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CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1887.
THE WORST YET.
A rR AIN LOAD OF EXCUR
SIONISTS HURLED TO V
FIERY FURNACE.
One Hundred and Fifty-six
Killed and Several Hun
dred Wounded.
The most horrible railroad horror yet
known happened to a train of excursion
ist# neac l’eoria, 111., Wednesday night
of last week. The terrible details tire
found in a telegram to the Chicago
Times published below:
All the railway horrors in ttie history
of this country were surpassed three
miles east of t hatsworth last night,
when an excursion train on the Toledo,
Peoria and Western railroad dropped
through a burning bridge ami over one
hundred people were killed and four times
that number more or less badly injured.
The train was composed of six. sleeping
ears, six day coaches and chair cars and
three baggage. It was carrying D(il)
passengers, all excursionists, and "as
bound for Niagara Falls. 1 la* train!had
been made all along the line of the Tole
do, Peoria and Western road, and the
excursionists hailed from various points
iu central Illinois, the bulk of them, how
ever, coining from Peoria. Some ot the
passengers came from t an ton, LI 1 aso,
Washington, and iu fact till stations
along the line; some from as far west as
Burlington and Keokuk, la. A special
ami cheap rate had been made for the
excursion, and all sorts of people took
advantage of it. W hen the train dre\\
out of Peoria tit 8 o'clock last evening it
was
LOADED TO ITS KTMOST CAPACITY.
Every berth in the six sleepers was
taken and the day cars curried sixty, peo
ple each. The train was so heavy that
two engines were hitched to it, and when
it passed this place it was an hour and a
half behind time, ('hatsworth, the next
station east ot here, is six miles oft, and
the run there was made in seven minutes.
Three miles east off hatsworth is a lit
tle slough, where the railroad crosses it
dry run about ten feet deep and fifteen
feet wide. Over this was stretched an
ordinary trestle ot wood, and as the ex
cursion train came thundering down on
it what Wits the horror of the engineer
on the front engine when lie saw that
this bridgs was burning. _
Right up before his eyes leaped
the bright flames, and the next instant
he was among them. There was no
chance to stop. Had there been warn
ing it would have taken halt a mile to
stop, and the train was in one hundred
yards of the
BED TONGUE!) MONSTER
of death before they flashed their fatal
signals into the engineer's face. But he
passed over it in safety, the first engine
keeping the rails. As it went over the
bridge fell beneath it and it could only
have been the terrific speed of the train
that? saved the lives of the engineer and
fireman. But the next engine went down
and instantly the deed of death was
done, (firs crashed into cars, coaches
piled on one top of another, and m the
twinkling of tin eye nearly one hundred
people
POUND AN INSTANT DEATH.
and fifty more were so badly hurt the,\
conhl not live. As for the wounded they
were everywhere. Only the sleeping
coaches escaped, and as the startled and
half dressed passengers came tumbling
out of them they found such a scene of
death ns is rarely witnessed, and such
work to do that it seemed as it human
hands were utterly incapable. It lacked
but five minutes of midnight. Down in
ti ditch lay second Engineer Met lintock,
dead, and Fireman Applegare badly
wounded. On top were piled three bag
gage cars, one on top of another, like a
child's card house after he had swept it
with his hand. Then come the six day
coaches. They were telescoped as cars
never were before, and three of them
were pressed into just space for one.
The second car had mounted off of its
trunks, crashed through the car ahead
of it, crushing the woodwork aside like
tinder, and lav there resting on the tops
of the seats, while even passenger in the
front car was laying dead and dying un
derneath. Out of that car but four peo
ple came alive, ,
On top of the second car lay the third,
and although the latter did not coyer
its bearer as completely as the one be
neath, its bottom was smeared with the
blood of its victims. The other three
cars were not so badly crushed, but they
were broken and twisted in every con
ceivable way, uml every crushed timber
and beam represented a crushed human
frame and broken bone. Instanth trie
air was filled with the cries of the wound
ed and the shrieks of those about to die.
The groans of men and screams of the
women united to make an appalling
sound, and above all could be heard the
agonizing
(’KIES OF LITTLE CHILDREN,
as in some instances they lay pinned be
side their dead parents. And there was
another terrible danger yet to be met.
The bridge was still burning, and the
wrecked cars were lying on and around
the fiercely burning embers. Every
where in the wreck were wounded and
unhurt men, women and children, whose
lives could be saved if they could be got
ten out blit whose death in a most hor
rible form was certain if the twisted wood
of broken cars caught on fire. And to
fight the fire there was not a single drop
of water, and only some fifty able bod
ied men, who still had presence of mind
and nerve enough to do their duty. The
only light was the light of the burning
bridge, and with so much of its aitl the
fifty men went to work to
fiuiit the flames.
For liours they fought like fiends, and
for hours victory hung in tin 1 balance.
Earth was the only weapon with which
the foe could be fought, and so an at
tempt was made to smother it out.
There was no pick or shovel to dig it up;
no baskets or barrows to carry it, and
so desperate were they that they dug
their fingers down into the earth, which
the long drouths had baked almost as
hard as stone, and heaped the precious
handfuls thus hardly won upon the en
croaching flames, and with this earth
work, built handful by handful, kept
bock the foe. While this was going on,
other brave men crept underneath the
wrecked cars beneath the fire and the
wooden bar which held as prisoner so
many precious lives, and with pieces of
board and sometimes their hands, beat
back the flames when they flahsed up
alongside some unfortunate wretch who,
pinned down by a heavy beam, looked
on helplessly while it seemed as if Ins
death by tiro was certain. And while
the light was thus going on t (he ears of
the workers were tilled with th*> groans
of dying men, the anguished entreaties
of those whose dentil seemed certain un
less the terrible bla*e could be extin
guished, and the cries of those too badly
hurt to care in what manner the end
were brought about, so it only would be
quick. Ho they dug up earth with their
hands, reckless of blood streaming out
from byoken fingernails, aud heaping it
up in little mounds, white all the time
came the heartrending cry “For God's
sake, don't let us burn to death.” Gut
finally the victory was won; the fire was
out after four hours of endeavor, and as
its last sparks died atvay the light came
up in the east to take their place, and
the dawn came uskjii the scene of horror.
V\ hile the fight had been going on men
had been dying, and there were not so
many wounded to take out of the wreck
a* there had b -en four hours before, but
iu the meantime the country had been
aroused; help had come front Fhats
wortli, Forest and Fijier City, and ms
the dead were laid reverently alongside
of each other out in the cornfield there
were ready hands to take them into
Chats worth, while some of the wounded
were carried to Riper City. One hundred
and eighteen was the
AWFUL POLL OF THE DEAD.
While the wounded number four times
that many, the full tale of the dead can
not, however, be told vet for several
day's, ('hatsworth was turned into a
morgue to-day. The town hall engine
house and depot were full of dead bod
ies, while every house in the little village
has its quota of wounded. There were
over 100 corpses lying in extemporized
houses, and every man and woman was
turned into an amateur but zealous
nurse. Over in a lumber yard the noise
of hammers and saws rang out in the
air, and busy carjieuters were making
rough coffins to carry to their homes
the dead bodies of the excursionists, who
twelve hours before had left their homes
full of pleasurable expectations of the
enjoyment they were going to have dur
ing the vacation which had begun.
There was one incident of the accident
which stood out more horrible than all
off those horrible scenes, in the second
coach was a man, his wife and little
child. His name could not be learned
today, but it is said he got on at Peoria.
When the accident occurred the entire
family of three was caught and held
down by broken woodwork. Finally,
when relief came, the man turned to the
friendly rescuers and feebly said: “Take
oat my wife first. I'm afraid the child
is dead.” So they carried out the moth
er, and as the broken seat was taken off
her crushed breast, the blood, which
welled from her lips, told how badly she
was hurt. They carried the child, a
fair-haired, blue-eyed girl of three years,
and laid her in the corn field, dead,
alongside her dying mother, Then
cliey went back for the father and also
brought him out. Both his legs were
broken, but he crawled through the corn
to the side of his wife, and feeling her
loving features iu the darkness, pressed
some brandy to her lips and asked her
how she l'elt. A feeble groan was the
only answer, and the next instant she
died. The man felt the form of his poor
dead wife and child and cried out: “My
God, there is nothing more for me to
live for now,” and taking a pistol out of
his pocket he pulled the trigger. The
bullet went surely through his brain,
and the three dead bodies of that little
family are now lying side by side in
(.'hatsworth, awaiting identification.
PROMPT All) WAS AT ONCE SENT.
Dr. Steele, chief surgeon of the Toledo,
Peoria and Western road, had come on
a special, and with him were two other
surgeons and their assistants. From
Peoria also came Brs. Mastiu, Baker,
Fjugler and Johnson, and from every
city whence the unfortunates had come
their physicians and friends hurried in to
help them. From Peoria had also come
delegations of Red Men and the Ancient
Order of United Workmen, numbers of
both societies being on the ill-fated ears,
and so after 8 o’clock in the morning
there were plenty of people to do the
work that needed such prompt attention.
In the town hall was the main hospital,
and in it anxious relatives and sorrow
ing friends sat and fanned gently the
sufferers' face's,'atftf * qfi'emed the aTtend-*
ing surgeons as they bound up wounds
and insisted that there must be hope.
Down in the dead houses, fathers, hus
bands, sisters, brothers, wives and chil
dren tearfully inspected each face as it
was uncovered anil sighed as the fea
tures were unknown, or cried out in an
guish when the well known face, some
times fearfully mangled, but yet recog
nizable, was uncovered. The entire ca
pacity of the little village was taxed,
and kind-hearted women drove in for
miles to give their gentle ministrations
to the sufferers.
No sooner had the wreck occurred than
a scene of
ROBBERY COMMENCED.
Some band of unspeakable miscreants,
heartless and with only animal instincts,
was on hand, and like the guerrillas who
throng the battle field the night after
the conflict and fish from the dead the
money which they receiypi} fqr their mea
gre pay, stealing even bronze medals qud
robbing from the chih}req of heroes
other worthless emblems of their fath
ers' bravery, so last night did these hy
enas plunder the dead from this terrible
accident, and take even the shoes which
covered their feet. Who these wretches
are is not known. Whether they were a
band of pickpockets who accompanied
the train, or some robber gang who were
lurking in ths vicinity, cannot be said.
A horrible suspicion, however, exists,
are there are many who give it credit,
that the accident was a deliberately
planned case of train wrecking, that the
bridge
WAS SET ON FIRK
by miscreants, who hoped to seize the
opportunity offered, and the fact that
the bridge was so far consumed at the
time the train came along, and the add
ed fact that the train was an hour arnl a
half late, are pointed out as evidence of
it careful conspiracy. It seems hardly
possible that a man could be lost to all
the ordinary feeling which animates the
basest of the human race; but still, men
who will rob dead men, who will steal
from the dying and will plunder the
wounded, held down by the broken
beams of a cur—wounded, whose death
seemed imminent, can do almost any
thing which is base, and that is what
these fiends in human form did. They
went into the ears when the fire was
burning fiercely underneath, and when
the poor " retches who were pinned there
begged them for “God's sake to help
them out,”
STRIPPED THEM OF TUEIR WATCHES
and jewelry and searched their pockets
for money. When the dead bodies were
laid out in the corn fields these hyenas
turned them over in their search for val
uables, and that the plunder was done
by an organized gang wtis proven by the
fact that this morning out ip tht corn
field sixteen purses, all empty, were
found in one heap. It was ghastly plun
dering, and had the plunderers been
caught this afternoon they would surely
have been lynched.
SCENES AT PEORIA.
Peoria, Aug. 12. —Several thousand
people were at the depot this afternoon
when the train arrived bearing the first
of the wounded from Chatsworth. The
crowd was so large and so eager to ob
tain a view that it was difficult to con
trol it. Accounts of the disaster were
obtained from several passengers on the
trains. J. M. Tierney was in the first
sleejier. He said: “1 felt three distinct
shocks and then heard a grinding sound,
and on looking out saw that the ear in
which we were was directly over a lire
which was slowly blazing on the string
ers of the bridge. I got out safely, and
the scene presented to the eye and ear
was one 1 wish I could forever efface from
my memory, but 1 know 1 never can.
The shrieks of the dying and the glaring
faces of the dead will always stay with
me. To add to the horror, it was j'jtcjj
cjark saye the
fitful light of fire
under the sleeper which lighted the faces
of t hose about to make their fear and
anguish visible. On the mouths of most
of the corpses could be seen the foam
which showed that they died in agony.
I At last we secured feeble lights, but the
wind blew them out, and about two
o’clock the rain poured down in torrents
on the unprotected and dying in the
hedges and cornfields adjacent. Our
efforts were divided between trying to
put out the fire and rescuing the dying
! "hose cries for help were heartrending
imlh\L Mothers ran wild about crying
for lost children and wives for husbands.
Strong men were weeping over the forms
ot their beloved wives. Prayers, entreat
ies and groans filled the air until day
light, when the relief parties got to work
and removed the dead and wounded from
the scene. The scene in the cars was
beyond description. One child was found
fastened near the roof of a ear. head
down, where in the jar and confusion it
had been thrown, and was dead when
taken down. Others were found in all
conceivable shapes, all thrown out of
their seats, piled in the end or ailse of
cars, bleeding from gashes in the face,
arms or other portions of the body.
LATER.
Later developments show that the
death roll is loti. The coroner’s inquest
is largely attended, and from assertions
of witnesses it will be proven that the
bridge was set fire to by tramps for the
purpose of robbery.
A Wife’s Economy.
Mrs. Rixby became convinced the oth
er day that retrenchment was absolutely
necessary in her house expenses.
“Business is dull,” she said, “and I
must make our bills as light as possible.
Poor husband is quite worried over our
affairs. Now, how can 1 save #"> or ftO
and show Mr. Rixby that women can be
economical if necessary? 1 know,” she
said suddenly in joyous tones of one who
has had a lovful thought, “I will do
without that hat I intended getting to
wear with, my grey suit. lean wear my
block imported straw with it very well,
and 1 will, too. 1 just must learn to
economize.”
Then she put on her hat and went
down town so elated over her “clear
saving of five whole dollars.” that she
intended walking home with Mr. Rixby
at noon and telling him all about it.
“I wonder, now,” she said as she stop
ped before the window of a glove store —
“I wonder if 1 could afford anew pair of
gloves with stitching on the back. I
really need them and I've saved five dol
larx by going without my hat, so—yes,
l will get them, for they will costonly f2.
Ten minutes later she stood before the
ribbon counter in a dry goods store.
“ r l his ribbon is really very cheap,”
she was saying to herself, “and I need a
lot of ribbons awfully bad. 1 wonder if
1 could afford it to-day. Let me see, l—
oh, ot course 1 can after saving f>.l on
that hat.”
Aiul she bought ten yards of ribbon at
25 cents a yard.
“Great sale of embroidery!” she read
on a flying placard a moment later.
“Just what I need,’’ she said, “but
I've been doing without because I want
ed to economize, but I'm sure Charles
couldn’t say anything if I bought a lit
tle when I have saved five whole dollars
for him.”
So she bought “a little” for $1.75.
Then she got “the greatest kind of a
bargain" in remnants of French ging
ham for $1.50. “1 never would have
bought it,” she said to herself, “but it
was so cheap, and then I'd saved $5 this
morning. ~
Before reaching her husband's office
with the cheering news of her economy
she had bought four yards of luce, three
of insertion, a pound of candy, two col
lars and a prir of slippers, two pairs of
hose, handkerchiefs, three yards of lawn,
a fan, a bunch of roses, another pair of
gloues, and six linen handkerchiefs and
two neckties for Mr. Bixby.
Then she repaired to " Bixby s office
with the tale of her economy, and ended
by saying:
“And here’s a few little things that I
thought I could afford after saving so
much by going without my hat.”
Bixbp asked a few questions, made a
rapid calculation and said in an utterly
heartless tone:
“See here, Sally, don't you economize
anymore. You'll break me sure if you
do. You’ve got $16.35 worth of things
out of that $5, and—r”
“You'erjust too mean for anything,
Charlie Bixby.”—Detroit Free Press.
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Woman’s Face.
“What furniture can give such finish
to a room, as a tender woman’s face,”
asks George Elliott. Not any we are
happy to answer, provided the glow of
health tempers the tender expression.
The pale, anxious, bloodless face of the
consumptive, or the evident sufferings of
the dyspepsia, induce feelings of sorrow
and grief on our part and to compel! us
to tell them of Dr. Pierce’s “Golden
Medical Discovery,” the sovereign
remedy for consumption and other dis
eases of the respiracory system as well
as dyspepsia and other and igesti ve troubles.
Sold everywhere.
Cultivating Crops.
Old methods of farming are compelled
to give way to more improved and less
laborious ones. As the old fashioned
hand scythe and grain cradle have been
obliged to give way to mower and
reaper, so the use of the hand hoe is
gradually falling into disuse upon a sys
tem of field culture. The farmers of half
a century ago, who in the cultivation of
their crops spent day after day with the
hoe in hand, would view with jealousy
the work now performed with horses.
At the remote date, with only hoes of
rude make, none dreamed that the corn
and potatoes could be tended by the use
of an implement drawn by a horse, but
such is the fact, and in it there is found
a partial solution at least ot the difficulty
that has been felt in some sections of
procuring reliable help. The use of such
an implement is more effectual in the de
struction of weeds and stirring the soil
in a proper manner, than half a score or
more of meg who bffvko poor use of hand
hoes, There is a great difference of men
in the use of hand hoe; some might as
well set on the fence and look at tin? corn,
as to go over it in the slip-shod manner
that they do in the exercise of their
duties.—The American.
Best Gqods are Pit in Smallest
Parcels.
The old proverb is certainly true in the
case of Dr. Pierce's “Pleasant Purgative
Pelletts,” which are little, sugar-wrap
ped parcels, scarcely larger than mus
tard seeds, containing as much cathartic
power as is done up m the biggest, most
repulsive-looking pill. Unlike tlje big
pills, however, they arp mild arid pleasant
in their operation—do not produce grip
ing pains, nor render the bowels costive
after using.
Defining: a Lady.
Omaha Dame —“Don't you think it is
about time the little ‘lady’ was bestowed
only where it belongs?”
Omaha Philosopher—“l certainly do,
madam, no ward in the language is so
mjiUleUU.”
“1 am glad we agree so well. Now, if
you would only give a clear and compre
hensive definition of the term I will do
my share towards making it public.”
“A lady, madam, is a human being of
the feminine gender who is yot afraid to
be called a woman."—Omaha World,
REV. SAM. JONES.
AN INTERESTING ANALY
SIS OF HIS WONDER
FUL POWERS.
Why This Mountain Preacher
is a Success—A God-
Mude Man.
Theo. Kniamlrt in Cincinnati Tost.
I spent a pleasant Sunday in July at
Lake View encampment and heard two
very effective sermons preached by Sam
Jones to an audience of 4000 people. In
the forenoon his theme was the final
judgment. Not often is an audience
moved as was that one. In the evening
lie preached on the high calling of the
Christian. A good many did not like
his evening sermon because in it he ex
posed a great deal of the hypoeriev—un
conscious hypoeriey—that exists in the
church. Some, too, resented his uucom
promising advocacy of prohibition.
Referring to the action of Sandusky
Fitv council in allowing intoxicants to
be'sold on Sunday, he exclaimed: “I
would not reside twenty-four hours in a
town where they deliberately passed a
law abrogating one of God's laws. I
would not rear my family in
such a town. Sandusky, I understand,
has deliberately set itself up to abrogate
one of the enactments of Almighty God !
And vet I understand, too, that more
than half of the voters of Sandusky are
members of some Christian church. How
do von account for that?
Leaving to Sam's congregation and to
as many readers of the Post as have a
facility for it the accounting for the
anomaly, let me set forth the replies l
received to another question which l pro
pounded to two or three intelligent and
thoughtful men on the grounds that
day. What isthese-ret of Sam Jones’
eloquence? llis “bodily presence is
weak.” He has few or none of t lie graces
and motions of the orator as he is set up
by the schools, lie employs few, if any,
of the devices of rhetoric.
Yet thousands will come to hear Sam
Jones to hundreds that would turn out
to hear Rev. (’. H. Payne, D. !>., EL. D.,
one of the orators of Methodism, presi
dent of the Ohio Wesleyan university,
and a, promising candidate for Episco
pal honors next May. This little, plain,
homely Georgia circuit-rider has the
loadstone. Search him and find it.
One man to whom I put my question
was a teacher. He thought the secret
of Sam’s attractive power lay in his fear
lessness, directness and earnestness. An
other, a teacher, preacher and editor,
thought it lay in his sincerity, earnest
ness, bravery and the accidental help of
fame.
For my own paid I doubt that either
of these explanations covers the whole
case. What is the reason that of the
one hundred or more preachers of tin*
Georgia conference of the M. E. church
only this one—this short, dark, homely,
black-eyed, small-framed man—should
become known the world over as one of
the orators of the age? \\ by are the
ninety and nine back there riding their
bony ponies up and down the foot hills
of tine Blue Ridge range as they pastor
thfir~ big circuits, while femes tides in
palace cars from ocean to ocean, lives on
the fat of the land, and calls out to hear
him the people of a continent? I find
the reason, first of all, in the fact that
lie has something new to say, whether
you believe it or not, and that to hear
it you must go and hear him, for he
won’t print it and send it to you.
The other day, in conversation with
Rev. Dr. Payne, lie asked me why the
papers give* columns to baseball and
only a line —or not even a line —to the
graduating exercises of Ohio Wesleyan
university.
“Surely, said he, “it is of more impor
tance to the people of Ohio how hun
dreds of her sons and daughters go out.
of their long foin-ye-nr-drill-onmp into
the great fight of life than how eighteen
men knocked a stuffed ball around a
posture-field for a couple df hours and
then quit to do the same inconsequent
thing the next day.”
“Yes, doctor, I replied, “but each
game does something, and that some
thing is news. Each game results some
how. and that somehow, problematical
till the close of the game, is news. You
graduate a class every year for a hun
dred years, and after all there is nothing
new in it. If you would send your grad
uates up in balloons and let them deliver
their orations hanging in midair from a
trapeze bar and then come down in a
parachute, we would report it. We
would give you two columns in the Post,
precious as its space is. In the same
way, there is nothing else occurs on the
earth so important to it as the sunrise.
Now. if to-morrow morning’s were the
first or the only sunrise, we would have
reporters posted on every hill top of
earth, and we would completely fill the
papers with the report of it to the exclu
sion of everything else. The sunrise is
no less important because the sun rises
every day, but because the sun rises
every day and in the saineold way, there
is no i.ews in it, and it does not get even
a word. It is not the importance of a
thing that determines its news value.”
So it is with Sam Jones’ preaching. It
he said what all other preachers say,
and in the same way that they say it,
and had nothing new, he could not get a
corporal's guard to come out to hear
him.
First, then, he says something new.
But so will a fool oi lunatic say some
thing new, yet he will not command at
tention. No one will go to hear him say
it. Life is too short and lunatic folly is
too wearisomely common. What Sam
Jones says is not only new, it is also
true. He is toucl e 1 with the real heart of
things, and impresses his hearers with
the truthfulness of his utterances. Lo,
here is a marvel! Come all men! Here
is a man who speaks new things and yet
they are true things. The mines of truth
are not exhausted, as we had dismally
been supposing. No wonder we crowd to
hear him.
2. Then his new things are true things.
New true things interest and amuse and
entertain, but they cannot greatly im
press one, if‘they only be new and true.
.Sam Jonrs, however, n>t only tells new
true things, but they are upon the most
important themes. Life and death, heaven
or hell, eternal success, everlasting fail
ure; these are his themes. L very body
has a personal interest iu the subject
matter, and to bear something new and
true mum H }* 'YUrfh going many a mile.
3, 'i nen lps yew true things arc of
weighty import and of omnipersonal in
terest.
J. He “speaksas onohavingauthority,
and not as the scribes.” AH cant ban
ished, all circumlocution banished, all
concession to the audience banished, all
fear of man banished, all insincerity ban
ished, all falsities, of every kind dismiss
ed, he tulks directly, fearlessly, earnestly,
wittily, intensely, truthfully, boldly, rev
erently, humorously, tearfully, boldly
the message God has given him.
o. Finally he has that solidity and in
ertia of a well-anchored spirit that witl -
stands the recoil of tint truth he utters
jlnd gives it its pflWt upon the audience.
1 have seen preachers deeply moved by
lHeir preaching, when theirs was the only
wet eye in the house, and they thought
they were doing fmuvusly because they
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were moviug themselves so mightily.
The weighl of the gun and the solidity of
I shoulder behind it has as much ti do
with the speed uud the execution of the
bullet ns the powder.
I think that summarizes, if I am right.
! the human elements of Sam Jones’ siic
! cess as an orator, lu his sermon Sun
j day morning he gave another, and ex
tra-human, reason for it. He was lug
ging for his orphan asylum in Georgia.
| "The food* the clothing, the shelter of
j those boys and girls.” said lie, holding
|up his hands, “come through these
fingers. I have long thought that one
j great reason why God has so protqiored
me in my work is lieeansel am doing this
part of His work and He wants it to suc
ceed.”
The same evening at the supper-table
| I asked him whether after preaching In*
I felt any exhaustion other than that
I I* ysieal fatigue which comes from stand
ing on one’s Huff, for an hour and the la
borious using of one's voice for that
time. “Oil, yes," he said: “that is not
the killing part. It is the nervous ex
haustion that tells. I think l have some
bet ter notion than ever Is-fore of what
Jesus meant when lie . aal that He pr. -
reived that virtue had gone out of Him.’’
I remarked that I doubted that all the
preachers and public sjieakers felt that
nervous prostration.
Oh, no, la* replied. “There are some
men who claim to be called to preach,
and l won't dispute it. but I will sav
that if God ever culled them to preach
the gosjiel ir was to keep ’em out of mis
chief.” .
"Do you think,” I asked, “that God
has direct communication with your
soul, and that He speaks to you, aside
front His word, informing and dim-ting
you in what we would call immaterial
matter?”
"W hv, certainly,” replied Mr. Jones in
stantly; “if I did not lielieve that I would
never pray.”
You may sum the whole matter up in
this: Sam Jones is not that nincli-vatint
ed product of the nineteenth centnrv, a
self-made man: lie is that inexpressibly
rarer and more precious product of all
the centuries, a God-made man. endowed
with the power to s|*nk the truth.
What the Democrats Have Done.
I he Democratic party need have no
alarm for her record, under President
Cleveland’s administration. It has
wrought many reforms, and won the
confidence-of the country. Its aehiev
ments stand as a rebuke to those who
feared its l-e-aseendancy to power, and
who predicted gloom and disaster as n
result. During the past three years the
country has experienced an era of
growth and development, unparalleled
ia its history. In answer to the fre
quently propounded interrogatory,
"What has the Democratic party done?”
an esteemed contemporary says, “this is
what it has done”:
1. It has restored more than 100,000,-
000 acres of unearned land grants to
public domain for the benefit of poor
settlers.
2. It has paid nearly $200,000,000 of
the public debt, uud at (In- same time
paid more money for the pensions than
ever paid before in the same time.
J. the expenses of the government
have been reduced about $15,000,000.
4. Hordes of lazy officials have been
diseased with.
5. It has broken up Indian l ings, laud
rings and tradeship rings that flourished
till the democratic party came into
jiower.
6. 11 has established business methods
and strict economy for jobbery ami
wasteful extravagance.
7. It has given the lie to the charge
tliut the democracy if entriißbsl with
power would "put the negroes buck into
slavery and pension the Confederate
soldiers,”
N. It has done more in three years to
curb the rapacity of corporations than
the republican party did in a quarter of
a century.
t). The Democratic party repealed the
odious and unjust tenure of office act.
10. A Democratic congress passed an
act forbidding the ownership of land bv
aliens.
11. A Democratic congress instituted a
searching inquiry into the affairs and
management oft fie Pacific raUiord—an
investigation which has a I read v accom
plished much good.
12. The Democrats reduced the fees
on postal money orders ami extended
the benefits of the free delivery system.
13- Democratic congress ordered the
adjustment of railroad land grauts.
14. A Democratic congress passed tin
act authorizing the issue of small silver
certificates, a matter of great advan
tage to tlie people.
15. A Democratic congress passed the
act settling the succession to the pres
idency, and also the act regulating the
counting of the electoral vote. There
could be no more important acts.
16. A Democratic congress passed an
act forbidding the use of convict laUn*
upon all government works. A just ami
wise act.
Inveterate Case of Erysipelas
(Thki).
Gentlemen—My little daughter was
sorely afflicted with erysijs-la.s every
spring and fiill for eleven years, contin
uing for about two months each attack.
ft affected the whole skin surface with
redness, thickening of the skin and often
followed by a pustular eruption. The
physicians failed to relieve it Or arrest it,
But the case grow worse every year for
eleven years.
At the beginning of one of her spells I
commenced to use Swift s Specific. In a
few days it brought out a profuse pus
tula eruption, which iu a few days passed
away, leaving the child jierfectly well,
and she has not had an at Dick or a
symptom of the disease since, now three
years ago, and has been in perfect healt h.
Have given her a few bottlesevery spring
and fall, urn! she has had no return of
the disease.
I know that S. S. S. cured her, for she*
had it every fall and spring from the age
of three years to the age of thirteen
years. She is now sixteeu years old, and
has not had a spell in three- years.
Yours truly,
.L W. Duxx*
Bryantville, Ky.,Feb. 28, 1887.
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several summers 1 have used Ely's
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hope many sufferers will lie indue* si to
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George Eaup, Baltimore, Md.
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from early iu August until front. Mv
eyes would vuu u stream of water and I
sneezed continually. I was a c vised to
use Ely’s Cream Balm. It has worked
like a charm and I can say 1 am en
tirely cured.
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