The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, December 13, 1899, Image 2
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Extent of the Operations of the
Franklin Syndicate of Brooklyn,
. GREATEST SWINDLE OF DECADE.
In T?t Cent, a Week Brought In Mill*
Iwn In Two Tears?Mushroom Growth
f the Concern?People From All Over
the Country Invested Their Savings?
Remarkable Exhibition of Confidence.
Kct Yohk City (Special).?Louis H. Miliar,
the brother of William F. Miller who
siaged the Franklin Syndicate which
ffaaranteed 520 per cent, a year on all] investments
intrusted to its care, was arraigned
in Brooklyn and charged with the
larceny of SS500 belonging to depositors in
\::.u the syndicate. He was held in $1000 bail
1-. . :.f far a further hearing, and In default of bull
.was sent to Raymond Street Jail.
} Tbs wooers of the fickle goddess who
^bad been showering their savings on Will
Sam F. Miller took alarm only wnen toe
nctval news of the collapse of the venture
(reached them. Telegrams have poured la
J?a the Brooklyn Postofflce from all sec*
lions of the country stopping payment on
{mosey orders and asking that registered
letters be not delivered to Miller. These
Jelagrams'lndicate that his business reached
cto nearly every State In the (Tnion.
WWbenthe Franklin Syndicate was started
iller only had one room in a house in
Williamsburg. He began In a small way
Marly two years ago. He promised to pay
feaa per cent, dividends, and very little
{capital was needed after his business was
ptarted. So long as the receipts from depositors
exceeded tbe amount of money ne
padtopavout In dividends he was perIwtly
safe and could keep the thing golog.
| He got hold of mailing lists giving the
panes of employes In large factory towns
ju>d sent olrcuiars. Naturally each ens
lomer be got became an a^ent or bis, De- j
nose be offered five.per oent. interest oa 1
tli new business. He has always paid his
liTidends and kept the confidence of bis
patrons. Thus his business, after It once
rot fairly started, rolled alODg like asnow all,
increasing in size as It went. It ran
. ' f ftmlf.
' Miller moved Into the house No. 144
ftojd street last spring. By June his operations
had grown to tremendous propor?
Hons. His press agent, Cecil Leslie, wrote
alluring circulars and advertisements for
him, and be branched out on a much more
extensive scale. He advertised his plan of
paying ten por cent, dividends each week
all over the country.
The h&pres3lon of the police and, in fact,
f all wbo have investigated the Frunklln
Syndicate is that the syndicate as sucii
sever earned a dollar in Wall street, and
that tbe dividends, as they became due,
im actually taken from the dally deposits.
It is believed by persons who worked In
the office, and have good means of know*
hMf. that the nnmber of parsons on the
ailing list who were receiving drafts for
ftfeeir dividends by mail was nearly 20,000.
Of course, it was necessary, in order to
continue paying these dividends, that the
eceipts should be enormous.
It is quite likely that Miller has disbursed
to dividends at least half the total amount
that he has taken In. The total amount of
Boney that has passed Into the house will
reach into millions. <80 far as can be as*
artained no depositor has failed to receive
Us dividends until within the last week of
Bolng business.
Thus every Investor in the Franklin Syndicate
who opened bis account ten weeks
ago has drawn out bis money. The only
losers and actual dupes are those who have
deposited within the last ten weeks, and,
mt course, the more recently their deposits
wne made the larger is their loss.
Trow Binghamton comes the news that
two laboring men had mortgaged their
houses, one for $800 and the other for
1300. and put the money into the "syndicate."'
It is estimated that $5000~of Bins:
hamtoo money is tied up in Floyd street.
Cincinnati got bit pretty hard, the
traders In the bucket shops being the
heaviest investors. Several Clnolnnatl
5^ brokers have oslced their New York correvpcsde^ts
to look after the interests of Cinaiaaatians
who were fleeoed.
Central Ohio got an especially heavy
ioae. At Woodcock nearly every
? adult person in the village had become
a speculator and invested every
foliar that could be got together.
. la three or four weeks' time not less than
80M was sent from there to Miller in the
hope of receiving 520 per cent, per year retarns
on the investment. In the same time
act less than (5000 ha3 been sent to the conam
from Urbana City. The craze became
|?enl and everything else had to give
w?v to it.
Canton, Ohio, sends the news that fnlly
DO victims live* in Canton and nearby
caaatry territory. Most of the Investors
la tbe scheme were shop workers, though
there were a number of instances where
poor women sent several hundred dollars
ta tbe syndicate.
INSURRECTION BEAKINC UPXk?
President of Agalnaldo's Congress
61m Himself Up.
' Masila. (By Cable).?Bautlsta, President
f tbe Filipino Congress, presented hlm eU
to General McArthur, and formally
mnoanced all further conncotion with the
feunrrection. He was one of the influ
atial Filipinos who hesitated at the beginning
of the war as to the side on whioh
to cast his lot. A Judgeship of the Supreme
Court was offered him, out declined.
He now announces that he desires to
accept tbe position, and says the Fllipluo
Congress and Cabinet are scattered, never
to reassemble. Some of the members, he
adds, bare returned to their home*, while
tbers are flying for safety. Many of the
Congressmen have resigned, and he beMirves
tbe Filipino soldiers will lay down
their arms everywhere as aoon as they
learn the truth.
8enor Buencamino, a former member ot
<V* oA.Aa1U^ PnhlnAt- nf AvnlnnMn hn?
Wen brought to General Otis, a prisoner,
? board the transport Brutus. H? had
ongbt refuge in a Tillage near San Fabian,
\-witfe Aguinaldo's mother and son. The
MtiTee disclosed his identity to Major
Csonin, -who captured him.
Rebel Province Surrenders,
t Wamingtok, D. C. (Special).?Secro
\ W of the Navy Long received a (table\
*r*n from Admiral Watson informing him
\ that the entire Province of Zamboanga,
\ 'island of Mindanao, had surrendered un\
conditionally to Commander Very of the
\ Casttfte.
\ Zamboanga is the principal city of th?
l?l*nd of Mindanao, which is the second
hriygest island of the Philippine group,
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Intone From Religions Excitement.
Mis} Mary Munkle, of Muncle, Ind., has
keen declared insane, her mental condition
taring rasulted from religious excitement.
She had been fasting for five days, and haa
announced that she would aaorlQce het
' . <\ ai<teen-TearrOld daughter on the altar, and
' then go out and convert the world.
' >' Agreeing to Hajcne Treaty.
Secretary of ^tate Hay, at Washington
bai> been Informantliat twenty-flve Powers
tare assented to\the provisions of tb?
treaty drufted by ^he Hugue conferenc#
last summer. . \
Prominent People.
Brigham H. Roberts, Congressman-elect
Itoro Utah, denies the roport that he intends
to resign as soon as he takes hi?
Queen Victoria intends to make her sum
.ner stay on the Mediterranean next yeai
at Bordighera Instead of on French
jfround.
Tbe University of Illinois has secured
Carroll D. Wright, United States Labor
Commissioner, as a special lecturer In th?
department of economics.
Tbe uncommon name of Redvers was
Cfren to Sir Redvers Duller by reason ol
fee descent from the Courtenay family,
Whose ancestor was Earl Redvers.
:
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED j [
Washington I tern ?.
Contracts for six 3500 ton cruisers have
been awarded by the Navy Department. J
The British Ambassador has informed
the Secretary of State that a state of war
has actually existed since the 11th of October
between England and the South
African Republic and the Orange Free
State. ^
A bill to increase the pay of letter carpiora
win ho intrndnnfld in the House earlv
Iq the session. The letter carriers want
$1200 per annum. Tl
The War Department is experimenting
with wireless telegraphy for the signal
service. The army i9 not dependeat ol
Marconi for instruments, having developed
a system of its own.
The President and members of the Cab*
(net have cancelled all their social engage'
ments for the present, ana will observe a
period of mourning for the death of VicePresident
Hobart. H
It was announced that the Lamoine Point 01
site has been selected by Rear-Admiral Si
Bradford for the Frenchman's Bay coaling g(
station, authorized by the Government.
The property embraces thirty acre* ol
land, having a water front of 150 rods. It ui
Is six miles from Bar Harbor by water, and pj
admirably adapted for the purpose for .
which It is intended.
Negotiations are In progress for a new
commercial arrangement between the 8'
United States and Russia, the form ol b?
which has not yet been definitely decided, 'n
Rear-Admiral Watson cabled the Navj j*'
Department that he wants a competent retired
officer to take charge of the civil
nautical school to be established in Manila. U]
Secretary Long ordered the preliminary h
acceptance of the torpedo boat Dahlgren w
The Industriol Commission willsend twc hi
sub-commissioners into the South and West C
to inquire into all topics the commission is ct
considering except that of trusts. , oi
Representative Bankhead, of Alabama, la *
an aspirant for the minority leadership ol b
the House. w
ei
The Po3tm aster General has extended ^
domestic rates of postage to Porto Eico
the Philippines and Guam. tj
F
Onr Adopted Ialanda. P
T. F. Lansing has been appointed Slin- H
ister of Finance of Hawaii, to succeed
S. M. Damon, whose resignation was sent
from Rome, Italy. .
Minister of Finance Desvernine has been w
ordered to furnish Governor-General re
Brooke, of Cuba, with accurate statistics th
in regard to mortgages and Incumbrances aj
on the Island and the money allowed for jy
expenses. ^
Aguinaldo's three-year-old son was cap- H
tured by American troops, with Buencamino,
who was known as "the brains of the b?
tnonrponUnn " lit
Civil Governor Nunez, of Havana, has ?e
issued an official notice to all newspapers, ?
reminding the publishers that, nnder the 1)1
Jaw, the editors of journals counselling P*
disturbances are liable to be prosecuted.
Governor Nunez declares that he will see vl
to It that the law is enforced.
Of]
In Are days' fighting near Uoilo four
Americans were killed and twenty-flve w|
wounded. W(
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Doineittc. ejj
Charles Coghlan, the actor and author,
died at Galveston, Tex., from acute gas- th
tritis. He had been ill for a month. Ht
In a brick-lined gravo at Mount Olivet aE
Cemetery, Elizabeth, N. J., the body of w<
Diana, wife of William Costello, the gypsy
king, was burled. ^
A sixty-foot dead whale went ashore at nj
Pleasure Beach, Princess Anne County, Va. |
The belief obtains on the beaoh that the Wl
whale came In collision with a steamer, a,
was killed and drifted ashore. He will jQ
probably be "tried out" by the beacbers to i>a
obtain oil. . co
Suit has been bronght by the heirs of tli
Mrs. Nancy E. Taylor, of Thomport, Obio, wj
against Dr. J. F. Baldwin for $10,000 dam- 1
ages, the allegation being that Baldwin an
caused the death of Mrs. Taylor. Mrs. Tay- Tt
lor died from blood poisoning. tb
Jadge Charles Turner, refereo in bankruptoy
in the Federal Court for North Ala- n?
baraa, died suddenly at Birmingham from
a paralytic stroke, which came on while ho *h
was engaged in playing golf. He had overexerted
himself during the game. ho
Colonel George R. Davis, former Director
General of the World's Fair, died at his 9
home in Chicago after a short illness. Col- .
onel Davis had been a sufferer from heart ?
disease for years, and death was due primarlly
to this act. ^
An epidemic of smallpox has broken out w(
In Kentucky. There are 500 cases in one }s
town. yo
The battleship Kentucky left Boston for wi
the builders' yard at Newport News, Ya., '
to receive her finishing touches. ha
Secret Service Agent Hazen has arrested de
Charles E. Scott and Frank 8cott,brothers, Pe
at San Francisco, Cal., on charges of coun- ?8
terfeltlng. They are said to be from the fc
East. . 'c
I n r
The Board of Health of Montclalr, N. J., Is a?
making every effort to stamp out wliat may jjn
be a serious diphtheria epidemic. ao
The cornerstone of the new Catholic 1
cbapel at West Point, N. Y., for cadets was on
laid with appropriate ceremonies. th
The body of Major Guy Howard,who was
killed in action in the Philippines, reached Ml
San Francisco on the transport Belgian
Ring. The body was sent to Omaha for in- rl
terment.
Fifty physicians hare been engaged by
the School Board of Chicago to make a Idi
medical Inspection of the p'txpils in the
publlo schools. This inspection is intend
ed to minimize the spread of disease in the Fr
schools. Yc
Charges of "conduct unbecoming a mlnister"
have been preferred against the Pc
Rev. Tbomas Carson Hanna, of Union City,
Conn., by two young women, members ol no
his congregation. - fr<
It was officially announced that the f?
Dewey arch In New York City will continue
to bear the Admiral's name.
ge
James McManes, who voluntarily paid Va
the $600,000 debts of the People's Bank oi re
Philadelphia, is dead. of
The United States Circuit Court, in New
York City, decided that the Equitable Life wi
Assurance Society need not divide its $60,- 18
000,000 surplus with policy holders.
ForalKo. fe
A number of Mussulmans Have been er
xlled to Turkish Arabia for complicity In
a'plot to assassinate the Sultan of Turkey, m
j, Tife Admiral Apraxine, a Russian war- v.cc
hip, weut ashore on the island of Hogh< Pc
land in the Gulf of Finland.
There has been spirited fighting between
bands of Yaqul Indians and detaohments
of Government troops near Cooovlte and
Potara,. State of 8onora, Mexico, and
there1 were k number of casualtles'on both
sides. The Indians fought in guerilla et
stvle and did not make determined stands.
The Globe of Toronto announces that the
Ontario Governmeut has promulgated an
order la Council making it a condition ,ol
all future patents for copper or nicfc6l'
lands in the provlnoe that neither the ore
nor the matte can be exported. 1
At Sonnenwendsteln, Austria, 239 meteors
were observed. Many of them were very ^
beautiful.
Copies of the Parisian paper which con 3t
tnlned an insulting illustration of Queen gt
j Victoria have been seized by the police. x
The Queensland Ministry resigned as an at
outcome of a vote of the Assembly in con- hi
nectlon with the construction of railroads is
The Governor summoned Mr. Dawson. n<
loader of the labor opposition, to form h tr
new Cabinet. t?
The German Government is on the potn
of making another attempt to exclude foreign
fruit wholly or partially from Germany.
and is collecting information from .
dealers as to whether such exclusion if
feasible without causing a stringency iu the ^
miirKot. -?
The trial of the torpedo boat destrove; $
Viper, intended for the British navy. Las b
proven extremely satisfactory to her build- n
ers and others interested In her success,
The Ylper Is a vessel of 325 tons, while no.1
engines can develop between 10,000 anil
12,000 hone power. ,
United States Oonsul-Oeneral Stowe, at
Gape Town, has received information thai h
the British prisoners In Pretoria are well j,
fed, and that there la no truth in the state jj
meat that tfeey ar.e suffering from scurvy tt
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DEM FOB BAYS.
errible Voyage of the Thirty-first
Volunteers to Manila.
ARROW ESCAPE OF 400 SOLDIERS
lie Transport Manaaense Sprung a Leak
in Mid-Orean?Pomps Gave Oat and
Engines Collapied?For Twelve Days
the Soldiers Balled Her With Buckets
?In Total Darkness at Night.
Manila. (By Cable).?The transport Maluense,
with Lieutenant-Colonel Webb
ayes and three companies of the Thirty-st
Tnfnntrv on hoard, has arrived here.
io narrowly escaped disaster. The of;ors
and soldiers were for eleven days
illing with buckets. The steamer was
aseaworthy, undermanned and short of
rovlsions. Her engines broke down and
ie rolled three days In a typhoon.
The Manauense is thirty-three days from
in Francisco. When she anchored In the
ly hero tbere were several feet of water
her hold, and four hundred grimy,
reasy, hungry, exhausted soldiers und
.ilors had been passing buckets of water
nee November 17, night and day.
First Assistant Engineer Dunleavy was
ader arrest, and, according to Colonel
ayes's official report, the ohlef engineer
ould also have been under arrest If tbere
id been any one to replace him. The
olonel's report also declares that the
iptain of tue vessel told him that the
ily thing which brought tbem through
as the fact that the men were greenorns
and failed to realize their danger,
bile experienced seamen would have dented
the ship and taken to the boats la
id-ocean.
TliaXfAnnnaneafan ohnrtflrAri ah In fl vine
le British flag. She started from Saa
rancisco accompanied by tlie transport
eking, which carried the remainder of
te regiment, and encountered heavy seas
i Honolulu, without accident.
After starting, it developed that she was
idermanned, and soldiers had to be deillnd
to actus firemen, coal passers und
alters, and to do other work. Before
aching Honolulu, the crew conoluded
iat the sblp was not safe, and the majority
freed to desert. Though they were closewatohed,
many of the crew succeeded in
itting away, and the Manauense left
onolulu with less than half her crew.
The captain of the transport, on Novemir
17, told Colonel Hayes that the vessel
id sprung a leak, and an investigation
suited In finding several feet of water in
irhold. The steam pumps were tried,
it failed to work, and there were no band
imps on board. However, forty-six
ickets were found, others were improaed,
and the soldiers not employed in
orking the ship were organized into five
litts, find, stripped and forming lioes,
ey began bailing, the officers working
lift*. iU.. mam MKAnlnM ttin lt??Al/afo mhlrth
llll IUO lilOU, ^aOOlLi^ l UD MUVAWWO, TTU4V.U.
9ro sent up to the deck by a windlass.
ie balling continued until the slilp anored
here.
The same day tbe leak was discovered
e machinery collapsed and the electrlo
fhtlflg plant and evaporating, distilling
id refrigerating apparatus failed to
ark. There were no lamps, and the few
.ndles found were exhausted after a few
iys. During tbe last week of the passage
e Manauense was in utter darkness at
gbt.
She had been rolling In heavy seas all the
ly. but on November 22 she encountered
typhoon and pitched and tossed alarmgly.
The water rose rapidly and the
lling force was doubled. The firemen
uld only feed tbe fires by being lifted on j
e shoulders of other men, through water
list deep.
Ihe typhoon lasted two days aud a half
id In the midst of it the engines stopped,
ie officers then beld a council and found
at there were 420 persons on board, with
eboat accommodations for 213. Tbe
at was intense until the typhoon passed.
Throughout the*remainder of the voyage
e engines of tbe Manauense failed frelently,
and tbe ship would roll for a few
""" 1*I1a *1%.* onninaa tonra halnc M.
'uia TTUUO hUU ^uqiuwo n w? v . w>?q - ?
ired. Then the steumer would proceed
aln for a few hours.
The meat and vegetables rotted because
the failure of the refrigerators, and
>re thrown overboard. After tbe storm
e water supplied to the ship at Honolulu
d to be asea for the boilers, and there
is little or noDe for drinking. In fact, it
asserted that during tbe last week of the
yage the men lived almost entirely on
uekey, beer and hardtack.
The officers and soldiers were utterly existed
when they reached Mainlla. They
clare the engineers were grossly Incomtent.
The officers also say that the be.vior
of the troops was beyond praise.
>r days they worked in the dark, sufeating
hold, with water sometimes
> to their shoulders and planks washing
out In a manner dangerous to <life and
ab. The offleen took tbe lead in bailing
d encouraged the men.
The regiment will proceed to Zamboanga
i tbe Peking to garrison several ports on
e island of Mindanao.
EDAL OF HONOR FOR COL BELL
le President Orders It* Presentation
For Distinguished Gallantry.
Washington, D. C. (8peclal).?The Present
has dlreoted that a Congressional
3dal of honor be presented to Colonel J.
anklin bell, xnirtv-sixtn united ocates
ilunteer Infantry, (or most distinguished
llantry In action September 9, 1899, near
>rao, Luzon, P. I.
In this case Colonel Bell, seeing that a
imber of Insurgents were about to esoape
>m his scouts, who were pursuh g them,
de rapidly forward alone, Intercepted
em, and, though at least 100 yards in adnee
of bis own men, scattered the iusurnts,
captured a Captain and two prices,
and finally 'jrought about the surnderoftbe
entire party, all in the face
a Are from a concealed enemy.
Colonel Bell is a native of Kentucky, and
is appointed to tbe Military Academy in
74, graduating in 1878.
Colonel Bell Defeat* Filipinos.
Manila (By Cable).?Colonel Bell has deated
and scattered the brigades of Genal
Alejandrino and General San Miguel.
The engagement took place on tbe sumit
of a mountain, the Insurgents being so
infldent of the Impregnability of their
>sltlon that they had their families wltb
lem.
The Amerloans captured all the enemy's
unitions and artillery.
Kuaperor William Leave* England.
The German Emperor and Empress renbarked
on their yacht at Port Victoria,
id sailed from England for Holland.
Girla Flee From Smallpox.
There was great exoltement a few days
jo at the Girl's Seminary, Ohio Wesleyan
nlverslty, in Delaware, Ohio, where about
>0 girls board and room. One of tb?
udents, Miss Florence Holland of Canton,
is been 111, und when it was reported that
le is suffering from an attack of genuine
nallpox, there was a scattering forborne,
here were seventy-flve of the students left
t the noon meal, and all those who could
live gone home. The patient has been
olated from her college associates and is
ot in a serious condition. Tbe alarm hai
>ld heavily, however, on the college atsndance.
Morgan Controls Harper & lirothera.
The entire business of Harper A Brotheri
l New York City has been taken over bj
10 State Trust Company under a mortage
to J. P. Morgan 4 Co., for $3,500,000
here are also unsecured creditors for
2,000,000. Colonel G. B. M. Harvey has
eea appointed agent to conduct the busless.
Death From Hydrophobia.
After suffering awful agony for two days,
oseph Glbbs, aged thirty-two, of WUlpW'
ale, Penn., died In the Chester County
tome for Hydropnobla Patients. HIS wlf(
i afflicted with the same disease at bet
ome. Glbbs and his wife were bitten i>}
rabli dog about two months ago.
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$100,000,000 MORE MONEY.
Controller Dawes Plans to Inorease
National Bank Circulation.
tare* Increase in Individual Pepoaitt
In tbe Bank* of the Country
During the Fast Year.
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Washikotos, D. C. (Speolal).?Charles
G. Dawes, Controller of tbe Currency, saya
[a his annual report:
"The number of banks in operation on
September 7, 1899, was 3595, with a paid-in
capital of $605,772,970. Tlie individual deposits
on tbat date amounted to $2,450,*
$25,595.31, and the aggregate resources to
7 4.650,355,183.44.
"A comparison of the'September 7 returns
with those made on September 20,
1898, indicates an Increase during the year
In Individual deposits of $419,271,055.02; in
loans and discounts ot $340,789,623.20; in
amounts due from other banks and bankers,
$160,391,896.68; in specie, $44,697,225,44,
and in aggregate resources, $646,844,088.*7.
"On (September 7 the net deposit liabilities
of the national banks of the country
aggregated $3,031,463,016.63, on wbioh
a reserve of $890,568,825.90, or 29.33 per
cent., was held."
In connection with the need of a larger
national bank note circulation the Controller
says:
"The Controller would recommend legislation
authorizing the Issuance of national
bank note circulation to the par of the deposited
Untied States bonds, and that the
additional ten per cent, circulation thus
allowed the banks be subjected to a tax at
the rate of two or three per cent, per annum
for the time used, which will tend to
prevent its unrestricted use under normal
conditions, and to save it for use at those
periods of the year when crops are to be
moved, and in those periods of panic when
It is most valuable both to the banks and
the bnslness public as a means of as*
slating the generaLIlquldation oL' credits.
"With the object of securing aa Increase
In the present bank-note circulation he
would recommend the reduction or abolIshment
of the present tax of one per cent,
per)year on the circulation to ninety
per cent, of the deposited bonds?the
amount of the reduction In the tax on currency
to be collected from the necessary
per cent, of tax on the oapital And surplus
of national banks it requisite to tile public
revenues.
"To allow the banks to issue up to the
par of the bonds, unsubjeoted to addi?
tlonal tax on the ten per cent, extra circulation,
will result In their immediately
taking out their additional circulation
for the purpose of profit. Exactly the
game rate of profit could be realized by
the banks upon circulation to ninety pet
cent, of the bonds deposited, taxed at
four-ninths of one per cent.per annum, as
they could realize upon circulation to the
par of the bonds at the present tax of one
The controller believes that from tb?
passage of laws altering as suggested the
rate nnd method of taxation of national
banknotes an Increase of at least $100,000,300
may be reasonably expected.
KHALIFA KILLED IN BATTLE,
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Army of Abdullah Routed by the Anglo.
' Egyptian Forces.
LoNnos (By [Cable).?The Sirdar tele,
graphs to the Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary
of State for, War the following from
Khartoum:
"Colonel Wlngate's column ovortook the
Khalifa and a sharp fight ensued In which
the Khalifa was killed. All the prinoipal
Emirs were either killed or taken prisoners
KHALIFA ABDULLAH.
except Osman DIgna, who escaped. Thousands
surrendered including a large number
of women and children. The action
was ol the most decisive character. Oar
casualties were three killed and tvrelv*
wounded."
, Colonel Wlngate in his dispatch to the
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oiruar ioiiiuk ui iuc ukuk oajj. j*j iu>
marched in the moonlight from Oedid and
'found the Khalifa at Omdebrlkat. The
''dervishes attacked at 5.15 o'oloolc in the
morning. The Egyptians swept through
the Dervish position for two miles. Osman
.Digna left directly the firing began. Th?
troops marched sixty miles and fought two
decisive battles in sixty-one hours.
"The Soudan may now bo declared open."
BRITISH MUST BE PROTECTED.
Transvaal Notified That ThU Country
Mutt Be Allowed to Act.
Washington, D. 0. (Special).?Mr. Maerum,
the United States Consul at Pretoria,
has been instruoted by oable to impress
upon Pres. Eruger that in the view of this
Government the usages of all olvillzed
nations sanction tbe ministration 01 a
neutral representative In the Interest of
the citizens and oaptlves of one of the parties
to a war, and he mast further insist
upon performing the saored duties Imposed
by all considerations of humanity.
Tbis is practically an Announcement of
the existence of our Government upon the
ezeoutlon of the trust it assumed to look
after the interests of British citizens in
the Soutn African Republics.
Barglara Rob a Canadian Bank.
The branch at Montmagny, Quebec, of
La Babque Natlonale was robbed of all its
funds, aome 115,000. Tbe safe was Inside
i brick vault, whloh was blown open.
Deputy Sheriff and Constable Shot.
Deputy ^Sheriff J. T. Gonklln, of Plymouth,
and Constable William Smith drove
over to the home of Ezra Moore, near
Chicago Junction, Ohio, to levy an execution.
Moore shot and killed Smith and
fatally wounded Conlclln. Sheriff Bonk
and Deputy Sheriff Gutes left Norwalk to
arrest Moore.
Sale of Lakes of KUlarney.
r - J *- ii? 1 4-Un.
.LiOru aruuuuu ut*3 yuruunaou iug iuuvkross
estate In Ireland, which Includes the
Lakes of Klllarney, for $300,000.
The Labor World.
0(1 well workers in the Indiana gas belt
have formed a State union.
Glucose workers at Peoria, III., have
gained a twenty per cent, increase in
wageB.
Cincinnati's youngest unions ? piano
workers and jewelers?have just won theii
maiden strikes. m
Tbe growth of the motor industry in
France is shown in the fact that the new
occupation demands the employment of
two hundred thousand hands.
Tbe report of the Ohio State mine inppeotor
shows that the avorage monthly
kv&gas of pick miners in 1898 was f30.20%
(machine loaders, #19.80, and machine runi
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Nation's Grief Expressed at the VicePresident's
Funeral.
THOUSANDS THRONGED STREETS,
The President at All Three Service*, In
the Hoa*e, In the Charcb and at ttu
Cemetery?A Distinguished Gather
In??Simple and Impressive Charactei
of the Exercise*.
Pateebon, N. J. (Special).?With entire
simplicity, and la the presence of what waf
undoubtedly one of the mo9t distinguished
gathering of public men ever seen in thli
country, the last honors were paid to Gar
ret A. Hobart,Vice-President of the United
States. Each of the three services were a?
simple as it could be made. Essentially, il
was not an official funeral. It was a gathering
of men who had known and respect*
ed, and loved, some of them, Garret A. Hohart,
and the fact that among the number
were the President of the United 8tateg
and his Cabinet and most of the notable
figures of both parties In the National Government
was not permitted to alter in any
riAtrrnn thu nature of the services.
In the city of Paterson, where Mr. Hobart
had lived so Ions, the day was devoted
to mourning. Factories and stores
were closed during the hours of the services.
All over the city flags draped in
blaok floated at haifmast. Streamers of
crepe decorated tho front9 of places of business,
city and county buildings and realdnnces
alike. Men and women wore badges
of mourning conspicuously. From early
morning tbe bells tolled from the church
towers.
The one respect In which simplicity was
not the keynote of the ceremonies was the
flower*. Scores of organizations, political,
social, military and business .sent their
offerings; the city, county, State and
national officials fljled the house with their
tokens, and the personal friends of the
family added their mementoes until room
after room was filled and overflowed andthe
house was a bower of fairy beauty.
It had been arranged that only the family,
tbe intimate friends and tho national
officials should be present at the services
at the house. The services began shortly
I fwa a'/i1aaI)> on/1 laofA/1 fmanfu mIn
ttiWOl t IT U v blVUB, UUU IIMkVU tTTWMfeJ Ui tu
utes. A quartet sans: "Peace, Gentle
Peace." The Rev. Dr. David Magle, pastor
of the Church of the Redeemer, offered a
j short prayer, and read the twenty-third
Psalm.
The Capitol police, led by Captain Barden,
bore the coffin on which was strewn
white roses, white gardenias and purple
| orchids, to the hearse, and the soldiers
' formed a guard of honor around It. Presl*
j dent McKinley, Chief Justice Fuller and
| the Cabinet officers went out the side door
and got Into carriages waiting for them
there. Mrs. Hobart and the family party
I followed the hearse in oarrlages, and the
pallbearers and Senator and Representatives
marched to the churoh. As the procession
passed the crowds stood uncovered
and mote. ,
It was qaarter before 3 when the funeral
prooession reached the church and marched
.1 f_ j., xi 1 - ? ^? rtuAAiHin
'I iq 10 iue Slow suimim struma ui vuupiu o
I Funerul March. When the coffin was halt
! way down the aisle there rose above the
muffled beat of the march the words of the
promise o( Christ:
! "I am the resurrection and the ljfe; he
I that belleveth In Me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live."
It was Dr. Magle, reading as he walked.
He stepped into the pulpit. The coffin was
set on the standards and the march
throbbed through the church as the long
line slowly dispersed and settled in the
| seats. No more notable congregation ever
. sat In an Amerloan church. Through the
body of the churoh the eye rested everywhere
on the faces of men of national reputation.
The Rev. Dr. Charles D. Shaw, pastor of
the Second Presbyterian Church, read the
psalm: "Lord, Thou host been our dwelling
place In all generations," and the pasj
sage from Job beginning, "Man that is
: born of woman Is of few days." This was
1 followed by a prayer. As the last words
j were spoken the strains of "Nearer, My
I God, to Thee," Mr. Hobart's favorlti# hymn,
I pealed out from the organ and the notes
I had hardly died awav when the harmonies
I were taken up by tbe Orpheus Olub, a
| splendid chorus of men's voices, the sin?
era oemg aimosi conceniea ueuioa iau
palms and flowers at the front ol the
1 church. President MeKinley, who had sat
upright after the prayer, bent his head
again, and there were many other heads
bowed all aver the ohuroh as the musio
of the old hymn swelled and died, and
swelled again to the end. Dr. Magle rose
at the olose of the hymn and delivered the
oration.
Dr. Maglo concluded with a prayer and
ail joined in the Lord's Prayer, after which
the ohorus of the Orpheus Club sang to the
musio of a German song, the hymn: A
"Weary hands, 0 weary hand,
Besting now from life's endeavor."
After a few words of regret that Chap*
laf# Mllburn of the Senate should' have
been prevented by illness from attending
the funeral, Dr. Mugie dismissed the con*
gregation with a benediction.
The family party followed the hearse direct
to Cedar Lawn Cemetery. For the
whole distance of a mils and a half the
roads were lined with people who paid
their last tribute to the dead in silence and
with uncovered heads. At the cemetery
Beveral thousand persons were gathered,
but a space of about two acres around the
receiving vault had been roped off, and
there was no intrusion.
The last services were very short. Besides
the family there were present th<
President and Cabinet, the Chief Justice
and Justices of the Supreme Court, the
personal pallbearers, General and Mrs. Al?
ger, ex-Postma9ter-General Gary and his
daughter, Adjutant-General Corbln, Controller
of the Currency Dawes, Dr. Newton,
Mr. Hobart's physician and Mrs. Newton.
The servioes were held in the receiving
vault, which was a mass of flowers. Dr.
Magle read trom the Bible and went
through the form of the commltal servloe.
The Bev. Dr. Shaw pronounced the benediction.
After the service Mrs. Hobart and
the family returned to the house. President
McKlnley and his party started tor
Washington bv the sDeolal train lmrnedla
tely. Memorial exerolsps for Vice-President
Hobart were also held Id the Madison
Vurlc Methodist Church, 'the Broadway
Reformed, the Emanuel Baptist ana the
African Methodist Episcopal Churehee.and
the United Methodist Mission.
R?ar-Adtnlral Schley's Flagship Sails.
Bear-Admiral Schley, commander-inchief
of the South Atlanth Squadron, has
sailed from New York City on bis flagship,
the Ohlcago, for Buenos Ayres.
Chicago Mu?t Pay Klot Claims.
By a decision of the United States District
Court at Chicago the city of Chicago
must pay a claim of the Pennsylvania Bullroad
for damages to property daring the
riots of 1394. Forty-eight cases are atlll
pending.
No More Use For Transport*.
The Government has begun to release
transports. Thoy will be turned over to
their owners on arrival at Sun Francisco.
Some of them will go back into the coast
trade and others will resume their run* to
the Orient.
Fatal Collision on a Grade.
A fatal collision occurred three miles
east of Coshocton, Ohio, on the Cleveland
Division of the Wheeling and Lake Erie
Railroad. The train carried 250 coal
miners, 130 of whom were in the car next
to the eugine. While ascending a steep
grade Fireman John Smith saw a freight
coming down the hill. The trains came
together witti a crash. The first car o( the
special jumped over the tender and cab,
and rolle I down the embankment fifty
feet. The car broke In two pieces. Almost
all on board were more or less injureJ.
The dead are Squire West, Asburj
Luman, Moses Oaton, all of Coshootoo. A
dozen person were Injured seriously
. *iV,
DB. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE Br THE NOTED
IMWIMC
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Subject: Vlctorlei of Peace?TI10 Many
Bleiilnxi For Which We Should Be
Thankfal?Machinery Has Lightened
Burdens? God Sent the Wheel.
[Copyright, Louis Klopsch. 18W.]
Washington, D. C.?This discourse ofDr
Tnlmage is a sermon of preparation for the
national observance and In nn unusual way
calls for tbe gratitude of the people; the
text, Ezekiel z., 13, "As for the wheels, it
wns cried unto them in My hearing, O
wheel!"
Tho last Thursday of the eleventh month,
by proclamation of President and Governors,
is observed in thanksgiving for
temporal mercies. With what spirit shall
we enter upon it? For nearly a year and a
half this nation has been celebrating the
triumph of tbe sword and gun and bat*
tery. We have sung martial air) and
cheered returning heroes and sounded the
requiem for the slain in battle. Methinks
it will be a healthful change if this Thanksgiving
week, in church and homestead, we
celebrate tbe victories of peaoe, for nothing
was done at Santiago or Manila that
was of more Importance than that wbioh
In the last year has been done In farmer's
field and mechanic's shop and author's
study by those who never wore an epaulet
or shot a Spaniard or went a 'hundred
miles from their own doorslll. And now
I call your attention to the wheel of the
text.
Man, a small speck in the universe, was
set down, in a big world, high mountains
riding before him, deep seas arresting his
pathway and wild beasts capable of bis
destruction, yet he was to conquer. It
could not be by physical foroe, for compare
his arm with the ox's horn and the
elephant's task, and how weak ho 1st It
could not be by physical speed, for compure
him to the antelope's toot and ptarmigan's
wing, and how slow be is! It
could not be by physical capacity to soar
or plunge, (or the condor beats him in one
dlreotion and the porpoise In the other.
Yet he was to conquer the world. Two
eyes, two hands and two feet were Insufficient.
He must be re-enforced, so ' God
sent the wheel.
Twenty-two times is the wheel mentioned
In the Bible, sometimes, as in
Ezekiel, illustrating providential movement;
sometimes, as in the Psalms, crashlag
the bad; sometimes, as in Judges, representing
God's charioted progress. Th
wheel that started in Exodus rolls on
through Proverbs, through Isatab, through
Jeremiah, through Daniel,through Nabum,
through the centuries, all the time gathering
momentum and splendor, until, seeing
what It has done for the world's progress
and happiness, we clap our hands in thanksgiving
and employ the apostrophe of the
text, crying, "0 wheel!"
I call on you in this Thanksgiving week
to praise God for the triumphs of machinery,
which have revolutionized the world
and multiplied its attractions. Even paradise,
though very picturesque, must have
been comparatively dull, hardly anything
going on, no agrloulture needed, for the
hurvnat was snnntnnBouB: no architecture
required, for tEey slept under the trees; no'
manufacturer's loom necessary for the
weaving of apparel, for the fashions were
exceedingly simple. To dres* the garden
could uot have required ten minute* a day.
Having nothing to do, they got Into mischief
and ruined themselves and the race.
It was a sad thing td be turned oat of paradise,
but, once turned out, a beneficent
thing to be compelled to work. To help
man up and on God sent the wheel. If
turned ahead, the race advances; If turned
back, the race retreats. To arooB* your
gratitude and exalt your praise I would
show you what the wheel has done for the
domestic world, for the agricultural world,
for the traveling world, for the literary
world. "As for the wheels, It was cried
unto them in my hearing, 0 wheel!"
Ia domestic life the wheel has wrought
revolution. Behold the sewing machine! It
has shattered the housewife's bondage and
prolonged woman's life and added Immeasurable
advantages. The needle for ages
had punctured the eyes and pierced the
side and made terrible massacre. Tie prepare
the garments of the whole household
la the spring lor summer ana in tae autumnfor
winter was an exhausting process.
"Stitch, stitch, stitch!" . Thomas
Hood &ot it to poetry, bat militant! of persons
have found It Agonizing prose.
Slain by the sword, we burled the hero
with the "Dead March" in "Saul" and flags
at half mast. Slain by tne needle, no one
knew it but the household that watched
her health giving way. The winter after
that the children were ragged and cold
and hungry or in the almshouse. The hand
that wielded the needle had forgotten its
cunning. Soul and body had parted at the
seam. The thimble bad dropped from the
palsied finger. The thread of life had
snapped and let a suffering human life
drop into the grave. The spool was all un?
wound. Her sepaloher was digged not
with sexton's spade, but with a sharper and
shorter implement?a needle. Federal and
Confederate dead have ornamented graves
at Arlington Heights and 4llohmond and
Gettysburg, thousands by thousands, but it
will take the arohangel's trumpet to find
the million graves of the vaster army of
women needle slain.
Besides all the sewing done for the households
home, there are hundreds of thousands
of sewing women. The tragedy of
the needle is the'tragedy of hunger and
oold and Insult and home-siokness and suicide?five
acts.
But I hear the rush of a -wheel, woman
puts on the band and adjusts the instrument,
puts her foot on the treadle and begins.
Before the whir and rattle pleurisies,
consumptions, headaohes, backaches,
heartaches, are routed. The needle, once
an oppressive tyrant, becomes a oheerful
slave?roll and rumble and roar until the
family wardrobe is gathered, and winter is
defied, and summer is welcomed, and the
ardors and severities of the seasons are
overcome; winding the bobbing, threading
the shuttle, tucking, quilting, ruffling,
cording, embroidering, under-braiding set
to music; lock stitch, twisted loop stitch,
crocket stitoh, a fascinating ingenuity.
No wonder that at some of the learned
institutions, like the New Jersey State
Normal acbool, and Rutgers Fomale institute,
and Elmlra Female college, acquaintance
with the sewing machine Is a requisition,
a young lady not being considered
educated until sbe understands it. Winter
is coming on, and- tbe household must be
warmly olad. "The Last Bose of Summer"
will Bound better played ou a sewing maohlne
than on a piano. Roll on, O wheel
of tbe sewing machine, until the last
bhaokled woman ol toll shall be .emancl- 1
pated! Roll on!
Seooudly, I look into the agricultural
world to see what the wheel has 'accomplished.
' Look at tbe stalks of wheat and
oats, the one bread for man, the other |
bread for horses. Goat off and with a
cradle made out of Ave or six lingers of :
wood and ope of sharp steel, the harvester
went across tbe field, stroke after stroke,
perspiration rolling down forehead and <
oheek and chest, head blistered by the consuming
sun and lip parched by the merciless
August air, at noon the workmen lying I
half dead under the trees. One of my most
1 rnamnrlM (a that at mv
UamiUi uvjuvwu *M wu.v..,v .? ?
rather la harvest time reeling from exhaustlon
over the doorstep, too tired to
eat, pale and fainting as he sat down. The '
grain brought to the barn, the sheaves
were unbound and spread on a threshing '
floor, and two meu with flails stood opposite
each other, hour arter hoar and day
after day, pounding the wheat oat of the
stalk. Two strokes, and thea a cessation
of souud. Thump, thump, thump, thutrft>,
thump, thump! Pounded- once and theu
turned over to be pouuded. again, slow,
very slow. The hens cacklfid and clucked
by tbe door and picked up the loose grains
and the horses hulf asleep and dozing over
the ma'ngers where the hay had been.
But hark to the buzz of wheels la the
distance! The farmer has taken tls 11:roue
on a reaper. He once walked; now he
rides; once worked with arms of flesh, now
with arms of iron. He starts at the end of
the wheatfleld, heads his horses to the opposite
end of the Held, rides on. At the
stroke of the Iron ohariot the gold of the
grain Is surrendered, the machine rolling
this way and rolling that, until the work
which would have been accomplished In
many days la accomplished In a rew uours,
the grain-Held prostrate before the harvesters.
?
Can you Imagine anything more beautiful
than the sea island cotton? I take up
the unmelted snow in my band. How beautiful
It is! But do you know by what painstaking
and tedious toll It passed Into anything
like practicality? If you examined
tbat cotton, you would find it (oil of seods.
It was a severe process by whloh the ?e?f < >japa
wm to be extracted from the. fiber. Yaaf
populations were leaving the Booth be- -^Hg
cause they could not make any Hring out
of thli product. One pound of green nm t;3/S$9E
cotton waa all that a man eould prepare ?
one day, but Eli Whitney, aMassachusetts
Yankee, woke up, got a handful of cotton
and went to constructing a wheel forth* t
parting of the fiber and the seed.
Teeth on cylinders, brushes on cylinders,
wheels on wheels. South Carolina gave , n
hhn <50,000 for his invention. and, inste^^r-ras?
ot one man taking a whole day to prepare . l.V,
a pound of cstton for the market, nowhe : ^ j
may prepare three hundredpelght, anacue v^xhb
South is enriched, and {lie commerce
the world la revolutionized, and over
000,000 bales of cotton we^e prepared this
year, enough to keep at wojcjc In thla ooun- ?
try 14,900,000 spindles, employing 270,000 .
hands and enlfeting $281,400,000 of capital. gQs
Thank you, Ell Whitney, and L. 8. Chichester,
of New. York, his successor. Above
all, thank God for their inventive genius,
that has done so muoh for the prosperity
of the world. '
Thirdly. 1 look to see what the wheel has ' Hi
done for the traveling world. No one can v;>wj
tell how many noble and self sacrificing : ,/
lnrentors have been crushed between the
coach wheel and the modern locomotive, ?
between the paddle and the ocean steamer. :> $
I will 90t enter Into the controversy as-./j /JESS
to whether John Fitcb or Robert Fnlton ,
or Thomas Somerset w*s tfce lnventor
of the sceambo&t. Thejr alt sat-fered
and were martyrs of the wheel, and - '
they shall be honored. John Pitch wrofet vffiaM
"The 21st of January. 17481 was the fatal
time of bringing me into existence. I know
of nothlnir so perplexing and Taxations to .'
a man of feeling as a turbulent wife and Hi?**
steamboat' balldlng. I experienced the V C"
former and qait In season, and' bad I. been .Sfgj
In my right senses I should undoubtedly rJ-jjS
have treated the latter .In the same man- * Ajjja
ner: but, for one man to be teased with I ?
both, be most be looked upon as the moat
unfortunate man in the world." / ytf
liSurely John Pitch wns lu a bad predica- te
ment. If the steamboat boiler did not blow , \
him up. his wife would^ In all ages there A
are those to prophesy the failure ot nay V
useful invention. Yon do not know what
the inventors of the day Buffer. When tt ' '/"Mwas
proposed to light London with gaa. Blr.v. ' ' gjgE
Humphry Davy, the (treat phlloeopher, - 7^3
said that he should as soon think of cutting "vJiSjH
m qHaa m mAAn an<) oa>f I r?rr M t* mm m.' . ' ,-ftMl
pole to light the city. Through nil abnse ,
and earicatureFltcb and Talton went until
yonder the wheiel te in motion, and the
Clermont, the first steamboat, Is going up' ' *3?"
the North River, running the distance?
hold your breath white I tell you?from ': >&?&n
New York to Albany la thirty-two hour*. ,
But the steamboat wheel multiplied its iqfcgflH',
velocities until the Lucanla of the Canard ; y<ft??ai
line and the Majestic of. the Whiter':*??
Star line aad the New York of the Amerl- ,?j$
can line and the Kaiser WUhelm o. the
North German Lloyd Hcie crosa the Atlan- ' '
tic ocean in six days or ttss, communication :
Between the two .tsountries beta# eo rapid
and so constant that wliereaa once those- -; '
who had been to Europe took on airs for v
the rest of their mortal lives?and tome
for many years the most disagreeable B(?aa . $
I could meet was the man who bad .been to
Europe, despfisihg- Mil American pi*'lrea ' - '-r^RS
and American muiic and American society rA
because be bad seen European picture#
and heard European music and mingled in
European society?now transatlantic
voyage is so common that a sensible man " > .
would no more boast of it (ban If be bad V
been to New York or Boston.
8ee the train move out of one of onr - \
great depots for a thousand-mile Jour- ."'J*
ney! All aboardl Ticket clipped and
baggage checked and porteira attentive to ; ,
every want, under tunnels dripping with
dampness that never saw the light; along 4
ledges where an inch ofT the track would
be the difference between a hundred men ?
living and a hundred dead, full head of ' \ ^
steam and two men In the locomotive
charged with all the responsibility of
whistle and Weetinghouse broke. CHankl
clank! go the wheels. Olanki clank! ?oho :
the rocks. Small vil ages only'hear the H
thunder and see the whirlwind as the trata
shoots past, a city on thawing. Thrilling, teajsHB
startling, tubllme, masmiflcent spwtaale? ;'43gjB
a rail train in lightning procession. .
While the world baa been rolling on the aelght
wheels of the rail cur or the four
wheels of the carriage or the two wheel#
of the gig it rrM not ontll 1876, at the Gen-,
teonlal Exposition at Philadelphia that y
the miracle of the nineteenth century
rolled In?the bloyehs. r<
The world could not believe its own eyes,
and not unt}l quite far on In the eighties
were the continents enohanted vwlth the j
whirling,.flashing, dominating spectacle of 'LfV
a machine that was to do so mttoh for tW . :{<KS|
pleasure, the business, the be* Ith and the kkp
profit of nations. The world had needed It <
for 6,000 years. <
Fourthly, I look Into the literary world .
and see what the wheel has accomplished. j
1 am more astounded with this than attff ' VjXm
thing that has preceded. Behold the al- '<>]
most miraculous printing press! Do you
not ieei me ground bqoko wim iua uw, , X'Tjcq
chinery of the New YorV.lrooklyn, Boston, i
Philadelphia, Washington, and Western
dallies? Soma of us remember when t&?\
hand ink roller was ran over the qylindsx, :%WBa
and by great haste 800 copies of the Tillage
newspaper-were issued in one day and jno
lives lost. Bnt invention has crowded fn- v.j
vention and wheel jostled wbeel, stereo- '
typing, electrotyplng, taking their plaoea, v '.:gSp
Benjamin Franklin's press giving way to
the Lord Stanhope press, and the Wash- ' /
lngton press and .the Victory press and the .
Hoe perfecting press have been set'up.
Together with the newspapers comes the /
publication of Innumerable books of history,
of poetry, of romance, of art, o*
travel, of biography, of religion, diction- j
arles, encyclopedias and Bibles. Some of
these presses send forth the most accarsed , '
stuff, but the, good predominates. Torn %
on with wider sweep and greater velocity,"
0 wheel?wheel of light, wheel of civilian- '' ,
tlon, wheel of Christianity, wheel of divine<
momentum!
On those four wheels?that of the sawing - $vla
machine, that of the reaper, that of the *1
railroad locomotive, that of the printing
press?the world has moved up to its prat- . . :
ent prosperity.
And now I gather on an Imaginary plat*
form, as I literally did when I preached 4n >
Brooklyn, specimens of our American
products. . :$0
Here la corn from the West, a foretaste ;f>i&
of the great harvest that is to come down y.mu
rn onr?fliihn*rit. anoiKrh for oarselves and- r'l
for foreign shipment. Here Is rice froih 33
the South, never a more beautiful product . ':y
grown on the planet, mingling the gold 3
and green.
Here are two sheaves, a sheaf of Northern
wheat and a sheaf of Southern rice, pmj
bound together. - May the band never
break! Here is cotton, the wealthiest ''
produot of America. Here is sugar oane,
enough to sweeten the beverages of an emSire.
Who would think that out of suoh a
umblo stalk there would come sixeh a
luscious product? *
Here are palmetto trees that have In
their pulses the warmth of southern dimes.
Here Is the oaotus of the South, so beautl
rul ana so tempting tc muse go armea.
Here are the products of American mines.
This is Iron, thtt: 1m coal, the Irdn reor*.
jentlng a vast yield, oar country sending
forth one year 800.000 tons of It, the coal / ' y
representing 160.000 square miles of It, the ; '
Iron prying out the coal, the coal smelting
the Iron.
I look around me on this Imaginary plat- t
form, and It se?ms as If the waves of agrloultural.mlneraloglcal,
pomologlcal wealth
dash to thi platform, and there are four
beautiful beings that walk In, and they art
all garlanded.
One la garlanded with wheat nnd blossoms
of snow, and I find she Is the North.
Another comes In. und b ?r brow is garlanded
with rice and blossoms of magnolia,
and I find she Is the 9outh.
Another comes .in, und I And she is garlanded
with serftoeed and blossoms ot
npray, nnd I find she is the East. -,'
Another oomes in, and I tlud she is garlanded
with silk of corn and radiant with
California gold, nnd I And she Is the West.
Coming face to face, they tafca off their
garlunds, and they twist them together
Into something that looks like a wreath,
but it Is a wheel, the wheel of national ?
prosperity, nud I say In an outburst of
Thanksgiving joy for what God bus done
for the Nortb and the South and the East
and the West, "Ob wneeir
At different times iu Europe they have
tried to get a congress of kings <it Berlin
or at Paris or at St. Petersburg, but it has
always been a failure. Only a few kings
have come on.
But on this imaginary platform that 1
have built we have a convention ot all the
kings?King Oorn, King Cotton, King Rioe,
K1d<; Wheat, King Oats, Eing Iron, Sing
Goal, King Silver, King Gold?and they
all bow before the Eing of kings, to whom
be all the glory of this year's wonderful
Broduotloal
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