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States who can tell what justifloatioa is.
I will read you the definition!
“Justiflflatioil is purely a forensio act, the
act of a judge sitting in the. forum, in which
the Supreme Ruler and Judge, who is a ’
countable to none, and who alone knows the
manner in which the ends of His universal
government can best be attained, reckons
that which was done by the substitute, and
not on account of anything dona by them,
but purely upon account of this gracious
method of reckoning, grants them the iull
remission of their sins."
what Now, what is justification? I will tell you
Ileves, justification God him is. When a sinner be
lets off. One summer in
Connecticut I went to a largo factory, and I
saw over the door written the words, “No ad
mittauco.” I entered and saw over the next
door, I inside “No admittance.” and Of course I entered,
got found it a pin factory, p.nd
they and were making pins, very serviceable, fine
useful pins. So the spirit of exclusive
ness has practically written over the outside
door of many a church, “No admittance.”
And if the stranger enter he finds practically
tance,”andif written over tho he second door, all “No tho admit
goes iu over pew
doors seems written, "No admittance,” while
the minister stands in the pulpit, hammering
out his little niceties of belief, pounding out
: the technicalities of religion, making pins.
In the most practical, common sense way,
aud laying aside the none3sentials and the
hard definitions of religion, go out on the
God given mission, telling the people wliat
they need and when and how they can get it.
Comparatively little effort as yet has been
made to save that large class of persons in
our midst called skeptics, aud ha who goes
to work hero will not be building upon
another man’s foundation. There is a great
multitude of them. They are afraid of us
and our churches, for tho reason we do not
know how to treat them. One of this class
met Christ, and hear with what tenderness
and pathos and beauty and success Christ
dealt with him. “Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and with ail thy
soul, and with ail thy mind, and with all fhy
strength. This is the first commandment,
and the second is like to this—namely, thou
shalt lovethy neighbor as thyself. There is
’no other commandment greater than this.”
And the scribe said to Him, “Well, Master,
Thou hast said the truth, for there is one
God, and to love Him with all the heart,
and all all the understanding, strength, and all the whole soul,
and the is more than
burnt offerings and sacrifices.” And when
Jesus saw that he answered discreetly He
said unto him, “Thou art not far from the
kingdom of God.” Bo a skeptic was saved
in one Interview. But few Christian people
treat the skeptic iu that way. Instead of tak
ing hold of him with the gentle hand of love,
we are apt to take him with the Iron pinchers
of ecclesiasticism.
You would not he so rough on that man if
yon knew by what process ho had lost his
faith in Christianity. I have known men
skeptical from religion the fact that they grew up ia
houses where w.is overdone. Sun
day was the most awful day of the week,
They had religion driven into them with a
trip hammer. They were surfeited with
prayer meetings. They were stuffed and
choked with catechisms. They were often
told they were the worst boys the parents
ever knew, because they liked to ride down
hill better than to read liunyau’s “Pilgrim’s
Progress.” Whenever father and mother
talked of religion, they drew down the eor
nets of their mouth and rolled up their eyes,
If any one thing will send a boy or girl to
rain sooner than auother, that is it. If I
had such a father aud mother, I fearl should
havo beeu an infidel. When I was a boy In
Sunday-school, at one time we had a teacher
who, when we were with not New attentive, Testament, struck and us
over the head a
there is a way of using even the Bible so as
to make it offensive.
Others were tripped up of skepticism from
being grievously wronged Christian. by Borne man who
professed to be a They had a
partner in business who turned out to be n
first-class scoundrel, though a professed
Christian. Many years ago they lost all faith
by what formed happened amid the in an petroleum oil company excitement. which
was
The company owned no land, or if tiiey did
there was no sign of oil produced, but the
President of the company was a Presbyterian
elder, and the treasurer was aa Episcopal
vestryman, an 1 one director was a Methodist
class leader, aud tho other directors promi
nent members of Baptist and Congregational
churchos. Circulars ware gotten out telling
what fabulous prospects opened before this
company. Innoeqnt f.men and women
who had a little money to invest, and that
little their all, said, “I but don’t know good anything
about this company, so many men
are at the head of it iu that it must be almost excellent,
and taking stock it must bo as
good as joining the church.”
So they bought dividend the stock and keep perhaps still, re
ceived one so as to them
but after awhile they found that the com
pany had reorganized and had a different
president and different treasurer and differ
ent directors. Other engagements or ill
health had caused the former officers of the
company, with many regrets, to resign.
And all that the subscribers of that stock had
ts show for their investment was a beauti
fully ornamented certificate. Sometimes
that man looking over his old papors comes
across that certificate, and it of is so tho suggestive religion
that he vows he wants none
that the presidents and trustees and direc
tors of that oil company professed. Of !
course their rejection of religion on such
grounds was unphiiosophical of United and States unwise. I
am told that many the army
desert every year, aud there are thousands
oi court "murtials every year. Is that
anything against the United States Gov
erntnent that swore them in? Aud
if a soldier of Jesus Christ desert, is that
anything against the Christianity which
he swore to support and defend? How do
you judge of the currency of a country? By
a counterfeit bill? Ob, you must have pa
tienee with those who have been swindled by
religious pretenders. Live in the presence of
others a frank, honest, earnest Christian life,
that they may he attracted to the same Sav
iour upon whom your hopes depend.
Remember skepticism always has Goethe’s some
reason, good or bad. for existing.
irreligion started when the news came to
Germany of the earthquake at Lisbon, Nov.
1, 1775. That 60,003 earthquake people and should in the after have
perished in that
rising of the Tagus so stirred his sympathies
that he threw up his belief in the goodness of
God.
Others have gone into skepticism from a
natural persistence in asking tho reason why.
They have been fearfully There stabbed of the things in¬
terrogation point. explained. are They so many cannot
they cannot get how God be un
derstand the Trinity or can sov
ereign aud yet a man a free agent. Neither
can L They say: “I don’t understand why
a good God should have let sin come into the
world. Neither do I. You say: “Why was
that child started in life with such disadvan
tages. while others have all physical and
mental equipment?” Easter I cannot morning tell. and They go
out of church on say:
“That doctrine of the resurrection con
founded me.” So it is to me a mystery be
yond uuravelmeat. I understand all the pro¬
e :sses by which men get into the dark. I
know them ail. I have traveled with burning
feet that blistered way. The first word which
most Children learn to utter is: “Papa,” or
"Ma’mma.’ but I think the first word I ever
uttered was: “Why?” I know what it is to
have a hundred midnights pour their: j
darkness into one hour. Such men are not j
to be scoffed, but helped. when Turn your have back the
upon a drowning man you let j
rope with which to pull him ashore, and
that woman in the third story of a house j
perish in the flames when you have a ladder i
with which to help her oat and help her |
down, rather than turn your back scofflngly
on a skeptic whose soul is in more peri! than t j
the bodies of those Ob, other endangered dark ones
p -sibly can be. meh skepticism this house is a who j
land. There are in
would give a thousand worlds if they nos
seatedtSem to get back to the placid faith of
their fathere and mothers, and it is oar place
to help them, and we may help them, through never
through their heads, but always
their hearts. These skeptics, when brought
to Jesus, will be mightily effective, far more
o thau thoso who never examined tin tG
dance* of Christianity,
REV. DR. TALMAGl:.
The Great Preacher’s Sunday
Discourse.
Subject : “New Ground.”
Text. “Lest I should build upon another
B an’s foundation.”—Romans xv. 20.
After, ... with ....... the help of ... otners, I had built
three churches in the same city, anu not
reeling called upon to undertake the super
human toil of building a fourth church,
seemed to point to this place as
the field m in woiich I couid en.arge my work,
and I feel a sense of relief amounting to ex
ultation. Wuereunto this work will grow I
cannot prophesy. It is inviting and promts
ing beyond anything I have ever touched,
rhe chure.ies are the grandest Institutions
this world ever saw, and their pastors have
no superiors this side of heaven, but thereby
a_ work which must be done outside of the
ehurenes, and to that work I join myself for
awhile, Lest I build on another man’s
foundatmn.
ine oiiurch is a fortress divinely built,
Now, a fortress is for defense and for drill.
and for storing ammunition, but an army .
must sometimes be on the march far outside
the fortress. In the campaign of conqueriug
this world for Christ the time has come for
an advance movement, fora “general en
gagement, for massing the troops, for nu
invasion of the enemies' country. Confident
that the forts are wall manned by the ablest
ministry that ever blessed the church, I pro
pose, with others, for awhile, to join the
cavalry and move out and on for service in
the open field.
In laying out the plan for his . missionary
tour Paul, with more brain than any of his
contemporaries or predecessors or sucaas
sors. sought out towns and cities which hal
not yet bean preached to. He goes to Cor
nith, and Jerusalem, a city mentioned for splendor and vice,
where the priesthood and
sauhedrin were ready to leap with both feet
upon the Christian religion. He feels he has
a special work to do, and he moans to do it.
What was the result? The grandest life of
usefulness that man ever lived. We modern
Christian_ Paul. We workers build arc other not people’s apt to founda- imitate
on
tions. If we erect a church, we prefer to
have it filled with families all of whom have
been pious. Do wo gather a Sunday-school
combed, class, wo faces want washed, good boys and girls, hair
manners attractive,
So a church in this city is apt to be built out
of other churches. Some ministers spend all
their time in fishing in other people’s ponds,
and they throw the lino into that church
pond and jerk out a Methodist, and throw
the line into another church pond and bring
out a Presbyterian, or there is a religious and
row in soma neighboring fish church, the
whole school of swim off from that pond,
aud we take them all in with one sweep of
the net. What is gained? Absolutely noth
ing for the general cause of Christ. It is only
as in an army, when a regiment is trans
ferred from one division to another, or from
the Fourteenth Regiment to the Sixty-ninth
Regiment. What strengthens the army is
new recruits.
The fact is, this is a big world. When ia
our schoolboy days we learned tile diameter
and circumference of this planet, we did not
leorn half. It is the latitude and longitude
and diameter and circumference of want and
woe and sin that no figures can calculate,
This one spiritual continent of wretohe Iness
reaches across all zones, and if I were called
to give its geographical boundary I would
sav it is boundodou tho north and south and
oast and west by tho great heart of God’s
sympathy o’clock and love. this morning Oh, it is a great least world,
Sinee 6 at 80 090
have bean born, and all these multiplied
populations are to be reached of tiie gospel,
Ia England or in Eastern American cities
we are being much crowded, aal an
acre of groun-l is of groat value, but out
West 500 acres is a small farm, aud 23,
000 acres is no unusual possession. Taer > is
a vast field here and everywhere unoc¬
cupied, another plenty of room more, not building
on man’s foundation. We need
as churches clad to stop bombarding the
old iron sinners that have been proof
against thirty years of Christian assault, and
aim for the salvation of those who have
never yet had one warm hearted and point
blank invitation. There are churches whose
buildings might bo worth $200,000, who are
not averaging five new converts a year and
doing less good than many a log cabin meet¬
inghouse with tallow candle stuck in wooden
socket and a minister who has never seen a
college or known the difference between
Greek and Choctaw. We need churches to
get into sympathy with know the great outside
world, and hearted let them hardly bestead that none that are so
broken or they
will not bo welcomed. “No!” says some fas¬
tidious Christian: “I don’t like to bo crowd¬
ed in ehureb. Don’t put any one in my
pew.” My brother, what will you do in
heaven? When a groat multitude that no
man can number assembles, What they will put
fifty in your pew. aro tho select few
to-day assembled in the Christian churches
compared them? with the mightier millions outside
of
At least 3,000,000 and people in this cluster of
seaboard cities, Many not of moro the than churches 203,033 in
the churches, are
like a hospital that should advertise that its
patients must have noth ing worse than tooth¬
ache or “run ankles, arounds,” but nobroken heads,
no crushed no fracture! thighs.
Give us for treatment moderate sinners, vel¬
vet coated sinners aud sinners with a gloss
on. It Is as though a man had a farm of
3000 acres and put all his work on one acre.
He may raise never of so large he ears of corn,
never so big heads wheat, would re¬
main poor. The church of God has bestowed
its chief care on one acre and has raised
splendid men and women in that small in¬
closure. but the field is the world, That
means North and South America. Europe,
Asia and Africa and all the islands of the
sea.
It is as though after a great battle there
were left 50,000 wounded and dying on the
field and three surgeons gave all their time I |
to three patients imder their chargq. The
major-general comes in and says to the doc- I
tors, “Come out here and look at the nearly
B0,000 dying for lack of surgical attendance.”
“Iso,” say the three doctors, standing there
and fanning their patients; “we have three
important cases here, and we are attending
them, and when we are not positively busy
with their wounds it takes ail our time to
keep the flies off.” In this awful battle of
sin and sorrow, where millions have fallen
on millions, do not let us spend all our time ;
in taking care of a few people, anl world.” when the I 1
command comes. “Go into the say
practically: choice “No; I and cannot lam go. busy I keeping have here off j |
a few eases, multitudes
the flies.” There are to-day who j |
have never had any Christian worker look
them in the eye, and “Come!” with earnestness would in the |
accentuation say, ‘been or they 1 j
long ago have in the kingdom. My
friends, religion is If either it be a sham, sham let or a tee- j
mendous anything reality. to do a with Christian us cease j \
to have a
sociation. If it be a reality, then great
populations are on their way to the bar of :
God unfitted for the ordeal, and what are we
doing? multitude of outsid- |
In order to teach the
ers we must drop all talk technicalities people out about of our the j !
religion. When we to
hvwstatio union and French eomplutensianism, ency dopeliau- I
tan and erastianism and
ve are as impolitic should and alk little to understood ordinary as j
if a physician an pa- j
tient about the periCw-lium aud intercostal j
muscle and scorbutic symptoms. Many- of j
us come out of the theological seminaries so !
maded up that we take the first ten years to
show oar people how much we know, and :
the next ten vears to get our people end to kn find . ; ] !
as much as we know, and at the
tb?t neither of us knows anything as we 1
mikht to know. Here are thousands of sin
nin" straggling and living people who need
toreaiizejast one thing—that Jesus Christ
came to save into them, profound and will save and them elaborate now. j |
But we go a
definition of what justification is, and after ■
all the work there are n ; ontiM* of th
ut.i- 1 prof' ioiM* .1 , - >r,le in the United ;
fr- ' •he Hamilton Journal ®
HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 15,1895.
‘Thomas Ohalmsrs was ones a skoptlo
Robert Hall a skeptic, Robert Newton a skep
tie, Christmas Evans a skeptic. But when
onee with strong hand they took hold of the
chariot of the gospel they rolled it on with
what momentum! If I address suoh men
and women to-day, I throw out no scoff. I
implead them by the memory of the good
old days, when at their mother’s knee they
said, those “Now I lay me down of to scarlet sleep,” fever and by
days and nights the in
which she watched you, giving you
medicine at just the right time and turning
your pillow when it was hot, and with hands
that many years ago turned to dust southed
away your pain, and with voice that you will
never hear again, unless you join her in the
better country, told you to never mind, for
you would feel better by aud by, and by that
dying couch, where she looked so pale and
talked so slowly, catching her breath between
the words, and you felt an awful loneliness
coming over your soul—by all that I beg yon
to come back and take the same religion. It
was good enough for lior. It is good enough
for you. Nay, I linye a better plea than
that. blood I plead by all the wounds and and death tears
and and groans and agonies
throes of the Sou of God, who approaches
you this moment with tbrn brow, and laeer
ated “Come hand, and Me, whipped all who bao’i, and saying,
unto yo are weary and
heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Again, there is a field of usefulness hut lit
tie touched occupied by those who are astray
in their habits. All northern Nations, like
those of North America aud England and
Scotland—that is. in tho colder climates—are
devastated by alcoholism. They take the
fire to keep up the warmth. In southern
countries, like Arabia and tempted Spain, the blood fiery
is so warm they are not to
liquids. Tho ‘great Roman armies never
drank anything stronger than water tinged
with vinegar, but under our northern climate
the temptation to boating ‘succumb. stimulants is most
mighty, and millions When a
man’s habits go wrong, tho church drops
him; the social circle drops him; good in
fluence drops him; we all drop him. Of all
the men who get off track, but few ever get
on again. Near my summer residence thore
Is a life saving station on the beach,
There are all the rope 3 and rockets, people the
boats, the machinery for getting off
shipwreoks. One summer! saw there fifteen
or twenty men who were breakfasting lives after
having just escaped with their aud
nothing more. Up and down our coasts are
built these useful structures, and the maid
ners know it, and they feel that if they are
driven into the breakers there will be apt
from shore to como a rescue. The
churches of God ought to be so many life
saving stations, not so much to help those
who are In smooth waters, hut those who
havo been shipwrecked. Come, let ns them? run
out the lifeboats! And who will i»aa
We do not preach enough to such mem
We have not enough faith in their release.
Alas, if when they come to hear us we are la
boriously trying to show the difference be
tween sublapsarlantsm and supralapsarian
isoi; while they have a thousand vipers of re
morse and despair coiling around their im
mortal spirits! for goodish
Tiie church is not chiefly sort
of men could whose proclivities are all right, and and
yvho get to heaven praying sing
ing in their own homos. It is on tho boaoh
to help the drowning. Those bad cases are
the cases that God likes to take hold oi. He
can save a big sinner as well as a small sin
ner, and when a man calls earnestly to God
for help He will go out to deliver such a one.
If it were necessary, God would come down
from the sky, followed by all the artillery of
heaven and a million angels with drawn
swords. Get 100 such redeemed men in each
of your churches, and nothing could stand
before them, for such men are generally
warm-hearted and enthusiastic.
Furthermore, the destitute children of the
streets offer ft field of work comparatively
unoccupied. The nncared for children are
In the majority in most of our cities, Their
condition was well Illustrated by what a boy
in this olty said when he was found under a
cart gnawing a bono and some one said to
him, “Where do you live?” and ho answered,
“Don't live nowhore, sir!” Savonty thousand
o' the ohildren of New York City can nelthor
read nor write. When they grow up, if un
reformed, they will outvote your children. children,
and they will govern your The
whisky ring will hatch out othor whisky
rings, and grogshops will kill with theirhor
rid stench public sobriety, unless the church
of God rises up with outstretched arms and
infolds this dying population it. in Art her galleries bosom.
Public schools cannot do
cannot do it. Blackwell’s Island cannot do
it. Almshouses cannot do It. New York
Tombs cannot do it. Sing Bing cannot do it.
People of God, wake up to your magnificent
mission! You can do it. Get somewhere,
somehow, to work!
The Prussian cavalry tiie mount by while putting
their right foot into stirrup, the
American cavalry mount hy putting their left
foot into the stirrup. I don’t care how you
mount your war charger It you only get into
this battle for God, and got there soon, right
stirrup, or left stirrup, or no stirrup at all.
The unoccupied fields are all around us, and
why should we build on another man’s foun¬
dation?
I have heard of what was called the
“thunder legion.” It was in 179, a part of
the Roman army to which some Christians
belonged, and their prayers, lightning it was said, wore hail
answered by thunder and and
and tempest, which overthrew an invading
army and saved the Empire. And I would to
God that you could be so mighty in prayer
and work that yon would become a thunder
ing legion before which the forces of sin
might be routed A11 and aboard the gates of the hell gospel made
to tremble. now on
ship! If you cannot be a captain or a first
mate, bo a stokor or a deckhand, or ready at
command to climb tho ratlines. Heave away
now, lads! Shake out the reefs in the fore
topsail! Come, O heavenly wind, aud fill
the canvas! Jesus aboard will assure our
safety. Jesns on the sea will beckon us for
ward. Jesus on the shining shore will wel
come us into harbor. “And so it came to
pass that they all escaped safe to land.”
CAMCELLED-STAMP CRAZE.
A Postoftlce Demoralized l»y 'a Collecting
“Chain/* and Prohibition Asked."
Tiie friends of Edna Kane and Mettie Gor¬
man, of Kaneville, Ill., who instituted a
“chain” of letters seeking cancelled postage
stamps, for the benefit of the latter, a cripple,
have at last driven the Postofflce Depart¬
ment into making an investigation.
The scheme has caused great annoyance to
the Department, aggravated fit El Paso, by Texas, a new in
•‘chain” inaugurated Postmaster, whose
mock sympathy been flooded for the with mail result.
office has as a
The number of cancelled stamps found in
the room of the beneficiary of the system is
estimated at 15.000,000 and the report says
farmers’ boys supp hed with sacks have car
ried off many of t he letters.
An inspector reports that the scheme has
caused complete demoralization at the El Paso
Postofflce and that an immediate remedy is
demanded. He recommends a prohibitory
order.
HOW $5 CREW TO BE $248.
.John If. Folk’s Discovery a (load Lesson
for the Improvident.
There fine object .... to , th.improvi ...,_____ .
is a lesson
'lent m a story told to Surrogate FitzgeralJ,
of New Yor.: G;ty. showing how put in a
savings bank grew to $243. Ja.ob L i wzard
er died July'20, 1343 lcavin, a wife and
nothing else that anybody was aware of. To.
widow married John H. roU and in h .r turn
died.
In overhauling h .r . belongmtp Mr. F d»,
the widower, came upon a bank hook made
out m the imme of Mrs. Folk s first husband,
It show^ a credit for a depMit it $5 made
March Bans. 29, Mr. 1M0. Folk in concluded the BleeciM#'Street that th . $5 SavwBj wiufd
feel just as good to him as it did in the vaults
of t.ie bank. He investigated, an 1 to hie
amazement n found that inter .st hada,
cumulated until the *5 had grown to $2tt.
If?. Chatfc l Green o sebratu 1 her 103-1
birthday not long ago in an slave. old lady s home
in Boston, She burn a
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
THE FAMILY STILL AMONG THE
FLORIDA TOURISTS,
But are Yearning to Return to Their
Georgia Home.
Tarpon Springs is a charming little place—
so clean and nice and just now so odoriferous
from the yellow jessamine that in every yard
climbs the trees and verandas in wild profus
ion. Jessamine would be a fit name for the
town for there is more jessamine than tarpon,
Sometimes that silver king of fish docs find its
way into the large pool they call a spring, but
not often. The spring is in the center of that
its pool sulphurous and is ever in a commotion, throwing up
gaseous waters from subterma
rean Sometimes depths whose tho bottom has just been fonud.
in doad of the night it makes
explosions that are heard all over tho village
and throws up aquatio debris that floats oil to
the bayou. What is going on down in thosemys
tenons depths is still unknown. The pool
covers, perhaps, two acres of space and tho
circular highlands aroun lit are studded with
beautiful residences and tho walkways where
the little boats are moored is a thing of hoau
ty. Stairways made of cement lead down to
this cement walk and it is only a step from
tliero to tiie boat you wish to take whether it
be a rowboat or a sail, or a naphtha launch,
Borne of the most beautiful and costly boats In
all Florida arc there, for these wealthy people
seem to emulate each other in procuring the
most handsome in design and the moBt artistic
in speed. Some of them were taken to tho
world’s fair, and took the premium over all
competitors.
Tarpon is not on the gulf nor on the harbor,
It is about four miles away, and on a bayou
that connects with tho beautiful Anolote river
and Anclote connects with tho harbor. On an is
laud near this harbor is tho Anolote lighthouse,
and to this island and up tho river pleasure
parties I rode go i very day carriage that the weather potmits.
out in a with some gontlemen.
The road was good and the weather pleasant.
While looking off at the numerous small ves
sels that were anchored in tho water a large,
strong sailor came from his cabin on the shore
and said, “good mawnin’," Ho was barefooted
aud had on neither coat nor vest. He lookod
tough and rough. He was a sponger, and my
friends knew him. “What is the weather go¬
ing to do this evening, Tom?” Tom replied
gruffly: “Wind gwiue back to the north-rain on
y° u afore you git and a heap colder." I
smiled, for it seemed au improbability if not an
impossibility, if anybody but my friend said, “Tom knows
does. He is an old sponger.”
Wo had not driven half a mile before wo felt
the north wind’s broath upon the buek of our
necks and the driver stopped to let down (lie
curtain. In about ten minutes the temper¬
tnre had changed at least ten degrees and a
driving rainstorm was upon us. It was like a
Texas norther. “ ’irmch up that off horse,” wo
said, “and msko for home and shelter.”
Tliero arc about 1,000 of these spongers, and
there are about 100 small vessels along tho
sponge reefs that ext nd for many miles along
the gtiif coast. This business is owned at Tar
pon and lias proved quito profitable to its own
C J' S - The sheep’s wool sponge is of three
classes, and sellB for from 75 cents to *2.50 per
principal pound. Philadelphia markets. and 8t. Louis are tho
Mr - Disston, one of the rich saw makers, lias
a wiiiterhomoiiiTarpnn.andisaleadingciii- beautifying ami
zen in ornamenting the placo.
The ladies have formed r. village improvement
association, and take pride in their work. Ev
erybody is for Tarpon and there ia more socia
bill ty them than We fled at Clear Water, ’tho
*• I. A, has brought Iho ladies noarer togother
* n “ broken down some social barriers, I wish
there was one in every community. When tho
town marshal or the street committee asks a
n ' a !> t0 clean up his lot and make it look decent
and attractive, it makes him mad, but when
of “ e old J 8 '* tin 1 . 08 cans 8a y, “Mr. lying around Jones, there in your is an lot. ugly I’leaso lot
the woods, a “°‘° and he will bury do them or haul thorn off to
it. When they say “Mr.
Jones, we want you to plant a few evergreens
an “ Tinc8 ail< l rose bualien and repaint your
house and your fonce and fix up vonr old gale,”
he cari t stnnd the feminine racket and goos at
1“ I hero are some hack yards hero in Clear
Water that are horribly dirty, and are in full
T1 ®5 °" passersby.
far pen has a little gem of ii 'i opera hoi™-
the prettiest . for ltssizo in all Florida—an 1 they
havo s .nio entertainment there two or Ihreo
times a week, even if it lias to he got up by lo¬
cal talent. A part of tho proceeds inis to bo
given to tho V. I. A., or it won’t bo patroniz’d.
Mrs. Libhey and her gifted chiidrcii aro always
on hand lo do up tho music and i never heard
a trio that, made any sweoier harmony. Tho
mother takes the piano, the daughter, Miss
Winifred, a yretly lass of fourteen, plays tho
violin, and the laddie, Johnnie, aged twelve, is
already a rare performer on tlio corset. Tho
Libb ys aro a hi ssing to the town. I wish
that every little town had such a willing and
gifted family.
Florida ib a : l right now, us to tha weather.
G.-ntlo spring lias put on her pantalettes and ir
fluting with the balmy breeze* that come from
the gulf. Tho poet says: “Hail gentle sur/ng”—
she didn’t hall but she snowed a little. Homo
mischievous wag circulated a re| ort that Mr
Macleod, the superintendent < f our railroad
hud ordered somo snowplows t v telegraph ami
was ii” using 1 he them ,ii<ln ’ on t brieve tho Sanford it, end? Dr Al¬
Mr. "J*,” Macleod: , “Has your road an snowplows?" 1 so ho wired
answered promptly: Ho
plows, and very “My road has no
the doctor was convinced that tlie
rumor was true tor it sounded like un affirma¬
tive answer. j lie doctor went homo shivering
and went to bed
Hy wifo and I are just waiting for somo
. of at homo
aigns spring our irr aoorgla, and
then wo win go hack, for our youngest chil¬
dren are up there aud Iho hoy is going off to
Mexico to work on Mr. Jhoul’s international
railroad. Ills mother says she will never see
him again and ia grieving over it sli tho time.
So I will take her hack in a few days. It is
bard on tiie mothers hut then Mexico is not so
far away. It is only a threo days’ journey,
and tiie boy can come home onoo a year. lie
writes to her now twice a week, and I’m not
afraid of his getting weaned from us. Tho
day letter after I wro-e mv last loiter I received a
from a poor heartsick mother in Doug
lesville saying she had seen in tho paper that
our son was going to Mexico and she wanted
him to hunt up her boy, her only hoy, and
write (o her about 1dm. He was on that rail¬
road when slio last heard from him, and her
poor old heart did yearn for him so and sh»
didn’t know whether ho was alive or dead
Boys, I repeat it. write to your old mothers.-'
Bill Akp, in Allpnla Constitution.
MANUFACTURKR8 OF JEANS
Hold Their Semi-Annual Meeting at
Knoxville, Tenn.
The Jeans Manufacturers’ Associa
tion for the southern .. and , middle
I’tates kcld ltB semi-annual session
at Knoxville, lenu., Wednesday.
Eighteen mills were represented by
delegates, representing Tennessee, ; |
Kentncky, Missouri, Mississippi and
Indiana and an invested capital of
$9,000,000. These mills aro prosper
ing, notwithstanding hard times, and ]
stocks of goods on hand aro reported
as only nominal. There have been no i
suspensions and the mills are running ]
to their full capacity. j
For a Georgia Railroad. j j
The largest steel mill of the Beth- j
lehem (Pa.) Iron Company will resume
operations at once on a 12,000 ton j
order for a Georgia railroad. Fifteen
hundred idle workmen will be given j
employment.
A liar fee,*! re.ieved when you cal j
his sin prevar'o ition ■
THE LAST CONGRESS.
ir UNDID THE BAD WORK OF THE
MeXINLEY CONGRESS,
Its Record Compared With tho Rec¬
ord of the Republican Congress of
1890—One Bud, the Other Good—
Democratic Work That Will Bene¬
fit the Country.
Many tilings expected of the Fifty
third Congress have not been accom¬
plished. Its record has not been such
as to make nil true Democrats rejoice,
and it has been called ‘ ‘incompetent,” by
not a few prominent Democrats and
Democratic newspapers. Many of its
most severe critics, however, recognize
that, as compared with tho Fifty-first,
or McKinley Congress, of 1890, the
record of tho last Congress is excellent.
It is not disputed that the McKin¬
ley Congress was more effective in that
it did more of what it was planned
to do. But that is just why the rec¬
ord is so bad—it planned nothing for
tho good of tho country at large. It
accomplished nothing—aside from
making ordinary appropriations—for
tho good of the massos; all was iu the
interest of tho classes—protected
manufacturers, mine owners, bounty
grabbers and subsidy hunters.
It greatly increased the protection
to tho mill owners but left labor un¬
protected to compete, on a free trado
basis, with the Italians aud Huns im¬
ported by tho mill owner to beat
wages down. It added considerably
to the sawdust protection given to far¬
mers, and attempted the new bunco
game called “reciprocity,” which was
to open groat markets for our farm
products in South America—as if tho
great desire of South Americans was
to exchnngo their whont aud pork for
our pork and wheat. It threw boun¬
ties and subsidies iu all directions, so
that by March, 1893, tlio $100,000,000
surplus left by Cleveland iu 1889 was
entirely exLaustod and tho Treasury
was on tho vorgo of bankruptcy.
The Fifty-tliird Congress has accom¬
plished a great deal. First, it undid
tho Sherman Silver Purchaso Act of
1890 which, with Republican extrava¬
gance, was responsible for tho panic
and depression which had already be
guu before Harrison left tho White
House. Second, it repealed the Fed¬
eral Election laws, which no leading
Republican, except Senator Force-Bill
Lodge, would now rehabilitate. Third,
it gavo us free wool aud roduccd tariff
duties generally about as much an Me
* Kin ley increased them. Fourth, it
gave us the income tax, which, though
it is not perfect, is yet a great im¬
provement upon any tariff system of
taxation. It is noticeable that Repub¬
licans are not advocating tho repeal of
this tax. Fifth, it abolished tho pay¬
ment of bounties to sugar producers.
Sixth, it lessened tho not protection to
the Hugar Trust but, unfortunately,
increased tbo duty on rofiuod sugar
about one cent per pound. But for
two or threo traitors iu tlioir ranks—
“Senators from Ilavomeyor”—tho
Democrats would Lave given us free
sugar and left no protection to the
trust.
It is noticeable that tho most that
tho Fifty-third Oougress did, or at¬
tempted to do, was to undo tho work
of tho Republican Congress of 1890.
So far as it has succeeded it has done
excellent work. Practically all that
the Fifty-first Congress Fifty-third did was bad,
and all that the Congress
lias done is good. And yet tho Dem¬
ocratic Congress receives kicks and
cuffs from all sides, because it could
not, in two years, undo all of the evil
legislation that Republicans have, for
thirty years, been fastening upon this
country. The Democrats havo partial¬
ly failed because they undertook too
big a contract. What they have done
will remain forever a permanent ben¬
efit to this country. Not even tho Re¬
publicans will dare to advocate many
of their old Jaws which the Democrats
have repealed. I’.vhon W. Holt.
(’old Facts About Free Wool,
The Dr;- Goods Economist, one of
the best authorities ou tho subject,
said editorially on February 23 : Tbo
American woolen industry has now
entered a period when tho heat of tho
conflict has passed and the combatants
aro in a frame of mind to listen to tho
sober logic of cold facts. Novor havo
these been better presented for tho
consideration of those interested than
in tho letter prepared by Abraham
Mills, tho well-known New York wool
broker, for the use of the Chamber of
Commerce, Mr. Mills very justly
characterizes tho adoption of free
wool under the now tariff us a revolu¬
tion; for so it was, succeeding, as it
did, a policy of protection which hud
lasted for upwards of eighty years,
during many of which years the tariff
rate was preposterously high, Ac¬
cording to tho opponents of reduced
tariff rutee, the reduction of duties on
the manufactured fabrics was to re
suit in the closing of the majority of
the mills and tho abolition of the wool
duties was to annihilate our flocks.
But what arc the facts as they stand
rcv ealed to-day? More woolen fac
Tories are open thau iu the active
tj meK Q f 1892, and a considerable
ntJrn ber of new woolen mills havo j
0 jtber been built or are now com- :
mCDCef l. |
*becp flocks of the country j
num bered at the end of 1894, 42,294,- i
()f)4> aga j ns t 43,048,017 at the end of i
1893 , and showed a decrease in value
twenty per ' cent., iJ, against ' animals, twenty
)ive j )er oe t- in 0 cr farm
*uch as horses. This, it must be ro
membered, is the result five months
after the removal of duties which had
been supposed to be the backbone of
the sheep raising industry for the
greater part of a century. Further
comment is unnecessary,
Mr. Mills draw's attention to the
fact that since the abolition of the
„-ggj duties foreign wools have not
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found so largo a market hero as was
anticipated, and those that have are
chiefly iu tho coarsest and finest
grades, the domestic wools being pre¬
ferred in the medium prices and qual¬
ities. The deluge of foreign wools,
which was to sweep everything before
it bas not materialized, aud tho prices
of the domestic product, havo held
tlioir ground with wonderful firm¬
ness, when it is considered that the
world’s product of wool is now ad¬
mitted to bo in excess of tho require¬
ments.
Equally delusive and without foun¬
dation wore tho statements of the
high protections that the inrush of
foreign woolen fabrics under the new
tariff - would supplant the larger por¬
tion of the products of the domestic
manufacturers, facts already demon¬
strating that tho quantity of foreigu
goods entered early in tho year was
less than was expected. H i far from
the domestic woolen industry being
destroyed, no tiling is more plainly ap¬
parent, after live months' experience,
than that the majority of tho host
makes of domestic woolens and wors¬
teds are well able to bold tho home
market against foreigu competition.
Our Labor (he Cheapest.
Two of the largest exporting firms
iu Now York have recently consoli¬
dated under the name of Flint, Eddy
k Co. Mr. Eddy, in discussing made our
export trado the other day,
some significant statements that knock
the bottom and sides out of the “Pro¬
tection to American Wages” argument
of tho McKinley tribe of Republicans.
Iu no other country, ho says, is the
motive power for manufacturing so
cheap as it is here. No other coun¬
try has so much water power or suoh
supplies of cheaply produced coal.
Wages are higher hero than abrord,
but ilie cost of lalior is not; it is made
so much more efficient by tho use of
improved machinery that tho cost, per
dollar of production is at least as low
as in any other country, Raw ma
torials are produced hero in enormous
abundance, and nearly every articlo
required for manufacture is now ad¬
mitted duty free. Mr. Eddy, there¬
fore, sees no reason why American
manufacturers should not enter into
general competition with European
manufacturers in tho markets of South
America. Bouth American merchants
are already beginning to learn the ad¬
vantages of dealing with this country;
they aro overcoming tho force of hab¬
it, and the drift of Bouth Amorioan
trade is toward tho United State?,
which is already tho chief purchaser
of South American coffee and rubber,
and has now romovod tho dutios that
had boon levied upon Argentine wool.
It is of tho moro importance to us to
extend our exports of manufactured
goods, for tho Argentine Republic is
becoming a serious competitor as a
wheat oxportor, and our export of
meats to Europe is always subject to
attacks from tiie land-owning classes.
A Tariff Reform Republican Seja'or.
It is extraordinary that a newspaper
sliould bo capable of such miarepro
Mentation as many Republican organs tarift
display about tbo rooord ou tho
question of Seuator-olect Nelson, of
Minnesota. Hero is tho Philadelphia
Press of this morning complaining
that “not one of tbo Democratic anil
mugwump newspapers that claimed
Nelson as a low-tariff man.aud asserted
that ho voted for tbo Mills bill iu
1888, bus corrected its misstatomont,"
and declaring on its own prut that
“Mr. Nelson never votod for tbo Mills
bill, but only in favor of giving it Tho an
opportunity to bo discussed.”
Press says that these things have beeu
pointed out again and again to the
Democratic and mugwump news¬
papers, but they go ou maliciously
ignoring them. Now, there is only
olio way of deciding n question of
fact, like tho question whether or not
a member of Congress voted for tho
passage of a bill. That is, to refer to
the Congressional Rooord for tho day
when the vote was taken. If tho Press
will refer to its (lie of tho Rooord, it
will find that the Mills bill camo to a
veto on tho 21st of July, 1888, and
that Mr. Nelson, then a Representa¬ No
tive, is recordod among tho yeas.
editor with a memory ought to need
a reference to tho Record. Tho bold¬
ness of Mr. Nelson in voting against
his party on tho question of passing a
“freo trade bill” inado a great sensa¬
tion. - New York Post.
Trusts Gaining Power in the Smalt*.
Trusts are likely to faro well at tiie
bands of the next United States Ben
ate. To tlio present quota of trust
Senators—which includes ail Repub¬
licans and half-dozen selfish nonde¬
scripts —will probably he added three
of the most faithful aud unscrupulous
representatives of trust-dom that ever
vote against the welfaro of tho
masses.
“Hteve” Elkins owns the Republi¬
can party in West Virginia, und is
going to send himself to tho United !
States Honate, where ho can prevent i
any further reductions of duties ou
coal and iron ore or interference with
the Lead, Hugar or other Trusts in
which he or his friends are interested.
Ho scruples at nothing when dollars
HP; at stake. The foundations of his
large fortune were laid in New Mexi
co, where ho became possessed of the
only anthracite coal beds in this
country outside of Pennsylvania,
“Gas” Addicks has a first mortgage i
on the Republican bo foreclosed. party in Deleware Sewell,
which will soon
of New Jersey, is similarly situated.
Hut few Republican editors in the
State have not obtained railroad
passes through him, and are willing to
siipport him for the Benate. All three
of* these men are monopolists and
boodleaires of the worst Btripe, utterly
uufU to sit in the United Htates Hen
ate.
A bub feels relieved when you oall
hi* tin prevarieation,
20,000 MIXERS
BATTLING AGAINST CAPITAL IN
THE PITTSBURG DISTRICT.
Tho Coal Operators Are Anxious to
Compromise.
A strike amonji the miners of the
Pittsburg, Pa., district is on. As a re¬
sult of the action taken at a conven¬
tion, secret orders to suspend and re¬
main out for tho 69 cent rate were sent
wherever the constituency could bo
reached by wire. The oetion wns un¬
expected and bears out tho threat of
the district officials that the operators
would not have twenty-four hours’ no¬
tice in which to prepare for the sus¬
pension. Ten thousand men are af¬
fected. When tho convention adjourn¬
ed every delegato having telegraphio
eommnnicatiou with his constituency
wired home that tho strike was on. It
is stated that not another ounce of
coal will bo miuod in tho communities
notified until the 69 cents is restored.
Tho plan was laid in convention to no¬
tify or confer with tho association of
operators. Tho demand for an im¬
mediate strike was so strong that it
was ordered, and ull other matters
pertaining to it were lost sight of.
IiATRlt ADVICES.
A special under date of March 7th
from Pittsburg says: Tho strike of
the miners of tho Pittsburg district is
on in full force, and it is expected to
see a general suspension of work.
There are three companies whoso
mines it is thought will stay at work
and the mon employed in these mines
aggregate less than one thousand.
At the Monongnhela mines, near
Monongnholn City, Wednesday night,
the men held a meeting, and after
completing tho loading of a Imrgo at
the request of the superintendent, quit
work.
All tho miners of the fourth pool are
expected to come out. There is a good
boating stage, and tho operators are
desirous of continuing work. Some
of them havo proposed compromises,
but in each oaso the scales havo been
rejeoted with tho demand for tho rates
decided upon by tho convention.
WORK GENERALLY SUSPENDED.
Latest reports received at the
minors’ headquarters in Pittsburg show
a general suspension of work through¬
out the district. From the roport of
the commissioner of labor, showing
the uumbor of minors employed in the
district, it is estimated that tho uum¬
bor who are on striko is over 21,000,
and that tho number employed at
mines where tliero will be no strike is
about 1,800.
Tho men nre determined to win,
although euch one will hnvo to rely on
his own resources for support during
the HUHponsion, us the organization has
not tho Aiuda to i>uy the strike bene¬
fits.
SPINNERS AND CARDERS
__
At KalI Kjver Comh | no UI1(I will Cre
uto a Striking Fund.
The Mule Spinners’ Association at
Fall River, Mass., has voted to affiliate
with the carders’ union and tho now
move opened up a now era iu trades
unionism in that city. The spinners’
union lias not been gaining in inem
bership for somo time through tho
supplanting of mules by ring frames,
but its large fund has boon reserved
and it still retains a dominating influ¬
ence in the matter of wages in the cot¬
ton trade. The present carders’ union
has been growing powerful under con¬
servative leadership, and its member¬
ship has been increasing steadily. The
affiliation of these two bodies strength¬
ens the bauds of the operatives skilled by
combining a greater number of
employes. The basis of affiliation Is
the creation of a common fund from
which members of tho union will be
paid during a strike or lockout, Tho
membership of tho spinners’ union is
about 760 und that of tho carders'
about 1.400.
ALABAMA COTTON GROWERS
Meet and Take Action Regarding Re.
(lured Acreage.
A convention of representative Ala¬
bama cotton growers was held at Bir¬
mingham to take actiou on the plan
recommended by the American Cotton
Growers’ Association, held rocuutly iu
Jackson, Miss., to reduce the acreage
of this year’s crop as the only remedy
to raise the price of the staple, de¬
cided to cut down the year’s produc¬
tion t»y 50 per cent. The decision be¬
comes operative provided three-fourths
of the cotton growers of the south
agree to it. Tho 50 per cent, idea has
become geueral throughout the sonth,
associatious for the purpose having
beeu formed in every county seat, and
there appears to be little doubt that
the necessary number will sign.
GROVER A HUNTING GOES
To Slay the Festive Duck in North
Carolina.
The president, accompanied by Dr.
O’Reilly, his physician, Commander
George F. Wilde, of the Light House
Board, and Commander Latnbeson, in
charge of the fifth Light House dis¬
trict, left Washington Tuesday morn¬
ing on the Violet for ten day’s shoot¬
ing on the island waters of North Car
olina.__
Cartridges for the Chinese,
The Winchester Repeating Arms
Company, of New Haven, Conn., have
shipped 2,000,000 cartridges to the
Chinese government. Hince the be
ginning of the hostilities, the company
has shipped 20,000 stands of arms to
China, and is now working onauad
ditioual cartridge order for that gov
erniuent. ____________________
Some Australian railways have lady
tt»Uon master*,