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WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Colonel Oates’s Condition -Other General
Washington News.
Wavhingom. August 14.-(Speeial.)-Repre
sentative Oates, of Alabama, who was struck
bv a cable ear last week and badly injured,
is not sp well today. Saturday his improve
ment hr. . been so great that it was thougnt
be would bl- in the house today. Last night
b did n d rest well and this mormug his eon
‘U When Im will be
(U to r-smne bis duties in the house his phy
sicians cannot say.
Washington, August 17. The improvement
in tt condition of Representative Oates of
Alatama, noted yesterday, c»n inues today.
He passed a good night and shows marked
improvement today.
a he luikc wf \ erHßua a High Koller.
Tiie state department is in trouble ami
i b prepared to call upon congress to help
i; 4,ut. Jt ali comes about over the eutt‘r
tainuieiit of the duke of V eragua.
the duke proved to lie a high roller when
v>'i:tng tiie world's fair and other portions
of tin country. Congress had made a small
appropriation lor the entertainment ot loi
eigi: guests to the fair and the department
<d state undertook to pay ail Ihe expenses
of.th - duke out of this. But the duke flew
rather too high for the department and af
ie had spent all the money it had
so.- eicertf.ining foreign guests the depart
ment was compelled to intimate to him
very drongly that it was time for him to
return home. Rut the duke did not hurry
his departure. When he did go and the
state department had paid all his bills it
was found that the distinguished guest had
. the governm nt just $40,000 to en
tertain him. As that was more than the
d nurtmeiit had for the purpos. tigress
will have to come forward and provide for
the payment of the nukes bills.
Dukes come high but we must have them.
It is not probable that a postmaster will
be appointed at Atlanta until some finan
cial legislation is adopted.
ion know the senators are endorsing
different candidates. Then you know the
administration needs every vote it can
muster in tiie senate for the unconditional
repeal of the Sherman law.
out both senators are against uncondi
tional repeal. It may be that the candidate
of i.either senator will get it. There are
some outside influences pulling for a third
candidate.
The one-minute prayer platform upon
which one candidate for chaplain of the
Ji us. of representatives endeavored to be
eiocted has caused much adverse criticism
among ministers. They hold that siieh in
«,.louts bring religion into disrepute. Os
course that candidate was defeated.
The house always endeavors to secure
the services of the most powerful and pro
found preacher, but none of them ever of
fered up a more beautiful prayer than that
ii' d'.ef d at the opening of the first session
of the first congress. It was de
livered note than years ago. by Rev.
cob I >u< he. I lere it is:
<>. Lor', our Heavenly Father, high and
mighty King of kings and Lord of lords.
Thy throne behold all the
.Iw.-lh rs on earth and reigliesl with power
-a, , a; mid uncontrolled over all kingdoms,
e-epir.-s ami government a. look down in mer
c . vie !'•••' '-eh Thee, on these American
s’ale., who have fled to Thee 1 rum the rod
o the ipi'es-or and thrown tlicmselv-s on
Tm gr.-u ms prob tii.n. desiring to be henee
.c pendent only on I luv l’o Thee they
) l;! \e ;tpp< .• ••<! for the righteousness of their
I’hee do tlvy now look up for that
<or .lenane. ami. support which Thon alone
cans giv: lake them, therefore. Heavenly
let- '1 by mirttiring care; g ve them
v... ! ’ otimil and valor in thud; defeat
th. innl' ''. is designs of our e.-ta ; adversa
ries- ... inee them of the unrighteousness
.■ their cause, and it they still persist in
• -aug al i.itry purposes, t»! let the voice
hue big Just ice. sounding in
t .-ir hearts constrain them io drop the
n of war from their miner red hands
i tin- day <>f hittio. I’." Thou present, O.
m nnd direct the councils of
t '. enable them to
1.. 1 i eg-- on the b. st ami surest fonnda
t 'lnn the scene of blood may be speedily
that order Nt aiuiij and peace ni.iv
b. c '.■'■tnaltv .a siiiroi. a" I truth and justice,
relic -'i : 4 I’i' ty. prevail and flourish
I* rve the health of
■ Igor of t heir minds;
u, d. v n on th'-ui and tie' millions they
1. ;. r, pres-lit sinh blessings as
'or them in this world.
f.-.i .e.vu ihi-in with everlasting glory in the
w I to coni... All this we ask in the
ail the merits of Jesus
< irist II v Son. our Savior. Amen!
E \V. B.
GLADSTONE'S XOI IHE Al ION
That He Will Move to Cut Off Debate on the
Home Rule Bill.
Iz'iidoii. August Is. —ln the bouse of
coiiiimins t day Mr. Gladstone aimouiieed
t nt ' U .W'Uida h-‘.would move t’,e*idopi;on
<.! a i soln ;.ui to apply the closure to the
report stage of the home rule bill on J'Ti-
< > ii 'Kt. Major Chamberlain, leader of
unionists, gave notice that he would
i: ..i as mi amendment to Mr. Gladstone’s
i- s . ition that tin- house declare that the
~ eriiiiii nt’s proposal was ‘■alenlated to
deg'adc th- house into a voting machine,
d j riving the British majority of their
< . -ti'.ti'ioiml rights, and ought, therefore,
to he withdrawn.
A VEKDICFOL GUILTY.
In the Case of tiie loiberis Who Killed T. H.
Ci.le.
Macon. .Miss.. August 20—The Jury in the
ca-i • f I' m and Walter Tolbert, the Kemper
couuly eutjaws. charged with the murder of
3 immas H. Cole, at noon yesterday brought
in a verdict as follows:
I * l '' l u| y. Ik'd the defendants—Tom
id Waiter lol.ert guilty as charged in
Hie bill ot imit.-iinent, and fix the penalty
at l.fe imprismiinbilt.”
Th<‘ Jury rusuvetfullv reo-miuieiiilod to the
U'.tm.ritms that a.I the mfrey possible be
t.!mwn In behalf .f Walter Tolbert.
Tim motlm.■ of the defendants accompanied
liii'Ui into Court, and she, top thvr with Wai
ter. evinced a great deal of feeling when
the Vi i diet was read. Tom appeared quite
Indihereiil at the result. Mrs. Tolbert then
aceompanfed the boys to the jail, weenin
<-op:ouslv. and after kissing them goodb”
remarked: Be good boys and 1 want viiii
1., f.-ar Him win; ean kill bodv and soul
mid meet me in heaven. That is all I cui
say to you.” ‘
loin tlmn said: ‘’Mother, keep iiniet- I
kvpe to meet you again on earth’’ ’
Walter had nothing to say.
Later in the il iv .lhe Tolbert boys both said
-In v dni not get a fair trial and did not
e-’ justice on account of prejudice against
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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA GA. TUESDAY. AUG UST 22, 1893.
IN THE TABERNACLE.
“A GENTLE WOIHAN’ WAS THE SUB
JECT OF TUB SERMON.
The Text Wai: “And it Fell on a Day
That El sba Passed to Shunem, Where
There Was a Great Woman.”
Brooklyn, N. Y., August 20.—(Special.)—
Rev. Dr. Talmage chose for his subject to
day one of special interest to the gentle
sex, the announced topic being: “A Great
Woman,” ami the text II Kings iv, 8:
“And it fell on a day that Elisha passed to
Shtinem, where was a great woman.”
Thu hotel of our time had no counter
part in tiny entertainment of olden time.
The vast majority of travelers must then
be entertained at private abode. Here
comes Elisha, a servant of the Lord, on a
divine mission, and he must find shelter.
A balcony overlooking the valley of Es
draelon is offered him, in a private house,
and it is especially furnished for his oc
cupancy—a chair to sit on, a table from
which to eat, a candlestick by which to
read, and a bed qn which to slumber, the
whole establishment belonging to a great
and good woman.
Her husband, it seems, was a godly man,
I*ut he was entirely overshadowed by his
wife s excellencies; just as now you some
times find in a household the wife the cen
ter ot dignity and influence and power, not
by any arrogance or presumption, but by
superior intellect and force of
moral nature wielding domestic af
fairs, and at. the same time
supervising all financial and business af
fairs. 'I he wiles hand on the .shuttle, on
the banking house, on the worldly business.
You see hundreds of men who are success
ful only because there is a reason at home
why- they are successful.
It a man marry- a good, honest soul, he
makes his fortune. If be marry a fool, the
Lord help him! The wife may be the silent
partner in the firm, there may be only
masculine voices down on exchange, but
there often!ime comes from the home cir
cle a potential and elevating influence.
This woman of my text was the su
perior of her husband. He, as far as I can
understand, was what we often see in our
day, a man of large fortune ami only a
modicum ot brain, intensely quiet, sitting
a long while in the same place without
moving hand or foot—if you say "yes.” re
sponding "yes” if you say “no” respond
ing ”110’ - -inane, eyes half shut, mouth
wide open, maintaining his position in so
ciety only because he has a large patri
mony. But his wife, my text says, was a
great woman.
Iler name has not come down to us.
She belonged to that collection of people
who need no name to distinguish them.
What Would title of duchess, or princess,
or queen what would escutcheon or gleam
ing diadem be to this woman of my text,
wlio by her intelligence and her behavior
challenges the admiration of all ages? Long
alter the brilliant women of the court of
Louis ,\ \ have been forgotten, and the
brilliant women of the court of Spain have
been forgotten, ami the brilliant women
who sat on mighty thrones have been for
gotten, some grandfather will put on his
spectacles and ho.ding the book The other
side the light, read to his grandchildren
the story ot this great woman of Shutn-m,
who was so kind and courteous and ('hns
tiau to the good prophet Elisha. Yes, she
was a great woman.
In the first she w.ts great in her
hospitalities. I tieivilizisi and barbarous na
tions honor this virtue. Jupiter had the
surname of the hospitable, and he was said
especially to avenge the wrongs of stran
gers. Homer extolled it in his verse. The
Arabs are punctilious upon this subject,
and anu ::g some of their tribes it is not un
til the ninth day of tarrying that the oc
pant has a right to ask his guest, "W’ho and
whence art thou.'" If this virtue is so
honored even among barbarians, how ought
it to be honored among those of us who
believe in .the Bitde, which commands us
to use hospitality one toward another with
out grudging?
Ot course, 1 do not mean under this
cover to give any idea That 1 approve of
that vagrant class who go around from
place to place ranging their whole lifetime,
perhaps under the auspices of some benevo
lent or philanthropie society, quartering
themselves on (.'hri-ti;:n families, with a
great pile of trunks in the hall and earpet
bag portentious <d tarrv ing. There is many
a country parsonage that looks out week
by week upon the ominous arrival of wagon
vvith creaking wheel ami lank horse ami
dilapidated driver, come under the auspices
of some eliaritable institution to spend a
few weeks ami canvass the neighborhood.
Let no such religious tramps take advan
tage of this beautiful virtue of Christian
hospitality.
Not so much the sumfitiiousuess of your
diet and the regality ot your abode will
impress the friend or the stranger that
steps across your threshold, as the warmth
of your greeting the informality of your
reception, the reiteration by grasp and bv
a thousand attention.'., insignificant atten
tions. of your earnestness of w’elconie.
There will be high appreciation of your
welcome, although you have nothing but
the brazen candlestick and the plain ehair
to <d'f"r Elisha when he conies to Shunem.
Most beautiful is this grace of hospitality
when shown in the horse of God, 1 am
thankful that 1 am pastor of a church
where strangers are always welcome, and
there is not a state of tiie union in which
1 have not heard the affability of the ush
ers of our church complimented. But I
have entered churches where there was no
hospitality. A stranger would stand in
the vestibule for a while and then make
pilgrimage up the long aisle. No door
opened to him until flushed and excited
and embarrassed be -darted back again and
coming to some half-tilled petv with apol
ogetic air. ent(“.‘ed it, while the occupants
glared on him with a look which seemed
to say: "Well, if I must. 1 must." Away
with such accursed indecency from the
house of God. Let every church that
would maintain large Christian influence
in community, culture Sabbath by Sabbath
this beautiful grace of Christian hospi
tality.
A good man traveling in the far west,
in the wilderness, was overtaken by night
and storm, and he put. in at a cabin. lie
saw firearms along the beams of the cabin
and he felt alarmed. He did not know but
that he had fallen into a den of thieves,
lie sat there greatly perturbed. After
a while the man of the house eame home
with a gun on his shoulder and set it down
in a corner. Tin* stranger was still more
alarmed. After a while the man of the
house whispered with his wife find the
stranger thought his destruction was being
planned. 'l'iien the man of the house came
forward and said to the stranger: “Stranger
we are a rough .- nd rude people out here
and we work hard for a living. YVe make
our living by hunting, and when we come
to the nightfall wo are tired and we are
apt to go to bed early, and before retiring
we are always in the habit of reading a
chapter from the word of God and making
a prayer; if von don't like such things; if
you will just stop outside the door until
we get through I'll he great
ly obliged to you.” Os course
the stranger tarried in the room
and the old hunter took hold of the horns
of the altar ami brought down the blessing
of God upon iiis household and upon the
stranger witlihi their gates. Rude, but
felonious Christian hospitality!
Again, this woman in my text was great
in her kindness toward God's messenger.
Elisha may have been a stranger in that,
household, but as she found out he had
come on a divine mission, he was cordially
welcomed. We hav" a great many books
in our day about the hardships of minis
ters and the trials of Christian ministers.
I wish somebody would write a book about,
the joys of the Christian minister, about
sympathies all around him, about the kind
nesses, about the genial considerations of
him. Does sorrow come to our home .and
is there a shadow on the cradle, there are
hundreds of hands to help, and many who
weary not through the long night watching,
and hundreds of prayers going up that
God would restore the sick. Is there a
burning, brimming cup of calamity placed
on the pastor’s table, are there not many
to help him drink of that cup and who
will i>it be comforted because he is
stricken? Oh. for somebody to write a
book about tin* rewards of the Christian
ministry—about nis surroundings of Chris
tian sympathy.
This woman of the text was only a tpye
of thousands of men and women who come
down from the mansion and from the cot.
to do kindness to the Lord's servants. 1
suppose th<‘ men of Shunem had to pay t he
bills, but it was the large-heartd Cristian
sympathies of the women of Shunem that
looked alter the Lord’s messenger.
Again, this woman in the text was great
in her behavior under trouble.
Her only son had died on her lap. A
very bright light went out in the household-
The sacred writer puts it very tersely
when he says: ” He sat on her knees until
noon, and then died." Yet. the writer goes
on to say that she exclaimed: “It is well!”
Great iti prosperity, this womn was great
in trouble.
Where are the feet that have not been
blistered on the hot sands of this great Sa
hara? Where are the shoulders that have
not been bent under the burden of grief?
Where is the ship sailing over glassy sea
that has not after a while been caught in
a cyclone? Where is the garden of earthly
comfort, but trouble hath hitched up its
fiery and panting team and gone through
it with burning plowshare of disaster?
Ender the pelting of ages of suffering, the
great heart of the world has burst with
woe.
Navigators lell ns about the rivers, and
the Amazon, and the Danube and the Mis
sissippi have been explored, but who can
tell the depth or length of the great river
of sorrow made up of tears and blood roll
ing through all lands and all ages, bearing
the wreck of families and eommiin.ities ami
of empires- foaming, writhing, boiling with
the agonies of G.tMtO years! Etna and Coto
paxi and Vesuvius have been described, but
who has ever sketched the volcano of suf
fering rnletiing up from its depths the lava
and the s-oria and pouring them down
the sides to whelm the nations? Oh. if 1
could gather all the heart strings,
the broken heartstrings into a harp 1
would play on it a dirge such as was never
sounded.
Alythologists tell us of Gorgon and Cen
taur and Titan, and geologists tell us of
extinct species of monsters; but greater than
fl-orgon of Megathereum. and nut. belonging
to the realm of fable, and not of an ex
tinct species, "is a monster with iron jaw
and irron boot's walking across the nations,
and history anti poetry ami sculpture in their
attempt to sketch it and describe it, have
sweat great drops of blood.
Bui. thank God, there are those who can
conquer as this woman of the text con
quered. and say, "It. is well! Though my
properly be though my children be
gone, though my home be broken up,
though my health be sacrificed--it is well,
it is well!" There is no storm on the sea
but Christ is ready to rise in the hinder
part of the ship and hush it. There is no
darkness but the constellations .of God’s
eternal love ean illumine it, and though the
winter comes out of the northern sky, you
have sometimes seen the northern sky all
ablaze with auroras Hint seem to say,
me up this way: up t!rio wa v are thrones
of light and seas of sapphire, and the
splendor of an eternal heaven. Come up
this way.”
\Ye may. like the ships, by tempest.fie tossed
On perilous deeps, lint cannot lie
Though Salan enrage, the wind anAdne tide
The promise assures us. the Lord will
provide.
1 heard an echo of my text in a very
dark hour when my father lay dying and
tin- old country minister said to him: "Mr.
Ta Image, how do you feei now as you are
about to pass the Jordan of death?" tie
replied and it was the Lisi tiling he ever
said "1 fe>*l well: 1 feel very well: ajl is
we’ll” lifting his hand in a benedictiojiTu
speechless benediction which 1 pray God
may go down throiiglj all the generations-
It is well! Os course it is well-
Again, this woman of my text, was
great in her application to domestic du
ties. Every picture is a home picture,
whether she is eiitertainitjg an Elisha, or
whether she is giving careful attention to
her sick boy, or whether she is appealing
for the restoration of her property —every
picture in h« r e.Ves s a home picture,
Those are not disciples of this Shunemite
woman, who, going out to attend to out
side charities, neglect the duty of home—
the duty of wife, of mother ami daughter.
No tailhfulness in public benefaction can
etef atone for domestic negligence.
There has b-on many a mother who by
indefatigable toil has reared a large fam
ily of children, equipping them for the du
ties of life with good manners and large
intelligence and Christian principle, start
ing them out. who has done more for the
world than many another woman whose
name has sounded through all the lands
and through all the centuries.
1 remember when Kossuth was in this
country there was some ladies who got
reputation, honorable reputation, by pre
senting him very gracefully with bouquets
of flowers on public occasions: but. what
was all that compared with tl ®-- vork of
the plain Hungarian mother who gave to
truth and civilization and the cause of uni
versa! libtrty a Kossuth? Y es. this woman
of my text was great in her simplicity .
When this prophet wanted to reward her
for her hospitality by asking some prefer
ment from the king, what <|jd she say?
She declined it. She said: "I dwell among
my own people," as much as to sav. "I
am satisfied with my lot: all I want is my
family and my friends around me. 1
dwell among my ow n people." Oh. w hat a
rebuke to tiie strike for precedence in all
How many there are who want to get
great architecture, and homes furnished
w ith all art, ali paintings, all statuary, who
have not eilogh taste to distinguish be
twnan Gothic and Byzantine, and who
could riot; tell a figure in plaster of paris
from Palmer's "White Captit e,” and
would not know a boy's pencilling from
Biersjadt's ’Y osniite. ” Men who buy
largo libraries by the square foot, buying
these libraries when they have hardly
enough education to pick out the day of
the almanac! Oh, how many there are
striving to have things as well as their
neighbors, or better than their neighbors,
ami in the struggle vast fortunes are ex
hausted and business linns thrown into
bankruptcy, ami men of reputed honesty
rush into astounding forgeries.
Os course 1 say nothing against refine
ment or ciillure. Splendor of abode, sump
tuotisness of diet, lavishness in art, neat
ness in apparel—there is nothing against
them in the Bible or out of the Bible.
God does not want ns to prefer mud hovel
to English cottage, or untanned sheepskin
to French broadcloth, or husks to pineap
ple. or ib.e clumsiness of a boor to the
manners of a gentleman. God, who strung
tiie beach with tinted shell, and tile grass
of the field with the dews of the night,
and hatii exquisitely tinged morning cloud
and robin red breast, wants us to keep our
eye open io ail beautiful cadences, and
our heart open to all elevating sentiments.
But what 1 want to impress upon von’,
is that you ought not to inventory the lux
uries of life as among the indispensables,
mid you ought not to depreciate this woman
of the text, who. when offered kingly
preferment responded, "1 dwell among my
own people.”
Yea, this woman of the text was great in
her piety. Faith in God. and she was not
ashamed to talk about it before idolaters.
AU. woman will never appreciate what she'
owes to ( hrisiianity until she knows and
sees the degradation of her sex under Pa
ganism anrt Alohammedaui-sm . Iler verv
birth considered a misfortune; sold like cat’-
tle in the shambles; slave of all work and
at last her holy fuel for the funeral pyre
of her husband. Above the shriek of the
fireworshippers in India and above the
rumbling of the juggernauts I hear the mil
lion-voiced groan of wronged, insulted, bro
ken-hearted, down-trodden woman. Her
tears have fallen in the Nile and Tigris
and in the LaPlata and on the steppes of
Tartary. She has been dishonored in Turk
ish garden and Persian palace and Spanish
alhambra. Her little ones have been sac
rificed in the Ganges. There is not a groan
or a dungeon or an island or a mountain or
a river or a lake or a sea but could tell a
story of the outrages heaped upon her.
But, I hanks to God, this glorious Chris
tianity comes forth, and all the chains ot
this vassalage are snapped, and she rises
up from ignominy to an exalted sphere and
becomes the affectionate daughter, the gen
tle wife, the honored mother, the useful
Christian. Oh, if Christianity has done so
much for woman, surely woman will become
its most ardent, advocate and its sublimest
exemplification.
\\ lien 1 come to speak of womanly in
fluence. my mind always wanders off to
one model —the aged one who, twenty-seven
years ago, we put away for the resurrec
tion. About eighty-seven years ago, and
just before their marriage day, my father
and mother stood up in the old meeting
house at. Somerville, N. J., and took
upon them the vows of the Christian
Through a long life of vicissitude she lived
harmlessly and usefully and came to her
end in peace. No child of want evßr came
to her door and was turned empty away.
No one in sorrow came t<y her but was
comforted. No one asked her the way to
be saved but she pointed him to the cross.
When the angel of life came to a neigh
bors dwelling she was there to rejoice at
the starting of another immortal spirit.
When the angel of death came to a neigh-
Ojor's dwelling sjie was there to robe the
departed for Ihe burial.
We had often heard her, when leading
family prayers in the absence of my father,
say: "O. Lord, I ask not for my children
wealth or honor but 1 do- ask that they
all may bo the subjects of thy comforting
grace!" Her eleven children brought into
Ihe kingdom of God. she had but one more
wish, and that was that she might see her
long absent missionary son; and when the
ship from China anchored in New York
harbor, ami the long-absent one passed over
the threshold of his paternal home, she
said: "Now, I«>rd. lettest thou thy ser
vant depart in peace, for mine eyes have
seen thy salvation.” Tiie prayer was soon
answered.
It was an autumnal day when we gath
ered from afar and found only* the house
from which the soul had fled forever.
She looked very natural, the hands ver.v
miii-li as whi‘ 1 they were employed in kind
ness for her children. Whatever else we
forget, we never forget the look of moth
er's hands. As we stood there by the
casket, we could not help but say: “Don t
she look beautiful?” It was a cloudless
day, when with heavy hearts, we carried
her out to the lust resting place. The
withered leaves crumbled under hoof and
wheel as we passed, and the sun shone
on the Raritan river until it looked like
fire; but more calm and beautiiul and
radiant was the setting sun ot that aged
pilgrim’s life. No more toil, no more tears;
no more sickness, no more death. Dear
mother! Beautiful mother!
Sweet as the slumbers beneit.'i the sod,
While the pure spirit rests with ’tod
1 need not g > back ami show you Zen
obia. or Semiramis, or Isabella, or even
the woman of the text, as wonders of wo
manly excellenee or grentnesih when 1 in
this moment point to your own picture
gallery of memory, and show you the one
face that you remember so well, and arouse
all your holy reminiscences, and start you
in new eonseeration to God, by. the pro
nunciation of that tender, beautiful, glor
ious word, "Mother! Mother!
KILLED HIS CHILD
Shot His Wife and Blew His Own Brains
Over the Koon».
Chicago, August 20.—Crazed by liquor,
Douglass Curtis, a switch-thrower, in the
employ of the Western Indiana Railroad
Company, made a desperate and successful
attempt at murder and suicide at his home
in Auburn Park today.
He shot ami instantly killed his seven
year-old daughter, Leslie; probably fatally
wounded his wife, and sent a bullet through
fitfeown brain.
th was instantaneous, ami the tern
ir had been deliberately planned.
hud been oil a spree for three
..ml had spent what little money he
•V'saved, leaving his family dependent
w«’*;!ly upon the kindness of neighbors.
Curtis arose about 7 o’clock this morning,
went: into a saloon and took seveial.diinks.
Returning home, he walked iijistairs am'T
Jet himself in his own room. Pulling oft his
shoes, coat and vest, he drew a chair to
tiie washstand and wrote the tollowing
" I’iease notify .John F. Craig, No. 139 North
Fifth street, Keokuk, la; also, Myran Curtis,
L 1 Harpe, Huiico.-k comity. 111. Cause, ad
versity. ‘ D’H GLASS CI RTIS.
He then drew a revolver from his pocket
and crept into the room where his wife
and daughter were sleeping. The erazed
man reached across the bed. and thrust mg
the muzzle of the revolver close to his
daughter's mouth he pulled the trigger.
The millet, went crashing into the child's
brain from the revolver, which was held
cluse enough to burn the flesh on her face.
The terrible charge had dune its work weh,
killing the girl instantly.
The shock had in a measure unnerved
the murderer. With the report his hand
trembled and he fell across iiis’Nvife.
Though slightly deaf, the stunning report
and the heavy weight of her husband across
her in the bed awoke her ami she strug
gled to get free. As she turned from him
in her efforts to get up. lie placed the muz
zle of the pistol to the back of her head.
There was a Hash, a report and a smother
ed groan ami she fell back on tin- bed. un
conscious, though not dead. Then cock
ing the revolver with his left hand, he
placed the muzzle close to his own head ami
pulled the trigger. Death was instanta
neous.
It was sonic mii'Mes after the last shot
had been tired ' L Mrs. Curtis, blindly
staggering from tier blood-soaked bed.
rem-hevi th<‘ door ami, descending to the
floor beneath, walked into Airs. White
house's apartment. >
"Give me a drink. I am shot," gasped
tlm wounded woman. -j
Mrs. Whitehouse led Mrs. Curtis to her
own bedroom and sent for a police officer
and a physician. When the latter arrived
llmv found Curtis ami his daughter dead
ami Mrs. Curtis unconscious. She wits at
mi.-e removed to a hospital ami the bodies
of the dead were removed to the morgue.
HLKLKD TO DEATH.
Five I’cople Instantly Killed in Troy, N. Y.,
Y’eaterday.
Troy, N. Y., August 20 An aeeid nt oecur
icd here this morning on the Lehigli Valley
load crossing on Lake street, in wliieh five
people were instantly killed. Their names
'"l'. V. ItDVEE.
MRS. L. .1. BGVEE.
MISS OLA BOVKE.
.MISS NANCY WICKS, of Troy: and
MISS EMMA ItoWDEN. daughter of the
Rev. Samuel Bowden, of New York city.
The Bovees are one of the wealthiest and
most prominent families 11) Genesee county.
At 10 o’clock the five unfortunates started
with a spirited team to drive to church. As
thev approached the Lehigh \ alley tia<-k the
east bound Lehigh Valley flyer came thunder
in'' along at a speed of nearly fifty miles an
hour. Mr. Bovee did not sei* It until he was
too close to cheek his Imrs-B. Mr. Bovee
made a frantic effort to get across, but the
engine struck the forward part of the car
riage and a second later tiie mangled bodies
of the occupants were flying through the air.
All were mangled lieyotid recognition. Miss
Bowe was decapitated.
Cleveliiiid Hung in Egfigy.
Texarkana. Ark., August 20.—The ma
jority <>f the democrats in this section are
stronglv in favor of the free coinage of
silver and are naturally much depressed
with President Cleveland's late message
to congress on that question. At Buch
anan, ten miles west of here, in Texas, a
miss meeting of about 150 voters, nearly’
Ml ' democrats, was held Friday night.
Resolutions bitterly denouncing Cleveland
a 8 a champion of the money power amt
•tn eneniv of the common people were
•idopted. after which the president was
lihi-iml in etligy timl afterwards shot ami
riddled witfi bullets. The effigy is still
hanging anil it. is understood that it will
be publicly
To get relief from Indigestion, biliousness,
constipation or torpid liver without disturb
ing the stomache or purging the bowels, take
a few doses of Carter s Jjttlc 1 ills. Alley
will please you.
SARGE PLUNKETT.
THE OLE MAN WETTES UPON TIIE
SITUATION OF THE COUNTRY.
The Young Men Will Save It-Bels Hopeful
of the Times, and Thinks a Better Day
is Dawning—A Few Suggestions.
I have been watching the young men
closely, and J feel very hopeful, as do
many other old folks.
We older people have been too much
married to sentiment and too much bound
down by our prejudices. A “solid south’
was a sentiment, as was a “solid north,
and for forty years that idea has mothered
the friction necessary to the development
of statesmen. It is well lor these senti
nlents to abound tas stimulate M to a
country’s love*—even seethmtal love —but
when such sentiments are warped into the
creation of prejudices to shape the politics
of a great government, it is time to halt
and consider. 'l’he older generation could
not. consider. They' smarted under tin* sting
cf dead issues and associated their section
with the sweet, memories of dead heroes,
all of which made it easy for politicians
to hold them "solid" and run the govern
ment to suit: their own ambitions. 1 think
1 can see a change from this. 1 have been
an advocate for a "split” for years, and
why should T not throw up my hat now
that I think it is approaching. The young
men wiil clash, the friction will brighten,
and with questions broad enough to keep
down local strifes and important enough
to keep the people eternally vigilant, we will
steer back into good government and glo
rious statesmanship.
'l'hesc young men will find plenty of
“problems"- finance, for instance. Right
now the silver question is a good one, ami
it is so much healthier than the "nigger"
that I am ready to throw up my hat. as the
tight, proceeds, so glad am I that the "nig
ger” is one, lost iiis importance, as if were,
and now I hope we will let him rest ami
seek his level. There still goes on some
little harping about the race ami it makes
them smile for they have ever invited agi
tation as the thing to give them undue
importance. The negro must behave or
hang. If we were entirely sincere about
the negro leaving this country he would
go. The truth is that the negro is wa'nTed
here by the people who own the lands.
His humility’ makes him a favorite la
borer. and all our flourishes to the contrary
cannot conceal it.
But I don’t want to get away' from the
discussion of the young men. They are
our hope for the future. Already they show
a willingness to discuss issues without a
show of the bad quality that uster be
designated "the bloody shirt.” They discuss
questions without reference to sectional
lines, without the quality’ of sectional hate,
free from the application of vile epithets
to whomsoever may ilisagree. They are
ushering in a period when argument will
take the place df abuse and bluster
will not be taken as sense. May the good
Lord help them on.
A division of brains and respectability,
is what we have been needing. An an
tagonism vigorously but gentlemanly, is
what these young men are to bring us,
ami with it all will develop men like Geor
gia has boasted of in the past. The sim
ple claim of "I'm a democrat." or "I'm a
republican.” as the case may- be, will play
no part in the matter of respectability or
of brains. A liberality must come and will
come, which allows every man a right to
his opinions and to party affilitilions of
his own choosing without being villitied or
bulldozed.
But I must not get too big into politics.
1 like other things better. It is just the
season now for folks to rent land for an
other year, and l would like it if 1 could
pursuade some of the poor people of the
towns to stir themselves in this direction.
1 mentioned the importance of unloading
the towns a year ugo. The cry’ of bard
times and the men who are idle in every
town proves the correctness of what 1
then stated, and 1 now state again
that the towns must be unloaded,
the flow of population must turn back to
the country’ and right now is the time to
seek out voiir home for next year. Next
year will still be hard. It is always to re
main hard till more people get to making
bread and raising meat. There are ten
men in the cities for every job of work,
ami von bail better make arrangements.
Don’t wait till the "nigger" gets all the
best.
Thousands can testify’ as to the deplor
able condition of many pour people in the
towns. The south is bad enough m ?lns
respect, but it is in much better condition
than the north. The mayor of Chicago
gives an alarming amount ol the outlook
for that, great city. These poor folks in
Chicago should hustltk out to the country
and go to work. This is the solution of the
"problem,” the relief to be had. ami it.
might save many hangings. This is plain
talk, but the situation demands plain talk.
America is not ready to teat the experiment
of communism, folks must make their
bread by the sweat of their brow, ami now
is the time of year to make arrangements.
Quit waiting for something to ;urn up,
dismiss your fond delusion of seeing bet
ter limes in the bye-aiul-bye, or in having
better times otherwise than by reducing
the supply to the meet of demands.
It might appear as going out of my way
to mention the organizations of trades
unions in connection with the demoralized
condition of the northern cities. For me
to say that 1 consider the trades unions
as the safetv valves of the prevention of
anything like the conditions which the ut
terances of thi mayor of Chicago points
to, might look as if 1 was "changing my
base” as to organizations in general. I
am not. lam on record a.s having said
that the day would come when justice and
moderation would so direct these unions
that hand in hand the honest workman
and the capitalist would go together, coun
sel together, and so justly arrange then
(liti’en*iu-t v s that together they would stand
as a bulwark against dangerous agitators
and communism. I believe that we are
approaching the hopeful period when pro
prietors and workmen will meet together
in these union halls and settle all diner
cnees and protect all interests. \\ hen it
comes to that, then I am hope til oI seeing
a trades union hall on every hill m Geor
gia and dotting the whole gauntry over
September is most here. Every month
with an "r” in it the rabbits are good to
eat 1 expect to fatten, lor there are mil
lions in the fields around me. The grapes
are ripening along the hedgerows and Mr.
’Possum will s<>on bo racking b.v the light
of tiie moon, fat and juicy. Aly mouth
waters and I sigh for the people ol the
towns when T think of this, <on
from tiie towns ami help us dig lateis and
drink ’simmon beer.
Sahge Plunkett.
SECRETARY CARLISLE
Given His Views on the Proposed Change in
the Coinnge Ratio.
Washington, August 20—Senator Voor
hees is in receipt of the following lettet
from Secretary Carlisle, giving his views
uuou a proposed change of the pt esent tatio
between silver and gold to a ratio of 20
l ° 'treasury Department, Office of the Secre
ta v U ashiugtou. August 19. !«»,;. - Hum
oni’iel \V Voorhees. Lulled Mates Seltulur.
str- Referring t"> our conversation relative
* ‘lie probable cost incident to the change
d-m‘i the present coining ratio between gold
■ s ver IG I" A ’he standard sin er
dmlars' anw i 4 " t “ r “ : sußsidiary silver,
. ratio of 1 to 20. you are respeetfullv
mforined that the number of silver dollars
•uiued since 1878 aggregates 419,::32.-Do.
Without any allowance tor abrasion ami loss
ini-'detita! to melting the same, the coining
x ./rvo of these dollars, at a ratio of I to 20
would 1>“ 8333.222.102. or $84,110,228 less
H-.jn their present lace value. To recoin
these dollars at a ratio of 1 to 20 would
rtuuire the addition of 1.37G.700 ounces of
i.cw bullion, which at the average price paid
for silver under the a*'t of July 14, IS'.io,
$0 93 1-4 would cost $75,883.T00. In addi
tion to this. 1 estimate that there would he
a loss from’ abrasion and in :ho melting of
these, dollars of at least s3.ooo.Oih>. which
amount, together with the diffe.rence in the
face value of the coins iSS4.IIO.2SSi. would
: have to be reimbursed to the treasury by
I an appropriation for that purpose.
From the tact :naf the silver dol.ars are
distributed throughout tin- country, it uould
lie neces>arv as they are rede-med tit tm*
several subtreastiries to transport tiiem to
the mints, ami the expense of transporting
I for S3O0 OOO.Opd. the amount outside ot tm
s-ock on'iniml at the s übt fo.-mm-ies :tn<. a ms
at I‘hilmle.phia. San Francisco am. New Or
leans, would average at: least 11 -]• r eenr.
or $4 7.1 io.otHl. I. therefore, estimate the cost
of i-i'commg the silver dollars already coined
as follows: New bullion to he added. sm.-
.883 700; loss by abrasion am! melting. s•■.-
OOP.OOO; cost: of coinage (labor, material,
etc.) s(i 299.000; copper for alloy. $08,200,000;
transportation of dollars to mints. $4..4M),000.
Total. $8! i. 741.0tt0. T!i<‘ stock <>£
snbsidiarv coin in the country’ is
estimated at; $77,000,000. which. at.
full weight would contain 7>5.<:99.R ( 5
I ounces of tine silver. This amount at the
ratio of 1 to 16 would coin $55,813,802, or
$21,156.1!)" less than the present face value.
To recoin $77,000,000 of subsidiary silver into
an equal amount of fractional coin, at a ra
:io of 1 to 20, would require the addition of
$18.7!>7,625 fine ounces, which, at $0.93 1-4 per
fine ounce, the average price paid for silver
under the act of July 14. 1890. would cost
$17,528,785. There would be a loss of about
2 1-2 per cent by abrasion from the face value
or about $1,925,000. 1 would, therefore, es
timate the cost of re-coining the subsidiary
silver in the country, at a ratio of 1 to 20.
a.s follows: New ’'bullion, $17,528,785; loss
by abrasion, $1,925,000; cost of coinage—la
bor. materials, etc.—52,500,000; copper for
alloy, $15,356: cost of transportation, $1,155,-
0(H); total, $23,124,121.
Recat>itillation Estimated cost of recoining
silver dollars. $89,741,900: estimated cost of
recoining subsidiary silver. $23,124,421 ; total,
$112,866,321. Very respectfully.
J. G. CARLISLE, Secretary.
DR. BRANHAM IS DEAD.
Tiie Surgeon’s Bmee Battle for Lifo Has
Come to an End.
Brunswick. Ga., August 20.—(Special.)—
Surgeon Branham died today at 5 o’clock,
after lingering twenty-six hours in an un
conscious state.
As soon as the death was bulletined, a
large crowd of sympathizing friends gath
ered on tir* street corners and discussed
the unfortunate man's fate. Surgeon
Hutton ordered the finest steel-rolled, sil
ver-mounted casket in the city sent to the
house. It was left near tne gate, ami
Surgeon Carter and his assistants carried
it into the house.
W rappeu in National Colors.
'.Hie body was wrapped in sheets, soaked
in bichloride of mercury and around the
lifeless form a large national flag was.
rolleu. On leaving Washington Surgeon
Hutton had a premonition that Surgeon
Branham would die and prompted by this
placed the flag in nis trunk.
The casket and body were brought to
the quarantine limits and there Surgeons
Hutton and Guiteras, Undertakers Moore
Ac Son pl.-u-ed it in the hearse. It was
quickly transported to a grave in the new
cemetery, and in the presence of your corre
spondent, I he surgeons, the undertaker and
minister, was lowered to its last resting
place.
By’ the light of the cloud-dimmed moon,
Rev. Edward F. Cook, of AlcKendree Aleth
odist church, read the burial service. The
grave was covered and the party returned
to town.
Surgeon Branham died without, hearing,
in his unconscious state, the loving mes
sage from his sick wife, in far off Alary
land.
Surgeon Branham was ordered by the
i government three weeks ago to take charge
| of the local quar mtine station. On arriv
j ing here he complained of malaria, but
i went about his duties. Last Wednesday
afternoon he. witnessed a ball game here
and the hot sun drove fever to his brain.
Thursday morning Health Ofiicer
Dunwoody* brought him to Bruns-
wick from quarantine and he
was carried to the home of City Physician
Branham, his cousin, and Saturday morn
ing his case was pronounced yellow fev.-r.
Fever at Fort Tampa.
Savannah, Ga., August. 20.—(Special.) -
Eight, casts of fever are reported from
Tampa.
The report comes from the health officer
at that port.
It is understood that the cases are on a
schooner in the harbor that has just
come from Havana. The details are mea
ger. but enough to induce the city author
ities to at once order a quarantine against
Tampa, ami the most rigid steps will ba
taken to keep anybody who has in any
way been exposed to the fiver from coming
near Savannah.
At Tampa, Fla.
Jacksonville, Fla.. August 20. A special
From Port Tampa to The Times-I’nlon says
that the German steamsli p Markoma:i a.
wliieh arrived then* from Vera Cruz, Tam
pico and i’rogresso last Thursday, was ye
terday ordered to the I lilted States quarantine
station at Dry Tortugas. with a reported ease
of yellow fever aboard. The vessel had been
detained and disililei-ted at Mute: key. the
state quarantine station, twenty-eight miles
beluw here, and no sickness having detel
l,p*l was allowed to pmce -d to her pier
here after live days. Last Thursday night
eight of the crew were reported sick with a
slight fever, but five of them wen- up and
dressed next morning and about the d -••k.
Saturday morning all of tin* eight were up
and about, but later in the day one ol the
sailors grew worse am! ills pidse
w ,. n t up to 110, with a temp" -
attire of 101 degrees. Th- attending phy
sicians. ltrs. XVvmcn amt Wall’, pi-iinomu'*'-
ed the case yellow fever, ami Presid.mt
Henderson, of the stafe bom-d of h-alth,
at om-e order-! rhe vessel to Dry T rtug.is.
She left under full steam at 3 o’clock p. m.
yesterday.
THE FRENCH ELECTION.
Al! Cabinet Ministers Ke Elected -A Quiet
Day.
Paris, August 2<> Tlx* general parlia
mentary election in France today was un
expectedly free from disorder übil evei» ex
citement- Except slight disturbances m
Var, where M. Clemenceau, the rad
ical leader, has had a hoi fight with his
slanderers, no serious trouble has been
reported, in Paris the poll, although mm-h
larger than usual, was quite featureless.
In Faris Alphonso Humbert, member of
the commune and president of the munici
pa Icouiicil; Gusßir Al**sjir*?nir. radical;
Alexander Aliller. radical: Edouard Lo
cakroy. republican radical: Desire Bardo
det. republican radical, and M. Dejiechau,
editor of Tiie Eclaire, have been c"-ted.
Charles Floquet. who resigned the presi
dency of the chamber because he was
besmirched b.v the Panama scandals, head
ed the list in his district, but- —“II be
obliged to tr.v his fortune in a reballot
Ex Premier Goblet, described by- himself
as a radical socialist, polled the largest
utßuber of votes in his district, but, like
M. Floquet, must await the final decision
of the reballot.
AL Andrieux, ex-prefe,* of police amt
chief wire-puller in the Panama scandal,
polled mere votes tlmn any other candidate
in his district. 1A his case also, however,
a reballot will be necessary. In his dis
trict of Var, Al. Clemenceau received
the heaviest vote, but failed of election.
A reballot isnecessary. One of the most
notable results of the election is the de
feat of Count de Ainu, leader of the
Catholics am! formerly an ardent, royalist
in the following of the court of Paris.
Al. Drumont, the notorious jew-baiting
edftorf of 'lite La Libre Parole, was de
feated in Amiens.
Later—All of the cabinet ministers have
been re-elected, none meeting a serious
opposition Al. Wilson, son-in-law of tne
late President Grevy, and wlio was im
plicated in the legion of hour scan lai,
is elected by a large majority in the
Loches district of the Itidi-- lleth-Loire.
Al. Delahaye. who was prominent in. the
Panama canal exposure, is defeatefl-
1 a. in. —Returns received up to the
present time show tin* election of 105
republicans, a gain of five seats; 12 roy
alists. 3 “rallied” and 3 revolutionists,
Sixty-eight re-ballots are neeess.try.
’l'he returns received up to 4 o’clock thia
morning show the election of ■.(’ republic
ans' live of the "rallied.” throe mvisionists
and’ fifteen royalists. In eighty-tliree of the
districts heard from, reballots will be nec.es-
Sl> \e.ording to Hie results already ascertain
ed in about half of tiie distri- ts. the republic
ans have gained a more decisive‘•.idory rhan
was expected. The socialist vote is much
below tlm general estimates of last weex.
The “rallied” are m a very bad way. In
dications are the the oppom nts of those inip;l
entet! in the Panama scat’dal used tb’s
weapon freely- and produced a reaction in
favor of the besmirched deputies.