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THIS WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY, MAY 20 1884- TWJSLVE.&A8J3B.'
DR. TALMAGE
EXPRBSSBS Hts VIEWS ON PBSTXF-
BROUS LITERATURE.
Abmf* From runt Book. wm??H ... An.lox-.tfo of
Came, .a, t!i?? Book. >Jtei ???rj I. K.k. Xm<
purity o cat .ns Crlm. Attrsstte. *nd
BjpooiI.t Nobu-Bbu. foim!
JiKooxt-vir, Mb f 18.???[Special ] Dr. Tal-
r??|ge preached to-day in the Brooklyn
tabernacle, in codtlnnation of hi. serifs of ser-
room on the popular questions of the day,
Before the sermon he read about the dying
roll In the prophecies. The opening hymn
was:
???Jeius shall reign wheri???c-r the sun
Does his successive Jonrnejl rue."
The subject of the sermon was ???Pestiferous
Literature" and the text was Ecclesiastes xii.
12: ???Of making books there is no end.???
True iu the times so long B C., how much
more true in the times so long A. D.? We see
<so many books we do not understand what
book is. Stand it on end. Measure
the height of it, the depth of it, the
length of if, the breadth of it. You cannot
do it. Examine the papers and estimate the
progress made from the time of the impress,
ions on clay and then on to the bark of trees
and from the bark of treea to papyrus end
from papyrus to the hide of wild beasts and
from the hide of wild beasts on down until
the miracles of our modern paper manufactor
ies, and then see the paper white
and pure as au infant's soul waiting for
God???s inscription. A book! Examine the
type of it. Examine the printing of it and
see the progress from the time when Solon'i
laws were written on oak planks and Hesiod'
poems were written on tables of lead and the
Sinaitic commands were written on the tables
of stone,on down to Hoe???s perfecting printing
press. A book I It took all the universities of
the past, a)l the martyr tires, all the civlllzs
lions, all the battles, ail the victories, all the
defeats, all the glooms, all the brightenosies,
ail theceotoriee to makeitpossible. A book!
It is the chorus of the ages???it is the drawing
room in which kings and queens and orators
and poets and historians aid philosophers
corns out to greet you. If I worshiped any.
thing on earth I would worship that. If I
burned incense to any idol I would build an
altar to that. Thank Ood for good books,
healthful books, inspiring books, Christian
books, books of men, books of women, books
of Goil, The printing press is the mightiest
agency on earth for good and for evil. The
minister of the gospel standing in n pulpit has
a responsible position, but I do nos think it
is as responsible a- the postion of ail editor or
apubliiuer. Take the simple statistic that
our New York dailies now nave a circulation
of 450,000 per day and add to it the fact that
3 of our weekly periodicals have an aggregate
circulation of about oue .million,
and then cipher if you can, how far up and
how far down and bow far out reach the in
tluences of the American printing press. 1
believe the Lord intends the printing press to
be the chief means for the world's rescue and
evangelization and I think that the great last
battle of the world will not be fongut with
swords or guns, but with types and press???a
puritied gospel literature triumphing over,
trampling down and crashing oat forever
that which is depraved. The only way to
fight a bad book is by printing a good one.
The only way toovercome unclean newspauer
literature is by scattering abroad that which
is healthful. May Ood speed the cylindersof
an honest, intelligent, aggressive, Christian
printing press!
I have to tell yon this morning that I be
lieve that the greatest scourge that has ever
come upon this nation has been that of un-
clean journalism. It hss its victims in all
occupations and departments. It has
helped to All insane asylums, and
penitentiaries and almshouses and dsna
of ahatne. The. oodles of this in
fection lie in the hospitals and in the
graves while their sonla are being tossed over
into a lost eternity, an avalanche of horror
and despair. The London plague was noth,
ing to it. That Counted its victims by thous
ands but this modern prat has already
shoveled its millions into the charnel boose
of the morally dead. The longest rail train
that ever ran over the Erie or the Hudson
tracks was not long enough or large enough
to carry the beastliness sod the putrifaction
which have gathered up iu the bad books sad
newspapers of this land iu the last twenty
years Now it is amidst such circumstances
that I put the questions of overmaiterlng im
portance to you and to your families, what
can we do to abate this pestilence? What
books and newspapers shall we read? You
see I group them together. A newspaper is
only a book iu a swifter and
more portable s'ape and the
same rules which apsly to bosk read
ing will apply to newspaper reading. What
shall we read? Shall our minds be the
receptacle of everything that an author has a
mind to write??? Shalt there be no distinction
between tha tree of life and the tree of death ?
Shall we atoop down and drink out of the
trough whioh the wiokedness of man has
filled with pollution and shame? Shall w<
mire in imparity and chase fantastic will-o???
the-wispa across the swsraps when we might
walk in the blooming gardens of God? Ob, no.
For the sake of our present and everlasting
welfare we mast make an intelligent anu
Christian choice.
Standing as we do chin deep in fictitious
literature, the first question that many of the
young people are ashing me is: ???Shsil we
read novels?'' I reply, there are novels that
are pure, go >d, Christian, elevating to the
heart and ennobling to the life. But I have
still further to say that I believe three-teurtbs
of the novels in this day are baneful and
destructive to the last degree. A pure work
of fiction is history and poetry combined. It
is a history of things around us with the
licenses and the assumed names of poetry.
The world can never repay the debt
loan your ton or daughter a bad book. Ever--1 scalp of him that goelh on in his trespasses.'
where, everywhere, an unclean literature I 11 The clock strikes midnight. A fair form |
charge upon it the destruction of ten tboi- <??? l bends over a romance. The eyes flash fire,
and immortal souls and I bid yon this mor-.- j The breath is quick and irregular. Occasion
ing to wake up to the magnitude of tha the -cc., ally the color coshes to the cheek and then
I shall take all the world???s literature, to J i dies out. The bands tremble as though a
novel* and bad, travels true or /??! v guardian spirit were trying to shake the
histories faithful and incorrect, legem,. 1 deadly book out of thegraap. Hot tear* fell.
??? She laughs with a shrill voice that drops dead
at ita own sound. The sweat on her brow is
which it owes to such fictitious wri
ters as Hawthorne and Mackensie and Linder
and Hunt and others whose names are famil
iar to all. Tbe follies of high lifa were never
better exposed than by Miss Edgeworth. The
memories of tbe put never more faithfully
embalmed than in the writings of Waller
Scott. Cooper???s novels are healthfully redolent
with tbe breath of the reawred and the air of
tbe American forest. Charles Kingsley bu
smitten tbe morbidnecs of tbe world and
lead a great many to appreciate the poetry of
sound health, atrong muscles end fresh air.
Thackeray did a grand work in caricaturing
the pretenders to gentility and high blood.
Dickens has built his own monament in his
books which are an everluting plea for the
poor and tbeanathema of injustice. Now Isay
books like these, read at rignt times and read
in right proportion with other books cannot
help but be ennobling and purifying. But
alu for tbeloatbesome and impareliteratnra
that bu come upon tbit country in the shape
oi novela like a freshet overflowing all the
banks of decency and common aense. They
are coming from some of tbe most celebrated
publishing banses in tbe country. They are
coming with the recommendation of soma of
oar reluious newspapers. They lie on yonr
centre table to corse your children end biart
with tbeir internal fires generations unborn.
Yon find these bocks in tbe desk of tbe school
miss, in tbe trnnk of tbe young man. in the
steam boat cabin and on tbe table of tbe hotel
reception room. Yon tee a light
in your children???s room late at night Yon
suddenly go in [and aay, ???What
are you doing?" ???I tm reeding.???
???What ere yon reading?" ???A book." You
look at the book; it is a bad book. ???Where
did you getitT??? ???I borrowed it" AlulTnere
are always those abroard who would like to
beautiful and monstrous, all tracts, ??:t
chronicles, all epilogues, all family, city,flaw
national libraries and pile them up In n
pyramid of literature ana then I shall bring
to bearuponltsomegrand, gloriousInfalllb't,
unmistakable Christian principles. G <1
help me to speak with referenca to me
account I must at last render. God help y?? i
to listen.
I charge you, iu the .first place, tn
stand aloof from all books that
give false pictures of human 11'-
Ltfe is neither a tragedy nor a farce. Men are
not all either knaves or heroes. Women are
neither angles nor furies. And yet if you de-
S nded upon much of the literature of r.he
y you would get the idea that life, instead
of being something earnest, something prac
tical, is a fitful and fantastic and extravagant
thing. How poorly prepared are that young
man and woman for tbe dnties of to-day who
spent last night wading through brilliant
passages descriptive of magnificent knavery
and wickedness. The mao will be looking
all day long for his heroine in the tin shop,
by the forge or in the factory, in tbe counting
room, and he will not find her and he will be
dissatisfied. A man who gives himself up to
tbe [indiscriminate reading of noveto will bn
nerveless, insane and a nuisance. He will
be fit neither for the store, nor the shop, nor
the field. A woman wko gives herself up to
the indiscrimmaie reading of novels will be
nnfittad for the duties of wife, mother, eister,
daughter. There she is, hair dishevelled,
countenance vacant, cheeks pale, hands
trembling, bursting into tears at miduigbt
over tbe woes of some unfortunate. In the
daytime, when sbe ought to be busy, staring
by tbe half-hour at Homing, biting her finger
nails to the quick. The carpet that was plain
before will be plainer after uaving through a
romance ail night long wandered in tessela-
ted habs of casties and yonr induatrioui com
panion will be more unattractive than ever,
now that you have walked in tbe romance
through parks with plumed princesses or
ioungad in the arbor wild tbe polished
desperado. Oh, these confirmed novel-readers!
They are unfit for this life, which is tremen
dous descipline. They know not how to go
through the farnances of trial where they
must pass, and they are unfitted fora world
where everything we gain we achieve by hard,
long, continuing and exhaustive work.
Again, abstain from all those books which,
while they have some good things about them,
have also an admixture of evil. You have
read books that bad the two elements in
them, tbe good and the bad. Which stuck
to yon? The bad! Tbe heart of most peo
ple is like n aeive, which lets tbe
small particles of gold fall through but keep*
tbe great cinders. Ooce in a while there is a
mind like a loadstone, which, plunge amidst
steel and brass fillings,gathersupthesteeland
repels the brass. But it is generally just tbe
opposite. If you attempt to plunged through
a hedge of burrs to get one blackberry, you
get more burrs than blackberries; you cannot
afford to read a bad book however good you
are. You say ???The influence is insignificant.???
I tell yon the scratch of a pin has sometimes
prodnoed the lockjaw. Alas, it through curi
osity, as many do, ycu pry into au evil book,
your curiosity is as dangerous as that of the
man who should taken torch into a gunpowder
mill, merely to sse whether it would blow
np or not. In a menagerie in New York
man put his hand through the bars of
black leopard???s cage. The animal???s hide
looked so sleek and bright nnd beautiful. He
just stroked it once. The monster seized
him and he drew forth a hand torn and
mangled and bleeding. Oh, touch not evil,
even with the faintest stroke; though it may
be glossy and beautiful touau it not, lest you
pull forth your soul lorn and bleeding under
the clutch of the blsck leopard, ???But,"
you say, ???how can I find out whether a book
la good or bad without reading it?" There
is always something suspicions about a bad
book, I never knew an exception. Same-
thing suspicious in the index or tho style of
illustration. Tuis venomous reptile almost
always carries a warning rattle.
Again I charge you to stand oil from all
those books which corrupt the imagination
and inflame the paaaious. I do not refer
now to that kind of a book which tha villain
has under his coat waiting for the school to
bs out and then looking both ways to see that
there is no policeman arouud the blook, offers
the book to your sou oa bis way home. 1 do
not speak of that kind of literature, but that
which evades the mw and comes out iu pol
ished style and with acute plot sounds the
tocsin that rouses up all the baser passions of
tbe soul. Years ago a French lady came
forth as an authoress under the assumed
name of George Sand, She smoked cigara.
Sbe wore gentleman???! apparel. Sbs stepped
off the bounds of deeoncy. Sas wrote with
astyle ardent, eloquent, mighty in Ita gloom,
horrible in ita uncbaslty, glowing in iu ver
biage, vivid lu iu portraiture, damning in iu
effects, transfusing into tbe libraries and
homes of tho world an evil that has not even
b-gun to relent, and she hat her copyists in
all lands. To day under the nostrils of your
city there is a fetid, reeking, unwashed liter
ature, enough to poison all the fountains of
publio virtue and smite yoursons and daugh
ters at with the wing of a destroying angel,
and it jt time that the ministers of tbe gos
pel blew the trumpet nnd rallied the forces
of righteousness all armed to tbe teeth lu
this great bsttle against a depraved literature.
Why ure SO per coin of the criminals in the
jails and penitentiaries of the Uaited States
to-day under 21 yean of age? Many of them
under 17. under 16, under 15, under 14, under
13. Walk along one of tbe corridors of the
Tombs prison, lu New York, and look for
yourselves. Bad books, bad newspapers be-
witened them as soon as they got out of the
cradle. ???Oh,??????says some one, ???I am a busi
ness man and I have no time to examine
what my children read. 1 buve no time to
inspect the books that come into my house
hold." If your children were threatened
with typhoid fever, would you have time to
go for the doctor? Would you have time to
watch the progress of the disease? Would
you have time for the funeral? Iu the pres
ence of my God f warn you o? the fact that
your children are threatened with moral and
spiritual typhoid, and that unless the thing
be s upped it wilt be to them funtraiof body,
funeral of mind, tuaeral ol soul. Three fu
nerals lu one dsy.
Again, abstain from those books which are
apologetic of crime, ft is a sad thing that
some of tbe best and most beautiful book-
buidery and some of the finest rhetoric have
been brought to make sin attractive. Vice
is a horrible ililng anyhow. It is born in
shame, and its dies howling in the darkness.
In this world it is scourged with a whip of
scorpions, but afterward tbe thunders of God???s
wraih pursue it across a boundless desert,
beating it with ruin and woe. Wbeu you
come to paint carnality ao not pa nt it ss
looking from behind embroidered curtains or
through lattice of royal seraglio, but os writh
ing in the agonies of a city hospital. Cursed
hs the hooks tbst try to mtke impurity de
cent, and crime attractive and hy
pocrisy noble. Cursed be the books
that swarm with libertioea and
desperadoes who make ibe brain of tha you eg
people whirl with villainy! Ye autbora who
write them, ye publishers who print them,
ye beoksellen who distribute them, shall be
cut to pieces, if not by an roused community,
then at last ay a divine veegsanca; which
shall sweep to the lowest pit of perdition all
ye murderers of souls. I tell you, though
you may escape in this world you will oe
ground at lost under the hoof of eternal
calamities and you will be chained to the
rock, and you will have the vulturea of de
spair clawing at your soul, and those whom
you have destroyed will come around to tor
ment you tad tn pour hotter coals of fury
upon your head and rejoice eternally in ths
outcry of your pain and tba howl of your
damnation, ???uod aball wound the hairy
the spray dashed up from the river of death.
Tbe clock strikea four and tbe rosy dawn
Boon after begins to look through tha lattice
upon tbe pale form that looksltko a detained
spectre of tbe night. 8ooa in a madhouse
she will mistake Tier ringlets for curling ser
pents and thrust her white band througn the
bara of tha prison and smite her head, rub
bing it bsckaa though to push tho sc?????? *
tbe skull, shrieking ???my brain 1 my
Oh, stand off from that. Why will you go
sounding your way amidst the reefs and
warning buoy-, when thero is auoh a vaat
ocean in which you may voyage, all sail
set?
There is one other thing I shall say this
morning before I leave you, whether you
want to bgar it or not; that is, that I consider
the bad pictorial literature of the day as
most tremendous for ruin. There is uo one
who can like good pictures better than I do.
But wbat shall I say to the prostitution of
this art to purposes of iniquity. These death-
warrants of the soul are at every street cor
ner. They smite the vision of the young
with pollution. Many a young man buying
a copy has bought his eternal discomfiture.
There may be enough poison in one bad
picture to poison one seal, and that soli I may
poison ten, and the ten fifty, and tbe buna
dreds thousands, until nothing bat the meas
uring Hue of eternity can tell tbe height and
deptu and ghastliness nnd horror of tbe great
undoing. Tbe work of death that the wic ked
author dots in awbolobook tbe bad engraver
may do on balf a side of pictorial. Under
tne dlrguisa of pure mirth tbe young man
buys oue of these sheets. He unrolls it be
fore his comrades amidst roars of laughter,
but long after the paper is gone tho results
may perhaps be seen in the blasted imagina
tions of those who saw it. The queen of
death every night holds a banquet, and these
periodicals are the printed invitation to her
guests. Alas that the fair brow of American
art should be blotched with thta plague spot,
and that philanthropists, bothering them
selves about smaller evils, should lift up no
united and vehement voioe against this great
calamity! Young man, buy not this moral
strychnine for your soul I Pick not up this
nest of coiled adders for your pocket I Pat
ronize no news-stand that keeps them. Have
your room bright with good engravings, but
for these iniquitous pictorials have not one
wall, not one bureau, not one pookot. *
man is no better than the picture be lovn
look at. If your eyes are not pure your
heart cannot be. One can guess the charac
ter of a man by the kind of pictorial he pur
chases. When the devil fat e to get a man to
read a bad book, he eometimes succeeds in
getting him to look at n bad picture. When
satan goes a fishing he does not caro whether
it is a long line or a short line, if he only
draws his victim in.
If I have this morning successfully laid
down any principles by which you may
judge in regard to books and newspapers,
then I have done someihing of which I shall
not be ashamed on the day whioh (ball try
every man???s work of wbat sort it is. Cherish
;ood books and newspapers. Bsware of the
lad ones. Oue column may save yonr soul;
one paragraph may ruin it. Go home to-day
and look through your library and then look
on tbe stand where you keep your pictorials
and newspaper-, and apply the Chriatian
principles 1 have laid down this morn ng. If
there fa anything in your home that cannot
atand tho teat, Uo not give it away for it
might spoil au immortal soul; do not sell it,
TUMBLING STOCKS.
CouiiQU??i from Ninth Para.
TH^StTUATiONJN aIUNTA.
Tha la??pn??lu mt Jumt.???a Ifnnk-Hsw tho Other
Uaaka *???
Late Thursday efternom Mr. John H. James do-
ri(U*d to close the doors of his hank.
A represenUtire of Tin i!o??stituticn called on
Mr. James and uked his reasons for this step, m
no ran had been made on the bank during the day.
Mr. James replied that be had no statement ready
for publication at present, that he was at work on
it and wonld publish a card as soon as he tindor
stood the situation exactly. The following, how-
over, waj obtained from him in conversation, and
is authentic.
For the paat two weeks there has been a steady
withdrawal of deposit! from Mr. Jamea'a bank
This movement of withdrawal was not augmented
Thnmlir Infn anvlhlnw KVa m ??<n TVitrlnm tha
fur tho money you get would oe the price of
blood; but rather kindle a fire on your kitch
en hearth or iu your back yard, and then
drop tho poison in it and keep stirring tbe
blaxs until, from prefaco to appendix, there
suall not be a single paragraph left.
Ag.inst every bad pamphlet send a good
pamphlet; againstevery unclean picture send
an Innoconi biciure; against every acnrrillous
sung tend a Christian tong; against every bad
book tond a good book. Tbe good literature,
tbe Christian literature, la ils championship
for God and the trutn will bring down the
evil literature in its championship for tho
devil. I feel tingling to tho tips of my lingers
and through all the nerves of my body and
all the depths of my soul the certainty of
our triumph. Cheer up, 0, men and women,
who are toiling for the purification of society I
Toil with your faces in tbe tuulight. If God
be for us, who can be againat us.
Lady Heiter Stanhope was tbe daughter of
the tnird Earl of Sturibopo, and after her
nearest friends had died the rent to tho far
east, took possession of a deserted convent,
threw up for trains amid the mountains of
Lebanon, opened the castle to all the poor
and wrotched who would come in. Bhe
made ita home for the unfortunate. She
was a devout Christian woman. Sbe was
wailing for the coming of the Lord. She
expected that the Lord would descend in
person, and aha thought upon it until it win
too much for her reaaon. In tbe magnificent
???tobies of her palace she had two hones
groomed and bridled, all ready for tba day
on which her Lord aholud descend, and Ho
on one of them and sbe on the other should
start for Jerusalem. There was romance and
thrilling expectation in tbe dream. Ab, my
friends! we need no earthly palfreys for our
Lord when He shall come. The hone is
ready in the equerry of Heaven, and the im
perial rider ie ready to mount, liomsmen
of Heaven, monntl Cavalrymen ol God,
rideonl charge! cbargel until they shall be
burled back on tbeir haunches???tha black
konoof famine and tbe rod horse of csrnaga
and tbe pale hone of death. Jesus forever!
TILDEN AND RKFORM.
fc.ti.bl.aaW.il uMi V.i>, .11 Dirt.t.4 Tcw.rd
Ik.Tkh.t.riSTt. t
Washington. May 17.-[8pesial.]-Mtny ealeu
latloni bare beeu upwt by the solid sweep of the
Tilden boom overall the slates which beve ,o far
???elected dete,at*a to tho convention. Almost ev
ery ??????pliant lot tho presidency bu active agents
at work here and tbe .hrewdestof them are non-
pinned on Ibis gronnd.well ol popular feeling
They are row engaged In working up tbeir res
pective candidates u mcond choice., for! in all
the gossip relative to tbe democratic nomination
nobody la mutlonod except with tbe proviso that
Tlldea wilt not accept the nom
ination. Tbe Post admits this morn
ing that so far ss.the nates bars acted, lit
votes go to tho demacratlc convention on a con-
teivatlvo tariff platform, while It atand committed
to tho extreme riewa of Morrison and company.
ca'culaias to overcame this majority and place
tha convention' In auoh wild Idea reform u Wet-
ttisoa'a. Belttlvo Inndlcatloni point toward con ???
???ermUve sc Jon. and ihe nomination ol Tllden on
platform proclaiming admlnturattve reform u
over, ahtdowing all party differences on the tariff,
and the.unit maantol placing democrats lo con
trol ol the government, and giving them power to
makeanv other Just reform which may be de
manded.
Three lierg.rer. Ly......
Kan.il Crrv, Me., May 17 ???A Little Bock, Ark.,
dlapatcb give, the particulars of tbe murder of
young Ward, In Howard county. Arkansas, and
the burnlog cl hi. body, fiearch wu made by
Ward's father, which mulled In tba arrest of two
Polh brothers, and a anu named Knj Kendall.
Oncol the Polka couleaud, and tbe prl.oners were
delivered to the sheriff, who prepared id lake ibem
Arksdelphla fur sale keeping A party of Ward 1 *
friends at Prescott were organising for vjngeau Co
when a menage waa received that the citizens of
d county bad stopp'd tho parly ea mute t <
rights. takes the prisoners mud hanged all
throe without the foraia'i'. .1 cou ft.
Freer la Fraas.lraala.
Lancaatzk. Pa. May 17 ???There waa heavy oat
throughout Lancaster county last Light. It Is
feared considerable damage hoi beau dene to the
young lob. ooo plants.
Thursday Into anything liken run. During the
day there wu a rather steady call (or money,
mainly by .mall depositors until Mr. James bad
paid oatabout twenty-live thousand dollar, recelvr
Ing very Utile iu deposit The bank thon dosed at
the rerular hour without any announcement
having been made, or without a impenilon having
been announced.
A. aoonu the bank had cloud Mr. James de
termined to offer enough of hla real eatato (or ulo
nt once to fully protect hla depositor!. He therefore
sought Colonel Adair and put In his hands a par
ot hla bank block, bis Peachtree residence, and
other property to be sold tho 27ih
this month. Mr. James staled that he owed
money In New York, and that there wu nothing
In Now York to trouble him excopt a lew eharee of
???lock.
aid orrmtiD rank the orain n inkisx.
As soon xa the other banka baaid ot Mr. James a
trouble they went without exception nnd offered
him aislatance. Early In tho dsy several ol tho
hanks went and placed at hla dl.poul such fund.
thought he would need during
tho day. He accepted there giving
abundant security (or them At night the cfilccr.
ol tho banka held a mooting at which every bank
"was represented. They sent (or Mr. Jamoe and
wked ???bim how much money ho would need to
carry him through, atatlng (rankly that they were
ready to advance wbat was needed. Mr. James
Hated that ho did not know himself hla exact .tin-
ationaud could not tell how much money ho would
need. He said that he might accept n considerable
???mount from the bank! and
???hould be exhausted might still find
that he needed more. That
eonildercd hla real estate more than enough to
fully protect bli depositors, and tbat he preforred
to roly oa this rather than accept tbe ktndncu
from tbe other banka that might involve them
without affording him permanent rellel. Tho
bankeia present urged upon Mr. James the Impor
tance ol mtklng Ilmm a atatemont of what he
???ceded and ot accepting It from them, placing In
their bauds ns security such negotiable paper as ho
might have. He declined to do thla, saying that
his statement wu then being prepared
and until It wu ready ho could not tell hlmicll
what he did need. Under the clreumslances.no
thought that justice to hlmicll and Ills depositors
Indicated that ho had bettor close hla doors and
suaneud builncssuntll ho could roallso on hla real
cslntcand other reatmrcea without lacrlficc.
THS AiaCCIATKD UAltKI AND KANKKKX.
Alter Mr. Jamca bad left tbe bankers??? meeting
the situation wu dlscufaod frankly and Inlly by
tboao prerent. The cfllceri of each hank
expressod the fullest no; II fence In their ability
to moot all legitimate dtminds and formally
passed such notorious u would support each
other, Had Mr, James been able to give them n
statement ot exactly wbat he needed nnd give
them negotiable security for the same, they would
have been able to havo advanced him sufficient
lands tohavo paid hla depositors and prevented
hlisugpenalou and would havo bcon glad to do to.
Mr. Jamea???a frleuda have unabated belief In hla
Integrity, and bodevo that ho will pull through all
right. In lhlibe encountered a much more revere
trial, and bjr punning a highly honorable courto
camoout with flying colors. Instead of hindleg
up his property or putting tt In another???s name he
uld that he would put evory Inch ol It to the
block, If necessary, to meet Ibe demand. Every
depositor wu paid dollar for dollar, Mr Jamca
???aya that tbo umo will bo dono now. Early yes
terday ho placed In tbe handt of an auctioneer
some (300,000 worth of proporly nnd ho seya that
all ahall go or every demand shall bo met. The
general belief la that Mr. James will pull through
???11 right and thoroughly satisfy every dcpczllor.
00 unusual sight ffo see a lady leaving tba
Lank toning n beg of Oliver that wns olinoM
beyond herstrength. Men come oat weighted
with sliver racks on their shoulders. O tenu
depositor would be anable to carry all his
silver snd would employ n servant to help
him. It wns natural that tbe depositors whu
??????firfl* ntlf' V7ftr?? Isolds ram man ???
drew out??? were isdies or men who were
not in active hn-iness. Not once during the
day did we see n merchant draw his balances
out of bank.
THS XXCniKXHT ABATED SAUI.Y.
By 11 o???clock tbe excitement had abated???.
It wss found that tbe banki were atrong and
confident, and many wbo bad drawn out of
one bank placed their money in another
bank, and so.ue returned it to the very coun
ter from which they had taken it. Mauy
people wbo went In with fheir obecks, were
reassured after entering the bank and tearing
up tbeir obecks went off satisfied. At 12
o???clock everything was quiet. Tbe draught
on tbe b.nk wai stopped almost entirely. It
was tbe exception to see n man issuing from
tbe bank doors with his money, and tbe
anxiety was over.
THR DXY'?? DEPOSITS COM IN O IN HBAVY.
There was some curious feeling as to what
tbe day's deposits would amount to. The
merchants os a rule liad been st tbeir stores
and little had been beard from them.
The merchants as usual proved themselves
worthy of tne occasion. The deposits began
to pour in about sn hour ahead of the usual
time; and were heavier than utmril. Much of
the money drawn out by depositors hud been
used to pay bills. Some of it had been
J ilaced with merchants and tbeir notes taken
or it. All of this fonnd Us way hack into
tbe banks. Every merchant seemed to push
collections that be might have tire more
money to carry into his bank, nnd testify bis
confidence in itsstrength and solvency. One
after another tbe merchants crime in, hand
ing their deposits over the counter and
dropping - word of cheer to the officers.
The money kept pouring in until the gaps
made by the withdrawing depositor, h,???l
been filled and high water mark e-ruck
again. This put everything beyond >hn
possibility of trouble and tbe situation was
once more cleared up.
opransoraro fsom km.rwiik.k,
To make assurance doubly sure, off??? cl
assistance came by telegraph (rum New York,
oa soon as it was ascertained there wus a
possibility of Us being needed.
Tho first dispatch received was from Mr.
John Innau, who telegraphed to the Atisuta
National bank authority to draw for $160,000
or ntoro it it was needed. This dis
patch wu at once posted, although Ihe
Atlanta National telegraphed Hint no es-iat-
nnco was needed. Tho Gate City National
then had telegrams from two correspondents
tendering currency in any amount. President
Hill replied with thanks that nono wu need
ed. Tite old Merebanta bad a dispatch to the
name effect and made the Mine reply, and
another dispatch announcing that $30 000 of
currency had been shipped to it. Mr. Lowry
had similar telegrams, u did the Bnuk of the
State ol Georgia and Messra. Maddox A
Rucker,
During the latter part of the day the banks
sent messengers to each other offering cur
rency or any otlier-asaiiUnce tbst wu needed.
The dsy wu oyer and there had not even
been any actions work.
mono Tilt RANK. VESTKaCAV AFTERNOON,
Mr. Lnckie, cubier of the Meronsnt???a
bank, said: ???We have had some casual
depositors to withdraw their balances to
day, but not a single commercial customer.
Our depoalte this evening were unusnally
large, onr customers seeming determined
to let us know that they were with us.
Several firms mntio two or three
deposits during the day. Our books show
that evrry businers man came in with liia
usual deposit. We have had offers of cur
rency from several sources, but have all that
we need. Some of thoso who drew money
out in the morning returned it in the even
ing???snd others will do so in tire morning.???
President Porter ol the Merchants had a
call from a gentleman after banking hours
wiio put $2,600 in his hands, stating that lie
knew ol no plaoo where it would bo safer.
President Hill, of the Onto Gily National,
wss in fine spirits snd said: "The domand
bu been very muoh leu oil ns than we
BOGGAN CASH RULED.
SOUTH CAROLINA RESUMES CON
TROL OP HER TERRITORY.
Frevtxa. man. Spellsd by ??? Dro-kca Bb??r !r-Drp-
aly Bf.ilff II-,'. March on tn- Out Man-
???lul-lh, Murdrrrr mt Biy-KtOOIed
With B.tl.t. by tbo Four, Bto.
Tha Ev.aU af Friday.
Friday wu nn snxioas day for Atlanta.
The unexpected suspension of Mr. Jarnrs,
snd the Urge clrols of depositors that this
wonld bring about his olosed doors, it wu
feared would disturb confidence ar.d make a
mu on nil the banks.
The day passed without dlsuter or any
thing like it. Tbe banks closed st 2 o'clock
with mors money than they bad when they
Ojiened. Each of them had offenof currency
from New Ycrk. By noon the excitement
bad entirely died nwey and nil dan
ger wu averted. The Jarnee sus
pension remained the topic of die-
cusaloo. Ite effect falle on people who ate
least able to bvar it, and it la feered that Urey
will not recover ail their money.
Early Friday morning tire officers of Ibe
banka of the city were at Muir posts. Before
the hour ol opening came, tbe cuhiera, tell-
erssnd directors moved rapidly sbuutbchlnd
the glided railings, preparing to meet the
pnblio let it take whst humor It might.
Oa ths upper corner ???of tbe itreat wu a
bank whose doors were nol to
open. About its pillars bad gathered
iu tbe early gray of tbe morning, a haggard
and anxious crowd, Mist swelled u the hour*
went on. In this crowd were angry, tearful
and curious faces. The cloud bunk uml lib
attendant crowd wu a in- neco to tbe great
and prosperous institutions, whose door, had
not yetswttug back on their hinges. And
the men behind thou doors realised it per
fectly. And they were preparing to mest
lb
'One, two, three, fonr, fire, six, seven,
eight!" rang tbe city clock.
Promptly st the moment tbe mssifve doors
ol tbe banks swung o|??n soil tbe business
pulse ot the city btgan to best.
In every bank everything wu in Ita
place. Every officer wss st bis post
serene snd confident. Long rows of bright
yellow gtnd pieces, stacks of ailver and plies
of crisp, notes, wtrn ranged along tbe
counter*. Tne emitter* nt a; their deiks,
looking over tbe field watchfully. The presi
dent! were in tbeir rooms, in most cues, with
a couple or so ol the advising directors, who
had dropped in to watch the run of things.
A srraAOGLINO call Tut u jNtv
There were two or three people welting
about tbe door ot each bank. At tbe dour*
opened three watchers atepp.d inaide snd
presented check*. They were promptly srul
courteously paid. As they left tbe bank
there wu ??? iulL During tbe nextbourtbere
wusn occasional nran wbo dropped into
each bank with a check. The chick wu
recogniz'd and promptly paid.
From 0:30o???clock until 11 there wu n com
paratively steady stream going m and out ol
the banks. Mucb ol this wu mode up ol
directors or cu.tomenol tbe bank* wno called
to give nrsuranre ol confidence or to transact
orrinary business. Mixed bare and there in
the crowd wu s depositor wbo wanted to
draw all tbeir balances.
FAYINO OUT tuvsn UV lit* SACKFUL*.
Tbe banks adopted lbs rale of paying in
silver where tbe amounts were not too heavy,
and thus working off Urge amounts of silver
that bad accumulated in their vaults. It wss
hubren very much leu on us than we
thought it might be. Oar books show that
wo have opened severs! now accounts, thu
new depositors bringing cash in every in
stance. We have taken in about $2,000 In
silver dollars to-day, showing tbst the monry
paid out by lire banka is coming right back lo
th??m."
Cashier McOandlcsa said: ???It it bard to see
how our business hss differed to day from
the usual run. Our rrgular customer! have
made tlielr deposits beavief than usual, snd
seem to have drawn lighter than usual. A
few customers have drawn their bslsncee.
We have paid them In gold and currency,
not using tha ???liver,"
Mr W L Peel, of Maddox, Uucker & Co.,
said: "We quit this evening with more
money than we had this morning. That
covers our case. Our depositors came in
heavily this evening and gave us more than
we hail paid out. Everything is quiet in our
section."
Tbe other btnka mako about ths same re
port. Mr Boh Lowry saye: ???We have had
more currency than we needed, and hare
more now than we had this morning. There
him been no not of run down here. Mauy of
our depositors bare Increased their balances,
and wo havo had msny new deposite.???
This excitement is over, snd everything
is quiet and confident.
KILLED AT THB CROSSING.
tieeree SV. Tfceme.ee, e Bloe* Nun, Ita* O.epbv
a Trala mi IVhlt.hall Street.
Another horrible nn 1 tragic death occurred Out-
lerdny evening nt the Wbliehell street croeilug.
About fifteen minute* pul ttven o???clock Ucorgo
W. Thompren, n atone mason, wbo lived a'. 147
North avenue, wu run over nnd Instantly killed
by a pasMnser. Thompson wu about mtj-elgbt
ytarsofago.bulwu n alroog,hourly man, and hla
den 1i[ru u unrimelr.u It was terrible. He woe ou
tho l'eacbtrto itreelalde ol tbe track, end u aoon
u n freight train moved started for tbe Wblb ball
aide. On Ibe track next to tbe one on which tbe
freight train wu, woe tho Central passenger train
The two trains were moving In opposite direction,
end Tbcmpron bad no opportunity o( teeing Ibe
train which killed him until be wu elmo.t under
tho wheel.. Aa be stepped In Iro'.l of ibo car tha
train waa moving backward Into the earthed
He wee closely billowed by
two ledlee wbo would donbricie
have been killed also had not Mr. Mat Uyau, chief
ofthellredeiMrtmeat < ??? <: icd them from la front
ul the oar. lie had time tu revs the ladles only
but at tne s??mu lime he helloed nt Thompaou,
wuroUg him ol bl* danger. Thompeon hunt tho
warning but It came too le'e. It a-enud to con.
fii.0 him, and for nn ln.tant he stood between the
nil* a. month paral) zed, nnd he turned to eacapa
on tho tide from which he Farted. But bo svu too
???low and before be could more one liich the coach
knocked him down. Tho wheel, roll-d upon
???' 1 two terrible yells ot agony went up from
mu???, throat and the llle wu crushed out nt
him and hla t ody rut In twain. Tne crlee were
beard lullyn block nnd everyone who heard them
wemed tu Xuow that ibe crossing nan proven n
death trap again. In n second almost both aide* ol
Ibo road were lined with nn excited, crowd. The
ougtneer it.tut havo known too tbat something
horrible had occuired and loan Ixs'aui hla train
wustopped. Mr. MattKy-n and Mr. James Lynch
ot thu Arm ol Lynch A Letter quickly
removed the body from uuder tbe train, t/oroner
lllllburn wu at hand, snd n batgagu track was
secured. The body wu pieced upon Ibo truck
and removed to Patterson A Bowdrn'e underfAk
log rooms. Tbe trunk wu lollowtd by fully three
hundred people, andunmany u Sve hundred
.nous visaed the rentalo* before tha deed man's
. Jcniliy oould fce e-iabll-hid. Ilia face nu fa
miliar to many, but no one could tell who he waa.
He carried * retail grocery store pus book In hie
iH.cket, and upon it wu Ihe name ol Prank
Logau. Thla lh<luc-d s rumor that tbe
dead man waa Prank Logan, tbe father of tho
broom manufacturer, but about nine o'clock Mr
Vol Uuunlng???e eon recognized the man u U W
Ihompeou. Hoou tbit declaration wu sustained
and lu n short st bile Thomprem'. home wu a<cer
urined and Ms family writ for. Ilia body wu bor-
" nutlleted by the wheels, it waa cut in two
waist, except lor a atrip ot ft rah around toe
backbone Hit arm. nnd tegs wtre broken and hie
Poe atlgblljr disfigured, ilia clolblt g wu torn into
???bred., Before ble family arrived
the body bed been patched up to
that the terrible wonnds conid not be dettcud
without n close renttbiy. Tnompenn svu stooe
rime epgsged with tbe street t toons bilnde. snd
wu wstlknowu along Marietta street. 4 '
Columiia, 8. C, Mny 15.???[Special.]???The
last set in tits Csafa-Rlchords tragedy has been
played, and the principal actor, W. Boggan
i???ash, now lies a corpse, his body pierced by a
Ecsreof bnlfebs. Tbe firat nests of the killing
reached Columbia this morning, and wan
contained in the following desptech to Gov
ernor Thompson, eigned by E. L King, dep
uty etieriff cf CTtesterfl-eM county:
???1 wvnt wlrit ?? poioe last rli tit to arrest W. B,
Caah. I Inwrucwd rav tnco p??I in Ore unless Rb-
???olutely moo-ary P>urro??r>ff-d the bousozitd
barn, placing two nsru b-tw.eo the two buildings
end between rite barn- nnd ihe mvsmo Flndittg
Cash In rise barn. 1 ordered It etmouuded. Uaili
came out, end when helled, fired on the corse.
The fire svsa returned, and sf.er Hash nad fired
several stmts he waa killed, being riddled with
bullets. None ol tbe pmue were struck except
W. A. Hilton who bad s finger .hot off."
1IOW ?H* PLAN or ATTACK WAS HADE.
This wno followed by other dispatches,
which gave the particulars ot the nffain,
About a week ego Sheriff Spoffbrd, ot Qhea-
terfield, in obedience to the wishes of the
authorities, organized a posse to eaptnre
yonng Cash, it having been ascertained that
he was a frequent visitor at his father'd house.
The expedition was vyell planned, and it wu
expected it would certainly prove successful,
but at tbe lost moment it was learned that
Sheriff Spofford was incapable for leadership
on account of drunkenness. This occasioned
delay which frustrated tho enterprise. Tho
murderer received warning and escaped.
Solicitor Newton immediately issued a
peremptory command to the direiect officer to
t??rn over the warrant to his deputy, Mr. King.
TUB MARCH TO TUI ICSNE OF ACT 10If.
This was done, and yesterday the new com
mandant organized very quietly a new posse,
compoeed of ten cool and determined your.g
men of tbe town of Gheraw. Last night the
party, armed with Winchester rifles, pro
ceeded towards young Cash???s retreat, which
was a farm hofise about nine milea from Chen
raw. The expedition waa so adroitly man
aged that none of Cash???s friends bad any in
timation wbat waa going on. Just before
reaching the honte in which it was thought
he was hiding, a negro discovered the ap
proach, and hurriedly apprised tbe murderer
of the invsalon.
TUX MURDEBKn AT BAY
Cosh waa Bleeping in the bsrn near tbe
house, and immediately issued from his lair
and confronted hia captors. He had
n shotgun and a rifle, anu in answer to tbe
order of King to surrender, he fired at the
nenrest man, and the bail struck the rifle
barrel of W U Hilton, glancing off and carry
ing ??? finger with it. It was just gray dawn,
thirty minutes past four o???clock, when the
attack was made. Cash quickly fired again
but mlesed.
READ IN lilt TRACae,
Simultaneously with his second shot every
oho ol the posse returned tbe fire, nnd the de
fiant muiderer (ell riddled with ballets. Ha
died firing nt hi* captors. Hie death was al
most instantaneous and ha spoke not a word
after receiving tbe broadside. The coroner
waa informed ot the killing, and summoned
a jury of Inquest Tbe post mortem inquisi
tion will take place to-morrow.
Ono ol Cash s henchmen was conceslod
under the building when King demanded
n surrender, and he fired sovoral shot, at the
ponse, without filttingunyol thorn. He wns
quickly silenced and taken in cu-tody Ha
wiia token to Ch'row nnd lodged in jail,
THE KLDIR DISl'XHADO OXT* HAD.
Colonel Cash wns told ol iris sou's death
1,1)1. . :tir..i nil V V. nnd he wept Jike s child.
He Slid this now grief wns Been ihuti he
could boar. Then he became indignant,
and uttered loud imprecations on the heads
of Boggau???e slayers, end (wearing tbat ho
would have vengeance. During the day.
however, he was patsive. It is feared hewill,
wreak his vengeance on the head of any of
the posse that oroesea bis path. Thus far he
has mado no hostilo demonstration. He
teems to be utterly unmanned.
Tits osao HOiDsnaa.
Boggan waa jast twenty-nine yean old.
!(?? wns born near wbrre ho wa. killed.
Nature (orturd him Into a desperado.
When s boy he woe cruel end Ireaoberotu
and with each year he became morehsrdened
nnd vicious, lie received n good education,
and was graduated at the Vlrginiauuivenlty,
About four years ago be fought two bloodless
duels, nnd shortly thereafter killed n men In
n street fight, During tho put three years be
has been involved in numerous disreputable
rows. His death was Just what wes expected.
Nobody lanienta hie sudden taking off.
THE KILLING AFFSOVXD.
It has caused much excitement over ths
state, bnt tho universal verdict ie: ???It is the
best thing that could have happened for the
state." There is n feeling of relief and tho
good people of Chesterfield now breathe easy.
Colonel Cash is the only mile representative
of the family left. He has two daughters
living, one, Mix Colonel Watts, ot Laurens,
ami tbe other. 18 years old, who is a student
at Staunton, Va. . ...
At the criminal conrllnChesterfield,which
meets in two weeks, Colonsl Cash will be
triad as an accessory of hi* eon???* in the Rich
ards murder. Tbe general opinion is that his
eon's death tends to prejudice hlq nson.
Absolutely Pure.
Tbl* powder new variee. A parrel of pvxttff
ftfeniph a???i*i wkof^nntueu. More economical
limit the ordinary kind*, and cannot bo sold la
rum petition with thu multitude of low-teet, ahorV
IgbLelumor pbneptute powders. Sold only 1m
t*. whnlfttte by Boynton Bros. Atlanta, Gw.
TOGINNERS, GIN FILERS AND COTTON
SEED OIL MILLS.
We here reduced Us# price of the A. A* Wood
Gin Filing MechUie to 125 QJ. No limit to territory
except where ilrrady told 800 mtchkieii now la
u*e. Ore? lO.OtO Gina ihtrpsntd with .these ma
chine* Itat year; known ail orer the notton ???uum :
superior to all mtChlnec of ilmtler invention, a*id
the only one that baa ???'ood tbe t*??t of and
btooraeaitandard. Now It the 'lure to bn?? and
???mnence builuur. For partial???ara tddre**
BaUUTT & tiRKX.
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