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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.” -1--— 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 ; - 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 ' ’ 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.