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plucked from a living fruit tree, and tbe
f>ird reported tbe world would do tolerably
well for a bird to live In, but not yet suffi
rtently recovered for human residence.
Noah waited another week,and tbe next Sun
day morning he eent out the dove on the
third exploration, bat it returned not, for It
Pound the world to attractive now It did
not want to be caged again, and then tbe
emigrants from the nnte-diluvian world
landed. It was a bird that told them ben
to take possession of tbe resuscitated planet.
Bo tbe human race was saved by a bird’s
wing. for attempting to land too soon tney
would have perished.
Aye, here come a whole flock of doves
rock-doves, ring-doves, stock-doves —and
they meke Isa.oh think or great revivals
and great awakenings when souls fly for
shelter like a flock of pigeons swooping, to
the opening of a pigeon coop and
he cries out . "Who are these that fly as
doves to their windows'” David, with Saul
after him, and flying from cavern to
cavern, compares himself t, a desert par
tridge, a bird which especially haunts rocky
plaoes, and beys and hunters to this day
take after it with sticks, for the partridge
runs rather than flies. David, chased and
clubbed and harried of pursuers, says: "I
am bunted as a partridge on the mount
ains.” Speaking of bis forlorn condition,
he says: “I am like a pelican of the wilder
ness.” Describing his loneliness, he says: "I
am a swallow alone one housetop.'' Hezekiab
in tbe emaciation of his sickness compares
himself to a crane, thin and wasted. Job
had so much trouble he could not sleep
nights, and be describes his insomnia by
saying: "I am a companion to owls.”
Isaiah compares tbe desolations of banished
Is, eel to an owl and bittern and cormorant
among a city’s ruius. Jeremiah describing
the cruelty of parents toward childien,
compares them to the ostrich, who leaves
its eggs in the sand uncared for, crying:
“The daughter of tny people is become like
the ostriches of the wilderness.” Among
the provisions piled on Solomon’s bountiful
table, the Bible speaks of “fatted fowl.”
The Israelites in the desert got tired of
vnanna and they had quails—quails for
breakfast, quails for dinner, quails for sup- |
per, and they died of quails. The Bible
refers to the migratory habits of the birds,
and says “Ibe stork kooweth her
appointed time and the turtle and the
rrane aud the swallow the time of their
going, but my people know not tbe judg
ment of tbe Lord.” Would the prophet
illustrate the fate of fraud, be points to a
failure at incubation and says "Asa par
tridge sitteth ou eggt and nateheth them
not, so he that getteth riches and not by
right shall leave them in the midst of his
days and at bis end shall boa fool The
partridge is the most careless of all birds in
rhoios of its place of nest, building it on tbe
(round and often near a frequented road,
or in a slight depression of ground without
reference to safety, and soon a hoof or a
acythe or a oart wheel ends all. So, says
the prophet, a man who gathers under him
dishonest dollars will hatch out of them no
peace, no satisfaction, no bappine n, no se
rarity. Wbat vivid similitude! The quick
est way to amass a fortune is by iniquity,
but the trouble is about keeping it, Kvery
hour of every day some such partridge is
driven off tbe nest. Panics are only a flutter
of partridges. It is too tedious work to t>e
come rich in tbe old-fashioned way, and if
s man can by one falsehood make as much
by ten years of hard labor, why not tell
it i and If one counterfeit check will bring
tbe dollars as easily as a genuine issue, why
not make it* One year's fraud will lie equal
to a half a lifetime's sweat. Why not live
solely by one’s wits* A fortune thiiß built
will be Arm and everlasting. Will It? Ha!
build your house on a volcano’s crater: go
to sleep on tbe bosom of an avalanche. Tbe
volcano will blare and tbe avalancbo will
thunder. There aro estates which have been
coming together from age to age. Many
years ago that estate started in a husband’s
industry and a wife's economy. It grew
from generation to generation by good
habits aud a high-minded enterprise. • lid
fashioned industry was the mine from
which that gold was dug, and God will
keep the deeds of such an estate in Ins
buckler, foreclose your mortgage, spring
your snap judgments, plot with acutest in
trigue against a family property like that
and you cannot do it a permanent damage.
Better than warranty deed and better than
lire insurance is tbe defense which God's
own band will giye it.
Bat here is u man, to-day as poor as Job,
after he w as robbed bv satau of everything
but his boils; yet, suddenly, to-morrow bo
is a rich man. There is no acoountiDg for
his sudden affluence. He has not yet failed
often enough to become wealthy. No one
preteuds to account for his princely ward
robe, or tbe chased silver, or the full
vurbed steeds that rear and neigh like Bu
cephalus in the grasp of his coachman.
Xiid he come to a sudden inherit
ance ? No. Did he make a fortune on
purchase and sale? No. E erybody asks
where did that partridge hatch) The devil
suddenly threw him up and the devil will
•uddeniy let him come down. That hidden
•cheme God saw from the first conception
of the plot. That partridge, swift disaster
will shoot it down, and the higher it Hies
the harder it falls. The prophet saw, as
you and I have often seen, the awful mis
take of partridges.
But from the top of a Bible fir tree I hear
the thrill cry of the stork. Job, Ezekiel,
Jeremiah speak of it. David cries out: "As
for the stork, the fir tree is her house.” Thin
large white Bible bird is supposed without
alighting sometimes to wing its way from
th# region of the Rhine to Africa. As winter
comes all tbe storks fly to warmer climes.and
tbe last one of their number that arrives at
tbe epot to which they migrate is killed by
them. What havoc it would make in our
species if those men wore killed who are al
ways behind. In oriental cities, the stork
is domesticated and walks about on tbe
street, and will follow Its ke*i>er. In the
city of Epbesus I saw a long row of pillars,
on tbe stock of each pillar a stork's nest.
But the word “stork” ordinarily means
mercy and affection, from tbe fact that
this bird was distinguished for its great love
to its parents. It never forsakes them, aud
•ven after they become feeble, protects and
provides for them. In migrating the old
atorks lean their necks on the young storks,
and, when the old ones give out, the young
ones carry them on their back God
forbid that a dumb aterk should
have more heart than we. Blessed
is that table at which an old father aud
mother sit. Blessed that altar at
which an old father and mother km>el.
IVhat it U to have a mother they know best
who who have lost her. God ouly knows
tbe agonies she suffered for us. the time,
she wept over our cradle and the anxious
sighs her bosom heaved as we lay upon its
tbe kick nights when she watched us long
after everyone was tired out but God and
herself. Her life blood beats in our heart
and her image lives in our face. That man
is graceless as a cannibal who ill-treats his
parenta, and he who begrudges them daily
bread and clothes them but shabbily, mat
God have patienoe with him; I cannot. I
once heard a man say: “I now have my
old mother on my hands.” Ye storks on
your way with food to your aged parents,
shame him!
But yonder In this Bible sky flies a bird
that is speckled. The prophet describing
tbe ohurch cries out: “Miue heritage is
unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round
about are against her.” Bo it was then; so
it it now. Holiness picked at. Consecra
tion picked at. Benevolence picked at.
Usefulness picked at. A speckled bird is a
peculiar bird, aud ti.at arouses the antipa
thy of all the beaks of the forest. The
church of God is a peculiar institution, aud
that is enough to evoke attack of tbe
world , for it is a speckled bird to be picked
at. Tbe Inconsistencies of Christians aro a
banquet on which multitudes got fat. Tbey
asoribe everything you do to wrong
motives. Put a duller in tbe poor box, aDd
they will say that he dropped it there only
that he might bear it ring. Invite them to
Christ and they will call you a fanatic.
l<et there be contention among t.'hrts
vi*De, aud they *lll say “Huirab! the
church is in decadence.” Christ intended
that bis church should alwavs rvmaiu a
speckled bird. )-et birds of auotber feather
pick at hvr, but tbev cantiot\rul) her of a
■ingle plume Like the aibatrou. she .an
sleep on tne bosom of a tempter. Mis has
eon* tbrcueh the fires of Nebucha ioetzsr't
furnace and not got burned, through the
v atersof the Red Sea and not been drowned,
through tbe shipwreck on tbe breakers of
Mehta and not been foundered. lAt ail
earth and hell try to hunt down this
speckled bird, but far above human scorn
and infernal assault it shall sing over every
mountain top and fly over every nation,
and her triumphant song shall be, “The
church of God! The pillar and ground of
the truth. Tbe gales of hell shall not pre
vail against her.”
But *e cannot stop berei From a tall
cliff, hanging over the sea. I hour tbe eagle
calling un;o the tempest ond lifting its wing
to smite the whirlwind. Moses. Jeremiah,
Hoeea and Habakkuk, at time* in tbe.r
writings take their pen from tbe eagle's
wing It is a bird with fierceness in Its eye,
its feet armed with claws of iron, and its
bead with a dreadful beak Two or three
of them can till the heavens with clangor.
But generally this monster of the air is
alone and unaccompanied, for the reason
that its habits are so predacious it requires
five or ten miles of aerial earihly dominion
all for itself. The hlack-bro *n of its back,
aud tho white of its lower feathers, und tbe
tire of its eye, and the long flap of its wing
make one glimpse of it. as it swings down
into tbe valley to pick up a rabbit or a
lamb or child and then swings back
to its throne on the rook, some
thing never to be forgotten. Scat
tered about itseyrie of altitudinous solitude
are thelionesof its conquests. But wnilothe
beak aud tbe claws of tbs eagle are the terror
of all tbe travelers of the air, the mother
eagle is most kind and gentle to her young,
G‘dcompares hie treatment of his people to
the eagle’s oare of tbe eaglets. Deuteronomy
xxxii., 11; “ Asaneaglestirrethuphernesi,
fluttereth over her young, spreading abroad
her wings, takotb them, beareth them on her
n iDgs, so the Lord alone did lead.” The old
eagle first shoves the young one out of the
nest in order to make it fly, and then takes it
on her * ack and flies with it, and shake i it off
in the air, and if it seems like falling, quickly
flies under It end taUes it on her wing again.
So God does with us. Disaster, failure in
business, disappointment, bereavement, is
only God s way of shaking us out of our
comfortable nost in order that we may learn
how to fly. You who are complaining that
you have no failh or courage or Christian
eal. have bad it too easy. You never will
learn to fly In that comfortable nest. Like
an eagle, Christ has carried us on hie back
At times we have been shaken off, and
when we were about to fall he came under
us again and brought us out of the gloomy
valley to the sunny mountain. Never an
eagle brooded with such love and care over
her y. ung as God's wings have been over
us. Across what oceans of trouble we have
gone in safety upon tbe Almighty wings.
From what mountains of sin we have been
carried, and at times have been borne up
far above the gunshot of the world aDd the
arrow of the devil. When our time on
earth is closed, on these great wings of God
we shall speed with infinite quickness from
earth's mountains to heaven’s hills, and as
from the eagle's circuit under the sun men
on tho ground seem small and lusignlflcant
os lizards on a rock, so all earthly things
shall dwindle into a speck and the raging
river of death so far beneath will seem
smooth and glassy as a Swiss lake.
It was thought In ancient times that an
eagle oould not only moult bis feathers in
old age, but that after arriving to great
age, it would renew its strength and be
come entirely young again. To this Isaiah
alludes, when he says: “They that
wait on the Lord shall renew their
strength, they shall mount up with wiugs
of eagles.” Even so the Christian in old
age will renew bis spiritual strength. He
shall ha young in ardor and enthusiasm
for Christ, and as the body fails the soul
will grow in elasticity, till at death it
will soring up like a gladdened child into
the bosom of God. Yea, lu this ornitho
logical study, I see that Job says: “His
days fly as an eagle that hasteth to its
prey.” The speed of a hungry eagle when
it saw its prey a score of mites distant was
unimaginable. It went like a thunderbolt
for speed and power. So fly our days.
Sixty minutes, ench worth a heaven, since
we assembled in this place, have shot Itke
lightning into eternity. The old earth is
rent and crocked under the swift rush of
days and months and years and ages.
“Hwlft as an eagle that basteth to its prey.”
Behold tho fowls of tho air. Have you con
sidered that they have, as you and l have
not, tbe power to change their eyes so that
one minute they may he telesooplc and tbe
next mterose pic) Now seeiug something a
mile away, and by telescopio eyesight, and
then dropping to Its food on tbe ground,
able to see it close by, and with mtcrosoopio
eyesight.
But what a senseless passage of Scripture
that is, until you know tbe fact, which
says “The spanow hath found a house and
the swallow a nest for herseit where she may
lay her young, e-ten thine altars, O bird
of host’s ray King anil tn.y God.” What has
the swallow to do with the altars of the
temple at Jerusalem? Ah 1 you know that
swallows are all the world over very tame,
and in summer time they used to fly into
the windows and doors of the temple at
Jerusalem, and build a nest on the altar
where the priests were offering sacrifices.
These swallow* brought loaves and sticks
and fashioned nests on the altars of the
temple, aud hatched the young swallows in
those nesti, and David had teen the young
birds picking their way out of tbe shell
while the old swallows watched, and no one
in tho temple was cruel enough to disturb
either the old swallows, or the young
swallows, and David burst out in
rhapsody saying : “The swallow hath
found a nest for herself where she
may lay her vouug. even thine altars, O
Lord of hosts, my King and my God! ’
Yes, in this ornithology of the Bible I
find that God is determined to impress
upon us the architecture of a bird’s nest
and the anatomy of a bird's wing. Twenty
times does the Bible refer to a bird’s Dest;
“Where the birds make their nest.” “As
a bird that wandereth from her nest.”
“Though thou >et tby nest among tbe
stars.” “The birds of the air have their
nests," nnd so on. Nests in the trees, nests
on toe rocks, nests on altars. Why does
Clod call us so frequently to consider the
bird's nest! Because it is one of the most
wondrous of all styles of architecture, and
a lesson of providential caru which is the
most important les-on that Christ in my
text conveys. Wby just look at the bird’s
nest, nnd see what is the prospect that God
is going to take care of you. Here Is the
blue bird's nest under the eaves of the
house. Hers is a brown thrasher's nest in
a bush. Here is tbe blue jay's
nest in the orchard. Here is the gross
beak's nest on a tree branch banging over
the water, so as to be free from attack.
Chickadee’s nest in the stump of an old tree.
O, the goodness of God in showing the
birds i>ow to build their nest. Whet car
penters, what masons, what weavers, what
spinners tbe birds ars! Out of what small
resources they make what an exquisite
home, ourved. pillared, wreathed. Out of
mosses, out of *' icks, out of lichens, out of
horse hair, out of spider’s web, out of
threads swept from the door by tho house
wife, out of tbe wool of the sheep in the
pasture field. Upholstered by leaves actually
sewed together by its own sharp bill. Cush
ioned with feathers from its own breast.
Mortared together with the gum of trees
and tbe saliva of its own tiny bill. Such
symmetry, such adaptation, such con
venience, such geometry of structure.
Purely these nests were built t>y soma
plan. Thoy did not just happen so. Who
draughted the plan for the bird’s nest? God!
And do you not tnluk that if be ula: s such
a bouse for a chaffinch, for an oriole, for a
bobolink, for a sparrow, be will see to it
that you always have a home? "Ye are of
more value than many spnrrows.” What
ever else surrounds you, j ou con have what
the Bible calls “the feathers of the al
mighty." Just think of a nest like that, the
warmth of it, tbe softness of it, the safety
of it--“to* feathers of the almighty.” No
flaming-) ou’flashlng tbe tropical sunset ever
had bitch brilliancy of pinion; no robin red
breast ever had plumage dashed wnh suoh
crimson, and purple and orange and gold—
"trie feathers of the almighty.” I)o yon not
feel tho touch of them now on forehead and
cheek, and spirit, and was there ever such
tenderness of broodlug—“the feath
ers of the almighty.” Ho also iu this or
nithology of th Bible God keeps impressing
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 0, 1893.
us with the anatomy of a bird’s wing. Over
fifty times does the old bonk allude to tbe
wing, “Wings of a dove,” “Wings of the
morning,” "Wings of the wind,” “Sun of
righteousness with healing in hit wings,”
“Wings of the Almighty,” “All fowl of
every wing,” What does it all mean? It
suggests uplifting. It tells you of flight
upward It means to remind you that you,
yourself, have wings. David cried out, “(j
that I bad wings like a dove that I might
fly away and be at rest.” Thank God that
you have better wings than any dove of
longest or swiftest flight. Caged now in
bars of flesh are those wings but the day
comes when they will be liberated. Get
ready for ascension. Tek* the words of the
old hymn, and to the tune unto which
that hymn is married, sing:
Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wing.
Thy better portion trace.
Up out of these lowlands into the heavens
of higher experience and wider prospect
But how sbail we rise? Only as God’s Holy
Spirit gives us strength. But that is com
ing now. Not as a condor from a Cnim
borazo peak, swooping upon tbe affrighted
valley, hut as a dove like that which put
it* soft brown wings ovor the wet locks of
Christ at the baptism in the Jordan. Dove
of gentleness! Dove of peace!
Come. Iloly Spirit, heavenly dove.
With all thy quickening poweri.
Come, shed abroad a Savior's love.
And that shall kindle ours.
BANKER CLEWS’ VIEWS.
The Financial Outlook as Seen From
Wall Street.
New York. Jan. B.—The new year has
opeued with a more settled feeling in the
financial markets than was generally ex
pected. Tbe funds oalled in from loan last
week, to be available for the payment of
dividends and interest, have this wesk been
disbursed for thoee purposes, while cur
rency has flowed in freelv from the interior,
and thus the banks have been enabled to
better supply the wants of borrowers. At
tbe same time the recent exports of gold,
largely due to remittances to pay January
inter est on our obligations held abroad, are
about ooming to a close, which will soon
help to restore confidence iu the market, tbe
disturbance of which has been a principal
cause of late In unsettling stock exchange
values
The annual balancing of accounts of in
dividuals and corporation* appears to have
been generally unusually satisfactory as to
results. Though the business of 189a was of
an undemonstrative obaracter and excep
tionally free from speculative exo.temeut,
yet the year’s aggregates show its volume
to have been extraordinary and its net re
sults probably unprecedentedly profitable.
The fact that the year's records of business
failures iu the United Stales show the
amount of liabilities to have been but little
over one-bait those of either 1891 or 1890,
speaks volumes for the conservative anil
profitable character of tbe year’s trade.
This gratifying result has been principally
due to the abundant harvest of 1891 and the
fairly average crops of 1892. The proceeds
of that period of extraordinary production
have been employed in the liquidation of a
large amount of deferred indebtedness,
which has infused new life and confidence
into every branch ot business and imparted
a healthier tons to credit operations. The
creditors whose claims have thus been set
tled have'- had to seek new investments,
and their purchase* have been ous principal
cause of the stability of securities ana of the
ease with which wo have taken up such an
immense amount of investments returned
from abroad.
It is this same general consciousness of
financial strength and soundness that ba3
caused the startling results of the presi
dential election to be received with suoh un
expected calmness. It is also to this cause
that we must attribute the nbseuce ot un
easiness in the near prospect of a pro
nounced change in tbs industr.al aud com
mercial policy of the nation. The seeming
small account that W all street attaches to
this impending legislation is not due to any
wantof com prehension of its importance or
of the interruptions to ttade that it will
occasion, but to tha conviction that the
country is well prepared to endure the trial
of its strength. Wall street enters the uew
year with this very Important fact in its
favor—that while, as already intimated, a
permanent investment has already
been found for the secur
ities returned from Europe,
the issues of uew obligations by railroads,
have bean in 1892 as also for the two
previous years! exceptionally light. It is
true that considerable amounts of stock
have been put out in connection with the
incorporation of private firms; but these
are not now creatious, but the mere chang
ing of the form of already existing enter
prises. It is therefore to le presumed that
the new creations of corporate capital have,
for the last two or three years, fallen below
the normal demand for investments, and
that therefore the floating market supply of
securities must now fie of striotly modorato
dimensions. This consideration has con
tributed toward sustaining the market
through tho trying conditions of late
months, and may reasonably be trusted to
ufford like support during 1893.
With so many really substantial factors
in favor of ooutldonce, it is unfortunate
that anything should ' ocur to weakeu tbelr
legitimate effect upon Wall street interests.
It is ui,necessary to inquire what truth
there may have heen In tbe rumors of a
concerted plan for helping the market and
the banks by a large transient issue of
United -States bonds, for tho mere public
mention of the matter has quashed the sug
gestion. The inonlent, however, has been a
misfortune: for both at homo and abroad
it will be construed as implying a condition
of things calling for extraordinary precau
tions; and euch a suspicion does injustice to
tbe intrinsic strength of the existing situa
tion nnd suggests danger where it docs not
really exist. The use of the government’s
authority to sell bonds to keep ut> its gold
reserve is a resort t-> Is availed of ouly iu
the face of a virtually certain prospect
of a really fatal foreign drain of gold;
but ntfpresent no such positive danger con
fronts u*. If there were no hops of a speedy
suspension of purchases of silver, aud none
of some useful international agreement
being reached on the reassembling of the
silver conference, then there might be some
justification for the government consulting
with responsible financiers os to tho best
means of preparing to deal with a threat
ening contingency. But such is far from
beiug the real situation. There is a fair
prospect of the suspension, at least, of the
silver aot of 1890 some time during this
year; the probability of such a step will
keep our currency ou a parity with gold,
and tend to restore European confidence in
our investments, besides should protect us
against further serious drams of gold. For
these reasons, any such conferences ns are
rumored to have been held between the
Secretary of the Treasury and certain gen
tlemen of this oity would be uot only at best
premature hut also misleading and un
settling, rather than conduative to confi
dence.
STARTLING REALISM.
Tbe Leading Lady Introduces e Sen
sational Specialty Not on tbe Bill.
East Livsupool, 0., Jan. B.—The audi
ence at Thompson's opera house has been
entertained by an incident not down on tbe
bill. The play was “Jerry,” und in tbe
oompauy J. W. Hummers is leading man
nnd Miss Kate Toncray leading lady. Miss
Toncray had learned in some way that
Hummers was tbe author of several insult
ing letters she had recently received and
she determined to punish him for tbe insults.
With this object in view she purchased a
rawhide and carried it throughout tbe per -
formanee in her bosom. Just as the curtain
was deve ding on tho last scene and the
actors were pa-sing from the stage. Hum
mer* m*de on intuiting remark about Miss
Toncrav. which she hear”, and immediatolv
drew tho rawhide and belal-ored bun about
tbs head nnd face, causing the h!ood to flow
with every blow until ths suirounding
scenery van le-pattered with gore. The
audlerce fancied the scan* was part of the
play and mamt'ested their del’gbt t>y th*
most uproarious applause.
MILLBDGEVILLE MENTION.
Tbe New Year t pens With From Iso of
Great Prosperity.
Mxr.LEDGEVtLLF, Gi„ Jan. B.—This year
has opened on Milledgevilie most auspi
ciously so far as the city’s prosperity is con
cerned, and there promises to be greater
growth during the present year thau has
been witnessed by arc, of her people. The
year just passed was a good one for tbe
town in every wav, and her every interest
met splendid success. A great many houses
were erected and large numbers of people
moved to the city. Her cotton receipts
were well up in spite of tho crop shortage,
while her business men enjoyed a fine trade
throughout the year. Tii# trade of the
town was better than for many years past, |
and several now enterprises were added to ;
her list of flourishing manufactories.
The most important work that has been ;
undertaken for the new year was the es
tablishing of a complete system of water
w orks, and this wont wiil be completed
about March 1. Tbe American Pipe Man
ufacturing Company of Philadelphia has
the contract and it is pushing the work with
a vim. It has about 1(H) hands employed
in Dying the mains and the work has been
finished on the most importune streets. As i
soon as the piping is laid tha big tank,
with a capacity of 1,000,000 gallons will be
erected on tbe hill just beyond tbe Central
railroad depot. The water will be pumped
irom Fishing creek, aud the company guar
antees sufficient pressure to throw water
ninety feet high through an inch nozzle
anywhere in the business poriiou of the
city. When completed the entire system
wiil cost about 8130,000 and will be the
most complete in any city in the state the
size of Milledgeville.
There has been a great demand here for
houses to rent and a great deal of building
is now going ou. Several new streets have
been opened and a lot t hat sold for 8200 last
year was bought for J 700 two weeks ago.
It is almost impossible to get a good bund
ing lot in the city and moneyed men p.re
making good investments on suburban
property. The town is not on a “mush
room” boom, but its growtn has been steady
and substantial. Tbe next few years will
witness a revelation in what was known a
few years book as one of the dead towns of
Georgia.
The Middle Georgia Military and Agri
cultural College, despite the failure of the
legislature to appropriate its usual amount
to sustain the school, has opened ns spring
term with the largest number of pupils ever
known here. T here are already nearly UK)
cadets in attendance, and for tbe first time
in the history of the school the trustee- are
compelled to enlarge the barracks. Presi
dent Woodward and his assistants are de
termined to make this the pioueer military
school of the state.
In the recent election here, there was
only one third party candidate in the field
and that was Mr. liarrison, who ran for
sheriff. There were two democratic can
didates, the defeated one receiving nearly
five votes to Harrison’s one.
It may be Interesting to know what has
become of Cob Joe Pottle since h:s brief
experience as the congressional aspirant on
the populist ticket. Col. Pottle has re
pented of his rash adventure and is row
quietly practising law in this city. . where
he has a great many important cases for
next week’s court.
THE DEVIL IN MAGNETISM.
An Evil Said to Have Strength In Sev
enteen Secret Societies.
From the, .Vs w York World.
In one way and another, labor, in this
free and glorious country, muy be said to
tiave a hard time of it. In fact, the con
stant occupation of labor seems to be war
fare, and when it is not engaged in actual
conflict with the world nnd the flesh it
finds itself colled upon to take arms agaiust
the devil. The exact meaning of this prop
osition is conveyed by H.unuel Gompers,
president Of the American Federation
of Labor, w>ho has received an
alarming aud highly interesting warning
from 8. ilaydenfildt, Jr., who has given to
the study of electro-magnetism nnd other
pernicious arts much careful attention. “1
have been informed." says Mr. Hydenfeldt,
“that there are seventeen secret societies
which electro-maguetize their members,
who are, without know ing it, connected
with a system in India, Arabia and Uer
tnany. Those who have adopted it did so
undoubtedly without investigating or study
ing the injury to physical and mental condi
tions of man. It is easy, then, to account
for the nervousness and restlessness of tbe
people of the United States, waich physi
cians testify as steadily increasing.”
To understand properly the advance of
conditions that have produced this alarming
result, Mr. Heydenfeldt asks the reader to
begin with Jansenism and trace the devel
opment of magic, couvulsiomsm and mag
netism.
Ibe heresy of Jansenism first made its
appearance in Francs A. D. 1(541.
The tomb of a deacon named Paris, of the
Church of Bt. Medard.at Paris, who had
passed for a saint in certain quarters, fco
came tbe object of great veneration
among the unfortunates whom be had
relieved during his life, and at the
place, it was rumored, miracles were
worked. Tho Jansenists who wished to
prove the authority of a divine call among
the sects of miracle workers concluded
to appropriate those of the Cemetery of St.
Medard. This Paris was not tbe only per
son endowed with the power of miraculous
cures. Several Jar.semst saints had the
same gift. These so-called miracles com
menced in July, A. D. 1731. About that
time they became very common, and at the
end of several months there were iUO known
oonvulsiouists—that is to say, people who
went into cony uistous under tho influence of
religious emotion.
Iu his first chapter. "Birth and History
of Animal Magnetism,” H. Plano con
cludes that all the phenomena produced by
the convulslonists are due to the effects of
annimul magnetism and magic.
In speaking of the spread of pernicious
emotionalism in the United States, Jules
Remy, the French naturalist and traveler
in “A Journey to Great Halt Lake,” refers
to the ceremony of endowment among the
Mormons, by which wives are sealed for ail
eternity; to conversion through mesmerism;
hearing voices of unseen persons and mind
reading; to Che tenacity of their faith, which
has oeen confirmed by the evidence of their
senses through magical practices; to the
Mormon theocratic and eclectic *ya tems.and
to tho hatred of the Catholic church and of
the government of the United Htates,
Mr. Heydenfeldt takes the ground that
legislation aud treaties, witn the most se
vere penalties, are needed to prohibit tbe
use of electricity on human beiugs under
certain conditions. He believes that tbe
magic, sorcery and mysteries of the middle
ages have been revived among us in
America, with a more scientific knowledge
of eleotrology.
“Demonology (under the name of hypno
tism) it bemg practiced, including tbe in
generating, incubating and inhumating
from distances (on a larger scale, going
into millions), as well as other prac
tices of the demon incubi. There are
sects, among them the Mormons (es
pecially the seere of their ohuroh
hierarchy), whose fanaticism is suoh
that they seek to raise what is generally
called the subjective condition (of the
whole people , which is weak arid subject to
the mental dictation, suggestion, and con
trol of other mines, iu such a manner (there
being different ways) that it can be asserted
over the objective by tbe aid aud power of
other minds, with or without the use of
electricity, at which the objective is usually
ignorant and assumes the originality and
responsibility of all thought, expression and
act; which is the first step and link in lifting
the spiritual power over the temporal ”
In view of this disturbing condition of
aff airs a resolution has been taken to excite
the interest and action of congresq and to
this end a measure has heen drawn up, en
titled “an act to prohibit e:ectro-magnetiz
mg, mesmerizing, r hypnotizing human
beings, or alte Pug one porsou through
another by electricity, nnd to declare the
t-auie to he a crime against tbe law of
nations, and to define its punishment.”
This act in substance provides that any
oerson who shall “apoly a current of elec
tricity to one person for the purpose of af
fecting another” within tbe boundaries
of the United Sta es shall be deemed
guilty of a crime, tbe punishment for
which shall be death; and any person who
knows that such current is being applied
and does not give information to the auth r
lues shall be deemed an accessory and shall
be punished by a fine of not less than $5,000
and not more than 820,000 and by imprison
ment during his natural life or for a term of
years not less than two.
It is against such diabolism os is outlined
by this bill that, doubtless, Mr. Gompert
and the entire Federation of Labor are pre
paring to fight. How well they will succeed
is a question interesting to all who will
watch the experiment.
FOOLED HIM W TH A DUMMY.
Ho a Rochester Man Beat a Bar
keeper Badly,
roni the Baltimore American.
Rochester, Jan. 6.—Aaron Neitnan,
who keeps a clothing and furnishing store
on West avenue, rushed iuto the police
station last evening, and reported that a
dummy which had stood in front of the
store had mysteriously disappeared. The
dummy's head was covered with a (3
derby hat, and its form was clothed in an
entire suit, an overcoat and a mackintosh.
Deteotive Lynch was put on the case, and
tbe police were notified to look
out for a man struggling along
some back street with a dummy
clad in the bight of fashion. The police
discovered no trace of the wooden man or
the man responsible for its disappearance,
but Mr. Neiman did. Neiman talked about
it so much in the neighborhood of his store
that his next-door neighbor heard of the
loss and informed Neiman that be bad the
dummy, and that he could reclaim it by
paying for two beer* for the dummy and a
strange man who walked into the saloon
with it. He steered the dummy into the
saloon so naturally that tbe barkeeper did
uot notice that only one of his customers
was alive and thirsty. The real man called
for two beers—schoppens, too —drank the
friend’s health, said good night, and walked
out. leaving the dummy to pay for tbe
drinks. The bartender did not notice the
fraud for some little time.
VOODOOISM IN KENTUCKY.
Louieville Negroes Excited Over a
Death From Witchcraft.
Louisville, Jan. 8. —The negroes living
in the East End are in a high state of mind.
It seems that Frank Sims, a colored resident
of tbe Point, voted the democratic ticket at
the late presidential election. When this
fact became known smong Sims’ acquaint
ances they, particularly bis femal6 friends,
began voodooing him for giving bis alle
giance to Grover Cleveland. Their (aunts
aud gibes were of such a nature and so fre
quent that it is said biins had to take to his
bed, being iffoeted with a had ease o? voo
dooism. He gradually grew worse, and
finally the celebrated “voodoo” doctor,
George Fremont, (colored), was summoned
to attend tire patient. The case is the sub
ject of ounveisation among the colored
living in that sectiou of the city.
Last Friday Sims died, und there was a re
newed interest taken in the mysterious
death. Yesterday morning the matter took
a mere serious turn when Fremont, the
“voodoo” doctor, himself died. It is said
his death was due to voodooism. Sims’
family is much worked up over the affair
and it is sa.d mat they refused to bury him.
Sims’ brother, however, buried him.
MORMONIZINO MEXICO.
The First Contingent of a Proposed
Colony Arrives.
Santa Rosalie, Mexico, Jan. B. —Elder
John Stuart of Salt Lake, who has obtained
a concession from tbe Mexican government
for tbe establishment of a Mormon oolony
here, has arrived with twenty families,
oomprismg about 100 persons. This is the
first installment, as the colony is expected
to cotnpriFQ 3,000 persons. The concession
is in the shape of land at a nominal cost and
exemption of industries and manufactures
fioui lax by the oity, the stats of Chihua
hua and the national government for ten
years. Despite reports to tne contrary,
nothing is stipulated in the concession with
reference to the practice of polygamy.
Mexico being a country of religious free
dom the colonists will be allowed to practice
their religion as they see fit.
MEDICAL.
Mr. Robert W. Denvir
An Exempt Fireman of Jackson Engine Cos.,
Long Island City, N. Y., says that at Christmas,
1890, lie could only take a smell of dinner, as
he was in a fearful condition from Dyspepsia.
The next summer he went to Europe for iiis
health, but came home uncured. Iu the fail ho
decided upon a thorough trial of
Hood’s Sarsapariila
And by Christmas had a hearty appetite
healthy digestion, and was perfectly well. His
cure was due wholly to Hood's Sarsaparilla.
HOOD'B Pills cure liver ills, constipation,
biliousness, Jaundice, and slckheadache. Try them.
~ SPECIAL NOTICES.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Mr. C. D. LEE being no longer in my employ
Mr. J.H. A. WILLE is alone authorized to
transact my business.
F. B. SPRINGER.
R. C. McCALL,
DRUGGIST AND PHARMACIST.
Corner Congress and Whitaker Street*.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
WE HAVE NOW RECEIEVED OUR SUPPLY
OF
HOLIDAY PACKAGER.
To these who have not left orders with tie
would state chat we ordered an extra supply,
and now have,,n hai l beautiful lines of Fancy
Baskets and H. wee filled with lluyler's delicious
assortment, ot Candies.
SOLOMONS & CO..
103 Congress Street. 5*5! Bull Street
MEDICAI
TYPHOID FEVER
MUST
8E
ERADICATED
From Savannah. Use freely Darbys Prophy
lactic Fluid.
“Having in our official capacity as member*
of the Plymouth Hospital Committee, been
asked to t-'St and prove the effectiveness of
many different articles to be used as disin
fectants in sick rooms and as preventive* of in
fectious fevers, we can say that Darbys Pro -
phylatic Fluid has been thoroughly tested dur
ing the reoent Typhoiu epitemic In this place,
and it prove l all that you claimed for it. ’’
Thos. Kerb, * James Les, Jr.,
O. M. Lance, 8. M. Davenport.
J. A. Opp. F. H. Armstrong.
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
McCAFFREY.—The relatives and friends of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. McCaffrey and family,
and of Mrs. .Margaret McCaffrey and her
family, are respectfully invited to attend the
funeral of the former from his late residence.
60 Broughton street, at 3 o'clock THIS AFTER
NOON.
MEETING*.
CLINTON LODGE NO. 54. F. A A
A regular communication of this lodge A
will he held at Masonic Temple
(Monday) EVENING, Jan. 9th, at aAA
o'clock. ' ~ v
Tbe E. A. degree will be conferred.
Members of sister lodges and visiting breth
ren are cordially invited to meet with us.
MOSES PHASER, W. M..
Waring Russell, Jr., Secretary.
ORDER OF GOLDEN CHAIN, SAVAN
NAH LODGE NO. 72.
Members are requested to attend an import
ant meeting THIS EVENING, 9th inst., at 8
o'clock.
Installation of officers.
E. F. CUNNINGHAM,
Commander.
J. H. Bens, Secretary
GERMAN FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
The fifty sixth anniversary meeting ef this
Society will be held THIS (Monday) EVENING
at 7:30 o'clock in Turners hall Election of
officers for the ensuing year will take place.
Members will come preiiared to pay their dues.
M. G. HELMKEN, Vice President.
A. Heller. Secretary.
TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF TIIF. BA.
VANN AH BREAD AND BIBLE IT CO.
You are requested to attend a meeting of the
stockholders of this Company, to be held on
TUESDAY, the 10th inst, at 4 p at tho fac
tory, 71 Bay street, for the purpose of electing a
Board of Directors. R. S. MELL,
President.
A. V. Decker, Sec and Treas.
MUTUAL GAS LIGHT COMPANY^
129 Congress Street.
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 2, 1898.
Notice is hereby given tuat the annual meet
ing of the stockholders of the Mutual Gas
Light Company will be held at the office of the
Company on MONDAY. Jan 16, 183, at 12 m.,
for the election of Directors lor tne ensuing
year, and for tne transaction of such other busi
ness as may come before the meeting.
JNO. W. GOLDEN. Secretary.
SPEUAh ROXtcaa.
On and alter Fob I, 1880. the hauls of meas
urement of all advertising In the Morning News
* 111 be agate, or at the rate of $i 40 an inoh for
the first tuMertlon. No Special Notice Inserted
for less than 21 (XL
TIIECH AlllAM RRaTeSTATBANDIr£
PROVEMKNT COMPANY.
January 9, 1893.
The forty-second instalment to Series B and
dues to Series A are now due
M -J. SOLOMONS.
Secretary and Treasurer.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
t have THIS DAY resigned mv position as
city salesman w ith Mr. P. H. Springer and am
now connected with the old and reliable whole
sale butter and cheese house of Mr. C. D.
Rogers, and I respectfully solicit the patron
age of my former friends and customers.
C. D. LEE.
Jan. 7, 1893.
NOTICE.
The firm of K. S. LONG & BRO. has THIS
DAY dissolved by mutual consent.
K S. LONG assumes ali liabilities and will
continue business at same place, Gifford, S. C.
K. 8. LONG.
Jan. 7, 1533. Q. AV. LONG.
NOTICE.
All bills against the British steamship VUL
CAN, Edmondson master, must be pre
sented at our office by or before J 2 o'clock m.
THIS DAY, Jan. 9. or payment thereof wiil be
debarred. A. MINIS’SONS, Consignees.
THIS INVESTMENT, LAND AND LOAN
COMPANY.
GEORGE W. LAMAR, President.
directors :
Jlarmaduke Hamilton. Walter G. Charlton,
Edwin F. Bryan, Jonathan Lucas,
F. G. Garxany, Gko. W. Lamar
This company has purchased the largest
traots of land in the southern suburbs of the
city. It proposes to put such improvements on
it as wiil attract settlers and furnishing such
facilities as will conduce to their comfort, con
venience and health.
The situation offers unsurpassed inducements
for manufacturing enterprises. The Bavannah,
Florida and Western railway runs through the
property, and this road connects with all
wharves, warehouses and every other railroad
entering the city, thereby insuring as cheap
freights and quicx dispatch as aDy location in
the city, and free from city taxes.
The stock It offered at fifty dollars (ssoi a
share, payable in monthly installments of two
dollar*.s2), and when paid in full a lot in fee
simple will ne assigned shareholders for each
share so paid up. The company will retain
more than a thousand lot*, which will be thor
oughly improved by planting trees, grading
street*, and artesian water and other Improve
ments furnished as the directors consider war
ranted.
The object of the company la to make money
by the enhanced value of the lots, and nothing
that will conduce to that end will be neglected.
Those having knowledge of the wonderful
growth of Savannah in the past five years, in
business, population and building can appre
ciate the certainty of success of this undertak
ing. Apply to or address
GEORGE W. LAMAR,
For 25 Cents.
Cures all acbea
Cures all cams.
Cures all diarrhoea.
Cures the cholera.
PUNJAB BALSAM
ROWLINBKL PHARMACIST.
He still has the prescription
Books of Butler's Pharmacy,
and is the only one who can
repeat the prescriptions.
A FULL LINE
or
RICKSECRER’S COLOGNE AND EXTRACT
60UTH SIDE PHARMACY,
A let corn and Henry Street*.
AMUhEMKYfh.
savannah' theater;
ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY’
ONE NIGHT.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11th
MR. RICHARD
MANSFIELD
-And Stock Company,
Under the sole direction of Mr. John P. Slo
cum, in
BEAU BRUMMELL.
Seats at Livingston's Jan 9, S a. k.
PRlCES—Reserved seats, $! 50; admission,
SI; first gallery,'7so.; second gallery, 50c.
Next Attraction—JANE, Jan. 12.
SAVANNAH THEATER;
One Night Only, Jan, 12,
••.IAAK”
400 Times London—loo Nights New Tort.
Presented by
CHARLES FROHMAN'S
BRILLIANT COMPANY.
Tho summer girl that's bound to reign
Is featnery, dusty, rollicking “Jane.”
Hamlet—melancholy Dane,
Would burst ills sides if he saw “Jane "
Your buttons grasp with inirht and main
Or tbey’il fly off at funny ‘ Jane.’’
Let laughter titillate your brain.
You'll roar, and roar, and roar at “Jane."
Seats at Livingston's Jan. 10. Reserved seats
25 cents extra
Next attraction “CLAY CLEMENTB." J*n. tg,
banks.
Cllis BANK
OFSAVANNAH.
Capital $500,000
Transacts a general banking business.
Maintains a Savings Department and allows
INTEREST AT 4 PER CENT., compounded
quarterly.
The accounts of Individuals, firms, banks and
corporations ore solicited.
With our large number of correspondents fa
GEORGIA, ALABAMA, FLORIDA and SOUTH
CAROLINA, wears prepared to handleooiloo
tions on the most favorable terms
Correspondence invited.
BRANTLEY A. DENMARK.
Paxsmsirr.
M. B. LANE,
Vice President.
GEORGE O. FREEMAN.
Cashier,
SAVANNAH BANK
AND TRUST CO.
SAVANNAH. GA.
INTEREST AT
ON DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Collections on Savannah and all southern
points, we handle on the most favorable terms
and remit at lowest exchange rates on day of
payment. Correspondence solicited.
JOSEPH I). WEED, President
JGHY C. ROWLAND, Vice President.
JAMES H. HI \TE.t, Cashier
esteve&co.T"
iIG 1-3 Bay Street,
SAVANNAH. - - Cl A..
BO A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS BUY
AND SELL EXCHANGE ON ALL THE PRIN-
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f PARIS,
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barroso & ro :. üßbon
rates paid tor drafts of masters
of Spanish vessels and for drafts drawn by
asters of bound for Sp&aWh ports.
HAR HE
Another New Lot of Engravings,
ETCHINGS AND WATER COLORS JUST
RECEIVED BY
Launey & Goebel,
Who are also headquarters for fine Photo
graphs, Crayon, Pastel and Water-Color Por
traits from life or copy; alto, the largest and
finest line of Moldings and Frames ever shown
in Savannah. Now is the time to put In your
orders for the Holidays.
N. B.— Studio now 31 Whitaker street, one
door south of Broughton.
Tkay&CerV:
AUTISTIC
SILVERWARE
TEA AND DINNER SERV
ICES.
And ail other objects made of Silver.
SAMUEL KIRK & SON,
At our New Store and Manufactory,
10 BALTIMORE ST„ EAST, BALTIMORE. MD.
Established 1817.
Alee fine WATCHES, JEWELRY, DIA
MONDS.
PRINTERS AND 800 KBI N DK.RM. "
GEO. M. NICHOLS*
PRINTING*
BINDING.
BLANK BOOKS.
83* Bay St. Savannah.
KIESLING’S "NURSERY.
WHITE JGJL.UF’P' ROAR
1 PLANTS, Bouquets, Designs. Put Flowers
furnished to order Leave orders at Sava >
nah Plano Cos., cor. Bull and York ** s The IM
Railway posses through tbs nursery, relspbom
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