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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