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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. w sY =3 1 f 4 ;; I A Bii M | - mm r % m .sjgt m ti \ y y » EDWAED VII. 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, V i ' >* 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 ^ *■««« *«— »*■«• <■« 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. * • * 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 ___, , , . , . . , &£{& 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