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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. ____ 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 e - cars iSdTnto kindling-™^- _ m ■r - , ; € -/ 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. “ 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. - 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