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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1891)
England and France want to be con¬ nected by a tunnel, and jot arc afraid c. ml it. _ The number of visitors to New York City every month is said to be greater than the total number of its fixed resi¬ dents. _ A President’s expenses amount in four years to about SSO.OU'). His income for the sa.ne period being §200,000 it is not difficult to see that he ha* an excellent chance to start a bank account. Among . those .i ..... who ca J coti plain of hard times is the Government of Pomiif.il, .McS. with . popuLtioi of g 000 000 is about §700,000,000 in ’ ,..’nich debt.witb an annual , . interest . , charge which is considerably more than half of tho J revenue. _ A significant development of the Cen •*’ ’ 1890, notes the , ,,, Washington , . , nun, •us of ls 1 he fact that the increase of wealth ' tho South _ ,, aud manufacturing in was grctc, d» the lucre.,, of popul.tiou. In the decade from lboO to 1800 the Southern Slates gained in population 19.9; in actual wealth, <12.5, and ol capital invested in manufacture, 20.7 per cent. The canned fruits and meats exported by the United States have improved thirty per cent, in tho last two years,and are again being largely purchased in countries which had almost outlawed them, announces tho Detroit Free Fries. Packers found that adulterating their goods, in haste to get rich, simply killed a market in ono season, and only first-class goods are now shipped. Professor Bickmore, says the New York Sun, is not alarmed by the live earthquakes, two of them in this country, that have been recently reported. Yet he holds that thcro is always danger of these convulsions of nature iu tho United 8tates, as well as in South America. He •ays that the workings of tho forces of the under world have been extensive during , , this century, . aud i that the .■ time ol , movement iu tho rocks of the earth’s crust is by no means at an end. But the discoveries of the age have not enabled man to do anything to prevent earth quakes. The discovory J of tin oro in large quin- 1 tities oa the Colorado River, Texas, is a moat important industrial event, avers tho Washington Star. It naturally cx v cites intense iutorest. Heretofore there have been few deposits of tin out ol Cornwall, _ „ England, ,, , , „ tho mines . of _ which, ... baving been worked, since earlv ‘ Garths - . genian , tunes, are becoming unproductive, . There aro deposits r in tho Black Hills, ’ North Dakota. Tho tremendous devel opment of the canning industry in the United States has, however, required tho use use of ot more more tin tin than man waa was roadilv readily sun- sup plied, and the discovory of large addi tional deposits „ - fa will ... still furtuer Stmiu late tho business. Oeor^o William Warren, the well known organist and composer, says that the writing of church music is largely a labor of love. lie began composing ovci forty j ears ago, a , rn and onrl l„, has 0 miKlial.n published I over one hundred works, but the royalties he from . them , form comparatively . , receives a •mall part * of his income. Dr Warren ’ born . Albany, N. and his was in l., father lamer tried tncu to to make maae a a hardware narunaro dealer dea.er of him till the musical instinct in the lad asserted itself. Besides playing the or pan iu St. Thomas's Church in New .York City, and directing tho music of tho parish, Dr. Warrtu lectures at Columbia _ , , . Cohcge, „ „ and ... has enough . pupils to keep 1 him busy tho rest of the time. ’ ~ Mrs. Henry M. Stanley, wife of the explorer, gave an iuterview at Minne¬ apolis, Minn., to a reporter. Sho said it was the first interview she has granted in this country. Asked as to her idea of tho United States, Mrs. Stanley said: “Oh, it is very great, aud I canuot find words to express my admiration of the many things I have seen. There are such magnificent buildings and luxurious homes; 6uca straight, broad and well planned streets—in fact, everything is on such a huge scale.” She thinks New York City lacking in finish, its streets beastly dirty and kept in wretched re pair; the Elevated , UtaroaJ, .. although a ca>tal method of locomotion, very ugly. The American peoplo sue considers ex¬ tremely hospitable, and the American re porter came in for his share of atten¬ tion on accouut of the numerous inter views written by him which have no -basis in fact- REV. DR. TALMAGfi. THE BROOKLYN' DIVINE’S SUN¬ DAY SERMON. Subject: “The Ijes*sons of ’Winter.” Text: "Haul thou entered into the treas tires of the snowt”—Jo j xzxviii., 22. Grossly maligned is the season of winter. The spring and summer and autumn have had rnanv admirers, but winter, hoary headed and white bearded winter, bath had more enemies than iri^nds. Yet without winter the human race wou <1 Vie inane and effortless. You might speaK ot the winter as the mot er of tempests, I take it as the father of n whole family of physical, mental and spiritual energies. The most people that 1 know are strong in prooortion bad climb to the nuru ber of suow hanks they to over or p U:s j, throuch in childhood, while their fathers drove the sled loaded with logs •*• o™u, •» t.a At this season of tb" year, when we are so familiar with the snow, those fmzen vap ^ thog0 faHiu; , blossoms of the sky, those white the angels of the atmosphere, Iliads and Odysseys those poems of of storm, those the win ter y tempest, i turnover the leaves of my Biole and— thoug i most of it was written in a dime where snow seldom or never fell—I find rnanv of these beautiful crjn jT e !ations. Tnough the writers may sel¬ fiotnor nev.r have felt the old touch of the snowflake on their cue?k, they had in sight two mountains, the SZJ^SZJtaS tops of wnich were sug mou ail tiie year round and through the ages never lift the coronets of crystal from their foreheads. The first time we find a deeo fall of snow in the Bible is where Samuel describes a fight between Benairh anl a lion in a pit. under and though wounds the snow may have crimsoned brute, the of both man and the shaggy monster roiled over dead, and the giant was victor. But the snow is not fully recognized in the Bible until Gol in¬ terrogates Job, the scientist, concerning its wonders, saying, “Hast thou entered into tho treasures of the snow?” 1 rather think that Job may have exam¬ ined tho snowflake with a microscope; for, although it is supposed that the microscope was invented long alter Job’s time, there had been wonders of glass long before the microscope and telescope of later dav were thought of. So long ago as when the Col¬ iseum was in its full splendor, Nero sat in the which emperor’s box of that great theatre, held a hundred thousan i people, and looked at the combatants through a gem in b's finger ring which brought everything close up to his eye. Four hundred years before Christ, In the stores at Athens, were sold powerful glasses called “burning spheres,” and Layard, the explorer, of Nineveh found a and magnifying in the palace glass amid of Nim- tho rums rod. Whether through magnifying instru¬ ment or with unaided eye I cannot say, but I am sure that Job somehow went through the galieriesof the snowflake and counted its pillars teries, theo'ogies, and found wonders, raptures, mys¬ down majestie*, infinities walk in2 U P an( i its corridors, as a result o£ the “Hast question which the Lord had asked hi n, thou entered into the treasures of the cuow>” Oh, it is a wonflerous meteor! Memboldt studied it in the Andes, twelve thousand feet above ihe level of the sea. De Saussure re¬ veled among these meteors in the Alps, and Dr. Seoresby counted ninety-six varieties of snowflake amid the arctics. Tney are in shape of stars, in shaoe of coronets, in shape of cylinders; are globular, are hexagonal. “ r fj Py ramiQ *h are castellated. After a fresh fad of snow, in one walk you crush under your feet, Tuilleries, Windsor castles. St. Hauls St. Peters, St. Marks, cathedrals, Alhambras and Sydenham palaces innumer able. I know it deyends much on our own condition what impression these flying meteors of the snow make. I shall not forget two rough and unpre tending wood cuts which I saw iu my boy fiood side by side; one a pictureof aprosper ous and farmhouse, lad warmly with clothed all signs looking of comfort, of the a out door upon the first flurry of snow, and his inind no doubt filled with the sound of jin gling sleigh bells and the frolic with playtel lows in the deep l anks, an! he, clapping his hands and shouting, “It snows! it snows!” The other sketch was of a boy, haggard and hollow eyed with hunger, looking from the broken ooor of a wretched home and seeing in tho falling flakes prophecy of more cold and less bread and greater privation, wring ing his hands aud with tears rolling down his wan cheoks crying, “Oh, my God! it mows! it snows!" Out of the abundance that characterizes mo t of our homes may there be speedy relief to all whom this win ter finds iu want and exposure. everlasting And now I propose, for your spiritual guid and profit, if you will accept my auce, ders of to crystallization. take you through And some notice ot these first won- God in the littles. You may take alpenstock and cross the Mei* de Glace, the sea of ice, and aS cond Mont Blanc, which ris e into the clouds like a pillar of the great white Thron?, or with arctic explorer ascend the mountains around the nor.h pole, and see glaciers a thousand feet high grinding against glaciers three thousand feet high. But I wilt taka you on a leas pretentious journey and show y° u ^°d in the snowflake. There is room enou?h between its pillars for the great Je liovuh to stand. In that one Dozen drop on the tip of your Almighty. finger you 1 may find the throne room of the take up the snow in my hand and see tho coursers of celestial The I pavements. 1 telescope is grand, but interested must confess in the that am quite as much microscope. The one reveals the universe shove us; tho other just a? great a universe beneath us. But the telese pa overwhelms me, while tbe microscope comforts me. What you want and 1 want especially is a God in litt.es. If we were seraphic or arehanjeiic in our natures we would want to study God in the preal; but such small, weak, short lived beings as you and I are want to find God in the littles. AVlien 1 see the Maker of the universe civ ing tiimsetf to the architecture of a snow finke, and making its shafts, its domes, its curves, its walls, its irradiations s > perfect I conciuda He will ioou alter our insignificant affairs. And if we are of more ro ue than a vs’.n? sparrow, than most certainly we are of more nn inanimate snowflake. So the Bible would chiefly imprest us with God in the dtt es. It does not sav, “Consider the clouds,” but st says, “Consider too lilies.” It does not say, “Behold The tempests'.” but “Behold the fowls?'and it applauds a cup of cold water and the widow's two mitss, and tars tho hairs ot your bead areall numbered Do not fear, t erefore, that you are going to be lost in the crowd. Do not tainu that o? cause snowflake you estimate yourself days' Jauuary as only oue among a three snow storm that you will be forgotten. The birth and death of a drop ot chilled vapor is as certainly tion regarded by the ln>r as toe crea big to ana Got! * erudition and nothing of a is planet. nail. Nothing is s vY hat am*es tae honey industries of South Carolina such a source ot' livelihood aud weaith? It is beeau-e Go l teac les The la ly lug to mak-an op ning in the rind ol tue apricot for the bes, who cauuo; otherwise tbe juices of ti e iruit. So God sen is tae lady bug ahead to prepare tte way for bc». h, *»*» a. each grain of corn order that rna/ ground for winter food in u. not take root and so rum the little granai .V ■ He teaches the raven in dry weather to throw pebbles into a hollow tree, that the wat-r f at down and out of reach may come up within the reach of the bird’s littles! beat. Wj The liat eaiper a com¬ 01 fort that He is a God in !oo.-nnq of all the Russias in olden time was at a map that spread before him his vast dominions, and ne court not fin l G-ieat but ain on the map, and he called in hissecretai v and said: “Where is Great Britain, um hear so much about?’ “It is under youi thumb,” said the secretary; an l tus em peroi ■ raise i his hau 1 from the map an l saw the country be was looking tor. time that »vc find th ._ And it is high and under > mighty reaim of God close by out own little finger. To drop yon out of His memory would be to resign His omniscience. To refuse you His protection^ would be to ab¬ dicate His omnipotence. When von tell me that He is the God of Juniter.and the God of Mercury, and the God of Satura, you tell me something so vast that I cannot comprehend it. But if you tell me He is the God of the snowflake, you tell me something I can hold and measure and realiz'*. Thus the snaadest snowflake contains a jewel case of conuorh Fere is an opal, an smethyist, a diamond. Here is one of the treasures of snow. Take it for vour present and everlasting comfort. Behold, also, in the snow the treasure of accumulate! power. During a snow weigh storm let an apotheoarv, accustomed to most deiica-e quantit es, hold his weighing scales out of the window and let one flake fail oil the surface of the scales, and it will not even make it tremble. When you want to ex¬ press extreme triviality of weight you sav, “Light as a feather.”, hut a snowflake is much lighter. It is just twenty-four times lighter than water. And yet the accumula¬ tion of these flakes broke down, a few days ago. in sight of my house, six telegraph noles, made helpless nolica an! fire deoartments and halted rail trains with two thundering locomotives. We have already learned so much of the power of electricity that we have become careful how we touch the electric wire, and in many a oa^e n touch has b ;en death. But a few days ago the snow put its hand on most of these wires, and tore them down as though they werecobweb3. The snow said: “You fieem afrai 1 of the thunderbolt; I wid catch it and hurl it to the ground. Your boosted electric lights adorning your cities with bub¬ bles of fire, I will put out as eisilv as vour ancestors snuffed out a tallow candle.” The snow put its finger on the lip of our cities that were talking with each other and they went into silence, uttering not a word. The 6now mightier than the lightning. stopped Amer¬ In March, 188S. the snow ica. It said to Brooklyn, “.itav home!” to New York, “Stay to’Washington, home!" to Philadelphia, “Stay home!” “Stay home!” to Richmond, “Stay home!" It put into a white sepulcher most of this nation. Com¬ merce, whose wheels never stopped before, stopped then. What was the matter? Power of accumulated snowflakes. On the top of the Apennines one flake falls, and others fall, and they pile up, and they make a mountain of fleece on the top of a mountain of rock, until one day a gust of win!, or even tne voice of a mountaineer, sets the frozen vapors into action, and by awful descent they sweep everything in their course—frees, roeks, villages—as when in 1827 the town of Bnel, in land, Valais, three was buried, soldiers and in 1621,in Switzer¬ hundre! were entombed. These avalanches were made up of single snowflakes. Whit tragedies of the snow have been witnessed by tbe monks of St. Bernard, who for ag's have with the dogs been busy in ex¬ tricating bewildered and overwhelmed travelers in Aloine storms, the dogs witii blankets fastened to their backs and flasks of spirits helpless fastened travelers, to their necks these to resuscitate one of dogs decorated with a medal for haring saved the lives of twenty-two persons, the brave beast himself slain of the snow on that day when accom¬ panying a Piedmontese courier on the way to his anxious household down the mountain, tbe wife and children of the Piedmontese courier coming up the mountain in search of him, au avalanche covered all under pyra* higher than those under which the Egyptian monarch? sleep their sleep of the ages! of the tragedies of what an illustration the 8U0W i s found in that scene between Glencoe and Gleucreran one February in Scotland, where Ronald Cameron comes forth to bring to his father’s house his cousin Flora McDonald for the celebration of a birthdav, and the calm day turns into a hurricane ol white fury that leaves Ronald nn< i Flora es dead, to be resuscitate! by the shepherds! What an exciting struggle had Bayard Taylor among the wintry Apennines! by similar force, i n the winter of 1812, a the destiny of Europe was decided. The French army m-rebe l up toward Moscow five hundred thousand men. What can re g j s t them? Not bavonets, but the dumb de menu overwhelm that host. Napoleon hundred re t.-oats from Moscow with about two thousand men, a mighty nucleus for another campaign after he gets back to Paris. The morning of October 19, when they start for home, is bright and beautiful. The air is tonic, and although this Russian will campaign again has been a failure Napoleon his host try brave m some other direction with of surviving Frenchmen, B ut a cloud comes on the sky and the air gets chill, aud one of the sol iiers feels on his cheek a snowflake, and then there is a multi plication of these wintry messages, an! soon the plumes of the officers are deckel with an other style of plume, and then all the skies ] e t loose upon the warriors a hurricane of snow, and the march becomes difficult, ani the horses find it hard to puU fail the suoply train, ant the men begin to under the fatigue, and many not able to take another step lie down in the drifts never to rise, an t the cavalry horses stumble and fall, a id one thousand of the army fall, and ten thousand perish, and twenty thousand go down, and fifty thousand, and a hundred thousand, and a hundred and twenty thousand and a nun fired au 1 thirty-tv/o thousand die, and tue victor of Jena and bridle of Lodi aud Eyiau an! Austeratz, where tore3 great armies, commanded by thr*e emperors, surrendered to him; now himself surrenders to tae snow flakes. Historians c!o not seem to recognize that the tide in that man’s life tur.ie l tro n Dec. 16,1809, when Josephine he banished by hideous divorce his wife train the pa ace, an d so caalienged tas Almigaty, an l the Lord charged upon him from tae fortress of the sky with ammunition of crystal. Saowe.l under! Billions, trillions, quidriliious,quin trillions of flares did toe work. Aniwuata suggest on of accumulative power, and what a rebuke to all of us who get discouraged be cause we cuuaot do much, aud therefore do nomine! “Oo,” swssorne nae, “I would like to stop the forces ox sm and crime that are marching for the conquests of the nations, but I aa nobody; J have nei.her wealth nor eloquence nor social power. VVhat caa l do?" My brother, hiw much do you weigh? As muea es a snow It flare! aggregation -Oil. yes.” Then do your s.iare. is aa of small infiu enees that will yet put this lost wor d back into the beso o of a oarionng Gol. Alas taat there are so many men and wo nea wao will not use rhe one laio it bectusj they have nos tea. aud wfll no: give a penny became tney cannot qive a dollar, and will not speak elo as well as they can because they are not iiiiiSi Victory unfai in-'. aTa^toTre-I , , God may we do not think & h?re- j£££SE£sffiB And tue answer will t: “Yes I muen applause; he took most of his pay in earthly he had enough grace to gat through the gate, Be but just where he lives I know not. squeezed through somehow, although I taink ti!9 patcS took the skirts of his gar meats, i thins he lives in one of those back streets in one of the plainer residences.” “IsiSliii and shall “U hat of the steps, we sav, one the hierarchs lives here?” That must be the residence of a Paul or a Miiton, or some one whose name rebounds through all the planet from which we have just ascended.” “No, no,” says our celestial dragoman; “that is the residence of a soul whom you never heard “When she gave her charity her left hand knew not what her right hand did. She was mighty in secret prater, and no one hut God and her own soul knew it. She had more trouble than anybody in all the land where she lived, anl without comoiaining she bore it, and though her talents were never great, what she had was alt conse¬ crated to God and heloing others, and the Lord is making up for her earthly privation by especial raptures here, and the King of this country had that place built especially for her. The walls began to go up waen her trouhles and privations and consecration began on earth, and it so happened—what a of heavenly the coincidence!—this iheiast stroke trowel of amethyst on those walls was given “You the hour she entered heaven. know notning of her. On earth her name was only once in the newspaoers, and that among the column of the dead, but she is mighty uo here. There she comes now out of her palace grounds in her coariot be¬ hind those two white horses for a ride on the banks of the river that flows from under th3 throne of God. Let me see. Did you not have in your world below an old classic which says something about ‘these are they who como out of great tribulation, and they shall reign for ever and ever?’ ” As we pass up the street I find a good many on foot, and I say to the dragoman: “Who are these?” And when their name is an¬ nounced T recognize that some of them were on earth great poets, and great orators, and great I merchants, and great warriors, and when express my surprise about their going afoot the dragoman says: “In this country people ore rewarded not according to the number of their earthly talents, hut accord¬ ing to tae use they made of what they had.” And then I thought to myself: “Whv, That theory would make a snowflake that fal’s cheerfully and in tho right place, and does all the work assignel it. as honorable as a whole Mont Blanc of snowflakes.” “Yes. ye ; ,” says the celestial dragoman, “maDy of these pearls that you find on the foreheads of the righteous, and many of the gems in the jewel case of prince and princess, are only the petrified snowflakes of earthly tempest, for God does not forget the promise made in regard to them, ‘They shall be Mine, I said tbe Lord of hosts, in the day when make up My jewels.’ ” Accumulated power! All the prayers and charities and kindnesses and talents of all the good concentered and compacted will be the world’s evangelization. This thought of the aggregation of the many smalls into that one mighty is another treas¬ ure of the snow. Another treasure of the snow is the sug¬ gestion of the winter usefulness made of sorrow. all nations Absence sick. of snow last That snowless winter has not yet ended its disasters. Within a few weeks it put tens of thousands into the grave, an l left others in homes and hospitals gradually to go down. Called by a trivial name, the Rus¬ sian “grio,” it was an international plague. Plenty of snow means public health. world’s There is no medicine that so soon cures the malarias as these white pellets that the clouds homeopathic, administer—pellets but small enough to be in such large doses as to be allopathic, and melting soon enough to be hydropathic. Like a sponge, every flake ab¬ sorbs unhealthy gases. The tables of mor¬ tality in New York and Brooklyn imme¬ diately lessened when the snows of last De¬ cember began to fall. The snow is one of the grandest and best of the world’s doctors. Yes, it is necessary for the land’s produc¬ tiveness. Great snows in winter are general¬ ly followed by great harvests next summer. Scientific analysis has shown that snow con¬ tains a larger percentage of ammonia than the ram. and hence its greater power of en¬ richment. And besides that, it is a white blanket to keep the earth warm. An ex¬ amination of snow in Siberia showed that it was a hundred degrees warmer under the snow than above the snow. Alpine plants perished in the mild winter of England for lack of enough snow to rich keep them warm. Snow strikes back the gases which other¬ wise would escape in the air and be lost. Tbank God for the snows, and may those of February ber January he as plentiful as those of Decern and have been, high and deep and wide and enriching; then tne harvests next July will embroider with gold this en¬ tire American continent. What mellowed and glorified Wilberforce’s Christian character? A financial misfortune that led him to write, “I know not why my life is spared so long, except it be to show LneaswithoftTe” 9 John Milton such keen spiritual eyesi/ht that he could see the battle of the angeis? Extinguishment of physical eyesight. What is the highest observator.v for studying the stars of hope and KaSSliS golden harvests most that wave on all the hills of heavenly rapture? The snows, the f’een snows, the awtul snows of earthly Z°o(Ze trt^ure^of totm? 18 Another treasure of the snow is the sngges tion that this mantle covering the earth Is like the soul after it is forgiven. “Wash me,” said the Psalmist, “aud I shall be whiter than snow." My d?ar friend Gasfc erie Da Witt went over to Geneva, Switzer¬ land. for tiie recovery of It s healto, but the Lord had sometcinq better for bim than earthly recovery. Little fii 1 I think when I bade him goo I-by one lovely afternoon ou the other side of the sea to return to Amerlco. that we would not meet aram till we meet in heaven. As ne lav one Sa’obath morning on his dying pillow in Switzerland, the win do w open, he was looking cut tr.ori Kont Blanc. The air was clear. That great mountain stood in its robe of sno v, glitter ing in the morning and my friend said to dis wile: “Jennie, do you know what tuat snow on Mount Btanc makes me think It makes me think that the righteousness of Christ anl the pardon of God cover all tb» sins aud imperfections of my life, as that snow covers up that mountain, for the , promise is that though our sins bo as scarlet, V thsy shall be as white as snow.” Was not llSSSsSa the tenet of obsolete theology take it as an Wemust that our nature £ conmp^ be soul in melted snow he would still be cov water, “ ,d ^“® be ftn^tiie ditofc yet amt snalt mine thou t own c r otaos | ,e ,h;i iw*l abio- abac.me iS pods e „ mus me.cy L be we can be "id whiw - t han snow. holiness „ft’ man shad see the Lord.” On, for . tae cleansing Ip|ppili§l Int the right hand. No- one All we, like sheep, -And yet have we gone may be astry. made Unclean v.n.Lei t ! lan unclean! snow whiter thanthat which, on a coid niters morning, arter a night ol Suurm, e.^tnes the tree from bottom oi trunk to top of highest branen, whiter than that wn ch this hour makes the Adirondack?, and the Sierra Nevada and Mount Washington heights of pomp aud splendor fit to enthrone an arch¬ angel. the time of Graham, the essayist, m m one mountain district of Scotian;! an average of ten shepherds perished every winter in the snow drifts, an i so he proposed that at the distance of every mile a pole fifteen feet high and with two cross pieces be erectel, show¬ ing the points of the compass, and a bell hung at the top, so that every breeze would ring it. and so tbe lost one on the mountains would hear the sound and take the direction} given by this pole with the cross that pieces proposed and get safely home. Whether plan was adopted or not I do not know, but 1 declare to all you who are in the heavy anr) blinding drifts of sin and sorrow that ther{ is a cross near by that can direct you to horns and peace and God; and hear you not thi ringing of the gospel bell hanging to that cross, saying, “Tnis is the way; walk ye l i it?” THE TRADES UNIONS To Demand the Work on the World’s Fair Building’s. The organized labor of Chicago hotly asserted itself Sunday regarding the world’s fair. It was ft regular meeting of the trade and labor assembly body, said to represent 47,000 workmen, and one of whose membeis was given recogni¬ a seat in the worid’s fair directory in tion of §800,000 subscribed by workiug men to the guarantee fund of ihe fair, James O'Connell, president of the assem¬ bly, ■ ilered the following: Whereas, The present directory of said exposition indicate their intention of re¬ fusing to recognize union labor, but threaten to - emply indiscriminately non¬ union labor, thereby flooding the labor market of Chicago wi h the ultim de de¬ sign of destroying the trades unions; therefore, be it Resolved, That we, as union men, protest against this treacherous action of the directors of the World’s Columbian exposition, and unless immediate action is taken by that body to redeem their implied pledges given in regard to union labor, we will deem it our duty to op¬ pose iu every way any further legislation, either municipal, state or national, in fa¬ vor of said World’s Columbian exposi¬ alt tion, and we hereby recommend workingmen who have subscribed for said stock to decline to pay any further assessments until proper assurances are given by the directors that the said im pli>d pledges will be kept; and be it further Resolved, That unless satisfactory as¬ surances are given by the directors that their indicated action will be changed, we shall deem it our duty to ask ihe co¬ operation of every body of organized labor throughout the country to assist us in making our protest emphatic. Tbe resolution was carried without op¬ posite n. The men will go before the world’s fair direntorv with the above res¬ olution and ask further that eight hours be made a day’s in the constitution of the world’s fair buildings. FOR THE TONNAGE BILL. Business Men of Richmond Urge Its Passage. The board of diri ctors of the Chamber of Commerce of Ri< imond, Va., held a special meeting Saturday night to con¬ sider what is commouly known as tho tonnage bill now pending in congress, which provides for a per; entage allowance by the government to a l American ves sels, steame s or otherwise, which go to foreign ports. A delegation from Nor of ^ the appeared measure, before which, the it board is agieed, in behalf will be of vast benefit to all ports of the United States, especially m view r of re ciprocitv treaty with Brazil. Res dutions uu .uimouslv Hiiopted ,ha kill, ask ids the Virginia represent auves to vote in favor of it, aud appointing a committee of two to go at once to Wash in « t0D to advocat e the passage of the bill. ad w con « ress MAYOR WORD’S VERSION Regarding His Attack on Rev. Sara Jones. Mayor J. J. Wo a, of Pales'inc, Texas, published a card Fridiy, in which and he says the trouble between Sam Jones himself «as on account of pel’s c al mat¬ ters. and not because the evang -list crit j t j 8ed his offic]a i act ; 0 ns. The mayor s-«ys: .eyi’u-i hile p-Ir. i* Jo t es \ras , here he took it upon himself to refer in the most ins dting language to mv private life and habits before my wife and children; lienee my attack upon him. As for my official conduct, that is open to the scru tiny of right-minded men."
