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ITC^ZTIL ^, V^Z'g' MOMlyO. JUNE 2 1885.
MICE FIVE CENTS.
HiZPAH AND HBR
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BY ASSrE CUSER,
Ace Rizpab, the daughter o£ Alab, took sack*
Cloth *cd spread It for her upon the rock t from
the beginning ot the harvest until water dropped
Upon than out of Heaven, and suffered neither
the Lite’s of the air to rest upon them by day, nor
the bersts ot the field by night.
O’er Jpdah’s plains the sun was sinking low,
33ic barley corn gleamed iroUIea in the light
Of hfelsn rays, which seemed to linger o’er
The bright green sod, that tmt a short while smoe
Had been so barren, wmte and weird. All hearts
Were merry, for Into the fields wore thrust
The sit kies now that had twen laid aside
For time long years. But on Glbeah's hUl
1 Far away, the sun must another scene
Behold, ere beyond billowy deep
He sinks to reit. Ah! ’twas the mangled forms
— / Oise nil brarc sons—sons and grandsons of him
Whose hi ad and shoulders towered above all
Other It real! tes. There were two
Who, in the bloom 011U«, had tho* been ta’ea
An ay, sud over them a form was bent -
A woman’s form, in EAczdoth all arrayed.
Hollow were her checks, and wan, while chis>
eled
On the broad, white, pensive brow, were fur-
- tows,
Xonn and deep. In every lineament
Of that i'flie faded face was sorrow traced,
, Sorrow that woman's heart alone can know,
Anguish that mother’s hearts alone can feel,
. Ever end anon over verdant fields
Her dim and languid ejes she casts; once more
Khe veils them in her heavy sackcloth folds.
J-xicx who wepi o er Kama* ueau, am
In bitter lamentations she broke forth.
“FIST VS. BRAIN."
Brooklyn, N. Y., May 31.—[Special.]—Dr.
Talmage preached this morning in the Brook-
Jyn Tabernaclo on the subject, “Fiat versus
2Jrain.” Before tho sermon he read passages
from the book of rrovorbs and from one of tho
epistles, tho ono in regard to slothfalness and
tho other in regard to insoiBclent compensa
tion. The opening hymn was:
'The morning light is breaking,
Tho darkness disappears;
Tho sons of men aro waking
To penitential tears.”
Tho text was from Matthew vii, 12: “What
soever ye would that men should do to you,
do yo even so to them.” Dr. Talmago said:
The greatest war tho world has ever seen is
that going on bctwcon labor and capital, not
, a strife like the thirty years’ gore of which
History tells us, for this is a war of centuries.
It is a war of five centuries, a war
Hemispheric. In this country tho middlo
- claiEce who have held tho bal&uco of power
and upon whom tho nation has depended as
meditators between tho two extreme ate
diminishing and at the samo ratio wo will
Boon have no middlo class, for all tho people
krill bo very rich or very poor and tho country
Bo oividod beiweon princes anJ paupers,
fcetwicn palaccc and hovel*. Tho two groat
antsgonutic forces arc closing in upon each
other. “Telegraph operators’ strikes,"“rail
road employes &trikos,” “Pennsylvania
miners’ strikes,’’ the movements on tho part
of boycotters and dynamiters, aro only
nkirmishes boforo tho gonoral engagement, or
If you profor, they aro escapes through tho
gaiety valvo of an imprisoned foroo that
promises the explosion of society.
You may pooh-pooh it and prophesy that
ihis trouble likoan angry child will cry itself
fo sleep, and think you havo belittled it into
Snslgnificanco by calling it socialism,
louricrlem, St. Simonism, nihilism
communism, but that cannot hinder tho fact
It Is tho mightest, darkest, most terrific throat
of this century. Moreover, all tho attempts
St pacification havo been a dead failure. Mo-
ttopoliits aro more arrogant, trados unions
more bitter. “Givo us moro wagos,” cry tho
employes; “Wo will givo you less,” respond
the capitalists. “Givo ua less hours of work,”
pay these; “You shall havo moro” say thoso.
‘•Wo won’t work under such conditions’ cry
Ihcso; “Then you shall starve" respond
those. Soon tho laboring classes will havo
.exhausted what littlo prosperity thoy # had ac
cumulated under a better state of things, and
unless there bo something douo there will be
In ibis country throo million hungry men
and women. Woll, throo million
jhungry people cannot be kept
quiet. All tho enactments of legis
latures, and all the constabularies of tbe cities
and all the army and navy of tbe United
Stales cannot keep thorn quiet. What then?
■Will capital and labor ever settle their quar-
ycl by their own wisdom? No. The brow of
the one will be moro rigid and tho fist of tho
other tighter clenched. But what secular wia-
' dom cannot do Christianity can accomplish if
* It bo given full awing. You have heard ot
medicines so powerful that ono drop would
Stop a disease and restore tho patient, and ono
drop of my text will kill all this trouble and
give convalescence and health to all claiae3:
** Whatsoever ye would that men should do to
you. do yo even so to them.”
The pulpit must be beard on this subject.
When Benjamin Franklin made his discoveries
5n electricity, John Wesley put electrical
machines in several neighborhood that pooplo
might by them be healed ofthoir nervous dis
orders. Our gospel is a gospel for the body as
well at the soul. Fint, I will show you how
this capitalistic war won’t bo atoppod and
then how it will be stopped.
First, it will not bo stopped by an outcry
against rich men because they aro rich. There
is not a member of a trades union in tho
United Btatcs who would not be rich if be
could. Sometimes through fortunate inven
tion or some accident of prosperity a man
Vrtth nothing rises w affluence, and he imme
diately becomes supercilious and overbearing,
and takes people by tho throat with as tight a
grip at he himself was taken
by the throat. Homan ’ nature
is a mean thing when it comes te tho
Bupremacy. It is no more a sin to be rich than
to oo poor, while there aro men whohave
got their property by fraud, there aro million
They build art galleries and endow colleges
and adorn cities ami erect churches, and if
foreign despotism should threaten us would
subscribe, if need be, fifty million dollars .to
aink them boforo they got through tho Xar
row?. By indiscriminate attack upon success
you can never settle this fight.
Neither will Ihfa pacification como through
cynical and unsympathetic treatment of tne
laboring classes. Borne talk of-them as
though they woro cattle or droit horses.
Their nerves are nothing. Their tastes are
nothing. Their domostic comtort is nothing,
and there aro men who have no moro feeling
for the,toilers than the hound has for the hare
or a hawk for tbe hen or a tiger for the calf,
In warm slippers what do they care for cold
feet. When Jean Yaljean, the grandest horo
of Victor Hugo, after a life of mistortuno goes
down into incarceration and doath, they abut
the book in exultation and aay, ’Good for
him 1* They stamp tho foot in regard to those
people and say just the opposite of <Savo the
laboring classes.* Their sympathies are with
Sbylock rather than with Antonio and Portia.
Plutocrats, their feelings are simply infernal.
They are irritation and irascibility, and to
ward the settlement of this imbroglio betwoen
labor and capital they will givo not tho tip
end of the little finger.
Tho assassination of Lord Frederick Caron
dish and Mr. Burke in Phasnlx park, Dublin,
Irelend, in hoping to avenge Ireland, turned
from that afflicted land the sympathies of
millions of people. Tho recent attempt to
blow up the houso ot commons in London
threw tens of thousands of Irish out of em
ployment and livelihood. Torches in this
country applied to factorise which cut down
wages, shotguns aimed at workmen who take
the place of bands resigned or hands discharged
lor good or bad reason, obstructions put on
railroad tracks before midnight express trains
becauso tho oflendera do not like tho president
of the company, strikes which le&vo the
•hip the hour It was going
to tail or the printing office the
hour the paper was to go to press, or tho eoal
mints the dsy the coal was to bo delivered, or
the houso scaffolding tho day when their ab
sence would mako the builder fail in hia con
tract—all these things have givon American
labor a blow on tho head and crippled its
arms snd bound its feet and pierced it through
the heart. Take tho last great striko Is Amer
ica—tbe telegraph operators strike, and the
loss to tho operators was $100,000, and poorer
wages crer since. Neither sudden trap sprung
upon employers nor violenco ever untied the
knots from the knuckles of toil, or put moro
money into tho callous palm. Barbarism will
never euro the wrongs of civili
zation. Frederick tho Great
wanted tho property of a miller
adjoining tho grounds near Potsdam. Tho king
offered tho miller threo times tho voluo of the
aires who by foresight of changes to take place
in markets or business brilliancy won thefr
property as honestly as the plumber ever
earned bis money fer mending a pips ora ma
son lor building a wall. With vast multitudes
of people the poverty ia their own fault. They
might have been well off, but they smoked or
' drank up their earning* or they lived beyond
iheir means. Men on the same wages or sau
ries es they had went on to competency. I
know men who complain of their poverty who
keep two don tad smoke and chew ami go
loaded to the chin with whisky and beer. Mi-
cawber in prison for debt b reported
as saying to David Copperfield: “My
boy: income, ona pound; expenses,
twenty shillings and six pence; result, mise
ry. Income,one pound: expenses, nineteen
shillings and six pence; result, happiness.”
A vast multitude of the poor are tho victims
of their own improvident*. I protest against
the asiault of men who through economy and
eelf-denial *nd assiduity have amused great
fortunes. TU&k God for boa*! rick mo*
as Naboth did about hia vinoy&rd whon
Ahab wanted it. Frederick tho Great was &
rough and tcrriblo man and ho ordcrod the
miller into his presence. Tho king flourish
ing a slick with which ho was sometimes ac
customed to strick tho officers of state, said to
tho miller: “I have offered you threo times
tho value of your property and ifyou will not
sell it I will take it anyhow.” Tho miller re
plied calmly: “Your majesty will not tako it.”
“Yes I will" yelled tho king. “Then” re
plied the miller, “1 will sue you boforo tho
chancery court.” Then tho king relinquished
his demand. So tho most Imporious of out
rage* against tho poor and tho hard-working
cLlH cower before tho law. Wrongs will bo
righted not by violence and against tho law
but by juetiro and according to law.
Yet all attempts at reconciliation belwoon
labor aad capital so far hiving failed, and tho
two standing with their thumb* on each oth
er's throat ready for strangulation, it be
hooves us to look ©verywhoro for relief. And
from my text it bounds out, roscato and jubi
lant, and putting ono band on the broadcloth
shoulder of Capital,puts tho other hand on tbo
hemespun covered shoulder of Toil, and Bays
with a voice that will finally and gloriously
settle everything: “Whatsoever yo would
that men should do to you. do you even so to
them.” That is, tho ladyoflho household
will say: “I must treat tho maid in tho kitoh-
cn as 1 would like to bo treated if I cooked
and washed and swept down stairs andahe
entertained In tbe parlor.” And tho maid in
the kitchen must say: “If that lady upstair*
accmamdro fortunato than I, her prosperity is
not fo bo set down as a fault and I will man-
ago her affairs with an industry and fidelity,
euch as I would expect from a subordinate if
I happened to bo tho wile of a silk importer.”
Tbe manufacturer will look over his resour
ces and Bay: “l mean to do tho boat for ray
employes that I can, and I will treat them in
thu matter of wages aft I would like to be treat
ed if I turned tbo iron bar in tho furnace, or
stood at tho factory wheel, or had my foot
on tho treadle." And tho toiler will say:
“Though my f ace ba smirched with the fur
nace and my hand hardened on the wheel, I
must be a gentleman and I will notact as
though my employer wero an enemy and I
will do my duty among these wheels as well as
though I were up in the counting room among
tho ledgers.*’ The iron manufacturer, having
taken a dose of my text before ho left home in
tho morning, ia walking through tho foundry,
ond passing through the “puddling room,”
where are the men, besweated and stripped
to tho waist, tho employer Bays: “Good
morning, Donald. You look uncomfortablo
in this heat. I hear your child is sick with
tho frarkt fever. If you want to draw your
wages a little early this weok to buy medi
cines and pay the nurse, just come into my
cilice." Passing along into tho “finishing
room,” he aecs a young man very white and
pallid acd hardly able to stand up to his
work, and tho employer aeya: “I guess you
don’t feel very well to-day—better rest a littlo
once in a while. What aro you taking
for this illness? Call at my house to-niglit
and I will give you a vial of medicine tnat
will set you right up.” “Thank you," aays
the workman, as ho sweeps his arm across his
forehead, taking off tho beads of sweat, for
God knows he is more fit to be in bed than
there.
] After a while crash goes tho monoy market
and the demand for manufactured goods
ceases, and the question fs whether to shut up
the mill or run on half time or lower the
wages. The boss calls all his hands together.
They stand around him wondering what he is
irgtodo. He saya: “Men. the times aro
ird, tho demand for our work is very small.
Whero luted to make a hundred dollars I
don’t moke twenty. You aee, 1 am under great
expense here, now what shall I do. I hate to
dose up and throw you out of employment,
foryou have been very faithful, and I like you
and you seem to like me, and you have families
totupj. n, aud tUo bairns must be take*ear*,
of, and the wife must have a new dress before
long. What shall I do?” Silence fora minute
or two, and then one ot the workmen steps a
little forward from the others and fays:
“Bon, you havo been good to us. When you
protrered, we prospered. Now, when you are
hard pressed and propose that if you will
keep the place open we throw off twenty per
cen* of our wages, acd ae soon as times get
better you will remember us. Boys, Ellin
favor of my motion will say aye.” “Aye!
Ayel” about the two hundred voices.
After awhile the manufoeturer while getting
in acme new msebienry takes a cold ana
falls tick of the pneumonia. In tbe procession
to tbe tomb are the workmen with sad feces,
tbe Uera running clear down tbe ebeek and
off on tbe ground, and their wives and chil
dren have been waiting an hour at tbe open
crave in the cemetery tor tbe arrival of tbe
funeral pageant. Tbe minister may have de
livered eloquent eulogism, but the most Im
pressive utterances are by tbe working classes
who a tend around tbe last resting place.
“Dear me, is it not sad?” “Hew good he was
to us all!" “We shall never havo so kind a
lriC24 again.” “Don't you remember wh*a
oar Charlie died ho sent hia carriage to take
us to tho grave?” “Oh, ia it not dreadful for
his wife and children? God pity thorn I”
And tfcht night in all tho cabins where
the toilora have family pravera tho wid
owhood and orphanage up in tho mansion are
remembered. No irate population acowllug
through the iron fenco of tho cemetery, but
hovering over all the scone the benediction of
God and man. “Whatsoever yo would that
tho storehouses, tho factories, tho rainos, tho
great enterprises whero this Christly rtt'o i-*
practiced and you could no moro got tho em
ployer to impose on hi* men, or the men :
conspire against their employer, than you
could get your right hand and left baud, or
ycur right eye and your left eye, or your right
ear and your left ear into physical antagonism.
The place to begin ia in our own homo and iu
cur own itorchouscs and in our own banks and
on our own farms and in our own footer i< -
not waiting for others to do their duly.
Aro your parlor or kitchen a *
divergence? Then there Is something wrong
either about the parlor or the kitchen. Ara
the clerks of your store out of patience wi'.k
the firm? Then tbero is something wrong
either at the counter or In tho private office.
What the world wants moat grievously, want*
to-day and wants ovorywhero is the gold-.::
rule that Christ promulgated in his sermon
Olivette. All tho political economists under
thearchivaultof tno Heavens in convention
for a thousand years will' never silence thi i
maddened controversy between Fiat and
Brain, between operative and monopolist.
During the revolutionary war a piece of
heavy timber was being raisod for army pur
poses and a corporal was overseeing it done,
shouting to tho men who wero lifting, “heave
away! Yo, heave!” A horseman riding along
self and help thoso mon lift: it La more than,
thry can do.” “Oh,” repliod tho officer, “I’m
a'corporal.” Then tho man on horseback
dismounted and laid hold of tho timber aud
lifted witn all his might. Tho work done, tho
man laid: “Corporal, when you have not meu
enough to attondtoa job liko that, send for
your commendor-in-chief.” It web Washing
ton. Oh, let ua givo c&ch other a lilt.
You say the law of supply and demand wQl
control everything to tho end of timo. No; it
wh! not union Lir.,1 dies mid tho batteries -,f
the judgement are spikod and tho throne of
tho univereo is taken by Pluto and Proser
pine, tho king and quocn of the imperial
world. 6upply and demand havo joined part
nership and put their wits together to rob tho
world. You are drowning and thoy stand on
tbo shore beside tho only boat aud aav: “Pay
what wo ask or go to tho bottom l” You aro
failing in business for lack of Hyo thousand
dollars. They aev t “Pay ua usury or bccomo
bankrupt I” This robber firm of
supply ond domand says: “Tho
wheat, crop Is short and wo havo bought It up
tied put it in cur bin. Pay our price or
starve I" Supply and demand own tho lar
gest mill on earth, and it rolls ovor its whool
&U tho rivers and puts into its hopper as many
men, women ond children as It can scoop up
out of tho centuries, and their blood and bones
redden all tbo valleys os tho grinding goos on.
As euro as tho ages roll toward milennial re
lease, that diabolical firm will have to stop
aside for tho law of love, tho law of coopori-
tion, the law of mercy, tho lnw of Christ.
As tho law takes swny you will see m< n
men consecrating thoir life to humanUar ! r:i
and evangelical purposes like James Lt-r. t
end William K. Lodge, «ud Polar Cooper
Gcorgo Peabody. More parka and gardens
and picture galleries will bo oponed for thd
people’s. holidays. Tho pallor will go out of.
thg cheeka “lihe wqjVmen and tho frown ofli
hia brow anu*the guifluiug oa*' of his tceUjV
That day will surely como. Once crossing
tho Alleghany mountains it was said that
Henry Clay,while tho atago coach was halting,
went to the edge of tho mountain and put hia
hand behind bis ear as if to listen and aomo
ono asked him what ho was listening for and
beiaid: “lam listening to tho coming on of
thefuturo millions of this country.” To-day I
stand On this mountain top ot Christian privi
lege and on tbo Bock of Ages, aud I listen to
the coming on of tho happy industrioa and tho
consecrated fortunes, anti tho smiling popula
tion* and the innumerable prosperities of tho
closing nineteenth and tho oponing twentieth
centuries.
While I speak there lie* in atato tho great
author and patriot of France, Yiotor Hugo.
The ten thousand dollars ho left to the poor of
Paris in his will woro only a hlntot the grand
er work ho has dono for all nations and all
eges. No wonde r thoy allowed ton days to
elapse between his death and burial, hooping
him under triumphal arch, for neither Franco
nor tho world can hardly afford to lot him go,
though for moro than eight decades hia un-
pru.-iTlclfd genius has blessed it.
II iB name thall forever stand the
terror of despots, tho encouragement of tho
struggling. Ho has made tho world’s burden
lighter and its darkness less dense and its
chain Ices galling and its thrones of iniquity
Ices eecure. But after all ho was not tho groat
nnd over towering friend of mankind.
The greatest friend of capitalist and toller
ond tho one who aball bring them Into com
plete nrrord was burn on a Christmas night
while the curtains of tho sky swung as
thero moved among them tho
wings angelic. Owning all tho
universe, tbo great continents of worlds and
the aialca of light, the capitalist of immensity,
he erotica over to the poor man's condition,
coming into our world, not by palace gate, but
door ol barn, tpeuding hia first night among
shepherds and afterwards calling fishermen
from their nets to be his chief attendants,
with tho hammer, and adze, and saw, and ax
and chisel of a carpenter’s shop, showing him
self a brother tradesman, accepting ontortain-
n.cnIs at tbe houso of ono who tanned hides
living, and though having own
ed all things surrendering everything
for others on the hillock back
of Jcrucalem, and without a ihcckcl
left lo pay for his obsequies was burled by
charily in tho suburbs of a city which had
cast him out. Assuredly, ot tho cross and
£77vo of mch rapitniin and carpenter, i ll
men can afford to shake hands and worship.
Here ia an every man’s Christ. None so high
but ho was higher. None to poor but he was
poorer. At his feet the hostile extremes of so
ciety will renounce their animosities and
countenances that glowed in tbe pnjadieies
end revenges of centuries shall brighten into
the smile of heaven ss he says to them:
“Whatsoever ye would that mon should do to
you, do yc even so to them.”
POINTS ABOUT ATLANTA.
SAM JONES TALKS,
AND TELLS THB STORY OF HIS
LIFE AND MISSION.
The Beasen why H* Speaks la the Vernacular of tha
People-Zrrors About Hie Life Corraoted-Tao
Effect of His MiMlonsry Labors-the
WseiUUcs for Qoapel Work.
AUaslaisthetbJidtraslestclty In America. See
ccmp«ndJaia of census, page 1132. Lawrence,
Lowell and Fall Elver alone o! all American cities
equal Atlanta in proportion of artisans to popula
tion,
Atlanta has a higher elevation above tbe sea
than any American city of moro than 20,000
people except Denver, Leadvllle and Omaha.
Atlanta has never failed In anything she under
took. The artesian well looks a little doubtful,
butwcsio within a few uDc-s of China with that
and wc are going ahead until we strike either
water or tea.
Atlanta received 1L0G$ hake of cotton la veil In
1M4 over ICO,000. Next year she will get 200,000.
The Hon. Philo Parsons? of Detroit, said: “If I
was 25 yean old I should move to Atlanta at once.
I shall advise all young men I have an Interest tn,
and who are not bound by local In ter eat, tods juit
that thing.”
Atlanta put over 1900*00) in talM’nn last year
outside of the Kimball house. In spite o! the hard
lines.
From tho Nashville, Torn., American.
After tbo ovangolist’s remarkable talk to
tho negroes had closod yesterday morning, a
representative of tho American accompanied
tho modern Bav&narolo to his comfortable
rooms at a rcsidonco on Spruce stroot and
while a lemonade was roviving tho jaded
forces of tho revivalist, tho conversation balow
ensued. Aa you ait in thfs kind of close com
munion with tho man a refinement is ob
served in his features and general bearing that
do not appear in tho pulpit. Ho la a little
distant at times, seeming to think and spoak
from an inner impulse rather than from tho
dictates of sifted reason. Hia reliance is man
ifestly at all momenta and under all conditions
in this hidden force and its friendly and ro-
liablo guidance. He is a man who evidently
observes, thinks and talks In the concrete.
Details ore nothing with him bnt as stops to
tho object sought for. Onco when a telepnono
call waa being answered in an adjoining room
from which the worda of tbo speaker could bo
lKArd distinctly, bo was for tho momont all
afctorfccd in tbo telephone and aiked to havo
a question repeated, whioh was being put at
tho moment. Tho sadness of counten&nco no
tices bio at all times is intensified on a noarer
view, excopt when tbo features light up whon
tho whole man suddenly becomes transformed
from a dreamy, fagged boing to a buadlo of
octlvoness acutely attentive.
Mr. Jones readily responded to n suggestion
that a few word* for tho gonoral public would
be of interest, and replied courteously to tho
questions pot to him. Baid ho:
“1 have gone through this in miniaturo be
fore, but tho facilities here tor rovival work
excel 1 thoso of any place I havo ever proachod
In.”
“How BO?”
“Well, as to room and tho centralising of
tbe forces. I havo also had thousands ot
friends in other places who have focalized
their influenco on my effort here by prayor.
Letters from everywhere havo como'to mo.
At least 100,000 pcoplo havo been in prayor
for ua while this has been going on.”
“v\Js ia explanatory to tho orthodox, but
explain it from a more practical or worldly
point of view?”
“Why, tho whole work la inexnlicablo to
him who confines himsoli only io natural
phenomenon and material things. But to him
who takes tho wings of faith and soars Into
the supernatural It Is perfectly eioar. Thero
is no uso trying to oxplain the inexplicable,
you know,” ho said laughingly.
“What will the results here bo?”
“They will reach, aa I estimate it In my
rn mind, about 2,000 conversions, though ft
may bo more, 1 do not know. It Is tho largest
ceccourso of pcoplo I havo over spoken to, not
excepting tho tabernaclo at Brooklyn, and it
could havo boon larger if moro apaco had
teen provided.”
“Ilad you anticipated anything like this?”
“Fully expected it. It hasn’t boon beyond
y oiith and expectations an inch, and tho
;nUi*riug will lie consIdcraVdo hero for
weeks. Tiii» I say because it has invariably
been do at other points whero I hive boon.
And as to tho ponnanoncy of tho work, I be
liovoit is of God, nnd will last forover,
“HOW ABOUT TUK LEACTIOX THAT I'KOl’f.K PRI
} MCI?”
“Well,” (pausing for «onto
mol and healthy for a man who cats heartily
to-day to bo hungry again to-morrow. Tho
fact that reaction in tho way ot coldness and
lethargy may como is only a proof that wo
need another work that will warm us into
renewed life and activity. Tho emotional
featuro may dio out, but tho great principles
on which wo build aro as permanent as God la
Immortal. Some always go back, but I havo
never know a reaction, becauso thoso moot
ing are not run on omotions. I havo proachod
right living, tooling or no fooling, and whoa
feeling is gone righteousness, or right living,
will abide.”
as to ttAsnrrur.
“Nashville Is tho most solid southern city I
buvo bccomo acquainted with. I aeo tho twi
ddle# of this in tho multitude of first-class
business mon and cltizono about her. I havo
been struck*, too, with tho interest tho mon
bare manifcttedln these meetings. Now much
of tho langusgo used by ino in talking from
the j.ulj.it, if nmimirod l.y tho ruins of rd l
logic and rhetoric, seems harsh and unkind,
but me mured by the love I bear those people
I havo felt always that my words
would loro much of this harshness
which logic would give them. I havo
adopted tho languago of tho pcoplo-~tho lan
guage of tho street, tho office and tho shop.
When a man means business ho takes all tho
nigh cuts to thu object in vfow, oven in hi*
language, and so do I. I am always In a
burry.’’
“Do you believe that you are going to loavo
behind you much prejudice against ycur
methods?”
* “I cannot object to criticisms of my meth
ods so long as thoso methods aro successful.
Personally, l cravo tho good wiU of all mon.
Bat l b&vo r.cvor asked tor indorsomont;
I havo asked only for co-opera
tion. I might cover your question by
saying that l thank God for til other methods
than mine by which men are won to a better
life, and for every church and pastor that Is
doing Us work well in Its own war. Whilo a
Methodist, I aco much that’s noble and good
in all churches. I can aay to you that tho
reason to my mind why tho masses tako hold
of a work liko that ia becauso it seems to be a
V.< rk <.l tho nisfEc ;.”
Bat you have attracted men of tho higher
walks of life In this city.”
“It has always been so. The question of
rrachiog the masses has always been a ques
tion of room. Wherever I have preached I
have bad first to penetrate an intellectual
strata, in order to get at the maasee. Human
ity, Intellectually, nos its mountain peaks and
low valts, but on questions ot conscience hu
manity ii a limitless valler# and ia on a level
(run ahore to shore.”
“Bpeak of yourself. The people want to
know lomcthing more definite about you per
sonally.”
“Well, for inttanee, I never was a barkeeper
ncr a gambler as somebody has said. J have
been a somewhat wandering star without a
purpose. I was for eight years a pastor In
varfeus part* of north Georgia, doing a good
deal of work, most of the tune outside or my
own charge, and u my mental resources sc-
curomuJ&tcd,
IT TAKRS AX IMMEXtl RCSZBVK FOBCI FOR WORK
LIKE THIS,
mr Bold broadened, tor men know as well
a nether there is more to folfow ae a horse
knows when his driver's afraid of him, and
know in the same way—hr the inherent
rower of fnstfhet. I eventually took the
financial sgeney of an orphanage in Georgia,
which gave me aa broad a field a* demands
for my lerviecs could ask. That was four
years ego. Last January, a year ago, at Mem
phis was tbe moat extensive work up to
ibat time, and it was then that the news
papers outside of my own state began to take
notice of me.”
“Did you realize at that period the control
yea have over people, and the reliability and
extmtof ycur iLi!ucncc,aademon»irntedhere
in Nashville?”
“Well, air,” replied the evangelist, alter a
ptuie, prompted by a modesty of feeling at
tbe abruptness ot the question, and using one
of hit apt illustration* from the mechanics,
I “tho distances a engino will run is alwavs de
termined not by the pressuro of steam iu hor
boiler, but tho amount of coal and wator aho
has in her tender.”
“If I had been called upon to givo proof of
tho accusations I havo mado here. I would
havo replied that gonoral, not special, knowl
edge ia at tho bottom of my accusations ns to
city life, and I would havo asked why Nash
ville claimed to bo unliko other cities, for I
havo found that cities aro aa liko and unliko
as two men aro aliko and yot unlike. I know
nothing, absolutely nothing, about Nashvillo
when icamo hero—never was horo ton hours
beforo in my life.”
“Why did yon not accept tho proffer of a
homo hero?”
“Well, tho moro I thought over the gener
ous proposition of tho pcoplo of Nashvillo the
lest I was inclined to como. If I had boon
more inclined as I thought it over l would
have yielded without any longer delay, and I
am as much at a lota to know why my
thoughts went off this way as you are. But
tbnt'sjust the truth about it. And speaking
about giving rao a homo reminds me that
I BATS HOARD MUCH OF XT SUFFOSID FIVAKOIAL
HARVESTS
frem the work fn which 1 am engaged. The
fact is. I have never mado merohandiao of tho
S os pel. 1 have never mado a contractor a
emand. 1 have always received enough for
my family to livo comfortably on, but 1 havo
accumulated no money.”
“What aro your plana?”
“Well, my plans are definitely made. They
f o till March ntxt and carry mo into Texas.
take 'ora in tho ordor I shall go—Missis
sippi, Alabama, parts of* Tonnossoo, South
Carolina, St. Louis, Baltimore, Now Orloaua
and Galveston. 1 want to go to California in
December, bnt I don’t know about that yot.
They have mado strong petitions for mo.”
“Do you expect that your health is going to
hold out?”
“I am frequently tired, air, but novor sick.
I bnvo noticed that within tho last twolvo
months my voico has given way, and has now
a tendency to grow husky at timos; but with
rest it cleaxa up in furty-oight hours. Thoro
can be no organic trouble with it, or it wouldn’t
rally ro soon. I havo been worn down lower
tnan 1 am now. I am much atrongor physi
cally now than at any timo of my life. My
sleep ia perfect. 1 think I havo health and
stiCDgth enough to do my work, and rejoice iu
it all the day long for years to como.”
Closing, the evangelist remarked that, wore
he to undeitako a second campaign in this
city, ho would adopt a different method from
Unit which ho has followed on thi • occnMiou.
Ho knows tho pcoplo now and would ap
proach them in another vein. Tho ovangolist
soya ho docs not ccmprehcnd tho powor ho
has over men. His wifo, who lovos to hoar
him preach, oiten sales him if ho can explain
why tho multitudes gather fo hear him, for
aho cannot; and ho answers her that ho, too,
Is at a loss to givo a roason for it. Ho trusts
that any hard word ho has lot drop will bo
forgotten, and that only his lovo for hia follow
men will bo treasured up against him.
half-a-dollar island.
The fctorjr of IIow Uncle Bandy Hashes Made
an Island.
From tho Elbcrton, Ga., Leader.
Many years ago by an unsuccessful attempt
to divert tho water in a large bond of Coody's
creek into a straight channel, an isolated pioco
of land wbb found which goes by tho nnuio of
tho Half a-Dollar island. Its naino origina
ted from this circumstance:
Old “Uncle Bandy” llughee nnco had it
planted in cotton and having beon to look ot it
one <la9 fold hi* wife it wav so good that it was
worth n hall dollar just to seelt. Ua this pioco
of Innd thero in a raised spot nbout hail au
aero iu area which is suppoedfi to ke»an Indian
meund. Borne years ago a boor had this spot
I 'fivtfd ir\ ran. It proved well adapted; the
corn thrived and bid foir to jura but a band*
come harvest. As soon a* toe corn thrlvod,
however; tho boor took to boatclag, and the
moro it thrived tho moro ho bonatod, till at
length hiB neighbor* bccamo heartily woeriod
and ditgusted with his song end sot to devising
i>< In niCB by which thoy might silonco him.
Tho result wob a report soon sprang up that
mi old Indian chief had boon scon to conic up
< ut oltho mound einl utter angry iin procation*
on tho bead oftheonowho whs donee ruling that
sacred ground. To this rumor Wat addod wild
conjectures such as that spells would be practi
ced mi the boor; ho would ho caught and
beaten by witches, his corn or hlmsolrbo spir
ited lt.ay, or somo such sad fate would bofall
him. Theeo rumors and conjocluros boing
every day exaggerated, filled his infad with
dreed ona apprehension eo great that he grow
iifruid to go near tho mound. Having ar
ranged everything in readiness for their
m !h me, however, our friends, somo of his
neighbors, ono evening by taunts of cowardice,
mceccdcd iu getting tho hour tn go aud look
after hia corn. Aa ho stopped on tho island ho
h> > ii.cd an if ».r» enchanted ground. Ho looked
about him wildly and proccoded slowly toward
Urn mound, troubling in every limb a* if in
*"f jroing to meet some supernatural boing.
did it affect him, then, whon in tho
midst of hia corn suddenly from out of tho
ground arose a polntod old Indian chief beforo
him and confronted him with these words:
“How daro you palo faco thus lo desecrate this
mered ground with your accursed corn.” Tho
boor vouchsafed no reply, nor waited to hoar
more, but turning on his heel fled as fast as
his feet would carry him.
After this it was ail our friend* could do to
picvuil with him s^iiin to visit tho mound: it
—By with tbo nromiso to go along with
ad stand by nfm to tho last la any mis
fortune. When thsy reached thero thoy found
the corn all vanished; no sign remained bnt
a pile of shnekf and stalk* over the hole oat ot
which tho old chief had arisen. Thus had his
corn been actually spirited away, as had boon
conjectured. Tho boor waa now compiotely
crestfallen; but, a few days after, when those
same friends, sympathizing in his misfortune,
inh.fo him up a Hufnciout purBxn to replace thu
corn spirited away, and assured him that tbo
ire of the spirits was now appeased, ho became
again lighthearted, but waa cautioned nev
er to reiumo the practice of boasting.
BDMUNES’S VISIT TO HNOLA.ND.
THE REBEL LEADER.
Interview With n Alan Who Knows Kiel—
the Fresent Situation,
Winxhtc, Man., Mny 2'*.—liov. Mr. Pit
Mado, of this city, was on board the steamer
North Goto, whon Biel was boing convoyed to
Saskatoon. Ho had eomo conversation with
tho rebel leader, and tho following is extract
ed from a report of tho trip wnich ho has
given in private letters.
Fitblacfo dcecribes Iliol as a cunning, intel
ligent man. Jllel said ho did not know what
tho authortics would do with him. Ho was
forced "to fight, ho said, by tho raountod
police and too Jludson bay officers. Thoy
tyrannized over tho half-breeds and abused
their power. “Thoy would tako everything
from us excops tho noso.” ho sold. Tho fol- ti
lowing relates to tho fight at Batoucho:
“Is not this a bad job for you?”
“Yes, very bad, but Good
How the Vermont Senator Gninn to be In
vited Over hy tbe House of Lords,
WAfiniROTov, May 29.—Thera is b great Joal
of interest taken by public men in 8enator
Edmuud’a invitation to go to England to tea-
tify before tho houeo of lords. It has been in
correctly stated that ho would appear beforo
parliament. He la not In tho city. Henator Mor
rill, from Vermont, lays that tbe house of lords
is sitting row •« a court for the examination
of rarloua questions. Its sittings correspond
to thoee of our supreme court. He save that
It is entirely without precedent to invite any
of our public men or fawyers to appear beforo
it as witnesses to explain away any of tho
topies considered by them, llo has no idea
of the subject to be explained by Mr.
Edmund. The Junior Vermont sen
ator fs very well known In England
m.<i bar quite a large acquaintance In the
b'.uie of lords. When the high joint commis
sion was hire Mr. Edmund* became very well
•cqcafated with the English members, and he
baa visited England several limes and has
been very generally received In London
sccitty. ITe met Lord Coleridge
when be was here. His wide ac
quaintance with English law and hia
petition as chairman of the judiciary
committee fn the renate would naturally make
bits tbe lawyer to be selected if the English
ferda should desfra to eo&fult any American
authority upon tho subject of our laws. HU
wife std daughter will a'company him. It is
raid by some that there i* • certain bit of
diplomacy behind all this, and that Mr.
PhelpaU retpomib’e for Mr. Edmunds’* invi
tation. Thu theory, however, la accepted by
very few.
u* uwm Providence has
prevented U from being worao. Had tho Indians
wo expected joined us, wo would havo boon
much stronger and better able to rcsiit.”
“How many men had you in tho fight?”
“About fivo hundred. I expected an attack
on tho north sideot the river, and left 150 mon
to resist it on that side. This weakoned ui on
tho other aide.”
“Whero were you daring tha fight?”
“At fint, when the mist was on tho river, I
was on tho north tide, but when tho attack
was made I went every whero, among the mon
and all through the pits.”
How many of your men wero killed?”
“Eight, and two wounded fatally, l tear.
Ono was wounded in tho breast and the othor
in the abdomen.”
“Wore the priests friendly to you?”
“They woro not, nnd thoy insisted on us bo
ing submissive to thorn. They wero against
our trying to redress our own grievances. Ever
rirco the d<-< trine of tho infallibility of tho
popo was propounded, thoy havo been very
tyrannical. Thoy did not wish tho
pcoplo to do anything, but tho
priests to do all. If thoy had beon m
tavor of peaco I would havo beon with thorn.
Thoy wero in favor of fighting for tho priosts,
but not for tho peoplo. Thoy used doublo
edged swords. They turned tho pcoploagainst
them bccauBO thoy assumed tho civil functions.
They turned thu l’rntchtiintfi ngaingt thorn
because thoy opposed thorn. Tho priests sook
power- for themselves, not tno good
of the pooplo. Thoy aro against tho Protes
tants, both politically and religiously. Thoy
• ro against me now, not bccauao I robollod,
but becauso 1 did not auccood iu holplng
tlwra.”
Kiel further said that tho pooplo compell
ed him to fight, and would not let him go
back to Montana. Ho was on hfs way to
givo himself up to Middleton whon capturod
by th*' scouts.
Another extract from tho conversation
reads?
“Will tho Indiana fight?”.
“I don’t know. Otter’s attack on ths Indl-
»t:h presented them from joining us. Had
thoy come as thoy were expected the fight
would have beon worse. I had about twonly-
five ol them with mo.”
Did you land messengers lo them oyor
the country offer the Fish creek bnttfe?”
“Yes, 1 sent to Q’Appello and Battleford.but
not to Colonel Garry.”
As to religion, llov. Fitbludo says ho had
several long conversations to-day with Kiel
on tho subject of his roligious views. Ho
scorns to bo quite willing to talk, and declares
that he is now done witn tho church ot Homo,
lio Is evidontly trying to create
sympathy for hiiuself among tho Protestant*.
11 im great antipathy to tho priests consist* in
his hatred lor their interference in many mat
ters. They hdve too much to do with civil af-
tslra- The council at Ba touch* passed a roll-
ficus creed of distinct aoetrraaa, whioh''
Wished to teach tho. psopte. Pit-
' gave a sketch of the creed thus
promulgated, irotn whteh.it. i* evlU'it th-J^
Kiel hoped to gain the support of ail danomi
nations nn religious grounds. In tbe second
letter, Pilblado gives a conversation iu which
Kiel set forth the claims of tho half broods ns
follows:
“Why should you rebel lo got this grant
ed?”
“Wo did not robol. Thin matter
is not robollion. Wo have novor
yet been treated with about
our right*. Tho hall broods of Manitoba havo
enterod into a treaty. Thnt treaty stipulates
that tho arrangsmetiU to bo made with tho
hulfbrccds of tno torritorici would bo similar
to those mado with Manitoba. No troaty has
over been mado with us. We novor
transferred our rights, and boforo thoy
n ro taken from uh wo wish to
havo tho treaty mado, and think wo havo a
right to expect that tho conditions of that
treaty will bo similar to tho one niado with
tho half-breeds in Manitoba. No, my frlond,
this is sot rebellion. Wo simply defend our
selves. Wo don’t l>«long to tho Hudson bay
company. They sold thoir interest iu tho
country.
“Tho Indians who took tho treaty sold what
interest they had in tho country and tbo halt
bri edi ol tho territories nro tho owners of tho
soil thoy occupy. They havo no interest in
tho country with which thoy have novor
parted. Thoy deaire to have an equitable ar
rangement for ibtir intercut. Thoy defend
themedves.”
llo concluded his statement by saying:
“I have sot rebelled against tho KagUsh
government, and besides I am a citizen of tho
United Stales. I have my papers all right,
and n riti/r.u of tho United Ktales can m-.ireely
bo a traitor to tho dominion government.”
JMPBACH MHNT IN MEXICO.
'll
'1 he € nicer* of th« Lata (lonzales Admin
istration tn Trouble,
City of Mrsico, May 29.—The hostility which
has long threatened a rupture between President
Dlszacd ExPrcrtdent Gonzalez has finally cal-
mlnated In an order adopted In congress lor tho
impeachment of tho two secretaries of the treas
ury under the Gonzelez administration, and also
of tho minor treasury official*. There wai great
cx(!umtnt In congrcM during debate, and the
articles In tho anti Gonzalez newtnapen havo
Keen very bitter. KzHecrctary iuontes J
Muniz, who held tho trea>>aty portfolio
iluriDR tho early part ot thu Gonzalez admtuUtra.
tion, m an Interview u>-*i«y with a press repre-
killative, raid he waa w tiling lohnvetilM account*
examined, and that although according to the
constitution ho was exempt ircm impcuchment,
Old wsIvohJ* rJahta In order to have h(s
itloti vindicated. Public opinion regards
fcchor Foentca Y. Muniz a» tin honuat man, and
LI* frnnkm aa In tide trial* confirm* thu public
judgment. He la now manager of tha
t,ht.or.nl hank of Monte du l'ienal.
Political and burincM circle* aro earnestly dis-
ni>ftlng th* situation. It is generally thought that
cx President Gou/ali-/. will endeavor to vindicate
himrclf. IIIH friends arc reported a* saying that
he will precipitate a revolution beforo submitting,
•* *—*rs a* II tho government had boon preparing
- conflict, and as It the Gonzalez party will
If the matter bo prcaaed to an end. Tho
houto of deputlea has pasted a bill authorizing
tf i preridsot to extend the extstteg railway era-
iocs 1 ho bill will probably pass the senate.
i j bciitcof deputies has voted to refer to a
A ju.y committee of thnt body the ii'ieatlon a*
LttLi-r there baa btcu malfeasance In office ou
the part of any of the member* o! the Gougalaz
f-.'n.lr.fot atlon. This committee mint comlder
where there fs sufficient prima Milo ground lor
nrtu»iruany one. lithe committee reports in
tho affiiinutlve the bouse will be formed into a
Brand jury of &<* luatlou, aud If, In this capacity,
ti.Ht the ateuxed f* guilty, tbe aexute.
tensed Into a jury of sentence, will determine tho
appropriate penalty.
A Visit to the Old OhlelUklA.
From tho LaGrange, G*., lteporter.
Mr. L. M. I’ark and wile yisitel the Hon.
Jcllerion Davis, at his beautiful home oo tho
ulf, Beauvoir,en route to the exposition. Mr.
'ark said h# wanted hi* children to have the
proud satisfaction in future year* of bavin;
shaken the hand of th* president of the south
era confederacy, aud therefore too* the -iUl*
boy i irithfetau
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