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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.
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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-
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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
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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.