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Newspaper Page TextTHE CLEVELAND PROGRESS. Ill, JOHN OLEN. DSTOTED TO THE MINING, A QRIOXJLTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS Of CLEVELAND, TTBITE OOOSTT ASM NORTH BAST 9E0RBIA. ' , ........ ■ 'iH—■■■ -- — TERMS:—One Deflar Per Tear. VOL. IT V. Alexander, J. I*.; M. It. Mooro, N. F. and J. P. CLEVELAND, WHITE COtfklY, GA , FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1895. ~~~ NO. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. ' ~ (PIEDMENT AIR LINE.) Route of the Groat Vestlbuled Limited. ATLANTA A CHARLOTTE A1R-LINB DIVISION. ———- COX MCXSSB PCHEDUL* OF PASBKNGin THAIMB. In Effect July 1st, 1804, Nort lilMiunri. ver. Llm No. as Dully F’st Mall No. .10 Daily No. 19 Dally Lv Atlanta c time '• Atlanta K time " Nor crofts " Buford " Gainesville . " Lula " Cornell* '* Mt Airy •• Toscoa " Westminster. “ Seneca " Central " Greenville.... '* Sparmtiburtf.. " Gaffneys. . " nmckaburg... *’ King'nMount'n ” Gastonia Ar. Cnarlotto Ar. Danville Ar. Ivlcnmoml Ar. 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Nos. -17 and 30 Washington and Southwestern Vestlbuled Limited. between Now York aud Now Orleans. Throug'i Pullman Sleeper* he tween ,\ >w York and New Orleans, via Atlon ta nnd Montgomery, and also between Washing- toil and Memphis, via Atlanta and Birmingham. Nos. 11 and 12 Pullman Sleeping Oar between Richmond. Danville and Groensboro. For detailed information an to local and through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep in«r ear reservations, ooitfer with local agents, or address— W. A.Ti’RK, S. H. TIARDWICIC, •Jon 1 Pass. Aff’t, Ass t General Pass Ag’t WamiiNfjTON, D. C. Atlanta, OA. •I. A. I) )DSON, Superintendent, Atlanta, Ga. W. II. GREEN, J. M. CULP, Gen'l M gr.. Traffic Mn’gr. Wasiunuton. D. C. Washington D.0- GENERAL DIRECTORY. Vonnii Lollop, F. & A. M., No. 882. CLEVELAND, OA. Monthly communications fourth 8»t- ur.luvw at 7 ]>. m. Z.‘T. Logan, W. M. ,T. C. Boll, H. W. ,L I). Conley, .1. W. J. J. Kimsey, 8. 1). A. M. Dean, Treas. 8. L. Brown, J. D. J. \V. II. Umlnrwood, Seo, CHURCH DIRECTORY. Baptist—Services every third Sun day and Saturday before—ll o’olock a. m. Sunday school every Sunday morning—9 o’clock a. m. All arc in vited to attend, especially non-church members. John J. Kimsey, pastor. Methodist—Services every fourth Sunday at II o’clock a. m. Sunday school at 0 a. in. All have a cordial invitation to attend. I’raycr meeting at the church every Wednesday even ing at 7 o’clock. W. II. Simmons, Pastor. Schedule ef Arrival and Dcpnrtnre of Cleveland Malls. Leave. Arrive. Lula, daily except Sun. | Oam. | 7 pm. Blairsville, “ “ \ 7 am. 5 pm. HaysvilleMonWedFri | Oam. | 7 pm. Wuhoo Tues Tlmr Sat I 0 am. | 3 pm. Alto Tues Sat. | 7 am. | 0 pm. JNO. It. GLEN, P. M. JUDICIARY. J. C. Wellborn, Judgo S. C. Howard Thompson, Solicitor. Court convenes second Monday in Ai>ril and October. COUNTY OFFICERS. W. B. Bell, Ordinary. S. L. Brown, Sherifl. W. R. Power, Clerk S. C. S. N. Brack, Tax Collector. J. M. Chapman, Treasurer. C. L. Franklin, Tax Receiver. J. W. Fain, Surveyor. G. N. Colley, Coroner. R. T. Kesimer, A. P.Williams, Ma kion Cooley. County Commissioners. JUSTICE COURTS. Blue Ridge—1439 Dist., Second Saturdays in each month. Steve Ash. J. P., B. J. Beach, N. P. and J. P. White Creek—1441 Dist., First Saturdays in each month. W. I. Hum phries, J. P., J. S. Brownlow, N. P. and J. P. Mt. Yonah—861 Diet., J. H. Free man, J. P., G, B. Jarrard, N. P. and J, P. Third Fridays in each month. JtfoesT Creek-—4S0 Dist, Third la gftsit giutfe. % 4- Nacoociiee—427 Dist., First Satur days in each month, Hiram Cannan, J. P.; J, R. Lumudeu, N. P. and J. P. Siioal Creek—862 Dist., Fourth Saturdays in each month, Jno. Bowen, J. P.; J. A. O’Kolley, N. P. and J. P. Blue Breek—721 Dist,, Second: Saturdays iu each month, It. I*. Kin sey, J. P.; J. B. Robertson, N. P. and J. P. Tesnater—558 Dist., Fourth Satur days in each month, Juo. Mappiu, J. P.; J. C. Roll, N. P. and J. P. Tows Creek—836 Dist., Thirt Saturdays in cadi month, Hughei Allen, J. P. ; J. E. McAfee, N. P. ami J. P. Chattahoochee—1497 Dist., Second Saturday in oacli mouth, R. E. West inorelaud, J. P.; J. H. Westmoreland, N. P. and J. I>. CONTI! ABA XI) GOODS FOUND ON THE YACHT LAUONDA BY CUSTOMS OFFICERS. The Vessel and all (he Crew Under Arrest at Feniutidliia. The steam yacht Lngonda was de tained at the port of Fornaudina, Fla., lato Saturday afternoon as a suspicious vessel by order of the secretary of tho treasury at Washington. Collector of Customs Halt/,ell had tho yacht seized as she was about to leave tho port. He placed a detail of ofliaers ou board to hold her for further orders. Captain Grillin, of tho Lagondft, Senor Mnrtilo and Senor Mareudi are under arrest together with other pas- sougers and all tlu crow. The Logon- da arrived at Fernaudiua several days ngo, and since then has been cruising up and down the harbor and into tho sound. She also made two or three trips up the river. N. B. Bordon, tho British vice con sul at tho port, who is a well known citizen of Feruamlina and a prominent business man, appeared to huvo a good deal to do with tho yacht and her party, but this circumstunco aroused no suspicion either in federal official circles or among tho town folks, ton Borden’s reputation for square dealing and straightforwardness has heretofore been high. mehhaoe whrfwem? Delivered. By some strange accident or design, which is not yet known, au official tel egram, directed to tho “Collector of tho Port, Fernandina, Fla.,” fell into the hands of Borden, and was opened by him. Ho may have opened it un intentionally, without looking at the address on tho envelope, hut tho con tents of this mossago came under his eyo before the collector of thoport,Mr. G. L. Iinltzcll, got tho telegram in his own hands. A littlo later, large, heav ily strapped boxes, live feet long and 12x18 inches tqttnro at the ends, were found ilouting in tho harbor. These were picked up by boats from tho shore and opened in tho presence of the collector. This was before ho had received orders from Seoretary Car- lisle to seize the yacht. Tho boxes contained cavalry equipments of tho latest and most approved design, to gether with swords, side arms, etc. UAUOHT IN THE AUT. It is suspected thut tho Lagonda’s party, having been apprised of tho fact that tho United Staten government was about to seize the yacht, began to throw her cargo overboard, but the seizuro camo before they could get more than two boxes out of hor hold. Since her seizure, Collector Bnltzell has been very reticent about what ho found on hoard the Lagobda. Everybody con nected with the custom house is un der orders of the collector to preserve the greatest secrecy, but it bus leaked out that the Lagonda’s cargo is wholly of arms, ammunition and cavulry equipments. These contrnbrand goods were undoubtedly intended for use by one of tho Soutli American stateH. The Lagonda left New York two three weeks ago, and another yacht, which left about tho same time, has bceu under similar suspicion. Tho treasury department lias been on the lookout for both, suspecting thnt they would enter sumo other river port in tho southearstern waters, and there take their cargoes ou board. TURNEY HOLDS HIS OWN. Everything is Oolng Ills Way lu the Oiiberiintorlal Contest. A Nashville special says: A long- drawn-out discussion prevented the house from reaching a vote on the senate joint resolution providing for a postponement of the joint session to count the vote for governor, hut a test vote was tuken which shows beyond doubt that the senate resolution will ho concurred in, and that tho holdover policy will prevail. Governor Turney will retain the office of governor while the attempt is made to pass a law pre scribing the method of procedure in case of a contest for the governorship. Iu event this legislation goes through he will also hold office pending the investigation that will follow. There is but little doubt that a resolution to take a recess will prevail and the leg islature will not be in session during the investigation. Debs Goes to Jail. Eugene V. Debs and bis associates, who are under jail sentonce for con tempt, surrendered io United States Marshal Arnold at Chicago Tuesday, and juil commitments wero promptly mode out, No proceedings in court looking towards n stay of wntoneo wars begun. IlEV. 111!. TALMAGE- The Urookl.vn Divine’s Sunday Sermon. Subject: “Tomb and Temples** Tkxt: "From India ovou unto Ethiopia." —Esther 1., 1. In nil tho Blblo this Is the only book Ih whloh tho word India occurs* but it atnhdft for a renlm of vast interest Ih tho time Of Either* ns ill out tirhe. It yielded then, ns now, spices ftud silks and cotton nnd rlco tmd indigo and ores of nil richness nnd preoiom stones of nil sparklo and had n civllizntion of Its own ns marked ns Egyp tian or Grecinu or Homan civilisation. It holds tho costliest tomb over built and tho most unique and wonderful Idolatrous tem ple ever opened. For praotlcal lessons In this, my sixth discourse In round tho world serlos, I show you thnt tomb an l temple of India. In a Journey around the world It may rot be easy to toll tho exact Point Which divides tho pilgrimage Into halves. I ut there was one structure toward which wo wore all tho time traveling, an.I having aoen that wo felt thnt if we saw nothing more out* oltpodltion would bo a success. That Oho object Was the Taj Mahal of til lift. It is the erdwn of thd whole earth. Tho spirits Of architecture mot to enthrone ft klhg, and the sp'rlt of the 1'arthetioh of Athens was there, and thosplrlt of Rt. Sophia of Constantinople was tin re, an<l the spirit of Ht. Izaak of Rt. Petersburg was there, an 1 tho spirit of tho Baptistery of Plan was l hero, nnd tho spirits of the pyramid und ol Luxor obelisk, nnd of tho Porcelain tower of Nankin, and of Hr. Mark’s of Venice, and tho sp rlts of all tho groat towers, great cathedrals, great mausoleums*- great sarcophagi, great oaplto a for tho living and of gr at necropolises for tho dead wore there. And tho presiding gehltls of tho throng with gnvol of I'arlan marble smote the table of Russian malaohlio, and called the throng of spirits to order, and called for a Veto ns to whloh spirit should Wear tho chief crown, and mount tho chief throne, and wave tho chief scepter, on l by unani mous acclaim tho cry was : "Long live tho spirit of Taj, king of all tho spirits of archi tecture ! Thlno is the Taj Mahal of India 1” Tho building Is about six miles from Agra, nnd iiH wo rode out In tho early tlawu wo hoar«t nothing but the hoofs and wheels that pulled and turned us nlongthe road, at every yard of which our expectations rose until wo bait some thought that wo might bo dis appointed at the first glimpse, as some say they wore disappointed. But how can any one be disappointed withthe Taj Is almost as great a wonder to mo as tho Taj itself. There are some people always disappointed, nnd who knows but that having entered heaven they may criticise tho architecture of the temple and the cut of tho whito robes, and say that the River of Ltfo is not quite up to their expectations, and. that the white horses on which the conquerors ride Beom a little spring halt or spavined? My son said, “Thero it is l M I said, “Whore?’* For that whloh he saw to be tho building soemed to mo to bo more liko tho morning cloud blusbfng under tho sluro of the rising sun. It seemed not so muon built up from earth as let down from heaven. Fortunately you atop at au elaborated gate way of rod sandstone one-eightu of a mllo from the Taj, on entrance sohlgh,Hoaroliod, so graceful, bo four domed, so parted and chiseled and Bcrol'.ed that you.coma Very gradually upon tho TriJ, whfen 'structure Is enough to intoxicate tho eyo and stun tho Imagination and entrance tho soul. Wo go up tho winding stairs of this majestic en trance of tho gateway, nnd buy a few pic tures, nnd examine a f«w curios, an l from ft look oil upon iho Taj, and descend to the pavement of the garden thnt raptures every thing between tho gateway and the ecstaoy of marble and precious stones. You pass along a deep stream of water in whloh all manner of brilliant fins swirl ami float. Thoro aro eighty-four fountains that spout and bend and arch themselves to fall lu showers of pearl In basins of snowy white ness. Bods of all imaginable flora greet tho nostril before they do the eyo and seem to roll In waves of color as you advance toward the vision you are soon to have of wlmt hu man genius did when It did Ith best j moon flowers, lilacs, marigolds, lullps and almost every where tho lotus ? thickets of bewilder ing bloom ; on either side trees from many lands bond their nrboreeoonco over your head or seem with convoluted branches to reach out their arms toward you In welcome. On nnd on you go amid tninnr.nd and cy press and poplar and oleander and yew nnd sycamore and banyan and palm and trees of such novel branch nnd leaf and girth you oenso to ask tholr name or nntlvity. As you approach tho door of tho Taj one experiences a strange sensation of awo and tenderness and humility and worship. The building is only a grave, but wlmt n gravel Built lor a queen, who, according to some, was very good, and according lo others very bad, I chooso to think she was very good. At any rate, It makes mo fool better to think that this commemorative pile wits set up for tho Immortalization of virtue rather than vice. The Taj Is a mountain of white marble, but never such walls faced each other with exquisiteness ; never such a tomb was cut from block of alabaster ; never such a congregation of precious stones brightened and gloomed an 1 blazed nnd chastened and glorified a building since sculptor’s chisel cut lls first curve, or painter’s pencil traced Its first figure, or mason's plumb lino measured iis first wall, or architect's, com pass swept its first circle. The Taj has sixteen great arched win dows, lour at each corner ; also at each of tho four corners of tho Taj stands a minaret 137 foot high ; also nt each side of this build ing Is a splendl 1 mosque of red sandstone. Two hundred nnd fllty years has the Taj btoo J, an 1 yet not a wall is cracked, nor a mosaic loosened, nor an arch Bagged, nor a panel dulled. The storms of 250 winters have not marred nor the heats of 250 sum- meis disintegrated a marble. There is no story of age written by mosses on its white surface. Montnz, the queen, was beautiful, and Hhah Jehan, the king, hero proposed to let nil the centuries of time know it. Hhe was married at twenty years of age and f ind at twenty-nine. Her life ended as an other life began. As the rose bloomed the rosebush perished. To adorn this dormitory of the dead, at the command of tho king, Bagdad sent to this building Its cornelian and Ceylon its lapis lazuli, nnd Punjab Its jasper, nnd Persia its amethyst, and Thibet Its turquoise, nnd Lanka Its sapphire, and Yemen Us agate, an 1 Punna Its diamonds nnd blood stones, and sardonyx and chalcedony and moss agates are as common ns though they were pebbles. You fiud one spray of vine beset with eighty and another with 100 stones. Twi n y thousand men were twenty years in building it, nnd although tho labor was slave labor, nnd not paid for, the building ost what would ho about 800,000,000 of our American money. Home of tho Jewels have been picked out of tho wall by Iconoclasts or conquerors, and substitutes of less value have taken their places, but tho vines, the tracerhs, the irabesques, the spandrels, the entablatures are so wondrous that you feel like dating the rust of your life from the day you first nw them. In letters of black marble tho vho!e of the If.oran is spelle 1 out in und on this nugust pile. Tho king sleeps In the tomb bt side the queen, although bo Intend ed to build a palace as black as this was white on the opposite side of the river for himself to sleep lu. Indeed the foundation of such a necropolis of black marble is still there, nnd Irorn the whito to the black tem ple of the dead a bridge was to cross, but the sou dethroned him and imprisoned hire, and it is wonderful that the king had any plac • at all in which to bo burled. Instua l ul windows to let in tho light upon tho two tombs, there Is a trellis work of marble, marble cut so delicately thin that the suu shines through It as easily as t hrough glass. | Look the world ov r an l find so much trail*- iUeitcy, canopU’*, irnsurlc*, lose work, «ru» ^leldcrlve ot *1900* ,, ~ tho Wonderful fflsonando ©f thii TaJil qnA 4p t trlod It. t supposd thero are niare elheping eohoc* lti that build* ing Wallin# to bo Wnttetiod by tho human Vokm Utah lti ahyhUllalngeVcty constructed j 1 ut toted bite wrdi nh<l the to soothed dej Soondltig lbVlalbU\anotrs lti full chant j and thoto was a toVorhrrttJon that kept on long after ono would n.Wtt okpootod it to cease. When ft llhe df a hymn was sung* thoro were replying* rolling*'rifting, falling* interweav ing sounds that aoombd modulated by be ings sornphlfl* TUel-o wore aeflat sdprunou nhd bassos* soft, high* doop, tromulous* emotional, cdmmlbglltyg. It was llko nil nu- itphtiriutivf heaved; Bdt there aro four or flVo Taj Kilhals. It haft ono appoaranoo at ftUnrlso, another at noon, another nt sunset and another by moonlight. Indeed the silver trowel of the moon, and the golden trowel of tho sunlight, and tho leaden trowel of the storm build and rohuild tho glory, so that tt never seems twice alike. It has all moods, all complexions, all gran deurs. From the top of tho Taj, whloh Is 250 feet high, Bprlngs a spire thirty foot higher, and that l» ouamoled gold. What an anthorn In eternal rhythm I Lyrics and elegies in rnafblr. Bculptilrn t hosanna. Masonry ns Of supernatural hands. Mighty doXology in stouo. I shall aoo nothing to equal tt till I sou tho grortt White throne, nnd on it ltlnS frdm Whdso fade the earth ana heavens flee rtWftlv The Taj ift the pride bf India* and especi ally of MOluudrabdanlftm; An English oftl- dor at tho fbrtreft* tokl tis that .when during the general mutiny In 1857 the Mohamme dans proposed insurrection nt Agra the Eng lish Government aimod the guns of the fort at the Taj and said, “You make insurrection, ‘ and that same day wo will blow your Taj to atoms, and that throat ended tho disposition for mutiny at Agrn. But I thought while looking at that palaoo for the dead all thlft eoustiueted lo cover a handful of dust, but ov.m that handful has probably gone from the mausoleum, How miteh better U Would hn¥4 been to expend tHO,000,0(10, Which the Taj Mahal cost, for the living. Wlmt nsylflms It might have built for the flick* What houses for the homeless! Wlmt Improvement our century has made upon other centuries la lifting In honor of the departed memorial ohurohos, memorial hospitals, memorial reading rooms, me morial ol servntorlas. By nil possible means let us keep the memory of departed loved ones fresh iu mind,..and let there bo an ap propriate headstone or monument In the ocmeteuy, but thera is a dividing line be tween reasonable) commemoration and wicked extravagance. Tho Taj Mahal has Its uses as an architectural Achievement, eclipsing all other architecture, but as a me morial of a departed Wife and mother it ex presses no more than tho plainest slab in many a country graveyard. Tho best monu ment we can any of us have built lor us when we are gone Is In the memory of those whose Borrows we have alleviated, In tho wounds wo have healed, In tho kindnesses wo have aoue, In the ignorance wo have En lightened, in ‘he recreant wo have roolalmod, In the souls wo have saved. Such a monu ment Is built out of material more lasting than marble or bronze and will stand amid tho eternal splendors long after the Taj Ma hal of India shall have gone down In the ruins of a World of which it was tho ooullest adornment, But I qirornlsed to show you not only n tomb of India, but a unique heathen temple, and It is a temple under ground.. With minor’s candle we had soon some thing of t tit) Underside of Australia, as at Girn- pie, ns with gulden torqh we lmd seen at different Minas som<thing of the underside of America, as iu M umnoth oave, but we are. now to outer one sucre V collars ot India, commonly called the Blephantncnvos. We had It all to ounolvca, the steam yacht thnt was to take us about fifteen miles over tho harbor of Bombay anl between enchant ed islands, nnd along shores whose curves and gulches and pictured rooks gradually preparer! tho mind for appreciation of the most unique spectacle In India, The morn ing had been full of thunder nnd lightning and deluge, but Iho atmospheric agitations had ceased, and tho cloudy ruins of the storm wero piled up In the houveus, huge enough and darkly purple enough to make the skies as grandly picturesque as tho earthly seouery amid which wo moved. After an hour’s cutting through the water we camo to the long pier reaching from the island callo I Elephants. It Is an Island small of girth, but 500 feet high. Jt declines Into the marshes of mangrove. But the whole island is one tangle of foliage and verdure: convolvulus creeping the ground; mosses climbing the rocks ; vines sleeving the long arms of the trees ; red flower* born and there in the woods, llko incendiary's torch trying to set the groves on lire—cactus nnd acacia vying as to whloh can most charm the be holder ; tropical bird mooting particolored butterfly in jungles platltf l the s i ne sum mer l lie world was bom. We stopped out of the boat amid enough natives to afford all tho holp wo needed for landing and guld- ano *. You can bo carrlod by coolies in an oasyohair, or you can walk, if you are blessed with two stout limbs, whloh the psalmist evidently leaked, or he would not huvo so depreciated them when he sal 1: “Tho Lord toketli no ploasuoo In the legs of a man.” Wo passed up bo no stone steps, and between tho walls wo saw awaiting us a oobrn, one of those snakes whloh greet tho traveler ofttirnoa In India. Two ofthoguldes left the cobra dead by tho wayside. They must have been Mohammedans, for Hindoos never kill that sacred reptile. And now we come near the famous temple hewn from one rock of porphyry at leasi 810 years ago. On either side of the chief tem ple is a chapel, these cut out of tho same stone. Ho vast was the undertaking an t to the Hindoo was so great tho human Impossi bility that they say the go Is scooped out this structure from the rock and carved the pillars and hewed Its shape Into gigantic Idols and dedicated It to all tho grandeurs. We ollrnb many stone steps be.ore we got to tho gateways. Tho entrance to this temple has sculptured doorkeepers leaning on sculptured devils. How strange! But I have seen doorkeepers of churches an 1 audi toriums who seemed to bo leaning on the demons of bid ventilation an I asphyxia. Doorkeepers ought lo be leaning ou the angels of health an l comfort and life. All the sextons and janitors of tho earth who hav*spoiled sermons and lectures and pois oned the lungs of audiences by in ffl denoy ought to visit this cave of Eleptmnta and be ware of what these doorkeepers aro doing, when instead of leaning ou the angelic they lean on the demoniac. In those Elephanta caves everything Is on a Samsoulau and Titaniun scale. With chis els that were dropped from nervaless hands at least eight centuries ngo, the forms of tho gods Brahma and Ylshnu und Siva wero cut STATIC TREASURER DECAMPS And a South Dakota Bank Left In a Bad Predicament. A special from Pierre, B. D., hnyn: State Treasurer Taylor, who should have turned over his cash to his buc- ceBHor, failed to appear, and his hank, the ltedfield National, has closed itB doors. The laBt heard of Taylor he was in New York. On Saturday lie should have hod $350,000, and should havo paid $390,000 to take up funding warrants iu New York. It has been known for some time that the treasurer was hard pressed. He was caught in the Chemical Na tional batik failuro iu Chicago for a large amount, and he loHt $20,000 in the bonk ut Mil hank, and $10,000 iu that at Geldisburg, which failed dur ing the panic. Altogether ho lost $100,000. The Red field National hank is in good condition and it in thought will pay all ita debt. Extravagant assumption of being truly good i* frequently tbc forerun ner of grossest fraud. Into tho orcrlaet ing rock, Siva is hero rop- rusentod by a flgiifo sixteen f«ot nine Inches high, one-half matt ft fid onodmlf woman. Run a Hue from the center of tUe fofdicnd straight td'the Hoar of the rock, and you di vide this Mol luto masculine and feminine. Admired as this Idol Is by many, It was to mo about tho worst thing that Was over cut Into porphyry, perhaps bocailse there Is hardly anything on earth so objeotiomibjo as a be ing half man and half Woman. Do bo ono or other* my hearer. Man Is admirable and wo man lo admirable, but olthor In flesh or trap- rook a edmpiomiBo of tho two is hideous. Havo uft frdm effeminate man and masculine women! Yonder Is tho King ltuvanrt worshiping, Yonder Is tho scultured representation of t he marriage of Hlva and Parhatl. Yonder Is Daksha, tho son of Brahma, born from tho thumb of his right hand. Ho had sixty daughters. Seventeen of those daughters were marrio.l to Knsyapa and became tho mothers of tho human race. Yonder is a god with three heads. Tho center God has a crown wound with necklaoes of skulls. The right hand god Is in a paroxysm of rago, with forehead of snakes, nnd in its hand Is a cobra. Tho loft hand god has pleasure in all its matures, and the hand has a flower. But t ere are go is and goddesses in all direc tions, Tho dhlof temple of this rock Is 133 teet square and has twenty-six pillars rising to the roor. After tho conquerors of other I mlR and thd tourists irom all lands have dbladod and tihlppo l and blast ed and carried away curios and mementos for mttseums ntnl noraos, tnoro nro enough ontrunooments loft to detain ono unless tie is cautious until tie Is down with somo of the malarias whloh encompass this Island or get bitten with somo of Its snakes. Yes, I felt the chilly dampness of the place and loft this congress of gods ; this P monium of demons, this pantheon of indif ferent deities, nnd oame to the stops and looked off upon.the waters which rollod and flashed around tho steam yacht that was Waiting to return with us to Bombay. As Wo stopped aboard, our minds filled with tho Idols of tho Elephanta caves, I was im pressed as never before with tho thought hat man must have a religion of some kind eVctt If he'haft to contrive one himself, and ho must ImVo a god overt though ho make It with his own hand, t rejoice to know tho day will oomo when tho ono God of the uni- verso will bo ncknowlo lgod throughout India. That ovontng or our return to Bombay I visited tho Young Mon’s Christian Associa tion with tho a'ime appointments that you And In the Young Men’s OhrUtlan Associa tions of Europe an l Amorfoa, uni tho nlgnt after that I ad tressed a throng of native children who aro In the sohools of tho Chris tian missions. Christian universities gather un lor tholr wing of benediction a host of the young men of this country. Bombay nnd Calcutta, tho two groat commercial cities of India, feel the olevattng power of an aggressive Christianity. Episcopalian liturgy, and Fresbytorlan Westminster cuto- oiilsm, and Methodist anxious seat, nnd Bap tist waters of consecration now stand where onoo basest idolatries had undisputed sway. Tho work whloh Shoemaker Carey inaugu rated at Borampore, India, translating tho Blblo Into forty different dlalools, and leav ing hla wornout body amid the natives Whom ho had come to save, and going up In to the heavens from which ho can bettor watoh all the f)eld—that work will bo com pleted In the salvation of the millions of In dia, and beside him gaz'ng from the mtno high places stand Bishop Heb**r and Alexan der Dull nnd John Soudder and Maokay, Who fell at Delhi, an 1 Monarloff, who foil at Cawnpur, and Polehamptou, who fell at Luokuow, nnd Freeman, who fell at Fulti- garb, and all hcrood -and^Korplaes who for Christ’s sake lived and died for tho Christl- nlzation of India, and their heaven will not bo complete until tho Ganges that washes tho ghats of heathen temples shall roll be tween oimrohei of tho living God, and the trampled womanhood of Hindoolsm shall havo all tho rights purohasod by him who amid tho cuts and stabs of his own assassi nation cried out, “Behold thy mother 1” and from Bengal Bay to Arabian Ocean, and from tho Himalayas to tho coast or Corom andel there be lifted hosannas to Him who died to redeem all nations. In that day Elephanta cave will bo one of tho places where Idols aro “oast to tho moles an l bats.” , . If any clorgymnn asks mo, ns an uubo lov ing minister of religion once asked tho Duke of Wellington, “Do you not think that tho work of converting the Hindoos la all a practical farce?” I answer hi in ns Welling ton answered tho unbellevo l minister, "Look to your raarohlng orders, sir!” Or If any one having joined In the gospel at tack fools like retreating I say to him, as General Hnvolock said to a retreating rogl- mont, “The enemy are in front, not In the rear,” and loading them again into the light, though two horses had boon shot un der him. Indeed the taking of this world for Christ will be no holiday celebration, but as tre mendous ns when In India during the mutiny of 1857 a fortress manned by sepoys wn3 to bo captured by Sir Colin Campbell and tho army of Britain. Tho sepoys hurled upon tho attacking columns burning mis siles and grenades, and fired on them shot and sliel 1 , nnd poured on them from the ramparts burning oil until a writer who wit nessed It says, “It w s n picture of pan le- moniurn.” Then Hlr Colin addressed his troops, saying, “Remember tho women and children must be run ued !” and his men ro- plio 1: “Aye, aye, Hir Colin ! We stood by you nt Balaklava, and wo stand by you hero. ’ And then came tho triumphant avjault of tho battlements. Ho In this gospel cam paign, whloh proposes capturing the very last citadel of idolatry and sin an 1 hoisting over it the banner ot the cross we may have hurled uoon us mighty opposition an i scorn and obloquy, and many may fall before tno work Is done, yet at every call for new onset lot tho cry of the church be: “Aye, aye, great captain of our salvation ! We stood by thee In other conflicts, and we will Man 1 by thee to the l-ist.” And thou, if not in this world, then from the battlements ol tho next, as the last Appolyonlo fortification shall crash into ruin, we will Join In the shout, “Thanks bn unto Go 1, who glveth m the victory !” "Halleluiah, lor the Lord Goi omnipotent relgneth 1” FLORIDA’S PHOSPHATES. Europe Has Stored Up a Large Supply of Fertilizers. Tho phosphato shipments through tho port of Fernandina for the year 1894, aB compiled at tho custom house, aggregated 135,509 tons, au exceHH of nearly 9,000 tons over those of 1893. Since tho diacovery of Florida phoa- phate was made in tho latter part of 1889 Fernandina has shipped 448,987 tons, all of which has been hauled to Fernandina from tho mines by the Florida Central & Peninsular railway, which company has erected at tide wa ter an immense elevator and long lines of wharves. This elevator has a storage capacity of 9,000 tons. For tho year of 1895 tho shipments of phosphate from will hardly exceed 125,000 tons, for tho European buyers have taken advantage for the last two years of tho very low conditions of the market and low freights and have suc ceeded in storing in Europe tho enor mous amount of 900,000 tons of Flor ida phosphate. Now that it is impos sible for tho price to further decline, they intend to dispose of what they havo on hand, which will havo a ten dency to improve tho condition of the market, but cause a slight decrease in tho amount of phosphate rook shipped from thfi JIB. VEST’S BILL A NEW FINANCIAL MEASURE IN. TRODUCED IN THE SENATE. Tho Provision* Fully Sot Forth hy Its Author. Senator Vest has introduced hi* (liinnoial bill in the souato. It pro vide* that all treasury note* nnd gold and Hilvor cortiilonte* shall ho "de stroyed and an equal amount of note* payable in standing gold and *ilvcr coin Hlinll bo issued and pnid out in stead of tho notes. No ooiu notoB of , n larger denomination than 8363 or j smaller than ®10 shall be issued, and ; tho denominations higher than $50 j shall not oxcood ono-fonrth of tho to- I tal amount outstanding at any timo. | Tho coin note* aro to bo legal tender for all debt*. The second section reponl* all lnws which nuthorizo tho owners of gold or silvor bullion to deposit nnd rocoivo gold or Bilver certificates, and tho sec retary of tho treasury i* directed to rocoivo no more coin or bullion in tho future. Sootion threo provides thnt tho cer tificates now outstanding aro to bo paid in gold coin and tho silver cor- tiilcntos in standard Bilver coin or coin notes. If the gold in the treasury amount* to Ions than $100,000,006 ex clusive of that nocossary to redeem gold certificates, they nro to bo re deemed in silver coin ; if moro thnn $100,000,000, tho soerotary of tho trenmiry, iu tho exorcise of his discre tion, may redeem iu cither gold or silver ooiu. NO NATIONAL RANK I8SUK. Seotion 4 makes it unlawful for any national hank to issuo hank notes or onrroucy and all acts authorizing such istmo nro repealed. It i* made tho duty of tho socrotnry within twelve month* to sell United States bonds deposited iu tho treasury hy national bank* to Hocuro circula tion in tho enso of untionnl banks re tiring thoir circulation, or of going out of business, and after redeeming iu tho ooiu notes hereby authorized the outstanding note* or ourroncy nH provided by tho national hank act, tho surplus is to bo also paid in tho coin notes to tho banks owing to tho bonds, in tho amounts respectively duo them. Section 5 requires the seoretary of tho trensury to have ooinod a* fast ns possible tUo Kilver bullion hol.d , jji, tin) treasury purohasod under tho Hhor- man act of 1890, including tho gain or seigniorage, and this ooiu is to ho used in tho pnymout of public expenditures and for tho redemption of tho coin notes authorized by this not. RONDS TO JiltILD UP THU RESERVE. Section six provides thnt when tho rovonucs of tho government aro not sufficient to moet its ourront expenses, tho secretary of the treasury Bhall issuo a sufficient amount of coin notes to cover this deficiency, nnd all Inw* authorizing tho issue of future interest bearing bonds of the United States, nro repealed, except ftB othorwino pro vided. Tho section also provides that if tho gold in tho treasury at tho timo tho act takes effect does not amount to $100,000,000, exclusive of that held to redeem gold certificates, the secretary is diroetod to sell United States bonds at not less than pur in gold coin, bear ing not to oxcood threo per cent, in terest, rodoemablo after fiva yearn, hut no gronter amount of such bonds aro to ho sold than may ho necessary to procure for tho treasury the full amount of $100,000,000 in gold. X'REE COINAGE OP SILVER. Section 7 provides that Bilver bull ion brought to any mint of tho United States for coinage shall he received and coined into standard dollars of 412 1-2 grains, but no doposit of silver bullion ot less vnluo than $100 shall ho received, nor shall any bullion bo re ceived that is so bare as to bo nusuitod for tho operations of tho mint. The director of tho miut is to retain a scignorngo and ooYor into tho trensury tho difference between the Now York market prioo nnd tho coined vnluo of tho bullion, and this is to ho pnid out by tho secretary of tho treasury in tho current expenditures of tho govern ment. GOV. Me INTYRE INAUGURATED. Sworn in us Governor of tlio Great S into of (Colorado. Tho members of tho Colorado state legislature in session at Denver left tho capitol building shortly boforo noon Monday and proceeding to Tabor ope ra house, mot iu joint session for the inauguarntion of Governor-elect Mc Intyre. Tho theater was elaborately and artistically decorated for the occa sion. Lieutenant Governor Nichols presided, and after a short prayer hy Kov. Thomas Uzzcll, Govornor McIn tyre was tr.troduced and tho oath of offico apmi.-iisterod hy Chiol Justico Hoyt, of tho supreme court. This was followed hy tho delivery of his inaug ural address. THE JUDGES DREW STRAWS. Mabroy Got tho Longest One anil Is Chief Justice of Florldn. Florida has a very drastio statuto against gambling, but its fundamental law ombrnoes n provision which com pels its highest tribunal of justice to engago in a game of chance for u big stake. When tho supreme oourt met nt aoon Tuesday at TulluhnHseo its first duty was to olect n chief justice,which, by a peculiarity of tho Florida consti tution, is done hy lot. Mr. Justice Mabrey drew tho long straw, and thin chance makes him chief justloo of Florida, Ho has boon on the supreme btnch lines 1890, LOOKING SOUTH. NORTHERN COTTON MILLS MUST COME TO THE FIELDS. A Movement on Foot to Hrlnp Somo of Thom South. A special from Lowell, Mass., says: Tho petition of tho Boston cotton mills i of this city,* now boforo tlio legislature asking permission to do business out side of tho state, is a preliminary step to tho location of a plant somewhere I in the south. Tho United States Cord Company, whoso buildings here • wero recently burned, will probably also go south with its business, and locate with tho Whittier cotton mills some of whoso * products the cord company uses. With tho announcement that tho Merrimnc, tho largest cotton manufac turing company in this city, in addi tion to other concerns which havo boon mentioned, is to have a southern plant-—this makes threo of tho largest establishments in tho city to join tho movement and makes tho fact a suroty —tho labor element is inclined to be anxious. Tho elements in tho prob lem aro thus sot forth by Elliott Clark, treasurer, and Mr. A. G. Culluock, of the Boot mills. NO PROFIT IN THE NORTH. “The fact is,” said Mr. Clark,/‘that wo can no longer manufacture plain sheetings and drills at a profit iu tho north. Against $3.50 per ton for coal in tho south, wo must pay $4 to $4.50. Tho climate thero is milder. Up hero wo must pay freight and brokerage, giving them an advantage of 1 cent per pound ou tho raw cotton, which by iteelf is a fair profit for a mill mak ing ooarso yarn goods. Tho labor, too, costs 00 per cent more hero than it docs down thero. Theso aro somo of the main reasons why wo cannot man ufacture tho shooting and drilling in the north in competition with tho south. Along with tho Dwight and Massnhnas companies wo are compelled to seek a more favorable location for making these goods. “We havo valuable trade marks on those drillings and sheetings, ami it would bo a pity for us to abandon that kind of work. Wo can make the goods for, say about 4[ cents a yard, and in tho market wo can got, say, about •! cents per yard. In the south, with ita superior natural advantages, we could produce similar goods fonabout 3 cents per yard, yielding au excellent profit.” SOUTHERN LAHOll IM CHEAPER. Speaking of tho labor element, Mr. Cull neck paid: “About five years ago, tho last timo we compared our weavers’ wages with those on similar work in tho south, J found thero wero many important things discriminating against us. Our weavers worked ten hours a day, or sixty hours a week, and averaged about $1.15 a day in wages. Iu tho south they worked seventy-two hours per week and got about 00 to 70 cents a day. In other words, the southern manufacturer paid 5 cents au hour while wo paid 10 to 11. 1 believe that; they aro now running sixty-nine hours a week against our sixty-eight hours. To offset these things, we have changed over about one-half of our plant here to tho production of a finer class of goods—goods with fancy weaves—iu which the prico of raw cotton does not enter so much into the cost of pro duction that it controls tho prices. Theso flue goods sell higher, and, therefore, allow us to pay living wages.” FIRST CLASS LABOR, TOO. On tho same subject Mr. Clark says: “Tho labor, while cheap, is of a very fluo class. All tho female help in tho mills down thero are farmers’ daught ers, who are glad to work for small wages, which seem largo to them, us they aro not so accustomed to money as wo are hero. Tho negroes do not work in tlio cotton mills down there, so tho whito people are quite willing to take up that form of work. Those southern girls aro strong, quick to learn and glad to bo in tho way of earning some money. Mr. Culluock added that New Eng land had seen its best days as a manu facturing center. FREE HOMES GALORE. Eight Thousand Acres of Forfeited Railroad Grants Thrown Open. When Registrar Peter Premeau opened tho government land office at Marquetto, Mich., Thursday, a long file of prospective homesteaders block ed tho corridors and extended outside tho building. The first man present ing his application had remained in front of tho building since Monday uoon, experiencing some very severe weather. Many had been in the liue forty-eight hours. A portion of tho forfeited railroad land grant iu Onton agon county, containing 8,308 acres, was opened for settlement. \VORK OF SAFE BLOWERS. They Illnd and Gag tho Watch in an nnd Loot the Safe. Seven masked men blew open tho safe in tho Belmont brewery at Mar tin’s Ferry, O., early Thursday morn ing and secured $200. They seized John Erooney, tho night watchman, and took his revolver and keys. They then gagged him and made him show them to tho office. One of the robbers guarded Brooney whilo tho others went to work at the safe. One of tho saf© doors was blown through tho window. After securing the money,they left the watchman bound and gagged and ho was not discovered until moining. Stephen B. Elkina, ex-secretary of war, has been renominated Unit#d HUtcu i«n«tor from West Yirginlai

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Cleveland progress. (Cleveland, White County, Ga.) 1892-1896, January 18, 1895, Image 1