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VOLUME XVIII
BTTTLEK. GEORGIA. TUESDAY. JANUARY 30, 1894.
NUMBER 10
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UNAV/MjR
forai day-Twhen falls a sudden sense
‘ Of perfect peace on h.. art and brain.
That comes, we know n 0 t why or whence,
• And ere we aoek lBRone again.
\pien breathes the unexpeetant lionr
Strange beauty of an intf an ( blown,
la if a roso-^rerefall in flower
- Whose earliest buds wo knew‘hot grown,
. Perchance one winged moment sped
Down the white bights-ol heavenly air,
Some spirit of our blessed dead
Hath stood beside ns unaware!-
THE BOTKME BATE
SI ASELISE S. V?\SQ.
"OF ESS OR
Botkine, of tise
Uniyersity of
California, was
sitting ou hia
front' steps at
Berkeley in the
morning of a
sultry Jfijy
day. He was
delightedly
watching the
efforts of his r,et
toad to capture
'zy a very las-gs
angleworm, and his enjoyment was
enhanced by the fact that his beauti
ful German wife, who usually declii-ed
to interest herself in anything which
she even suspected of a connect-on
with science, was seated beside hpa,
giving eager little pressures to Sis
hand and uttering a pleased exclama
tion, iu her pretty foreign accent,,
whenever the toad made an extra
effort.
The fact was that she, while cutting
roses, had been the one to see the be
ginning, of the contest, and felt the
proper pride of a discoverer. The
toad had been-sitting still, looking as
if carved by a Japanese artist, and
giving no sign that it saw anything.
The worm gave a little wrigglo a3 it
began to come out of the ground, when,
quick as a flash, the toad made a leap
and seized the end of the worm in its
mouth.
~- t Ehen began a tug-of-war. Every
Urn'- that the toad gave a pull, the
jwotm drew back. But the toad was
’’iroi to be discouraged. It jerked and
jerked until it fairly stood on its hind
legs. Still, it could not dislodge the
worm.
. • At this interesting point a train
whistled.
“Why, Selma!” said the professor,
“there is the train already. I had
quit* forgotten that I must go the city
to-day. Where is my hut?”
“Do wait an instant, dear; just see
what that toad is doing,” she ans
wered, holding him back.
He glanced down and saw the toad
twisting its leg about until tho worm
was wrapped twice around it, then the
toad gave a hop, and out- came the
worm.
This had been too fascinating a
spectacle to the unwary professor.
He dashed into the house and back
again, kissed his wife, and, with a
regretful ginuee at her rippling hair,
and soft blue eyes, started oft’.
, Suddenly he rushed back.
“Why, dear,” ho cried, “I forgot, to
tell you that that Mr. Smith, the Ca
nadian, who wrote the paper on
bacteria, will be here this afternoon
to stay a day or two. He may come
before I am back. “
of the vanity of authors. He would
at least take this down to 'see if any
passages were marked, and might be
lured into tho perusal of some other
books.
Mrs. Botkine pinned on the wall
some colored illustrations of various
forme of bacteria, and then surveyed
the effect with the calm satisfaction of
a general who foresees the success of
his manoeuvres. ' She sighed regret
fully that she could not bring herself
t-a introduce into tho room a few sam
ples of the “germ culture” that her
husband was carrying on, but she felt
that she must draw the line at living
germs.
and encountered the gaze of Air.
Smith, who stood before her, looking
decidedly uneasy.
“1 beg pardon for interrupting yon,
Mrs. Bodkrne,” he said; “butl wish
to thank ypii for your kindness and'ta
make my adieux.”
“Why, Mr.. Smith—”. she began,
but be waved his hand apologetically
and contined:
“I am very sorry not to have found
Professor Botkine, but perhaps 1. can
coine again. There is just time for me
•to catch the five o’clock train.”
. It was her turn to be astonished.
She opened her lips to speak, but he
■went on, nervously: •
“Pray forgive my leaving yon sc
abruptly. Thank you very much.
Good afternoon,” and, bowing pro-
She smiled again. To be sure, Mr.
Smith might think her bnsband rather
eccentric in pursuing his studies in
this room, but he would certainly feel» fonnclly, he was gone,
that he had found a congenial spirit ( -^ cir a moment she lelt stunned,
in a man who could not tear himself! -Then a flood of questions poured
away from his beloved bacteria even I through her mind. Was the man in-
in his bath. ! sane? Or what had she done to offend
; f What •
go about her occupations for the day. j apparently “nic
fiYirl in +.T»a pffprnnnn avati "hanisTififi * SUCH ft ulStlftUglll
nice” young man into
and in the afternoon even banished * sn Ph-a <H3traught savage?
the thought of her expected guest \ recommend me to a plain,
enough to take a quiet nap. - •’ commonplace man who has not bacilli
She wna awakened-by a knock at her j on r] ^° brain j sho^ sighed,
door, and the maid handed her a card “ A “
despair. “But what shall 1 do with
him?”she wailed; “you know lean
not talk science and pollywogs!”
“Oh, don’t be alarmed. He isn’t
so very dried up. Just let him have a
good soaking in a bath-tub. Then he
will come out perfectly human and
happy. He’s an Englishman, yon
know,” and the professor, with a
laughing glance at his little wife’s rue
ful expression, threw dignity and his
coat-tails to the winds as he madly ran
down the street, “looking like a great
black bird of prey,” ns Mrs. Botkine
laughingly remarked to herself.
' But she grew sober as she thought
how ruthlessly science and scientists
seemed to dog her unwilling footsteps.
Her husband - certainly loved her, but
he had a way of becoming- utterly
absorbed in his studies, and then burst
ing into her reflections with remarks
which sounded positively ghoulish.
He had appeared only yesterday iu her
own private sanctum carrying n “hor-
; rid snake” by the tail, and, although
he had not yet reached tho pitch of
Professor Agassiz—who was said to
have consigned infant serpents, for
safe-keeping over night, to his wife's
boots—she did not know where his en
thusiasm might lead.
“I’m half afraid to go to sleep,” she
had roguishly said to him one night.
“I’m afraid that your deepest interest
even iu me is only scientific, and I be
lieve you are capable of cutting me
open to see what queer thing there is
in my heatt that I love such a bookish
old bear w/lh.”
“Now here was this Canadian com
ing I And llpw was she to be properly
interested in his old bacteria and not
disgrace her husband by betraying her
ignorance on the subject?” she asked
herself.
Manifestly, hy must take a bath, and
everything possible must be done to
inake that bath-room attractive, so that
<^e shoufd stay there as long as possi
ble. She went upstairs, and with her
oWd dimjiled hands got down a new
cate of perfumed soap. She eyed it
critically. Perhaps his severe scien
tific mind would be disgusted with
such effeminate luxury. Perhaps—
whti knew?—he might discover even
in lit the presence of bacteria! She
had. "heard it said that a man with a
theory finds examples of its truth in
everything about him. Never mind!
She would-place beside it a cake of
white castile and one of tar soap.
Then, whatever his tastes, he must be
pleased. She pnt the alcohol and a
cologne bottle within easy reach; got
ont smooth and rough towels and a
bath- blanket; saw that the shower-
bath wprked; and with a sigh of relief,
went down stairs to impress the cook
that during the entire afternoon there
mnst be plenty of hot water in the
boiler. /;«
Suddenly a happy though struck
her; she went int-o her husband’s study
and brought out every book’- on bac
teriology that she- could find. These
-she. rppgsd-pn a-shelf at the foot oi
the bath-tub. Standing out -a little
. beyond the others^sas .if but just
shoVed in, was Mr. Smith’s own piua-
oil ■ “Bict@3a.!L She was sure
bearing the seemingly innocent in
scription, “Mr. Worthington Smith.”
She was filled with a nervous fear,
and her heart beat fast as Bhe walked
down the stairs. She lingered outside
the drawing-room as long as’she dared,
and then, putting her trust in the
bath-room, walked in and greeted her
visitor with a smile of timid welcome.
He did not look at all alarming.
She was snrprised to see that he was
young, darkly handsome, and dressed
with more regard to fashion than the
scientific mind generally deigns to be
stow. Ho saw her timid air and blonde
beauty with evident admiration.
After the first polite commonplaces,
Mr. Smith smilingly observed: “Pro
fessor Botkine’s recent researches
have been of such interest to seien-
rific men that they mnst lay him open
to a great deal of persecution from in
quiring admirers, but—”
“Oh, not at all,” she answered,
rather incoherently; “or, rather, I
should say, he likes to be persecuted
—that is” (with some confusion) “he
will be delighted to find you here when
he returns. In tho meantime, I hope
that you will let me look after you.”
Air. Smith thought that he should
like nothing better, but contented
himself with remarking:
“Thank you, very much. Perhaps
you would be so kind as to explain to
me a few things I should like to know
about Professor Botkine’s theories on
bacteria.”
He was surprised to see a deep flush
and a look of distress come over her
face, and, before she could answer, he
hastened to add: “Bnt I fear that I
am trespassing on your time. Pray,
do not let me incommode you. I have
some uncut pamphlets in my satchel
here, and will look them over as I
wait,” and he looked down embar
rassed.
A furtive feeling of relief crept for
a moment into her eyes. Then the
thought that she could not be guilty
of such inhospitality as leaving her
guest to shift for himself forced itself
upon her. But here he waB, plunging
into science the very first thing and
turning shy besides., Oh, she must
send him off to that bath! It 80§st3a vi0e7
her-
rather awkward, bi
self
‘No, Mr. Smith,” she said, gayly,
I am Bare’that I could not tell yon
anything on the subject, and I can
not think of leaving you here alone.
You must let me make you comfort
able. I know that after your journey
yon would like a bath.”
Ho looked amazed and then em
barrassed.
“Thank you, very much, Airs. Bot
kine, ” he stammered, “but I do not
care at all for a bath. I shall do very
well here, and—”
No, no!”she said, nervously; “I
know that you are only afraid that
there is no hot water on such a warm
day, and yon do not wish to give
trouble.”
He put out his hand and tried to in
terrupt her, but she shook her head
and went on rapidly:
“It is all ready. Everything is in
the bath room, and I will ring for
James to show yon up.”
He looked* thunderstruck at her in
sistence.
‘But, I assure you, Mrs. Bbtkine,”
he exclaimed, “it is not at all worth
while. I—”
“Not another word, if you please,
Air. Smith. You will really annoy
mo if you refuse.”
Sho thought to herself that he little
knew how more than annoyed she was
at the thought of his possible ques
tions. As the man-servant appeared,
sho said:
“James, take this gentleman’s
satchel to the guest chamber and show
him to the bath-room.”
Mr. Smith endeavored to hang back
and say something, but Airs. Botkine
smilingly waved her hand toward the
stairs and walked into another room.
She had looked alternately vexed and
triumphant.
As he followed James, Air. Smith
remarked to himself that before this
experience he would have vowed that
6lie was too pretty to be eccentric.
He had no wish to bathe, but fearing
to vex her, meekly proceeded-to per
form his ablutions.
She, meantime, was vastly relieved.
She smiled to herself at the thought
of how unwilling he had seemed to
give the slightest trouble.
“I suppose he thought we Ameri
cans never had any decent facilities
for a bath,” she reflected. Then:
“He really is remarkably good-look
ing, for a scientist. If I had not
known what he was, I should have
thought he was just a nice young fel-
lojtv Mid rashly tried to get on with
hsm. Oh, if George had not told me
ii^ tune!” She shuddered as she
thougSM-Mher escape.
“I supplose he will be drityfenp look
ing before long. He is a whited-se-
pulchre ki ad of man now.
not sOe thi slightest sign of
in him, bu : 'his seething intellect is
bound to c 3ok his hair off in a few
years:-*.E ten-: Georg<r\ is a wee bit
’ ” " t bow delightful that Air.
it fathom my ignorance,
elated that - she went to
ig fora half-hour,
'byhearh a&sdme-
oae?S
hind 1
The rest of the day seemed endless,
but at last she descried Professor
, Botkine,- and with him a rather desic
cated and “dug-up”-looking man.
“Oh, dear!” she moaned; “there it
another scientist, I know to look ai
him. AVhat will ho do, I wonder*
Dissect my cat, or say that he cannot
dine with ns becauso he never eats
anything but bacteria?”
“Here we are at last,” said the pro
fessor'; “I found- our friend on the
train. He had mistaken the train and
gone to Alameda. Mr. Smith, let- me
present yon to Airs. Botkine.”
She welcomed her guest cordially,
but the minute she was alone with her
hnsband, she seized him by the lapels
of his coat. j
“What joke have you been playing
on me?” she demanded; “who is this
Air. Smith?”
The professor looked astonished.
“Why, my dear, there is no joke.
This is the Mr. Smith that I told you
I was expecting this afternoon. Whal
is the matter?”
“Matter!” she cried; “who is the
Air. Smith .that came here this after
noon with a satchel, and asked aboui
your theories?”
“Why, we met him at the station.
He had a few specimens to show me.
He is the son of my friend, Commo
dore Smith, of San Francisco. H«
had just run over for a short calL”
“A short call!” she echoed again;
“what will he think of me? I sent him
up stairs to take that bath!”—Argo
naut.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The proposed Hoboken (N. J.)
Bridge will have a single span of 5850
feet—the longest in the world.
The greatest depth recorded of
Lake Alichigan is 870 feet, or about
■one-sixth of a mile. The mean depth
is about 325 feet, or one-sixteenth of
a mile.
The flea is covered with armored
plates very hard and overlapping each
other. Each is set with spikes, ’and
bends in conformity with .the move
ments of the body.
The largest engine is at Friedena-
ViK. TALMAGE.
IHE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “The Bare Arm of God.”
thirty-five feet in
inder is 110 inches, and it raises 17,-
500 gallons of water per minute.
A iiew process of rain making was
recently brought before the Academic
des Sciences, Paris, by M. Baudoin.
His theory is that electricity main
tains tho water in clouds in a-state ol
small drops, and thal if the electricity
be discharged the water will come
down.
An instrument has been invented
for sounding the depths of the sen
without using a lead line. A sinker
is dropped containing a cartridge,
which explodes on touching the bot
tom ; the report is registered in a
microphone apparatus and the depth
reckoned by the time at which the ex
plosion occurred.
The air brakes on railroads are being
built with a view to their use on trains
of 100 cars. The plant on each train
is being built so that it can be used in
such a way as to bring the speed down
from eighty to thirty miles per hour
within five seconds. Great power has
to be used, and every part of the
apparatus has to be perfect to stand
the strain.
Dr. Hughes, of Meriden, has re
ceived a letter from R. W. Sawyer, of
Nassau, New Providence, one of the
Bahama Islands, telling of the finding
of a pink pearl in a conch shell there
that is the finest ever brought to
light. This pearl is nearly as large as
a pigeon’s egg and of the same shape,
having no flaw or blemish, and of per
fect color and marking. It was.sold
to the local agent of a Paris house for
over $2000,'the largest price, it is
believed, received for a pearl at the
Nassau conch fisheries.
At the recent meeting of the chemical
section of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science the arti
ficial diamonds that have been made
by M. Aloissaus, of Paris, were ex
hibited and awakened much interest.
These, as yet, are of hardly sufficient
size to be marketable, but there ap
pears to be no longer doubt that this
and the cost are but questions of
technical detail, and. that another de
cade at most will suffice to reduce
diamonds to the vulgar level of the
amethyst or the Rhine stone,
Natural Curiosities.
Carious resemblances in Nature
start with the 'cocoanut, in many‘re
spects like the human skull and almost
a facsimile of the monkey’s. The
meat of the English walnut is almost a
copy of the human brain; plums and
black cherries, like the - human eyi
almonds like the human nose, and a
unopened- oyster and shell, a-perfei
likeness of the human ear. The sha;
of a man’s body may be traced in
mammoth squash, the open- hand
growing scrub willows and celery, *'
human heart in German turnips
egg plant, and dozens of the mechan
ical Inventions of .the present.day to.'
patterns furnished by Nature. ’■'Thus,
the'hog suggested the plow, the but
terfly the door hinge, the frog stool
the umbrella, tho duck the ship, and
the fungus growth on trees . tli*
1
Text.: “The Lord hath made 5 are His holu
arm."—Isaiah HI., 10.
It almost takes our breath away to read
some of the Bible imagery. There is such
boldness of metaphor in my text that I have
been for some time getting my courage up to
preaeh from it. Isaiah, the evangelistic
prophet, is sounding the jubilate of our
planet redeemed and cries out. “Tho Lord
hath made bare His holy arm.”’ What over
whelming suggestiveness in that figure of
speeeh,.“The'biirearm of God!” The peo
ple of Palestine to this day wear much hinder
ing apparel, and when they want to run a
special race, or lift a special bnrden, or flght
a special battle, they pat off the outside
apparel, as in our land when a man proposes
n special exertion ho puts off his coat and
rolls up ' his sleeves. Walk through our
foundries, our machine shops, our mines,
our factories, and you All find that most of
the toilers have their coats off and their
sleeves rolled up.
Isaiah saw that! here must be a tremen
dous amount of work done before this world
becomes what it ought to be, and he fore
sees it ail accomplished, and accomplished
bv the Almighty, not as we ordinarily think
of Him, but by the Almighty with the sleeve
of His robe roiled hack to His shoulder,
“The Lord hath made bare His holy arm.”
Nothing more impresses me in the Bible
than the ease with which God -does most
things. There is such a reserve of power.
He has more thnnderbolfs than He has ever
flung, more light than Ho- has ever distrib
uted, more blue than with which He has
overarched tho sky. more green than that
with which Ho has emeralded the grass,
more crimson than that with which He lias-
burnished the sunsets. I say it with rever
ence, from all I can see. God has never hall
tried.
Yon know as well as I do that many of tho
most elaborate and expensive industries of
our world have been employed in creating
artificial light: Half of the time tho world
is dark. Tho moon and the stars have their
glorious use3, bnt as instruments of illumi
nation they are failures. They will not
Bllow you to read a hook orstop tho ruffian
ism of your great cities. Had not the dark
ness been persistently fought back by artifi
cial means, the most of the world’s enter
prises would have halted half the time, while
the crime of our great municipalities wonld
for half the time run rampant and nnre-
buked; hence all the inventions for creating
artificial light, from the flint straok against
steel in centuries past to the dynamo of our
electrical manufactories. What uncounted
numbers of people at work the year round in
making chandeliers and lamps and fixtures
and wires and batteries where light shall be
made, or along which light shall run, or
where light shall poise I . How many bare
arms of human toil—and some of those bara
arms are very tired—in the creation of light
and its apparatus, and after all the work the
greater part of the continents and hemis
pheres at night have no light at all, except
perhaps the fireflies flashing their small lan
terns across the swamp.'
But see how easy God made the light. He
did not make bare His arm; He did not evon
pnt forth His robed arm; He did not lift so
much as a finger. The flint out of whleh He
struck the noonday sun was the word,
“Light.” “Let there he light P* Adam did
not see the sun until the fourth day, for,
though the sun was oreated on the first day,
it took its rays from the first to the fourth
day to work through the dense mass of fluids
by which this earth was compassed. Did you
over hear of anything so easy as that? So
unique? Out of a word came the blazing
sun, the father of flowers, and warmth ana
light! Out of a word building a fire-place
for alt th9 Nations of the earth to warm them
selves by! Yea, seven other worlds, five of
them inconceivably largerthah our own, and
seventy-nine asteroids, or worlds on a
smaller scale I The warmth and light for
this great brotherhood, great sisterhood,
great family of worlds, eighty-seven larger
or smaller worlds, all from that one magnifi
cent fireplace, made out of the one word—
Light. The sun 886,000 miles in diameter. I
do not know how much grander a solar sys
tem God could have oreated If He had put
forth His robed arm, to say nothing of an
arm made bare ! - But" this I know, that our
noonday sun was a spark struck from the
anvil of one word,’ and that word “T ight, "
i •'Pnt- ** DOTC enmn nuo -.4 *LI
Dig \ wheels are ^ ^ ^ ^ _ _
i-- “But,” says some one, ‘ido you not think
ihat m'aa&ng'ffie~~tuachinery of the uni
verse, of which onr solar.systeffiis.com-
paratively a small wheel working into might
ier wheels, it must have cost God some ex
ertion? The upheaval of an arm either
robed or an arm raado hare?” No; we are
'distinctly told otherwise. The machinery of
a universaGod madesimply with His fingers.
David, inspired in a night song, says so—
“When I consider Thy heavens, the -work of
Thy fingers.”
A Scottish clergyman told me a few weeks
ago of dyspeptic Thomas Carlyle walking
out with a friend one starry night, and as
the friend looked up and said, “What a
splendid sky!” Mr. Carlyle replied as he
glanced upward, “Sad sight, sad sight!”
Not so thought David as he read the great
Scripture of the night heavens. It was n
sweep of embroidery, of vast tapestry, God
manipulated. That is - the allusion of the
psalmi3t to the woven hangings of tapestry
as they were known long before David’s
time. Far back in the ages what enchant
ment of thread and color, .the Florentine
velvets of silk and gold and Persian carpets
woven^f goats’ hair! If you have been in
the Gobelin manufactory of tapestry In Paris
—alas, now no more i—you witnessed won
drous things as you saw the wooden needle
or broach going back and fortn and in and
out; you were transfixed with admiration at
tho patterns wrought. No wonder that Louis
XIV bought it, and it became a possession of
the throne, and for a long while none but
thrones and palaces might have any or its
work! What triumphs of loom! What
victory of skilled fingers! So David says of
the heavens that God’s fingers wove into
them the light; that God’s fingers tapestried
them with stars; that G;od’s fingers em
broidered them with worlds.
How much of the immensity of the heavens
David understood Ido not know. Astronomy
was born in China 2800 years before Christ
was horn. During tho reign of Hoang-Ti
astronomers were put to death if they made
wrong calculations about the hoavens. Job
understood tho refraction of the 'sun’s rays
and said they were “turned as the clay to the
seal.” The pyramids were astronomical ob
servatories, and they were so long ago built
that Isaiah refers to one of them in his nine
teenth chapter and calls it the “pillar at the
border.” The first of all the sciences bom
was astronomy. Whether from knowledge
already abroad or from direct inspiration, it
ffiems to lpo David had wide knowledge of
tie heavens. Whether he understood the
full force of what he wrote, I know not, but
tie God who inspired him knew, ana He
would not let David write anything but truth,
aid therefore all the worlds that the tele-
sffipe ever reached or .Copernicus or Galilei
of Kepler or Newton or Laplace orHorschel
orour own Mitchell ever saw were so easily
mide that they were made with tho fingers.
.A^fiasiiv.as with vour fingers you mold the
war, or tne elay, or -the dough to partid-
uUl- shapes, so He decided the shape ot
“——-" J and thnt it should weigh six sex-
: ' fiYid nrinnintod nil wnrlrlo
prearotl
ion tons and appointed for. all worlds
orbits and; decided their color—the
to Sirius. the ruddy to Aldebaran, the
he blue to Aitair, martyr
irs, as the 2400 double stars
icrschel observed, administering to the
i of the variable stars as their glance
es brighter or dim, preparing what
' s ”™““y“the girdle of Androme-
a in the sword handle ol
n worlds! Worlds undei
hove worlds! Worlds be-
mnny that aiithmatics ore
ilculation! But Ho counted
them. and..He made them
! Reservation of power!
ipotence! Besources.as
Imightiness yet undemon-
ask, for the benefit of nil
istian workers, if God ac-
ich with His fingers, what
unsiffit~
:ffo bstte
j again
arm. but
text, ol -the bare
plain that the rectifiea-
s a stupendous under*-
) power to make this
it took to make it at
stand. In the shipyards of Liverpool or
•Glasgow or New York a great vessel is con
structed. The architect draws out the plan,
the length of the beam, the capacity of ton
nage, the rotation of wheel or screw, the
cabin, the masts and all the appointments of
This great palace of the deep. The orohitoct
finishes his work without any perplexity,
and the carpenters and the artisans toil on
the craft so many hours a day, each one
doing his part, until with flags flying, and
thousands ot people huzzaing on tne docks,
the vessel is launched. Bnt ont on the sea
that steamer breaks her shaft and is limping
slowly along toward harbor, when Caribbean
whirlwinds, those mighty hunters of the
deep, looking out for prey of ships, surround
that wounded vessel and pitch it on a rocky
coast, and she lifts and falls in the breakers
until every joint is loose, and every spar is
down, and every wave sweeps over the
hurricane deck as she parts midships.
Would it not require more skill and powei
to get that splintered vessel off the roek3
and reconstruct it than it required origin
ally to build her? Aye! Our world that
God built so beautiful, and which started ont
with all the flags of Edenle foliage and with
the chant of paradisaical bowers, has been
sixty centuries pounding in the skerries of
sin and sorrow, and to get her out, and to
get her off, and to get her on the right wav
again will require more of omnipotence than
it required to build her and launch her. 80
I am not surprised that though’ in the dry-
dock of one word our world was made, it
will take-the unsleeved e-rm of God to lift her
from the rocks and put her on the right
coarse again. It is evident from my text
and its comparison with other texts that it
would not bo so great au undertaking to
make a whole constellation of worlds, and a
wnole galaxy or worlds, and a whole astrono
my of worlds, and swing them in their right
orbits ns to take this wounded world, this
stranded world, this bankrupt world, this
destroyed world, and make it . as good as
when it started.
Now. just look at the enthroned difficulties
iu tho way, tho removal of whiob, the over
throw of which, seom to require the bare
right arm of omnipotence. There stands
heathenism, with its 860,000,000 victims. I
do not care whether yon call themBrahmans
or Baddhists, Confucians or fetich Idolaters.
At the World’s Fair In Chicago last summer
those monstrosities of religion tried to make
themselves respectable, but the long hair
and baggy trousers and trinketed robes of
their representatives cannot hide from the
world the fact that those religions are the
authors of funeral pyre, and -juggernaut
crushing, and Ganges infanticide, and Chi
nese shoe torture, and the aggregated mas
sacres or many centuries. They have their
l'.ebls on India, on China, on Persia, on
Borneo, on three-fonrths of the acreage of
our poor old world.
I know that the missionaries, who are the
most sacrificing and Christlike men and
women on earth, are making steady and
glorious Inroads upon these built up abomi
nations of the centuries. All this stuff that
you see in some of the newspapers about the
missionaries as living in luxury and idleness
Is promulgated by corrupt American orEng-
lish or Scotch merchants, whose loose be
havior in heathen oitieshas. been rebuked by
the missionaries, and these corrupt - mer
chants write home or tell innocent and un
suspecting visitors in India or China or the
darkened islands of the sea these falsehoods
about our consecrated misslonaires, who,
turning their backs on borne and civilization
and emolument and comfort, spend their
lives in trying to introduce the mercy of
the gospel among the downtrodden of
heathenism. Some of those mer
chants leave their families in America
or England or Scotland and stay for a few
years in the ports of heathenism while they
are making their fortunes in the tea or rice
or opium trade, and while they are thus
absent from home givo themselves to orgies
of dissoluteness such os no pen or tongne
could, without the abolition of all decency,
attempt to report. The presence of the mis
sionaries, with their pure and nob.’e house
holds, in those heathen ports is a constant
rebnke to 3uch debauchees and miscreants.
If satan should visit heaven, from which ho
was onoe roughly hut justly expatriated,
and ho would write home to the realms pan
demoniac, bis correspondence published in
Diabolos Gazette or Apollyonio News, about
what he had seen, he would report the
temple of God and the Lamb as a broken
down church, and the house of many
mansions' os a disreputable place, and
the cherubim as. suspicious .of mor
als Sin never did Rke_h01lness, and you
had better not depend hponisatnnic report of
the sublime and multipotent work of our
missionaries in foreign lands. But notwith
standing all that .these men and women of
God have achieved, they feel and wo all feel
that if the idolatrous lands are to be Chris
tianized there needs to be a power from the
heavensthat has hot yet- condescended, and
we feel like cryingoutinthe wordsof Charles
Aye, it is not only the Lord’s arm that-is
needed, tho holy arm, the outstretched arm,
but the bare arm!
There, too. stands Mohammedanism, with
its 176.000,000 victims. ItsBibleistheKoran, a
book not quite as large as our New Testa
ment, which was revealed to Mohammed
when in epileptic fits, and resuscitated from
these fits he dictated it to scribes. Yet it is
read to-day by more people then any other
book ever written. Mohammed, the founder
of that religion, n polygamist, with superflu
ity of wives, the first step of his religion on
the body, mind and soul of woman, and no
wonder that the heaven of the Koran is an
everlasting Sodom, on infinite seraglio,
about whioh Mohammed promises that eaoh
follower shall have in that place seventy-two
wives, in addition to all the wives he had on
earth, but that no old woman shall ever
enter heaven. When a bishop o! England
recently proposed that the best way of
saving Mohammedans was to let them
keep their religion, but engraft upon
it some new principles from Chris
tianity,he perpetrate-! an ecclesiastical joke,
at which no man can laugh who has ever
seta the tyranny and domestic wretchedness
which always appear where that religion
gets foothold. It has marched across conti
nents and now proposes to sot np Its filthy
and accursed banner in America, and what
it has done for Turkey it would like to do
for our Nation. A religion that brutally
treats womanhoodought neverto be fostered
in our country. But there never was a re
ligion so absurd or wicked that it did not get
disciples, and there are enough fools in
America to make a large (llscipleshlp of
Mohammedanism. This corrupt religion has
been making steady progress for hundreds ol
years, and notwithstanding all the splendid
work done by the Jessups, and the Goodells,
and the Blisses, and the Van Dykes, and the
Posts, and the Misses Bowens, and the Misses
Thompsons, and scores of othermen and wo
men of whom the world was not worthy,
there it stands, the giant of sin, Mohamme
danism, with one foot on the heart of wo
man and the other on the heart of Christ,
while it mamblis from its minarets this stm-
penduous blasphemy: “God is great, and
Mohammed His is prophet.” Let the Chris
tian printing press at Beyroot and Constanti
nople keep on with their work and the men
and women of God in the mission fields toil
until the Lord crowns them, but what wa
are all hoping for is some supernatural from
the heavens, as yet unseen, something
stretched down out of the skies, something
like an arm uncovered, the bare arm of the
God of Nations! ' .-
There stands also the arch demon of alco
holism. Its throne is white and made of
bleached human skulls. On one side ot that
throne of skulls kneels in obeisance and
worship democracy, and on the other side
republicanism, and the one that kisses the
cancerous and gangrened foot of this despot
the oftenest gets the jno3t benedictions.
There is a Hudson River, an Ohio, a Missis
sippi of strong drink "rolling through-this
Nation, but'as the rivers from whioh I take
mv figure of: speech empty into the Atlantic
or the Gulfthls mightier flood of sickness
and insanity and domestic ruin, and crime
and bankruptcy and'woe empties into the
hearts, and thehomes. and. the- churches,-.
and theTime, and the eternity of a multitude
beyond-a ll statistics to number or describe. :
All Nations are mauled and ’scarified -with
baleful, stimulus, or kflllhg-narcotic. The
pulque of 1
cuavo
England, tl
ing their 1
tmpoverisl
jrage^ Hu
from 1
cashew of Brazil, the
' tm of China, the
ho wedro. of
the aguardiente
1 Arabia, the mastio
key, the hear of Ger>
of Scotland, tho ale of
' ' ’ ! of America, aro do-
''' '’ne.r*' *
Niagara abysm of fnebrlety than at any time
since the first grape was turned into wine
and the first head of rye began to soak in a
brewery. When people touch this subjec%
thoy are apt to give statistics as to how many
millions are in drunkards’ graves, or with
quick tread marching on toward them. The
land is full of talk of high tariff and low
tariff, but wbat about the highest ofall tariffs
in this country, the tariff of SQOO,OOO.GOO
whleh rum put upon tho United States in
1891, for that Is what it cost us? Yon do not
tremble or turn pale when I say that. The
fact Is we have become hardened by sta
tistics, and they make little impression.
But if some one could gather into one
mighty Inke all the tears that havo been
wrung out of orphanage and widowhood, or
into one organ diapason ail the groans that
havo been uttered by the suffering victims
of this holocaust, or into one whirlwind all
the sighs of centuries of disqjpatiou, or from
the wicket of one immense prison have look
upon us the glaring eyes of all those - whom
strong drink hits endungeoned, we might
perhaps realize the appalling d830iation.
But, no, no, tho sight would forever blast
our'vision; the sound would forever stun
our souls. Go- on with your' temperance
literature; go ou with your temperance plat
forms ; go on with vour temperauce Jaws.
But we are all hoping for something from
above, and while the bnre arm of suffering,
and. the bare arm of invaildism,mndthe bare
arm of poverty, and the bare arm of domes*
tic desolation, from which rum hath torn the
sleeve, are lifted up in beggary and suppli
cation and despair," let the bare arm ot Gpd
strike the breweries, and tho liquor stores,
and the corrupt politics,' and the license
laws, and the whole Inferno of grogshops all
around tne world, liown, tnou accursed
bottle', from the throne! Into the dust, thou
king of tho demijohn! Parched be thy lips,
thou wine cup, with fires that shall never be
quenched!
But I have no time to specify the manifold
evil} that challenge Christianity. And I
think I have seen in some Christians, and
read in some newspapers, and heard from
some pulpits a disheartonment, as though
Christianity were so worsted that it is hardly
worth while to attempt to win this world for
God, and that all Christian work would col
lapse, and that it is no use for you to teach a
Sabbath class, or distribute tracts, or exhort
in prayer meetings, or preach ia a pulpit, as
satan is gaining ground. To rebuke that
pessimism, the gospel of smashnp, I preach
this sermon, showing that you are on tho
winning side. Go ahead! Fight on! What
I want to make out to-day Is that our ammu
nition Is not exhausted; that all which has
been accomplished has been only the skirm
ishing before the great Armageddon; that
not more than one of the thousand fountains
of beauty in the King’s park has begun to
play; that not more than one brigade of the
innumerable hosts to be marshaled by the
rider on the white horse has yet taken the
field j that what God has done yet lias been
with arm folded in flowing robe, but that
the time is coming when He will rise from
His throne, and throw off that robe, and
come out of the palaces of eternity, and come
down the stairs of heaven with all conquer
ing step, and halt in the presence of expec
tant Nations, and flashing His omniscient
eyes across the work to be <iono will put
back the sleeve of His right arm to the shoul
der, and roll it up there, and for the world’s
final and complete rescue make bare His
arm. Who can doubt the result when ac
cording to my text Jehovah does His
best, when the last reserve force of omnipo
tence takes the field; when the last sword
of eternal might Ieap3 from its scab
bard? Do you know what decided
the battle of Sedan? Tho hills a thousand
feet high. Eleven hundred cannons on the
hills. Artillery on tho heights of Givonne,
and twelve German batteries on tho heights
of La Moncello. The Crown Prince of Sfix-
ony watched the scene from the heights of
Mairy. Between a quarter to 6 o’clock in
the morning and 1 o’clock in the afternoon
of September 2, 1870. the hills dropped the
shells that shattered the French host in the
vallpy. The French Emperor and the 86,000
of his army captured by the hills. So in thl3
conflict now raging between holiness and
sin “our eyes are unto the hills.”
Down here In the valleys of earth we must
be valiant soldiers of the cross, hut the Com
mander of our host walks the heights and
views the scene far better than we can in the
valleys, and at the right day and the right
hour all heaven wm open its Dattenes on our
side, and the Commander of the hosts of un
righteousness with all his followers will sur
render, and it will take eternity to fully cele
brate tuo universal victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ. “Our eyes are unto the hills.”
It Is so oertain to be accomplished that Isaiah
in my text looks down through the field glass
of prophecy and speaks of it os already ac
complished. and I take my stand where tho
prophet took his stand and look at It as all
done. “Halleluiah, ’tis done.” See! Those
cities without a tear! Look! Those con
tinents without a pang. Behold! Those
hemispheres without a sin! Why, those
deserts, Abrnbian desert, Amerioon des
ert, and Creat Sahara desert, are all
irrigated into gardens where God walks in
the cool of the day. The atmosphere that
e&cireles onr globe floating not one groan.
All the rivers and lakes and oceans dimpled
with not one falling tear. Tne climates 0“
the earth have dropped out of them the
rigors of the cold and. tho blasts of t uo heat,
and it is universal spring! Let us change
the old world’s name. Let it no more 09
called the earth, as when it was reeking with
everything pestiferous and malevolent, sear-
leted with battlefields and gashed with
graves, but now so changed, so aromatic
with gardens, and so resonant with song,
and so rubeseent with beauty, let us call it
Immanuel’s Land or Beulah or millennial
gardens or paradise regained or heaven!
And to God. the only wise, the only good,
the only great, be glory forever. Amen.
New Confederate Camps.
, The general commanding has an
nounced the fellowship of the follow
ing named camps in the organization
of the United States Confederate Vet
erans: Jackson connty, Jefferson, Ga.;
Carnot Posey, "Wesson, Miss.; Joseph
E. Johnston, Maysville, Ky.; G. C.
Wharton, Radford, Vo.; Sam Dill
Camp, Lewisville, Ark.; William
Barksdale, Kosciusko,. Miss.; Confed
erate Veteran, Romney, W. Va.; Con
federate Veteran, Pocahontas, Ark.;
Confederate Survivors’ Association,
Ultima Thule, Ark.; Confederate Sur
vivors’, Paragonld, Ark.; Hampton
Hyman, S. C.; Livingston, Magnolia
Fostoffice, La.; W. F. Tucker, Okalona,
Mifis.; Confederate Veteran, Ripley,
Miss.; Manning Austin, Simpsonville,
S. C.; Oxford, Oxford, Ala.; Sterling
Price, Exeter, Mo.
Dr TaImage Resigns.
A special from Brooklyn, N. Y.,
soys: The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage
with the close of Jus sermon at the
tabernacle Monday night made the an
nouncement that he intended to resign
from the pastorate of the church, the
resignation to go into effect on the
occasion of the 25th anniversary of his
taking charge of the tabernacle. No
intimation of this had been given by
Dr. Talmage and the announcement
was a surprise to. the congregation.
Goal Creek Convicts Escape.
A Knoxville special says: Fifty con
victs escaped from the branch prison
at Coal Creek Tuesday by crawUng
through the bars of tho waterway
leading to the -stockade. - This occurred
about dusk and it- was .not long aftjpr
■ that the guards discovered the move
The guards gave chase ami-fixed profit-
iseuously,. although it is not known
that any were killed Several holdups
are reported as following the escape,
It is dqnhtful if any M ill be captured.
Want to Hold Talmage.
-The trustees of the Brookl
Y„ tabernacle are trying to d
»y of . clej^ * ™ ’ ewa*
’its.
Blit ABFS LETTER.
tte Orange Cup.
The Philosopher is Well Pleased and
Invests In Florida Dirt.
Some portions of West Florida arc stillin the
pinev woods and very lonesome. Traveling
overland I fonnd the habitations several miles
apart on the main road, bnt was told that the
; little gras-i-covmcd roads that branched off
right and left led to somebody’s bonse, where
eleverpeople lived and cultivated orange tree)
for a living.
“This is a great country,’’-said a settler,
•‘where tho climate is worth $105 an acre, and
the land ain’t worth a darn. It is risky for a
man to die here and bo bnried, for there is not
enough virtue iu the sod to make him rise
when Gabriel blows his horn.”
“It seems to produce fine oranges ” said I.
“Yob,” said he, “but what’s orangis? Tho
moro oranges he lias got the poorer he is. The
price has got down to abont 20 cents a hundred
on tho tree, and he cau’t keep np his grove f-r
that.”
That man was a pessimist, and there are
thou-ands of them. 1 fonnd Sir. Starr packing
2.600 boxes of his own crop and he said that
his net profit would be 60 cents a box, and that
wonld pay him well on his investment. He is
| an optimist and is increasing his acreage every
: year. I found Mr. Bobinson, near Lrnanl,
; With 20,000 trees, and he is entirely content
j with his business. His twenty acres of bearing
j tret sliave paid all the expenses of increasing
j his acreage and all will bo bearing in two years
i more. * Like every other trade or calling, more
I depends on the man than on the bn-iness. Mr.
! Sampson has shipped thirty carloads of lemons
| and is getting rich. Bnt I sec miny neglected
I groves ai.d some that havo been abandoned.
' You can tel the thrift and inlusiry of a man
j by Iris orange grove. Then there are liniidreda
j of groves that beiong to people who live away
: oil and have got tired. They get some poor
I fellow to live in the little shanty and
look after ihings, and lie, perhaps, wus
■ born tired- The other day we came to wiiero
tho road forked and not knowing which to
1 take we drove to a dirty little house not far
away for direction, “lako the right hand,”
! said a big, gray-bearded man with a newspa-
! per in his hand. “I have to tell somebody that
| most 1 very day.” “You might putnpa’sign-
| board.’, said I, “and that wonld save you -the
trouble.” “Then they wouldn’t drive down
hero to ax me,” said he, “and I wouldn’t get a
chancejtosee’em. NoiIwou’tpntmpnohoard,for
] I likes’to see folks once in awhile,specially wo-
j men. "The poor o,d man was living there alone
• watching a grove.
! With constant caro and attention there is still
big money in growing oranges and always will
be. It is a simplo bushiest and is easy and at
tractive. Many citizens add to it
in a small and profitable way by
growing lemons, limes, grape * fruit,
shaddocks, gnaves, mangoes, peentos, cnmguet
oranges aud other tropical fruits. I have seen
acres of casava, from which tapioca is mado.
The peentos when r pened on the tree, are said
to bo the most delicious of all p-acli.s. l'ho
trees aro now in bloom. Strawberries are just
coming into market. Tho gardens are supply
ing n.-i with all kinds of vegetables. The woods
have- been burned off and thousands of acres of
low bnsh palmetto killed, leaving their great
roots pil ed across each other in promiscuous
confusion. They look like great snakes with
aUig&tcr scales on them, hnt of course they are
not killed and will soon sprout again ana cover
the earth with "heir fan-shaped leaves.
I went ont in the eonntry to see the fruits and
flowers of au old lady who lives in primitive
simplicity aud loves F.orida and her humble
home and cultivates tropical plants for tho
pleasure it gives her and those who visit
iter. I cannot give the botanical
nanus as she gave them to me, bnt she
had more curicns plants than I ever saw
before. There wa9 the date palm and
thistle hemp and camphor tree and eucalyptus
that I remember and there was au oleander in
bloom that was nearly a foot in diameter, nnd
there were cactus vines running over the house
and tea p’an'saml coffee plants and many ca
rious things that I never saw brfore- As for
oleauders, they are common enough every
where, and some on the sidewalks in Clear Wa
ter are twenty feet high, aud are now putting
on their beautiful garments. The flora of Flor
ida is so etsily grown that most people tako
little pride in it. What we grow at home in
greenhouses and pits will grow and flourish
here in the woods, or even in the big road if
planted there. Mrs. Godwin, of Lakeland,
gave me ft bouquet of the finest roses I ever
saw—a bouquet that an Atlanta swell wonld
have given $5 for to present to his best girl.
But the climate—the climate on the gulf
coast—the coast where no east winds prevaii—
the east wind that comes over the Atlantio
ocean and brings aches .and shivers and cold
and asthma and catarrh—tho cast wind that
was aconrsed from way baok, for Job says, “Ho
fiiieth ltis belly with the east wind.” If onr
northern brethren want it on Indian river, let
them have it, bnt I want some of onr southern
folks to come down to Clear Water and take it
with its balmy west wind and its odors from
the pines and get well of all pn monary and
bronchial affections. I mean just what I say.
Wo have bought two lots here and there aro
plenty more for good people and I want to col
onize them. My nigger, Bob, wasted a whole
week at a big meeting up the road while I was
gono away, and when I complained of it he
said, “Well, now, boss, you musn’t get nnd
wid me, for you know how it is—you white
folks is done got di3 li6re world and we niggers
is jnst fixing a trick to get de next one.”
Just so our northern brethren hare
done got east Florida, all the way from
St. Augustine to St. Lucie, and now let
us fix up a trick to capture West Florida
and bo happy. Of course we won't rule any
clever yankee oat, but I tell you right now we
don’t want any stuckup millionaires from any
where. There is room enough from Cedar Keys
to S*. Petersburg to locate thousands of unpen
sioned sovereigns of tho’soatb, where they can
come and spend the winter and bring their in
valids and be calm and serene. We want no
palaces to live in. bnt can build little cottages,
with broad verandas, and live on air and water,
witlt fish and oysters aud oranges thrown in. T
have eaten oranges nnlil I am getting a rich,
golden complexion. Tito little grandchild i-t
getting fat on tangerines. Her bronchial
troubles have passed away and she can wade in
the salt water on the sandy beach with pc-rfcct
impunity. Folks go to the springs and drink
su'phnr water, hnt that won't compare with tho
salty air of the gulf when it is filtered through
the pine tops and drawn into the lnngs at eTery
breath. There is some grip down here among
the natives, bnt none among the visitors. - I
reckon it is because they gorge themselves with
fruitr Joe Anspangh keeps the girls in fruit.
Joe ia the bully boy witlt a glas3 eye. He knt
one eye in Cartersvillo and wears a glass one.
Joe Is the life of the little town. If a bad man
coincs here Joe get-i bis crowd and rnos him
out. Jos moves signs and gates daring Christ
mas. Ho has a sailboat and a rowboat and a
horso and buggy nnd will take yon anywhere,
for tho fun of it., .Too steals oranges and tan
gerines ?or onr little girl. He went ont the
other night to a grove, whose owner lives iu
Boston, and fonnd a fellow stealing on the
other ride of the tree- Jce made a nofee and
tlie other fellow dropped his bag and ran like a
turkey. Joe picked np tho bag and brought it
home' The landlord of the hotel told Joe to
f et him some chickens if he had to steal them.
hat night Joe stole fonr ont of the landlord’s
coop and sold them to liim for 26 cents a~piece.
Joe is a tramp, and everybody likes him.—Bn.1,
Ann, iu Atlanta Constitution.
■v Phosphate Miners Strike.
The' negroes employed in several oi
the feitilizer works around Charleston,
S.'.O., have gone, out on a-strike in-
consequence of &-redaction of. wages
from $i to 75 cents a day. The mills
have no- trouble to supply the placfes
of the strikers, sb there are ” '
OBB LATEST DISPATCHES.
And Containing the Gist of the News
From AU Parts of the World.
"of .idle negroes' around 'thd^ffiburbs ^ a wagon ’
A farmhand employed on the Hamon
farm, located some "twelve miles from
Abiline, Texas, has struck a rich find
in the shape of a buried treasure, hav
ing unearthed a pot of gold and silver
coin amounting to $3>000.
President Cleveland, accompanied by
his sister, Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleve
land, and Private Secretary Thurber,
arrived in Hartford,Conn.,Wednesday.
The president visited the city to attend
the funeral of his favorite nephew,
Henry Eurastis Hastings.
The First National bank of Fort
Payne, Ala., closed its doors Wednes
day and posted a notice saying that on
account of a constant withdrawal of
deposits and the inability to realize on
its notes and securities it had decided
to turn its affairs over to the comp-
troller. It is stated that the bank is
solvent and will pay out dollar for
dollar.
Governor Werts, of New Jersey, boa
sent a request to Chief Justice Beasley
to convene a special session of the su
preme court to decide which of the
two bodies now claiming to be senates
of New Jersey is the legal body. He
has also instructed the attorney gen
eral to institute quo warranto proceed
ings against the republican senate to
compel them to show by what authority
they are claiming to be a senate.
A Greensboro, N. C., special of
Wednesday says: The sale of the
Capo Fear and Yadkin Yalley road is
not off, as had been supposed. Tho
time of payment is only. postponed
a short while. The agent for the
English syndicate was to have shown
up with tho money in New York on
January 14th. Instead, however, a
telegram was received saving he was
sick, bnt wonld bo over as soon as pos
sible.
A New York World dispatch of
Wednesday from Tegucigalpa, Hondu
ras, says: -“This city was attacked
Tuesday night bv a strong force of
revolutionists anti Nicaraguan allies.
They succeeded in gaining a good deal
of ground, but were repelled before
morning. Forty Hondurians were
killed. Seventy were wounded. Both
sides are preparing for another battle.
All available men are being sent to the
front.”
The detective force of the Memphis
and Charleston railroad has been
making important discoveries. Eight
or ten men living near Pocahontas,
Tenn., have been plotting to rob a
Memphis and Charleston passenger
train. They procured dynamite and
tools to blow open the safe and settled
on a day to make the attempt, but in
the meantime officers in citizen’s
clothes quietly made arrest- after arrest
until now the gang has been bagged
except two or three.
The building on the Boone county,
Ia., poor farm, in which the incurably
Insane were confined, was burned
Wednesday night and eight of the
nine inmates were burned to death.
Only one woman, Mrs. Hibbard, es
caped from the burning building and
gave the alarm to Steward Holcomb,
who was in the main building adjacent.
It was then too lite to save the insane
people, and the main building was
saved only by the greatest effort. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Sitnntion During the
Past Week.
The review of tho indua’rmi situation in the
Sontli for the past week reports that the newly
established industries in the Southern States
continue to steadily increase in number and in
importance. The report for the past week ag-.
gregates a la-ger number than lias
been noted Bince May. 1893, and they inclnde
every branch of industry. Enlargements of'
existing manufactories have increased in eqnal
proportion, and enqniries for new machinery
continue active. The Tradesman’s reports,
received from ail parts of the Booth, concur in
the statement that tho settlement of the tariff
question will be at once followed by an exten
sive revival of inilnstrial interests.
Fifty new industries were established or in-
oorperated during the week, together with
twelve enlargements of manufactories, and
eleven important new bnildings. Among the
important new industries of the week are the
following; A cotton mill with $200,000 capital,
at Augusta, Ga.; machinery works with $100,-
000 capital, at Atlanta. Ga., bythe BIount Stave
and Machinery Co,; the New Orleans Yam.and
Hosiery MU], limited, capital $100,000, by 8.
Meyer andothers; the West Virginia Bridge Co.,
of Foin Pleasant, W. Va., capital $50,000, W.
E. Healop and associates, in corporators; the
American Steam Excavating Co., oE'MarahaU 1
Tcxaa, capital $50 000, by E. J. Fry and ethers;
and a foundry at New Orleans, La:, with $60,-
000 capital, by the Ivens Manufacturing Co.,
limited. A lumber company, oapital $35,003,
has been organized at Wheeling, W. Va., by J.
W. Beiiz A Sons Co.; and one with $300,000
capital, at Smackover; Ark., by the Globe Lum
ber Co. A furniture factory, capital $23,0"“
is reported at Pine Blnff, Ark.; a lumber cc.
pany with $20,000 capital, at Toccoa, Ga., I
the Simpson Lumber Co.; an ice factory, capiti
$20,000, at Dallas, Texas, by the Crystal It
Co.; a $10,003 lnmber company atWestmi - *'
ter, S. C, by the Westminister Lumber
and brick and tilo works, capital $8,000,:
Jaokson, Miss., by theBullders’ Supply Co-
Brick works are reported at Gleawood, f
cotton mills at Opelika, Ala., and Spartanb
S. C., and woolen mills at Stannton, Va.; 1
and grist mills at Piedmont and Pollard, !
Mountain Home and Roseville; Aik., and a
factory at Tavares, Fla, Electrical plants'!
to bo bnilt at Mammoth Springs and Van r
ren, Ark.; machine alums at Glenwood, f
and Covington, Ky„ and oil mUls'and rek
at Camden, Ark., and New Braunfels, 1
Paint works are to bo established at .1
Rock, Ark, a pottery at Angnsta, Ga.;r-
c-rator works at Gainesville, Ela.. tam
King’s Mountain. N. C., and El Paso,
shoe fodfory at Statesville, N. G., and a I
co factory atErleigh. N. C..
The woodworking planta for the '
dndeabox fao’bry at -Tavares, Fla.:
ilariing mills at Emory and Georgians, Ala.;
Jamden aud' Mammoth Springs, Ark,Cave
ami Columbus. Ga.; Louisvillfe, Ky.; Trenton,
Hiss., and Corsicana, Texas; shingle mills at
Little Rock'and Sherril,Ark.;spoko ahdhan-
dla works at Pollard. Ala.. and Madison. N. P ,
from the sea islands.'
oyclone refugees, but th
not let thein work and;"
trouble in the vicinity-
Water workb aro t
and Crawford, Te:
the week include 1
Sarrah’s Narrow
patch of.S