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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 WE A a '\ «; gjfwgj •; . i % ;fe...; •*• . ::*:% *. 1 ; • ¥ ‘ Sis GEN. BOTHA (iflELDS ; Prayers of Bis Wife Lieads Him to Accept an Armistice. 1 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 * 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 - --- 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 POTTO R Are Quickly Qaella gfeCan Soldiers at ■■+ Si Trouble Arose Over Ai H. Trival Affair— Rah ‘‘Down With A me ■ - 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. \ ^ ^ 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 ■ __ loililg .ui. hu , The c American ____________ xo K ^ from <1 for New ,,__, Yor a y Ad sen g er g was United United ^ States co private tH frgonia, Kas Irday I'O night 1 in cash anc t Defaulter Sal Broi A CincL j