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THE POWER OF GENTLENESS
SERMON RY RICH .till) G. WORD
BRIDGE* Ot' 3IIDDLEB0R0, MASS.
Tlic Sixth of tlio New York JteValit’s Com¬
petition Sermons U bit “Tho Power of
Gentlcftes.”«-Bey. Dr. Talmage Dls
vour.e* on Christ as a Village hail
Text: “Thy gentleness hath made
great.”—Psalms, There is little xvjii., pttpttl&r 35-,
in the idea of gen¬
tleness to make it desirable for God or man.
We think ot.it ns lacking in vigor and it
iojig gestive way removed from greataossi Ho sug¬
is it of weakness find softness that
we want very iittie to do with it.
Our ideas of gentleness need rentlfMn^.
Wo speak often -of a gentle lidSe. What
do wo mean b.y it? That horse is gentle
that i« nervy and lull of mettle, able to pass
subtitled anything bn tho road, and j’et so easily
that tho voieo of a little child
would bring him to a standstill at once-.
That man is gentle who has the strength of
a Hercules and the tendi'Vn>'...s of A woman.
Gentleness is power Withholding itself and
spending A itself illustration In good ness.
good of gentleness was
that on :i Spanish battle field; A gallant
French soldier’s sWol-d was Uplifted td
strike his foe toUl6 earth, butlnisaWeS tllS
sword was about to deseehii that his an¬
tagonist had swell), hut Out' ’arm, Instantly ho
stayed his brought it to a salute
and rode Oh.
I teflitlencss in a woman is love’s mighty
magnet, and will attract Us owii from tho
ends of the earth. A woman without it is
a far monstrosity, than ho warrior With it is ghlilter
who shows lit* gthver by burn¬
ing villages destroying crops, executing
prisoners. Tile great general at Appomat
in tox, considering tho interests of tin* hied
silencing gray, treating them as ills WohiUtymen,
the salute already UhdorwaytO
celebrate victory test they should be fur¬
ther humiliated, home well and sending Hip flWttittod
ones fed and teijiU^ed for labor
on tho farms, dee]tiring himself a gentle
man as well ns a great soldier, and did
morn in that hour to make his country
great titan other great men have done in a
lifetime. Grant could have crushed tho
South in that hour; instead, lie baresSbil it
as a mother her Weak and way ward bhild,
and molted it to tears.
Wo speak often df tho power of God, but
it is tiro gdiUoness of God that works tlm
greatest wonders. It is this that makes
smm great. See the gentleness bf God at
tho beginning, U is not the sirobjf arm,
but tho tender heart, that Witcerns itself
with fallen man-. It is not a king’s voice
that wo lien* 111 Eden, but a father's.
Pathetic cl‘y that, “Adam, Adam, where art
thouf" When God came down in human
flesh to save a lost world He came In the
same spirit. A still and quiet night it was
when tlio Saviour was born, Tlte Stars
looked down peacefully Upon the shepherds
ns they watched their sheep. The world
was wrapt in slumber, it was into this
stillness and quiet that God’s angels name
and words God's those glory shone iihgid around, Gentle
were the spoke—“Be not
afraid.” Ho swept Sind genllo was tlio music
.shepitards of tiie angelic best that no ono save the
heard it.
"(no spirit of tho Gospel in the same. It
, is summed in the words: “A bruised
reed up
will Ho hot bl-cali; tho smoking flax He
will not quench,' 1 it is by gentleness that
God seeks to win tho world to righteo US
fleas iilltl truth. “The Lord God is a situ.”
Sooner or inter cold ami joy lionets must
give way before Him. Wo need more, gen¬
tleness before tho earth can become like
heaven—gentleness on the part of parents.
You can shout nt your children nnd bring
them into trembling submission; you can
thrash them into obedience; you citn starve
them into submission. The strong can
bring tho weak to terms for a whilo by any
of tlio methods. But if you want to show
your child tho sweet reasonableness of
your Uient, position and to make him docile, obi*.
with trustful, sit down and talk gently
him and seek to make his heart your
own.
We need more gentleness on the part of
children—gentleness of speech, gentleness
of manner. Children need to iearn early
how mean a thing it is to tyrannize over
any ono weaker than themselves. Them
is no ono for whom a healthy boy has more
bully. contempt as ho grows older than for a
Wo nebd more gentleness on the part of
teachers. It is by appealing to tho best in
a boy that tho host is developed. Humiliate
a boy, degrado him, ridicule him and you
bavo not subdued him. Beam upon him
gently and lovingly, apart aad alone, and
ho will be your friend forever,
l Wo need more gentleness on tlio part of
preachers. “The servant of the Lord must
not strive, but bo gentle toward all men.”
Tho Great Preacher was so gontlo that Si¬
mon the Pharisee asked him to dine with
him; tho poor harlot lingered near His feet
caressingly; Zacehcns and Matthew, tho
publicans, became His loyal disciples, and
even a thief, in tlio agony of crucifixion,
cried, “Lord, remember me.” The world
needs nothing more than it needs gentle¬
ness and love. Human hearts are hungry
for the music of gentle voices nnd the touch
of tenderness. Why should we not all try
to show that wo are tho sons and daughters
of tho gentlo God?
Rough, rude boys have hoen made great
for time anil eternity by the sweetness and
gentleness of mothers and sisters. Dull,
wilful, petulcnt scholars havo been made
thoughtful and earnest by tiie tonder pa¬
tient love of self-denying teachers. Houls
small, mean, selfish, sinful, havo boon
made great bv tho gentle, faithful labors
of those not willing that any should perish,
The night of life is coming on apace. It
will bo sweet to have tho gates swing in¬
ward at our approach to tho city eternal,
and to be welcomed and"to by some watching for
our home coming, bear from joyful
lips such words as those: “Thy gentleness
hath made mo great.”
RlCIUEB G. WOODBRIDOE,
Pastor Central Congregational Church,
Midilieboro, Mass.
CHRIST AS A VILLAGE LAD.
Dr. Tillnia^o Discourses on Hie Boyhuod
of Jems,
Text: “And tlio child grow and waxed
Strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and
the face of Clod was upon Him."—Luke si.,
40.
CoDcerniug what houmlcd tho boyhood
of Christ, tho preacher said, wo liavo wholo
libraries of books and wholo galleries of
canvas and sculpture, Init pou aud pencil
and chisel have, with few exceptions,
passed by Christ, the villago lad. “Yet, by
throe conjointed evidences,” ho said, “I
think we can come to as accurate an idea
of wliat Christ was as a boy us of what
Christ was as a man.
“First, we have tiie Bible account of His
bovhood. Then wo liavo tiie prolonged ac¬
count of what Christ was at thirty years of
age. We have besides an uninspired book
that was for tlio first three or four centuries
after Christ’s appearance received by many
as inspired, and which gives a proioDged
account of Christ's boyhood.
“Tho so-called apocryphal Gospel, in
which tiie boyhood be of divinely Christ is inspired, dwelt upon. and
I do not believe to !
yet it may present facts worthy of the consid¬ boy
eration. Because it represents
Christ as performing miracles, somo havo
overthrown that whole apocryphal book.
But what right havo you to say that Christ
did not perform miracles at tun years of
age, ns well as at thirty? Ho was in boy¬
hood as certainly as divine as in manhood.
Then while a hid He must have lmd the
power to work miracles, whether He did
or not work them. When, having reached
manhood, Christ turned water into wine,
that was said to be the beginning of mir¬
acles. But that may menu that it was the
beginning of that series of manhood mir
fields. the New Testa¬
“In a word, I think that
ment is only a small transcript of what
Jesus said and did. bo we are at liberty to
f he Hamilton Journal.
believe or reject.Vhnsrt parts of the apocry¬
phal Christ tsdspvl with His which say that passed when the boy
mother a baud of
thieves, He told His mother that two of
them, Dumaeiius and Wild Titus Hftefwafd by name.,would
be tho two thieves. would
expire bit el-bases besides Hi ns. Was that
hVbre wonderful titan some of Christ’s man¬
hood prophecies? Or the inspired story
that the boy Christ made a fountain spring
from tho roots of a sycamore tree, so that
His mother Washed His spat in the Stream
—was tfiaMhbj-b iiabelieVilbietliau the man
hood miracle that changed common water
into .a marriage. beverage? Or the unin
spired story that two sick. cliIUR'th were re¬
covered Christ had by washed. bathing in the water where
Was that more won¬
derful than the manhood miracle.by which
the woman;, twolt-c v»nsv k complete in¬
valid. should have been made straight by
touching the fringe ot Christ’s coat? Is
that more wonderful than tho manhood
miracles by which Christ reanimated tho
dead again and again without going whoro
they “From woi-o or even hatriraliiesS, seoing them?
the tho simplicity,
tho freshness of Ills parables And similes
and metaphors in manhood of discodrso I
know bad that bathed Ho ljdd beeii ti boy the hoard llelds
and In the streams and
tho nightingale's call, and broken through
the flowery hodgo jbf rtnd looked out of the
embrasures tll'i wells the Erii-tress, butterflies.” and drank
front and eh as ad tho
Dr. Talmnge reforrod to Christ in tho
mechanic’s shop, having boon taught tho
carpenter’s trade by His father, Joseph.
“His hammer pounding, His saw vacil¬
lating, His aso descending and tho per¬
spiration from Ilia work standing on Hid
brow.”
Then said the preacher: “I show you a
more marvelous scene—Christ, the smooth
browed lad, among the long-bearded,
white-haired the j higii-forohoaded ecclesias¬
tics ill Temple.”
apocrypha; Following other the preacher events recorded, naked if jn thoy tho
wore more wrtfldbrfuithan events recorded
lit tlhi New Testament.
“If Christ were diviuo was Ho not able
at ten or twelve years to describe tho
human system as well as though He had
been fifty years standing at an operating other
table or in a dissecting room? In
words, white I ,dd tuft belietd that any part
bf.tUb is inspired, jSb-cftllGd I believe apocryphal much of New it is Testament true, just
ns I believe a thousand books, none of
which child is divinely twelve inspired.” old; surrounded by
“A years
septuagenarians: rtnd answering He asking His own intro¬ ques¬
tions* theirs. Let mo
duce you-to some of these ecclesiastics.
This is the great Rabbin Simeon! This is
the venerable Hillel! This is the famous
Shammai! These are the sons of tho dis¬
tinguished Betirah. Tho first time in all
their lives those religionists have found
their mutch, find more than their match.
Though so young) iid knew all about that
Templd under whose roof they held that
most wonderful discussion of all history.
Ho knew the meaning Of every altar, of
every sacrifice, of every golden candle¬
stick, bf every embroidered curtain, of
every crumb of shrew bread, of every drop
of oil in that saerod epifico. Ho know all
about God. He knew all about man. He
knew all about heaven, for Ho came from
it. Hd knew all about tills world, for Ho
made it. Ho knew all worlds, forthey were
only the sparkling morning ilewdrops on
the lawn in front of His heavenly palaco.
“I’ut these seven Bible words in a wreath
of emphasis: ‘Both hearing them and ask¬
ing thorn questions.’ I am not so much
interested in the questions thoy asked Him
ns in tho questions Ho asked information them. Ho
asked the question not to got
from tho doctors, for He knew it already,
but to humble them by showing thorn the
height And depth and length and breadth
of their own ignorance. Tho radiant boy
with any one of a hundred questions about
theology, about philosophy, about astrono¬
my, about time, about eternity, may have
balked them, disconcCftCci them. Behold
tho boy Christ asking questions, and listen
when your child asks questions. Ho lias
the right to ask them. The more ho asks,
the better. Alas for tho stupidity of the
child without inquisitiveness! It is Christ
like to ask questions. Answer them if you
can. Do not say: ‘I can’t be bothered
now.’ It is your place to bo bothered with
questions. If you are not able to answer,
surrender and confess your incapacity, as
I have no doubt did Rabbis Simeon, and
Hillel, and Shammai, and tho sons of Be
tirali when that splendid boy, sitting or
standing there, with a garment reaching
from, neek to ankle, and girdled at tlio
waist, put them to their very wits’ end.
It is no disgraco to say ‘I don’t know.’
The only being in the universe who never
needs to say ‘I don’t know’ is tho Lord
Almighty.
“But while I sec tlio olil theologians
standing around the hoy Christ, I am im¬
pressed as never before with tho fact that
what theology most wants is more of
childish simplicity. Why should you and
I perplex ourselves about tho deerees of
God? Mind your own business and God
will take care of His. In the conduct of
tho universe I think Ho will somehow man
ngo to get along without us. If you want
to love and serve God, anil bo good and
useful and get to heaven, I warrant that
nothing which occurred eight hundred
quintilllon of years ago will hinder you a
minuto. It is not tiie decrees of God that
do us any harm; it is our own decrees of sin
and folly.
“You need not go any further back in
history than about one thousand eight
hundred nnd sixty-four years. Something
occurred on that day under an eclipsed
sun that sets us ail forever free, if with our
whole heart and lifo we accept tho tre¬
mendous protter. Do not let the Presby¬
terian Church, or tho Methodist Church,
or tlio Lutheran Church, or tho Baptist
Church, or any of the other evangelical
churches spend nuy time In trying to fix
up old creeds, all of them imperfect, ns
everything own" denomination man does made is imperfect. Our
itself absurd by
trying to revise its creed made hundreds
of years ago. You might as well try to re¬
vise your grandmother’s lovo letters. I
move a new creed for ail the evangelical
churches of Christendom, creed, only three arti¬
cles in tho and no need of any
more.
“If I had ail tho consecrated people of
all denominations of the earth on ono great
plain, and I had voico loud enough to put
it to a vote, that creed ot three articles
would Vie adopted with a unanimous vote.
’J'hi3 is the creed I propose for all Christen¬
dom:
“Article first- ‘God so loved tho world
that lie gave His only begotten Son, that
whosoever helievoth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.’
“Article second—‘This is a faithful say¬
ing, and worthy of all acceptation, that
Jesus Christ came iuto tho world to save
sinners, even the chief.’
“Article third—‘Worthy is tlio Lamb that
was slain to receive blessings aud riches
and honor and glory aud power, world
without end.’
“But you go to tinkering up your old
creeds, and patching and splicing and
interlining and annexing and subtracting
and adding and explaining, and you will
lose time and make yourself a target for
earth nnd hell to shoot at. Let us liavo
creeds not fashioned out of human in¬
genuities, hut out of scriptural phrase
ology, and all tho guns of bombardment
blazing delity and from perdition all the will port holes in of thou¬ infi¬
not a
sand years knock off the church of God
a splinter us big as a cambric needle.
What is most needed now is that we gather
ail our theologies around the boy iu tho
temple, the elaborations around tiie sim¬
plicities, and the profundities around tho
clarities, the octogenarian of scholastic re¬
search around the unwriukled cheek of
twelve-year juveneseen.ee. ‘Except you
become ns a Iittie child you eau iu no wise
enter the kingdom;’and except you become
as a little child you cannot understand the
Christian religion. The best thing that
liabbis Simeon and Hillel and Shammai
and the sons of Betirah ever did was, in
the temple, ruddy to bend over the lad who, first
made of cheek by the breath of the
HAMILTON. HARRIS CO., GA„ FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1898.
Judean hills, and on his way lo the me¬
chanic’s shop, where ho was soon to be
tho support ipugenough o£ his bereaved mother,
stopped to grapple with the
vener:ibtfi diitlecucirtuH fif the rirteiit! ,’botli
hearing them and asking them questions.’
Some, referring to Christ, have exclaimed:
Jicco ileuS! Behold tho God. Others have
exclaimed: Eceo Homo, Behold tho man.
But to-day, in conclusion of my subject, I
cry: Ecee adolescence! Behold tho boy.”
THE CARTER eOERTMARTIAL.
Thirteen Officers In Attendance Mu. c t
l’ay Own Expenses.
, A. Saviinutih dispatch tays: Colonel
J. YV. Clous, deputy judge advocate
general, and Captain Cliarles McClure
began tlieir work Wednesday by pre¬
paring their case, preliminary to the
Carter Cjaptaiii eourlmavtial proceedings.
Gillette was asked if he
wbifid trlkij part in tlife. prosecution of
tiife case against Captain Carter, as he
had done before the board of inquiry.
Hfe replied that he would appear as a
ivitness and that under instructions
from the war department he would as¬
sist Colonel Clous in preparing the
evidence. Before the court, however,
the case will be conducted entirely by
Colonel Clous.
An interesting feature of the court
martial is that thirteen officers who
will sit as judgfis will have to pay tlieir
own expenses. Besides railroad
tickets, they are allowed mileage of 4
cents; find sleeping car fare, but will
have to pay their own hotel bills while
in the city. This is in accordance
with the army regulations.
XVlien an officer conies from a long
distance lie has sufficient from his
mileage to pay his hotel bill in part,
but when he comes from a hefirby sta¬
tion and lias to remain for some time,
the expenses run up, and it is not so
pleasant for him to have to pay them
out of ills Own pocket, Sitcli is the
rule, however, and ihe officers will
their own expenses in the
city. Some of those who will sit with
ihe court come from the western sta¬
tions. Their mileage, therefore, will
amount to a considerable sum,and will
no doubt go a good way toward pay¬
ing expenses, Others will travel
only short distances, and not be so
fortunate.
NEW CUBAN CABINET.
Grheral BlanCo Si-ns Appointments of
Autonomists.
A special from Havana says: Cap¬
tain General Blanco has signed tho
appointments of the president of the
council and the live secretaries. The
name of Edwardo Dolz was substituted
for that of Senor Ainblard as minister
of commerce.
The following compose the first, col¬
onial cabinet of Chiba, under the re¬
cently instituted scheme of autonomy,
which went into effect on the first.
President of the eaMnet, Senor Jose
Maria Galvez.
Minister of finance—Senor Rafael
Montoro, Marquis of Montoro.
Minister of interior—Senor Antonio
Gorin.
Minister of education—Senor Fran¬
cisco Znyas.
Minister of commerce—Eduardo
Dolz.
Minister of posts and telegraphs—
Senor Lauretta S. Rodriquez.
VAN WICK’S APPOINTMENTS.
Names of Some of Uie Greater City’s 3Iu
iticipal Officers.
Mayor Van Wyck has announced
officially the selections for a portion of
the municipal offices of Greater New
York within his gift. The remainder
will be made within a few- days. The
list as far as completed up to date is as
follows:
Corporation Counsel — John Whalen.
First Assistant Corporation Coun¬
sel—Theodore Connelly.
Second Assistant Corporation Coun¬
sel—William J. Lodd.
Third Assistant Corporation Coun¬
sel—Charles Blandy.
President and Commissioner of the
Board of Charities for Manhattan and
Bronx, six years—John W. Keller.
Shiriff—-Thomas J. Dunn.
District Attorney—Asa Bird Gardi¬
ner.
Assistants—James J. Grady, John
F. McIntyre, James W. Osborne,
Henry W. Unger, James D. Mc¬
Clelland, Stephen S. Blake, James J.
Walsh, Robert Townsend.
RHODE ISLAND NEXT.
Cotton Manufacturers In That State
Decide to Post Deduction of Wages.
A dispatch from Providence says:
That the Rhode Island cotton mills
will cut wages is now assured. A
prominent cotton manufacturer says
that there is nothing left for the man¬
ufacturers to do, and that action will
be taken in a few days.
Nothing definite has been learned
regarding the probable action of
Rhode Island owners of Connecticut
mills, hut it is to be presumed that the
policy of Rhode Island will be adopted
by the Connecticut mills.
BRUNSWICK BANK QUITS.
Directors Will Allow LiQuidutiou to Fro
cee<! In tlio Courts.
The Merchants ami Traders bank of
Brunswick, Da., failed to open its
doors Wednesday morning.
The capital stock of the bank is
$100,000 aud the amount due deposi¬
tors is $40,000. Some months ago
there was a plau to put the bank in
the hands of u receiver and ever since
depositors have been withdrawing to
such an extent that the directors final¬
ly determined to close and let liquida¬
tions proceed in the courts.
AQvertlse wltli ns If yon wish to
keep the people posted as to the
amount, the character, the qnality
and prices of goods yon hare for sale.
An ad will bring ’em every time.
CT=b 4
BREAK BETWEEN SECRETARY AND
ADMINISTRATION IS IMMINENT.
OFFICIAL SIDE OF THE MATTER.
In Spite of Semi-Official Denials, Previous
tleporta of Secretary’s Resignation
Are Said i'o Tr«e*
A Washington special says: The
trouble in Major McKinley’s cabinet
reached a crisis sooner than was ex¬
pected: lii gpith of tiie semi-official
denials of the report that Secretary
Gage httd resigned, it is nevertheless
true that the secretary of the treasury
offered his resignation and ft was de¬
clined. There were some peculiar
complications which grew out of the
report some days ago. At the treasury
department it was openly admitted by
Mr ; Gage’s cohfidttuts that he had ten¬
dered Lis resignation in order to Avoid
embarrassing the administration.
During the early hours before the
cabinet met it was admitted also at
the white house that the secretary of
the treasury had offered to resign, but
Mr, Porter said he would make no
further statement until after the cabi¬
net meeting;
Aboiit the only thing done fit the
cabinet meeting; so it is learned now;
was a discussion on the action of Mr.
Gage, find it was unanimously advisable decided
that it would ho to quash
the whole matter by an official denial.
This could he done, inasmuch ns the
resignation was not tendered in writ¬
ing. Mr. Porter made the statement
for the president that the report grew
out of the fact that Secretary Gage
offered to leave the cabinet if lie should
prove an embarrassment to the presi¬
dent.
This is the official side of it. The
fact remains that the secretary’s offer
to leave the cabinet was a bontt tide
resignation. Either he lmd determ¬
ined to resign and go hack to Chicago
or that the-president should have tho
responsibility for his financial recom¬
mendations. This last explanation of
his act seems the most logical one to
politicians who believe that the
president’s declining to receive tho
resignation means nothing less than
the determination to stand by Mr.
Gage.
Many believe that the president will
still continue to play a double role in
the financial matter, and he will be
forced finally to accept the resignation
of his secretary of the treasury as the
only solution of the difficulty.
A break between the president and
the man who is presumed to hold the
position of financial adviser to the
administration is hound to come, and
everything points to its being not long
delayed.
GUS FAMBLES AGAIN RESPITED.
So Long: as 31 rs. Nobles Dives lie Has a
Lease On Life,
Gus Families, Mrs. Nobles’ associ¬
ate in tho murder of her husband,
received another respite Thursday.
Mrs. Nobles is making a very earnest
struggle to avoid the gallows. Gus
Fumbles isn’t doing anything. Mrs,
Nobles gets a stay of sentence through
the genius of her lawyers. Gus Fam¬
ilies “lays low” and gets a respite.
Thus it goes.
Though Famhles has been under
sentence for many, many mouths, he
is no nearer the end than when first
sentenced. The gallows recedes ns the
end of his respite approaches, for Gus
invariably gets another. He is now
safe until February 11, Governor At¬
kinson having decided to renew his
lease on life, which will he a life lease
if old Mrs. Nobles escapes the death
penalty.
INDIA’S FAMINE WAS COSTLY.
Tho Total Amounts to Several 3Iillions
of Dollars.
It is officially announced at Calcutta
that the recent fatnino cost the treas¬
ury £800,000 ($4,000,000), while loans
to agriculturists and suspensions of
taxes, mainly repayable, absorbed an¬
other £400,000 irrespective of chari¬
table contributions, approaching £1,-
750,000.
FATAL CARELESSNESS.
Cur Backed Over Five 3ren, Killing' Two
Instantly.
Through earlessness in backing a
shifting engine on a track in the yard
of tho Warden boiler works at Phila¬
delphia Friday afternoon, two men
were killed, two others received inju¬
ries which will likely resuit in their
death and a fifth was severely injured.
Five employees of the boiler works
were engaged in pushing an empty car
when a shifting engine rather swiftly
entered the j-ard and struck the car.
All five men were thrown down and
the car ran over them.
BULLETS FOR “BARKERS.'’
Smith Shot Two Clerks For Trying to
Full Him.
At St. Louis, Thursday, while Wil¬
liam Smith was passing a second-hand
stove on Morgan street, Morris Miller
and Victor Goldstein, attaches of the
store, seized him by the arms and tried
to induce him to enter the store and
make a purchase.
Smith drew a revolver and pulled
the trigger five times. Miller was
taken to the hospital in a dying condi¬
tion; Goldstein’s arm was punctured
by a bullet and Smith was taken to
jail.
GOMPERS TO GAGE.
President of American Federation of La
bor Argues Against Gold Standard.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, has re¬
plied ill an open letter to Secretary
Gage’s recent letter taking exceptions
to the resolutions passed by the Gagd fed¬
eration with reference to the
financial bill. Mr. Gompers says in
part: exception both the
“You take to po
hitibil which out organization has
taken upon *otif hill as well as the
language employed. h N° 1t
justified in the one, you certainly mis
apfifehcnd the other. I submit that
you will seek m vftin fot ,fl single de¬
nunciatory word eihter in rfcgrtrd. to
your motives, your plau or your bill.
“Those resolutions declare against
a plan for more thoroughly commit
tiog ofir country to the gold standard,
a plan fot destroying our greenback
currency and substituting bank notes,
a plan in fact for weakening tilts Con¬
trol of the national gouernment over
that ffiost important of all measures—
the measure of values and strength¬
ening the banks, a plan aiming' iti what
they call ‘currency reform,’ and which
we call ‘hank monopoly.
“That you should take offense at
these resolutions I regret, for the
rigiit tlieit to express servants disapproval of the acts
of is oiie of the rights
held sacred by the American people
and one you will freely accord. We
do riot charge you with ‘ignorance,
relative or absolute';’ or allege any
‘evil purpose’ or a ‘perversity Of mo¬
tive’ on your part, as implied by your
letter; nor, upon rearranging the reso¬
lutions, will you find them condema
lory or denunciatory, fesoliitions ns you declaratory say they
are. The fire
of the views of the American Federa¬
tion of Labor and are entirely imper¬
sonal; for, of all men in public life,
wo have the greiiteSt respect for your
probity and integrity.
4 ‘ The wage-earners of America repre¬
sented in the American Federation of
Labor believe the position you have
taken in regard to tho retirement of
greenback enrreney is antagonistic to
tlieir interests and they are opposed
to your plan for more thoroughly com¬
mitting this country to the gold stan¬
dard; ”
EXPRESS ALL.NT SKIPS.
Mabry IVa* Short anil Grabbed All till*
Cash In Sight.
P. H. Mabry, agent of the Southern
Express company at Brunswick, Ga.,
disappeared Wednesday with Savings $5,000
consigned to the Brunswick
and Trust company and $5,000 con¬
signed to the National Rank of Bruns¬
wick. This currency wits shipped by
the Savannah Banking and Trust com¬
pany, arriving at 11 o’clock Tuesday
night.
In addition, Mrtbry is supposed tiie to
have taken $4,500 placed in ei
press office by the Johnston Steamship
line. Other shortages may develop.
Mabry’s shortage and flight became
known early in the day. arrived Tuesday
night Route Agent Lovett to
check up the office, Mabry Worked
all night ami checked himself up $500
short.
After vainless figuring trying to find
it, he wrote a three-page letter to his
wife, couched in the most affectionate
terms. In it he stated that ho was
short and did not know where the
money was, and Route Agent Lovett
would discover the shortage and prob¬
ably jail him. The disgrace was too
much for him to face, and lie took
$10,000 then on hand and left. If ap¬
prehended ho would kill himself.
WASHINGTONIANS INDIGNANT
Over Publications KcKnvtUnfi; the Dt\J''.ye<l
Hilton Trophy.
A Washington dispatch states that
General Harries, who is in command of
the militia of tho District of Columbia,
is indignant over the stories which
come from Georgia about the Hilton
trophy. He considers that these
stories reflect upon the district militia
“Everything in those statements
that suggests that we are holding the
Hilton trophy is asinine, ” declared
General Harries. “Of course,” he
continued, “there is no truth in the
suggestion that we desire to hold on
to the trophy even temporarily.”
General Harries declares that Adju¬
tant General Heyl shipped the trophy
directed to the adjutant general’s
office, Atlanta, some days ago. He
declares that the fault must bo with
the express office as he does not won¬
der at it because of the Christmas
rush.
_
TESTIMONIAL AND RESOLUTIONS.
Nfanagcrs of the Recent Citadel IIop Will
Remember 3Iisg Crane.
A dispatch from Charleston, S. 0.,
says: To show that they were not par¬
ties to the treatment of Charlotte
Crane, the managers of the Citadel
hop have decided to present the young
actress with a testimonial and resolu¬
tions to assure her that they regret the
affair and were not to blame for it.
Mrs. Lewis, the lone chaperone, who
objected to Miss Crane s presence, is
coming in for the brunt of the gen
eral condemnation.
UNPOPULAR WITH BANKERS.
Opposition to Postal Savings Institutions
Strongly Manifested.
The postal savings banks idea is not
a popular one in New- York banking
circles. A canvass of presidents of
prominent institutions developed that
fact clearly. time few presidents
At the same very opinions for
were willing to express
publication. All practically agreed
with President E. S. Mason, of the
Bank of New York, in the statement
that there are already so many banks
in existence that rates for money have
been cut to where there is Ijttle profit.
; FIRE INSURANCE? i
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’ Ard prompt settlement in
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VOL. XXVII. NO 1.
OPPOSITION CLAIM THAT HE M ILL
BE TURNED DOWN.
POLITICIANS GATHER AT COLUMBUS
Ohio Senatorial right i:i the Lcei.Jat ure
Will Sturt From the First anil
Be a Buttle Royal.
A special of Wednesday 1 from Cot
nmbus, O., says: As the case staucls
now, Mr; Hanna is a defeated man.
Charles L. Kurtz ‘‘as enough repub¬
lican votes pledged against him to pre¬
vent his election to the United States
senate. The question now is, will
KnftZ be able to hold his men in line?
Six fefirs ago J. B. Foraker had
John Sherman defeated for the United
States senatorship two weeks before
the vote was taken. But the influence
of ihfi national administration was
thrown by I’fesident Harrison in favor
of Sherman, and the Foraker men
could not withstand the influences
brought to bear.upon them to bring
them to the support of Sherman. His¬
tory will repeat itself, unless the men
who hate taken a stand with Mr.
Kurtz in this fight are made of stuff
that will withstand the inducements
that Senator Hanna, backed by Presi¬
dent MdKinley, will be able to offer.
Kurtz is a very shrewd manager and
very conservative. He would certain¬
ly not go into such a fight, tor defeat
means utter annihilation, if he did
hot feel sure of winning.
The leading Foraker republicans of
tho state have been hailed to Colum¬
bus and are working effectively as the
lieutenants of Kurtz. W. I. Squire
and CiififlfeS T, Griffin, of Toledo;
Hugh Bulkeley, of Cleveland, and
Stato Librarian Galbraith are on the
ground and reiterating Kurtz’s state
ment that Hanna is defeated.
Mayor McKissen, of Cleveland, long
ft bitter enemy of Mark Hanna in his
own party in Cleveland, arrived
Wednesday night and assumed man
agement of tiie anti-Hanna republican
headquarters in the Southern hotel,
just across the corridor from the state
headquarters of the democrats.
If three republicans refuse to vote
for Hauna he cannot be elected unless
he gets some support from the fusiotl
republicans from Cincinnati. Hanna’s
friends do not claim more than three
of these five. The anti-Hanna repub¬
licans claim that there will be at least
eleven republicans refusing to vote for
Hanna. The names of these are not
made public, but they are undoubtedly
Senators Burke and Shepard and
Representatives Mason, Bramley,
Jones, Smith, Griffith, Bossard, Man¬
uel, Reddy nnd Rutfln. None of these
havo expressed themselves.
"Will Ignore the Caucus.
It is evidently tho intention of the
anti-Hauna republicans to ignore the
caucus, Some of them will not attend
at all. Senator Shepard says he will
not attend, but will not be bound to
vote for tho caucus nominee.
News comes from Wilmington that
Representative Griffith,of that county,
a strong Hanna man, is dangerously
ill of a chronic disease and will not Ire
able to take his seat. This will be a
loss of one vote for Hanna, and re¬
duce his constitutional majority to
two.
The democratic leaders have decided
to wait for the organization of the two
branches of the legislature to sec what
strength the anti-Hamm movement has.
If it shows such strength as to promise
success iu a joint fight against Hanna,
they will he ready to co-operate. In
the meantime they nro getting their
forces ready for such action.
'BROKER DOES IVKONli.
Operated In Wall Street Similar to tlio
Dean Company.
A New York dispatch says: A war¬
rant is out for the arrest cf Henry
Oliver Goldsmith, one of the best
known men of Wall street. The spe¬
cific charge against him is grand lar¬
ceny in the first degree for appropriat¬
ing a check for $5,000, the property of
Oscar E. A. Wiessner, of Brooklyn.
The officials of tho district attorney’s
office say that Goldsmith has managed
to get away with something like half a
million dollars by operations similar to
those that brought the E. S. Dean
company before the public.
WILL COMPLETE ROAD.
New Purchasers of Tennessee Central to
Build from Knoxville to Nashville.
Colonel Jere Baxter and associates,
Colonel N. C. Chapman, of St. Louis;
T. C. Doremus, of New York, anil R.
L. Morris, of Nashville, have mafie
tho first payment of $125,000 on tho
Tennessee Central railroad purchased
by them a few days ago. raised
The gentlemen have already
$1,500,000 with which to complete the
road and have placed an immense or¬
der with tho Carnegies for nails. The
original idea of the projectors was to
build the line from Knoxville to Nash¬
ville, and this Colonel Baxter and his
associates will carry out.
DISTILLERS COMBINE.
Half Million Barrel* of Wlilakles Will 15c
Put In Pool.
Leading Kentucky distillers have
inaugurated a movement for a pool of
the big stocks of past years. It is
claimed that 500,000 barrels of whisky
will be put into the pool. A common
distributor will be employed.
The whisky firms at Cincinnati, St.
Louis, Peoria, Chicagoandotherplaces
are interested in the enterprise.
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