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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1884.
NO. 20.
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E. G. SIMMONS.
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A WOMAN-8 FAITH.
Against the^fjulml row-color
vanishing sunset, the clear, pure pro
file of a fair, young face was sharply
outlined.
Tha hut that hlew and clung about
tha low, white forehead was foil of
shining waves, bnt the smooth Matiny
cheeks ware perfectly colotlen*. the ten
der but firm lips were dropping sadly,
and the soft, pansy eyes were fixed far
away upon the sea.
•'Allsgra!” said a woviug voi
her ear; sad a strong arm drew her
gently into a' lover’s embrace. “Alle-
gra, you cannot tel! >ue that again!”
With a sndJen movement the girl
tamed, and clasping her arms about
the neck of her handsome lover, she hid
her faoe upon his breast. _
“Oh, Julian!” she cried, “why do
yon make it so hard for uie? I must—
yo* kaowTmast! Father is old and
fesble. Yon know bow fond be
his home. It would kill him to take
him away off to Austria.”
“Nonsense! It would do him good.
I promise you, Allegn, he shall have
every possible care. I am uot a rich
man. yon know, dear, bat cow that
the firm has offered me this position in
Melbourne, I cau aflord to marry, pro
vided,” he added, reproachfully, “the
woman I love will consent to leave her
home and follow my fortune*.”
“It isn’t t'-at, Julian—Oh, yon kno<
it isn’t! How can yon bo so crnel? If
it wasn’t for father, I would go with
yon to the Desert -A Sahara; bnt I can
not leave him, and ba is too old to go
with us.”
“Then you positively .-afuse ?”
her lover, sharply, unclasping her
from about his neck, and patting her
away coldly.
She looked at him a moment, wit!
her eyes foil of a haunted fear, but sli
“Yes, 1 refuse,” she said, tmuing
away to hide the tears that had begun
to trickle down her cbeeStB. -I ci
not marry yon. Julian.”
“So be it!” ho answered, roughly s
he wheeled about. “And this is
woman’s love and faith!”
He threw back his haudsotne he:
and laughed scornfully.
That laugh stuug AUegra’s pride.
id, coldly, “this is
Julian,”
intend to leave jrtjn again;
l«H,
Don’t say that,” he cried. “Yon
natgoaway at once, AUqgra; this
no place for yon.”
“I will not go!” she -said, pressing
her lips to hit wasted habd*. “Once I
refused to marry yon, Julian, bat now
I have come to ask yon if yoa will not
make mo your wife this very day.”
'Allegra, arc you mad! Won 1.1 yi
marry me. with the suspicion
felony upon me?”
“Do yon think I Micve you guilty?
she cried, with shining eye*. “Julian, I
know yoa are innocent, and that : ~
mgh forme.”
‘God -bless you!” he mtfrmdred.
brokenly; and a hot tear rolled <
his white cheek.
Don't refuse me, Julian,”.she whis
pered, “l love you eo. ”
“But I am not only disgraced, Al
legra—1 am poor. I have lost my posi
tion. I will not go t» Australia. I nave
determined to stay here, end wait 'for
the troth to manifest itself. My life will
be lonely and hard—”
“Do yoa think i caro for (Avert
loneliness with yoa?” Allegra
’. “Oh, Jnlian, how little you
ny heart. Make me yoor wife
There is a plsce at home for ns
both. We can work together, and by-
and-by—”
“No, no, darling! Don't you see
that yon have opened the gate* ot heav
en for me? Bnt I most tarn away. My
bright, beautiful Allegra, I conld
lake yoa the wife of a man whose
<r is under a cloud.”
“Bat I wish it!” she urged, eagerly.
Once yon upbraided me. Jnlian, for
refusing to marry you when there real-
vas an obstacle, and now yon want
Jle sentiment to separate ns. I love
and trost yoa with my whole heart.
Please take me! I need yon, Jtili
au-suvr r.'b^tsvrg.
id all t
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY'fiEV. T. DfiWtTT TALMICB.
itomanco of Crlutc.
»amo hour was tho thing fulfilled
iHiclutlnezz ir, and he was driven
trota meu, and did eat grass as oxen.”—
“xulelir. 33.
Here is the mightiest of tbn Baby
lonish kiegu. Look at hiiu. lie did
for th«gra'iour of the capital than
" ’ predecessor* or successors'.
_ _ jardens, reservoirs, aqueducts,
palaces, all of his own planning. Tbe
brick that are brought up to-day from
the rain* of Babylon have his name on
thorn, “Nebuchadnezzar, son of Xabo-
pblassor, Kiog of Babylon.” He was
‘great conqueror: He strecthed forth
1* spisr toward a ostiou and itsor-
iqdered. Million*:and millions made
phis estate. Take auy ten of the moat
ESneut men .of nnrtima and pat their
hate together and it would be a very
(significant affair compared with the
irtnnu of Nebuchadnezzar of the text,
jut he plundered the temple of the true
>od. lie lifted an idol, Belmerodac,
lid compelled the people to bow down
More it, and if they refused they must
b- - through the red-hot furnace, or be
ranched by lion or lioness. So God
|Uled him down. Ho was smitten with
hat physicians call lycanthrapj, and
Bry long
b around her, pro-
&rffiR s
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woman’s faith.
“You might at least have trusted
ne. I never have asked you
mything that would have hurt your
father.”
a position to jndge
wbat is best for him, Julian.”
Perhaps not; bnt I know this Alle
gra—if you had loved me you could
not have done it so easily.”
’Easily!” she echoed, laying
hand on her heart. “How little yon
He took one step toward her.
“Darling!” he said, beseechingly.
Do not be crnel. Can’t nothing change
your pnrpoee?”
“Nothing,” sho answered, sadly.
“Please don’t ask me any more.Ja-
lian. I cannot bear it. .Yoa had bet-
r go away.”
“Yes, I will go away.” he said,
drawing back again angrily. “You
shall never see me again, and if my life
is mined, Allegra, yon will be to
“Julian, do npt part from me in
anger,” ahe said.
“You never loved me, Allegra,” ho
answered. “Yon can not goes* what
bis means to me. Good-by! good-by!”
’Julian!” she cried, and held out
her hands to him, craving a last kiss,
last word of love; bnt he turned away
and left her standing there, with the
misery of a lifetime compressed into
that moment of parting.
“Good-by!” she sobbed. “Oh, if
yon knew how I love you, Juli
would not be so cruel!”
“She is heartless!” her lo^
tered, as he strode away. “
her father that separates ns. She docs
it love me well enongh
The long wretched night that follow
ed this parting, foreshadowed
fnl day. Julian Ware had bceu tbe
confidential bookkeeper in a firm of
which his ancle was the senior partner.
When ha went to business that morn
ing, he foand the < flice in a terrible
state of excitement. Simeon Ware 1
name had been forged to a check for
fifteen hundred dollars, and the crimi-
1 was still undetected.
For several days Jnlian interested
himself in tbe search tor tbe felon, bnt
little trifle revealed to him the fact
that he himself was suspected and
Fathei
then—"
tecting even in their weakness.
“My angel!” he whispered. How
nelly I have misjudged yon! Would
yon make this sacrifice for me?”
“Gladly!” -was her swift response.
“Ah, Jnlian! after all, yoa know
very littloofa woman’s faith.”
His love wa* too strong for Ida reso
lution, and Allegro’* will triumphed
over all.
A* soon as he was well, they
married, and wont to live in tho cozy
little cottage where Allegra’fi father
dreamed away tho twilight of his life.
Tho world said kind things of the
young couple, and Jnlian Ware had
“bone hU difficulties so meek,” that,
long before tho truth came to light,
public opiuion was reversed in his fa-
ThcrU came a glad time, however,
when the shadow of crime was removed
path. A bnrglar, shot while
Bnt Jnlian never forgot that
years discipline, though he says it
worth all the suffering he endured to
have such proof as he has bad of his
sweet wife’s love and devotion. '
Old Mr. Lloyd died the year after
they were married, and, when Jnlian
stood before the world once more
man whose honor conld not be im
peached, he was free to accept his
cle’s offer of the position at Melbourne
with twice the original salary.
Allegra went with him, of c<
and ther are now the leaders of the
most brilliant nnd wealthy society of
the beautiful Australian metropolis.
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be said to his uncle, when he laid the
matter before him.
. My dear boy,” said the old man,
heart-brokenly, “I wish to heaven you
1 not.”
Good heavens!” cried Jnlian
citely, “you do not mean to tell me
that this opinion has gained any cre
dence outside?”
“Calm yourself. Julian! Calm your-
■elf, I beg ol you. My poor boy, I have
been trying to hide this from yon. It
ia a most unfortunate business, hot the
real culprit may be found. 1 will not
leave a stone unturned.’
“Bnt, nncle—”
“I do not believe yon guilty, Jnlian;
bnt tbe world does not know
do. Cheer up, my boy! I w
right by-and j>y. M
“Merciful heaven!” the poor fellow
cried, buying his face in his hands, “1
can not bear this, too!'
Fate waa cruelly nnkind to him. The
waaka passed, and the forgery could
be fixed upon any one, bnt Julian walk
ad nnder the ahadow of it.
abonf this time that the fol
lowing statement appeared in on* of tbe
Y^e regret to learn that tb« book
keeper of a certain well-known firm of
this city has bean discharged under tE*
suspicion of forgery. A relative of this
unfortunate young man, who firmly be-
1- J- Li. L - -
PSALMS.
f REVISED.]
Hear this, all jo people, and gi
all ye ir valid* of the world. Hop Bit-
rs will make yon well and to rejoice.
2. It shall cure all the people and
it sickness and suffering under foot.
3. Be thou not afraid when vonr
mily is sick, or you bavo Bright’s
disease or Liver Complaint, for Hop
Bitters will cure you.
4. Both low and high, rich and pool
w»w tbe value of Hop Bitters for bil-
us, nervous and Rheumatic
plaints.
5. Cleanse me with Hop Bitters and
I shall have robust and blooming
health.
G. Add disease upon disease and 1st
the worst come, I am aafe ir 1 use llop
Bitten.
7. For all my life have I been pla
gued with sicknees and sores and no!
until a year ago waa I cured, by Hop
Bitteie.
He that keepetli his hones froi
aching from Rheumatism and Neural
gia. with Hop Bitters, doeth wisely.
9. Though tbon hast sores, pimples,
freckles salt rlienm, erysipelas, blood
poisoning, yet Hop Bitters will
them all.
10. What woman is there feeble and
sick from female complaints, who de-
sireth uot health and useth Hop Bitten
and is made well.
11. Let not neglect to nse Hon Bit-
rs bring on serious Kidney and LW-
complaints.
12. Keep thy tongue from being
fatted, thy blood pare, and thy stom
ach from indigestion by using Hop Bit-
tie, God did not excuse him because
transgression was wide-
resounding. He measured Nebuchad
nezzar in high place jnet as he would
lasure the humblest Badylonish cap-
e. Bat in our time you know as well
1 that there is a disposition to pat
halo around iniquity if it is committed
conspicuous places, and if it is wide-
resounding and of large proportions.
Daring the past two months there has
been an epidemic of crime in high
places, and thore is not a State or city,
hardly a village, which has not been
Had to look upon astounding forge-
., or an absconding bank cashier oi
psosident, or the wasting of trust funds
•indling mortgage*. I propose,
this morning, in carrying out the eug-
of my text, as far as I can to
scattortho fascinations around iniquity,
*,nd show you that sin is sin a -J
wrong whether iu high pi
place, and that it will be dealt with by
that God who dealt with nnpalacei
Nebuchadnezzar. Those of yon who
heard me preach for the last si:
year* know that i preach tu
kinds of serm.in*, the ono oa the faith
of tho Gospel, the other on the
ty of the Gospel, and the one is just a*
important as tha other, for yon know
that in this land to : day there
dreds of mo'i hiding behind communion
tables and in churches of Jesus Christ
who have no business to he there as
professors of religion. They expect ti
bo all right with Gcd, although they
wrong -with man. And while I
t you to understand that by the
deeds of the law no flesh living
justified, and a mere honest life cannot
us into heaven, I
dy to understand that unless the
s right the heart is not right.
Grace in tbe heart and graoe in the life;
so wo must preach sometimes the faith
of tbe Gospel and sometime* the
lity of the Gospel. It seems t<
ere has not been a time in the last
fifty years when this latter truth need-
more thoroughly to be presented
in iu the American churches. It needs
be presented to-day. A missionary
ia the islands of the Pacific preached
Sabbath ou honesty and dishonesty.
ble apparel: “WW. you only get
$800 a year 1 Why that woulda’t keep
me in pin money... I apend. $5,000 a
year.” “Where do yoa get It?” aske
the* plain young man. “Oh, stocks,
enterprise* afcd all that aort'of thing,
yoa know.” Tbo plain young man
ha* hardly enough money to pay bis
board, ha*, to wear clothos after the'
Ire oat of fashion and deny himself ai
luxuries. After a while he gets tired
of hi* plodding and he goc* to tbe man
who baa achieved suddenly a Buga
estate and he says; “Jmrt show me
I«r it is done/’ And he i* abowu.
a soon learns how, and although lie is
almoet all the time idle now and haa
resigned his position in the bank, or
the factory, or tbe store, ba has more
money than he ever had. trades off his
old silver watch for a gold one with t
flashy chain, sets his hat a little farth
er over on the 1 side of hi« head than he
ever did, smokes bettet cigars sad more
qf them. lie has his.hand ial Now,
if he can escape the penitentiary. for
thro# or four yaara he will get into po-
litical circles, and he will get political
job*, and will hare something to do
with harbors and pavements and docks.
Now he has got so far along he is safe
for perdition. It is quite a long round
sometimes for a man to travel before he
get* into tbe romance of crime. Those
are canght who are only in the pro aic
stage of it. If the Sheriffs and consta
bles would only leave them alone a lit
tle while they would steal as well
anybody. They might net be able
•teal a whole railroad, bat they coaid
master a load of pig iron. Now, I ml-
short line in the newspaper, bat it is
line of agony long as time; it ia a story
loag aa eternity. Now, do wot come
under the fascination which induces
employ trost funds forparpoeet
of their own speculation. Cultivate
old-fashioned honesty. Remember the
example of Wellington, who, when be
waa landing the British army over tha
French frontier, and his army waa very
hungry, aad there waa plaaty of plun
der on the French frontier, and some of
ten wanted to take it, he taid:
“Soldiers do not toneb that; God will
take care of ns; lie will take care of the
English army; plenty of plunder. I
know all around, bat do not take it.”
He told tlie story afterwards himself,
how that the French people brought to
him their valuable* to keep—he, sup
posed to be their enemy—brought him
their valuables to keep. And then, he
•aid, at a time when the ereditore of tha
army were calling for money and for
pay all the timo, and they had soznnch
all around about, be did not feel it right
for him to ukn it, or for the army to
teJteD. An author beautifully wrote
in ragardtoit: *• Nothing can be grander
or more noble and original than this
admission. This old toldier, after
thirty years of service, ibis iron man
and victorious general, established in
enemy’8 country, at the head of an
immense army, is afraid of his creditor*.
Thi* is a kind of fear that haa seldom
troubled conquerors and victors, and I
doubt if the annals of war present any-
13. All my paiaa and aches and dia-
so go like chaff before the wind when
nse Hop Bitters.
14. Mark the man who sea
dead aad given op by the doctors after
ling Hop Bitters and bsooveth well
15. Cease from worrying about ner
vousness, general debility, and Uriah 1
ry trouble, for flop Bitters will : reat«ro scattered
Monday he found hi* yard fall
of all stylus of goo-id which the natives
had brought, lie coaid not understand
iatiye told him: “Oar gods
permit us to perloin goods, bnt the God
you told us about yesterday, the God
and earth, it seems is against
:ticos, and so we brought all
tho goods that do not belong to us and
they are ia.thc yard, and we want yon to
Ip us to distribute them among their
jhtful owners.” And if in all the
pulpits in the United States to-day
rousing sermons coaid be preached on
honesty and the evils of dishonesty,
t»l the sermon* were blessed of God,
id arrangement* should be made by
which all the goods which have been
improperly taken from one man and
appropriated by another man chould
he put ia the city halls of tbe oonntry,
there, is not a city hall in the United
that wc mnat preach and
Morality of the Gospel we must just as
certainly proclaim. Now look abroad
e t he fascinations that are thrown
J different stlyes of crime. The
question that every man and woman
has asked during the last two months
has boon, Should crime be excused be
cause it i* on a large scale? Is iniqui
ty guilty aad to bo pnrsued of tbe law
iu proportion as it i* on a small scale?
Shall we have New York tomb* for the
man who steal* an overcoat from a hat-
rack and all Canada for a man to rang*
> never be gathered np again,
it to become ao loathsome and
each an insufferable stench that honest
young men wili take warning. If God
should put into money or its represen
tative the capacity to go to its lawful
owner there would not be a bank or t
safety deposit in the United Statei
whose walls would uot be blown oat;
and mortgages would rip, and parch
ments would rend, and gold would
shoot, and beggars would get on horse
back. and stock gamblers would go te
the almshouse. How many dishonesties
in the making ontof invoices and in th
plastering of false labels, and in th
making and breaking of contract)
Young men are indoctricated in tbe idea
tbe sooner they get money the better,
and tbo getting of it on tbe large scale
only proves to them tbeir greater in
genuity. There is a glitter thrown
about all these things. Yonng men
have got to find oat that God looks up
on sin in a very different light. A young
•aid before the sale was consummated
“I see therejsa flaw in that silk.” Thi
lady recognised it and the sale was nol
consummated. Tbe head man of the
firm *aw interview and he wrote home
to the father of the young man, living
in the country, saying. “Dear sir. Come
and take yoar boy; lie will never make
a merchant.” The father came down
from his country home in great
sternation, as any father would,
dering what hi* boy hjid done. lie came
into the store and the merchant said to
him: “Why your son pointed
flaw in some silk the other day and
•poiled the sale, and we will never have
that lady, probably^gain fora easterner
and yonr son never will make » mer
chant.** “Is that all?” said the fathei
“I am proud of him. I wouldn’t for the
world have him another day under yonr
influence. John, get your hat and come
—let ua start.” There are hundreds
of yonng men under the pressure, under
the fascinations thrown aronnd abont
commercial iniquity. Thousands of
yonng men have gone down under the
pressure, other thousand* have mail
tained their integrity. God help yoi
Let me say to yon, my yonng friend,
that yoa can be a great deal happier in
poverty than yon ever can be happy
3 this sublime sim-
thing comparable
picity.”
Oh I that God wonld scatter those
fascinations abont frand, and let U* all
understand that if I steal from yon ono
dollar I am a thief, and if I steal from
you $500,000 1 am five handred thous
and times more of a thief.
there has been a great deal of
fascination thrown aronnd libertinism.
Society ia very severe upon tho im pari
ty that lurks around the alleys ami low
haunts of the town. Tho law parsecs it
“mite* it, incarc*—*- -*—
become* lenient
ty becomes affluent, or is in elevated
circle*, and finally society is silent
disposed to palliate. Where is the
judge, the jury, the police officer that
dare arraign the wealthy libertine. He
walks the streets, he rides tho parks,
he Haunts his iniqaity ia the eye* of
tho pure. Tbe hog of nnclcsauess look
of tho tapestried window. Where
the law that dares take the brazen
wretches and pnt their faces
frame of a state prison window? Some-
' seem* to me as if society were
n proportion as impnri-
moral* of Her-
sculptured its vilo-
I temple wall*, and
going back
eulancum, when
pillars ar
nothing bat the lava*
mountain conld hide the immei
crime. At what time God will
and extripate these evils upon society
I know not, nor whether He will do so
by fire or hurricane or earthquake; bnt
Holy God 1 do not think will stand
it much longer. I believe the thunder
bolts are hissing hot and that when God
somes to chastise community for th
doesn’t seem to be one .
them, and yon have good
my lads, bo honest.” There
dreda of yonng men in thi
day who have geod blood,
them.a few plain questions?
habits a* good as when yoi
father’s houaa? Have you a
et in yoor pocket? Have you
lent document? Have yon be
menting to set how accurate
tiqn yoa coaid make of yonr
signature? Oh! you have g
Remember yoa* lathor’s praj
member yonr mother’s exam
not in aa evil way. Have
going astray? Gome back.
ventured out too far? Aa I stand
sometimes, looking over thi* t
my hewt fail* me. There are
tragedies prerent, w, many
away from God.
thara have been too i
fared for you to have _
And there are those ruafiing down i
■in and my heart aches *o call them
back. At Brighton Beach, or Long
Branch you have seen men go down
into the surf to bathe, and they waded
out further and farther and you got
anxious^abont them. Yon said: “I
wonder if tl}ey can swim?” And then
you stood and shouted, “Come back!
come back! You will be loatl yon will
be lost!” They waved tbair hands back
saying, “No danger.” They kept on
wading deeper down and farther oat
from shore until after a while a great
wave with a strong under-tow took
them oat, thilr eorpss the next day
washed on the beach. So I aae men
wading down into sin farther and fur
ther and farther from God, and I call
to them: “Come backl come back! You
will be lost! you will be lost!” They
wave their hands back raying:” No
danger, no danger.” Deeper down and
deeper down, until after a while a wave
sweeps them out and aweepa them off
forever. Oh! come back. The one far
thest away may come. “Oh,” you ray,
'you don’t know where I came from;
yon don’t knn'w what my history has
been; yon don’t know what iniqaity 1
have plotted; I have gone through tbe
whole catalogue of sin.” My brother,
I do not know the story, bnt I tell yoa
this: the door of mercy is wide open.
“Though yonr sins be as scarlet, they
shall be as snow; though they bo red!
like crimson, they shall be as wool*”
Though you have been polluted with
the worst of crimes, though you have
smitten with the worat of leproaiea. *
though you have been fired with all
evil passions, this moment on your
brow, hot with iniquitons indulgences
may be net the flashing coronet of a
Saviour** forgiveness.
“Pleased with the news, the saint*below.
In songs their tongues employ:
Beyond tho sky the tidings go,
And hsaven is filled with Joy.
Nor angel* can their Joy contain.
But kindle with new fire;
The sinner lost I* found they ray.
■ • *■ IflW* *■
And strike the sounding lyre- 1 '
Another Poor Mian Struck by
Fortune.
The man who haa a priae in a lottery is
regarded as tbe happiest of mortals. At
the last drawingot Tbe Louisiana State
Lottery two Memphis men drew $15,-
000 each. Mr. B. J. Dorsey, a foreman
upon the levee* along tha Mississippi,
baa bean living ia humble circumstance
at 33 Jsckson at. Ac Avalanche re
porter repaired to the corner of Jackson
•tract, and inquired where Dorsey lived.
Q. “You mean the man that drew the
lottery prize V’ ■ A. “Yea. 1
moved away. He used to live
little boas# over there, bnt he’s gofi
to live' in a fine boose in Ft. Pickering
now.”—Memphis ( Ttnn.) Avalanche
June l
if he has robbed the public of three
millions? Look upon all tbe fssoina
tions thrown around fraud in thts'coan-
try. Yon know that for year* men
have been made heroes of and pictorial-
izeJ and in various styles presented to
tbe pnblic ns though sometimes they.
were worthy, of admiration if they have
scattered the fund* of banks or swal
lowed great estates that did not belong
‘ them. Oar yonng
property which comes from ill-got
ten gains. “Oh,” you sty, “I might
lose my place. It is easy for you
stand there and talk, bat it is no e;
thing to get a place when yon have lost
it. Besides that, I have a widowed
mother depending upon my exertions,
and yon most not be too reckless in
giving advice to u:e.” Ab ! nay young
friend, it is always safe to bo right, bnt
it is never safe to he wrong. Yon go
home and toll yoar mother the pressure
under which yon are in that store, and
I know what she will say to yoa if she
is worthy of yoa. She will say: “My
son, come oat from there; Christ has
taken care of as all those years and He
will take care of a* now; come out of
that.” And yemember that the man
who gets his gain by iniquity will soon
lose it all. One moment after hi* de
partnre from life he will not own nc
opera honse, he will not own a certifi
cate of stock, he will not own ono dol
lar ol government securities, and the
poorest boy' that stands on tbe street
with a penny in his pocket, looking at
the funeral procession of the dead ches 1
it goes by will have more money
than that man who one week ago boast-
ad that be controlled the money mar
ket. Oh ! there is such a fearful fasci
nation in this day abont the
trust funds. It has got to be popular
to take the fond* of others and specu
late with them. Thera may be many
in this honse who are practicing that
Iniqaity. Almost every man To the
eoorse of his life haa the property of
haa admin-
fate of our modern society, which knew
better but did worse. We want abont
thonsand pulpits in Americs to
hell that burneth with fire and brim
stone, which is the second death.’
is hell on earth and hell forever. We
have got to understand in Brookl
and New York, aud all part* of this
land, that iniquity on Madison square,
or Brooklyn Heights, or Brooklyn Hill
is a* damnable in the sight of God ai
it is in the slams. Whether it hui
canopied conch ofeider-down, or dwell)
amid tho putridity of a low tenement
house, God is after it In hi* vengeance.
Yet the pnlpit of the Christian chnrch
has been so crowded down on this sub
ject that it hardly dares speak, and met
almost apologetic when they read
no yuse In talkin’, et yo halat got a
or a Orgin In jruro honse ye will
never knowwliat rale slmon pore happiness
U, ante! yo git eoe. an’ when yodu, josa
take a woman's advice, an’ save money by
the Ten Commandments.
Then look at the fluctuation* thrown
aronnd assassination. There
communities men who have taken the
lives of others unlawfully, not as
cntioner i of the law, and they go
free. You say they had. their provo-
lieveaia hit honesty, has endeavored
to get him started in badness ia * for- little hoaseover there, bat he'
eign port, bat he has refused to accept
the preferment.”
When this a..
ing ill of a 'wasting fever. They
thought ha would die, hat he came
hack from tbo borders of the grave to
■traggW with the load of tnirery that
■earned to he crashing him.
Oa# dsy, when he was getting better,
opened his eyes after a l*mg sleep.
Allegra MttioD at hit Ixdddf.
"Why ate yoa here?” he tgkoJ, put
ting oat bis hand doabtfnlly, after the
first thrill ofjoy. ‘
“Because I love yon,” she
will send you a rtceipe that will cure you,
^■diMurertdby a misjuonsry,in ooutn
intbe Rkt. JosxrmT. iaxui, sUtk^f?,
New York City. mart-ly.
have been
dazed with this quick accumulation. I
They have said: “That’s the way to
do it. What’s the use of onr plodding
^■with small wages or insignificant
salary, when we may go into bnainean
life and with some stratagem achievt
[such a fortune as that man haa achisv-J
■d?” A different measure has been I
Ippliol to the crime of Wall street
from that which has been applied to
the spoil* which the man carries op
Rat alley. For taking a vest from a
second-hand .clothing store, a ride in
the city van without opportunity of
ISoking oat of tbs window, bnt for a
man who has taken down large estates
of other*, equipage dashing through
| Central Park. So a peddler came down
from Vermont some years ago, took
hold of the money market of Near York,
flaunted his abominations in tha sight
of all the people, defied public morali
every day of his life. Young, meu look
ed np and a*id: “He was twaddler in
one decade, and in tbo' next decade be
is one of the monsrehs of the stock
market.. .That’* tho w8]
Thore has ' ‘ ‘
iet.. That’s the way to do it.”
re has b *en an irresistible impres- on
others pat ia his care. He
iatered, perhaps, for a dear friend; he is
aa attorney and money passes from
debtor to creditor through his band*;
or he is in a commercial establishment
and gets a salary for the discharge of
hia responsibilities; or ba is a treasurer
of a philanthropic institution, and mon
ey for dm suffering goes through his
ad*; or he has some office in the
State or nation, and taxes and
tidies and supplies and salaries a
hia hands. Now, that is a trust. That
is as sacred a trust as God ean give a
man. It ia tha concentration of confi
dence. Now, when that man takes
that money,' tbe money of others, and
goes speculating with it for hi* own
purpose ho fs guilty of theft, falsehood
affib perjury aad in the aaoat intense
aaaaa of tha word, ia a miscreant. There
are families to-day, widows and or
phan*. with nothing latween them and
starvation hat a sewing machine
kept out of the vortex by the thread of
a treedle red. with tbe hl.»nd of their
hearts, who srere by father or husband
left a competency. Yon read th* story
it by visitation of Providence,
executioner of tbe law who is His
•enger. But when a man assumes that
divine prerogative, ho tonche* the low
est depth of crime. Society is alert fi
certain kind* of mnrdcr. If a citize
going along the road at night i* way
laid and slain by a robber we all
the villain arreMied and execute d.
all garroting, for all (tearing out of life
by a club, or an axe, or a idnng-shot
the law ba* quick spring and heavy
stroke; bat you know that when men
get affluent aud in high position and
they avenge their wrong* by taking the
lives of other*, great syspatliy i* ex
cited; lawyer* plead hrdie* weep, judge
halt*, jury is bribed, and the man goej
free, if tire verdict happen* to be againi
him, a new trial is called on through
some technicality, and they adjourn
for witnesses that never come, and ad
journ nntil the community has forgot
ten all abont it, and then Die prison
door opens and tho prisoner goes free.
Now, if capital punishment bo right, 1
ray let the life of the polished murder
er go with the life of tho vulgar
. Let ns have no partiality ot hemps
aristocracy of gallows. Do
float back to barbarism, when every
m was his own jadge, jnry and exe
cutioner, and that man had the supre
macy who had the sharpest knife and
the *tronge*. arm and the quickest step
and tho stealtbie&l revenge. He who
ilfully and in hatred lakes the life of
another ia a murderer, I care not what
the provocation or the circumstances.
He may be cleared by an enthnsiastio
court room, be may be sent by tbe gov
ernment of tha United States aa Minis-
SAKES AL1FE!
I*VX DOKS nOOOHT A.
PI AN K Xt.
I say hit far a fade,
an’ wbat’s more. Idona
saved a clean 9M, by
bayin’ hit from
l*Mm * Sum
Southern Music House
MY FRKiN'DS,
LUDDEN & BATES
SDUTHERH MUSIC HOUSE.
far ray nsooey. Xoswin- -
era. They don’t humbug yo with,
ild dollars fur 50 cent*, or 51,090 -
MnMisraMiSiira'iiuitoim
Planers fur 9300, but Jess give yo dollar for
dollar—jure money’s worth to a cent.
They’ll do exactly a* they agree, In offering
tn save ye money. I, rayseir, am 000 of
twenty thousand delighted (see me mnUe>
purchasers who have bought of them in the
last fifteen years. See what they offer»
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With lSacli Plano, a Good Stool
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; they did fa
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Take ray advloe
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ta beat them down, fnr
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1’ they stick to Uke a coon to a tree. Dny
tlrarn, an’ they will satisfy yoor pay back
yore money. Send jure naraean* postotuce
an’ tell ’em what yo want, au’ they’ll send
yo raor’n a peck of catalogues, circulars aad
pries Hate. wMeh wiU help yo pick oot tire
Instrument yo went. Jets put on youc let-
modem literature may polish tbe crime ^ft $***1
OMil il look, like heroism: but in th. yOlK!ttLr 1 * ,, “7Kft.'
sight ot God murder ia murder, and ' ■* ’———Ti
the judgment day will so re veal it. Now
do not be fascinated by the clamour
thrown over crime of whatever sort.
Because others hare habits that a
brilliant, but yet at tha same time
wicked, do not ohoora such faults.
Stand iadepandant of all anch infleen-
cex. Vat your confidence iu the Lord
God. Ha will be yoor strength. Ven-
grance ia mine, l will repay, aaith the
Lord.*! Cultivate old-fashioned hon-
o-tj each as was spoken of by Dr.
ipaper of tho«e who have hist j Livingstone, tho famons explorer. Yon
defalcation, and h L only 1 may not know ho was descended from
. e name of a woman you nev- j the Highlander* Dr. Llvi
r heard of andjnst one «r two figure* | on« day one of the old
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11AIULTOX UlMDOL
r.s.—Tlrey wanted arete be the trAgrot
fur this settlement, but I bslnt got a* time
leas aow; an* 1 don’t reckon hit would pay
no bow, as the folks ts so dawn on rich
things. Bat I don't kser et they air, my
Planer is here te stay, ef Ura bole -
ment git* doom on aae about hit.
JanalMf