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VOL. 13.
STORY OF BRUTALITY
Is Given in Report of Anderson
County, S. C., Grand Jury.
MANY CONTRACTORS INDICTED
Presentments Sensational and
Show That Negroes Were Ille¬
gally Held and Mistreated.
The Anderson county, S. C., grand
jury made its refort Thursday to the
special term of court on the abuses of
the labor contract system in the conn-
ty. The report sustains the allegation
made that where the system ^ is used
virtual • , i slavery .
exists. . The jury found,
however, that this method of working
negroes was employed by only twenty
men in the county and these were
presented, and will be indicted, for
false imprisonment at the Jane term
of court.
The free laborers h ave been whipp-
ed and shackled, and in one instance
a brought man was kidnaped in Georgia and
to a stockade in the countv,
where he was worked until the grand
jury found him and he was set at lib-
trty. The report was prepared by a
committee of five and was adopted by
the full jury. It says in part-
“A. T. Newell works state 'convicts
and has a stockade, but he has worked
no free laborers along with the con-
victs until recently, when he has taken
two contracts of that sort. One of
these was the case of the unfortunate
negro, Mill Hull, who was killed by
W.-S. Newell a few weeks ago,
“J. R. Miller formerly worked eop-
victs, but they were taken away by the
sta»e and he now employes only ‘free*
labor, if indeed we may use the word
‘free’ to describe those laborers who
have signed his contracts and subject-
ed themselves to the conditions exist-
ing on his farm. He has a stockade
which was originally built for his state
convicts.
“On onr first investigation at this
place we were met by a statement from
the negroes that they were satisfied
with their treatment, but their man-
ner indicated coercion > and subse-
quently we made further investigation,
which convinced us that J. R. xMiller
and his overseer, J. A. Emerson, had
been guilty of whipping negroes,
locking them up at night, of working
them under guard, and putting shack¬
les upon them.
“In many respects, the moat re¬
markable case coming under our notice
was that of Elias McGee, who has
never employed state convicts, but
who built a stockade aud prepared to
treat his laborers as convicts. Some
of the negroes had been arrested and
signed contracts after being put under
arrest. We think the grand jury
should make presentments against
Elias McGee, and we so recommend.
“W. Q. Hammond runs a large farm
iu this county and employs a consid¬
erable number both of state convicts
and ‘free’ laborers. His contracts pro¬
vide that the ‘free’ laborers Bhall be
worked under guard and locked up at
'night, and they suffer this illegal na- "
prisonment and more, for the evidence
shows that a number of these unfortu¬
nates have been worked under guard
aud gnu, have been locked up at night
aud on Sundays, and have been shack¬
ed and whipped. Several of these,
who had been indicted last fall for
gambling, bad been taken out of jail
on bond by Mr. Hammond and kept at
his farm without trial until this invest
tigation began, when he surrendered
them to the sheriff.
“The negro, Tom Parks, whose case
was called to the attention of the grand
jury by the presiding judge, was re¬
leased almost immediately thereafter.
He was then taken forcibly and with¬
out trial, under one of the harsh con-
tracts above referred to, and confined
in the stockade and worked with the
convicts aud suffered the other abuses
above mentioned until this investiga¬
tion was begun.
The report contains a list of free
laborers who ware whipped at various
times, and recites an instance where
one of them received one hundred
lashes.
Judge Benet after reading the secret
evidence taken by the committee, said
it contained “pitiful details of lopg
imprisonment, without even the mock¬
ery of a trial ; whippings, kidnapings,
from one county to another, and even
from Georgia.”
He declared the grand jury had his
profound thanks, aud those of the
state of South Carolina for the fear¬
less, thorough discharge of their duty.
He deprecated the unjust criticisms
of northen newspapers, and declared
that South Carolina would not send
her dirty linen to a federal laundry.
The threat of congressional interfer¬
ence was absurd. Such talk did harm.
It hurt the negroes’ cause.
The solicitor will briDg indictments
against these planters at the June
term of court.
To Disband Negro Troops.
The recommendation of Col. Phil
G. Byrd, former adjutant general of
Georgia, that the negro troops in the
state be disbanded has awakened the
interest of military men all over the
state.
Chandler Heads Commission.
^Senator W. E. Chandler, of New
has been selected to be
B^the ^^ther Spauish appointments claims com- will
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Prayers of Bis Wife Lieads Him
to Accept an Armistice.
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DEWET ___ AND STEYN OBSTINATE
Kitchener Reports to War Depart¬
ment Satisfactory Progress
Toward Pacification.
A London special says: General
Kitchener he, granted General Both.
a seven days’ armistice to enable him
to confer with the other generals,
A special dispatch from Pretoria.
dated Frida y- fia y 3 General Kitchener
General Botha had a lenthy con-
ference on Gun Hill I riday mornins'
General Botha was alone and General
Kitchener was accompanied bv bis sec¬
retary.
The Daily Chronicle, referring to
the armistice at Pretoria, says:
“lhe untiring agent in bringing
about the negotiations was Mrs. Botha,
who was deeply affected by the hope-
less plight of the Boers,
1“’' H V^ Fg*** °, f request 27th was to
wiener " replied r fTl that 9 a ^ general ms. Lord am-
J r ty !S?ii“” 7°"^ be ?. t ranted ,St °n to 11 all risoQ who
P*. those Cape Dutch, P -
* x * e who,
being British subjects, had actively
°“ ented Boer resistance. General
et and M r ' wer *> however;
?, 7 excluded . from the amnesty,
T L ? rd Kltcbener further ^ promised
fh that . lf P eaCts were concluded the gov-
arnment would assist in rebuilding the
farm houses and other buildings de-
8troy f r « la8ta . un ?“ te Jf <he m \ lawful ht «y owners exigencies, aud
' ' sfo( * fbeir farE o s -
^ be hose « cl guilty « d ed from of acts the of benefits. treachery would
( f eQeral B ot ha appeared to be sat-
; - i be ditious
ar 8 e ! J ,. wl being , *. con arranged. and He the
“ 18 ca P ro-
d to «>nsult his officers, a vast
. dv of whom
accepted the terms,
Dewet and bteyn both remained
j ^ . rrecoac erms D i I ewet able adding They that declined on his part any
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the had beco “ a one of revenge,
and he intended to do all the mischief
he could.
“It is possible that the original ar¬
mistice of a week has been extended.
is believed that the remainder of
Botha’s officers have
won around and that he is likely
make formal submission to Lord
March 11th, when his force
surrender to General French.
“According to our information Lord
dispositions made the
capture of General Botha’s
quite certain. General Botha
accepted the situation and was
treated by Lord Kitchener at both in-
terviews with the greatest consider¬
ation.”
“The negotiations between Lord
Kitchener and General Botha are in
abeyance,” says the Pretoria corres¬
of The Times, writing Wed¬
nesday, “pending an answer from the
British government.”
Dispatches from Amsterdam aud
Brussels say that Mr. Kruger’s entour¬
continues to profess ignorance of
the existence of negotiations declaring
that General Botha cannot act for the
Orange Free State and that, in any
Lord no terms are possible unless
Kitchener is prepared to discuss
independence.
Lord Kitchener reporting under
date of March 7tb, says:
“The Boers failed in their deter¬
mined attack upon Lichtenburg. Our
losses, besides the two officers previ¬
ously reported, were fourteen men
killed and twenty wounded. The Boer
General Celliors was killed.
“French reports further captures of
a fourteen pounder Crensot, with car¬
riage and limber complete, and one
Hotchkiss, making a total of seven
guns. The total number of Boers
known to have been placed hors du
combat siirce the eastern operations
began is 979.”
Adding to his last report, Lord
Kitchener states that 169 rifles, 24,970
pounds of ammunition, 183 horses,
1,240 trek oxen, 3,920 cattle, 13,580
sheep, 100 wagons and carts and large
quantities of forage have been cap¬
tured without casualties iu Cape Col¬
ony.
TO THWART RUSSIANS.
United States and England are Having
Secret Negotiotions.
A London Special says: A crisis
has arisen in far eastern affairs, which
in the opinion of the British govern¬
ment is graver almost than the troubles
which originally turned the eyes of
the world toward the orient. Secret
negotiations are going on between .the
United States and Great Britain with
a view to thwarting what both govern¬
ments appear to consider a determin¬
ed attempt on the part of Russia to
plant herself jjermanentiy in one of
the richest tracts of the Chinese em-
pire.
JURY IN NATION CASE
Deliberates Two Mourn Over the Evidence
But Fails To Make Verdict.
The case of Mrs. Carrie NatioD,
Lucy Withers, Julia Evans and Lydia
Muntz, charged with wrecking the ex¬
terior of John one Herrig’s saloon
January 21st, was given to the jury at.
Wichita, Kas., Saturday afternoon,
and after deliberating two hours no
verdict was reached. Judge Dale
finally instructed the jury to bring in
ft sealed verdict.,
ADEL. BERRIEN COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. MARCH 15, 1901.
GEORGIA NEWS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
New Military Advisory Board.
Candler has selected
tbe new milit ary advisory board
to serve for tbe ensuing two years,
and the names have been announced
iu an order issued by Adjutant Gener*
al James W. Bobinson.
The advisory board is composed of
eleven members selected from the vari-
ous military organizations of the state,
and performs the important functions
of investigating and passing upon mat-
ever, go to the governor in the shape
of recommendations aud he may act
in accordance with them or not as he
sees fit.
Itight upon the heels of the order
appointing the new board order No. 4
was issued from the office of Adjutant
General Robertson, calling a meeting
nt the capitol at 10 o’clock on Sntur-
day, March 23d.
Just what will come before the ad-
visory board at that time is not
known. Governor Candler stated,
however, that there were no matters
of importance to be considered, and
that the meeting of the board was
more for the purpose 1 r of complying
with the law than anything else.
The board will probably be called
upon to take formal action with refer¬
ence to the four new companies recenly
organized to be connected with the
First regiment, infantry. The organ-
ization of a battalion of heavy artillery
from the Savannah Volunteer Guards
left four vacancies in the First regi-
ment, and there have been at least
twenty applications of companies de-
siring to get into the state service since
that time. While it has pratically
beeu determined where the four new
companies will be located, and three
of them have already been mustered
in, no formal actiou on the matter has
ever beeu taken by the advisory board,
It has also been reported that the
subject of the negro military companies
of the state, with reference to the re-
commendation recently made by As-
sistaut Adjutant General Phil G. Byrd,
that they be disbanded, will be fully
discussed.
ICailrontl Charter Amended.
Secretary of State Philip Cook has
issued an amendment to the charter of
the Bruton andPineora Railroad Com¬
pany authorizing the extension of its
road from Register to Statesboro in
Buliock county. This will give the
road a connection with the Dover and
Statesboro road at Statesboro.
Ha New Kali road Company.
A petition is to be filed with Secre-
tary of State Philip Cook asking fop
the incorporation of the Dalton and
Alaculsy Railroad Company. The road
will be fixty-six miles in length and
will run from Dalton through Whit-
field in a northeasterly direction
through Murray county to Blue Ridge
iu Fannin county.
The headquarters of the company
will be located in Dalton and prepara-
tions have already begun to complete
the survey, construct, equip and oper¬
ate the line. It is expected that work
will be completed within four or six
months.
Trustees Ma-t Report.
In view of the multiplicily of bank-
ruptcy cases the following order issued
by Judge Speer bas a wide range of
interest.
It is by the court ordered that the
referees in bankruptcy appointed in
and for the Southern district of Geor-
gia do forthwith ascertain and report
in writing to the court.
First. The separate amounts de-
posited for each case in the designated
depositories of the court by trustees
heretofore appointed in bankruptcy
cases, in their respective districts.
Second. Whether any trustee in
bankruptcy has delayed or failed to
m-.ike the deposit conformably to the
order of the court made and entered
on the 31st day of December, 1898.
Partial Dividend to Be Paid.
Orders have been issued by Judge
Pardee, of the United States circuit
court, directing the Receivers for the
Southern Home and the Atlanta Na-
tioual Building and Loan Associations
to declare a partial dividend of 25 per-
cent upon the withdrawal value of the
non-borrowing stock, aggregating in
the ca r e of the first named corporation
$300,000, and of the latter $220,000, to
be paid to all.holdei's filed ofjnon-borrowing
stock who have or file with the
receivers within thirty days certificates
of their stock. The Southern Home
Association bas now on hand $75,000,
and the Atlanta National $55,000.
New Job For Spence.
President McKinley sent to the sen¬
ate, before that body adjourned, the
nomination of Robert E. L. Spence,
of Georgia, to be a captain in tbe reg¬
ular army. The promotion of Spence
is a recognition of his gallant services
in the Philippines, where he is now a
major of volunteers. In the old reg¬
ular army Spence is a first lieutenant
of the Sixteenth infantry. He now
goes up to a captaincy in the new army
as soon as he is mustered out of the
volunteer service.
Austell Editor Suicides.
The dead body of R. E. Elliott, ed-
itorof The Austell News, was discov-
ered iu a room iu the Folsom hotel in
Atlanta. He committed suicide by
swallowing morphine, and had P re-
pared himself for burial by taking a
bath, shaving himself and dressing in
a neat suit of black. - s
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
Iu a letter found by his side andad-
dressed to a physician in the city he
stated that he had arranged every-
thing so that he could be buried with-
out trouble to any one. In the same
letter were instructions about his fu¬
neral.
The snioide had been deliberate and
wa s carefully planned and carried ont.
Iu accordance with the dead man’s
wishes the body was sent to Gaines-
ville, where it was met by his brother,
who conducted it to his old home at
Dawsonville.
No reason why Elliott should have
killed himself has been determined, as
his business is said to have been iu a
prosperous condition,
Rumored Rnilroud Beal.
A -p.ci.Uo The Chattanooga Time.
ff 01 ?, ^ ew York says that it is authen-
Leally stated in that city that the sale
fh® Chattanooga, Rome and-South-
ern road, from Chattanooga to Car-
r£> Hton, Ga., has been made to tho
°, WQer8 ° f the Central of Georgia
fhrongh the Southern J. Pieipoat railroad, Morgan, "which thus giv-
,n 8 cou¬
trols the Central, a new outlet to the
8 <? SoTlthern ut *V The Chattanooga. m>les length Rome and and
» in
was originally built to connect Chat¬
tanooga with Rome, Ga. It is stated
that the purchase of the road by the
Central means the construction, at.
^’ of , tbe Stovenaon extension ... from
a a f° 0 .®? ,.° evenson, Ala., to
connect with the Memphis division.
Comity In Charge of Camps.
The McRee convict camp ques-
Don has been settled. A cotumu-
nidation received at the office of
the prison commission a day or two
a S° from the county commissioners of
Lowndes county states that they have
assumed control of tbe convicts who
have been iu the hands of the McRee
brothers and have appointed a captain
and guards to maintain the proper care
and watch over them,
This action on the part of the eom-
missioners of Lowndes county is due
to a recent order from Gov. Candler,
recommended by the prison commis-
aion, abolishing the McRee camp so
f ftr as the lease of convicts to private
pastieB is concerned. The convicts
will hereafter be controlled entirely by
the commissioners through its cap-
tains and guards,
* * *
Columbus Oets New Depot,
The deal for Columbus’s new uniou
depot was formally closed a day or two
ago, when the commissioners of com¬
mons gave the Central of Georgia rail¬
way a deed to a certain lot adjoining
the present depot,'and the railroad
handed over $5,000. Under the terms
of the deed, work on the new passen¬
ger station must begin by at least July
1st. All railroads now entering the
cit v . or that may hereafter enter, are
.
t0 be ff iven trackage aud privileges in
‘he station, tln*«beiug expressly staled
in the deed.
Alleged Wrecker Bound Over.
The preliminary hearing at Atlanta
of Leslie Scott, a negro, charged with
attempting to wreck a train on the
Southern railway on the night of Feb-
ruary 17th by sawing a sleeper of a
trestle at Peaohtree station, near At¬
lanta, resulted iu the negro being
bound over in default of $300 bond to
await the action of the superior court.
Executions Issued Against Road.
Comptroller General W. A. Wright
has issued thi’ee executions agaiust
*he Still more Air Line railroad for
i ax ® a - One of them was in favor of
Tattnall county, another for Emanuel
aad tb e third for the state.
SPAIN’S NEW CABINET.
PMmler Sagneta Announces Personnel
of Hlg Minlslry.
A special from Madrid says: The
Spanish cabinet is constituted as fol-
lews :
Premier, Senor Sagasta; minister
of foreign affairs, Senor Almodovar ;
minister of finance, Senor Usaiz ;
minister of war, . General Weyler ;
minister of the interior, Senor Mo-
rot; minister of marine, Duke of
Yeragua; minister of public works,
Senor Villameva; minister of public
instruction, Senor Romanones.
The portfolio of minister of justice
Las Dot J et been alIotted -
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PORTO RICANS PRESENT PROTEST
Two Commissioners From Island Given
Audience President McKInl^,
The president, Monday mornifl^*
granted a special audience to Messrs.
Wencesla Border, Jr., and Vicente
Baibas, members of the Porto Rican
commission which was appointed at a
mass meeting of the citizens of the
island held at San Juan on February
2d to protest against the law enacted
by fhe legislature known as the Hol¬
lander bill. This measure provides for
the raising of revenue by property and
excise taxes. /
The commissioners presented a for¬
mal protest, which enumerated a series
of eighteen objections to the law.
WARRANTS WILL ISSUE.
“Slave-Holding” Planters In South Caro¬
lina Are To Be Prosecuted.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Judge W. C. Benet has signed an or¬
der requiring the presentment of the
grand jury to be served on the several
magistrates in whose jurisdiction the
“slave-holding” planters of Anderson
resl de * requiring them to issue war-
rants A against the presented men and
“nd them over to court for trial op
tbe cbar «® false imprisonment and
assault and battery of a high and ag-
gravated nature.
Jadge Benet will not hold court in
Anderson m June and this action goes
to foe limit of his authority. \
ORTALHAOE’S SERriON
The Eminent Divine’* Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: Tlio Printed Word-A Call Fora
Warm Friendship Between Those
Who Make Newspapers and Those
Who Preach the Gospel.
[Copyright 1901,1
Dr. Washington. D. C.—In this discourse
between Talmage those calls for preach a warm the gospel friendship and
those who
who make newspapers, the spoken
word and the printed word to go side by
side} this text. Luke xvi, 8, ‘‘The children of
world children are in their generation wiser
than the of light.”
Sacred stupidity and solemn incompe¬
buked tency and sanctified laziness are here re¬
wider by Christ, He says worldlings are
awake for opportunities than are
Christians. Men of the world grab occa¬
sions, valuable while Christian people let the most
That is the occasions drift of dv Lord unimproved. He
“The meaning children of our this world when
them says, are in
^generation wiser than the children
A marked illustration of the truth of
that maxim is in the slowness of the
Christian religion to take possession of the
secular press, The opportunity is open,
and has been for some time open, but
the ministers of religion are for the
moat part allowing the golden opportunity
to pass unimproved. That the opportu¬
all nity is open I declare from the fact that
the secular newspapers are glad of any
religious them. facts or statistics animated that and you pre¬
sent Any stirring
article relating to religious They themes they
would gladly print. thank vou for
any information in regard to churches. If
a wrong has been done to any Christian
church or Christian institution, you could
go into any newspaper office of the land
and have the real truth stated. Dedica¬
tion services, ministerial ordinations and
pastoral of church, installations, anniversary cornerstone of charitable laying
a a
society will have reasonable space in any
secular journal if it have previous notice
given. had injustice done
If I some great me.
there is not an editorial or reportorial
room in the United States into which I
could not go and get myself set rieht, and
that is true of any well-known Christian
man. glorious
Why, then, does not our Chris¬
tianity tunities? embrace these before magnificent oppor¬
first and last I have me How a subject of
importance: shall we
enforcement secure the secular religion press and aa a,mightier the puljiit? re-
to
The first thing toward this result is
cessation newspaperdom. of indiscriminate You might hostility against
as well de¬
nounce the legal medical profession profession because because of the
shysters or the
of the swindling bargain makers as to
slambang editors newspapers and unfair because there and are
recreant reporters the
unclean columns. Gutenberg, inventor
of the art of printing, was about to de¬
stroy his it types suggested and extinguish hirn the that art print¬ be¬
cause might was subornfed td
the ing devil, but be afterward into he bethought the service him¬ of
self that the right use of the art might
more than overcome the evil use of it,
and so he spared the typo find the intelli-
gence of all following ages. depressed But there are
Gutenberg, many to-day with in uplifted the hammer, mood of
want¬
ing to reached pound his to pieces the mood type, who have
not the of Letter printing be in the which he
saw of the art world illumination. to rising
s
spend If, instead of fighting newspapers, we
the same length of time and the
same vehemence in marshaling their help
in religious directions, we would be as
much wiser as the man who gets consent
of the railroad superintendent to fasten a
car to the end of a rail train shows better
sense than he who runs his drive wheelbarrow
up the track to meet and back the
Chicago The silliest limited express. that
is fight thing for a man ever does
to a newspaper, you may have
the floor for utterance perhaps for one day
in the week, while the newspaper has the
floor Napoleon, every day though in the week.
weaknesses, and a mighty of the man, had
many did one weakest
the things English he ever was to did threaten that if
newspapers not stop their
adverse criticism of himself he would, with
400,000 bayonets, cross the channel for
their chastisement.
Don’t fight newspapers. Attack pro¬
vokes attack. Better wait until the ex¬
citement blows over, and then go in and
get justice, for get it you will if you have
of patience disposition. and common sense and equipoise
It ought to be a mighty sedative that
there is an enormous amount of common
sense in the world, and you will eventually
be taken for what you are really and worth,
and you cannot be puffed aud up, if you ean- the
not be written down, you are
enemy of good society that fact will come
out, and if you are the friend of good so¬
ciety that fact will be established.
I know what I am talking experience. about, All for the I
can draw on my own
respectable newspapers, as far as I know,
are my friends now. But many of you re¬
member the time when I was the most
continuously and God meanly attacked man in
this country. gave me grace not to
answer back, and I kept silence for ten
years, and much grace and was twisted required. into What just
I said was perverted of what I did There
the opposite millions of people who believed say. that
were pulpit, al¬
there was a large sofa in my
though we never bad anything but a ch air,
and that during the singing by the con-
greg&tion I was accustomed to lie down
on that sofa and dangle my feet over the
end. Lying New misrepresented York correspondents church
for ten years and people our from
services. But we waited,
every neighborhood of Christendom came
there, there, to to find rind the the magnitude magnitude of ot the false-
hoods concerning the church and concern-
ing myself. A reaction set in, and soon
we had justice, full justice, more than jus¬
tice, and as much overpraise and as once that we
had underappreciation, lived much indebted no man the
ever was so to
newspaper press for opporunity to preach
the Young gospel as I in am. the ministry,
men young men
in all professions and occupations, wait.
representation You can afford to wait. Turkish Take towel rough mis¬
as a to start
1 your languid circulation or a system
massage or Swedish movement, whose
pokes and pulls and twists .and thrusts are
salutary There treatment. is only need to
and that*is one yourself. person you Keep
manage, confmunion with your
dispositions Christ, who sweet answered by again,
not get so-
ciety of genial people arid walk __________ out i n the
sunsmne shine with with your your hat nat off and you will
come out all right. And don’t join the
crowd of people in damning our day who spend
much of their time newspapers.
Again, in this effott to secure the secu-
lar press as a mightier re-enforcement of
religion, let us make it the avenue of re-
ligious information. If you would secure
the press as a mightier re-enforcement of
religion and the pulpit extend Widest and
highest Christian courtesies to the repre-
sentatives of journalism. Give jthem easy
chairs ana plenty oi room wnen tnev come
to report occasions. For the most part
they are gentlemen-of education and re-
finement, dies to support graduates by of their Colleges, literary with craft, fam-
many of them weary with the push of a
business that is precarious and fluctuating,
each one of them the avenue of mfomation
to thousands of readers, their impression
of the services to be the impression
adopted by multitudes. They are connect-
ing links between a sermon population or a song that or
a prayer, and this great day by
tramp up and down the streets
dav and year by year with their sorrows
uncomforted and their thousands sins unpardoned. of pegjjlo
Ob, the hundreds of
in our cities who never attend churches.
Our cities are not so "reached to ny
a.l ministers journalists of religion into as by reporters. Put
Of all the hundred our prayers and ser¬
mons. thousand ser¬
mons three preached to-day there -will not be
bly preached to.journalists and proba¬
rist one: Of all the ora vers offered for
classes of men innumerable the prayers of-
!u thought red l a tJie preacher's tnrtst potetitittl idiosyncrasy. class will There be
: herships. ire pl-tny but journalists in our church lUMfei
brought this world will neveri (Mmlm m|
to-God until some revival takesBH
tlie lgion kingdom sweeps over the land and rendM&
of Goil all editors,
compositors, pressmen and newahoym
And if you have not faith enough srft to to pray
*"*. that w, “ fc and “ uu toil 1011 foi- i°r that that you ■ ' had better
get out of our ranks and joifi the other
side, for you are the unbelievers who
make the -jvhee.s of the Lord’s chariot
again, i do not think the modern Sunday
wnl turn Out any better men and women
than were your grandfathers and grand¬
mothers under the old-fashioned Sunday.
To say nothing of other results. Sunday
compositors newspapers are and killing editors, reporters,
and child pressmen. ‘ Every . man,
woman four hours of nothing is entitled ... to twenty-
to do. If the : news- “that
papers put on another set of hands
docs not relieve the editorial and - renor-
torial wtiitti ties. ties. Our Our room literary literary of ibs its cttres cares anil and die die fast fast resp responsibili¬ enough
men men
without All things killing them possible with Sundav work°'" ......
are with God, and
my faith is up until nothing in the y of
religious the victory printing would surprise me All
newspaoer presses of the
earth are going to be tbe Lord's, and tele¬
graph and telephone arid type will yet an¬
nounce nations born in a day. The first
book ever printed was the Bible, by Faust
and that his consecration son-in-law-, of Schoeffer, in 1460. and
Scriptures prophecy type to of the Holy
was ft the great
mission of printing for the evangelization
of all the nations. The father of the
American printing press was a clergyman,
Rev. Je?se Glover, and that was a pro¬
phecy of the religious use that the gospel
ministry m this country were to make of
the types. *
The tendency of criticism in the theo¬
logical seminaries is to file off from our
young men all the sharp po.ints and make
them too smooth for any kind of execu¬
tion. What we want, all of us, is niOre
point, less humdrum. If we sav the right
thing m the right way. the press will be
giad and echo and he-Cclio it. Sunday-
school teachers, reformers, young men
and old men in the ministry, what we all
want if we are to make the printin' -1 ' prees
tween urag nervuy. truth and inc great nnal cattle be-
C-rror. the Armageddon, l
think, will not be fought With swords and
shells and guns, but with pens—qtiill pe nc.
steel pens, gold pens, fountain pens arid
before that the pens must be converted.
The most diviridy honored weapon of the
past, has been the pen, arid the most di¬
vinely honored weapon of the fiitur'S Will
be the pen—prophet’s pen, and evangel-
ist’g pen and apostle’s pen, followed by
editor’s pep find author’s r pen and report¬
er’s pen. God save the peri! The wing
of the Apocalyptic angel will be the
printed page. The printing press will toll
ahead of Christ's chariot to clear the way.
make “But,” Sunday some one might also ask, “would you
have newspapers a re-enforce¬
ment? I learned to take things as
thev are. I would like to gee the much
scoffed at old Puritan Sabbaths come back
the an any m Christian work is that which
reporter spoken of suggested—points,
sharp the thing points, memorable uttered points. But if
he dead when by living
voice it will be a hundredfold more dead
when it is laid out in cold type.
That Providence intends the profession
of reporters to have a mighty share in the
world’s redemption is Suggested by the
fact that Paul and Christ took a reporter
addresses along with them, and he reported their r
and their acts.
Luke-wa« a reporter, and be waste no
only the book of Luke, but the Acts of
the work Apostles, would and without known that reporter’s
we have nothing of
martyrdom, the Pentecost, and nothing of of Stephen’s
urrection, and and nothing the Tabitha’s jailing and res-
unjailing of Paul nothing umd Silas, of and nothing
of the shipwreck at Melita.
Strike out the reporter’s work from the
Bible, New Testament. and you kill a large part of the
It makes me think that
in the future of the kingdom of God the
reporters About twenty-five are to bear a mighty part.
tative of important years ago York a represen¬
took an his in New Brooklyn news¬
paper seat my church
one the front Sunday the night about five pews from
of pulpit. He took out pen¬
cil and reporter’s pad, resolved to carica¬
ture the whole scene. When the music be¬
gan, he began, and with his pencil he de¬
rided that, and then derided the prayer,
and then derided the reading of ♦ the
Scriptures, But, and he then began to deride the
sermon. says, for some reason
his hand began to tremble, and he, rally-
started ing himself, again, sharpened but his pencil and and
broke down again
then put pencil and paper in his pocket
and his head down on the front pew and
began he to pray. At the close of the service of
came ur> and asked for the prayers
others, and gave his heart to God. And,
thougn still engaged in newspaper wont,
he is an evangelist and hires a hall at his
own expense and every Sunday afternoon
preaches Jesus Christ to the people.
And the men of that profession are
going to come I know m hundreds a body throughout of them, and the
country. genial highly of a
more or educated class
men it would be hard to find, and, though
the tow-ard tendency skepticism, of their profession may be
gospel invitation an organized would fetch common them
sense
to the front of all Christian endeavor.
Men of the pencil and pen in all depart-
ments, you need the help of the Christian
religion. In the day when people want to
&
any of them at one cent, the and as a conse-
quence the attaches of printing press
are by the thousand ground under the cy¬
linders, you want God to take care of you
and your families.
Borne of your best work is as much un-
appreciated as was Milton’s “Faradise
Lost,” and for which the author “Hohenlinden” received $25, of
the immortal poem
Thomas Campbell when he first offered it
for publication, and in the column called
‘On Linden when the sun was low’ are not
up to our standard. Poetry is not T. C.'s
rorte.”
O men of the pencil and pen, amid your
unappreciated, work have' you need encourage- all
ment, and you it. Printers of
Christendom, Christendom, editors, editors, publishers reporters, reporters, and readers composi- composi-
tors, pressmen, oi
that which is printed, resolve that you
will not write, set up, edit, issue or read
anything that debases body, mind or soul.
In the name of God, by the laying on of
the hands or faith and prayer, ordain the
printing press for righteousness and
and salvation. All of us with some
ence that will help m the right girnr«|
let ing us God put to our hasten hands the to consummation. rhe^vork, lmpffl
.
a ship with hundreds of passengers a
proachmg the the lookout couth American neglected his e ? as t
man on
and m a few minutes the ship ?oeks. < o .
been cashed to rum on tbe
cricket on board the \ esse! ^ that ha »
.cad no sound at the all smell tb e of , v land, °y a ? e and th« :p .pi* - jj
the knowmg,foat vessel m time habit t o^void oi tto an msed^topptfl awful^wrec^
wonders, Ana “ an ^ ” V^ serruh ^ of a’ P nen mayl T
Joe °f ®L , thi
save ilrif thp ; i treat? f
4 «oferan s en ne g G
contract. a «ie the
proposed an( i evan .
ordm*RWol and the ,u the foimor i^ntmg^pr on my ss. -
pnaie{that_I publish ffobanu* P®H£!SH of sd
Let the
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Trouble Arose Over Ai H.
Trival Affair— Rah
‘‘Down With A me
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A special from San J^an,
Rico, says: A serious riot- o
here yesterday. At 6 o’clock
evening five artillerymen aud t
ral of artillery, named Hisoo<
their guard post without ord
charged across the p!aza*into i
:n whijU a mol) of people had
bled The soldiers fired a roll
the air, dispersed the mob a ’
School Superintendent A
who was besieged by the
~.
house situated about a block 1
city center.
The city had been overrun b
ous crowd of probably 1,500
who shouted, “Down with tip
cans.”
ed The ten superintendent year-old girl for had disobediB rejjfiui^N
a
and forcibly, but harmlessly, mafH
her to tbe front from the rear
desk school and room. Her dress and canghMj giflj
was torn, the bad^M
ported to her mother that she
nicked and al used. This evoke*! ofH
satioiKiI stories, and some
school boys paraded the street*! andH
were joined by many superintendent loafeTS
grown men. The
policemen who escorted’ 5- him*H
stoned in tire streets, and foe-AW
cans sought refuge in the Intend!®
building. ordet -
At 5 o’clock Governer Allen
the mayor to disperse the mob,.notiS go!
ing him that he should ask foe nehl
eminent assistance if he was in ignorei'
of it. The mayor, however,
this notification, although the eitj
police were powerless.
At 5:30 p. m. the offices were closed
and Martin C. Brumbaugh, the corn
missioner of education of Porto Rico,
asked for protection of his office and
hotel.
A treasury clerk, who was one
the men who ejected rioters from t
Intendencia, was attacked, eton
disarmed by a mob. : :
Tlie insular police were not
neon. untiLfi o’clock p. m., win
mentidneu' *2SlUfc in-
without orders. -*-■
Meantime, the city police had fin
about one hundred shots, mostly
the air, for there were no casualtie
Several other Americans beside t;
treasury clerk were stoned from roc
and balconies.
Corporal Hiseoek has been plae
under arrest, and probably will
tried by courtmartial. 1..-
PROFESSOR ----!—■ IS ROUBLE.
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I u<11 -crept School Muster Insults Fan-tor's
Wife aixl Gets In Jail. A*
An Atlanta dispatch says: “P,
sor ing G. B. flourishing Bird, who has viiy®i|Mifcfc JpjgM^con •
a
Cedar Grove, twelve miles tr r m
lanta, was brought t<Mhe eixjtim 4
night and locked up
police barracks on the _ . charges
*„*„,„”* su Uing the wife of Calvin B*. Mot
Lxrmei of DeKalb nmnri county, g : * t
Bird is a young men aon ^
connected in the state. He has bwrietl.
th whole affliir am j a ffi rmii every-
thing .. which . - , Mrs. , r ,,____ Moore , has „ toltf.on, .- ,!» •
v
him. He claims that at the time-he.
insulted Mrs. Moore he was n
irresponsible f on account of a
whisky . . and „ , morphine which '
taken for neuralgia. ; mS&m
GIBSON GETS TOGA. JPj
Monfap . T.c B isJatnre Fin a ily Blect
„ to _ „ S ^‘ „ a tor . _
A special from Helena, , Mont., \
^if past 3 o’clock Friday ±Sl n
««"f ,
that it was not yet mianign
Paris Gibson, Democrat, oi
Falls, was elected United S
tor for the term expiring
1905. T,
p or almost the
leg siature +n tnat 0 i. Krwt-* Doay
daily for a senator, bi
After taking a few
morning witKOTit ittd
the joint assembly to
11 o’clock, at which
session ending with
yj* Gibson. Wi
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