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HYPOCRISY UNMASKED.
A CIVIL SERVICE REPORT TO THE
PRESIDENT.
Commissioner Edgerton Exposes the
Real Motive of the Complaint of a
Discharged Employe Against the Col
lector of the Port of Chicago-Some
of the Members Blind.
N\ ashington, Sept. 4.—The Civil Service
Commission has submitted to the President
the report of its investigation in April last
of the complaint made by George A. Web
ster against Anthony F. Seeberger, Collec
tor of the port of Chicago, and transmitted
to the President by the Civil Service
Reform J/eague of Chicago, and by
him referred to the commission, charg
ing violations of the civil service law.
The report consists of the “opinion of the
commission,” signed by Commissioners
Oberly and Lyman; a report to the commis
sion by Commissioner Edgertou, and
another hv Commissioner Lyman, who con
fines himself principally to the testimony
submitted at the investigation. The facts
as to the inciting cause of this particular
investigation indicate that it was brought
about in this way:
George A. Webster, a clerk in the Ap
praiser’s department of the Chicago custom
house, an honorably discharged, wounded
soldier, whose efficiency, sobnety and in
tegrity were established, was requested to
resign.
A QUESTION OF VERACITY.
He inquired for what cause, and therein
comes an element of conflicting testimony.
Mr. Webster says the collector told him the
request was made because the pressure was
too great and he must have some vacancies
for his party. Collector Seeberger, on the
other hand, is quite sure he did
not make use of this language
but cannot remember what ha did sav, and
has since persistently declined to give his
rea! reasons, saying they were satisfactory
to himself, but that he proposed to keep
them locked up in his own hosom. On this
point the main divergence of opinion comes
in. Commissioners Oberly and Wyman
hold that Mr. Webster had a right to his
his opinions and should not have been dis
ehnrged for them, if this were really the
case, as asserted, so long as he did not of
fensively obtrude those opinions or allow
them to influence his oflicini conduct, and
that he had a right to know from the collec
tor what the real reasons for his discharge
were.
KDGERTON OF THE OPPOSITE OPINION.
Commissioner Edgertou, on the other
hand, holds that the collector had a right to
make the dismissal without assigning any
reasons. ( Oz.n jssioner Edgerton, in his re
port, says; “The papers in the case, were
sent to the President by the Civil Service
Reform League of Chicago, and not derectly
to the commission; and it was apparent
upon the face of these papers that the
charges were not only insufficient, but
were incited ami encouraged by the ieague,
for two purposes—to make them the basis
for a political parti.au attack upon the
present administration, and by so doing to
bring prominently forward as active civil
service reformers certain persons who
might otherwise remain unknown. Mr.
Webster states that he was removed, or co
erced to resign, for political reasons, and
this is all the charge there is against Mr.
Keeberger that deserves any consideation
whatever. This charge Mr. Seeberger em
phatically denies.
NOT A REMOVAL.
Mr. Webster was not removed: he re
signed. When Mr. Webster resigned he
abandoned all legal claim to his position;
and without claim or right, why should be
or the Chicago Reform League seek the in
tervention ot the President or an investiga
tion by the commission, unless for
partisan political reasons' He sought
the aid and sympathy of this reform
league, not for restoration to office, but for
that temporary newspaper prominence
which might make more popular the pur
poses of both, which purposes were to an
tagonize and to discredit the Democratic
administration. The league might possibly
demonstrate its pretended power and use
fulness by an altempt to mid some legal
redress for such complaints as Mr. Web
ster’s, if any could lie found to exist.
RESTORATION NOT SOUGHT.
But in those cases of removal from office
restoration is not sought through that Civil
Service Commission, for it is known to be
powerless to effect ij, but the purpose of the
complaint is to fasten upon the Democratic
administration sime charge of violation, if
not of the letter, then of the spirit of the
law. violations which are rarely, if ever,
sought for dining Republican administra
tion. as whatever it might do would lie
called faithful observance of t.iie law. The
“leagues’ and “associations’’ which are
too often essentially political in their char
acter and purposes and not composed
entirely of consistent, reformers, as well as
the individual preteudeis to devotion to the
public interest as civil service reformers,
should concede to the President and to bis
party some honesty of purpose, and should
believe that as far as is m his power he will
see that the civil service law and rules made
by himself are faithfully executed.
GREED FOR OFFICE.
So long as unreasoning hostility to the
administration and persistent denunciation
are called vigilance and investigation in the
cause of honest government and civil ser
vice reform, so long will it l>e known that
neither civil service reform nor honest gov
ernment, are real subjects of deco concern:
but that greed for office and party success
are t he mainspring to action, and the defeat
of the present, Democratic administration
the highest purpose.
ROBERTS ON THE DEAL.
An End to Cutting on Rate3 the Princi
pal Advantage.
PniLDEI.PHIA. Sept. 4.—The Ktiqnirrr
to-morrow will contain an interview with
President Roberta, of the Pennsylvania rail
road. on the Baltimore and Ohio deal. Mr.
Robert* snys the deal means that rate cut
ting on the part of the Baltimore and Ohio
will lie stopped and that the road will liere
•fter h n operated in harmony
with other trunk lines. The
principal advantage accruing to
the railroads will lie steadier rates and in
creased revenues. The Peniwytvania rail
road has not been approached by anyone on
the subject, of hauling the Baltimore and
Ohio’s business from Rliiladelohin to New
ork. and ail reports that the Fpnn*ylvania
is to get, the passenger traffic ami Read ng
the freight traffic am merely guesses.
The Pennsylvania, he nays, will he glad to
w ork in harmony with the Baltimore and
Ohio, nnd alwujj “ss ready to do *o, but
the trouble was that the Baltimore and
Ohio preferred to fight. Mr. Roberts does
not think either A. J. Casaett or President
King, of the Erie, will consent to become
Rolicrt Garretts iruoressor,
A Horoo’x Brain Paralysed.
New York, Kent 4,—E. J Baldwin’*
norm. Lucky 8., died last night, at Sheeps
bead Bay, of spawn odir paralysis of the
wate.
NO RIOT AT ENNIS.
Troops Prevail Upon the Procession
to Disperse.
Dublin, Sept. 4. —Ten thousand persons
assembled at Ennis to-day to attend the
meeting of the Irish National League. The
police last night took possession of the Hill
of Ballyeoree, where it was intended to hold
the meeting. At 2 o’clock a procession, en
livened by twelve bands of music,
and including Messrs. Timothy, Sul
livan, Dillon, Cox, Sheeley, Will
iam O'Brien and Philip Stanhope,
all members of the House of Commons,
and several priests, moved toward Ballvoo
reo Hill, the approaches to which were
guarded by soldiers and police. The pro
cession finding its further progress barred,
halted in a field, and Messrs. Sullivan,
Stanhope anil O’Brien made speeches from
their carriages.
HUSSARS TO THE FJIONT.
A troop of hussars, headed by Col. Tur
ner, a Divisional Magistrate, rode up to
where the procession had halted, and Col.
Turner ordered the meeting to disperse
withiu five minutes. Mr. Stanhope handed
Col. Turner a copy of resolutions adopted
by the meeting, claiming home rule, declar
ing adherence to Mr. Parnell, thanking the
Lilieral (tarty, pledging 1-esistanoe to the
proclamation of the League, and denounc
ing land grabbing. Mr. Stanhope declared
that the proceedings of the meeting were le
gal, and that if a collision occurred between
the people and troops he would hold Col.
Turner responsible. Col. Turner replied
that he was bound to execute his ordeue.
After a parley the procession returned to
Ennis, and Mr. O’Brien addressed a crowd
in O’Connell square. Soldiers and police
again appearing, the procession passed on to
a hotel, which the leaders entered. The
crowd then dispeised quietly.
LIGHTS IN THE WINDOWS.
There were lighted candles in the win
dows of almost every house in Ennis last
night. An enormous crowd welcomed the
visitors and escorted them to the hotel,
where an address was presented to them.
Mr. Stanhope made a long reply, in
which he congratulated Ireland upon hav
ing secured the support of the English
Liberals. Mr. Dillon enjoined the crowd to
he peaceful during the night, and deprive
the authorities ot every excuse or palliation
for the outrage they" proposed to inflict at
the morrow’s meeting. Messrs. Sullivan
and Cox also spoke. The crowd dispersed,
cheering for the Nationalists and groaning
for the government.
The streets were alive with peODle at an
early hour this morning. The houses were
decorated with banners and political mot
toes, and gayly-dressed ladies were at the
windows watching the animated scene.
The league bands paraded the streets.
A PRIEST PRESIDES.
Father Walsh, the parish priest, presided
at the meeting of the flay. In spite of a
pouring rain the greatest enthusiasm pre
vailed. Mr. Cox proposed resolutions pro
testing against the proclamation of the
league.
Mr. Stanhope said that the meeting was a
grand and noble protest in favor of the
right of free speech. He had come to tell
them in the name of the English people that
they claimed for Irishmen the right of
freely and publicly gathering to express
their wishes.
Mr. Dillon, who was loudly cheered, said:
“I am more proud than 1 can tell you to see
you hero to-day in your thousands to show
that you will not be intimidated by any
such proclamation as that placarded on your
walls. If this meeting is illegal
I invite the government to im
prison the whole of this crowd.
[Laughter.] As for us, we are prepared to
take the consequences of our words. We
shall continue to put down land-grabbing
in spite of appeals to the government, and
shall make every landlord who treats his
tenants unjustly a scarecrow and terror to
evil-doers.
CLARE'S DEFIANCE.
“No evicted farm shall be taken in Clare,
(cheers) and I make the government a pres
ent of that, (applause) while lam at liberty,
and we will continue to hold meetings and
preach to you the Gospel of Deliverance for
the poor.” He concluded by referring to
the presence of the English members as an
augury of the hour when landlords would
no longer dare to interfere with the free
meeting of Irishmen. “Though our meet
ing place is held by dragoons
to-day the hour is close at hand when we
will be masters of Ireland.” [Cheers.]
Col. Turner's party was now seen gallop
ing up. Mr. O'Brien calk'd upon the people
to hold their ground. The police and mili
tary held Ballroom- Hill the whole day.
Some English ladies and gentlemen visited
the spot out of curiosity, when a detach
ment of military came up at a double quick
thinking that another meeting was being
held. The officers were chagrined on hear
ing the merry jests of the ladies at their ex
pense.
POLICEMEN ATTACKED.
Dublin, Sept. 4.—At a Nationalist meet
ing to-day at Middleton, ten miles from
Armagh, several policemen who were de
tailed to keep order were attacked and
badly injured.
LABOR IN EUROPE.
A Congress in Belgium Discussing the
Present Situation.
LIEGE. Sept. 4.--The Social Congress here
is attended by a large number of delegates,
including the Archbishop of Rheinis, Prince
Loewenstein, several German deputies and
French political writers. The Bishop of
Liege, in his opening address to-day, dwelt
upon the necessity of a spirit of fraternity
between masters "and employes and declared
it to be the duty of the State to intervene
in favor of the working classes. He ex
pressed his approval of the workmen’s bill
proposed by the Government Labor Com
mission. ______
Twenty-Four Sailors Perish.
London, Sept. 4.—The ship Falls of
Bruar, of Glasgow, hound from Hamburg
to Calcutta, with a cargo of salt, foundered
off Yarmouth, the cargo having shitted.
Five of the crew were rescued and twenty
four drowned, most of whom were Ger
mans and Swedes.
Decorated by the Sultan.
Constantinople, Sent,. 4.—The Sultan
has predated to Count de Montcliello, the
French Ambassador, a golden snuff box or
namented with brilliants, and has conferred
upon Gen. Perron, the French Minister of
War, the decoration of the Order Osmanie.
Cholera’s Course
Rome, Sept 4.- In -Catania during the
past twenty-four hours there were two new
cases of cholera and one death. In Palermo
thirteen new caws and eight deaths, and in
Trapani eight, new cases and seven deaths.
Six cases ot a suspicious diarriueal disease
are reported in this city.
Dr. MacKenzle to be Knighted.
London. Sept. 4 —lt ban been announced
that the Queen will confer the order of
knighthood upon Dr. Morrell MacKenzie
for nis services to the German < ’rown Prince.
An Earthquake in Savona.
Rome, Sept, i- An earthquake ofurred
in Savona to-day, but did no damage The
inhabitants ware panic stricken, fearing a
repetition of last winter s experience.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1887.
CLIME AND CROP.
The Signal Office Bulletin for the Past
Week.
Washington, Sept. 4.—Following is the
weather and crop bulletin of the signal of
fice for the week ending Sept. 3:
During the week ending Sept. 3 the
weather lias been colder than usual in the
lake region, Ohio valley. Southern and At
lantic States, and unusually cold from
Maryland southward to Georgia and
Alabama. In the tobacco region of
Maryland, Virgina and North Carolina the
daily average temperature ranged from tF
to it below the normal. In the corn region
west of the Mississippi river the
temperature has been normal or slightly
above. The daily average temperature
for the season from Jan. 1 to Sept. 3 very
generally differs less than 1* from normal
in all the districts, excepting that for
Missouri and from Central Dakota south
ward. Over the western portions of Ne
braska and Kansas it varies from 1” to 2°
above the normal, and along the South
Carolina and (tenrgia coasts from t to 2°
below, and along Lake Suiierior from 2° to
3' below.
the rainfall.
During the week the rainfall has been
slightly in excess from Eastern Texas
northward to the Missouri valley. In Flor
ida and the upper portion of the Mississippi
valley, and in other sections, there lias been
a slight deficiency, amounting to about one
inch in the South Atlantic and Middle At
lantic States. The deficiency for the sea
son continues large in the Lower Mississippi
valley, and portions of Illinois and lowa, ex
ceeding ten inches. Over 100 per
cent. of the usual amount of
rain fell in the past month from Eastern
Texas northward to the Missouri valley, in
the northern portion of Illinois, southern
portion of Wisconsin, and from Western
Virginia to Northeastern Georgia. I ass
than 50 per cent, of the usual rainfall has
been reported from the lower Mis-issippi
valley. Central Alabama, Southern Illinois
and the greater portion of Ohio. Frosts
occurred in Central Michigon Aug. 30 and
MEMPHIS’ COTTON BELT.
Memphis, Kept. 4. —The regular monthly
cotton crop report for the Memphis district,
which embraces West Tennessee. North Mis
sissippi, North Arkansas and North Ala
bama, to be published to-morrow bv Hill,
Fontane & Cos., will say: “The flattering
prospects which were shown in our July
report have been dispelled. Drought, has
prevailed in all four States, extend
ing from the middle of July up
to the present, and the result has
been most disastrous to the cotton crop.
What promised six weeks ago to be the
largest yield ever known within the dis
trict has been cut short by drought, rust
and worms to below an average crop, and
in many sections the yield wifi fall far short
of last year. This is particularly true of
Tennessee and portions of Arkansas, Mis
sissippi and Alabama. It is only 25 per
cent., making the average for the district
of 30% per cent. The great damage that
has been sustained is best shown when it is
stated that there is raised annually within
the Memphis district 1,350.000 bales of cot
ton, and tlie promised yield is cut short 415,-
000 bales alore within this dis
trict. Picking has commenced in
every section and will be general throughout
the district by Sept. 10, The season is fully
two weeks earlier, which, togelhir with
premature opening of the bolls, was caused
by the drought. The receipts up to date
are largely in excess of any previous year.
Corn has suffered, but not to the extent of
cotton. Good crops are reported from Mis
sissippi and Alabama, while the yield in
Arkansas and Tennessee is..Qly average.
AN ARMY OF DOCTORS.
Over 1,500 Will Attend the Interna
. tional Congress.
Washington, Kept. 4. —Each train to the
city brings scores of delegates to the ninth
International Medical Congress, which will
meet at Albaugh’s opera house to-morrow,
and the leading up town hotels are taxed to
provide accommodations for the incomers,
ihe corridors of Willard’s, and the Rigg’s
and Ebbitt houses are thronged with physi
cians. who gather in knots renewing
old friendships and cementing new ones.
The various committees are hard at work
Getting things in readiness for the meeting.
■he pension building has been gaily deco
rated for the conversazione to tic held to
morrow evening, and Albaugh’s Opera
House, where the general meetings will be
held, has also been suitably adorned.
1,400 ON HAND.
The number of physicians who had regis
tered up to 8 o’clock to-night was 1,440, and
many more are expected jo enroll their
names before the opening of tbt* Congress
at, 11 o’clock to-morrow. There is but one
female physicitm in attendance, Dr. Fanny
Dickinson, of Chicago, who will be the first
woman doctor ever admitted as a delegate
to an International Medical Congress. A
number of distinguished foreigners have ar
rived and others are to be here in the
morning. Many eminent dentists have
also arrived. Among them are Dr. O.
Wedgewood, of Linden, and Dr. J G.
Younger, of California, who w ill read pa
pers on implantation of teeth; Dr. William
Wallace Walker, and Dr. A. L. Northrop,
of New York city; Dr. J. H. McKellens,of
Kt. Louis, and Dr. L. D. Khepherd, of Bos
ton, Mass., who will give clinics in operative
dwtttotfjr. __ __
CHINA’S CONCESSIONS.
Count Miezkewicz Arrives at Wash
ington With Six Mandarins
Washington, Kept,. 4. -Count Eugene
lie Miezkewicz, who has secured valuable
concessions from the Chinese government,
which grant to him and Wharton Barker,
of Philadelphia, railroad, telephone and
banking privileges for the Empire, arrived
here this evening. He is accompanied by
six mandarins who come to enquire into the
national banking and postal trv terns of the
United Stub-*, with a view to their adoption
in China It is said at the Chinese Lega
tion that the cot cpsdbh will be com
pleted if the Chinese Minister here is satis
fied with the rnsponxibtlity of the gentle
men behind Count Miezkew icz.
MAN AND HORSE KILLED.
A Car Filled With Grooms and Trot
ters Goes Over an Embankment
Rochester, N. Y., Kept. 4.—A serious
accident occurred five miles south of Avon,
on the Erie railroad to-day. A wheel on one
of the cars broke, nnd when the train
reached a curve it left, the track. A cor,
containing six men and several valuable
horses, rolled down an embankment. The
men were all l>odly bruised, and one of
them, a groom named Thomas Whttstone,
was killed. The horse Henry TA NARUS., valued at
$.8,000, was fatally injured. The horse*
Kt. Jacob and Lida K were badly injured.
George 'Wants More Money.
New York, Kept. 4.—Tint Anti-Poverty
Bodety had its tisuiil Sunday meeting to
night. Everett (Markin, President of Ty
fiographical Union No, 0. presided. Henry
ieorge and Dr. McHlyiui spoke, nnd N. Q
Morton, of Mobile, Ala., made a speech.
The collection amounted te SIM An ap
pmi wax mad* for heavier coatritiiiUon*.
THREE SCORE OF QI'KEN'S
TALMAGE PAYS A TRIBUTE TO
WOMAN’S WORTH.
Some of the Rights Which Are Superla
tive to the Gentler bex—The Salva
tion of Countless Men in tho Hands
of Their Wives.
The Hamptons, Kept. 4. —The Rev. Dr.
T. De Witt Talmage’s text to-day was from
Solomon's Song, chapter vi., 8: “There
are threesome queens.” Following is the
sermon in full:
So Solomon, by one stroke, set forth the
imperial character of a true Christian
woman. She is not a slave, not a hireling,
not a snboniidate, but a queen; and in my
text Kolomon sees sixty of these helping to
make up the royal pageant of Jesus. In a
former sermon I showed you that crown and
courtly at tendants, and imperial wardrobe
were not necessary to make a queen; but
that graces of the heart and life will give
coronation to any woman. I showed you
at some length that woman’s position was
higher in the world than man’s, and that
although she had often been denied the right,
of suffrage, she always did veto and always
would vote by her influence; and that her
chief desire ought to lie t hat she should have
grace rightly to rule in the dominion which
she has already won. I began an enumera
tion of some of her rights, and this morn
ing I resume the subject.
In the first place woman has the special
and the superlative right—-not again going
back to what I have already said —woman
has the special and super lab ve right of bless
ing and comforting the sick.
What land, what street, what house, has
not felt the sniffings of diseas • ? Tons of
thousands of sick lieds! What shall we do
with them? Khali man, witti his rough
hand and clumsy foot go stumbling around
the sick-room trying to soothe the distracted
nerves, and alleviate the flains of the toss
ing patient? The young man at college may
scoff at the idea of being under maternal
influences, but at the first blast of the ty
phoid fever on his cheek, he says: “Where
is mother?” Walter Scott wrote partly in
satire and partly in compliment when he
said:
"Oh woman id our hours of ease.
Uncertain, coy and bard to please;
When pain and anguish wring the hrow,
A ministering angel thou."
I think the most pathetic passage in all
the Bible is the description of the lad who
went out to the harvest-field of Khunem
and got sunstruck— throwing Ins bands on
his temples and crying out: “Oh, my head!
my head!” and they said: “Carry him to
his mother.” And then the recoi-d is: “He
sat on her knees till noon, and then died.”
It is an awful thing to be ill away from
home in a strange hotel, once in a while
men coming in to look at yon, boldidg their
hand over their mouth for fear they will
catch the contagion How roughly they
turn you in bed. How loud!.’ they talk.
How you long for the of home.
1 knew one such who went away from oho
of the brightest of homes, for several
weeks’ business absence at the West. A
telegram came at midnight that he was on
his death bed, far away from home. By
express train the wife and daughters went
westward; but they went too late. He
feared not to die, but he was in on agony to
live until his family got there. He
tried to bribe the doctor to make
him live a little while longer.
He said: “I am willing to die, hut
not alone.” But the pulses fluttered, the
eyes closed, and the heart stepped. The
express trains met in the midnight: wife
and daughters going westward—lifeless re
mains of husband and father coming east
ward. Oh, it was a sail, pitiful,
overwhelming spectacle! When we are
sick we want to be sick at home.
When the time comes for us to die, we
want to die at, home The room may be
very humble, and the faces that look into
ours may be very plain; but who caret for
that? Loving hands to bathe the temples.
Loving voices to speak good cheer. Living
lips to read the comforting promises of
Jesus. In our last dreadful war, men cast
the cannon; men fashioned the musketry:
men cried to the hosts: “Forward, march!’
men hurled their battalions on the sharp
edges of the enemy, crying: “Charge!
charge!” but woman scraped the lint;
woman administered the cordials: woman
watched by the dying couch: woman wrote
the last message to the home circle; woman
wept at the solitary burial attended by
herself and four men with a spade. We
greeted the general home with brass hands,
and triumphal arches, and wild huzzas; but
the story is too good to lie written any
where, save in the chronicles of heaven, of
Mrs Brady, who came down among the
sick in the swamps of the Chickabomiity; of
Annie Ross, in the cooper shop hos
pital; of Margaret Breckinridge, who
came to men who had been for weeks with
their wounds undressed—some of them
frozen to the ground, and when she turned
them over those that hail an arm left wuvixl
it and filled the air with their “hurrah !”
of Mrs. Hodge, who came from Chicago
with blankets and with pillows, until the
men shouted: “Three cheers for the Chris
tian Commission! God bless the women at
home,” then sitting down to take the last
message: “Tell my wife not to fret about
me, but to meet me in heaven; tell her to
train up the boys, whom we have loved so
well: tel) her we shall meet, again hi the
good land; tell her to hear my loss like the
Christian wife ot a Christian soldier;’’ ami
of Min. Shelton, into whose face the con
valescent soldier looked and said: “Your
graiies and cologne cured me.” Men did
their work with shot, and shell,
and carbine, and howitzer; women
did their work witli socks, and
slippers, and bandages, and warm drinks,
and Hcripture texts, and gentle stroking* of
the hot temples, and stories of that land
where they never have any pain. Men
knelt down over the wounded and said: “On
which side did you fight?” Women knelt
down over the wounded and said: “Where
are you hurt? What nice thing cun I make
for you to eat? What makes you cry?” To
night while we men are sound asleep in our
beds, there will be a light in yonder loft?
there will Is- groaning down that dark
alley; there will tie cries of distress in that
cellar. Men will sleep, and women will
watch.
Again: woman has a superlative right to
take care of the | sior. There are hundreds
and thousands ot them all over tho land.
There is a kind of work that men cannot do
for the poor. Here conn's a group of littl
Ixira-foot children to the door of the Dorcas
hoc aty. They need to tie clothed and pro
vided lor. Which of these directors of
bunks would know how many yards it
would take to make that little girl a dress?
Which of these masculine hands could lit a
hut to that little girl’s head? Which of the
wise men would Know how to tie on that
new (Mir of shoes? Man sometime* gives
hi* charity in a rough way, and it falls like
the fruit of a tree In the East, which fruit
comas down so heavily that it breaks the
skull of the man who is trying to gather it.
But woman glides so sol tty into the house
of destitution, and finds out all the sorrows
of tho place, and puts so quietly the do
nation on the (aide, that all the fam
ily come out on the front ateps as she
depart*, expecting that from under her
shawl she will thrust out two wings and go
right up toward heaven, from whence she
seems to have come down. O Christian
young woman! if you would make yourself
nappy and win tne blessing of Christ, go
out among the destitute. A loaf of broad
or a bundle of socks may make a homely
load to curry, but the angels of God will
come out to watch, and the Lord Almighty
will give His messenger hosts a charge, sav
ing: “Look after that woman. Canopy
her with your wings and shelter her from
all harm;’ 1 and while you are seated in the
house of destitution-and suffering, the little
ones around thfi room will whisper: “Who
is she? Ain’t she beautiful?" and if you
will listen right .sharply you will hear drip
ping down through the leaky roof,and rolling
over the rotten .stairs, the angel i-lumt that
shook Bethlehem: “Glory to God in the
highest, and Oil earth pence, good will to
men.” Can you tell mo why a Christian
woman, going utovn among the haunts of
iniquity on i .Christian errand never
meets withby’ t any indignity ? 1
stood in fjhV chapel of Helen
Chalmers, flic Raqghtor of the eelebrutad
Dr. Chalmers, hi vblic moat abandoned part
of the city of Earn burgh; and I said to her
as I looked around upon the fearful sur
roundings of that place: “Do you como hero
nights to hold a service?” “O, yes,” she
said. “Can it be possible that you never
meet with an insult while performing this
Christian errand?” “Never," she said,
"never.” That young woman who has her
father by her side walking down the street,
an armed police at. cacn corner, is not v > well
defended as that Christian woman who goes
forth on Gosjiel work into the haunts of
iniquity, carrying the Bibles and bread.
God, with the red right arm of His wrath
omnipotent, would tear to pieces uny one
who should offer indignity Ho would
smite him with lightnings aNid drown him
with floods, and swallow him with earth
quakes, and damn him with eternal indig
nations. Someone said: "1 dislike very
much to see that Christian woman
touching those bod lioys in the
mission school. 1 am afraid to
have her instruct them.” “8o,” said
another man, “l am afraid, too.” Kaid the
first: “I nin nfroid they will use vile lan
guage before they leave the (dace.” “All.”
said the other man, “I am not afraid ot
that. What lam afraid of is, that if any
of those boys should use a bad word in that,
presence, the other boys would tear him to
pieces and kill him on the spot.” That
woman is the best sheltered who is sheltered
by the Lord God Almighty, and you need
never fear going anywhere where God tells
you to go.
It seems as If tho Tsird had ordained
woman for an especial work in the solicita
tion of charities. Backed up by barrels in
which there is no flour, and by stoves in
w'hioh there is no fire, and by wardrobes in
which there are no clothes, a woman is irre
sistible: passing on her errand, God says to
her: “You go into that bank, or store, or
shop, and get the money.” She goes in and
gets it. The man is hard-fisted, but she gets
it. Khe could not help but get it. It is
decreed from eternity she should
get it. No need of your turning your back
and pretending you don’t bear. You do
hear. There is no need of your saying you
are begged to death. There is no need of
your wasting your time, and you might
as well submit first as last. You hail
better right away take down your
check-book, mark tho number of the
check, fill up the blank, sign your
name and hand it to her. There is no
need of wasting time. Those poor children
on the hack street have iieen tiungry long
enough. That sick man must have if ome
farina. That consumptive must have some
thing to ease his cough. I meet this delegate
of a relief society coming out of the store of
such a hard-fisted man, and 1 say: “Did
you get the money f” “Of course,” she
says, “I got the money; that’s what I went
for. The Lord told me to go in and get it,
and He never sends me on a fool’s errand.”
Again: I have to tell you that it is a
woman’s specific right to comfort under the
stress of dire disaster Khe is called the
weaker vessel; but all profane as well as
sacred history, attests that when the
crisis conies she is better prepared than man
to meet the emergency. How often you
have seen a woman who seemed to tie a dis
ciple of frivolity and indolence, who. under
one stroke of calamity, changed to a hero
ine. Oh, what a great mistake those busi
ness men make who never toll their business
troubles to their wives! There comes some
great, loss to their store, or some of their
companions in business play them n sail
trick, and they carry the buiden all atone.
He is asked in the household again and
again: What is the matter? But he be
lieves it is a sort of (!hristian duty to keep
all that trouble within his own soul. Oh,
sir! your first duty was to tell your
wife all about it. Khe, perhaps
•night not have disentngled your
finances, or extended your credit, lint she
would have hel|>ed you to hear misfortune.
You have no right, to carry on one shoulder
that which is intended for two. There are
business men here who know what I mean.
There came a crisis in your affairs. You
struggled bravely and long: but after
awhile there came a day when you said:
“Here I shall have to stop,” and you called
in your partners, nnd you called in the most
prominent men in your employ, ami you
said: “We have got to stop. Youleftthe
store suddenly You could hardly makeup
your mind to pass through the street and
over on the ferry Isint. You felt everybody
would Is l looking at you, and blaming you,
and denouncing you. You hastened home.
Yon told your wife all about tho affair.
What did she say? Did she play the butter
fly? Did she talk about the silks,
and the ribbons, and the fashions?
No. Khe came up to the emer
gency. Khe quailed not under the
stroke. Khe 1io1(h*1 you to liegin to plan
right away. Khe offered to go out of the
comfortable house into a smaller one, uml
wear the old cloak another winter. Khe
was one who understood your affairs with
out blaming you. You looked upm what
you t hought was a thin, weak wo nun’s arm
holding you up; hut while you looked at
that arm, there came into the feeble muscles
of It the strength of the eternal Gist. No
chiding. No fretting. No telling you about
the beautiful lions.' of her father, from
which you brought her, ten, twenty, or
thirty years ago, You soul: “Well, this is
the happiest day of my life. I am glad I
have got from under my burden. My wife
don’t care -I don't care.” At the moment
you were utterly exhausted, God sent a De
rmrah to meet tlie host of the Amalekites
and scatter them like ehaff over the plain.
There are sometimes women who sit reading
sentimental novels, and who wish they Imq
some grand Hold in which to display their
Christian power*. O, what grand and glo
rious things they could do if they only had
an opportunity! My sisters, you n<-ed not
wait" for any such t ime. A crisis w ill come
in your affairs. There will he a Thermop
ylae in your own household where God
will tell you to stand. There are scores
and hundreds of households to day whereas
much bravery and courage are demanded of
woman as was exhibited by Grace Darling,
or Marie Antoinette, or Joan of Arc.
Again: I remark, it is woman’s right to
bring to us the kingdom of hex veil, ft is
easier for n woman to be a Christian than
foreman. Why? You sav she is weaker.
No. Her heart is more responsive to the
pleadings of Divine love. Kite is in vast
majority . The fuct that she eon more easi
ly become a Christian, I prove by the state
ment that three fourths of the mend*'!* of
the i burcb ill Mil (’hristeudom are women,
bo Ood appoints them to the chief aiteuukes
for bringing this world back to God. I may
Maud here and .-.av the soul is immortal
’Hiere is a man who will refute it. I limy
stand here mid sav we are lost and undone
without Christ, There is a man who will
refute it. I may stand here and say there
tie a Judgment l)ay after awhile. Yonder
is someone who will refute it. Hut a Chris
tian woman, in a Christian household, living
in the faith and the consistency of Christ's
Gospel—nobody con refute that. The great
est sermons arc not preached on celebrat(>d
platforms; they are preached with an audi
ence of two or tints', and in private home
life. A consistent, consecrated Christian
service is an unanswerable demonstra
tion of Clod’s truth. A sailor came
slipping down the ratline one night,
as though something hod happened, and Hie
sailors cried' “What's the matterj” He
said: “My mother’s prayers haunt me liken
ghost.” Homo influences, consecrated
Christian home influences, arc the mightiest
of all influences upon the soul. There are
men here to-duy who have maintained tlielr
integrity, not lieeause they wore any hotter
naturally than some other people, hut be
cause there were home influences praying
for them all the time. They got a goad
start. They were launched on the world
with the benedictions of a Christian mother.
They may track Siberian snows, they may
plunge in African jungles, they may fly to
the earth’s end—they cannot go so far and
so fast but the prayers will keep up with
them.
1 stand before women to-day, who have
the eternal salvation of their husbands in
their right hand. On the marriage day you
took an oath before men and angels that
you would l>e faithful and kind until death
did you part, aud 1 believe you are going to
keop that oath, but after that, parting at
the door of the grave, will it be an eternal
separation • Is there any such thing as an
immortal marriage, making the flowers that
grow on the top of the sepulchre brighter
than the garlands which at the marriage
banquet flooded the ah' with aroma/ Yes,
I st and here us a priest of the most high
God, to proclaim the banns of an immortal
union for all those who join hands in the
grace of Christ. 0 woman, is your hus
band, your father, your son, away from
God? The Gird demand* their redemption
at your hands. There are prayers for you
to offer, there are exhortations for you to
five, there are examples for von to set, and
say now, as Paul said to tlio Corinthian
woman: “What knowest thou, O woman,
but thou cansl save thy husband?”
A man was dying, and he said to his wife:
“Rebecca, you wouldn’t let me have family
prayers, and you laughed about idl that.,
and you got me away into worldliness, and
now 1 am going to die, and my fate is
sealed, and you are the cause of my ruin!”
O woman, what knnwest thou hut thou
canst destroy thy husbandf Are there not
some here who have kindly influences at
home? Are there not some here who have
wandered faraway from God who can re
member the (Hiristiau influences in their
early home? Do not despise those influences,
mv brother. If you die without Christ,
what will you do with your mother’s pray
ers, with your wife’s importunities, with
your sister's entreaties? What, will you do
with the letters they used to write to you,
with the memory of Chose days when they
attended you so kindly in times of sickness?
Oh, if there be just one strand holding you
from floating off on that dark ma I would
just like, this morning,' to tuke hold of that,
strand anil pull you to the beach. For the
sake of your wife’s God, for the sake of
v*ur mother’s God, for the sake of your
daughter’s God, for the sake of your sister’s
God, come this day and be saved.
I ,ast ly: J wish to *t> that one of the spe
cific rights of woman is. through the grace
of Christ, finally to roach heaven. O, what
a multitude of women in heaven! Mary,
Christ’s mother in heaven; Elizabeth Fry
in heaven; Charlotte Eliza!sail in heaven,
the mother of Augustine in heaven; the
Countess of Huntingdon—who sold her
splendid jewels to build cUajiol*—in heaven;
while a great many others who have never
been heard of on earth, or known hut little,
have gone into the rest and peace of heaven.
What a rest! What a change it was from
the small room, with no lire mid one win
dow, the glass broken out, and the aching
sale, and worn-out eyes, to the “house of
many mansions!” No more stitching until
12 o'clock at night, no more thrusting of
the thumb by tne employer through the
work to show it was not done quite right.
Plenty of bread at lost. Heaven for
aching i ovule. Heaven for broken
hearts. Heaven for anguish-bitten
frames. No inoresitt.lng up until midnight
for the coming of staggering steps. No
more rough blows aero , the temples. No
more sharp, keen, bitter curses. Home of
you will have no rest in this world. It will
be toll, ami struggle, and suffering, all the
way up. You will have to stana at your
door fighting back the wolf with your
own hand, red with carnage. Hut God has a
crown for you. I want to reulize this morn
ing that Ho is now making it, aud whenever
you weep a tear He sets another gem in that
crown, whenever you have a pang of body
or soul, He puts another gem in that crown,
until, after a while, in all the tiara there
will lie no room for another splendor, and
God will say to His angel: “The crown is
done; let her up that she may wear it.”
And as the Lord of Righteousness puts the
crown upon your brow, angel will cry to
angel: “Who is she?” aud Christ will sny:
“1 will tell you who she is. Hhe
is the one t hat i-anie up out of great tri bu •
lution, and her rols* washed and made while
in the blood of the Lamb.” And then God
will spread a banquet, and He will invite
all the principalities of heaven to sit at the
feast; and the tables will blush with best
clusters from the vineyards of God, and
crimson with the twelve manner of fruits
from th" Tree of Life; and waters from the
fountains of the rock will flush from the
golden tankards; and the old harjiers of
heaven will sit there, making music with
their harps; and Christ, will point, you out,
amid the celebrities of heaven, saying:
“Hhe suffered with Me on earth, now we
are going to be glorified together.” And
the banqueters, no longer able to hold their
peace, will break fort,h with congratulation:
“Hail! hail!” And there will Vie handwrit
ings on the wall—not sueh a* struck the
Persian nobleman with horror —but flre
tippisi Angers, writing in blazing capitals of
light, and love, and victory: “God hath
wiped away all tears from all facos!”
DEATH OF AN ACTRESS.
Boston Loved Her for Her Blameless
Life and Charity.
Boston, Hept. 4. —Mrs. J. R. Vincent,
widely knowu for many years ns a memlier
of the Bottom Museum Dramatic Company,
died shortly after 2 o’clock this morning of
appoplexy. Hhe was able to iierform her
duties at the Museum up to Wednesday
last when the stroke came which
ended her long and varied career. Mrs.
Vincent’s stage life began in 1886, and the
semi-centennial of her debut was oliserved
at the inu-euui two years ago, Hhe was
dearly beloved in Boston on account of hor
blameless life nnd unostentatious charity.
Death at Bl&ckahear.
Blackhiieak.Ga. Hept. 4.—T. J. Roberts,
father of M in. Allen Brown, of the Brown
ihius", dnsi very suddenly to-day at 1:18
o'clock. He was dressed and sitting on thu
Iwd, when he was stricken with congestion
of the brain, and only lived a few minuUs).
Mr. Roberts was the oldest aud on* of tlu>
hast citiMiw of lilac kshear.
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PHILADELPHIA’S PLANS.
THE PRESIDENT TO BE GIVEN A
ROUND OF PLEASURES.
A Definite Statement of the Pro*
gramme for the Benefit, of Tnose
Who Want to See the Constitutional
Centennial Ceremonies Mrs. Cleve
land to be a Prominent Figure.
Philadelphia, Hept. 4.—Chairman
Thompson of the reception committee of the
Constitution Centennial celehration, hat
addressed the following to the Associated
Press:
Reception Committee, 1
Const’l Centennial 'ki.ebration, >
Hept. 3, 1887. )
During the past few days a number of
letter* and telegrams have been received by
this committee, in addition to a large
number of personal inquiries, asking infor
mation as to the arrival and movements !
the President of the United States and Mr*.
Cleveland (luring the week of the
Constitutional Centennial celebratiion.
In response to these inquiries, I deem
my duty as chairman of the Reception Com
mittee to give the public such information
as is in our possession. The President, nr
companied by Mrs. Cleveland, will arriv#
hore on Thurday, Hept. 15, and will be at
once escorted to the Lafayette Hotel, where
rooms have lieen secured for them. On
Friday morning from 1) to 10:30 o’clock he
will Ixi present at n reception tendered him
by the Commercial Exchange. From this re
ception he will lie escorted to the grand
stand on Broai Street. arriving at the stand
at II o'clock. Mrs. Cleveland will view the
military parade from the Lafayette Hotel.
In the evening the President, will attend a
rei-eption at. the Academy of Music ten
dered by the Constitutional Centennial Com
mission. At this reception Mi's. Cleveland
will receive with the President, assisted by
members of the Cabinet nnd their wives.
Saturday morning from 9 until 10:80
o’clock, at a public reception, the place to
be hereafter designated, the President will
be happy to receive all those who desire to
|mv their respects. From this reception he
will proceed to Independence square,
where he will participate In the ceremonies
there and deliver an address. Mrs Cleve
land will occupy a seat on the stand during
the ceremonies.
In the evening the President will attend a
banquet at the Academy of Music given by
the University of Pennsylvania, American
Philosophical Society, Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, College of Physicians of
Philadelphia, Franklin Institute of the
.State of Pennsylvania. Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, and the Law
Academy of Philadelphia. Immediately
after the banquet he will return to Wash
ington.
Mrs. Cleveland will lie entertained on
Saturday afternoon and evening by a num
ber of her friends, hut will he present at
the Academy of Music during the latter
lart of the evening to hear the addresses
made on that occasion.
The chairman of the committee ha* per
sonal assurances from President and Mrs.
Cleveland as to their approval of the above
arrangement.
Tlie Constitutional Centennial Commis
skm and Executive Committee are laboriug
earnestly and enthusiastically to make the
celebration a grand success, and will, in a
few ilays, issue a programme, giving full
detaiLs and pvticular*. Rcsiieetfully, ’
Thomas M Thompson,
Chairman Reception Committee.
GERMAN WAR VETERANS.
A Magnificent Parade at Chicago Stirs
Up Their Enthusiasm.
Chicago, Sept. 4. Iron crosses, emblems
of bravery bestowed by Emperor W illiam,
of Germany, on the defender* of the Vater
land, adorned the breasts of several hun
dred of the 6,000 German warriors who
marched in the procession through the
streets of Chicago to-day to the camp ground
of the North American Kriegerbund. In
addition to crosses there were medals
innumerable, and the colors of Deutchland
brightened every participant in the day’s re
union and festivities. It was the fourtii
anniversary and grand “come together” of
the German born American citizens who
ever shouldered arms for the sake of their
fatherland, especially in 1871. To these
German ex-soldiers the occasion seemed a
veritable Fourth of -Tuiy Representatives
from almost all the laege cities in the United
Ktatos were in line, and the hearty cheen?
which greeted them as they marched mad*
them a very proud and happy set of men.
A MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE.
As the gayly uniformed veterans passed
north on Clark street to Sharpshooters
Park, keeping step to “Die Wacht Am
Rhein,” and other airs so familiar to them
ail, they presented a magnificent spectacle.
So great was the enthusiasm that more than
once the music of the hands, to say nothing
of the Sabbath stillness, was lost in
the outbursts of the old German warri ,i* in
honor of Kaiser Wilhelm and the first re
union of the German war veterans which
Chicago has ever seen.
At the park the day wa* given up to a
volksfest, an affair corresponding to the
American picnics. The only event of
a formal character was late in the da’ .
when Williem Vocke of Chicago, delivered
a festival address. He contrasted the Ger
mans and French, eulogized th# German
soldiers, and urged his hearers to be as loyal
to the United States as they had been to
(lermany. Tbo sentiment Was cheered to
the echo.
CHARLESTON’S GROWTH.
The Showing for the Year a Good On
Under the Circumstances.
Charleston, H. C., Hept. 4. —The AViei
and Courier will publish to-morrow an
elalsirate review of the trade of the com.
mercial year. It shows a heavy falling off
in cotton receipts, but a heavy gain in th-i
receipt* of nuval Rtores and domestics. Th*
mnount of the general wholesale and re to u
trade and of manufactures is $3,000,000
in excess of the previous year. The total
trade is over $66,250,000, only S6OO,(XX) lt-x
than In the preceding year, despite the di
minished cotton receipts. Special official
crop reports snow that ini
cotton crop will exceed 1c v
vear in this State by 6,000 bales, con
hv 000,000 bushels and wheat and oats I<>
500?000 luiahel* each. The New* and Cos"
rier review of the earthquake's work • I
show that in the (last year over 6 ( 000 bull
ings have lieen rebuilt or repaired, and th t
271 absolutely new buildings have bes
erected. The whole coat is $4,300,000, • 0
which Charleston spent at least $3,000,0tw
A Fatal Fall From a Train.
Washington, Hept 4.—Yesterday morn
ing Dr. A. Whit mere, of Waterloo, 111.
while en route to Washington, fell from i
a train on the Baltimore aiid Ohio railivai
near Grafton, W. Vo., and wa* afterwsn
puked up near the track in an unronwhiui
condition. He was uot minted until th<
train neared Washington. A telegram .x
ceived by his frieuds hare tonight sot
Bounce* that ho ha* died of hi* injuria*.