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IT THE AUTHOR OF
" The Second Mrs. Tillotson" “ Never
Forgotten Etc., Etc.
CHAPTER fc.
A WRIILNIU.V CABMAN.
ft&'l Carriage arrangements were
(■RfM apaodilv. There was some
imiieal to me in the chance that
toato ■* *o often the witness of them.
We were so merely cousins again, that
•he discussed her purchases, and dis
played them before me, aa if there
k&d rarer been any notion between ns
of keeping house together. Once more
I assisted ia the choice of a wedding
dress, for the one made a year before
was said to be yellow and old-fashioned.
But this time Julia did not insist upon
baring white satin. A dainty tint of
gray was considered more suitable,
either to her own complexion or the
age of the bridegroom. Captain Ca
rey enjoyed the purchase with the rap
tore I had failed to experience.
The wedding was fixed to take place
the last week in July, a fortnight ear
lier than the time proposed; it was
a fortnight earlier than the date I was
looking forward to most anxiously,
when, if ever, news would reach Tar
dif from Olivia. All my plans were
most carefully made, in the event of
her sending word w here she was. The
deed of separation, signed by Foster,
was preserved by me most cautiously,
for I had a sort of haunting dread that
Mrs. Foster would endeavor to get pos
session of it. She was eminently sulky,
and had been so ever since the signing
of the deed. Now that Foster was
▼ery near convalescence, they might
be trying some stratagem to recover it.
But our servants were trustworthy, and
the deed lay safe in the drawer of my
desk.
At last Doctor Senior agreed with
xne that Foster was sufficiently ad
vanced on the road to recovery to be
removed from Fulham to the better air
of the south coast. The month of May
had been hotter than usual, and Juno
was sultry. It was evidently to our pa
tient’s advantage to exchange the at
mosphere of London for that of the
seashore, oven though he had to dis
pense with our watchful attendance.
In fact he could not very well fall back
now, with common prudence and self
denial. We impressed upon him the
argent necessity of these virtues, and
required Mrs. Foster to write us fully,
three times a week, every variation she
might observe ia his health. After that
we started them off to a quiet village
in Sussex. I breathed more freely
when they were out of my daily sphere
of duty.
But before they went a hint of treach
ery reached me, which put me doubly
on my guard. One morning, when
Jack and I were at breakfast, both deep
in our papers, with an occasional com
ment to one another on their contents,
Simmons, the cabby, was announced
as asking to speak to one or both of us
immediately. Ho was a favorite with
Jack, who bade the servant show him
in; and Simmons appeared, stroking
bis hat round and round with his hand,
as if hardly knowing what to do with
bis limbs off the box.
“Nothing amiss with your wife or the
brats, I hope?” said Jack.
“No, Doctor John, no,” he answered;
“there ain’t anything amiss with them,
except being too many of ’em, p’raps,
and my old woman won’t own to that.
But there’s something in the wind as
concerns Doctor Dobry, so I thought
I’d better come and give you a hint
of it,”
“Very good, Simmons,” said Jack.
“You recollect taking my cab to
Cray’s Inn Hoad about this time last
year, when I showed up so green, don’t
you ?” he asked.
“To be sure, ” I said, throwing down
my paper, and listening eagerly.
“Well, Doctors,” he continued, ad
dressing us both, “the very last Mon
day as ever was, a lady walks slowly
•long the stand, eyeing us all very
bard, but taking no heed to nny of
’em, till she catches sight of me. That’s
not a uncommon event, Doctors. My
■wife says there’s something about me
as gives confidence to her sek. Any
how, so it is, and I can’t gainsay it.
The lady comes along very slowly—she
looks hard at me—she nods her head,
m much as to say, ‘You and your cab
and your horse are what I’m on the
lookout for;’ and I gets down, opens
the door, and sees ner in quite com
fortable. Says she, ‘Drive me to
Me 'srs. Scott A: Brown, in Gray’s Inn
Boad.’”
“No!” I ejaculated.
“Yes, Doctors,” replied Simmons.
* *Drive me,’ she says, ‘to Messrs. Scott
& Brown, Gray’s Inn Road.’ Of course
I knew the name again; I was vexed
•nough the last time I were there, at
showing myse fso green. I looks hard
at her. Avery line make of a woman,
totli hair and eyes as black as coals,
and an impudent look on her face some
how. I turned it over and over again
in my head, driving here there—could
there be any reason in it? or had it
anything to do with the last time? and
oetera. She told me to wait for her in
the street; and, directly after she goes
in, there comes down the gent I had
seen before, with a pen behind his ear.
He looks very hard at me, and me at
him. Says he, ‘I think I have seen
your face before, my man.* Very civil;
aa oivil as a orange, as folks say. *1
think you have,’ I says. ‘Could yon
■tep up-stairs for a minute or two?’
■avs he, very polite; ‘l’ll find a boy to
take charge of your horse.’ And he
ulips a arf-crown into my hand, quite
pleasant.”
“So you went in, of course,” said
Jack.
“Doctors," be answered, solemnly,
“1 did g > iii. There’s nothing to be
•aid agairst that. The lady is sitting
in • or tiro ii|i stairs, talking to another
went, with hair and eyes like hen, as
black as coats, aud the same look of
brass on his face. Ail three of Vm
looked • little under the weather.
•Whet's your name, mv man?’ asked
the black g nt. ‘ • alker,’ I said. 'And
where da you live*' lie says, taking me
serious. Tit Quaer street,' I seys, it It
a little wink to show 'em 1 wore up to
a trick or two, Thov all three larri and
little among them isfves, but not in a
Idessaut #• rt of way, Then the gent
Mijfiu* again, 'hly good fellow,' ho
nays, ‘we want you te giro us s title in
formsT<>n I hut 'ml lie of use to Us, sn l
we are willing in |sy yuu handsome fw
it, ft p#n t *io you ear ham*, for p.
iwily a Wslier f|i ismees Vou’io toil
abut* It-tug in u|l nge for a Mi oi
useiul information r* 'Aot by no man
ner of means,' I aaya."
“Go on,” I said, impatiently, as Sim
mons paused to look as hard at us as he
had done at these people.
“Jest so, Doctors,” he continued,
“but thia time I was minding my P’s
and Q’a. ‘You know Doctor Senior,
of Brook street?’ he says. ‘Tho old
doctor? 1 I says; ‘he’s retired out of
town.’ ‘No,’ he says, ‘nor the young
doctor, neither; but there’s another of
'em, isn’t there?’ ‘Doctor Dobry?* I
says. ‘Yes,’ he says, ‘he often takes
your cab, my friend?’ ‘First one and
then the other,’ I says; ‘sometimes
Doctor John and sometimes Doctor
Dohrv. They’re aa thick as brothers,
and thicker.’ ‘Good friends of yours?’
he says. ‘Well/says I, ‘they take my
cab when they can have it; but there’s
not much friendship, as I see, in that.
It’s the best cab and horse on the
stand, though I say it, as shouldn’t.
Doctor John’s pretty fair, but the-oth
er’s no great favorite of mine.’ ‘All!’
he says.”
Simmons’ face was illuminated with
delight, and he winked sportively at ns.
“It were all flummery, Doctors,” ho
said; “I don’t deny as Doctor John is
a older friend, and a older favorite, but
that is neither here nor there. I jest
see them setting a trap, and I wanted
to have a Anger in it ‘Ah!’ he says,
‘all we want to know, but we do want
to know that very particular, is where
you drive Doctor Dobry to the often
est. He’s going to borrow money from
ns, and we’d like to find out something
about his habits, ’specially where he
spends his spare time, and all that sort
of thing, you understand. You know
where he goes in your cab.’ ‘Of course
I do,’ I says; ‘I drove him and Doctor
John here nigh a twelvemonth ago.
The other gent took my number down,
and knew where to look for me when
vou wanted me.’ ‘YouFe a clever fel
low,’ he says.' ‘So my old woman
thinks,’ I says. ‘And you’d be glad to
earn a little more for your old woman?’
he says. ‘Try me,’ I says. ‘Well,
then,’ says he, ‘here’s a offer for you.
If you’ll bring us woref where he spends
his spare time, we’ll give you ten shil
lings; and if it turns out any use to us,
we’ll make it five pound.’ ‘very good,’
I says. ‘You’ve not got any informa
tion to tell us at once?’ he says. ‘Well,
no,’ I says, ‘but I’ll keep my eye upon
him now.’ ‘Stop,’ he says, as I were
going away; ‘they keep a carriage, of
course?’ ‘Of course,’l says; ‘what’s
the good of a doctor that hasn’t a car
riage and pair?’ ‘Do they use it at
night?’ says he. 'Not often,’says I;
‘they take a cab; mine if it’s on the
stand.’ ‘Very good,’he says; ’good
morning, my i'riend.’ So I come away,
and drives back again to the stand.
“And you left the lady there?” I
asked, with no doubt in my mind that
it was Mrs. Foster.
“Yes, Doctor,” he answered, “talking
away like a poll-parrot with the black
liaircd gent. That were last Monday;
to-dny’s Friday, and this morning there
comes this bit of a note to me at our
house in Dawson street. So my old
woman says, ‘Jim, you’d better go and
show it to Doctor John.’ That’s what’s
brought mo hero at this time, Doctors.”
He gave the note into Jack’s hands,
and he, after glancing at it, passed it
on to me. The contents were simply
these words: “Jamei Simmons is re
quested to call at No. Gray’s Inn
Road, at 6:30 Friday evening.” The
handwriting struck me as one I had
seen and noticed before. I scanned it
more closely for a minute or two; then
a glimmering of light began to dawn
upon my memory. Could it be? I
folt almost sure it was. In another
minute I was persuaded that it was the
satue hand as that which had written
the letter announcing Olivia’s death.
Probably, if I could see the penman
ship of tho other partner, I should find
it to bo identical with that of the medi
cal certificate which had accompanied
the letter.
“Leave this note with me, Simmons,”
I said, giving him lialf-a-crown in ex
change for it. I was satisfied now that
tho papers had been forged, but not
with Olivia’s connivance. Was Foster
himself a party to it ? Or had Mrs.
Foster alone, with the aid of these
friends or relatives of hers, plotted
and carried out the scheme, leaving him
in ignorance and doubt like my own ?
CHAPTER LI.
JULIA'S WKODINO.
Before the Careys and Julia returned
to Guernsey, Captain Carey came to
see mo one evening, at our house in
Brook street. He seemed suffering
from embarrassment and shyness, and
I could not for a time lead him to the
point he was longing to gain.
“You are quite reconciled to all this.
Mai tin?’’ he said, stammering. I knew
very well what he meant.
“More than reconciled,” I answered,
“I am heartily glad of it. Julia will
make you an excellent wife.”
“I am sure of that,” he said, simply,
“yet it makes me nervous a little ut
times to think I may be standing in
your light I never thought what it
was coming to when I tried to comfort
Julia about you, or I would have left
Johanna to do it all. It is very didi
cult to console a person without seem
ing very fond of them, and then there's
the danger of them growing fond of
vou. I love Julia now with all my
heart; but I did not begin comfortiug
her with that view, and I am sure you
exonerate me, Martin ?”
“Quite, quite,” I said, almost laugh
ing at his contrition; “I should never
have married Julia, believo me, and I
sm delighted that she is going to be
married, especially to an old friend
liko you. I shall make your house my
home.”
“Do, Martin,” he auswered, his face
brightening; “and now 1 am come to
ask you a great favor—a favor to us all.”
“I’ll do it, I promise that beforehand,"
I raid.
“We have all set our hearts on you*
being my best man,” he replied—“at
the wedding, you know. Johanna says
nothing will convince the Guernsey
people that wo are all good friends ex
cept that. It w ill have a queer look,
but if you are there everybody will be
satisfied that you do not blame either
Julia or me. I know it will be hard
for you, Martin, becauae of your poor
mother, and your father being iu
Guernsey still ;* but if you oan conquer
that, for our aakos, you would make us
every one perfectly happy. M
1 had uotexpected them to aift this;
but, when I came to think of it, it
numied very natural and reasonable.
I'liero was uo motive strong enough to
muko me refuse to go to Julia's wed
ding. so I arranged to be with them
tlm lat week in July.
About ton days before going, I ran
down to tile tilde village ou the Sussex
•sunt to vint Punter, from whom, or
from bia wife, J bad received a letter
i* 'uDrly three tine * a week. I found
b m a near complete health as he
‘"'dd ever e .peel to be, aud I (old him
I"i but I impressed upon him the ur
i gold liecean |y of keeping li!lu*elf quiet
Noma date after this I sros§e4 la
GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREKKKStSOKO. i-RLDAY. OCTOBERS. isSU.-EIGHT PAGES.
tne mau steamer to ttnsrnoey, on •
Monday night, as the weddingwaa to
take place at an early how on Wednes
day morning, in time for Captain Carey
and Julia to catch the boat to England.
Before the steamer touched the pier, I
caught sight of Captain Carey’s wel
come face looking out for my appear
ance. He stood at the end of the gang
way as I crossed over it with my port
manteau.
“Come along, Martin,” he said; “you
are to go with me to the Vale as my
groomsman, you know. Are all the
people staring at us, do you think ? I
daren’t look round. Just look about
you for me, my boy. ”
“They are ataring awfully,” I an
swered, “and there are scores of them
waiting to shake hands with us.”
“Ohl they must not,” he said, ear
nestly; “look as if you did not see
see them, Martin. That's the worst of
getting married; yet most of them are
married themselves, and ought to know
better. There’s the dog-cart waiting
for us a few yards off, if we could only
get to it I have kept my face sea
ward aver since I came on the pier,
with my collar tnrned up, and mv hat
over my eyes. Are you sure they see
who we are ?”
“Surei” T cried; “why, there’s Carey
Dobree, and Dobree Carey, and Brook
de Jersey, and De Jersey le Cocq, and
scores of others.”
“Why didn’t you come in disguise?”
asked Captain Carey, reproachfuUy;
but before I could answer I was seized
upon by the nearest of our cousins, and
we were whirled into a very vortex of
greetings and congratulations. It was
fully a quarter of an hour before we
were allowed to drive off in the dog
cart, and Captain Carey was almost
breathless with exhaustion.
“They are good fellows.” he said,
after a time, “very good fellows, but it
is trying, isn’t it, Martin ? It is as if no
man was ever married before, thougb
they have gone through it themselves,
and ought to know how one feels.”
After dinner, in the cool of the sum
mer evening, we drove back into town
to see Julia for the last time before we
met in church the next morning. There
was an air of glad excitement pervad
ing the house. Friends were running
in with gifts and pleasant words of
congratulation. Julia herself had a
peculiar modest stateliness and frank
dignity, which suited her well. She
was happy and content, and her face
glowed. Captain Carey’s manner was
one of tender chivalry, somewhat old
fashioned. I found it a hard thing to
“look at happiness through another’s
eyes.”
I drove Captain Carey and Johanna
home along the low, level shore which
l had so often traversed with my heart
full of Olivia.
“A fortnight longer, ” I said to my
self, “and Tardif will know where sho
is; then I can take measures for her
‘.ranquillity and safety in the future.”
Captain Carey and I were standing
at the altar of the old church some
minutes before tho bridal procession
appeared. He looked pale, but wound
up to a liigh pitch of resolute courage.
Tho church was nearly full of eager
spectators, all of whom I had known
from my childhood—faces that would
have crowded about me had I been
standing in the bridegroom’s place
Far back, half sheltered by a pillar,
,i saw the white head and handsome
face of my father, with Kate Daltrey
by his side; but though tho church
was so full, nobody had entered the
same pew. His name had not been
onco mentioned in my hearing. As far
as his old circle in Guernsey was con
cerned, Doctor Dobree was dead.
At length Julia appeared, pale like
the bridegroom, but dignified and pre
possessing. She did not glance at me;
she evidently gave no thought to me.
That was well, and as it should be. If
any fancy had been lingering in my
head that she still regretted somewhat
the exchange sho had made, that fancy
vanished for ever. Julia’s expression,
when Captain Carey drew her hand
through his arm, and led her down the
aisle to the vestry, was one of unmixed
contentment.
Yet there was a pang in it—reason as
I would, thore was a pang in it for me.
I should have liked her to glance once
at me, with a troubled and dimmed
eye. I should have liked a shade upon
her face aa I wrote my name below liers
in the register. But there was nothing
of the kind. She gavo mo tho kiss
which I demauded as her cousin Mar
tin without embarrassment, and after
that she put her hand again upon the
bridegroom’s arm, nud marched off
witli him to the oarriage.
A whole host of us accompanied tlit
bridal pair to the pier, aud saw them
start off on their wedding trip, with a
pyramid of bouquets before them on
the deck of the steamer. We ran
round to the lighthouse, and waved our
hats and handkerchiefs as long as they
were in sight. That duty done, the
rest of the day was our own.
ITO UE CONTI. NUKO. 1
Couldn’t Get In.
“What class do you want to entei
your horse in?" said the president of the
agricultural fair as he met the honest
farmer at the gate.
“Enter my boss? I ain’t got no hosa
to enter nowhere.”
“Don’t want to put either of your
horses on the track ?”
“No, sir.”
“Got a wheel of fortune or any such
thing you want to set up?’’
“Saw!"
“Then what are you driving in with
the team and wagon for?”
“Why. I’ve got a pun'kin here four
feet high and a lot of big corn and some
o’ the belt squashes in the whole country
and there’s a two year-old stser tied be
hind the wagon that beats anything you
ever see, I knowl”
“That may all l>c, my friend, but this
is no place for you. If you’ve got a
horse that you want to put on the track
or any kind of a confidence game you
might come in, but as it is we have no
room for you. Come, move on there,
and give Colonel Toe weight a chance to
to drive in. Go and feed your garden
truck to your big steer.” —EsulUne (Dai.)
Bell.
Hu Would Not Toll a Mr.
“No, Willie," said a mother to her
first bora. “You cannot go out and play
this afternoon. It is too warm. I'm afraid
it will make you sick.”
“That’s just the way, mamma, you
kra|i me from keeping my word: aud
yet you tell me never to toll a story.”
“flow can my command,” continued
the mother, “to keep you at home this
afternoon cause you to toll a story
“I proa Led Hurley, who lire* on the
neat block, that 1 would oomo down
right after lunch aud play with him. If
DE. TALfiIGE'S SERMON.
DISADVANTAGES OF SOME
PEOPLE.
Text: “All these things are against msv”
—Oenmis, xfii, 34
Father Jacob, yon are wrong! You think
your son J< se;>h is dead, but he is Prime
Minister of Egypt aud has the keys of the
great corn crib. A on think that circumstance*
are all adverse, but they will turn out well.
In all your life you never male a gr. a ter
mistake than when you said: “All these things
are against me.”
A great multitude of people are under
seeming disadvantages, and 1 will to-day, in
the swarthiest Anglo-Kaxon that 1 can man
age, treat their cases; not as a nurse counts
out eight or ten drops of a prescription, stirs
them m a half glass of water, but as when a
man has by mistake taken a large amount of
opium, or l aris green,or belladonna, and the
patient is walked rapidly round the room and
shaken up and pounde i until he gets wide
awake. Many of you have token a large
draught of the poison of discouragement and
I come out by the order of the Divine Physi
cian to rouse you out of that lethargy.
“First, many people are under the disad
vantage of an unfortunate name given them
by parents who thought they were doing a
good thing. Sometimes at tie baptism of
children while I have held up one hand in
prayer I have held up the other hand in
amazement that parents should have weight
ed the babe with such a dissonant and repul
sive nomenclature. I have not so much won
dered that some children should cry out at
the christening font as that others with such
smiling face should take a title that will be
the burden of their lifetime. It is outrageous
to afflict children with an undesirable name
because it happened to bo possessed by a
parent,or a rich uncle from whom favors are
expected, or some prominent man of the day
who may end his life in disgrace. It is no
excuse, because they are Scripture names, to
call a chill Jehoiakim or Tiglath-Pileser.
At this very altar I baptized one by the
name of Bathsheba. Why, under all the
circumambient heaven, any parent should
want to give to a child the name of that loose
and infamous creature of Scripture times I
cannot imagine. I have ofeen felt at the
baptismal altar, when names were announced
to me, like saying, as did Rev. Dr. Richards,
of Morristown, N. J., when a child was
handed him for sprinkling and the name
given: “Hadn’t you better call itsometbing
else?”
Impose not upon that babe a name sugges
gestive of flippant yor meanne s. There is no
excuse for such assault and battery on the
cradle when our language is opulent with
names musical in sound and suggestive in
meaning such as John, meaning “the gra
cious gift of God’,’ or Henry, meaning “the
chief of a household,” or Alfred, meauing
“good counselor,” or Joshua, meaning “God
our salvation,” or Ni holas, meaning “vic
tory of tho people,” or Ambrose, meaning
immortal,’ or Andrew, meaning “manly,"
or Esther, meaning "a star,” or Abigail,
meaning ‘‘my father’s joy,” or Anna, mean
ing “grace,” or Victoria, meaning “victory,”
or Rosalie, meaning “beautiful as a rose,” or
Margaret, meaning “a pearl,” or Ida, mean
ing “Godlike.’ or Clara, meaning “illustri
ous,” or Amelia, meauing “busy,’’or Bertha,
meaning “beautiful,” and hundreds of other
names just as good.that are a help rather than
hindrance.
But sometimes the great hindrance in life
is not in the given name but in the family
name. While legislatures are willing to lift
such incubus there are families that keep a
name which mortgages all the generations
with a great disadvantage. You say: “I
wonder if he is any relation to so and so,”
mentioning some fnmdy celebrated for crime
or deception. It is a wonder to me that in
all such families some spirited young man
does not rise, saying to his brothers and sis
ters: “If you want to keep this nuisance or
scandalization of a name, I will keep it no
longer than until by quickest course of law
lean sough oil the gangrene.” When the
general assembly of the Presbyterian church
of the United States met in this building in
187 ti two estimable men of the sweetest dis
position stopped at the same house, and ono
bad tho misnomer of being Mr. Sour and the
other the misnomer of being Mr. Pickle. And
your city directory has hundreds of names the
mere pronunciation of whi: h has been a life
long obstacle. If you have started life under
a name which either through ridiculous or
thography or vicious suggestion has been an
encumbrance, resolve that the next genera
tion shall not be so weighted.
It is no bemeaniug to change a name. Saul
of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle. Hadas
sah “the myrtle” became Esther the “star.”
We have in America, and I suppose it is so
in all countries, names which ought to be abol
ished aud can be and will be abolished for
the reason that they are a libel and a slan
der. But if for any reason you are sub
merged either by a given name or by a fam
ily name that you must bear, God will help
you to overcome the outrage by a life conse
crated to the good and useful You may
erase the curse from the name. You may
somewhat change the signiflcance. If once
it stood for meanness you can make it stand
for generosity. If once it stood for pride you
■ can make it stand for humility. If it once stood
for fraud you can make it stand for honesty.
If once it stood for wickedness you can make
it stand for purity. There have been multi
tudes of instances where men and women
have magniiicently conquered the disaster!
of the uame inflicted upon them.
Again, many people labor under the mis
fortune of incomplete physical equipment.
We are by our Creator so economically built
that we cannot afford the obliteration of any
physical faculty. We want our two eyes,
our two cars, our two hinds, our two feet
our eight fingers and two thumbs Yet hov
many people have but one arm or but on*
eye or but one foot. The ordinary casual
ties of fife have been quadrupled, quintupled,
septupled, aye centupled in our times by the
Civil War, and at the North and South a
great multitude that no man can numbei
nre fighting the battle of fife with half oi
le -s than half the needed rhysica! armament.
I do not wonder at the pathos of a soldiei
during the war, who, when told that he must
have his hand amputated, said: “Doctor,
can’t you save it?” When told that it was
impossible, said, with tears rolling down his
cheeks: Well, then, good-bye, old hand, I
hate to part with you. You nave done me a
good service for many years but it seems you
must go. Good-bye?”
A celebrated surgeon told me of a scene in
the clinical department of one of the New
York hospitals when a poor mau with a
wounded leg was brought in before the stu
dents to be opiera’ed on, and the surge in was
Eointiug out this aud that to the students and
andling thi wounded leg, and was about to
proceed to amputation, the poor man leapt
fr ill the table and hobbled to the door and
said: “Gentlemen, I am sorry to disappoint
you. but by the help of God I wifi die with
my leg on.” What a terrific loss is the loss
of our physical faculties! |The way the bat
tle of Crecy was decided against the Fren h
was by the AVelshmen killing the French
horses and that brought their riders to the
ground. And when you cripple this body,
which is merely the animal on which the
■out rides, you may sometimes defeat the
soul]. Yet how many suffer from this phys
ical taking off! Good cheer, my brothers!
God will make it up to you somehow. The
grace, tbs sympathy of God wifi be more to
you than anything.you have lost If God
allows part of your resources to be cut off In
one place, He will add it on somewhere else.
As Augustus, the emperor, took off a dav
from Kebruarjr, making it tbs shortest month
in the year, and added it to August, the
month named after h mself, so advantages
taken from one part of your nature will be
added on to another part
But it is amazing bow much of the world’!
work has been done by men of subtracted
physical organization. 8. 8. Preston, the
great orator of the Southwest, went limping
all his life, hut there was no foot put down
uponanr platform of hi< day that reouaded
so far a* his club foot Beethoven was sc
deaf that he could not hear the crash of ibe
orrhestra rendering his oratorios. To
Thomas Carlisle, tho dysoeptic martyr, *v
given the commission to drive cant out of thi
world's literature Rev. Thomas Stockton,
of Philadelphia, with one lung raised hia an
diene nearer heaven than most minister*
can raise them with two lungs. In the banks
tlie Insurance companies, the commercial m
tali)ishment*,the reformatory sv s-iation*, t h<
churches, there are true f thou-auds of meo
and women to-day doubled up of rhesunttiim
or •t*hl>J by neuralgias or with only frag
went* of limbs, the rest of whi- It they left at
f’haiiauooge or Houth Mountain or the \V i!
demeas, ami yet those is-.-p!.- are worth ttior*
to the world and more to the church aac
more to God than those fus who he vs novel
at tuiteh as had a finger loiut stiffen- and bv i
felon. Put to full use all the facilities that
tiohemia, who was totally b!|ud and yet at
strike ooe good blow with this sword of
mine ” l)o not think no much of what facul
ties yon have I s* as of what faculties re
main. You bare enough left to make your
seif folt in three worlds while yon help tbs
earth nod balk bell nod win heaven. Arise
from your discouragement, O men of de
pleted or crippled physical faculties, and see
what, bjirjhe special help of God, you can
The skilled horsemen stood around Bu
re- halos, unable to mount or mans re him, so
wild was the steed. But Alexander noticed
that the sight of h s own shadow seemed to
disturb the horse. Ro Alexander clutched
him bv the bridle and tnrned his hoad away
from the shadow and toward the t-un and
the horse’s agitation was gone and Alexander
mounted him and rode off to the astonish
ment of ail who stood by. And what you
people need is to have your sight turned
away from the shadows of your earthly lot,
over which you have so loug pondered, and
your head turned toward tho sun, the
glorious sun of gospel consolation and Chris
tian hope and spiritual triumph.
And then remember that all physical dis
advantages will after awhile vanish. Let
those who have been rheumati imed out of a
foot or cataracted out of an eye or by the
perpetual roar of our cit e : thundered out oi
an ear. look forward to the day when this
ohl tenement house of flesh will oomo down
and a better one shall bj rebuildel. The
resurrection morning will provide yoa with
a better outfit. Either the unstrung, worn
out, blunted and crippled organs will be so re
construct ithat yen will hardlv know them,
or an entirely new set of eyes and ears and feel
will be given you. Just what it mean? by
corruption patting on incorruption we do
no* know, save that it will be glory ineffable,
no limping in heaven, no straining of the
eyesight to see things a little way off; no
putting of the hand behind the ear to double
the capacity of the tympanum; but faculties
perfect, all the keys of the instrument attuned
for the sweep of the fingers of ecstasy. But
until that day of resumption come3 let us
bear each other’s burdens and so fulfill the
law of Christ
Another form of disadvantage under which
many labor is lack of early education. There
will be no excuse for ignorance in the next
generation. Free schools and illimitable op
portunity of education will make ignorance
aer mj I believe in compulsory education,
and those parents who neglect to put their
children under educational advantages have
but one right left, and that is the peniten
tiary. Bat there are multitudes of men aDd
women in mid life who bad no opDortuuity.
Free schools had not yet been established,and
vast multitudes had little or no school at
all. They feel it when, as Christian men,
they come to speak or pray in religious as
semblies or puo'ic oc -aslous, patriotic or no
fitioal or educational. They are s lent, be
<ajse the/ do not feel competent. They
owe nothing to English grammar or
geography or belles let tree They would
not know a par icip'.e from a pronoun if
they met it many times a day. Many of the
most successlul merchants of America and
men in high political places cannot write an
accurate letter on any theme. They are
completely dependent upon clerks and depu
ties and stenographers to make things right.
I knew a literary man who in other years in
Washington make his fortune by writing
speeches for Congressmen or fixing them up
lor the Congressional Record after they
were delivered. The millionaire illiteracy
of this country is beyond measurement.
Now, suppose a man finds himself in mid
life without education, what is he to do? Do
the best he can. The most effective laymaa
in a former pastoral charge that
I ever heard speak on religious
themes could within five minutes ot
exhortation break all the laws of English
grammar and if he left any law unfractured
he would complete the work of lingual devas
tation in the prayer with whi -h he followed
it But I would rather hare him pray for
me if I were sick or in trouble than any
Christian man I know of, and in that church
all the people preferred him in exhortation
and prayer to all others. Why? Because he was
so thoroughly pious and had such power with
God he was irresistible, and as he went on in
his prayers, siuners repented and saints
shouted for joy, and the bereaved seemed to
get back their dead in eel.stial companion
ship. And when he had stopped praying,
and as soon as I could wipe out of my eyes
enough tears to see the closing hymn
I ended the meeting fe irful that some long
winded, prayer meeting bore would pull us
down from the seventh heaven. Not a word
have Ito say against accuracy of speech or
fine elocution or high mental culture. Get
all theie you can. But Ido say to those who
were brought up in the day of poor school
houses and ignorant schoolmasters and no
opportunity, you may have so much
of God in your soul and so much oi
heaven in your every-day life that
yoa will be mightier for good than
manv who went through all the curriculum
of Harvard or Yale or Oxford, yet never
graduated in the school of Christ. When you
get up to the gate of heaven no one will ask
you whether you can parse the first chaptei
of Genesis, but whether you have learned
the fear of the Lord which is the beginning
of wisdom; nor whether you know howte
squaro the circle, but whether you have lived
a square life in a round world. Mount 55i n
is higher than Mount Parnassus.
But what other multitudes there are ttndet
other disadvantages! H re is a Christian
woman whose husband thinks religion a sham,
and while the wife prays the children on*
way the husband swears them anothe-. Oi
here is a Christian man who is trying to de
his best for God and the church and his wife
holds him back and rays on the way hom<
from prayer-meeting where he gave testi
mony for Christ: “What a fool you made ol
yourself! I hope hereafter you will
keep still.” Aud when he would b
benevolent and give fifty dollars, sh<
criticizes him for not giving fifty cents.
I must do justice and publicly thank God
that I never proposed at home to give any
thing for any causs of humanity or religion
but the other partner in the domestic firm
approved it. And when it seemed beyond
my ability, and faith in God was necessary,
she had three-fourths the faith. But I know
men who, when they contribute to’ charita
ble objects, are afraid that the wife will find
it out. What a withering curse such a
woman must be to a good mau.
Then there are others under the great dig
advantage of poverty. Who ought to get
things cheapest? You say those who have
little means. But they pay more. You buy
coal by the ton. They buy it bv the bucket.
You buy tour by the barrel. ' They buy it
by the pound. You get apparel cheap be
cause you pay cash. They pay dear because
they have to get trusted. And the Bible was
right when it said: “The destruction of th
poor is their poverty.”
Then there aro those who made a mistaki
in early fife and that overshadows all theit
days “Do you not know that that man wat
once in prison?” is whispered. Or “Do you
know that that man once attempted sui -ide!"
Or “Do you know that that mau once
absconded?” Or “Do you know that that
man wa? once discharged for dishonesty?”
Perhaps there was only one wrong deed in
the man’s fife and thatone act haunts thesub
sequent half-century of his existent
Others have unfortunate predominen -e ol
some mental _ faculty and their raehnesr
throws them into wild enterprises, or theit j
trepidation makes them decline great oppor
tunities, or there is a vein of melancholy it
their disposition that defeats them, or they
have an endowment of over mirth that gives
the impression of insincerity.
Others have a mighty obstacle in their per
sonal appearance, for which they are not re
sponsible. They forget that God fashioned
their features and their complexion and their
stature, the size of their ncae and mouth and
hauds and feet, and gaze them th *ir gait aud
their general appearance; aud they forget
that much of the world’s best work and the
church’s best work has been done by homely
people, and that Paul, the apostle, is said to
have been hump-backed and his eyesight
weakens 1 by ophthalmia, wnile m\ny of the
floe?t in appearance have pastel their time
before flattering looking glas.e-, or in study
ing killing attitales and in displaying the
richness of wardrobe-, not ono ribbon or
va*t or sa -k or glove or bjtton or shoettring
of which they have had brains enough to earn
for themselves.
Others had wrong proclivities from the
start. They were born wrong, and that
sticks to one even after he is born again.
Tbey have a natural crankiness that is .*7i
years old. It came over with their great-
Kaudfsthurs from H -otlan I or Wales or
'anoe. it wat boru on the banks of the
Thames, or the Clyde, or the Tiber, or the
Rhine, and has survive I ail the p'agunt aid
epidemtit of many generations, an I is living
. ->l * v on tk> banks ->f the 11 ni on, or the
Androscoggin, or the Ha auuah, or the a
Plata. Aud when a man tries to ship this
evil aii'-'st al pro divity he la like a mau < u a
ruck iu the rs'dda of Ni tga*a holding with a
grip, from wliieh the swift nirre-its are try*
big to sweep him into the ehn* hev-*ul
i ib, ihis world is all o>er iMir-ieoe-l world,
an over work*l wurlll It is an awfully
Word Ncleutist* are Irving to on I out the
range of tln-ee earth makes tn all lenda, Ht-
Atlantic and touts Atlantia thane aay tbw,
ami 90 no ugr tint. 1 bar* take:) the <i a;-
B ab o t Wciat u the nittbr with the eifilt
ithumnur burdooi on it enH msnjr
fires within it. it has a fit It raoa *t *tan l
such a circumference and such a diameter.
H >me new C itopati or Htromboli or Vesu
vius will open ami tb -n all will ha at pwi e
for th > natural worl I. Rut what about the
moral woei of the world that have to kol all
nations, and for six thousand years Hi ieace
prop wes nothing hut knowledge, and many
people that know the mwt are the most un
comforted.
In the way of pra-tical relief for all d.sad
vantage< and all woo?, the only voice that is
worth listening to on this subject is th : voice
of < "hristiantr, which is the voire of Atmi.'bty
God. Whether I have mentioned the partic
ular disadvantages under which you labor or,
not, I distinctly declare in the name of my
God that there is a way on t and a way up
for all of you. You cannot be any worse off
than that Christian young woman who was
in the Pemberton mills when they fell some
years ago, and from under the fallen timbers
she was heard singiug: ‘T am going home
to die no more.”
Take good courage from that Bible, all of
whose promises are for those in bad predica
ment. There are better days for you either
on earth or in heaven. I put my hand under
your chin anl lift your face into the light of
the coming dawn. ’ Have God on your site
and then you have for reserve troops all the
armie? of heaven, the smallest tomoauyof
wh’ch it 30,000 chariots and the smallest ba
talion l id,ooo,the lightnings of heaven their
drawn sword.
An ancient warrior saw an overpowering
host come down upon his small company of
armed men, aud mounting his horse, with
a handful of sand, he threw It into the air,
crying: “Let their faces bo covered with
confusion.” And both arin'es heard his
voice, aud history says it sie ned as though
the dust thrown iu the air had become so
many ange's of supernatural deliverance,
and the weak overcame the mighty aud the
immense host fell back aud the small number
inarched on. Have faith in God, and though
all the allied forces of discouragement seem
to come against you in battle array, and
their laugh of deßance and contempt
resounds through all the valleys and
mountains, you may, by faith in God
and importunate prayer, pick up a handful
of the very dust of your humiliation and
throw it into the air and it shall be ome an
gels of victory over all the armies of earth
and helL The faces of your adversaries, hu
man and satanic, shall be covered with con
fusion, while you shall be not only conqueror,
but more than con.querer through that grace
which has so often made the fallen helmet of
an overthrown antagonist the footstool of a
Christian victor
Hoss-Flies.
‘•Speaking of hoss flies.” said the
b’ackmith. as he brought his hand down
upon an old pioneer with green head and
blue-tipped wings, ‘‘this isn’t a fust-rate
year for ’em—not nigh as good as last.
The idea that they don’t flourish and
grow fat in the city is all bo3h, though I
do reckon they bloom earlier and grow
bigger out in the country. Look at
that!”
He smashed another which was fast
ened to the left shoulder of a truck horse,
and continued:
“The country ho se3 bring ’em in by
the dozen, and one the size of that feller
will bite to lift ’em right off their feet.
In J une I sent my sorrel out to pasture.
I was out to see him about the Ist of
July, and he was all right. I went out
again the 15th, and he was all run down.
He stood in green grass a foot high, and
I could not understand what the trouble
was until I hung around a bit. Theu I
saw it was hos3-tlies. A drove of about
seventy-five of ’em tackled him wh le I
was there. The minit they lit down that
boss started, and he run eight times
around a ten-acre lot before he let up.
Then I went over and clubbed ’em off.”
“Clubbed?”
“Exactly, young man. I’m telling you
straight that some of them flies was as
big as spring chickens, and you'd better
have had a bull dog bite you. Some of
’em actually turned on mo and showed
fight, and when I got through mashing
’em that hoss was a bloody sight to see.
There’s a country plug over in the cor
ner. Sec him hump aud gather. Its
hoss-flies at work on mortal spots. Come
over and examine.”
Thero were seven big horse-flies draw
ing blr.od from the animal, and the
blacksmith brushed ’em off with the re
mark:
•They've taken a clean pint o’ blood
out of his system, and five bushels of
oats won’t put it back. It’s a wonder to
me that you newspaper men fool around
so much with the I astern question, the
Mexican affair, ea:thquakes and sich, to
the utter exclusion of thehoss-fly. Where
does he come from? What good is he?
Why doesn’t he chaw grass or grain in
stead of hoss-fesh? Jest you open up
on these vital questions and you’ll in
crease your circulation by 20.0C0 in no
time at all. The hoss-fiv subject is one
of national importance, and I’ll vote for
no candidate not pledged to keep down
the greenheads.”
And he made a wicked pass with his
sledge-hammer at a fiy sailing over from
a grocer’s horse to one owned by a baker,
missed him by an inch, and went back to
his work on anew shoe.— Detroit Free
Pree*.
Chilled Enthusiasm.
There is a very charming English lady
here just now who will never be quoted
in any guidebook. She’s the kind of a
traveler who has everybody drawing her
attention all the time to the scenery and
things, because she will not appreciate
them. If she would enthuse over nature
for a minute you'd let her alone, but she
tempts a man to enthuse himself out of
pure protest. They were passing tnrough
the Grand Canyon on the Denver and
liio Grande, and a young American
whose poetic soul could not be chained
was raving about the beauty of the scene.
“Isn't it grand, Miss ?” said he,
“the rugged mountain burst in twain by
some mighty volcanic influence, and
nature covers the wound with towering
trees and mosses of brilliant foliage. Is
it not grand, this canyon?”
She looked up for a moment, and said:
“It is high.” And the poetic soul
shrank into its innermost recesses. —Han
Francuco Chronicle.
Proved that she Loves Him Still.
“You don't love me as fondly as you
did before we were married,” said the
husband of a few years.
“Yes. I do,” replied his wife.
“Well, you don’t show it as much as
you used to,” remarked he.
“I don’t know how I could show my
affection more th#i I do and still be
fashionable,” replied she.
“Just mention one little act.”
“Didn't I give my new poodle your
name for his middle name ! What moro
can you ask t I suppose you think 1
ought to have given him your full name I”
— Bl. Paul Globe
Corn and Coras.
“I see by the paper that in Kansas the
yield of corn is forty to the acre. Isn't
that rather remaikable?"
“Not at all; only it aeems to me that
item is upside down,”
“lipsldedownf”
“Ys. My experience i* that the yield
ia shout forty a< here to the com. tiet
off uiy foot, please.”
■ Kind words ran never die." How
bitterly dors e uiiiu realise that terribla
until when be see. ell the kindest words
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