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N. A, feMlTH.
ATTORNEY AT, RAW,
AMERICU8, QKOBQIA, „
Wax practice In the court of Somterinid
. __|U>N8
FORT*nW*{hfT
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
. AnwIonMJn,
ioilt Cooru Where we ere requested
,n 1UwWn »’ new building, Jj
nur street. Julytitt
WALTER CLEVELAND SIMMOXS
AFTOHIEY AID CCBISELQB AT LAW
A MERIC US, GEORGIA.
,prwtlcein >01 lie CourUof the South-
w e-itern Circuit, end clsewltere by cuutrert.
b|A‘ci»l attention gircu to Commercial Law
»nd a prompt remitt »nce. Office over Toole,
Mc(iAirab ATondce *Wsreliousc. JulynU
-'T. 8. B. HAWKINS,
Mr opr ice At Dr. FJdridge Drug Store
Kesldence near the Methodist Chuirh.
My service I a Rain tender the got>tl people
° f >»-•>««** ndooaMlJ * KWwnliy. *
Or. J. A. FORT.
Tenders Ids professional service to tlx
people of Amerlrus And vicinity.
OTor the Confectionery store of W
K. Clr.rke, on Lamar street. Can be fount,
at hU oltirc day and night unless profession-
C»Us left on slate At drug store
of Dr. E. J. Eldridge on Lamar street will
receive prompt attention. Julytitf
Dr. J. B. HINKLE,
PHYSIOIAN & SURGEON.
AMERICUS. - - GEORGIA
rails left nt the Drug Store of Dates ponT
* Sox. or at my oitlee. south of John Wind-
•or A store. Will receive prompt attention.
My residevee Is in front of Col. W. A. Max-
well**, on Taylor street. aprillirtf
.»r. W. M. HARDWICK
11 AVIS<i resumed the Practice of Medicine
offers his services to his old frictulsand pat
rons ami to the paying public generally.
Special att-ntion will lw given toall Chronic
casta, jiarticolarly those of Females.
will prescribe for and treat ordinary
at his other. Office at the drug store of Da
venports Son. Residence-StarksvUIest
opposite Col. T. M. Furlow. felu
Dr. B. J. HEAD,
Practicing Physician,
AM ERIC US, GA.,
* to offer his professional services
«U be reasonable, an I in ;
'“ify“S
Iwr of years, made a specialty’of chronic
diseases, aud particul.uly all female com-
plaiuts.
My office Is oa Inunar Street, in the rear of
T. W. Anstey's store, next door to Harris,
James A Williford. Calls at my olhcc or at
W. T. Davenport A Son's will receive prompt
attention. febSStf
AMEKICUS, GA..
Will treat you successfully for all of yrur
ailments. Confer with her In p- rson or by
letter. A long experience In her Profession
guarantees good and successful work. Office
at her residence on Hock llill. marOTtf
Dr. D. P. HOLLOWAY.
DentisT,
Americas. ... Georgia
tal orga
metliod,
best material known ,
BTOFFICE over Davenport and Son’i
by tbe impre
fidsl teeth oi
o tin? profession.
Offer thgJr Orpfo*plkh«l uHenrices. to the
public generally. ’ All -.calls will receive
prompt ateoaflon.l OOU-* nt Aadensftville,
Georglaji •,m april23tf
I HAVE RESTED THE ”
OX EAST SIDE WHlRH-SQrASE.
AMEEICUS, GA.. Y >
U hl. li I wtrt repair anil have ready to store
cotton In daring the coming reason. My
friends and tbu public are asked to pntron-
Uf me. All produce left in my care by
friends and others, Will receive prompt at*
tenth* and seM at best prices offered.
J J. I* PRICE.
Amkricus, Ga., May 19, 1882. tf
NOTIONS. Etc.,
all of the latest stti.es.
Which she keep* on band at all times,
LOWEST GASH PRICES!
ARRIVINC DAILY.
1x^1
"VHHSSE
toqoy one op receiptor i
Under Barlow House. Americas, 6a.
New Firm, New Goods, Low Prices !
Huylng In such large quantities to
quantity dir
tomers hurt
uantiUcs to supply Uiis and the Dal
did not lieretofore, and uru thereby en
' Our stock of
rerprices than
WATCHES. CHAINS. NECKLACES. LOCKETS. BRACELETS,
BINGS, SETS. LACE PINS, EAR RINGS.
THIMBLES, SOLID SILVERWARE,
NMW’ FORKS. SPOONS, CASTORS, BUTTER DISHES,
! V.!\ L . h STANDS, syihip cits, spoon holders,
LAMNG DISHES, CAKE BASKETS. WATER SETS,
WAITERS. GOBLETS. CUPS. FLOWER STANDS.
CARD RECEIVERS, ETC.. ETC.,
was never more complete than at the present time. We also have on hand a large lot of
Clocks of all Kinds !!
which we will sell cheaper than ever aud guarantee each
IS Traveling nr Li
te*«llU«,Ljr ukioe I
»iW Over in healthy a
- -KT-’f* >**“?«• allaeks.
•**. Drowil.iH. Dcprtuii.g cf Spirit*, etc. It
>• - ■*-
■ keeping the Regulat
«fe «.r*a«lve. alteroUvi Til ESTSi
ZSiS^litSSMU.'nSiJSSSr’
) give entire satlsfat
SEWING MACHINES.
WE KEEP T1IB
IIMIS. WILLIAMS SIMM, VHEELLI i IVlISOI, lit HOI,
wo nrawere and drop leaf, with attachments complete, for TWENTY-EIGHT DOL-
oraU Mrehlnc" kel4te n |Ib^k lneVrr> re ' <peCt ' Xccdte *> OU * Attachments, and Tarts
SPECTACLES.
We always keep in large quantities, and ha
you up with just what you need. Pilot
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
This Department is filled with
PIANOS. OllUANH. ORGUINKTTES. ACCORDEONS.
IIARMONIOAK, VIOLINS, Ol'ITARS, BANJOS.
TAMROl. RINKS, or.il everything cl., in the Mosieol Imtrunjent
line <!•
In this Jim
1 ctnnpare with o
ue eJsc and then c
*t have to pay fn iglit extra; the price of In
look. W e guarantee every Instrument sot
e to write North and wait ten days for an r
die* to have it repaired, and he drprived a
relv** 1
* RemcmberV wli
before you pureha-
you buy from
. Should anything get
iswer, or ship your Ini.
the use of It for six or eight weeks,
uiiue our stock, and get our prices.
WORK DEPARTMENT.
s heretofore, turn out nothing but first-class work. Mr. C. A. PRICKER
o this Department. ALL WORK WARRANTED. Prices
atronage, and will endeavor by fair dealing to merit the same.
James pricker & brother,
TO ZLiO-AJEKr !
PREPARED TO NEGOTIATE LOANS FOR PLANTERS IN
^ TERRELL AND WEBSTER, ON IMPROVED
^ANDS ON.FJ ETEA1LS TIME. NOW IS YOUR CHANCE Tf) PAY OFF OLD
DEBTS AND HAVE PLENTY OP TIME TO WORK OUT THE NEW ONE.
WK ARE READY TO FURNISH ON SHOUT NOTICE
COOPER’S CELEBRATED
TRACTIOH EHSIHI5, CDMMOH FAIXHGIHES!
ON WHEELS OR SKIDS,
MILL ENGINES AND SAW MILLS
OF ANY DIMENSIONS TO OBDER!
WE CALL YOfE ATTEST!®* TO THE FACT THAT WE REPRESENT SOME
OF THE BEST ANO MOST LIBERAL
Life and Fire Insurance Companies,
AND SHALL BE PLEASED TO INSURE EITHER YOUR LIFE OR YOUR PROP
ERTY AT LOWEST RATES.
OTCall and see us, we will do you good.
JWW R. T. BYTI1) & CO.
ISave Your Fruit!
4eu»T STOCK ’of?
IT CAN BE DONE, AND HERE IS THE PROOF!
OPELIKA, LEE COUNTY, ALA-, MAY 18, 1882.
7b Wfxnn U May Onnrrru:
Mr. W. II. CALLAHAN. «>f the firm and busineM manager for Messrs. Tatum. Sims
A Co., proprietors of tbe ALTA FRUIT PRESERVATIVE; Is an honorable and reliable
gentleman, who would not conduct a fraudulent business. We bare known him for yean
aad be is worthy tbe confidence of aU persons.
P. E. BARNETT, Tax Assessor.
J. K. EDWARDS. Judge Probate.
J. II. WILLIAMSON, Tax Collector.
O. ALLRKIG1IT. Sheriff.
W. C. ROBINSON, Clerk Circuit Court.
Tim following to from Un Opelika Observer, May 18, 1882:
“We have aattaAedmuselvne. by trial, beyond all d
to all that to claimed for it We will never advise
doubt that the “Alta Preservative’
* ' r f TT C- n I brttcle. Haetofme to merit are based on nothing but truth. The proprietors :
\TT?TTT • SI rVTYC bbto. reliable gentlemen, and there to notlilng fraudulent about their business.
JN E W QO OX)O Ut tt^ibun^wrlt. Otacrvrror aoyrf<to .bov.mmodionSi
Alt'S worth of ingredients In making tbe Preservative wiUsave for longer
itbsTEN BUSUELS of Ftnlt. Grapes. Green Corn, TomatSa, etoTand
Ten Cents worth of IngredlmtB win pmaanertly prevent saamess. inrsM aad ferments-
retLire ire^narere/'ite
^ gfS3USSn!&R5BBSfal
3G O ^TL^~8iys a CO., OpeUha, Ala.
AjggmsrTS WAasrranD!
v Rcgulatfr bl beca in um in my
«Th« only Thing Hint never I
K*lkvt.“-I have laad B.mr rcavdic*
giJJjfffis: ate i
HCVXA M Uovjia U k. and wJuU hi
«nchanK<licioe. aad would advUv aho
•Uriy aSKiad Upa k a trial aa u aecaa
iJaas lhai never tails to rebete.
g^Take cnjjr t>
us oa ibe Wy-jiper
utd Slgnataro of
TUTT’S
PILLS
A DISORDERED LIVER
IS THE BANE
ofthn rrnren^gnnraUon. It i« for thn
nneorwM tans ncta no ffnlly on
dignaUveCT^na. giving tSnm vigor t<
a In Miaoed, tin Kunotog
TUTT’S HAIR DYE.
Oa*v Ham trWiratfm channd ton Ouiaar
tei'-iSa'issasaiSs
*8Z'Z£2?*~-”»'‘e—
Office, 80 Murray Street. New York.
/»r. Tvrrm mamvam. •/ raiaait.\
HOSIIFE^
Fitters
Hostetters Stomach Bitters extirpates
dyspepsia withgreatercertainty and promp
titude tlian any known remedy, and to a
—«t genial Invigorant, appetizer and aid to
iretkm. These are not empty aeserttons,
as thousands of our countrymen and women
who liare experienced its effects are aware,
“ bucked up by irrefragable proofs,
ten also give a healthful stimulus to
the urinary organs.
For nlc by all Druggists and Dealers
generally.
m umv bouse,
A MERIC US, OA.,
W. H. CLAY.: Proprietor.
This House has been refitted and refur-
nisbed, going through an entire change for
the complete comfort of Uwwe who may pat
ronize it The rooms are tbe largest in the
State and are weU ventilated, and the guest
wiU be furnished with the best the I * *
In connection with this House to a first-class
Bar and Billiard Saloon.
n which will be kept constantly on hand a
full and choke stock of Whiskies. Brandy,
Gin, Wine, Lager Beer on ice, and all other
liquors of the best brands. AU the fancy
drinks known in the business made at this
or FINE CIGARS a specialty.
THE BILLIARD SALOON
Is supplied with three New BUHard Tablet
of tbe most Improved style,
filrrnisrail Goodtrietmeni 11111 sah'd
Mr. H.OJOHNSON win have charge of
JOHN A. McKLBOY,
NOTARY PUBLIC^
AMEEICUS, GA.
■Oa the bed and the chairs and the door,
While somahats, ratherravUhly battered.
Lie sociably near oa the door.
There’s tnySshite lace-still covered with
favoes—
^Ccrt aftatane aad turned out a fraud;
Bat I were it that night at the Travers”
When Idanced with theswsll from ahrond.
Here’s a bunting; a satin brocaded; , . .
Here sanua s cloth, made up rather ptaia, four inenea
A»d tbBold muslin, iooklnl>oladed”
And with such an aggressive big stain.
I remember the last time I wore it.
At that pkaie where we caught trout.
And 1 caught on a thorn-bush and tore it.
The avalanche struck me Just here.
Poor Tom! In far off Colorado,
He’s at work In some gully or ditch;
But it never wUI prove El Dorado—
Tom Isn’t the kind to get rich.
And should he return—dear old fellow—
With his limited Income Increased,
m certain I’d be sere and yellow.
And he would be forty, at least.
It to rtlly, I know, to remember.
-But “me thoughts are so loth to go;
Yet III be twenty-three next September,
Aud a girl can’t wait always you know.
Well, life to peculiar and puzzling,
Awl 1 don t find much game In the bunt;
J always shall keep that blue muslin
" Ith the strawberry stain down the front
L Peculiar Funeral Ceremony.
How th* Chinese of Boston
Tiieir Last Honors to Moy
Gam.
Special Dispatch Philadelphia Press.
A very peculiar and interesting cere
mony was performed by the Chinese at
the funeral of Moy Dick Gam, who
died of pneumonia a day or two ago.
Between thirty and forty Chinamen
assembled, clad in foil native costr
and each weariug a white silk ap
upon which were worked, in black
vet, the square and compass—the s,
bol of the Chinese Masonic Order of the
United Chinese Brethren, of which the
dead Mongolian was a member. The
first section of tbe mourners numbered
about fifteen, carrying red and black
serge flags, trimmed with white, which
form some Chinese characters. Headed
by tiro Metropolitan Band, of twenty
pieces, the procession marched through
some of the principal streets to the
place of fnneral. The cofliu was placed
on two stools in the centre of the street
—Ashburton place, a quiet and retired
locality—and two tables covered with
white cloths were placed at the ends of
the coffin. A roasted pig£and dead sheep
were laid r~ **-- c — —•
1 the first table, beside
which were placed
bowl of
number of small lighted torches and
candles; on the second table there
large dish of baked rice and a Chinese
box, filled with the rice and the chop-
ks. After a few minutes of silence
Chinese, who assumed the duties of
the Buddhist priesti
dressed in white ami black costumes,
approached at the sides of the coffin and
tables and chanted prayers and respon-
es. The tables were cleared of the first
food, and on the first table they laid _
large piece of pork and another roasted
pig, while on the second table oranges
and different varieties of Chinese food
placed. Tbe prayer for the dead
was again resnmed, lasting nearly
half-hoar. After prayer to “Joss” had
been duly rendered, those of the Chinese
who wished paid their respects
dead by coming in front of the first
table, two by two, and knecliug and
bowing their heads to the ground a
number of times. Daring the services,
the Chinese band, consisting of a “Tom
Tom,” cymbals and other instruments,
played different selections. The pro
cession then marched to Mount Hope,
where the interment took place, the
grave being ?ovtycd with the eatables
used at the funeral and quantities of
prayers on slips of paper, many of
which were distributed along the road.
Editing a Newspaper.
There is one editor who has achieved
feat of running a newspapo
The EnsToiaRT Corresi-oxdexce or
the Celestials—Varieties or ram
—Peculiarities or Etiquette,
For their correspondence tbe Chinese
make use of a great variety of paper.
As thsy lay claim, on good grounds, to
tbe investment ol tbe process of man
ufacturing paper, they can defend
against tbo world a claim to making it
of the greatest known variety of colore.
For notes of invitation and of accept
ance, and, in general, for all uses o
social politeness, the paper is cot u.
aheets of about ten inches in length hy
four inches in width. Paper of this
kind is commonly nnruled, of course,
it is written upon only one side. The
perpendicular columns in which their
writing ia always done run lengthwise
down tbe page. Assorted lots of this
paper will always be of various colors.
The national color of China (her im
perial yellow,) the color of her flag,
and of tho throne is also a favorite
color for paper aa it is for many articles
of dress. It is not at all unlikely that
this preference is a survival from the
ancient worship of the sun, now forgot
ten by tho people, but betraying its
earlier prevalence in just such popular
fancies os thi*. With this yellow pa
per, of every shade from bright golden
to pale straw color, are put other vari
eties—green, scarlet, bine; in fact, pa
per of every hue and tint art can pro
duce.
Envelopes suited to tbe use of fash-
u are made about six inches long and
three inches wide, white, with common
ly a crimson stripe of an inch or mon
’ width lengtbwiso down the middle
the front. The envelope is closed at
the end and the address is written in a
column down the length of tbe crimson
For all the more ordinary purposes
of business correspondence the paper
used is in sheets which are abont
inches wide and some three feet or 1
length. This paper is of closer,
firmer texture, and of a harder and
smoother finish than the more genteel
note-paper. It is white or tinted slight
ly pink, lilac, peach-blossom, or pale
straw color. It is ruled with red lines,
abont au inch apart, across its width,
aud may bo written over upon both
sides. These sheets are folded 1
rise in plaits, and are enclosed i
relopes similar in size and form I
variety known here as “official.” The
large envelopes are, liko the smaller
ics, sealed at the end.
All the different kinds of paper are
made of silk, of cotton, or of ricestraw,
and the paper is so rough and soft and
spongy that a steed or quill pen cannot
be used on it, and tbe ink we use would
spread and blot all tbe surface. The
ink employed is what we call India ink,
pot upon the paper with small, fine-
pointed brushes of camel's hair, set in
handles of a light, hollow reed, eight
r ten inches long. '
When the writer is ready to begin
his letter he folds the sheet of paper,
aud writes first oi all, at the upper
right-hand corner, the name of the per-
to be addressed, writing downward
perjiendicnlar column between the
lines that have been ruled in making
of the paper. Every character is a
word by itself, and is made with a cer-
in number of strokes, mostly straight
turning at right angles.
In writing the names of persons, the
family name, which we call surname
because it was an added name that
came into use in 4
s. is put first, and after it are writ-
the names given at christening.
All titles of honor and respect arc
written after the name of the person.
If the person addressed be ot equal
rank with tbe writer and very consid
erably older, he may be given tho title
erybody. Occasionally,
) has complaints, but he never fails
satisfy the cotnplainers that they are
the wrong. It isn’t always so with
him. He only adopted the system after
got desperate. It was one day
he had received seven complaints
that he tried it. A man came in and
said: “Why in tophet didn’t you print
the whole of tbe proceedings of tbe So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Hogs, instead of a brief abstract?” The
editor replied: “Ob, you made a speech
that wasn’t in the report, eh?” Then
be went around the counter. The dost
flew fora few momeuts, and then it be-
ie uiorl quiet.. The editor relaxed
grip on the man’s throat sufficient-
o let him speak, and he said he
gnessed that article was all right, and
had only come in to renew his sub
scription. He wii let up, paid the
money, and left, and as he went ont he
collided with man a who had an ugly
glare in his eyes, and dancing up to tbe
editor, he said: “What d’ye mean, sir?
I pay for a sensible newspaper, and
her# I got n lot of stuff about cruelty
You ought to be put ia jail
for printing such rot.” Tbe editor went
around the counter again, and again
the dost flew, and criee of “Take yonr
teeth from my ear!” “Let go my hair!”
etc., were heard. It was fall five urin
ates before tbe editor conld get the
coat torn off and him on the floor with
1 bead in the coal scuttle. But he
I it at last. Then he jumped high
the air and sat down opon tbe man's
stomach, and the yell the man gave,
echoing in tbe scnttle, sounded awful.
The editor was about to repeat the op
erations, hot tbe man said: “We need
not prolong this agony. Yonr paper
‘1 the best ia tbe world. It is all right.
II take it ten years in advance.”
Eigkt more visitors had tbe same ex
perience. Then came one that the edi
tor couldn't thrash. It was a woman.
'What d’ye mean by publishing fash-
d articles from a three-year-old msg-
xine?” she asked. “I made a bonnet
according to your directions, aad it's
three veara behind style. Oh. you
wretch! you mean, homd insignificant
-oh. oh!” “My dear madame,” yon
are right. I’m not fit to run a paper.
ureal retains I'll atop at ooce.” (To a reporter!
JtjfBjjfi?-,Ji-Jobo. don't lend ia any mon cop*.
ttnfiboaunot Sliii?H? w “
or tha belfoof tbe ball last night. “Stop!”
she cried. “Your paper is a household
I treasure. I don’t care about tha bonnet,
' and caare to ask yoa to our house to
ton to oigXt.” Th. editor on;. U
wouldn't drop tbo. rule for nnitkio*.
-wsthool. Mt.iv. Everybody leaves setiefied with bin
<*—^*£*.*£5*88: i»i«.-2>o.to« pa.
TABERNACl£_8ERM0N8.
BT BEV. T. DeMTT TALSIAGE
tatob IU., M, 18-23: “Moreover; tho Lord
ilth became the daughter ot ZUxi are
hanjhty and walk wUhatretebeo-fortk neck
and wanton eyea. walking and mincing ■■
they go. end nuking a tinkling with their
KSSSttSSlSSSsfi
tots and tbe areflton, tbe bonnets aad tb»
■“* the changable suits ot ap-
jwreland the mantles, and the wimples and
the crisping pins, the glasses and the fine
linnes, and tlie hoods and the veils.”
Through this window of the text
look in upon tbe voluptuousness of
ancient city—tbe description, with a
very little variation,* jis- appropriate to
New York aad Brooklyn as to Jerusa
lem aad Tyre. One might think that
Isaiah had before him the fashion-
|>Iates, and the head-dresses, and the
jewel-caskets, and the dancing schools,
and tbe drawing-room parties of the
present day, and that be foresaw Sara
toga and Brighton ami Long Branch.
Through this same window of the text
also see the masculine extravagance
>1 .dissipation which always corres
pond with the feminine. Woman may
have greater varieties of apparel, but
she lives a quieter life, and therefore
may have the great varieties and luxu
ries of dress without impediment. Men
would wear as much if they knew how
without' interfering with their worldly
occupations. The rough jostling of life
is inimical to a man’s dragging a dress
trail two yards ia length, and pending
from bis earn diamond cluster. In the
time of the text, as well as in all ages
of the world, the two sexes were alike
moralities or immoralities. While
parlor sentimentalities it is well that
men defer to women aud wome
the prexeuce of God
the light of eternal responsibilities tho
eqnal.
ct takes ns 2,500 years back
and sets us down in an ancient c
It is a bright day and the ladies
all out. The procession of wen t
women are moving np and d3wn tbe
gay streets. It i* tlie height of the
fashionable season. Tbe sensible peo
ple move with so much modesty that
they do not attract our attention. But
here come the haughty daughters of
Jerusalem. They lean forward they
lean very ranch forward, so far forward
»to be unnatural—teetering, wobbing,
rigging, flirting; or, as my text de
scribes it, they “walk with 'stretched-
forth necks, walking
they go.” They have spent hours be
fore the mirror ere starting from home,
ud have in most astonndiug style ar-
iged their bonnets and their veils and
ir entire apparel,and now go through
the streets taking more of the pavcmen
than they are entitled to,sweeping along
with skirts that the text described as
round tires, like tlie moon.” See,
that is a princess! Look, that is a
Damascus swordiuaker! Look, that is
Syrian merchant! The jingling of
ineut, theu ypa are a’ thief.
Why iUm’1 yon ur« the lino of tbe
*rchaat and the exjwnse ,uf an ad*
untaat for him? Why don’t you go
down aonie day ia his store, and when
no one is looking shoulder tbe ham and
thte sparenb and in modest silence tike
them along with yon? That would be
a lesser crime than.for now you get hot
only the merchant’# goods, but’you feet
his time and you rouse up his expects-
W you. must steal, steal so! it
will be tbe least possible damage to the
trader. John Randolph aroso in thw
American Senate and, stretching him
self up to full height, eried out with a
shrill voice; “Mr. Chairman, L have
found t he. philosopher's stone that tnrns
everything into gold: Fay as yoa go *’
My friends, society has to be recon
structed on this subject. You have no
carriage when you
father; but this usage is
nore common to use the word ancle a:
term of respect. If the difference iL
rank be slight, and the one addressed
be to the higher of the two, then he will
be called “elder brother.” Thoso who
9 much higher in rank must not be
written to directly. If, for example, a
mandarin of the third rank desires to
communicate with one who is of the
fifth rank, he will write to a mandarin
of the fourth rank, and ask of him, as
f an elder brother, that he will receive
message to be delivered to their au
gust elder brother of the fifth. Some
times a message passes through several
hands on its way between parties of
different rank. Tbe person thus for
mally addressed may, if he chooses tc
condescend so far, return an answer
direct; but it will be quite proper and
more usual for the reply to be made
through tbe very same channel
that by which the message came.
The putting of tbe name at the
treme upper margin of tbe paper ie of
prime importance towarde showing
•—respect. If it can be eomewhat
ded and cramped for space, eo
much the better. Tlie Chinese are
great sticklers for precedence, aad with
them place means everything. It is
this that leada them to crowd tbe
name of the person addressed as close
3 » to the top of the paper as it ie pos-
ble for it to be written. By doing
this they avail them reives of tha readi-
that offer for skowiag re
spect.
After tbe name and title have been
written tbe column is continued down;
perhaps to tbe foot of tbe paper, per
haps not. If one looks over a Chinese,
letter be cannot fail to notice that the
written columns are of very unequal
length. Sometimes two, three or more
column's will be filled to tbe bottom;
then one will stop less than half way
down. These breaks look to Englibh
eyes very much like divisions into par-
agraphs, or, at any rate, we naturally
expect to find fall pauses here. Sock,
however, is not often tbe caw. Tbe
chances are that the pauses will fall
somewhere in the midst of the columns,
not at the end.
VYheu the Utter is completed tbe
Chinese correspondent does not sub
scribe himself as anybody’s obedient
servant; not by any meaner of means.
H# is carefal never to offer his serviees
to any one. Hie ability to write will
of itself prove him to be above the
condition of servitude, and with him
tbe feeling of cast is very strong. He
will sabseribe himself with respect in
addressing his equals or those who are
his superiors; bnt ia tha care of aa in
ferior be will hesitate to do so. The most
-2 — “ ’UJJJJJ
ia these terms: “Yon? younger broth-
er.” Or if higher respect is to be
shown, tha phrare is:. “Yonr foolish
younger brother.” ' ’ 1
ttoe.by Dr. R. v. enreq, uuuaiu,
Y., sent to. any address for three
itampe. It toadies successful self-
treatment.
the chins and the flashing of the head-
bands, and the exhibitions of universal
swagger attract tbe attention of the
prophet Isaiah, and he brings his
era to bear upon tbe scene and takes
pictnre for all the ages. Bat where
is that scene? Vanished. Where
those gay streets? Vermin-covered
populaliou passed through them.—
Where are the hands and tho necks and
the foreheads and tbe feet that sported
all that magnificence? Ashes! Ashes!
Taking my text as a starting point,
I come out to talk to yon about the
God-defying extravagance of modern
societyFur the refinements and tbe
elegancies and adornments of life I cast
my vote. In the snow of the camellia,
in tho fire-dye of the rose, in the sky-
blue of the English violet 1 learn that
God loves adornment. He might have
made this earth ao as to aatisty the
gross demands of sense, bnt left it with
out adornment or attraction. Instead
tbe variegated colors of tlie seasons
the earth might have worn a dress of
unchanging doll- brown. The tract
might have yet brought forth their frnit
without the prophecy of leaf in blossom.
Niagara might have let down its waters
by gradual descent, without thnnder
and winged spray. But no. Look ont
on some summer morning after a heavy
night dew and aee whether or not God
loves jewels. Pot a snowflake under
a micro set pe and see whether God does
not love exquisite architecture. He de
creed that the breastplate of the present
in olden times should have a wreath of
gold, and that tbe hem of his garment
should be worked into figures of pome
granate. When the world aleeps, God
blankets it with the brilliants of tbe
night sky; and when it wakes, he
washes it in tbe burnished leaves of the
sunrise.
Bnt it is absolutely necessary that
we draw a lino between that which is
the lawful use of beautiful adornment
and that extravagance which ia the
sooree of so mach crime, wretchedness
and abomination in onr day. That ia
sinfal' extravagance when yon go into
anything beyond your means. That
wkieh ia right for one may be wrong for
*»other. That which ia lawful expense
for a queen may be sinfal outlay for a
duchess. That which may be economy
for you with larger income may be
squandering for me with smaller in
come. Bat when men and women cross
tbe line which separatee what they
can pay for and still keep a sufficiency
to meet moral obliationa oa tbe one
hand and on tha other hand that ex-
travaganoe which one’s meant cannot
compass, thev have passed from the in-
nocent into the culpable. Across that
line have gone “a multitude that no
sn earn number. ”
Wejudge of what we ought to have
by what other people have. If they
have a sumptuous table, and fine resi T
denee, and gay turnout, and exquisite
appere*. and brilliant aorroandiaga, we
must have thsm irrespective of onr
capacity, to eland the expense. , We
throw ourselves down ia despair because
other people have a sealskin coat and
we have am ordia ary one; because oth
ers have diamonds and we ksva gar-
aete; because others have lambrequins
and wa have plain curtains. What
others have we mean to have, anyhow.
80 there axe families hardly able to pay
their rent and ia debt to every merchant
n yonr arm a
tho household v
1 aha 'sew for a 1
that they get bat 1
lU batcher, will .Sard tkwa “;
meat, aad the baker, will gir, thn ™ i
ratm bread, aad tha grocer, willlfnrai.h
them with no more, aog.r, nnlll (hejr
WT T ^f‘W anddent* god out
tbu Ore neighborhood ia u.hwlthjr. Ah, no. - Yoa had
wholn OV eolKn made Urge enoL,
en». aod.hahart.gad grocera will ha gl^l m __
fare/'and sav his prayers at
best toffse, and the boat of everything.
““V 1 - th f riight suspicion oosuee Into
their brain that all the pvy they will
ever get hom their easterner is the
JS ot Th.ro an about
0.01)0 auch thieve, tu Brooklyn. I call
it by a plain name, became when aman
hays a thing he close not expect to pay
for ha is a thief.; , . Tv
There are circumstances when; men
«aaot«aet theirabligationa. It ia as
honest for some men to fail as It is for
other men to sneered. They de their
fcet. aad through the misfortnaea of
life they are thrown and, they cannot
pay their debts. That ie one thing,
an, l purchase aa ar-
tlc *? f^f. 1 *^* 1 *** 1 y«n know there is no
probability of your ever making pay
ment. thtm von in . ° * ■
ri « h t .ww
own the wheelwright who famished the
landau, and the horse dealer who pro
ved the horses and the harnessmaker
ho caparisoned the gay steada, and
the liveryman who famished the stab
ling, and the driver who site with
rosetted hat on your cjach box. 1 am
glad to aee yon ride. The finer yonr
d the better yonr carriage, the
better it pleases me. Bnt if yon are in
debt for the equipage, and hopelessly
111 debt, get down and walk like the
rest of ns. It is well to understand
that it is not the absolute necessities
that we find it so hard to meet, bnt the
fictitious wants. God promises ns ahel-
ter, bnt not a palace; and raiment, but
chinchilla; and fuod,but not canvas
back duck. As long as we have the
positive necessities ot li!e we ought to
be content anti! we can afford the snper
dairies.. As soon as yon ace a man
deliberately consent that his outgo shall
exceed his income, yon may know that
he has started on the broad road to
bankruptcy and moral rain. The young
man who came from the oil wells in
Pennsylvania, having gained a sudden
fortune of ♦2,000,01)0, and then rai
through tlie whole of it in less than twi
years, illustrated on a large scale what
imO'Si-e doing on a small scale.
This wholesale extravagance accounts
>r a great deal of depression ~
finances. Aggregates
units and so long as one-half of tlie
people of this csnntry are in debt to the
-her half, yon cannot have a healthy
ancial condition. The national re-
arcea are drawn off, notonlv for
is extravagances, but for those that
) positively pernicious. YVe spend
this country |9. r >,000,000 everv year
for cigars and tobacco. In the United
&oZ”r d * M83 --
ideapread extravagance also
accounts for much of the crime. It i<
the source ol many abscondings, bank
rnptcies, defalcations and knaveries.
The store on Broadway and the office
on Wall street are swamped by tho res
idence on Madison sqnare. The has
hand and father has his craft capsized
because be carries too much sail of
point lace and Antille guipure. That
is what springstbe leak in the mer
chant’s money till, and .pulls down the
trust companies, aad cracks the pistole
of the suicides, aad halts this nation on
ts high career of prosperity. I arraign
this monster of extravagance .in the
sight of all the people, and ask yon to
pelt it with your scan and denounce it
with yonr anathema.
The wide-spread extravagance also
accounts for much of tbe jianperism in
tbe country. Who are the individbaU
and the families thrown on yonr charity?
W ko has sinned against them so that
they suffer? It is often the ease that
their parents or grandparents had all
lnxnries, tired everything up, more
than lived everything ap,. and then
died leaving their families in
The grandparents of these beggars sup
ped on Burgundy and woodcock. Thera
•re a great many families whe have
every luxury ia life yet expend every
dollar that aomca in and perhaps a few
dollars mors, not even taking the com-
Christian prudence of having their
insured. While they live all is
well, bnt when they dis their children
are pitched into the street. 1 tell von
man has no right to die under such cii
cnmstanccs. It is grand larceny, eve
his death. If a sun has been indnttri-
ons and economical and has not a far
thing to leave hfs children as hs goes
away from them, he has a right to put
them ia tbe hands of the Father of the
Fatherless aad know thsy will be eared
for; but if you with every comfort in
life are lavish and improvident and then
depart thia life leaving yonr children
to be hurled into pauperism, you de
serve to have your bones sold to tha
-• : cal museum foj- anatomical speci-
1, the pruoeeds to furnish yonr chil
dren bread. I know the subject cuts
nukin * * * reat ———
w l, fr. »~l .•ftec a while will die it. Let
will
going to Wd, expecting them t
swered, is a mystery to me t*
oarer been able to fathom.
.Tfyia extravagance is becominj
and more wide spread. A atalii
has estimated that there 1
York and Brooklyn 4,600 1
yepend annually $2,000 at
It.ia an rare thing,, when 1
aSt-Li
its $1,000 or f1,500.. T *
come tx>.such ; a pass that u
over enr eina we wipe the I
with a $160 pocket Kandkercm
tendency to extravaganco was f...
od ■ wonderfully 1 When James Fis
the .bridal presents to .tho
Wi!Ham MI’Tweed. Fis*
iceberg of frosted silver, pol
silver lying down on the hai
beare of silver walking 01
■peon*. There* were in tlio
tlMtd.tHS.0M. Tht
drew that had ia it thirt.,-1
. . -. *»»•• U.adi
e°i it thousand* of dollars expended
scene.' The reason we have
malt Undo of scenes as extravaj
because 'wo have not so mi
Thia wicked extravagant*
>lf no more forcibly than '
neral doy. No one else is^
•peak of it; so. I shall speak
There has been many a man w!
died solvent, bet has been insuh*
before be got under tha gronnd.
would think that the two debtf
vacred -would be debts to the’phyi
and the undertaker, since they
last two debts contracted, ai_
those two professions are svrii
more frequently than any other
the agitation and excitement the fi
come, and they want cxtraordinai
tention, and they want extraordj
expenditure, and then when
scene is past neglect to make
sation. What are those two pr
to do under such circumstance,
merchant sells goods and they
paid for, I understand he can
the goods; bnt if a man depai
life and through bis friends’
ness is contracted that is not 1
seems to be no remedy. Fo
rient has gone off with the
pills and the undertaker’s w
per*. Grcenwood aad- Laurel
Mount Anburn hold to-day tl
of such swindlers.
A man diet in the city of New
lie has lived a fictitious life, :
amid splendor, and dies leavii
family not a dollar; bnt they,
things most keep np the same mi
cence, and so they resolve on a
fnneral. The obsequies shall be
did. I give no imaginary cai
, give the fnneral of a mnn apt*
national New York, the fact anthenticsl
made up 01 undertaker was not to blame, '
sold them what they aaked fo
only blamcbwas for those who .
when they knew they could not
leaving yonr families beggars, and yon
•ill expect ns ministers of the Geepel
to come and stand by tho coffin and lie
abwt yonr urelleaee; bat we will not
da IL If you tend for mo. 1 will tell
} oa wlat my tat .ill b* -Ha that
pro*ideth a ot for hit own, and npnoi-
«Hy thorn ol hi, own hoaOrliold, i,
worta than oa infid.1.--
UthUday Godhas nttreifnllj allow-
„ of aa wh.halwU.tedi-.owi
ia tha neighborhood who epirt apparel P ro, ““* f« oar funiliet
inapt for their circnmeUncee tod ran J, ■ •“fo” 0 8"? 1 life taenranct conr
near tha ehora thet the Gret mitfor. <**?*? * u owe the land. By noam aalf-
- - - • - Id—* 1 oaoar_pott we can wake thU
■hell loan
anything ao help)
zooms*- 2^5SS5Sal?SS£s£f' b
staying longenongh in each one to cx- *ben, with her children at
- "Ml their capacity to get trusted. fighu'^nSl
Heavy plated handles..
Solid sllverpla-
letters..........
Ten Uaen scarfs*.
verpUto,engraved in Roman
1 have been a
Floral derers tkma
Music and quartet choir at tbe bouse
Twentj^caxriagca, walking to the
Then fifteen MffierVaiportant'exjete
ditores amounting to
expenditures, added up, being fi;
for getting one poor mortal to hie 1
home. Perhaps i® would have b
well if they had been able to uk
expenditure; bnt when it was L
they conld not it was a villainy. '
are families who, in the effort t
the ridiculous, outrageous and <
customs of society in regard 1
qniee, have actually reduced tin
to penary. They put their la.. .
the ground. They wanted 1
l yon gave there 8 atone. T
England, what they call a i
reform society. Iiia high tit
such a reform society in onr o
try.
Thia widespread aktravaj,-
connte also for the poverty of t
institutions. Men nay so m.
•how they have nothing for God
religion. We ‘pay in this
$22,000,000 for tbe great b«
societies; .but what are $2^
compared with tha $95,000,000 i
baeco and $1,483,000,000 for u..„
How do yon like the comparison? Git
lavishness for the world; great nigs
lines# for God.
My friends, let ns eetouraelvt-
battle array against this God-defyi
extravagance. Buy not those this
which are frivolous, when yo
ter awhile be in lack of the t
Buy not hooka yon will never read,
pictures you will never study. Pnt u
a whole month’s wages into ol,
trinket. Keep yonr credit good by s*l
dora or never asking for any. Pa "
Starve not -a whole year so as to
able td afford one Belshazzar carnivi
Dd not boy a coat of many oolors,
then in »ix months be ont at tbeeir
Do not pay ao mach for a moflli
the neck, and be almost barefov*.
Flourish not, as some I know of, in el
gant hotels with drawing-room ap
meats, and than vanish in the ni;
Id tbe gre«t <Uy of fit. wo will l,v
to give aa account aot only for how
too* oar mooej, hat lor how
s
women of God, Icall upon yon to set ;>
Chrutiau. example. Remember that
| ‘ 9 a p*ll have to leave your wai
ud equipage. I do not want y
aa that day like the dying ac
tress who ordered np her casket of jew
els, and then, with her pale, dyiau
hand, rolled them over and said: “Alas,
that I must giya von-up so
that day.,better .have.one t-
:a heaven, just one, than to have had t
I bridal 1 turnvmvti! „f a (juran Mai..
Louise, ’dr tohave st-t with Caligula m
a banquet *bich cott $400,UUU, or t-
have been earned cut with i
with senators and
bchrors. They Who
their'time, their t
tele its, a