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VOL. 18.
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—AS THEY—
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OLD BluG
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WITH
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FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE FOR
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OYSTERS, FISH AND GAME ON HAND
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BILLIARDS
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Also, PARKER’S GUN AND DREECH
LOADING FIXTURES.
Americus, Ga., Sept. stli, 1882. 6.2 m
Miss KATE KING
Invites the attention of the Ladies to her
SELECT STOCK OF
Millinery and Fancy Sods
NOTIONS, Etc.,
ALL OF THE LATENT STYLES.
Which she keeps on hand at all times,
and at the
LOWEST CASH PRICES!
NEW GOODS
ARRIVINC DAILY.
ESTDon’t fail to Call and Examine her
took before purchasing elsewhere.
Miss KATE KING,
PUBLIC SQUARE AMERICUS,
mar3ltf
Rosser & Gunnels.
New Bar and Billiard
SALOON.
Messrs. G. S. ROSSER and P. W. GUN
NELS have opened a Bar and Billiard Sa
loon in the new building of llumil 8103., on
Cotton Avenue, where they have a fine
stock of pure
Brandies. Wines and Whistles !
Also the National Drink,
ANHUESER BEER,
the best in the land. The best Cigars and
Tobacco always on hand.
Our Billiard Saloon is one of the best in
the city—everything new and good. We in
vite the public generally to give us a trial.
In a few days our RESTAURANT will he
opened, and we promise that it shall com
pare with the best and be surpassed lw none.
ROSSER & GUNNELS,
scptstf Americus, Ga.
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I have on hand the finest stock of
mmm aii ciUEsiEs
in the city. Ten big cases of toys, looking
like young houses, in store, and more on the
road, and by Christmas tlie finest stock ot
Toys will he in store that lias ever been
shewn in Americus. Cigars of tlie finest
qualities from a nickle to ten cents—real
Havana flavor. Confectioneries the sweet
est and choicest. The fruits of the Tropics,
tlie most luscious and the best. A good
stock of Chewing Tobacco—golden leaved.
ED. ANSLEY.
Americus, Ga., Sept. 20,1882. tf
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, OCTOBEE 21, 1882.
T'BO'tR.X.
FORTY.
With many a careless, joyous hound,
With many a weary, treadmill round,
O’er smooth spread turf or dangerous ground
By many a limpid stream, and mild,
By many a mountain torrent wild,
I, from a simple, trusting child,
Have wandered on to forty.
From feet that skipped to sober tread—
From mind with foolish fancies fed,
The sounder judgment, wiser head;
The change to work from thoughtless play;
The change to graver thoughts from gray
Which came to me along the way
I strode while reaching forty.
Through visions which had real seemed—
Through visions wider than I dreamed:
Through shadows where the silvergleamed,
Through sunny places half o’ercast,
But eerie shapes which flittered fast—
For brightness cannot always last,
And youth must merge in forty.
Now let me count my treasures o’er,
What have 1 won or lost? Far more
Have lostthan gained. Such boundlessstore
Of faith and hope I boasted when
I wandered from a lad of ten
To where my vision broadened, Then
My faitli exceeded forty.
Somewhat have learned, and much unlearn
ed—
Some good received, much more have spurn
ed:
And much that might have been discerned
I left unheeded—wondered by
With careless or averted eye;
Forgetting that the moments fly
So fast from youth to forty.
I’ve readied the summit of the race,
And would move on witli slower pace:
But forty has no breathing place.
So shift and turn me as I will,
The years will crowd and jostle still,
And I may hasten down the liill
So score another forty.
I view tlie patli I’ve wondered on,
Where forty years have come and gone,
Aiul much of faitli and hope lies strewn,
And prey they may prove finest gold,
The remnant of the faitli I hold,
And shred of hope I still infold.
And last another forty.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY KEY. T. DeMTT TALMAGE
SHALL GAMBLERS TRIUMPH?
But I know thy abode, and thy going out
and thy coming in, and thy rags against me.
Because thy rags against me and tny tumult
is come up into mine ears, therefore I will
put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in
thy lips, and I will turn time back by the
way which thou couiest.—ll. Kings, xix.,
20, 27.
Sennacherib, the infamous, had tax
ed and outraged the people until it was
time to have hitn stopped. The Lord
proposed to stop him; not through any
mild or complimentary way. God says
He will not argue or persuade him, but
as a butcher thrusts an iron hook into
the nose of an ox and lead it to the
slaughter, so He turned back this infa
mous Sennacherib. “I will put my
hook in thy nose, and turn thee back
by the way which thou comest.”
The gambling evil in our time has
taken on imperial airs, and it is a Sen
nacherib. It has taxed and outraged a
multitude of people already to financial
and spiritual death. The work is to be
stopped. The evil was never so defiant
or blatant as to-day. All who have
read the newspapers in the past few
weeks know that a great attempt has
been made by city authorities to put
down this evil, and that a great attempt
has been made to overthrow the law.
The question now, the absorbing ques
tion for all classes of people who are
interested in the welfare of onr cities,
is whether the gamblers shall be tri
umphant in their new movement, or
whether the officers of the government
in all our cities shall be backed up by
a healthy and vehement public opinion.
Sir Garnet Wolseley prophesied that
on the 15th of September he should
have Arabi Pasha a prisoner and that
the Egyptians would be overthrown.
With marvellous accuracy the prophecy
came true, and on the 15th of Septem
ber the rebellion had practically been
overthrown. With just as much pre
cision the gamblers of this country
have declared that on the 25th day of
September they would open their pool
rooms and their gambling saloons, and
they have kept their promise, they be
ing open in the different parts of the
different cities. Pool rooms open in
Long Island City. The officers of the
law say they can do nothing now with
them. A Coroner of the city most sug
gestively allows his own premises to bo
the entrance to one of these pandemo
niums, no doubt having an eye to busi
ness, since the way of the gamblers is
very often the way to sudden death.
Last Thursday sixty-four of the mis
creants in New York were arraigned
for trial. They have, of course, plead
ed “not guilty.” Powerful counsel are
enlisted in their behalf. The District
Attorney of New York is warned by an
anonymous letter that he had better
look out. The politicians in all our
cities are told that if they aid in the
suppression of the gambling establish
ments they will never be mayors, they
will never be district attorneys, they
will never be membersof.Congress,they
will never be anything. What all
churches, what all reformatory institu
tions, what all good people now need
to do is to rally a vigorous public sen
timent on this subject and let the au
thorities in all our cities know that they
will be backed up by all Christians,all
decent people in every effort to put down
crime and to elevate virtue. This last
week, in Cincinnati, on my way to the
depot, I heard the rattling of the dice
of gambling saloons, and then I went
| out into the country to a large agricul
tural fair, and in front of the hotel there
was a large group of men gambling all
day while their honest neighbors were
admiring the fruits of the earth and
blessing God for our great prosperity.
The evil has rolled over this whole
land. This Sennacherib needs to have
an iron hook in his nose until he shall
be brought back, until he shall be
brought down,until he shall be destroy
ed, and it shall be demonstrated that
honest, Christian sentiment in all our
cities is mightier than crime. Fathers
and brothers and sons may well be en
listed in such a discussion, but just as
much wives,mothers.sisters and daugh
ters need to he enlisted in 6uch a dis
cussion lest their present home be sac
rificed, or their intended home blasted.
No person can successfully: ‘'Thatevil
has no relation to me or mine.” Before
long it may be found out in your own
experience that this discussion hail for
your practical bearing on three words—
earth, heaven and hell. People who
have not looked into the matter have
no idea of the extent of the evil. I have
no doubt there are a score of families in
this house this morning touched by it.
There may he members of the family
who do not know exactly what is the
matter, but the secret after a while will
come out. There are young men in
this house to-day with gambling tickets
in their pockets. There arc thise here
who have taken their first step on the
downward road, the second step, the
third step,- the fourth step, and are the
ministers of religion to be silent? and
are we to spend our time talking about
the sins of the Hitties and Gnrgishites,
and the Ahabs and the Jezebels of the
past, when we have these monarchs of
iniquity destroying the land? It is
estimated that in this neighborhood of
cities there are three thousand five hun
dred professed gamblers. As much as
it is your business to sell goods, or doc
tor the sick, or plead the law, or import
goods, or manufacture, oi carry on yonr
trade, just so much it is tlieir business
to despoil society. In all these cities
during these years, how many of the
gambling establishments have even
professed to be honest. Nine. These
nine professedly honest gambling estab
lishments are only the antechamber to
those acknowledged to he fraudulent.
There are the lirsteclass gamblingestab
lisliments taking down hundreds of our
young men, hundreds of our older men.
You go a little out of Broadway, and
you go up marble stairs and ling the
ball, and a liveried servant comes to
the door and introduces you. The walls
are lavender tinted. There is a piece
of furniture very costly, most exquisite
and wonderful, its value so great ! can
not compute it. It is the roulette table.
Here is the banqueting room Free
drinks, free cigars, free fruits,free every
thing; sumptuous beyond all parallel.
Pictures on the wall of .Tephtha’s
daughter and Dante’s Frozen Region
of Hell, a most appropriate picture.
Pass on, and you come to the second
class gambling establishments of our
cities. You are introduced by a card
of some “roper-in.” Once fairly inside,
von must either gamble or fight. San
ded cards, dice loaded with quicksilver,
poor drinks mixed with more poor
drinks soon help you to get rid of your
money to a tune in short meter with
no staccato passages! You went in to
see. You saw! Does not a panther
squat in the grass know a calf when he
sees it? Wrangle not in that place for
your rights, or your wounded body will
he thrown into the street, or your dead
body pulled out of the East river. You
pass on and you come to what are ordi
narily called pool rooms. There is bet
ting on numbers. Betting on two num
bers is called a “saddle,” betting on
three numbers is called a “gig,” betting
on four numbers is called a “horse,”
and thousand of men spring into that
“saddle,” mount that “gig,” and be
hind that “horse” ride to perdition.
The sign says “Exchange.” Wonder
fully significant sign—“ Exchange;”
for that is where a man gives up his
money, gives up his morals, gives up
his soul, and gets in exchange loss of
respectability, loss of decency, loss ot
family, loss of heaven. “Exchange!”
Infinite exchange. Awful exchange.
Everlasting exchange. A great many
Christian people wonder why it is that
men of wealth and men of refinement
and men of education, as fine looking
people as we have in these cities, go
down into this evil. Why, tny friends,
it is easily explained. A great many
people are born with a passion for haz
ard. It is a joy to them to go near a
precipice. They climb Jungfrau not
for the purpose of seeing the vastness
of the landscape, but for the feeling,
“what would happen if I should fall
off?” There are persons whose blood
is filliped and accelerated by skating
near an air-hole. There are people who
find a joyful feeling in driving within
two inches of the edge of a bridge. Do
not blame such people Only blame
them for the way in which they develop
or put down, that passion. “Oh!”
says one of that temperament: “here
are $500; I’ll stake them; 1 may lose,
but P may gain $5,000, and it’s excite
ment, anyway.” Shuffle the cards.
Losv! Heart thumps. Head dizzy.
Never mind, it is excitement. So they
go on with the play and they go on
down. That is the history of thousands
of people. That is the history of some
persons in this house this morning.
Then others are led into this great and
absorbing evil through sheer desire of
gain. It is especially so with profess
ed gamblejs. They always keep cool.
They never drink until their brain is
unbalanced or their judgment is over
thrown. They see not so much the
dice as the dollar beyond the dice. They
are as the spider in the web, looking as
if dead until the fly passes. There are
hundredsof young men who say; “Now,
I don’t, in this office, store or factory,
get enough salary. I ought to have a
room in a better boarding-house or bet
ter hotel; I ought to have better wines;
I ought to have richer cigars; I ought,
when people banquet me, to be able to
banquet them, aud I am going to en
dure this no longer. I will with one
bright stroke make my future. Here
goes, right or wrong, principle, heaven
or hell. Who cares?” When a young
man, or an older man-, resolves to live
beyond his means, Satan has bought
him out and it is only a ques
tion of time when the goods shall be de
livered. The thing is done. You may
plan in his way all the batteries of truth
and righteousness, he will press right
on. If a man have a thousand dollars of
income and he spends twelve hundred,
if he have fifteen hundred and spend
two thousand, if he have three and
spend five thousand, all the powers of
darkness say. “Aha! aha! we have
him.” And they have. The extra
five hundred or the extra two thou
sand, or the extra five thousand dollars
must be obtained some way. Here is
a young man who says: “There is
my friend who came to town with no
money at all, and see how he’s got on!
He went into one of those places and
put a certain amount of money on the
ace; he has now his hundreds, his thou
sands and his tens of thousands and.
here I am nothing hut a poor clerk.”
What a dull business this is, adding
up this long line of figures in a count
ing house. What a dull business,
taking down fifty yards of cloth to
se'ii one remnant. What a dull busi
ness this is, my waiting on other peo
dle when I might put a hundred on the
ace and take up a thousand. What is
the use? It is so insidious, this temp
tation. Other sins beat the drum, or
flaunt the flag, or gather their recruits
with huzza; but this one marches its
pale procession on down, and when
they drop into tlitf grave there is not so
much as the sound of the click of a
dice. Oh! how many nobler Datures
have perished under the power. That
grand forehead is licked by a tongue
of flame that shall never be extinguish
ed. Into that heart there are vulturous
breaks plunged which shall never be
lifted. Open the door of that man’s
soul and see the coil ofadders writhing
their indescribable horrors until you
turn away and hide your face and beg
God to lieip you forget it. The bad
thing about all this is that the most of
evil, the most of the calamity goes
unadvevtised. The men who lose
money in gambling generally say
nothing about it. They do not want
their families to know, they do not
want the church of God to know, they
do not want the world to know, and
so I suppose in ninety-nine cases out
of a hundred when a man loses money
in gambling he hushes it up. Once in
a while there is an exception; as where
the police of Boston some years ago
broke in upon a gaming establishment
and found there some of the first mer
chants of State striet, clear down to
the Ann street gambler; as when Bul
lock, the cashier of the Georgia Cen
tral Railroad, was found to have pur
loined $103,000 for gambling purposes;
as when many years ago, in one of the
savings banks of Brooklyn, a young
man was found to have stolen $40,000
to carry on gaming practices; as when
in Wall street, a man in an insurance
company was found years ago to have
stolen SIBO,OOO to carry on gaming
practices. But these are exceptions.
The general rule is that in silence the
money leaks out of the merchant’s till,
or out of the fire-proof safe of the bank
into the wallet of the gambler. One
of the main pipes to this sewer of
iniquity is business excitement. It is
a most significant fact that nearly all
the day gambling establishments in
New York were found in proximity to
Wall street. Men went into the ex
citement of stock gambling; getting
through that,at the close of businessthey
went into other places of gambling that
they might keep up the excitement. The
howling, stamping, Bedlamitish crew
of the Gold Room of olden time used
to drop into the gambling saloons
around about. The agitation in the
Stock Exchange that you sometimes
saw at the announcement of the word
“Northwestern,” or “Rook Island,” or
‘Erie,’ or ‘New York Central;’ the rat
tat-tat of the auctioneer’s mallet, the
excitement of making “corners,” and
establishing “pools” and “carrying”
stock, and a “break” from eighty to
seventy, and the excited cry of “buyer
three!” “buyer ten!” “taken!” “how
many?” and the loss or the gain of hun
dreds and thousands of dollars in the
flash of a moment disqualifies a man
to go home, and he goes into these es
tablishments near by. That has been
the past history of a great many men.
They went up the stairs ainid the clos
ed business offices until they came to
the room darkly curtained and wooden
shuttered, but richly furnished inside,
and took their places at the roulette or
the faro table. That is the way some
of the best men of our great cities have
been destroyed. A merchant came
from the far West. He was largely
influential in his own city. Coming to
New York he went into an institution
of that kind on Park place, and before
morning ho had lost all his estate save
one dollar, and with that dollar he walk
ed aronnd the room, and then seized
upon by this infernal sorcery, he again
approached the table and was overheard
to say as ho put his dollar down, “One
thousand miles from home and my last
dollar on a gaming table!” O! it is
merciless, I tell you, young man; it is
merciless. Sir Horace Walpole says
that a man dropped dead in front of
one of the club houses of London and
then he was carried into one of these
club houses, which was a gaming es
tablishment under another name, and
the men in that establishment immedi
ately began to bet as to whether he was
dead or alive, and one man proposed to
bleed him, so it could be demonstrated;
and the only reason ho did not bleed
him was that some of the gamblers
said that it would not be fair. Oh, it
is merciless. I remember, when I was
living in Philadelphia, hearing of a
case down on Chesnut street where a
man sat at a gaming table, playing for
large stakes, and he lost everything,
and before he left the table he blew his
brains out; and while the servants were
washing up the blood from the floor,
they started the next game. In the
presence of God I this dav arraign gift
enterprises as having a tendency to
make this a nation of gamblers. Men
failing in other enterprises go into gift
concerts where the attraction is not the
music, but the packages distributed
among the audience; or into a sale of
books where the attraction is not the
book, but the package that goes with
the beok. So in our time we have
known tobacco dealeis to advertise that
a certain day in every one of their pa
pers, there would be a prize, and whether
a man bought the tobacco in Chicago,
or Boston, or Charleston, or New Or
leans, or New York, he would get a
magnificent gratuity. Boys hawking
prize packages through the cars—pack
ages containing no one knows what un
til they are opened and found to con
tain nothing. Aye, the cause of char
ity is insulted, and under the name of
gift enterprises the gambling spirit
goes on. You remember at the close
of the war how we had gift enterprises
all over the country, "the proceeds lor
the benefit of the widows and orphans
of soldiers.” What did the men en
gage in those enterprises care for the
orphans? They would have been will
ing to allow them to freeze on their
doorstep. I have no faith in charity
which for the purpose of relieving pres
ent distress will open the jaw of a mon
ster which has taken down so many of
the bodies and souls of men. I believe
through these gift enterprises there are
thousands of people being turned into
gambling habits. O! my friends, do
one of two things; he honest, or die!
I am preaching this sermon this
morning for three or four reasons. One
is, I want the authorities of all our
cities to understand that there is a re
ligious and moral sentiment that will
sustain them in all tlieir efforts to put
down these crimes. And then, 1 want
to warn young men, and then I want to
reclaim the lost. Any person looking
over these audiences any Sabbath morn
ing or any Sabbath night, will be struck
with the fact that while there are many
aged people here, there is a vast multi
tude of young men. The reason is, I
understand them, and they understand
me. They do not get provoked at what
I say. I talk to them as a brother to
a brother. It is not an abstract subject.
I have seen so many go down. There
are places where, if you go to a cliff
and cast a stone, you can hear it far
down echo on the rocks. There are
other places where the plunge is so
great that it you taka something and
throw it down, you may listen and liston
and listen, hut there comes back no
echo of the all. And this last has been
the case in many a moral calamity.
O! my friend, what is your great want?
One man says it is higher social posi
tion; another man says it is larger sal
ary; another man says it is easier work.
I do not know what your other wants
are, but I will tell you, my brother,
what your greatest want is—if you do
not already possess it—aud that is, the
grace of God. There may be in this
house those who have fallen under this
evil. You are in a prison. You feel
it. You have tried to get out. You
cannot get out. If I should have your
personal confidence and talk this mat
ter over, you would say; “I cannot get
out of that prison.” From other habits
men seem to get away by the force of
natural resolutions sometimes; but from
this habit I do not think any man gets
away by the force of natural resoluticto.
You want to get out of the prison and
you rush against the iron bars of one
side and you do not escape. And then
you soliloquize, and think and think,
and then you rush against the other
side ot the cage and against the iron
bars, and there is blood on the bars
and blood on your soul, and you do not
escape. But there is a key that will
unlock that door. It is a key of the
house of David; it is a key that Christ
wears at His girdle. Have that key
thrust into the door of your prison
house and the bolts will shoot hack,
and the door will swing open and yon
will he a free man in Christ Jesus. O!
prodigals, it is a poor business for you
to be feeding swine, when your father
stands in the front door straining his
eyesight to the return of the prodigal;
and the calf in the paddock is as fat as
it ever can be for the celebration, and
all the harps of Heaven are strung and
the feet free. There are converted
gamblers in heaven. Light from the
throne of God flashed upon the greon
baize of their piliard saloon. They
stopped trying for earthly stakes, and
they tried for heaven and won it. There
is a hand to-day stretched out from
heaven toward the worst man in this
audience. It is not a hand clenched
as if to strike; it is a hand outspread
as though to drop a benediction. Other
seas have a shore and may he fathomed,
but the sea of God’s love—the eternity
has no plummet to strike the bottom,
and immensity has no iron-bound shore
to confine it. Its tides are lilted by
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the great heart of God’s compassion.
Its waves are the hosannas of the re
deemed. The argosies that sails that
sea drop anchor at last amid the thun
dering salvo of eternal victory. But
alas! for the man who sits down to the
last game of life and puts his immortal
soul on the ace, and when the kings
and queens and knaves and spades have
been shuffled and cut and the game is en
ded, hovering and impending worlds dis
cover that he has lost the game, and
the faro of eternal darkness clutches
down into its wallet all the blood-stain
ed wages. O! come home to thy God
to-day. Ido not feel so sorry for young
men who were born in the city and who
have had all these temptations describ
ed before them until they know what
they are. lam not so sorry for them
as I am for those who come from coun
try homes and are early betrayed and
easily overthrown. 01. young man
from the farmhouse among the hills,
what did your parents do to you that
you should do this to them? Why
will you by going into a life of dissipa
tion break the heart of her who gave
you birth? Look at her hand, so dis
tort are the knuckles. Why? Work
ing for you. Look at the back so bent.
Why? Carrying your burdens. O! dis
sipated young man, writ* home by the
first mail to-morrow, cursing your moth
er’s gray hair, cursing the chair in
wh'ch she sits, cursing the cradle in
which she rocked you. “0!” you cry,
“I cannot, I cannot.” You are doing
worse than that. There is something
on yonr forehead now. What is it?
Run your finger over your forehead.
What is it? It is red. It is the blood
of a broken heart. lam more in sym
pathy with such persons who have come
from the country life to the city file,
because I was a country lad myself and
saw not until 15 years of age a great
city. O! how stupendous New York
seemed tome that morning I arrived at
Cortland Street Ferry. I came to the
city, my soul all awake for the amuse
ments and the hilarities of the world,
no soul ever more awake or more sym
pathetic with all the sports and amuse
ments of fife than my soul was, and I
have sometimes thought it was quite
strange I was not captured of evil and
dragged down. I was talking with a
man of the world about it some time
ago, and though he pretended to be only
a man of the world, lie said: “I guess
sir, there must have bean some prayers
hovering over your head, prayers that
have been answered.”
I was on the St. Lawrence river and
the current was very swift, and I said:
“Captain, why, how swift the river is,”
“O!” he replied, “not much here, but
seventy-five miles on further it is ten
times swifter, and we employ an Indian
pilot, and we give him a thousand dol
lars a summer to take us through be
tween the Thousand Islands and be
tween the rocks.” Every man who
comes from the country to the city life
comes from smooth water into the rap
ids. There are thousands of islands
of enchantment and many rocks of peril.
O! I wonder if you are going to have
good pilotage? Do you know, my
brother, that the report of your dissipa
tion has already got back to the old
homestead? “0! no,” you say, “that
isn’t possible.” It is possible. There
are always people ready to carry bad
news, and of these people that desire to
carry bad news there is an accursed old
gossip wending her infernal step to
ward the old homestead. She has been
there. She sat down in a chair, and
she wriggled about for a while and said
she could not stay a great while. But
she said to your parents, “Do you know
your son gambles? Do you know your
son drinks?” And the old people got
very white about the lips, and your
mother said, “Just open the door a lit
tle, so we may have fresh air.” And
after this bad messenger went away
your mother came out and sat down on
the steps where you used to play, and
she cried, and cried, and took off her
spectacles, and with her apron wiped
off the mist oftears. After a while she will
be very sick, and the old gig
of the country doctor will come
up the country lane, and the
horse will be tied at the swinging gate,
and the prescriptions will fail, and she
will get worse and worse, and in her
last delirium she will talk about noth
ing but you. And then the farmers
will come to the funeral. They will
tie their horses to the rail of the fence,
and they will talk over what ailed the
departed, and one will say it was inter
mittent, and another will say it was
congestion, and another will say it was
premature old age. O! no. It will be
neither intermittent, nor congestion, nor
premature old age, but it will be record
ed in the book of God almighty that
you killed her! Our language is very
fertile in describing crime. Slaying a
man, that is homicide;slaying a brother
that is fratricide; slaying a father, that
is pratricide. slaying a mother, that is
matricide. But you go on in that way,
O! wandering and dissipated soul, and
it will take two words to describe your
crime—partricide and matricide. 0!
come home to thy God, come home to
thy father’s God; thy mother’s God.
Just fold your hands to-day, and say
with another:
For sinners, Lord, Thou earnest to bleed,
And I’m a sinner vile indeed;
Lord, I believe Thy grace is free,
O! magnify thy grace in me.
Do not let the world destroy yon.
Do not get swindled out of heaven!
Have you tried them? Tried what? The
white Elephant Cigar, the best in town
old atD uEldridge’s Drug Store.
Fresh Spice Pepper, Ginger, Mace, Clove
Cinnamou, and Nutmegs, ground and nn
g round, at Dr. Eldndge s Drug Store
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