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A GREAT FUNERAL PAGEANT
The Body of Dead Queen Escorted
Through London Streets.
MILLIONS PAY A LAST TRIBUTE
Route From Portsmouth to Wind¬
sor Was Lined With Mass
of Sorrowing Mourners.
With every circumstance of
P°mp befitting the obseqnies of so
beloved a monarch, aU that is mortal
of Queen Victoria was borne through
streets of London Saturday, and
started toward the ancient fortress
palace of the sovereigns of England.
day’s Perhaps the stately grandeur of the
sorrowful pageant through the
hundreds swarming streets of London, with
of thousands of mourners
forming a black border to the route,
will never be surpassed.
Friday the family, friends and ten-
antry paid their last tribute to Queen
Victoria at Cowes, aud the navy paid
its last tribute on the Solent. Saturday
the nation was crowding the capital,
and tendering, with an enormous pop¬
ular demonstration, its farewell to
their beloved monarch.
A drenching rain was falling when,
at 8:30 o’clock a. m. the royal mourn¬
ers disembarked at the Clarence yard,
Portsmouth, where lay the royal
yacht, its ‘‘Alberta,” with the coffin on
deck, and where a marine guard
had watched all night. The. sailors
bore the body ashore and placed the
ooffin in the royal saloon of a special
train, while all the ships stretching
away to Cowes, fired minute guns.
Their captains and chief officers were
present at the dock aud bade a last
farewell. The train started at once
for London.
The firing of the minute guns and
the tolling of bells at 11:15 announced
to the countless multitude who had
been crowding London’s muddy
streets since daylight that the funeral
procession with the body of Queen
Victoria had begun its passage through
the capital. The people fought for
hours for a glimpse of the coffin and
the kings and others following it.
They Baw a long procession of Boldiers,
a passing show of dazzling regalia,
with a hundred royalties crowding
after them.
The day was somber, wet and chilly,
as are most of London’s winter days.
The cloudy sky added to the gloom of
the whole city.
The gun carriage bearing the cof-
fin, drawn by cream colored horses,
was accompanied by officers as out-
riders, anckbehind, all mounted, came
the most remarkable guard of honor
that has ever been seen in modern
times. It consisted of King Edward,
Duke of “Connaught, aud Kaiser Wil¬
liam, riding abreast, and behind them
came a few titled attendants, more
“gold sticks,” and then King Carlos
of Portugal, Kiug George of Greece
and King Leopold of Belgium. The
latter, being feeble, rode in a carriage.
The whole royal company of forty,
all riding, consisted of three kings,
one emperor and the crown princes of
Roumania, Sweden, Germany, Den-
mark, Siam and Greece; the Duke of
Aosta, heir presumptive of the Italian
throne; Archduke Francis Ferdinand,
of Australia, and Grand Duke Michael
of Russia.
The remainder was made up of Ger-
man and English princes. Following
this came a cortege of mounted royalty
and six carriages bearing Queen Alex-
andria, ^The princesses and King Leopold.
crowd fairly gasped at the
splendor of the show, though through¬
out the passing of the procession they
femaindd silent and stood with bared
heads.
Never in English history has a sov¬
ereign been borne to the grave attend¬
ed by so many distinguished mourn¬
ers. The gathering of crowned heads
surpassed those who rode in the jubi¬
lee procession. All the great officers
of state participated. The display of
the naval and military forces reached
the great total of 25,000 men.
The funeral train arrived at Wind¬
sor at 2:15 o’clock and the coffin was
immediately transferred to another gun
carriage and escorted to Royal Chapel,
where the distinguished congregation
was waiting The whole interior of
the chapel had been draped with pur¬
ple hangings, making a fine effect.
Mendelssohn's funeral march was ren¬
dered as the body was borne in. Then
followed Ihe ordinary burial service
of the Church of England, with
the opening sentences chanted.
The psalms, “Lord, thou has been a
refuge” and “Man that is born of a
woman,” were chanted. The anthem,
“How blest are they thus chosen,”
“rig Archbishop of Canterbury
pronounced tbe benediction,
ir the service the lord Bteward
e lord chamberlain broke their
and laid them on the coffin,
-as then carried into the Albert
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memorial chapel, the family only fol¬
lowing.
The queen's body lay in Albert
chapel at Windsor, guarded faithfully,
awaiting the last rites of interment at
Frogmore Monday afternooa.
The officials of the royal household
at Windsor castle visited the ebaped
Sunday, as well as a number of friends,
and admired the great display of
wreaths covering the coffin.
INCIDENTS OF THE DAY.
An incident that caused much ex¬
citement and. regret occurred during
the progress of the funeral procession
at Windsor. The horses attached to
the gun carriage became restive kicked
the traces and nearly overturned
the gun caraige with the coffin. The
animals were quickly removed and 100
sailors, drawing the carriage by a long
completed the journey. The
the about
one-half hour.
Another incident was the sudden
death of an on-looker who proved to
be a retired army officer.
The directors of the Northeastern
Railway System of England ordered
that at 2:30 p. m., the hour appointed
for the funeral at Windsor, all trains
be brought to a standstill and every
servant of the company remain mo¬
tionless for ten minutes.
The London hospitals cared for
1,300 persons who were injured in the
crowd. Of this number, however,
only sixty were seriously hurt, in¬
cluding several policemen aud soldiers
and a number of women suffering
from broken limbs.
One well dressed woman fell down
in the street and was picked up dead,
the excitement having killed her be¬
fore she had the opportunity to see the
pageant.
Already the political phases of the
occasion are being discussed. The re¬
markable prominence of Germans and
German influence is noteworthy. Em¬
peror William’s officers, soldiers and
sailors were more conspicuous in all
the ceremonies thau were those of aH
other nations together. This has had
the effect of popularizing Germany
with the people, who recently regarded
her as their most menacing enemy.
MOURNING AT WASHINGTON.
Impressive Memorial Services Held In
Honor of Dead Queen.
In the presence of a distinguished
assemblage, including the president
of the United States and his entire
cabinet, impressive tribute was ren¬
dered to England’s dead queen at
Washington Saturday. The ceremony
occurred at St, John’s Episcopal
church, beginning at 11 o’clock, and
was distinctly official in character.
The British ambassador, Lord
Pauncefote, had been directed by the
London foreign office to bestow this
last mark of respect to the dead sov¬
ereign, and the time was chosen so as
to correspond exactly with the solemn
pageant in London as the mother of
rulers was borne to Windsor.
SURPRISED BY FILIPINOS.
Five Americans Killed, Four Wounded
And Two Are Missing.
A Manila dispatch says: Lieuten¬
ant Hicken and a detachment of thirty
of Company M. Forty-fourth Regiment,
while crossing a river Tuesday night,
February 29th, were surprised by in¬
surgents gathered at Fiesta San Lucia,
Island of Cebu. They were attacked
in front and on both flanks by a hun¬
dred rifles and more bolomen.
Five Americans were killed, four
were wounded and two are missing.
The insurgents loss is believed to have
been heavy.
Captain Malley, with a detachment,
reinforced Lieutenant Hicken. They
recovered some bodies which were
mutilated. Additional detachments
were sent and are endeavoring to sur¬
round the insurgents.
GOVERNOR IS CRITICIZED.
Mississippi Officials Scored For Compro¬
mising With Cibson.
The action of the Mississippi state
officials in compromising the Gibson
alleged bribery case is being made the
subject of some very severe criticisms
by the state press.
With but few exceptions every news¬
paper in the commonwealth voices the
opinion that Governor Longino and
the officials who were associated with
him in the prosecution of the prisoner
made a very grave mistake and that
the result reached by no means re¬
dound to their credit.
Hill Not a Candidate.
The announcement that Senator Hill
is not a candidate for the presidential
nomination of his party in 1904 is
made by the Albany correspondent of
Leslie’s Weekly in the current num¬
ber.
Winston’s Tobacco Shipments,
Winston, N. C., broke all former
records in the shipment of manufac¬
tured tobacco daring January, the to-
tal being 2,595,145$ pounds, an in-
crease of more than 250,000 pounds
over the same month of last year. The
revenue stamp sales aggregated $327,-
992.12. .
Army Bill Ifoir a Law.
The president signed the hill for the
reorganization of the army at 1‘2;45
o’cloek Saturday.
ADEL. BERRIEN COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1901.
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Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
State Bank For Balnbridge.
charter Secretary of State Cook has issued
for the State bank e i
bridge, capital $50,000. Tbe incor¬
porators are D. W. James, Blakely; J.
W. Tayntor, New York; E. J. Perry,
M. V. Woodhull, J. W. Calahan,
George G. Woodhull, Bainbridge.
Cordeie to Get New Depot.
The railroad commission met in At¬
lanta the past weak and
plans for a new union depot to be
built by the Georgia Southern
Florida and Georgia aud
railroads at Cordeie. The Tennille
depot matter was continued.
Preston Is a “Wet” Town.
For the first time in twenty years
liquor is beiug sold in the little town
of Preston. A large shipment of whis¬
key was received a few days ago, and
from now on Preston "will be known
no longer as a “dry” town.
• * *
Governor May Pardon Bridges.
A petition is being circulated in
Rome asking for the pardon of W. M.
Bridges. Mr. Bridges was formerly
county school commissioner of Floyd
and was sent to the penitentiary for
four years on the charge of embezzle¬
ment.
Hotly Will Be Sent to Relative!*.
Congressman Carter Tate, of Geor¬
gia, has been advised by the war de¬
partment that the body of Cadet Wood,
who was killed in the Philippines
more than a year ago, has been sent to
Manila and will be brought to the
United States in the near future. The
body of the brave Georgia boy, who
gave up his iife on the ill-fated boat
Urdipeta, will be sent to his relatives
to be interred.
Fourth-Class Georgia Postmasters.
Fourth-class postmasters for Geor¬
gia were appointed the past week as
follows: Gailley, Banks county, B. A.
Daniel; Lenox, Berrien county, Wil¬
liam R. Baldwin; Shaw, Walker coun¬
ty, John Y. Costello; Spilo, Union
county, B. W. Swanson.
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Trustees To Hold Another Meeting.
Members of the board of trustees of
the Soldiers’ Home will hold another
meeting in Atlanta within the next two
weeks. This has been announced by
Captain “Tip” Harrison, who is secre¬
tary of the board. At the meeting the
superintendent, matron and other
officials will be elected, and the con¬
tracts for the necessary improvements
on the building and grounds will be
made.
What Senator Clay Said.
Senator Clay said in speaking of the
Brunswick maritime convention con¬
sidering the shipping bill: “I do not
not consider that the Brunswick con¬
vention represented one-hundreth part
of the people of Georgia. I shall not
pay any attention to the endorsement
by the covention of the ship subsiby
measure. The great body of the people
of my state oppose this monstrous
proposition to steal 8160,009,000 of
the money of the people of the United
States.”
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Three Killed In Collision.
Second section of freight train No.
14 had a terrific rear-end collision with
the first section on the Western and At¬
lantic railroad at Gravsville Saturday
afternoon at 5:30 o’clock and three
men were killed outright, one perhaps
fatally injured and one slightly hurt.
One of the men killed outright was
Charles L. Jackson, an engineer, who
lives in Atlanta The other two men
who met death in the wreck were two
strangers named Touchstone and
Ament, who were stealing a ride m an
empty boxcar. Fireman Nichols was
so badly injured that it is believed he
will die, and Fireman Park was slightly
injured.
. Attempted Assault.
Jim Wright, colored, early Satur¬
day morning attempted to assault Miss
Chastain at her home near Center
Jackson county. Her father, Mr. Jim
Chastain, lives on the farm of Mr.
who Charlie is about Shackelford. 15 Miss old, Chastainj
years was out
milking the cows, when she was caught-
by the Negro, Wright, and but for her
screams, which brought mother and
father to the rescue, he would have
been successful in the attempt. The
Negro made at once for a swamp and
hid out. He is about 20 years old and
worked on tbe place last year. A posse
went at once in pursuit.
McPherson May Be Recruiting Post.
A Washington dispatch says: Con¬
gressman Livingston called on Presi¬
dent McKinley Saturday and asked for
the immediate appointment of Hunter
M. Course, of Atlanta, to a lieutenancy
in the new standing army, and that he
be assigned to the duty of reoruiting
one of the new regiments at Fort Mc¬
Pherson. Colonel Livingston will nrgo
the re-election of Fort McPherson as
one of the recruiting posts and in this
has the snpport of General Nt „on A.
Miles. Colonel Livingston has also
submitted to President MoKinley a
list of applicants for places in the army
with his endorsements.
Frotest Against Colored Laborers.
white mill hands at the Aragon
cotton factory near Rockmart are in
^ humor over the employment
of negro carpenters to build tenement
houses for the firm. Some time ago a
contract was let for the erection of
houses near the mill to be occupied by
the operatives. The contractors se-
cured a number of negro carpenters
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
k from Atlanta and pat them to work
on
the buildings. A serious protest was
filed by the white operatives in the
mill to the employment of colored
mechanics in and around the mills for
that or any other purpose. At last
accounts the proprietors of the mills
have not seen fit to discharge the ne¬
groes.
Tech Boys Reinstated.
With the exception of two students
tbe members of the suspended senior
class of the Georgia School of Tech¬
nology have returned to work, and
will be permitted to pursue the even
tenor of their way There were no
formalities nor were any pledges made.
President Lyman Hall recited, in a
few words, tbe substance of the reac¬
tion adopted at a meeting of the fac¬
ulty, in which the sentence imposed
for insubordination was mitigated.
He told the young men that they
would all be permitted to pursue their
work on the conditions stated, just as
if nothing had taken .place to cause
friction, and expressed the hope that
the cordial feeling which the faculty
felt for the young men would be shared
by the students.
Otto Abel was the student who did
not return for reinstatement. He
expected to return with the others,
but was prevented by a recent be¬
reavement in the family, and would
probably have withdrawn had there
been no trouble at all. Another stu¬
dent, L. F. Brown, after being rein¬
stated, naked to be permitted to with¬
draw, assigning as his reason that he
had secured a good situation which he
did not wish to give up. He was al¬
lowed to go.
The class was assigned lessons, and
it is believed that with the exception
of the two mentioned all will continue
their studies at the institution.
Colonel Obear Begins Inspection.
William G. Obear, inspector general
of the Georgia state troops, left Atlan¬
ta Sunday night for Savannah where
he began his inspection tour of the
companies in that city. He will also
muster in several commands.
.Colonel Obear will be gone from
headquarters for quite a while. He
says his tour will probably take six
months, as he will have every com¬
mand in the state to look after in ad¬
dition to the fifteen military schools.
The last inspection made last year
showed the troops to be in splendid
condition, and Colonel Obear believes
that there has been a vast improve¬
ment since his last inspection.
The commanding officers will be
notified of his coming about three days
in advance, just in time to get ready
for the inspection.
KNOX VERSUS DEWET.
British and Boer Generals Making Thingt
Xlvely In South Africa.
Lord Kitchener reports to the war
office at London under date of Preto¬
ria, JaD. 29th, as follows:
“Dewet has been engaged by Knox
40 miles north of Thabanchu. No de¬
tails. Dewet intends again attempting
an invasion of Cape Colo#y.”
“Smasher” Band Organized.
At Topeka, Kas., Wednesday, Mrs.
Carrie Nation organized a band of 4fl
women to follow her leadership and
assist in wiping out salooiiB Mrs
Nation announced that they would gq
ahead regardless of the W. C. T. U.
SECRETARY ROOT EXPLAINS.
Tells Senate Why MacArtliur Deported
Filipino Deader to Guam. *
Secretary Root has answered the
senate resolution calling for a state¬
ment as to why the Filipino leader,
Mabini, had been deported to Guam.
“A. Mabini, the person referred to,”
Secretary Root says, “is a prisoner of
war, captured by the military forces of
the United States on December 10th,
1899. While such prisoner he was
found to be maintaining correspond
ence with insurgents engaged in arm¬
ed resistance to the authority of the
United States, and his place of confine¬
ment has been changed from Manila
to the Island of Guam.”
TO PAY IN INSTALMENTS.
Creditors Decide to Let Morris Bank Re¬
sume Regular Business.
The creditors of the banking bouse
of Josiah Morris & Co., at Montgom¬
ery held a third meeting Thursday
morning and after liering from the com¬
mittee which had been appointed to
examine into the affairs of the institu¬
tion it was unanimously decided that
every indulgence be granted and the
bank be allowed to resume business
under the old management, the de¬
positors agreeing to xccept payment in
various instalments.
MAYOR MIMS RECONSIDERS.
Atlanta’s Chief Executive Will Speak at
• Queen Memorial.
Upon further consideration of the
invitation of the women of Atlanta to
participate in the exercises in honor
of the memgry of Queen Victoria,
Mayor Mims has decided to accept.
While it is true that Mayor Mims at
first communicated his regrets, giving
as his reasons that he was a Boer sym¬
pathizer, he deplores the publicity
given his declination, announces that
he gave his reasons in jest, and has
decided to make an address.
OLDEST PEOPLE ON EARTH.
Hundred Tear Club of New York Makes
a Report After Lone Search.
After searching six months for the
oldest persons in the world, the com¬
mittee on vital statistics of the Hun¬
dred Year Club, of New York, has
prepared a report which shows tbat
the oldest man is Isaiah Rodofsty, of
Moscow, Russia, who is in his 136th
year and the oldest woman, Mrs.
Nancy Hollifield, of Battle Cre*k,
Mich., who is H 7 .
DR.TALHAGE^S SERflON
The Eminent Divine’* Sunday
Discourse.
/abject: With Silken Cords—So Should
the Fishers of Men Mend Their Nets
— Christians Warned Against Harsh
Criticism—.Gospel Strife Deplored.
Washington, {Copyright 1901, t
Dr. D. C.—In this discourse
how Talniage it is describes the gospel net and
aged; to Matthew be repaired iv, after 21, "James, being dam¬ the
of text, Zebedee, and John,
son his brother, in
a ing ship with Zebedee, their father, mend¬
their nets.”
“I go a-fishing!” cried Simon Peter to
his comrades, and the most of the apos¬
tles had hands, hard from fishing tackle.
1’he fisheries of the world have always at¬
tracted attention. In the third century
the Queen of Egypt had for pin money
$470,000 received front the fisheries 6t Lake
Moeri*, And, if the time should ever
come when the immensity of the world's
tables population could not be fed by the vege¬
and meats of the land, the sea has
an amount of animal life that would feed
all the populations of the earth and fat¬
ten them with a food that by its phospho¬
rus would make a generation brainy and
intellectual beyona anything that the
world has ever imagined. My text takes
us among the Gallilean fisherman, Ortfe
day drawer, Walter Scott, while hunting in an old
found among some old fishing
tackle the manuscript of his immortal
book, there "Wavetley,” which he had put
away but as of no worth, and who knows
that to-day we may find some un¬
known wealth of thought while looking at
the fishing tackle in the text.
It is not a good day for fishing, and
three men are in the boat repairing the
broken fishing nets. If you are fishing
with a hook and line, and the fish will
not bite, it is a good lime to put the ang¬
ler haps s apparatus the into better condition. Per¬
last fish you hauled in was so
large that something snapped. Or, ff you
mighty were fishing floundering with a net, there was a
posed of the scales or an ex¬
nail on the side of the boat which
broke some of the threads and let part or
all of the captives of the deep escape into
their natural element. And hardly any¬
thing is more provoking than to nearly
land a score or a hundred of trophies from
the deep, and when you are in the full
glee of hauling in the spotted treasures,
through they splash some imperfection of the net
back into the waves. That is
too much of a trial of patience for most
fishermen to endure, and many a man or¬
dinarily correct of speech in such circum¬
stances comes to an intensity of utterance
unjustifiable. Therefore no good fisher¬
man considers the time wasted that is
spent in mending his tiet. Now, the
Bible again and again represents Christian
workers as fishers of men, and we are all
sweeping kind through of the sea of humifnity
been some net* Indeed there have
busy enough nets "have out and enough fisher¬
men to landed the whole hu-
man race in the kingdom of God long be¬
fore this. What is the matter? The gos¬
pel is all right, and it has been a good
time for catching souls for thousands of
trouble years. is Why, with then, the and failures? The
the nets, most of them
need to be mended. I prop ose to show
you what is the matter with most of the
nets and how to mend them. In the text
old Zebedee and his two boys, James ftnd
John, sat in were their doing tl mending good thing when they
boats their nets
The trouble with many of our nets is
that the meshes are too" large. If a fish
can get his gills and half his body through
the network, he tears and rends and
works his way out, and leaves the place
through which he squirmed a tangle of
broken threads. Iif our desire to make
everything widen. We so let easy we relax, we loosen, we
in th_e gospel men after into they the are world, once
net escape
and go into indulgences and swim all
around Gallilee, from north side to south
side, and from east side to west side, ex¬
We pecting ought that they will come back again.
to make it easy for them to get
into the make kingdom impossible of God, ftnd, for as far as
we can, it them to
get out. The poor advice nowadays to
many is: "Go and do just as you did be¬
fore you were captured for God and heav¬
en. The net was not intended to be any
restraint or any hindrance. What you
did before you were a Christian do now.
Go to all styles of amusement, read all
the styles of books, engage in all the
styles verted.” of behavior And as through before you were con¬
so, these meshes
of permission and laxity they wriggle out,
through this opening and that and opening,
tearing the souls the that net as they expected go, soon tut
heaven we to land in
before we know it are back in the
deep sea of the world. Oh, when we go
a-gospel..fishing, possible for let us make it as easy as
souls to get in and as hard
as possible to get out.
Is the Bible language an unmeaning ver¬
biage when it talks about self denial, and
keeping the the body under, and about walk¬
ing straight narrow and way, about and carrying entering the tbe
cross? Is gate, there he
to no way of telling
whether a man is a Christian except by
his taking the communion chalice on sac¬
ramental day? May a man be as reckless
about his thoughts, about about his his words, about
his temper, amusements, after
conversion as before? Alas, the words of
Christ are so little heeded when He said,
"Whosoever doth not bear his cross and
come after Me cannot be My bad disciple.”
The church is fast becoming as as the
world, world and when it gets as bad as the
it will be worse than the world by
so much, as it will add hypocrisy of a
mo3t appalling kind to its other defects.
Furthermore, many entangled of our nets are torn
to pieces by being with other
nets. It is a sad sight to see fishermen
fighting about sea room, and pulling in
opposite directions each to get his net,
both nets damaged by the struggle and
losing all the fish. In this land, where
there are more than 70,000,000 people,
there are at least 30,000,000 not in the
Sunday-schools and churches. In such an
Atlantic Ocean of opportunity there is
room for all the nets and all the boats and
all the fishermen and for millions more.
There should be no does rivalry work between peculiar
churches. Each one a
to itself. But there are cities in this coun¬
try where there is now going on an awful
ripping and rending and tearing of fishing
nets. Indeed, aH over Christendom at
this time there is a great war going on minis¬ be¬
tween fishermen, ministers against
ters.
Now, I havq noticed a man cannot fish
and fight at the same time, He either
neglects his net or his musket It is
amazr ri how much time some of the fish-
ermen _________to ave look i after other fishermen.
It is more than can de to take care of
my own net. You see the wind is just
right, and it is such a good time for fish¬
ing, and the fish are coming in so and rapidly, hand
that I have to keep my 200,000,000 eye souls
busy. There are about
wanting to get into ttie kingdom of
and it will require all the nets and all the
fishermen of Christendom to safely land let
them. Oh, brethren of the ministry,
us spend our time in fishing instead of
fighting. But if I angrily jerk my net
across your net, an you jerk your have net an¬
grily across mine, we will soon two
broken nets and no fish. The French
revolution nearly destroyed the French
fisheries, and ecclesiastical war is the
worst thing possible^ while hauling souls
into the kingd om My friends, ‘ I notice
in the text that James, the son of Zebe¬
dee, and John, his brother, were busy not
mending somebody else’s nets, but mending
their own nets, and I rather think that
we who are engaged in Christian work in
this opening century will require all our
SgJS'ti In this work £££*££&’*'■ of repair God
Into tnfeads We need to put
the nets more of common
sense. When We can present religion as
a dred great souls practicality where We now will Catch catch a hun¬ Pre¬
we one.
sent will fail. religion Out as an intellectuality, and we
in the fisheries there are
get across the waters what are called gill
nets, and the fish put their heads through
the tneihea and they cannot withdraw
them, gills. But because gill they ar» caught be by the
nets cannot of any serv¬
ice in religious work. Men are never
caught for the truth by their heads; it is
by the heart or not at all. No argument
ever saved a man, and no keen analysis
God. ever brought Heart a man into the kingdom of
work, not head work. Away
with your gill nets! Sympathy, helpful¬
ness, consolation, of th§ threads love, are the names of
some that we need to
weave in our gospel nets when we are
mending Do them* that
you know the world’s heart is
bursting make that With world trouble, believe and if you could
that the Religion
of Jesus Christ’ is soothing omnipotence
the whole world would surrender to mor¬
row—yea, would surrender this hour. The
day before James A. Garfield was inaugu¬
rated as President I was in the cars going
from Richmond to Washington. A gentle¬
man seated near to me in the cars knew
me, aud we were soon in familiar conver¬
sation* It was just after a bereavement,
and burdened I Wfts heart speaking about to him the from an over¬
sorrow I was
suffering. Looking at his cheerful face I
said: “I guess you have escaped all trou¬
ble* 1 should judge from your counte¬
nance that you have Corah through free
from all misfortune.” Then he looked at
me with a look I shall never forget and
whispered in my ear: My “Sir, you know noth¬
ing about trouble. wife has been in
an insane asylum for fifteen years.” And
then he turned and looked out of the
window and into the night with a silence
I was too overpowered to break. That
was another illustration of the fact that
no one escapes trouble.
Why, has that man his seated next to you in
church l^^^^^AHeather. on soul a weight compared
with which a mountain is A That
woman seated next to you in church ha*
a grief the recital of which would make
your When body, mind mending and soul shudder. for this
you are your net
wide, deep sea criticism oi humanity, and that take horsehair out that
wire thread of soft
thread of harshness and put in a
silken thread of Christian sympathy. Yea,
when you old threads are mending of gruffness your nets and tear out
those weave
in a few threads of politeness and genial¬
ity. In the house of God let all Christian
faces beam "Good with a look that means wel¬
come. Say morning” pew,*and to the stran¬ the
ger as he enters your at
close shake hands music?” with him and say, ‘How
did you like the Why, you would
be to that man would ft panel of him the door of of
heaven; you be to ft note
the doxology that seraphs sing when a
new Bdril enters heaven. I have in other
days entered fl pew in church and the
woman at the other end of the pew looked
at me as much as to say, “How dare you?
This is my pew and 1 pay the rent for
it!” Well, I crouched in the other corner
and made myself as small as possible and
felt as though 1 had been stealing some-
So^ there are people who have a sharp
edge to their religion, and they act as
though they thought most people had been
elected to be damned brighten and they were glad
of it. Oh, let iu us gentiemanliness up our manner lady¬
and appear or
hood.
The object in fly fishing is . to throw the
fly far out, and then let it drop and falling gently
down and keep it gently rising plunge it like
with the waters, and not a
man-of-war’s anchor, and abruptness and
harshness of manner must be avoided in
our attempt at usefulness.
I know a man in New York who is
more sunshiny and genial when he has
dyspepsia than when he is not suffering
from that depressing trouble. I have
found out his secret, When he starts out
in the morning with such depression from he
asks for special grace to keep and puts snap¬ forth
ping tip anybody that day,
additional determination to be kindly and
genial, and by tbe help of God he accom -
plishes it. need , , be mended , , .
Many of our netjS to , m
these respects, the black threads and the
rough threads taken out, and the bright
threads and the golden threads of Chris¬
tian geniality woven in.
In addition to this we need to mend our
nets with more threads of patience. It is
no rare thing for a fisherman to spend St. Law¬ one
wl;olc day before he can take a
rence pike* or an Ohio salmon, or a Long
Island pickerel, or a Cayuga black bass,
or a Delaware catfish,ftnd particular he does that discour¬ day
after day without any if
agement. But what a lack of patience in soul
we do not immediately succeed
catching. We are apt to tpvejgjg it up and
say, “I will never brethren try again.” of all denoroma
These dear fidgets,
tions, afflicted with theological instead of
had better go to mending nets the
breaking them. Before they break up
old religions let them go through will some
great sacrifice for God that prove
them worthy of such a work, taking the
advice of Talleyrand to of a Jesus man who Christ wanted and
to upset the religion when said, "Go and
start a new one, ho
be crucified and then raise yourself from
the grave the third day!” mend their nets
Those who propose to like
by secular who and skeptical week books for are fishing a
man has just one
and six of the days he spends in reading
Izaak Walton’s "Complete Line,” Angler,” and Scott’s and
Wheatley’s “Rod and
“Fishing in Northern Waters ’ and Put-
■lZI" lad £ o. fUSuJ mZX
his last day that out. day goes the to fish the will river not to bite, ply
his art; but
and late on Saturday night he goes to his
h °AIas7^r?ffwhe fl i*the Saturday found night
of our life drops on us, it shall be
that we have spent our time in the libra-
ries of worldly philosophy trying to mend
,“p r .” t aCb"o„Iht h r«S S ’.h“S , o«*£ gospel.
strumentalitv, while some humble
fisherman, his library made up of a Bible
and an almanac, shall come home laden
with the results, lua trophies log all cabin the soul*
within fifteen miles of his meet-
inghouse of the great disturbance in
In the time Massameflo, barefooted
Nanles in 1649, £SS3L ta JfSZSd*3 a
that city of 600,000 souls. He took off
his fishing jacket and put on a robe of
gold in the presence of howling signal mobs. and He
put his hand on his Ups waved as a his liand
they were silent. He
away from him and they retired to their
homes. Armies passed in review before
Si & isz&zlg&t* &
voung fisherman, Massaniello, have no
parallel in all history. But something
equal to that and better than that IS an
everydav occurrence in heaven. God takes
some some of those who in this world were
fishers of men and who toiled very hum¬
bly. but because ef the Way they mended
their nets and employed their nets after
they were mended, He suddenly hoists
them and robes them, and scepters them
and crowns them and makes them rulers
over many cities, and He marches armies-
of saved ones before them in review—
Massaniellos unhonored on earth, but ra-
diated in heaven The fisher boy of .Na¬
ples of God soon who lost have his power, kept their but ___________H nets those mended people
and right ig th era shall never lose
their exa , but shall reign for-
ever sight. and 3 *-er, Keep that reward
in
NO. 5
.MAKouALL If i DCH iff II IT
i
s ■
Exercises at Capitol In Memory
Of the Great Jnrist.
ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY
Whole Country Gives Praise to
One Who Only Sought Truth
and the Right.
A Washington special says: John
Marshall, of Virginia, was installed as
chief justice of the United States one
hundred years ago last Monday, and
at 10 o’clock on the morning of that
day the centennial anniversary of that
occasion was celebrated with impres¬
sive ceremonies in the hall of the house
of representatives at the capital.
The program arranged by the joint
committee of congress and William
Wirt Howe, of NewOrleaus, president
of the American Bar Association, was
simple and dignified, as became the
life of the great jurist.
The president and his cabinet, the
members of the supreme court, the
members of the senate and house, the
diplomatic corps aud members of the
district bar association attended as in¬
vited guests.
Many ether distinguished persons
were iu the galleries, which were re¬
served for those holding cards of ad¬
mission. Although the various offi¬
cial bodies entered the hall together,
they were m t announced as on formal
occasions, Presideut McKinley uud
the members of tbe cabinet were the
last to arrive. The entire assemblage
rose aud remained standing until they
had seated themselves.
Representative Dalzell, of Pennsyl¬
vania, called the assemblage to order.
He stated briefly tbe astion of congress
in providing for the ceremonies and
the selection of Chief Justice Fuller
as presiding officer.
The chief justice, in his official
robes, was escorted to the chair by
Representatives Grosvenor, of Ohio,
and Richardson, of Tennessee.
Rev. Dr. William Strother Jones, of
Trenton, N. J., a great grandson of
John Marshall, invoked the divine
blessing. Then the chief justice in¬
troduced Hou. Wayne MacVeagb, who
delivered the oration, an eloquent
tribute to the memory of John Mar¬
shall, which evoked hearty applause
from the assemblage.
The chief ju/tice of the
court, Mr. Fuller, then addressed the
assemblage;
Chief Justice Faller a aaureaa Wjas
devoted almost entirely to
eration of his predecessor’s career as
an expounder of the federal constitu¬
tion.
Mr. McVeegh spoke for two hours
and closed his oration with a thrust at
imperialism. He reviewed Marshall’s
thirty-five years as chief justice, the
great epoch making decisions in which
he participated; his tremendous influ¬
ence in the settlement of tbe great
constitutional controveries, and con-
concluded in part as follows:
“Although many good and thought¬
ful people are just now greatly troubled
at wbat seems to them an evil promise
of the future, as American lawyers we
must never for a moment, iu dark
days or in bright, despair of the re¬
public. Differences of opinion may
well exist as to the best, methods of
discharging the grave and serious du¬
ties unexpectedly devolved upon us
by a war begun with the noble object
of helping a struggling people to secure
their independence, but let us trust
that, however we may differ as to the
methods, we all believe that the true
glory of America and her true mission
in the new century as in the old.
“When we come at last to believe
that the true mission of nations as of
men is to promote righteousness on
ear tb; that conferring liberty is wiser
. makin ® „ a i n; that new friends
are better for us than new mai-tpra- markets,
that love is more elevating than ha-
tr ed; that peace is nobler than war;
^ the humb ] es t human life is sacred;
tbftt the humblest bn***.** right■ .tauld
be respected— then our own beloved
coun try can worthily discharge the
sacre( j m i ss j 0 n confined to her and by
her true dignity and grandeur, setting
her feet upon the sipping pathway
w hieh leads to the sunlit ’summits of
thfl o , iv(J moanta in 8 , and taking abund-
amove that every bum., dteatore
beneath her starry flag, of every liberty, color
aQ( j condition, is as secure of
OI j J“ us 01 tice and of peace v as in there¬
public of . God. „ , ,
“In cherishing these aspirations
am } j n striving to realize them we are
imuol ho lly in the spirit of the great chief
and we can in no
effee ually honor his
| a boriifg 5 in season an
to make S whole c
ica _ O is!
no t of oppression and teffH
w | s dod3» of peace and of limi
wu* w ***> .a*
forever.',
ROAD’S CHARTER IN DAN
Mississippi taw May Cause Mncli T
For the Southern.
The Mississippi railroad co
sion has called the attention of i
torney general to the consolidai
the Mobile and Ohio with the S
ern railway and setting forth tha
consolidation is violative of the
! of the constitution prohibitin
amalgamation of
W . vfP hnainpss UUB1UCT 4-, in tbe stat