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VOL. IV.
CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY j
JA„ FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1895.
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W. A. TURK, 9. II. HARDWICK,
Gen'l Pas *. Ag't. Ass't General Pass Ag t
Washington, D. C. Atlanta,OA.
J. A D )DSON, Superintendent, Atlanta, Ga.
W. II. GREEN. M. CULP,
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A SLICK FORGER.
The Novel Schemo of a Konl Estate
Dealer to Itulse Cash.
Astounding developments luivo re
sulted nt Greonillo, S. C., by tho nr-
rest of S. C. Dickson on three war
rants charging him with forgery. The
warrants were sworn out by George
A. Norwood, president of tho Green
ville Havings bank. Dickson is tho
loading real estate dealer of tho city
and has been doing a large business.
It is learned that for twenty years
ho has been carrying on an oluborato
system of forgeries, his forgeries being
confined to tho character of papers
used in tho real estate business. He
would make deeds to himself of imag
inary lands as well as of real tracts,
signing fictitious names to the same.
Ho then used them as securities in
borrowing money. He forged inert
gages on real estate to secure forged
notes payable to himself and deposited
these with bankers and money lenders
tin security for loons.
Tho number of forged and falso
deeds will never bo known, as ho
kited, taking up old forgeries with
new ones, using new names and new
lands fur each transaction. When
pressed by the holders of his paper he
could alwnya produoo new floods and
new mortgages to renew the old. The
losses of holders of his forged papers
will amount to from $12,000 to $20,000.
TENNESSEE'S COX I’EST.
.Sayings and Doings of tho Oflloial
Heads of the Government.
The president has appointed Jnmoa
M. Martin, of Louisiana, United
States marshal for tho western district
of Louisiana.
Tho treasury department sent two
special ngeuts to Lynchburg, Va.,
Tuesday to transfer tho internal rev
enue office to Fitzhugh Lee, the now
collector.
Secretary Herbert has decided not
to attend the Kiel canal celebration on
.Tune Kith, notwithstanding tho spe
cial invitation which, it is understood,
was extended to him by the German
government.
The treasury circulation statement
for April shows that during tho month
circulation of all kinds of money in
the United States increased $15,249,-
7:40, making the total in circulation on
May 1st $1,599,494,154, or $22.97 per
capita. As compared with May 1,
1894, the total circulation has de
creased $92,000,000.
Secretary Lament hnH made tho fol
lowing assignment of officers recently
promoted: General Huger, to spooial
duty id Washington; General Merritt,
from St. Haul to Chicago; General
Hrooke, from Omaha to St. Paul;
General Wheaton, from San Antonio
to Denver; General Bliss to San An
tonio; General Coppiuger to Omaha.
Tho treasury receipts for April were
only $21,247,000, or about $8,704,000
less than tho expenditures. The deficit
for the fiscal year to date is officially
stated at $45,247,000. During the
mouth tho gold reserve increased
$050,000, standing at $94,289,000.
The amount of the United States notes
and treasury notes exchanged for gold
during April amounted to $989,000.
Secretary Gresham, it is feared, is a
very sick man. Those most intimately
conocrued as to his health make no
denial of their anxiety us to his con
dition. His main direction 1ms been
diagnosed as gall stone, and this is
complicated by the weak physical con
dition from which tho secretary 1ms
suffered for some tiiuo past. No visit
ors aro admitted to see the patient,
who is nonfilled to his departments at
the Arlington.hotel.
Tho president’s letter to Governor
Stone, of Mississippi, in which he warns
democrats holding oflieathut they^cun
Committee on Governor’s Election
!>lakn Their Report.
A Nashville special says: In re
sponse to a call issued by Speaker Pil
low, of Hie senate, the houso and sen
ate met in joint convention at 11
o’clock Tuesday morning to consider
tho report of the committee oil the
governor’s election. The convention
adopted a rule limiting debate by
members to six hours on each sido.
The majority report was rend and a
portion of the minority report. The
latter reiterates tho opinion that the
retroactive contest law is unconstitu
tional; alleges that Turney made no
charge of fraud, but bases his contest
on the technicality that polllax re
ceipts were not exhibited. The com
mittee's rulings on tho pleadings are
denounced us unfair, and it is
alleged that had all of Evans’s
charges been investigated ho
would have had 8,000 plurality.
Tho poll tax is declared to be uncon
stitutional. Turney simply charged
that poll tax receipts had not been ex
hibited. Evans offered to prove that
they had in fact been paid. It is al
leged that Turney’s whole ease stands
on technical violations of law; that
the oDly frauds shown were those per
petrated against Evans, by which Tur
vey was benefited.
It is qdq of tho features of love to
givo oomo kind of warning to those
that tti tipoMd to ttEnpifttion*
not'abuse the poljGlPITWTfP1WTf“WPflW“
administration and retain their places,
and then proceeds to lay down tho ad
ministration’s policy against freo sil
ver, is regarded to some extent in
Washington as practically a proscrip
tive edict. It has created ft sensation.
Advocacy of gold monometallism is to
bo made flu* test of loyalty to the pres
ident, and office holders who refuse to
surrender their rreo silver convictions
arc warned that they do so at their
peril.
The engineer commission to examine
the Nicaragua canal route completed
its inspection of tho construction com
pany’s plans and contracts in New
York and left at once for Mobile, Ala.,
where they will embark on tho cruiser
Montgomery and sail for Grey town.
It is expected that the Montgomery
will laud Iho commission at its desti
nation on May 12th, and that at least
two months will bo consumed in exam
ining the 170-milo route of the pro
jected waterway. The commission,
however, goes prepared for a throe
months’ stay, ami is in little hope of
returning to tho Unitod States before
tho middle of August.
The colored coinmisssioners for tho
District of Columbia to tho Cotton
States and International exposition at
Atlanta mot Wednesday night. Ways
and means for making tho negro ex
hibit from tho district were discussed.
Hub-committees were appointed to as
sist in the exhibit and forwarding the
exhibit to Atlanta. Special Agent
Johnson reported that the auxiliary
committee of women would hold a
meeting nt an early dato. It was
agreed that a general appeal should bo
made to tho colored pooplo of tho dis
trict to contribute financially to tho
success of the exhibit, and a letter was
prepared to bo sunt to all tho colored
pastors and othors of prominence in
tho district asking their co-operation
Tlio Treasury Statement.
Tho detailed monthly treasury state
ment of receipts and expenditures was
issued at Washington Wednesday. Tlio
receipts for April were $24,247,836
against $22,692,304 in April, 1894.
The expenditures for April were $32,
990,676 against $32,072,836 in April,
1894. The receipts for the ten months
of tho current year aro $5,000,000
greater than for the corresponding ten
months of last year, and the expendi
tures are $6,000,000 less for the same
timo. Customs receipts have increased
$7,000,000 over last year. Pension
payments have increased $1,000,000
over the ten months of 1894, and in
terest payments on the public debt
liavo increased $2,000,000 over the
same period. This is because of tho
new bond issue, aggregating $162,*
400,000.
Will Unveil the Monument.
Little Julia Jackson Christian,
granddaughter of General Stonewall
Jackson and daughter of William E.
Christian, of Italeigb, has been se
lected to unveil the North Carolina
confederate monument at Raleigh,
May 20 tb.
To Extend the Railway.
In consequence of the attitude of
England in Asia, tho Russian govern
ment has decided, by the czar’s com
mand, to extend tho Trans-Caspian
railway from Samarkand to Marghi*
)»B| in. Afifttio Ru#«ta,
MEMPHIS SILVER CONVENTION.
I’Uc Central Bimetallic League Per-
foot mi OrKiinlzatloil.
Tho Control Mimotnllio Lcn^no of
Tennessee wuh perfected nt Memphis
Thursday nftorooon nml n movement
set on foot to cnll n frooidlvor conven
tion to meet in Mcmphiii on Juno 11th
mid 1 Utli. An nddroBs him boon prepnred
tlmt Mill bo circulated throughout thu
Bouthern, xvosten nml 1‘noitto const
states, from which it Ih doflired that
delegates k1ii.11 come. In the preamble
to tlio resolution thing tlio dato and
call for Ibo conference,thu bimetallists
say:
"Tho enemies of silver lmvo inailo
eitonsivo arrangements for a conven
tion to assemble in this city on tho'iitd
instant, under the delnsivo uud mis
leading pretense to protect mid uphold
wdmt they are pleased to determine
Bound money. To meet and counter
act ns far ns possible thu effect of this
movement, ii has been determined in
a public mooting of tlio ndvbcntos of
silver nt Memphis, tr call a conven
tion uf representatives from all tlio
states of tho Mississippi valley, tlio
west and the l’aoille const, to formulnto
and give direction to tho overwhelm
ing sentiment which is now declaring
for freo silver at the ratio of 1<> to 1."
All senators mid congressmen from
tlieso states will bu invited, In nddi-
iion to tho calling of tlio convention
tho bimetallists lmvo decided to liavo
ex Congressman liryan, of Nebraska,
to speak in Memphis on May tilth, tho
day following tlio sound money con
vention. lie will speak at Jackson
tlio precoding evening. The silver ad
vocates hope that bis speech will liavo
the effect of counteracting tlio influ
ence of tho sound money oouvontion
locally.
1IKISTOL CITIZENS PROTEST.
They aro Stirred lip Over a Rill Intro
duced In tlio Isglslatiiro.
Tho citizens of Uritsol and Sullivan
county, Tuun., are raising u vigorous
protest over a seemingly harmless bill,
which has lioen introduced in tho Ton-
uoHHco senate and house. This bill
provided for the cession of ouo-hulf of
Main street in Uristol, Tenn., to tho
state of Virginia. On tho territory
proposed to bo codod Is ono rail of tho
electric street railway nml one-half of
tho ties for a dlstauoo of ono milo and al
so Hues of gas and water pipes, a por
tion of sii trneksof tho Hon thorn railway
and [a portion of the Bristol &
North Carolina railway. This act is
another rolio of tho Turnoy adminis
tration, which paid out tho-sum of
#8,400.51 in litigning with tho atato of
Virginia over tho lino hotwoon tho two
states, of which this territory about to
i>o ceded was tho^luClpITr OTriteritluu.
Tho litigation botw-oon tho two stilted
lias boon going on for six years, and
has l>con decided by tho supremo court
of tho Unitod States in favor of Tou-
nossee. At tho outset of this litiga
tion 000 mon wore under arms, and a
bloody and disgraceful riot was nar
rowly nverled. A man is now under
indiotmout both lu Virginia oud Ten
nessee for felonious assault., committed
within tlio hounds proposed to booed-
ed by this net that has boon intro
duced.
JAPANESE DEFY RUSSIA.
They Strenuously Object to tlio Czar’s
Dictation.
Tho London Timex prints tho fol
lowing from Kobo under dato of April
24th:
‘‘There nro unmistnkablo ovidoncos
of a Borioue crisis in tlio relations be
tween Japan nml llussin. Tho vornno-
ultir prosH is forbidden to refer thereto.
Four Tokio newspapers liavo boon sus
pended for ropurting that a sooret
council of ministers lmd boon bold.
Others lmvo had rofcroncos to tho
crisis defaced by tbo causer.
“According to information from
a trustworthy source in Hiroshima tlio
ministry liavo adopted a resolute atti
tude toward ltussian dictation. Tlio
ministry deny Bushin's right to intro
duce ami oven meditate open defiance,
claiming that Bushin's forces in tho
east are not powerful enough to on-
forco that country's demands.”
DOCTOR KERLKY’S SECRET.
Hit Must Make Known tlio Ingredients
of Ills Gold Cure.
Judge Myers, of tho federal court,
at Leavenworth, Kas., in grunting tlio
petition of W. F. Johnson, of Topokn,
who sued Dr. Leslio E. Keoloy for
3100,000 dnrungoH, rules that I)r. Jioe-
loy must make known tfto ingredients
of his bichloride of gold compound.
The court holds that tho oompound Is
not a proprietary right, nor a trade so
und, being iiIho unprotected by a pnt-
ent, and hns been in uso more than
two years; in fact, tlmt there is noth
ing to prevent Dr. Keoloy testifying.
Johnson allogos thut ho was made a
physical wreck by tho gold treatment.
POWDER MILLS EXPLODE.
Tliroo Men Killed und the Buildings
Blown Into Splinters.
The tliroo powder mills owned by
tbo American Powder Mills Company,
situated near tlio boundary lino of
Concord, Acton and Maynard, Mass.,
were blown up early Friday morning
mid tlirco of tho employes, named
Clemmons, Jones and Smith, were
killed. Tho other employes are be-
lioved to have escaped.
Florida's Qiinrnntluo Rules.
Commencing May 1st Florida's quar
antine regulations went into effect and
will continue in foreo until November
1 fit lx next. At tlio eight quarantine
ports that nro under tho direct control
of tho state board of health, and at
I’cnsacola and Apalnchicola all vessels
tlmt enter will bo boarded by bcullli
ofiloinla and will hnvo to pass tho in
spection,
IN TUUN El 'fw AV011.
DECLARED GOVErMEh OF TEN.
NE8SUK BY A SM M ARC IN.
Eight Democrats VA
Hot It Sides Tulko
Against Him
Bribery.
A Nashville special lays. At 12:25
o’clock Saturday mhrtying, Speaker
Pillow, of tlio senate, acting na presi
dent of tho joint oonvorflUUm, declared
tlmt Peter Turnoy, linvutg rocoivod n
plurality of tho vi^afl 'oflilt, was duly
nml ooiiHtitutiunal^Pl-toktted governor
of Tonnossoo for the ensuing term of
two years. **
For four long days and nights tho
report of tho committcfrfln governor’s
election lmd boon discjHed. Tho de
bate ended nt ll:40*Jlock Friday
night nml a vote was taken on tho mo
tion to adopt tho minority report.
This motion wns rejected by a voto uf
yens 57, nays 71. ,
Tho roll call hognn <>4tlhi> motion to
adopt tho majority rtpqrt. This mo
tion prevailed by a void of 71) yeas to
57 nays, eight deinoornNs voting no.
Thus tlio vordiot of the*peoplo, giving
Evans 544 plurality, w.as overturned
and Turnoy declined to bo oloctod.
Tlio committee's figures givo—
Turnoy '. 1)4,71)1
l'lvaus 92,440
Mims . .?,j. 25,088
Turnoy'B plurality.. 2,!lf>0
A resolution by Mfc, Johnson, de
claring Petor Turnoyoleoted governor,
was at oueo adopted, and tho result
was dcolnrod by Kpeikor Pillow. Tho
republican momlmrs rfltiroil from tlio
ball in a body shCuftillg: "Steal I steal!
steal I”
Tho democrats showed groat enthu
siasm, and a snluto of Cannons was fired
as soon as the rcsulflm declared.
Jn thu joint convention Mr. Bnkcr
referred to Iho report that n democrat
lmd boon offered #1.000 to voto for
Evans and demanded to know who bad
offered the bribe. Ho uoolnrod tlmt
any man who said Evans or Newell
Sunders was reRponsihlu for any such
action Htalod wlmt ho knew to bo false.
Uoproaentatlvo DcaKcna, of Ho-
ipmtchio county, then nroHC and stated
that a man named JlBjtuws, of Bed
ford county, hud oomj* to his room
and offoreil him 31 ,IWH) to vote for
Evans, which ho had dltdinod.
Bribery Ol&rgod.
Charges of atte
connection with tin
tost oomo from
republican % so
’'foy!<,t*“ir’3wj> .
nrssoe, publietiOH’aTlipPW^n whion ho
charges that Potbr Biotr, of Knoxville,
attempted to bribe him with 9200 cash
and n promise of a position nt 3100 pur
month if ho would absent himsolf wliou
tho voto on tho ooutost was taken.
Ho says that by the ndvioe of a friend
ho played Blow nnd demanded $2,000.
Blow saw tho parties ho was represent
ing and reported that they refused to
pay it because thoy had five to fifteen
majority "for Turnoy without him.
At Saturday's session both houses of
the general assembly adopted.a resolu
tion providing for tho inauguration of
Governor Turney, Tuesday, May 7th.
liliV. 1)11. TALMAGE.
IIE NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject: “Salvation.
Ti-xt: ''Seek yo tlioLord while Ilomny bo
found."—Isnlnh tv., 0.
Isaiah stands head and shouldorn above
tho other Old Tes'.anient authors la vivid do-
sorlptlveness of Christ. Other prophets give
an outllno of our Saviour's features. Home
nt them present, ns It were, the side fnee of
Christ, others a bust of Christ, hut Isaiah
gives us the full length portrait of Christ.
Other Seripturo writers exeel In some tilings
~Ezekiel more weird, David more pathetic
Solomon moro eptgrammntle, Hnbukkuk
morn sublime—but when you waul to see
Christ Doming out from the gates of prophe
sy In nil ills gmndeurand glory you Involun
tarily turn to Isaiah, so Ihnt If' Iho propho-
elesIn regard to Christ might he railed the
"Oratorio of the Messiah" tlio writing of
Isnlnh Is the "Hnllolnlnh Chorus," where all
the batons wave and all tho trumpets oomo
In. Isaiah w-as not a man plekod up out of
Inslgullleaneo by tnsplrntlon, tin was known
amt honored. Josephus nnd Philo and
Slrneli extolled him lu their writings. Wlmt
Paul was among Iho npostlos Isnlnh was
among the prophets.
My text finds him standing on a moun
tain of Inspiration, looking out into (ho fu
ture, beholding Christ nilvnnetng ami anx
ious tlmt all man might know-Him. Ills
volno rings down tho ages, "Sunk ye tho
Lord while He may ho found.” "Oil, 1 ’ Hays
some one, ‘‘tlmt was for olden times. No,
my hearer. It you have traveled In other
lands, you liavo taken a elreulur letter of
ecedlt from Homo hanking house In New
York and In HI. Petersburg or Vmileo or
Home or Melbourne or Calcutta, you pre
sented that letter nnd K"t financial'help Im
mediately. Amt I w’nut you to understand
that the iuxt, Instead of being appropriate
for one ago or for ono land. Is a circular let
ter for all ages and for all lands, ami when)
ever It Is presented for help Ha) help comes.
"Book yoiho Lord while lie may he found."
I coma to-day with no hnlr spun theories
of religion, v-Uh no nice distinctions, with
no elaborate disquisition, hut with an urgent
call to personal religion. Tho gospel of
Christ Is a powerful medicine. It either
kills or Cures. Thoro aro those who say: "I
would like to booomo a Christian. T have
been walling n good while for tho right
kind of Influences. to oomo,” and still you
nro wailing. You aro wiser in worldly
things than you aro In religious things, ff
you want to get to Albany, you go Iho Cl rami
Central Depot or to the steamboat wharf,
and having got your ticket you do not Hit
down on tho wharf or sit In tlio depot. Yon
get aboard tho boat or train. Ami yet thoro
aro men who say thoy aro waiting'to get to
heaven, waiting, waiting. Imt not with In
telligent waiting, or thoy would get on hoard
thollnoof Christian Influences that would
hear them Into tho kingdom of Goil.
Now, you know very well that to Heck a
thing Is to soaroh for It with earnest oudoav-
or. If you want to soo a certain man In
this oily, nml thoro Is a matter of flO.OOO
oonnootod with your soiling him, amt you
cannot at llrst find him, you do not give up
tho soaroh. You look lu tho directory, hut
caunot find tho name. You go In circles
whore you think perhaps lie may mingle, and
having found tho part of tho city where ho
lives, but perhaps not knowing tlio street,
-ou go through street after street aud from
ilook to blook, nml you keep ou searching
-auks ami for months.
MR. CLEVELAND TO GOV. STONE.
A Lottor From tlio, I’resblont Which
Attracted Attention,
Governor Stone, of Mississippi, hns
mailo public a letter which ho received
from President Cleveland, in which ho
commends tlio governor's attitudo on
tho currency epicstion, nnd says:
“If we, who profess fealty to tlio
domperatio party, nro sincere in our
devotion to its principles, nnd if wo
nro right in bolioving that tho ascend
ency of tliosu principles is a guarantee
of personal liberty, universal enro for
the rights of all, non-seotional, Amer
ican brotherhood and manly trust in
Amoriouu citizenship in any port of
our land, wo should study tho e ffects
upon our party and consequently upon
our country of a committal of tho na
tional democracy to tho debased silver
standard.
“If thoro aro ilemoorats who sup
pose that our pnrty cannot-stand on a
platform embodying such doctrine,
either through its ufllrmutivo strength
or through tho perplexity of our op
ponents on tho same proposition, or if
there nro democrats who aro willing to
turn their backs upon their party as
sociations in the liopo that froo uud
unlimited uud independent coinage of
ailvur can win a victory without tho
aid of either party organization, thoy
ahonld deceivo themaolvea no longer,
nor longer rofuao to fuce tho rosulta
that will follow tlio defeat, if not the
disintegration of tho democratic pnrty,
upon the issuo which tomptsthem from
their allegiance.
“If wo should bo forced away from
our traditional doctrine of sound ami
anfo money, our old antagonist will
tuke tho field ou tho platform which
wo abandon; nnd noitlier the votes of
reckless democrats nor reckless repub
licans wilt avail to atay tbeir easy
march to power. This is as plain na
anything can possibly be.
“Tt therefore becomes tho duty of
every democrat, wherover ho may be,
to consider what auch a victory would
mean, und in the light of u proper
conception of its results, ho should
deliberately shape his course.”
I’ottory Trust Hroaks.
Tho combination of pottery ruanu-
fftcturorH, known as tbo Akron-Cauton
utoneware agency, which has sold
more than two-thirds of the Btonowaro
of the United Staten for the last ten
yearb, hns hcon broken. Tho break
came at the regular weekly meeting of
tho thirtoen companies iutereeted,held
in tho Eaet Akron,Ohio, offica Monday
tfUraoon*
you. first or all. If you wnnt to flint (lm Lord
you must prny ntnl pray nnd prav.
I remark again, you mud ho'>!< tlm Lord
through fiihln study. Tho Dllih Ih tin now-
ont book in the world. “Oh,” you say, “it
win made hundreds of years ago, mid tli'*
learned mon of King .Tuuhm trannlutod it
hundreds of years ago.” I nontuto t mt Idea
by telling you It is m>l live minute* old when
God by His bhvwo 1 spirit retranslates It Into
the heart. If you will, In tho Hooking of the
wav of life through Herlpturo study, Implore
Ood’H light to fall up.m tho page,' you will
find that theso promise* nro not olio second
old, and that thoy drop straight from the
throne of God Into your heart.
Thoro aro many people to whom tho lfildo
does not amount to much. If they merely
look at the outside lmautv.whv.lt will no
moro load thorn to Chrlat than Wadilngtou'H
farewell address, ortho Koran of Mohntntnod.
or tho Slmstor of tho Hindoo*. It Is tlm in
ward light of God’s word vou must got. I
wont up to the Ohurah »»f the Madeleine lu
Paris und looked at fho doors, which are the
most wonderfully coiiatnictod I over saw,
and I could have .staid there for a whole
week, but I had only a little time. Ho, hav
ing glaneod at tho wonderful carving on the
doors, I passed In an>V looked at tho ra limit
altars and tho sculptured donv\ Alas, that
so many atop at tho outside door of Ood's
holy word, looking at tho rhetorical beauties
Instead of going In and looking at tho altars
of flaortfloe and the dome of God’s mercy and
salvation that hovers over penitent and bo
lioving souls!
Oh, my friends, if you merely want tontudy
tho laws of language, do not go to the lfible.
It was not mmlo for that. Tako “Howe’s
1'fiomontfl of Criticism." It will ho better
than tho lliblo for that. If you want to study
motaphvales, bolter than tho niblo will be
tho writings of William Hamilton. Put II
you want to know how to lmvo sin pnrdono 1
and at lust to gain Iho blessedness of henvou
Search tho Scriptures, “for in them ye liavo
otnruul life.”
When people are anxious about tholrsouls,
them aro those who reoommoml good books.
That is all right. Hut I want to toll you that
the III bin Is the best book undorBUeholreum-
stuuces. Paxter wrote “A (’all to the Un
converted," but the Pihlo is tho best eall to
unconverted. Philip Doddridge wrote “The
ltise and Progress of Religion In tho Soul,”
but tho Plblo is tho best, rise and progress.
John Angoll James wrote “Advice to the
Anxious Inquirer.” but the lfible is tho best
udvleo to the anxious Inquirer.
Oh, tho Plblo Is tho very book you need,
anxious and InquIringBOiil! A dying soldier
Bald to his mate, “Comrade, give mo a drop!”
Tho comratlo shook up the canteen nnd said,
“There isn’t a drop of waterin tho canteen.”
“Oil," saitl tho dying soldier, “that’s not
wlmt I want. Fool in my kunpsaok for my
Bible,” and Ids comrade found tho Plblo and
road him a few of tho gracious promises, and
tho dying Boldior said: ‘Ah, that’s what I
want. Thoro isn’t anything like tho Plblo
for a dying floldlor, Ih thoro, my oemrade?”
Oh. blessed book while wo live! Pleased
book when wo dfol
I remark again wo must sock God through
church ordinances. “Wlmt,” say you, “can’t
a man ho saved without going to churchy”
I roply thoro aro men, [suppose, in glory who
lmvo mwer Been a church, out tho church ia
tho ordained means by which wc arc to l>o
brought to God, aud if truth affects us when
wo nro alonoit affects us more mightily when
wo aro In tho assembly, tho feelings of others
emphasising our own foollngK. The groat
law of sympathy ooinoH Into play, and a truth
tlmt would take hold only with the grasp of
a sick mau beats mightily against tho soul
wltti a thousand heart throbs.
When you coino Into tho rollglous circle,
como only with one notlou and only for ono
purpose -to find the way to Ohrlsl. When I
see pooplo critica l about sernioiH, and
MMveoks and for months. boo people critical about Berm
sfld him’ or*uol! , 7 1U Oh’ Diiw'offverO
persistent in seeking for Christ! Had you
ono-half that persistence you would long ago
lmvo found Him who Is tho Joy of tho for-
glvon,spirIt. Wo may pay our dobts, wo may
attend church, wo may roliovo tho poor, wc
may bo public bonofaotorB, and yot all our
life dlHoboy tho text, never boo God, never
gain heaven. Oh, that tho Hplrit of God
would liolp mo, while I try to Hhow you, in
carrying ont tho Idea of my toxt. first how to
Book tho Lord and lu Iho noxt place when lo
Book Him.
I remark, in tho first place, you aro to seek
tho Lord through earnest aud boliovina
prayor. God i» not an autocrat or a dospot
Boated on a throne, with His arms resting on
brazen lions and a sentinel pacing up uud
down at tho foot of tho throno. God Ih a
father Heated in a bower, waiting for Ills chil
dren to come and climb ou His k'noo uud got
Ills kiss and Ills benediction. Prayer Ih the
cup with which wo go tho “fouutulnof living
water” aud dip up rofreHlimont for our
thirsty soul. Grace does not coino to the
heart as wo Rot a cask at tho corner of tli/j
house to catch tho rain lu tho shower. It Ih
a pulley fastened to tho throno of God, which
wo pull, bringing tlio blessing.
I do not care bo much wlmt posture you
take in prayor nor how large an amount of
voice you uso. You might get down on
your face before God, 1J you did not pray
right lnwunlly thoro would bo no response.
You might cry at the top of your voice, aud
unless you lmd a believing Hplrit within your
ory would not go further up than the shout
of a plowboy to IiIh oxen. Prayor must Ibj
believing, earnest, loving. You are lu your
houHo Home summer day ami a Shower ojiiios
up, and a bird, affrighted, darts into the
window and wheels about tho room. You
Bolzo It. You smooth Its milled plumage.
You feel Its fluttering heart. You Hay, “Poor
thing, poor thing!” Now, a prayer goes out
of the storm of this world into the window
of God’s inoroy, and lie ditches It, and He
fools its fluttering pulse, aud He puts H In
His own bosom of affection and safety.
Pruyer is a warm, ardent, pulsating exercise.
It is an oloetrlo buttery which, touched,
thrills to the throno of God. It is tho diving
boll in which we go d<>wu into the depths ol
God's mercy amt bring tip “pearls of great
price." There was tin instance where prayer
made the waves of the Genuesaret solid a*
stone pavement. Oh, how many wonderful
things prayer has accomplished! Have you
ever tried it? In thu days when tho Scotch
Covenantors wore persecuted and tho enemies
wore after them one of tho head men among
tho Covenanters prayed: “Oh, Lord, we bo
as dead men unless Thou slmlt help us! Oh,
Lord, throw the lap of Thy cloak over these
poor things!” Ami instantly a Hcotoh mist
developed and hhl the persecuted from their
persecutors--the promise literally fulfilled,
“While thoy are y»*t sneaking I will hear.”
Have you over tried tbo power of prayor?
God says. “Ho is loving ami faithful ami pa
tient.” Do you believe that? You are told
that Christ came to save sinners. J)o you
believe that? You are tol 1 that all you have
to do to got the pardon of tlio gospel Is to
ask for it. Do you believe tlmt? Then come
to Him and say: “O Lord, I know Thou
oanst not lie. Thou hast told mo to oomo
for pardon and I could get it. I como, Lord.
Keep T’liy promise and liberate my captive
soul.”
Oh, that you might have an altar in the
parlor, In tho kitchen, in the store, In the
earn, for Christ will bo willing to ome again
to the manger to hear prayer. He would
come to your place of business as lie con
fronted Matthew, the tax commissioner. It
a measure should come before Congress that
you thought would ruin the Nation, how you
would send lu petitions and remonstrances.
Ami yot there has been enough sin in your
heart to ruin It forever, and you have never
remonstrated or petitioned against it. 1
your physical health failed and you had thfl
means, you would go and spend the summer
In Germany and the winter in Italy, and you
would think it a very cheap outlay If you
had to go all round tho earth to get back
your physical health. Have you made any
effort, any oxpsndituro, any exertion for
your immortal and spiritual health?
Oh. that you might now begin to seek
nftor God with earnest prayer! Homo of you
havo boon working for years and years for
tho support of your families. Ifav
given *
your
You
take
P«rp
man in prison, fio Is ojinlcmneil to i^eath,
but an officer of tho government brings a
pardon and puts it through tho wicket of
the prison and says: “Hero is your pardon.
Come and get it.” “What! Do you expect
me to take that pardqu offered with such a
voice as you liavo, with such an awkward
manner as you havo? I would rather die
than so compromise my rhetorical notions.”
Alt, tho man does not say that. He takes it.
It Is his life. He does not care how it is
handed to him. Ami if to-day that pardon
trom tlio throno of God is offered to our
souls should wo not seise it regardless of all
uoti essentials?
But I como now to the last part of my
text. It tells us when wo aro to Book the
Lord, “while He may be found.” When is
that? Old ago? You may not boo old ago.
To-morrow? You may not soo to-morrow.
To-night? You may not see to-night. Now!
Oh, if I could only write on every heart iu
three capital letters that word N-O-W—now!
Kin Is an awful disease. I hear people say
with a toss of the head und with a trivial
manner, “Oh, yes, I’m a sinner." Bln is an
awful disease. It is leprosy. It is dropsy.
It is consumption. It Is all moral disorders
In one. Now. you know thoro Is a crisis In a
disease. Perhaps you havo bad somo illus
tration of it lu your family. Hoinotlmos tho
physician has called, aud ho lias looked ut
the patient and said: “That case wns sim
ple enough, but the crisis lias passed. If you
had called me yesterday or this morning, 1
could have cured the patient. It ia too late
now. The crisis passed." Just so it Is in the
spiritual treatment of tho soul—there Is a
crisis.
There are somo here who can rotnombor In-
stanoofl lu life when, If they had bought a
certain property, they would have become
very rieli. A few acres that would have cost
them almost nothing wore offered them.
They refused them. Afterward a large vil
lage or city sprung up on those acres of
ground, and thoy see wlmt a mistake they
made in not buying the properly. There
was an opportunity of getting it. II never
cauio back again. Aud so it is in regard to
a man’s splrtual and eternal fortune. There
is a chance. If you let tlmt go, perhaps it
never comes buck. Certainly that one never
comes book.
A gentleman told mo that at the battle of
Gettysburg lie stood upon a height looking
off upon tlio conflicting armies. He said it
was the most exciting moment of his life.
Now one army seeming to triumph and now
the other. After awhile the host wheeled In
such a way tlmt he knew lu five minutes the
whole question would be ‘decided. He said
tho emotion was almost unbearable. There
Is Just such a time to-day with you the
forces of light on one side, the forces of death
on the other side, und lu a few moments the
matter will be settled for eternity.
There Is a time which mercy lias set f-
Icaving port. If you aro on board before that
you will got a passage for heaven. If you
are not ou board, you miss your passage foi
heaven. As iu Jaw oourts u case is some
times adjourned from term to term and from
year to year till the bill of costs eats up tho
entire estate, so there are men who are ad
journing tho matter of religion from
timo to time and from year to year until
heavenly bliss Is the bill of costs the man
will havo to pay for It.
Why defer this matter, oh, my dear hearer?
Have you any Idea that sin will wear out;
that it will evaporate; that it will relax its
grasp; that you may find roligiou as a man
accluontally finds a lost pookotbook? Ah,
no! No man over became a Christian by ac
cident or by tho relaxing of sin. The em
barrassments are all tlio time Increasing. Th
hosts of darkness are recruiting, aud the
longer you postpone this matter the steep
the path will become. I ask those men wl
aro before me now whether in the Ion or 11
teen years they liavo passed In thopostpou'
mont of those matters they have come any
nearer God or heaven? I would not b
afraid to challenge this whole audience, s<
far os they may not have found the poiim o
the gospel, in regard to the matter. You
hearts, you are willing frankly to tHI me
arc becoming harder und harder, and that i
you come to Christ it will bo more of m
undertaking now than it over would liavi
boon before. The throne of judgment will
iu. ui.t nnd if vou havo anything t
nunriRo or sunset. < in you bo witnout (unc
tion as the Hun of Righteousness risen be
hind Calvary aud sots b-chin 1 Jos *ph’s sepul-
clior? Ho Is a blessed Hnvlour. Kvory Na
tion hns its typo of beauty. There is Ger
man beauty, and Swiss beauty, ami Italian
beauty, and Kngllsh beauty, but I care not
In what land a man first lo fits at Christ ho
pronounces Him “Chief among 10,009, and
the ono altogether lovely."
The diamond districts of Brazil aro care
fully guarded, nnd a man docs not get in
there except bv a pass from the Government,
but tho love of Christ is a diamond district
we may all outer and pick up treasure* for
eternity. “To-day, If ye will hear Ills voice,
harden not your hearts.”
Take the hint of the (ext that I have no
timo to dwell upon—the hint that there is it
time when He cannot 1m fount. There wa*
n nmn In this city eighty years «»i age who
said to a clergyman who came in, “Du you
think that a man eighty years of age can gut
pardoned?" “Oh, yes.” said the clergyman.
Tho old man said: “I can’t. When I was
twenty years of age—d am no w eighty years
—the Hplrit of God emno to my hmil, und l
felt tho importance of attending t•> these
things, but I put it off, I rejected Gad, nml
Blnco then l have lmd no feeling.” “Well,”
said the minister, “wouldn’t you like to have
mo pray with you?” Yes,” replied the old
man, “but It will do ik» good. Ymi can pray
with me if yc
down and prayed amt oommondoi
Boul to God. It Boomed to have
upon him. After nwhllo the last hour of the
man's life came, and through his delirium a
spark of intelligence seemed to Hash, and
with his last breath lie said, “t shall never
be forgiven.” “Oh, seek the Lord while Hu
inav bo found!”
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Hradstreet's Review of Triwlo for tho
Past Week.
llradstroot’s trade review for tho
past week hi\vh :
“Tho manifest improvement in many
lines of general trade has resulted iu
an iucrenso in the volume of huaiiieRH,
notwithstanding tho impending idlo-
nePB of 9,000 Rhode Island worsted
mill operatives and many in other in
dustrial lines. Industrial unrest now
tnkoB tho form of striking for higher
wages. This week about 50,000 indus
trial employes havo struck, and tho
tendency does not seem to he cheeked.
About 3,000 plooplo aro reported to
havo obtained higher wages without
striking.
“April hank clearings reflect im
provement in demand for staples and
enlarged speculation ill stocks and
bonds, wheat, petroleum and cotton
in a monthly aggregate which is, with
two exceptions, tho largest reported
since June, 1893. Total April clear
ings at sixty-ouo cities are $4,823,822,-
999, n gain over 1894 of 14 per cent,
and over March this year of 5.5 per
cent. Tho increase over February ii*
25 per cont. Three-fourths of all the
cities reporting show increases over
April, 1894, special improvement be
ing noted iu tho eastern and middle
states aud in tho south and southwest.
The far western group ftlouo shows a
I decrease.
“NftBhydlo and Galveston report
timo of
exceptions among southorn cities. Ag
ricultural conditions in Tennessee aro
said to bo favorable. In Texas tho
coast country still needs rain. At
Chattanooga and Augusta tho week’s
business has been of somewhat smaller
volume, although at tho former somo
of tho manufacturing industries are
hotter employed than one yoar ago.
Thoro is only a fair business in cotton
goods, nnd prices remain tirm. No
gain is looked for until tho demand
for ull supplies becomes general.”
ENCOURAGING IMMIGRATION.
Western Railroad Men Looking After
tlio Southward Movement.
At a well attended meeting in Chi
cago of tlio passongor officials of tlio
south-bound lines it was determined
to tako active steps toward oncourog-
ing tho immigration which is now set
ting in from tho north to tho south.
Tho mooting was unanimous in favor
ing anything which would bring tlio
north aud south into closer relations,
and a committoo of which Goneral
Passenger Agout Stone, of tho Chicago
aud Eastern Illinois, is chairman, was
appointed to outline a plan of action.
Speaking of the matter a railroad
man said : “There is absolutely no way
which the immigration desired can
ho made productive to southern Hues
until thoy change tho presold freight
rates to the south. There is and will
ho considerable immigration, but tho
money made on the transportation will
ho insignilicant unless tho roads after
ward carry them supplios and bring
back the products of their labor. As
rates now aro tho immigrants aro no
sooner in tho south than they aro com
pelled by an inequitable system of
froight rates to do all their trading
with New York aud the oast.”
CORINTO EVACUATED.
Nlcuragua Will Pay tlio Cash Indemn
ity Demanded.
According to advices received at
Washington tho evacuation of Corinto
by the British fleet was quietly ac
complished Bund ay and tho port was
restored to tho Nicaraguan authori
ties. ,, . .
Shortly after midnight Saturday
Minister Guzman received a cable
message stating that nil tlio prelimina
ries had been satisfactorily arranged
with tho British admiral, through the
intermediation of Seuor Fiallos, of
Honduras. In this manner Nicaragua
was sparod any appearance of humilia
tion and friction was avoided on both
sides. Nicaragua will pay the in
demnity in London within the two-
weeks stipulated and tho remaining
terms of tho ultimatum will ho satis
factorily arranged.
Large Eire in Charlotte.
One of tlie severest fires iu tho his
tory of Charlotte, N. C., occurred
Tnursdny afternoou. Tho immeuso
brick warehouse of Sanders & Black
wood, and a number of stores wero
gutted by tho flumes* Tho losses will
be between $75,000 and $50,000, per-
thrcf'quatttftf Hotofud by iww
frnWt