The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 13, 1901, Image 5
A Brief Stor
sitio , It'
and Bi
The South Carolzi... inter Sta' e an(
City of Chai-ieston, S. C., Decexnbcr 1
tion Company has been chartered by ti
stock of $250,000. Active work upon t
gress since about the fir,t of Augutt la:
period that has elapsed since then is wi
building. The site of the Exposition
River within a mile and a half cf the b
The grounds are byautifully situated, ai
treatment. One half of the grouncs
Buildings, the Midway Concessirons an,
show. The remaining part of the ereat
beauty, and will be devoted to tbe buil<
and the several States of the Ucion, wb
description of the arohiteotual fea'ures
The Exposition Prouods are divide
the old Washington Race Course propel
formerly the Lowndes place. The Arcb
r..
THE COP
of developing the Race Course proper o
as far as possible the natural beauty o
property has been employed for years f<
any importance having been given ther
part of the grounds is entirely level. I
and builders, could be found. About
the grounds for the 'Midway Concession
a grand court at the western extremity
shape something like an elongated'ors
Exposition building, occupying the toe
the Agricultural Palace occnpying resp
buildings, with their connecting colonn
mile. Within the horse shoe there wil
with a lake in the center. A wide esp
will surround this garden.
THE PALACE
At the Dorthern end of the garden
splendid view will be obtained of the
opening out from this point through gr
outer edges of the walks around the Ga
Just north of the grand Plaza will stan
the Cotton Palace, from which a view m
with the Sunken Garlen, and its trees
urround it. Each of the Exposition b
average width of 100 feet, and, as alrea
the construction being such that the cc
THE PAL AC
THEY REBE PLIASED
With Our Charitable and Corre ctic
Institution.
Rev, and Mrs. A. S. Orne, who
traveling through the country, insp
ing charitable and correctional inst
tions, in the interests of indigent
ill-treated children, have prostet
their "mission of mercy" fathfally<
ing their stay in Columbia. Upon b<
asked by a Reporter of The State
the institutions in Corumbia com for
with others visited, he expressed Il
self emphatically: "They all rank'a
* high, and I have fewer suggestions
make than in most cities and cont
Of course," continued Mr. Orne, v
ing warm over the subject so des
his heart, "your most promising irst
tions are the Epwcrth orphanage
Industrial Home school.
-'"Yes, I do believe prevention is r
Christian and much cheaper thin:a
houses or prisons. I have been a
dent of sociology for 25 years, at
find that heredity and environin
breed-criminals-poor h.ouses and
ons confirm them. The offspring of
abandoned girl, traced through
generations, numbered 600, and
were either crooks or criminals, in
or idiotic.
"A young man married a pauper
in 1840. In 1880 thirty of their offsp
had been continual county char
and when out of poor house or pr
- lived by begging and stealing.
"A father, mother and five chii
spent the winter of 1886 in the
house. All are now serving senter
in penal institutions.
''From 95to 99 per cent. of tu- er!
nals (and they have increased 75
THE PAL gES1
y of the Expo
s Grounds
tildings.
West Irdian Expositio' will open in the
1901, and clae June 1, 1902 The Esposi
;e Sate of South Carolina with a capital
he Exp ositen projtot has only been in pro
t, and what has ben accomplihed in the
thout parrellel in the history of exposition
ill be on the eastern bank of the Ashley
uiness centre of the City of Charleston
d will lend themseives to the moet artistie
will be devoted to the Main Etposition
I the Administrtion offices of the great
ids will pre serve their present great natural
lings and exhibits made by the Government
ih will take part in the Exposition Some
f the Fair will be of general public interest
into tw) main sections. one e nsittirg of
ty and the other of t}e Wagener farm,
iteot-in-Chief has ado; ted the general flan
Ali~~ ~ ~ ~ .%r '% ii
FON PALACE.
n purely constrictive lines and of pers-rviog
f the Wagner place. The Race Course
)r purely agrieultural purpses, no racs of
since the War between the States. This
In better ti-e, in the opinion of expert artists
2 sres have been reserved on this part of
. The main Exposition buildings surround
f. the old Race Course. This will be in
eshoe, with the Cotton Palace, or main
of the shoe, with the Commerce Palace and
:e.ively the two sides cf the shoe These
ades, will extend for a distane 3 of about one
I be a Sanken G irden covering several acres,
anade of Alameda abrut 60 feet in width
)F AGRICULTURE.
there will be a grand P-an from which a
main Exposition buildings. The vist as
ves of palmetto trees which will line the
rden will extend for a dis3tance of 2,000 feet.
the Auditorium building, directly opposite
sy be obtained of the entire Court of Palaces,
and flowers and the sloping banks whi.ch
iLlfings will be 400 feet in length, with an
idy stated, will be concted by colonnades,
lonnades can be be used for exhibits.
OF COMMERCE
pplato incressing only 21 per cent.)
come from this class of children. I
' One hundred thousand children 2
have fathers in prisor,; 2,000 p~rsons i
killed by mobs; 20 having been burned a
during the last ten years Fourteen r
are thousand murdered in 1899, agaicst
tet- 1,000 in 1837, and 6 000 suicides. A r
[tu maj rity of both classes came from ne- t
agleoted children Lincoln and Garfield's t
andasassins, and nine tenths of 1,000,000 f
ted tramps are of this class also
lur ' Not 5 per cent. of the 1,600 poor '
ig houses and 1,800 jails have regular re
ow ligious services, more than half none
d at all. In places cursed with drink and '
contagious diseases we have found a
m 500,000 homeless children (30,000 ab
ery and-mned last year ) Born by no volitiin ,
to of their own will, no cmntrol whatever
e.over the first ten years of their exist- 1
ie. ence in this wicked world, no choice
atwhether they shall be trained as Chris
r to tians or taught as criminals, beaten
itu- and banged about in an atmospheret
and of drunkenness and dishonesty, crca- (
tures of circumstances -how can their
lore course be other than criminal?i
oor I"It is because of these things that
stu- God has sent us out to speak in thus -
d I der tones to the pecple that the per
ents petutity of our civil and Christian in
ris- stitutions plead for prevention.
one "Children who are born and brought
six up in the slums are self-raised, and
all being self-raised, tney tend to evil. We<
lane want settlements in the by ways, and (
by that 1 mean we want to go down1
wife into the slums and teach those of the I
ing tenement house cleanliness and godli- 2
ges, ness. We want to teach the childrena
son to use their hands as wells as their t
heads. We want to place them in ae
ren position to be able to help themselves.. I
oor We want to give them an opportunity| I
ces to bend their inelinations to their:i
wishes, and make of them useful citi- '
mi- zens and industrious artizss Therein, i
per iies all hope for the reformation of the Ia
Among the Ep(01al autractious of the Court of Prlaceu will be fnntairs and
ji of rta'uary $r 'xandsou ely desisned columns of the Spainh tyre, all con
ributine to the leauty <f the -o no At one end of the Sunken Garden. a music
tand will be crceted, se at tc other enn a pergola or latice work screen.
.zaiust %dich will crw drig te Eppo-ition period, the most beautiful of
ropicil vines In the contra of the Pazn there will be a sui-di.l ten feet in
teight an'd thirty feet in diamater. Which ever way the eye looks, there will b:
isions of b auty Toward the south, the grert Court of Paiaies, towari the east,
he tow r; at the entrance !othe Mid say, and looking across the en.r-inco way the
roves and minarets of the Wagen er place.
f ./ ~" :Id. r- wiy ._i
T HE A D 1INIISTR a TION BUILDING.
The main Exposition building will be the Cotton Palace, the Comm~erce Palace,
he Agrieu tu ral Palace, the Mining and Forestry Building, the Auditorium, the
administration Building, the Machinery and Transportation Building, ani other
tructures devoted to railroad exhibi-s, to restaurant purposes and to public com
ort. Besides all these there will stand on the Warenaer plane the Woman's Build
og. the st v.ral State and City Buildings and the Negro Department.
The Cotton Palces will be the mist inpos-ng of the Expo ition buildings. It
will cover upwards of 50,000 feet of fbowr space, will be. 550 feet in length
ud at least 100 feet " . vidth. One of the feat-ires of this building will I e a
nagnifi eat pordac. In the cetre of the builting will rise an imposiag dome
if a heigiit of more than 150 f<<;. In t'as build ng will be displayed the pro
plt a atateththsvrbe m a.l ! /
uThelcs of Agihlueen CommeMll fth on r e ill eacouh Caolnais aot 40,0i00 cquar
eet of fibo)r area, in addition :o their connectir g arcades which will contain in all
shout 20,000 square feet. Each of these buildings will have a Gentaal deme an~d
maller turrents at the corners, emphasing the entrances to these as well as th3 e in
er edient Thbnero f hs bidn has b e pateal, dngedfo
THE AMAINRY~TO BUILDIN.
The Aministrastion Building il be most Cttoaatiedsg tnd woilrbe Palupied
bhe Afilutersand tace, the Eoitioand Forey Archdinte hAdiparium, thde
fromiteusua stylin henn tahiser atrntre Tnsprtacia pstion e ntre
trndtess devoed toe railrnd wibth ito Tetauantroes an to bulig coll
ot Bsidestyallveheetnheilltand oahng e fboklaed botherma' Bouilof
esse theigtvbuqall andtitidigsnd herm owt teSpamnis eni.a
Tpe hCotohP will preai thehotinpg~ the Expoition acietr h buildings wib
til over warwd over-hangin roetof of crrspaed wpi bes. feet the lentrh
pord the veangingfet gallery. Oeo h etae fti uligwl
Thniiet MperJa an Fore~tr oueld iing will rbewen awnt .oangdomert
tha fet of or thpe10ce . i uildi ing will b etl diplosye the ado
iitainBidng twl ecrulri om ihf ankn oes h
Spansh Reassefn the Spanish Missinyp of thechiteryare, as SuhCrlnisteeminiedt
:on Souatrnaifnia Sae of TexSuand hein cbnd cotto manefacteie wao
All Unonfi seedta the diplyin thisitonbuilding will be cnetdi the me tc sir
Mr.eOe and ac fe ta a vel, ben de
he pvlale ofverintuheauny omr ewilaccotiabu4000qr
ee5 fi yers e, in ad ten hern etr rae hc ilcnani l
thisty hile sq e e s Eaho tese dnswilhv enaldm
eforms, hrent and he odneife evotegth nrnest hsea elast3c
ers pfedirt te teiort tof hs bnuil ghsbeuprialydige o
aote oeetse rtinge toeatmet ndtitu- utlt Tewndw n l f h
air e arriati leastveihlet abioet frteroftussbin os~e
rom the cantieve mtrifner. Theodn h sa asn fusgtywoe
iaee otsn epareicurthe gwherllnso rhsadcrls trigfo
opinbchildren are tarid ad in-uhtesns n prahs
tead f beig cofline In rison wit
heodroedrsaecnie in sep
Thes enAdinitraio posbiling of motatreiedsg-adilbeocpe
byin them iesand taeing the Ebroughtin TeArhec dpredwel
about seth i e feth egtaiec igwl b lne yohrtw o
ssrhihutd eqinl ;aistc g.I amn it h pne easac
typelwih Ll rvi Mo thouhouaatiteEpng o rcietr h uidn ilb
a ide bafonyooc ilpo e odyit the grounds.Insideoteenentra
)aome whic llmbea three stomiedhiharcl ecrtdclnaewl p
poricide oernageing inhiser el
aThe ouneral. and modrer Budng-ilcnanbtee wnyadti
tstend fee iof a floro sceThis buidingd ilsaddrclyopst h d
ntration BuildeingI ill the ciclarlom.wt lnig oes
othis thce bsenecread byspeanlonmnaino ts icpladsd
>hld, ffec his iht washade N wrfllk, aindb.,ragn wd ocsh
Spane is wenissn andd hdeSnesd Miso yeo rhte.ra xmlfe
in outhere Cfornnd in Tpes.bencoindnamotfetvewy
Alone strap main eb 3 E heito Buidigwlbecnctdnthlaecrles
rouning "Died of PtanlationW.
.Mr." n a hette witrel, nd ThFeb.nCrp
7ve treled avrt his reiuns fbe ulti udby ecnu
ont tof woRnal .C Haner ofire isd how a bls ,ae smaktd
hefbody h oud hibeo wf dred. whHeeuvln t ,4,9 ae
nesttte the tmurero eortsteag veraeih f 0on
ate aveent toi he claied bytiu the greaeo mecalblsi
rfemee moemtr fedr 3,of an Coeraebieigwoman,9
honmhe cut namei i cortsti whraof- ,wt n aecstprbl
otirsn butt codrnatied, an tei-frgnigadblncf$ 3 on
ppead ofo tein confined in piso ittle chile-0,6 onaeaewih
rat esablshent, tie searae A prBlletfrininged b aling ofsu
ud unihe se~artey evr cmin m$.r5ca an d , b(ales, asmarketed)
n cntat iththeoler ffedes, ndaverage weight of 388 pounds, it
hunnhacin th posibiityof po-nds aver veage cost per balefoging
ormngthm ad avin thmfrogh innaing and $ain 90. 0,ron
p in the riht path.2Th rpotdssifithe2 2 avrgino
ning bandesforbints repobaing as
Willam L 1'itt, ai$1.,46; thse opraed aoes the79 ofan
ria fo th mudert~womn astvericand weightaon, 20ou,9 wth
)etberat olubia Pa, cmmite fvrg coto incmerc ialo balesn
ujede ednsda evnin inhisce d aingdof $ 0
the ouny jal. he urdeerener crasipe the 189,62 y in-es
n sfollows: oeoeae o h ulc
asteed n ion ar rom is ot n6,Ala8ma 1,103690;te forkthenas9
eseteditin n oenng n te all 45;tioridal, 6,821; thoeorae 1,296,
oths e fstne arop ad trng pu84;Iican plantto, 0,289.anshe
tld, nd hi homewas i N~ri s as follo ,48ws:oui,19
vhee iswie ad ou ci~denese.377; North Carolina, 473,155; Okla
ievralleter, ritenon try btshoma, 84,033; South Carolina, 876;545
)n nescrpdaed eb 2, h hd ennessee, 21,5 Teas 2,678. 555;
rriten "iedofstrnguatonWm Virginia, 9,289
I. ott" n aleterwrienon eb A special from Welsh, Ga., says:
7 'o rquste tat is eminsbeThree persons were killed here Monday
entto aleghN.C. e dreced ownight by a lightning flash, which set on
he bdy houd bedresed Hefire the house where the victims were
ommtte te mrdr, e wot, wenleeping. The family of Postmaster
is eaon asdesroed y rin, ndMorgan htad retired when Mr. Morgan
.e as rien o i, e caimdby hewas aroused by the flames. He hastened
uterereue o a Clumia wmanto awaken his wife and obidren and dis
~ho henamd, n hs dmesic f-covered that his wife, his twelve-year
air. ne eter onaind paheicold son and six year old daughter were
ppel orth wefae f is itlechl-dead. Three other children were un
ren. hurt. The bodies were taken out just
SOME aUs ACTS.
Three Important Measures That Were
PassEd at the R* c zt S asion.
The followi)g acts ia-sed at the late
ses-ion is of fenerl interest:
See 1. B= it enacted by the general
sst m -1v of the S'ate of South Caro
ina: That on and after the approval
of this act, it s'al: be unlawful for any
persoa to assume the du ics of any
put lie .,ffiee until he has taken the eath
provided by the constitution, and has
been regularly commissioned by the
governor. Tae term "public (ffi e' in
tbis sot aa be construed to mean all
cficers of the State that have hereto
fore betn commissioned, and trustees
of the Carious ec-leg s cf the State,
m:mthers of the various Stat-3 boards,
dispcn-ary corstablis, and other per
sons ahose du:iei tr. dtfi .cd by law.
S.e. 2 That o fcees sball le chargcd
or colicctel by the secretary of state
for qaaiifsing and cemari'ioting sucb
off cers, exc pt for the (ffi 3 a cf notar;
public ard commissio:er of deeds, who
shall pty a fee of thre.e dollars and
twenly five cents, which sha'l be trana
mitted by the serr tar; of State to the
tate treasury, as ctier fees collteicd
by him.
Ste 3 The reorttry of S ate ishe-e
by d reoted end r, q tired to rero-t to
the general asieib y at. each r.gu ar
session the names of all officers com
missioned by him during the fi cal y "a-,
with the dates of their appointment
or eketion and the dates of their com
missione, and of such other cffi ers as
he shall deem proper.
The act r.:lati g to bonds of public
(ffijtrs wag approved by the gcv,mnr
February 8th It reads:
Sec. 1. Be it enacted -y the general
assembly of South Carolina: That
bonds of crunty efficers, shall be re
corded in the effic3 of the clerk of
court of rcgister of meste conves ance
-f the cour.t/ of which the aforesaid
tffi rers are r sid:n:e, an i bhall imme
diately thereupon be t-aOsa)t . d to
be secretary of Sate, who tha'. fi e
them in than ffiae of tl S :Sate tr as
arer.
S c 2. The b: n's of S ase, dis ric:
cr circuit officers sha.l be fik d ui~h th.
secretary of State, and shill be reo.rd< d
by him, without charge, in snitab'e
oooks kept by him for the purpose ; a d
when sorecordel sha'l be fii d as afore
said with the Stati tr.:asurer: Pro
vide d,.TI at the b.nds of the Sia e treas
urer shall be filed with the govr raor.
See. 3 The bonds of county di-pen
sets shall be recorded as other country
rffirers bonds, and when to rctrd-d
shall be filed with the State board of
directors of the dispensary hy the see
retary of State.
Sec 4. A copy of a bond, duly certi
fled by any officer with whom bonds
are rtquired to be flied o- racorded
herein, s'hall be good and suffibient evi
dence in all suits institu.ed on su:h
bends in any of the ecou-ts of this Sta:e
Eec. 5. That it shall be un'awful for
any person to assume or attempt to as
sums the duties of any cffi:e of whch
a bond is rtqu'red without having given
the hn i req tired, a id a ty per:o 2 as
eauming or attempting to assume the
duties of any * fli.ee as aforesaid, si-all
be guilty of misdemear or, and shall be
subjaet to a fiae of five-hundrs d dollars
or iLnpr'sonment 'or - ot less than thrs e
monthrs, in the~ discretrwn of the c* u t
The ola law requir ed that a b ond of
an amcunt egra' to tlat of the s1b r I
be given by the deputy shet if , cr con
stables, appointed as police <ffi:ers in
unincorporated mul vilages. Trssbund
mdj it a'n oat prohibitory f.ar consta
bles or deputies t-a get bond. Sena:or
Mars' all s bill allows them to ha botd
ed as thre constables appoin:ed b>
mai trates. The new act, we eci was
app-oved Feb 8.h, reads:
See. 1 Be it enacted by the general
asemibly of South Ca olina: That on
and after the approval of this act, an
art entitled "Aa set to au hor:z: the
appointmernt of officers of the praea
having jurisdie..ion within indus rial
communities containing one hundred
inhabtants or more," approved 2[tt
February, 1893, be amernded by adding
thereto two additional sections, as fol
lows:
Sec. 4 That the person so appointed
policr officer, under the provision; of
this act, shall exeute the bond rcqu~r
ed by constables by section 901 of the
R evised Statutes of 1893, volume 1.
and shall be subject to the ;rovisions
of section 912 of the said ihvistd S.at
utes.
See. 5 That the sheriff of the county
shall not be responsible for ithe malfea
sace or misfcarance of the police of
ir or, deputy sa appointed by him
under the requirements of this set.
ID AHO WIL.L BEND
Her Fine Exhibit After it Has Been
Used at Buff dlo
The Co'umbia State says it is goiung
to require much hard work from this
time on so make the Charlesto 0exsp 'si
tion the suecess that it should be, but
those at the head of the enterprise are
in no wise discou-agei by the action of
cngress in refusing at the very la~t
moment to give tha much desired ap
propriation. Indeed, the loss of the
appropriation has made the manage
ment all the more datermined to make
the exposition the best thing of the
kind ever held in the south.
For some time the directors has had
speial commissioners visiting the va
rious Statea endeavotiag to got each to
make a suitable exhibit at and take an
interest in the exposition. They' havs
met with much encouragement and re
port the outlook good. Oce of the
States that will take a lively interest in
the exposition is Alabama. Encourag
ing news was received from afar Wed
nesday when the governor received the
following dispatch: BosIa.
Gv. M. B. McSweeney, Columbia, S.
Appropriation made by Idaho for
PanAmerican exposition authorized
transfer of exhibits to Charleston.
F. W. Hunt, Governor.
The following acknowledgement was
at once wired:
Gov. F. W. Hunt, Boise, Idaho.
On behalf of the people of South
Carolina I sincerely thank you and the
general assembly of your State for your
decision in agreeirg to trans'er the
Pan-American exposition exhibit to
South Carolina during the exposition at
Charleston.
M. B. MoSweeney, Governor.
Gov. McSweeney says he proposes to
do all in his power to enlist the inter
est of the other States of the unirn in
this undertaking. He has already
written to every governor and urged
each to have the matter presented to the
legislature of his State. That this is
bearing fruit is seen from the above.
All along the line the management
will get to work from this time on, and
it is safe to say that the exposition will
open next December, and be one that
the South will not be ashamed for vlsi
NHURCH AND PRESS:
A Warm Friendship Should Exist
Between Them.
Dr. Talmage Says That the Spokem
Word and the PrintedWord Should
Go Side by Side-God and
the Printing Press.
[Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch.]
Washington. March 3.
In this discourse Dr. Talmage calls
for a warm friendship between those
who preach the Gospel and those who
make newspapers, the spoken word
and the printed word to go side by
side; text, Luke 16-8: "The children
of this world are in their generation
wiser than the children of light."
Sacred stupidity and solemn incom
petency and sanctified laziness are
here rebuked by Christ. He says
worldlings are wider awake for op
portunities than are Christians. Men
of the world grab occasions, while
Christian people let the most valu
able occasions drift by unimproved.
That is the meaning of our Lord
when He says: "The children of this
world are in their generation wiser
than the children of light."
A marked illustration of the truth
of that maxim is in the slowness of
the Christian religion to take pos
session of the secular printing press.
The opportunity is open and has
been for some time open, but the
bcclesiastical courts, and the
churches, and the ministers of re
ligion are for the most part allow
ing the golden opportunity to pass
unimproved. That the opportunity
is open I declare from the fact that
all the secular newspapers are glad
of any religious facts or statistics
that you present them. Any animat
ed and stirring article relating to re
ligious themes they would gladly
print. They thank you for any in
formation in regard to churches. If
a wrong has been done to any Chris
tian church or Christian institution
you could go into any newspaper of.
fice of the land and have the real
truth stated. Dedication services,
ministerial ordinations and pastoral
installations, cornerstone laying of
a church, anniversary of a charitable
society, will have reasonable space in
any secular journal if it have previ.
ous notice. given. If I had some
great injustice done me, there is not
an editorial or a reportorial room
in the United States into which ]
could not go and get myself set
right, and that is true of any well
known Christian man. - Why, then,
does not our glorious Christianity
embrace these magnificent opporfunil
ties? I have before me a subject of
first and last importance: How shall
we secure the secular press as a
mighty reenforcement to religion and
the pulpit?
The first thing toward this result
Is cessation of indiscriminate hos
tility against newspaperdom. You
might as well denounce the legal pro
fession because of the shysters, or
the medical profession because of the
quacks, or merchandise because o1
the swindling bargain makers, as tc
slambang newspapers because there
are recreant editors and unfair re
porters and unclean columns. Guten
berg, the inventor of the art of print.
ing, was about to destroy his types
and extinguish the art because it was
suggested to him that pi'inting might
be suborned into the service of the
devil, but afterward he bethought
himself that the right use of the arn
might more than overcome the evil
use of it, and so he spared the type
and the Intelligence of all following
ages. But there are many to-day in
the depressed mood of Gutenberg
with uplifted hammer, wanting tc
pound to pieces the type, who have
not reached his better mood, in
which, he saw the art of printing tc
be the rising sun of the world'i
Illumination.
If, instead of fighting newspapers
we spend the same length of time and
the same vehemence in marshaling
their help In religious directions w'
would be as much wiser a~s the mar
who gets consent of the railroati super.
Intendent to fasten a car to the end
of a rail train shows better sense thatz
he who runs his wheelbarrow up the
track to meet and drive back the Chi
ago limited express. The silliest thing
that a man ever does is to fight a news
paper, for you may have the floor for
utterance perhaps for one day in the
week, while the newspaper has th4
foor (very day in the week. Napoleon,
though a mighty man, had many weak
nesses, and one of the weakest things
he ever did was to threaten that if the
English newspapers did -not stop thei:
adverse criticism of himself he would
with 400,000 bayonets, cross the chan
el for their chastisement. Don't
fght newspapers. Attack provokes at
tack. Better wait until the excite
ment blows over and then go in and get
justice, for get it you will if you have
patience and common sense and equli
poise of disposition. It ought to be a
mighty sedative that there is an enor
mous amount of common sense in the
world, and you will eventually be taken
for what you are really worth, and you
cannot be puffed up, and you cannot
be written down, and if you are the
enemy of good society, that fact will
come out, and if you are the friend of
good society that fact will be estab
lished.
I know what I am talking about, for
can draw on my own experience. All
the respectable newspapers, as far as
I know, are my friends now. But many
of you remember the time when I was
the most continuously and meanly at.
tacked man in this country. God gave
me grace not to answer back, and]
kept silence for ten years, and much
grace was required. What I said was
perverted and twisted into just the
opposite of what I did say. There were
millions of people who believed that
there was a large sofa in myv pulpit
Two Views of McKinley.
William McKinley's second inaugu
ration into the highest office of the
land was the occasion for certain moral
ists to point a lesson to .young mnen.
They recalled that after his tariff fight,
McKinley was defeated for reeleomo
to congress in 1890, and that the name
of his successor is unknown, while he
s now president. They declare that
:lefeat only spurred him on to greater
imbitions and stronger efyrte: that he
ran for governor of Ohio in 1891, was
3eoted, served one term, and then
aspired to and obtained the preidential
somination and election. All of which
is very pretty. The iconoclast, hoe
ever, tells another story. It runs after
this fashion: When McKinley was beat
n for congress. he was a bankrupt
with debts which he could not hope to
pay unaided. Certain rich men chipped
in and put him on his feet financially.
rhey determined to make him presi
lent and laid their plans well to that
ad. From governor to presidential no
ninee was easy when there were pur
ihasabe delegates in the cynventionl.
Fhe hiatory of the 1896 oampaign is too
amiliar to need repetition, for we all
rithough we never bad anything but a
chair, and that during the singing by
the congregation I was accustomed to
lie down on that sofa and dangle my
feet over the end. Lying New York
correspondents for ten years misrep
resented our church services; but we
waited, and people from every neigh
borhood of Christendom came there
to find the magnitude of the falsehoods
concerning the church and concerning
myself. A reaction set in, and soon we
had justice, full justice, more than jus
tice, and as much overpraise as once
we had underappreciation, and no man
that ever lived was so much indebted
to the newspaper press for opportun
ity to preach the Gospel as I am.
Young men in the ministry, young
men in all professions and occupations,
wait. You can afford to wait. Take
rough misrepresentation as a Turkish
towel to start up your languid circula
tion, or a system of massage or Swed
ish movement, whose pokes and pulls
and twists and thrusts are salutary
treatment. There is only one person
you need to manage, and that is your
self. Keep your .dispositions sweet by
communion with Christ, who answered
not again, get society of genial people
and walk out in the sunshine with your
hat off, and you will come out all right,
And don't join the crowd of people in
our day who spend much of their time
damning newspapers.
Again, in this effort to secure the
secular press as a mightier reen
forcement of* religion, let us make it
the avenue of religious information.
My advice, often given to friends who
propose to start a new paper, is:
"Don't! Don't! Employ the papers
already started." The biggest finan
cial hole ever dug in this American
continent is the hole in which good
people throw their money when they
start a newspaper. It is almost as
good and as quick a way of getting
rid of mo-^y as buying stock in a
gold mine Not more printing
presses, b it the right use of those
already es tablished. All their cylin
ders, all taeir steam power, all their
pens, all their types, all their ed
itorial ch: '-.'s and reportorial rooms
are avail.Dle if you would engage
them in behalf of civilization and
Christianity.
Again, if you would secure the sec
ular press as a mightier reenforce
ment of religion and the pulpit, ex
tend widest and highest Christian
courtesies to the representatives of
journalism. Give them easy-chairs
and plenty of room when, they come
to report occasions. For the most
part they are gentlemen of educa
tion and refinement, graduates of
colleges, with families to support by
their literary craft, many of them
weary with the pushk.. o..a-business
hat is precarious and fluctuating,
each one of them the avenue of in
formation to thousands of readers,
their impression of the services to
be -the impression adopted by multi
tudes. They are connecting links be,
tween a sermon, or a song, or a
prayer, and this great population
that tramp up and down the streets
.day by day and year by year with
their sorrows uncomforted and their
sins unpardoned. Oh, the hundreds
of thousands of people in our cities
who never attend churches! -Our
cities are not so much preached to
by ministers of religion as by re
porters. Put all journalists into our
prayers and sermons. Of all the hun
dred thousand sermons preached to
day there will not be three preached
to journalists and probably not one.
Of all the prayers offered for classes
of men innumerable the prayers of
fered for the most potential class
will be so few and rare that they
will be thought a preacher's idiosyn
crasy. There are .many journalists in
our church memberships, but this
world will never be brought to 'God
until some revival of religion sweeps
over the land and takes into the
Kingdom of God all editors, report
ers, compositors, pressmen and news
boys.
"But," some one might ask, "would
you make Sunday newspapers also a
reenforcement?" I have learned to
take things as they are. I would
like to see the much scoffed at old
Puritan Sabbaths come back again.
I do not think the modern Sunday
will turn out any better men and
women than were your grandfathers
and grandmothers under the old
fashioned Sunday. To say nothing
of other results, Sunday newspapers
are killing editors, reporters, com
positors and pressmen. Every man,
woman and child is entitled to 24
hours of nothing to do. If the news
papers put on another set of hands,
that does not relieve the editorial
and reportorial room of its cares and
responsibilities. Our literary men
die fast enough without killing them
with Sunday work.
All things are possible with God, and
my faith is up until nothing in the
way of religious victory would surprise
me. All the newspaper printing press
es of the earth are going to be the
Lord's, and telegraph and telephone
and type will yet announce nations
born In a day. The first book ever
printed was the Bible, by Faust and
his son-in-law, Schoeffer, in 1460, and
that consecration of type to the
Ifoly Scriptures was a prophecy of*
the great mission of printing for the
evangelization of all nations. The.
father of the American printing
press was a clergyman, Rev.. Jesse
Glover, and that was a prophecy of
the religious use that the Gospel min
istry in this country were to make of
the types.
Again, we shall see the ,secular
press as a mightier reenforcement of
religion and the pulpit by making
our religious utterances more inter
esting and spirited, and then the
press will reproduce them. On the
way to church some 30 years ago a
journalist said a thing that has kept
me ever since thinking. "Are you
going to give us any points to-day?"
"What do .you mean?" I asked. He
tributed to Republican success that
year. In the presieent's chair, McIKn.
ly proceed to serve the men who had
placed him there, chief of whom is,
Mark Hanna. The reader can take his
choice of the two stories, or he cein
reconcile them, if it is possible -and
we think it is.-The State
Pays to Be a Judge.
Judge Gates of Kansas City tells this
story: "My family being absent from
the city, I was taking my meals at a
restaurant where Negro boys are cm
plyed as waiters. In one corner of the
room is a dumb waiter, where orders
are called out to the cook in the kitch
en above. The first morning my order
included, among other things two egg~s,
fried medium. The waiter, following
his custom, went to the open shaft and
then called out my order, ending 'for
iMr. Gatts.' He then turned to attend
'to some other duty, but had not taken
more than thr se steps when a peculiar
look spread over his face. The next
moment he had fairly jumped to the
opening and cried out: "Say, thar,
William! Look heah! That order ain't'
said: "I mesa f thM innbin taa
will be striking enough to be reamm
bered." 'Then I said to myself:
"What right have we in the pulpits
and Sunday schools to take the time
of the people if we have nothing to
say that is memorable!" David did
not have any difficulty in remember
ing Nathan's thrust, "Thou art the
man," nor Felix in remembering
Paul's point-blank utterance on right
eousness, temperande and judgment
to come, nor the English king any
difficulty in remembering what the
court preacher said when, during the
sermon against sin, the preacher
threw his handkerchief into the
king's pew to indicate whom he
meant.
That Providence intends the profes
sion of reporters to have a mighty
share in the world's redemption is sug
gested by the fact. that Paul and Christ
took a reporter along with them, and
he reported their addresses and their
acts. Luke was a reporter, and he
wrote not only the book of Luke, but
the Acts of the Apostles, and without
that reporter's work we would have
known nothing of the Pentecost and
nothing of Stephen's martyrdom,
and nothing of Tabitha's resurrection,
and nothing of the jailing and unjail
ing of Paul and Silas. and nothing of -
the shipwreck at Melita. Strike out
the reporter's work from the Bible and
you kill a large part of the New Tests.
meat. It makes me think that in the
future of the kingdom of God the re
porters are to bear a mighty part.
About 2* 'rs ago a representative
of an impo New York newspaper
took his seat i.. -w Brooklyn church
one Sunday night s -: fve pewsfront
the front of the putp.. He took out
pencil and reporter's pad, resolved to
caricature the whole scene. When the
music began, he began, and with his
pencil he derided that and then derided -1
the prayer and then derided the read
Ing of the Scriptures and then- bega7
to deride the sermon. But, he spas.for
some reason his hand began to r.mble,
and be, rallying himself. sharpened his:
pencil and started again, but broks.
down again and then put pencil ad
paper in his pocket and his head down
on the front of the pew and beganto
pray. At the close of the servic be-.
came up and asked for the prayersf
others and gave his heart to God,gna
though still engaged in newspaper
work, he is an evangelist and hires a
hall at his own expense and. every Sun
day afternoon preaches Jesus Christ to
the people.
And the men of that professionare
going to come in a body throughout
the country. I know hundreds oa them,
and a more genial or highly educated
class of men it would be hard to find,
-and, though the tendency of their pro
fession may, be-toward skepticlsim.aa
organized, common sense
tation would fetch them to the front
of all Christian endeavor.
Men of the pencil and pen in dlde -)
partments, you need the help of the
Christian religion. In the day when
people want to get their newspapers
at two cents and are hoping for-the
time when they can get any of them at
one cent and as a consequence the-at
taches of -the printing press are by the
thousand ground under the cylinders.a
you want God to take care of you and
your families. Some of your beat work.
is as much unappreciated as was MU
ton's "Paradise Lost," for w~eh the
author received $25, and 'the immsortal
poem -"Hohenlinden" of Thomas
Campbell when he first offered It for
publication and in the column called
"Notices to Correspondents" appeared
the words: "To T. C.-The ines com
mencing: 'On Linden whien the sun -
was low,' .are not up to our standard.
Poetry is not T. C.'s forte." -
O men of the. .pencil and pen, amid
your unappreciated work you needen
touragement,, and you can have it.
Printers of all Christendom, editors,
reporters, .compositor., pressmen,.
publishers and readers of .that which
is printed, resolve that you will not
write, set up, edit, issue or read any
thing that debases body, mind or souId
In the lame of God,.by the laying on
of tlie hands of faith and prayer, or
dain the printing press for-righteous
ness and liberty and salvation'. 'All of
us with some influence that will help
in the right direction, let us put cur
hands to the work, imploring God-to
hasten the- consummation. In a ship
with hundreds of passengers approach
ing the South American coast the man..3
on the lookout neglected his work, and
In a few minutes the ship .would have
been dashed to ruin on the rocks. But
a cricket on board the vessel, that had
made no sound all the voyage, set up a
shrill call at the smell of land, and, the~
captain knowing that habit of the ing
sect, the vessel was stopped in time to
avoid an awful wreck. And so insg
nificant means now may do wonders,
and the scratch of a pen may savethe
shipwreck of a soul.
Are you all ready for the signing of
the contract, the league, the solemn
treaty proposed between journalism
and evangelism? Let It be a Christian
marriage of the pulpit and the print
ing press. The ordination of the for
mer on my head, the pen of the latter
in my hand, it Is appropriate that I
publish the banns of such a marriage.
Let them from this day be one inte
magnificent work of the world's re
demption.
Let thrones and Powers and kingdoms)be
Oedient, mighty God, to Thee,
And over land and stream and main
Now wave the scepter of Thy reign.
0, let that glorious anthem swell
Let host to host the triumph telI,
Til not one rebel heart reman"
But over all the saviour reIgns.
-First Sprina- Campaign.
Mrs. Modus-Well, George, you prom.
ied me a new bonnet.
George-I? Promised you a new
bonnet? Great Scott When?
Mrs. Modus-Before you married me
you swore that never should disgrace
rest upon my head through you; and
wha4 do you call this shabby thing
that's on my head now?-Tit-Bits.
Gates! An', say, tharn Make them
aigs fresh aigr' After which he drew
a breath of satisfaction second only to
y own. So, you see, it really pays
sometimes to be a juidge."
They Ride Astride.
The Savannah News says the society
women of New York and elsewhere who
are vaintering at Aiken, 8. C.-Mrs,.
Thomas Hitehcock, Mrs John Jacob
Astor, Miss. Enstis and .others-have
adopted an innovation in horseback
riding, it is reported. They have dis
carded the side saddle, and not take
the saddle in man fashion. They wear
long coas and long boots, and iucsh cer
tain other parts of costnme as permit
them perfect freedom and self control
while on their horses. The astrids
style of riding is alleged to have become
almost a fad among the fashiona'les.
They find it easier, safer and mire en
)yable. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The Atlanta Journal says: It
is to be supposed that the presi
dent winked when he made those
~opious references to liberty and
~reedom in the Philippines and