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Newspaper Page Text/ /> THE CLAYTON TRIBUNE. THERE IS NO PAPER LIKE THE HOME PAPER TO HOME PEOPLE. VOL. V. CLAYTON. RABUN COUNTY. GA.. THURSDAY. JUNE 12. 1902. NO. 21. THOUSANDS IDLE; MITCHELL’S ORDER Miners in Virginias Lay Down Pick and Shovel. PRESIDENT CANNOT MEDIATE Law Giving Him That Prerogative Has Been Repealed—Will Fight to a Finish. A special from Hazleton, Pa., says; Riot proclamations were posted late Friday afternoon everywhere on the property of the Loering Valley Coal Company at Yorktown. A special train with steam up is at Roan Junction ready to carry a car load of officers to any part of the district. In Wee* Virginia. 'The strike of the soft coal miners in West Virginia for higher wages, which is to be inaugurated will be di rected by President Mitchell from Wllkesbarre. He said there are 20,000 men in that field; that 18,000 will stop work at once and that he expects the others will all be put out in the course of a few days. Mr. Mitchell positively and unequiv ocally denied to the Associated Press correspondent all knowledge of any negotiations for peace. So far as he knows, he said, neither the Civic Fed eration nor any other organisation or NEW AflBASSADORS. Herbert Succeeds Panncefote and Senor Ojeda Will Oct Berth of the Duke de Arcos. Two important changes in the diplo matic representatives ifl Washington were announced Thursday. The Hon. Michael Herbert succeeds the late Lord Pauncefote as British ambassador and Senor de Ojeda suc ceeds the Duke de Arcos as Spanish minister. Notice of Mr. Herbert's appointment simply confirmed the judgment of offi cials as to the succession and is wel comed by them. At present Mr. Her bert is first secretary of the embassy at Paris, but with the rank of minister plenipotentiary. In very few instances does the British government employ an official of such high rank in the of fice of secretary of embassy. The change in the Spanish legation here came as a distinct surprise to all but the intimate friends of the Duke d’Arcos. He came to the United States as the first minister after the war and naturally his position was a very deli cate one, requiring the exhibition of in finite tact to avoid unpleasant inci dents. He was very successful in his mission, while socially his relations have been very pleasant. It Is understood the change Is attri butable entirely to the retiring minis ter’s desire to secure the best possible treatment tor his impaired vision, which has caused him much and grow ing concern. Therefore he has secured a transfer to the Spanish legation at Brussels. Z There he will be as near as practicable TKBCVlduh/“it a -.present; negotiating.. f0 M eye s5eclttiut whoJ^ftitfUj for a settlement of the anttntfiitg-—income- BILL ARFS LETTER Bartow Man Reproduces Humor ous Sermon Preached Tears Ago. HARANGUE OF A “FUTBOAT” PARSON strike. "Everything is off,” he said. Will Not Interfere. A Washington special says: After a conference with the members of his cabinet Friday President Roosevelt de cided that there is no legal ground for interference by him In the settlement of the dispute between the coal opera tors and striking miners. The resolu tions of the New York board of trade and transportation, requesting the president to appoint a commissioner to visit the anthracite regions and in vestigate the situation, were discussed at great length, but as the law of 1892, which conferred authority upon the president to appoint such officer, has been repealed, the president has no desire to assume the responsibility which the New York board of trade suggested. nlent Intervals. Senor de Ojeda, who succeeds the Duke d’Arco, comes to Washington with excellent credentials. He was sec retary of the Spanish peace commis sion at Paris and is at present minis ter to Tangier. INDIANA DEMOCRATS MEET. Expounded From Uncertain Text of “He Played on the Harp of a Thousand Strings—Sperits of Jest Men Made Per fjeck.” I have had an occa3lonal'request to reproduce and save from oblivion a sermon that went the round of the southern press some fifty years ago and was known as the "Harp of a Thousand Strings.” Not long ago I quoted a paragraph from it, and a friend writes me from East Feleciana, La., and says that the author of that quaint sermon lived and died In that parish, and his daughters and grand children live there now, and are his near neighbors. Strange to say, the author was a minister of the gospel, sober, serious, solemn and devoted to his calling, and for a long time it was not known that the humorous writings over the signature of ^Zedeklah the Scribe,” came from hit gifted pen. But preachers can’t help seeing and enjoying the ludicrous Iside of human nature. Sidney Smit#, the famous English divine, was asj solemn as the grave on solemn occasions, but he in haled a great deal of merriment with out a smile. He, provoked others to the most convulsive laughter, but gave *#ve in- ii>e twinkle of his leatjvthe eminent LUMBER PLANT IN ASHKS. Bailey A Co. Suffer Heavy Lots at Mc Donald, Georgia. The little town of McDonald, Ga., on the 'Brunswick and Western railway, twenty miles from Waycross, was al most completely wiped out and J. 8. Bailey ft Co.’s saw mill destroyad by fire.Friday afternoon. The mill waB probably the largest In south Georgia, employing 800 men. Fire consumed the mill, planing plant, dry kiln, shops, one locomotive, seven cars of lumber, eight small dwelling houses, and a mil lion and a half feet of lumber. The large commissary was saved. The plant was well equipped with fire fight ing apparatus, but the flames spread over the whole mill yard, covering 20 Acres, In a few minutes. With one mad rush of flame the eaw milt was . consumed. A low estimate of the loss is 978,000, insurance 118,000. The lum- 1 her burned wna valued at |20,000. LYNCH. A TRAITOR! Britishers so Consider Intrepod Irish man Who Helped Been. According to n London news agency, Colonel Arthur Lynch, who fought with the Boer* in South Africa, was elected in November last to represent Galway in the house of commons, and who, it was announced, in a dispatch to the Associated Press, had decided to go to London and attempt to take his seat in the house, will not be. al lowed to carry out hi* Intention. He will be arrested, it is said, on tha charge of treason immediately after landing In England. A sharp watch la being kept for Colonel Lynch, and If he teaches Westminster it will he by •trategem Committee Wrangled (Ivor Bryan aud Kansas City Platform. While the Indiana democratic state convention, which was held at Indian apolis Wednesday, was remarkable for its lack of discord, candidates for all but three of the offices beiag chosen by acclamation, there was a battle royal In the meeting of the committee on resolutions. A number of the friends of William J. Bryan were very much in earnest in favor of the Insertion In the platform of a plank indorsing him and the Kansas City platform. The majority of the committee was against any such indorsement, saying that It considered It out of place at the pres ent time to injeet Mr. Bryan’s name Into the state campaign. The fight lasted well into the night, and it was nearly noon before the report of the committee was ready for presentation to tha convention. The Philippines plank also created much discussion, the committee being called upon to consider all sorts of propositions In behalf of the Filipinos, some of them being in favor of Imme diate and complete Independence. It was only after hours of argument that si plank was agreed upon. The elate ticked nominated Is as follows; Secretary' of state, Albert Schoonover, of Attica; attorney gen eral, W. B. Stillwell, qf Princeton; state auditor, James R. Riggs, of Sul livan; state treasurer, Jerome Herff, of Peru. RAIS* FOB JOB pVlNTEIIS. Chiosge Employers Grant Demands For First Time in Twenty Years. For the first time In twenty years, the Job printers of Chicago will have nhtir wages raised simultaneously Jn all the Job printing shops in the city. Over 1,800 men will be benefited by the raise. The printer! have been getting 918 a week for their work an&demanded 919.60. This was given Jflem. They have had one apprenttogr to every ten men and the employ^ivhave been anx ious to cut this dojvfc to one for every five. On this point the two parties could not am& and the matter will be left to jjfcltratlon. U5 eyfes. Jurist, the learned preacher, the dlgni fled president of two colleges and a university, and the author of “Geor gia Scenes,” was of similar type. I met him often during my youth, and do not recall that he Indulged In humor ous anecdote. The laBtj time I met him was during the war in the office of the Columbus Enquirer, when he in dulged in bitter sarcasin against some Georgians, whom he - ailed traitorous obstructionists. I could Lardly Im agine that it was he who molded the Inimitable characters of Ned Brace and Ramsey Sniffle. Johns Hooper was not a preacher, but always a se date and very dignified, gentlepian He was secretary of the embryo con federacy t..at assembled in Montgom ery, and there was no sign of “Simon Suggs” of “Taking the Census" In his solemn deportment. My observation has been that the best story tellers and conversationalists have'the least inclination to publish their own scintillation. It was common to say of my old partner, "Oh! rare Judge Underwood,,” but I could never In duce him to put pen to paper In that line. He said that a good story or flash of wit and humor lost Its relish by writing It, for the tone of voice, the accent, the piquancy, the. facial ex pressions could not be recorded. When the Rev. J. T. Lewis wrote this sermon it was not uncommon for amateur preachers to perform up and down the western rivers and thus ad vertise their business, which was prin clpally flat boating and peddling their produce. Lorenzo Dow took conttnen tal journeys from Maine to Texas, tut he was a pretty good orthodox preach er. These flat boat preachers were a rough and tumble lot, and tangled up the scriptures awfully, but they could draw the crowd* and their whiskey .was a good card. It was an orthodox produce then and preachers and the people were as fond of it as old Father Noah, who was a preacher of right eousness. Rev. Mr. Lewis does not give this preacher’s name, tut his ser mon has Leen sent me by my friend and I give it to your readers as It wap given to me. 1 When It first came forth we thought It Inexpressibly funny. It it not so fanny nOw to the old people, but the younger generation are more easily amused than the veterans and tor their sake I append it. A pretty school girl recited it last week at the commencement exerclces -of our pub lic school and she did It well and brought down the house. This sermon was said to have been preached at Port Hudson, where the amateur divine had “tied up” for the double purpose of observing the Sab bath and selling whiskey. I may say to you, my brethering, that I am not ah edicated man, an’ I am not one of them as believes that edlcation is necessary for a gospel minister, for I believe the Lord edl- cates His preachers jest as He wants em to be edicated; and although I say it that oughtn’t to say it, yet in the state of Indlanny, where I live, thar’s no man as gits bigger congregations nor what I gits. Thar may be some here today, my brethering, as don’t know what per suasion I am uv. Well, I must say to you, my brethering, that I’m a Hard Shell Baptist. Thar’s some folks as don’t like the Hard Shell Baptists, but I had rather have a hard shell than no shell at all. You see me here today, my brethering, dressed up in good clothes; you mout think "I was proud, but I am not proud, my brether ing, and although I have been a preacher of the gospel for twenty years, and although I’m capt’in of the flat boat that lies at your landing, I’m not proud, my brethering, ah. I am not gwine to tell edzactly whar my text may be found; suffice it to say it is in the leds of the Bible, and you’ll find it somewhere between the first chapter of the book of Genera tions and the last chapter of the hcok of Revolutions, and ef you will go and search the scriptures, you’ll not only find my tex thar, but a gre.vt many other texes as will do you good to ead, and my tex, when you shall find it to read thus, ah: And he played on a harp of a thou sand strings—sperits of jest men made perfeck.” . My tex, my brethering, leads me to speak of sperits. Now thar’s a great many kinds of sperits in the world— in the fuss place, thar’s the sperits some folks call ghosts, and thar’s the sperits of turpentine, \and thar’s . the sperits as some folks call liquor, atrd I’ve got as good an artlkel of them kind of sperits on my flat boat as ever was foch down the Mississippi river; but thar’s a great many kinds of sperits, for the tex says: “He played on a harp of a thousand strings, sper- its of Jest men made perfeck.” And thar’s a great many kinds of fire in the world. In the fuss place thar’s the common sort of fire, and then there’s foxfire, and camphire, fire before you are ready and fire and fall back and many other kinds of fire, for the tex says, "He played on a harp of a thou sand strings, sperits of jest men made perfeck.” But I’ll tell you of the kind of fire as is spoken of In the Bible, my breth ering, isiHell Fire! and that’s the kind of fire as a great many of you'll come to ef ‘you don’t do better nor what you have been doin’—for “He played on a harp of a thousard strings, sper its of Just men made perfeck." “And that’s the kind of fire you can’t dodgg ray brethering, ah, for It’s the fire that won’t be quenched. You may fly to the mountains of Hapsidan, where the woodbine twlneth and the lion roareth, and the whangdoodle mourn eth for its first born, but you can't hide from this unquenchable Are, for it is the fire of hell and damnation, ah And he played on a harp of a thou sand strings—sperits of jest men made perfeck." Now, as there are many kinds of sperits and many kinds of Are, ah in'the world, ah!, Jest so there are many kinds of Christians, ah! In the fuss place we have the Piscopalians and they are a high-sailin’, high-roost in’, hlfalutin set, ah! and they may be likened unto a turkey buzzard tnat flies up Into the air, ah! and he goes up, and up, and up, till he looks no bigger than your finger nail, and the fust thing you know, he comes down 'and down, and down, end goes to fillin' hieself on the carklsg of a dead host: by the side of the road, ah! and "He played on a harp of a thousand strings sperits of jest men made perfeck.” And thar Is the Presbyterians, my brethering, with their long frock coats and high shirt collars and dismal swamp faces, but they n$ver cleared no new ground nor burnt no bresh nor deadened no timber, nor killed no bars. They always waits for us hard shells to do that and settle up the wilderness and then they will slip In and go to plantin' and pht on heavenly airs and claim to be the only people that are elected and shore of eternal salvation —and they play on a harp of a thou sand strings—sperits of jest men made perfeck. And then, my brethering. thar’s the Baptists, ah! And they have been likened to a ’possum on a slmmon tree, and the thunders may roll and the earth may quake, and the lions roar and the whangdoodle mourn, but the 'possum clings thar still, ah! And you may shake one toot loose and the other’s thar and you may shake all feel loose, and he laps his tail around the limb, and he clings and he clings urever, ah! for “He played on a harp thousand strings, sperits of jest men made perfeck.”—Bill Arp, in At lanta Constitution. THE NATIONAL CAME. Young leads the American League pitchers in strike-outs. Cooley Is playing as good hall this season as ever he played in his ca reer. “Tom” Daly is hovering near the .150 mark In hatting this year aud Chicago is wondfcring. Ed Delelianty has hit his gait at last. He is swinging on the ball iu the good old-fashioned way. The kickers are a long way from being suppressed. The mouth of May has been prolific In rowdyism. The main cause for the downfall of the New Yorks in the West may be at tributed to one thing—light batting. Goorge Davis, of Chicago, is still lining out the extra base wallops. The New York club lost one of the great est of pluch hitters when Davis left It. The rumor that Illllebrand, Prince ton’s former star pitcher, will play pro fessional hall this year is once more iu operation. “Nothing in it,” said Hllle- bt-and the other day. Ban Johnson has admitted defeat the fight tq retain Lajole, Bernhnri and Fraser. These players will turn and play .with the Philadeqjhl National League Club. A vl According to Oarvnu, the Yale pttV _ er, Princeton bus the best college teaiii he ever saw. Which is probably cor rect. Princeton lias excelled iu college baseball for several years. Six of the players on the Buffalo team are at lest six feet tall. Law. Grimshaw, Gettmnn, Hookei;, Hawley and Atherton are all high chaps, and ought to he able to do some heavy batting. The unfortunate accident to Vail Haltreu undoubtedly will he a serious setback for New York, for men like Van are not picked up every day. In trying to steal a base in Chicago the veteran Van Haltren broke one of the bones in bis leg near the ankle. NEWSY CLEANINGS. A light visible thirty miles will lx put on the drended Hatteras shoals. An automobile stage line will shortly begin operations between Itedkey and^Jg Dunkirk.. Ind. Two hundred furniture m«nu. turers huve formed a pool ttChl- to regulate prices. Cambridgeshire (England) fruit grow ers are paying children a halfpenny for every wasp they capture. ' Argentina lias ordered two ironclads superior iu strength to those recently- ordered by Chile from England. An official report gives the estimated additional cost necessary to complete Siberian railroads ns $36,050,000. The Supreme Court of South Dakota has been called upou to decide a case growing out of the ownership of n cat. Watch dogs are to be purchased and trained to accompany the police on their fllgbtly rounds at Schaerheck. near Brussels. Kingston-on-the-Tbames, England, lias just celebrated the millennial of tlio coronation of King Kdwatd the Elder, son and successor of Alfred the Great. On the summit of Mount Lofty, near Adelaide, South Australia, a white monolith has been erected and named “Flinders Column,” In honor of the In trepid navigator who named the peak a century ago. The United States Government Is plunning to secure the ground aud tomb of William Henry Harrison, at North Bend, Ohio, overlooking the Ohio River, and transform into a burial place, befitting that of an ex-Presldent of this country. Isidore Newman, of New Orleans. La., has just contributed a big sum of money for the erection of a training school for the boys and girls of that city. Mr. ixewnian will also give an ample sum for the equipment and per manent endowment, of tha Institution. London has 690 acres of docks, Liv erpool 843 acres.

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The Clayton tribune. (Clayton, Rabun County, Ga.) 18??-current, June 12, 1902, Image 1