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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - , ATLANTA, GA- TUESDAY JUNE 8 1886. 15' TALMAGE’S SERMON The Doctor DoUrtn tho Fourth of Eli Sirin of Ssrmons oa "Tkt Libor Question." Eli Subject Being Monopoly and Co m mu ala m Strug gling for FooMooloa of tho Brooklyn, N. Y., Jane 6.—[Special.]—Bov. T. DoWltt Talmage, D. D. preached today to tho Brooklny tabernacle, the fourth of his ee rie* of sermons on "the labor question." Hii •object was,"Monopoly and Communism strug gling for the possession of this country." Be fore beginning his sermon he announced that the congregation would make a trip to the Thousand Isles on the 26th lust. The text was Isaiah, chap, ixll, T. 4. “The laird delighted in thee, and thy land shall be married." Following is the sermon in falls As the greater includes the lees, to does the circle of fUtureJoy|aroond our entire world include the epicycle of our own repnblic. Bold, exhllarant, unique, divine imagery of the text! So many are depressed by the la- timo when the Prince ofPcace and the Heir of universal dominion shall take possession of this nation and “Thy land shall be married." In discussing the dual destiny of this na tion it makes all the difference in the world whether we are on the way to a funeral ora wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this subject. In pulpits and on platforms and in S laces of public concourse, I hear so many of io muffled drums of evil prophecy sounded, as though ws were on the way to national interment, and beside Thebes and Babylon and Tyre in the cemetery of dead nations our republic was to be entombed, that I wish yon to understand it is not to be obsequies, but nuptials; not mausoleum but carpetoa al tar; not cypress but orange blossoms: not re quiem but wedding march for “Thy land eball be married.” I propose to nsme some of the suitors who are claiming the hand of this republic. This land is so fair, so beautiful, so affluent, that it has many suitors, and it will depend much up on your advice whether thla or that shall he accepted or rejected. In the drst place, I remark; There is a greedy, all-grasping monster who comes in as suitor seeking the hand of this republic, and that monster is known by the name of Monop oly. His sceptre la made out of the iron of the rail track and the wire of telegraphy. Ho does everything for his own advantage and for the robbery of the people. Things have gone on from bad to worse until in the three legisla tures of New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl vania, for the most part, Monopoly decides everything. If Monopoly favor a law it passes. If Monopoly oppose a law it is rejected. Monopoly stands In this railroad depot putting into his pockets in one year two hun dred millions of dollars in excess of all rea sonable charges for service. Monopoly holds in his one hand the steam power or locomo tives, and in the other, tho electricity of swift communication.- Monopoly decides nomina tions and elections—city elections, state elec tions. national elections. With bribes ha se cures the votes of legislators—giving them bee passes, giving appointment to needy rein* merchants; and if ha finds a case very stub born, as well as very important, puts down be fore him the hard cash of bribery. But Monopoly is not so easily caught now as when, during the term of Mr. Buchanan, the legislative oommlttee in one of our states expressed and exposed the manner in which a certain railway company procured a donation of public land, It was found out that thirteen of the senators of that state received $175,000 among them; sixty members of the lower house of that state received live thousand and ten thousand dollars each; the governor of the state received fifty thousand dollars: his clerk received five thousand dollars; the lleutensat- S vcrnor received ten thousand dollars; all e clerks of the legislature received five thousand dollars eaeh, while fifty thousand dollars were divided amid the lobby agents. That thing on a larger or smaller scale, is •lithe time going on in some of the states of the union, but it it not so blundering as It used to bo, and therefore not as easily exposed or arrested. - I tell you that the overshadowing curse of the United States to-day is! Monopoly. He puts his hand upon every bushel of wheat, upon every sack of salt, upon every ton of coel; and every man, woman and child in the United States feels the touch of that monoyed despotlim. I rejoice that in twenty-four states of the union already anti-monopoly leagues have been established. God speed them in the work of liberation! I wish that this question might be the question of our presidential elec tions, and that we compel the political parties to recognise it on their platforms. I have nothing to say against capitalists. A man has a right to all the money ha can make honestly. There Is not a laborer In the laud that would not be worth a million dollars If he could. I have nothing to say against corpora tions as such—without them no great enter- S risc would be possible; but what I do say is tat the same principles are to be applied to capitalists and to corporations that are applied to tho poorest man aud the plainest laborer. What la wrong for me is wrong for great cor porations. If I take from you your property without adequate compensation I am a thiet, and if a railway damage the property of the peoplo without any adequate compensation that is a gigantic theft. What is wrong on a small sealers wrong on a large scale. Monop oly in England hss ground hundreds and thourandsorher best people into semi-starva tion, and in Ireland hat driven multitudinous tenants almost to madness. Five hundred acres in this country make an immense farm. When you read that in Da kota territory Mr. Cass has a farm of fifteen thouiand acres, and Ur. Grandon twenty-five thousand acres, and Ur. Dalrymple forty thou sand acres, your eyes dilate, even though these Arms are in great regions thinly inhabited. But what do you think of this which I take from the Doomsday Book, shewing what monopoly ia on the outer side theses? Iglva it as a warning of what it Would do on this side the saa if Tn some law ful way the tendency is not resisted. In Scotland, J. G. M. Ueddle owns fifty thousand end four hundred acres; Earl ol Wemyaa, fifty-two thousand acres; Sir J. Uiddell, fifty- four thousand and five hundred acres; Sir C. W. A. Boas, fifty-five tbouaand|acres; £. H. Scott, fifty-nine thousand and seven hun dred acres; Mr. 8. Baird, sixty thous and acres: earl of Dunmore, 00,000 scret; Duka of Eoxburgh,fl0,000, acres; Earl of Moray, 61,700 acres; Countess of Home, 02,COO acres; Ford Middleton, 63,000 acres; Mr. J. H. Johnston, 64,000 acres; Earl of Aberdem 03,500 acres; Mtckcnxle, of Dundonell, 04,000 acres; Earl of Airlle, 65,000 acres; Sir J. Colqu- hops, 67,000 acres; C. Morrison, 07,000 acres: Duke of Montrose, 08,000 acres; Mcyrick Bankes, seventy thousand acres; Grant, of Glenmorriston, sevsnty.fonr thous- atd six hundred seres; Marquis of Alisa, seventy-six thousand acres; Baroness Will oughby d’Eretby, seventy-six thousand acres; Mr. J. Malcolm, eighty thousand acres; Mar quis of HunUey, eighty thousand acres; Bal four, of Wbittingbame, eighty-one thousand acres; Sir J. O. Orde, eighty-one thoustnd acres; Marquis of Bote, ninety-three thousand acres; The Chisholm. 04.500 acres; Mr. E. Ellice. 00,500 acres; Mir G. M. Grant, 103,000 acre>; Duke or Portland, 106,000 acres; Came ron. of Lochiel, 100,500 acres; Sir C. W. Boat 110,-lCO acres: Earl of Fife, one hundred and thirteen thousand acres; The Mack intosh, one bunded and twenty-four thousand acres; Lord McDonald, one hundred and thirty thousand acres; earl of Dalhousis, 136,- 000 seres; Maeteod, of Maeleod, 141,700 acres; Sir K. Mackenxie, of Gairlock, 161,680 acres; duke of Argyle, 175.000 acres; duke of Hamil ton, 1:5,000 acres; dike of Athols, 101.000 acres, duke of Richmond, 255,000 acres; earl cfStair.STtMlOO acres; Mr. Evan Bailie three hundred thousand scree: earl of Seatsld, 3)1,- C09 seres; duke of Buccleugh, 432,183 acres, esrl or Breads!bans, 437,686 seres; Mr. A. Mstheson 220,433 acres, and Sir J. Matheson, 406,070 acres; duchess of Sutherland, 149,889 acres; and duke of Sutherland, 1,176,343 acres. Such monopolies imply an infinite acreage or wretchedness. There is no poverty in the United States like that in England, Ireland and Scotland, for the simple reason that in those lands monopoly has bod longer and '"** r ***7; Last summer, in Edinburgh, Scotland, after preaching in Synod Hall, I stood on a chair in front of the hall and preached to an audience of twenty thousand people, standing in one of the most prosper ous parts of the city, and reaching out toward the castle; as fine an array of strength and health and beauty as one ever sees. Three hours after I preached In the Grass market and to the wretched Inhabitants of the Cowgate and conongate, the audience ex hibiting the squallor and sickliness and de spair that remains in one’s mind .like one of the visions of Dante’s Inferno. Great monopolies in any land imply great privation. The time will come when our gov ernment will hare to limit the amount of ac cumulation of property. Unconstitutional, you say? Then constitutions will have to be changed until they allow such limitation. Oth erwise tho work of absorption will go on, and the large fishes will eat up the small fishes, and the shad will swallow the minnows, and the porpoise swallow the shad, and the whale swallow the porpoise, and a thousand greedy men will own aft the world, and five hundred of these will eat up the other five hundred, and one hundred eat up the other four hun dred, and finally there will be only fifty left, and then forty, and then thirty, and then twenty, and then ten, and then two, and then one. But would a law of limitation of wealth be unrighteous? If I dig so Jnear my neighbor’s foundations in order to build my house that I endanger his, the law grabs me. If I hare a tannery or a chemical factory the malodort of yrhich injure residents in the neighborhood, the law says; “Stop that.” If I drain off a river from its bed ana divert it to turn my mill wheel, leaving the bed of the river a breeding place for malaria, the law says: “Quit that outrage!” Aud has not a good government a right to say theta few men shall not gorxe themselves on the comfort and health and life of generations? “Your rights end where my rights begin." Monopoly, braxen-foeed, and iron-fingered, vnlture-nearted monopoly offers his hand to this republic. He stretches it out over the lakes, and up the Pennsylvania and the Erie and the New York Central railroads and over the telegraph poles of the continent, and says: “Here Is my heart and hand; be mine forever.” Let the millions of the people, north, south, esst and west, forbid tho Dans of that marriage—forbid them at the ballot-box, forbid them on tho * rm, forbid them by great organisations, them by the overwhelming sentiments of an outraged nation, forbid them by the pro test of the church of God, forbid them by —sjot to high heaven. That Herod shall not ive this Abigail. It shall not be to all de vouring Monopoly that this land is to be mar ried. Another suitor claiming the hand of this republic is Nihilism. He owns nothing but a knife for universal blood-letting, and a nitro glycerine bomb for universal explosion. He believes inbo God, no government, no heaven, and no hell except what he can mako on this earth! He slew the rear of Busssia, keeps Emperor William, of Germany, practically imprisoned, killed Abraham Lincoln, would put to death every king and president on earth, and if he had the power would climb up until he could drive the God of heaven from His throne and take it himself—tho universal butcher. In Franco It Is called communism; in the United States it is called socialism; in Basils it is celled nihilism. That last is the most graphic and descriptive term. It means complete and eternal smaahup. It would make the holding of property a crime, audit would drlvo a dag ger through your heart and apply a torch to your dwelling; and turn over this whole land into the possession of theft and lust and rap ine and murder. Where does thla monster live? In 8t. Louis, in Chicago, in Brooklyn, in New York, and in all the villages and dtios of this land. The devil of destruction is an old devil, and he is to be seen at every great fire where there is any thing to steal, ana at every shipwreck where there is anything floating ashore, and at every railroad accident where there are overcoats and witches to be purloined. On a small scale I saw it in my college days, when In our liter ary society in New York University, we had an exquisite and costly bust of Shakespeare, and one morning we found a hole bored into the lips of the marble and a cigtq inserted. There has not for the last century been a fine picture in your art gallery, or a grace ful statue In your parks, or a fine fresco on your wall, or a richly bound volume in your library, but would have i despoiled if the band or ruffianism could have got at it without peril or lnoaroeration. 8omeumes the evil spirit shows ltsolt by throwing vitriol into a beautiful face, some- timrs by wilfolly scaring a horse with a ve locipede t sometimes by crashing the cart wheel against acarriago. The philosophy of the whole business Is, that there is a large number of people who either through their laslnesa or their crime own nothing and are mad at those who through industry and wit of their own, or of their ancestors, are in possession of large resources. Tho honest labor ing classes never had anything to do with such murderous enterprises. It is the villainous dastes-wbo would not work if they had plonty of work ofl'ered them at large wages. Many of these suppose that by the demolition of law and order they would be advantaged, and the parting of the ship of state would allow them, as wreckers, to carry off the cargo. It offers it’s hand to this fair republic. It proposes to tear to pieces the ballot box, the legislative ball, the congressional assembly. It would take this land and divide it up, or, rather divide it down. It would give as much to the idler ss to the worker, to the tad as to the good. Nihilism 1 This pantbor, laving prowled across other lands, has set Its paws on our soil, and it ia only waiting for the timo in which to spring upon its prey. It was nihilism that massacred the heroic policemen of Chicago and St. Lapis a few days ago, and that burned the railroad property at Pitts burg during the great riots; it was nihilism that slew black people in our northern cities during the war, it was nihilism that again and again in San Francisco and in New York mauled to death the Chinese; it is nihilism that glares out of the windows of the drun- kcriee upon sober people as they go by. Ah! Its power has never yet been tested. It would if it had the power, leave every church chapel, cathedral, schoolhouse, college and home in ashis. Let me say, It Is the worst enemy of the la beling classes in any country. The honest cry for reform lifted by oppressed laboring men is drowned out by the vociferations for Anarchy. The criminals and the vagabonds who range through our cities talking about their rights, when their first right is the penitentiary—if they could be hushed up, and the down trodden laboring men of this country could be heard, there would be more bread for hungry children. In this land riot bread for hungry children, in this laud riot and bloodshed never gained any wages for the people, or gathered up any prosperity. In this land tbs best weapon is not tho club, not the sbillaleh, not fire-arms, but the ballot. Let, not our oppressed laboring men be begoiled to coming under the bloody banner of Nihilism. It will make your taxes heavier, your wages smaller,'your table scantier, your children hungrier, your suffering greater. Yet this Nihilism, with feet red of slaugh ter, comes forth and offers its hand for the republic. Shall the banns be proclaimed? If so where shall the marriage altar be? And who will be the officiating priest? And what will be the music? That altar will have to be white with bleached skulls, the officiating priest must be a dripping asmssin, the music must be the unotherea groan of multitsdinous vic tims, the garlands must bo twisted of night shade, tho fruit must be apples of Sodom, the wine must be the blood of St. Bartholome w's massacre. No! It is not to Nihilism, the aan- t guinital monster, that this land it to be mar ried. Another suitor for the band of this nation 1s Infidelity. Mark you that all saarebiats are infidels. Not one of them believes la the Bible, and very rarely any of them believe in a God. Their most eonspioous leader was the other day pulled by the leg from under a bed in a house of Infhmy, cursing and blaiphom- ing. The police or Chicago, exploring the dens of the anarchists, found dynamite and vitriol and Tom Paine's “Age of Beeson," and obscene pictures, and complimentaryjbiogre- phles of thugs and nmamine; butnot one Testa- ament, not one of Wesley’s hymn books, not one Boman Catholic breviary. There are two wings to Infidelity—the one calls itself liberal ism and appears In highly literary magaxtnes and is for the educated and refined; the other wing is in the form of anarchy and Is for the vulgar. But both wings belong to the same old filthy vulture,^infidelity! Elegant infi delity proposes to conquer this land to itself by the pen; anarchy proposes to conquer it by bludgeon and torch. When the midnight ruffian despoiled the grave of A. T. Stewart in Si. Mark’s churchyard, everybody was shocked; but Infidelity propcees something worse than that—the robbing of all tbe graves of Christendom of the hope of a resur rection. Itpropoeee to chisel out from the tombstone of your Christian dead the wards, “Asleep in Jesus,” andtosubatitute tho words, “Obliteration—annihilation.” Infidelity pro poses to take the letter from the world’s Fath er, inviting the nations to Virtue and happi ness, and tear It up into fragments so small thatyou cannot read sword of it. It proposes to take the consolation from the broken hearted, and the soothing pillow from the dying. Infidelity proposes to swear in the president of the United States and the su preme court and the governors of states and tho witnesses in the court room, with their right band on Paine’s “AgoofBeaaen,” or Voltaire’s “Philosophy of History.” It proposes to take away from this country the book that makes the difference between the United States and tho United Kingdom of Dahomey, between American civilisation and Bomeelan cannibal ism. If Infidelity could destroy the8eriptam it would in two hundred years turn the civil ised nations back to semi-barbarism, and then from semi-barbarism into midnight savagery, until the morals of a menagerie of tigers, rat tlesnakes aud eblmpanxees would bo better than the morals of the shipwrecked human race. The only Impulse In the right direction that this world has ever had, has come from the Bible. It was the mother of Boman law and of healtbfol Jurisprudence. That bsok baa been the mother of all reforms and all charities—mother of English -magna charts and American declaration of independence. Beniamin Franklin holding that holy book in his hand, stood before an infidel dub at Paris and read to them out of the prophecies of Habakuk, and the infidels, not knowing what book It was, declared it was the best poetry they had ever heard. That book brought George Washington down on bis knees in the snow at Valley Forge, and led the dying prince consort to ask eomo one to sing “Bock of Ages.” I tell you that the worst attempted crime of the century ia the attempt to destroy this book; yet mflddity, loathsome, stenchfui, lep rous, pestiferous, rotten monster, stretches ont its hand, ichorous with the second death, to take the hand of this republic. It stretches it out through seductive magaxtnes and through caricatures of religion. It asks for all that part of the continent already fully settled, and the two-thirds not yet occupied. It says: “Give mo all east of the Mississippi with the keys of the church and the Christian printing presses; then give me Wyoming, give me Alaska, give me Montana, give me Color ado—give me all tbe states and territories west of the Mississippi, and I wilt take those f ilsces and keep them by right of possession, ong before the gospel can be fully en trenched.” And this suitor presses his esse appallingly. Shall the banns of that marriage be pro- si aimed? “Not" say the home missionaries of the west—a martyr band of whom the world is not worthy, tolling amid fatigues and malaria and starvation. “No 1 not if we can help it. By what we and our children have suffered we forbid the banns of that mar riage 1" “No I” say all patriotic voices, “our institutions were bought at too dear a price, and were defended at too great a sacrifice, to be so cheaply surrendered.” “No I” says the God of Bunker Bill and Independence hall and Gettysburg, *T did not start this nation for such a farce.” “No,” cry ten thousand voices, “to Infidelity this land shall not be mar- But there is another suitor that presents his band for the band of this republie. He is mentioned in the verse following my text when it says: “As the bridegroom rqjoiceth over the bride, to shall thy God rejoice over thee." It is not my figure, it Is the figure of the Bible. Christ u so desirous to have this world love him that he stops at no humilia tion of almllle. Hs compares his grace to ■plttle'on the eyes of the blind man. He com pares himself to a hen gathering the ohlck- ens, and in my text He compares Himself to a suiter begging a hand in marriage. Does this Christ, the King, deserve this land? Behold Pilate's ball and the Insulting expectoration on the free of Christ. Behold the Calvarean mas sacre and the awful hemorrhage of five wounds Jacob served fourteen years for Baebel, but Christ, my Lord, the King, suf fered in torture tblrty-three years to win the love of this world. As often princesses, at their very birth, are pledged in treaty ofjmar- rlsge to princes or kings of aarth, so this na tion at its birth was pledged to Christ for Divine marriage. Before Columbus and his hundred and twenty men embarked on the Santa Marla, the Pints and the Nina, for their wonderful voyage, what was the lost thing they did? They kneeled down and took tbe holy sacrament of the Lord Jesus Chilst. After they caught the first glimpse of this country and the gun of one ship had an nounced it to the other vessels that land had been discovered, what sras the song that went up from all tbe three decks? “Gloria in Excelsls.” After Columbus and his hundred and twenty men had stepped from the ship's deck to the solid ground, what did they do? They all knelt and consecrated the new world to God. What did the Huguenots, do after they landed in the Carolinas? What did the Holland refugees do after they had land ed in New York? What did the Pilgrim Farthers do after they landed in New England? With bended knee and uplifted foce and heaven-besslging rrayer they took possession of this country for God. How was thefimt American congress opened? By prayer In the name of Jesus Christ. From its birth this nation was pledged for holy marriage with Christ. And then see how good God has been to us. Just open the map of the continent and eee bow it is shaped for immeaaureable prosperi ties. Navigable rivers, more In number and greater than of any other land, roiling down on all sides into the tea prophesy ing large manufactures and easy com merce. Look at the great ranges of moun tains timbered with wealth on tho top and sides, metalled with wealth underneath. Ooe hundred and eighty thousand square miles of cool, 480,000 square miles of Iren. Tbe land so contoured that extreme weather hardly lasts mors than three days—extreme heat or extreme cold. Climate for the most part brac ing and favorable for brawn and brain. All fruits, all minerals, all harvests. Scenery dis playing an autumnal pageantry that no land on eailh pretends to rival. No South Ameri can earthquakes. No Scotch mists. No Lon don fogs. No Egyptian plagues. No Germanic divisions. Tbe people oftbe United States are happier thon any people on earth. It is the testimony of every man that has traveled abroad. For the poor, more sympathy; for tbe industrious, mors opportunity. Oh, bow good God was to our fatherm and how good he has been to us and our children. To Him'—bles sed be bis mighty name!—to Him of cross aud tiiumpb. to Him who still remembers the prayer of the Huguenots and Holland rsfu- gees and the Pilgrim Fathers—to Him Shalt this land be married. 0, you Christian pa triots! by your contributions and your prayers hasten on the fulfillment of the text. We have during the pas* six or seven years turned a new leaf in our national history by tbe sudden addition of mill loos of foreigners. At Kansas City, I was told by a gentleman who bad opportunity for large investigation, that a great multitude had gone throagh there avenging in worldly estate eight hun dred dollars. I was toldln the dty of Wash ington by an officer of the government, who had opportunity for authentic investigation, that thousands and thousands had gone, aver aging one thousand dollars in possession each. I was told by the commissioner of emigration that twenty families that had arrived at Castle Garden brought eighty-five thousand dollars with them. Mark you, families, not tramps— additions to the national wealth, not subtrac tions therefrom. I saw some of them reading their Bibles and their hymn books, thanking God for his kindness in helping them across the sea. Some of them had Christ in the steerage all aorosa the waves, and they will have Christ in the rail trains' which every af- ternoon start forthe great west. They are being taken by the commission of emigration In New York, taken from the vessels, protected from the Sbylocks and the sharpers, and In the name of God and humanity passed on to their destina tion, and there they will turn your territories into states and your wildernesses into gar dens if yon will build for them churoncs and establish for them schools, and send to them Christian missionaries Are you afraid this continent is going to be overcrowded with this population? Ah, that shows you have not been to California, that shows you have not been to Oregon, that shows that you have not been to Texas A fishing smack today on Lake Ontario might as well be atraid of being crowd ed by other shipping before night, as for any one of the next ten generatlone of Ameri cans to be afraid of being overcrowded by for eign populations In this country. The one state of Texas is far forger than all the Aus trian empire, yet the Austrian empire supports thirty-five million people. The one state of Texas is larger than all F’ranoe, and France supports thirty-six million people. The one state of Texas far surpasses in also the Germanic empire, yet the Germanle empire supports forty-one million people. I tell you tho great want of territories and of the western states is more population. While some may stand at the gates of the city laying, “Stand book 1” to foreign popula tions, I press out as far beyond those gates as I can press out beyond them, and beckon to foreign nations, saying: “Come, come!” “But,” say you, “I am so afraid that they will bring their prejudices for foreign governments and plant them here." Absurd I They are sick of the governments that have oppressed them, and they want free America. Give them tbe great gospel of welcome. Throw around them all Christian hospitalities. They will add their Industry and hard-earned wages to this country, and then are will dedi cate all to Christ, “and thy land shall be nuriedi" But where shall the marriage altar be? Let it be the Bocky Mountains, when through ar tificial and mighty Irrigation, all their tops shall be covered”** they will be, with vine yards end orchards and grain fields. Then let the Bostons and theNew Yorks and theJCharlea- tons of theFacifio coast .come to the mar riage altar on the one side, and then let the Boetons and the Now Yorks and the Charlestons of the Atlantle Coast come to the marriage al tar ou the other side, and then between them let this bride of nations kneel; and then if the organ of the loudest thunders that ever shook the 81cm Nevadaa on one side, or moved the foundations of the Alleghenies on the other aide, should open frill diapason of wodding march, that organ of thunders eould not drown the voice of Him who should take the hand of the bride of nations, saying: “As a bridegroom rejoiceth over a bride, so thy God rqjoiceth over thee.” At that marriage banquet the platters shall be of Nevada silver, and the chalices of California gold, and the fruits of noitbern orchards, and tbe sploca of southern grovts. and tbe tapestry of American manufac ture, and the congratulations from ail the free nations of earth and from all the trium phant armies of heaven. “And so thy land shall be married.” MONEY rOB SOLDIERS. Important Opinion Affecting Maimed Mx- Confederates. Attorney General Clifford Andetson has Just rendered an opinion of much Importance to maimed ex-confoderate soldiers. Attordey General Anderson's opinion is as follows: i vna onmox. Attobkxt Osnsiul's omcs, Atlanta, Oa, June l.lsse,—His Excellency Ilcnrr D. McDaniel— 81r: In response to your Inquiry as to the present status of the law making provision for soldiers who lost a limb In tbe mUiury service of tbe oon- federate states,!! furnish tbe following synopsis of such legislation on the subject as bears on the par ticular point on which you desire Information, vis: now often the payments provided by law are to be made. * " approved Sep „ u, state, who military service ' '"Is state, shall be , i;Yor tbs loss of a leg extending above the knee, 1100; tor the tom of a leg not extending above tbe knee, 170; for the loss of an arm extending above the elbow, ISO; for the lore of an arm not extending above tbe elbow, M It lafurthsrtrovlded that these allowances hall be duplicated every five years. lly the act of September 22,1H1, It Is enacted that "-at the time of his enlistment, la atalo and who has, slnco the a bona fids dtlsen of this state, the allowances mads, although a .non-resident when the act of 1S7I was passed. lly the actor September 2ilth, Iris, every person entitled to either of the sums specified in the act of INTO, la allowed to apply for and recslvs the tamo at lbs expiration of erory three yean, instead of five. lly the act or December 2tth, 1UI, the act of 1*72 was further amended so aa to provide that persons who received wounds whilst In the military tor- vice of lbs confederate states, or or this state, which afterwards caused the loss of a limb or Ifmba should be equally enti tled lo tbe benefit of said set with those who lost a limb or limbs while actu ally in service. And, by the act of October IS, ISM, It Is provided that where persons entitled to tho benefit of any ol Ibe above mentioned acta had failed to apply for the amount or amounts duo them, the governor should on proper proof being furnished him, draw his warrant on the treasury for the sum or sums so It will be seen from the foregoing summary that the first allowance was due Immediately after the passage of the act > of September X 1*79; the second Immediately alter the passage of lire act of September 9S, ih«: and that the third will be due on and after tbe 20th day of September next. Although a person entitled may hare failed to draw his firat allowance until Just before, or oven after the second became due, he is not required to wait three years before bacon apply for and re ceive the second a!iowance,?>ut maysunder the last set above mentioned, demand the same now, If he bas'not been paid, and may, equally with others entitled, claim and receive his third allowance on, or at any time after, tbs 2Gth day of September next, very respectfully, Curroap andcsson, Attorney-General. Day Forer, This malady is an index of a condition o tho system which should bs thoroughly changed. That this is possibla Is shown by many letters from patients. The following is an example: From Bov; T. J. Taylor, Wsrrenton, N, C., Oct. 21,1885.—“Some timo in August I ordered a Treatment of Oxygan for my aunt She htd suffered with bay rarer regularly every year for fifteen years. When I ordered the Com pound Oxygen, her annual attack of hsy fe ver bad already commenced, and as you did not promise relief after the commencement of the attack, we were not very hopeful. But, to our astonishment and Joy. tb* Oxygen re lieved her at once, and only on one evening after she commenced the Treatment, and then only for a few hours, did she have any consid erable trouble with her bay fever. Though she really had bay ferar, It was so slight after tbe commenced using tbe Oxygen, that she was scarcely conscious of It. I do not know what Compound Oxygen will do for bay fever in general, but this ease of fifteen years standing was mastered by it. You are at lib erty to use this in any way you may see proper for tbe good of bay fever victims. I believe It will cure bay foyer. It did it In this esse, at '"SmcSTAnxgvAPal*w, 1529 Arch street, Philadelphia, I>a„ publish a monograph on bay fever, which la sent free to all Interested. Numerous cures are repotted. The announcement1 that ooe oftbe combatants In ibe recent prise fight was almostkilled will be received with genuine regret.-Detroit Free Press. squad Tidings Fortfothers." wkyjfc BULL’S SARSAPARILLA- Jocrefea'fi* bit* and acts lih'a titter fo chataa Imps rifts of tho blood.* Bp ir-\ rogularity Is Hi action os suspensions of its functions, tits His poisons theblood. footing, and man/ other diltroosing tjrmp- tomtgtnirall/ timedlirtr troubles. Tint art rtlitnd at ones by tin use of BULL'S SARSAPARILLA tie gnat blood ntoivtuL DY8PEP8IA fariabi* oppotito; faint gnawing-ft at pit of tht stomach, hsaribum, wind in tit stomach, bad bnath, bad taste in tht mouth. Jew spirits, general prostration. Thorn it no form of disease man prevalent than D/s- pepeia, end It can lo all eaten be traced to ?! enfetbMorncitened condition of tho blood. ROLL S SARSAPARILLA by cleansing and perilping ths bleed, tenet up ths diges tive ergons, and relief It obtained at once. ftff JAJCX8 MOORE, IxraHvlUe, Xy. ptojemi Btrot—I procured otto bottle of ^RiONKYS, nT^rc8ftdmai4fl*| IBHOsS sjrKsratiuS iS99t Kidneyt 1 THE LIFE.* I L. a—u-i-Z-l. It a ptcuitar morbid condition ol tho oyttom, caustd directly by •mpurmet in ths blood or by hetmall twellingvonlargtd Joints, obsettttt, oon tie. with one. bJotch/eruptiont on tho face or freed. BULL'S iryslptht it akin to it and it often mlitatin of back and loins. Pushes of SARS^lUAaria'ettS^^^h^ffscn^n^^^mSim Kidneys and bewtlt, and dinetty on (to impun blood.* BULL'S SARSAPARILLA bp, blood at wall, causing tbe dnat or- * purifying the blood and toning up tho system TITOS. IL BENTLEY. Rotsrms.HL [bull’s sarsaparilla; rsiPi?U'n 5 rnu?n ■ vm■ mit Main Street Louisville, Ky, BULL’S SMITH S TONIO SYRUPsfJ^^ i ws nee Wfyi-VTW’ ' THE POPULAR AEHEDiES OF THE DAT. * 'wr,mXvV3 Z&wSiSimallt' sort—dim ftl gun toss A why Im foil nxtrd met top ask/ •5-* 1 Ik’) ILUUULW) Merchants and Farmers wanting Ginning Machinery can ssvo considerable money by communicating with us, si thla machinery MUST BE CLdOSED OUT at an early date. Our Machines are all FIRST'CLASS as proven by many Testimonials. Address THE SOUTHERN AGRICUTURAL WORKS, Atlanta. Ga. June fi-wky 1 m. U union this paper. ATKINS’ SUPERIOR "GRADES j^VER or SAWS FOUR FIRST sm PRIZES AT New Orleans. as vuN Band for Catalogue and Prtcts to E. C. ATKINS & CO., Endianapolis, Ind. assure BEOa Agents Atlanta. Oa. dset-wtylXt sow nos SUCKER'S