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t E V . Ol\. 1 A 1J tl At « L. *K>uMp#. Vot hoar what ho ’
• •viautw, uuui t, mu uo cnjOt 'If I
only one misfortune, I could stand that, but
This NOTED !> I VINK’S 8U\*)AY • threo are two too many?” No. I misinterpret
He says: “Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing,
DISCOURSE.
V,
Subject: “A Snowy Day,**
■wmte surrooe or the ground which wt
wild bt'ast came and which %ny it had
Perilous undertaking, bp* Benaiah, tlv
of the text, arms himse^ with such we
Text: “He wont down and slew a lion in a
frit in a snowy day.”—I Chronioloa xl., 22.
Have yon over heard of him? Ills name
Was Behai ah. lfo was a man of stout muscle
jmd of great avoirdupois. His father was a
hero, and ho inherited prowess. lie was
athletic, and there was Iron In his blood)
•and the strongest bone in his body was back*
Ibone. lie is known for other wondorfl be*
^idoa that of the text. An Egyptian* flvo
Wlblta in stature, or about seven feet nine
Inches high, was moving around in bragga
docio and nourishing a great spear, careless
as to whom he killed, and B malahof my text)
with nothing but a walking stick, came upon
bim, snatched the spear from the Egyptian,
and with one thrust of its sharp odgo put an
end to the blatant bully, which makes us
think of the story in our Greek lesson, too
hard for us if the smarter boy on the same
bench had not helped us out with it, in which
Horatius the Macedonian and Dioxlppus the
Athenian fought in the presence of Alexan
der, the Macedonian armed with shield and
sword and javelin and the Athenian with
nothing but a club. The Macedonian hurled
tho javelin, but the Athenian successfully
dodged it, and the Macedonian lifted the
fepMtr, but the Athenian with the club broke
<tt, and the Macedonian drew the sword, but
♦.he Athenian tripped him up before he could
strike with it. and then the Athenian with ldc
club would lmvo beaten the life out of the
Macedonian, fallen among his useless
weapons. If Alexander had not commanded,
“Stop! Htop!”
But Bonalah of the text Is about to do
something that will eclipse even that. There
Is trouble In all the neighborhood. Lambs
are carried off In tho night, and children ven
turing only a little way from their father's
house are found mangled and dead. The
fact Is the land was infested with lions, and
few pjople darod meet one of these grizzly
beasts, much lfss corner or attaok it. As a
wood Provldcnco would have it. one morning
n footstep of a lion was tracked In tho snow,
.it had been out on its devouring errand
through tho darkness, but at last It is found
by the Impression of tho fou- f.fcws on tho
^hlte BUrfaoo of the ground which way tho
Hll |*t had gone.
' , the hero
, • . -r •* imu auuM W0000119
ns those early dnya^cfrordcd, gunpowdor
having boon invoked in fur subsequent
century by the Oefthan monk Bertholdua
Bcnwarz. JAjec^foro without gun or nny
of Bonalah of the t'xt no
jiouot <^rfendod on the sharp steel edge for
P. ,B defense and the slaughter of tho
■K^Vos he followed tho track through tho
<mow. It may have been a JavoUnj it may
bnve been only a knife. But what Bcnaiah
lacks in weapons he will make up in strength
arm and skill of stroke. But where is
Iho lion. We must not get off his track
In tho snow. The land ha? many
cisterns, or pits, for catching rain, the
rainfall being very scorco at certain seasons,
•nd hence these cisterns, or reservoirs, are
digged here and there and yondor. Lions
have iusUnpt which seems to toll them
When they ampursued, and this dread mon-
feterof which I spoak retreats into one of
.those cistern? which happened to be free of
( Whter and'Is thoro panting from throng run
and licking its Jawautfhvva juapaat ox human
flesh and after quaflTng "no red \tutago of
buflU*!. blood.
i Bonalah Is all alert and eom^s cautiously
Via toward tho hiding placo of this terror of
the fields. Coming to tho verge of tho pit, ho
jjooks down at tho lion, nnd the lion looks
!up at him. What a moment ifc was when
jthelr eyes olnshod! But while a modern Du
iChaillu, Gordon Gumming or Sir Samuel
pffftker or David Livingstone would have
just brought tho gun to tho shoulder, and
bold tho eye ngaln-t tho barrel, and
jbla&ed nway Into tho depths, and finished
tho beast, Beuaiab, witn only tho old
tlmo weapon, can do nothing until he
gets on a level with tho boast,
and so he jumps Into the pit, and the lion,
with shining tooth of rage and claws lifted to
tear to shreds tho last vestige of human life,
springs for tho man. while Bonalah springs
for tho beast. But the quick stroke of the
steel edge flashed again and again and again
until the snow was no longer white and the
right foot of triumphant Benaiah is half
covered with the tawny mono of tho slain
horror of Palestine.
! Now you see how emphatic anl tragic
and tremendous are the words of my text,
“He wont down and slow a Hon in a pit In a
Buowy day.” Why put that in tho Bible?
Why put It twice in tho Bible, once in tho
book of Samuel and hero in tho book of
Chronicles? Oh, the practical lessons are so
many for you and for me! What a cheer in
this subject for all tlioso of you who are in
bonjunction of hostilo’clroumstances.^Thivje
things were against Bcnaiah of my text
In the moment of oombat, tho enow that im-
frxMlod his movement, the pit that environed
him in a small spa^e, and tho lion, with open
jaws and uplifted paw. And yet I hear the
shout of Benaiatrs victory. Oh, m«n and
Women of three troubles, you say. “I could
fdand one, and I think I could stand two,
but three are are least one too many.”
i There is a man in business p3rpl*oxity and
;wbo lias sickness in bis family, and old age
Is coming on. Three troubles—a lion, a pit
land snowy day. Thero Is a good woman
With frilling health and ft dissipated husband
And a wayward boy—three troubles. Thero
is a young man, salary cut down, bad
cough, frowning future—throo troubles.
There is a maiden with difficult school
lessons she cannot get, a face that is not
09 attractive os some of her schoolmates’, a
prospect that through hard times she must
quit school before she graduates—three trou
bles. Thero is an author, his manuscript re
jected. his power of origination in decadence,
A nnmhness in forefinger and thumb, which
threatens paralysis—three troubles. Thero
Is a reporter of fine taste sent to report a
pugilism Instead of an oratorio, tho copy
no hands In rejected because the paper
la full, a mother to support on small
Income—three troubles. I could march
right off these seats and across this platform,
If they would come at ray call, GOO people
With throe troubles. This is tho opportunity
to play tho hero or tho heroine, not on a
Bmall stage, with a few hundred people to
olap their approval, hut with all the galleries
of heaven filled with sympathetic and ap
plauding spectators, for wo are “surrounded
by a great cloud of witnesses." My brother,
my sister, my father, my mother, what a
ohance you have! while you are in tho
struggle, If you only have tho grace of
Christ to listen, a voice part? the
heavens, saying, “My grace is sufficient
for thee,” “Whom the Lord Joveth lie chast-
eneth.” “You shall be more than oonquerors.”
And that reminds rao of a letter on xny table
written by some one whom I suppose to be at
this moment present, saying, “My dear, dear
doctor, you will please pardon the writer for
asking that at some tlmo when you feel liko
It you kindly preach from the thirtieth
|Psalm, fifth verse, ‘Weeping may enduro for
a night, hut joy comoth in the morning,’ and
[much oblige a downtown business man.”
j Bo to all downtown business men and to
all uptown business men I say: If you have
'on hand goods that you cannot sell and
debtors who will not or cannot pay, and you
are also suffering from uncertainty as to
What the imbecile American Congress will do
about the tariff, you have three troubles, and
enough to bring you within tho range of the
consolation of my text, where you find the
triumph of Benaiah over a lion, and a pit
and a snowy day. If you have only one
trouble I cannot spend any time with you
fco-day. You must have at least three,
and then remember how many have tri
umphed over such a triad of misfortune.
Paul had thres troubles: Sanhedrin de
nouncing him—that was one great trouble;
physical infirmity, which he called “a thorn
In the flesh,” and although wo know not what
the thorn was, we do know from the figure
jho used that it must have been something
that stuck him—that w%9the#QC9udtroublei
__ says: “Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.
Poor, yet making many rich. Having noth
ing, yet possessing all things." “Thanks bo
unto God, who glvoth us the vlotory through
out Lord Jesus Christ.”
David had tliroo trouble d bad boy, a
temptation to dissoluteness find dethrone
ment what does ho say? “God la our re
fuge and strength, a very present help in
lime of trouble. Therefore will not wo fear,
though tho earth bo removed, and though
tho mountains bo cost into tho midst of tho
sea.”
John Wesley hod ttarod troubles—dofa-
mOtlOd by nlobs, domestic infelicity, fatigue
from more sermons preached and more miles
traveled than almost nny man of his time.
What does he say? “Tho best of all is, Goa
is with ur.” And whon his poet brother,
Charles Wesley, said to lxlm, “Brother John,
if tho Lord Word to giVo me wings, I’d fly.”
John’s reply was, “Brother Charles, If tho
Lord told mo to fly, I’d do It and leave Him
to And tho wings.”
George Whltefleld had throe troubles—re
jection from tho pulpits of England because
he wai too dramatic—that was ono trouble*,
strabismus, or the crossing of his eyes, that
subjected him to tho caricature of all tho
small wits of tho day: vermin and dead anl*
mala thrown nt him while he preached oil the
commons—that made three troubles* Hover*
tholess, his sermons were bo buoyant that a
little child; dying Boon nftor hearing him
preach, said in the intervals of pain. “Let
me go to Mr. Whlteflold's God.” Oh, t am
so glad that Bcnaiah of my toxt was not the
only ono who triumphed over a lion in a pit
oil a snowy day.
Notice In my text a victory over bad
weather. It was a snowy day, when one’s
vitality is at a low ebb and the spirits arc
naturally depressed and one does not fool
like undertaking a great enterprise, when
Bcnaiah rubs his hands together to warm
them by extra friction, or trashes his arms
around him to revive circulation of tho
blood, and then goes at the lion, whioh was
all t he more fierce and ravenous, because of
tho sharp weathor. Inspiration hero admits
atmospheric hindrance. Tho snowy day at
Valley Forge well nigh put an end to the
straggle for American independence, Tho
snowy day demolished Napoleon’s army on
“io way from Moscow.
Tho inclemency of January and February
weather has some years bankrupted thou
sands of merchants. Long siiocosslou of
stormy Sabbaths has crippled innumerable
churches. Lighthouses veiled by tho snow
on many a coast have failed to warn off from
the rooks tho doomod frigate, Tons of thou
sands of Christians of nervous teraporamont
by tho depression of a snowy day almost,
despair of reaching heaven. Yofc in that
style of weathor Benaiah of tho text
achieved his most colebratod victory,
and let us by the grace fof God become
victor over influences atmospheric. If wo
aro lmppy only when tho wind blown from
the dear northwest, and the thermometer Is
above freezing point, nnd tho sky Is an In
verted bluo cup of sunshine poured all over
us, It Is a religion 05 par cent. off. Thank
God thoro aro Christian? who, though their
wholo life through sickness has been a snowy
day, bavo killed ovory lion of despondency
that dared to put its cruel paw against tholr
suffering pillow. It was a snowy day whon
tho Pilgrim Fathers set foot not on a bank of
flowers,but on tho cold New England rook,and
from a ship that might have been more ap
propriately colled after a December hurri
cane than after a “Mayflower” they took
possession thls^ groat And
ami'l muTugxmiliy jy**4*or•-*
many a gooa man or *A-godn woman Till?
taken possession of a whole continent of
spiritual satisfaction, valleys of peace and
rivers of gladness and mountains of Joy.
Christ landed In our world not in the month
of May, but in the stormy month of Decem
ber, to show that wo might havo Christ in
winter weather and on a snowy day.
Notice everything down In tho pit that
snowy day doponded upon Benaiah’s weapon.
Thoro was ns much strength in ono muscle of
that lion as in all tho muselos of both arms of
Benaiah. It is tho strongest of beasts, and
has boon known to carry off an ox. Its
tongue is so rough that it nets as a rasp
tearing off tho flesh in licks. Tho two groat
canines at each sido of the mouth mako es
cape imnofisiblo for anything It has foneo
seized. Yet Bcnaiah puts his hcol on
tho neck of this “king of boasts,”
Was It a dagger? Was it a javolin? Was it a
knife? I cannot lelJ, but everything de
pended on it. But for that Benaiah’s body
under one crunch of tho monster would havo
boon loft limp and tumblod in tho enow.
And whon you nnd I go into tho light with
temptation, if wo havo not tho right kind of
weupon. instead of our slaying tho lion the
lion will slay us. Tho sword of tho Bplrlt!
Nothing in earth or hell can stand before that.
Victory with that, or no victory at all, By
that I mean prayor to God, confidence in Ills
rescuing power, saving graco, almighty de
liverance. I do not care what you call it. I
call It “sword of tho Spirit. And if the
lions of all tho jungles of perdition should at
once spring upon your soul by that weapon
of heavenly metal you can thrust them back
and cut them down, and stab them through
and leave them powerless at your feet. Your
good resolution wielded agaiust the powers
which assault you Is a toy pistol against an
Armstrong gun: is a penknife hold out against
tho brandished sabers of a Helntzelman’s
cavalry charge. Go into tho fight against
sin on your own strength, and the result wlil
be tho hot breath of tho lion In your blanched
face, and his front paws ono on each lung.
Alas! for the man not fully armed down In
tho pit on a snowy .day, and before him a
lion!
All my hearers and readers bavo a big
fight of some sort on hand, but tho biggest
and the wrathtest lion which you have to
light is what the Bible calls “the roaring
lion who walketh about, seeking whom ho
may devour.” Now. you havo never seen
a rfial lion unless vou have seen
him In India or Africa, just after capture.
Long caging breaks his spirit, and the con
stant presence of human beings tamos him.
But you ought to see bim sprlug against tho
Iron bars In tho zoological gardens of
Calcutta and hear him roar for the prey. It
makes one’s blood curdle, and you shrink
back, although you know thero is no peril.
Plenty of lions In olden time. Hix hundred
of them wore slaughtered on ono occasion in
the presence of Pompey in tho Roman
amphitheater. Lions came out and de
stroyed tho oamejfl which carried tho bag
gage of Xerxes’ army. In Bible' times thero
were so mauy lions that they aro fre
quently alluded to In tho Scriptures.
Joel, tho prophet, describes the “cheek
teeth” of a great lion, and Isaiah mentions
among the attractions of heaven that “no
lion shall be there,” and Amos spoaks of a
shepherd taking a lamb’s ear out of tho mouth
of a lion, and Solomon describes tho righteous
as “bold as a Hon.” and Daniel was a great
lion tamer, nnd David and Jeremiah and Bt.
John often speak of this creature.
But most am I Impressed by what I bavo
quoted from tho Apostle Peter when he calls
the devil a lion. That moans strength.
That means bloodthirstiness. That rafeans
cruelty. That means destruction. Borne of
you have felt the strength of his paw, and
the sharpness of his tooth, and the horror of
his rage. Yes, he i3 a savage devil. He
roarol at everything good when Lord
Claverhouso assailed the Covenanters,
and Bartholomew against tho Hugue
nots one August night when tho bell toiled
for tho butchery to begin, and the ghastly
joke In tho street was, “Blood letting is good
in August.” and 50,000 assassin knives were
plunged Into tho victims, and this monster
has had under his paw many of tho grandest
souls of all time, and fattened with the spoils
of centuries ho comes for you.
But I am glad to say to all of you who havo
got the worst in such a struggle that there la
a lion on our side if you want him, Revela
tion v.. 5, “The Hon of Judah’s tribe.” A
Lamb to us, but a lion to meet that other Hon,
and you can easily guess who will beat In
that light, and who will be beaten. When
two opposing lions meet in a Juriglo in India,
you cannot tell which will overcome
and which will bo overcome. They
glare at each ether for a moment, and
tucu v?lth full str>h'ef muscle they
daeh against each other like two ^hunflop-
bolt? oi colliding stbrmclouds, ana with Jaws
liko tho crush of avalanches, and with a re*
sounding voioo that makes tho Himalayas
tremble, and with a pull aud tear and elntoh
and trample and shaking of tho head from
side to side until It is too much for human
endurance td. Witness^ and, though ono lion
tody bo left dead, tho ono which has con
quered orawls away lacerated and
gashed and lame nnd eyeless to bleed to
death in an adjoining jungle. But If you
nnd I fool enough our weakness in this bat
tle of temptation and ask for tho divino help
against^ that old lion of holl, described In St.
Peter, will go to tho stronger Hon dosorlbod in
fiofolntioh, Aha it Will bo lio uncertain grap
ple, but under ono omnipotent stroke tho de
vouring monster that would slay our soul
shall go reeling back Into a pit 10,000 times
deepor than that in whioh Bcnaiah slow the
lion on a s^owy day.
A Word io all ivllo aro in a snowy day. Oh,
fathers and mothers who lmvo lost children,
that Is tho Weather that outs through body
and soul* But driVo back I lid lion of
bereavement with tho thought which David
Rac, of Edinburgh, got from the Scotch
gravedigger, who was always planting white
clover and tho sweetest flowers on tho
children’s graves in tho cemetery, aud when
asked why ho did so replied: “Surely, .sir.
Ioanna mako owor lino the bod oovorin o'
a little innocent sleeper that's waitln
thero till it’s God’s tlmo to waken it.
and cover it with the white robe, and waft it
away to glory. When eio graudour ia waitlfl
it yonder, it’s lit it should bo (looked oot
hero. I think tho Saviour that counts its
dust sao precious will liko to boo tho white
clover shoot spread owor it. Do ye noo think
so, too, sir?” Cheer up all, disoousolates.
Tho best work for God nnd humanity has
been dOno on tho snowy day. At gloomy
Marino Terraco, islaud of Jorsoy, tho exile.
Victor Hugo, wrought tho mightiest
achievements of his pen. Ezekiel, banished
and boreft and an Invalid at Corn-
hill, on the banks of Ohebar, had his
momentous vision of tho cherubim and
wheels within wheels. Bv tho (Jim light of ft
dungeon window at Bedford, John Runyan
sketches the “Delectable Mountains.” Mil-
ton writes tho greatest, poem of all tlmo
without eyes. Michael Angelo carved a
statue out of snow, and all Florouco gazed in'
raptures at its oxquisitenosa, (*nd many of
God’s servants have out of tho cold cut tueir,
immortality. Persecutions woro the dark
background that made more improssivo the
courage and consecration of Savonarola,
who, when throatpnod with denial of burlo)}
said, “Throw me into tho Arno if you ohooset
tho resurrection day will And me, and that is
onougli. Benaiah on a cold damp, cutting,
snowy day gained leonine triumph, Hard
ship and trouble have ugaln and again ex
alted and inspired and glorlflod thuir sub
jects.
Tho bush Itself has raou.ntod higher
And flourished uuoonsumod in ttro.
Well, wo lmvo had many snowy days within
tho pant month, and added to tho phill of th*0
weathor was tho chilling dismay at tho
nonarrival of tho ocean steamer (Jaseogne.
Overdue for eight days, many had given lior
up as lost, and tho most hopeful word
very anxious. The cyclones, whoso plftj
is shipwreoks, lmd boon reported being in
wildest romp all up and clown tbo At
lantic. Tho ocean a few days boforo had
swallowed tho Elbe, and with uuap-
poasod apnotito seemed saying, “Glvd
us more of tno host shipping.” The Norman
die came In on tho same traok the Gascogne
was to travel, and it had not soon her. TlnS
Teutonic, saved - almost by tho Superhuman'
qfltorfcS’ot captain and crew, oamo in and hrtii
ing hands on both oontlnohts. and tears
rolled down cold ohooks on thoso snowy,,
days. Wo all feared that tho worst had
hapnonod and talked of tho Olfcy. of
Boston as never hoard of aftor sailing, and
tho steamship President, on whioh tho brill
iant Gookman sailed, never roportod and
nover to bo hoard of again until tbo time
when tho soa gives up Its dead. But at last,'
under most powerful glass nt Flro Island, a
ship was seen limping this way ovor tho
waters. Then wo all began to hope that it
might be tho missing French liner. Throo
hours of tedious and agonizing waiting and
two continents In suspenso. Whon will tho
eyeglasses at Fire Island mako rovolation of
this awful mystery of tho sea? Thero it J&I
Ha, ha! The Gascogne! Quick! Wlro thq
nows to tho city! Swing the flags out on the
towers! Ring tho bolls! Sound the whistled
of tho shipping all tho way up from Handy
Hook to Now York Buttory! “She’s safe!
She’s safel” are tho words caught up and
passed on from street to street. “It is
tho Gascogne l” js tho cry sounding
through all our delighted homos and thrill
ing all tho telegraphic wires of tho oontluoht
and all tho cables under the sea, and tho
huzza on tho wlmrf as tho gadgplaaks wero
swung out for disembarkation was a small,
part of tho huzza that lifted both hemi- !
spheres into exultation. Tho flakes of enow
fell on the “extra” as we oponod it on tho
street to got tho latest particulars.
Well, It will bo bettor than that when some
of you aro seen entering tho harbor of
beavon. You lmvo bad a rough yoyago. No,
mistake about that. Snowy day after $nowy
day. Again and again the machinery of
Uoalth and courage broke down, and the
waves of temptation havo swept clear ovor the
hurricane deck, so that you were often com
pelled to say, “All Thy waves and Thy billows
havo govo ovor me,” and you woro down in
tho trough of that sea and down In the trough
of !ho otner sea. find many dospalred of youf
safe arrival. But the groat Pilot, not onq
who must come off from somo other oraft/
but tho one who walked storm swept Galileo
and now walks the wintry Atlantic, oomejj
on board and heals you for tho haven. 4
when no sooner havo you ri/issod thq
narrows of death than you find nil the banks
lined.with immortals ociohrntin# your arrival, 1
and while some break off palm branohoa
from tho banks and wavo them thoso stands
ing on ono side will chant, “Thoro shall bo,
no more sen,” and those standing on tho
other side will chant, “These are they whioh
came out of groat tribulation and had their
robes washed and made white In tho
blood of the Lamb.” Off of the stormy
sea into the smooth harbor. Out of looninq
struggle in the pit to guidance by the Lamb,
who shall lead you to living fountains of
water. Out of tho snowy day of earthly
severities into tho gardens of evbrlaatiag
flora and into orohards of oternodjfruitage,
tho fall <5f their white blossoms {the only
snow in heaven.
WASH
Insanity In Connecticut.
The report of tho Connectjout/Hospltal for
the Insane Just issued contains; memoranda
of the first quarter-century of the existence
of tho Institution, from which can bo de
duced striking indications of the lnoreaso of
Insanity In tho State. A report of a legisla
tive commission in the year 18C5 Showed that
in that year there wofo 700 insane pbrsons in
tho State, of whom 202 wore in a private re
treat at Hartford, 204 in the almshouses and
300 outside of both. At that timo.'the popu
lation of the State was approximately 408,-
800.V; Now, with a population in,tho State of
approximately 700,000, thoro aro 1580 pa
tients in the State Hospital alone. During
the last fifteen years, while'the population ol
tho State has risen from 022,700 to about
700.000, the number of patients in the hospi
tal has risen from C08 to 1680, and It is now
greatly overcrowded.
A Cherokee Strip Romance.
A novel “Cherokee Strip” romance wa9
ended by tho marriage tho other day of Al
bert Jonos and Miss Clara L. George, at Ark
ansas City, Kan. Both Mr. Jone3 and Miss
George claimed tho same piece of land and
were prepared to fight for it until doomsday,
when Jones fell 1U, Miss George, woman
like, went over to his cabin to look him up
and stayed to nurse him back to health. By
this time thoy had decided to divide the
claim between them, but ifc wa3 not long be*^
fore they solved the problem In a better way,
and resorted to matrimony instead of the
land office.
Tho Oil Output.
Pennsylvania produced 30,000,000 bgrrela
of oil last year, and the price was twenty
cents a bajrel better tbda it was la
GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1805.
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j Imports on tho irn-
ntitjvftyH woro sou t t to
lySecretary Ln-
. \ijtyp Fin., 81,500
v.oy. - The improvo-
ri'ncr, Florida, from
l« ocean, iB doomed
immtho outiro coat is
$>.
. we ttant tlia prosi-
o N^rth Carolina on
> t trip nhortly nf-
jf oongreas. Tho
.iolot, upon whioh
wore made, h«H boon
.lfimoro for Wnsh-
Carlislo will ue-
[flcnt on his outing
providing for tho
tOOngroBH in tho dedi-
Jolj&maugn park on
September 18t}i-pa&od cotigroBB Sat
urday and has fcoim gigned by tho proB-
rjalos 85,000 to ho
uprgennt-ttt-Hrms of
ffig tho oxponBcs of
f,congress who served
oif Chattanooga, and
,president of tho
|f tho house uamo
, tho oslobration.
Inrgo delegation from
epifm-Wn and
tinuo until tlie post session-if tho
senate. This simply Dutoutnatos tho
that
for
iout
moans. His exporiouoo shofftly nftor
tho war ns a professor of law in Co
lumbian college equipped him for
work on tho judioinry committee.
In tho four congressional erns of
tariff changes, tho Morrison bill, tho
Mills bill, the McKinley bill, Mr* Wil
son took an nctivo part. Ho did much
of tho work in oousfernoting the Mills
bill, and ho nnd representative Brook-
iuridgo started on a tour of platform
speeches throughout tho onst endors
ing President Cleveland's tariff mes
sage. Tho two orators roooived hearty
welcomo in Boston nnd New York and
thoir eloquent speeches formed a me
morable ovent in tbo tariff’ discussion
of tho day. During tho Mills-Crisp
contest for tho sponkorship, Mr. Wil
son oast his lot with Mr. Mills, and
whon Mr. Crisp won ho designated
Mr. Springer, chairman of tho ways
and menus committee. When ro-olcot-
ed sponkor, however, Mr. Crisp named
Mr. Wilson chairman of tho ways and
means nnd in that oapaoity ho framed
tho present tariff law.
BIMETALLISTS’ CALL
A SUNDAY SESSION.
ANEW MOVEMENT IN FAVOR OF
SILVER.
committees as t4r
in the evont the*'
them to do, it
awaiting n root,
mitteos will 1
after tho next 0<
vaoanoies caused by
tho terms of *4uator«
except in the ease of
printing, which will have
during tho iMM*. . - .. ±
Nominations Conill^llC • 'S «
Tho senate ( Friday eoriffljMcl ««
following nqijLuatioNVilnamL. ■
WiUmj, of JSSHkyirctnia^ to be post
master gndaPBB^btm W. tthowaltor,
of Illinois, Onlteff States circuit judgo
for the sovmitBi judioial circuit; Olin
Wollborn, United States judge for tho
southern district of Californio; Joseph
H. O’Neil, assistant United Statos
treasurer at Boston; United Btutes
consul, Louis M. Buford, of Illinois,
nt Paso del Norte, Moxioo; postmaster
nt New Decatur, Ala,, J. Walker Orr.
All tho army and navy promotions on
tho calendar wore also oonilrmod, in-
oludlng tho following: Commodore-
William A. Kirkland to bo rear ad
miral in tho nnvy; Captain Francis M,
Bunco to bo commodore; Commander
Purnell F. Harrington to be captain ;
Lieutenant Commanders Bnmuel W.
Very, Froderiok W. Crookor nnd Rob
ert M. Berry to bo commanders. Also
tho appointments in tho nrmy made by
brovet for gallant services iu tho In
dian campaigns.
Hlnietalllstn Boomed.
Talk of the probabilities of a bi
metallic oouforence, whioh has boon
more active sinoo tho parliaments of
Great Britaiu nnd Gormany havo agi
tated tho question, has given fresh
impetus by tho udoptiou of Bonator
Wolcott’s resolution providing for tho
appointment of international confer
ees. Tho discussion is not confined to
either pnrty or to any partioular fac
tion, and in tho house tho feeling was
a decidodly hopeful one all around
that tho movemont under way will bo
productive of results. Tho United
Htntes has only beou waiting, it is gen
erally said, for othor governments to
take the initiative or manifest a dispo
sition to meet us half way to co-oper
ate with them in tho inauguration of a
plan for tho more extensive use of sil
ver. If foreign powers show that they
are iu earnest in tho mutter, it is said,
and proceed to demonstrate tho sin
cerity of their utteranco by notion,
tho sontiruont of tho United Btates
would compel the goveruwont to not
with them.
Tho New Cabinet Member.
As already predicted tho president
on Thursday nominated the Hon.
William L. Wilson, of West Virginia,
to bo postmaster general in placo of
W. H. Bissell.
William L, Wilson is tho best known
to tho country in connection with liis
recoDt tariff work in congress. Ho has
boon a tariff student since ho first en
tered congressional life in 1882, but it
was not until the present congress
that he became chairman of
tho ways and means committee,
and as such tho official lead
er of the party. Prior to his
first election to congress he had taken
little pnrt in politics excepting being
a delegate to the democratic national
convention at Cincinnati, aud subse
quently un eleetor-nt-largo from West
Virginia. Early in 1882 he was choson
president of the University of West
Virginia. This would havo fixed Mr.
Wilson’s sphoro of work had it not
been for a political ruction aud party
split at his home in Charleston, West
Virginia, which was Bottled by tho op
posing factions nominating Mr. Wil
son.
The campaign was a hot ono nnd
Mr. Wilson won by nine votes. Mr.
Wilson was subsequently elected to
six successive congresses.
Ho reeoived good committeo assign
ments from tho first, going on tho ju
diciary, appropriations and ways and
A Manifesto Issued and Awaiting Sig
natures.
Tho pronuuoinmonto of tho silver
democrats was issued nt Washington
Friday. Instead of being a declara
tion for a now party, it involves noth
ing but a declaration in favor of tho
freo aud unlimited coiuago of silvor at
n ratio of ](i to 1, and recites that as
u majority of tho party nre in favor of
froo coinage thoy should come togeth
er and control tho organization. It is
nlroady signed by thirty domooratio
representatives. OtliorB have hesitated
on acouunt of tho talk that it moanB a
new party, but tho declaration means
no sueh thing.
Tho call is nddrossod “To tho Dem-
oarnts o{ tho United Htntes,” and
reads as follows:
“We„ the undersigned democrats,
present for your consideration tho fol-
.statement: ,
that tho establishment
only monotary standard
inntion of silver ns a full
onoy will inoreaBo tho
ter of oaoh dollar, add
jf aUkdcbts, doorcase the
market value ptSfc otho»*fe*ffiif " f
propoVtf, odMftitraTOid iatewSnjpBnui-
nesa depression, and, finally, reduce
tho majority of the people to financial
bondage.
“Wo believe that no party can hope
for enduring sucooss iu tho United
States so long as it advooatos a single
gold standnrd, and that the advocnoy
of snob a financial policy would bo
especially fatal to a party which, liko
the democratic party, derives its voting
strength from thoso who may without
ropronoh lie called tho common people,
nnd wo point to Iho overwhelming de
feat of tho party in 1804, to tho oppo
sition aroused by the voto of the
seigniorage hill, and still moro the
protest against tho issue of gold bonds
as proof that tho democratic party
cannot be brought to tho support of
tho gold standard policy.
“We believe that tho money ques
tion will bo the paramount isBue in
180fl, and will so remain until it is
settled by the intelligence and patri
otism of the Amoricau voters.
“Wo bcliovo that a largo majority
of tho democrats of the United States
favor bimetallism, and realize that it
can only l>o secured by tho restoration
of the free und unlimited coinage of
gold and silvor at tho present ratio,
and wo assort that tho majority havo,
aud should exercise the right to con
trol the policy of tho party aud retain
tho party name.
“We believe that it is the duty of
tho majority, and within their power,
to take charge of tho party organiza
tion nnd make the domoorotio party
an effective instrument in tho accom
plishment of needed reforms. It is
not necessary that the democrats
should surrender their convictions on
other questions in ordor to take an ac
tive part in tho settlomout of tho
question whioh at this time surpasses
all othors in importance.
“We believe that the rank aud file
of the democratic party should at once
assert themselvos in the democratic
party and place that party on record
as in favor of tho immediate restora
tion of free and unlimited coinage of
gold and silver at the presont ratio of
1C to I, as such coinago oxisted prior
to 1873, without waiting for the aid or
oonsent of any other nation, such gold
and silvor coin to bo a full legal ten
der for all debts public and private.
“We urge all democrats who favor
the financial policy above sot forth to
associate thomselves aud impress thoir
views upon tho party organization ; we
urge all newspapers in harmony with
the abovo financial polioy to plaoo it
at the head of the editorial column and
assist in the immediate restoration of
bimetallism."
Tho signatures to the call woro not
mado public.
TRIPLETS EVERY TIME.
Twenty-Sevcnty Chlldron In One
Family an<l All Under Thirteen.
A special from Niobrara, Neb., says
that George F. Dunvillo is « farmer
living opposite Yankton, Sonth Dako
ta, on the Nobiaska side of the river.
Ho aud his wife are the parents of
twenty-seven children, all of whom are
living. The oldest one is under thir
teen years of age. All the children
wore born in triplets and all are boys
but three, one set being girls. Tho
mother is not yet thirty years of age.
Danville is an Indian man and his
wif« U a Norwegian,
BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS
HARO AT WORK.
SOUTHERN
RAILWAY
COMPANY,
Tho Lord’s Day Spent 111 Closing Up
Business.
Congress would not allow tho world's
fair to koop its gatos opou Sunday, yot
congress kept its gates open and on
Sunday did tho hardest day’s work of
its life. In tho enso of oongress, how-
over, it was a necessity. Its ox wns
in tho ditch and oongress has followed
scriptural advice nnd is getting it out.
Without tho Sunday sossion appropri
ation billB would lmvo failod nnd on
extra session necessitated. As it is
there was nn all-night session Satur
day night. A reocHs of the houso was
taken nt 4 o’clock Sunday morning in
order that tho members nnd Speaker
Ol'isp—who wnB completely exhausted
nftor sixteen hours in iho clmir at
tempting to hold the reins taut on a
wild aggregation of statosmon—might
sloop n few hours. The receBB was un
til 2 o'olook Sunday p. m. Sinoo that
hour both tho houso aud sennto wore
in oontiunous session.
At midnight all tho appropriation
bills savo five, nnrnoly, sundry, civil,
Indian, naval, general dofloionoy nnd
consular and diplomatic, had beou
sent to (lie president.
At 2:30 Monday morning all of tho
appropriation bills but the imvnl bill
had been agreed to in conference, and
in the following figures tho amounts
carried by tho legislative, naval, sun
dry civil, general deficiency nnd mis-
collnuooiiH bills aro estimated, but fol
low closely on the lines of the conces
sions made in oonfereuoo. Tho gland
totnl of appropriations, subject to
somo few changos, is found to bo
8437,094,004. This iB divided among
tbo bills as follows: Agricultural,
83,303,750; nrmy, 823,252,038; diplo
matic, 81,575,073; District of Colum
bia, 85,916,538; fortifications, 81,-
904,557; Indian, $8,970,948; legisla
tive, $21,900,000; military aendomy,
$404,261; naval, $20,100,000; pensions,
$131,381,570; postofllco, $80,545,997;
sundry civil, $47,140,000; urgent defi
ciency, 88,000,000; miscellaneous,
8500,000. •
At 2:30 o’clock Morftfoj morning the
houso was Btruggling*"wifh Qio naval
appropriation bill. Tho senate Cu !
down tho number of battleships and
torpedo b^atsorovided for. Talbot'
TPpMa- fit %
wontod to accept tho sonata
amendments, and Boutolle, of Mnino,
protested against it. Tho members,
as a rule, were fatigued nnd vexed, and
woro in an ugly humor,
TRADE IMPROVES.
Braditreots’ Review of Huilness for
the PnBt Week.
Bradstreot’s weokly trade bulletin
says:
“While tho conrso of general trade
during tho first two months of tho cur
rent yoar has been disappointing, Feb
ruary ends nnd March begins with
tangible, though not as yot satisfac
tory signs of improvement. It is en
couraging to note that gains are re
ported iu tho volume of trado at al
most every southern city, notwith
standing udvioes from northern oitios,
whose jobbers supply southern and
southwestern markets, that low prioeB
for products had curtailed tho pur
chasing ability at the south and south
west. At tho west thero is less on-
courngement, improvement being re
ported only from Louisville, Chicago,
St. Louis nnd St. Paul. Milder weath
er 1ms not favored the business situa
tion at the northwest.
“Tho movement of phosphato is
mure active at Charleston, and busi
ness is increasing at Nashville, al
though southern oouutry roads are
heavy. Tho approaching international
fair at Atlanta results in the employ
ment of more people, and merchants
uro moro hopeful, believing deoreasod
cotton aoreage and increased culture in
other lines will benefit the planter
financially. Savannah, Jacksonville
and Birmingham report a modoratoly
increased demand, us doos Now Or
leans, tho rnardi gras having drawn
many visitors, and the action of the
senate as to sugar bounties having
stimulated better feeling. Woathoy
conditions in Texas have also resulted
in gain."
THE UUILDING COLLAPSED.
Five Men Killed Outright aud a Num
ber Injured.
Shortly before noon Friday the
fourth floor of the building at 43rd
street and 10th avonue, N. Y., known
as the Old Malt house, fell with a
crash, carrying down with it a dozen
or moro men nt work upon it. Fivo
men woro killed and seven injured.
Tho building, whioh was a six story
ono, was being torn down in order that
four fiat houses might bo erected in its
place. Tho workmen had takon down
tho two top floors and were nt work
pulling down the fourth floor and had
piled up a lot of bricks cm this floor
which tho wheelbarrow men wero
carting away when, undor tho heavy
load, the iron beams supporting the
floor broke, carrying the bricks, iron
rafters, beams of wood and iron, and
tho dozen men at work thoro down
with it.
(PIEDMENT AIR LINE.)
Route of tho Groat Vostlbuled
Llmitod.
ATLANTA A C1IARI.OTTK A1R-LINH
DIVISION.
COICnaNSXD SCnEDKLX Or PASBKNQXn TBAIM,
la Kffeot July 1st, 1804.
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Pullman Car Service: Nos, 33 unjj
tnond nnd Danville Fast Mall, Pullman Sleeping
Cars bet ween Atlanta and Now York.
Nos. 37 and 38—'Washington and Southwestern
Vesttbulod Limited, bawv'e^n New York and
Now Orleans. Throdf^Pallman Slboperi ba
Ntw.OrloauB, via Mian 1 ,
io between }V‘nsblRg>
To Kalse “Old Glory.”
The I7th of next May has been
fixed for the raising of tho American
flag over all public school buildings in
Petersburg, Va., by tho Junior Order
of American Mechanics. Invitations
will bo sent to various national and
state officers of the order and also to
every council jn the state to be pres-
c&t ftud take part iu the exeroiee#,
lAeplng Cam
TafefitiJtltffei'^'’ Ioost and
through tlmetnblos, rates and Pnlfman Sl*sp-
1ns ear reservations, aottfer with local agent.,
or oddross— ,
W. A. TURK, 8. H. HARDWICK,
Gen'l Pass, Ag't. Ass't General Pa«» Ax't
WAKHINOTON, D. C. ATLANTA, GA.
J. A. DODSON, Superintendent, Atlanta,da..
W. It. GREEN, J. M. GULr.^ftiiv j
Gen’l M’xr.. Truffle Mn'trr. "
Wabhinqton, D. C. WosUlm[tonD.O.J- ,
NEW SCHEDULE SIGNED.
Agreement Roncliotl Botwcon the
Southern and Its Employes.
Aftor a conference, nt Washington,
D. C., lasting threo days, between
Third Vice President Baldwin, of the
Southern railway, and tho federated
board of tho employes’ organizations
that nre mainly interested in the new
schodule of rates proposed by tho
Southern* railway, an agreement was
reached ufterja very harmonious dieous-
sionof the schedule in all its phases.
This sohodule wns signed by tho men
at tho office of Mr. Baldwin, and it
practically romains ns it was first of
fered, with somo modifications of tho
rules in instances whero it wns pointed
out to Mr. Baldwin that the men
thought thoy should be differently
prescribed. The schodule will go into
effect May 1st on all the lines of tho
Southern railway, and in ease either
side should wish to make a change in
the future, sixty days' notice to tho
other party will ho required.
LA GASCOGNE WELCOMED HOME.
Havre’s veoplo Make a Great De
monstration Ovor Her Arrival.
The oity of Havro, France, was be
decked with flags nnd the quays wero
orowded with people Friday ns a mark
of weloomo to tho stenmer.La Gaseogno.
Tho big ship entered tho harbor at
1:30 o’olock p. m. A regimental band
ooonpied a placo on ono of tho jotties
and playod tho “Marsoillaiso” and
other patriotio airs as the vessel came
in. The members of tho municipality
and a largo numbor of leading eitizons
boarded the steamer and congratulated
Captain Bandelon nnd his officers
upon thoir courage and gallantry in
bringing the ship sufoly into New
York.
THE FIGHT 18 ON.
Workmen on Buildings in New York
Quit Work.
The board of walking delogntes be
gan an aggressive policy in the matter
of tho strike at New York Friday. Tho
fight is now on, and will be carriod on
with determination. Six hundred
more men were called out during the
day on threo up-town bnildings. Tho
men called out belong to the various
building trades. More men will prob
ably be called out nt once and othors
will strike eaok day until the contract
ors are forced to settle.
A Prospect of Peace.
A cable dispatch from Poking says
the prospect that poaco with Japan
will be speedily concluded is exceed
ingly good. Dooumeuts comprising
the credentials of tho envoys are near
ly ready and details aro being settled
by tolegraph. Assuming that thero
will bo no hitch in the preliminaries,
the envoys will probably leave Tien*
T»in about March 10th,