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DISCOURSE.
Subject: “Sprinkled nnd OleniiRoii,” In
IV Kiel* the Story of the Shedding ot
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Tho ano oid Did T Testament, , ,i to very many people, ,
is slaughter-house strewn with
O eon, and bones, and horns, and hoofs of
IT discTuf It ofre “ Js thoir **««»“;
tt uis fets their taste; it . actually . 1 nauseates
ti«n “ ut t0 th0 intelligent Curls-
a ° s tainent is a magnifloent
as yjuiuor lie appears through at the. which other Jesus end of advances. the eor-
ri iorwecau only see the outlines of His
ti, i , r: coming nearer, we can descry
nil * U ' cs. -B ti t when, at last He steps
i, upon i,a the platform of tho New Testament,
amid the torches of evangelists and apos-
Gcs, the orchestras of heaven announce Him
With a blast of minstresly that wakes up
Bethlehem at midnight.
Taere were a groat many caga.s of birds
brought down to Jerusalem for saoriftoa—
sparrows, and pigeons, and turtle-doves.
I can hear them now, whistling, caroling
an J singing all around about the Temple.
Ween a leper was to be cured of his lep¬
rosy, in order to his cleansing two of these
birds were taken; one ot them was slain
over an earthen vessel of running water —
that is, clear, fresh water, and then the
bird was killed. Another bird was then
taken, by tied to a hyssop-branch, and plunged
the priest into the blood of the llrst bird;
and then, witii this hyssop-branch, bird-
dippjl, tiie priest would sprinkle the leper
hyssop-branch, seven times,then untie the bird from tho
and it would go soaring
into the heavens.
Now open your eyes wide, my dear
brethren and sisters, and see that that first
bird meant Jesus, and that the second bird
meant your own soul.
I notice also In my text that the bird that
was .slain was a clean bird. The text de¬
manded that it should be. The raven was
never sacrificed, nor tho cormorant, nor
the vulture, It must be a clean bird says
the text; and it suggests the pure Jesus —
the holy Jesus. Although He spent His
boyhood in tho worst village on earth,
although blasphemies were poured into
His car enough to have poisoned anyone
else, Ho stands, before ths world a perfect
Christ,
I remark, also, in regard to this first
bird mentioned in tho text that it was a
defenseless bird. When tho eagle is as¬
saulted, with its iron beak it strikes like a
bolt against its adversary. This kuowjust was a
dove or a sparrow, we do not
which. Take tho dove or pigeon iu your
hand, and the pecking of its beak on your
hand makes you laugh at tho feebleness of
Its assault.
None to help! The murderers have it
all tiieir own way. Where was the soldier
in the Roman regiment who swung bis
sword iu the defense of tho Divine Martyr?
Did they put one drop of oil on His gashed crowd
feet? Was there one in all that
manly and generous enough to stand out
for Him? Were the miscreants at the
cross any more interfered with in their
work of spiking Him fast than the carpen¬
ter in his shop driving a nail through n pine
board? The women cried, but there was
no balm in their tears. None to help!
None to help! O my Lord Jesus, none to
help! this dove of the text, in its last mo¬
Oh, clutched not with talons. It
ment, angry
plunged not a savage beak. It was a dove
—Telples3, defenseless. None to help!
to
As, after a severe storm in
vou go out and find birds dead on the
ground, so this dead bird of ths text makes
me ttilnk of tiiat, awful storm that swept
the earth on Cnieitlxion day, whoa tho
wrath of God anil the malice of ifrau nnd
the fury of devils wrestled beneath the
three erosses. speak to this second
But I come now to
bird of the text. We must not let that fly
away until wi} have examined it, The priest
took the second bird, tied it to the hyssop
branch, and then plunged it in the blood of
the first bird. Alii that is my soul, plunged
for cleansing In tho Saviour’s blood. There
is not onougli water in the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans to wash away our smallest
sin. Sin is such an outrege of God’s uni¬
verse that nothing but blood can atone for
ft. You know the life is in the 1 blood, and
As the life had been forfeited, nothing
could buy it hack but blood.
As thia second bird of tho text was
plunged in the blqodpf the first of Christ bird, sq wo
p, ust be washed in the blood or go
polluted notice forever, that ns soon as this second
I now the blood of the first
bird was dipped unloosened in It and It
bird, ,|,!_freo the priest nnd free of foot. It could was
f rt of wing
whet its beak on any tree branch it chose.
It could peck tiie grapes of any vineyard
it chose. It was free; a type of our souls
after we have washed in the blood of the
Lamb. We can go where we will. We cun
do what we will.
has become Christum, . . ho is
If a man a no
more afraid of Sinai. The thunders of Sinui
do uot frighten him. You have, on some
August day, seen two thunder-showers
meet. One cloud from this mountain, nnd
another cloud from that mountain, coming
nearer and nearer together, and responding
to each other, crash to crash, thunder to
thunder, boom! boom! - And then theelouds
break and the torrents pour, and they are
emptied perhaps into the very same stream
that comes down so red at your feet, that
It spems as if all the carnage of the storm
battle has been emptied into it. So in this
Bible I see two storms gather, one above
sinui, the other above Calvary, and they re-
iipund thunder one to thunder, to the other—flash boom! boom! to flash, Sinai
thunders, “The soul that sinneth. it shall
die Calvary responds: “Save them from
iroing down to the pit, for I have found a
ransom.” Sinai says: “Woe! woe!” Cal¬
vary answers: “Jlercji! mercy!” and then
th" clouds burst, and empty their treasures
into one torrent, and it comes flowing to
our feet red with the carnage of our Lord
,tn wYlch, if thy soql he plunged, forth like free— the
bird in the text, it shall go
f r ee! free when he gets rid
\Vhy is not a man
of his sins? The sins of the tongue gone;
the sins of action gone; the sins af the mind
gone. All the transgressions of thirty,
forty, flftv. seventy years gone—no more In
the soul than the malaria that floated in
the atmosphere a thousand years ago; for
when my Lord Jesus pardons a man He
pardons h{m, and tfiere is no halfway work
^fKre'i see a beggar He is going out along with dis- the
turnpike road. worn ul-
ease. He is stiff in the joints. He is
jered all over. He has rheum in his eyes.
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He is sick and wasted.- Ho is in rags.
Every time he puts down his swollen feet,
he cries, ‘•Oh! tile pain!” Ho secy u foun-
tain by the roadside under a tree, and hit
crawls up to that fountain and says: ‘‘1
must wash. Hero I may cool my ulcers.
Hero I may get rested.” He stoops down
mi l scoops up in the palms of Ills hands
enough water to slack his thirst; and that
js all gone. Then ho stoops down and be-
gins to wash his eyes; and the rheum is all
gone. Then he puts in his swollen feet,
and the swelling is gone. Then, willing no
j ouffer IO b q only half cured, ho the plunges In,
and Sfa.i-yre’ his whole body is laved SSSftr in stream, Mean-
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new suit you can Hud and orlng it down.
And He brings down thee lothes, and the
, u . u clothed in them, and
loaks „rmmd and says: “I
g mthv p.,- „„ w I am clean. I
wits ragged, hat now I am Glory robed. to 1 was the
bUll j |,, lt ucnv t so. be
’ mansion; and glory be to
on ,. le r ot that
tiiat So ., w he brought me that new suit
ot clothes- and glory be to this fountain
w hore I have washed, and where all who
w ilt may wash and be clean!” Where sin
abounded grace doth much more abound,
Tlu , blrJ htt3 been dipped, now lot it fly
a wav. about this bird,
The next tiling I notice
when it was loosened (and this Which is the main
idea), is, that it flaw away. way
did it go? When you let a bird loose from
your grasp, which way does it lly? Up.
What are wings for? To fly with. Is thero
anything in the suggestion of the direc¬
tion taken by that bird to indicate which
wav we ought to go?
“Rise, my soul and stretch thy wings,
Thy bettor portion things trace;
Rise from transitory place.”
To heaven, thy native
We should be going heavenward. That
is the suggestion. But I know that five
have a great many drawbacks, You had
them this morning, perhaps, You had
them yesterday, or the day before, and
although you want to be going heaven¬
ward, you are constantly discouraged. But
I suppose when that bird went out of the
priest’s hands it went by inflections—some¬
times stooping. A bird does not shoot di¬
rectly up, but this is the motion of a Gird.
So tiie soul soars toward God, rising up
in love, and sometimes depressed by trial.
It does not always go in the direction it
would like to go. But the main course is
right. Thera is one passage in tho Bible
which I quote ofteuer to myself than any
other: “He knoweth our frame, and Ho
remembereth that we are dust,”
There is a legend in Iceland which says
that when Jesus was a boy, playing with
His comrades one Sabbath day, He made
birds of clay; and as these birds of clay
were standing upon the ground, an old
Saddueee came along,and ha was disgusted
at the sport,and dashed the birds to pieces,
but the legend says that Jesus waved Ills
hand above the broken birds,and they took
wings and went singing heavenward. Of
course,that is a fable among tho Ioelanders;
but it is not a fable that wo are dust, and
that, the hand of divine grace waved over
us once, we go singing toward the skies.
I wish, my frionds, that we could live in
a higher a'tmosphere. dollars, If a man’s he will whole be
life object is to make
running against those who are making dol¬
lars, If his whole object Is to get applause,
he will run against those who are seeking
applause. But if ho rises higher than that,
lie will not be Interrupted In his flight
heavenward. Why does that flock of birds,
floating up against the blue sky so high
that you can hardly see them, not change
its course for spire or tower? They are
above all obstruction. So wo would not
have so often to change our Christian
course if we lived in a higher atmosphere,
nearer Christ, nearer tho throne of God.
Oh ye who hav<ibean washed lnthe!b!ood
of Christ—ye who have been loosed from
the hyssop-branch—start heavenward. It
may be to some of you a long flight.
Temptations may dispute your way; storms
of bereavement and trouble may strike
your soul; but God will see you through.
Build not on the earth. Set your affections
on things in heaven, not on things on
earth. This is a perishing world. Its
flowers fade. Its fountains dry up. Its
promises cheat. Set your affections upon
Christ and heaven. Y rejoice, my dear
brethren nnd sisters in Christ, that the
flight will, after a while, be ended. Not
always beaten of the storm. Not always
going on weary wings. There is a warm
dovecot of eternal dust where we shall And
a place of comfort, to the everlasting joy
of our souls. Oh, they are going up all the
time—going up from this church-—going up
from all tho families and from all the
churches of the land-the weary doves
seeking rest in a dovecot.
Oh, that in that good land we may all
meet' when our trials are oyer! Vfe c:\u
not get into the glorious presence of our
departed ones unless we have been cleansed
in the same blood tnat washed their sins
away. I know this is true of all who have
gone in, that they were plunged in the
blood, that they were unloosed from the
hyssop-brunch, Then they went singing
into glory, See that ye refuse not Him
that speaketii, for if they escaped earth, not how who
refused Him that spake on
much more shall not ^ve escape it we turn
away from Him that speaketh. from heaven?
Philippine Friars in Peril.
The Superiors of the various missionary
orders iu tho Government Philippines have Madrid sont a mes¬
sage to tho at com¬
plaining tiiat the friars are subject through to per¬
secution and assassination the
machinations of secret societies there and
in Spain. The message further declares
that tho friars aro willing to give their
lives nnd property in defense of Spain, but
that, if the Government is unable to pro¬
tect them, they will be forced to abandon
the Philippines.
The Kentucky’,* Heavy 4rjnor.
The Navy Department, Washington, Is
getting a better quality of armor as the
contracts expire. A thirteen-inch pl;>te
tested at Indian Head with a ten-incii gqg
showed itself to bq equal qr superior tq
any piece of armor that ever has been
made, for with the highest velocity at 194q
feet a second the shot penetrated the plate, only
twelve inches without cracking
It was the last piece to he delivered un¬
der the existing contract and is intended
tor the Kentucky
Nq Women Physicians For the War,
Surgeon Gener.fi Sternberg, qf Chicago,
has annqiineefi (hat the Government will
employ no women physicians for servic e in
the field during the war.
Spain Stjenethening Cadiz,
All the guns in the batteries at Cadiz are
being jemoyod iqd replaced by heavier
rifles,
A train that leit Baltimore the other day
for Tampa with supplies for the troops was
composed of thify-flve cars, which oarrled
256,000 cans of tfl&atoes. -
THE SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JUNE 12.
Lesson Text: “Jesus Crucified,” Mull lie \v
xvvil., U5-50—Holden Text: 1 Cor. xv.,
It—-Commentary oil the Les.-on by the
Kev, 1>. M. Stearns.
35. “And they crucified Him ami parted
IIis garments, ousting lots, tlint it migiit
be fullllilled which was spoken by the
prophet, They parted My garments among
them, and upon My vesture did they cast
lots.” So it came to pass as Ho had many
times said that it would. But who can com¬
prehend it? The Lord of glory, tho Crea¬
tor of all things, hanging upon a cross,
with nails through hands and rent, nyde a
curse for me, made sin for me (flat, iii., 13;
It Cor. v., 21), titut I might he saved. He
made the iron that formed the nails and
the wood that formed the cross and tho
men who nailed Him there and consented
to bo subject to nil for the they time. watched Him
3G. “And sitting down
there.” -Compare Gen. xxxvil., 25; Esther
iii., 15. How desperately wicked and hard
and dead is tho natural heart of man no
one knows but God Himself (Jor. xvii., !),
10). Perhaps you could not look upon
Christ on the cross for you—you coulft not
bear it. But you can look upon the multi¬
tudes for whom He died, who know not ot
Him, and he indifferent as to whether they
ever hear of Him?
37. “And set up over His head His accu¬
sation written, This is Jesus, the King and of
the Jews.” It was written in Greek
Latin and Hebrew (Luke xxiii,, 33), for it
was and will yet ho seen to be a truth of
worldwide import. Until it becomes a
reality in the eyes of nil nations the world
will never have the peace and prosperity
that are in store for her (Jer. iii., 17; Isa.
ix., 0, 7; Luke i., 32, 33). Let us be obedi¬
ent to Isa. lxii., 0, 7, ahd remember Ps.
oxxli., G. these thieves cruci¬
38. “Then were two
fied with Him, one on the right hand and
another on tho left.” It is added in Mark
xv., 28, “And the Scripture was ftilllllod
wttch saith, And Ho was numbered with
the transgressors.” Iu His life they had
called Him glutton, wiuebibber, devil, nnd
in His death they would proclaim to tho
world that He was naught but an eyil-doer
and a liar, and He naeekly submitted to it
all.
30, 40. “Save thyself. If Thou bo tho Hon
of God come down from the cross.” Thus
they reviled Him in Ilis agony and self im¬
posed helplessness and made sport of ilis
saying that He would raise the temple in
three days (John ii., 10-21), not knowing Him
that they were preparing He the could way for saved
to do that very tiling. have
Himself. He could have come down from
the cross. But He could uot save Himself
and others too.
41,42. “If He be the King of Israel, let Him
now come down from the cross and wo will
believe Him.” But they lied, for they were
children of their father (John vili.,44)and
of the same stock as those who projected king
God ns their King and demanded a
like those of other nations (I Sain, viif., 7;
x., 19). How great the contrast in Nath¬
aniel, who said from the heart, “Rabbi,
Thou art tho Son of God; Thou art the King
of Israel” (John i., 49).
43. “Ho trusted iu God Let Him deliver
Him now if He will have Him, for He
I am the Son of God.” Thus they denied
the Father nnd tho Son and rapidly filled
up tho measure of their iniquity. See their
word “now,” they would have it done now.
There is much sin oven on the part of God’s
people in their setting Him a time nnd
saying “now,” this day or week or month
or year. And because He does not humor
them they flrnl fault with Him. This is
neither faith nor patience, but is more apt
to be self and tho devil.
44. .“The thieves also which woio cruci¬
fied with Him cast the same in His tenth.”
But one afterward repented and gave Him
the joy cf faith in Him and went to para¬
dise with Him that day (Luko xxxill., else 41-
43). On tho cross is seen as nowhere
the love of God to us (I John iv., 9; lib,
16), and about the cross is seen every pbaso
of the human heart.
45. “Now from tho sixtli hour thero
was darkness over all tho land unto tho
ninth hour." Possibly the reference in
Amos viii., 9, Includes this darkness whilo
pointing fulfllleii. onward to something yet to bo
We know that God is light, anil
la Him is no darkness At nil (I John i., 6),
and darkness is suggestive of evil and of
satan (I These, v., 5; Eph. >•-. 8; refused Col. 1., 13;
Jude vi., 13). Even tho sun to
look upon such ft scene as its Creator suf¬
fering for tho sins of men.
4fi. “And about the ninth hour Jesus
cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli,
lama, sabachtliani?—that Is to say, My
God, My God, why bast Thou forsaken
Me? ’ While chapters are devoted to the
sayings and doings at llorod and l’ilato
and the chief priests andf others at this
time, there are but seven sayings of Christ aud
recorded in tiie whole four gospels,
they seem tci have been in tlio following
order: Luko xxiii., 34, 43; John xlx., 27;
Math, xxvii,, 10; John xix., 28, 30; Luko
xxiii,, 40, One suggests.that they tell us
of His love for sinners, receiving the ponl-
tent, caring for our need, the depth of His
sufferings, His thirst for souls, tho bound¬
less word, tho triumph of faith. Another
lias sal I concerning them that they are
deeper than tiie sea, higher than the
heaven, brighter than the sun, and need
not tiie lamplight of our lesson explanation.
Concerning the one in our some re¬
fuse to believe that Ho was forsaken and
say that Ho only felt like it because the
agony was so great. My and only answer is
that Ho was the Truth, He always
spoke the truth.
47-49. His saying was about as well un¬
derstood as many of His sayings talking were God, by
His own disciples. He was to
ilia Father, and they thought Ho was call¬
ing for Elias. Not much worse than when
speaking to His disciples of the false doc¬
trine of the Pharisees they thought that
He was speaking of bread for, the body.
50. ‘.‘Jesus, when' He had cried again
with a loud voice, yielded up herd, the ghost. 1 '
speaks In verse of 46, His ns crying wclj with as loud Matthew voice.
the i\
This would not indicate extreme weak¬
ness of a' dying moment under such awful
circumstances, but rather confirm His
words elsewhere: “No one taketh My life
from Me. I igy it down of Myself,” Home
gay that He died not beoause of the suffer¬
ings of which crucifixion, but because of a broken
heart, was made manifest when tho
blood and water flowed from Ills side. It
fa finished, He is dead. Ills body Is left
|cir Joseph pud Nicodemus to lay kindly
away, He committed His Spirit unto His
Father, and to His Father He went and
very soon welcomed tiie redeemed one
from the cross next to His own. Where
are they? Wliat is it like? Why does no
one come back to tell us more about It?
Blessed are they that have not seen, yet
have believed that to die Is gain, to depart
and bo with Christ is far better.—Lesson
Helper,
Home enterprising publisher should
bring out a new book on “How to Eat
a PhiliDDine.” bv Admiral Dewev-
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The Merrimae Is
Blown Up
Her Gallant Crow of Eight Men,
Lod by Lieutenant Hobson,
Are Made Prisoners By
the Spaniards.
Associated Press dispatches via
Kingston state that Hear Admiral
Sampson during Friday morning de¬
cided to closes the narrow harbor en¬
trance of Santiago de Cuba by sinking
tho collier Merrimae, loaded with coal,
in tho harbor. He called for volun¬
teers to go to almost certain death and
forty-seven men offered themselves.
Lieutenant Hobson and seven men
were chosen, and at 8 o'clock a. m.
Friday morning the Merrimae, tinder
her own steam, entered the channel
under a terrible Spanish lire. The ves¬
sel was riddled with projectiles, but
she anchored and swung around.
Lieutenant Hobson then set off an
internal torpedo with an electric at¬
tachment. There was an explosion,
the Merrimae sank, the channel was
closed and apparently Admiral Cervera
-will be unable to escape,
Hobson and the hero crew of the
Merrimae . saved the following .
were m
manner;
Unable after the sinking of their
vessel . to make , tiieir , back , through ,
way
the storm of shot and shell, they rode
j llt o the harbor to the Spanish 1 flagship
1111,1 were taken , ,___ on _ , board , unharmed, , ,
The Spanish admiral under a flag of
truce sent word to the American ad¬
miral to the effect offering to change
the prisoners, adding that in the
meanwhile he and his party would be
treated with the greatest consideration.
The only Hobson iu the list of offi¬
cers in the naval register is Richmond
P. Hobson, a naval constructor, who
is a lieutenant of the junior grade. He
was appointed an assistant, naval con¬
structor in 1891. He entered tho
navy from Alabama.
A bulletin was received at the white
house Saturday corroborating the re¬
port that tho Merrimae was sunk in
Santiago channel, and by orders from
the department,
It was stated positively that this
action qn the part of Admiral Samp¬
son was a part of the program for at¬
tacking Santiago, and that it was
known that he was going to call for a
crew.
“The cork is driven in the bottle,”
was the comment of the naval officers
at the navy department upon tho news
of tire sinking of the collier Merrimae,
Cervera Notifies SampHon.
Additional advices received at Ilayti
state that all the members of the Mer-
rimac expedition are safe. Only two
of them were slightly injured. Lieu¬
tenant Hobson was not hurt. All of
the Merrimac’s men are held as pris¬
oners of war. Tho news of tiieir won¬
derful escape was sent to Rear Admiral
Sampson by Admiral Cervera, the
Spanish admiral, who, being so struck
with the courage of tho Merrimac’s
crew,thought Admiral Sampson should
know that they had not ost their
lives.
Admiral Oervera’s chief of staff,
Captain Oviedo, boarded the New
York under a flag of truce hearing the
announcement of the safety of the
Merrimac’s men and returned with a
supply of pro.visjojta and money for
the, pritiqnei H.
Lieutenant Hobson’s name is on
every lip in Washington, He is well
known at the navy department, as he
served in the bureau of construction
for several years.
OFFICIAL FROM SCHLEY.
Coirimo«lor« Department of the
Firat Fnjfiigeinent at Santiago.
The navy department has received
an official report from Commodore
Schley regarding his recent attack on
the fortifications at the entrance to
Santiago harbor,
Commodore Schley says that his at¬
tack was made for the purpose of de¬
veloping the enemie’s position, to
locate their batteries, etc.
In that respect it was entirely suc¬
cessful, and he accomplished what he
set out to do. None of his vessels
were touched by the enemy’s volleys
and there were no casulties or mishaps
on his vessels.
WAR PARAGRAPHS.
A Brief Compilation of Daily
Ooourrences.
The secretary of war has sent to
congress n request for appropriations
amounting to 858,879,1158. These ap¬
propriations will l>e used for the equip¬
ment and maintenance until January
1, 1898, of the 75,000 volunteers re¬
cently called for by the president.
The published report of an attack
upon the city of Santiago de Cuba by
the insurgents is not confirmed, and
appears to l>e without foundation.
Tho natives of the Philippines have
sworn revenge on Capt. (ton. Augusti
for placing a price on the head of the
insurgent leader Agrimaldo.
Thirty-five members of the class of
1897 from Annapolis have arrived at
Tampa and will be assigned to duty as
signal officers.
Manly Curry, of Georgia, son of
Dr. J. L. M. Curry, former minister
to Spain, has been nominated by tho
president as additional paymaster.
Two supposed Spanish spies are
now prisoners at McPherson, Ga.
One is a young Cuban who was
visiting all our camps, tho other an
Englishman, was sending out reports
from Tampa intended for the enemy
of the intentions of our army. If
found guilty they will be either shot
or hanged.
On the other hand Sc nor Castro, the
Spanish consul at Kingston, declares
that he does not think the Cadiz squad¬
ron lias sailed for the West Indies, as
he believes Admiral Cervera can de¬
fend himself alone.
A considerable stir was caused
among the six volunteer regiments at
Mobile by a ease of smallpox reported
in tho First Alabama. Investigation
developed that Private Hall, of com¬
pany F, Huntsville, Ala., had a mild
attack of varioloid. Ho has been re¬
moved to the penthouse; his messmates
were quarantined and all clothing and
bedding destroyed. Regimental sur¬
geons fear no spread of the disease,
since all tho soldiers have boon vac¬
cinated.
The auxiliary cruiser Yale has put
in at Newport News for coal.
According to Admiral Schley’s re¬
port to the navy department, Iuh pur¬
pose in attacking tho approaches to
Santiago was to learn the strength and
position of the fortifications. Ho
found that they had fortified well and
carefully, having a number of modern
English or French guns which will
render necessary a heavy bombard¬
ment to dislodge them.
The people of Madrid consider San¬
tiago de Cuba as perfectly defonded,
as its fortifications were planned by
the expert artillerist, Ordonez.
Seven more transports have been
chartered to rush troops to the front.
These boats will accommodate 7,000
infantry or three cavalry regiments.
They are to report immediately at
Tampa. The chartering will he con¬
tinued until we have enough transports
to move the entire army at once.
Admiral Sampson having decided to
block the channel into Santiago de
Cuba harbor, thus preventing the es¬
cape of any of the Spanish or the en¬
trance of any vessel to aid them Lieut.
Hobson with seven volunteers sailed
the iron steamship Merrimae witii her
cargo of coal through a heavy fire from
the forts to the desired spot and there
by exploding a torpedo which opened
sides sunk her immediately. Ho and
his crew were made prisoners by the
Spaniards.
It is announced at Washington that
the cable cutting expedition fitted up
arid sent out by Gen. Greely has been
successful, and that Cuba is no longer
in cable communication with the out¬
side world.
The balloon section of the United
States signal corps for the present will
ho attached temporarily to tho fifth
army corps at Tampa, Major Genoral
Hhafter commanding, and will be un¬
der the direction of Lieutenant Col¬
onel James Allen, United States vol¬
unteers, now serving on tl;o staff of
General Hhafter.
Lieutenant Hobson, who won re-
n,owu ir\ connection with the sinking
of the sinking of the Merrimae in San¬
tiago harbor, is an Alabamian. He is
about twenty eight years old and was
born anil reared at Greensboro, Ala.,
his father being among the best in that
aristocratic little city.
Thirty-five members of the 1899
class of cadets from Annapolis have
reached Tampa and will he assigned
to duty on tho signal corps as officers.
Miss Annie Wheeler, daughter of
General Joe Wheeler, may go to Cuba
as a Red Cross nurse, as she has filed
an application for such a position.
Miss Wheeler says she cannot remain
at home whilo her father and brother
are at the front. She hopes to arrange
with Miss Barton as a nurse.
The Fifth army corps at Tampa is
now complete. Lieutenant Colonel B.
F. Pope, chief surgeon of the corps,
has prepared a complete set of instruc-
tions in regard to the preservation of
the health of soldiers during the cam¬
paign in Cqba- The rufes have been
printed and every soldier has been fur¬
nished with a copy with instructions
to study them carefully.
VOL VI. NO. 14
T.
Was a Veritable
Landslide.
Phil Cook Nominated Secretary
of State and Stevens Wins
us Commissioner of
Agriculture.
In every one of the 187 counties in
Georgia the democrats voted Monday
in primary for governor and state offi¬
cials, for senators uud members of tho
legislature, and in many of the coun¬
ties for members of congress. In a
number of counties tho nominees for
county offices were also selected. In
a very few there was balloting for su¬
preme court justices.
The candidates for state officers
were:
For Governor—Allen I). Candler,
Robert L. Berner and Hponcer R. At¬
kinson.
For Secretary of State—Philip Cook
and Mark A. Hardin.
For Comptroller Generui—William
A. Wright.
For Commissioner of Agriculture—•
R. T. Nesbitt and O. B. Stevens.
For State School Commissioner—G.
R. Glenn.
For Attorney General—J.M.Terrell.
For Prison Commissioner—J. S.
Turner and J. W. Renfroe.
For Treasurer—W. J. Speer.
Allen I). Candler for governor will
have 254 out of tho 850 votes iu tho
convention.
The race for secretary of state was
expected to be close, lmt Mr. Cook
surprised even his most enthusiastic
friends.
That for commissioner of agricul¬
ture was one hard fought on both
sides, and Senator Steven’s nomination
was well won.
The race for prison commissioner
resulted in a victory for Judge Turner,
the present incumbent.
There were three contests for seats
in congress. Of the eleven members
of the house of representatives, eight
had no opposition for ronomination.
These were Messrs. Lester, of the
first district; Griggs, of the second;
Lewis, of the third; Adamson, of the
fourth; Bartlett, of the sixth; Howard,
of the eighth; Fleming, of the tenth,
and Brantley, of the eleventh.
There was talk of opposition to
Judge Griggs aud Congressman Lewis
—indeed, candidates announced them-
solves against each of these, but they
soon withdrew.
The three contests were in tho fifth,
eevauth and ninth districts.
In the fifth district Congressman
Livingston was opposed by Mr.Cbarles
I. Branan. There was a vote for con¬
gress in each of the counties in tho
district except Fulton, which acted in
April, giving its six votes to Congress¬
man Livingston. The result of Mon¬
day’s contests insures the present
congressman unanimous ronomina¬
tion, he carrying all the counties.
In the seventh Congressman Mad¬
dox had as his opponent Judge J.
Watt Harris, of Bartow county. The
race was a spirited one. The result
is tho renomination of Judge Maddox,
who has secured a good majority of
the votes in the congressional conven¬
tion.
The race in the ninth was in many
respects the most hotly contested of
the three. Both Congressman Tate
and his opponent, Solicitor Generali
Howard Thompson, made an active
canvass of the district, and while but
little news from the campaign has
found its way into the newspapers, it
has been a hot one. The reports show
that Congressman Tate carried the day.
The Total*.
Candler . 254
Berner . GO
Atkinson 34
Cook.... 214
Hardin.. 72
Stevens . 190
Nesbitt.. 10(1
Turner.. 2or,
Renfroe . 58
There seems to be universal satis¬
faction at tho method of conducting
the primaries throughout the state,
and particularly does the plan of hav¬
ing all counties act upon tlxe same day
find hearty endorsement.
This is the second time in the his¬
tory of the state that the democratic
primaries have been held iu all the
counties on the same da;.