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| J. H. ESTILL, President. i
A LABOR DAY IX LONDON.
HALF a million toilers meet
IN HYDE PARK.
A Procoaslon Containing 170,000
jjen Marches Prom the Thames
Embankment With Bands Playing
B nd Banners Plying—Speeches From
Thirteen Stands—The Demonstration
Unmarked by Disturbances.
London, May 4.—To-day’s labor demon
stration in Hyde Park was a magnificent
success, and excelled in point of numbers
and orderly enthusiasm all the working class
gatherings since the great reform assemblage
in 1866. The splendid organization of the
different sections taking part in the proces
sions brought together in the park 500,000
people, who met, went through their
business and dispersed without a
single incident occurring of a
disorderly character. The leading
sections were the trade councils, which in
cluded eight groups, representing the
leather trades, metal and cabinet workers,
and shipping, clothing and printing, paper
and building trades. These bodies, in which
were numerous related trades, mustered in
specified districts of the metropolis early in
tne forenoon and inarched, headed by their
leaders, and with bands and banners, toward
the Thames embanement, the oentral point,
whence the marshalled array was ordered to
start for the park.
CROWDB OF SIGHTSEERS.
At 2 o’clock the embankment gave no
promise of any demonstration beyond the
rapidlv increasing re =isses of sight-seers, but
soon after that hour the first column of the
procession was seen advancing with a brave
show of banners toward the national
library, and before long the embankment,
as far as the eye could reach, was a dense
mass of moving columns, all keeping ad
mirable order. Leaders on horseback
guided the different sections toward their
proper places, and mounted policemen,
by arrangement with trades’ councils,
assisted in the formation of the ranks. The
gigantic procession was timed to start at 3
o’clock, and punctually at that hour it
moved off amid thunderous cheering and
blending of music of many bands. The
route toward the park was along Bridge
street, St. James, Park, and Birdcage walk,
which were lined with spectators. Masses
of artisans joined the paraders on the way
until on entering the park it is estimated
that the number of men in line was 150,000.
THE SOCIALIST WING.
Simultaneous with the appearance in the
park of the trades’ columns, sections of the
social democratic federation began to enter.
Some of them had joined the main body on
the Thames embankment, while others
marshalled in the distant suburbs
marched from different points, con
verging toward two platforms in
the park especially allotted to socialist
speakers. The railway workers’ union had
also sneeial processions, some of the groups
of which swelled the embankment columns,
while others marched isolated toward the
platform. The total number taking part in
the various processions is estimated at 170,-
000, and these were almost lost In the vast
ntss of the assemblage gathered around the
thirteen platforms upon which labor-day
advocates held forth.
POLICE KEPT OUT OF SIGHT.
Among the far-stretching dense cro’wd no
police ware visible. The orders from bead
quarters to refrain from interfering or
co-operating with the organizers of the
demonstration had caused the police to
judiciously keep in the background. The
tact and prudence of the organizers of the
demonstration was further seen in the
brevity of the proceedings. After the
paraders had been formed around the plat
forms the speaking commenced. Shortly
after 4 o’clock resolutions demanding that
eight hours be recognized as a day’s work
were put and carried amid the
acclamations of the multitude,'and by 5
o’clock, when the paraders hud re-formed in
line, the assemblage began to disperse.
Half a million is a moderate computation
of the gathering, the character of which
here everywhere the unmistakable stamp of
the solid respectable artisan classes, the
rag-tag and bob-tail being conspicuously
absent.
NO REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC.
A notable feature was that the bands of
the trade councils eschewed revolutionary
music, playing only popular and national
airs. The speakers included Mr. Davitt,
Mr. Cunningham-Graham, John Burns,
Thomas Maun, Benjamin Tillett, Mrs. Ave
liug, und Annie Besant. By 6 o’clock the
park was deserted, and the thoroughfares
were full of orderly crowds streaming
homeward.
At the stands of the social democrats, at
which all the speakers were socialists, there
was an audienco of 120,000 people, of whom
three-quarters wore red sashes. The
speeches were moderate in tone. The
siieakers claimed that the socialists ini
tiated the eight-hour movement, and urged
their hearers to regard it as the first step
toward securing complete freedom for
workmen. Hyndman, who was one of the
speakers, apologized for the failure of their
brethren on the continent to gather In
greater force on Mayday. The socialist
orators denounced Messrs. Bradlaugh and
Morley.
EUROPE’S LABOR RIOT3.
T Toops Etill Busy at Barcelona and
Bonbaix.
May 4.—The strike continues at
Bonbaix. There was serious rioting there
last night, several persons being wounded.
A number of arrests were made. To-day
the town is cairn. Delegates from the
workmen met the masters, but no agree
ment was reached.
■ J Be mayor of Roubaix has asked for re
“uorcoments. In response to his request
, dragons have been sent. Cavalry
[' rolled the streets of Roubaix all last
rght and all day to-day. The employers
t Koubaix announce that they are willing
o agree to a demand of ten hours if other
manufacturers in France content, but de
ine to advance wages.
TROOPS STILL BUSY AT BARCELONA.
Madrid, May 4.—At Barcelona the troops
ero engaged until early this morning dis
i ising the strikers. It is feared that
order* 1 measures w ill be necessary to restore
cit t'-ge socialist meeting was held in this
VttHisy. It was addressed by a number of
Drin? etlc ’’Ponkers. After adopting appro
ail m re ? oIu °as a procession formed, and
tl](.u rC j in an orderly manner along
jjL , ra do to the residence of Premier
tirih u premier received the deputa
rori. ° Presented a petition asking the
div TDn ? ent a dopt an eight hour working
In, ,'. auJ ° thor resolutions adopted by the
workmen’s congress.
to tl>o deputation Senor Sagasta
hour. IQU3t refuse to consider the eight
thah f V ro J ect ' fo this tho workmen replied
their wou |d use legal means to attain
<W„i t ‘ lat if these proved unsuc
hil would resort to rorce.
isripj _ ar celona Women’s Association has
tituj,, 'nanifesbj protesting against the at
ibeimrn y* e anarc hists and recommending
xL““ e<llato l resumption of work.
goua o„T era a M®irae* district have
* 08 but on a strike.
fpje IHurnina iX r ctos.
AUSTRIAN SHOP HANDS QUIT.
T - A ienna. May 4. —A simultaneous strike
occurred in the state railway factories in
Vienna, Prague, Pesth, and Temesvar.
Director Riscbitze of the Vienna factory
threatens to dismiss all the hands who do
not return to work to-morrow.
STRIKERS GO INTO CAMP.
Pesth, May 4. —Fifteen hundred bakers
have struck work and camped on an island
in the Danube with tents, cattle, stores of
lard and bread and other provisions. They
have been joined by 700 gb 1 employes in
the jute works. Five hundred military
bakers have been sent to Pesth from all
parts of the kingdom.
SOCIALISTS TO BE EXCLUDED.
Berlin, May 4. —The new miners’ union
at Bocnum has decided to exclude socialists.
A TARTAR FOR THE KAIBER.
Asked Hla Opinion' a Guest Denounces
the Socialist Bill.
Berlin, May 4. —The Vosaiseke Zeitung
says that at the Staatsrath banquet Em
peror William asked one of the guests his
opinion of the socialist bill. The person
thus questioned roundly denounced the
bill, saying it was calculated to embitter
the workmen and stimulate socialism, and
that it ougtit to be summarily dropped. To
this Emperor William replied: “That is
quite my opinion.”
Racing at Paris.
Paris, May 4.—The Poule d’Essai races
took place to-day.- In the race for fillies
there were only three starters. It was woa
oasily by a length and a half by M. Pierre
Donon’s chestnut filly Wandora, by Bruce,
out of Windfall, with Alicante second. In
the race for colts Rothschild’s chestnut colt
Heauine, by Hermit, out of Bella, was an
easy winner, with Pourhunt second.
Franco's War in Dahomey.
Paris, May 4. —A dispatch to the Temps
from Kotonon says that the King of Da
homey is going to Abomey, and has ordered
that ali his available troops be mobilized.
His object, it Is presumed,’ is either to de
fend the capital or to make another attack
on Porto Novo.
Paris’ Municipal Council.
Paris, May 4.— To-day’s reballots for
members of the municipal council resulted
in the election of 53 republicans, 5 conserva
tives and 1 Boulangist. The new council
will consist of 75 republicans, 13 conserva
tives and 2 Boulangists.
FLUMMERVILLK’3 RED CLOT.
Sater Tells His Story of the Crime to
the Committee.
Little Rock, Ark., May 4.— The pro
ceedings of the Clayton-Breckinridge in
vestigating committee yesterday were very
sensational and attracted a large crowd of
spectators to the court room. During the
morning two' clerics of election in Howard
township, Conway county, told what they
knew about tho taking of the ballot-box
and the murder of Mr. Clayton.
In the afternoon James Sater, the man
supposed to have discovered the murder of
Mr. Clayton, arrived from Jeffersonville,
Ind. He was put on tho stand and told
about the same alary, implicating Thomas
Hooper as tho murderer, that was contained
in the report telegraphed a few days ago
from Los Angeles.
SATER CORROBORATED.
James Hooper, a young man 23 years of
age, was examined at considerable length,
and corroborated much of the evidence
given by Mr. Sater.
During Mrs. Hooper’3 examination she
denied ever having heard or met Sater. Yes
terday afternoon her son, while in the pres
ence of Grov. Eagle and others, saw Sater,
and going np to him extended his hand and
called him by name. They conversed some
time about mutual acquaintances in Los
Angeles, where the Hoopers and Saters had
lived in the same house.
A CASHIER IN THE SOUP.
Several Stock Companies Also In a
Bad Tanarle.
Norristown, Pa., May 4.—There is con
siderable excitement here over an an
nouncement made late last night that W.
P. Slingluff, cashier of the Montgomery
National Bank, and also secretary and
treasurer of the Montgomery Insurance,
Trust and Safe Deposit Company, had
placed his resignation at the disposal of the
directors of those two institutions. He also
assigned his property to them. Cashier
Slingluff is said to have made unauthorized
investments of funds entrusted to his care.
WHERE THE MONEY WENT.
Interest in the matter is further hight
ened by the fact tbat the concerns in which
he is said to have invested heavily are stock
companies organized by a syndicate at tho
back of the recently suspended Bank of
America of Philadelphia and the banks and
institutions that went down along with It.
The affairs of the trust company are said to
be in a tangled state. Officials of the company
were working on the books all of yesterday,
last night, and to-day. The amount needed
to strike a balance is variously esti
mated from $25,000 to SIOO,OOO. Cashier
Slingluff and his wife transferred all their
property to the company. Cashier Sling
luff estimates the value of tho assigned
property at $75,000.
WOE ON THE WATERS.
The Whole Delta Country Now in
Need of Assistance.
Vicksburg, Miss., May 4.—Mayor Beck,
having received telegrams from many
points in the delta applying for aid, wired
Secretary Proctor to-night that the time for
rendering assistance from the government
had come.
RISING AT MORGAN CITY.
Morgan City, La., May 4.— The water
continues to rise about four inches a day.
It has covered Front street and most of
North and South Railroad avenues. The
indications are that the water will be at
least as high here this seas m as it was in
1834, when it covered most of the town.
THE WHOLE COUNTRY COVERED.
Shreveport, La. .May 4.—The river is now
one-tenth of an inch higher than in 1854,
and is still rising steadily. Above the city
on the Caddo side the whole country from
the lake to the river is a sheet of water.
A BIRMINGHAM PIONEER DEAD.
The Successful Career of Col. James
W. Slosa Closed.
Birmingham, Ala., May 4.—C01. James
w. Sloss died at 10 o’clock to-night. He
was one of the foremost pioneers of Bir
mingham. He was for many years presi
dent of the South and North Alabama rail
road. which he helped to build and which
alone made North Alabama s de
velopment possible. He was the
head of the Sloss Iron Company, which
firtt proved iron making here to be profita
ble. Some four years ago he sold this great
property for $1,000,000 cash, sinco which he
has lived in the enjoyment of his for
tune. He gave large sums to ohurch and
[ charitable purposes.
THIS WB3K IN CONOKKSS.
The Idaho and Wyoming Bills First
on the Tapis In the Senate.
Washington, May 4.— The death of
Senator Beck will cause the postponement
for one day of the proceeding* in the Senate
this week. Upon the formal announcement
of his death a committee to attend his
funeral will be appointed, after which the
Senate will adjourn. A number of matters
of general importance had been assigned to
this week for consideration, cot all of
which, however, are likely to come up,
much less to be disposed of.
The bills for the admission of Idaho and
Wyoming are the unfinished business uutil
Wednesday, when the Jones silver bill, re
ported from the committee on fiuauce, will
be the special order. It is not believed that
the admission bills can be disposed of in tw o
days, and if action 0:1 the silver bill should
be demanded they will probably go over
until a more convenient time.
SILVER BILL CHANCES.
Two things may occur to prevent consid
eration of the silver bill. One is the action
of the republican caucus, a meeting of which
will be held between now and Wednesday,
when another effort will be made to agree
upon a silver measure. Another thing is
the reporting of the army and pension ap
propriation bills, both of which Mr. Allison,
chairman of the committee on appropria
tions, says will be ready and which under
the rules may be called up for consideration
at any time, so that consideration of the
silver question this week, while possible, is
not probable.
Mr. Aldrich, who is in charge of the
Dingley bill declaring worsteds aud worsted
clotris to be wooien for all purposes of as
sessing duty thereon, says he will make an
effort to have it considered by the Senate,
probably on Tuesday.
In the House.
The death of Senator Beck will also dis
arrange the programme of the proceedings
in the house. To-morrow is ‘'suspension
day,” and an offers was to have been made
by the managers of the river and harbor
appropriation bill to secure recognition and
pa s the measure under a suspension of the
rules. The [expected adjournment upon
the receipt of the information of the ad
journment by the Senate wili carry the
matter over. ,
The tariff bill, according to the pro
gramme, will be taken up Tuesday. The
general debate wili begin at once, and is
expected to consume at least one week,
after which the bill will be discussed by
sections aud subjected to amendment iu
detail.
A SOCIAL EQUALITY PLEA.
Archbishop Ireland Wasrea War on
the Color Line.
Washington, May 4. —Archbishop Ire
land of St. Paul, Minn., preached to-day in
the St. Augustin colored Catholic church to
a large congregation of white and colored
people on “Social Equality.” He said the
race problem was a great one, but could be
solved and speedily. There existed some of
the old-time spirit that bad existed in the
days of servitudo, but it was fast disappear
ing.
THE WHITES BLAMED.
He contendail that it was the white people
who now stood in need of lessons in chsrity,
benevolence, justice and religion, and who
had permitted unreasonable causes and
prejudices to sway them. He was prepared
to say that there was no such thing as a
color line except in the minds of those whose
intellects were clouded by unjust reasoning.
The solution of the question was that they
should look one another in the face as mem
bers of the same family, children of the
same God, and all living under the same
teachings of religion, reason and virtue.
COLOR ONLY AN ACCIDENT.
Because of the simple accident of color it
did not follow that they were to be treated
on different lines religiously and socially.
They were all of the same ancestry, alike
in the possession of souls and being God’s
children, and it was entirely a matter of
accident whether they were black, white or
red. It was wrong to neglect attention to
the substance and direct it only to accident,
and of all accidents iu life the one of color
was the least important.
EQUALITY OF ALL MEN.
Equality |of all men was the corner-stone
of the tenets of the Catholic church. Let
Catholics who had been made to see all
equal before God extend the right band of
fellowship to their colored brethren and say
that there was not and could not be a color
line between Catholics, and that, was the
true and only solution of the problem. The
day was near when those who were now
prejudiced would bo ashamed of their action
and when colored men would not be dis
criminated against in the church, hotels,
colleges or business pursuits.
URGED TO BE PATIENT, BUT FIRM.
He bid them be patient, educate them
selves, and practice economy. They must
stand judiciously and sternly for their
rights, and in so far as party was concerned,
they should find out which was willing to
give them their rights, and to that party
extend their franchise.
In closing he said that the church had
been the first to take them under it3 protec
tion, and whatever else happened they must
not forget their duties, and that salvation,
socially and eternally, was iu the Catholic
church.
MISS LESTER AS A BELLE.
Part of Her Summer to be Spent at
the Capital.
Washington, May 4.—A local paper
says to-day: “Representative Lester of
Georgia, and family, are now located at the
Richmond. Miss Lester has returned to the
city after a short visit to friends. She is
one of the most interesting and attractive
of the girls in the congressional circles and
her friends are happy to know that she will
remain in Washington through a part of
the summer, though like all true southern
belles, the gay season at the White Sulphur
Springs is the most important part of the
summer programme.”
The daughter of Congressman Blount,
who has been spending several weeks in
Portsmouth, Va„ has rejoined her parents
in this
GILBOA GOBS UP IN SMOKE.
Twenty-Two Buildings Destroyed and
No Stores Left.
Gilboa, N. Y., May 4.—This evening
fire broke out in the Arcade, a large wood
en building in this village. The flames
spread quickly to adjoining buildings,
which were soon enveloped. There were no
means of extinguishing the fire and the
whole vill age was at the mercy of the
flames. The entire business portion was
destroyed, 22 buildings in all. Not a store
in the town was left and most of the stocks
were destroyed. The loss is estimated at
from |lso,tioo to f 175,000. There is only
light insurance, estimated at about 150,000.
Murder at Jackson.
Jackson. Ga., May 4.—Samuel Greer
shot and instantly killed Wade Yancy at
the colored Baptist church here to-day. The
coroner’s jury returned a verdict of murder.
Greer ran, but was caught, but shot an
other negro in the arm before he was over
powered. All are colored. Greer is in jail.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MAY 5, 1890.
LIFE’S NARROW ESCAPES.
JOB’S LUCK IN GETTING OFF WITH
THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH.
Bolls, Bereavements, Bankruptcy and
a Fool of a Wife Made the Poor
Fellow Wish He Was Dead—Tal
msge Tells of Mankind's Close Calls
From Eternal Punishment.
Brooklyn, May 4.—After the Long
meter Doxology and appropriate hymns
had been sung by the congregation, in the
Academy of Music, and prayer had been
offered, Dr. Talmage preacued on “Narrow
Escapes,” taking os his text Job xix., 20:
“I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."
Following Is his sermon in full:
Job had it hard. What with boils and
bereavement and bankruptcy, and a fool of
a wife, he wished he was dead; aud I do not
blame him. His flesh was gone, and his
bones were dry. Uis teeth wasted away
until nothing but the enamel seemed left.
He cries out, “I am escaped with the skin
of my teeth.” There has been some differ
ence of opinion about this passage, St.
Jerome and Hehultan*, and Drs. Good and
Poole, and Barnes, have all tried their for
ceps on Job’s teeth. You deny my inter-
S rotation, and say, “What did Job
nown about the enamel of the teeth f" He
know everything about it. Dental surgery
is almost as old as the earth. The mum
mies of Egypt, thousands of years old, are
found to-day with gold filling in their
teeth. Ovid and Horace aud Solomon and
Moses wrote about these important factors
of the body. To other provoking complaints,
Job, I think, has added an exasperating
toothache, and putting his hand against the
inflamed face, he says, “I am escaped with
the skin of my teeth.”
Avery narrow escape, you say, for Job’s
body and soul; but there are tuousand* of
men who make just as narrow escape for
their soul. There was a time when the
partition betweon them aud ruin was no
thicker than a tooth’s enamel; but as Job
finally escaped so have they. Thank God!
thank God!
Paul expresses the same Idea by a differ
ent figure when he sayj that some people
are “saved as by tire.” A vessel at sea is iu
flames. You go to the stern of the vessel.
The boats have shored off. The flames
advance; you can endure the heat no longer
on your face. You slide down on the side
of the vessel and hold on with your
fingers, until the forked tongue of
the fire begins to lick the back
of your hand, and you feel that you must
fall, when one of the lifeboats comes back,
and the passengers say they think they have
room for one more. The boat swings under
you—you drop into it—you are saved. Si
some men are pursued by temptation until
they are partially consumed, but, after all,
get off—“saved as by fire.” But 1 like the
figure of Job a little better than that of
Paul, because the pulpit has not worn it out;
and I want to show you, if God will help,
that some men make narrow escapes for
their souls, and are saved as “with the skin
of their teeth.”
It is as easy for some people to look to the
cro s as for you to look to this pulpit. Mild,
gentle, tractable, knfing, you expect t iem
to become Christiana You go over to the
store and say, “Grandon joined the church
yesterday." Your business comrades
say, “That is just what might have been
expected; he always was of that turn of
mind." In youth, this person whom I de
scribe was always good. He never broke
things. He nevor laughed when it was
improper to laugh. At seven he could sit
an hour in churon, perfectly quiet, looking
neither to the right hand nor to the left, but
straight into the eyes of the minister, as
though he understood the whole discussion
about the eternal decrees. He never upset
things nor lost them. He floated into the
kingdom of God so gradually that it is un
certain just when the matter was decided.
Here is another one who started in life
with an uncontrollable spirit. He kept the
nursery in an uproar. His mother found
him walking on tho edge of the house-roof
to see if he could balance himself. There
was no horse he dared not ride—no tree he
could not climb. His boyhood was a long
series of predicaments; his manhood was
reckless; his mid-life very wayward. But
now he is converted and you go over to the
store and say, “Arkwright joined the
church yesterday.” Your friends say, “It
is not possible! You must be joking." You
say: “No; I tell you the truth. He joined
thechurob.” Then they reply, “There is
hope for any of us if old Arkwright has be
come a Christian!” In other words, we will
admit that it is more difficult for some men
to accept the gospel than for others.
I may be preaching to some who have cut
loose from churches and Bibles and Suu
ilays, and who have come in here with no
intention of becoming Christians them
selves, but just to see wnat is going on; and
yet you may find yourself asoaping b fore
you leave this house, as “with tho skin of
your teeth.” I do not expect to waste this
hour. I have seen boats go off from Cape
May or Long Branch and drop their nets,
and after awhile come ashore, pulling in
the nets without having caught a single
fish. It was not a good day or they had
not the right kind of a net. But we expect
no such excursion to-day. The water is full
of fish, the wind is in the right direction,
the gospel net is strong. Oh, thou who
didst Help Simon and Andrew to fish, show
us to-day how to cast the net on the right
side of the ship!
Some uf you, in coming to God, will have
to run against skeptical notions. It is use
less for people to say sharp and cuttiug
things to those who reject the Christian re
ligion. I cannot say such things. By what
process of temptation or trial or betrayal
you have come to your present state I know
not. There are two gates to your nature:
the gate of the bead and the gate of the
heart. The gate of your head is locked
with bolts and bars that an archangel could
not break, but the gate of your heart
swings easily on ita hinges. If I
assaulted your body with weapons,
you would meet me w.th weapons,
and it would be sword-stroke for sword
stroke. and wound for wound, and blood for
blood; but if I come and knock at tho door
of your bouse, you open It, and give me the
best seat in your parlor. If I should come
at you now with an argument, you would
answer me with an argument; if with sar
casm, you would answer ine with sarcasm;
blow for blow, stroke for stroke; but when
I come aud knock at the door of your heart,
you open it and say, “Come in, my brother,
and tell me oil you know about Christ and
heaven."
Listen to two or three questions Are
Sou as happy as you used to benqhaw you
elieved in "the truth -Jef the
Christian religion? i Would “you like
to have your children tfeavel on in
the road in which you arc now traveling?
You bad a relative who professed-to be a
Christian, and was thoroughly consistent,
living and dying in the faith of the gospel.
Would you not Uke to live the same quiet
life, and die the same peacefal death? I
have a letter, sent me by one who has re
jected the Christian religion. It says: “I
am old enough to know that the joys and
pleasures of life are evanescent, and to
realize the fact that It must be comfortable
in old age to believe In something relative
to the future, and to have a faith in some
system that proposes to save, L am free
to confess that I would be happier if I
could exeroise the simple and beautiful faith
that Is possessed by many whom I know. I
am not willingly out of the church or out
of the faith. My state of uncertainty is one
of unrest. Sometimes I doubt ray immor
tality, and look upon the death-bed as the
closing seme, after which there is nothing.
What shall I do that I have not done?” Ah!
skepticism is a dark and doleful land. Let
me say that this Bible is either truoor fa’se.
If it lie false, we are os well off as you; if it
be true, then which of us is safer ?
Let me also ask whether your trouble has
not been that you confounded Christianity
with the inconsistent character of some who
profess it? You are a lawyer. In your
profession there are some mean and dishon
est men. Is that anything against the law?
You are a doctor. There are unskilled and
contemptible men in your profession. Is
that anything against medicine? You are a
merchant. There are thieves aud defraud
ers in your business. Is that anything
agaiust merchandise? Behold, then, the
unfairness of charging upon Christianity
the wickedness of its disciples. We admit
some of the charges agaiust those who pro
fess religion. Some of the most gigantic
swindles of the present day have been car
ried on by members of the church. There
are men standing in the front rank in the
churches who would not bo trusted for five
dollars without good collateral security.
They leave their business dishonesties in the
vestibule of the church as they go in and sit
at the communion. Having concluded ths
sacrament, they get up, wi; e the
wine from their lips, go out, aud take up
their sins where they left off. To serve the
devil is their regular work; to sorve God a
sort of play-spell. With a Sunday sponge
they expect to wipe off from their business
slate the past week’s inconsistencies. You
have no more right to tako such a man’s
life as a spocimon of religion than you have
to tako the twisted irons aud split timbers
that lie on the beach at Coney Islaud os
a specimen of an American ship. It Is time
that we draw the line between religion aud
and the frailties of those who profess it.
Do you not feel that tho Bible, take it all
in all, is about the best book that the world
has ever seeu) Do you kn i w any book tha
has as much in it? Do you not thluk, upon
the whole, that its influence has been benefi
cent? I come to you with both hands ex
tended toward you. In one hand I have
the Bible, and in the other I have nothing.
This Bible in one hand I will surrender for
over just as soon as in my other hand vou
can put a book that is hotter. To- lay I in
vite you back into the good old-fashioned
religion of your fathers—to the God whom
they worshipped, to tho Hibio they read, to
the promises on which they leaned, to tho
cross on which tboy hung their eternal ex
pectations. Yon have net been happy a
day since you swung off; you will nit be
happy a minute until you swing back.
Again: There may be some of you who,
in the attempt after a Christian life, will
have to run against powerful passions and
appetites. Periiaps it is a disposition to
anger that you have to conteud against;
and periiaps, while in a very s-rious mood,
you hoar of something that makes you feel
that you must swear or die. I know a
Christian man who was once so exasperated
that he said to a meau customer, “I cannot
swear at you myself, for I am a member of
tho church; but if you will go down stairs
my partner in business will swoar
at yon,” All your good resolutions
heretofore have keen torn to
tatters by explosion of temper. Now there
is no barm in getting mad if you only get
mad at sin. You need to bridle and saddle
those hot-breathed passions, and with them
ride down injustice and wrong. There are
a thousand things in the world that we
ought to be mad at. There is no barm iu
getting red hot if you only bring to the
torges that which needs hammering. A
man who has no p iwer of righteous indig
nation is an imbecile. But be sure it is a
righteous indignation, and not a petuiancy
that blurs aud unravels and depletes tho
soul.
There is a large class of persons in mid
life who have stilt in them appetites that
were aroused iu early manhood, at a time
when they prided themselves on being a
“little fast,” “high livers,” “free and easy,”
“hail fellows well met.” They are now
paying, in compound interest, for troubles
they collected twenty years ago. Some of
you are trying to escape, and you will, yet
very narrowly, “as with the skin of your
teeth.” God and your own soul only know
what the struggla is. Omnipotent grace has
pulled out many a soul that was deepar in
the mire than you are. They line the
beach of heaven the multitude
whom God lia3 rescued from the
thrall of suicidal habits. If you this day
turn your back on the wrong aud start
anew, God will help you. Oh the weakness
of human help! Men will sympathize for a
while, and then turn you off. If you ask
for their pardon, they will give it, and say
they will try you again; but, falling away
again under the power of temptation, they
cast you off forevpr. But God forgives
seventy times seven: yea, seven huudred
times: yea, though this be the ten
thousandth time, he is more earneit, more
sympathetic, more helpful, this last time
than when you took your first misstep.
If, with ail the influences favorable for a
right life, men make so many mistakes,
how much harder it is when, for instance,
some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into
the roots of the tongue and pulls a man
down with the hands of destruction 1 If,
under such circurastauces, he break away,
there will be no sport in the undertaking,
no holiday enjoyment, but a struggle in
which the wrestlers move from side to side,
and bend and twist, and watch for an
opportunity to get In a heavier stroke, until
with one final effort, in which the muscles
are distended and the veins stand out, and
the blood starts, the swarthy habit falls
under the knee of tho victor —escaped at
last as “with the skin of his teeth.”
The ship Emma, bound from Gottenburg
to Harwich, was sailing on, when the man
on the lookout saw something that he pro
nounced a vessel bottom up. There was
something ou it that looked like a sea gull,
but was afterward found to be a waving
handkerchief. In tho small boat the crow
pushed out to the wreck, aud found that it
was a capdzsd vessel, and that three men
had been diggl g their way out through
the bottom of the ship. When the vesiel
capsized they had no moans of escape.
The captain took his penk live and dug
away through the planks until his knife
broke. Then an old nail was found, with
which they attempted to scrape their way
out of the darkness, eaoh one working until
his band was wollnigh paralyzed, and he
sank back faint and sick. After long and
tedious work, the light broke through the
bottom of the ship. A handkerchief was
noistod. Help came. They were taken on
board the vessel and saved. Did ever men
come so near a watery grave without drop
ping into It? How narrowly thoy escaped!—
escaped only “with the skin of their teeth.”
There are men who have been capsized of
evil passions, and capsized mid-ocean, and
they are a thousand miles away from any
shore of help. They have for years been
trying to dig their way out They have
been digging away, aud digging away, but
they can never be delivered unless they will
hoist some signal of distress. However
weak and feeble it may be Christ will see
it, and bear down yupoa the helplerj craft,
and take thorn on board; and it will be
known in earth and in heaven how narrowly
they escaped—“escaped as with the skin of
their teeth.”
There are others who, in attempting to
come to God, must run between a great
many business perplexities. If a man go
over to business at 10 o’clock in the morn
ing, and comes away at 3 o'clock In the
afternoon, he has sometime for religion; but
how shall you find time for religious con
templation when you are driven from sun
rise to sunset, and have been for five years
going behind in business, and are frequently
dunned by creditors whom you cannot pay,
and when from Mouday morning until
Saturday night, you are dodging
bills that you cannot meet? You walk day
by day in uncertainties that have kept your
brain on fire for the (>ost three years. Some
with less business troubles than you have
gone crazy. The clerk has heard a noise in
the back counting room, aud gone in, and
found the chief man of the firm a raving
maniac; or tho wife has board tha bang of
.a pistol in the back parlor, and gone in,
stumbling over the dead body of her bus
band —a suicide. There are in this house
to-day three hundred men pursued,
hara-sed, trodden down, and scalped,
of business perplexities, aud which
way to turn next they do
not know. Now God will not be hard on
you. He knows what obstacles are in the
way of your being a Christian, and your
first effort in the right direction. He will
crown with success. Do not let satan, with
cotton bales, and kegs, and hogsheads, aud
counters, and stocks of unsalable goods,
block up your way to heavon. Gather up
all your energies. Tighten the girdle about
your loins. Take an agonizing 1 >ok Into
the face of God, and then sav, “Here goes
one grand effort for life eternal!” and then
bound away for heaven, escaping as “with
the skin of vour teeth.”
In the last day it will be found that Hugh
Latimer, and John Knox, and Huss, and
Ridley were not the greatest martyrs, but
Christian men who went up incorrupt from
the contaminations and perplexities of
Wall street. Water street, Pearl street,
Broad street, State street, and Third street.
On earth they were called brokers, or stock-
i obbers, or retailers, or Importers; but in
eaven Christian heroes. No fagots were
heaped about their feet; no inquisition de
manded from the u recantation; no soldier
aimed a pike at their heart; but they bad
mental tortures, compared with which all
physical consuming is as the breath of a
spring morumg.
I find iu the community a large clan of
men who have been so cheated, so lied
about, so outrageously wronged, that they
have lost their faith in everything. In a
world where everything soems so topßy
turvoy, they do not see how there can be
any God. They are confounded aDd frenzied
aud misanthropic. Elaborate arguments to
prove to them the truth of Christianity, or
the truth of anything else, touch them no
where. Hear me, all suoh men. I preach
to you no round periods, no ornamental
discourse; but put my hand on your
shoulder and Invite you into the
peace of the gospel. Hero is a
rock on which you may stand firm,
though the waves dash against it harder
than the Atlrntic, pitching its surf clear
above Eddystonu lighthouse. Do not charge
upon God all these troubles of the world.
As long as the world stuck to God, God
stuck to the world; but the earth seceded
from his government und hence all these
outrages, and all those woes. God is good.
For many hundreds of years he bai boon
coaxing the world to oome back to him;
but the more lie has coaxed, the more vio
lent have been men in their resistance, and
they have stepped back and stepped back
until they have dropped into rum.
Try this God, ye who have had the blood
hounds after you, and who have thought
that God had forgotten you. Try him, and
see if he will not help. Try him, and see It
he will not pardon. Try him, and see if he
will not sava The flowers of spring have
no bloom so sweet as tho floweriug of
Christ’s affections. The sun has no warinta
compared with the glow of his heart. Tho
waters have no refreshment like the foun
tain that will slake the thirst of thy soul.
At the moment the reindeer stands with
his lip and nostril tarust in the cool moun
tain torrent the hunter may be coining
througli the thicket. Without crackling a
stick under his foot, he comes close by the
stag, aims his gun, draws the trigger, and
tho poor thing rears in his death-agony and
falls backward, its antlers crashing on the
rocks; but the panting hart that drinks
from the water brooks of God’s promise
shall never be fatally wounded, and shall
never die.
This world is a poor porton for your
soul, oh businesi man! An eastern king
bad graven on his tomb two fingers, repre
ieiited as sounding upon each other with a
snap, and under thorn tho motto, “All is
not worth that.” Apicius Coe'.ius hinged
himself because his steward informed him
that lie had only eighty thousand pounds
sterling left. All of this world's riches
make hut a small inheritance for a soul.
Robespierre attempted to win the applause
of the world; hut when he was dying a
woman came rushing through the crowd
crying to him, “Murd-rer of my kindred,
descend to bell, covored with the curses of
every mother in France!” Many who have
expected the plaudits of the world have
died under its Anathema Maranatha.
O, find your peace in God. Make one
strong pull for heavon. No Ualf-wav work
will do it. There sometimes comes a time on
shipboard when everything must be sacri
ficed to save the' passengers. The cargo is
nothing, the rigging nothing. The captain
puts the trumpet to his lips and shouts, “Cut
away the maid” Borne of you have been
tossed and driven, and you have, in your
effort to keep tho world, welluigh lost your
sold. Until you have decided this matter
let everything else go. Overboard with all
those other anxieties and burdeus! You
will have to drop the sails of your pride and
cut away tho mast. With one earnest cry
for help, put your cause into the hand of
tiim who helped Paul out of the breakers of
Melita, and who, above the shrill blast of
tho wrathlest tempest that ever blackened
the sky or shook the ocean, can hear the
faintest imploration for mercy.
I shall go day feeling that some
of you, who have considered your case as
hopeless, will take heart again, and that,
with a blood-red earnestness, such as you
have never experienced before, you will
start for the good land of tho gospel— at
last to look back, saying, “Wnat. a great
risk I ran! Almost lost, but saved! Just
got through, and no more! Escaped by the
skin of my teeth.”
EVANGELS OF THE GRIP.
Atlanta Taken by Storm and to be
Held Against All Comers.
Atlanta, Ga., May 4.—The first delega
tions to the second annual convention of the
Southern Travelers’ Association arrived
here this evening, and to-night the streets
are full of men wearing many colored
badges. Augusta’s representatives were the
first to arrive. They came in on a hand
somely decorated car, and were met by the
reception oommittee aud escorted to the
Kimball house. Later the delegations from
Rome, Savannah and Macon reached the
city. They were also met and taken to tho
boteL Several caucus meetings were held
last night, and early to-morrow morn
ing tne business will commence with
a meeting of tbe directors at the Kimball
house. Later a street parade will be given
and speeches of welcome will be mode at
tbe opera house by Gov. Gordon, Mayor
Glenn, John Temple Graves, and others.
At 3 o’clock the convention will be over.
Dr. Hawthorn preached this morning to the
Atlanta drummers. They tnrned out 150
strong to hear him.
t DAILY,SIO A YEAR. 1
< tCENTo A COFY. V
I WEKKLY,I.2SAYKAR. |
BECK LYING IN STATE.
THE REMAINS NOT TO BE TAKEN
TO THE BENATB.
Congress to be Asked to Adjourn
From Monday Until Wednesday.
Tbe Senator’s Son In Wyoming Not
Heard From Yet—Tbe Interment to
be at Lexington.
Washington, May 4— The remains of
Senator Beck have been placed In a casket
aud lie in the parlor of Representative W.
C. P. Breckinridge on Capitol Hill. A
large number of persons, including most of
bis senatorial colleagues, called during the
day to view the body and tender con
dolences to Mrs. Goodloe, daughter of tbe
late senator. A large number of telegrams
of condolence were received.
The fuueral arrangements have not been
finally and definitely determined upon as
yet The Kentucky congressional delega
tion has assumed charge of the remains,
and will to-morrow morning finally arrange
all the dotails, respect, of course, being paid
to the wishes of Mrs. Goodloe.
MEETING OF THE DELEGATION.
The delegation met in the democratto
caucus room of the Senate at 11 o’clock this
morning, Senator Blackburn presiding.
Most of tbe time was oocupied in recalling
recollections of the dead man. It was
agreed that Senator Blackburn should
formulate resolutions to be offered In tha
Senatand that the Senate should be asked
to adjourn over until Wednesday, thy
funeral to take place Tuesday.
Representative Breckinridge was re
quested to confer with tho speaker, and if,
Kasible, secure an adjournment of the
uuso from about 2 o’clock Mouday until
Wednesday. The delegation favored the
remains lying in state tii the Senate from
to-morrow afternoon until the time for the
services, but Mrs. Goodloe prefers that this
part of the programme be omitted, and in
deference to her wishes the body will re
inaiu at tho residence of Mr. Breoklnridga
until just before the funeral services. It is
expected that Senator Blackburn will
deliver au oration during tbe services in tho
Senate.
TO BE TAKEN TO LEXINGTON.
The remaius will then be taken to Lex
ington, Ky., in a special train over the
Chesapeake and Ohio road. At Lexington
they will be turn od over to Gov. Buckner
and tbe state officials. Dr. W. A. Bartlett
of the Presbyteriau church at Lexington
will conduct the services at tho grave.
They will be very brief and will take place
uot later than noon Thursday. Seuator
Beck’s sou, who is somewhere in Wyom
ing, lias not yet been heard from.
He is probably some distance
from a telegraph office and therefore wilt
not be atne to communicate with his sister
uutil he aud the courier seut to find him
reach a railroad station.
The list of honorary pall bearers is not
absolutely settled upon, hut those so far se
lected are: Ex-Attorney-General A IL
Garland, Judge L. S. Trimble, formerly
representative in oongross from the Padu
cah, Ky., district; O. O. Stanley, corre
spondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal;
Col. L. Q. Washington, ex-Cougressman
Philip B. Thompson, Jr.; W. R. Smith,
superintendent of the botanical gardens,
and tor a long time a friend of the dead
senator; Col. J. Fletcher Johnson of Ken
tucky. and Blair Lee of this city. The
active pall-bearers will he capital police
men.
LOVED BY KENTUCKY.
Louisville, May 4. —The news of Sena
tor Book’s death was received with univer
sal regret. The Courier-Journal says:
Mr. Beck was a man of wonderful physical
powers, and his capacity for hard, exacting
labor seemed unlimited. He had a sturdy
mental force which we look for in a body suen
as bis. For years all his power*
were given with noble generosity to
an oppressed and unrepresented people.
During all the years of darkness and
gloom which followed tho war Mr. Beck had
eleven southern states for his constituents.
Combative by nature, drawing In with every
breath the Bcotch love of freedom, a man of
marvelous resources, of tine courage, sound in
debate, and of unbounded value lu committee.
Mr. Beck’s public services have rarely been
equaled in the House or Senate. His mind
was stored with Information, which
was at all times at bis oommand.
Every incident in the political history
of his times was familiar to him, and he saw at
once the tendency and results of legislative ex
periments. He was not a man of much imagi
native power and his addressesS were singularly
free from rhetorical figures. Yet he spoke
with such earnestness, aud he had so plainly
the powers of a full man, that he was ever in
popular assemblage listened to with pro
found attention. The state lose*
in the death of Senator Heck am
adopted son more loyal to her traditions ancL
more faithful to her destinies than many to the,
manner born. Kentucky has always delighted
to honor this man, and to-day she mourns him
as a most faithful servant and most cherished
leader. His career is known to all men, hi*
tong public service, unstained even by the
breath of reproach and rich in all that dignifies
political life, Is a legacy dearer than gold and an
example full of inspiration aud encouragement.
Mr. Beck has outlived all the rancor of partisan;
contests and died possessed of the esteem alike
of hla friends and enemies.
EVIDENCES OF BEGRET.
There are many evidences to-day of tha
general regret for the death ot Senator
Beck. References were made to it by
several ministers, aud it has been tha
general topic.
The election of Senator Beck’s successor
will be made by tho legislature. The prob
able candidates are Congressman Carlisle,
ex-Gov. Proctor Knott, State Senator
William Lindsay, and probably Congress
man McCrary and Lieut. Gov. Bryan. It?
is the common belief that ex-Bpeaker
Carlisle will be chosen. The election will
take place Tuesday, May 20.
TALMAGE ON THE DEAD SENATOR.
New York, May 4.—ln his sermon to
day, Rev. T. DeVvitt Talmage used these
words: “And yesterday my beloved friend,
James B. Beck, a senator of the United
States, dropped dead in the Washington
depot. He was one of the most magnificent
souls I ever knew; at times in eloqaenc* a
Demosthenes, the foe all wrong, the terror
of all political corruption, aud a friend of
God. How I enjoyed his hospitalities
in Kentucky when he took me aud
showed me all the classic spots
around beautiful Lexington, and talked
of things pertaining to our beloved country.
‘Oh, my, Talmage,' said he, ‘sometimes we
public men get worldly, and perhaps do not
atteudour religious duties as we ought;
but still the Bible Is true, and the only hope
for this world is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I was brought up under Henry Duncan of
Roth well, Scotland, and felt the power of
his ministry, and have felt it all the way
through.”*
Thomasville Topics.
Thomasville, Ga., May 4 Prof. G. M.
Lovejoy, president of the South Georgia
college, is trying hi3 hand at fruit and truck
farming. The professor say* there will
probaDiy be one-third of a LaConte pear
crop. His grapes, of which he owns a large
vineyard of Concords, Delawares and scup
pernongs, are unusually fine, as they were
unhurt by the oold. He says truckers have
suffered considerably from drought, which
has been prevailing some time, but there is
now good prospect tor raiD.
