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THE MORNING NEWS, I
I Established 18-V). Incorporated 1888. >
•J J. H. ESTILL, President. t
HEADY FOR THE BALLOT.
all tee HUSTLERS at work
INSTEAD OF AT CHURCH.
Chicago Expected to Lead on the
First Ballot, With Next* York Second
and St. Louis Distanced—Washing
ton Flaying a Waiting Game—Other
Work Before Congress.
Washington, Feb. 23.—The New York
Chicago, and St. Louis world’s fair seekers
paid very little attention to the saered
character of the day; but spent its hours
interviewing members of the House whose
votes they thought they could capture.
The Washingtonians, having nothing to do
but to wait, kept the Babbath. The out
siders had their labors for their pains in
most cases: the rolative strength of the
three cities not being materially changed.
They still stand: Chicago, New York, and
St. Louis, the latter being distanced.
Chaunoey M. Depew made one convert. It
was Representative Elijah Adams Morse of
Massachusetts, who on Friday made a
comprehensive speech opposing utterly the
whole project of having a fair. Mr. Depew
convinced Mr. Morse by his eloquence that
a world’s fair ought to be held in 1892, and
that it ought to be held in New York, and
llr. M rse, if he adheres to his present
purpose, will vote for New York when the
time comes.
ALL HANDS HARD AT WORK.
The eve of the grand free-for-all race for
the fair has been used by the friends of the
four contestants in getting into the best pos
sible condition for the opening to-morrow,
and in arranging plans and counterplaus
with which to reap any advantage, how
ever small, that may present itself during
the day. The oppt sition to holding a fair
is gained ground, and many predict
that a formidable array of members
will be found opposed to any fair
at all unless this question is settled before
the site is chosen. The betting upon the
chances of the four aspirants for the fair
honors, if made upon the basis of the nu ü
ber of votes each expects to have upon the
first ballot, would stand about as follows:
Chicaio 100 or 105, Ne.v York 80, St.
Louis 60 or 65, and Washington the re
mainder, depending somewhat upon the
total number of votes cast.
MORNING MAY BRING A CHANGE.
While this is the situation to-night, morn
ing may witness some change in the plans
and streng h of the leaders. The three
commercial cities are using Washington as
a stalking horse, and the two leaders at
least are throwing part of their strength to
the apital city, this being done in order
partly to deceive others as to their strength,
and partly to establish friendly relations
upon which to establish a credit to
draw upon at some later stage in
tiio contest. None of three leading
cities has at present sufficient votes to make
it advisable in the opinions of its sponsors
to show its full hand at the outset, and it is
passible that Washin. ton and St. Louis
may on the fir t ballot run very close for this
reason. The Chicago people will turn 100
votes, and they have ten or fifteen more
whicri they are holding in check, while
New York is holding a smaller figure in the
tame manner.
TUil MAIN WORK BEFORE THE HOUSE.
The subject of paramount interest to
come before congress this week will
he the selection by the House of
tlie site of the world’s fair. Bal
loting will begin to-morrow, but as no
city really expects to secure a majority of
the votes cast on the first ballot, it cannot
be predicted when the voting will end. The
special order of the House allots one day
for balloting, aud, according to the pro
cedure arranged by the committee in
its report on the bills, each member
is to indicate his choice as his name is called.
This will necessarily be a slow proceeding,
and not many roll calls can be had during
the 1 mited time fixed in tie special order.
But the managers of the fair are prepared
for this exigency, and will avail themselves
of the parliamentary device of taking a re
cess at the close of the day, the effect of
which ill be to carry the legislative day
of Monday along until the site is selected. '
CONTESTED ELECTION CASES.
After this has been done, the House will
again turn its attention to consideration of
conteste i eUc on cases, and the committees
on electio a will call up ti e West Virginia
contest of Atkinson vs. Pendiet n and the
Arka sas case of Featbesrtone vs. Cate,
which will probably occupy most of the re
mainder of the week in their disposition.
The committee on appropriations will re
port the urgent deficiency appropriation
bill to the House on Thui sday.
In the senate.
It promises to be a business week in the
Senate. The order adopted under the reso
lution of Mr. Sherman to censider public
building bills was not exhausted Friday,
and at every possible opportunity the cal
enriar will be called, with a view of clear
ing it of meusures of this Class. These bills
are being passed in pursuance of an u: der
sianding to which all the senators
are parties. The bills have all been
amended in conformity to the plan adonted
by the committee on public buildings und
£ rounds, have all been reported favorably
by unanimous vote of the committee, and
doubtless will pass ni hout objection. Tuis
understanding includes also bridge bills ad
irivate pension bills, and it Is expected that
by the end of the week the calendar will
nave been cleared of all these measures.
BLAIR’S BILL.
The Blair education bill still holds its
place as the unfinished business, and has the
tight of way after the close of the morning
hour. Senator Blair having concluded his
speech, the bill is not likely to be obtruded
in the way of other business that th • Sonate
deems more important. Senator Faulkner
will make the uext speech upon the bill.
The Oklahoma town site bill will be up
dtily during the morning hour uniil dis-
P sad of, which it is hoped will be before
the end of the week.
PRESIDENT PRO TEM.
Mr. Evarts has given notice that he will
call up the resohit ion declaring that “it is
competent for the Senate to o ect a presi
dent pro tern., who shall hold office during
the pleasure of the Senate.” This will
doubtless provoke discussion of the consti
tutional power. The resolution was
ap roved by the caucus of
the republican senators last year,
th l v , was seriously combatted
tnen by a large mi ority. It will, how-
TJ,T’ 1)6 adopted, and the Senate will, it is
under tood, cuoose Senator Ingalls to pre-
K the absenoe of Vice president
fnv*K'i' n * wit k family, will start
londa March 8, to he absent a month.
1 Harrison Might Have Helped.
. Noton, Feb .23.—1 t transpires that
P . tr l6 *t°ckholders in the Atlantic and
nSlf company, which was one of the
, jaliHed bidders for the fur seal privilege,
1 nun jbur of prominent Indiana Repub:
JaiitiistratioiL Ve 010,9 wW* tne
OUF. TOULON SQUADRON.
French Naval Officers Profuse in Their
Attentions.
On Board the Atlanta, Squadron of
Evolution, Toulon, France, Feb. 10.—At
daylight to-morrow the squadron will leave
Toulon for Nice, and will carry with it
pleasant experiences of French social quali
ties. The ball given by vice admiral Du
peree on Saturday night was a magnificent
affair, and our officers are loud in their
praises of the handsome manner in which
they were treated. At least 900 persons
attended the ball, the greater number being
military and naval officers. Admiral Du
peree was especially particular that our
cadets should have a good time, and held a
lengthened conversation with many of them
in English.
made the middies happy.
Ho said: “Now min 1, introductions are
not necessary. Your uniform is sufficient
introduction; everybody understands this.
Dance with the prettiest young ladies you
can 11 id. I want you to enjoy yourselves.”
On the face of this it is hard to find Any
fault with our excellent entertainers, but it
may be menti Med that when our officers
availed themselves of the privilege of visit
ing the ar renal and navy yard they were
hurried through, especial care having been
taken that should see absolutely nothing
which would enable them to form any idea
of recent advances made by France in the
art of ship building, the manufacture of
projectiles and general important naval
matters.
the foreigners surprised.
The most accomplished British and French
officers who nave visited our ships have
been surprised at thoir elegant finish and
simplicity, and the effectiveness of the design
of their mounts. Speaking in general terms
of the whole squadron, one of the most
prominent c mmanders in the British navy
was heard to remark that fie did not think
there were four vessels afloat with more
complete offensive and defensive arrange
ments; “and besides,” said be, “I am per
fectly certain that as far as arrangements
for the comfort of their crews are con
cerned, they are the best.”
ADMIRAL WALKER PLAYS THE HOST.
Admiral Walker entertained Vice Ad
miral Duperee and staff at dinner last even
ing on board the C icago, and he has ex
changed visits wit i all the naval and mili
tary officers of high rank during the week.
On Wednesday evening the squadron ex
ercised with the now sys.em of night sig
naling by means of three incandescent
lamps placed vertically about six feet
apart and suspended from the foretop
sail yardarm. Much interest was
manifested in the matter by French naval
officers and many spec a tors on the quay,
and Lepeit Var, one of the journals pub
lished here, contained an elab irate descrip
tion of the system, and commented favor
ably on its advantages.
Large p rties of our men visit the shore
daily and fraternize with the French sailors
in the heartiest possible manner. The
health of tho squadron is good.
AN INDISCREET ORATOR.
Gov. Campbell Explains That He Does
Not Indorse the Utterances.
Columbus, 0., Feb. 23.—Wasuiogton’s
birthday was celebrated last evening with a
meeting under the auspices of the Patriotic
Order of the Sons of America, at which
Gov. Campbell presided. Among tho
speakers was L. W. O’Briea, state vice
president of tho order. His remarks were
explanatory of the organization, and were
largely construed to be an
attack on the Catholic church, and
priestcraft. Considerable comment has
been created by the speech, >,nd Gov.
Campbell has made a statement in justifica
tion of his presence, which was by pressing
invitation. Ho says the speech of Mr.
O’Brien has been exaggerated, that he said
nothing derogatory to the Irish and
did say the order was not opposed
to the Catholic c urch. The gove nor
says in his statement that Mr. O'Brien is a
mechanic and not a public speaker, and
probably said more than he really meant,
and over stepped the bounds of propriety
upon such an occasion. Ho stys he would
not preside at a pub ic meeting whore auy
One’s creed or politics would be attacked.
FORAKER AND THE FORGERY.
Three Reports to be Made by the In
vestigating Committee.
Washington, Feb. 23.—The ballot-box
investigation will close with one or two
more witnesses and printed arguments
from Representative Grosvenor, represent
ing John Sherman, Congressman McKinley
and others, and fro n Gov. Foraker, repre
senting hitu9elf. Then the committee will
make up its reports. There will probably
be three of t ese, one by Chairman Mason,
Gov. Foraker’s fri rid, whitew shing Gov.
Foraker. Tiiis Messrs. C igswell and
Struble, the other republicans of the com
mittee, cannot sign, so they will make a
report of their own. Finally, Messrs. Tur
ner and Wilson, the democrats, will sum up
the evidence and give the popular verdict.
HARRISON DINES DEPBW.
Miller, Who Fell Without the Breast
works, Provided His Own Rations.
Washington, Feb. 23.—Hearing th t
Chauncey M. Depew was in town, the Pres
ident invited him to dme at the white house
en famille last evening. Mr. Depew of
course went. The President let him go in
an hour, and Mr. Depew spent the rest of
the evening with the Gridiron Club.
Warner Miller, who fell without the breast
works, also arrived in town yesterday,but he
was not asked to the white house to dinner;
indeed, he has not been at the white house
at all since last spring.
AN ABSCONDER ESCAPES.
Ho Stole $35,000 and Though Uncjpr
Arrest Can’t bo Extradited.
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 23.—C. H. Ep
plosheimer, manager of the Pinkerton
detective agency In this city, to which was
intrusted the task of capturing Fiederick
A. Walton, the absconding agent of the
Pacific Express Company at Dallas, Tex.,
received a dispatch to-day from St. Juh >,
N. 8., sta i g that Walton has been ar
rested. Walton stole 435,000 of tho com
pany’s money. Only $7,000 was found on
his person. This offense is not extraditable.
Hannon Dines the Attaches.
Washington, Feb. 23.—Mr. Hanson of
Macon, one of the delegates to the pan-
American congress, gave a dinner at the
Arlington last evening in honor of tho
attacues of the congress.
Biggar’s Remains at Belfast.
Belfast. Feb. 23.—The body of the late
Mr. liiggar arrived here last night, and was
conveyed to St. Patrick’s cuapeL Many
ParueUito members of parliament attuudel
a requiem mass which was celebrated In the
chapel to day. The body will be interred
to-morrow at Caruuioney.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY FEBRUARY 21, 1890.
REV.TAI,MAGE ON GRADY.
“TAKE THEE A GREAT ROLL, AND
WRITE IN IT WITH A MAN’S PEN."
The Mightiest Roll of To-Day the Re
ligious and Becular Newspaper, and
the Mightiest Pen That of the Ed
itor—The Preacher Believes in Praise
While Men Live.
Booklyn, Feb. 23.—Tho groat Academy
of Music, is main floors and its two gal
leries and platform and all approaches to
the building were, as usual, thronged at the
preaching service of the Rev. T. DeWitt
Talmage, D.D., to-day. Many hundreds of
persons did not gain admittance.
The subject of Dr. Talmoge’ssermon was:
"The Life and Death of Henry W. Grady,
the Editor and Orator.” He took for his
text Isaiah viii, 1: “Take thee a great roll,
aud write in it with a man’s pen." The
preacher saidj
To Isaiah, with royal blood in bis veins,
and a habi.ant of palaces, does this divine
order come. He is to take a roll, a largo
roll, and write on It with a pen, not an
angel’s pen. but a man’s pen. So God hon
ored tne pen and so he honored manuscript.
In our day the mightiest roll is the relig
ious and secular newspaper, and the might
iest pen is the editor’s pen, whether for
good or evil. Aud God says now to every
11 erary man, and especially to every Jour
nalist: “Take tneo a great roll aud write in
it witn a man’s pen.”
Within a few weeks one of the strongest,
most vivid and most brilliant of those po s
was laid down on the editorial desk in
Atlanta, never again to be r -sumed. I was
far away at the time. We had been sailir.g
up from the Mediterranean sta, through t ie
Dardanelles, which region is unlike uuy
thi .g I over saw for beauty. There is not
any other water scenery on earth where
God has done so many picturesque things
withisands. They are somewhat like the
Thousand Islands of our American St. Law
rence, but more like heaven. Indeed, we had
just passed Patmos, the place from which
John had his apocalyptic vision. Constan
tinople had seemed to come out to greet us,
for your approach to that city is different
from any other city. Other cities us you
approach them seetn to retire, but t ds city,
with its glittering minarets and pinnacles,
seems almost to step into the water to greet
you. But my landing there, that would
have boon to me an exhilaration, was sud
denly stnrmed witn the tidings of the death
of my intimate friend, Honry W. Grady.
I could hardly believe the tidings, for 1
had left on my study table at home
letters and telegrams from him, those
letters and telegrams having a warmth and
geniality aid n wit such as be only oould
express. Tne departure of no publio man
for many years has so affected me. For
days I walked about as in a dream, and I
resolved that, getting home, I would, for
the sake of liis bereaved household and for
the sake of his bereaved profession, and for
the sake # f what he had been to me and
snail eou a lie to be as long as memory
lasts, I would speak a word in appreciation
of him, t e most promising of Americans,
ad learn some of the salient lossons of his
departure.
I have no doubt that he had enemies, for
no man can live such an active life as ho
lived or be so far in advance of his time
without making enemies, some because be
defeated tbeir projects ad some because he
outshone toem. Owls and bats never dil
like the rising sun. But I shall tell you
how b - appeared to me, and I am glad that
I told him while he was in full health what
I thought of Mm. Memorial oration* and
gravestone epitaphs are often mean enoug ,
for they say of a man after he is dead that
which ought to have been said ot him
while living. One garland for a liv
ing brow is worth more than a mountain of
japonicas and calla lilies heaped on a
fu eral casket. By a little black volume of
fifty pages oontai 'ing the eulogimns and
poems uttered and written it the demise of
Clay aud Webster, aud Calhoun and Lin
coln, and Sumner, the world tried to pay
for the forty years of obloquy it heaped
upon those living giants. If I say nothing
in praise of a man while he lives I will keep
silent when he is dead. Myrtle and weep
ing willow cau never do what ought
to have been done by amaranth and palm
branch. No amount of “Dead March in
Saul” rumbling from big organs at the obse
quies can atone for non-appreciatiou of the
man before be fell asleep. The hearse can lot
do what ought to have been and mo by chariot.
But there are important things th it need to
bo said about our friend, who was a prophet
iu American journalism, and who omy a
few years ago heard tne command of my
text: “Take thee a great roll and write iu
it with a man’s p n.”
His father dead, Henry W. Grady, a boy
fourteen years of agi, t ink up the bittle of
life. It would require a long chapter to
record the uamos of or hans w.iu have come
to the top. W nen God takes away tne
head of the house mid he very often gives
to some lad in that, household a special
qualification. Christ remembers how that
liis own fai her died eariy, leaving him to
support himself a id mother and his brothers
in the carpenter’s shot} at Naz ireth, and ho
is in sympathy with all boys and all young
nieni thestrugglo.You says“o,if my father
had only lived I would have bad a better
education and 1 would have had a more
promisi g start, and there are some wrinkles
on my brow that would not have broil
them” But I have noticed that God makes
a special way for orp ia s. You wo .Id not
have been half the man you are if you had
not been obliged from voureurly days to fight
your own battles. What other bo vs got out
of Ya'eor Ha yard you got in the University
of Hard Knocks. Go amo ig successful mer
chants, lawyers, physicians and me
of all occupations and prof ssions, aud
there are many of them who will tell you:
“At 10, or 12, ot 15 years of age 1 started
for myself; father was sick, or father was
dead.” But somehow they got through
and got up. I account for it by ti e fact
that there is a special dispensation of Gol
for orphans. All hail, the fatherless and
motherless! The Lord Almlgnty will s e
you thr nigh. Early obstacles for Mr. Grady
were only the means for development of
his Intellect and heart. Aud lo! when
at 39 years of age he put down his pea
aid closed his lips for the perpetual
silence, he had done a work wni’h rna iy a
man who lives on to sixty, seventy, and
eighty years never accomplishes. There is
a great deal of senseless pral e of longevity,
as tnough it were a wonderful achieveme t
to live a g >od while. Ah, my friends, it is
not how long we live, bu how well we live
and how usefully we live. A man iu
lives to eignty years and accomplishes noth
ing for God or humanity might better have
never lived at all. Aiethusa eh lived nnu
hundred and sixty-nine years, and
what did It amount to! In all those more
than nine centuries he did not accomplis i
anything hicu se-med worth reoord.
Paul lived only a little more than
sixty, hut how many Methusolebs would it
tak- to make one Paul? Who would not
rather have Paul’s six y yea s tbau Mothu
saleh’s nine hu idr and and sixty-nine. Rob
ert MoCheyne died at shirty years of age,
and John Hummerfidd at twenty-seveu
years of age, but neither earth nor heaven
will ever hear the end of llieir usefulness,
longevity! Why. • •tebh-mteren beat you
nt that, for it lives a hundred and fifty and
tvo hundred years. G-ay hairs are the
blosa ms of tho tree of life if found in the
way of righte-ainess, but the frosts c t the
Ssc ind death if found in the way of sin.
One of our able New York j urnnls last
spring printed a question and sent it to
m my people, and among others to myself:
“Oan the edhor of a secular journal be a
Christian?" Some of tho nows; aia'rs an
swered, No. I answered, Yes; an I lest you
may not understand me I say, Y-s, agnid.
Summer beiore last, riding with Mr!
Grady from a religious meeting in Geor
g a on Sunday night, be said to me some
t rings which I now reveal for the first
time, became it is appropriate now that
I reveal t.iem. Ha expressed his com
plete faith in the gospel, and expressed
his ast ulsbment and liis grief that, in
our dav so many voung men were reject
ing Christianity. From tho earne tuess and
th t uderness aud the confidence with
which be simke on these things I c included
t'mt when Henry XV. Grady mails pubhc
prof ssion of his f ith in Ch ist and t *ik
his place at the holy communion in the
Methodist church, he was lione t and truly
Christian. That conversation that Sun
day night, first in tho carriage and
then re-uined in the hotel, Impressed
me in such a way that when I
simply heird of his departure, with
out any of the particulars, I con
cluded that he was roady to go. I warrant
there was no fright in the last exigency, but
that he found what is commonly called “the
last enemy” a g >od friend, and from his
homo on earth he web- to a home in heaven.
Yes. Air. Grady not only demonstrated that
an editor niav be a Christian, but that a
very great intellect n>ay be gospolized. His
ma.ital capacity was so wonderful It was
almost startling. I have been with him ii
active conversation while a the same time
he was dictating toasto lographer editorials
fer tho Atlanta Constitution But that
intellect wis not ashamed to n w to Chil t.
Among his last dying utterances was a re
quest for the prayers of the churches in his
behalf.
There was that particular quality In him
that you do not fl i la more than one per
son out of bund eds of thousan-ts— namelv
personal magnetism. People have tried to
define that quality and al-vays failed, yet
tve have ill felt its powor. Thoro are some
oersons who have only to enter a room or
step upon a platform or into a pulpit aud
yon are thrilled by their presence, and
when they speak y ur nature responds au l
you oannot help it. What is tie peculiar
influence with which such a maguotic poi
son takes hold of social groups
and audiences? Without attempting
to define this, which is inde
finable, I will say It seems to correspond to
the waves of air set in motion by tie voice
or the movements of the body. Just like
that atmospherio vibration is tho moral or
spiritual vibration which rolls out from the
soul of what we call a magnetic person. As
t lore may he a cord or rope binding bodies
together, tliero may be an invisible e rnd
binding souls. A magnetic mail liiruws it
over others as a hunter throws a lasso, Mr.
Grady was sur harged with this influenoo,
and it was employed for patriotism and
Christianity and elevated purposes.
You may not know why. in the convor
sai ion whioh I had with Mr. Gla Is one a
few weeks ago, he uttered thus i memorab e
w ,rds about Christianity, so no of which
were cabled to America. Ho was speaki ig
iu reply to this remark. I said; “Mr.
Gla istone, we are told iu America by some
people that Christianity does very well for
weak-minded men and children iu the
1 rant class, but It is not fit for stronger
minded men; but when we mention you,
of snoh large intellectuality, as being a
pronounced friend of religion, we si
lence their batteries.” Then Mr.
Gia Istone steppe 1 on the hillside where we
were exercising and said; “The old -r I
grow, the more c mil me I I am in my faith
M religion. Sir,” said h with ffa hing
eye and uplifted baud, **,alk about the
questions of the day, tnere is but one ques
tion, and that is the gospel. That can and
will correct everything. Do you have any
of that dro idful agnosticism in America?”
Having told him we had, he went on to
say; I am profoundly tkankful that
none of my children or kindrel have
been blasted by It, I am glad to
say that about all tne men at the tip la
Great Britain are Christians. Why, sir,”
he said, “I have been in public position
fifty-eight years, and forty-seven years in
the cabinet of tne British government, and
during those forty-seven years I have been
associated withsltty of the m ister minds of
the century, ad all but five of the sixty
were Christians.” Ho then named the four
leading physicians and surgeons of Ms
country, calling them by name and re
marking upon the high qualities of each
of them and ■ dded: “They are all
thoroughly Christian." My friends, I think
it will be quite respectable for a little
longer to be the friends of religion. Will
iam E. Gladstone, a Christian; Henry W.
Grady, a Christian. What tne greatest of
E ghshmen said of Englanl is true of
America and of all Christendom. The men
at the top are the friend-i of God and be
liever i iu the sanctities of religion, tho
most eminent of the lawyers, the most emi
nent of the doctors, the most eminent of the
merenants, and there are no better mo i
in all our laud tnan some ot tho>e
wio sit in editorial chairs. And if
that does not corresp-nd with your
acquaintanceship, I am sorry that you have
fallen into bad oomjiany. In ausw -r t > the
question put last spring, “Can a secular
journalist be a ChristianP’ I not only
answer iu the affirmative, but I assert tha
so great are tho responsibilities of that pro
fusion, so infinite aid eternal the conse
quences of their obedience or disobe lienee
of the words of my text, “Take thee a great
roll, and write in it wi h a mau’t pen,” and
so ms y are the surr undt g te nptatio s
that tho men of n > other p ofessio.i m ire
deeply need the defenses and the re-euforce
mants of the grace of G id.
And then look at the oppo tunities of
j mrualLm. I praise the pulpit and mag
nify my office, but 1 state a fact whioh you
all know when I say that w lere tne pulpit
touches one person tho presi touches five
hundred. The vast majority of people do
not go to church, but all intelligent people
read the newspa;iers. W Idle, tiiei ef ire, the
re poustbility of the ministers is great, the
resp visibility of editors and re.iorters is
greater. Come, brother journalists, and
ge- your ordination, nit bv the laying on
of human ha ids, but by the laying on of
the hands of the Almighty. To you is
committed the precious reputation of
men and the more precious reputation of
women. Spread before our children an
elevated literature. M ake sin appear disgust
iig aud virtue admirable. Believe good
rather than eviL While you snow up the
hypocrisies of the cimrcfi, show up the
s upendous hypocrisiee outside the churco.
Be not, as some of you are, the m Te echoes
of public opinion; muke publio opinion.
Let tie great roil on wnich you write with
a man’s pen boa message of light aud
liberty anil kindness, and an awakening of
moral power. But who is sufficient for
tneso things! Not one of you
without divine beli. But get
that influence, and the tdi'o sand repo tors
can go up and take tuis world for U *i and
the truth. The mightiest opportunity in all
the w irld for usefulness to—la. Is ope i be
fore editors and reporters and publishers,
whether of knowledge on foot, as in the
book, or knowledge on the wing, as In the
newspaper. I pray God, men of tho news
paper press, woelher you hear or read till
sermon, that you uiay riM lip te your toll.
opportunity and that yo may bo diviuely
hel;ied and rescued and ble-umd.
Someone might say to mo: “How cau
you talk thui of the newspai>r proas, wh n
you yourself have sometimes been u ifairly
treated and misreprosonte If” 1 anew r that
in the opportu ity tho newspaper press of
this ooun’ry and other countries has
given mo week by week to p-eaeh tha Gos
p J o the nations, lam put under so much
obiiga'ion that I defy ail editors
and reporters, the world over, to
write anything that sh ill call forth
from mo one word of bitter retort from n >w
till tho dav of my death. My opinion is
that all reformers and religious teachers,
instead of spending so much ti ne and energy
in denouncing the press, had hotter spend
m to time in tha iking them for wliat they
have done for the world’! intelligence, and
declaring thoir inagnific ut opp u-tunity and
urging their employment of it all for benen
ce it and rights >us purposes.
Again, I remark that Henry XV. Grady
stood for Christian patriotism irrespective
of political spoils, lie declined all ttlcial
reward. He could have been governor of
Georgia, but refused it. He could have
been senator of the United States, but de
clined it. He remained plain Mr. Grady.
Nearly all the other orators of the polit oal
arena, as soon as the elec.’ious are ovsr, go
to Washington, or Albany, or II irrlshurg,
or Atlaula, to got In oitv or state or national
office reward t r their servlcei, and not get
ting what they want spend the rest of
the rime of that administrat on fu pouting
about the management of publio affairs or
cursing Harrison or Clevoland. When the
?;rea. political campaigns were over Mr.
Irady went home to his newspaper. He
demonstrated that it Is possible t > toll for
priuoipet whioi be t might to be right,
sin ply because they were right. Christian
patriotism is too rare a commodity in this
country. Surely the Joy of living under
such free institutions as those estab
lished hoi e ought to bo enough reward for
political fidelity. Among ad the great
writers that st >ixl at the last presidential
election on democratic and republican plat
forms, you cau not recall in your mind ten
who were not thomsolves looking for re
munerative appointment*. Aye, you can
c Hint them all on the fingers of ono hand.
The mnst illustrious specimen >f that style
of man for the last ton years was Heury W.
Grady.
Again, Mn Grady stood for tho new
so ith, and just what we want is to meet
three other men, one to speak for the new
north, another for the new east and another
for the now west. The bravest speocn made
for tho lasi quarter of a century was that
made by Mr. Grady at the New E igland
dinner in Now York about two or three
years ago. I sat with him that evening and
know something of his anxieties, for he
was to tread on dangerous ground, and
might by one misspoken word have
antagonized forever bth sect! ms. His
speech was a victory that thrilled all of us
who heard him and all who road him. That
speech, great for wisdom, gro it for kind
ness, great for pacification, great for brav
ery, will go do vu to the generations with
Webster’s speech at Bunker Hill, William
U'irt’s sue ch at the arraignment of Aaron
Burr, Edmund Burke’s speocn on Warren
Hastings, Robert Emmet's speech for his
own viudicatiou.
Who will in conspicuous act on represent
the new north as tie did tho new south?
Who shall como forth f r tho now oast
and who for the now west? Let old politi
cal issues lie buried, let old grudges die.
Lot :ew themioi bo launched. With the
con ing in of anew nation ut the gates of
Castle Garden every year, and the wheat
bin and corn crib of our land enlarged
wit i every harvest, and a vast multi
tude of our population still plunged in
illiteracy to be educated, and moral que-i
--tions abroad involving the very existence
of our repu lie, let the old political
platforms that are wormaaton bo dropped
aud platforms that shall tie male of two
p anxs, the one the ten commandments and
tho other the sermon on the mount, lifted
for all of us to stand on. But there is a lot
of old politicians grumbling all around the
sky who don’t want anew south, anew
north, anew east or a now west. They
have some old war spneoi.es that
they prepared In 1861, that lu all
our autumnal elections they feel called
upon to Inflict up n the country. They
growl louder and louder in proportion as
they are pushed back further and further
and the Henrv W. Grad vs come to the front.
But the mandate, I think, has gone forth
from the throne of God that ano w Ameri
can nation shall take the place of the old,
aud the new has been baptized for God and
liberty, and justice and peace, and moral
ity and religion.
Aud no v . ,ur much lamented friend has
go eto give acc nmt. Suddenly the facile
aud potent pen is laid down and the elo
quent t uigua is silent. What? Is there u 6
safeguard against fatal direuse 1 Tne im
personation of stout health was Mr. Grady.
Wliat compactness of mmole! What ruddy
complexion! What flashing eye? Standing
with him in a group of twenty or thirty
persons at Piedmont, he looked the health
hist, au his spirits wero tho blithest. Nuall
we never feel ugam the hearty grasp of
hii hand or bo magnetize 1 with his elo
quence? Men of the groat roll, men of the
pen, men of wit, men of powor, if our friend
had to go when tho Cali o one, so must you
when your call comes . Wh n Goi asks you
what have you done with your pen or your
eloquence, or your weait i or your social
position, will yo i he able to give sn lsfao
tory answer! What have we neon writing
all there years? If mirth, has it been Inno
cent mirth, or that which tears and stings
aud lacerates? From our pen have there
come forth productions healthy or poloon
ous? In the last great day when the war
rior mu-st give account of what he has done
with his sword, aid the merchant what
lie has done with his yard-sties, and
t e mason what be has done with
his trowel, and the artist what be has done
with his pencil, we shall have to give ao
count of what we have done with our pen.
There are gold pens and diamond pens a..d
pens of exquisite manufacture, aod every
few weeks I see some new kind of pen, each
said to be better than the oihe ■; but in the
gr at day of our arraignment before the
judge of quick and de th that will be tne
m st beautiful pen, whetuer gold or steel or
or quill, which never wrote a profane or
unclean or cruel word, or which from the
day it was carved, < r spljt at the nib,
dropped from Its point kindness and en
couragement and help and gratitude to God
and benediction for man.
May Go and comfort that torn up southern
home aud all the homes of this country,
and of all the world which have been swept
by tins plague of influenza, which ha* deep
ened sometimes Into pneumonia and some
tl ms into typhus, and the victims of which
are counted by the ten thousand! Satan,
who is tre “Prince of the Power ot tha
Air," has been poll >uing the atmosphere in
all nations. Though it Is the first time in
our remembra ice, Ire has done the same
thing before. In 1696 the unwholesome air
of Cairo, Egypt, destroyed the life of ten
thousand iu one day, and in Constant! m
ple in 1714 throe hundred thousand people
died of it. Ia n glad that by Luo better
-anitation of our cities and • lder uud-jr
trending of hygiemo laws and tne greater
skill of physicians these Apollyonic assaults
upon the Human race are being resisted, but
pestilential atmosphere Is still abroad.
Hardly a family here but has felt its ilg iter
or heavier touch. Some of the best of my
flook full undor its power, and many
homes here represented have been crushed.
Tho fact in the biggest failure in
tho universe is this world if there
be no heaven bavoud. Bur there is, and the
friends who have goue there are many and
very dear. O tearful eyes, look ud to the
hills crimsoning with eternal moral That
reunion kiss will mire than m ike up for
t parting kiss, and tie welcome will
obliterate the go id-by. “The la nb which
is in the midst of the throne shall lead them
to living fountains of water, and
God shall wipe away ail tears from
their eyes." Till then, O departed
loved ones, promise us that you will re
member us, us wo promise to roinember
you. Ami some of you gono up from this
city by the sea, and others from under
southern skies, and others from the homes
of t .e more rigorous north, and some from
the ca'iina on great we tern farms, we shall
meet again when our pen has written Is
last word and our arm has done its last
day’s work and our lips have spoken the
last adieu.
And now, thou great and magnificent
soul of editor and orator! under brighter
skies we shall meet again. From God tu m
earnest, and to G id' thou hast returned.
Not broken down, but ascended. Not col
lapsed, lut irradiated. Enthroned onel
Coroneted onol Sceptored onel Etnpara
ilined onel liall and farewel 11
DIXIE’S HACK PROBLEM.
Cardinal Gibbons 3 elieves Christian
izing the Negros s the Solution.
Baltimore, Md., Fob. 33.—Before begin
ning his sermon to-day at high mass, Car
dinal Gibbons made ail appeal to tbe con
gregation in behalf of nogro and Indian
missions. His eminence reminded his hear
ers that, in compliance with the decree of
the last plenary council of Baltimore, an
annual collection '-as taken up in behalf of
those missions on the first Sunday in Lent
in all tho churches of the country.
SEVEN MILLIONS STRONG,
“There are now,’’ said his eminence,
“about 7,000,000 of negroes In the Southern
states, and tne negro question has become a
serious problem to tne American people.
The best solution of this problem, in my
judgment, will bo found ii christianizing
tho negroes. In some sections of the country,
if report* are true, their religion has de
generated into a kind of futichlsin, and is
eu irely emotional, devoid of all religious
restraints and obligations. Tho negro race
is naturally a religious people.
NATURALLY GRATEFUL.
“They are kind, affectionate and grateful,
submissive to authority; and their conduct
towards the close of the late war, when
they had power to do misotnef, was above
all praise. By proper religious and Chris
tum instruction, they are sure to become a
most useful element iu the com u unity.”
QSUMANIf'J ELECTION.
The Cartel Party us Yet Only Certain
of Bevonty-four Beats.
Berlin, Feb. 33.—Tho Cartel parties have
as yet Bocured only seventy-four seats in tho
now Beichstag, ns against 313 hold by them
previously, Tho following is u comparison
between the strength of the various parties
in the last Reichstag and their strength iu
the now body so far a# definitely known:
Conservatives, formerly 78, now 48; impe
rialists. formerly 3!), uow 13; national lit)*
orals, formerly 93, now 14; centorists, for
merly 103, now Bfi; Freislnnlge party,
formerly 35, now 30; socialists, formerly
11, uow 30.
The socialist vote In Saxony has Increased
8(5,873, mainly at tho expense of the Cartel
parties.
The conservative loador Holdorf is de
feated.
Herr Puttkamer is re-electod.
Herr Hennigsen will run against a social
ist in the second ballot.
KAISER WILLI a M’S PLANS.
He Contemplates an Educational Bys
tem for the rollers.
Berlin, Feb. 38.—The kaiser has again
c inferred with Dr. Roth, tbe Swiss minister,
with reference to the Swiss labor confer
ence. He has also recoived recently several
college professors, among them Herr
Schulze, master of a Frenoh high school,
whom be consulted several times. Tbe em
peror contemplates the re irganization of
an educational syst tin and the introduction
of a complete system of physical culture in
addition to mental training.
WHOLESALE INFANTICIDE.
The Corpses of Fourteen Infants Found
Under the Floor of a House.
London, Feb. 33. — A terrible scene of
wholesale infanticide was revealed by fire
men who were at work on the dobris after
tho burning of a house located iu Sieuna
street, Warsaw, this morning. Renoaththe
fl >or of the burned buildi g the corpses of
fourteen infants were found. The estab
lishment was presided over by a midwife
named Bkoblinsko.
Lord Churchill's Liberty of Action
London, Fob. 33. Lord Randolph
Churchill, speaking at Paddington yester
day, said be would give general support to
tie government during the present session
of parliament, but would reserve the right
of liberty of action on certain subjects.
Tbe Dutch Socialists Expelled.
Berlin, Feb. 23.— The Dutch socialists,
Van Bewereu, Domela, and Mewenhaus,
who were arrested here yesterday, have
been expelled from the city,
Spain’s Young King 111.
Madrid, Feb. 23.—The young kiDg of
Spain U again indisposed.
Death at Newnan.
Newnan, Ga., Fen. 23.—John T. Car
penter, a prominent and influential farmer,
died at his residence in this city this after
noon.
HEMINGWAY NOT A DEFAULTER.
An Investigation Shows That tbs
State Owes Him $2,000.
Jackson, Mihb., Feb. 33.—Majority and
minority reports were made by the legisla
tive committee appointed to examine tbe
office of state treasurer. The reports do not
differ materially. They express the opin
ion that when Trees ,rer Hemingway is
credited witn 1105,05(1 paid out by him for
coupo is in 1878, an 1 for which no credit
can be found on his gene cal books, that it
will be found that tire state owes him over
$3,000,
Naval Cadets Drop Out.
Annapolis, Md., Feb. 38.—The report
of the Rimi-aunu&l examination of tbe
naval cadets shows tbe following among
the deficiencies:
Third class—John Curlett. Virginia; R.
B. Larkin, Virginia, resigned
Hldgeiy, Georgia, resigned.
Fourth class—R. A. French, Florida,
resigned; Guidon Hood, Alabama, resigned;
J. R. Johnson, North Carolina, resigned;
fci. U. LuU'x, Tennessee, resigned.
I DAILY, $lO A YEAR. )
- r.' 'ENTS A COPY. V
| WEEKLY. 1.35 A YEAR. |
BREAKING OF THE DAM.
NOT THE SLIGHTEST DOUBT WAS
ENTERTAINED CF ITS SAFETY.
Feara that the Disaster at Wickon
burgh Waa Fully as Bad as at
Prescott—A Little Stream of Water
that Soon Developed Into a Torrent
and Carried All Before It.
Prescott, A. TANARUS., Feb, 23. Not the
slightest doubt had been entertained of the
safety of the dam which broke yesterday
morning early, and numerous housos had
been erected by the miners at various
places along tho course of the stream. These
wore uplifted by the raging waters as
though they bad been corks, and floated
down tbe stream until they were dashed to
pieces. Tbe first intimation of the appall
ing disaster was a sound resem
bling thunder, and ut the same
instant a perpendicular wall of
water fully fifty feet high came rushing
down the narrow valley with almost lucred*
ible speed. Fortunately there were but
comparatively few people living near the
bottom of tbe hillsides, and of these a large
number were warned by the awful sour'd
aud escaped to the higher ground.
WICKENBUROU’a FATE.
The valley widens about Wickenburgb,
ami much of tho town lies upon low lands
lloso to the course of the stream, and it is
almost certain that the vast body of water
which rushed out of the reservoir
has carried away many (houses at that place.
It is believed here that fully <>g many peo
ple were drowned there as immediately
below the dam. The ruiued dam is cut
from the top aim t to tho bottom, us
though a section h ul been dragged out, and
the water above is only u few feet deep.
Heavy rains had fallen for several days,
and Friday night it was apparent that the
water iu the lake was approaching tbe
danger Hue.
A KNIFE-LIKE STREAM.
Rain continued thoughont tho night, and
early yesterday morning tho water roes to
the top of the dam and cut a small passage
noar the center, which rapidly wldoned and
deepens 1 as the wator p- urod over It, until
in loss than twenty minutes, the little
si ream had become a roaring cataract.
Tho storage company is blamed
for not having provided a sufficient
outlet for the water iu times of danger. The
only way of letting off the water was
through the flume, and this afforded no ap
preciable robot. This is the fl. at of the
great slorago reservoirs projected in the
territory, a id it is believed that to-day’s
disaster will operate to discourage tho con
struction of similar dams.
FIVE BODIES RECOVERED.
A courier, who brought telegrams from
tho owtiorß of the Walnut Grove dam noti
fying thorn of thoir loss, arrived about 8
o'clock lust night, and left immediately
aftor daylight this morning. Ho could give
but little particulars further than to report
tho number of the missing, five bodies
having boon recovered and identified when
huh ft. Tlie distance to tbe storage darn
from Prescott, by the shortest trail, is forty
miles, while the service dam where tho em
ployes were located is fifteen miles further
down the stream.
TUE ADJUTANT GENERAL ON THE SCENE,
Immediately oil receipt of the nows bore,
Adjutant General O'Neil started for the
scene of tho disaster with two sur
geons to care for tho sufferers,
and to superintend the burial of tho dead.
A representative of the Journal-Miner, a
local paper, accompanied the party, aud
will send a courier with particulars, but It
will take twenty-four bourn or longer to
make tbe round trip. Yesterday's courier
came fr >m the lower dam, and
as tho road does not come by
the upper dam it was only summed that it
had given away on account of tho immense
quantity of wat-r. A more hopeful feeling
exis s this evening on acoount of no news
being received direct that tbe upiier dam
has given way. It is now hoped that the
reservoir is still Intact, and that the flood
was cau ed by the opening of the gates to
relieve it from threatening danger.
FLORIDA’3 CAPITAL.
Leon County Politics—The Chautauqua
of the Colored People.
Tallahassee, Fla., Feb. 23.—The
county political pot in beginning to boil
here. There are already throe candidates
in the field for btate senator from this dis
trict. They are Cayt. Patrick HoustoUn,
Col. George W. Walker, and Col. Fred. T.
Myers.
A letter received hore from President
Price of the National Colored C hautauqua
says the cnautauqua is organized , and will
come hore in force some time in March, the
day of meeting to bo announced soon. It is
said that Postmaster General Wanamaker
will contribute consider* le money to make
the Afro-Amoi lean Chautauqua a success.
The Israelite oitison* have purchased two
blocks in tho city cemetery and had it con
secrated as a tmryirig-ground, a ,and the re
mains of K. 8. VV illiauis and M I Diamond
have been brought from Jacksonville, where
they were carried some mouths since for
burial, and interred therein. These are the
first of the Jewish faith ever buried in
Tallahassee.
THOMABVILLffI TOPIC®.
Several New Buildings In Course of
hr action.
TnosfASViLbit, Ga., Feb. 23.—John I.
Parker has about completed two brick
buildings on Jackson street.
The ' Times-KnUrjtrisa is moving into
its commodious new brick home on Mad
ison street.
Mr. Sydney Williams has begun work on
two more brick stores on Jackson street.
T. J. Ba.l & Bro. are preparing to erect
two handsome st res on Broad street.
Thoso structures, besides numerous dwell
ings and other building* in and around
Thouiasville, will show that progress is tho
order of toe day in this city.
Mr. v' alter Walcott, who died Thursday,
was buried Friday.
The Tbomasville Gun Club Is practicing
almost daily, hi view of the final contest
with the Moutioello club to decide which
shall own the championship cup.
BTILL LIVING.
Hernandez Apt to Be the Subject of a
Miraculous Recovery.
Milledoevillb. Feb. 23.—The contin
ued survival of W. E. Hernandez, the
young man who attempted to kill himself
last Thursday afternoon, seems to be littla
less than a miracle. In spite of the fact
that the wound was thought to be a fatal
one by ,ho five physicians who attended
him, he still ltvei, and is so confident of his
owu recovery that a great many people are
inspired with the same confidence. The
wounded man expresses groat regret for bis
couduct and is exceedingly a: xi -us to re
cover. It is in some respects ast range case,
this being his seooud attempt to destroy hii
life.
