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O'BRIEN UNDER ARREST.
he refused to make promises
TO A DETECTIVE.
Taken Into Custody on a Boat Which
He Had Boarded to Decline Messrs.
Labouchore and Harrington's Invita
tion to Accompany Them to Lon
don—He Addresses a Crowd.
Mitchellstown, Sept. 11.—The town
has been quiet to-day. The victims of the
fight Friday will be given a public funeral
to-morrow, which will be made the occasion
of a great demonstration. A man named
Shinnick and a boy named Casey are dying
from the effects of wounds they received
on Friday. Casey’s ante-mortem deposition
has t>een taken. He states that he was
standing near Shinnick, at one corner of
the square, when Head Constable O'Sulli
van camo to the window of the barracks and
fired at him. Four witnesses confirmed this
statement. The Nationalists say that they
have evidence to establish the identity of
the policeman who shot Riordan.
Contingents of Nationalists from all the
surrounding towns promise to attend the
funeral. The procession will be an enormous
one. The police refuse to allow the cortege
to traverse the regular route to the ceme
tery, which passes the barracks. The Na
tionalists consider this a great indignity, as
they will be compelled to go through
the" Protestant part of the town.
They claim that they had a right
to take the usual route, promising to resort
to no violence. The coffin of the old man,
shot dead on Friday, whose name was
Lrnergau, not Riordan, is inscribed as fol
lows: “Michael Lonergan murdered Sept.
9, 1887. Requiescat in pace.”
O’BRIEN ARRESTED.
Dublin. Sept. 11. —Mr. O'Brien was ar
rested to-day' while seeing Mr. Labouchere
off on a steamer.
Mr. O’Brien spent the day at Bollybrack
with Messrs. Dillon and Harrington. He
received a telegram from Messrs.
Labouchere and Brunner requesting him to
accompany them to London. Mr. O’Brien,
accompanied by Mr. Harrington, went on
board the Kingstown boat for the
purpose of declining the invitation
to go to London, when a detective
met him and said he would
not be arrested if he pledged himself not to
go to England. Mr. O’Brien refused this
condition, when he was taken into custody
and escorted to the Imperial Hotel by the
detective, who informed him that he could
stay all night if he would promise that he
would not make a speech.
ADDRESSING A CROWD.
This promise was not given, and Mr.
O’Brien addressed a crowd from the balcony
of the hotel. He said: “So long as there
is breath in my body my voice will not be
silent until I am gagged. lam proud to
suffer for Mitchellstown. When in Kings
town I was told 1 would not be arrested if I
did not undertake to go to London. That
shows that the government is beginning to
dread us in England.” Mr. O’Briea will
remain at the hotel to-night, and
proceed to Mitchellstown in the morning.
The crowd gathered in front of the hotel
was very enthusiastic. Mr. O’Brien, in an
interview on the subject of his arrest, said
he had no intention of going to England
when he boarded the boat. He merely went
there to sea Mr. Labouchere. As to making
a speech at the hotel, he said he had no idea
of doing so until the detective mentioned it.
A MEETING AT CORK.
Messrs. Labouchere, Hooper, Brunner and
other members of Parliament addressed a
meeting in Cork on Saturday, called to de
nounce the action of the government.
Michael Davitt spoke at a meeting in
Dublin to-day. He declared that he would
adopt every word and moaning of Mr.
O’Brien’s speech at Mitchellstown.
Irishmen would deserve the contempt of
the world if they allowed themselves
to be hunted from their cabins like beasts.
Ho complained bitterly against the Con
stabulary for slaying their own kith and
kin in cold blood, anil even without a word
of command from their officers. If the
slumbering embers of retaliatory vengeance
were faced, as in 1881, he hoped they would
not be illumed, for any evil wrought upon
Ireland would fall upon the instigators of
the Mitchellstown massacre.
FLOODS IN ARIZONA.
Two Bridges and Five Miles of Track
Washed Away.
Tucson, Am., Sept. 11.—The storms of
Thursday and Friday were the most severe
ever known in this section. Five miles of
the Southern Pacific track between this
]Kiint and Benson were washed away. Two
large bridges over the Conango and Rillita
l ivers wait' destroyed. Telegraph wires are
down, and in some places imbedded ton feet
in the sami. The steel • rails are canned a
quarter of a mile down the river
and are scattered for miles
down the stream. The Southern
Pacific trains are being run ovor the At
lantic and Pacific road. Washouts are re
ported along the line from Tin-son to Yuma.
From parties in from the Pedro and Rillita
rivers it is learned that the flood is the worst
ever known in Arizona, and many old land
marks have been washed away, and fields
of grain swept over. The Southern Pacific
officials say that travel over the road cannot
be resumed for a week.
A Silent Songstress.
New York, Sept. 11.— Mmo. Christina
Rorsett, a popular concert and oratorio
wnger, died to-night at Bath Bench. L. 1.,
of internal cancer, which hail confined her
to her house for nearly a year. She sang at
the opening exercise- of tne Centennial Rx
position in 1K76 ami has been of late soprano
at Rev. Dr. Hall’s Presbyterian church, in
Brooklyn. Her father, 'who whs (SO yoai-s
old, died suddenly of heart disease yester
day, at his residence in this city. Both
funerals will take place together at St. Ste
phen’s church next Tuesday morning.
Railroad Property Burned.
Lewiston. Pa., Sept. 11.-The Pennsyl-
v 'ania railroad’s new round house, machine
simps, five locomotives, one of which was a
new one, anil six tnnksat the junction, were
and -rroved early this morning by fire, sup-
P' sed to have been of incendiary origin.
Favorable winds and applications of salt
fcuved Boyd Hockney's extensive stock of
coal and shutes. The loss is estimated at
16-0,000.
Cholera’s March.
London, Sept. 11.—The cholera return*
*°r the past twenty-four hours are as fol
mws: Malta, 7 now cases and 2 deaths;
‘mania, pj cases, h deaths; Palermo, bl
nuses and 7 deaths; Messina, lf> cases and 14
deaths. Fresh cases hi-o reported at Rome
uiid other places.
Germany’* Reply to Turkey.
i onstantixoi*ljK, Hept. 11.— Germany’"
ritplv to the Porte’s recent, note merely
I ir o|)oses to supixrrt Turkey’s initiative in
Bulgaria,
A Contribution by the Queen.
London, Sept. 11.— The Queen has con-
Libit ted £IOO to the fund for the relief of
suATstm-s by the theatre fire at F*et>r.
Wat fflfltmue
A SENSATION IN A CHURCH.
Rev. Hawthorne Denounces the Father
of the Charge of Plagiarism.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 11.—The congrega
tion of the First Baptist Church had a sen
sational experience this morning, which
was in the nature of a discourse by Dr. Haw -
thorne, in which he bitterly denounced
“Anxious Enquirer.” He reviewed his
Augusta speech, and gave an explanation
of the way in which Mr. Benet had placed
him before the public in the
plagiarism charge. He called Mr.
Benet by name at frequent intervals
during his discourse and charged him with
wilfully slandering him. He said that he
had consulted four lawyers who had advised
him to. bring suit against Mr. Benet for ma
licious slander. The doctor was wild with
indignation, and at times, when warmed up,
would strike his chest heavily with
his fist. He charged that he was being per
secuted and slandered by emissaries of the
liquor dealers on account of his views on
prohibition, hut that he was not afraid and
would make the coming campaign in At
lanta so warm that the last would appear
as an icicle.
His text, which was “Fidelity Tested by
Persecution,” was only alluded to in the
opening of his remarks, and the entire dis
course was vindicative of himself, and de
nunciatory of Mr. Benet. AVhen he had
concluded he stepped down from the pulpit
and Dr. Hornady presided over the congre
gation, which was converted into a
church meeting. Ben. Abbott offered
a series of resolutions to the effect
that the congregation, by their adoption, be
lieved that their pastor had been slandered
and should be vindicated. The resolutions
were adopted by a standing vote. Dr. Haw
thorne says that he will continue the fight
with Mr. Benet to the bitter end, and will
make it warm for him.
SUICIDE AT ATLANTA.
A Young- Physician Blows Out His
Brains With a Pistol.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 11. —This morning
Dr. E. L. Borcheim, a prominent young
physician, of Atlanta, committed suicide in
his room at the Kimball House by blowing
out his brains with a 45-calibre pistol. He
placed the muzzle of the weapon to his
forehead, holding it there with his left hand,
and pulled th > trigger with his right hand.
The ball, after passing through the
head, buried itslef in the .ceiling
above the bod. The ceiling and
walls were splatterod with blood and brains.
For some years he has been addicted to the
cocaine habit, and it is believed that to this
is largely due the taking of his life. The
deceased was 82 years of age, and has been
in Atlanta four years. He was a member
of the Odd Fellows, and also of Fulton
Lodge of Masons and of the Atlanta branch
of the order of B’Nai Brith.
SOCIALISTIC SUFFRAGISTS.
They Will Hold a State Convention at
New York.
New York, Sept. 11.—The Progressive
or Socialistic Labor party met at Webster
Hall, in this city, to-day. The meeting was
largely attended. It was determined to
hold a State Convention on Sept. 20 at
Webster Hall. All labor organizations,
wage-workers, producers, and citizens who
sympathize with the theories of the party
are invited. There was discussion as to the
feasibility of sending speakers through the
State during the campaign. No definite
conclusion was reached. A committee was
appointed to prepare a plan of campaign.
THE CENTRAL LABOR UNION.
It had been the outspoken intention of
the building trades section to assail the
management of the Leader (newspaper) at
the Central Labor Union meeting this after
noon, and there was a large at
tendance of anti-Socialists in con
sequence. The Socialists,* too, turned
out largely, but they were outnumbered.
There was fighting all through the meet
ing. The noise began when the Eccentric
Engineers, Number 7, named, in their regu
lar turn, Fred Haller, a Socialist, for chair
man. Objection was at once made that the
association named was not in good stand
ing. There was an interesting row when
the Secretary decided the point well
taken, and more row when an appeal from
the decision was sustained by a vote of 54 to
42. When something like peace was secured
the ale and porter brewers named Haller,
and he took the fchair, saying he would con
duct the proceedings impartially, and depre
cating the introduction of politics.
Em rich (Socialist) anrl McKinn (anti-
Soeialist) were nominated for vice-chair
man. McKinn received 45 votes to Em
rich’s 53.
The committee appointed to adjust the
differences between the foundrymen and
iron moulders reported thut they could ef
fect no settlement.
The metal workers thereupon moved to
suspend the molders, and there was another
storm. It took two hours to come to a vote
on this question, so many delegates wanted
to be heard at once, and at the end of that
time the molders were suspended by a vote
of 74 to 1)6. The minority claimed a false
count, ami again there was a rumpus. Be
fore this difficulty was settled it was time to
ad j ourn.
DOCTORS ON AN EXCURSION.
The Foreign Delegates to Get a Look
At Niagara.
Watkins Glen, N. Y., Sept. 11.—The
excursion to Niagara Falls of delegates to
the International Medical Congress, which
left Washington last evening, reached here
at 9:30 o’clock this morning.' The excur
sionists number more than 300, of whom 200
nre from abroad. The latter are the guests
of the American medical profession, all of
their expenses, aggregating #IO,OOO, for this
excursion, being paid out of the general
fund by the Executive Committee of the
Medical Congress. An American physician
is in charge of each ear and responsible for
the comfort of its occupants, among them
being an officer each o! the army and navy,
detailed by the Burgeon General for the
purpose. The foreigners, in spite of some
fatigue, seem to be having a very good
time,
nationalities mixed.
Nationalities found themselves someprhat
mixed up last night. Germany and France,
Russia and America, and England and
Japan, lieing in some cases billeted in sec
tions together, but for to-day’s sight-seeing
the majority of the excursionist* were re
solved into French, English and German
speaking colonies, which went their sev
eral ways at pleasure, and awoke
the valuable echoes of the
glen to the music of their
own idioms. The foreigner* agree in the
opinion that the fruit* of the Medical Con
gress, from a scientific point of view, arc in
valuable. They express high appreciation
of the social attention paid them by the
Americans, and became emphatic in re
to the royal good fellowship of tho
American dortoiK The train, consisting of
thirteen Pullman cars, two smokers, on*
oomniuwary, and on* hogag* oar l*ft for
Niagara Falls at 2:30 o'clock tins afternoon.
SAW. AT NIAGARA.
Niagara Fall*. Y Y.. Hapt. IT.— The
aa—••ainn give ( hr toe American doctor* to
SAVANNAH, HA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1887.
the foreign delegates to the medical congress
reached here at 8:30 o’clock this evening.
The excursionists are quartered at the Inter
national Hotel. Carriages have boon
secured to convey them to all tho points of
interest to-tnorrow.
COLLAPSE OF A CHURCH.
Sixty or Seventy People Injured—One
Known to Be Fatally Hurt.
Nashville, Sept. 11.—A terrible acci
dent is reported from Ncedmore, a small
village three miles north of Manchester, yes
day. A two story church building, tho up
per floor being used for church purposes,
and the lower floor given up exclusively to
school purposes,suddenly, and without warn
ing gave way with a crash, carrying sixty
or seventy people with it. The fall was
thirteen feet, and hardly one escaped injury.
The injured were quickly rescued from the
wreck, and three of them wore found to be
seriously injured. One man Is fatally hurt.
Every physician in the county was imme
diately sent for, and the work of relieving
the injured was promptly liegun. No fur
ther particulars have boen received from
the disaster.
POINTING OUT A DANGER.
The Use Made of Corks Drawn in
Barrooms.
New York, Sept. 10.—While at the Hoff
man House Art Gallery the other evening
the liartender cut liis hand while opening a
bottle of Rhine wine. So perfect was the
disciple of that distinguished hostelry that
before attending to his wound he thretv the
cork half covered with his blood into some
receptacle beneath the bar, then tied up the
injured member and went on with his
duties.
“You are morecareful with tho cork than
with your hand,” remarked a patron of the
house.
“A little bleeding more or less does but
little harm,” replied the dispenser of fra
grant beverages, “and we get in the habit
of taking care of the corks and do it in
stinctively. They’re a valuable commod
ity.”
“Where does the value come in?”
“Why, we and every other barroom in
the city sell them to the cork peddlers. A
house like this will draw as high as 2,000
corks in a day, and can dispose of them a
dozen times over. I don’t know what the
peddlers do with them, but guess that they
sell them to soda water men and manufac
turers of ginger ale and other cheap drinks.”
Among the party which listened to the
conversation, was Dr. Henry Lassing, the
editor of the American Analyst. He said,
after the bartender had ceased, “I have
looked into the second-hand cork business
and find it of great interest. These corks
are sold to peddlers who make the business
a specialty. They collect anywhere from
6,000 corks a day apiece. A few of them
take tho corks homo, boil them hi w ater or
with dilute lye, separate them according to
kinds and sizes, and then sell them to wine
dealers and liottlers. The majority of the
peddlers go direct from the saloons to their
customers and there dispose of their
load. In a place like this the sec
ond hand corks are clean and
new. But as you saw, one was cov
ered with blood, and probably by this
time has soiled all the others around it.
Another cork will bo covered with milk, a
third with egg nogg and a fourth with ale.
So it goes on until, when the pail or box is
full, the corks it contains are wet and dirty
with moist matter that has already begun
to ferment or germinate, and which almost
always contains a vast number of germs.
If this is the case in this hotel, what is it
not in the majority of saloons where the
management is seldom careful, and who
shall describe it in those numerous dives
and groggeries which reek with filth and
disease?
“Ail such corks are depositories of fer
ments, decomposition aud unhealthy germs,
while a few contain the seeds of contagious
and infectious diseases.
“One-third are purchased by wine dealers.
Some of those buy and bottle imported
wanes alone, but the majority mixes im
ported and native winos and bottles this
mixture, or else simple American vintages
and labels and sells the article as the gen
uine article from the Fatherland or from
Laßcllo France. This goes to the saloons
and largely to the groceries and wine
stores. The largest portion of the corks
is purchased by the manufacturers of liot
tled temperance drinks, soda, ginger ale,
pop beer, lemon soda, sarsaparilla,
root laser, birch lieer, and the like.
The consumption of this class of goods,
especially in summer, is enormous. Every
bar room, ice cream saloon, drug store, gro
cery and restaurant sells one or more articles
of the sort. They are popular because they
are cheap. They are so cheap that you can
form an idea from the fact that a manu
facturer makes and sells a box containing
two dozen bottles of the stuff for less than
40 cent*, a trifle more than cents a bottle.
This covers raw materials, labor, rent,
breakage, interest on capital and the cork,
not to speak of the profit which keeps him
alive. No wonder lie cannot afford to buy
anew cork. The only wonder is he can
afford to buy any cork at all.
“It is as clear as daylight thata filthy cork
in contact with a white wine, or with the
summer drinks described, is liable to com
municate tho ferment or the germs to the
latter. In such a case there will under some
conditions be a gradual decomposition, fer
mentation and putrefaction, and in nearly
all cases a rapid and large development of
bacterial life. A wine or temperance drink
tinder these circumstances would he in
jurious, if not poisonous. Taken into the
stomach it would produce nausea, colic,
summer complaint or even more serious
gastric disorders. It has boon demonstrated
that milk will carry the infection of diph
theria aud scarlet fever, and so bring sick
ness into a healthy household, and it is
equally certain that a similar state of facts
may lie brought about by the use of such
corks.
“There is no danger in using bottled goods
of any class unless It bo from the ‘worm in
the still,’ when t hey are put up by houses of
high standing. Much institutions use first
class and new corks, and employ every safe
f uard against deterioration of thoir goods,
hit no one of good ju Igment will drink the
cheap bottled stuff where tho corks are dis
colored and foul with use. The danger Is
doubly great in family life. Children love
to bite on corks from prolialily the teething
habit of earlier years. Huch treatment, of a
eork containing putresoent mat ter or disease
germs is bound to injuriously nlfoet a child’s
health. Ido not doubt that many a case of
cholera infantum arose in just this way.
“I do not blume the jsior manufacturer
and the iieddlors for using the*- secotld
hand corks, but 1 do the well-to do bottler*
who make and sell sophisticated goods to an
ignorant public, and who can easily afford
to gi”e new cork* with their spurious
wane." William E. 8. Falks.
Flames in a Livery titnble
Jacksonville, Fla , Kept 11.- Fire or
eurred this morning at J. W. Girvin'* Hv
erv stable in LaVIIIa. Bix carriage*, three
buggies aud one surrey were completely
destroyed. The home* were rescued after
much trouble. Oirvfn estimates hla l*swat
*B,OOO
Lost In the English Channel.
1/iNfiOW, Hopt. 11. —A French smack re
,mrt* the Ins* of a vessel with fifty band* in
I the English Ttuu)n*l.
CHRISTIAN HOSPITALITY.
TALMAGE SPEAKS OF ITS TRIALS
AND REWARDS.
Whims and Eccentricities of Guests—
Possible Alleviations on Their Side
of the Scale—A Positive Triumph to
be Able to Entertain the Objection
able Visitor Affably.
The Hamptons, Sept. 11.—Tho Rev. Dr.
T. DeWitt Talmago’s text to-day was from
Romans, xii, 5-13: “Given to hospitality,”
and his disoourso as follows:
There is danger that the multiplication of
large and commodious hotels in our towns,
and cities, and villages, will utterly exter
minate that grace which Abraham exhib
ited when he entertained tho ungels, and
which lot showed when he watched
for guests at the gate of tho city, and
which Christ recognized as a positive requi
site for entering heaven, when he declared:
“I was a stranger and ye took me in.”
I propose to speak this morning of the
trials and rewards of Christian hospitality.
The first trial often comes in tho whim and
eccentricity of the guest himself. Theroare
a great, many excellent people who have
protuberances of disposition, and sharp
edges of temperament, and unpliability of
character, which make them a positive
nuisance in any house whore they stay. On
short acquaintance they will begin to com
mand the household affaire, order the em
ployes to unusual service, keep unseasona
ble hours, use narcotics in places offensive
to sensitive nostrils, put their feet at unusual
elevations, drop the ashes of their Havana
on costly tapestry, open bureaus they ought,
never to" touch, anti pry into things they
ought never to see, and become im
pervious to reusing bells, and have
all the peculiarities of the gor
mandizer or the dyspeptic, and make
excavations from poor dentistry with
unusual implements, and in a thousand ways
afflict the household which proposes to take
care of them. Added to all, they stay ton
long. They have no idea when their wel
come is worn out, and they would lie un
moved even by the blessing which niv friend
Gerrit Smith, tho philanthropist, asked one
morning at liis breakfast table, on the day
when lie hoped that the long-protractea
guests would depart, saying: “O lard, bless
this provision, and our friends who leave us
to-day!" But, my friends, there are allevia
tions to be put on their side of the scale.
I’erhaps they have not had the same re
fining influences about them in early life
that you have had. Perhaps they
have inherited eccentricities that
they cannot help. Perhaps it is
your duty, by example, to show them a lmt
ter way. Perhaps they are sent to boa
trial for tho development of your patience.
Perhaps they were to bo intended as an il
lustration of the opposite of what you are
trying to inculeuate in the minds of your
children. Perhaps it is to make your home
the brighter whon they are gone. When
our guests aro cheery, and fascinating, aud
elegant, it is very easy to entertain them;
hut when we find in sur guests that which
is antagonistic to our taste and sentiment it
is a positive triumph when we can obey
the words of my text, and be “given to
hospitality.”
Another trial in the using of this grace is
in tho toil and expense of exercising it. In
the well-regulated household things go
smoothly, but now you have introduced a
foreign element into the machinery, and
though you may stoutly declare that they
must take things as they find them, the
Martha will break in. The ungovernable
stove. The ruined dessert. The joint thnt
proves to be unmasticable. The delayed
marketing, The perplexities of a caterer.
The difficulty of doing proper work, anil yet
always being presentable. Though you may
say there shall bo no care or anxiety, there
will be care and there will be anxiety. In
1694 the captain general provided a very
grand entertainment; and among other
things, he had a fountain in his garden—a
fountain of strong drink. In it were four
hogsheads of brandy, eight hogsheads of
water, twenty-five thousand lemons, thir
teen hundredweight of Lisbon sugar, five
pounds of grated nutmeg, three hun
dred toasted biscuits, and a boat built
on purpose was placed in the fountain, and
a boy rowed around it, and filled the cups of
the people who came there to lie supplied.
Well, you say, that was a luxurious enter
tainment, anil, of course, tho man had no
anxiety; but I have to tell you, that though
you hurl, or propone an entertainment like
that, you have anxiety. In that very thing
conies the Divine reward. We were born
to serve; and when we serve others, we
serve God. The flush on that woman’s
cheek, ns she bends over the hot stove, is as
sacred in God’s sight as the flush on the
cheek of one who, on a hot day, preaches
the Gospel We may serve God with plate,
and cutlery, and broom, ns certainly as we
can serve Him with psalm-book and
liturgy. Margaret, Queeu of Norway,
and Sweden, and Denmark, .had a
royal cup of ten lips, on which
was recorded the namos of the guests who
had drunk from .this cup. And every
Christian woman has a royal cup, on which
are written all tho names of those who have
ever been entertained by her in Christian
style—names not cut by human ingenuity,
hilt written by the hand of a Divine Jesus.
But, my friends, you are not to toil un
necessarily Though tho fare be plain,
cheerful presidency of the table, and cleanli
ness of appointments will be good enough
tor anybody that ever come* to your house.
John Howard was invited to the
nouse of a nobleman. He suid: “I
w 11 come on one condition, and that is
that you have nothing but potatoes on the
table.” The requisition was complied with.
Cyrus, King of Persia, under the same cir
cumstances, prtwcrilied that on tho table
there must lie nothing but bread. Of course,
these were extremes, but they aro illustra
tions of the fact that more depends up
on the lianquettere than upon tho banquet.
1 want to lift this idea of Christan enter
tainment out of a jxisitivo bondage into a
glorious inducement. Every effort you
put forth, and every dollar you give to the
entertainment of friend or foe, you give di
rectly to Christ. Supjiose it were announced
that the Lord Jesus Christ would come
to this place this week, what wo
man in this house would not
lie glad to wash for Him, or spreud for Him
a bed, or bake bread for Him? There was
one or old who washed for Him, drawing the
water from the well of her own tears, lie
is coming. He will lie here to-morrow.
“Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the
least of these, my brethren, ye have done it
to Me.” In picture galleries we have often
seen representations of Walter Scott and
his friends, or Washington Irving with his
associates; but all those engravings will
fnile out, while through everlasting" agns,
hanging luminous and conspicuous, will tie
the picture of you and your Christian
guest*.
You see we have passed out from tho
trials into the reward* of Christian hospi
tality; grand, glorious, and eternal. The
first reward of Christian hospitality Is the
Divine benediction. When any one attends
to this duty, God’s blessing cointw upon him,
upon his companion, upon hi*children, upon
lilt iliulng-han, upon Ills pArlor, uixin hi*
nursery The blaming come* in si the front
door, and the back door, and down through
the skylights God draws a long mark of
ei adit for Servians rscstved Christ said to
His disciples: "He that receivoth you, re
cciveth Me; and he that give tli a cup of
cold water in tho name of a disciple shall in
nowise lose his reward ” As we have hud
so many things recorded against us in
heaven, it will he a satisfaction to have
written on unfailing archives, the fact that
in the month of May. or June, or Septem
ber, or December, 1887, we made the bliss
ful mistake of supposing that, we were en
tertaining weak men like ourselves, when
lo| they snowed their pinions before t.hev
left, and we found out that they were angels
unawares.
Another reward eomas in the good wishes
and prayers of our guests. Ido not think
one’s house ever gets over having had a good
man or woman abide there. George 'White
field used to scratch on the window of the
room where he was entertained a passage of
Scripture, and in one ease, after lie left, the
whole household was converted by the read
ing of that (Missagu on the window pane.
The woman of Shunetn furnished a little
room over tho wall for Elisha, and all the
ages have heard the glorious consequences.
On a cold, stormy, winter night, my father
entertained Trueman Osborne, the evange
list, and through all eternity I will thank
God that Trueman Osborne stopped at our
house. How many of our guests have
brought to us condolence, and sympathy anil
help! There is u legend told of Ist. Selinid,
that in his Christian rounds ho
used to stop for entertainment at
the house of a poor Cartwright, Coming
there one day, he found the Cartwright and
his family freezing for the lack of any fuel.
St. Sobald ordered the man to go out and
break the icicles from the side of the house
and bring them in, mid the icicles were
brought into the house and thrown on the
hearth, and they began to blaze imme
diately, anil the freezing family gathered
around and were wormed by them. That
was a legend; but bow often nave our guests
come in to gather up the cold, freezing sor
rows of our life, kindling thorn into, illumi
nation, and warmth, and good cheer. He
who opens bis house to Christian hospitality,
turns those who are strangers into friends.
Years will go by, and there will lie great
changes in you, and there will be great
changes in them. Some day you will lie
sitting in loneliness, watching a bereave
ment, and you will get a letter in a strange
handwriting, and you will look at
the post office murk, and say: “Why,
I don’t know anybody living in
that city;” and you will break the envelope,
and there you will read the story of thanks
for your Christian generosity long years
before, and how they have heard afar off of
your trouble. And the letter will lie so full
of kindly reminiscences anil Christian con
dolence, it will be a plaster large enough to
cover up all the deep gashes of your soul.
When we take people Into our houses as
Christian guests, wo take them Into our
sympathies forever. In Dort, Holland, a
soldier with a sword at his side stopped at a
house, desiring lodging and shelter. The
woman of the house at first refused admit
tance, saying that the men of the house
were not at home; but when he showed his
credentials that, ho hail been honorably dis
charged from the army, ho was admitted
and tarried during the night. In tho night
time there was a knocking at the front door,
and two ruffians broke In to de
spoil that household. No sooner had they
come over the door sill than tho armed
guest, who had primed his piece and charged
it with slugs, met them, and telling the
woman to stand back, 1 am liappy to say,
dropped the two assaulting desjieradoes
dead at his feet. Well, now there are no
bandits prowling around to destroy our
houses; but how often it is that wo find
those that have been our guests become our
defenders. We gave them shelter first, and
then afterward in the great conflicts of life
they fought for our reputation^they fought
for our property; they fought tor our soul.
Another reward that comes from Chris
tian hospitality is in the assurance thnt we
shall have hospitality shown to us and to
ours. Iti the upturning* of this life, who
knows in what city or what land wo may lie
thrown, and how much We may need an
open door? There may come no such crisis
to us, hut our children may be thrown into
some such strait. He who is in a Christian
manner hospitable, lias a free ixiss through
all Christendom. It may be that you will
have lwen dead fifty years before any such
stress shall come up m one of your descend
ant*; hut do vou not suppose thnt God can
remember fifty years? and the knuckle of
the grandchild will lie heard against the
door of some stranger, and that door will
open; and it will be talked over in heaven,
and it will be said: “That man’s grand
father, fifty years ago, gave shelter to a
stranger, and now a stranger’s door is open
for a grandson.”
Among the Greeks, after entertaining and
being entertained, they take a piece of lead
and cut it in two, and the host takes one
half of the piece of lend and the guest token
the other half as they part. These two
pieces of lead are handed down from gener
ation to generation, and from family to
family: and after a while, perhap one of
the families in want or in trouble go out
with this one piece of lead and find the other
family with the corresponding piece of
lead, and no sooner is the tally completed
than the old hospitality is aroused, and
eternal friendship pledged. So the memory
of Christian hospitality will go down from
generation to generation, anil from family
to family, and the tolly will never lie lost,
neither in this world nor the world to oome.
Mark this: The day will come when wo
will all he turned out-of-doors, without any
exception—bare-footed, bare-mad, no wuter
in the canteen, no bread in the haversack,
and wo will go in that way into the future
world. Ana I wonder if eternal hospi
tality will open Wore us, and if we will
lie received into everlasting habitations!
Francis Fresco bald was a rich Italian, and
lie was very merciful and very hospitable.
One day, an Englishman by the name of
Thomas (Irnmwell appeared at his door ask
ing for shelter and alms, which were cheer
fully rendered. Freecobalil afterward lost
all his property, became very poor, and
wandered up into England; and one day he
saw a procession passing, and to! it was the
Lord Chancellor of England; and lo! the
Ixird Chancellor of England was Thomas
Cromwell, the very man whom be hail once
liefriendod down in Italy. The Lord Chan
cellor, at the first glance of Fresoobald,
ri*gnized him, and dismounted from
his carriage, throw his arms around
him, and embraced him, paid his
debts, invited him to his house, and
said: “Here arc ten pieces of money to pay
for the bread you gave me, and here are
ten pieces of money to provide for tln< horse
you loaned me, nnd here are four bags in
ioU of which arc four hundred ducats.
Take them and be well.” Holt will l*i at
lost with us If we entertain Christ in the
person of his disciples in this world, when
we pass up into the next country, wo will
meet Christ, in a regal procession, and He
will pour all the wealth of heaven into our
lap, and open Wore us everlasting hospi
tolities. And O how tome are the richest
entertainment* we can give on earth com
pared jvitli the regal munificence which
Christ will display liefore our souls in
heaven! I was reading the account which
Thomas Fuller gives of the enter
tainment provided by George Neville,
Among other things for that banquet
they had thra* hundred quarters of wheat,
one hundred and four tun* of win*, eighty
oxen, three thousand turnon*, two hundred
ermues, two hundred ki<i, four thousand
pigeon*, four thousand rabbit*, two hun
dred and four bit torn*, two hundred pheas
ants, live hundred lsirtrldges, four hundred
plover on* hundred quail, on* hundred cur-
lews, fifteen hundred hot pasties, lour
thousand cold venison pasties, four thou sand
custards —the Earl of Warwick acting as
steward, and servitors one thousand. O,
what a grand feast was that! hut then com
pare it with the provision which God has
made for us on high: that great banquet
hour; the one hundred and forty and four
thousand as guests; all the harps anti
trumpets of heaven as the orchestra; the
vintage of the celestial hills poured into the
tankards; all the fruits of the orchards of
God piled on the golden platters; the angels
of the Lord for euy-bearers, anil the oneo
folded starry banner of the blue sky (Inug
out over the scene, while seated at the head
of the table shall be the One who eighteen
centuries ago declared: “I was a stranger
and ye took mo in,” Gur sins pardoned,
may we all mingle in those hospitalities!
MRS. POTTER’S NEW PLAY.
What Olive Logan Thinks Of It.
(Copyrighted.)
London, Aug. 25. — 1 have seen Mrs.
James Brown Potter in her new play, enti
tled “Loyal Love.” Should you be good
enough to ask me what I think of her I will
be good enough to reply that I think slio is
a pretty woman with fine clothes on. As
to her acting 1 cannot conscientiously speak
in terms of admiration of it, for although
it shows considerable improvement upon
her former efforts it is still that of the novice
in the |mfh histrionic. Upstanding and in
entire repose I consider this Southern lady
to be a witchingly lovely creature. There
is an unusual mingling of the ingenuous
girl and the haughty woman in her bearing,
w hich endows her with a charm most diffi
cult to deline in words, but keenly fslt in
personal relation. She looks the patrician,
every inch of her; and there are a good
many inches in that form of hers, divinely
tall as that of Juno. “Loyal Love” is one
more effort on the part of an English dra
matist to adapt to our stage tho first Portu
guese tragedy ever penned Antonio Fer
reira’s “Inez do Castro.” Seventeen years
ago an authoress, writing under tho pi n
name of Ross Noil, gave to print a version
of the lugubrious Portuguese plav, which
she called “Tho Bride of Portugal.” It is
this literary effusion which Mix Brown
Potter has chosen in which to make her
third essay for recognition ns a star actress.
1 am sure the composition will find no favor
in America, for a more pompous piece of
fustian it would be difficult to disinter from
out the crowded vaults of dead and buried
dramas.
Tho requirements of the story demand
shrieks, arms wildly waved, false suicide by
poisoning ala Juliet, dying and coming to
life, kissing the lover and cursing the tyrant,
aud every other detail of stage blood and
thunder. How does Mrs. Brown Potter
stand tho brunt of all these cruel conven
tionalisms, so dangerously near the border
line of burlesque! Of a verity, but indif
ferent well. Tier gestures are ungraceful
to the eye, her wail of woe rings falso upon
the ear; even her love-making with Kyrle
Bellow, which was so pretty In Faustine,
because so reserved and proud, is not so
agreeable In this Portuguese heroine, who
flings herself liko a missile from a catapult
into the arms of her lover every time he
ventures to look her way. Tho dialogue
demands this, and it is very unkind of tho
dialogue. It robs Mrs. Brown Potter of her
most jrotont charm, her patrician hauteur
holding in check her iinpatuous love.
Yet, who can hojio to make the lady be
lieve herself in any matter whatsoever at
fault when an aristocratic following ap
plauds her every effort, and the tone of
London society Is to admit no sound save
that of praise of the new boauty-uctress
from tho Southern land! On the night l
attended at. the Gaiety to see “Loyal Love,”
tho Duchess of Edinburgh was present, at
tended by Gen. laird Wolsoley. These
grands tie la terre appeared enraptured
with the performance of Mrs. Potter, and
when the final eall brought the new actress
before the curtain, tho beauty-lady was ob
served to nod to tho daughter of all the
Russian in the easy manner of one privileged
by jiersonal acquaintance to make the re
cognition of tho imperial patron’s presence.
Olive Logan.
THE LILY’S WAY.
The Trouble Mrs. Langtry’s Unfortu
nate Temper Causes Her.
New York. Wept. 10.—I saw Mrs. Lang
try rush across Broadway to-day with knit
ted brow and thoughtful mien. An advance
agent stumbled absently after her, writing
hastily on n telegraph blank as he walked,
and a (lusty stage manager with his hat on
the back of his head, stalked mechanically
along while he talked spasmodically and
swung his arms. The Lily was perturbed.
Hhe was handsome, as usual, but her hair
was somewhat disarranged, she was without
gloves, and there was an absence of the air
of serenity and polish that usually distin
guishes her. Hho was so lost to the outside
world, indeed, that she did not see
a cab horse careoning toward her till
an accident was imminent, and then she
rushed hurriedly out of the way. The ad
vance agent didu't hurry, lie went on
writing while the cab horse looked at him,
and then with a shrill snort of apology
rearm! up on its 1 wittered hind legs arid
stayed so till the man passed. The horse
never lived that could down an udvance
agent. Meanwhile the Lily drifted into the
(hlsoy House with the stage manager, while
the advance agent stumped off to the tele
graph ofllco. It was a gliinpso of the worka
day world of the actor. There had fieen
hours of tedious rehearsals on the gloomy
stage of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, and the
once fair and radiant beauty was off for a
bit of luncheon while there was a chance.
Mrs. Jjungtry’s tamper continues to assert
Itself at unfortunate times. Her break
with Coghlon was ill-advised, to say the
least, for lie wus not only a strong element
in the success of her tour, but the present
improvement In the acting of Mrs. Langtry
is in no small degree due to Coghlan’s tute
lage, lie js a clever and knowing actor,
and he has lieen of vast assistance 'o the
Langtry. His new play was ready to in
crease the fame of the actress, but she dis
charged him at u moment's notice because
he would not obey her whim to piny at the
Seaside. Maurice Barrymore may expect a
similar fate. It is the Lily’s way. With
her new leading man the Langtry troupe
may la: hilled as a Isviuty show, for Barry
more's looks are more widely commented
on than his acting, and ns ho is a very good
ator indeed, it goes without saying that
lie may rival the famous star of the troupe,
though of an opposite sex. The pair should
certainly make stunning stage lovers.
Admiral Porter's play, ‘‘Alien Dure,”
went off with a hang on Monday night.
Everybody was at the Fifth Avenue Then! re,
including the old naval hero himself. The
Admiral sat in a box beside (Jen. Sherman,
and the crowd cheered the veterans to the
echo. Htripped of the natural enthusiasm
of the occasion, the affair was not u distinct
go. Tho drama is long and at times prosy,
though the plot is exceedingly interesting.
Tho play promises much, and after a little
pruning it may prove a serviceable drama,
particularly for the road Next week the
theatres will nearly all be in full blast for
Out winter season The managers who have
Iven talking so much and promising such
prodigies will then have an opportunity to
make good the promises.
Blakely Ham..
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CLIMATE AND THE CROPS.
THE TEMPERATURE NOT FAR FROM
NORMAL IN THE SOUTH.
A Deficiency of an Inch Reported in
the Rainfall for the South Atlantic
States- The Weather a Little too
Dry in a Portion of the Cotton Belt.
Washington, Sept. 11.—Following is the
weather crop bulletin of the Signal Office
for the week ending Sept. 10, 18M7:
During the week ending Sept. 10 the
weather has been slightly colder than usual
in tho Lake region, Middle Atlantic and
South Atlantic Suites, and warmer than
usual in Missouri, Central Mississippi and
the lower Ohio valley, being from 15* to
40“ above the normal. The daily
average temperature for the season from
Jan. 1 to Sept. 10 differs loss than 1' from
normal for all sections, excepting that in
Colorado, Kansas, Indian Territory, North*
urn Texas, the southern portions of Mis
souri, Indiana and Illinois,and in portions of
Kentucky and Tennessee it varies from 1*
to 2 above the normal, and along Laka
Superior from 2“ to 8“ lielow the normal.
THE RAINFALL.
During the week the rainfall has been
slightly in excess of normal, in Northeastern
New York,’Southern Michigan and jiortioiia
of Lyuisas, Nebraska, Dakota and Colorado.
Otherwise there has lieen a slight deficien
cy, amounting to one inch or
more along the South Atlantic
and Gulf coasts A deficiency for the sea
son exists from the upper lakes to the lower
Missouri valley, Gulf States and South At
lantic Stiites, and continues greatest, a
little aljove ten inches, in lowa, tho
southern portion of Illinois and the
lower Mississippi valley. During tho
past month over 100 per cent, of tha
usunl amount of rain has fallen in the
northern portions of New England, New
York, Central North Carolina, Southern
Michigan, Northern Illinois, and from tha
southern portions of Dakota and Minnesota
southward to Eastern Texas, Less than 50
percent, of the usual n mount of rain has
fallen along the South Atlantic const, in the
Eastern Gulf States, lower Mississippi val
ley, Southern Ohio, Central Illinois, Eastern
Missouri and the northern portions of lower
Michigan.
FAVORABLE AND UNFAVORABLE. ,
During the jiast week the weather has
been reported as favorable to growing crop*
in Massachusetts and North Carolina, and
unfavorable in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mis
sissippi, Alabuma and South Carolina. In
the corn growing region the crop is re
ported to nave been harvested, and below
the average in Nebraska, as out tif danger
from trust in Minnesota, and more rain
needed for late corn in Central and Western
Kansas. Cutting is in progress iu Michigan.
Tho weather is reported to have been too
dry in tho cotton region of South Carolina,
Alabama and Mississippi, anil the crop is
damaged by worms in Mississippi.
In the tobacco regions of Tennessee, Ken
tucky and Ohio, the deficiency in rainfall is
reported to have lieen injurious, while in
North Carolina the weather lias been favor
able.
Pastures are reported good from Nebras
ka, as improved iu Minnesota, Michigan
arid Northern Illinois, and as dried up in
Southern Illinois. A light frost is reported
to have injured sweet | iota toes in Northwes
tern North (Carolina on the 2d, and as hav
ing occurred in Northern Illinois on the Bth.
Killing frosts were refuted on the Kith,
from Central Minnesota and upiier Michi
gan, and on tb* morning ui the 11th, from
Forthern Vermont.
MRS. HERBERT'S CONDITION.
Ten Months In a Cataleptic State—Her
Talk of Something To Eat.
A dispatch from Joliet (111.1 says: Mrs.
John Herbert, the now celebrated catalep
tic, confined in Ht. Joseph’s Hospital, and
who has been in a continuous sleeping trance
or cataleptic state now nearly ten months,
remains about the same, with the exception,
that she talks more than when her ease was
last mentioned a week ago. Her talk is
principally aliout something to eat. She is
continually ordering her meals, but her ap
lietite has not improved any. The eyes still
remain closed, the muscles rigid and tha
joints stiffened. She stands in any position
she is placed in like a statue till moved and
tho limits will remain in any postion in
which they are placed until changed. She
has but slight sensibility to pain and is a
perfect human automaton.
Sometimes she cries, nos aloud, but with
seeming suppressed grief. At other times
she smiles but never laughs audibly. She
has become a great curiosity. People come
for miles to see tier and on Sundays tha
place is crowded like a museum. Prominent
medical scientists write from all parts of
the country for information concerning her
case. Many prominent physicians coma
from different parts to see her. Hi nee her
case was brought to public notice she haa
become the most widely known and notable
cataleptic in the world, and her case excite*
more interest in the medical profession
everywhere than any similar case in the
annals of medical science. How she lives
is marvelous. Her recovery is hardly
within the range of natural possibilities.
The case is as much a problem to physicians
as it is miraculous to the people who are
familiar with it, and it has created various
superstitions among those who are spiritu
ally inclined. Many believe that she is in &
spiritual state, that her recovery will bu
effected In some wonderful way, and that
she will then reveal marvelous things and
experiences in the spirit world.
Look Out for a New Style In Bustles.
New York, Kept. Ift —lt is hinted by
Paris correspondents that a startling pro
cess of evolution in regard to the bustle
may lie expected in the slinpe of a crinoline
that will gradually develop into tho full
fledged hoop skirts that made women a few
years ago play tho dignified and graceful
role of a small clapper within a gigantic
boll. For tho sako of all that is rational as
well os lieautiful in dross it is to bo hoped
this rumor has no substantial foundation.
While wii are on tho subject of bustles, how
ever, and inasmuch as women appear to
have made up their minds to adopt perma
nently this hideous and inconvenient article
of attire which a recent writer on beauty
lias proved wo have copied from tho Hot
tentots, it may not lie inappropriate to sug
gest that gowns be fitted with the so-called
dress improver instead of without it. It
would seem that the fair sex almost univer
sally go to their tailors and dressmakers
minus a bustle, and only put it on when tha
costume comes homo ready for use. At any
rate, all summer long wo have boon edifiod
by tho pleasing spectacle of gowns tucked
up behind enormous bustles and revealing a
most nnawthstic collection of Is sit iieels and
ankles Tlie I sick view of a shoe is not es
pecially attractive, and we would suggest
that all women who leave off their bustles
to try on their skirts, or who don larger
crinolcttos than tho,-* previously worn,
should at all events look at themselves In a
full length mirror before appearing In pub
lic. A badly hung skirt is, tf anything,
worse than the bustle itself, and will spoil
tho whole effect of a toilet np matter how
costly sad elegant it may be.
Clara Lajua,