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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1898)
JiAGK’S SERMON 1 jkeat DIVINE’S SUNDAY discourse. I. npleas ,,res of J.]fe”-n»»NoSym- Dennncla L With the yVholesa'e Work Amu9ei’»e“ t8 Giorlous [of r Ttr C. A# e v their » f-And *o p**-. when It came C;tU for sport. And »• samsoa out sport.’’-Judges of the prison ^diie'» ff'gport thrfle thousand peop^assern^ 1 the of eyeless Samson. 0 erei, ma f J,iv tor the nnd entertainment. im TV, eut sgftn t0 t0 ci«p c "t,. and p° ’ and they f e ?m to begin, out!” s ara h out! Fetch Jiim P K& a “' the house, so he says to the t “Bring where the Mm. me 1 © ” Tim lad does so. Then » ^ fir l ,re " ' hands one of nu ts his on md with the mightiest push nrta'l ever made, throws himseif for ° m l the orJl whole house comes down in IBt grinding the audience roUS - a’wine-press. “And it in so tapes when their hearts were merry, [o pass said, _ Cali for Samson, that he hey ^ P t°lie’prison-house; \nd they called for S and lie thon!snort.” out of In otner words there “o,vn foments that and are death destructive and the disaster upon While ilBKf those who practice them. they die The three d who perished that day in Gaza K an fi compared have been to destroyed the tens of thou- body Lml soul by carried bad amusements to excess. and amusements must have noticed ,v sermons sympathy you with eeclesiasti a i,,ve no with that wholesale iciation rait-jackets, amusements or to which many J “ited of Church of God I believe the mle a tremendous mistake in trying I mressthe sportfulness of youth and out irom men their love of amuse If God ever implanted anvthinghn implanted this desire. But instead [vidin* for this demand of our nature, hurcli of God lias for the main part dit. \ s in a riot tbe Mayor plants a y at the end of the street and has it [Off so that everything is cut down happens to stand in the range, the L as well as the bad, so there are men church who plant the batteries of fcmnation and Arc away indiscrimin I Everything is condemned. They Is if they would like to have our youth J Fin blue uniform like the children of [chan asylum, and of march the Dead down March the of life to the tune fi. They hate a blue sash, or a rose _ ■n the . hair, , ; or „ a tasseled gaiter, and K: a man almost ready for a lunatic P m who utters a conundrum. lung ■coantry Mens Christian Associations glorious work. of are doing a Khave fine reading rooms, and all the lenses are of the best kind, and are •adding I gymnasiums and bowling al where, without any evil surroundings, lyoung Itual men may get physical as well as improvement. We are dwindling |r ■e-voieed to a narrow-chested, race, when God weak-armed, calls us to a ■ in which he wants physical as well fntua athletes. I would to God that ■ime might soon come when in all our ■gesand peiton, theological seminaries, as at a gymnasium shall be estab If. nTT,™. s P®? d 11 ? £c eve T ii tl10 yea ministry, . rs . bart and J IL cmnplaMt^and’then^awlu^into Diver pulpit, l heavenly!” and the because people say, he looks “Doesn’t sickly, he the Church of God direct, rather than Impt to suppress, the desire for amuse it. The best men that the world ever w have had their sports. William Wil force trundled hoop with his children, ■tin luther helped dress the Christmas '■ Ministers have pitched quoits, phil iropists have gone a-skating, prime isters have played ball, nr communities are filled with men and ieu who have in their souls unrneas- 1 resources for .sportfulness and frolic, w me a man who never lights up with rtfulness and has no sympathy with the cations of others, and I will show you ian wll ° is a stumbling block to the ?uom of God. Such men are caricatures ■eiigion. They lead young people to K tllat a !aan is good in proportion as Joans and frowns and looks sallow,and the height of a man’s Christian stature proportion to the length of his face. I k bright-faced, • if 8 . 0 ® five radiant hundred such men for 1 fago Christian on are the words, “Rejoiceever ”t oaes fy ^*7 morning by his cheerful face sermons. I will go further y that . I have no confidence in a man .~? 9 a religion of his gloomy looks. „i,i a man al ways turns out badly. not „ want b£m . £or the treasurer of ii-ni, al1 ssylum.. The orphans would nurch Pf°ple at one whom communion, I received there oni applicant of whose piety I H- XDeHi k r '! 0 „ us een ‘ the He most had the longest story. P nance visions > and gave n so wonderful that all the had52fo1f =urnri2 C a n i tll s e were year discouraged. atter t0 l0arn I that was h wiiinv, 0 )? Wltb was I u connected. tbe funds of Who the bank this ck an «f hi*.^ ♦u is feet hi P u cal1 rt) ligion—wings on’ a „ a< *’ feathers black? Our re eht wines'k^ brig aogei— l£ taking f eet her bright, place eyes in isool eia si, 6 f’ u , s , a ro that reaches I skies d ts ab P e to pWne rmf tbe bells of heaven -n talt!r,„ ere ne some persons who, ft * i° ? m inister, always itic to in, k iagubrious. feel it Pie. to tf! i Go forth, O ins von awful amusement. God S many ° haa Py- But, when there fWJlT poliuTi!/ 1 3 an 01 E! lins juuocent that is pleasure, danger I and full nV ^by lTe n Dg ' stop our ears to a s of a songsters to listen to the e Why turn back from wers and a abloom with wild nts,and within • , tlle nimble tor* Ad)the hot In Slde8 J?, blistered of Cotopaxi? feet attempt to Sow eys,’ aii skating 3 H°? | rl ?bs ses » and theatres, all bowling msetc» da nt3 n a n d ba< J’ 1 styles of ? Principle! andjadve nf f i, by put on trial em certain car* insement pw ? lrs t> you judge . of any official hv if be ^ ful result by reacts °<w T or its cm made 6 f e are P eo P le who •mbination ud U ^ n j They 0 mu 'tiplication are a atisties, rime Tf v Sb ? w them tables and they wm, an exquisite a botanical Hnoi° Se i’ they win submit it bey , stmortem which is only the never do"anvthi atl0n of a fi °wer. bde. There yth g more than feebly 3rB are no great tides of feeling surging up from the depth of their soul in billow after billow of reverberating laugh¬ ter. They seem as if nature had built them by contract and made a bungling job out of it. But, blessed be God, there are people in the world who have bright faces and whose life is a song, an anthem, a psean of victory. Even their troubles are like the vines that crawl up the side of a great tower on the top of which the sun¬ light sits and the soft airs of summer hold perpetual like to carnival. have They are tbe people you the people I coins like to your house; they are to have come to my house. Now, it is these exliilaratit anil sympathetic and warm-hearted people that are most tempted to pernicious amuse¬ ments. In proportion as a ship is swift it wants a strnn- helmsman: in nrofortion up a horse is gay it wants a strong driver; ana these people of exuberant nature will do well to look at tbe reaction of all their amusements. If an amusement sends you home at night nervous so you cannot sleep, and you rise in the morning, not because yon are slept out, but because your duty drags you from your slumbers, you have been where you ought not to have been. There are amusemeuts that send a man next day to his work bloodshot, yawning, stupid, nauseated, and they are wrong kinds of amusements. There are entertain¬ ments that give a man disgust with the drudgery of life, with tools because they are not swords, with working aprons be¬ cause they are not robes, with cattle because they are not infuriated bulls of the arena. If any amusement sends you home longing for a life of romance and thrilling adven¬ ture, love that takes poison and shoots it¬ self, moonlight adventures and hair¬ breadths escapes, you may depend upon it that you are the sacrificed victim of un sanctided pleasure. Our recreations are intended to build us up, and if they pull us down as to our moral or as to our physical strength, you may come to the conclusion that they are obnoxious. Still further: Those amusements are wrong which lead into expenditure beyonil your lmuins. Money spent in recreation is* not thrown away. It is all folly for us to come from a place of amusement feeling that we have wasted our money and time. You may by it have made an investment worth more than the transaction that yielded you a hundred or a thousand dol¬ lars. But how many properties have been riddled by costly amusement? The table has been robbed to pay the club. The champagne has cheated the children’s wardrobo. The carousing party has burned up the boy’s primer. Tbe tablecloth of the corner saloon is in debt to the wire’s faded dress. Excursions that in a (lay make a tour around a whole month’s wages; ladies whose lifetime business it is tc “go shop¬ ping,” have their counterpart in uneduca¬ ted children, bankruptcies that shock the money market and appall the church, and that send drunkenness staggering across the richly figured carpet of the mansion and dashing into the mirror, and drowning out the carol of music with the whooping tlieir old of bloated sons come home to break mother’s heart, when men go into amuse¬ ments that they cannot afford, they flrst borrow what they cannot earn, and then they steal what they cannot borrow. Fir^t they go into embarrassment and then into theft, and when a man gets as far on as he does not stop short of the penlten-, tiary. There is not a prison in the land where there are not victims of unsanctilled amusements. How often I have had par en p s com e to me and ask me to go and beg tlieir boy off from the consequence of crimes that he had committed against his employer—the taking of funds out of the employer’s till, or tho disarrangement of accounts! Why, he had salary enough to p U y a ii lawful expenditure, sinful but not enough Sll iary to meet his amusements, And again and again I have gone and im- 2, pi or ,.q f or the young man—sometimes, lfls , the petition unavailing. How brightly the path of unrestrained amusement opens! The young man says: “Now I am. off for a good time. Never mind economy; I’ll get money somehow. -\yqat a fine road! What a beautiful day £ ° r a r '" le! Cril ° k the whip nnd ° VUr tlu! turnpilcel Come,boys, fill high yourglasses! ride3 Drink! Long life, health, plenty of just like this!” Hard-working men hear the ciatter of the hoofs and look up and say, “Why, I wonder where those fellows get their money from. We have to toil and drudge. They do nothing.” To these gay men life is a thrill and an excitement. They stare at other people and jingles. in turn The are stared at. Tho watch-chain cup foams. The checks flush, the eyes flash. The midnight hears their guffaw. They swagger. They jostle decent men off the sidewalk. They take tho name of God in vain. They parody the hymn they learned at their mother’s knee; and to all pictures of coming disaster they cry out: “Who cares!” and to the counsel of some Christian friend, “Who are you?” Passing along the street some night you hear a shriek in a grog-shop, the rattle of the watchman’s club, the rush of the police. What is the matter now? Oh, this reckless voung man has been killed in a grog-shop fight. Carry him home to his father’s house. Parents will come down and wash his wounds and close his eyes in death. They forgive him all he did, though he cannot in his silence ask it. The prodigal has got home at last. Mother will go to her little garden and get the sweetest flowers aud twist them into a chaplet for the silent heart of the wayward boy and push back from the bloated brow the long locks that were once her pride. And the air will be rent with the father’s cry: “Oh, mv son. my son, my poor son; would Goa I had died for thee, oh, my son, my son!” You may judge of amusements by their effect upon physical health. The need of many good people is physical recupera¬ tion. There are Christian men who wrlto hards things against their immortal souls when there is nothing the matter with them except an incompetent liver. There are Christian people who seem to think it is a good sign to be poorly, and because Richard Baxter and Robert Hall were in¬ valids they think by the same sickness they may come to the same grandeur of charac¬ that ter. I want to tell Christian people God will hold you responsible for your in¬ validism if it is your own fault, and when through right exercise and prudence you of might be athletic and well. The effect the body upon the soul you acknowledge. Put a man of mild disposition upon the an¬ imal diet of which the Indian partakes, and in a little while his blood will change its chemical proportions. It will become like unto the blood of the lion or the tiger or the bear, while his disposition will change and become fierce, cruel and unrelenting. The body has a powerful effect upon the soul. There are people whose ideas of Heaven are ail shut out with clouds of to¬ bacco smoke. There are people who dare to shatter the physical vase in which God put the jewel of eternity. There are men with great hearts and intellects in bodies worn out by their own neglects. Magnificent machinery capable of propelling fastened the great in Etruria across the Atlantic, yet Physical a rickety North River merely propeller. shows itself in development which walk¬ a fabulous lifting, or in perilous rope only ing ‘or in pugilistic encounter, excites our contempt, but we confess to great admiration for a man who has a great soul in an athletic body, every nerve muscle and bone of which is consecrated to right uses. Oh, it seems to me outrageous that men through neglect should allow their physical health to go down beyond repair, spending the rest of their lives not iu soma great enterprise for God and the world, but in studying what is the best thing to take for dyspepsia. A ship which ought with all sails set and every man at his post to ho carrying a rich cargo for eternity employing all its men in stopping up leak¬ ages! When you may through some of the popular and healthful recreations of out* tune work off your spleen and your qner ulousness aud one-half oT your physical and mental ailments, do not turn hack from such a grand medicament. Again, judge of the places of amusement by the companionship into which they put you. If you belong to an organization where you have to associate with the in¬ temperate, with the unclean, with the abandoned, however well they may be dressed, in the name of God quit it. They will despoil your nature. They will under¬ mine your moral character. They will drop you not give when you cent are destroyed. "They will one to support your children when you arc dead. They will weep not one tear at your burial. They will chuckle over your damnation. But the day comes when the men who have exerted evil influ¬ ence upon their fellows will be brought to judgment. Scene: the last day. Stage: the rocking earth. Enter dukes, lords, kings, beggars, clowns. No sword. No tinsel. No crown. Tor footlights, the kindling flames of a world. For orchestra, the trumpets that wake the dead. For gnllery, the clouds filled with angel spec tutors, for applause, the rlanpiog floods of the sen. For curtains, the leaves rolled together as a scroll. For tragedy, the doom of the destroyed. For farce, the effort to serve the world and God at the same time. For the last scene of the fifth act, the tramp of nations across the stage—some to the right, others to the left. Again any amusement that gives you a distaste for domestic life is bad. Howmany bright domestic circles have been broken up by sinful amusements? The father want off, the mother went off, the Child went, off. There are all around us the fragments of blasted households. Oh! if vou have wan dered awav, I would like to chnnn you back by the sound of that one word, u but H .°,Do little more you time not to know give that to you domestic have welfare? Do you not see, father, that your children are soon to go out into the world, and all the influence for good you are to . have over them you must have now? Death will break in on your conjugal relations, aud, alas! of if you have perished to stand from over the grave one who yourneg le 2; t me say to all young men, your style of amusement will decide your eternal destiny. One night I saw a young man at a street corner evidently doubting as to winch direction he had better take. He had his hat lifted high enough so you could see he had an intelligent forehead, He had a stout chest; he had a robust de velopment. Splendid young man. Cultured young man. Honored young man. Why did he stop there while so many were go ing up and down? The fact is that every man has a good angel and a bad angel contending for the masterv of hts spirit. And there was a good angel and a bad angel struggling with that youug man’s soul at the corner of the street. “Come with me,” said the good angel, “I will take you homo. I will spread my wing over your pathway. I will lovingly escort you all through life. I will bles3 every cup you drink out of, every couch you rest on, every doorway you cuter. I will conse crate your tears when you weep, your sweat whan you toil, and at the last I will hand over your grave into the hand of the bright angel of a Christian resnrrec tion. In answer to your father’s petition and your mother’s prayer I have been sent of the Lord out of Heaven to be your guar dlan spirit. Come with me!’’said the good angel, in a voice of unearthly symphony. It was music like that which drops from a lute of Heaven when a seraph breathes on It. “No, no,” said the bad angel, “come •with me; I have something bet ter to oil or; the wines I pour arc from chalices of be witching carousal; the dance I lead is over floor tessellated with unrestrained indul gences; there is no God to frown on the meadows daisied and primrosed; come with with me.” The young man hesitated at a time when hesitation was ruin and the bad angel smote the good angel until it de parted, spreading wings through the starlight upward and away, until a door flashed open in the sky and forever the wings vanished. That was the turning point in that young man’s history; for the good angel flown, he hesitated no io ger, but started on a pathway which is beauti The l bad < angeb Il ieading* , the* :e way, * opened gate aft,er gate, and at each gate the road became rougher and the sky more lurid, and, what was peculiar, as the gate slammed shut it came to with a jar that indicated that it would never open. Passed each portal, there was a grinding of locks and a shoving of holts; and the scenery on either side the r^d changed from gardens to deserts, and tile June air became a cut ting Decemberdflast, and the bright wings of the bad angel turned to sackcloth and the eyes of the light became hollow with th 0 e Pel start rie had nd Ss 0 sed 0Un w“ne?’ poured forth bubbling tears and foaming blood, and on the right side of the road there was LSSrshS 1 “«>«“ find K answer was, “That is the serpent of sting ing remorse.” On the left side of the road there was a lion, and the man asked the ho(j amrel. Wluit is tliftt lion? ftnd tiio answer’was despair.’” “That is the lion of all-devour- the ing A vulture flew through sky, and the man asked the bad angel, was! “ThaMs* tie vulture '"waiting forThe carcasses of the slain.” And then the man began to try to pull off of him the folds of something that had wound him round and « h e 8 0 he b R S “What t h at twists me in t his convolution?” and the answer was, “That is the worm that never dies'.” and then the man said to the bad angel “What docs all this mean? I trusted in what you said at the corner of the street that night; I trusted it all, and why have you thus deceived me?” Then the last deception fell off the char the pit to destroy your soul; I watched my chance for many a long year; when you hesitated that night on the street I gained my triumph; and now you are here. Ila! ha! You are here. Come, now, let us Ml these two chalices of fire and drink to getherto darkness and woe and death, Hail! hail!” Oh young man, will the good soul? Their wings are interlocked this nioment above you, contending for your condor flgdif inM-sky.^Thi^hour® God help rnay*(16- T* eide your destiny. you! hesitate is to die! it ussian ^clones. According to recent Russian statis ;ics there are now 17,005 factories in ‘he empire, with an annual production valued at $733,500,000. In these fac ories there are employed 940,044 w ork nen and 204,030 women and girls. J DESTINIES OF A NATION LIKENED TO A GAME OF CHESS. ALL CLASSES ARE REPRESENTED, Bishops Stand For the Church; Knights Are the Politicians and Pawns the Great Masses. A nation’s progress or its decline is like a game upon a chessboard, and we all play our parts. The king is a kind of divinity, to be idolized aud protect¬ ed, but is helpless and always in peril. Cleveland was a king, but got check¬ mated and had to retire to private life. The bishops on the chessboard repre¬ sent the church, which is a great pow¬ er in the land—a moral power that makes but little noise and attacks in iquity in high places and sweeps the i, boai „„„/i diagonally „ ., from , ,, Maine . to , ,, Mexi “ co—The knights are the politicians aud statesmen whose movements are r j„i g lt 0 °o“qiie v,lione and and leit left oblique, nhlimie over- nvnr , leaping . precedents and proprieties, They have no straight lines nor right angles, but are always J dodging ° around a „„ i shifting __... their to suit the comse changing , situation. They require a great deal of watching. The castles are those rich old fellows “ who carry tbe , . bags and , buy the ,, nation’s ,. money bonds and heap up their interest and fight the income tax. But after all it • * little humble, , . , unpretending , ,. 18 pawns that master the situation and control the game. They move straight f orward a nn ,i . l)Ut t a ste t P at t a time, u but, nt their phalanx , , is solid and irresistible when marshalled by a master hand. They are the common people-the masses, lhe game of a nation has no fixed movement. It is never played twice alike ancl its resu i t8 ft re un - i, known and uncertain until n they i have transpired. Harrison was once a king, hut was checkmated, and now there none so r to do him revel cnee. Fate, chance, circumstances and providence r all take a hand in this ^me. What , prophet , , or seer or states- . , man could have foretold to us tno present unhappy condition of our country? How long ” will it last and what , , will be the ,, result. uo T Is _ ii the war drifting into a war of conquest? Will we have to take Cuba for pay and per , haps the Philinnines l ninppines and and will will we wean an hex Hawaii, and will the republican party father all this imperialism and 0 ff 1C er the new ° governments and per- r petuate , , their ,, . with ... patronage? , „ power Or will Bryan and Cleveland coalesce and combine against such a dangerous P 0IR y an i 1 demand ,®* naaa the tue voice ’ 00 of the e people it? I delighted , with ,“ upon was Mr. Cleveland’s utterances on this war business. It may J be a political kev note, , but , he is Bryan s line about on acquiring territory and the Monroe doctrine and he speaks boldly and tude. He deplores tbe allurements G f war to our young men and declares th t even victories are demoralizing to a nation and , quotes . from , ^ Generals Grant and Sherman to prove it. A leading ° Richmond paper says that these , utterances , r from t> Bryan and i Cleveland will make the next presi dential issue and that the silver ques will be a “ ed th ° ? ati ° n .f platfoim and that the Democrats noith and south and east and west will have a great * love feast and sweep the conn tr 7* ^s . old man Baugh Bangn would vouiu say, sav we will all know by waiting, and that j 8 a |i that we little pawns can do. j w - a ^ t hat som ething ° would happen to stop this shedding . ... of . , blood—this . , . rich man’s war and poor man’s fight, for t } lat is wbat it is M r. McKinley "ays he is daily expecting a great and very bloody battle. Ob, the pain, the agony, the horror of a bloody battle -i* «>«« «■*?“ »' tion. There have eight yoang men gone from this town and hundreds more f rom tbe state and thousands from _ tne ., south—gone ,. i*i like ai they were _ going to a frolic. Already many of them are demoralized and have lost a]1 ™g«d for the laws and all respect lor womankind. The good people of Walker county are paralyzed with fear 80 i,lj er8 — our goldiers whom we call our patriots. And so it was at Griffin and Tampa and other places, There is enough tiouble and grief at , a £me in . times . „ oi f peace. Old fa¬ ther Time keeps cutting onr good peo pie down and strewing our homes with tears The other day be took {rom u9 a good wife and mother without any warning and now the light of that bome ba8 gone out. Nobody knows the ™ usauanuu desolation m of that hearthstone save the bereaved husband and the heart broken sons and daughters. How w and longing are their days— how "sail and lonaaome are thair nights. This good Christian wo man bag f or years sat near us in the church and was one of its props, We were always glad of her presence and her smiles, and if we miss Ijer ac¬ customed welcome what must be the loss to those who shared her sunshine morning, noon and night? But Mrs. Calhoun bad passed the meridian of life and was more of a companion than a mother. She had reared her flock and reared them well aud was ready for the call. How much sadder is the death of a young hopeful and happy mother. When I was a lad I had a bow and a bunch of arrows and was proud of my skill in using them. One day I was aiming at a bird lliat was sing¬ ing on on the garden fence when my father called me and said: “Don’t shoot—don’t, shoot that bird, my son.” He came to me and in tender words told how he had found that, catbird’s nest iu a tree at the corner of the gar¬ den and there were young birds in it, and he said: “I think that this very bird is their mother and she feeds them all through the day and sings because she is so happy. If you should kill her what will become of her little ones? Who will feed them when their mother is dead?” I have never forgotten that lesson he taught me. When I read of Mrs. Clark Howell’s sad aud sud¬ den death my first thought was, who will feed the young birds now, for no one can nestle them and caress them like a mother. How lost and helpless are little children when their mother dies. What Christian faith we must have to be reconciled to the will of God and to trust them to His watchful care. But the promises are multiplied over and over. Our heavenly Father is the God of the widow and the or¬ phan. Even with those promises, the death of a young mother is the saddest thing in this troubled world—aud only Providence can give consolation for it. His tender care of orphan children is the strongest proof of his love to man. For 03 years George Muller trusted Him to provujp for the orphans in his asylum in London. He began with 20 and died with 2,100 under his care. As their numbers increased bis means in¬ creased aud his buildings were enlarged and his accommodations improved and every want supplied, and yet he rewer had an endowment nor an annuity, nor did he ever know today what money he would have next week. The money came generally from unexpected sources aud in varied sums, from a shilling to £500. He says in his diary: “I never had too much did I ever have too little, did I ever feel the slightest apprehen¬ sion that God would fail me. The orphans were His and I was but His agent and my text in my prayers was ‘open thy mouth wide aud I will fill it.’” When Muller died, a few years ago at the great age of ninety-three, the orphanage was costing near $200, 000 annually for its maintenance, and the money kept coming in. He never sent out a circular aud never asked a man or a woman for a dollar. He went to God. That orphanage proves two things—that God cares for orphans and that He-answers prayers. Win. T. Stead of The Review of Re¬ views has written a most interesting character sketch of Muller in the May number. If anyone is skeptical or un¬ settled upon this question of prayer let him read it. Our own Dr. Jacobs, who founded the Clinton orphanage many years ago, has had a similar ex¬ perience on an humbler scale. He never refused an orphan for lack of funds. The funds increase as their numbers increase and, like Mnller, he keeps on enlarging the institution, and the money grows with his wants. Providence is behind it all.—Bxnn Akp in Atlanta Constitution. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Various New Industries Reported For the Past Week. Alabama heads the new enterprises of importance reported from the South¬ ern States for the week ended Juno 25, 1898, with the announcement of the Alabama Steel aud Shipbuilding Co., organized at Birmingham, with a minimum capital of $500,000, and its usual steady showing—this week a large cotton gin, a flouring mill, and a cotton oil mill; Arkansas reports a contract awarded for water works; Georgia, an oil mill, two cotton gins and a flouring mill; Kentucky, an electric light plant to be erected; Louisiana, salt mines, and an electric light and water works system; Miss¬ issippi, an oil mill, with refinery and soap factory—capital, $125,000, a han¬ dle factory rebuilt, and a $50,000 compress company; North Carolina, two flouring mills, a ginnery, a saw mill and a foundry; South Carolina, two flouring mills and a $60,000 cotton mill; Tennessee, a saw mill rebuilt, two large planing mills, and a grain elevator; Texas, a flituring mill, a $50,000 saw mill and a $75,000 irriga¬ tion investment; West Virginia,a local telephone company.-Tradesman (Chat¬ tanooga, Tenn). STAHLMAN GIVES INFORMATION. Exhibits Telegrams to the Senate In¬ vestigating Committee. A Washington special says: Major E. B. Stahlman appeared before the senate investigating committee again Monday and exhibited copies of tele¬ grams that passed between himself and Barbee & Smith, not, as he said, because the committee had a right to demand them (inasmuch as matters be¬ tween an attorney and client were sacred), but because he desired to give the fullest information to the commit¬ tee to enable it to reach a just conclu¬ sion. He presented also a statement showing what disposition he made of the money derived by him as a fee in prosecuting the claim.
