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( ESTABLISHED 1850. 1 ■j J. ||. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor.) faced by two corpses. a fW'.D JUST OUT OF BED MAKES A HORRIBLE DISCOVERY. She Finds Her Father Sitting in a Chair j with His Throat Cut from Ear to Ear, 1 and Her Sister Smothered to Death on a Lounge- Infanticide and Suicide the Explanation of the Tragedy- Other Lives Violently Ended. Pittsburg, May I.—This morning when Jennie Oswald, a girl 11 years old. came from her bedroom into the dining room in her home in Shaler township, near Eflia borough, just beyond the limits of the city, he found her father, Charles Oswald, sit ting in a chair with his throat cut and her younger sister Bessie lying on a lounge dead. It was a case of suicide on the part of Oswald and all the signs indicate that he murdered his daughter before cutting his own throat. The child had evidently been smothered to death, ns a piece of cloth was found stuffed in her mouth. It is sup posed that constant brooding over domestic and financial troubles had turned his brain, and that he had in contemplation the exter mination of himself and children. Why Jennie did not share the fute of her younger sister will probably never be known. LEFT A MANGLED CORPSE. Boys Too Frightened to Tell of the Killing of a Companion. Shenandoah, Pa., May I.— The fireman at one of the collieries here on his way home from work about 7 o’clock this morning found the body of a boy named Jamas Foley, aged 11 veal's, jammed between the bumpers of coal cars at the gas house. The little fellow had been playing around the cars with several companions, and when he was jammed and killed they ran away and left him and did not even tell of what had hap pened He was not missed from home last night and the first intimation his parents had of his awful death was when they were informed by those who discovered the body. Cut from Ear to Ear. Louisiana, Mo., May I.—George Ayres uid Henry Lindsay quarreled about ah in lebtedness of $5 at Bowling Green Satur- Iny, and the latter was killed. Lindsay vas on horseback when the quarrel began, nd as he dismounted Ayres seized him by he throat and quickly drew a knife across 5, cutting it from ear to ear. Ayres fled, lit was soon captured. A Verdict of Suicide. Harrisonburg, Va., May I.—An inquest .’as concluded yesterday on the body of .olori Dean, who was found dead near the rreen county line in the Blue Ridge moun ting on Wednesday. The verdict was sui ide. Slew His Father-In-Law. New Orleans, May 1. — Dennis Maher "•as shot and killed last night by his son-in uv, Richard Creely. Family trouble is as igned as the cause of the crime. The mur erer was arrested. ROBBERY AND OUTRAGE. 1 Black Brute Overawes a Pos3e and Makes His Escape. Kansas City, Mo., May I.—A special Yom Fort Scott, Kan., reports a horrible rntrage which may culminate' in a tragedy. Early yesterday morning Mrs. Alice Fowler, i widow with six children, living in the out skirts of the town, was awakened bv a burly negro, who demanded money. She gave jlim all she liuii, $7 50. He then choked her into insensibility and outraged her twice. Liter ill the day “Blue Jay” Williams was brought before Mrs. Fowler, and she identi fied him as her assailant. He escaped from his custodians and barricaded himself in a I",t,e hi the vicinity. He was heavily rimed, and defied the officers. No one ven tured to capture him, and during the night lie escaped. His victim is expectorating' Hood as a result of t lie choking she received. O’BRIEN SETS SAIL. fii3 Mission to Drive Lansdowne From Canada. Queenstown, May I.—William O’Brien, editor of United Ireland, and W. Kil fcvidgp, one of the tenants evicted from Ix>rd Lin.il own p’s estate, sailed hence for New J ork to-day on the steamer Umbria. The Mayor and municipal council of Queens town and various other bodies presented -> ■* l Brien with addresses. A crowd of several thousand persons gat here*! to bid wm farewell, and he was called upon to 3“)? . I°. the course of his remarks Mr. J linen said he carried with him the full approval of the Irish people. He felt that whe* the li!prty loving Canadians heard true account of Lord Lansdowne's cruelty to his tenants they would not tol erate their being governed by such a man. POLICE ATTACKED. Belfast, May I.—ln Fails Roads district to-dav a mob fiercely attacked police with uoni's and bottles. The police fired, but the riob continued pelting them. Finally re nlorcements arrived and ihe police suc- I *n dispeising tlie mob. Several con -4a ilas were wounded. Whether any one as injured during the firing is not known. Anglo-Ruasian Peace Still Uncertain. St. PuTEßsnußo, May 1. —It is reported ere that the English and Russian Afghan •oundary commissioners cannot apw. The Clear has resolved to journey south, uot ' t 'standing adverse police reports. It is - pceted that ho will sutrt in a fortnight. Sentencing the Russian Plotters. St. Petersburg, May I.— Tlie trials ot Prisoners charged with plotting against tu °* t * lo Czar has lieen concluded. ' the accused were found guilt,v. Seven '''!• sentenced to death and the* others to •wvitude for life. Schnaebeles at His Home. n y L—M. Selina olieles has re •nic tohiahorae. The 'J'thnitH und many r journals deprecate the idea of thepub- J. • s, ilcribing to present him withadia "lond cross. Lumber Burned. Ftillwatkk, Minn., May 1. —Fire in ‘ *7 & Boon's lundier yard last night .uni i5J I*** 1 *** 4*10,0(10, including a saw Ihe property Ls partially insured. TWO CHURCHES AND A WAREHOUSE. Ii.L., May l.—Fire originnt sti ln Schedlor’s (in shop this evening rle *>yea Batchant’s warehouse, the Pixwby i liui *nd Luteran churches and ten dwell- Ly Ul instead'* warehouse was partly •rued. Tlie loss is fco,ooo and the in surance *yo,ooo. Earthquakes ln Wyoming. Spokane Falls, W. TANARUS., May l.—Two 4 of earthquake wore felt here at o clock yesterday morning. The vibra ren* " ei e * rom north to south. Many citi ■ns were awakened There was only a oiuent's interim between the shocks. Hp ' i|:|i 4 %■TltllTft rtf *rb i^miSi jv NOT A JINGO REGIME. Bayard Declines an Opportunity Which Blaine Would Have Seized. Washington, May I. —Secretary Bayard has had several invitations within the past two years to go into the jingo business, which would have been very attractive to Secretary Blaiue, but which were promptly declined by Secretary Bayard. One which has been twice repeated involved nothing more at present on the part of the Department of State than an assur ance that in case of default in the payment of the principal or interest of the bonded debt which a certain West India re public proposed to float ill this country, a clause in the bonds giving the United States government full power to collect the debt by force would be acted upon by the De partment of State. Secretary Bayard simply replied to this: “This government is not collecting private debts with public gunboats. We will protect American citi zens in all their public rights, but we will not guarantee their private contracts.” Now, inasmuch as there are desirable sites for coaling stations on this West Indian island, it is at least probable, judging from Blaine's course when he was at the head of the Department of State, that had the same proposition been made to him it would have boon gladly accepted. Neither President Cleveland nor Secretary Bayard believe that bullying the small republics south of us has any place in American foreign policy. THUMBSCREWS TO BE PUT ON. The Railroad Commission will Enforce the Fourth Clause. Washington, May I.— There is reason to believe from what the members of the com mission said before leaving Washington for the South that the Interstate Commerce Commission will say to the railways, when the time fixed for (he temporary suspension of tho long and and short haul clause of the interstate commerce law expires, that they must go ahead under the law as it stands, make out their schedules of rates for long and short hauls, and put, them in ac tual operation. Then if complaint is made in any cat* the commission will act upon it separately. The Commissioners think it in advisable as well as impracticable to make general decisions in ad vance ot experience. They prefer to apply the law to particular cases. When they return here they will take np this mat ter at once and prepare a circular, setting forth, it is understood, substantially the po sition outlined above. SLASHED WITH A KNIFE. An Atlanta Bookkeeper Nearly Killed by a Postal Clerk. Atlanta, Ga., May I.— James Harper, bookkeeper at Ryan’s, wax painfully stabbed in the head by S. M. Northington, a clerk in the po* office, to-night, about 8 o’clock, in Folsom’s restaurant, on Marietta street. Harper was sitting at a table when Northington came in. Harpr made an insulting remark to him, when Northington passed on. Harper then followed him up ami cursed him. Northing ton wheeled as if to resent the approbious language, when Harrier struck him over the head with a stick. Northington then whipped out his knife and cut a long gash on Harper's head and began raking him across the back with the blade, when they were parted by bystanders. The back of Harper’s coat was cut into shreds, but the blade did not penetrate to the flesh. Harper’s wound, which is not serious, was dressed by Dr. Nathan Harris. Northington was arrested and placed under S2OO bond to appear before the Recorder to-morrow. Northington says that he never saw Harper before in his life, and it is thought that Harjier took him for another man. Eye witnesses affirm that lioth men were some what under the influence of liquor. A MAN UNDER THE BED. An Outraged Husband Slashes Him With a Razor. Augusta,Ga, May 1. — Edward Matthews on returning to his home on Walker street to-night, found Alexander Harris in liis wife's bedroom under the lx‘d. He assault ed tlie intruder witli a razor, cutting him severely on the leg. Harris savod liis life by jumping from a window, lodging be tween an outhouse and a fence, where he was pinioned and where he was found by an officer. Matthews after beating his wife to liis heart's content was lodged in jail. Cars on the new st reet car line out Camp bell street, around to tlie depot and thence to Mouth Boundary street w ere put iu opera tion to-day. To-night gamins selected a ear iu Dublin and rocked it. No one was hurt. The Blackwood case comes up in the Su perior Court for trial to-morrow morning. This is the case of Blackwood for forgery. When it is called, however, counsel for tlie State of South Carolina will object to the trial until a hearing of the liaiieas corpus writs has been had. The case is getting in tei’e.sting. POUNDED FOR TWENTY ROUNDS Game Willie Clark Knocked Out by the Belfast Spider. Long Island, May I. — The fight between Ike Wear, of Boston, known as “The Bel fast Spider,” and Willie Clark, of Philadel phia, took place last night up Long Island Sound. Tin- fight was to u finish with un dressed kids for #I,OOO. The fight continued twenty rounds and lasted one hour and twenty-three minutes. “The Spider” knocked Ciark’down twice in tlie first round, draw ing first blood. Wear also made one (liar knock down in the seventh round, af ter which Clark fought entirely on his gamencss, taking terrific punishment. Clark was a badly beaten man. He strug gle 1 lull’d, but it was an up-hill fight to the finish. At the end of the twentieth round Clark’s seconds threw up tlie sponge, us their man was unable to see, one eye being closed and the other nearly so, and he was too weak to come to time. The opinion of the sporting men present was that “The Spider” could out-fight any man of liis weight in tlie world. Rowing Raco3 in Texas. Galveston, Tex., May I.—Yesterday was the opening day of the interstate re gatta. held at Jones Lake, seven miles from this city. The principal event of the day was the senior single-skull race. It had five entries as follows: Korf and Winan, of the Delaware Boat Club, of Chicago; Crotty and Baker, of < (alveston, and Fleming, of Sylvuns, 111. Korf was first in 11:0fi, Crotty second in 11:00, and Baker third in 11:38. Tlie pair oared race between St. Louis and Galveston chilis, resulted in a victory for St. lsmis. Time. 18:22 1-2. The senior double-skill) race announced to take place between the Delawares and Galveston was postponed owing to rough weather. Hawaii’s Queen. Denver, Col., May I.—Queen Kapiolani, of the Hawaiian Islands, arrived here at 10 O'clock last iiigbyjuia Salt Lake City iu a sptx-ial car over the Denver and liio Grande iu ity one hour and thin took’Hi” Burlington road train for Chi4Hl<>. FLORIDA’S CAPITAL. The Leading Topics Before tho State Legislature. Tallahassee, Fla., May I.— Although both bouses of the Legislature adjourned from Friday to Monday, Saturday was not wholly lost, as the standing committees were busily engaged in consideration of bills that have been referred to them, and several of the special committees appointed to visit the various State institutions were away in the performance of that duty. A very considerable amount of routine work was completed during the week, and now a great many bills ot more or less importance are on second reading in each house, while a goodly number are ready for final action and passage. The mechanics’ lien bill is still in the hands of the conference committee, and will probably be reported in good shape in a day or two, so this important and vexed question of protecting labor can be finally settled. THE RAILROAD COMMISSION. The railroad commission bill will lie con sidered during the coming week, and an at tempt will be made to amend in several par ticulars the bill presented by the joint com mittee appointed to frame the measure. It is sought to increase the pay of the commis sioners, to allow an appeal to the circuit courts from the award of the commissioners, and to relax the very stringent and inflexible provisions relative to fines in case of slight technical violations of the letter of the law. These are but reasonable requests, made by those who desire to ses foreign capital seek ing investment in this State. Another measure that promises to give occasion for animated and curliest discussion is the bill making the payment of a dollar poll tax a prerequisite to the exercise of tho voting privilege. This law lias become an absolute necessity in this State, and its adop tion seems assured, in spite of the tremend ous opposition to it. THE REPRESENTATION. The question of making a proper and iust apportionment of representation amongthe several counties of the State under the pro visions of the new constitution is one attended with great difficulty and delicacy. Much time, will probably be devoted to this task, and it will receive an unusual amount of attention from every county in the State. It seems quite certain that the office of State Printer will be abolished and the work of the State given to the lowest bidder under the direction and supervision of the Board of State Institution composed of the Cabinet officers of the Governor. A bill has passed the House with the purpose in view of legalizing all the city and town gov ernments in Florida, as their legality hail been doubted, and this course is pursued to avoid possible complications in the future. THE SENATORIAL OUTLOOK. The Senatorial outlook is apparently un changed, with the friends of the three prin cipal contestants confident of their success and determined in their efforts to defeat tneir opponents. It is to be regretted that this breach has been made so wide, but it was perhaps unavoidable, and may be the means of more perfectly uniting the Demo crats of the conflicting sections of the State. Gov. Perry has given no intimation of his intentions in regard to the appointment of Circuit Judges and other officials assigned to him, and the friends of the other two Senatorial candidates are determined to pre serve the deadlock until some action is taken In the matter by the Governor, thinking that when he does appoint some of his sup porters will desert him because of disap pointment in the selections made and the overlooking of local favorites, whose ap pointment are so early fought by members now' voting for Perry. Many Legislators returned to-day, but it is still doubtful whether a quorum wall he present tomorrow', unless* others return to night. The Committee of visitation to the Agricultural College, at Lake City, will make a favorable report and recommend an appropriation for the college and for Gainesville Seminary. BARTOW’S BUDGET. Edison’s Visit and Some Interesting Facts About His Health. Bartow, FIV, April 30. —Air. Edison and party stopped here yesterday en route for New York. The inventor intends returning about Jan. 1 next. He is a man of medium height, of healthy, vigorous appearance, in clining strongly to oboisity, with a very large, round head and short neck, much like the Napoleon bust. His fare is youthful, although his hair is tin.ling gray. lie is moderately deaf, but hears an ordinary con versational tone easily. He says that lie hears better in tiie midst of continuous noise than when there is quiet around. To him it seems that when he is on the cars, as soon as the train moves everybody begins to yell and shout like mad people. He is just re covering from an abscess of the exter nal ear. It broke lielited the ear a few days ago,Mr. Edison says that with tiie exception of nil aecuto attack of pleurisy, from which he has completely recovered, and the ear trouble, he has been in excel lent health and working order since he came to Florida. He prides himself greatly on the completeness of both his mechanical and chemical laboratories, in the latter of which he says lie has nearly all the rare minerals, metals, chemicals, etc., of wlijeh he lias any knowledge. The party accompanying Mr. Edison was a good natured one. Mi’s. Edison was not along. Tiie new city hall and engine house is almost completed and will make a good im pression. The machinery for making brick hero was proven to be worthless and was returned last, week, and new machinery similar to the Campville machine ordered instead. The qpntraot* for another brick block will bo given out next week. QUAKING BALD KNOBBER3. The Sons of a Baptist Evangelist Ar rested for Perjury. Ozark, Mo., Atay I.—The Bald Knobbers, who considered tlieir oath in tliat society of more force than legal obligation, are in another panic since the grand jury indicted John ana William Marx's, sons ot a promi nent Baptist evangelist, of Linn, for perjury. These young men denied having any knowledge of tho Christian county regulators. Enough testimony was brought out, however, to find seven counts against each bf them for participa tion in the Eden-Green murder and whip ping of Johnson and tne Beaty s. They were sent to jail in default of {‘5,000 bail. D. Walker, the leader of the regulators, was indicted in about twenty cases, and Parsons Him mens has nearly as many. Enforcing Sunday Laws. New York, May I.—The excise lnws were enforced again to-day. The total number of arrests was 136. One saloon k eoi>or, when arrested, drew a revolver, but was disarmed and inarched off. The hotels and large restaurants were permitted to serve wines only to guests with meals. None of their burkcejieni were arrested. Iron Works Burned. Burlington, la.. May 1. — The Murray Iron Works were burned this morning. All the iiatterns, castings und machinery were damaged beyond repair. Tho loss is t W.OUO. Thu insurance is ouo-third of that amount. SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MAY 2. 1887. ritOVEKBSJJF SOLOMON’. REV. TALMAGE TELLS HOW PAUL STIRRED UP EPHESUS. Bad Books Which Cost 50,000 Pieces of Silver Burned in a Public Place— The Printing Press a Mighty Power for Good or for Evil. Brooklyn, May I.— At the Tabernacle this morning the pastor, the Rev. T. DeWitt Tulniage, D. D., expounded some of the Proverbs of Solomon. The congregation sang with magnificent effect the hymn begin ning— * “Arm of the Lord, awake! awake! l’ut on thy strength, the nations shake.” Dr. Tutelage took ft>r his text Acts six, 11): “Many of them also which used curious arte brought their books* together and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of thegi and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.” Paul hail been stirring up Ephesus with some lively sermons about the sins of that place. Among the more important results was the fact that the citizens brought out tlieir bad books, and in a puplic place made a bonfire of them. I see the people coining out with their arms full of Ephesian litera ture and tossing it into the flames. I hear an economist standing by and saying: “Stop this waste. Haro are seven thousand five hundred dollars’wortli of hooks—do you propose to burn them all up? If you don’t want to read them youi'selves, sell them and let somebody else read them.” “No,” said the people, “if these books are not good for us, they are not good for anybody else, and we shall stand and watch until the last leaf has turned to ashes. They have done us a world of harm, and they shall never do others harm.” Hear tho names crackle and roar. Well, my friends, *Be of the wants of the cities of tiiis country is a great bonfire of bad books and newspapers. We have enough fuel to make a blaze 200 feet high. Many of the publishing houses would do well to throw into the blaze their entire stock of goods. Bring forth the insufferable trash mid put it into the fire, and Irt it be known, in the presence of God and angels and men, that you are going to rid your homes of the overtopping and underlying curse of profli gate literature. The printing press is the mightiest agency on earth for good and for evil. The minis ter of the Gospel, standing in a pulpit, lias a responsible position; but I do not think it is as responsible as the position of an editor or a publisher. At what distant mint of time, at what far out cycle of eternity, will cease the influence of a Henry J. Raymond, or a Horace Greeley, or a James Gordon Bennett, or a Watson Webb, or an Eraatus Brooks, or a Thomas Kinselln? Take the simple statistic that our New York dailies now have a circulation of about eight hun dred and fifty thousand per day. anil ai'd to it the fact that three of our weekly periodi cals have an aggregate circulation or about one million, ana then cipher, if you can, how far up, and how far down, and how far out, reach the • influences of the American printing-press. Great God, what is to be the issue or all this? I believe the Lord intends the printing-press to be the chief means for the world’s rescue and evangelization, and I think that the great last liattie of the world will not lie tought, with swords and guns, but with types and presses—a purified and Gospel literature triumphing over, trampling down and crushing out forever that which is depraved. The only way to overcome unclean literature is by scutterimr abroad that which is healthful. May God speed the cylinders of an honest, intelligent, aggressive, Christian printing-press I have to tell you this morning that the greatest blessinp; that ever came to this na tion is that of an elevated literature, and the greatest scourge has been that of un clean literature. This last has its victims in all occupations and departments. It has heljied to fill insane asylums, and peniten tiaries, and alms houses, and dens or shame. The bodies of this infection lie in the hospi tals and in the graves, while their souls are being tossed over into a lost eternity, an avalanch of horror and desjiair. Tho London plague was nothing to it. That counted its victims by thousands, but this modern pest has already shovelled its millions into the charnel-house of the mor ally dend. The longest rail train that ever ran over the Erie or Hudson t racks was not long enough or large enough to carry the beastliness and the putrefaction which nave been gathered up in bad books and newspa per of this land in the last twenty years. Now, it is amid such circumstances that I put this morning a question of overmaster ing importance to you and your families. What I sinks and newspapers s'hall we rend? You see I group them together. A news paper is only a book in n swifter and more portable shape, and the same rules which wifi apply to book reading will apply to newspaper reading. What shall we read? Shall our minds lie the receptacle of every thing tliat an author has a mind to write? Shall there be no distinction iietween the tree of life and the tree of death? Shall we stoop down and drink out of the trough which the wickedness of men has filled with pollution and shame. Shall we mire in im purity, and chase fantastic will-o’-the-wisps across the swamps, when we might walk in the blooming gardens of God? O no! For tho Rake of our present and everlasting welfare we must make an intelligent and Christian choice. Standing ns we do, chin deep in fictitious literature, the firet question that many of the young people are asking me is: “Shall we read novels?” I reply: There are novels that are pure, good, Christian, elevating to t and ennobling to the life. But I have still further to say that I believe that ninety-nino out of the one hundred novels in tiiis day are baleful and destruc tive to tiie last degree. A pure work of fic tion is history and jxieti y combined. It is a history of things around us, with the li censes and the assumed names of\ poetry. The world can never pay the debt which it owes to such fictitious writers as Hawthorne and McKenzie, and Landau and Hunt, and Arthur and Marion llariand and others, whose names are familiar to nil. The follies of high life were never better exposed than by Miss Edgeworth. The memories of the past were never more faithfully embalmed than in the writings of ‘ Walter Kcott. Cooper's novels are healthfully redolent witli the breath of tho seaweed, and the air of the American forest. Charles Kings ley has smitten the morbidity of the world, and loil a groat many to appreciate the poetry of sound health, strong muscles and fresh air. Thackeray did a grand work in caricaturing the pretenders to gentility and high blood. Dickens lias budt his own monument in his books, which are an over lusting plea for the |ioor, and the anathema of injustice. Now, I say, books like these, read at right times, und ’ read in right pro nortion with other liooks, cannot help but be ennobling and purifying: but, alas, for the loathsome anil impure literature tliat hus come upon tliLs country in the. sham of novels, like a freshet overflowing all the banks of decency and common sense! They are coming from some of the most celebrated publishing bouse* of the country. They are coming with recommendation of some of our re ligious news; ipers. They lie on your cent re table to curso vour ehiidi’cn, and blast with t heir infernal fires generations unborn Yon find these books in the desk of the school miss, in the trunk of she young man, in the steamboat cabin, on the table of the hotel reception-room. You see a light in your child’s room late at night. You suddenly go in and say: “What are you doing?” “’I am reading." “What are you reading?’ “A book.” You look at the book; it is a bail book. “Where did you get it?” “1 bor rowed it.” Alas, there are always those abroad who would like to loan your son or daughter a bad book! Everywhere, everywhere an unclean literature. I charge upon it. the destruction of ten thousand immortal sou]s, and l bid you this morning wake up to tho magnitude) of the theme. I shall take all the world’s litera ture —good novels and bad, travels true and false, histories faithful and incorrect, legends beautiful and monstrous, all tracts, all chronicles, all epilogues, all family, city, State and national libraries—and pile them up in a pyramid of literature, and then I shall bring to bear upon it some grand, glorious, infallible, • unmistakable Christian principles. God help me to speak with reference to my last account, and God help you to listen. I charge you, in the first place, to stand aloof from all books that give false pictures of human life. Life is neither a tragedy nor a farce. Men are not all either knaves or heroes. Women iu - e neither angels nor furies. And yet, if you depended upon much of the literature of the day, you would get the idea that life, instead of lie ing something earnest, something practical, Is a fitful and fantastic and extravagant thing. How pooriy prepared are that young man and woman for the duties of to-day who spent last night, wading through brilliant passages descrip tive or magnificent knavery and wicked ness! The man will be looking all day long for his heroine, in tiie tin shop, by the forge, in the factory, in the counting-room, and lie will not find her, and he will Tie dissatisfied. A man who gives himself up to the indis criminate reading of novels will be nerve less, insane, and a nuisance. He will be fit neither for the store, nor the shop, nor tho field. A woman who gives herself up to the indiscriminate reading of novels will be unfitted for tiie duties of wife, mother, sis ter, daughter. There she is, hair dishevelled, countenance vacant, chocks pale, hands trembling, bursting into tears at midnight over the fute of :hiiho unfortunate lover; in the day-time, when she ought to be busy,star ing by the half hour at nothing; biting her finger nails into the quick. The carpet, that was plain before will be plainer after hav ing wandered t hrough a romance all night long in tesselated Rails of castles. And your industrious companion will be more unattractive than ever, now that you have walked in tho romance through parks with plumed princesses, or loungea in the arbor with tho polished desperado. O, these con firmed novel-readers! They are unfitted for this life, which is a tremendous discipline. They know not how to go through the fur naces of trial through which they must pass, and they are unfitted for a world where everything we gain we achieve by hard, long-continuing and exhaustive work. Again: Abstain from all those books which, while they liavo some good things about them, have also an admixture of evil. You have read books tliat had two elements in the good and the bail. Which stuck tq you ? The bail I The heart of most, ixxiple & like a sieve, which lets the small particles of gold fall through, but keeps the great Wilders. Once in a while there is a mind like a loadstone, which, plunged amid fcteel and brass filings, gathers up the steel and repels the brass. But it is generally just the opposite. If you attempt to plunge through a hedge of burrs to get one black berry you will get more burrs than black berries. You cannot afford to read a bad book, however good you are. You say: “The influence is insignificant.” I tell you that the scratch of a pin has sometimes pro duced the lockjaw. Alas, if through curi osity, as many do, you pry into an evil book, your curiosity is as dangerous as that of the man who would take a torch into a gunpowder mill merely to see whether it would really blow up or not. In a menag erie in New York, a man put his arm through the bars of a black leopard’s cage. The animal’s hide looked so sleek, anil bright, and beautiful. He just stroked it once. Tho monster seized him, and he drew forth a hand torn, and mangled, and bleed ing. O, touch not. evil, even with the faint est stroke! Though it may be glossy and beautiful, touch it not, lest you pull forth your soul torn and bleeding under tho clutch of the black leopard. “But,” you say, “how can I find out whether a book is good or bad without reading it?” There is always something suspicious atiout a, bad book. I never knew an exception—some thing suspicious in the index or style of pic tures. This venomous reptile almost always carries a warning rattle. Again: I charge you to stand off from all those books which corrupt the imagination and inflame the passions. I do noj; refer now to tliat kind of a book which the villain has under his coat waiting for the school to got out and then, looking both ways to see. that there is no policeman around the block, offers the book to your son on his way home. I do not sneak of that kind of literature, but that which evades the law and comes out in nolishi-d style, and with acute plot sounds the tocsin that rouses up all the baser pas sions of the soul. To-day, under the nostrils of this land, there is a fetid, rooking, un washed literature, enough to poison all the fountains of public virtue, und smite your sons and daughters as with the wing of a destroying angel, and it is time that tho ministers of the (Josiiel blew the trumpet and rallied the forces of righteousness, ail nnned to tho teeth, in this great battle against a depraved literature Again: Abstain from those books which are apologetic of crime, It is a sad thing that, some of the best and most beautiful b-vik bindery, and some of the finest rhetoric, have lieen brought to make sin attractive. Vice is a horrible tiling any how. It is bom in shame, and it dies howling in the dark ness. In tiiis world it is scourged with a whip of scorpions, hut afterwaisls tiie thun ders of God's wrath pursue it across a bound less desert, beating it with ruin and woe. When you come to paint carnality, do not paint it as looking from behind embroidered curtains, or through lattice of nival seraglio, but as writhing in the agonies of a city hos pital. Curaed be tho liooks tliat try to make im purity decent, and crime attractive, and hyjioorisy noble! Cursed lx - tiie lssiks that swarin with libertines and dosiierndooH, who mako the brain of the young people whirl witli villainy! Vo authors who write them, ye publishers who print them, ve book sellers who distribute them, shall fie eut to pieces, if not by an aroused community, then at. last by tty) hail of Divine vengeance, which shall sweep to the lowest pit of Perdi tion all ye murderers of souls. I toll you, though you may escape in this world, you wdl be ground at last under the hoof of eternal calamities, end you will be chained to the rock, and you will have the vultures of despair clawing at your soul, and those whom you have destroyed will come around to torment you, and to pour hotter coals of furv upon your head, and rejoice eternally in the outcrv at your min and the howl of your damnation, "(kid shall wound the hairy scalp of him that goeth on in his tres passes. ” The clock strikes midnight. A fair form bends over a ronmuce. The eyes unsh fire. The brenl his quick and irregular. Occa sionally the color dashes to tne cheek, and then dies out. Tho hands tremble as though a guardian spirit were trying to shake the 1 deadly book out of the grasp. Hot tears fall. She laughs with a shrill voice that drops dead at its own sound. The sweat on hei brow is the spray dashed up front the river of death. The clock strikes “four,” | and the rosy dawn soon after begins to look through the lattice upon the pale form that looks like a de tained MKX'tre of the night. Soon in a mad house, she will mistake her ringlets for curl ing serpents, and thrust her white hand through t he bars of the prison and smite her head, rubbing it luck as though to push the scalp from theskull, shrieking: “My brain! my brain!” O, stand off from that! Why will you go sounding your way amid the reefs and warning buoys when there is such a vast ocean in which you may voyage, all sail set? There is one other thing I shall say this morning before I leave you, whether you want to hear it or not. That is, that I con sider the lascivious pictorial literature of the day as most tremendous for ruin. There is no one who can like good pictures tietter than 1 do. The quickest and most condensed way of impressing the public mind is by picture What the painter docs by his brush for a few favorites, the engraver does by his knife for the million. What the author accom plishes by fifty pages the artist does by a flash. The best part, of a painting that, costs ten thousand dollars you may buy for ten cents. Kino paintings licking to the aristocracy of art. Engravings belong to the democracy of art. You do well to gather good pictures in your homes. Spread them before your children after the tea hour is past and the evening circle is gath ered, Throw them on the invalid's couch. Strew them through the rail-train to cheer the traveler on his'journey. Tack them on the wall of the nursery. Gather them in albums and portfolios. God speed the good pictures on tliclr way with ministries of knowledge and mercy. But what shall I say of the prostitution of this art to purposes of iniquity? These death warrants of the soul are at every stteet corner. They smite the vision of the young man with pollution. Many a young man Inlying a copy has bought his eternal discomfiture. There may be enough poison in one b:ul picture to poison one soul, and that soul may poison ten, and ten fifty, and the fifty hundreds, and the hundreds thousands, until nothing but the measuring lino of eternity can tell the height, nnd depth, and ghastliness, and horror of the great undoing. The work of death that the wicked author does in a whole book the bad engraver may do on a half side of a pictorial. Under the guise of pure mirth, the young man buys one of these sheets. He unrolls it be fore his comrades amid roars of laughter, but long after the paper is gone the result may perhaps lie seen in the blasted imaginations of those who saw it. The queen of death holds a banquet every night, and these periodicals are the printed invita tion to her guests. Alas that the fair brow of American art should be blotched with this plague-spot, and that philanthropists, bothering themselves about smaller evils, should lift up no united and vehement voice against this great calamity' Young man! buy not this moral strych nine for your soul! I’lck not up this nest of coiled adders for your pocket! Patronise no news stand that keeps them I Have your room bright with good engravings; but for these outrageous pictqrials have not one wail, net one bureau, not one pocket. A man is no better than the pictures lie loves to look at. If your eyes are not pure, your heart cannot lie. At n news stand one can guess the character of a man by the kind of pictorials he purchases. When the devil fails to get a mail to read a bad book, he sometimes succeeds in getting him to look at a bad picture. When Satan goes a fish ing he does not care whether it is a long line or a short lino if he only draws his victim in. Beware of lascivious pictorials, young man, in the name of Almighty God 1 charge you. If I have this morning successfully laid down any principles Ly which you may judge in regard to books and newspapers, then I have done something which I shall not be ashamed on the day which shall try every man's work, of what sort it is. Cherish good books and newspapers. Be ware of trie bail ones. One column may save your soul; one paragraph may ruin if. Benjamin Franklin said that the reading of “Cotton Mather’s Es-ay on Doing Good” moulded bis entire life. The assassin of Lord Russell declared that he was led into crime by reading one vivid romance. The consecrated John Angell James, than whom England never produced a better man, de clored in bis old day's that he luul never yet got over the evil effects of having for fifteen minutes once rear Ia bad book. But I need not go so far off. I could come near home, and tell you of some thing that occurred in my college days. I could tell you of a comrade who was great-hearted, noble and generous. He was studying for an honorable profession; but he had an infidel book in his trunk, and he said to me one day: “DeWitt, would you like to read it?" I said; “Yes, I would.” 1 took the Ne>k and read It only for a few minutes. I was really startled with what I saw there, and I handed the hook back to him anil said: “You had better destroy that book.” No, he kept it. He read it. He re-read it. After awhfle he gave up religion as a myth. He gave up God as a nonentity. He gave up the Bible as a fable. He gave up the Church of Christ as a useless institu tion. He gave up good morals as being un necessarily stringent. I have heard of him but twice in many years. The time liefore the last I heard or him he was a confirmed inebriate. The last I heard of him ho was (siniing out of an insane asylum—in Imdy, mind and soul an awful wreck. I believe that one infidel book killed him for two worlds (>o homo to-day and look through your library, and then, having looked through your lilß-.'iry, look <>n the stand where you keep your pictorials and newspaper* and apply the Christian nrlliclples I navo laid down this morning. If thare is anything in your home that cannot stand the test, do not give it away, for It might sj>oi) an im mortal soul; do not sell it, for the money you get would he the prbw of blood; but rather kindle a Arc on your kitchen hearth, or in your back yard, and then drop the poison In It, and keep stirring the blaze until from preface to appendix thei e shall not be n single paragraph left, and the Ismtire in Brooklyn shall he as consuming as that one in the streets of Ephesus. PLIGHT OF A DEFAULTER. The District Attorney of Long Island Fleee to Parts Unknown. Winfield, L. 1., May I.—A sensation which has produced the utmost excitement hero within the last twenty-four hours lias come to light in the announcement that Dis trict Attorney Thomas T. McGowan was a defaulter to tne extent of |IH,(KK) to $30,000, and that he had left for iwu-ts unknown. For five year* prior to his becoming District Attorney, to which ofUce he was elected by a large majority last fall, Mi - . McGowan was Hupervisor of the town of Newton, llis popularity was so great that on two occa sions he was elected without opposition. A Teller Absconds. Philadelphia, May I.—James N. Sag gart, who for several years has been paving teller of the Union Trust Company at Nos. fll 1 ami dig Chestnut street, has absconded, and an examination shows a deficit of SIOO,OOO. l PRICE #lO A YEAR.) 1 5 CENT* A COPY.f A POl’E IX A STOVE PIPE DR. M’GLYNN MAKES ANOTHER ORIGINAL SPEECH. The Democratic Head of the ChureSi of the Future to be Walking Down Broadway with an Umbrella Under His Arm Henry Georgs also at th Meeting. New York, May I.— The Anti-Poverty Society, of which Dr. Mi-Glynn is President and Henry George Vice President, held thou) first public meeting to-night at Chickeriug Hall. The hall was packed to overflowing, and on the platform were a large number o t leaders of the United Lubor Party. The exercises opened with singing by a chorus of fifty voices, led by Miss Agnes Munier. Henry George presided, and in his opening address said: “The pres ence of such a large audience at the flrstl meeting of the society shows that there is a widespread feeling in theisimmunity against the. social erimo of poverty. In starting tUia society, we do not propose to form a church* There are olreadyVhurches enough. Thera, is nothing sectarian in the platform of the society. OPEN TO ALL. “All creeds are welcome. If Corrigan chooses to join he is if Robert lugersol! chooses to become a rtMHjj her he wilt lie welcome also. We propoapt# arouse a religious sentiment in the to help each other, and to do what clinSH cannot do. We hold that the povflHß that fosters in the heart R; our great cities does not lujßft from trio niggardliness of the but from man’s sinfulness. We will the doctrine of Him who said: as ye have done it unto the least of have done it unto Me,’ not like those JH try to prosecute men who stand up for to* rights of the poor.” DR. M’GLYNN’S ENTRY. While Mr. George was speaking Q$ t. McGlynn stepissi upon the platform. KviWfP man and woman rose in their teat* and the greatest enthusiasm reigned for several minutes. When quiet was restored Dr* McGlyun stepped to the reading desk and said: “I am intensely conscious that wq stand here to-night on a historic plat form. The founders of this society in years tq come will look back upon to-night’s meet ing with pleasure and satisfaction* It is not amiss that I, a priest of Christ, should stand here to sgieuk for u cause which proposes to abolish this horrid crime ofl poverty, which is the injustice of man in violation of the laws of God. I would hq recreant to nvy sacred priesthood if I shqujgl falter to sjeiak the word which I am iNHW 11 landed by my Lord and Master to I'UIESTLY LOVE FOR THE POOR. “Surely, my friends,, it should hardTyjSS Iteceasa r y for a priest to the poor, because nil are children of n ''drag moil Father. All men were created and were made for higher and I tetter thittjffl if God is the Father, lie enrinot be a dH father*. If God is a just God, a loving He did not send ills children into this to suffer, and Ho did not mean to give t he hands of an exclusive few the good of this earth. We are attracted to this work by the religion that is in Wo nre not establishing a now church. are engaged in a work in which wo find very essence of aU religion. It is the diH trine that makes flic hearts of men as ttjjn der as women’s. It is liecause this nient has love of eternal justice in it rafl| for us it has a personal attraction in it.’^| A POPE IN A STOVEPIPE. * Dr. McGlyun, in closing, said he alvraH intended to remain a Catholic aiumlii preach the Catholic doctrine, and tojjSl and bring bark religion to the world. ligion will never be right until we shnlßM a democratic i’opo walking down with a stovepipe hat on, and can ;. gJB umbrella under his arm. In my that, man will lie the greatest of Instead of having men him on their shoulders, ho vo| have the laugh on them, he will carry them in his heart, lot usaS the cause of the Master and do what to right wrong and eause the blessed duH justice to go on, and the dawn of the and >yfll justice will be the beginning, even on of the doing of tho will of the done in Heaven, and the beginning of SK reign of the Prince of Peace.” At the close of the sendees an was sung by the choir and the The society propose to hold meeting! Sunday night at Chickeriug Hall- HOD CAEEIEES TO QUIT, j , Three Thousand Hands to Strike at cago To-Day. f Chicaoo, May I.—To-morrow carriers and lalxirers will lie idle. were ordered out this afternoon at a spefjU mass meeting held by the Hod Union. A strike of .i,OOO had been thrfla ened, but according to reports receivedßH the meeting 103 of the employers ItHH granted the demands. These will be funiisheil wit It help, while such iBB have not acceded to the demands will liajr to lure non-union men. The meeting to 4Kj was attended by fully 1,000 carriers. Ovijag to the fact that nearly a dozen nationalities had at least a lew representatives present, tlie gathering XNB very lively. Stone Cutters to Strike. Newark, N. J., May I.—All the unier stone cutters here will go on u strike to morrow on account or wages. The mei have been receiving 4!lc. an hour, but so ml weeks ago they demanded 4.V. The em ployers failed to agree to this and tho strito was ordered. WHEAT’S CONDITION. Tho Report fpr the Paet Week Full and Encouragement. CiucAfK), May I.—The weekly crop sum mary says: “The conditions, in the mail) have been favorable for the growing wintsi wheat during the past week. Rains havi fallen in all of the States, though in portion of Kansas, Missouri and Illinois need of rail is still suid to l>o urgent. The condition o spring wlieat in lowa, Minnesota and Ne brasku is reported to lie good, though rain are needed. The acreage in lowa promise to Is* fully as large os last, year, if not some what larger. The meadows in Illinois Indiana and Ohio are thin and slow in start ing Widespread Injury to clover field In Illinois is reported, owing to injury fron freezing.” Sooloo Natives Defeated. London, May I.—Advices received her say that the Governor of the Kooloo Island and a force of 000 European and nativi troops, aidid by Hpanish ships, attarkei sevi ral thousand native rebels at Maibuj slid took many pri-oners. Large numlien of guns also fell into the hnmls o( the Spun isb. Mttibug wns burned after I icing looted Emigration to America. London, May I.—During the past, wwl 3,61# emigrant* left Queenstown for America The total for April is 11,1154 against o,tii for April last year.