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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES
E. Z. BY T RD, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XIV. NO. 42.
TRIPS FOP, THE DNWiEY
REV. DR. TALMAGK’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
rikc Eleventh .. of _ tho . New _ \or»t 4 _ Herald's
Competitive Sermons is on “The Sin !
of Despising Others”— Dr* Talnmgo
X’rcaches on “Traps For the Unwary." i
im l( un ^ P .. .I th his * , neighbor sinneth. .» !
Pmv *•'''» oi
There is erreat deal of sin in the world ;
a
which tho ordinary conscience neither
recognises hor condemns. With most of
us tho standard ot‘ right and wrong is
purely the conventional. If we do not break
letter of the Ten CommnudmBnts; if
wo keep clear, of acts which public opinion
forbids; if we maintain a character upon
which society sets ho brand, then wo feel
at peace within ourselves aud make sure
that we are God’s elect*
A e• do not sec what subtle and far-feaoh
ing things good and evil are—how they in
ter weave themselves into all our Acts, our
,
words and motives, and secret thoughts ;
even; and how they depend, not upon the
fashion of the hour or the place, but upon
eternal nnd unchangeable principles. An
enlightened and sensitive conscience would
See sin in a thousand things which pass
with tho majority as indifferent, if not
actually points praisoworthy. It is not in nice
of religious observance that places
our moral character above suspicion half
so much as in those weightier matters of
justice and mercy and truth which afo in*
volvf'd in all tho business and iutercoursc
of bio daily life. Thousands who Would trom
to participate in any of the so-called
amusements of society, and who are
as strict and ostentatious as tho
Pharisees in regard to prayer
aud other duties, are yet living in such an
atmosphere of uncharitableness and wrong
that they aro actually further from the
kingdom of heaven than the very publi
cans and harlots. In a terse, direct and
emphatic way a form of guilt is pointed
out by Solomon which wo seldom think of,
vet which we are all very prone to fall iato,
and which is one of tho peculiarly beset
tings sins of that large class of inen who
are disposed to bo religious without beiug
godly. Tiie chief characteristic of these
people is'to trust in themselves that they
are which righteous, and to treat others in a way
for unmistakably declares,‘‘.Stand aloof,
wo aro holier than you,” and they are
so far from thinking such spiritual haught
Bless sinful that they regard it as an a&tual
proof of their divine sonship. Such con
duct nevc-r fails to insure moral resentment
aud to elicit: the rebuke, “He that despis
eth his neighbor sinneth.”
The parable of the Good Samaritan sup
plies a most beautiful explanation of tho
word “neighbor.” It teaches that every
man with whom we come in contact or re
lalion is to be regarded and treated as our
“neighbor.” The fact that I know of a
man s existence, and that I can in any bring way
teach and influence him, is enough to
in 1 .* under responsibility in regard to him.
The broad Atlantic may roll between us;
whole continents and burning deserts ami
deadly swamps may separate us; but if
there is any channel of communication be
tween us—any electric current, so to speak,
By which sympathy may be created and
love may act—that man is as truly my
neighbor as if wo me!: in the same market
or lived in the same street.
Notice what it is to despise our neighbor,
To entertain mean and contemptuous
thoughts <ri our neighbor is obviously to
despise him. We should always remember
that there is vastly more in common than
there is of difference between tho highest
and more cultured and the lowest and most
ignorant. Frequently, however, wo forget
this, aud from mere diversity of outward
circumstaaces we look upon each other
with feelings of haughty superiority and
contempt. As a consequence the rich and
th c great sometimes undervalue and insult
the poor and the lowly; and the poor and
the lowly iu return halo the rich and tbo
great, and ascribe all their importance)
solely to their wealth and rank. Surely, in
both cases, this is despising their neighbor
—forgetting their common humanity, their
common To dignity and their common origin,
treat your neighbor with indiffereuce,
as if there were no ties binding you to
gether. and no sympathy duo from one to
the other, is to despise him. The afltni
ties of human nature are such that it is
treason to place ourselves iu proud isola
tiuii Iroin Liiu rao - to which we naturally
belong, and gaze upon the sufferings and
helplessness of our kind with stoical in
difference. Such conduct is not only rep
rehensible. it is actually sinful. It is sin
ful because it is a great wrong done to
humanity. It rouses within man bitter,
had, resentful feelings, which sets class
against class. Its tendency is to destroy
self-respect, and let a man onco lose that
and there is no telling what he may be
come.
Again, to despise one’s neighbor is an
offence against social unity. Tho social
organism can only be held together by a
true and proper recognition of the useful
ness and necessity of each individual to
tile whole. Society is one body. Its mem
bers are manifold, hut they are all knit to
gether in tho closest bonds.
There is no such thing as real Indepond
ence. And hence for any man to despise
ills neighbor is just as wrong and foollsii
as it would he for the head to say to the
feet, “I have no need of you;” for his In
flucnce, as far as it goes, operates to the
disorganization of society—to the break
ing up of that unity and sympathy upon
which the general liaptness and well being
depend. Despising your neighbor is to
sin against your own soul. By such con
duet the great forces ever operating for
the formation of your own character nnd
the shaping of your own destiny arc un
dervalued. We depend upon each other,
This offence is also a sin against God.
the Humanity sinful is His child the outcast and
ns well as the poor. If you dos
pise his child, He says: "Inasmuch as ye
have done it unto one* of the least of those,
ye have done it unto Me.”
W. IL Kerkiiaw,
Pastor First Congregational Church, Park
Ridge, N. J.
TRAPS FOR THE UNWARY.
„ Various , Pitfalls Exposed l»y the* Rev.
Dr. T aim age.
wSaj.» v;? sstta *? tm,
hand, and, lo. I must die.” f Hamuei
.jv I” 43
: 1 ue 0 moat ingenious nrchi
geornetiEr'drawing , 1 Son»^
goas, a freebooter robbing the fields of poi
len and aroma, wondrous ,weature of God
whose biography, written by Huber nnd
Swammerdam. G an enchantment for
lover of nature. ’
Do you know that the swarming of the
stM^+ir bees is divinely directed? The mother bee
a new home, and because of tbP
F her bee* of the hive get into an ex
eiGnft n which raises the heat of the hive
some fo^r degrees, nnd they must die un
less they leave their heated apartments.
and they follow the mother bee and alight
on the branch of a free, and cling to each
other and hold on until a committecof two
er three bees* have explored the region aud
found the hollow of a tree or rock not far
off from a stre am of writer, and they her<*
set upa now colony, and ply their aromatic
Industries, nnd give themselves to the
manufacture of the saccharine edible. But
who can tell the chemistry of that mixture
of sweetu-s. part of it the very lifc-of the
N*'\ ar.d j art of It the life of the field*?
Plenty of this lus' ious product was hang
ing in th** -woods of Bethnveu during the
tj®o w“ of Haul aud Jonathan “Lmy Tlie»r nrTiV
in pursuit of an that by fio,! -
command must l.e exterminated. Tic
soldiery were positively forbidden to stop
to ea‘ until the work was done, ff they
dlsobeved they were accursed. Coming
through tliA woods they found .a placo
whero the bees had been busy—a great
honey manufactory* Honey gathered in
the hollow of the trees until it had over
flowed upon the ground in great profusion
of sweetness. All the army obeyed orders
and touched it not save Jonathan,and he not
knowiug dipped the military end ordetf about abstin
once the of a stick he had in
his yellow hand and into the candied liquid, and as
tempting it glowed on the end
of tho stick he put it to his mouth and ato
t* 10 honey. Judgment fell upon him, and
but for special intervention ho would havo
beeil s j aini In my text Jonathan announces
his awful mistake: “1 did but taste a little
honey with the end of tho rod 1 that was in
my hand, and lo, I must die.’ Alas, what
multitudes of people in all ages havo boon
damaged by forbidden honey, by which I
mean temptation, delicious aud attractive,
but damaging and destructive,
Corrupt literature, fascinating but dread
ful, comes in this category. is Where one
good, is honest; healthful book read now,
there ft hundred made up of rhetorical
trash consumed with avidity,
Corrupt literature is doing moro to-day
other for the disruption Elopements, of domestic life than any
cause. marital in
trigue.s, sly correspondence, ftetitious
names given at postoffice in windows, elan
destine meetings parks, and at ferry
gates, and In hotel parlors, and conjugal
perjuries aro among tho ruinous results.
When a woman, young or old, gets her
head thoroughly stuffed with the modern
novel she is in appalling peril. There is a
wealth of good books coming forth from
our publishing choice houses that leave no excuse
for body, the mind and of that sou?, which is debauching
to Go to some intel
ligont man or woman and ask for a list of
books that, will bo strengthening to your
mental and moral condition. Life is so
short and vour timo for impro vement so
abbreviated that you cannot afford to lilt
up with husks, and cinders aud debris,
Stimulating liquids also como into the
category of temptation delicious but death
ful. You say, “Icannot bear tho taste of
intoxicating like liquor, and how any mau can
it is to me an amazement.” Well,
then, it is no credit to you that you do not
take it. Do not brag about your total ab
atineuce, because it is not from any princi
pie that you reject alcoholism, but for the
reason that you reject certain styles of
food—you simply don’t like the taste of
them. But multitudes of people have a
natural fondness for all kinds of intoxi
cants. They like it so much that it makes
them smack their lips to look at it. They
are dyspeptic they and they like to aid digos
tion; or are annoyed by insomnia,
and they take it to pro luce sleep; or they
aro troubled, oblivious; and they take it to make
them - or thoy feel happy, and
they must celebrate their hilarity. They
begin with mint julep sucked through two
straws in the LougBranch piazza and end
in half tho kerosene ditch, taking from a jug illiquid
and half whisky,
| warning One would from suppose of that the men ominous would take
some names
given to intoxicants, and stand off from
the devastating influence. You have
noticed, for instauce. that some of the res
taurants are called “Tho Shades,” typical
of the fact that it puts a man’s reputation
in the shade, and his morals in the shade,
nnd his prosperity in tho shade, and his
wife and children in the shade, and his im
mortal destiny in tho shade. Now, I And
on some of the liquor signs in all our cities
the words “Old Crow,” mightily suggestive
of tho carcass and the filthy raven that
swoops upon It. Men and women without
number slain of rum, but unburied, and
this evil is pecking at their glazed eyes,
and pecking at their bloated cheek, and
pecking at their destroyed manhood and
tho womanhood, mortal thrusting beak and claw into
remains of whatoncewasglori
ously alive, but now morally dead. “Old
Grow!” But alas! how many take no warn
ing. llemember Jonathan and tho forbid
den honey in the woods at Bothaven.
Furthermore, the gamester’s indulgence
must bo put in the list of temptations do
liclous but destructive. You who have
crossed tho ocean many times have noticed
that always one of the best rooms has, from
morning until late at night, been given up
to gambling practices. X heard of men
who went on board with enough for an
European excursion who landed without
money to get their baggage up to the hotel
or railroad station,
State Legislatures have again and again
sanctioned the mighty evil by passing
1 aws iu defense of race tracks, and many
young men have lost all their wages at such
so-called “meetings, Every man who
voted for such infamous bill* Imi on big
hands and forehead the blood of these
souls,
Stock-gambling comes into the same cat
alogue. It must be very exhilarating to go
into the stock market and, depositing a
small sum of money, run the chance of tak
ing out a fortune. Many men are doing an
honest and snfo business In tho stock mar
ket, and you aro nil ignoramus if you do
I ! • t know that it is just as legitimate to deal
in stocks ns it is to deal in coffee, or sugar,
or Hour. But nearly all the outsiders who
go there on a financial excursion lose
all. The old spiders eat up the unsus
pecting flies. 1 had a friend who put ids
hand on his hip-pocket and said in sub
i stance: “I have there the value of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” His
home is to-day penniless. What was the
matter? Stock-gambling. Gambling Is
gambling, whether is stocks or bread
stuffs, or dieo, or race horse betting,
Exhilaration at tho start, but a raving
brain, and a shattered nervous system, and
a sacrlflced property, and a destroyed soul
at tho last. Young men, buy no lottery
tickets, purchase no prize-packages, bet
on no base-ball games or yacht racing,
havo uo faith In luck,answer no mysterious
circulars, proposing great income forsmall
investments, drive hotel’s away the buzzards that
hover around our trying to entrap
strangers. Go out and make an honest
living. Have God on your side, and be a
candidate '
for heaven. liemoraber ail the
i paths of sin are banked with flowers nt tho
stnrt, and there nre plenty of helpful bauds
to fetch the gay charger to your door and
hold tho stirrup while you mount. But
further on the horse plunges to tho bit in
a slough inextricable.
The best honey is not like that which
J Jonathan brought to took his oa lips, tho hut end that of the wliich rod God and
■
j puts on tiie banqueting table of mercy, at
wliich we are all invited to sit. IV bee n
| man will ho muy down sit ut tho the steps King’s and banquet, why
go contend for
the refuse and bones of a hound’s kennel?
1 fled thee, °"‘ of says tho „ God ro f^ to T° the ,,ld recreant. I have satis- Here
is honey gathered from the blossom, of
trees of life, nnd with a rod mnde out of
the fM “ 1 f ' jr *"
’
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LITTLE BOY SAVES THREE.
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Hero of Ten Year. Pull. Playmate. Out
of the Water. ’.
Through . ,, the heroism , of Jimmie .... Quick, a
lad of ten years, the lives of three little
boys, ranging from live to nine years old,
*' cr, ’ from drowning in Underhill
*’<cpd, 1 in Hudson, N. )
.
‘T . f 110 h e '? Ico °, n gave llftn(1 way while ttad thp the v lads nl1 were
-
water
Young Quick, who had been skating near
by, heard the*r cries for help and hurried
8 F 0 J* He threw himself upon his
[ ho ,rf i^ as: wl ‘? {l, “> crawling ‘-shinny stick,” t- tho succeeded edg-* of the in
puDing Ujc three lads, one after the other,
out oi the water to a place of safety.
Chester Thornton, age live had gone
down twice and it was with the greatest
exertion and at the risk of his own life that
Quick Anally pulled Wm out. An appljca
D°n wi he made to the Volunteer Life
••a»ing G-.ldt Dorps at medal Yashington to present to
Y™-* a for bis brave deed.
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A Huge Commercial Fleet.
The Hamburg steamship line owns six
ty -two steamers at present.
DEVOTED 10 TIIE INTERESTS OF PIERCE COUNTY.
BLACKS HE AIL j i . FEBRUARY 3, 1898.
THE TELLER RESOLUTION GOES
THROUGH BY GOOD MAJORITY.
MANY AMENDMENTS ARE TABLED.
The Debate Was Lively Throughout Final
Day The Vote ns Recorded Was 47
to 33 In Favor of Resolution.
By a vote of 47 to 32 tlie senate, at
7 o’clock Friday evening, passed the
Teller concurrent resolution, which
declares that the bonds of tho United
State 1 ! are payable, principal and in
terest, at the option of the govern
ment of the United States, in silver
dollars of tho coinage of the United
States containing 412 1 grains each of
standard silver.
The text of the resolution is:
“That all the bonds of the United States
issued, or authorized to be issued, under the
said acts of congress hereinbefore recited,
aro payable, principal aud interest, at tho
option of the United States in silver dollars
or the coin of the United States containing
412*^ grains each of standard silver, aud
that to restore to its coiuago such silver
coins as a legal tender in payment of said
bonds, principal and interest, is not in vio
lation of tho public faith nor in derogation
of the rights of the public creditor.”
Tho filial action on the resolution
was, of course, ns expected, as the de
bate had disclosed the position of most
of the members of the senate. But
the interest in the question involved
\v is sufficient to crowd the galleries,
to fill the floor with those entitled to
its privileges and to hold the largo
crowd until the final vote w as taken at
7 o’clock.
Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, in support
ing the resolution, maintained that
money, whether it he silver or gold or
paper, was n creature of law, the crea
tion of money being inherent in all
independent nations. He said that
this statement had been upheld by
the highest of tribunals, and cited his
torical instances of such creation of
money. After a legal discussion of
the money question, Mr. Stewart, re
ferring to the speech of President Mc
Kinley ill Now York Thursday night,
Raid that ho regretted to sec that tho
president had not studied this quest ion
more deeply and that ho was utterly
misguided.
There were several tost votes, two
of them of particular interest. The
first aye nnd nay vote taken was
on Vest’s motion to fable Nelson’s
amendment, which added a parity de
claration to the resolution. Then
amendments by Quay providing that
payment, shall lie in the highest money
in use in tho world, l>y Hoar and For
aker, ihe effect of which was to sub
titute for the language of tho reso
lution in the St. Louis platform, and
by Caffery declaring that should the
market value of silver he less than
that of gold payment shall he in gold
at the option of the creditor, were
tabled in order.
Twenty-four votes were cast in favor
of a straight-out gold declaration and
all of these hut Caffery were republi
cans.
This vote commits the party through
its leaders as declaring that the bond
holder must he paid gold if he asks
it, and puts them on regard as favor
ing the transfer of the option now ex
isting in the government to the
creditor.
Those who voted for this amend
ment. were:
Aldrich, Baker, Caffery, Cullom,
Davis, Foraker, Gallinger, Gear, Hole,
Hanna, Hawley, Hoar, Lodge, Mc
Bride, McMillan, Mason, Morrill,
Penrose, Platt of Conncctioutt, Platt
of New York, Sewell, Wellington and
Wetmore. Republicans who were, pair
ed in fav&red of the amendment were
Dehoe, Elkins, Frye, Proctor and
Spooner -j.'
All A]l tiie othei , I|P1 . members ,„ f .,„l inrP fl it f the I . i„„] Ii > ly v
either voted against the amendment
or, what is the same thing, were pair
acainst it
'Dial vote . analysis , • of , the
; ie an
roll showed that all (lie men elected
as democrats voted in favor of the
T Ae ] i„, lu resolution esoiuuun, except except Caffery v.aiiery. ah All
1 the populists voted favor of the
m
resolution, while ihe silver republi
pans who voted for the resolution
were Cannon, Mantle, Pettigrew and
Teller,
SENATE AGREES IVITII HOUSE.
Now Doth Rranchof Kentucky I-egiftia
ture Have Asked Undftay t » Dull.
A Frankfort, Ky., special says: The
1 resolution requesting the immediate
resignation .. of , T United * •. i States . u Senator
■
William Lindsay, having ljeen passed
Thursday hy the Kentucky house, was
j j also adopted Friday morning hy the
I senate hy a vote of 25 to 10, Senator
' T„i ,oljnHon msnn '>! Clinton Clinton, l„.inn being *bn the only „„lv
>
j democrat voting against the resolution
and only nine republicans voting
a «f it
i r lie , temperature , of .. tne senate . eham- ,
l her was decidedly warmer than that
of ‘ the house ' had been when the re«o
lntlon , t n tarae . U P
‘ I
.
j JANUARY WHEAT ADVANCES.
| Voting Letter Help* It Along l\y
ding on Ojdionft
i \ Chicago dispatch c avf-: January
wheat ,ie al was T bid un T. to ! 5*1 *; 1 * 10 Friday “ a
cent . above tiie higheat point rrnrlied
during the December Kqiu oy.e. May
j the name time Hold up to if 8 1 c. Bro
^i , for . Letter r . helped . , -« things . . along . by
bidding up January. Letter people say
that the May price is now very close
to the market for the sale ot their lice
DOLE DECEIVES WELCOME.
President of Hawaiian It.nubile Hum-lie*
National Capital.
President Dole, of Hawaii, arrived
Jny'nfternootTauil” In° behalf"^?“tho
govornment was welcomed to the un
tiomil capital by Secretary Sherman
and Assistant Secretary Adee. Tho
hours after the scheduled time that
the train moved into the Burlington
and Quincy depot.
Then Mr. Sherman offered his arm
to Mrs. Dole and escorted hor to
President McKinley’s carriage. Tho
platoons of officers wheeled about and
the party prooeeded to tho Arlington,
whero tho Hawaiian executive will btS
the nation’s guest. In tho second
carriage was Minister Hatch, of Ha
waii, Assistant Secretary Cridler and
Mr. Dole’s private secretary.
The Arlington hotel was reached
about 2:30 o’clock. Secretary Slier
man, with Mrs. Dole on his arm, es
eorted the party to their rooms and
then took his official leave. Mr. For
ter, private secretary to tho president,
accompanied by Colonel Binglmm,was
notified by telephone of the arrival
and soon appeared, bearing the con
gratulations of President McKinlyand
requesting to he informed when it
would he most, convenient for (ho
president of the Hawaiian republic to
receive him in person.
President McKinley’s call was en
they formal and did not last longer
than fifteen minutes. He was aecom
panied by Mr. Porter and Colonel
Bingham and was met by Assistant
Secretary Cridler and Mr. Hatch, tho
Hawniian minister, who introduced
them to President Dole, Mrs. Dole
and the other members of the party.
After a mutual exchange of courtesies
President McKinley returned to the
white house.
A14:15 p. m. President Dole return
ed visit of President McKinley. He
drove over to tho white house in a
carriage in company with Minister
Hatch and Assistant Secretary Cridler.
Hi,s private secretary, Major Taiikea,
with Major Heistnnd and Lieutenant
Commander Phelps and Dr. Day, fol
lowed in another carriage. President
McKinley was in waiting and gave his
guest a greeting. After a few words
of general conversation tho two presi
dents retired to a couch in one corner
of tho room and spent about five
minutes in consultation. It was said
that this talk was purely unofficial
and personal. Then the pirty was
escorted donwstuirs and returned to tho
hotel.
ELLERUK’S CANDIDATE LOST.
A Significant Election In the South Caro
Him Lo^ifilntiire,
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
There was an election in the general
assembly Wednesday for comptroller
general, and it w as one of tho hottest
contests in recent years. Governor
Ellerbo measured strength with his
opponents and was defeated.
When Comptroller Norton was elect
ed to congress to fill the vacancy
caused by McLaurin’s promotion to
the senate, the governor appointed L.
P. Tipton, who had formerly affiliated
with tho anti-Tillman faction to suc
ceed Norton, and to hold his office till
the legislature met. Wednesday J.
J. Derman, a clerk in the comptroller's
office, opposed Epton and won by six
votes.
STATEHOOD BIILS KILLED.
IfouM« Committee On Territorial* ItejnctA
ihe I\l<’iiHur>H.
A Washington dispatch says: State
hood legislation at (his session was
killed Wednesday by the house colli
mittee on territories rejecting Arizona,
Now Mexico and Oklahoma bills by a
vote of 8 to 3. The first two IllfllS
ores were bunched and defeated.
'J lien the Oklahoma bill was taken up
and beaten by the same vote. There
was no discussion as it was under
stood at the last meeting that the vote
was to be taken without further pre
limiimries.
VIOLATED “JOHNNY” LAW.
I^lrst I lid irtiripTif. I'nder Ti*n riPHsee “Antl
-
1 ‘llrtin^” Hfiit iite.
The grand jury at Knoxville 1ms
found an indictment against 1 ,in
Chamberlain, the young man charged
with violating tho “Johnny law” pass
ed by the Tennessee legislature at its
last session.
This law makes it, a misdemeanor
for a young man to flirt with a school
girl when she is on the grounds of the
school or going homo therefrom.
TAYLOR GAINS ONE VOTE.
Democratic (.'mini* Mill Halloflna In
NiimIi vllle.
I lie Tennessee democratic _ senate
rial caucus met again Thursday night
and failed to make a nomination for
1 nited States senator. Twelve ballots
were taken, the last and 114th stand
ing:
McMillin, 35; Taylor, 29; Turley, 20.
The only change during the evening
was one vote from T urley to Taylor.
The indications for breaking the
deadlock and making a nomination
are less favorable than at any time
since the ballot began and there are no
signs of a break sufficient to nominate
any one of the candidates.
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS,
Well Known Tennesseean (;« »„ Atlor
nevshlp Dnm.
The president Wednesday sent tho
following nominations to the senate:
Iliehard P. Parsons, Jr., of Ohio, to
be second seeretary of the embassy at
Rome; Abram M. Tillman, of Tennes
see, to be attorney for the middle dis
trict of 1 cnness.ee; Lieutenant Junior
Grade J. G. Doyle, to be a lieutenant;
Rev. W. T. Helms, of New Jersey, tv
be a chaplain in the navy.
rl,K EXPERTS 1)11) THEIR WORK
EXPEDITIOUSLY
THE RESOLUTIONS FORMULATED.
They Cordially Approve l*!nn of Currency
Keforiu as Submitted Ily tbo
Committee.
A special from Indianapolis says:
It was not expected that the monetary
convention would remain in session
. expeota
moro tlian 'Kv*. «>“1 this
t-ion was realized. It settled down to
work promptly at 10 o’clock WodnoA
, ; day morning and adjourned at 2
o’clock, subject to the call of the
; chairman,
It was a convention that was note
bio for the prominence of it« delegates
in business circles and for tho lin go
number who, at the sacrifice of their
private interests, mnde the long jour
ney to Indianapolis to emphasize by
their presence their strong sympathy
with the movement for currency re
form.
The resolutions recognize tho con
volition’s obligations to the oxeoutivo
committee and cordially approve tho
plan of currency reform submitted by
the committee, which is set out as fol
lows:
“1. To remove at onco and forever
all doubt as to what the standard of
valuo in the United States is and is to
ho
“2. To establish the credit of tho
United States at tho highest point
among the nations of the world.
“3. To eliminate from our currency
system those features which reason
and experience show to he elements of
weakness and danger.
“I. To provide a paper currency
convertible into gold and equal to it
iu value nt, all times and places, in
wliieh with n volume adequate to tho
general anfl usual needs of business,
there shall be combined a quality of
growth and elasticity, through which
it will adjustautomatically and prompt
ly to all variations of demand,whether
sudden or gradual, and which shall
distribute itself throughout the coun
try iih the wants of different, sections
may require.
“5. To so utilize the existing silver
dollars as to maintain their parity with
gold without imposing undue burdens
Oil the treasury.
“(!. To avoid any injurious contrac
tion of the currency.
“7. To avoid the issue of interest
bearing bonds, except in case of un
looked-for emergency; but to confer
the power to issue bonds when neces
sary for the preservation of the credit
of the government.
“8. To accomplish these ends by a
plan which would lead from our pres
cut confused and uncertain situation
by gradual and progressive steps, with
out shock or violent change, to a mon
etary system which will be thoroughly
safe and good, and capable of growth
to any extent that the country may re
quire.
“Approving of the expressed pur
poses of tho commission, and of
plans, we do most earnestly and cor
(Hally commend it to our fellow eiti
zens as worthy of their npprovat and
adoption, anrl we urge upon the eon
gresn of tho United States that the
principles embodied by the commis
sion in their report should ho enacted
into law with the belief and expecta
tion that tho effect would he to secure
a solid, substantial and stable financial
system that would redound to the
credit of the country and insure a state
of prosperity that cannot he achieved
unless there is a system of finance,the
integrity and adaptability of which
cannot bo questioned or gainsaid.
“The people want a ‘volume of
currency adequate to the general and
usual needs of business,’ with a qual
ity of growth and elasticity through
which it will adjust itself automatic
ally and promptly to all variations of
demand, whether sudden or gradual.
< I The time lias now come when the
profipectB for the establishment of tho
gold standard upon a firm and endur
ing Imhih are brightmiivig anti ancour
aging. The people want a note cur*
reney which ah all he m good an gold.
fi Him t ; movement 4 propone# to i 1 bring ■
about that reBnlt,
“The people of tho western and
southern states wish the issues no
distributed as that scarcity of cur
reacy will no longer hamper and
distress them in their business op
orations. A method is proposed where
by their wants can he supplied and
their demands can he complied with,
“We appeal to them we appeal to
aH patriotic citizens to unite with us
, in an earnest und determined effort to
secure from congress such legislation
as will wisely but surely eventuate in
bringing about sound financial meth
ods, and in building up and establish
ing confidence, security and safety in
businc.es transactions and in tho own
ership and value of property.
“That the executive committee bo
< mtinu id, 1 w ...... ith power and , autliority ..
to add to their number arid to fill any
vacancies which may occur."
OPPOSITION TO PLANS
............. ^.....
Merrimni*.
7 he Merchants’ Association of New
York, representing thousands of bnsi
ness houses and millions „„ of invested , , ,
capital, through its representatives to
the monetary eonvention, just sd
journ. iourned <1 at a* l f ndif.nano)is inli.mapol s, l has an- „„
non need that the bill incorporating
tho plan of the commission will be
fought in congress in its present form
and changes must be made in it.
SUBSCRIPTION, One Dollar Year.
ESTABLISHED 1880.
ARTHUR E. COCHRAN,
Lawyer, Wayoross, Ga.
Telephone 13; P. O. Box 173; office
over postoflieo. Practices regularly in
Appling, Pierce, Clinch, Coffee,Ware,
Glynn, Camden, Wayne an.l Charlton
counties, composing Brunswick eir
Nov 20-’i)7.
BARBER • • SHOE.
JOHN ALDRIDGE, Proprietor.
It LACKS H MAH, (IKOItOIA.
Hair Culting,Shaving,Dyeing,81mm
pooing, etc., done at the following
prices;
Cutting hair, 15 cents.
Shut ing, 1(1 cents.
Shampoo, 20 cents.
Blacking, 25 cents. Doe 9-’97.
Coif Breed's Thrift.
The rapid spread of golf In this conn*
try has opened a now field for the en
terprislng American boy.
It. is good, healthful work for a lad,
for It. keeps him out In tho open air,
and ho often gets as much fun and
more work out of a game than the
player himself, His earnings are more
than thoso of most of Ills fellows In
stores and offices, too. The usual rate
of pay is from 10 to 15 cents an hour,
and with the Ups from players the cad
die's earnings often amount to sfs or
$10 per week tn the golf season. In
some places tho caddies arc paid by
the round, but that is not so fair as
the time pay system, as tho lest skil
ful players, who are apt to give the
caddies most work, take the longest
time to go over tho course.
In tho neighborhood of the big cities,
where most of tho golf links are lu
rated, many business men play tho
game, going over the links early In
the morning or on their return fium
business after 4 in the afternoon. In
such places most of the cuddles are
schoolboys, who enn do this work out
aide of school hours, as the links are
practically deserted during the middle
of the day except on Saturday, which
is, of course, a holiday for tho school
hoy, as well as for the business man.
There are any number of thrifty cail
dies who aro paying all their school
expenses this winter with the money
they earned running after balls during
(he long summer days. Chicago Inter
Vcoan.
New Use for tho Megaphone.
An Interesting application of a recent
Invention to tho work of constructing
the modern ‘‘sky scraper” is show'll In
a large office building now going up
not far from Broadway. When the
building had reached a height, of hut
two or three stories, tho contractor had
no difficulty In mounting to its top
and urging the workmen on to renewed
effort, or chiding them In any for m of
words that occurred to him. But eight
or ten floors added, ho found It took
more of his time than he could spare/
mt)l| nt to tho top on every occasion
whcn h<! W,IH needed. So ho conceived
tho l,rlllh,nt ki, ' a <’f having a mega
phono constructed to connect his head
Quarters in the first story with the
top, where the men were at work.
When the work lags now or any con
flict of authority arises, lie Is able to
make his voice heard at. the scat of the
trou,,| ° without moving from his seat,
uiuch to Ids own satisfaction, if not to
Hint of bis employees.
lf l|,e ......orient of one of tho brick
l:iy, ' rM >» 1,1 «H’or*i>t.-i) mi true, the
m, -ga|ihon<! lends Itself with peculiar
readiness to the Iranwmlsslon of pro
ktr1 ’ language. Hearing an adjuring
v " l,n from seventeen floors is said to
,lavfi il h| K ll, y stimulating effect upon
tho workman’s movements.—New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Strength of a Spider’s Webb.
SI 'Ao. for frize, a thread of aplder’H hIIIc
| H decidedly tougher than one of steel,
An ordinary thread will bear a weight
„f three grains. This is about fifty
,„, r , stronger than a steel thread
„f the same ihlckness.
PLANT SYSTEM.
Passenger Schedules.
HEAD DOWN. BEAD IT.
,, 7 jHuridJ ^ { : j timid jan.IM.’DH «'aim» :is
Flu. 21 2!l 88 n ICffeot Dally.|Dally,|Dully. 22 I 78 I 24 I 22 1 Fla.
Hp’l. only. Dally Dally, Daily, s.’Jbv. «5.’J ...J Dally.j Hpl.
! pflOg New York. Ir *«)„! Mai . 6 43p
2 % 12 05a .12 o»p * I’l.llmlHphlu. 1 11 !toa :* 03n ........ 4 I0p
5 ‘^I'i..... !0p 2 50a 2 25p ^ “ .. Washington. . Baltimore . 44 *.»or>u 1 .. .. 1 58p
• 4 •* r, l> “ ■ • • . ; 7 41 n. 1 i .'JOp.......... 12 45p
JO 00p , I 0 0 rut 7 80p “ .. .. Hfehmoiid.....“ 4 00a; p!oj;ia! 7 l5p.......... 8 55a
t . n0t jj j/jp 0 1 : 1 ., *. .Chnrhmton .. •. 44 5 08 20a! .. ..... II 45(1
0 0;;a * 1 00p, 5 15p 2 I0« h ijoh “ .....Havimnah. ... “ 12 45p l. 42p' m 20.1 11 00j. 7 22p
10 24a 8 4 Op 0 50p 0 47 h ! JO OJa Dv......Jan up......Aril 1 21a J1 0 27a! 9 23 p 5 57p
•HOBii’ 4 48|» 7 47;, 4 Sta|l0 42a|^ .. .lilacksliear. .. ^10 2»a;l0 Blp! 5 M2tt| 835p[*516p
)|...... , 4 DOallO J. 5Ha|Ar.... ..Rrutiawlck Waycross.. I.vlrt 10a* lflajlO.T5|.| 00j»i 5 ? S KOpf 5 02p
’ 1 30p 35pl ** ,. ," I 8 8 . mr .... 30p!...... ......
2 10a ... 2 “......Albany......“ .... ..... 1 i 1
I 8 401 15a.....|4 ... ,l5p j “ ....Colurnhiix ......Macon......“I .... “ .... ......jiO 11 11 ......j. 20a[,
I 4 35pl ..... ...... I.
. 7 46al 7 “ ......Atlanta.’.... 41 I ...... ......' 7 7 50a
_ ifO0p _____ lltO/i] oTij
illlfl I OOpfAr.. ..Jacksonville ... I.v H 20« .. .
6 JOp “ . HI. Augustine.. “ 7 «0a fi !IBp ..........| 2 OBp
8 85p “ ...OulnoHvllla .... “ 8 15a, 4 20p 25p! .... .
5 80pi ,4 ......Ocala.......“ I 130a 2 .... .
■. 351 / 0 7 55p " ...Tampa. . ... “ 7 37p 10 55a .... I 8 10a
H 45j, 1 0 8 05p| “ Tampa JJay Hotol 44 I 7 25pil0 40ft> .... 8 OOn.
J If | 2 I 20p 35pi Ar 44 ... Thoimmvlllo.. Valcioata,... ..bv .... 05a farrasi 5 10p ...
osopj’ I . I . . . ..
.. 0 OOp 44 .. Mont^omary.... “ 48p 10 80a ...
7 to.i 1 1 s s j 7 40a " Ngvv (trltiaiiH.... I 55a 7 45|i......
.. ..
if', II 0 50a 4 .... Noahvllla..... 15a I 05pl Ola ....
4 4 05p 44 .. ..Cincinnati.. .. .... HI OOp 4 ....
•Nos. 37 arid 3H do not stop at lllackshoar. These trains are the New York and Florida
Hpeelal. A solid vertfieilecl train eomposeil exeluslvely of Pullman's lliiest sleeping I'ar
j or ,>| w .. rv rttD>» ami Dining Furs. Hteam heatml and eleetrle lighted. Itiins solid between
New York and Jacksonville. II divides at that point, part going to Tampa and part to
Ht. Augustine. These trains do not leave either New York, Ht. Augustine or Jaeksonvllle
I on
No. 25 dally except Sunday arrives from Havannah and leaves for Way cross at
4:35 li. m.
ae and 8$
is-tw- n V w York and Jaeksonvllle. New York and port Tampa via West Const, Way
eross and Cincinnati via Montgomery, Wayoross end .Nashville via Atlanta. Parlor
'" r Waycross and lininswl-k Nos. 23 and 7s ted ween New York and Jacksonville Way
eross and Jacksonville, Wayerona and Ht. Petersburg via Jacksonville, Pftlntka,Ooala and
Trl „, y p ar |or ear Jaeksonvllle and Port Tampa via Hanford. No. 37,connects at Way
eross with sp eperfor Cincinnati via Montgomery) Port Tampa via West Coast and parlor
ear to Brunswick. No. 21 connects at Waycross with sleepers to Ht. I-outs via Mont
gomery f (o Kt. bonis via Albany, Columbus, Birmingham Hanford. and Holly HpringS; to Nash
v n A)|ll|ltil „ n(| ,,„ rt v p, .iseksonvllle and
Hbamslilps leave Port Tampa for Key West nnd Havana ut 9.00 p, m. Mondays and
Thursdays. For Mobile 10i00 apply p. in. Saturdays,
For further Information to agent,
W ^^ ’Traffic II. C. McFADDEN,
P r Manager. Assistant General Passenger Agent.
Fierce County Directory.
Connly Officers.
Obdinakv —Jas. I. Summerall.
Ci.krk Hur. Court —John Thomaa.
Shrkifp—T homas A. Davis.
Tax Collector —Thos. S. Hauler*
son.
Tax Receiver—J as. O. Waters.
County Treasurer - -B. D. Brantley.
SunvKYoit Win. II. Bowen.
ConoNK.it Dr. A. L B. Avant.
Jailor- -W. W. Darling.
Ordinary's Court, first Monday in
each mouth.
County Court.
Bold. O. Mitchell, Jr., Judge.
Sidney W. Sturgis, Solicitor.
Regular Session, second Friday in
each month. Quarterly Sessions, third
Monday in March, June, September
and December.
PR OFESSIONAL OA RDS.
\VM. H. T'OOXER,
'
Alto / an I Conns Hor at Law,
WAYOROSS, GA.
Offices: First National Bank Building.
sepll2-9(Sly
IV11. ” A. r,. B AVANT,
I’llYHIOIAN &. SIIItOCON,
Patterson, Oa.
Gills promptly answered day or
night, from my residence, mnr 3-96
||B. ” ,J. L. HM1 nr,
Physician & Huroeon,
8 1 93 Valdosta, Ga.
ANUIIEW B, KHTitS. E. L. WALKER.
ESTBS & WALKER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Blacks hear, Georgia.
may 1-9G
G. MITCHELL, Jr.,
Attorney at-Law,
12 93 ly. Blaokshoar. Ga.
8 W. STURGIS,
■ . Attorney-At-Law.
Will practice in both State and Fed*
■rul Courts. Bluckshour, Ga.
in ir 15-94.
J. E. GOETHE,
Physician anp Huroeon,
may 1 9fi. Blaokshoar, Ga.
yiy • r. Physician willtams, Surgeon,
and
Blaokshoar, Ga.
Persons wanting my services at
night will find mo at my residence.
may 1-9(1 ly
IkU. ” J. C. BREWER,
Dentist,
Blueksliear, Ga.
W*Offers his professional services to
the public. Will go to Josup first
Monday in oach month.
A. BROWN, W. N. BROWN.
BROWN & brown:
DENTISTS,
BLAOKSHEAB, GA.
JSP’Uffor their professional seryios
to tho citizens of Bierce and adjoining
eonqtios. May 1-’9G.
IT
)
J. W. STRICKLAND. Manager.
RATES: $2.00 PER DAI.
Waycross, (Jcorffia.
Convenient to depot. Hot and cold
baths. Table first class, Electrio
lights throughout tho building.
Oct. 1-9G ly.