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VOL. 18.
MANY SOULS IN BRINY
Steamship City of Rio de Janeiro
Strikes Rock and Goes Down.
LOSS OF LIFE IS APPALLING
Accident Caused By Hea^ Fog.
Consul Wildman and i His
Family Reported Among
the Victims.
A San Francisco special says'. The
Pacific mail steamer City of Rio de
Janeiro ran on a hidden rock while
entering the golden gate early Friday
morning in a dense fog, and sank in a
few minutes. It is thought that near¬
ly 150 persons were drowned, but it is
impossible to ascertain the exact num¬
ber, owing to the fact that Purse? John
Rooney, who had the passenger list
and roster of the crew, is amo -g the
missing.
At 5 p. m. ten bodies had been re-
covered, two white women, one white
man and seven Chinese, The most
prominent passenger was Rouuseville
Wildman, United States cons hi at
Hong Kong, who was accompanied by
his wife and two children. It is
.thought all were downed. The ship
was in command of Pilot Frederick
Jqrdau when she struck. Ho was res¬
cued. Captain William Ward went
down with his vessel.
As nearly as can be learned there
were 234 people on the Rio Janeiro,
as follows:
Cabin passengers, 29; second cabin,
7; steerage (Chinese and Japanese)
G8; officers and crew, 140; total, 234.
The following have been accounted
for: Rescued, 79; bodies at the mor¬
gue, 10; total, 89; missing, 145. .
CAUGKT IN A DENSE FOG,
The Rio de Janeiro was three days
overdue from Hong Kong, via Hono¬
lulu, when she arrived oft' the heads
Thursday night and tile dense fog fcre*
vailing at the time induced Pilo^ Jor¬
dan to bring her to anchor untu he
could see his way clear through the
4:30 gateway. o’clock, She when laid the to until atmosphere a^out
cleared aud she was started uud>er a
slow bell toward Point Bonita. Ail
went well uutil 5:40 o’clock, when\she
struck. Moat of tho passengers were
below at the time and it is believed
many of them were drowned in their
berths.
The first news of the disaster remedi¬
ed the city at 7:30 a. m., and yoon
afterward a boat load of rescued p a ®-
sengers and petty officers arrived at
the dispatched mall dock. to reuder Tugs were immediately service that
might be any per¬
needed, but no living
sons were afloat when the tugs reach¬
ed ing the peeple wreck. A rescued number by of drdjyn- Italian
were
fishermen and the bodies of two wllte
women, three Chinese and a Japai*se
were brought in by the tugs. 1 ie
search, for bodies continued all da]
All accounts show that the offii ■s
gave the necessary orders with ie
least possible excitement. Capt. \Y d
was on deck when the vessel str 'k
and gave orders to the men on watcB to
hurry the passengers to the forward.
At the same time the quartermaster! on
duty sounded the signal for fire dlrill
and within five minutes all the nien
were at their stations.
There was no way of knowing ^he
extent of the damage to the vessel, as
she teen remained minutes after on an striking even keel the for ro<pk. fif¬
But Captain Ward knew the gravest
danger threatened the 200 souls in tiis
charge and he gave orders to lower the
i lifeboats and rafts. There was not
[muah ■after striking, coufusiou until, bow fifteen minutes vessel
the of the
■suddenly Ithere plunged under water. Then
was a wild.rush for the boats.
Two boats had already beeu lower-
led and others were getting away as
Irapidly ItJrew as the trained discipline of the
could prepare them. A thick fog
■enveloped everything, aud as yet ho
■sign ttations. had come from the life-saving
PwTth Darkness was all about and
[the Rio this had added to horror the One people boat g*5t £>n
I cope.
dear of the vessel without damage,
irhis contained the following person^:
■ Mrs. West, Mrs. Ripley, Chief En¬
gineer Herlihey, Second Officer Cog-
Ban, Frank Cramp, J. R. Russell,
■storekeeper Borgg, Water Tender L>.
■bane, ■Paptain Quartermaster R. Mathiesoh,
Hetch, of the German navy.
■ This boat got clear of the sinking
B-essel and then stood by to help ^n
■sicking up those who had no time ito
Ret into the boats aud were in the wH-
■er. Another boat, containing Third
Rlfficer Holland and J. K. Carpenter,
Hot away, but was drifted around close
■ ji midi film bow of the steamer. Ajs
Rhe forward end of the vessel pluuged
■ownward Rat the prow caught the stnal
and cut jit in two. The two me
Hray the boat were uninjured aud swan) if
^Rne from the sinking steamer just thl
to avoid being caught in
REGIMENTS COMING HOME.
krPfpartineitt Is Xoll^p that Trans
■■|1 Sail From Manila
ler, quartermaster at
ku the war department
arranged for
leave Manila
Bih Kk the Twenty!
rciim lit3-
•ant will
its
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swirl of water caused by fcbe settling
of the big ship. Carpenter was picked
up by the other boat. The fate of
Holland is notknowD.
A numoer of Italian fishermen who
were starting out saw the sinking of
the Bio and hastened to gave all +he
assistance in their power. - While all
this was going on Captain Ward was
directing the passengers and trying to
keep them from panic. He succeeded
only partly, as many of the terrified
people rushed to the railing and jump¬
ed overboard. Some of tltese were
picked up, others were drovAied.
The Chinese crew, to the lumber of
over a hundred were terrorised. Some
of them huddled in little grciips, chat¬
tering in fear. Others crouched close
to the deck mourning pitifully. Many
jumped into the sea.
Captain War ! remained on deck un¬
til the vessel had settled tok tmeh an
extent him. He that then the water was blidge Ingulfing
went up the and
from there continued to issue his di¬
rections.
That the steamer sank almost imme¬
diately after striking is the report of a
majority of those rescued. Some of
the passengers say that she instantly
listed forward and in five minutes she
went down, while others declare that
she stayed afloat for half an hour after
she struck.
There are several conflicting stories
concerning the fate of Captain Ward.
The steward of the Rio says that he
stood beside the captain when the ves¬
sel w'ent down. Two other survivors
say that they also saw the captain to
the last, but Frederick Lindstrom,
quartermaster officer of the Captali Rio, em-
pbatically declared that li. Ward
emulated Admiral Irion, of M. S.
Victoria, in going down to h:J I cabin,
where ho met his doofh behind locked
door. According to bis ntor *, Cap¬
tain Ward, after consulting with Pilot
Jordon, came down from* the bridge-
He was standing on the deck when the
vessel crashed upon the rock.
There was aery of “Man thelboats,”
but it was apparent that in th% midst
of the awful confusion a systematic
effort to save the passengers would be
of no avail. Everybody was scra|nbling
for his own safety. It was at this time
that Lindstrom says he saw Captain
Ward standing on the forward deck.
Suddenly the captain turned and walk¬
ed hurriedly to the cabin, disappe red
behind the door, which he closed. A
second later the vessel was plunging
to the bottom of the sea.
THE PILOT'S STORY.
Captain Frederick W. Jordan, the
pilot of the Rio, was rescued by an
Italian fishing boat. To the customs
officials he told the following story:
- “We auchored about 5 o’clock last
night. The weather was thick, and I
left orders that when the weather
cleared we should go farther in.
“At 5 a. m. the fog lifted, i We
could see the cliff house and the north
end light, and I told the mate to heave
short. After we started heaving short
the wind came in from the northeast,
and the fog settled in thick, and I told
the mate to stop heaving. Then the
captain came np and said:
“ ‘Let her go. We can go ahead.’
“You see, my watch stopped at 5:40.
When the vessel struck I ordered all
the boats out. The first boat out was
half filled with water no sooner than
she" struck. I got a ladder and plJeed
a woman on it and we began ter de¬
scend. She had a boy of eight years,
whom I held in my arms. The woman
and I were about half way down the
ladder when the Rio gave a tremen¬
dous pitch. I was flung off the ladder.
“I saw nothing after that of the
woman or the boy. I went down with
the ship about fifty feet. I worked my
way up to the surface aud got hold of
some wreckage. I had sense enough
left to turn on my back and drift with
the wreckage. j
“Then I came across what seemed&o
me the top of a house with a Chinamln
on it. He helped me to clamber onto
the roof, and with him I drifted out
toward the north heads. I was thgn
reacned by the fishing boat. |
PLACED UNDER BONDS.
Birdsong Brothers Bound Over to Macon
Criminal Court.
A Macon, Ga,, dispatch says: The
two Birdsong brothers, Tom and Davq,
who were indicted for arson and per¬
jury, were Berved with warrants, biri
they gave bonds in the sum of $1,000
each and were released. They will
answer to the next term of the criminal
court.
Five Men Horribly Mangled. 1
Five men were caught on the PeniM
sylvania railroad bridge at YongstowrM
O., Friday morning and killed. Thel
were walking on the track on thei*
way to work at the Sharon Iron
and were* caught by the south
freight train.
AN UNDECIDED QUESTION.
Caban Convention Delegate* May Insist
on Absolute Independence. i
A Special from Havana says: Noth¬ if
ing definite has been decided upon
gar ding the question of future rell
tions. bled in the Many of the delegates FrR^ asset)
convention hall
ternoon to talk over the matter b
ally. Most of them seem to b
pressed with one conviction tl if
the convention stood out viga y
for absolute independence d
SUjRRRhHufould j :JSJl "
ADEL. BERRIEN COUNTY. GA.. PR1 DAY, .MARCH I. 1901.
«eo»newsiteiis
Brief Summary of Intecesting
Happenings Culled at Randoip.
Finding* In HcK«« Case.
Under an order issued Satnrday by
Governor Candler and the prison com¬
mission, the county commission-
*• r - of Lowndes county must again
take charge of the county convicts
in now being worked at the McBee camp
that county, and they alone must
exercise supervision and control over
them.
This order is the result of the
charges preferred against the McKees
and the management of their camp by
Lawyer John W. Edmondson, of Quit-
man. It was claimed by the McKees
that Edmondson pushed the case be¬
cause a relative of his operated a camp
in Brooks county, and desired to se¬
cure possession of the Lowndes
county convicts. At all events the
prison commission went into a thor-
onwh investigation of the camp, and
the foregoing decision was reached by
them in consultation with the gov-
ernor.
This order does not mean that the
McKee convict camp must be abolish¬
ed; it simply requires the county com¬
missioners to resume control of the
couvicts again. The commissioners
may still permit them to do work for
the McKees as heretofore, but it must
be done wholly under the supervision
of the commissioners, who will have
to appoint the guards, the whipping
boss and all civilian employees in con¬
uection with the camp. The McKees,
therefore, will, in all probability, con¬
tinue to retain the services of the
Lowndes county convicts, unless the
commissioners see fit to remove them
to some other quarter or to permit the
prison commission to take charge of
them.
The older of the governor calls to
the attention of the grand jury certain
charges in connection with the case.
Among other things, the evidence
taken by the prison commission tends
to show that parties not directly con¬
nected with the camp have kidnaped
innocent negroes and compelled them
to work as if they were convicts. With
this the prison commission has noth¬
ing to do, but it is a matter fov the
courts.
An Atlantlan ReKcueJ.
E. C. Howell, one of the passengers
rescued from the sunken ship Rio de
Janeiro in the San Francisqo harbor
Friday, is an Atlantian. He is a son
if Colonel Albert Howell. For the pa?t
two month Mr. Howell has been in
the Philippines and was returning
home when the fatal, hidden rock sank
the ship to the bottom of the sea.
Tliomaston to Have Electric Lights.
The election for electric lights was
carried in Thomaston the past week
by a majority of 14. The city author-
ites, under the resnlt, will proceed at
once to have established a first-class
system of electric lights. The election
was very quiet. No espeeial interest
was manifested against tho issue. This
will add one more feature to the al¬
ready progressive and forward spirit
which has characterized Thomaston
for the past two or three years.
Insurance Men Aroused.
An Atianta dispatch says: Unless
some action is taken to improve tbe
present inadequate water service there
will be a general advance in insur¬
ance rates not only on business prop¬
erty but on divellings. The under¬
writers wish to avert the necessity of
raising the present rate if possible,and
with that end in view will probably
hold a meeting to urge upon citizens
and property owners generally the
vital necessity of issuing water bonds,
so that the desired improvements may
be made. „
Cold Benefited Fruit.
Reports from Laurens, Coffee, Ware
and other south Georgia counties say
that the cold wave and snow did no
damage to fruit trees, but will, as a
matter of faot> prove beneficial. The
weather up to the time had been un-
seasonably warm, and tbe continuance
0 f a high temperature for a week long-
er would have resulted in the budding
of the trees> Had th i 3 occurred the
cold snaps of March would have de-
stroyed hopes of a fruit crop. The
cold snap has stopped the sap in the
trees from rising, thus increasing the
chances for a full crop. The same ap¬
plies to vegetables.
>ew Trial Asked For :Negrroeg.
The attorney for the five negroes
sentenced to be hanged in Screven
county for murder will not permit ins
clients to go to the gallows without
further effort to save them. He has
already made application for a new
trial.
His claim for another hearing is
based largely on the fact that letters
written by two of the negroes to a col-
ored minister at Augusta and alleged
to have contained confessions were
° pe ° e
as evidence u at the hearing. If Judge
Evans denies the negroes a new trial
the supreme court will be appealed to.
“
Hampton’s Cotton Mill.
About fifteen cars of machinery for
the new cotton mills at Hampton
arrived and is rapidly being put in
position. Manager Harris says within
fifteen days everything will be in
to make yarn. The mill has a large
warehouse of cotton on hand
to run the factory several months.
Treasury Warrant* Drawn. *.
Governor Candler signed three
* **
■
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
rants on the treasury one day the past
week aggregating about $680,000. This
is the amoua t that h as been paid oat
for pensions during the last sis weeks,
these li are given to
•rants of each
pensioner v j§J|fi accnmulat-
iag in the state treasurer’s office.
Widows “Left Oat In the Cold.”
Several widows on the pension roll
will not get their pensions this year.
There is only §470 left of the $200,000
appropriated by the legislature for
pensions. There are fifteen widows to
be paid in White county, and Iheir ap-
plications arrived a day or two ago.
The amount remaining is .nffieient
pay only twelve widows, so that
of those in White county will-have to
do without their pension money this
year. No pen,ion, at .11 have been
paid in ancT Irwin and Lincoln
counties, the widows of those
counties must likewise do without
their pensions.
Pension Commissioner Lindsey has
applications for about three thousand
mora of the application black.
widows under the law adopted by the
last legislature. This will make six
thousand blanks in all to be sent out,
.ad it there are a* many widow, it
will practically be lfipossiblo to pay
any of them with the meager 8100,000
the legislature La, appropriated tor
the purpose. It is said there will be
some six hundred applications from
Fulton county alone.
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TOUR FOOLIS«.»
Mrs. Nation Mtvlies Unique Appeal to
Judge to Release Her From Jail.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, tiring b of jail
Ine, , bas written ... Judge t j tt Hazen letter
a
demanding release.
“I want you to quit your fooling,”
she writes, “and let me out of here. If
you cause me to miss my engagements
I won t feel like a ministering angel
unto you. It is time for you to recover
yourself before the devil, -'ll your master, ’
makes v. a clean i sweep with you into .
hell. You know yju are persecuting
God’s children who loves you for Jesus’
sake. Let me out that I may go about
my business of saving such poor davils
as you.”
Detective Released on Bond,
Bradley Slaughter was released from
the Atlanta, Ga., jail Monday, his
brother J. B. Slaughter signing his
bond for $1,000. Slaughter was
tried and convicted on the charge of
larceny and au appeal was taken.
Pendiug an appeal he was remanded
to the Tower in default of a $1,000
bond.
Athens Gets Court.
A Washington Special says: The
bill establishing the eastern division
ef the northern district of Georgia and
providing for the holding of United
States court at Athens has passed both
house and senate.
INDICTED FOB EMBEZZLEMENT.
Casbler I’orier Alleged to Have Mlsap-
propriated Nearly •30,000.
A dispatch from Bowling Green,
Ky., says: The grand jury after an
all-day investigation of the alleged
shortage of Lather JR. Porter, cashier
of the Warren Deposit bank, returned
an indictment against him charging
him with embezzlement. His alleged
m 7 Mr. p Porter SS did °‘ not w&it for & bencli . „
warrent warrent to to be be issued, issued, but but appeared appeared in in
court and executed a bond for $5,000.
EDWARD IN GERMANY.
EugWr* Ruler Goes to Bedside of Hi*
Sister, the Dowager Empress.
A special from Cronberg, Germany,
savs: King Edward met Emoeror Wil-
, iana ■ .r Monday „ , • when , he
morning reach-
ed Friedrichshoff. King William spent
some time at the bedside of his sister,
Dowager Empress Frederick.
Special dispatches from Cronberg
say that neither Cronberg nor Horn-
bnrg showed any decorations whatever
to mark the presence of King Edward,
and that not even flags were were dis-
played.
DEWET’S FORCES ROUTED.
Correspondent of London Paper Actually
Reports a Victory For Redcoats.
A correspondent ^ of The London
Daily Mail with Henniker’s column,
'“tag Salary „j.:
“General Dewet was routed yester-
day by Colonel Plummer, with whom
were Colonels Henniker, Corddoek,
Jeffreys and Grabbo. This success
was preceded by a series of desperate
attempts on the part of the Boers to
escape from tue water belt of the
Orange and the Brake rivers. ”
RAID CAUSED * BLOODSHED ‘ *
______
wholesale Liquor Uou, e Wrecked and
Guns M ere Brought into Play.
As the resuil of a raid on the Cnrtis
wholesale liquor house by a mob at
Topeka, Kan., Sunday night, J. A.
Adams, a carpenter, lies at the hospital
in a precarious condition from a pistol
shot wound and will probably die.
Dr. J. E. Mitchell and Rev. F. W.
Emerson were both placed under ar-
re st as leaders of the mob, and the
Uq "° r tOU8e iS al, “ 05t * ' treCk -
. .
OKLGDN’ft . »[,vTurv NLA.I seaaiuk, 'iTnp
After Long Contest John H. iviitcliell Se-
cures Coveted Toga.
At Salem, Oregon, John H. Mitchell
was elected United States senator at
12:30 o’clock Sunday morning to sue-
ceed John W. McBride, whose term
will expire next March 4th. His elec¬
tion was accompanied by a combina¬
tion of thirty-five republicans with
eleven Democrats, making forty-six
votes, a majority of the legislature.
Tho result was reached on the twenty-
fifth ballot of the day and the fifty*
third of the session.
REV. T>R. TALMASE. ~ _
The ,_u Sminaat _ .£ ~ Divine ... a 8and Bunaay „
Disoourae Ijmii'h ii • T “
Subject : TTelfHre of the Body-Simple
Life Conduces to longevity — Keliglon
the Great Henewer — Worry Hastens
the Advance of Age.
(Copyright 1901.1
Dr. Washington, Talmage D. C.—In this discourse
shows how any one can con-
9 uer the effect of years and grow younger
yoiXi^enewed'h&tfe’il^sV^ There flies from the ^
majestic out my text most
of all the feathered creation—an
e ^ le - Other birds have more beauty of
such clutch of claw, such expansion of
l v '’ e m 8; of such-height dominion. of soaring, such wide-
® 3 Its appetite rejects the
Leveling its neck for fr'SFZS&S.
Clirv e, it swings itself toward flight, the in spiral
STij known live noonday hun-
as vffj 1 to a
r. that , ,- rears - What concentration of all
is sublime in the golden eagle, the
creasted eagle, the imperial eagle, the
r ia oi' a * ea £‘ e : the booted eagle, the Jean
looks ragged and aSiU'^o^'.Si.'S and unattractive,
worn
like moping in its nest on the
o!?n,5, Sfe rags ' But wee k. a hy and the old
overgrown, S has rAWftS the
against the rocks, surplus and it of bone back beaten its
gets
less kingdoms mchalSi’d‘“ad bS
the of air and light. David,
author of the text, had watched these
monarehs of the sky, and knew their hab-
"f. ^nd one day. exulting in his own pliv-
h o»n“l?
all the time. think v
eagle You make me of an
which I saw yesterday, just after its
molting ^ season, swinging through the val-
n? ho 8ha J h "«\? nd % clin ?
around the head u of Mount * Olivet. , O my
soul, ‘thv youth is renewed like the
eagle’s.' ”
X ^The hey fact is tke that people get old too fast,
years to run away with
dis"ourage"tW^Lme than you have business of'/^ire^Me? be. You
?Ht realize any to
0U to that as the body gets old-
VL on toward old to set youn * onlv er ; Coming the
molting age and'after vou are in
have better season, wings, that vou will
take higher flight and
in f^ eare Y atmosphere. Our religion
& y ^
part as well as the latter part of ray sub-
i^ Many is appropriate might turn for the the pulpit. backward
and get by changing years physi¬
cal habits. younger The their
longer he simpler life one lives the
lives. Thomas Parr, of Shrop¬
worked shire, England, was a plain man and
on a farm for a livelihood. At 120
years of age he was at his daily toil. He
lived under nine kings of England. When
152 years of age he was heard of in Lon¬
don. The king desired to see him, and or¬
dered him to the palace, where he was so
richly and his royally health, treated that it de¬
stroyed and he died at 152
years and nine months of age.
When Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the
circulation of the blood, made post mor-
tern examination of Thomas Parr, he de¬
clared there were no signs of senile decay
in the body. The man must have re¬
^ y ° Uth ’ ^ ^ &nd
All occupations and professions have
afforded illustrations of rejuvenescence,
Hippocrates, 109 the father of medicine, lived
years, and among those eminent in the
medical profession who became septuage¬
narians and octogenarians and nonagena¬
rians were Darwin, Gall, Boerhaave, Jen-
ner laws and of health Ruvsch, that observing they taught themselves the
their pa-
and literature and science
those who lived into the eighties weri
Plato and Franklin and Carlyle and
Goethe and Buffon and Halley. Sopho-
C < You"cannot tdl‘how
the number of old a man is from
known years he has lived. I have
KiT,liSfo?d» people actually boyish in their dig-
J hile
at twenty, old
composed Haydn's Haydns oratoria oratoria, “The Creation,” was
at seventy years of aj?e. Hum¬
boldt ” wrote his immortal work, "‘The Cos-
mos, at seventy-five. William Cullen
Jlcyant, at eighty-two years of age, in my
h S fompoa’ed
teen years of age. Isocrates did illustrious
work at ninety-four,
Liontinus Gorgias was busy when death
came to him at 107 years of age. Herschel
in at stellar eighty years of age was hard at work
Numidia, exploration. Masinissa, king of
at ninety years of age ^ led a vic-
^ again8t Cartha '
Titian was engaged on his greatest
dredth painting when How he died in his one hun-
year. often they must hafe
^uTjhe average longevity of those in
private life, and with less mental strain
and no conspicuous success, is much larger
than the average longevity of the re-
nowned. There- are hundreds of thou¬
sands of men and women now renewing
their youth like the eagle’s, so that the
possibility of such a turning back of the
years is all around us being demonstrated.
Bismarck, long the greatest of German states-
men, a while before his decease,
paused hia eightieth milestone. When
warden. We started for a walk, but it
sotto be a run. All those men again and
onl'writermer human 1 "Is not life, threescore
and ten the bound of accord-
' n 8 to the Bible?” My reply is that Moses
™
Through better understanding advancement of of medi- the’
laws of health and
cal science me statistics of longevity have
mightily changed since the time of Moses,
and the day is coming when a nonagena-
Sy ^hirtenS^hehfife the lancet that ‘ofwhole^inera- bled for
tions, thing and rarely taken from the every- doe-
is now
t6 £ s P°<; ket -,
mStfeation to o tlfe human race, and thus _
added greatly to the prolongation of life.
Electric lights have ^Ihl improved dir^ human
which* flSSidW 1 candle* 0 diJeales
under other names did their fatal.
work, and were considered almost incura-
ble n 5 w in a ma -i ority of cases are con '
’ “vaerisatta.
talked which has «vcd million.
0 f }i ves and the greatest scourge
of nations, and surgery, which has ad-
vanced more than any other science, have
done more than can be told for the prolon-
gation of human life. ~~
I The X-ray has turned the human body,
j it”^ eaSe/m* 1 this^age ^‘renew^ne’s
youth than in any other age. and
But the body is the smallest , least , x
S8TK S2A&JU T? Sg
possible all fretfulness out of your life,
The doing of that will make you ten years
younger. I know many good, Christian
neonle who are worm ing themselves out
in managing the affairs of the job. universe, They
They have undertaken toot big a and fiery
are ‘trving ^£ney to have drive all.the too sqng ajpirs of church a
team.
and state ^h**"***^ on hand, and they
tg -ill be divided«p |4ir
there mH-b& THr^etitatiglem< S .e S
wars such hare Heard rng of.
as we never
They fear that' Edward VII. will not be
as wise a king as his mother was a qn een.
They tional are debt. appalled They at fear the accumulated na¬
pieces by of society is going to
apprehend reason immoralities. They
that America will be over¬
crowded with foreigners. They say the
country newspapers is going are getting be so bad that this
They to utterly demoralized.
are all the time apprehensive of so¬
cial and religious and political calamities,
and it is telling on their mental health,
depressing stead of renewing their physical their health, and, the in¬
eagle's, they imitating youth like
are the eagle who
would sit in his nest of sticks lined with
grass on the rock, mourning about the
woes of the ornithological world, the lone¬
liness of the pelican, the filthiness of the
vulture." the croak of the raven, the reck¬
less of the albatross. Would that improve
cess'for things? No. that It easrle would which he a would molting pro¬
close, onlv never and
and it would get thinner
more gloomy and less able to gain food for
its young and less able to enjoy a land¬
scape as it appears under a twenty-mile
flight on a summer morning under the
blue heavens.
I do not advise you to be indifferent to
these great questions that pertain to
church and state and nations, but not to
fret about them. Realize that it is not an
world, anarchy but that has divine charge of affairs At in this
a government. the
head of fhfs universe is a King whose eve
is omniscience and whose heart is infinite
love. His government is not going to be
a failure. He cannot he defeated. Better
trust Him in the management of this
world and of all worlds. All you and I
have to do is to accomplish the work that
is put in our hands. That is all we have
to he responsible for. In a well managed
orchestra the players upon stringed and
wind instruments do not watch each other.
The cornetist does not look to see how
the violinist is drawing the bow over the
strings, nor does the flute player scrutin¬
ize the drum. They all watch the baton
of the leader. And we are all carrying
our part, however insignificant it may be,
in the great harmony.
My text suggests that heaven is an eter¬
nal youth. A cycle of years will not leave
any mark upon the immortal nature.
Eternity heaven will not work upon the soul i»
any change unless it be more' ra¬
diance ana more Wisdom and more rap¬
ture. A rolling on from glory to glory!
In anticipation of that some of the hap¬
piest people on earth are aged Christians.
The mightiest testimonies have been given
by the veterans in the gospel army. While
some of the aged have allowed themselves
to become morose and cynical and impa¬
tient with youth and pessimistic about the
are fearful of being crowded out or their
sphere many of the aged have been glad
to step aside that others may have a
chance and are hopeful about the world,
expecting demolition, its and redemption they inspiration instead of its
are and
comfort and helpfulness to the household
man as he comes down the road. His
smile, his words, his manner, his whole
“‘what ^ion ma ^ e tbe 1vor ‘ < * think better of reli-
Christians, a good thing it is, all ye aged
that you can soon get rid of
dulled ear and sight that requires strong
eyeglasses and infirmities which make you
land of eternal health, where the most ru-
bicund cheek of robust life on earth
would be emaciation compared with the
SK t°o f SrdKSrtfe, SSUX3
and blamed for what you could not help,
and picked % at by a hard world, fSEBriS and then
ffit *„f
are backbiting eternal, depreciation and slander of heav- and
shut unknown, for the in gate the
S en was io'w"a.KS against them state-
planation of things eighty that puzzled you
the twenty interrogation or forty or point abolished years, to and have all
sa sin ss^fe; a intw v ;ir. the o i.e;a world,
ana sorrow to come permitted
and why the bad were to live
so long 'i and the good were cut off m the
?o struggle, m he while l rc sity of the infamous » ride %
prosperously, princes many afoot and beggars
shall a-horseback, been and the last honest question
have answered.
Gibbon in his history says that Moham-
med had a dream in which he thought
that, mounted on the horse Borak, he as-
cended the seven heavens and approached
within two bow shots of the throne and
felt a cold that pierced him to the heart
when his shoulder was touched by the
hand of God. That might do for Moham-
med’s heaven, but not for a Christian
heaven. No cold hand put upon your
shoulder doubt, there, no cold hand hand of welcome, of repulse the or
but the warm
warm hand of saintly communion, the
warm hand of God.
I congratulate all Christians who are in
the eventide. Good cheer to all of you.
Your best davs are yet to come. You are
yet to bear the best songs, see the grand¬
est sights, form take the most delightful friendships, jour¬
neys, the most elevating
and after 10,000 years of transport you
will be no nearer the last rapture than
when you heaven were thrilled with the first.
In you will have what most
sire pleases you. Archbishop Leighton’s > de¬
for heaven was a desire for Christ and
what purity and love, and he has found there
he wanted. John Foster rejoiced at
the^ could thought study of the heaven, secrets because of the there universe he
without restraint, and he has been regal¬
ing himself in that search. Soutney
would thought of heaven with the as a place where he
meet learned and the
great—Chaucer peare...-He no'doubt and has Dante and Shakes¬
found tjmt sty'
of communion. That great and frood J)r.
Dick was fond much of mathematics, of time and be said
he would'be thought given - that the study, and in heaven I have
to
no doubt that since ascension he has made
advancement in that science. The “twelve
manner of fruits" spoken- of in Revela¬
tion means all kinds of enjoyment in ffgav-
en, for twelve manner of fruits includes
all the chief fruits that are grown on
trees. I suppose there will be as many
kinds of enjoyment as there will be in¬
habitants.
________RJ You will have | in heaVen just heaven what will you
want. Are vou tired? Then
be r f st " 4 r e p -f si? d
, pictures*?*There n AA
will
coiuyg on the new heavens, on the jas-
per sea, and the walls imbedded with what
gSS?”'ihS & SVnd ^Spig
0 f Q 0 d and the Lamb and the uplifted back
thrones. Are you who longing have ascended? to «t Then to
your loved ones Mime
Then it will it be will reunion. be boii|£. Are Here you a and tnere body?
m
this world yOU will find some One who now
four generation'may house, but most have »people dwelt have iir had the
same homes—die of childhood, the
several home
brance, or from prefcnt pccupancy, can-
not equal the heaveniv home m the house
of many mansions. No sickness will ever
come there, for it is promised No there shall the
be no door, more pain.” last look _partmg at.
front no
be seen again, but home
with each other, home, fol
NO!
|
To Be Demanded of the \ ithans
By the United States; -.
DISCUSSES MATTER
Naval Stations, Control of For¬
eign Affairs, Sanitation and
Ante-War Debt Are Items.
A Washington special sny=: The
senate committee on relations with
Cuba met Saturday to consider a pr\.,
posed amendment to the army appia
priatiou bill providing for the i
sition of Cuban affairs. The j a
sition was prepared by the Kepubi . >an
members of the committee and is said
to be satisfactory to most of them.
The proposed amendment recites
the so-called Teller amenamen to the
Spanish war resolution and then cives
the president authority to withdraw
troops from Cuba when, in hit jrfig¬
ment, the provisions of the Tel r
amendment are realized.
The prositions embodied iu the pro¬
posed amendment include the follow¬
ing points:
That the United States shall Imvo
supervision of all treaties with
countries made l>y the republic of
Cuba.
That Cuba shall not undertake to
pay the debt incurred by Spaiu i ib
war with Cuba prior to or afte
intervention of the United State?
That Cuba shall agree either to lease
or to sell to the United States such
coaling or naval statious as in the
opinion of the president of the United
States may be necessary to the protec¬
tion of the interests of this country.
That the United States shall have
sufficient supervision of the laws of
c.b. -.la**t.™**
this country from epidemics liable to
originate there.
The idea is that these provisions f
shall be included in a treaty to . , bo
made with Cuba, but that they need
not be a part of the constitution. It
i 8 understood that tile draft of the
amendment containing tnese provis-
ions was submitted to the president
and the secretary of war, and that they
e *P^ sed themselves as being in fav-
or °f their wording,
The minority members of the com-
tee expressed themselves willing to
«-»• *? node,.!..ding u t o„ the.,
general lines. Indeed, some of the
most important suggestions were made
b the minority, Senator Bntler. of
North Carolina, being one of the fore-
most movers in the matter. They m-
however, upon many verbal
amendment*, thua evincing a determi-
nation to aid in giving jorm to me
provision as well as suggesting its gen-
| tenor - *
When the committee adjourned there
were still important dinetences to be
reconciled, and the members separated
u} tb understanding that another
-i» e be h.w.. M„nd. y .
Members on both sides of the com*
m j ttee expressed the hope tjjat an
v,a reached but all
«<>«»*»*, i»d »»»
f ar enough To r'emrtpr—H *nat
,, the result u wonia . von i,i p Lfc e attained. auainea ,
One prominent point to which the
committee is giving special attention,
although that point may not be em-
unsized v or even mentioned iu the
proposed amendment, is is the the relation relation
of Cuba to the Isle of Pines. There
j g BOI q 0 disposition among the Cubans
ld t that island so near their
shores, , while there is apparently o^nrAutlv no
disposition on the part of the united
gt a t e s to release that possession, on
s d that the island was ac-
quired . as a resu „ cj„ • P< ori ; 1 a h wnr
QUESTION OF DOUBLE PAY.
Charges Made by Bailey Are to Be In¬
vestigated By a Committee.
The house Saturday adopted a reso-
lution to investigate the pay of its
employees as a result of the condition
of affairs ascertained daring the re¬
cent debate on the deficiency bill, and
the speaker appointed a committee
consisting of Mr. Moody, of Massa¬
chusetts; Mr. Overstreet, of Indiana;
Mr. LoDg, of Kansas; Mr. Bailey, of
Texas, and Mr. Newlands, of Nevada,
to make the investigation.
CALLAHAN BOUND OVER.
Alleged Cudahy Kidnaper Arraigned and
Held Onf Bond of •7,500.
The courtroom at Omaha was CglljM crow^
ed 1 liars ay when James
the allepr<\ kidnaper of
Tr , -aigned^^HH
befotfe'jiujge Vi
In tnree c<
grand larceny, i plea'He!H?HRR|[
prisonmebt, be
The hearing was then contfHI
until Monday to enable Callahan tii
to secure counsel and prepare for trii
His bail was fixed at $2,500 on ea
count, which he did not furnish.
PLANTING PECAN TREES.
Atlanta Man Setting Out a Grove Nea
ciarkaton ' Ga. I i
.
-corporate limits of Clark.*., Oa„ .3
running back to Peachtree creek,whit
be is having planted in pecan southlF^*™ trees. M
RooqM' cacM bas Has a a brother oroiutr in m
C vmade Rth a led fortnnojtro hu^Rh
ia #0
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