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STORMING OF THE HIGHTS.
IIEV TAI.MAGE IX THE PULPIT OF
THE PRESIDENT’S CHCRCH.
Jlls Text Taken Fron /.eehnrlah It.,
7— The Story of Zembhabel nnd the
Great Mountain of Obstacles— lie
Spoke of the Prejudice Against the
Holy AVrlt—He Invelulu Against
Hail 1,1 tern to re. Hail Home* anil
All Had Institution*.
Washington, Jan. 17.—1n the President's
church, and before an audience in which
were prominent senator* and members of
the House of Representatives and people
of all nationalities, this discourse of su
hlime encouragement wars delivered. Hr.
Talmage's subject was, "Storming the
Hights," and bis text, Zechariah 1-7:
"Who art thou, O great mountain? Re
fore Zerubbabel thou shalt become a
plain!"
Zerubbabel! Who owned that difficult
name, In which three times the letter "b"
occurs, disposing most people to stammer
in the pronunciation? Zerubbabel was
the splendid man called to rebuild the
destroyed temple of Jerusalem. Stone
for the building had been quarried, and
the trowel had rung at the laying of the
corner-stone, and all went well, when fhe
Cuthaeans offered to help In the woiK.
They were a bad lot of people, and Ze
rubbabl declined their help, and then the
trouble began. The Cuthaeans prejudiced
the secretary of the treasury against
Zerubbabel, so that the wages of the car
penters and masons could not be paid,
and the heavy cedar timbers which had
been dragged from Mount Lebanon to the
Mediterranean and floated In rafts from
Beyrout to Joppa, and were to be drawn
by ox team from Joppa to Jerusalem, had
halted, and as a result of the work of
those jealous Cuthaeans for sixteen years
the building of the temple was stopped.
But after sixteen years, Zerubbabel, the
mighty soul, got anew call from God to
go ahead with the temple building, and
the angel of the Lord in substance said:
"They have piled up obstacles In the way
of Zerubbabel until they have liecome as a
mountain, hight above hight, crag above
crag; but it shall all be thundered down
and made fiat and smooth as the floor of
a house, 'Who art thou, O great moun
tain? Before Zerubbabel thou shall be
come a plain.' ”
Well, the Cuthaeans are not all dead
yet. They are busy In every neighbor
hood and every city and every nation of
every age, heaping obstacles In the way of
the cause of God. They have plied up
hindrances above hindrances until they
have become a hill, and the hill has be
come a mountain, and the mountain has
became an Alp, and there it stands, right
In the way of all movements for the
world’s salvation. Some people are so
discouraged about the hight and breadth
of this mountain in front of them that
they have done nothing for sixteen years
and many of those who are at work trying
to do something toward removing the
mountain toil in such a way that I can see
they have not much faith that the moun
tain of hindrances will ever he removed.
They feel they must do their duty, but
they feel all the time—l can hear It in their
prayers and exhortations—that they are
striking their pickaxes and shovels into
the side of the Rooky mountains. If the
good Lord will help me while I preach
I will give you the names of some
of tho high mountains which are really in
the way, and then show you that those
mountains are to be prostrated, torn
down, ground up, leveled,'put out of sight
forever. "Who art thou, O great moun
tain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt be
come a plain."
First, there Is the Mountain of Preju
dice, as long as a range of the Pyrenees.
Prejudice against the Bible as a dull book,
an inconsistent book, a cruel book, an
unclean book, and in every way an unlit
book. The most of them have never read
It. They think the strata of the rocks
contradict the account In Genesis. The
poor souls do not know that the Mosaic
account agrees exactly with the geological
account. No violin or flute ever were In
better accord. By crowbar and pickax
and shovel and blasting powder the geo
logist goes dov n in the earth and says:
“The first thing created In the furnishing
of the earth was the plants." Moses says,
"Ay! I told you that in the Book or
Genesis: 'The earth brought forth grass
and herb, yielding seed after his kind, end
the tree yielding fruit.' ” The geologist
goes on digging in the earth and says:
"The next thing in the furnishing of the
earth was the making of the creatures of
the sea.” Moses says, "Ay! I told you
that was next In the Book of Genesis:
'God said. Let the waters bring forth
abundantly ihe moving creatures that
have life; and God created great whales.”
The geologist goes on digging, and soys:
"The next thing in the furnishing of the
earth was the creation of the cattle and
the reptiles and the beasts of the field.”
"Ay!" says Moses. "I told you that was
next In the first chapter of Genesis: ‘And
God said, Let the earth bring forth the
living creature after his kind, cattle and
creeping thing, and beast of the enrlh af
ter his kind.’ ” The geologist goes on dig
ging in the earth, and says: “The next
creature was the human family. "Ay!"
says Moses, “I told .you that was next In
the Book of Genesis: 'So God created
man in his own image, in the image of
God created he him, male and female,
created he them.’ ” Those prejudiced
against the Bible do not know that the
explorations in Egypt and Palestine and
Syria are confirming the scriptures—the
ourne facts written on monuments and on
the walls of exhumed cities as written
in the Bible. The city of Pithom has been
unburled, and Its bricks are found to
have been made without straw, exactlv
corresponding with the Bible story of the
persecuted Hebrews. On terra eottit cyl
inder recently brought up from thousands
of years of burial, the capture of Babylon
by Cyrus Is told. On a Babylonian gem
recently found are the figures of a tree,
a man, a woman anil a serpent, and (ho
hands of the man and woman are stretch
ed up toward the tree as If to pluck tho
fruit. Thus the Bible story of (he fall is
confl rmed.
In a museum at Constantinople you see
a piece of the wall that onee In tho an
cient temple of Jerusalem separated the
court of the Gentiles and the court of the
Israelites, to which Paul refers when he
says of Christ, “lie is our peace, who
hath broken down the middle wall of par
tition between us.” On tuhlets recently
discovered have been found the names of
prominent men of the Bible, spelled a little
different, according to tho demands of
ancient language. "Ailamu" for Adam.
"Abramn” for Abraham, "Ablu" for Abel,
and so on. Twenty-two feet under ground
has been found a Heal Inscribed with tho
words "ilaggai. son of Bhebanlah," thou
sands of years ago cut, showing that the
Prophet Ilaggai. who wrote a part of the
Bible, was not a myth. The royal engi
neers have found, eighty feet below the
surface of the ground at Jerusalem. Phoe
nician pottery and hewn nones with In
scriptions, showing that they were fur
nished by Hiram, King of Tyre, Just as
the Bible says they were. The great
names of Bible history, that many sup
jx.se are names of Imaginary beings, are
found cut Into Imperishable atones
which have within a few years
been rolled up from their en
tombment of ages, such as Sen
nacherib and Tlglath-I’llescr. On Ihe
edge of a bronze atep, and on burned brick
has been found the name of Nebuchad
nezzar. Henry Rawlinson and Oppert
and Hincks, and Palestine exploration ro
cietlea, and Asyriologlsts, and Egyptolo
gists, have rolled another Bible up from
the depths of the earth, and lo! It corre
sponds exactly with our Bible, the ro k
Bible just like the printed Bible, inscrip
tions on cylinders and brick-work cut
thirty-eight hundred years before Christ
testifying to the truth of what we read
eighteen hundred and ninety-seven years
after Chryst. The story of the tower of
Babel has been confirmed by the fact that
recently at Babel an ohlong pile of brick
one hundred and ten feet high evidences
the remains of a fallen tower. In the In
spired Hook of Ezra we read of the great
and noble Asnapjicr, a name that meant
nothing especial, until recently, in prie l
up Egyptian sculpture, we have the story
there tolil of him as a great hunt* r, as
well as a great warrior. What I say now
is news to those prejudiced against the
Bible. They are so far behind the times
that they know not that the Old Book is
being proved true by the prying eye of
the antiquarian and the ringing hammer
of the archaeologist and ihe plunging
crowbar of ihe geologist. No more is :ufi
delity characterized by its blasphemy than
by its ignorance, but oh! what a high
mountain of prejudice against the Bible,
against , Christianity, against churches,
against all evangelizing enterprises—a
mountain that oasts Its long, black shad
ows over this continent and over all con
tinents. Geographers tell ns that Mount
Everest is the highest mountain in the
world, oh. no! The mountain of preju
dice against Christianity is higher than
the highest crags that dare the lightnings
of heaven. Before our Zerubbabel can it
ever become a plain?
Another mountain of hindrance is that
of positive and outspoken immorais.
There is the Mountain of Inebrlacy. It
is piled high with kegs and demijohns and
decanters and hogsheads, on which sit the
victims of that traffic whose one business
is to rob earth and heaven of the most
generous and large-hearted and splendid
of the human race. If their business was
to take only the mean and slingy and con
temptible and useless, we would not say
much against the work, for there are tens
of thousands of men and women who are
a nuisance to the world, and their obliter
ation from human society would be an ad
vantage to all that is good. The removal
of these moral deficits would not arouse
in us much of a protest. But insobriety
takes the best. The Mountain of Ine
brlacy stands in the way of the Kingdom
of God, and hundreds of thousands of
men, hut for that hindrance, would step
right into the ranks of the Lord’s host and
march heavenward, each one taking a reg
iment with him. The Mountain of In
ebriacy is not an ordinary mountain; hut
it Is armed. It Is a line of fortresses con
tinually blazing away its destructive
forces upon all our neighborhoods, towns,
and cities, their volleys of death poured
down upon the homes and churches. Un
der this power more than one
hundred thousand men and' wo
men are in this country ev
ery year Imprisoned, and an army of six
hundred thousand drunkards almost shake
the earth with their staggering tread. It
causes in this country 30G murders and 400
suicides a year. This Mountain of Ir.e
brlacy has not only assaulted the land,
but bombarded the shipping of the sea,
and some of the most appalling ship
wrecks on Atlantic and Pacific coast
have been the result. What sank the
steamer Rothsay Castle, on the way from
Liverpool to Dublin, destroying 100 hu
man lives? A drunken sea captain. What
blew up the Ben Sherrod on the Missis
sippi and sent 150 to horrible death? A
drunken crew. What drove on the break
ers a steamer making its way from New
York to Charleston, and sent whole fami
lies, on the way home from summer wat
ering places, to the merciless depths of
the sea. A drunken sea captain. Gather
up from the depths of the rivers, and
lakes, and oceans, the bones of those
shipwrecked by Intoxicated captains and
crews and you could build out of them a
temple of horrors, all the pillars and al
tars and floors and ceilings fashioned of
human skulls. Is it possible that such a
Mountain of Inebrlacy can ever be made
a plain?
Yonder also Is the Mountain of Crime,
with its strata of fraud, and malpractice,
and malfeasance, and blackmail, and
burglary, and piracy, and embezzlement,
and libertinism, and theft, all its hights
manned with the desperadoes, Ihe cut
throats, the pickpockets, the thimble-rig
gers. the plunderers, the marauders, tho
pillagers, the corsairs, the wreckers, the
bandits, the tricksters, the forgers, the
thugs, the garotters, the fire-fiends, the
dynamiters, the shoplifters, the klepto
maniacs, the pyramanics, the dipsoman
iacs, the smugglers, the kidnappers, the
Jack Sheppards, the Robert Macaires, and
the Macheths of villainy. The crimes of
the world! Am I not right in calling them,
when plied up together, a mountain? But
we cannot bring ourselves to appreciate
great hights except by comparison. You
think of Mount Washington as high, es
pecially those of you who ascended as of
old, on mulebaek, or more recently by rail
train, to the Tip Top house. Oh, no! That
Is not high! For it is only about six thous
and feet, whereas, rising on this western
hemisphere are Chimborazo, twenty-one
thousand feet high, and Mount Bahama,
twenty-three thousand feet high, and
Mount Sarota, twenty-four thousand eight
hundred feet high. But that is not the
highest mountain on the western hemis
phere. The highest mountain is tho
Mountain of Crime, and is it possible that
this mountain, before our Zerubbabel, can
ever be made a plain?
There is also the Mountain of War, the
most volcanic of all mountains—the Ve
suvius which, not content, like the Vesu
vius of Italy, with whelming two cities,
Herculaneum and Pompeii, has covered
with its fiery scoria thousands of cities
and would like to whelm all the cities of
both hemispheres. Give this mountain
full utterance, and It would cover up
Washington and New York and London
as easily as a householder, with Ills shov
el, at 10 o'clock at night, banks a grate
fire with ashes. Tilts mountain is a pile
of fortresses, barricades and armories, the
world's artillery heaped, wheels alxive
wheels, columblads above Columbia*!*,
seventy-four pounders above seventy-four
pounders, wrecked nations above wrecked
nalions. This Mountain of War is not
only loaded lo cannonade the earth, but
It Is also a cemetery, holding the corpses
of thirty million slain In the wars of Al
exander Hnd Cyrus, sixty million slain In
Roman wars, one hundred and eighty mill
ion slain In war with Turks and Sara
cens, and holding about thirty-live billion
corpses, not million but billion, whl’h
was the estimate made by Edmund Burke
more than a hundred years ago of those
who had been destroyed by war, so that
you would have to add many more mill
ions now. Twenty years ago a careful au
thor estimated that about fourteen times
the then population of the world had gone
down in battle or In hospital after battle.
Ah! This Mountain of War is not like
an ordinary mountain. It Is like Kilnuea,
one of the Sandwich Islands, which holds
the greatest volcano in all the earth, and
concerning which I wrote from the Suml
wlch Islands a few years ago:
"What a hissing, bellowing, tumbling,
soaring force is Kilauea! Lake of un
quenchable tire: convulsions and parox
ysms of flame: elements of nature in tor
ture: torrldity and lurid It y: congregation
of dreads: molten horrors: su.phurous
abysms: swirling mystery of ail time: in
finite turbulence: chimney of perdition:
wallowing terrors: fifteen acres of threats:
glooms Insufferable and Dantesque: cauld
ron stirred by the champion witch of l’an
demonlutn: camp-fire of the urinles of
Dlaholus: wrath of the mouutnlns In full
bloom: shimmerlnng Incandescence: pyr
otechnics of the planet: furnace-blast of
the ages: Kilauea!” But, my friends,
mightier, higher, vaster, hotter, more rag
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1897.
ing is the volcanic Mountain of War. It :
has been blazing for hundreds of years, j
and wi!! keep on blazing until, until.—but i
I dare not hazard a phophecy. Can it be ;
that its fires will ever be put out? Can It |
be that its roar will ever be silenced? Can
it be that before our Zerubbabel that blaz
ing mountain will ever become a plain?
The mightiest, grandest movement for
driving brutal war out of the earth dates
from Jan. 11, 1897. The men who on either
side of the sea did most to effect that plan
of arbitration have made themselves im
mortal.
The eve of the present administration of
the United States government has been
honored with the gladdest event of eigh
teen centuries. All civilized nations will
copy the sublime example. I implore the
illustrious Senate of the United States to
a.low nothing to interfere with a vole of
ratification, that the bells of church
Christendom may ring out "Peace on earth,
good will toward men."
Senators, many of you my personal
friends, let me say that this is the oppor
tunity of your lives. By emphatic and
enthusiastic vote rise to the splendor of
the occasion and win the favor of all the
good of earth and all the mighty in heav
en. Let the aye. aye, of our American
Senate resound through all the capitals
of Europe and make all the arsenals ami
armories of the round world hear that
there shall be no more murder among na
tions.
There is also the long range of moun
tains, longer than Appalachian range,
longer than Caucasian range, longer than
Bierra Nevada range—the piled-up oppo
sition of had literature, had homes, bad
Institutions, bad amusements, bad cen
turies, bad religions; Paganism, Hindqo
ism, Buddism, Mohammedanism. and
buttressed and enthroned Godlessness, de
voted io ambition and lust and hydra
headed, argus-eyed abomination, as it
stands with lifted fist and mocking lips,
challenging Jehovah upon the throne of
the universe to strike If he dare. Oh, ir
is a great mountain, as my text declares.
There Is no use in denying it. The most
authentic statistics declare it. The signs
of the times prove It. All Christian work
ers realize It. It is a mountain. "The
mountain can never be brought down,"
says worldly speculation. "The mountain
can never be made a plain," says small
faith In the churches. Well, let us see.
Let us look about for the implements
we can lay our hands on. Let us count
the number on our side who are willing to
dig with a shovel, or bore a tunnel, or
blast a rook. Let us see if there is any
foreign help that will come in to reinforce
us. I do not want to make myself absurd
by attempting an impossibility. If it is
only one spade at the foot of Mount
Blanc; if it is only one arm, capable of
lifting but a few pounds, against a moun
tain that weighs a hundred million tons,
let us quit before we make ourselves the
travesty and caricature of the universe. If
we are to undertake this job, first of all
we must have a competent engineer, one
who knows all about excavations, about
embankments, about tunnels, about moun
tains, I know engineers who have carved
up mountains, cut down mountains, re
moved mountains. I will do nothing fin
less T l:aow who is to be our Engineer.
Zerubbabel led at the rebuilding of the
ancient Temple, and Matthew Henry,
the greatest of commentators, declares
that our Zerubbabel is the Lord Jesus
Christ. The Zerubbabel of my text was
only a type of the glorious and omnipo
tent Jesus, and as I look up into the face
of this Divine Engineer and see it glow
with all the splendors of the Godhead,
and see that in his arm is the almighti
ness that flung out all the worlds that
glitter in the midnight heavens, and that
to lift the- Himalayas would cost him no
more effort than for me to lift an ounce,
my courage begins to rally, and my faith
begins to mount, and my enthusiasm Is
all aflame, and the words or my text this
momtnt Just fit my lips and express the
triumph of my soul, and I cry out, "Who
art thou, O great mountain? before Zerub
babel thou shalt become a plain.”
My experiences with the shovel are that
you cannot do much by one push of that
implement, and that after you have been
digging with it an hour what you. have
accomplished seems very little; but just
go along by the jdace where they are build
ing a railroad through a mountain and see
what a great work a thousand shovels can
do, and know that while there ere a thou
sand shovels at work on this side of the
mountain there are a thousand shovels,
busy on the. other side, and all I have to
do Is to manage my own particular shovel.
It cheers me to think that against this old
Mountain of Sin there are hundreds of
thousands and millions of shovels this mo
ment busy, and we are all at work under
the one Engineer who came down from
his throne in heaven to oversee and help
the removal of that mountain, and who
has contracted to have it done. I have
seen the contract, and He Is well paid for
It. The compensation promised by the
throne of heaven Is, “I will give thee the
heathen for thine Inheritance and the ut
termost parts of the earth for thy pos
session." The reason so many of us are
idle is that we want a bigger shovel or
we would like to manage some great hy
draulic engine. No, brother. Stick to
your shovel. Dig away in your Sabbath
classes. Dig away in your missions. Dig
away in your homes. Dig away In your
pulpits. Do the work next to you. Do
not spend too much time look
ing at the great size of the mountains,
or at the way others use their shovels.
All that you can accomplish toward the
removing of that mountain will be with
your own particular shovel. Remember
little David, with Saul's helmet on him.
dropping clear down over his ears, even
unto his shoulders. But when he got in his
hand the boy's sling, how well he used it!
If you do not understand Greek, do not
attempt to tell the people wnat the text is
in Ihe original. If you do not understand
Latin, attempt no drafts upon Latinity.
You who want to help In the removal of
the mountain, hold on to your shovel.
Much time has been lost by the fact that
many of the sharpest shovels, instead of
being used for the removal of the moun
tain, have been used in lighting each
other. The great Presbyterian church
was mightily hindered by the tight
that for years went on between
Old School shovels and New
School shovels, and It was not
until the meeting of the general
assembly at Pittsburg, thirty or forty
years ago that many good men made up
their minds that shovels are not made to
light with hut to dig with. Many of the
old theologians went around with band
aged foreheads which had not been struck
by tho swords in the battle for God, but
by the shovels of ecclesiastical embrogllo.
They had a special admiration for that
Psalm of David which said, “Blessed be
the Lord which teacheth my hand to war,
and my lingers to light.” So also the Meth
odist church had a battle of shovels over
the questions of lay delegates, and wom
anly representation. I am glad to say that
most of the ecclesiastical pugilists, In all
denominations, are dead, and that they
had big funerals. But there are so many
shovels now rightly engaged that no sta
tistics ran count them. I tell you the
mountain Is coming down. It Is coming
down rapidly. It will all come down. There
are those who hear or read thoao words
who will gaze upon Its complete prostra
tion ; for what Is the use of my keeping
hack any longer the full statement of the
fact, which 1 have somewhat delayed
through lawful sermonle strategy, thd fact
that the Lord God Almighty, in tho full
play of his omnipotence, will accomplish
this supernal work. If God can build a
mountain. I guess he can remove a moun
tain. After God has given full opportu
nity for the shovels, he will come in with
his thunderbolts. We have amplified the
Idea of tile I.amh of God. I tell you now
of the lion. Here Is a thought that I have
never seen projected, and yet It is the most
iJrcgrimr of nII considerations snd plainly
•cejtftui .(1,1 he thought that as at the open-
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ing of the gospel dispensation, in the
t'hristly, and Johanian, ami Pauline days,
the machinery of tho natural world was
brought into service, the shadow of
eclipses and the agitation of earthquakes,
tempests put to sleep under the voice of
divine lullaby, iron bolts of prisons shov
ed hack by invisible muscle, kindling of
flame on heads of worshippers, by instan
taneous pharmacy blasted vision given
full eyesight, and th* dead returned from
the eternal world, mingling amid earthly
scenes, so it will be again. As I read my
Bible, these supernaturals are to return.
Again the eclipses, as at the destruction
of Jerusalem, will put red wing under the
moon and black wing under the sun, and
the mountains will shake with ague of
excitement, and hospital cots be emptied
as their patients bound into sudden health,
and the Gospel of Mercy emphasized by
most tremendous spectacles. "And I be
held when he had opened the sixth seat,
and, 10, there was .a great earthquake;
and the sun became Hark as sackcloth of
hair, and the moon became as
blood . . . and every mountain
and island were moved out of
their places." There you have it. The
shovels now digging away at the moun
tains to be reinforced by thunderbolts.
The gospel is only partialv successful be
cause we preach it amid ail placidities,
the hearers having h*ar<l the invitation a
thousand times before, and expect to hear
it a thousand times more, but in coming
times to be preached amid pulverized rocks
and stellar panics and shattered masonry
of cemeteries, from which the pallid dead
will spring into roseate life. I say then
the gospel will be universally accepted.
There is the programme. First the sho*v
els, then the thunderbolts. Ours the shov
els, God's the thunderbolts. The text,
which before we uttered with something of
trepidation, now we utter in laugh of tri
umph, "Who art thou, O great mountain?
before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a
plain.”
Sometimes a general begins a battle be
fore he is ready, because the enemy forces
it on him. The general says, “The enemy
are pushing us. and so I open battle. We
are not sufficient to cope with them, but
I hope the reserve forces will come up in
time.” The battle rages, and the general
looks through his field-glass at the troops,
but ever and anon he sweeps his field
glass backward and upward toward the
hill, to see If the reserve forces are coming.
“Hard pushed are we!” says the general.
“I do wish those reinforcements would
come up.” After awhile the plumes of
the advancing cavalry are seen toss
ing on the ridge of the hill, and then the
flash of swords, and then the long lines
of mounted troops, their horses in full
gallop, and the general says, “All is well.
Hold out, my men, little long
er. Let the sergeants ride along
the lines and cheer the men and tell them
reinforcements are coming.’ And now the
rumbling of the batteries and gun-car
riages Is distinctly heard, and soon they
are in liqe, and at the first roar of the
newly arrived artillery the. enemy, a little
tV'hlle before so Jubilant, fall back in wild
retreat, their way strewn with canteens,
and knapsacks, and ammunition, that the
defeated may be unhindered in their flight.
That is just the way now. fn this great
battle against sin and crime and moral
death the enemy seem too much for us.
More grogshops than churches. More bad
men than good men, and they come up
with bravado and the force of great num
bers. They have opened battle upon us,
before we are, in our own strength, ready
to meet them, and great are the discour
agements. But steady, there! Hold on!
Reinforcements are coming. Through the
glass of inspiration I look, and see the
flash of the sword of "him who hath on
his vesture and bn his thigh, a name writ
ten, King of kings and Lord of lords.” All
heaven is on our side and is coming to the
rescue. I hear the rumbling of the King’s
artillery, louder than any thunder that
ever shook the earth, and with every roll
of the ponderous wheels our courage aug
ments, and when these reinforcements
from heaven get into line with the forces
of God already on earth, all the armies of
unrighteousness will see that their hour
of doom has come, and will waver and
fall back and take flight and nothing lie
left of them save here and there, strewn
by the wayside, an agnostic’s pen or a
broken decanter or a torn playbill of a
debasing amusement or a blasphemous
paragraph, or a leper's scale, or a dragon's
tooth, to show they ever existed. Let
there be cheering all along the lines of
Christian workers, over the fact that
what the shovels fail to do will be ac
complished by the thunderbolts. “Who
art thou, O great mountain? before Zerub
babel thou shalt become a plain.”
The mountains look on Marathon,
And Marathon looks on the sea,
• • • *
Shrine of the mighty can it be
That this is all remains of thee!
GOV. BI,OXHAM'S ST IFF,
The Military tides of the New Gov
ernor of Florida.
Tallahassee, Fla., Jan. 17.—Gov. Blox
ham has made the following appointments
for his military staff: Samuel T. Shay
lor of Jacksonville, judge advocate gen
eral; Raymond Cay of Tallahassee, com
missary general; J. B. Anderson of Tampa,
inspector general; Frank Phillips of Ma
rianna, quartermaster general; Henry
Bacon of Jacksonville, Furgeon general;
L. A. Perkins of Tallahassee, chief ord
nance officer, all with rank of colonel; H.
P. Baya of Lake City, aide-de-camp, with
rank of captain.
The Florida Towage and Lighterage
Company is anew corporation at Jack
sonville, with a capital of sao,ooo. The
stockholders are Ernest G. Phlnny. Will
iam R. Thompson and Harold Weston.
POUT P 411*41.11 4 I'll*.
Maritime MnGer* of l.ocal nnd Gen
eral Interest,
Capt. Charles James, commander of the
Merchants and Miners Transportation
Company's steamer Wm. Crane, has
H*en promoted to the command
of the steamship Chatham of the
Boston lino. Capt. James is a skillful
navigator and a courteous gentleman,
and his many friends In Savannah will
lie glad to heap of his appointment to one
of tho largest of the company's ships.
The Wilmington Messenger of Satur
day says: "Mr. Hostetler's yacht, the
Duquesne, which has been on the wnys
at ('apt. Sklnper's shipyard, received or
ders yesterday to proceed to Savannah.
At Savannah Mr. Hostetter nnd a party
of ladies nnd gentlemen will meet the
yacht and go to St. Simons Island. Capt.
Thomas H. Taylor, one of our clever
pilots, will pilot the Duquesne to her
destination.”
FUNERAL, INVITATIONS.
HOLLAND.—The relatives and friends
of Mr. James Holland and family are re
spectfully Invited to attend his funeral
at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, from Trin
ity Methodist church.
LAMOTTE.—The relatives and friends
of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lamotte are re
spectfully invited to attend the funeral
of their son, Elwood Pierce, from their
residence, this afternoon, at 4 o’clock.
MORGAN—The relatives and friend3 of
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Morgan and family are
invited to attend the funeral of their son,
John Hnrrold, from No. 230 Jefferson
street at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon.
OWENS.—The relatives and friends of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Owens are In
vited to attend the funeral of the former
at the cathedral of St. John the Baptist,
this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock.
MEETINGS.
THE CITIZENS CLUB
will meet
At ODD FELLOWS HALL
TUESDAY EVENING, JAN. 10,
at 8:30 o'clock.
For tlie purpose of receiving the
report of the committee of 100 ap
pointed to select candidates for
Major and Aldermen to be submit
ted to the eluh.
AH citizens favoring the policy of
the present city administration anl
who are Interested in maintaining
good government are cordially In
vited to he present.
.1. FEU Ills f ANN, President.
A. I- ALEXANDER, Seeretury,
SAVANNAH TRIBE NO. 4, IMP. O.R.M.
Regular council fire will be kindled in
wigwam, corner Barnard and State
streets (Odd Fellows Hall), 18th sleep
(Monday nigdit), cold moon, at the Bth
run and 30th breath, sitting of the sun.
LEANDER BUTLER, Sachem.
11. M. STANLEY', Chief of Records.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
We are going to clear out all 1896 models
regardless of price.
The Barnes, Keating, Eagle and Hun
ter Bicycles in racing models, road mod
els, children’s models, all to be sold at a
bargain. Come and make us an offer.
Call early and secure one of the splendid
machines before It is too late. There is
but a few on hand.
We are not allowed to sell 1897 MODEL
BICYCLES at less prices than those
stated In the catalogues, but our 1896
models, which are almost the same thing,
can be sold at will and at any price we
see fit, as there is no restriction what
ever on them. 1897 Barnes, Hunters and
Eagles now in stock.
We have a few of the beautiful Barnes
White Flyer 1896 Racing Wheels, also
some Keating Road Wheels and Eagles,
all splendid machines to be sacrificed.
There is no practical advantage over
any of the 1896 models in the new 1897
styles. W'e will show you each, and in
the Eagle, Keating and Barnes we do not
find any changes of any consequence.
These wheels are already so perfect that
improvements are impossible.
Remember we are not publishing re
duced prices, but if you will call on us we
will have you riding a Barnes, Eagle,
Keating or Hunter in a jifTy.'
We are looking for our 1897 Remingtons
on every steamer that arrives.
R. D. & WM. LATTI MORE,
Stores on Congress street, near Market,
and Bull street, opposite De Soto Hotel.
DESIRABLE RESIDENCES FOR SALE
Those modern dwellings, 207 and 211
Gwinnett street west, between Barnard
and Jefferson.
Also a handsome residence at Isle of
Hope, complete with all improvements
and nice garden, etc.
Either or all of the above will be so'd
on easy terms or on the popular install
ment plan. Apply to
CHATHAM REAL ESTATE AND IM
PROVEMENT COMPANY.
Or to C. H. DORSETT.
ALL NIGHT DRUG STORE.
From this date our Branch Store, corner
Bull and Charlton streets, under Guards
Arsenal, will be kept open ALL NIGHT.
A thoroughly competent proscription
clerk will always be on hand.
SOLOMONS & CO„
Druggists.
AN ELEGANT HOUSE FOR RENT.
The modern brick residence, with all
modern Improvements, 1,007 (new number)
Whitaker sheet, between Waldburg and
New Houston, facing the Park Extension.
Possession given immediately. Apply to
F. G. BELL,
Morning News office.
DIVIDEND NOTICE,
Office Savannah Gas Light Company,
Savannah, Jan. 15, 1897.—A dividend of 2'j
per cent, on Ihe capital stock of this com
pany has tieen declared, payable on and
after Monday, the 18th Inst.
A. G. OUERARD, President.
COT BONDS AND BANK STOCKS.'
Savannah Construction Company Stock
nnd other securities bought and sold.
Real estate loans negotiated.
AUSTIN R. MYRES. Broker.
®S Bryan street east.
AMUSEMENTS.
gRVANNAH THE4TER,
Three Nights and Wednesday Matinee,
commencing MONDAY, Jan. 18,
The talented Singing Comedian,
FRANCIS JONES
And his excellent company, presenting
Beautifully Costumed Comedies.
MONDAY NIGHT,
IN OLD MADRID.
Ladies free Monday night when accom
panied by escort having paid ticket if
reserved before 7 p. m. Monday.
Prices—loc, 20c and 30c.
Next Attraction—Ernie Vcronee.Jan. 21.
BUSINESS NOTICES.
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,
The boys are marching:.
Our store Is the objective point Just
now. Lee's birthday will soon be here,
and the military want Uniforms, Gaunt
lets, Gloves, etc. We have them for the
boys.
Our Hat and Shirt and Neckwear De
partments are full, too, for those who
need in that line.
Don’t forget us at the old stand, 107
Bull street.
LA FAR,
Hatter and Furnisher.
NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE AVHO
CANNOT SEE
The error of buying glasses which rulr.
their eyes. Nature demands perfect vis
ion. We can supply that if your eyes are
deficient and need the aid of artificial
power. Thousands of people go blind from
the use of cheap glasses. Are not you tak
ing the same risk? Think It over. We ex
amine sour eyes free of charge and fit
you with lenses that are perfect in every
respect, and you pay no more for them
than you would buying the same goods
with inferior lenses from any dealer.
DR. M. SCHWAB & SON,
47 Bull street.
N. B.—Oculist prescription filled same
day received. Repairing of all kinds at
short notice.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
r E^TtPrA\^PAVERsr~^
City Treasurer’s Office, Savannah, Ga.,
Jan. 1, 1897.—The following taxes are now
due:
REAL ESTATE, fourth quarter, 18%.
STOCK IN TRADE, fourth quarter, 1896.
FURNITURE, ETC., fourth quarter,
1896.
MONEY, NOTES, SOLVENT DEBTS.
ETC., fourth quarter, 1896.
Also. WATER RENTS for six months
in advance, from Jan. 1, 1897, to July 1,
1897.
Also, SPECIFIC TAXES of all kinds.
BADGES for street cars, wagons, drays,
trucks, hacks, omniouses, etc., and LI
CENSES FOR DOGS.
A discount of 10 per cent, will be allow
ed upon REAL ESTATE, PERSONAL
PROPERTY and WATER RENT if paid
within FIFTEEN DAYS AFTER THE
FIRST OF JANUARY, and a discount or
10'per cent, will be allowed upon SPE
CIFIC TAXES, RADGES and DOG LI
CENSES if paid any time during the
month of January.
C. S. HARDEE. City Treasurer.
NOTICE.
Bids will be received at the office of the
undersigned for furnishing the Savannah
Fire Department, with 1 new hose wagon,
and 1 city hook and ladder truck without
steering gear, same to be first-class in
every particular, equipment, and tools
complete, built of all wood or of steel or
iron frame and body (combination chemi
cal and hose wagon preferred). Bids must
be accompanied by specifications, describ
ing accurately the apparatus and speci
fying the equipment, tools and imple
ments therewith. All bids to be sealed,
marked and delivered not later than 12
o'clock noon Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1897. The
Board of Fire Commissioners reserve the
right to reject any and all bids.
JOHN K. MAGUIRE, Secretary.
PERSONAL PROPER I'l RETURNS
FOR 1807.
Office Board of Tax Assessors nnd Re
ceivers, January Ist, 3897.—Notice is here
by given that under the tax ordinance of
the city of Savannah for the year 1897,
this board Is now prepared to receive re
turns of PERSON Al. PROPERTY of ail
kinds.
The tax ordinance provides that If any
person, required to make any such re
turns, shall refuse or neglect to do so be
fore the first day of February, it shall
be the duty of this hoard to proceed forth
with to make the return themselves
from the best ir.lurmation they can ob
tain. and shall assess a DOUBLE TA.X
against such defaulter.
J. H. H. OSBORNE, Clerk.
closing out sale of
LUNCH BASKETS,
FLOWER STANDS
AND TRELLISES.
Cuspidores. each lie
Gallon Water Pots, painted 25c
Scollay Sprinkler t 75c
Rogers Shear Company Scissors
warranted 23c
A few of those nice Knives 25c
Beat Ml Lead Pencils, dozen 10c
Box Paper — ioc
Gold Fish Food. Bird Seed,
AT GARDNER'S,
12 East Broughton Street.
SPECI AL TO-UtV.
PINK CARNATIONS.
Extra Choice Flowers. Orrkr quick.
WOLF & CO., Florists.
'Phone 631.
MEN’S
$4
SHOES
—AT—
S3.
The shoes having the popular toe
now worn by men and which p
generally styled the "Bull Do .,
Toe,” like every new Introduction
is Fold to the public at excess e
prices until competition becomes
general. In this shape we have a
special line,
which, in order to introduce, s 0
that It may be compared with' the
ordinary Bull Dog Shoe, sold else
where, we will sell this line for a
short time at the
Reduced Price oi g
Every pair is warranted to con
tain nothing but solid leather
throughout—no shoddy of any de
scription.
Cor. Whitaker.
THE CITIZENS BANK
OF SAVANNAH.
Capital, $500,000
Trauiocti a gcuerai banking l>ul.
mess. Maintains a Savings Depart*
ment and allows INTEREST AT 4
PER CENT., compounded quarterly.
The accounts of individuals, firms,
banks and corporations arc solicit,
ed.
With our large number of corre,
spondents In GEORGIA, ALABAMA,
FLORIDA nnd SOUTH CAROLINA ws
•re prepared to handle collections
On the most favorable terms. Cor,
reepondence. invited.
BRANTLEY A. DENMARK, PrestdenC
M. B. LANE, Vice President.
GEORGE C. FREEMAN, Cashier.
THE CHATHAM Blf
SAVANNAH, 6A.
Transacts as general banking
business,maintains a liberal savingi
department.
Foreign and Domestic Exchangl
a specialty.
Having a large number of Interior
correspondents, we can handle col*
lections at very reasonable rates.
Correspondence solicited.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
fOO—RAMBLER—S6O
A STANDARD WHEEL FOR JR
For the next 30 days I will sell a limit'
ed number of RAMBLER BICYCLES U
the greatly reduced rate of S6O. This I
the greateet bargain of the year. Ci!
and inspect them before purchasing el* 1
where.
FRED MYERS, JR..
344 Bull street.
Guards Armory*
CITY OF SAVANNAH POCKET * llf *
60 CENTS EACH.
PRINTED IN* TWO COLORS*
NICELY BOUND IN CLOTII
STAMPED IN GOLD ON SIDE.
For sale by
MORNING NEWS.
OCR general storage
So Increased that we were obliged w
larger quarters. We now occupy J
Forest City Mills, corner CongrcM
Montgomery streets. Best and oh rM
storage in town for furniture at.d S e
merchandise. Best facilities for
Wagons, hacks, and messenger
Quick dispatch.
SAVANNAH DISTRICT MKP-'b-""*
and delivery compand ■
'Phone 2. *H
BEFORE PURCHASING I
A Typewriter see the Improved
ton Typewriter, No. 6. It has no '4 TJ
DE.vRIN'G & HULL. ■
Bole Dealers for Savannah, H
6 Drayton ti r*M
BECKMANN'S CAKE T |
AND KENT A l l:A 1
The finest deep water Oysters
used for steaming, stewing., -koitl
roasting, or In anjf atyle.* ■j.jjyf.l
notice. Imported Coburg I
Inger Beer on draught. I
20 Whitaker street. J