THE ELM CITY ELEVATOR
VOL. 1.
EtM CITY, N. a, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1902.
NO. 41.
Atlanta Constitution.
“Once more unto the breach, good
frieiuls—once more.” I would like to
know about what time Prosideut Roose
velt is going to retract what he wrote
about President Davis. It has been
proved by the official records at Jack
son, Miss., that Mr. Davis never was
governor, nor was he ever a member of
the legislature of that state, and in a
public address made after the iict of
repudiation, he declared he was opposed
to it and the debt ought to be paid, and
tliis amateur historian denounces him
iu his book as an arch traitor and
ri'pudiator. Mr. Davis fought in Mex
ico for the honor of tlie Hag; won the
victory at Buena Vista; was dcsparately
wounded and for five years walked with
crutches; married General Taylor’s
daughter for his first wife and didn’t
run away with her, either; was secretary
of war under Franklin Pierce, remod
eled the curriculum at West Point and
it stands to-day as he framed it; was a
member of the United States senate
when his state seceded and, like Gen
eral Lee, he went with his people. He
did not seek the presidency of the con
federacy and insisted that' another be
chosen. Now all this has long since
been established and if Mr. Roose
velt did not know it he could hav’e known
it. He certainly knows it now, and if
he is a gentleman he will retract it and
apologize to Mrs. Davis ana the family
and to the sainted shade of Miss Win
nie and to the people of the south. He
called him an arch traitor and arch
repudiator and compared him to Bene
dict Arnold and that slanderous libel is
in i)rint in a book of so-called history
and has poisoned the minds of all the
fools, fanatics and idiots who have read
it. When is he going to retract?.
The International Cyclopoedia, edited
hy distinguished professors of Colum
bia University and Dartmouth College,
says of Mr. Davis: “He was a ripe
scholar, a vigorous writer, a true gentle
man, accomplished statesman, a sturdy
champion, a proud true patriot, a lover
of liberty, a Christian hero—this is the
Jefferson Davis that history will cher
ish.” General Lee was his bosom
friend and confidant and yet this so-
called historian, this rough rider and
bear hunter, praises Lee while he de
fames his friend, a man infinitely his
superior in evey moral attribute and
every noble emotion. But maybe he
will retract and apologize, though Tom
Moore says:
“But faltb, fanatic faith, once wedded fast •
To some dear falsehood hugs it to the last.”
He had better retract, for some of our
old soldiers are very mad about it.
They are talking about suing him for
slander and garnisheeing the govern
ment for his salary. Killing bears in
thei wilderness won’t save him nor will
that little brush we had in Cuba. That
is perhaps the biggest little war we have
ever had and every small politician and
stump orator who wants an office tumps
up and says we are all brethren now.
We fit and fout and bled together at
San Juan and Santiago and then we
crossed the wide ocean to whip out
some niggers and we will soon all be on
the pension roll. An old veteran said
said to me, “Tliat little Spanish war
reminds me of the fellow who was
drowned at Johnston, and when he
knocked at the gate St. Peter didn’t
recognize him and refused to let him
in. ‘Why, my dear sir,’ said he, I am
one of the Johnstown sufferers. 1 was
drowned in that flood.’ So the good
saint relented and let him in. He
wandered about heaven, looking at the
beautiful things and after a while came
across an old man and said, ‘Ciood
morning, old gentleman; glad to see
you. Been here a long time, I reckon?’
The old man said nothing. ‘I am One
of the Johnstown sufferers. I was
drowned in that great flood.’ The old
man did not reply, but turned and
walked slowly away. So the fellow
wont to St. Peter and asked who that
old man was. ‘He would not speak to
ine,’ said he, ‘though I told him 1 was
iu the great flood at Johnstown.’ And
St. Peter replied, ‘That old man, sir, is
Noah and he had a flood of his own to
think about.’ ”
And now we read that all the horrors
of our civil war are being repeated in
the Philippines. In our war it was the
white yankees who made war hell for
us. but now they are making it hell for
the negroes in the Philii>pines. W^e
were trying to smother what our people
suffered, but they won’t let us and now
boast that General Sherman found it
the best way to shorten the war. No,
we old men and women can’t forget,
aud I hope that our children and
grandchildren will learn it all in some
southern history. The civilized world
has not forgotten Herod nor Nero nor
the duke of Alva nor the massacre of
St Bartholemew, where 30,000 Protes
tants were butchered in a night. But
when will Teddy repent, retract and
apojogize? He has got it to do sooner
(>r later or go down in history as a ma
licious defamer of one whose shoes he
was not worthy to unloose. He and
Miles will get together some time and
some where. Now, why does not
Teddy consider the feeding of our
l>eople in his appointments to southern
ollices? Why did he not give Savan
nah a white man for a collector? Ap
pointments of negroes to be ix)6tmasters
aud revenue collectors are an insult to
us, and he knows it. If he has such
affectionate regard for those negroes
why not gave them a i)lace at V¥a8hiog-
ton or Albany or Boston or a coosiil-
ship at Hayti or San Domingo?
These oHices are the nearest of all to
our p^jJe. The postotfice is our tryst-
ing place, a kind of Mecca, and the
postmaster our confident. That officer
should above all others Imj acceptable to
the majority of the people. The col-
tuor h^ the commerce of a city in
thL control, and
white-none of it
“es from the negro race. What
excuse can he give for such appoint-
mfints^• None, and #hen i» he going
to retract aud 'apologize for that slander
of Mr. Davis? Echo answers when?
Bill Arp.
'Wllllnie to Die.
Mall aud Express.
Former GoTemor Mitchell, of Florida,
whose long record of continuous ser
vice in puWc offices attests his popu
larity, is a product of the wire gra«8
ligbtwood knot region, built on rugged
lines. Among other titles he bears the
one of being the “ugliest” man in
Florida.
During his term aa governor he
boarded a train to travel to a country
fair, and walked through the smoker
looking for a seat. He approached a
raw-boned cracker sitting all in a heap,
whose face had been in contact with a
buzz-saw. One eye was gone, his nose
sawed off and his mouth extended to
his other eye.
The governor looked the man over
and in a stern voice said:
‘ ‘Stranger say your prayers. You are
going to die in a minute.”
Tlxe countryman, in no wise startled,
looked up into the face of the governor
and said:
“What for?”
“I have been carrying this gun for
twenty years to kill the first man I met
who is uglier than I am.”
Taking another look, the cracker in
an awed voice, asked:
“Am I uglier than you ?”
“Yes, you are.”
“Well for mercy’s sake shoot
quick.”
Tbe St. Pierre DiMister.
The St. Pierre, Martinque, disaster
recalls, but exceeds, that of Hercula
neum and Pompeii, the Roman towns
on the Bay of Naples which were
buried in a shower of lava-dust, stones
and flowing lava from Mount Vesuvius,
in the year 79 A. D., In the case of
the Roman towns there were warnings
which enabled almost the whole popu
lation to escape, but at St. Pierre red-
hot masses of lava and stone fell sud
denly, it app^rs, over a considerable
area, embracing the city and harbor,
so th£t inhabitants and shipping were
buried iu fire^ and over 40,000 persons,
it is estimate, lost their lives. The
eruption of Mount Pelee is, in fact to
be compared with that of Krakatoa, in
August, 1883, rather than that of
Vesuvius, in violence and destructive
effect. The contraction of the earth’s
QTust, which caused the Mount Pelee
eruption, seems to be producing violent
seismic movements and eruptions all
around the globe, the earthquakes in
Guatemala, various W’est Indian is
lands, Spain and France, and the move
ments in -Mount Vesuvius being ap
parently connected phenomena..
Sent lo be Kerormcd.
Baltimore Sun.
Boston will probably not relish the
facetiousness of Governor Davis, of
Arkansas, who has pardoned an err
ing colored brotLer out of the peniten
tiary ui>on the condition that he goes
to Massachusetts to be reformed. The
Governor, it ib true, says that he has
recently received assurances from citi
zens of Massachusetts of their earnest
desire “to reform a certain portion of
the negro population” of Arkansas.
Governor Davis should not put the
sincerity of our Puritan brothers to too
severe a test, however. That they were
once fond of citizens of African dcscent
is undeniable. So great was their an
cestors’ affection for them in Colonial
days that they sent ships to Africa and
brought the unwilling sons of Ham to
this country to be reformed through
the processes of slavery. The reforma
tion of the heathen was then a source
of revenue. There is precious little
profit in it nowadays, and Boston has
grown lukewarm, except at election
times, when the expression of a fender
regard for the colored brother' is
thought to be smart ]^>olitics.
A Trasedr Repeat* Itself.
W'lLMiNGTON, May 16.—A few years
ago Harckless Green, of Brunswick
county, lost three children by drown
ing within a few yards of Navassa
factory, four miles from Wilmington,
at the mouth of a creek, which enters
the river at that point. He was in a
boat with his children at the time of
the accident and miraculously escaped
himself. To-day at about the same
spot he and his son, Darry, aged about
ly years, were in a boat, which capsized
and the young man was drowned.
The father again barley escapied.
All the power of the Republican
bosses of the House having fmled to
prevent the pass^e of the bill for the
admission of Arizona, New Mexico and
Oklahoma, they have now centered
their efforts to keep these Territories
out of the Union on the Senate, for no
other reason than the fear that they
would elect Democratic Senators.
There is a possibility that the horror
of Martinique may be supplemented by
a similar catastrophe in St. Vincent,
says the Philadelphia Rgaord, where La
Soufriere is in a state of eruption so
violent that its roarings are hard in
Barbados, 100 miles distant, and the
fields of the latter island are covered by
volcanic dust.
Mr. Lewis Nixon, who. ^ months
ago was. elceted leader' of Taminany
hall, the famous Democratic political
organization in New York, has resigned
and announces his retirement from
politics.
President Roosevelt is conudering
the advisability of appointing Senator
McLaurin, of South Carolina, to a place
on the United States Court of COkiras
made vacant by the death of Jndge
John Davis.
ROOSETE1.T ON TBB BIBLE.
Baltimore Herald.
A letter from President Roosevelt
upon J^The Bible,” furnished an inter
esting feature of the thirteenth anni
versary excises of the Epworth League
of Strawbridge Methodist EfHSCopal
Church, Park avenue and Wilson streM,
last night.
President Roosevelt, together with a
large number of other prominent men
of the country, was recently asked by
Mr. Charles P. Cleaveland, President
of the Strawbridge Epworth League,
what class of men and women the
world most needs now. President
Roosevelt’s letter was as follows:
“Every thinking man, when he
thinks, realizies what a very large
number of people tend to forget that
the teachings of the Bible are so inter
woven and entwined with our whole
eivic and social life that it would be
literally—I do not mean figuratively, I
mean literally—impossible for us to
figure to ourselves what that life would
be if these teachings were removed.
We would lose almost all the standards
by which we now judge both public
and private morals; alT the standards
toward which we, with more or less
resolution, strive to raise ourselves.
Almost every man who has, by his life
work, added to the sum of human
achievement of which the race is proud,
of which our people are proud, almost
every such man has based his life work
largely upon the teachings of the Bible.
Sometimes it has been done uncon
sciously, more often consciously, and
among the very greatest men a dispro
portionately large number have been
diligent and close students of the Bible
at &3t hand.
“Lincoln-^sad, patient, kindly Lin
coln, who, after bearing upon his
weary shoulders for four years ^ grwiter
burden than that borne by any other
man of the nineteenth century, laid
down his life for the people, whom,
living, he had served so well—^built up
his entire reading ujlon his early study
of the Bible. He had mastered it «b-
solutely; mastered it as, later, he
mastered only one or two other bdoKs,
notably Shakespeare; mastered it so,
that he became almost ‘a man of one
book,’ who knew that book and who
instinctively put into practice what he
had been taught therein; and he left
his life as part of the crowning work of
the century that has just clos^.
“You may look through the bible,
from cover to cover, and nowhere will
you find a line that can be csnstructed
into an apology for the man of brains
who sins against the ligh‘. On the
contrary, in the Bible, taking that as
a guide, you will find that because
much has been given to yon much
will be expect^ of you, aud a
heavier condemnation is to be visited
upon the able man who goes wrong
than upon his weaker brother who
cannot do the harm that the other
docs, because it is not in him to do it.
“I plead, not merely for training of
the mind, but for the moral and
spiritual training of the home and the
church; the moral and spiritual training
that have always been found in, and
that have ever accompanied the study
of, this book, which, in almost every
civilized tongue, can be descrilxHl as
‘The Book,’ with the certainty of all
understanding you when you so
describe it.
“The immense moral influence of
the Bible, though, of course, infinitely
the most important, is not the only
IK)wer it has for good. In addition
there is the unceasing influence it
exerts on the side of good tjiste, of
good literature, of proper sense of pro
portion, of simple and straightforward
writing and thinking.
“This is not a small matt'^rin an age
when there is a tendency tc read much
that even, if not actually ;'.armful on
moral grounds, is yet injurious, l)e-
cause it represents slipshod, slovenly
thouglit and work; not the kind of
serious thought, of serious expression,
which we like to see in anything that
goes into the fibre of our cfiaracter.
“The Bible does not teach us to shirk
difficulties, but to overcome them.
That is a lesson that each one of Us
who has children is bound to teach
these children, if he or she expects to
see them become fitted to play >th€f part
of men and women in our work!.
“If we read the Bible aright we read
a book which teaches us to go forth
and do the work of the I.«rd; to do the
work of the Lord in the world as we
find it; to try to make things better in
this world, even if only a little better,
because we have lived in it. That kind
of work can be done only by the man
who is neither a weakling nor a coward,
by the man who, in the fullest sense of
the world, is a true Christian—like
Great Heart, Bunyan’s hero. We
plead for a closer and wider and deeper
study of tbe Bible, so that our people
may be in fact as well as in theory
‘doers of the worl and not hearers
only.’ ”
Nebraska Has Volcano Seare.
Ohahah, Neb., May 12.— After a
silence of thirty years,. Mount Iona,
the only volcano in the United States,
is now reported to be sending out
smoke and steam, and some of the
people in the surrounding country say
that low rumbling can be heard.
These reports are brought from
Cedar County, Neb., where the mount
ain is situated, by travellers, who say
that the settlers in the neighborhood
are preparing to leave the county.
No Bealdent Jews In Kazareili.
Chicago Record-Herald.
There are no Jews in Nazareth. They
are not allowed to live there. They ane
permitted to come in and trade, but .nO
Jew can rent a house or store or take
up a permanent residence for tear of a
public demonstration. They come and
go, however, like other merchants, buy
ing and selling, minding their own
business and making money out of the
Christians.
Maek tel4
laT* Br«iM^ht Ahomt •
Kew Fork SpeclaL
Norman E. Mack, of Buffalo,
national Democratic committeeman
for New York, has, by a general denial,
made on his return from a visit to Mr.
Bryan in the west, aet at rest the ru
mors that he would bolt the leader
ship of David B. Hill, and perhaps lead
a Bryan movement this fall.
Some of the N^ York politicians
who gathered at tlAe Hoffman House
to-day made this annoiucement au
thoritatively as coming directly from
Mr. Mack hims^. They had also
been informed that Mr. Mack is not,
since his conferences with Mr. Bryan,
in favor of the nomination of any
radical Bryan or Ghici^ platform
Democrat for Ck>vemor of the State
this fall.
The Butfalo committeeman did not
attend the harmony reception at the
Democratic dub on Jefferson Day.
His neglect to do so was supposed to be
because of the disposition on the part
of the harmony managers to side-step
Bryan on that occasion.
The same men who said that Mack
would not be a candidate for Governor,
or favor a Bryan nominee, declared
that he and the entire Bryan contingent
of Buffalo, which is numerically strong,
will unite with the Hill influences in
an effort to carry western New York
for the ticket.
Ex-Senator Hill’s theory of the cam
paign is that Buffalo and New York, if
properly convassed, will give the larg
est democratic majorities of their his
tory.
Mr. Mack’s reconciliation with Sepa-
tor Hill removes practically the only
uneasiness felt by the Democratic man
agers.
Mack’s intimacy with Bryan has
been a feature of New York politics
since the campaign of 1900. His
declaration that be ^vocs the course
mapi^ out by Senatttr Hill and his
associates for the seleetion of State
nominees relieves the situation of all
doubt with respect to Mack’s following.
They will new be invited into the
councils of the “regulars” and be
assigned to some of the most impor
tant places of command in the cam
paign.
It is considered that Mr. Bryan, by
using his influence to bring about har
mony in New York, has gone a great
way toward bringing this State into
line for the Democrats in 1904.
'ritlef Auoiic the Anctsls.
=)ne day the Mayor of Cambridge,
who had tried to curb Mr. Spurgeon’s
tendencies to aensation^-lism, says tbe
Honiilotic Review, inquired of Um if
he had really told his congregation
that, if a tliief got into heaven, he
would liegin picking theiangels’ pockets.
“Yes, sir,” the young preacher
replied. “I told them that, if it were
possible for an ungodly man to go to
heaven without his nature changed, he
would be none the better for being
there; and then, by way of illustration,
I said that, were a thief to get in
among the glorified, he would remain
a thief still, and he would go around
the place picking the angels’ pockets!”
“But,|my dear young friend,” asked
the mayor, seriously, “don’t you know
that the angels haven’t any pockets?”
“No, sir,” relied young Spurgeon
with equal gravity; “I did not know
that; but I am glad to be assured of
the fact from a gentleman who does
know. I will take care to put it all
right the first opportunity I get.”
The next Monday morning Spur
geon walked into the mayoi’s place of
business and said to him cheerfully:
“I sot that matter right yesterday, sir.”
“What matter?” he inquired.
‘-‘W'hy, about tbe angels’ pockets!”
“What did you say?”
“Oh, sir; I just told the people I was
sorry to say that I had made a mistake
the last time I preached to them; but
that I had met a gentleman—the May
or of Caunbridge—who had assured me
thai tlie angels bad no pockets, so I
must correct what I had said, as I did
hot want anybody to go away with a
false notion about heaven. I would,
therefore, say that, if a thief got in
among the angels, without having his
nature chang^, he would try to steal
the feathers out of their wings!”
Tbe Soutliern Bai»tlst Convention.
The 47th annual session of the
Southern Baptist Conven|ion, which
met in Asheville last week, elected ex-
Gov. Eagle, of Arkansas, president vi«.e
ex-Gov. Northen, of Georgia, who
declined re-election. Joshua Levering,
of Baltimore, and Dr. R. H. Marsh,
of North Carolina, were also put in
nomimation for president and when
Eagle was elected the gentlemen named
were elfksted vice presidents. About
400 delegates were enrolled when the
meeting opened Friday and the visitors
in attendance ran up into the thou
sands. Prayers^ were offered for the
sick and among those prayed for was
Rev. Dr. Palmer, the emiment Presby
terian divine of New Orleans, who iras
recently injured by a street car.
Within the bounds of the Conven
tion are 16,690 churches, 762 Asso-
ciationsiind 13,473 preachers. Accord
ing to the report of the foreign mission
board 115 missionaries and 171 native
assistadts are now under the supervision
of the Convention. Southern Baptists
have contributed within the last year
$2,667,767 to msssions, of which $172,-
000 was given to foreign missions.
The total amount received during the
year for the regular work of the home
mission board was about $100,000, and
the amount expended was $59,020.
All the bawdy houses of Salisbury
have been vacated by their occupants
on account of the vigorous action of
the grand jiuy last week in closing
them up.
TKB WORl.B*S6BBATl»ISASTBBS.
Some of the greatest disast^ caused
in modem and ancient times by vol
canic eruption and earthquakes were
the following, b^;inning with the
latest:
Quesatenango and other cities in
Guatemala, April 19, 1902, about 2,000
killed by earthquake.
Island of Geram, East Indies, Oc
tober 10. 1899, 4,000 killed by earth
quake.
Venzeuela, April 24, 1894, 3,000
killed by earthqiuke.
Southern Greece, April, 1894, 1,000
killed by earthquake.
Island of Hondue, Japan, October,
1891, 10,000 killed by earthquake.
Clwleston, S.iC., AugustiandSeptem
ber, 1899, 38 killed by earthquake.
Mauna Loa, Hawaii, 1880, 79 killed
by earthquake.
Isleof lechia, 1993, 2,000 killed by
earthquake.
Krakatoa, Strait of Sunda, May to
Augiut, 1993, 36,380 killed by volcanic
eruption.
Djokjokarta, Java, 1867, 1,000
kill^ by earthquake.
Calarbria, Italy, 1857, 10,000 killed
earthquake.
Fort Royal, -Martinique, 1839, 700
dead by earthquake.
Canton, China, May 27, 1839, 6,000
killed by earthquake.
Mt. Garon, Island of St. Vincent,
1812, 10,000 killed by volcanic erup
tion.
Mt. Taal, Luzon, 1814, 15,000 kiUed
by volcanic eruption.
Lisbon, North Persia, 1755, 60,000
killed by earthquake.
Canton, China, November 30, 1731,
100.000 killed by earthquake.
Palermo, Sicily, 1726, 6,000 killed
by earthquake.
Syria, 1158, 20,000 killed by earth-
quaice.
Cantania, Sicily, 1137, 15,000 killed
by earthquake.
Constantinople, 5o7,thousauds killed
by earthquake.
Pom(>eii and Herculaneum, A. D..
79, 2,000 to 5,000 killed by volcanic
eruption.
One of the most destructive of recent
calamities produced by the forces of
nature was the Galveston hurricane
and Hood, September 8, 1900, in which
6.000 persons perished and $^,000,(XX)
damage was done to property.
A Story of IHarTeloas Wealtli
If the stories told under oath in the
Supreme Court in New York City are
true, William A. Clark,' United States
Senater from Montana, is easily the
wealthiest man in the world, with a
fortune that almost defies computation.
.The riches of John D. Rockefell^, the
liothschilds, the Vanderbilts, or of any
other modern or ancient Croesus fade
into comparative insignificance beside
the miles upon miles of mineral ore
that the Western mining man is said
to possess. According to a former
trusted employe of the Senator, there is
about $100,000,000 worth of minerals
in sight, with many times that sum
reveided by the diamond drill but as
yet untouched.
An action against the United Verde
Company was the instrument through
which the facts came to light. The
complainant, through the testimony of
a former confidently stenographer of
Senator Clark, attempted to show the
real worth of the mines. According
to^this testimony,! a surveyor using
a mmond drill starting at a central
point in the campany’s holding, had
found copper ore of wonderfully pure
chracter for a radius of 10,000 feet—
almoet two miles—in all directions,
thus indicating a circumference of
wealth of a four-mile diameter. With
almost $100,000,000 of gre in sight,
the survey showed additional workings
of values beyond the wildest dreams.
Furthermore, the plaintiff asserts the
present ore ran 600 ounces of silver to
the ton, and also that each ton of raw
ore extracted held $2,000 worth of gold
—about one dollar’s worth of gold to
every pound taken out
Their Relationship.
“There are some queer couples in the
world,” remarked a St. Louis real estate
agent recently. “The other day a
man and woman called to see me about
renting a house. The woman did all
the talking and turned to the man for
confirmation or corroboration. He
always agreed with her, and did it very
meekly.
“ ‘Well,’ said the woman, ‘I’ll give
you $25 for the house. Won’t we John?’
“John: ‘Yes.’
“ ‘And I’ll pay my rent promptly,
too; won’t we John ?’
“ ‘Yes.’
“ ‘And I’ll take good care of the
house; won’t we, John?’
“ ‘Yes.’
“ ‘And I’ll take it for three years;
won’t we, John ?’
“ ‘Yes.’
“ ‘But,’ I inquired, as is usual in
such cases, ‘are you man and wife ?
“ ‘Man and wife,’ exclaimed the
woman, sharply. ‘Indeed, we are not;
are we, John ?’
“ ‘No, my dear.’
“ ‘What?’ said I. ‘Not man and
Wife?’
“ ‘Not much,’ she retorted. ‘I’d
have you know, too, that in this family
we are wife and man; that’s so, isn’t it,
John?’
“And John meekly agreed.”
HUked the Wrwas Animal.
Cherokee Scout.
A fellow in a neighboring county
bought an. (rid white cow and a white
mule,‘^tting both in the same stable.
It ss said that night when he went to
milk he made a mistake apd milked the
white mule.
Twenty-three persons are dead ai
result of the naphtha explosion at Pitts-
bi^. It is believed that 300 were
injured. -
ow mm. TALBiAeB.
WonMnn he Coavlneed Be had Hito-
taKon hla CnillnB.
Dr. Talmage’s view of ministerial
dignity was always so divergent from
^at (rf the (rid line, triack-robed divines
of the R^ormed Dutch Church that it
w^ a mattw of surprise to many of his
fnendfl that he chose that communion
at the start of his career. One of the
traditions of Herxog Hall Theological
Seminary, in New Kunswick, where he
graduate, runs like this:
“Talmage was an ungainly young
ster, full of originality as an egg is of
meat, but he did not (»mmend himnalf
to the professors of the seminary as a
budding clergyman. After he had
preach^ his first sermon there good
old 1^. I)e Witt, the president, thought
the time had come to have a serious
talk with the yoang man. He took
him away where no (me else (XMild lis
ten to their colloquy and said:
“Mr. Talmage, I never like to dis-
(X>urage anybody, and I rarely say
what I am going to say to you. You
are intellectuaUy bright enough. I can
easily imagine that you might make a
success in almost any- field of life ex
cept in preaching the Gospel. But,
frankly and in all kindness, I must tell
you that I solemnly think you have
mistaken your calhng. Get a position
selling go(^ behind a diy goodscounter
or take a clerkship in a law office, or, if
necessary, follow the plow, but do not
think of becoming the pastor of a
church. You are not fitted for it at all.
It is a great mistake fx you to waste
your time.’
Tahnage simply insisted that he
would go on and graduate. He did.
And before his pulpit career was ended
he had iweached to hundreds where the
venerable Dr. De Witt had preached to
one. But those who tell the story
down in New Brunswick say that Dr.
De Witt never changed his mind. He
was not in the habit of changing his
mind.”
The peculiar rhetorical style of Dr.
Talmage can best be understood from
an example. In one of his sermons in
the famous series devoted to the gamb
ling hells of New York, of which he
had made a study, he electrified - an
audience one Sunday morning with
this climax of oratory:
“When they bet on one number they
call it a gate!
'When they bet on two numbers
they call it a saddle!
‘When they bet on three numbers
they (»11 it a horse!
'And thousands of young men get
onto that gate and mount that saddle
and ride that horse to damnation!”
It was easy for the old style ministers
to criticize that sort of rhetoric in the
pulpit, but such exiaressions stnck in
the memory of listeners, they had a
decided burr like quality, and those
who heard Talmage once wanted to
hear him again.
Much was written about Dr. Tal-
ma^’s trip to the Holy L«nd, and es
pecially of his statisfied ambition to
follow in the footsteps of his Master and
baptize someone in the River Jordan.
It was asserted that not finding a real
(X>nvert he im{»ovised one and some
jokers went so fw as to declare that
the poor Arab who was baptized thought
he was going to be drowned by the stal
wart, long-armed American divine,
and shrieked for mercy like a good fel
low. But the opinion of Dr. Talmage’s
friends was that this stoiy was manu
factured out of the whole cloth.
JackM»hTUl«*« Plre BarMd m 'Semr.
Florida Tlmes-Unlon and (SUxen.
While the fire which started on May
3,1901, and devasted the dty was under
control within seven h(Mirs, yet it has
been burning for the past 3^ days.
J. H. Kooker, William Baker and a
reporter went to the ruins of the old
Mohawk block, and with a shovel dug
off the top of the pie of broken brick
and mortar. Three or four inches from
the top the place was warm and smoke
was seen to come from the hole dug.
Digging a little deeper each shovelful
became hotter and hotter as it was
taken out. Digging still deeper, red
coals were found, and as soon as the
breeze fanned it, it blazed. The fire
department was notified, and a stream
of water was turned on.
Thus it was that one year after the
commcncing of a fire the department is
called upon to put it out. This place
has bla^ up several times sin» the
day of the fire, and the last time, about
five months ago, the department soaked
it thoroughly with water. A quantity
of grain had been stored in the build
ing, which stood oiv the site where the
digging t(x>k place, and it was this grain
that has been Smouldering all this
time.
A consideraUe crowd of people gath
ered around the place, and were aston
ished at the fact of the fire burning so
long, and remarked that all records
were broken as to the length in time of
burning of a fire by the one in Jackson
ville which burned a whole year.
Bxploaloa *f Flrlax KMhlae l,ftOO
Paris, May 12.—Severo, the aero
naut, and one (rf his assistants were
killed by the explosion of Sevoo’s air
ship in making a triid trip this morn
ing. Severo invited a number of
friends to witness the ascension and his
wife and relatives were following the
»urse of the baIl(M>n in motor (aurs.
Suddenly the qiectators wer' horrified
by a bright fla^ of %ht, followed by a
loud explosion. The baUkwn, which at
this time was 1,500 feet above tbe
ground, fell rapidly, landing of tbe
roof of a house. The aeronaut fell into
the street and was dashed to {rieces.
The bones of his 1^ were forced
through tbe soles his boots. The
man who accompanied him was burned
to death. The accident is said to have
been caused by a leakagef of gas.
Men who pose as earthly angds are
very apt to disgust the ordinary mortal.
A Conan Doyle gives the foUowing
m^^^ for married folks in his “A
1. Siu(» you are married you may as
well make the best of it.
2. So make some maximii and try to
live up to them.
3. And d(m’t be discounted if you
fail. You will fail, but -pwhaps you
won’t always fail.
4. Never both be cxoee at the —mo
time. Wut your turn.
5. Never cease to be lovers. If you
cease, some one else may be^^.
6. You were gentleman ami lady
before you were husband and wife.
Don’t forget it.
7. Keep yourself at your bdR. It is
a compliment to your partner.
8. Keep your ideal high. You may
miss it, but it is better to miaa a high
one than to hit a low one.
9. A Uind love u a foolish (me. En
courage the best.
10. Permanent mutual respect is
necessary for a permanent mutual love.
11. The tight cord is the easiest to
snap.
12. If you take liberties be {w^ared
to give them.
13. There is only one thing irorae
than quarrels in public; that is caresses.
14. Money is not essential to hap^-
ness,!^!. happy people usually hav«
enough.'-
15. To save some.
16. The easiest way of saving is to
do without things.
17. If you can’t, then you had better
do without a wife.
18. The man who respects his wife
does not turn her into a medidant.
Give her a purse of her own.
19. If you save, save at your own
expense.
20. In all matters of mon^ prepare
always for the worst and h(^ for the
best.
In 1875 the country schools in the
South were of value only as a ban
ning. Since then a (x>nsideraUe ad
vance has been made, but it is not at
all suffi(aent, says tbe Memphis Com
mercial-Appeal. In some respects we
have actually retrograded. During
that quarter of a »ntury the p(^>ula-
tion has increased altxmt 70 per cent,
the number of teachers has been
doubled, the value of sch(M>l property
has been quadrupled, but the average
number of days of attendance has in
creased only from 93 to 110, and the
average annual pay of the teachers has
actually decreased from $165 in 1875
to $158.75 in 1900. The amount oi
money expended per capita has in
creased from 81 cents to $1.84. Noth
ing cculd be more humUiating to us
than these figures. Of course we can
plead the desolation of war and the
Might of reconstruction. After the
war the S(mth was an impoverished
section. But this excuse can not be
pleaded much longo', and it is (mr
duty to face the acts and attempt a
remedy. The South is largely an
agricultural section, and it is desirable
that the farmer should be an intdli-
gent and well educated man. The
sch(x>l term in the country should be
extended. The haphazard way of (xm-
ducting them should be abandoned.
The teachers should be better paid and
thus a better class of teachers secured.
Jfot only that, but the standard of
educaticm should be raised.
Jadlelal Advlcc «• Hard Brlaken.
Plilladelpbla Bvenlng Telesraph.
In passing judgment in the cases (d
men arraigned at the Central station on
charges of intoxication. Magistrate Cun
ningham, although he frequently re
verses himself, offers to each offender
some scmnd advice.
Bill Jones, who had been f(mnd upon
the public highway minus the fac^ty
of navigation, was arraigned bef(»e
him.
“Married or single?” asked tbe
Magistrate.
“Single, sir,” replied the ahaking
(iulprit.
“You ought to get married. If you
had a wife and a family to oc(»py your
attention you would have no derire to
drink,” said the Magistrate. “I’ll dis
charge you; but I hope you’ll give
to matrimony more thought than
you have to liquor.”
John Smith who had also been ar
rested for being intoxicated, was next
caUed.
“Married or single, John?” queried
the Magistrate.
“Mamed your Honor,” was the
prisoner’s reply.
“Then you have no business getting
drunk. Drinking should be done by
single men who ^ve no fomily to re
quire their attention and cash. You
ought to have remained single, then
the damage you are d(Hng would fall
upon you alone. Go home and think
it over.”
Jacksonville, FtA., May 11.—H(m.
William J. Bryan arrived here late to
night in company with Gov. William S.
Jennings, of Florida, from Montgom
ery, Ala., where both were speakers at
a recent convention.
Tomorrow morning they leave for
Cuba via Miami, Mr. Bi>an to rq»rt
the inauguration of President-dect
Palma for a New York illustrated paper,
while Governor Jennings, with several
members of the Florida Health Board
who will accompany him, will investi
gate the sanitary conditions of Havana
in connection with the new quarantine
r^ulations.
The Wilmington Messenger denies
with vehemence the charge that it is a
railroad paper. It says th^ no railroad
or railroad man owns a d(rilar of stock
in the paper, or has at any time sought
to dictate the policy of the paper. It
denies that it dischain^ Kings
bury, because of his amtude and says
he resigned because theowners thoo^t
they oi^ht to control the paper.