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THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS. Bj JOHN li. OLEN. nSYOTKn TO THE MINIM, AGRICULTURAL AND EDUOATIONAL INTERESTS OF CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTH-EAST GEORGIA. TEEMS:— Oru Dollar Per Tear. voL ir. CLVELAM), WHITE COUNTY, GA . FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 189-L NO. 8. A. H. HENDEB80N, Manager. .T. W. H. UNDEHWOOD, Attorney and Abstractor. & Real Estate Agents, CLEVELAND, CA. M ill Huy and Sell Mineral, Timber and Agricultural lands in White and adjoin ing counties, guaranteeing the title to all properties sold. Will negotiate sales for reasonable! commission. All properties entrusted to to us for sale will receive a liberal ad vertisement. Parties having Real Estate for sale will do well to to call on or write us, 1 REV. Dit, TALWIAGE. I'll,' ItrooI,I,vn Divine's NiiimIii, Sormon. ■O thr )•" —Roman. LOGAN & SON. MANTI'AC i r HE Its OK Buggies and Wagons, f'LKVKLAM), UFOHUIA. Horseshoeing ami Repairing Neatly and Cheaply Executed, Sash, Doors and Blinds! CLARK, BELL & CO., —Manufacturers and Danins in. Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings, Brackets. S£IISroX<£]S and LUMBER.. Also FEWER and DRAIN I’lPE. Prices as 1/v.v .a the lowest. Satisfaction guaranteed. CLARK, BELL & CO,, Gainesville, Ga. CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL, CLEVELAND, GEORGIA. Spring Term Regius .lunuary 2d, 1893. Fall Term Begins .July 10th, 1893. Tuition in all Classes per Month, $1.00. In connection with the Spring and Fall terms, will he taught the terms of the public schools. For further particulars call on or address ALBERT REEL, Principal, Or ( HAS. W. MERRITT, Assistant. THE PEERLESS EXTENSION TABLE. A BOX OF TABLE LEAVES IS NOT AN ORNAMENTAL PIECE OF FURNITURE FOR ANY DINING-ROOM; AND IF PLACED IN SOME CLOSET. THERE IS ALWAYS MORE OR LESS TROUBLE IN GETTING AT IT. AVOID ALL BOTHER BY GETTINC A "PEERLESS” TABLE IN WHICH THE LEAVES ARE CRATED. Nothing to Wear Out or get Out of Order. The oftener u*ed the it works. Ask your dealer for We can suit your pocket-book. THE HILLSDALE MFG. CO., HILLSDALE, MICH. FANCY AND PLAIN JOB PRINTING iMihjccit: “I he Co’ Tkxt: “/ mu »vt!..’■/ to uou that ore at l.'o i., 15. Home! What n cltv it w.is when Paul visited it! What a city it is now! RouH The plana where Virgil sang and Horton mi tinted, and Terence lunghc I and Catiline conspired, and Ovid dramatiz*! tut I Nero hddlcd, and Vos nM-in pros?,hi to I and s tt lh legislated, and Ckvi\> thun tore I. an 1 Aural- lusand Deciu* and Caligula an I Julian and Hmlvind and Constantine and Augustu- reigued, ami Paul the Apostle preached the gospel. 1 am not much of a draftsman, hut l have in my memoranda n hooka sketch which 1 made in the winter of 18*», when l wont out to tho gute through which Paul enteral Homo on l walked u• > the vary street he walked Up to see somewhat, how the city must, have looked to him ns lie came in oli the gospel errand proposed in the text. Palaces on either side ot the street through which the little missionary advanced. Pile! up wickedness. Enthroned accursed ness. Templed erueltie-. Altars to slmm deities. Glorified delusions. Pillared, arched, domed, turreted abominntion*. Wickedness of ail sorts at a high premium and righteous ness W >f per cent. off. An I now he passes by the foundations or a building which is to bo almost unparalleled for vastness. You can see by Mu* walls which have begun to rise, that here is to be something enough stupendous to astound the centuries. Aye, it is the Coliseum started. Of tho theatre at Ephesus where Paul fought with wild beasts, the temple of Diana, of the Parthenon, of Pharaoh's palac;) at Memphis and of other great buildings, the ruins of which l li tvr seen, it has been my privilege to address yon, but a member of my family asked me recently why f hail not spoken to you of tho Coliseum at Rome, siuco its moral and religious lessons are so impressive- Perhaps while in Homo tho law or contrast- wrought upon me. 1 had visited the Mam- or tine dungeon where Paul was incarcera ted. 1 had measured the opening at the top of the dungeon through which Paul had been let down, and il was twenty-three Inches by twenty-sir, The ceiling at- its highest point was seven feet from the door, but at tho sides of the room the ceiling was five feet seven inches. The room at tho widest was fifteen feet. There was a seat of rook %}.{ feet high* Thore was a shelf lour feM high. The only furniture was a spider's web suspended from tho roof, witch l saw by tho torchlight 1 carriod, Thore was the subterraneous passage from the dungeon to the Romnn forum, so that the prisoner could be taken directly from prison to trial. The dungeon was built, out of volcanic •tone from the Alb ino Mountains. Oh, it was a dismal and terrific place. You never saw coal hole so dark or so forbidden. The piece was me a nervous shook, for I re member that was tho boat thing that the world would afford tin most illustrious Be ing, except one. that f ever saw, and that from that place Paul went out to die. From that, spot I visited the Coliseum—one of tho most astounding miracles of architecture that tho world over saw. Indeed. I saw it morning, noou and night, for it threw a spell ou me from which 1 could not break away. Although now a vast rum, tho Cjiiseum is so well presorved that wo can stand in tho center and recall all that it 01100 was. It is in shape ellipsoidal, oval, oblong. It. is at its greatest length 612 feat. Aftor it had furnishod scats for 87,O K) people ft had 1*00m for 15,000 more to stand, so that, 100.000 peo ple could sit and stand transfixei by its scenes of courage an 1 martyrdom and bru tality and horror. Instead of our modern tickets of admis sion, they entered by ivory check, and a check dug up near Rome within a few yearn was marked “Section fl, Lo west Tier, Boat No. 18." You undo stand that the building was not constructed for an audience to be addressed by human voice, although I tested It with some friends and could bo heard across it* but it was made only for seeing and was circular, und at any point allowed full view of tho spectacle. The arena in tho centre in olden times was strewn with potiu.lo l stone or sand, so as not to be too slippery with human blool, for if it wero too slippsry it would spoil the fun. The sand flashed here and thore with sparkles of silver and gold, an 1 Nero added cinnabar and Caligula a lde 1 chrysocolla. The sides of the arena were composoi of smooth marble eleven feet high, so that the wild beasts of the arena could not climb up into the audience. On the top of tha3J sides of smooth marble was a metal railing, hav ing wooden rollers, which easily revolved, so that if a panther should leap nigh enough to ncale tho wall and with his paw touch any one of those rollers It would rovolvo and drop him back again into t.he arena. Bao c of this marble wall surrounding the arena was a level platform of stone, adorned with statues of gods and godessis and the artistic effigies of monarchs and conquerors. Here wore movnblo seats for the emperor and the imperial swine and swinesses with which he surrounded himself. Re fore the place where the emperor sat the gladiators would walk immediately after entering the arena, crying: “Hail, Cub sari Those about to die salute thee.” Tho different ranks of spectators were di vided by partitions stuidej with mosaics of emerald and beryl an i ruby aud diatnon J. Great masts of woo l arose from all sides ot the building, from which festoons of flowers were suspended, crossing the building, or in time of rain awnings of silk wore suspended, the Coliseum having no roof. The outside wall was iuorusted with marble and had four ranges, and tho throe lower ranges had 80 columns each and arches a* to.- arches, and on each arch an exquisite statue of a god or a hero. Into 180 feet of altitude soared tho Colis eum. It glittered aud flashed and shone with whole sunrises and sunsets of dazzle- ment, After tho audience had ossemoled aromatic liquids oozed from tubes distilled from pipes and rained gently on the multi tudes and filled the air with odors of hya cinth and heliotrope aud frankincense an 1 balsam and myrrh and saffron, so that Lu can, the poet, says of it: But where was the sport to come from? Well, 1 went into the cellars opening off from the arena, and I saw the place whore they kept, the hyenas an 1 lions and panthers and wild boars un i beastly violences of all sorts without food or water until made fierce enough for the arena, and I saw tho under ground rooms where the gladiators ware accustomed to wait until the clapping of the people outside demanded that thoy come forth armed—to murJer or be murderei. Adi the arrangements were complete, as enough of the cellars and gallarie* still re main to indicate. What fun they must have had turning iious without food or drin c up on an unarmed disciple of J^sus Christ! At tho dedication of this Coliseum 9030 wild beasts and 10,000 immortal men wero slain, so that blood of rneu and beast was not a brook, but a river; not a pool, but a lake. Having been in that way dedicated, be not surprised when I tell you that Emperor Pro bus on one occasion threw into that area t of the Coliseum 100) atagw, 1000 boars aud 1000 ostriches. What fun it must have been—the sound of trumpets, the roar of wild beasts and the groans of dying men while Ira tho gallery the wives and children of those dovru under the lion’s paw wrung their hands an 1 tbrieked out in widowhood and orphanage, while 100,000 people clapped their band.-., an l there was a “Ha! ha I” wide as Homo un i deep as perdition! The corpses of that arena were put on a cart or dragged by a hook out through what was called the Gate of Death. What uti excitement it muflj have been if bw two com batants entered the arena, the one with sword and shield and the other with net and spoor. Tho swordsmen strikes at the man with the net; and shear “ He dodges the sword and then flings th«Ftw l|pver the head of tho swordsman nml jjnu nun to the floor of the arena, atnl tho ■Bat- Who not. puts his foot on thag swordsman, and spear 1? tho galleries, as much as 1 him up, or shall I plunge body until he is dead?” Vho flung the »5k of tho fallen ■land looks up to Wav, “.Shall t lot this spear into his Tho audience had two signs, either of which they might give. If they waved their flags, it meant spare the fallen contestant. If they turned their thumbs down, it meant slny him. Occasionally the audience would wave their flags, aud the fallen would bo let up, but that was too tame sport for most oc casions, aud gonorally t.hfe thumbs from the galleries were turned down, and with that sign would bo hoard the rcconipauying shout of “Kill I Kill I Kill! Kill!” Yet it was far from being a monotone ot sport, for there was a change of programme in that wondrous Coliseum, Under a strange nml powerful machinery, beyond anything of modern invention, the fl »or of the arena would begin to rock and roll and then give away, and there would appear a lake of bright water, and on its banks trees would spring up rustling with foliage, and tigers appeared among the jungles, and armed men would come forth, and there would be 11 tiger hunt. Then on the-lake ill tho Colis eum armed ships would float, and thore would bo a sen fight. What fun I What. Jots of fun! When pestilortce came, iu order to appease the gods, iu this Coliseum a sacri fice would bo made, and tho people would throng that groat amphitheatre, shouting, ‘The Christians to tho wild boasts!” ami there would be a craoklih/ of human bones in tho jaws of leonine ferocity. But all this was to bo stopped. By the outraged sense of public decency? No. There Is only one thing t\v,t hosovor stopped cruelty ami sin, and that Christianity, and it was Christianity, whether you like its tonn or not, that stopped this massacre of centuries. One day while in the Coliseum a Homan victory was being celebrated; and 100,000 enraptured spectators were looking down upon two gladiators in the arena stab bing and slicing each otfhor to death, an Asiatic monk of tho name of Tetomaohus was so overcome by the cruelty that he leaped from the gallery 1 lu to the arena and ran in between the two swordsmen and pushed first one back ffhd then the other back and broke up the eontosl. Of course the audience was affronted at- having tlmir sport stopped, an l they hurled stones at tho head of Tetomaohus until lie fell (load iu the arena, But when tho day was passed, and the pais ions of tho people bad cooled off, t hey deplored the martyrdom of tho brave and Christian Talemaahus, aud ay a result of tho over lone cruelty the human sacrifices of the t 'olisouin wore for ever abolished * * t Wlint a good thing, .s ty you. that such cruelties have ceased. JJ y friends, tho same spirit of ruinous amusements and of moral sacrifice is abroad In tlij* world to-day, al though it takes other ^hapys. Last Hummer in our southwest theretoj-eiirrod a scene of pugilism on which ttllTOhri-toudom looked down, for I saw the paper's on tho other side of the Atlantic Ocean giving whole columns of it. Will some one t<3t nw in what respect that brutality of last summer was superior to the brutality of a Etonian Coliseum? Iu Konm respects it wu by so much ns tho Niuetoouth Ceutury^prol.inds to be more merciful and ntoru defeat than tho Fifth Century. \ That pugilism is winning admiration in this country is positively prove l by the fact that years ago such ccmUion was reported in a half dozm linos of aanrspiper, It reported at all, an I n 'iw it taldjrthe whole side of a newspaper to tell wbrtt transpire 1 between tiio flrit blood drawn >by one loafer and the throwing up Of tifce jjpoiig# by the other loafer, aud It is net fclto newspaper’s fatilt, lor tho newspapers Sms only what tho peo ple want, and when igP’spaparA put carrion on your table it ia Imfeaim yoU prefer car rion. ‘ Tho same spirit of Brutality is booh to-day in many an ecctosiasHisal court when a min is.er is nil ton trial. at tho dnuilton* anoes of the pro* routing ministers, and no! in all cases, out ill 111*0v dues, you will flu I nothing but diabf inspires them. Taot let out on one p j >r pt ulster who cannot no-* fond himself the ltooruf ejolesUstiolsm and the tiger of bigotry, and the wild boar of jealousy, and i. they can get the offending mister flit on his buck sj ue on9 puts his feot on the neck 6f the overthrown gospel- izer and looks up, »p?ar in hand, to sie whether the galieriek and ecclesiastic* would have him let up or dfoin. Aud, lo! iiuny of tho thumbs arc down. In the worldly realms look at the bruta’l* is or t.he presidential election eight years o. ltoaa the blpgraphles of D inlet \Vob- stor and Alex in le? IL Stephens and Horace Greeley anl Cijlrtos B11 inner and Lucius (J lintlh Ciociiiiia&ti Lunar anl James G. Blaine, and if the story ot defamation and calumny and ssatilallzition and diatribe an I scurrility and ijnnpoon a 11 billingsgate and damnable perfidy be accurately re corded,tell me iu what respects our political arena and the howling an i blaspheming galleries that and again look down upon it are better than tho Roman Colis eum. When I read a few days ago that the Su premo Lourt of fch- United States had ap propriately ad journal to pay honors to the two last dlstln^utyhei men mentioned, an 1 American Journal) m North, South, East an 1 West went into lamentations over their departure and Adi all complimentary thing* in regard in them, I asked: “When did mo Nation lie$ibout those men? Was it when during their life it gave them male diction or no v sin e their death when be stowing upon them beatification?” The h imes lirJfof cruelty tint you de plore in the ltoniku Coliseum is seen iu the sharp appetite the world seems to have for the downfall of #>> 1 men, and in the divorce o£tho*e whoso mirital life was thought ac cordant, an l in She absconding of a bmk cashier. O.i, my friends, the world wants more of the spirit of “Let him up” and less of the spirit of “Thu in os down I” There are hundred* of mou in the prisons of America wno ought to be discharged, because they were the victims of circumstances or have Buffered enough. There are in ui professions and occupa tions men who arc do-jBnoerji over by others, and who *. life is a struggle with rnoncrous onpeftition, an i circumstance* have tb'.*ir h.-ei upon the throbbing and broken hearts. For Ged’s sake, let them upl Away wdii- the spirit of “Thumbs down l” What the world want* is 10)0 men like Tojamaohns to leap out of the gallery into tho arena, whether ho 1)3 a Roman Catholic monk, or a Methodist stewar 1, or Presbyterian elder, and go in between the contestants. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for thev shall be called tho children of Goi!” Om-half oi' the world is down an l the other half is up, and the half that Is up ha* itff beef on the half that is down. If you. as a boss work nari, or as a contractor, or as a Bishop,or as a Btatc or National official.or as a potent factor in s >cial life, or in any way are oppressing any one, know that the sa ne devil that possesse l the Roman Coliseu n op presses you. The Diocletians are not ail dead. The cellars lea ling into the arena ol lilir’n struggle are not alt emptied of their tigers. Thcfrivisectio 1 by young doctor* of dog* and out- and birds most ol th * time adds, nothing to human discovery, but is only <a continuation o.‘ Vuspasian’s Colis eum. The crueltftoof the worli generally bsgin in nurseries, an l in ho ne circle.*, and iu day echooic. Tho child that transfix3* a fly with p. u, or the low feeling that sot* two do'* Hi to combat, or that bullies a weak or crip pled playnun?, or th:* in liffereuce tlia’. ? turves u canary birJ, nee is only 1 > be de velope i in i ; r ier to make a first elm* Nero <ra»ul. armed Apollyon. fr, wmud be a ■, o t sen tape e t> be written oa tlii t >p line .»* a chiio’s bouh. an i u lit (ascription to tie embroidered in the arm ciiiir o. tho sit tin; room, and an approps i ite motto for ju tg>; aud jury an? district attorney an I >h®riff 1- Jook nt. in r.ttUcourt lipufti*, ‘ Rio-rted are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy!” And 90 the rqlps of that preach tome. Indeed tin most imnresdvs things on earth are ruin*-*. The four greatest struc tures ever built are in ruins. The Parthe non in ruins, the temple of Dinna in ruins, the temple of Jerusalem in ruins, the Coli seum in luln?. Indeed the earth itself will yet be a pile of ruin?, the mountains in ruins, the seas iu ruins, tho cities in ruins, tho hemispheres iu ruins. Yon, further than that, nil Up and down the heavens nro worlds burnod up, worlds wrecked, worlds extinct, worlds abandoned. Worlds on Worlds in ruins! But I am glad to say it is the same old heaven, and in all that world there is not one ruin and never will ha a ruin. Not ono the pearly gates will over become un hinge.! . Not on9 of tho amethystine tower.* will ever fall. Kot one of the mansions will ever decay. Not one of the chariots will • ver be un wheeled. Not one of tho-thrones will ever rock down. Oh, make sure of honven, for it is an everlasting heaven. ’Through Christ the Lord get ready for residence iu tho eternal palaces. The last evening before leaving Rome for Brindisi and Athens aud Egypt on 1 Pales tine 1 went alone to the Coliseum. Thore was not a living soul in all the immense ares. Even t.hoso acciHtomed to sell curios at* the four entrances of the building had gone away. The place was so overwhelm ingly silent 1 ooul 1 hoar my own heart beat with the emotions aroused bv tho place and hour. I paced the nrenn. I walked down into the ileus where the hyena* were once kept. 1 ascended to the place where the enmeror used to sit. I climbed u;> on the gft’l-MUes from which th ‘ mighty throngs of poonlo had gaz*d in enchant mmt. To break the silence ! shouted, anl tnat seemed to awaken the echoes, echo upon echo. And those awakened echoes seemed to address me, saying: “Men die, but their work lives on. Gaudentius, tho architect who planned this structure; the (JO.OfX) en slaved Jew* Drought by Titus from Jerus alem, and who toiled on these walls, tho g.adiators who fought in thisarena, the em perors and empresses who had place on yon der platform, the million* who during cen turies sat and rose in these galleries, have passe I away, but enough of tho Coliseum stands to tell the story of cruelty an 1 pomp aud power—500 years of bloodshed.” Then, ns I stool there, there came to me another burst of echoes, wh ch seemed throbbing with the prayers and song* and groans or Christians who had expired In that areni, and thay nonAnd to say, “How much it. cost to serve Go I iu age* pa*t, on 1 how thankful mo torn centuries ouerht Lo lie uje puiaL'Ciuioil wiuoa t‘e:iu*etira‘«u0 unp'iltheater have been abo!- BILL ARP’S LETTER. tIVI sand-ol th ished.” And then I questioned the echoes. Baying, “Whero is Emperor Titus, who snt h-iv?” Tho answer came, “Gone to judgment.” “Where is Emperor Trajan, who sut here?” “done to judgment.” “ \\ here is Maximi- nus, who sat here?” “Gone to ju Igment.” “Where are all the multitudes who clappsd and shouted and waved flags to let t he van quished up, or to have them slain put tmimbsdowD?” The echoes answered, “Gone to judgment.” I inquired, “All?” And they answered “Alb” And I looked up to tho sky above the ruins, and it was full of clouds scurrying swiftly past, and those clouds seemed as though they had faces, and some of the facaa smiled and some or tUbal frowned; an 1 cnoy seemed to have wings, a id some of the wings were mooagilt aud otllyrs thun ier chorgod, and the voice overpowered the echoes beneath. “Behold lio cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see Him.” And ns 1 stood looking uo along tho walls of the Coliseum they rose higher and high r, higher and higher, until the amnhitlieat.ro seemed to bo filled with all the Nations of the past, and all the Nation* of the present, aud all t he Nations ot tile future, those wuo went, down under the paws of wild blasts, and those who sit waving flags to let id the conquers 1, and those who held thumbs down to command their assassination, an l small and groat, and emperor and slave, and pas tor and people, and righteous nud wicue l, tin amphitheatre aeetuiug to rise to in definite heights ou all side* of me, an l in the Cent or or that amphitheatre, instead of tho arena ot Combatants, a greu throne stood, rising higher and higher, higher und higher, and on it ant the Christ lor When toe martyr.* died and against, whom the Diocletian* plot ted their persecution*, and wavin r one hand towird the piled up splendors to the right of Him He criei, “Jo ue, ye bless ed,” and Wiving the other hand toward the piled u.» glooms on Ml3 loft of Him H* cried, “Dapart, ye cursed.” And so the Coliseum of Romo t.hit, even ing of 1839 see ue I enlarged into tue amphi theater ot trie last ju igment, au I I passed from under tue arch of that mighty *truc- tur *, mighty even in it* ruin*, praying to Almighty God. through J**U3 Christ, for ruercy in that, day for which all other days were mad*', and that an I expenco 1 mercy from Goi d might ex'rclie mercy toward others anl have more au i more ot the spirit- "Let him up” and lens of the spirit of “Thumbs down! 1 ’ \Ve may not all be able to do u sum in higher mathematic, out thers is a sum in the first role of gospel arithmetic wltiuu we ail may do. It 1* a sum in simple addition; “Add to your faith virtu \ and virtue knowledge, aud to knowle Ige temp ?runoe, and to temperancj patience, and to pat.once go Illness, an l to godlines* brotherly Hind* lies.*, anl to brotherly kindness charity.” Cured of u Broken ltne’k. Drs. James and Thomas McCann, of Pittsburg, are about ready to report to tho medical fraternity the case of John Mulligan, who was cured ol it broken back. In October, 1888, Mulligan re ceived a fracture of the vertebra.*, and, as usual with such coses, wus paralyzed from the loins down. Eight days after Mulligan’s entrance lo the hospital the physicians, in the presence of seventy-five students of tho West Pennsylvania Medical College, made an incision eight inches long in the man’s back. The vertebra; were ex posed. A fracture of the arches of the tenth and eleventh vertebra) was found. Fragments of bone were pressing ou the spinal cord. This pressure wus relieved. Two months later Mulligan could move his right leg. In ten months the patient walked out of the hospital. Ho is now at work. The report of the operation was kepif secret until it was proved a perfect suc cess.—New York Mail and Express. He He Spos in Hip I-roposptl Annexation (lie Work of Schemer!). Everrtiuoo I was a boy the Sandwich islands hffvt» attract si peculiar nttontinn from tho civ ilized world. Captain Cook, tho great naviga tor, discovered them nml gavo thorn that name, ami, by reason of tho discovery, England laid claim to them, which was tho custom in that • lav. Cook wont back there the next year, and, because some of tho natives stolo a boat from him, lie took his marines and went ashore and so zed the king, and was faking him a prisoner to his vessel, when they all got. into a fight and Cook was killed. This was in 1778, whon thors wero over one hundred thousand inhabitants, aud Cook roported after his first visit that they wero of a facile, yiolding, imitative disposition. Within tho next fifty years the population was reduced to half that number, for tho European and American sailors introduced vile diseases among their women and carried away thoir best young men on whaling voyages. They loarned to drink rum nml chow tobacco, aud Anderson says that, in 1820, they wero a nation of drunk ards, thieves nml debauches. But, about that time, tlio missionaries got there and treated them so kindly that the natives fell in lovo with them, and very soon a wonderful change came over tho people; schools wore established, und they eagorly embraced the religion r.nd the manners and customs of the mugionaries. They had oourts and prisons and churches and a code of laws. They adopted farming implements aud ma chinery, and became a happy and prosperous people. Thore aro thirteen islands, but only seven sro inhabited. Hawaii is about twice as large as all the others put together, and it is only about as largo au flvo of our average coun ties. Tho population is now about one hun dred thousand. Well, now tho missionaries’ work is done- ami it was well done. The island wag not only civilized, but it was Christianized, aud its com merce became inviting to our people. In 1841 the king gavo to his people a written constitu tion and established a limited monarchy after tho English model. In fact, ho wont over to England to loam how to govern ills people. When this was douo, Great Britain aud tho United Htatea simultaneously agreed to recog nize tho Hmidwich islands as au independent kingdom. What is tho causo of tho mosent trouble over there I do not know, but I’ll bet a dollar that there is a job in it somewhere for somebody, aud I’ll bet anothor dollar that Mr. Cleveland finds it out. Already soma of our Yankee cous ins have “snuffed tho battle from afar," and are talking about a war with England like it was a small affair and a desirable thing. They sec contracts iu il and Jobs aud big money for nortliorn nmnufucturm'H like they had in tho war with us. England hasent said a word, aud yet politicians aro talking about gutting ready for a fight. If they didout have a sneaking suspicion that they wore going to do something wrong, what aro they putting on their war paint for? My opinion ia that there aro aomo shrewd white men at tho bottom of this busi ness for personal advantage, and, with the lights before me now, 1 am opposed to the whole business. Tim queen has resigned under protent, and has published it to the world. Now, if all that the malcontents say is true, why not let them Hettlo their own quarrels, or why not let England and the United States Join in a protectorate that will keep tho peace on the islands, and keep pcaco and good fellow ship bo I ween England and America. Wo es tablished tho Monroo doctrine, and England lias not sought to violate it; but hero are some little Mauds, 2,000 miles from our coast, that we have no right to in the world, and that have been used peacefully as a coaling station, a resting place for a'l tho ships that sail on the Pacific ocean, and if we annex them they will ooet us more than they aro worth, for thoy will have lo be protect! d and defended, und, before wo know it, we will be in a wwr whli somebody. England will have a right to complain. Sho yielded he r right of discov. ry and joined with the United BtHtes iu declaring Hawaii au Inde pendent kingdom. Hi r missionaries were the first to go there aud ours followed. Tho French tried to force their Roman Caiholic missiona ries upon King Kamelmmcha HI.,but bo didn't want them, and appealed to the English government for ho p, nud England sent troops over thore iu 1848. In 184C, the king made a liberal treaty with England, in consideration of receiving protection against France. In 1849 Franc j became more beliger- ent, and tho United States threa'ened to takea hand in tho fight; and, iu 1851, tho king made a treaty with tho United Htates on re quest ot the Amerioan missionaries, In 18!6, King Kannhamehtt IV. married Miss Eratna Rookor, of England, aud children wero born to them. And so it looks liko th - United Htates ought to keep bunds off and toto lair with England, und let us have pcaco, and keep tho peace. We don't want any more war with anybody, and es pecially with England -our mother and our co- worker in good works and in advancing civili zation all over tho world. War honeilt* somo folks, but it is a public calamity, and every war is a poor man’s light, Tho south bus enough patriotism to join tho north in any war for tho common def« iihu <.f our country, but the south knows by bitter experience that tho burdens will ho ours and tho profits go to tho north. The idea of preparing to fight England about tho possession of a little coaling station away off in tho Pacific ocean is absurd and ridicu lous, and I hope that Mr. Cleveland will put liis foot on it and smash it. Wo want peace— peace on earth and good will among men. •mere is no exense Tor oivWzea nations over having any more war with each other, and, if they do, tho devil is at the bottom of it.— Rtxl Arp, iu Atlanta Constitution. EVERY MAN doctor. A vnliiiiblo Family Doctor Book by J. Hamilton Ayers, M. D., six hun- •1 rod puges, profusely illustrafed and containing knowledge of how to Cure Disease, Promote Health and Prolong Life. 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