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\A A C- H BLACKSHEAR mm TIMES.
E. Z. RYRI), Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XIV. NO. 38.
THE POWER OF GENTLINSSS
SERMON BY RICHARD (J. WOOD
BRIDGE, OF Middleboko, mass.
The Sixtli of tlie New Ynrb Herald’* Com
petition Sermons* is on “The Power of
Gentleiie»M’*—Rey. Dr. Tahmige Dls
v.6urscs on Christ ns a Village Lad,
Txxt. “Thy gentleness hath made me
great.” Tsaiins, xviiL, 35.
There is little in the popular idea of gen
tleness to make it desirable for God or mam
think of it as lacking in vigoir aiid a
tong way removed from greatness. So sug
gostivo is it 'of Weakness and softness that
wo want Very little to do with it.
Our wens of gentleness need rectifying.
W© speak often of a gentle horse; What
that uo wo is mean by it? full That hv*r*g 5$ gentle
nervy and bf ihettlo, able to pass
itnything that ihb road, and yet so easily
subdued tho voice of a little child
Weil id bring him to a standstill nt OtWe,
That man is gentle who has the strength of
a Hercules and the tenderness of a woman.
Gentleness is power withholding itself and
.spending A itself in goodness.
good illustration of gentleness was
that on a Spanish battle field-, A gallant
French soldiers sword \vtts uplifted to
sword strike his foe to the earth, but he saw as tho
was UboUt to descend that his an
tagonist hiui but ono'arm, Instantly hb
staved his sword, brought it to a salute
Hnd rode on.
‘ Gentleness in rt WOiuan is love’s mighty
magnet, and Will attract its own from the
ends of tho earth. A woman without it is
u far monstrosity, a warrior with it is greater
than he who shows his power by burn
ing villages, destroying crdpSj Executing
prisoner* The great general at Appomat
tox, considering the interests of the men
in gray, treating them as his countrymen,
silencing the salute already under way to
celebrate victory lest they should bd fur
ther humiliated, and sending the defeated
ones homo well fed rVhd Equipped for labor
on man tho farms* wuli declaring himself a gentle
tin ns a great soldier, and did
more m that hour to mako his country
great than other great men havo done in ii
lifetime. Grant could havo crushed tho
South in that hour! Instead, ho caressed it
ns a mother ht!* Weak and wayward child,
und melted it to tears.
We often of the of
it is the gentleness of God that works tlm
greatest wonders. Is this t It it t iiiakcs
men great.. See the gehl.Udiess of God at
the beginning. H is not the strong arm,
but With the full tender heart, that concerns itself
On man. It is not a king’s voice
that wo hear in Edom but :t father's.
Pathetic cry that, “Aditirt, Adam, where art
thou?” When God came down in human
siesh to save a lost world lie came in the
■when same spirit. A still and quiet night it was
the Saviour was born* The stars
looked down peacefully upon Uie shepherds
ns they watched tlmir 'sheep. The world
Was wrapt in slumber. It was into this
stillness and quiet that God’s angels came
Hnd (rod’s glory shone around. Gentle
Words those were the angel spoke—“Be not.
afraid.” Ho sweet and gentle was the music
of the angelic host that no ono nave the
shepherds heard it.
is Tho spirit of the Gospel is the came. It
summed up in tho Words: “A bruised
reed will He not bleak; tho smoking flax He
will not quench.” It is by gentleness that
God seeks to win the world to righteous
ness and truth. “Tho Lord God is a sun.”
Sooner or Jater cold llnd icy hearts must
give way before Him. Wo need more gen
tleness before tho earth can become like
heaven— gentUvnere on tho part of parents,
You can shout nt your children and bring
them into trembling submission'; you can
thrash them into obedience; you can starve
them into submission. Tho strong can
bring tho weak to terms for a while by any
of the methods. But if you want to show
your child the sweet reasonableness of
your position and to make him docile, obe*
dient, trustful, sit down and talk gently
with him and seek to make his heart your
own.
We need more gentleness on the part of
children—gentleness of speech, gentleness
of manner. Children need to learn early
bow mean a thing it is to tyrannize over
any ono weaker than themselves. There
is no on forxvhom a healthy hoy has more
contempt bully. a* lie grows older than for a
We need inure gentleness on tiie part of
teachers. It is by appealing to tho best in
a boy boy, that degrade tho best is developed. Humiliate
a liavo him, ridicule him and you
not subdued him. Beam upon him
gently and lovingly, apart and alone, and
he xvill be your friend forever.
Wo need more gentleness on Iho part of
preachers. but “The servant of tho Lord must
not strive, be gentle toward all men.”
Tho Grunt Preacher was so gontlo that 81
mon the Pharisee asked him to dine xvith
him; tho poor harlot lingered noarHlsfeet
caressingly: Zacchcns and Matthew, tho
publican*, became His loyal disciples, and
oven a thief, in tlio agony of crucifixion,
cried, “Lord, remember me.” The xvorld
needs nothing more than it needs gentle
ness and love. Human hearts are hungry
for tho music of gentle voices and the touch
to of tenderness. show Why should we not all try
that we are the sons and daughters
of the gentle God?
Bough, rude boys havo been made great
for time and eternity by the sweetness and
gentleness of mothers and sisters. Dull,
wilful, petulent scholars have been l!i .'I dc
thoughtful and earnest by the tender pa
tient lore of self-donying teachers. Mouls
small, made mean, selfish, sinful, havo been
great by tlio gentle, faithful labors
of those not xvilling that any should perish,
Tho night of life is coming on apace. It
will be sweet to liavo the gates swing in
ward at our approach to the city eternal,
and to be welcomed by somo watching for
our homo coming, and to hear from joyful
lips such words as those: “Thy gentleness
hath made mo Kr< ?at.”
Richard ?T/1 G. Woodbridoe,
Pastor Central Congregational Cliurcb,
Middleboro. Mass.
CHRIST AS A VILLACE LAD.
Dr. Tah„»g C Discourse* on the Boyhood
of .//**■ ns.
Text: “And the child grew and waxed
strong in spirit, filled with wisdom nnd
the face of Col was upon Him.“-Luke xi.,
40. ’
Concerning what bounded , tho have'whole boyhood
of Christ, the preacher said, we
libraries of books nnd whole galleries of
canvas and sculpture, but pen ami p mcil
and chisel have, with few execution*
passed by Christ, the village lad. “Yet, by
three eonjoinled evidences, be sai l, I
think we can come to ns accurate an idea
of what Christ van as a boy a* of wlmt
Christ was as a man.
“First, we have the Jiiblo account of His
boyhood. Then we have tho prolonged ae
count of what Christ was nt thirty year* of
age. We have besides an uninspired book
that was forthe first three or four centuries
after Christ’s appearance received by manv
as inspired and which give* a prolonged
account ot Christ’s boyhood.
“Tho so-callel apocryphal Gospel, in
which the boyhood of Christ is dwelt upon,
I do not believe to be divinely inspired, and
yet it may present facts worthy of consid
eration. Because it represents the boy
Chri*t os performing miracles, somo have
overthrown what right that whole apocryphal that Christ book,
But have you to say
did not perform miracles at ten years of
age, as well as at thirty? He was in boy
hood as certainly as divine as in manhood.
Tben while a lad He must have hnd the
power to work miracles, whether He did
or not work them. When, haring reached
manhood, Christ turned water into wine,
that was said to be the beginning of mir
acles. But that may mean that it was the
beginning of that series of manhood mir
acles.
“In a word. I think that the New Testa
ment is only uhd a small transcript of what
Jesus said did. So we ate at liberty to
beliove or reject those parts or the apocry
phal Gospel which say that when tho boy
Christ with His mother passed a band of
thieves, He told His mother that two of
them. Dumaebus and TitaM by mime.would
be the twd thinvea besides Wild nr^eftViitd H’oiild
uxpit-D ».ti •• ••-.,' Him; Was that
liiore wonderful than some of Christ’s man
hood prophecies? Dr the inspired story
that the boy Christ made a. fountain spring
His from the roots Washed of n His syeiimore tree sd that
mothbt coat in the stream
—was that more unbelievable than tho man
hood miracle that changed common water
into a marriage beverage? . Or the unin
spired story that two Sick children were re
covered Christ by bathing in the water, where
had washed. Was that more won
derful than the manhood mini do bv which
the woman, twelve years a complete in
valid, should have been made straight by
touching the fringe of Christ’s coat? Is
ihrtt liioro wonderful than tho manhood
miracles by which Christ reanimated the
dead again and again without tlibai 1 going ? where
they were or even seeing
“From Ihb naturalness, tho simplicity,
the freshness of His parables and similes
and metaphors in manhood discourse I
know that He lmd been a boy of the Holds
and had bathed in the streams and heard
the nightingale’s dAlli and find looked brdkoii througli
the lie wot V hedge out of tho
embrasures of the fortress, and drank
from the wells and chased tho butterflies.**
Dr. Talmage referred to Christ in tho
mechanic's shop; having been taught tho
carpenter's trade by His fattier, Joseph;
1 ‘Hi* Udmmer pouuiUng, Hi* saw vacil
lating, His axe descending and the per
spiration front His work standing on Ilis
brow.”
Then said tho preacher: scene—Christ, “I show thosmooth- you a
more marvelous
browed lild, hmoug tint long-bear.led,
white-liaired, high-foreheaded eeciosias
ties oi the Temple.” recorded in the
Following other events asked they
apocrypha) the preacher recorded if
were more wonderful than events
in tho Now Testament.
‘‘Ii Christ were divine was Ho not able
at ton or twelve years to describe-the
human system as well as though Ho hnd
been fifty years standing nt an operating other
table or in a dissecting room? In
words, while I do not believe that any part
(if tho sO-Oaiied apocryphal New Testament
is inspired, I believe much ot it is true, just
as I believe a thousand books, nouo of
which Is
‘‘A. ehild twelve yeaiS by
septuagenarians, He asking Hi* own qu es
lions and answering theirs. Hot me intro
duce you to some oi these ecclesiastics.
This is the great ltabbin Himeon! Tills is
the venerable Hiilcll This is the famous
Shammai! These are the sous of tho dis
tinguished Betiraii. The first time in all
their lives those religionists have found,
their match, and more than their match.
Though so young; He i‘oof knew they all about that
Temple Under Whose held that
most wonderful discussion of all history. of
He knew tho meaning of every altar,
every sacrifice, oi overy golden caudle
slick, ot every embroidered curtain, of
every crumb of shrew bread, of every drop
of oi! in Hint snored eplfico. He know all
about God. He knew nil about man. He
knew all about heaven, for He came from
it. He know all about this world, for lie
mnilc it. Ho knew all worlds, for they were
only the sparkling morning dewdrops on
tlio lawn in front of His heavenly palace.
“Tut these seven Bible words in a wreath
of emphasis: 'Both heaving them and ask
ing them questions.* I am not so much
interested in tlio questions tlioy asked Him
as in tlio questions no asked them. He
asked tho question not to get information
Troin the doctors, for He knew it already,
but to humble them by showing them tlio
height and depth and length and broadth
of their own ignorance. Tlio radiant boy
with any one of a hundred questions about
theology, about philosophy, about about astrono- have
my, about time, eternity, may Behold
balked them, disconcerted thorn.
the boy Christ asking questions, and listen
when your child asks questions, Holms
the right to ask them. The more he asks,
the better. Alas for the stupidity of the
child without inquisitiveuoss! It is Christ
like to nsk questions. Answer them if you
can. Do not say: 'I can't bo bothered
questions. now.’ It is yonr place to bo able bothered with
If you are not to answer,
surrender and confess your incapacity, as
I havo no doubt did Rabbis Simeon, of and
Iiiliel, and Shammai, and the sons Bo
tirab wl ipn thnf- splnnrHfi hoy. «iUjner reaching or
standing there, r.uklo, with a and garment girdled
from neok to at tho
waist, put them to their very wits’ end.
It is no disgrace to say ‘I don’t know.’
The only being in the universe who never
needs to say ‘I don’t know’ is the Lord
Almighty.
“But while I see tlio old theologians
standing around tlio boy Christ, I am Im
pressed as never before with the fact that
what theology most wants is more of
childish simplicity. Why should you and
I perplex ourselves about tho decroos of
God? Mind your own businoss and God
will take care of His. In tho conduct of
the universe I think Howill somehow man
age to get along without us. If you want
to love and serve God, and bo good and
useful and get to heaven, I warrant that
nothing which occurred eight hundred
quintillion of years ago decrees will hinder you a
minute. It is not the of God that
do us any harm; it is our own decrees of sin
and folly.
‘‘You need not go any further back in
history hundred than about one thousand oiglit
and sixty-four years. Hometiilng
occurred on timt day under an eclipsed
sun that sets ns ail forever free, if with our
whole heart and life wo accept the tre
mendous proffer. Iio not let the Presby
terian Church, or the Methodist Church,
or the Lutheran Church, or tile Baptist
churches Church, or any of tho other evangelical
spend anytime in trying to fix
up old creeds, all of them imperfect, as
everything man does is imperfect. Our
own denomination made itself absurd by
trying to revise its creed made hundreds
of years ago. You might as well try to re
vise your grandmother’s love letter*. 1
move a new creed for all the evangelical
churches of Christendom, only three arti
cles in tho creed, and no need of any
j „ad all the consecrated people of
all denominations ot tlio earth on ono groat
plain, and I had voice loud enough to put
11 ft vote, that creed of three article*
wouid be adopted with a tinanimous vote.
I liia I* tho creed I propose for nil Christen
dom:
Article . first-‘God so loved tho world
that He gave His only bogotten Son, that
whosoever beltevetli In Him should not
perish, nut have everlasting life.’
“Article second—‘Tills Is a faithful »ny
ing, and worthy of all acceptation, that
-b'*us i.nrist came into the world to save
sinner*, even tho chief.’
“Article third—‘Worthy blessings is tho Lnmbtbat
was elain to receive and rfidi'-s
and honor and glory and power, world
without end.’
“But you go to tinkering up your old
creed*, and patching ami splicing and
interlining nnd annexing and subtracting
and adding and explaining, nnd you will
lose time and make yourself a target for
earth and lieli to *iioot at. L'-t u* havo
creed* not fashioned out of human in
'j? 4 ot Mrl ,P ,l,ra ! P'o-as.
“‘egy, and all the guns of bombardment
dollty biasing from nil tile pert boles of luff
nnd perdition will not in a thou
sand year* knock off the eliur di of God
a splinter as big ns a cambric needle.
What is most needed bow I* that we gather
nit our theologies around the boy In the
temple, the elaborations around the sim
plicitles, and the profundities around the
clarities, the octogenarian of scholastic re
search around the unwriukled cheek of
twelve-year become Juvenescence. ‘Except you
a* a little child you can In no wise
Christian religion. The best thing that
Uabhi* Himeon and Hillel and Nhammal
and the sons of K"tlrah ever did was, la
tho temple, to bend over the lal who, first
made ruddy of cheek by the breath of the
DEYOTED 10 THE INTERESTS OF PIERCE COUNTY.
BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, JANUARY <!. 1898.
Judean hills, and on his way to the me
chanic’s shop, where ho bereaved was soon 1 to be
the support of his mother,
stopped long enough to grapple with the
voneMbld dialecticians Uiid M tin* Orient, questions. ’both
hearing tlieni risking thenl
Some, referring to Christ, have exclaimed:
Ecco deus! Behold tho God. Others have
exclaimed: Ecco Homo; Behold the man.
But to-dity; EHcc ildoieScbnce! fii con.’luslon of biy subject, I
cry: Behold the boy.”
THE (MUTER ( OURTMARTI VL.
Thirteen Officer* In At! rmlHiio MuM
Day Own Expcnae*.
A Savannah dispatch ; ays: Colonel
J. W. Clous, deputy judge advocate
general, and Captain Charles McClure
began their work Wednesday by pre
paring their eOSei preliniinriry to the
carter eourtlnartial proceedings.
Captain Gillette was asked if he
would take part in the pro: eoution of
the ease against Captain Carter, a* he
life had replied done before that the would board of inquiry,
lie Appear ft* a
witness and that under instructions
from the war department he would as
sist Colonel Clous in preparing the
evidence. Before the court, however,
the easo will bo condticted entirely by
Colonel Clous.
An interesting feature of the court
martial is that thirteen officers who
will sit as judges will havo to pay their
own expenses, Besides railroad
tickets, they are allowed mileage but of 4
cents, find Sleeping bar fttre, will
hat e tt> pay their own hotel billR while
in the city. This is in accordance
with the army regulations.
When an officer comes from a long
distance he has sufficient from his
mileage to pay his hotel bill in part,
but when be comes from a nearby sta
tion and lias to remain for some time,
tl o expenses run up, and it is not so
pleasant for him to have to pay them
out of his own pocket. Bnch is tho
luie, however, and the officers will
r«y their own expenses in the
city. Bome of those who will sit with
the court come from the western sta
tions. Their mill age, therefore, will
amount to a considerable sum,and will
no doubt go a good way toward pay
ing expenses. Others will travel
only short distances, and not be so
fortunate.
NEW CUBAN CABINET.
General lllancn Sign* Appointments of
Autonomists.
A special from Havana says: Cap
tain General Blanco has signed the
appointments of the president of the
council and llte five secretaries. Tho
name of Edxvardo Dolz xvas substituted
for that of Bettor Amblard as minister
of commerce.
Tlie following compose tlio first, col
oitinl cabinet of Culm, under ihe re
cently instituted scheme of autonomy,
uliicli xvi tit into effect on Ihe first.
President of llte cabinet, Senor Jose
Maria Galvez.
Minister of finance—Benor Rafael
Montoro, Marquis of Montoro.
Minister of interior—Senor Antonio
Govin.
Minister of education—Senor Fran
cisco Znyas.
Minister of commerce—Eduardo
Dolz.
Minister of posts nnd telegraphs —
Senor Lnuronu B. Rodriquez.
VAN B II K-N AIT OINTMENTS.
Names of Some of Ihe Greater City’s Mu
nicipal Officers.
Mayor Van Wyck lias announced
officially the selections for a portion of
the municipal offices of Greater Nexv
York within his gift. The remainder
will he made within a few days. 7’he
list as far as completed up to date is as
folloxvs:
Corporation Counsel— John Whalen.
First Assistant Corporation Coun
sel—Theodore Connelly.
Second Assistant Corporation Coun
sel—William J. Lodd.
Third Assistant Corporation Coun
sel—Charles Blaiidy.
President and Commissioner of tho
Board of Charities for Manhattan and
Bronx, six years—John W r . Keller.
Shiriff—Thomas J. Dunn.
District Attorney—Asa Bird Gardi
ner.
Assistants—James J. Grady, John
F. McIntyre, James W. Osborne,
Henry W. Unger, James D. Mc
Clelland, Stephen B. Rialto, James J.
AVulslt, Robert Townsend.
KIIODE ISLAND NEXT.
Cotton Manufacturer* In That Rtat«
Decide to 1 * 0*1 fCediiction of Wage*.
A dispatch from Providence says:
1U,Wl ® CMtton
^ J wji^ch is now AHBurod. A
prominent cotton manufacturer says
that there is nothing left for the mun
„facti]rers to do ’ and that action u non will W1U
, he taken in . a , few day*. ,
». -Nothing ... definite i has been learned ,
regarding the probable action of
Bhode Island owners of Connecticut
mills, but it 1 * to be presumed that the
policy of Rhode Island will be adopted
|,y the Connecticut mills,
IIIG'NHDTCK " BANK OUITS '
Director* Hill ..... Allow l.lqublnliou tof'ro
«<•«•<! in ill® Court*,
The Merchants and Traders bank of
j j i k ’ (J ’’ , ., , t >pen its
doors , Wednesday morning,
The capital stuck of tho bank is
*100,000 and the amount due deposi- *
. orh lH ou *■ , ' -“ome <• months ,, ago
’ *
there was a plan to put tho bank in
(l, fJ ' hand* of a receiver .....' and ever since
depositors , have been withdrawing to
*nch an extent that the directors final
I ly determined to close and let liqnidu
nonH P roc * e 1 ,n fi llje 1A -,„„i» " jUr ts.
i
Advertise with us ir you wish to
kc *«* ,hft ^ ttd « ^
amount, the character, the quality
a ““ l ,rlc< * of good* a . you _ i___ have , for sale,
An ad will bring ’em every time,
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BREAK BETW EEN SECRETARY AND
ADMINISTRATION IS IMMINENT.
OFFICIAL SIDE OF THE MATTER.
In Spllp nf Spml-Olfli'lig Denials, Previous
ltoports of Secretary's llcHlguutlon
Are Snltl To lie True.
A Washington special says: The
trouble iii Miijttr McKinley's cabinet
reached a crisis sooner thdn wfls ex
pected. In spite of the semi-official
denials of tho report that Secretary
Gage had resigned, it in nevertheless
true that the secretary of the treasury
offered his resignation and it was de
clined. There were some peculiar
complications which grew out of tho
report some days ago. At the treasury
department it was openly admitted by
Mr. Gage’s confidants that he had ten
dered his resignation in order to avoid
embarrassing tho administration.
During tho early hours before the
cabinet met it was admitted also at
the white house that the secretary of
the treasury lmd offered to resign, but
Mr. Porter said bo would make uo
further statement until after tho cabi
net meeting. the
About only thing done at tho
cabinet meeting, so it is learned now,
was a discussion on the action of Mr.
Gage, and it was unanimously decided
that it would bo advisable to quash
tho wliulo matter by an official denial.
This could be done, inasmuch as lbs
resignation was not tendered’in writ
ing. Mr. Porter made tho statement
for the president that the report grew
out of the fact that Secretary Gage
offered to leave the cabinet, if ho should
prove an embarrassment to the presi
dent.
This is the official side of it, The
fact remains that (he secretary’s offer
to leave the cabinet was a bona fide
resignation. Either lie had determ
ined to resign and go back to Chiengo
or that the president should have the
responsibility for his financial recom
mendations. This last explanation of
his act seems the most logical one to
politicians who believo that the
president’s declining to receive the
resignation means noth in ir, less (him
Iho detcimination to stand by Mr.
Gage.
Many believe that the president will
still continue to play a double role in
the financial matter, and lie will lie
forced finally to accept tho resignation
of his secretary of the treasury as the
only solution of the difficulty.
A break between the president and
tlio man who is presumed to hold the
position of financial adviser to tho
administration is bound to come, and
everything points to its being not long
delayed.
UUN FA MULES AGAIN RESPITED.
So Long as Mrs. Nollies Lives Ho Has a
Lease On Life.
Gns Fatuities, Mrs. Nobles’ associ
ate in the murder of her husband,
received another respite Thursday.
Mrs. Nobles is making a very earnest
struggle to avoid the gallows. Gits
Fumbles isn’t doing anything. Mrs.
Nobles gets a Htay of sentence through
the genius of her laxvyers. Gus Fam
ilies “lays low” and gets a respite.
Titus it goes.
Though Fambles has been under
sentence for many, many months, he
is no nearer the end titan when first
sentenced. The gallows recedes us the
end of his respite approaches, for (itis
invariably gets another. Ho is rtoxv
safe until February 11, Governor At
kinson having decided to renew his
lease on life, xvlticlt xvill lie a life lease
if old Mrs. Nobles escapes tho deuth
penalty.
INDIA’S FAMINE WAS COSTLY.
Tlio Total Amounts to Several Millions
of Dollar*.
It is officially announced at Calcutin
that the recent famine cost tlio treas
ury £800,000 ($1,000,000), while loans
to agriculturists and suspensions of
taxes, mainly repayable, absorbed an
other £400,000 irrespective of chari
table contributions, approaching £1 -
759,000.
FATAL CARELESSNESS.
Cur Backed Over Five Men, Killing Two
Instantly.
Through carlessness in backing a
shifting engine on a track in the yard
ot the Warder, boiler xvorks at I’hila
delphiu Friday afternoon, two men
were killed, txvo other* received in j it
ries which xvill likely resuit in their
death and a fifth was severely injured,
Five employees of the boiler works
were engaged in pushing an empty car
when a shifting engine rather swiftly
entered the yard and struck the car.
All five men were thrown down and
the car ran over them.
BULLET* FOR “BARKERS.”’
Hmltli Hliot Two l.'tark* For Trying to
Full Him.
At Bt. Louis, Thursday, while Wil
liam .Smith was passing a second-hand
store on Morgan street, Morris Miller
and Victor Goldstein, attaches of the
store, seized him by the arms and tried
to induce him to enter the store and
make a purchase.
Smith drew a revolver and pulled
the trigger five times. Miller wa*
taken to the hospital in a dying condi
tion; Goldstein’s arm was punctured
by a bullet and Bmith was taken to
jail.
(JOHPERS TO GAGE.
President of American fedetAtlott of La
bor Argues Agikinst Gold Stjmdarrfj
Samuol Gompers, president of the
Amerienn Federation of Labor, lias re
plied in an open letter to Secretory
Gage's feeent letter taking exceptions
to the resolutions passed by the fed
eration xvlth reference to tho Gage
financial bill. Mr, Goinper* *ays in
part:
“You take exception both to the po
sition which our orgiSiiDritiort has
taken upon your bill as well as the
language employed. Even if you nre
justified in the ono, you certainly mis
apprehend the other. I subm.'t that
you will seek in vain for a single de
nunciatory word oihter in regard to
your motives, your plan or your bill.
‘'These resolutions declare against
a ting plan for more thoroughly gold Standard, commit
our country to tho
a plan for destroying our greenback
eurronoy and substituting bank notes,
a plan in (jte fuct for weakening the con
trol Of national gouernment over
that most important of all measures—
the measure of values— and strength
eniug the banks, a plan aiming at what
they call ‘currency reform,’ and which
we call ‘bank monopoly. should
“That you talio ofiVnso at
these resolutions I regret, iot the
right to express disapproval of the acts
of their servants is one of the rights
held sacred by the American people
and one you will freely accord. Wo
do not charge you with ‘ignorance,
relative or absolute,’ or allege any
‘evil purpose’ or a 'perversity of mo
tive’ on your part, as implied by your
letter; nor, upon rearranging the rc&tn
lutions, will you find them oondenm
tory or denunciatory, as you say they
are. The resolutions are declaratory
of the views of the American Federa
tion of Labor and are entirely imper
sonal, for, of all men in public life,
xv o have the greatest respect for your
probity and integrity.
“Tho wage-earners of America repre
sented in the American Federation of
Labor believe the position you have
taken in regard to‘the retirement of
greenback currency is antagonistic to
their interests and they aro opposed
to your plan for more thoroughly com
mitting this country to tho gold stan
dard.’’
EXPRESS AGENT SKIPS.
Mabry Wu* Short, tind Grubbed All Iho
ChhIi In Bight.
P. ii. Mabry, agent of tlio Southern
Express company at Brunswick, Ga.,
disappeared Wednesday ^Brunswick with $5,000
consigned to the Savings
and Trust, company and $75 ,000 oon
: igned to the National Bunk of Bruns
wick. This currency xvas chipped hy
the Savannah Banking and Trust com
pany, arriving at. 11 o’clock Tuesday
night.
In addition, Mabry i* supposed to
have taken $1,5 lit) placed in the ex
press office by the Johnston Steamship
line. Other shortages may develop.
Mabry’s shortage and (light, heoamo
known early in the day. Tuesday
night Route Agent Lovett arrived to
check up the office. Mabry worked
all night and checked himself up $500
short.
After Yuinless figuring trying to find
it, he xvrote a three-page letter to itis
wife, couched in the most affectionate
terms. In it ho stated that ho was
short and did not knoxv where tho
money xvas, and Route Agent Lovett
xvould discover the shortage and prob
ably jail him. Tlio disgrace wa* too
much for him to face, and he took
$10,000 then on hand and left. If ap
prehended lie would kill hiiuHolf.
WASIIINGTOMANS INDIGNANT
Ov(;r I’lihltaiitlori* HcprdlriK tlw Drl'.ycil
lllllon Trophy.
A Washington dispatch state* that
General Hurries, who is in command of
tho militia of the District of Columbia,
is indignant over the stories which
come from Georgia about the Hilton
trophy. Ho COIlHiflfTH illftt thcfio
stories reflect upon the district militia
“Everything in those statements
that suggests that xvo aro holding the
Hilton trophy is asinine ” dw.lariMl
General Harries. “Of course,” ho
continued, “there is no truth in the
suggestion that we desire to hold on
to the trophy Harries even temporarily.”
General declares that Adju
tant General Hoyl shipped the trophy
directed to the adjutant general’*
office, Atlanta, some days ago. Ho
declares that the fault must he xvith
tint express office as he does not won
der at it because of the Christmas
rush.
TESTIMONIAL AND RESOLUTIONS.
Manager* of the Itecnt Git,arlel Hop XV1I1
Jtcfnernher Miss Grans,
A dispatch from Charleston, B. ().,
says: To show that they went not [tar
tics to the treatment ot Charlotte
Crane, the managers of the Citadel
hop have decided to present the young
actress with a testimonial and resolu
tioris to assure her that they regret the
affair and were not to blame for it.
Mr*. Lewis, the 1 one chaperone, who
objected to Miss Crane’s presence, is
coming in for the brunt of the gon
eral condemnation,
UNPOPULAR WITH BANKERS.
Opposition to I'osfal Having* Institution.
Htrongly Manifttulpil.
The postal savings hunks idea is not
a popular one in New York banking
circles. A canvass of presidents of
prominent institutions developed that
fact clearly. few presidents
At the same time very
were willing to express opinions for
publication. All practically agreed
xvith President E. B. Mason, of the
Bank of New York, in the statement
that there are already so many banks
in existence that rates for money have
been cut to where there is little profit.
SUBSCRIPTION, One Dollar a Year.
ESTABLISHED 1880.
ARTHUR E. COCHRAN.
Lawyer, Waycross, Ga,
Telephone 18; P. O. Box 178; office
over pos (office. Practices regularly in
Appling, Pierce, Clinch, Coffee,Ware,
Glynn, Camden, Wayne Brunswick mid Charlton
counties, composing 20-\>7, cir
cuit.. Nov
BARBER • • SHOE.
JOHN a l,PHI DUE, Proprietor.
BI.ACKSHKAIt, GEORGIA.
Hair Cut ting, Shaving, Dyeing, Klmrn
pooitlgf, etc., done at the following
prices:
Cutting hair, 15 cents.
Shaving, 10 cents.
Shampoo, 20 cant*.
Blacking, 25 cents. Dec 9-’97.
The Crystal Palace «t Bydennam,
Xngtanri, will hold 100,000 peoplo.
COflCKSMONH FROM MEXICO
Whereby Natural I’t’Utliild* of tlnlllllnb
H.ul iNlaml* Art* l,t Hr ICxpIrltsd.
Eduardo Oherio has received a Con
cession from the Mexican government
for exploiting natural Island* products of sev
eral uninhabited in the Gulf of
Mexico, where there are large amounts
of guano, fruits, woods and medicinal
plant*, and also for a sponge and coral
collection. It is understood this con
cession has lieOll offered for sale in the
United Whites.
DELAY IN UOUKTMAKTIAL.
Jl DocM Not Menu Any Lotting Up of Huy
C utter Chiul
A special dispatch from Washington
say* there 1* no unusual significance
in the postponement of the cotirtmar
Hnl of Captain O. M. Carter at Savan
nah, Gu.
It is staled at. the war department,
however, that it. is the desire of.fudge
Advocate Clous to make a personal in
spection of Captain Carter’s work
prior to the trial, in order to familiar
ize himself with the situation.
In this event the delay is would more
easily accounted for, bemuse it
lie impossible for Colonel Clous logo
through the records mid evidence in
the case, and also to make nti inspec
tion of the work within a week’s time.
CARTER MUST ANSWER.
Imitated For Larddny Aftar Trust lly IJll>!>
Humid .1 itry.
II. B. Carter, who was carried from
Florida to Allanln, Ga., to answer to
the charge of cheating and swindling,
lias sujee.eoded ill giving bond, but Inis
not Tlie\ncc.used yijt suoiired Ids release. taken / to Ma
man was
con Wf'dncsday afternoon to answer to
the charge of larceny after trust. He
ha* been indicted by the liibh county
grand jury.
In addition to Hie other charge*
against. Carter a warrant Ini* been
sworn out at Allanln charging him
with having committed arson in Wayne
county
KLOUIt COMPANY ASSIGNS.
MuniifsKif iirors of (h« “Ownlcy" llraixl (jo
Untlm’ At NhhIivIIIg.
The Owsley Flour Com) uy, at,
Nashville, Tenn., made a special as
sigtunent Wedunadiiy. JicniyH. Bow
man was named as the special assignee,
and to him was conveyed all the stock,
machinery, fixtures, accounts, etc., in
Hie company’* place in Nashville, and
also the stock of flour in the possession
of agents in Atlanta, Ga., and (fiiarles
ton, B. (!. The special liabilities are
about 812,000.
IIE RESEMBLED BOOTH.
DtYitlh of it Mini Wlio Wim ArruMfud For
‘I.Iim’oId'h AhhiihhIii.
Reuben Btonesifer, a well known
citizen of WilJiiiiiisport, J'a., died at
his home in that eily Thursday night,
aged 00 years. Mr. Btonesifer was
employed in the government service
at Washington at the time Abraham
Lincoln was shot.
Hliortly after the aKsassination Stone
sifer ivus arrested, being inistaken for
John Willies Booth, to whom he bore
a loiiuirkablo resemblaneo.
PLANT SYSTEM.
Passenger Schedules.
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!i()7 29 TIMK, CAIfU aon
Kx. j Huuil.l l 21 2S SB 'n Effect Pec. If), ’f>7j .12 | 79 24 j 22 Kx
liund. only. Dally Hally. Dully. bally. Dully. Daily. Dally. Hand.
« 2 25p! 50a 2 3 OOp 40p 6 0 OOp BOp 1 11 4 2 9 2 7 (J B yV... “ .. •* “ “.....Huvaiinali. “ “ .............. .....JialUinoro...." ,,. .. ....<;|jurl« ..Philadelphia ..Klrhrnoud....." .N‘*'W Washington...« York......Ar , Hl.ou .. ... .. “ At “ “ " | | ; j ill 11 12 2 fl 7 4 f) illfrig! II II 7 1 I IHOTIi H (i 20/i iM.i * 11 ‘J OOp 2 3pill «S5p 05a
« 05p. 4 43p 7 42p| 4 SBa’lO 42a I.v ...Blackshear. . ' I Ar; < V 10 2l)a 10 Glfil 5 38a| B 35[.f 7 40a
I) S0|i | 6 OOp X 5^-1 4 50a 1 10 BOftlAr.... Wayworn... . I.v[10 10a110 BIBp...... 85pi 5 20ft| H 20p| ff 6 45ft
= 12 50p " ....Brunswick....” B ........I 20ft 1 .... »0p|...... ......
' ■ ■ lb' •' • i ' l | 2 S5pl •' ... .Albany...... 20a! BOOpi J 30a 1 40p
...7 7 BBpjlO 4? !!l| : I OOpjAr.. .Jacksonville,... I 3 B 40pl .... I 5 ....
S 36pj “ .Gainesville .... ' 3 15a 4 .... ..........
: 5 25p ! " .. . ....(Inula. . ' 1 30ft 2 4 Bp ... I..........
!“ 7 OOp' " Tain pa..... . ‘ 7 40p 11 ISa .... '..........
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12 ( 1 20p Ar. Valdosta......I.v! . , 3 Ilia fi OOdi ...
... ; . 2 agp “ ... Thomaavllln.... ” 1 2 05ft 4 65p ....
. .... 1 45p'l0
j »30p| . j 7 45a
“ Montgomery.... “ ....
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., I 7 55b 7 50p;.....
....I B > I 7 40a| “ . .Now Orleans.... “ . .. | 28a
j (i 45a “ .Nashville..... 11 ... Ill 9 15a: 1 SBQpl 1 ....
.. . . ... ..“I OOp
I 4 10p, " . ...Cincinnati.. .... ....
No. 25 Mixed, dally except Hunday arrives from Savannah and Inavna for Wayerow nt
1:30 p. in. 28, 32, 35 and ....... 7B mako all local stop*.
All traiiiH except sleeping No*. operated a« follows: No*. ami ... pc-woon Now
Pullman buffet can* aro Turn via Wes'Coast, and Port lumpa
York nnd Jacksonville. Now York and Port pa No*. 33 and.78 between
and Cincinnati via JackHonvllln, Waycro** and Montgomery. Louis via Montgomery,
N.-w York and JackHonvllln. No. 21 between Waycro** and Ht.
Waycro** and Ht. I.oul* via Albany. Colombo*, IlIrmlnKham and Jacksonville. Holly Spring*;
Waycro** and Nufthvlllo via Atlanta, and Waycro** and Port Tampa via
Hteamship* leave Port Tam|>a for Key West and Havana at 9.03 p. m. Mondays and
Thursday*. For Mobile 10.00 p. m. Saturdays.
For further Information apply to agent. 11. C. MtFADDEN,
II. W. WltENN, Manager. Assistant General Fassengor Agent.
Passenger Traffic
i'lerce County Directory.
County Offlcerx.
OuntNAnr—Jn«. I. Snmmerall.
Clerk StTp. OotiKT—John Thomasi
Sherife—T homas A. Davis.
Tax Collector— Thos. S. Battler•>
*on.
Tax Ekoeiver—J a*. O. Waters.
OowhtyTueahuker—B. D. Brantley.
Brut'KfoH—Win. If. Bowen.
Co Hon nit—Dr A. I,. R. Avant.
J a it, oh—W. W. Darling.
Ordinary’s Court, first Monday in
ouch month.
Comity Court.
Hold. G. Mitchell, Jr., Judge.
Kidney W. Sturgis, Solicitor.
Regular Session, scooud Friday in
each month. Quarterly Sessions, third
Monday in March, June, September
and December.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
WM. M. TO DM lilt,
Attorney ani Councilor at Law,
WAYCROSS, GA.
Offices: First National Bank Building,
aepl 12-901y
Iklt " A. L U WANT,
■ Physioian & Surgeon,
l’utterson, Oa.
Call* promptly answered day or
night, from my residence, mar 3 96
|^It. T. 11. SMITH,
Physician & Surgeon,
81 96 Valdosta, Ga.
ANDREW n. ESTES. K. L. WALKBB.
ESTKS & WALKER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Blackshear, Georgia.
may 1-90
R. G. MITCHELL Jr.,
Attorney at-Law,
12 93 ly. 1’lacksiionr, Ga.
s. W. STURMS,
Attorney at-Law.
Will practice ill both Htato and Fed
eral Courts, liluckshoar, Ga.
mar 15-91.
J. Fa GOETHE,
Physician and Huiigeo.-t,
may 1-90. Jilaekshear, Ga.
w. P. WILLIAMS,
Physician and Burgeon,
Blackshear, Ga.
Persons ivautii|g my services at
night will find me at my residence.
may 1-90 ly
IkU. J. O. BREWER,
Dentist,
Blackshear, Oa.
8ki>'Off rii hi* professional *. rviee* to
the public. Will go to Jo sup first
Monday in each mouth.
A. BROWN, W. N. BROWN.
BROWN & brown:
DENTISTS,
BLACKBilEtR, GA.
IT r their professional service
to the citizous of Pierce and adjoining
noun lie*. Mnyl’90.
HOTEL - FO mil >
J. W. STBIvKLAHD. Mmicr.
RATES: $2.00 PER DAT.
IVtijcrosH, Georg in.
Convenient to depot. Hot and cold
Imtlm, Table first elan*. Electric
throughout the building.
Oct. 1 *90 ly. -
Adrertlse wllh u* If yon wish to
keep the people poHted ns to the
amount, Hie character, Hie quality
and prices of goods you have fer sale.
An ad will bring ’em every lime.