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THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS.
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DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AQllIOULTUBAL AND KDUOATIONAL INT&UNSTB Of OLSTTUtAND, WHITE OOONTT AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA.
TERMS: - One DMar Ptr Tt*.*
VOL. IV
CLEVELAND. WHITE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1895.
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Fur detailed Information as to looul and
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Ing'curTbHorvutlons, Oorifer with local agents,
or address—
W. A. TURK, S. H. HARDWICK.
Geo’l Pass. Ag’t, Ass t General Pass Ag t
Washington, D. C. Atlanta, GA.
.1. D )DSON, Superintendent, Atlanta, Go.
W. IL GREEN, .1. M. CULP,
Gen’l M’gr.. Trafllc Mu'gr.
Wahhinoton, D. C. Washington B.C.
>nylngs and Doing* of the Official
I lends of the Government.
James D. Tillman, of Tenuessoe, the
new minister to Ecuador, and Mrs.
Tillman left Washington Saturday for
New York, wkenco they will sail for
Hemtli America.
General Mat W. Hansom has loft
Washington for the City of Mexico to
i i -snmo his now position as United
States minister there. Ho called at
the state department Saturday and
-aid good-bye to Secretary Gresham,
from whom ho received his linnl in
structions.
The state department has boon re
cently advised that threo shipments of
irms have boeu made within the past
few weeks from the United States to
insurgents in Cuba. In one ease arms
were sent from Philadelphia to Savuu-
nah. They wero transferred at tlmt
point to small fishing smacks.
The government has decided to sur
vey the Armstead land, owned by it in
south-western North Carolina, with a
view to placing it upon the markot
within a few months. The traot
amounts to about 32,000 acres, and it
is said to contain valuable minerals.
The government originally became
possessed of tho laud by taking it for
debt.
Comptroller llowler has decided that
the “bullion roll” of the treasury de
partment is no longer legal and tho
sixty people, mostly women, upon it
were dismissed Saturday. Thcso ladies
were employed in counting rconoy
sent in for redemption. Tho work
will have to bo done by details of
clerks from the several bureaus. Many
tnoHsed when
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OFFICE US MET THEM
And Two of a Gang of Would-be Train
Robbers Killed.
One of the most daring, and at tho
same timo most unsuccessful attempts
at train robbery, occurred at 2:30 a.
m. Wednesday in the soul hern portion
of Kentucky, when six men undirtook
to rob tho southbound No. 3 Queen
and CTesont train, which left Cincin
nati at 8 p. in. Tuesday night.
One of the six was killed outright,
another died within two hours, and a
third, giving tho name of Miller, now
lies severely wounded, and tlio others
have not yet been heard from. Tho
train was delayed not more than ten
minutes and reached Chattanooga on
time.
Tho reason for this summary dis
posal of a body of train robbers is
found in tho fact that some intimation
of their purpose had been given to
the railroad or express authorities,
and that Mr. T. 11. Griffin, who serves
as a superintendent of polico on tho
Southern road, had with him two
trusty assistants.
The train had just reached the south
end of tunnel No. 9, which is one mile
north of Groouwood, when the robbers
signalled it to stop. They had scarce
ly disclosed their purpose until Mr.
Grifiin and his assistants on the truin
began offensive operations nnd in ten
minutes three of tho robbers had bit
ten the dust, the other three had
flown, nnd tho train was speeding on
its way. Not a single injury was suf
fered by any one on tin train.
rF.AMOH INTRODUCES A
To I*i
it ion <
nt D!s<
of Race or Color.
A bill introduced in the Massachu
setts legislature by Representative
Tearnob, tbe colored member of tho
committee on mercantile affairs of the
legislature which recently visited the
south, relative to discrimination in
public places on account of race or
color, was given a hearing by tbe com
mittee on judiciary. The bill proposes
to amend tho present laws so ns to
mako a person liable to fine or impris
onment, or both, if ho makes a dis
tinction, discrimination or restriction
on account of color or race, or causes
such to be mude. The party who may
be so treated may collect damages by
civil process and it is proposed to
erase the words “good cause.” from
tho present statute. No decision was
reached.
Gorman Socialists to Strike.
At a large meeting of socialists held
at Ghent, Belgium, it was decided to
commence a general strike on receiv
ing the signal from the general council
at Brussels.
satisfactory as far as they go, and that
tho incident 1ms already passed into a
phase whore it will yield to adjustment
by ordinary methods of diplomacy.
TRADE NOTES.
Hraristreots* Report of Htislncfm for
the Fast Week.
Bradstroots’ report on the condition
of business tho past week says:
“General trade for the third week
in succession continues to show evi
dence of improvement. In no other
direction is this so plainly indicated
as in the tendency of prices. A week
ago encouragement had been obtained
from a generally unexpected advauce
in cotton ami wheat, Following their
slight reaction, the week has witnessed
a firm cotton market, further improve
ment in wheat with a sympathetic
influence in corn and oats, tho effect
of which is greatly emphasized this
week by advances in quotations, not
only for coke, but prospectively for
irou oro and for boHsemor pig iron, for
stool billots and actually for manufac
tured iron nt western markets.
Higher quotations for cut meats west
are tho outcome of restricted supplies
of cattle, and this is behind the in
creased demand for shoes for fall de
livery, as quotations for leather con
tinue upward on tho comparative
scarcity of hides.
“Firmness in cotton, with the late
advance, has shown itself in higher
quotations, not only for print cloths,
but othor varieties of cotton goods,
some of them being fiddle, higher than
a fortnight ago.
“A moderate improvement is an
nounced from Memphis, Nashville,
Birmingham, Atlanta and Augusta,
dry goods, groceries, hardware und
plantation supplies feeling tho clmngo
most. At Chattanooga und Savannah
the tra*le is quiet, but at Jacksonville
there has been a decrenso in volume.
The movement in dry goods at New
Orleans has felt soino increased de
mand, but shipping interests coutinuo
the final discharges wero made.
The cruiser Montgomery has boon
dored to join Admiral Meade’s
squadron. This will give him hovoii
rusids—the New York, Minneapolis,
Columbia, Cincinnati, Atlanta, .Raleigh
and Montgomery- the largctst squad
ron of modern vessels seen on any
station for many years. The Mont
gomery is now nt Mobile, Ala., but
will start south as soon as she coals.
At what point she will join tho squad
ron is not known, but probably it will
be at Colon or Port Limon.
Tho official monthly statement of
tho treasury receipts and expoudituros
for Mareh,*whieh wus issued Monday,
shows that tho treasury has been near
ly able to hold its own during tho
month. Tho excess of expenditures
over receipts were less thau $750,000,
for the fiscal year, to date, tho defi
ciency is stated at $30,000,000 in
round figures. The receipts show an
improvement over February of about
$3,000,000, while tho expenditures re
main about tho same as for February.
Secretary Herbert has decided to
increase our navy by the addition of a
submarine torpedo boat. Proposals
for this vessel wero invited in May,
1893, since which time tho department
has made a thorough investigation of
this typo of a vessel. Tho contruct
for the craft has boon awarded to tho
John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Com
pany, of New York. The contract
calls for a vessel 80 feet in length, di
ameter 11 feet, and displacement,when
submerged, 138$ tons. Tho vessel is
to be constructed of stool of domestic
manufacture and fitted with engines,
boilers and machinery of domestic
make, and is to have a speed of fifteon
knots in light condition, fourteen
knots awash (partly submerged), and
eight knots submerged. This will bo
the first vessel of this kind ever con
tracted for. The French have made
efforts in this direction, but have not
yet succeeded in. building an efficient
submarine boat.
A limit the .Monetary Conference.
There is little likelihood, consider
ing the attitude of England nnd tho
administration in this country, of a
bimetallic conference. The subject
was taken up at the cabinet meeting
Tuesday, nnd while little was given
out enough was made public through
official sources to glean the fact that
Mr. Cleveland donies to himself tho
power to appoint delegates under tho
Wolcott resolution, or to commission
those named by the house ami senate.
Tho language of tho resolution is that
nine delegates shall ho appointed
whenever there is an international
conference “called with a view to se
cure international fixity of tho rela
tive value between gold and silver,”
etc. Mr. Cleveland claims that Eng
land disavowed her intontion of going
iuto any conference looking to tho
coinage of silver, and tlmt such a con
ference, therefore, cannot have for its
primary object the fixity of the rela
tive value of gold and silver.
Spain Comes to Time.
Reports that the Spanish govern
ment is taking steps to meet tho re
quests of the United States in the Al-
lialien affair, that the commander of
the offending ship has been relieved
from liis ship and that orders have
been sent to the other Spanish com
manders in Cuban waters to observe
the requirements of international law,
and to refrain from improper interfer
ence with the ships of the United
States or other foreign nations, has
caused much gratification in official
circles at Washington. Although tho
state department officials decline to
admit the fact, there is reason to be
lieve tlmt these matters have been
communicated to them either through
disturbed. Tho season is backward at
Galveston, witli trade only fair.”
FRED DOUGLASS’ WILL.
Tlio Document Filod With the Re,
Inter In Washington.
The will of the lato Frederick Dou
glass was tiled with tho register of
wills at Washington Friday in answer
to the petition previously filed by R
sottn Sprague, daughter of the de
ceased, to requite tlio widow and Lewin
H. Douglass, one of tho sons, to dis
close tho extent of the cstato. Tho
will is a brief document of two type
written pages and is dated August 20,
♦1880. To liis wife ho leaves tho estato
situated near Washington, with all of
its furnishings, and also bequeaths her
his writings, books, pictures, paint
ings, horses, carriages, etc. Ten
thousand dollars in United States
bonds and $10,000 in money is given tr
liis daughter, Rosetta Sprague, and to
his sons, Lowin, Frederick nudClmrlos
Douglass, the remainder of his prop
erty, ouch to receivo an equal share,
which, says tho will, will amount to
about $15,000 ouch. The will bears
tho signatures of but two witnesse
and tlio laws of the district require
three. Tho validity of tho will is not
likoly to bo questioned.
RATES SOUTH CUT.
The Seaboard Announces a $10 Cut to
Georgia Points from New York.
The Seaboard Air Lino lms announced
that a $10 cut in the first-class passen
ger rates to Atlanta, and the principal
points in Georgia, North und South
Carolina, lms been mado by it, and
that tickets purchased at tlio cut rates
are good for thirty days from issue.
It is understood tlmt the Boabonrd
Air Line claims tlmt it has boon boy
cot ted, or cut off from reaching cer
tain points by some of the big lines
whoso track.* it lms to use to some
extent. This boycott, tlio Seaboard
people sav, was unjustly instituted,
and there was nothing left for thorn
to do but to make a rate tlmt would
bring an increase in travel sufficient
to make up for the loss tho boycott
entailed.
SILVER ADVANCING.
The Demand for It Is Active and Cot
ton Is Going Up Also.
A New York special says: The mar
ket for silver is unusually active and
at tho board certificates rose to 07j.
T he sales of 20,000 ounces is reported.
Commercial advanced to 65} and Mex
ican dollars to 62.
The demand is quickened by the
proclamation of armistice by the em
peror of Japan, which led to the be
lief tlmt peace is near at hand. China,
it is supposed, will have to pay heavy
tribute in silver. Another reason for
the rise is tho belief entertained in
some quarters tlmt England will join
in the bimetallic conference. Tho
buying for speculative account has been
quite large of late, but there is also a
better inquiry for legitimate purposes.
POISONED SUGAR AT AUCTION
Cargo of One Million Pounds, Alleged
to Contain Arsenic, Sold fora Song.
Tho million pounds of sugar brought
to tho Philadelphia port by the steam
er Romas, from Hamburg, and which
it was alleged contained enough ar
senic to poison half of tho population
of the city, was sold at auction by tho
government for $4,000, which amount
about covers tho duty. The sugar wos
purchased by H. K. Kelly, a sugar
broker of Philadelphia.
Before the sale it was announced
thut the chemists of the state bourd of
health and city board had analyzed a
portion of the sugar, but failed to find
any trace of arsenic. The appraised
AN Alt MI ST ICE
WHICH JAPAN WILL ACCEPT ON
CEUTA IN CONDITIONS.
In the Meantime Hostilities Helweon
tho Two Nations Will Cease.
Tho following telegram was received
Friday afternoon by tho iTapauoso le
gation at Washington from tlio Jnpnn-
oso foreign otltco:
“On tho opening of tho negotiations,
tho Chiiioso plenipotentiary proposed
an armistice, whioli the Japanese gov-
rnunmt was willing to accept on cer
tain conditions. White this negotia
tion was going on tho untoward event
happened on tho person of tlio Chinese
plenipotentiary. liis majesty, tho
•mperor, having in view this unhappy
ooonrreuoc, commanded tho Japanese
plenipotentiaries to consent to a tem
porary armistioo without condition.
This was communicated to tho Chinese
plenipotentiary. ”
Conlti'inatlon of tho Armistice.
Tho T.olldoll Times says it is under
stood that official nownof tho armistice
hus been received in London, nnd con
tains this dispatch from Shimonoscki:
“Li Hung Cluing progresses admirably
and llio condition of his wound is sat-
fnotory. Letters of aympathy, presents
and deputations continue to nrrivo from
all classes of thcJapnuese community.
The Japanese physician, lasuguro,who
is attending Li, reports llio favorable
progress of his patient. The nntisoptio
treatment is fully effectual nnd there is
no disohnrgo from the wound. Tho
pulsosuud temperature’ are normal, and
no further anxiety need bo felt.”
'The Timm is informed from Shang
hai: “Admiral llo bombarded tho
enst forts of Pong-Tin, of I’oecndores
islands, on March 23d. A thousand
troops wero landed and attacked the
Saime fort, .which
others. Tho Chinese evacuated it du
ring the night nnd the Japanese en
tered it at 6 o’clock the next morning.
They turned tho gnus on the othor
forts, but got no reply. One of tho
western forts, exploded before it was
taken. A thousand Chinese wero cap
tured ; the remainder wero allowed to
escape in juiiks. Tho Japanese lost
ouo killed autjt twenty-seven wounded.
Thoro are thirty-one Japanese vassels
now nt FomciHii, Tho black tings are
still insolont^fte*.foreigners in tho
south. • • . Jl
“From P.^ltiiig jjufcta reported that
H ; Hnng Ojroniftyjjfailaht desired to
avetTgWthn^Xjjiii^Ml 'ft Ills brother in
Tion-Tsen at Lie beginning of the war.
The officials in Pekin confer frequent
ly. Tho prospects of a settlement aro
regarded ns doubtful. Prince Kung
is much worn and has taken live days
leavo of absence. ”
gEV, DR, TALMAGE,
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject: “Tongues of Fire*
Tf.xt: “Ilavo yo roeoivod tho Holy Ghost.”
—Acts xlx., 2.
Tlio word ghost, which moans a soul, or
spirit, lias boon degraded in common par
lance, Wo talk of ghosts as baneful and
frightful nnd In n frivolous or superstitious
way. But my text speaks of a Ghost who la
omnipotent and divine and everywhere pres
ent and ntnoty-ono times In the Now Testa
ment called tho Holy Ghost. Tho only timo
I over hoard this text preached from was in
tho opening days of my ministry, when a
glorious old Scotch minister enmo up to help
mo In my village church. On tlio day of m v
ordination and installation ho said, “ft
you got into the corner of a Saturday
night without onough sermons for Sunday,
Heml for me. and I will oorao nnd preach
for you.” The fact ought to bo known
that tho first three years of a pastor’s life
aro appallingly arduous. No other profes
sion makes tho twentieth part of the demand
on a young man. If a secular preacher
proparos one or two speeches for a politi-
onl campaign it is considered arduous. If
u lecturer prepares one lecture for n year,
he Is thought to have done well. Hut a
young pastor has two sermons to deliver
every Sabbath before tho same audience, bo-
sldos all his other work, nnd the most of
ministers nevorrecover from tho awful ner-
3’oua strain of tho first three years. He
sympathetic with all young ministers and
withhold your criticisms.
My aged Scotch [friend responded to my
first (Mill and came and preached from the
text that L now*announce. I romombor noth
ing but the text. It was tho lust sermon ho
ever preached. On the following Saturday ho
was called to his heavenly roward. But I
remember Just how ho appeared ns, loaning
over tho pulpit, ho iookeu into the face of
tho audience, and with earnestness and
pathos and electric force asked them, in tho
words of my text, “Ilavo yo received tho
Holy Ghost?” Tho office of this present dis
course is to open a door, to unveil a Person
age, to introduce ajforeo not sufficiently rec
ognized. lie is as great as God. Hois God.
Tho second verso of tho first chapter of tho
Bible introduces Him—Genesis i., 2. “Tho
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters”—that is, as an albatross or eagle
spreads her wings over her young and warms
them into life and touches them to fly, so the
Eternal Spirit spread His great, broad,
THURSTON HOMEWARD HOUND.
Ho Decides Not to Walt to bo For
mally Fired.
A Washington special says: Minis
ter Thurston has docidod to leavo this
country without waiting for any for
mal notico from liis government to re
turn.
Mr. Thurston roachod this conclu
sion somewhat suddenly, and an
nounced his intontion to friends while
making farewell visits Monday after
noon. Ho declined to discuss his case
in any manner and merely said that
ho would start for Ban Francisco Tues
day and take tho st
week for Honolulu.
Asked as to whether ho had received
official notice that a request had boon
Rent to bis government for liis recall,
Mr. Thurston replied that ho had
nothing to say on tlio subject. Ho
was equally reticent as to whether or
not he had been informed through tho
state department of any charges pend
ing or preferred in his case which
might bring about tho severance of
his diplomatic relations at Washing
ton.
Taylor Located nt Valparaiso.
W. W. Taylor, tho defaulting state
treasurer of Pierre, Bouth Dakota, is
Chile. Ho loft Havana January
20th, sailing for the isthmus of Pan
ama, which he crossed by rail and
proceeded down tho Pacific. Ho is
now comfortably located at Valparaiso.
The Pinkerton detective reached Ha
vana on Taylor’s trial five weeks after
lie had sailed for the isthmus, and re
ported him as having sailed for Vera
Cruz, Mexico.
Declared Unconstitutional.
The direct inheritance tax levied by
the last Ohio legislature bos been de
clared unconstitutional by the circuit
court at Cincinnati, which held it was
in tho nature of excess tax upon right
or privilege of succession to property ;
also that it was not uniform in its
operation. The state will lose much
revenue under its decision.
United States Minister Taylor at Mad
rid, or through Bcnor Muragua, tho 1 vn f no 0 f the sugar was $17,725 and the
A utx boosted into prominence in Hpnnish minister nt the capital. There 1 general valno of the Hoods 323,208.
hi. own conceit can never see any good,T> l > rter to . ; ~
in the efforts of others, and generally lloubt t,iat the Spanish assurances ure ) The polar currents contain less salt
brings disgust upon himself,
1 than thoae from tho equator?
dominated the * radiant wings over this earth in Its callow
and unfledged state and warmed It into lit,)
and fluttered over It and set it winging 11m
way through Immensity. It Is tho tip top of
all beautiful and sublime suggest! vonoss. Can
you not almost see tho outspread wings over
tho nest of young worlds? “The Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters.”
Another appearance of tho Holy Ghost w
nt Jerusalem during a great feast. Strangers
speaking seventeen different languages \v
present from many parts of tho world. But
In ouo house they heard what seemed like tho
coming of a cyclone or hurricane. It made
the trees bond and the houses quako. Tho
cry was, “Wlmt Is that?” And then a forked
llamo ot tire tipped each forehead, and what
with the blast oi wind and tho dropping fire
a panto took place, until Petor explained tlmt
It was noithoc oyolone nor conflagration, but
the hrilllaueo nnd anointing uml baptismal
power of tho Holy Ghost.
That Boono was partially repeated in a
forest when Itev. John Easton was preach
ing. There was the sound of u rushing,
mighty wind, and tho people looked to tho
sky to see if there wero any signs of a btorin,
but it was a clear sky, yet tho sound of tho
wind was so great that horses, frightened,
broke loose from their fastenings, and the
Whnlo assembly folt that tho sound was su
pernatural and pentoeostal. Oh, what an
lnflnito nnd almighty and glorious person
age is the Holy Ghost! IIo brooded this
planet Into life, and now that through sin it
has become a dead world Ho will brood it
the second time Into life. Perilous attempt
would be a comparison between the three
persons of tho Godhead. They are equal,
but there is some consideration which at
taches itself to the third person of the Trin
ity, the Holy Ghost, tlmt does not attach
itself to either God tin* Father or God the
Hon. Wo may grieve God tho Father and
grieve God tho Bon and be forgivon, but wo
aro directly told that thoro is a sin against
tho Holy Ghost, which shall never be for
given either in this world or in the world to
oomo. And It is wonderful that while on the
street you hear j;ho name of God ami Jesus
Christ used in profanity you never hear the
words Holy Ghost. This hour I speak of tho
Holy Ghost as Biblical Interpreter, as uhu-
i a solace for tho broken
her’s ro-onforoomont.
The Bible is’a mass of contradictious, an
affirmation of impossibilities, unless tlu
Holy Ghost helps us to understand it. Tho
Bible says of Itself that the Scripture is not
for “private interpretation,” but “holy men
of God spake as they wore moved by the Holy
Ghost”—tlmt is, not private interpretation,
but Holy Ghost interpretation. Pile on your
study table /ill the commentaries of the Bible
—Matthew Henry and Scott and Adam Clarke
and Albert Barnes and Bush and Alexander,
nnd all tho urchtoologios, and all the Bible
dictionaries, and all the maps of Palestine,
and all the international-series of Bunday-
Boliool lessons. And it that Is all you will not
understand tho deeper und grander mean
ings of the Bible so well us tlmt Christian
mountaineer who, Sunday morning, aft v
having shaken down the fodder for the Cel
tic, conics into his cabin, takes up his w 11
wern Bible, and with a prayer that stirs tli *
heavens usks for the Holy Ghost to unfold
the book.
No morn unreasonable would I bo if I
should take up The Novou Vromya of 8 .
Petersburg, all printed in Russian, and sir .
‘•There is no sense in this newspaper, for I
cannot understand one line of all its col
umns,” thau for any man to take up t <•
Bible, and without getting Holy Ghost il
lumination as to Its moaning say: “This
Book insults my common sense. I cannot
understand it. Away with the incongruity!”
No one but tho Holy Ghost, who inspire 1
the Scriptures, can explain tho Scrip.uros.
Fully realize that, and you will be as enthu
siastic a lover of tho bid book as my vener
able friend who told mo in.Philadelphia lust
week tlmt ho was reading tho Bible through
tho fifty-ninth time, and it became more at
tractive and thrilling every time lie went
through it. In tho saddlebags that hung
across my horse’s back as I rode from Jeru
salem down to tho Dead Sea and up to Da
mascus I had all tho books about Palestine
tlmt I could carry, but many a man on his
knees, in tho privacy of his room, has had
flashed upon him more vivid appreciation of
tho word of God than many a ihau who has
of Christ’s birth, and
visited all tlio scene:
For Cireslmm’s Consideration. Paul’s eloquence, and Peter’s imprisonment,
I’MMDRen from Santiago do Culm Jho'"
report thut t wo A norican citizens are f or Bible study, but I do say that they all
(lying in prison in that city. Accord- together come inllnltcly short without a di-
in g to tlio passengers’ story tho im- . root communication from the throne of God
• -i i 1 • i it ,i in response to prayerful solicitation. We
prisoned Americans have all the pass- may find many interesting things about the
ports and papers required by law and . Bible without especial illumination, as how
their incarceration is considered an' many horses Solomon 1ml in his stubl
outrage.
Three Blocks Destroyed by Fire.
Fire at Kansas City, Kas., destroy
ed the better part of the business dis
trict, including seven stone and twenty
frame buildings. Threo blocks wero
destroyed, causing an aggregate loss
of $75,000. The insurance is $35,000.
Tho fire started in a livery barn.
Sovereign Nominates Debs.
Grand Master Workman Sovereign,
of the Knights of Labor, in an inter
view, has nominated Eugene V. Dtbs
as the candidate of tlio people’s party
for president in 1890,
him, “I am tho resurrection and tho life; lm
that boliovoth in Mo, though dead, yet shall
ho live.”
Next consider tho Holy Ghost as a human
constructor. Wo must bo mado over again.
Christ and Nicodomus talked about It.
Theologians call It regeneration. I do not
earo wlmt you call it, but wo hare to bo ro-
lonstructod by tho Holy Ghost. Wo become
»ow creatures, hating what wo once loved
tml loving what we once hated. If sin wore
a luxury, It must become a detestation. Tf
wo preferred bad associations, wo must pre
fer good associations. In most cases it Is
•ompleto change that tho world
notices the dilT roneo and begins to ask:
What has come over that man? Whom has
be boon with? What has so affected him?
What has ransacked his entire nature?
What has turned him square about?” Take
two pictures oT Paul—one on tho road to
Damascus to kill tho disciples of OhrUt, tho
other on tho road to Osl la to die for Christ.
Oomo nearer home and look at the mnn who
nd his chief delight In a low class of olub-
ms, hiccoughing around a card table and
then stumbling down tho front stops after
midnight and Staggering homeward, and that
same man, one week afterward, with his
family on the way to a prayer mooting.
What lms done it? It must bo something
mondous. It must bo God. It must bo
the Holy Ghost.
Notice tho Holy Ghost as tho solaoor of
broken hearts. Christ calls Him the
Comforter. Nothing docs tho world so much
want as comfort. The most people have
boon abused, misrepresented, cheated, lied
about, swindled, bereft. Wlmt is noon oil is
balsam for tho wounds, lantern for dark
roads, rescue from maligning pursuers, a
lift from tho marble stab of tombstones. Life
to most has been a somtfailure. They have
not got what they wanted. They have not
manned that which they started for. Friends
betray. Change of business stand loses old
custom and does not bring enough custom
to mako up for tho loss. Health becomes
precarious when one most needs strong
muscle and steady nerve and clear brain.
Out of this audience of thousands and thou
sands, if I should ask all those who
have been unhurt in tho struggle of
life to stand up, or all standing to hold
up their right hands, not one would move.
Oh, how much we need tho Holy Ghost
as comforter! lie recites tho swoot
gospel promises to the hardly bestead. He
assures of morey mingled with the severities,
lie cousolos with thoughts of coming release.
Ho tells of a heaven where tear is never wept
and burden is never carried and Injustice is
never sufferod. Comfort for all tho young
people who aryi maltreated at home, or re
ceive insufficient income, or are robbed of
their schooling, or kept back from positions
they earned by the putting forward of others
less worthy. Comfort for all these men and
women midway in tho path ot llfo, worn out
with what they have already gone through,
nnd with no brightening future. Comfort
for those aged ones amtu many Infirmities
an 1 who fool themselves to ho in tho way in
the homo or business which themselves es
tablished with their own grit.
Tho Holy Ghost comfort, I think, general
ly comes in tho shape of n soliloquy. You
find yourself saying to yourself: “Well, I
ought not to go on this way about my
mother’s death. She had suffered enough.
Bho had borne othor people's burdens long
onough. T ftin glad that father and mother
are together in heaven, and they will he
waiting to gruot us, and it will ho only a lit
tle while anyhow, and God makes no mis
takes.” Or you soliloquize, saying: “It is
hard to lose my property. I am sure I
worked hard onough for it. But God will
take care of us, and, as to tho children, tho
money might have spoiled thorn, and wo
find that those who have to struggle for
thomselvos generally turn out best, and It
will ajl bo well if this upsetting of our world
ly resources loads us to lay up treasures in
heaven.” Or you soliloquize, saying:
“It was hard to give up that
boy when tho Lord took him. I ex
pected great things of him, and, oh, how wo
miss him out of the house, and thoro aro so
many things I come across that mako one think
of him, and he was such a splendid fellow!
But thou what an osoapo he hits mado from
the temptations nnd sorrows which come to
all who grow up, and it is a grand thing to
have him safe from all possible harm, nnd
thoro aro all those Bible promises for parents
who have lost children, and we shall feel a
drawing heavenward that wo could not have
otherwise experienced.” And after you have
said that you get that rolled which comes
from an outburst of tears. I do not say to
you, as some say, do not cry. God pity peo
ple in troublo who have the parched eyeball
and tho dry eyelid nud cannot shod a tear.
That makes maniacs. To God’s people tears
are tho dews of the night dashed with sun
rise. I am so glad you can weep. But you
think these things you say to yourself aro
only soliloquies. No, no; they sire the Com
forter. who is the Holy Ghost.
Notice also the Holy Ghost as tho preach
er's reinforcement. You and I have known
preachers encyclopedic in knowledge, brill
iant as an Iceberg when tho sun smites it,
and with Ghosterlloldian address and
rhetorical baud uplifted with diamond big
enough to-dazzle an assembly and so sur
charged with vocabulary that whoa they left
tills life it might lie said of each’of thoro as
Do Quincoy said of another that in tho net of
dying ho committed a robbery, absconding
with a valuable polyglot dictionary, yet no
awakening or converting or sanctifying re
sult, while some plain man, with humblest
phraseology, has seen audiences whelmed
with religious Influence. It was tho Holy
Ghost. What a useful thing it would be if
every minister would give the history of his
sermons! Years ago at an outdoor mooting
in the State of New York I preached
to many thousands. There hud been much
prayer on the grounds for a groat outpouring
of the Holy Ghost at that service, and the
awakening power exceeded anything I over
witnessed since I began to preach, with per
haps tho exception of two or three occasions.
Clergymen and Christian workers by the
score and hundreds expressed themselves as
having been blessed during the service.
That afternoon I took the train for an out
door meeting in tho fit ate of Ohio, where I
was to preach on the night of tho next day.
As the sermon had proved so useful the day
before and tho theme was fresh in my rnlnu,
I resolved to reproduce it. and did reproduce
it as far as I could, but the result was nothing
ut all. Never had I seemed to havo any
thing to do with a flatter failure. What
was the difference between the two serv
ices? Borne will say, “You wore tired with a
long journey.” No, I was not tired at all.
Borne will say, “The temporal oiroumstancos
in the first case wore more favorable than in
tho last.” No, they were more favorable in
the last. The difference was in the power of
the Holy Ghost—mightily present ut the first
service, not .seemingly present at all at the
second. I call upon the ministers of Ameri
ca to give tlm history of sermons, for I be
lieve it will illustrate as nothing else can the
truth of that Scripture .“Not by might nor by
jiowor, but by my Spirit, suith tho Lord.”
On the Bahbath of.the dedication of one of
our churches In Brooklyn, at the morning
service, 82H souls stood up to profess Christ.
They wore the converts in tho Brooklyn
Academy of Music, where we had been wor
shiping. The reception of so many mem
bers—and many of thorn baptized by Immer
sion—had made it an arduous service, which
continued from half past ton in tho morning
until half past two in tho afternoon. From
that service wo went home exhausted, bo-
was the causo there is nothing so exhausting as deep
1 ■ otion. A messenger wi
In tho Second Reformed Church, of flomnr-
vllle, N. J., in my boyhood days, Mr. Os
borne, the evangelist, came to hold a special
sorvieo. I hoc him now as he stood In the
pulpit. Before lm announced liis text and
before ho had uttered a word of Ills sermon
strong men wept aloud, nnd it was like the
dny of judgment. It was the Holy Ghost. * .
In 1857 the el
message's. On
rents will rojoi
pence with
mothe
been
trio telegraph boro strange
f them road, ‘‘My dear pa* -
to hear tlmt: I have found *
” Another read, “Dear
the work continues, and f, toe, have
averted.” Another read, “At last
everything Into derision,
il not got thetrumpcUo his
i close of tho ineuttflg ho
sent out
how long was Noah’s ark, or wh<
only woman Whoso full inuriu 1h ylyt.ii in Jli*. | ol ta j u « t prettoUer for t | m t night, but th
i ptaoa With' u/iUnmtlon at HU for
there are in your neighbor’s garden.
Tho learned Karl of Chatham hoi
famous Mr. Gocil preach about th
Ghost and said to a friend on the way horn
from church: ‘T could not understand It,
and do you suppose anybody understood it?”
“Oh, yes,” said liis Christian friend, “thoro
wero uneducated women und some little
children present who understood it.” I war
rant you that the English soldier had under
supernal influence rood the hook, for after
the battle of Inkerrnunn was “ 1
rd th*'j tho evening service,
Holy ! Crudon’s Concordanc
jxcopt tho looking in
• a text and feeling
almost too weary to stand up, I begun the
service, saying audibly while tho opening
song was being sung, although beenueo of
the singing no one but God heard It: “Oh,
Lord, Thou knowest my insufficiency for
tills sorvieo! Come down in gracious power
upon this people.”' The place was shaken
with the divine presence. As far as wo could
find out. over 400 persons were converted
.. . ... ..»i ‘*i entering
found dead witli his hand glued to tho page that night. Hear it, all young men entering
of the open Bible by his own Mood, anu the ! the ministry; hour it, all Christian workers,
words adhered to his hands as they buried U was the Holy GfcQfit
faith and poaeo.” In Vermont a religious
meeting was singing tho hymn, “Walling and
Watching for Me.” The song rolled out on
the night air, and a man halted and said, “T. 1
wonder If there will be any one waiting and
watching for mo?” It started biro heaven
ward. Wlmt. was It? The Holy Ghost. In
that 1857 Jaynes’s Hall, Philadelphia, and
Fulton Rtrcot prayer meeting, New York, tel-
ogruphed each other the number of souls
saved and the rising of the devotional tides.
Noonday prayer mootings were held In
all the cities. 8hlp4 entne Into lmrhor,
captain and nil the sailors saved on that
voyage. Police ami lire departments mot In
their rooms for divine worship. At Albany
the Legislature of tho State of New York as
sembled In tho rooms of tho Court of Appeals
for religious sorvlces. Congressional union
prayer mooting was opened at Washington.
From whence eamo the power? From tho
Holy Ghost. That powor shook New York.
That powor shook America. That power
shook the Atlantic Ocean. That power shook
tho earth. Tlmt power could take this en
tire audience into the pence of the gospel
quicker than you could lift your eyes heaven
ward. Gome, Holy Ghost! Como, Holy
Ghost! He lms oomo! Ib* ts bond I feel
Him in my heart. Thoro aro thousands who
feel Him in their hearts, convicting some,
saving some, sanctifying some.
The difference In evangelical usefulness ts
not so much a difference in brain, in schol
arship or elocutionary gifts as in Holy
Ghost powor. You will not havo much sur
prise at tho extraordinary career of Charles
G. Flnnoy as n soul winner, if you know that
soph after bis conversion ho had this experi
ence of tho Paraclete. IIo says:
“As I turned and was about to tako a sout
by tho fire I rocoivoil a baptism of tho Holy
Ghost. Without any expectation of it, with
out over having the thought in my mind
that thorn was any such thing for me, with
out any recollection that I had ever hoard
tho thing mentioned by any porjjon in tho
world, tho Holy Ghost rlesoonded upon mo In
a manner that seemed to go through me,
body and soul. Indeed, it soomuil to come in
waves and waves of liquid love, for I could
not express It In any other way. It seemed
llko tho very breath of God. I can recollect
distinctly that it seemed to fan me like im
mense wings. No words can express tho
wonderful love that was shod abroad In my
heart. I wept aloud with Joy and love.
Those waves came over mo and over mo and
, ono after (lie othor until, I recall I
eriod out, ‘I shall die if theso waves oonliuuo
to pass over me.’ I said, ‘Lord, I cannot bear
any more.’ ”
Now, my hearorfl. let 500 of us, whether
olorlonl or lay workers, get sunh a divine
visitation as that, and wo could take this
world for God before the clock of tho next
century strikes 1.
How many markod instances of Holy
Ghost power? When n black trumpeter tome
liis place in Whltefleld’s audience ‘proposing
to Mow tho trumpet at a certain point in tho
service and put
somehow ho could i
tips, and at tho o
sought out tho preuoher and iiHkqdT.br his.v
prayers. It was the Holy Gliostj^ 'Yvhat was
the mattor with Kedloy Vicur^ Jth» memora
ble soldier, when he sal iHfn Ills Btl»JoBefore
him lu a tent, and Ills deriding comrades
ca.TO in and jeered, saying, “Turned Metho
dist, eh?” And another said: “You hypo
crite I Bad as you won* I never thought you
would oorae to this, old follow.” And tnon
he became the soldier evangelist, and when
a soldlor in another regiment hundreds of
miles away telegraphed his spiritual anxie
ties to Healey Vicars, saying, “What shall I
do?” Vioars telegraphed as thrilling a mes
sage as over went over tho wires. “Believe ou
tho Lord Jesus Christ and thou shnlt bo
saved.”
What power was being folt? It was tho
noly Ghost. And wlmt more appropriate?
For the Holy Ghost is a “tongue or lire,"
aud tho •electricity that flies along the wires
is it touguo of Are. Aud that reminds mo of
what I might do now. From the place where
I stand on this platform thoro aro invisible
wires of lines or infiuencostretching to every
heart in all the seats on the main floor and up
into tho boxes and galleries, and there aro
other Innumerable wires or linos of influence
reaching out from this place into the vast
beyond and across continents and under tho
seas, for in my recont jqurney around tho
world I did not find a country where 1 had
not boon preaching this gospel for many
years through tho printing press. Bo a
telegraph operator sits or stands at a given
point and sends messages In all directions,
and you only hear the click, click, click of
the electric apparatus, but the telegrams go
on.their orrand. God help mo now to touch
tho right key and send the right message
along the right wires to tlio right place?.
Who shall wo first call up? To whom shall I
send tlio message? I guess I will send the
first to all tho tired, wherever they are, for
there aro so many llro.l souls. Hero goes
theChrisfcly mos-tig*. “Gome unto Me, all yo
who aro weary, aud I will give you rust.”
ONLY TWO FEET TALL,
tenth or u Dwarf Who Idvod Tweutv-two
Yours and Never Walked or Talked.
Charles E. Mini ram, a dwarf, whose slngu-
_.ir existence has created widespread atten
tion, died a few days ago at tho homo of his
father, E. Mlntram, at Fine Bush, Orange
County, N. Y., of pneumonia. He was in
his twon'y-semmd year and wus only twenty-
four Inches tall. He was born in Wo*.ten-
dyke, N. J., and was ono of nine children.
Tlio first year he wus as bright and thriving
as the others, and increased a little in weight
and stature, but ho never walked or talked,
and grew to manhood with tho same baby
face that ho had twenty years ago and tho
same helpless body. The boy had Leon ex
amined by many physicians during his life,
but none of them could give any satisfactory
explanation of the case. As a child lie was
us bright mentally as any othor child until
development ceased, and he became an ordi
nary baby all the rest of his life. Ho was
passionately fon-l of music and understood
all that was said to him, aud was healthy un
til his lost sickness.
MONSTER GRAPE FRUIT FARM.
To Uo One of llio Largest Fruit Orchards
in California.
One of the largest enterprises in the plant
ing of fruit orchards now in progress in Cali
fornia has just boon begun within threo miles
.,f Pomona by Henry M. Loud, a millionaire
of Detroit, Mich., who owns 000 acres of lino
fruit laud in the valley. Mr. Loud is the first
man to undertake the production or grape
fruit on a large scale on this coast. He has
contracted for JJ003 trees of this variety of
fruit, all that can be had in that part of the
State for immediate planting, put the success
of tho experiment will bo watched with in
terest by fruit growers an l followers in all
parts o( tho couutry.
Grape fruit has oomo to bo in demand at
good prices In the Eastern markets, and has
been one of Florida’s most profitable crops,
but tho recent cold weather along the Atlan
tic coast killed every grnpo fruit tree in that
State.
Japun’H National exhibition.
Tho fourth Industrial Exhibition of Japan
will bo held this year at Kioto. It opened
on April 1 and will ooutluno until July 81.
This is tho Japanese National exhibition,
also being held In commemoration of the
1000th anniversary of tho fouuding o( Kioto
as the old capital of Japan. Kioto is now
known as tho Western capital, though in
reality no longer a seat of government, and
is the most fascinating city of the empire..
Temples abound in aud about Kioto and it
is the honuj pf tho finest products of Japan
ese Iqoins,