coins, office expenses,etc., make a total
of $748,147. This nmouut being de
ducted from the $2,610,630, leaves the
net assets $1,862,483. •
POWDERLY’S SUCCESSOR.
James Sovereign, of-Iowa, Elected
Grand Masfcr Workman.
At Monday afternoon’s meeting of
the Knightsv of Labor delegates, at-
Philadelphia, • Grand Master Workman
Powderly’s resignation was accepted
by a practically .unanimous vote,’after
that gentleman, had stated to the-
Convention that - he-had- tendered
it in good faith, and that his
action was final. J. R. Sovereign, of
Iowa, was then elected to succeed Mr.
Powderly, the vote being Sovereign,
23, James Campbell, of Pittsburg, 8;
T. B. McGuire, 1; Powderly, 2. The
vacancies on the general executive
board were filled by the election of the
following: C. A. French, of Boston;
H. B. Martin, of Minnesota, and J. L
Kenny, of Omaha, all anti-Powder-
lyites.
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TWENTY-FIVE BELOW.
Intensely Cold Weathcr.Prevailing in
the Northwest.
. A Chicago special says: The ex
isting cold wave is the- most severe
that has visited Chicago during tha
month of November for twenty-one
years. At 11 o’clock Friday night the
thermometer was wavering at four
above zero, and at 4 o’clock it had
dropped six degrees, reaching two be
low zero.
Advices.from St. Paul, Minn., state
that the thermometer, in various parts
of the city Friday mdming ranged
from five to twenty-five degrees below
zero and like reports have been re
ceived from. North Dakota and Mani
toba.
Sank Rapids, Minn., reports 24 be
low,-and at Fargo,- North Dakota, 2&.
below is reported. . X ,
Southern Assoclatj
The Sonthern
a two day’s sessii
Its relations to " '
tions were ful
finally determini
vote, to stand
tracts. The f<
elected: E. P. 1
ident; J. H. Esi
president; Patrick
treasurer and a'ct'ihj
F. F. Glass, seer;
T. T. Stockton
ntive committee.
Howell, W. P.
hill, J. F. Rule.
Cowarden, J.
ton and D. A.
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