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SERMON ON SECTARIANISM.
TtLM AGE TELLS II IT IT IS. ITS
OKU.IN, EVILS AM) I I.HE.
(The Ttnttle Between Gilead nnd
Ephraim aml llu* Killing ft l tli<‘
Kphralmltea—The I null incrahle !><•-
nomination* of ihe C Lurch of liod.
A Tendency In Religions Dlaeu*-
aion lo Fnrlficnflon iinil Henltli.
Mach of the Reunion of Setnrtnn
l.m or Bigotry Derived From
\Vron.
Washington. July 21.—1n his sermon to
ftayDr. Talm.'ip .li tv what sectarianism
really is, its origin, < \'ilts and cum. i la
text was Judges 12:0: “Then -aid they
unto him. ny now. Shibboleth, and he
eaid Slbboleth: for he eould not frame to
pronounce it right. Then they took him
nnd slew him at the passages of Jordan.
Do you notice the difference of pranun
ciation between shibboleth and sib -oleth?
Avery small and unimportant differen ■*■,
you say. And yet, that difference was
the difference between life and death for
a great many people. The Lord's jieople,
Gilead and Ephraim, got into a great
fight, and Ephraim was worsted, and on
the retreat caine to the
fords of the River Jordan
to cross. Order was given that all
Ephraimites coming there be slain. Rut
how could it be found out who were
Ephraimites? They were detected by
their pronunciation. Shibboleth was a
word that stood for river. The Ephrdm
ites had a brogue of their own, and when
they tried to say “shibboleth" always left
out the sound of the “h." When it was
asked that they say shibboleth they said
eibboleth, and were slain. Then said
they unto him. say now shibboleth; and
he said sibboleth. for he could not frame
to pronounce it right. Then they took him
and slew him at the passage of Jordan.”
Avery small difference, you say, between
Gilead and Ephraim, and yet how much
Intolerance about that small differ* nee!
The Lord’s tribes in our time—by which 1
mean the different denominations of
Christians—sometimes magnify a very
small difference, and the only difference
between scores of denominations to-day Is
the difference between shibboleth and
eibboleth.
The Church of God is divided into a
great number of denominations. Time
would faii me to tell of the Calvinists, and
the Armlnians, aud the Sabbatarians, and
the Eaxterians, and the Dunkers. and the
Shakers, and the Quakers, and the Meth
odists. and the Baptists, and the Episco
palians, and the Lutherans, and the Con
gregationaliste, and the Presbyterians,
and the Spiritualists, and a score of other
denominations of religionists, some cf
them founded by very good men. some of
them founded by very egotistic men, some
of them founded by very bad men. Rut
as I demand for myself liberty of con
science. I must give that same liberty to
every other man, remembering that he no
more differs from me than 1 differ from
him. I advocate the largest liberty in
ui-1 religious belief and form of worship.
In art. in politics. In morals, and in re
ligion. let there be no gag-law, no moving
of the previous question, no persecution,
no interference.
You know' that the air and the water
keep pure by constant circulation, and 1
think there is a tendency in religious dis
cussion to purification and moral health.
Between the fourth and the sixteenth cen
turies the church proposed to make people
think aright by prohibiting discussion,and
by strong censorship of the press, and
rack, and gibbet, and hot lead down ihe
throat, tried to make people orthodox; but
it was discovered that you cannot change
a man’s belief by twisting off his head,
nor make a man see differently by putting
an awl through his eyes. There is some
thing in a man's conscience which will
hurl oft the mountain that you threw upon
It, and unsinged of the tire, out of the
flame will make real wings on which tile
martyr will mount to glory.
In that time of which I speak, Ist ween
the fourth and sixteenth centuries, i/eopie
went from the house 1 of God into the* most
appalling iniquity, and right along by con
secrated altars there were tides of drunk
enness and licentiousness such as the world
never heard of, and the very sewers of
l>eedition broke loose and flooded the
church. After awhile the printing-press
was freed, and it broke the shackles of
the human mind. Then there came, a large
number of bad books, and where iherq
was one man hostile to the Christian re
ligion. there were, twenty men ready -to ud
vocate it; so 1 have not any nervousness
in regard to this battle going on between
Truth ami Error. The Truth will conquer
just as certainly as that God is stronger
than the devil. Let Error run if you only
Jet Truth run along with it. Urged on by
sceptic's shout and transcendentallst's spur
let It run. God's angels of wrath are in
hot pursuit, and quicker than eagle's
beak clutches out a hawk’s heart, God's
vengeance w ill tear it to pices.
I’ propose to sivak to you of sectarian
ism—its origin, its evils, and its cures.
There are those who would make us think
that this monster, with hornr and hoofs,
is religion. I shall chase it to its hiding
place, and drag it out of the caverns of
darkness, and rip off Its hide. Rut I want
tO make a distinction lie tween bigotry and
the lawful fondness for peculiar religious
beliefs and forms of worship. I have no
admiration for a nothingarian.
In a world of such tremendous vicissi
tude and temptation, and with a soul that
must alter awhile stand before a throne
of insufferable brightness, in a day wh-n
the rocking of th*' mountains und the nam
ing of the heavens and tile upheaval of the
eoas shall lie among the least of the * x
citemenls, to give account for * very
thought, word, action, preference, and ills
like—that man is mad who has no relig
ious preference. Rut our early education,
our physical temi>erameut, our mental con
stitution, will very much decide our form
of worship.
A style of psalmody that may please
me may displease you. Some would like to
have a minister in gown and hands and
tsurpHce, and others prefer to have a min
ister in plain citizens' apparel. Some are
most Impressed when a little* child Is pre
sented at the altar'and snrmkied of the
waters of a holy benediction “in the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost,” and others are more Im
pressed when the penitent comes up out
of the river, his garments dripping with
the* waters of a bantysin which signifies
the washing away of sill.* Let either have
his own way. One man likes no no:s*- in
prayer, not a word, not a whisper. An
other man, just as good, pref* rs by gesti
culation and exclamation to express his
devotional aspirations. One is Just as good
as the other. “Every man fully persuade 1
in his own mind.”
George Whilefleld was going over a
Quaker rather roughly for some of his re
ligious sentiments, und the Quaker said:
“George, 1 am as thou art; I am for
bringing all men to the hope of the gos
pel; therefore, if thou will not quarrel
with me nlxjut my broad brim, I will not
quarrel with thee about thy black gown.
George, give me thy hand. 1 ’
In tracing out the religion of sectarian
ism or bigotry, 1 find that a great deal of
It tonnes from wrong education In tile
home circle. There are parents who elo
not think It wrong to caricature and Jeer
the peculiar forms of religion in the
e i| ,• a
prevent distress, aid dices
tion. cure constipation.
Purely vt-geiahle ; <Io nut gripe ® “ w
or cause pain. Sold !>v all druggists. 25 cents.
Prepared only by C. I. Hood A Cos.. Lowell. Mess.
w*.r!d. and denounce other sects and other
•P nominations. It ts very often the ease
that that kind of educalton acts Just op
!*.•-.t. t*> what was expected, and the chil
dren grow up, and, afier awhile, go and
-re for themselvrs; ami, looking in those
churches, and liming that Ihe people are
gn<*l there, and they love God and keep
Iks commandments, by natural reaction
they go and join those very churches. I
could m* ntion the names of prominent
ministers of the Go.*q*el who spent their
whole lives Itombarding other denomina
tions and who lived to see their children
preach the Gosjiel in those very denomi
naimtis. Hut it is often tin- case that btg
otry starts in .* household, and that Ihe
subject of it never recovers. There are
tens of thousands of bigots ten years old.
I ihink sectarianism ami bigotry also
rise from too great prominence of any
one denomination in a community. All
the other denominations are wrong, and
his denomination is right beeause his de
nomination is the most wealthy, or the
most popular, or the most influential, and
it is "our" church, and “our” religious
organization, and '‘our” choir, and “our”
minister, and the mail tosses Ids head,
and wants other denominations to know
their places. It is a great deal better in
any community when the great donomina
t'.ons of Christians are about equal in pow
er, marching wide by side for the world's
conquest. .M. i* outside prosperity, mere
worldly power, Is no evidence that the
church is acceptable to God. Better a
barn with Christ in the manger than a
cathedral with magnificent harmonies roll
ing through the long-drawn aisle, ami an
angel from heaven in the pulpit, if there
be po Christ in the chancel, and no Christ
In the robes.
Bigotry is often the child of ignorance.
You seldom find u man with large In
tellect who is a bigot. It is the man who
thinks he knows a great deal, hut docs
i.ot. That man Is almost always a bigot.
The whole tendency of education anil civi
lization is to bring a man out of that kind
of state of mind and heart. There was in
tlic far cast a great obelisk, and one side
of the obelisk was white, another stile of
the obeiisk was green, another side of the
obelisk was blue, and travelers went and
looked at that obelisk, but they did not
walk, around tt. One man looked at one
side, another at another side, and they
came home each one looking at only ono
aide, and they happened to meet, the
story says, and they got into a rank quar
rel about the color of that obelisk. One
man said it was white, another man said
it was green, another man said it was
bljue, and when they were in the very
heat of the controversy, a more intelli
gent traveler came, and said, "Gentlemen,
I have seen that obelisk and you are all
right, and you are all wrong. Why didn’t
you nil walk around the. obelisk?”
Look out for the man who sees only one
side of a religious truth. Look out for
the man who never walks around about
these great theories of God and eternity
and th*' dead. He will be a bigot inevita
bly'-.Hu* riMin who only sees one site.
There is no man more fo tie pitied than
he who has in his head Just one idea—-'
np more,' no less. More light, less secta
rianism. There is nothing that will so
soon kill bigotry ns sunshine—God's sun
shine.
So T have set before you what I con
sider to Is- the causes of bigotry. 1 have
set before you the origin of this great
evil. What are some of the baleful ef
fects? First of all, it cripples Investiga
tion. You are wrong, and lam right, and
that ends if. No taste for exploration, no
spirit of Investigation. From the glorious
realm or God’s truth, over which an arch
angel might fly from eternity to eternity
and not reach the limit, the man shuts
himself out and dies, a blind mole under
a corn-shock. It stops all investigation.
While each denomination of Christians
is to present all the truths pf the Bible it
seems to me that God has given to each
denomination an especial mission to give
particular emphasis to someone doctrine
and so the Calvlnisric churches must pre
sent the sovereignty of God, and the Ar
mmlon churches must present man's free
agency, and the Episcopal churches must
present Ihe importance of order and sol
emn ceremony, and the Rnpli.-t churches
mu.-t present the necessity of ordinances
and the Congregational Church must pre
sent the responsibility of the individual
member, and the Methodist Church must
show what holy enthusiasm, hearty con
gregational singing can accomplish.
While each denomination of Christians
must set forth all the doctrines of the Bb
Ide, I feel it is especially incumbent upon
each denomination to put particular em
phasis on someone doctrine.
Another great damage done by the sec
tarianism and bigotry of the church is
that it disgusts people with the Christian
religion. Now, my friends, the Church
of God was never intended for a war bar
rack. People are afraid of a riot. You
go down the street and you see an excite
ment and missiles flying throifeh the air,
and you hear the shock of fire-arms. Do
you. the peaceful and industrious citizen,
go through that street. Oh. no! you will
say, “I’ll go around the block.” Now. men
come ami look upon this narrow path to
heaven, and sometimes gee the ecclesias
tical brickbats, flying every whither, and
they say. "Well, 1 guess I'll take the
broad road; there Is so much sharp-shoot
ing on it he narrow road, I guess I'll try
the broad road!”
Francis I so hated the Lutherans that
lie said that if he thought there was one
drop of Lutheran blood in his veins he
would puncture them and let that drop
out. Just as long as there is so much hos
tility between denomination and denomi
nation, or between one professed Christian
and another, or between one church and
another, so long men will be disgusted
with the Christian religion, and say, "If
that Is religion I want none of it.”
Again, bigotry and sectarianism do
great damage in the fact that they hinder
the triumph of the gospel. Oh, how much
wasled ammunition! llow many men of
splendid intellect have given iheir whole
life to controversial disputes when, if they
had given their life to something practi
cal, they might have been vastly useful!
Suppose, while I speak, there were a com.
tnon ein my coming up the bay, and all
the forts around the harbor began to fire
into each other—you would cry out, “Na
tional suicide! Why don't those forts
blaze away in one direction, and that
against the common enemy?” And yet I
someliDws see in'the cliur. h of the Lord
Jesus Christ a strange thing going on;
church against church, minister against
minister, denomination against denomina
tion, firing away Into their own fort, or
the fort which ought io be on the same
side, Instead of concentrating iheir ener
gy and giving one mighty and everlast
ing volley against the navies of darkness
ruling up through the bay'
1 go out sometimes in the summer, and
I find two beehives, and these two hive
are In u quarrel. I come near enough not
to lie stung, bur I come just near enough
to hear the controversy, and one beehive
says, “That field of clover is the sweet
est,” and another beehive says, "That
field of clover is the sweetest." I come in
between them and I say, “Stop this quar
rel: if you lik. that field of clover best, go
there; if you like this field of clover liest,
go there: hut let me tell you that that hive
which gets the most honey is ihe lest
hive!" So I come out between the
churches of the Lord Jesus Christ. One
denomination of Christiana says, "Thai
field of Christian doctrine is /best," and
another says, “This field of Christian
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. JULY 25, 1898,
doctrine i.s the best.” Welt, I say, "Go
where you get the most honey.” That is
the liest church which gets the mos:
honey of Christian grace for the heart,
ami the most honey of Christian useful
ness for Ihe life.
Besides that, if you want to build up
any denomination, you will never build it
up by trying to puli some other down.
Intolerance never put anything down.
How much bus intolerance accomplished,
for instance, against the Methodist
Church? For long years her ministry
were forbidden Ihe pulpits of Great Brit-
I aln. Why was it that so many of them
I 1 treadled m the fields? Simply because
they could not get in the churches. And
ttie name of the church was given in k
rihion and as a sarcasm. The critics of
the church rtd. "They have no order;
they have no method in their worship,”
and ihe critics, therefore, in irony, cailed
them ‘"Methodists. '
I am told that in Astor 1-ibrary, New
York, kept as curiosities, there are seven
h a Paired and seven hooks anti pamphlets
against Methodism. Did intolerance stop
that chutch? No; it is either first or
second amid the b. nominations of Christ
tendom, her missionary stations in all
parts of the world, he r men not only im
poriant in religious trusts, but important
also in secular trusts. Church marching
on and the more intolerance against it
the faster it marched.
What did intolerance accomplish against
the Baptist Church? If laughing scorn
and tirade could have destroyed the church
it would not have to-day a disciple left.
The Baptists were hurled out of Boston in
olden times. Those who sympathized with
them were imprisoned, ami when a peti
tion was offered asking leniency in their
echnlf, all the men who signed ti weie
indicted. Has intolerance stopped the Bap
tist Church? The lust statistics in regard
to it showed 14,000 churches and 4.000,000
communicants. Intolerance never put
down anything.
In England a law was made against the
J#w. England thrust back the Jew and
thrust down the Jew, and declared that
no Jew should hold official position. What
crime of 11? Were the Jews destroyed? Was
their religion overthrown? No. Who be
came Prime Minister of England? Who
was next to the throne? Who was higher
than the throne because he was counsellor
and adviser? Disraeli, a Jew What were
we celebrating in all our churches as well
as synagogues only a few years ago? The
one hundredth birthday of Monlefiore, the
great Jewish philanthropist. Intolerance
never yet put down anything.
But now, my friends, having shown you
the origin of bigotry or sectarianism, and
having shown you the damage it does, I
want briefly to show you how we are to
war against this terrible evil, and 1 think
w r e ought to begin our war by realizing
our own weakness and our imperfections.
If we make so many mistakes in the com
mon affairs of life, is it not possible that
we may make mistakes in regard to our
religious affairs? Shall we take a man by
the throat or by the collar because he can
not see religious truths just as we do? In
the light of eternity it will be found out, I
think, there was something wrong in all
our creeds, and something right in all our
creeds, but since we may make mistakes
in regard to things of the world, do not let
us he so egotistic and so puffed up as to
hive an Idea that we cannot make any
mistake in regard to religions the.xies And
then I think we will do a great deal to
overthrow the sectarianism from our heart
and the sectarianism from the world, by
chiefly enlarging in those things In which
we agree, rather than those on which we
differ.
Now, here is a groat Gospel platform.
A man comes up on this side of the plat
form and says; “l don't believe in baby
sprinkling." Shall I shove him off? Here
is a man coming up on this side of the
platform, and he says; “I don't believe In
the perseverance of the saints.” Shall 1
shove him off? No. I will say: “Do you
believe in the I sard Jesus as your Sav
iour? Do you trust him for time and for
eternity?” He says: “Yes.” Do you take
Christ for time and for eternity?” “Yes.”
I say, “Come on, brother; one in time
and one in eternity; brother now, brother
forever.” Blessed Ik* God for a Gospel
platform so large that all who receive
Christ may stand on ii I
I think we may overthrow the severe
sectarianism and bigotry in our hearts.and
in the church also, by realizing that nil
the denominations of Christians have
yielded noble Institutions and noble men.
There is nothing that so stirs my soul as
this thought. One denomination yielded a
Robert Hall and an Adoniram Judson; an
other yielded a Latimer and a Melville; an
other yielded John Wesley and the blessed
Summenfield, while our own denomination
yielded John Knok and the Alexanders—
men of whom the world was not worthy.
Now, 1 say, if we are honest ami fair
minded men, when we come up in ihe pres
ence of such churches and such denomina
tions, although they may be different from
our own, we ought to admire them, and
we ought to love and honor them. Church
es which can produce such men, and such
large-hearted charity, and such magnifi
cent martyrdom, ought to win our affec
tion—at any rate, our respect. So come
on, ye six hundred thousand Episcopalians
in this country, and ye fourteen hundred
thousand Presbyterians, and ye four mill
lion Baptists, and ye five million Metho
dists -tome on; shoulder lo shoulder we
will march for the worlds conquest; for all
nations arc to be saved, and God demands
that you anil 1 help. Forward, the whole
line! In the Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciations. in the Bible Society, In the Tract
Society, in the Foreign Missionary Socie
ty, shouider to shoulder all denominations.
Perhaps I might forcefully illustrate this
truth by calling your attention to an in
cident which took place twenty-five years
ago. One Monday morning at about 2
o'clock, while her nine hundred passen
gers were sound asleep in her berth*
dreaming of home, the steamer Atlantic
crashed into Mars’ Head. Five hundred
souls in ten minutes landed in eternity!
Oh, what ft, scene! Agonized men and wro
nit n running up and down the gangways,
and clutching for tile rigging, and the
plunge of the helpless stiamer, and the
clapping of the hands of the merciless sea
over t ie drowning and the dead, threw
two continents into terror. But see this
brave quartermaster pushing out with the
life-line until he gets to the rock; and see
these fishermen gathering up the ship
wrecked, and taking them into the cabins,
and wrapping them in the flannels snug
and warm; and see that minister of the
gospel, with three other men, getting into
a life-boat, and pushing out for the
wreck, puffing away across the surf, anil
puiring away until they saved One more
man, and then getting back with him to
the shore. Cnn those men ever forget
that night? And can they ever forget
their companionship in peril, companion
ship in struggle, companionship in awful
catastrophe and rescue? Never! Never!
In whatever part of the earth they meet,
they will be friends when they mention the
story of that night when the Atlantic
struck Mars’ Head. Well, my friends, our
world has gone into tt worse shipwreck.
Sin drove it on the rocks. The old ship
lias lurched and tossed in the tempests of
six thousand years. Out with the life
line! Ido not rare what denomination
carries it. Out with the life-boat! I do
not earn what denomination rows it. Side
by stile, in tlie memory of common hard
ships. and common trials, and common
prayers, and comon tears, let us be broth
ers forever. (We must be.
One army of the living God,
To his command we bow;
Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.
And I expect to see the day when all
denominations of Christians shall join
hands around the cross of Christ and re
cite the creed: ”1 believe in God the Fa
ther Almighty, Maker of Heaven and
earth, and in Jesus Christ, and in the Corn
munition of Saints, and in life everlasting
Amui."
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Axs'L) GO TO
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where you get
Sea Breezes.
Surf Bathing.
Fish Suppers.
The South End is THE Seaside Resort.
You will find it so.
W. M. BOHAN,, Proprietor.
TO-DAY’S WEATHER FORECAST
Forecast for Savannah and vicinity until
midnight, July 25, ISM: Showers and thun
derstorms; no decided change in tempera
ture.
Weather From Washington—
For Georgia and South Carolina: Show
ers and thunderstorms and variable winds.
For Eastern and Western Florida: Show
ers; southeasterly winds.
General Conditions: The weather is
clear in Western North Carolina, North
eastern Georgia, Southern Florida, Lower
Michigan, Northern Illinois, lowa and
Western Missouri.
It is warmer at Charlotte, N. C., and
cooler in South Carolina.
Light to fresh variable winds are report -
ed along the Atlantic coast.
Yesterday’s Weather at Savannah-
Maximum temperature, 2 p. m.. 84 degrees
Minimum temperature, 7:30 a. m. 7lVlegr. es
Mean temperature X 0 negroes
Normal temperature 82 degrees
Deficiency of temperature 2 degrees
Accumulated deficiency since
July 1 19 degrees
Accumulated excels since
Jan. 1 , 255 degrees
Rainfall 01 inch
Normal 19 inch
Excess since July 1 3.73 inches
Deficiency since Jan. 1 8.50 inches
River Report.—The hight of the Savan
nah river at Augusta at 8 3. m., 75th me
ridian time, yesterday, was 9.8 feet, a rise
of 4.1 feet during the preceding twenty
four hours.
Observations taken July- 24, 189S, 8 p. m.,
(75th meridian time) at the same moment
of time at all stations for the Morning
News:
Stations— | -|-T.| *V. jßain
Boston, pt. cloudy | ® | L j T
New Ydrk city, cloudy.,,] 08 I 8 .00
Philadelphia, pt cloudy..! 70 | L .00
Washington city, pt cidy.| 78 6 .00
Norfolk, pt. cloudy , 76 10 .02
Hatteros, cloudy , 80 6 .08
Wilmington, pt. cloudy..] 78 I* .10
Charlotte, clear |SO L .00
Raleigh, clear ] 80 6 .CO
Charleston, raining j 70 L .90
Atlanta, raining j 74 L .10
Augusta, clear '7B L j .14
Savannah, cloudy’,' ’.f’ 76 L j .02
Jacksonville, cloudy vj> 80 | L | T
Jupiter, clear j 82 | 10 j .00
Key West, clear ] 82 ] L j .00
Tampa, raining j 78 | I* ] T
Pensacola, pt. cloudjr j 81 \ 10 .02
Montgomery, cloudy ' 82 | L .00
Vicksburg, raining !76 I* .36
New Orleans, cloudy ! 76 6 .44
Galveston, cloudy i 82 L .26
Corpus Christi, pt.cloudy] 84 14 .00
Palestine, cloudy j 76 6 .94
Memphis, pt. cloudy i 88 8 .00
Cincinnati, cloudy S2 L .92
Pittsburg, cloudy ..['Bo L .00
Buffalo, cloudy ii .86 j L .00
Detroit, clear j 86 ] 6 .00
Chicago, clear 78 ] L .00
Marquette, cloudy- ] 82 | 14 .0*)
St. Paul, pt. cloudy |-82 | 12 j T
Davenport, clear | 90 j L j .00
St. I*ouis, pt. cloudy....] 86 ] 6 ; .00
Kansas City, clear 4.| S8) | L | .00
-|-T, temperature; *V, velocity of wind.
11. B. Boyer, Observer.
RESULTS ON THE DIAMOND.
Guinea Flayed Yesterday by the
National League.
Louisville, July 24.—'The tail-enders had
n battle royal to-day. The Colonels won
in the ninth on Tanker's muff, Sugden’s
wild throw, Hoy s stolen base and an out
field fly. Attendance, 4,0/0. Score: R.H.E.
Louisville 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 x—2 3 0
SC. Louis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 I—l 7 2
Batteries—Magee and Kittredgc; Hugey
and Sugdcn.
Chicago, July 24 —The Cleveland’s played
championship ball to-day. I’owel] was a
puzzle to all the locals excepting Chance:
Attendance, 6,1C0. Score: R.H.E.
Chicago 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0-3 5 4
Cleveland 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2—t 9 2
Batteries—Callahan and Chance; Powell
and Crlger.
Cincinnati, 0., July 21.—Rain prevented
the playing of a double header to-day.
Damnum was driven to the bench in the
second inning by a series of bunts, which
together with his own errors netted two
runs. Breitensu in, who succeeded him. al
lowed liut otA* scratch hit in the seven in
nings. in the seventh Steinfeldt hit Cor
coran tn the head with a thrown ball, se
riously injuring him. Attendance 7.203.
Score: R.H.E.
Cincinnati ~..0 0 1 0 3 0 2 0 x—6 7 3
Pittsburg 0 4000010 0-6 7 1
Batteries—Damman, Breltenstcln and
IYitz; Rhines and Schriver.
11l FFALO MAY STOP THE FIGHT.
SheritV of tlie County Likely to Take
Aetlon.
Buffalo, N. Y„ July 24.—When asked
yesterday what tie intended to do should
an attempt bo made to bring off ihe Cor
bett-McCoy tight in Erie county, Sheriff
Killgallon said: “At present I can do
nothing. The fight is a long way off and
there is plenty of time in which-to act.
it is too early in the game to do anything.
I am not ao sun; that the proposed contest
will be illegal. As soon us 1 see it adver
tised in the newspapers I will call the
mam r to the attention of the district at
torney.”
District Attorney Keneflck said that he
did not know anything about the proposed
tight. The sheriff is the executive officer
of the county and until he makes some
complaint the district attorney is power
less. Mr. Keneflck assures the public
that the law will he maintained.
NO ft RE—NO FAY.
That is the way all druggists sell
GROVES TASTELESS CHILI, TONIC
for Chills and Malaria. It is simply Iron
and Quinine In a tasteless form. Children
love it. Adults prefer it to bitter, naus
eating Tonics. Price, 50c.—ad ,
a BA A\II PORTO HICO.
Extent of Trade Which May Be Di.
verted to Thin Country.
Washington, July 24.—The markets
which are likely to be opened in Cuba and
Puerto Rico to American producera and
manufacturers are the subject of much at
tention and inquiry just now'. Large num
bers of letters reach the treasury depart
ment and bureau of statistics asking for
information regarding the class of articles
imported into these islands and the coun
tries which have been supplying these ar
ticles. This information will be given in
elaborate form in the next monthly publi
cation of the bureau of statistics, the
"Summary of Finance and Commerce,”
and will show that Cuba has been, under
normal conditions, buying annually about
$25,ih,0(0 worth of goods from Spain, about
$4,000,000 worth from Great Britain, less
than $1,000,0(0 worth from France, and
legs than $1,000,000 worth from Germany,
while from the United States her pur
chases have ranged from $5,000,000 to $24,-
000,000 in value. The imports into Cuba
have been, of course, iight during the past
year or more, and a lair estlmme of her
purchases can only be ..utained by exam
ination of the figures of the year 1806 or
turlier years.
The imports into Cuba and Puerto Rico
from Germany in 1892 amounted to 6,020,000
marks, the value of a mark being 22.8
cents; in 1893 it dropped to 5,005,000 marks;
in 1894 to 3,810,000; in 1895 to 3,335,000 marks,
and in 1896, 4,3(8,000 marks. The largest
item in these imports from Germany was
iron and manufactures of iron, which in
1896 formed nearly one-third of the total
exports from Germany into Cuba and
Puerto Rico.
From France the importations into Cuba
nnd Puerto Rico amounted to 5,277,690
francs in ISO3, the franc bring valued at
19.3 cents; 3,747,625 in 1894; 2,799,832 in 1895,
and 1,713,880 in 1896. The largest Hem
among the.se imports into Cuba and Puerto
Rico from France was jewelry and fancy
articles, which formed nearly one-third of
the total, the next largest being textiles of
wool, 133,753 francs, and prepared medi
cines, 111,234 francs.
The imports into Cuba and Puerto Rico
from ihe United Kingdom were valued at
£1,478,171 in 1892; 11,321,926 in 1893; £1,121,090
in 1894, £943,793 in 1893, and £722,550 in 1896.
The largest of these imports from the
United Kingdom in 1896 were cotton goods,
£233.673; linens, £137,634; iron, wrought and
unwrought, £78,668; machinery, £43,241;
hardware, cutlery, etc., £22,936; coal and
other fuel, £33,429.
From Spain the imports of the year into
Cuba. 1896, were 131,461,675 pesetas, the val
ue of the peseta being, according to the
mint bureau, 19 3-10 cents. The Imports
from Spain in the year 1896, were larger
than those ill any preceding year in the
decade. The largest item of the 1896 im
ports into Cuba from Spain was flour. 20.-
32G.552 pesetas in value, shoos 17,249,760 pe
setas, sandals, 13,433,310 pesetas, fire arms,
9,361.200, wine 7,347,045, preserved food 4.-
742.361, oil, 3,316,218, manufactures of flax
and hemp, 3,700,087, soap, 3.176,846, wax and
stearins 2,005,622, manufactures of wood 2,-
257,840, smoking paper 1,885.231, beans 1,878,-
019, rice 1,494.849, corn 1,432,815, onions and
potatoes 1,205,115, pressed meats 1,581,570,
soup pastes 1.435,999, saffron 1,171,260, pack
ing paper 1,420,235, woolen blankets 1,099,-
336, no other article passing the one mil
lion pesetas line.
The exports from Spain to Puerto Rico
amounted in 1896, to 37.660,609 pesetas in
value, a larger sum than any other pre
ceding year in the decade. The largest item
was cotton manufactures, 12,439,767 pese
tas, shoes 5,380,740, sandals. 3.001,380, rice,
2,652,611, soap 1,255,811, oil 1,202,075, no other
item reaching one million pesetas in value.
Tlie imports of the United States into
Cuba in 1897 were, according to our own
official reports. $8,259,776, in 1896, $7,530,880,
in 1595, $12,807,661, in 1891. $20,125,321, and In
1893 when they reached the maximum, $24,-
157,098, having been in 1892 $17,953,570, and in
1891 $12,224,888. The reciprocity treaty with
Spain, made under the tariff act of 1890,
went into effect Sept. 1, 1891, and continued
in force until Aug. 2S. 1894, so that the
business of the fiscal years 1892, 1893, and
1891, was transacted under that treaty with
the exception of July and August of the
fiscal year 3892.
The following table shows the total ex
ports from the United States to Cuba dur
ing the past ten years:
1388 $10.053,5604893 24,157,698
1889 11.691,3U|1894 20,125.321
1890 13,084,41511895 12,807,661
1891 12.22i,858it59G 7,530,880
1892 17,953,570| 1897 8,259,776
The following table shows the leading
articles exported to Cuba from the United
States in 1893, the year of our greatest ex
ports to that island. Only the articles
amounting to SIOO,OOO in value or more
being included;
Bard . $4,023,917
Flour 2,821,557
Machinery ;.. 2,792,050
Hams 761,082
Corn 582.050
Bacon 656,747
Potatoes 554,153
Beans and peas 392.962
Railway bars, iron and steel 327.411
Wire 321,120
Cars, passengers and freight 271.571
Saws and tools 243,544
Steam engines 130,652
Agricultural implements 130,341
Cut nails 107,002
Bools and chocs 114,943
The exports from the United States to
Porto Rico in 1,897 were SI,9SB,SSB; in 1896
they were fa. 102,094; in 1892 $2,856,003. They
wete of about the same character as the
exports to c üba, wheat flour being the
largest item, $316,188 in 1897, lard $228,051;
bacon and hams, $112,602; pickled jxirk,
$162,411; beans and peas, *57,550; machin
ery, $69,462, no other articles of export in
1897 reaching as much as $50,000 in value
during the year.
SMUGGLING FROM ST. PIERRE.
British Government liny Station a
Consul There.
St. Johns, N. F., July 24.—The represen
tative of Newfoundland at the forthcom
ing joint commission to meet at Quebec
to adjust the questions at issue between
the United States and Canada, will in
vite the Canadian commissioners to join
in a request to the British government to
insist upon stationing a British consul at
St. Pierre, to prevent the excessive smug
gling, now carried on from that French
colony to the coasts of Canada and New
foundland
SPECIAL NOTICES,
COOL BRINKS.
THE GEM
has earned a reputation for
serving the summer drinks.
Try them.
GEO. C. SCHWARZ. Prop.
Whitaker nnd Congress sts.
STOCKS ON MARGIN.
I buy and sell stocks on New York
Stock Exchanges on margin. I get New
York stock quotations by telegraph from
10 to 3 o'clock doily.
AUSTIN R. MYRES, Broker.
22 Bryan street, east.
MISS M.E.RYAN'S DI SIN ESS COLLEGE
Room No. 32 Provident Building.
English Branches. Stenography.
Bookkeeping. Typewriting.
In connection with the art of stenog
raphy learn to operate the Uemingioo
Standard Typewriter. Hearing & Hull.
Sole Healers.
- That is what we intend to do with the
profit on this line of SHOES. We intend to make the
prices fit an unusually slim pocketbook. Our prices are
the same as those of the unknown quality, and with this
guarantee—“ Your Money Buck If You Want It.”
Ladies’ Dark Brown Kid Lace Shoes,'
silk vesting top to match, brown
patent leather tip, regularly sold
tor $3.00; to close out Qi) ift
quickly price OZIIU
Men’s Brown Russia Calf Lace Shoes,
some with cloth tops to match,
very comfortable, stylish shapes,
worths4.oo;now spe- ftft
cial at dZiUU
FUNERAL INVITATIONS.
HILBURN.—The relatives, friends and
acquaintance of l)lr. and Mrs. T. J. Hil
burn and family are requested to attend
the funeral of their youngest daughter,
Daisy, from their residence, 550 State
street, east, this (Monday) afternoon at
5:30 o’clock.
Charleston papers please copy.
meetings.
tjAiTA^rrHiir^LoTKiiir^Ntrr^SkrTNr^iFTL
A regular convention of this vtjv
lodge will be held this (Monday) /UiSxK
evening at 8:15 o’clock.
The Rank of Page will be con- Yjggiy
ferred.
Members of sister lodges and visiting
knights are cordially invited.
I. BELLMAN, C. C.
D. S. GREfENBAUM. K. of R. & 3.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
NOTICE TO PLIAIiIERS AND
TRACTORS.
The Savannah Hotel Company invites
bids for the building and furnishing of ad
ditional bath rooms in the Hotel De Soto.
Sealed bids are invited to be presented
on or before 12 o’clock m. Aug. 8 next.
Plans and specifications of the work can
be seen at the office of Messrs. Lee Roy
Myers & Cos., No. 11 Bay street. Savannah.
The right to reject any and all bids re
served.
H. M. COMER, President.
FURNITURE AM) GENERAL MER
CHANDISE STORAGE
Can be had at the District Messenger and
Delivery Company's warehouse, 32 lo 36
Montgomery street, on reasonable term3.
The building has been thoroughly over
hauled anr repaired, and now offers un
surpassed facilities for the storage of all
kinds, furniture vans, express wagons and
messengers furnished. Pianos and furni
ture packed for shipment and removed
with care. Telephone 2.
AMUSEMENTS.
OF
ARTS AND SCIENCES.
Open to Visitors daily, except Sunday,
From 10 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Single admission 25 cents. Annual tick*
ets *I.OO.
EXCURSION'S.
STEAMER EULALIE.
Music by band of Harpers.
Hally except Sunday from Wilmington
7 a. in.; from Thunderbolt 7:20 p. m. Sat
urdays from Thunderbolt 3:30.
Family Excursions Tuesdays and Thurs
days. From Thunderbolt at 10:39 a. m. for
Wilmington and Warsaw. Returning leave
Warsaw at 5:00 p. m. Tickets 30c; children
16 cents.
Sundays from Thunderbolt for Wilming
ton and Warsaw at 10.30 a. m. Returning,
leave Warsaw at 6p. lie Tickets 35c; chil
dren 20c.
Cars leave Bolton ptreet Junction 10 a.
m., 3 p. m. and 7 p. m
Freight taken from Gibson’s wharf Mon
days up to 5 p. m., charges to be prepaid.
Steamer for charter every day except
Sunday and Monday.
J. E. LUCAS. Manager.
Wharf foot Abercorn st. ’Phone 153.
BUSINESS NOTICES.
!.E PANTO
CIGARS
Surpass all nickel cigars in the estimation
of fastidious smokers.
ON SALE EVERYWHERE.
HENRY SOLOMON & CO.,
Southern Agents.
OLD-FASHIONED
RYE WHISKEY.
Tliin uliixky ln* over thirty yeitrsT
reputation. Or<lern arc invited and
will receive prompt attention for
thi* and other dcniraltle kind* and
prradeK of AVliluklen, Brandies, Gins,
Kuinn anil Wine*.
HE*BY SOLOMON & SOX,
302 to 312 Hay Street. (
Children's Tan Strap Slippers and
Oxford Ties, Laird, Schober k
Co.’s Fine Shoes. You always pav
$1.50 for these; they Ai in
are now OlilU
Cadies’ Black Yici Kid Button Shoes
patent leather tip, flexible sole'
strong and substantial, and are
worth $2.50; now at 01 PC
special price 01■
IMP .MIL
IPil
—CAPITAL $500,000
Transacts a Genera] Banking Business.
Solicits accounts of Individuals,
Merchants. Banks and
other corporatkins.
Collections handled with safety, economy
and dispatch.
Interest compounded quarterly allowed
on deposits in our Savings Department.
Safety Deposit Boxes and Storage Vaults.
BRANTLEY A. DENMARK, President.
MILLS B. LANE, Vice President.
GEORGE C. FREEMAN, Cashier.
LEOPOLD ADLfiR, C. S. ELLIS,
President. Vice President
W. F. McCAULEY, Cashier.
THE CHATHAM BANK
SAVANNAH.
Will be pleased to receive the accounts
of Mercantile Firms, Individuals, Banks
and Corporations.
Libera] favors extended.
Unsurpassed collection facilities, ensur
ing prompt returns
SEPARATE SAVINGS DEPARTMENT,
paying 4 per cent, interest per annum.
Safety Deposit Boxes and Vaults for
rent. Correspondence solicited.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
CHILDREN'S BALL—
HOTEL TYBEB.
A GRAND CHILDREN’S BALL
will be given at
HOTEL TYBEE
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 27.
Parents are Invited to bring their ohtl
dren down.
CHA9. F. GRAHAM.
HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.
Violet Ammonia; a few drops impart a
delightful fragrance to a basin of water.
Copco Soap for toilet use and fine laun
dry, 5c cake.
Medicated Soaps, various kinds, 100
cake.
Shoomoskeets keeps off mosquitoes and
other insects.
Imported and Domestic Bay Rum, Col
ogne and Toilet Waters.
Pure cider vinegar and spices for pick
ling.
Japanese Tooth Brushes, a good durable
brush, sc.
SOLOMONS & CO.,
Congress st. and Bull st. Branch Store.
FOR SALE,
On easy terms, fine two-story brick
residence on Gaston street, north
side, near Baroad street. Apply to
THE CHATHAM REAL ESTATE AND
IMPROVEMENT COMPANY,
No. 14 East Bryan street.
M. J. SOLOMONS, Secretary and
Treasurer.
till OF SAVANNAH POCKET UAP,
CO CENTS EACH.
PRINTED IN TWO COLORS.
NICELY BOUND IN CLOTH AND
STAMPED IN GOLD ON BIDE.
For sale by
MORNING NEWS.
MONEY TO LOAN
On Savannah Real Estate. Long time,
reasonable interest. Apply to
ISAAC BECKETT,
Abstract of Titles Office, 24 President
street, east.