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PICKS THROWN DOWN.
COAL HIKERS WALK OUT AKD HOP
ALL OTHER OPERATIVES.
General Demand for ■an Increase —President
•Icßrlde Says That 31.000 .Men Are Out.
Every Man on His Own Resources.
Columbus, 0., April 21.—With the success
ful inauguration of the great miners’ strike
comes probably the chief difficulty that will
beset the managers in carrying it to a suc
cessful close. President Mcßride received
many requests from local assemblies
to be released from the order to strike, be
cause tne employing operators had agreed
to pay the wages demanded by the conven
ts :, and others asking what to do in case
tie k ;il operators accede to the terms of
t..e st i u;< rs.
Summarizing the special report he had
r< >...i ...id the dispatches in the even
li.' in w.-;> p.-rs, President Mcßride said
tin. ftemrg that 21,Wit men bad gone out.
■ 1‘ tit whose action he was somewhat in
doubt 1.0 t night. He was petti cUy satis
li. l will: tie situation. 'I am entnelj lU, ‘
liu nt.” Iv said, "of the ultimate success or
tl '\ tT:?'mVi k ”?mpleto understanding of the
Bit • torretiit i with a determination of
, the strike at whatever
. .>• t,. th. i«.-lv may accrue, is yidence
M Bi ide that the miners an pi e
pared to hold cut Lw months it need be
I-,ling to 1-resid-nt Mcßrides figures
132,V00 miners stopped work today.
Snr’n-field. 111., April 21.-Over 20,000 coal
n tiers'<d this state joined in the general
e-.T ke today. In t’.e northern holds _the
0r .;., v.-s gen-rally obeyed, nearly I.JW6
men being out already and sevial t.im.s
io t.iKe sun.iar action
•l i-.'iirow at meetings called for that pur
nose ’the U.O’O miners employed in mis,
. . nt'ral, di.-triet went out at noon, In the
southern Illinois fields the or.b r to quit
Work W.IS not 1., v-i to mix appreciable »x
--tet’t. hardly 1.000 miners laying down tneix
tools.
find )<> Effect in lowa.
Th ■ strike or-
I- th. tnited .Mine Workers of
. 1,, p. . ,11 too /, has not extended
to tiw ■■■•’*■ a miner- anil it is not beueved
e.eu in tliis s. eiion will join the move
.. ,-ni Comparatively few miners belong
, i n this state, and the c< im
-11,-.nd to • !». . the ref. ... has no effect on
r . ■ p . April 111 The coal mt
“l..'. /lie minis of I', il lewis &
y',.. s " -id to Ihe other ill n -s of the
'’ / '
■ Coal and Iron
. ik. > ‘ ' one ot
• . ,i n,,. o lived in many
- . ’.,f tiie Mississippi rivt r.
okeworkers t - Go Out-
Cor.nel'sville. April 22. Advices re-
r from al! parts ot the coKe
am-.-s that the gen ral
' ‘‘J kv th3
... -, \t miii'v of the coke plants
-i , r _ m.i go to w .rk tomorrow.
n- ' , i, . . th:"' In t .morrow evening
- . . , win in i.ne and that
. on' ent ion will or. I t
out on a strike.
• . i , the number of
. . ... ■ .ted to attend the
i ... ■ V . ..-I- Ui "I'tlon bi ini to vote
u . . ;; ,■ strike order issued by the
, . . ■: Ur.lt- 1 Mme Workers. Mes-
, ". .',7 - . v - -it rodtiv to all of the coke
i ..ff;. the nc n not to report fur
work tomorrow.
». iitiburr. Miners Go 3 ,! t-
Chattr.n.-.aa. Tenn., April 21.—(Special.)—
Th" e hundred min.-rs struck work at noon i
t.'.iai . t Rathburn. Tenn., owing to a re- ;
in w ige> A not ce p isted by the
i-.:,,.. 1 .ss. warning the men to return to ,
mon Ing, "■ a torn dow n and
| oti e put up by tii" strikers de- ,
c’.mmg thu’. they would stay out until their I
• were mot. Rathburn is twenty .
miles* north of this city, and its mines are :
i bi- th. Sod.lv Coal Company.
Il the mines in t he Chat
t ' ..'.-.I .listr- t will follow suit and a coal
. ... ; ... .eipimt..d. Most of the men |
I io th»‘ Knights of Labor or the
I mud .‘dine Workers.
Jellico Millers Strike Today.
I<. ..v V ii],. Tenn April 20.—(Special.)—The ,
n .- ■ ■ thi : m • It. tit .0 lb- and Kmituiky I
will xtrike tomoi.'.w at noun, two
x ‘j '-.Aj, ; th, .iel'l." ' district Will
b. involved, 'i'll • s.’-ixe is against a 20 per
cent redu tion in rates for mining.
11..-, ’friin.. April 21.—Tbere are from
lii - hundred to two thousand miners in
t <... .'. J Cr.-. k district, and the striking
mil - is at Jellico hi ve made stiong effot is
to g. t them to join in the strike which be-
- today -it noon. The C,.ai Creek
mmms in th -’ Black Diamond. Anderson |
.-. infv. .• nd other mines of the district met i
,dy t< lay and resolved that they j
n ,t in the proposed strike.
There was no difference between them and
their < and they are d< termined
to r. : ’ ail demands made upon them by
the strikers.
A BATTLE WITH I‘OLKS.
Detroit Police Kill Two strikers mil Wound
Several.
Detroit, Mieh, April IS.—Trouble has been
brewing betw. .n the water board and the
j’uii-h laborers engaged to lay the pipe ex
tensions east of the waterworks, near Con- i
iior's creek, four miles from the city, over
tne qiie.-iion ot wages fur some days. These
men Were quarrelsome and refused to go
to work themselves or allow any one else
to uo so, out no serious outbreak occurred.
At o’clock tills mornmg an angry look
ing mob began to gather at the scene, and
v.ieii i o’ciii. k arrived more than atio men,
, taxes a. ds pa ■ . were patroll
ing t.ic toad. 1 i-'ir poiiicmen were sworn i
m as deputy sherdts and a force of eighteen
In, n wile put to w'urk. The strikers tnreat
ei , i to 1. .i the lust man who dar.-d at
tempt to uv any work, and when one of
the m- n, nice daring man his f< How work
in-.;., jumpcif mio me ditch, lie was sav-
1.. as.-udlTd. The handful of deputies
red and the strikers were
iett m po setsioll lor the lime being. At 111
v ciocs. tne mob further armed itself With
y-iii vit Coiiins was telephoned for and
ene, taking with him half
7 . Atter i in irem e tn
. ~ ;.bout noun it was neciued
to at o. i . - >r the day, and tuen
1,;., - . . ame. Vvheii Jbmgmeer Williams
ei'en’i. - d to witlmraw his men pe-acetully
,ars became iunous and made an
, ton oi of the men. Sheriff Col- ■
ims i-i . v i me mob to <nsi>erse, threal
, ■ i.■ order was not obeyed. I
'. , ... tied, however, and I
cont ittack. Then Ihe shi riff or- I
tiled his action i
tn v. oris and med three shots from his
ji-i uivir in rapid sui-e. ssiuii.
'1 v. i a d i"i a volley from the I
( who i mptied their revolvers at the I
ud’wiui'.i.g mob. T.'.-i strikers were shot
g at least iifteen others are more
o , .. . ■.; t ously wound" I. This had a I
u-i i-itai zing effect on th. mob and it fell I
t’l.li e headquarters were notified, i
1., I a large force of policemen were hur- I
r i ( | to th scenes and all the ambulances I
jn > . city. The trouble commenced when i
Pin .'m. cr Williams gave the oiler for the ,
removal of the section pumps taken from i
i :n ,!l exiavation that I.ad been mane ,
i, i tl • end of the pipe line in preparation ■
for the work. As he spoke in English, I
j .. • 1 ■ mol lid ■ imprehend what 1
;. : . ■!. Si) Coilins stood near the <-x- I
<• . v:. t wi.h a deputy. The deputy spoke |
i told the mob that the water i
I il l i.ad giv.-n in, and that it only wished
1 ve its t Foreman Cathrey then
jumi < I nto the excavation and began tak
im- up the pumn.
<• : of the strikers yelled: ‘‘Are wo going i
: ‘.'Let rike t< geth r.”
At ti'.s speech there was a forward rush
‘ f th' : ik'-tf. who held their shovels and
pi< .1. t. <’; t’nrov was struck i blow on
1 ■ ■••••..1, whi knocked him to the bottom
<f t' "X:.v-ition. Sheriff Collins waved
hi- arms wildly and fairly shrieked to the
i back but his eff< >rt s wiire
v . . :o attention being paid to what lie
« . . Inst' id of retreating, he drew his
■ r aimed it point blank at the
crowd, li" ’ .1 throe shots as rapidly as
gger. Tie n a long
i n. '- i .-h'-v.T. -aised behind him, de
:. 'f’ly, and a corner of if pierced
] , I di. il • was v -ii"k again and again
n‘ ' -P r ''Adv fntallv inured. Foreman
Cathrey is a'so fatal!" injured.
waterworks police
v. s. :■)■.■.) I.■ cut. The two strikers killed
and all Ihe wounded are Poles. The
trouble i ' not yet over.
Hisxv (In* Trouble Beam n .
■i - • really began ye terday, when
T.' 'li ■; Williams, of the waterworks,
tcu-;:it t ■ Intromni'* a. system of paying the
run by tin 1 "ilii.- yard of < xopvrition instead
of a daily wage rate. The Polish laborers
md as i res lit the water
) : ■ ■ . rati ms. This
lauruing Engineer Williams and a small
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION ; ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. APRIL 23, 1894.
I force of men, accompanied by Sheriff Col
lins and live deputies, went to the scene of
yesterday’s disturbance to remove the city
water department tools. Thein the row be-
> Ban.
This afternoon and evening deputy sher
iffs scoured the Polish quarter for the riot
ers anu tonight fifty of the law breakers
had been gathered in. The corridors of the
t jail cell block were tilled with them. About
6 o'clock a group or Polanders gathered
about the jail and made ugly demonstra
tions. One of them was shot in the leg by
a deputy sheriu and was carted off to a
hospital. The crowd about the jaii, mostly
spectators, continued until midnight.
, The Polish quarter is, ail excitement to
night. A meeting was arranged in a Polish
1 hall for tonight from which it was declared
the Polanders would march to the jail and
I wreck it, but the police were watchful and
3 the meeting did not materialize.
THE GKEAT XOBTHEHX STRIKE.
1
It Is Spreading Over Minnesota—t’on-
> i’erenee of the Officials.
t St. Paul, Minn., April U.--With the ex
ception of the St. Paul, St. Cloud branch,
1 the Great Northern system is effectively
j tied up. The strike has now spread over
northern, central and Western Minnesota.
i President Hill, of the Great Northern;
President Samuel Hill of the Montana Cen-
■ tral; Vice President Clough, and General
’ i Counsel Grover, of the former road, were
in conference several hours today but de
‘ dined to give any information on the plea
tiiat publicity mi;,nt cause their plans to
miscarry. The situation is becoming hourly
! more complicated. The conductors, liri rien
and engiu'-ers. all brotherhood men, express
their willingness to go to work at once, but
in tiie same breath insist, that they will not
work with non-union men. This leaves the
company in a quandary which is not easii r
to solve than if it had to engage an entirely
new’ force.
A further complication has arisen. Tho
American liailway i nion, which is being
fought by the brotherhoods and the Gn it
Northern (' imp.my, has a tight on among
its own members. Vie< President Howard,
of the American Hailway I’nion, said this
even.ng la .t Hi" strike or. th" Minnesota
lines was premature, and that Hogan, the
organizer, had a.-ted hastily. The olluers
oi tiie eondu'-tors' and trainmen's brother
hoods have lormally declared against the
strike.
The Miners Preparing.
Columbus, (>.. April 17. At tho headquar
ters ot the I'mted .Mine Workers of .Ameri
ca here, preparations for the gn.it strike
ot next Sattird. y are being piisned n pidly.
By reports from the fifty organizers in the
ti< Id President John Mcßridgc estimates
; that th're will be 20H,iw men going out
l next Saturday.
■ The 1 ' -i"\\-i- .g citjpular was’sent out to
| all local unions today:
; "Miners, it is now or never, that the
! pow--r of I'oii; erted action on your part must
: do its work, i'ir ini r of home, famili
, and organmatmn: the. int 'rests of th..--coal
Had" and the prosperity < f ruining ■■ inimu
| mu s. d 'maud that you Ho your duty re
g.irdless of local and individu l interests.
1 " " ■ i ' a by newspaper re) no
more num rs, Inn apply to us for informa
tion. Aet promptly: net peaee.ibly; net in
tine wit.i your craftsmen; act to win better
wages and - oiidition. Py order of the ex
ecutive board.
<.n As -'MllDl'l. President.
P. M BKIDE. Secret,iry.”
The (treat Aorthern Strike.
Haul, Minn., April 21. -The Great
I Nori born has r.-s'anod tie ir tactics <,f cut
I ting and sidetracking trains today. The
scene ot their operations was Barnesville i
and Hi" sheriff ot Clay county refused to !
ulterior* .
Tonight’s indications point to a break be
tween Hie American P.;.:lwat I’nioa an I the
(.rent Northern officials ami tiie gradual
restoration ot traffic with brotherhood and
m w men with the assistar. e of I'mu d
i States marshals, sheriff's posses and the
; miht.a wherever the strikers manifest a
I imposition to break th • laws. Thirty d’epu
- ty marshals kept the St. Cloud strikers in
! a state ot quietude today.
j It es u n«]<»<|
mi Car,s, ’ a 'l B-lo Cure doesn't cure you.
The only reliable article on the market. [
; A trial order vid '-onvince .inv-'ne. Price
I prepaid, SH-. !■'. E, Ladd. I’. S agent 406 1
; Vest Fourteenth street, New York City. -
GRO\UR SEMIS A < HECK.
I Democratic < lubs Get n Hord of Ap- ■
proval and i'vnds from Him.
TAa- '.mgt'm, April 22.—The following let- i
I ter from President Cleveland to Hon. 1
I l ' !:a "‘-A’ '' :;i P*' Md.-nt if tn.. N ,
tional Association • ' .1 ’< moerat!-: Clubs, 13 I
"Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., |
April is, IX9l.—Hon. tTiamicey F. Black, •
President—My Dea: Sir: J have carefully i
read the communication lately placed in I
my hands, setting forth the future pur- I
poses and present needs of the National
Association of Democratic Clubs.
•'Tiie m-hlev*meats ■ f this organization !
I should b" familiar to all who ar« interested ,
I in the continuation of dem -ratic supremn- 1
I ey and should enlist the encouragement of !
those who appreciate the importance 01 ,
effective di n ul democratic '
doctrine.
"Your association has done much byway !
of educating our p-op’.e touching Hie par- i
tieular subjects which are recognized as i
belonging to the I but it
seems to me that its best service has been I
an enforcement ami demonstration ot the 1
truth that our party’ is best organized and ;
most powerful when it strives for prinei- j
pies instead of spoils, and tiiat it quickly i
responds to the stimulus supplied by an in- i
titaliment in the people’s cause.
‘‘Tliis acknowledgement of the important '
i services rendered to the advancement ot |
true democracy suggests that, the National i
Ass 1 iatioii oi' liemoeratic (Tubs and i-wry I
other democratic agency should labor un- j
ceasingly and earnestly to save our party
in this time of its power and rcsponsibili- !
ty. from the degredation ami disgrace of a ■
failure to redeem the pledges upon which '
our fellow countrymen entrusted us with 1
tiie control of their government.
"AU who are charged, on behalf of the |
democratic party, with the red'-mption of
1 these pledg.-s should now be impressively
reminded that, as we won our way to vic
tory under the banner of tariff reform, so
our insistance upon that principle is the
condition of our retention of tiie people’s
trust; and the fealty to party organization ,
demands tiie subordination oi individual
adv.Ullages and wi.-d'.es. and the putting
aside of pettv and Ignoble jealousies and
bickerings, when party principles and party ;
integrity and party existence are at stake. ,
"f cheeri’ullv enclose a. contra-
funds necessary to carry on the good work 1
of your organization, with a hearty wish I
for its continued success and usefulness. 1
Yours very truly, I
‘‘GROVER CLEVELAND. |
Every Man Should H'*a<l I bit
Ts any young, old or m ddle-aged man
Buffering from nervous debility, weakness,
lack of vigor from errors or excesses will
i enclose stamp to me I will send him the
1 prescription of a genuine certain cure Uee
lof cost. No humbug, no deception. Ad-
I dress Mr. Thomas Barnes, Marshall, Mich
KILLED BY AX EARTHRI IKE.
1 Great Loss of l.it’e and I’roperty
i Reported.
Athens. April 22.—Many reports from the
towns whi' h have suffered m .-i
I from the earthquakes of th" lasi two days
i were received lids afternoon and evening.
Th. loss of life and property is much great
-1 er than was at first supposed, in the Loerts I
I d! triet 129 persons are known to have been t
■ killed by falling walls, and many others
are missing. A palish church in I’roskino 1
i collapsed during the vespers and thirty
men and v. omen were killed outright, while |
■ E , V ( ral who were dug out aliv ■ fr >m the .
1 ruins are likely 1" dr. Ninety persons w. re |
1 buried in Hie ruins in Malesina and sixty
I of t’m-m were killed. The oth< rs may recov- |
er. In many towns whole households h ive 1
dis.ipp.ar.'l without leaving an mklmg ot ;
■ til, ir fat". In Manilla thirty-nine p> rnms ,
1 V - re kill' d bv filling timbers. Most ot Hi- m ,
I died within the w ills of, a church v. Imse I
roof fell in during’ service. AHimugh tin re j
has been a small loss of human life in 1
Athens mid its environs, the damage to 1
property lias b en emu' -'"'.is.
Iu IS5‘» •■/irmc .’.s /b-'O 'a't /7’OC/U‘l” were
Introduc'd, and th dr sncc.si as a cue lor
Coltls, Coughs, Asthma, aud Bronchitis has been
unparalleled.
Oil Works Born.
St. Louis, Mo., April 20.—Fire today in the
Crown Linseed Oil Works of the National
IJreeed oil <‘ompanv located at Sixteenth i
street and Clark avenue, destroyed the en- i
tire plant. Tne works have neeii < to.-- d .
m arly ever since they were I might by the
linseed < il company, but the loss on the ;
machinery and buildi.ig is J-llio.i.'i'J, about ,
tliix-e-quartcrs in.-tire*l. The wm-.-hotises ,
ha, been occupied recently by the Ryan ■
company, who had abou, jt’.O.eittl worth ot
w’l's't . tor* d therein Their loss is fully ;
civerc l bv insnrmu ". The Crown Linseed
Oil Company, of this city, memb rs of the
linseed oil trust, owned the property.
md
fflßKss
~ : B. M. oOLLE\ .M. I*
- A t lanta, Ca. O’Jicc 104} 2 Whitehall bi.
FAIREST OF THE FAIR.
DR. TALiiAGE DRAWS WORD PIC-'-
t\jRES OF CHRIST.
; I
Some Artists* Have Painted Him aa a Bru-
II nette and I Others a Blond with Va-
rious Expressions.
I
, i
Brooklyn, Apj’il 22.—Mrs. Prentiss’s hymn,
“.More Love to ‘Thee, () Christ,” was never
more effectively rendered than this morn
ing, by the thousands of voices in the
Brooklyn tabernacle, led on by organ and
- cornet, while W new vocabulary and fresh
‘ imagery. Dr. Talmage presented the gos
i pel. Tiie subject of the sermon was: "Fair- j
‘ cst of the Fair,” the text chosen being: '
; Solomon’s Song 6:16; “lie is altogether ,
lovely.”
The human race has during centuries been !
improving. For awhile it deflected and de
generated, and from all I can read, for ages
the whole tendency was towards barbar
ism. But under the ever-widening unu
di epening- influence of Christianity the ten
dency is now in the upward direction. The
physical appearance of tiie human race is :
7& per cent more attractive than in the six- I
t, '-nili, sevenieentli or eighteentli centuries. I
From the pictures on canvas and the faces ;
and forms in sculpture of those who were I
considered the grand looking men and the
attractive women of two hundred years
ago, 1 conclude the superiority of the men
i and women of our time. Such looking peo
ple of the past centuries as painting and
sculpture have pres, nted as line specimens
| of beauty and dignity, would be in our time
considered deformity and repulsiveness com
plete. The fact that many men and wo- i
men in antediluvian times \vere eight and
ten feet high tended to make the human
race obnoxious rather than winning. Such
portable mountains of human flesh did not '
add to Hie charms of tiie world.
■ But in no climate and in no age did there
ever appear any one who in jihyslcal at
l tractiveness could be compared to Him
; whom my text iKlebrates, thousands, ot ■
; years before He put .His infinite foot on
the hill back of Bethlehem. He was, ami .
is, altogether lovely. The physical appear- |
ance of Christ is, for the most part, an ar- I ,
tistic guess. Some writers declare him to | ■
have been a brunette or light complexion- |
•d. Si. John, of Damascus, writing eleven
hundred years ago, and ,-o much nearei;
i tua.-i ouis.-lves to ihe time- of ( nrisi, and
I hence with more likelihood of accurate tra-
I diti' ii, represents Him with beurit black
a.nd <-uijy, eyt-iirows joined together, aud
"yi'iiow "umplexioii, and long nngers like
His mother." An author writing lifte'.'ii
hunditu years ago represents Christ as a
blonde: "His hair tim color of wine arid ,
golden at tne root; straight and without
luster; but from the level of ihe ears curl- 1
ing and glossy, and divided down the cen
ter at'l tin fa hion of the Nazarenes.
His lurehead is ev>en and sniootn. His
face without blemish, and enehaneed by '
a tempered bloom; His countenance inge
nuous and kmd. Nose and mouili art m
no way faulty. His beard is lull, of the '
: .imo color as His hair, and ioi’Ked in
form; His eyes blue and extremely bril
liaiil." ,
.My opinion is it was a Jewish face. His ,
mother was a Jewess, and there is no wo
i ■ on earth mori.' : - an Him than ;
I .lewi.-ii w nnanhoo-l. Alas! that He lived so .
I long before the Daguerrean and photo- ‘
graphic arts were born, or we might have 1
known His exact f'-attif'. s. I know tiiat
sculpture and p.tinting were born long be
fore Christ, and they might have transfer- (
red from olden times to our times tiie tore
head, Hie nostril, tiie eye, tiie ill - "f our
Lord. Fhidias, the sculptor, put down his ; ;
chisel of enchantment live bundle.l years be- j
lore Christ came. Whj did not some one I 1
take up tiiat chisel, and give us tiie side ! !
face or full face of our Lord? .I'olygiiotus, | ‘
Hie painter, put down his pencil 400 years •
before Christ. Why did not some om- take
it up, and give us a.t least th" eye cl our
Lord, ii"- eye, that sovereign ot the face;
. 1 lion , sins, tin- literary artist who .-aw al
■ Heliopolis, J-'gypt, the strmge darkening .
of tii" lu-avi ns at the time of Christ’s cru-
i vltixiori near Jerusalem, ai. i nit knov.mg
i what it was, but describing it a- a peculiar ‘
; eclipse of Hi" sun, and saying. "Either the |
‘ Deity suffers or sympathizes with some •
' sufferer," that Dionysius i light have pm | '
! his pen to tii" work, and drawn Hie p? - I
trait of our Lord. Bui no! tiie line arts •
: Wire busy perpetuating the form and up- | ‘
| ;-Mr iII"" "oi 'll" pe.iga t;try, uiiiong n.!p' ' '
Cnrist ipp"'"'- .
: It was not until the fiftei th century, >r
! until more tii.in fourt- "ii hundred t ear- ;
I after Christ, ‘.hat tale ited painters at- J
i tempted by pencil to give us Hie id"U. ot J
i Christ’s I‘ttee. The (Diet ures beiore mac ■
l time were so offensive tiiat the council at
i Col.-tant inopl" foibade their ,-..hiliiii hi. imt J
i Leonardo Da. Vinci, in the tifteenth c< ntury, *
I pieseiited Christ's lace on two canvases, 1
I yet the one was a repulsive face, and the ‘
i other an effeniirate Hue. Raphael’s face 1
! of Christ is a weak face. Albert Durer’s
face "I Christ was a. savage lace. Titian’s J
face of Christ is an expressionless face. s
I Th" might!' ' l artists, either with pencil '
or chisel, have made signal failure in at- ’
i templing to giV" the foreh 'id, Hie cheek, ‘
I tiie ■ ye.- , the nostril, the mouth of our bless- *
Bill about his face 1 can tell you some- 1
I thing positive, and beyond oversy. t
! am sure il was a soulful lace. Tiie ta.ee is
i only Hie curtain of the soul. It v s mi- 1
i possible that a disposition like Christ’s
! should not have demonstrated itselt in its J
i piiv:".gnmiiy. Kindness as an occasional >
impulse may give no illumination to the t
features, but kindness as the lifelong, dom- '
! inant habit will produce attractiveness oi '
count'Hiance .m evriainly as Hi" slicing ot <
’ the sun produce.-- flowers. Children are ‘
! airald of a scowling or hard-visaged man. 1
, They cry out if In- proposes to take them, t
I If lie tries to caress them, he evokes a t
slap rather than a kiss. All mothers know i
' how hard it is to get their cliii lr' ii to go to. 1
I a man or woman of forbidding ap- 1
j p<.-a rance. But no sue "er did Christ 1
I appear in the domestic group than i
there was an infantile excitement, i
and the > oung sters began to stru
to get I '
could not hold Hie children back. "Stand i
back with those children!” scolded some of t
the disciples. I’erhaps tiie little ones may
I have been playing in tho dirt, and their ■
I faces may not hate been clean, or they may I
; not have been well clad, or the disciples may <
' hate thought Christ’s religion was a reii- <
| gioii chiefly for big folks. But Christ made <
th" infantile excitement still liv iier by His ’
I saying tiiat He liked children bolter than 1
i grown people, declaring. "Except ye liec'-'ine ■
' as a little child ye cannot enter into the
ui of • lod.” Alas', for I ■
' who do not like children. Thej had better '
I stay out of heaven, for 11m place is full ot
them. 'Tiiat, I. think, is otic reason why tiie j .
vast majority of the human ra.ee die mm- ‘
fam y. Cilirst is so fond of children tiiat He
takes them to Himself before the world has
time to despoil and harden them, and so ‘
they are* now at th" windows ol tiie palace
and on the doorsteps and playing on the '
gi'en. Sometimes Matthew, or Mark, or .
J.uke tells a story of Christ, and only one .
.. iis it, but Matthew, Murk and Luw all
join in that picture of Christ girdled by eliil
dreii, and I know by what occurred at that
l ine that Chi'Ll had a lace lull oi genian-
Not only was Christ altogether lovely in ;
His countenance, but loveij in His habits, .
J know, without being tol'i. tiiat the Lord
who mad ■ the rivers, and lakes, ami oceans, (
was cleanly in His appearance, lie disliked .
i tile disease o! leprosy, not only because it ‘
' was d.stressing, but because it was not ;
.. : His curative words were, "1 will; ,
be thou clean.” He declared Himself in (
; favor of thorough washing, and opposed to ;
! superficial wasning, wiien He denounced ’
tin* hypocrites lor making clean o ily "the i ,
' outside of tiie platter,” and He applauds ’ j
i H.s d.seipies by saying, "Now are ye clean,” I ,
and giving directions to those who fasted, ■ .
among other things, He says, "Wash thy J
! face;” and to a blind man wliom He was
I doctoring, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.”
i Ami He Himself actually washed the disei
• pies’ 1' et, 1 suppose not only to demonstrate
' ins own huniiLiy, but probably their feet
■ needed to be washed. The fact is, the Lord
I was a great ITiciid of water. 1 know mat
I Horn tiie fact that most of ihe world is
I water, lu. wiien f find Christ in such con
’ stant commendation of water, 1 know He
i was personally neat, although He mingled
much among very rough populations, and
touK such long journeys on ausiy high
ways. lie wore His hair long, according
to the custom of His land and time, but
neither trouble nor old age had thinned or
injured lus locks, which were never worn
shaggy or unkempt. ) ea, all His habits
of i . rsonal appearance were lovely.
I Sobriety was also an established habit of
i His life. In addition to the water, He drank
tiie juice of the grape. Win n at a wedding
' pm :', thi L'cveragc gave out. He made gal
' lons on gallons of grape juice, but it was as
; uniike v. hat tiie world makes in our time as
I healtll is dill' tent from disease, and as
; ca im i il a’ different from the parox
ysms of delirium tremens. There was 110
I stryelirine in that beverage, or logwood, or
1 nux vomica. Tiie tipplers and the sots who
now quote the wine-making in Cana of
Galilee us an excuse for the fiery and
daiiiii.; g beverug ■ of the nineteenth century I
forget tiiat. the wine at tiie New Testament >
wedding had two characteristics, tiie one
that the Lord made it, and tiie other ti.at
it was made out of water. Buy all you can
of that kind and drink it at. least three
times a day, and send a barrel of it around
to my cellar. You cannot make me bellve
that the blessed Christ W’ho went up and
down healing tiie sick, would create for
man that style of drink which is the cause
of disease more than all other causes com
bined; or that lie who calmed the maniacs
into their right mind, would create tiiat
stylo of dririK which does more than any
thing else to fill insane asylums; or that He
who was so helpful to the poor, would make
a style of drink that crowds the earth
with pauperism; or that He who came to
save the nations from sin, would create
a liquor that is the source of most, of the
crime that now stuffs the penitentiaries.
A lovely sobriety was written all over His
face, from the hairline of the forehead to
the bottom of tiie bearded chin.
Dmesticity was also His habit. Though
too poor to have a home of His own, lie
went out io spend the night at Bethany,
two or three miles’ walk from Jerusalem,
and over a rough and hdlly road that made
. it equal to six or seven ordinary miles, every
I morning and night going to and tro. 1
' would rather walk irom here to (‘ ntral
park, or walk from Edinburgh to Arthur's
i Seat, or in London clear around Hyde park,
i than to walk that road that Christ walited
twice a nay Horn Jerus.-.,<m to ihtaany.
But He liked the quietude of home life,
and He was lovely in His domesticity.
How lie enjoyed handing over tiie resur
rected boy to his mother, and the resur
rected girl to her father, and reconstruct
ing homesteads which disease or death was
; breaking up. As the song, “Home, Sweet
: Dome,” was written by a man who at tiiat
time had no home, so 1 Inina tii. uuum-. .a.->-
ness of Christ added to His appreciation of
domesticity.
Futhermore, He was lovely in His sypa
thies. Now, dropsy is a most distressing
complaint, it itmames, and swells, and tor
tures any limb or physical organ it touches.
As soon as a. ease of tiiat kind is submitted
to Christ, lie, without any use of diapho
retics, commands its cure. And what an eye
doctor He was for opening me long-closed
gates of sight to the blue of tiie sKy. and
the yellow of tiie flower, and the emerald
of the grass! What a Christ lie was. for
cooling lovers without so much ns a spoon
ful of febriiuge; and straightening crooked
backs without any pang of surgery; and
standing wnole enoirs of nius.c along the
silent galleries of a deaf ear; and giving
healthful nervous system to cataleptii s'
Sympathy! Ii" did not give them stoical
advice, of philosophize about the science ul
grief. He sal down and cried with tlieiu.
it is spoken o! us th;- shortest verse in the
Billie, lint to me it is about tiie longest
and grandest—" Jesus wept.” Ah! many of
us know ihe meaning of tiiat. When we
were in gi . .at trouble, some one came m
with volut'ie eonso.ation ami quoted seript
u,’b 1,1 a Sort oi Heartless way, and did not
help us at ;;11. But alter awnile some one
else came in aud without saving a Word
sat down and burst into a Hood of tears
at the sight of our woe and somehow it
helped us right away. Jesus wept." You
see, it v. as a. tie. ply-aitactied household,
tiiat ol .Mary and Marina aud Lazarus,
l iie father and mother were dead and tne
girls ib pended en tm-ir i.i otm-r. Lazarus
had said to them. "Now Alary, now Martha,
stop jour worrying, i wni take care of
.YOU. I will lie to you both lather and
mot her. Aly arm is strong. Girls, you can
depend on me!”
i.ul now Lazarus was sick; yea. Lazarus
was dead. Ail broken up, the sisters sit
disconsolate, and there is a knock at tin
door. "Come in,” says Martha. “Come in,”
says Mary. Christ entered and He just broke
down, it was too much for Him. He hail
been so often and so kindly entertained
in tiiat home beiore sieicness and death
devastated it, tiiat he chOKed up and simbed
aloud, and tiie tears trickled down
tne sad face of the sympatuetic
Cnrist. "Jesus Wept." V» uy do you not
try tiiat mode of heipmg? iou say, "I am
a nian of lew words,” or "1 am a woman
ot tew words.” \‘> fly, you dear sold, words
are not necessary, imitate your Lord, anu
go to those afflicted homes and cry wuh
mem.
John Murphy! Well, you did not know
him. Once wnen I was i i great bereave
ment he came to my house. Kind minis
ters of the gospel had come and talked
ui .iiitnuhy, and prayed with , me'and did
all tliey could to console m . But Jonn Mur
phy. oh" of the best friends 1 evo" had,
a big-souled, glorious Irishman, came in
and looked into my face, put out his broad
strong hand and sain not a word, but sat
down and cried with us. I am not enough
of a pnilosopner to say how it was, or
why it was, but somenow from door to
door, and from floor to ceiling, tiie room -
was filled with an all-pervading comlort.
"Jesus wept.”
1 think u.at is what m ikes Chirst such
a popular Christ. Tn re are so many who
want symputiiy. Ai.ss Fiske, tiie famous
Nestorian missionary, was in tne chapel
one day taiKing to the heathen, and she
was m very poor healtn anti so weak she
sat upon a mat white she talked, and ielt
tiie need es something lo lean against,
• fi it a woi a s. form
on me." She leaned a little, nut did not
want to be 100 cumbersome, whim tiie wo
man's voice said, "Lean hard, if you love
me, Jean hard.” And that makes Christ
so lovely, lie wants ail uie s.ca and trou
bled and weary to lean against Him, and
lie says, "Lean haul, if you love me. lean
hard.” Aye, lie is close by witn 11 is s> nipu*
tnetic heip. Hi-ney \ n-ars, the famous sol
dier and < hristian of the Crimean war. died
because wnen he was wounded ms regiment
was too far oft from tiie leni of supplies.
He was not mortally wounded, and n the
surgeon could otdy have gotten at the ban
dages and the medicines ne would have re
covered. So mueti ot human sympathy and
hop- fulness comes too .ate, out < mist i.-
always close by if we want Him and lias
all me medicines ready, and has eternal
lile lor. all who ask lor it. Sympathy!
Aye, JLe was lovely in Ills uoeiriiU’S. Self
sacrilice or me iniiei oi tne smtering ot
oim rs oy Bis own suffering. He was tiie
only physician that ever pioposed to erne
His patients by taking tli< ir disorders.
Self-saeritiee! And wnat did lie not give
up for others? Tne best climate m the uni
verse, th" air of heaven, lor tile wintry
weatiier of Palestine; a siiept rof unlimit
ed’ dominion for a prisoners box in an
earthly courtroom; a nasmng tiara lor a
crown of stinging brambles; a palace for
a cattle pen; a throne for a eross. Si-if
saerdice! \\ nat is more lovely ? Momers
dying lor their children down with scarlet
fever; railroad eug.neeis go.ng do,, n through
tne open urawocnige to save the tram;
lirnnen scon, lied to death trying lo in q>
s"U,e one down lile lau < r from me fourm
story of tiie consuming house; all these
put together only lamt and insulli'ieiit
similes by widen to illustrate the grander,
miglilier, fartner-reaening selt-sacrmee of
tne "Altogether Lovely.”
l>o \ uii wonder that the btory Hi;?
self-sacritice lias led hundreds of thousands
to die lor Him? Bi one scries ot persecu
tions over two hundred thousand were put
to deatli for Christ’s sake, i-’or Him Bian
dina was tied to a post and wild beasts
W( re let out upon her, ar.'l when lite con
tinued after tin- attack ol tooth and paw,
she was put in a net and that net contain
ing her was thrown to a wild bull, that
tossed her with its horns till life was
extinct. Ad i"i' Christ! Huguenots jl) in;;
for Christ! ii'igeii s dying for Chirst!
Tiie Vuudois living for Cnrist! rimithlieid
tires endured for Cnrist! The bones ot mar
tyrs, if distributed, would make a path ot
moidering life all around me earth. The
loveliness of tiie Savior's sacrifice lias in
spited all heroism, and all the martyrdom
of subsequent centuries. Christ has had
more min and women die foi‘ him than all
the other inhabitants of ail the ages have
had die for them. ,
Furthermore, He was lovely in his ser
mons. He knew when to begin, when to
stop, and just what to say. The longest
sermon He ever preached, so far as tne
Bible reports Him. namely, tiie sermon on
the mount, was about sixteen minutes in
delivery, at the ordinary rate ot' speech.
Dis longest prayer reported, commonly
called “The Lord's Prayer,” was about halt
a minute. Time them by your watch, and
you will find my estimate accurate. By
which 1 do not mean to say that sermons
ought to be only sitxeen minutes long.
Christ had such infinite power ot compres
sion tiiat He could put enough into His six
teen-minute sermon and His hall-minute
praver to keep all the following ages busy
in ’thought and action. No one but a
Christ could afford to pray or preach as
short as that, but He meant to teach us
compression.
At Selma, Ala., the other day, I was
shown a cotton press by which cotton was
put m such shape tiiat it occupied in trans
portation only one ear, where three cars
were formerly necessary; and one ship
win re tlii '-c ships had been required, and I
imagine tiiat we all need to compress our
sermons and our prayers into smaller ones.
And his sermons were so lovely for senti
ment and practicality, and simplicity, and
illustrations; the light ot a candle, tiie
ervstal of the salt; the cluck ot a hen for
her chickens; the hypocrite's dolorous phy
siognomv; tin* moth in the clothes closet;
the black wing of a raven: the snow bank
of white lilies; our extreme botheration
about the splinter of imperfection in some
one else’s character; the swine fed on the
pearls' wolves dramatizing sheep; and tiie
peroration made up of a cyclone in which
you hear the crash of tumbling houses un
wisely constructed. No tei-hnicalities; no
unfitting of hairs between north aud nortli
\vest side; no dogmatics; but a great
Christly throb of helpfulness. 1 do r not
wonder at Hie record which says: “When
he was come down from tiie mountain great
multitudes followed him.' They had but
one fault to find with His sermon; it was
too short. God hi-ll> all of min Christian
work to get down off our stilts, and realize
there is only one thing we have to do
tbere is the groat wound of the world's
,sin and sorrow, and here is the_grcat heal
ing plaster of the gospel. What you and
I want to do is to put tiie plaster on the
wound ' Al’ sufficient is this gospel if it
Is onlv applied. A minister preaching to
an audience of sailors concerning the ruin
I by sin and the rescue by the gospel, ac-
■ commodated himself to sailor vernacular,
■ and said: “This plank bears.” Many years
I after this preacher was called to see , a
dying sailor, and asked him about ms
hope, and got the suggestive reply, ‘This
plank bears.”
Yea, Christ was lovely in His chief life s
work. There were a thousand things tor
Him to do, but His great work was to get
our shipwrecked world out of the breakers.
That He came to do, and that He did; and
He did it in three years. He took thirty
years to prepare for that three years' ac
tivity. From twelve to thirty years of ago
we hear nothing of Him. That intervening
eighteen years I think He was in India.
But, He came back to Palestine and crowd
ed everything into three years: three win
ters-, three springs, three summers, three
autumns. Our life Is short, but would God
xve might see ho>.v much we could do in
three years. Concentration! Intensifica
tion! Three years of living for others!
Three years of self-sacrifice! Let us try it.
Aye! Christ was lovely in His demise.
He had a right that last hour to deal in
anathematization. Never had any ons
been so meanly treated. Cradle of straw
among goats and camels—tnat was the
world’s reception of Him! Rocky cliff,
witli hammers pounding spikes through
tortured nerves—that was the world's fare
well salutation! The slaughter of that
scene sometimes hides the loveliness of the
Sufferer.
Under the saturation of tears and blood
we sometimes fail to see the sweetest face
i of earth and heaven. Altogether lovely! Can
I coldest criticism find an unkind word he
i ever spoke; or an unkind action tiiat he ever
! performed, or an unkind thought that he
i ever harbored? What a marvel it is that
] all the nations of earth do not rise up in
. raptures of affection for Him! 1 must say
it here and now. 1 lift my right hand in
I solemn attestation. I love Him! and the
I grief of my life is that I do not love Him
l mon*. Is it an impertinence for me to ask,
i do you, my hearer -you. my reader, love
; Him? Has he become a part of your na
: tore? Have you committed your children
' on earth into His keeping, as your chil
dren in heaven are already in His bosom?
Has He done enough to win your confi
dence? Cun you trust Him, living and dy
ing, and forever” Is your back, or your
- face toward Him? Would you like to have
‘ His hand to guide you? His might to pro
' tect yon” His grace to comfort you? His
I sufferings to atone for you? His arms to
I you? His love to encircle you? His
Heaven to crown you?
Oh, that we might all have something of
tie* great German reformer's love for this
i ||ri;-‘t, which led him to say, "if any one
knocks at the door of my breast and says,
‘Who lives there?’ my reply is, ‘Jesus
Christ lives here, not Martin Luther.'
■Will it not b< grand if. wiien wo get
through this short and rugged road of life
we can go right up into His presence and
live with Him world without end? And if.
entering the gate of that heavenly city we
i should be so overwhelmed with our un
-1 worthiness on the one side, and the super
nal splendor on tho other sid", W" get a lit
tle bewildered, and should for a few mo
| ments be lost cm Hi ■ streets of gold, and
; among the burnished temples, and the
sapphire thrones, there would be plenty to
show us the way, and take us out of our
joyful bewilderment; and perhaps the wo
man of Nain would say, "Come, let me
take you to the Christ who raised my only
boy to life." And Martha would sny.
“Come, let me take you to the Christ who
• brought up my brother. Tgizarus, from the
I tomb.” And one of the disciples would say,
• “Come, let me take you to the Christ who
saved our sinking shin in the hurricane on
■■ v,,,i pant would say. “Come,
and let me lead you to the Christ for whom
I died on the road to Ostia.” And whol"
‘ groups or martyrs would say, ‘‘Come, let us
; show you tin* Christ for whom we rattled
| the chitin, and waded the floods, and dar d
, the fires." And our own glorified kindred
| would flock around us, saying, “VYe have
| been waiting a good while for you, but be
i fore we talk over oi l times, and we toll
i you of what we have enjoyed since we ha* e
' been here, and you tell us of what you ha . e
i suffered since we parted, come, come, let
i u; show yim Ihe greatest sight in all the
, place, the most resplendent throne, and
' upon it the mightiest conqueror, the exalta
tion of heaven, the theme of the immortals,
the altogether great, the altogether good,
the altogether fair, the altogether lovely!
Well, the delightful morn will come.
When mv dear Lord will bring me home,
And I shall see His face:
Then with my Savior, brotner, friend,
Ablest eternity IT! speno.
Triumphant in His grace.
Women with pile, colorless faces, who
feci weak and discouraged, will receive
i both mental and bodily vigor by using
) Farter’s Iron Bills, which are made for the
| blood, nerve:? and complexion.
i COXSIDiIRI.XG THE SILVER QUESTION.
i Mexico's ( nil for a Conference Will
Non- Awilit Action in Europe.
■ From Tiie Washington Post.
I The quiet effort undertaken by the Mexi
can government two months ago, as dis-
I closed at the time by an interview with
Minister Romero, to find, through its dip
lomatic representatives, what were the
prospects of reviving the international
monetary conference, and tie* implied
I threat contained therein tiiat Mexico and
I other American nations having a silver
1 standard might be unable to meet their
I oblisrations to Eur- pi-an bondholders if
that moral continued to be depreciated,
I seems nut lo navi been without results.
In this connection the official considera
! tion of Hie silver question !iy the Ger
man finanei:; 1 authorities lias doubtless had
its influences, and the call for a silver con
ference to meet in London May Ist, with
Hon. Arthur Balfour and others prominent
in opposition to tiie Rosebery cabinet, has
given Mexico and the other countries in
terested, considerable encouragement. Tiie
possibility tiiat the present British cabinet
will not last much longer than the date
upon which the London conference is ex
pected to adjourn, is thought to lend addi
tional significance to the announcement, on
good authority, that Lord Rosebery may
assent to the participation of India in the
‘titermitiurial conference tiiat will probably
i ue arranged by Germany.
This is exactly wnat Mexico has been
waiting for, as it relieves tiiat country of
the necessity for issuing the call to whi ii
ail the South aud Central American nations
had already signified their intention to
respond, for a meeting in tiie City of Mex
ico in August, Xor tiie purpose of taking
steps to prevent the furthv depreciation
of silver or, failing that, to render impossi
ble the further appreciation of bonds held
in couv.tries having the single gold standard.
This call is now in the hands of Mexican
diplomatic officials, ready for presentation
to the various governments, but it will now
be temporarily witlihe! 1 to await Ger
many's decision, upon the recommendation
of the imperial treasury officials, who ate
understood to have concluded their investi
gations. Very >n after Ma.*
confidently predicted, the silver question
will assume a favorable aspect throughout
the world..
City oi Mexico, April 15.- -There is no
truth in the report that the government
is apprehensive of a heavy importation of
American bar silver for coinage into
Mexican dollars, aud it intends to im
mediately place a duty on tiie entrance
of foreign silver. Should the importation
i become heavy, however, tiie government
| probably’ will take the matt r into serious
! consideration, as the miners here would
I bring strong pressure to bear for the
j protection of Mexican silver. It is not
i believed tli.it the American government
i would enter into negotiations for the
‘ coinage of Mexican dollars in American
i mints, and the matter is not regarded
here as serious. Public opinion condemns
the proposition. The only result would be
to deprive Mexico of her natural market
in Asia. China attempted to put the
dragon dollar into circulation with the
idea of driving out the Mexican dollar,
but her people would not accept the
Chinese dollar.
Today Hood's Sarsaparilla stands at the
head lit the medicine world, admired hi pros
perity and envied in merit b.v thousands of
l eor potitors. It has won success by its wou-
I derrul cure®.
They Raised it Racket.
I Meridian, Miss., April 20.—(Special.)—There
; was a strike among the employes in the
Racket store here today. Tiie employes
. claimed that one of the proprietors had not
treated them with proper respect, and all ,
I walked out.
M. Al. Muuck, wall paper, paints, shades,
picture frames. Samples sent Atlanta.
Lived to a Gooil (Hi! Age.
Hermosillo, Mexico, April 16.—A woman
named Regina I’reciado has just died at
Ures. in this state, aged one hundred and
thirty years. She was the mother of twen
ty-eight children.
JOHN B. GOUGH wrote; “For Sore
Throat, especially when tending to ulcera
tion, I have found Fond’s Extract very
; beneficial.”
Fire ia a Caaatlian Town.
i Huntsville, Ont., April 19.—A hotel, grist
mill, thirty-two business places, also an
Episcopal church, telegraph and telephone
offices, postoffice and the steamer Excelsior
burned today. Loss estimated at $120,000;
. insurance, SIO,OOO.
Beecham’s Fills are faithful friends.
I
Positively you
have the genuine
De Long Patent
Hook and Eye if you
see on the face and
back of every card
the words:
See that
hump ?"w|
Richardson ziNi
& 1)e Ix>ng Bros., xfciz
Philadelphia.
Mention The Constitution.
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I- . -
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I contests instituted for our subscribers.
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The prospective size of this year’s supply
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the probable size of the cotton crop of
1893-94—-the crop which is already harvest
ed and which is now being marketed. The
official announcement of the size of this
crop will be made about September 1, 1894,
and the figures accepted in determining this
contest will be those of the New Orleans
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The prizes will be awarded and
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i nin Prize.
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prize lur the fifth nearest guessur.
11112 CUJI±JL.3jL.
xue cuututiuus govermug this contest are
vety simple, lUUeeU. Lvut’j person >vm»
I sends ms own imine or any uiuer name,
ul a renewal, lur one year s sUuscriptiua to
> J-Jlv •)V et'Kiy Luusutuuuu win uv entitled
I lo make an esumale in tms contest.
lie can inane a guess lur every sub-
I Bcrioer scut, and the mimes so sent will
i also be entitled to a suusul’lbel’s guess,
j Thus, if a person sends us tne names of
i six subscribers, lie can make six guesses,
I uud each ol the names lie sends will bu
entitled to a guess, tie can send a guess
j with every udmiiumil subscriber.
AU clubbing subscriptions are entitled to
i participate in tins contest.
Every guesser is required to write hi»
1 name and addr -ss on a separate piece of
i paper, on which should be written his
i gu.-ss m legible figures.
No guess will be entered that is not
; accompanied by’ cash for the subscriptions
I senL
Ollier Crops.
In order that the guessers may havo a
fair insight into the statistics concerning
past cotton crops, we present herewith iu«
total crops from the year 1877 to 1891,
inclusive, as follows:
Year I Bales Year | Bales
1577 ... .1 4,485,423|i 1834 ... .1 5,714.052
.878 ... . ,| 4,811,205 I i" s •> •. . . 5,0G1<.’'21
187'J ... . .| 5,013,53111 ls ßt> .. ~| (>..,5'2:5
1880 ... .1 5.7 .‘J. !'^ s ‘ •• ••( s"‘lsti.’4
1881 .. . .1 6,58'J.32b 11 IwSj" ’’!
... .1 G‘.D2,‘2 I
18811 5,714,052 | | 1892| 6,700,365
THE CONTEST NOW OPEN
| A special clerk has been assigned to the
work ot compmug me thousands of guesses
that will be received in mis contest be
tween now and next September. Special
books have been prepared, by which careful
record will be kept tor every guess, so that
there will be no possible contusion in tno
■ award of the one thousand dollars which
The Constitution oilers, and which will bs
distributed in settlement of this contest.
I’he contest is now open, and every new
subscriber or renewal of a subscription is
entitled to >’ guess in accordance with thn
conditions above stated. It is not every
day that a paper gives away one thousand
dollars in one contest; but The Constitution
does tins to interest its readers. This is
but one of several contests that The Con
stitution will run during the coming year.
The contest above announced is the most
interesting that The Constitution has offer
•ed in a long time, and it is a splendid op
portunity for its subscribers to make a test
of their guessing ability.
BE SURE TO PUT YOUR GUESS ON
A SEPERATE PIECE OF PAPER AND
SIGN FULL NAME AND FOSTOFFICD
ADDRESS.