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t ESTABLISHED 1850. j (J. If. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor.! A kitchen heroine. JENNIE BOWMAN’S BURLY ASSAIL ANT CAPTURED. The Black Fiend Describes the Brave Oirl’s Valiant Fight to Save the Prop erty of Her Employers—A Bare Pos sibillty that She Will Survive Her In juries. Louisville, Ky., April 24.—The brutal assailant of Jennie Bowmau, the white domestic who was futally beaten by a burglar last Thursday, has been captured. The arrest was made last night, and tho „ uilt of the man established by his own confession. The miscreant is a burly black negro named Albert Turner. He entered a house located in the fashionable residence portion of the city between 11 and 12 o’clock in the morning, huving first ob served that all of the inmates had left. While he was ransacking the place the girl returned and fought him, givihg him several severe gashes in the face with a tumbler. The brute knocked her down, crushing in her skull with a brass poker and otherwise disfiguring her, and then made his escape. He said he had gone to the house for the ptu-pose of robbery, and had ransacked several rooms when Miss Bowman came in. The brave girl sensed him at once, he said, and he could not get away from her until he struck her on the head. He knocked her down, but she sprang up again and struck him with the glass. He caught no the poker and struck her again and again, but the glass was shivered on his li"ad before she was overpowered. He then said when she fell for the last time he ran out of the back way and escaped. The girl still lingers at the point of. death with slight i hopes of her recovery. CLEVELAND’S CANDIDACY. The Story Alleged to Have Been Told by Editor Doraheimer. St. Louis, April 24. —The Republican's Washington correspondent., again referring to tile Presidential renomination matter, gives the following: “A story has come to the cones;(Pndent of tho Republican to night significantly confirmatory of the con versation between President Cleveland and his Senatorial visitor. This story is to the effect that the President had quite recently pre pared a formal letter to b <fi made public, set ting forth his views in regard to a second tenn in plain, distinct words, and unquali fiedly declaring that he would not be a can didate for re-election. Yielding to the earn est persuasions of his friends he consented, however, to withhold the letter for the pres ent at least, if not to wholly abandon his in tention of giving it to the public. DORBHEIMER THE AUTHORITY. “This story is told on authority of Col. tjorsheimer, of New York, who was in Washington a few days ago. He told sev eral of lus friends while here, immediately after coming from the White House, that lie had been shown a draft of a letter such as has been already characterized, and lus advice was aske 1 regarding the policy cf such a publication. 110 said the letter referred also at length to the opposition of a certain element of the Democratic party I to the re-election of Mr. Cleveland and the chance that this might defeat the ticket. After referring to tills well-known factor in ■ the existing iwlitical situation Col. Dor ■ shehuer says the President went on in his ■ letter to say that lie deemed it wise in view ■of these circumstances to withdraw his ■ name irom all consideration in connection ■ with the nomination. ■ THE MAN TO LEAD. I “He announced in unequivocal terms that I he was not a candidate, and suggested that j some other leader who could command the ■ united support of the whole party be se ■ lected as the standard-bearer in 1888. Col. I Do: shenner stated that ho at once protested ■ agumst any public use of such a letter as ■ proposed. He told the President that there ■ "as no need lor him to adopt this step now, ■ whatever might prove to bo wise hereafter. I t o urged the President to abandon the idea ■ "i oie present at any rate, and finally in ■ uuceu him to yield to his persuasions.” I A SOCIETY GIRL SHOT. I Pist ol Practice at Brooklyn Results in . Terrible Tragedy. ■ I’IiiLADELPiUA, April 24.—G100m was H t *' ” V| ' l ' ' biludelpliia society to-dav by tbe ■ u.*.' that Miss Annie C. Lesley, daughter B ” 'Penes Lesley, had accidentally shot ■ J ll "'"tantly killed h' rself at the house of a I viaatingf in Brooklyn. I M r‘ r ,' Dwn-ge Nichols, a son oi her host , ■ ban been i u the i, a bit of prne ■2, "-equently with a pistol ■ “ a summer recently gixmt. ■ TVhile visiting at his I 11 resumed Lor pistol proo- I •a.-', V " m ? • 11 ' Nichols' assistance, and H : 111 "puged on iSaturday att. moon wii;>n ■ ad.wt" n ;-' h V ly!la,ilk ' ut oucurrod which in H i ! "1T itv *I her of her life. Tho ■ lip . lian 'Hing went off suddenly, ■ s ,U- -a bullet in he-' brain, and her horror- H t-ei hi ,V ’" ril P ilI pou beheld her sink at bis ■ lfel l!1 1 he agonies of death. I oaken hower'B funeral. ■ M ‘htary Companies Escort tho ■ 's'.vk,," N v April 21.- The funeral H v '. U ' 0,1,1 took placo ■ .7,".' <-! "'ist Episcopal chord, at Ki i lIS ‘‘Henioon. Tiioosoort was com ■ 1,,! ‘ J kill-1 of forty man ■ > "" U ": Twenty -ninth and Tlii.-I v ■ w ei.p,. l '•"'l'puni.-s, National (itturi’i. ■ v : , |. " as crowded and tho streets I' l ' niaivli 'an U 1 P, < ’PP‘ 1,11 ulong the lino I .i , caiike . t "'* draped and ■ ’" !•" American ilag. The floral mm n.t i,y .1 ‘ , ‘ st*V( ru! pii*vs beju:^ ■Tu if .J ’•“'•’T's.'il s brother officers. Tim ■ *ni,. ‘overside cemetery. There ■ “''"‘ley 1 1 ring m the grave. I Gotham's Dry Sunday. ■ ' \ } " UK < -'!'• 21. In the cnfoivo- H te.t.,, 1 V '"' * u ' v to-dav Jioliee pro H l ’ ! "l His .. ’i'’ ' < hipiors ii the loading M ’ ' ad i aim Hh well as tho ini)H>rtant ■ daiiranl,. Among tlie places ■ 1*.i,. ; Vl i s rvcl to it.i lull wv>re H man ; :l '' •‘ittli A wniuc lintel, IlnfT ■ te.t i,. ~, House and other promi -9 Kt C j > "' ] “' <J Rooogmitlon. 9 i■uj.* I '.’ — A from Al ■ ["• ni • | "Tno ells 4 bound freight H ell tbriin ,i '' untie and Pacific railway ■ h “ I’urGully lairiMH) bridge over ■ ,k lorn, n',',’ "!... ‘ '‘"you I'icin', mid H v * f “.k ... " aid wanl down with Ue ■ r,. '.ar and was crushed L -9 I’tav ' I * B ° ,>f ''* lß *****< Pour. ■ vV -11 yrn lit Hnns ■ ‘‘"n,,, |. ■ Hisiiis, innn f'Wntindlmi, ar 9 p A )' nl . bMvlug ■ " .||, ~ I," "> oU ; lmilni,d und iicuiy, B r'**,, Mist, hiinlfi cod lir ■o ' lu< mi. hd April |,s SB ‘ itm. SCHNAEBELES’ ARREST. The Germans Positive that French Soil Was Not Violated. Berlin, April 24.—The commission at Metz investigating the arrest of the French commissary, M. Schnaeheles, reports that the arrest was undoubtedly made upon Ger man soil. There are numerous charges of high treason against Schnaeheles, and the evidence against him is overwhelming. FRANCE SENDS DOCUMENTS. The French government lias sentto Berlin documents relating to the Schnaeheles af fair, including Commissary Guutseh’s two letters inviting M. Schnaeheles to meet him. The North German Gazette says that M. Schnaeheles tried to escape back to French territory, when seized by the German agents but that he was overtaken bef ore he could cross the frontier line. SPYING FOR BOULANGER. The Montagsblatt declares that M. Schnae beles had six subordinate agents, who were acting as spies for Gen. Boulanger, the French War Minister. One of these agents, a man named Kuhn, was dismissed by M. Schnaeheles and subsequently entered the .German service. He made revelations which led to the arrest of the other agents, and much evidence was collected thereby agaiust M. Schnaeheles,who was notified some weeks ago that a warrant had been issued for his arrest, and that it would bo executed if he crossed the frontier. FURY OF THE WINDS. Over Fifteen Lives Lost in Two Town ships in Missouri. Nevada, Mo., April 24. —Additional par ticulars from the storm-swept district show that over fifteen persons were killed in Blue Mound and Osage townships, besides the lives lost in other townships in the path of the cyclone. The damage reported to prop erty sinco the first report is as follows: John Armstrong’s residence in Henry town ship was blown down and the debris scat tered for miles. The family escaped by taking refuge in the cellar. Mrs. Arm strong was seriously injured. George Kelly’s house was demolished, seriously injuring Mrs. Kelly and two chil dren. An old zinc trunk containing $l5O in gold, which was in the house at the time, was found three miles from the Kelly house. Thomas Madison’s, residence was de stroyed. Mr. Manse's fine two-story residence was entirely demolished. Clabe Street's residence and D. Berry’s house were totally destroyed. Mrs. Frank Harwortli was seriously hurt, as were also two of her children. Mrs. John lliglit will die. Mrs. Right's child was also fatally hurt, and J. Whitfield was seriously injured. DOC WILSON’S DESPAIR. Cast Off by His Wife and Kept from His Children He Attempts Suicide. Boston, April 24. —A Providence special says: “ ‘Doc’ Wilson, who is widely known through his famous suit against Philip L. Moon, 11m barbed wire manufacturer of Worcester, attempted suicide liist night in his room at Hotel Dorrance, Provi dence, by taking laudanum. Medical assistance was quickly summoned and his life was saved, although he is in a very weak condition to-night. His wife some time ago instituted divorce pro ceedings, and for a time Wilson was denied the privilege of seeing his two children. He obtained permission later to see them at his hotel, but in every instance they were ac companied bv the Sheriff Yesterday after noon the children visited him and he re ceived a letter from his wife. The missive contained a refusal to ever live with or associate with him or speak to him. This grieved Wilson and is the probable cause of his action. Banker, Politician and Churchman. Detroit, Mich., April 24.—This morn ing at il o'clock David Preston, a hanker, died suddenly of heart disease. Mr. Pres ton is best Known as a leading Methodist and Prohibitionist. He has boon a delegate to several general conferences of the Method ist Episcopal Church, and in 1881 was a delegate to the Ecumenical Council at Lou don, Eng. Until 1881 he was a Repub lican, hut that year he became a party Pro hibitionist, running for Governor on that ticket. In the recent campaign he took an active purt. His estate is worth nearly a million. Fighting King Alcohol. Harrisonburg, Va., April 24.—Tho'local option election in four of the five districts in this county occurs to-morrow. The real battle is in this, the central, district. The canvass, which was begun Monday, has lieen kept up every night, by the prohibi tionist-. Whites and blacks have hold meet ings jointly, with speakers'of both color. The liquor men have no speakers, but are working hard privately. The contest will bo hot and both sides il re looking for suc cess. England’s Bond Commission. New York, April 24.—Mir Edward Thornton, formerly British Minister at Washington, S. M. Brnithwaite and E. O. H. Homeric arrived in this city to-day from England by the steamer Etruriu. The party are stopping at the Clarendon. They come to negotiat: a settlement with the Virginia Legislature relative to the bonds of that State hold in England. Tho American Shipping League. Charleston, K. C., April 24. —The American Shipping and Industrial League will hold a convention bore to-morrow. Congressman Findlay of Maryland, P. G. Wei I ford of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, A. M. Waddell and K. W, Kir ohenor of the Wilmington (.'handier of Com merce. Gov. Perry of Florida. Congressman Wheeler of Alabama, J. Floyd King of Louisiana, and about fifty other delegates will be present. Bismarck 3*fe From Libel Suits. Bkhi.lv, April 21.—The Volks Zeituni) brought uu action for libel against Prince Bismarck on account of tho‘attack upon that paper made by the Chancellor in a speech in the Reichstag. The court has just decided tbiil it lias no jurisdiction hi the mutter, as the Prince being a German gen era!, is only amenable to a military tri bunal. ______________ Tho Irish Laud Bill. London, April 24.— -Discussionof the Irish l.ind bill in committee in the House of Lords will liegiu May 12. Kir William Vernon Hnrismrt writes flatly denying that the alleged Purnell let i r pub lish! and in tb” Timm va.- in tons* pted in tho ■ |m*t office when lie wus Hem*- .Secretary. Cholera Uotfinir In Mexico. Nimiai.es, Ami., April 24.— The chief of iKillee lion received u and I*l Hitch stating that I cholera in raging in the Mexican town of { Maznlliui, and taut tb** di-swo- lias broken out at Guy inns, i'sipluiini tuvlng Uni ue focttsl dlsli fids in law immlssv. Kt-uldey'u Expedition. I/imnoN, April 24.- Congo idvkM sy i Mud. Uu* Klumk y t sp-diLWu fur the i <dn f <f j Kuril liey |msu*l Hit,is, oil tie* 1 *sigo river, j April :)| All the tiicui'smi vi lh party I vm+ia# wr ll SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1887. TRIALS OF THE COUNTER. TALMAGE PREACHES TO THE CLERKS IN THE STORES. Lydia, the Seller of Purple, of tho City of Thyatira, no Giggling Nonentity- Whittling Down Expectations a Poor Way to Prepare Children for Life- Clerking Should be but a School to Prepare for Proprietorship Obe dience to Rules Urged Showing Wholesale Purchasers the Oity by Gaslight. Brooklyn, April 24.— At the Tabernacle this morning the pastor, Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D.D., road from the Book of Proverbs somo lessons about honest thrift. He then gave out tho hymn beginning: “Tho strife will not be long— This day the noise of battle, The next the victor's song." The boy choir chanted an opening and clos ing selection. Dr. Talmage’s discourse was entitled “Behind the Counter; or, Trials and Encouragements of Salesmen anil Sales women.” He took tho two following pas sages as his text: “And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshiped God, heard us; whoso heart the Lord opened.” Acts xvi., 14. “Seest thou a man diligent in his he shall stand before kings.” Proverbs xxii., 29. The preacher said: The first passage introduces to you Lvilia, a Christian merenantess. Her business' is to deal in purple cloths or silks. Bhe is not a giggling nonentity, but a practical woman, not ashamed to work for her living. All the other women of Philippi and Thyatira have been forgotten, but God has made im mortal in our text, Lydia, the Christian saleswoman. The other text shows yon a man with head, and hand, and heart, and foot all busy toiling on up until he gains a princely success. “Seest. thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings” Great encour agement in those two passages for men and women who will be busy, but. no solace for those who arc waiting for good luck to show them, at the foot of the rainbow, a casket of buried gold. It is folly for anybody in this world to wait for something to turn up. It will turn down. The law of thrift is as inexorable as t’lo law of the tides. Fortune, the magician, may wave her arm in that direction until castles and palaces come; but she will, after awhile, invert the same wand, and all the splendors will van ish into thin air. There are cer tain styles of behavior which lead , to useful ness, honor and permanent success, and there are certain styles of behavior which leud to dust, dishonor and moral default. I would like to fire the ambition of young peo ple. I have no sympathy with those who would prepare jpung folks for life by whit tlingjjown tobt ir expectations. Thai man or be worth not hing to church or State W begins life cowed down. The business of Christianity is not toqutsuch but to djj rS human ambition. Therefore, it is that I come out this morning and utter words of encouragement to those who are occupied as clerks in the stores, and shops, and banking houses of the country. You say: “Why seloct one class, and talk to one specially this morning?’ For the same reason that a surgeon does not open the door of a hospital and throw in a bushel of prescriptions, snying: “Come, now, and get your medicine.” He first feels the pulse, watches the symptoms, and then prescribes for that jiarticular case. So to day I must be specific. The people in this audience who are clerks are not an excep tional class. They belong to a great com pany of ten3 of thousands who are in this country, amid circumstances which will either make or break them for time mid for eternity. I should lie very slow to acknowl edge that the clerks, male and female, of other cities are any more honest or faithful thau the clerks of'our own city. Many of these people have already achieved a Chris tian manliness and a Christian womanliness which will be their passport to any position. I Lave seen their trials. I have \vatched their perplexities. There ore evils abroad which need to be hunted down, and dragged out, into the noonday light. In the first place I counsel clerks to re member that for the most part their clerk ship is only a school from which they are to he graduated. It takes about eight yeans to get. one of the learned professions. It takes übout eight years to get to be a merchant. Home of you will be clerks all your lives, but the vast majority of you are only in a transient position. After a while, someDe oember day. the head men of the th-ft will call you into the back oifice and they will say to you: “Now, you have done well by us; we are going to do well by you. We invite you to have an interest in our con cern.” You will bow to that edict very gracefully. Getting into a street car to go home an old comrade will meet you and say: “Whet makes you look so happy to-night?” “(J,” you will say, “nothing, nothing.” But in a few days your name will blossom on the sign. Either in the store or bank where you are now, or in some other store or bank, you will take a higher position than that which you now occupy. Ho [ feel to-day that I am standing before people who will yet have their hand on the helm of the world's com merce, and you will turn it this way or that; now clerks, but to be bankers, import ers, insurance company directors, shippers, contractors, superintendents of reaUrnds— your voice mighty “on ’Change”— stand ing foremost in tho great financial and religious enterprises of the day. For, though wo who arc in the professions may, 011 the platform, plead for the philanthro pies. nftorull the merchants must come forth with their millions to sustain the movement. Be, therefore, patient and diligent in this transient position. You are now where you cun learn thing:, you can never learn in any other place, what you consider your dis ndvutitagi's are your grand opportunity. You see un affluent father some day come down on 11 prominent street with his son, who just graduated from t!i<> university, 111 i<l establishing him in business, putting one hundred thousand dollars of capital in filestore. Well, you are envious. You say: “O, if I only had a chance like that young man—if 1 oiily had 11 fat her to put one hun dred thousand dollars iu ■ business for me, then I would luve some chiLicc in the world." Bo not envious. You have advan tage* ove.' that yotmg man which lie has not over you. As well might I come down to the docks when a vi-tsei Unlioutto sull for Valparaiso, and say; “J/*t me pilot this ship out of the Narrows." Why, I should tank crew and < ur/o before I got out of tho harlmr, simply Isteouse I know noth ing atsiut pilotage. Wealthy sou mplains put their wins Is'fore the most for the reason that they know tint it is like only plane where th'*y can hsirii to Is- Miesesful sailors, it is only under drill that |s oph* get to un 1 leiiSao'l iifi.'tAge and navigation, mid 1 wont you to ituTcivUMid that it lakua no more .kill to conduct a vea4 out of the Ihm'lmir Mini across the sm, t han to stonr • 1 •hiiiim’l'i'lal iwbilitlst jmiit inear of ilia rocks. You w ovary <ly flic folly of is ople going Into* lain la** tis-y know uvtliM id nut A out'! 'unk"* a lorume la on* Mioue*>; thinks tiwtu Is swilisf o"U(iati'fi hums I'osuforl niU , g<. into II end sinks all- Many of Us' t*nMntu ’ial 'Wttfi2.siam.sits of ■ii 'ii nee (riviag to th**tr I‘W'ks ■ mar- eantile education as thorough ns Yale, or ; Harvard, or Princeton are giving scientific attainment to the students matriculat'd. The reason there are so many men founder ing in business from year to year is because | their carlv mercantile education was nog- j lected. Ask these men high in commercial circles, and they null tell you they thank God for this severe discipline of their early clerkship. You can a fiord to endure tho wilderness march if it is going to end in the vineyards and orchards of the promised land. But you say: “Will the womanly clerks in our stores have promotion?” Yes. Time is coming when women will lie as well paid for their toil in mercantile cir cles as men are now paid for their toil. Time is coming when a woman will be al lowed to do anything she can do well. It is only a littlo while ago when women knew nothing of telegra phy, and they were kept out of a great many commercial circles where they are now welcome; and the time will go on until the woman who at one counter in n store sells ten thousand dollars’ worth of goods in a year will get as high a salary as the man who at the other counter of tbe same store sells ton thousand dollars’ worth of goods. All honor to Ly.lia, tho Chris tian saleswoman. And in passing, I may us n eli say t hat you merchants who have female clerks in your stores ought to treat th. 111 with great courtesy and kindness. When they are not positively engaged, let them sit down. In England and the United States physicians have protested against the habit of compelling tho womanly clerks in the stores to stand when it was not necessary for them to stand. Therefore, I add to the pro test of physicians the protest of tho Chris tian church and in the name of good health, and that God who has made the womanly constitution more delicate than man’s, 1 de mand that you let her sit down. The second counsel I have to give to the clerks who are here to-day is that you seek out what are tho lawful regulations of your establishment, and then submit to them. Every 'veil ordered house has its usages. In military life, on ship’s deck, in commer cial life, there must order and discipline. Those people who do not. learn how to obey will never know how to command. I will tell you what young man will reach ruin, financial and moral; it is the young mail who thrusts his thumb into Ills vest and says: “Nobody shall dictate to me, I am my own master; I will not submit to the regu Intions of this house.” Between an estab lishment in which all the employes are under thorough discipline and the establish ment in which the employes <lo about ns they choose, is the difference between suc cess and failure—between rapid a. mulation and utter bankruptcy. Do not come to the store ten mini, es after the time. Be there witjiin two seconds after. Do not think anything too insignificant to do well. Donut say: “It’s only just once.” From the most important transaction in commerce down to the par ticular stylo in which you tie a string around a bundle, obey orders. Do not get easily disgusted. While others in the store may lounge, or fret, or complain, you go with ready hands, and cheerful face, and contented spirit to your work. When tlio bugle sounds, the good soldier asks no questions, but shoulders liis knapsack, fills lus canteen and listens for the command of “March!” Do not get the idea that your interests and those of your employer are antagonistic. His success will be your honor. His embarrassment will be your dismay. Expose none of tho frailties of the firm. Toil no store secrets. Do not blab. Rebuff those persons who come to find out from clerks what ought never bo known outside the store. Do not be among those young men who take on a mysterious air when something is said against the firm that employs them, as much as to say: “I could tell you some tilings if I would, but I won't.” Do not be among those who imagine they can build themselves up by pulling somebody else down. Be not ashamed to be a subaltern. Again: I counsel clerks in this house to search out what aro the unlawful and dis honest demands of an establishment, and resist them. In the six thousand years that have passed there has never been an occasion when it was one's duty to sin against God. It is never right to do wrong. If the head men of the firm expect of you dishonesty, disappoint them. “Oh," you say, “1 should lose my place, then.” Better lose your place than lose your soul. But you will not lose your place. Christian heroism is always honored. You go to the head man of your store, and say: “Hir, I want to serve you; I want to oblige you; it is from no lack of industry on my part, but this thing seems to me to ho wrong, and it is a sin ugainst my conscience, it is a sin against God, and I beg you, sir, to excuso me.” He may ilush up uud swear, but he will cool down, and he will have more ad miration for you than for those who submit to his evil dictation; and while they sink, you will rise. Do uot, lie cause of seeming temporary advantage, give up your charac ter, young man. Under God, that is the only thing you have to build on. Give up that, you give up everything. That em ployer asks u young man to hurt himself for time and for eternity, who ex|>ects him to moke a wrong entry, or change an in voice, or say goods cost so much w hen they cost less; or Impose upon the verdancy of a customer, or misrepresent a stylo of fabric. How dare he demand of you anything so insolent? Tliere is one style of temptation that comeson a great many of our clerks, and that is upon those who ure engaged in what is called “drumming.” Now, that occupa tion is just as honorable as’ any other, if it Isi conducted in accord with ono’s conscience. In this day, when there are so many rival ries in business, all our commercial os tub lislnncutk ought to have men abroad who are seeking out for opportunities of mer chandisc. There eon lie no objection pi that. But there ure professed Christian merchants iu the week-night prayer meet ing who have clerks abroad in New York, conducting merchants of Cincinnati, and Chicago, and Ht. Louis, through the debau cheries of the great town, in order to secure their custom for the store. There are in ntor>*s in N'.-w York and Brooklyn, drawers In which there aro kept moneys which the clerks ore Pi go to and get whatever they want P) conduct these people through tho diaiii>ntionH of the elty. I’be bead men of t lie firm wink nt it, and in some places actually demand it—pro fessed Christian merchants. One would think tlmt the prayer would freeze on their lips and they would fall buck dead at tho sound of their own song. What ehatico is there for young men when c.siimerciai es taliiisiuiieiite expert such things of (ban! Among all tilings infernal, I pronounce Unit tit*- most (iuinn.iblc. Young limn, how will that firm treat you when you are utp-rly ilisqxilleU uud drugg.sl out with sin, going through the I taunts of iniquity for the pur ixim of getting curio Mere for their sfiunf ilow wlll tbey treat you? 0, they will give you a |ii*ioi! They will build you n linn house! They will gi*t you a ltor*: und cai ruigo! Will Miry f No. Home duy you will go lo tlie fiit*.* I tubby, inUixu-uPsl, worn out lit theirHerzior, mi l they will my: ‘ John, you are a disgiace fit our bomai. Now, yust look at yourself. A*’■'mutant, bow much ilo w* ow. this iimii? **A dollar arid thirty tamts." “Well now, fire fieri- It fc>; a dollar and thirty <*nfi. Go off Jy m'l i*> hanging a> ouml lit. . Urr*.' Magnanbo II). Mpti’ 'flu y spk- lit* htstn. frotn hts e>-, and Uu color from hts and ue Imoor lion, itia *;tfi. aw] p.- U*>y kfikedb oval U nh y-rotewod Cuts, I mim wtwee* -is -Ut hoi *>• '*> da p twd j don’t know any use of having such a place. O, young men disappoint the expectations of that firm; disappoint those customers, if these things are expected of you. You may sell an extra case of goods; you may sell aii extra roll of silk; but the trouble is you may have to throw your soul to boot in the bar gain. Again: I counsel all clerks to conquer the trials of their particular position. Ono great trial for clerks is the inconsideration of customers. There are lieople who are on tirely polite everywhere else, but gruff and dictatorial, and contemptible when they come into a store to buy anything. There are thousands of men and women who go from store to spire to price goods, without any idea of purchase. They are not satis fied until every roll of goods is brought down and they have pointed out all the real or imaginary defects. They try on all kinds of kkl gloves, and stretch them out of shape, anil they put on all stylos of cloak and walk to the mirror to sis: how it would look and then sail out of the store, saying: “I will not take it to-day;” which means: “I don’t want it at all,” leaving tho clerk amid a wreck of ribbons, and laces, and cloths, to smooth out five hundred dollars’ worth of goods—not one cent of which did that man or woman buy or expect to buy. Now I call that a dishonesty on tho part of the customer. If a boy runs into a store and takes a roll of cloth off tlie counter and sneaks out into the street, you all join in the cry pell-mil: “Skip thief!” 'When I see you go into a*store, not expect ing to buy anything but Pi price things, stealing the time of tlie clerk, and stealing the time of his employer, I say, too: “HPip thief!” If I were asked which class of per sons most need the grace of God amid their annoyances, I would say: “Dry goods clerks.” All the indignation of customers about the high prices comes on the clerk. For instance: A great war comes. The manufactories are closed. The people go off to battle. The ju ice of goods runs up. A customer comes into a store. Goods hnve gone up. “How much is that worth?’ “A dollar.” “A dollar! Outrageous. A dol lar!” Why, who is to blame for tho fact that it has got to be a dollar? Does tho in dignation go out to the manufacturers on the banks of the Merrimao, because they have closed up? No. Does the iu.liguation go out toward the employer, who is out at nis country scat? No. it comes on the clerk. Ho got up the war! He levied the taxes! He puts up tho rents! Of course, the clerk! Then a great trial comes to clerks in the fact that they see the parsimonious side of human nature. Yon talk about lies behind the counter —there aro just as many lies be fore the counter. Augustine sjieaks of a mau who advertised that he would, on a certain occasion, tell the jieojilo wliat was in their hearts. A great crowd assembled, and he stepjwl to the front and said: “I wid P'U you what is in your hearts: To buy cheap and sell dear!” O, people of Brook lyn, lay not aside your urbanity when you come into a store. Treat tlie clerics like gentlemen and ladies—proving yourself to lie a gentleman or a truly. Remember, that if the prices arc high and your purse is lean, that is no fault of the clerks. And if you hayc a, sup or a damihtw&,niid those perplexities or commercial life, and such nil one comes home all worn out, be lenient, raid know that the martyr at the stake no more certainly needs tho grace of God than our young people amid the seven-times heated exasperations of a clerk’s life. Then tliere are all the trials which come to clerks from the treatment of inconsider ate employers. There are professed Christian men in this city who have no more regard for their clerks than they have for the scales on which tlie sugars are weighed. A clerk is no more than so much store furni ture. No consideration for their rights or their interests. Not one word of encourage ment from sunrise to sunset, nor from January to December. But when anything goes wrong —a streak of dust on the counter, or a box with the cover off —thunder show era of scolding. Men imperious, capricious, cranky towards their clerks—their whole manner as much as to say: “AU tlie inter est I have in you is to see what I can get out of you.” Then there are all the trials of incompe tent wages. Some of you remember when tho war tirokc out and all merchandise went up, and merchants were made millionaires in six months by the sinqile rise in the value of goods. Did the clerk get advantage of that rise? Sometimes, not always. I saw estates gathered in those times over which the curse of God has hung over since. The cry of uupuid men and women in those stores reached this Lord of Sabaotli, and the indignation of God lias been around those establishments ever since; rumbling in tho carriage wheels, flashing in the chandeliers, glowing from the crimson upholstery, thun dering in the long roll of the ten-pin alley. Such men may build up palaces of mer chandise heaven high, nut after awhile a disaster will come along, and will put one hand on this pillar, and another hand 011 that pillar, and throw itself forward until down will come the whole structure, crush ing the worshipers as grapes are mashed in a wine-press. Then there are boys in establishment* who an' ruined—in prosperous establishment* — ruined by their lack of compensation. In how many prosperous stores it has been for the last twenty years that boys wore given just enough money to learn thorn how to steal! Home ware seizel ujxm by the police. The vast majority of instances were not known. The head of the firm asked: “Where is George now?’ “0, lie isn’t here any more.” A lad might better starve to death on a blasted heath than take one cent from his employer. Woe lie to that em ployer who unnecssarily pitta a temptation in a boy's way. There have been great, es tablishments in these cities building marble palaces, their owners dying worth millions, and millions, and millions, who made a vast amount of tiieir estate out of the blood, and muscle, and nerve of iialf-jiaid clerks. Much men as—well, l will not. mention any name. But I mean men who havo gathered uji vast extal/cs at tho expense of the jxxiple who were ground under their heel. "O,” say such merchants, “if you don’t like it here, then go and get a better place.” As much as to say: “I've got you in my griji and I mean to hold you; yon can't got any oilier place.” (j, wliat a con trast wo ** hetw.siu such men au.l thorn Christian merchants of Brooklyn and New York, who to-day are sympathetic with their clerks when they pay the salary, act ing in this way: “Tfiis salary that 1 give you is not all my interest in you. You are au immortal nian; you are un immortal woman; l am interested in your present and your everlasting welfare; I want you to understand that If 1 am u little higher up in Uiis store, 1 am Is-side yon in Cnristiau symjiathjr." Go te" forty years to Arthur tiipjs’ii'H store in New York —a man whoso worst etc-ml.s) never questioned lus honesty. Every morning, lui brought all tho i'U i kk, au.l the mtoouuUuit*, and the weighers into a room for devotion. Tliey sang. They prayed. Th y exhorted. Un Mom lay inorn mg the cl'S'is were a. ted where Urny had atfi'isiod >iiur> h on Met previous day, auil what liie * rni'iiis were about. It iimet have eoiiisi.si strangely, that voice of |iraWw along (lie stive’ts where the devotees of me ittieei who 1* auitiug UMr golden ts*ad. You my, Arthur is oje-u failed Yes, be was uij/ortui.Hts, hs a great 111Mty g'Sil ihkii, but 1 <unions* I*l Ilf in t sit bis obbgutems before b left tigs world, and I know that he dust Ut tip (**>* oi tie immisil, mini UhU he ts L*tieo Uw U,i hh <4 (sol today ioi.tvw Ideswei if G*i Iw fadtawt. I **#’• <W a*, b’ ill fail. There are a great many young men in this city—yen, in this house —who want a j word of encouragement, Christian eneour- I agement. One smile of good cheer would lie worth more to them to-morrow morning in their places of business than a present of fifty thousand dollars ten years hence. <), I remember the apprehension and the tremor of entering a profession. 1 remember very well the man who greeted me in the ecclesiastical court with the tip ends of the long flngws of the left hand; and I remember the other man who took my hand in both of his, and said: “God bless you, my brother; you have entered a glorious profession; bo faith ful to God and He will see you through.” Why, 1 feel this minute the thrill of that hand-shaking, though the man who gave mt> the Christian grip has been in heaven twenty-five years. There arc old men to-day who can look back to forty years ago, when someone said a kind word to them. Now, old men, pay back what you got then. It is a great art for old men to be able to encourage the young. There are many young people in our cities who have come from inland counties of our own State —from the granite hills of the North, from the savannas of the South, from the prairies of the West. They are hero to get their fortune. They are in boarding-houses where everybody seems to be thinking of himself. They want com panionship, and they want Christian en couragement. Give it to them. My word is to all clerks in this house: He mightier than' your temptations. A Sandwich Islander used to think when he slew an enemy, all the strength of that enemy came into his own right arm. And I have to tell you that every misfor tune you conquer is so much added to your moral power. With omnipotence for a lever, and the throne of God for a fulcrum, you can move earth and heaven. While there are other young men putting the run of sin to their lips, stoop down and drink out of the fountains of God, and yon will rise up strong to thresh the mountains. The ancients used to think that pearls wore fallen rain drops, which, touching the sur face of the sea, hardened into gems, then dropped to the bottom. I have to tell you to-day that storms of trial have showered imperishable [>earl into many a young man’s lap. O, young man! while you have goods to sell, remember you have a soul to save. In a hospital a Chrlstain captain, wounded a few days before, got delirious, and in the midnight hour he sprang out on the floor of the hospital, thinking ho was in the battle, crying: “Coine on, Isiys! Forward! Charge!” Ah! he was only battling the spectre of liis own brain. Hut it is no im aginary conflict into which I call you. young man, to-day. There are ten thousand spiritual foes that would capture you. In the name of God up and at them. After the last store has been closed, after the last bank has gono down, after the shnllie of the quick feet on the custom house sfei has stopped, after the long line of merchantmen on the sea have taken sail of flame, after Brooklyn, and New York, and London, and Vienna have gone down into the grave where Thebes, and Babylon, and Tyre lay buried, after the great fire belt* at the judgment day have tolled at the burning of a world —on tlmt day all the affairs of banking houses and stores will come up for inspection. O, what an open ing of account books! Hide by side, the clerks and the men who employed them— the people who owned thread-and-needlo stores on the same footing with the Stewarts and the Delanos, and the Abbott*, and the Barings. Every invoice made out —all the labels of goods—all certificates of stock—all lists of prices—all private marks of the firm, now explained so everybody can understand them. All the maps of cities that were never built, but in which lots wore sold. All bargains. All gougings. All snap judgments. All false entries. All adulterations of liquors with copperas mid strychnine. All mixing of teas, and sugars, and coffees, and syrups, with cheaper material. Ail embezzlements of trust funds. All swindles iu coal, and iron, and oil, and silver, and stocks. All Nwartouts, and Huntingtons, and Kotchurns. On that day, when the cities of this world are smoking in the last conflagration, the trial will go on; and down in an avalanche of destruction will go those who wronged man or woman, insulted God and defied the judgment. O, that will be a groat day for you,“honest Christian clerk! FNo getting up early, no retiring late, no walking around witli weury limbs, but a mansion in which to live, and a realm of light and love and joy, over which to hold everlasting domin ion. Hoist him up from glory to glory and from song tosongand from throne to throne; for while others go down into the sea with their gold like a millstone hanging to their neck, this one shall come up the heights of amethyst and alabaster, holding in his right hand the pearl of greut price in a sparkling, glittering, flaming casket. SIX BUILDINGS BURNED. A Total Loss of $42,000 With Only Partial Insurande. WILKESBARRK, Fa., April 21.—A fierce and destructive Are took place at Plymouth, Pa., at four o’clock this morning by which a block of six frame buildings in the busi ness portion of the town was totally de stroyed ami very littlo of their contents Hived, Five of the buildings were owned by*Georg" P. Richards and one by Charles Bliupp. They wore valued at $12,000 and wore jstrtiallv insured. The loss on stock Is not exactly known, but "'HI iul'y reach $150,000. It is about ono-half covered by in surance. ELECTRIC LIGHT WORKS BURNED. Cincinnati, 0., April 24. —The Brush Electric Light Company’s works at the cor ner of Plum and (!unal streets were entirely destroyed by fire this morning. The loss is $05,000 unutiie insurance $40,000 in fifteen companies. It wili be thirty days before the company can start again. The Are started in an udjoeent stable and communi cated to the Brush works. 500 HOUSES BURNED. London, April 21. —A disastrous fire has occurred at Aruautkeui.'Asia Minor. Five hundred houses were burn'idund many per sons lost their lives. Wheat's) Condition. CHICAGO, April 24. — I The Fanners 'llr rirw this wees says: “Ruins have materi ally improved the crop conditions in Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana, and particularly have improved the outlook tor winter wheat; while in lowa, Nebraska, MiniicsoUt am 1 liftKotn theseed Ingof sprlng wheat bus proceeded under generally favor able conditions in conzaqn■•nee of seasonable ruin. The average condition, however, of winter wheat, except In Missouri, 1* fulling generally below that of last year.” Racing in England. London, April 24.—The race for the IVinow of Wales’ handicap at Sundown Park Hat.unlay N ought out a ti<-ld of thir teen starter*. ’ Kouthill won, with Ltelient ure second and Kilwitrlia third. The last named was the favorite, The grand international steeple rhaae -nas won by Johnny Isnigtnil, with 1 luiilirl'b'- Mxoivf an t M|s4njiM thliJ. Heven started. Printers to Gat a Good Price. Cincinnati, April ‘.4 - All the i*k iib ttAiesw Lave ar snieii Li Us- demand of Hie txstt|s4tora for 4-V |M Ijlli om, but oim or tw > have disi* MO uw|*t pngsat and wtU 0t * ';'*** 4 p, have lAr e Viter llisl ■ (O'* I (PRICE @lO A YEAR. I 1 a CENTS A COPY, f BOTH SIDES STILL FIRM. FLORIDA'S SENATORIAL FIGHT TO LAST FOR DAYS YET. Pasco's Lieutenants Confident that; There Will Eventually be a Break to His Standard The Car Accountants Start for Savannah-The Olivette Wolcomed to Tampa. Tallahassee, Fla., April 31.—Sena torial talk is less frequent since many mem bers who are politicians went home Satur* day to rest from the struggle. Mr. Pasco’s friends say he entered tho rive to break the deadlock and to win, and so has no thought of retiring, since ho has assurances that others will join his supporters when all ho]M> for their choice has disappeared. The Bloxham and Perry factious are determined to stand firm, so there is now no prospect of a nomination for ) icrhapa weeks. Senator Mallory, of Pensacola, has friends wha want him chosen, hut the Perry and Blox hain forces are too well organized to bo broken by anyone just yet. The light will lie renewed Monday night and protracted perhaps indefinitely. ARRIVAL OF THE OLIVETTE. Tampa, Fi.a., April 24.—The steamer Olivette arrived here from Philadelphia this afternoon. Hho bail on board Mr. and MrsJ H. B. Plant, 001. Frank Laughman, Colj W. B. Thompson, H. D. Bryan, of VVTishs ington, and Emile Blum, of New York, thesa 1 auies and gentlemen having mado the trip from Philadelphia. The Olivette was met! in the buy bv the steamer Margaret, of the; Plant Steamship Line, which had on board) Col. H. S. Haines, General Manager, J. EJ Ingraham. President of the South Florida) railroad, M. F. Plant, Traffic Agent of tha Southern Express Company, and a few) others. To-morrow a reception will be given on board the Olivette to tie Tampa Board of Trade, at whose disposal the (llivette has lieen put for to-morrow. Al grand time is expected. Invitations have) bi-en extended to many prominent peopleonl the line of the South Florida railroad. Tha arrival of the t llivette is an event long looked forward to by the Tampa people J who are loud in their praise* or the enterJ prise of the Plant system. THE CAR ACCOUNTANTS. Jacksonville, Fla., April 24.—Tha members of the National Car Accountants’ 1 Association arrived her# from Falatka and St. Augustine this evening, and left to-nightl on a special train for Savannah, whence) they go to Charleston, to be present at the ceremonies of the unveiling or the Calhoun monument on Tuesday. Hon. R. P. Cal# houn, of Pnlatka, Hon. John T. Graves, edi-i tor of the Jacksonville Herald, Capt. F. G. Fleming audit number of other prominent: citizens left to-night for Charleston, to take part in the ceremonies of the unveiling of the Calhoun monument. Mr. Calhoun is a> nephew of the great statesman, and his two' little sons will pull the cord loosening the veil of the monument. During a brief squall on tho river yester day afternoon several miles below this eity,j Mark Davis (colored) a raftsman from Paint ka, was drowned by the overturning of a row boat. His body has nfit been recovered.. BROOKSVILLE’S BUDGET. The New Bank Doing a Good Business —Visiting Georgians. Brooksville, Fla., April 22.—The re-, cently opened bank at this place, which is: owihkl and managed by Mr. M. E. Bishop, doing a good business to begin with. It be# speaks tho progTCK of our town that a bank became a necessity. General Withers, one of Kentucky’s great* stock men, was in town a few days ago.; Tho principal object of his visit to this sec tion was to see for the first time a valuable tract of land which ho hail purchased through: his agent here, and which is being set to orange trees to the extent of 150 acres. Dr. J. H. McCall and Mr. Clayton Groov er, of Quitman, Ga., were in our town aj few days ago, looking after their valuable; landed property, both in and out of Brooks-' ville. They expressed themselves as being! well pleased with their investments and. 1 with the increasing valuation of property here from year to year. It had lieen three! years since they were here before, and theyi stated that the town had improved a great deal since then. Five years ago they were here, and at that time there was no Hernando Hotel or Grand Central—only the Hancock House was open—and at that time there were no new church edifices, but now there are two (Baptist and Methodist), and 1 I understand the Presbyterians and Episco palians are contemplating building some time in the near future. News has just reached her* l of the death of Col. D. Turnbull, a prominent lawyer of this place, at his old home at M<mticello, Fla. Paralysis was the Immediate cause. EATONTON ETCHINGS. The New Flag Presented to tho Rifles —A Methodist Revival. Eatonton, Ga., April23.—A protracted meeting was commenced at the Methodise church last Wetlnesday night, April 18, and will continue for ten days or more. Some excellent sermons are lieing preached by Jb'ssrH. Gibson and Kabbins. There is deep interest felt in this meeting. There are three services held daily and every service largely attended. A letter was received by Agent L. C. Dennis from General Manager Central Rail road Belknap a few days ago. stating that as soon ns he returned from the time con vention he would change tho schedule of the Eatonton and Macon Branch road to suit the lirople. This news was received with much gladness by the people of ton. An amateur theatrical club has boon k>. ganized here, to show some time in July, for a charitable purpose. They have selected and will pluy “She Stoops to Conquer,” and is said to be very fine. This elub com prises some very fine talent. The new flag recently bought by the young ladies with money realized from a supper was presented to the rutnam Rifle* yesterday afternoon, at 5:30 o'clock, in the park by Mi** Julia Reed, one of Eatonton’* accomplished young ladies. Misses Martin and Leverett were the maids of honor. The three wore dresses of “Alba tross,- ’ and wits tieautiful in the extreme. Miss lUxi presented the banner to Lieut. H. T. Wingfield with a beautiful little sjieech, who received It with ft short and* very appropriate address and delivered it Lx Flag Bearer W. L. Hanford. Tho banner ui very pretty. Robbers In a Warehouse. Midvii.LE, Ga.. April 24.- The Central Hal lend ( Vmipaiiy'* warehouse here wax broken into lost night and the safe rnbliea ol itlsuit uud Miuie litqicr belonging to the agent. Tlie agent lias not yet mls- and any freight. Thrn* i* no cine L> who did it, Nina Hour* a Day’s Work. Cincinnati, A|iril 24 The wwilm of tlw Bulkier*' Exchange tmve agreed to make iflue hour* * liny'* work and to |iay by tli* hour, tits pi gs* to Is: rigulsled by Individmil ciaiiMi-t* with Urn men. Tlis L ititondsit to imply tu woikuwi einj4o) ed in hufidnuw •4*l not L> null 1 muds gild other* ctupkiyel I |,v tin iHootlt