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Till-: SEMWEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED I!t 1854, ByCHAS. W. HANCOCK. * VOL. 18. The Sumter RepuMteHi. Bf.mi-Weekly, One Tear - - - ft 00 Wbely, One Test - - - - - 2.00 ETPatablk nr advanobjß All advertisements eminating from public fflces will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents f preach subsequent Insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are Considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date end signature, is counted as a, word. The dbsh'must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ment! Have been made. Advertising Bates. One Square first insertion, - - - -fl.oo Each subsequent Insertion, - - - - 50 WTen Linns of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the IdrKth life Sb ssifcjiF Sira charged for accordingly. Advertisementstooccupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. Charles F. Crisp, •lltorviey at l*aw% AMEBICUS, OA. decl6tf “b; pTholTis; •Attorney at Law% AMEBICUS, GA. Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank building. dec2otf G SIMMONS, •rtHomey at L,aw , AMERIOUS GA., Office in Hawkins’ building, south side of Lamm Street, in the old office of Fort* Simnmns. ' janotf •Tt A. KV, ATTORNEY AT LAW A\l) SOLICITOR IN EQUITY, Office on Public Square, Over Gyles’ Clothing Store, Ameiucus, Ga. After a brief respite I return again to the practice of law. As in the past it will be my earnest purpose to represent my clients faithfully and look to tiieir interest! The commercial practice will receive close atten tion and remittances promptly made. The Equity practice, and cases involving titlesof land and real,estate are my favorites. Will pwetfce in the Courts of South west Georgia, theSUifreme Court and the United States Courts. Thankful to my friends for their patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf CARD. I offer my professional services again to the good people of Americus. After thirtv years’ of medical service, I have found It difficult to withdraw entirely. Office next door to D ja£rtf ge ’ s drug | to c.’B°i,AOK?r e D . Dr. J. A. FORT, Physician and Surgeon, Offers his professional services to the people of Americus and vicinity. Office at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. At night can be found at residence on Furlow’s lawn. wfllreoSivepfoinpt attrition. Dr. D. P. HOLLOWAY, DwtwT, Americas. - - - Georgia Treatssuceessfully all diseases of the Den tal organs. Fills teeth by the Improved method, and inserts artificial teeth on the boat material known to toe profession. ISTOFFICE over Davenport and SOn’s Drug Store. marllt J. B. C. Smith & Sons, miRMiS MB lIIDEBS, Amfericus, Qa. We art prepared to do any kind of work in the carpenter line at short notice and on reasonable terms. Having had years of ex perience in the bigness, we feel competent to give satisfaction. All orders for con tracts for building will receive prompt at tention. Jobbing promptly attended to. mav26-3m Commercial Bar. This well-established house will be kept terw i6t^^ Choicest i2#nfer and Cigars, Milwaukee, Budweiser and Aurora Beer, constantly on hand, and all the best brands of fine Brandies, Wines, Ac. Good Billiard Tables for the accommodation of customers. may9tf JOHN W. COTNEST, Clerk. This popular House is quite new and handsomely furnished with new furniture, bedding and all other articles. It is in the Centre of the business portion of the city, convenient to depot, the banks, warehouses, Ac., and enjoys a fine reputation, second to none, among its permanent and transient Table Boarders Accommodated on Reasonable Terms. K GEORGE ANDREWS, JM Mil SHOE MER, their work. He can make and repair all work at short notice. Is sober and always -on hand to UWalTofl customers. Work guaranteed to he honest and good. *P***-tf Chlorinated Seine, solution Chlori ■nated Soda, Darby’s Fluid and other aR^Ba'SEISF DARBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. A Household Article for Universal Family Use. For Scarlet and ■ B Typhoid Fevers, ■ Eradicates gj Diphtheria, Sail ■ MAT.AT?.TA s vation, Ulcerated ■MIMMHBH Fox, Measles, and all Contagions Diseases. Persons waiting on the Sick should use it freely. Scarlet Fever has never been known to spread where the Fluid was used. Yellow Fever has been cured with it after black vomit had taken place. The worst cases of Diphtheria yield to it. SMALL-FOX and PITTING of Small Pox PREVENTED A member of ray fam ily was taken with Small-pox. 1 used the Fluid; the patient was not delirious, was not pitted, and was about the house again in three weeks, and no others had it. -I. W. Park inson, Philadelphia. I Diphtheria j Prevented. 1 The physicians here use Darbys Fluid very successfully in the treat ment of Diphtheria. A. Stollbnwbrck, Greensboro, Ala. Tetter dried up. Cholera prevented. Ulcers purified and healed. In cases of Death it should be used about the corpse —it will prevent any unpleas ant smell. The eminent Phy. slci&n, J. MARION SIMS, M. D., New York, says: “I am convinced Prof. Darbys Prophylactic Fluid is a valuable disinfectant." iPavoredaaddUkPer sons refreshed and Bed Sores prevent ed by bathing with Darbys Fluid. Impure Air made harmless and purified. For Sore Throat it is a sure cure. Contagion destroyed. For Frosted Feet, Chilblains, Piles, ChAfings, etc. Rheumatism cured. Soft White Complex ions secured by its use. Ship Fever prevented. To purify the Breath, Cleanse the Teeth, it can’t be surpassed. Catarrh relieved and cured. Erysipelas cured. Burn s relieved instantly. Scars prevented. Dysentery cured. Wounds healed rapidly. Scurvy cured. An Antidote for Animal or Vegetable Poisons, Stings, etc. 1 used the Fluid during Opr present affliction with Scarlet Fever with de cided advantage. It is indispensable to the sick room. Wm. F. Sand ford, Eyrie 41a. i Scarlet Fever I 8 Cured. | 5 anderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. I testify to the most excellent qualities of Prof Darbys Prophylactic Fluid. Asa disinfectant and detergent it is both theoretically and practically superior to any preparation with which I am ac quainted.—N. T. I.UPTON, Prof. Chemistry. Darbys Fluid is Recommended by Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia * Rev. Chas. F. Deems, D.D., Church of the Strangers, N. Y.; Jos. LeConth,Columbia, Prof.,University,S.C. Rev. A. J. Battle, Prof., Mercer University : Rev. Guo. F. Pierce, Bishop M. E. Church, TO EVERY HOSE. Perfectly harmless. ..Used internally or externally for Man or Beast; The Phi id has been thoroughly tested and we have abundant evidence that it has done cverVthinC here cmimed. For FuHr information get of yout Druggist a, pamphlet or scud to the proprietors, J. I*. 7<Eli4N S r CO., Mamifrflunng Chemists, Pil ILADELPHJA. &nmrgs Hostetter*B Stomach Bitters meets the re quirements of the rational medical philoso phy which at present prevails. It is a per fectly pure vegetable remedy, embracing the three important properties of a preventive, a tpnie and an alterative. It fortifies tho body.against disease, invigorates and revi talizes the torpid stomach and liver, and effects a salutary ehange in the entire sys tem. For sale by ail Druggists and Dealers generally. AYER’S Ague Cure IS WARRANTED to cure all cases of ma larial disease, such.as Fever and Ague, inter mittent or Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb Ague, Bilious Fever, and Liver Com plaint. In case of failure, after due trial, dealers are authorized, by our circular of Jiity Ist, 1882, to refund the money. Dr. J. C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Druggists. 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D., with privilege of trial; junel6-lm MORBEANO CATTLE 2 P^WOOMI ilrtt iyiirwi i)tii|ini r fah fk lrVonte’B Fpwdera aro used In time. ■ I’twderfe wil l cpl e and preventlloo OrroLiWU. • ■’ • and cream twenty per cent., and notice the twtterflrm eveet ! DAVID B. TQUX’fJ. MojiM.titt, INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS, AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1883. •gOY.'TB.’Y. FOB YOUNe HEARTS ONLY. Oft in the winter of our lives We mourn the spring’s departured hours, And think what joy ’twoula be if Age, As well as Youth could find her flowers; But much I doubt were Spring to give Some of her blossoms to December, That they would seem as fair and sweet As those we lovingly remember. For violets blue and daisies white In frost and cold would surely shiver, And purple iris Sags soon droop I waving o’er a frozen river; And so ’tis better as it is— For young hearts only are Spring’s pleas ures; We old ones, faith, must he content To know that once we shared her treas ures. —[Margaret Eytinge in Harper’s Weekly. TABERNACLE SERMONS. B 1 BEY. T. DeWITT T A LINAGE The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish ed in pamphlet form by Geo. A. Sparks, 48 Bible House, New York. A number containing 26 Sermons is issued every three months. Price 30 cents, 81 per an num]. “Alarming’ Things of To-day.” “The Lord’s voice crieth unto the city.” Whether God or Satan shall have complete possession ot these cities is the question of the hour. Never so many churches. Never so many re formatory institutions. Never so many good men and women. Never so hope ful a prospect. But do not think that righteousness will triumph without ma ny rebuffs and terrific and long-contin ued struggle. Take the one fact that many of the streets of our cities have become depraved picture galleries by reason of the unclean figures represent ed in show windows and on board fen ces. Many of the theatres and opera houses are, by their mode of street ad vertisement, practising an indecency that ought long ago to have met the interdict of city authorities. Twenty five years ago such pictures would not have been allowed. The manager who ordered them and the bill-poster who carried them and the merchant who al lowed them in his show-window would have been hauled up in police court to answer. Would you allow in your parlors and in the presence of your fam ly on the part of any one such a lack of apparel? No. Then why allow it in the presence of the whole city? I denounce this wholesale immorali ty nf sh.-iw-urindovvs of our Ammi’.n cities as an appaling education in the wrong direction. Let the merchants of Brooklyn and New York forbid such insult to public virtue hanging in their windows. Let the Mayors of these cit ies walk through the streets and see the damnable spectacle on Pulton street, Atlantic street, and in all the prominent streets of our cities, East, West, North and South. Here is a practical reform that I demand in the name of God and of all decent citizens. If these pictures that present the ac tors and actresses unapparelled are in tended as specimens of the reformed American theatres, then they are being reformed into a Sodom. In southern Europe the immortal pictures of Herculaneum and Pompeii are kept under lock and key as speci mens of a polluted age, to be looked at by severe antiquarians. But New Y’ork and Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Chicago, Cincinnati and New Orleans, and all the cities put the pictorial inde cencies in show windows, on board fen ces and bulletin boards for men and women and children to look at as they go to church or school or social call or business. The stupendous nuisance is getting to be unbearable. While there never has been an age since the world stood in which the agencies for good are so potential as now, there never has been an age in which the forces ior evil were so unblushing and blatant. While we are toiling on toward uni versal Victory, we must have an intelli gent view as to what the dangers real ly are. I propose to point ont to yon those whom I conside- to be the up rooting and devouring classes of socie ty. First, the public criminals. You ought not to be surprised that these people make up a large portion in many communities. There were never so many foreigners, honorable and useful, coming to this country as now; but the vast.majprity of the criminals who take ship from Europe come into our own ports. In 1869, of the 49,000 peo ple who were incarcerated in the pris ons of the country, 32,000 of them wore of foreign birth. Many of them were the very desperadoes of society, oozing into the slums of our cities, waiting for au opportunity to riot and steal an 1 debauch, joining the large gang of American thugs and cut throats. There are in this neighborhood of cit ies—New York, Jersey City and Brook lyn.—4,ooo people whose entire busi ness in life is to commit crime. This is as much their business as jurispru dence or medicine or merchandise is yonr business. To it they bring all their energies ot body, mind and soul, and they look upon the interregnums which they spend in prison as so mnch unfortunate loss of time, just as yon lodk upon an attack of influenza or rheumatism which fastens you in the! house for a few days. It is their life time business to pick pockets and blow np safes, and shoplift and ply the pan-: el game, and they have as much pride of skill in their, business as you have in yours when yon upset the argument of an opposing counsel, or cure a gun shot fractnre which other surgeons have given np, or foresee a turn in the mar ket so you bny goods just before they go up 20 per cent. It is their business to commit crime, and Ido not suppose that once in a year the thought of the immorality strikes them Added to these profes sional criminals, .American and foreign, there is a large class of men who are more or less industrious in crime. In one year the police in this neighbor hood of cities arrested 10,000 people for theft, 10.000 for assault and battery, and 50,000 for intoxication. Drunk enness is responsible for much of the theft, since it confuses a man’s ideas of property, and he gets his hands on things that do not belong to him. Rum is responsible for much of the assault and battery, inspiring men to sudden bravery, which they must demonstrate, though it be on the face of the next gentleman. Seven million dollars’ worth of property stolen in this neighborhood of cities in one year! Yon cannot, as good citizens, be independent of that fact. It will touch your pocket, since I have to give you the fact that these three cities pay $7,000,000 worth of taxes a year to arraign, try and sup port the criminal population. You help to pay the board of every crimi nal—from the sneak-thief that snatch es a spool of cotton up to some man who enacts a “black Friday.” More than that, it touches yonr heart in the moral depression of the community. You might as well think to stand in a closely confined room where there are fifty people and yet not breathe the vi tiated air, as to stand in a community where there is such a great multitude of the depraved without somewhat be ing contaminated. What is the fire that burned your store down compared with the conflagration which consumes your morals? What is the thett of the gold and silver from your money-safe compared with the theft of your chil dren’s virtues? We are all ready to arraign criminals. We shout at the top of our voice, “Stop thief!” When the police get on the track we come out hatless and in our slippers to assist in the arrest. We come around the bawl ing ruffian and hustle him off to jus tice, and when he gets in prison what do we do for him? With great gusto we put on the handcuffs and the hop ples; but what preparation are we mak ing for the day when the handcuffs and hopples come off? Society seems tj say to these criminals, “Villiane, go in there and rot,” when it ought to say, “You are an offender against the law, but we mean to give you an opportn nilv. to rfuent: wo mean to help you. Christ died for you, Loon auu utc. Vast improvements have been made by introducing industries into the pris on; but we want something moie than hammers and shoe lasts to reclaim these people. Aye, we want more than sermons on the Sabbath day. Society must impress these men with the fact that it does not enjoy their suffering, and that it is attempting to reform and elevate them. The majority of criminals suppose that society has a grudge against them and they in turn have a grudge against society. They are harder in heart and more infuriate when they come out ol jail than when they went in. Many of the people who go to prison go agai. and again and again. Some years ago, 1,500 prison ers who during the year had been in Sing Sing, 400 had been there before. In a house of correction in the country, where during a certain reach of time there had been 5,000 people, more than 3,000 had been there before. So in one case the prison and in the other case the house of correction left them just as bad as they were before. The secretary ot one of the benevo lent edifices of New York saw a lad, fifteen years of age, who had spent three years of his life, in prison, and he said to the lad: “What have they done for you to make you better?” "Well,” replied the lad, “the first time I was brought np before the judge, he said, “You ought to be ashamed of yourself.” And then I committed a crime again and 1 was brought up be fore the same judge, and he said, “You rascal!” And after awhile I commit ted some other crime, and I was brought up before the same judge, and he said, “You ought to be hanged.” ” that is they had done for him in the way of reformation. “Oh,” you say, “these people are incorrigible ” I sup pose there are hundreds of persons this day lying in the prison bunks who would leap at the hope of reformation, if society would only allow them a way into decency and respectability. “Oh,” you say, “I have no patience with these rogues.” I ask you in reply how much better would you have been un der the same circumstances? Suppose youi mother had been a blasphemer and yonr father a sot, and you had started life with a body stuffed with evil proclivities, and you had spent much of your time in a cellar, and amid obscenities and cursing, and if, at 10 years of age, you had been compelled to go out and steal, battered and banged at night if you came in without any spoils; and suppose your early manhood and womanhood bad been covered with rags and filth, and decent society had turned its back up on von and left you to consort with vagabonds and wharf rats—how much better would you have been? I have no sympathy with that exeentive clem enoy which would let crime run loose, or which would sit in the gallery of a court room weeping because some hard hearted wretch is brought to justice. RntJ :do e*y “that the- saftty and life ol a community demand more potential influences in behalf of public offenders. We want men like John Howard and Sir William Blackstone, and women like Elizabeth Fry, to do for the pris ons of tho United States what those people did in other days for the prisons of England. I thank God for what Isaac F. Hopper, and Dr. Wines, and Mr. Harris, and scores of others have done in the way of prison reform. But we want something more radical before there will come the blessing of Him who said; “I was in prison, and ye came unto me.” Again, in this class of uprooting and devouring population are untrust worthy officials. “Woe unto thee, O land, when thy kings and chiefs and thy princes drink in the morning.” It is a great calamity to a city when bad men get into public authority. Why was it that in New York there was such unparalleled crime between 1866 and 1871? It was because the judges of the police in that city for the most part were as corrupt as the vagabonds that came before them for trial. Those werethe days of high carnival for elec tion frauds, assassination and forgery. We had the whiskey ring and the Tammany ring and the Erie ring. There was one mail that during those years got $128,000 in one year for ser ving the public. In a few years it was estimated that there was $50,000,000 of public treasure squandered. In those times the criminal had only to wink to tKe judge, or his lawyer would wink for him, and the question was de cided for the defendant. Of the 8.000 people arrested in that city only 3,000 were punished. These little matters were “fixed up” while the interests of society were “fixed down.” You know as well as I that a crimi nal who escapes opens the door for oth er criminalities. When the two pick pockets snatched the diamond pin pears ago from the Brooklyn gentle man in a Broadway stage and the vil lians were arrested and the trial was set down for the General Sessions, and then the trial never came and never anything more was heard of the ease, the public officials were only bidding higher for more crime. It is no com pliment to public authority when we have in all the cities of the country walking abroad, men and women noto rious for criminality, unwhipped of justice. They are pointed out to you in the street day by day. There you find what are called the “fences,” the men who stand between the thief and the honest man, sheltering the thief, and at a great price, handing over the goo is to the owner to whom they be long. There you will find those who are called the “skinners,” the men who Hover arounu . sleight-of-hand in bonds and stocks. There you will find the funeral thieves, the people who go and bit down and mourn with families and pick their pockets. And there you will find the confidence men who borrow money of you because they have a dead child in the house and want to bury it, and they never had a house nor a family; or they want to goto England and get a large property there, and they want yon to pay their way and they will send the money back the very next mail. There are the “harbor thieves,” the shoplifters, the pickpockets, fa mous all over the cities. Hundreds of them, with their faces in the rogues’ gallery, yet doing nothing for f he last five or ten years but defrauds society and escape justice. When these people go ur.ar rested and unpunished, it is putting a high premium upon vice, and saying to the young criminals of this country, “What a safe thing it is to be a great criminal!” Let the law swoop upon them. Let it be known in this country that crime will have no quarter; that the detectives are after it; that the police club is being brandished; that the iron door of prison is being opened; that the judge is ready to call up the case. Too great leniency to criminals is too great severity to society. When a former President pardoned the whole sale dealer in obscene books he hinder ed the crusade against licentiousness; but when, some ten or twelve years ago, Gov. Dix refused to let go Foster, the assassin, who was condemned to the gallows, he grandly vindicated the laws of God and the dignity of the State of New York. Again, among the uprooting and de vouring classes in our midst are the idle. Of course Ido not refer to people who are getting old, or to the sick, or to those who cannot get work, bnt I tell you to look out for those athletic men and women who will not work. When the F.e ich nobleman was asked why lie kept busy when be had so large a property, he said: “I keep on engrav ing so 1 may not hang myself,” Ido not care who the man is, you cannot afford to be idle. It is from the idle classes that tho criminal classes are made up. Character, like water, gets putrid if it stands still too long. Who can wonder that, in this world, where there is so much to do, and all the hosts of earth, heaven and hell are plunging into the conflict, and angels are flying, and God is at work, and the universe is a quake with the march ing and counter-marching, that God lets his indignation fall upon a man who ch< os '8 idleness! I have watched these do-nothings who spend their time stroking their beards and retouching their toilet and criticising industrious people, and pass their days and nights in bar-roomß and club-houses, lounging and smoking and chewing and card-playing. They are not only useless, hut they are dan gerous. How hard it is for them td while away the hours! Alas for them! If they do not know how to while away an hour what will they do when they have all eternity on their hands? These men for a while smoke the best cigars and wear the best broadcloth and move in the highest spheres; but I have noticed that very soon they comedown to the prison, the almshouse, or stop at the gallows. The police station of this neighbor hood of cities furnished in one year 200,000 lodgings. For the most part these 200,000 lodgings were furnished to able-bodied men and women—peo ple as able to work as you and I are. When they are received no longer at one police station, because they are re peaters, they go to some other station, and so they keep moving around. They get their food at house doors, stealing what they can lay their hands on in the front basement while the servant is spreading the bread in the back basement. They will not work. Time and again in the country districts they have wanted hundreds and thousands of laborers. These men will not go; they do not want to work. I have tried them. I have set them to sawing wood in my cellar, to see whether they wanted to work. I offered to pay them well for it. I have heard the saw go ing for about three minutes, and then I went down, and lo! the wood, but no saw. They are the pest of society and they stand in the way of the Lord’s poor, who ought to be helped, and will be helped. While there are thousands of industrious men who cannot get any work, these men who do not want any work come in and make that plea. I am in favor of- the restoration of the old-fashioned whipping post for just this one class of men who will not work; sleeping at night at public ex pense in the station houses; during the day getting their food at your door step. Imprisonment does not scare them. They would like it. Black well’s Island or Sing Sing would be a comfortable home for them. They would have no objection to the alms house, for thev like thin soup, if they cannot get mock turtle. Propose this for them: On one side of them put some healthy work, on the other side put a rawhide, and let them take their choice. I like for that class of people the scant bill of fare that Paul wrote out for the Thessalonian loafers: “If any work not, neither should he eat.” By what law of God or man is it right that yon and I should toil day in and day ont, until our hands are blistered and our arms ache and our brain gets numb, and then be called on to support what in the United States are about two million loafers? -HL I T the public authorities keep their eyes on them. Again: Among the uprooting classes I place the oppressed poor. Poverty to a certain extent is chastening; but after that, when it drives a man to the wall, and he hears his children cry in vain for bread, it sometimes makes him desperate. I think that there are thousands of honest men lacerated into vagabandism. There are men crushed under burdens for which they are not half paid. While there is no excuse for criminality, even in oppression, I state it as a simple fact, that much of the scoundrelism of the community is consequent upon ill-treatment. There are many men and women battered and bruisqd and stung until the hour of des pair has come, and they stand with the ferocity of a wild beast, which, pursued until it can run no longer, turns round, foaming and bleeding, to fight the hounds. There is a vast underground in New York and Brooklyn life that is appall ing and shameful. It wallows and steams with putrefaction. You go down the stairs which are wet and de cayed with filth and at the bottom yon find the poor victims on the floor, cold, sick, three-fourths dead, slinking into a still darker corner under the gleam of the lantern of the police. There has not been a breath of fresh air in that room for five years, literally. The broken sewer empties its contents upon them and they lay at night in the swiramiug filth. There they are, men, women, children; blacks, whites; Mary Magdalen without her repentance and Lazarus without his God. These are the dives into which the pickpockets and the thieves go, as well as a great many who would like a dif ferent life, but cannot get it. These places are the sores of the city, which breed perpetual corruption. They are the underlying volcano that threatens us with a Caraceas earthquake. It rolls and roars, and surges and heaves, and rocks and blasphemes, and dies. And there are only two outlets for it—the police court and the Potter’s field. In other words, they must either go to prison or to hell. Oh, you never saw it, you say. You never will see it un til those staggering wretches shall come up in the light of the judgment throne, and while all hearts are being revealed, God will ask you what you did to help them. There is another layer of poverty and destitution, not so squalid, but al most as helpless. You hear the inces sant wailing for bread, and clothes, and fire. Their eyes are sunken. Their hands are damp with slow ronsump lion. Their flesh is puffed up with dropsies. Their breath is like that of the charnel-house. They hear tho roar of the wheels of fashion overhead and the gay laughter of men and mai dens, and wonder why God gave to others so much and to them ro little. Some of them thrust into an infidelity like that of the poor German girl, who, I FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 80. when told in the midst of her wretch edness that God was good, said: "No; no good God. Just look at me. Np good God.” In this neighborhood of cities, whose cry of want I this day interpret, there are said to be, as far as I can figure it up from the reportß, about 290,000 l honest poor, who are dependent upon individual, city and State charities. If all their voices could come up at once, it would be a groan that would shake the foundation of the city, and bring all earth and heaven to the rescue. But for the most part it suffers unexpress ed. It sits in silence, gnashing its teeth and sucking the blood of its own arteries, waiting for the Judgment Day. Oh! I should not wonder if in that day it would be found out that some of us had some things that be longed to them; some extra garments which might have made them comfort able; some bread thrust into the ash barrel that might have appeased their hunger for a little while; some wasted candle or gas jet that might have kin dled up their darkness; some fresco on the ceiling that would have given them a roof: some jewel, which, brought to that orphan girl in time, might have kept her from being crowded off the precipices of an unclean life; some New Testament that would have told them of Him who “came to seek and save that which was lost.” Oh, this wave of vagrancy and hun ger and nakedness that dashes against our front door-steps. I wonder if you hear and 6ee it as much as I hear and see it. If the roofs of all the houses of destitution could be lifted so we could look down into them just as God looks, whose nerves would be strong enough to bear it? And yet there they are. The great host of sewing women in these three cities, working night after night until sometimes the blood spurts from nostril and lip. How well their grief was voiced by that despairing woman who stood by her invalid husband and invalid child, and said to the city missionary: “I am down hearted. Everything is against us; and then there are other things.” “ What other things?” said the city missionary. “Oh,” she repli ed, “my sin.” “What do yon mean by that?” “Well,” she said, “I never hear or see anything good. It’s work from Monday morning to Saturday night, and then when Sunday comes I can’t go out and I walk the floor, and it makes me tremble to think I have got to meet God. Oh, sir, it’s too hard for ns. We have to work so and then we have so much trouble, and then we are getting along so poorly; and this wee little thing growing weaker and weaker, and then to think y . n. la. floating away from Him. Oh, sir, Ido wish I was ready to die. I should no i wonder if they had a good deal better time than we iu the future, to make up for the fact that they had such a bad time here. It would be just like Jesus to say: “Come up and take the highest seats; you suffered with me on earth, now be glorified with mein heaven.” Thou weeping One of Bethany! Oh, thou dying One of the cross! Have mercy on the starving, homeless poor of these great cities! I have preached this sermon for four or five practical reasons; because I want you to know who are the uprooting classes of society; because I want you to be more discriminating in yourchar ities; because I want your hearts open with generosity, and your hand open with charity; because I want yon to be made the sworn friends of all city evangelization, and all newsboys’ lodg ing houses, and all Howard missions and children’s aid societies. Aye, be cause I want you to examine yonr wardrobes and see if you have not a surplus for the needy. I should not wonder if that hat that you give should come back a jewelled coronet, or if that garment that you this week had ont from your wardrobe should mysteri ously be whitened, and somehow wrought into the Saviour’s own robe, so, in the last day, he would run his hand over it and say. “I was naked and ye clothed me.” That would be putting your gaiments to glorious uses. But, more than that, I have preach ed the sermon because I thought in the contrast you would see how very kind ly, God had dealt with yon, and I thought that thonsands of yon would go to-day to yonr comfortable homes and sit at your well-filled tables and look at the round faces of you' chil dren, and that then you would burst into tears at the review of God’s good ness to you; and that yon -would go to your room this afternoon and look the door and kneel down and say: “O Lord, I have been an ingrate; make me Thy child. O Lord, there are so many hungry and nnclad and unsheltered to day. I thank Thee that all my life Thou hast taken riilCh go dcare of me. O Lord, there are so many sick and crippled children-to-day, I thank Thee mine are well; some of them on earth, some of them in heaven. Thy good ness, O Lord, breaks me down. Take me once and forever. Sprinkled, as ! was many years ago at the altar while my mother held me, now £ Consecrate my Bonl to Thee in a holier baptism of repenting tears. s . “For sinners, Lord, Thou cam’stto bleed. And I’nv a sinner rile indeed; Lord, I believe Thy grace Is free; Ob, magnify that grace In me." . i tm . ''ni-. <4y|gH Shriner’s Indian Vefraifage will destroy and expel worms. It ft reliable. It is cheap. Only 25 csnts a bottle. , •