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THE COUKANT AMERICAN.
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DAUGHTERS OF 7 CONFEDERACY.
State Convention to be Held in
Rome in October.
The state convention of the
Daughters of the Confederacy will
meet in Rome on October the elev
enth. Mrs Hallie Alexander
Rounsaville is the president of the
Georgia division and under her
leadership ample preparations are
being made to secure its success.
Tne question of the establishment
of a Soldiers’ Home, to be under
the direction of the Daughters of
the Confederacy, will probably
come up for final settlement at this
convention. So far the idea has
only been popular with the Atlanta
and Rome chapters with perhaps
one or two others. The Lizzie
bt’Uherford Chapter of Columbus,
and Sidney Lanier Chapter of Ma
con both oppose it. Theorganiza
j tion now numbers many moremem
! )ers than it did before the veterans’
! reunion in Atlanta, as a great many
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CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1898.
THE GREAT MEETING.
Great Crowds Throng the Taber
nacle Daily and Nightly.
MEETINGS OPEN SUNDAY LAST-
Sam Jones and Other Distinguished
Men Preach to the People
at the M eet mgg
The annual tabernacle meeting
opened last Sunday. The day was a
pleasant one. The rains had ceas
ed and the atmosphere was a trifle
cool, just enough to be agreeable.
The crowds began early to as
semble and by the ten o’clock ser
vice there was a throng estimated
all the way from 5,000 to 7,000
people.
Sam Jones preached at the morn
ing service, again in the afternoon
and again at night. They were
fine sermons and have been the
the talk of the community,
Rev. Mr. Quillian, Methodist, of
Marietta, preached Monday morn
ing, Rev. Mr. Lindsey, Baptist, of
the same city, in the afternoon,
and Rev. Alonzo Monk, of Chat
tanooga, at night. Dr. Monk’s ser
mon was particularly able,direct and
forcible.
One of the most interesting ser
vices so far was that Monday night.
Mr. Jones read a request from a
mother for prayers for her son who
is in Cuba. Regarding the meet
ing he said:
“I know no time in the history
of Cartersville or in any other city
in which I have been connected
with meetings when I have seen
such a beginning. I am glad
Brother Monk has come and will
preach for us tonight.”
Dr. Monk took as his text: 30th
verse 16tli chapter of Acts: “what
must Idoto be saved ?’’ He said
it was a familiar text to all.
“Every person in this entire au
dience is either saved or not saved,
one of the other, and this gr#at
question of salvation is a personal
matter with you. We are not
saved by nations, classes or sexes
but we are saved one by one. If a
man is not a saved man he is a lost
man. If the saved state is in the
future the lost stage is in the future.
It is a question of the present —
what ami this good night, the 12th
day of September, 1898; am Ia
saved man or am Ia lost man?
that’s the question to settle, and I
thank God it is a question that we
can settle, and we can settle it now.
If a man is a saved man he is con
scious of salvation, there can not
be any other kind of salvation. If
I were to say are you a Christian?
You would I am not a Christian.
Conscious of a lost condition.
Absence of a personal salvation
is consciousness of a lost condition.
Too many pople put hell off into the
future. It does not belong there.
Every man now is in hell or heav
en. Eternal life begins when the
soul is born. Eternal death ob
tains when that soul is born.
Saved to a higher state or unsaved
to a deeper stage. Wicked people
of today are the wickedest people
in the world’s history, Good peb
ple are better than in any stage of
the world’s history. When the stars
began to come out in the twilight
of the evening his little boy once
asked him if heaven was above the
stars. As the meadow is the heav
en to the horse this world is the
heaven of the man. He does not
have to go above the stars to get
to heaven. We don’t all have to
do the same thing to be saved. I
said the best definition I knew of
in or out of the bible for Christiani
ty was the single word obedience,
doing what God says do. We can all
be saved by that rule. We arediffer
ent in sexes, ages, complexions and
tastes. Our heavenly father made
it that way: hence the question
could not be what must we do to
be saved? but what must I do to be
saved. You can’t say to the man
“quit stealing’ who never stole.
This other man is a liar? that man
has got to quit lying; the man who
is cheating and defrauding his
neighbor in business lias got to
quit cheating and defrauding his
neighbor. The hardest doing you
will have to do is to quit some of
your doing. God does not save a
man by setting him up in the sun
like a brick to dry. About the
highest conception some people
have of salvation is, to save me
from hell. That’s not the love of
God. That’s not the spirit of God’s
son who came to seek that which is
lost. Save us up to something.
These do nothings in the church
are the dead weight of the church.
A man sitting in a boat in the
stream uses the ores to battle
against the current. You can con
ceive of God being idle a single
minute, and if you could go to
night and walk the gohlen streets
with martyrs you would not find a
single idle spirit in the expanse of
heaven,”
He told an incident of going to a
Mr, Rowland’s in Arkansas, a good
place for preachers. “1 walked on
the back of the porch and' recog
nized the voice of Sister Row
land crying, “Mary is lost.” Noth
ing buf one thing had held that
mother’s heart the lost child. That
is what God is doing,going up down
and throughout the forests of this
world calling, calling, calling
his lost child. You must
join the procession and take
up the pursuit and help God to
find his lost children. If I could
uncap the furnaces of hell and let
you read the long list of the
damned I would show you two
men for not doing what he would
have done to one for, doing that
which he should not have done.
Let’s close with this, when must I
be saved’? The devil is a great
theologian. He knows a great deal
more scripture than you or I. He
puts in a great deal of hetorodoxy
and a little orthodoxy and gets up
on the box and drives the team.
He has gone all over this country
telling these young men and women
you need not mind about religion.
You are never young but once, have
a good time while you are young.
Your mother may have said that
but the devil was using your moth
er’s tongue.”
Sam Jones preached at the night
service Tuesday night.
The choir was larger than any
time before, a violin was added to
the list of instruments, and with
this and the two pianos, the cornet
and the more spirited singing, the
music was fine.
Prof. Hillis, at the request of
Mr. Jones, sang the beautiful solo,
“Saved by Grace.”
Mr. Jones preached from the
text: “He that being often re
proved, hardeneth his neck, shall
be suddenly destroyed and that
without remedy.”
“The question should be this:
who uttered such words,” said he.
“The answer should be the great
eternal God, who shall judge the
race when they are brought to
judgment at the final bar.
“I dare say there are those in
this town who could answer 'back
in their own hearts God is surely
speaking to me tonight.
“It He speaks these words He
means these words. There have
been more sudden deaths in this
year than in any twelve months in
the world’s history, deaths by earth
quake, by paralysis, by flood tide
and a thousand agencies, until we
have ceased to wonder at them and
we cease to count them up. There
is no spot on earth where the truth
has been preached to the people,
where they have been more earn
estly impleaded than Cartersville.
I have but to stand before you to
night and illustrate some of the
things in my life to give evidence
of God’s work.
“This man that preaches to you
tonight has stood up in the earn
estness of his soul and plead to
men who have since been swept
suddenly and awfully into the
presence of God. I would rather go
out from earth from the darkest
spots of China than from this
baptized community to meet the
judge of all the earth.
“If tonight I had a history of
Cartersville in my hand or could
by the flashlight of eternity show
the souls that ought to be damned
and the souls that ought to be saved
you would start and tremble and
turn.
“All that a man has to do to
meet the conditions of this text is
to neglect. God sends this gospel
to you precious as the jewels of
his heart and says for you to em
brace it. The man who says to
morrow is the man who stiffens
his neck. He hardens his heart
and walks away.
“Pharoali said tomorrow, and
the last we hear of Pharoah he is
at the bottom of the sea with his
chariots and horses.
“The man who says not now is
the man who stiffens his neck and
bids God’s wrath upon him.
“I have heard more than one
person this week say I must get
right with (Pod; I feel I'ke this is
my last call. A man said the
shifting scenes have gone. I have
seen more faces that I don't know,
more strange faces than I ever
saw before.
“I [iave laid my head on the pil
lows qi every state and when 1.-of
ten wished I was at home. It is
a fearful thing to die but it is aw- .
ful to die suddenly and be ushered
EMPRESS MURDERED.
An Italian Anarchist Stabs the Aus
trian Empress to the Heart-
ALL EUROPE IS AROUSED-
No Death Penalty In Switzerland,
Where Crime Was Committed.
Can Only Be Imprisoned.
Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 10. —
A murderous stiletto, in the hands
of a bloodthirsty anarchist, was
buried in the heart of the Empress
of Austria this afternoon and in a
few minutes she was a corpse. The
crime was committed at the Hotel
Beauridge about 10 o’clock. .The
Empress was walking from the ho
tel to the landing place of the boat,
a short distance away, when the
assassin stealthily approached and
stabbed her in the heart. The
murderer is an Italian named Luc
choni, born in Paris of Italian par
ents. He was arrested immediate
ly after the murder. The Empress
fell after being struck with the
stiletto, but got up again and was
carried to the waiting steamer in
an unconscious condition. At first
it was not known that she was fa
tally stabbed and the boat started,
but as she did not regain conscious
ness it put back and she was car
ried to the hotel, where she ex
pired a few minutes later.
The Empress of Austria was born
on December 24, 1837. She was
the daughter of Duke Maximillian,
of Bavaria, and was married to
Francis Joseph, emperor of Aus
tria and king of Hungary on April
24, 1854. She had three children,
the archduchess, Gesola, who was
married to Prince Litpold, of Ba
varia. The Archduke Rudolph,
who married the Princess Steh
phania, of Belgium, and who was
(seerhingly) assissinated in 1889,
and the Archduchess Maria Va
leria,who married Archduke Franz
Salvator, of Austria-Tuscany. The
Empress was an enthusiastic horse
woman.
London, Sept. 10. —The assassi
nation of Empress Elizabeth of
Austria, at Geneva, Switzerland,
today by a redhanded Italian anar
chist named Luccheni, has appall
ed and almost stupefied the whole
of Europe.
There have been warnings sent
the international authorities for
some time that anarchy was about
to strike another blow against so
ciety, and it was believed that
Wilhelmina, the new queen of
Holland, was to be the object of
attack, consequently every precau
tion was taken to properly safe
guard the young queen at the re
cent coronation. Today’s tragedy
at Geneva proves that these warn
ings were only too well founded,
but that it was a mistake in as
suming that the queen of Holland
was the intended victim. The
motives of the miserable wretches
who are turning their hands againt
women is unconceivable. It is pre
sumed that the murder was meant
as an indirect blow against Em
peror Joseph, but it is-impossible
to understand why he himself was
not slain, as his death would have
tended to provoke war. There can
be no doubt but that the plot was
hatched in London or Paris and
there is reason to fear that this
horrible crime is not the only hide
ous act contemplated by the fiend
ish conspirators, consequently pre
cautions for the protection of all
European rulers are now being re
doubled.
A dispatch from Berne says that
Luccheni, the assassin of the Aus
trian empress, is a citizen of Par
ma, Italy, but was born in Paris.
He will receive no greater pun
ishment than imprisonment, be
cause the Genoa law does not re
cognize the death penalty. The
Genoa police declare that they
were not informed of the Empress’
arrival in the city. Luccheni lived
at Lausanne, and was working as
a mason on the new postoffiee now
building there.
without warning into the presence
of God.
Mr. Jones pictured how he would
like to die, when some sweet star
light night “I would kiss my wife
good night and go home to heaven.
Death is the gate to endless joys,
why should we dread to enter
there ? Thank God for the good
old heroes who have knelt around
our family altar and * have gone
home to heaven to tell the angels
about us.”
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SCHEMERS ARRESTED.
Young Georgians Accused of Using
the Mails to Defraud.
Chattanooga Times,
Postoffice Inspector Baird re
ceived a telegram yesterday morn
ing from Inspector Bnlla, at Cedar
town, Ga., stating that he had
taken into custody Writ. M. Wad
dell and Allan L. Waddell, at Fish,
Polk county, Ga., on the charges
of conspiracy and scheming to de
fraud by use of the United .States
mails. Both parties were tried
beforee United States Commission
er Collins, at Cartersville, Ga., yes
terday afternoon and were bound
over to the federal court, in the
sum of SBOO each, in defraud of
which they were committed to jail.
These arrests are of a sensational
character, for by them Inspector
Baird turned the light on a remark
able swindling scheme.
The person who works this
scheme, not only defrauds the gov
ernment, but the postmaster, as
w r ell, The schemer goes to some
place far removed from any line of
railroad, and not situated on any
postal star route. The schemer
suggests to the people that they
ought to have a postoffice. After
talking this matter up he gets hold
of some credulous person, and asks
him if he wouldn’t like to be a post
master. The party thus approach
ed answering in the affirmative the
schemer then proceeds to have a
postoffice established. The duped
party is then made postmoster, and
schemer is appointed as his mail
carrier.
As soon as the schemer has his
plan launched, the two proceed to
pad the returns in order to run up
the salaries. They send letters to
fictitious persons all over the coun
try. The schemer hoodwinks the
postmaster by taking possession
of all the postal laws aud regula
tions that come to him from the
department. Keep him in the
dark as to his compensation; and
tells the postmaster that neither
get anything for the first three
months.
The schemer manages to pocket
the returns himself.
The scheme has been worked
quite extensively of late, in Haral
son, Polk, Paulding and other
counties in Ga., and a number of
other arrests will follow, until the
gang of swindlers is broken up,
and a check put to their swindling.
SECOND GEORGIA OUT.
President Signs an Order tc Mus
ter It Out of Service.
CANDLER’S MEN TO STAY-
It Was L irely Through the Instru
mentality of Congrroosman Mad
dox That Change Wos Maue.
There are several from this local
ity in the Second regiment, among
whom are William Keys, now at
home on lurlough, and Jim Hilburn,
who has just returned to camp
after spending a week at home on
furlough.
Camp Wheeler, Huntsville, Ala.,
Sept. 10.—The Second regiment of
Georgia volunteer infantry is wild
with excitement tonight over the
welcome news conveyed by a ten
word telegram from Congressman
John W. Maddox, at Washington,
to the effect that the Second will he
among the troops that will be mus
tered out of the service at an early
date.
The message was addressed by
Congressman Maddox to his son,
who is in service as a private in
Company H. from Rome. It read
as follow*: “The secretary of war
changed the order late this after
noon ; the First and Second regi
ments will go out.”
General Hudson pays the Second
Georgia this handsome and well
merited compliment:
“I consider the Second Georgia
one of the finest volunteers regiment
in the service, and in this I have
reference to the intelligence and
discipline and soldierly character
of both officers and men. I think
the government w’ill be singularly
fortunate in securing for its colonel
an officer from the regular army.
Cplonel Brown is not only a cour
teous gentleman, but he is an ac
complished soldier who has given
this volunteer rpgiment the advan
tage of his long training as a soldier
and officer in the regular army. It
is one of the regiments of the vol
unteer service, that for the work of
reconstruction in Cuba or Porto
Rico, can be relied upon for good
service without whining or fault
finding. The Second Georgia is a
eredif to the people of the state
from whence it comes.”
No. 10.