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iRev Dr Talmage,
[otusber of notices,
that certain pic
(ookJvn had osed his
in thei^adver
firculars ^itliont bis
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cadle to him in this
wanted it distinctly
be knew nothing of j
'their business methods,
for the morning ser
thew xxiii, 37, "As a
chickens under her
would not"
was in sight as
crest of Mount Olivet, a
TOO feet. ^ The splendors of
f capital <y? the whole earth
landscape. There is
Yonder is the king's
'Spread out before his eves
pomp, the wealth, the wicked
the comiug destruction of
t, and ha bursts into tears at
st of the obduracy of a P^
Ut he would gladly have saved,
Apostrophizes, saying, "0 Jerusa
leruaalero, how often would I
? gathered thy children r together,
as a hen gathereth her chickens
~ her wings, and ye would not,"
Fhy did Christ select hen and
as a simile? Next to the
of the ^mparison I think
to help all public teachers in
;H?tter of illustration to get down
'tbair stilts and use comparisons
[ail can understand. The plain
est bod on earth is the barnyard fowl.
Its only adoriirSants are the red comb
in ks headdress and the wattles under
the throat. It has no grandeur of
gsnealqgy. Afl .we know is that its
ancestors came from India, some of
then* frodht height *of 4,000 feet on
the ttdes of the Himalayas. It has
no pretension of nest like .the eagle's
^eyrie. Ithas^no luster of plumage
the goldfinch. Possessing anato
va, aWf the^
last CBing it wants to do is to fly, and
on retseaMises foot almost as much as
^Musicians have written out in mus
ical scale the song of lark and robin,
redbreast and nightiifgale, yet the hen I
of iby text hath nothing that? ogfcjd
be taken for a song, but only cluck and j
cackle Yet Christ i^thetext uttered, j
while looking upon doomed Jerusalem,
declares that what he had wished for j
that , city was like what the hen does
for her chickens. Christ was thus j
. simple ijf his teachings, and yet how
hard it is for^ us, who are Sunday 1
school instructors and editort\ and |
preachers and reformers, and
who would gain the ears of audiei
. to attain that heavenly and div)
1 art of simplicity, I ,
have to run a course of liter
I disorders as children a course of
f ical disorders. We come ont ol
and college loaded down with
mythologies and out of the theological
sewdnary weighed down with what
(Earned fathers said, and we fly |
rags of eagles and flamingoes j
albatrosses, and it takes a good j
before we can come down to
'similitudes* the candle under!
bushel, the salt that has lost its:
the net thrown into the sea, the !
^spSiUe on the eyes of the blind man
and the hen and chickens.
There? not much poetry about this
winged creature of God mentioned in
my. text, bat sfee is more practical and
more suggestive of
and wear She is not
a prima donna of the saef Wf ^strut_
of beauty in the aisle of the forest
does not cut a circle under the
acta like the Boeky mountain^ eagle,
but stays at home to look after family
affikirs. She d^es not swoop like the
coidorof the Cfcrdilleras^jjansport
a rabbit from the valley to the top of
the crags, but-scratchee for a fivisg.
How vigorously with her claws she
pc(lis away the ground to bring, up
what is hidden beneath! When the
ting hour arrives, she
and calls
her young to par?*ke.
SNBER OLD DOSffSlCK's " WISGS. *
^ Faijp in sympathy Vith the unpre
vtentioils old Jashioned hen, because,
: like^most of us, she haato aeratch for
v fa living. She knows at- the start the
f lessor wfiich most people of good
are slow to- learn ? that the gain
of a livelihood implies work, and
doao&eon the sar&ce,
t? be opttcSed by positive
uo*Q3 effort The reason
society, and the church, and the
world are so lull of failures^ full of
Iba&rs, so f^all of dead beats, is ba?
Cause people are not wise enough to
take the lesson which any hen would
?f
K VEj
HY-i.
W I. TILL]
CA il DEXf S.fcC
- \ Amen g tk
Tl\or eenrVf*,
ri'lficeXits r.
,.rl X ymt is
"9 *^re,bot
r)Ppi 25egp* with
ftu anypo^iteaS^id
che paroxysm of paihoflrcj*
cext, compares himself to a hen.
One day in the country we saw sod
den consternation in the behavior of
old Dominick. Why tfce hen should
b&*o disturbed we coul^ not under
stand. We lookLd about, to see if a
neighbor's dog were invading the
faniL We looked op to see if a
stormcloud were hovering. We.
r. -cog Id see nothing on the ground that
could terrorize, and we could see
nothing in tfbe air to ruffle the feath
ers of the , hen, but tne~ loud, wild,
affrighted" clack which brought all
hei brood at full run under bar feath
ers made ve look again around us and
above us, when we saw that high up and
far awa^* there was a rapacious bird
wheeling round and round. &iid down
and down, and not seeing us as we
stood in the shadow it came nearer
and lower until we saw its beak was
curved from base to tip, and it had
two flames 6f fire for eyes, and it was
a hawk. ^
['VBut all the chickens were under
I old Donjinick's wing, and either the
bird of prey caught a glimpse of us,
or not able to find the brood huddled
under wiijg darted back in the clouds.
So Christ calls with great) earnestness
to the young. Why, what is the mat
ter? It is bright sunlight, and there
can be no danger. Health is theirs.
A good home is theirs. Plenty of
food is theirs. Prospect? of long life
is theirs. But Christ continues to call,
calls with more emphasis and urges
haste and says not a second ought to
be lost Ob, do tell us what is the
matter! Ah, now I see. There are
^ hawks of temptation in the air; there,
are vultures wheeling for their prey;
there are beaks of death ready to
plunge there; are claws of al
lurement ready to cluteh. Now
I see the peril. Now I under
stand the urgency.* Now I see
the only safety. Would that Christ
might this day take our sons and
daughters into his shelter, "as a hen i
gatherefch her chickens under her
wing."
The fact is that the most of" them
will never find the shelter uhJcsb
while they are chickens. It is a sim
ple matter of inexorable statistics
that most of those who do not come
to Christ in youth never come at all.
What chance is there for the youtig
without divine protection? There are
the grog shops. There are the gam
bling hells. There are the infidelities
and "immoralities of spiritualism.
There are bad books. _ There are the
impurities. There are the business ras
calities. A^ so numerous are
these assailments thatJt is a wonder
that honesty and qirfue are not lost
arts.
The birds of prey, diurnal and noc
turnal, of the natural world are ever
on the alert. They are the assassins
of the sky. They have varieties of
taste. The eagle prefers the flesh of
the living animal. The vulture pre
fers the carcass. Tie falcon kills
with one stroke, * hife other styles ot
b'iak give prolongation of torture.
An so tjhe temptations of this life are i
various. * Some make quick work of
d^ath, and others agonize the mind j
and body for many years, and some
[ like the living blood of great souls,
rand triheQ prefer those already gan
grened. But for every style of 7outh
there is a swooping wing and a sharp
' beak and a ciuel claw, and what the
rising generation needs is a wing ' of
protection.
EARLY SALVATION URGED.
Fathers, m others, older brothers, and
sisters and Sabbath school teachers, be
quick,aaiearnest and prayerful and
importunate and get the chickens
under wing. May the Sabbath schools
of America and Great Britain within
the next three months sweep all their
scholars into the kingdom. Whom,)
they have now under charge is uncer
tain. Concerning that scrawny, pu
ny child that lay in the cradle many
years ago, the father dead, many re
marked, "What a. mercy if the Lord
would take the child!" and the mother
reallv though t^fco-- too- But what a
good" thing that God spared that
child, for it became worfd renowned
in Christian literature and one of I
God's most illustrious servants ? John
Todd.
[' . Benwmber, your children will re
main children only a little while.
What you do for them as children
you must do quickly or never do at
j all. "Why have you never 'written a
book?" said some one to a talented
woman. She replied: "I am writing
two and have been engaged on one
work 10 years and on the other five
' years ? nay two children. They are
mv life wt>rk." When the house of
John Wesley's father burned, and
they got the eight children out, John
Wesley the last before the roof fell in,
.the father said: "Let us kneel down
[aifif"tfaisk God. The <;hildren are
all saved; let the rest of tiie place go."
My heafere, if we secure the' present
and everlasting welfare of oar children,
most other things belonging to us are
of but little comparative importance.
Alexander the' Great allowed his
j soldiers to take their Sumlies with
them tqf wr, and he acooantad for the
bravery of his &en by the feet that
many of them were born In camp and
were used to warlike scei es frofa the
Ijgnrt. Would God that jiJI the chil
dren of our day might be born into
the army of the Lord! No need of
letting them go a long way on the
wrong road before they tarn around
and go on the r^ht joad.X The only
time to get chickens jncfer wing is
while they are ch ickeib.
Hannah Whitall MHjdvlhe evan
gelist, took her little child at 2 years
j of age when iU out of the crib and
told her plainly of Christ, and the
child believed awl gav* evidence of
joyful trust, which grew with her
growth into womanhood. Two years
are not too young. ,The time will
come when by the fiuth of parents
children will be born into this world
ilbora iirU> the bosom of Christ at
' same tiile i Soon we parents will
re to go and Have our children.
We figbt their ?-battleff now, and we
stand between "them and harm, bo?
oar arm will afterjiwhile get weak,
and we cannot fight for them, and oar
toagae will be palsied, and we cannot
'speak, ipr them. Are. we going to
leave them out in the cold world
take their chances, or are *ve doing ail
we can io get them under the wing of
eternal safety? *
"^-^SHELTEH FBOM LIFERS TEMPESTS.
all need the protecting
wing. If you had known when you
entered upon manhood and woman
hood what was aheaAof you, would
you have dared to undertake life?
How much you have been through!
With most life has been a disappoint
ment; they tell me so. They have not
attained that which they expected to
attain. They have not had the phy
sical and mental vigor they expected,
or they have met with rebuffs which
they did not anticipate. You are not
at 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 years* of |
age where you thought you would be.
I do not know one except myself
to whom life has Wn a happy sur
prise. I never expected anything,
fl-rvl go when anything came in the
shape of human favor or comfortable
position or widening field of work it
was to me a surprise.
I was told in the theological semin
ary by some of my fellow students
that I never would get anybody to
hear me preach unless I changed my
style, so that when I found that some
people did come to hear me it was a
happy surprise. But most people, ac
cording to their own statement, have
found life a disappointment. Indeed
we all need shelter from its tempests.
About 3 o'clock on a hot August after
noon you have heard a rumble that
you first took for a wagon crossing a-j
bridge but afterward there was a louder \
rumbling, and you said, "Why, that
is thunder!" And sure enough the
clouds were being convoked for a full
diapason. A whole park of artillery
went rolling down the heavens, and
the blinds of thd windows in the sky
were closed. But the sounds above
were not more certain than the sounds
beneath. ,
The cattle came to the bars and
moaned for them to be let down that
they might come home to shelter, and
the. fowl, whether dark Brahma or
Hamburg or Leghorn or Dominick,
began /to call to its young, "Cluck!"
Cluck!" "Cluck!" and take them
undeithe wagon house or shed, and
had them all hid under the soft leath
ers by the time that the first plash of i
rain struck 4he roof.
So there are sudden tempests for our
souls, and, ob! how dark it gets, and
threatening clouds of bankruptcy or
sickness or persecution or bereave
ment gather and thicken and blacken,
and some run for shelter to a bank,
but it is poor shelter, and others run
to friendly advisers, and they fail to
help, and others fly nowhere pimply
because they know not where to go,
aud they perish in the blast, but others
hear a divine call saying, "Come, for
all things are now ready." "The
spirit and the J>ride say come." And
while the heavens are thundering
terror the divine toice/proffers mercy,
and the soul comes under the brood
ing care of the Almighty "as a hen
gathereth her chickens under her
?wing."
DANGER OF ICY FORMALITY,
The wings! of my text suggest
warmth, and that is what most folks
want The fact is that this is a cold
world whether you take it literally or j
figuratively. We have a big fire
place called the sun, and it has a very
hot^ fire, and * the stokers keep the
coal^~~well stirred up, but much of the
year we cannot get near enough to!
this fireplace to get warmed. The
world's extremities are cold all the
time. Forget not that it is coldej: at
the soutlfjBgle than at the north pole,
and that the Arctic is not so destruc
tive as the Antarctic. Once in awhile !
the Arctic will let explorers come
back, but the Antarctic hardly ever.
When at the south pole a ship sails in,
the -door of ice is almost sure to
shut against its return.
Bo life to iftiiny millions of people at(
the south and many millions of people
at the north is a prolonged Bhiverj
but when I say that this is a cold
world 1 chiefly mean figuratively. If
you want to know what is the mean
ing of the ordinary term of 'receiving
the "cold shoulder," get out of money
and try to borrow. The conversation
may have been almost tropical for
luxuriance of thought and speech, but
suggest your necessities and see the
thermometer drop to 50 degrees below
zero, and in that which till a moment
before had JxreiLA warm room. Take
what ist-an unpopular position on some
public question anid see your friends
fly as chaff befor^a windmill.
As far as myself is concerned, I
have no word of complaint, but I look
off day by day and sae communities
freezing out men and women of whom
the world is not worthy. ./ Now it
takes after one and now after another.
It becomes popular to depreciate and
defame and execrate and lie about
some people. This is the best world I
ever got into, but it is the meanest
world some people ever got into. The
worst thing that ever happened to
them was their cradle, and the best
thing that will ever happen to them
will be their grave. What people
want is warwtk
| Many years ag> a man was floating
* down on the ice of the Merrimac,
and great efforts were made to rescue
him. 1 ^ iwice he got hold of a plank
thrown to him and twice he .slipped
away from it, because that end of tiie
plank was covered -with ice, and jhe
cried out, "For God's sake give me
the wooden end of the, plank this
time " and this done he was hauled to
shore. The trouble is that in dor
efforts to aave-the soul there is too
! much coldness ind icy formality, and
1 90 the imperiled one slips off and
floats down. Give it the other end of
the plank ? warmth of sympathy,
warmth of kindly association* warmth
|^of general surroundiugs. i
The world declines to give it, and
in many cases has no power itagivei it,
and here is where Christ -comes in,
and^as on a cold day, the rain beat
] ing and the atmosphere full of sleet,
j the hen clocks her chickens under
| her wingSL and the warmth of her own
breast puts warmth into the wet feath
ers and the chilled leet of ijnr -infant
group of the barnyard, so Christ sa^s
to those sick and frosted and disgust
ed and frozen of the world, Come in
out of the March winds of the world's
criticism; come' in out of the sleet of
the world's assault; come in out of a
world that does not understand you
and does not want to understand youi
1 will comfort and I will soothe and I
will be your warmth, :tas a hen gath^;
ereth her chickens under her wing."
Oh, the warm heart of God is ready
f&r all those to whom the world has
given the cold shoulder.
SACRIFICE UNTO DEATH.
But notice that some one must take
the storm for the chickens.- - Ah! the
hen takes the storm. I have watched
her under the pelting rain. I have,
seen her in the pinching frosts almost
frozen to death or almost strangled in
the waters, and what a fight she makes
for the young under wing it a dog or
hawk or a man comes too near! And
so the brooding Christ takes the storm
for us. t\That flood of anguish and
tears that did not dash upon his holy
soul! - What beak of torture did not
pierce his vitals! What barking
Cerberus of hell was not let out upon
him from the kennels!
What he endured, oh, who can tell,
To save oar souls from death and hell!
\ es, the hen took tl?fc storm for the
chickens, and Christ takes the storm
for us. .Once the tempest rose so sud
denly the hen could not get with her
young hack from the new ground to
the barn, and there she is under the
fence half dead. And now the rain
turns to snow, and it is an awful
night, and in the morning the white
ness about the gills and the beak
down in the mud show that the moth
er is dead, and the young ones come
?out and cannet understond why the
mother does not v scratch for them
something to eat, and they walk over
her wings and call with their tiny
voices, but there is no answering
cluck. She took the storm for others
and perished. Poor thingi Self sac
rificing even unto death! .
And does it not make you think of
who endured all for us? \ So the
wings under which we come for spirit*
nal safety are blood spattered wings,
are night shattered wings, are tem
pest torn wings. In the Isle of Wight
I saw the grave of Princess Elizabeth,
who died while a prisoner at Caris
brook castle, her finger on an open
Bible and pointing to the words,
?'Come unto me all ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest" Oh, come under the wings!
But now the snmmer day is almost
passer?, and the shadows of the house
and baru and wagon shed have
lengthened. The farmer, with scythe
or boe otfahoulder, is returning fr^ig
the fields. \ The oxen are unyoked;
The horses, are crunching the oats at
the full bin. The air is bewitched of
honeysuckle and wild brier. The
milkmaid, paii in hand, is approach
ing the barnyard. The fowls, keep
ing early hours, are collecting their
young, "CluciP V'Cluck!" Cluck!"
and soon all the eyes of that feathered
nursery are closed.
The bachelors of the winged tribe
have ascended to their perch, but the
hens, in a motherhood divinely ap
pointed, take all the risk of a slumber
on the ground, and all night long the
wings will stay outspread, and the
little ones will not utter a soiu^d.
Thus at sundown, lovingly, safely,
completely, the hen broods her young.
So, if we are the Lord 's, the evening
of our life will come. The heats of
the day will have passed. There will
be shadows, and we cannot see as far.
The work of life will; be about ended.
The hawks of temptation that
hovered in the sky will have gone to
the woods and folded - their wings.
Sweet silences will come down. The
air will be redolent with the breath of
whole arbors of promisees sweeter than
jasmine or evening primrose. The
air may be a little chill, but Christ,
will call us, and we will know the
voice and heed the call, and we will
come under wings for the night ?
the strong wings, the soft wings, the
warm wings ? and without fear and in
full sense of safety, and then we will
rest from sundown to Bunrise, "as a
hen gathereth her chichens under her
wing." Dear me, how many souls
the Lord hath thus brooded!
Mothers, after watching over sick
^cradles and then watching afterward
over wayward sons and daughters, at
?last themselves taken care of by 8,
igotherly God. Business men, after n
lifetime struggling with the uncertain
ties of money markets, and the change
of tariffs, and the underselling of men
who because of their dishonesties can
afford to undersell, and years of dis
appointment and struggle, at last un
der wings where nothing can perturb
them any more than a bird of prey
which is 10 miles off disturbs a chick at
midnight brooded in a barnyard.
TRU8TING IN DIVINE SHELTER.
My text has its strongest applirei- 1
tion for people who were born .in the
country, wherever you may now live,
and that is the majority of you. You
cannot hear my text without having
all the rustic scenes of the old farm
house come back to you. Good ol<?
days they were. You knew nothing
much of the world, for you had not
seen the %orld. .
By law of association you cannot
recall the brooding hell and her
chickens without seeing also the barn,
and the haymow, and the wagon shed,
and the house, and the \room where
you played, and> the fireside with tine
big backlog before which you sat, and
the neighbors, and tha burial, and the
wedding, and the deep Snowbanks,
and hear the village bell that called
you to Worship, and seeing the hontes
which, after pulling yon to churchy
stood around the eld clapboard ed
meeting house, and those who sat at
either end of the church pew, and in
deed alii the scenes of the first 1 4
years, and you think of what you
were then and and of what you are
now, and all ihese thoughts {ire
aroased by the sight of the old hen
coop.
Some of you had better g** tw.ek
and start again. In thought return
to that place and hear the cluck sjhI
see the outspread feathers an&come
under the wing and make the Lord
your portion and shelter and warmth,
: i j ?
preparing for everything^ that may
come, and so avoid bong classed
among; thoee described by the closing
words of my text, "as a hen gatbereth
her chickens under her wing, "and^ ye
woiildnot." i Ah, that throws j the
responsibly] upon us! "Ye would
not" Alfa^fcr the "would nots!" If
the . wandering broods Of the farm
hejd not their mother's call and risk
the hawk and dare the freshet and
ex pose themselves to the frost and
storm, surely their calamities are not
their mother's fault "Ye would
not!" God would, but how many
would not!
When a good man asked a young
woman who hid abandoned her home
and who was deploring her
wretchedness ^ why she did not return,
the reply was: "I dare not go home.
My father is so provoked he would
not receive me home." "Then," said
the Christian man, ."I will test this!*
And so be wrote to the father, and
the reply came back and in a letter
marked outside "Immediate,*' and
inside saying, "Let her come at Qnce;
all is forgiven." So God's invitation
for you is marked "Immediate" on
the outside, and inside it is written,
"He will abundantly pardon."
. Oh, ye wanderers from God and
happiness and home and heaven,
come under the sheltering wing.
Under this call I see you turning
from your old way to the new ^ay, the
living way, the gospel way. vessel
j in the Bristol channel was Hearing
the rocks called the " Steep Holmes.'
Under the tempest the vessel was
unmanageable, and the only hope
w as that the tide Would change before
she struck the ro^ks and went down,
and so the captaih stood on the deck
watch in hand. Captain and crew
aod passengers were pallid with terror.
Taking another look at his watch
and another look at the sea he shouted: I
"Thank God* we are saved,! The tide
has turned! One minute more and we
would have struck the rocks."
Some of you have been a long while
drifting in the tempest of sin and
trow and have been making
the breakers. Thank God, the
ti<fe\has turned. Do you not feel the
liflof3fcbe billow? The grace ofGod that
bringeth salvation has appeared to
four soul, $nd in the words frt Boaz
to Ruth I commend you to "the Lord
God of Israel, under whosewibgi thou
hast come to trust." L ' \jy
V. :
How Southern Tow ns^ May Secure Manu
factories.
BY W. 8. WITHAM IN "DIXIE."
There are many makers of different
iinds of goods desiring, from one
cause or another, a change oflocation.
There are many towns desirous of
having such manufactories locate in
their midst There is, therefore, com
petition among the more enterprising
places to secure the plant, while many
towns, like their indolent, unprogres
sive inhabitants, wait for "something
to turn up." To the former I address
the following suggestions as to the
best plans and methods of succeeding
which have not- failed in several in
stances when tested:
First. The committee sent from
your town to the manufacturer must
be a man, or men, of integrity, push
and good common serifce^ '.When we
come to believe in the matt, we are
apt to adopt his idej*& This com
mittee will avoid the "promoter of
brazen greed" and deal directly'wfth
those in authority and control of the
plant to be located^=deal with prin
cipals and not agents, although it may
be necessary to get this audience
through the agent.
Sscond. Waste no time with a
manufactory without capital or repu
tation, of which there many seeking
to unload upon new towns for a
"bonus*."
Third. Don't display your ignor
ance and waste your time and money
by talking to the maker of such goods
as can find no natural advantages in
your town for the economical produc
tion of his wares. ' If you are in a
timber country, put in your time with
makers of furniture, doors, sash, blinds,
handles, and other wooden goods. If
you are in a cotton producing section
seek the manufacturer of cotton goods.
If .jou are in an iron section, go to
see the maker of all kinds of hard
ware, stoves, and other iron merchan
dise. Bring to his attention examples
I of successful enterprises, in his line,
and ii he refers to any failures of the
same, show him that the fault was not
in the locality, but a lack of brains or
capital ? or both. The successful man
in locating plants must be thoroughlv
posted. j '
j Fourth. After proving to your
customer that your town has the ad
vantages of low price in raw material,
such as he uses in the production of
his goods, then enumerate the many
advantages of the Southern climate
over that of the East and West Here
in the South there are more working
hours, living is less expensive, less
fuel, ^ flannels, blankets and heavy
clothing being required than at the
| West or the North. Again, th^ la
borers other living expenses are
less. Good board may be had from
S7 to $10 per month. Again, the j
bouth is now prospering and will con
tinue to grow in wealth aiid people
as she is backed by King Cotton, King
Iron, King Coal, and Kjng Climate, I
with a soil capable of producing every
thing people need and expect from
the ground. Another great advantage
the South has over other sections is its
freedom from anarchism, socialism,
infidelity,^ communism, free-love
and other elements which disturb la
bor acd produce strikes, discord, dis
content aad revolution. While on
the other hand the South furnishes !
the advantages of savings banks, ex-:
celleot public schools, churches of all
denominations and settled society. To
the thoughtful, successful man, these
suggestions have great weight I
have tried them, and know whereof I
Firth. The South is freer from
competiti^a thau the We*t and East j
and, consequently, prices are better !
and population rapidly increasing.
Then, when a man {has a surplus to j
invest tfrere is no other part of the
country Aring so many safe avenues
of mvesrafcct, yielding fronp? to 15
[ per cent Interest on deposits in the
j East is |3 per cent, in the South" 6.
| Bonds jn the East pay 2i per cent in
the South 6. Bank stocks in the
East pay 6 to 8 per cent., in the South
10 to 20 per eent^and qMhis differ
ence in favor of the South can be
traced through all iaound iu vestments.
Sixth. Here prevails among many
people in the United States an idgf
tl at the heat of Southern summer is
excessive add unbearable. This opin
ion has, though erroneous, hindered
many concerns from locating in the
South. To dispel this you can show
many instances like the following:
Lastj sungper the thermometer on the
hottest day stood 94 in Atlanta, Ga.,
and 104 in Hartford, Conn. It can
be easily demonstrated that our South
ern nights are cooler and the days no
warmer than in the East and West.
Seventh* After securing from your
town council the advantages of low
taxes, or freedom from taxation, upon
manufactories, and all other favors it
will grant, then get the lowest rates of
freight the railroads will give to these
industries; go before your own people
and organize au industrial 'company,
With a paid up- capital to be used in
encouraging manufactories to locate
in your town. This company takes
stock, offers sites, builds tenement
houses to give cheap rent, advances
money at a low rate oflnterest upon
mfiiufactured goods, puts up au in
dustrial buildh|g which supplies space
and power, which is rented at cost.
This *ast mentioned brings innumer
able little concerns which, after all, do
more to build a city than large plants,
Such growth is permanent. \ In this
industrial building a small manufac
tory can get a room with Steam or
electric power without laying out his
working capital in buildings, engines,
coal, etc.
Eighth. When you find the right
man invite him to your town; pay his
expenses and see to it that he is well
received by your most prominent citi
zens, and guard him against contact with
the following classes that afflict all cit
ies: The utc^wn fool," the "schemer," the
' 'blower, *t he blab-mouth politician
and the man who has failed at every
undertaking, yet who is the "kuow^
all" of jfche place. Do not go after
your customer until you have some
thing substantial to offer; until you
have the concessions mentioned, and
you become thoroughly posted in all
the details of the undertaking. When
he visits the South f<?r these business
purposes he will find upon the social
side of the question, a society that is
settled, and free lrom a disagreeable
foreign elemqjat. The sentiment of
the people is refined, public opinion is
conservative, the citizens are hospita
ble, and the upright, industrious
home seeker has a hearty welcome re
gardless of his politics and church
connection.
OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY DEMO
^ CRATIC CONGRESSMEN.
Mr. Cleveland's Selection* Meet Villi Un
qualified Approval, Particularly That
Of Herbert ? "A Personal Cabinet."
Washington, Feb. 23. ? Mr Her
bert V popularity in the House left uo
room to question how his appointment
would he received by Democra'ic
Congressmen. The fact id also that
he has been go overwhelmed by tele
grams aud letters of congratulations
from- others thau hie associates in
Congress that he finds* it utterly im
possible to acknowledge them except
through the medium of a press dis
patch of thankfc.
Mr OlneyV selection was equally as
well received^ by the New England
Democrats, whu said that it was a
fine appointment. Members from the
South and West were disappointed,
but would not criticise it, simply say
ing that the appointee was entirely
unknown to them, and might he a
good man.
In speaking of the entire Cabinet,
Mr Blount, one of the oldest members
of Progress, said: "Mr Herbert is
well qualified for the Navy Depart
ment. Mr. Smith will, I think, make
an able Secretary of the Interior.
Carlisle is the peer of any man in
public life. Doubtless the other
gentlemen chosen will be successful in
their departments. Mr Cleveland is
a man of rare wisdom. His announce
ment of the Cabinet gives assurance
that, his selections are wise."
Other comments were as follows:
Speaker Crisp: "It is a very good
Cabinet, and a satisfactory one, I
guess. I am very glad that Herbert
was taken forfce navy portfolio."
Mr TumeW (Georgia): "It is a i
very good Cabinet."
Mr Bingham (Penn.): "ft is a j
strong Cabinet. I am very much de i
lighted with Herbert's appointment.
The Cabinet has this peculiarty and
this satisfaction: It is the first which
has ever been announced betore the
| 4th of March. I like that. It is a
personal Cabinet, and is chosen for
the fidelity of its members. That is i
the point about it which is not always j
apparent in Cabinets."
To these comments ex Speaker |
Reed of Maine added this charac- j
teric capsheaf: "I think that Clevo j
land changed his mind about appoint
ing me to a place in the Cabinet be
cause of some speech which Mr Hill
or some other Democrat made about
me. I am disappointed."
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