The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, November 17, 1890, Page 2, Image 2
2 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. 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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. 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