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( ESTABLISHED 4880. 1 | J. H. ISI ILL, Editor and Proprietor, f 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 |Jltofning 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.