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Lere’i SMMaa.
Springtime love it Uka the fiowen,
Boro to blottom end to die,
BmlUag through • tew tweet boon.
Ah, tell me whyf
(jammer's lore it like the showen.
Burst with lightning from the iky; .
Was ted soon its passion’s powers;
Ah, tell me whyl
Autumn’s lore is like the gold
That on the forest leaves shall lie-
Quickly fled with speed untold:
Ah, tell me whyl
Winter’s love is like the cold
And chilling winds that swiftly fly,
Vanishing o’er wood and wold:
Ah, tell me whyf
Yet Summer, Au’umn, Winter,Spring,
Are full of love that shall not die;
For love is of them all the king:
And who cares whyl
— W. J. Henderson.
A Duel in a Balloon.
M. Godard had taken with him one
<day, as his campagnon du voyage, a
■wealthy gentleman, who paid one thou
sand francs for the privilege of sharing
:tlic perils of the expedition. The
weather could not have been more propi
tious, and the balloon shot up rapidly to
a considerable altitude.
“What effect does it produce upon
you?” asked M. Godard of his com
panion.
“None,” said the latter, laconically.
“My compliments to you,” returned
M. Godard. “You are the first whom I
have ever seen arrive at such an altitude
without betraying some emotion.”
“Keep on mounting,” said the travel
ler, with supreme gravity.
M. Godard threw out some ballast, and
the balloon ascended some five hundred
feet higher.
“And now,” asked M. Godard,
“does your heart beat?”
“Not yet,” replied his companion,
-with an air which approached impa
tience.
-“The deuce!” exclaimed M. Godard,
“you have really, my dear sir, the most
perfect qualification for an aeronaut.”
The balloon still ascended; when one
thousand feet higher, M. Godard inter
rogated a third time his companion,
“And now?”
“Nothing, nothing; not the shadow of
a fear,” answered the traveller, with a
tone positively discontented, and like a
man who had experienced a profound de
ception.
“Goodness me,” answered the aeronaut
smiling, “but I must renounce all hope
of making you afraid. The balloon is
high enough. Wo are going to de
scend.”
“To descend?”
“Certainly; there would be danger in
mounting higher.”
“That does not make the slightest
difference to me, Ido not wish to de
scend.”
“What!” asked M. Godard.
“I said I wished to ascend higher,
keep on mounting. I have given one
thousand francs in order to experience
some emotion; I must do so, and will not
descend until I have had my money’s
worth.”
M. Godard began to laugh; he believed
that it was all a joke.
“Once more, will you ascend,” de
manded the traveller, seizing him by the
throat and shaking him with violence.
M. Godard felt himself lost. A sudden
and dreadful revelation broke upon his
mind, as ho regarded the strangely dilat
ed eyes of his companion. He had to do
with a madman.
Had tho unfortunate teronaut had a
defensive weapon he would have b;en
capable of defending himself, but it is
not usual for people to furnish themselves
with pistols for a voyage in a balloon,
and certainly one would not dream of
meeting with a warlike encounter in the
stars. The earth was five thousand feet
below—most horrible depth—and the
least movement of the now furious man
might cause the car to capsize. M.
Godard, with the presence of mind ac
quired by him in so many of his daring
aerial expeditions, made all these reflec
tions in the space of a second.
“Ahl ha! you are moeking me, my fine
fellow,” continued the madman, without
losing his grip. “Ahl you think to rob
me of one thousand francs, as well as of
my emotion. Very well! Be quiet! It’s
my turn to laugh. It’s you now who are
going to cut a caper.”
The madman was possessed of prodig
ious strength. M. Godard did not even
make an attempt to defend himself.
“What do you wish from me?” asked
he, in a calm tone and submissive voice.
“Simply amuse myself in seeing you
turn a summersault,” said the madman,
with a ferocious smile. “But first” (the
madman appeared to bethink himself),
“I have my idea. I wish to see if I can’t
find some emotion up there. I must put
myself astride of the semi-circle.”
The madman indicated with his finger
the upper part of the balloon. M.
Godard, who had not before trembled
for himself, was forced to tremble now
for the madman,
“Miserable man!” he cried. “You
are going to kill yourself. You will be
seized with vertigo."
“No remarks!" hissed the madman,
<‘or I will at once pitch you into the
abyss."
“At least,” observed M. Godard, “al
low me to put this cord around your
body, so that you may remain attached
to the balloon.”
“Be it so,” said tho mmluiuo, who ap
peared to comprehend the utility of the
precaution.
Furui bed with hi* cord of safety, the
madman commenced to climb among the
yope* with the agility of a squirrel, He
readied like bsllc<>|| end placed himself
•e rile |h* seml-cireW e* b bed said.
Ofiltd 4lml* ll** |f4t flit* **( Willi £
, ( i)1 tittiirVi iitii (lieVi #4# fcttlf* fffrfll hu
r * ' •
“What are you going to do!" a-ked
M. Godard, who feared that he might
have the idea of ripping open the bal
loon.
“To make myself comfortable.”
Uttering these words, the madman cut
alowly the cord of safety which M. God
ard had attached to his body. With a
single puff of wind to shake the balloon
the miserable creature must fall into
the abyss! M. Godard shut his eyes in
order not to see. The madman clasped
his hands; he could not contain himself
with delight. He spurred balloon with
his heel, as if ou horseback.
“And now,” yelled the madman, brand
ishing his knife, “we are going to laugh.
Ah! robber, you thought t.o make me
descend 1 Very well 1 It is you who are
going to tumble down iu a moment.”
M. Godard had not tune to make a
movement or put in a single word. Be
fore he was able to divine the intenten
tions of the madman, the latter, still
astride of the semi-circle, had cut —hor-
ror—four of the cords whicli suspended
the car to the balloon! The car in
clined horribly; it was only held by two
cords. It would have been all over with
Mr. Godard if he had not grasped des
perately at those remaining. The knife
of the madman approached the last
cords.
“A word—a single word,” cried M.
Godard.
“No—pardon," vociferated the mad
man.
“I do not ask for pardon; on the con
trary.”
“What is it you wish?” inquired the
madman.
“At this moment,” continued the aero
naut hurriedly, “we are at a height of
five thousand feet.”
“Stop,” said the madmau, “that will
be charming to tumble down from such
a height 1”
“ It is too low,” added M. Godard.
“How so?” asked the madman stupe
fied.
“Yes,” said M. Godard, “my expe
rience as an aeronaut has taught me that
death is not certain from a fall from this
elevation. Tumble for tumble, I much
prefer to fall from such a height and to
be killed outright, rather than to be only
lamed; have the charity to precipitate
me from a height of nine thousand
feet.”
“Ah, that will do!” said the madman,
whom the mention of a more horrible fall
charmed amazingly. M. Godard followed
heroically Ins purpose, and threw over
an enormous quantity of ballast. The
balloon made a powerful bound, and
mounted five hundred feet iu a few mo
ments. Only—and while the madman
surveyed this operation with a menacing
air—the aeronaut conceived another
plan.
The quick eye of M. Godard had re
marked that among tho cords spared by
the madman, figured the one leading to
the valve.
His plan is taken. He draws his cord,
it opens the valve placed in the upper
part of the balloon for the purpose of
allowing any excess of the hydrogen gas
to escape, aud tho result which he hopes
for is not long iu making itself appar
ent. Little by little the madman be
comes asphyxiated by the vapors of the
gas which sutround him.
The madman being sufficiently stupe
fied for his purpose, M. Godard allowed
the balloon slowly todescend to the earth.
The drama was finished.
Arrived on terra firms M. Godard, bear
ing no hatred to the author of his peril
ous voyage, hastened to restore him to
animation and had him conveyed, hands
and feet bound, to the nearest police sta
tion.— Tid-Bits.
Confederate Stationery.
Confederate stationery was a thing no
less uniquo and characteristic than the
other products of the time. The writing
paper, of a dingy salmon color, rough
and furzy, was ruled with heavy, glaring
blue lines, doubtless on the principle
that the plainness of the landmarks
should be in proportion to the difficulty
of the way. But with this paper, such
as it was, at $lO a quire, and envelopes
in proportion, it was resorted to only
after every available bit of paper, every
page of old account books, whether al
ready written on one side or net, and
even the fly-leaves of printed volumes,
had been ferreted out and exhausted.
Envelopes were made of scraps of wall
paper aud from pictorial pages of old
books—white side out—stuck together
in some cases with the gum that exudes
from peach trees. Ink had almost as
many substitutes as coffee, and with
nearly as great a variety of results. Su
mac berries, pokeberries. “oak balls” and
green persimmons set with rusty nails
were oftenest used in concocting the
fluids with which we blotted paper.
We found that black gum roots made
fair corks. One of the very few thiegs,
if not the solo thing, that could* be
achieved with a dime was to post a let
ter. Tho ten-cent stamps, which were
small and blue, bore a profile to all ap
pearances a compromise between those of
the rival presidents. —Atlantic Monthly.
Modern Proverbs.
Aa the odor of the rose outlives its
beauty, even so with uvQtuous couple do
the tender feelings of youth outlive the
decay of years.
When huuger pinches poverty hravae
the atorm.
It la better to lie innocent than to be
penitent.
Works of ark, however grand, sink*
into ln*fgntdcsn< e wh* n compared with
woman, that wonder of creation.
Mule* and jackasses me a* apt to kink
at sail ta as they aie to kick at sinnsr*.
H who lays a claim to true p, ty
ought to ha Vigilant because the blghai
the pinnacle Up* more fatal will be tfit
fall
It is bettor to live und die e it,* m•
I ■M‘‘ I Bill • ImV IB i IWi . MS*
|Mm IF A (sway
GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREEN’ESBORO. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1886.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Uncle DPla/to
ON HIB FIRST FALL VISIT
Itl BIBS i Bill
OF
E. A. VEAZEI!
GENTLEMEN AND LADIES.
ONE AND ALL, BOTH GREAT AND SMALL, LET ME HAVE YOUR ATTEN
TION FOIi A SHORT WHILE, AND I WILL TRY TO TF.T.T
YOU SOMETHING ABOUT THE
LAME & FAMISH STOCK
OF GOODS THAT MR. VEAZEY 18 RECEIVING FOR THE FALL TRADE.
■ o i .
These goods have been bonght at a low fignre and will be sold the
same way, for if they had not been bought low I know I conld not have
bought those No. 14i Brogans at the price Uncle Plato bought them
SHOES, MOEE SHOES!
The Shoe line is full and complete in gentlemen’s, ladies’ and chil
dren’s in various styles and prices. Come along we can fit you up and
guarantee satisfaction in style and price. And
DON’T FORGET!
That the Douglas Shoe can’t be beat for $3 00, let him come from the
North, South, East or West, but come along and let us Bhow you our
stock of Shoes.
A full and complete line of
HC .A. T S !
For old raeu, young men and boys. Boys’ wool Hats from 25cts up.
Men’s wool Hats from 25ots np. Call and look at oar Hats and 1 think
we can please you in style, quality and price.
i cm it cum in
From the Northeast last Saturday morning reminded Uncle Plato of
the coming winter. There is some’preparation to be made to stand the
chilly blast. We are prepared to fit yon up in this line at very low
prices—can sell yon Jeans at lOcts to 45cts per yard—prices can’t be
beat. Jeans pants at 75cts up ; Moul skin Pants very low.
A full and complete line of
Men’s And Boys’ Clothing
Calicos, Worsteds and Ginghams in the prettiest stvles. A com
plete line of
GENTLEMEN’S AND LADIES GLOVES.
A fall line of gents Half Hose; a fall line of lovely styles in ladies’,
misses and children’s Hose, from 6cts per pair up. Ladies and gents
Handkerchief in abundance from let up to $1.25. Ladies’ Jersey Col
lars and Cuffs to match. Gents linen Cuffs and Collars. Gents
A pretty line of gents Scarfs and Cravats.
A full and complete line of Jersey Jackets in the latest styles, call
and see them, they are perfectly lovely.
Sheetings, Shirtings, Drills and Checks in the heaviest and best
brands made—no light weights.
We have only mentioned a few articles in the Dry Goods and
Notion departments, but we try to keep a little of everything in a gen
eral line, so come along and we can fill your bill.
A full and complete line of family
Mill HB 11 PUT Hfll I
38., 38., Harter’s Iron Cordial, Brown’s Iron Bitters, Hop Bit
ters, Brewer’s Lung Restorer, Dr. Boc’s Bbeumatic Cure, Dr. Bull’s
Cough Syrup, Honey of Tar for coughs and colds, Lawrence’s Liver
Begulator, Johnson’s Chill and Fever Tonic; Quinine put up in £ and
k ounce vials; and every thing usually kept in the line of Family Med
icines.
GROCERIES!
Teas, Coffee, Rice, Sugar, Bacon, Lard, Syrup, Molasses, Meal,
Flour, Wheat, Corn, Texas Rust Proof Oats. A full and complete
line of Laundry and Toilet Soaps; 2J Bagging, Arrow Ties and Bag
ging Twine.
Uncle Plato can’t remember all that we keep, but he has merely
mentioned an urtiole here and yonder and somewhere else; ho has
owlv given you a faint idea of what we have, so cotue along and let
rour wauts be known, aud I think we can supply them in moat auy
line of goods.
66UNTRY mm§t.
Will pay higbeat market price for all kinds of country produce, Full
market prise paid for the fleecy staple.
■VOTTJMI TMTTTSVr,
333. A. V eazey
V7.AZET, OSOHAUe
DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON.
THE BATTLE CRY.
I T ** t: God arise: let Hi* enemies be
I scattered. ’—Psalm, lxvUL, L
▲ procession was formed to carry the ark
| or sacred box, which, though only three feet
, ? in ® inches in length, and two feet three
inches in breadth and depth, was the symbol
| ot God presence. As the leaders of the pro
i cession lifted this ornamented and brilliant
( box by two golden poles ran through four
! colden rings and started for Mount Zion, ali
i the people chanted the battle hymn of my
I text: ‘-Let God arise; let Hie enemies he
; scattered."
The Lamercnians of Scotland, outraged by
James the First, who forced upon them re
ligious forms that were offensive and by the
terrib.e persecution of Drummond, Da ziel and
1 umer, and by the oppressive laws of Charles
the Fiiat and Chares the Second, were
j driven to proclaim war agaiust tyrants, and
i went forth to tight for religious liberty, and
the purpl mountain of the heathen became
„ ta fi* a 6 e ’ and at Rothwell bridge
and Aird’g Moss and Drumclog the battle
hymn and the battle shout of th .se g orious
old Scotchmen was the text I have chosen;
Let Gcd arise, let His enemies be scat
tered.”
What a whirlwind of power was Oliver
Cromwell, and how with his folio were, called
the ‘ Ironsides,’’ he went from victory to
victory! Opposing armies molted as he
locked at them. He dismissed Parliament
as easily as a schoolmaster a school. He
pointed his linger at Berkeley Castle and it
was t& en. He ordered Lord Hopton, the
General, to dismount, and he dismounted.
See Cromwell marching on with his army
and hear the battle cry of “the Ironsides’ f
loud as a storm and solemn as a death knell,
standards reeling before it and cavalry
horses going back on their haunches and
armies flying at Marston Moor, at Winceby
field, at Nastby, at Bridgewater and Dart
mouth. “Let God arise, let His enemies be
scattered!"
8o you see my text is not like a compli
mentary and tasseled sword that you some
times see hung up iu a parlor, a sword that
was never in battle and only to be used on
general training day, but more like some
weapon carefully hung up in your home
telling the story of Chapultepec.Cerro Gordo
and Cberubusco and Thatcher’s Run and
Malvern Hill;for my text hangs in the Scrip
ture armory.telling of the holy ware of three
thousand years in which it has been carried
but. as keen and mighty as when David first
unsheathed it. It seems to me what in the
church of God and in all styles of reformatory
work we most need now is a battle cry. We
raise our littie standard and put on It the
name of some man, who only a few years
ago began to live and in a few years will
cease to live. We go intocontest against the
armies of iniquity depending too much on
human agencies. We use for a battle cry
the name of some brave Christian reformer
but after a while that reformer dies or gets
old or loses his courage and then we take an
other battle cry, and this time perhaps we
put on the name of someone who plays Ar
nold and sells out to the enemy. What we
want for a tattle cry is the name of some
leader who will never betray us and will
never surrender and will never die.
All respect have I for brave meu and
women, out if we are going to get the vic
tory all along the line we must put God first.
We must take the hint of the Gideonites who
wiped out the Bedouin Arab-, commonly
called Midionites. These Gideonites had a
glorious leader in Gideon, but w hat was tie
battle cry with which they flung their ene
mies into the worst defeat into which any
army was every tumbled! It was “thesword
of the Lord and of Gideon. ’’ Put God first
whoever you put second. If the army of the
American revolution are to free America
it must be “the sword of the Lord and of
Washington.” If the Germans want to win
the day at Fedau, it must be “the sword of
the Lord and Von Multke.” Waterloo was
won for the English because not only the
armed meu at the front, but the wor
shippers in tho Cathedrals at the rear
were . rying: “The sword of the Lord and
Wellington." The Methodists have gone in
triumph across nation alter nation with the
cry: “The sword of the Lord and of Wes
ley.” The Presbyterians have gone from
victory to victory with the cry: “The sword
of tho Lord and of John Knox. The
Baptists have conquered mill ons after mil
lions for Christ with the cry: “The sword of
the Lord and of Judson.” The American
Epis'opalions have won their mighty way
with the cry: “The sword of the Lord and of
Bishop Mcllvaine.” The \i tory is to those
who put God first. But as we want a battle
try suited to all sects of religionists and to
all lands, I nominate as tho battle cry or
Christendimin therapproaebing Armaged on
the words of my text, sounde v before the ark
as it was carried to Mount Lion: “Let
God arise, let his enemies le scattered."
As far as our finite mind can judge it seems
about tme for God to rise. Does it not seem
to you that the abominations of this earth
ha e gone far enough? Was there ever a
time v ben sin was so defiant? Were there
ever before so many fists lift'd toward God,
telling Him to come on if He dare!
Look at the blasphemy abroad? What
towering profanit es. Would it be possible
for any me to calculate the numbers of times
that too na r.e of Almighty God and of Jesus
Christ aro e; ery day taken irreverently on
the lii s: So common has bias, hemy become
that the public mind and public ear have got
used to it. and a blasph mer goes up and
down this country in his lectures defying the
plan law against blasphemy, and there is
not. a Mayor in America that has backbone
enough to interfere with him save one, and
that tho Mayor of Toronto. Profane sw. ar
ug is as much forbidden by the law as theft
or arson or murder, yet wh > o vacates iti
Profauity is worse than theft or arson or
murder, for these crimes are atta ks on Im
munity-that is an atta k on God.
Tuis country is pre eminent for blasphem
ing A man t aveling in R ;s;ia was sup
p se 1 to be a clergyman. “Why do you take
me to be a clergyman:” said the man. “Oh,'
said the Ruslan. “all other Americans
sivenr.” The crime is multiplying in inten
sity. God very often shows what He thinks
of it, but for the most part the latality is
hush and up. A few sum nere a;o among the
A lirondacks T met th ■ funeral procession of
a man who, two days before, had fallen un
der a flash of lightning while lioasting after
a Sunday of work in the fields, that he had
cheato 1 God out of ono day anyhow, and the
man who worked with him on the same Sab
bath is still living, but a helpless invalid un
der tho same flash. On tho road from Mar
gate to Ramsgate, Eng and, you may
find a rough monument with the inscription:
“A boy was struck dead here while in the
act of swearing.” Years ago in a i’itt-burg
prison two men were tal ring about the Bible
and Christiauity, and ono of them, Thomp
lon by name, applied to Jams Christ a very
low and villainous epithet, and as he was
uttering it he fell. A physician was called,
but no help could lee given. After a day.
lying with distended pupils and palsied
tongne, he passed out of this world. In a
cemetery in Sullivan county, in this State,
sre eight headst mce iu a line aud all alike,
snd these are the facts: In IS6I diphtheria
raged in the vilafe, anl a phvsician was
remarkably --n :eessful in curin - his patients.
3o confident did he become that be boasted
■hat no > a o of diuhtheria could stand before
liin, aud finally he defied Almighty God to
iroduce a ease of diphtheria that be could
sot cure. Hi-t youngest child soon aftir
look the disease aud died, aud one child after
mother until all the eight ha 1 died of diph
fiteria. Tue blasphemer challenged Al
nienty God aud God a- opted the challenge.
But I < ome later down and give you a tact
that ih proved by s -ores of witnesses. This
last August of isstl, a man in Ohio got pro
voked at the continued drought and the ruin
A bis crops aud in the presence of bis neigh
bors he cursed God, saying that he would cut
HU heart out if lie would - nine, callng Him
l liar ami a coward and Hushing a knile, aud
while be wus|<eaiiing his lower iaw dropped,
uo m issued 1 1 o:u moutt and nostrils and
the heat of Ills body wuss i intense it drove
Sac* those wh 1 woula cone near, It was
leveral duy- he ore li i became suffieiewtiy
tool to remove to hie room, aud his body has
turned into stone Hundred, of people have
visit-4 tb > sceuo aud saw the blasphemer is
swfui process of expiring.
It * not Uioik that le see Got bee been
•lien' in your • ass, Ob pro an* s * ear,nr that
U- is lead is tlisie nothing how m the
pc- oner lasting ui your to ague or nothing in
the n iuionesa of your tram that mdiueka
that God may >ouie So a sage your blae
iUisiuis- ur U eiieody even.iug them; But
the* ' oases f have i.ulgued vs ace only
a (ew >a< a here tic-re are hundreds
remittee keep them et*ii Ur e vo.d Me bur roots
aoospi .ity I Systoiea* suppress Sue in
Mr'argil |uvti*i*iuriai c modea * li is a vary,
vary, *y I-in iuii u,i the neiaae
*d MS *w ■ U 4 ‘1 Wtlk i,-*>j-d*iut*v og lueir
bps sod >-" 0 ' 0 seif, a:, gu tkj
1 a c ' **■ "M* *wW4#ba** Mtwgjmite
*S ahwee, as* Mr pp wired user Idee* w Aub
rooms and out through busy exchanges
“V** 4 , oath - 40(1 ™lai ough
all the haunts of am, mingling With
tha rattling dice sid cracking billiard
ball and tho laughter of her who
hath forgotten the covenant of her
God, ami around tha city and around the
continent and around the earth a eetbinst
boning rurgo flings its hot spray into the
face ot a long-suffering God. And the ship
captaiu dam.is his crew, and the merchant
.minus bis clerks, and the master-buuuey
dr.uins his meu, and tho hack-driver damns
hut horses, and the traveler damns the stone
that bruises his foot or the mud that soils his
shoe or tue defective time-piece that gets
him too late t) the rail way trains. I arraign
profane swearing and b.&sjhamy, two names
for the same thing, as being one ot the gigan
tic crimes ot this laud,and for its extirpation
it does seem as if it were about time for God
to rise.
i lieu loox a !-imeuc a'c the evL of drunk
enness. Whether you five in Brooklyn, or
New York, or Chicago, or Cincinnati, or
Savannah, or Boston, or in any of the cities
of this land, count up tho saloons on that
street as compared with the saloons five
years ago, and see they are growing far out
of proportion to the increase of the popula
tion. You people who are so precise aud
particular lest there should be some impru
dence or rashness in attacking the rum txW
rfe, will have your son pitched into your
treat door dead di uuk or your daughter will
come home with her children because her
husband has by strong driuk been turned
into a demoniac. The rum fiend has de
spoiled whole streets of good homes in all our
cities. Fathers, brothers, sons on the fu
neral pyre of strong drink. Fasten tightei
the victims! Btir up the flames! Pile o
toe corpses! More men,women and children
for the sacrifice! Let us have whole genera
tions on fire of evil habit; and at the sound
of the cornet, harp, sackbut, psaltery and
dulcimer let all the pe >ple fall down and
worship King Alcohol, or you shall be cast
into the fiery furna e under some political
platform!
I indict this evil as the fratricide, the pat
ricide, tho matricide, the uxoricide, the
regicide of the century. Yet under what in
nocent and delusive and mirthful names al
coholism deceives tho people! It is a “cor
dial.” it is “bitters.” It is an “eye-opener.”
It is an “appeti er." It is a “digester.” It
is an “invigorator.” It is a “settler.” It is
a “nlght ap.” Why don’t they put on the
right labels: “Essence of perdition,” "Con
sc once stupefler,” “Five drachms of heart
ache, ’ “Tears of orphanage, ’ “Blood of
souls,” “Scabs of aa eternal leprosy,”
“Venom of the worm that never dies;’’ Only
on ein a while is there auything in the title
of liquors to even hint their atrocity as in the
ca-e of sour mash, that I see advertised all over.
It is au honest name and any one can under
stand it. Sour-mashl That is, it makes a
mau’s disposition sour and his ass iciations
sour and his prospect i sour; and then it is
good to mash his body aud mash his soul and
mash his business and mash his family. Sour
mash! One honest name at least for an in
toxicant. But through lying labels of many
of the apothecaries’ shops good peop e who
are only a little undertone in health, and
wanting of some invigoration have unwit
tingly got on their tongue the fangs of this
cobra that stings to death so large a ratio of
the human race.
Others are ruined fiy the common and all
destructive habit of treat ng customers. And
it is a treat on their coming to town and a
treat while the bargaining prom-esses, and a
treat when the purchase is made, and a treat
as he leaves town. Others, to drown their
troubles, submerge themselves with this
worst trouble. Oh, the world is battered
and bruised and blasted with this growing
evil. It is more and more entrenched and
fortified. They have millions of dollars sub
scribed to marshal and advance the alcoholic
forces. They nominate and elect and gov
ern the vast majority of the office-holders
of this country. Ou their side they have
enlisted the mightiest pol tical power of the
centuries, and behind them stand all the
myrmidons of the nether world, Satanic, and
appollyonic, and diabolic. It is beyond all
human effort to throw this hostile of de-an
ters or capture this Gibraltar of rum jugs.
And while I approve of all human agencies
of reform I would utterly despair if we had
nothing else But what cheers me is that our
best troops are yet to come. Our chief artil
lery is in reserve. Oar greatest commander
has not yet fully taken the field. If all hell
is on their side, all heaven is on our side.
Now “let God arise, aud let His enemies be
scattered. ”
Then look at the impurities of these great
cities. Ever aud anon there are in the news
papers explosions of social life that make the
story of Sodom quite respe-table—tor such
things, Christ says, wore more tolerable for
Sodom aud Gomorrah than fortheChorazins
and Betbsaidas of greater light It is no un
usual thing in our cities to see men in high
positions with two or three families, or re
fine! ladies willing solemnly to marry the
very swine of so.-iety if they be wealthy.
Brooklyn, whoso street* fifteen years ago
were almost free from all sign of the social
ovii, now night by night rivaling uiper
Broadway in its flamboyant wickednes.
The Bible aflame with denunciation
against an impure life, but three
fourths of the American ministry ut
tering not one point-blank word against
this iniquity, lest some old libertine throw up
his churt h pew. Machinery organized in all
the cities or the United States and Canada
bv hich to Dut yearly in the grinding mill
of this iniquity thousands of ths unsuspect
ing of tho country farm houses, one procuress
confessing last week in the courts that she
had supplied th > infernal mar iet with 151
souls iu six months. Oh for five hundred
Pall Mall Gazettes in America to swing
open the door of this lazar-h >use of social
corruption! Exposure must come before ex
tirpation.
While the city van carries the scum of this
sin from the pi ison to the police courts morn
ing by moraiug, it is full ti ne, if we do not
want high American life to become like that
of the court Louis XV, to put the millionaire
Lotharios und the Pomoadours of your brown
stono palaces into a van of popular indigna
tion and drive them out of respectable as
sociations. Wuat prospect of soc al purifica
tion can there be as long as at summer
watering plates it is usual to see a young
woman of excelleut rearing stand and simper
and giggle and roll up her eyes sideways be
fore one of th oso first--lass satyrs of fashion
able life and on the bail-room Boor join him
in ths square dan -<t, the maternal chioeron
meanwhile beaming fro n the wall on the
S euo. Mat -has are male in heaven, they
sav. Not su-h mat-lie s, for the brimstone
indicates tho opposite region.
The evil is overshadowing all our cities.
By some these immorals are peccadiloes,
gallantries, eccentricities, and are relegated
to the realm of jocularity, and few efforts
are being made against it God bless the
“White Cross” movement, as it is called, the
excellent and taented M ss Fi ances Willard,
its ablest advo ate on this side of the sea, an
organization making a mighty assault on
this evil. God forward the tracts on this
subject distribute! by the religions trait
societies of the world. God help parents in
the great wo k they are doing iu trying to
start their children with pure principles;
God help all legislators in their attempt to
inhibit this crime.
But is this all! Then it is only a qnestloi
of time wh?u tho last vestige of purity aud
home will vanish out of sight Human arms,
human pens, human voices, human talents
aie not sufficient. I begin to look up, I lister
for artillery rumbling down the sapphire ol
the boulevards of heaven. I watch to see if
in the morning light there lie not the flash of
des-eading sciineturs. Oh for God! Do-s it
not seam time for his appearance? U U not
time for all lands to cry out: God arise,
and let His enemies be scattered!”
I got a letter a few days ago asking me if
I did not think that the earth inar’te in
Charle.ton was the divine cliastisemeut on
that city for its sins. That letter I an wer
now by saying that if all our American ities
Sot ail the punishment they deserve for their
orrible impurities, the earth would long ago
have cracked open into crevices traps -onti
nental and taken down all our cities, and
Brooklyn and New York would have gone so
far under that the tips of our church s dree
would be five huudre l feet below thesiirfa -e.
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we have not
been consumed.
Not only aie the affairs of tills world eo
o-twist and a-janqle that there mens a need
of the Divine ap|iearan<N>, but there is au uhsr
raaton. Have rou not no ioel that la the
•dsntv of this pla let God turns a leaf a -nit
every two Utonuuid years. G and turned n leaf
and this world was fitted to human resid n a.
Ab >ui two thousaad more jinriigfs i sl-mr
nod God turned another leaf end it ws> the
Deluge. About tw > thou and were yews
psxetoo audit wa-> thus qiusrao eofi 'hrwf.
Aluioit twuth >usaa I ia ru years have pirsed
by aad He wilt nroaehly so turn su alter
jaaf what it shell tie f> an not sav. It taev
be the deUM ittoa of all Umsm m mt'rodUas
““I* “id* *ud Me ssielijlMweat of
rtsM oosiiass la all the earth i|s can da tt
had lie Glide it (am ae onufldtat a if It
w-m ai.-alv a >ra > idtd Haw sasdvlMt
fty d>-1• • r u.m ougas vr ft 4o> ad ami
tPI to Strike w th he r : tL hand at vtsoaf
MM hi* to * m hurl a faaMaraaa at IS
“Let God arise!” „ .
It will be bo exertion at ocmipotenoa It
will be no beating or bracing
lift It will be no aeoding down the sky of
tho white home cavalry of heaven or rum
bling war-chariots. He will only rise. Wow
He is sitting in the majesty and power of N*
reign. He is, from His throne, watching the
mustering of all the forces of blssphe ny, and
drunkennaes, and impurity and fraud, and
Sabbath-breaking, and when they bare done
their worst and are most securely organized.
He will bestir himself and say: “My etie rues
have defied me long enough, and their cup
of iniquity is full I have given them all
opportunity for repentance. This dlspen a
tion of patience is endei and the faith of the
good shall be tried no longer."
And now God begins to rise, and what
mountains give wav under his right foot and
what continents sink under his left foot I
know not, but standing in the full height and
radiance and grandeur of His nature, ne
looks this way and that and how His ene
mies are scattered! Blasphemers, white and
dumb, reel down to their doom, and those
who have trafficked in that which destroyed
the bodies and souls of men and families will
fly with cut foot on the down grade of broken
decanters, and the polluters of society that
did their bad work with large fortunes an 1
high social sphere will overta ce in their de
scant the degraded rabble of underground
city life as they tumble over the eter
nal precipices, and tie world shall be
left clear and clean for the friends
of humanity and the worshippers of Al
mighty God. The last thorn plucked off,
the world will be left a bloo ning rose on the
bosom of that Christ who came to gardenize
it This earth that stood snarling with its
tigerish passion and thrusting out its raging
claws shall lie and own a lamb at the feet of the
Lamb of God who took away the sins of the
world. . . .
And now the beet thing I can wish for you
and the best thing I can wish for myself Is.
that we may be round His warm an i undis
guised and enthusiastic friends in that hour
when God shall rise and His enemies shall be
scattered.
“OIK FARMER JACK.”
Unique Obituary of an lowa Varmer who
Laved Hie Fellow-men.
One of our farmers died the other day
who had a peculiar place in the liking
of many a neighbor. He was known in
the family to which he belonged as “Our
Jack.” Nobody gave him “John.” It
would have seemed like putting up a
fence between him and bis friends to
have used sueh ceremony as giving him
either his full name or bis right name.
Jack was known far and near. A royal
fellow he was. His like in many ways
was not easil y come across. It seemed
as if away back in some of the family
strains from which he was descended
his antetype had existed, and nature;
through some freak reproduced Jack
with old-fashioned peculiarities that
were noticeable because they differed so
much from most folks. Jack was fully
thirty before he became of age. He wan
a great big, open-handed, open-hearted,
generous soul, helping this one to a good
turn and better mood and that one to a.
good turn and more hope, keeping the
laugh going and provoking the mirth by
droll remarks and apt illustrations. It
elevates to lend a helping hand. The
lowa fanner is generally a thrifty man.
Jack delighted far more in helping
somebody than in looking out for him
self. It seemed as if thero was need of
a neighborhood factor, free from selfish
ness, defiant of care, a receptacle of
general complaint, and a physician for
imaginary ills. Jack filled the want.
A neighbor brightened up a mile off if
he saw him coming, and after he parted
from Jack he felt light-hearted for a
whole day. After coming to the last
years of his teens he noticed that Abra- •
ham Lincoln seemed in most need of
help, and as much to keep old Abe easy
in his miud and hopeful as auything
else, Jack joined the First lowa Ca alrv
with other farmer boys. He returned
with broken health, but with all his
humor in full life. The neighbors
Jack would turn his attention
now to money making, as all with whom
he associated were of that turn of mind,
but his flow of humor, his liking to do
others good turns—and of others to
have hun—absorbed him until he met
Mary and took her to church and they
were man and wife. Then he turned to
property getting and was getting it fast,
nut, alas, his army life followed him.
Calls had been made cn the boy that the
man had to pay, and last week he paid
the full demands with his life. Mary
and her two boys miss Jack wofully.
We all miss him. There are sore hearts
for Jack.
He Heard a Tiny Bell.
A man who had heard of the chestnut
bell and never saw a type writer went
into a law office in this city yesterday to
consult with his attorney on a matter of
business. A meek young man with a
type writer was diligently at work in a
corner of the room.
“I don’t see any other way out of the
matter than to bring him into court and
make him show cause.” ea and the client,
after he ran over the details of the case.
“You know I hate like the deuce to go
to law
Ding went the little bell on the type
writer as the line was finished. The
client looked daggers at the meek jroung
man in the corner.
“As I said before,” the client wont on,
“I hate so go to law, because I hate
notoriety, but there is no use talking,
this blasted scoundrel has made me a
heap of trouble and ought to pay for it.”
“Quite so,” said the attorney, replying
to the last remark of his client.
“You know that I’m the last man in
the world to make trouble for a neighbor
unless I am the abused party," the client
was saying, when the tinkling chime on
the type writer com ded the alarm a ain.
“That man is a born idiot.” the client
said angrily, alluding to tha youthful
operator on the type writer.
“Well, if he is,” said the attorney,
“we’ll show him up in court, you may
be sure. ”
“I didn't say anything about that
idiot being brought into court,” said the
irate client, “and if I thougnt you would
bring him there I’d hire another lawyer.
I’m surprised you have such a fool in
your office.”
"My dear sir,” the lawyer said, not
catching the drift of the comment,
“what are you talking about? We can’t
sue him unless he comas iut > court, or at
least giving him the chance to come.”
All this while the legal full s were
running off the machine under the deft
manipulation of the meek young man.
“You iu#y think this very funny,” the
clieut said angrily ns ha arose, ust in
time to bo saluted by the merry stroke of
the bell. At tbie he fairly fumed
“Ive got through with you fellow*
once lor all," lie cried “You are a
lot of |K.-ttifoggers any wey, wb<> are
ouly fit to play hop scotch or ring a chart
nut ball ’
Not until then w the sit nation clear
to the puzzled lawyer, whit, when one
enlighb imd, easily ezplulued the mis
take. The p< >i* lii the ohms wiil Ij#
i served in a '4ey nr two.—Oyewu tt
I MOndard
iM te tbeaaaeoa of Malta* eft mm
They ere at aradey warn.
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