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DR. CHAPMAN'S Sl'NDAV SERMON
Quins Back 1o Otd Cu5tcr.ii.--No Man
u ?c Rad os His Worst Principles
Would Indicate.
Nrw Yokk City.?It nay now be stated
as a fact that the sermons of the Rev.
Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman are hea-d and
read by more people than are those of
any American pulpit orator. His style
seems to have made a deep impression on
that portion of the pub'ie which likes to
read its discourse in the weekly paper.
For these admirers Dr. Chapman has prepared
the following ?crnon. entitled "Reviving
Old Customs." It is nreaohed from
the text Genesis 18. "And Isaac digged
again the wells of water which they had
digged in the days of Abraham, his father
"
Theie are three names in the New Testament
inseparably bound together. We
rarelv think of one without having immediately
suggested to us the names of the
other two. These three are Peter. .Tames
nod John. They were specially chosen of
~.n?nimiAi!s sprvice. and were
vnnst mi <.viu-.?v.>.v -the
particular objects of His divine affection.
There are three names in the Old
Testament ouite as intimately associated,
and one can scarce!v sneak the name of
one of the three without findine himself
runnine at once in speech to the other
two. Abraham, Isaac ard .Tacob form the
Old Testament trio. I do not know how
familiar you are v.^fh the story of Isaac.
T have found myself that T knew very litHe
about him. I was oui?e familiar with
the aerount of the intended sicririee on
Mt. Moriah. ard tlm fascinating story of
bis meeting with Tlobekch. but concerning
other incidents of his life I knew very little.
A? a matter of fact Isaac does not
show off to advantage between Abraham
on the one side of hint an! Jacob on the
other: Abraham because of what he was,
the father of the faithful, and Jacob because
of what he became, for by the nower
of fiod he was chanced from Jacob, the
cheat, to Israel the prince, having power
with Clod a?d with men. and one cannot
heln but feel .as he read* the whole story
of Isaac'" life that it would have been better
for him had be died unor the altar.
TTi? made a snVndid s*art in life, but so
did \Toah and Lot. and so have many ot
you. hut that is not mouth. At the bejjinn
nf of his career' Isaac goes away beyond
the others who?e names I have mentioned.
We are so taken up with Abraham
and his willingness to offer his son
. that somehow we have forgotten Isaac's
willingness to he offered. He really made
a snlendid start, and was a most estimable
young man. If we look at a single verse
in his career wc say what an excellent
man, and if we look at others we find ouroelves
exclaiming, "How mean he is," and
yet so it is w;th our own lives. Men must
iiot be iudged by one paragraph in our experience.
Joseph Parker says, "Our life's story is
not to be read through as if it were one
sentence: it mu?t bo broken tin into verses
and they are strar.eelv punctuated." We
chnnot take one verse out cf a man's life
and say that is the man. for one verse
would make him too prod, n-hile another
would make him quite too bad. I am very
sure that you arc not nn'to ?- -? good as some
acts of your life would lead men to believe.
I am equally sure that no man is quite so
bad as some parts of his life story would
lead us to think him. It is a great encouragement
to know that the rending of the
ato^y of our lives is a matter of divine elocution.
Some men read the most interesting
book, and make it prosy, while others
who know how to read read the most un
interesting nroduction. r.rd Whold. it is
thrilling. It is said that Edwin Booth
could ?av the Lord's Prayer :n such a way
a* to bring the tears to your eyes. What
a jov it is to know that our story is to be
read by one who read the scroll in the svnagogue,
and read it in such a way that
men contested whether he was reading the
old scroll or not. As He reads our lives,
humble though they mav have been, they
will expand into a nob'e eloquence. We
are perfectly safe with R:s interpretation
of our acts.
There are certain texts akin to this, as.
for example. ' Whose fan is in his hand."
It is a good thing that the fan is not in our
own hands, for we would be unjust, and
equally good that it is cot in our enemies'
hands, for thev would h? ofttimes cruel.
V?,f fan in Hi< hard there will
come to us not one touch of discipline but I
what we ne?d. _ *-- - ?There
is another text. "Jhe Lord knoweth
they that are H?V." T?:e people of the
world misunderstand n?. tluv misinterpret
onr best actions, but Tie knows.
There is still another. "He knoweth our
frames and He mr.embere:h that we are
dust." That mistake of yours yesterday
which the world condem-ed He perfectly
understood, because He knew your weakness.
What a joy it is to know that we
are in His hands.
-..The subject of wells is interesting. In
Oriental tinms a well of water was a fortune.
When a king dug a well he became
as famous as if he had built a pyramid.
"Great battles were fought to gain possession
of wo1]* and mighty conquests waged
for their defense. Castles a;.:l towers were
erected to secure their possession. Abraham
dug at least four webs; how many
more T do not know, bu' these four were
filled in by the Philistines, and it is with
their reonening that we have to do in the
text. T like to speak of wells because there
is music in the very sound of the word.
In Isaiah, the twelfth chanter, second
and third verse?, we read. "Behold. God
is mv salvation: T will trust," and not be
afraid; for the Lord Jehovah is my
strength and mv song: lie rlso is become
my salvation. Therefore with fov shall ye
draw water out of the wells of salvation."
This is not on'v an Old Testament figure,
hut a Xew. for .Tesus said, "l'.jt whosoever
dnnketh of the water tbr." I shall give
him shall never thirst: li't the water that
I shall pive him shall be in him a well of
water springing up into everlasting life."
John 4: 14. Therefore the ?. ?pel is a well,
and you have never had a drink of spring
water as you have been weary in your
tramp up the mountains rr across the
plain that could eompare wj.h the refreshirfg
influence of a drink of the water of life
from the well ot salvation. Some of you
have had sorrow, your hearts have been
almost breaking you have w ndered where
you might find help; stoop and drink this
morning of this old gospel well. Some of
yon have failed, and indeed who has not in
this awful struggle of life, rut in your failure
you have wondered if there could ever
be restoration; stooo and drink this morning,
and you will find that as you drink
you will take in of His life, and this is the
secret of victory over sin. Some of you
arc exceedingly weak, and you dare not
trust yourself for another dav. 1 bid you
drink of the water of the well of salvation,
and you will find a strange new strength
taking possession of you. Isaiah 33: 1-2.
**Ho, every one that thirstetb, come ye to
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the writers, nr..I be :ln-. ' -\A\ rlFmrv.
come ye. buv and on.: vta, come. buy wine
end milk without money and without price.
Wherefore <i i ye spend your money for ,
that which is not bread? and your iabor i
for that which satisneth not? Hearken diligently
unto me. and eat ye that which is
good, and let your sou! delight itself in
fatness."
1.
These wells had navies. It is a little singular
as we study the story of Abraham
end Isaac to find the names given to the
wells, and likewise singular tiiat in these
names we find a revelation of our own experience
in the journey of life.
First, the first well was named "Strife."
We have ill had a drink at this well. We
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been striving for success; we have met it
in our homes as we have aimed to conduct
them as homes should ever be conducted.
We might as well understand that as we
dig wells in this world we must expect op-1
position. We cannot be let alone, and this )
strife will come from one of three sources, J
perhaps from all three.
First.?The world. Jesus said to His J
disciples. "Marvel not it the world hate
you. We must expect to hear from the
devil. It is rather old-fashioned in these
days to say that He has a personality, hut
I have had so many dealings with him
myself, and have seen his work
so" perfectly in the lives of others
that I know he is a person, but
in many respects the greatest strife must
come from trie flesh, and I find a hint of
this in the story of Isaac. What envy
was to Cain, and wine to Noah, and lewdness
to Ham and wealth to Lot. the desire
for venison was to Isaac, for when he was
dying and his thoughts should have been
centered upon Jehovah he longs for venison
*hat he may satisfy himself, and the
story of his getting that venison and its
being traded for a birthright is one of the
sad bits of h'story of the Old Testament,
but let it be known that whenever a man
pampers himself and lives for himself he
is on the way to distress quite as great.
Second.?"Hatred." This is a strange
name for Abraham's well, but so he called
it. Some of us have been there, and alas,
have tasted of the bitter waters. It is a
?ad thing to have hatred in your heart.
"It hinders prayer; beclouds heaven, takes
the angel out of your face; chokes the song
in your throat; gives your hands the wrong
twist in writing letters, puts between the
lines which almost breaks the heart of the
reader." He who hates cannot sing, he
cannot pray, he cannot offer a sacrifice.
Matthew 5: 23, "Therefore, if thou bring
thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest
that thy brother hath aught against
thee." Do this and the sonjt will return
and God will accept the sacrifice. The bitter
waters of Morah were made sweet by
the casting in of the wood of a certain
tree. I ten you of a tree on which Christ
died; get the peace of this Christ into your
experience, live for others, suffer for others,
die for others if need be, and the bitterness
of your life will be instantly
changed.
Third.?"Room." This, too, is a strange
name for an Old Testament well, but with
the opening of this well the strife ceased,
for instantly Isaac had found the place
where God was willing he should stay.
There is a place for every one to stand in
this world. God so intended it. We have
crowded men out of their positions in
these days. It is true that with Jhg formation
and progress of great trusts there
is little opportunity for some of u*, but
this is not in accordance with the plan of
God. Somewhere there is a well waiting
to be discovered, and God expects you to
drink ar.d to be satisfied. It may be that
that well is in a foreign land, perhaps it
ii in tVip slums ftf our own citv. Dossiblv
it may be in your own home, and who
knows but that it is in this church, only
find God's plan for your life and help to
fill it in and vou will be full of joy.
Fourth.?"Covenant." This is the name
which was given to the fourth well. We
must pass through discipline. It is not
necessary that we should complain about it
for this is life. When Paul wrote his letter
to the Galatians he said, "Whatsoever a
man soweth that shall he also reap," and
this Scripture is frequently quoted as if
it were for the unregenerate man, and
while it may be applied to him it is for the
Christian. We reap what we sow and
sow what we reap, in the light of this the
wonder is we have had so little discipline.
"Reckon up the prayers you ought to
have offered and never 3poke; the deeds
you ought to have done $pd peyer accom{dished;
reckon up all neglects', all ofences
against God and man; all weakness
of character and the wonder is that, we
have not been cut off altogether." But I
summon you to the well of the covenant
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ana bid you open it up. w nai 11 we nave
discipline and trial when we stand by Him
who declares, "I will be with thee," and
also explains to us, "That our light afflictions
are but for a moment/' and that as
they tarry, "they work for us a far mor?
exceeding and eternal weight of glory." 1
bring you good cheer this morning, "If
God be for us, who can be against us?"
n.
But you will notice that Isaac digged
again the wells of water which emphasizes
my subject, "A Revival of Old Customs."
I am very sure that there are some old
customs which in these days we need to
have revived.
First?The old custom of making the
home a haven of rest, a tvpe of heaven,
and a place of refuge for all the members
of the family circle. We greatly underestimate
the powerful influence of home upon
a young life. When Isaac went out to live
for himself you will notice that he pitched
his tent by the well Laharoi. I think this
must have been because in his childhood's
days with Hagar, his nurse, and Ishmael.
Kiu tialf.VirntVipp hp tarripd thpre whprp
Hagar must have told him the story of
Jehovah, and it is just the natural inclination
of his heart in his manhood days to
eo back where he may be reminded of the
hanpy scenes of his childhood.
You doubtless know of the boy sent as
a.waif from our city who was found in his
new western home tearing the lining out
of his cap. and when asked why he did it.
he said. "It was my mother's dress and
she loved me.I' I have preached everywhere
to men in this country and I have
always found that there was one name that
could stir the heart of the murderer in his
cell, the gambler in his den of iniquity, the
outcast on the street, and that name was
"Mother." Nero's mother was a murderess,
and gave to the world the most cruel man
in history. Lord Byron's mother was a
proud, intellectual, worldly minded woman
and she gave to the world the most intellectual
autocrat of his day. George Washington's
mother was a good, plain, sensible
woman and gave to America the
father of his country.
We need better homes to-day. Our
homes for our children should be as our
parents' homes were for us. If we go
back to our homes to-day and study our
children we will find that they have not
a fault or a virtue that their parents have
not got. Oh, for a revival of the old custom
of having a family altar in a home
where the father acts as a priest and the
mother as a saint; we could stir the whole
country for Christ.
One of my dearest friends was profligate J
; until h-> i* ft "***1 situ. Tn a srreat westj
em city he had determined to take his
life, threw himself down on his bed to col'
iect h;n;self before the awful deed, and
j jarred a little book off from a shelf just
| ihove his bed and it struck liim in the face.
| With an oath he threw it from him. and
then it dawned UDon h m that it was his
mother's Bible Riven him to read. He
walked across the room to nick it up just
to show her some mark of respect, and
read upon the fly leaf written in her own
hand. "Dear bov. you can never Ret awav
| from your mother's prayers." instead ot
Heine a self-murderer he became one of the
! country's greatest preachers. I wish that
we might din again the well that our fathj
ers digged before us and make our homes
like heaven.
III.
There are some wells that have been
filled in in the past by those who are
| worldlv wise and this morning I seek to
open them.
First?I would open the well of the way
of salvation. The Scripture declares that
man is a sinner and deserves to die. but
the same Scripture states that .Tesus took
our place and died in our stead. A heathen
on account of his sins had walked for
miles with pebbles in bis shoes that he
might do penance, sat down to rest beneath
a tree and heard a missionary
preaching of Jesus, and cried out. '"That
is what I want; give me Jesus." Oh. if I
could but open this well from wh clr our
fathers drank and make you see the Saviour
treading the wine rsress alone, suffering
for you until His heart strings all
but snapped, dying in agony for you upon
the cross, the man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief. Let us open this old
well and drink of its waters. And then I
would open the well of consolation for the
afflicted. "Why do you mourn for your
baby?" said a woman to her friend. "He
is better off. Suppose he had lived and
become a proligate and broken your heart
with his sin." Away with all such consolation,
falseiv so called. Your baby is with
Him, in His presence, who took little
babies in His arms and blessed them, is
singing His praises, who said. "Their angels
do always behold the face of Mv
Father which is in heaven. Your child is
with the King, rejoice; he cannot come to
you. but you may go to him. All things
work together for good to them t4iat love
Hod." Stoop and drink this morning and
go n way refreshed.
Then I would open the well of the
preaching of the gospel. Dr. Talmage has
paid in one of his sermons on this same
tent that we have stopped sineing. "Come
ye sinners poor and needy." for we have
reached the time when men do not count
themselves sinners. I would to Cod that
we might revive the old custom of preachinc
as men who preached in other days.
When Livingstone preached the sermon
that led oOO souls to Christ he was describing
the human heart in its uncleanness.
When Edwards preached the sermon
that stirred all New England his
iheme was. "Sinners in the hands of an
angry God." When Whitfield preached
the sermon, the nower of which lis still felt
-"""i"' Kia was. "Ye must be
born again." "Dp you preach/' said a
man to mo, "that men are lost without
Christ, and are you r.ot afraid in a congregation
like yours that they will become
offended?" Preach it, certainly I preach
it. I would be afraid that God would be
offended if J d'd not preach it. Now hear
me, ye men of wealth and women of position.
without Christ you are lost. It is
not an easy statement to make, but the
word of the Lord has spoken it. Ob, that
men would stop trifling with God's word,
twisting its statements so as to draw forth
some other meaning than that intended,
and oh that men would stop trifling with
God. treating Him as if what He had said
in His word was not true when tie declared
"that all men are sinners and need
a Saviour."
"I saw one hanging on a tree,
In agony and blood.
Who hxed His languid eyes on me,
As near the cross I stood.
Sure, never till my latest breath
Can I forget that look,
It seemed to charge me with His death.
Though not a word He spoke.
Alas, I knew not what I did,
But now my tears are vain,
Where shall my trembling soul be hid,
For I the Lord have slain.
Another look He gave which said,
"I freely all forgive, , a
This blood is for thy ransom paid,
I died that thou mayest live."
Thus while His death my sin displays,
In all its blackest hue.
Such is the mystery of grace,
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Unsympathetic Judgment.
When "frill men learn that no act and no
word, no! nor a million acts or words, can
exhaustively represent the spirit whose
expression they are? Beneath and behind
all the manifold activities through
which the world learns to know us and
we learn to know ourselves is that infinite
spirit of ours, which, just because it is
infinite and because it is spirit, can never
adequately express itsel: in material form.
It cannot make to itself .any graven image
which will do it justice And therein
lies the shame, the atrocity of unconsidered
and unsympathetic judgment. Who
can enter into the councils of another?
There is so much that we feel and must
leave unsaid, so much that we divine, but
have no skill to utter. There is no act
into which we can pour all our character,
no deed which suggests to an outsider
the infinite complexity of motive and circumstance
which determined it. Every
personality is like a vast, harborless
island. It is difficult to effect a landing
upon it; and when at any point you land,
you have done no more than land, the
ground has all to be traversed and explored.
Shall any or.e then harshly judge
the intricacies of another mind or character,
when he does not fully understand
his own.
Silent Sorrow,
Far better the silence of sorrow than
the sound of it. Far better the smile of
trust than the tears of doubt Far better
the calm, serene brow than the wrinkles
of petulance. The child that believes in
his mother laughs at the foot that overturns
his castle of blocks, and with a
shout of glee he builds again the ruined
towers into greater height. So do those
who believe in God bear His strokes and
take up the broken life and rear it into
loftier spiritual attainment. Those who
sulk and complain behold naught except
blight and loss And is there anywhere in
the world a sadder sight than that of a
dispirited man or woman? Ah, yes. in
the silence of sorrow many a temple of
nobler living has risen grandly to the
bending skies of God's love, like that
which Solomon planned, upon which the
noise of workman's tools was not heard.
Out of a quietness of soul such as this
have reached the hands that have swung
bells celestial into peals of joy.?Presbyterian
Journal.
ARP ON THE. SWISS.
Reminded of Them by the Story of
William Tell.
HITS ALL THE ICONOCLASTS,
.
j Says They Are Trying to Tear Down
All the Idols the People Have Worshipped.
How the old people cling to the
stories and traditions that charmed
their childhood. Goold old Mother
Akin came to see me and to comfort
me in my sickness. She has had her
share of trouble, but is always bright
and cheerful and brings sunshine with
her. Somehow the story of William
Tell came up, and when I remarked
that it was now generally set down
among the critics as a myth or a pretty
fable she said "she would not read
any such heartless scandals nor did
she believe them. The world is full
of these iconoclast3 who would break
up every idol that we have worshiped.
The story of William Tell is one
that is fit to be believed and handed
down from generation to generation.
Voltaire started that fable theory because
he did not like the Swiss. Many
books have been written on both sides
but the old family traditions that have
come down to us for 600 years are
still as much the faith of the Swiss
people as is their religion. William
Tell is as much today their national
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I as Washington is of ours and the lit
i tie chapel on the lake where bo was
drowned is still preserved to commemorate
him."
Well, whether it is a fact or a fable
it is one of the prettiest stories ever
told and ought to be repeated to the
chinldren of every household. It was
in the fourteenth century when Austria
had overridden and conquered
Switzerland and had stationed her
tyrant bailifTs in every canton to subdue
and humble the people that one
Gessler placed the ducal cap upon a
pole in the public place and ordered
every one who passed to uncover his
head and bow to it. Tell refused and
was seized and condemned to death,
but as he was known to be the best
bowman in Switzerland he was offered
the alternative of |hootlng an apple
| from his s6n's head. The boy was his
! idol and he begged for some other
i alternative, but Gessler refused. Six[
ty yards was measured off, the boy
J stationed and the apple placed. GessI
Ier and hi? cohorts looked on while
Tell bowed his knees in prayer. Rising
he looked to heaven and then let
fly the arrow and pierced the apple in
Its center. The boy ran to his father
and leaped into his arms, and another
arrow that had been concealed fell
upon the ground. "What was that ar
row for?" said Gessler. "To shoot
you, you brute, had I slain my son."
For that he was condemned to prison
and Gessler took him in a boat on the
lake, but a violent storm came up and
Tell was unchained to steer the boat
He made for the shore, leaped for a
rock and with a pole shoved the boat
back into the stormy waters. Hurrying
along the lake he procured a bow
and arrows from a countryman and
shot Gessler as the boat passed.
"Tells Leap" and "TelPs Rock" are
?till ki^>wn to every child In Switzerland.
Later on he lost his life while
saving a lad from drownffc$. What js
unreasonable about this storyf We
had a Gessler in Rome at the close ?f
the civil war. His name wa3 de *a
Mesa, a Spaniard who came over to
fight for pay. He did not hoist the
ducal cap. tut h? stretched the /lag
over the sidewalk and our female TellS
(some of whom are living vet) would
Hot walk under It, but crossed over to
the other side. Then he stretched another
across the whole street and they
walked around the block. It was not
so much of disrespect to the flag as
It was contempt for the foreigner who
unfurled It He refused to let our
wives and daughters receive our mail
letters unless they came before him
and took an ironclad oath of allegiance.
He had ten of our young men
and several young ladies arrested for
acting in a tableaux to raise a little
money to replace pews in the churches.
The pews had all been taken out
and made into troughs to feed their
norses in. lie was forewarned that
ni^ht by a negro that if he didn't release
those girls he would be killed
before morning, and he would have
been. Yes, "Leopard Spots" were all
around here just as they were in
North Carolina. Y/e had Gesslers
and we had Tells, too.
But I was ruminating about Switzerland,
that historical and wonderful
country. Now, children and young people,
listen. It is only a little scrap of
a country about one-fourth the size of
Georgia, and nearly half of that is
taken up by lakes and mountains. The
most beautiful lakes in the world.
Lake Lucerne (that's Tell's); Lake
Geneva (that's Calvin3); Lake Wenner
and Wetter?and just think of the
grand old mountains?the Alps and
the Jura and the Jungfrau. Think of
the hospice of the good St. Bernard,
where they kept that fine breed of
dogs who were trained to go out in the
most fearful snow storms and search
for lost travelers and carry food and
wine to them and bring them safely
to the hospice. One of my first books
had a picture of two of these noble
dogs digging in the snow for a man
and feeding him almost dead. One of
the dogs had a little bottle strapped
around his neck and the other a basket
of food. In another picture a little
boy was on a dog's back and his
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ars around his neck and the dog wa3
barking at the door of the hospice for
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itcniihsiuii. i uos2 pictures ana uie
stories about them were as dear to me
as the story of William Tell.
But think of little Switzerland, with
its population of three million people
and all at work except the babies.
About half are shepherds and herdsmen
on the mountain slopes and
benches, raising sheep and milch cows
and in the year 1900 they sold over
ten million dollars' worth of butter
and cheese. Down in the valleys and
around the Lakes are many towns and
little cities that hum like bee hives,
for nimble fingers are making watches,
jewelry, hair work, lace, silk and
cotton fabrics as fine as gossamer and
hundreds of other little things which,
taken all together, make the commerce
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capped republic nearly double the
commerce of any other country according
to population.
All the children from 6 to 12 years
have to go to school part of every
year, and her young men have to be
taught part of two years in military
tactics. There is no standing army,
but every citizen is a willing and
eady soldier to defend hia countrv.
Its government is a republic divided
into twenty-two cantons or counties,
and to maintain this republic they
have been fighting all contiguous nations
for nearly six hundred years and
have whipped every battle they
fought Austria, Prussia, Maximillian
and at last Bonaparte tried to subdue
that people, but failed utterly. They
never had an army cf over 30,000 and
defeated Prussia with 60,000 in seven
pitched battles. Austria demand-ad
20,000 Swiss soldiers to help her fight
Turkey. Switzerland refused to furDish
them, and that brought on a war,
and Switzerland whipped it. We see
by the New York papers that they
have completed tha new government
buildings at Berne, and the pictures of
them are lovely and the people are
proud and had a great festival when
they were opened for business. Grand
country?great people. John Calvin
left his mark upon them, for cf all the
twenty-two cantons only three have
kept allegiance to the Roman Catholic
church. But an are aevoieu v/iinotians,
and on every Christmas day
and every Easter morn the young men '
and maidens come tripping down the
mountain paths singing their Christmas
or Easter carols and making the
cliffs and valleys echo with their
songs. '
But it is said ^at their young men
P^bt for pay and are mercenary soldiers.
Yes, but they choose the side
they believe to be right. They would
not fight for Austria against the Turks
nor would they fight for Bnoaparte,
nor for England against the Boers.
And now the civilized world has let
them alone and the little republic has
had peace for nearly a hundred years.
?Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
Donned flale Attire.
Daisy Young, 18 years old, was arrested
last week in Chicago while arrayed
in male attire. The disguise of
the young woman was so complete that
she had been able to pass as a boy
bootblack in a barber shop in South
Chicago for four day.',. She declared
that she wished to earn enough money,
as a man, to buy a cornet. With the
cornet, she said, she could earn money
with which to go to Cleveland, Ohio,
where a sister Uvea
Bate Amendment Cut Out. 1
Washington, Special.?A special
meeting of the House committee on agriculture
was held Friday to consider
the Appalachian forest reser^ bill.
After remaining in session half S3
tour the committee decided to accept
the bill in its entirety, as amended by
the Senate, with the exception of the
Bate amendment ivfajor Moody was instructed
Id formulate a report to this
effect and the bill will be reported to y
the House with the omission of this
amendment. The bill is thus plaoed in
good shape for passage at the short
session.
'v.
Telegraphic Briefs.
Wm. Young, for many years a leading
grain merchant of Baltimore, died
from paralysis. Mr. Young was one of
the incorporators of the Baltimore corn
and flour exchange, and a member of
the chamber cf commerce.
A New York dispatch says: "Stockholders
cf the United States Steel Corporation
were to hold a special meeting
Monday, to formally ratify the
bond conversion plan, but in view of
pending litigation the meeting wag
postponed for two weeks."
. A Chicago dispatch says: "Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien fought two men and
was given the decision over both of
them, each bout lasting six rounds with
a 20 minute intermission. His first opponent
was Jim Driscoll, a local man,
without science, but of great strength.
Driscoll was staggering at the close of
the fight. O'Brien's second man was
Jack Beauscholt, of Chicago, a clever
fighter. He put up a good fight but
O'Brien won easily all the way."
The fellow who makes a fool of hln>
self always seems to enjoy it.
The Sultan of Turkey recently received
petitions from the officers in
garrisons at Uskub and three adjoining
towns setting forth that their pay
had failed to materialize for a long
time, and that promotion was at a
standstill. Abdul Hamid responded
by promoting sixty-five officers of the
garrison at Przina who had not petitioned.
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