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and recognize them as Moses and Elias.
Now, it those discipias stauding ou the
earth could recognize these two spirits who
who had been for years in heaven, do you
tell me that we, with our heavenly e>e
sigbt, will not be able to recognize those
who have gone out from among us ouly
five, ten, twenty, thirty years ago*
The Bible indic-ites, over and over again,
that the angels know each other: and then
the Bible says that we are to be uigher than
the angels, and if the angels have the power
of recognition, shall not we, who are to
be higher than they in the next realm, have
as good eyes gbt and as good capacity!
What did Christ mem, in his conve sation
with Marv as.d Martha, when he sad,
“Thy brother shall rise again!” It was as
much as to say, “Don’t cry. Don't wear y our
selves out with this trouble. You will see
him again. Thy brother shall rise again.”
Tl e Bible describes heaven as a great home
circle. Well, now, that would be a very
queer home circle where the members did
not know each other. The Bible describes
death as a sleep. If we know each other
before we go to sleep, shpll we not kn >w
each other after we wake up? Oh, yee.
We will know each other a great deal better
then than now, “for now,” says the apostle,
“we see through a glass darkly, but then
face to face.’’ It will be ray purified, en
throned and glorified body gazing on your
purified, enthroned and glorified body.
Now, I demand, if you believe the Bible,
that you take this theory of future recogni
tion out of the realm of speculation and
surmise into the region of positive cer
tainty, and no more keep saying, “I hope it
is so; I have an idea it is so; I guess it is so.”
Be able to say, with all the concentrated
energy of body, mind and soul, “I know it is
so.”
There are, in addition to these Bible argu
ments, other reasons why I accept, this
theory. In the first place, because the re
jection of it implies the entire obliteration
of our memory. Can it lie possible that we
shall forget forever those with whoso walk,
look, manner we have been so long familiar *
Will death come and with a sharp, keen
blade hew away this faculty of memory?
Abraham said to Dives, “Son, remember.”
If the exiles! and lost remember, will not
the enthroned remember f You know very
well that our joy in any circumstance is
augmented by the championship of our
friends. We cannot see a picture with less
than four eyes, or hear a song with less
than four ears. We want someone beside
us with whom to exchange glances and
sympathies; and I suppose the joy of
heaven to be augmented by the
fact that we are to have our friends with us
when there rise before us the thrones of the
blessed, and when there surges up in our
ears the jubilate of the saved. Heaven is
not a contraction; it is an expansion. If I
know you here, I will know you better
there. Here 1 see you with only two eyes,
but there the soul shall have a million eyes.
It will be immortality gazing on immortal
ity—ransomed spirit in colloquy with ran
somed spirit —victor beside victor. When
John Evans, the Scotch minister, was
seated in his study his wife came in and
said to him: “My dear, dojyou think we will
know each other in heaven ?” He turned to
her and said: “My dear, do you think we
will be bigger fools in heaven than we are
here?”
Again: I accept this doctrine of future
recognition, because the world's expectancy
affirms it. In all lands and ages this theory
is received. What form of religion planted
it? No form of religion, for it is received
under all forms of religion. Then. 1 argue,
a sentiment, a feeling, an anticipation, uni
versally planted, must have been Hod-im
planted,and if God-implanted, it is rightfully
implanted. Socrates writes: “Who would
not part with a great deal to purchase a
meeting with Orpheus and Homer? If it
be true that this is to be the consequence of
death, I could even be able to die often.”
Among the Danes, when a master dies his
servant sometimes stabs himself that he
may serve his master in the future
world. Cicero, living before Christ’s
coming, said, “O glorious day
when I shall retire from this low aud sordid
6cene, to associate with the divine assem
blage of departed spirits, and not only with
the one I have just now mentioned, but
with my dear Cato, the best of sons aud
most faithful of men. If I seemed to bear
his death with fortitude, it was by no means
that I did not most sensibly feel the loss I
bad sustained. It was because I was sup
ported by the consoling reflection that we
could not long be separated.” The Nor
wegian believes it. The Indian believes it.
The Greenlander believes It. The Swiss
believes it. The Turk believes it. Under
every sky, by every river, in every zone,
the theory is adopted; and so I say a princi
ple universally implauted must be God-im
planted, aud hence a right belief. The
argument is irresistible.
Again: I adopt this theory because there
are features of moral temperament and
features of the soul that will distinguish us
forever. How do We know each other in
this world? Is it merely by the color of the
eye or the length of the hair, or the facial
proportions? O, no, it is by the disposition
as well, by natural affinity, using the word
in the very best sense aud not in the worst
sense; and if in the dust our body should
perish and lie there forever, and there
should be no resurrection, still the soul has
enough features, and the disposition has
enough features to make us distinguishable.
, I can understand how in sickness a man will
become so dehrous that he will not know
his own friends: but will we be blasted with
such insufferable idiocy that, standing
beside our best friends for all eternity, we
will never guess who they are?
Again: I think tbatone reason why we
ought to accept this doctrine is because we
never in this world have an opportunity to
give thanks to those to whom we are spir
itually indebted. The joy ot heaven, we
are told, is to be inaugurated by a review
of life’s work. These Christian men and
women who have been toiling tor Christ,
have they seen the full result of their work?
Ob, no. In the church at Somerville, N. J.,
John Vredenburgh preached for a great
many years. He felt that his ministry was
a failure, and others felt so, although he
was a faithful minister, preaching thefgos
pel all the time. He died, and died amid
discouragements, and went home to God;
for no one ever doubted that John Vreden
burgh was a good Christian minister.
A little while after his death there
came a great awakening in Somerville, and
one Sabbath two hundred souls stood up at
the Christian altar espousiug the cause of
Christ, among them my own father and
mother. And what was peculiar in regard
to nearly all of those two hundred souls was
that they dated their religious impressions
from the ministry of John Vreaeuburg.
Will that good Christian man before the
throne of God never meet those souls
brought to Christ through his instrument
ality? Oh, of course he will know them. I
remember one Sabbath afternoon, borne
down with a sense of my sins and knowing
not God, 1 took up Doddridge’s “Rise and
Progress.” Oh, what a dark afternoon it.
was, and I read the chapters, and I read
the prayers, and I tried to make the
prayers my own. Oh, I must see Philip
Doddridge. A glorious old book he wrote!
It is out of fashion now.
There is a mother before the throne of
O-d. You say her joy is fulL Is it? You
say there can be no augmentation of it.
Cannot there be? Her son was a wanderer
and a vagabond on the earth when that
good mother died. He broke her old heart.
She died leaving him in the wilderness ot
sin. She is before the throne of God now.
Years pass aid that son repents of his
crimes and gives his heart to God and be
comes a useful Christian, anddiesand enters
the gates of heaven. You tell me that that
mother’s joy cannot be augmented. Let
them confront each other. The son and the
mother. “O,” she savs to the angels of God,
“rejoice with me! The dead is alive again,
and the lost is found. Hallelujah! I never
expected to see this lost one come back.”
The Bible says nations are to be born in a
day. When China comes to God will it
not know Dr. Abeel? When India comes
will it not know Dr. John Scudder? When
the Indi ms come to God will they not know
David Brainard?
I see a soul entering heaven at last, with
covered face at the idea that it has done so
for Christ, and feeling borne down
with unworthiness, and it says to itself, “I
have no right to be here.” A voice from a
th one says, “Oh, you forget that Sunday
school class you invited to Chr.st ’ I was
one of t em.” Aid another voica says,
“You forget that poor man to whom you
gave a loaf of bread, and told of
the heavenly bread. I was that man.” i
And another says, “You forget that sick [
one to whom you gave medicine for the
body and the soul. 1 was that one.” And
the.i Christ, from a throne overtopping all
the rest, will say, “Inasmuch as ye did it to
one of the least of these, you did it to me.”
And then the seraphs will take their harps
from the side of the throne, and cry.
“YVbat song shall it be?” And Christ, bend
ing over the harpers, shall say, “It shall be
the Harvest Home!”
One more reason why I am disposed to
accept this doctrine of the future recogni
tion is that so manv in their last hour on
earth have confirmed this theory. I speak
not of persons who have been delirious in
their last moment and knew not what they
were about, but of persons who died in
calmness and placidity, and who were not
naturally superstitious. Often the glories
of heaven have struck the dying pillow. !
and the departing man has said he saw and 1
heard those who bad gone away from him.
How often it Is in the dying moments
parents see their departed children
and children see their departed parents!
I came down to the tanks of the
Mobawk river. It was evening, and I
wanted to go over the river, and so I waved
mv hat and shouted, and after awhile I saw
someone waving ou the opposite bank, and
I heard him shout, and the boat came
across, and I got in and was transported.
And so I suppose it will be in the evening
of our life. We will come down to the
river of death and give a signal to our
friends on the other shore, and they will
give a signal back to us, and the boat
comes, aud our departed Kindred are the
oarsmen, the fires of the setting day tinge
ing the tops of the paddles.
Oh, have you never sat by such a death
bed? In that hour you hear the departing
soul cry, "Hark! look!” You hearkened
and you looked. A little child piuiugaway
because of the death of its mother, getting
weaker and weaker every day, was taken
into the room where hung the picture of her
mother. She seemed to enjoy looking at it,
and then she was taken away, and after
awhile died. In the last moment that wan
aud wasted little one lifted hor hands, while
her face lighted up with the glory
of the noxt world and cried out,
‘ ‘Mother!” You tell me she did not see her
mother? She did. So in my first settle
ment at Belleville a plain man said to me.
“ VV’liat do you think I hoard last night? I
was in the room where one of my neighbors
was dying. Ho was a good man, aud he
said he hoard the angels of God singing be
fore the throne. I haven’t much poetry
about me, but I listened and I heard them
too." Said I, “I have no doubt of it.”
Why, we are to be taken up to heaven at
last by ministering spirits. Who are they
to be? Souls that went up from Madras,
or Antioch, or Jerusalem? O, no; our glo
rified kindred are going to troop around us.
Heaven is not a stately, formal place, ns
I sometimes hear it described, a very frigid
ity of splendor, where people sta od on cold
formalities and go around about with
heavy crowns of gold on their heads. No,
that is not my idea of heaven. My idea of
heaven is more like this: You are seated in
the eveuingtide by the fireplace, your whole
family there, or nearly all of them there.
YVhile you are seated talking and enjoying
the evoning hour there is a knock at the
door and the door opens, anil there comes
in a brother that has been long absont. Ho
has been absent for years; you have not
seen him. and no sooner do you make up
your mind thet it is certainly he than you
leap up, and the question is who
shall give him the first embrace. That
is my idea of heaven—a great home circle
whore they are waiting for us. O, will you
not know your mother's voice there? She
who al ways called you by vour first name
long after others had given you the formal
"mistier?” You were never anything but
James, or John, or George, or Thomas, or
Mary, or Florence to hor. Will you not
know your child's voice? She of the bright
eye and the ruddy cheek, and the quiet
step, who came in from play and flung her
self into your lap, a very shower of mirth
and beauty ? Why, the picture is graven in
your soul. It oatiuot wear out. If that
little one should stand on the other side of
some heavenly hill and call to you, you
would hear her voice above the burst of
heaven’s great orchestra. Know it? You
could not help but know it.
Now 1 bring you this glorious consola
tion of future recognition. If you could
get this theory into your heart it would lift
a great many shadows that are stretching
across it. When I was a lad I used to go
out to the railroad track and put my ear
ear down on tho track and I could hear the
express train rumbling miles away, aud
coming on; and to-day, my friends, if we
only had faith enough we could put our ear
down to the grave of our dead and listen
and hear in the distance the rumbling on of
the chariots of resurrection victory. O
heavenl Sweet heaven! You do net spell
heaven as you used to spell it. You u-ied
to spell it h-e-a-v-e-n. heaven. But now
when you want to spell that word you place
side by side the faces of the loved ones who
are gone, and in that irradiation of light and
love, and beauty and joy, you spell it out as
never before, in songs and hallelujahs.
O, ye whose hearts are down under the
sod of the cemetery, cheer up at the thought
of this reunion! O! how much you will
have to tell them when once you meet
them! How much you have been through
since you saw them last! On the shining
shore you will talk it all over. The heart
aches. The loneliness. The sleepless nights.
The weeping until you had no more power
to weep, because the heart was withered
and dried up. Story of vacant chair, and
empty cradle, and little shoe only
half worn out, never to be worn
again, just the shape of the foot that
once pressed it. And dreams when you
thought that the departed had come back
again, and the room seemed bright with
their faces, and vou started up to greet
them, and in the effort the dream broke
and you found yourself standing amid
room in the midnight—alone. Talking it
all over, and then. Hand in hand, walking
up and down in the light. No sorrow, no
tears, no death. 0, neaveu! beautiful
heaven! Heaven where our friends are.
Heaven where we expect to be.
In the east they take a cage of birds and
bring it to the tomb of the dead, and then
they open the door of the cage, and the
birds flying out, sing. And I would to-day
bring a cage of Christian consolations to the
grave of your loved ones, and I would opon
the door and let them fill all the air with
the music of their voices. Oh, how they
bound in these spirits before the throne!
Home shout with gladness. Home break
forth into uncontrollable weeping tor joy.
Home stand speechless in their shock of de
light. They sing. They quiver with ex
cessive gladness. They gaze on the
temples, on the palaces, on the waters, on
each other. They weave their joy into
garlands, they spring it into triumphal
arches, they strike it on timbrels, and then
all the loved ones gather in a great circle
around the throueof God—fathers, mothers,
brothers, sisters, sons and daughters
lovers and friei.us, hand to hand
around about the throne of God—
the circle over widening hand to
hand, joy to joy, jubilee to jubilee, vic'.ory
to victory, “until the dav break and the
shadows flee aw ay." “Turn tbou, my be
loved. and be like a roe or young hart upon
the mountains of Bether.”
O, how different it is on earth from the
way it is iu heaven when a christisu dies'
V.’e sav “close his eye-..” In heaven they
say, “Give him a palm.” On earth v<■ say,
“Let him down in the ground." In heaven
they sav, “Raise him on ath one '> i: t.
it is, “Farewell,.farewell.’ In heaven it n,
“Welcome, welcome.” And so I see a
cnnstia i soul coning down to the ri7er of
death, and he steps into the river, -.d the
water come* to the ankle. }[„ .ays, ‘L,r 1
Jems, la this death?" * No, says < a
“this is not death.' And r.a wad -x
still deeper down into t•••••• Men
until the Ho A comes to toe knee
and he >ay, “Lord Jesus, tail me. tell
me, is this d-atb'’ And Thrust sa>s, ' ."To j
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY'. JULY 14. 1800.
no, this is not death." And he wades still
further down till the wave comes to the
girdle and the soul says, “Lord Jesus, is this
deithP “No,” says Christ, “this is not.”
And deeper in wades the sout till the billow
strikes the lip, and the departing one cries,
“Lord Jesus, is this deaf .” “No,” says
Christ, “this is not.” But when Christ has
lifted that soul on a throne of glory, and
the iiomp and joy of heaven came surging
t • its feet, then Christ said, “This, O TRANS
PORTED SOtTL! THIS IS DEATH!”
FOR LITERARY ASPIRANTS.
A Professional Reader's Talk About
the Needs of Literary Weeklies.
(Copyright.)
New York, July 12.— Some skepticism
may be pardoned regarding the truth of the
sensational story which has been flashed
under the oceans, ai.d is now surprising the
literary world, to the effect that Robert
Iyouis Stevenson has picked out a Samoan
mountain slope as a permanent home, and
will at once begin to build a house. To
whatever extent the gifted author of
“Jekyll and Hyde” may indulge his
passion for studying wild and un
familiar life in tne remote nooks of
the globe to which his yacht carries
him, it seems improbable that his numer
ous literary engagements can admit of his
choosing as a home a place far removed
from the centers of thought and studv—
hundreds of leagues, indeed, from the near
est literarv co veniences and secluded from
the world’s activity and progress. The
wilting, serials, SKetches. etc. .for which he
is under contract, are sufficient to occupy at
least a twelve-month ad the total remuner
ation for the work is estimated at $30,000,
of which sum a New- York literary weakly
is to pay SIO,OOO for a serial story.
Curiosity is allowable concerning the
autograph of a writer whose pen marks
bring him such remuneration. Mr. Steven
son’s signature is a disappointment to those
who believe that an author’s personality
shows itself in his handwriting. It is small,
fluent, delicate and almost graceful, indi
cating none of his weird originality in
writing and none of the forceful disregard
for conventionality which the author shows
in his speech and his dress.
Observers who believe that a man mir-
rors himself to some extent in his hand
writing could find many instances to sup
port their theory in the MSS. which come
before the eye of a professional “reader,”
and not a few instances which would puzzle
their faith. In any event they would learn
much of what the curious public is ever
eager to learn.
Harold Frederick has a bold, simple and
easy handwriting which is a joy to the
heart of the professional “reader,” and the
writing of James Farton is like unto it.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has a quick and
nervous hand and her manuscript is filled
with erasures and interlineations, Julian
Hawthorne's “copy” averages eighteeu
words to a line (his copy paper being seven
inches wide) and is w ritten with a peculiar
violet ink which flashes into old gold or
deadens to purple in certain lights. Edgar
Fawcett’s handwriting is plain
and full. Frank Dempster Sherman
prints his poems with a fine pen, forming
beautifully delicate letters, his manuscript
being almost os delicate and lucid as his
verses. The same could be said of Clinton
Scollard's pen products. Mrs. Amelia E.
Barr’s writing is large and firm and angu
lar. yet delicate. Judge Tourgee uses ink
which is like Julian Hawthorne’s, only more
so. Mrs. Madeline Vinton Dahlgroen’s
etnrography is massive and Gothic, with
lofty arches and sky-aspiring l’s. Anna
Katharine Green’s handwriting is delicate,
graceful, imaginative and semi-fashionable.
“Writers who send in several MSS. in
the same inclosure make a big mistake,”
was the information recently vouchsafed to
me by a reader for one of the weeklies. It
is much better for a writer to take a little
additional trouble aud mail the articles at
intervals of a dav or two. Few readers
care to recommend more than one out of
four of five short stories sent at one time
by the same author, and it is fre
quently the case that two or three of
those same stories might be recom
mended if a week elapsed between the
receipt of each story. When an assortment
of shortstories, poems, sketches and comics
is received, the impression given is distinctly
unfavorable. The idea of the sender is too
boldly evident. “Perhaps I’ll make a strike
out of the lot!” is easily read between the
lines. Many publishers require their
“readers” to keep an elaborate record aud
index of all articles submitted, and the
work of such “readers” is increased dispro
portionately when a job lot of stories,
poems, etc., is received.
As for serials, it is in most cases compar
atively simple to judge of them. Just now
the magazines and the Higher grade week
lies have fewer serials than was the case
fifteen or twenty years ago, at which time
some of the weeklies used to print as many
as six serials in each issue. To-day, how
ever, most of the superior periodicals use
only two serials, some of them only one
serial. Consequently only a serial of special
brilliancies has any show of being accepted.
Accordingly, the niche being so small,
most serials proffered are rejected off hand.
Asa novel published serially must be in a
serial form (that is, be divided into
instalments nearly equal in length, and
have a rattling, old-scUool suspenseful cli
max) and as many new writers do not
write in pursuance of this requisite, many
novels which would be salable and bright
in book form are thrown out by “readers”
for magazines and weeklies. Above all, a
serial must have a hair-lifting first instal
ment. It must lose no time in description
and analysis, but must get down at once to
action; the description and analysis may
come along about the third or fourth in
stalment.
But the fact is that a serial by an un
known author has not one chance in thirty
of acceptance. Most publishers have
stored in their safes anywhere from ten to
twenty-tive or thirty serials by standard
and popular authors, and these may have
been awaiting insertion anywhere from six
months to three or four years or more.
With such a wealth of serial fiction on hand
and with a lessening demand for fiction on
the part of readers, it is not s. range that
magazine publishers should be reluctant to
accept a serial, no matter how excellent,
from an unknown genius.
Just now magazines and weeklies are on
the lookout for short sketches of travel,
adventure, exploration, etc., which are
capable of bizarre and artistic illustration.
Htrauge life and scenery in remote nooks of
the earth, picturesque features of metro
politan liie, higher phases of sports,
religious practices, etc., iu fact, anything
anything of interest which can be illus
trated from photographs or by the fancy cf
a creative and poetical artist, have a better
show for acceptance to-day than fiction.
By the way. amateur photography is des
tined to play a dictatorial part in the
weeklies. A series of good photographs
will float an inferior article, the editors
touching up the manuscript, and, if neees-
Jary, giving it to a literary hack to rewrite.
Regarding poetry : As might I* expected,
most of the verses which come in are evolved
f'-om feminine cerebral cells. There is a
craze for metrical confections such as ron
deaux, roundels, viilavelles, triolets, qua
trains, huitrainsaud other fanciful products
in the line of verse de sooieto. Such things
generally begin the round by lieii.g mailed
to Life and the weekly society pajiers, and
on being returned with thanks, are sent to
any arid every periodical with w hich they
are supposed to have a show. They refer
learnedly to A ready. Bros, Heloise, Juliet,
Amaryllis, and otherwise show erudition
respecting matters erotic.
The most matter is submitted in the
winter months, the winter crop being about,
double tr,at of the summer. Ordinarily no
article whim is intended for pub motion in
ac rain issue of a weekly th -rid, if it is to
!e Illustrated, he In six or seven weeks be
fore that issue if jr. 'Pies not need illustra
tion It should no in a month beforehand.
D. D. Brnwei.u
baa*. Trotting
Br rrAr/i, July 12. Belle Hamlin yester
day tr'-vad an ighth of a mis in 14;,
seconds, which is a" rate of iftb, seconds
for a quarter awl 1 X for a mile
SAVANNAH OR SAPELO.
THE MACON AND ATLANTIC'S TBR
MINUS NOT YET FIXED UPON.
The Projectors of the Road Want to
Come to Savannah if They Can Get
Terminal Facilities Hutchinson’s
Island the Most Available Terminal
Bite—The Talk About Sapelo.
Macon, Ga., July 12.—A cloud of doubt
seems to baDg over the construction of the
I Georgia Southern and Florida railroad from
I Macon to Savannah. Once the road was
I almost assured. Chief Engineer Wells
was out surveying from Savannah toward
j Macon, and everybody thought the road
1 was going to bo built. The Georgia South
i ern and Florida people had no idea but their
plans, which were then being laid, would be
carried out.
Thirgs have rocked along easily enough
to the outside world, but the railroad build
ers’ way began to get cloudy some weeks
ago. The terminal facilities at Savannah
began to trouble them
President Sparks. Y’irgil Powers, and
General Manager Lane are at work day
and night to get the kink out of the scheme.
I saw some of them a day or two ago, but
they were in no condition to talk much of
their intentions. T. ey were unsettled.
Their minds were not a unit, but one thing
was apparent—more figuring is being made
on Sapelo tnan on Savannah.
IT MAY BE SAPELO.
The general manager was asked if the re
port that the line had tieeu deflected to
Sapelo is t ue, and he replied by showing
what advantages that outlet ha°. He
said that if ibe line were run to Sapelo
the distance from Macon would be
a few miles greater than to any other sea
port town, but the question that influences
the comnany is, Where can the best facilities
be bad for the least outlay ?
Sapelo, said be, has better water than
most ports on the coast between Port Royal
and New Orleans. The largest tramp
steamers may come there at mean low
water, and they are not able to reach some
ports at high water. He added that the
lerm.nal facilities of Sapelo are good. As
much water front as is needed can
be had without charge. The property
owners living in that part of
the country are anxious that all
railroads heading that way mav come, and
rights of way are given in almost every
iustance. He was asked if Savannah’s com
mercial imDortance is not a consideration.
He said that it is, but, said he, that im
portance ceases to be inducing when the en
trance to the port measures as much
expense as the construction of the other
part of the line. He said that the matter
has been thought over a long time, and the
advantages to the line from both
Sapelo and Savannah have been weighed.
Almost the entire wharf front in Savannah,
he said, is taken up.
SAVANNAH OR SAPELO.
Mr. Lane said that the commercial im
portance of Savannah and the local ad
vantages of Sapelo are the two
points to be decided between. If
the terminal facilities in Savannah
are to be secured, it is hardly probable tbat
the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad
will ;take front on the same side of the
river with the other two railroads. Hutch
inson island is being considered by them.
If the managers can get the island, they
will build a bridge north of the Exchange
and ruu across to the island. The general
manager said that the island would have
to be elevated and made a great deal higher
than it now is. If it it settled upon by the
new line a great deal of improving in one
way and another will be done. A ferry
line will be established from the depots on
Hutchinson Island direct across the river to
the exchange dock.
Mr. Lane said that from the present out
look the new line, in case it enters Savannah,
will get its terminal facilities or the island.
The Georgia Southern aud Florida railroad
people looked at the Gordon wharf with a
view to buying it, but the general manager
said that the accommodations are not what
they want. The wharf is too jsmaiL The
entire wharf front is taken up, nearly, aud
the establishment of another wharf will re
quire a long time as well as an enormous out
lay of money. Alluding again to Savannah’s
commercial advantages, he said the line of
steamers running out from Savannah will
be beneficial to any road centering here, but
the benefits will be limited. The Ocean
Steamship Company,of course, allowsothers
to benefit by the line until the increase of
traffic will permit only one liue to reap the
benefits.
STEAMERS TO SAPELO.
At Sapelo, he said, a regular lino of
steamers will be put on. Being the only
line from there,the business of the railroads
will keep it up.
Mr. Lane added that it is not settled yet
as to what point on the coast the new line
will go. Everything, he said, is embryo.
Work is going on, however, on the prelimi
nary survey a short distance from Macon.
Several surveys have been made, all of
which go out from Macon on the same
route until some miles east of the city.
SAVANNAH PREFERRED.
The general mauager said that the man
agement would preler, all things being
equal, the road to enter Savannah.
Everything, he said, has been done by the
i oad to get into Savannah at a reasonable
outlay. W hen it is settled that the outlay
is no smaller than what it figures up now a
deflection of the line will bi made, most
likely to Sapelo. The other portion of the
line from Macon to Birmingham is com
pleted to LaGrange. Work, the general
manager said, is progressing as rapidly as
possible, and before a good many think the
connections with the west wiil be made.
The line is 225 miles, and the route from
Macon to the sea will not exceed 165 or 170
miles.
The Georgia Southern and Florida rail
road is looked upon as one of the most en
terprising lines in the state. It is a de
veloper, and the sections trihutary to it
have improved remarkably since its con
struction. Its line from the sea to the west
is said to be considerably shorter than any
other line.
MONEY BEHIND IT.
The backers of the company are able to
put up any amount of money. They built
the hue to Palatka when everybody thought
they were trying to sell out.
The construction of that line is the won
der of old railroad men. The improved
machinery employed enabled them to have
the road in operation in less time than any
road which has been built in Georgia of
late years.
The manner in which the new road has
gone about its business, the facilities w hich
it has offered and the accommodations
which it has give , have served to make it
popular. Its movements are watched with
a great deal of pride by Macon people and
by people all over the section of
the country through which it
pas os, for that matter. The new line will
make the permanent survey to the sen in a
few weeks, and It will be promptly staked.
Work will begin as soon thereafter as
practicable, and its construction will be
vigorously pushed.
The management says that the line has
got t -be built It is burning daylight
when they stop t. > parley about a terminus.
When the road has been begun it will Us
completed ns quickly as was the line to
Palatka.
Clinch County's Alllancemen.
HoMF.RVH.tiE, Ga., July 13 Clinch
county's banners' Alliance m-t . , uio 11th
lust at Dup r.t. t.a. President Janies Cor
bitt preside 1. 7 ney indorsed W. J. Northen
for governor, and the present state house
officers. ibey indorsed the sub-treasury
pla i, Brother MoCum and L. K. Living
ston, saying they did not, neither would
they believe any report circulated against
them. Dr. ?,. ( Mattox was nominated by
the aiiiar no to represent thu county In the
next legislature, though subject to the
primary rbey also Unanimously passed a
resolution expelling any member who ran
against the nominee.
LEON COUNTY ALLIANCE.
It Does Not Indorse the Sub-Treasury
Scheme.
Tallahassee, Fla., July 12.—R F.
Rogers, pre-ident of the Florida alliance,
saw the published report of the Leon county
alliance’s "yardstick” and that they would
hold a mass meeting here July 10 to meas
ure candidates by its demands. He came
| here at once, and was present at the mass
meeting Thursday, making a ringiDg speech
against any such step.
President Rogers remarked to the Morn
iso News correspondent that as soon as ne
read the demands of the ‘‘yardstick’’ he
knew that the destiny of the Florida alli
ance was hanging by a slender thread, in
the hands of some of the members here,
and that he determined to save it.
The mass meeting did not ratify the puD
lished “yardstick,” but appointed a com
mittee of three to formulate a modest ap
peal to candidates, not a demand of pledges
from them, as the proposed measure was.
All reference to the sub-treasury bill and
railroad commissions was cut out.
Pre ident Rogers said to the Morning
News correspondent that the alliance
should not be made a political machine as
long as he was at its head: that it was the
policy of the alliance not to antagonize the
moneyed interests of Florida or to dabble
in politics, but to work for the advance and
betterment of the laboring masses.
THE MODIFIED YARDSTICK.
The modified "yardstick” was adopted by
the mass meeting, submitted to President
Rogers, and was approved by him officially.
The following is the adopted “yardstick”
in full:
1. The advocacy and support of all measures
for the reduction of county, state and national
taxation, asserting that all taxation should be
based upon a just and uniform system of
equalization, operative alike upon capital and
labor, that all bear equally their just propor
tions of the burden, and that taxation should
be levied for revenue only, and then under a
rigid system of economic and judicious admin
istration of government.
2. Tnat in the revision of the present protect
ive tariff, the burdens now resting on the agri
cultural and laboring classes shall be reduced
to a fair and equable basis, not to exceed the
requirements of the government economically
administered.
3. To advocate the passage of laws that will
effectually prevent tae creation of trusts and
combines, and prohibit speculation that seeks
to interfere with prices of prime necessities and
agricultural products.
4. To persistently and continuously oppose
the pernicious system of contracting the circu
lating medium of the country, as now con
ducted by the national government.
5. To adhere to the doctrine that railroads
are subservient to the people, and that they
should remain competitive, not for given points
or localities, but for the whole people and the
entire state.
6. To advocate and support a measure for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver, and to so
change the monetary system of the country as
will relieve the existing depression of agri
culture.
7. The policy of the alliance is that the public
officials are the servants and not the ma ters of
the people.
8. We appeal to all persons seeking political
preforment and to all lovers of good govern
ment to indorse the policy herein set forth.
F M. Bunker. Chairman.
N. 'V. Eppes, Secretary.
Approved: R. F. Rogers, President.
Orange Trees for California.
Orlando, Fla., July 13.—A. R Chaplin,
proprietor of the Deer Island nursery, is
said to have orders for 75,000 budded orange
trees to be sent to California next spring.
A New Maxim.—Scrimpley (gazing sorrow
fully upon the winning norset—Weil. I never
thought such a ebromo as that could trot !
Thompson—lt's a lesson for you, my boy.
Never judge a horse by his frame.— American
Grocer
MEDIC All
SCROFULA
Is that impurity of the blood which produces
unsightly lumps or swellings in the neck;
which causes running sores on the arms,
legs, or feet; which develops ulcers in the
eyes, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or
deafness; which is the origin of pimples, can
cerous growths, or "humors;” which, fasten
ing upon the lungs, causes consumption and
death. It is the most ancient of all diseases,
and very few persons are entirely free from it.
Ho ,r B c r cured
By taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which, by
the remarkable cures it has accomplished,
has proven itself to be a potent and peculiar
medicine for this disease. If you suffer from
scrofula, try Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
" Every spring my wife and children have
been troubled with scrofula, my little boy,
three years old, being a terrible sufferer.
Last spring he was one mass of sores from
head to feet. We all took Hood's Sarsaparilla,
and all have been cured of the scrofula. My
little hoy is entirely free from sores, and all
four of my children look bright and healthy.”
AV. B. Atherton, Passaic City, N. J.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. £1; six for $5. Preparedonly
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
tOO Doses One Dollar
SPECIAL NOTICES.
REAL ESTATE OFFKRIXGs”
WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION.
Two nine acre tracts of land on the White
Bluff Road, aDout five miles from the city.
One piece of nine acres and one piece of fifteen
acres on the Buckhalter Road, at Twenty-five
dollars per acre.
Lots 71 and 72 (the latter being on the corner)
on the southwest corner of Burroughs and West
Fifth streets, each 36x98.
One Hundred and sixty four acres (about
14 miles from the city) having a front on the
Central Railroad of about two thousand feet,
and a front on the Louisville road of about one
thousand feet. This land can he bought for one
fourth cash, balanco iu one and two years.
Valuable corner Bay and Farm, and two tene
ments adjoining.
Two-story on basement residence on Perry
street, near Barnard, and fronting the square.
C. H. DORSET T.
Real Estate Dealer.
DOVT TRAVEL WITHOUT 11~
No traveler should be without a bottle of
DR. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR,
To ward off the ill effects incidental to a change
of climate and water. Tuis faultless family
medicine is gaining popularity daily, and was
awarded highest prizes over competitors.
Prominent medical men indorse it. Ask for Dr.
Ulmer's Liver Corrector and take no other.
Prepared by B. F. Ulmer, M. D.. Pharmacist.
Price, $1 00. Sold by ail druggists.
DR. T. F. ROBER&O.V,
DENTIST,
149 BitoronTON Street
IF YOB WAM
If you want a DAY BOOK MADE.
If you want a JOURNAL MADE,
it you want a CASH BOOK MADE,
If you want a LEDGER MADE.
II you want a RECORD MADE.
If you want a CHECK BOOK MADE,
If you want LETTER HEADS.
If you want NOTE HEADS.
It you want BILL HEADS,
If you want BUSINESS CARDS.
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3 Whitaker Street.
DEATHS.
BUTCH.— Died at Teltafc- Hospital, in this
city. Sunday morning. July 13. Mrs. M. A., wife
of W S. Bliteh of Greenv lie, Fla. Funeral
services at her late residence at Greenville
THIS . Mon, lay i AFTER NOON.
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
BUBY.—The friends and acquaintances of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bcbv are invited to attend
the funeral of the former from his late resi
dence. SI 1 Wayne street, THIS AFTERNOON
at 3:03 o'clock.
WARD.—Relatives and friends cf the late
Mias Isabel Habersham Ward and of Mr. £l
- Siuikms and family are respectfully in
vited to attend the fureral services of the
former at Laurel Grove Ceunetery at 10 o'clock
THIS MORNING
MEETINGS.
C LINTON LODGE NO. &I, F. A A. M.
A regular communication of this lodge a
will be held at Masonic Temple THIS
Mondavi EVENING. June 14tb. at S NkJr
o’clock. The E. A. degree -will be con- 'Nr \
ferred. Members of sister lodges and visit
ing brethren are cordially invited to meet
with us.
FRANK H. MORSE, W. M.
Waring Russell, Jr.. Secretary.
MAGNOLIA ENC AMPMENT NIL 10, I.
O. F.
Regular meeting JL
will be held THIS
(Monday) EVENING ■
at 8 o'clock, in hall of • EINLU. R
Trinity Methodist
church building, cor
ner of President and
Jefferson streets.
The R. P. degree will be conferred.
Geo. G. WILSON, C. P.
A. N. Manvcy, Scribe.
DeKALB LODGE NO. 9. I. O. O. F.
A regular meeting will be held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o’clock, sun time. Metropolitan
Hall, corner Whitaker and President Streets.
T.ie initiatory degree will be conferred.
Members ot other Lodges and visiting brotners
are cordially invited to attend.
By order of H. M. REEYE, N. G.
John Riley, Secretary.
CALANTHE LODGE NO. 2S, K. OF P.
The regular meeting of the Lodge will <e"oPx
be held THIS (Monday) EVENING, at ffiSa
8 o’clock. BjStjß
Punctual attendance is desired.
J. W. DANIEL. C. C. NlflSsW
J. E. Freeman. K. of R. and S. Neil* 7
GERMAN FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
The regular monthly meeting of this society
will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING at 8
o’clock, in Knights of Pythias Hall.
WM. SCHEMING, Pre3.
A. Heller, Secretary.
MILITARY ORDERS.
SAY AN,N A H VOLL'NTE ERGC ARDs7~
Headquarters Ba-ttalion j
Savannah Volunteer Guards, y
Savannah. July 8, 1890. 1
Order No. 37.
The regular monthly meeting of the corps
will be held at the armory on MONDAY, 14tn,
inst., at 8:15 o’clock p. m.
The matter of purchase of lots and erection of
a “Club House at Tybee” will be laid before the
corps, and a full attendance of all classes of
members is desired.
By order of
Lieut. Col. GARRARD.
Wm. P. Hunter. First Lieut, and Adjutant,
SPECIAL NOTICES.
On and after Feb. 1, 1890, the basis of meas
urement of all advertising m the Mornino
News will be agate, or at the rate of jl 40 on
inch for the first insertion.
notice’
Savannah, Ga., July 14, 1890.
DR. J. D. LANIER
Will resume practice this morning.
s)<• GO REWARD.
For the return of bay horse, short and chunky,
a little white in face, stumpy tail, white fore
feet and scar over right eye.
BEHNKEN BROS.,
Henry and Jefferson streets.
FOR RELIABLE DRUGS,
Fancy Articles,
Fine Candies,
Patronize
THE G. M. HEIDT COMPANY,
Congress and Whitaker Streets.
NOTICE.
Bids will be received until 12 o’clock, noon,
JULY 20TH, for boring a twelve (12) inch
artesian w It on our premises at Savannah, Ga.
We reserve the right to reject any and all bids.
For further part'cidars address THE GORRIE
ICE MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
SALT WATER SOAP
AND
EXTRA LARGE SPONGES,
Just the thing for the Salts, at
BUTLER S PHARMACY.
GREAT ROME ENTERPRISE.
THE SAVANNAH BREWING COMPANY'S
FILSEN -AND- TIVOLI'
B E E R S
—FOR SALE—
IN EVERY FIRST-CLASS SALOON.
We would especially recommend our Bottle
Beer to families, as
NO ADULTERATIONS ARE NECESSARY
FOR THE HOME TRADE.
CALL FOR THE BEER AND SEE THAT YOU
GET IT.
We pay 15 cents a dozen for all empties
returned to us.
TELEPHONE NO. 129.
Notice
The Citizens’ Bank of Savannah. )
June 20, 1890. (
In pursuance of a resolution of the Board of
Directors of said b ink passed June IK, 1890,
public notice is hereby given of an intention to
increase the capital stock of the Cit,mens' Bank
of Savannah from $200,000 to $500,000, as per sec
tion 2 of said bank’s charter.
The suid increased capital stock will be issued
at the value of the present caDital stock per
share as shown by the bank’s books on July 1
1890. from which all ba 1 and doubtful accounts
shall be eliminated. Subscriptions to be paid
on or before Aug. 1, lb9o.
Parties desiring to subscribe will call at the
hank between 10 a. m. and 2p. m. on and after
July 1,1890.
B A. DENMARK, President.
GEO. C. FREEMAN, Cashier.
IIAIR PI IV ft
In Genuine Tortoise Shell opened to-day,
—AT -
BUTLER'S PHARMACY,
Corner Bull and Congress Street*.
AMUSEM ENTS^
THE THIRD ANNUAL
Wee Interstate fatta,
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
Savaanab & Atlantic Rv. Cos.,
t ’
WILL TAKE PLACE AT
TYBEE,
THURSDAY, JULY 17, IS9O.
Race to begin at 12 o’clock NOON, Standard
Time.
Distance of Race about thirty-three miles.
The Pilot Boats engaged in thu Race will be in
full view from the beach from start to finish,
and from the number of boats that have
signified their purpose to enter one of the
grandest opportunities to witness an Ocean
Race will be offered the public upon a scale
never before witnessed in our waters.
REGATTA COMMITTEE:
T. L. Kinsey, Chairman.
R. M. Demere, F. S. Lathrop,
J. N Johnson, H. A Palmer,
A. S. Bacon, S. P. Goodwin,
M. W. Dixon, M. Y. HendArson.
D. G. PURSE.
President and Manager.
EXCURSIONS.
EXCURSIONS
Steamer CRESCENT CITY
will make two trips a day to
WAR SAW
EVERY DAY
(Except Mondays.)
Leaving wharf at 9 a. m., connecting at Thun
derbolt with train leaving citv at 10 a m . and
Thunderbolt on arrival of the 2:30 p. m.
train from Savannah.
FARE 50c. | CHILDREN 25c.
Fish Dinners at Warsaw
Trains connecting with steamer at Thunder
bolt leave Coast Line Deoot City 10 a. m and
2:30 p. m.
Excursion tickets are good on either boat or
train from or to Savannah.
Round trip tickets to Tnunderbolt, returning
thence to Savannah by steamer Crescent City.
25 cents. Take :15 p. m. train from city.
_ . A. Cr. DRAKE, Manager.
(>mce oq wharf, foot of Ab-rc street.
HARDWARE.
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estate dealer, an l every otaer person iuterestei
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PRICE ONE DOLLAR.
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PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING.
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BANKS.
SAVINGS BANK.
SAVANNAH BAM 4 TRUST CO.
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Deposits of $1 and Upward Received.
EISU AND OYaTEKa
ESTABLISHED 1858.
M. M. SULLIVAN,
Wholesale Fish and Oyster Dealer,
150 Bryan st. and 152 Bay lane. Savannah, Ga
Fish orders for Punta Oorda received her*
have prompt attention.
LEATHER GOODS.
Neidlinger & Rabun
£2 OLE AGENTS for HOYT S SHORT LAP
LEATHER BELTING. REVERE RUBBER
COMPANY’S GIANT STITCHED BELT.
Dealers in SADDLES. HARNESS and MILL
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