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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. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. J. HATTRICH, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Ot.iveb, - Georgia. . W. OLIVER, JE. J. W. OVEItSTREET. OLIVER – OVERSTREET, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Stt. vania, Georgia . J. H. HULL, ATTORNEY-AT LAW. Sylvania, Georgia. Office in Court House. C. H. – C. C. PARRISH, -DENTISTS,- 8YLVANIA, GEORGIA. The best wort done for the least money. W. R. MIMS, LAWYER, ' Syi/VANIA, - - Gborgia. Negotiates Loans on Real Estate at 8 p er cent. Money in 15 to 20 days. Office in Court House. H. S. WHITE. H. A. BOTKIN 1 . WHITE – BOYKIN, ATTORNEYS -AT- LAW. S VI, VANIA, - - Geobgta. Office in Court House. Will practice in all State and Federal courts. H. T. MATHEWS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Negotiates Loans on real estate. Money ready- Office in Enneis – Over street brick building. Sylvania, Ga. 6END US YOUR Job Work. f do all kinds of Fine Commercial gating HyigYe at very reas enable prices something to sell, let Boner llaM. It. An advertise* will do the work. HOBBY – BUSSEY, PubU.hora 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 ~v> tolUR __________ 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 _y ; *£«*?* ' , ; E. p 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 monies ended. Tbe president distinguished and his party and the other guests, the military and the crowds withdrew. The British temperament may he rather Blow about seeing a joke, but it cau spot gold mines instauter. 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