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SOLOMON IN HIS GLOKY.
BEV. TALMAGE PREACHES THE
GREAT SURPRISE.
Bow tbe Kins Made Jerusalem the
Center of Alt Sacred. Regal and Com
mercial Magniflcence-The Visit of
the Queen of Shebi—The Lessons
Drawn From the Story.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 38.—-The congre
gation at the tabernacle this morning
listened to a glowing description of the mag
nificence of Solomon, which Dr. Talmage
likened to the gloriee of the Christian relig
ion, which would, he said, be a surprise to
all who tried it for themselves. His text
was: I. Kings, x.,7:, "Behold, the half was
not told me.”
Solomon had resolved that Jerusalem
should be tbe center of all sacred, regal aid
commercial magnificence. He set himself
to work and monopolized the surrounding
desert n a highway for his caravans. He
built the city of Palmvra around one of the
principal wells of the east, so that all the
long trains of merchandise from the east
were obliged to stop there, pay toll, and
leave part ot their wealth in the hands of
Solomon’s merchants. He manned the fort
ress Tqapsacus at the chief ford of the
Euphrates, and put under guard everything
that passed there. The three groat products
of Palestine—wine pressed from the richest
clusters and celebrated all over the world;
oil which in that country is the entire sub
stitute for butter and lard, and was pressed
from the olive branches until every tree m
the country became an oil well, and honey
which was'tbe entire substitute for sugar—
these three great products of the country
Bolomon exported, and received in return
fruit* and preoious woods and the animals
t>f every clime.
He went down to Exion-geber and ordered
e flee! of ships to be constructed, oversaw
the workmen and watched the launching of
the flotilla which was to go out on more
than a year’s voyage to bring home the
wealth of the then known world. He beard
tliat the Egyptian horses were large and
ewift and long maned and round limbed,
and be reaolved to purchase them, giving
eighty-five dollars apiece for them, putting
the best of these horses in his own stall and
selling tbe surplus to foreign potentates at
great profit.
He beard that there was the best of tim
ber ou Mount Lebanon, and be seut out one
hundred and eighty thousand men to hew
down the forest and drag the timber
through the mountain gorges, to construct
It into rafts to be lloated to Joppa, and
from thence to be drawn by ox teams
gwenty-flve miles across the land to Jeru
salem. He heard that there were beautiful
glowers in other lauds. He sent for them,
planted them In bis own gardens, and to
this very day there are flowers found in tbe
ruins ot that city such as are to be found in
Do other part of Palestine, tbe lineal de
scendants of the very flowers that Solomon
planted. He beard that in foreign groves
There were birds of richest voice and most
luxuriant wing. He sent out people to
catch them and bring them there, and he
pot them into his cages.
Stand back now and sec this loDg train of
camels oomiiig up to tbe king’s gate, and
the ox-trains from Egypt, gold ana silver
and preoious stones, and beasts of every
hoof, and birds of every wing, and fish of
every scale! See the peacocks strut under
the oedars, and the horseman run, and the
chariots wheel 1 Hark to tbe orchestra!
Gaze upon tbe dance! Not stopping to look
Into tbo wonders of the temple, step right
on to the causeway, and iiass up to Solo
mon’s palace!
Here we find ourselves amid a collection
of building on which the king had lavished
the wealth of many empires. The genius
of Hiram, the architect, and of the other
artists is here seen in the long line of cor
ridors and the suspended gallery and the ap
proach to the throne. Traceried window
opposite traoeried window. Brouzed orna
ments bursting into lotus and lily and
pomegranate. Chapiters surrounded by
network ot leaves in whioh imitation fruit
seemed suspended as in hanging baskets.
Three branches—so Josephus tells us—three
branches sculptured on the marble, so
thin and subtle that even tbe leaves
seemed to quiver. A laver capable of
bolding five hundred barrels of water on six
hundred braxen ox-heads, which gushed
with water and filled the whole place with
coolness and crystalline brightness and mu
sical plash. Ten tables chased with ohariot
wheel and lion and cherubim. Solomon sat
on a throne ot ivory. At tbe seating place
of the throne, on eaph end of the steps, a
brazen lion. Why, my friends, in that
place they trimmed their oatidies with
snuffers of gold, aod they cut their fruit with
knives of gold, and they washed their
faces In basins of gold, and they scooped
out the ashes with shovels of gold, and they
stirred the altar fires with tongs of gold.
Gold reflected in the water! Gold flashing
from the apparel: Gold blazing in the
crown 1 Gold 1 gold! gold 1
Of course, the news of the affluence of
that plaoe went out everywhere by every
caravan and by wing of every ship, until
soon the streets of Jerusalem are crowded
with curiosity seekers. What is that long
procession approacbiug Jerusalem? 1 think
from the pomp of it there must be royalty
in tbe train. I smell the breath of tbe
•pioes which are brought as presents, and I
hear the shout of the drivers, and 1 see the
dust-covered caravan shoeing that they
some from far away. Cry tbe news up to
the palace. The Queen of Sheba advances.
Let all the people come out to see. Let the
mighty men of the land come out on the
palace corridors. Let Solomon come down
the stairs of the palace before the queen
bas alighted. Shake out the olunamon, and
the saffron, and the calamus,aud the frank
incense, and pass it into the treasury house.
Take up the diamonds until they glitter in
the suu.
The Queen of Sheba alights. She enters
the palace. She washes at the bath. She
sits down at the banquet, the cup-bearers
bow. The meat smokes. You hear the
dash of waters from the molten sea. Then
she rises from the banquet aud walks
through tbe conservatories and gazes on
the architecture and she asks Solomon
many strange questions and she learns
about the religion of tbo Hebrews and she
then turns and becomes a servant of the
Lord God.
Bhe is overwhelmed, Bbe begins to
think that all the spices she brought and
all the precious woods which are intended
to be turned into harps and psalteries and
into railings for the causeway between the
temple and the palace, and the one hun
dred and eighty thousand dollars in money,
■he begins to think that all' these presents
amount to nothing in such a place, and she
is almost ashamed that she has brought
them, and she says within herself: “I
heard a great deal about this wonderful
religion of the Hebrews, but I find it far
beyond my highest anticipations. I must
add more than fifty per cent, to what has
been related. It exceeds everything that 1
could have expected. The half—the half
was not told me.”
I-earn from this subject what a beautiful
thing it is when social position and wealth
surrender themselves to God. When a re
ligion comes to a neighborhood, the first to
receive it are the women. Some men say
it is because they are weak minded. I Bay
It is because they have quicker perception
of what is right, more ardent affection and
capacity for sublimer emotion. After the
women have received the gospel then all
the distressed and the poor of both sexes,
those who have no friendß, accent Jesus!
Last of all come the people of affluence
and high social position. Alas, that it is
to!
If there are those here to-dav who have
been favored of fortune, or, as I might bet
ter put it, favored of God, surrender ul! vou
bave and all you expect to be to the Lord
who blessed this Queen of Sheba. Certainly
you are not ashamed to be found in this
queen’s company. lam glad that Christ
has had bis imperial friends of all ages—
Elizabeth Christina, Queen of Prussia;
Maria Feodorovna, Quean of Russia; Marie,
Empress of Franco; Helena, the imperial
of Constantine; Arcjdia, from her
1 great fortune* building public baths In Con
stantinople and toiling for the alleviation
j of the maaet-s; Queen Clotilda, leading her
husband and three thousand ot bis armed
warriors to Christian baptism; Elizabeth of
! Burgundy, giving her jewels! glove to a
! beggar and nattering great fortunes among
the dlstres-ed; Prince Albert, singing "Rock
of Ages” in Windsor castle, and Queen
Victoria, incognito, reading the scriptures
to a dying pauper.
I bless Gid that the day is coming w hen
royalty will bring all its thrones, and music
ail its harmonies, and painting all its pict
ures. and sculpture all its statuary, and
architecture all its pillars, and conquest all
its scepters; and tbe queens of the earth, in
long line of advance, frankincense filling the
air and tbe camels laden with gold shall ap
proach Jerusalem, and tbe gates shall be
hoisted, and the great burden of splendor
shall be lifted into the palace of this greater
than Solomon.
Again, my subject teaches me what is
earnestness in the search of truth. Do you
know where Sheba was; It was in Abys
sinia. or some say in the southern part of
Arabia Felix, In either case it was a great
way off from Jerusalem. To get from there
to Jerusalem she bad to cross a country in
fested with bandits, and go acros' blister
ing deserta, Why did Dot the Queen of
Sheba stay at home and send a committee
to inquire about this ne w religion, and have
the delegate! report in regard to that
religion aud wealth of King Solomon? She
wauled to see for herself, and hear for her
self. She could not do this by work of
o mmittee. She felt she ha l a soul worth
tea thousand kingdoms like Sheba, and she
wanted a robe richer than any woven by
Oriental shuttles, and she wanted a crown
set with the jewels of eternity, Bring out
tbe camels. Put on the spices. Gather up
the jewels of tbe throne and put them on
the caravan. Start no w; no time to be lost.
Goad on the camels. When 1 sea that
caravan, dust-covered, weary and ex
hausted, trudging on across the desert and
among tbe bandits until it reaches
Jerusalem, I say: ‘‘There is an earnest
seeker after the truth.”
But there are a great many of yon, my
friends, who do not act in that way. You
all want to get the truth, but you want the
truth to come to you; you do not want to
go to it. There are people who fold their
arms and say: “I am ready to become a
Christian at any time; if I am to be saved I
shall be saved, and if I am to be lost I shall
be lost.” Ah, Jerusalem will never come to
you; you must go to Jerusalem. The re
ligion of tbe Lord Jesus Christ will not
come to you; you must go and get religion.
Bring out the camels, put on all the sweet
spices, all the treasures of the heart's
affection. Start for the throne. Go in
and hear the waters of salvation dashing
in fountains all around about the throne.
Sit down at the banquet—the wine
pressed from the grapes of the heavenly
Kschol, the angel of God the oup-bearers.
Goad on tbe camels; Jerusalem will never
come to you; you must goto Jerusalem.
The Bible deolares it: "The Queen of the
South”—that is, this very woman I am
speaking of—"the Queen of the South shall
rise up in judgment against this generation
and condemn it; for she came from the
uttermost parts of the earth to hear the
wisdom of Solomon; and, behold! a greater
than Solomon is here.” God help me to
broak up the infatuation of those people
who are sitting down in idleness expecting
to be saved. "Strive to enter in at the
strait gate. Ask, and it shall be given
you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it
shall be opened to you.” Tako the klug
kom of heaven by violence. Urge on the
camels I
Again, my subject impresses me with the
fact that religion is n surprise to anv one
that gels it. The story of the new religion
in Jerusalem, and of the glory of King
Solomon, who was a type of Christ—that
story rolls on aud on, and is told by every
traveler coming back from Jerusalem. The
news goes on the wing of every ship and
with every caravan, aud you know a story
enlarges as it is retold, and by the time that
story getß down into the southern part of
Arabia Felix, and the Queen of Sheba hears
it. it must be n tremendous story. And yet
this queen declares in regard to it, although
she had beard so much aud had her antici
pations raised so high, the half-the half
was not told her.
So religion is always a surprise to any
one that gets it. Tbe story of grace—an
old one. Apostles preached it with rattle
of chain; martyrs declared it with arm of
fire; death-beds have affirmed it with
visions of glory, and ministers of religion
have sounded it through the lanes and the
highways and chapels and the cathedrals.
It has been cut into stone with chisel and
spread on the canvas with pencil, and it
has been reoited in the doxology of great
congregations. And yet when a man first
comes to look on the palace of God's mercy
and to see the royalty of Christ, and the
wealth of this banquet, and tbe luxuriance
ot bis attendants, and the loveliness of his
face, and the joy of bis service, be exclaims
with prayers, with tears, with sighs, with
triumphs: “The half—the half was not
told me I"
I appeal to those in this house who are
Christians. Compare the idea you had of
the joy of the Christian life before you be
came a Christian with the appreciation of
that joy you have now, sinoe you have be
come a Christian, and you are willing to
attest before angels and men that you never
in the days of your spiritual bondage bad
any appreciation of what was to come. You
are ready to-day to answer, and if I give
you an opportunity in the midst of this as
semblage, you would speak out aud say in
regard to the disooverles you have made
of the meroy and the grace aud the good
ness of God: “The half —the half was not
told me!”
Well, we hear a great deal about the good
time coming to this world, when it is to be
girdled with salvation. Holiness ou the
bells of the horses. The lion’s mane patted
by the band of a babe. Ships ot Tarshish
bringing cargoes for Jesqs, aud the hard,
dry, barreu, winter-bleached, storm scar
red, thunder-split rock breaking into floods
of bright water. Deserts into whioh drom
edaries thrust their nostrils, because they
were afraid of the simoon—deserts bloom
ing into carnation roses and silver-tinped
lilies.
It is the old story. Everybody tells it.
Isaiah told it, John told it," Paul told it,
Ezekiel told it, Luther told it, Calvin told
it, John Milton told it—everybody tells it;
and yet—and yet when the midnight shall
fly the hills and Christ shall marshal his
groat army, and China, dashing her idols
into the dust, shall hear the voice of God
and wheel into line; and India, destroying
her Juggernaut and snatching up her little
children from the Ganges, shall hear the
voice of God and wheel into line; and vine
covered Italy and all the nations of the
earth shall hear the voice of God and Tall
into line; then the church which has been
toiling and struggling through the cent
uries, robed end garlanded like a bride
adorned for her hushand, shall put aside her
veil aud lookwn into the face of her Lord
and King anil s*ay: ‘The half—the half
was not told me!"
Well, there is coming a greater surprise
to every Christian—a greater sui prise than
anything I have depicted. Heaven is an
old story. Everybody talks about it. There
is hardly a Wytnn iu the hymu book that
does not refer to it. Children read about
it in their Sibbath school book. Aged
men put on their spectacles to study it. We
say it is a harbor from the storm. ‘ VVe call
it our home. We say it is the house of
many mansions. We weave together all
sweet, beautiful, delicate, exhilaraut words;
we weave them into letters, and then we
spell it out in ros) and lily amaranth. And
yet that plao* is going to be a surprise ;to
the most intelligent Christian. Like the
Queen of Sheba, the reporffhas come to us
from the far country, and many of us
have started. It is a desert march, but
we urge on the camels. What though our
feet be blistered with the wav? We are
hastening to the palace. We take all our
loves aud hopes and Christian ambitions,
as frankincense aud myrrh and cassia to
the great King. We must not rest. We
must not halt. The night is coming on, and
it is not sate out he: ein the desert. Urge
on the camels. 1 see the domes against the
*y, and the bou-es of Lebanon, and the
temples and the gardens. Seethe fountains
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. FEBRUARY’ 29,1892.
dance in the sun, and tbe gates flash as they
open to let in the poor pilgrims.
.-'end the word uo to the palace that we
are o ming, and that we are weary of the
march of tbe de-er:. The king will come
out and say: “ W eicome to tbe palace: bat he
in these waters, recline on these tranks.
I Take this cinnamon a.d frankincense and
j myrrh and put it upon a censer and swing
it before tbe altar.” And yet, my friends.
I when heaven bursts upon us it will be a
greater surprise than that—Jesus on tbe
throne, and we made like him! All our
j Christian friends surrounding us in glory!
All our sorrows and tears and sins gone by
forever: The th >usnds of thousands, the
one hundred and forty-and-four thousand,
the great multitudes that no man can num
ber. will <ry, world without end: "The half
—the half was not told us!”
CONVENTION OF THE V. M. O. A.
The Session Closed With Yesterday's
Religious-Exercises.
Griffin. Ga. , Feb. 39.—The exercises of
the convention of the Young Men’s Christian
Association to-day have been exclusively of
a devotional nature. All tbe churches ten
dered the use of their pulpits, and each one
was occupied by an association worker.
Notwithstanding the inclement weather
overy church was filled at each of the many
services I eld during tee day and to-night.
At 9 o’clock this morning a consecration
meeting was held at the Young Men’s
Christian Association building, conducted
by F. L. Willis.
W. Woods White of Atlanta and F. 8.
Brockman, secretary of the International
College Association, conducted services at
the Methodist church at 11 o’clock.
At the Presbyterian church were W. K.
Bosard and H. P. Anderson, apd at tbe
Christian church A. C. bndgeman and W.
D. Lancaster.
At Kincaid faotory at 3 o’clock a gospel
meeting was conducted by J. F. Cargile, J.
J. McNally and Walter Menken. .
THE MEETINGS FOR Mill AND BOYS,
The meeting for men only, at 4 o’clock,
was held at the Methodist church and was
one of the events of the convention. It
was conducted by E. F. See.
The meeting for boys, at 4 o’clock, at the
Young Men’s Christian Association build
ing, was conducted by G. M.. Rosser.
The ladies’ meeting, at the same hour, at
the Presbyterian church, was led by C. A.
Licklider aud F. IL Rossiter. It was very
interesting aud largely attended. This was
in the interest of the ladies’ auxiliary.
The union meeting and concluding serv
ices of the convention were held at the
Baptist church and were conducted by E.
F. See. This proved to be tbe most Inter
esting of the many meetings yet held.
A GRACEFUL SPEAKER.
Mr. See is an easy and graceful speaker,
and from start to finish held his largo audi
enoe spellbound by his eloquent words. He
bears the distinction of being the best of all
the association working secretaries. Fol
lowing Mr. See was C. A. Licklider of At
lanta in the farewell service of the conven
tion. This was an interesting and im
pressive service. With this, the 14th
anuual convention of the Young Men’s
Christian Association adjourned.
Much interest has been manifested by all
who have attended the sessions, and it is
safe to say good of a lasting nature will fol
low the work begun.
NEW RAILROAD.
The People Anxious to Have tho Link
to Savannah Completed.
Dublin, Ga., Feb. 3S.—Thero is a great
amountof speculation here as to when the
Macon, Dublin and Savannah railroad will
commence the extension to Savannah.
Rumor places the time within the next
thirty days. Dublin is very anxious to
have a short line to Savannah, as her busi
ness with Savannah runs up into the hun
dreds of thousands, and will increase when
the extension is made. Tho Maoon, Dublin
and Savannah road has completed splendid
wharf connections with the steamers on the
Oconee river, and will now commence
to Bridge the Oconee. Every line of
business In Dublin is looking up and get
ting brighter. A large amount of building
is going on and the future of the town is
very bright. Her position at the head qf
navigation on the Oconee and prospeots for
four diverging liueß of railroads make
Dublin an inviting and attractive point
for investors.
A Ladies' Auxiliary.
Watcross, GU., Feb. 28.—A ladies’ aux
iliary to the Way cross Rifles was organized
at the armory of the company on Wednes
day evening. The following officers were
elected: Mrs. H. 8. Dubose, president; Mrs.
J. C. Hall, vice president; Miss Ollie But
ler, secretary, and Miss Sue Wideman,
treasurer.
A New Normal Institute.
Tai.lahasskk, Fla., Feb. 28.—The Nor
mal Extension Institute and Central Busi
ness College Association of Ocala, capital
stock 1 10,000, has filed articles of incorpora
tion with the secretary of state. The studies
of this college will embrace such branches
as are now the State Normal Col
lege at Do Fuuiak Springs. It will be a
summer school, intended to prepare students
to enter the State Normal College. Prof.
Henry N. Felkel of the s ate normal is
president of the now college.
The State Normal and Industrial College
for colored students, on the lefty hill Bouth
ot Tallahassee, will soon be lighted by gas.
The Tallahassee Gas Company will run a
main out there.
B. J. Garwood of Marietta, Ga., died here
at the home of his daughter. Mrs. J. B.
Collins, this afternoon, aged 87.
AS ENGINEER INJURED.
Engineer Knight, who was driving train
No. 10 of the Florida Central and Penin
sular road which collided with a flat car
loaded with logs at Eiiavillo this morning,
was brought here this afternoon and is at
the Walton boarding house, where his
wounds are being attended to by Dr. G. W.
Belton, surge >nof the road. When No.lo ran
into the flat car the shock was so great that
Engineer Knight was thrown through the
cab window with such force that one leg was
broken and his back severely wrenched. He
is suffering much pain, but his injuries will
not prove fatal.
EMMA PFIIZSNM AYER’S GHOST.
The Murdered Girl’s Spirit Haunts Her
t hester Home
Chester, Pa., Feb. 28.—Chester has
developed a startling case in the last few
days. The house, 704 Edgemont avenue,
where Emma Pfltzenmayer was murdered,
is said by the family of John Rumford,
who occupy the place, to be haunted. The
entire household p siti rely assert that they
have seen the spirit of the departed German
girl upon a number of occasions.
Little has been said by them of the ap
parition until a day or two ago, when Mat
tie, the 10 vear-old daughter of the family,
sustained a serious fail through the appear
ance of the unnatural visitor. She was
chatting pleasantly on the ground floor of
the building about 8 o'clock in the evening
when her sister, Mrs. Delenore Rumford,
requested her to get some article of wearing
apparel from the r orn in whicn the body
of Emma Pfltzenmayer was found with her
throat cut.
The light had been turned down low, and
as the girl descended toe single step which
leads into the room she says the form of the
departed girl emerged from the closet. Upon
coming into view the specter gave several
piercing shrieks. Mattie made a rush for
the step, but ns she turned she says she dis
tinctly felt a hand grasp her arm. She re
members nothing after that, for sne fell
down the entire steps which lead into the
hallway. When picked up aim was uncon
scious, had sprained an ausle and was
bleeding from the mouth aid nostrils. The
other members of the household claim also
to have seen the apparition at different
times.
Paine:: Pimsari k will attend the coming ses
sion of tho up.cr house of the Prussian diet.
STUDIES IN FLATTERY.
COMPLIMENTS BECAUSE OF THRIR
APTNESS AND D3LICAQY.
Epigrams That Have Saved Men's
Fortunea-Fortunate and Unfortu
nate Extempore Retorta—Sheridan’s
Clever Way of Turning a Dun Into
a Treat—Crowding a Life’s Thought
Into a Moment’s Speech.
From the London Standard.
Here is a delicious story told of an old
minister of the Church of Scotland, who
was often obliged to employ assistants dur
ing the latter part of his life. One of these
was rather vain of his qualifications as a
preacher, but affected to be quite embar
rassed by any compliments he received on
that score. On his first appearance after
the sermon the old divine want up to the
probationer and was going to shake hands
with him. Anticipating nothing short of
high flown praise the young man ex
claimed:
“My good sir, no oampliments; no com
pliments, I beg.”
"Na, na,” replied tbe parson, "nowadays
I’m glad o’ anybody.”
How far this decidedly left-handed eora
pfiment fell short of the recipient’s antici
pation he alone could tell; but his feelings
must have been somewhat similar to those
of that tedious orator, who, hayiDg been in
vain told by Henry IV. of France that he
would be obliged to him if he would make
his flattery as brief as possible, was at length
crushed by the king rising and saying:
"You must be kind enough to say the rest
to M. Guillaume” (the court fool).
In t*;e world’s history compliments have
oftentimes played an Important part—sov
ereigns, statesmen, courtiers, scholars and
all others of the great human family, dis
daining not the use of flattering speech to
gain their ends.
No one knew better the power possessed
by a really polished compliment than Sheri
dan, and on Innumerable occasions during
that rather stormy theatrical management
of his did he extricate himself from a diffi
culty by means of oDe.
BRAINS IN A SENTENCE.
A good instance is the following:
An E'glish nobleman, who, after the
manner of other of his peers, had married
a beautiful actress, once applied with much
dignity in the green room to Mr. Sheridan
for the arrears of her salary, and vowed he
would not stir till they were paid. “My
dear lord." said the impecunious manager,
“this is too bad; you have taken from us
the brightest jewel in the world, and now
you quarrel with us for the little dust she
has left behind her.” The nobleman im
mediately burst out laughing, and over a
bottle of wine the debt was canceled.
Of famous compliments paid to the fair
sex the supply is so large and dazzling that
it is a matter of no small difficulty to pick
out the brightest gems, but if the following
one was unlooked for It certainly deserves
a pluoe among tho best. Fontenelle, when
90 years old, passed before Mme. Helvetius
without perceiving her.
“Ah,” said the lady, "that is your gal
lantry, then! To pass before me without
ever looking at me!”
“If I had looked at you, madam,” replied
the old beau, “I never could havo passed
you at all.”
As neat a one was uttered by Gen. Ro
muinne Meeting Lady de Brientz, whom
he had known and admired in the loveliness
of her youth, he commenced complimenting
her.
‘‘You forget that lam an old woman,"
she said at length.
“Madam,” returned the gallant soldier,
“when our eyes are dazzled by a diamond
it never occurs to us to ask a mineralogist
for its history.”
wrr THAT TITRN’ETH AWAY WRATH.
Different from this was the reply of a
gentlein an onoe who was one day compli
menting Mme. Denis on the manner in
which she played the character of
“Ygaire."
“But," objected the lady, “an actress, to
play the part well, should be young and
beautiful.”
“O, no,” exclaimed the candid eulogist;
"you are a proof to the contrary."
It is an old reproach against Orientals
that they are unable to say pretty things to
ladies; but a daughter of Louis XIV., the
Princess de Conti, inspired a Moorish am
bassador with as gracefully turned a com
pliment as can be imagined. She had railed
against the Mohamtnedau custom of polyg
amy when the Moor thus defended the prac
tice.
“Madam," he said, "a plurality of wives
is allowed amoog us because in our conntry
we must, seek in Reveral women the charm
ing qualities which are here to be found in
one.”
The poet Moore, who never let an oppor
tunity slip of complimenting the fair sex,
was in the present instance hardly kind to
the husband. Being one day in the company
of a beautiful woman who wore on her
bosom a miniature likeness of her spouse,
who was the reverse of handsome, he was
asked by her “whom he thought the por
trait resembled.”
“l think,” said the poet, “it is like the
Saracen’s head on Snow Hill.”
A bold strike to obtain liberty by means
of a compliment was that made by* M. de
Maupertius, who, when a prisoner in Aus
tria, was presented to the empress, who said
to him:
“You know the Queen of Sweden, sister
to the King of Prussia?’’
“Yes, madam.”
“1 am told that she is the most beautiful
princess in the world."
“Madam,” replied the cunning prisoner,
“I always thought so until now.”
This was as diplomatic as the words and
action of the Marquis Medina, a Spanish
nobleman. Queen Elisabeth, who had been
admiring liis clega ce and complimenting
him ou it, at the same tune begged to know
who possessed the heart of so accomplished
a cavalier.
"Madam,” said he, “a lover risks too
much on such an occasion, but your majes
ty’s will is law. Excuse me, however, if I
fear to name her, but request your majes
ty’s acceptance of her portrait.” tie sent
her a looking glass.
A BAD SIAMESE ILLUSTRATION.
While upon the subject of royal compli
ments, the one paid to the present queen by
the sovereign of Zanzibar is worth repeat
ing. It is a fine piece of Oriental poetry.
He said that he mentally likened
her “to that mountain of loadstonee
mentioned in the ‘Thousand aDd
One Nights’ which drew the nails
out of the ships that passed that way. Even
so did the hearts of the Englishmen I have
hitherto met seem drawn on by a magnet
to her majesty.” A pretty compliment in
deed.
The following, however, is still better, if
somen hat grotesque in its termination. It
is creditej to a Siamese ambassador, who
wrote of the queen thus: “One cannot but
be struck with the aspeot of the Queen of
England or fail to observe that she must be
of pure descent from a race of good and
warlike kings and rulers of the earth, in
that her eyes, complexion and, above all,
her bearings are those of a beautiful and
majestic white elephant.”
Some famous compliments have been paid
to members of the sterner sex, and one of
the most gracefully turned was that uttered
by Boileau, who, when the virtuous De
Mesmes, piesident of the parliament of
Paris, was elected academician, congratu
lated him in these terms:
“I have come to you, sir, in order that
you may congratulate me on having you for
one of my fellow academicians.”
To be eulogized when dead Is more often
the lot of man than to be praised in life, but
surely a quainter ootnpliaienl was never
paid a dead man than was received by Tal
leyrand, for when his demise was announced
■tooneo,' his acquaintances the latter ex
claimed:
“He must have had some good reason for
dying! 1 think I will at least be ill myself,”
aud forthwith went to bed.
Yet an '.her compliment to a dead man
was uttered by the Marchioness of , who,
when told that the celebrated physician
Borden had been found dead in bed, ex
claimed: “Ah! Death was so afraid that
be did not dare attack him exoept when he
was asleep.”
THOUGHTS ’MID BULLETS.
Even the stern business of war bas not
prevented the exoliange of compliments be
tween military men, and of those none bet
ter deserves quotation than the one paid by
Hannibal to acipio. While discoursing with
Scipio on the subject of great military com
manders he said that Alexander was first.
Pyrrhus the second and himself the third.
“And where would you have placed your
self if you bad vanquished me?” asked
Scioio, smiling.
“Before them all,” replied Hannibal.
An honest compliment was that paid to
M. de Vendome, who. while commanding
the French army in Italy, dispatched a
young nobleman to announce to his master
the victory which he had gained at Buzzara.
The latter, while attempting to describe the
battle, became several times much confused
in Lis narrative, when, although the king
preserved his gravity, the Duchess of Bur
gundy, who was present, laughed so heartily
that at last the young gentleman said:
“Sire, it is easier for M. de Vendome to
win a battle than for me to describe it.”
IN M’KINLBY’S TERRITORY.
A Hot Fight On for tbe Next Congres
sional Nomination.
Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 28.—Thomas R.
Morgan, of the Morgan Engineering Com
pany and the Solid Steel Company of Al
liance, 0., was in Pittsburg yesterday. Mr.
Morgan is a candidate for congress in Maj.
McKinley’s distriot, Gen. Asa Jones and
Judge King of Youngstown, 0., are also
candidates m the same district. The fight
in tbe district is already at fever heat. All
the candidates are endeavoring to have the
district ohanged to suit their own purposes.
Morgan is anxious to have Mahoning
oounty, including Youngstown, cut off
from the district to dispose of the
other candidates for the nomi
nation, Jones and King are equally
anxious to get out of the old McKinley dis
trict. They want Mahoning county at
tached to Ashtabula county, which was
formerly Gen. Garfield’s district and has a
round republican majority, and would in a
pleasant way dispose of Morgan and his op
position for tbe nomination.
Morgan employs about 1,000 men, and is
a heavy government contractor He has
always been a substantial financial sup
porter of Gov. McKinley, whose old he ex
peots to have in the congressional coutest.
Morgan’s friends are not entirely satisfied
with his congressionel aspirations. They
are fearful that his election to congress
would take from him his heavy government
contracts. All features being considered,
the congressional fight in Maj. MoKinley’s
old district is said to be one of the most in
teresting in the Buckeye state.
ROMANCE IN~ARKANBAB.
Love Drives a Young Man to Dual
Marriage and Suicide.
Excelsior Springs, Mo., Feb. 28.—The
suicide here last week of a popular young
man named Fred Grace has developed a
sensation. In a fit of pique after a quarrel
with his sweetheart, AnDie Gravies, Grace
recently wooed and married a Miss Hill.
Soon after he met Mies Cravins and all
his old love returning, he begged her to
marry him, concealing his first marriage.
She consented and thoy started for Kansas
City. On the way he told her the truth and
then Bald he intended to kill her and commit
suicide. Her pleading weakened him and he
allowed her to return home. Following the
Dext day he again became desperate and
Bhot himself. The shock is expected to re
sult fatally to his wife.
OPPOSITION TO QUAY.
A Petition Circulated In Snyder County
Against His Re-election.
Sklinsgrove, Pa., Feb. 28.—A petition
is being circulated in Snyder oounty in op
position to Quay. The members of the
republican standing committee passed a
resolution that this question be voted on by
the citizens at the primary election to be
held March 26, and that tne member elected
be governed by the result. E. W. Toole of
Freeburg is a candidate for renomination.
There is talk of a second man for legislative
honors. Ed. M. Hummell of this town is a
candidate for state senator.
MEDICAL.
Be Sure
If you have made up your mind to buy
Hood’s Sarsaparilla do not be induced to take
any other. A Boston lady, whose example is
worthy imitation, tells her experience below:
“ In one store where I went to buy Hood’s
Sarsaparilla the clerk tried to induce me buy
their own instead of Hood’s; he told me their’s
would last longer; that I might take it on ten
To Get
days’ trial; that if I did not like it I need not
pay anything, etc. But ho could not prevail
on me to change. I told him I had taken
Hood’s Sarsaparilla, knew what it was, was
satisfied with it, and did not want any other.
When I began taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla
I was feeling real miserable with dyspepsia,
and so weak that at times I could hardly
Hood’s
stand. I looked like a person in consump
tion. Hood’s Sarsaparilla did me so much
good that I wonder at myself sometimes,
and my friends frequently speak of it.” Mbs.
Ella A. Goff, 61 Terrace Street, Boston.
Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. s\; six for £5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass*
100 Doses One DoHar
SPECIAL NOTICES.
NOTICE TO TRAVERSE JURORS.
City Court of Savannah.
The Traverse Jurors of this court who were
dismissed until Monday morning, except those
engaged In the case of Pittman vs. The Central
Railroad and Banking Company, need not ap
pear until TUESDAY MORNING, March 1, at
10 o’clock. By order of
A. H. MAO DONELL.
Judge city Court of Savannah.
Phiijp M. Russell, Clerk C. C. S.
A STARTLING) FACT !
That very few persons have perfect eyes. It
must be evident that it requires both knowledge
and skill to know what the eyes need and to ill
them properly with glasses. Those who trust
this work to uniostructed dealers are criminally
careless of the most valuable of all the senses,
their sight. In addition to graduating in Ger
many and ruyjhirty yearn practical experience,
I have taken a course and graduated in a
school ot optics In New York and learned the
latest ami best methods of ascertaining the differ
out defects of the eyesand their proper correc
tion, so that I can lit you properly with glasses
that will strengthen an t improve your eyesight
instead of rapidly ruining ft. as poorly-tltted
glasses will always do. No charge for ex
amination.
DR. M. SCHWAB & SON,
GRAnUATED OPTICIANS,
23 Bull Street.
MEDICAL.
OUT OF SORTS ?
Yes, Sick all Over!
Liver torpid, bowels costive, blood sluggish*
stomach weak and fuli, jour digestion is iar
paired and the organs inactive, your precep
tions are dull and stupifted. your temper irrita
ble and peevish, you are unfit for business or
companionship. What you need is to
Ircgulator]
“I hare used many remedies for Dyspepsia.
Liver affection and debility, but never have
found anythin? to benefit to thd extent that
Simmons Liver Regulator has. ! sent from
Minnesota to Georgia for the remedy and would
have sent further for such a medicine. I would
advise ail who are similarly affected to give it
a trial, as it seems the only thin? that never
fails to relieve.”— P. M. Janney. Minneapolis,
Minn.
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
BLACKRHEAR. —The friends and acquaint*
ance of Marmaduke Hamilton and his nelee,
Mary Hamilton Blackshear. are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral of the latter from
the residence of the former. 91 South Broad
street, at 3:30 o clock THIS AFTERNOON.
COWAN.—The friends and acquaintance of
Mrs. Mary Cowan and -Mr. Jas. Hay and W. H.
Ray and families arc respectfully Invited to at
tend the funeral of the former from the Cathe
dral of St. John the Baptist, THIS MORNING
at 10 o'clock.
HANLEY.—The relatives and friends of
PaTßics Hanley and family are res[>ectfully
Invited to attend his funeral from his late resi
dence. No. 10 Stewart street, at 10:30 o’clock
THIS MORNING.
MEETINGS. "
NOTICE.
Annual meeting of the SAVANNAH YACHT
CLUB will be held at the Club House, WEDNES
DAY, March 2, at 3:30 o'clock p. m.
M. A. COHEN.
Secretary and Treasurer.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
On and after Feb. 1, 1890, the basis of meas
urement of all advertising in the MorninoNews
will be agate, or at tho rate of $1 40 an Inch for
the flrßt insertion. No Special Notice inserted
for less than $1 00.
WIICE ~
Notice is hereby given that on April 1. 1892,
Justice William H. Patterson will remove his
office to No. Drayton street, near President
street, in Savannah, Ga.
And it is hereby ordered that under and by
virtue of an act of the General Assembly of tho
State of Georgia, approved Nov. 11, 1889, that
the said No. 33 >4 Drayton street be recognized,
and the same is hereby appointed asthsplacs
of holding the Justice's Court of the Notary
Public and ex- Offleio Justice of the i’eac ; for
the Third Distr.ct (G. M.), Chatham County, Ga
The second Wednesday in each month is the
day appom'.ed for holdinr said Justice's Court.
Given under my band and seal of office at the
Court House, this2fith day of February, 1892.
Hampton l. ferrill,
Ordinary C, C., Ga,
LADIES’ RESTAURANT'
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REAL ESTATE AND COLLECTING AGENTS.
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Parties drairing to buy or sell will find it to their
advantage to consult us. Several choice invest
ments now on hand; call and examine. Corner
Drayton and St. Julian streets.
NOTICE^
Neither the Master nor Consignees of the
steamship ELMVILLE, Dove master,
will be responsible for anv debts contracted by
crew of said vessel.
A. MINIS’ SONS.
Consignees.
DEUTENHOFF’R GREAT SOUTHERN
REMEDY FOR DYSPEPSIA.
A purely vegetable laxative medicine and a
safe and sure cure for Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Cos
tiveness. Nervous and Sick Headache, Nervous
Indigestion, Melancholia, Heartburn and Colic.
For years this preparation has been manu
factured and sold bv Heidt Drug Company. It
cured thousands living in our midst that will
testify to its merits. Trial bottles 25 cents,
large bottles sl. We ask only atrial to con
vince the most exacting of its wonderful prop
erties.
R. C. McCALL, DRUGGIST,
Corner Congress and Whitaker Streets,
Sole Proprietors.
Deutenhoff’s Pectoral Balsam of Wild Cherry.
Honey and Tar will positively euro coughs and
all throat affections. Price 25 cents.
SULLIVAN'S REsT AU R A Stj
HO AND 112 BRYAN STREET.
WOODCOCK. SNIPE, QUAIL, DOVES, TEAL,
SUMMER AND ENGLISH DUCKS,
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Families supplied. Telephone 845.
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Bull and Congress Streets.
EXQUISITE PERFUMERY.
DELETTREZ FINE EXTRACTS
Dios
THE FINEST PERFUMERY
Ever imported Into this city; also an assort
ment of his Soaps.
SOLOMONS & 00.,
163 Congress Street and 92 Bull Street.
( OK N SBEb7
Mammoth Sugar, Stovell’s Evergreen, Golden
Dent, White Dent, Adams’ Early and White Flint
just received at
SOLOMONS & CO.,
Druggists.
PRESCRIPTIONS OF
BUTLER’S PHARMACY
ARE ONLY REFILLED BY
ROWLINBKI, PHARMACIST.
Broughton and Drayton Sts. Telephone 405.
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AMUSEMENTS.
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Seats at Livingston's, Feb 2)
Next Attraction: JOSEPHINE CAMERON
March 7 and 8. •
BANKS. ~~
B. A.Denmark, Mills B. Lane. Geo.C. Freeman!
President, Vice President, Cashier.
THE CITIZENS BANK
SAVANNAH,
CAPITAL $500,000,
Will open on March 31st, 1892, a Bavlngg De
partment to be maintained in connection with
Its general banking business at its Banking
House, corner of Drayton and Bryan Streets,
Savannah, Ga.
Deposits of One Dollar and upward will b
received. Interest at 4 per cent, per annum,
compounded on the first day of July, October,
January and April will be allowed. Deposits’
made within the first five days of any month
will draw interest from the first day ot that
month, and be paid or compounded at the be
ginning of the next quarter. Call or send for
rules and regulations on and after March Ist.
B. A. Denmark, Mills B. Lane,
William Rogers, H. M. Comer,
J. H. F. still, w. G. Cooper,
John R. Young, Raymond Judge,
Henry D. Stevens, Wm. B. Stillwell,
Edward F. Lovell, Andrew Hanley,
C. D. Baldwin.
J. E. Wadlky, cashier South Georgia Bank,
Way cross, Ga.
E. A. Groover, cashier Bank of Quitman,
Quitman, Ga.
A. H. Lane, cashier Merchants’ and Traders’
Bank, Brunswick, Ga.
THE GEMANIA BANK*
SAVANNAH, GA
CAPITAL, $200,000
In connection with Its general banking busi
ness it has a
SAYINGS DEPARTMENT,
WHERE
4 Per Cent Per Ahm
Is paid oa deposits compounded quarterly. De
positors of all classes are solicited. With an
obliging staff of olHoers and conservative man
agement patrons and those desiring to deposit
with It may be assured that their interests will
be carefully guarded.
OB’ITICKRS.
HENRY BLUN. GEO. W. OWENS,
President. Vice President.
JOHN M. HOGAN, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
HENRY BLUN.
GEO. W. OWENS, Attorney at Law,
P. BRENNxYN, of Kavanaugh & Brennan.
R. M. HULL, of Bearing At Hull.
WILLIAM KEHOE, of Wm. Kehoe & Oa
AMSON MOHR, of Mohr Bros.
Dlt. J. B. READ.
T. F. STUBBS, of Stubbs & Tison.
A. P. 80LOMON, of Henry Solomon & Sons.
O. M. RYALS.
IRVIN B. TIEDEMaN. of Geo. W. Tiedeman-k
_ Bro.
Savannah Bank and Trast Cos.
Has opened under the OK SOTO .HOTEL a
brunch of its
SAVINGS * DEPARTMENT,
In which deposits of one dime and upward will
be received.
Interest allowed on deposits of one dollar and
upward, payable quarterly.
Deposits received within the first TEN days of
the month wilt draw interest from the FIRST
day of the month.
Deposits received daily from 9 a. m. to 2 p. M.,
and from 4 p. m. to 5 p s ; on Saturdays to , p.
m. Repayments made daily from 9 a m. to 2 P *•
GENERAL DEPOSITS ALSO RECEIVED
JOSEPH D. WEED, JNO. C. ROWLAND,
President. Vice President.
JAS. H HUNTER, Cashier.
WM. P. HARDEE, Manager De Soto Branch.
DIRECTORS:
Joseph D. Weed, Isaac G. Haas,
John C. Rowland, M Y. Maulntryb,
C. A Keitze, ’ Waltur Conet,
R. (I. Erwin, John Lyons,
Enw. Karow, Daniel Hoqan,
W. C. Powell.
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