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THE FACE AND SOUL.
TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE CHAR
ACTERISTICS OF THE FEATURES.
Wisdom Maketh them to Shine—Everyone
Wants to be Agreeable—A Man's Life has
a Greatllnlluence on His Face.
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Brooklyn, February 25.—(Special.)—In the
Brooklyn tabernacle this forenoon Rev. Dr.
Talmage chose for the subject of his sermon
"The -Human Face,” and held his great
audience fascinated with the charm of his
eloquence, as he discoursed on a subject of
universal interest. The text was Ecclesias
tes 8: 1. "A man’s wisdom maketh his face
to shine and the boldness of his face shall
be changed,” or as it may be rendered, “the
sourness of his face shall be sweetened.”
Thus a little change in our English trans
lation brings out the better meaning of the
text, which sets forth that the character of
the face Is decided by the character of the
soul. The main features of our countenance
were decided by the Almighty, and we
cannot change them; but under God we de
cide whether we shall have countenances,
benignant or baleful, sour or sweet, wrath
ful or genial, benevolent or mean, honest or
scoundrelly, impudent or modest, cour
ageous or cowardly, frank or sneaking. In
all'the works of God there is nothing more
.wonderful than the human countenance.
Though the longest face is less than twelve
inches from the hair line ol the forehead
to the bottom of the chin, u.il the broadest
face is less than eight inches from
cheek bone to cheek bone, yet in that
Email compass God has wrought such
differences that the sixteen hundred mil
lion of the human race may be distinguished
from each other by their facial appearances.
The face is ordinarily the index ot char
acter. It is the throne of the emotions. It Is
the battlefield of the passions. It is the cata
logue of character. It is the map of the
mind. It is the geography of the soul. And
while the Lord decides before our birth
whether we shall be handsome or homely,
we are by the character we form deciding
whether our countenances shall be pleasant
or disagreeable. This is so much so that
some of the most beautiful faces are unat
tractive, because of their arrogance or their
/leecitfulncss, and some of the most rugged
Sir.d irregular features are attractive be
cause of the kindness that shines through
sickness, or scarifica
tion may veil the face so that it shall not
express the soul, but in the majority of
eases give me a deiibe*ite look at a. man’s
countenance and I will tell you whether ho
Is cynic i.r an optimist, whether he is a
miser or a philanthropist, whether he is
nob’e or ignominious, whether he is
good or ba-l. Our first impression of • man
or woman is generally the accurate impres
sion. You at the first glance make up
your mind that some man is unworthy of
your friendship, but afterwards by circum
stances being put into intimate
association with him, you come
to like him and trust him. Yet. stay
with him long enough, and you will be
compelled to return to your original esti
mate of his ch tractor, but it will be after
he has cheated you out of everything h
could lax his hands on. It is of
Coil’s mercy that we have these
outside indices of character. Phren-
ology is one index, and while it may
be carried to an absurd extent, there is no i
doubt that you can judge somewhat of a ■
man’s character by the shape of his head. ;
Palmistry is another index, and while it ■
r- u 0..,- i tb „ r.mciful necroman- ;
is first treated.
It is true that the old-time singing schoo '
was not only where the voice was < xpectei. I
to go through c< rtain maneuvers und- i ;
tht a man who wield d a tun-
ing fork and bore the title of singing mas- I
t»-r. but where amuseim nt ami recrcatior I
were sought f r and found. Csually the ;
church and the school were held in tin |
same little rough-built house, with its tin- i
conventional wo 'den benches, and this be
ing the case, ’he singing master did not |
hesitate to hold forth when the oceasiot
seem si most approprit te at r‘ .ti'/-' ''l-1101-
No om- ever knew jiist xvil social, and re-
< -i/ lXi’ lid of the Bible
' ■ pipe- ' t no science so reeogniz-
? /physiognomy, and nothing
,/' taken for granted than
,ne power of the soul to transfigure the
face. The Bible speaks of “the face of
Cod,” the “face of Jesus Christ.” the "face
of Esau.” the “face of Israel,” the “face of
Job.” the “face of the old man.” the
shining “face of Mi sos.” the wrathful "face
of Pharoah.” the ashes on the face of hu
miliation. the ressurectionary staff on the
face of the dead ehfld, the
hypocrites disfiguring their face,
and in my texf the Bible declares:
"A man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine
and the sourness of his face shall be sweet
ened.” If the Bible has so much to say
about physiognomy, we do not wonder that
the world has made it a study from the
early ages. In vain the English parlia
ment in the time of George 11. ordered
pubii. ly whipped and imprisoned those who
studied physiognomy. Intelligent people al
ways have studied it and always will study
It. The pens of Moses, and Joshua, and
Joli, and John, and Paul, as well as Ho
mer. and Hippocrates, and Galen, and Aris
totle. and Socrates, and Plato, and Lavati r
have been dipped into it. and whole libra
ries of wheat and chaff have been garneded
on this theme.
Now. what practical religion and eternal
use would I make of this subject? I am
going to show that while we are not re
sponsible for our features, the Lord Al
mighty having decided what they shall be
prenaturally. as the Psalmist declares when
he writes: “In my book all my members
were writti n which in continuance were
fashioned when as yet there was none of
them,” yet the character which under God
w.- form will chisel the face most mightily.
Every man would like to have been made in
appearance an Alci Jades, and every wo
man would like to have been made a Jo
sephine. We all want to be agreeable. Our
usefulness depends so much upon it that I
consider it import int and Christian for
every man and woman to lie as agreeable
as possible. The slouch, the sloven, the
man who does not care how he looks, all
such people lack equipment of usefulness.
A minister who has to throw a quid of
tobacco out of his mouth before he begins
to preach, or Christians with beard un
trimmel, making them look like wild
beasts e .me out of the lair, yea, unkempt,
uncombed, unwashed, disagreeable men or
women, are a hindrance tii. religion more
than a recommendation.
Now, my text suggests how we may, in
dependent of features, make ourselves
agreeable: “A man’s wisdom maketh his
face to shine and the sourness of his face
shall be sweetened.” Wiiat I say may come
too late for maw. Thefr countenance mav
by long years of hardness have been froz
en into stolidity; or by long years of cruel
behavior they may have Herodized all the
machinery of expression; or by long years
of avarice they may have been Shylocked
until their face is as hard as the precious
meta! they are haording. But I am in time
to help multitudes if the l/>nl will. That it
is possible to overcome disadvantages of
physiognomy was in this country mightily
illustrated by one whose life recently closed
after having served in the presidential cab
inet at Washington. By accident of fire
in childhood his face had been more pite
ously scarred than any human visage that .
1 ever saw. By hard study he rose from be
ing a poor boy to the very height of the
legal profession, ami when an attorney gen
eral forth - Untied States was needed he
entered the presidential cabinet. What a
ir'-nrtnh over destroyed human countenance!
J do not wonder that when an opposing at- ■
tornev in a Philadelphia courtroom cruelly
referred to his personal disgurement, Ben
jamin F. Brewster replied in these words:
• When T was a babe I was a beautiful blue
eyed child. I know this because my dear
mother told mo so; but 1 was one day play
ing with my sister, when her clothes took
fire, .'nd I ran to her relief, and saved her,
hut in doing so my clothes took fire, and
the fire was not put out until my face was
as black as the heart of the scoundrel who
has just now referred to my disfigurement.’’
Heroism conquering physical disabilities!
That scholarly regular features are not
necessary for making powerful impression,
witness Paul, who photographs himself as
in “bodily presence weak,” and George
Whitefield, whose eyes were struck with ,
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strabismus; and Alexander H. Stephens,
who sat with pale and sick face in inva
lid’s chair while he thrilled the American
congress with his eloquence; and thou
bi nds of invalid preachers, and Sabbath
school teachers, and Christian workers.
Aye, the most glorious Being the world
ever saw was foreseen by Isaiah who de
scribed his face bruised and gashed, and
scarified, and said of him, “His visage was
so marred more than any man.” So you see
that the loveliest face in the universe was
a scarred face.
And now 1 am going to tell you of some of
i the chisels that work for the disfiguration
or irradiation of the human countenance.
' One of the sharpest and most destructive of
> these chisels of the countenance is cynic
ism. That sours the disposition and then
sours the face. It gives a contemptuous curl
to the lip. It draws down the corners of the
mouth and inflates the nostril as with a
malodor. What David said in haste they
say in their deliberation: "All mon are
liars;” everything is going to ruin. All men
and women are bad, or going to be. So
ciety and the church arc on the down grade.
■ Tell .them of an act of benevolence, and
i they say he gave that to advertise himself.
■ They do not like the present fashion of
' hats for women, or of the coats for men.
I They are opposed to the administration,
; municipal, and state, and national. Some
how. food does not taste as it used to, and
I they wonder why there an- no poets, or
' orators, or preachers as when they were
i boys. Even Solomon, one ot’ the wisest,
I and. at one time, one of the worst men.
; falls in the pessimistic mood, and cries out
in the twenty-first chapter of Proverbs,
I “Who can find a virtuous woman?” if he
i had behaved himself better and kept in good
I associations, he would have not written that
i Interrogation point applying the scarcity of
good womanhood, Cynicism, if a habit, as
, it is with tens of thousands of people, writes
■ itself aii over the features; hence so many
I sour vissages all up and down the street,
up and down the church ami the world.
One good way to make the world wise is
to say it is worse. Let a depressed and fore
boding opinion of everything take posession
■ of you for twenty years, and you will be
■ a sight to behold. It is the chastisement of
God that when a min allows his heart to
' be cursed with cynicism his face becomes
I doomed and scowled and lachrymosed ami
I blasted with the same midnight.
But let Christian cheerfulness try its
! chisel upon a man’s countenance, heeling
I that ail things .are for his good, and that
i God rules, and that the Bible being true
the world's iloralization is rapidly approach
ing, and the day when beer mug, and demi
i john, ami distillery, and b imbshcll, and
rifle pit, and seventy-four pound, rs. ami
I roulette tallies, ami corrupt books, and sa-
I tunic printing press will have quit, work,
' the brightness that, comes from such autici
' pation not only gives zest to his work, but
I shines in his < yes and glows in his cheek
' and kindles a morning in his entire coun
tenance. Those are the faces 1 look lor in
I an audience. Those countenances ar. scc
, tions of millennial glory. They arc heaven
impersonated. They are the sculpturing of
God's right hand. They are hosannas in
human flesh. They are hallelujahs a-light- ,
cd. They art 1 Christ reincarnated. 1 do not j
care what your features are or whether
you look like your father, or your mother, ;
or look like no one under the heavens—to '
God and man you are beautiful. Michael ;
Angelo, the sculptor, visiting Florence, some ;
one showed him in a yard a piece of marble j
that was so shapeless it seemed of no use,
and Angelo was asked if he could make
anything out of it, and if so was told he
could own il. The artist took the marble,
and for nine months shut himself up to
work, first trying to make of it a statue of
David with his foot on Goliath, but the mar
ble was not quite long enough at. the base
to make the prostrate form of the giant,
and so the artist fashioned the marble
into another figure that is to be famous
MiiiwtO tint" because of its expressiveness,
ativeiy.c came in and was aslrnd by Angelo |
loos te ; criticism, and he said it was beauti- I
so the,,. tlie nose , ){ llie statue was not of
V i l l * l 'o- s hape. Angelo picked up from the j
lessor of n j?e sand and tossed it about the j
it Yet i't'wdi*l’t' 1 *,V‘ding he was using -
gle, in which the stronger was”lft’ e l n KUS .“ ;
the weaker, and the universal to sUcfo*lilP.*
the purely local. -,-iid the
It is possible that the ’’ i,',. .. '
who shfarn- k 11 1! at ’Y y
trie c.s,‘'the grace ot God comes to the
heart of a man or woman and then at
tempts to change a forbidding and prejudi
cial face into attractiveness. Perhaps the
face is most unpromising for the Divine
Sculptor. But. having changed the heart
it begins to work on the countenance with
I celestial chisel, and all the lineaments
: of the face puts a gladness and an expecta-
I tion that changes it from glory to glory,
j and though earthly criticism may disap-
I prove of this or that in the tippearanee of
! the face, Christ says of the newly created
j countenance that which Pilate said of Him
, "Behold the man!”
Here is another mighty chisel for the
. countenance, and you may call it revenge or
j hate or malevolence. This spirit having
' taken possession of the heart it encamps
; seven devils under the eyebrow’s. It puts
> cruelty into the compression of the lips.
I You can tell from the man's looks that he
: is pursuing some one and trying to get even
. with him. There are suggestions of Nero,
I and Robespierre, and Diocletian, and thumb-
I screws and racks all up and down the feat
ures. Infernal artists with murderers’ dag-
■ gers have been cutting away at that vis
i age. The revengeful heart has built its
I perdition n the revengeful countenance,
i Disfiguration of diabolic passion!
But here comes another chisel to shape
■ the countenance, and it is kindness. There
. came a moving' day, and into her soul niov
• ed the whole family of Christian graces,
1 with all the children and grandchildren,
■ and the command has come forth from
the heavens that that woman’s face shall
I be made to < ■ rrespond with her superb soul.
> Iler entire face from ear to ear becomes
; the canvas on which all the best artists
' of heaven begin to put their finest strokes,
| and on the small compass of that face are
put pictures of sunrise over the sea, and
angels of mercy going up and down lad-
I ders ail a-flash. and mountains of transfig
: uration and tioon-day in heaven. Kindness!
It is the most magnificent sculptor that
ever touched human countenance. No one
could wonder at the unusual geniality in
the face of William AVindom, secretary of
the treasury of the United States, after
seeing him at the New York banquet just
before he dropped dead, turning his wine
! glass upside down, saying: ”1 may by
I doing tiiis offend some, but by not doing
i I might damage many.” Be kind to your
i friends. Be kind to your enemies. Be kind
i to the young. Be kind to the old. B ■ kind
i to your rulers. Be kind to your servants.
I Be kind to your superiors. Be kind to your
inferiors. Be kind to your horse. Be kind
to your dog. Be kind to your cat. Morn
ing, noon and night be Kind and the effects
’ of it will bo written in the language of
I your face. That is the gospel of physiog-
•\ rfayonne merchant was in the south ot
Europe sot his health, and sitting on the
terrace one morning in. ills invalidism, he
saw a rider flung tr im a hors - into the
river, and without thinking of his own
weakness the merchant flung off his inva
lid’s gown and leaped into tile stream and
swam to the drowning man, and clutching
him as he was abou. to sink the last time.
bore him in safety to the bang, wnen glanc
ing into the face of the rescued man, he
cried. "My God! I have saved my own son!”
All kindness comes back to us in one way
or another; if not in any other way then
in your own face. Kindness! Show it to
others, for the time may come when you
will need it yourself. People laughed at the
lion because he spared the mouse that ran
over him. when by one motion of his paw
the monster could have crushed the insig
nificant disturber. But it was well that the
lion had mercy on the mouse, for one day
the lion was caught in a trap and roared
fearfully because he was held fast by ropes.
Then the mouse gnawed off the ropes and
let the lion go free. You may consider your
self a lion, but you cannot afford to despise
■_< mouse. When Abraham Lincoln par
doned a young soldier at the request of iiis
mother, the mother went down the stairs
of the white house saying. "They have lied
about the president’s being homely; he is
the handsomest man I ever saw.” All over
that president's rugged face was written
the kindness which he so well illustrated
when he said: "Some of our generals com
plained that I impair discipline anil sub
ordination in the army by my pardons and
respites, but it makes me rested after a
hard day's work if I can find a good excuse
for saving a man’s life and go to bed hap
■ pier as 1 think how joyous the signing of
my name will make him and his family.”
Kindness! It makes the face to shine while
life lasts, and after death puts a summer
sunset between’the still lips and the
smoothed hair, ..fiat makes me say some-1
times at obsequies, "She seems too beauti
ful to bury.”
But here comes another chisel, and its
name is hypocrisy. Christ with one terri
ble stroke in his sermon on the mount
described this character: “When we fast
be not as the hypocrites, of a sad conn- .
tennnee; for they disfigure their faces that
they may appear unto men to fast.” Hy
pocrisy h. str ng taken possession of the soul
it Immediately appears in the countenance.
Hypocrites are always solemn. They carry!
several country graveyards in their faces. 1
They are tearful when there is nothing to i
cry about, and in their prayers they catch
for their breath, and have such general,
dolefulness that they disgust young peopl
with religion. VVe had one of them in or- ’
of my churches. When he exhorted hit
always deplored the low state of religions
in other people, and when he prayed it was!
an attack of hysteria, and he went into a
paroxysm of ohs and ahs that seemed to,
demand resuscitation. lie went on in that*
way until we had to expel him from}
church for stealing the property entrusted $
to him as administrator, and for other vicesj
that 1 will not mention, ami he wrote mej
several letters not at al) complimentary.
from the west saying that he was daily
praying for my everlasting destruction. J
A man cannot have hypocrisy in his heart.’
without somehow showing it in his face.:
All intelligent people who witness it know i
ft is nothing but a dramatization.
Here comes another chisel, and that bo- ;
longs to the old-fashioned religion. It first
takes possession of the whole soul, washing !
out its sins by the blood of the Lamb and ’
starting heaven right there and then. This'
done, deep down in the heart Religion says:
"Now let me go tip into the windows
front gate of the face and set up some
signal tb it I have taken possession of this
castle. I will celebrate the victory by an
illumination that no one can mistake. I )
have made this man hanpy and now I will
make him look happy. I will draw the cor
ners of his mouth* as r /t up as they were
drawn down. I will take the contemptuous
curl .away from the lip and nostril. I will
make bis eves flash and his cheeks glow at
every mention of Christ and heaven. I will
make even the wrinkles of his face look
like furrows plowed for the harvests of joy.
I will make what we call the ‘crow’s feet’
around his temples suggestive that the dove.'
of peace has been alighting there.” There
may bo signs of trouble on that face, butj 1
they will be scars of campaigns won.
“Now.” says some one. “I know very good
people who have no such religion in their
faces.” My friend, the reason probably is
that they were not converted until late in
lit’--. Worldliness and sin had been at work
with their chisels on that face for thirty
or forty years, and grace, the divine
sculptress, has been busy with her chisel
only five or ten years. Do not be surprised
that Phidias and Greenough with their lino
chisels cannot in a short while remove all
the marks of the stonemason’s crowbar
which has been busy there for a long while
T say to all the young, if you would tav
sympathetic face, hopeful face, conrageou
face, cheerful face, kind face, at the emi
Host possible moment, by the grace of God
have planted in your soul : ympathy, and
hopo, and courage, and good cheer, am
kindness. No man ever indulged a graciot
feeling, or was moved by a righteous indis
nation, or was stirred by a benevolent in
pulse, but its effect was more or less ind.
rated in the countenance; while David it"
Heed the physio rnomic effect of a bad disp<
sitlon when bo said. “A wi ked man harden i
oth Ills face,” and Jeremiah must have no J
ticed it when he said of the cruel. "Tb.ex ‘
have made their faces harder than a rack.’’l
Oh, the power of the human face! 1 war
rant that you have known faces so magnet
ic and impressive that though they van
ished long ago they still hold you with ;
holy spell. How long since yottt child
went? "Well,” you say. “if she had lived
she would have been ten years obi nov
or twenty, or thlrtv years.” But does ty
that infant face still have tender suprerr. a
cy over your entire nature? During m' gt
an eventide does it not lock at you’?'
your dreams do you not see it? W*i” e ”
sanctifying, hallowing influence it ha;o' f ’f s ,
in your life. You can say in the wJ Ar
tlie poet: “Bettor to have loved gi 1
than never Io have loved at all 10
may have been a sister’s foe. '
she was the invalid of Ihe lamp 1 ®
she never wen; out except < th ß
days, and then she had to ’
the Stairs to the piazza. o- „
but she was so patient
it all. As that face Icae has th
the years withtwhat northern >
only i motion +ou aihern lam
father’s The n p.iyin,.
brightness ~f‘4he e. do i’
and the ear vbs till Jfc w “
hind it in order to / ither:
remember that face Sv "
xvere an artist you coitr ®'r
and it would mean to . ?
face that Rembrandt, eve?
face, though long ago veiled .
sight, is as plain in your memory’a
xon this moment saw it moving g ».
ward and backward in the rockiy
by the stove in the old farmhoti
xvas It your mother’s face? A goose
er’s face is never homelx to her tnci..-of
girls, li is a Madonna in the picture l ’ii>-
lery of the memory. What a sympath '
face it was! Did you ever have a joy am
that face did not respond to it? Did yo..
ever have a grief and no tears trickleu
down that maternal cheek? DM you over
do a bad thing and a shadow did not cross
it? Oh, it was a sweet face! The spectacles
xvith large, round glasses through which .
she looked at you. how sacredly they have
been kept in bureau or closet! Your moth
er’s face, your mother’s smile, your moth
er's tears! What an overpowering memory!
Though you have come on to mid-life, or old’
age, hoxx- you would like just once more to,
bury your face in her lap and have a good;
cry.
But I can tell you of a more sympathetic
and more tender and more loving face than '
any of the faces I have mentioned. “No.
you cannot,” says some one. I can and I
will. It is the face of Jesus Christ as he
xvas on eartn and is now in heaven. When
preparing my Life of Christ, entitled “From
Manger to Throne,” I ransacked the art
galleries and portfolios of the world to find -
a picture of our Savior’s face that might
be most expressive, and I saw it as Fran
cesco Eraneia painted it in the sixteenth
century, ai d as the emerald intaglio of the
sixth century presented, and as a fresco in
the catacombs near Rome preserved it. and
as Leonardo Da Vinci showed it in “The
Last Supper,” and 1 looked in the Louvre
and the Luxembourg, and the Vatican and
the Dresden, and the Berlin and Neapolitan
ami London galleries for the most inspiring
face of Christ, and many of the presenta
tions were wonderful for pathos and majes
ty, and power and execution: but although
I selected that by Ary Scheffer as in some
)• spects the most expressive, I felt as we
all feel, that our Christ has never yet been
presented, either in sculpture or painting,
and that xve xvill have to wait until we
rise to the upper palace, where xve shall
see Him as He is. What a gentle face it
must have been to induce the babes to
st ruggle cut of I heir mothers’arms into His
arms! What an expressive face it must
have been when one reproving look of it
threw stalwart Peter into a fit of tears!
What a pleading face it must have been
to lead the Psalmist in prayer to say of it.
“Look upon the face of Thine Anointed.”
What a sympathetic face it must have been
to encourage the sick woman who xvas be
yond any help from the doctors to touch
the hem of His garment! What a suffering
face it must have been when suspended on
tlie perpendicular and horizontal pieces of
the wood of ma rt vrdom.a nd His antagonists
slapped the pallid cheek with their rough
hands and befouled it with the saliva of
their blasphemous lips! What a tremendous
face it must have been to lead St. John
to describe it In the coming judgment as
scattering the universe when he says,
“Prom xvhose face the earth and the heav
en fled awav.”
Oh I’brist! Once the Nazarene, but now
the celestial! Once of cross, but. now of
throne’ < tnee crowned xvith stinging bram
ble, but now coronet"!! with the jewels of
ransomed empires! Turn on us Thy pardon
ing face and forgive us; Thy sympathetic
face a”d console us: Thy suffering face ami
have Thy atonement avail for us; Thy
omnipotent face and rescue us. Oh. what a
face! So scarred, so lacerated, so resplen
dent. so overwhelmingly glorious that the
seraphim pul wing to xving. and with their
eonioiuoil pinions keen off some of the lus
tre that is too m’ehtv oven for eyes cher
ubic or archanvelic: and vet this morning
turning upon ns with ” sheathed snlendor
like that with which Ho appeared when He
•m'd to ’ho mothers I’m-'hfnl about present
ing their children. “Suffer them to come.”
and to fbe poor xva’f of the street. “Neither
do I condemn tbe"t” and to the eves of the
blind beggar of the xv-iys’de, “Bo opened.”
T think mv Brother John, the returned for
eign missionary'. dying summer before last
at Bound ru'ook caught a glimnso of that
face of Christ tvhen m his living hour mv
brother said- “I •hall 1r sntl~fle<l when T
•••—ik" ’’’ Mis likeness ” And now unto
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;ÜBE HEWITT SCOLDS. II
’ |
-IE MAKES A SHOW OF Hl3t SERF AT ! i
A SOCIETY EINNER.
-’he Ohl Man Say* that Southern Statemnen
Are Pigmies-He Receives a Stunning
Rebuke from a Son of Virginia-
1 j New York. February 22.-What was m- ;
ended to be a celebration of Washington s >
iirthday tonight, on an elaborate scale, .
. ad been planned by the New Ymk south- ,
ijrn Society. Owing to strange mischame, ,
'however, many of the guests of honor ex- ,
hected did not put in their appearance at i
the annual banquet given at Sherry s. ■ >e
i’vpite these circumstances, the affair was a
Jfcuccess. , , -
The speakers invited included such, picai- (
'|nent persons as Secretary Carlisle, Speak- ,
pr of the House of Representatives < i isp.
Congressman John Alien, of Mississippi. t
and Isidor Rayner, of Maryland. < olone
ileorge B. McOiellan, the popular son oi |
the hero of Antietam, was also to have been ,
present to nave met the sons of the men ]
whom his father vanquished on that ta- ;
mous field, and atterwards extended in
right hand ol .ellowshfl. and. Urolnernoo . |
Uli these men accepted mvnations and i .m- ,
gressman Rayner had even sent a pcepa i |
• Carlisle, w’no was to have I
enon "NaUonal credit,’ al the last j
: sent, a lelegrarn to the eitecr that In. 1r ■
ence was required in Washington and that
it was impossible for mm to attend.
Next came the news tnat fepeaket ’ ri. p (
v.as unable to fie [.resent, in wrote uiai ,
when he accepted toe invitation la. •
peeled congress to adjourn oye. tin.
Holiday, but as no adjournment "as had
he could not leave Washington.
At the last moment the officers ol me
club began Io hustle for speakers to t:iK<.
the j.laees of the absentees. Congressman
Isidor ritrauss consented to take the place
oi Air. .Rayner and Postmaster Dayton, ol
this city, that of Colonel McClellan. J.lie
other speakers were President I htirlcs I ■•• •
shon. M. Verdery and James L. G' ll '"’"’
Among the guests "ere John A. McCall.
John Calhoun. A. Augustus Healy, Bins ;
t H. Roberts. Elihu Root, Gustav Schwab and |
Charles S. Whitney.
While President Deshon was speaking.
cx-Alayor Abram S. Hewit entered the ban- ■
queting hall. Be was asked to fill the place
of Secretary Carlisle, and responded to the
toast of "Ou: National Credit.”
After prefacing his remarks with < L <b
utc to Secretary Carlisle, he proceeded to
lay out me southern statesman.
“But the chareter of southern statesman
ship has uecreasea from the lime before the
vwar, and her senators and congressmen
,'of today are as pigmies compared with the
.intellectual giants of that time. The states
men of today show little signs of having
.studied the great economic questions al
’fecting the interests ot the countrj. the
question was at the very foundation
.of public, credit. It was du- to the adoption
of a currency not based upon tne intnns.c
lvalue of the coin that brought about tne
crisis. The difference between the
ftrue and false value of the silver oella. is
- ailed the seigniorage. Tin sotit.i wai s
1-,. coin this seigniorage. Ihey
try to coin a vacuum. it i.
Corse limn that. I’m trying to .oin a mg
ftiJive quantity on the othei -
3d..e thing the south wants to mam. It is
*nat public credit cannot be memtamedl '
?X.all concerned realize that 'lime is no
wor, a 1 eoneerneu ic.ioz...
' or , , I •„ value tnd that southern rep-
the height M the
the south m eong.c.h
l are other’ statesmen from the
ague < have succumb**'! to the lai acy
m v r in the supreme court - J the
/‘ states are local questions ,o be b- -
well to st (lenlau( i of local politicians, it
eats clay. iUl) posced that the supreme > ourl
carries wek.-esented the whole i nit d States
ideration 'everybody had a right io demand
ar practice, filled without regard to I’olitn s
. .Lu not <i footbnll for v. uwl
, damn a)wut fi . (un , )no t . n l
■ they chew .«. s to tlll . ~t h, Sueii men
COW gets ou'iton, Reeves anil i lawnnu
th more eagtned them high positions in
11 boy does a gone home in sack cloth
it may appear than abandon a principle
mbit From do a man without character or
t' if he its who had no rignl to speak for
too, if hi ha ic of N York.” At this point
the skinny s a among the
shaie, i. tl)js j lr Hewitt took not the
1 notice, but proceeded toask. Ate
Thl s > s s brave now than youi fathers were
in earl, ' years ago when they sacrifleed ewry
the b, they possessed to their conci* Jons,
unt,* t ’ y .,u \ v -q ailow your congressmen and
off mators to misrepresent both their country
wh‘d the south.”
oU-Rroceeding, Mr. Hewitt xxant on to praise
hthe Wilson tariff bill, particularly the pro
visions, which place iron and coal on the
“But It was in dealing xvith the tari-.f
ouistion” he said, “that southern repre
s’ ntatlves had displayed a lack ol int.lll
.•eii.-e away below t.ne standard ot the min
who preceded them. It xx is h. id to ex
plain this,” he said. “After the war many
southern men came north. J hose xxho n -
mained behind that had brains devoted
' themselves to business xvith a viexx "1 ic-
V raining their shattered lortu.ies. I os.-un,
I the remainder devoted themselves to pou-
1 tics
•I “The course of the i epresentatix;es m
» congress from the south could not be ex
plained simply by devotion to section tir
locality. It was the result ol gross ig
; norar ce. The 1 resent stagnant condition
I of trade was brought about by the siixei
I bill and the south solidly voted tor that
bill, thus making themsMves responsible
for this stagnation, and thus demonstrating
that there was no greater enemy of the
public interest than the tool who stepped
in where angels feared to tread.
The conclusion of Mr. Hewitts speech
was ree-dved in silence. The gauntlet thus
throxvn down was immediately taken up by
James Lvndsay Gordon, a young Nexv York
lawver of Virginian birth. He said:
■'With all du • deference to the opinion ol
i Mr. llewitt, I will venture to say that Hie
I men who stand in congress today from
the south are as true, pure, upright and
sincere in their convictions and as xvell
equipped, both morally and intellectually, as
any man there from the north, east or
'“ft is possible, nay even probable, that
the people in the north may be unable to
comprehend the influences that mold the
sentiments of the southern people. Those
of them who have voted for the silver bill
have done so xvith an eye to the advance
ment of their constituents ami the honor ot
the country at large. Nor must it be under
stood that southern statesmanship is at a
discount today. The treasury is guarded
l,v a southern man. The great navy of
line e Sam is being built under the direc
tion of a southern statesman. A southern
mm is in charge of the interior depart
ment and a southern man presides with
dignity and ability over the deliberation:,
house of representatives. A southern
i man great, pure and spotless—has been
I raised to the supceme court bench, and a
southern man is responsible for the m-w
tariff bill- This i>t the record of the men
of the sotith today. They are southerners;
they are statesmen, but above all, they are
American citizi'ns. '
HE GOES Dl l K HUNTING.
President Cleveland is Off for a Trip Down
the Carolina Coast.
1 Washington, February 2a. -President
I Cleveland sailed away from Washington
this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the lighthouse
| tender Violet for a duck shoot along the
' North Carolina coast. He was aecompani -I
by Secretary Gresham .and Captain Itobley
D. Evans, the naval secretary of the light
; house board. The Violet has been lying at
the Rich’s ice wharf at the foot of Seventh
street since Friday. Every arrangement
had been made for the trip and unusual se
crecy was obsetved concerning the inten
tions of the president.
This morning a heavy snoxvstorm strui k
Washington and it increased in intensity
i until, at the time the Violet sailed, the
| flakes were coming doxvn so fast and thick
1 that objects could hardly he seen tit a hun
dred yards’ distance. Tim snowstorm xvas
fairly blinding at 1:20 o'clock, when the
I president and party arrived at the wharf.
Dcseetidctl the Ladder !Xinibl>.
I The president went down the ladder in a
tvav that would have surprised the people
who had been calling him "a very sick
■ man," and waited at the bottom to assist
I the others. Then all three went into the
1 cabin and lit fresh cigars. A toot from
the engineer’s whistle followed by the east
' Ing off of the lines, and the Violet glid-.l
i away from the wharf with the piratical
' looking ensign of the lighthouse service
flying from the foremast, and the stars
tiid stripes from the stern. An hour after
tile Violet left’ Rich’s wharf, when the
-tassel was off Alexandria, a northwest
wind began to blow and gave a blinding
I force to the snow.
I The trip will last a week or ten days.
Secretary Lamont, who was asked to join
the party, decided at the last moment not
to go. .
Anxious to
The president’s trip has been in con
templation for a. vi eeK o: h |O ‘ •, ’ i
vate conversation with fnemls, he■ nas m t ,
hesitated to express only hr.- 1 . 'p. i
with the present aspect 1
cress and el. ewhcre, and lus 1,1 , J' ~I
away for a time from his '■
viroiinn , iit , < anR to wii I eovhl t'>l- '
could reach him and "‘V.; 1 ’: o !^troim’tf rms I
low him He has ; n ~n jmpor- i
Os the lack of unity disput ed on a n > ( )
taut party qiwsttons In • ma <() bim
the senate on the t.nif. >n • mom
source 'if much ‘,' on /g' rn ’, l ,Tmocrats o's the
determination ot the <1 m > silver
House to foree the -oinw’ " '.b-eat un
seigr.iorage has also giten hm n
easiness.
i IGHIING AT RIO-
Dll <.’am:< H>n» it Hot ami Heavy with the
l ort* lUHi Holds His Own.
iv.hriniiv “1 via Monte-
Rio de Janeiro, l ebruni.s -i. xi<
video, February 25.—<’ opyrignt,
tfic United Press.l—The insurgent G'lisei
R- publico, with Adnii-al de <m bmi d,
was off the bar ".;. n p l( .n
She exchanged shots with the •_,< v> ■ n '""
forts and signals with Admiral da. ■
>his morning the insurgent
I warship Aquioahan saih-i
i eminent search light reveah I ne: L.f
--! 'ibni’t two mih’S from the I’oriS. • yo<
1 wire sent "p from the government posi
-1 tions and within u ’" tb<
' been opened trom all the guns along
' ‘ n As l the Aquidaban adwineed.
I creased. She returned t V hr<‘
assisted bv Fort \ illegalglion. "ni n
■ turned’ on all its guns as the warship "<m
1 ’Xek wbh many
several shells f-ll in the “Uy. but did no
’’'An’b.s’i'mmnToflieer told the Vmted Press
govermmnt fleet. The '''reueh steamshil.
Portugal which has .lust f-rrtved n I ,
me” Vim Repubfi. a, and " ,th
'
i rl A l dmiral’da Gama.. "itl>
! * t^lt wnming 1 ground
slowly in the southv r ’i piovinc’ >•
—
iiiLL WILL XOT Kt V-
The Senator Thinks Governor Flower
WSII Stnn<! for R<‘-I'3le<*i ion»
Ams; rdam. N. Y„ February - 5 --Senator
[J.vid B. tlill has written a private letter
to the editor of The Morning Sentinel, saj
! ’ng that he was not and would not be, a.
| gubernatorial candidate this year. At tne
I same time, lie expressed lus belie, dial
' Governor Flower would be renominated.
J H E DEATH HOI,B.
New York Febrnar’". 25. —diaries N <
I cv sheriff of New York county, died to
night of pneumonia it his residence,
Prince street. He has been confined to
his home by an attack of pneumonia, "Inch
j in- contracted ’wo weeks ago
1 i New York. February 2a- < Mlonel John
1 llucer, a distinguished member ol an old
southern family, died at his late residence,
’ r 0,7 Fifth avenue, yesterday morning. Colo
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’ ‘"ills father was Judge ’’ tniel Eliio’-' Huger.
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