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DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
through Tin: press he rtwrisn-
ES AX INTERESTING DISCOURSE.
“Laughter” forms the Subject of His Ser
mon —The Parts of the Bible the Skep
tics Would Have Thrown Out.
Brooklyn, July 15.—Rev. Dr. Talmage, who
Is now in Austria on his round-the-world
journey, has selected as the subject for his
sermon through the press today, “Daugh
ter,” the text being taken from Psalms
cxxvi:2: “Inen was our mouth tilled with
laughter,” and Psalms ii:4: “He that sitteth
in the heavens shall laugh.
Thirty-eight times does the Bible make
reference to this confirmation of the feat
ures ami quick expulsion of breath which
we call laughter. Sometimes it is born of
the sunshine and sometimes the midnight.
Sometimes it stirs the sympathies of angels
and sometimes the achinnation of devils.
All healthy people laugh. Whether it
pleases the Lord or displeases Him; that
depends upon when we laugh and at what
we laugh. Aly theme today is the laughter
of the Bible, namely: Sarah’s laugh, or that
of scepticism; David’s laugh, or that o
spiritual exultation; the fool’s laugh, or that
of sinful merriment; God's laugh, or that of
ir, : He condemnation; heaven’s laugh, or
that of eternal triumph.
Scene: An oriental tent; the occupants,
old Abraham and Sarah, perhaps wrinkled
and decrepit. Their three guests are three
at: els—the Lord Almighty one of them. In
return for the hospitality shown by the old
people God promises jfarah that she shall
I the ancestress of the Lord Jesus
Ci rist. Sarah laughs in the face of God,
idle does not believe it. She denies it. She
i„. "I didn’t laugh.’’ Then God retorted
with an unit basis that silenced all disputa-
W ... ■ LOU didst laugh.” My frit n is,
ti: lam h of scepticism, in all ages, is only
I ih’s laughter. God say 3 He
will accom ish a t hing; and men say it
. . A great multitude laugh at
th, min des. Th< j sty they are contrary
to the laws of nature. What is a law o.
u. . sit is God's way of uomg a thing.
ross a river at one ferry,
change for one day, and
yo' go iieii.’.i another ferry. You made the
you not th. rig hi to change it I
. »me in at th.it door oi the
, . ose mat next Sabbath you
; In . come in at th other door? It is
Have you not a right
, . a law oi nature is
G'_ 1 s ;..il it -! 1 ■ way of doing things.
If l! • i.-ia.ies the iaw, has He not a
i i. to i-'rerze it at any time he wants to
foi thi foil./ oi <hose
v. God u en lie says: i x.iii
.. ... : lings “You can’t
oa it.' God - .ys that the Bible is true—
ail true. Bishop Colenso laughs;
ji, ... ,ip eneer laughs; Stuart Mill laughs;
G -man universities laugh; Harvard
~ i: t'iiy! A great many of the
; iu- i: nions with long rows of pro
l on th< nee between <lhris
, laugh softly. They
s i “W • didn't laugh.” That was
b i's trick. God thunders from the
j v. , “But thou didst laugh.” The
.i' of 11 : ’i w.i only a fable. There
. was any ark built; or if it was built,
i va- too small to have two of every
ic. The pillar • t lire by night was only
a. them lights. The ten plagues of
v . only a brilliant specimen of jtig
. Tiie sea pTied, because the wind
VI .. violently a great while from one di
rt a. The sun and moon did not put
: i<:.is- ’v<s out of the way of Joshua.
.. I ■ i> was only horizontal and
j <•) ’.ids. Tiie d. straying angel
unit;; , tlm first-born in Egypt was only
clioh a infantum become epidemic. The
pail t . f the whale, by positive measure
ut. too small to swallow a prophet,
'r . ■ ■ <-f i!i.‘ immaculate conception a
j. ■ k t i nil decency. Th. lame, the dumb,
I. . . tie; halt, cured by mere human
: ■ y. Tne resurrection of Christ's
tri nd, nly a beautiful tableau; Christ,
a i Lazar is, and Mary, ami .Martha acting
their j ris w. 11. My friends, there is not
g, doctrine or statement of God’s holy
word th it has been derided by the scepti
cism of ihtj.day. I take up this book ot
jlhig .1 in'es's translation. I consider it a
peri.- t • Bihte; but here are sceptics who
w .nt it torn to pieces. And now, with this
1 i.in my band, let me tear out all those
p .ti ns which the scepticism of this day
.. is shall be torn out. What shall go
lir. t? "W. 11,” says some one in the au
■ i . e, “lake out all that about the ere
ction, and about the first settlement of
, ... <; mesis. “Now,”
i\ s ;om one, “take out all that about
. ! n >e of the chil Iren of
J: t i 1 in the wilderness.” Away goes Exo
. “Now,'’ says some one else in the
ai. li. ice, “ here are things in Deuterono
my and Kings that are not lit to be read.”
.. >my and ihe Kings,
“laivv.” sa. s some one, “the Book of Job
is a 'a! I" that ought to come out.” Away
gra-3 to Book of Job. “Now,” says some
uie, “tlios ■ passages in the New Testa
n. nt which imply the divinity of Jesus
•ome out.” Away go the
Evangelists. “Now,” says some one, “the
Hoi iv prep<isterous I it
Ti -eats a man with the moon under his
1 • ; ami a sharp sword in his hand.”
B ok of Revelation. Now
pi - :> few pieces left. What shall
, with th‘-m? “O,” says some man in
, “I don’t believe a word in
1>... i;ib!>-, fr >m one end to the other.”
Weil, It is all gone. Now you have put out
the nations. Now it is
- >, ->i darkness of eternal midnight.
Hov do y u like it?
But I think, my friends, we had better
. P tin i;ible a little longer intact. It has
j .. p-. tty well for a good many years,
iv-.. . . a!( . o jj people who find it a
; :,.:..ri to have it on their laps, and chil
in it. Let us keep it
mj how. If the Bible is to
t he school, and out of thq
court ro nn, so that men no more swear by
it, ar. I it is to be put in a dark corridor of
the ci. library, the Koran oh one side and
r ~f Confucius on the other,
ti. i let i. each one keep a copy for him-
ht have trouble, and we
v, ~1 want to be under the delusions of
< iso'i ’.ions; and we might die, and we
;■ 1 tsion of tli" exalted
G r h t hand, which it
n i ti-ms. < >’. what an awful thing it is to
face, and hurl His revela
t n k at Him. After awhile the day
will ‘. omo when they -will say they did not
~ n all the hyp< rcriticisms, all
t and ..'1 the learned sneers
I art< rly Reviews,” will be brought
to judgment; and amid the rocking of
everything b neath, ami amid the flaming
hing above, God wil 1 thunder:
“But thou didst laugh!” I think the most
fascinating laughter at Christianity I ever
remember was a man in New England. He
jn.i'ie the word of God seem ridiculous,
ai d he laughed on at our holy religion
until he came to die, and then he said:
ias Iteei. a failure—a failure do
mestically; 1 have no children; a failure
socially, for I am treated in the streets
Jil a pirate; a failure professionally, be
c.:tis • I know but one minister that had
e.d .etc i my sentiments.” For a quarter of
a. century he laughed at Christianity; and
t-v< r sin-e Christianity has been laughing
at him. Now, it is a mean thing to go into
8 man’s house and steal his goods; but I
- ;i you lite most gigantic burglary ever
. 1 j s the proposition to steal these
-u.-es of our holy religion. The mean
e ; :l • r ever uttered is the laugh of
1 a b laughter mentioned in the Bible
, .. hter, or the expression of
exultation. “Then was our mouth
j i laughter.” He got very much
.j'.’-v-L titn s; but there are other chap-
, ; r four or five times he calls
0 ...... ; ... people to praise ana exult. It was
the lips; it was a dem
that took hold of his whole phys
j,. i . “Then was our mouth filled with
l a ‘ ug . My friends, this world will never
b' c*>nv rted to God until Christians cry
g and laugh and sing more. The horiuts
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA., MONDAY. JULY IG. 1894.
are a poor bait. If people are to be per
suaded to adopt our holy religion, it will be
because they have made up their minds it
is a happy religion. They don’t like a mor
bid Christianity. I know there are morbid
people who enjoy a funeral. They come
early to see the friends take leave of the
corpse, and they steal a ride to the ceme
tery, but all healthy people enjoy a wed
ding better than they do a burial. Now,
you make the religion of Christ sepulchral
and hearselike and you make it repulsive.
I say plant the rose of Sharon along the
church walks and columbine to clamor
over the church wall, and have a smile on
the lip and have the mouth filled with
holy laughter. There is no man in the
world except the Christian that has a right
to feel an untrammelled glee. He is prom
ised everything is to be for the best here,
and he is on the way to a delight which will
take all the processions with palm branches
and all the orchestras harped and cym
balled and trumpeted to express. “O,” you
say, “I have so much trouble.” Have you
more trouble than Paul had? What does he
say? “Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing.
Poor, yet making many rich. Having noth
ing, yet possessing all things.” The merri
est laugh I think I ever heard has been
in the sick room of God’s dear children.
When Theodosius was put upon the rack
he suffered very great torture at the
first. Somebody asked him how ho en
dured all that pain on the rack. He re
plied: “When I was first put on the rack I
suffered a great deal, but very soon a young
man in white stood by my side, and, with
a soft and comfortable handkerchief, he
wiped the sweat from my brow, and my
pains were relieved; it was a punishment
for me to get from the rack, because
when the pain was all gone the angel was
gone.” O, rejoice evermore. You know how
it is in the army—an army encampment.
If today news comes that our side has
had a. defeat and tomorrow another portion
of the tidings conx-s saying we have had
another defeat, it demoralizes all the host.
But if the news comes of victory today and
victory tomorrow the whole army is im
passioned for the contest. Now, in the
kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, report
fewer defeats; tell us the victories—victory
over sin and death and hell. Rejoice ever
more, and again I say rejoice. I believe
there is more religion in a laugh than in
a groan. Anybody can groan, but to laugh
in the midst of banishment and persecution
and indescribable trial, that requires a
Daniel, a Paul, a modern
The next laughter mentioned in the Bible
that 1 shall speak of is the fool’s laughter,
or the expression of sinful merriment. Solo
mon was very quick at simile: when he
makes a comparison we all catch 4. What
is the laughter of a fool like? He rays:
"It is the crackling of thorns under a pot.”
i lie kettle is swung, a bunch of brambles
s put under it, and the torrh Is applied to
it, and there is a great noise, and a big
blaze, and a sputter, and a quick extin
guishment. 1 hen it is darker than it was
“" tot e Fools’ hiughter. The most nusi ra
ble thing on earth is a bad man’s fun.
Inere they an—ten men in a. barroom;
they have at home wives, mothers
daughters. The impure jest starts at one
corner of the barroom, and crackle, crackle,
crackle, it goes all around. In live liiin-!r d
such guffaws there is not one item cf hap
piness. They all feel heineaned. if they
nave any conscience left. Have nothing
to do with men or women who tell im
moral stories. _ i have no conlidetiee even
n their Christian chaiacter or tiieir moral
ity. So, all merriment that springs out of
the detects of others carieuture oi' a lame
loot, or a curved spine, or a I lind eye, era
deaf ear—will be met with the juugments
of God either upon you, or upon your chil
dren. Twenty years ago 1 knew a man
who was particularly skillful in imitating
the lameness ot a neighbor. Not long ago
a soti of the skillful mimic had his leg am
putated for the very defect which lis
ftither had mimicked years before. I do
not say it was a judgment of God; 1 leave
you to make your own inference. So, all
merriment horn of dissipation, that wnieh
starts at the counter of tile drinking res
taurant. or from the wine glass in tiie
home circle, the maudhn simper, the mean
ingless joke, the gibl .rish, tip
paroxysm of mirth about nothing, which
you sometimes see in the fashionable club
room or the exquisite parlor at J 2 o’clock
at night, are the crackling of thorns under
a pot. Such laughter and such sin ends in
death. When 1 was a lad, a book came
out, entitled “Dow Junior's Patent Ser
mons.” It made a great stir—a very wide
laugh—all over the county, that hook did.
It was a caricature of the Christian min
istry, and of the word of God, and of the
day of judgment. G! we had a great laugh.
The commentary of the whole thing is,
that the author of that book died in pov
erty, shame, debauchery, kicked out of so
ciety. and cursed of Almighty GoT
laughter of such men is the echo of their
own damnation.
The next laughter that T shall ’•mention
ns being in the Bible, is the laugh of God’s
condemnation: “lie that sitteth in the
heavens shall laugh.” Again: “I will laugh
at his calamity.” With such demonstra
tion will God greet every kind of creat sin
and wickedness. But men build ’.ip vil
lanies higher and higher. Good men al
most pity God. because he is so se.'ierned
against by men. Suddenly a pin drops out
of the machinery of wickedness, or a Tcret
is revealed, and the foundation begins to
rock; finally, the whole thing is d ?moiisliod.
What is tiie matter? I will tell you w) at
the matter is. That crash of ru ; n :s only'
the reverberation of God’s laughter. In the
money market there are a gt l at many good
men. ami a great many fraudulent mi n. A
fraudulent man there zays: “I mean to have
my million." He goes to work r< ckless of
honestv, and be gets his first $100,020. He
gets after awhile his *200,000. After awhile
lie gets his $500,000. “Now,” he says, ”1
h ive only one more move to make, and 1
shall have my million.” He gathers i p all
his resources; he makes that one 1 ist grand
move, he fails and loses all, and he has not
enough money of his own left t > p -.y the
cost of the car to his home. People cannot
understand this spasmodic revulsion. Some
said it was a sudden turn in Erie 1 ail way
stock, or in Western Union, or in Illinois
Central; some said one tiling and some
another. They all guessed wr hi.:. 1 will
tell you what it was: “He that sitteth in
the heavens laughed.” A man m New York
said he would be the richest man In tiie
city. He left his honest work as a me
chanic, and got ipio the city
council, some way, and in ten years
stole $15,009,000 from the city govirnmunt.
Fifteen million dollars'. He b-ul the leg
islature of the state of New i ‘<rk u the
grip of Ills right hand. Suspi “ions were
aroused. The grand jury presented in
dictments. The whole land stood aghast.
The man who expected to put half the city
in his vest pocket goes to Blackwell isl
and; goes to Ludlow street jail, breaks
prison, and goes across tiie sea ; is real rest
ed and brought back, and again remanded
to jad. Whv? “He that sitteth in tiie heav
ens laughed.” Rome was a great empire;
she had Horace and Virgil among her
poets; she had Augustus and Constantine
among her emperors. But what mean the
defucod Pantheon, and the I’orum turned
into a cattle market, and the broken-wuiled
Collßeum, and the gri hi tectural skeleton of
iier great aqueducts. What was that thun
der? “Oh!” you say, “that was the roar of
the battering rams against le r y/tiis. .xo.
What was that quiver?
“that was the tramp of lio: . le legion.,.
No. The quiver and the roar were the out
burst of omnipotent laughter from the de
fied and insulted heavens. Rome defied
G. d and he laughed her down. 1 hebes de
fied’God and he laughed her down. Nme
v-h defied God, and he laughed herdown.
Babylon defied God, and he laughed hei
dowt't There is a great be ween
God's laugh and his smile. IBs .m It i
eternal beatitude. H“ smiled when David
sang, and Miriam clapped the cymmls, a d
iipun-ili made garments of hei son, and
Paul j reaehed and John kindled with apo
calyptic vision, and "'hen any has
anvthinK to do and does t v\ell. ms smu .
Whv it is the 15th of May. the apple or
chards in full bloom; >t is morning In eakia-,
on a rippling sea; it is heaven at high n( ’OK
all the hells beating the mar. age peal t m
his laughter—may it nevei fall on u.-. Il
is a condemnation for our sin. it is a v.<.. t
ing away. We may let the satirist laugh
at us and all our companions may
lirirli at us, and we may be
made the target for the merriment
of earth and hell; bill GodV”; 1 1 1 ,
that we should ever come in the fuilii
ment of the prophecy a;’dust the rejectors
of the truth: “I will laugh 'it your calam
ity.” But, my friends, an of us who reject
Christ and the pardon of the gospel must
come under that tremendous bombardment.
God wants us all to repent. He counsels,
He coaxes. He importunes and He dies for
us. He comes down out of heaven. He
puts all the world’s sin on one shoulder, He
puts all the world’s sorrow on the other
shoulder, and then, with that Alp on one
side and that Himalaya on the other He
starts up tiie hill back of Jerusalem to
achieve our salvation. He puts the palm of
His right foot on one long spike, and He
puts the palm of His left foot on another
long spike, and then, willi his h inds spotted
w’ith His own blood. He gesticulates,saying:
“Look! look! and live. With the crimson
veil of My sacrifice I will cover up all your
sins: with my dying groan 1 will swallow up
all your groans. Look! live.” But a thou
sand of you turn your backs on that, and
then this voice of invitation turns to a tone
divinely ominous, that sobs like a simoon
through the first chapter of Proverbs: "Be
cause I have called and ye refused, 1 have
stretched cut my right hand and no man
regarded; but ye have set at naught all my
counsel, and would none of My reproof; I
also will laugli at your calamity.” O!
what a laugh that is—a deep laugh; a long,
reverberating laugh; an overwhelming
laugh: God grant we may never hear it.
But in this day of merciful visitation, yield
your heart to Christ, that you may spend
all your life on earth under His smile, and
escape forever the thunder of the laugh of
God’s indignation.
The other laugh mentioned in the Bible,
the only one I shall speak of, is heaven’s
laughter, or the expression of eternal tri
umph. Christ said to His disciples: “Bless
ed are ye that weep now, for ye shall
laugh.” That makes me know positively
that we are not to spend our days in heav
en singing long-meter psalms. The formal
istic and stiff notions of heaven that some
people have Yvould make me miserable. I
am glad to know that the heaven of the
Bible is not only a place of holy worship,
lint of magnificent sociality. “What,” say
you, "will the ringing laugh go around the
circles of the saved?’’ I say, yes; pure
laughter, cheering laughter; holy laughter.
It will be a laugh of congratulation. When
we meet a friend who has suddenly come to
a fortune, or who has got over some dire
sickness, do we not shake hands, do we not
laugh with him? And when we get to heaven
and see our friends there, some of them
having come up out of great tribulation,
why we will say to one of them: “The last
time I saw' you, you had been suffering for
six weeks under a low intermittent fever;”
or, to another, we will say: “You, for
ten years were limping with the rheu
matism, and you were full of complaints
when we saw you last; I congratulate you
on this eternal recovery.” We shall laugh.
Yes, we shall congratulate all those who
have come out qf great financial embarrass
ments in this world, because they have be
come millionaires in heaven. Ye shall laugh.
It shall be a laugh of reassociation. It is
just as natural for us to laugh when we
meet a friend we have not seen for ten
years as anything is possible to be natural.
When we meet our friends from whom
we have, been parted for ten or twenty
or thirty years, will it not be with infinite
congratulation? Our perception quickened,
our knowledge improved we will know
each other at a flash. We will have to talk
over all that has happened since we have
been separated, the one that has been
ten years in heaven telling us all that has
happened in the ten years of his heavenly
residence, and we telling him in return
all that has happened during the ten years
of his absence from earth. Ye shall laugh.
1 think George Whitefield and John Wesley
will have a laugh of contempt for their
earthly misunderstandings, and the two
farmers wiio were in a lawsuit all their
days will have a laugh of contempt over
their earthly disturbance about a line fence.
Exemption from all annoya.nce. Immersion
in all gladness. Ye shall laugh. Christ
says so. Ye shall laugh. Yes, it will be
a laugh of triumph. O! what a pleasant
thing it will he to stand on the wall of
heaven and look down at satan and hurl
at him defiance and see him caged and
chained and we forever free from his
clutches. Alia! Yes, it will be a laugh of
royal greeting. You know how the French
men cheered when Napoleon came back
from Elba; you know how the English
cheered when Wellington came back from
Waterloo; you know how Americans cheered
when Kossuth arrived from Hungary; you
remember how Rome cheered when Pom
pey came back victor over 900 cities.
Every cheer was a laugh. Hut, Oh! the
mightier greeting, the gladder greeting
when the snow-white cavalry troops of
heaven shall go through the streets, and,
according to the book of Revelation, Christ,
in the red coat, the crimson coat, on a
white horse., and all the armies of heaven
following on white, horses. Oh! when we
S"e ami hear that cavalcade, we shall
cheer; we shall laugh. Hoes not your heart
beat quickly at the thought of the great,
jubilee upon which we are soon to enter?
I pray God that when we get through with
this world and are going out of it,
we may have some vision as the dying
Christian had when he saw written all
over tiie clouds of the sky tiie letter “W,”
ami they asked him. standing hi- his side,
what he thought that letter “W” meant.
“Oh!” be said, “that stands for welcome.”
And so may it be when we quit this world.
“W” on the gate, “W” on the door of the
mansion, “W” on the throne. Welcome!
W'-lcnne! Welcome! 1 bj.'-e preached tide
rm< n with five prayerful wishes: thsst
y.-i might see what a. mean thing is the
laugh of scepticism, what a bright thing
Is the laugh of spiritual exultation, whit
a hollow tiling is the laugh of sinful merri
ment. what tm awful thing m the laimh of
condemnation, what a radiant, rubicund
thing is the latirb of eternal triumph.
Avoid the ill; choose the right. Be com
forted. “Blessed are ye that weep now—
yet shall laugh, ye shall laugh.”
CI-ATB AVS OHLIGATIONS.
Tiie Compsi i>y ill Carry $52!,500,000
lioiids mill Stocks.
New York, July 1?.. —It is reported that the
rcorguniz ition plan of the Central Railroad
and Banking Company, of Georgia, will
provide for the i. su>> of $7.000.9t>n of first
mortgage 5 p?r cent fifty year bonds, secur
ed by mortgage on the main line property of
the companv; $13,090,090 consolidated fifty
year 5 per cent bonds secured by second
mortgage on the main line, first mortgage
on tiie Montgomery and Eufaula and second
mortgage on the Mobile and
Girard railroad and other prop
erties and equities; $10,000,000 bonds
of the Central railroad, secured by
first mortgage on the Savannah and West
ern, the Chattanooga, Rome and Colum
bus’an’l Macon and Northern, together with
other minor properties and equities. These
bonds to bear 2’j per cent interest yearly
for the first two years, which shall be in
creased half a per cent yearly until 5 per
ci nt, which shall lie the fixed rate until the
bonds mature: $7,250,000 of 5 per cent, series
A, and $7,750,000 of series 15, income bonds,
tiie full Interest on series A to be paid first,
and $7,500,000 of common stock.
MIL COMER GOES TO NEW YORK.
After the Central Is Sold It Must Get
a Sew Charter.
Savannah, Ga„ July 13.-(Special.)-Ke
ceixer Comer left for New York today to at
tend the Southern Railway and Steamship
Association meeting and to confer with the
parties interested with regard to the Cen
tral’s reorganization plan. He says he has
had no further advices with regard to the
ph n, but hopes to see it ready to be an
nounced within a week. He says theie nas
Been a small element of opposition to por
tions of it. but he believes this will all be
overcome and satisfactorily arranged. One
fact not noticed so far is that after it is
sold, the Central will have to obtain a new
charter, which will make it subject to
state and county taxation, from which at
present it is exempt except on its net in
come. This, it is estimated, will amount
to about $50,000 annually.
YELLOW J'EVJBI OX BOARD.
Arrival of n Rark at Baltimore Wliicli
Im Hold In Qu lira n tine.
Baltimore, July 14.—A sensation was
caused In shipping circles today by the ar
rival in port of Bark Glad Tidings from
Rio with yellow fever on board. The Glad
Tidings, Captain Young, left Rio for Balti
more June 12th, with 9,000 bags of coffee.
A few days before her departure W. W.
Benson, the cook, was attacked with the
fever. He was sent to the hospital and
left behind. June 23d Second Officer Fritz
Hines, was stricken with the dreadful
disease, died June 28th and was buried at
sea. No more new cases broke out and the
officers supposed that the disease had been
stamped out. The law requires that vessels
arriving with infectious disease have to
go into quarantine. Captain Young - thought
it was unnecessary to stop at the capes
and came up to Baltimore. The custom
house officials refused her entry. Surgeon
AVyman has the case under advisement.
Captain Young says the fever has been
nearly stamped out of Rio de Janeiro. The
people are recovering from the effects of
the recent rebellion and the business in
terests of Brazil are assuming their usual
activity.
Mississippi I’opulists.
Meridian, Miss., July 14.—(Special.)—An
enthusiastic mass meeting was held at the
courthouse today by several hundred popu
ntes An organization was prefected. Com
mittees were appointed for a vigorous cam
,, .rm The leaoers ot the party in this sec
tion are Hou. Frank Burkitt, W. P. Rat
liff and F. H. Jemison. These gentlemen
addressed the rather large assemblage, each
denouncing in bitter terms the democratic
P The strike situation was* discussed by the
speakers. They stated that the cause was
bad legislation.
IT COST MILLIONS. !
CHICAGO AXD ILLINOIS SVFEER
HEAVILY FROM THE STRIKE.
Railroads Not the Only Sufferers—Losses on
Traffic and Property Estimated at 88,-
COO,ooo—Uncle Sain Has a BiR.
Chicago, July 15.—Now that the railroads
are getting their traffic in shape and busi
ness is assuming its normal condition, some
speculation as to the cost of great
strike to the railroads and others in Chicago
alone may be interesting.
All the general managers’ committee
say at present they have not sufficient data
to hazard an opinion that could be relied
upen. Urged to make a guess, one of them
tonight said that the losses of the roads
would reach at least $5,000,000 and might
go as high as $8,000,000. He declined to per
mit the use of his name, however, as the
father of the random opinion.
It will probably be many weeks before
the managers can secure figures for a
detailed report. Many things must be
taken into consideration. The loss occa
sioned by suspended traffic will he the
largest item, but the destruction of prop
erty will be by no means a. small one.
The I’an Handle Suffered.
Nearly 600 Pan Handle cars were destroy
ed in one blaze and of this number ninety
eight are now known to have contained
merchandise. It will be necessary to learn
from the shippers’ invoices just what these
•ninety-eight cars contained before any
computation of loss can be made, and
that will take much time. Within the
city limits tower houses have been burned
and tracks torn up. Damage has been done
in many railroad shops and enormous sums
expended in defending the roads against
rioters.
General Manager St. John, of the Rock
Island road, said yesterday that the total
losses to his company over their entire
line would probably be not far from $1,000,-
000. Counsel for many of the railroads
are already at work drawing up claims for
fir uncial redress from the county of Cook
and the city of Chicago, but figures are
hard to get at. Concerted action on this
line will be taken by the general managers
at an early date.
Cornnii.M.sion Men AViint Dninsige.
As an outcome ot the strike and its
disastrous effect upon the interest of com
mission of South Water street, the South
Mater Street Commercial Club has called
a meeting to formulate a plan of action
in regard to claims against tiie railroad
companies. A committee has been ap
pointed to have present at the meeting all
at tv al dealers and receivers, shippers,
bickers, cold storage and railroad men
ir tt rested in the trade and the claims. It
is estimated on the street that tiie ciaims
will aggregate $500,000 and that the losses
of the commission men direct and indirect
would not be a cent less than $1,509,000.
The effect on the California fruit trade
lias been most disastrous. The first car
of California fruit to move eastward tn
twelve days started yesterday. In the four
days preceding the Fourth of July there
were ninety cars of bananas en route to
Chicago, a large pertion of which never
reached here.
Another great cause of loss
was that outside shippers got
the idea that there was going to be a
faniine here and they began to rush in
perishable freight that never reached Chi
cago dealers and which is now scattered all
over the county, a dead loss.
Lohs of Freight.
One prominent dealer was asked tonight
as to what legal standing the claims to
tie made would have.
“1 was in. New York," he said, “during
the troubles of 1877. We shopped west a
carload of lemons which were destroyed at
■ itsburg. The consignee never remitted
a dollar for the shipment, but we sued him
and lie paid our bill. Probably that will be
the case with claims. I am satisfied that
over $1,000,000 had been lost, but I am not
satisfied how the railroads are to be com
pelled to pay for consignments which rotted
on the track. In the time of the strikes
they had in force two contracts, one with
the Pullman company and one’ with the
merchants. It was a question with them
wliich contract they should keep. They de
cided in favor of the Pullman company,
and now their attitude toward the losses
of the merchants is to be determined.”
.Many Lives Lost.
While the list of casualties resulting In
the losses of life and personal injury di
rectly chargeable to jfe strike ami conse
quent q-iots Is not so extensive as a casual
reader of the newspapers would suppose,
the number of victims is large enough to
make a very serious showing. In Chicago
and vicinity, including Hammond, eight,
and indirectly ten lives were lost, the vic
tims being killed outright or afterward
dying of their injuries, while the number of
wounded, as far as reported, was forty-one.
Two railroad accidents occurred, probably
chargeable to the incompetency of green
• men employed to take the places of strikers,
by which two lives were lost and four per
sons injured.
The shedding of blood began July 2d,
when Deputy Marshal Logan was slightly
stabbed "‘while • fighting a mob at Blue Isl
and.
July sth, when the riots at the stock
yards began, Edward O’Neill and Antonio
Hopp were wounded by policemen.
W. E. Anslyan and Frank Udess were
wounded July 6th by a marshal at Ken
sington; and Peter Schwartz, a flagman at
the Pan Handle, and Wisconsin Central
junction, was nearly beaten to death by
rioters.
Herbert Letters, a striking switchman,
was shot and killed by Mrs. William J.
Lehmann, whose husband, a Burlington
fireman, had been assaulted by Letters at
the corner of Eighteenth street and Oakley
avenue, July 6th.
The battle of Forty-ninth and Loomis
streets took place July 7th. The number
of casualties resulting from that will never
be known as many of the wounded were
at once taken to their homes and no report
was made of their injuries. As far as as
certained, the dead were: John Burke,
Charles Ober and Thomas Jackson. The
injured among the rioters numbered fif
teen and among the militia four.
Innocent Persona Killed.
The same day during a riot at the Pan
Handle crossing, at Twenty-second street,
Joseph Wargsowski was killed by a deputy
marshal, and Martha Back, a spectator ot
the disturbance at Ashland avenue and Six
teenth street, was killed by a stray shot
from a policeman’s revolver.
At Hammond, July Bth, soldiers of the
United States army fired their first offen
sive shots east of the Mississippi river for
many years, killing Charles Fletcher and
wounding W. H. Campbell and Victor
Dezuttner.
Patrick O’Connor was shot and killed by
an Illinois militia private at the corner of
Newberry avenue and Ti«3lJFi street, July
11th. During the conflict between two com
panies of deputy marshals, brought on by
fright, at Kensington, July 12th, Peter
Fische, a deputy marshal, and Andrew-
Gregory, a bystander, were wounded.
July 14th. W. Suchran, a striking team
ster, was shot by Rudolph Scoll, a driver
whom he was trying to pull from the seat
of his wagon at the corner of Meagher and
Jefferson streets.
A collision of last Thursday on the Wis
consin Central tracks, thought to be charge
able to a new engineer unacquainted with
tiie road, caused the death of J. B.
and W. A. Pross, and the serious Injury
of Andrew Bleas ana Augustine Wright, all
deputy marshals.
A green switchman on the same road was
responsible for a wreck Friday in whic’4
Thomas Murpny, Frank Smith and James
Foley were badly hurt.
At least nine and probably ten lives have
been lost throughout the west, outside of
Chicago. Four of these, three soldiers and
an engineer, by the intentional wrecking of
a train at Sacramento, Cal. Two rioters
were killed by the troops.
Two men were killed at Spring A'alley,
111., by the fire of soldiers, and it is thought
there'was a third victim burned secretly.
A non-union switchman killed a union man
at Minneapolis, Minn., yesterday.
$5. Family Medicinal Liquor Case. •>.»- * Year via .
2 Rye, 1 Catawba Wine, • p O xed ready for shipment. One. two and
1 Corn, I 1 Tokay Wine, I stop Georgia Corn whisky, $1.50,
1 Bourbon,| i Xand $2 a gallon, i 0 cents extra per
1 Cognac Brandy, | I Apple Brandy, gallon for jugs. Country orders solicited.
1 Blackberry Brandy, I ‘ lict
12 Bottles Pure Lienors onlj nend f• 1 ’’’’ d g Marietta St., Atlanta,
DONALD M. BAIN. Wholesale Liquor Dealer, « an<l S . . ,j lls iulyer .
Ga. Reference: Atlanta Constitution. Terms Cash. 1
yimilin.il, ■
cot NT, FORGER AND CONVICT.
A Member of the Georgia LegriMlature
Arrested in a. Womaci’N Garb.
Madison, Fla., July 15.—Mr. A. M. 1
Michelson, who represented .Madison cour,- i
ty in the last legislature, has been ar- 1
rested on a charge of forgery. Michelson I
has been absent for some time and it is
alleged that he committed the forgery at 1
Thomasville, Ga. When at Thomasville it
appears that he telegraphed to a stableman I
at Quitman, Ga., ordering a pair of horses ■
and a buggy to take a gentleman over to I
.Madison and signed the name of It. C. I
Mclntosh without, that gentleman’s knowl
edge. He went to Quitman and asked
for the team, saying, it Is reported, when
asked about the charges for the same: |
"Didn’t you get a telegram from Alcln- 1
tosh? Well, am the gentlemtn spoken of I
and he is responsible for rhe charges.” ;
And for this came tiie warrant for forgery
Thursday.
Michelson succeeded in evading arrest un
til yesterday. When arrested he asked to be
taken to the hotel until he could secure
bondsmen. The officer granted his request
and Michelson was locked in a room. 1
During the night lie managed to escape by
sliding down a post from the second story.
Michelson went to the house of a woman,
from whom he procured a dress and, put
ting it on, attempted to escape. The sheriff,
however, had received information as
Michelson’s disguise and arrested him early
this morning as he was leaving the town.
Michelson came to Madison several years
ago from South Carolina, claiming to be a
count and that his father was once mayor
of St. Petersburg, Russia. He dressed
handsomely, had a good address and was
most entertaining, and being introduced by
one of Madison’s prominent young gentie
men who saw him in South Carolina, he
was well received by the first families here
and was considerably lionized. In a few
months a rumor came that Mr. Michelson
had a wife in South Carolina, and that he
had been a convict in the penitentiary of
that state. But notwithstanding all this,
the people of this county elected him to
represent them in the legislature.
JHE DAY IN CHICAGO.
An Arnie of Deputies on Duty - " So
ldiers Called For.
Chicago, July 15. —Chief Deputy I nited
States .Marshal Donnelly and a force of
twenty-five deputies were on reserve at the
government building during the day, but
no call for their services was received. Last
night Chairman Egan, of the General Man
agers’ Association, made a requisition for
ten men to b$ on hand at 7 o’clock this
morning at the yards of the Chicago and
Western Indiana at Forty-ninth street,
and for six men at the stock yards at the
same hour. The force reported at tin- Polk
street depot at 6 o’clock this morning and
left half an hour later for the points desig
nated. Reports were received from the
men that they had been required to protect
dead freight In its movement eastward and
that the work had bfeen accomplished with
out trouble. A big crowd assembled at each
of the yards, but no attempt was made to
attack the marshals or to interfere with the
dispatch of the trains.
A STARTLING PLOT.
Strike Leaders Su.ld to B<‘ Implicated
in Train Wrecking.
Woodland, Cui., July 15.- Strike Leader
Knox, of the American Railway Union,
was arrested for 'onspirncy m train wreck
ing on July 11th, but late lust night lie was
charged with the murder of Engineer
Clark. Attorney Bruner, representing the
railroad company, said tonight that the
proofs possessed by the prosecution dis
closed a piot that would startle the public.
He said Knox’s complicity was proved be
yond question. The officers have the order
which was written by Knox to a stable
keeper for a team to be let to S. D.
Worden, who was arrested for train wreck
ing. in which it. was said that he (Knox)
would be responsible for the pay. The bill
was afterwards presented to Knox and he
paid It.
CUT THE CABS LOOSE.
A Devilish Trick Cutnses Heavy Loss
of Property.
Indianapolis, Ind., July 15.—At 10:»0
o’clock this morning a ireight train ot
thirty cars standing on an incline switch
on the Pennsylvania track was cut loose
by strikers and ran down at a terrine speed
into the Home Brewing Company’s sta
bles. causing a complete wreck of both
train and stables. One dozen brewerj wag
ons were demolished, and the teams ot
horses were fairly slaughtered. The loss
to the brewery in addition to that of the
railroad company will be many thousands
of dollars.
CHKIiTI *5 I.NVEAVORERS.
Cleveland is Ciowdeii with Delegates to
file Convention.
Cleveland. 0., July 11.—Cleveland was
gaily decorated in yellow and white anil
red, white and blue this morning when the
delegates to the big Christian Endeavor
convention began arriving in force. The
scare on account of the strike interiering
with the plans of the intending visitors
has blown over to some extent, and, while
the attendance will undoubtedly be cut
down to a considerable extent, still tiie con
vention will be a. large one. Tonight it is
estimated that from 12,000 to 15,000 have
arrived. \
They Are Still Coming.
Cleveland, 0., July 12.—The Christian
Endeavor convention managers are tilled
with enthusiasm over the unexpected suc
cess of the meeting in point of numbers.
Evidently the people have recovered from
their panic over the railroad strike and
are coming info Cleveland as rapidly as
the railroads can carry them. Specials and
regular trains have followed each other
into the city all day, loaded to overflowing
with young people wearing the badge of
the society.
The lake boats also brought hundreds
from the east and west, until the streets
were crowded with them. The numbers now
in the city are variously estimated at from
25,000 to 30,000.
Isudeavors Adjourn.
Cleveland, 0., July 15.—The thirteenth
annual convention of the Society for Chris
tian Endeavor closed tonight. It has been
the greatest convention ever held by the
society, both in point of numbers and in
the interest manifested in its meetings.
The total registration reached 40,000, of
which 18,790 came from points outside of
Ohio. Among the movements stJrrted, at
the gathering are plans for a world-wide
union of Christian endeavors and for syste
matic missionary extension. Tiie elasing
day of the convention began with a very
large attendance at the early morning
prayer meetings. The forenoon was spent
by the delegates in attendance at the city
churches. Many of the pulpits were sup
plied by visiting ministers. In the after
noon the hall and tent were filled long be
fore the time for, beginning the services
and thousands were unable to gain en
trance. .
Large overflow meetings were held in the
evening at several churches, and the tent
and hall were again crowded. Resolutions
were adpoted expressing the thanks ot’ the
convention to all who had contributed to
its success; recognizing the sale and use
of intoxicating liquors as the greatest
evil of the day; deploring the desecration
of the Sabbath day; endorsing the move
ment for Christian citizenship and express
ing faith in the future and the coming of
th£ kingdom of God on earth. _
'51,0009
BE==~
Given Awau
■■■' i ~ BY” '
WH
!n a Series cf Prizes Based
On the Best Estimatesjof
>ta’s CotlonCrop
This SI,OOO will be in addition to our
numerous other premiums and prizes*, and
every new subscriber, or every renewal, has
the privilege of contending for every prize
in tins or any other of the several prize
contests instituted for our subscribers.
THE PLAN.
The prospective size of llxis year's supply
fa the determining factor ot this year's
prices, lichee, everybody is interested in
tiie probable size of the cotton crop of
ISD3-04 —the crop which is already harvest
ed and which is novv being marketed. The
ofiicial announcement of the size of this
crop wiil lie made about September 1, 1594,
and the figures aceipted in determining this
contest will be those of the New Orleans
cotton exchange.
Tiie prizes will be awarded arid
TIIE SI,OOO DIVIDED
among the successful guesserg just as soon
as the ofiicial announcement of the New
i Orleans cotton exchange is made.
I THE PRIZES.
There will be SI,OOO in prizes, to ba
i divided and distributed as follows:
First Prize.
SIOO IN GOLD to the person making tho
nearest estimate of the official announce
ment of the size of the crop.
Second Prize.
S2OO LN GOLD to the next closest
guess.
i Third Prize.
A $-00 SUiIULzVRSIIIP and board in a
I leading university for one year, transferable
I if the winner desires, and available for
! male or female. This prize for the third
i nearest guess.
■ Fourth Prize.
I A SIOO TRIP TO HAVANA, Cuba, and
I returii, this amount including railroad
j and steamship fare from the heme of tha
winner to Havana and return, and allowing
: enough for expens -s for a delightful week
’ or ten days’ nip fur ths: fourth nearest
' guesser.
; Fifth Prize.
A SIOV TRIP TO THE CITY OP
NLENICO, traveling expenses to be borna
by The Constitution, including all railroad
transportation to the above amount. This
prize for the fifth nearest guesser.
THE CONTEST.
Ine conditions governing this contest ara
very simple, indeed. Every person who
semis bis own name or any’ other name,
or a renewal, for one year s subscription to
The Weekly Constitution will be entitled
to make an estimate in inis contest.
iie can make a guess fur every sub
scriber sent, and the names so scut will
also be entitled to a subscriber's guess.
Tlius, if a person sends us the names of
six subscribers, he can make six guesses,
and each of tiie names he semis will be
entitled to a guess. He can send a guess
with every additional subscriber.
All clubbing subscriptions are entitled to
participate in this contest.
Every guesser is required to write his
name ami address on a separate piece of
paper, on which should be written his
guess in legible figures.
No guess will lie entered that is not
accompanied by cash for the subscriptions
sent.
Other Crops.
In order that the guessers may have a
fair insight into the statistics concerning
past cotton crops, we present herewith tlio
total crops from the year 1877 to 1891,
inclusive, as follows:
Year I Bales Year | Bales
1.877 .. . .1 4,485,42:5 II 188-1.. . ,| 5.714.0 3
i,87.8 .. . .| 4,811,265 b 1 “';“ •• • • ‘>>btsl‘.' 1 21
1371) .. • • 5.073,531 li 1883 .. . .| 6,2i5
isso . . .1 5,757,31)71 ( •• • -I 0,513.624
::: :l ;:«!> j
1884. . . . .| 5,714.0521 | js92 1 6,700,3t5
THE CONTEST NOW OPEN
A special clerk has been assigned to the
work ot compiling the mousands of guesses
that will be received in tins contest be
tween now and next September. Special
books have been prepared, by which careful
record will be kept for every guess, so that
there wiil be no possible confusion in the
award of the one thousand dollars which
The Constitution offers, and which will ba
distributed in settlement of this contest.
J'he coutest is now open, and every new
subscriber or renewal of a subscription is
entitled to a guess in accordance with the
conditions above stated. It is not every
day that a paper gives away one thousand
dollars in one contest; but The Constitution
uoes tins to interest its readers. This it
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.
BF SURE TO PUT YOUR GUESS ON
A SEPERATE PIECE OF PAPER AND
SIGN FULL NAME AND POSTOFFICE
ADDRESS.
A Just Tax.
From The Ithica Democrat.
The income tax will become a law, and
it will remain a law, because it is founded
upon just principles. It is the fairest way
that burdens can be equalized between the
rich and poor taxpayers. There may be
crudities in the present law, although the
senate has shorn the measure of the worst
of them, but they will be corrected hereaf
ter. The law will not be repealed. Since
the discussion commenced in tiie senate
the republicans in a number of states,
both in the east and. west, have held their
conventions, but in not a single instance
have they denounced the measure. The
income tax will not hurt the democratic
party. By the enactment of that measure
they have simply made an effort to effect
justice. They have sought to equalize the
burden o£ taxation between the rich and
the poor, »