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having their kings born to them, and they
would, after a while, elect their kings, and
there would be an Italian republic, and a
German republic, and a Rus ian republic,
and an Austrian republic, ad out of the
cracks and crevices and chasms of that con
cussion would come r. surrection for all
Europe. Stagnation is deathful: concussion
is Messianic.
Notice also what the angel did with the
stone after he had rolled it awav from the
mouth of the Saviour’s inanusoleuin. The
book says he rolled away the stone from
the door and sat upon it. All of us minis
ters have preached a sermon about the
angel’s rolling away the stone, but we did
not remark upon the sublime fact that he
sat upon it. Why? Certainly not because
he was tired. The angels are a fatigueless
race, and that one could have shouldered
every rock around that tomb and carried it
away and not been besweatei. He sat upon
it, I think, to show you and to show n.e that
we r.iav make every earthly obstacle a
throne of triumph. The young men
who get their education easilv seldom
amount to much. Those who ha ito strug
gle for it come out atop. There is no end
of the story of studying by pine knot lights
and reading while the mules of the tow
path were r< sting, and of going hungry
and patched and barefoot and submitting
to all kinds of privation to get scholastic
advantages. Hut the day of graduation
came and they took the diplomas with a
hand nervous from night study and pa!o
from lack of food, and put their academic
degrees in the pocket of a threadbare coat.
Then starting for another career of hard
ship, they entered a profession or a busi
ness where they found plenty of disheart
eument and no help. Yet saying: ''l wid
succeed; God help me, for no one else will,”
they went on and up until the world was
compelled to acknowledge and admire them.
The fact was that the obstacle between
their discouraging start and their complete
success was a rock of fifty tons, but by res
olution, nerved and muscnlarized and re
enforced by Almighty God, t oy threw
their arms around tue obstacle end with
the strength of a supernatural wrestler,
rolled back the stone, and, having become
more than conquerors, they sat upon it.
Men and women are g od and great and
useful just in proportion as they had to
overc me obstacles. You can count upon
the fingers of your one hand all the great
singers, great orators, great poets, great
patriots and great Christians who never
had a struggle. That angel that made a
throne of the bowlder at Christ’s tomb
went back to heaven, and I warrant that,
having been born in herven and always
bad an easy time, he now speaks of that
wrestle with the rock as the most interest
ing chapter in all his angelic Ufetime. O
men and women with obstacles in the
way, I tell you that those obstacles are
only thrones that you mav after a while sit
on! Is the obstacle in your way sickuass?
Conquer it by accomplishing more for
God during your invalidism than
many accomplish who have never
knowd an ailment. Are you perse
cuted? By your uprightness and cour
age compel the world to acknowledge your
moral heroism. Is it poverty? Conquer it
by being happv in the companionship of
your L rd and Master, who in all his life
owned but sixty-two cents, and that ho got
from a fish’s mouth and immediately paid
it all out in taxes to the Roman assessor,
and who wouid have been buried in a
potter’s field had not Joseph of Arimathea
contributed a place, for he who had not
where to lay his head during bis life had a
borrowed pillow for the last slumber.
There is no throne that you are sure to
keep except that which you make out of van
quished obstacles. An ungrateful republic
at the ballot box domed Horace Greeley the
highest place at the national capital, but
couid not keep him fioui rising from the
steps of a New York printing office on
which he sat on one chilly morning waiting
for the boss printer to come that ho might
get a job, until he mounted the hig iest
throne of American journalism. He rolled
back the stone and sat upon it. A poor
orphan boy, picking up chips at Kiehm >nd,
Va.,accosted by a passing sea captain arid in
vited to come on board his vessel, drops the
chips and starts right away and is tossed
from port to port ami, homeless and friend
less, wanders one day along Tremont street,
Boston, and sees Park Street church op *n,
and speaking of it afterward on a great oc
casion and using soilors’ vernacular, as was
usual w ith him, he rays: “I put in, I up
helm, unfurled sail and made for the gal
lery and scud under bare poles to the cor
ner pew. Then 1 hove to and came to
anchor.
“The old man. Dr. Griffin, was just
naming his text. Pretty soon he unfurled
the mainsail, raised the topsail, ran up the
pennants to free breeze, and I tell you the
oli gospel ship never sailed more pr sper
ouslv. The salt spray flew in every direc
tiouj but more especially did it run down
niv cheeks. Batan had to strike sail; his
guns were dismounted or spiked; his various
crafts by which he led sinners captive were
all beached, and the captain of the Lord’s
hosts rode forth, conquering and to con
quer.” Before that sailor bov was poverty,
but lie conquered it; and orphanage, but he
conquered it; and ignorance, but he con
quered it; and the scoff of the world, but
be conquered it; and he rose till every
sailors’ bethel in the world blessed him, ami
great anniversary platforms invited him,
and Daniel Webster and Charles Dickens
and Frederika Bremer and poets and
orators and senators sat electrified ar bis
feet, and his gospelizing influence will go
oil until the last ja< k tar is converted, and
the sea shall give up Its dead. All the ob
stacles of his life seemed gathered into one
great bowlder, but Edward T. Taylor, the
world-renowned sailors, preacher, rolled
back the stone and sat upon it.
Yet, do not make the mistake tliat many
do of sitting on it before it is rolled away.
It is bound to go if you only tug away at it.
If not before, then I think about 12 o’clock
noon of resurrection day you will see some
thing worth seeing. The general impres
sion is that the resurrection will take place
in the morning. The ascent to the skies
will hardly o cur ltnmeliately. It will
take some hours to form the procession sky
ward, and we will all want to take a look
at this world before we leave It forever and
see the surroundings of the couch
where our bodies have long been
sleeping. On that Easter morning
the marble, whether it lay fl it upon your
grave or s ood up in monument, will have
to be jostled and shaken and rolled side by
the angel of resurrectiou, and while wait
ing for your kindred to gather and the pro
cession to form, your resurrected ho ly may
sit in holy triumph upon that chiseled
stone which marked the place of your pro
tracted slumber. On that day what a
fragde thing will be Aberdeen granite and
column of basalt and the ruor ar which will
iatt.e out of the wall of vaults that have
been sealed a thousand years, and the
Taj, built for a queen in India, a sep
ulcher 275 feet high, aud ma le of Jasper
and cornelian and turquois and lapis-lazuli
and amethyst and onyx and sapphire an 1
diamond, and which shall that day rain in
to glittering dust on groves of banyan and
bamboo aud palm. Aud all under what
power? Ponderous crowbars wielded by
giants? No. Thunderbolt cleaving asunder
the granite! No. Battering ram swung
against the walls of cemeteries! No. Dyna
mite dri led under the four datious of cono
taph nnd abbey! No. It will be done by
music. Nothing but music,sweet but all pen
etrating music. The trumpet shall sound!
You say that is figurative; how do you
know? But, whether literal or figurative,
it means music anyhow. The trumpet,
that stirring, incisive, mighty instrument,
with a natural compass from O below the
Staff to E above, blown above Sinai when
the law was given, blown around Jericho
when the walls tumbled, IT iwn when Gid
eon discomfited ti e Midianitcs, blown
when the an ient Israelite, were gathered
for worship, to be blown lor tl e raising of
the dead in the last great Easter. The
mother, who, when the child must be
awakened, kisses its eyes awake, does well.
Bat the trumpet, which when the .lead
are to be aroused kise. the ear awake, does
better. Be not surprised if the dead are to
be awakened by music. VVhv. that is the
way now we raise the dead: Take the sta
tistics, If you can, of the millions of souls
! that have been raised from the death of An
by hymns, by nsalm-t, by solos, by anthems,
! by flutes, by violins, by organs, by trump
ets. Under God what hosts have been
resurrected by Ira D. Sankey, by Thomas
Hastings, by William D. Bradbury, by
Lowell Mason, by motherly lullabies, by
church doxologies, by oratorios. If we raise
the dead now by music, be not surprised that
on the last day the dead are to be raised by
music.
The trumpet shall sound! And that in
strument shall have plenty of work to do on
the day mentioned. It will have to sound
through all the pyramids, which are only
names for sepulchers, and liberate the
buried kings. And through bypogeun
graves which were l uilt in mounds and the
hypogean graves which were dug in rocks
and through the nine hundred winding
miles of catacombs under and around
the Roman campagna, where over
seven million human beings sleep.
And through all the crystal
sarcophagi of Atlantic and Pacific atid
Mediterranean and Caspian and Black sea
deeps. And over all the battlefields of c >n
tinents, until all the fallen troop, of English
and French and Italian and German and
Russian and Persian and American and
the world's battlefields answer the call.
Mnnathon, come up! Agincourt, come up!
Blenheim, come upl Acre, come up! Ho
henlinden, come up! Sedan, couie up!
Gettysburg, come up! Near Sharpsburg
during our civil war, when I was,
with some others under the auspices
of the Christian commission, looking after
the wounded, federal aud confederate, one
moonlight night I was where I could look
down upon the tents of the sleeping army.
Oh, what an imposing spectacle! But my
subject calls u.s to look down upon a
mightier host of soldiers slumbering their
last sleep in the bivouac of the dust: the
seven hundred and fifty thousand slain in
the Crimean war, the eight hundred thou
sand slain in our American war, the fiftee i
million slain in the wars of the Sesostris,
the twenty-five million slain in Jewish
wars, the thirty-t.vo million slain in
wars of Ghengis Khan, the eighty million
slain in the wars of the crusaders, the one
hundred and eighty million .lain In the
Roman wars. Aye, according to Dr. Dick,
the dead in war, if each one occupied four
feet of ground, would make enough graves
to reach four hundred and forty-two times
around the earth.
The most of people are dead. The world
is a house of two rooms, a basement, and a
room above ground. The basement has
two to one, three to one, four to one more
occupants than the superstructure. Sick
ness and war and death have been stacking
their harvests for near six thousand years.
WHere are those who saw the pilgrim fath
ers embark, or tbs declaration of independ
ence signed, or Franklin lasso the light
ning, or Warren Hastings tried, or Quean
Elizabeth in her triumphal march to Kenil
worth, or William, Prince of Orange, land,
or Gustavus Adolphus crowned, or Jerome
of Prague burned at the stake, or Tamer
land found his empire? Gone! Gone!
But the trumpet shall sound. Music to
raise the dead. Oh, how much the world
needs it. You take a toroh and 1 will take
a torch and we will go through some of the
aisles of the Roman catacombs and see the
expectant epitaphs on the walls and right
over where the departed sleep. You know
that these catacombs are fifty or sixty feet
underground, and if one loses the guide or
his torch is extinguished lie never finds the
way out. So let us stay close together and
with our torches as we wander along a
small part of these nine hundred miles of
underground passages, see the inscrip
tions as they ware really chiseled there on
both sides the way. On your side you read
by the light of your torch: “Here rests a
handmaid of God who out of ail her riches
now possesses but this one house. Thou
wilt remain in eternal repose of happiness.
A. D. 3 SO.” On my side I read by the light
of the torch: “Aurelia, our sweetest daugh
ter, she lived fifteen years and four months,
A. D. 325.” Ou your side you read: “Here
hath been laid a sweet, spirit, guileless, wise
and beautiful. Buried in peace. A. D.
388.” Ou mv side I read: “You well de
serving one, lie in peace. You will rise.
A temporary rest is granted you.
Plaucus, her husband, made this.” On your
side you read: “Nicepborus, a sweet soul,
in the place of refreshment.” On my side
I read: “In Christ, Alexander is not dead,
but lives beyond the stars, and his dead
body rasts in this tomb.” Ou your side you
read: “Hero, happy, you find rest bowed
down with years.” "Irene sleeps in God.”
“Valeria sleeps in peace.” “Aretbusa
sleeps in God.” “Navira ill peace, a sweet
soul who lived sixteen years, a soul
sweet as honey; this epitaph
was made by her parents.”
But let us eouio out from these catacombs
and extinguish our torches, for upon all
these lougings aud oxpec ations of all
nations the morning of roiurection dawns.
The trumpet shall sound! And tne sooner
it sounds the better. Oh, how we would
like to get our loved ones back again! If
we are ready to meet our Lord, our sins all
pardoned, what a good thing if this mo
ment we couid hoar the r.s muding aud
reverberating blast! Would you not
like to see your father again, your
mother again, your daughter again,
your boy again and all your departed kin
dred again? Roll on sweet day of resurrec
tio i and reunion! Under the hoofs of the
white steeds that draw thycha iot we strew
Easter flowers. Would it not be grand if
we could all rise together? You know that
the Bible says we shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed. What if we should
be among the favored ones who never have
to see death, and that while in the full life
of our t>ody we should hear that trumpet
sound a id these mortal bodies take oa im
mortality. Oh, how I would hasten
to two places before the close
of such a day—peaceful Greenwood and the
village cemetery back of Somtnerville.
And I would cry aloud: “The hour has
come, the trumpet has sounded, the resur
rection is here. Father ami mother, you
were the best of all the group, now lead
the way!” The earth sinks out of sight.
Clouds under foot. Other worlds onlv mile
stones on the King's highway. YYe rise!
We rise! We rise! total forever with the
lord and forever with each other. May we
all have part in that first resurrection!
In this dark world of Rin nnd pain
We only meet to part again:
But when we reach the heavenly shore,
We there shall meet ro pari no more.
The hope that we shall see that day
Should chase our present griefs away.
KAIL. AND CROSS 11E.
The monthly returns of the railroads of
South Carolina for February show that
the twenty nine roads red >et gross earn
ings for the mouth of $781,!• 111, against
$782,076 for thu corresponding mouth of
1888. While fifteen of the roads show an
increase in earnings, there is, for the tlrst
time in fifteen months, a net decrease in
the total earnings ot all the roads.
The twenty-first annual c ur ution of
the Order of Kailwav Conductors assembles
in Denver, Col., on May 14. The order is
now one ot the most prosperous in the
United .States, mid grows rapidly. Its con
servatism ani wisdom make it ono of the
strongest organizations in existence, and its
membership foots up something like 50,000.
it has paid out thousands of dollars in bene
fits, and has builded itself an <• .during an t
lasting monument in the shape of ma y
charitable words, and ha* extended ion w
powerful hand to help all tao fal l ig ones.
A division of Ihe order is in nctive opera
tion in all southern cities, aid its members
pull the bell cord* on every railroad in
America.
Now la the lime
To use Hedges’ .Sarsaparilla with lodide of
I'oiash, Die great purilicr for the blood. A
certain cure for rheumatism, scrofulous
affections, and all diseases peculiar to fe
males. Renovates and invigorate* the sys
tem. I’liysiciaus recommend il. lake no
other. Itaiigum Hoot Med. Cos., Nashville,
Teun. $1 per bottle. Sold by Lippmau
Bros., wholesale agents.
English Collars.
“Waterloo," “Brighton," “Asoott,”
"Wellington," at LaFar’s.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, AFRIT, 22. 1889.
PLEABED WITH SAVANNAH.
A City Immortalized by the Heroism
and Gallantry of Pulaski and Jasper.
Rev. George W. Pepper, who lectured
here recently, on his return to his home in
Ashland, 0., paid tlie south and the south
ern cities he visited some worthy oompli
ments from his pulpit. Of this city he said:
"Bavannah is historically among the
oldest of southern cities, a city immortalized
by the deeds in the revolutionary war of a
Pulaski, and hallowed by the heroic gal
lantry of a Jasper. The noble monuments
which adorn the squares tell in eloquent
language tiiat Savannah bears upon her
helmet the scars of freedom’s battles.
“The city since the war has developed with
wonderful rapidity. Everywhere are signs
of material prosperity. Perhaps no South
ern city suff -red so severely as Savannah,
and its commercial pursuits were completely
paralyzed. Now we behold wealth, re
finement, splendor. In education Savannah
has won a proud pre-eminence. Intelli
gence, which has only glimmered like a
lamp in a sepulchre in some of the southern
states and cities, shines forth here like the
sun iu the heavens. In the number aud
varietv of schools, in the breadth and
thoroughness of the instruction, there is
abundant evidence of the public spirit aud
lib rality of the citizens.
“The visit to Bona venture, tho city of the
dead, produces emotions winch elevate the
mind ami s iften the noart. It was here
Whitfield, of blessed memory, founded his
orphanage, and J bn Wesley preached.
Oh, what beauty! What magnifle -nee!
What elegant avenues! What noble trees,
with their Spanish moss, all green and
fragrant. It would be worth while to go
down there and die—to be buried in such a
country.
"The meeting, whioh was hold in the in
terest of a gallant cause, showed that the
people of Savannah were broad and noble
in their sympathies, that the ocean of their
philanthropy had no shore, and if the
winds and the waves of the Atlantic
could bear to Erin’s green bosom
the mighty cheers of one of the
grandest audiences I ever addresmd,
those C'ltic sufferers would be inspired,
that there were hands ready to aid them in
rescuing the drowning banner of nationality
from destruction. A Scotohm ill sent mo a
delicious basket of fl iw rs with this graphic
note: ‘The roses are not from England,
nor the lilies from France, but the emblem
of Scotland is here. The leaves of the
shamrock, though absent, are still to me u
ory dear.’
“T have no time to describe the unique
squares, the spacious streets, the immense
cotton presses, the sumptuous homes, the
fine churches, the rare aud noble hospitality
of the people of Savannah.”
CLOSE OF THE OONFERBNCB.
The Methodists Have a Field Day Up
at Guyton.
Tho Savannah District Conferenoe com
pleted tho business of the conference late
Saturday evening, and many of tho dele
gates left for their homes. The general
make up of the conference was above the
average of such bodies. In fact the body
seems to have been well disciplined, and
performed its work well.
The church records, presented for
examination, speak well for the con
ference, whos) affairs aro shown
to bo in a healthy and flourishing condi
tion. Among the records presented, which
were a model of neatness and correctness,
were those of the Wesley Monumental
church of Bavannah. Tne keeper of these
records is Mr. C. H. Carson, who has been
highly complimented on ull sides, anil it is
said tho presiding elder. Rev. T. T. Chris
tian, has intimated to the record keepers of
other churches that his is a model for all to
follow.
Delegates say the conference has been one
of the most successful held for years. Much
praise is due Rev. T. T. Christian, the pre
siding elder, for the showing made and for
the pleasant reception accorded the dele
gates, assisted by the local pastors and citi
zens of Guyton.
Dr. R. W. Lovett, Mr. W. B. Mali, Capt.
J. iV. Cheatham and W. W. Enecks, Eq.,
were elected delegates to the annual confer
ence to be held in Ainericus in December
next. They repre eit the lay delegates for
the Bavannah district conference. ’.Yadley
was selected for bolding the next district
conference.
Rev. Mr. Roberts, agent of Emory col
lego, preached Saturday night, and at the
close of his sermon made an appeal for sub
scriptions to aid that institution.
Bishop W. W. Duncan preached to a
crowded house at 11 o’clock yesterday from
the 2t)th to the 28th verses of tho 30th chap
ter of Bt. Matthew, The bishop is an able
speaker, and fully justified the expectations
of his hearers.
Rev. J. R. McClesgy, of Trinity, preached
at the Baptist church, and his sermon was
highly complimented. He is one of the
ablest aud best workers in the Bouth Geor
gia Conference.
Rev. J. B. Lewis preached at the Chris
tian church.
R. B. Reppard and Bishop Duncan deliv
ered stirring addresses to the Suuday school
children iu the afternoon. Rev. Dr. J. O.
A. Clarke preached at the Methodist church
last night which was the closing service of
the conference.
AT THE Y. M. O. ASSOCIATION.
Dr. M. L. Boyd’s Address To-night—
The Week’s Programme.
Dr. Montague L. Boyd will give an ad
dress at the Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciation, Turner’s hall, to-night at 8 o’clock,
on the “Physical Relations of Marriage.”
lhe address will be for men only, aud will
be free. Dr. Boyd is thoroughly posted on
his subject aud will doubtless give an in
structive ns well as an interesting address.
As tho subject chosen is one that interests
all men, there will no doubt be a large at
tendance.
The young men’s meeting was held yester
day afternoon at 5 o’clock iu the reading
room. These meetings are of line hour’s
length, and are quite interesting, being
varied with siugiug and talks. The meet
ing yesterday consisted of a song service of
fifteen minutes, a short talk by the leader,
and testimonies by lhe members generally.
The ass relation calendar is quite full this
week:
Monday—Address by Dr. M. L Boyd, on
physical relations of marriage.
Tuesday—Exercise in the gymnasium by
the senior class.
Thursday, 8:30 p. m.—Gymnasium exhi
bition by the junior department.
Friday at Bp. m. Bible training class,
and at 9 o’clock the religious work commit
tee will meet.
Saturday nt 8:15 p. in. Workers’ meet
ing, lasting half an hour.
Eaetor Week In the Courts.
To-d*y will be a busy one in the courts,
four of which will be in session, not includ
ing the usual large Mouday morning docket
iu tho Mayor's court.
Tho United States circuit and district
courts will convene and e docket will be
sounded and cases assigned tor the term.
In the superior court there are quite u
l umber of c iniinal cases assigned, w hich
includes not only indictments found at the
present term ot the court, but some com
ing ovu from tlie last term.
iu tho city court trie crnn.nal docket will
bo iukeu up, aud a number Ol ca o are for
hearing.
A Great Battle
Is continually going on in the human
system. The (lemon of impure 1 lood
si rivos to gain victory over the constitution,
tn rum health, to drag victims loth" grave.
A good reliable medicine like Hood's [Sar
saparilla is the weapon wit.i winch to de
fund one’s self, drive the desperate enemy
from the livid, and rostor • peace aud bodily
health for many years. Try this pecMior
medicine.
TYBEE ON A BOOM.
The Run to Be Made to the Island This
Season in Forty Minutes.
The trains to Tybee yesterday carried a
large number of visitors to the island, and
left from the new depot at the foot of Presi
dent street, from which point they will
hereafter leave. The trains have thus far
during the season been run under the
supervision of Mr. J. J. McDonough, but
Mr. Herman Myers, the receiver of the
road, expects to take hold of the manage
ment of operating the trains about tho mid
dle of the week, and anew schedule will go
into effect reducing the time between Sa
vannah and Tybee to about forty minutes.
Mr. Myers informed a Morning Niws
reporter yesterday that the Belt Line and
City and Suburban street railways will
extend their tracks into the passenger shed,
so that travelers will not have to get from
under cover to board the trains.
There will be special excursions to Tybee
from the interior on a larger scale than last
year, aud as there are greater attractions
on the island this season than last, Mr.
Myers expects a heavy flow of visitors to
Tybee. The Central road will advertise
special excursions to Tybee as it did last
season.
The new hotel will be ready to open to
the public by the latter part of Juno or first
of July. The other hotels have beeti put in
excellent condition, a id the club house of
the Chatham Artillery has be n completed,
and its spacious pavilion will soon echo to
the merry music of the dance. It is to be
opened with a hop by the corps ou May 1.
ON THE DIAMOND.
Results of the Games Between the
Country’s Leading Teams.
At Louisville—
-Bt. Louis 2 0 0 2 2 1 0 3 2—12
Louisville 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 4 o—lo
Base hits: St. Louis 14, Louisville 13. Errors:
St. Louis 5, Louisville 5. Batteries: King aud
Boyle; Hecker and Cook.
At Cincinnati—(Ten innings.)—
Cincinnati 20 1 00000 3 I—7
Kansas City 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 ! 1 0-6
Base hits: Cincinnati 11, Kansas City 14.
Errors: Cincinnati t, Kansas City 9. Batteries:
Muliane and Smith pitchers, Baldwin catcher;
McCarty and Hoover.
At, Philadelphia—
Athletic 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 2—6
Brooklyn 0000 1 00 0 0— 1
Base hits: Athletic 12, Brooklyn 5 Errors:
Athletic 2, Brooklyn 7. Batteries: Athletic,
Smith and Brennan; Brooklyn, Caruthers aud
Clark.
TWO PLAYERS SIGN CONTRACTS.
Cincinnati, April 21. —Two members of
the All-America base ball club signed con
tracts for the season here to-day. William
Earle signed with the Cincinnatis, and
James Manning with the Kansas City club.
Earle will occupy the position of catcher
with the Cincinnati club.
UNIQUE AMONG FORTUNES.
John D. Jennings Believed in the
Ninety-nine Year Lease.
From the Chicago Tribune.
John D. Jennings, the dead real estate
king, leaves a unique fortune. It is
unique, not because it is in real estate, but
because it is in a peculiar sort of real es
tate. The great bulk of it is in down-town
land covered by ninety-nine year leases,
and on which the lessees have erec ed val
uable buildings standing as a perpetual
guarantee of his rents. In addition to the
security given by the buildings, most of the
older leasei issued by him have become for
tunes in themselves.
Speaking of this feature of the Jennings
estate Mr. Thomas B. Bryan, president of
the Mutual Trust Company, said yesterday :
“The income from his property is a mat
ter of clocklike regularity, and must con
tinue so until the expiration of his long
leases. Not a tenant can nfford to default,
for the penalty is a reversion of the lease
and superstructure. When tho magnitude
of the estate is considered it may be said to
involve no care such as is commonly the
penalty of great riches.
“Many people found it difficult to under
stand why Mr. Jennings was so fond of the
99 year lease. The condition in which
he leaves his estate may throw some light
on the subject. Besides, he had his own
way of reasoning about the matter. He
would buy, say, a lot for *100,090. As he
only bought in times of depression or at a
bargain the intrinsic value of the lot would
be. let us suppose, one-third more than he
paid, or, in round numbers, 2130,000. He
would fix, at any rate, ou some such figure
as a basis for bis calculat.ons. This done,
ha would say:
“ ‘I will lease this lot for ninety-nine years
at a rental of 0 per cent on $130,000 without
a revaluation, provided a fine building is
put on it.'
"‘But,’Uisfriends would protest, ‘the lot
is in a neighborhood, of advancing va uea
In five years you can sell it for double
what you paid. The man who accepts your
proposion will mnko a handsome thing out
of the lease, which you might a well make
yourself by holding on.’
“ ‘All the batter,’ Mr. Jonnings would re
ply; ‘if my lasseee makes money he will be
the more able to pay my reut. The man I
am looking out for is Jennings. Six per
cent, on $1:10,900 will be 9 per cent, on my
actual investment of SIOO,OOO, for which
excellent rate I will have a superb security
for ninety-nine years. If my lessee does
better I shall not grumble.’ ”
HIS DOWN-TOWN PROPERTY.
Mr. Joanings’ farsighte lness will doubt
less begin to count iu the not distant fu
ture even more than it has heretofore, whim
8 and 10 p r cent., which his property is
under leasehold to bring, will be remem
bered by investors as the rates of a fabu
lous day. In the meantime a number
of persons have made fortunes out of the
Jennings leases. Jonathan Clark, the or
iginal lossoe of the ground on which the
Ovingtou building stands, sold his lease for,
perhaps, $75,000 pm fit. Mr. Cu .hbert,
lessee of the northeast corner of Monroe
and Clark streets, sold at a big profit.
Leroy Payne disposed of the lease of the lot
on which the Hotel Richelieu has been built
at an immense gain, and could do likewiso
with the lease ou his stable ground. Simi
lar instances are humorous. In tho mean
time, however, and from the first, Mr. Jen
nings had been drawing his 8 and 10 per
cent., and his grasp will not relax for many
a year to come.
His total estate is estimated by an inti
mate business friend at not possibly less
than $3,000,0;K), and when his bonds a id
cash are counted $5,000,000 may prove a
nearer figure.
How Wanamaker Will Make Money.
From the hew Vork Nun.
"Did it over occur to you,” said a dry
goods man the other day, “wh. t a great
tiirun John Wanatnaker’s wholesale busi
ness m ist be having nowadays? There ure
some 00,000 or 70,000 postoffices in the coun
try, and 1 suppose that 50,050 of them are
ii small country stores. Don’t you think
that when John Wanamakor’s drummer
comes round to one of these stores he ha) a
pretty good chance of getting a:i order? I'll
bet that there are net 100 such postmaster
storekeepers within 1,050 miles of Philadel
phia who do not buy all they can at Wana
maker’s nowadays, aud even in more iis
lant parts of the country the postmasters
will stretch a point whenever they can, to
send to Philadelphia for their go ids. Sup
pose a man wants to be reappointed, and m’t
you think he will imagine (hat it will be a
good thing for him to lie able to refer Post
matter General Wanamaker t> YYhoUaie
Merchant Wansmaker for information .
to his credit aud business standing? Of
Course the : 1 is masters in ninety-nine case
out of a liuu lred will tie wrong in it, but
they have the idei al the Mini iha YVann
niaker will know the name aid all about
every mail who buys goods of him, a;d
they will act accordingly. It will be Waii
araoker’s own fault if he hasn't the large-t
wholesale business in the country within
the next four year-.”
Situator McPncßSO.v of New Jersey, who has
been in Paris for some days, has gone to Hoi-
I land to att 'nd the aale of mime blooded slock.
| Uis family remain la the French capital.
FUtf WITH DETECTIVES.
MH. THEODORE DEXXEK'S RE
MARKABLE JOKE.
He Was Robbed of a Greit Deal of
Valuable Property and .Secured tile
Services of the Police to Help Him
Recover It—Perhaps He Did Not SS^e
Where the Laugh Came In, But In
spector Byrnes Did.
(Copyright 1889.)
New York, April 30. He had the air of
a cultivated, quiet man of the world, con
cealing serious agitation under well trained
self-possession.
“I should much prefer,” he said “that
this matter should not get into r>r: :i, i r :
detest publicity with all my hI 1-
most think that 1 Voul i r.u.i •• i•• tho
property without an effor; to recover it
than to gat it all back with au accompani
ment of reporters’ stories.”
He smiled feebly and then heaved a sigh
as he smoothed imaginary ruffles on the
crown of his silk hat. I advised him to
have no anxiety on the score of possible
notoriety, and assigned a man to uccom
pany him to his apartment and work up
the case. The detective’s report may serve
for an explanation of the circumstances.
He found that the gentleman, Mr. Theo
dore Dexter, lived in a fashionable house
arranged for bachelors’ quarters. His apart
ments were on the fourth floor, reached by
an elevator and stairs o i one side and by
narrow winding stairs on the other. The
latter passageway was designed originally
for the use of servants ad marketmen,
but as the tenants on the upper floor made
no attempt at house-keeping, not even hav
ing their breakfast broug t in, it was sel
dom used above the third flight. It opened
at the bottom into a m mature backyard
from which a covered passage between
brick wa ls led to the street. The end at the
street was closed by a heavy door, always
locked save when the janitor in answer to
a ring opened it to admit the butcher or the
grocer.
Mr. Dexter’s apartments consisted of four
rooms. One designed for no more than a
pantry, and opening upon the back stair
way, was used by him as a store r om. In
it were trunks aud boxes and a general Ut
ter of papers. Next to it was a dark room,
a windpw opening on a shaft givi g no
more than light enough to see one’s way
across it. This was designed f r a dining
room, and was used by Mr. Dexter for such
purposes when, on rare occasions he enter
tained his friends. Of the other rooms one
was a chamber and at last a parlor. The
latter was well lighted a .and sepprates from
the chamber by nothing more than por
tieres.
Mr. Dexter has money enough to live
well aud to collect various articles of bric-a
brac of great value. Most of the,e were
displayed iu the parlor, the walls being
hung with rare paintings, etchings and odds
and ends of various description. O.i man,
tels were jeweled watches of aucieut make
live mirrors, plaques, gens in the rough
etc. In several glass- loored cabinets were,
any number of jewels and coins, intaglios
aud personal ornaments. The entire e dlec
tion he valued at not less than $3(1,000, and
he was evidently very proud of it.
One day he missed several rings and cut
stones from one of his cabinets. According
to his report he made inquiries of all the
employes of the house as to whether any
b xly had been in his rooms, and could dis
cover no trace of the thief. Although
greatlv disturbed and annoyed, he let a
night pass without taking action, and then
found out that other valuables had been
taken. Thereupon he reported the case.
The detective had examined the cabinets,
which were always locked, the doors and
the windows without coming across any
clew either of the operator or the method
of "perations.
Suspicion was first directed, of course, to
the servants of the house, but nothing s.ig
ge-tive was learned from them. The value
of the articles taken amounted to nearly
$2,000, though Mr. Dexter declared that he
would not have parted with them for much
more.
The first move we made was the ordinary
one of getting accurate descriptions of all
missing property and searching in the
pawn-shops. Not a single piece had been
put up. A similar search among dealers in
levels and bric-a-brac w as equally fruitless.
This work consumed the first day. Tho
next morning Mr. Dexter app ared at
headquarters bright and early, aud with no
little indignation arid alarm oomplained
that still > >ther valuables in his possessi n hail
disappeared. .The parlor did not appear to
be disturbed in the least, a id oddly enough,
none of the articles ex osed on the mantels
had been taken. The cabinets were rifled
aud the doors left unlocked.
Two detectives were sent to Mr. Dexter’s
quarters to investigate. Some ot the most
valuable of the goods remained untouched.
“Somebody,” said the owner, “has man
aged to secure a key to my cabinet. The
lock Is peculiar. Would it not be a good
plan to inquire of all the locksmiths in the
city whether they have made any dupli
cates recently f’
The detectives thought it might, but had
Mr. Dexter spent the night in his rooms?
Yes, he had, and slept soundly iu spite of
his anxiety.
Hal he any theories or direct suspi
cions?
No suspicions, but perhaps the thief might
have au accomplice in the house who let
him iu and out bv the back stairs.
If an accomplice, why use the back stairs,
where the utmost caution was necessary,
instead of the front passage or the elevator,
where one might go up aud down without
attracting attention.
Mr. Dexter could not say, but he was
quite certain that the back stairs had been
used. To enforc - his views, he suddenly re
membered that he had found a handkor
chief in the hack room that morning that
he had forgotten to speak of. It did not
belong to him and he had never seen one
like it.
The detective who took the handkerchiof
then bad an idea, but he did not mention
it to the plundered man. He simply sug
gested that it might be a good idea to seal
the lock for anotner night and see wh it
would happen.
“Wa shall recover your goods, Mr. Dex
ter,” he said confidently; “and if the fel
low raids you again to night we sljall catch
him all the quicker.”
Mr. Dexter sini'ed.
“Oh, I hope so,” he exclaimed, and then,
in the detectives' presence, he sealed up Ins
locks with wax.
That night the detective who had caught
the idea stationed his partner in the main
hall of the building. He was to watch
there ull night, if need be. At the time ho
took up tho ’ ateh, Dexter was out a din
ner, It might have been 10 o'clock p. in.,
when Dexter returned. He saw tho detect
ive iu the nail, recognize 1 him with a
pleasant good evening, and started up to
Ins room. When he was stepping into the
elavator he paused aud asked:
•Mini g to k -op guard nil night?"
“Yea, sir,” replied (he defective qui tly.
“That’s right, sai l Mr. Dexter with a
smile, and disappeared.
Meantime ihe other detective had gone
into the serve . s’ q i&rters in til > basement
at the back of the bouse. When he had
mad - k iowu h s orra i t they ro ■ ilv and him
gladly, for (hey knew they .wire iuuorei:
and were anxious to help in fastening sus
piri vi up u s i.uenody other ihu i toe u
selves. When it was very dark the de
tective we .1 into the backyard a .1 stn
t oued himself in an obscure corner to wait.
Hour after hour passed until it a. l.n.r
tiiau mid ight, but thefsituf.il fellow n v r
took bis eve-"ir ihe window on the fourth
•cory that opened into 'I.-. Dexter’s t •re
mom. There was whore he expicte 1 his
id l a to develop.
At lavt. v,lie : the chick In a neighbor
ing steeple l ad struck two he saw very
dimly outlined again: the building, the
fig ire of a man emerging fro n the wi .1 nr.
There was au iron platform outside U u
which the man stood fat a moment; then
I ho cautiously reached out at one side and
grasped tho round of an iron upright lad
der fastened to the wall fra tire escape.
Slowly aud silently ho descended, and event
ually * dropped to the ground. There he
! lay for a full minute without moving, to
i discover whether his tall had attracted at
tention. The detective never stirred, but
his heart beat high with exultation.
Presently the man rose a:.d half crept,
half walked to the corner of the yard op
posite where the detective sat, and most re
mote from the passage that led to the
street. Still the detective remained inac
tive. The dark, dim figure stooped and
with a little tugging lifted a small paving
stone from its place. Then the detective
i ran forward, threw the startled man upon
I ins b:ck, manacled him and flashed the
j rays of a dark lantern in his face.
it was Theodore Dexter.
“I thought so,” was all the detective said,
1 but Mr. Dt x er, completely unnerved, was
anxious for further conversation. He of
: red substantial inducements to be let off,
but tho captor was obdurate. Summoning
j hi> partner, he found all the missing prop
erty beneath the stone, and having filled
their pockets with it, they conducted the
crestfallen Dexter to headquarters and put
him in a cell.
The next morning he was a pitiable spec
tacle. He was less anxious than ever for
notoriety. The long and short of his ex
planation was that he was not one of those
who have a strange mania for stealing from
themselves, but that he thought he
would have a little fun with the detect
ives.
It is to bo hoped that he appreciated the
end of the joke. Ho might have bothered
us a good deal had he stopped with the
theft of one night, but he was too anxious
to worry us anil in overdoing it gave the
clew that led to his exposure. .
Thomas Byrnes.
RIVER AND HARBOR NOTES.
The tug North America arrived here yes
terday from Philadelphia. She was de
tained m Hampton roads by a northeast
gale and fogs. She comes to tow the
schooner John R. Bergen to New York.
She has on board a powerful steam pump
for the purpose of pumping the Bergen to
keep her free of water woile on the pas age.
The tug will coal up to-day aud proceed
with her tow this evening.
There was a large party on the steamer
Gov. Salford, which made her first regular
Sunday excursion of the season yesterday.
MEDICAL
SCROFULA
Is that impurity of the Wood which produces
unsightly lumps or swellings in the neck;
which causes running sores on the arms,
legs, or feet; which develops ulcers in the
eyes, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or
deafness; which is the origin of pimples, can
cerous growths, or “humors;” which, fasten
ing upon the lungs, causes consumption and
death. It is the most ancient of all diseases,
and very few persons are entirely free from it.
Tbo 3 " cured
By taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, which, by
the remarkable cures it has accomplished,
has proven itself to be a potent and peculiar
medicine for this disease. If you suffer from
scrofula, try Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
“ Every spring my wife and children have
been troubled with scrofula, my little boy,
three years old, being a terrible sufferer.
Last spring he was one mass of sores from
headtofeet. Wealltook Hood's Sarsaparilla,
and all have been cured of the scrofula. My
little boy is entirely free from sores, and all
four of my children look bright and healthy.”
W. B. Atherton, Passaic City, N. J.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists, gl; six for jJS. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
IQO Doses One Dollar
AMUSEMENTS.
SAVANNAH THEATER.
Monday Evening, April 22.
FIRST SOUTHERN TRIP
OP THE
AFOLLO GLEE & BANJO CLUB
YALE UNIVERSITY,
Comprising twenty-five College Students.
tT'HE programme will embrace College Glees,
I Soles. Warbles arid Whistles by the mem
bers of the Glee Club, ami the latest and most
popular music by the Banjo Club.
This will he the musical event
of the season.
Advance sale of seats begins at Paris Bros.’
on Thursday, April IS.
Savannah Floral and Art Association
WILL HOLD
ITS FOURTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION
AT
Armory Ilall and Yard,
APRIL 23, 24 AND 25.
\LIi lovers of Flowers and Arts are earnestly
requested to inuk* ontruw of Plain.*.
1 lowers, 1 aucy ami Needlework and Works of
Art.
Parties having Pot Plant % however few, are
re { lasted to ojehinit thorn, either for competi
tion or disf lay.
No charge for entries*
open TUESDAY at 8 r. m. WEDNES-
Da V and THUKsDaY at 1 .m l rt r. M.
Members will call on Mr. J. F.
LaFAR, the Treasurer, Tortheir
tickets.
O. Y. RICHARDSON.
SscreUn’y.
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
McCORMICK. Died, at the residence of W
H. Bourne, Pooler, Ga., W. McCormick 79
years of age. Funeral serv ees will takeniace
at Etienezer church, Effingham county at
M TO-DAY. p '
MEETINGS.
DeKALB LODGE NO.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Mondavi
EVENING at 8 o'clock, sun time, at Metropoh
The Third Degree will be conferred.
Members of other Lodges and visiting brother
are cordially invited to attend. eri
By order of J. W. SMITH Na
John Riley, Secretary.
CALANTIIE LODGE XO. 2w7kTof~P~
Regular meeting of this Lodge THIS
(Monday) EVENING, at 8 o'clock.
Members of sister Lodges cordially g/ &1
Invited. " ngTkd
A. S. COHEN, C. C. vSgffi
W. Falconer, K. R. and S.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Advertisements inserted under "Snecinl
Notices" will be charged $1 00 a Square each
insertion.
i3Vu AXXIVERSAllY
—OF THE—
UNION SOCIETY,
Beth e and a Orphan House,
WILL BE CELEBRATED AT
BETHESDA, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1839.
The Anniversary Address will be delivered by
HON. P. W. MELDKIM.
The meeting will be held at 1:1C p. M ,
Members and their families, and those who
have been Wards of the Society, and the public
arc cordially invited to join in the celebration’
A Band of Music will be in attendance, and
rooms in the Orphan House placed at the dis
posal of those who wish to dance.
Railroad fare from Anderson street depot to
Bethesda and return, 50c.; Children and serv
ants half price. Tickets for sale at Butler s
Drug Store, Strong s Drug Store, Fernandez j
Cigar Store, Theus' Jewelry Store, and Estill's
News Depot, and from the Stewards of the So
ciety.
Trains will run as follows:
LEAVE SAVANNAH DEPOT (CITY TIME).
9:30 a. m„
10:25 a. m.,
1:30 p. m.,
3:30 p. m,,
4:30 p. m.
LEAVE BETHESDA
1:10 p. M.,
2:50 p. m.,
6:20 p. m.,
7 p. M.
SAVANNAH A(Af) VH Y "
Twentieth Annual Session.
Savannah, Ga., April 20th, 188!)
Students on the "Roll of Honor” for the Bth
sch dastic month:
Mongin Nichols, Ed McNichols,
Ralph Thomson, Thomas Thomson.
Horace P. Smart, Jr., George Quint,
Julius Wetherhorn, Peter B. Springer,
Win. Weichselbaum, Max I.etller,
Robert Eason.
JOHN TALIAFERRO. Principal.
NOTICE.
AH contributions taken in at the gate on ME
MORIAL DAY will be sent to Virginia to place
headstones for the Georgians buried at Holly
wood Cemetery,
FOR RELIABLE DRUGsi "
FRESH GARDEN, FLOWER AND GRASS
SEEDS, FINE CONFECTIONERY,
PATRONIZE
THE G. M. HEIDT COMPANY.
NOTICE.
Books .of subscription to the SAVANNAH
COTTON MILLS stock are now open and will
remaiu open at the Southern Bank until
THURSDAY, April 25th.
CHRIST CHURCH.
Vestry Room, April 20, 1889.
The annual election of War dins and Vestry
men of Christ Church will be held in the base
ment room of the building on MONDAY, April
22, between the hours of 10 A. m. and 2 p. m.
BY THE VESTRY.
WHIPPED CREAM.
Whipped Cream Soda, anew and delightful
summer drink.
DRAWN WITH ALL SYRUPS,
The nicest Soda drink ever dispensed. To be
had only at
BUTLER'S PHARMACY,
Comer Bull and Congress streets _
A SAFE INVESTMENT.
Dr. B. F. ULMER of Savannah, Ga., has alive*
medicine now before the people, of rare merit
We have tested its value thoroughly, and have
no hesitancy in pronouncing it an excellent
family medicine. It acts promptly oo the liver
and in the gentlest possible manner. We shall
not be without a bottle of this medicine, and
cordially aud candidly recommend it to *E
friends. ' W. E. H. SEARCY.
Proprietor Griffin Sun, Griffin. Ga.
Prepared by B. F. ULMER, M. D„ Pharma
cist. Savannah, Ga. Price $1 per bottle.
If you cannot obtain the "Corrector" from
your druggist, send your order dirtet. and it
will be forwarded by express, freight paid.
PAINTS,
OILS AND VARNISHES, I.EADS, COLORS
AND MIXED PAINTS.
Berry Bros ' Hard Oil and Varnishes. A full
Bt'H’k of Paint and White Wash Brushes oa
hand. Call and eet prices at
ED WARD J. KJEFFKR*
I>ru£ and Seed Store.
Corner West Broad and Stewart srre^t^
AMUHKMKaVTS.
SAVANNAH THEATER.
FIVE NIGHTS, COMMENCING
TUESDAY, APRIL 23.
Special Engagement of the
GREAT lIELL-ELLIS COMBINATION,
The Great Marionettes,
and Original Mr. J-o-n-s-l-n-g.
lfiO Elegant and Useful Presents Give™
Away at Each i erforaiance.
IVople’s popular prices—2oc., 30c. and 50c.
s at usual j lace without extra charge __
A Prize Ent3rtainment,
(100 FINE PRIZES)
FOR THE BENEFIT OF
THE OLD FOLKS’ HOME,
Will be given at the
Catholic Library Hall,
On TUESDAY, 23d Inst., at 8 o'clock.
Vocal and Instrumental Concert,
Refreshment* sr*rve<l after the entertain®* u
Ticket# 5rV. For sale
\ fepr CENTS A WEEK will *>*” ,b *
W B P-v MORNI.no NEWS delivered •*
m I your bouM early EVEItY
INU.