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TABLE 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 , . 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, --- 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. * * * 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.” ' 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. ! 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 | ^------ 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. ______ 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