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, ESTABLISHED 1850. I
1 j. H. EbTILL, Editor aud Proprietor. (
LONDON'S MOB IN A RIOT.
OVER TWO HUNDRED CITIZENS AND
FORTY POLICEMEN INJURED.
Four Thousand Blue-Coats Hold the
Approaches to Trafalgar Square
With Re-Enforcements of Cavalry
and Infantry Drawn Up in the Cen
tre- Fifty Arrests Made.
London, Nov. lo. —The scene in Trafalgar
square today has not been equalled since
•jsf.fi, when people, asserting the right of
public meeting, destroyed the railing
around Hyde Park. Four thousand police
men took possession of the approaches to
Trafalgar square at an early hour. They
bad been on the ground but a short time
when various societies of Socialists, Radi
cals a nd Irish approached the square from
every direction. The paraders were headed
l,y bands of music, and carried banners and
mottoes. The police attacked and dispersed
each group as it arrived near the square.
Fierce fights took place on the Strand,
Northumberland avenue, Whitehall, Pall
Mall and other adjacent streets.
TUB LINES BROKEN ONCE.
One of the societies succeeded in entering
Ihe square, but was repulsed after a bloody
tight, in which Commoner Graham was
seriously injured. Mr. Graham was subse
quently arrested for attacking the police.
At 4:30 o’clock the crowd in the vicinity
of the square numbered 100.000 and the
police were powerless to thoroughly dis
perse them. Cavalry and infantry were
summoned to the assistance of the police,
but no charge was made, as the people of
their own accord began to disperse at dusk.
. OVER 200 INJURED.
About 200 citizens and forty policemen
were injured. Fifty persons were arrested,
among them being the Socialist Burns.
Snme°ofthe injured were well enough to
leave the hospiuUs after treatment. One
patient was dreadfully burned with vitriol
squirted from a syringe. Another declares
that he was bayonetted. Two policemen
were stabbed with knives. It was notice
aide that the crowd, while hooting the
police, cheered the cavalry and infantry
posted in the square ready for action in case
the crowd broke the police line. If the
crowd had succeeded in breaking the line it
is believed that the riot act would have
been read and the infantry would have been
ordered to fire.
THE PROCLAMATION POSTED BY SIGHT.
The proclamation of Sir Charles Warren,
bead of the London police, forbidding the
holding of a meeting in Trafalgar square
to-day, was placarded throughout London
last night. At 8 o’clock this morning Tra
falgar square presented an animated ap
pearance, owing to the continual arrival of
bodies of police, small drafts having been
made from every district in the metropolis.
Three hundred grenadiers were sta
(ioned in the barracks in the rear
of the National armory. Police to
the number of 1,500 formed a hollow
square four deep on the southern side for
I he purpose of protecting Trafalgar square.
Two thousand five hundred more were held
in reserve. Until l o’clock there were no
signs of apr session. At that hour groups,
mainly of :g-t-seers or roughs, began
lo assemble ii; vicinity of the square,
lull a squad of mounted police kept traffic
moving and dispersed each group as it
formed.
AX IMMENSE CROWD.
By 8 o’clock there was an immense con
course of people packed on the steps of St.
''lari in's church und Morley’s Hotel and on
l lie roofs of houses in adjacent streets. The
majority scorned to l>e respectable persons
attracted by curiosity. The remainder
were loafers of the worst class. A bout 4
o'clock, Graham and Burns at the head of
about 400 men, made a determined attempt
to break the police lines and enter the
square from the Strand side.
The police, however, beat them back
and captured both leaders. Graham
was bleeding freely from a wound in bis
head made by a policeman’s club. In the
meantime bodie of paraders had arrived by
every debouching avenue, but they were
dispersed and compelled to surrender tneir
flags and banners before arriving at the
square. Numbers crowded the omnibuses
and harangued the people from the knife
hoards, while the vehicles slowly traversed
the front of the square and Charring Cross,
the crowd cheering wildly.
ARRIVAL OF THE CAVALRY.
At 4:15 o’clock loud cheers heralded the
arrival of the cavalry force with Col.
Tolbat at its head from Whitehall, and
Magistrate Marshpm to read the
riot act in case that such a warning
should become necessary. While the Guards
trotted eight abreast around the square,
cheers went up, accompanied by shouts of
‘ brave Marsham we want free speech. We
are all true Englishmen, Irishmen and
Scotchmen. We only want our legal rights
as citizens of London.” A Second circuit
of the square by tlis> Guards elicited
opposition from a mob of roughs
in the crowd, who shouted: “Britons shall
not be ruled by lead and bayonets I” Three
groans were given for the Home Secretary.
The guards patrolerl the square several
tunes and then turned into the adjacent
streets. They succeeded ill awing the
roughs and in gr*itly thinning out the
crowd. At 5 o’clock the Grenadiers wheeled
into the square with bayonets lixed and
with twenty rou and of ball cartridges in
their pouches. Tlu j were accompanied by
an ambulance. They halted in front of the
National Gallery and opened into lines.
THE MOB IN A TRAP.
The mob was thus caught between the
lines of police anil military, and the roughs
were compelled to run the gauntlet. Some
of them showed a disposition to maintain
their ground, but the soldiers brought tneir
bayonent'i to the charge position, and the
sight, of the cold steel quickly caused them
to retreat. Soon after 5 o’clock
the police made a scries of violent
'barges with their batons, iit a de
termined effort to clear the whole
vicinity, many points of which hud been
crowded all 'the afternoon. During one
marge the whole window of an electrical
"hop fell with a erasn. The crowd asserted
that the window was broken by the hoofs
of some of the policemen’s horses. The
Police, however, assert that bricks were
t hrown at the window. Loafers made, for
the contents of the window, but the police
captured many articles and arrested the
thieves. By (1 o'clock there was no fear of
further trouble. At 6:30 o’clock the whole
force of the Life Guards again patrolled tho
squarn, and finally the crowd dispersed com
pletely.
EMBLEMS OK VICTORY.
•Some excitement was caused at Whitehall
oy the victorious police marching with
captured flags and banners. The mounted
police and Life Guards were now ordered in
•he direction of the Parliament building
s ide, the streets being cordoned with con
stables to prevent rushes. This move
eared Whitehall and Parliament street,
n Rad the Guards, with the exception of one
b' dy retained in Trafalgar square, were en
,,!'!ed to return to their barracks by 7
o clock. Quiet wa.s now somewhat restored,
though the square was still cordoned by
b <iip 8 of police, which alternately relieved
other in order to obtain much needed
She Jttofltin®
refreshment after standing in the same posi
tion ten hours. At 7:80 o’clock the remain
ing Life Guards returned to their barracks.
More or less serious skirmishes between
the police and Radicals occurred in various
other parts of the city, especially at the foot
of Wellington street and Broad street,
Bloomsbury. Clubs, sticks and stones were
freely used, and many persons were hurt.
The police were everywhere victorious, and
captured many Socialist flags and banners.
Between 4 and 6 o’clock seventy injured
persons were treated at the Gearing Cross
Hospital.
A BATTLE AT THE BRIDGE.
The police had a severe fight about 4
o’clock near Westminster bridge with a
strong procession of Soeialis s from South
London, consisting of about 8,000 men under
a single leader. This procession had been
organized as the principal one to move in
solid phalanx upon Trafalgar square, and
while tire police were engaged in the
scuffle with Graham it was hoped that
it would be able to carry the object ive point.
The police got an intimation of this pro
gramme, and Sir Charles Warren ordered
Supt. Dunlap to hold his position at West
minster bridge at all cost. Supt. Dunlap
had a division of police under his command,
noted for their tactics in clearing race
courses. The paraders from Beckham,
Bornardsey and Deptford, joined forces at
Westminister, at 4 o’clock, and occupied
Parliament square; when Supt. Dunlap or
dered them to disperse, a tremendous
struggle occurred. The flags carried
by the paraders were made the rallying
points for the mob and around them a fear
ful struggle took place. Eventually, how
ever, the procession was completely dis
persed, tiie police capturing ten flags.
Twenty-six peivons taking part in the pro
cession received club wounds on the head
and fifteen constable- were more or less
seriously injured. The Executive Comrait
teo of the Radical Federation hel t a meet
ing to-night and resolved to hold a meet
ing of delegates on Wednesday evoning at
the London Patriotic Club to decide upon
measures for repeating the attempt to hold
a meeting on Sunday next. At midnight
to-night ail is quiet.
VIRGINIA’S RIOTOUS MINERS.
The Colored Men Bound to Keep the
Huns From Working.
Pocahontas, Va., Nov. 18.— Intense ex
citement has prevailed in the coal mines at
this place for a week between the colored
ami Hungarian miners, which as heretofore
stated, culminated in a riot. The negroes
drove the Hungarians out of the mines and
took possession. There were some forty or
fifty shots firod during the fight, but no
lives were lost. Gov. Lee ordered three
companies of military from Lynchburg to
be sent here. They arrived to-night, and
now hold popession of the town. All is
quiet, but further trouble is expected.
The town is quiet, and no disturbance oc
curred last night or to-day. Niue of the
ringleaders, five colored and four white,
were taken from this place to Tazewell
Court House to-day under escort of the
Fitz Lee troop of cavalry. The Hungarians
will go to work to-morrow morning, and it
is thought that the negroes will try to stop
them. The military lias lieen ordered to
protect the mine property at all hazards.
SPARKS WON’T RESIGN.
The President to be Forced to Make a
Formal Request.
Washington, Nov. 13. —Commissioner
Sparks cannot take a hint. His friends say
that he will not act upon the intimation he
has received that the President would like
to appoint his successor until his resignation
is formally demanded. Then he will write
a letter to the President setting forth his
side of the matter. He feels keenly the
stinging sarcasm of Secretary Lamar’s let
ter, and will probably venture on something
of the same sort in the letter ho will write
by way of reply. His feelings may be too
much for him, and he may make a public
statement to the press to-morrow. In
the technical difference between
Secretary Lamar and Commissioner Sparks
involved in the correspondence, the latter
seems to hav e the popular side. Secretary
Lamar maintains that a liberal construc
tion should be given the laws entitling land
grant railroads to indemnity lands to make
up any deficiency in the grant, and Com
missioner Sparks insists on a strict con
struction. But this is but one of a long
series of differences between them, as the
insubordinate criticisms made upon the Sec
retary by the Commissioner in
this case have been preceded
by similar comments in other
cases. It had corno to be,
just as Secretary Lamar said in his letter to
Mr. Sparks, that either the Secretary or the
Commissioner had to go, and it did not take
the President long to choose. Commissioner
Sparks means well, but he has more zeal
than discretion. Ex-Representative Cobb,
of Indiana, chaiwnan ol the Committee on
Public Lands in the last Congress,and man
ager of most of the land grant forfeiture
bills, is the man latest mentioned for the
Commissionership of the General Land
Office. Who ever succeeds Mr. Sparks will
lie in harmony with the Secretary of the
Interior.
Burglary at West Point.
Wert Point, Ga., Nov. 13. —Burglars en
tered the residence of Dr. J. S. Horsley, of
this place, this morning between 1 and 4
o’clock, and as far as can be ieurned went
through every room in the house, but only
a silver watch and about $47 in bills ancl
coin have 1 ven missed from the doctor’s
pockets. They made their entrance bv rais
ing the dining-room window, and there
helped themselves to a gallon of sweet milk,
two loaves of bread and a pound of Jersey
butter. They are supposed to have been
tramps, whovisited flic premises on yester
day morning, and were seen loitering around
late in the afternoon. They wore arrested
this morning on suspicion, and placed under
lock and key.
A Crazy Negro Obstructs the Tracks.
Columbus. Ga., Not. 18.—At Hurtslmro
a crazy negro yesterday created a great deal
of excitement by placing obstructions across
the Mobile ami Girard railroad track in
three places. The up freight struck them,
but fortunately uo damage was done. He
stood on the track in front of a passenger
train, but was rescued by friends. He tli n
threw a rock at the engineer. He was chased
and captured later in the day and was so
violent that he had to be handcuffed, and is
now in jail at Seale.
Muscogee Superior Court will convene at
10 o'clock to-morrow morning.
Arrested for Incest.
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 13.—R. W.
Cone, a surveyor and a widower with mar
ried daughters, was caught to-day in tho
act of committing incest with his daughter
Lizzie, twelve y ars old. Ho was arrested,
placed in the county jail, and tho matter
will lie brought to the attention of the grand
jury, now in session. Great indignation at
this most unnatural conduct of a father
firevnils in the community in which Cone
ives.
Dillon To Be Arrested.
Dublin, Nov. 13.—A rumor is current
that the Council, at a meeting last night,
decided to order the arrest of Mr. Dillon.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER H, 1887.
BLUNDERS OP PARENTS.
ELI'S MISTAKE IN NOT RESTRAIN
ING HIS SONS.
Rev. Talmagre Tries to Arouse the
People to the Defense of the Youth
of the Country- Errors of Some Fa
mous Men in Rearing: Their Children.
Brooklyn, Nov. 18. —The weekly publica
tion of Dr. Tal mage’s sermons is beyond par
allel. Beside the English-speaking nations,
including Australia aud New Zealand, the
sermons are regularly translated into the
languages of Germany, France, Italy, Den
mark, Norway, Russia and India. The
gentlemen having in charge the publication
of these sermons inform us that in this coun
try, every week, thirteen million six hun
dred thousand copies of the entire sermon
are printed, and about four million in other
lands, making over seventeen million per
week. A similar arrangement is now being
made for the publication of Dr. Talniage's
Friday evening talks.
The subject of the sermon to-day was
“Parental Blunders,” and the text was I.
Samuel iv.. 18: “He fell from off the seat
backward by the side of the gate, and his
neck brake, and be died; for he was an old
man, and heavy.” Dr. Talmage said:
This is the end of a long story of parental
neglect. Judge Eli was a goon man. buthe
let his two boys, Hophni and Phinehas, do
as they pleased, and through over-indul
gence they went to ruin. The blind old
judge, ninety-eight years of age, is seated
at tiie gate waiting for the news of an im
portant battle in which his two sons were
at the front. An express is coining with
tidings from the battle. This blind nonage
narian puts his hand behind his ear, and
listens, and cries: “What meaueth the
noise of this tumult!” An excited messen
ger, all out of breath with the speed, said
to him: “Our army is defeated. The
sacred chest, called the ark, is captured,
and your sons are dead on the field.” No
wonder tiie father fainted and expired.
The domestic tragedy in which these two
son.' were the tragedians had finished its
fifth and last act. “He fell from off the
seat backward by the side of the gate, and
his neck brake, and lie died; for ho was an
old man, and heavy.”
Eli had made an awful mistake in regard
to his children. The Bible distinctly says:
“His sons made themselves vile and he re
strained them not.” Oh, tiie ten thousand
mistakes in rearing children—mistakes of
parents, mistakes of teachers in day school
and Sablwith classes, mistakes which we all
make. Will it not lie useful to consider
them?
This country is going to be conquered by
a great army, compared w ith which that of
Baldwin the Fust, and Xerxes, and Alexan
der, and Grant, and Lee, all put together,
were in numbers insignificant. They will
capture all our pulpits, storehouses, facto
ries, and balls of legislation, all our ship
ping, all our wealth, mid all our honors.
They will take possession of all authority,
from the United States Presidency down to
the humblest constabulary—of everything
between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
They are on the march now, and they halt
neither day nor night. They will soon be
here, and all the present active population
of this country must surrender and give
way. I refer to the great army of children.
Whether they shall take possession of every
thing for good or for bad depends upon the
style of preparation through which they
pass on their way from cradle to throne.
Cicero acknowledges lie kept in his desk a
collection of prefaces for books, wdiich pre
faces he could at any time attach to any
thing he wanted to publish for himself or
others; and all parents and teachers have
all prepared the preface of every young life
under their charge, and not only
the preface, but the appendix, whether
the volume be a poem or a
farce. Families, and schools, and legisla
tures are hi our day busily engaged in dis
cussing what is the best mode of educating
children. Before this question almost every
other dwindles into insignificance, while de
pendent upon its proper solution is the wel
fare of governments and ages eternal.
Macaulay tells of the war which Frederick
the Second, made against Queen Maria
Theresa. And one day she appeared before
tiie august Diet, wearing mourning for her
father, and held up in her anus before them
her child, tiie Archduke. This so wrought
upon the officers and deputies of the people,
that with half drawn swords they broke
forth in the war cry; “Let us die for our
Queen, Maria Theresa!” So, this morning,
realizing that the boy of to-day is to be the
ruler of the future, t he popular sovereign, I
hold him before the American people to
arouse their enthusiasm in his behalf, aud
to evoke their oath for bis defense, his edu
cation, and his sublime destiny.
If a parent, you will remember when you
were aroused to these great responsibilities,
and when you found that you had not done
all required after you had admired the tiny
hands, and the glossy hair, and the bright
eyes that lay in the cradle. Yon suddenly re
membered that that hand would yet be raised
to bless the world with its benediction, or to
smite it with a curse. In Ariosto’s great
poem there is a character called Ruggierd,
who has a shield of insufferable splendor,
but it is kept veiled, save on certain occa
sions, and when uncovered it startled and
overwhelmed its beholder, who before had
no suspicion of its brightness. My hope to
day is to recover the destiny of your child
or student, about which you may have no
especial appreciation, and flash upon you the
splendors of its immortal nature. Behold
the shield and the sword of its comirfg con
flict
I propose in this discourse to set forth
what 1 consider to bo some of the errors
prevalent in the training of children.
First —I remark that many err in foo
great severity or too great leniency of fam
ily government. Between parental tyranny
and ruinous laxativeness of discipline there
is a medium. Sometimes the father errs on
one side, and the mother on the other side.
Good family government is all important.
Anarchy aiiil misrule in the domestic circle
is the forerunner of anarchy aud misrule in
the state. What, a repulsive spectacle is a
home without order or discipline, disobedi
ence and impudence, and anger and false
hood lifting their horrid front in the place
which should lie consecrated to all that is
holy, and peaceful ami beautiful. In the
attempt to avoid all this, and
bring the children under proper
laws end regulations, parents have
sometimes carried themselves with great
rigor. John Howard, who was merciful to
the prisons an 1 lazarettos, was merciless to
the treatment of his children, John Milton
knew everything, but how to train his
family. Severe and unreasonable was he
in liis carriage toward them. He made
them read to him in four or live languages,
but would not allow t hem to learn any of
them, for he said that one tongue was
enough for a woman. Their reading was
mechanical drudgery, when, if they had
understood the languages they read, the
employment of reading might have been a
luxury. No wonder his children despised
him, and stealthily sold his books, and
hoped for his death. In all ages there has
been need of a society for prevention of
cruelty to children. When Barbara was
put to death by her father because she had
countermanded his order, and had throe
windows put in a room instead of two.
this cruel parent was a type
of many who have acted the Nero and the
Robespierre in the home circle. The heart
siekensat what you sometimes see, even in
families that pretend to lie Christians—per
petual scolding, and hair-pulling, and eur
rxixing, and thumping, and stamping, and
fault-finding, and teasing, until the children
are vexed beyond bounds and growl in tiie
sleeve, and pout, and rebel, ana vow within
themselves that in alter days they will re
taliate for the cruelties practiced. Many a
home has become as full of dispute as was
the home of John O’Groat, who built his
house at the most northerly point in Great
Britain. And tradition says that the house
had eight windows, and eight doors and a
table of eight* sides, because ho had eight
children, and the only way to keep them
out of bitter quarrel was to have a separate
appointment for each one of them.
That child’s nature is too delicate to be
worked upon by sledge-hammer, and gouge,
and pile-uriver. Such fierce lashing, in
stead of breaking the high mettle to Git. and
trace, will make it dash off the more uncon
trollable. Many seem to think that chil
dren are flax—not fit for use till they have
lieen hatcheled and swingled. Someone
talking to a child said: “I wonder what
makes that tree out there so crooked.” The
child replied: “I suppose it was trod on
while it was young.” In some families all
the discipline is concentrated on one child's
head. If anything is done wrong, the sup
position is that George did it. He broke the
latch. He left open the gate. Ho hacked
the banisters. He whittled sticks on the
carpets. And George shall be the scape
groat for all domestic misunderstandings
and suspicions. If things get wrong in the
culinary department, in comes the
mother and says, angrily: “Where is
George?” If business matters are
perplexing at the store, in
comes the father at night and says, angrily*:
“Where is George?” In many u household
there is such a one singled out for suspicion
and castigation. Ail tiie sweet flowers of
his soul blasted under this perpetual north
east storm, he curses the day in which he
was born. Safer the child in an ark of bul
rushes on the Nile, among crocotiles, than
in an elegant mansion, amid such domestic
gorgons. A mother was passing along the
street one day, and came up to her little
child, who did not see her approach, and
her child was saying to her playmate: “You
good-for-nothing little scamp, you come
right into the house this minute, or 1 will
beat you till the skin comes off.” The
mother broke in, saying: “Why. Lizzie, I
am surprised to hear you talk like that to
anyone!” “Oh,” ‘■aid the child, “1 was
only playing, and he is my little boy, and I
am'scolding him, as you did me this morn
ing.” Children are apt to be echoes of their
parents.
Safer in a Bethlehem manger, among
cattle and camels, with gentle Mary to
watch the little innocent, than the most ex
travagant nursery over which God's star of
jieace never stood. The trapper extinguishes
the flames on the prairie by fighting fire
with fire, but you cannot, with the fire of
your own disposition, put out the fire of a
child’s disposition.
Yet we may rush to the other extreme,
and l-ule children with too great lenienev.
The surgeon is not unkind because, not with
standing the resistance of his patient, he goes
straight on, witli firm hand and unfaltering
heart, to take off the gangrene. Nor is the
parent less affectionate and faithful because,
notwithstanding all violent remonstrances
on the part of the child, he,with the firmest
discipline, advances to the cutting off of its
evil inclinations. The Bible says: "Chasten
thy son while there is hope, and let
not thy soul spare for his crying.”
Childish rage unchecked will, after a
while, become a hurricane. Childish petu
lance will grow up into misanthropy. Child
ish rebellion will develop into the lawless
ness of riot and sedition. If you would ruin
the child, dance to his every caprice and
stuff him with confect)ouery. Before vou
are aware of it that boy of six years will go
down the street, a cigar in his mouth, and
ready on any corner with his comrades to
coiiqm re pugilistic attainments. Tiie parent
who allows the child to grow up without ever
having learned the great duty of obedience
and submission has prepared a cup of burn
ing gall for bis own lips and appalling de
struction for his descendant. Remember
Eli and his two son*. Hophni and Phinehas.
A second error prevalent in the training
of children is a laying out of a theory, and
following it without arranging it to varie
ties of dis])osition. in every* family you
will find striking differences of tempera
ment. This child is too timid, and that too
bold, and this too miserly and that too
wasteful; this too inactive, and that too
boisterous. Now, the farmer who should
plaut earn, and wheat and turnips in just
the same way, then put them through one
hopper and griud thorn in the same mill,
would not lie as much of a fool as the par
ents who should attempt to discipline and
educate all their children in tha same man
ner. It needs a skillful hand to adjust these
checks and balances. The rigidity of gov
eminent which is necessary to hold in this
impetuous nature would utterly crush that
flexile disposition, while tiie gentle reproof
that would suffice for the latter would,
when used on the former, be
like attempting to bold a champing
Bucephalus with reins of gossamer. God
gives us in the disposition of each child a
hint as to how we ought to train him, and,
as God in tiie mental structure of our chil
dren indicates what mode of training is the
best, He also indicates In the disposition
their future occupation. Do not write
down that child as dull because it may not
now be as brilliant as your other children or
as those of your neighbor. Some of the
mightiest men and women of the centuries
had a stupid childhood. Thomas Aquinas
was called at school “the dumb ox, bill:
afterward demonstrated his sanctified
genius and was called "the angel of tiie
schools” and “the eagle of Brittany.” Kind
ness and patience with a child will conquer
almost anything, and ibev are virtues so
Ohristlike that they are inspiring to look at .
John Wesley’s kiss of a child on the pulpit
stairs turned Matthias Joyce from a profli
gate into a flaming evangel.
The third error prevalent in the training
of children is the one-sided development of
either the physical, intellectual or moral
nature at the expense of the others. Those,
for instance, greatly mistake who, while
they are faithful in the intellectual aid
moral culture of children, forget the phys
ical. The bright eyes half quenched by
night study, the cramped chest that comes
from too much bending over school desk.),
the weak ride resulting from sedentariness
of habit, jiale cheess and tiie gaunt bodies
of multitudes of children attest that phys
ical development doe* not always go along
with intellectual and moral. How do you
suppose all those treasures of knowledge
the child gets will look in ashattered eaakstf
And how much will you give for the
wealthiest cargo when it is put into a leaky
ship! How can that bright, sharp blade of
a child's attainments lie wielded without
any handle! What are brains worth with
out shoulders to carry thjgn! Wliat is a
child with magnificent mind but an ex
liaustisl body ! Better that a young man of
twenty-one go forth into the world
without knowing A from Z if he
have health of body und energy to
push his way through the world than
at twenty-one to enter upon active life, his
head stuffed with Socrates, and Herodotus,
and Bacon, and lot Place, but no physical
force to sustain him in the shock of earthly
conflicts. Krorn this infinite blutuler of
parents, how many have come out in life
with a genius that could have piled Ossa
upon relion and mounted upon them to
scale tho heavens, and have laid down pnut
ing with physical exhaustion before a mole
hill. They who might have shrilled Senates
and marshalled armies, and startled the
world with tilt' shock of their scientific bat
teries, have passed their lives in picking up
prescriptions for indigestion. They owned
all the thunderbolts of Jupiter, out could
not get out of their rocking-chair to use
them. George Washington, in early life,
was a poor speller, and spelled hat
h-a-doub!e-t, and a ream of paper, he soolled
“rheam,” but he knew enough to spell out
tho independence of this country from for
eign oppression. The knowledge of the
schools is important, hut there are other
things quite as important.
Just 'as great is the wrong done when tho
mind is cultivated and the heart neglected.
The youth of this day aro seldom denied any
scholarly attainments. Our schools and
seminaries ye ever growing in efficiency,
and the students are conducted through all
the realms of philosophy, and art, and lan
guage, and mathematics. The most hered
itary obtuseness gives way before the on
slaught of adroit instructors. But there is
a development of infinite importance which
mathematics and the dead languages can
not affect. The more mental power the
more capacity for evil unless coupled with
religious restraint. You discover what ter
rible power for evil unsanetiffed genius pos
sesses when you see Kcaliger with his
scathing denunciations assaulting the best
men of his time, and Blount
and Spinoza and Bolingbroke lead
ing their hosts of followers into
the ail-consuming fires of skepticism aud
infidelity. Whether knowledge is a mighty
good or an unmitigated evil depends entire
ly upon which course it takes. The river
rolling on between round hanks makes all
the valley laugh with golden wheat and
rank grass, and catching hold the wheel of
mill and factory, whirls it with great indus
tries. But, breaking away from restraints,
and dashing over banks in red wrath, it
washes away harvests from their moorings
and makes the valleys shrink with the ca
tastrophe. Fire in the furnace heats the
house or drivas the steamer; but, uncon
trolled, warehouses go down in awful crash
before it, and in a few hours half a city will
lie in black ruin, walls and towers and
churches and monuments. You must ac
company the education of the intellect with
the education of the heart, or you are rous
ing up within your child an energy which
will be blasting and terrific. Better a
wicked dunce than a wicked philosopher.
Tho fourth error often committed in the
training of children is the suppression of
childish sportfulness. The most, triumphant
death of any child that I ever knew was
that of Scoviile Haynes McCollum. A few
days before that, he w r as at my house in
Syracuse, and he ran like a doer and his
halloo, made the woods echo. You could
hear him coming a block off, so full was ho
of romp and laughter and whistle. Don't
put religion on your child as a straight
jacket. Parents after having for a good
many years been jostled about in the rough
world often lose their vivacity, and are as
tonished to sea how their children can act so
thoughtlessly of the earnest world all about
them. That is a cruel parent who quenches
any of the light in a child’s soul. Instead
of arresting its sportfulness, go forth anil
help him trundle the hoop, and tty
the kite, and build the snow castle.
Those shoulders are too little to
carry a burden, that brow is too young to
bo wrinkled. those feet are too sprightly to
go along at a funeral pace. God bless their
young hearts! Now is the time for them to
"be sportful. Let them romp and sing aud
laugh, and go with a rush and a hurrah. In
this way they gal her up a surplus of energy
for future life. For the child that walks
around with a scowl, dragging his feet as
t hough they w ere weights and sitting down
by tho hour in moping and grumbling I
prophesy a life of utter inanition and dis
content. Sooner hush the robins in the air
until they are silent as a bat. and lecture
the frisking lambs on the hillside until they
walk like old sheep, rather than put exhila
rant childhood in the stocks.
The fifth error in the training of childhood
is the postponement of its moral culture
until too late. Multitudes of children be
cause of their precocity have been urged
into depths of study where they ought not
to go, and their intellects have lieeii over
burdened, and overstrained and battered to
pieces against, Latin grammars anil algebras,
and coming forth iuto practical lifo they will
hardlv rise to mediocrity, and there is now
a stuffing and cramming system of educa
tion in the schools of our country that is
deathful to the teacher who liuvo to en
force it, and destructive to the children
who must submit to the process. You find
children at nine ami ten years of age with
school lessons only appropriate for children
of fifteen. If children are kept in school
and studying from nine to throe o’clock, no
home study except music ought to be re
quired of them. Six hours of study is
enokgb for any child. The rest of the day
ought to be devoted to recreation aud pure
fun. But you cannot begin too early tho
moral culture of a child, or on too
complete a scale. You can look
back upon your own life and remember
what mighty impressions were made
upon you at five or six years of age. Oh,
that child does not sit so silent during vonr
conversation to lie influenced by it. You
say he does not understand. Although
much of your phraseology is beyond his
grasp, he is gathering up from your talk in
fluences which will affect his immortal des
tiny. From the question ho asks you long
afterward you find that he understood all
about what you were saying. You think
the child does not appreciate that beautiful
cloud, but ils most iHicato lines are re
flected into the very depths of the youthful
nature, and a score of years from now you
will see the shadow of that cloud in the
tastes and refinements developed. The song
with which you slug that child to sleep will
echothrougn all its life, and ring back from
the very arches of heaven. 1 think that
often the first seven years of a child’s
life decides wuether it shall be irascible,
waspish, rude, false, hypocritical,
or gentle, truthful, frank, obedient, honest
and Christian. The present generations of
men will pass off very much as they are now.
Although the gospel is offered them, the gen
eral rule Is that drunkards die drunkards,
thieves die thieves, liliertines die libertines.
Therefore to tin- youth we turn. Before
they sow wild oats get them to sow wheat
and barley. You fill the bushel measure
with good corn, and there will be no room
for husks. Glorious Alfred Cookman was
converted at ten years of age. At Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, during the progress of u re
ligious mooting in the Methodist church,
while many wore l.nooiingat the foot of the
altar, this boy knelt in a corner of the church
all by himself and said: “precious Saviour,
thou art saving others, G. wilt thou not sare
me?” A Presbyterian elder knelt beside him
and led him " into the light. Enthroned
Alfred Cookman! Tell me from the
skies, were you converted too early! But
1 cannot hear his answer. It is overpow
ered by the huzza i of tiie tens of thousands
who were brought to Gcd through his min
istry. Isaac Watts, the groat Christian poet,
was converted at nine yours of age. Robert
Hail, tiie groat Baptist evangelist, was con
verted at twelve years of age. Jonathan
Edwards, the greatest of American logi
cians, was converted at seven years of age.
Oh for one generation of holy men and
woman. Bhall it be the next? Fathers and
mothers, you under God are to decide
whether from your families shall go forth
cowards, inebriates, counterfeiter*, bias-
phemers, and whether there shall be those
bearing your image and carrying your
name festering in the low haunts of vice,
and floundering in dissipation, and making
tiie midnight of their lives horrid witii a
long howl of ruin, or whether from your
family altars shall come the Christians, the
reformers, the teachers, the mtnistors of
Christ, the comforters of the troubled, the
healers of the sick, the eimeters of good
laws, the founders of charitable institutions,
aud a great many who shall in the humbler
spheres of toil and usefulness serve God aud
the best interests of the human race.
You cannot as parents shirk the responsi
bility. God has charged you with a mission,
and all the thrones of heaven are waiting
to see whether you will do your duty. We
must not forget that it is not so much what
we teach our children ns what we are in
their presence. Wo wish them to Vie better
thou we are, but the probability is ttiat
they will only be n productions of our own
character. German literature has much to
say of the “sjioctre of Brocken.” Among
those mountains travelers in certain condi
tions of the atmosphere see them
selves copied on a gigantic scale
in the clouds. At first the
travelers do not realize that it is
themselves on a larger scale. When they
lift a hand or move the head this monster
spectre does the same, and with such en
largement of proportions that the scene is
most exciting, ami thousands have gone to
t hat place iust to behold the spectre of
Brocken. The probability is that some of
our faults w hich we consider small and in
significant, if we do not put an end to
them, will be copied on a larger scale in the
lives of our children, and perhaps dilated
and exaggerated into siiectral proportions.
You need not go as far as the Brocken to
seo that process. The first thing in im
portance in the education of our children is
to make ourselves, by the grace of God,
fit. examples to be copied. The day
will come when you must confront
that child, not in the church pew on a calm
Habbath, but amid the consternation of the
rising dead, and the flying heavens, and a
burning world. From your side that son or
daughter, bone of your Done, heart of your
heart, the father's brow his brow, the
mother’s eye his eye, shall go forth to an
eternal destiny. What, will be your joy if
at last you hear their feet in the same golden
highway, and hear their voices in the same
rapturous song, illustrations, while the
eternal ages last, of what a faithful parent
could, uuder God, accomplish. I was read
ing ot a mother who dying hail all her
children about her, and took each one of
them by the band, and asked them to meet
her in heaven, and with tears and sobs such
as those only know who have stood by the
deathbed of a good old mother. They all
promised. But there was a young man
of nineteen who had been very wild and
reckless, and hard, and proud, and when
she took his hand she said: “Now, my boy,
I want you to promise me before I die, that
you will become a Christian and meet me in
heaven." The young man made no answer,
for there was so much for him to give up, if
lie made and kept such a promise. But
the aged mother persisted in saying:
“You won’t deny me that before I go, will
you# This parting must not be forever.
Tell ine how you will serve God and meet
me in the land where there is no parting.”
Quaking with emotion be stood, making up
his mind and halting aud hesitating, but at
last his stubbornness yielded and he threw
his arms around his mother’s neck and said:
“Yes, mother; I will, I will.” And as he
finished the last word of his promise, her
spirit ascended. I thank God the young
mau kept bis promise. Yes, he kept it. May
God give all mothers and lathers the glad
ness of their children’s salvation.
For all who are trying to do their duty as
parents I quote the tremendous passage:
“Train up a child in the way in which lie
should go, and when he is old he will not
do;lart from it." If through good discipline
and prayer and golly example you are act
ing upon that child you have the right to
expect him to grow up virtuous. And how
many tears of joy you will shed when you
see your child honorable and just and truth
ful and Christian and successful—a holy
man amid a world of dishonesty, a godly
woman in a world of frivolous pretension.
When you come to die they will gather to
bless your last hours. They will push back
the white locks on your cold forehead and
say: “What a good father lie always was
to me!" They will fold your hands peace
fully and say: “Dear mother! She is gone,
Her troubles are all over. Don’t she look
beautiful f"
GUARDING THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
Surgeon General Hamilton Submits
Hla Annual Report.
Washington, Nov. 13.—Surgeon General
Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital Service,
has submitted bis annual refiort to the Sec
retary of the Treasury. The report covers
the operations of the last fiscal year, and the
sanitary operations for the year up to the
outbreak of yellow fever at Tampa. The
hospitals and service generally are reported
to be in satisfactory condition. In accord
ance with the provision contained
ir> the sundry civil appropriation act
the method practiced in Mexico and
Brazil for inoculation as a preventive
against yellow fever is now lining investi
gated by Major George M. Sternberg, a
surgeon who has been detailed by the
President for that investigation. The gen
eral opinion of sanitarians, however, lias
not yet crystallized in favor of inoculation
as a preventive of yellow fever. Tho ex
periments made on subject in
Havana in 1855, were seemingly as
conclusive as those to-day, but they
did not succeed in securing general adop
tion, and Dr. Sternberg’s report will doubt
|esi provide the necessary data for passing
judgment upon the efficacy of tho system.
A full report is given of the operations of
the service at Key West, Fla., and in re
gard to the origin of the epidemic of yellow
fever at that place. Kegrot is expressed
that the bill introduced In Congress at its
last session to establish a national quaran
tine station near Key West did not become
a law. Had this bill become a law, he says,
it is strongly probable that the calamitous
epidemic might hove been prevented, for
the first case, witli ail its belongings, would
have been promptly sent to quarantine.
Tampa’s Fever Record.
Tampa, Fla., Nov. 13.—Throe new rases
of yellow fever were reported to-dav fall
white) and one death, that of Miss Eddy,
aged 13 years. Thirty-five patients are
under treatment. Sixteen are in the hos
pital and nineteen in the city. There are
four wises in the country.
The existence of yellow fever at Manatee,
on lower Tampa bay, is doubted. There
were three suspicious deaths there last week,
but an epidemic is not feared, owing to its
lieiniz a healthy pine section. The end of
tlio Tampa epidemic is expected this week,
and there Is no fear any where else. All
trains and steamers from the North are
coming here crowded with tourists and
others.
Ex-Minister Foster’s Mission.
Washington, Nov. 18.—The Department
of Btate did not send ex-Minister John W.
Foster to Mexico to negot’nto a treaty, or
investigate claims or do anything nor
has he been thought of in connection with
the vacant Mexican mission. Mr. Foster is
American counsel for the Mexican legation
in this city, and presumably is in Mexico
on the business of the Mexican Govern
ment.
( PRICEgtO A YEAR )
) A CE.MS A COPY, j
NO ROW ATTHE FUNERAL
CURSES LOUD AND DEEP AT THE
GRAVES OF THE DEAD.
“ Throttle the I jaw,” the Cry That Fol
lowed the Speaker’s Closing Words
—The Coffins Covered With Flowers
and Red Silk Scarfs--Two Assem
blies of Women In Line.
Chicago, Nov. 13.—An attempt was
made to-day to assassinate a soldier of the
Second regiment who was on duty outside
the armory on Washington Boulevard. A
shot was fired at him by a man supposed lo
bo an Anarchist, but it did not take effect.
The assassin fled or hid and was not cap
tured.
The funeral procession of the dead Au
archists began to move between 1 and 2
o’clock this afternoon. It was beaded by
Chief Marshal Happ with two aids and a
band of musicians in the uniform of the
German army. Immediately afterward
eame the members of the defence commit
tee, headed by George Schilling, wbocarried
ill his hand a floral tribute. Following them
inarched, eight abreast, nearly 200 member*
of the Aurora Turn Verein, of which August.
Spies was a member. The whole society
was not out, as many members are not in
sympathy with Anarchy. Four hundred
of the Vorwarts Turner Society came next,
wearing red badges on their breasts. This
branch of the Turners is more strongly
tinctured with Socialism than any in the
city. One hundred of the Fortscbiett
branch came next, and then followed the
hearse of August Spies, the ton of which
was so covered with floral tributes that
nothing else could be seen. Inside was a
richly covered casket, over the black cloth
of which was thrown a sash of red silk.
THE BEST OF THE HEARSES.
Then another band wheeled into Lake
street playing a dirge, followed by many
hundred members of the Central Labor
Union, which comprises some of the most
extreme Socialists in the city. Next eame
the hearse in which lay the coffin of Adolph
Fischer. It was also decorated with flowers,
but not so profusely as that of Bpies. Next
came the hearse containing the remains of
Parsons. On the lix by the driver fiat a
mau holding in his hand a Federal emblem
of such immense size that the inscription of
the flowei-s, “From K. of L Assembly No.
1307,” could be seen a hundred feet away.
This is the assembly to which Parsons be
longed until it was expelled from the order
on account of its adherence to the cause of
anarchy. Across Parsons’ coffin was thrown
a simple strip of red silk ribbon. Then
came another cohort of the Central
Labor Union, composed of representatives of
all sorts of trades. Behind these were the
hearses of Engel and Lingg, over whose
black coffins were the red banners under
which they had fought. Several florol
pieces were carried behind. The hearses
were followed by carriages containing rela
tives of the dead men and by various labor
organizations and great numbers of men,
women and children on foot.
WOMEN OF THE ORDER.
Particular attention was attracted by two
local assemblies of Knights of Labor com
posed wholly of women, who were aflame
with red, in the shape of scarlet ribbons in
their hats, bows of crimson at their throats,
aud long streamers of crimson hanging front
t heir shoulders. In front of them marched
Miss Mary McCormick, Masterworkman of
the organization known as the “Lucy Par
sons Assembly Knights of Labor. ” £?he wax
attended by three others, and the trio car
ried a huge wreath surmounted by a snow
white dove, an emblem of peace. The
wreath and dove were sent by the Ladies
Defense Fund Committee of Cincinnati.
BY TRAIN TO THE CEMETERY.
The procession, whic 1 * contained twelve
or fifteen bauds of rnuwe, proceeded to the
Wisconsin Central dejiot, where the oofiins
of the Anarchists wore transferred from
hearses to the baggage car. and the friends
and relatives of the dead men took a
special train for AValdeheim Cemetery,
where the interments took place. The
funeral train consisted of seventeen
coaches. Three other trains were
made up and all were crowded. Upon
the arrival at the cemetery, which is
situated on a desolate stretch of prairie in
the outskirts of the city, the coffins were
laid upon a rude platform iu front of a
gloomy vault and In the presence of several
thousand persons.
capt. black’s oration.
Capt. Black delivered a funeral oration,
in the course of which he said:
T am not hero this afternoon to speak to you
any sjioclal words concerning the eause for
which these men lived, nor concerning the man
ner of their taking off. but to speak to you like
friends to tell you that that cause shk-h com
manded their services was s-alel at last by
their lives with unstinted measure for the sake
of those they loved You know how grandiy
l hey j Missed out of tills life into the perfect, and
glorious life that is beyond tho
reach of misjadgment. Wo are not
here beside the caskets of felons
consigned to an ignominio ,s death. We are
here beside the bodies of those who wereaubHmo
In tbelr self-sacrifice, and for whom the gibbet
a glorious cross. They have been
painted and presented to the world as men lov
ing violence, and riot and bloodshed for its own
sake. Nothing could be further from the truth.
They were men who loved ponco, whose hearts
were full of tenderness, who wore loved by tho*
who knew them, trusted by' those who
came to understand tho glory nnd power of
their lives. And Anarchy, of which they spoke
and taught, what was It hm an attempt to an
swer the question: After the revolution, what?
They believed that there was that of wTong
and harilstiip In the existing order which
pointed loaconflict, because (hey believed that
selfishness would not surrender jx-oeeably and
of its own motion to righteousness, and
the whole of their thought, of theii
philosophy us Anarrbh ts.was tho establishment
of an order of society that should be symbolizes
in the words: “Order without force.” Is it
practical? I know not. They thought tt was.
1 know that It is practical now, but 1 know also,
as a philosopher and Christian. under the in
spiration of love, that the day will come when
righteousness will reign in this earth and
when sin and selfishness will end.
Capt. Block ended his address by reading
a poem, routing tho virtues of the deceased
aud lauding anarchy.
A FIKK-EATKTI.
Capt. Black was followed by Robert
Reitzel, of Detroit, who made' a floret
s]ieech in German condemning the working
men of Chicago for having allowed five of
their liest men to be murdered, declaring
that they died for justice, and denouncing a
society “based upon robbery and sustained
by murder.” His remarks were welcomed
with applause, cries of “Biavo!” and floret
yells.
T. J. Morgan, a local •’oeiaßst leader, o'
English bir'b, then erpr *sed his contempt
for the I wsbi'hl aged he Anarchists is
voice “ hrott! the law’ i and sneered at
“the tp eud ng'i is n of the American
Fourth o J 1 w hich obscured the minds
of the reo le.
The las speech was in German, by At
bert C urrL lormerly of the Arbeiter Zti
hmg. He scarcely got started when Capt.
Black stcpjatd to tne front and hud his hand
on the speaker’s arm.
It was now pitch dark in the grave yard,
and the people were being wrought up to a
high pitch of excitement bv the the oratory
and surroundings. Capt. Black gave word
that the ceremonies would be considered
closed. The coffins of tho five Anarchiato