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SUNDAY AT BELLE MEADE
■TNCLE 808 HARDING MEETS THE
DISTINGUISHED GUESTS.
k Drove of Two Hundred Deer Sent
Bounding Past the Visitors—Some
thing About the Famous Farm and
Its Noted Owners—The Party Never
on a Burning Trestle.
Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 16.—The story
telegraphed from Memphis to the Chicago
News about the attempted wrecking of the
President’s train by burning a trestle, is
laughed at by correspondents who have
been with the President during his trip.
They say nothing of the kind occurred at
any time.
UNCLE 808 HARDING.
The President has made the personal ac
quaintance of Uncle Bob Harding. Every
stock man in the land knows Uncle Bob, the
colored major domo of the Belle Meade
stock farm, and one of the chief authorities
on blooded stock in the world. It was in
tended that the day should be for the Presi
dent one of restful quiet, and so it was.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland couldn’t
resist tho temptation to stroll over the great
breeding farm, and so, accompanied by
their host, Gen. Jackson, they sauntered
out. Of course, Uncle Bob was in the way.
A GREAT DAY FOR THE OLD MAN.
It was a great day for the old man. “I
met him very courteously,” (meaning seri
ously) said Uncle Bob to one of the Presi
dent’s party later in the day. “Just think,
oh, I.ordy, that I should live sixty-three
years and then see a President.”
“Why, Bob, is he the first President you
ever met?”
“Oh, no. I seed Gen. Jackson and Mr.
Polk, but he is the first one I ever got in
hand. He’s a fine gentleman, very much
BO.”
Bob was much inclined to give reminis
cences of the stables, and he branched
off into a talk about Luke Blackburn.
PLEASED WITH MRS. CLEVELAND
A reference to Mrs. Cleveland recalled
him, and he said of her: “Oh, she do beat
them all, and she certainly do know a good
horse.” Passing the stables the dis
tinguished trio sauntered out into Deer
Park, and suddenly as they stood upon the
knoll taking in the enchanting beauty of
the scene a drove of more than 300 deer
came bounding past. Splendid large fel
lows they were, scampering as if for life,
and hardly touching the ground.
WHERE THEY CAME FROM.
This again was Uncle Bob’s work. As
soon as the visitors entered the park he had
the Jdeer corralled in a corner and then
drove them past in review. Belle Meade
farm is owned in common by the Jackson
brothers, who married two sisters, the
Misses Harding, daughters of the founders
of the establishment. Belle Meade man
sion, the present resting place of the Presi
dent, is a typical Southern house of the
highest class. It is a substantial two-story
brick structure of ample proportions, built
without much filagree or ornamentation.
A VISIT TO MRS. POLK.
After lunch the President and Mrs. Cleve
land, escorted by Gen. Jackson, drove into
Nashville to pay their respects to Mrs. Polk.
At the request of the visitors the affair was
made as informal as )>oBsible. it being de
signed merely as an interchange of courtesies
between the lady of the \\ hite House of
forty years ago and the lady of
to-day. There were present, by in
vitation of Mrs. Polk, Gov. Taylor,
Senator William B. Bate, ex-Gov. James D.
Porter, Major J. P. Thomas and several
other gentlemen of prominence in this city
and vicinity. The stately Poik mansion
was surrounded by a great crowd of people
of all social grades, all ages and both sexes,
gathered to see President and M rs. Cleveland.
The visitors were received at the Church
street entrance, Gov. Taylor offering his
arm to the President, and Mrs. Cleveland
taking that of George W. Fall, and they
entered the spacious parlor, w'here Mrs.
Polk was awaiting them. Gov. Taylor
made the presentation of the President to
Mrs. Polk. The latter extended her hand
and said: “Mr. President, I am, indeed, de
lighted to meet you.
“And Ito meet you, Mrs. Polk,” replied
the President. “I have looked forward to
this visit with most pleasant anticipation.”
MRS. CLEVELAND PRESENTED.
Mrs. Cleveland was presented, and the two
ladies conversed cordially a few minutes.
The other gentlemen present were then pre
sented to the President and Mrs. Cleveland,
after which the conversation became gen
eral, the President devoting himself almost
constantly during the brief remainder of
his stay to Mi's. Polk. He expressed fear
that the crowds of to-morrow night would
be annoying to her.
“ No, it pleases me,” replied the courtly
dame, “to see my people tender such an
ovation to President Cleveland.”
Then the two turned tboir conversation
to tho White House and Washington. The
lady was an interested questioner, and the
President a willing informant.
MRS. CLE > IN DEMAND.
Mrs. CleveU >d was the object of marked
attention from all the gentlemen present,
proving herself a captivating listener and
charming conversationalist. One of those
preseut was an old Irishman, a gentleman
of wealth and culture, who was introduced
by Gov. Porter. Mrs. Cleveland expressed
her delight at making the acquaintance of a
friend of Gov. Porter. The gentleman's
eyes twinkled as be looked at her a moment.
“Madam,” he said, “there is hut one re
mark I wish to make; you are prettier than
your pictures.”
A BOUQUET OF BOSES.
Mrs. Polk presented Mrs. Cleveland a
bouquet of Ma reelml roses in tlio name of
her grand niece. Miss Sadie Fall, who she
said sailed yesterday from Liverpool for
America. She then Invited the party to
refreshments, at which each guest was
served with v class of sherry seventy-five
years old. The guests after visiting
the tomb of President Polk
in the grounds adjoining the mansion, re
turned to Kollo Meade. Mrs. Vilas is quite
exhausted by the fatigues and excitement
of the journey from Madison, and has liecn
confined to her room nearly all day. It is
rejHirted to-night as doubtful whether she
will be able to proceed to-morrow.
Bradford’s Vote.
Starke, Fla., Oct. US.—Bradford county
has gone dry by n majority of 500, with an
Unusually light vote cast all over the coun
ty. Starke’s vote was: For selling 77,
against selling 205.
Bradford claims to he the banner prohibi
tion county in the State so far. The ladies
worked bal'd, giving a free lunch to all, wet
and dry.
A Forger to be Extradited.
Ottawa, Ont., Oct. It). —Tt is understood
that, the Department of Justice will issue a
warrant to-morrow for the extradition of
, E. Clinedist, of Virginia, now in jail at
bruntford, for forgery.
Base Ball.
At Now York—
Brooklyn 4 0 1 0 ft 1 10 o—lo
et. Loun 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 S—
base hits—Brooklyn 14, St. bonis 0.
Lrrors—Brooklyn 3. St. Louis a
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A MEETING OF THE LEAGUE.
Mr. O’Brien Burns a Copy of the Proc
lamation Forbidding It.
Dublin, Oct. 16.—The meeting at Wood
ford, which was proclaimed by the govern
ment, was held to-day, the proceedings be
ing conducted by Messrs. O’Brien, McGill
and others. The telegraph wires were cut
about midnight Saturday, thus preventing
communication with Dublin.
Mr. O’Brien was received by a great
crowd with rousing cheers. He burned a
copy of the proclamation forbidding the
holding of the meeting. This act aroused
the wildest enthusiasm. Five other mem
bers of Parliament made addresses. The
meeting dispersed in an orderly manner just
as the police put in an appearance.
THE GOVERNMENT MUST ACT.
London, Oct. 16.—The Morning Post,
referring editorially to the meeting at
Woodford, says: “It is utterly impossible
for the government to abstain from taking
very decisive action against, those who thus
contemptuously set them at defiance.”
The Standard thinks that the authorities
are somewhat blamable for the absence of
police from the Woodford meeting. It
hopes Mr. Balfour will take immediate
action regarding what it calls Mr. O’Brien’s
treasonable performance.
IRELAND READY TO FIGHT.
Jersey City, N. J., Oct. 16.—Sir Thomas
Henry Gratton Esmonde and Arthur O’Con
nor received a hearty welcome in this city
to-night at a crowded meeting at the
Academy of Music. Mr. O’Connor said:
“If there are any English spies present at
this meeting I want them to note
what I say. The Irish are ready to fight
for Ireland if they get a chance. Any
power or nation that England may
try to strike caq have 100,000
such men to fight against the British
Crown in three days’ notice.
[Applause.] They will bo willing to serve
for love of the thing and won’t ask for pay.
Many Irishmen would be only too glad to
begin more active service in the cause so
dear to them.
Brief speeches were made by Gov. Green,
Congressman McAdoo and Mr. T. Dunn
English, of Newark. Resolutions condemn
ing the Toryjcoercion bill, and pledging sup
port to the home rule movement were
unanimously adopted.
A GANG OF ROBBERS FIGHT.
Two Already Killed, and the Fate of
the Others Sealed.
Charleston, W. VA.,Oct. 16. —Fully3oo
citizens started out yesterday morning after
the robbers who murdered Mr Ryan, near
Walton, Raine county, last Thursday night.
After the house was robbed and the old
man shot, the robbers, thirteen in number,
compelled the family to send him up-stairs,
and to get breakfast for them. The officers
and citizens ran into the robbers last night
at George Duff’s residence, eight miles from
Sissonville, in this county, and were warned
to keep off by the robbers, who had taken
refuge in the house, fitted portholes, and
made other arrangements for protection.
FIRED UPON.
The murderers were fired upon,and George
Duff, Jr., was killed. Jake Coon was cap
tured and lynched. Five of the officers and
citizens were wounded. There are about
twenty robbers in the gang who have been
carrying on at a high rate. R. M. Duff,
George Drake and Frank Shambling are
prisoners, and await disposal by the vigi
lance committee. Coon is the man who
killed Rev. Thomas P. Ryan and
shot five of the vigilance commit
tee. It is believed that a full
confession will lie made and the whole gang
lynched. The vigilants are still after the
others, and it is said that a well-known
Stete detective is mixed up in the robbery.
MANNING’S SUCCESSOR.
But Little Doubt That Connery will be
Appointed.
Washington, Oct. 16. —When the Presi
dent returns next week one of the first ap
pointments he will be asked to consider by
the Department of State is that to the
vacant Mexican mission. There is every
reason to believe that the arrangement
made last winter with the full understand
ing of the Senate that Thomas B. Connery
should be promoted from Secretary of Le
gation to be Minister wheuever
the vacancy should occur will
be carried out. Of the others
mentioned for the place, Gen. Frisbie and
Gen. •it. M. B. Young have no chance at ail,
in any event. The suggestion that Gen.
Honrv R. Jackson should be askod to take
the Mexican mission again meets no favor
at the Department of State.
FRENCH CANADIANS EXCITED.
Ribbons of the Legion of Honor Bought
From the Caffarel Clique.
Montreal, Oct. 16.—Quite a flutter of
excitement exists in French Canadian so
ciety here over the decorations scandal in
France. Senator Sonocal, who was buried
yesterday, wore a ribbon of the Legion of
Honor, which, it was openly charged, had
been purchased by him from friends of Gen.
Boulanger. Numerous other Canadians are
involved, and the price paid is said to be
500f in each case.
WILSON brings suit.
Paris, Oct. 16.—M. Wilson, son-in-law of
President Grevy, has brought suit against
Lintransigeant for the statements made by
that paper in connection with the Caffarel
scandal.
BOTH ROBBE'-iS KILLED.
Messenger Smith will Receive
a Medal.
Elpaso, Tex., Oct. 16. — It has been as
certained that the train robbers who at
tempted to rob the Galveston, Harrisburg
and San Antonio express Friday, and who
were shot at by Express Messenger Smith,
were both killed. The body of the second
robber, who was supposed to have escaped,
was found yesterday fifty yards from the
scene of the fight. Both robbers are recog
nized here, but their names are unknowiL
Express Messenger Smith is to receive a
medal for his bravery.
An Audience With the Pope.
Rome, Oct. 16.-—The Pope to-day received
1,600 French pilgrims headed by Count
Mun, who had come to offer their congratu
lations on the occasion of his jubilee. \V hile
maintaining the necessity of State interven
tion to improve the lot of workmen, the
Pope advised the pilgrims to turn a deaf ear
to delusive promptings.
Miners Must Speak English.
Shamokin, Pa., Oct. 16.—The Union
Coal Company has issued orders to their
mine foremen to remove all persons work
ing in their mines who are unable to speak
and undei-stand the English language, seri
ous accidents being caused by misunder
st.*;ling of orders.
A Row With Anarchists.
Paris, Oct. 16.— A meeting of Anarchists,
which was addressed by Lewis Michel at
Menilmoutant to-day, endod in an affray
with the police. Many persons were
wounded by shots from revolvers. Three
arrests were m ade
SAVANNAH, GrA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1887.
A DEATH AND FOUR CASES.
Yellow Jack’s Foothold In Tampa Not
Strengthening Much.
Tampa, Fla., Oct. 16. — One death, that
of Mrs. Dempsey occurred to-day and four
new cases are reported, two in Old Tampa
and two in Ybor City. Three are in very
critical condition. The outlook to-night is
not so bright. The weather is gloomy and
raining. The Ybor City patients are
all negroes. Work on the hospital begins
to-morrow.
PALATKA ALL RIGHT.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 16.—Advices
from Palatka are favorable. The city is in
good sanitary condition. No further cases
of fever are reported.
Twenty-eight business men made a per
sonal inspection of the backyards of the
residences, but did not deem instructions to
clean up necessary, The inmates of Wesley,
where the only victim died, art all well.
The house has been fumigated and no person
is allowed to leave or enter.
WATCHING THE QUARANTINE.
Sanford, Fla., Oet. 16.—Dr. Mitchell is
here in conference with Dr. Wylly. The
Putnam and Volusia county inspectors are
unsatisfactory to Dr. Mitchell. The doctors
will go down to visit the Plant City quaran
tine camp on a special train in tne morning.
The quarantine is perfect in this section, and
there is no sickness. The heavy rainfall of
the past week caused very had washouts on
the Orange City and Atlantic railroad, ami
also on the Titusville branch of the Jack
sonville, Tampa and Key West road.
POLITICS AT CHARLESTON.
A Lively interest Taken In the Ap
proaching Municipal Election.
Charleston, Oct. 16 —The political pot
is fairly boiling now, and the city is once
more plunged into the fierce canvass. No
man can as yet tell what will be the out
come. At present there are five parties or
ganized and actively engaged in the fight.
Those are the Democratic party, the young
Democrats, the United Labor, the Republi
can Protective Union, and the G. O. P. of
the days of good stealing in the South. The
alleged new deal Democratic party has
disappeared. A brief review of the situa
tion will enable the readers of the Morning
News to get an intelligent idea of the
fight.
THE REGULAR DEMOCRATS
have held their ward meeting and have or
ganized their ward clubs. The young De
mocracy attended th&se meetings and put
out their candidates for 'duo officers. They
were successful in the Sixth and Eleventh
wards oidy. The other ten wards elected
regular Democrats on the old party lines.
The candidates elected, however, have
got to go before the people at a primary
election on Oct 23, which may change the
result.
THE YOUNG DEMOCRACY
have in the mean time decided on organiz
ing ward clubs for the purpose of concen
trating their strength and using it at the
Democratic primaries. They are pledged,
however, to stand by the nominees of the
regular Democracy for Mayor and Aider
men. Their fight will be made in the con
vention.
THE UNITED LABOR PARTY
has also received fresh accessions, having
absorbed the new deal Democrats and a
portion of the negro vote. They held a
meeting on Thursday night, resolved to or
ganize ward clubs and issued a call for a con
vention to be held Nov. 14 to nominate a
full municipal ticket.
THE REPUBLICAN PROTECTIVE UNION
has already organized its ward clubs with a
tolerably strong memhershipand announces
its intention to sell out to the party bidding
the highest for its votes, provided it can
control its votes, which is exceedingly
doubtful. Last, but not least,
THE “GRAND OLD PARTY,”
the corpse of 1876, has fwgun to recover
from its long sleep. The few of old leaders
who are left havo shaken themselves to
gether and started out to rally the remains
of the corpse. An intelligent colored man,
who is at the head of the movement, told
this correspondent that the G. O. P. did not
expect to put a full ticket in the field. It
would endeavor to register its voters, and
get them well in hand. Having done this
it would ask for estimates from whatever
party had full tickets in the field, and
would award its votes to the highest bidder.
In ease no bids are received it would con
centrate its strength on whatever ward it
had the best show of winning, and thus try
to run in an Alderman or two.
THERE ARE TWENTY-FOUR ALDERMEN
and six School Commissioners to De elected.
Under the law governing municipal elec
tions, twelve aldormeu are elected at large,
and twelve by the wants respectively; that
is to say, each ward has the privilege of
electing, itself, one of the two Aldermen
who constitute the quota of the ward. The
School Commissioners are elected by their
districts, each district consisting of two
wards, voting for its own commissioner.
It will be seen, therefore, that if the G.O. P.
can get its voters registered, it might, by
concentrating its strength in certain wards,
outvote the Democrats, especially if the lat
ter are divided.
BISMARCK FiNED.
He Is Charged with Trespass and Helps
to Convict Himself.
From the St. Stephen's Review.
During Prince Bismarck’s stay at Marien
bad the Chancellor was! in the habit of tak
ing long walks unattended and one day,
finding himself somewhat far from the
town, took the shortest cut back. His way
led him across some fields and the Prince
marched vigorously forward, forgetful of
the fact that he was trespassing. Suddenly
he was hailed in loud stentorian tones and
on looking back saw a stout country
woman pursuing him. The indignant
proprietress of the fields accused him to his
face of his offense and declared that she
would follow him and give him in charge.
She proved as good as her word and tramped
after the Chancellor until the high road was
reached and a police officer came in view.
The worthy woman formally mode her oom
plaint and the police officer was about to
arrest the offender.
Struck by the resemblance of the tres
passer to a certain high functionary, the
police officer cautiously demanded bis name.
On hearing the name the policeman was
simply paralyzed with fear, Rnd the over
bold country-woman, gathering up her
skirts, fled precipitately. Naturally, the
police officer was reluctant to take the
charge, hut Prince Bismarck insisted upon
going to the station. When there ho
charge 1 himself with the offense of trespass,
and paid the fine customary in such matters.
In addition to this the Prince sent a present
by way of consolation to the woman whoso
land he had invaded.
Happening to want a place to strike a
parlor match to light a gas stove, says a
writer in the Chicago Journal of Commerce,
I struck the match upon the stove over the
fas. The gas ignited but the match did not.
laid the match aside, and as the gas-burner
was wanted I used the same match until I
had lighted it twenty-throe times, and the
match was apparently as good as ever.
Cannot someone invent an improvod lighter
from this suggestion f
SIX’S FORBIDDEN HONEY.
MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE PERISH
BY INDULGING IN IT.
Trashy Literature Put Under This
Head by Rev. Talmage—Stimulating
Liquids in the Same Category—De
struction Lurks in the Gaming Table
—Stock Gambling Also in the List.
Brooklyn, Oct. 16.— “ Seven hundred
and eighty-one thousand three hundred and
sixteen dollars ami twenty-four cents have
been paid cash down in this church for re
ligious uses and Christian work during the
nineteen years of my ministry," said the
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. IX, in answer
to the misrepresentations that have been go
ing through some of the religious papers de
preciating the work of the Brooklyn Taber
nacle. After giving out the hymn:
One God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Dr. Talmage preached a sermon, the subject
of which was, “Forbidden Honey,’ the text
being 1. Samuel xiv., 43: “I did but taste
a little honey with the end of the rod
that was in my hand, and, 10, I must die."
Dr. Talmage said:
The honey bee is a most ingenious archi
tect, a Christopher Wren among insects, o
geometer drawing hexagons and pentagons,
a freebooter robbing the Helds of pollen and
aroma, a wondrous creature of God whose
biography, written by Huber and Swam
merdam, is an enchantment for any lover
of nature. Virgil celebrated the bee in his
fable of Aristaeus, and Moses, and Samuel,
and David, and Solomon, and Jeremiah,
and Ezekiel, and St. John used the delica
cies of bee manufacture as a Bible symbol.
A miracle of formation is the bee: Five
eyre, two tongues, the outer having a sheath
of protection nairs on all sides of its tiny
l >ody to brush up the particles of flowers, its
flight so straight that all the world
knows of the bee line. The honeycomb is a
palace such as no one but God could plan
and the honey bee construct; its cells some
times a dormitory, and sometimes a store
house, and sometimes a cemetery. Thase
winged toikrs first make eight strips of wax
and by their antennae, which 1111: to them
hammer, and chisel, and square, and
plumb-line, fashion them for use. Two and
two. three workers shape the wall. If an
accident happen they put up buttresses or
extra beams to remedy the damage. When
about the year 1776 an insect, before un
known, in the night-time attacked the bee
hives all over Europe,, and the men who
owned them were in vain trying to plan
something to keep out the invader that was
the terror of the bee-hives of the Continent,
it was found that everywhere the bees had
arranged for their own protection, and
built before their honeycombs an especial
wall of wax with port-holes through winch
the bees might go to and fro, but not large
enough to admit the winged combatant,
called the Sphinx Atropos.
Do you know that the swarming of the
bees is divinely, directed? The mother bee
starts for anew home, and because of this
the other bees of the hive get into an excite
ment, which raises the heat of the hive
some four degrees and they must die unless
they leave their heated apartments, and
they follow the mother bee and alight on
the branch of a tree, and cling to each
other an ! hold on until a committee of two
or throe havo explored the regioiiand found
the hollow of a tree or rock not far off from
a stream of water, and they here set up a
new colony, and ply their aromatic indus
tries, and give themseives to the manufac
ture of the saccharine edible. But who can
tell the chemistry of that mixture of sweet
ness, part of it tho very life of the beo aud
part of it tiie life of the fields*
Plenty of this luscious product was hang
ing in the woods of Both-aven during tho
time of Waul and Jonathan. Their army
was in pursuit of an enemy that by God’s
command must bo exterminated. The
soldiery were positively forbidden to stop
to eat anything until the work was done.
If they disobeyed they were accussed. Com
ing through the woods they found a place
where the bees had been busy, a great honey
manufactory. Honey gathered in the hol
low of tho trees until it had overflowed upon
the ground ill great profusion of sweetness.
All the army obeyed orders and touched it
cot. save Jonathan, and h: . „ k.i.jvvln- in,
military ui dc/ ,oom, abstinence dipped the
end of a stick he had in his hand into the can
died liquid and as, yellow, and brown, and
tempting, it glowed on the end of the stick
he put it to his mouth and ate the honey.
Judgment fejl upon him, and but for special
intervention ho would have been slain. 111
my text Jonathan announces his awful mis
take: “I did but taste a little honey with
the end of the rod that was in my hand,
and, 10, I must die.” Alas, what multitudes
of people in all ages have been damaged by
forbidden honey, by which I mean tempta
tion, delicious and attractive, but damaging
and destructive.
Literature fascinating but deathful comes
in this category. Where one good, honest,
healthful book is read now there are one
hundred made up of rhetorical trash con
sumed with avidity. When the boy on the
cars comes through with a pile of publica
tions look over the titles and notice that
nine out of ten of the books are depleting
and injurious. All tho way from New
York to Chicago or New Orleans notice
that objectionable liook- dominate. Taste
for pure literature is poisoned by this scum
of tne publishing house. Every book in
which sin triumphs over virtue, or in
which a glamour is thrown over ike.,ipation,
or which leaves you at its last line with less
respect for the marriage institution and less
abhorrence for the paramour, is a depres
sion of your own moral character. The
book binding may be attractive, and the
plot dramatic, and startling, and the stylo
of writing sweet as the honey that Jona
than dipped iqi with his rod, but your best
interests forbid it, your moral safety for
bids it, your God forbids it, and one taste
of it may lead to such bad results that you
may have to say at the close of the experi
ment or at the close of a misimproved life
time: “I did but taste a little honey with
the rod that was in my hand, and, 10, I
must die.”
Corrupt literature is doing more to-day
for the disruption of domestic life than any
other cause. Elopements, marital intrigues,
sly correspondence, fictitious 11 imes given
at Jiost office windows, clandestine meetings
in parks, and at ferry gates, and in hotel
parlors, and conjugal penuries are among
the damnable results. When a woman,
young or old, gets her head thoroughly
stuffed with the modern novel she is hi ap
palling peril. But someone will say: “Tne
heroes are so adroitly knavish, and the per
sons so bewitehingly untrue, and tho turn
of the story so exquisite, ami all the charac
ters so enrapturing, I cannot quit them.”
My brother, my sister, you can find styles
of literature just as charming that will ele
vate and punfv, and ennoble, and Chris
tianize while they please. The devil does
not own all the honey. There is a wealth
of good books coming forth from our pub
lishing houses that leaves no excuse for tho
choice of that which is debauching to body,
mind and soul. Go to some intel
ligent men or women, and ask for a list, of
books that will be strengthening to your
mental and moral condition. Life is so
short and your time for improvement so
abbreviated that you cannot afford to fill
up with husks, and cinders, aud debris. In
the interstices of business that young man
is reading that which will prepare him to bo
a merchant prince, and that young woman
is filling her mind with an intelligence that
will yet either make her the chief attraction
of a good man’s home or give her an inde
pendence of character that w ill qualify her
to build her own home and maintain it in a
happiness that requires no augmentation
from any of our rougher sex. That young
man or young woman can by tho right
literary and moral improvement of
tho spare ten minutes hero or there
in every day, rise head and shoulders in
prosperity, and character, and influence
above the loungers who read nothing or
road that which Tiedwarfs. See all tho for
ests of good American literature dripping
with h< nicy. Why pick up tho honeycombs
that have in them the fiery bees which will
sting you with an eternal poison while you
taste it?. 0110 book may for you or me de
cide everything for this World or the next.
It was a turning point with mo when in
Wynkoop’s bookstore, Syracuse, one day I
picked up a book called “The Beauties of
lluskin.” It was only a book of extracts,
but it was all pure honey, and I was not
satisfied until I had purchased all his works,
at that time expensive beyond an easy
capacity to own them, and what
a heaven I went through in read
ing his “Seven Lamps of Architecture,”
and his “Stones of Venice,” it is impossible
for mo to descrilm except by saying that it
gave me a rapture for good books, and an
everlasting disgust for decrepit or immoral
books that will last me while my immortal
soul lasts. All around the church and the
world to-day there are busy hives of intelli
gence occupied by authors and authoresses,
from whose pens drip a distillation which is
tho very nectar of heaven; and why will
you thrust your rod of inquisitiveness into
tho deatliful saccharine of perdition?
Stimulating liquids also come into the
category of temptations delicious but death
ful. You say: “I cannot bear the taste of
intoxicating liquor, and how any man can
like it is to me an amazement.” Well then,
it is no credit to you that you do not take
it. Do not brag about your total absti
nence, because it is not from any principle
that you reject alcholisni, but for tho same
reason that, you reject certain styles of food
—you simply don’t like tho taste of them.
But multitudes of people havo a natural
fondness for all kinds of intoxicant. They
like it so much that it makes them smack
their Ups to look at it. They are dyspeptic,
and they take it to aid digestion, or they
are annoyed by insomnia, and they take it
to produce sleep, or they are troubled,
and they take it to make them oblivi
ous, or they feel good* and they
must celebrate their hilarity. They begin
with mint julep sucked through two straws
cm the Long Branch piazza and end in the
ditch, taking from a jug a liquid half kero
sene and half whisky. They not only like
it, but it is an all-consuming passion of
Issly, mind aud soul, and after a while
have it they will, though one wine glass of
it should cast the temporal and eternal de
struction of themselves, and all their fami
lies. and the whole human race. They
would say: “I am sorry it is going to cost
me, and my family, and all the world's
population so very much, but there it goes
to my li{is, and now let it roll over my
parched tongue and down my heated
throat, tho sweetesst the most in
spiring, the most rapturous thing that
ever thrilled mortal or immortal.”
To cure the habit before it comes to
its last stages, various plans were tried in
olden times. This plan was recommended
in the books: When a man wanted to reform
he put shot or bullet into the cup or glass of
strong drink—one additional shot or bullet
each day, that displaced so much liquor.
Bullet after bullet, added day by day, of
course the liquor liecame less and less until
the'bullets would entirely fill up the glass
and there was no room for the liquid, and
by that time, it was said, the inebriate
would be cured. Whether anyone ever was
cured in that way, 1 know not, but by long
experiment it is found that the only way is
to stop short, off, and when a man does that
he needs God to help him. Anil there have
been more cases than you can count when
God has so helped tho man that he quit for
ever, and I could count a score of them here
to-day, some of them pillars in the bouse of
God.
One would suppose that men would take
warning from some of the ominous names
givon to the intoxicants, and stand off from
the devastating influence. You have no
ticed, for instance, that some pf the restau
,. .Is are ailed The Shades”—typical ul
the fact that it puts a man’s reputation in
the shade, and his morals in the shade, and
his prosperity in the shade, and his wife and
children in the shade, and his immortal
destiny in tho shade.
Now, I find on some of the liquor signs in
all our cities the words “Old Crow"—might
ily suggestivo of a carcass and the filthy
raven that swoops upon it. “Old Crow!”
Men and women without numbers slain of
rum but unburied, and tills evil is pecking
at their glazed eyes, and pecking at their
bloated cheeks, and pecking at their de
stroyed manhood and womanhood, thrust
ing iie-ik and claw Into the mortal remains
of what was once gloriously alive,
but now morally dead. “Old Crow!”
But, alas! how many take no warn
ing. They make me think of
C.rsar on his way to assassination fearing
nothing; though his statue in the hall
crashed into fragments at his feet, and a
scroll containing the names of the conspire
tors was thrust into his hands, yet walking
right on to meet the dagger that was to take
his life. This infatuation of strong drink is
so mighty in many a man that though his
fortunes are crashing, and bis health is
crashing, and his domestic interests are
crashing, and we hand him a long scroll
containing the names of perils that await
him, he goes straight on to physical, and
mental, and moral assassination. In pro
portion as any style of alcoholism is pleas
ant to your taste, and stimulating to your
nerves ami for a time delightful to all your
physical and mental constitution, is the
{sail awful! Remember Jonathan and the
forbidden honey in tin woods of lieth-aven.
Furthermore, the gamester’s indiilgeuco
must bo put in the list of temptations delic
ious but destructive, i have crossed the
ocean eight times, and always one of the
best rooms has, from morning till late at
night, been given up to gambling practices.
I heard of many men who went on board
with enough money for European excursion
who landed without enough money to get
their baggage up to the hotel or railroad
station. To many there is a complete fasci
nation in games of hazard or the risking of
money on possibiliti's. It seems 11s natural
for them to liet as to eat. Indeed the hunger
for food is often overpowered with the
hunger for wagers, as in the cose of Lord
Sandwich, a persistent gambler, who not
being willing to leave tho dice table long
enough for th. taking of food, invented a
preparation of food that he could take with
out stopping the game; namely, a slice of
beef betwoou two slices of bread, which was
named after I/>rd Sandwich. It Is absurd
for those of us who have never felt tho
fascination of the wager to speak slight
ingly of the temptation. It has slain a
multitude of intellectual and moral giants,
men and women stronger than you or I.
Down under its power went glorious Oliver
Goldsmith, and Gibbon the historian,
anil Charles Fox the statesman,
and in olden times famous Senators
of the United States, who used to
be as regularly at the gambling house all
night as they were in the halls of legis
lation by dav. Oh, tho tragedies of the
faro table! i know persons who began with
a slight stoke in a lady’s parlor, and ended
with the suicido’s pistol at Monte Carlo,
They played with the square pieces of hone
with black marks on them, not knowing
that Satan was playing for their bones at
the same time, and was sure to sweep nil
the stakes off on his side of the table. The
last New York Legislature sanctioned the
mighty evil last spring by passing a law
for its defensqat the race tracks, and many
young men m these cities lost all their
wages at Coney Island this summer, and
this fall are Ixirrowing from the money
tills of their employers, or arranging by
means of false entry to adjust. their de
moralized finances. Every man who voted
for the Ives pool bill, has on his hands and
forehead the blood of these souls.
But in this connection some young con
verts say to tne: “Is it right to play cards?
Is there any harm in a game of whist or
euchre?” Well, I know good men who play
whist, and euchre, and other styles of game
without any wagers. I had a friend who
played cards with his wife and children,
ana then at the close said: “Come, now,
let us have prayers.” I will not judge
other men’s consciences, but ! tell you that
cards are in my mind so associated with the
tem|Hiral and eternal damnation of splendid
young men, that I should
no sooner say to my family:
“Come, lot us have a game of cards,”
than I would go into a menagerie and say:
“Come, let us nave a game of rattlesnakes,”
or into a cemetery, and, sitting down by a
marble slab, say to the gravediggers:
“Come, lot us have a game of skulls.” Con
scientious young ladies are silently saying
to me while I sixak: “Do you think card
playing will do us any harm?” Perhaps
not, but how will you feel if in the great
day of eternity, when we are asked to give
an account of our influence, some man will
say to you: “I was introduced to games of
chance in the year Inh7, in Brooklyn, nt
your house, and I went on from that sport
to something moro exciting, nnd went on
down until I lost my business, and lost my
morals, and lost my soul, and these chains
that you soo on my wrists and feet are the
chains of a gamester’s doom, and I am on
my way to tho gambler’s hell.” Honey at
the start, eternal catastrophe at the last.
Stock gambling comes into the same cata
logue. It must be verv exhilarating to go
into Wall street, New York, or State street,
Boston, or Third street, Pliilodelphia, and
depositing a small sum of money, run the
risk of taking out a fortune. Many men
are doing an honest and safe business in the
stock market, and you are an ignoramus if
you do not know that it is just ns legitimate
to deal in stocks as to deal in coffee or
sugar, or flour. But nearly all the outsiders
who go there on a little financial excursion
lose all. The old spiders eat up the unsus
pecting flies. I hail a friend who put his
hand on his hip imcket, and said tome in
substance: “I have there the value of a
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” His
home is to-day penniless. What was the
matter? Wall stroot. Of the vast ma
jority who are victimized you hear
not one word. One great stock firm
goes down, and whole columns of news
papers discuss their fraud, or their dis
aster, and wo are presented with their feat
ures and their biography. But where one
such famous firm sinks, five hundred un
known men sink with them. The great
steamer goes down, and all the little boats
are swallowed in the same engulfment.
Gambling is gambling, whether in stock
or breadstuff's, or dice or race track betting.
Exhilaration at tho start, |md a raving
brain, and a shattered nervous system, anil
a sacrificed property, and a destroyed soul
at the last. Young man, buy no lottery
tickets, purchase no prize packages, bet on
no base nail games or yacht racing, have no
faith in luck, answer no mysterious circu
lars proposing great income for small in
vestment, shoo away the buzzards that
hover around imr hotels trying to entrap
strangers. Go out and make an Inmost liv
ing. Have God on your wide and boa can
didate for heaven. Remember all tho
paths of sin are banked with
flowers at the start, and there are
plenty of helpful hands to fetch tho gay
charger to your door and hold the stirrup
while you mount. But further on tho horse
plunges to the bit in a slough inextricable.
The best honey is not like that which Jona
than took on the end of the rod and brought
to his lip, but that which God puts on tho
banqueting table of Mercy, at which we are
all invited to sit. 1 was roading of a boy
among the mountains of Switzerland as
cending a dangerous plaeo with his father
and the guides. The boy stopped on the
edge of the cliff nnd said: “There is a
flower I moan to get.” Come away from
there,” said the father, “you will fall off.”
“No," said he, “I must got that beautiful
flower,” and the guides rushed toward him
to. pull him back, when they heard
him say, “I almost have it,” as he fell
two thousand feet. Birds of prey were
seen a few days after circling
through the air and lowering gradually to
tho place where tho corpse lay. Why seek
flowers off the edge of a precipice when you
may walk knee deep amid the full blooms
of the very Paradise of God? When a man
may sit at a king’s banquot. why will ho go
down the steps and contend for the gristle
and bones of a hound’s kennel? “Sweeter
than honey and the honeycomb.” says
David, “is the truth of God.” “With honey
out of the rock would I have satisfied thee,
says God to the recreant. Here is houey
gathered from the blossoms of trees of life,
and with a rod made out of the wood of tho
cross I dip it up for all your sou's.
Tho poet Hesiod tells of an ambrosia and
a nectar, tho drinking of which would muke
men live forever, and one sin of this honey
from the Eternal Rock will give you im
mortal life with God. Come off of tho ma
larial lovels of a sinful life. Come and live
on tho uplands of grace where the vine
yards sun theinselv&s. Oh, taste aud see
that the I su'd is gracious. Be happy now
and happy forevor. For those who tako a
different course the honey will turn to gall.
For many things I have admired Percy
Shelley, tho great English' jxxd, but I de
plore the fact that it was u great sweetness
to him to dishonor God. The poem “Queen
Mab” has in it the maligning of the deity.
Tho infidel jkx:l was impious enough to ask
for Rowland Hill’s Surrey Chajxd that tie
might denounce tho Christian religion. He
was in great, glee against God and tho truth.
But lie visited Italy, and one day on the
Mediterranean with two friends in a boat,
which was twenty-four fisit long, ho was
coming toward shore when an hour’s squall
struck the water. A gentleman standing on
shore through a glass saw many boats
tossed in this squall, but all outrode tho
terror except one,that in which Shelley, the
infidel poet, aud his two friends were sail
ing, That never came ashore, but the txxiies
of two of the occupants were washed upon
the beach, one of them th) poe‘. A funoral
pyre was built on tho sea shore hv souio
classic friends, and the two lx dies were
consumed. Poor Hbelley! He would lave
no,God while he lived, and he probably had
no God when he died. “The Isird knowetli
the way of the righteous, but the way of
the ungodly shall perish ”
Koine time ago a bicycle left standing on
a New Haven street, with the sadille rest
ing on the curb, was run over and smashed
by a wagon. The owner sued for damages,
and the defendant now sets up as a defense
that the horse was blind in the eye that
should have perceived the “bike," the
driver’s Hue of vision was obscured by the
horse’s head, and the vehicle had no busi
ness there. The suit is attracting much at
tention from the local ’cyclers, inasmuch as
it is thought it will assist toward settling
the much disputed question of a “bicycler's
rights.”
I riMCEfIIO A VKAR I
| 5 CE.VTB A OPV. f
SHOT AT ACIII KCU DOOR,.
A MILLIONAIRE BANKER FIRED ON
BY HIS STEPSON.
Every One of the Five Bullets Takes
Effect and Death Considered Certain
Charges of Adultery in Divorca
Proceedings Prompted the Shooting
-The Wife Glad Of It.
Chicaoo, Oct. 16. —Stephen W. Rawson,
President of the Union Trust and Saving*
Bank of this city, was shot as he emerged
from the Third Rreabyterian church to-day,
by bis stepson, William Lee, aged 17. Raw
son hail lioen charged by his wife with per
jury and other offenses. Ho, on the other
hand, utleged that she, although prominent
in society and a lieautiful woman in appeal*
anoe, was really a disreputable, ill-tempered
adventuress, who coveted only his money.
DIVORCE SUITS.
For a year or moro the two have beet*
fighting each other in the divorce courts
and within a week the banker lias filed
against her additional charges of adultery.
For this insult to his mother, Lee shot tun
gray-haired millionaire, his stepfather, five
times, in a throng of jxxiple near the church
door, every bullet taking effect. Mr. Raw
son’s wounds are regarded as mortal. Tlia
murderer was arrested at his own request.
MRS. RAWSON OLAD OF IT.
When apprised of the murder Mrs. Raw
son said to a reporter: “lam glad of. it.
Ho deserved it."
“What was it done for?” askod the re
porter.
“Because Ilawson has made me out on the
street to lie a public prostitute. I’ll stand
by tho boy,” she cried, raising her arm with
a dramatic gesture “He did no more than
any boy would do. He is tho son of lit*
mothor.
TRULY A GREAT RECORD.
The Wonderful Increase in Railroads
—Railroad Men.
From a Speech by Chaunuy 31. Pepeiv.
Forty-five years ago tho parent of all tlia
railroads in tho Grand Central depot was
opened—the old Harlem Railroad—and at
that time there were 350 miles of railroads
in the United States, ami 1,000 railroad
employes; forty years ago the Hudson river,
and the New York and New Haven rail
roads were opened, and at that time there
were 7.000 miles of railroads and 5,000 rail
road employee, and $300,000,000 of railroad
eapital; to-day, forty years after, there are
140,000 miles of railroads, 700,000 railroad
employee, and $K(X),ooo,ooo invested in rail
road capital in the United States. [Ap
plause.] All other agencies combined are
os nothing compared with what the rail
road has done i.i the development of the
United States, and in making this country
precisely what it is. For every mile of rail
road os it is built out on the prairie 100,-
000 acres of land are brought under cultiva
tion, and that 100,000 acres of land flaming
with a harvest next year, adds that much
to the wealth, happiness aud prosperity of
the country. One of our railroads four
years ago extended its line during the sum
mer 1100 miles across the unbroken prairie,
where the only inhabitants were the prairie
wolf and prairie dog. and the next, year tha
settler followed, anil two years after the pro
duce came over the line to feed the workere
of the East, addixl millions to the national
wealth, and the wilderness had become au
embryoHtato of tho American Union. [Ap
plause.]
Now, there wore east in the last Presiden
tial election 10,GOO,<>00 votes. Of that 10,-
000,000 of votes it is sufe to say that 5,000,000
of them were wage-earners,asdistinguish!*!
from farmers, merchants *1 professional
men, and of that 5,000,000 of wage-earners,
700,000 were railroad men, so of the wsge
oarners of the United Ktates, every filth
man was getting his living out of the rail
road. When you take the 700,000 railroad
employes and their families, giving theta nil
average of six each, and the 1,000,000 of
men who are engaged in the manufacture
of railroad supplies, anil tho men, women
and children woo are diqietident upon the
income from #HbO,000,dl)0 investod in
railroads, you have, of the 00,000,006
of people of the United States one-half of
them living upon tho railroads. [Ap
plause. 1
We have not yet lx>gun to appreciate who
these railroad men are nnd what they are
doing and itave done. You hear a ranting
demagogue howling about tho danger of
railroad influence and -ailroad men in poli
tics; you read wild statements about the
jKiril to the public weal from the men in tho
railv'ay service. Take tho census of ail
other employments and ascertain how many
commit rimes and break the laws and aro
brought up before tho police courts, aud
then take an equal numbor of railroad men
and make a comparison, anti you will find,
every time, that the record of law-abiding
citizenship is on the side of the railroad
ineu. [Applause.]
The Oldest Canary.
From the Philadelphia Impiiffr.
Hearing of the great loss Mr. Joshua E.
Willis had met with in the death of his well
known net canary, a reporter called upon
him at his Chestnut stroot residence to ques
tion him about its history. “My canary
that died this morning,’’ said Mr. Willis,
“was, I believe, the longest lived on reaprd.
He was born in 1803 and died yesterday,
being over 34 years old. He was twice
crippled, his leg fractured and his wing
broken. He was always cheerful and a
beautiful singer until about three years'
ago, when he became blind, and, strange to
say, refused to eat seed. ‘Dick’ was an
object of interest to all the bird fanciers,
and they frequently dropped in to ask about
the ‘old voter,’ as lie was railed. I attribute
Ids long life to feeding him on a little meat,
particularly' during the summer, when I
gave him some three or four times a week.
Occasionally I used to give him a small
piece of fat salt pork, and 1 never gavo
him sugar, crackers or anything sweet. I
got the idea of giving him meat by watch
ing him pick the feathers from his body, as
all birds do, and taking the quill end iu h*
mouth.”
The Dog Failed Him.
From the Cambridge <S. Y.) Pott.
A certain resident of this village is the
proud possessor of a handsome Newfound
land dog and a small boy. He had read
much of the instinct possessed by this brood
of dogs, which leads them to rescue people
from drowning. One day not long since
the man, the dog, and the small boy wew
walking along the hanks of the stream that
Hows through this village. Coming to a
place whoro the water was over the boy’s
head the idea occurred to the man that there
was an opportunity to test the life-saving
qualities of the dog, and on the impulse of
the moment he seized the child ana threw
him in. The dog, instead of rushing to the
rescue, as according to all authorities he
should have done, sat upon the bank us un
concerned as an old bachelor at a wedding,
and nd urging could make him play the part
he was cast for in the little drama. The re
sult was that the man, to save his child's
life, had to plunge into the stream. It is
worth taking a quite journey to hear him
give his opinion of the life-saving qualities
of a Newfoundland dog.