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CLEVELAND, WHITE C OUNTY) GA , FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 18-94.
NO. 47.
.SOUTHERN
RAILWAY
COMPANY.
(PIEDMENT AIR LINE.)
Houto of tho Groat Vestibuled
Limited.
ATLANTA A C’lIAUf.OTTK AIR-L1KH
DIVISION.
coxpE.vsxr &cnrDt*L* or passenger trails
In F.fleet .July 1st, 1804.
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Northbound. No. 38 No. .'10 I No. I*
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Nos ;;; aiv.l .is Wus lingtnn and Southwrntern
y rstlluiJe l I.hni'f- I. limmvji Now York and
N.' v OrJo vn.i. I'Urtui? i J’uUinin Sloepera l>c
twc» n New Y'»rU an l Now Orleans, via Atlnn
».i and Montgomery, and also between W-mbiui/
ion and Me aphis \l.t At lav a and Dinniocrhum
Noh. 11 and .12 Pullman Sleeping Car between
llieiHaoiiJ Danvllioan 1 (Iroonsboro.
IV/ ilefalle.l Information ns to local and
. tbr« jffe tlnio-taidcs. rates and Pullm m Sleep
h-;r cur rcNorratlona, Ooajar with local agenU,
W. A. TUKK. S. H. HARDWICK.
Gen Para. Ass t General Pass A*'t
Washington, I), c. Atlanta, ga.
•L A. D JDSON, Suporlntcn lent, Atlanta. Ga.
W. II. GREEN, J. M. GULP,
G f, n’i M'g.' Traffic Mn'gr.
WAartihtiToN, n. c WasUIngton D4J.
GENERAL, DIRECTORY.
Tuuali l/ulge, F. & A. M, No. 892,
CLEVEI.AN1', a*.
Monthly cumuiunieatious fourth Sat
urdays lit 7 i>. in.
X. T. Logau, W. M.
.T. C. XUU, H. W.
J. D. Conley, .T. W.
J. J. Kimsey, H. 1>.
A. M. Dean, Trees.
8. L. Brown, .J, 1).
J. W, H. Underwood, Hoc.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Baptist—Sen iron every third Suu-
•lay nuil Saturday before—11 o’olook
n. in. Sunday school every Sunday
morning— 'J o'clock n. m. All nro in-
viteil to attend, especially uon-clmrch
luumbers.
John J. Kimskv, pastor.
Mi: ni odist- Services every fourth
Sunday lit 11 o'clock n. m. Sunday
school at 'J a. m. All have n cordial
invitation to attend. 1’ruyer meeting
nt the church every Wednesday even
in;; lit 7 o’clock.
W. If. Simhons, Pastor
Schedule uf Arrival mill Depnrtnrc el
Cleveland Mai s.
Leave. Arrive.
Lula, daily except Sun. | Gain. | 7 pin.
Blairsvillc, “ " ] 7 am. | 5 pm.
Haysvillo Mon Wed Fri [Cam. | 7 pm.
Wahoo 'l ues Thur Sat | G am. | !! pm.
Alto Tucs Sat. | 7 am. | 0 pm.
JXO. B. GLEN, I\ M.
JUDICIARY.
J. C. Wklt.iioiin, Judge S. C.
Howahd Tnovirsos, Solicitor.
Court convenes second Monday in
Ajjril and October.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
W. B. Bell, Ordinary.
8. L. Brown, Slier id.
W. B. Power, Clerk S. C.
8. N. Black, Tux Collector.
J. M. Chapman, 'Treasurer.
0. L. 1'ranklin, Tax Receiver.
J. W. I’ain, Surveyor.
G. N. Collet, Coroner.
R. T. Jvknimer, A. I'. Williams, Ma
won Cooley, County Commissioners.
, JUSTICE COURTS.
Bi.ce Ridge—1439 Diet., Second
Saturdays in each mouth. Steve Ash
J. P., B'. J. Beaob, N. P. and J. P.
White Creek—1441 Dist., First
Saturdays in each month. W. I. Hum
phries, J. P., J. S. Browniew, N\ P.
end J. P.
Mt. Yon ah—Stil Diet , J. H. Free
man, J. P , G. B. Jarrard, N. P and
J, P. Third Fridays in each month
Mosey OncEit—423 Dist. Third
Bktuitlayif in ciseli weitflii Eu A.
Alexander, J. T.; M. B. Moore, N, P.
and J. P.
Naoooohee—427 Dist,, First Satur
days in each month, lliratn Oannnn,
J. P.; J. It. Lumsden, N. P, and J. P.
Shoat. Creek—802 l>ist,, Fourth
Saturdays in each month, .Tno.
Bowen, J. P.; J. A. O’Kolloy, N. P.
and J. P.
Bur Breek—721 Dist., Second
Saturdays in each month, B. F. Kin
sey, J. P. [ J. B. ltobertson, N. P,
and J. P.
Tkhnatee—068 Dist., Fourth Satur
days in each month, Jno. Mnppin, J.
P.; J. C. Boll, N. P. nnd J. P.
Town Creek—830 Dist., Third
Saturdays in each month, Hughes
Allen, J. P. j J. E. McAfee, N. I*, nnd
J. P.
Chattahoochee—1497 Dist., Second
Saturday in each mouth, R. K. Wost
moreland, J. P.; J. II. Westmoreland,
N. P. nnd J. P.
Advice
to Boy^
REV. DR. TALMAGI .
The Hrooklyn Divines Sunday
Sermon.
Subjecti “The Slek General."
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Sleeping
RtusseMl Sage
The great financier, gives the follow
ing good advice to boys, which
patents might also read with profit:
“ Boys, go to school as long as von
can, and remember every hour spent in
study in yonryouth will be worth money
to you in alter life. Bead good books;
make yourself acquainted with history;
study the progress of nations and the
careers of men who have made
nations great.
“ Study religion, sdence, stateciuft
and history. Learn to read
Intelligently, su that yon can turn to
practical use jn after life the reading
of your youth. He sure you begin
right. Do not waste time in reading
trashy books.”
Mr. Sage further sayr.:
" I he boy who is wanted in the
business world of today must be
educated. If his parents cannot afford to
give him a college or a high school
eduucation h: must learn to study
without the aid of a teacher, In Hie early
mornings before business begins, and
In the evenings after business hours.
It can no longer be truthfully said that
an education is out of any one’s
reach.”
This is the advice of a man who Is
on; of th; most conspicuous business
success -s of our time, and who has
amass.:! on-of the larged fortunes in
America. It cannot possibly b-
charged that lie is in the pay of THE
Atlanta CoNSTjruTJON, and yet
these words given as the conviction of a
life ot unusual observation and
experience advises as strongly as words
can tiiat you hasten to accept the offer
ot The Constitution, and secure this
greatest of popular educators, The
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Fite edition offered hv I he
Constitution fills rvery requirement ot
Mr. Sage's recipe for success. It is the
only edition that is up to date. Who
will be without these books now,
when l en Cents a day will secure
them ?
Write for Particulars
CIIAM KU.tm HOGGS’ ADDItl-iSS.
He Millies a Talk to llie Legislature In ;
Helm I f uf the State University.
At \‘l o’clock Friday the henate en
tered the house of 1 » i,r< Hent.fttivcB at
the capital, accompanied Lv Governor !
Atkinson, the state house oflicers, and ■
Dr. Boggs, chancellor of the State ;
University. By joint resolution the |
two houses met to hear from Dt. !
Boggs. President Venable, of Ihe
senate, introduced him.
Dr. Boggs said there were 221 young i
men present at tlie school when it fir.»t \
opened, u larger number than had j
been present ut tho opening day in I
many years.
He hud previously conferred with
the state school commissioner and hud ;
figured out with him that there were !
in Georgia 70,000 young men between
the ages of 15 and 21. Of this number '
it was estimated that only 838 were ;
now attending the colleges of Georgia. !
Dr. Boggs spoke of the insufficient j
room at the University and argued for ;
better accommodations for the \xjjh. !
He urged the legislature to heed the j
request of the board of trustees and ;
give them the §25,000 for the erection j
of fi new building, and to give them
additional space for the study of elec
tricity, which was bo important at this |
time.
it you would have yarn son to have
confidence in you, let him know al§j
ilifit you Uvo tonddtace in him. 1
Text: "He was a lepor." It Ktu.ifs v., t.
Horn,wn liavo a warrior slok, not with
pleurisies or rheumatisms or consumption*,
out with a disease worso than all these put
together. A rwl mark has oomo out on the
rorohoad. precursor of complete iHsMtruro-
ment and dissolution. I hav<* something
awful to tell you. General Navnun, the
commander in ehlnf of all tho Syrian forcs«.
Has tho leprosy J it (a on his Inn is. on Ms
Jace, on his fed. on his entire person. The
leprosy! Get out of the way of the pesti
lence. If his hro.tth strike you. you are a
Ilf , man. The commander in chief of all
the forces Of Syria ! Ami vet ho would be
g al to exchange conditions with the boy at
his stirrup or Ihe hostler that blankets'his
charger. The news goes like wild 11 re all
through tho realm, an I the people are sym
pathetic, nnd they cry out, “Is it possible
that our great hero, who slo;v Ahah and
n round whom we oimn with such vocl fora-
t on when he returned Iro n victorious brft-
tlo-»w§ it bo possible that our grand an 1
glorious Nuaman has tho leprosy?*'
Yes. Everybody hns something he wishes
**•* had not—-David, an Absalom to disgrace
him ; Paul, a thorn to sting him : Job, car
buncles to plau-uc him: Samson, a Delilah
lo shear him ; Ahab. a Naboth to donv him ;
i*man. a Mordeeai to irritate him : (inorgo
Washington, a childlessness to .affilit him :
John Wesley, a termagant wife to pester
him; Leah, weak eyes; Pope, a crooked
back ; Byron, a club foot; John Milton,
blind eyes ; Charles Lamb, an insane sistor,
and you nnd you anti you something which
you never bargained for and would like to
get rid of. Tho reason of this is that God
docs not want this world to be too bright.
Otherwise we would always want to stay ami
eat these fruits and He on these lounges and
shake hands in the pleas mt society. We
are only in tho vestibule of a grand temple.
God docs not want us to stand on tho door
step,nnd therefore He sends aches and annoy
ances nnd sorrows anti bereavements of all
sorts to push us on nn 1 push us up toward
riper fruits nnd brighter society and more
radiant prosperities. God is only whipping'
us ahead. Tho reason that Edward Payson
and Robert Hall had more rapturous views of
heaven than other people bud was because,
through their aches amt naius. Go.l pushed
thorn nerr *r up to it. If God dashes out one
of your pictures, it Is only to show to you a
brighter one. Tf He sting your foot with
gout, your brain with neuralgia, vourtonguo
with an inextingushabh) thirst, it is only be
cause He ii preparing to mibst tnto a bettor
body than you over dreamed o r , when the
mortal shall put on immortality.
It is to push yon on and to push you up
toward something grander an t bitter that
God sends upon you, as He did upon Gen
eral Nuaman. something you do not want.
Seated In his Hyrlnn mansion, nil the w ills
glittering with the shields which he had cap-
lurod in battle, the corridors crowded with
admiring visitors who just wanted to son
him once, music and mirth nnd banqueting
lllling all the mansion from tessellated floor
toplcturod coiling, N.iatnun would have for
gotten that there was anything hotter an i
would have boon glad to' stay there 10,000
Years. Blit, oh. how tho shields dim, and
how the visitors My (lie hall, and how the
music drops dead from the string, and how
Ihe gates ol tho mansion slam shut with
sepulchral bang as you read the closing
words of the culogium : “Ho wum a leper!
He was a leper !” ^
There was on j person more Zgmyg^xctic
with G. n era I Naaiinn than uuVB^^Ppor
son. Ntinman’s wife walks the IlINVrln :-
ing her hands and trying to think Whlit trim
can do to alleviate her husband's suffering.
All remedies have failed. The surgeon gen
eral and the doctors of tliu royal staff have
met, and they hava shaken their heals, as
much ns to say, "No cure, no cure.” I think
that tho office seekers had all folded uptboir*
recommendations and gone home. Probably
most of the employes of the establishment
had dropped their work un I were thinking
of looking for some other situation. What
shall now become of poor Nanman’s wife?
8ho must have sympathy somewhere. In
her despair she go^s to a little Hebrew cap
tive, a servant girl in her house, to whom
she tolls the whole story, as som dimes,
when overborne by the sorrows of tho world
and finding no sympathy anywhere else, you
have gone out and found in tho sympathy
of some humble domestic—Rose or Dinah or
Bridget—a help which tho world could not
give you.
What n scene It was—ons of tho gr.inao3:
women in nil Syria in cabinet council with a
waiting maid over the dcolining hoa'tli of
themightvgcner.il! "I know something,'’
says the hlt'.e captive maid, “I know some*
iliing,” as she boun Is to her i> ire feet, "in
the land from w.iloh f was stolen there is a
certain prophet known by the inma of
Elisha, who can cure almost anything, nnd
I shouldn’t wonder if ho could cure my
master. R'*nd for him right away ” "Oh.
hash!” you say. "If tho highest medical
talent In all tho laud cannot cure that leper,
thero is no noe l of your listening to any talk
of a servant glr!." But do not scoff, do not
Hiicor. The finger ol that liltlc captive timid
is pointing in the right direction. She might
have said: “This is a judgment upon you
for stealing me from my native Jan-1. Didn't
they snatch me off in tin night, breaking my
father’s and mother’s hearts, an I many a
tlmo I have lain and cried all night because
I was so homesickV” Then. Hushing up
into childish indignation, she might have
said : “Good for them, i in glad Naainaii'n
got the leprosy, f wish all the fiyrinn? had
Ihe leprosy." No. Forgetting her personal
sorrows, she sympathi/. is with the Kiiff.*hng
of her muster and commends him to the
famous Hebrew prophet.
And how often tt Is that the linger of
childhoo 1 lias pointed grown persons in the
right direction ! O Clirlstiiiu soul, how long
i- it since you got rid of the leprosy of sin?
You hhv, “f."t mo see. ft must be live years
now." Five years. Who was it that pointed
you t«> the Divine f'.iy-deian? “Oil, 'you
say, "it was my little Amlu or Fred or
Charley that chunere l up on my knees and
looked into my face and naked rne why I
didn't become a C'hr.stlun. and, all ihe
time stroking my check, so f* could
not get angry, insisted upon knowing why
I didn't have family prayers.*' Tacrc nr -
grandparents who have been brought to
Christ by their little grandchildren. Thero
are hundreds of Christian mothers who hud
their attention first called to Jesus by their
litflo children. How did you get rid of the
leprosy of sin? How did you find your way
to lies Divine Bnysfolan? "Oh,” you siy,
"my child, my 'lying child, with wan
and wasted linger, pointed that way.
Oh, l never shall forger.” you say, "that
scene at the cradle and the crib that awful
night. It was hard, hare very hard, but If
that little one on Its dying bed hud not
pointc I me to Christ 1 don’t think f ever
would have got rid o! my leprosy. Co Into
the Sabbath-school any Sunday, and you will
find hundreds of little fingers pointing In the
same direction, toward Jesus Christ and to
ward heaven
Years ago the astronomers calculated that
there must be n w ;rld hanging nt a certain
point in the hej v jus, and u large prize was
offered for some one who could discover that
world. The telescopes from tho great ob
servatories were pointed in vain, but n girl
at Nantucket, Mass., fashioned a telescope,
and looking through it discovered that star
and wol the prfza ana tho admiration of all
the astronomical world, that stood amar/sd
at her genius. And ho it Is often the case
thnt grown people cannot seo the light,
while some little child beholds the star of
pardon, the star of hope, the star oT conso
lation. the Ltar of Bethlehem, the morning
star of Jesus. 'Not many mighty men, not
many wise men nro called, but God hath
chosen tho weak tilings of tho world to con
found the mighty an t base things and things
that are r.ot to brin- t? pnught thing* tint
I J 1 ****;*• ,V. n * 00 no* uesptso tnn pratttlo of
J little children when they are speaking about
j God and Christ and hr,iv«n. You soothe
way vourchild Is pointing. Willyotl takethat
pointing or Walt until. In tho wrench of some
I awful bereavement, God ahull lift that child
to another world, ami then it will beckon
you upward? Will you take that pointing,
; or will you wait for the beckoning? Blessed
* God that the little Hebrew o iptiva point
ed lu tho right direction Blessed lv» Go 1
for the snvlng mlhlstryof Christian children.
No won lor the advice of this littlo He
brew captive threw nil Nariman's mansion
nnd Ron-hndnd's pa’acc Into excitement.
Goodby, Nnanvin ! With face scarified ami
ridged and inflamed by tho pestilence ami
aided by those who supported him on either
side, he staggers out to tho chariot. Hold
fast the fferv coursers of tho royal stable
while thanoor sick nnn lifts his swollen
fe^t and pnjRhatruck limbs into the vehicle.
Roister him up with tho pillows and let him
take a lingering look at his bright apart
ment. for perhaps the Hebrew enptlvo may
bn mistaken, and the next time Nanraan
comes to that place he rang be a doad weight
oe the shoulders of them) who carry him, an
expired chieftain seeking sepulture' amid the
lamentations of an admiring nation. Gool-
hv, Naaman ! Let the chariotoer drive gen
tly over the hill* of Herman, lost he jolt
the Invalid. Hero .goes tho bravest man
of all Ids day a captive of a horrible disease.
As the ambulance winds through tho streets
of Damascus the tears and prayers of all tho
people go after the world renowned invalid.
Perhaps you have had Jm invalid go out
from your house on n health cx mrdon. You
know how tho neighbors stoo l around an 1
said, "Ah, he will never obrno back again
alive. ' Oh, It was a so loam moment, I tell
vou, when tho invalid had dopirtol. and
you went iuto the room to nmkothobod,
and to romovo the medicine vials from the
shelf, and to throw open tho shutters, so
that the fresh air might rush into the long
closed room. Goo thy, NH*lman !
There is only ono choorrul face looking at
him, and that Is the Taco or tin little
Hebrew captive, who is sure he will got
cured, and who is so glad she luriped him.
As the chariot winds out nnd the escort of
mounted courtiors, and ihe mules, laden
with sacks of gold nud silver an l em
broidered suits of tippaftri, wont through
the gates of Damascus ipid out on the bug
way, the Hills of Nuphtalii and Ephraim
look down on tho procession, and the re
tinue goes right past the battlefields whore
Naaman in the days of his health use l to
rally hit troops for tearful onset, and then
the procession Stops and reclines awhile in
the groves of olive and oleander, and
General N lamuu so sick, ho very, very sick !
How tho countrymen ftyod as the proces
sion passed ’ They lmd seen Naaman go
past liko a whirlwind in days gono by and
had stood aghast at tho clank of his war
equipments, but now they commiserate him.
They say: "Poor man, ho will never got
homo alive! Poor man !”
General Naaman wakes up from a restless
sleep in the chariot, and ho says to tho
charioteer, "How long before wo shall reach
Hie Prophet Elisha?” The charioteer says to
a waystder, "How far is it to Elisha’s
hous'd?” He says, "Two miles.” "Two
miles?" Then they whip up tho lathered
and fagged out horses. Tho whole procession
brightens up at the prowp|K:t of speody ar
rival. They drive up loTtho door of tbu
prophet. The chariotcorrshout "Whoa” to
the horses, and tramping hoofs and grinding
wheels cease shaking the earth. (Jome nut,
Elisha, come out. You bhYe company. Tile
grandest company that over came to your
house lias come to it uo\\t- No stir Insldo
Elisha’s house. Tho fact was, the Lord had
informed E ishu that tbejlick captain was
coming and how to ttjMt Ufcu- IttdnoJ. waon
you art* slok and the tilts you to get
well. Hu always tolls the doctor how to treat
you, and the reason wo have so many
bungling doctors is bonaase they depend
upon their own strength and Instructions
and not on Lord God, and that always
maker. malpTnotlrf^. Cou^out, Elisha, nnd
attend to your business. £
General Naaman and his retinue waltod
ami waited and waited. Tno fact was.
Na im.m Im l two distusas—prido and
leprosy. Tile one w.is as bard to get rid of
as the other. Elisha Hits quietly in his
house aud does uot go out, After awhile,
when ho thinks he has humbled this prou 1
man, lie says to a servant, f Go out and toll
General Naaman to bathe aavan times in the
rlvor Jordan, out yonder five miles, aud lie
will get entirely wolf." Ttyo message comes
our. "What!” says thooommnnder-ln-ohiot
of the Syrian forces, his eye Jciudllng with
an animation which it had not shown for
weeks and his swollen footstamping on the
bottom of tho chariot, regardless of pain.
"What 1 Isn’t ho coming out to see mo?
Why, J thought oorfaluly ho would come and
utter some cabalistic words over mu or make
soma enigmatical i» isscs over my woun Is.
Why, L don't tfiink ho knows who I
am. isn't he coming qfr? Why, when
the Bhuanmito woman elm.) to him, he
rushed out and cried : ‘Ls it well with thoo?
Is it well with thy husbutyJV Xs it woll with
thy child?’ And will he tyeat a poor un
known woman like that and lot mo, a titled
ponoaage. sit horn In iny chariot and wait
and w in? I won't nndurA It. nuy longer.
Onarioteor, drivo on ! Wash in the Jordan !
Un, ha ! Tho slimy Jordan <-thc muddy Jor
dan— tho monotonous Jordan ! f wouldn’t
bu soon w ishing in such x river ns that.
Why, we watered our horsA lu a batter river
than that on our way htri—tin beautiful
riwr.tho jaspar paved rivoftof Pinrpar. JJj-
sldcs that we Uiva in our f'diiotry another
D.iniuseuuo river, Abnun,,jr*i?h folhgod bank
and torrent ever swift nh 1 over clear, under
tho flickering shadow* of sycamore nnd ole
ander. AronotAbnna and T.iarpar, rivers
of Damascus, batter than nil the waters of
Ifinisl?"
I suppose Naamau felt very much as
\morlcans would fuel If, by way of medioil
| prescrq t ion, some or.e should mil us logo
j wash In tho Danube or iho Rhine. We
! would answer, "Are not f lic Connecticut and
j tho Hudson just as good?" Or as an Eng
ilsh nan would feel if he were told, by way
j of mcdiu.il prescription, he must go and
i wash in tlit) *Mlsjdssippi or tho rtt. Law-
fence. Ho would cry out, "Arc not the
J T.iumes and tho Hhnnnou Just us well?"
! Thu fact was that hiiu ghU*- Man man needed
i io learn what every Englishman and every
'American needs to Joarn—that when Go 1
mils you to do a thing you must go and do
j it,whether you unilerBtnnd the reason or nor.
I Take thu prescription, whether you like it or
not. One thing la certain,' Unless haughty
Naaman does as Elisha commands him, he
will die of his awful sickness, Aud unless
I you do ns Christ commands you 3*ou will bj
! seized upon by an everlasting wasting away.
(Obey and live; disobey and die. Thrilling,
, overarching, uudorgirdlnf, stupendous
! alternative!
Well. General Naaman cphld not stand the
j test. Tho charioteer gives a jerk to the right
line until the bit snaps in the horse's mouth,
| and the whir of the wheels and tho flying of
: the dust show tho indignation of the great
; commander. "He turnud i$ud w.mt uway in
1 rag**.” Ho people now often get mu l at
j religion. They vituperate against ministers,
against churches, against Cnristiau people.
One would think from their irate behavior
that Goi bud beeu stud3*ing how to annoy
1 and exasperate an 1 demolish them. Want
J has He been doing? Only trying to cure
1 their death dealing leproay. Tout is all.
i Yet they whip up their fton)??, they dig iu
: the spurs, and they go away in a rage.
So, after all. it seems tb it this health ox-
j (.ursion of General Naaman is to be a dead
failure. That little Hebrew captive might as
well have not told him of the prophet, and
this long journey might ot well not have
been taken. Poor, sick.-flying Naamau!
Are 3*011 going away in hum dudgeon and
worse than when you earner As his chariot
halts a moment his servant^ clamber up Jn
it and coax h'm to do as lUhiha said. 'They
nay: "it’s easy. If the prophot hud told
3*0u to walk tor n mile on sfnrp spikes in or
der to get rid of this my.i! disease, you
would have done It. It js eruj*. Come, my
ford, jait get down and v# in tho Jordan,
You take a hath every dajfjmybow, and Id
this climate it Is so hot thiw it will do >*ou
good. Do it on our ueeowbL and lor the
tike 9; ;U‘-' I’.noy yo.i i*o;;i:Af*ad f aud Xvr ?h*
mitlonthut admires you. Com*, my Ion),
mst try this Jordanlc bath." "Well.”
he says, "to please vou I will
00 an You say.” The retinue
drive to the brink of tho Jordau. Tho hors M M
paw and neigh to get into tho stream them-
salvos nnd cool their hot flanks. General
Naaman, assisted bv Ills attendants, gets
down ouf of h s pharlot and painfullv conn
to tho brink of the river and stup3 m until
the water comes to tho nukle, nn t goes 01
deep »r until tho water comes to the girdle,
and now standing so tar down in the stream
Just a little Inclination of tin head will
thoroughly Immerse hint, IL* bows ono
Into the lloo l and aomou up and shakos tin
water out of nostril and 03*0. and his atton ’-
ants look at him an l say, "Why, gonera .
how much hottor you do look!’’
And ho bows a sscond tlmo into
tho iloo.l and comes lip, and the
wild stare is gone out of his eve. II *
bows tho third tlmo into tho floo I, an 1 comes
Up, and tho shriveled skin has got smooth
again. It t bows a fourth time into th • floo 1
an l comes up, and the hair that had fnlleu
out Is restore 1 jthore are thick locks again
all over the heal. He bows tin fifth time
into tho flood, and comes up, undthehonrse-
tnss Ins gone out of his throat. He bows
the sixth time and oomns up, and all the
soreness and anguish have gone out of tin
bod3*. "Why,” he says, "I am almost uteri I,
but T will make a eonjploto cure, and so In
bows the seventh time into the flood and ho
eonns up, and not so much ns a fester ora
scale or an eruption as big us the head of a
pin is to bo seen on him.
lie slops out on the bank an l says, "Is it
possible?” And the atton lauts look nn l say,
"Is It possible?" Aud as with the health bt
au nthloto ho boun Is back into the chariot
and drives ou thoro goes up from all his at
tendants a wild "Huezn, huzza! ’ Of course
they go back to pay nnd thank the man of
Goil for his counsel so fraught with wisdom.
When they le!t tho nropliot’a house, they
went off mad. They have coma buck glad
People always think bettor of a minister a -
tor they are converted than they do before
conversion. Now wo are to them an intoler
able nuisance because we toll them to do
things that go against tho grain, but some o.’
us have a great many letters from those who
tell us that once they were angry at what w *
preaehed, but afterward gladly received
tho gospel ut our hands. They onco called
us fanatics or terrorists or enemies. Now
they call us friends. Yonder is a man who
said ho would never come into the church
again. Ho said that two yours ago. He said.
“My family shall uover come here again i(
sueh doctrines as thnt are proaohod.” But
ho e.ame again, nnd his family came again.
Ho is a Christian, his wile a Christian, all
his children Christiaus, tho whole house
hold Christians, and you shall dwell with
them in tho houso of the Lord forever. Ou.*
undying coadjutors are those who oue i
hoard tho gospri and "went away in a
rage.”
Now, my hoarers, 3*011 know that this Gen
eral Naaman did two thlugs in orier to get
well. Tno llrst was, he got out of his char
iot. Iia might have staid thoro with bln
swollen feet ou the stuffed ottoman, seated
on that embroidered cushion, until his last
gasn, ho would never have got any relic'.
Ho had to get down out of his chariot. Aud
3*011 have got to got down out ot the olmrioc
of 3*our pride tf you ever booo no a Ouris-
ttan. You cannot drive up to the cross with
a oo.noii aud four and be saved among all
tho spangles. You seem to think that the
Lord is going to bn coalpUmoutod by
your coming. Oh, no, you poor, mis
erable. scaly, leprous sinner, get down
out of thnt. Wo all come in the
s:uno haughty way. Wo expect lo ride
into thu kingdom of God. Never
until we get down ou our kuoo* will wb Mud
mercy. Tho Lord has unhorsed us, un-
uharioied us. Gut down out ol your pride.
Got down out ol’ your self rlghtoousnees nn I
your hypnrorltlcium. Wo have all got to do
that. That is the journey wo Imre to make
on our knees. It is our iuiornhl prl in that
keeps us from gettiug rid ot the leprosy of
sin. Dour Lord, want have we to be proud
of? Proud of our scales? Proud of our uu-
olonnllnosH? Proud of this killing infecriopV
Bring us doflrn at Thy foot, woaplng, pr.r -
Ing, penitent, believing suppliants.
For sinners, Lord, Thou cam’s! to blue
An 1 I’m a sinner vile indeed.
Lord, I beliovo Th3* grace Is Iron ;
Oli. magnify that grace in mt*.
But J10 had not only to got down out <
hh chariot. He had to wash. "Oh,” yo ,
sn3*, "lam very careful with my ablution-.
Every day l plunge Into n bright aud beam
ful bath.” Ah, my hearer, there is a fluo l
brighter thau any that pours from than
hills. It is tho floo I that breaks from th-
granite of the eternal hills. It Is thollo >
of pardon an 1 peace and life and heaven.
That floo I started in the tears of Christ an
the sweat of Gethsomano and rolle l on, a**-
enmhiutfng flood, until all oirth an I heaven
could bntho in ft. /achariuh called It Hi -
"fountain open for sin nn I unoleanncs-.
William Cowp jr called it tno "fountain fllle f
with bloo 1. Your fathers and mother
Wished all their sins aud sorrows away in
that fountain. Oh. mv hearers, do you not
feel like wading info It? Wade down now
into this glorious flood, deeper, dropoi.
deeper! Plunge once, twin;;, thrice, lou
times, five times, six fimos, seven times. It
will take as much ns that to cure your sou 1 .
Oh, wash, wash and bo clean !
I suppose that was a grout lime nt Damas
cus wnen General Naaman got back. Tu<
charioteers did not have to drive slowly any
longer, lest they Jolt the invalid.* but ns the
horses dashed through the streets of Damas
cus 1. think tho people rushed out to hall
back their chieftain. Nan man's wife hardly
roeogul/.ad her husband. He was so won
derfully changed she had to look nt him tw *
or three times before site ma le out that it
was her restored husband. And the little cap
tive maid, she rushed out. clapping her
Imuds and shouting : "Did he cure 3*011? Di i
ho cure you?” Thou music woke uu the p tl-
uoe, and Hie tapestry of the windows was
drawn away, that thu multitude oulsidi
might mingle with iho prlijjffsly mirth Inside,
and the feet went up and down iri the dauce,
and alt the streets of Damascus that night
echoed and re-echoed with the news: "Nari
man's cured! Nanman’s c'urel!” But .1
gladder time than that it would be if 3*our
sold should get cured of Its leprosy. Tno
swiftest white horses hitched to tho E ng's
chariot would rush tho news into the eternal
cit3*. Our loved ones before th ; throne
would welcome the glad tidings. Your c »ll-
dreu on earth, with more emotion than tho
little Hebrew captive, would notice tho
change in your look and the change iu youc
manner aud would put their arms around
your nook aud say: "Mother, I guess you
must lmve become a Christian. Father, I
think you have got rid of the leprosy. ’ O
Lord God of Elisha, have mercy on 11 ■>!
Utility oi Compressed Air.
In tno West- Shore shops, at New
Durham, N. J,, compressed air is
utilized in various ways. Oil is emp
tied from barrels into tanks by its
means, and cars are rapidly and ef
fectually cleaned. It is the most
thorough duster, reaching every crack
and crevice and rooting out dust, dirt
and shreds with lightning rapidity.
It even penetrates to the depths of up
holstery aud tufting. There is talk
of introducing it into the hotels,
where instead of the maid with broom
and dust-pan wo may bu.m seen stal
wart man with a hose blowing tho
dust out of the rooms aud cleaning
them as beater aud whisk-broom have
never been able to do.—Now York
Ledger,
I The big ditch excavated for tho pur
! pose of draining tho Tow Head Lake
j and contingent swamps in Calhoun
County, Iowa, is twenty-six miles long
| and twenty feet wide and eight feet
! d?ejp.
FROM WASHINGTON.
NEWSY ITEMS PICKKD UI- AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Sayings nnd Doings of tho Official
Heads of tho (iovernmoiit.
Some expert annlyzer of Iho new
oougrt'ss Inis figured thntJhero will bo
iu llie next liouso ono hundred ropro-
se&tutivos of tho A. 1’. A.
Tho president, I Intraday, appointed
Kdwurd K. Lowry, of Ohio, second
secretary of tho Untied States lega
tion nt Pekin.
Tho democratic odngrosaional breth
ren who Were buried in tho rteent po
litical snow storm, uro beginning to
putin a risurrectod appearance iu
Washington.
Major W. M. Stanton and Captain
F. V. Abbott, oorps of engineers, linvo
been appointed as a hoard to investi
gate nnd report upon Iho channel
through the outer bnr of Brunswick,
■Ga.
Twenfy-uino clerks of tho census
oftieo wore dismissed Thursday. This
will bo followed iu a few days by tho
dismissal of 200 more. Tho ouusc is
tho completion of tho work of the
eleventh census.
A district suffrage petition associa
tion him beeu organized nnd tho mem
bers aro now securing great stacks of
names to a petition begging congress
to invest. District of Columbia citizens
with tho right of suffrage.
Among tho flftocn notices of contest
of tho next house, of which the repub
lican oampnigu committee lmvo been
apprised, aro Cheatham, of North
Carolina, a negro who has served sev
eral terms iu congress, against Wood
ward,and George Washington Murray,
tho colored South Curoliuian, against
Elliott.
Tho report of tho United States
strike commission upon tho controver
sies which arose between tho Illinois
Central Railroad Company and the
Chicago, Rook Island nnd Pacific Rail
way Company and tlioir employes in
June last is a pamphlet of forty-three
pages, and contains suggestions of
moro than usual interest.
Tho treasury sustained a further
loss Thursday in its gold reserve,
8275,000 being withdrawn from tho
various sub-treasuries in exotiango for
United States notes nnd treasury notes
of 181)0, This brings tho aggregate
loss from this cause within two days
to $400,000, Tho gold is being prin
cipally taken out in Boston, nnd is
evidently intended for bond pur
chasers.
Judge Cole, of criminal court No. 2,
Saturday directed thnt John \V. Mc
Cartney and Elvortou It. Chapman,the
recnlcitrnnt witnesses before tho sena
torial sugar trirst investigation com
mittee, whose demurrers ho overruled
a few days ago should appear ill cuurt
aud plead to Iho indictments. Cpuusel
for McCartney nnd Chapman will ap
peal to thecourtuf appeals from Jndgo
Cole's decision. They will olnim that
congress hss no power to make a crim
inal offense of tho refusal of a witness
to testify before a oonfmitteo.
Many requests aro received ut tho
postofilco department from postmas
ters all over tho country asking that
ou'luin officers included in tho recent
civil service order bo excepted from
its operations for a short time. It
appears, according to muny of them,
Unit the postmasters appointed since
thu now administration came into
power have not yet had timo to fill
tho offices under them with their party
friends, and by Iho new extension
they are debarred from selecting chief
clerks and oilier < dicers who have
heretofore been considered entitled to
party patronage places.
Tho Government Dissatisfied.
Chief Hasten, of tho United States
secret service, says tho fact that the
United States grand jury at Jackson,
Miss., refused to indict Governor
Stone nnd other state officers in con
nection with tho issue of the Missis
sippi wnrrunts, will not deter tho
United States govt rnment officers from
prosecuting tire ease in St. Louis, Mo.,
atiil Chicago, 111., agaiiiat Dio hank
note company that print, d tho war
rants. The matter is also likely to ho
aguili eillecl to the attention of thu
new United Stubs grand jury at .Tuck-
son. Tho government officers in tho
treasury view the matter of the stato
issuing warrants, which were intended
to puss ns money, and which liuvo a
striking similitude to tho United
StstcH paper currency, in a serious as
pect as being a direct contravention of
the law. Tho prosecution will tie
pushed iu all its phases to tho highest
courts by tho United States govern
ment.
Why Lcvcrclt was t ailed Down.
Tho president Friday appointed
John D. Harrell, of Georgia, to be
United Htutes marshal f,,r the southern
district of Georgia. This is the place
to which Hun. Frank Leverctt wus ap
pointed soon ufter the beginning of
Mr. Cleveland’s present term, and
which ho 1ms since filled. The
morses that led to Mr. Lcverett’s
retirement are ns follows: Tho re
sponsibility for the lack of funds with
with which to serve government papers
iu criminal crisis iu tho southern dis
trict did not rest with the government,
but with Marshal Leverctt. When a
marshal qualifies ho files a bond for
820,0(10 nnd Hie government udvnncos
h'm money with which to pay the ex
penses of court proceedings with which
ho bus to deal. Tire government will
advance, through the department of
justice, au amount equal to the amount
of tiro bond given by the marshal. It
scours Marshal Leverctt had been
advanced more for the expenses of
thi|9 di6t)iot than was on hi? bond,
His credit with tho government had,
therefore, expired. This oredit cat)
bo re-established by promptly return
ing to the department vouchers for the
amounts expended duty approved by
the j'idgo of the Court. Marshal Lev-
erott lmd neglected to do this, and his
credit with tho department had ex
pired. It seems to have been more of
a OUBO of neglect that was made out in
tho report upon thO iifi'uirs of his,office
than anything else. Tile reason there
was no money on hand was because
those vouchers hud been neglected and
tho marshaFHjTcdit lmd i xpired.
SOUTHERN FLASHES.
A SUMMARY OK INTERESTING
HAPPENINGS,
Anil Presenting an Epitome of the
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
II. P. Schmidt, banker aud general
dealer, in llromoud, Robertson county,
Texas, has (lied a deed of trust to se
cure creditors in tho sum of $75,000.
Schmidt’s assets are from 8100,000 to
8125,000.
News reached Memphis, Term.,
Wednesday of the linrnitig of four
negro houses by forest tins n ar .Mil
lington, Touu., and of tho fatal burn
ing of Fannie WJrods and tho child el
a negro named Pitt Rhea, About
fifty negroos uro now homelets in that
vicinity.
A Memphis, TVnn., opcoial says:
After a week’s delay in securing a jury
the trial of W. S. Richardson and E.
N. Smith, charged with being parties
to tho Kerrville lynching where six un-
groos wero murdered, wus begun
Thursday. It looks as if tho trial will
laBt thirty days.
The sensation at Memphis! hursdny,
in tho murder trial of Smith and I.ich-
nrdson, charged with, the sextuple
lynching, was. tho ‘ ojrpeoranoe on the
witness staud r one after another, of the
aii ./blowsof the nmrduri d men. They
told tho oireumst rices of the arrest of
their husbands*by Detective Richard
son.
W. H. Gibbs, republican postmaster
at .Jackson, Miss., under Harrison, ox-
auditor of Mississippi linder the re
publican i gime, recently indioUd for
embezzlement us postmaster, of $3,
970.82, was fined the amount of bin
embezzlement by Judge Miles, in the
federal oourt Wednesday and sentenced
to three years in the Brooklyn, N. Y.,
prison.
A Sensation was sprung at Mem
phis, Saturday, in the trial of Detrc-
ivo W. S. Richardson and Ed K.
Smith, charged with lynching the tix
negro prisoners, when F. K. Turner, a
deputy sheriff, took tho stand. He
stated that Richardson told hirn on
Monday morning before tho lynching
that tho men would bo arrested and
would bo lyuohed.
Tho complete official returns of Mis
sissippi's election arrived at the office
of the secretary of stato at Jackson,
Thursday, from the seventy-five coun
ties in Mississippi show the following
u B8 r ' gate vote ut the congressional
election iti the seven districts ou No
vember fith : Democratic, 26,501; pop
ulist, 12,096; prohibition 451; repub
lican, 1,900. This wus jess than hall
a vote.
A Montgomery, Ala., speolal t-.ays:
Tho feuturo of Wednesday’s assembly
proceedings wsh tho presentation of
the governor’s message nnd the formal
election of the officers named by Tues
day 's democratic cuucu-os. In both
houses tho populists hud tickets for
every office voted on. In the house
tho vote, in almost every case, stood
about 63. for tho democrats and 34 for
the opposition nominees. In tho sen
ate tho vote stood about 24 to 7 in fa
vor of tho dewoorutio nominees.
ROPER’S ASSAILANTS
Get Long Terms in the Pen and Heavy
Fines.
Will Roper’s assuiluntsgo to (ho pen
itentiary for good long terms. They
were sentenced in the United States
court at Atlanta Saturday morning.
Hy order of Judge Newman the fivu
condemned prisoneis— W. It. Morri
son, A. P. Duncan, J. M. Morrison, J.
T. Morrison aud J. W. llcdd—were
led into into tho circuit c oirt room-
room for sentence. W. B. Morrison,
one of tho throe prisoners, who enter
ed a pica of guilty to the indictment-
for conspiracy to kill Will Roper, was
sentenced to hard labor in tho peni
tentiary at Columbus, O., for a term
of eight years and to pay a line of
8500 and costs.
A. P. Duncan, J. M. Mrrfson, J. T.
Morrison aud J. W. Redd were sen
tenced to ten years and a lino of §1,000
each. J. W. Redd and J. M. Mor
rison, who left their cases to a jury,
gave notice through their attorney,
Colonel Jones, that a motion would be
made for anew trial in their individual
cases. Judge Newman <?uve no inti
mation as to tho time that this motion
would he heard. All of tho condemu-
ed prisoners wero committed to the
Fulton county jail. The verdict ren
dered seems to liuvo given general sat
isfaction und the revenue officers be
lieve that it will act un a check on the
lawlessness of the mountain regions of
north Goorgin.
Hill’s Election Expenses.
Senator David 13. Hill has filed a
statement of his election expenses as
tbo domoerutio oaudidatu for governor
as follows: Paid to demoorutio state
committen for the general expenses of
the campaign 82,500, paid for trans
portation 8150, paid for nse of type
writer machines 813, paid for persona]
expenses, myself and secretary, on-
trips throughout the state, $335; pest
le bu4 telegas, $05,