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A JAVANESE MAIDEN.
A Gentle Girl from the Far Shores of the
Indian Ocean and Iler Island Home.
The blue waters of the Indian ocean wash
gently the long golden sanded shores of Java.
The mountains of lunung Kendang. of volcanic
origin, stretch like n mighty vertebrae from
end to end of the island, their rocky frame
softly garnished with the brilliant hues of
tropical ve-<lure; now glistening in the hot
white sunlight, now darkening and sighing
with the passing of a summer cloud or the gen
tle skimming of a summer breeze. The silent
craters of two score volcanic peaks yawn
darkly on the mountain tops, and the scorch
ing sun rays arc tempered by the ocean breeze.
The Javanese have thrived under Dutch
rule, the population, which is practically
Mohammedan in religion, having increased
from nine millions in ISSO to nearly twenty-one
millions, of whom less than one million are Chi
nese. East Imb ins and Europeans. The veg
etation is luxuriant, and coffee, tobacco, tea
and tin form tiie great staples of production
ami export. The n Hives had attained a high
degree of civilization over a thousand years
ago. and Hindu colonies had been established
there as early as -lO.>. For a few years after
tie Xapoh-onic wars England ruled the island,
but it reverted to tire Dutch, who still hold it.
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A JAVANESE GIRL.
in vYie of the bamboo hot; .es of the Javanese
villa;. - at the Columbian exhibition lived Toen
doora the comely girl whose picture is shown
above. Her deft and industrious fingers flew
briskly as she painted quaint and curious de
signs on somber shadt s of cotton cloth, but she
had a bright mile for each visitor, and her
gentle courtesy .ir.d refinement won the hearts
of er visitors and made the little sett lenient
behin I the ■ o ■. i ngs a p<tpular resort.
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YOl NG PEOPLE'S UNION.
Meeting; of the luteriiiitioiial Conven
tion sit Toronto.
Toronto, Canada, July 19.—The fourth
annual international convention ot tne
Baptist Young People's i nion of America
opened here the morning with some 4,000
i. t<in itt< nd ince. President John
11. Chapman, of Chicago, took the chair
promptly at 10:30 o’clock. Among those
sir< ''il l him were Governor N'orthen, ot
Georgia; 11-v. Henry \V. Hunt, of Toledo,
<_).; frank Hr rveyheld, vice president cf
the union, and president of the New York
State Union.
Devotional exorcises were lei by Rev.
Dr. Hall, of Georgia. Rev. D. E. Thomp
son tendered a w. h ome on the part of the
young p-"ple’< societies of Toronto amt
Rev. Elmor-- 1 .r ■ ,jiq the same on behalf
of th< < f the city. The
president tit-n delivered his address.
President Whitman, of Colby university,
Maine, replied in an address which put the
great audience at on-e at its ease.
1 h-» (tnvoriior in Canada.
Toronto. Ontario, July 20.—(Special.)—The
Baptist convention in session here promises
to be the most succi ssful ever held by the
union. Six thousand delegates are in at
tendance. All the arrangements are corn
p!-tc. The d-legates are thoroughly en
joying the trip.
This evening two overflow meetings were
hej.il. At one Governor N'orthen, of Geor
gia. was the leading speaker. His subject.
“Christ in Young Manhood,” was most
ably tre itel and was listened to with close
attention. The governor considered the
t\raye-h--arted young man, heroica’ly re
sisting evil, as the most splendid thing in
life. He had given twenty-two years, the
best part ol his life, to young men. There
were peculiar temptations and environ
ments surrounding young men, and that
v.as why he addressed himself to them.
Many young men who start out in life do
well materially, y-t from them emanates
a strain of evil. They bring up their fam
ilies well materially, but not well spirit
ually. Gladstone was pronounced the great
est living nr n, because he had always
tried to do good for his fellow men. Every
good life is constantly scattering good in
fluences. it is very often the small things
that determine a man’s life forever, that
mark him out for heaven or for hell. This
was exempl fled in the dreams of Joseph
which, while trilling enough, turned the
destiny and civilization of the world.
All men set for themsi Ives ideals, more
or !■ - i ■ rfect. Gr< at social evils are but
outgrowths of the evils of individual life.
N'. e may endeavor to eradicate fhem by
law. but they break out afresh. Civiliza
tion is but the personal improvement of
the man and the woman and the children
of whom society is composed. The first
element of a true man is the personal es
timate a man puts upon himself. The boy
who refused to steal a pea because he was
there to see it himself, laid down the first
principle of manhood. Teach the boy first
the proper estimate of himself. Character
means simply respect for one’s self. True
men value character as known by them
selves. Character is the result of proven
honor, rectitude and virtue.
Men of character are the conscience of
society. Character is better than riches,
nor can anything be compared to it. The
basis of character is self-respect. Our
body, soul and intellect is God’s. We
should never lose respect for ourself be
cause v.e belong to God. The second ele
ment of a true man is intellect. The
world wants men who know something;
men who are informed. Knowledge with
out goodness is but the incarnate principle
of evil.
The third element 'of a true man is to
have a purpose in life. Purpose gives im
pulse to every action. Whatever a man
purposes to be he is. He is just exactly
what he wants to be. Christ in the man
shaping his purposes makes his truest
destiny.
Another element in a true man is moral
courage. The courage to do right.
DE. TALMAGE'S SERMON
THBOUGII THEFRESK TIE FURNISH
ES AN INTERESTING DISCOURSE-
Is Life Worth Living forms the Subject of
His Sermon—lt is the Kind of a Life
we Live, Says the Doctor.
Btcoklyn, July 22.—Rev. Dr. Talmage,
who is now touring in the Austrian cities,
has chosen as the subject for today’s H-r
--mon through the press: “Worth Living,”
the text being frem Lamentations, 3:39,
“Wherefore doth a living man complain?”
If we leave to the evolutionists to guess
when? we came from and to the theologians
to prophecy where we are going to, we still
have left for consideration the important
fact that we are here. There may be some
doubt about where the river rises and some
doubt about where the river empti- s. but
there can be no doubt about the fact that
we are still on it. So I am not surprised
that everybody asks the question, “Is life
worth living?”
Solomon, in his unhappy moments says it
is not. “Vanity,” “vexation of spirit,” “no
good,” are his estimate. The fact is that
Solomon was at one time a polygamist, and
that soured'liis disposition. One wife makes
a man happy; more than one makes him
wretched. But Solomon was converted from
polygamy to monogamy, and the last words
hl - ever wrote, as far as we can read them,
wore the words, “mountains of spices.”
But Jeremiah says in my text life is worth
living.
In a book supposed to be doleful, and lu
gubrious, and sepulchral, and entitled "La
mentations,” he pkt inly intimates that the
blessing of merely living is so great and
grand a blessing that though a man have
piled on him all misfortunes and disasters
he has no right to complain. The author of
my text cries out in startling intonaiton to
all lands and to all centuries, “When fore
doth a living man complain?’’ A diversity
of opinion in our times as well as in olden
time. Here is a young man of light hair,
and blue eyes, and sound digestion, and
generous salary, and happily affianced, and
on the way to 11 come a partner in a com
mercial firm of which he is an important
clerk. Ask him whether life is worth liv
ing. He will laugh in your face and say:
“Yes, yes, yes.” Here is a man who has
come to the forties. He is at till top of the
hill of life. Every step has been a stum
ble and a bruise. The people he trusted
have turned out di sorters, and the money
he has honestly made he has been cheated
out of. His nerves are out of tune. He has
poor appetite, and all the food hi- does eat
does not assimilate. Forty miles climbing
up the hill of life have been to him like
climbing the Matterhorn, and there are for
ty miles yv t to go down, and descent is al
ways more dangerous than ascent. Ask
him whether life is worth living, and he will
drawl out in shivering and lugubrious and
appalling negative, “No, no, no!”
Hew are we to decide this matter righte
ously and intelligently? You will find the
same vacillating, oscillating in his tempera
ment it will depend very much upon which
way the wind blows. If the wind blow from
the northwest and you ask him, he will
say, “Yes;” and if it blow’ from the north
east and you ask him, he will say, “No."
How are we then to get the question
righteously answered? Suppose we call all
natiouns together in a great convention on
Eastern or Western hemisphere, and let all
those who are in the affirmative say “Aye”
and all those who are in the negative say
“No.” While there would be hundreds of
thousands who would answer in the affirm
ative, there would be more millions who
would answer in the negative, and because
of the greater number who have sorrow
and misfortune and trouble the “noes”
would have it. The answer I shall give
will be different from either, ami yet it
will .commend itself to all who hear me
this day as the right answer. If you ask
me, “Is life worth living?” I answer, it
all depends upon the kind of life you live.
In the first place, I remark, that a life’
of mere money-getting is always a failure,
because you will never get as much as you
want. The poorest people lit this country
are the richest, and next to them those
who are half as rich. There is not a scis
sors grinder on the streets of New York
or Brooklyn who is so anxious to make
money as these men who have piled up
fortunes year after year in storehouses, in
government securities, In tenement houses,
in whole blocks. You ought to see them
jump when they hear the fire bell ring.
You ought to see them in their excitement
when some bank explodes. You ought to
see their agitation when there is proposed
a reformation In the tariff. Their nerves
tremble like harp strings, but no music in
the vibration. They read the reports from
Wall street in the morning with a con
cernment that threatens paralysis or ap
poplexy, or, more probably, they have a
telegraph or a telephone in their own house,
so they catch every breath of change in
the money market. The disease of accu
mulation has eaten into them—eaten into
their hearts, into their lungs, into their
spleen, into their liver, into their bones.
Chemists have sometimes analyzed the
human body, and they say it is so much
magnesia, so much lime, so much chlorate
of potassium. If some Christian chemist
would analyze one of these financial be
hemoths he would find he is made up of
copper, and gold, and silver, and zine, and
lead, and coal, and iron. Tfiat is not a life
worth living. There are too many earth
quakes in it, too many agonies in it, too
many perditions in it. They build their
castles, and they open their picture gal
leries, and they summon prima donnas,
and they offer every inducement for hap
piness to come and live there, but happi
ness will not come.
They send footmanned and postillioned
equipage to bring her; she will not fide to
their door. They send princely escort, she
will not take their arm. They make their
gateways triumphal arches; she will not.
ride under them. They set a golden throne
before a golden plate; she turns away from
Hie banquet. They call to her from uphol
stered balcony; she will not listen Mark
you, this is the failure of those who have
had’ large accumulation.
And then you must take into considera
tion that the vast majority of those who
make the dominant idea of life money get
ting fall far short of affluence. It is esti
mated that only about two out of a hun
dred business men have anything worthy
the name of success. A man who spends
his life with the one dominant idea of finan
cial accumulation spends a life not woi th
living. , ~ ,
So the idea of worldly approval. 1. that
be dominant in a man’s life he is miserable.
The two most unfortunate men in this
country for the six months of next presi
dential campaign will be the two men
nominated for the presidency. The reser
voirs of abuse, and diatribe, and maledic
tion will gradually till up, gallon above
gallon, hogshead above hogshead, and
about autumn these two reservoirs will be
brimming full, and a hose will be attached
to each one, and it will play away on these
nominees and they will have to stand it,
and take the abuse, and the falsehood, and
the caricature, and the anathema, and the
caterwauling, and the filth, and they will
be rolled in it and rolled over and over m
it until they are choked and submerged
and strangulated, and at every .sign ol re
turning consciousness they will be barked
at by all the hounds of political parties
from ocean to ocean. And yet there are a
hundred men today struggling for that
privilege, and there are thousands of men
who are helping them In the struggle. Now,
that is not a life worth living. You can
get slandered and abused cheaper than
that! Take it on a smaller scale. Do not
be so ambitious to have a whole reservoir
rolled over on you. But what you see in
the matter of high political preferment
you see in every community in the strug
gle for what is called social position.
Tens of thousands of people trying to get
into that realm, and they are under terrific
tension. What is social position? It is a
difficult thing to define, but we all know
what it is. Good morals and intelligence
are not necessary, but wealth, or the show
of wealth, is absolutely indispensable.
There arc men today as notorious for their
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. JULY 23 1894.
libertinism as the night is famous i’or its
darkness who move in what is called high
social position. There are hundreds of out
and-out rakes in American society whose
names are mentioned among the distin
guished guests at the great levees. They
have annexed all the known vices and are
longing for other worlds of diabolism to
conquer. Good morals are not necessary in
many of the exalted circles of society.
Neither is intelligence necessary. You
find in that realm men who would not
know an adverb from an adjective if they
met it a hundred times a day, and who
could not write a letter of acceptance or
regrets without the aid of a secretary.
They buy their libraries by the square yard,
only anxious to have the binding Russian.
Their ignorance is positively sublime, mak
ing English grammar almost disreputable.
And yet the finest parlors open before
them. Good morals and intelligence are
not necessary, but wealth, or a show of
wealth, is positively indispensable. Jt does
not make any difference how you get your
wealth, if you only got It. The best way
for you to get into social position is for
you to buy a large amount on credit, then
put your property in your wife’s name,
have a few preferred creditors and then
make an assignment. Then disappear from
the community until the breeze is over, and
then come back and start in the same bus
iness. Do you not see how beautifully f iat
will put out all the people "who are in com
petition with you and trying to make an
honest living? How quickly it will get you
into high social position! What is the use
of forty or fifty vears of hard work when
you can by two or three bright strokes
make a great fortune? Ah! my friends,
when you really lose your money, how
quick they will let you drop, and the high
er you get the harder you will drop.
There are thousands today in that realm
who are anxious to keep in it. There are
thousands in that realm who are nervous
for fear they will fall out of it, and there
are changes going on every year, and every
month and every hour which involve heart
breaks that are never reported. High so
cial life is constantly in a flutter about the
delicate question as to whom they shall let
in and whom they shall push out, and the
battle is going on—pier mirror against pier
mirror, chandelier against chandelier, wine
cellar against wine cellar, wardrobe against
wardrobe, equipage against equipage. Un
certainty and insecurity dominant in that
realm, wretchedness enthroned, torture at
a premium, and a. life not worth living.
A life of sin, a life of pride, a life of in
dulgence, a life of worldliness, a life devo
ted to the world, the flesh, and the devil
is a failure, a dead failure, an infinite fail
ure. I care not how many presents you
sent to that cradle, or how many garlands
you send to that grave, you need to put
right under the name on the tombstone
this inscription: “Better for that man if
he had never been born.”
But 1 shall show you a life that is worth
living. A young man says: “I am here.
I am not responsible for my ancestry;
others decided that. I am not responsible
for my temperamen-t; God gave me that.
But here I am, in the afternoon of the nine
teenth century, at twenty years of age. I
am here, and I must take an account of
stock. Here I have a body which is a
divinely constructed engine. I must pul it
to the very best uses, ami I must allow
ncihing to damage this rarest of machinery.
Two feet, and they mean locomotion. Two
eyes, and they mean capacity to pick out
my own way. Two ears, and they are tel
ephones of communication with nil the out
side world, and they mean capacity to catch
sweetest music and the voices of friendship
—the very best music. A tongue, with al
most infinity of articulation. Yes, hands
with which to welcome, or resist, or lift,
or smite, or wave, or bless—hands to help
myself and help others.
“Here is a world which after six thou
sand years of battling with tempest and ac
cident is still grander than any architect,
human or angelic, could have drafted. 1
have two lamps to light me—a golden lamp
and a silver lamp—a golden lamp set on
the sapphire mantel of the day, a silver
lamp set on the jet mantel of the night.
Yea, 1 have that al twenty years of age
which defies all inventory of valuables—a
soul, with capacity to choose or reject,
to rejoice or to suffer, to love or to hate.
Plato says it is immortal. Seneca says
it is immortal Confucius says it is im
mortal. An old book among the
family relics—a book with leather cover al
most worn out, and pages almost obliter
ated by oft perusal, joins the other books
in saving lam immortal. I have eighty
years for a lifetime, sixty years yet to live.
I may not live an hour, but then I must
lay out my plans intelligently and for a
long life. Sixty years added to the twenty
I have already lived, that will bring me to
eighty. I must remember that these
eighty years are only a brief preface to the
five hundred thousand millions ot quintil
lions of years which will be my chi-if iesi
dence and existence. Now, I understand
my opportunities and my responsibilities.
“If there is any being in the universe
all wise and all beneficent, who can help a
man in such a juncture, I want him. The
old book found among the family relics
tells me there is a God, and that for the
sake of His Son, one Jesus, He will give
help to a man. To Him I appeal. God
help me! Here I have set sixty years to
do for myself and to do for others. I must
develop this body by all industries, by all
gymnastics, by all sunshine, by all fresh
air, by all good habits. And this foal I
must have swept, and garnished, ft nd il
lumined, and glorified, by all that 1 can do
for it and all that can get God to do for
it. It shall be a Luxembourg of fine pict
ures. It shall be an orchestra of grand
harmonies. It shall be a palace for God
and righteousness to reign in. I wonder
how many’ kind words I can utt ;r in the
next sixty years? I will try. I wonder
how many good deeds I can do in the next
sixty years? I will try. God help me!”
That young man enters life. He is buf
feted, he is tried, he is perplexed. A grave
opens on this side and a grave opens on
that side. He falls, but he rises again. He
gets into a hard battle, but he gets the
victory. The main course of his life is
In that direction. He blesses everybody he
comes in contact with. God forgives his
mistakes, and makes everlasting record of
his holy’ endeavors, and at the close of it
God says to him; “Well done, good and
faithful servant; enter into the joys of thy
Lord.” My brother, my sister, I do not
care whether that man dies at thirty, forty,
fifty, sixty, seventy, or eighty years of age;
you can chisel right under his name on the
tombstone these words; “His life was
worth living.”
Amid the hills of New Hampshire, in
olden times, there sits a mother. There
are six children in the household—four
boys and two girls. Small farm. Very
rough, hard work to coax a living out of
it. Mighty tug to make the two ends of
tlie year meet. The boys go to school in
winter and work the farm in summer.
Mother is the chief presiding spirit. With
her hands she knits all the stockings for
the little feet, and she is the mantuamaker
for the boys, and she is the milliner for
the girls. There is only’ one musical in
strument in the house—the spinning wheel.
Tne food is very’ plain, but it is always well
provided. The winters are very cold, but
are kept out by the blankets she quilted.
On Sunday, when she appears in the vil
lage church, her children are around her,
the minister looks down, and is reminded
of the Bible description of a good house
wife—“ Her children rise up and call her
blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth
II Some years go by, and the two eldest
boys want a collegiate education, and the
household economies are severer, and the
calculations are closer, and until those two
boys get their education there is a hard bat
tle for bread. One ot’ these boys enters the
university, stands in a pulpit widely influ
ential, and preaches righteousness, judg
ment and temperance, and thousands dur
ing his ministry are blessed. The other lad
wito got the collegiate education goes into
the law, and thence into legislative halls,
and after a while he commands listening
senates as he makes a plea for the down
trodden and the outcast. One of the young
er boys becomes a merchant, starting at.
the foot of the ladder, but climbing on up
until his success and his philanthropies are
recognized all over the land. The other son
stays at home because he prefers farming
life, and then he thinks he will be able to
take care of father and mother when they
get old.
Os the two daughters, when the war
broke out one went through the hospitals
of Pittsburg Landing and Fortress Monroe,
cheering up the dying and homesick, and
taking the last message to kindred far
away. So that every time Christ thought
of her He said, as of old, “The same is
my sister and mother.” The other daughter
has a bright home of her own, and in the
afternoon of the forenoon when she has
been devoted to her household, she goes
forth to hunt up the sick and to encourage
the discouraged, leaving smiles and bene
distions all along the way.
But one day there start five telegrams
from the village for these five absent ones,
saying, “Come, mother is dangerously’ iL.
But before they can be ready to start they
receive another telegram, saying: “Come,
mother is dead.” The old neighbors gainer
in the old farmhouse to do the last offices
of respect. But as that farming son, and
the clergy, and the senator, and the mer
chant, and the two daughters stand by the
casket of the dead mother taking the last
look, ot* lifting their little children to see
once more the face of dear old grandma,
I want to ask that group around the cas
ket one question: “Don you ready
her life was worth living?” A life for God,
:i lifo for o’lu-rs. ’ ", ” , _
a useful life, a Christian life Is always
worca nviiif,. ,
I would not find it hard to !
that the poor lad, Peter <'ooper makii b
glue for a living, and then amassing a
fortune until he could build a phthtnfhiopy
which has had its echo in ten thousand
philanthropies all over the country-1 wo. J<l
not find it hard to persuade y° u find
life was worth living. Neither would I find
it hard to persuade you that the life of
Susannah Wesley was worth I'-ving. Hhe
sent out one son to organize Methodism and
the other son to ring his anthems all
through the ages. I would not find it haid
work to persuade you that the life of K ran
ces Leere was worth living as she establish
ed in England a school for the scientific
nursing of the sick, and then w hen the war
broke out between France and Germany,
went to the front, and with her o\\n han I.
scraped the mud off the bodies of the sol
diers dying in (he trenches, with her veaK
arm—standing one night in the ho. pit.
pushing back a German soldier to his couch,
as, all frenzied with his wounds, he rushe 1
toward the door and said:
let me go to my ‘liebe mutter. major
generals standing back to let pass this
angel of mercy. , , .
Neither would I have hard work to per
suade you that Grace Darling lived a life
worth living—the heroine of the lifeboat.
You are not wondering that the duchess o t
Northumberland came to see her. and that
people of all lands asked for her lighthouse,
and that the proprietor ot the Ndelphi thea
ter in London offered her a hundred doll is
a. night just to sit in the lifeboat while
some shipwreck scene was being enacted.
Hut I know the thought in the minds ot
hundreds who read this, 'i on say: Vv hie
1 know all these lived lives worth livmg.
don’t think mi' life amounts to much. Ah.
my friends, whether you live a life conspic
uous or inconspicuous it is worth living, il
you live aright. And I want my next sen,
tence to go down into the depths of all
your souls. You are to be rewarded, not
according to the greatness of your work,
but according to the holy industries with
which you employed the talents you reall.v
possessed. The majority’ of the crowns of
heaven will not be given to people wqli
ten talents for most of them were tempted
only to serve themselves. The vast majority
of the crowns of heaven will be given to
people who had one talent, but gave it all
to God. And remember that our life here
is introductory to another. It is the vesti
bule to a palace; but who despises the door
of the Madeleine because their are grander
glories within? Your life if rightly lived is
the first bar of an eternal oratorio, and
who despises the first note of Hayn’s sym
phonies? And the life you live now is al'
the more wortn living because it opens info
a life that shall never end, and the last
letter of the word “time” is the first letter
of the word “eternity!”
INVALID WOMEN.
Chronic Patients Tlmt Can Find No
Cure—Rend This.
A. F. Jackson, one of the leading mer
chants of Mansfield, La., in writing of Pe
ru-na, says: “On one occasion a iadv friend
of mine came in my store and s-,id that her
case had baffled the skill of ner physicians.
I went to the drug store and purchased for
her a bottle of Pe-ru-na. In a short time
therafter (I think about three weeks) she
returned to town and said that ner doctor
had called on her and she told him she
did not need any moore of his medicines,
saying that she had taken your Pe-ru-na
and that it had cured her and made a
young woman of her again. I think her
complaint was catarrh, indigestion .".nd fail
ing health from change of life.”
Any woman suffering from anv form of
female disease or change of life should
take two teaspoonfuls of Pe-ru-na before
each meal and between meals, and should
take vaginal injections of hot water each
day. If necessary, regulate the bowels
with Man-a-lin. There is not one case in
one hundred this treatment will not cure it
faithfully’ followed. Thousands of dismal
homes have been made happy; thousands
of shrunken, decrepit women have teen
restored to perfect health by adopting this
treatment. It occasionally happens that
some detail of treatment or unusual com
plication of trouble makes it desirable for
those using this treatment to write to Dr.
Hartman, of Columbus, 0., for advice.
Those wishing a complete description of
female diseases, their causes and cures,
should send their address to'The Pe-ru-na
Drug Manufacturing Company, Columbus,
Ohio, for a copy cf “The Family’ Physician
No. 3,” which will be sent free. This valu
able treatise should be in the possension of
every woman who has any interest in
these diseases.
CITIZENS ON GUARD.
Birmingham Excited Over Humors of an
Attack bv Miners.
Birmingham, Ala., July’ 22.—(Special.)—No
little excitement has existed in Birmingham
in the past two days over the rumors that
the striking miners intended making an
attack on the county jail for the purpose
of releasing the 120 miners now confined
there, and also to make an attack on the
town and burn it down.
The police department has been doubled
and the fire department has been increased
fifteen men. The water works company
have guards along their mains to the works,
about five miles distant, to prevent them
from being tampered with.
It is now believed the mains were tam
pered with the morning of the Caldwell
hotel fire.
The Third regiment of state troops re
placed the First regiment today. The Sec
ond and Third are on duty and scouts
from both are sent out every hour to
watch the movements of any suspicious
party of men.
Governor Jones says that the town will
be protected and the law upheld. The cit
izens’ reserves are walking the streets
heavily armed. Considerable apprehension
is felt.
No A. 11. I. Hen Wanted.
Jackson, Tenn., July 22.—The Mobile ahd
Ohio Railway Company issued orders yes
terday that all members Gt’ the American
Railway Union in its employ would be im
mediately dismissed. This affects several
hundred men on the Jackson anti St. Louis
division. About ten men in the shops of
the company in this city were discharged
yesterday.
The ordi: r issued by’ the company says that
the men will be taken back as soon as they’
receive withdrawal cards from the union.
A number have already applied for with
drawal, but thkre are a great many on the
St. Louis division that say they will remain
in the union. Trouble is expected.
Picking Cotton in Texas.
Houston, Tex., July 22.—Cotton picking in
south Texas will begin in earnest in the
morning. Already about fifty bales ot’ new
cotton in different sections have been picked
out. During the last forty-eight hours
splendid showers have fallen over a vast
area of cotton territory, doing immense
good to the crop. Cotton in general looks
better than ever known in Texas ami
well posted authorities predict a crop of
2,590,000 bales, lieports from 90 ner eent of
the fields are of the most flattering na
ture and it is doubtful if the crop can be
harvested unless the fall is open for pick
ing until January.
Drowned While Seining.
Murphy, N. C., July 22.—(Special.)—News
has just reached here of the accidental
drowning at Ellijay, Ga., of Mr. G. S
Long, who was in the river with a crowd
seining for fish. He got into deep water,
and beforiy assistance could be rendered
him he drowned. Mr. John Hulden came
very near losing his own life in attempting
the rescue of Mr. Long. The deceased is a
prominent citizen o£ Gilmi.-r county.
A THOROUGH SPORT.
ENGLAND'S PREHIIER HOLDS TO HIS
EAST HORSES.
Harcourt Hits at His Losses —Bimetallism Is
to Bo an Issue in the English Campaigns.
Wesleyans and Women Delegates.
London, July 21.—LorH Rosebery’s losses
through two successive defeats of his
derby-winning horse, Ladas, are reported
to aggregate something like 39,000 pounds.
Sir William Harcourt in closing his
speech on rhe financial clauses of the bud
get bill last night made a grim and decid
edly unfriendly allusion tc this fact, by in
nuendo, in response to Mr. Waiter Long.
The latter gentleman in the course of his
argument asserted that increased taxation
would cause wealthy’ landlords, with a view
of saving a couple of thousand pounds an
nually, to shut up their castles and dismiss
their laborers. “Why,” said Sir \\ illiam,
amid the delighted cheers of the opposition,
“that it is extravagant statement. Don’t
we know the case or a man of large for
tune losing mote than that in a single al
ternoon on the race course? 'A hy, that
sum is merely the price of a moderate two
year-old.”
The remark greatly pleased the opposi
tion members, but no signs of approval
were apparent among the liberals, what
ever they may have thought.
The committee composed of bimetallist
members of the house of commons have
arranged to send representatives to every
constituency in Great Britain to impress
upon the electors the advisability of nomi
nating candidates for parliament upon a
platform of bimetallism.
Scats to Be Contested.
The leaders of the Irish party calculate
that twenty-nine seats will be contested at
the next election, including the seven seats
now occupied by’ unionists. If the evicted
tenants’ bill passes the house of lords the
larger part of the Faris fund will be re
leased to assist the party in the next elec
tion. Otherwise the party purse will be
subjected to a heavy strain.
The leading question before the Wesleyan
conference is that of the admission of
women as delegates, which will be decided
at the sitting of Monday.
The question is raised by' the applica
tion for admission of Miss Dawson, who
has been elected to represent the Birming
ham synod in the conference upon the
question. There is a serious division of
opinion. The elders and more conservative
delegates oppose the admission ot women,
holding that the innovation is illegal and
against all precedent here or in the I nited
states; but a very considerable section of
the delegates favor the immediate recog
nition of the work anil influence of women
by their admission. The case of Miss Daw
son will probably be referred to a com
mittee.
The JlassaKe” Scamlsils.
In consequence of the massage scandals
mentioned in these dispatches last week, de
tectives have visited and warned the owners
and managers of a number of places in the
west end to close up their houses on the
ground that they' were employing assistants
who nere not in possession of proper certifi
cates. The result was that many’ of these
houses were summarily closed up. Officials
of the home office state that out of scores
of so-called massage establishments visited
by detectives only’ about half a dozen were
legitimate. The others were gorgeously fur
nished houses which charged enormous fees
and employed double staffs of attendants,
half male and half female. These establish
ments admitted so-called patients of both
sexes, who were privileged to choose either
a “masseur” or a “masseuse.” The home
office inquiry' into the matter has been con
ducted so as te lead to no public disclosures,
but the condition of things was found to be
as immoral as could be imagined.
Sir George Baden-Powell has signified his
intention to raise in the house of commons
the question as so whether exceptional fa
cilities are not given to foreign steamers
in competition with British vessels* irt the
carriage of British passengers. The Daily
Telegraph says the board of tra’de, to meet
the convenience of the lied Star line, sent
inspectors to Antwerp to survey the steer
age of their vessels instead of surveying
them at the cl - trance port, as prescribed.
If the official survey.at Antwerp will suf
fice, The Telegraph asks why’ would not a
survey’ in New York be sufficient?
In the matter of load line and manning
ships the British owners are subject to
restrictions that are not imposed on foreign
vessels. This lias resulted in the transfer of
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The Royal Wedding?.
The wedding of the Czarewich and Prin
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ed to take place in September. The stories
frequently told of late that Princess Alix
is discharacterized by persons authorized to
speak on the subject is being wholly’ base
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made poplins and three dresses formed of
gold woven in fine threads through white
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with tiny gold shamrocks. Another gown
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Other dresses which are being made in Ger
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the duchess of Coburg, the material of
which was woven in Russia.
The proposed international exposition in
London has fizzled out, the managers or
syndicate receiving no support.
Mr. Gladstone’s return to London is due
to the condition of his eye, which has
become worse. Another operation will be
necessary and the ex-premier’s physicians
sa.v that the ultimate result is uncertain,
though they’ are hopeful of effecting a per
manent cure. Dr. Cornelius Herz, the Pan
ama canal lobbyist, will leave England in
time to appear in court in Paris on July
29th, his health permitting.
AT'IACKED BY JAPANESE.
Consul General Hillier Tells of th®
Itoiigli Treatment He Received.
Shanghai. July 18.—Additional advices
from Seoul give a statement concerning the
attack upon Consul General Hillier, fur
nished by the consul general himself. Mr.
Hillier says he was stopped upon a public
road by’ Japanese soldiers, who demanded
to know who he was and where he was
going. Mr. Hillier replied by giving his
official title, whereupon several of the sol
diers rushed upon him, beat him with th< ir
lists and dragged him almost fifty yards
in the dirt. Mrs. Hillier, who was being
borne in a chair witnessed these indignities
to her husband, and protested vi-hemently.
Her remonstrances further enraged the
soldiers, who scattered the chatrbenrers
and pushed the chair, with Mrs. Jlillie r ;n
it, into a ditch.
Tiie consul general made a fomal com
plaint to» the Japanese minister at Seoul,
but no apology was offered, nor <-.in it be
learned that the offending soldiers were
punished. From this statement, it would
seem that the report that an attack was
made on the British consulate at Seoul is
erroneous.
Corea’s Demand of Japan.
London, July 22. —A dispatch received this
evening from Yokohama says:
“It is stated that Corea, demands the
withdrawal of Japanese troops from the
peninsula before considering the reforms
proposed by Japan. The Japanese govern
ment is much surprised by’ the demand.
Corea has never before been so firm, and
her present attitude is rrgarded as proof
that she has been influenced by’ China to
defy openly Japan’s wishes. Negotiations
have been in progress for several days be
tween Tokio and Pekin, but their tend.-ncy
is not generally known.”
The Chinese legation here has hi*ti’d noth
ing from Pekin since Saturday morning.
Everybody there discredits till- rumor that
war has been declared, as well as the re
port that 10,090 Chinese soldiers have start
el for Corea. The officials at the Japanese
legation also discredit the war rumors ot
the last two days and expi» ss much sur
prise that war has been n garded here .as
imminent. The British foreign office di nii-s
knowledge of war or final preparations for
war between Japan and China.
SPREAD OF TIIE ( lIOLERA.
The Disease Assuming: Alarming; Pro*
portions in Russia.
St. Petersburg, July’ 1~. —The cholera
epidemic is assuming alarming proportions.
The present visitation is of a much more
intense and more fatal character than
were the outbreaks of the two previous
years. The disease has even penetrated
into Finland, which has hitherto been abso
lutely free from cholera. The hospitals are
full and a prison is being converted into a
hospital.
The Cholera.
St. Petersburg, July’ 12.—1 tis officially
announced that in consequence of the prev
alence of cholera the mobilizing of the
reserves and the customary' autumn mili
tary maneuvers in the vieintiy of St.
Petersburg will not take place this year.