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EKNACL E LA f VNDA r *
The Subject of His Se/ on wa8 ’ “ r ‘” n »’ eii
and Its Lessons’’-/ Interesting Dis
conrso by the /kinent Divine-
Brooklyn, Octol/ 8.-(Special.)-In his
sermon at the it? 1 ' 1 '" tabernacle, this
morning Rev p v I'alinag.' presented an
arousing theme <>/“' living cities of today
drawn from the/ ~ub of il clty 1,1
the past. The hymn led by cornet
and organ was /i»‘d by the voices of the
multitude: /
\rni of tlie/" r| L awake, awake.
Put on thy /’’Ugth, the nations shake.
The siiliioei/vas: "I’ompeii and its l,es
sons.” 'file Zt: isiah 25: 2: "Thon hast
Hade of a i/ensed city a ruin."
A flash o/the night sky greeted us as
tve left the/il train at Naples, Italy. What
tvas the stlnge illumination? It was that
■wrath of/any centuries—Vesuvius. Giant
son of a /earthquake. Intoxicated moun
tain of l/ly. Rather of many consterna
tions. A/ole:ino, burning so long, and yet
to keep/n burning until, perhaps, it may
be the thy torch that will kindle the last
confiag^iiou and set all the world on tire,
it ecli/es in violence of behavior Cotopaxi
and •■tna and Strotiiboli ami Krakatoa.
Awfitf mystery. Fuuerai pyre of uead
cit.es Everlasting paroxysm of mountains.
It .-.H'liis like a chimney of hell. It roars
with fieri’ reminiscence of what it has
fieri?, and with threats of worse things
•that it may yet do. 1 would not live in
ore of tile villages at its base for a present
of ali Italy. On a day in December. I<’>3l,
i threw up ashes that floated away liun
lireds and hundreds of miles, and drooped
in Constantinople and in the Adriatic sea
Hitd on the Apennines, as well as trampling
• nil at its own tool (lie lives of eighteen
Hioesand people. Geologists have tried to
fathom its mi stories, but the heat eonsiimed
th" iron instruments an i drove back the
... .relied and blistered explorers from the
euidcr.i and crumbling brink, it seems like
the asylum of maniac elements. At one
time tar back its top had been a fortress,
where Spartaeus fought and was surround
ed, and would hive been destroyed had it
not been for the grape vines which clothed
'the mountain side from top to base, and
laying hold of them he climbed hand under
hau l to safety itt the valley. But for cen
turies it 1..,s kept its furnace burning as
wo saw it that night on our arrival in
November of 1889.
Os course the next day we started to
see some of the work wrought by tiiat
frerzii I mountain. "All out for Pon.’
peii!” was the cry of the conductor.
And now w 6 stand by the corpse ol that
dead -ity. As we entered the gale ami
pi ssed between the walls, I took oil my
lint, .is one naturally does in the presence
«>! some imposing obsequies. That city
h i I !>■ ii a. one time a capital of beauty
end poup, the home of grand architec
ture, exquisite printing. enchanting sculp
ture. unrest rained carousal, and rapt as
st midage. A high wad. twenty feet thick,
three-fourths ol it still visible, encircled
tl.-.- city. On those walls at a distance
of only one hundred yards from each
other. towers <>se for armed men
who watched the city . The streets ran
sit right angles ami from wail to wall,
only one street excepted. In the days of
the city’s praspetily, its towers glittered
in tile sun: eight strong gates for ingress
and egress; gate of the sea shore, gate
of t lerettl.ineum. gate of Vesuvius being
perhaps the most important. Yonder
stood the temple of Jupiter, hoisted at an
ing ' -ration, and with its six
Corinthian columns of immense girth,
stood ike carved icebergs, shim-
J r tg in th.. I.glit. There stands the
temple of the Twelve Gods. Yonder
sec the temple o| Hercules, and the i
temple ot Mercury, with altars of marble
and has relief, wonderful enough Io as
tound all succeeding ages of art. and the
-’tuple of Aesculapius. brilliant with
n-ulptiire and gorgeous with painting,
louder arc tiu- theaters, partly cm into
surrounding hills and glorified' with pic
tured walls and entered under arches of
imposing masonry, and with rooms for
captivated and pplanda lory audiences,
seated or standing, in vast semi-circle,
louder are the costly and immense pub
lic baths of the city, with more than the
modern ingenuities of Carlsbad. Notice
the warmth ol those ancient tepidariums
w; li hovering radiance of roof, and the
viper ot those eaidariums with decorated
alcoves and the cold dash of their frigid
ar mn-. with floors of mosaic, and ceil
s all skill ally intermingled hues,
walls upholstered with ail the colors
ot the setting stm, and sofas on which to
• '■hue !.>r ■.lumber after the plunge,
louder are th" barracks of the celebra
ted gladiators. Yonder is the summer
home of Sullust, the Roman historian
an I senator, the architecture as elaborate
; - his character w is corrupt. There is
the resin ice of the I’oet I’.ausa, with
a compressed Lotti re and Luxembourg
wit mt: his walls. There is the home of
I. lien ■ :s. with vases and antiquities
enough io turn the head of a virtuoso.
Yonder see the furttni, at the highest
pl. I’o of the city. It is entered by two
trmmp 1 .,! .m-hes. It is bounded on
tl. -.'les b\ I fori • columns. Yonder,
il iia -mix , i>s ot the city, is the home
oi Arriits Diome-’. the mayor of the
subcriis. terraced resilience of billionaire
doni. gardens. fi>un ained, statu-'d, colon
naded- tie' oeil.-ir of that villa tilled with
Lot;; s ot rarest w'ne, a lew drops of
which were font I eighteen hundred
J '.irs afterward. Vong tl.e streets of
’ ■■ city are men of might and women of
t'.mt.v formed into bronze that many
luries had no power to bedim. Battle
K ,*■;-■ <m walls >n colors which all time
*’■ .not ell.lee. Great city of I’ompeii!
Seneca ami I mains and Cicero pro-
U l ' ,-ed it.
uid with me on its walls this evening
ot ■ _usi 23 1. A. 1 it). See the throngs
pass up a H d down in Tyrian purple and
g’irdh. ol arabesque and necks enchained
'• ith . *eeious stones, proud official in ini
pos: • g oga meet ing the slave earr.i mg t rays
a-elink with goblets and a smoke with deli
cacies , 'uni paddock and sea, and moralist
musing -ver the degradation of the times
passes t.ie profligate doing his best to make
ile in wotse. Hark io the clatter and rata
id.'in of t’.-.e hoofs OU the streets paved with
blocks of basalt. See the verdure-! and
:i.>• . ted grounds sloping into most beautv
... of all the earth- the Bay of Naples.
J. - to the rumbling chariots, carrying
cii.d occupants to hails of mirth and
..ide uml carousal. Hear the i<md
he fountains amid the sculptured
v. i nymphs. Notice the weird, solemn,
far o' ng hum and din and roar of a city
tn a- Hose of a summer day. Let Pom
p well tonight, tor it is t'he.-dast
I, -'li' o| peaceful slumber before she falls
ini ’ llie deep slumber ol .many long cen
im'i'-s. I io. morning of the 21th ol August,
I i'.t has arri' cd. and tne day roils mi,
Httd it is 1 o'clock i.i the afternoon: *T,ook!’
i s* Hiding on this wall, as the
■- • ' of I'.inv >; dd to him. the Roman es
rati-it and natal commander, mi the day
t' l which I speak, a, she pointed him in
the direct ion jo which I point to you. There
i> a peculiar .-loud on th-' skv; a spotted
-•loud, now- while, now black’. It is Vesu
xnis in awtul and unparalleled eruption.
,\ii« the smoke and tireand steam of that
bl.'tel. monster throat ris. and sprea-1. as,
by nn gesture. I now -les-ribe il . It rises
a great column of fiery dark
n-ss. higher ami higb-r and then
spr-'.ids out like branches
--I a jr.- . wirh midnights i wrapped in
Its tollage. Wider ami wid"r. the situ >
goes out and lhe shower of pumice stone I
ami water from lurmi. s mor. than s. i-n I
lime- healed and ~-h". m av.i ;||l ,.| l( , ;1)! er '
axalam-m'. Itltmimg ami s-'aldr., ;II) d suf
focating. ileseeml. iioyth, s-mtl ~H d
west, burying deeper and deep., ' in 'J',
moth sepuh-hre. such as never |, e f orr
sine-; was opeimd Stabiae 11
and i ompeii. Aslh< .inkle de... .rirJip
<b-t‘p. rhin deep, ashes overh<‘:n I. <)|j| 11 f |
th-' houses ami temples and theat- Vs ;||l ,|
into the streets and down to the bt%.|” m.d
n .iii.v of the frantic, but others, if r«" s|| f.
fo-'ated of the ashes, wore scalded to-iii-ith
by rhe healed deluge. And then
HIE WEEKLY WaSTITUTIONs ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1893.
ier destruction in rocks after recks, crushing
in homes and temples and theaters. No
wonder lhe sea receded from the beach
as though in terror, until much of the ship
ping wtts wrecked, and no wonder th,it when
they liftcil Pliny, tin- elder, from the sail
cloth on which he was resting, under the
agitation of what he had seen, he suddenly
expired, l-’or three days the entombment
proceeded. Thon the clouds lift
ed and the cursing of that Apol
yon of mountains subsided. Foi
seventeen hundred years that City of
1 onqieii lay buried and without anything
to show its place of doom. But after sev
enteen hundred years of obliteration, a
workmans spade, digging a well, strikes
some antiquities which load to the exhuma
tion ol the City. Now walk with me through
some ol the streets and into some of the
mnses and amid the ruins of Basilica, ami
temple and ampitheater.
the 1 -?-.'? tlH> k’ttide met us at
Novond ..“''il'j."'" l ' P ""H'<‘ii Hint -lav in
. i ’ ’ " n,il ,H> lpft " s ,b '‘
W • i the emotion I Pit
was mdescrtlmble fo r elevation and sohin
""'J sorrow and awe. Come and see
' P';'. 1 ' 11 "' 11 , h-nltes of (ho dead' found in
ii *'?''/ ,ln ', """ 111 llle niusenms of Italv.
Altou. four hundred ami fifty of thosq em
bahned by that eruption have been re
covered. Mother and chill, noble ami serf,
merchant, and beggar, arc presentable and
natural after 1.7(10 years of
burial. I hat woman was found clutching
her adornments when the storm of ash-s
and tire began, and for 1.70:> years she
cont-nuo] to clutch them. 'l’here at the
soldiers' barracks are sixty-four skeletons
of brave men. who faithfully stood guard
al their post when the tempest of cinders
began, and after 1.700 years were still
found standing guard. There is th-' form
of gentle womanhood impressed upon the
hardened ashes. Pass along ami hero we
see th-' deep ruts in the b'isallie pavements
worn there by th-' wheels of th-' chariots
of lhe first century. Then', over the door
ways ami in the porticos, are works of
art immortalizing the debauchery of a
city, which, notwithstanding all its snlen
dors, was a v-'stibule of perdition. Those
gutters ran with lhe blood of the gladiators,
who were (he prize fighters of those ancient
times, and it was sword parrying sword,
until, with on-' skillful ami stout piling-'
of th-' sharp edge, the mauled and gash- d
combatant reeled over dead, to lx* carried
out amil the huzzas of enraptured spec
tators. We st.nye-l among those suggestive
scenes after 111-' hour that visitors are
usually allowed there, ami stayed until there
was ni*"*mtf:ill to be heard within all that
eit.v. except our own. I p this silent street
and down that silent street wo wandered-
Into that wimlowless and roofless bom-'
we went ami cam-' out again on to th-'
pavements that, now forsaken, were once
thronged with life.
Ami can it be that all up ami down these
solemn solitudes, hearts, more than eighteen
hundrel years ago. ached and rejoiced,
ami feet shuttled with th-' gait of old age
or danced with childish glee, ami overtasked
workmen carrii'l their burlens. an-l drunk
ards staggered? On that mot-aie floor d'd
glowing youTh clasp bands in marriage vow.
ami across that threshol-1 -lid pallbearers
( . ;irr v the beloved dead, ami gay groups
once' mount those now skeletons ->f slair
cises 1 ' While I walked and contemplated,
tin. city seemed suddenly to be thronged
with all the population that hail ever in
habited it. ami I heard its laughter am
i:i oan and blasph-my ami une.eanness and
infernal boast, as it was on the —i ol Au
■■list, 79. Ami Vesuvius, from the mild
Fight’ with Which il Unshed the sky that
summer evening as I "lood in disentomm'd
I’onmcii s," m- d suddenly again to heave
am! iiaine and rock with th.' lava ami -lark-
ami desolation and woe. with wlik- i.
more than eighteen centuries ago. it sub
merged P.-mp-ii, as. with the liturg) of
fir-' ami siorm, th-' mountain proclaimed
at the burial; "Ashes to ashes, dust to
dust.” , . .
My friends. I cannot tel! what practical
suggest ion comes to your mind from this
wa.k through uncovered Pompeii, but the
first thought that absorbs me is that, while
art ami ■ iilture are important, they cannot
sav-' lhe morals e.r the life of a great town.
Much of tiie painting and sculpture ot Pom
pcii was so exquisiie that, while some is
kept on the walls where it was first pen
cile-l. to be admired by those who go there,
whole wagon loads ami whole rooms full
of it have been transferred to lhe Museo
Borb-.ni-'o at Naples, to be admired by the
centuries. Those Pompeiian artists mixed
such durability of colors that though their
paintings were buried in ashes and scoriae
for 1.790 years, ami since th-w
were uncovered many ot them have
r-'maine-l there expos-'-l to the rains and
winds ami winters ami summers of a hun
dred ami thirty years, the color is as
fresh ami vivid ami trite as though yester
day 'I had passed from the easel. Which
of our modern jiaintitigs could stand al!
that? Ami yet many of the specimens of
Pompeiian art show that the city was sunk
to such a depth of abomination that there
was nothing deeper. S-ailpi tired and petri
fied and eiiiba med abominat'i-m. There
w.is a state of fie.bli-' morals worse than
belongs to any city now standing under the
sun. Yet how many think that ali that is
necessary is to cultivate th" mind amt ad
vance tiie knowledge and improve the arts.
Have you tiie impression that eloquence
will do the elevating work? Why, Pom
peii had Cicero half of every year for its
citizen. Have you the idea that literature
is all that is necessary to keep a city right i
W'hv. Sallust, with a pen that was the
boast of Roman literature, had a mansion
in that doomed city. Do you think that
sculpt are ami art are quite sufficient for
the production of good morals? Then cor
rect your delusion by examining the statues
in the temple of Al- renry at Pompeii, or
tlm winged figures of its Parthenon ami the
eolomtdes ami ar-'ms ot this house of
Diomeii. By all nwans have schools ami
Diiss-hlorf ami Dm'-' exhibitions ami gal
leries where lhe genius of all th-' centuries
can bank itself tip in snowy sculpture ami
all brie-a-brac ami all fiur-- art. but noth
ing. save the religion of Jesus Christ, --ail
make a city moral. In proportion
as churches '.tnd Bibles ami < hris
tian printing presses am! re
vivals of religion abound is a -ity eh'.in
ami pure. What has Buddhism or
Gonfueianism or Mahommodanism -lone in
ail the hundreds of years of their progress
for lhe elevation of society ? Absolutely
nothing. Pekin ami Almiras ami ('aim are
just what they were ages ago, except as
<’liristianity has im-liti-'-l their condition.
What is (lie difference between imr Brook
lyn ,md their I’ompeii? No difference, ex
e’ept that which (.'iiristianity has wrought,
favor all good art, but take the best,
car-' of your churches and your Sabbath
schools, and your Bibles ami your family
altars.
Yea. sec in our walk today through un
covered Poinp'.'ii what, sin will -Io tor a
city. We ought to be slow to assign the
judgments of God. Cities are sometimes
alhi-'l-'d just as good people ar-' alllieli-l.
amt the earthquake ami the cyclone ami
the epidemic ar-' no sign in many eases
that God is angry with a eit.v, but the dis
tress is sent tor some good ami kind
purpose, whither we understand it or
not. 'flu' law that applies to individu
als may apply to Christian cities as well
"All things work together for good to thus-'
that love God." But the greatest calamity
of history -amo upon i’ompeii not to im
prove its future condition, for it was com
pletely obliterated and will never be re
built. It was so bad that it needed to be
buried 1.799 years before even
its ruins were lit to be uncovered. So So
dom and Gomorrah were tilled with such
turpitude tlm- they were mil only turned
under, but have for thousands of years
been kept under. The two greatest ceme
teries are th- 1 ei-metries in which lhe sunken
ships are buried all the way between I'ire
island and l-'astnet lighthouse, ami the
other cemetery is the cemetery of deail
cities. 1 get down on my knees ami read
the epitai-heology of a long line of them;
Here lies Babylon, once called "lhe
hammer of the whole earth." Dead ami
buried under piles of bitumen ami brok
en pottery am! vitrified brick. And I
hear a wolf howl and a reptile hiss as 1
am reading this epitaph: Isaiah 1.”>:21.
" The wild beast of the desert shall be there
ami their houses shall be full of doleful
creatures.”
Tlm next tomb I kneel before in this
ecm-'tery of cities is Nineveh. Her wing
ed lions ar-> down and the slabs of alabas
ter have crumbled, ami the sculpture that
repr-'sente-l her battles is as completely
scattered as th-’ -lust of th-' heroes who
fought them. I’erhaps 1 put my knee into
the dust of her Sardanapalus as I stoop to
read her epitaph: Zephaniah 2:14, "Now
is Nineveh a desolation ami dry like a wil
derness; and Hocks lie down in the midst
of her; all the beasts of the nations, both
the cormorant and lhe bittern, lodge in the
upper lintels of it.” Ami while 1 read it
1 near an owl hoot, and a hyena laugh.
The next enloml»ed city I pass has a
monujnent of titty prostrate columns of
gray an-l red granite ami it. is Tyre. The
next sepulelire of a. great capital is cov
ered with scattered columns, ami defac
ed sphinxes, and the sands of the desert,
ami it is Thebes. As I pass on 1 find
the resting place of Mycenae, a city of
which Homer sang, ami Corinth which
rejected Paul, ami depended upon her
fortress Aerocorinthus, which now lies
dismantled on the hill, and 1 move on in
this cemetery of cities and 1 find the
tombs of Sardis, ami Smyrna, ami Per
sepolis, and Memphis, ami Baalbek, and
Carthage, am] here tire the cities of the
plain, ami Herculaneum, and Sttibia, an-l
Pompeii. Some of them have mighty sar
cophagus ami hieroglyphic entablature, but
they art' dead ami buried never to rise.
But the cemeti'fy of dead cities is not yet
tilled, am! if the present cities of lhe world
forget God, and with their indecencies
shock th-' heavens, let them know that, lhe
God who, on th-' 24th of August, 79,
dropped on a city of Italy a supcrincum
bratiee that staid there seventeen centu
ries is still alive am! hates sin now as much
as he di-l then an-l has at his command all
th-' armament of destruction with which
he whelmed their iniquitous pred-'cessors.
It was only a few summers ago that Brook
lyn and New York felt an earthquake throb
that sent the people affrighted into the
streets, and that suggested that there ar-'
forces of nature now siijiprcsse-l, or held
in cheek, which, easier than a child in a
nursery knocks down a row of block
houses, could prostrate a eit.v, or engulf a
continent deeper than I’ompeii was en
gulfed. Our hope is in the mercy of the
Lord continued to our American cities.
It amazes me Chat this city, which has the
quietest Sal-baths on the continent ami the
best order and the highest tone of morals
of any eit.v that 1 know of is now having
brought into as near neighborhood 'as Co
ney island e.trnivals of pugilism as debasing
as any of the gladiatorial contests of Pom
peii. What a precious crew tlrtit ‘‘Coney
Island Athletic Club" is, under whose aus
pices thes-' orgies are enacted. What a
degradation to the adjective “athletic,”
which ordinarily suggests health and tnus
-levelop-'d for useful puiq-oses! Instead
of calling it an athletic club they might
better style it "The Rutlian Club for
Smashing th-' Human Visage.” Vile men
are turning that Coney island, which is
one of the finest watering places on all the
Atlantic coast, into a place for th-' off
scouring of the earth to congregate, the
low horse joi'keys and gamblers and the
pugilists and the piekpoek-'ts ami the bloats
regurgitate-! from the depths of the worst
wards of thes-' cities. They invite dele
gates from universal loafer-loin to --ome to
their carnival of knuckles. But I do not
believe that the pugilism contracted for
ami advertised for next December will take
place in our neighborhood.
Evil sometimes defeats itself by going
one step too far. Yon may drive the hoop
of a barrel down so hard that it breaks.
1 will not believe that the international
prize fight will take place on Long Islam),
or in the state of Now York, until 1 see
the row-l'y rabble rolling drunk off the cars
at h’latbush avenue ami with faces banged
and cut ami blending from the imbriting
scene. Against this infraction of the laws
of the state of New York. I lift solemn pro
test. 'lhe curse of th-' Almighty God will
rest upon any community that consents
to such an outrage. Dot's any one think
it cannot be stopped and that the con
stabulary would be ov-'rborne, then let
Governor Blower send down there a regi
ment of stat-' militia, and they will clean
out the nuisance in one hour.
Warned by the -loom of other cities that
havi' perished for lhe rutlianism, or their
cruelty, or their idolatry, or their disso
luteness. let all our American cities lead
the right way. Our only dependence in on
God and Christian influences. Politics will
do nothing but make things worse. Semi
politics to moralize am! sav-' a city and you
semi smallpox to heal leprosy, or a 'preass
to relieve the air of malodor. I'or wh.ii
politics will Jo I refer you to the eight
weeks of stultification enacted at Washing
ton by our American senate. American pol
ities will become a reformatory power on
th-' same day that pandemonium becomes
a church. But there ar-'. lam glad
to say, b-'iiign ami salutary and
gracious influences organized in all
onr cities which will yet take them for
God and righteousness. Let us ply the
gospel machinery to its utmost speed
ami power. City evangelization is th-'
thought. Accustomed as are religious
pessimists to dwell upon statistics of evil
and dolorous facts we want some one with
sanctified heart and good digestion to put
hi line the statistics of nntnres tr:in<s
formed, ami profligacies balked, and souls
ransomed, and cities redeemed. Give us
pictures of churches, of schools, of to
formitory associations, of asylums -if mercy.
Break in upon the Misereres of complaint
and despondency with To Denins, ami
Jubilates of moral and religious victory.
Show that tin* day is coming when a great
tidal wave of salvation will roll over all
our I'ities. Show how Pompeii buried will
become Pompeii resurrected. Demonstrate
the fact that there are millions of men and
women who will give themselves no rest
-lay nor night untd cities th-it are now
of th-' type of th-' buried eiti-'s of Italy shall
lake type from the New Jerusalem' coming
ilown from God out of heaven. I hail th-'
advancing morn. I make the same procla
matgn toda.i that Gideon made to the
shivering cowards of his army. "Whosoever
is fearful ami afraid, let him return ami
depart early from Mount Gilead.” Close
up lhe ranks. Lift the gospel standard.
Forward into this Armageddon that is
now, opening an! let the wonl run all along
the line: Brooklyn for God! All our cities
for God! America for Go-1! The world
for God! The most of us
here gathered though born in
th-' country will die in town. Shall
our lust walk be through streets where
sobriety ami good order dominate, or grog
shops stench the air? Shall our last looks
be upon city halls xvhere justice r'igus.
oi- demagogues plot for the stlitting of ballot
boxes? Shall we sit for the last time in
some church where Go,’, is worshiped with
tin- contrite heart, or when' cold formalism
goes through unmeaning genuflexions? God
save th-' cities! Righteousness is life, in
iquity is death. Remember pi-'l nrcsqu-'.
terra'-'i'-l. templed, sculpturo-1, boastful, God
defying ami entombed Pompeii!
Bun<lles of Fun.
X ting com- -lv lias reached Ainer
i.-a in llle shape of a ■'»-> l»>." They may
In- carried in th-' pocket and there is no end
io ilu' fun piMmed. Laughter gov rns th-'
hour and a bundie of tun is this "lio I -o.
ity mail 10c. Bandit & Co., Box 21:1. Atlanta
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to n Correnpondent.
London. 0.-mlier 5. Tiie Telegraph's Berlin
correspi-mli'iit .ays fl at Prime Birnr.irek has
safferi'd a strokt* of paralysis and that J-e is .
an apathetic condition.
Bisiiiai eti Keturning Home.
Berlin, G-'tober (>.—-The I lamb irgische
---rrespomleiit today says that Prince Bis
marck will arrive at ITeidrichsruhe at 11
o'clock tomorrow night. In spite of th-'
lai-' hour at which the prin-'e will reach
his home the people of the village and his
vicinity will greet th-' great German states
man upon his arrival there. It is stated
that Dr. Schweninger, who accompanies
Prince Bismarck, will remain at the cas
tle with his distinguished patient for some
time.
liisiwurck Leaven Ki-lngcn.
Berlin. October 7. Bismar-k left Eis
ingen on a special train this morning. The
streets through wdii-li /he passe-1 were
crowded ami he was cheered continuously.
Indigestion; dizziness. Take Beecham’s Pills
Swept Away by the Flood.
London, October 2. Dispatches to The
Tinies from Paris say the delta of Tonkin was
entirely tlooded by u hurricane recently,
which swept a-va.v many dwellings’. A. num
ber of their occupants --scaped on rafts, hut
many were drowned. Tile vie.'ir apostolic lias
issued a pressing appeal for funds to avert,
famine, as the crops were ruined bv the hur
ricane.
GROWS WORSE DAILY
FEVEK AVPEARK IN IIALF A DOZEN
DIFFERENT FLACKS.
The Fever is Spreading from the Street to
Street and the Number of Cases Are
Daily Increasing—Latest Deport.
Brunswick, Ga„ October 2.—Twelve new
eases of yellow fever were reported today
as follows:
Infant of Blount Bowen. Mrs. Ward
land, Mary Lee Brock, Tim Hennepin.
Tiie name of lhe man reported yesterday as
unknown is J. A. Hill, of 1,498 Manslield
street. All the above are white.
Minerva Jackson, Mary Ferguson, Eva
Green, Alice Munroe, Emma Reed, Emma
Reed, all colored.
At St. Simons island two eases were re
ported, Miss Orilla Dart and her brother,
Eugene Dart. There are now four cases
on Jekyl island, two of which have been
reported to date. All are whit-' members
of the Talkerson family.
Recapitillation--Gases under treatment,
74: discharged, •"<>; -lied, 10; total. 122.
Two -leaths occurred today. One at 3
o’clock this afternoon, the infant of Blount
Bowen: ami one at 19:30 o’clock tonight,
.Miss Rosa Nisi, who was suffering from a
relapse.
Fever Takes a I’l-esli Hold.
Brunswick, Ga., October .”.—Three
deaths were officially reported today—Miss
Rosa Nisi, the infant, of Blount. Bowen ami
Mrs. Emma Willis, all white. Fifteen
new cases of yellow fever were reported
today as follows:
White—Miss Ella Ford. Willie Lucre,
Harold Morgan. Mrs. J. J. Speers. Fred
Winchester, Theo Johannessen, J. B.
Mock, relapsed.
Colored—Thomas Fisher, Elsey Camp
hielil. Sallie Winchester, Mary Reddish,
I’riscilla Reynolds, William Moore, Elbert
Robbins and Joseph ('arpenter.
The discharged were Murray Farlow,
Mary Nelson, .Mrs. Iverson Wallace, Wil
liam Winchester, all white, am) Wosl-'y
Highsmith, colored. Two of th-' -leaths
today reported were unofficially reported
by the correspondent last night . There
were three pliysicians. Surgeons Murray
ami Faget ami Dr. Hugh Burford, absent
from today’s meeting.
The correspondent is positive that there
are now seven cases of yellow fever un
der treatment on Jekyl island. Only five
have to date been re-ported to the health
board. Surgeon Faget is attending them,
r-iiort oi MipplicH.
Brunswick, Ga.. October 4. -There was
officially reported today one death. Tim Hen
nep-'ti, and sixteen new cases, as follows:
\\’hites—Thomas Larentzson, Dr. R. E.
L. Burford, Louis Walters. Mrs. 11. Ol
sen, S. B. Davis, Irene Wood, Alfred Mood
ami Deana Briggs.
There is now only one weeks' supply of
provisions on hand, and the demand for
relief is increasing. Th-' record books at
the commissary prove tiiat 99,522 three
day’s rations have been issued in thirty
six days, omitting Sundays, since lhe depot
has been opened. This means a total of
ISl.Nt’iti mt'als that have been supplied the
needy women am) children and does not in
clude the fever, medicine and free nursing
given the sick to be paid for by th-' relief
committee.
Not Ouite mi Muni.
Brunswick, Ga., October 5. Nine new
eases of yellow fever were officially report
ed lodav as follows:
Whit-’ Mrs. Theodore Johannessen,
Jekyl island.
Colored Maria Bowles, Joe Hill. John
Nells, Jack Morris, t trace-Gardner. <>• M.
Ellison and Alargie Ellison ami a child of
A. Whittaker on Jekyl island.
Ratio of mortality. 5.9 per cent, while
th-' death record is correct ami cannot,
by any reason be disputed and proves con
clusively th-' skill of Brunswick s practic
ing physicians.
I be Worst Day of Fever Yet.
Brunswick, Ga.. October <>. —Twenty-
six cases of yellow lever wen' re
ported toila.v ami one death, that of Mrs.
K. Talkerson, of Jekyl island. The new
patients are:
Whites Mrs. Bacon. E. I’. Lisle. Mrs.
11. M. Miller, Iverson Wallace, T. B.
Rennesat, Mr. C. Perrin. Mrs. C. Per
rin, T. E. Waff, Mrs. John War-1, W. B.
Moor-', Junius D. Abrams.
Colored—Byrl Edwards. Jack Maxwell,
George McDonald, J . Neal. E. T. Pittman,
Peter Dubignon. James Dubiguon, Blank
Wheeler ami wife. Reddick and wife,
Seeley, Charles Armstead, Mary Bowles.
Ihlrty Five New Cases.
Thirty-live new cases of yellow fever
ami one death were officially reported h-'re
lodav. Five patients were discharged.
The patient who died was Eugene Dart,
on St. Simon's island. The following is a
list of the new eases:
Whites —Henry Price. E. J. Perdue. Ja
cob H. Ott, Florence Ott. W. B. Malphrus,
Henry Cox-
Colored Henry Pinkney. Tina Allison,
A. R. Nelson. Jack Hackett. N. L. Nelson,
Sallie Hackett, John King. Racbea) Zant.
Frances Gasaway. Mingo Hawkins, Ame
lia Armstrong, Sheridan Armstrong. Agnes
Armstrong, Julia Smith. Evans Moseley.
Charles Kelly, Walter Campbell. Fannie
Berrini. Isaac Stevens. Alary Ferguson,
Charlotte Scott, AV. S. Bullock. Young
Buchanan. Houston Floyd. Josephine
ITartswell. Harris Moody. William Her
ring. Irving Cummings. Matti" Gordon.
Discharged Isaac Stevens. Alnrv Fergu
son. Mrs. Ward Lang. A. N. Wood ami
Mrs. A. N. Woo-1.
R-'cnnlt ida t ion— Cases under treatment.
121; discharged. 99: died, 19: total. 219;
ratio of mortality. 7.5 ner cent.
Eugene Dart, who died last night was
a son of Hon. Jacob E. Dart.
'i hirty-Two <.’:*««»« for Sunday.
Brunswick, Ga., October 8.- Thirty-two
cases of yellow fever wer-' reported today,
as foil ows;
Whites—Ed O'Brien, Rufus Raggsbee,
Miss Angeiia Ott.
Colore-i Julia-Williams, Jeff Martin. Em
-'line Latson, Clara Jenkins. Samuel Blake,
Malimla Jackson, Thomas Shcppar-I, Fran
cis Hopkins, Rose Lewis, Carrie Balden,
George Glenn, Alary Gamble, Alston
Grant, Ella Bowles, Hagar Dunham.
Washington French, William Flinn. Anna
Gibson, J. D. Feiuer, William Bailey, a
child of Charlotte Baker's, Rose Magwood,
Samuel Stump. Joe Linder, Jessie Barnes,
Willie Mills, llallie Humes.
Relapsed- Dick Holland, Nat Slewart.
Dis-'liarged Bimini Bowen. Jack .Mor
ris, Sallie Morris, Thomas Oliver, Miss
Fannie Brock, J. A. Hill and Fred Win
chester.
By comparing yesterday's report with
the official tile it was found that two col
ored patients named yesterday hail been
previously reported- The error occurred
by a change in the attending physician.
Thirty-three should have been reported
yesterday instead of tliirty-tive.
Yellow jack is catching the people right
ami left, at then - homes or at their post of
duly. Alex Pritchard, a well knoun po
liceman. was .stricken while walking ids
beat tonight on New Castle street. Whmi
th-' chill rati down his spine ami his bones
began to .'iche he could go no further ami
stopped on a nearby curbstone. Here he
sat ami suffered, no people walking the de
serted streets to note his condition and
lend him aid in getting Io his bed. After
lie had been in this position an hour Dr.
Hug’ll Burford passed on his rounds.
Pritchard attracted his attention ami Dr.
Burford soon sent him home in a carriage,
gave him medical attention and sent his
club to head-iuarters.
Savannah, Ga.,' October 2.—(Special.) -
Mayor Steele made a personal inspection
of the majority of the houses this morning
ami finds everything in a good sanitary
condition. Five suspicious cases being re
ported by Dr. Totten, Mayor Steel-' for
warded the following telegram to Surgeon
General Wyman at. Wtishington:
“Ail contagious cities have qiiarantin-'d
against us. On-' case is pronounced yel
low fever bv Surgeon Murray.
"Five eases reported here are reported
suspicious by loud physicians, but tin' pa
tients are eonvalesent. There is no ex
perienced physician here. The town is
panicky. Will you not detail an experienc
ed man to take charge of th-- situation here?
J- ii einir iron- Jesup.
Jesup. Ga., October 3. (Special.)—Surgeon
Murray arrived this morning on a special
train from Brunswick ami visited the suspici
ous enscs reported yesterday. He declares
them to be yellow fever. They are in four
parts of tiie town. Surgeon Slurray had a
special train to leave iliis afternoon at 4
o’eloek for Camp Detention.
Colonel J. W. Bennett was tile only pas
senger. A great many have left by private
conveyances. Tiie town is almost depopulated
by the white citizens. The town is panicky.
One l-entli at i-snp.
Jesuit. Ga.. October (’>. (Special.)—One death
resulted from yeilow fever today and there
was on-' suspicious case.
New Orleans Contributes 14:75.000.
New Orleans, lai., October S. This city lias
raised a relief fund of aboul .$75.<100 in ail. ami
sb aim rs, luggers, skiffs ami trains have been
sent in every direction to extend relief.
'l’ll-' only new development, is tiie intelli
gence from Bayou St. Amtreas. leading from
tiie Grand isle district, that there are a hun
dred deaths .along tiiat .section, making l.titiO
deaths between <'heniere mid Bayou t’ook.
A great many people are leaving their form
er homes i.n th-' storm-stricken section, and
coming lo New Orleans, but tile heroic Sla
vonians on Bayou t’ook ami Malays at Shell
beach, ami Si . Mai. say wlmt they want is
to recover ami repair their boats mid rebuild
their houses, and liny will bo aid-' to earn
a living ami pay back lhe money loaned. It
is safe now to" number the -leatlis at 2,(H>O
and over, tint tiie loss in properly will lie
many millions. It would Ink-' several hundred
thonsaind dollars to repair the shell road at
the resorts in lhe Mississippi sound.
TWO GIItLS MARRY.
11l the License the Groom was Set Down ns n
Man but Turned Out to be a Wnmnn
Toledo, 0., October 5. (Special.)—The
town of Toronto, Wa-hington comity, is ex
periencing a sensation out of the regular or
der. On Tuesday. W-T. Springer, ami uncle
of the bridegroom, procured a lieeuse tor
the marriage of Augustus (Jothell amt Alary
Brinkman, both of Toronto, and they were
married by Justice Whitcomb, 't he groom
is a native of lhe county and has always
worn female attire ami has gone by me
name of Sallie Stringer. Dr. J. M. Kel
ly, who was present at the birth, being
questioned, was non-committai as to the
sex. After the uncle had procured the li
cense, Rev. Mr. Weir, pastor ol lhe I’res
byterian church, came down to post; the
probate judge about, the case, saying that
('othen had been on his church roll as "Sal
lie Stringer.” and that, he would refuse to
tie tb<‘ knot if solicited to officiate at; tlm
wedding.
When Mr. Stringer made application; for
the license ho said that he always thought
"Sallie a. female.”
In lhe application, the age of Gothen was
given as t wenty-eight and the bride as twen
ty-one years. The bride is a native of
Quincy, 111., and became acquainted with
the Stringer woman or Gothen man. ait a
hospital in Columbus, where tiie bride was
a nurse while Gothen was under treatmojit.
The attachment which resulted in the mar
riage was formed there.
The Toronto authorities were searching
tiie statutes yesterday lo find a law provi
sion under which they could fore-' “Sallie”
or “Augustus" to prove his or her sex in
(I eir presence, ami last night a committee
of men waited on ('othen requesting him
or her to prove his sex before them, which
he need not hesitate to do if a male, but he
or she asked to be excused ami went up
stairs ami one of the visitors who followed,
returned presently ami announced that
"it." had fainted. Sallie Stringer was
agent for a Sil'libenville music holts-' in
'loronto v. here sb" was known as a. woman.
The a Hair promises to provoke a scandal
of serious proportions for Sallie had been
regarded, and treated as a woman by the
women of Toront**. some of them married.
She was very fond of females, lie or sh
ims no lieard ami the features are feminine,
so. if really a man. no difficulty would be
encountered in passing as a woman. The
people of Toronto were so worked up over
the matter that t'bis evening a party stir
rounded the house and sent for a physician,
who made an examination, and found the
groom was a female. The two expect to
leave shortly for St. Louis, where they will
hereafter reside.
t OTTON DINNERS THREATENED,
Some of the Alabama Ginners Die regard the
Notices.
t , Birmingham. Ala.. October 4.-(Special.)
Owners ami operators of Alabama cotton gins
are becoming mor-' an-l more frightened every
day. In several parts of the slate they have
been forbidden to gin cotton by seer-t n>
lives posted at. their gins ami threatened with
ii -e’mliarisui if they persist. tn Madison,
-'ourtlaiid ami Binb comities nearly all the
gins are idle. Tiie noticis read as follows;
“i'lense .Io not gin any more cot ton. We
have .struck for lb cents per pound. If you
"•in anv more you will be burned out.
' "SIIOTGI’N COMPANY.”
Resuming Work.
Huntsville. Aia., October s.—(Special.)
News reached here yesterday tiiat. the posted
gins, about twenty. In this county had re
smiled work. I'v.'irs <>t trouble uro siibsidtuir.
A very scnsatonal suit for damage for breadt
of marriage i-ontrac'l was brought this week
al Scottsboro, in 111-' adjoining county, by
Mrs. Agnes Enochs against M. A. -'lay. one
of the wealthiest men of north Alabama, who
is well known and highly esteemed.
Move Ginneries Posted.
Roanoke. Ala., October •">. (Special.) The
white caps have al last arrived in Randolph
county. Several of the ginneries were found
posted, among them I hose of W. W. Pittman.
.1 . F. Pittman, D AV. Barilett. John Still
and W. 1.. Lee. Ymtr correspondent lias in
terviewed most of tliem and they say they
have shut down their gins. Following is the
notice:
"The white e:q>s have come at last- No. S'b.
If you gin or haul any ni"re cotton you hid
as well tin at out your fodder and corn also.
Take warning.”
Most all of them were worded differently
in different handwritings. The in<>st e uiserva
tive eitizens think there is ground for fear.
in tile Birmingham District.
Birniingliatn. Ain., (leiober 5. In the hill
counties of north Alabama lhe conditions and
prohaiile yield of lhe cotton crop is on tiie
average, about lhe same as this li tr- la-c
year. The Tennessee valley ininui's will
probably yield 20 per rent nmre than 'nst
year. Tile weather e.mdi : i".'is are favoraiiie.
KEEPING il’ Ti l yOMBARDMERT.
Several of tiie Rebel t essels Damaged by the
3.and torts.
London, Oi'toilicr 2. The Brazilian lec.i
tion in this city today furnished the I niteil
I‘ress tin' following information, received
in dispatches from the governnietit at Rio
Jitiieiro, bearing date October Ist; "1
insurgent squadron, under eotnnmml of Ad
miral Mellos, is still in th-' bay of Rio
Janeiro, with its fighting elements weak
ened. Man- of of th-' crews
of the rebel warships arc deserting daily.
During the recent engagement between the
land forces and the fleet, th-' shore artil
lery damaged some of the rebel vessels.
Two steamers that attempted to land in
surtionts at Santos and on the island of
Santa Catharina, were repulsed. Tiie land
forces are united and loyal to th-' govern
ment. Public opinion is wholly opposed to
the insurgents.”
A dispatch receivefl by the Exchange T"l
--eiTa.ph says that Admiral Mellos. who
-'ommamls the insurgent Brazilian fleet,
yesterday reopened fire upon the forts de
fending the bay of Rio Janeiro. The dis
patch adds that the bombardment was
maintained without cessation throughout
th"-lav.
Provisions in Rio Janeiro are selling at
famine prices. Panic among the inhabit
ants again prevails.
ADMIRAL MEM O’S ORDERS.
He Declares liraviliun Forts Blockade<l-
Foreign Commanders Receive Detractions.
Rio de Janeiro. October I. — lhe cem
manders of the British. F rench. Italian.
American ami Portuguese men of war here
have received dispatches giving I hem dis
cretionary [lower to take such a-'iiou as i
may be necessary in order to prevent any
further attack on lhe city, which might
endanger the lives ami property of for
eign subjects. The commairlei's of jtie for
eign war vessels have already acted in this
sense bv informing Admiral de dell.. Pia
no attack upon Rio de Janeiro will be per
mitted. The German government atone
has refrained from Diking similar aeiion,
on th- 1 grounds that it does not desire io
interfere in a domestic quarrel.
'I L*> 'hatli ft.
Buenos Ayres, October 4.—The ports of
Rio de Janeiro and Santos are declared
blockaded by Admiral Mello. His object
is to cripple the trade -'1 the city to such
an extent as to force the surrender of Rio
<le Janeiro. Trade is paralyzed in conse
quence of the blockade and even the banks
are closed.
THE RED CROSS TAKES CHARGE.
Miss Clara Barton’s Message on Accepting;
t he Task.
.i.shiugton, October 2.—The following teJa<
gram —as receiv-'-l from Miss Clara Barton,
president of the American National Red Cross,
at Beaufort, S. C.:
llie Red Cross lias toiTay offieialiv accepted
aim assumed control of the relief of the sea
island sufferers, tendered two weeks ago bv
the governor ami committees of South Car.',-
f.!!r a '.,ni l,iS fusing, fee.ling, cloth-
ing and nursing of 30,000 people for eight
m'.’"' nii 'tm and
no ,uml btu the direct charity of the Anier
ai l ßeaufort, £ u £ Quarters ami address is
THEY ARE AtVoRiTaGATN.
Large Factories in Massacbnsetts Working
on Full Time.
illm\ U, ‘\Voom rl AI ( ’ ,SS ” The Ham
Ilion Woolen (.oinpany started un on full
tune today. Al! of the hands will m'w
of l wages? W ° lk ’ alth,JU * h ala reduction
( linton, Mass.. OHober .’! The lan
caster ginglmm mills resurm d full time"to'-
of-'l/pe!'‘cent h ‘
Lawrence Mass., October ,”> The Rv
mills start, .1 up'in
copon°mhis
started up on full time.
THE CHOLERA REPORT.
The Scourge Stilt Increasing in Italy—De
creasing at Hamburg.
Rome, (l.'tober 5.-Three new cases of
cholera ami five deaths W ere reported in
Leghorn yesterday. In P ; il Pl . ino thor „
were fourteen deaths an I no new eases
.Since September 20th there have been Bix
ty-eight cases of ebolera ami Ihirtv-pjght
deaths in the lunatic asylum at Nocera.
No New Cases nt Hamburg.
Hamburg, October ,>. -No fresh cases of
cholera, have developed in this citv in forty
eight hours.
Bundles of Kim.
_ A side-splitting eoinrily has rea.ti.'d Amer
tea m Illi' shape of i "11., i» o " Tliev nr.v
be earri.'.i in the pockel amt there is no end
to tiie inn [ir-xtm-ed. Laughter governs the
limn- and a bundle of fun is this "Do Do "
tty mail loc. Bandit Co., Box 243, Atlanta,
Bismarck’s St. Helena.
From The Bost on Transcript.
It is very probable that tiie latest dispatches
correctly describe Price Bismai"'k’s -endi
tion. He is seventy-eight, and has lived a
great deal. He has earried the weight of
empire on his shoulders and has borne up
under responsibilities only !t Titan could en
dure. There have been many statesmen of
the fiisf class win. liav** aitaiiied greater age
williout showing the physical impairment lie
exliil.its, Gladstom- being a familiar instance,
l.iil file task ot l.istnarck has been gr-w-ter in
llie demands it made even on his vi, -lity than
that of any other statesman of his time. He
always played for high stakes and loved haz
ardous risks. A coronet or a coffin were the
alternatives of his game of ambition. And
with all his intellectual and physical power,
hi* is not a man of eimugli nervous stamina to
pass unaffected tlirougii all the ordeals he has
subjected himself to. Like many men ~f
thought itn.l action, his nature is deepiv tina.-d
witli melancholy. He looks at life 'rhrougii
,*i black veil. N’or is tins sadness the sadness
of 01.1 age contemplating human mutability at
the suggestion of tin- twinges of failing nature.
Bismarck was in his mental prime when he
wrote to his wife that lint so? her and the
children he could have cast off life as readily
as a dirty shirt. To supply that vigor for
combat* tiiat cheerfulness gives unasked h.
used years ago to brace himself for a battle
in tiie reiehstag- by drinking champaign and
porter mixed, a compound that only a giant
could talk on, and compared with which the
insidious American cocktail sinks Int i inns
-•nous desuetude. Even this .stimulant could
not long aid tiie vitality that had been taxed
witli the creation of an empire.
Whether Bismarck dies soon, or is kept
alive for years by the mingled vigils of love
and science, tie will always be Bismarck, the
great, man, lo posterity. The “ex” may go
before the chancellor, but not before states
man in his ease. Napoleon, said at St. Hele
na. when informed that Ids captors would ad
dress him only as Genera! Bonaparte, that It
made no difference what they called him then
they could not change what he had been’
and tiie world would remember him Is Na
poleon. Bismarck is now undergoing his St.
Helena.
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