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HEY. DO. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “A Cheerful Church.’»
Text ■ ‘Behold, thou ait fair, my love.”
—Solomon s Song iv., i.
“Higher criticism” says that this book of
bolomon s song is a love scene a forlorn
maiden sighing for her beau. If so, it is an
unclean and debauched utterance inserted
in the pure word of God an l is not fit for
common inspired reading. My opinion is that it is an
ode setting forth the feeling of
Christ toward tho church nnd of the church
toward Christ. Christ is the bridegroom
and the church is (he bride. The same
words we can utter to-day truthfully, whether
in regard to the church of Go t in general or
this church in particular, “Behold, thou art
fair, my love.”
The past week has been one of prolonged
congratulation for that we have for twenty
flve years been permitted to associate with
each other in the relation of pastor and peo¬
ple. When I came to Brooklyn, I found a
small band of Christian disciples who from
various causes had become less and less until
they stood up on the very verge of extinction
agitated as a church, from and the question was being
tune t-o time whether it would
be possible to maintain a church life longer.
Indeed, had not those men and women been
consecrated and earnest, they would have
surrendered to the adverse circumstances.
They marshaled a congregational meeting
and gathering up a’i tho forces possible they
cart nineteen votes for a pastor, all of which
I am happy lo have received.
It was not through any spirit of personal
courage or reckless adventure that I was led
from one of the warmest and most congenial
pastorates enjoyed in this Philadelphia then that a man ever
to most uninviting field
but it was the feeling that God had called me
to the work, and I was sura He would soe me
through.
1 have thought that it might be profitable
1 0 us to state briefly what kind of a church
we have been frying to establish.
Iu tho first place, I remark that we have
bean trying to build here a Christian church
—distinctively church where such—in other words, a
we should preach tho Lord
Jesus Christ and Him crucified. My theology
is all gone into five letters—Jesus. Jesus
the pardon of all offenses. Jesus, the
foundation for all structures. Jesus, the
balm for all wounds. Jesus, the eye salve
for all blindness. Jesus, the guldo’through
all perplexities. Jesus, the hope for all dis¬
couragements. Jesus, the reform for all
Wrongs.
I have faith to believe that there is more
power in one drop of tho blood of Jesus
Christ to cure Ihe woes of the world than
in an ocean full of human quackery. Jesus
is the grandest note in any minstrelsy. Ha
is the brightest gem ia any crown; height
circumfereuce overtopping all height, the centra of every
; the circumference to every
centre, the pacifier of all turbulence; the
umpire of all disputes. Jesus, Jesus! At
His table all nations are to sit. Around His
throne all worlds are to revolve. He is to
be the irradiation of the universe. Jesus,
Jesus! It is that truth that wo have tried
to preach in this Tabernacle.
Do you nsk more minutely what we be¬
lieve? I can tell you. Wo have no dry,
withered, God, the juiceless theology. We believe in
Father Almighty, maker of heaven
and earth, tho deliverer of the distressed,
tho home tor the homeless, the friend for the
friendless. Wo believe in Jesus Christ, able
to save to tho uttermost, pardouing the
believer. guilty, imputing His righteousness tff the
Wa believe in tho Holy Ghost,
the comforter, tho sanctifier, cheering up
the heart in life's ills aud kindling bright
lights lieve in every dark landing place. We be
that the whole race is so sunken in sin
that nothing but the omnipotent arm of God
can ever lift it out. We believo in grace—
free grace, sovereign grace, triumphant
grace, eternal grace. We believe in a Bible
—authentic in its statements, immaculate
in its teachings, glorious in its promises
We believe in heaven, the abode of the
righteous, who aud iu hell, the residence of those
aro soul suicides—of their own f ree
choice refusing the divine mercy Y^e be
lieve in the salvation of all men who accept
Christ by faith, be they sprinkled or im
mersed, worship they in cathedral or in log
cabin, Episcopacy, believe they in Presbyterianism or
dwell they under Italian skies
or in Siberian snowstorms, be they Ethionian
or American. A1I one in Christ. One Lord,
one faith, one baptism, on the way to heaven.
We built this Tabernrele for tho purpose of
setting forth these great theories of the gos
I ei of the Son of God. Would that we had
een more faithful in the pulpit! Would
that we had been more faithful in the pew!
I remark, further, that we have tried here
to build a church distinctively unconven
tional. Instead of asking, as some people
are disposed to do, how other people do it,
We have asked the question liow people do
not do it. Imperious custom has decided
that churches shall be angular, cheerless,
gloomy, unsympathetic, forgetting that what
men call a pious gloom is impious, and that
that church has the best architecture where
the people are the most comfortable, and
that that is the most efficient Christian ser
vice where the people are made most sick of
sin and most anxious after Christ and heaven,
And so we called the architects together for
our first church building and said “Givens
an amphitheater”—that is, a large family
circle, For gathered around a fireplace.
theater many years the only we bad felt that an amphi
audience was proper shape for an
room. The prominent architects
of the country said : “It cannot be done,
You need a church building.” Ami so we
had plan after plan of churchly buildings
presented, but in due time God sent a man
who grasped our idea anl executed it. Bo
far from ourth?ee being afailure it satisfied our want
and all churches were built on the
amphitheatrieal plan, and scores of churches
all over the country have adopted the same
Pl
And, my brethren and sisters, we fail in
cur work just in proportion as we try to be
like other churches. We believe that Godin
tended every church, like every man, to be
individual, gathering up all its peculiarities
and idiosyncraeies and hurling them all to
ward some good and grand object. In other
words, no two churches ought ever to be just ;
alike. Here is a church, for instance, whose i
Object is to prepare philosophers and artists
and eritics for heaven. Go‘t speed them in
the difficult work ! Here is a church, on the
other hand, that proposes to briug only tho i
poor into the kingdom of Jesus Christ, look- ]
lng not after the rich. God sneed such a !
church in its undertaking! But there is a
larger ide t a that a church may take—bringing the
in the rich and the poor, the wise and
ignorant, the.high and the low. sothat kneel
fig beside each othershaU day and be the the man faring who !
eumntuouslv evsrv man 1
could not grt his breakfast. Got speed such
a church 1
a s;:
sentences to suit the criticism of the worid. i
We dare not dress for church until we have
examined the fashion plates and wouldrather
stay at home than appear with a coat or a
hat not sanctioned by custom. When will
the day of deliv- ranee come to the church of
Rura'n" sinceritv^we ta?e have's! of P^p amUn
shall living, bounding,
sympathetic, glowing Christianity? tried here
I remark, further, that we hare
to build and to conduct a cheerful church,
While as you know, we have not held back
the terrors of the law an l the s'terner doc
trines of the gospeb we have tried in this
hoase to present to this people the idea that
is so much troui.de ia the world. Basumss
men have so many anxieties. Toiling men
have so many fatigues. Orphans have so
many desolations. For God’s sake, if there
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he any bright place on earth, show it to them
Let the church of Jesus Christ be the most
cheerful spot on earth.
Let me say that I do not want anybody to
religion. come whining around me about the Christian
I have no faith in a religion made
up of equal parts of wormwood, vinegar and
red pepper. If the religion that is presented
to us be a depression, we will get along
better without it. If it be a joy, let it shine
out from your face and from your conversa¬
tion. If a man comes to my house to talk of
religion with lugubrious countenance and
manner full of sniffle and dolorousness, I
feel like saying to my wife, ‘‘you had better
lock up the silver before he steals some¬
thing.” I have found it an invariable rule
that men who profess faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ, priding themselves at the same
time on their sanctimoniousness, always
turn out badly—I never knew au exception
—while those who are the most consistent,
the most useful aud the most consecrated
have perfume in their conversation and
heaven in their face.
Tho happiest Christians that I have ever
known have bepn persons from sixty to eighty
years shams of age. By that time people get over
the and the pretenses of society and
have no longer any patience with anything
like imposture in religion. O Christian, how
dare you be gloomy? Is not God youi Father?
Is not Jesus Christ your Saviour? Has not
your path all through life been strewn with
mercies? Are you insensible to the fact that
there are glories awaiting you in the better
land—doxologiesof celestial worship, eternal
under chorals, tearless eyes, songs that resound
arches cf strength and hosannas that
clap their hands at the foot of the throne?
Is Jt nothing to you that all the hills of
heaven are radiant with the faces of those
who have gone up from youand who are wait¬
ing for your coming, ready to keep with you
eternal holiday? Is there nothing in songs
that never cease, in hearts that never ache,
in splendors that never die, to make you
glqd? Then take no more mercy at the hand
of thy God ! Give back the marriage ring of
love that Jesus put on your finger in the day
of your espousal! Plant no more of the
flowers of heaven where there ought to be
nothing but nettles and nightshade '
We try to make this church a cheerful
church. A man on Snturday afternoon
stands in his store and says : “ How c shall I
meat these obligations? Hoxv can I endure
this new disaster that is coining upon mo?”
Ho goes home. Sabbath morning finds him
in the house of God. Through the song,
through the sermon, through the prayer, tho
Lord Jesus Christ says to that man “O
man, I have watched thee. I have seen all
thy struggles. Itisenough. I will see thee
through. I will stand between thee and thy
creditors. I will make up in heavenly
treasures what you have lost in earthly
treasures. Courage, man, courage ! Angels
of God, I command you to clear tho track
for that man ; put your wings over hl9 head ;
with your golden scepters strike for his de¬
fense ; throw around him all the defenses of
eternity.” What is the consequence? That
business man is strengthened. He goes to
tho store next day feeling that God is with
him and ready to deliver.
That same Sunday there is a poor old wo¬
man in the ehureh hearing the gospel. Oh,
how shrunken she is ! She wears the same
dress she wore twenty years ago. How faded
it is and now out of date ! She sits aud listens
as well as sho can. Her eyes are so dim she
cannot see half way across the church. Her
ear is so Imperfect that she can only catch
occasionally a note of the psalm or a word
of the preacher. Some one sitting next to
her gives her a book and finds the place for
her. She says, “Thank you, miss ; thank
you.” and She with holds the voice book all close full ot up tremors to her
eyes a
sings:
Jesus, lover of my soul,
L-'t me to Thy 003 om fly
While the billows near mi rob,
Walls the tempest still ts ltlz'i.
Hide me, O my s tvlour, hide,
Till the storm of life Is past.
Safe into the heaven gukle—
Oh, rece ve my soul at last.
And , Jesus 9a >' s to . her , ‘ Mother, ara you
weary?” And she says, “Yes, “Mother, Jesus, I am
very tired.” Jesus says, are you
P oori> * An<l she says; “Yes, I am very
poor. I cannot sew any- more, I cannot
knit an >' more - 1 aln v3r >' P 00r - Jesu3
says to her > Mother would you 19 like to
restr ahe sa J' s > “ y<JS ' Lora : that wh,lt
1 want—rest. “Courage, mother, says
Jesus. “I will see thee through,
She F° es home. The next morning in tho
tenement house some one dwelling on
another floor comes to her room and knocks,
No answer. The door is opened. chariots She is
dead! The night before the Oi God
halted at that pillow oi straw, and Jesus
kept His promise. He said that He would
R‘ve her res L Bnd Ho ha9 given her rest,
Glory bo to God for the height, the depth,
the lengtn and the brea ith of such Christian
comfort! Ob, that we might have such joy
as that which insp red the men at the battle
otLeuthea! They were singing a Christian
song as they went into battle. A general
said to the king. “.Shall I stop those people
singing? ’ ‘No, said the king. .ilen that
s ' n £ G i m 7 would that we
hal a singing church, a joyful . ciiurch, a ju
hi 1 ant church, a comforting church, for then
we would have a triumphant church,
I remark, further, tnat we have here tried
i° build a church abreast of the times. It is
they did fifty 113 109 A r ^ to We might
or yoars ago. as
well be plowing with Elijah s crooked stick,
or »° *nto battle with Saul s armor, or prefer
a .canalboat to an express tram, as to be
clinging to old tmags. What we most need
now is a wide awake church. 1 eopie who
are out in the world ad the ween, jostlin'
against this ligntmng footed century, come
Into the church on the Sabbath and go right
to sleep unless they have a spirited service,
engaged m literary callings all the
week, reading pungent, sharp writings, can
not be expected to come and hear our eccle
siastieal humdrum.
If a man stay at home on Sundays and
reads the newspapers, it is because the news
papers are more interesting. We need, my
brethren, to rouse up and stop hunting with
blank cartridges. The church of God ought
to he the leader, the interpetor, the inspirer
of the age. It is all folly for us to be dis
Absa°lom, Triking"tU all Philistine^ around about wita
Shamgar’s ox goad-when
us are iniquities that to the be slam. church ... to , be
Did I say ougm
abreast of the times? I take that bac£. Tae
church of God ought to be ahead of the times
-as far in advance as the cross of Christ is
ahead of all human invention, i aui was
1000 years ahead of the day which ^ he
lived. The swift footed years that have
passed since Luther died have not yet come
up to Luthers grave. Give iniquity 4909
years the start, au l the fort of Lnristianity
are so nimble that if you will but give it tM
swing it will catch up and pass it in two
bounds. The church oi God ought to be
ahead of the times.
I remark, further, that we have trie . here,
in the love and fear of God, to build a church
that would be characterized by conversions
I have bear I of very good people wno could
preach on for -fifteen or twenty years and see
no conversions, but yet nave faith. It taies
s^sspJip^st^i to the feet o. the Saviour is a fau.ir . I care
not ho-.v fine the bunding, or how sweet the
music, or how eloqu.nt th , prea.hiru, or
how elegant the surroundings-it is a failure.
The ehureh of God was made for just one
thing to get men oat of tue world into the
'^churches fs to spend Christians their
time in giving fine touches to
already polished. Wo keep our religion too
much indoors and under shelter, when it
ought to be climbing the rocks or hewing m
the forests. Then it would be a stalwart re
kjr.on. a robust religion, a religion a de to
digest the strong meat ot the word, Instead
of twin? kept on the pip and gruel o spir
mentality and put on the working dress of
an earnest, active Christianity,
Here is Brooklyn, here is New lors, nere
are the United States, here is the whole
HAMILTON, HARRIS COUNTY, GA.. MAY 25, 1894.
world to he converted. It is 1-91 years
since Christ came, and yet Europe, Asia,
Africa, North and South America are still
unevangelized. More people horn every yeai
into the world than are bora into the king
dom of God. At that rate I ask anyone who
can do a simple sum in arithmetic to calcu¬
late when this world will bo brought to
Jesus. At that rate, never, never, never!
And yet we know that it is to be brought to
Christ. But the church will have to change
its tact and take a wider sweep with tho gos¬
pel net than it has yet taken. I believe that
the great mass of the people are now ready
to recsivt) the gospel if we give them a
chance.
A boy goes along the street nt night and
sees a fine house beautifully lighted up nnd
hears music, and he says, “I wish I was in
there, but I have not boon invited,” and so
he passes on. Here is the church of G 01 ,
lighted up with festivity and holy mirth, and
the world passes along outside, hears the
music and sometimes wishes it was inside,
but says that it is not invited. Oh, invite the
world to come in 1 Go out into the highways
and hedges. Send a ticket of invitation
printed in ready.” these words, “Come, for all things
aro now
Some years ago 200 men were buried inti’ J
Hartley colliery of England. Tho Queen ol
England from her throne men?” telegraphed, ‘‘Is
there any hope for the After awhile
the answer came over the wires : “No hope.
They are dead.” Hero is a whole race buried
in sin nnd darkness and woe. The question
that thrills up to the throne of God to-day
is, “Is there any hope for the men?” Answer¬
ing intelligence comes back from the throne
of God, thrilling through the world’s dark¬
ness, thrilling through tho world's woe:
“Yes. Hope for one, hope for all! Whoso¬ and
ever will let him come. And the spirit
tho bride says, ‘Come.’ And let him that is
athirst come.”
We have had conventions all over tho
country discussing the subject, “How Shall
tho Great Masses be Brought to Christ?”
They have passed splendid resolutions at the
close of the meeting—a long list of eight, ten
or fifteen have been rend, and then tho pre¬
siding officer has said, “All those in favor of
the resolution for tho conversion of the
world, purifying the oities and redeeming the
masses and making everything all right say
aye.” “Aye, aye 1” say a thousand voices.
“Alt opposed—no.” “ The ayes have it."
There, the whole world is converted ! Ah,
we do not seorn to get along by such a pro
cess.
If this world is ever to be brought to God,
it will not be by the handful of ministers we
have in this country. It will be by the great
masses of Christian men und women dis¬
charging their duty. If the private church
membership of this country would put on
their armor and go forth, I believe that in
fifteen years the whole land would bo re¬
deemed for Christ. Would God that all the
people were prophets 1 I am never afraid lo
hear a man say that he is going to preach.
If he cannot preach, people will not go to
hear him. If he can, ho has a message from
the Almighty, and I would have him deliver
it. Look out how you iutorfere with him.
Sinco we have been together ns pastor and
people how many have been promoted sweetly, to the
glories of heaven? They died
calmly, as only Christians can die. They
have put down the staff of their pilgrimage.
They have taken up the palm of the victor.
Tho Lord Jesus has swung His arm through
this church a good many times, He has
been up and down all these aisles, He has
taken the little children—the dear little
children. He came down into tho garden to
gather the lilies nnd the aged as well. On«
who sat right here, so that when I used to
preach I could almost put my hand on his
head, when I came back from my summer
vacation was gone. Oh, how tho glories of
heaven shone around that old man’s face us
he sat here Babbath after Sabbath ! Gone
now. Happy spirit. Happy with all those
who bavo passed tho flood.
One army of the living God—
To His command we bow,
Part of the host nave cross,- 1 the fl :o l
And port are crossing uoxv.
I thank you for all your kindness, for all
your sympathy, for all your prayers for me
ns pastor. It is a sorrow to me that I am
to he absent even for a few months. I have
worked to the full extent of physical, mental
and spiritual endurance for this church.
Now we start out onourtwenty-sixthyear.
How many of us will close it hero I know
not. Bat, living or dying, let us cling to
Christ. Oh, that all the people would love
Him 1 I wish that I could take this audience
this morning and wreath it around tho heart
of my Lord Jesus Christ' Oh, He is such a
dear Saviour! He is such a loving Jesus!
He is so precious 1 He is alt the world to me.
He is heaven to me. Ho washed away my
sins. Ho comforted me In days ot darkness
aud trouble. He is mine. Oil, blessed Jesus!
Sweetest sound I ever heard or ever expect
to hear is Thy name !
Mj* closing prayer this morning Is that
God will have mercy on the dying popula¬ whole
tion of our great cities, and that the
earth will put on bridal array for the coming
of the Lord. Ride on, King Jesus ; ride on!
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, from
everlasting to everlasting, and let tho whole
earth be filled with His glory' Amen and
amen! t
Spile Driving as a Fine Art.
The sun-kissed commuter who
crosses the ferries has an intimate ac
quaintanceshiji with the huge derricks
and their ever rising ever falling liam
mers. But few, even of these birds
of passage, know about the require¬
ments of the “final drive.” The spile
is first pulled up oil end and allowed
to fall with a rush with one end into
ooze A Theu it is “ridden” for
awhile, that f 13, hauled i ] lin up „ a idf bit o an n d I
allowed to settle by its own weight,
k e j U g worked down until it will stand
«y ltseir. mu Ant- 11 tp,e driver Y. is placed f
over it and down comes the , block , i wzth ...
a huge thump. iliis is continued time
|j me> At first there is no re
bound, but as th ®
more and more the block begins to
rebound in proportion drive” until what is
known ag “the final occurs,
In almost , , eveiy nontract contract the the rebound rebound
oallerl for on this is “four inches.
fa vhen tho resistance of the
1 . that the weight will
jump back those . four inches laches the the spile mile
is believed to be so securely implanted
., , no thi n » » but an earthquake L or an
ocea dislo( ‘ e it Bnd
tms is generally the , case.—New York
Mail and Express.
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Jiovel _ Pumping I Plant lant.
Manuel E. de Costa, who resides *1 six
m jj €S SO utn of bacramento on the
“ in *“”
ous machine for irrigating his flower
»a w. .»<■u™.
jj- consls ts of a wooden wheel ten feet
. diameter and with a rim or tire
about two . feet , , wid . A \ An* dog w ia nlaceil placed
inside the wheel, which is turned by
weight as he gallops in treadmill
fashion.' The revolution of the axle
turns a crank which operates the
handle of a pump set m a dug well.
£ner ^ half u an hour’s exercise the dog b is
, taken out and a fresh clog put in for
another half hour.
, Xhe dogs seem to enjoy the work,
. d their tails
Zy Ra wag t*o
; when are brought the wheel,
They know that it means something
good to 1 eat at the end of the half
hour s worn.— , foacramento ,, , (OoJ.) , T liee. ,
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WILLIAM RETURNS HOME AND IS
WARMLY WELCOMED.
His Train Runs the Gauntlet of Fire-—
Nothing Like Home.
It is worth going away from home to return
again and find a welcome from Kindred and
fr ends. I was a long, weary ride, but every
mile stone w.is a comfort and every station gave
hope and faith that no accident would befall
us. We had on • alarm when n wring Palatka,
for the woo Is were on fire and tho wind was
Mowing the leaping flaiuos across the track.
The enginier hailed his train and hesitated.
After a brief interview with the conductor the
train was back d a quarter of a mile, the win¬
dows were all put down, the vestibules dosed,
the steam put on to its full power and away we
went to run the fi ry gauntlet at the rate of a
mile a minute. But it was hot—intensely hot.
Though the glass kept out tho flames, it did
not keep out tlio heat. If the run had been a
litllo longer every pane would have shivered
and tho cars would have caught on Are, but
still every passenger was willing to mako the
race. Who does not like to ride a mile a min¬
ute anil take tho chance-? Even the engineer
will do it if he is permitted. How proud lie is
to be j ointed out as the man who took the
1 glitning train from Jacksonville to New York.
Ho is a hero—he is.
Wo reached home at 10 o’clock at night and
found the family mansion all lighted up and
the kindred on the veranda and o il Aunt Ann
and Uncle Sam in the background and tho big
dog and tho little dog alert, for they, too,
set med to expect us, and for a while there was
a shower of k.sses and liowdvs and welcomes
and barkings and waggings of canine tails.
But it was sad to see the havoc tiiat the great
freeze had made. Intense licat and intense
cold must be close akin, for all along the route
from Jacksonville the dead and withered leaves
on Ihe treelops and among tho shrubbery gave
an appearance of lire instead of a fro. Ze and
when we surveyed our own surroundings at
home we found not a green leaf left—no fruit,
parulvz no plums, d, raspberries no garden killed coming on, strawberries
to the roots, grape
vines scorched, for what the fret z ■ had left of
vegetation the hail that came a week after fin¬
ished the work <f dost ruction.
What a wonderful power is in nature to re
storo herself and make good her losses. It has
been but three weeks sinco we r. ached homo,
and now evertliingis lovely—the trees are all iu
leaf again—(he grass is green, the strawberries
aro giving ns some fruit, tlio garden lias
beans in bloom aud peas iu tlio pod and pota¬
toes big enough to steal a few, I always steal
a few before breakfast, jnrt as a surprise you
know. Just to hear my wife exclaim when
Aunt Ann slips luxuriating the savory dish under her oyes.
We bail been on all these things for
months in Florida, but there is nothing liko
having your own. I beg pardon for mentioning
Florida, for I have been admonished to let up
ont.lrar Water. Iam at home mold Georgia
now, and wo are happy. We came from spring
to spring, and for the first, time in our livts
skipped over a long, hard winter. We had tho
strawberries from tlio tenth of January to
first of May and can do without now. If tlio
good Lord sparos our lives and our people the mike
another goo I crop and congress pusses tar¬
iff bill and that Ooxoy gang don’t bust up the
government, wo calculate on spending the next
winter in Florida just to save winter clothes
and blsnkels and coal an I horse feed if nothing
else. But I beg pardon—I am on Florida
again. Senator Harris says that he thinks
now they will got to a vote on the tariff within
five or six weeks—yes, ho thinks the debate on
it will not take longer than six weeks. Merciful
heaven—oh, for a Cromwell to dissolve that
parliament! Debate-what for? Isn’t tho agu
ment already exhausted? Haven’t the senators
all made up their minds? Do they expect to
change a single vote by debating? Is there a
c lis itueut in all tho land who wauls moro
talking done? Is there anybody who will r< ad
another speech? Then why debate? Why not vote
and be dono with it? Veriiy, Nero is fiddling
again. from friend who
I hail a letter yesterday a
says there is no truth in tho cliargo that is going
around in the press and among tho people and (hat
there is a courthouse ring in Georgia that
if there is it is not a ring for Atkinson, for two
ihirds of the judges aud solicitors are for Evans.
Well wo are gratified to have it denied by some
bo ly. I lliouglit maybe that some of the
judges would deny it for the sake of thoir own
reputation, had hut heard they have that the not ring done wascommlt- an in puli
lic. X not
ted to Alkinson. I do but that there it was a ring foun¬ for
them elvos and know is somo
dation to the charge. Maybe it lias bnrsted. X
hopo so. As for General Evans and Mr. Atkin¬
son, I know many good men who would be
perf. e ly content, the with either.as our governor,
and who lament bitterness of tho canvass.
Can’t these 2x4 editors and politicians conduct
tho canvass in a gentlemanly way Georgia? and be
proud that wo have two such men in
In the grand old days when Patrick Henry and
John Randolph ran against flockod each other for bear con
congress from the f*r people and to and
them near at
Charlottesville, when both wo e through speak¬
ing and (heir overwhelming eh quence had
thrilled and (harmed (he multitude, the people and
with one accord seized tin m on their arms
carried , tie m on tlieir shoulders round and
round, Fhouting as they went: “These are Vir¬
ginia’s sons,of whom wo are all proud, and they
shall not separate us.” Cannot a Georgia patriot
say tho same about our candidates? Has either
done anything of which we are ashamed? Then
let us frown upon all this scandal and vitupera¬
tion. After all, it Is not a matter of l fo or deiili
or of auy great moment whether victory or de¬
feat awaits either, and it is a comfort to know
i hat we liavo so many men in Georgia who
would mako as good a governor as cither of
them. There is not a county and hardly a town
that could not furnish one or more sidesmen in
whose hands the commonweultli would lie safo.
Tliis abu-e of political adversaries is unworthy
of any gentleman, and I wouldn’t politician, truat and the is mau al
who is. Ho is a machine
wa ys setting traps and baiting triggers to catch
the ignorant and good unsuspecting. from offering It is just for such of¬
men who keep men
fice. They fear the lies and s ;andal that would
follow.
And now to change tho unwelcome subject
and to do justice tho’ the heavens fall, will you
please publish the following letter which 1
have received from a true and noble woman— a
Georgian now living at Winston, N- C.? I
have investigatid surt^ histories as are at my
command, and good find nothing that reflects upon
the honor and faith of Eli Whitney. I
find that in Georgia it was asserted that he was
not the inventor, but that it had already been
n-ed in Switz erland and that he had sixty law¬
suits b- fore lie secure 1 a favorable verdict.
S iiith Carolina, howtv r, did pay him $-i'),000,
and North Carolina gav him a royalty on every
saw used in the state. But still Misb Boggs
may which have gl< aned ’he true history cf the cot on
gin, Macaulay said, “did more for the
power and progres of the United States than
Peter the Great did for Russia.” If Mrs. Greene
was really the gen us who suggested it and the
patron whose means perfected it, then let the
monument be built loher, as Mbs Boggs sug¬
gests Then let the truth come to liph>. Our
great historian, C. C. Jones, is de d, but Judge
Richard If. Clark still lives.—B ill Arp, in At¬
lanta Constitution.
The following is thelott-r:
“Major Slajor: Charles H. Smith, CartersviHe, Ga.
—Dear Born and bred in Georgia,
your con'riba’ions to literature have been a
source cenilv obtained of pride from as well ihe as publishers jileaBuro. I ro
“History of Georgia.’ a heart¬ copy
of your While I
ily join your (ffort to have our cb Wren
taugnt wish our own other h.story aB seen by ourselves
and tba r , southern elates would fol-
1 .xv your example, you must excuse me for ob
j< cling ‘Eli to this sentence in paragraph Havannah. 6, page
4b: W hitney, who lived near
riveuted the cotton gin.’ For many years I
hive lived under the impression that Georgia
always denied Whitney’s claim. My impres¬
sions are somewhat aa follows: Whitney, like
many other men of New England, came south
for tiie purpose-of teaching, white he acquired
a profession Hw vessel to some more long lucrative ( Ccnpa¬
ri- n. wax so at sea that when
he arrived st Savannah the position he ex pec -
td had been filled. On the same vessel with
Mr. Whitney was Mrs. Greene, widow of Gen
jjdtlianiel Greene, on her way to the ‘Mul
berries,’ a place present 'd to General Greene
by the state for Ilia distinguished services in
ihe south during the revo'utionary Mrs. war. Hear¬
ing of Whitney’s disappointment, Greene
iffcred him tlio hospitalities of her homo until
be could find occupation. Tlio subjeot of asp¬
irating tho sood from tho lint by miohinery
• 19 a matter of daily discussion between Mrs.
Greene and her neighbors, as well as else i here.
They hail decided how it could be done, Mrs.
Greeno herself suggesting the revolving brush,
the key to tho wholo business. It was Mrs.
Greene who suggested Whitney suitable as a young
of great ingenuity and a poison
to carry out their combined ideas. It w s she
who furnished a building neiglib expressly in supplying for tho
purpose and joined labor her with which >rs Whitney
tlio means and
worked. As tho machine approaehod comple¬
tion, Whitney became mysterious, put. a lock
upon the door and so acted as to Croats tho im¬
pression thas iio intended to carry off tho ma¬
ritime, until finally the neighbors broke in o
the house and destroyed tlio machine. I have
lived under (lies 1 impressions for many yoars.
W hero I gathered them, I am un able to say.
They may be all wrong, if si. I shall he glad
to be corrected. There must be state records
concerning this matter, also tho evidenoe that
pn vented the renewal of the patent, also in tho
v irious suits for ro'-alty; ami it is probable of that
the records of tho ‘Historical Society Savan¬
nah’can furnish va liable evidence. If Whit
nay was tho inventor I should like to see a
monument erected to his memory on somo pub¬
lic square in Atlanta. If the above is noar tho
facts, then lot the monument Via a woman, seat¬
ed in a Windsor chair, wi'li a card in eacli
hand, illustrating her conception of tho brush,
and upon tho pedestal
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for tho Past Week.
The review of Ihe industrial situation in the
South for the past week shows that the miners’
slrike has caused preparations to be mado for
shutting down another furnace, and a want of
coal is reported in a few places. In other re¬
spects there is no ehango in tlio labor situa¬
tion, and both parlies aro confident aud deter¬
mined. There is a decidod improvement in tlio
lumber industry as is shown by the number of
new plants and of enlargements of existing
ones greatly reported improvod for tho week. iho Favorable condition weather of the
hftB
growing crops, and tho farmer’s prospeots aro
now quite encouraging. In gencr.il business
and ill financial circles matters aro quiet, with
reports of leas business than usual at this sea¬
son, and a demand for monoy not equal to the
supply. Forty-nino industries incorporated
now wero
or established during (ho week, together with
eight enlargements of manufactories and six¬
teen important new buildings. Prominent
among tho now industries of tho week arc: The
Swan River Phosphate Company, Estabutohio of Sheffield,
Ala., capital $309,000; Estabutohie, the Miss., Lum¬
ber Company, of capital
150,000; tho P. un Lumber Company, of Foim,
(U, with $10,000 capital. The Brown Electric
and Machinery Company has been olmrtered at
Little ltock, Ark., with *30,000 capital; a cotton
oil company, with $30,0.0 capital, is reported
at Blooming Grove, Texas; the Hoffman Hard¬
ware Company, eajiital $25,000, aiul haa E. been or
gauized at Texarkana, Ark., Iho K. Dil
liugliain Iron Company, eapitul $25,000, char
terod at Houston, Texas.
Canning factories are reported at Montgom¬
ery, Ala., and Houston, Texas; cotton mills at
Mobile, Ala., Athens, Ua., and Nesbitt, H. 0.;
a coiton compress at Taylor, Tex.; tannic acid
works at Jacksonville, Fla , and Hour and grist
mills at Thilpot and Max ti Id, Kv., Corsicana,
Groosbeck and Nncona, T.-x. Fibre factories
are lo bo built at New Orb aiiH, La,, and Titua
vi lc, Fla.; ice, factories at Lake City, Fia., Co¬
lumbus, and Ga.. Valley, narrodsburg; SIihj.. machine Ky., and shops Biloxi
Water and at
Valdosla, Ga., und McHenry, Ky. An oil mi I
is factory reported at at Havannah, Mt. P easant, Ga. Texas, 'The aud wood-work a piano
iug plants of Iho week aro at England,
Ark., Frankfort, Apopka, Flu., Barnesville Lebanon, and Wafer .ss,
Ga., Jackson and Ky.,
Donal Isonvillo aud New Orleans, La , Brook
haven and KiiIiiih, Miss., Chattanooga, Erwin,
Kn-’stou and Memphis, Tenn., Balem, Va.,
and Kendalia, W. Va.
Waterworks nro to be built at llemp.it. a 1,
Tex., and Uonceverio, W. Va, Tlio new bail I
ings ine lido a $100,000 bull at New Orloans,
La., business bouses nt Birmingham and Jas¬
per, Ala , Fort Myers, Flu,. und Wheeling, W.
Vit,, <t $15,000 church at Temple, Tex., a $00,
000 court house at Cuero, 't’.-x., and a $40,000
one at Welch, VV. Va., a $10,000 school build¬
ing Louisville, at Groesbeck, Tex., and a $38,000 residence
Tenn.) at Ky.—Tradesman (Chattanooga,
STORM IN MINNESOTA.
Seven People Loso Their Lives ami
Property Greatly Damaged.
A special from 8t. Paul, Minn., says:
Half a million dollars will scarcely
cover tbe damago by the groat storm
of Tuesday in Minnesota and Wiscon¬
sin. The downpour of rain was tbe
greatest ever known in this section of
the northwest aud in many places was
as destructive as a waterspout. Tho
damage is greatest along the St. Croix,
Eugaile and Chippewa rivers, whore
the rise in the waters was so
rapid that bridges could not resist it
and dozens of them were washed away.
In several places also dams were wash¬
ed out and the swift flowing flood
did largo damage to business property.
Tho death list so far includes seven,
one being killed by lightning near
Anika, Minn., and another near New
Richmond, Wis. A woman and two
children were drowned in the Eugaile
river near Spring Valley, Wis., and
two men were drowned near Mindon,
Minn. Railway traffic was for a time
in a state of paralysis because of the
bridges and washouts on the tracks.
SUFFERING FOR DREAD.
People on the Sea Islands Reported to
Be Destitute.
Governor Tillman has received a
letter from Bluffton township, Beau¬
fort county, S. C., describing a ter¬
rible state of destitution among the
white peopio of the township who suf¬
fered from the storm last August. The
letter states that 150 families includ¬
ing 600 people are now actually snffer
ering for bread. Tho explanations
given is that the funds and provisions
contributed, with the exception ol
$300, were dealt out by tbe Red Cross
Society to the negroes exclusively.
An appeal is made to the governor for
immediat e help.
_
THE CONFERENCE A FAILURE.
The Mlnersand Operators Could Reach
no Agreement.
The great conference at Cleveland,
Ohio, between tbe representatives of
tbe 200,000 striking miners and oper¬
ators, representing every coal mining
district in tbe United States, lias ended
in failure. The two interests came
together, presented their demands,
discussed the conditon of tho min¬
ing trade in all its bearings, found
their differences irresoncilable and will
depart for their homes, leaving the
situation at the mines, in apparently
the same condition of suspense that it
was before the conference was called.
VOL. XXIII. NO. 23.
CONGRESSIONAL.
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
The Discussion of Important Measures
Briefly Epitomized.
Several private bills were passed at
Tuesday’s session nnd the house went
into committee of the whole on the
naval appropriation bill.
In the house, Wednesday, unanimous
consent was refused for the considera¬
tion of McGann’s resolution for the
investigation by a joint committee of
congress of the causes of the present
industrial depression, and after a call
of tho committees for reports, the
house in committee of tho whole, con¬
tinued tho consideration of the agri¬
cultural appropriation bill.
In tho house, Thursday, the hill re¬
pealing section 9 of tho act of 1890,
governing the display of lights and
signa's on vessels at sea, with a view
to preventing collisions was passed.
This was made necessary, it was ex¬
plained, by reason of tho failure of
Great Britain to observo tho agree¬
ment of the International Marino Con¬
ference‘of 1889. Tho houso then, at
12:30, went into committee of tho
whole to further consider tho agricult¬
ural appropriation bill.
The first half hour of Friday’s ses¬
sion of the house was spent in passing
a resolution to give tho committee on
railways and canals a clerk. That
having boen accomplished, the legisla¬
tive and judicial appropriation hill for
the year ending June 30, 1895, was
taken up in committee of the whole.
Under au agreement reached by the
leaders after au hour’s skirmish¬
ing general debate on the bill was
closed at 5 o’clock, and tho houso
voted to adjourn over Saturday. Tho
most of tho afternoon was occupied
with a discussion of tho matter of
“docking” members for absent days,
which took a wide raugo. At 5 o’clock
tho house took a recess until 8 o’clock,
the evening session to be for the con¬
sideration of private pension and relief
hills.
Tlllt SENATE.
During tho discussion of tho tariff
hill in the senate, Tuesday, Mr. Vest
said that it was very evident that it
was tho intention of tho republican
side of the chamber to kill the bill by
delay. republican" (Cries of “Ob, no !” from the
senators.) “They say ‘oh
no,’” Mr. Vest went on, “hut their
acts belie their words. They spend
day after day in discussing insectivor¬
ous matters. They want to kill the hill
by procrastination. Wo on this side
have got but one thing to do, and wo
intend to do it without waiting or hes¬
itating. Wo intend to pass the bill if
it takes us until snow flies next winter,
and we will leave to tho senators on
the other side tho tusk of defeating by
filibustering, but we are not going into
the field of conjecture to help them.”
Mr. Aldrich expressed surprise at Mr.
Vest’s speech and said: “There is no
disposition, there has not been and
there will not be, on this side of tho
chamber, to do anything with this
hill except to discuss it fairly. There
will ho no filibustering, and no at¬
tempt at filibustering on tho part of
the opponents to the measure.”
In tho senate, Wednesday, Mr.
Lodge offered a resolution reciting a
statement in the New York Sun that
bribes had been offered to certain sen¬
ators to induce them to vote against
the pending tariff bill, and signed ar¬
ticles in a Philadelphia paper stating
that tho sugar schedule hud been made
up as it now stands in consideration of
a largo sum of money paid for cam¬
paign purposes of the democratic
party, and providing for the appoint¬
ment of a committee of five senators
to investigate those charges. The
vice president asked Mr. Lodge what
action he desired. Mr. Lodge replied
that he asked for the present consid¬
eration of the resolution. Mr. Cock
rill—“Let it bo printed and lie on the
table.” And under the rule the reso¬
lution went over until Thursday. The
tariff hill was taken up at noon, the
pending question being item number
27, of the chemical schedule, “flaxseed
or linseed and poppy seed oil, raw,
boiled or oxidized, 15 cents per gal¬
lon.”
The senate at Thursday's session
adopted a resolution providing for the
investigation of the charges of bribery
in connection with the tariff bill, and
the charges that the sugar trust has
interfered witli legislation. The latter
part of the resolution was materially
amended so as to include the fact
whether or not the sugur trust lm
made any contributions to campaign
or election purposes to any party, or
to secure or defeat legislation on the
turiff bill. The tariff bill was taken up
at noon, and Mr. Oallinger spoke
against it. the resolution
In the senate, Friday,
for meetings of the senate at 10 a. m.
daily, was taken up and agreed to
without question or division. Imme¬
diately afterwards, however, a discus¬
sion was started by Mr. Sherman who
was not in the chamber when it was
offered, and knew nothing of the cir¬
cumstances. In the course of the dis¬
cussion, Mr. Frye expressed the opin¬
ion that it was the duty of the repub¬
lican side to defeat the tariff bill and
resort to any and all parliamenta¬
ry methods in doing so. He had
not been able, however, to persuade
the republican side that that was the
true policy to pursue, On the con
trary, it seemed to be the determina¬
tion of the republican side to permit
the bill to come to a vote after fair
consideration. The discussion closed
with frank notice to the democratic
side of the chamber, by Mr. Chandler,
not to act upon the theory that it had
been decided by the republican side j
either that they would or that they
would not filibuster against the pass¬
age of the bill. Tho resolution was
CITY AND CCuTY HIRE TORY.
Hamilton.
Mayor— B. H. Walton.
Board of Aldermen—T. A. Miller, J.
J. Hadley, Britain Williams and A. J.
Webster.
Clerk and Treasurer—A. J. Webster.
Marshal--J. A. Norwood.
Regular meetings, first Friday in each
month at 1 p. m.
Justice Court— Meets every first
Friday at 10 a. m. ; II. C. Jones, Mag¬
istrate.
Fraternities.
Masons—Blue Lodge—L. L. Stan¬
ford, H. P. Meets every 2d Saturday
afternoon.
Chapter—J. M. Mobley, H. P.
Meets every 4th Friday at 2 p. m.
A. O. U. W.—Meets 1st nnd 3d
Wednesdays at 2 p. m. ; C. I. Hudson,
M. W.
Superior Court.
Judge—W. B. Butt.
Solicitor Gen’l—S. P. Gilbert.
Clerk—A. F. Truett.
Ordinary—J. F. C. AViliiams.
Sheriff—M. B. Kimbrough.
Treasurer—Frank Hadley.
Tax Collector—E. L. Penrco.
Tax Receiver—R. E. Fort.
Survoyor—L. W. Stanford.
School Commissioner—W. A. Far
ley.
Coroner—Frank Webb.
County Commissioners — O. S.
Barnes, S. C. Goodman nnd J. A.
Maddox. Clerk, J. M. Hudson.
Board of Education—T. H. Kim¬
brough, ,T. F. Jenkins, Milton Rob¬
erts, W. F. Nunnelee, C. I. Hudson.
Representatives in the Last Legisla¬
ture—B. II. Williams and J. II. Book
er.
Church Directory.
Hamilton—Methodist—G. B. Cul¬
pepper, pastor. Services embraco tho
2d and 4th Sunday in each month.
Conference, Saturday before tho fourth
Sunday. Sunday school at 3:30 p. m.
J. E. McKee, superintendent.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday at
8 p. m.
Baptist church—Pastor, N. B. O’Kol
loy. Services embrace 1st and 3d Sun¬
days in eacu month. Conference, Sat¬
urday before the 3d Sunday.
Sunday school at 9 :30 a. m. A. E.
Williams, superintendent.
Prayer meeting every Thursday at
8 p. m.
voted on a second time and agreed to,
and then, at 12:15, consideration of
the tariff bill was resumed.
In the senate Saturday tlio tariff bill
was taken up and Mr. Oallinger de¬
livered the third portion of his speech
against the bill. Mr. Oallinger closed
et 1 p. m., and the regular considera¬
tion of the tariff bill began.
BALE OF THE EAST TENNESSEE
Will Take Place at Knoxville oil July
7tli Next.
Special Master Caldwell, appointed
by the United States court to conduct
the sale of tho East Teunessee, Vir¬
ginia and Georgia railroad, has issued
un order fixing July 7th as the day for
tho sale. Tho salo will be at tho road’s
depot in Knoxville, Tenn. Tho prop¬
erty must bring <1,500,000 with $150,
000 cash bonus. Tho reorganization
committee, os agontsand bondholders,
will be tho only bidders, and the new
owners will bo operating tho system
within six ty day s._
DISASTROUS STORMS
Reported From Various Towns In
Ohio—Ten Lives Lost.
Severe storms visited Massillon,
Cleveland and Alliance, O.; Decatur,
Ill. ; Indianapolis and Patriot, Ind.;
Bloomington, Ill.; Kalamazoo, Mich.,
and Wabash, Ind., Friday. Considera¬
ble damuge was done to property. From
meager reports which have straggled
in, it is already learned that ten per¬
sons met death and thirteen were in¬
jured and that much property was de¬
stroyed.
The Kikcr Case Dismissed.
The court of appeals of the District
of Columbia, has dismissed the case of
Carroll L. Piker, of Chicago, against
Secretary Carlisle, to compel him to
sell to Hiker $5 0,000,000 of bonds. It
will be recalled that Riker’s offer was
not considered by Secretary Carlisle
when the new bond issue was appor¬
tioned out in last February. The
court held that as all tho bonds had
been sold to other parties there was
nothing else for it to do but to dismiss
the case.
Breckinridge’s Bond.
Representative W. C. P. Breckin¬
ridge Wednesday afternoon gave a
bond of $100 to tho clerk of tho su¬
preme court of the District of Colum¬
bia, his brother, Brigadier General
Joseph C. Breckinridge, inspector gen¬
eral of the United States army, giving
his surety, for the jmrpose of securing
an appeal in the case of Pollard vs.
Breckinridge in the district court el
appeals.
Strikers Foiled.
The coke strikers at the Kyle works,
Union town, Pa., made another at¬
tempt to prevent the workmen from
going to work Friday morning. At
daybreak they surrounded tho houses
of the men and held them prisoners.
The officials, noticing their absence,
sent deputies to inquire into tho
trouble. The strikers dispersed. Only
one shot was fired and no one was in
jured.
Snow at Chattanooga.
Snow fell on Lookout Mountain and
Waldon Ridge at Chattanooga Satur¬
day morning and there was a fall in
temperature of 32 degrees.
A Bomb-Thrower Guilotined.
Emile Henry, who, on February
12th, threw a bomb in the cafe of the
Hotel Terminus, was executed at Paris
at 4:10 o’clock Sunday morning.