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VOL. 12.
ALBERT EDWARD NOW KING
Erstwhile Prince of Wales Sworn
In as Ruler of England-
CEREMONIES IN PARLIAMENT.
New King Leaves Death Cham¬
ber at Cowes and Goes to Lon¬
don, Where He Takes Oath.
A London special says: The honse
of lords and of commons assembled
at 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon and
took the oath of allegiance to the new
The attendance in the house
large. All the members, dressed in
the deepest mourning, stood up as
Speaker Gully entered and announced
that by reason of the deeply lamented
decease of her majesty, Queen Victo¬
ria, it had been their duty to take the
oath of allegiance to her successor, his
majesty, King Edward VII.
The speaker then administered the
oath and the swearing in of the mern-
hers proceeded. Joseph Chamberlain,
the secretary of state for the colonies;
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the chancel¬
lor of the exchequer; Sir Henry Camp¬
bell-Bannerman, the Lilmral leader in
the house and Sir William Vernon
Iiarcourt, were the first to subscribe
their names on the roll.
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In the. house of lords the oath was
taken by the Duke of York, the Duke
of Connaught, Earl Roberts, Lord
Roseberry, Lord Salisbury, the Duke
of Argyll, Lord Lansdowne and a hun¬
dred others.
KING ADDBESSES COUNCIL.
King Edward, in his speech to the
privy council, said he had decided to
assnme the title of Edward VII in ac¬
cordance with the wishes of his be¬
loved mother, who, his majesty added,
united the virtues of a supreme do¬
mestic guide with the affection and
patriotism of a wise, peace-loving
monarch.
He had a respectful desird to leave
the memoiy of his father’s name, Al¬
bert, the exclusive treasure of his be¬
loved mother. Notwithstanding his
personal desire ho could not hope to
do justice to the renown and virtues
associated with Prince.Albert ainame
and that he would do his utmost to be
until Thursday.
KINO LEAVES COWES.
Events shifted from Cowes to Lon¬
don Wednesday morning. Osborne
is a house of mourning and Cowes is
probably the quietest place in the
United Kingdom. The king departed
early. After him followed the army
of officials and newspaper correspond¬
ents. The king’s departure was as un¬
ostentatious as that of an American
president. He and the suite, in civil-
lau attire, left the castle without a mil-
itaFy escort and with no sign of pomp.
Qnee'h Victoria’s body was embalm¬
ed Tuesday evening and occupies the
Centre of the dining room, which is
■bng ■htside with officers trappings of guard. mourning,
two are on
SOLDIERS COMING HOME.
■P Frrces In Chinn Withdrawn. Wiil Bo Almost
Entirely
A special from Washington says;
yffgx department officials state that
kjjgn ■Sft^merican navigation forces opens in Ghina in the will spring be
(^entirely department withdrawn. circles it is said
BWductiou Hfe, of the force now in
.ids to a considerable ex.-
ess made in the
^aose question,
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THE ADEL NEWS
The king emperor entered his capi¬
ceeded tal (London) at 12:£5 p. m. and After¬ pro¬
to Marlborongh house.
wards he drove to St. James palace
from Marlborough house, to preside
at the first privy council. *
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales,
Duke of Cornwaliis and Rothsay; Ear/
of Chester, Carrick and Dublin; Bar¬
on of Renfrew; lord of the isles, etc.;
D. C. L., LL D., colonel of three reg
iment8 . chancellor of Cambridge, field
marshal of the army, leader of Eng-
lish society and incidentally head of
the British government, was born in
Buckingham palace, London, on Nov.
9, 1841. Being “born in the purple,”
he was at once loaded with titles and
has managed to pull through under
the weight, especially as each brought
to him a salary.
The birth of the prince of "Wales
occurred four years and a half after
his royal mother ascended the throne
on the death of her uncle, King Wil¬
liam IV.
He was the second child of the
sovereign, Alexaudrina Vic¬
the only daughter of Edward,
of Kent, who was the fourth son
George III. The father of the
prince of Wales was Prince
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in
later years called the prince consort.
Without magnificent ceremonies he
was christened on January 25, 1842,
iu £t, George’s chapel, Windsor, the
king of Prussia being bis sponsor.
The only high and noble English
title inherited by the prince of Wales
at birth was that of duke of Cornwall.
Before he was four years old he was
created prince of "Wales and also earl
of Chester by royal patent.
The new ruler o? England will be
sixty years of age next November.
The prince has four children—one
son and three daughters. They are
Prince George, duke of York;Princess
Louise, duchess of Fife; Princess Vic¬
toria and Princess Maud.
THE QUEEN CONSOBT.
Caroline Marie Charlotte Julie Lou¬
ise, wife of King Edward VII, and
n COnS ort, was born in Copen- £
QD December j . 1841 . s e is
the eldest dapghter o{ Christian IX,
ki D f Denmark. Under the salic
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the line of succession, she, of course,
could have no hopes of succeeding her
royal father to the throne. Her only
chance then lay in marrying an heir
apparent.
All London went wild over the an¬
nouncement of the comming marriage
of the prince with the Princess Alex¬
andra of Denmark. The queen and
the cabinet thought it high time that
the wayward prince should quit sow-
ing broadcast his wild oats and “ mar-
ry and settle down.” On the 7th of
March, 1863, the princess arrived in
London, accompanied by her suit of
trainbearers, cup holders, etc. The
crowd waited in the extreme cold to
get a glimpse of the princess. On
March 10, 1863, the marriage took
place. The parliament settled upon
the young couple an income of nearly
$500,000 a vear.
FILIPINOS BEING EXILED,
General BlacArthur Has Ordered a Num¬
ber of Natives Deported.
A special from Manila says: Gener¬
al MacArthur has ordered a dozen
more natives to be taken on board the
Solace, preparatory to their deporta-
tion. They are charged with being
insurgent abettors and agitators who
swore allegiance to the United States
or the purpose of facilitating revolu-
tionary operations.
ADEL. BERRIEN COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY! 1/1901.
ceorcu news items
Interesting Happenings In the
State Gathered at Random.
G itton Ginner*’ Association.
On February 20th Washington will
entertain the Southerri Cotton Gin-
ners’ Association, made up of Georgia,
South Carolina and Alabama delegates.
* * *
Bartow to Have Courthouse.
The grand jury of Bartow county,
just adjourned, made a strong recoal-
mendation for $10,000 to build a
eourthouse. A commission composed
of two representatives from Carters-
yille in the and one from every named other district
location county was to select a
and make a purchase of
grounds.
Received Ten Cent* a round.
Perhaps the biggest single transac¬
tion in cotton ever made by a Georgia
farmer was consunynated the past
week, when Hon. James M. Smith, of
Oglethorpe, sold 2,000 bales of cotton
to Inman & Co., of Atlanta, for $100,-
000 iti cash.
This great farmer bad the intelli¬
gence to hold his cotton and securad
$50 a bale for his entire crop. Aver¬
aging each bale at 500, he received 10
cents a pound for the staple.
Hirer Work Assured.
The importance of improving the
Chattahoochee river is perhaps the
livest subject with Columbus business
men just now. The work of Congress¬
man Adamson and other southern
members which has resulted in the
river and harbor committee giving the
upper Chattahoochee $85,000, by far
the largest appropriation in the history
of the river, has encouraged the busi¬
ness men generally.
* * *
Senator Bacon Honored.
A Washington dispatch says: Presi¬
dent Frye paid Senator Bacon a high
compliment in selecting him to read
Georgo Washington’s farewell address
in tlio exercises in the senate chamber
on Washington’s birthday. The read¬
ing of this famous official address in
American history is always the chief
feature of the Washington birthday ex¬
ercises at the national capital.
Textile Fair Called Off
The textile exposition for Atlanta,
which was for months enthusiastically
planned, has been declared off and
the project will be dismissed from the
minds of the committee as an imprac-
tible one.
The committee of ten which had in
hand the active promotion of the expo¬
sition and was to have devised ways
and means for its realization, have
quietly talked the matter over and the
whole idea has been dropped.
To Honor Memory of Marihail,
The one hundredth anniversarv of
the accession of John Marshall to*the
chief justiceship of fhe supreme bench
of the United States will be fittingly
observed on February 4th throughout
the nation. The supreme court of
Georgia will take part in this univer¬
sal celebration aud exercises will be
held at the capitol. The schools of
the state will also hold appropriate
exercises.
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Gainesville Assured of Cotton Mill,
At a recent meeting of the citizens
of Gainesville the subscription to the
Vesta cotton mills was completed. In
fact, the total subscription went up to
$102,800—$2,800 more than was asked
by the Vesia company. The wmrk on
the mills will be commenced at once
and it is expected that the factory will
be in operation in *
six months. The
plans are already drawn and the con-
tract will be let at an early date. At
the close of the meeting the following
resolution was unanimously adopted:
“Be it resolved by the citizens of
Gainesville and subscribers to the
ZunbWl^^That “J jt/cI?,? w-e 1U raai ? Mrs: s meetin S a ®' j
pan; to remove raid mill from Oh. X
subscription tender to'/.“id^'omTany‘,ho'hS
$102,800 amounting to the sum of
and pledge ourselves to
promptly meet and comply with the i j
terms and conditions in all respects.”
A Discharge For AlUred.
Under order of the governor of
Georgia, Captain E. E. Aldred,Atlanta
Zouaves, Company A, Fifth infantry, j
has been dismissed from the state mil-
itary service,having been found guilty
of various charges before the recent
investigation of the courtmartial.
Lieutenant G. I. S. Watt, of Com- j
pany K, was suspended from lank,
command ordered and duty for 30 days, and
to be reprimanded.
Quartermaster Sergeant P. H. Huff,
of the Atlanta Grays, was ordered, in
accordance with the sentence of the
C °nu!’ e< ^ UCt / e rauli:s ’
c IpprTved
on Captain Aldred alf
by Governor Candler, but of the
other sentences were ratified.
In the case against Captain Aldred,
that officer was found gulty of tamper-
ing with his quarterly drill report for
the second quarter in last year and
making it show an average of 50 per
cent in the month of May in order to
draw quarterly rent allowance from
the state. According to its findings,
Captain Aldred collected $15 from
Major J. Van Holt Nash and $25 from
Captain Clarence Everett, failing t
turnover either of these amounts to tb
treasurer of the company. It found
him guilty of disclaiming all knowl
ed f ....... Atlanha Brewrnr „
§ e ° Ce a i^ 0m ^ aD amount i
$11-25, nr the records j showing that th
« ootl8 w era contracted for and bought
b him . In psj^m. found him
V
OBE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
gamy or allowing gambling among
his men and otherwise neglecting the
maintenance of discipline in his com-
pany.
White capper* Bound Over.
The preliminary trial of J. S. Coch¬
ran, Pigram Cochran, John McKenzie
and John Pace, the five Fairburn
whitecappers, was heard at Fairburn
the past week by Judge Candler and
the prisoners were bound ovor to the
superior court, which meets in Atlanta
the first Monday in February.
Immediately after the trial* the pris
oners were placed on a train for At-
,auta , where they will be incarcerated
unti * tlie for their appearance in
conr t.
Ibe prisoners charged with white-
ca Pping are alleged to haye killed one
ne gro and shot auother, and the sen-
sa tional account of their arrest is a fa-
mili ar story.
There wers no unusual developments
io the preliminary trial. The attor¬
neys on neither side showed their
hand very plainly. Tike state, how¬
ever, produced enough evidence to
warrant the defendants being bound
over.
J. E. Thompson, accused of arson
was acquitted on account oi me ansenco
of evidence, to make a case of probable
guilt.
Drown vd In a Foot nt Water.
While laboring under the hallucina¬
tion that she was to be hanged, Mri. W.
B. Odell, a lady residing in Crostie’a
district, near Atlanta, escaped from
her home and at an early hour of the
morning her dead body was fouai in a
small branch about three hundred
yards from the house.
Her mind had been unbalanced for
three months, it is stated, and
some days the family found it nec-
essary to confine her in a room in or¬
to prevent her from committing
rash act. This room waa kept
locked and a close watch kept over
Mrs. Odell. She escaped their vigi¬
lance, however, and suicided as above
NEW CREDENTIALS IN ORDER.
Procedure Necessitated by tho Death of
Queen Victoria.
A Washington dispatch says: It has
been decided that Mr. Choate should
have new credentials. His old creden¬
tials accredited him to the queen. He
will now be accredited as United
States ambassador at the court of Ed¬
ward VII.
Lord Pauneefote, it is expected,
will receive new credentials as am-
bassador to the United States, his
present commission .being signed by
the queeD.
GRIDIRON CLUB DINNER.
Correspondent* Have High
Old Time at Expense of Guest).
The annual dinner of the Gridiron
composed of Washington corres¬
was given Saturday at the
hotel. About 200 guests
members were at the handsomely
tables. AmoDg the guests
were distinguished men in all walks of
—cabinet officers, members of the
supreme bench, senators, representa¬
tives, army aud navy officers and min¬
of foreign countries. The rep¬
utation of the club was sustained in
the matter of unique features, bur¬
lesque of public affairs, roasts on
public men, who were guests.
MAY RESUME BUSINESS.
Assets of Morris Bank Aro Alleged to Bo
Over Two Million Dollars.
The meeting at Montgomery, Ala.,
Monday morning of the creditors of
the Josiah Morris bank resulted in
the appointment of a committee to
investigate the condition of the bank’s
affairs.
The apparent assets of the bank are
over $2,000,000, and its liabilities are
only $900,000, but there is no informa¬
tion as to what proportion of fhe as¬
sets are probably available. It is the
evident desire of practically all of the
creditors, however, that the bank shall
rr r r onrt,e toaid -
8 “° e » ■“ ^tended. ,
SEEH **«*»»».
He Is Glad to lleturn to Cuba ami
Expects An Acquittal.
Charles F. W. Neely, the former
official who was ordered extra¬
to Cuba for trial on charges of
left Ludlow street jail
New York Saturday and was taken
board a steamer for Cuba. He said
one of the wardens:
“I am glad I am going back -to
because I can readily explain
everything and will be acquit-
match compound explodes.
Two Men Killed and Eight Injured In
Warehouse Fire,
Two men were killed and eight in-
jured, three of the latter seriously, by
aQ ex P losio ? of chlorate of potash dur-
1D £ a firo 1Q the warehouse of the
Walkerville, Out., Match Company, in
Walkerville, Friday evening,
The explosion, which completely
destroyed in the building, was heard
for mile and a half. The property
loss was about $35,000.
FUNERAL FEBRUARY SECOND.
On That Date Body of Queen Victoria
Will Be Entombed.
A special from Cowes, Isle of Wight,
says: It has been decided that the
funeral of the queen will take place at
Windsor Castle February 2. The body
of the late queen will be moved from
Osborne house February 1. It was the
expressed desire of the queen that the
funeral should be military in chayactejr.
DR.TALnAGE’S
The Eminent Divine’s
Discourse.
Subject: Gates Are Wide Open _ Xo Man
la Barred From Deceiving God’s
Grace — Christ*# Sheepfold Contain^
blocks of All Denominations.
(Copyright 1901. ]
New Yoi;k City.—O n the occasion of
th® twentieth anniversary of the Bowery
mission, Dr. Talmage preached to a vast
audience at the New York Academy of
Music. Ministers of all denominations
"Alt Other pre sheep f ent - T I T have he te3t which was . dohn of x, this 16,
’old. are not
There is no monopoly in religion. The
grace of God is not a little property that
we may fence off and have ail to our-
se,vea. It is not a king's park, at nhich
we look through a barred gateway, wish¬
ing that we might go in and see the statu¬
ary and the deer and the royal conserva¬
tory. No; it is a Fathers orchard, and
everywhere there are bars that we may
let down and gates that we may swing
opeD.
In my boyhood next to the country
schoolhouse there was an orchard of ap¬
though ples owned by a very lame man v. ho, al¬
there were apples in the place per¬
of petually decaying and by scores and scores
bushels, never would allow any of us to
touch the fruit. Sometimes the ladg of the
school, in the sinfulness of a nature in¬
herited from our first parents, wi-o were
ruined by the same temptation, invaded
that orchard, but they soon retreated, for
the man came after th«m at a speed reck¬
less of making his lameness worse and
cried out, “Boys, drop those apples or I
will set the dog on you.”
Well, my friends, there are Christian
m :n who have the church under severe
guard. There is fruit in this orchard for
the whene world, but they have a rough
and unsympathetic way of accosting out¬
siders, as though they had no business
there, though the Lord wants all to
eonae and take the choicest and the ripest
fruit on the premiss. Have you an idea
that because you were baptized at eight
months of age and because vou* have all
your life been under hallowed influences
you therefore have a right to one whole
sule of the Lord’s table, spreading your-
self out and taking up the entire room? I
tel] you no. You will have to haul in
your side elbows, for we will place on either
of you those whom you never ex¬
pected would sit there; for'as Christ said
to His people long ago, so He says to you
and to me, “Other sheep I have which ai e
not ol this fold.”
sands McDonald, of head the Scotchman, has thou¬
of sheep. Some .of them are
browsing lying on the heather, some of them
are down under the trees, some are
them strolling over the mountains, some of
are in his yard. They are scattered
all around in many places. Cameron, hij
neighbor, have comes over and says: “I see you
thirtv-six sheep. I have just counted
them. ’ “No,” says McDonald, “I have a
great many more sheep than you found in
this yard. Some are here, and some are
elsewhere. I have 4000 or 5000 in my
flocks. ‘Other sheep I have which are. not
of this fold.' ” So Christ says to us. Here
is a knot of Christians, but they make up
a small part of the flock. Here is the Epis¬
copal fold, the Methodist fold, the Luth¬
eran Presbyterian fold, the fold, Congregational the Baptist fold, and the the
I edo-Bantist fold, the only difference be-
tween these last two being the way in
which they wash the sheep, and so thev
are scattered all over. Ana we come with
our statistics and say there are so many
thousand of the Lord’s sheep, but Christ
responds: “No, no; vou have not seen
more than one out of a thousand of My
flock. They are scattered all over the
earth. ‘Other sheep I have which are not
of this fold.’ "
Of all the merciful institutions which
bless this city not one more thoroughly
enters into the spirit of the text than does
the Bowery mission, whose twentieth anm-
versary ffest we to-day celebrate. During the
year 3000 souls have been saved
through existence its instrumentality, has and during its
it put its temporal and spir¬
itual benediction upon hundreds of thou¬
sands of the poor and suffering and lost.
With the bread of this life in one hand
and the bread of eternal life in the other,
its it is doing a Christ stupendous work, and to all
patrons is saying: “I was hun¬
gry. and ye fed Me; naked, and ye clothed
Me; Inasmuch sick and in did prison, and ye visited Me.
as ye it unto Me, one of the
least of these, ye did it to Me.”
We need, as churches, to go into sym*
pathy them with the great outside world and let
know that none are so broken heart-
ed or hard beset that they will not be wel¬
comed. "I “No,” says some fastidious Chris¬
tian, do not like to be crowded in
church. Do not put any one in my pew.”
My brother, what will you do m heaven
when a great multitude that no man can
number assembles? They will put fifty in
your pew. What are the people assembled
in Christian churches compared with the
mightier like millions hospital, outside? Some churches
are a that should advertise
that its patients must have nothing worse
than toothache or runrounds, but uo bro-
ken heads, no crushed ankles or fractured
limbs. Bring there for treatment moder-
ate sinners, velvet coated sinners and sin-
ners with a gloss on.
It was as though at a great Rattle there
were left 10,000 wounded and dying on the
time field, and three surgeons gave all their
to a half dozen patients in a barn hos-
pital. The Major General comes in and
says to the doctors: “Come out here and
look at the 10,000 dying for lack of surgical
attendanee.” “No,” say the three doctors
standing have half there dozen fanning their patients, “we
and a attending important cases here,
we are positively to them, and when
we are uot busv with Iheii
wounds it takes all our time to keep the
flies off.”
In this awful battle of sin and sorrow,
where millions have fallen on millions, do
not let us spend all our time in taking care
of a few people, and when the command
comes, “Go into the world," say practi-
choice cally, “No, and I cannot I go; I have a few
fli ” cases, am busy keeping “ off the
es
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&£{& words ' “No itedtt™ ,* he ° at8,de th ®
went the'words, In and l i admifta “e^VeufnJ .° f c A °T e l
saw fers>■»4™ “No
Dins 8 Rr/l’thinw£i™’- an< * n0t kmg k ut
sometimes * an
exclusiveness ThfMtakL wnrfcl ^churches,
at the door and J?, an< ^
th-re ic "“fnd
seems to say, “No admittance the
written°over th/r> U R \ fc ^ admittance, S" ^ T! and
looks [here ’
at t j taerC i? ? cme $ ln ?J s
wLo. SCem s L 0 ^ v admit -
tancP ” stand , inside • of the
same
Churches hammering u out our little niceties
ot reiigious belief, making pins.
Uh, for deeper appreciation of the sentu-
ment of my text “Other sheep I have
whuh are not of this fold.
Shepherd 1 have to remark thto the heavenly the
will find many sheep amid
where non-churchgoers. there all There are and congregations
are Christians, they seem
to be completely finished, and they remind
one of the skeleton leaves which by to cm-
teal preparation have had all the green-
ness and verdure taken off them and are
left coi<| $Qd whiff and dehegte, nothing
wanting The but a glass case to put over them.
minister of Christ has nothing to do
vfth such Christians but to come once a
week and with ostrich feather dust off the
accumulation of the last six days, leaving
them bright and crystalline as before. But
the other kind of church is an armory,
with perpetual sound of drum and fife,
gathering and recruits to for applicant: the Lord of “Do Hosts
Saying every God’s side, the safe side j r ou
want to be on
and the happy side? If so, come in the
armory in which and be get cleansed. equipped. Here Here is sandals a bath
to are
to put on your feet. Here is a helmet for
vour brow. Here is a breastplate for your
heart. Here is a sword for your right
arm, and yonder is the battlefield. Quit
Vourselves like men,"
I remark again the heavenly Shepherd
is going to find a great many of His sheep
among those who are now rejecters of
Christianity. Some of the mightiest advo¬
cates of the gospel were once skeptics.
X nomas Chalmers once a skeptic, Robert
Hal] a skeptic. Christmas Evans a skeptic,
Charles G. Finney a skeptic, l'aul, the
apostle, once a skeptic. But when once
with strong hand they laid hold of the
gospel chariot they do rolled it on with what
momentum! I not know how you
came to reject Christianitv. It inav have
been through the infidel talk of some
young man in the store or shop or factory.
It may have been through the trickery ol
some gusted professed Christian man, who dis¬
you with relieion. It may be that
thirty years ftgo you lost &U faith by what
happened in an oil company which was
formed amid the petroleum excitement.
The company owned no land, or, if they
did, there was no sigu of oil produced.
But the president of the company was a
Episcopal Presbyterian elder and the treasurer an
yestrvmsn and one director was
a Methodist class leader and the other
officers prominent numbers of Baptist and
Congregational churches. Circulars were
got opened out telling this what fabulous The prospects
before company. circu¬
lar bad all the hues of earth and sea and
sky. The letters flamed with all (he beauty
of roM and jasper and amethyst. Inno¬
cent men and women who had a little
money to invest and that little thajr all
said, “I do not know anything about this
company, but so many good roeu are at
the head of it that it must be excellent,
and taking stock in it must be almost as
bought. good as their joining the church.” So they
mvidend stock, keep and them oarhaps still. But received
one to after
awhile they found that the company had
reorganized and had a different president,
a different treasurer and different direc¬
tors. Other engagements or an overcoming
modesty had caused the former officers of
the comcany, with many regrets, to resign,
and all the subscribers of that stock bad
to show for their investment was a beauti¬
fully ornamented certificate. Sometimes
that man, looking over his old papers,
comes across that certificate, and it is so
suggestive that he vows he wants none of
the religion that the president and direc¬
tors But of I that do oil company professed. know how
not stop now to you
came frankly into tell rejection that of Christianity. do You
You do believe me that you Christ reject divine it.
not is a
being, although you admit that He waa a
very good man. You do not believe that
the Bible "was inspired of God, although
you think tuere are some very fine things
in it. You believe that the Scriptural de¬
scription There of Eden was only an allegory.
are fifty things that I believe that
you do not believe, and yet you i are an
accommodating knows man. of Everybody that
you says that you.
If I should ask you to do a kindness for
me, or if any one else should ask of you a
kindness, I y j would do it. If with when you
are ill should come to you a phial
of medicine and say, “This kind of medi¬
cine has cured fifty people who were just
as replied, badly off as you are. Take it,” and you
“I do not want to take it. I have
no confidence in it,” I would say, “Take it
to it oblige will me,” ana you would say, “Well,
if accommodate you I will take it."
insufficient, Now, you have found that this world is
and you gospel are sick of sin. I
come cured to you with a medicine. It
has hundreds and thousands arid
millions. Will you take it? “No,” you
say. “I have no confidence in it.” Take
it, then, to oblige me. I tell you of a phy¬
sician who has cured more blind eyes and
bound up more broken hearts and healed
since more the ghastly time wounds of Aesculapius. than all Be the obliging, doctors
and just make the experiment.
If you are not acquainted with the ordi¬
nary “Oh, .modes of prayer, say in substance:
Lord Jesus, this is a strange tiling
for me to do. I know nothing about the
formulas of religion. These Christian peo¬
ple Thou have canst been do talking for so I long ready about to what do
whatever Thou commandest me, am there
me. If
be any power in religion, as these people
say, let me have the advantage of it."
Will you not try that experiment?
I do not now say there is anything in re¬
ligion. Do not take my counsel or the
counsel of any clergyman, for you may dis¬
like clergymen. Perhaps we may talk pro¬
fessionally. in the Perhaps we may be prejudiced
worth matter. taking. Then Perhaps take our advice counsel is not of
the
very respectable layman, as John
Milton, ^ the poet; as William Wilberforce,
tronomer; 1C emancipator; Robert as Isaac Boyle, Newton, pbiloso- the os-
as the
Morse, pHcr; as the Locke, the metaphysician; Washington, as
the statesman. telegrapher; as
They never preached, or pretended to
preach, yet, putting down one his telescope
an< * another his pariimentarian’s scroll and
auother his electrician’s wire, came forth
commended the religion of Christ as
^ est thing for the cure of the world’s
^°® s - M you will npt take the reeommen-
nation 0 f ministers of the gospel, take the
recommendation of highly respectable Jay-
V”, til men, skeptical and struck through
w ‘ unre st, I beg you to come off that
g reat Sahara desert of doubt into the
bright and luxuriant land of gospel hope
? nd P eace - Y 01 do not want your children
U P ln that skepticism. If you do
P ot believe m anything else, you believe m
, C e 7~ a father s love, a mother s love, a
• ,
8 if’ a 6 0V Y
Then let me tell you that . God ... loves you
P or ® than all these together. 1 he great
heart of Christ aches to have you come in,
and He looks into your eyes this moment,
th “ p 1 m *
sSSHSvS into the web where I kill insects/ Oh, no.
The spider says, “Dearest fly, come and
SSS^£«T»*’8rBfi2 takea f aIk witfa ° n ^ !S Pit
r
those gone astray. It makes prodigal me sad tJyscf. lost,
Christian people give that up if & has a* deli-
People teli us twice he a cannot man be
rium tremens ro-
cann^tbe «“o«T *
Tte
Bib* toe
Almighty is ready to pardon Because 490
times. Why do I say 490 times?
the Bible says "Seventy times seven.”
Now figure that out. You do not think a
man can fall four times, eight times, times ten
times, twenty times, 100 times, 400
an< f ve t be saved. Four hundred and nine-
t y times! There are men before the throne
of God who have wallowed in every kind
0 j sin> but, saved by the grace of Christ
An< f -crashed in His blood, they stand there
radiant now. There are those who plunged
mto'the verv. lowest for hundreds depths of of times the slums been
an( j w ho have
fifted up, and finally, by the grace of God,
( hey .stand in promised heaveD, gloriously the chief rescued of
by the grace to sin-
pen*. .. - ______...^
NO. 49.
BANK DOORS CLOSE
One of the Oldest Houses Io
Montgomery Hoes Glimmering.
UNABLE TO MEEf OBLIOATIONS
Cash In Vaults Said to Be Suffi¬
cient to meet Claims of
Depositors.
A Montgomery, Ala , special says:
The failure of the Josiah Morris bank
to open its doors Saturday morning
was a genuine surprise to everybody.
The following notice was tacked on
the door of the bank, which is ex¬
planatory, and is all that anyone has
been able to get out of the bank offi¬
cers;
“To the Public—Yesterday some of
our checks in New York, for which we
had made provision, were temporarily
refused by our correspondent, though
they were afterwards paid. This in¬
formation came to ns late after the
close of banking hours. Since then a
number of inquiries has been made
and the apprehension created convin¬
ces ns that, in justice to creditors, we
ought to suspend payment. This coa-
dition of affairs has arisen from the
inability to make quick realization of
large assets and shrinkage in assets.
It is hoped that the assets, prudeutly
arranged, will pay creditors iu full.
We have not arranged or taken any
legal steps concerning the disposition
of assets, but await the wishes of our
creditors.”
No name was signed to the paper.
The bank was owned byF. M. Billing,
a man of large means and integrity,
and it is not believed here that any
one wiil suffer on account of th«u fail-
ure. ■The Montgomery merchaLta^
were large depositors in this bank, as
v ere also the county and city of Mont¬
gomery. The county had oa deposit
Friday $144,181, while the city had
$92,000 on deposit. The county treas¬
urer has a bond in the Fidelity and
Deposit Company of Maryland for
$120,000, and it is thought this will
cover an y loss to the county. The city
treasurer’s bond is only $40,000, and
the president of the bank is his surety.
The railroads were large depositors,
pecially the Louisville and Nashville
and the Central of Georgia and the
Western. There were many out of
town depositors, and one woman of
Lowndes county had $50,000 on de¬
posit. The Ladies’ Hebrew Benevo¬
lent Association* had $7,000 on deposit.
The bank was established by Josiah
Morris years ago, and was said to be
the oldest private bank in the state.
After Morris’ death Billing became
sole owner and proprietor. No one
knows what the capital stock was ex-
cept the baiik officials, and nothing
can be had from them.
PLAIN TALK BY CCRRY.
Tlie Doctor Addregges Tar Heel lefltig.
ture On Negro Question.
In his address before the North Caro¬
lina legislature and state officers, Dr. J.
L. M. Curry dwelt upon the negro ques¬
tion and the educational question and -
handled both without gloves. He said .
in the course of his remarks:
“I am glad slavery has been abol- -
ished, but I regret that its curse of
ignorant, stupid, unenlightened labor
remains. Nobody, white or black,
ought to have the right to vote unless
he can read his ballot and has paid his
poll tax. Anyone who would cheat
a negro at the ballot-box would cheat
his neighbor in a trade. There is no
hatred between the white and colored.
youth of this country, and I have no
sympathy with the doctrine that thefe
is. There are two remedies for the
negro problem—diffusion and coloni¬
zation. I do not see how either is
feasible.
“To me the negro problem is the
most serious that ever confronted a
people. I know it and it will never be
solved until it is solved justly. I know
ihat no two races live in peace togeth¬
er where one is semi-barbarous and the
other is enlightened. If the southern
states refuse to do justice to the negro,
the latter will become insurrectionary
and lawless and it will require all the
powers of the government to control
them. You must educate them.” "
ALGER GETS BIG JUDGMENT, /
Tenncuee Court Award* Kx-Secrtary o
War *301,014.
A decree has been entered in thi
United States'circuit court at NasU
ville in the case of General Russell M
Alger versus T. B. Anderson et al, A
on a mandate from the United Stw
circuit court of appeals of the sfl
district, whereby General Alger isfl
en a personal judgmy^flj $z01,0]^|
The litigation
chase ofj&vMM
1 —— la* i:
lessee, Ly A.^B Alger^
for General “sal
the lands were
DaiDted bUek
PORTO RICA
Lawmskine Body
portant
The house of
Porto Rico passed
provide revenue
Porto Rico and fo
a vote of 22 to 14
amendments, thel
ting down the rei
from 1 to j pa
and liquor taxes i
tax on tobacco vrJ