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AMONG THE BEDOUINS
•TAUMAGE TELLS OF HIS TENT LIFE
IN PALESTINE.
Villages of Arabs Made up Entirely of
Tents— The Voice of the Hyena-The
Country Nearly Clear of Beasts of
Prey- Swarming of the Eagles.
Brooklyn, Nov. 16.—This morning in
the Academy of Music in this city, and this
evening at the Christian Herahl service in
the Now York Academy of Music, Hr. Tal
mage preactie 1 the eighth of the senes of
sermons he i giving on bis tour in Pales
tine. At both services the respective build
ings were crowded to their utmost capacity
In five minutes after the doors were opened,
and all who caine iater were unable to get
in. Dr. Talirage's subject was "Among the
Bedouins,” and bis text. Numbers x., 31:
‘‘Forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to
encamp in the wilderness.”
Night after night we have slept in tent
in Palestine. There are large villages of
Bedouins without a house, and for three
thousand years tho people of those places
have lived in black teats, made out of dyed
skins, and when the winds and storms wore
out and tore loose these coverings, others of
the same kind took their places. Noah
lived ia a tent. Abraham in a tent. Jacob
pitched his tent on the mountain. Isaac
}tehed bistent in the valley. Lot pitched
his tent toward Sodom. In a tent the woman
J&el nailed Sisera, the general, to the
ground, first having given him sour milk
called "leben” as a soporific to make him
soundly sleep, that being the effect of such
nutrition, as modern travelers cau tesiify.
The Syrian army in a tent—the ancient
battle shout was "To your tents, O Israeli”
Paul was a tentmaker. Indeed, Isaiah,
magnificently p etic, indicates that all the
human race live under a blue tent when he
says that God “stretcheth out the heavens
as a curtain and sprea.de! n them out as a
tent to dwell in,” and llezekiah compares
death to the striking of a tent, saying, "Aiy
age is removed from me as a shepherd's
tent.”
In our tent in Palestine to-night I hear
something I never heard before and hope
never to hear again. It is the voice of a
hyena amid the rocks near by. When you
may iiave seen this monster putting bis
mouth between the iron bars of a menagerie
he is a captive and he gives a humiliated
and suppressed cry. But yonder in the
midnight on a throve of rocks he has noth
ing to fear, and he utters himself in a loud,
resounding, terrific, almost supernatural
sound, splitting up the darkness into a
deeper midnight. It begins with a howl
and ends with a sound something like a
horn’s whining. In the hyena’s voice are
defiance and strength and blood-thirstiness
and crunch of broken bones and death.
lam glad to say that for the most part
Palestine is clear of beasts of prey. The
leopards, which Jeremiah says can not,
esange their spots, have all disappeared,
and the lions that once were common all
through this land and used by all the proph
ets for illustrations of cruelty and wrath,
have retreated before tbe discharges of gun
powder, of which they fcave an indescrib
able fear. But for the most part Palestine
is what it originally was. With the on©
exception of a wire thread reaching from
Joppa to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem to
Nazareth, and from Nazareth to Tiberias,
ana from Tiberias to Damascus, that k ona
nerve of civilization, the telegraph wire
(for we found ourselves onlv a few minutes
off from Brooklyn and New York while
standing by Lake Galilee), with that one
exception, Palestine is just as it always w-s.
Nothing surprised me so much os the per
sistence of everything. A sheep or horse
falls dead and, though the sky may one
minute before be clear of all wings, in five
minutes after, the skies are black with
eagles, cawing, screaming, plunging, fight
ing for room, contending for largest morsels
of the extinct quadruped. Ah, now I under
stand the force of Christ’s illustration when
he said: “Wheresoever the carcass is, there
will the eagles be gathered together.” The
longevity of those eagles is wonderful.
They live fifty or sixty and sometimes
a hundred years. Ah, that ex
plains what David meant when
lie says. “Ihy youth is renewed like the
eagle's.” I saw a shepherd with the folds
of his coat far bent outward, and I won
derod what was contained in that ampli
tude of appa: el, and 1 said to the drngo
mau: "What has that shepherd got under
his coat?” And the dragoman said: “It is
a very young lamb lie is carrying; it is too
young aa<l too weak and too cold to keep
up with the flock.” At that moment I saw
the I mb put its head out from the shep
herd's bosom and I said: “There it is now,
Isaiah’s description of the tenderness of
God—‘He shall gather the iambs with his
ai m and carry them in his bosom. 1 ”
Passing by a village home, in the Holy
Land, about noon, I saw a great crowd in
and around a private house, and I said to
the dragoman: “David, what is going on
there?” He said: "Somebody has recently
died there and their neighbors go in for
several days after to sit down and weep with
the bereaved.” There It is, I said, the old
scriptural custom: “And many of the
Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort
them concerning their brother.” Early in
the |morning, passing by a ceme
tary in the Holy Land, I saw
among the graves about fifty women
dressed in black, and they were crying:
“0, my child!” “O, my husband!’’ "O,
my father!” "O. my mother!" Our
dragoman told us that every morning very
early for three mornings after a burial, tbe
■women go to the sepulcher, and after that
every week for a ■'■ear. As I saw this group
just after daybreak, I said: There it is
again, the same old custom referred to in
Luke, the evangelist, where he says: "Cer
tain women which were early at the sepul
cher.”
But here wo found ourselves at Jacob’s
well, the most famous well in history, most
distinguished for two things, because it be
longed to the old patriarch after whom it
■was named, and for the wonderful things
which Christ said, seated on this well curb,
to the Samaritan woman. We dismount
from our horses in a drizzling rain, and our
dragoman, climbing up to the well over
the slippery stonee, stumbles, and
frightens us all by nearly falling into it. I
measured the well at the top, an 1 found it
six feet from edge to edge. Some grass
and weeds and thorny growths overhang it.
In one place the roof is broken through.
Large stones embank the wall on all sides.
Our dragoman took pebbles and dropped
them in, and from the time they
left h*3 hand to the instant they clicked on
the bottom yon could hear it was deep,
though not as deep as once, for every day
travelers are applying the same test, and
though in the time of Maundrell, the
traveler, the well was a hundred and sixty
live teat deep, now it is only seventy-five,
bo great is the curiosity of the world to
know about that well, that during the dry
season a Capt. Anderson descended into
tais well, at one place tae sides so close he
had to put his hands over his bead in order
to get through, and then ho fainted awav,
and lay at the bottom of tho well as thongh
oeaa, until, hours after recovery, he came
to the surface.
It is not like other wells digged down to a
ojntam that fills it, but a ieervoirto
catch the taking rains, and to that Christ
le.ers when speak in* to the Samaritan
woman about a ►pintaal supply, ho said
that he would it have given her
living water; that is, water from a flow
mg sprmi;, m distinction from tho water of
that well which was rain water. But why
did Jac 'b make a reservoir there when thero
is plenty of water all around and abundance
“* nd fountain *' and wemi'igly no
“5 °i tn , at reserv oir? Why did Jacob go
to the vast expea -e of boring and digging a
we.l perhaps two hundred feet deep as first
i ).e cnuld i 'v, When ’ b/ B°i n K a little way off.
F tit 'iitb. o, h!lVe Wa ’ t ‘ Jr from ether fountains
' “J little or no expense, Ah. Jacob was wig.
He wanted k.s own well. Quarrels and
nnse v ' lth other tribes. and the
and pi 'bk' f Wate ‘' J b ® ‘Ut off, s, the shovels
and p.ck-axes and boring instruments were
oruenxl, and the well of nearly four
sand years ago was 'sunk through the solid
j rock.
When Jacob thus wisely insisted on hav
ing his own well, he taught us no: to be un
necessarily dependent on others. Independ
ence of business character. Independence of
religious character. Have your own well
of grace, your own well of courage, your
own well of divine supply. If you are an
invalid you have a right to be depesdent
on others. But if God has given you good
health, common sense, and two eyes, and
two ears, and two hands, and
two feet, he equipped you for
independence of all tee universe except
himself. If he had meant you to be depend
ent upon others you would have 4 been built
with a cord orcundyour waist to tie fast to
somebody eise. No; you are built with
common sense to fashion your own opia
ioDs, with eyas to find your own way, with
ears to select your < wn music, with hands
to fight your own battles. There is only
one being in tbe universe whose advice you j
need and that is God. Have your own weii j
and the Lord will fill it. Dig it if need be j
through 200 feet of solid rock. Dig if with |
your pen, or dig it with your yard-stick, or
dig it witti your shovoi, or dig it with your I
Bi bie.
In my small way I never accomplish® i
anything for God or tbe church, or the
world, or my family, or myseif except ia
contradiction to human advice and in
obedie !C8 fo divine counsel. God knows
everything, and what is tbe usi of going for
advice to human beings who know so little
that no oue but the aii-seeing God can realize
how little it is. 1 suppose that when Jacob
began to dig this well on which we are sit
ting this noontide, people gathered
around and said: “Meat a useless
expense you are going to, when roll
ing dow i from yonder Mount Geri
zim and down from youder Mount Eoal,
and out yonder in tbe valley is plenty ot
water!” "Oh,” replied Jacob, “that is all
true, but supposo my neighbors should get
angered against me and cut off mv supply
of mountain beverage, what would I do,
and what would my family do, aud what
would my flocks and herds do? Forward,
ye brigade of pickaxes and crowbars, and
go down into the depths of these rocks and
make me independent of all except him,
who fills the bottles of the clouds! I must
have my own well!”
Young man, drop cigars, and cigarettes,
and wine cuds, and the Sunday excursions,
and build your own house and have your
own wardrobe and be your own capitalist!
"Why, I have only five hundred dollars
income a year!” says someone. Then
spend four hundred dollars of it in living'
and ten per cent, of it or fifty dollars in
benevolence and the other fifty in begin
ning to dig your own well. Or, if you have
a thousand dollars a year, spond eight
hundred dollars of it in living—ten per
cent, or one hundred dollars in benevolence
and tbe remaining one hundred in begin
ning to dig your own well. The largest
bird that ever flew ttrough tbe air was
hatched out of one egg, and the greatest
estate was brooded out of one dollar.
I suppose when Jacob began to dig
this well on whose curb we are now seated
this December noon, it was a dry season then
as now, and someone comes up and say>:
“Now, Jacob, suppose you get the well fifty
feat deep, or 200 feet deep, and there should
be no water to fill it, would you not feel
silly r People passing along the road and
looking down from Mount Gerizim or Mount
Ebal, near by. would laugh and say: “That
is Jacob’s well, a great hole in the rock,
illustrating man’s folly.” Jacob
replied: “There never has been a
well in Palestine, or tiny other
country, that otioe thoroughly dug
was not sooner or later filled from the
clouds, and this will he no exception.” For
months after Jacob had completed the well
people went by, and, out of respect for the
deluded old man, put their hand over their
mouth to hide a snicker, and the well re
mained as dry as the bottom of a kettle
that has been hanging over a fire for throe
hours. But one day the sun was drawing
water and the wind got round to tho east
and it began to drizzle.and then great drops
splashed ail over the well-curb, and the heav
ens opened their reservoir and the rainy
season poured i!s floods for six weeks, and
there came maidens ;to the well with empty
pails and carried them away full, aud tbe
camels thrust their mouths into the troughs
and were satisfied, and the water was in the
well three feet deap. and fifty feet deep, and
200 feet deep, and alt the Bedouins of the
neighborhood, and all the passers-by real
ized that Jacob was wise in having his own
well. My hearer, it is your part to dig
your own well. ar.d it is God’s part to fill
it. You do your part and he will do his
part.
Much is said about “good luck,” but peo
ple who are industrious and self-deuying
almost always have good luck. You can
afford to be laughed at because of your
application and economy, for when you get
your well dug, and filled, it will be your
turn to laugh.
But look up from this famous well and
see two mountains and the plain between
them on which was gathered the largest
religious audience that ever assembled <>n
earth, about five hundred thousand people.
Mount Gerizim, about eight hundred feet
high, on one side, and on the other Mount
Ebal, tho former called the Mount of Bless
ing aud the latter called the Mount of Curs
ing. At Joshua’s command six tribes stood
on Mount Gerizim and read the blessings
for keeping the law, and six tribes
stood on Mount Ebal reading the curses for
breaking the law, while the five hundred
thousand people on the plain cried amen
with an emphasis that must have made the
earth tremble. “I do not believe that,”
says someone, “for those mountain tops
are two miles apart, and how could a voice
be beard from top to top?” My answer is
that while the tops are two miles apart, the
bases of the mountains are only half a mile
apart, and the tribes stood on the sides of
tho mountains, and the air is so clear, and
the acoustic qualities of this great natural
amphitheater so perfect that voices can be
distinctly heard from mountain to moun
tain as has been demonstrated by travelers
fifty times in tho last fifty years.
Can you imagine anything more thrilling
and sublime and overwhelming than what
transpired on those two mountain sides and
in the plain between, when the responsive
servioe went on, anil thousands of voices on
Mount Gerizim cried: “Blessed shalt thou
be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in
the fields, blessed shall bo thy basket and
thy store!” and then from Mount Ebal,
thousands of voices responded, crying:
"Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor’s
landmark! Cursed be he that niaki tb the
blind to wander out of the way,” aud then
there rolled up from all the spaces
between the mountains that one
word, with which the devout of earth
close their prayers, and the glorified of
heaven finish their doxologios: "Amen!
Atneu!”—that scene ouly to be surpassed
by tho times which are coming, when the
churches and the academies of music, and
the auditoriums of earth, no longer large
enough to hold the worshipers of God, the
parks, the mountain sides, the great natural
amphitheatres of the valleys, shall he tilled
with tho out-pouring populations of the
earth, and mountain shall reply to moun
tai, as Mount Gerizim to Enal, and all the
people between shall ascribe riches and
honor, and glory, and dominion, and vic
tory to God the Lamb, and there shall arise
an amen like the booming of the heavens
mingling with the thunder of the seas.
On and on we ride’ until now we have
come to Shil h, a dead city on a hill sur
rounded by rocks, sheep, goats, olive gar
dens and vineyards. Here good Eli fell
backward and broke his neck, and lav dead
at the news from his bad boys Phineas and
Hophni; and life is not worth living after
one’s children have turned out badly, and
more fortunate as Eli, instantly expiring
under such tidings, than those parents who,
thpir children recreant and profligate,
live ou with broken hearts to sa>
them going down into deeper
and deeper plunge. There are fathers
and mothers here bo-day to whom death
would bo happy releiso because of their
recreant sons. And if there be recreant sons
here present, and Vnurparents be faraway,
why not bow yo u hta iin : epentanc >, and
at the close of t his service go to tho tele
graph office and put it o.i t. e wing of the
light ung that you have turn ;d from your
TIIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1890.
evil ways! Before another twenty-four
hours havepasE-d take your feet off the sad
hearts at the old homestead. Home to thy
God, O prodigal.
Many, many letters do I get ia purport
saying: My son is in your Cities ; we have
not heard from him for some time; we fear
something is wrong: bunt him up and
say a g od word to him; his mother is
almost crazy about him; he is a child of
many prayers. But how can I hunt him np
unless he ie in this audience? Where are
1 you, my boyi Oa the mam floor, oron this
platform, nr in these boxes, or in these
great galleries ? Where are you! Lift vour
’ right hand. I have a message from home. !
Your father is anxious about you, your 1
mother is praying for you. Your God is ,
calling for you. Or will you wait until Eli
falls back lifeless, aid the heart against
which you lay in infa cy ceases to beat? j
W hat a story to teii in eternity that you j
killed bar! My God! Avert that catav .
trophe!
But I turn from this Shiloh of Eli’s sud- !
den decease under bad news from his boys, j
and find close by what is called the “Mead- i
ow of tho Feast.” While this ancient city 1
was lu the higbt of its prosperity, on this j
“Meadow of tbe Feast” there was an annual !
ball where the maidens of the city, amid j
clapping cymbals and a blare of trumpets,
danced in a glee, upon which thousands of
spectators gazed. But no dance since the
world stood ever broke up In such a strange
wav as the cm the Bible describes. One
night, while bv the light of the lamps
and torches these gaieties went on, two
hundred Benjamites, wno had been hidden
behind the rocks and among the trees,
dashed upon the scene. They c&me not to
injure or destroy, but, wishing to set up
households of their own, the women of their
own land having been slain in battle, and
by preconcerted arrangement each one of
the two hundred Benjamites seized the one
whom he chose for the queen of his home,
and carried her away to large estate and
beautiful residence, for these two hundred
Benjamites had inherited the wealth of a
nation.
As to-day near Shiloh we look at the
“Meadow of the Feast,” where the maidens
danced that night, and at the mountain
gorge up which the Benjamites carried
their brides, we bethink ourselves of the
better land and the better times in which
we live, when such scenes are so impossi
bility, and amid orderly groups and with
prayer and bsnedictioa, and breath of
orange blossoms and the roll or tbe wedding
march, marriage is solemnized, and with
oath recorded in heaven, two immortals
start arm in arm on a journey, to last until
death do them part. Upon every such
marriage altar may there come the blessing
of tom "who setteth the solitary in fami
lies.” Side by side on the pith of life! Side
by side in their graves! Side by side in
heaven!
But we must this afternoon, our last day
before reaching Nazareth, pitch our teat
on the most famous battlefield of all time—
the plain of Esdrneion. What must have
been the feelings of tho Prince of Peace as
he crossed it on the wayfrom Jerusalem to
Nazareth! Not a flower blooms there but
has in its veins the inherited blood of flow
ers that drank the blood of fallen
armies. Hardly a foot of the ground that
has not at some time been gullied with war
chariots, or trampled with the hoofs of
cavalry. It is a plain, reaching from the
Mediterranean to the Jordan. Upon it
look down the mountains of Tabor and
Gil boa and Carmel. Tc rough it rages at
certain seasons the river Kisbon,
which swept down the armies
of Sisera, the battle oceuring
in November, when there is almost always
a shower of meteors, so that “the stars in
their courses” were said to have fought
against Sisera. Through this plain drove
Jehu, and the iron chariots of the Canaan
ites, scythed at the hubs of the wheels,
hewing down their awful swathes of death,
thousands in a minute. The Syrian armies,
the lursish armies, the Egyptian armies,
again and again trampled "it. There they
career across it, David and Joshua and God
frey and Richard Coeur de Lion and Bald
win and Salndin—a plain not only famous
for the past, but famous because the Bible
save the great decisive battle of the world
will be fought there—the battle of Ar
mngeddoo.
To me the plain was the more absorbing
because of the desperate battles here and in
regions iound in which the holy cross, the
very two pieces of wood on which Jesus
was supposed to have been crucified, was
carried as a standard at tbe head of the
Christian host; and that night closing my
eyes in my tent a > the plain of Esdraelon—
for there are soma things we caa see better
with eyes shut than open—the scenes of that
ancieut war came before me. The twelfth
century was closing, aud Saladin at the
head of eighty thousand mounted troops
was crying, “Ho for Jerusalem! Ho for
all Palestine!” nnd before them everything
went down, but not without unparal
leled resistance. In one place, 130 Chris
tians were surrounded by many thousands
of furious Mohammedans, For one whole
day the 13J held out agsiust these thou
sands. Tennyson’s "sir hundred” when
"someone had blundered.” were eclipsed by
these 130 fighting for the holy cross. They
took hojfl the lances which had pierced
them with death wounds, and pulling them
out of their own breasts and side, hurled
them back again at the enemy. On went
the fight until all but one Christian had
fallen, and he, mounted on the last horse,
wielded his battle ax right and left
till his horse fell under the plunge of the
javelins, aud the rider, making the sign of
the cro-.s toward the sky, gave up his life
on the points of a s tore of spears. But
soon lifter the last battle came. History
portrays it, poetrv chants it, painting colors
it, and all ages admire that last struggle to
keep iu possession the wooden cross o i which
Jesus was said to have expired. It was a
ba'.tle in which mingled the fury of devils
and the grandeur of angels. Thousands of
dead Christians on this side. Thousands of
dead Mohammedans on the other side. The
battle was hottest close around the wooden
cross upheld by the bishop of Btolemais,him
self wounded and dying. And when the
Bishop of Ptolemais dropped dead, the
Bishop of Lydda seized the cross and agaiu
lifted it, carrying it onward into a wilder
and fiercer fight, and sword against jave
lin, andj battle-ax upon holme", and pierc
ing spear against' splintering shield.
Horses and men tumbled into heterogeneous
death. Now the wooden crosi on which the
armies of Christians had kept their eye
begins to waver, begins to descend. It
falls! and the wailing of the Christian host
at its disappearance drowns the huzzah of
the victorious Moslems. But that standard
of the cross only seemed to fall. It rides
the sky to-day in triumph. Five
hundred million souls, the mightiest
army of the ages, nre following ft, and
whore that goes they will go, across the
earth and up the mighty steeps of the heav
ens. It the twelfthee ltury it seimed to go
down, but in tho nineteenth century it is
the mightiest symbol of glorv and triumph,
and means more than any other standard,
whether inscribed with eagle, or lion, or
boar, or star, or crescent. That w’hic’a
Saladin trampled on the plain of Esdraolon
1 lift to-day for your mat shalmg. The
cross! The cross! Tha foot of it planted in
the earth it saves, the top of it pointing to
tho heavens to wnich it will take you. ard
tho outspread beam of it like outstretched
arms of invitation to nil nations. K>eel at
its foot. Lift your eye to its victim. Swear
eternal allegiance to its powor. Aid as that
mighty symbol of pain and triumph is kept
before us, we will reolizs how insignificant
are tho litt'o crosses we are called to boar,
and will more cheerfully carry them.
Must Jesus boar the cross atone
And all the world go Iree?
No. there's a cross for every one,
And there's a cross for me.
As I fall asleep to-night on mv pillow in
the tent on the plain of Esdraolon reaching
from the Mediterranean to the Jordan, the
waters of the river Kishon soothing me as
by a lullaby, I hear th i gathering of too
hosts for the last battle of alltheoarte.
And by their repress natives America is
here ad Europe is here an 1 Asia is here
a si Africa is h"ro ana all h a veil is here,
ar.d all hell is he e, aid Apoliyo.i ou th *
black horse leads the armies of and irhuees an 1
Je-us o.u the white hors> iovJs the armies of
light, a'.d 1 boar .he r. U if the drums aid the
c ear call of tbe clarions, and tbe thunder
of the cannonades. And then I he<r the
wild i asa as of millions of troops in retreat,
and then the shout of victory as from four
teen hundred millions throats, and then a
song as though all the armies of earth and
heaven wer j joining it, clapping cymbals
heating the time—“ The kingdoms of this
world are become the kingdoms of our
Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign for
ever and ever.”
ATLANTA GLEANINGS.
Some Interesting Points About Legis
lators
Atlanta, Ga. , Nov. 16. —Atlanta’s elect
carry into their conduct of municipal
affairs principles which they may have
illustrated and now emulate—those sar
torial ethics of the deir old mothers, gener
ous of warp and woof, who cut young
hopeful’s garments so roomily that only in
the third or fourth season, when they had
been adorned with divers patches, did they
begin to hang with anything like snugnees.
Every lineament of Atlanta’s nervous,
buoyant, bright-eyed autonomy seems to
say, “Come back and see roe when I’m
housekeeping!”
The ultra conservatism of the Bull street
babiiOe; the quiet satisfaction of the Au
gustin and the pclegmatio counting-room
air of the Maconite are laid aside when
they are dumped under the shadows of tbe
Kimball house. They find congenial com
panions or old frie ids. and tbe pleasant
mood of the moment, be it from p ditical
or professional attrition or the amenites of
social intercourse, the surroundings borrow
a phase of the innate c inpl iceucy.
Duringltnejlast few days there have been
from three to four hundred ladies in At
lanta without escort who would read the
above paragraph a sacond time to reassure
themselves of its tenor. Tcev are the del
egates who have come to the annual con
vention of the Woman’s Christian Temper
ance Union, and are having great difficulty
in finding even fourth rate lodging accom
modations.
They have long looked forward to this trip
to Georgia, and it is to be regretted that
they could not have each secured the best
room at the Kimball. But so many politi
cal lets are each boasting “headquarters” at
that house that the supply has been cor
nered. One of the delegates told me she
could not reconcile toe sights about her
with the south she pictured in imagina
tion, where negroes ’oiled on bags of cotton
and the whites wore arsenals in their belts.
She was a sharp-featured little lady, with
corkscrew curls fluttering in the breeze.
The punch-nose pebble glasses that lent a
crescendo to her “down east” pronunciation
completed the make-up of a character in
strteking contrast to her sister of tho south.
I am too gallant to pen comparisons even if
I drew them. I was sensible, however, of
feeling that I liked our dainty little Georgia
girl, with her demure looks, puzzling ways
and delicious softness of voice which invest
“kinder” and “reckon so” with the rhythmic
effect of a madrigal.
A newspaper man who contributes to
several papers g.ves it as his conviction
that organizations with long names like the
WOman’s Cnristian Temperance Union are
in league with the telegraph companies,
which charge by the word. Atlanta is just
now wrestling with another—the S. P. C.
A., just organized. The assembling of a
legislature always adds to the aotive politi
cal life of the city. In the train of the
legislators al w ays come aspirants for honors
political, clerical or otherwise, and this
element constitutes a colony of its own.
LEGISLATORS NOT YET ACQUAINTED.
While the second week of the general
assembly is drawing to a close, the members
are as yet and slant to one anot .er and far
removed from public cognizance. They
have been heard irom only as tbe intro
ducers of bills. To come in touch with them
candidates must be pushed away from their
elbows, and the tricks of the lobbyist
resorted to.
The contest for senatorsbip has had much
to do with this state of things. The legis
lation, so far, has been cirried on seemingly
subservient to the absorbing question of the
hour —who will be senator?
During the first few days of the session it
was interesting to observe the methods of
office-.seekers and their friends. Every
body was a stra. ger to ever v body else, ex
cepting a few old timers. When a member
responded to roll call, or in any other way
revealed bis idontity, a score of directories
were consulted, and tho unwary found him
self subjected to a species of "cou
fidence gams.” Men whom he had
doubtless never met would gra3p his
hand, eskiug "How is Brother Blank?’
This is the alliance form of greeting. This
could safely he done, for where 500 intro
ductions are crowded into a single day,with
the mind daasd by new environment, it
would be tho most natural thing in the
world for a name and face to fail recall
Then, too, they like to think that they are
already known; a man’s inherent vanity is
easily flattered.
NO LEADERSHIP DISTINGUISHABLE YET.
I have, during several hours each day,
been iu intimate intercourse with members
of both the House and Senate, and as vet
have failed to note any pronounced devel
opment of leadership. In tho House are
Atkinson of Coweta, Ber er of Monroe,
Whitfield of Baldwin, Fleming of Rich
mond, Warner Hill of Meriwether, and
Huff of Macon, all of whom, by fact of past
records, hold prominent places in the House.
A little incident betrays how matter., stood
the first few days of the session, and how
essential to the machinery of the
general assembly is a coterie of
members of former legislature'.
Gov. Northen’s inaugural ceremony had
already b -en mapped out and committees
aopointed to wait on him, but never a
word was said of hearing, consolidating
and formally receiving the votes in joint
session, as required by law. Some feeling
has been evinced against lawyers bv the
present legislature, and a few of the latter
fancied it would be a good joke if Mr. Nor
tiion took the oath of office without being
legally t e governor of the state. Their
sense of duty to the stite prevailed, how
ever, aud resulted in a bill, calling for the
election returns, and their subsequent rati
fication smoothed away a threatened com
plication.
peculiarities of members.
Some biographical mat'er might be in
teresting, but there are a couple of hack
writers about trie capital who interview
member <at so much per line, to appear as
correspondence in the home paper of tho
sub ject of the sketch, amt my efforts in this
line would thieston a budding industry.
While bilis arc being read the second
time in lliat monotonous toue which is
peculiar to such work, interest will be
seized by those little accidents which at
tones claim the consideration that should
be yielded clone to essential -. I bavo pen
cilled on one of the roll call sheets some
statistics which, when tabulated, present
some striking totals.
PoysLgaomists claim that one of the
most eloquent features of the characteris
tics of a subjec. is the hair. Doubtless from
tbeso compilations a composite picture of
our general assembly’* temperament may
be drawn. Hera are some points about the
beards of members :
Senate. House.
Oban shaven 4 14
Clem upper lips 4 3
Mustaches blonde 3 2rj
Must iches black 3 ]<
Mustaches sprinkled 2 7
Mustactv sarny 3 8
Mustaches red t 3
Musta bes died 1 ti
1 enrd blonde 3 5
Beard block 2 15
Beard sprinkled 3 is
Beard (p ay 5 23
Beard red 3 5
Beard died 3 4
Goatee and mus.ac .e red I 1
Goatee and mustache blonde 3
Goat.e and mustache black 2 2
Goatee and mu-taehe gray 1 j
Goalee ana mustac e lied 1
Burnsides
Total 43
Tue owner of the Ifur-isides is Hon. M. V,
Calvin of H.c : 0111 i. MlO of tue members
v.e.rthiir hair 111 neglige deigns: some of
, them, however, have very little to dress
and these number about twenty-six. Five
i of tfeem will never wear their hair ala
pompadour, while eleven can catch a few
: hairs and pias er them down on the bald
spots. The other ten have lost the better
part of whatever hirsute adornment they
possessed.
TODD’S QUART BILL.
If signs can be rightly read the first de
bate in the general assembly promises to
come up over Senator Todd’s “quart bill,”
which was Friday pronounced by a
minority report of the temperance commit
tee of the Senate, “undemocratic and un
constitutional” The bill is being pushed
here in Atlanta bv a lawyer in the
Lowrey Bank building, who drew
it up and turned it over to Senator Todd to
introduce. Copies of the bill will be on
each senator’s desk Monday. Senator
Cobaniss bas been listening attentively
whenever the bill was in transit, and he
will doubtless have something to say on the
subject when it comes up. Senators
Walker and Vincent of the temperance
committee say that the bill will be a “dead
letter,” for any law to be successful in its
atm must have tbe so poor t of
the community in which tbe evil lurks for
which a remedy is desired. They say the
present law is effective, and anytning more
stringent would be resented as a curtail
ment of the rights of citizens in a free
country. Just how far the Woman’s Chris
tian Temperance Union convention will
tend to crystallize prohibition sentiment is
an open question, but the invitation to Mrs.
Hunt, a temperance lecturer, to address the
general assembly Tuesday evening.does not
find approbation with some of the older
members.
THE SWAMP SALE.
The Okefinokee swamp sale promises to
figure in some shape or other before the
present legislature, and those at the inside
of matters say that an investigating com
mittee may be tte result of any airing the
subject may receive. This is another of
those subjects which have been left in tbe
background until the senatorsbip question
is settled.
A delegate m of locomotive engineers are
here to go before the legislature, and ask
the enactment of la vs which will regulate
what they claim to be not only grievances
against their order, but requirements on
tho part of the railroads which endanger
lives of passengers and the property of the
roads. This delegation will ask the abolish
ment of what they term tne “mileage'’
system, t. e., paying engineers for tbeground
covered. They have had a conference with
Mr. Clifton, and will ask him to take in
hand whatever bill they draw up.
The voters of Fulton county have been
slow in action on tne senatorial subject, but
when Speaker Howell urges the name of
Mr. Patrick Calhoun and explains that in
so doing he believes he acts in compliance
with the wishes of bis constituency Atlanta
voters get mad. A petition is to be circu
lated, it is said, demanding that on Tuesday
Rspresenatlve Howell cast bis vote for
General Gordon.
A prominent Georgian, and one who has
for many years been identified with politics,
in speaking of the veiled intimations con
tained in the speeches of Mr. T. M. Nor
wood and Mr. Gazaway Hartridge that
things had not been of late conducted
as they s. ould be. says the end is not yet,
and that there may be further develop
ments which will afford interesting reading.
A Mule Killed.
Americus. Ga., Nov. 16.— The occupant
of a buggy was driving rapidly down Lee
street about 6 o’clock last night, and when
near the Bantist church he collided with a
team of mules. The end of the shaft pene
trated the breast of one of the mules with
fatal effect. The shaft being extricated, the
buggy was driven rapidly away. It was so
dark that the driver was not recognized.
The mule killed belonged to R. S. Windsor.
MORMON ISM IN GEORGIA.
You Don’t Have to Go to Utah to
Find Disciples of Brier ham Young.
From the Albany (Ga.) ttewe and Advertiser.
Mormooism in Georgia.
Mormonism in Southwest Georgia.
It is hard to believe, but nevertheless it is
true, if what a gentleman told a reporter
yesterday is true, and the reporter has
every reason to believe it is true, for the
gentleman is a citizen of an adjoining
county, aud s ands high as a man of strict
integrity. It doesn’t matter how the sub
ject came up, but anyhow, while convers
ing with the reporter yesterday, he said:
“Why, sir, would you believe it? In my
county Mormonism is openly practiced by a
man who is regarded with some considera
tion by his neighbors from the fact that he
has accumulated considerable property.
“This man is the satisfied possessor of two
wives, or at least so he regards them, and
two sets of children. Both of these fami
lies live in one house, and from persons who
are familiar with the circumstances of their
exist nee, they move along witnout friction,
and both of the women answer to the name
of Mrs. H. In keeping house these women
take it turn about, so to speak, one keeping
hou e or.e week and one the next. The man
who stands at the head of this household,
as 1 said before, is regarded with a certain
degree of respect, at least s i much so that
people have shut their eyes to h s bigamis
tic enterprise and no effort has ever been
made to bring the law to recognize this
violation of us majesty. And this is not
the only instance of the kind that I can cite
you to.”
Those lands which in Continental Europe
are devoted to the grane and produce the
best and most costly wines are remarkable
for the great amount of phosphoric acid
they contaiu. The soil of tho" renowned
CIO3 Vogeot Vineyard, in France, contains 4
per cent.
Anew use is reported to have been dis
covered for English hops, according to an
English paper—namely, for tbe curing ot
bacm. It is found thata sprinkling of h ps
iu the brine when bacon and hams are put
in pickle adds greatly to ths flavor of both,
and enables them to be kept an indefinite
period.
MEDICAL.
Dyspepsia
Makes the lives of many people miserable,
causing distress after eating, sour stomach,
sick headache, heartburn, loss of appetite,
a faint, “ all gone” feeling, bad taste, coated
ni * tongue, and irregularity of
LMStress tho bowels. Dyspepsia does
After not get well of itself. It
P requires careful attention,
t,um S and a remedy like Hood’s
Sarsaparilla, which acts gently, yet efficiently.
It tones the stomach, regulates the diges
tion, creates a good ap- .
petite, banishes headache, ©iCK
and refreshes the mind. HCSCjclCh©
“ I have been troubled with dyspepsia. I
had but little appetite, and what I did eat
Heart* distr essed me, or did me
h little good. After eating I
" would have a faint or tired,
all-gone feeling, as though I had not eaten
anything. My trouble was aggravated by
my business, painting. Last
spring I took Hood’s Sar- ® our
saparilla, which did me an Stomach
immense amount of good. It gave me an
appetite, and my food relished and satisfied
tho craving I had previously experienced.”
George A. Page, Watertown, Mass.
Hood’s SarsapariSla
Sold by all druggists, gl ; six for £',. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
ff’ 11 r MORKINO NEWS corners resell
I 11 Si •'▼wry port of tha city aarly. TVentj.
-*■ *--1 ** five cents a wook (or the i/a:iy.
MARRIAGES.
LAMAH—STEARNS —Married,Tuesday. Nov.
11th. 1890, by Rev. Wiliiaru Ssnbrook. at the
residence of the bride's parents. Da. Geosr.z
W Lamar of Quincy, Fla., to -Miss Axmk.
daughter of T. S. Stearns, Esq. of Lovell
Center, Maine.
MEETI
DE KALB LODGE Ml. 9. I. 0?0. V.
A regular meeting will bo held THIS (Monday)
EVENING at 8 o'clock at Odd Fellows* new
building.
The First Degree will be conferred.
Members of other lodges ana visiting brethren
are cordiallv invited to attend.
By order of H. M. REEVE, N. G.
John Riley. Secretary.
BOARD OF TRADE.
bAVAKKAH. Ga. Nov. 17, 1890.
A meeting of the Savannah Board of Trade
will bo held THIS DAT", at 4 o'clock p. m.. at
the rooms of the Association. All members are
requested to attend. By order of
I. G. HAAS.
President.
C. Wallace Howard, Snpt.
MILITARY ORDERS.
REPUBLICAN BLl'Eis”
Headquarters Repuplican Blubs, 1
Savannah, Ga., Nov. if. 1890. f
Sjerial Order:
The Corps will meet at the Armory, THIS
(Monday! EVENING, at 8 o'clock, in tatigue
uniform for Battalion Drill. By order
W. D. DIXON, Capt, Com'd'g.
T. J. Smith, Acting Orderly Sergeant.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
On and after Feb. 1, 1S(>I, the basis of meas
urement of aU advertising m the Morjujto
Nzwß will be agate, or at the rate of $1 40 art
inch for the first insertion.
PI BI.ISHERS’ NOTICE ~
Advertisements set in any form, other
than straight matter, single or double col
umn measure, wllr be charged double dally
rales for first publication. This rule will
apply to contract as well as transient ad
verlisements.
Stats or Georgia, Executive Department.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 11, 1890.
Whereas, By Executive Order of August 4.
1890. it was declared that an Amendment of the
Constitution of this State by adding a clause to
Article 7, Section 1, Paragraph 1, “so as to in
clude widows of Confederate soldiers in tbe aid
therein extended” (which amendment was pro
posed by the General Assembly in an Act ap
proved Nov. 4, 1889,), should be submitted for
“Ratification” or “Non-ratification” to the
Electors of this State, at the General Election,
to be held on the First Wednesday m October.
1890, as provided for in said Act of the General
Assembly; and.
Whereas, said Executive Order was duly
published in each of the Congressional
Districts of this State as fcy law required;
and,
Whereas, it is certified to this office by the
Honorable Philip Cook, Secretary of State, that
at said General Election, held on the First
Wednesday in October, 1890, for “Ratification”
of said Amendment received 68,787 votes, and
“Non-ratification' ‘of said Amendment received
4,838 votes, a majority of 69,849 being for ‘ ‘Rati
fication,’' it is therefore hereby
Declared, that said Amendment has been duly
adopted, and bas beoome a part of said Article
7, Section 1, Paragraph !, of the Constitution of
this State.
Given under my hand aud the Seal ot the
Executive Department, at the Capitol, in the
city of Atlanta, this.;tbe 11th day of November,
A. D. 1890.
By the Governor:
W. J. NORTHEN.
Governor.
W. H. Harrison,
Sec’y Ex. Dept.
NOTICE
Is hereby given that application will he made to
the present Assembly of the State for tbe pas
sage of a bill to be entitlod “ An act to prescribe
the compensation to be paid to the County
Officers of Chatham, and to declare which of
ssid officers shall bj paid stipulated salaries,
and which shall receive fees, and to fix such
salaries and fees.”
NOTICE
Is hereby given that application will be made to
the present Assembly of the State for the pas
sage of a bill to he entitled "An act to allow in
corporated guarantee companies to become sure
ties on the official bonds of comity officers in
the county of Chatham, and so authorize the
Commissioners of Chatham County aDd Ex
officio Judges to accept such security and to
pay from the county funds the premiums re
quired to obtain such security on such bonds.”
DR. T. F. ROBERSON,
DENTIST.
ODD FELLOWS BUILDING,
Corner Barnard and State Streets.
AN ATTRACTIVE HOME.
Popular street, Convenient Location, Valu
able Surroundings.
All of these advantages are to bs found in the
house referred. In addition to the above can
be named a single house, separated from any
other, new, conveniently arranged, attractive in
appearance; fine street car privileges, and un
usually easy terms.
Prompt attention on the part of home
seekers will secure a bargain.
M. J. SOLOMONS.
“UNCLE ADAMS" PAWNSHOP,
20 Jefferson street, corner Congress Street
Lane,
Will loan you money from 1 to 3 months at
lowest rate of interest on your Jewelry,
Watches, Clothing, Tools, Musical Instruments
etc. ADAM STRAUSS,
Open from 7a. s, to 9 p m. Manager.
WANT E D,
A janitress (white) to take charge of tbe
CHATHAM ACADEMY.
For further particulars, address or call on
W. H. BAKER,
Superintendent Public Education.
Office: Academy.
ROW LIN SKI,
Pharmacist,
Prescriptions, Ships - Medicine Chests filled
nnd labeled in French, German, Swedish, Nor
wegian or Danish.
Broughton and Drayton Streets.
Telephone 4C3.
FREE CIRCULATION
Of the Dlood is induced by using one of those
ENGLISH BATH TOWELS
after bathing, a Turkey Sponge and fine Toilet
Soap while performing the act of ablution, be
ing careful to use Imported Bay Rum in rub
biag down. Purchase at
BUTLER'S PHARMACY,
Corner Bull anl Congress Streets.
BEEK.
DRINK
S. &UCKEHHBIMEB & SONS
SPECIAL NOTICES.
' freTd a hichre '
OCR LADIES' RESTAURANT IS A SUCCESS
Come Down and See
STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS
open day and night.
ried & hicks,
Nos. 9, 11 ml 13 Makxzt.
DON T GIVE LP
Dyspeptics, you will find a reliable remedy in
DR. ULMER'S LIVER CORRECTOR.
It is a faultless vegetable preparation .-a
indorsed by prominent mediea! m-n '
pe S u££ medal “ D<l dipl °“ a awarJei over com-
Prepared by
B. F. ULMER, M. D„ Pharmacist,
Savannah, r;*
Price, Si per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
NOTICE - "
Is hereby given that application will b rm,i n .
the present Assembly of the State frt Sn,
sgge of a special bill to be entitled
define (beauties of the Treasurer of r,-S t 0
County, to regulate the official hours" of's -
officer, to fix bis bond and to unit the >1 1
of ffis fees or
NEW BULB*.
FRESH FLOWER SEED,
From Reliable Growers, at Lowest p r je cii
AT
heipts.
HOTELS
THE
DE SOTO,
SAVANNAH, GA 1
One of the most elegantly appointed hotels
in the world.
Accomodations for 500
Guests.
OPEN ALL YEAR.
WATSON & POWERS
PULASKI house;
SAVAN NAH, GA.
Management strictly first-class.
Situated in tbe business center,
_____ U. W. SCOVILLE,
THE MARSHALL,
SAVANNAH. GA.
EUROPEAN METHOD.
Rooms and Restaurant First-
Class. H. N. FISH, Prop.
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
C3ENTRALLY LOCATED ou line r.f street
A cars, offers pleasant south rooms, with
regular or table board at lowest summer rates.
New baths, sewerage and ventilation perfect!
the sanitary condition of the nouse is of tun
best.
Cor. BROUGHTON and DRAYTON STREET3
BANKS.
JORD'WEED. 1 ~ ?7v!ij
President. Vice Proaidea- g
JAS. H. HUNTER, Cashier.
SAVANNAH BANK 4 TRUST dj
Savings Dep’t j
ALLOWS 4%
Deposits of SI and UpvurJ Beeoiwdj
Interest on Deposits Payable Quarterly. |
DIRECTORS:
Joseph D. Weed, of J. D. Weed & Cos.
John C. Rowland, Capitalist.
C. A. Reitze, Kxchari ge and Insurance. |
John L. Hardee, Capitalist. |
fi. G. Erwin, of Chisholm, Erwin&dußignon.J
Edward Karow. of Strauss & Cos.
Isaac G. Haas, General Broker.
M. Y. Maclntyre, of M. Y. tt D. I. Maclntyre j
John Lyons, of John Lyons & Cos. 9
Walter Conky. of Paterson, Downing <x Cos. J
I). C. Lumher. *
PRINTING} AND BOOK BIN Di-NG.
waHAU"BirwiMk-^
PRINTING AND RINDING.
BLANK BOOKS.
Establishment fully furnished with ajl
necessary TOOLS and MACHINrehI.
PAPERS and MATERIALS. Compe
tent Workmen. Established Rept 4
tion for Good Work. Additional .or
ders solicited. Estimates furnished.
83 BAY STREET.
GEO. N NICHOLS^
COTTON FACTORS.
John Tlanneby. John L. Johnson
JOHN FLANNERY & 00.,
Cotton Factors,
SAYANNA.H, GA.
Bagging nnd Iron ties furnished at
market rates. Prompt attention given ■
business entrusted to us. Liberal cash ui
made on consignments of cotton.
PLUM. lISS*.
l a. McCarthy,
4-A Id aRYAED sTEKK'I.
(Under KoiShts of Pythias’ Ka'o.
FLEWS AND GAS
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