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ARP AND IDS BIBLE I I Bill Says He Likes to Read The ' Apocrapha HE QUOTES SUMR OF THE BOOK Talks About Family Influence In Good , Government for the Whole of Our! f Country. The family is the most important institutions upcn the earth. It is the hope of the world. Irs influence is j greater than that of kings, emperors ; or cabinets. Parents and children : gathered around the hearthstones in separate families make up com muni-! ties, and they make states and nations and chccse their rulers. As the fan;- | Pes are. so is the government?good | or had?men?unmarried men arc j merely individuals and foci no groat; responsibility outside of their individ-: ual comfort and welfare. But par- j onts are concerned for their children, j We live for 'them and would die for I them, consequently we want good government that will protect them. But it is noc every family who feels this deep concern. From my window 1 see the homes of many neighbors and tan cotmt on my fingers those whose presence is of safeguard to the community. and the rest are of but little consequence. If they were to move \ away it would add to our peril, So it is in all communities. The few protect the many. So it is in church and state. Twenty members of our legislature. cciktoI its legislation. Ten members of an average church membership give the church its character. Sodom was desrioyed because tan good ; men could not he found. If all men i were good we would have no need of; courts or prisons. But for ever} j church that is set on a hill there is a jail in the valley. I hear the preacher j calling and the bell tolling from the ; one. and imagine i hear the devil call- j ing from the other, and he cries out: as the sergeants did jr. the old muster language, "Oh. vesl Oh. yes! All who belong to Captain Satan's company phr .de here.'1 And the people ar e go- j ing and coming all the time some to one call and more to the other. But as j the devil can't be heard afar off. he : goes about calling, and even invades j the sanctuary and calls aloud while the preacher is preaching. "Man never erects a house of prayer But what the devil builds a pulpit there. And 'twill be found upon examination The devil has the largest congrcgation." Ay His pulpit is always at the rear end where the young people love to sir, j and you can tell bc^nr popular he is j by the number who sit there. I wae? ruminating about this family, institution and its great importance; in the world because I have been read- j irg about 1: in the Apocrypha, which is cno of our family Bibles. I heard a preacher say once that a Bible with the Apocrypha in it should not stay ;:i his house. Well, it took 1.S26 years to exclude it from 'the Protestantj Bible, and most cf it is in the Romoan ; Catholic Bible vet. What is called a sac rod canon was not established un-j til the sixteenth century, and for cen- t turics before that almost every great | theologian hod his own catalogue of; inspired hooks as he believed them.' Cor 300 years cr.ly cm of'Paul's epis-' ties wore admitted. The Book of ^c. T f>n <Jt Inhn .MUiRS HJiU i IIV ? Kianuu , worn excluded. S > were Esther and. Daniel and Jonah in the Old Testa- j meat. I.u her tried to have Hebrews.! ar.:l James, and Jude. and the Revelations of St. John excluded, but failed. Hut all differences of opinions seem to have been harmonized at the council of Trent by all Christians and the Apocryphia was left in. not as an inspired pan. hut to be read for religious instruction. In 1R2<> it was excluded from the Prc'rst2:nt Riule. but it remains in many of the old time family Ribles and is in one of mine. 1 dare to peruse it sometimes, especially "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach." which is called Eeclesiasticus. which has fifty chapters and is as full of mixims and morals and instruction for the family as are the proverbs of Solomon. Addison says that if this book had been loft in the canon or if t i; had the name of some groat Greek philosopher, it would have commandoi HP miration of mankind. To my mind it is the condensation of wisdom far family government. It is as pointed and pungent a; anything that Solomon ever wrote. This Jesus was a better man than Solomon. He live t and wrote 300 years after Malaehi. the last of the prophets. In the close of his narrative concerning Moses and the prophets, he says of Solomon: ""fly his body he was brought into subjection and didst stain-his honor and pollute his seed and brought wrath upon his children, and his kingdom w.=e divided." I never did have a profound admiration for a mar. who said. - ... . ->?-? ?, "Kejjjoice. un, 'y<mus u.uu, . ?? wife of thy youth, and be,?hou alway , ra>vi*htd with her" fove," asid th?n goes off and-marries 300 wives an i takes 700 concub'ne?. His precepts wepe P>od. but his example was baa, very bad. My doctrine has alwyas l>ean that a man has no more right to two wives than a woman has to two husbands. Let him .stand by his marriage vows. This i3 t^^injjjjunction i o." Jc >:?. :hson of Sirach. As a sam- j pi* cf his wisdom let mo quote: " \ man that breaketh his wedlock, j ; "ii'7. Who sc-eth me. am I no: com- j passed ai:out with darkness.' ho for- j gette/h that the eyes of the I ord ar" ten .housnnd times brighter than the j son." "Blessed is he who hath a vittuous wife, for the number of his days shall be doubled." "A silent and loving woman is a gift from the Txard." "A fool will peep in at the door of the house, but he that is well nurtured will stand without." 'To ret banquet upon borrowed money." "Commend not a niun for his outward appearance, for many kings have sz: down upon the ground, and one j that was never upon the. ground, and j one ;hnt was never thought of hath , worn the crown." "A -frierd cannot be known in pros- j perky, and an enemy cannot be hi J ! in -adversity." "l\se not much "he company of a ! woman who is a singer lest thou be ! captured with her voice." "Rejoice not over thine enemy when | he is dead." "Ivcnd not to him who is higher than thyself, hot if thou iuendost cour.t it : lo=t" "Sit n-'.-t down with the wife of another man in thine arms. for it will ; btir.g the? to destruction." "My son. helup thy father in his ol.l age and thou shall have joy in thine own children." "Have no fellowship with those who are mightier and richer than thyself, for how can the earthen kettle and the pc- agree." "When a rich man speaketh every j m?n holdeth his tongue and ex-col it to the clouds, but if a poor man speak, I they say, -What fellow is this?' " "Build not a. hou?? with anothei man's money, for it i-s like gathering stones for the tomb of thy burial." "A thief is better than a eommon liar." I "Accustom not thy mouth to gwear- 1 ing nor to the naming of the Holy ; One." Against him that is niggard of his trait his neighbors shall murar.ir." j "Ke p a sure watch c.or a shame- ; less (laughter lesc she make thee a : ugh in^stock and a byword In the c'ry and a reproach among thy peo- J pie." Whether this book is inspired or not. it i>- full of devotion to God and grati tilde for His goodness. The Old Testament Hebrews canon was made up and 1 elosed before this Jesu- lived or per- j haps Ecclesiatieus would have been j embraced in it. It is certainly entitle 1 ! to as much consideration as Solomon's Son. for there is not a vulgar cr lascti- i ions expression in it. This much about the Apocrypha wilj answer some inq"."! Tt" I have received, two of them frcm preaehe.s. I have a long letter from my old friend. Pi-hep Turner, concerning rhrt recent pu'" !! . ti~n cf William Hannibal Thoma^; that bill of indictment against the negroes of his own race. He denouc.'s Thomas. His opinion is that some learned white men wrote the bcok and paid Thomas for the use of his name. | He says this is the opinion of those in South Carolina who kuow this scane- i gallows. He says "I am well acquain - ! ed with him; knew him during the war ! in front of Richmond, where seme ; southern hero shot off one of his arms. 1 and it is a pity he did not shoot his ; head off. He is now receiving an exorbitant pension from the 1'nitod Stat?s government. If there ever was momv paid to a dog it Is paid to him. If the j white people of the south knew half .s j much about his rascality and villa.ny j as he has told me. they would seek h)> j blcod. If our preachers are so bad as h? | represents them, what did he stop for and join the party of the devil. He was one of the preachers of my church and will be until hell open Iter arms to receive him." etc. I have been following Bishop Tur- ! ner s course evefstace the wa*v a ;d ' have never known aught against him J as a man and Christian. In the year | 1866. when cur people at Rome we o j under the oppression of a Spanish cap- j tain, one Deo la Mesa. Bishop Turner j acted as a mediator and tried to make j our condition more tolerable. He m.a ! - ; a speech at Reese's Spring near Ron"\ j that we all commended and did his uc- I most to prevent that Spaniard from exercising his fonl domination and tyranny. Ever since then his pen snd ovico has been for peace between the rac-. I am pleased to r.pejk of him :s ta: friend."?Bill Arp in Atlanta C^us itution. Bill Anthony's Coolness. "Bill" Anthony was one of the bt~. examples that came out of the Spanish war of the man who -:.in keep his head when others have lost theirs, says Richard Harding Davis in Everybody's Magazine. His coolly indifferent announcement to Sigsbee that the Maine was sinking, either showed a soul disciplined to the condition of an automaton. or a spirit which nothing could dismay. I once asked Captain Sigsbee if the popular version of Anthony's speech was correct. He said it was. but that Anthony did not salute him as was generally told, nor preface Jiis speech with "I beg lb roport^si'.'j." ^We bumped into each other jp the <tprk," ' Sigsbee said, "and if he had saluted" ' and spoken with that formality, ho j would have been thinking of himself and of making an effect, and not of his duty. What he really said and did is better without any of the advantages which came later." - ? -I* . FOUR SHOTS FIRED. Atiernpt lo Assassinate Russian Hi*!) Councillor. RESULT OF STUDENT AGITATION. Call Issued Asking Members of Intelligent Russian Society to Join in Struggle for Freedom. St. Petersburg. Bv Caible.?Pri.y Councillor Pobiedcn.-teff, chief procurator cf the Holy Synod, narrowly escaped assassination early Friday morning. While writing in his study shortly after midnight, two bullets shattered a window and parsed cios^ to the procurator and buried themselves in the ceiling. Two other shots were fired but did not enter the room. The would-be assassin was i'entiiKd as one Lagowski. a provincial official. The procurator was unscratched. An investigation into the causes of the attack is proceeding. The students organizaton eomrattee has issued a call inviting all intelligent members of the Russian society to join their ranks in the struggle for freedom A Perilous Undertaking. Manila. By Cable.?Gen. Funston is tow engaged in a daring p-oject wnh h promises to be the greatest and most romatic achievement of his eventful career. In January. fr??n his hiding place in the province of Cabclla. Aguinaldo wrote letters anathematizing the sub-chiefs who hid taken the each of allegiance to the United States. Later, Aguinaldo ordered certain insurgent forces in southern Luzon to join him at a rendezvous in Cabclla province. Th* rcfoel officer entrusted with these o.ders secretly negotiated with the Americans. On securing neeess.'.ry information Gen. Funston planned Aguinaldo's capture, and, with Gen. MacArthur's authorization, proceeded two weeks ago to make the attempt. Geu. Funston. with Surgeon Major Hairis, Major Newton of the Twenty-fifth infantry. Lieut. Admir of the Twentyset ond infantry. Lieut. Mitchell of the Fortieth infantry, six veteran scouts and a corps of native srou:s, all picked men, embarked on the gunboat Vieksburg and were landed on a remote bench above Baier. 71 was arranged that Aguinaldo's emissaries, with th9 native scouts, should pass themselves off as insurgent troops who. having captured Gen. Funston and other-, were taking them as prisoners to Aguinaldo. At the right time, when brought before guinaldo. Gen. Funston was to give a signal, when 'the tables were to be turned and Aguinaldo was to be seized. Six days' march into the interior was contemplated. Treachery was considered possible, but every precau tion was taken. The troops in New Viocaya and New Eoija and the gunboats Vicksburg and Albany were to co-operate with Gen. Funston's force. The Vicksburg is expected here tomorrow. Germany Holds Slaves. Berlin. By Cable.?The reichstag debate Wednesday was interesting because, after Herr Babel's motion to declare legally free all children born of domestic slaves in the colonies had been rejected, with the assistance of the Center party, Germany now stands confesed before the world as perpertuating slave-holding power. All that the colonial chief. Dr. Stubel. and other advocates could say was chat slavery was absolutely necessary for settlers in the German colonies. Lynched for Shooting Town Ala.shal. Little Rock. Ark., Special.?A Gazette special from Pochontas says that Geo. Chevris, who lest week sho nd killed Town Marshal Norris of Pocacontas. while Norris was performing official duty, was taken from *=21 by a mob of 200 men and hanged. The coroner s jury held Chevries for murder, but owing to the feeling against him. the trial has been postponed until next week. The membe:s of the mob were masked. Attorney General Resigns. Washington. D. C., Special?Attorney General Griggs has handed to the president his resignation, to take effect March 31. Mr. Griggs intends -a leave Washington on Saturday for his home in New Jersey, where hn-eafter he will reside. His intention is to re Simp immediately the practice of his profession. Holt I Destroyed. Ithaca. N. Y.. Special.?Clinton House, one of the oldest and best known hotels in central New York, was destroyed by fire early 'Saturday evenifig. When it was seen that the hotel could not be saved a number of students of Cornell university, who had been tugging at the hose* rushed into the btirnflng-- -building. ^removed noarly* all -the; furnitnf^\^evera'l ha J rarrow escapes from falling walls, but no one was seriously injured. The fire is supposed to have originated in the drying room from an unprotected electric light wire. The. lo.-s, which is estimated at $150,000, is nearly covered by insurance. t . * m* . >y* . THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY The South. Owen Zoigler cff Philadelphia, kncck; ?d out Tom Corcoran, of Savannah, | in the eleventh round in the lat! ter city Friday night. The mill was in i the theatre, before a full house. The j fight was to have been twenty-five I rounds. A punch in the stomach and I a swing on the jaw did the work. Corj coran had been bleeding freely for four 1 rounds. Zeigler was not marked at all, : and left the ring apparently as fresh j as when he entered iu An application has been filed in At: lanta for a charter for the North Geor| gia Mining and Milling Company. The ! capital stock will be $2,500,000. The company owns 30,000 acres of land in Murray. Gilmer and Fannin counties, upon which it proposes to develop the ore and timber. Representative Hivingston, of Geor; gia. is now steadily convalescing. Dr. Sprigg. the attending physician, stated : yesterday that Mr. Livingston is gain! ing rapidly and that unless unexpected i complications set in his recovery is : assured. He has no fever and his ! weak heart is aH that is feared. F. H. Carpenter, a retired capitalist : of Ohio, blew his head off with a ; shct-gun at Leesburg, Fla. j The presentation to Lieutenant I Hobson, at Greensboro, Ala., has been postponed because of the Lieutenant's illness. The Apierican Leather Compamy, at Knoxville. Tenn., has closed a deal by which it comes into possession of the > Tannery of the Virginia Tanning and J Exchange Company, one of the largest j tanneries ;n tne siaie. A special to The Atlanta Constituj tion from Lavonia. Ga., says: "John i Hunter, a negro. charged with assaul' iting the five-year-old daughter of J. ! E. Con well, escaped from his captors ! Sunday night, while being taken to | the Hartwell jail. In pursuing Hunter j Mr. Conwell accidently shot Henry A. j Singleton, one of those guarding HunI ter. but the wound is not fatal. Two j poshes are pursuing the negro. The North. The ice in the Mississippi at DubuI que, Iowa, went out leaving the chanj nel clear for several miles. This is the earliest for years. The Meir.eeke Toy Company's fivestory brick structure, in Milwaukee, was guttqd by fire Sunday night, entailing a loss estimated from $100,000 : to $125,000. A special to tihe BuiTalo Express ; from Campbelltokn, N. B.. says: "Six persons were burned to death SaturI day night at Little Cascapeda, Quebec. as the result of the explosion of a coal ?* ,v- ~ /-vP Tr?hn Gailth j Oil Stove la iuc uuuov ier. Gauthier's wife was sick in bed." At the next s?ssion of the Ohio Gen1 eral Assembly, Representative Gear, of I upper Sandusky, will introduce an a.nti-kidnapping bill. He has received three letters threatening to kidnap and mutilate his daughter unless $500 be 1 left in an old shoe, at a certain place. ! The writers threatened to put out the ! girl's eyes with a red-hot poker and j fire the Gear residence. Foreign. The dock strike at Marseilles is un1 broken. ! Rumors of the illness of President | Diaz, of Mexico, are denied. There was a general fight between ; students and police at St. Petersburg ! A lojery in Europe for the Boers is : being organized by M. Henri Roche | ion. { Indefinite closing has been ordered at the Colchester Cotton Mills. Burlington. Vt. Germany made an additional appropriation yesterday of nearly $31,000,000 for the Chinese expedition. The census cf Austria-Hungary shows a population of -1Q.310.3S5 which i is an increase cf 10 per cent, during ! the last decade. A special dispatch from Cairo, Egypt, says a new Dervish movement is reported to have occurred in the southern part of the Soudan. The official organ of the Russian Ministry of Finance at St. Petersburg threatens that Russia will make strict reprisals in case eft any raising of duties by Germany on Rus-ian products. fllscellaneous Queen Victoria's funeral cost $173,000. The battleship Alabama developed 15.2 knots on its last trial. A Berlin dispatch rerorts that the German navy like the British, has decided to abandon the Belleville boilers on warships. Mr. Herreshoff, Jr., describing the new defender in an interview published by the London Daily Mali, says: "I hope Shamrock II will win. as British victory woufd do more to develop yachting on both sides of the Atlantic and promote good will between the two nations 'than anything else could, A Yokohama dispatch gays that the. cabinet crisis at Seoul, capital of Ko-' rea, which arose out Of the arresa of? , the acting 4 Minister . of Finance on ' charge? oi-having plotted to murder a number or AaTlddibs otf-ft*'e;imp?cial 1 : household, continues. I i A dispatch from Shanghai announces ] the sailing of United States Minister I Conger. The condition of Li Hung J Chang Ls Improved. .4 / &L am .. * m < .; > NEWgY CLEANINGS. A State Dispeusary law is proposed f ai? A i'l*n non o ' v/i Aiauuoao. Gro.it Britain lias ordered five Holland submarine boats. A dry dock company has been incorporated at Pensacola, Fla. A $1,000,000 hotel is to be built in Chicago just south of the Auditorium. For the first time since the Civil War there is not a negro in the North Carolina Legislature. St. Louis, Mo., no longer has eable cars. The trolley has become the whole thing for local transit. The German Navy, following the British example, will discard Belle>ville boilers in use on warships. Brigandage in China has considerably decreased in consequence of the intervention of the foreign troops. The Interior Department denies that there are any special bargains in land in Oklahoma for soldiers or sailors. The Kansas Legislature has appropriated $10,000 to purchase poison to l>e used in exterminating prairie dogs. Twenty of the principal Mexican banks in the last .government report showed an aggregate capital of $70,000,000. The Bank of New York, which was founded by Alexander Hamilton, celebrated its 107th anniversary u. few days ago. rol-imA / hll/lrnn nt tlin f.irlislP school in Pennsylvania are said to rank far ahead of Indian youths in every study. The people of Arlzon are returning tltanks for the heaviest rainfall there for twenty years. Rains are not an everyday occurrence in that Territory. A society has been founded at St. Petersburg called the Russkoye Sobranye. "to educate youth according to the ancient Russian spirit, to restore Russian antiquity and costumes, and to cultivate a pure Russian language." The "lien With a Story." The majority of the "men with a story" (vagrants) are frauds. The expression is often heard, however, "Oh, well, help them anyway! It is better to help many frauds than to let one genuine case suffer." That argument is all right provded there are genuine cases? There is on record a statement of the late Doctor John HalJ that in aJl the years of his experience in New York City he had never found one. Certainly of the two hundred strangers who have come to me during the past year not one was worthy of any help of the kind asked for.? Re David M. Steele, in tho April Ladies' Home Journal. A Business "Clincher." An artistic, daily business "clincher" has been sent out from the Youth's Companion of Boston. It is a bird portfolio, the portfolio itself being a pretty creation of rich green paper, embellished with sketches of birds, etc.. which inside are twefva beautiful drawings, by Ernest Set on Thompson, of American birds. Tiie pictures are brown tints on he: cream paper, and are as interesting -a grown people as the boys and girls. These sketches are also suitale for framing and would ornament any wall. Wolcott to Succeed Hitchcock. Pueblo. Col.. Special.?The Daily Chieftain says: "It Is definitely known here that ex-Senator Wolcott, of Colorado. wi'.J be appointed by the President to be Secretary of the Interior to succeed Mr. Hitchcock. The news has been received by the friends of Mr. Wolcott in this city, the statement being made unequivocally, and it is indicated that the appointment will bo made in Washington tomorrow." Arrested for Kidnapping. Fort Worth. Texas, Special.?J. L. Peterson and J. M. Cooper, claiming to be officers from North Carolina, are under arrest here charged with kidnapping. They tock charge, without a warrant of a man named Warrick, who is alleged to have killed a relative of the men and for whom a reward is offered. They had Warrick bound with ropes when the Texas officers made the arrest. Warrick was held to await orders from the Governor o? No*"th Carn'i"a inlkmm MANUFACTURERS OF DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, MOULDING AND Building; Haterial. 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