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4 ESTABLISHED Ifcao. ) I *l. H. EfeTILL, Editor and Proprietor. ) 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. I PRICE fin A VEAR. ( ) .1 CENTS A COPY. ( 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*.