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Waldersee Casses Serious State
0i Affairs In China.
PLANS A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION
The United States Disapproves of
Action and Will Enter an
Emphatic Protest.
A Washington special says: The
United States government is facing a
serious crisis in China, owing to the
announcement of the purpose of Field
Marshal Count Waldersee tobegi n an-
other offensive campaign. General
Chaffee has been invited to join in the
expedition, which is to be mobilized
on ft larger scale than anything at¬
tempted in China since the original
march to Pekin, General Chaffee so
informed the war department Monday
and the officials of the state depart¬
ment have been advised of the situa¬
tion.
This German movement is viewed
with absolute dismay in Washington,
for it is feared that it requires an im¬
mediate decision by the United States
government upon its whole line of
policy toward the Chinese question.
General Chaffee will be told that ho is
not to participate in this campaign.
He has been keeping the American
forces in Pekin, ever since the city was
pacified, simply as a legation guard,
and the Germau government is fully
aware that the United States gov¬
American ernment purposely deprived the
contingent in China
of its offensive military character and
withdrew it from the control of Count
von Waldersee iu order to hasten
peace negotiations and prevent, so far
as it could, the continuance of mili¬
tary movements against the Chinese,
which were at once unnecessary and
baneful in tbeir effect upon the peace
movement, So our government, not
having changed its policy, caunot do
otherwise than cause Genera! Chaffee
to refrain from any participation in
hostile military movements, so long
as the present peaceful conditions con
tinue.
PARTITION GERMANT’a AIM.
The roepening of war in China and
the partition of that empire are be¬
lieved to be the salient.features of the
policy of Germany which has directed
the big expedition which Count von
YYaldersee has under way and to join
which the American troops have been
invited. The sincerity of Germany's
protestations that she is working in
the interest of peace is seriously
doubted by President McKinley and
the officials of the state and war de-
partmonts.
The government will do everything
in its power to prevent the ends de¬
sired by Germany and to dissuade the
governments from embarking
upon the war which Count von Wal-
ilersee seems determined to provoke,
just how far this government will go
toward that end is not clear, but, of
course, it will not go to war with Ger¬
many or with anybody else in the in¬
terest of the Chinese.
Minister Conger has, however, been
instructed to use his best endeavors to
dissuade the representatives of the
other powers at Pekin from playing
into the hands of Germany, aud rep- j
resentations in some form will be I
made to the other governments di¬
rect.
It is probable that these will take |
the shape of a remonstrance against j
the proposed expedition as being an
act of bad faith not only to China,
with whom peace negotiations are be-
ing conducted, but with the other
powers which are working honestly to-
ward peace. This will be put in more
diplomatic language thau the word
“remonstrance” would indicate, but it
will amount to a remonstrance or pro-
test.
Great indignation is felt by Presi-
dent McKinley aud his .close advisers
over this apparent breach of faith by
the German field marshal.
THE NEWS FROM PEKIN.
The first news from Pekin indicating
the German Field Marshal’s intention
*as coutaiaed in the foHo*ia S cab,.
dispatch under date of Feb. 17:
“A few days ago Count Y T on Walder-
sec wrote to the generals under his
supervision notifying them to have all
their available troops ready in two
weeks for au expedition lasting eighly
days. Today General Chaffee and
General Voyron, the French command-
er,’ received letters asking for their
Hco-operatiou and expressing a desire to
know what forces they can spare. In
commencing his letter to General Chaf-
fee, Count Y r on Waldersee says:
‘“Owing to the unsatisfactory na-
ture of the negotiations for peace, and
also circumstances rendering such a
- • ■ ’ e ; - -witt-^obably-Ke
_e military opera-
scale, especially to-
E M’KINLEY.
■position the President
■Visit Memphis.
1 the executive com-
■federate reunion at
g ’JlfArsday night, a
Red Wednesday ex-
’esident McKinley occasion was
resent on the
*e reunion in May was
Voriginal Bant resolution Memphis
to
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H 'ff: Sh: : r: NEWS
6 ft r ■ pjr M L
appropriations are cut.
Senate Committee Uses Knife
Freely on the Pending Rivers
and Harbors Bill.
A Washington special says: The
senate committee on commerce Mon¬
day concluded the consideration of
the river and harbor bill. Action upon
several amendments heretofore adopt¬
ed has been reconsidered and various
house provisions recast until the total
appropriations have been reduced be¬
low that made by the house.
The committee made horizontal cuis
on all important items, these redac¬
tions amounting to one-fourth in all
the appropriations of over $30,000 in
immediate cash appropriations in ex-
cess of $300,000 for continuing con¬
tracts. There were also some entirely
new items added by the committee.
All were reduced. The bill, therefore,
is practically a new measure as to
amounts. The totals approximate
$60,000,000.
The bill as it will be presented to
the senate will include the following:
Hillsboro bay, Florida, $112,500;
Biscayne bay, Florida, $150,000; Po¬
tomac river, District of Columbia,
$56,250; James river, Virginia, $252
500; Cape Fear river, North Carolina,
847,500; Chattahoochee river, Georgia
and Alabama, $63,750; St. Johns river,
Florida, Jacksonville to the ocean,
$112,5000; Coosa river, Georgia and
Alabama, $75,000.
Continuing contracts — Savannah
harbor, Georgia, $666,657; Biscayne
bay, Florida, $466,667; Southwest
Pass, Mississippi, $1,966,667; Galves¬
ton harbor, restoration of jetties,
$666,667; St. Johns river Florida,
Jacksonville to the sea, $633,833;
Coosa river, Georgia and Alabama (to
complete), $199,845.
Three hundred thousand dollars is
provided for surveys and examinations
of rivers and harbors not provided for
in the bill.
FAILED FOR MILLION'S.
Railroad Builder File* Petition to Wipe
Out Enormous llebts.
A failure for a million or over, with
assets to the amount of a ten-dollar
bill, was shown by the voluntary peti¬
tion in bankruptcy filed in Boston
Monday afternoon by George R. Eager,
a railroad builder of Newton, Mass.
The actual figures of liabilities are $1,-
407,341. The unsecured claims ag¬
gregate $1,008,502; the secured claims,
$315,222; notes aud bills shared by
other parties, $83,616.
Mr. Eager’s debts were contracted
between 1888 and 1890, principally in
Tennessee, on all notes. This is the
heaviest failure recorded in Boston
district since the bankruptcy act went
into effect. The debts are all out¬
lawed.
Some of the most conspicuous claims
iu the secured list are:
J. C. Hambro &• Son, London, En¬
gland, $52,540; Kessier & Co., Wall
street, New York, $34,466; Carey &
Whitteridge.New York,$12,200; Jones
& Monday, 823.227; C. P. Condon,
$34,022; Kellar & Beals, $16,170; Kol-
lar&-Tinley, $12,722, and Thomas
McFarland, $55,381, all of Knoxville,
Teun.; Charles Lexington, Jellico,
Tenn., $52,359; Atlanta Lumber Com¬
pany, Atlanta, Ga., $10,572; Y. M.•
McBee, Portsmouth, Y'a., $27,136; the
South Tregedar Company, Chattanoo¬
ga, Tenn., $15,798, and R. D. T. Law¬
rence, Marietta, Ga., $22,823.
TO BE VICE ADMIRALS.
A Measure Which I* Intended to Settle
The SchleyrSanipnon Problem.
Senator Hale, chairman of the senate
committee on naval affairs, has intro-
dviced a bill for the revival of the
grade of vice admiral in the navy aud
authorizing the president to appoint
two rear admirals to that office. The
Bill is in the interest of Admirals
Schley and Sampson, and is intended
to aid in solving the problem of their
promotion as well as the promotion of
other officers who served with them in
the Spanish war.
Senator Hale also introduced a joint
resolution of thanks to Admiral Samp-
son j n accordance with the president’s
recent recommendations,
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Kruger Writes Edwardf
There is au unconfirmed rumor cur-
rent in London that President Kruger
ha s drafted a personal letter to King
ation.
ROADS REFUSE TERMS.
Sauthern and Central May Build Their
Own Depot* in Atlanta,
An Atlanta dispatch says: The
Southern and Central railroads have
refused the overtures of President
Thomas, of the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis, to renew the agreement
under which the state was to build a
union passenger station in Atlanta to
be leased for a term of years to the
loads entering the city.
The second and most significant
feature of the action ou the Southern
and Central now brought to light is
that there two linesi, closely associated
m business interests, are preparing to
erect a depot of their own.
GEORGIA BLACKS PROSPEROUS.
Professor Dnbois, of Atlanta, Talks of Ne¬
groes in Dougherty County.
A Washington dispatch says: Pro-
fessor W. E. B. Dubois, of tbe Atlanta
university, Wednesday, gave the in-
dustrial commission his views of the
condition of the colored race in Dough¬
erty county, Georgia. He said that
the colored people now own about 15,-
000 acres of land there, which is more
than they have ever held before.
ONE DOLUR PER ANNUM.
ADEL. BERRIEN COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1901.
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
Compulsory Vaccination.
As ft matter of precaution the city of
Columbus and Muscogee county have
adopted compulsory vaccination.
General Gordon Explains Robbery.
A telegram received at the office of
General Gordon in Atlanta made the
following statement: “Story of loss of
money in Chicago unfounded. Over¬
coat stolen, but contained neither
money nor checks.”
Nino Murder Case*.
The grand jury of Pulaski county
found nine true bills for murder. Four
are against white men and five against
negroes. Several bills have been found
against proprietors of blind tigers and
a number of others will doubtless be
indicted. The citizens of Palaski are
determined to driva blind tigers out,
and are giving information which will
doubtless convict those indicted.
Leather Worker* Win Fight.
The 200 leather workers at Buford,
who were involved in a strike and
lockout during the past week, owing to
a refusal of recognition of their union
by their employer, Bona Allen, won
their strike and have returned to work.
Mr. Allen sent for the union’s commit¬
tee and told them he had decided to
agree to the proposition submitted to
his firm, which was that all objection
to the union be withdrawn and that all
bands return to work as before, their
membership in the union not to be in¬
terfered with.
Association of Harness Maker*.
A meeting of the wholesale harness
and saddle manufacturers of Georgia
was held iu Atlanta the past week to
consider the advisability of becoming
members of the Wholesale Saddlery
Association of the United States.
Henry Othmer, secretary and commis¬
sioner of the association, with head¬
quarters in Chicago, was present and
urged upon the Georgia dealers the
necessity of entering the association.
A number of applications for member¬
ship are on file and it is probable that
numbers of others will enter iu a short
time. Only the wholesale dealers are
eligible to membership.
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To Buy Piedmont Park.
Mayor Mims, of Atlanta, under au¬
thority of a resolution adopted by the
city council, appointed a committee
for the purpose of looking into and se¬
curing a proposition with a view to
acquiring the Piedmont exposition
grounds iu order that they may b#
converted into a public park. This
movement is entirely separate aDd dis¬
tinct from that whose object is the
securing of subscriptions from the cit¬
izens of Atlanta for the Southern In¬
terstate Fair Association, in order to
purchase the buildings located on
these grounds for fair purposes.
Ancient Cnso I* Dismissed.
The famous case of the Macou'Sash,
Door and Lumber Company against
the Southern Railway, which has been
before Judge Speer for the last four or
five years .and which at one time
threatened to prove one of the most
sensational cases of railway litigation
known to the courts and which in¬
volved the right of the Southern to
secure control of the lines and estop
competion, has been dismissed by
Judge Speer on the motion of the
complainants themselves.
A Loss to the State.
The present union depot in Atlanta
be abandoned by a majority of
the railroads now using it. A new
one is to be built although the plans
are now in an embryonic stage.
The first notice of the impending
change was given in the information
that the railroads entering Atlanta
had declined to renew* their offer of a
year ago to rent from the state a new
depot to be erected on the state’s
property where the present depot is
now located.
At that time the railroads offered to
guarantee the state 6 per cent on the
investment. Bat this proposition of
the railroads was not accepted by the
legislature. Recently Attorney E. T.
Brown, representing the state, sought
to secure a new agreement from the
railroads similar to that refused by
the legislature, but President J. W.
Thomas, of the Nashville,Chattanooga
and St. Louis, formally notified him
that the railroads would not renew the
proposition.
Col. Bnck In Washington.
A Washington special says: Colonel
Buok> o{ Atlanta> United States min .
. ^ ^ j the callers
g er a p an> was am0 ng
Rt the Btate department Saturday. He
had & long con f erence with Acting
gecretary bufc it wa8 of a pnre ly
socia i character. As alreadyexplain-
ed, his return to America is solely for
tbe £ purpose F of rest and has no im-
£ or nt diplorcalic £ bearing. There is
othi F ending f between the two
couatrios> eicep f matfcer8 of a purely
commercial ni ture . Colonel Buck
w<mt tQ the white house later to call
on the president. Tbe colonel declares
that there is absolutely no politics in
his return to this country at this time,
but the fact that he has found it con¬
venient to call upon Senator Hanna
and other party leaders, is taken as
meaning that the colonel is not entire¬
ly out of politics, despite his protests
to the contrary.
Cowtta^B Model Poop Farm,
For a long term of years Coweta
county maintained her poor farm near
Sargents, five miles from Newnan.
ESLTp^LT: *Tl!rronn4°oomSs°tonerB'»et £
last about
year to change the situation and
purchase a lot of land only one and
one-half miles west of the oourthouse j
in Newnan, and immediately on the
Central railroad. They have cleaned
the groves along the road and erected
comfortable cottages for the inmates
while about the superintendent’s
home is every convenience for keeping
and issuing all things necessary for
the support of the farm.
No county has a cleaner, more at-
tractive ana interesting farm than in
Coweta’s poor farm.
To Test Tax Law.
The various packing houses doing
, business Atlanta ,,, will ... test in . ...
in the
.
courts the tax law recently enacted by
the legislature. Tax Collector A. P.
Stewart, of Fulton county, has been
notified teat the packing houses will
pay the increased tax required of them
.ud th,„ m turn sue him.
ihe law specihes that a tax of $200
shall be assessed ou each separate
place of business, aud it is this fen
ture to which ,, the packing , . , houses are
objecting. Ihe tax was formerly $100,
but the legislature deemed it advisable
to inarea.a it oS200 Thi. incrca,.,!
tax has not been paid by the several
Atlanta concerns, and Collector Stew
art recently decided to fi fa. them
A GEORGIA ROAD BOUGHT.
Syndicate _ .. . Get* _ . Controlling _ ... stock in Chat-
tanooga, Rome and Southern. j
According to report an important !
railroad deal has been made in which j
the Chattanooga, Rome and Southern j
road is involved. i
It is reliably asserted that Simon ‘
Borg, t> _ of . New York, and syndicate .
a j
have bought 76 per cent of the stock,
paying 57^ for the preferred. The real I
purchasers rmrebnseru of of the line line, it it is i a thought, tv,o„^v,t i
are either the Central or the Seaboard i
Air Line. The latter road is more
likely the purchaser.
ON TRAIL OF DEWT.T.
Boer General Giving Red Coats a Merry 1
Chase Over Veldt*.
Lord Kitchener, telegraphing Lon-
<lou from DeA.r, Cape
Saturday s date, says:
“Dewet’s force crossed the railway he/.
at Boartmous Siding north of
before daylight February 15th, closely j
followed by Plumer, Crabbe and arm l
ufiile crossing. Ihe Boers, however,
cut the lines.
“Ww captured over twenty wagons,
many ■f,. of which WU1EU were were loaded luauea with wnn am- am-
munition and also a Maxim, twrenty
prisoners and over 100 horses. The
troops are still in close pursuit.”
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STATIOX FOR BLYTHE.
Naval Department Ha* the Matter Under
Serious Consideration,
The navy department is considering
the advisability of establishing a naval
station on Blythe island, Georgia,
which property was acquired by the
department under provisions of an act
of congress of 1857. The island is
said to offer many advantages as a
training station for landsmen, for
target practice and other naval pur¬
poses, and it is said could be put in
condition at an expense of not more
than $25,000.
STUDENT AT SEVENTY-SIX.
Judge Bleckley Attend* University of
Georgia For Special Study.
E ^i °iL lef JU8tlCeL aD E BleCkley
‘ ’
of r Clarkesville, Ga., — is at present a
student of the University of Georgia
Athens. *ii “ ^
at ■ mi_ There are some problems
in mathematics he is desirous of solv-
ing, and expects to remain in college
some days in getting tne the desired desired in in- 1
formation. It Tt- is h;s intention at some |
future day to announce an important 1
mathematical discovery teaching , he
analysis of numbers.
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GOVERNMENT CASH GIVEN OUT. |
1
Quartermaster of Army I* Paying 8133,-
OOO to Charleston People.
Captain Price, quartermaster of the
United States army, will pay out the
sum of $135,000 to lot holders
nr. on bnlhvan s island. ^ n m, The i land j is •
needed for the new army garrison, j
The present holders had titles only to
hniidinffs buildings as ns the Him land land is is owned nwnmd by the
state, and t«e amounts paid were
enormons considering the worth of
«M was MMr demanded, boy, for xhe which $135,000 big money paid
is
for sixty cottages. I
EX-DETECTIVE CONVICTED. j |
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Former Chief of Atlanta Uetectivo lie- :
partment Guilty of Larceny '
An Atlanta dispatch , , says: Former
chief of the city detective department,
Bradley Slaughter, and Horace Looney
were weie convicted convicted in in the tne criminal criminal an eu-
perior court Saturday of the charge of
larceny from the house.' Judge Fite
sentenced Slaughter to pay a fine of
<aosn and costs, or „„ in default , 1 . „u of iu the
fine, twelve months in^ the chaingang,
and Looney was given a fine of $25
and and costs costs, or or six six months months in in thn the chain- chain
ganff-
EDWARD OPENS PARLIAMENT.
King and Queen Rode to Palace of West-
minster In Georgeous State
A \ T .London nntlnn crvaciol special says: . m. The first .
parliament of the reign of King Ed-
ward Y T II. was opened Thursday J after-
noon K'w by xi_ the _ king m person. ^ tt- His
majesty was accompanied by Queen
Alexandra the duke of Connaught
and many others of the royal family.
lue king and queen rode from Back-
ingham palace to the palace of West-
minster in the georgeous state coach,
used for the first time since the wed-
ding of the present kinz.
D RTAL.nAGE’S SERHON
The Em inent Divine’s Sunday
Discourse.
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Subject: Speak For the Right—Diabolical
Agencies Active—silence is Not Gold-
en WhUo There Are Evils —Be Ready
NVhen Christianity is Assailed,
Washington, [Copyright 1901.1
Dr. D. C.-— In this discourse
tlve Talmage religion calls for a more speaking demonstra- out
and a hearty
on the right side of everything; text,
Mark ix, 25, “Thou dumb and deaf spirit,
1 charge thee, come out of him."
Here Here was was a a ease of great domestic an-
sessed guish. The son of the household was was other pos-
of an evil spirit, spirit, which which among among
things speechless. paralyzed his his tongue tongue and and mad made him
the When the influence was on
ticulation patient he could not say The a word-ar¬ that
captured this was impossible. member the spirit household
of
was a dumb spirit—so to-day and called by Christ—a
s P iri t abroad as lively and po-
tent “ as in ™ New v *-~ rr Testament — t A times. Yet, in
all ^the realms of serinonology T cannot
find ’ a discourse concerning this devil
which Christ charged upon in my text,
sa, X}?%’ "Come out of him.”
rtSSTSfflnce'S, possession of evil spirits. Under the form
belief in witchcraft this delusion swept
vi*5 ts - .^ ersons we T. e supposed to
be possessed with some evil spirit which
made them able to destroy others. In the
sixteenth century in Geneva 1500 persons
' Kjfc&iS'&r rere burned to death as witches. Under
borhood of France 1000 persons were
burned. In two centuries 200.000 persons
slam t witches. So mighty the
were as was
delusion that it included among its vic¬
tims some of the greatest intellects of all
time, such as Chief Justice Matthew Hale
and Sir Edward Coke, and such renowned
ministers of religion as Cotton Mather,
one of whose books Benjamin Franklin
sai s ^ ap ?v‘ bfe—and Richard Baxter
pliers £^^^££2. j Lord Bacon, That belief which plSoso" has
become the laughing stock of all sensible
wisest and n C0 \ m H best f its people disciples of Sweden, among Ger- the
many, England. England, But France, Spain and New
while we reject witchcraft,
f ny ra ' l 7 1 ''bo believes the Bible must be-
h eve there ore diabolical agencies
abroad , in the world. While- there are
fernal ministering spirits spirits to bless there are in¬
to hinder, to poison and to
ual destroy. Christ when WAS speaking to a spirit¬
existence standing before the
afflicted one of the text He said, “Thou
dumb and deaf spirit, come out of him.”
Against, this dumb devd of the text 1
put this you on your of guard. , Do not think that
^ose agent who bv evil has put his blight on
Todto^d omission 8ol of the VocAl or*
Sd have spoken i"otr.hle word P wS5
never a are the most
*? acious and lovely and talented souls
ITSSlLi
enchanting called the stories of those who never
name of father or mother or
speak the name of God or Christ.
angel Many of a intelligence deaf mute have I seen with the
seated at the window
the p >’ e * " r bo never came forth from the
, f mout u what a miracle of
loveliness and knowledge was Laura Bridg-
man, of New speech, Hampshire, not only without
and faculty without of sight, but without hearing
all these faculties re-
moved becoming by sickness when two years of age,
yet the a wonder at needlework, at
piano, at the sewing machine Scriptures and an
confounding intelligent student philosophers of the and
who came from
all parts of the world to study the phe-
nomenon. Thanks to Christianity for
what it has done for the amelioration of
the condition of the deaf and the dumb.
Back in the ages they were put to death
equipment, as having no right, live, with such paucity of
to and for centuries they
were classed among the idiotic and unsafe.
But in the' sixteenth century came Pedro
enteenth Ponce, the Spanish monk, and in the sev-
century came Juan Pablo Bonet,
another the finger Spanish monk, with dactylology
or alphabet, and in our own
century we have had John Braidwood and
Drs. Mitchell and Ackerly and Peet and
Gallaudet, thousands who of have given to uncounted
those whose tongues were
forever silent the power to spell out on
the air by a manual alphabet their
thoughts about this world and their hopes
for the next. We rejoice in the brilliant
inventions in behalf of those who were
®™ tbe raoat Impressive audiences I
ever addressed was in the Far West, an
never audien heard , ce of a ^emt sound 600 snoken persons, who wnfd had
or beside a an
addressed interpreter them. standing I me while I
dience two advantages congratulated they that au-
he on of the had over
J most us ~ «ue that they escaped
hearing and a the great other many fact disagreeable things
on that they escaped
saying things they were sorry for after-
wart.
Jet *f‘er all the alleviation, of a
?^ a ck )® d hmitation.
f
v'n^ 6 S rfn T bo ? re
and ^ofrJ^ h a '.c been struck by the ,Y t oca evil h? a t , one lon
mentioned m the text the dumb devil
to whom Christ called when He said,
‘Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge
com e out of him.”
There has 1 been apotheosization of si-
, Icuce. Some one has said silence is gold-
en, and sometimes the greatest triumph
is to keep your mouth shut. But some-
time s rihmee is a crime, and the direct
result , of the baleful influence of the dumb
dev jl of our text. There is hardly a man
or woman who has not been present on
some occasion when the Christian religion
SSfSW* to *®‘&2“£fc, SStK^
wa s not much going on and the clerks
were in a group, or it was in the factory
at the noon spell, or it was out on the
farm under the trees -while you were rest-
ing, in or social it was circle, in the cluhroom. or it w r as
a or it was in the street on
the way home from business, or it was on
some occasion which you remember with :
out laugh my describing the Bible it. and Some caricatured one got the the
on
profession of religion as hypocrisy or
ma de a pun out of something that Christ
? aid " The lau & h started, { and you joined
in- and , not one %vord 0 pro test did you
utter. What kept you silent? Modesty?
No. Incapacity No. to answer? No. Lack of
opportunity? It was a blow on both
y° ur ”P 3 “Y rue wing of the dumb devil,
If some one should malign your father or
mother or wife or husband or child, you
would flush up quick and either with an
indignant word And or doubled up fist make
reS p 0 nse. yet here 4s our Christian
religion, and much which for has the done world so much for you
so that it will
take all eternity to celebrate it, and yet
when it was attacked you did not so much
as say: “I differ. I object. I am'sorry to
hear to this.” "you sav You that. Christian There people is another ought side in
such times as these go armed, not with
earthly weapons, but with the sword of
the Spirit. You ought to have four or five
questions with which you cciuld confound
any man who attacks Christianity. telling how A man he
n j nety vea 'flight rs old was me friend
pu t to ^Josep^to^the^Biblf?” a scoffer. My aged
^ id ^to4
Lf manf “it is a fine read.” story
and as interesting a story as I ever
“Well, now,” said mv old friend, “sup- half
P ose „* iia ^^f c ?, unt '/. oseph stojjped
" a ^ d nofc b? ’ entertaining,™“Well, now/’
said my friend, "we have in this world
onlv half of everything,, and do you not
think that when we hear the last half
things mav be consistent and that then
we mav find that God load was right with f" few
Oh, friends, better up a
interrog&tiott points. You cannot afford to
be silent when God and the Bible and the
things of eternity are assailed. Your si¬
lence gives consent to the bombardment
of your Father's house. You allow a slur
to be east on your mother’s dying pillow.
In behalf of the Christ, who for you went
through the agonies of assassination on
the rocky bluff back sickly of joke. Jerusalem, Better load you
dared not face a
up with a few questions, 60 that next time
vou *’Mv will be ready. will Say tell to what the scoffer, makes
dear sir, between you the me conditions of
the difference and the United States?
woman in China
What do vou think of the sermon on the
mount? How do you Scriptures? like the golden Are rule in
laid down in the you
favor of the Ten Commandments? In
your large and extensive reading have you
come across a lovelier character than Jesus
Christ? Will vou please to name the
triumphant deathbeds of infidels and athe-
ists ?
“How do you account for the fact that
among the out-and-out believers in Chris¬
tianity were John such persons Thomas as Benjamin Carlyle,
Franklin, Ruskin.
Babington Macaulay William Penn, Wal¬
ter Scott, Charles Kingsley. Horace Bush-
nell, James A. Garfield, Robert E. Lee,
Admiral . Foote,
Stonewall Jackson.
miral Farragut, Ulysses Shakespeare. S. Grant, Chief John Jus¬
Milton, Marshall, William John Adams, Daniel Webs¬
tice
ter, George Washington? fondness for How the do Chris¬ you
account for their
tian “Among religion? the innumerable colleges and
universities of the earth will you name me
three started bv infidels and now sup¬
ported by infidels? Down in your heart
are you really happy in the position you
occupy antagonistic to the Christian reli
gion? Go him with few such questions,
at a face
and he will get so red in the as to
suggest apoplexy, and he will look at his
watch and say he has an engagement and
must go. You will put him in You a sweat
that will beat a Turkish bath. will
put him on a Bull rout compared made with time which
i ur troops at Run no at
all
Arm yourself, not with arguments, but
interrogation points, and I promise shall you
victory. Shall such a man as you,
such a woman as you. surrender to one or
the meanest spirits that ever smoked up
from the pit—the dumb devil spoken of in
the text? ,
But then there are occasions when this
particular spirit that Christ exorcised
when He said, “1 people charge by thee the to wholesale. come out
of him” takes
In the most responsive religious people audience
have you noticed They how many never they
sing at all? have know a book, how and read.
have a Voice, and thev and to
Thev know many of the tunes yet are
silent while the great raptures of music
pass by. Among those who Sing not one
out of a hundred sings They loud hum enough They to
hear his own voice. it.
give a sort oi religious grunt. inaudible. They make With
the lipS gd, but enough it is
a voice strong to stop a street car
one block awav, all they can afford m the
of God is about half a whisper.
enough bassos to make a small heaven be-
twe en the four walls, they let the oppor-
tunity . that go by ascends unimproved. from the The largest volume of
voice au-
dience that ever assembled ought to be
multiplied two thousandfold. But the
minister rises a.nd gives out the hymn, the
organ begins, the choir or preceptor ‘ ea ds,
, lupg the audience are standing so that and the
a may have full expansion, a
mighty he I harmony spol is _ about ?* to ascend text-the when
t PV1 8 P, int 5 en i n “J'
Iids devil-spreads of one-half the his . audience, two wings and over the
°' npr wing over the lips of tne other half
?f the audience and the voices roll back
int ° the throats from which they started,
on ^y , here and there anything 11
heard, destroyed, and nine-tenths and dumb of the devil, holy power he
if. the os
Sl vVatts eg from says, writing [1 could that not hymn, keep and Isaac I
c °uld not keep Lowell Mason from com-
P°amg the tune to which it is set but I
smote into silence or half silence the lips
from bless which neighborhoods it would have and spread cities abroad and
then mount the wide Open heavens. Give
tb e long meter doxology the full support
f 1 Chrstendom and those four lines would
, ? whole earth for God.
This is the way 1 account for the fact
that , the stupidest places on earth are
eome p ? a y er meetings. I do not see how
f man keeps any grace if he regularly at-
* enda them. They are spiritual refngera-
us^have a 8C lo8^ J^’ptor 0 o“casFons”pf'usefulness! s studio stood a figure of
_ ' The BC ?u pt 2fJ^
made the hair fall down over the face of
the statue so as to completely cover it,
an d the ^ e ^ ere wlngS to th 5 When
a , ked , he represented Opportunity
tbe ? sculptor answered, so “The face of the
statue , 18 thus covered up because we do
no and ^ r ® C0 Sffll wings ze Opportunity of the feet when show it that comes, Op-
’WISC“World ,
ch deride the
„„ h beoau , e ot all thin, for the dumb
devil is just as conspicuous in the world.
The great political parties assemble at the
proper time to build platforms for the
candidates to stand on. A committee of
eac h party is appointed to make the piat-
form. After proper deliberation the com-
mittees come in with a ringing report,
“whereas” and “whereas” and “whereas.”
Pronunciamentos all shaped with the one
idea of getting the most votes. All ex-
pression of the m regard ignored. to the No great moral evils in
behalf of country living, for expression that would
lose the temperate of the liquor traffic. No
vote ex-
pression in regard to the universal attempt
at the demolition of the Lord’s day. No
recognition tions, of God in the history of na-
for that would lose the vote of
for the platform. The dumb devil of the
text puts one wing over the one platform
and the other wing over the other plat-
form. Those great conventions are opened
with prayer by their chaplains. If they
avoided platitudes and told the honest
truth in their prayers they would say:
“O Lord, we want to be postmasters and
consuls and foreign ministers and United
States district attorney*" ~ " *" -ye are
Mere ana for that we will strive till the
election nexc November. Give us office or
we die. Forever and ever. Amen.”
The world, to say the least, is no bet-
ter lence than the church on this In subject other wordr, of si-
at the wrong time.
is it not time for Christianity to become
pronounced and aggressive a3 never be-
fore? Take sides for God and sobriety
and righteousness, '
“If the Lord be God, follow Hi nr
Baal, tunity then of follow rebuking him.”" sin? Have Rebuki^ you efjm
a dishearten
Have you a chance to cheer a
soul? Cheer it. Have you a useful WO
to Be speak? Speak it. and down . for ng'' , /
out and out, up ship is afloat the
eousness. If your on
Pacific Ocean of God's mercy, hang out
your colors from the masthead. Show your
passport if you have one. Do not smug-
gle your soul into the haroor of heaven,
Speak out for God! Close up the chapter
of. lost opportunities, and open anew
chapter. Bexore you get to the door on
your way out shake hanus with some one,
and ask him to jom you on the road to
Hvo-wheelSd “sffl^wifh yofirseff. but ^oom" get offly'Vr* the big¬
one, and that
jest gospel wagon you can find, and pile it
full of friends and .all neighbors, and and shout
till thev hear voa Ug down the
gooffl’ for*the premised, good
concerning Isr
NO. 52.
CUBANS STAND F
i
They Are Not Willing For Cade
Sam to Have Naval Stations.
WOODS’ WORK IS UNAVAILING
Governor General Holds Confer-
ence With Delegates, But Noth¬
ing Was Accomplished.
A special from Havana says: The
special committee appointed by the
Cuban constitutional convention to
draw up a proposition defining the
future relations between the United
States aud the republic of Cuba have
returned from a conference with Gov¬
ernor General Wood at Batabano, and
will report to the convention in secre't
session.
The question of the United States
maintaining naval stations in Cuba
met with strong opposition, and the
commission will report to the conven¬
tion not to accept this condition. The
other clauses in the proposed relations
have^ Tlie been practically agreed to.
Cuban constitutional conven¬
tion held a secret session lasting sev¬
eral hours Saturday afternoon consid¬
ering the question of the future rela¬
tions between the United States and
the republic of Cuba. The commis¬
sion which met Governor General
Wood at Batabano Friday night offered
no fomai report, but asked that the
matter be considered in committee of
the whole. A majority of the dele¬
gates opposed the granttojrto wKtmk the
United States of the right laic
naval stations in Cuba, and a largo
number favored leaving tfie.relations
between the United States and Cuba
for the future republic to settle.
The right of the United States to in¬
tervene at any time for the present
preservation of peace was also the sub¬
ject of a stiong discussion. The ques¬
tions of regulating loans aud the for¬
eign lelations developed no opposi¬
tion.
One of the delegates in the course of
an interview said that the convention
would never agree to allow the United
States to establish and maintain naval
stations, as the people look upon this
concession as unpatriotic and a practi¬
cal giving up of independence. The
only way the United States can obtain
this right, the delegate said, would bo
by insisting upon the concession, the
responsibility for making which the
convention does not want to take.
ONE “YELLOW” HEAD OFFERED
Chinese Not Partial to Decapita.
t?on Program Agreed Upon
By the Powers.
A special dispatch from Pekin says:
A message was delivered to the foreign
ministers before the meeting Saturday
morning, from the Chinese peace com¬
missioners, which contained the word¬
ing of an edict,dated Friday,practically
reiterating the recent dispatches of the
Associated Press, sentencing Princes
Chung to commit suicide and Yu
Hsien, former governor of the prov¬
ince of Shan Si, to be executed, both
in the presence of a high government
official, in order to satisfy the foreign¬
ers.
General Tung Fu Slang is deprived
of his rank and will receive fur* 1 -'*-
prisoned. death suspended
Sentence of is on
those culprits who are already dead
and all their honors are canceled, also
the posthumous honors granted to
their families.
Owing to the lateness of the hour at
which the translation was made, the
ministers did not consider the matter,
leaving it until Monday.
A Washington special says: Minis¬
ter Wu, the Chinese minister, called
at the Btate department Saturday and
spent nearly half an hour in close con¬
ference with Acting Secretary Hill.
He had no late news from China, bat
was seeking to assist as far as he could
in the pursuit of some agreement that
will settle the question of indemnity
for the losses suffered by the foreign-
ers in China from the boxer move-
ment.
THR1 .CORNERED COLLISION.
Freight Ti ‘j Crash Tnjether and Tlire*
Men Are Instantly Killed.
Three freight trains were wrecked
on the Mohawk division of the Central
railroad at Akin, N. Y., early Monday
morniDg. A westbound pick-up was
backing from a siding when an east-
bound freight crashed head-on into
the engine. Simutaneously ft fast
westbound freight train crashed into
the side of the other westbound ff em|||
Engineer bis fireman, E. Brideubecker, Bulge, olS^ o^fl
case,
and Brake
bauy, weTe instantly werebadly^B
The thfee engines caB
ed and several of the derailed /B
into the Mohawk river. . t. '
' u- -— .. /: vtmm.
COUNCIL UPHOLDS MAYOR,
Atlanta City Father* Approve Vet
Vote of Five to Nine.
By a vote of 5 to 9 the Atlan
council sustained Mayor Mims’ j
the chise. Forest avenue street railvraj
This result was reached after
Bion of three and one-fourth hoi
major portion of which tide t
voted 49 speeches for and agai