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VOLUME XXII.
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I, A progremme Dumooratic paper, pub
; shod weekly t Covington, Newtou
dnrgiu. Term*, sl.fiOi>or an*
" ;iim, atrietlv In advance. Established
a,'toller 28th, 1 .*. Burnt out on
\ ugnat3lat. 1881, ami again on Decem
ber Slat, 1883. Both timoa it wont down
li ashes without any inmirauee.
1 Tii*ETKiiriUNKi au uncomproniising
ilvocnteof tlio principles of the organized
lid living Peniooraoy of to-day.
i I Wliilo it grants oqunl justice to U
before the law, it holds this to Na
Man’s Govornnient, belonging to
Mi\m by tji" right of discovery—lie
” incuthed to him by the blocal and suffer
ug of the Fathers. None but Anglo-
TlSaxon names were signed to the Doelara
"“"ion of Independence, and none but
au vhite men bled and died to wrench the
volonics from England’s cruel grasp, to
the proud young Republic of
t mot ica.
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i: i u [Kin these issues the paper is wiling
go before the public, asking no otlior
OTiupport than that which its merits de
serve. The paper will lio free and out
ipokeu on all questions of public interest,
m<f will not endeavor to accomplish the
" ridiculous feat of “running with the Lare,
i and baying with tlio hounds.’’
:££ In other words, The Enterprise will
be a “fence rider” in any of the ]>o
litical campaigns. Those who desire a
* live newspaper, are earnestly requested
‘j? o give it a trial.
8. W. HAWKINS, Editor.
i BUSINESS PROSPERITY.
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' The South Reaping the Benefit of Large
;! Capital to Develop Railways, Mills,
:ev? , Foundries, Etc., Etc.
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lia. r-M,
oi, Dado City, Fla., is to have a $15,000
■ lotei.
Ins The Lorain, Ohio, tool works will re
*Hnove to Chattanooga, Tcnn., very soon;
the capital stock is $50,000.
Y! Decatur, Ala., is to have an extract
factory with a capacity of 75 barrels a
“day, the largest in the world.
Pa The Nashville, Tcnn., Land Improve
• meat Cos is negotiating for the removal
1-of several manufacturing plants from the
>'North to West Nashville.
R. C.-Cooke, representing a New York
has purchased the mineral right
p'on 1,200 acres of land at Bristol, Tcnn.
;pt is rumored that a furnace is to be built
■by the company.
: Affairs in Knoxville, Tenn., look very
- promising. Iron bridges are being built,
'.'streets are being extended through large
suburban tracts, a belt railroad around
- the city is projected, also new street car
linea.
lit The Macon, LaGrange & Birmingham
, Railroad Cos. and the Birmingham, Geor-
K gia ik Florida Railroad Cos. have arranged
to build a direct line from Birmingham,
j Ala., via Talladega to Savannah, Ga.,
< with a branch road to Brunswick.
- Bills have been introduced in the Flor
ida legislature to incorporate the Ala
bama Midland Railway Cos. ; a company
to build a railroad from near Lake George
to the Gulf of Mexico, and a company to
operate a ennning factory at St. Lucie.
The Nottingham Railroad & Improve
mcutCo. capitul stock $300,000 has been
organized. The company will purclins,
and extend a narrow gauge railroad aim
build a 23-ton charcoal furnace at Alpine,
AUu | A cotton factory is to he built also.
North Carolina dots: Plow works him
started at Boat’s Mills; Davidson colleg,
has u new hoot uud shoe factory; Allen
B. Good win has put up a large factory
for the manufacture of Uuggies; Greens
boro has inaugurated a street car line and
two tobacco factories; and Emma is to
hare new brick works.
The Jefferson Brick Cos. capitul stock
140 ,000, has been orgauized with R. F.
Hudson, of Columbus, Miss,, us presi
dent; E. F. Manning, New Orleans, La.,
vice-president, and F. C. Dunn, secretary
and general manager. They have bought
snd will enlarge the brick works of Car
roll & Carroll, at Biimingham, Ala.
Tlie resolution “that uu invitation is
hereby extended to any corporation to
erect in the city of Macon u complete
system of water and gas works; that for
the purpose of promoting said enterprise
the city of Macon pledges the cordial sup
port to make such undertaking a success,”
has been passed by the Macon, Ga., coun
ciL
“The vast plants that have been put in
at Biimingham, Sheffield and vicinity will
remain. The iron and coal industries in
North Alabama have been developed for
permanence. The manufacturing growth
of Nashville and Chattanooga, the trade
development of Atlanta, Little Rock and
other cities in the South will survive any
monetary crisis that may occur.”—Manu
facturers’ Record, Baltimore, Mil.
Clear at Last.
“A-bout these titles, now,” said anew
resident of Kansas to a native, “I want
to know something about them. There’s
Colonel Woodchuck, for instance; how
did he get his title?”
_ “Don't know, but he registered that
way at the hotel when he first came, so
We suppose it's all right.”
“And Captain Duster?”
“He’s captain of a baseball nine.”
“There's Judge Snoozenberry.”
“He was judge in a hog guessing
match once.”
’ “Commodore Sandbarr?”
“He runs the ferryboat.”
“How about Professor Bilk?”
“He’s a pugilist.”
“And Senator McTuff?”
“Oh, he gets mad and wants to fight if
WO don't call him that.”
“And the Honorable Mcßribe?”
“He ran for the legislature once.”
“And General Carpetbagg?"
“Well, you see he is a leading citizen
ind we kind o’ give it to him in recog
nition of his public services. Oh, we
same by our titles honestly. They call
ne Captain because I’ve lived in the state
iwenty-five years, and if you’ll just walk
iround sort of straight and give it out
bat you're a Major it will be all right.”
Dell,
The Georgia Enterprise.
WASHINGTON DOTS.
IHTERESTNG NOTES ABOUT PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND AND OTHER NOTABLES.
Tbs Operations of the Dnpnrlinrnlo, nod
What Honlhorn Men Are lleln* Ap
pointed in ronlllona, Hte., I.le.
IIS EFFECT IN THE SOUTH.
E It. Stiililimin, Vice-President of the
Louisville A Nashville railroad, appeared
before the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion, to answer certain statements made
by Commissioners Fink and Gault,of the
Queen A Crescent route. He said that if
there was :ntv exception anywhere on the
continent that culled for relief v under the
fourth section, the whole Southern sys
tem of railroads is that exception. Touch
ing the application made by his company,
Mr. Stahluian said that an impression had
been created that the Louisville Ac Nash
ville wanted relief from the operation of
the law, as it affected every point in the
country. Asa matter of fact, it sought
relief at seventeen points, and at fifteen
of them there is strong water competi
tion. As far as traffic between Kentucky
points and Cincinnati is concerned, Mr.
Sttihlmaii suggested that the effect of the
application would he to rause railroad
companies to open depots at Covington
and Newport, opposite Cincinnati, and
maintain the present competitive rates
from these places to Frankfort and other
Kentucky points. By an elaborate state
ment of rates, Mr. Stahlman sought to
reniov what he styled a mistaken im
pression, to the effoct that the Southern
railroads had deliberately gone to work
to build up the Alabama iron interist at
the expense of other sections of the
country. Rates were fair and equitable,
and the people were satisfied with them.
In answer to the chairman, lie said tlint
he was not aware of any necessity for re
lief in the matter of pig iron rates on his
own fine, but he did desire relief in
through traffic to New York. The chair
man suggested that such an order would
be futile, unless other connecting roads
joined in the application. Futther on in
his argument, Mr. Stahlman animadvert
ed upon the spirit that had animated
Congress when it passed the law. Com
missioner Bragg interrupted him to say,
that such reflections upon the intelligence
of Congress were not in place, and his
remarks were lacking in the respect due
to the supreme law-making power.
INDIANS REMEMBERED.
The Interior Department has struck
off at the Philadelphia mint a number of
Indian peace medals, with a bust of
President Cleveland on one sido and on
the reverse an engraved scene represent
ing a settler and an Indian. Above is
the word “Peace,” and below is a toma
hawk and a pipe crossed. These medals
are given to Indians as a reward for ser
vices in inducing their tribes to relin
quish their savage customs for those of
civiliz-ation and peace.
tiie president’s VIEWS.
The President the other day denied the
application for a pardon in the case of
James J. Stanley, who was convicted
April 13 of fraudulent registration and
sentenced to ninety days’ imprisonment
in the jail at Bt. Louis. The President
indorsed the application as follows: “I
cannot pardon a crime against the elec
tion law except it be in a case presenting
unusual considerations fpr clemency. I
consider such offenses the worst of all
crimes, and I know of none the punish
ment of which is more important to the
public.”
THE COLORED SOLDIERS CLUBBED.
The Muscatine Rifles and the Vicks
burg Southrons divided the honors of the
day and the applause of the spectators at
the competitive drill of infantry at the
National Drill, until later in the day tho
Keck Zouaves, of Johnstown, N, Y.,
came on the arena and went through a
labyrinth of beautiful evolutions in a way
which won universal admiration. Vir
ginia made but a poor showing. Ev
idently she was not permitted to put the
best foot foremost. The performance of
the two colored companies from that
state wero amusing in the extreme. They
seemed to have more officers than pri
vates and one-half of the men were kept
busy in clubbing the other half into line
with the butts of their guns.
NOTES.
The President has appointed to be
postmaster, Ellis Hunter at Brunswick,
Ga., vice J. T. Blaine, resigned, Jos.
St C. Wiggins, appointed April 11, 1887
having declined.
Henry J. Ramsdcll, a well-known jour
nalist and formerly register of wills for
the District of Columbia, died recently
of apoplexy. A few hours before his
death he was about the city in good spirits
and apparently good health, although he
had suffered from Bright’s disease several
years.
Paymaster Robert Rodney, U. S. Navy,
is engaged in trying to abolish pawn
brokers. He says of his effort that it is
“a virgin field of mercy which has never
been entered by private charity since
Shentpershent, the first pawnbroker,
hung out the three gilded balls from the
old abandoned gate lodge of the Garden
of Eden.”
The President has appointed Commo
dore D. B. Harmony, William A. Will
lace, of New York, 11. S. Van Eaton, of
Mississippi, Asa Morgan, of' Arkansas,
Thomas A. Logan, of Ohio, and Prof. I).
C. Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University,
as members of the Board of Visitors to
the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Aid.
The work of converting the Navy Yard
into a gun foundry, authorized by the
last Congress, has been commenced. Op
erations are at present confined to the old
anchor shop, where the former appl
ances are being removed preparatory to
its being fitted up for the con-tract ion ■ 1
guns of 8-inch calibre and under. It will
be many months before the gun foundry
is in full working order.
the makquib welcomed.
Gov. Gen. Lansdowne and his wife on
their return to Ottawa from Toronto, re
ceived a tremendous demonstration of
regard. The escort to the Governor
General contained six brass bands. At
Cartier square a great stand had been
erected and was oemp ed by about 2,000
school children, who sang a chorus of
welcome. There was an enormous con
course in the square, estimates varying
from 15,000 to 20,000 persons, thousands
having come from surrounding count'n s.
Rev. Faiher Dawson read a jubilee ode
The governor general thanked the ciii
ze'us for their waguificeut welcome.
CHOLEKA AND YELLOW FEVER
People Rapidly Dying OH in the Argen
tine Confederation.
■try West. Flu., AlHrmrA— What will llup*
pen In nirmliicliiim, Ain., It ihel'liy
I* Not denned Up.
Chief officer Gay, of the bark Mocleod,
of St. Johns, N. 8., which arrived at
Philadelphia, I’a., from Buenos Ayres,
tells a frightful story of deatli from chol
era in that portion of the Argentine
Confederation. He says that while his
vessel it- ns lying in the harbor of Buenos
Ayres, the people of that city and suburbs
were dying off like sheep, and the disease
seemed to tic spreading like wild-fire.
The wife of the captain of the Golden
Rule, the chief mate and one man of the
hark Bremen ami four men of the bark
Wylc, who were stricken down with the
disease, died while the Macleod was in
port. Ab fast as cases were discovered,
the patients were removed to a hospital
in the city, adjoining which is an open
lot, and when death relieved thoir suffer
ings, they w ere at once removed to this
lot and their bodies burned.
The excitement occasioned by the ap
pearance at Key West, Fla., of
yellow fever was revived by the death of
a cigar maker named Minneden, who
arrived a short time ago frojn New York.
He was boarding at the restaurant where
the sickness originated.
Regarding the report of several cases
at Birmingham, Ala. that were reported as
cholera, A. S. Robinson, of Boston, who
has been in Alabama two years, said in a
talk: “Having spent much time in Bir
mingham, I know enough about the
southern climate and the lack of drain
age, and sanitary provisions, in places
like Birmingham, so that I, in some meas
ure, anticipate what will one day take
place there. The large growth of the
city has been attended with disregard of
sanitary regulations, and they are certain
to have trouble there this summer, and in
subsequent years, unless they seize time
by the forelock, and take precautions
against an epidemic.”
NASHVILLES EXPOSITION.
Thi* Corner Mlone l.nid By (ten. J. A.
(.nriliiii ills (Governor of Cruryiii.
Never did the sun seem brighter or
the people of Nashville, Tenn., more en
thusiastic than when they assembled at
the Union depot to welcome that veteran
soldier and progressive statesman, Gen.
John A. Gordon, the governor of Geor
gia, who came attended by a brilliant
staff, to lay the corner stone of the great
Exposition Building. After the usual
greetings, the part}' proceeded to the
State capitol, where Governor Taylor, of
Tennessee, gave them a cordial welcome.
The visitors were shown through the
building. After leaving the capitol, Gov
ernor Gordon and staff' and their Nash
ville escort proceeded to the Polk man
sion and paid their respects to Mrs. James
K. Polk. Then they returned to the
Maxwell house, and dined in time to leave
for West Nashville on the train at 2 :30
p. m. In West Nashville fully 12,000
people had gathered to witness the lay
ing of the corner stone of the permanent
Exposition Building. The exercises were
usual to such occasions. Governor Gor
don delivered the address of the occa
sion on the industrial interests of the
South. Short addresses were delivered
by Gov. Taylor, Dr. Atchison, Col. E.
W. Cole, II M. Pierce, William Warner
and others. Gov. Gordon and staff left
on the night train for home, fully pleased
with their visit and full of praise for
Nashville.
THEATRE BURNED.
A I,ar*f Number of Ihr Audirnco Itnrnrd
—llerolnm of ttit- Flrrmt-ii.
The Opera Comique in Paris, France,
took fire from one of the wings coming
in contact with a gas jet, during the per
formance. The manager M. Tasquin
rushed on the stage and implored tin
audience to remain seated until the exits
were opened, which the majority did,
and thus a terrible loss of life was pre
vented; as it was, nearly 20 persons
jumped from the upper windows arm
were killed or maimed. The iron curtain
was lowered in front of the stage, and
this prevented the fire from spreading
immediately to the auditorium and al
lowed the audience time to escape. The
fire brigades distinguished themselves,
and many of them had narrow escapes
Most of the casualties were due to excite -
ment and fright, and persons who were
unable to trust themselves to walk the
narrow edge of the cornice around the
building, jumped off in their terror. One
woman coolly walked all around the cor
nice, while the flames were bursting
above, until she reached a fire escape.
The victims were almost all singers, and
are about 60 in number. Only a fort
night ago, M. Sicnakers called attention
in the Chamber of Deputies to the dan
gerous condition of the Opera Comtquc,
which was the oldest in Paris.
A TEXAS SOLDIER WINN.
The most interesting feature at the
National Drill at Washington, D. C„
was the individual competitive drill con
ducted on the country spelling match
principle, which came next after the
battalion competition. Sixty competitors
were selected—two from each company—
and they were welcomed with cheers as
they drew up in line before Mie judges.
At the very outset the line was broken
by the judge, who retired eight men for
failure to place their pieres against their
toes at “order arms!” The drill was ex
ceeding severe. Four kcen-eved army
officers were on the lookout for errors.
Traps and pitfalls were set for the un
wary, and the orders came thicker and
more abruptly as the work went on.
Excitement rose to fever heat when only
four men were left standing, to three if
whom prizes must fall. A handsome,
erect, well-built Texan stepped forward
as the winner of the first prize
REJECTED.
The New York Senate declined to
confirm Governor Hill’s appointment of
Col. Fred Grant (son of Gen. U. S.
Grant) as quarantine commissioner for
New York city; also Gen. Dan Sickles,
the one-legged veteran, who had been
lominated for emigration commissioner.
HAVING A GOOD TIME.
President Cleveland, with his beauti
ful wife, arrived safely at the Prospect
House at Upper Saranac L ike. New York,
in the Adirondacks, and will hunt and
fish for about two weeks.
“MY COUNTRY MAT BUK BY HR BB RIGHT. RIGHT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY."—Jtffermm
GOVINGTON. GFOKGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE :i, 1887,
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Justice Manning, of Atlanta, Git., very
promptly jailed a man mime I Reed, who,
it is alleged, attempted to bribe a witness
ill a criminal case.
Fire destroyed thirty-two small houses
on four squares on either side of
Tciiiipitoulas street, between Bordeaux
uud upper Line streets, in New Orleans,
Ln.
Two negroes, Thomas Brown and El
bert Blackwell, prisoners in Webster
county, Gil., jail, attempted to escape
two years ago, by hurtling a hole in the
floor. For tins they were tried for arson,
and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Gov. Gordon has set aside the verdict as
contrary to law.
The General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian Church, in session at St.
Louis, Mo., after two days' discussion,
adopted the resolutions offered by Dr.
llogc,of North Carolina, which was really
a substitute and compromise for tin
minority report on organic union, that t
committee he appointed to confer with i
committee of the Northern Church ti
ascertain the sentiment of the latter ii
connection with ecclesiastical boards and
the colored churches, and other subject'
of the two churches as might be deemed
necessary.
Columbus,Ga., is rigidly enforcing the
vagrant law.
Griffin, Ga., is to have a contingent
from the Salvation Army at Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga., is to have an improved
cab service similar to the great Northern
cities.
A man giving the name of T. B. Otis,
who represented himself as a capitalist
from Boston, Mass., victimized many
people in Memphis, Tenn., through the
medium of worthless checks. His real
name is Brown, and he belongs to Kansas
City, Mo.
Dr. J. 8. Kennard, of Chicago, who
has been conducting revivals in Atlunta,
Macon and other cities, with remarkable
success, is now working in Albany, Ga.
The meetings, though undenominational,
are held in the Methodist church, which
is crowded night and morning to its ut
most capacity.
Considerable excitement was created
in Little Rock, Ark., over the arrest of
ex-Mayor Gen. W. S. Walsh, of Ilot
Springs, on a serious charge, Hworn out
by Miss Ella Dyer. Gen. Walsh went
over to Little Rock recently, on business,
and his arrest was as a poisoned arrow
fired in the flesh of an innocent lamb.
Atlanta, Ga,, dry goods houses will all
close hereafter at 6 p. m.
Master Workman M. J. Devereau, of
the Augusta, Ga., Knights of Labor,
went North recently and raised money
enough to pay ail the debts accruing
from last year’s strike.
The board of regents of the Grant
Memorial University of Athens, Tenn.,
unanimously conferred the degree of
doctor of laws upon George W. Childs,
of the Philadelphia Ledger.
The officials of the East Tennessee,
Richmond & Danville Railroads were in
Chattanooga, Tenn., lately to locate the
site for a bridge across the Tennessee
River. The bridge will be built above
the city, near the city furnace.
Lee Furtangler, an itinerant watch
maker, dropped dead in a Nashville,
Tcnn., hotel from paralysis of the brain;
and shortly after, Logan King, an aged
colored man, dropped dead from heart
disease while passing the same hotel.
A negro named John King, of Chatta
nooga, Tenn., was bitten on the leg by a
small red spider, and he died from the
bite. Ilis body was swelled to enormous
proportions and was covered with large
white spots. The negro suffered the
greatest agony.
George Oakes was killed in Chatta
nooga, Tenn., in the Louisville &
Nashvillo Railroad’s yard. Oakes was
about twenty-two years of age, and was
well known in Atlanta. For a long time
he was a thriftless fellow, but a few
weeks ago joined the Salvation Army,
and when he was killed was wearing the
Salvation Army badge and unifoim.
The most diverting part of the enter
tainment of the Atlanta, Ga., University
was the exhibit made by the members of
the cooking class. The girls are instructed
how to make and bake bread, pies and
cake; are given practical lessons in roast
ing and boiling meats and fowls and
preparing all sorts of food for the table.
They succeeded in making a tempting
display of cooking food, all prepared by
their own hands.
O’BRIEN WELCOMED.
The New York Legislature Give* Him a
Royal Welcome—Ho Goee lo Montreal.
The New York Legislature gave a
semi-official reception to William O’Brien,
the Irish editor, and Speaker Hasted, of
the Assembly, in receiving O’Brien on
the rostrum said, motioning to himself
and the distinguished visitor: “Sham
rock and the stars and stripes.” This
created another outburst of applause.
Then there were cries of “Speech 1”
“Speech I” “Give us your idea of Ca
nadian hospitality.” Mr. O’Brien then
made a ten-minutes’ speech, in which he
referred to the universal hospitality with
which he had been received everywhere
in America; to the feeling of security he
experienced when he found himself un
der the glorious stars and slripes at Cape
Vincent and to the great honor now ac
corded him by the Legislature of New
York. He then went to the train and
took passage for Montreal, Canada, where
he received a flattering ovation. No
disturbance took place.
FINHKR.MBN KILLING EACH OTHER.
There is war among the salmon fisher
men on the Columbia river, near Astoria,
Oregon. The seiners and gillers have
banded together to stop all trap fishing.
A. E. King, owner of a cannery nt 11-
wac, and Albert Green and Archie Ross,
owners of traps, started out armed with
guns to guard a large lot of web, which
is used in the traps, and which had been
tarred and was lying in the open air to
dry. This was in a field not far from
the beach, surrounded by small timber.
While on the watch they discovered
men moving in the darkness, whom they
challenged. The reply was a volley of
shots. Mr. Ross was killed, and Mr.
King received three serious wounds.
Green was unhurt.
CAR STABLES BURNED.
The Belt line on Ninth avenue
in New York city were destroyed by tire.
The immense structure of the Consoli
dated railroad in Cincinnati, 0., occupied
as stables and offices, were burned up.
LATEST NEWS.
The Russian government is expelling
from Poland all German Jews.
Tin! lockout of tho Philadelphia, Pa.,
clothiers, which lias been in operation
since February 7th, lias been amicably
settled.
A procession of the unemployed of
Dublin, Ireland, enrrying a black flag
with a skull mid cross hones on it, was
summarily dispersed by tlio constablary.
The Presbyterian assembly at Philn
del pic Pa., have had quite a debate
over *• organ question, anil present np
pearanees indicate that the synods North
and South will unite.
As the fast line west was near Kittan
ning Points, I’a., on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, the wheels of a caron a freight
train east hurst ami the enr crashed into
two passenger conches with terrific effect,
killing iuntmitly four men and injuring
many others. No passengers occupying
sleeping or parlor cars were injured.
An attempt lias been made to kill the
3ultun of Turkey.
Tlio meet ing of the executive commit
tee of tho Southern Press Association,
which has been in session in New York,
adjourned to meet in Atlanta, Ga., on
June 21.
Placards were posted in the country
around St. Petersburg, Russia, threaten
ing to burn down the landlords’ villas on
„ certain night, and at tho appointed
time over 00 houses were fired and de
stroyed.
The national convention of the United
States Brewers’ Association, in session at
Baltimore, Md., appropriated $5,000 for
the assistance of the brewers of Michigan,
$5,000 for the btewers of Texas, and
$3,000 for the brewers of Tennessee, tho
money to he used ln attempting to defeat
the efforts of the prohibitionists in those
states.
Tho colored queen, Kapiolnni, with
her suite, has sailed for Europe.
A movement is on foot to consolidate
the cities of New York and Brooklyn.
P. S. Peadroe, a farmer, confined in
the Anna, 111., insane asylum, was beat
en to death by the attendants.
The coke operators of Pennsylvania
are so disgusted with their Hungarian
help, who took the place of the strikers,
tiwt they will discharge them, and hire
native Americans in their stead.
There is trouble again on the Mexican
border, because Sheriff Sanchez, of
Laredo,Tex., arrested Lieut. Jose Cortez,
of the Mexican army, who tried to arrest
a deserter on the American side, and in
doing so, used a pistol.
The 23d annual session of the Grand
Lodge of Good Templars of the World
met at Saratoga, N. Y. Nearly every
country in the world was represented.
There were really two bodies in session,
the Right Worthy Grand Lodge and the
Right Worthy Grand Lodge of tho World.
In 1876, a disruption occurred, when the
English branch seceded.
A young man called at the residence of
John D. Bates, one of the most prom
inent citizens of Boston, Mass., and de
manded hush money, claiming to have in
his possession a terrible secret affecting
Mr. Bates. The latter called the police
by telephone, but the blackmailer es
caped, and before doing so, tried to in
timidate Mr. Bates with a pistoL
NBURO MURDERED
William Prenty, a young white man,
had a dispute with Sherman Bacon, a
colored man, in Charles Umbacli’s store,
three miles from Savannah, <ia. Hut
trouble came about beoause Bacon re
fused to treat to cigurs after Prenty ha 1
treated to beer, and the negro was killed
by a shot from a gun in the hands of
Prenty. A coroner’s jury promptly
found that Prenty was guilty of wilful
murder.
To be Pasted in the Bible.
The books of the Old Testament, 39.
The chapters in the Old Testament,
929.
Verses in the Old Testament, 23,241.
Words in the Old Testament, 592,430.
Letters in the Old Testament, 2,728,-
100.
The books in the New Testament, 27.
The chapters in the New Testament,
2GO.
Verses in the New Testament, 7,959.
Words in the New Testament, 181,-
263.
Letters in the New Testament, 838,-
380.
The Apocrypha has chapters, 183.
The Apocrypha has verses, 7,081.
The Apocrypha has words, 152,185.
The middle chapter and shortest in
the Bible is Psalm cxvii.
The middle verse is the Bth of Psalm
cxvii.
The word “and” occurs in the Old
Testament 35,543 times.
The word “Jehovah”.occurs 6,865
times.
The word “and” occurs in the New
Testament 10,604 times.
The middle book of the Old Testa
ment is Proverbs.
The middle chapter of the Old Testa
ment is Job 29.
The middle verse Of the Old Testa
ment is 2d Chronicles, 22d chapter, 17th
verse.
The shortest verse of the Old Testn
ment is Ist Chronicles, Ist chapter, 25th
verse.
The longest verse in the Old Testa
ment is Esther, Bth chapter, 9th verse.
The middle book of the New Testa
ment is 2d Thessalonians.
The middle chapters of the New
Testament are Romans, 13tk and 14th.
The middle verse of the New Testa
ment is Acts, 17th chapter and 17th
verse.
The shortest verse in the New Testa
ment is John, lltli chapter 35th verse.
Whiting a letter is, to many people,
an irksome task, but it isn’t half so irk
some as it is to hear a lawyer reading
your letter aloud five years afterward in
open court.
KEY. i)ll. TAJ. MAGE.
TIIE BROOKLYN IWNTOR’B HUN.
DAY BKRMON
Subject: “ From Twelve to Three
O'clock.'*
Text: “Watchman, what of thnight f"
—lsaiah xxi., 2.
When night came down on Babylon, Nine
veil, mu) Jerusalem, they needed careful
watching, otherwise the incendiary's torch
might have l** n thrust into the very heart
of the metropolitan splendor; or enemies,
marching fro u tho hill*, might have forced
the gates. All night long, on ton of the wall
and in front of the gates, might I** hoard tho
measured step of the watchman on his soli
tary beat; silence hung in the air, save as
*mn j'liwb bv raised the question: "Watch
man, what of the nurht f”
It is to mo a deeply suggestive and solemn
tiling to sec u man standing guard by night.
It thrilled through me, a.s at the gate of an
arsenal in Charleston, tlio question once
Smote me: “Who comes there!" followed
by tho sharp command: “ Advance and give
tho countersign.'’ Every moral teacher
stands on picket, or jmtrols the wall as
watchman. Ilis work is to sound the alarm;
and whether it be in the first watch, in the
second watch, in the third watch, or in the
fourth watch,to Is* vigilant until the daybreak
flings its “morning glories’’ of blooming
cloud across the arching trellis of the sky.
The ancients divided their night into four
parts—the flistwatoh. from six to nine; the
second, from nine to twelve; the third, from
twelve to three; and the fourth, from three
to six.
I speak now of the city in the third watch,
or from twelve to three o’clock, at that sea
son of the year when the days and nights are
about equal.
I never weary looking upon the life and
brilliancy of the city in the first watch. That
is tho hour when the stores are dosing. The
laboring m n n, having quitted tho scaffolding
and the shop, are on their way home. Ifc
rejoices me to give them my scat in the city
car. They have stood ami hammered away
all day. Their fe**tare weary. They are ex
hausted with the tug of work. They are
mostly cheerful. With u|fyetites sharpened on
tho swift turner’s wheel and the carpenter's
whetstone, they seek the evening meal. The
clerks, too, have broken away from the
counter, and with brum weary of the long
line of figures, and tho whims of those who go
a-shooping nek the face of mother, or wife
and child. The merchants are unharnessing
themselves from their anxieties on their way
up tho street. The boys that lock up are
heaving away at the shutters, shoving the
heavy bolts, and if it be winter taking a last
look at the fire to seo that all is safe. Tho
streets are thronged with young men, setting
out from the great centers of bargain
making.
Let idlers clear the street and give right of
way to the besweated artisans and inerenants.
They have earned their bread, and are now
on their way home to get it.
The lights in full jet hang over 10.000 even
ing repasts—the parents at either end of the
table, the children between. Thank God,
“who setteth the solitary in families.”
A few hours later and all tiie places of
amusement, good and hud, are in fwtt tide.
Lovers of art, catalogue in hand, stroll
through the galleries au 1 discuss the pictures.
Tho ballroom is resplendent with the rich ap
parel of those who,on either side of the white,
glistening boards, await the signal from the
orchestra. The footlights of the theatre flash
up; the l>ell rings, and the curtain rises; and
out from the gorgeous scenery glide the actors,
greeted with the vociferation of the expectant
multitudes. (’oncert-halls are lifted into en
chantment with the warb’e of one songstress,
or swept out on a sea of tumultuous feeling
by tho blast of brazen instruments. Draw
ing-rooms are filled with all gracefulness of
apparel, with all sweetness of sound, withal)
splendor of manner; mirror- are catching up
and multiplying the scene, until it seems as if
in infinite corridors there were garlanded
groups advancing and retreating.
The outdoor air rings with laughter, and
with the moving to and fro of thousands on
the great promenades. The dashing span
adrip with the foam of the long country ride,
rushes past as you halt at the curb stone.
Mirth, revelry, beauty, fashion, magnifi
cence mingle in the great metropolitan pic
ture, until the thinking man goes home to
think more seriously, and the praying man
to pray more earnestly.
A beautiful and overwhelming thing is the
city-in the first anil second watches of the
night.
But the clock strikes twelve, and the third
watch has begun.
The thunder of the city has rolled out of the
air. The slightest sounds cut the night with
such distinction as to attract your attention.
The tinkling of the bell of the street car in
the distance, and th*i baying of the dog. The
stamp of a horse in the next street. The
slamming of a saloon door. The hiccough of
tho drunkard. Tho shrieks of the steam
whistlo five miles away. Oh, how suggestive,
inv friends. Hie (bird watch of the Illght!
There are honest men passing up and down
the street. Here is a city missionary who has
been carrying a scuttle of coal to that poor
family in that dark place. Here is an under
taker going up the steps of a building from
which there comes a bitter cry which indicates
that the destroying angel has smitten the
first-born. Here is a minister of religion who
has been giving thp sacrament toadying
Christ ian Hero is a physician passing along
in great haste, the messenger a few gtejiS
ahead, hurrying on to the household.
Nearly all the lights have gone out in the
dwellings, for it is the third watch of the
night. That light in the window is the light
of the watcher, for the medicines must be ad
ministered, and tho fever must be watched
and the restless tossing off of the coverlid
must be resisted, and the ice must be kept on
the hot temples, and the perpetual prayer
must go up from hearts soon to be broken.
O, the third watch of the night! What a
stupendous thought—a whole city at rest!
Weary arm preparing for to-inorrow's toil.
Hot brain being cooled off. Rigid muscles
relaxes!. Excited nerves soothed. The white
hair of the octogenarian in thin drifts across
the pillow, flakes on snow already
fallen. Childhood with its dimpled hands
thrown out on the pillow and with every
breath taking in anew store of fun and
frolic. Third watch of the night! God's
slumberless eye will look. Let one great wave
of refreshing s'umlier roll over the heart of
the great town, submerging care, and anx
iety, and worriment, and pain.
Let, the citv sleep. But. my frie ula, be not
deceived. There will be thousands to-night
who will not sleep at all. Go up that dark
alley, and l>e cautious where you tread, lest
you fall ovpr the prostrafe form of a drunk
ard lying on his own doorstep. Look about
you. lest, you feel the garroter’s hug. look
through the broken window- pane, and see
wlmt you can se**. You say: “Nothing.”
Then listen. What is it ? “ God
help us !” No footlights, but tragedy
ghastlier and mightier than Riston or
Edwin Booth ever enacted. No light, no
fire, no bread, no hope. If it be winter,
•hivering in the cold, and they have had no
food for twenty four hours. Yousay: “Why
don’t they beg?" They do, but they get
nothing. You say: “Why don’t they
deliver themselves over to the almshouse?”
Ah: you would not ask that if you ever heard
the bitter cry of a man or a child when told
he must go to the almshouse.
“Oh,” you say. “they are vicious poor, and,
therefore, they do not deserve our sympathy.’
Are they vicious? Bo much more need they
your pitv. The Christian poor, God helps
them. Through their night there twinkles
the round, merry star of nope, and through
the broken window-pane they see the crys
tals of heaven: but the vicious poor, they
are more to be pitied. Their last light ha?
gone out. You excuse yourself from he’pdig
them by saying they are so bad, they brought
this trouble on themselves. I reply, where
I give ten prayers lor the innocent who are
suffering I will give twenty prayers for the
guilty who are suffering.
The fisherman, wh n he sees a vessel dash
ing into the breakers, comes out from his hut
arid wraps the warmest flannels around those
who are most chilled and most bruised and
most battered in the wreck; and I w-ant you
to know that these vicious poor have had two
•hipwrecks—shipwreck of the body, ship
wreck of the soul —shipwreck for time, ship
wreck for eternity. Fity, by all means, tha
innocent, who are suffering, but pity more
the guilty.
Fass on through the alley. Open the
door. “Oh,” you say, it is locked' ’ No, u
is not locked. It has never been locked. No
burglar would be tempted to go in there to
steal anything. The door is never locked.
Only a broken chair stands against the door.
Shove it back. Go in. Hlrike a match. Now,
look. Bernali not* and rags! Heo thoeo glar
ing eyoballs. Be careful now what you say.
Do not utter any insult, do not utter any huh*
picion, if you valuo your life. What, is that
red mark on the wall! It is the mark of a
murderer’s hand I
Look at those two eyes riling up out of tho
darkness and out from the straw in tho cor
ner, coming toward you, and ms they come
near you, your light goes out. Htrike an
other match. Ah! this is a babe, not like
those beautiful children presented in baptism.
This little one never smiled; it never will
smile. A flower flung on an awfully barren
beach. Uhl Heuveiiiy Shepherd, fold tlmt
little ono in Thy anna. Wrap around you
your shawl or your coat tighter, for the cold
wind sweeps through.
Htrike another match. Ah I is it possible
t hut that young woman's scarred and bruised
face ever was looked into by maternal ten
derness! Utter no scorn. Utter no harsh
word. No ray of hope has dawned on that
brow for many a year. No ray of hope ever
will dawn on that brow. But. the light has
gone out. Do not strike another light, it will
e a mockery to kindle another light in such
a place as that. Puss out and pats down the
street. Our cities of Brooklyn and Now York
and other groat cities are full of such homes,
and tho worst time is the third watch of the
night.
Do you know it is in this watoh of the night
that criminals do their worst work! It is the
criminal’s watch.
At half-past eight o'clock you will find
them in the drinking-saloon, but toward
twelve o’clock they go to their garrets, they
get oat their tools, then they start on the
street. Watching on either ddl for thejpo
lice, they goto their work of darknoß*. This
is a burglar, and the false key will soon
touch the store lock. This is an incendiary,
and before morning there will lie a on
the sky, and a cry of “Fire! lire!' 1 This is an
assassin, and to morrow there will be a dead
body found in one of those vacant lots. Dur
ing the <laytime these villains in our cities
lounge about, some asleep and some awake,
nut When Hie third watch of the night arrives,
their eye is keen, their brain cool, their arm
st rong. their foot fleet to fly or pursue, they
are ready.
Many of these poor creatures were brought
up in that way. 'They were born in a thieves’
eurret Their childish toy was a burglar's
aark-lantern. The tirst thing thev remember
was their mother bandaging the brow of
their father, struck by the police club. They
began by robbing boys’ pockets, and now
they have come to dig the underground pas
sage to the cellar of the bank, and are pre
paring tc blast the gold vault.
Just so long as there are neglected children
of the streets, just so long we will have these
desperadoes. Someone, wishing to make a
good Christian point and to quote a pas
sjage of Scripture, expecting to get a Script
ural passage in answer, said to one of these
poor lads,cast out and wretched: “When your
father and your mother forsake you, who
then will take you up/” and the boy said;
“The perl ice. the pedicel”
In the third watch of the night gambling
does its worst work. What though the hours
be slipping away, a i though the wife lie
waiting in the cheerless home! Bring on
more drinks. Put up more stakes. That
commercial house that only a little while ago
put out a sign of co|>artnership will, in a few
seasons, l>e wrecked on a gambler's table.
There will be many a money-till that will
spring a leak. A member of Congress
gambled with a member-elect and won one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars. The
old way of getting a living is so slow. The
old way of getting a fortune is so stupid.
Come, let us toss up and see who shall have
it. And so the work goes on, from the
wheezing wretches pitching pennies in a rum-
Kcery up to the millionaire gambler in
stock market.
In the third watch of the night, pass down
the streets of these cities, and you hear the
click of the dice and the sharp, keen stroke
of the ball on the billiard-table. At these
f daces merchant princes dismount, and legis
ator*Bj tired of making laws, take a respite in
breaking them. All classes of people are
robbed by this crime—the importer of for
eign silks and the dealer in ( hat ham street
pocket-handkerchiefs. The clerks of the
store take a hand after the shutters are put
up, and the officers of the court while away
their time while the jury is out.
In Baden-Baden, when that city was the
greatest of all gambling-places on earth,
it was no unusual thing the next morning, in
the woods around aliout the city, to find the
suspended bodies of suicides. Whatever li
the splendor of surroundings, there is no ex
cuse for this crime. The thunders of eternal
destruction roll in the deep rumble of that
gambling tenpin alley, and as men come out
to join the Jong procession of sin, all the
drums of death beat the dead march of a
thousand souls.
In one year, in the city of New York, there
were seven million dollars sacriflml at the
gaming-table Perhaps some of your friends
have be**n smitten in this sin. Perhaps some
of you have been smitten by it.
Perhaps there may lie a stranger in the
house this morning come from some of the
hotels. Look out tor those agents of iniquity
who tarry around the hotels, and ask you;
“Would you like to see the city/” “Have
you ever seen that splendid build
ing up town/” “No. Then the
villain will undertake to show you what he
calls the “lions” and “elephants." and after a
young man, through morbid curiosity or
through badness of soul, his seen the “lions"
and the “elephants” he will be on enchanted
ground. Look out for these men who move
around the hotels with sleek hats—always
with sleek hats—and patronizing air and un
accountable interest about your welfare and
entertainment. You are a fool if you cannot
see through it They want your money.
In Chestnut street. Philadelphia, while I
was living in that city, an incident occun\ 1
which was familiar to as there. In Chestnut
street a young man went into a gambling
saloon, lost an his property, then blew his
brains out, and before the blood was washed
from the floor by the maid the comrades were
shuffling cards again. You see thpre is more
mercy m the highwaymen for the belated
traveler on whose body ho heaps the stones,
there is moremerev in the frost ior the flower
that it kills, there is more mercy in the hur
ricane that shivers the steamer on the Long
Island coast, than there is mercy in the heart
of a gambler for his victim.
In the third watch of the night, also,
drunkenness does its worst. The drinking
will be respectable at 8 o’clock in theevening,
a little flushed at nine, talkative and garru
lous at ten, at eleven blasphemous, at twelve
the hat falls off, at one the man falls to the
floor asking for more drink. Strewn through
the drinking-saloons of the city, fathers,
brothers, husbands, sons, as goal as you are
by nature, perhaps better.
In the high circles of society it is hushed up.
A merchant prince, if he gets noisy and un
controllable, is taken by hif fellow-revelers,
who try to get him to lied or take him home,
where he Fulls flat in the entry. Do not
wake up the children. They have had
disgrace enough. Do not let them know
it. Hush it tin. But sometimes it cannot
be hushed up. when the rum touches the brain
and the man becomes thoroughly frenzied.
Such an one came home, having been absent
for some time, and during his absence his
wife had died, and she lay in the next rooni
prepar ed for the obsequies, and he went in
and dragged her by the locks, and shook her
out of her shroud, and pitched her out of the
window.
Oh! when rum touches the brain you can
not hush it up. My friends, vou see all
around you the need that something radical
lie done. You do not see the worst. In the
midnight meetings in London a great multi
tude have been saved. We want a few hun
dred Christian men and women to come down
from the highest circles of society to toil
amid these wandering and destitute ones, and
kindle up a light in the dark alley, even the
gladness of heaven.
Do not go wrapped in fine apparel and
i from your well-filled tables with tne idea that
pious talk is going to slop the gnawing of an
empty stomach or to warm stocklingless feet.
Take bread, take raiment, take medicine as
well as take prayer. There is a great deal
of common-sense in what the poor woman said
totha city missionary when he was telling her
how she ought to love God and serve Him.
•Oh!” she said, “if you were as poor and cold
as I am, and as hungry, you could think of
nothing else.”
A great deal of what is called Christian
work goes for nothing for the simple reason
it is not practical; as after the battle of An
tietam a man got out of an ambulance with
a bag of tracts, and he went distributing the
tracts, and George Stewart, one of the bast
Christian men in this country, said to him:
“What are you distributing tracts for now/
There i'o three thousand men bleeding to
death. Bind up their wounds, and then dis
tribute the tracts.”
We want more common-sense in Christian
I work, taking the bread of this life in one
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hand and the bread of the next life in Jhe
other hand. No such inapt work as that
by the Christian man who, during the lust
war, went into u hospital with tracts, and
muting to the bed of a man whoee legs bad
been amputated, gave him u tract on the
sin of dancing! T rejoice before God €hat
never are sympathetic words uttered, never
a prayer offered, never a Christian almsgiv
ing indulged in but it is blessed.
There
been told, where the utterance of
will bring back a score of echoes and I have
to tell you t his morning that a syflWatheGc
word, a kuid word, a generous word, a help
ful word, uttered in th n .lark places of the
town, will bring back 10,OcO echoes from all
the throne* of heaven.
Are there in this assemblage this morning
those who know by experience the tragedies
in the third wat h of the night? I am not
here to thrust you bock with one hard word.
Take the bandage from your bruised %oul,
and put on it thi k soothing salvo of Christ s
Gospel and of God’s compassion. Many have
coran. 1 sc others coming to God this morning,
ry up the news to
heaven. Set all the bolls ringing. Spread the
banquet under the arches. Let the crowned
heads come dotvn and sit at the jubilee. 1
tell you there is more delight in heaven over
one man that gets reformed by the grace of
God than over ninety and nine that never got
off the track.
I could give you the history, in a minute,of
one of the best friends I ever had. Otitsido
of my own family, I never lmd a better
friend. He welcomed mo to my home at the
West. He was of splendid personal appear
ance, but he had an ardor of soul and a
warmth of affection that made me love him
like a brother. I saw men coming out of the
saloons and gambling hells, and they sur
rounded my friend, and they took him
at the weak jioint. his social nature,
and I saw him going clown, and I had a fair
talk with him—for 1 never yet saw a man
you could not talk with on the subject of his
iiabits if you talked with him in the right way.
1 said to him: “Why don't you give up
your bad habits and become a Christian/” I
remember now just how he looked, leaning
over his counter, as he replied: “I wish I
could. Oh; sir I 1 should like to be a Christian,
but I have gone so far astray I cn’t get
back.”
So the time went on. After a while the
day of sickness came. I was summoned to
his sick-bed. I hastened. It took me but a
very few moments to get there. I was sur
prised as 1 went in. 1 saw him in his ordi
nary dress, fully dressed, lying on top of the
lied. 1 gave him my hand, and hesfized it
convulsively, and said: “Oh, how glad lam
to see you! Sit down there.” 1 sat down
and he said: “Mr. Talmage, just where you
sit now my mother sat last night. Bhe has
been dead twenty years. Now, I don’t want
you to think I am out of my mind, or tlat I am
superstitious; but, sir, she sat there last night
just as certainly as you sit there now—the
same cap and apron and spectacles. It was my
old mother—she sat there.” Then lie turned
to his wife, and said: “I wish you would take
these strings off the bed; someliody Is wrap
ping strings around me all the time. I wish
you would stop that annoyance.” bhe said:
“Thre is nothing here.” Then I saw it was
delirium.
He said: “Just where you sit now my
mother sat, and she said: ‘Boswell* I wish
you would do better—l wish you would do
better.’ I said: ‘Mother, I wish I Could do
letter; I try to do better, but I can't.
Mother, you used to help me, why can't you
help me now/ 1 And, sir, I got out oi bed, for
it was a reality, and l went to her, and threw
my arms around her neck, and I said:
‘Mother, I will do better, but you must help;
I can't do this alone.’” I knelt down and
prayed. That night his soul went to the
Lord that made it.
Arrangements were made for the obsequies.
The question was raised whether they should
bring him to tho church. Somebody said:
“You cannot bring such a dissolute man as
that into tho church.” I said: “You will
bring him in church; he sto>d by me when he
was alive, and I will stand by him when he
is (lead. Bring him.” As I Siood in the
pulpit and saw them carrying the body up
the aisle, l felt as if I could weep tears of
blood.
On one side of the pulpit sat his little child
of eight years, a sweet, beautiful little girl
that I have seen him hug convulsively in his
better moments. He put on her all jewels, all
diamon Is and gave her all pictures and toys,
and then h** would go away as if hounded by
an evil spirit, to his cups and the house of
shame a fool to tho correction of 4he stocks.
She looked up wonderingly. She knew not
what it all meant. She was not old enough
to understand the sorrow of an orphan child.
On the other side of the pulpit sat the men
who had ruined him; they were the men who
had poured the wormwood into the orphan's
cup; they were the men who had bound him
hand and foot. I knew them. How did they
seem to feel/ Did they weep? No. Did they
say; “What a pity that so generous a man
should be destroyed /” No. Did they sigh re
pentingly ovfcr what they had dune/ No. they
sat there looking as vultures look at the car
cass of a lamb whose heart they have ripp:*!
out. So they sat and locked at
the coffin - lid, and I* told them the
judgment of God upon thos.i who had de
stroyed their fellows. Did they reform! I
was told thev were in the places of iniquity
that night after my friend was laid in Oak
wo(xl Cemetery, and they blasphemed, and
they drank. Oh! how merciless men arc, espe
cially after they have destroyed vou! Do
not look to meii for comfort and kelp. Look
to God.
But there is a man who won't reform. He
says: “I won't reform.” Well, then, how
many acts are there in a tragedy/ I believe
five.
Act the first of the tragedy: A young
man starting off from home. and
sisters weeping to have him go. Wagon
rising over the hill. Farewell kiss flung
back. Ring the bell and let the curtain fall.
Act the second: The marriage altar. Full
organ. Bright lights. Long white veil
trailing through the aisle. Prayer and
congratulation, and exclamation of “How
well she looks!”
Act the third: A woman waiting for
staggering steps. Old garments stuck into the
broken window-pane. Marks of hardship on
the face. The biting of the nails of bloodless
Angers. Neglect, and cruelty, and despair.
Ring the bell and let the curtain drop.
Act the fourth: Three graves in a dark
place—grave of the child that died for lack of
medicine, grave of the wife that died of a
broken heart, grave of the man that died of
dissipation. On! what a blasted heath with
three graves! Plenty of weeds, but no flow
ers. Ring the bell and let the curtain drop.
Act the fifth: A destroyed soul’s eternity.
No light. No music. No hope. Anguish
coiling its serpents around the heart. Black
ness of darkness forever.
But I cannot look any longer. Woe! woe!
I close my eyes to this last act of the tragedy.
Quick! Quick! Ring the bell and let the curtain
drop. “Rejoice, Oh young man! in thy
youth, and let thy heart rejoice in the days
of thy youth • but know thou that for all
these things God will bring you into judg
ment.” There is a way that seemeth right to
a man, but the end thereof is death.’*
Borrowed for the Occasion.
The St. Paul Pioneer says: A Minne
apolis lady desired to give a fashionable
party, but her parlors were lacking in
one requisite that was necessary to give
lustre to the occasion, namely the ex
pensive curtains that go so far to give a
room an air of elegance and luxury. To
supply the hiatus she procured from a
well known dealer the very article that
she wanted. She took the curtains “on
approval” and did not pay anything
down. She gave the party, and almost
the most brilliant and succe.. ful thing
ill Kin tit was the handsome* drapery of
the windows. The party probably es
tablished the lady's reputation. When
it was over she took back tfie hangings,
with the word tha* “they didn’t suit.”
Merchants state that, tlm same sort of
thing is often attempted with articles of
wearing apparel. And here, too, it is
the women that are the boldest. There
are undoubted instances where jewelry’,
laces, and other expensive articles are
returned to the store after having done
duty for a single night. This borrowed
splendor, while it is highly unsatisfac
tory to some, seems to be a sufficient
glory for a large number of others for
whom the Hatisfac*:f/;i of f he present
moment is all sufficient.