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POL. 1?.
attack army bill
Senators Have Lively Tilt While
Discussing the Measure.
SHARP CRITICISM INDULGED IN
Some Republicans Were Arrayed
With Democrats In Opposi-
tiou..President Scored.
For five hours Friday the senate
discussed the army reorganization bill.
The debate took a wide range at times,
but was confined principally to the
question of the necessity for the in¬
crease in the regular army provided
for in the pending measure.
The Philippine question was thresh¬
ed over at great length, but few really
new points were advanced. Speeches
were made by Mr. Carter, of Mon-
hina; Mr. Teller, of Colorado; Mr.
Hoar, of Massachusetts; Mr. Stewart,
of Nevada, and Mr. Cnffery, of Louisi¬
ana. One of the sharpest colloquies
of the session was between Mr. Carter
and Mr. Wellington, of Maryland.
Mr, Hoar advanced a proposition to
create a commission, to be composed
of all shades of political opinion-, to in¬
vestigate the entire Philippine ques¬
tion and report its findings to congress
in order that a basis might bo formed
for intelligent action. Some slight
progress was made toward the comple¬
tion of the pending measure.
The resolution offered Thursday t.y
Mr. Pettigrew calling for information
with reference to the Philippines wa 3
laid before the senate, and Mr. Lodge
moved that it be referred to the com-
mittee on Philippines, and it was
finally so referred. Mr. Pettigrew
said the president maintained there
was no war iu the Philippines. The
military committee declared that war
existed there, and that at least 60,000
men would be required to suppress
the rebel ion. He, therefore, demand¬
ed the facts.
Another of Mr. Pettigrew’s resolu¬
tions calling upon the president for
information as to the necessity for an
increase in the strength of the army
was referred to the committee on mil¬
itary affairs. On demand of Mr. Pet¬
tigrew the committee report on the
army bill was read. Mr. Carter asked
unanimous consent to pass upon tbe
unobjected amendments. Mr. Pdtti-
grew objected.
Mr. Wellington, of Maryland, de¬
manded to know the intention of the
administration with reference to the
Philippine islands. If it was to foroe
an annexation of the Philippines, then
a large army would bo necessary. Two
campaigns bad been fought out and
the situation was worse than ever. Mr.
Wellington was opposed to an increase
of tbe army, if the government pur-
poses to try to deprive the Filipinos
of self-government.
Mr. Carter replied that * the presi-
dent has no authority to decide what
shall b^ done with the Philipines.”
‘ The moment the treaty of peace
was ratified, said he, ‘ that moment
it became the supreme law of the land.
If the president had refused to main-
tain sovereignty of the United States
there, he would havO laid himself ha-
ble to impeachment. (
“Has he not already given up sover-
eignty over a portion of Alaska? iu
quired Mr. Wellington.
Mr. Carter replied that what the
president had done as to the Alaskan
boundary had been accomplished
through a modus vivendi, a purely
temporary arrangement. “It is nev-
ertheless a fact,” declared Mr. YYel-
lington, “that territory over which we
had undisputed sovereignty has been
abandoned. The British flag has been
raised over it, and it is controlled by
British constabulary. That is tho
fact.”
Mr. Hoar suggested a general amend¬
ment to the bill looking to the con-
ciliation of the Filipinos and express-
ing the opinion that iu time of peace
we should have one soldier to each
1,000 of our population. He did not,
therefore, ho said, oppose the bill on
the score of increase, but he did op-
pose it because of the avowed policy of j
military idle,” control he said, of the “to Philippines, tell that j
“It is us
these people are not fit for self-gov-
ernment. The way to prepare them
for liberty is to set tbemfree.”
SALOONS CROWD EXSLEY.
Former Temperance Tow i In Alabama
I'ndergoci Staff o*l Changj.
IUe.il/or A nniaue occurrence took place in
Ensley, Ale .he eite .1
the steel;^ dus ^ r y ^ ie Birmingham
district, on New Year’s day. The lit-
tie city recently obtained a charter
from the general assembly allowing it
. se jj liquor. The law went into
* ff 1 ct New Year’s day. Promptly one
ute after 12 o’clock on the night
UUJ 31st thirteen saloons
° l December doors. Twelve other
opene d their able to
ons ^^h were not secure
si ^j are opening up one
ifonfeacb ^ me
day.
COLLISION ON L. & N.
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Engineer Killed Outriffht ami the
One Mortally Injured.
Other I*
Montgomery, Ala.,
collision occurred
v cut near Helena, on
in a rock Nashville railroad.
Lonisvi 6 nras k iH ed and
Eng ine6 chase ' injured mortally. i
aer . on ^. a8
Upgin fi rem ’ demolished ere j n jured badly. and the Both
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TECH STUDENTS PUNISHED.
flutinous Conduct Results In Their
Suspension By the
Faculty.
The faculty of the Georgia Techno
logical school at Atlanta met Friday
afternoon to take cognizance of the
organized disobedience of the seniors
in entering into a compact not to re¬
turn to school on December 31st.
The entire faculty was present, and
one by one the eighteen seniors were
brought before their preceptors to un¬
dergo a searching examination. The
men confessed without hesitation to
having signed the agreement to stay
away in violation cf the rules of the
school until January 2d. They offered
no excuse for their action except an
occasional murmur against the decis¬
ion of the faculty that the men should
return to doty on December 31st.
After listening to the statements of
the seniors, the faculty took bnt a
very few minutes to arrive at a decis¬
ion, and under their action the follow¬
ing textile students are suspended
from the institution until March 30th,
while their diplomas aro withheld un¬
til December 31, 1901;
L. C. Swords, Madison; E. W.
Camp. Moreland; Wade Langston, At¬
lanta; L, F. Brown, Atlanta; A S.
Mead, Decatur; W. D. Hughes, Twiggs
county.
The only remaining student in the
textile department of the senior class
is J. G. Johnson, sod of Colonel Lind¬
say JohnsoD, of Rome, Ga. Yonng
Johnson escaped the heavy punish¬
ment inflicted on his classmates on
the ground that he did not tnke part
in the former mutiny in which the
textile students were engaged.
The remaining Btudeuts of the senior
class are suspended until the first
Saturday in February, while their de¬
grees will be withheld until the first
Saturday in November. The men who
undergo this punishment are as fol¬
lows: W. P. Sullivan, Savannah; J.
F. Towers, Rome; B. W. Holtzclaw,
Perry; J.S. Waterman, Macon; W. J.
Holman, Fayetteville, Tenn. ;W. New¬
some, LaGrange; D. O. Dougherty,
Atlanta; J. W. Moore, Hapeville;
George Merritt, Macon; L. P. Benja¬
min, Atlanta; E. Gay, Atlanta.
Under the wholesale punishment
iufln tid on the senior class, by the
fncuity of the Technological school it
is probable that no effort to hold a
commencement this year will bo at-
tempted, for of the eighteen men who
would have graduated in June not one
will be entitled to a diploma before
the first Saturday of next Novvmber.
WARSHIPS TO VENEZUELA.
Uncle Sam Determined to Back
Up Minister Loomis With
Formidable ormiaaDK Force Uorc..
A Washington , special says: There is
a war cloud hanging over Venezuela,
aU(J tbe United States is in it. Com¬
pared with other recent experiences
which this country has had, it is a
very small affair, but it is q war cloud
nevertheless
A few ago> tbe announcement
that three American warships had been
gent to a South American port be-
cause ot a poBs ible clash with that
government would have resulted in
flaming headlines in all the news-
papers and in great excitement
throughout the country. Today it is
regarded as a trivial episode. There
i s> however, some substance to it.
The arr i va l of the Scorpion at La-
Guayra places three warships in that
harbor of Venezuela, and they are
there to back up United States Miuis-
ter Loomis iu his determination to
prevent President Castro carrying out
b i a intention to convey certain prop-
erty to concessionaries in accordance
with a decision which he has already
rendered. If Castro attempts to make
g00( j h is threats, he will have real
trouble on his bauds,
New Railroad Projected.
A company of Tennessee and Chi-
cago capitalists is preparing to con¬
struct a railroad from Louisville, Ky.,
to Port Royal, S. C. Surveys will be
made within the next two or three
weeks, and next spring the promoters
expect to have the work under way.
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Mills _ In Receiver’s Hands.
The Dingley Woolen Mills Company,
an extensive manufacturing concern at
Philadelphia, has gone into the hands
of a receiver.
REQUISITION IS TURNED DOWN.
Governor Samfjrd Finds That All Records
In Case Are lout.
Gov. Samford, of Alabama, refus-
^
a j, Butte, Mont.,charged with attempt-
ing to murder his wife and who con-
fessed to having killed James Boswell
of Wetumpka, Ala., in 1891, and after-
wards escaped, pending his trial. The
governor’s grounds for refusal was
that the indictment had been lost or
stolen and all pages of court records
on which a record of the case liad been
made had been surreptitiously torn
from the books since the escape of
Williams.
Kruger Will Yisit Us.
A London special says: Mr. Kruger,
it is learned, will go to America in
February, accompanied by William T.
Stead, and make a speeoh-making cam¬
paign in favor of America stopping the
war in South Africa.
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To Report Reciprocity Treaties.
The senate committee on foreign
relations Friday agreed to report fa-
vorably the reciprocity treaties with
Nicaragua, British Guiana and Ecua-
dor.
A DEI, BERRIEN COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. "JANUARY 11. 1901.
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
Seehlng Pardon For Dolly Pritchett.
An effort is being made to secure a
pardon ftr Dolly Pritchett, the sixteen-
year-old monntain girl who was sen '
tenced to life imprisonment in the
penitentiary for infanticide.
Athens Foundry to Be Reopened.
After having been closed for several
years, the Athens foundry is to be re¬
opened and operated on a large scale.
To start with, the company will have
a capital of §15,000, and that will be
increased from time to time.
New Georgia Postmasters.
Georgia postmasters recently ap¬
pointed are: G. F. Heswelmeyer, at
Kelpen, Cherokee county; Martha L.
Hubbard, at Pat’s Mountain, Dawson
county; Winchester Benson, Sevier,
Forsyth county; N. J. Harvey, South-
well, Bryan county; John L. Ezgard,
Vickery, Forsyth county.
Augusta Southern Reported Sold.
It is reported in Augnsta that the
Southern railway has purchased the
majority of the stock of the Augnsta
Southern and that the transfer of
ownership will take place during this
mouth. President James U. Jackson
would neither deny nor affirm the
rumor. Tho Southern has been op¬
erating the Augusta Southern for sev¬
eral years under a lease to the South
Carolina and Georgia railroad.
Valne of Savannah’* Property.
The Savannah board of tax asses¬
sors has made its annual report to the
mayor. The report shows the total
assessed valuation of the city’s prop¬
erty to be §37,108,077, divided as fol¬
lows: Real estate $25,25^,635, ground
rents lots §976,117, stock in trade
§2,099,120, personal property §5,737,-
775, banking §2,386,403, shipping
$654,025.
The city’s estimated income on this
return at the present tax rate of 1.45
is §538,067.
Railroad Unjoins Wrijflit.
An injunction was brought in the
United States circuit court at Atlanta,
Saturday by the Louisville aud Nash¬
ville railroad against William A.
Wright, comptroller general of the
state, and Patrick J. O’Connor, sheriff
of Richmond county, to restrain them
from levying executions upon the
property of the Georgia Railroad and
Banking company for taxes on certain
debentures. Judge Newman has Bet
the- petition for a hearing on January
28, aDd granted a temporary restrain¬
ing order.
Two Military Companies.
Governor Candler has accepted two
new military companies into the ser¬
vice of the state, the Emmet Rifles, of
Savannah,and the Swainsboro Guards,
of Swainsboro, Bulloch county. These
are two of the four new companies to
be added to the First regiment iu-
fantry to take the place of the four
companies of the Savannah Volunteer
Guards’ battalion, of Savannah, re¬
cently created a battalion of heavy
artillery by act of the legislature. The
Guards have already assumed tbe role
of artillerists, a position they former¬
ly occupied iu the state forces.
To Extnnci Sylvanla Railroad.
A survey has been authorized by the
Sylvania railroad for a proposed exten¬
sion to Girard in Bulloch county. The
road now extends 15 miles from Rock
Ford to Sylvania. Girard is 20 miles
from Sylvania, and the intermediate
territory is rich and well developed.
The farming interests are extensivo
and a railroad through the section
would doubtless be paying property.
Citizens of Girard are anxious for
the extension. They are doing all
they can to bring it about. Tbe ex¬
tension would mean much for them
and much for Savannah, as that city’s
trade would be enlarged by the added
railroad facilities.
Reward Offered For Tyneliers.
Governor Candler has offered a re¬
ward of §100 for tbe arrest, with proof
to convict, of each one of the lynchers
of George Reede, the negro who was
hanged and shot near Rome for as-
mulling Mrs. Locklear.
The governor’s reward in this case
varies somewhat from others hereto-
fore offered for lyuching parties. In-
stead of arewa’d of §200 for the first
and §100 for others, or a reward for
the first six or eight arrested, he will
give §100 for each man.
“If there were 150 in the crowd, as
stated.” the governor said, “that
means $15,000 for the arrest of the
whole crowd, if they get them.”
The governor’s attitude against mob
violence is well known. He has al¬
ways taken steps to prevent it where
any danger of it appeared, and has al¬
ways sought to bring the guilty to
punishment through the offer of re¬
wards and other means.
Whether any of George Reede’a
lynchers will be caught is a question.
The coroner’s jury declared' them to
be “parties unknown,” and the chances
are, as is usual, that they will stick
together. However, the reward offer¬
ed is a very tempting one.
On the other hand Mrs. Locklear
makes the positive statement that the
lynchers got the right man.
“Peff Ueg” Want* Money Back.
R. A. Williams, better known as
“Peg Leg,” paid to Tax Collector
Stewart, at Atlanta, the sum of $500 for
au emigrant agent’s license, and a few
ORE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
moments later meet proceedings in the
city court to recover the money.
The amount was paid under protest,
and Williams insisted that this fact
appear on the face of the receipt
which the tax collector handed him.
In his suit against the tax collector,
Williams denied that he was an emi-
grant agent, bnt said that he was em-
ployed by certain railroads in the
south to secure transportation.
He averred that he was not con-
trading with laborers in Georgia to be
sent to other states. Williams de-
elcred that the money was demanded
of him by virtue of paragraph 10 of
the general tax act of the general as¬
sembly, and that he paid it under pro¬
test that he might stop any proceed¬
ings the tax collector might adopt to
fore*' him to pay.
He says that to demand a tax of him
would be a violation of the commerce
clause of thefediral constitution. He
also states that interstate business is
not subject to a state tax, and that he
is merely engaged in the harmless pur-
fuit of promoting intercourse between
citizens of different states. It is de¬
clared that his present occupation
comes “within neither the letter nor
the soirit of that law.”
CARMACK FOR SENATOR.
Tennessee Legislators Gather at
Nashville and Begin Work
By Caucusing,
A Nashville special says: Tho Dem¬
ocratic members of the Tenuessc e leg¬
islature, in caucus Monday afternoou,
made nomination by acclamation of E.
W. Carmack, of Shelby, for United
States senator; Reau E. Folk, of Da¬
vidson, for state treasurer, and Tbos.
F. King, of Dyer, for state comptrol¬
ler. The caucus will later on nomi¬
nate a state librarian and a secretary
of state.
The Republican members nominated
T. N. Burket, of Athens, for senator;
G. L. Hannah, for secretary of state;
F. N. Gailbreath, for treasurer; W.M.
Spelling, for comptroller, and Miss Ila
Hanna, for librarian.
The house and senate Democrats
held separate caucnses during the
morning and selected the speakers and
chief clerks, who were later elected by
their respective bodies when they met
at noon. Tho senate elected Newtou
H. White, of Giles, speaker, and
James A. Kirby, of Robertson, chief
clerk. The house elected E. B. Wil¬
son, of Sumner, speaker, and E. E.
Adams, of Wilson, chief clerk. The
house caucus nominated Ed Martin
assistant clerk, G. J. Adams, sergeant
at arms; Fred T. YVilson and T. R.
Turrentine, assistants, and Miss Het-
tie Farr, engrossing clerk.
The senate caucus selected Ed
Thomas, assistaut clerk; Miss Graham
GermaD, engrossing clerk; L. T. John¬
son, sergeant at arms, and Barnes and
Tibbs, pages. Both branches com¬
plete organization Tuesday.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
I.lst of New Industries Reported Dnr-
Inir the Past Week.
Among the more important of the
new industries reported for the past
week are brick works at Fredericks¬
burg, Va.; a broom factory at Hickory,
N. C.; a canning factory at Danville,
Va.; §50,000 car coupler works at
Covington, Ky.; a §130,000 cement
plant at Chattanooga; a §30,000 cigar
and tobacco factory at Raleigh, N. C.;
a $1,000,000 company to develop coal
and other mineral properties at
Charleston, W. Va., and a §500,000
coal mining company at Charleston;
other coal and coke companies at
Knoxville, Tenn., El Paso, Tex., and
Lynchburg, Va.; a 10,000-spindle cot¬
ton mill at Greenwood, S. C.; a $25,-
000 development company at Little
Rock, Ark.; an electric light plant at
Jackson,Tenn.; flouring mills at Rock¬
ford,Tenn.,and Bonham,Tex.; a $300,-
000 foundry and machine shop com¬
pany at Dallas, Tex.; furniture facto¬
ries at Little Rock, Ark., and Lexing¬
ton, N. C.; a §60,000 ice factory at
Dallas, Tex.; a §25,000 knitting mill
at Tuskaloosa, Ala., and another mill
for the manufacture of hosiery at
Ayden, N. C.; a lauudry atTuscumbia,
Ala.; au oil mill at houthport,
N. C.; an oil and gas company
at Parkersburg, W. Va.; a $30,000
phosphate company at Pensacola, Fla.;
a $100,000 real estate and building
company at Paris, Tex.; a eash, door
and blind factory at Bennettsville, S.
C.; a saw mill at Tallahassee, Fla.; a
syrup refinery and canning factory at
Nashville, Tenn.; a $600,000 ship
building and dry dock company at
Pensacola, Fla.; telephone companies
at Macon, Ga., and Raleigh, N. C.; a
tobacco factory at Richmond, Va., and
a wagon factory at Dickson, Tenn.—
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
A “PAINFUL QUESTION.”
Spain Is|Still Sore Over Her Recent Knock-
Oat By Uncle Sain.
A Madrid dispatch Eays: In the
senate Monday Count Almenas pointed
out that the minister of war, General
Linares, had not yet communicated
the documents exchanged between the
government and the governors of Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines dur¬
ing tbe war with the United States ac¬
cording to promise. General Azcar-
raga, the premier, replied that it
would be inopportune to reopen a
painfnl question.
Fitzgerald Must “Come Across.”
In the United States court at Savan¬
nah, Monday, an order was signed
directing the city of Fitzgerald to levy
a special tax to satisfy a judgment in
favor of the Fire Extinguisher com¬
pany of Chicago. The amount in¬
volved is about §4,000.
DR.TALM AGE’S SERMON
Ths Eminent Divine's Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: Apples of Gold—An Appropriate
Word May Decide One’s Destiny —
The Power of Little Tilings — Value
of Sympathy.
[Copyright 1901.1
Washington, D. C.—In this discourse
Dr. Talmage shows , door . for ,
an open any
one who desires to be useful, and illiis-
trates how a little thing may decide one s
destiny. The text is Proverbs xxv, 11 (re-
vised version), “A word fitly spoken is
like apples of gold in baskets of silver.
A filigree basket loaded with fruit is put
before us ini the text. Vlhat is ordinarily
translated pictures ought to be has-
kets. Here is a silver network basket
containing ripe and golden apples, pip-
pins or rennets. You know how such ap-
pies glow through the openings of a has-
ket of silver network. You have seen
such a basket of fruit on many a table.
It whets the appetite as well as regales
the vision. Solomon was evidently fond
of apples, because he so often speaks of
them. While he writes in glowing terms
o£ pomegranates and figs and grapes and
mandrakes, he seems to find solace as well
as lueciousness m apples, calling out for a
supply of them when he says in another
place, Comfort me with apples. “A word Now
you see the meaning of my text,
fitly spoken is like apples of gold in bas¬
kets of silver.”
You see, the wise man eulogizes just one
word. Plenty of recognition has there
been for great orations—Cicero’s arraign-
ment of , „ Catiline, the , phillippics , .... . ot . De-
mosthenes, the five days argument of Ed-
mund Burke against Warren Hastings,
Edward Irving’s discourses on the Bible
and libraries full of prolonged utterance—
but my text extols the power of one word
when it refers to “a word fitly spoken.
This may mean a single word or a small
collection of words—something you can
utter in one breath, something that you
can compact into one sentence. A word
fitly spoken —an encouraging word a
kind word, a timely word, a sympathetic
Ayord, right down an appropriate the aisle of word. church I can pass and
any
find between pulpit and front door men
whose temporal and eternal destinies have
been decided by a word.
I tell you what is a great crisis in every
man’s history. It is the time when he is
entering an occupation or profession. He
is opposed by men in middle life because
they do not want any more rivals, and
by some of the aged because they fear
being crowded off and their places being
taken bv younger men. Hear the often
severe and unfair examinations of young
lawyers by old lawyers, of young doctors
by old doctors, of young ministers by old
ministers. Hear some of the old mer-
chants talk about the young merchants,
Trowels and hammers and scales often are
jealous of new trowels and new hammers
and new scales. Then it is so difficult to
get introduced. How long a time has
many he a physician call had his sign out before
got a for his services and the attor-
nev before he got a case! Who wi ■ ts to
risic the life of his family to a youn phy-
sician who got his diploma only last spring
and who may not know measles from
scarlatina, verdict or to risk the obtaining of a
for ?20,000 to an attorney who
only Blackstone? three years ago read the first page of
YTow is the young merchant to compete
with his next door bargain maker, who
can afford to undersell some things be-
cause he can more than make it up by the
profit on other things or has failed three
times and had more money after each
failure? How is that mechanic to make
a livelihood when there are twice as many
men in that trade as can in hard times find
occupation? thousands There are this very moment
of men who are just starting
life for themselves, and they need encour-
agement—not long harangue, not quota-
tion from profound book, not a page, not
a paragraph, but a word, one word, fitly
spoken.
Why does not that old merchant, who
that has been forty years in business, go into
voung merchant’s store and sav,
“Courage?” although, He needs only that one word,
of course, you will illustrate it
by telling your own experience and how
long you waited for customers, and how
the first two years you lost money, and
bow the next year, though you did better,
illness in your household swamped the
surplus with doctor’s bills. Why does not
that old lawyer go into that young law-
ver’s office just after he has broken down
in making-his first plea before a jury and
say that word with only two syllables,
“Courage?” He needs only that one word,
although, of course, you will illustrate it
by telling him how you broke down in
one pf your first cases, and got Laughed at
by court and bar and jury, and how Dis-
raeli broke down at the start, and how
hundreds of the most successful lawyers
at the start broke down. Why do not the
suceessful men go right away and tell those
who are starting what they went through,
and how their notes got protested and
what unfortunate purchases they made,
and how they were swindled, hut kept
right on until they reached the golden
milestone? Even some who pretend to
favor the new beginner and say they wish
him ivell put obstacles in his way.
There are so many men who have all
the elements of usefulness and power ex-
them that every man that ever amounted
to anything had terrific struggle. Show
him what ships Decatur had to fight, and
what a mountain Hannibal had to climb,
and what a lame foot Walter Scott had to
walk with, and that the greatest poet
who ever lived—Milton—was blind, that
one of the grandest musicians of all the
ages—Beethoven—was deaf, and that
Stewart, in some respects the greatest
merchant that America ever saw, began
in his small store, dining on bread and
cheese behind the counter in a snatched
interregnum between customers, he open-
ing the store and closing it, sweeping it
out with his own broom and being his own
errand boy. Show them that within ten
minutes’ walk there are stores, shops deeds and
factories and homes where as brave
have been done as those of Leonidas at
Thermopylae, as that of Campbell Horatius at the
bridge, as that of Colin Napoleon at Bala-
klava. Tell them what said to
his staff officer when that officer declared
a certain military attempt to be impossi-
ble. “Impossible!” said the great com-
mander. “Impossible is the adjective of
fools!”
Show them also that what is true in
worldly directions is more true in spiritual
directions. Call the roll of prophets, apos-
ties and martyrs and private Christians
from the time the world began and ask
them to mention one man or woman
greatly and good or useful who was not depre-
dated flailed and made a laughing
stock. Racks and prisons and whips and
shipwrecks and axes of beheadmeut did
their worst, yet the heroes were more
than conqueror. With such “courage,” things you
will illustrate that word and
they will go out from your presence to
start anew and right, challenging all earth
and hell to the combat.
Tht word “courage,” fitly spoken with
compressed lips and stout grip of the hand
and an intelligent flash of the eye—well,
the finest apples that ever thumped on the
ground in an autumnal orchard and were
placed in the most beautiful basket of sil-
ver network before keen appetites could
not be more attractive.
Furthermore, a comforting word fitly
sooken is a beautiful thing. No one but
God could give the inventory of sick beds
and bereft homes and broken hearts. We
on ght not to let a day pass without a
visit, or a letter, or a message, or a prayer
consolatory. You could call five minutes
on your way to the factory; you conld
leave a half hour earlier m the
an d fill a mission of solace; you could
brighten a sick room with one chrysanthe-
mum; vou " could nut a postscrint of heaven to a let-
ter tba t woll id hring the joys to
a you conld airing'to send your carriage and
£ . afternoon an invalid on
;K '^. hboring street; vou could loan a
book it h some chapters most adapted to
goroe particuU ” - misfortune. Go hbme to-
dav R d nia w - ,, t a list of things you can
• sympathetic thoughtful-
d thftt
for the hardly bestead. How many
d fc ]aeeg - ou ni ,; c ht illumine! How
manv tear8 v0 ., cm rfd st op or. if already
gtartfd you e0 „id wipe away! How much
];kc Jegus chr ; 8t von might get to be! So
svninathetio was H e with beggary, so
hel fn1 was He for the fallen and so stirred
wag He at tl , e si?bt of d ronsy, epilepsy,
ralvai# and ophthalmia that, whether
n Paw u bv the roads ide. or at the sea
^ b Qr at the mineral baths of Bethes-
da He offpred rP ]i c f. Cultivate genuine
gvm p a ^j iv Christ.!ike sympathy. You can-
^ 8UC0eSS fullv dramatize it.' False svm-
‘ tb ; Alexander Pope sketches in two
“Before her face her handkerchief she
spread she did
To hide the flood of tears not
shed.”
There are four or five words which fitly
ben might soothe and emancipate and
resc . UP- g 0 to those from whose homes
christ baR taken to Himself a loved one
and try tbe word « rcun ; 0 n,” not under
w j n trv skv, but in everlasting springtide;
pot a ] and w here thev can be struck with
disease, but where the inhabitant never
savP am s5ck .» not a reun i 0 n that can
bft f o ]l 0We H bv separation, but in a place
» from wh irh lbey sba n co n0 more out
forever .» For emancipation and sighing, like
immorta i health. Reunion, or if vou
word hotter, anticipation. There is
nothing left, for them in this world. Try
th8m with heaven. With a chapter from
the great book open one of the twelve
p t6s " °'Z ... e th ,, f m °™ 1,016 . ° f e .
™irp, one flash . from the sea of R as o
victors c !** ter °f r.de. , the „ T hoof nnt / word of l J ,e reunion hor36s or a J
P°J* _
P atl0n s en 6 ’
^aped , up m silver baskets could . equal ,
>*• °f the 2000 kmds of apples that have
blesf ! 6 ^ the '™ rld not one is so mehow or
rieb or aromatic, but we take the
suggestion of the text and compare that
word of comfort fitly spoken to apples of
S°Jd Or lr the ) baskets man astray of silver. may have an unhappy ,
home, and that is enough to wreck any
one. We often speak of men who destroy
their homes, but do not say an 5 thing
about the m American fact that who there by are petulance thousands and of
fretting and inconsideration and lack *
economy and all manner of disagreeabiV- dissipation,
ness drive their husbands into
The reason that thorkaudU «£ wen spenn
their evenings in clubhouses and taverns
is because they cannot thirty-year stand it at martyrs home,
I know men who are
in the fact that they are awfully married,
That marriage was not made in heaven.
Without askinv divine guidance they en-
tered into an alliance which ought never
to have been made. That is what is the
matter with many men you and I know,
They may he very brave and heroic and
say nothing about it, but all the neighbors
know.
Now. if the man going wrong has such
domestic misfortune be very lenient and
excusatory in your word of warning. The
difference between you and him may be
that you would have gone down faster
that he is going down if you had the same
kind of conjugal wretchedness,
Besides that, you had better for the be day merciful
in your word of warning, may
come when you may need some one to be
lenient and excusatory to you. rp * ,6 r e
be somewhere ahead of you a temp -
tion so mighty that un.ess you have s>
Poetic treatment you may go under
^ , or n0 '„ fl How , a T vs B0 old V\ e are one you. ’ \ a ,' n n ( i h, < !? yo
sa Y> [ bave been s0 * ong 10 ye dusi-
n f sa ,lfe tbat J a,n clear past the latitude
of dan 8 e r - There is a man m Sing Sing
penitentiary . who was considered the soul
ot htmor until he was fifty yean of age,
tben committed a dishonesty that star-
^led the entire commercial voii' .
In mentioning, fine arts people and are sculp- apt
, 0 8 P eak of mivs,c and painting
ture and , architecture, but they forget to
'nention the finest of all the fine arts, the
art do »?g ? ood : the art of hel P in S oth ‘
crs ’ fhe art of saving men.
An art to be studied as you study music,
for it is music in the fact that it drives
out moral discord and substitutes eternal
harmony. An art to be studied like sculp-
ture. for it is sculpture in the fact that it
builds a man not in cold statue, but in inl¬
mortal shape that^ will last long after all
pentelican marble has crumbled,
An art to he studied as you study archi-
tecture, for it is architecture in the fact
that it builds for him a house of God, eter-
na l hi the heayens. But an art that we
cannot fully learn unless God helps us.
Ourselves saved by grace divine, we can
*° forth . to a i *'\ W '? v tilt we
ce “, reault -
The Lord said unto the prophet , , Amos, ,
“Amos, what seest thou. and he an-
swered, “A basket of summer-fruit. But
1 do not thlnk Amos s ? w m that ba ®. et
of fruit anything , inviting .
summer more
and luscious than many a saved man has
8een * n the warning word of some hearty,
common sense Christian adviser, tor a
word fitly spoken is “like apples of gold
* n baskets of silver.
abi0 i s a wa T d of invitation . potent
an d beautiful. Who can describe the
drawing power of that word, so small and
80 tremendous, ComeIt is a short
word, but its influence is as long as eter-
nity; not a sesquipedalian word spreading
its energy over many syllables, hut mono¬
syllabic. Whether calling in wrong direc-
tion or right direction many have found
it irresistible. That one word has filled
all the places of dissipation and dissolute-
ness. It is responsible for the abomina-
tions that curse the earth. Inquire at the
door of prisons what brought tne offender
there and at the door of almshouses what
brought the pauper there, and at the door
of the lost world what was the cause of
Jhe * be incarceration, truth they will and say, if the The inmates^speak v ° r d come
brought us here. Come and drink. Come
a ? d gamble. Come and urn. Come and
d ‘ e \ Pronounce that word with one kind
of inflection, an d you can hear m it the
tolling of all the bells of cor.nagro.iioii
woe -
The chief baker in prison in Pharaoh’s
time saw in dream something quite differ-
ent from apples of gold-in baskets of sil-
ver, for he said to Joseph, “I was also in
a dream, and, behold, head, and I had three white
baskets on my in the upper-
most basket there was all manner of
baked meats for Pharaoh, and the birds
did eat them out of the baskets on my
head.” Joseph interpreted the dre^m and
said it meant that the chief baker should
be beheaded, and the birds would eat his
his flesh. So many a man has in his own
bad habits omens of evil that peck at him
and foretell doom and death. —------
NO. 40.
KITCHENER IS SORRY
Butchering of Britons By Boers
the Cause of His Regret.
DETACHMENT BADLY DEFEATED
Three Officers Killed—Cape Town
To Send Delegation to Re¬
port On Situation.
Reportiog to the London war office
under date of January Gtb, Lord
Kitchener ays:
larey’s “Yesterday Babingtou engaged De-
and Steenkamp’s commandoes
at Nuauwport. The enemy was forced
to retire to the northwest. Our casu-
alties have not yet been received, bnt
are reported slack. A Boer doctor ad¬
mitted that twenty Boers were killed
or wounded. Commandant Dnprez
was taken prisoner.
“It appears from reports of the
wounded who have arrived at Heil-
bronn that a detachment, 120 strong,
belonging to Knox’s command, canio
into contact with a superior force near
Lindley. I regret that Lieutenant
LaiDg, two other officers and fifteen
men were killed and two officers and
twenty men wounded. • No details
have come from Knox of this action.”
There are several Naauwpoorts.
Possibly the scene of the fight is the
Naauwpoort on the railroad between
Potcbefatroom and Frederikstad,
Transvaal.
Advices from Cape Towu state that
at a mee|ing of the Afrikander mem¬
bers of the cape parliament Monday,
it was resolved to send Messrs. J. X.
Morriman, former treasurer of Cape
Colony; J. W. Sauer, former commis¬
sioner of public works, and J. H. Hof-
meyer to England to represent the
state of affairs in South Africa to the
government, parliament and people of
Great Britain.
General Brabant has arrived to com¬
plete the organization of the colonial
forces.
It is reported that 1,500 Boers are
nearing the town of Sutherland, and
that other parties are close upon Rich¬
mond.
The invaders have reached Calvinia
and are expected at Clanwilliam within
a few days.
Scouts report that the Boer com¬
manders under Delarey and Stein-
kamp, iu the Bufferspoort district,
number 5,000.
At Bloomfontein it is reported that
an influential peace commission is be¬
ing formed to interview General De-
Wet, Mr. Stein and other leaders to
explain Lord Kitchener’s terms, and
to endeavor to induce them to yield.
The Boers boast that their present
incursion is only a big patrol, prepara¬
tory to an iuvasion in force by General
DeWet. The latter’s influence over
the Dutch is so enormous that there is
no doubt his actual presence would
result iu a general uprising.
Martial law has been proclaimed iu
the districts of Calvinia, Clanwilliam,
Piquetburg, Tulbagh, Paarl and Steel-
enbosek.
WILL FIGHT SUBSIDY.
House Commission on Railway Mail
Transportation Finishes Report.
A Washington special says: Tbe
joint senate and house commission ou
the transportation of the mails by rail¬
roads has completed its report and will
submit it to congress.
The commission will make a scath¬
ing denunciation of the system of
subsidies, aud this will be a fight on
the Southern railway New York-New
Orleans subsidy annuity of §195,000
for carrying tho mails through At¬
lanta.
The commission has been investi¬
gating the subject of transporting the
mails for two years, and its report is
one of the most important to be sub¬
mitted to congress this year, The
commission will declare against the
pneumatic tube system for transfer of
mail in large cities and will fight this
proposition bitterly.
The commission will fiud that the
charges by the railroads for transport¬
ing the mails are excessive and should
be reduced. This means a great fight
in congress to prevent a reduction.
CHARLESTON EXPECTS STATION.
Port Royj * 1 Board Ha* All Information
In Hand and Will Soon Report.
A Washington special says: Thurs¬
day the Port Royal board, headed by
Rear Admiral Rogers, begun the fur¬
ther consideration of the removal of
the Port Royal, S. C., naval station to
Charleston harbor.
The work of the board has been re¬
tarded by inability to obtain certain
necessary data from sonndings in the
harbor at Charleston, on account of
the weather. However, all the neces¬
sary information is before the board
now, and it is expected repoi^^^^week to complete its
work and submit its
or
^iOEBELC.^H PI
the Fact Were In Cwl
Taylor, cases of ex-GoverfnS Stat3
ex-Secretary of
Finley, Berry Howard and
Powers, charged with being
ries before the fact to the c
William Goebel, were calledfl Kjfl
cuit court at Frankfort, continued^*
afternoon and
custody. spring- term, none pf th^Bl
