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w. D. B CHAMBER?. Proprietor.
VOL. X
FALLACY
—OF—
Mere Clews
We occupy the position that the term
*<cheap,” as implied by pretending to
roffer any article of goods for less than
it's real veiue is, to deal mildly, mis
leadin.p upqn its face, and should be
rhur.neU by'-sensible; thinking people.
• •vV * . ’ '
“No shoddy” i.6 bur.motjo for all the
term implies.
To those expecting., something for
ft "
nothing we cannot supply your wants;
on the other hand, if you desire full
value for your money you are the class
of custom we are hustling for.
. I>ter*s!:-Slois!
We have 'the best Shoes that money
and experience can produce.
Heywood shoes for men, every pair
warranted,- “no - shoddy,” $3.50.
Custom mads Shoes' for ladies at
$2.00-to s3'.'i)o.’ '
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Our “Vicious” shoes for ladies at
•$1.:60 to $1 85, are tfee'tetin the city.
;. * .*• U,;
" Oxfords'for ladiesj’rom SI.OO to $2.09:
Qu-r Gotmfrn dine of-Khdgaroo Caf
women's s-hoes at $1.50 are the best
ihade 'for great wearers. •
Our. “Cannon Ball” shoes foe men
.ana'ioys at $1 25 and $2.0.0 cannot be
... r
■excelled'made of home tsiyifd leather,
full stock .calf.
“Battle Axe Shoes!” Yes, we have
a full line of women’s Kangaroo shoes
of that make at $1.35.
Men's“ Battle Axe” Brogan's at $1.35.
Boys’ “Battle Axe” shoes, SI.OO to
$1 15. *
Pi&afly-tQ-Wear dole
Men’s All-Wool Suits, $6.00 to $7.00.
Have been reduced from SIO.OO.
Our SS.OO to $12.00 suits are e’egan't
iy made and excellent values.
We have recently purchased about
300 suits for men and boys at a sacri
fice price and are in position to sell
good all-wool suits from that iqt at less
than first cost.
“Nox All” Hals.
Latest styles for men at $2.00. The
greatest hat to be had at that price.
We have “No Name” hats at $2.50
to $4.50; none better made.
Straw hats, up-to-date styles, at 50c,
75c and SI.OO.
Dry Goods Depart
ment Complete;.
4x4 Brown Domestic, standard, 5e
yard. :
Best Cotton Chedks'at 5 and 6 cents
a yard. . "
American’lbdigo. Blub Prints, -5e yd*
Standard Fancy Prints, 5d yard. ,
Shirting Prints, percale styles, 5c yd.
Dress Ginghams, goo‘d>; at lOp-yard.
French' Ginghams,'at 15c yard.
Lawns from 5c to 20c yard. ..
Best feather-proof ticking at 15c yd.
4-x’3tßjj;ache'<L Domestic,- 5e yard:**-'-
.Better grade Bleaching,*7 tolllflc yd-
Ladies’ the - re
duced to 50c... The SI,OO and $1.25 qual
ifies reduced to 75c. These prices are
n£t profitable to us, but an actual loss;;
desire to'eloshißbe.line out.'
[Men’s Elastic . dffiw’ers,’ 5Qe
Pair.
Men’s Balbriggan Undershirts, 25c to
50c.
Ladies’ Gause Vests, 10c, 15c' and
25c each.
We have an almost innumerable
number of good values that we cannot,
Ipr want of space, call attention.
Hope to have the pleasure of seeing
°ur friends and demonstrate our grati
tude for past favors. We remain
Yours respectfully,
Ganany Bros.
IXYllk COUNTY SENTINEL.
BILL ARP’S LETTER
President, Roosevelt “Touched
Up” By Bartow Philosopher.
HAS BOTH GOOD AND BAD TRAITS
William Would Willingly Forgive Him
if He Would Apologize For Hard
Things Said of Southerners.
As old Uncle T3ob Rogers said, "The
southern people are the most forgive
ness people in the world.” They will
suffer more and suffer longer, and then
if their enemy smiles on ’em and feeds
'em with a little sugar, they will lick
his hand and forgive him.
I was rumiu'afltfg about this“when I
read of the president's visit.to Charles
ton, and the grand ovation they gave
him. It hasn’t been two months since
he said In public at a banquet that our
secession was anarchy. It hasn’t been
very long since he wrote in his life
of Tom Benton this sentence: “Before
Jefferson Davis took his place among
the arch traitors, he had already been
known as one of the chief repudiators
of his state, and it was but natural
that to dishonesty he should add
treachery to the public.” Mississippi
did repudiate her public debt, and so
did Michigan and some other northern
states, but Mr. Roosevelt singles out
a southern state to give a slam at Mr.
Davis and the south. Now the truth is
that Mr. Davis had nothing in the
world to do with it. -It was done before
he came into public life or had any
thing to do with public affairs. I
reckon Roosevelt got it from John Stu
art Mills’s slanderous history when he
says, “Mr. Davis was governor of Mis
sissippi, and when the legislature
passed a bill to pay the repudiated
bonds he vetoed it.”. What a mon-.
strous lie! Mr. Davis never was gov
ernor of Mississippi, and-such bill
was ever passed. Again, Mr. Roosevelt
says in his boob, “The moral differ
ence between Benedict Arnold on the
one hand and Aaron Burr or Jefferson
Davis on the other t 6 the difference
between a politician who sells his vote
for money and one-who supports a bad
measure to get a high political posi
tion.” What malignant venom there
must be in a man who would class Jef
ferson Davis with Arnold and Burr;
what amazing ignorance of historical
facts to call him an arch traitor and
a chief repudiator when at the very
time of the repudiation he was organiz
ing a regiment to fight the battles of
his country on the soil of Mexico.
There he was desperately wounded,
and for five years went on crutches.
Our southern people regard Jefferson
Davis with emotions of the highest ad
miration, and I have supreme contempt
for the ignorant or malignant histori
ans and politicians who assail him. It
gratifies me immensely that the pres
ident and General Miles have fallen
out, and that Miles got the worst of it,
though I don't know who deserves the
most scorn, the president for slander
ing Mr. Davis or - Miles for putting
shackles on him.
Now if Roosevelt was man enough
to retract what he wrote and ascribe
it to ignorance or misinformation, he
could restore himself to some extent
to the favor of our people, for it Is a
fact that we are the most forgiveness
people on the earth, but I have never
yet known a Yankee .politician to apol
ogize for anything: he did. They are
the saints. The G. A. R.’s invite our
boys,to banquet with them, but they
don’t apologize, and they won’t vote us
a pension to save our lives.’ I don’t
understand the president, and my opin
ion is he. donlt understand himself. I
don't believe-he has mind enough to
know his own mind. If he-is really
for. eival war reform and an honest,
government, what dirt he, turn out Ev-.
ans-for-and put in a.-figurehead, unless
it was to. tickle the Q. A. R.’s (grab all
rascils) aid get their influence in the
next nominating convention. Perhaps
he is himself the man ".who supports
a bad measure to get high political
position.” Well, of course any son-of
a-gun can get 'itttfi', fin'd setae
who never had a gun. I believe a con
federate. soldler -can gat. one by: -greas
/ij£iae only last ween
one gf our esteemed fellow Citizens
Jiad business" that called'him to a city
1 in~Nrtf York state and on being intro
duced, fo the pension agent as Captain
he" was asked what service he was
in. Hereglled,;“ln the Virginia army.”
So was J,” saßl the agent. “Have you
gotten a, pension?”.. “No,” .said the
captain. V‘Well,“iet me make out your
application fit is time-you had one,”
Tife captain humored him for some
time, while he was filling up the blank.
“Were" you at the surrender?” said
he. “I was.” said the captain. “Whose
command were you in then?” said the
agent. "General Wade Hampton’s,”
said the captain. “The devil, you say;
you were a rebel, then. Gentlemen,
here is the.first rebel I have ever made
out a pension claim for, and he looks
like such a gentleman. I’ve a good no
tion to send it up and get him one.”
The captain says he could have got
ten one as easy- as falling off a log, If
he had just lied a little. Newt Tumlin
told me a long time ago that the only
way to get even with the republicans
was to grease ’em or jine ’em, but it
was safer to do both.
But our people will forgive Teddy if
he will apolglze for the past and be
have in the future. He has some good
traits, which he inherited from his
mother, but his impulses and emotions
are not well balanced. His gun goes
oft half cocked and he shoots with the
double wabbles. 1 think he has about
let the nigger alone and so has the
north generally. We lynched one In
Rome the other day and I have never
seen any mention of it in their papers.
Our governor didn’t even offer a re
ward nor has the circuit judge made
any fuss about it. I reckon the towns
and cities will now svtmiai.hize with
the country people, for the crime in
this case was committed in the very
center of th* city, and so was the
lynching, and nobody was disguised. I
have been in favor of lynching ever
since they burned that negro in Dallas,
Tex., and I am still. When they lynch
one they ought to pick out about a
dozen bad ones and whip them and
make them leave the country. That’s
the war they do in. Texas. Every com
munity is in danger from mean, idle
negroes. Whose wife or daughter will
be the next victim?
If Teddy had been in Rome, I wonder
what he would have done. I believe
he would have joined the lynchers.
Why not? He is killing them by the
thousands in the Philippines for no
crime except loving their country. Our
so-called soldiers:' are pitting them- to
torture of the most horriole kind, and
burning their towns, ancPcall It a war
for the honor of the flag. It makes
the blood.boil to' read about it. They
learned all this from Sherman during
our civil war, and have improved upon
the lesson that he taught them. But
I won't ruminate about it any longer.
It makes me heart sick to ponder upon
the iniquities of this administration.
Those ten million negroes cost us $2
a head, and it has already cost us S2OO
a head to subdue them, and we have
.hardly begun. Let me go out and dig
some in the garden.
P. S. —An old soldier, C. W. Shipp, of
Water Valley, Miss., sends me his
photo as he lies in bed, where he has.
been for twenty-two years, paralyzed
from wounds received at the battle of
Franklin. He enlisted in company GJ
First Mississippi infantry; was in the
tight at Fort Donaldson and Fort Hud.-
son, and followed Hood from Atlanta
to Tennessee; was wounded at bat tie
of Franklin and taken prisoner. He
has written a poem and dedicated it to
his comrades. His home has -an old
debt of S4OO hanging over it, a.nd will
be Aold before long. How many of the
veterans who are going to Dallas will
send him a dollar or balf-ti dollar to
save his old home? He wi ll send each
one his picture and a copy of his poem.
\ B. A.-
P. S. —I receive letters every mail
asking questions or wanting favors of
some sort. I answer those Vhat have
stamps inclosed.—Bill Arp, in Atlanta
Constitution.
RACE QUESTION BRiHXM' UP.
Acrimonious Debate in House Between,
Northern and Southern Repreae.n
tatives Anent Social Equality.
A Washington special says: The
house Monday entered upon the consid-,;
oration of the military academy appro
priation bill, which, in’ addition to the
regular items, contains provision for
the extensive improvement of the
grounds and buildings at West Point.
These improvements are to'cost $6,-
500,000. a little over $3,000,000 of which j
is appropriated in the bill. Twenty- !
four of the thirty pages of the bill were !
completed. '
' During the general debate on the ;
military academy bill. Mr. Gilbert, of
Kentucky, precipitated a discussion on
-the race'question, which was participa
ted in by Messrs. Gillett, of Massachu
setts; Blackburn, of North Carolina,
and-Mr. Gaines, of Tennesseec Mr.
Cochran, of Missouri.' and Mr. Gillett
also discussed the question of alleged,
violation of .the neutrality laws in con
nection with .the shipment of mules
and horses to South Africa.
Mr, Cannon, .chairman of the com
mittee on appropriations, characterized
the proposed expenditure at West
Point as the “rankest kind of extrava
gance.”
Mr. Hay, Virginia, said that the ir n-
necessary to accommo
date the large increase in the nuneber
of .cadets which already had. beep pro
vided for by law,.
Mr. Gilbert, of Kentucky, took occa
sion to.reply to some remarks recently
•made by Mr. Gillett, pf Massachusetts;
Mr. Bromwell, of Ohio, and General
Funston. which he thought reflected
unon fils state. In the course of his re
n arks Mr. Gilbert said that in Ken
tucky, and. in fact, in all the south,
they looked with supreme contempt
upon the soda,’ equality of the races.
The most ignorant white girl in his
state, he said, would, infinitely prefer
to marry the lowest, meanest, most ig
norant white man in the world to the
most cultivated negro in America.
Gentlemen ,on the other side could
not cry down the "taint in the blood.”
He recalled the fact that when a col
ored man sat on the other side. not. one
of his colleagues invited him to his
house. The prejudice against social
equality was as strong in the north as
in the south, he declared., and all talk
to the contrary was “hypocritical rot
find rant.”
"Whether a man shall retire from
business at sixty or eighty all de
pends upon-the man,” says Andrew
Carnegie. Doesn’t it depend to some
extent upon the man’s money?
OCCLolal Organ of Dado COunty
TRENTON. (Sr A. FRIDAY. APRIL 25.1902.
DR.TAUI AGE’S SERHON
Preached a Short Time Before
Hi* Death.
Subjects b-inuer in l)elny-Tlii Folly of
Postponing the Acceptance of the
Gospel Invitation.—Sympathy For the
Skeptics—Time to He Religious.
Washington, I). (!.—ln the following 1
discourse,'prepared by Dr, Talmage before I
his illuiss, the folly and danger of post- j
poning the acceptance of (he gospel invi
tation ate exposed on the text, Lake xiv,
18, “And they ail with orae ennsent began
to make excuse.”
After 'the invitations to., a levee are
sent out the regrets coma in. One man
apologizes * for -leirotten lance on one
ground, another on another ground. The
most of the regrets are founded on prior
engagements. So in nr/ text a great ban
quet was spread, the invitations were cir- I
ciliated. \ and now the regrets come in. |
The one gives rm. agricultural reason, the
other a stock daa’.er.s reason, the other a
domestic- All poor reasons. The
fact was, they yji'l not want to go. “And
they all with one consent began to make
excuse.” ’ ,
So now Gc and spreads a great banquet.
It is the gosiml feast, and the table reaches
across the hemispheres, and the invita
tions go of t, and multitudes come and
sit down a." id drink,out of the chalices'of
God’s lovft. while other multitudes decline
coming, tte one giving this apologv, and
the other giving that apology, "and they
al! with one consent begin to make ex
cuse.” I propose, so far as God may help
me, to .examine the apologies which men
make far not entering the \Jhristian life.
Apolcjgy. the first: I apT not sure there
is anything valuable in the Christian re
ligion. It is pleaded that there nre so
many impositions in this dav; so many
things that seem to be real are, sham. A
gilded outside may have a hcd’.ow inside.
There is so much qu.-xkery i-., physics, in
ethics, jrt politics, th *l. me T , come to the
habit of incredulity, ;,nd a'ter awhile they
allow that incredulity tr. collide with our
holy religion, but, y/ y friends, 1 think
religion has made a. )’. re tty good record in
world. How j nanv wounds it has
sa.vea! How maru . p ji] ars of fire it has
lifted in the rmdr ,ight wilderness! How
many simoom stir ck (lcserta , t hath turned
into the garder s o f, the Lord! How it
hath stilled tb e chopped sea! What rosy
light it Mtu se ht streaming through the
rift of the gtorm-cloud! What pools of
cool water it hath f-athered for thirsty
Hagar aiy, Ishmael! What manna whiter
than cor ia nder seed it hath dropped all
®™una' the camp of bardy bested pilgrims!
What promises it hath sent, out like holy
watet iers to keep the lamps burning amiMMis
9 e V hbeds, through
.era into the
a - resurrection morn!
BeSideu that, this l-elimade so
' Sl nn J r b? r °e3. It brnujSgEPumrnerfield, the
Methodist, acrossuj&nKimantic ocean with
his silver tht acceptable
year of the,rtfrd.until it ccemed as if all
our American cities would take tbs king
dom of lipaven by violence. It sent Jehudi
Ashman into Africa alone, in a continent
°f nake.d barbarians, to lift the standard
of civilization and Christianity, It made
John Milton among poets, Raphael among
painters Christopher Wren among archi
tects, Thonvaldsen among sculptors, Han
del among musicians, Dupont among mili- 11
tarv commanders, and to give new wings
to the imagination and better balance to
the judgment and more determination to
tho. wiii and greater usefulness to the life
and grander nobility to the soul there is
nothing in all the earth like our Christian
t religion. Nothing in religion? Why, then,
all those Christians were deceived when
in their dying moment they thought they
j saw the castles of the blessed, and your
j child, that with unutterable agony yon
! . put away into the grave, you will never
{ sec him again or hear his sweet voice
t tat feel the throb of his young heart.
! There is nothing in religion? Sickness
will come upon you. Roil and turn on
your pillow; no relief. The medicine may
j be bitter, the night may be dark, the pain
i may be sharp; no relief. Christ never
comes to the sick-room. Let the painJ
stab; let the fever burn:.curse it and djtj
There is nothing in religion? After nwjaf /
death will come. You will hear the mf-
I ing of the pale horse on the threjKld.
i The spirit will be breaking away fngfii the
body, and it will take flight—Wbither,
; whither? There is no God, na minister#'
j; j n K angels to conduct, no Christy no
heaven, no home. Nothing in rpKgrtm?
Oh, you are not willing to adopt such u“
dismal theory! ,
i And yet the world is full' of skeptics.
And let me sav there is no class of peo
pie for whom 1 have a warmer sympathy
than for skeptics. We do not know hew
to treat them. We deride them, we. carica
ture them. We, instead of taking th.i
by the soft hand of Christian love, clutlln
lj them with the iron pinchers of ecclesias
-1 i. 1C j SI r I 'n you knew how those men
had faHra, away, from Christianity and be
; come styptics you would not be sp rough
{ on them! Some were brought up in homes
where -religion was overdone. The most
wretched day in the week- was Sunday.
Keigion was driven into them with a trip
hammer. They had ff surfeit of prayer
meetuigs. They were stuffed and choked
with catechisms. They were told by their
parents that they were the worst children
that ever lived because they liked to ride
down hill bet'er than to read “Pilgrim’s
1 rogress. They never heard their pa
talk Ti! religion but with the corners
01 the me,nth drawn down and the eyes
rolled Üb. Others went into skepticism
through maltreatment on the part of some
who /professed religion. There is a man
who says: “My partner in business was
conspicuous in prayer meeting, and he
s officious in all religious circles, but
b e cheated me out of S3OOO, and I don’t
want any of that religion.” Then there
are others who get into skepticism by a
natural persistence in asking questions,
why or how? How can God be one being
in three persons? They cannot understand
it. Neither can I. How can God be a
complete sovereign and yet man a free
agent? They cannot understand it.
Neither can I. They cannot understand
why a holy God lets sin come into the
world. Neither can I. They sav: “Here
is a- great mystery; here is a disciple of
fashion, frivolous and godless all her days;
she lives on to be an octogenarian. Here
is a Christian mother, training her chil
dren for God and for heaven, self-sacrific
ing, Christlike, indispcr.skb’.e seemingly to
that household; she gets a cancer and
dies.” The skeptic says, “I can’t explain
that." Neither can I.
I can see how men reason themselves
into skepticism. With burning feet l
have trodden that blistering wav. I know
what it is to have a hundred nights
poured into one hour. There are men in
"the arid desert of doubt who would give
their thousands of dollars if they could
get back to the old religion of their
fathers. Such men are not to be carica
tured, but helped, and not through their
heads, but . through their hearts. When
these men really do come into the king
dom of God, they will be worth far more
to ths cause of Christ than those who
never examined the evidences of Chris
tianity: Thomas Chalmers once a skeptic,
Robert Ilall once a skeptic,' Christmas
Evans once a skeptic; but when they did
lay hold of the nosnel chariot how they
made it speed ahead! If, therefore, I ad
dress men and women who have drifted
away into skepticism, I throw out no
scoff; I rather implead you by the mem
ory of those “good, old times when you
knelt at your mother’s knee and said your
evening prayer and those other days of
sickness when she watched all night and
gave you the medicines at just the. right
time and turned the pillow when it was
hot and with hand long ago turned to
dust soothed your pains and with that
| voice you will never hear again unless you
j join her in the better country, told you
never mind, and by that dying couch
where she talked so slowly, catching her
breath between the words —by all those :
memories I ask you to come and take ]
(W same religion. It was good enough lor i
her; it is good enough for you. Aye, 1
make a better plea: By the wounds and
the death throe of the Son of God, who
approaches you in infinite love with
torn brow and lacerated hands and j
whipped back, crying, “Come unto Ale, i
all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and ,
I will give you rest!”
Other persons apologize ’for not enter
ing the Christian life because of tlm in
corrigibility of their temperament. Now,
we admit it is harder for some people to
become Christians than for others, but the j
grace of God never came to a mountain
that it could not climb or to an abyss that
it could not fathom or to a bondage that
it could not break. The wildest horse that
ever trod Arabian sands has been broken
tq bit and trace.
The maddest torrent tumbling from
mountain shelving has been harnessed to
;he mill wheel and the factory band, setting
a thousand shuttles all u-buzz and a-clat
ter. And the wildest, the haughtiest, the
most ungovernable man ever''created by
the grace of God may be subdued and sent
out on ministry of kindness, as God sends
an August thunderstorm to water the wild
flowers down in the grass. Peter, with
nature tempestuous as the sea that he
gnee tried to walk, at one look from
Christ went out and wept bitterly. Rich
harvests of giace may lie grown on the
summit of the jagged steep, and flocks of
Christian graces may find, pasturage in
fields of bramble and rock.
Though your disposition triny be "11
a-bristle with fretfulnes, though you
have a temperqfcgleam with quick light
nings, though yo?S||tyarice be like that of
the horse leech, ,c?3R|fcw“Give!” though
damnable impurities h. you in
all consuming fire, that
devil out of your soul, and rliaou
and the darkness Ho can say,
be light.”
The best place for a skillful doctor Tst!P
a neighborhood where there are all poor
doctors, the best place for an enterprising
merchant to open his store is in a place
where the bargain makers do not under
stand their business, and the best place
for you who want to become the iilue
trious and complete Christian, the best
place for you is to come right down among
us who arc so incompetent and co incon
sistent sometimes, show us hew. Give
us an example.
Exudations from poisonous trees n cur
neighbor’s garden will make a very pour
Lalrn for pur wounds.
Sickness will come, and We Will he
pushed out toward the Red Sea Which di
vides this world from the next, and not
of Christians, but the
will wave back the Waters
wheels his host. The
judgment will come, with its thunder
shod Bo'emnities. Oh, then we will not
stop and say, “There was a mean Chrisj
tian: there was an impure Christian.’
In that day as now, “If thou he wise, tho.i
shalt be wise for thyself, but if then
eeornest thou alone .shall bear it.” Why,
my brother, tfcc inconsistency of Chris
tians, so far from being an argument to
keep you away from God, ought to be an
argument to drive you to Him.
No time to be religious hcqg! __ou
have no time net to De religious. ' "ou
might as well have no clerko in your
store, no books in your library, no com
pass on your ship, iia rifle in the battle,
no hat on your no CO <R f° r >’ our
back, no shoes for feet.
lletter travel c**jPward eternity bare
! headed'Tnd bareJMcd and houseless and
homeless and fr Jijßcss than to go through
life without rg’ifljpt,
Did religiok/uWce Raleigh any less of a
statesman yßfm avelo.’k any less of n
soldier or any less cf a merchant
o- West ajPnßs of a painter?
Why, jpjEßends, religion is the best
bargain; it is the sweet
est notAifJpWr;* song; it is the brightest
Kern JMBfironet; No time to be rc
ngiqvjjLjflfvlyou \vill have to take time
to iJjy’jfvl be troubled, to die. Our
s f )r kßgl the wharf from which wc
,s vikEl f° r heaven.
secure the friendship of
A.Six cajfflsßimc to buy a lamp and trim
itV 0 , JKMSwalk through the darkness
fwvise will be illumined only
h.'d-i/ 'Js’Miu'ss of the tombstones? No
the eye for heavenly spleri
fjffs or Ml hand for choral harps or the
ear for KJrlasting songs or the soul lor
honor, mfa and immortality? One would
think wmijld time for nothing else.
OtherHrsons apologize for not enter
ing thcJßristian life because it is time
enough jwL That is very like those per
sons u,send regrets and say, “I will
como ijiaierhaps at 11 or 12 o’clock; 1
will ncSJjoe there at the opening of the
banqurfrbut I will be there at the close.”
Not ya J Not yet! Now, Ido not give
any dMnul view of this life. There is
nothin® 1 In my nature, nothing in the
grace of>"iiod, that tends toward a doleful
view oftfuman life.
I have not much sympathy with Ad
dison’s description ot the “Vision of
Mirza,” where he represents human life
as being a bridge of a hundred arches and
both ends of the bridge covered with
clouds and, the race coming on, the most
of them falling down through the tirst
span and ail of them falling down through
the last span.
It is a very dismal picture. I have not
much sympathy with the Spanish proverb
which says, “The sky is good ar.d the earth
is good; that which is bad is between the
earth and the sky.”
But, while we as Christian men ere
bound to take a cheerful view of life, wo
must also confess that life is a great un
certainty arid that man who says, “I
can’t become a Christian because there ij
time enough yet;” is running a risk in
finite.
You do not perhaps realize the fact that
this descending grade of sin gets steeper
and steeper and that you are gathering
up a rush and velocity which after awhile
may not answer to the brakes.
Be not among those . who give their
whole life to the world and then give their
corpse to God. It doe3 not ceem fair that
while our pulses are in full play of health
we serve ourselves ar.d serve the world
and then make God at last the prr-ent of
a'coffin. It does not seem right that we
run our ship from coast to coast carrying
cargoes for ourselves and tnen, when the
ship is crushed iu the rocks, give to God
the shivered timbers. It is a great thing
tor a man on his dying pillow to repent —
better that than never at all; but how
much better, how much more generous, it
-would have been it he had repented fifty
years before! My friends, you will nev.r
get over these procrastinations.
We have started on a march from which
there is no retreat. The shadows of
eternity gather on our pathway. How
insignificant is time compared with the
vast eternity! As I was thinking of this
one day while coining down over the Alle
ghany Mountains at noon., by that won
derful pass which you all have heard de
scribed as" the Horseshoe —a depression in
the side of the mountain where the train
almost turns hack again upon itself, and
you see how appropriate is the name cf
the Horseshoe—and thinking on this very
theme and preparing this, very sermon, it
seemed to me a: if the great, courser of
eternity speeding along had just struck
the mountain with one hoof and gone on
into illimitable ;paee. So abort is time,
so insignificant is earth, compared with
the vast eternity! This moment voices roll
down the sky. and all the worlds of light
are ready to' rejoice at* your discnthrali
nient. Rush not into the presence of the
King-ragged witlf sin when you may have
this robe of righteousness. Hash not your
foot pieces against the throne of a cruci
fied Christ. Throw not your.- crown of life
! off the battlements.' All the scribes of
] God are at this hour ready with volumes
' of living light to record the news uf your
I soul emancipated.
[Copyright, 1902, L. ttlopscb.l
VICTORY FOR CUBANS
Reciprocity Measure is Forced
Through the House.
CARRIES AN ANTITRUST RIDER
“Rebellious" Republicans and Demo
crats Join Forces—Little Chance
For Measure in Senate —Pro-
visions ,of the Bill.
A Washington special Bays: The
Cuban reciprocity bill passed the
house Friday. It went through only
after there had been tacked to it an
amendment abolishing the differential
duty upon refined sugar. The real
fight was upon this amendment. It
was meant as a blow at the sugar
trust, which has through this differen
tial grown Into a giant at the expense
of the sugar consumers of America,
and the democrats of thd house, act
ing In line with their decision at their
caucus Thursday night, presented a
solid front in opposition to the trust.
“Joined with them were the “insur
gents” and a sufficient number of oth
er independent republicans to make a
clear and decisive majority of the
house.
The battle was fiercely waged, and
as the climax approached the excite
ment —not on the floor alone, but in
the galleries and throughout the city
—was greater than hag been manifest
ed since the day of the adoption of
the Spanish war resolution. Most of
the members of the senate were on
the. floor as Interested spectators and
thousands were unatile to get seats in
the galleyles.
Provisions of Measure.
The Cuban bill as passed authorizes
the president, as soon as may be after
the establishment of an independent
government in Cuba and the enact
ment by said government Of immigra
tion, exclusion of contract labor laws
as restrictive as those of the United
States, to negotiate a reciprocal trade
agreement with Cuba by which, in re
turn for equivalent concessions, the
! United States will grant a reduction of
20 per cent from the Dingley rates on
i g<Mds coming Into the United States
tmn Cuba, such agreement to com
tinue until December 1, 1903.
In addition, the Morris amendment
—aimed at the sugar trust—provides
that “upon the making of said agree
ment and the issuance of said procla
mation, and while said agreement
shall remain in force, there shall be
levied, collected and paid, in lieu of
the duties thereon now provided by
law, on all sugars above No. 16, Dutch
standard in color, and on all sugar
w'hich has gone through a process of
refining, imported into the United
States i.825 cents per pound.”
The vote to overrule the decision of
the chair was 171 to 130, thirty-seven
republicans joining with a solid demo
cratic vote. Having won this prelim
inary victory, the amendment was
adopted in committee —164 to 111 and
later In the house by a still larger ma
jority—l 99 to 105.
On this occasion sixty-four republi
cans voted with the democrats for the
amendment. The bill then was passed
by an overwhelming majority—247 to
52.
Analysis of the vote shows that 124
republicans and 123 democrats voted
for the amended bill, and 42 republi
cans and 10 democrats voted against
it.
To Thursday night’s democratic
caucus the defeat of the republican
leaders who sought to pass the bill
without amendment is attributable.
There is no cerainty .that the bill
will ever pass -the senate.
President and Wife In New York.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt left
Washington Friday night for New
York, wjjere they attended on Satur
day the exercises incident to the in
stallation of Nicholas Murphy Butler
as president of Columhbia university.
COLOMBIA ASKS SEVEN MILLION.
Canal Protocol is For Second Timo
Before the State Department.
The Colombia canal protocol, which
was delivered at the state department
on April 1 and afterward recalled by
Minister Concha for modifications,
was again presented to Secretary Hay
Friday. The proposal as to price Is
set out as follows 1 :
One year after the exchange of rati
fications of a treaty the United States
shall pay Colombia the lump sum of
$7,000,000. This figure will represent
fourteen years rental at $500,000- a
year.
NEW COLLEGE PRESIDENT.
Professor Butler Installed as Head of
Columbia University.
Saturday at New York Profeskor
Nicholas Murray Butler was installed
as president of Columbia university
with imposing ceremony. These cere
monies were attended by the president
of the United States and the heads of
the principal institution;' l of learning
in the country.
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