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. ,' "I'USI IIIIID AT WILMINGTON,'- N. C, -AT- $1.00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE: 888S3888388888888 iqjUOM SI 83838383333883838 SS8528tS8fc3SS5:9SS 88883888888888888 SSa8S89S!888gg8368 83388883888888833 82888888282888883 '"SSSSSag88S;8888 8S888SS88888S88S3 -aasssg88a8888 82836832233888333 "IO'08I33S8SS8S5 888 8SSSSSS3SSSS8S833 """-'"'"ssssaaas SS i 3 J t 3 I 13 .333 2 J3 2 3 S 8 8 ft I Entered HI th. Post Office at WUmcgton, N. C, as i - Second Ctaa Macter.l . -. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The subscription prica of th. Weekly Star U a follow: ' I - Single Copy 1 rear, poacaga paid 91 00 " " Smooth, "i " , W fcOHUtfENIAL CHEEK. We always did: admire the cheek of the- orthodox 'Republican organ, grinder who, when it-comes to impu dence of assertion,' ' is surpassed by nothing in animated creation. But sometimes this display of cheek be comes so colossal that it proves too severe a strain on .our admiration and borders so closely on the stupid as to become ludicrous. , These Re publican organ grinders are now en gaged in the congenial work of crit icising the last Congress tor its sins of omission and commission Th sin of commission consists in having failed to amend! the McKinley tariff which they say every Democratic orator in the land and every Demo cratic paper denounced before the election, and which the Chicago plat form declares an' intolerable burden upon the people. Thev talk as if they were really disappointed be cause the McKtnley tariff, which they did all in their power to fasten upon the country, was not repealed. Uf course they did at want it re pealed, ; and didn't expect it to be repealed, or even modified in such a degree-as to amount to anything, for they well know that a Republican 'Senate and a Republican President stood in the way of that. t - - i, - ' - But the superlative exhibition of cheek consists in classing the Fifty- second Congress as a Democratic Congress, wheel but one House was Democratic and the other Republi can, and in trying to create the im- - presstorr by their strictures that both Houses were Democratic. The Dem- ocratic House not undertake of Representatives did in the second session to repeal the most odious features of the KcKinley bill, because it passed a number of amendments in the first session which pigeon-holed consideration. the Senate, cavalierly without even formal All the time given to that work would have been just so much time thrown away, as these criticising editors know full well. t .- . -1 . . . i : - .When they .touch on the "extrava gance" of the Fifty-second Congress tney wax warm, cutting ana elo quent, and emphatically declare that it out billions the billion dollar Con gress which preceded it, whose wild extravagance' was the theme of such round denunciation by Democratic .writers and speakers. Then, again they display their colossal cheek, first by trying to create the impres sion that this "extravagance, as they call it, was the work! of Demo crats; second by concealing the fact which they well know, that the large appropriations by the Fifty-second Congress were In the main due to the laws passed by the Fifty-first Con gress, and third by the assertion that the appropriations by the Fifty second Congress exceeded tho-e made by the Fifty-first Congress, which is not true. They publish the following figures of appropriations by each of the two Congresses as proof of their assertions : " ;) .., Fifty-first Fifty-second i Congress, i Congress. Agriculture. . 4.827.253 $ 6.558.236 Army. t 48.820,007 , , 48,544.138 . Diplomatic & Consular 3,887,740 i 3,162,090 District of Columbia..- Fortifications Indians . Legislative, Executive& Judicial . i . Military Aca demy Navy". Pensions...'.. Postoffice . i .. Rivers & Har bors.. . . . L Sundry Civil expenses r. . Deficiencies.. Miscellaneous 11.866.669 7,997.738 23,688.300 10.731.190 4,944,341 15.518,694 43,058,423 , " 837.860 55.677,689 233.672:246 150,183.921 . 25,136:295 67.148.646 77,827.198 11,282,486 " 48.792,53 861,473 45.647.716 818.168.700 164,188.977 21,154,218 69.366.388 88.104 260 8.708,923 Aggregate.. $988,417,183 $1,026,822,019 - Here are fifteen separate appro priations, only five of which show an increase py the Fifty-second over the Fifty-first Congress, the two principal of which are for pensions and the Post-office, and another for deficiencies : to pay obligations con tracted by the Fifty-first Congress; In ten the appropriations by the Fifty-second Congress ! were less than by the Fifty-first, the reduction amounting in the aggregate to about $72,000,000. -Deducting , from this the aggregate increase of about $17, 000,000 for the post-office, agricul tural department and the Sundry civil service it would leave a net de crease of $55,000,000. If we add to this the $24,000,000 aggregate in crease made by the Senate to the VOL. XXIV. bills as they came from the House. there would have been a reduction of $79,000,000. f - ' . : : : rThe Fifity-second Congress appro priated about . $80,000,000 more for pensions than the -Fifty-first Con gress, which added to the $55,000,- 000 reduction in the other appropri ations would have made the appro priations by this Congress $135,000,- OOOlesS; and if we add to this .the $3S000,000 deficiencies they would be $173,000,000 less, and if we add to this the $24,000,000 tacked on by the Senate thejr? would be $197,000.- 000 less, i In other words, the Dem ocratic House of the Fifty-second Congress had to appropriate nearly $200,000,000 more than would, have been necessary' if It bad not pefen for- ' he laws ; passed by the Filisfirst Congress and for the additions made to the bills by the Republican Sen ate, as they passed the House. i The above statement is published by Republican papers to show that Vhe Democratic Congress, as hey call it, appropriated more money and was .nore reckless than the Republican Congress which preceded it, and the table is manipulated with this view; but Mr. j Hoi man, chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, has published a statement showing that i his is not true, and- the following statement of the Washington corres pondent of the New York Commercial Bulletin, a non-political paper, also snows it, summing up the appropria tions by each Congress as follows:! Object. Fifty-first. Wt -sreond 'rfinary expenditures.. $467,015,793 9450,888.503 . JS8,:128 751 885 . 9 i 469 86 509.436 3,708 923 853 810,839 S37,H 153 "ensi n- ......... ... Miscellane us.... ....... Permanent an uau . Tot... J... 9 ' ,015 686 9 30 91 ,026,9 S.049 , 747.857 160 . 69. ,789 580 Total, lsis rCniKHia. But even if it were true that the ippropriations by the last Congress re greater than by the preceding JongresS it .must be remembered that they were made to meet the ex penses of the Government which was in Republican hands, the respective departments of which called ; for sev eral millions more than were allowed them, ' and in pursuance mainly of laws passed by the preceding Con gress, which was Republican in both branches. A MAN OF STRAW. i. There are people in this world knocking down men of straw that they put up themselves. When we hear statesmen talking about the evils of ("inflation" of fhe currency, depreciating the purchasing power of money, &&, we think if the man knocking the stuffing out of his man of straw. , This inflation talk is all aimed at the free coinage of silver, for there is no talk of "inflating" the currency in any other way. If there was free coinage to-day there would be no danger of innaton, tor only a portion of the product of our mines would be coined, other countries and the arts needing a considerable por- This country, the most enterpris ing, energetic and progress! ve on the earth, has the capacity to . handle a very large amount of money, and the more it has .to handle (within reason, of course) the better it will do it" by which.; we' mean, the greater will ' be the enterprise, development and pro gress. . ' , On the finances there are three classes of contenders, one of which is .so conservative that it would watch the pile ot dollars . with an eagle eje and see that no other dol lar got in there for fear It might f'de preciate" the value of every other dollar in the bile. Another, consists of those who would coin all the metal dug out of the ground, and in addi tion to that put the printing presses to work and print notes until they got what they might consider enough. The third . goes I between these and would coin money enough to meet the demands of trade and of .more than one metal, so that tne money kings couldn't get it into their safes,! lock it up and charge a pre mium on it when it - might be neces sary to' have it to meet obligations payable in "coin of xe " particular kind of metal When we come to compare these classes we find that the first is com posed of those who have the bulk of the money of the country and' work to retain control of it; . the second of those who believe that the Govern ment should make money 'and turn it loose so that every man could get as much of it as he wanted at a rate of interest that would make the oc cupation of the individual or corpor ate money-lender a thing of the past, and the third of these who believe that money is made for use but not abuse, that it should be worth earn ing, and abundant enough to put it within reach of the man who Was willing to exchange his labor for it, in other words that its volume should be controlled neither by a handful of plutocrats nor by the clamorous mob. Money, like water, will seek its level, and there never will be more of it in circulation than there is use for, but there may be use tor a great deal more than there Is in circula tion, as there is now and has been for years in this country. It is said there is about $1,500,000,000 in cir culation, about 424 er eatfta. but fully one half of that is locked up in Eastern banks where it remains until there is some particular inducement offered to bring it out. (.The money alleged to be in circulation is in real ity not in circulation,' nor is it so dis tributed throughout the country as to make it promptly available for circu lation where most wanted.- If it was the people of one section of the country would not' be paying from twelve to eighteen percent interest while in other sections they can get all they want at from four to.six per cent The . people who have , money to lend at six per cent.- and the people who can borrow it at six per cent, do not see any necessity for an increase I in the . volume of currency, while those who haven't any to lend and those who have to pay from twelve to eighteen per cent.' interest- for what they borrow do. jj . . For thirty years the men who now control the volume of money in this touuLijr uavc vuuiruticu it aPU uit- tated the financial policies, and there never was a proposition made, the purpose of which was to make money more plentiful that they didn't ob ject to as tending to "inflation" and a disturbance of money values. They predicted disaster . when tne move was made to reuoonetizeVsilver and although the volume of tne currency has since been "inflated" to the ex tent of several hundreds ot millions of dollars one American dollar is as good as another to-day, and there is no visible evidence that the country. or anybody has been hurt by it. ' . As a people the American people are a sensible and conservative peo ple in matters of finance, which directly affects their prosperity, and they have no more idea of favoring such an increase of the currency as would unsettle values than they have of declaring war against themselves, and they are no more afraid jof "in flation" than they are of famine. If the volume of currency was twice as great as it is it would give no larger per capita than France now has, and there is enterprise and thrift enough In this country to find profitable use for that much, and more too, if it were within the reach of the people at moderate rates of interest. When the circulation is double as large as it is now, it will be time enough to begin to talk about inflation, but that kind of talk is altogether premature now. ' SSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSBBSSlSaBBSSaaaiBaaaBSSIBBaaBSBSaBSSSa There was $37,000 due the em ployes in the bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington. At the last session Congress made tne ap propriation, but as the engrossers for got - to put oil the three ciphers, it went to the President and was signed for $37, with which they will have to be satisfied or wait till the next Congress adds the missing ciphers. New York wants a site for another little up-town park, and the owners ask $872,000 for it. If New York had as much gumption as she should have had she would have secured her park grounds when she could have bought them for about $25 an acre. This, by the way, is a hint to othef growing towns, including Wilming ton. I Prof. Garner, who went into Af rica to study monkey talk, nas caught on to 200 words, but none above two syllables yet. "Achou," he says, means warm, and "kukeba' means cold. We now begin to see the origin of the kutchoo, which, is such a common expression with peo ple when they are taking cold. There is a woman in Frisco county, California, who cuts ,a considerable of a figure. According to a local paper, she has J"figured in seven elopements, and was a prominent figure in each, It does not follow from this, however, that she would make a daisy model. Mrs. Stevenson, wife of the Vice- rresident, says she can t make a speech. This is pretty good evi dence that Adlai wasn't much in the habit . of going to "Lodge" meetings and coming home early in the morn- ing. - '" ' '" - - Some of our American Ministers to foreign countries deserve a blow ing up occasionally, Minister Stev ens at Hawaii, for instance, but not with dynamite bombs as some one. attempted to do with bur Minister at Rome.' - - ' ' " v. That was a mean Oregon girl who bet a kiss against a dollar that Har rison would be elected and then when the winner came - to collect the kiss referred him to the stake-holder a homely old maid. ' An Englishman, wbtTcalled himself Lord Herbert, "took good way to escape the snobs in this country. ' He went down into Texas, built a hat and led the life of a hermit. AA - A X i uicu a ten uaya.agv. As one of the incentives Offered1 people to locate in Roanoke, va., it is announced that the town has a nice, commodious and - attractive cemetery. ' The Snapping Turtle is the name of an Atlanta paper just started and which it seems is not afraid of get ting "in the soup;" IEEK 1 WILMINGTON, N. G., ST. PATRICK'S DAY, Celebrated by the Hibernian Benevolent Sooiety A dreaa by Bishop ! Held Meotloa of Offloers of the Soolecr. , The bad weather: yesterday did not prevent the members of tne Hibernian Benevolent Society from an observance of St. Patrick's Day as has always been customsQ' with the society. Early in the day a large United States flag with tne flag of Erin was hoisted on the staff on the roof of the Society's hall on North Third street. ' ..: P"" I r : At 9.30 o'clock a procession was fdrmed at the ball, under, command of Mai. fas. Reilly, and marched! to St. Thomas' Catholic Church. Rev. Patrick J. Quinn. of Fayettevillct celebrated. the high mass. After tne gospel, the Bishop, Rev. Leo Haid. ascended the altar and delivered a very appropriate address. He referred ; to the influence of Christianity on ' society atj large, as on the individual' family. "The basis of our laws, literature, art, is Catholic, so much so that even where great minds like Goethe labored to create a pagan' ideal, the result was Christian in essence The foundation tor temporal happiness. success and prosperity is laid In Christian ethics; all 'hopes beyond the grave are given by Christianity. Hence the special love Catholics, bear toward I those saints rbo brought to ! the world the glad tidings of faith; hence the affectionate devotion the Irish race entertains to St. Patrick, the apostle of their; nation. The Bishop then showed the close relation existing between religion and patriotism, and proved that love of country was. next to religion, the noblest trait of j human kind. The enjoyment of liberty in , the true sense of the word not only blesses man's earthly existence, but the very benefits of liberty make the attainment of eternal happiness easier.; He showed the evil influence of oppression on the mind, heart and whole character of a peo ple: bow it begets poverty, and hence how air Christian charity and other virtues are! sacrificed to oppression. From these considerations, based on! history, he insisted on the possessive political, national freedom as a means of making salvation easier. : The Bishop complimented the Irish people for their double fidelity to the (aith of St. Patrick, to the! love' of their country. He compared Ireland to the mother, America to the wife of a noble man; the wife cannot be jealous of the manly filial love her husband retains for tbe mother who gave him birth. Irish Americans are no less true to1 America because thev entwine . their own native flag about tbe flag of their adopted country. He closed his remarks witn evoking Heaven's blessings on the Church, on America and on Ireland, At tbe conclusion of the services at tbe church the ranks were! reformed and the Society returned to their hallt where a business meeting was Organized, with . . J - ' 1 " , ' i a TT mr. uau i uimivan caairman ana w. R. I Bate secretary, and the following officers were elected, to serve the ensu- ing year: .; ; President T. Donlan. Vice-President T. Torpy. Secretary Wm. Sheehan. Jr. Asst. Secretary Wm. P. Torpy. Treasurer J. H. McGarityl Standard Bearer Wm. Sheehan. Mr. D. Quinlivan. the retiring' presi dent, who has served with so much ac ceptability. declined a re-election, as did also Mr. Martin O'Brien, a former presi- dent. It was decided to give a sociable Etster Monday night, and the following were appointed to make arrangements : Messrs. Thos. Quinlivan, (chairman ) Jno. L. Cantwell, T. DonlanJ T. Torpy, Wm. Sheehan. Sr.. L. Flanagan. M. O' Brien. J. H. McGarity, Rob. Green, and W. R. Bate. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Beoep'lon to the New Pastor, Bav. W. U. OUver. The congregation of tbe First Baptist Church greeted their new pastor. Rev. W. t. Uliver, at the prayer meeting service last night. A prearranged pro gramme was carried oui. I ce service opened with an organ voluntary, then the choir sang an anthem, "Praise the Lord.' Reading of Scriptures and prayer by Rev. Wm. T. Jones, who has filled be pulpit since the former-pastor left. The congregation sang "Onward Christian Soldiers." Prayer by Rev. JJ T. Jenkins, pastor of the Brooklyn Baptist Church. Song by congregation "He Leadeth Me," after which Mr. Tames C. Stevenson in a short, well worded ad dress. welcomedMr. Oliver! to his new field. Mr. Oliver in aj feeling and ap propriate manner replied, and after tbe singing of a duett, "Ob j Morning Land.' an informal reception or fraternal greet ing was held. Tbe new pastor said be was proud to see so many young petiple out to greet him. The congregation is seemingly well pleased with Mr. Oliver. A Compliment Out Somewhere Where" Says" the Charlotte Observer: Last Saturday at tbe mording service two strangers heard the sermon. As they were leaving tbe ball one said to tne other, "That was a powerful sermon. In answer to this remark the other one said "Yes. Mr. Moody is a grand preacher. They went their way fully satisfied that the sermon was in keeping with Mr. Moody a reputation, but it was not Mr. Moody tbev bad been listening o. That they were people ot gooa taste and good judgment, however, may oe known from tbe fact that tbev had been listening to the Rev. I Dr. Pritchard. ot Charlotte, who bad preached that morn ing in Mr. Moody s stead, j Death of Ur. Blssinfter, the Florist. Mr. Chas. F..W. Bissenger, a well kdown florist, died yesterday about noon, at his residence: in this city, after a short illness. He was in the 54th year of his ace: was born In Germany, but - i - j came to this country While quite young, and had been a resident of Wilmington for many years.' The funeral is an nounced to take place Sunday morning at 9.80 o'clock. I J MsssjE" Register of. Deeds Jno. Haar issued four marriage licenses the past 1 FRIDAY, MARCH 24, MR MOODY'S MEETINGS. FIRST! APPEARANCE OF THE FAMOUS '' - -. ' EVANGELIST. C :'f ': Thousands of People Gather to Hear Him -Two Entertaining Discourses in the .Champion Compress Building. - ' D. L. Moody, the great evangelist, is with fis. His fame is world-wide; bis power over men, his magnetism, his forceful, pungent, and original manner of opening up the Scriptures have for years 'drawn multitudes to sit t his feet and learn of Him' whose love and salva tion he preaches. It has .been said of Mr. Moody, "he sings an old song to the" tune of a new lute, and his power to clothe the old message of salvation in new ana living colors seems to be one of his chief attractions. ' ' It is no wonder then that when the Champion Compress was . again thrown open for religious uses that the audience of several thousand which greeted this wonderful man at his first service in this city was a striking reminder of the scenes of the ; Pearson meeting, the memory of which is stilf sweet to our people. 7 He i$ of medium statute, but very rotund, and has a genial face, with iron- grey beard and hair. He speaks with great; fluency and fervor, as though be has a message from the Lord which he mint fl.liuAp ' ' li ' '-T f After preliminary devotional exercises conducted by Rev. A. , D. McClure, as sisted by Mr. Moody, lie announced as his-text, Titus, 2nd chap., 11th to 15th verses inclusive. In these verses, he said, grace is brought out in a three-fold as pect. , 1st, grace that bringeth salvation; 2nd, jgface that teaches us to live it out, and rd, grace that teaches us to work it out.. - These cover the whole Chris tian life. U we come short of these, we come short tif all. fj H ! 1st. Grace that bringeth salvation. There is nowOrd in the English lan guage, so misunderstood as the word grace. There are hundreds who do not know what the word means. It means unmerited favor. So many sav I'd like to be a member of the church, but l.'m so unworthy. Christ died for the unworthy. He came to see ana save tne lost. i Tbe command is to preach the gospel to every creature, not a select few. If all are not saved it is because they will not take the salvation offered. Grace is tree: salvation is a free gift. You cannot work it out yourself, j It is worth every struggle you could make, but you must take! it on God's terms. To do tbe work of God is to believe on His Son, not to feed the hungry and j clothe the naked; believe and then do these things for His sake work toward the cross, not irom it. xou must be saved by the. sovereign will of God, not by any works of which you can boast, If there is one thing excluded from heaven it is boasting.; Some think they can pay 50 cents on tbe dollar of their indebtedness to God, and some even 95 cents. There are few bankrupt sinners. The reason so few are saved is because so few believe they are lost. Paul said 'by grace are ye saved, and that not jof yourselves; it is the gift of God." What had Paul done to merit salvation ? He breathed out threatening and slaughter against Christians until the moment of bis conversion. God dpes not need man s help. He was alone at the crea tion,! he worked out the great plan j of salvation alone; Christ was alone on Calvary: your salvation is of him . alone, Rom. 4: 4. A Sunday school teacher trying to impress bis class of boys with tbe idea of free salvation, offered a watch t one of the boys as a gift. . He smiled would not take it. He offered it to each) one successively, and all refused it except the last one, who toqk it and put it in his pocket. The teacher gave him tbe (key, and the other boys asked in astonishment if be was going to keep it. The teacher replied "yes." and they! all said MI wish I bad taken it." They did not believe that is what ve are doing. We must put out the hand of faith and take salvation as a free gift. The grace uf God has appeared to all. You must take it or reject it.! 2d. Grace that teaches us to live it out. It takes tbe same amount ot grace to keep us that it does to save us. There are many who do not get grace enough to live by. There are so many who live on did experience instead of coming to God daily for grace. I know a man in Chicago wbo never gets up to speak in a meeting without, telling what a good time he bad in a meeting in 1857 he bad! lived on that experience ever since. The oath of the iust should shine brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.! ' The reason so many . young people don't want religion is be cause they think they must-' wear a llong iace and never have any pleasure until they get to heaven. Some people want to get enough grace in a reek to last a lifetime. .Here be recited an .incident of a lady in London iwhose whole life was changed by his illustra tion of this point by tbe pendulum tbat counted up the strokes it must make for a hundred years and thought it wouia never hold out, i but concluded as it was one stroke at a time it would keep onj and found itself equal to the task. God says, my grace is sumcient tor tnee, no matter what your trials. Have you ladies got grace enough to Keep your icmpcrr i iuiur. m - : tr .u.1- T hard on the ladies; there are more of them here than men. Ill go for the men later.) LA lady who was a church member but bad never led anybody to Christ became interested in the salvation of her hus band and servants.- She asked, me to pray for her then and I asked her if. she didn't get mad and give both a blowing up occasionally. She said, Yes." Then, I said, don't you tbink you are the one I jought to pray for? When you try to talk to'-them don't you feel like you ought to look to yourself ? If you can't cpntrol your' temper isn't something radically wrong? A few days after she told me tbat alone with God she saw her self as she had never done before and prayed His forgiveness. Then to her husband and servants she confessed her Btar --.C: -... jV-v X 1.4'.- -7---V..'v.:C :v-.v.-.--. i" v r . - vn. i 1 n )i y it w v -i s , , i ,t 1893." fault and begged tbeir forgiveness for having been a stumbling block and they were happily converted soon after. ; What, the country needs is family piety. Home life is the test. A fretful. peevish, scolding wife will soon drive husband and son away from home. God's grace is to teach us how to 'live right. The Bible shows us that glory follows grace grace leads up to glory. Rom. 5: 1-2. Here are -three things: grace, peace, glory. Christ! made peace at the crossH-that is past;! grace is tor tbe present, and glory is for the future. But some ask about death. Will we have grace to sustain us in tbat hour? Death and the grave lie behind the Christian. If we have taken eternal life death cannot touch it. The familiar passage, "though I walk through the valley and shadow of death" is often misquoted "thedark valley." There' can be no shadow in the j . dark light makes shadows. You will have light all the way. Christ never, preached a fu neral sermon. He broke up every fu neral he ever: attended. Death cannot exist where He is. Have you got grace enough to live by, is the question. - If I was worth fifty thousand a year and lived on two dollars a week, you'd think I was the stingiest man in North Caro lina, and justly, too. . Most Christians are living on about twenty-five cents a day, and they've got the whole treasury of heaven to draw from., What a grand thing it would be if you'd make a run on the bank of Heaven! ! 8rd. Grace to live it out. The grace of God is to make us more zealous. Most people want just enough religion to be fashionable, and are afraid they will appear peculiar. If you could ask an antedeluvian what sort of man Enoch was be would tell you "a good sort of man, but very peculiar. If they had theaters and dances, and progressive euchre, knocn never went, but one day he took a long walk with God and never came back. When man is pleased with God, God is pleased with bim. If God has a great work to do he calls a peculiar man or woman not one of the dancing theatergoing church members. If a hundred thous and of these were to die they'd never be missed; but tbe death of half that many godly pious men and women would be a calamity. t j j NIGHT SERVICE. notwithstanding a drenching ram, hundreds braved the elements, and at the appointed hour 4he building was nearly filled. Mr. Moody used as his text the first eight verses of the 25th chapter of Ex odus, wherein the Lord commanded Moses to speak to the children of Israel concerning tbe offerings they should bring for tbe building of the Tabernacle. Heart ssrvicehe said, is the only ac ceptable service to the Lord. Offerings ot gold, silver and brass were alike ac ceptable, because they were the best the people had to offer. Tbe gold had no superior value to the Lord; the silver and brass were the same in God's sight when brought in the same spirit as the gold. Purple and scarlet and fine linen and goat's hair were to be brought. I've always been glad the goat's hair was put in, for the poor people 'could not bring fine linen and purple, God wanted every one of the children of Israel to have something to do with the building of the Tabernacle. If you can get people to do something you get them ; interested. When one man builds a church it kills it; every one mast have a part, or it will die of dry-rot. Did you ever notice that tbe ordinary - people do the most work the men of two talents. not ten, do the most? The bulk of the people are the two-talent people. What we want is to put our talents .together. This chapter corresponds with the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew. God uses the base things of this world to con found the wise. You hear people say they can't do anything; they haven't got tbe strength. We have all thiugs in Christ; our weakness ! is His strength. With the call to work comes the qualifi cation, We need more weakness, for then we are strong. John, in his vision, saw no one worthy to I open the Book. He might have called . on angels and archangels, cherubim and seraphim, but he did not, and be wept until the angel announced the Lion! of the tribe of ludah, who alone was i worthy to loose the seal. That Lion was the Lamb of God, and a slain Lamb, and you will find all God's lions are Iambs. It is tbe weak things God has called. Moses apolo gized for his weakness when God called bim to deliver Israel. What did God tell him to use to effect that deliverance. Only a rod probably a dried-up stick which Moses had used for years-a base weak instrument, and had he met a mod' ern free-thinker and told him of his in strument and mission, he would have laughed him to scorn as Pharoah did, But Pharoah learned its power when the plagues devastated his people, and in tbe strength of God it set three million captives free. Linked with the power of God it did its work well, -if God can use a dried-up stick he can use us as dry as we are, some of us. The blowing of the ram's horns as the soldiers marched around Jericho was more effective than a hun dred battering rams. People want to listen to silver-tongued orators. If the Lord can use a crooked horn he can use you more effectively j than any orator- some folks are as crooked as those horns, but God can use them The jaw-bone of an ass in the hand I of Sampson did its work well, didn't it- I Gideon had but three hundred men out of thirty-two thousand who stood the final test of fitness for the work in hand. If some of von had been there yon'd have said Gideon made a mistake, to send so many home. . Just as there is somebody always ready now to criticise and throw cold water on everything. Some folks see the dark side of every thing. Look on the bright side. Don't discourage every aggressive movement. Have faith. We want a few Calebs and Joshuas.. Gideon's men took their pitch ers and lamps and marched to victory. Take what yon have; not what you have not. David took a sling and a pebble in NO. 18 preference to Saul's armor when he went to meet the giant. Saul's armor would .have been too big for hm; he could have turned around in it. : Haven't you seen men trying to wear Saul's armor, aping some one else? I've seen men -make perfect donkeys of themselves trying to do like somebody,else.-j , ; I h ; Dorcas bad only a needle, but see how many needles she set in motion, and how many needles have executed mis sions of love and mercy through her in- thing. God will bless the weakest effort to serve- Him, Mary! had no idea what she was doing when she broke ithat ala baster box of ointment; but she had the greatest tribute paid her! ever given to mortal "she hath done what she could. I'd rather have that tribute than a mon ument of solid gold over my grave. It has been told as a memorial pf her in three hundred and fifty languages. What if every one here, was willing to do what they could. ' I . I 1 : He here gave a very touching-incident of a lady of wealth and culture who took as her especial charge a poor waif of a boy, teaching him in Sunday school until his father, who, after j repeated floggings given him for j going, offered him Saturday afternoons to play if he would stay away. He spent those after noons with his teacher instead of Sun day, and when, by accident heiwas killed by a train, he left as his dying message to her that be died a Christian. That woman, he- said, will be no stranger in I .heaven there will be one to meet and welcome her there. I i ! ! Mrs.! Wesley did not -know what she was doing when she was training her two boys, but no woman who lived in the seventeenth century did a grander work, the influence of which has never ceased. I told a Sunday School teacher who left her class to attend lone of my meetings, that she' made a great mis take!! J She said. "Ob, they are only five little boys and I thought it wouldn't matter." I said, "If that's tbe way you regard the Lord's work I'm afraid youll never succeed. One of j those boys may be a Martin Luther or a Wesley. Do what you can ; you mayjset influences in I motion that may last through eternity. Find out what kind of work you ought tOdo, and don't think because you don't do it somebody else will. What you ought to do, and do not do! will never be done, and you will be responsible at the bar of God. When you get a taste of the work it will spoil you for' tbe world. There is no higher privilege and honor than to touch God' work, for when! you touch His work you touch Him, and you cannot touch Him with out virtue going out from Him. - Make up your minds to , consecrate yourselves to the Lord's work, and do whatever lies in your power. '-'. . ' i . CAROLINIANS AT THE CAPITAL, j t r -f -if 4 h i, The Washington, D. C., correspondent of the Richmond Times says: There is quite a. string of 1 applications in the Treasury from North, Carolina. George Harris, of Wilmington, for col lector of customs at that port. , John L. Scales, of Statesville, for tae same position. .' . f . ' " ' H. A. Gudger asks to be appointed collector of internal revenue. , . Robert B. Vance wants! to be sixth Auditor of the Treasury, j S.I I. Pemberton. of Albemarle, would like to be chief of division in the Treas ury Department. j! J ; Thomas Evans, of Wilmington, has applied for a position as National Bank Examiner. G. W. Sanderlin. of Ral eigh, asks to be made fourth auditor. D. S. Cowan, of Wilmington, would like to have a special agent's billet. B. H. Bunn. of Kocky Mount, thinks he would be satisfied as chief of a division in the department. , j ' ' Also V. ! Evans hopes to be able to supervise the Sixth life saying district. J. G. Hall, of Hickory. William H. Williams, of Newton, and Locke Craige would like to be known as and draw tbe salary ot collector of internal revenue. . State Auditor R. Wi Furman is at the Metropolitan, which seems to be the North Carolina headquarters. A dele gation from Wilmingtonj consisting of E. G. Parmele, Walker Taylor and Sol. C. Weil, is at this hotel, and have come to: Washington in the interest of Capt. Buck Kenan, whom they want to see Collector of the port in the place of the negro now holding the position. Mayor Charles O. Blanton, of Ashe ville, N. C is in the city , His mission here is purely a I political j one. His ob ject is to secure the appointment of Joseph Sluder as postmaster at Ashe ville. E. H. Fulen welder fas land agent, and Kope Eltas I as district attorney for the Western district ot the state. CHANCE FOR INVENTORS. Designs for Mule Carts 9 Wanted by the j British G-overnxnenj of India. The British .! Government of India offers large rewards for the production of designs and models best adapted for mule carts for transport jknd use of the tJntisn army ln inaia, ana tne competi tion is open to all nations, f ' " i The first prize is 750 pounds sterling, or about $3,720. Tbe Second prize is 500 pounds sterling, otj about $2,500. Tbe third prize is 875 pounds sterling, or about $1.875J The fourth prize is 250 pounds sterling, or about $1,250. Ihe fifth prize is 125 pounds sterling, or about $625. The premiums will be awarded by the quartermaster general of! the army in lndia.fand five other officers and experts selected by the Gov ernment. ' - -i I ' - I Should any one in North Carolina de sire to compete, they will be furnished with full information and specifications by Mr. James Sprunt, British Vice Con sul at Wilmington. f : j British Steamship Greet Northern. The tug AlezandeA Jones went out Thursday afternoon, from Southport, to the assistance1 of the! British steamer reported ashore on Frying-pan shoals. A bulletin from the jjVeather observer! says the steamer got off without assist ance, and followed thsfones up to the bar at the mouth of the river. She proved to be the British steamer Great Northern ', from ' Baltimore, . bound to Port Royal, S. C in ballast.. She was not in sight from Southport yesterday morning, and it was? thought she had proceeded during the night. If she sustained any damage at all it must have been very slight, as the' sea was smooth while she was on the Shoals. ' - - - I IPENTINE. Whiteville Star- Mr now Allllican died Monday night at '12.80 oarlock, after a lingering illness. He was maeteen years of age.' .:- i - Statesville Landmark'. Fertil iser dealers in Statesville say the j sales ofei fertilizers will be much larger this season than last, and tbe indications are that the cotton 'acreage in this section wia be - increased at least one-fourth. l ias seems to be the 'state of affairs aU ; ovr the South, and it is to be regretted. Te farmer who increases his cotton acreage this spring will wish he hadn't bepre another springs rolls around. " : Si WeldonJvfWJ : ' Bill Pittman. ane two other negros.,Crawley and Wil co were on trial in The Superior Court last week for the murder of Haley Wit kiraj near Enfield. Pittman turned State's evidence, but the tables were completely turned, i Willcox and Haw ley f ere acquitted and Pittman was sen tenced to the penitentiary for ten years. iflohn D. Shaw was tried in the Su perkitf Court last Friday for the murder of lake Toran here on the 26th of last December. , It was alleged at the time of pe shooting that Shaw shot Toran for pepping on . his toes. The jury af ter fcanng all the evidence in (he case and.taretully weighing the same brought in a erdict of ncjtguilty. J ' j t -ltanly News: Eben Burleysbn, a goi9 citizen of four miles west of this plac& was found in an old field which was filing swept by a fire last Monday. His jgtothes were1 badly burned and scorched and bis bair singed, but bis persei bore no evidence of severe in juries -.outwardly. ! The burning field led pasties to the scene, and when found Mr. Bsy-leyson was entirely unconscious; and ccld not have lasted much longer in thill condition. ; A large scar on the nose $uld indicate tbat a struggle bad ensucl but as the whole" event is cloud- ea in, mystery it is ! not known, tie nas sincepregamea consciousness, but ' can remenpber nothing concerning the events whico scarae near costing his lite. At last accounts he was doing well, j spnf ord Express : . r We are pleases? to learn! that "a Philadelphia compssy have plans on foot for the build ret of a large cotton factory at Moncfce, ' Chatham county. It is said that ii will be One of the largest cotton mills fa the state, costing about $100, 000. ifhere is a great deal of cotton raised that section, and this is said t6 oe a?5jry nne location lor a tactory. Othec targe cotton factories will be built in Chllf am in the near future. ; These companies are nearly all from tbe North and ar -composed of men of - considera ble means. The farmers have beeru movina great deal of guano from here during the past four or five days. We had ccxqne to the conclusion that they bad deeded not to use much guano,, bu in this we were mistaken. Asheville Citizen: A horrib 'find w&s that made this morning by ! man w&a was passing the house of Zek Flowers an old colored man, who live on thet Asheville & Spartanburg railroad!, about fttae mile south of Biltmore. Ftowt- ers had not been -seen for severaraysH- ana wocn searca- was roauc jor nam, uci was fosad banging from a joist-in his houses with a heavy chain about his neck. F rom the condition of the bodyr it is Dfpevea tnat jr lowers commuted suicides long ago as last Friday. -4 Reaeasi Hunter, white, who. is wanted for sundry violations of the.) internal reveniie laws in and about the Newfound neighborhood, this county, is now ih Ashev&Se jail. Hunter was captured by DeputJ Sheriffs T. H. Hampton and F. M. loiiss, after a lively race, and despitei the fact that be wore two pistols and swore; lie would never be taken, alive. Twenty-five gallons of Hunter s whiski were also captured, ! Henderson Gold Leaf: The pro erties jSf Dr. C. S. Boyd and i P. Tay4 lor, of Henderson, located in Warren and Halifax counties, respectively, : re4 ported in a late issue of this paper I as having teen sold to Richmond and New York parties, have been examined thoN oughly ind found to be far richer tri gold thajn the owners had knowledge of. Operations will begin on an extensile scale. ajj.n early day. The dirt to fojir feet liyer 500 yards square !n the B$yd property, known as tbe Kearney mine, pans from $150 to $300 per tool at which estimate the yield will exceed $200,000, the operating expenses of which will not exceed $30,000.to say nothing of tbe extensive veins running through the- property which will pay handsomely under the operation of the Crawford bill, j The Taylor property is likewise of much value and covers three times Mie area. Without improvements these properties were sold for an amount less tmsn fzu.uuu. we unaerstana i the purchasers have had an offer! double the price paid already. . - 1 1 preenville Reflectori The chanji bion thiief eot in some ' work ilast week and got ahead of the fellow who stole I a church Bible and sold it. The members of Greenville Masonic Lodge who at tended; the last Communication, were surprised to find that the orphan con tribution box had been tampered with'.. An examination showed that the jbdx had been gnawed open and it bore dis tinct marks of human teeth. Tbe I box contained about $5. all of which j was taken.) .Some thief had effected an entrance into the lodge room and committed thfs i unparalleled crime. Sheriff King had -quite a surprise early Thursday morning when he found that five prisoners had. escaped jail the previous night. 1 Wednesday evening these Prisoners were as usual locked in one, 61 the lower cages. They filed pff the staple tnat neia tne iock to ineir cage; and after getting in the corridor cut through the brick wall into the pas sage; jthen removing the lock f rom , the ' front i door they were soon at liberty. The names of the escaped prisoners ire lames Davis, James Hall, ames Barnes, George Pender and SilasJ Forbes. ) The latter gave tbe sheriff another surprise Thursday evenfhg by returning and (sur rendering himself. -'--I''- .'.j ' ; -I iVadesboro Messenger-Intellfjrtnl fer:- On Sunday, February 26tln the postoffice at this place was entered and robbed of two. registered letters, con taining three and five dollars, respec tively, and about two dollars in srdall change. The office was entered during daylight, by means of a false key.! ii McRae, the postmaster, discovered robberv the same night, but kept matter quiet, in order to tnrow tne tniei on nis guara ana to capture nm u possi ble.:! The following Sunday, March 5th, the office was again entered in I the same way, and about 75 cents stolen. Mr. McRae had left tbat much change in ainjf accessible place as a bait fOf the thief.! Last Sunday, the 12th instil Mr. McRae determined to catch the tbiet it he again attempted to rob tbe office. About 12 o'clock he left the office! and went to hi? home lot dinner. Mr.George Howard was left in the office concealed behind a pile of boxes.! About 1 o'clock be beard the lock of the door click and some one entered. The first thing Itbe thief appropriated was a decoy regis tered letter, containing a marked bilL He then robbed the money . drawer of 25 cents and was just "in1, the act of appropriating a number; pf pennies when Mr.. Howard reac led out from the place of concealment and grabbed . him and the robber, who proved to be Ioe White, was captured. He was placed in jail and Monday afternoon was taken before W. A. Rose. U.S. Commis sioner, for a preliminary hearing. J The commissioner required him to give ( a . justified bond of $300 for his appearance at the next term of tbe Federal Court for this District, which convenes in, Char- - - . M.t- . iAM1 A svm Ann in. i I itfl. h M fS Tailed to do and'ebn- I gequently is still in jail. tThe prisoner is I about 21 years old , and is a well-knWQ character about town. .-.. 'I , I . "-'V- I hi-. I f St'!;;,,. r i - I 1 'ii 4 S flu - V i i 3 ! m , .. i f SI week. j
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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March 24, 1893, edition 1
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