The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, August 24, 1898, Image 4
P A HELPFUL SERMON. |
Dr. Talmage Encourages People
Who are in Trouble.
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What We are Taught by the Triumph
of Jonathan Over the
Philistines. Inspiration in
Persecution and New
Life in Adversity.
This discourse of Dr. Talmage is full
of encouragement for those who know
not which wav to turn Decause 01 accum:
mulated misfortunes; text, I Samuel j
xiv, 4, "There was a sharp rock on the
one side and a sharp rock on the other
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The cruel army of the Philistines
must be taken and scattered. There is
just one man accompanied by his bodyguard
to do that thing. Jonathan is
the hero of the scene. I know that
David cracked the skull of the giant
with a few pebbles well slung, and that
300 Gideonites scattered 10,000 Amaiekites
by the crash of broken crockery,
but here is a more wonderful conflict.
Yonder are the Philistines on the rocks.
Here is Jonathan with his bodyguard
in the valley. On the one side is a
rock called Bozez; on the other side is
a rock called Seneh. These two were
as famous in olden times as in modern
times are Plymouth Rock and Gibral-,
tar. Thev were Drecmitous. unscalable
and sharp. Between th^e two rocks
Jonathan must make his ascent. The
day comes for the scaling of the height.
Jonathan on his hands and feet begins
the ascent. "With strain and slip and
bruise, I suppose, but still on and up.
first goes Jonathan, and then goes his
bodyguard. Bozez on one side, Seneh
on the other. After a sharp tug and
push and clinging I see the head of
Jonathan above the hole in the moun
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fight, and a supernatural consternation.
These two men, Jonathan and his
bodyguard, drive back and drive down
the Philistines over the rocks and open
a campaign which demolishes the enemies
of Israel. I suppose that the
overhanging and overshadowing rocks
on either side did not balk or dishearten
Jonathan or his bodyguard, but only
roused aL*> filled them with enthusiasm
as they wexit up. "There was a sharp
rock on the one side and a sharp rock
on the other side."
My friends, you have been or are
now, some of you in this crisis of the
text. If a man meets one trouble, he
can go through with it. He gathers all
his energies, concentrates them on one I
point and in the strength of God or J>y
his own natural determination goes
through it. But the man -who has
trouble to the right of him and trouble
to the left of him is to be pitied. Did
either trouble come alone, he might endnre
it. hut two troubles, two disasters.
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two overshadowing misfortunes, are
IBozez and Seneh. God pity him.
"There is a sharp rock on the one side
and a sharp rock on the other side."
In this crisis of the text is that man
whose fortune and health fail him at
the same time. Nine-tenths of all our
merchants capsize in business before
" they come to 45 years of age. There is
some collision in commercial circles,
and they stop payment. It seems as if
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back of a note before be learns* what a
fool a man is who risks all bis own property
on tbe prospect tbat some man
will tell tbe truth. It seems as if a
man must have a large amount of unsalable
goods on bis own sbelf before
be learns bow mucb easier it is to buy
than to sell. It seems as if every man
must be completely burned out before
be learns tbe importance of always
keeping fully insured. It seems as if
every man must be wrecked in a finan
ciai tempest before He learns to Keep
things snug in case of a sudden euroclydon.
"When the calamity does come, it is
awful. The man goes home in despair,
and he tells his family, "We'll have to
go to the poorhouse." He takes a dolorous
view of everything. It seems as
if he never could rise. But_ a little
time passes, and he says: "Why, i am
not so badly off after all. I have my
v family left."
Before the Lord turned Adam out of
paradise he gave him Eve so that when
he lost paradise he could stand it. Permit
one who has never read but a few
novels in all his life, and who has not
a great deal of romance in his composition,
to say that if when a man's fortunes
fail he has a good wife? a good
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UHnstian wile?ne ougnt not to ce aespondent.
"Oh," you say, "that only
increases the embarrassment, since you
' " have her also to take care of." You
are an ingrate, for the woman as often
supports the man as the man supports
the woman. The man may bring all
the dollars, but the woman generally
brings the courage and the faith in
God.
Well, this man of whom I am speaking
looks around, and he finds his family
is left, and he rallies, and the light
comes to his eyes, and the smile to his
face, and the courage to his heart. In
hrn wars Tift is finite over it. He makes
his financLl calamity the first chapter
in a new era of prosperity. He met
that one trouble?conquered it. He
sat down for a little while under the
grim shadow of the rock Bozez, yet he
soon rose and began like Jonathan to
climb. But how often is it that physical
ailment comes with financial embarrassment!
When the fortune failed, it
broke the man's spirit. His nerves
were shattered. His brain was stunned.
I can show you hundreds of men
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failed at the same time. They came
prematurely to the staff. Their hand
trembled with incipient paralysis. They
never saw a well day since the hour
when they called their creditors together
for a compromise. If such meu
are impatient and peculiar and irritable
excuse them. They had two troubles,
either one of which they could have
met successful. If when the health
went the fortune had been retained, it
would not have been so bad. The man
could have bought the very best medi%
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cai advice, ana ne couia nave naa tne
very best attendance and long lines of
carriages would have stopped at the
front door to inquire as to his welfare.
But poverty on the one side and sickness
on the other are l>ozcz and Seneh,
and they interlock their shadows and
drop them upon the poor man's way.
God help him! "There is a sharp rock
on the one side and a sharp rock on
the other side."'
"Now, what is such a man to do?
In the name of almighty God, i will
tell him what to do. Do as Jonathan
did?climb; climb up into the sunlight
of God's favor and consolation. I can
go through the churches and show you
men who lost fortune and health at
the same time, and yet who sing all
day and dream of hearen all night. If
you have any idea that sound digestion,
and steadv nerves, and clear eyesight,
and good hearing, and plenty of friends
are necessary to make a man luippy.
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you have miscalculated. I suppose that !
these overhanging rooks only made j
Jonathan scramble the harder and the j
faster to get up and out into the sun- j
light, and this combined shadow of in- >
valid ism and financial embarrassment I
has often sent a man up the quicker j
into the sunlight of God's iavor and !
the noonday of his glorious promises.
It is a difficult thing for a man to :
feel his dependence upon God when lie j
has $10,00U in the bank, and $50.0UU I
in crovernment securities, and a block i
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of stores and three ships. "\\ ell. tne !
man says to himself, '"it is silly for me !
to pray. :Give me this day ray daily
bread," when my pantry is full and the j
canals from the west are crowded with
breadstuff* destined for my store- j
houses." Oh, my friends, if the com- j
bined misfortunes and disasters of life j
have made you climb up into the arms j
of a sympathetic and compassionate |
God. through all eternity you will bless j
him that in this world ''there was a ;
sharp rock on the one side and a sharp j
rock 011 the other side. "'
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Again, that man is m the crisi? 01
the text who has home troubles and
outside persecution at the same time.
The world treats a man well just as
long as it pays to treat him well. As
long as it can manufacture success out
of his bone and brain and muscle it favors
him. The world fattens the horse
it wants to drive. But let a man see it
his duty to cross the track of the world
then every bush is full of horns and
tusks thrust at him. They will belittle
him. They will caricature him.
TKov will call his conerosity self ax
grandizement and his piety sanctimoniousness.
The very worst persecution
will sometimes come upon him from
those who profess to be Christians.
John Milton?great and good John
Milton?so far forgot himself as to pray
in so many words that his enemies
might be eternally thrown down into the
darkest and deepest gulf of hell, and
be the undermost and most dejected,
and the lowest down vassals of pe) dition.
And Martin Luther so far forgot
himself as to say in regard to his theological
opponents, "Put them in whatever
sauce you please, roasted or fried
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or Daicea or stewea or uuueu ur jiasucu,
they are nothing but asses!'' Ah, my
friends, if John Milton or Martin
Luther could come down to such scurrility,
what may you not expect from
less elevated opponents? Now, sometimes
the world takes after them, the
newspapers take after them, public
opinion takes after them, and the unfortunate
man is lied about until all
the dictionary of Billingsgate is exhausted
on him. You often see a man
whom you know to be good and pure
and honest set uoon by the world and
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mauiea Dy wnoie commumues, wujic
vicious men take on a supercilious air
in condemnation of him, as though
Lord Jeffreys should write an essay on
gentleness or Henry VIII talk about
purity or King Herod take to blessing
little childrn.
2sow a certain amount of persecution,
rouses a man's defiance, stirs his blood
for magnificent battle and makes him
50 times more a man than he would
have been without the persecution. So
it was with the great reformer when he
said, "I will not be put down; I will be
heard." And so it was with Millard, the
preacher, in the time of Louis XI. When
Louis XI sent word to him that unless
he stopped preaching in that style he
would throw him into the river, he re
plied, "Tell the king that I will reach
heaven sooner by water then he will
reach it by fast horses." A certain
amount of persecution is a tonic and
inspiration, but too much of it,
and too long continued becomes
the, rock Bozez throwing a dark
shadow over a man's life. What is he
to do then? Go home, you say. Good
advice, that. That is just the place
for a man to go when the world abuses
him. Go home. Blessed be God for
<vnr nrnof. i>nr? fivmnatTlAtlft homes! Bnt
there is many a man who has the reputation
of having a home when he has none.
Through unthinkingness or precipitation
there are many matches made
that ought never to have been made.
An officiating priest cannot alone unite
a couple. The Lord Almighty must
proclaim banns. There are many
homes in which there is no sympathy
and no happiness and no good cheer.
The clamor of the battle may not have
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Deenneara outsiae, Dut uroa Knows, notwithstanding
all the playing of the wedding
march, and all the odor of the
orange blossoms, and the benediction
of the officiating pastor, there has been
no marriage. So sometimes* men have
awakened to find on one side of them
the rock cf persecution and on the other
side of them the rock of domestic infelicity.
What shall -such a one do?
Do as Jonathan did?climb. Get up
the heights of God's consolation, from
which you may look down in triumph
upon outside persecution and home
trouble. While good and great Iohn
Wesley was being silenced by the magistrates
and having his name written on
board fences of London in doggerel, at
that very time his wife was making him
as miserable as she could?acting as
though she were possessed by the devil,
as I suppose she was, never doing him
a kindness until the day she ran away,
so that he wrote in his diary these
words: "I did not forsake her. I have
not dismissed her. I will not recall
her." Planting one foot upon outside
persecution and the other foot on home
trouble, John "Wesley climbed up into
the heights of Christian joy, and after
preaching 40,000 sermons and traveling
270,000 miles reached the heights of
heaven, though in this world he had it
hard enough?;'a sharp rock on the one
side and a sharp reek on the other."
Again, that woman stands in the
crisis of the text who has bereavement
and'a straggle for a livelihood at the'
same time. Without mentioning names,
I speak from observation. Ah, it is a
hard thing for a woman to make an
honest living, even when her heart is
not troubled, and she has a fair check,
and the magnetism of an exquisite presence.
But now the husband or the
farther is dead. The expenses of the
obsequies have absorbed all that was
left in the savings bank, and, wan and
wasted with weeping and watching, she
goes forth?a grave, a hearse, a coffin
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and the existence of lier children.
When I see such a battle as that open,
I shudder at the ghastliness of the
spectacle. Men sit with embroidered
slippers and write heartless essays about
women's wages, but that question is
made up of tears and bk-oa. and there
is more blood than tears. Oh. give
woman fxee access to all the realms
where she can get a livelihood, from
the telegraph office to the pulpit! Let
men's wages be cut down before hers
are cut down. Men have iron in their
souls and can stand it. Make the way
free to her of the broken heart. May
God put into my hand the cold, bitter
cup of privation, and give me nothing
but a windowless hut for shelter for
many years rather than that after I am j
dead there should go out from my home |
into the pitiless world a woman's nrm to
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the Waterloo of life for bread! And
yet how many women there are seated
bctw en the rock of bereavement on
the one side and the rock of dcstitui
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tiyrr on the other: Bozez 2.1:6. Hciich j
interlocking their shadows and dropping 1
them upon her miserable way. "There i
is a sharp rock 011 the one side and a \
sharp rock on the otlier side."
What are such to do? Somehow iet !
them climb up into the heights of the j
glorious promise: "Leave thy father- j
less children. T will preserve them i
alive and let thy widows trust in me."
Or get up into the heights of that other
glorious promise, "The Lord preserveth
the stranger and relieveth the widow j
and the fatherless." 0 ye sewing wo- j
men cn starving wages! O ye widows j
turned out from the once beautiful j
home! 0 ye female teachers kept on
niggardly stipend! 0 ye despairing
women seeking in vain for work wanderin:;
along the docks and thinking to
throw yourselves into the river last
eight! 0 ye women of weak nerves,
and aching sides, and short breath.
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more than human sympathy. You need i
the sympathy of God. Climb up into i
his arms. He knows it all, and he j
loves you more than father or mother j
or husbaud ever could or ever did. and i
instead of sitting down, wringing your j
hands in despair, you had better begin
to climb. There are heights of consolation
for you, though now "there is a
sharp rock on one side and a sharp rock
on the other side/'
Again, that man is in the crisis of
the text who has a wasted life on the
one side and an unilluminated eternity
on the other. Though a man may all
his li::c have cultured deliberation and
self poisQ. if lie gets into that position
all his'self possession is gone. There
are all the wrong thoughts of his exis
tence, all the wrong deeds, ali the wrong
words.?strata above strata, granitic,
ponderous, overshadowing. That rock
I call Bozez. On the other side are
all the retributions of the future, the
thrones of judgment, the eternal ages,
angry with his long defiance. That
rock I call Scneh. Between these two
rocks 10,000 times 10,000have perished.
O man immortal, man redeemed, man
blood bought, climb up out of those
shadows! Climb up by the way of the
cross. Have your wasted life forgiven.
Have your eternal life secured. This
lirm-r met tiVr* nn?> Innk t.n mst and
see what it has been, and take one look
to the future and see what itjthreatens
to be. You can afford to lose your health
you can afford to lose your property,
you can afford to lose your reputation,
but you cannot afford to lose your soul.
That bright, gleaming, glorious, precious,
eternal possession you must carry
aloft in the day when the earth burns
up and the heavens burst.
Yo-i see from my subject that when
a man gets into the safety and peace of
the gospel he does not demean himself.
There is nothing in religion that leads to
meanness or unmanliness. The gospel
of Jesus Christ only asks you to climb
as Jonathan did?climb toward God,
climb toward heaven, climb into the
sunshine of God-s favor. To become a
Christian is not to go meanly down. It
i is to come gloriously up?up into the
communion of saints, up into the
; peace that passeth all understanding,
| up into the companionship of angels.
He lives upward: he dies upward.
Oh, then accept the wholesale invitation
which I make this day to all the
people! Come up from between your
invalidism and financial embarrassments.
Come up from between your
bereavements and your destitution.
Come up from between a wasted life
and an unillumined eternity. Like
.Tohnathan. climb ur> with all ' vour
might instead of sitting down to wring
your hands in the shadow, and in the
darkness?"a sharp rock on the one
side and a sharp rock on the other side."
TO MUSTEE. THEM OUT.
Many of the Volunteer Troops to Be
Relieved.
Late Wednesday night President McKiniey
announced his decision to muster
out of the service from 75,000 to
100,000 of the volunteers. Those to
be discharged will include all the
branches of the service, infantry, artillery
and cavalry. From a prominent
official of the administration it is understood
to be the desires of the President
to ascertain the wishes of the
volunteer troops themselves as to remaining
in the service. One or two
organizations have already indicated a
riAcirp tn Iasva t.hp service as soon .is the
government can reasonably do without
them. They are composed largely of
business and working men. whose private
interests are suffering by reason of
their absence from home. So far as the
interests of the government will permit,
it is believed that the President, in
the mustering out of the volunteers,
will accommodate himself to the desires
of the men. It may be some time before
the organizations to be mustered
out will be designated, but tbe reduction
in the volunteer force will be made
as soon as practicable.
Imprisonment for Life.
The war department received the following:
Poncc, August 15.
Adjutant Gen., Washington.
Replying to your cablegram. Private
Laduke was convicted by a court martial
for killing Private Stafford; sentenced
to life imbrisonment. the penitentiary
at Leavcnsworth, Kan., was
designated. He is under guard awaiting
transportation.
(Signeq) Gilmorc,
Big. Gen.
Alexander Laduke was a member of
Company I Second Wisconsin volun- .
tecrs. Stafford was a member oi tJie
Thirteenth iufantry, regular army.
It is eroneously stated in a dispatch
from Marinett, Wis., that Laduke had
been courtmartialed and shot at Ponce.
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The conditions at Santiago arc causing
a great deal of uneasiness and it is
believed that more troops will be ordered
there very soon. Already orders
bptrr: - i^^d directing the Fifth
regular infantry, now at Tampa, to proceed
at once to Sautiago. Inquiries
have been made as to the condition of
the immune regiments, which have not
yet sailed, with a view of sending them
to Santiago. The government intends
to take vigorous measures to preserve
the peace and keep order in Santiago
and the territory under United States.
control. As a further .step in this direction,
the President Thursday directed
that the Twenty-third Kansas regiment
(colored) be dispatched to Santiago
to ?;orm part of the army of occupation
of Cuba.
G-ave His Life for Another.
Guard Chas. X. Caste of the life saving
station on Sullivan's Island. Charleston,
was drowned Friday afternoon
while attempting to save young Edward
Schachte, who had ventured out
beyond his depth. Schachte *s cries for
help were heard at the station" and
Caste was the first man to respond. He
swam out to the boy and was bringing
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by cramps and went down. Schachte
was saved by the other men from tlie
station. Caste's body was not recovered.
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OTJE VICTORIOUS WAESEIPS. 1
A Grand Demonstration in New York I
Harbor Saturday.
New York and thu nation fitly Satur- !
dty signalized their appreciation of the j
victorious fleet. An imposing naval
pageant of warships has been reviewed :
in the harbor of the largest city in the j
country with acclamations of delight j
and admiration and an ovation from i
the shore, and from the great flotillas
of all sorts of craft on the water was
significantly given to the returning heroes.
Long before sunrise a gun was fired
from Castle William, on Governor's
Island. The people were astir, and
crowds were hurrying to the river to be
early on the scene. The New York and
New .Jersey shores were crowded. The
river and bay were literally alive with
craft, and the craft alive with people
all cheering and good natured. An impressive
scene was when the flags were
raised on the forts and the flagship.
As tlie starry banners were raised aiott
the bands at the forts and on the flagships
played the Star Spangled Banner
and the shores rang with patriotic
cheers.
There was very little friction in carrying
out the programme, and 110 more
delay than was expected. The citizens
committee left the foot of Cortland
street on the steamer Glenn Island and
proceeded down the bay followed by a
Innrr r?f nil sorts nrul dfiSftrm
tion of craft. At Tompkinsville. the
mayor and committee of 10 debarked
and boarded the policc boat. The patrol
then headed for the flagship with
its colors flying and the bands playing.
The Statcn Island shores were literally
lined with people and they all
joined in a general acclamation with
the people on the myriads of boats.
The welcoming ceremonies were short
but impressive. The ceremonies over,
amid the hoarse shrieking of the steam
whistles and hosannas of the throngs
on shore and water, the mayor and the
committee returned to the Glen Island.
Then came the event of the day. There
was considerable wigwagging on the
battleships and policc boats v.hich
headed the line. Then fame the Glen
Island and then the battieships began
to slowly move up the bay.
There was salutes from cannon and
cheers from people and the toots from
thousands of whistles made an indescribable
din. Soon the monster pageant
was in line. First came Admiral
Sampson's flagship, New York, then
Admiral Schley's flagship, the Brooklyn,
then the Massachusetts, Oregon,
Iowa, Indiana and Texas and after
them, moving in a mass, all sizes and
descriptions with flags waving and people
cheering.
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inc oacwesnips moveu siowiy u"u
majestically. As Governor's island
was passed there was a tremendous report
from the guns that did so much execution
at Guantanamo and Santiago.
The people on shore and afloat went
wild. They yelled and screamed, waved
flags and jumped up and down in patriotic
furor, and so it was all the way
up to Grants tomb, where there was a
iinal demonstration of patriotic fervor,
such as New York has never witnessed
before. The Pageant was viewed and
cheered by a hundred thousand people.
ATALE OF HOREOR.
i'ne isoaies 01 jjeaa spaniaras uemg
Burned.
A dispatch from Santiago says the
bodies of dead Spaniards continue to
be cremated. Over 700 have been
burned so far. Wednesday 70 were
to be burned. Over two rails a dozen
bodies are stretched, across them another
dozen, and then about 30 corpse are
stacked in an immense funeral pile 10
high. The pile is then saturated with
kerosene and the torch applied. A fail
of rain put out the fire, causing the
bodies to be only half burned. Around
the pile lay 52 coffins containing corpses
in a state of decomposition. Several
naked bodies were strewn upon the
ground in a state of putrefaction. Altogether
about 70 unburied and unconsumed
bodies lay around. ' The stench
was terrible. This happened at a cenipt/>rv
witliin rtitv limits. The
authorities and the cemetery officials
say it is impossible to get men
to work at the cremation. Wages
of $1 a day prove no inducement to the
natives to work at this gruesome toil.
The unconsumed bodies will be left
upon the earth until Thursday, when
fine weather may help the work of cremation.
These TO corpses represent
two days' dead' from the Spanish camp.
The danger to the population from the
stench, the presence of the buzzards,
vultures and flies is incalculable.
Very Poor Soldiers.
Gen. Sliafter has ordered the Second
Regiment of Immunes out of the city
of Santiago. The regiment had been
placed there as a garrison, to preserve
order and protect property. There has
been firing of arms inside of the town
by members of this regiment without
orders. So far as known, some of the
men have indulged in'liquor until they
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have verged upon acts or license ana
disorder. The inhabitants in some
quarters have alleged loss of property
by force and intimidation, and there
has grown up a feeling of uneasiness
concerning them, if not of alarm. Gen
Shafter has, therefore, ordered this
regiment into the hills, where discipline
can be more severely maintained.
In place of the Second volunteer immune
regiment, Gen. Shafter has ordered
into the city the Eighth Illinois
volunteer regiment of colored troops, in
whose sobriety and discipline he has
confidence, and of whose sturdy enforcement
of order no doubt is felt by
those iu command
Included the Whole Archipelago.
The Hong Kong correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says: "The terms
of capitulation of Manila agreed upon
Saturday between Gen. Jaudemes and
Gen. Merritt includes the cession of
the Philippine archipelago to the United
States. An American naval officer
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tells mc that the Americans practically
walked into Manila. The operations,
lie says, were confined to the Malate
side of the city, where the Spaniards
had a fort and two lines of trenches.
The troops waded through the Malate
river and walked up the beach as
though going to lunch, meeting practically
no opposition. I learn that when
(jleu. Merritt went ashore, to receive
the capitulation of Manila, he experienced
some difficulty in finding Gen
Jaudemes, who ultimately was found in
a church among crowds of women and
children.
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Courtesies Jtxcnangeu.
The American cruiser New Orleans
attempted to cuter the harbor of San
Juan de Porto Rico under a flag of truce,
"with a notification of the signing of the
brotocol. but was unable to do so on
account of the sunken wreck at the entrance.
Her captain went ashore in a
small boat and was graciously received
by Capt. Gen. Machias. who accepted
an invitation on board the cruiser.
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SAVAL PROMOTIONS.
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Names of the Officers Who Have Been j
Rewarded.
1'or some unknown reason the admin j
istration decided not to adhere to its
formerly expressed announcement that
tlie promotions in the navy would be
made as the result of recommendations
by a board whose duty it should be to
review the achievements of naval officers
throughout the Spanish war. and
Friday the navy department made public
a list of promotions in the north
Atlantic fleet, previous publications
having been inaccurate 111 some particulars.
There are ad interim commissions
and hold until the senate confirms
or rejects them. They take date Aug.
]0th, ISfS, and in each case are for
eminent and conspicuous conduct in
battle:
Commodore \V. T. Sampson, advanced
eight numbers and appointed a rear admiral
from August, 189S, for eminent
and conspicuous conduct in battle.
Takes rank next after Hear Admiral
John A Howell.
Commodore Winfield S. Schley, advanced
six numbers and appointed a
rear admiral from same date and for
same reasons. Takes ranks next after
Rear W. T. Sampson.
Capt. John Philip, advanced five
numbers and appointed a commodore.
Capt. Francis J. Higginson, advanced
three numbers.
Capt. Robley- D. Evans, advanced
five numbers.
Capt. Henry C. Haylor, advanced
five numbers.
Capt. Francis A. Cook, advanced five
numbers.
Capt. Charles E. Clark, advanced six
numbers.
Capt. French E. Chadwick. advanced
five numbers.
Lieut. Com. Raymond P. Rodgers,
advanced five numbers.
Lieut. Com. Seaton Schroder, advanced
three numbers.
Lieut. Com. Richard AVainwricht, ad
vanced ten numbers.
Lieut. Com. John A. llodgers advanced
five numbers.
Lieut. Com. James K. Cogswell, advanced
five numbers.
Lieut. Com. WiHiam P. Potter, advanced
five numbers. .
Lieut. Com. Giles B. Harber, advanced
five numbers.
Lieut. Com. Newton E. Mason, advanced
five numbers.
Lieut. Alexander Scharp, Jr.. advanced
five numbers.
Lieut. Harry P. Huse, advanded five
numbers.
Chief Engineer Charles J. MacConnell,
advanced two numbers.
Chief Engineer John L. Hannum,
advanced two numbers.
Chief Engineer Alexander B. Bates.
rnn nmnl^Arc
Chief Cngineer Robert W. Milligan,
advanced three numbers.
Chief Engineer Charles W. Rae, advanced
three numbers.
Chief Engineer Warner B. Bayless,
advanced two numbers.
Passed Assistant Engineer George
W. McElroy, advanced three number
and appointed chief engineer.
Commander Bowman II. McCalla,
advanced six numbers and appointed
captain to restore him to his original
place on the navy list.
The following take rank from the
date, but different reasons are assigned
for their advancement. \
Lieut. (Junior Grade) Victor Blue,
advanced five number for extraordinary
heroism.
Lieu/. Col. Robert TV. Huntington,
advanced one number and apppointed
colonel in the marine crops for eminent
and conspicuous conduct in battle.
Capt. George F. Elliott, advanced
three numbers for same reason.
t?:?x t : a t : , t> t
j: irsu xueuu juuuis x. uuuds. gucu
the rank of caotain by brevet, in the
marine corps for conspicuous conduct
in battle.
First Lieut. Wendell C.Neville, given
the rank of captain by brevet for same
reason.
Second Lieut. Louis J. Magill given
the rank of first lieutenant and captair.
by brevet in the marine corps for good
judgment and gallantry in battle.
Second' Lieut. Philip M. Banno,
giYUU Cll? iiWIfc. U1 ill it JLiUUl^iiatiU uj
brevet in marine corps for conspicuous
service in battle.
Capt. Paul St. C. Murphy, given the
rank of major by brevet in the marine
corps for gallant service in battle.
Second Lieut. S. Borden, given the
rank of first lieutenant by brevet in the
marine corps for distinguished service
in battle.
Paid the Penalty.
A special from Americus. Ga.. says:
The most fienish crime in the history
of Sumter county or the whole State,
was committed at Friendship, 12 miles
west of here Friday night. Mrs. James
McGarrah and her son, James Boone,
were muruereu uy a ucgiu uua.ii >yxm <*n
ax while they were in their beds. After
this double murder the fiend outra :ed a
negro woman, tied her to a tree in the
woods and mutilated her in a shocking
manner. She died also, but not until
she. had told the murderer's name. He
told other negroes that he had killed
three people Friday night, then borrowed
a horse and rode away. The murdured
people were discovered by John
Boone, a son of the murdered woman,
and a crowd at oncc started after the
fiend. He was caught late this evening
and promptly lynched.
Tarred and Feathered.
About 250 or 350 men, disguised as
"White caps," visited the house of Susie
Colston, near Smithfield, "Wettsel
county, W. Ya., On Thursday night and
dragged the inmates, six women and
three men, out of bed in thoir night
clothes. No time was given them to
'get their clothes, money or valuables.,
The h?use was then blown to pieces';
pieces -with sticks of dynamite. The
inmates were tarred and feathered and
taken to the Suman house and all locked
in a room together till daylight. 2sro
apparent effort was mn.d? to discover
who did the act, and the popular sentiment
is that nothing wrong-was done.
Spanish Outrages.
The Singapore correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says: "The native
rebellion in the Philippines has extended
to the hemp provinces in south
Luzon. Heavy fighting occurred at
Pagalatuan, Pilar and Ponsol, the immediate
cause being outrages committed
by the Spaniards at Paglatuan. The
Spanish also burned Pilar and massacred
5(J0 natives. The insurgents are
concentrating at Albay with the object
of cutting off the retreat of numerous
Spaniards in the Camarina? province.
Fatal Fire in Russia.
There was another great fire Wednesday
night at Xijni Novgorod, capital
of the government of the same name,
about 250 miles northeast of Moscow.
Hussia. The city workhouse was destroyed.
the inmates jumping from the
windows, many being killed and many
more injured. Thirteen bodies burned
to a crisp have already been found in
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tlie ruins ana many 01 uic lummus iiru i
still unaccountcd for. I
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GEN. JOE WHEELER.
What a Prominent United States |
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Army Officer Says of Him.
Of all the generals with the army in
front of .Santiago Major General Wheeler
now jtrojj ises to come out of the
campaign with the highest reputation
for courage, strength of purpose, mil 1
tury foresight and soldierly discretion.
The Washington correspondent of the
Atlanta Journal says this was the opinion
advanced by a prominent army officer
at Washington recently when the
Alger-Roosevelt controversy was under
discussion.
There is no doubt that the conduct
of General Wheeler in the Santiago
campaign has won gulden opinions from
leading officers in the army. In private
conversation they assert the belief that
the principal credit of tlie victory belongs
to General Wheeler more than
to any other general who took part in
the campaign. Strong reasons are advanced
for this opinion. It has been
made clear that if it had not been for
General "Wheeler's determination the
army would have retreated from the
advanced position which it captured in
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tne ngnt oeiore can juan. xne ieiugram
sent by General Wheeler to General
Shafter on the night of July 1
clearly indicates this. In this telegram
General Wheeler-says that many of the
officers had appealed to him to have the
line withdrawn and the army take up
a position further back, but that he posifiTr/ilir
tViis if wnillrl
lose the American army much prestige.
He urged General Shafter not to pay
any attention to similar requests if made
of him.
That General Wheeler understood
perfectly the conditions which confronted
the army when he took this
stand against a retreat is shown by
his telegram to General Shafter. In it
he said: '"The lines are thin, as
so many men have gone to the rear with
wounded and many are exhausted but I
hope these men can get up tonight and
with our line entrenched and Lawton
on our right, we ought to hold tomorrow,
but I fear it will be a severe day.
If we can get through tomorrow all
right we can make our breastworks
strong the next night."
_uIIe realized thoroughly," said this
officer above quoted, "that his torces
were in bad shapp and that they had
hot work before them. But he saw
also that they could win out if they
held their ground, and believing that,
he counted not the cost. He at once
set the whole army to work strengthening
its position, and we learn from
officers who have returned from the
front that it was his intelligent direction
which not only made the American
position tenable, but enabled our
army later on to drive the Spaniards
into Santiago. Some of the officers
who took part in the battle even go so
far as to say that if it had not been for
ri/>farir at ntin cn
vawiv^ACH r wnv v* v
might have been lost and the American
forces routed. Even while he was so
sick that he had to be carried around in
a litter, his knowledge of what ought to
be done and his directions as to how to
do it were of incalculable advantange."
"You will take notice that General
Wheeler is the only one of the commanding
generals at the front whose
name is not singed to the 'Hound Robin.'
Just as he refused to listen to the
(ronorolc TtrViA nror/i/1 o retrpflt, SCI
n UV W * VV* VV?WJ W v ?v
did he refuse to take part in any comprint.
He was not unsympathetic to
the sufferings of his men. His telegrams
to General Siiafter show how
deeply he was affected by the hardships
which they endured. 'You can
hardly realize the exhausted condition
of the troops,' he said in speaking of
the situation at the front on the night
of the battle of San Juan. Butiie had
himself stuck to his duty like a man
when racked'with pain, and he looked
to the men under him to show a similar
undaunted grit.
"A southern man and a JJemccrat?
one might have looked for criticism
from fcim of the conditions which Colonei
Roosevelt so forcibly set forth.
None came. General Wheeler stood
out against retreat; he stood out against
complaint. We give all our generals
at the front praise for their gallantry in
action, but General Wheeler has shown
himself to be the ablest and truest soldier
of them all."
A Horrible Story.
A regiment encamped in Virginia
near Manassas, recently invaded a cem
etary, dug up the remains of a Uonred- I
erate officer and distributed his bones
among themselves as souvenirs. It is
almost incredible that any set of men
wearing the . uniform of the United
States array could be found who are so
brutish as to be capable of perpetrating
such an outrage. It appears, however,
that there are grounds for believing
that this horrible story is true and a
court martial has been ordered to in1
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vesugate tne cnarge. jh is saiu luul
the ghouls who opened and robbed the
grave are Kansas volunteers. The Atlanta
Journal very properly says that
the matter should be sifted to the bottom
and if the alleged outrage was committed
and the guilty wretches can be
discovored they should not only be
drummed out of the service, but also
prosecuted under the laws of Virginia
and made to suffer the extreme penalty.
nitaatinilla
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Early Saturday morning the dead
body of a negro boy was found on one
of the streets of Greenville, S. C. The
boy was identified as Foster Stokes,
who lived on Mulberry street. He lef
home about dark Friday night, saying
he would soon be back home. When
last seen he was with William Blassingame,
a negro man who had sold
Stokes a pistol and had two others to
sell, f The coroner held an inquest and
the jury recommended the arrest of
Blassinsrame. Stokes? death was caused
by a blow behind the ear, and when
found the body was wet and stiff, it
having rained heavily Friday night.
Blessingame was arrested near Pied- '
mont and brought to jail Saturday afternoon.
His statement is contradic
tor}7, and suspicion is strongly fixed ,
upon him.
Neill's Figures
Cotton Statistician Xeill is out again ,
with Iris prediction of an enormous cot- 1
ton crop, which he puts this year at
anywhere from 10,500,000 to 12.000,000
bales. The persistency with which he
deals with such big figures leads the j
1 i.l?~ aaUam tvtsin f r\ flirt irr/iQl I ,
IUUUS L1HJ i;utl.uu uicu w vuv '>
conclusion that he is a hear of extraordinary
magnitude, and the English
spinners.no doubt, get the benefit of it.
Whatever his motive is, there is hardly j
room for doubt that his estimates hurt
the cotton planter by forcing down the
price of cotton in the early part of the
T> J
season.?.uuuuru.
Supercedes the Protocol
The secretary of the navy said after
leaving the president that the terms of
surrender of the Philippines superceded
the terms of the protocol." If the whole
of the Philippines tfere included in the
surrender, the peace commission will
not have to discuss the future of the islands
whatever.
S&SSi
The Commissioners,
The President lias appointed the following
commissioners to adjust the j
evacuation"oi^uba and Porto Rico: \
n i n j ? i r* nr 1 J
fortJUDa: -*.'aj. ucn. .James r. waae
Uear Admiral William T. Sampson.
Maj. (ion. Mutthcw C. Butler.
For Porto Kioo: Maj\ Gen. John M.
JJrooke. Rear Admiral AVinfield S.
Schley. I>rig. Ge?. William W. Gordon.
Gen. Gordon, one of the commissionen;
for Porto Kico. is the only one of
the six appointees- who is not widely
i _r * -ii-i -i? C
known. i? n pruiniiicLit/ uioizeu ui cavannah.
Ga. " He wa3_ibe senior colonel
of the Georgia State militia, and served
in the ranks of the Confederate army,
lie is U1 years old. belongs to one of the
wealthiest families in Georgia and is
conspicious socially there. He was
largely endorsed in his State for brigadier
general.
Assassin Met His Match.
An attempt has been made to assassinate
Kobert Bagman. Co. C,. Second
Geor<?ia. volunteers. In defendin? him
self Bagman shot and mortally wounded
his negro assailaut. James Jackson.
Bagman recently received an anonymous
letter informing him that he
would be killed if he did not cease his
attentions to a young lady of Tampa.
Fla. On leaving the young woman's
house Bagman was attacked by the negro,
who narrowly missed stabbing him
in the neck. As it was-, the soldier's
clothes were slashed -and the skin
scraped in two places. Jackson is under
surveilance, but Bagman has not
been arrested. The officers of the Second
Georgia think Jackson was hired
to kill Bagman.
A Soldier Murdered.
A iliwat/'li frnm XftwnoFfc News. Va..
says Private Alonzo Andrews of Co. I,
One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana
regiment, was shot and killed by Sam
Hall, a negro saloon keeper in Bloodfield.
a negro settlement in the county,
Thursday afternoon. Private Jacob
Altmire, of the same command, was
wounded in the left foot by the same
negro. The negro was arrested and
lodged in jail, but the feeling against
him was so intense that the sheriff
took him out of the town for safe keeping.
Bloodfield is under martial law
and a provost guard patrols the city. A
- - * * ** . r*
skirmish line was tnrown out at uamp
Grant Thursday night to keep the company
of which Andrews was a member
from breaking out to avenge the murder
of their comrade.
Negro Soldier "Killed.
A special from Hampton, Gar., says:
Sim Neely, a negro private in the TwenJ
ty-fifth infantry, was shot and killed at
Hampton Friday night. He was refused
permission to drink at a soda
fountain and became abusive. When
remonstrated with for swearing in the
presence of ladies, he assaulted Mr.
Will Henderson with his dagger bayoUA^/JAWArt
A TATtr o VkTlf if
net* I1CUUC1OUU Uivn ?. WUV *w
was knocked from his hand and seeur- (
ed by the negro, who began shooting.'
A number of citizens joined in the
fusilade and Neely received wounds
from which he died.
Sent Back.
Wednesday there arrived at Havana
from Key West three newspaper correspondents
none of whom were permitted
by Gen. Blanco to land, considering
their arrival inopportune and in-'
conveniencing, and believing that their
presence before the arrival of the American
peace commission might cause
difficulty. The correspondents returned
to Key West on board the schooner
Adams. . A
Fickle Man.
JosephM. Nowak, a lawer of Cleveland,
Ohio, after ten years of married
life, divorced his wife and married, ner
seamstress. Then he divorced the
seamstress and remarried his first wife. _
In less than a year they were again'
divorced, and now Nowak has married
the seamstress once more.
Hilton s.
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ultra" of all such preparations in removing
soreness, and quickly healing
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bad. It will promptly heal old sores
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any case of sore mouth, and is a superior
remedy for all pains and aches.
Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents a
bottle.
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