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i ESTABLISHED 1850 >
) J. H. EfcTILL, Editor and Proprietor, f
SHE IS MADE ELIGIBLE.
MR. SCHUYLER DECIDES THAT THE
THISTLE MAY SAIL.
The Discrepancy in the Report on the
Length of Her Waterline Accepted
as Unintentional—Any Great Error
in Stating Dimensions Would Ordi
narily Vitiate a Racing Agreement.
New York, Sept. 35.—At a meeting of
the New York Yacht Club last night it was
decided to refer th> eligibility of the Scotch
yacht Thistle as a competitor in the Amer
ica’s cup race to George L. Schuyler, as
umpire. Mr. Schuyler was handed the
measurements as made by the committee
and Mr. Bell, and his report to-day is as
follows:
New York, Sent. ‘l4, 188"
James D. Smith, Esij., Chairman America's
Cup Committee yew York Yacht Club:
My reply to the questions submitted to me by
you and Mr. Bell is as follows: The clause in the
deed of gift, which requires, besides the Custom
House measurement, the statement of the di
mension of the vessel, is intended to convey just
the idea of capacity at the same time without
reference to any rule as to racing tonnage
which may be in force at the time the
challenge was given. The length of the load
water line is an essential element. It was fur
nished by both the Oenestn and Galatea, amt
had it not been given by the Thistle the commit
tee should have demanded it before tile terms
of the match. Mr. Bell did. however, furnish the
load water line of the Thistle, notwithstanding
h;s misapprehensions of the necessity of doing so
for the reason, as stated by himself, that it the
information was withheld, it would be impossi
ble to determine, with any approach to acou
racy the power of his boat, a reason which
proves the necessity of the load water line lieing
a factor in giving the dimensions of the vessel,
as well as a desire of Mr. Bell to do everything
in his power to make a fair trial between
the contestants for the cup. Your second ques
tion refers to the discrepancy between the load
water line of the Thistle, as furnished by the
tetter of March 10, 1887, about 85 feet, and the
actual measurement made in New York, 80.40.
The subject of the load water line of a vessel
commission is accurately official, but before
launching, as was the case with the Thistle,
there was no course to the owner but to apply
to his designer for the necessary information.
This was none, and the certificate of the de
signer was forwarded, stating tta it was im
possible to give exactly the water line length.
This, however, is her designer's length, and
when she is afloat and in racing trim I
have no reason to expect that it will
be more than an inch or two
either way. The importance of accuracy in
giving the dimensions of a yacht challenging
for a cup is so great that any decision reached
in any one case cannot be used as a precedent
in any other which may arise; any great error
in any of the dimensions, whether through
mistake or design, would vitiate the agree
ment. A small one ought to be
governed by the circumstances attending it, and
always on the liberal side, although the varia
tion between the stated and actual load water
line is so large as to be a groat disadvantage to
the defender of the cup; still, as Mr. Bell could
only rely upon the statement of his
designer, he cannot in this particular
case be held accountable for the re
markably inaccurate information received
from him and I therefore decide that the varia
tion is not sufficient to disqualify him from start
ing the Thistle in the race agreed upon.
Respectfully yours, George L. Schuyler.
The above report is entirely satisfactory
to all the members of the America’s Cup
Committee and the New York Yacht Club.
MR. WATSON’S PROTEST.
In reference to the decision of Referee
Schuyler, who was appointed to pass upon
the alleged discrepancy in the Scotch cutter
Thistle's dimensions at the water line,
George L. Watson, the Thistle’s designer,
to-night issued the following protest:
As Mr. Schuyler's reply to the Chairman of
the American Cup Committee has been made
public, and as that reply will doubtless be print
ed by you, I iCould venture in my own defense
to say a word or two regarding the final
paragraph, which reflects. in some
degree at least, on myself. Mr. Schuy
ler very properly exonerates Mr.
Bell from all blame in the matter, placing it
with perfect justice on "his designer," but, as
he previously implies than an error has been
made, through mistake or design, it becomes
necessary for me to protest against at least half
of this insinuation. '.lust here let me say I feel
sure this paragraph is simply infelicitous. Mr.
Schuyler is too Uigh-minaed a gent leman, and
too honorable a gentleman, to entertain unwor
thy suspicions of others. At the same, time
some of the readers of his decision may inter
pret it hthenvi.se. While, then, the Thistle
lias been sailed in Britain, as she will tie hrre,
at a line lower than her designed draft,
and is consequently from her great over
hang forward and aft, one foot five and a half
inehes longer than I intended or supposed
-tie "would he, I most emphatically deny, that
1 had any intention that she would lie longer or
shorter tha.i the K' feet she was designed
for. She is • new type of boot, built under
no met n new tonnage law uiul after getting her
into sailing trim'the yacht-racing Association's
official measurer found her to lie 80.40 feet long
or three-quarters of an inch bhorter
than the New York Club measurer
found her to lie. The New York Y'acht
Club scale of time allowance is sup?
posed to adjust all difference of length and
sail area, and wa* devised for that purpose. If
under this rule extra length lie an advantage it
would he os unfair to accuse Mr. Burgess of
unchivalrous conduct in designing the I mat ten
and a half inches longer titan the vessel tie
expected to meet as to blame me for meeting
the Volunteer with a boat which, inadver
tentiyis seven inches longer than the Volunteer.
While throughout this contest 1 have maintained
such secrecy as seined to me advisable
f as a whist player has every
right to conceal his own hand)
I would rather lose all chance of the cup than
that one of the many millions of that t>eople
which Charles Reade calls ‘ the most generous
nation under the sun,” should suppose we tried
for it except in a strictly honorable way. In
their hands I confidently leave the matter. 1
am. sir, faithfully yours,
G. L. Watson.
BOHEMIANS PLEASED.
Mrs. Cleveland Writes a Pretty Little
Note Accepting 1 Their Gift.
Chicacjo, Kept. 35. —Great joy is mani
fested among the Bohemians of the eitv.
Sometime sineea Hoherniiin paper, of Cleve
land, (),, the Dennice Sovorrka, announced
that Mrs. Cleveland declined to accept a
prelent which the Bohemian Turners were
going to make her. Last Monday the
magnificent gift was sent to
Washington. The few days that
have elapsed since then seemed years
to every Bohemian citizen of Chicago,
every one of whom awaited in 1I vatienlly the
leply from the President’s wife. Finally,
yesterday afternoon a reply came to Dr.
Patera, w ho was one of the members of the
1 oiumittee that presented to Mrs. Cleveland
the gift in the name of the Bohemian
Turners of America. Dr. Patera at once
untitled the other members of the commit
tee of the receipt of the letter. They told
their friends, it was carried to otiiers and
thus in one day all the Bohemian residents
of the city were aware of the good news.
Mrs. Cleveland's letter reads as follows:
Oak View, VVashiniiton, Kepi. ;£i, IHBT.
ilettr* K /*(/, ,•,i, chorlm .Stmil and Jot.
Kottnrr, t'onoitfffee, JCte.;
Dsntlmik.v 1 neg thst you will convey to the
member* of the Bohemian DymnssUc Aasocta
•ion of America my sincere (hank* for their
isautlful arlft, which has Just reached me. It
goe me gieat plea Mire to icu'pt it, both for
h* iuirinsic value a* u specimen of the tlnest
bohemian handiwork and a* *n expression of
•he kindly iWlmg ami good will of the nietnbers
°* ihe asaociotlon. Very stnecrely.
pNASris Folsom t Lsvai.xen.
Killed by a Pall From Horee
CnAKunyoK,S.C.,iept 25.—J.8. Mershal'.
• drummer from Richmond, V#., was killed
Ji HeiUiettavUlo, in this HUte, to-day, by a
hsU irem a hum
Wht JHofttiitg
DISORDERS IN ERIN.
Police and the People Have Several
Skirmishes.
Dublin, Sept. 35. —1n Belfast last night
a mob wrecked an inn and pelted the
police with stones. The police were rein
forced and order was restored.
Several league meetings in Clare to-day
were dispersed by police without resistance.
The excitement in Ferntoy, caused by the
police dispersing a meeting there last night,
has been quieted. Several persons received
scalp wounds in the disturbance last night.
PRIESTS INTERCEDE.
Fkrmoy, Sept. 35.—The priests Yeecured
order on the police removing their swords.
Stones were afterward thrown, injuring
many constables. The mob clubbed by the
police, fetched from Mitchellstown, pelted
them with stones and bottles. Some were
disabled. Capt. Plunkett commanded the
police and restored order. Father O’Cal
laghan says I)r. Tanner had been speaking
only four or five minutes when the
police appeared. They did not re
quest the people to disperse, nor did
they read the riot act, but without notice
they charged upon the crowd, batoning men
right and left. The disorder was over at 11
o’clock at night. After that hour eight
Constables clubbed a man named O’Leary,
who was quietly proceeding home. It was
O’Leary who identified Doran as the Con
stable who shot Lohnergan at Mitchells
town.
Dr. Tanner, Irish Nationalist member of
Parliament, in response to the demands of a
crowd made a speech to-day from the bal
cony of his hotel. He denounced the action
of the police at Michellstown and the trial
of Editor VVilhr.ra O’Brien, when the police
charged upon the crowd and a melee was
the result. The crowd stoned the police,
many of whom received severe injuries.
The police used their batons and injured
fourteen persons, who were nearly all con
veyed to a hospital.
A ROW OVER THE ANARCHISTS.
Turbulent Scenes at the Central Labor
Union’s Meeting.
New York, Sept. 35.—The Central Labor
Union’s meeting to-day came near being the
scene of a free fight. A series of resolutions
were offered calling upon the Union to con
demn the Illinois Supreme Court Judges for
sentencing the seven Anarchists in Chicago.
The resolutions were listened to quietly, but
as soon as they were finished Delegate Wein
stein, a printer, moved that a committee be
appointed to call a mass meeting to con
demn the sentence.
This was followed by a motion to lay the
resolutions on the table. The Socialists
protesed vehemently, and the motion was
lost.
Then the Anarchists were attacked by
Hugh W. Horskey, of the Carpenters and
.Joiners Union, and Vice Chairman Me-
Kimni made a furious onslaught upon all
Socialists and Anarchists.
The uproar following was deafening and
the proprietor of the hall appeared upon
the platform begging the delegates to desist
as his business would be ruined by such a
noise on Sunday afternoon.
Comparative quiet being restored George
G. Block, of the National Bakers’
Union, began speaking on the resolu
tions. He was interrupted by a cry of
‘•God bless the hand that threw that
bomb.”
“Yes,” added Mr. Black; “God bless that
bomb.”
The majority of the delegates cried
“Shame,” and another scene of confusion
ensued.
Finally a motion was made to call the
previous question, and this was adopted.
The final vote in favor of Delegate Wein
stein’s motion carried, and the minority
left the hall under protest.
SPEAKING FOR THE ANARCHISTS.
George Francis Train to be Heard
Every Day Till the Hanging.
New York, Sept. 35. —George Francis
Train spoke for the first, time in many years
at Webster Hall to-night in favor of the
condemned Anarchists. The proceeds of
the admission fees charged were to go to
the support of the men’s families. Mr.
Train spoke ramblingly for nearly two
hours, most, of the time not referring to the
Anarchist* in any way. John Most suc
ceeded Mr. Train, but he was careful not to
offend the police present in civilian's dress
by anything he said. The receipts will
probably amount to S2OO. Mr. Train said
that he would speak every night for the
Anarchists families*'support until Nov. 11,
the day of the execution.
PROHIBITION IN MAINE.
Neal Dow Denies That the Law is a
Failure—United Labor’s Aim.
New York, Sept. 25. —There was a rous
ing meeting held in the big hall of Cooper
union*to-day by the Manhattan Temperance
Association, which s?rved the double pur
pose of welcoming Neal Dow, the leader of
the Prohibitionist, and greeting Dr. Me-
Glynn. Mr. Dow was introduced and
spoke at some length. He said
that when they iiegan to fight for prohibition
in Maine they encountered great opposition,
but they g< it the people thoroughly educated
on the subject and then induced them to
cast their votes for legislators who would
vote for prohibition and succeeded. It was
generally said that prohibition hail tailed
in Maine, but those who said so
knew no wing about the State. Dr. Mc-
Glynn then responded to repeated calls, and
declared his appreciation of his greeting.
He said that the United party and
Prohibition |>arty were both striving to the
same end. They might differ as to the
means, but tha ends were identical.
NEW YORK’S CHOI,ERA SHIP.
Three More Deaths 23 of the People
Now Very 111.
New York, Bcpt. 25. —The cholera
stricken steamship Alesia still swings at
anchor off the lower quarantine, and her
passengers ai-e still hold on Hoffman Island.
Two patients died at 5 o’clock last evening,
and one expired at ft o’clock this morning.
Francesco Cesorio, aged 83 years, was re
ntoxed from the Hoffman Island Hospital
to Swinburne Island to-day. He is very
sick.
Twenty-three of the passengers are now
very ill. Uesario is likely to die. The others
are improving.
Ex-Soldiers Want Land.
New York, Kept. 25.—A meeting of
veteran* of the late war was held to-day
and a labor club organised. Resolutions
were adopted to the end that the govern
ment should grant Western land to war
veteran* and advance passage money and
means for working the land. The movers
of the resolution will attempt to secure the
indorsement of the Union Istbor party.
Napoleon's hemulns Reported Stolen.
Paris, Herd. 25.—-The Onuloit pul dishes
s report, which it does not credit, to the
effect that the remains of Napoleon I have
been stolen from the tomb in the Hotel Des
Invslides and cost to the wind*
Evening newspaper* deny the truth of
the report conusming Naptasoo's leroains.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1887.
UP AND DOWN RELIGION.
THE PIETY OF THE PRESENT DAY
TOO HORIZONTAL.
Divine Measurement Needed to Bring
the Wall of Character Into Plumb—
The Divine Plumbline Needs to be
Thrown Over All Religion—Pressure
to Do Wrong.
Brooklyn, Sept. 35.— After the great
congregation had snug the long-meter
doxology in the Brooklyn Tabernacle this
morning, Dr. Talmage expounded the sixth
chapter of the second epistle to the Corin
thians, setting forth the importance of sepa
ration from had fellowship, and saying that
a man is no better than the company he
keeps. Professor Henry Eyre Brown played
an organ solo, Sonata No. 1 in D minor, by
Guillmani. The subject of the sermon was
“A Straight Up-and-Down Religion,” and
the text was Amos vii., 8: “And the Lord
said unto me, Ames, what seest thou? and
I said, A plumbline.” Dr. Talmage said:
The solid masonry of the world has to me
a fascination. Walk about some of the tri
umphal arches and the cathedrals, four or
six hundred years old, and see them stand
as erect as when they were builded, walls
of great height for centuries, not bending a
quarter of an inch this way or that. So
greatly honored were the masons who
builded these walls that they were free from
taxation and called “free” masons. The
trowel gets most of the credit for these
buildings, and its clear ringing on stone and
brick nas sounded across the ages. But
there is another implement of just as much
importance as the trowel, and my text rec
ognizes it. Bricklayers, and stone masons,
and carpenters, in the buildings of walls,
use an instrument made of a cord, at the
end of which a lump of lead is fastened.
They drop it over the side of the wall, and
as the plummet naturally seeks the centre of
gravity in the earth,the workman discovers
where the wall recedes, and where it bulges
out, and just what is the perpendicular.
Our text represents God as standing on the
wall of character, which the Israelites had
built, and in that way measuring it. “And
the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest
thoiu and I said, a plumbline ”
What the world w ants is a straight up
and-dovra religion. Much of the so-called
piety of the day bends this way and that, to
suit the times. It is horizontal with a low
state of sentiment and morals. We have all
been building a wall of character, and it is
glaringly imperfect and needs reconstruc
tion. How shall it be brought into the per
pendicular* Only by the divine measure
ment. “And the Lord said to me, Amos,
what seest thou? and*l said, A plumb
line.”
The whole tendency of the time is to
make us act by the standard of what others
do. If they play cards, we play cards. If
they dance, we dance. If they read certain
styles of books, we read them. Wo throw
over the wall of our character the tangled
plumbline of other lives and reject the in
fallible test which Amos saw. The question
for me should not be what you think is
right, but what God thinks is right. This
perpetual reference to the behavior of
others, as though it decided anything but
human fallibility, is a mistake as wide as
the world. There are ten thousand
plumblines in use, but only one
is true and exact, and that is the
line of God’s eternal right. There is a
mighty attempt lieing made to reconstruct
and fix up tne Ten Commandments. To
many they seem too rigid. The tower of
Pisa leans over about thirteen feet from the
perpendicular, and people go thousands of
miles to see its graceful inclination, and by
extra braces and various architectural con
trivances it is kept leaning from century to
century. Why not have the ten granite
blocks of Sinai set a little aslant? Why not
have the pillar of truth a leaning tower?
Why is not an ellipse as good as a square?
Why is not an oblique as good as straight
up and down? My friends, we must have
a standard; shall it be God’s or man’s?
The ilivins plumbline needs to be thrown
over all merchandise. Thousands of years
ago Solomon discovered the tendency of
buyers to depreciate goods. He saw a man
beating down an article lower and lower,
and saying it was not worth the price
asked, and when he had purchased at the
lowest pointin' told everybody what a sharp
bargain he had struck, and how he hud out
witted the merchant. Proverbs, xx., 14:
“It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer;
but when he is gone his way, then lie boast
eth.” So utterly askew is society in this
matter that you seldom find a seller asking
the price that he expects to get. He puts
on a higher value than he proposes to re
ceive, knowing that he will have to drop.
And if he wants fifty, he ask,-, seventy-five.
And if he wants 2,000 he asks 3,500. “It is
naught,” saith the buyer. “The fabric is de
fective; the style of goods is poor; I can get
elsewhere a better article at a smaller price.
It is out of fashion; it is damaged; it will
fade; it will not wear well.” After awhile
the merchant, from over-persuasion or from
desire to dispose of that particular stock of
goods, says: “Well, take it at your own
price,” and the purchaser goes home with
light step and calls into his private office his
confidential friends, ami chuckles while he
tells how that for half price he got the
goods. In other words, he lies and was
proud of it. Nothing would make times ns
good, and the earning of a livoliinxid so easy
as the universal adoption of the law of
right. Suspicion strikes through all
bargain-making. Men who scii know
not whether they will ever get
the money. Purchasers know not
whether the goods shipped will be accord
ing to the sample. And what, with the
large number of clerks who are making
false entries and then absconding to Cana
da, and the explosion of firms that fail for
millions of dollars, honest men are at their
wit’s end to make an honest living. He who
stands up amid all the pressure and does
right is accomplishing something toward
the establishment of a high commercial
prosperity. 1 have deep sympathy for the
laboring classes who toil with bond and
foot. But we must not forget the business
men who, without any complaint or ban
nered professions through the street, are
enduring a stress of circumstances terrific.
The fortunate people of to-day are those
who are receiving daily wages on regular
salaries. And the men most, to be pitiod
are those who conduct a business while
prices are falling, and yet try to jmy their
clerks and employes, and are in such fear
ful straits that they would
quit business to-morrow if it
were not for the wreck and ruin of
others. When people tell me at what a
ruinously low price they purchased on arti
cle it gives me more dismay than satisfac
tion. 1 know it means the bankruptcy and
defalcation of men in many department*.
The men who toil with the Brain need full
as much sympathy as those who toil with
Min hand. All business life is struck through
with suspicion, tuid panic* are rally the re
sult of want of confluence.
The pressure to do wrong U all the strong
er from the fact that in our day the large
business houses are nwullowilig up the
smaller, the whales dining on blue fish and
minnows. Tbs large houses undersell the
small ones lersua they can afford it. They
con afford to make nothing, or actually
lose, on some styles of goods, assured they
con tanks it up on other*- tin, a groat dry
g<sd* house goes outside of Ita regu
lar line and sells books at cost or
less than cost, and that, swamps the book
sellers ;or,the dry goods house sells bric-a-brac
at lowest figure, that swamps the small
dealer in brie-a-brac. And the same tiling
goes on in other styles of merchandise, and
the consequence is that all along the busi
ness street* of all our cities there are mer
chants of small capital, who are in terrific
st ruggle to keep their heads above water. The
Cunarders run down the Newfoundland
fishing smacks. This is nothing against, the
man who has the big store, for every man
has as large a store, and as great a business
ns he can manage. To feel right, and do
right under all this pressure requires martyr
grace, requires divine support, requires
celestial reinforcement. Yet there are tens
of thousands of such men getting splendidly
through. They see others going up ami
themselves going down, and they
keep their patience, and their cour
age, and their Christian consistency, and
alter a while their turn of success
will come. The owners of the big business
will die and their boys will get possession of
the business, and with a cigar in their !
mouth, and full to the chin with the best j
liquor, and behind a pair of spanking bays. !
they will pass everything on the turnpike
road to temporal and eternal perdition.
Then the business will break up, and the
smaller dealers will have fair opportunity.
Or tin* spirit of contentment and right feel
ing will take possession of the large firm, as
recently in the ease of the great house of A.
A. Low & Cos., and the firm will say: “YVe
have enough money for all our net sis, and
the needs of our children; now let us dissolve
business and make wav for other men in
the same line." Instead of being start led at
a solitary instance of magnanimity, as in
the ease just mentioned, it will become a
common thing. I know of scores of great
business houses that have had their oppor
tunity of vast accumulation, and
who ought to quit. But perhaps for all the
days of this generation the struggle of small
houses to keep alive under the overshadow
ing pressure of great houses will continue;
therefore, taking tilings as they are, you
will lie wise to preserve your equilibrium,
and your honesty, and your faith, and throw
over all the counters, and shelves, and bar
rels, and hogsheads, and cotton 1 wiles, and
rice casks, the measuring line of divine
right. “And the Lord said unto me, ‘Amos,
what seest thou?’ and I said: ‘A plumb
line.’”
In the same way we need to measure our
theologies. All softs of religions are putting
forth their pretensions. Some have a
spiritualistic religion, and their chief work is
with ghosts, and othors a religion of politi
cal economy proposing to put an eud to
human misery by anew style of taxation,
and there is a humanitarian religion that
looks after the body of men and lets the
soul look after itself, and there is a legisla
tive religion t hat proposes to rectify all
wrongs by enactment of bettor laws, and
there is an aesthetic religion that by rules of
exquisite taste would lift the heart out of
its deformities, and religions of all sorts, re
ligions by the peck, religions by the square
foot, and religions buy the ton —all of them
devices of the devil that would take the
heart away from the only religion that will
ever effect anything for the human race, and
that is the straight up and down religion writ
ten in the book, which begins with Genesis
and ends with Revelation, the religion of the
skies, the old religion, the God-given re
ligion, the everlasting religion, which says:
“Love C4od above all and your neighbor as
yourself.” All religions but the one begin
at the wrong end and in the wrong place.
Tne Bible religion demands that we first get
right with God. It begins at the top anil
measures down, while the other religious
liegin at the bottom and try to measure up.
They stand at the foot of the wall, np to
their knees in the mud of human theory
and speculation, and have a plummet and a
string tied fast to it. And they throw the
plummet this way, and break a head tjiere,
and throw the plummet another way, anil
break a head there, and then they throw it
up, and it comes down upon their own
pate. Fools! Why will you stand at
the foot of tho wall measuring up
when you ought to stand at the top
nieasuring down? A few days ago I was in
the country, thirsty after a long walk. And
I came in, and my child was blowing soap
bubbles, and they rolled out of the cup,
blue, and gold, and green, and sparkling,
and beautiful, and orbicular, and in so small
a space I never saw more splendor concen
trated. But she blew once too often and all
the glory vanished into suds. Thon i turn
ed and took a glass of plain water, and was
refreshed. And so far as soul thirst is con
cerned, I put against all the glowing, glit
tering soap-bubbles of worldly reform and
human speculation, one draught front the
fountain from under the throne of God,
clear as crystal. Glory lie to Go l for the
religion that drops from aliove, not coming
up From beneath! “And the Lord said unto
me, ‘Amos, what seest thou’? and I said, ‘A
plumbline.’ ”
I want you to notice this fact, that when
a man gives up the straight up-and-down
religion in the Bible for any new-fangled
religion, it is generally to suit his sins. You
first hear of Ins change of religion, and then
you hear of some swindle he has practiced
in Colorado mining stock, telling someone
if he will put in ten thousand dollars he can
take out a hundred thousand, or lie has
sacrificed his chastity, or plunged into irre
mediable worldliness. His sins are so broad
he has to broaden his religion, and he be
comes as hroa 1 as temptation, as brood as the
soul's darkness, as broad as hell. They
want a religion that, will allow them to
keep their sins, and then at death say to
them: “Well done, good and faithful ser
vant,” and that tells them: “All is well for
there is no hell.” What a glorious heaven
they hold liefore us! Come, let us go in and
see it. There is Herod and all the babes he
massacred. There is Charles Guiteau, and
Jim Fiske, anil Roliespierre, the friend of
tiic French guillotine, and all tho liars,
thieves, house-burners, garroters, pick
pockets and libertines of ail the centuries.
They have all got crowns, and thrones, and
harps, and sceptres, and when they chant
they sing: “Thanksgiving, and honor, and
glory, and power to the Broad Religion that
li t us all into heaven without repentance
anil faith in those disgraceful dogmas of
ecolesiastii al old-fogyism.”
My text give* me a grand opportunity of
saving a useful word to all young men, who
are now forming habits for a lifetime. Of
what use to a stonemason or a bricklayer is
a plumbline f Why not build the wall by
the unaided eye and hand? Because they
are insufficient ; because if there lie a ileflec
tion in the wall it cannot, farther on lie cor
rected. Because by the law of gravitation
a wall must lie straight in order to lx* sym
metrical nnd safe. A young man is in dan
ger of getting a defect in his wall of charac
ter tluit nmy never be corrected. One of
the |>e*t friends 1 ever hail died of delirium
tremens, at iki years of age, though he had
not, since 21 years of age-before which lie
had tieen dissipated -touched intoxicating
liquor until that particular carousal that
took him off. Not feeling well In a street,
on a hot summer day, be stepiied into a
urug store, Just a* you and! would have
done, and asked for a dose of something to
make him fuel bettor. And there was
alcohol in the dose. and that
one drop n rotund the old appe
tite. and no entered the first liquor store,
and stayed there until thoroughly uniter the
power of rum. He entered his home a
raving maniac, his wife and 'laughters flee
ing from his pteowiee. until lie was taken to
the City hospital to die. Tin- eomhuaUMa
inotorial of early habit had lain quiet nearly
forty year*, son liat ons snorfc if inted the
conflagration. Remember that, the wall
may be one hundred feet high, and yet a
deflection one foot from the foundation af
fects the entire structure. And if you live
a hundred years and do right the last eighty
years, you may nevertheless do something
at twenty veal’s of age thht will damage all
your earthly existence. All you who have
built houses for yourselves or for others, am
I not right in saying to these young men,
you cannot build a wall so high as to lie in
dependent of the character of its founda
tion! A man before thirty years of
age may commit enough sin to last him a
lifetime, A cat that has killed one pigeon
cannot tie cured. Keep it from killing the
tii-st pigeon. Now, John, or George, or
Charles, or William, or Alexander, or An
drew, or whatever lie your Christian name
or surname, say here and now: “No wild
oats for me, no cigars or cigarettes for me,
no wine or beer for me, no nasty stories for
me, no Biinday sprees for me, 1 am going to
start, right and keep on right. God help
me, for lam very weak. From the throne
of eternal righteousness let down to me the
principles by which I can lie guided in build
mg everything from foundation to capstone.
liord God, by the wounded hand of Christ,
throw me a plumbline !'*
I-ord Nelson's general direction when go
ing into naval battle was, no man can <u>
wrong that places his ship close alongside
that, of the enemy. My friend, you will
never do wrong if you keep your life clone
alongside the Ten Commandments. Do
right, and you can lie as brave as Maria
Theresa, who rode up the Hill of Defiance
and shook her sword at the four corners of
the earth.
“But,” you say, “you shut us young folks
out from all fun.” Oh, no! I like fun. I
believe in fuu. I have had lots of it in my
time. But I have not hail to go into paths
of sin to Und it. No credit to me, but lie
cause of an extraordinary parental exam
ple and influence I was kept from outward
transgressions, though my heart was bad
enough and desperately wicked. I have hail
fun illimitable, though I never swore one
oath, and never gambled for so much as the
value of a pin, and never saw the inside of
a haunt of sin save, as when ten ycarsf igo,
with Commissioner of I’olioe and a detec
tive and two elders of my church, I explored
these cities by midnight, not out of cu
riosity, but that I might in pulpit discourse
set, before the people the poverty and the
horrors of underground city life. Yet,
though I never was intoxicated for an in
stant, and never committed one act of disso
luteness, restrained only by the grace of
God, without which restraint I would have
gone headlong to the bottom of in
famy, I have had so much fun tiiat, I
don’t believe there is a man on the planet in
the present time who has hail more. Hear
it, men and boys, women and girls, all the
fun is on the side of right,. Bin may seeni
attractive, but it is deathful, anil like tho
nmnchineel, a tree whose dews are poison
ous. The only genuine happiness is in an
honest Christian life. The Chippewa, want
ing to see God, blackens his face witii char
coal and fasts till he has a vision of whut ho
calls God. My God, I can see best when I
take my hat off and lot the sunshine blaze
in my face, and after a reasonable break
fast. He is not a God of blackness and star
vation, but of light and plenitude, awl the
glory of the noonday sun is Egyptian
midnight compared to it. There they go—
two brothers. The one was converted
a year ago in church one Sunday morning,
during prayer, or sermon, or hymn. No
one knew it, at the time. The persons on
either side of him suspected nothing, hut in
that young man’s soul this process went on:
“Lord, here 1 am, a young man amid the
temptations of city life, and I am afraid to
risk them alone; come and be my pardon
and my help; save me from making the
mistake that some of my comrades are
making, and save me now.” And quicker
than a (lash God rolled heaven into his soul.
He is just as jolly as he used to be, is just as
brilliant as he used to be. lie can strike a
ball or catch one as easily as before lie was
converted. With gun or fishing rod in this
summer vacation he was just as skillful
as before. The world is brighter
to him than ever. Ho appre
ciates pictures, music, innocent hilarity, so
cial life, good jokes, an<l has plenty of fun,
first-class fun, glorious furi. But ins brother
is going down hill. In tho morning his
head aeries from the champagne dobaueh.
Everybody sees he is in rapid descent.
What cares he for right, or decency, or tho
honor of his family name f Turned out of
employment, depleted in health, cast down
in spirits, tho typhoid fever strikes him in
the smallest room on tho fourth story of a
fifth-rate boarding house, cursing God, and
calling for his mother, and fighting back
demons from his dying pillow, which is t*-
sweated and torn to rag-. Ho plunges out
of this world with the shriek of a destroyed
spirit. Alas for that kind of fun! It is
remorse. It is despair. It is blackness of
darkness. It is woe unending and long re
verberating. and crushing as though all tho
mountains of all continents rolled on liiin in
one avalanche. My soul, stand back from
such fun. Young man, there is no fun in
shipwrecking your character, no fun m dis
gracing your father's name. There is no
fun in breaking your mother's heart. There
is no fun in the physical pangs of the disso
lute. There is no fun in the profligate’s
death-bed. There is no fun in an undone
eternity. Paracelsus, out of the as lies of a
burnt rose, said bo could re-create the rose,
hut he failed in the ulchernic undertaking,
and roseate life once burned down in sin can
never again be made to blossom.
Oh, this pluinbline of the everlasting
right' God will throw it over all our lives
to show us our moral deflections. God will
throw it over all churches to show whether
they are doing useful work or are standing
instances of idleness and pretense. He will
throw that plumb line over all nations to
demonstrate whether their laws are just or
cruel, their rulers good or had, their ambi
tious holy or infamous. He threw that
plumbline over the Spanish monarchy of
other days, and what became of her t Ask
the splintered hulks of her overthrown
Armada. He threw that plumbline over
French imperialism, and w hat, was tho re
sult* Ask the ruins of theTullierias and
the fallen column of the Place Vendome,
and tnc grave trenches of Sedan, and tho
blood of revolutions at different tilin'*
rolling through the Champs Elysoes.
He threw tiiat pluinbline .over ancient
Rome, and what became of tho realm of the
Cu-sarsf Ask her war eagles, with beaks
dulled ami wings broken, flung helpless into
the Tiber. He threw it over the Assyrian
empire of a thousand years, the thrones of
iSemiramis, and Hurdauapaiits, and Shalma
neser, of twenty-seven victorious X]sdt
tioiiK, the cities of Phtrnicia kneeling to the
sceptre, and all the world blanched
in tiie presence. What became of uli
the graiirtour* Ask tho fallen palace* of
Khorsabad and tho corpse* of her 1*5,000
soldiery slain by the angel of the
Lord in one night, and the Assyrian
seulpture* of the world’s museums, all that
now remains of that splendor Indore which
nations staggered and crouched God is
now throwing tiiat pliituliline over tins
American republic, and it is a si iemu time
with this nation. and whether wa keep ills
Habbatha or dishonor them, whether
righteousness or iniquity dominate w hether
we are Christian or mfliiei, whether we
fulfill our musaion or refuse it, wlwiUm*' w
are for God or agaiust Him. we’ll dacUio
whether we shall as a nation go ou in higher
and higher rarest or go down in the same
grave where fiab/hm, and ffine**b, and
Thetiea, and Assyria are septtlfbfwd.
say you, “it there Is nothing but
• p! limbi me what can anr of us do. for
there is an old proverb which truthfully de
clares: ’lf the best man’s faults wore writ
ten on his forehead it would make him pull
his hat over his eyes.’ What shall we do
when, according to Isaiah, ‘God shall lay
judgment to the line and righteousness to
the plummet?’” Ah, here is where the Gos
pel comes in with a Saviour’s righteousness
to make up for our deficits. And while I
see hanging on the wait a pluinbline, I soe
also hanging there a cross. And while the
one condemns us the other saves us, if only
we will hold to it. And here and now you
limy lie set free with a more glorious liberty
than Hampden, or Sidney, or a Koseiusoo
ever fought for. Not out yonder, or down
there, or up here, but just where you are
you may get it. The invalid proprietress of
a wealthy estate in Scotland visited the con
tinent of Europe to get rid of her maladies,
and she went to widen-Baden and tried
those waters, and went to Carlslmd and
tried those waters, and wont to Homlmrg
and tried those waters, and instead
of getting better she got worse, and in
despair she said to a physician; "What
shall I do?” His reply was: “Medicine can
do nothing for you. You have one chance
in tiie waters of Pit Keathly, Scotland."
“Is it possible!” she replied, “why, those
waters are on my own estate!” She re
turned, and drank of tiie fountain at her
gate, and in two months completely recov
ered. Oh sick, and diseased, and sinning,
and dying hearer, why go trudging all the
world over, and seeking hero ana them re
lief for your discouraged spirit, when close
by, and at your very feel, and at the door
of your heart, aye, within the very estate
of your own consciousness, the heating
waters of eternal life may Ih> had, and bail
this very hour, this very minute, this very
Sabbath* Blessed lie God that over against
theplumb line that, Amos saw is the cross,
through the emancipating power of whicli
you and I may live and live forever 1
MAKING MONEY MOVE.
Tho Treasury Bound to Prevent Fur
ther Stringency.
Washington, Sept. 25.—Seven millions
of the fourteen millions of fours and four
and a halt's, whicli the Treasury Department
offered to buy in its circular of Wednesday
last, have come in within tho three days
past. It is believed by the Treasury officials
tiiat the remaining seven millions will lie
offered during the present week. To-mor
row six millions will be sent out in imymout
of the interest due I )ct. 1. These disburse
ments will, it is believed, servo to prevent
tho recurrence of a financial stringency so
severe as that of last week, but should the
necessity arise the Treasury Department
will proliably issue another circular offering
to buy fours and four and a halts
at fixed prices and to anticipate in
terest. Possibly tiie speculation in fours,
which has shown its head here, may run the
price up so that they cannot lie easily
nondled. Secretary Fairchild will go over
to Now York Tuesday to see the inter
national yacht race. He may talk with his
]iersonal friends among the bankers, but he
will hold no formal conferences, lie will
return on Thursday to see tiie President off.
Secretary Fairchild will remain here during
ail tiie time the President is away, prepared
to take any lawful steps that mav be neces
sary to prevent tiie business of the country
from being embarrassed by the ojierations
of the Treasury. But meanwhile he will lie
preparing the most important recommenda
tions in his annual report, to Congress, which
will he those relating to the flnancial situa
tion. He will recommend, as tiie only rem
edy, a prompt and decided reduction of the
war taxes, L-ginning with those on imports,
the aisiiition of the duties on raw materials
and the reduction of tiie duties on the nec
essaries of life will be urgently recommend
ed. So will the repeal of the law requiring
the coinage monthly of two million silver
dollars. Tho evils of our present silver
policy will lie again set forth.
G. A. R. MEN AT ST. LOUIS.
The City in Readiness to Welcome
the Veterans.
St. Louis, Sept. 25. —The advance guard
of tho Grand Army of the Republic has set
it* standard in St. Louis. A few of the com
rades arrived hourly until liy night several
hundred reported. The most distant States
have tiie llrst delegations on hand, with tho
Oregonians and Washington Territory
squint of fifteen. The city i prepared to
meet them witii a warm welcome and a
blaze of light. Miles of bunt
ing lies reailv to lie unfolded
at tho dawn of Monday and great arches
already span the street*. The interior of
the business houses and show windows have
donned their holiday attire and each jwrk
ho*.become a tented field awaiting the 50,-
000 soldiers tiiat are on tne way.
Among the arrivals yesterday was Gen.
VV. T. Sherman, At a meeting of
Ransom Post last night Gen. Sherman
in a Hve-minute spoeoh, reviewed the forma
tion and growth of Ransom Post. Many
men of wealth, he said, who sent, substitutes
to the war would now willingly give part of
their riches to lie entitled to a seat in this
body.
APACHES IN WAR PAINT.
Two Bands Leave the San Carlos
Reservation.
Tucson, Am., Hept. 25.— Most intense ex
citement prevails in this city over a reported
outbreak of the Sun Carlos Apache ludiuns.
A courier arrived at Pantano late yesterday
notifying all the spttlers in the valley that
two bands hail left the reservations, and
were marching south. This is supposed to
lie the result of the killing of Horton, the
I >ost trailer, who was murdered by the In
dians Friday. The outbreak bids fair to lie
of a very serious character. Already two
hands are reported to be out,
and if such is the case
the destruction of life and property will 1*
great. Eskimizin's band will most surely
join forces witii the Han Carlos A parties
and make a fori-e of nearly 200 well armed
ami equipped hostile*. No news has been
received either at Benson or Wilcox. Mes
sages have been sent in all directions noti
fying the people to gather all their stock.
FREED AFTER ELEVEN YEARS.
A General Who Waa Once the Terror
of the Rio Grande.
St. Louis, Sept. ‘25. —A special from tho
City of Mexico, says; “Gen. Juan N. Cor
tilla, who has Lien a government prisoner
cloven years, has Just lieen released by
order of President Diaz. For many years
la- wa* tho terror of the lower Rio Grand.-.
On one occasion he creased that river and
captured tiie city of Brownsville. He ha*
been connected with several revolutions
and wa* particularly conspicuous in tiiat of
Tnxtejs*'-, which brought President Diaz
into power, ill* restlaanuass and disturbing
■qilrif compelled the government to make
him a military prisoner. Ha is now old ami
infirm, his popularity is gone and ha can oo
longer do harm ”
Murder at Federal Point.
Jacksonville, Fla., Hunt. 25.—Isaac
Brown, of Federal Point, stabbed bis wife
this morning while sh* was getting break
fast sue! immediately afterward struck her
with a rail, killing her instantly. He is
sunji'wrd to isi insane ml roamed Use
tSMiiS the motion* night
1 PRICK glO A YEAR. I
} 5 CEATB A COPY, f
STRIDES OF THE SODTH.
MIDSUMMER PUT NO CHECJK OKI
ITS WONDERFUL PROGREBS.
The General Volume of Business In
creased-Millions of Dollars Put Into
New Enterprises of Various Charac
ters—Many States Boring for Natu
ral Gas -Gold Mining on a Boom.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 25.— The
Tradesman, in its quarterly review of the
Southern industrial situation, says: The
last three months, although embarrassing,
the midsummer period, shows no cessation
in the wonderful industrial development in
all sections of the South. While specula
tion has bean restricted, material growth
has correspondingly increased, and reports
to the Tradesman from the commercial and
industrial centres of the South betoken a most
gratifying condition of affairs. Crops every
where in the South are above the average,
and the general volume of business is in
creased. Up to a fortnight ago money was
easy, and, while collections are somewhat
slower now, the movement of the crops will
improve the flnancial situation.
INDUSTHIKS VERY ACTIVE.
The industrial situation is very active,
and manufacturers are crowned with
orders and the largest iron works are
running on double time, railroad build
ing in active progress in many of
the Southern States, and rolling mills
in Chattanooga and Birmingham have
orders for months ahead. Returns from
Southern cotton mills show an important
improvement, the consumption of cotton
having increased over 20,000 hales in the
past twelve months, or nearly .V j per cent.
The total number of mills up to Sept. I, 18S7,
was 241*; tile number of spindles, 1,21.1. MW;
the number of looms, 27,0n3; and the cotton
consumed per year, 401,452 ball's. New
companies are lieing rapidly formed In the
past threo months thirty-two new factories
havo lieen organized, divided as follows:
Alabama 3, Arkansas 1, Georgia 2, Louis
iana 2, North < ’arolina 12, South Carolina 3,
Tennessee 2. Texas 7.
PLENTY OF COKE.
Southern ironmasters have been greatly
perplexed over the scarcity of coke, but this
problem is being solved by important de
velopments in this branch. In the past
three months twelve coke companies have
been formed, four in Alabama, four in Ten
nessee, two in Virginia and two in West
Virginia, and many others are in process of
formation.
Work is rapidly progressing cm the new
blast furnace* in process of erection in the
South. In the past quarter eleven new fur
nace companies were organized—live in
Georgia, three in Mississippi, one in Ten
nessee, one in Virginia and one in West
Virginia.
One of the features of the past quarter
lias lieen the remarkable development in
gold and silver mining, much attention
being iMtid to this industry, and vastly im
proved methods of nulling have been
adopted. In the past, tiiree months fifteen
smelting works havo been erected in Arkan
sas, and thirty-one mining and quarrying
companies formed in ail the Southern States.
KEEKING NATURAL OAB.
Much capital is iieing expended in search
for natural gas, none has been found in
paying quantities but prospectors are greatly
encouraged. In the past quarter 31 natural
gas and oil companies have lieen formed—in
Alabama, 3; in; in Kentucky, 0;
in Tennessee, N; in Texas* and 3 in Virginia.
In tho (>ast quarter £• wood-working es
tablishments have been formed in the South,
exclusive of sawmills, as follows: In Ala
bama 22, Arkansas 10, Florida 1, Georgia
10, Kentucky 4, Louisiana 8, Mississippi 3,
North Carolina 13, South Carolina 1, Ten
newseo 9, Texas 1, Virginia 3, and West Vir
ginia 3.
Eighty-seven railroad companies have
been incorporated in the past three months,
of which Alalmma has 9, Arkansas 12, Flor
ida , Georgia 21, Kentucky 4, Louisiana 2,
Mississippi 2, North Carolina H, South Caro
lina 1, Tennessee 10, Texas 7, Virginia3and
West Virginia 5.
MISCELLANEOUS! COMPANIES.
Among the general companies formed
during the past, quarter are 20 brick works,
20 electric light works, 31 street railway
companies and 2i) foundry and machine
shops. They are pretty evenly divided
among all tiie States.
Five glass factories have been organized,
2 in Alabama, 2 iu Tennessee and I in Geor
gia. A groat diversity of other industries
has been formed, among them 4* flour and
grist mills, of which 14 we.x in North Car
olina and 11 in Texas; steel works 1; saw
Mills, 91; waterworks companies, 29; coal
and om mines and quarries, 133; miscella
neous, including land and development com
panies and minor industries, 1311
A RUNAWAY STREET CAR.
Several Passengers Dangerously In
jured by Jumping from It.
Coi.l.Mßl'S, Ua., Sept. 25.—A very se
rious accident occurred on |he Columbus
street railroad late this afternoon. The
brake on a large excursion car broke just as
it started down Rose hill, which is very long
and steep. The mules were soon knocked
aside and left behind. The car went tear
ing down at fearful speed. There were
atxiut thirty passengers on board. Several
jmn|ied off and were badly injured.
George laiyfield seized his child and
jumped. In the fall the child’s skull was
fractured, and it* recovery Is very doubtful.
Hugh Glaze, agod nineteen years, was
seriously injured, and it is thought bis skull
is fractured at the base of the brain.
A negro woman had both legs broken.
Several others were badly bruised.
Fortunately the car remained on the
track, and those staying on board escaped
with only a bad scare. The car stopped
after running a block from the foot of the
hill.
NEGRO MASONS UNDER A CLOUD.
Recent Murders in Mississippi Laid
at Their Door.
New Orleans, Sept. 25.— A Greenwood,
Mins., special to the Urnyune says: “A
negro named Henry Taylor killed another
negro on the Tallahatchie river two months
ago. At the time an attempt was made by
colored Masons to lynch him, but they were
prevented, a Mr. Ktancil taking
Taylor into hi* house and protect
ing him. Since then both Tay*nr
and his wife have disappeared. One ilay
last week a body was found in the river,
which proved to Is* that of Taylor, and the
impression is that the colored Masons made
away with both him and bis wife. George
Kvaiis, who was hanged here July 3T by a
negro mob. is suppnewl to have linen lynched
bv colored Mesons beeenes he had killed one
of their number The feeling is getting to
be strong that the colored Masons take an
oath in tiisdr secret organization to avenge
tbs death of a brother Mason "
Removal of a Telephone Kt'danga,
JacaeoNviM.it, Fla., thm* *5 -The
Telephone Exchange we* unreal today
fi oj n the Palmetto block mi lie y Meat fg
the Hubbard Muck im PtnestreaA