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LED TO DEATH
Men, Women and Children Lose
Their Lives In Theatre Panic.
CAUSED BY FALSE FIRE ALARM
List of Known Dead Is Seven,
While Many Others Are Miss¬
ing—Seen e Was Appalling.
A Chicago special says: Seven
people were crushed to death and as
many more seriously injured in a
panic which followed a man’s cry of
“fire” late Saturday afternoon in West
Twelfth street, Turner hall. About
eight hundred people were in the
place to witness the performance.
The play was “Yidish,” and the au¬
dience, comprised for the most part of
women and children, was all Hebrews.
The hall stands in a district densely
populated by Jews. The play was
nearly over when the cry, which
caused the panic, was raised, and
within five seconds after it rang
through the hali tho entire audience
was converted into a frantic mob,
every member of which was fighting
for the safety which lay beyond the
doors of the building.
The hall is frequently used for
dances, and when a theatrical perform¬
ance is given chairs are iet for the
spectators. As soon as the wild rush
toward the doors began, chairs were
knocked down in every direction, the
aisles disappeared and the excited peo¬
ple raD, clirned and stumbled over the
chairs in their way toward the doors.
Aronud the upper part of the hall
extends a balcony, which is open only
at one end. Here were seated 150
women and children, and the women
at the farther end of the balcony, away
from the stairway, seeing thattherush
toward the exit was blocked to them
and their children, began at once to
throw the little ones over the railing
to the floor ten feet below.
The children fell into the midst of
the maddened throng and wereatonoe
trampled under their feet. It is known
that three of the dead were children
who were thrown from the Vial cony
and were trampled by the crowd, with
not a chance for their lives. Follow¬
ing the children, many of tho women
sprang from the balcony upon the
crowd, and others, swinging over,
hung by their hands before they drop¬
ped. The railing of the balcony was
broken through in half a dozen places
by the pressure brought against by the
maddened crowd.
On tho main floor the crash was
much worse than in the balcony. The
main exits from the hall, and only
oneB known to a majority of those
who frequent the place, are two doors
in the south end of the main audito¬
rium that open upon winding stairs,
which, eight steps down, unite into
one broader flight leading to the rain
door at the Twelfth street front.
Around these two doors a frantic
mass of screaming men, women and
children were packed, all struggling
fiercely to force their way down the
stairs. At the landing where the two
flights of stairs winding down from
the main hall unite a woman stumbled
and fell. In an instant a score of
people were down, and before the
rush was over four lives had been
crushed out in a space four feet by six
feet long.
As soon as the news of the panic
had spread throughout the district,
which seemed but a very few minutes,
all the Hebrews from that part of the
city rushed to the place, bent upon
learning the names of the dead and
wounded. Men and women fought
desperately with the officers in their
efforts to enter the building and learn
if any of their loved ones were among
the dead.
The alarm of fire was false, there
having been no blaze at any time.
The furnace in the building is some¬
what defective and at times allows
sparks to pass through the registers.
It was the sight of these sparks rising
into the room that frightened the man
who raised the cry of fire.
The hall has several times been the
scene of panics, and it is only a few
months since a number of children
were hurt in a rush for the doors,
which occurred during a juvenile party
that was given in the place.
M’BEE SUCCEEDS ST. JOHN.
General Superintendsnt I* Selected For
Vice President and General Manager.
Captain V. E. McBee, better known
BS “Bunch” McBee, general superin¬
tendent of the Seaboard Air Line rail-
■wav, has been appointed vice presi-
dent and general manager of the
system to succeed Eventt St. John,
recently resigned. that the
It is reported, however, ap-
pointmenfc is believed tobe temporary,
President John Skelton Williams when
asked about the matter, declined to
say whether Mr. McBee s appointment
was permanent or not.
Captain McBee has been witu the
Seaboardfor many years.
GOEBEL CANES POSTPONED.
f t j ic AlleJ^ i,<, “Accessories” Before
><>n " 0 In Custody.
the Fact Were
The cases of ex-Governor W. S.
T vior ex-Secretary of State Charles
i a n 7 ’ Berry Howard with being and John L.
T* w ers f' charged to the murder accesso- of
xw-lr , . ore the fact
m Goebel, were called in the cir-
■jL°° a j a t; Frankfort, Ky., Monday
and continued until the
. m none of them being in
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| Routed hupinos WERE surprised.
Pell flell From Stronghold
They Long Boasted as Being
Impregnable.
A recent issue of a Manila paper
gives a graphic and interesting ac¬
count of the capture and utter defeat
°* * orce8 of the famous insurgent
leader, Geronimo, near Montablan, by
Colonel _
J. Milton Thompson and a
thousand picked men of the Twenty-
second and Forty-second volunteer in-
fantry regiments in November last.
Geronimo, from all accounts, lived
np to his namesake in this country in
that he hurled defiance from his
mountain fortress in much the same
way as Geronimo, the celebrated
Apache chieftain, harassed and defied
our troops in the west. The insurgent
chief was strongly fortified at Pinau-
ran, in DeMorte canyon, near Monta-
blan, his trenches being strung along
both sides for a distance of Bix or
seven miles.
After the ro-occupation of the presi¬
dential chair, says the article, it was
decided by the military" authorities to
dislodge Geronimo at any cost. The
latter had boasted frequently of the
time when the insurgents killed five
hundred Spaniards who made an un¬
successful attempt to take Pinaurau.
The time for Colonel Thompson’s
attack was set for noon on November
22J. The expedition was divided into
four detachments. The main one, un¬
der command of Captain Brandie, was
in the lead, and while advancing
through the bed of the canon was the
first to draw the fire of the insurgents.
The entrenched Filipinos, believing
the detachment to be the entire at¬
tacking party, allowed the column to
advance well up the canon in order to
more bad completely “boitle” it. When it
reached the desired spot the Fili¬
pinos, yelling liko Apache Indians,
opened up a vigorous fire, but simul¬
taneously with their volleys came the
attack of the Amencaus from four dis¬
tinct directions.
Then Colonel Thompson, leading
the main body, performed the feat of
the engagement in climbiug a steep
wall through dirt and underbrush and
entered the boasted “impregnable”
fortress of the insurgents. The sol¬
diers climbed up the mountain side
and when they reached the top there
was not a live rebel in sight. The in¬
surgents killed, it is estimated, was
fifty and their wounded about a dozen.
RIVi R AND HARBOR BILL
Bionght I’p In the Iluum and Its Consld-
vra'lon Filtered Upon.
A Washington dispatch says: The
house Wednesday entered upon the
consideration of the river and harbor
bill. Before it was called up some
routine business was transacted.
Mr. Burton, member of the river
and harbors committee, suggested tbat
general debate on the bill be limited
to three hours, but there was an im¬
mediate outcry against the proposition
from Mr. Cushman, of Washington,
and Mr. Boreing, of Kentucky. All
attempts to secure an agreement failed.
Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, was called
to the chair to preside on the commit¬
tee of the whole during tho considera¬
tion of the bill.
PHIL ARMOUR FUNERAL.
Last Rite* Over Body of Dead Millionaire
Were Extremely Simple.
Private funeral services over the
body of the late Philip D. Armour
were held Wednesday at the Armour
residence in Chicago. Following tho
services at the house the body was
taken to the Armour mission where
the body ley in state and was viewed
by thousands. The service at the
house was of the simplest character,
carrying out the expressed wish of Mr,
Armour and was attended only by tbe
family and close friends.
At tho conclusion of the services
the coffiu was taken by a special fu¬
neral train to Graceland cemetery,
where the body was interred in the
Armour family lot.
COUNCILMEN GIVEN ALTERNATIVE
Tb.y Muat Either Tell lhe Truth or Go
to the Penitentiary.
A special from Scranton, Pa., says:
The thirteen ex-councilmen who re¬
signed to escape prosecution for bri¬
bery are to be placed on the stand in
the pending bribery cases and asked
to disclose what they know of the al¬
leged crookedness in the city hall. If
they refuse they are to be prosecuted.
ALIVE AND KICKING.
Admiral Ccrvera Vigorouily Denies Re¬
port of Hi* Illness.
Admiral Cervera, commanding the
Spanish fleet which was sunk off San-
tj a g 0 by Admiral Schley, cables to
Spanish Vice Consul Arthur C. Hum-
phries at Norfolk, Va. f whose guest he
was while a prisoner of war on parole,
that be j g we u, ’
j [ gent Tbe from admiral Cadiz asserts that he in his by message
is no means
a dying man, and that the reports of
bis ill health and dangerous proximity
to death which have been widely
culated in the press reports are abso-
lutely unfounded.
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CREW ACTED DISGRACEFULLY.
; Passengers Rescued From The Stranded
Steamer Tell Ugly Tales.
A Paris dispatch says: Ugly stories
are leaking out concerning the beha-
vior of part of the crew of the steamer
Russie, wrecked off Farallon, whose
crew and passengers, numbering 102
souls, were rescued by boats from the
shore. The Matin publishes an inter-
view with a passenger, who 6aid the
conduct of some of the sailors was
beneath contempt.
A DEI.. BERRIEN COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 18. 1901.
NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
Pardon Applications Refused.
Fourteen applications for executive
clemency, all of which had been acted
on adversely by the pardon board,
were formally refused by Governor
Candler in an order issued Saturday
afternoon. The applicants were near¬
ly all felony convicts in the penitenti-
ary from various counties, while only
a few of them were in for misdemean-
or offenses.
On a Dumber of applications od which
the action of the pardon board was fa-
vorah'.e, Governor Candler took no
action, reserving bis decision for more
consideration.
So far no formal application for the
pardon of Dolly Pritchett has been
made before the prison commission,
3olicitor Thomas Hutchinson, of the
Blue Ridge circuit, tli8 prosecuting
officer who convicted the wayward
mountain girl, made the statement re¬
cently to an officer of the prison com¬
mission that no one would go farther
to secure a pardon for Dolly Pritchett
when the time came than he.
Mistrial In Uaker Case.
Afler having been out exactly 100
bcfiirs, the jury in the James L. Baker
insanity case at Atlanta was dispersed
by order of court late Saturday after¬
noon, a mistrial having been declared.
Judge Candler ascertained that there
seemed absolutely no hope of a verdict
and that the twelve men were irrevoca¬
bly tie l up.
He held a conference with Baker’s
counsel, and it was decided that if no
verdict was made by 6 o’clock a mis¬
trial would be declared.
During the five days that the jury
was tied up eigat of the jui’ors were in
favor of declaring Baker sane, while
the four other members were equally
positive tbat the wife murderer is now
insaue. Every ballot taken in the
jury room stood four for insanity and
eight against.
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Costly Factory For Washington.
For some mouths a party of gentle¬
men of ability, success aud means
havo had control of the Anthony
shoals property, near Washington,
which has a 5,000 horse power. The
terms by which they secured control
of the property specify that the power
is to be developed speedily in the in¬
terest of Washington. The building
of a million dollar cotton factory now
seems fully assured.
Salnry of Charlton Comity Teachers.
The board of education of Charlton
county has fixed the salary of school
teachers—first grade license, $35 per
month; second grade, $25, and third
grade, $15.
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Governor Has Conrtmartial Papers.
Colonel George M. Napier, judge
advocate general, and judge advocate
in the recent courtmartial which tried
Captain E. E. Aldred, of the Atlanta
Zouaves; Lieutenant G. I. S. Watt
and Sergeant P. H. Huff, of the Atlanta
Grays, has transmitted the records in
these cases through General J. W.
Robertson, adjutant general, to Gov¬
ernor Candler for review and action
upon the findings.
The action of the court will not be
made known until the governor has
reviewed the records and approved or
disapproved the sentences fixed by the
court.
The total cost to the state of this
court, including the services of sten¬
ographers and everything, was $257.75,
making it, considering the amount of
work done, one of the cheapest courts
martial iu the history of the militia of
Georgia.
Debtor MayEnjoy Homestead.
The circuit court of appeals at New
Orleans has decided that a debtor may
enjoy his homestead and even though
he may have waived it. The case in¬
volving the question has been before
the court of appeals for a year. It
went up from tbe United States court
at Macon, Judge Speer deciding that a
waiver would bold good. The supreme
court of the United States will now be
resorted to. Judge Newman, of the
northern circuit, decided a similar
question some time ago in accordance
with the opinion just rendered by the
court of appeals. The Georgia stat¬
utes provide than a man may waive all
but $300 of his $1,600 homestead.
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Wilson Released From Jail.
G. C. Wilson, postmaster of Mill-
edgeville, accused of tampering with
the funds of the government in that
office, was released from jail at Macon
upon bond in the sum of $800. His
bondsmen were his Milledgeville
friends. Wilson has returned to his
home. His case will be heard by the
commissioner later on.
Georcia win share in Benefits.
A Washington dispatch says: In the
house Mr. Pearse, of North Carolina,
introduced a bill empowering the sec-
retary of agriculture to purchase land
suitable to the purpose of a national
forest reserve in the Appalachian
mountains within the states of Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
ijeorgia, Alabama ana Tennessee, not
to exceed iu extent 2,000,000 acres.
Five million dollars is appropriated for
the purpose.
Many Bonds Changing Hands.
A good many Georgia bonds are
changing hands, while many coupon
bonds are being exchanged for regis¬
tered bonds. A day or two ago Secre¬
tary of State Phil Cook registered $24,-
000 of state bonds, coupon bonds
having beeii exchanged for the regu¬
lar class. There were in the lot four
ORE DOLLJtR PER ANNUM.
81,000 and four $5,000 4$ per cent
Georgia bonds due in 1915. Similar
transactions have been made from time
to time within the last few weeks.
Georgia bonds undoubtedly constitute
a most desirable security.
Home Trustees to Meet on £4th.
Definite action in the matter of
opening the Soldiers’ Home for the
reception of Georgia’s veterans who
desire to enter will be taken Thursday,
January 24th, as it is on that date that
the first meeting of the board of trust¬
ees appointed by Governor Candler
will be held.
Colonel W. L. Calhoun, one of the
members of the board, has, by request
of Governor Candler, called a meeting
for that date, and each member has
signified bis intention of being pres¬
ent.
At the close of this meeting it will
be known definitely what date will be
selected for the opening of the home.
The bids for the repairing and re¬
painting of the institution will be let
and a time namedMn w hich they shall
be completed. In this manner the
board will be able to name a date for
the opening.
In addition to the election of a chair¬
man of the boaid of trustees there will
be an election of a superintendent of
the home and also of a matron.
For these two positions numerous
applications have been received, but
the positions have been promised to
no one yet.
The superintendent will be a veteran
of ability. An old soldier will be
chosen because of the fact that he will
be heartily in sympathy with the in¬
The mates, being one of their comrades.
selection of a matron will be given
due consideration, as this is an import¬
ant position for which it will be neces¬
sary to select a person who wiy see
th it the old soldiers receive every care
and attention.
The furnishing of the home will not
be as costly as was at first supposed.
This is because of the offers of many
military combauies and Confederate
camps throughout the state to furnish
a room. The bids for the furnishing
will also be let at the meeting to be
held on January 24th.
Fire Destroys Historic Church.
Historic old Wesley chapel, a Meth¬
odist church four miles east of Lexing¬
ton, was burned to tbe ground last
Friday. A defective flue caused the
conflagration. Mrs. Dorougb, the
school teacher, and pupils escaped.
The building had weat hered the storms
of over half a century. This was one
of the most extensively known coun-
try churches in the state.
EXTERMINATED HIS FAMILY,
Painter F»e<i Paris Green, Baseball Bat
and a Raxor In Horrible Work.
At Albany. N. Y., Saturday morn¬
ing Louis Currier, forty years of age,
cut bis wife’s throat, broke his son,
Archie’s head with a baseball bat, took
a dose of paris green and then cut bis
own throat from ear to ear with a ra¬
zor. All three are dead.
Carrier left a letter addressed to the
police which shows that tho murder
was premeditated and stating that his
wife bought the paris green herself
for the purpose of poisoning him but
be watched her too closely and gave
her a hard death.
TO EXPERIMENT WITH TEA.
Eastern Capitalists Are Ready To Back
Up Project In South Carolina.
The announcement was made by the
agricultural department in Washing¬
ton a few days ago that two syndicates
were being formed to raise tea iu
wholesale quantities on the fertile
truck lands near Charleston, S. C.
Following this was the positive an¬
nouncement that Connecticut million¬
aires had negotiated for the purchase
of more than four thousand acres of
land fifteen miles from Charleston,
where 300,000 pounds of tea would bb
bought for the use of the syndicate.
The cultivation of this product will
open a new industry in the south.
LYNCH IXGS ABE INVESTIGATED.
Judga White, at Madison, Fla., Instructs
Grand Jury to Secure Names of Mob,
An investigation is being made into
the lynching of the two negroes at
MadisoD, Fla., some days ago. A
special term of the circuit couit was
convened, and Judge White, presid¬
ing, has instructed the grand jury to
make a diligent investigation of the
lynching, and if the names of the
lynchers can be ascertained, to indict
them for murder.
EX-POSTMASTER SUICIDES.
Arrested For Defalcation He Takes a Dob*
of Prussic Aoid.
At Longview, Texas, Thursday,
Samuel Flanagan, formerly postmas¬
ter of the town, committed suicide by
drinking prussic acid, while in charge
of a Deputy United States Marshal.
Flanagan, who was a well known Re¬
publican politician, was charged with
misappropriating postoffice funds,
Bloody Deed of Wicked Swede.
At Jamaica Plain, Mass., Thursday
Sevante Anderson, a Swede, shot and
killed his wife and probably fatally
wounded his mother and five-year-old
boy. He then killed himself.
FLOUR IS $45 A BARREL.
Potatoes, Bacon, Sugar and Rice Can’t B«
Bought With Gold In Klondike.
According to telegrams received
from Skaguay, there is a food famine
at Circle and on the lower Yukon
amounting almost to a famine in cer¬
tain commodities. Flour is held at
$45 per barrel and purchasable then
not very ofteD. Potatoes, bacon, su¬
gar and rice are not purchasable at
any price,
DR.TAUM AGE’S SERMON
Th* Eminent Divine’s Sunday
Discourse.
Outlook Inspiring A _ Tar
Subject: The —
Look Into the Future— Marvelous Ail-
vances Predicted — Religion and Scl-
•nee in the Next Hundred Years.
1 Copyright M01.7
Washington, D. C.—In this discourse
Dr. Talmage tells something of what he
expects the next hundred years will
achieve, , and X i declares ______ -I that .1 I rL. the’outlook _ ___AI is
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most inspiring; text, II Samuel xxiii, 4,
“A morning without clouds.”
“What do you expect of this new cen¬
tury?” is the question often asked of me,
and manv others have been plied with the
same inquiry. ’ In the ■’ realm *- of ' invention '---- x -— I T
expect something as startling as the tele¬
graph and the telephone and the X-ray.
In the realm of poetry I expect as great
poets as Longfellow and Tennyson. In
the realm of religion I expect more than
one Pentecost like that of 1857, when 500,-
000 souls professed to have been con¬
verted. I expect that universal peace will
reign, and that before the arrival of the
two thousandth year glasting gunpowder rocks will be
out of use except for or py¬
rotechnic entertainment. I expect that
before this new century has expired the
millennium will be fully inaugurated. The
twentieth century will be as much an im¬
provement on the nineteenth century as
the nineteenth century was an improve¬
ment on the eighteenth. But the conven¬ \fill al¬
tional length of sermonic discourse
low us only time for one hopeful consider¬
ation, and that will be the redemption of
the cities.
part Pulpit and day printing busy press discussing for the most the
m our are
addition of the cities at this time, but
would it not be healthfully encouraging to
all Christian workers and to all who ai (
should toiling to make the world better if we
this morning, for a little while,
look forward to the time when our cities
shall be revolutionized by the gospel of the
Son of God, and all the darkness of
sin and trouble and crime and suffering
shall be gone from the sky, and it shall be
“a morning without clouds?”
Every man has pride in the city of his
guished nativity or residence if it be a city distin¬
boasted for of any dignity or prowess. Virgil Caesar
his native Rome, of
Mantua, of Athens, Lycurgus Archimedes of Sparta, of Demosthe¬ Syracuse
nes
and Paul of Tarsus. I should have sUsp' i-
c.ion had of base heartedness in a man wli \°
. no escepdal interest in the city of his n
Mth , ,, residence—no exhilaration at the
or
enmellishments, evjdence of its prosperity, or its artistic
or its scientific advance-
ment. .*
I have noticed that n man never likes a
city where he has not behaved Well! Peo-
pie who have a free ride in the prison van
never like the city that furnishes the ve-
^ ^ en I find Argos and Rhodes
and Smyrna trying to prove themselves
the birthplace of Iiomcr, I conclude right
aifay that Homer behaved well. He liked
th^m, and laudable they liked him. pride We must with not the
war on city or
must
continue to point to its Faneuil Hall and
to its superior educational advantages;
Independence Piljladelphia must Hall, continue to mint point to iU
and its and its
Guard College; New York must continue
t$ exult in its matchless harbor, and its
sl'rtUtP* Washington must continue to rejoice ii
is lhe — d,y
.J sitir'hnvjug Y a h “' d L”Vr i dT , i„ co .KM r trffl
been the pi.ee ot his rmtevitp
or now being the place of his residence, I
would “What feel like asking him right away:
there? mean What thing have you been doing
tor. feecn gmlty tntiitnr of outrageous that thing have you
jou do Ar. not like the
«fjhe Every city is influenced by the character
men who founded it. Romulus im-
pressed his life upon Rome. The pilgrim
New r Fndand er Wi r iSm Penn *
SS5"Jf mJWn.moiSii h£ISStiir hoL 'so thl
Hpllanderg, founding tfr. York, left th.ir
K l if i h il f0l i 0Wln r f 18 « t eneratl PfP et °nB. ua J
etfiogy upon the W Washington . who founded ,
it.
I thank God for the place of our resi¬
dence, and, while there are a thousand
tlungs that ought to be corrected and
many wrongs that ought to be overthrown,
while I thank God for the past, I look for¬
ward this morning to a glorious future. I
thipk we ought—and I take it for granted
that you are interested in this great work
of. world—we evangelizing the cities and saving the
in ought jto toil with the sunlight
our faces. We are not fighting in a
miserable Bull Run of defeat. We are on
the way to final victory. We are not fol¬
lowing! ing the rider on the black horse, lead¬
us down to death and darkness and
doom, but the rider on the white horse,
with the moon under Hie feet and the stars
of heaven for His tiara. Hailg conqueror,
hail!
I know there are sorrows and tfffere are
sins and there are sufferings all around
about us, but as in some bitter cold win-
ter around day when we are thrashing our arms
think us to keep our thumbs from freez-
mg we of the warm spring day that
will after awhile come, or in the dark win-
ter lights, night we look up and see the northern
the windows of heaven illumined
by some great victory, just so we look up
from the night of suffering and sorrow and
wretchedness in our cities, and we see a
light streaming through from the other
side, and we know we are on the way to
morning—more “a than that, on the way to
I morning without clouds.”
want you to understand, all you who
are toiling for Christ, tha'; the castles of
sin are all going to be captured. The vie-
tory for Christ in these great town3 is
going to be so complete that not a man on
earth, or an angel in heaven, or a devil in
hell will dispute it. How do I know? I
know it just as certainly as God lives and
that this is holy truth. The old Bible is
full of it. The nation is to be saved; of
course all the cities are to be saved. It
makes a great difference with you and
with me whether we are toiling on toward
a defeat or toiling on toward a victory.
which Now, in this municipal elevation of
I speak I have to remark there will
be greater financial prosperity than our
cities have ever seen. Some people seem
to have a morbid idea of the millennium,
and they think when the better time
comes will to our cities and the world people
give their time up to psalm singing
and the relating oi their religious expe-
rience and as all social life will be pun-
fied there will be no hilarity, and as all
business will be purified there will o
enterprise There is no ground the for such
an absurd anticipation. In tim
which I speak where now one fortune is
made there will be a hundred fo
made. ^\e all know business p P y
depends upon confidence between man
and ™ an ' *ow, when that ti
which I speak and all double dealing all
dishonesty and all fraud are gone out of
commercial circles, tho: ough confidence
r 1 t 6
jjJSra ' The |preat business disasters of this
lers. The great foe to business is crime.
When the right shall have hurled back
the wrong, and shall have purified the
commercial code, and shall have thun-
dered down fraudulent the establishments,
and shall have keys put into hands of hon-
fg (. men t be of business, blessed
^j me f or the bargain .. akers. I am not
talking an abstraction; I am not making
a guess; I am telling you God’s eternal
truth.
In that day of which I speak taxes will
be a mere nothing. Now our business men
are taxed for everything; city taxes, coun-
State taxes, United States taxes, _
ty taxes, license manufacturing manufacturing
stamp --- taxes, tnYpa taxes,
taxes—taxes, taxes* taxes! Our business
men have to make a small fortune every
their taxes, . What ... fastens on
year to pay
our :~.r great industries this awful load"
Crime, individual and official. We have
to pay the board of the villains who are
incarcerated in our prisons; we have to
take care of the orphans of those who
indulgence; plunged into their have graves to support through the beastly
we muni¬
cipal governments, which are expensive
just in proportion as the criminal proclivi¬
ties are vast and tremendous. Who sup¬
ports the almshouses and police stations
and all the machinery of., municipal gov¬
ernment? The taxpayers.
But in the glorious time of which I
speak grievous taxation will all have
ceased. There will be no need of support¬
ing criminals; there will he no criminals.
Virtue will have taken the place of vice.
There will he no orphan asylums, for pa¬
rents will be able to leave a competency
to their children; of there will be no voting
of large sums moneys for some munici¬
pal improvement, which moneys, before
the they get to the improvement, drop into
pockets of those who voted them; no
oyer and terminer kept up at vast expense
to the people, no impaneling murder of and juries slan¬ to
try theft and arson and
der and blackmail; better factories; grand-
or ar ohitecture; finer equipage; larger for-
tunes ■s; richer opulence. “A morning with-
out clouds.”
In that better time also coming ung to to these
cities the churches of Christ will be more
numerous, and they will be lai'ger, and
they will Christ, be more and devoted they to the accomplish service
of Jesus will
gi'eater influences for good. Now it is
often the case that churches are envious
of each other, and denominations collide
with each other, and even ministers of
Christ sometimes forget the bond of
brotherhood. But in the time of which I
speak, while there will be just as many
differences of opinion as there are now,
there | wiU be no acerbity, no hypercriti-
c i sm ’ no exclusiveness.
j In n our great cities the churches are not
to-day to-day large enough to hold more than a
f ouldb of the population. The churches
are built—comparatively few of them
are ___Jj________________________________ fully the occupied. churches The of the average United attend¬ States
ance in _
to-day is not 400. Now, in the glorious
he time of whicb x Bpeak there are go i n g to
vast churches, and they are going td be
all thronged with worshipers. Oh, what
rousing songs they will will Bing! Oh, what
earnest sermons they preach! Ob,
fervent tlme prayers hat they cal,ed will offer.! fash Now ^
ou £ " “ a l ° n e
church i« - a place where a few people, , h«v-
£ n « at * n d8 “ v ery carefully to their toilet,
£ ome ftm , 8,t f, , own 7? ey d ° nat Wan fc
^ jhey hke.a ‘ wholer Mat f to
,• f j
S’fSt.nrdi ° f them, they whl eit end listen to th.
UWfi s sws
itf / rc'iLhld'^Keerv^marT'feels^better ‘S ma 1 fee 8 bt - tter
af ^'. he ,| ,a f, „ ^
f^ fjut t€d ail I thesewrongsare “Pe? 4 llv f. „ rp 0 see going . * he to . . be
I think ; I hear in the distance the rum-
bHr . g of the King’s chariot. Not always
in th ; is th e church o£
- . . .
f»!» i h e 8t !!S t8 1t0 trvJwn ** 61Ied Wlth ^ r!'
P n
What ' vdl you do with those who fleece
f hat youiig r n ’ gett f ing to ? urloin
ni y church and told the story and franti-
j ,’o‘'h«, will 6 Sfbrinl ™! SmJS ba°ck in tLs
ines.
An infinite Father bends over it In sym-
^ pathy. ath y And and to to the the orphan wi ‘ dow He He will be be a
husband, r> a
and to the outcast He will be a
home, day and to the poorest wretch that to¬
crawls out of the ditch of his abom¬
ination. crying for mercy, He will be an
all The pardoning rocks Redeemer.
will turn gray with age, the
forests will be unmoored in the hurricane,
the sun will shut its fiery eyelid, the stars
will drop like blasted figs, the sea will
heave its last groan and lash itself in ex¬
piring agony, the continents will drop like
anchors in the deep, the world will wrap
itself in sheet of flame and leap on the
funeral, pyre of the judgment day, but
God’s love wfill never die. It shall kindle
its suns after all other lights have gone
out. It will be a billowing sea after all
other oceans have wept themselves away.
It will warm itself by the blaze of a con¬
suming world. It will sing while the
filled archangel’s trumpet peals and the air is
with the crash of breaking sepul-
chers and the rush of the wings of the
[ rising dead. Oh, commend that love to
all the cities and the morning without
j clouds I know will that come!
sometimes it seems a hope-
less task. You toil on in different spheres,
j sometimes with great discouragement,
j People have no faith and say: “It does
not well amount quit to anything. You might as
that.” Why, when Moses
stretched his hand over the Red Sea it
did not seem to mean anything especially,
j People “Aha!” came Some out, I suppose, and said, he
of them found out what
wanted to do. He wanted the sea parted,
It did not amount to anything, this
stretching out of his hand over the sea!
But after awhile the wind blew all niirht
from tbe east, and the waters were gath-
ered into a glittering palisade on either
side, and the billows roared as God pulled
b ac k on their crvstal bits. Wheel into
'fine, O Israel! March, march! 1 earls
crashed under feet, flying spray gathers
into rainbow arch of victory for the con-
querors to march under, shout of hosts on
tfi® beach answering the shout of os s
amid sea, and when the last line o
Israelites reach the beach the cym a s
clap, and the shields clang, and tue -
£ u sh over the pursuers, and th
loan fingered 1 P !a y winds ’ e on the u’hite^ keys
ered and the u awful dirge of Lgyptia nw-
throw.
f^fh/and , , stJitch ,, , tLr
j^ tbey
, nd oyer the sea, the dness. boiling sea of doesn’t crime
and gin and wretche “It
amount to anything ” p eop le say. Doesn’t
(j od ’ g winds of help will after aw’
be • to b5ow . A ^th will be cleared for
the Thfi army th will of be Christian lined with philanthropists, the
treasure
0 f Christian beneficence, and we will be
greeted to the other beach by the clap-
pirjg of a]J heaven > s cymb als, while those
who pursued us and derided down us and tried
^ ua wiU & g0 under the sea,
d al , will left of them wiU be
t hi h and d upon the beac h, the
splintered wheel of a chariot or thrust out
a riderless ctia *-«.«'
•
NO. 47.
BOERS KILL ENVOYS
British P; ace Commissioners Are
Flogged and Shot.
ACT INFLAMES ALL ENGLAND
DeWet Grossly Violates Rules of
Warfare—Extreme Heasures
Demanded For Revenge.
The war office at London has re¬
ceived the following dispatch from
Lord Kitchener:
‘•Pretoria, Sunday, January 13
Abont 1,000 Boers crossed the line,
attacking both Zuurfontein and Kaal-
fontein stations, but were driven off.
They are being pursued by a cavalry
brigade.”
Lord Kitchener reports several skir¬
mishes at different points, with trifling
British losses, and adds:
“Three agents of the peace committee
were taken as prisoners to DoWet’s
laager, near Lindle, January 1 Otb.
One, who was a British subject, was
flogged and then shot. The other two,
burghers, were flogged by DeWet’s or¬
ders.”
The brief report of the fate of the
three members of the peace committee,
who were sent to see General DeWet,
excites the deepest indignation on
all sides. One or two papers express
a hope that Lord Kitchener has been
misled by false Kaffir reports, but it is
.generally felt that he would not have
reported the matter to the war office
without undoubted evidence.
The Daily Mail heads the report
with the word “Murder,” and dis¬
claims against any further attempt to
coax into submission.
“DeWet has placed himself outside
the pale of humanity,” says the Daily
Mail, “and not proclamations, but
large reinforcements, must be our
watchword.”
The Morning Post says: “This
marks the point where the guerilla
phase ends and the bandit phase be¬
gins.”
All the papers appeal strongly to
the government to hurry forward re¬
inforcements, since it iB evident that
the Boer leaders havo now become
desperate and conciliation is quite
useless.
REBELS DOOMED TO DIE.
Prisons at Manila are Crowded to
the Utmost With Captive
Filipinos.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Manila says: Since the expiration of
the period within which amnesty was
granted to captured insurgents, the in-
Burrectos have been sent to Manila in
batches of dozens, scores and hun¬
dreds. It is but a month since the
military government began retention
of prisoners of war and already the
quarters fitted up to hold them are
filled.
Liberty gained formerly simply by
swearing allegiance to the United
States was looked upon by the insur¬
gents as so easy of attainment that the
yankees were set down as being sim¬
ple indeed for being so lenient. With¬
in the past few weeks, however, the
insurgents have been learning that
sterner war measures are in force, and
at present 1,500 insurgents are in con¬
finement in Manila, exclusive of sev¬
eral hundred natives, so-called, po¬
litical prisoners, most of whom may
also be classed as insurgents.
The question as to what is to be
done with these prisioners of war ap¬
pears to be wholly undetermined.
On the other hand copies of general
orders received from the Philippines
at Washington show that a large num-
ber of native Filipinos have been con¬
victed for murder and other crimes
and sentenced to be hanged or long
terms of imprisonment.
Lived In Three Centuries.
James B. Ireland, centenarian, died
at his home at Skillman, Hancock
oonnty, Ky., Snnday. He was born
June 4, 1797, and bad lived in three
centuries. Had be lived until the 4th
of next June he would have been 104
years old.
SITUATION GROWS WORSE.
Aggressiveness of the BoBrs Necessitates
Fortification of Cape Town.
London dispatches of Thursday
stated that the situation in South
Africa grows worse rather than bet¬
ter. Lord Kitchener’s dispatches are
more laconic than those of Lord Rob¬
_
erts and little else of importance is
allowed to come through. The state
of affairs has practically necessitated
the fortification of Cape Town.
L. and N. Dividend Declared. -
The directors of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad have declared a
semi-annual dividend of 2* per cent
on the company's shares.
BRITONS BECOMING
emenl* ■arge
iA New York Tribune
London says:
Earl Roberts has been clo
pied at the war office, and itj
ed that reinforcements will i * a
on a large scale for the moi !
convincing the field that Kruger resistance and thf ii
that Lord Kitchener’s over! jL
be accepted.