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\ J, H. ESTILL. President. \
death CLAIMS ONLY OXE
IBE NEW CASES NUMBER 4
WHITES AND 13 NEGROES.
Dr Forter Confident that Surgeon
General Hamilton is Doing All that
the Law Allows Him to Do-Saun
ders to be Brought Back without
Fall.
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 18.—Presi
dent Neal Mitchell’s official bulletin for the
twenty-four hours ending at 6 o’clock
to-night is as follows:
Few cases 1"
Deaths J
Total number of cases to date .4,613
Total number of deaths to date 396
THE DEATH.
To-day’s death is that of:
Louis Huebauer of South Jacksonville.
The new white patients are:
Mrs. Platt of South Jacksonville.
Mrs. R. T. Masters of South Jackson
ville,
George Houlonce of Springfield.
Clarence Alexander of the Roseville
brick yard.
Four whites and thirteen negroes make
up to-day’s total
DR. PORTER PRAISES HAMILTON.
Dr. Joseph Y. Porter to-day said: “1
have personal knowledge that Surgeon Gen
eral Hamilton is doing all that is in his
power to do, and please permit me to lay
particular emphasis on the word power, to
relieve Jacksonville in the future from
possible contamination from yellow
fever infection, and this knowl
edge is gained not only from
bis acts in approving measures for the
sanitary improvement of the city just now,
bills amounting to thousands of dollars, but
from bis private letters cn the subject, urd
the letters of other persons who have con
versed lately with him. Asa case in point
let me quote from a letter from a friend who
is a prominent official in this state, received
only yesterday, in which he remarks, speak
ing of Gen. Hamilton.
PAYMENT FOR PROPERTY.
“He is satisfied, in his opinion, that the
payment for all articles destroyed f.om
sanitary precautions should be made, as
otherwise it would result in the secretion
11 f some articles, which would cause future
trouble; but he is not in a position, as 1 un
derstand, to incur this expenditure, from
the fact that the means at his disposal are
1m sufficient to justify this undertaking.
>r. Hamilton is very solicitous lest yollow
ever shall Kncer in the southern counties
}f the stass, and perhaps, become epidemic,
Inless arbitrary measures are taken for. its
Control. I make this long quotation In
order to demonstrate that the utmost
unanimity of opinion as to the manner of
procedure to thoroughly eradicate the dis
oase from Jacksonville and the state, exists
between Surgeon General Hamilton and
myself, and that ho and myself are in per
fect accord on the measures relating to the
sanitary interests of Jacksonville,
MUST OBEY ORDERS.
“He has a chief who is commander-in
chief, and it is under his directions solely,
according to the wording of the act creating
the epidemic fund, that that fund is ex
pended—l mean the President of the United
States. The announcement, that the gov
ernment would only pay for infected ar
ticles destroyed in the houses of the poor
was made, 1 understand, after repeated con
ferences with the President and tho Acting
fvcr. tary of tho Treasury, and it is but
natural fo supposo that there must be some
legal difficulty in the way to pre
vent what every one, professional or
lay, concedes to be the only p acticabie
measure to be adopted in this matter. No
haling of anirn sity or prejudice could be
ascribed o President Cleveland as existing
toward Jacksonville, where he was so hand
toino and hospitably entertained last
winter, and whatever his decision in the
matter may be, I think all fair-minded
perrons will concede it to have been made
see riling to his conception of tho law.
Luigeon General Hamilton and myself
agree perfectly on this point, but the chief
ami subordinate are both subordinate to a
higher authority, tho law.”
SAUNDERS FIOHTINO HARD.
In consequence of the requisition papers
authorizing the bringing back to this city
of J W. Saunders having to be sent here
for the clerk of the circuit court to sign, it
is unlikely that Officer Norris will arrive
with his prisoner before to morrow. There
was a rumor on Bay street to-night that
Saunders was released on account of de
layed papers. . Steve Wiggins denios the
rumor, however, but that a
writ of habeas corpus was taken out by
Saunders’attorney, Mr. Popo. Mr. Wig
gins has tolegraghed to Atlanta to employ
counsel, and he says that he is assured that
the prisoner will see Jacksonville inside of
two days.
SOUTH JACKSONVILLE’S tNFKCTION.
While the fever seems to havoabout spent
its force in tbo city proper, a virulent typo
lof it has been developed iu South Jaekson-
I Mue of late, and is now raging there, often
I with fatal results. Dr. C. J. Burroughs
I mis been appointed physician for this dis-
I U ct, which extends from a point about
■ tour miles up the river from the South
■ Jacksonville landing t<>a point about an
■ equal distance up Little Pottsburg
■ creek, and comprises the villages
I'; oouth Jacksonville, St. Nicholas and
■1 killing Tbo natural location la
■jiT st favorable to a spread of tho disease,
■>tie land being generally low mid to a great
■extent marshy and wet, end a number of
■|he yards being partially covered with tide
J'ah i. The doctor is attending ns rnnny as
[{■'‘’kty aevon oases a day, having six cases
■ :< "h* bou-e, the majority of
yftiom being yellow fever, and of a
■’’U gravo type. One of the
ifti'ist malignant oases was that of the col
■u ed mati, Gibson, whose temperature
■eachod 1 The doctor is kept busy
day. Lust night he remained up
•th Lewis liufliauer, who developed black
■ "■tut yesterday afternoon. Mr. Hufbauer’s
pother died of tho same disease in Beptem
■er,
[I . TnE BtJ RGEON GENERAL'S IDEA.
■ ashinoton, Nov. 18.— The reason
■ - Burgeon General Hamilton, in reeom
■lending the destruction of nil infected
Jlo thing, etc., in Jacksonville, only
er . i Pay for the property so de
■' T'O of poor people, was that it was
•■'tight practicable to distinguish between
Kr S ?i o cou hl and those who could not
IE I V‘ e * oa * °* their property in this way,
Bit. thH "argoini general has not been
•mu dly Informed that it will not work.
■ city is comparatively free
H ® McHow fever. Tho suburbs devo.op
of the new cians.
I fSHNANDINA FBELB FINF.
■ !i!y one New Caao and No Deaths
|| During the Past 24 Hours.
■ fetNANniNA, Fla., Nov. 18—The re
■ 4 for tho twenty-four hour, ending at fi
■ is as follows:
I Jr. I
■ Nea w case is a white patient.
■ Deattt* or the last two days are very
■ Thar**® ~1B diminution of the
■ under trv<-
fp)je Jlotnino
The Howard Association receive so many
communications in reference to tho quaran
tine, the cordon guard and the restrictions ■
imposed upon refugees (some of which are
not of a very pleasant nature), that they i
desire to have it understood that their only ]
office is to receive and distribute the aid
sent for the relief of the people of the
stricken district, and that they have
no control over any quarantine
or restrictive measures, whatever;
that the matter of quarantine is in the
hands of neighboring counties and states,
and the restrictions upon refugees Is all in
tho hands of the Marine hospital depart
ment. A good heavy frost now would most
likely bring this long imprisonment to an
end.
Gainesville's Record.
Gainesville, Fla., Nov. 18.—Surgeon
Martin reports five new cases to-day, two
patients being white and three colored, and
one death, tout of R. H. Bennett (white),
one of the English colony.
Contributions have been received from
the Eveniny Star amounting to $42 08.
Money is badly needed.
Surgeon Martin is greatly overworked as
the fever increases, but stands up manfully.
STRUCK BY A TIDAL WAVE.
One Sailor Killed and Five Others Se
riously Injured.
New York, Nov. IS. —The Cunard line
steamship Etruria, which arrived at her
dock this afternoon, experienced one of the
worst passages in her history. On Tuesday
last a tidal wave swept over the big
steamer, and Georgo Wornold, a sailor, was
killed. Her record also includes five more
or less severely injured. The passengers
were terribly shaken up. A purse of $5OO
for the dead sailor’s family was raised
among the passengers. The fatality oc
curred Tuesday afternoon.
COULDN’T ESCAPE IT.
The sailors injured were on duty at the
time the tidal nave struck the vessel.
They saw tho mountain of water approach
ing. Terrified they scrambled for safety,
but, with irresistible force, the green waters
curled over and 101 l upon the big steamer.
Like logs tho five sailors were jammed in a
heap against the deckhouse. One, as stated,
was killed and the others injured. Tho
wave washed the steamer fore and aft,
Tho officers and crew were reticent about
the accident, and the only information that
could be obtained was from the passengers.
Among tho passengers were Senor del
Puente, the singer and wife, and George
Mason and Arch Sinclair, English pedes
trians.
CHICAGO’S BOODLERS.
Edward McDonald Let out of Jail
Under a Bond for $lO,OOO.
Chicago, Nov. 18. —After seventy-three
weeks of imprisonment in the county jail,
Edward McDonald walked out of the crim
nal court lost evening a free man, under
$lO,OOO bail. His ride down Clark street
partook of the nature of an exile’s return.
The long confinement in jail has not les
sened apparently tho Humber of his
friends. Ono of the attorneys of the
the so-called "boodlers," said: "McGarigle
can now come back to Chicago, shake hands
with Sheriff Matson, spend ten days in jail,
and walk out a free man. McGarigle got
away while his motion for anew trial was
pending. While he has been away Mc-
Donald has taken up the case at his own ex
pense and decided it in McGarigle’s favor.”
WEST VIRGINIA SAVED.
The Governor and the Legislature
Both Democratic.
Washington, Nov. 18. —T. S. Rilev,
chairman of tho democratic state commit
tee of West Virginia, has sent tho following
dispatch to tho Post:
Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 18.—The offi
cial returns from this state are sufficiently
ascertained to warrant the annouucoment
of the election of Judge A. B. Fleming, the
democratic candidate for governor, by a
small but sure majority. The rest of the
state ticket is elected by larger majorities.
The legislature will stand on joint ballot 46
democrats, 44 republicans and 1 labor union
independent.
SANK AT HER WHARF.
The Mate Goes Down with the Boat
While Asleep.
New Orleans, Nov. 18.—Tho steamer
Maud M. Fish sank at midnight last night
at Gould’s landing, twenty miles below this
city. She had a cargo of rice and sundries.
In making the landing ’she careened, and
the engine room soon filled. The boat
went down in thirty feet of water. She
was valued at $lO,OOO. The insurance is
$3,000, in Cincinnati companies. It is be
lieved that the boat can bo raised. The
mate, John Fox, was asleep in his state
room, and the boat sank so rapidly that he
failed to escape, and was lost.
BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.
A Kentucky Legislator Discovers His
Father's Murderer.
Louisville, Ky., Nov. 18. —Tho court of
appeals yesterday rendered a decision In the
case of David Roberts, charged with mur
der. Their decision sends Roberts to prison
for twenty-two yours. Roberts is 64 years
old. In 18.84 be cut the throat of James
Kendall of Morgau county, hid the body in
tho brush and escaped to Missouri. Ken
dall’s son, Wilrnoro, while serving in the
Kentucky legislature last winter, accident
ally heard of Roberts' whereabouts iu Mis
souri, and brought hint to trial.
FIRE ON COTTON LIGHTERS.
A Brilliant Spectacle in East River—
The Damage About $6,000.
New York, Nov. 18.—Two lighters, the
Mary Hand and Charles Whitney, loaded
with 800 bales of cotton, intended for the
Hamburg line of stoamors, took fire to-day
and were towed out into East river, where
a brilliant sight was witnessed by many
persons on each side of tho river. Before
tho flames could be extinguished about
$O,OOO damage was done.
An Earthquake In California.
San Francisco, Nov. 18. —A shock of
earthquake that was sharp enough to cause
many people in hotels ami private houses to
run out Into tho streets, was felt here this
afternoon. The direction was from the
nothwest to the southeast. Its duration
was ten seconds. Telegrams to-night any
th* shock was felt throughout Central Cali
fornio.
King Milan's Prattling.
Belgrade, Nov. 18.—At a recent sitting
of tho revision commission. King Milan de
clared that he would as little tolerate the
Russftin eagle at Constantinople as tho
Austrian eagle at Salome*.
Murder Denounced by a Priest.
Dublin, Nov. 18.—At Dunmanway to
day tho priost at each mass denounced the
murderer of Lynch, and urged the people
to beenmo detectives in order to captut • the
criminal.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1888.
BARRY HITS BACK HARD.
He Says the General Assembly I
Packed for Powderly.
Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 18.— Sunday
has been a quiet day with tho delegates to
the general assembly of the Knights of
Labor, although many of them were act
ively and closely engaged in committee
work. This evening, a lecture for tho bene
fit of the poor of this city, was given by
General Master Workman Powderly, in
Masonic ball. One of the delegates was
gelling tickets to tho knights, and Mr. P w
derly asked no questions, but investigated,
and found that he had bought a ticket to
his own lecture. This lecture was in charge
of a local Catholic church, and tbo proceeds
will be disbursed by it.
BARRY HARD AT WORK.
Hon. Thomas B. Barry, the expelled
member of the general executive board*
was hard at work all day in his room, and
late this afternoon gave*to the press a long
article explaining his position and ropnat
ing his former statements against Mr.
Powderly’s administration. Hesiys: "The
general assembly of the Knights of Labor is
not a fair representative gathering of tho
industrial classes of the order. Most un
scrupulous methods have been resorted to
in order to prevent men who were
known to be in auy degree op
posed to the administration from
being elected as representatives to this
con volition. The records were manipulated
and changed in the general officos, and
membership credited to administration dis
tricts and representatives seated in tlio
convention who had no legal right to s wits
therein, and representatives who were law
fully elected are denied a seat in the con
vention. The clerks in tho general offices
were engaged in manipulating the records
and selecting local assemblies that were
known to be opposed to the administration
in order that steps might be taken to pre
vent them from having representation at
this convention.”
alleged proof. .
In proof of this assertion he cites the case
of District ssembly No. 74, of East Sagi
naw, which, ho claims, was driven out of
the order by tho administration, and not by
him, as has been claimed. He claims that
District assembly No. 1, of Philadelphia, is
represented here by men chosen by packed
conventions. He continues: "This conven
tion is no more free from lobbying than the
Minneapolis convention. All those who de
pend upon the present gang who control
tho order from 'poverty palace’ are he:-e
looking after their master’s interests. It is
more liko a political gathering than a con
vention of labor reformers.”
He then takes up Mr. Powderly’s general
denial of his charges and reiterates his
ability to prove all he has said, claiming
that Mr. Powderly knows this and fears to
let him address tho general assembly, mid
further) remarking: "If my accusations
were false, they had an opportunity to
prove them so before tho bar of the order,
anil then mete out to me the censure which
would make me obnoxious in the eyes of all
honest men. 1 appreciate my position, and
would not exchange it for Mr. Powderly’s.”
ms NOTICE or EXPULSION.
Mr. Barry then gives a copy of envelopes
addressed to him as having been “expelled
by G. E. B.,’’ and says it is “the only
official notice 1 havo received of my ex
pulsion.”
He recites the law of the order to prove
that he had not been given a fair trial, and
says he proved _ his charges before the
Minneapolis convention, but was ruled out
“by the caucus and ring-rule practiced by
them and their followers.”
Ho says of his trial by the general oxecu
tivo board, whom ho had accused of wrong
doing, that “the constitution disqualifies
interested parties (and with all the brazen
effrontery that they are endowed with, they
surely will not claim that they were not in
terested) as incompetent ami unfit to sit in
judgment when they themselves were ac
cused villains.”
Ho mentions another case, and continues:
“Mr. Powderly himself admitted that there
was but one way in which a person could
be expelled and that was by a court of his
own local assembly.”
davern’s opposition.
Mr. Barry next gives a review of an arti
cle published in the Journal of United
Labor of October, 1888, in which he is op
posed, by Michael Davern, secretary of
district, assembly No. 176, of Ga.
He explains the attack by saying that he
prevented Prof. Davern from making
money out of the order. He next denied
that he hnrl advocated strikes before district
assembly N0.125, of Toronto, as was claimed
against him ki a letter from that assembly,
lie asserts that itemized quarterly reports
from th : treasurer had not been given, and
continued: “If it is against the Irws to tell
a Knight of Labor, thou I am guilty, but
that I made any statements that were not
true is false.”
He considers the charge that his claims
against tho administration were falso, made
by ono John M. Decker, as the work of the
administration against, himself. Ho refers
to Decker as “a mental light weight,” hop
ing to bo rewarded with a position as
general lecturer, notwithstanding his in
competency and his ignorance of economies.
Being charged with “plundering,” he says:
“I invite investigation of their actions and
mine, and a court of law would be a good
place for them to prove their charge of
plunder against me.”
closes wiTn a denial.
He closos with a denial of the charge that
he had not boon n member of the order since
last spring, having been a member of a
lapsed local, and that he had fraudulently
obtaiued money from the general treasury.
Although Mr. Barry's future actions are
not clearly known, delegates and close
friends of Mr. Powderly professes to havo
no fear of anything ho may attempt to do.
If to start n new order, it
cannot be predicted how strong it will be.
Ho believes he will have a big personal fol
lowing, and says one thing that will be
required in his order will ho strict honesty.
Gossip has been freely indulged in among
the delegates to-day, but in substance it
differs little from what has already been
stated in these dispatchos. Mr. Powderly
is very strong tn the general assembly, and
will be asked to continue in office. If
allowed to select his own advisers and help
ers, he will undoubtedly accept. Tho feel
ing that the order will have its healthiest
growth hereafter is becoming very goner—
among the delegates, and expressions of
this kind are heard much more frequently
than the assertions of Mr. Barry and the
other malcontents outside.
Lively times are expected in the general
assembly during tho woek, but a revolt is
not now anticipated from any large body
of the organization.
Suicide of a Drummer.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 18.— William R.
Sbipe, 28 years of age. committed suicide
to-night by shooting himself through the
head with a pistol at the Bt. James hotel,
lie is said to be a Virgiulan, a resident of
Brooklyn, ami traveling salesman for tho
shoe bouso of Pollock & Cos. of Baltimore.
No cause is assigned for the act.
A KuaaO'Corean Treaty.
London, Nov. 18. — A tpocial to the
limes from Tientsin says that the Chineee
government has learned that a secret treaty
has been concluded between Russia and
Corea, providing lor a Russian protectorate
of Corea.
A PARABLE OF Till MULE
'talmage tells the story of
THE MAN WITH THE TALENTS,
Becoming a Christian Merely Going
Out to Service -Different Qualiflca-
tions Given to Different People-
God’s Grace Intended to be Accumu
-1 lative - Inferiority of Gifts No Excuse
for Indolence.
Brooklyn, Nov. 18. —At tho Tabernacle
•this morning tbo acclaim of tho worshipers
’was very great as they joined in tho open
ing Dbxology. Prof. Browne rendered ex
quisitely the organ solo, Sonata in C minor,
Khoinborger. The pastor, the Rev. T. De-
XVitt Talmage, D.D., took for his text:
“Unto one ho guvo five talent*, to another
two, and to another ono; to every man ac
cording to his several ability.” Matt, xxv.,
|JS. Ho said:
Many of the parables of Jean-5 Christ wore
more graphic in tho times in which ho Uvea
than they are now, because circumstances hare
bo much changed. In olden times when a man
wanted to wreak a grudge upon his neighbor,
after the farmer had scattered the seed wheat
Over the Held and was expecting the harvest,
his avenger would go across the same Held with
a sack full of the seed of darnel grass, scatter
ing that seed all over the Held, and, of course,
it would sprout up and spoil tho whole crop:
and it was to that Christ referred in t he parable
when he spoke of the tares leing sown among
the wheat. In this land our farms are fenced
off, ami the wolves have leen driven to the
mountains, and we cannot fully under
stand the meaning of the par
able in regard to the shepherd anil t)\e
lost sheep. Hut tho parable from which 1 speak
to-day is founded on something we ah under
stand. It is built on money, and that means
the same in Jerusalem as iu New York. It
means the same to the serf as to the czar, and
to the Chinese coolie as to the emperor.
Whether it is made out of hone nr brass, or
iron or copper, or gold or silver, it speaks all
languages without a stammer. The parable of
the text runs in this wine: The owner of a
large estate was about to leave home, and he
had some money that he wished properly iu
vested, and so he called together his servants,
and said:
“I am going away now, and I wish you would
take this money and put it to the very liest
possible use, aid when I come back return to
the interest." To one man he gave 99,400,
*to others he gave lesser sums of money; to the
least he gave $1,830. He left home and was
gone for years, and then returned. On his ar
rival he was anxious to know about his worldly
affairs, and he called his servants together to
report to him. me know," said he, "what
you have been doing with my property since 1
have been gone." The man who had received the
t 9,400 cam cup and said: "I invested that money.
I got good interest for it. I have iu other ways
rightly employed it, and here are SIB,BOO. You
see I have doubled what you gave me." ‘‘That’s
very good," said the owner of the estate;
"that's grandly done. I admire your
faithfulness and industry. I shall reward
you. Well done, well done." Other servants
came up with smaller accumulations. After a
while I see a man dragging hitnself along, with
Ids head hanging. I know from the way he
conies in that he is a lazy fellow. Ho comes
r pp to the owner of the estate and says: "Here
are those SI,SFO." "What I" says the owner of
the property, ‘haven’t you mode it accumulate
.unythiugy" "Nothing, nothing. 4 ** •‘Why, w hat
have you been about all these years?’* “Oh, I
was afraid that If I invested ft I might somehow
lose it. There arc your $1,880." Many a man
Btarted out with only a crown in his pocket and
achieved a fortune; but this fellow of my text,
with sl,Bbo, has gained not one farthing.
Instead of confessing his indolence,
lie goos to work to berate his
master, for Indolence is most always impudent
and impertinent. Of course, he loses his place
and is discharged from the service. The owner
who went out into a far country is Jesus Christ
going from earth to heaven. The servants
spoken of in tho text are members of the
church. The talents are our different qualifica
tions of usefulness given in different propor
tions to different people. The coming back of
the owner is the Lord Jesus returning at the
judgment to make final settlement. The rais
ing of some of these ineu to be rulers over five
or two cities, is the exaltation of the righteous
at the last day, while the casting out of the
idler is the expulsion of all those who have mls
improved their privileges.
Learn first from this subject, that becoming
a Christian is merely going out to service. Jf you
have any romantic idea about becoming a Chris
tian, I want now to scatier the romance. If you
enter into the kingdom of God, it will bo going
into plain, practical, honu:-t, continuous, j*r
sistent Christian work. I know there am a great
many people who have fantastic and romantic
notions about this Christian life, but he who
serves God with all the energies of body, mind
and soul is a worthy servant, and he who does
not is an unworthy servant. When the war
trumpet sounds, all the Lord's soldiers must
•march, however deep the snow may be, or how
over fearful the odds against them. Under oiir
government we may have colonels, and cap
tains. and generals in time of peace, but in the
church of God there is no peace until the last
great victory shall have oeen achieved. But I
nave to tell you it is a voluntary service. People
are not brought into it as slaves were dragged
from Africa. A young man goes to an artisan
and says: "Hir, I want to learn your trade. I
by this indenture, yield myself to your care and
service for the next four, or five, or seven years
1 want you to be my master. *wsd I want to be
vour servant." Just so, if we come into the
'kingdom of God at all, we must come saying to
,Christ: "Be thou my master I fake thy‘service
for time and for eternity, f choose It. ft is a
[voluntary service. There is n<> drudgery in it.
’in our worldly callings sometimes our nerves
get worn out, and our head aches, and our
physical faculties break down; hut in this serv
•ice of the Lord Jesus tho harder a man works
tha better be likes it, and a man in this audience
who has been for forty years serving God, en
joys the employment better than when he first
entered it. The grandest honor that can ever
l>e bestowed upon you is to have Christ say to
you on tho last day: “Well done, good and
faithful servant."
Loam also from this parable that different
qualifications are given to d.fferent fieople. Tho
teacher lifts a blackboard, and he draw s a dia
gram, in order that by that diagram ho may
Impress the mind of the pupil with the truth
that ho has been uttering And uil tho truths
of this Bible aro drawn out in the natural world
as in a great diagram. Here is an am oof
ground that has ten talents Under a little
culture it yields twenty bushels of wheat to the
acre. Here is another piece of ground that has
only one talent. You may plow It, and barrow
it, and culture It, year after year, but It yields
a mere pittance So here is a man with t*n
talents in tho way of gei ting good and doing
good. Ho soon, under curistisn culture, yields
preat harvests of and good work. Here
is another man who seems to havo
only ono talent, and you may put
upon him the greatest spiritual culture,
but ha yields but little of tbo fruits of
righteousness. You are to understand that there
are different qualifications for different Indi
viduals. There is a great deal of ruinous com
parison when a man says: "Oh, if I only had
that man's faith, or that man's money, or that
man's eloquence, how I would serve God.*’
Better take the faculty that God has given you
and employ it in the right way. The rabbis
used to say that before the stone and timber
were brought to Jerusalem for the temple,
every stone and piece of timber was marked; so
that befolVi they started for Jerusalem, the
architects knew in what place that particular
Eiece of timber or stone should fit. And so I
ave to tell you wo are all marked for some ono
place in the great temple of tho Lord, and do
not let us complain, saying: "I would like to be
the foundation stone or the cap stone." L-t us
go into the very place where (tod Intends us to
be, and be satisfied with the position. Your
talent may he in personal appearance,
your talent may be in large worldly
estate,your talent inar he in high social position,
your talent may be in a swift pen or eloquent
tongue; but whatever >e the tafeat, It has been
given only for one purpose— practical use. You
sometimes find a man in the community of
whom you say: "He has no talent at all;*’ and
yet that man may have a hundred talents. His
one hundred talents may be shown in the Item
of endurance. Poverty Comes, and he endures
It; persecution comes, and ho endures it; sick
ness comas, and ho endures it. Before men and
angels he is a specimen of Christian patience,
ana he is really illustrating the power or
Christ s gospel, and is doing as much for She
church, and more for the church, than many
more positively active. If you have ooe talent,
use that; if you havo ten talents, use them.
satisfied with the fact that we all have different
qualifications, and that the Lord decide,
whether we shall have ono or whether we *hail
have ten.
T ham also from this parable that the grace
of God was intended to Ikvaccumulative. When
God plants an acorn, he means an oak. ao l
when he plants a small amount of grace in the
heart, he intends it to be growthful. ami en
large until it overshadows the wlv-lo natur-
There are parents who, at tho birtn of each
child, lay aside a certain amount of money, in
vesting it, expecting by accumulation and bv
compound interest, that hv the linn* the child
shall come to mid-life, t is small amount of
money will be a fortune, vlioa iug hovr a mua.l
amount of money will roll un Into a vast oecn
mu atloj. Well, < Jod sets aside a c rtain amount
of grac for each one ot his spiritual childr nat
bis birth, anti it is to go on. and, as by compound
interest, accumulate, until it shall'hecoma an
eternal fortune, ran it be possible that you
have been acquainted with ti e 1 x*nl Jesus for
ten, twenty, thirty ysars, and that you and not
love him more now than you ever did before.
Can it he that you have boon cultured iu the
Lord's vineyard, and that Christ finds on you
nothing but sour grapes? You may dcqiend
upon it, if you do not uss the talent that God
f ave you, it will dwindle. The rill that brsaks
rom the hillside will either widen into a river
or dry up. The brightest day started in the
dim twilight. The strongest. Christian man was
once a weak Christian. Take the one t.Jen*
and make it two; take five and make them ton;
take ten ami make them twenty. The grace of
God was intended to he very accumulative.
Again: I Jparn from the text that inferiority
of gifts is no excuse for indolence. This man,
with the smallest amount of money, < atm*
growling into the presence of tho owner of the
estate, as much as to say: “If you hod given
me $ ',400 I would have brought SIB,BOO as well
as the other man. You gavo me only SI,BBO,
and 1 hardly thought it was worth while to use
it at all. So I hid it in a napkin, and it pro
ducetl no result Jt'n because you didn't
ine enough." But inferiority of facuh ie* is no
excuse for indolence. I**t me Hay to the ;nan
who has the least qualifications, by the grace
of God he may Ihj made almost omnipotent
The merchant, whoso cargoes come out from
every inland of the son, and who, by one stroke
of tho pen, can change the whole face of Amer
ican commerce, lias not so much power as you
may have before Goil in earnest, faithful ond
continuous jirayer. You say you have no fac
ulty. I>o you not understand that you might
this afternoon go into your place of prayer and
kneel before God and bring down upon your
soul, and tho souls of others, a blessing so
vast that it would take eternal nges
to compute it? “Oh,** you say. "1 haven't fl-wi
tless of speech. I can't talk well. I an’t utter
what I want to say.’* My brother, can you not
quote one passage of scripture? Then, take
tnat one passage of scripture; carry it with
you everywhere; quote it under all proper cir
cumstances. With that one passage of scrip
ture you may harvest a thousand souls for God.
1 am glad t hat the chief work of the church in
this day is being done by the men of one t*le; t.
Once in a while, when a great fortress is to t e
taken, God will bring out a great field-piece and
rake all with the fiery had of destruction. But
common muskets do must of the haid fighting.
It took only one Joshua, and the thousands of
common troops under him, to drive down the
walls of cities, and, under wrathful strokes, to
make nations fly like sparks from the
anvil. It only took one Luther tor
Germany, ono Zwinglius for Switzerland,
one'(John Knox for Scotland, one Calvin
for France, and one John Wesley for England.
Dorcas as certainly has a mission to serve s
i’aul has a mission to preach. The two mites
dropped by the window into the poor box will
be as much applauded as the endowment of a col
lege, which gets a man's name into the news
papers. The man who kindled tho fire under
the burnt offering in the ancient temple bad a
duty as imperative as that of the high priest, in
magnificent robes, walking into the Holy of
Holies under the cloud of Jehovah's presence.
Yes, the men with one talent are to save the
world, or it will never be saved at all. Tho men
with five or ten talents are tempted to toil
chiefly for themselves, to build up their own
great name, and work for their own aggrandize
ment, and do nothing for the alleviation of the
world’s woes. Tho cedar of I>‘bano standin <
on the mountain seems to hand down the storm*
out of the heavens to the earth, but it bears no
fruit, while some dwarf pear tree lias more fruit
on its branches than it can carry. Better to
have one talent and put it to full use than five
hundred wickedly neglected.
My subject teaches me that there is going to
como a clay of solemn settlement. When the
old farmer of tho text got home, he imme
diately called all the servants about him, and
suid: “Here is the little account I have been
keeping. I want nee your account, and wo
will first compare them; and I'll pay you what
I owe you, and you'll pay mo what you owe
me. Let us have a sett lenient,” The day will
coma when the Lord Jesus Christ will apiar,
and will say to you: "What have you been
doing with my property? What have you been
doing with my faeultb*? What have you been
doing with what I gave you for accumulative pur
poses?" There will be no oscaj*e from that settle
ment. Sometimes you cannot get a settlement
with a man, especially If he owes you. Ho
postpones and procrostinatoH, and says; "I II
set) you text week," or "I'll see you next
month." The fact is, he does not want to set
tie. But when the great day comes of which I
am speaking there will be no escape. Wo will
have to face all the bills. I have Homciim*!)
been amazed to sec how an accountant will run
up or down a long line of figures. If I see ten
or fifteen figures in a lino, and I attempt to add
them up, and I add them two or three times, i
make them different each time. But I have ad
rnired the way an accountant will take a long
line of figures, and without a single mintak-\
I and with great celerity, announce the aggregate.
Now, in the last great settlement there will l*e a
correct accouut presented. God lias kept a long
line of sins, a ioug line of broken Sablwitbs, a
long line of profane words, a long lino of dis
carded sacraments, a long line of rais
improved privileges. They will all lie
added up, and before angels, ami devil*,
and men, the aggregate will he an
nouncod. Oh, that will bn the great day of
settlement. I have to ask the question: “Am
I ready nir it?** It is of more Importance to me
to answer that question in regard to myself
than In regard to you: and it is of more im
portance for you to answer it in regard to your
self than in regard to me. Every man for him
self in that (lav Every woman for herself in
that day. "If thou be wise, thou shall wise
for thyself; if thou scoruest. thou alone shall
bear it." Wo are apt to speak of the last day
as hu occasion of vociferation a great demon
stration of power and pomp; but there w ill bo
on that day, I think, a few monfimts of entire
silence. I tuiuk a tremendous, an overwhelm
ing silence. I think it will be such a silence
as the earth never heard. It will be at Uie
moment when all nations aro batoning for their
doom.
I learn also from this paral lo of the text that
our degrees of happiness iu heaven will lie
graduated according to our degrees of useful
ness on earth. Several of the commentatoA
agree in making this parable the same one as In
Luke, where one man was made ruler over five
cities and another made ruler over two cities.
Would It be fair and right that the professed
Christian man who bos lived very near the line
between the world and the church the man
who has often compromised his Christian char
acter—the man who has never spoken out for
God—the man who lias never been known as a
Christian only on communion days the man
whose great struggle has been to see how much
of tho world he could get and yet win heaven
is it right to suppose that that man will have as
grand and glorious a seat in heaven as the man
who gave all his energies of body, mind and
soul to the aervioo of God? The dying thief en
tered heaven, but not with the same startling
acclaim as that which greeted Paul, who had
gone under scorching*, and across dungeons,
and through maltreatments into the kingdom
of glory. < tur differs from another star in
glory, and they who toil mightily for Christ on
earth shall have a far greater reward than those
who have rendered only half a service.
Homo of you are hastening on toward the re
ward of the righteous. I want to cheer you up
at the thought, that there will be sorno kind of a
reward waiting for yob There are ebris'lan
people in this house who are very near heaven.
This week some of you may pass qui into the
light of the uusetting sun. I saw a blind man
going along the road with his fctaff. and he kept
pounding the earth rnd then stamping with his
foot. I said to him: “What doyoudothat for?*
"Gh," ho said "lean tell by tne sound of the
ground when lam near a dwelling." And some
of you ean tell by the sound of your earthly
pathway that you arc coining near to your
Father s house. I congratulate you. Oh,
weather-beaten voyagers, the storms aro
driving you Into tho harbor. Just os
when you were looking for a friend,
you came up to the gate of his house, and
?ou were talking with the servant, when your
rtend hoisted the window and shouted: “Come
in! como ini" Just so, when you come to the
gate of the future world, and you are talking
with death, the black porter at the gats, me
thinks Christ will hoist the window andsav:
"Conic in' c me in' I will make thoe ruler over
tencitie.*." In Anticiparion of that land Ido
not wonder that Augustus Toplady, the author
of , ‘K<#ck of Ages," declared in his last moment:
“I have nothing more to pray for; God has
given me everything. Surely, no man can live
on earth after the glories 1 have witnessed.
< >h, my brothers and Hist- rs, how sweet it will
be. after t\ e long wilderness march, to get
home. That was a bright mo men t-*f or the tired
clove in t ho t ime of the deluge when it- found its
way a ifely into the window of the ark.
PP.EPAHINO FOR BIG ENTERPRISES.
Ponderous Machinery that is Botnar
Constructed for Government Work.
New York, Nov. 17.—Every year the
machinery in the iron mills of Pittsburg,
Pa, is being made more ponderous. The
necessity for this lies m tho demand for
immense castings. Everything is growing
larger than In former times. Ships are
bigger, locomotives aro more powerful,
iron-frout building's aro higher, and agri
cultural implements are vastly larger. Aho
development of mill apprat us to meet this
increase has been gradual, but within tho
last two years a wonderful impetus has been
givou the forward movement by the build
ing of the new war vessels for tie United
Kiates navy.
Andrew Carnegie has just com plated tbo
building of a mill at Braddock, one of the
suburbs of Pittsburg, expressly intended
for tho manufacture of this government
work. Tnere is not a single bit of apparatus
in it but wlmt is the largest of ita kiqd in
tho world. The shears, which snap a bar of
iron in two ns though it were tissue paper,
exceed anything in slaw that has ever boon
known by the sons of Vulcan. The lathes
are greater, the rolls aro longer and heavier
than anything tho balance of the country
can show, and even tho steam boilers are
the largest over made by the hand of man.
In the Black Diamond Steel Works,
Thirtieth street, Pittsburg, there is the
largest steam hammer in the United
States. The blow of 60 tons which it
strikes every sec >rd of time that it is iu
operation shakes the earth for two squares
around tho mill. Yet it is so oasily con
trolled, uud so nicely adjusted, that the
hammerman has placed oil the anvil block
beneath it a delicate wine glass containing
an egg, and turning on the steam full force
would.ot tho ponderous weight above fall
until at a certain distance, and then shut
the steam off. Iu this way the hammer has
been kept for several minutes gently tap
ping the gluti* and egg without breaking
. hem.
But now the government itself is going
to throw ail these marvelous achievements
in the background by the improvements at
the navy yard in Washington city. They
will transform that quiet place iu to the m< st
powerful workshop in tho universe. For
inst Alice, there was not tournl in the mills
and foundries of the whole United States
“traveling cranes* big enough to move
about the immense castings and wrought
iron parts of large cannon which the war
and navy cWpartmeuts have projected.
Those exanes are very familiar objects i*i
the yards of iron mills everywheie. They
are simply a block-and-tackle arrangement
so fixed upon a steam car that they will
pick up a heavy piece of metal and rush o it
speedily to any part of the buildings with
it. The largest of these “travelers” in
Pittsburg will carry a burden of thirty
tons with safety to the ropes and rigging.
In the Midvillo Hteel Works, Pennsylvania,
a traveling crane of twenty-six tons ca
pacity has l>een erected to facilitate the
handling of castings for the new warships.
These are now the two largest apparatus if
of the kind in tho country. But work
will soon bo commenced on a traveling
crane for the Washington nkvy yard
which will have a carrying capacity of 110
tons. This is intended for use iu the manu
facture of a 110 ton gun, which w hen fbi-
Dhed will be tho largest in the coast defense
of the United States. To “turn” this won
derful cannon a lathe is now lieiug made
which will surpass ail other lathes in size.
The machine will have to be 120 fost long,
and will have a “tread” of 9 feet. The guu
itself will be 50 feet long, and to turn and
bore it the lathe will, of course, be required
to be double that length.
All the tools and machinery to ftinko this
big cannon are l*iug made purposely for
the job, so large and strong must they be
The contract for delivery of tbo necessary
stod forgings has been concluded with the
Bethlehem Hteei Works of Eastern Penn
sylvania. But before that company could
make the forgings they too had to erect a
new plant large enough for the big sizes.
The fid-ton gun will be of Ifi inch caliber,
will require a charge of I,QPO pounds or
povder, and will throw a projectile weigh
ing 2,000 pounds. To even make these pro
jectiles will necessitate larger machinery
in that lino than is now in existence. Thou,
to transport tho gun finally over the differ
ent. lines of railroad (if the ocean route is
not taken), would require stronger iron
bridges than aro now lp use. So the work
of enlargement goes on almost indefinitely.
L. K. Stofibl.
HAYTI’B WAR OLOUJ.
The Prize Court Condemns the
Haytlen Republic to Confiscation.
New York. Nov. 18. — Tho following has
been received from the Haytien legation in
Washington: The prize court of l’ort-au-
Prtnco after n trial has condemned the
American steamer Haytien Republic to
confiscation for violating the blockade of
tho port ot Hr. Marc nnq for actively par
ticipating in tho rebellion of the northern
district of Hayti. The sentence of the court
was passed on Oct. 31. The United Btatee
steamship Boston has arrived at Port-au-
Prince, where her commander is assisting
the United Htatos minister in investigating
the case. An appeal may be taken to tho
court of cassation, the supreme court.
RX EMPRESS FREDERICK STARTS.
The Kaiser Ports with Her with Many
Evidences of Affection.
Berlin, Nov. 18.— Kx-Empross Frederick
and ber daughters started for Kpgland to
day. They were escorted to the railway
station by tho e©peror.
The partiug between the emperor and his
mother was very touching. He kissed and
embraced her many times. The party met
the Prince of Wales at Flushing and em
barked on the royal yacht, which started
for England noar midnight. The emperor
has instructed Count von Hatzfeldt, the
German ambassador at Ixmdon, to meet
ttie oi-enipresi on her arrival in England.
Count vou Hatzfeldt will join the queen's
party and will be a guest until Tuesday.
French Journalists Expelled.
Berlin, Nov. 18.—The police have ex-
K llr-d from Berlin two French journalists,
, Latapien and M. Ooriot, editors of
Berlin correspondence with French news
papers. The official reason given for their
expulsion it that they made themselves ob
noxious. It la supposed that they wrote
objectionable articles.
■‘HARar,’’ ahe said, sweetly, “you remember
It Harrison was defeated I was to marry you
and If Cleveland were defeated you were to
marry me.”
"Ye*.’’ said he. In dejected tones.
“Well, Cleveland it defeated,” the continued,
suggestively.
“l know It. Misfortune* never come singly, ’*
and he got up and went out where he wouldn't
smother. — Washington Pott.
( DAILY, $lO A YEAR. 1
•( CENTS A COPY V
/ WEEKLY.*I.ZS A YEAR. >
SENATOR BROWN'S SHOES
OOV. GORDON SAID TO BE READY
TO STEP INTO THEM.
A Statement that the Senator will
Decline a Re-Election A Rumor
that Chief Justice Bleckley will
Tender His Ft estimation—Judge A.
Pratt Adams n Possible Successor-
House Committee Chairmanships.
Atlanta, Ga.. Noy. 18. —In the rotunda
of the Kimball home to-day it was xta ad
that Gov. Gordon had recently informed
certain personal friends tlint he would be a
candidate for the United States Senate to
succeed Senator Joseph E. Brown, when the
present term of that senator expires. The
next general assembly of Georgia will be
called upon to elect a successor to Senator
Brown, and for some time it has been ru
mored that Georgia’s senior senator would
not be a candidate for re-election.
THK CHIEF JUSTICE! TO RICNMN.
A rumor is in circulation here to-night to
the effect that Chief Justice Bleckley of the
supreme court, has concluded to leave t”o
bench, and that he will tender his resignation
to Gov. (Jordon noxf. vioek. Several mem
bers of tha legislature Here heard t lilting
about the matter to-dny. In connect o i
with this rumor ia another ono to the effe< D
that oi-Bpeaker W. A. Little will be a can
date to succeed J entire Bleckley.
WILL CRIPPLE THE COURT.
Should this rumor be true, it will loavo tha
supreme bench in a badly crippled eomlition,
owing to the physical condition of Justice
Blanford, who is now at his home in Colum
bus endeavoring to recuperate. When he
left here two weeks ago his health was such
ex to excite great concern among his frio da.
It is also statod that friends of Judge A. I’ra 0
Adams, of th > eastern circuit, will present
his name as a successor of Justice Bleckley.
Judge Adams was here a few days ago, and
his visit hero may have been in this connec
tion. Should Justice Blanford resign, tho
legislature will no doubt be called upon to
elect his successor, so that the business of
tho court can go on.
HOUBB COMMITTEE CHAIRMANSHIPS.
It is stated that Bpeaker Clay wdl an
nounce the committees of the House to-mor
row or the day following. Kpeaker Clay
is out of the city to-day at his home in
Cobb county. Ax a matter of course it ia
not known who will vet the chairmanships.
Humor has it, however, that tho
leading chairmanships will lie awarded
ns follows: General judiciary, Mr. Berner of
Monroe; special judiciary, Mr. Olive of
(tglothorpe; ways and means, Mr. Gordon
of Chatham; appropriations, Air. Howell of
Webster: railroads, Mr. Howell of Fulton;
corporation.-', Mr. Howell of Decatur; edu
cation, Mr. Calvin ot Richmond; agr.cult
ure, Mr. Brady of Pnniter; banks, Mr.
Hill of Morriwether; Western and Atlantia
railroad, Mr. Kaukinot Gordon. Just who
will lie chairman of the penitentiary com
mittee no one seems to know. T here is a
strong belief that it will go to Mr. Huff of
Bibb. _
ORANGES TO BE RUSHED.
The Fasteet Freight Schedule Ever
Made to Run to the Northweet.
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 18.—On Tues
day next the Florida Railway and Naviga
tion Company begins the fastest freight
schedule from the orange growing section
of Florida over yot put iu ojieration. Tin*
is a special fruit train service, receiving the
ofangot in ventilated and refrigerator cars
directly at the packing houses and deliver
ing them in the citing of the west and north
west in a heretofore unprecedented short
time. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
are the shipping days.
ITS CONNECTIONS.
The train will connect at River Junction
with a train especially provided by tha
l/ouisville and Nashville railroad, and will
run directly through to the importaut citioE
in the west without delay or transfer. Tha
fruit will not bo removed from the cars
from the timo tho latter leave the packing
houses until tiiey reach their destination.
Every link In the chaiu of quick connection
has lioen provided for, every railroad com
pany understanding perfectly the impor
tance of rapid transit for the Florid*
orange crop and doing everything in ita
power to make this new enterprise a suo
coss.
NEARLY AB FART AS MAIL TRAINS.
As will bo seen by tho following statsv
ment, tho timo is very nearly as fast as
that made by mail trains. It has never be
fore been equaled iu fast freights out ot
Florida: Tills special train will reach
Louisville in 3 days, Cincinnati in 3V days,
Evansville in 3 days. Nashville in ‘i% days.
Chicago In '■% days, St. Louis in 3% days,
Montgomery in I>£ days. Memphis in 2>£
days, birunugiiain in 1% days, and Kaosaa
City iu days. To points beyond these
cities, the time will be correspondingly
good.
NO LACK or CARS.
There will be no lack of oare, the Florida
Railway and Navigation management hav
ing provided for the immediate return to
Florida of all the orapty refrigerator an 4
ventilated fruit cars. Ibis schedule is un
rivalled, and the service complete. Tha
success of this fast freight servioe this year
will undoubtedly lead to ono even faster
when the next soason comes around. Or
ange growing in Florida must of necessity
receive an added impetus from this enter
prising movement of the transportation
companies.
RED FLAOB OUT AT LONDON.
The Trafalgar Square and Cbicag*
Riots Commemorated.
London, Not. 18.—The socialist* of Lon
don belli an immense meeting In Victoria
park to-d*v to commomorate the Trafalgar
square and Chicago riot*. Speeches war#
made from three platforms.
Mrs. Parsons advocated the use of botnhxj
Mr. Graham, member of parliament, deJ
nouuced capitalists and landlords, and said
that until the workers organized to takethq
land, capital and machinery for their own
benefit they would continue to be alavex;
and the Trafalgar square and Chicago
scenes would be repeated.
BACKVILLK'B REMOVAL.
London's Standard Differs with Lorl
Churchill's Views.
London, Nov. lb, 4 a. m.—The Standard
regrets that Lord Randolph Churchill difj
fera with it in rognrd to tbs Sackville affair*
It says: “A knuckling down policy is no!
the best nor wisest policy in the face of
notorious and repeated acts of unfriendli
ness as we have recently experienced at tha
hands of the United Htatos government.”
Oen. Oreely’s Father Dead.
Washington, Nov. 18.—Oen. A. Wj
Oreely’s father-in-law, Thomas L. Nesmith*
formerly of San Diego. Cal., who died ycs
terday at Gen. Oreely'e residence, after 4
long illuosx, aged 78, will be buried from St.
Johu’e on Tuesday. The President and U' (*
Cleveland, who are friends of the family,
will probably be present.