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fH j ARP S LPT 1 I L ll. CR1TICI3M9 BY THE PRESS OF TODAY ARE INTOLERANT. The Sag* of Bar ow “ees Many Things He Don’t * Like. There is a lamentable usage of the press and of partisans flaring election times, and that is the wanton, out¬ rageous abuse of the other fellow and the other side. 1 have not seen any such abuse of McKinley by the demo¬ cratic press, but the northern republi¬ can journals just teem with the vilest and most malicious slanders of Bryan and his platform. He is deuouuced and cartooned as tho arch anarchist and repndiator; a tool of the silver mines; a babbling boy; a skv scraper; a bag of wind, and the punka of the Platte. 1 don’t know what punka means, but suppose it is some very bad thing like a polecat. His Madison Square speech which Ingalls said was a very great speech, is ridiculed as an abortion, a chestnut, a miserable fail¬ ure ; and they cartoon him as a little sopiiomoro-schoolboy orator. This is very bad policy. The pt ople of all parties know that Bryan is a very elo¬ quent, smart and sincere mail aud the reaction comes when such slaudersare med against him. The jubilant, guy¬ ing tone of the republican press re minds one of Goliath and David— “And when the Philistine saw David he disdained him for lie was but a youth, and whePhilistine cursed David by his gods and ho said come to me and L will give thy flesh to the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field.” Fortunately for the country both of our candidates for president have char¬ acters above reproach and clean re¬ cords in their public life and are en¬ dowed with very high qualifications in statesmanship. The one elected can¬ not make a law. Then why abuse him? Each has a host of friends aud it wounds a man’s feelings to hear his favorite, bis leader, his idol, as it were,lampooned and villified by penny- a-liner scribblers, who have no con¬ ception of what constitutes true great¬ ness. There is no manliness or good breeding in the modern modes of con¬ ducting a political canvass. I beard an old veteran say today that he had not intended to vote for Governor At¬ kinson, but since Watson and Wright were denouncing him for pardoning that man Hinton ha had changed his mind and should support him. “Can didates are in a desperate strait,” said he, “when they resort to such dema- gogistn as that. Hinton ought to have been pardoned. The governor has shown more consideration for negro convicts and pardoned more of them than any governor we have had.” Hatiug the railroads and loving the negro are still campaign capital. It is all a lie, of course, for no sensible man does either to any extent in his heart. He says he does, so as to catch votes, but he knows that he is a hypo¬ crite when ho says it. Such declara¬ tions are* about as sincero as newspa¬ per editorials and governors’ procla¬ mations against lynching negroes for their horrible outrages. It is all for buncombe. I’ve forgotten that fel¬ low’s name, but I have always admired him for hie frankuess. When he was reminded by tho speaker that every body bad left the house ho replied: “That’s all right, sir, I’m not speak ing for them at all, sir. I’m speaking for Buncombe, my county, sir, aud my constituents, for it will be print ed, sir.” And he kept on with his ar- gument. But the way I read it iu the goldbug papers the republicans are not as jubi¬ lant as they were. They are some what alarmed even about tho state of New York. I see in yesterday’s pa¬ pers that the rich women of New York city havo organized female McKinley clubs iu every ward and they have parceled out tho work and are to visit the tenement houses and canvass among the toilers. I read McKinley’s letter to these women bidding them godspeed and saying he was glad to see the noble women of this country taking an in¬ terest iu politics. This is no fake. Ir is published in the republican papers and to my mind is the first bad break Mr. McKinley has made. The idea of encouraging women to go canvassing in the slums of great cities for votes looks like alarm to say the least of it. Mr. Bryan has made no break. Every utterance along his travels has been in good taste and entirely proper. He has not boasted of himself nor abused his adversaries aud we are glad to see that the people, the common people, heard him gladly aud treated him with the greatest respect. The other day a fake appeared that for a while astound¬ ed me. The idea that Ben Tillman haj visited Tom Watson to get him to come down and take a cabinet position was monstrous, for Mr. Bryan chooses his own cabinet. He will not buy them, aud if he did Beu Tillman would not be his broker. The average politician seems Bryan. ineapable of measuring Mr. He can’t conceive of a stand¬ ard that is far above mercenary or ambitious motives. Neither will Mr. Bryan tor a moment encourage any It attempt to get Sewall down. would be dishonorable, ami he knows it. What is the matter with Sewall anyhow? Nobody, not even the republican press, has said a word against him, except that his son is a republican. Well, that is hard on the boy, but nothing against the old man save a suspicion that he didn’t whip bim enough and make him stay in at night and keep out of bad companv. These populists pretend they don’t like Sewall because he has stock in a national bank. That’s all hypocrisy. Every one of them would have it, from Tom Watson down, if they could get it. Whenever I hear a pop or aDy- bodv else denouncing rich men hanks and bankers I know that he is a hypocrite in his heart and there is a “treak of envy and meanness and orig- inal sin running down his backbone is big as a fence rail. He has nearly reached a condition of totol depravity, md that’s the law.—B ill Arp in At- anta Oo nsPQiti.in. I LANS OF GOLD MEN. Caffery Will be Permanent Chairman of Indianapolis Convention. An Indianapolis special fays: It is practically settled that United States Senator Donald Caffery of Louisiana, will be Ihe permanent chairman of the national democratic convention to be held in this city next week. He has ■ teen notified of his selection and will He prepared to perform the duties of ;hat office. The question of temporary chairman is not to certain, but it rests between B'-urko Cockran, of New York, aud tioswell P. Flower, of the same state. Mr. Cockran is most spoken of for the place, but as he has not as yet sig¬ nified his iuteution of being present :be honor may fall to Governor Flower. It is now believed that there will be, at least, a semblance of a contest over he nomination to the first place on he third ticket. Many names are mentioned as especially available, and «mong those is that of Grover Cleve- aud. One of the managers of the gold standard movement said, however: “This will be a convention of Mr. Cleveland’s friends. It would not do mything that would offend him. There ias never been the slightest hint from nm that he would accept another omination, and under these circum- fances the convention will not cou¬ nter his name.” Nearly every mail now brings lists f delegates to headquarters. Secre- ary John P. Wilson of the national •ommiltee, is engaged in making up he roll of the convention for submis- lon to the national committee at its neeting Tuesday. It looks now like here will be about 900 delegates in he convention. Every state aud ter¬ ritory except Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah will be represented. Quarters have been reserved for the full delegations from Georgia, Texas md Miehigun. The decorations and rearrangements of Tomlinson hall, in which the eon- vention is to meet, will have been com¬ pleted by Saturday aud it will be turned over to the sergeant-at-arms. COTTON IS SAVED. Further Damage to the Crop Fore¬ stalled by the Rains. The crop bulletin issued by the government weather bureau for the past week declares that cotton was greatly damaged during the week by continued hot, dry weather. Relief was finally had by general rains throughout Georgia. The rains so far have not been sufficient to assure a larger yield than was expected a few days ago, but further damage was re¬ st! ained, if not stopped. The official report in part is as follows: “The past week, up to Sunday, was a repetition of what we have been hav¬ ing for the past month, hot and drv. As a consequence all growing crops have continued to suffer, rendering the outlook more aud more gloomy for the farmer. Good seasonable showers occurred in the northern and cen- tral counties on Sunday and became general over the state Tuesday, rain falling in most sections. While the rains have come too late to do any material good to cotton and much of the corn crop, vegetatiou generally will be greatly revived aud the ground will be put in good order for fall seed-, ing, etc. The cotton crop will fall considerably short of the average. The drought has caused it to shed rap¬ idly aud prematurely, the plant to turn yellow aud rust to spread. Mauy of the late crops will reap considera¬ ble benefit from the rains. Pastures will improve, and stock water, that was becoming very scarce in sections will be replenished. WATSON PREVAILS And Senator Butler Agrees to Notifi¬ cation Arrangements. The difference between the vice presidential nominee of the populists and Senator Marion Butler, chairman of the executive committee of that party, are about to reach an adjust¬ ment. Mr. Watson will have his way about the notification. A conference between Senator Butler, Mr. Watson, Seab Wright aud Mr. H. W. Reed of Brunswick, will occur in Atlanta. At that conference the notification pro¬ gram will be arranged. It is expected to be made by a committee and not by a letter as Senator Allen said it would be. The following letter to Mr. John CuDniDgham, chairman of the people’s party executive committee for Georgia, explains itself. “Chairman John D. Cunningham, Atlanta, Ga. My Dear Sir: Your tele¬ gram received. Bryan and Watson will be notified in due time. It will be almost impossible, however, for this to be done before Mr. Watson makes his trip to Texas. If he goes directly back to Georgia, as your peo¬ ple request, and postpones his western trip for a week or two, it can be done in the meantime. Very respectfully, “Marion Butler, Chairman.” Ex-President Harrison Speaks. Carnegie ball, New York city, was crowded to the doors Thursday night with an enthusiastic audience that bad gathered to hear ex-President Harri¬ son discuss the issues of the campaign. The occasion was a big republican rally, held under the auspices of the republican state committee. Hon. Chauncey M. Depew presided and de¬ livered a stirring address, as did Presi¬ dent David T. Hill, of the Rochester THROUGH GEORGIA. ____ BITS OF NEWS GATHERED FROM OVER Til E ST AT E, Being a Summary of Interesting Hap* penings From Day to Day. Arthur Hanye will be hung at At¬ lanta next Friday. Governor Atkin¬ son has for the second time refused to interfere xvith the verdict of the jury and the sentence of the court. The Eagle and Phoenix mills at Co¬ lumbus will be closed down for two or three weeks. Some important improve¬ ments and repairs are to be made at the flames of the mills, which necessi¬ tates the closing down. The embalmers of Georgia, at their convention in Atlanta the past week, elected the following officers for the ensuing year : President, John F. Bar¬ clay, Atlanta; first vice president, C. L. Torbeit, Columbus; second vice president, F. L. West, Rome; secre¬ tary, C. J. ShelvertoD, Austed ; treas¬ urer, F. L. Wilder, Albany. The state democratic executive com¬ mittee is preparing to send out cam¬ paign literature. It will be literature of a national character—the platform, Bryan’s speeches and public docu ments. Mr. Bryan’s Madison Square Garden speech wil be ready for distri¬ bution in a few days, and it will be sent broadcast over the state. Re¬ quests for Mr. Bryan’s speeches are being received at headquarters iu every mail. Mr. D. N. Burnett, a merchant of Langley, had the misfortune to lose bis house by fire on Sunday night, about 11 o’clock, together with its contents, including $2,300 iu money. There was no one in the house at the time. The fire is supposed to have caught from the explosion of a lamp or from a stove. Mr. Burnett says he had $2,300, mostly iu greenbacks, stored away in the house, there being no other place iu Langley to deposit it, which went up iu smoke. The democratic nominations for congress from this state have all been made. The list shows only five changes. These are Lester, Livings¬ ton, Bartlett, Maddox and Tate, of the first, filth, sixth, seventh and ninth districts respectively. The new men will be Griggs, succeeding Russell in the second; Lewie, succeeding Crisp in the third; Adamson, succeeding Moses in the fourth; Howard, suc¬ ceeding Lawson iu the eighth; Fiem ing, succeeding Black iu the tenth, aud Bartlett, succeeding Turner in the eleventh. Tom Watson will make his last speech in Georgia before taking his long west¬ ern trip on September 4th, in Carters- ville. It will be during Sam Jones’ camp meeting, and the populist man¬ agers expect a large crowd to greet the vice presidential candidate. He will deliver this speech at 11 o’clock iu the morning. That night he takes the tram for Dallas, Tex., where he will speak to the assembled labor organiza¬ tions of Texas on Labor day, Septem¬ ber 7tb. Ho will return to Georgia immediately after the Dallas speech and will devote himself energetically to the campaign in this state. • The consolidation of the tax returns for the state will not change the rate for next year, and the levy and appro¬ priation will be made on the basis of $4.56 per $1,000, the same as it was last year. Governor Atkinson aud Attorney General Terrell held a con¬ ference a day or two ago in regard to the rate, and the fli-ures from the comptroller’s office were looked over. In addition to the expenses of last year there will be a fund of $90,000 for pensions, which will be raised out of the general levy. This fund was created after the levy was made last year, but on account of a decrease in other departments it will not increase the tax rate. Atlanta had a primary election Thursday for municipal officers. After a hotly contested fight the fol- lowing ticket was named: Chas. A. Collier^ mayor; Frank P. Rice and L S. Mitchell, aldermen; Milton P. Camp, Rufus T. Dorsey, Eldred S. LumpkiD, George P. How¬ ard, L. P. Stephens and Edward C. Peters, councilmen; W. D. Greene, city clerk ; J. W. Goldsmith, city comp¬ troller; Welborn Hill, city marshal; D. G. Wylie, commissioner public works; Joseph T. Orme, city treasurer; Ed T. Payne, tax collector; R. M. Clayton, city engineer; James A. An¬ derson, city attorney; Clarence Steph¬ ens, city sexton. WANT RAILROAD FEDERATION. A Solid Union of Different Railroad Brotherhoods Favored. A mass meeting of ,he Indiana members of the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Engineers, Brotherhood ot Locomotive Firemen. Older of Rail- way Conductors, Brotherhood of Trainmen and Order of Railway Te- legraphersat Indianapolis adopted a resolution favoring federation to be accomplished as soon as possible. The question will finally come up in the national meeting of the different L.otnernoods, where it •*. will -ii v. be settled by the appointment of committees to meet and draw up a plan for federa- * REV. DR. TALMAGE. ~ ~~~ TR[E NOTED D1VI\F DIVINES ,( 4 ailVDAV DISCOURSE. Subject: *• A Shadow on the Harvest Field.” Text: “And when the child was grown, it fell on a d3y that he went out to his father to the reapers. And he said unto his father, my head, my head! And he said to a lad. carry him to his mother. Aud when he had taken him aud brought him to his mother he sat on her knees till nooD, and then died.”— II Kings iv.. 18, 19, 2 ). There is at least one happy home in Shu- nem. To the luxuriance and splendor of a great house had been given the advent of a child. Even when the Angel of Life brings a new soul to the poor man s hut. a star of joy shines over the manger. Infancy, with its helplessness and innocence, had passed away. laughter Days of boyhood d^’s had come—days of and frolic, of sunshine and promise, days of strange questions and curiosity and qu ; ck development. I suppose among all the treasures of the house the brightest was the boy. One day there is the shout of reapers heard afield. A hoy’s heart always^bounds at the sound of sickle or scjthe. No sooner have the harvesters cut a swath across the Held than the lad joins them, and the swathy reapers feel young again as they look down at that ad, as young and beautiful .as w<»s Ruth in the harvest fields of Bethlehem gleaning after the reapers. But the sun was too hot for him. Congestion of the brain seized on him. I see the swarthy laborers dropt hei r SlckleS; anr j tltey rush out to see what is the matter, and they fan him and they try to cool his brow; but all is of no a '„ : ia tt \ e instant of consciousness, he P 1 S . s hi ?^ls ”' My r head! against his temples and cries , my head!” And'the said: Carry him to his father father would have mother.” just as anv rough, said; for our hand is too and our voice is too harsh, and our toot is too loud to doctor a sick child, if there be in our home a gentler voice ana a gentlor hand an 1 a stiller footstep. But all oi no avail. While the reapers of Shunem were busy in Ihe field, there came a stronger reaper that way, with keener scythe and for if 1 kn rv est. Ho reaped only one sheaf, out ob, what a golden sheaf was that! I do not want to know any more about that heart¬ breaking scene than what I see in just this till one pathetic sentence: “He sat on her knees noon, and then died.” Though hundreds ot years have passed away since that boy skipped to the harvest-field and then was brought he home and died on his mother’s lap story still thrills us. Indeed, childhood has a charm always and everywhere. I shall now speak to you of childhood; its heautv its susceptibility to impression, its power over the parental heart, and its blissful transition from earth to heaveu. 1 he chi'd s beauty does not depend upon I tw That °a destitute ° one r complexion that or apparel. street, bruiseu with you saw ou tho has charm unkinduess and in ra~s 3; about her, even under her des- atution. You have forgotten a groat many persons whom you met, of finely cut features and with erect posture and with faultless complexion, while you will always remem- ber the poor girl tvho, on a co d. moonlight night as you were passing late home, in her thin shawl and barefoot on the pavement put out her h,and and said: “Please to give rao walked a penny,” Ah! how often we have on and said: “Oh, that is nothing but street va -ahondism;” but after wo got block or two a that is not right-” on, we stopped and said: “Ah. and we passed up that same way and dropped a mite into that suf¬ fering hand, as though it were not a matter of second thought, so ashamed were wo of our hard heartedness. With what admira¬ tion we all look upon a group of children ou the play ground or in the school, and we lanly, clap our bauds almost involun- and say: “How beautiful!” All stiffness and dignity are gone, and Vour shout is heard with theirs and you trundle their hoop, and fly their kite, and strike their ball, and all your weariness and anxiety are gone as when a child you bouuded over the playground > ourself. That father who stands rigid and unsympathetic amid tho sportful ness of chil¬ dren, ought never to havo i een tempted out o a crusty and unredeemable solitariness. JLhe waters leap down the rocks, but they have not the graceful step of childhood. Ihe morning comes out of tho gates of the Last, throwing its silver on the lake and its gold on the towers and its Are on tho cloud; but it is not so bright and beautiful as the which Therei9 no fight like that is kindled in . a child's . eye, no color like that which blooms on a child’s cheek, no music liko the sound of a child’s voice. Its face in the poorest picture redeems any imperfection in art. When we are weary with toil, their little hands pud the burdens off our back. Oh, what a dull, stale, meau world this would be without thesportful- ness of children. When I find people that do not like children, I immediately doubt their moral and Christian character, Bat when the grace of God comes upon a child how unspeakably attractive. When Samuel begins to pray, and Timothy begins to read the Scriptures, and Joseph shows himself invulnerable to temptation—how beautiful the scene! I know that parents sometimes get Dervous when their children become pious, because they have the idea that good children always die. The strange questions about God and eternity and tho dead, excite apprehension in the parental mind rather than congratulation. Indeed, there are soma I his people that seem marked for heaven. world is too poor a garden for them to bioom in. The hues of heaven are in the petals. There is something about their fore¬ head that makes you think that the hand of Christ has been on it, saying: “Let this one While Mmeto that Me, and let it come to Me soon.” one tarried in the house you felt there was an angel in the room, and you thought last; that every sickness would be the and when, flnal)j% the winds of death did scatter the leaves, you were no more sur¬ prised than to see a star come out above the cloud on a dark night; for you had often said to your companion: “My dear, we shall never raise that child.” But I scout ihe idea that good children always die. Samuel the pious boy, became Samuel the great prophet. Christain Timothy be¬ came a minister at Ephesus. Young Daniel, consecrated to God, became prime minister of all the realm, and there are in hundreds of the schools and families of this country to-day children who love God and keep His commandments, the and who are to be foremost amoDg Christians and the philanthro¬ pists and the rerormers of the next century. The grace of God never kills anyone. A child will be more apt to grow up with re¬ ligion than it will be apt to grow up without it. Length of days is promised to the right¬ eous. The religion of Christ does not,cramp the chest or curve the spine or weaken tho nerves. There are no malarias floating up from the river of life. The religion of Christ throws over the heart and life of a child a supernal pleasantness, beaut}’. “Her ways are ways of and all her paths are peace.” I pass on to consider the susceptibility of childhood. Men pride themselves on their just ''i charged now as they did twenty years ago. It is to frailty or fraud when a man if^sdetermiSation of'Lu'l that so often drives back the trowel from a man’s heart. It is so hard to make avarice ’ { g 0 d ’3 t?uih SemsTo “^ce ol from those mailed warriors, and the helmet seem3 Bxt childhood: battle-proof against God’s oatile-ax. how susceptible to surprised examr-le and to instruction! lou are not at the record: “Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob;” for when religion starts in a family, it is apt to go all through. Jn Z e- bel. a murderess, you are not surprised to And her son .Tehoram attempting assasslna- lion. Ob, what a responsibility upon tn<- larent and the teacher The musician tween the key ami the chord. And so it is in. life; if you touch a child, the result will oome back from manhood or old ag% telling J j just the tune played, anthem whether of the dirge great of joy. a great sorrow or the a i The word that the Sabbath-school teacher will this afternoon whisper in the ear of the class, will be echoed back from eveilasting ages of light or darkness. The home and the school decide the republic civilization; or the despot¬ ism; the barbarism or the the upbuilding of an empire, or tho overthrow¬ ing of if. Higher than Parliament or Con¬ gress are the school and the family, aud the sound of a child's foot may mean more than the tramp of a host. What, then, are you doing for the purpose of bringing your chil¬ dren into the Kingdom of God; If they aro so susceptible, and if this is the very best time to act upon their eternal interests, what are you doing by way of right impulsion?. fields There were some harvesters iu the of Scotland one hot day; an l Hannah Lemond was helping them gather the hay. She laid her babe under a tree. Whi’e she was busy in the field, there was a flutter of wings in the air, and a golden eagle cluched the swad¬ dling band of the babe, and flew away with it to the mountain eyrie. All tne harvesters and Hannah Lemond started for the cliffs. It was two miles before they came to the oot of the cliffs. Getting there, who dared to mount the cliffs? No human foot had ever trod it. There were sailors there who had gone up the mast in the day of terrible tempest: they did not dare risk it. Hannah Lemond sat there for a while and looked up aud saw the eagle iu tho eyrie, aud then she leaped to her feet, aud she started up where no human foot had ever trod, crag above crag, catching hold of this root or that root, until she reached the eyrie and caught her babe, tho eagle swoop¬ ing in fierceness all around about her. Fastening the chili to her back, she started for her friends aud for home. Oh, what a dizzy descent! sliding from this crag to that crag, catching by that vine and by that root, coming down further and further, to the most dangerous pass, where she found a goat and some kids. She said: “Now I 11 follow the goal; the goat will kuow just which is the safest way down;” aud she was led by the animal down to the plain. When she got th-re, all the people cried: “Thank God! thank God!” her streugth not giving way until the rescue was effected. Aud they cried: “Stand back, now. Give her air!” Oh, if a woman will do that for tho physical life of her child, what will you do for tho eternal lifo of your boy and your girl? Let it not be told in the great day of eternity that Hannah Lemond put forth more exer¬ tion for the saving of the physical life of her child than you, O parent, have ever put forth for the eternal life of your littlo one. God help you! I pass ou to consider the power which a child wields over the parental heart. Wo often talk about the influeuce of parents up¬ on children. I never heard anything said about the influence of children upon their parents. You go to school to them. You no more educate them than they educate you. With their little hands they havo caught hold of your entire nature aud you cannot wrench yourself away from their grasp. You are different men and women from what you were before they gave you the flrst lesson. They have revolutionized your soul. There’ are fountains of joy iu your heart which never would have been discovered had they not discovered them. Life is to you a more stupendous thing tliau it was before those little feet started oh the pathway to eternity. Oh, how many hopes, how many joys, how many solitudes that little one has created in your soul! You go to school every day—a school of self-denial, a school of patience, in which you are getting wiser day by day: and that influeuce of the child over you will in¬ crease and increase; and though your chil¬ dren may die, from the very tlirouo of God they will reach down an influence to your soul, leading you on and leading you up un¬ til you mingle with their voices and sit be¬ side their thrones. The grasp whioh the child has over the parent’s heart is seen iu what the parent will do for the child. Storm aud darkness and heat and cold are nothing to you if they stand between you and your child’s welfare. A great lawyer, when yet unknown, one day stood in the court room and made an elo¬ quent. attainments; plea before some men of great legal and a gent oraan said to him afterward: “How could you be so calm standing in that august presence?” “Oh,” said Erskine, “I felt my children pulling at my skirts crying for bread.” What stream will you not swim, what oavern will you not enter, what battle will you not fight, WJat hunger will you not endure for yom chil¬ dren? Your children? Your children must have bread though you starve. Your chil¬ dren must be well clothed though you go in rags. You say, “My children shall bo edu¬ cated though I never had any chance.” What to you are weary ii mbs. and aching head, and hinds hardened and callous, if only tne welfare of your children can be wrought out by il? Their sorrow is your sorrow, their joy your joy. their advance¬ ment your victory. And, oh, when the last sickness comes, how you tight back the march of d sease. and it is only after a tre¬ mendous struggle that you surrender. And then when the spirit has fled, the great deep is brokeu up, and Rachel will not be com¬ forted because her children are not, and David goes up the palace stairs, crying: “Oh. Absalom, my son, my son, would’ God I had died for thee, oh, Absalom, my son, my son.” The brightest lights that can ho kindled, Christ has kindled. Let us, old and young, rejoice that heaven is gathering up so much that is attractive. In that far land we are not strangers. There aro those there who speak our name day by day, and they won¬ der why so long we tarry. If I could count up the names of all those who have gone out from these families into the kingdom of heaven, it would take me all day to mention their names. A great multitude before the throne. You loved them once; you love them now, and ever and anon you think you hear their voices calling you upward. Ah, ves, they have gone out from all these families, aud you want no bo k to tell you of the dy¬ ing experience of Christian children. You have heard it: it his been whispered in your ear, O father, O mother, O brother, O sister. Toward that good lan 1 all Christians are bearing. This snapping of heart-strin rs, this flight of years, this tread of the heart reminds us that we are passing away. Under spring blossoms, and through summer harvests,and across autumnal leaves; and through the wintry snowbanks, we are passing on. Oh, rejoice at it, children of God, rejoice at it! How we shall gather them up, the loved and the lost! Before we mount our throne, be¬ fore we drink of the fountain, before we strike the harp of our eternal celebration, we will cry out: “Where are our loved and losi?” And then, how wo shall gather them up! Oil, how we shall gather them up! In this dark world of sin an 1 pain We only meet to part again; But when we reaoh the heavenly shore Wo there shall meet to pari no more. The hope that we shall see that day Should chase our present gr efs away; When these short years of pain ire past We’ll meet before the throne at last. Cold Weather in South Africa. At Britstown and Prieska. in South Africa, i iie season has been so cold that over 1090 ostriches, 10.000 sheep and 500 head of cattle and hor = es have perished. To add to the troubles of the farmers, millions of spnnc- the wild ostriches, A Waterloo Drummer Dead. At Queenstown, in the Cape Colony, there died the other day a Waterloo veteran in the person of a Mr. Horton, who was in bis ciaet\-8fth year. Deceased was a drummer toy, and was present in that capacity at the ittle of Materloo. He was lately in receipt ■>* a pension of 'i- j a year tx-o n the Wai SOUTHERN RAILWAY. & PIEDMONT air LINE. Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trait,*, Ves. 1st. Ml No. | a Northbound. No. .18 No. 30 No.l> Kx June .... 14, 18 JO. Daily.j Daily 1JhUv s.,». l-v. Atlanta. C.T. jo 00 in 11 15 ~<e 7 50 a * >} “ Atlanta. E T. i oo 12 15 3 5 " Noreross ,, ;|2 56 .V> a j " Buford...... a 9 33 a G '- s i Gainesville. ’1013 a 7 Oh, " 2 28 ;10 7 “ Lula. " a 42 a 43 } " Cornelia. 2 48 ts « 11 as n 3 121 Mt. « 11 27 a 3 SBi “ Airy 50 „ 11 8 37 " Toocoa - 17 a, 80 a j *' Westminster . 3 35 p b 11 53 a Seneca 43 a 12 20 pj ■ " 4 18 05 12 41 “ Central ...... 45 p :«5 a p:...... " Greenville. 4 p a; 120 p...... Spartanburg. 5 p 25 n 218 IN....... " 6 IS 18 3 22 “ Gaffneys... p a p ..... L’aek.omrj . 53 a 4 11 p...... “ 7 08 03 4 30 " King's Mt p 31 a, p...... “ Gastonia... n 5 00 p;...... Charlotte 53 at 5 28 P Ar. 8 20 p 33 a; 6 30 1’ “ Danville 12 00 a 30 p;il25p| ..... Ar. Richmond COO r (1 40 1>! 0 00 a . Ar.Washington. C 42 a 9 40 n! •* Unitin'*PUR. 8 05 a 11 25 p ............ Philadelphia New . 10 25 a 3 00 a .......... “ York 12 53 in f. 20 a|..... Ten. Kst.Mll No. 17 Soul hhound. No. 37 No. 3.5 No.I 1 Daily. Daily. Sun. Lv. N. Y..P.K.K 4 30 p 12 13 a ..... i *' Baltimore. Philadelphia 9 6 53 20 p 6 3 50 22 a ..... * ! p a .. .. *• Washington. 10 --1-;-------1— 43 p 11 15 a . Lv. Richmond 2 00 a 12 55 p 20J a Lv. Danville..... 5 50 a 6 05 p] 6 40 n .. “ Charlotte . . 9 35 a 10 55 p,l2 30 |» “ Gastonia..... .. 11 30 pi 1 10 p " King’s Mt...... 1 35 p ** Bliu'usburg 10 49 a 12 Oil a; 2 03 p “ Gaffneys 12 24 a 2 20 p “ Spurt anburg . 11 37 a 1 00 a 8 05 p “ Greenville.. . 12 28 p 1 50 a. 4 40 p ** Central i 1 15 p 2 35 a 5 40 p *• Seneca .. i 1 35 p 2 38 a; (5 00 “ Westminster j j 6 22 |» ** Toeeoa .. 2 la p' 3 50 a 6 58 p ... " “ Cornelia....... Mt. Airy......... 4 21 ... j 7 7 40 45 pj 6 0 25 35 a a p a “ “ Gainesville Lula..... 3 S 81 13 1> 4 4 3» 57 a 8 8 30 12 pj pi 0 7 57 20 a . p :t ;> “ “ Buford Noreross ....... ............!...... ... j 9 9 07 43 pj 7 8 48 27 a ; p a Ar. Atlanta, E. T. 4 55 p 0 30 a 10 30 p r 9 30 ' a Lv. Atlant a. C. T.l 3 55 p 5 20 a, 9 :W pi S .70 j» “A" a. in. “P” p. in. “M” noon “N” night. Nos. 37 and 38—Washington and Southwest¬ ern Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman sleepers Washington, between New York and New Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery,ana also between New York and Memphis, via Washington, train also Atlanta Richmond-Augusta and Birmingham. This carries sleeping cars between Danville and Charlotte. First class thoroughfare coach between Washington and Atlanta. Dining cars serve all meals en route. Nos. 35 and 36—United States Fast Mail. Pull¬ man and New sleeping Orleans, cars bet ween Now York, Atlanta Nos. 11 and 12—Pullman sleeping cars between Richmond and Danville. The Air Line Belle train. Nos. 17 and 13, will, from June 1st to October 1st, 1896, bo operated between Atlanta and Mt. Airy, Gu , daily ex¬ cept Sunday. W. IT. GREEN, J M. CULP, Gen’l Supt., Traffic M’g’r., Washington, D O. Washington, D. O. W. A. TURK, S. TL HARDWICK. Gen’l Pass. Ajj’t., Ass't G< i’l Pass. Ag’t., WajjMhgtdt, D. U. Atlanta, GUj GLORY FOR GEORGIANS. The Hussars Win the Team Caiblne Contest at Sea Girt. Tuesday wts an exciting day at the state rauge at Sea G rt, N. J. Not only were some of the scores large, but Ihe competition among the various regiments and troops were spirited. Five matches were scheduled for ihe day, but only two were decided, dark¬ ness preventing a completion of the contest for yie Columbia trophy, the National Guard and the regimental prizes. The event of the day was the com¬ pany match, open to teams from any state iu the union. There were twelve entries, including the crack Seventh and Twelfth regiments of New York. They failed, however, to win. The first team of Company A, en¬ gineer corps, of the District of Colum¬ bia, captured the first with the h gh score of 423 out of a possible 500. The first battalion of Georgia was second, only two p lints behind. The Washington Sharpshooters can thank Corporal George E. Cook for their success. He made the splendid score of 40 points out of a possible 50 on the 500 yard range. Captain Cann, of Georgia, knocked out 38 and it looked as if he would hava the hich score until Corporal Cook went to tho butts. At the close of the match tho southerners crowded around the mem¬ bers of the winning team andextended their congratulations. The Georgia marksmen were compensated for their defeat in this match by winning the carbine contest, open to teams of five men each from any regiment in the country. The winning team was the Georgia Hussars, who scored 282 on the 200 and 500 yard targets. Tho First troop of New Jersey, known as the Ess <x troop, was second, with a score of 261. It was the first tho Jersey rnen had shot together as a team, and their per¬ formance was commented upon by many of the marksmen on the grounds. MISSOURI GOLD MEN Put Out a Full State I ieket at Their Convention. The Missouri sound money conven¬ tion, in session at St. Louis, has pnt out the following state ticket: Governor, J. McD. Trimble, of Kan¬ sas City. Lieutenant governor, Albert F. Or- terman, of St. Louis. Secretary of state, General D. H. MeEntyre, of Mexico. Treasurer, William F. Mcllraeth, of Livingston. State auditor, E. D. Porter, of Jas- per. Attorney genera), N. D. Thurmond, of Callaway, Railroad and wareuouse commis¬ sioner, Harry A. Coster, of Platt®. Supreme judge, Theodore Brace, of Monroe. Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason you should re* nounce it.
