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Newspaper Page Text2 A SERMON ON KINDNESS. THE THEME POUND IN THE SHIP WRECK OF 6T. PAUL. Kludness of the Natives of the Island of Malta to the Shipwrecked Apos tle—Tno Savior Declared the Imper sonation of all Kinds of Kindness. Brooklyn,' N. Y., Sept. 13.—Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day contained many strangers on their way home from tho watering places and foreign lauds. Many of the mem bers, absent from the city during the sum mer, were in their places. The church bui'cl ing aud the organ, which have been almost continually under brush ami hammer since the dedication last spring, are now about completed. The sermons to day were full 1 of congratulation and were attended by the usual throng-. I)r. Taln.age's morning ser mon was on “Kindness,” from the tort. Acts xxvui2: “The barbaious peoj 1 3 showed us no little kindness.” Here we are on the island of Malta, an other name for Mehta. This island, whiih has always been an important commercial center, belonging at different tunes to Phoenicia, to Greece, to Home, to Arabia, to Spain, to France, now belongs to Eng land. The area of the islanu is about one hundred square miles It is in tee Modih rra pean Sea, aud oflsucb clarity of atmosphere that Mount Etna, one hundred and tnirty miles away, can to distinctly seen, dee island is gloriously memorable, because the Knights of Malta for a long while ruled there,but most famous because of the aposto lic ship wreck. The bestormed vesßel|on which Paul saihu bad “laid to” on the starboard tack, and the wind was blowing east northeast aud the vessel, drifting, probably a mile and a half an hour, she struck at what is now oalled St. Paul’s bay. Practical sailors have taken up the Bible account and decided beyond controversy the place of the shipwreck. But tho island which has so rough a coast is for the most part a garden. Richest fruits and a profusion of honey characterized it in Paul’s time as well as now. The iinest oranges, fig 9 and olives grow there. When Paul and his comrades crawled up on the beach, saturated with the salt water, and hungry from long abstinence from food, and chilled to the bone, the islanders, though called barbarians, because they could not speak Greek, opened their doors to the ship wrecked unfortunates. Everything had gone to the bottom of the deep, and the barefooted, bareheaded apostle and ship’s crew were in a condition to appreciate hos pitality. About twenty-live suoh ineu a few seasous ago I found in the life station near Eastbamptou, I,oug Island. They had got ashore in the night from the sea, and not a hat or shoo had they left. They found out, as Paul aud his feiiow voyagers found out, that the sea is the roughest of all the robbers. Mv text finds the ship’s crew ashore on Malta, ad around a hot fire drying themselves, aud with the best provision the islanders can offer them. Aud they go into government quarters for three days to recuperate, , Publius, the rulrr, inviting them, although he had severe sickness in the house at that time, his father down with dysentery and typhoid fever. Yea, for three months they stayed on the island watching for a ship, and putting the hospitalities of the islanders to a severe test. But it endured the test satisfactorily, and it is recorded for all the ages of time and eternity to read and hoar in regard to the inhabitants of Malta; ,- The barbarous people showed us no little kind dess.” Kindness! What a great word that is. It would take a reed as long as that which the apocalyptic angel used to measure Leaven to tell the length, tho breadth, the higot of that munificent word. It is a fa voi ite Bible word, and it is early launched in the book of Genesis, caught up in the book of Joshua, embraced in the book of Ruth, sworn by in the book of Samuel, crowned in the book of Psalms, and en throned in many plaoes in the New Testa- ment. Kindness! A word no more gentle than mighty. I expect it will wrestle ine down before I get through with it. It is strong euough to throw an archangel. But it will be well for us to stand around it. and warm ourselves by its glow as Paul and his fellow voyagers stood around the fire on the island Jcf Malta, where the Maltese made themselves immortal in my text by the way they treated these victims of the sea. “Tin barbarous people shewed us no little kind ness.” Kindness! All definitions of that mu’.ti poteut word break down half way. You say it Is clemency, benignity, generosity; it is made up of good wishes, it is au expres sion of beneficence, it is a contribution to the happiness of others. Someone else savs: “Why, I cau give you a definition of kind ness: it is sunshine of the soul. It is affection perennial, it is a climacteric grace, it is the combination of all graces. 11 is compassion. It is the perfection of gentle manliness and womanliness.” Are you all through; You have made a dead failure in your definition. It cannot be deilued. But we all know what it is, for we all felt its power. Some of you may have felt it as Paul felt it, on some coast or rocu as the ship went to pieces, but more of us have again and again in some awful stress of life bad either from earth or heaven hands stretched out, which “showed us no little kindness.” There is kindness of disposition, kindness of word, kindness of aot, and there is Jesus Christ, the impersonation of all of them. Kindness! You cannot affect it, you can ,-not play it as a part, you caunot enaot it, you cannot dramatize it. By the grace of God you must have it inside you, an ever lasting summer, or rather a combination of June and October, the geniality of tne one and the tonic of the other. It cannot dwell with arrogance or spite or revenge or ma levolence. At its first appearance in the soul all these A male kites and Gergishites . find Hittites and Jebusites must quit, and quit forever. Kindness wishes everybody well, every man well, every woman well, every child well,every bird well, every horse well, every dog well, every cat well. Give this spirit full swing and you would have no more need of societies for prevention of cruelty to animals, no more need of pro tective sewmg woman's associations, ami it would dull every sword until it would not cot skin deep, an 1 unwheel every battery till it could not roll, and make gunpowder of do more use in the world except for rock blasting or pyrotechnio celebration. Kind ness is a spirit divinely implanted, and in answer to prayer, and then to be sedulously cultivated until it fills all the nature with a perfume richer and more pungent than mignonette, and, as if you put a tuft of that aromatic beauty behind the clock on the mantel, or in some corner where nobody can see it, you find people walking about your room loosing this way and that, and you ask them, **W hat are you looking fori” and they answer, “ Where is that floweri” Ho if one has in his soul this infinite sweet ness of disposition its perfume will whelm everything. But are you waiting and hoping for some one to be bankrupted or exposed, or dis comfited, or in some way overthrown , then kindness has not taken possession of vour nature. You are wrecked on a Malta where there are no oranges. You are en tertaining a guest so unlike kindness that kindness will not come and dwell under the same roof. The most exhausting and un healthy and ruinous feeling on earth is a revengeful spirit or retaliaing spirit, as I know by experience, for I have tried it for five or ten minutes at a time. When some mean thing has been done me or said about me, I have felt “I wilipay him ia bis own coin. I will show him up. The ingrate! The traitor! The liar! The villaiu!” But five or ten minutes of the feeling has been so unnerving end exhausting I have aban doned it, and 1 cannot understand bow people can go about torturing them selves five or ten cr twenty years, trying to get even with somebody. The only way you 5 ill ever triumph over your enemies ts by forgiving them and wishing them all good aud no evil. As malevolence is the most uneasy and profitless and dangerous feel ing. kindness is the most healthful and dt ’igutlui. And liim ig not aLi abstraction. As I have tried a little of the retaliatory feeling, so 1 have tried a little of the forgiv ing. Ido not want to leave this world until I have taken vengeance upon every man that ever did me me a wrong by doing him a kindness. In most of such cases I have , already succeeded, hut there are a few malignant* that 1 am yet pursuing, and I shall u>t 1* content until i havo in some wise ■ helped them or beneflted them or bless-1 them. If t this spirit of •kindness. It will set tle a thousand question-. It wi chare, the phase of ei cry thing. It will mellow through and through our entire ature It will transform a lifetime It , 9 not feeling gotten up f.r ocean,-m.. but Ilir rial That Is the reason I like petunias I better than mornii g glorie*. They look eery much alike, and if I should put in your | 1 1 petunia anti a inoniiiig-Klorv you I could hardly tell which is the petunia and which the morning-glory ; but the morning glory blooms only a tew hours aud then shuts up f. r the uay, while the petunia is in a- wide spread a glow at 12 o’d > k at noon and ’> o'clock in the evening as at sunrise. And this grace of kindness is not spasmodic, is not intermittent, is not for a little while, but it irradiates the whole nature, all through and clear on till the sunset of our earthly existence. Kindness! I am resolved to get it. Are you resolved to get it' It does not cmie hap-hazard, hut through culture under the divine help. Thistles grow without culture. Rocky mountain sage grass grows without culture. Mullen stalks grow without Culture. But that great red rase in the conservatory, its leaves packed on loaves, deep-dyed as though it had been obliged to fight for its beauty and it were still reeking with tho carnage of the battle, that rose reeded to be cultured, and through long years its floral ances ors were cultured. O, God! implant kindness in all our souls, and then give us grace to watch it. to enrich it. to develop it! Tho King of Prussia had presented to him by tho Empress of Prussia tho root of a rare flower, and it was put iu the royal gardens on an island, aud tho head gardener, Herr Fintelmann, was told to watch it. And one day it put forth its glory. Three days of every week the people were admitted to these gardens, and a young man, probably not realizing what a wrong thing he w as doing, plucked this flower and put it in his button-hole, and the gardener arrested him as he was crossing at the ferry, and asked !be king t j throw open no more his gardens to the public. The king replied, “Snail I deny to the thousands of good people of my country the privilege of seeiug this garden because one visitor has done wrong ? No, let them come and see the beautiful grounds.” And when the gardener wished to give the king the name of the offender who had takeu the royal flower, he said: “No, my memory is very tenacious, and I do not want to have in my mind tho name of the offender, lest it should hinder me granting him a favor some other time.” Now, I want you to know that kindness is a royal flower, and, blessod be God, the king of mercy and grace, that by a divine gift and not by pur loining, we may pluck this royal flower and not wear it on the outside of cur nature, but wear it in our soul, and wear it for ever, its radiance and aroma not more won derful for time than wonderful for eternity. Still further, I must speak of kindness of word. When you meet any one do you say a pleasant thing or an unpleasant! Do you tell him of agreeable things you have heard about him or the disagreeable? When he leaves you, does he feel better or does he feel worse? o,s the power of the tongue for the production of happiness or misery? One would think from the way tho tongue is caged in we might take the hint that it has a dangerous power. First it is chained to the back part of the mouth by a strong muscle. Then it is surrounded by the teeth of the lower jaw, so many ivory bars, and then by the teeth of the upper jaw, more ivory bars. Then outside of all are the two lips with the power of compression and arrest. And yet, notwith standing these four imprisonments or limi tations, how many take no hint in regard to the dangerous power of the tongue, and the results are laceration, scarification, and damnation. There are those if they know a good thing about you and a bad thing, will mention the bad thing and act as though they had never heard the good thing. Now, there are two sides to almost every one’s character, and we have the choice of overhauling the virtue or the vice. VVe can greet Paul and the ship’s crew as they come up the beach of Malta, with the words, “What a sorry looking set you are! How little of navigation you must know to run ou these rocks! Didn’t you know better than to put out, on the Medi terranean this wintry month? It was not much of a ship anyhow, or it would not have gone to pieces so soon as that. Woil, what do you want* We have bard enough work to make a living for ourselves, without haviug thrust on us two hundred aud sev enty-six ragamuffius.” Not so said the Maltese. I think they said: “Come in! Sit down by the fire aud warm yourselves! Glad that you ail got off with your livos. Mako yourselves at homo. You are welcome to all wo have until s line ship comes in sight aud you resume your voyage. Here, let me put a bandage on your forehead, for that is an ugly gash you got from tho floating tim bers, and here is a man with a broken arm. We will have a doctor come to attend to this fracture.” Ana though for three months the kindness went on, we have but little more than this brief record: “The barbarous people showed us no little kind ness.” O, say the cordial thing! Say the useful thiug! Say the hospitable thing! Sav tho helpful thing! Say the Christlike thing! Say the kind thing! I admit that this is easier for some temperaments than for oth er*. Some are bora pessimists and some are born optimists, and that demonstrates itself all through everything. It is a cloudy morning. You ineot a pessimist and you sav-: ‘’What weather to-day!” He an swers, “It’s going to storm,” and umbrella under arm and a waterproof overcoat show that he is honest in that utteranco. On the same block, a minute after, you meet an optimist and you say: V What weather to day?” “Good weather; this’is only a fog and will soon scatter.” The absence of um brella and absence of waterproof over coat show it is an honest utterance. On your way at noon to luncheon you meet an optimistic merchant, and you say: “What do you think of the commercial prospects?” and he says, “Glorious. Great crojis must bring great business. We are going to have such au autumn aud winter of prosperity as we have never seen.” On your way back to your store you meet a pe-simistic mer chant. “What do you think of the com mercial prospects?” you ask. Aud he an swers- “Well, 1 don’t know. So much grain will surfeit the couutrv. Farmers have more bushels but le-s prices, and the grain gamblers will get their fist in. There is the McKinley bill; aud tho bay crop is short in some places, and in the southern part of Wisconsin they had a hail storm, and our business is as dull as it ever was.” You will find the same difference in judgment of character. A mun of good reputation is assailed and charged wish some evil deed. At the first story ibe pcs i raist will lielii-ve in guilt. “The papers said so, and that’s enough. Down with him.” The optimist will say: “I don't believe a word of it. I don’t think that a man that has been as useful and sesminglv hoi est for twenty years could havo got off the track like that. There are two sides to this story and 1 will wait to hear the other side before I c ndemn him.” My hearer, if i you are by nature a pessimist, make a spe cial effort bv the grace of G.hl to extirpate the dolorous aud the hypercritical from your disposition. Believe nothing ucuiiist anybody until the wrong is established by at least two witnesses of integrity. Aud if guilt lie proven find out thei xtenuating cir cumstances if there are any. And theu commit to memory so that you can quote for vour*elf and quote for others tha- ex quisite thirteenth chapter of First Gorin thiaus about charity that suffers long and is kind, and h >peth ail things, and endur eth all things. By pen, by voice, in public and in privat ’, say ad the good about peo ple you can tbiuk of, aud if there tie notn lng good, then tighten the chain of muscle ou the back end of your tongue, and keep THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1891. the ivory bars of teeth on the lower jaw and tno ivory bars of teeth ou the upper jaw locked, and the gate of your lips tightly closed, and your toDgue shut up. What a piare Brooklyn would tie to live iu, and all the otner 'cities and to live in. if charity dominated! What if all the young and old gosgipers were dead. The Lord hasten their funer als What if tittle-tattle and whispering were cut of fashion! What if in ciphering cut the value of other people’s character, in our moral arithmetic, we stuck to additiou instead of subtraction! Kindness' Let us morning, noon and night pray for it until we get it. When you can sneak agood word j for someone, speak it. If you cat* con scientiously give a letter of commendation, give it. Watoh for opportunities for doing good fifty years after you are dead. All my life has been affected by the letter of in troduction that the Rev. Dr. Van Vranken of New Brunswick Ti eological Seminary, wrote for me, a boy uuder him, wheu I was seeking a settlement in which to preach the gospe'. That letter gave me my first pulpi:. Dr. Van Vranken has been aead more tuan thirty years, yet 1 feel the touch of that magnificent old professor. Strange sensation was it when I received a kind message from Rev. Thomas Guard of Balti m >re, the great Methodist orator, six weeks after his death. By way of the eternal world! O, no, by way of this world. I did not meet the friend to whom he gave the message until nearly two months after Thomas Guard had ascended, So you can start a word about someone that will he on its travels and vigor ous long after the funeral psalm has been sung at your obsequies. Kindness! Why if fifty men all aglow with it should walk through the lost world, methinks they would almost abolish perdition. Furthermore there is kindness of action. That is what Joseph showed to his outra geous brothers. That is what David showed to Mophitioshoth for his father Jonathan’s sake. That is what Onesiphurus showed to Raul in the Romau penitentiary. That is what William Cowper recognized when he said he would not trust a man who would with his foot needlessly crush a worm. That is what our assassinated President Lincoln demonstrated wheu his private seoretary found him in the capital grounds trying to get a bird back to tho nest from whion it bad falieu, and which quality the illustri ous man exhibited years before when having with some lawyers in the carriage ou the way to court passed on the road a swiuefastin the mire, after awhile cried to bi3 horses “Hu!” and said to the gentle men, "I must go hack and help that hog out of the mire.” And he did go back, and put on solid ground the most uninteresting quadruped. That was the spirit that was manifested by my departed friend Hon. Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia (and lovelier man never exchanged earth for heaven ), w hen at Woshingtou. A senator’s wife who told iny wife of the circumstances, said to him: “Mr. Stephens, come and see my dead canary bird.” And he answered, “No, I could not look at the poor thing without crying.” That is the spirit that Grant showed when at thesurreuder at Ap pomattox he said to Gen. Lee, “As many of your soldiers are farmers aud will need the horses and mules to raise the crops to keep their families from suffering next winter, let each confederate who can claim a horse or a mule take it along with him.” That is the spirit which last night ten thousand mothers showed to their sick children com ing to give tho drink at the twentieth call as cheerfully and as tenderly as at the first call. Suppose all this assemblage, and all to whom these words shall come by printer’s type, Bhould resolve to make kind ness an overarching, undergirding and all pervading principle of their life, and then carry out the resolution, why, in six mouths the whole earth would feel it. People would say: “What Is the matter? It seems to me that the world is getting to be a bettor place to live in. Why, life after all is worth living. 'Why, there is Sbylock, my neighbor, has withdrawn his lawsuit of foreclosure against that man, and because be has had so much sickness in his family he is going to have the house for one year rent free. There is an old lawyer in that young lawyer’s office, and do you know what he has gone in there for? Wby, he is helping fix up a case whioh is too big for the ycu:ng man t > handle, and tha white-haired attorney is hunting up previous decisions, and making out a brief for tho boy. Down at the bank I heard yesterday a note was due and the young merchant could not meet it and an old merchant went in and got for him three months’ extension, which for the young merchant is the difference between bank ruptcy and success in business. And in our street is an artist who had a fine picture of the rapids of Niagara, and ho could not sell it, aDd his family were suf fering, and they were themselves in the rapids, and a lady heard of it and said, ‘I do not need the picture, but for the en couragement of art and helping you out of your distress, I will take it’—and on tne drawing-room wall are the Rapids of Nia gara. Do you know that a strange thing has taken place in the pulpit and all the old ministers are helping the young min isters, and all the old doctors are helping the young doctors, and the farmers are as sisting each other in gathering the harvest, and for that farmer who is sick the neigh bors have made a ’bee,’ as they call it, and they havo all turned in to help him get his crops into the garner. And they tell me that the older} |and more skillful reporters who have uermanent posi tions on papers are helpiug the young fellows who are just beginning to try and don’t know exactly how to do it. And after a few erasures and interpolations on the reporter’s pad they say: ‘Now- here is a readable account of that tragedy; hand it in and 1 am sure the managing editor will take it.' And I heard this morning of a poor old man whose three children were in hot debate as to who should take rare of him in his declining days. Tho oldest son declared it was his ri -ht becauso he was the oldest, aud the youngest son said it was his right because ho w-ns the youngest, and Mary said it was her right because she bet ter understood father’s vertigo, and rheumatism, and poor spells, and knew better how to nurse him, and the only way the difficulty Could bo settled was by the old man’s promise that he would divide the j-ear into three parts aDd spond a third of his time with each one of them. And neighboring stores in tho same line of goods on the sane block are acting kindly to each other. It seems to roe that those words of Isaiah are being fulfilled when he says, ‘The carpenter encouraged tiie goldsmith, and he that sinoothei with the hammer, him that smote the anvil, saving, it is ready for the soldering.’ What is the matter ? It Beems to me our world is picking up. Why, the millennium must be coming iu. Kind ness has gotten tho victory.” My hearers, you know and I know we are far from that state of things. But why not inaugurate anew dispensation of geniality? If we cannot yet nave a millennium on a large scale let us have it on a small scale, and under ou:’ own vestments. Kindness! If tliis world is ever brought to God that is the thing that will do it. You cannot fret the woi Id up, although you may fret the world down. You cannot scold it into ex cellence or reformation or godliness. The Hast wind and the West wind were one day talking with each other, and the East wind said to the West wind: “Don’t you wish you had my power ? Why, when 1 start they hail me by storm signals all along the coast. I can twist off a ship’s mast as easily as a oow’s hoof cracks on alder. With one sweep of my wine, I have strewn tho coast from Newfoundland Jto Key West with parted ship-timber. I can lift and have lifted the Atlantio ocean. I am the terror of all invalidism, and to fight mo back forests roust be cut down for fires, and the miues of continents aro called on to feed the furnaces. Under my breath the nations crouch into sepulchres. Don’t you wish you had my power !” said the East wind. The West wi: and made no tower, but started ou its mission, coming somewhere out of the rosy bowers of the sky. aud all the rivers aud lakes and seas smiled at its coming. The gardens bio'mod, and the orchards ripened, aud the wheat fields turned their silver into gold. aud health clapped its hands, and joy shouted from { the bill tops, and the nations lifted their forehoadß into the light, and the earth had | a doxology for the sky, and the sky an anthem for the earth, and the warmth, and the sparkle, and the gladness, and the foliage, and tne flowers, and the fruits, and the beauty, and the life, were the only answer the west Wind made to the insolence of the East wind’s interrogation. Kindness to all! Surely it ought not to be a difficult grace to culture when we see towering above the centuries such an example that one glimpse of it ought to molt and transform all nations. Kindness brought our Lord from heaven. Kindness to miscreants, kindness to persecutors, kind ness to the crippled and the blind and the cataleptic and the leprousand the dropsical, and the demoniacal characterized him all the way, and on the cross kindness to the bandits suffering on the side of him, and kiudness to the executioners wuile yet they pusned the spear and hammered the spikes, and howled the blasphemies. All the stories of the John Howards aud the Florence Nightingales and the Grace Darlings and" tho Ida Lewises pale before this transcen dent example of him whose birth and life and death are the greatest story that the world ever heard, and the theme of the mightiest hosanna that heaven ever lifted. Yea, the very kiudness that allowed both hands to be nailed to the horizontal timber of the cross with that cruel thump! thump! now stretches down from the skies those same hands filled with balm for all our wounds, forgiveness for all our crimes, res cue for all our serfdoms. And while we take this matchless kindness from God may it bo tound.that we have uttered our last bitter word, wri ten our last cutting para graph, done our last retaliatory action, felt our last revengeful heart-throb. And it would not boa bad epitaph for any of us if by the grace of God from this time forth we lived such beneficent lives that the tomb stone’s chisel could appropriately cut upon the plain slab that marks our grave a sugges tion from the text: "He showed us no little kindness.” But not until the last child of God has got ashore from the earthly storms that drove him on the rooks like Mediterranean Euroclydons, not until all the thrones of heaven are mounted, aud all the conquerors crowned, and all the harps and trumpet* and organs of heaven are thrummed or blown or sounded, and the ransomed of all climes and ages are in full chorus under the jubilant swing of angelic baton, and we shall for thousands of years have seen the river from under the throne rolling into the “sea of glass mingled with tire,” and this world we now inhabit shall be so far in the past that only a stretch of celestial memory can recall that it ever ex isted at all, not until then will we under stand what Nehemiah calls ‘ ‘the great kind ness,” and David calls “the marvellous kindness,” and Isaiah calls “the everlasting kindness” of Gcd! ORLANDO TO I -SUE BONDS. The Money to be Used in Paving the Streets. Orlando, Fla., Sept. 13.—The election to decide whether" Orlando shall be bonded for $15,000 for the purpose of paving the streets, passed oflf very quietly yesterday. Many prominent citizens had failed to pay their poll tax in time to vote. Only 116 votes wore cast, one of which was cast out as illegal. Ninety-four were for and twentv-one against bonds. The bonds are to be issued at 7 per cent, interest, and pay able in twenty years. Homervllle’s Camp Meeting. Hombrvillb, Ga., Sopt. 13.—The yearly oamp meeting of the Methodist church held this week resulted in much good. It was largely attended, especially on Sunday. \V. T. Clarke, railroad agent for this place for near two years, has been transferred to Camilla. O. G. Warley is put in his place. Cotton has rotted and stained by the recent heavy rains in this section. Asa general thing crops have yielded a more than usual supply, however, so far. The new Metho dist parsonage in this place is completed all but chimneys and is a handsome, neat building. The health of the place is good. Some few cases of fever. * Bupt- Merriwother’e Successor. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 13.—J. M. Stephens, manager of the Atlanta Western Union office, succeeds Mr. Merri wether, deceased, as division superintendent. Mr. StephoDS is a veteran in the service, and there is no more capable or popular telegraph man in the south. It is not yet decided who will succeed Mr. Stephens as manager of the Atlanta office. A Blow at Lumpkin. Lumpkin, Fla., Sept. 13.—A stiff north east wind, with ram, has been blowing for two days, with prospects of a gale. The cotton crop will be greatly damaged. MINISTER WHBHL3 THE BABY. How an Oriental Diplomat Amuses Eis Infant at Washington. Washington, Sept. 13.—The Chinese minister makes an engaging picture these cool evenings soberly marching around Dupont circle trundling the little carriage in which reposes the brand new baby that recently arrived at the big lega tion. The minister has set at naught all celestial traditions and tenets of Chinese aristocracy in himself becoming the motive power of the baby carriage, but he seems to enjoy defying ail establiihod usages, and wheels the carriage with an aggressive air that keeDS at a distance even the West Washington hoodlums. The tiny yellow Infant is swaddled in soft silken wrapping-, and wears a tight red silk cap on its little round head, which is already covered with jet hlacK hair. A silk quilt covers the baby’s face and all and is occa sionally turned down by the proud father to permit inquisitive ladies who stop the carriage to examine the little hands and feet. When out trundling the baby tho minister is always accompanied by his 12-year-old son, his wife aud his sister lu-law, who walk behind him in single file. The ladies of the legation were at first kept closaly confined in their rooms, but they soon broke over the regulations, which were without the sustaining influence of a na tional custom, and now appear to greatly enjoy their freedom. MEDICAU 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 _ . tongue, and irregularity of D i stress the bowels. Dyspepsia does After not well of itself. It _ . requires careful attention, Eating alu j a rem edy like Hood's Sarsaparilla, which acts gently, yet efficiently. It tones the stomach, regulates the diges tion, creates a good ap- Sirk petite, banishes headache. ® R . and refreshes the mind. HfiadaCnO “ I have been troubled with dyspepsia. I bad but little appetite, and what I did eat HonG- distressed me, or did me la art little good. After eating I DU m 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 e rt nr spring I took Hood’s Sar- aour 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 Sarsaparilla Sold bj all druggUts. jgl; six for f5. Prepared *nly by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries. Lowell, 100 Doses One Dollar A GAMBLER’S BIBLE Causes His Arrest for Lunacy—An Old-Time High-Roller Wrecked. Louisville, Sept. 13.—Fred Therw anger, one of the most Doted gamblers in tho west, was arrested this morning, charged with lunacy. He was standing at Fourth and Jefferson streets with a Bible in his band, and announced that he was going to hold a revival. His stepson, Fred Pflofor, of Cin cinnati, swore out a warrant charging him with lunacy. Therwanger was until a few years ago one of the high-rollers among sporting men. He came from Madison, Tnd., to Louis ville, and was soon in the swim when gam bling was at high tide here. When it was broken up in this city he opened a big house in Jeffersonville and his income was said to be SIO,OOO a year. Wheu the authorities finally raided his place his money nearly all went in pay ment of fines and lawyer fees. He took to drinking and soon became almost a vaga bond, the climax of his downfall coming with the charge of lunacy to-day. A CRUEL HUSBAND JUGGED. He Rushed for a Gun to Kill the Ar resting Officer. Brunswick, Ga., Sept. 13.—A white street to-night in search of an officer to protect her from the threatened cruelty of her husband, Walter Davenport. Police woman, thinly clad, rushed up Newcastle man Lisle responded, and reaching Daven port’s home, was opening the gate, when Davenport exclaimed : “If you'euter I will kill you ! ” and ran in a room for his gun. Officer Lilse followed aud closed in on Davenport as he reached for the gun, threw him backward and half dragged him to the streets. Otner officers foLowed in the meantime and screaming and cursing Davenport was carried to a call. Church goers passing along were terrified by his violent language. Some interesting! details of Dakota's pheno menal crops are In the form of accounts of big yields on individuals farms. One farmer iu North Dakota thrashed out 1,034 bushels of wheat from thirty-three acres of land, a little more than thirty-one bushels to the acre, and he netted SBSB 20 on his crop. Rolette county claims yields of forty bushels of wheat to the acre, sevjuty-ftve bushels of oats, sixty bushels of barley and 500 bushels of potatoes Yields of twenty-one to thirty bushels of wheat to the acre are common. One man has 700 acres of wheat giving thirty bushels to the acre. And the farmers are receiving 80 to 83 cents a bushel for their wheat. Tne wail of the alliance is not heard much in Dakota iust at the moment. SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE TO DELINQUENT WATER TAKERS. City Treasurer's Office, j Savannah, Ga, Sept. 5,182]. f The Turncock has been instructed to shut off the supply of water from all premises in arrears for water rent from July 1, 1801, to Jan. 1, 1802. If you wish to avoid the penalty call and pay your rent without delay. CHAS. S. HARDEE, City Treasurer. REWARD. Richmond and Danville Railroad, Cos.. 1 Office of General Manager, V Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 1, 1891. ( This company will pay SIO,OOO for the arrest and conviction of the person, or persons, who removed the rail from|the track of the Western North Carolina Railroad, near Bostian’s Bridge, Iradell county, North Carolina, ou the night of Wednesday, Aug. 26, 1891. W. H. GREEN, General Manager Richmond and Danville Rail road Company. H. M. Comer. Joseph Hull. COMER, HULL <fc CO., Successors to Hammond, Hull & Cos., MA.MiACTURERS OF FERTILIZERS. Sole owners of THE GEORGIA FERTILIZER CO. —AND— THE PORT ROYAL FERTILIZER CO. Offlcß No. lOfiLj Hay street, - Savannah. Ga. AUSTIN R MYItKS, BROKER, 114 BRYAN STREET, Buys and sells stocks and bonds. Buyers and sellers invited to call or write. USE DR. ULMER’S LIVER CORRECTOR FOR INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, AND ALL LIVER COMPLAINTS. SILVER MEDALS AND DIPLOMA Awarded it over all Liver Medicines. PRICE ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE. Freight Prepaid to Any Address. BOLTON STREET, Double cottage, north side, between Abercorn and Lincoln. For sale cheap. Address WALTHOUR & RIVERS, Savannah, Ga. FREID A HICKS, RESTAURANT. RICE BIRDS ON TOAST, OYSTERS, ETC. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. TELEPONE 546. NOS. 9, II AND 13 MARKET. TO DISPEL MOSUUITOES Burn a small quantity of the True Dalmati on Insect powder, not the adulterated article. Cupid Almond Cream will remove sunburn and all eruptions of the skin, rendering it soft and white. Mennan's Berated Taleura Powder, for heat aud chafed surfaces. It is a safe and harmless powder. SOLOMONS & CO., 163 Congress Street and 92 Bull Street, KDLID BACKS are by odds the most desirable Hair Brushes for active servic?, and we have in stock now our second importation of solid bark, wire drawn brushes, the low prices of which will astonish you. Shaving and Tooth Brushes in elegant variety at BUTLER’S PHARMACY, Cor. Bull and Congress. FOR CHARTER. Deck Lighter DENIS MURPHY, 60x18 feet, with portable sides, 30 inches high, and in ANo.I condition. Gan be used for transporting nee or other merchandise. Apply to DENIS J. MURPHY, tt Drayton Street, Savannah, Ga. __ MEDICAL. TAKE SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR FOR INDIGESTION, MALARIA, SOUR STOMACH, DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL DEPRESSION, RESTLESSNESS, SICK HEADACHE, COLIC, FEY ER AND AGUE, JACNDICE, CONSTIPATION and BILIOUSNESS. Whenever you see TAKE know it is as part of the injunction Tate Simmons Liver Regulator. fuxeral ivvitations^ BAILEY.- The frieiids of David Hamilton Bailey aud Mr. and 31rs. Wna. Pearson Hardoe are invited to attend the funeral of the former from No. 78 Gwinnett street THIS AFTER NOON at 3:30 o’clock. LEWIS.—The relatives and friends of Miss Edith Lewis, an i of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Rivers, are invited to attend the funeral services of the former from the residence of the latter, No. 77W, Duffy street, THIS (Monday) AFTER NOON, the 14th inat., at 4 o'clock. MEETINGS. CLINTON LODGE .\U IU, F. A A. iIT A regular communication of this A will l*e held at Masonic Temulo THIS (Monday* EVENING, Sept. 14th, 1891. at 8 o'clock. ' \ The F. O. Degree will be conferred. Members of sister lodges and visiting breth ren are cordially invited to meet with us. FRANK H. MORSE, W. M. Waring Russell, Jr., Secretary. GERMAN FRIENDLY SOCIEI V, The regular monthly meeting of this society will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING in Turners’ Hall at 8 o'clock. W. SCHEIHING, President. A. Heller, Seoretary. MILITARY ORDERS. GEORGIA HUSSARS. Headquarters Georgia Hussars, ) Troop A, sth Regiment Georgia Cavalry, V Savannah, Ga., Sopt. 13, 1891. ( Order So. 39. The company is hereby or. \jk dored to assemble at head jye quarters,on MONDAY the 14th iust., at 3 o'clock p. m , dis mounted, without boots and &s}s& k>- spurs; in regimental uniform an 1 cap, arne-d with carbines, f Nf 72 to pay the last tribute of A spect to late Veteran —t r i her r* iquijj David Hamilton Bailey. By order of Capt. BEIRNE GORDON. F. A. Habersham, First Sergeant. SAVANNAH VOLUNTEER GUARDS Headquarters Battalion ) Savannah Volunteer Guards, v Order So. 55. The regular monthly meeting of the corps will oe held at the Armory on MONDAY, 14th instant, at 8:15 o’clock p. m. Members will come prepared to pay their dues. By order of LIEUT. COL GARRARD. Wm. P. Hunter, Ist Lieut, aud Adjt. SPJJCJAL XOTIUBA. On and after Feb. 1, 1890, the basis of nm, vrement of all advertising in the Moaxmo N*ws wnß be agate, nr at the rate of $1 40 on inch for the first insertion. .Vo Special .Vofloe inserted for lee s than $1 00. AVOID LAW SIITS. TO OWNERS OF REAL ESTATE. BE WISE IN TIME. INSURE YOUR TITLES WITH THE TITLE GUARANTEE AYD LOA.Y COMPANY, 135 CONGRESS STREET. The ejectment suits just brought by the heirs of George D. 51 ilien against tho property in Waring, Lee, White, Cuthbert, Reppard and Cumming Wards, involving in ALL OVER ONE HUNDRED LOTS OF LAND. Of the forty-six lots in Waring. Lee and White Wards, the titles to which are attacked by these suits, EIGHT, AT LEAST, are amply protected by the Title Guarantee Comnany, and the owners are relieved not only OF ALL POSSIBILITY OF LOSS. but of the annoyance which necessarily attends a lawsuit. NO ATTENDANCE AT COURT. NO COUNSEL TO BE EMPLOYED NO SURVEYS TO BE MADE, NO WITNESSES TO BE SUMMONED, NO DISTURBANCE OF MIND ere among the blessings now enjoyed by the holders of the insurance policies of THE TITLE GUARANTEE COMPANY, and by those fortunate parties who procured their titles directly or indirectly through it. THE TITLE GUARANTEE COMPANY, 135 Congress Street. Has a perpetual charter. The death or insolv ency of any or all of its stockholders cannot affect its w arranty. It has a paid in capital of nearly $150,009, (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars) and constantly increasing, aud is authorized to issue stock totbe extent of $500,000. INSURE YOUR TITLES NOW. You know not when they may be attacked, and if you are wise you will take time by the fore lock, and guard against future trouble. THE TITLE GUARANTEE COMP ANY will defend all suits that may be brought at any time in the future against property sheltered by it* policies, and indemnify its patrons against any possible loss, to the exteat of the amount insured. PREMIUM PAYABLE ONLY ONCE The company has the use of Beckett's Abstracts of 1 ,an i Titles, and the advantage of the advice of first-class counsel. It is. therefore, in a posi tion to act safely and carefully upon all titles submitted for its guarantee. GEORGE H STONE. President. ISAAC BECKETT. Secretary and Solictor. R It. RICHARDS. Advisory Counsel. “GOLDEN” CURES IN 46 HOURS! No pain, no stricture! 50 CENTS. ONLY BY ROW LIN SKI, Pharmacist, Broughton and Drayton Sts. T ..epbone 4< A, CLOTHING. -=t m i=: at theV Ur * u i**L n S ha;gone wa, register *^.? 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With an obliging staff of officers and conservative man agement patrons and those desiring to deposit with it may be assured that their interests will be carefully guarded. OFFICERS. HENRY BLUN, GEO. W. OWENS, President. Vice President. JOHN M. HOGAN. Cashier. DIRECTORS. HENRY BLUN. GEO. W. OWENS, Attorney at Law. P. BRENNAN, of Kavanaugh & Brennan. R. M. HULL, of Dearing & Hull. WILLIAM KEiIOE, of Wm. Keboe <fc Cos. AMSON MOHR, of Mohr Bros. DR. J. B. READ. T. F. STUBBS, of Stubbs & Tison. A. P. 80LOMON, of Heury Solomon & Sona G. M. RYALS. IRVIN B. TIEDEMAN, of Geo. W. Tiedeman A BroJs A. C. HARMON, Broker and Commission Mer. chant. 1 ~ ' § President. Vioe President. JAB. H. HUNT SR, Cashier. jSAVAMU RANK i TRUST Ctt Savings Dep t ALLOWS 4% Deposits of SI and Upward Rflw?e4 Intei eat on Deposit* Payable (juorttriy. DIKBICJTCmat J o*r pH D. Witao, of J. D. Weed A Oa. Joan C. Rowlahd, Capitalist □. A. Reins, Rxchanae ana Insurance. Joan L. Hikdh.ui, Garilialtot. R. 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