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QUEEN VICTORIA COLLAPSES
England’s Beloved Ruler in Grasp
Of the Grim Reaper!
LAST RITES
All England Wrapped In
Pall of Deepest Gloom
and Fearful Anxiety.
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele¬
graph company at London from CoweB,
Isle is Wight, sent out at midnight,
Saturday night, was as follows:
“The queen of England lies at
death’s door. She was stricken with
paralysis Saturday night. Reuter’s Tel¬
egraph company understands that the
prince of Wales has received author-
jjy thus *° ac has fc * n been Ber majesty’s created stead, practical and
though a
not constitutional regency.”
A second telegram sent at 8 o’clock
Sunday morning stated that the q ueen
was still alive, but her condition was
extremely ing faifitor. grave and hopes were grow¬
Humbly, for this woman rules her
court with no uncertain hand, her
court officials implored her to 6eek
medical advice. These messages she
steadfastly condition ignored, and though her
was admitted to be most se¬
rious, there were only in attendance
Drs. Powell and Reid.
In the opinion of those best quali¬
fied to judge, the queen’s ear ions con¬
dition was precipitated by intense wor¬
ry over the losses and hardships suf¬
fered by the British troops in South
Africa. Frequently she has remarked
to court attaches that another war
would kill her.
In this connection, Reuter’s Tele
graph Co upany learns that she w r as
most seriously ill while last at Balmo¬
ral in the autumn. No word of this
became public, but it appears that she
w’as then almost dying, though that
rigorous etiquette, which she imposes
alike upon her family and attendants,
prevented her condition being even
spoken of as dangerous.
Telegrams sent out Monday morn¬
ing were as follows:
“Tho queeu is still alive, but all
hopes are gone. The members of the
royal family are gathered in a room ad¬
joining the queen’s bed chamber. Her
majesty is uuconscious, and the eud is
expected at any moment.
“The rector of Whippingham Lias
been summoned and bo has just ar¬
rived in one of the queen’s carriages.
Everybody is up in Osborne house
and terrible anxiety pervades all quar¬
ters.
“An enormous crowd of newspaper
reporters aud others with carriages,
bicycles and lanterns has collected at
the lodge gates, waiting in intense ex¬
citement to convey the news moment¬
arily expected that the queen has
breathed her last. Mr. Theed, the
sculptor, arrived at Osborne last eve¬
ning in order to be ready to take the
death mask.”
For several days the queen has been
kept strictly to herself. The last time
she drove out to Cowes the rain beat
down heavily upon her. Even the na¬
tives who have grown to look upon
her majesty ns an ordinary body have
noticed that she looked more delicate
and shruken than ever, a mere shadow
of her former self, yet with feminine
persistence tho queen forbade -those
around her to say that she was ill,
aud so with dogged determination she
fought off the ravages that worry
over the Boer war, the deaths
in her own family and her increas¬
ing years, have brought upon
her. But against the ruthless hand
of nature even the imperial resolve of
the ruler of the groat empire proved
futile, and with a pitiful realization of
the inevitable she shut herself off from
her entourage. For two nights she
dined alone and never stirred from the
apartments she occupied at Osborne
house, a secluded, comfortable, ram¬
bling place, from which the public is
barred. Tfie queen has often been at
Windsor, and Balmoral, too, but when
she reached Osborne she always
NEGROES OFFER REWARD.
Colored Citizens of Seattle Will Pay $500
Each For Uyncliers.
The Seattle braneh of the Interna¬
tional Council of the World, a colored
citizens’ order, have decided to offer a
reward of $500 for the apprehension
n nd conviction of each aud every per-
son implicated in the death by violence
of Fred Alexander at Leavenworth,
K the resolutions passed
Copies of at
the meeting will be forwarded to the
governor of Kansas, the sheriff of
Leavenworth county and the chief of
police of Lea venworth.
NIAGARA’S BRINK.
■ton Attempt to Crofs Raging River
and One Is Cost.
PTohn Wiser and John Marsh, of
cross
TI “’ e J o 1 “ S r t io 1 °“nto 1 tnl rapi’da. °\Vi“e°r,
Liberate , 8 unable and to drowned. swim, Marsh, f^pfc
falls struggle in the icy
■biresensd by persons aiong
THE ADEL NEWS
breathed a sigh of relief. Even the
townsfolk around the palace refrained
from assembling along the route when
she took her daily drive, and the tour¬
ist could get through the eye of a
needle easier than he could get past
the Osborne gate keepers.
CADETS ARE REPENTANT.
They Express Sorrow For Hazing
and Promise to Mend
Their Ways.
The congressional investigation of
the West Point military academy has
borne fruit rather unexpectedly. Sat¬
urday night, when the congressmen
were hurrying their inquiries to a ter¬
mination, the cadets of all the four
classes held a meeting in Grant hall
and unanimously decided to abolish
hazing of every form as well as the
practice of “calling out” fourth class
men. This is exactly what General
Dick and the other members of the
congressional committee have been
trying to impress on the cadets who
have testified before them, as the only
course open to them if they desire to
see the fair name of the United States
military academy unsullied and above
reproach.
The communication was addressed
to Superintendent A. L. Mills, who
only got back from Washington Sat¬
urday morning and he quickly handed
it to General Dick. The committeemen
are delighted with the action of the
cadets, and General Dick, in a few
words, said that they would all go
back to the bouse of representatives
with the firm belief that in spirit and
letter the agreement would be stead¬
fastly adhered to by the cadets, who
made it voluntarily.
FRAZER NEATLY BUNCOED.
Reward of $500 Paid But Hissing
Youth Was Not Forthcoming
as Agreed Upon.
C. H. Frazer, brother of Bass Fra¬
zer, the youth believed to be kid¬
naped, arrived in Atlanta Saturday
night from Union Springs, Ala., car¬
ried out a thrilling program mapped
out by alleged kidnaper, paid over
$500 in gold to a man in the dark,
surrounded by lonely woods, upon the
promise that his brother was to ap¬
pear, a free man, at the Hotel Marion,
at 9 o’clock Sunday morning.
Nine o’clock Sunday morning came,
but young Frazer did not appear. Ten
o’clock came, and the mystery was as
thick as ever. Twelve o’clock, and
C. H. Frazer left the hotel downcast
and disheartened, realizing that he
had been duped and robbed of $500 in
gold, but satisfied that he had done
all in his power to restore his brother
to their broken hearted parents.
The reception of tho second letter
from the alleged kidnapers by Bass
Frazer’s father, the trip to Atlanta by his
brother,the carefully carried out plans,
the meeting in dark woods miles away
from the city, the payment of the gold
and the disappointment, all add a sec¬
ond chapter to the disappearance of
young Bass Frazer which makes the
story even more strange and mystify¬
ing than the kidnaping of young Cu¬
dahy in Omaha.
A letter had been received by Cap¬
tain Frazer at Union Springs, Ala.,
which was mailed in Atlanta on Fri¬
day, January 18th. It gave a plan in
detail how the $500 in gold was to be
delivered. It enjoined great care and
secrecy and wound np with threats of
revenge if the plan failed through any
treachery.
SUPERCEDES GOEBEL LAW’.
Kentucky’s New Election Measure Is Now
in Full Force,
A special from Louisville, Ky., says:
The Goebel election law, which has
been the indirect cause of so much-po¬
litical disturbance in Kentucky, pass¬
ed out of existence Saturday. Its
p’ace will be filled by the new election
law passed by the legislature at its
special session last fall.
PENSION CLAIMS BURNED.
Important Papers Go Up In Smoke During
a Fire In Washington City.
More than 80,000 pension claims in
the office of Milo B. Stevens & Co.
last were Friday destroyed in a fire at Washington
night. Many of the pa¬
pers were to be used as evidence in
attempting to seenre a favorable action
by the pension office on claims and
cannot be replaced.
In addition to the pension claims
there were destroyed thousands of
claims pending before the treasury
department and patent office. In
these the loss will fall upon the claim¬
ants.
ANXIOUS FOR PAT CROWE.
Outstanding Rewnrd For Alleged Cuduhy
Kidnaper Is Now $18,000.
At a Becret meeting of the Omaha
city council Saturday night it was de¬
cided to offer a reward of $5,000 for
Pat Crowe, dead or alive, irrespective
of the suspicion that he may have been
concerned in the Cudahy kidnaping.
The conditions make no reference to
any particular crime. This makes a
total price of $18,000 on Crowe’s head,
ADEL. BERRIEN COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY. JANUARY 25, 1901.
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
Governor Offers Reward.
Governor Candler has offeied re¬
wards aggregating $450 for the arrest
and delivery of the five prisoners who
escaped from the Burke connty jail on
the morning of February 15th last.
Major Warren Pamiyied.
Major J, W. Warren, executive sec-
retary at the capitol, is seriously ill at
his home at Decatur, as the result of a
stroke of paralysis, the second ho has
suffered within a few months.
Will “Full” For Hoad.
A large delegation from Douglas has
been selected to attend the meeting of
the Brunswick and Birmingham rail¬
road at the former place. Coffee and
Douglas will be ably represented, and
everything in the power of the dele¬
gation will be done to seenre the pass¬
ing of the road through that section.
A Dredge Boat Wanted.
The Columbus and Appalachicola
Deep Water Association held a meet-
ing m Columbus the past week and by
request J. E Grady, of Appalachicola,
Fla., first vice president of the body,
adopted a resolution memorializing
the senators of Georgia, Florida and
Alabama to have the river and harbor
bill so amended in the senate as to
appropriate $150,000 for the building
of a dredge boat to be used at Pensa¬
cola, Carrabelle and Appalachicola.
The Deep Water Association has a
large membership in three states, and
the prop, ail senate amendment will
receive a. tire support. The senators
will be communicated with at once.
Knitting: Mills Bendy Fnr Bu*ine<s.
The Fort Valley knitting mills has
completed the erection of a large brick
building, and as soon as the maehin-
ery, which has arrived, can be placed in
position, the manufacture of goods will
commence has immediately. The compr-.ny
purchased the best and latest im-
proved machinery and the best class
of goods to be manufactured will be
the best quality of its kind. The man¬
agement expects to begin active work
within a week or ten days, and has al¬
ready contracted for the sale of the
entire output for several months.
A
Compulsory Vaccination.
As a precautionary measure com-
pnlsory vaccination is being had in
Columbus. Seven physicians appoint-
ed by the mayor have divided the city
into territories, and accompanied by
policemen, are vaccinating all who are
not immune. In case a person refuses
to submit he is summoned before the
recorder, where he is fined, with the
alternative of being vaccinated on the
spot.
Acquitted of Arson Charge.
The jury at Milledgeville, after be-
ing out for several hours, brought in
a verdict of not guilty in the case of
the state against the four female con-
viots, Mary Traylor, Emma Yates,
Roxie Collier aud Lethie Beech,
charged with arson. The three negroes
on trial to all appearances took abso-
lutely no interest in the progress of
the case. The white woman, Mary
Traylor, as soon as the argument com-
menced, gave it from start to finish an
uneasy attention that showed she was
greatly affected by the procedure. Ihe
verdict of innocence, when it was read,
caused a sad smile to play on her
countenance, which hardened into dis¬
consolate grimace.
The successful efforts of Preston and
Gray, attorneys in behalf of the de-
fendents, showed thorough study,
The lines along which the most tell-
ing impressions were made upon the
jury was the fact that every witness
against the defendants save the
cials and one convict were the eon-
victs sent for life to the penitentiary.
Every convict witness was sent up for
murder and was serving a life sen-
tence.
Atlanta Union Depot “Talk” Renewed,
The special committee appoined at
the last session of the general assent-
bly to confer with the lessees
of the Western and Atlantic rail¬
road with reference to the build-
ing of a new union depot, met in At-
lanta the past week and decided to
ask the railroads interested for a re-
newal for twelve months of the pro-
position that was under consideration
by the last session of the legislature.
They appointed a committee to see the
city authorities with reference to the
closing up of Pryor street, which, it
is said, will bave to be done in the
event a new depot is constructed on
the site of the present one.
The membejs of the committee were
met by President J. W. Thomas of
the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis; Hunter MacDonald, chief en¬
gineer; Charles A. Harman, general
passenger agent, and Carroll Payne,
counsel for the Western and Atlantic
railroad.
The committee organized by the
election of Representative G. Y. Gress,
of Wilcox, author of the resolution, as
chairman, and Senator J. JN. Holder,
of the Thirty-third, as secretary. Tho
other members of the committee pres¬
ent were Senators Roland Eliis, of the
Twenty-second, and John T.~ Allen, of
the Twentieth; Representatives Por¬
ter King, of Fulton; C. L.- Davis, of
Meriwether, and J. D. Howard, of
Baldwin. Speaker Little.
Howell and Representative T. W.
Hardwick, of Washington, were pres¬
ent for a short time during the
sion.
Tlie resolution under which the
mittee was appointed was read, and
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
was stated it was the object of the com¬
mittee to keep the depot subject open
and secure additional information
regard to the project to be placed be-
j fore the legislature.
Mew Town Near Waycross.
Ware county has a new town, called
Fairfax. It is located on the Bruns¬
wick and Western railroad, about fif-
teen miles west of Wayeross, J. R.
aEd T. Burns, prominent sawmill op-
.
] erators, have located a big mill there,
where they ha^e enough timber to
keep them running ten years. They
have erected residences costing over
$2,000 each, and a number of
for white employees costing from $600
to $800 each, and have built a store,
Bank Charges Fraud.
Sensational allegations are made in
a bHl which has been filed in the
United States court at Atlanta by the
Third National bank of that city
against Louis Strausburger and Sam-
nel Greenbaum, both of New York,
for the recovery of $8,961 from the
Union Paper Mill company, of Con¬
yers, which is now in the hands of a
receiver.
** T h6 tl«t during the early
f c^mp°auy?who
Pa p er Mill also
were officers of Wellhouse & Sons, en¬
tered into a conspiracy with Straus¬
burger for the purpose of defeating the
“>» *”» concern.. Straus-
“ 18 B,alei, > ™ lhe ow “ er ot
one-fourth of the capital stock of the
paper company, amounting to $7,500,
and was related to Henry Wellhouse
and Louis Wellhouse, vice president
and secretary and treasurer respect¬
ively of the corporation, being the
uncle of the two.
Columbus Wants Census Recount.
An effort is being made to get the
Columbus city council to have a re¬
count of some of the wards of the city
made, so that the population had cau
be compared with the population by
the census department of these wards,
No one believes that the present cen-
sus does the city justice, as it is pre¬
poBterous that Columbus has increased
only a hundred or so people in ten
years,
Frazer is Still Missing:.
Though the father of young Bass Fra¬
zer has been buncoed out of the reward
of $500 offered for his son, many false
clues have been worked on by Atlanta
detectives in their efforts to locate the
missing Technological student, but
they are as far from a solution of the
mystery outgoing as ever. Many incoming and
trains have been watched,
but without any success,
(JUEEN’S HEALTH FAILING.
Condition of England’. Buler Alarms tlie
Public and Affects Stock Excbaoge.
Queen Victoria has not lately been
in her usual health and rumors regard¬
ing her illness have alarmed the public
and adversely affected the stock ex¬
change. The following official an-
nouncement bas been made known:
“The queen during the past year
has had a great strain upon her pow-
ers, which has rather told upon her
nervous system. It has, therefore,
been thought advisable by her majes-
ty’s physicians that her majesty should
be kept perfectly quiet in the house
and should abstain for the present
from transacting business.”
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WEST FLORIDA ANNEXATION.
Mas* Meeting: Held at Pensacola In
Furtherance) of the Scheme.
A mass meeting of west Floridians
was held in Pensacola Wednesday
night in the interest of annexing west
Florida to Alabama. Representatives
of nearly every county west of the
Chattahoochee were present. Several
speeches were made endorsing the
proposition. The chairman appointed
a committee composed of two members
from each west Florida county to
present the question to the legislatures
of Florida and Alabama. Initial steps
toward organizing a west Florida an-
nexatioh association were taken.
COUNC1LMEN VERY DEVOUT.
liufused to teav# Revival Meeting to
Attend City Business.
Because a majority of the city-conn-
cilmeu of Hiawatha, Kas., refused to
leave a religious revival meeting and
attend the regular weekly council
meeting, S. Hnnter, mayor, tendered
his resignation. Unable to seenre a
quorum to transact business, he sent a
gbe riff to the revival to compel the
councilmen to present themselves at
( be c [\j ba n. A majority seat w rd
they “had to attend the revival
aQ( j cou id uo t come.”
YISITED BY WHITECAPFERS.
Negro Farmers In Missouri are Given
XTrenty Days to Decamp.
A gang of white men, disguised as
whitecaps, visited a number of negroes
near Neliyville,Mo., Wednesday night,
riddled their houses with bullets,
wrecked their furniture and gave five
colored men notice to leave the coun¬
try within twenty days, or they would
be revisited, their homes burned and
the occupants hanged.
WOULD BE USELESS.
Governor Stanley Declares Lynchers Could
N'ot Bo Convicted.
Governor Stanley, of Kansas, has
decided not to offer a reward for the
arrest of the perpetrators of the negro
burning in Leavenworth. He said:
“If the guilty persons were arrested
they would have the and first trial in
Leavenworth county, the present
public useless sentiment there prosecution." would make it
to attempt a
DR.TALriAOE’S SERHON
The Eminent Divine’s Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: Entering the Gate—Exultant Ad¬
mission Awaits Those Who Have TJved
For Others, While the Bigot and Pen¬
urious Will Barely Squeeze Through.
Washington; [Copyright 1901.1
D. C.— In a very novel
way Dr. Talmage ia his discourse describes
what may be expected in the next world
by those who here bend all their energies
m the right direction; text, II Peter i,
11, "For so an entrance shall be minis¬
tered unto you abundantly.”
Different styles of welcome at the gate
of heaven are here suggested. We all
hope to enter that supernal capital through
the grace that is ready to save even th e
chief of sinners, but not now. No map
healthy of body and mind wants to go
now. The man who hurls himself out of
this life is either an agnostic or is de¬
mented. or finds life insufferable, and
does not care where he lands. This is the
best world we ever got into, and we want
to stay here as long as God will let us stay.
But when the last page of the volume of
our earthly life is ended we want enroll¬
ment in heavenly citizenship. We want
f. e ^ easily. We do not want to be
challenged v at the gate and
We asked to show
pur keeper passports. doubt do to not want the gate¬
in as whether we ought
to go in at all. We do not want to be
kept m the portico of the temple Until
consultation is made as to where we came
safe r m .L to an< admit % w ! 10 ATe lest are and whether it is
the eternal harmonies us, we be a discord in
of heavenly or lower the spirit
leter the worship. When the Apostle
m text addresses the people,
ror so an entrance shall be administered
unto you abundantly,” he implies that
some will find admission into heaven easy,
ra ptur°u9 and acclamatory, while other*
will have to squeeze through the gate of
heaven, if they get in at all. They will
arrive anxious and excited and apprehen-
®i Come. v ' e a pd ’ wondering whether it will be
such or “Gp!” The Bible speaks of
another persons place as “saved “scarcely saved,” and in
another place as escaped as by fire,” the skin and in
the teeth.” as "by of
ryin _____, ® su gg es bon .. of , my text , .
t nr. wilf at ' asses of
('hri'sHAns r’l! Rt ' '1 hea ' .y, en r Wlt j* a
h*rd ^salutatinno '"r a K ^ un< i
amid 8 ± at A°5f ln th ! krst
kfci» trYvo *°) r m p nf ?, n*A 92$ at t le elose get , ? ln iue r°f In
worldhness and sin. Years ago
J® serve “ a himself , d .® and resolution serve the that world he would until
body, Hien mind and soul were exhausted, and
just before going opt of this life,
would seek God and prepare to enter
heaven. He carries out his resolution.
He genuinely repents the last day or the
111 He takes i T r «T the t , last be ’ aSt seat ( mmute in the of last his car life of
M «Jl aud \ unmortd hOUn A hMVe T Tlt r a s( ard i ands -, HlS .£ xr re ot ;
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ZtZZ g ars d0W,l t T V f rd , lnn ? r th a
?. riva? 4 Noi ^nne v tX there • obligated f to him fn; for
kindness done or alms distributed or spir-
itual help administered. He will find some
X place b f to av f stay, n ,^ but e got I do ln not but envy was that not man an
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abundant entrance.
Sometimes m our pulpits we give *
wrong turn to the story of the dym* thief
to whom Christ said. I his day shalt
thou be with Me m paradise^ \\ e ought
to admire the mercy of the Christ that
pardoned him m the last hour, but do not
let us admire the dying thief. When he
was arrested I think his pockets were full
of stolen com and the coat he had ma his
back was not his own. He stole right qd
until lie was arrested for his crimes. He
repented, and through great mercy arose
follow to paradise, but he was no example to
\\hat a gigantic meanne& to de-
votr the wondrous equipment of brain and
nerve and muscle and bone with which we
are hearing endowned, and these miracles of sight and
profane speech, to purposes through unworthy
or and then, hasty re-
pentance God all at the last lifetime enter and heaven. then Cheat- taking
tng one s
advantage free of a bankrupt law and made
of ad liabilities. I should think that
some men would be ashamed to enter
heaven.
Again, the bigot will not have what my
text calls an abundant entrance. He has
his bedvvarfed opinion as to what all must
believe and do in order to gain celestial
residence. He has his creed in one pocket
and his catechism in another pocket, and
it may be a good creed and a good cate-
chism, but he uses them as sharp swords
against those who will not accept his the-
ories. You must be baptized in his way
or come to him through apostolic succes-
sion or be foreordained qf eternity or you
are in an awful way. He shrivels up and
shrivels up and becomes more splenetic
until the time of his departure is at hand.
He has enough of the salt of grace to save
him, but his entrance into heaven Will be
something with worth him watching. heaven, What do they they
want in where
have all gone into eternal catholicity, one
Baptists grand commingling and Episcopalians of Methodists and and
Lutherans
ana and Congregationalists and Presbyterians
a score of other denominations just
as good as any I have mentioned? They
all ioin in the halleluiah chorus, accompan-
ied by harpers xra their harps and trump-
eters on their trumpets, "Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain to receive blessing
and riches and honor and glory and pow-
er.”
Denominations of Christians on earth
were necessary in order to better work
and to suit preferences, as an army must
be divided into regiments, yet one army;
families, as a neighborhood though must be divided into But
one neighborhood. divisions
there is no need for such in heav-
en, and therefore all belong to one de-
nomination of sainthood. What will be
tbe bigot’s amazement when he sees
seated side by side on the banks of the
river of life Calvin and Arminius, Arch-
bishop preacher Cranmer and some dissenting
of the gospel who never gradu-
svrrpliced ated, one who ecclesiastic, on earth was a robed and
and a backwoods
minister who in the log cabin meeting
house preached in a linen duster? Among
the great surprises of heaven for the those bigot
will be the celestial friendliness of
who on earth opposed each other in wrath-
iest polemics. He will get through the
gate, for he has a spark of divine grace in
his heart, but there will not be an inch
of room to spare on either side of him. It
will not take long for heaven to educate
him into a the glorious big heartedness. Christian will
have Again, abundant penurious Perhaps not he
an entrance.
was waa not converted until all his habits of
tight fistedness were fixed beyond recov¬
ery. The people wLo are generous were
taught to be generous in childhood. Yon
can tell from the way that boy divides the
apple what his characteristics for gener¬
eighty osity or meanness will be for the next
years if he lives so long. If he eat
it all himself while others look wistfully
on, he will be a Shyloek*. If he give half
of it to some one who has no apple he
will be an ordinarily generous man. If
he give three-fourths of it to another, he
will be a Baron Hirsch or a George Pea¬
body.
For thirty years tais man has been prac¬
ticing passing an economy which prided itself it on
never and if he responded a pin without all picking church up,
at in
would put on the collection plate so insig¬
nificant a coin that he held pis hand over
it so that no one could discover the small*
ness of the denomination. Somewhere in
the fifties or sixties of his life, during a
revival of religion, he became a Christian.
He is very much changed in most respects, still
but his all absorbing acquisitiveness
influences orphanage him. To extract from him a gift
for an or a church op a poor
woman who has just been burnt urffc is an
achievement.
But the day is coming for that penurious
Christian’s departure from the world. He
has an awful struggle in giving up bis
Government securities. The attorney who
drew his last will and testament saw how
hard it was for him to leave his farm or
his storehouse or investments, especially
edged. those that Those in the that markets yield only are called three gilt-
he easily resigns the per
cent, to care of his
executors, but those that yield eight or
nine or ten per cent., how can he give
them up While the market is stm rising T
Bolstered up in bed. knowing he has got
to sign again, it, he and reads the document over and
over to "Well, ^hen. if with I must a manner I must,” that he
seems say,
signs his name to that surrender of his
last farthing of earthly possessions. He
enters heaven, but he has not an abundant
entrance.
But that brings me to the other thought
of my text, that there are those who will
when they leave this life bound into
heaven amid salutations infinite. "For an
entrance shall be administered unto you
will abundantly.” Such who exaltant admission
await those enter heaven after
on earth living a life for others and with¬
out reference to conspicuity.
I asked the manager of an insane asy¬
lum in do Kentucky, "From of what patients?” class ot
persons and he said, you “From get most your
farmers’ wives.” I
asked the same question of the manager
of an insane asylum in Pennsylvania and
the same questron of the manager of an
insane asylum in Massachusetts and got
the same reply. “We have on our rolls
for treatment more farmers’ wives than
persons That coming from any other class.”
It answer will be a surprise to some.
Well, was no this surprise of to me.
man consecrated affluence
is about to go out of this World. He feels
in brain and nerve the strain of the early
ar.d struggles by which he won his fortune,
der at the sixty or seventy years collapses un¬
thirties exhaustions of the twenties and
of his lifetime. When the morn¬
ing papers announce that he is gone there
is excitement not only on the avenues
where the mansions stand, but all through
Of hospitals and asylums and the homes
those who will henceforth have no
helper. But the excitement of sadness on
parth ig a tame affair compare d With
the guardian excitement of gladness in heaven. The
angel of that good man’s life
t hv his dving pillow the night be-
f ore and on swift wing upward ^- announced
that in a few hourg he ould arrive and
there ia a mighty stir in heaVen . « He
comes! » cries seraph to seraph, £ The
King -Come, « 8 heraldg are at the gate to Bay>
d through ye blessed,” the churches and souls who were
save that good
supported ’ 1 and bv him hundreds helped who went
uf) afte be ihg in their
earthlv struggle will come down off their
thrones and out of their palaces and
land through the streets to hail him into the
through Ms they reached some time before
f Christian philanthropy. Mow,
that g what j ca)1 an abundant entrance,
YoU gee ’ lt ig not necegsar y ' *0 be a failure
on earth in 0rder t0 be a g Cceas in heaven .
But 1 promise that all those who have
lived f or 0 t bers and been truly Christian,
whether on a large gcale or a small scale,
will have illustrious introduction into the
impearled gafeway. Here and there in
gome daughter large family you see an attractive
who declines marriage that she
may take care o{ {ather and mother in G i d
dftyg This 13 not an abstract i on . I have
known such. You have probably known
gu ch. There are in this world wptnahly
bou 1s as big as that. They cheerfully en-
dure ^ be whimsicalities and querulousness
which sometimes characterize the aged
abd watch nights when pneumonia is
threatened and are eyes to the blind and
9 j(. j n c i ose rooms lest the septuagenarian
be chiJled and oaant out the right numb er
of drops at the right time .
After years of filial fidelity on the part
f thig gelf sacrific i ng daughter the old
folks go home. Now the daughter is free
from marital alliance, but the damask rose
in her cheek ig faded( and the crow ’ a fee t
bave left their mask on the forehead, and
f be gracefulness is gone out of the figure,
and j- be world calls her by a mean and
ungallant Qod, name. But, my Lord and my
girl surely heavenlv Thou wilt make it up for that
j n reward! On all the banks
0 f the river of life there is no castle of
emerald and carbuncle richer than that
which awaits her. Its windows look right
0 ut upon the King’s park, and the white
horses of the chariot are being harnessed
to meet her at the gate, and if there are
no others to meet her father and mother
will be there to thank her for all she did
f or them when their strength failed and
the grasshopper became a burden, and
they will say: ‘‘My daughter, how kind
you were to us even until the last! How
g 00 d it is to be together in heaven! That
[ 8 the King’s chariot come for you. Mount
and ride to your I everlasting home!” How,
tnat is what call an abundant entrance,
Know right well that in whatever sta-
tion of life you now move, and whether
V onr intellectual faculty be brilliant or
du ll ( and your worldly resources opulent
0 r poor, you may have at the gate of
heaven jubilant and triumphant Hannibals reception, and
All soldiers cannot bo
Marlboroughs, all admirals cannot be Du-
ponts and Farraguts, all authors cannot
pe Bacons and Southeys, neither can all
Christians be Pauls and Richard Cecils,
Do your best right where you are, asking
God’s help, and you will not only win g o-
rious admission, but grander you will make
vour life w heaven a and hig
life. '
Oh, child of God, if you had never
thought of it before, I present the start-
ling fact that you are now deciding not
only the style of your heavenly reception,
b ut the grade of your association and en-
joyment of the world without end. Are
you afford satisfied to throw with yourself raptures that and you ignore can
away and elect yourself to
heavenly possibilities classify yourself amid
lower status and
the less efficient when you may mount a
higher While heaven? I thus I awarethat
discourse am
some have not taken the first step t<*rara
heaven, and they feel like Jacob Strawn,
wbo took some ministers of the gospel on
the top- of bis house to show his farms,
reaching in every direction as far as eye
could see. He was asked how many acres
b e owned, and he replied, 40,000. "How
much is it worth per acre?” was asked,
and he replied, "Fifty dollars, at least, worth
"Then,” said the Minister, "you are
§2,000,000.” "Yes.” said Strawn, ‘and I
made it all myself.” Then the minister
said, "You have shown me these earthly
possessions, and now will you look up yon¬
der,” pointing to the heavens. "Hou
much do you own up there?” and Strawn
answered, with tears in his eyes, "Oh, I
am afraid I am poor up there.” Alas,
how many there are who have acquired all
earthly prosperities and advantages, but
have no treasures in heaven. They are
poor up there.
But I am to-day chiefly addressing those
whq are started for heaven and would
Lavs them know that while we are apt to
speak of a Lamphier, the founder of Ful¬
abundant ton street prayer meetings, and Thomas as having Welch an
entrance, of the
and Fletcher, the glorious preachers
gospel, as having an abundant entrance,
you also, if yon live and serve the Cord
and fulfill your mission, will whether have it be ap¬
plauded or unknown, ended when your
work on earth ia and you are called
to enrapturing, eom%- up higher abundant an easy, entrance, a blissful, an
an
NO. 48 .
LOOKS LIKE TROUBLE
Warship Scorpion Girss Orders
To Hasten to Venezuela.
REVOLUTION IS THREATENING
American Interests are Reported
In Jeopardy and Prompt Re-
- sponse Is Made.
A Washington special says: At the
request of the state department tho
navy department has instructed the
commander of the Scorpion to pro¬
ceed at once from La Guira to Gnan-
aco, \Senezuela, to protect American
interests, upon reports that the revolu¬
tionary movement there is increasing
and the attempt is making to take pos¬
session of the arms of the New York
and Bermuda company.
The news came to the state depart¬
ment from a private, but perfectly re¬
liable source, and was made the basis
of immediate representations to the
navy department. Secretary Long re¬
sponded very promptly. Capt. Cowles,
acting as chief of the navigation bu-
rean, conferred with Acting Secretary
of State Hill respecting the movements
of the naval vessels and the character
of the instructions to be sent to Lieu¬
tenant Commander Sargeant, of the
Scorpion, which happens to be the
only vessel available for immediate
service, and adjacent to the scene of
trouble.
Commander Sargent has been in¬
structed to avoid bloodshed and the
destruction of property if possible.
Still, taken in connection with what
has gone before, there is. little doubt
that if the disturbing forces in Vene¬
zuela, w'hether governmental or revo¬
lutionary, are seeking to take action
toward disposing of tho ineumbents ia
the asphalt concessions, in defiance of
the agreement that ihere should first
be a thorough judicial inquiry, the
United States warship will prevent
that action, peaceably, if possible,
forcibly if necessary.
Guauaco is not to be found on the
ordinary charts, but is said to be the
nearest point to the Scorpion, lying
up the Orinoco river about two days’
run from La Guira, so that the
warship should be at the seat of trou¬
ble before the end of the week.
The state department also is in re¬
ceipt of private, bat trustworthy, ad¬
vices that the Orinoco Shipping and
Trading Company, two of whose ves¬
sels were seized by the Venezuelan
government, ia an English corpora¬
tion. The vessels are under the Brit-
ish registry, but fly the Venezuelan
flag.
The state department is unable to
intervene directly to compel restitu¬
tion, but as American capital is in¬
vested in the company, it has direct¬
ed Minister Loomis to use his good
offices, as far as possible, to protect
these American interests.
TO KEEP PRICES UP.
Committee of Cotton Growers’ Protective
Association Called to Meet.
Harvie Jordan, president of the
Georgia Cotton Growers’ Protective
association, has issued a call for the
committee to meet in Atlanta Thurs¬
day, February 14th. Three delegates
will be present from all of the
growing states in the south.
The first work of the committee
when it meets will be to organize a
state association and elect a president,
vice president and interstate commit¬
tee. Headquarters for the associa¬
tion will then bo selected where the
cotton statistics may be consolidated
and comprehensive reports on crop
conditions sent out to every farmer iD
the cotton growing belt.
Assurance has been received from
the presidents of the Alabama Missis¬
sippi, North Carolina and South Caro¬
lina associations that they will send
representatives to this meeting, and
the prospect is that every state that
grows any cotton whatever will be in
the association, thns aiding in tho
movement to diversify crops, hold
down the cotton acreage and keep up
the price at a point fair to both planter
and buyer.
KITCHENER’S SECRET ORDERS.
Alleged That Black Flag Has Been liais¬
ed Against the Boers.
The “stop the war” committee at
London has passed the following res¬
olution :
“Orders which a British officer re¬
ports he personally received reveal the
adoption by Lord Roberts and Lord
Kitchener of a policy having for its
aim the extermination of a heroic na-
tionality by starving its women an
children of unarmed and pris the delibmj
Kit<fli*ner’sualpge<^BH The iatter clrfse^H
General De wet’s pnrsrol
prisoners.
JUDGE WAS LIGHT OXl
Self-Confessed Defaulter S<
Serve Thirteen Tears Ind
A New York dispatch sal
us L. Alvord, Jr., the den
teller of the First National
plead guilty to the charge!
was sentenced Wednesday Th|
years imprisonment.
his defalcation was 3
He was taken imi
Sing, where hie p
oorded.