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THERE IS BUT ONE SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR See that you get the genuine with red “Z" on front of Wrapper. Prepared only by J. H. ZEILIN & CO. , Sole Proprietors, Philadelphia, Pa. TRICE, 4)1.00. L.S.L. CAPITAL PRIZE, $150,000 “We do hereby certify that we supervise the arrangements for all the Monthly and Sem-An nuallirawiugH of The Louisiana State Lottery Company, and in person manage and control the Drawings themselves, and that the same are conducted with honesty, fairness, and in good faith toward all parties, and we authorize the Company to use thin certificate, with fac-similes of our signature attached, in its advertisements.” Commissioners. We the undersigned Banks anti Bankers will pay all Prizes drawn iu The Louisiana State Lotteries which may be presented at our coun ters. J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. Louisiana Nat. Bk P. LANAUX, Pres. State Nat’l Bank. A. BALDWIN, Pres. N, O. Nat’l Bk CARL KOHN, Pres. Union Nat. Bank. UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION ! U Over Half a Million Distributed. Louisiana State Lottery Company. Incorporated in lHtiS for 2ft years by the Legis lature for Educational and Charitable purposes —with a capital of #1,000,000 to which a reserve fund of over $550,000 lias since been added. |!.v an overwhelming popular vote its franchise was made n part of the present .State Constitu tion adopted December 2d, A. 1),, 187(1. The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed by the people of mi.v State. It never scales or postpones. Its Grand Single Number Drawings take place monthly, and the Semi- Annual Drawings regularly every six months (June and December). A SPL LNDID O PHO RT U N I T Y TO WIN A FORTUNE. NINTH GRAND DRAWING. CLASS I. IN TDK ACADEMY OK Ml SIC. NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, Septem ber 13, 1837—1108th Monthly Drawing. Capital Prize $150,000. j£flF"Notice. Tickets are Ten Dollars only. Halves, $5. Fifths, $2. Tenths, sl. I,IST OF I'KIZES. 1 nm’AL B 111 ZE OK #150.000 #150.000 • J GRAND J’UI/.K l)K MUIOO 50,000 • 1 OR \ Nil PRIZE OK 20,Dftt) 20,000 2 LARGE BRIZES Of 10,000 20,000 4 LARGE BRIZES OK 5,000 20,000 “>0 BRIZES OK 1,000 20,000 r l( ) •• 500 25,000 100 '• :100 :to,ooo ■ 1,,0 “ 200 40,000 ‘,OO lull 50.000 APPROXIMATION I’RIZHS, 100 Approximation Brizes of #4OO #.10,000 100 “ “ 200 20,000 100 “ 100 10,000 1.000 “ “ 50 50,000 2,170 Brizes, amounting to ..$535,00q Application for rales to dubs should be madt only to the office of the Company iu New Or leans. For further information write clearly, giving full address. POSIAL NOTES, Express .Money Orders, or New A ork Exchange in ordina ry letter. Currency by Express (at our expense) addressed M. A , I)AUDITIX, New Oilcans, La., or M. A. DAITII IN, AVasliington, I). C. Address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New Orleans, La. REMEMBER -VSB Beauregard and Early’ who are in charge of the dra wings, is a. guaxantee of absolute fairness and integrity, that the chances are all equal, and that no one can possibly divine what hum her will (Low a Brize. KKM EM lit 11 that the nnymout of till I’rizcs Is Gl'A UANTEKR lIY fll HKN A I ItN A L HANKS, of New Orleans, and the Tickets are signed li.v the Bresjdent of an Institution, whose chart*red lights tire recognized in the highest Courts; therefore, bewniv of any imitations or anonymous schemes. Notice This As You Pass By, 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. ♦ ♦ * 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 ADEY ItT IS KM EN TB. Tun CoURANT-AMKKH'AK IS THE ONI.Y Papku Published in one ok tiif. Best Counties in North Georgia. PrsCn- CU EAT ION IS SECOND TO NONE OK ITBCEASi. Reasonable Kates on Avplicat ion. $1.50 Per Annum—sc. a Copy. 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. 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