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SYLVANIA
VOL. XIX.
DIRECTORY.
Town op Stt,vania.
Mayor—J. H. Hull.
Conneilmen—J. W. Overstreet, L,
n. Hilton, E. K. Overstreet, J. N. Her
rington, T. E. Smith.
Marshal—Win. Patrick.
CmiROiTES.
Methodist; Rev. Wesley 11:00 Lana, Pae
tor. Services 3rd Sunday o’clock
a. m. and T:80 pin.
Sunday School 4:00 p m, J II Hull,
Superintendent. Prayer meeting every Wednesday
night 7:30.
Baptist; Bov. H. J. Arnett, Pastor,
Services 4(h Sunday 11,-iO a in and 7:30
p m. Sunday School 10:00 a m, O C
Everett, Superiu’endent. Tuesday night Young 7:30. Peo
ple-’* Union,
Cheiatian ; Rev. T It. Fitts, Pastor,
services 2nd Sunday night 7:30. Sun
day School 10:00 o’clock a n;.
Sorevkn County.
Ordinary—W T, Mathews, court 1st
Monday in each month.
Clerk Superior Court—D B O Nnn
nally, court 3rd Monday in May and
November.
Sheriff—W B Thompson.
Tax Collector—T V Bobbins, Syl
wanin, Ga.
Tax Receiver— R W Walker, Thy re,
Ga.
Treasurer—Abram Burke, Rocky
Ford, Ga.
Commissioners—J A Ennies, Ga., Syl
vanin, Ga.,H O Evans, Therissa, 8
B A AYallaee, Milieu, Ga., J O Over
street, Clerk.
Surveyor—J T Wade, Hersehman
Ga.,
Coronor—II R Kemp, Sylvania, Ga.
County Court.
JC K Overstreet, Judge. T W Oliver,
Jr., Solicitor. P E Kemp, Bailiff.
Monthly term 2nd Monday in each
n *• *" r 'y terms 4tli Mondays
in January, April, July and October.
Justice Court Calendar.
34th district, J II Hull, -T P., IV J
Gross, N. P., court 3rd Saurday.
85th district. VY M Howard J P., E
Gross, Sr., N. P., court 4th Saturday.
861 hdistrict, Y-T Beard J P, W H
Rushing N P, court 2nd Saturday.
37th district, M M Jenkins J P, court
4th Saturday.
38th district, K J Hijlis, N P, court
1st Saturday. 1
80th district, W A Edenfield, J P,
Howell Sasser, Sr, N E, court 1st
Thursday.
259th district, J H Evans, JP, E J
Sheppard, N P., court 1st Saturday.
260th district, W IT Hears, J P, court
Saturday.
1286th district, D. T. Jenkins, Sr.,
J P, G W Jenkins, N P, court 3rd Sat
urday.
1444th district. S B A Wallace, J P,
C O Edenfield, NP,court 2nd Thursday.
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Stt. vania, Georgia .
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BILL ARP’S LETTER
Bartow Man Indulges In a Timoly
Christmas Ghat,
BE IS AT HOME ONCE MORE
He Talks Interest!Ugly of the Significance
of tho Festal Occasion and
Its Observance.
Christmas day has come ftt Inst, tts
joyous week is right Upon ns, when
millions of dollars will be spent
to please tho children and millions of
hearts be made happy. I wonder if
old Santa Claus will visit those poor
factory children that we have been
reading about-^those little fellows
who work eleVon hours a day for 11
cents. Wish I vas rich—I really do—
rich for a week if no more. I would
spend a dollar apiece on them at least,
and I would turn'them loose from the
mill for a day and let them rest and
frolic. Their hard lot lessens our
happiness at home, where the family
is fixing up for the Christmas dodging tree,
and my wife and the girls are
around and hiding tilings and locking
doors won’t and let whispering around and
even me know what they are
about for fear t will tell. I 1 hey let me
furnish the money and that’s all.
This i? the last Christmas of this
century. Only one more aDd then
the twentieth century will begin. Of
course it will. I am surprised that
this simple question has provoked dis
cussion. Centuries begin with units
and end with ciphers. Nineteen hun
dred years will not have been Complet
ed until 1900 full years have passed.
The year that is now nearly Completed
is the ninety-ninth year ami it will take
one more to make a hundred, and then
the twentieth century will begin and be
called 1901. Now I have had the con
clusion as tho lawyers say, and so let
the discussion slop and the case be
submitted to the jury. Christmas is
hero no matter where the Twentieth
century begins and we are going to
enjoy it.
One day in seven ie not chough—
we want a whole week at the end of
the year, and Recording to scripture it
is a good thing to have a whole year
in seven—a year of jubilee when even
the land we till shall have rest and
time to recover itself and renew its
wasted energies. Blessings on the
holy fathers who established the
Christmas holidays, and on the good
men who for eighteen centuries have
preserved it for us and olir children.
It is a blessed heritage and belongs
to all alike—-tho rich and the poor,the
bond oucl the free, the king and his
subject. But these good old ways
are changing and becoming circum
scribed.
Mankind is growing too stingy of
time. Christmas used to last from the
25th of December io the 6th of Janu
ary, and for twelve days there was
neither work nor toil, nor official bus
iness, nor suits for debt, dunning,
nor preparations for wav, but all was
peace and pleasure aud kindly feel
ings. The peasant was on a level with
the prince, aud the boys aud girls
wore chaplets of ivy and laurel and
holly and evergreen, and it was no sin
for them to take a sly kiss while the
rosemary wreaths encircled their
brows, for a kiss under the rose was
an emblem of innocence and had the
sanction of heaven, and love whisper
ed while wearing the mistletoe crown
was too pure to be lost or betrayed.
I love the old superstition that
clusters around this season of my joy
and gladness. Long did I lament the
day wheu my childish eyes were opened
and I learned there was no Saint
Nicholas nor Santa Claus, no reindeer
on the roof, no coming down the
chimney to fill tho stockings that hung
by the mantel. Even now I would
fain believe, with Shakespeare, that
for these 12 days witches and hobgob
lins and devilish spirits had to fly
away from the haunts of men and hide
themselves in the dark pits and caves
of the earth while the good spirits who
love us aud watch over ns, nestled their
invisible forms among the evergreens
that hung upon the walls. It was
pleasant to think that on tlijB last day
of the 12 the cattle knelt down at mid
night and humbly prayed that souls
might be given them when they died,
so that they, too, might live in heaven
and worship God. I hope the poor
things will have a good time in the
next world, for they see a rough one
in this, and I reckon they will, con
sidering what a splendid pair of horses
came down after the prophet Elijah.
Heaven wouldn’t be any the less
heaven to me to find my good dog
Bows np there, all renewed in his
youth, and to receive the glad welcome
that wags in his diminished tail.
Now, children, let us imagine we
are around the cheerful Christmas fire
aud talk about Christmas aud tell
what it means. Of course you know
that it is the anniversary of the birth
of- Christ, and all Christian people cel
ebrate it. It is very common every
where to celebrate birthdays. Ameri
cans make a big fuss over Washing
ton’s birthday because he was called
the father of his country. My folks
naake. a little good wife’s fuss over birthday. my birthday,
aud my They
don’t toot horns nor pop firecraokers,
but they have an. extra good dinner
and fix up a pleasant surprise of some
sort. We used to surprise the chil
dren with a little present like a pocket
knife or a pair of scissoio, or sleeve
buttons or something, bnt so to any
children came along that there was a
birthday in sight almost all the time,
and as we got rich in children we got
poor in money and had to skip over
sometimes. The 4th of July was the
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SYLVANfA, SCllEVEN COUNTY, FRIDAY JANUARY 5, 1900.
birthday of a nation and so the nation
always celebrates that day.
Christians began to observe Christ
mas about 1,500 years ago at Jerusa
lem and Rome. They had service in
the churches and made it a day of re
joicing. In course of time the young
people rather lost sight of the sacred
tiess of the day and the devotion that
was duo to the occasion, and made it
a day of frolic and feasting, They
sang hilarious songs, because they
said tho shepherds sang songs at
Bethlehem. They made preseuts to
each other because the}' said the wise
men from the east brought presents td
the young child and its mother. They
kept up jneir festivities all night be
cause the Savior was born at mid
night. The Roman Catholic church
lias observed these annual celebratious
for centuries, and the Church of Eug
laud took them up, and so did the
Protestants in Germany and other
countries. Christians everywhere
adopted them, and Christmas day be
came a universal holiday except among
the Puritans of Now England, who
fobade it under penalties. They never
frolicked or made merry over any
thing.
In Raphael, a great, painting of the Nativity
by thth-C is seen a shepherd The
it tne door playing on a bagpipe.
Cyroleese who live on the mountain
■dopes of Italy always come down to
the valleys on Christmas eve, and they
come carroling sweet songs and play
ing on musical instruments, and spend
the night iu innocent festivities. A
century or so ago there were many
curious superstitious about Christmas.
It was believed that an ox or an ass
that were near by wheu tho Savior was
horn bent their said knees in supplication,
and so they the Animals all went
to prayer every Christmas night. Of
course, they might have known better
if they had watched all night to sec,
but wRen folks love a superstition they
humoV it. If a child believes in
ghosts they are sure to see thorn,
whether they are there or not.
Tho e old-time people believed that
when the rooster crowed for midnight
on Christmas night all the wizzarde
and witches and hobgoblins and evil
spirits fled away from the habitations
of ffien And hid iu caves and hollow
trees and deserted houses, and stayed
there for twelve days. to,wish
And now let us all get ready and’'
a happy New' Year to everybody,
my opinion is that we can all make it
happy if u’e try. Let’s try. Let’s
turn over a new leaf. Let’s have a
Christmas all the year long. Let’s
keep the family hearth always bright
and pleasant. Solomon Fussing atid fretting
don’t pay. says it is like
water dropping on a rock-—-it will wear
away a stone. The home of an un
happy, discordant family is no home
at all. It aint even a decent purga
tory. The children won’t stay there
any longer than possible. They will
emigrate and I don’t blame ’em,
I have just returned from good old
North Carolina—a state that I love be
cause of its good people, and partly
for the same reason that Alex Stephens
said he loved his little dog, “because
the little dog loved him. ” I am never
more honored tiffin when I go to visit
old Rip Van Winkle, thut Washington
Irving made famous and Joe Jeffer
son immortalized. The good old
state waked up long ago and immor
talized berBelf by sending to the-civil
war more soldiers than any state of
the Confederacy, not only more tu
actual numbers, but more in propor
tion to population. And she would
do it again. The Confederate 'senti
ment is stronger there today than
anywhere that I know of and I am
actually afraid that the old veterans
are getting ready to rise again. Why,
at Wadesboro twenty-six of them, in
old Confederate badges, escorted me
to the hall. Some of them had but
one arm and some one leg, and they
were all solemnly proud of their
record. They circled half around me
on the platform and reminded tne of
the grand sanhedrim that Moses tells
us used to gather at tho tabernacle.
They have a Tammany hall in the vil
lage, where they rendezvous and re
fresh their memories and keep alive
and burniug the Confederate senti
ment. I do hope they won’t rise
again. Monroe,
From there I went to a
beautiful little city of 4,000 people,
who are wide awake and are putting
on metropolitan airs. Cotton mills
and oil mills and waterworks and a
gas plant are already established, and
I was pleased to see that the children
iu the factory looked healthy and hap
py, and the superintendent told me
he paid the youngest of them 25 cents
a day, and worked them only ten hours.
I met scores of old Confederates there
and some of them came miles to greet
me. It was a real ovation all the lay
long, and made me feel humble and
thankful, for I can’t understand what
I have done to merit suoh kind atten
tion. One old veteran wno lives in
the Waxhawe settlement brought me
a hickory cane out from the spot
where Andrew Jackson was born.
Another veteran came sixteen miles
to bring me a jug of mineral tvater
from his spring, that' he said would
cure me of my kidney trouble in two
minutes. “Yes, sir,” said he, with
emphasis, “in two minutes by the
clock.”
But I must forbear for this time
and close this long letter with love to
all mankind—except some.—B ill Arp
in Atlanta Constitution.
CHOATE NOT INSTRUCTED
In Regard to Seizure of Flour Cargoes
Off Delagost Bay.
A London dispatch says: Inquiries
made Wednesday by a reporter for the
Associated Press show that the Amer
ican ambassador, Mr. Joseph H.
Chotte, has not yet received instruc
tions from Washington regarding the
seizure ot cargoes of American flojj
by British N varships off Delagoa bay
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REV.DRA <LMAGE
The Eminent Sunday
Disc pipe.
Subject: Cradl* of dbrlst_«itadnw* and
Sunslilno on That </<>wI.r Bed—Tho
Story or tbe Incarnation Ibe Told In •
New Way— Urea of Festival.
Washington, [Copyright, D. UonrtjKlopscIi. C.—Tlifl l*>as*.| of tho
ujy story In
carnation is here told Dr. Talma?o iu a
now way, and practical ago is made bf
these 17; days nil the Of festivity! text, Matthew, I,;
“So prenerntlSas from Abraham
to David are fourteen generations, and
from David until tho cjjrrytng away into
Babylon are fourteen generations, and
from the carrying away into Babylon unto
Christ are fourteen R<>aerations."
From what many consider the dullest
and most unimportant cha ter of the New
Testament I toko my text and Had tt full
of practical, startling and eternal inter
est. The chapter Is the-ionc door of tho
How Testament, evanqelisi^4sn'T thriilli which ail the
splendors Throo of apostolicity
enter. times fomP^n tree era t Ions
are spoken of In my t 4 JF 3 lint .is, forty
two Reneratlons—reeciiAftHdosyn t* Christ.
They all had relation to Hln aud at least
fortv-two generations past iffeot us. If
they were good, we fegl*the result of the
goodness. If they were bad, w8 -feel the
result of their wickedness, Tt some were
good and some were bs f, It is ab inter
hand mingling lipon Influence that: pit's Its mighty,
us. And as v,e feel ;he effect of
at least forty-two genera o? >ast we will
in turn Influence at least for iwo gener
ations to come, if the r! shall last a
thousand years. So, yon s o, the cradle
is more important than tin .-rave.
I propose to show you as of the shad
ows upon the Christie cr.nl: of Bethlehem
and then the sunshine th--. Hired in upon
the pillow of straw. No lle among the
shadows on that Infant’s >ed that there
was here and there a spec an of dissolute
ancestry. Beautiful Ruth Iis ancestress?
Oh, yes! Devout Asa on* tis forefathers?
Oil, yesl Holy Honest Jose;;* HisS |: ,ther? s father? OB, yes! Oh,
ves! Mary
But in that genealoitlcf table were idol
atrous and cruel Aramf-, and oppressive
Behoboam and some t whose abomina
tions bad may not be hav part j jlarlzed. nT^- 3o you
see men may
One of tho most ec u_
knew was f kosou'm aYnn wlio lived and
died a blasphemer. Iiiiho line of na op
pressive Rehobonra eav.i.'s a gracious and
merciful and glorious C -rlst. Great en
couragement for those v.-ho had in the
forty-two generations tii -receded them,
however close by or r ,ver far back,
some instances of perci- 1 - ils and baleful
and cofritpt ancestry;.
To my amazement, I Jmnd in those parts
of Australia transported#’'oni to which n any years ago fel
ons were cr#i England that
the percentage Austra® of e was less than In
those parts or orlgina'Iy settled
by houqst men and gp t women. Some
who are now on judicial aches In Austra
lia, and in high govern usei; ental positions,
Ienders'iir^C-ia and in learned and 1 life, art the professions, grandsons and and
granddaughtersYof. GreSrirllain men and women to Austra- who
were exiled from
lia for arson and theft anTassffdh ft?"
fraud and rauYder; descendants So you see it is possD
hid tor the df those who do
Wrong to do right.
Meanwhile keep carefully your family
records. The old pfcrce for the family
record in the Bible, between the Old and
New Testaments, is a most appropriate
place. That record, put in such impres
sive surroundings of chapter, bounded on
oue side by the prophecies of Malachl and
on the other side by tbe Gospel of
Matthew, will receive That stress and sanctity
from its position. record Is appro
priately simply bound up with the eternities, family record, Do
not say in your
"Born at such a time and died at stleh a
time,” but If there has beeii among especially yodr
ancestors spttte man Or woman
consecrated and useful make a note of It
for the encouragement of the following
generations. Two family records of the
Bible—the one In Matthew re-ehing from
Abraham to Christ and the one in Luke
beginning with Joseph and reaching back
to tbe Garden of Eden—with the sublime
statement “which was the son of A lam,
which wnsthe Son of God." I charge yon
to this duty of keeping he family record
by tbe forty-two generations which are
past and the forty-two It generations which
are to come. is a gold thing—the new
habit abroad of seekiu'wdr one’s pedigree:
Another shadow on fhe Christie cradle
was that it .stood under a depraved king.
Herod was at that time ruler and the com
plete impersonation of all depravities. It
was an unfavorable time for innocence to
expect good treatment. So dark was the
shadow dropping on the cradle from that
iniquitous throne that the peasant mother
had to lift her babe out of it and make
hasty flight. Depraved be copied habits by Of subjects, those ih
authority and are apt immoral:! to tbe Herodic
from tbe of
throne I judge of the imraorals the of a air nation. when
There was a malaria of sin in
the infant Christ first breathed it. Thickest
silawl could not keep tbe Babe warm when
in that wintry month with His mother He
became a fugitive.
Historians say that it was at a time of
peace that Christ was born, but His birth
aroused an antagonism of which tne Beth
lehem massacre was only a feeble expres- ot
sion. War of the mightiest oradie! tlatlod the
earth opened against forth that that night The from in
fluence thut came
that surrounding of camels and sheep aud
oxen challenged the imauities of all the
centuries aud will not "ease until It hns
destroyed them. Wha' a pronuneiamento
went forth from that black and barbarian
throne, practically years’of sayMg, “Slay all the
babes under two age, and that
wide slaughter will surely include the
death of tho oue child that most threatens
my dominion.” Awful time it was for the
occupant oi that cradle! If He escape the
knife of tho assassin, then the wild beast’s
paw or the bandit’s clutch or the midnight
chill between Bethlehem of Judaea nod
Cairo, Egypt, will secure His destruction.
All the powers of earth and all the demons
of hell bombarded that oradle.
Another shadow upon that Christie
cradle was the obscurity of the place village. of
birth. Bethlehem was au obscure
David, the shepherd boy, had been born
there, but after he became general and
king be gave it no significance, I think
never mentioning it but to ask lor a drink
of water out of the old well to which he
used to go in childhood—tbe village so
small and unimportant that it had to be
separated in mind from another Bethlehem
then existing, and so was called Bethlehem
of Judaea. There was a great capital boauti- of
Jerusalem; there were the fifteen
ful cities ou tbe beach of Galilee, any of
them a good place to be born in; there
were great towns famous at that time, bat
tbe nativity we to-day celebrate was in a
village which Christ intimated had been
called by some “the least among the
princes of Juda.” OhAt Himself was to
make eternity. the toagn imuoi^WPatl time and all
O men and women of Messianic oppor
tunity, why do you not make the place of
your nativity memorable for your phllan
thropies--by the 'churches you build, the
free libraries you open, the colleges you
endow? Go back to the village where back you
were born, as George Peabody went
to Danvers, Mass,, and with your wealth
bless tbe neighborhood whore in childhood
you played and near l)y where your father
and mother sleep the last sleep. There are
scores of such villages la America being
generously remembered by prosperous last will men and
during life or helped in their
testament, and there are a hundred neigh
borhoods waiting for such benediction
from their prosperous sons. By some such
obarity invito the i’/thlahem angels to
come back again and ever the plain house
oVyour nativity ring ■ at the old anthem of
“Good will to'men.’ ' Christ, born in an
obscure place, made it so widely known by
His self sacrifices and divlns charity that
nil round the earth the village of Bethle
hem hns its name woven In garlands and
chanted in "Te Deums” and built In houses
of prayer.
But It Is time we see some of the sun
shine breaking through the shadows' on
that ehidlS. For wo mtist festival. have jubilance
dominate the Christmas Thut
was Walter Scott’S opinion when In “Mar-*
mion”he wrote,
A Christmas gambol oft would cheer
A poor man’s heart through half the year.
It was while the peasant and his wife were
on a visit for tho purposes of enrollment
that Jesus was born. The Bible translators
got the wrong wotd when they said that
Joseph and Mary had gone to Bethlehem to
be “taxed.” People went lid farther then to
get taxed than they do now. The effort Of
most people always has been to escape
taxation. Besides that, these two humble
folk had nothing to tax. The man’s tur
ban that protected his head from the sun
was not worth taxing; tho woman's sandals
which kept her feet from being cut by the
limestone roelc, of which Bethlehem Is
mostly made up, were not worth taxing.
No; the fact Is that a proclamation had
been made by the omperor that all tho peo
ple between Great Britain and Parti al and
of those lands Included should go to some
appointed registered place andnnnounes and give their their name, loyalty ifig[ to
bo
the Roman emp ror.
They had walked olghty miles over a
rough road to give their name 3 and take
the oath of allegiance, Would we walk
eighty miles to announce our allegiance Augustus to
our king, ond Jesus? Caesar
t* 8 at te man° and° ffia^ womaTwrot ’th,1f
names or had them written, just how Vould many
P a\°e P of^exte^" HoV?nany d rn
c
unsheathe sword for the Roman eagle and
how muny women could be depended battlefields? on to
take cure of the wounded on
The troublo is that in the kingdom of
Christ we do not know ‘‘ow many can be
depended on. There are so many men ana
women who never give in their names,
They serve the Lord on the sly. They do
not announce their allegiance to the king
who, in the battles to come, will want
all His troops. In all our churches
there are so many halt t\n;i halt diSdU
pies, so many one-third espousers.
ruto
how Christianity will disenthrall the na
tldnsi- They, stay away from church, on
communion days and hope when they have
lived as long as they can in this world they
can somehow sneak into heaven, on, giro
In your names! Beregistered on the church Book
record down hero and in the Lamb’s
of Life up there. Let all the world know
where you ahd stand, Maty if walked, you have to go ns far
as Joseph If you have to
go eighty miles before you find just the
rigiit form of worship and just the right
er ® 0
Another gleam of sunshine striking __
through the shadows above that Christie
cradle was the fact of a special divine
protection. Herod wa3 determined upon
the child’s destruction. The monster put
all his wits together In stratagem for the
stopping of that young life just started.
He dramatized piety; he suddenly got re
.1
tait h » could kneel at that oradle. We
bave to smlie At That the imperial villain
said wheu he ordered, "Go and search
ye have fou“d
may go and worship Him also.” Dore’s
picture of the “Massacreof the Innocents”
at Herod’s command—a picture full of
children hurled over walls and dashed
against streets and writhing under assas
sin’s foot—gives us a ilttlo impression of
the manner in which Herod would have
treated the real Child if he could have
once got his hands on It. But Herod
could not Had that cradle. All
the detectives bo sent out failed
in the seardhi Yet it had been
pointed out by flashlight Ait neighborhood . ffom the
midnight heavens. the
knew about it. The angelic chorus iii the
cloud had called musical attention to it.
No sentinel guarded tt with drawn sword,
passing up and down by the pillow of that
Bethlehem caravansary. Why, then, was
it that the cradle was not despoiled of its
treasure? Because it was divinely pro
tected. There were wings hovering that
mortal eye could not see; there were armed
immortals whose brandished sword mortal
eye could not follow, there were chariots
of the Omnipotent the rumble of whoso
wheels only supernaturals could hear. God
bad started through the cradle to save our
world, and nothing could stop Him.
You cannot reasonably account for that
unhurt cradle except on the theory of a
special, divine protection. And most
cradles are likewise defended. Can you
understand why so many children, with all
the epidemics that assault them, and all
their climbing to dangerous heights, and
all their perilous experiments with explo
sives and their running ngflingt horses’
hoofs, and daring of trolleys and carts fast
driven, yet somehow get through, especi
ally boys of high spirit and that are going
to amount to much? I accouut for their
coming through all right, witli only a few
wounds and bruises, by the fact that they
are divinely protected. All your charges
of "Don’t-do this” and “Don’t do that”
and “Don't go there” seem to amount to
nothing. They are the same reckless crea
tures about whom you are constantly anx
ious and wondering what is the matter
now. Divinely protected! scattering
Another gleam of light, some
of the gloom of that Christie pillow in
Bethlehem, was the fact that it was the
starting place of the most wonderful of ail
careers. Looking at Christ’s life from
mere woildly standpoints it was amazing
beyond all capacity of pen or tongue or
canvas to express. AYithout taking a year’s
curriculum in any college or even a day at
any school, yet saying things that the
mightiest intellects of subsequent days
have quoted and tried to expound! part Great been
literary works have for the most
the result of much elaboration, Edmund
Burke rewrote the conclusion of his speech
against Warren Hastings sixteen times.
Lord Brougham rewrote his speech in be
half of Queen Caroline twenty times, but
tbe sermon on tbe mount seemed extern
poraneous. Cbrist was eloquent without
ever having studied oue of tbe laws of ora
tory. He was tbe greatest-orator that ever
lived. It was not an eloquence Demos
thenic or Ciceronlc or like that of Jean
Baptiste Massillon or like that which Will
iam Wirt, himself a great meeting orator, was house over- of
come with in log cnbin
Virginia, when tbe blind preacher cried
out in his sermon, “Socrates died like a
philosopher, but Jesu3 Christ died like a
God.”
But we must not only look at Him from a
worldly standpoint. How He smote whirl
winds into silence, and made the waves of
the sea He down, aud opened the doors of
light Into the midnight of those who had.
been born blind, and turned deaf ears into
galleries of mu3ic, and with one touch
made the scabs of incurable leprosy fall
off, and renewed healthy circulation
through severest paralysis, and made the
dead girl waken and ask for her mother,
and at His crucifixion pulled down the
clouds, until at 12 o’clock at noon it was as
dark as at 12 o’clock at night, and starting
an influence that will go on until tie last
desert will grow roses and the last waftk
lung make full Inhalation, and the last
ease of paresis take healthful brain, and
tbe last illness become rubicund oi c leek
and robust of chest and bounding of loot,
and tbe last pauper will get his palace,
and the last sinner taken into -the warm
bosom of a pardoning God! Where did all
this start? In that cradle with sounds of
bleating sheep and bellowing cattle and
amid rough bantering of herdsmen and
camel drivers. What a low place to start
for such great heightsl O artists, turn
vour camera obseura on that village of
Bethleheml Take it all iu—the wintry skies
lowering the flocks shivering in the chill
air, Mary the pale mother, and Jesus the
Child, m JS
MAINE VICTIMS N,
LAID TO
Bodies of 158 Heroes Re=lnterred
At Washington.
MILITARY FUNERAL SERVICES
Captain Sigsbee.With Three Other
Survivors, Saw Their Former
Comrades Laul Away.
4
Upon the windy heights of Arling
at Washington Thurs
day, ’ with simple religious services
and , tlie .. impressive . , honors of . wst, in
the presence 1 of the president, * mem
bers of ; his . cabinet, officers of the army
Rnd nav y ftud other representatives of
the government, the Maine dead,
brought from Havana by the battle
ghip Texas, were laid away in their
final - resting places.
A cabinet officer, surveying the
flag . draped r cofflns before the ceremo- ,,
mes . began, said: . , ((mi “The ,. lives of - those
men cost Spain her colonies.*’
But there was no note of triumph
in . the , grim . scene. rrr-i.u With a touch i ,# of
sadness and solemn gravity,the nation
performed its duty to the dead and
«■»« «• ?•'»»?»» * owjto taw
at home in soil hallowed by patriotic
deeds.
The cas k e ts interred ranged row on
row. Over ^ each , was spread 3 an Amer- *
ican ensign, upon which Jay a wreath
Qf smilax leaves.
Around Around tne tho inclnanro inciosuie snoukier shoulder to to
shoulder, were drawn up the cavalry
of Fort Myer; to the right was a bat
talion of marines from the navy yard
with their spiked f helmets and scarlet
turned back; to the . left, . detach* , ,
capes a
ment of jackies from the Texas in navy
blue; in the flag-draped stand in the
re ® r president and kto hts cabinet,
Admiral Dewey, Major General Miles
and a distinguished group of officers
? ftl “ »d» r j,m.hei,,how y
dress uniforms,while all around press
ed the throng of people who had brav
ed the snow and biting cold to pay
'«* MWrteiA. Among
these were many relatives and mends
of those who bad been lost in the dis
aster.
There was a tender appropriateness
in the fact that Captain Sigsbee, who
was in command of the Maine when
she was blown up, had charge of the
ceremonies in honor of his men, and
that Father Chiawick, who was chap
lain of the Maine, was there to per
form the last rites. Three others who
lived through that awful night in Ha
vana harbor were at the side of the
graves of their comrades—Lieutenant
Commander Wainwright, who was ex
ecutive officer of the Maine and who
sunk the Pluton and the Furor at San
tiago; Lieutenant F. C. Bowers, who
was assistant engineer of tho Maine,
and Jeremiah Shea, a fireman on the
Maine, who was blown out of the stoke
hole of the ship through the debris,
escaping Injury most miraculously.
Slowly, solemnly, the full marine
band broke the deep hush, putting
forth the sad, sweet strains of the
dirge, “Safe in the Arms of Jesus,”
and there were twitching of lips and
wet eyes as Chaplain Clark, of the
Naval academy at Annapolis, came
forward and took his place under a
canvas-covered shelter in the open
space in front of the dead. The Prot
estant services were held first and
were very simple. Chaplain Clark
read the burial service of the Episco
pal church and then gave way to
Father Chidwick, the Maine’s chap
lain, who read a memorial service ac
cording to the rites of tho Catholic
church.
A detatchment of marines, in com
mand of Capt. Kormony, then marched
to the right of the graves and fired
three volleys over the dead, and in the
deep stillness that followed the crash
the clear, silvery notes of a bugle rang
out tbe soldiers’ and sailors’ last good
night. of the
With the sounds taps cere
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party and the other
guests, the military and the crowds
withdrew.
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