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Newspaper Page Text( THE MORSISB NEWS. I Establishkb ISM. L'JOOItroRiTKD 18S8. > j J. H. ESTILL President. | LANDS OYER THE OCEAN. ARCHBISHOP LOOOE BITTERLY DENOUNCES ITALY. A Declaration That Orass Would Grow In the Streets of Rome If the Pope Departed—The Peasantry Rep resented as in Worse Condition Than Those of Ireland. Dublin*, Sept, 29.—Archbishop Logue, Catholic primate of Ireland, preaching in Armagh cathedral to-day, referred in the strongest terms to Italy’s treatment of the p:pe. He declared that the Italian peas antry were overtaxed and in worse cor.di ti n than the Donegal and Connemara peasants; that the Italians were emigrating iaster than ’he Irish, and that the Italian government hau e; circled the Vatican with troops, k . owing that if the pope departed grass would soon grow m the streets of Home. EXPOSITION AWARD!. Speeches Made by President Carnot and Premier lirard. !*aris, Sept. 29.—The exhibition awards were di-tributed at the Palais de Industrie to-day. Preside t Carnet and Premier Tiraril made speeches, ia which they ex pressed hea. ty thanks to the foreign powers and exhibitors who had contributed to the gr.at success and brilliancy of the exhibi uo;. President Carnot said that France w uld not forget these inarits of esteem and sympathy. Ho dwelt up in the value of such a lesson at a time when the study of rial questions and examination of means for defending commercial interests were more than ever necessary, and he hoped it wo ild open up an era of peace, and that the guests would carry away enligh eued views winch wou.d not be without effect upon the relations between the nations. The exhibi tion would then have served the great cause of peace and humanity. EUROPE’S TOILERS. A Settlement of the strike at Rotter dam Probablo. London, Sept. 29. —Tbornycraft & Cos., eugiiteors and boat-builders, have conceded an advance of wages demanded by their workmen. Joan Burn , socialist and labor agita tor, has seat £3.10 to Rotterdam to aid the strikers. A CONFLUENCE COMMITTEE. Rotterdam, Sapt. 29.—The striking dcckmen havo appointed a committee to :oufer witu the companies and to organize relief measures. The animosity of the strikers appears to be only against the stevedores who are accused of sweating riion. Many are willing io resume work I .ending nego iatious with the employers. A speedy sot.lament is expo ted. Natalie at Belgrade. Ker Presence Ignored by ths Govern ment Officials. Belouade, Sept. 29.—Ex-Quoen Natalie arrived here to-day. Her presence was to tally ignored by tho government official, but she was received most enthusiastically by crowds that thronged the streets through which she passed. On private residences and places of business throughout the city Hags were displayed in her bailor. The Official Gazette, in announcing that no official reception will be given ex-Queen Natalie, asserts that ex-King Milan has the ic e rignt 11 regulate the relations between ex-Queen Natalie and son, MEXICAN MATTERS. The Floods Continue—No Yellow Fever at Vera Cruz l liis Yea-. City of Mexico, Sep.. 29.—The floods at Ceiaya and Lagos continue. The first train on the Central railroad got through tc-dav. National road trains will not be able to go through for several days, but pa-sengers and mails are transferred from one section to the ut er. /\ iastel,a Clark, editor of the Two Republics (newspaper), left for New York to-day. The health report from Vera Cruz says tnere lias not been a single case of yellow faver there this year. HERVE OUT OF THE RACE. Boulanger Favors the Conservative Candidate at Boulogne. Paris, Sept. 29.—As a result of his visit to Comte de Paris at the Alshean house, M. Herve has retired from the election contest in his district in favor of the Boulangist candidate. Y ett , e f r °m Gon. Bo danger is published Boulogne in which the general asks his upporters in that city to transfer their ows to the conservative candidate. * * le Reichstag to be Dissolved. c(n * > ’ EHI - IN ’i Sept. 29.—The Kreuz Zeitung u ‘ at tiie reicustag will be dissolved ' V® the end of the year, and that there u be no time for the consideration of the military bill. italv Shoa’s Only Medium. Rome, Sept. 29.—8 y a treaty between lnt, g,ailJ ami King Monelek of Shoa the tier engages to c minunicate with other powers only through Italy. Lied a Natural Death. vit° V ? 0 - v ' Sa Pt. 29.-In the Weldon case jestenlay, medical men testified that Wei uon (j le d a natural death. The Captive Spaniards Released. Tangier, Sept. 29.—The crew of the ipanuh vessel captured by Rifßans off the rocco coast have been released. OUR MINISTER TO HAYTI. -Tederick Douglass to Leave Washing ton for New York To-Day. T> ashington, Sept. 29.— Frederick Doug ‘ass, the new United States minister to bayti, will loave this city to morrow morning for New York, tiitr •k® will immediately board -f®. Rniied States steamshipSKearsarge, inch will convey him to Hayti. Minister ouglass says that the Kearsarge will leave 1 Brooklyn navy yard Tuesday morning -10 o clock, and that he expects to get to port at .Hayti in time to see President nppulyte’a inauguration on Oct. 8. E.YES CLOSED IN DEATH. Judge W. 3. Sima of Gadsden County Gone to His Laßt Reward. CHATTAHooCHii, Fla., Sept. 29.—Judge • K Sims, one of the best citizens in ‘Wenetmuty, died here this morui ig at i..a congestion of ths lungs, udge Sunj was 50 years old, and has been H ®i etl *’ of this city tor twenty-two yea s. e leaves a mother and a brother, who are *7, .f* 48 - Another oe of Florida’s bright ast hguu has gone to his last resting place. Jtofnmg A GIRL’S TERRIBLE FATE. A Masked Demon Seizes and Rav ishes her. St. Louis, Sept. 29.—A speoial to the Republic from Sabatha, Kam, says that piace is wildly excited t"-night over the brutal outraging of Miss Eva Purty, aged IS years, daughter of a wealthy farmer. Durin. the absence other parents at church an unknown masked man entered the house, seized and chloroformed the girl and car ried her to a field near by, where she was brutally outraged. Carbolic acid was then poured down her throat and she was left to die. two suspected. The last act cast suspicion upon a dis carded lover of the victim, but lie was not arrested. Squads of men set out to capture the fiend, and u tramp named Richard Hollow was arrested. Though there is no direct evidence against him, the prisoner narrowly e caped lynching. The girl can not live through the night. A threatening note. Miss Purty receutiy received an anon ymous note, t hreatening her with vengeance unless she renou ced her iutended husband and bestowed her affections 1 n the sender, for whom an unsuccessful search was made. DELEGATES OF THE AMERICAS. Most of the Foreigners Already at the National Capital. Washington, Sept. 29.—The most of the foreign delegates to the International American Congress have reached this city, and a ill have an informal conference with t e delegates on the part of tho United States to-morrow morning, for the purpose of talking over tho or tor of business bofore a formal organization, Wednesday. At 11 o’clock, Wednesday, the delegates on the part of the United States will iiave a con ference with tho Secretary of State aud re ceive his instructions. THE TOUR OF THE COUNTRY. Many telegrams have been recoived from various cities throughout the country, which are not included in the programme of the excursion tendered tho fo eigu dele gates, but to all of them the same reply has been sent. It is impossible at this late hour to make any change in the itinerary, as every day is occupied, and the arrange ments for the entertainment of the guests has been completed in nearly every city to be visited. LOOTING OF LOUISIANA. The Defalcation Now In Sight Will Exceed $1,200,000. New Orleans, La., Sept. 29.— The state ment is now made, upon what appears to be good authority, thit irregularities have beou dis ove ed in what is known as the “baby” bonds, commencing at No. 102,000, with some slight irregularity previous to that number. Nearly all of the “baby” bonds above No. 102,000 are fraudulent. TO BE INVESTIGATED. The state auditor and treasurer will soon take up this branch of the investigation. Attorney-General Rogers admits that “baby” lioiids have been abstracted or oth erwise tampered with to the amount of #40,000. According to Judge Rogers’ figures, the defalcation already in sight will reach more than $1,200,000. HELD B’OR BIGAMY. The Rabbi Says, However, that it Was Merely a Form of Engagement New York, Sept. 29. —Joseph Gassner, a lawyer and superintendent of the Metro politan Life Insurance Company, called at police headquarters to-day to see David Harfeld, the Richmond pawnbroker, who is locked up on a charge of bigamy. He was accompanie 1 by Mrs. Julia Har feld, the prisoner’s first wife, her brother and father, and two witnesses of Hnrfelii’s second marriage. Th y said that Harfeld was married on Sipt 8, to Miss Sarah Marks, a: the house of Mrs. Rowensp.'in, No. 60 Monroe street, which is a sort of matrimonial agency. Rabbt Eugene Harfeld, a brotuer of tho prisoner, also called, aud when questioned as to a former admission of his. that he rierformed the second ceremony, ha said that it was merely a form of engagement his brother and Miss Marks went through. The parties will be iu court to-morrow. BLUEFIELD’S LYNCHING. It Develops that the Negro Met the Girl by Appointment. Pittsburg, Sept. 29.—A special from Union. W. Va., says: "Reliable informa tion from Bluefield, Mercer c .unty, shows the recent lynching of a negro, Samuel Garner, to have been a case similar to that of John Turner, hanged in Green Brier county, late in July. He was charged with criminal assault on a 7-year-old girl. The girl was several years older aud had made an appointment with Garner. The Mercer county authorities have made a number of arrests of parties having a hand in the lynching, and the suspects are in jail at Bridgeton. There is a determination to go to the bottom of the matter, and there has been quite an exodus from Bluefield iu consequence.” FORAXER’3 DEAL IN OHIO. \ A Claim That He Has Traded the Leg islature for the Governorship. Washington, Sept. 29.—Gov. Foraker, it is stated, is supporting Campbell of Kan sas as a candidate for commissioner of pen sions, as against Brown, the Ohio candidate. Brown arrived to-night to urge his candi dacy. He says it is more important to Gov. Foraker to have Brown appointed than it is tojhimself. Gov. Foraker, however, feois sure of re-election. He has made deals with the democrats, he thinks, so they will elect the legislature, while he gets the gov ernorship, thus cutting out Halstead. "ON THE DIAMOND. The Games Played Yesterday on the Ball Fields. Washington, Sept. 29.—Base ball games were played to-day with tho following re sults: At Philadelphia— Columbus 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 I—B Athletic 2 0000000 I—3 Base hits: Columbus 7, Athletic 8. Errors: Columbus 0, Athletic 1. Batteries: Baldwin and Couuor; Bauswine, Weyhing aud Cross. At Baltimore— Baltimore 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 o—2 Brooklyn 2 0 1 0 1 0 8 0 x—7 Base hits: Brooklyn 7, Baltimore 7. Errors: Brooklyn 4, Baltimore 2. Batteries: Forman aud Quinn, Caruthers and Visuer. At Kansas City—The Kansas City and Cincinnati game was postponed because of rain. At St Louis—The Loqjsville-St Louis game was postponed because of rain. Buck to be Marshal. Washington, Sent. 29. —Col. Buck’s ap pointment as marshal of the northern district is expected this week. SAVANNAH. GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1889. SHORN LOCKS OF SAMSON. THE STRANGS COMMINGLING OF THE SUBLIME AND THE ABSURD. The Giant Among Men a Child In the Hands of a Designing Woman—His Story an Example of Kow Strong People are Sometimes Coaxed Into Great Imbecilities. Brooklyn, Sept 29.—After expounding the appropriate passages of scripture in the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning, the Iter. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D., gave out the bytun: Bo let our lip3 and lives express The holy gospel we profess; So lot our works and virtues shine To prove the doctrine all divine. The subject of Dr. Taltnage’s sermon was: “The shorn Locks of Samson.” He took for his text Judges xvi., 5: “Entice him and see wherein his great strength lietb, and by what means we may prevail agalust him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.” The sermon was as follows: One thousand pounds, or aDout five thou sand dollars of our money, were thus offered for the capture of a giant. It would take a skillful photographist to picture Sam son as he really was. The most facile word* are not supple enough to des rib* him. He was ' giant and a child; the oo queror and the defeated; able to snap a lion’s jaw, and yet captured by the sigh of a maiden. He was ruler and slave; a commingling of virtue and vice, the sublime and the ridicu lous; sharp enough to make a good riddle, and yet weak enough to be caugb in the most superficial stratagem; honest enough to settle his debt, and yet outrage ously robbing so neb ,dy else to get the ma terial to pay it; a miracle and a scoffing: a crowning glory and a burning shame. There he stands, looming up above other men, a mountain of flesh; his arms bunched with muscle that can lift the gat; of a city; taking au Httitude defiant of armed men and wild beu is. His hair had never been cut, and it rolled down in seven great plait over his shouldors, adding to bjs fierceness and terror. The P ilistines want to couq ter him, and therefore they must find out where the secret of his strength lies. There is a woman living in the valley o, So.ekbv the name of Delilah. They ap point her the agent in the cane. The Philis tines are secreted in the same building, and then Delilah goes to work and coaxes Sam son to tell what is ho secret of his strength. “Well,” ne says, “if you should tike save greeu withes, such as they fasten wild beasts with, and put them around me, I s iould be perfectly powerless.” So she binds him with the Seven green withes. Then she claps her ha ds, and says, “They come—the Philistines!” and he walks out as though there were no impedi ment. Sue coaxes him again, aud says: "Now tell me the secret of this great strength,” and he replies: “If you should take some roues that have never been used and tie me with them, I should be just like other men.” She ties him with the ropes, clans her hands arid sliou s: “They, cotne—the' Philistines!” He walks out as easy as he did before—uot a single obstruction. She coaxes him again, and he says: “Now, if you suould take these seven long plaits of hair, and by this house loom weave them into a web, I could uot get away.” So the house loom is rolled up, and the shuttle flies backward and forward, and the long plaits of hair are woven into a web. Thai she claps her hands and says: "They come—the Pnilistiues 1” He walks out as easily as ha did before, dragging a part of the loom with him. But after awhile she p rsuades him to tell the truth. He says: “If you should take a razor, or shears, aud cut off this long hair. I should Le powerless, a;d in the hands of my enemies.” Samson sleeps, and, that she may not wako him up during the process of shearing, help is called in. You know that the barbers of the east have such a skillful way of manipulating the head, to this very day they will pot a man, wide awake, sound asleep. I hear the blades of the shears grinding agaiugt each other, and I see the long locks failing off. The si,ears, or razor, accomplishes what gresn withes and new ropes and house loom could not do. Suddenly she claps her hands and says: “The Philistines be upon thee, Samson 1” He rouses uj with a struggle, but his strength is ali gone 1 He is in the hands of his enemies! I hear the groan of the giant as they take his eyes out, and then I see him staggering on in his blind ness, feeling his way os be goes on toward Gaza. The prison door is opened and the giant is thrust in. He sits and <wn and puts his hands on the mill crank, which, with exhausting horizontal motion, goes daj after day, week after weak, month after month —work, work, work I The con sternation of the world in captivity, his locks shorn, his eyes junctureJ, grinding corn in Gaza. In a previous sermon on tuia character, I learned some lessons, but auother class of lessons are before us now. Learn first how very strong people are sometimes coaxed into great imbecilities. Samson had no right to reveal the secret of his strength. .Delilah’s first attempt to find out is a failure. He says: “Gree i withes will bind me,” but it was a failure. Thau he says, “Anew rope will bold me,” but that also was a failure. Thou he says. “A new rope will hold me,” but that also was a failure. Then ha says, “Weave my locks into a web and that will bind me,” yet t .at also was a failuro. But at last you see how she coaxed it out of him. Unimportant actions in life that involve no moral princi ple may without injury be subjected to ardent persuasions, but as soon a you have come to the line that separates right from wrong, no inducement or blandishment ought to make you step over it. Suppose a man has been brought up iu a Christian household and taught sacredly to observe the Sabbath. Sunday c unes; you want fresh air. Temptation says, “Sunday is just like other duys; now don’t be bigoted; wo will ride forth among the works of God; the whole earth is his tem ple; we will not go into any dissipations; come, now, I liave the carriage engaged and we shall be back soou enough to go to church in the evening; don’t yield to Puri tanic notions; you will be no worse for a ride in the country; the blosso ns are cut and they say everything is looking glori ous.” “Well, I will go to please you,” is the response. And out they go over the street, conscience drowned in the clatter of the awift hoofs aud the rush of the resound ing wheels. T hat tempted mau may have hid moral character enough to i reak the green withes of ton thousand Philistine allurements, but he has been overcome by coaxing. Two young men passing [down this street ci.ne opposite a drinking saloon with a red la..tern hung out from the door to iight moil to perdition. “Let us go in,” sars one. “No, I won’t,” says the other: “I never go to such places.” “Now, you don’t say you are as weak as that. Wny, 1 have been going there for two years, ami it hasn’t hurt me. Come, come now, be a man. If you can’t stand anything stronger, take a little sherry. You need to see the world as it is. I don’t believe in intemperance any more than you. 1 can stop drinking just when I want to. You shall go. Now, come right along.” Persuasion has conquered. Samson yields to the oosxiug and there is carnival iu hell that night among the Philistines aud th y shout, “Ha! ha! We’ve got him.” Those who have the kind est and mi st sympathetic natures are the most iu danger. Your very disposition to please others will be the very tra> they set. If you were cold and hatsh aud severe in your nature you would not be tampered with. People never fondle a hedgehog. The most sentimental Greenlander never kisses an iceberg. The warmth and suscep tibility of your nature will encourage the siren. Though strong as a giant, look out for Delilah’s scissors. Samson, the strongest man who ever lived, was overcome by coaxing. Again, this narrative teaches us the power of an ill-disposed woman. In the portrait gallery of Bible queens wo find Abigail and Ruth aud Miriam and Vashti oud Deb rail, but iu the rogues’gallery of a police station you find tiie pictures of women as well as men Delilah’s picture belongs to the rogues’ gaile y, but she had more power than all Philistia armed with •sword and spear. She could c .rry off the iron gates of Samson’s r6*>lutiou as easily as he shouldered the gates of G za. The force that had killed the lion which one day plunged out fierce from tho ihicket utterly succum s to the silken net which Delilah weaves for the giant. He who had driven an army in riot >us retreat with the bleached jaw-bone, smiting them, hip ad thigh, with great slaughter, now falls captive at the feet of an unworthy woman. Delilah, in the Libia, stands in the memorable company of Adah, aud Zil lah, and Batnsheba, a*d Jezebel, aud Atha liah, and Heredias, How deplorable the influence of such in contras with Rebecca ami Pnaaoe and Hui dah and Tryphnna and JnphUia's daughter, and Mary, tue mother of Jesus. Wnile the latter glitter iu the firmament of God’s ward like constellations with steady, cheer ful, holy light, the former shoot like baleful meteors across the terrified heavens, omi nous of war, disaster and death. If there .is a divine power in the goicl mother, her face bright with purity, an unselfish love beaming fro 11 her eye, a gentleness that by pangs and sufferings and bolv auxin ics has been mollowlng and softening for many a year, uttering itself in every syllable, a dignity that cannot bs dethroned, united with the playfulness hat will not be checked, her hand the charm that will instantly take pain oat of the child’s worst wound, her presence a perpetual benediction, her name our defense when we are tempte i, her mem ory an outgusbing well of tears and con gratulation and thauksgivin.r, hor heave 1 a palm waving and a coronal; then there is just os great an Influence iu toe opposite di rection in tne bad mother, her brow becloud ed withungover ed passion, uerere fla<hin ; with unsauctitted fire, her lips ths fountain of fretfuiuess aud depravity, her example a mildew and a blasting, her name a dis grace to coming generations, her m mory a signal for bitterest anathen: , her eternity a whirlwind and a sufTocat on and a dark ness. One wrong-head and, wrong-hearted mother may ruin one child and that ono child, grown up, may dt) • -07 a hundred people, and the hundred b net a thousand, aud the thousand a mill! . The wife's sphere is a realm of honor a* . power almost unlimited. What a blesfi gw .s Sarah to Atiraha 11, was Deborah to Lapldoth, was Zipporah to Mose, was Huldab to Shallum. ihere are multitudes of uieu lu tue mans of trade whose fortunes have been the result of a wife’s frugality. Four hands have been achieving that estate, two at tho store, two at tho home. Tho burdous of life are comparatively light when there are other hands to help us lift them. The greatest difficulties have often slunk away because there were four eyes to look them out of count#uauce. What care you for tho hard knocks in tne world as long as you have a bright domestic circle for harbor! One cheerful word iu the eveni ig tide as you come in has silenced tne clamor of unpaid notes and the disappointment of poor invest ments. Your table may bo quite frugally spread, but it seems more beautiful to you than many tables that smone with venison and blush with Burgundy. Peace meets ? r ou at the door, sits beside you at tho table, ights up the evening stand, and sings in tne nursery. You have seen an aged couple who for scores of years have helped each otuer ou iu lifo’s pilgrimage going down tne steep of years. Long ass iciation has made them much alike. They rejoiced at the same advent, they bent over the same cradle, they wept at the same grave. In the evening they sit quietly thinking of the past, mother knitting at Ihe stand, father in his arm chair at the fire. Now and then a grandchild comes, and they look at him with affection untold, and C'*me well nigh spoiling him with kindness. The life currents beat featily in their pulses and their work will soon be done, and the master will call. A few soort and ys may separate them, but, not far apart iu time of departure, they j >in each other on the other side tne flood. Side by side let Jacob and Rachel be burled. Let one willow overarch their graves. Let their tombstones stand alike marked with the same scripture. Cuildren and grandcbildre 1 will come in the spring time to bring flowers. The patriarchs of the town will come and drop a tear over departed worth. Side by side at the mar riage altar. Side by side in the long jour nev. Side by side In heir graves. After life’s fitful fever they slept well. But there are, as my subject suggests, domestic scenes not so tranquil. What a curse to Job and Potiphar were their com panions, to Ahab was Jezebel, to Jehora n was Athaliah, to John Wesley was Mrs. Wesley, to 8 imson was Delilah. While the most excellent and triumphant exhibitions of character we find among the women of history, and the world thrills with the names of Marie Antoinette, and Josephine, and Joan of Arc, anl Maria Theresa aud hundreds of others, who have ruled In the brightest homes and sung the sweetest canto*, and enchanted the nations with their art and swayed the mightiest of scepters, on the <'ther hand the name* of Mary the First of England, Mir gai et of France, Julia of Rome a..d Eliza beth Petrowna of Russia, have sjorchod tho eye of hiitory with their abomina tions, and their names, like banished spirits, have gone shrieking and cursing through the world. In female biography we find tne two extremes of ex cellence and crime. Woman stands nearest the gate of heaven or nearest tne d'ior of bell. When adorned by grace she reaches a point of Christian elevation which man can not attain, aud when blasted of crime she sinks deep ;r than man can plunge. Yet I am glad that the instances in which woman makes utter sbipwreck of character are comparatively rare. But, says some cynic *1 spirit, what do yon do with those words in Eccleiiastea where Solomon says: “Behold, t.iis iiave I found, saitb the preacher, counting one by one to find out tne aoc;unt: wnicu yet my soul hoeketft, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have In t found?” My answer is that if Solomon had benared himself with common deoe cy and kept out of infamous circle*, he would not iiave had so nmoh difficulty in findi g integrity of char a ter among w omen, and never would havo uttered such a tirade. Ever since my childhood I liave heard speakers admiring 1 Diogenes, the cynical pbilos pber who lived in a tub. for going through the streets of Athens lu brotd daviigot with a lantern, and when asked what he did tnat for, said: “I cm 1 Tilling for au honest mm.” Now I warrant that tnat pnilosiphsr who had such hard work to And au honest man was himself dis.ionest. I think he st )lo both tue lantern and tho tub. S;, when I hear a man expatiating on the weakness of women I im mediately suspect him and say there it ai - o.ltorS tomon with Soloino i’s wi dun left out. Still, I would not have the ilieg ra tions I have givjn of tranace iding eieol leiiev In female hi igraphy lead you to si p ote thet ti ers ure no perils in woman’s pathway. God’s g ace alo e cmi aka an Isabella Graham;; r a Christina A Lop, or a Fidelia Fiske, or a Cath r.ne of Sana. Te uptatio s lurk about tne brirnte.t domestic circle. It was no unmeaning thing when Godsetuo amidst the splendors of hts word the character of infamous Delilah. Again, this strange *torv of the text leads me to consider some of the ways in w nob strong men yet their lo ks sh un. G >d, for some reason bast known to him self, mado the strength of Samson 11 do poud on the length of his hair; when tho shears clipped it liis strength was gone. The strength of men is variously distributed. Somethin s it lies iu physic and development, sometimes in intellectual attainment, sometimes in hea t force, sometimes iu social position, sometimes in flua - ctal accumulation; and there is always a sharp shears ready to destroy it. E.ery day there are Samsons uugta ed. I saw a young min *.tirt iu life under the most chee.ing adv ntagos. His acute mind wai at home in all scientific dominio s. Ho reac ed not only all rugged attainments, but by delicate appreciation ho could catch tho tinge of tue cloud an 1 the sparkle of the wave and tne diapason of the tuunder. He walked forth in life head and shoulders above others in rnoutal stature. He oould wrestle wita giants in opposing systems of philoe i phy and cu-ry off the gites of opposing acnools aud smite the ens nies of truth hi > and thigh witn great slaughter. But he began to tamper with brilliant free thi k lug. Modern theories of the soul threw over him t eir blandishments. Skepticism was the Delilah that shore his locks off, au l all the Philistines of doubt aud darkuess aud despair were upon him. lie died in a very prison of unbelief, his eyas oil'. Far back in the country districts—just where I purposely omit to say—there was b iru one whoso fame u ill last as long as American institutions. His name was the ten or of all enemies of free government. He stood, the admired of millions; the na tion uuetsvered in uis preseuosand when he p ‘k,e senate sat breathless u ,der the spell. The plotte.i against good government atteutp cd to bind him with green withes and VVeavif his looks in a web, yet he walked forth from the en thrallment, uot knowing he had burst a bond. But from the wine cup there arose a des raying spirit that oarne forth to capture his soul. He drank until his ey s grew dim and tils knees knocked together and liis strength faffed. E insulted with lifelong dUsipati ms, he went homo to die. Ministers pronounced eloquent euiogiums, and poets sung, aud painters sketched, ami sculptors ohiseied the majsstio form inti marole, and the world Wept, but every wh re it was known that it was strong drink that came like toe infamous Delilah, and his looks were *h iru. From the Island of Corsica there started fortu a nature charged with unparalleled en ergies to make thrones treniule and con vulse the earth. Piedmont, Naples Bavaria, Germa iy, Italy, Austria anil England rose up to crush the rising mau. At . he plunge of the bayouets Bastiles burst open. Tne eartn groined with tne ago liei of Rtvoli, Austerlltz, Saragossa and Eylaj. Five million men slain in his wars. Crowns were showered ut his feet, and kingdoms h listed triumphal urchei to lot him oass under, and Europe was ligh ed up at the co iflsgration of consuming cities. Ho could almost have msde a causeway of human bones between Lisbon aud Moscow. N > power short of omnipotent God could arrest him. But out of the ocean of human bl od there arose a spirit in which the conqueror found more than a match. The very ambition that had rocked the world was now to be his destroyer. It grasped for too much, and in its effort lost ali. He reached up after tho scepter of universal dominion, but si.pped aud fell back into desolation and bauishinent. The American ship, damaged of t ie storm, to day puts up iu St. Heie ia and the craw go up to see the spot where the Fre ich exile expired in loneliness aud disgrace, the mightiest of ail Samsons shorn of his locks by ambition, that most merciless of all Dehlahs. I have not ti ne to enumerate. Evil asso ciations, sudden successes, spendthrift habits, miserly proclivities a id dissipation are the names of some of the shears with which men are every day made pownr.es i. They hare strewn the earth with the car casses of giants and filled the groat pris m house with destroyed Samsons, wan sit grinding the mills of despair, their lock< shorn aid their eyes out. If parents • uly knew to what temptati ons their children were subjected they would be more earnest iu their pravers and more careful about their example. No young mau escapes hav ing the pathway of sin pictured in bright colors before him. The first time I over saw a city—it was the city of Philadelphia—l was a mere lad. I stopped at a hotel, and I remember in the eventide a corrupt man plio 1 ma with his infernal art. He saw 1 was green. He wanted to show me the sights of tho town. He painted the path of sin until it looked like emerald; but 1 was afraid of him. I shoved back from the oasiiisk. 1 made up my mind he was a basilisk. I remember bow he reeled his chair round in front of me and with a concentrated aud diabolical effort attempted to destroy my soul; but there were g iod angels iu the air that nig ot. It was no good resolution on my part, but it was the all en ompassnig grace of a good Gi tnat delivered me. Beware! beware! O young inanl There is a way that seemeth right unto a ma i, but the end thereof is death. If all the victims of an impure life in all lauds and ages could be gathered together, they would make a host vaster than that which Xerxes led across the Hellespont, than Timour led across India, than William the Couq leror led across England, than Atiou- Bekr lei across Syria; and if they could be stretched out in single file across the con tinent, I think the vanguard of the host would stand on the beach of the Pacific while yet tno rear guard stood on the heacu of the Atlantic. I say this not because I expect to reclaim any one that has gone astray in this fearful path, but because 1 w mt to utter a warning for those who -tiff maintain their integrity. Tue cases of reclamation of those who have given themselves fully up to an impure life are so few, probably you do not know one of them. I have seen a good many start out on that road. How many have I seen come back? Not one that I now think of. It seems os if the spell of death is on them and no hu man voice or the voice of God can break the spelL Their feet are hoppled; their wrists are ha ideuffed. They nave around them a girdle of reptile bunched at tbe waist, fastening then to an iron doom. Every time they breathe the forked tongues strike them and thoy strain to break away until the tendons snap and the blood exudos; aud amidst tneir contortions theveryout: “mke me back to my father’s bouse! Where is mother? Take roe home I Take me uomel” Do 1 stand before a man to-day the locks of whose strength are being tovol with, let me tell you to eioape lest the shears of de struction take yon- moral and your spir itual integrity. Do you n>t see jour sandals beginning to curl on that red hot atbf This da .* in the name of Almighty God I tear off the beautifying veil and tho embroidered mantle of this old hag of iniquity, aud I show you too ulca s aud iho blndy iehor and the cauoerod lip a id the parti g joints and the macerated Inn a a;.d the wriggling putrefaction, and I cry out: Oh, h rror of horrors! Iu the stillness of this Sabbath hour I lift a warn ing. Remember it Is much easier to form bad habits than to get c eir of them; iu one minute of time you may get into ft sin from whioh all eternity cannot get you l ut. Oh, that the voice of God’s truth might drown the v uoe of Delilah. Corue tnt the ways of pleasantness aud t n paths o' peace, a id by the grace of a pardoning God start for thrones of honor and dominion up m which you may reign, rather than travel the road to a dunesou whore the destroyed grind in the mills of despair, their locks shorn, and their eyes out. A FORTUNE AWAIT3 HER. Romantic Btory of a Young lowa Girl Who Was btolen from tier Mother. Sioux CITY, la., Sspt. 27.— The papers a few days ago c ntained a brief account of the search tnat was being instituted for the niotlie •of a young woman who is uow a resident of this city, aud who has a fortune awaiting her proper identification. A It. tie more than twenty years ago Viola Adams was married io a young man named Andrews. Her parents opposed the match, and after the young pooplo were weddvd refused then shelter under tie parental roof. AU went well for a while, but soon the husband tired of his bride, and began to abuse her. The advout of a baby girl did u it meud matters, and at the end of about two years Mrs. Andrews took her girl aud went home to her widowed mother, her father having died in the meantime, without breathing forgive ness for her. Ho nad not forgotto.i Ills infant granddaughter, howevor, and his will provide 1 tnat, $40,900 bo set aside, the iutiirest aud principal to go to her when she arrived at legal age. Two wesks af-vr his wife had left him, Andrews went to ttie house and stole the little girl, leaving Chicago and going to Des Moines, la., tneu a prosperous villa,o of about i ue-iiflli its present population. Tue otiild was given into t uecuargeof a Norwe gian family named Nelson, ny whom she >s as taugnt to regard herself as o e of the family. Hue was called by her Christian name, Jeannette, but instead of Andrews s io was made to believe that she was a Nel son. It was always a matter of surprise to tie neighbors that sue was batter treated thau tbe remainder of the family; was better dressed, aud during her sohooi days was always supplied with pocket money, tine was taugnt to regard Andrews, who remaned iu DesMoiues and became a pros perous bust ioss man, os a dear friend and tho family. He bad given her many presents, an 1 it was he w o had given mousy to tho Nelsons to be given to her. Uno day iu June last Jeannette became ill, and u physician, Dr. J. H. Brewer, then a reeidout of DesMoiues, was called. He made several viilts and became exceedingly interested in his patient. Hi became con vinced that she was uot a child of the Nel sons, aud strongly suspected that Mr. An drews was iu some way related to her. Tue doctor told Jeanne.te logo to him aad claim relations ip, and, pernaps, by thui oou fr lilting him, he might be startled into making admissions. At first tbe father de nied, but the girl was persistent, and tbe father finally told bow he and Jeannette’s mother nod parted; how he had stolen her when a child and i / tended keeping her un til see should beo unn of age, when he would go with her aud olaim the inherit a ice, uow greatly augmented by the ac cumulations of all those years. The father stated that his wife had taken her maiden name of Viola Adams and still lived iu Cmcago, aud that years ago she nail offered from ner father’s estate a reward of 410,090 for the return of her st Jen ouild. Having become satisfied that she was no child of the Neiwons, Jua matte would remain there no longer, and placed herself in the charge of Dr. Brewer aud booxme a member of ha family. • A few months ago he moved to Sioux City, and she came with her new-found ni nitial. It seemed an caty matter, know ing that her mother was in Chi ap> at least up to a few year* ago, to tsmbiish com munication betwee i thi motuor and her long-iost daughter, but up to this time it has uot been don i. It was in further.nr t is end that tne assistance of Chief of Polioe Hubbard of Chicazo was sought, and by him the outlines of the story were given to the press. NURSE DONNELLY NOW A FREAK. She Has Been Engaged by a Dime Museum In New York. New York, Sept. 27.—Nurse Mary Don nelly, who was so nearly carved to death by Mrs. Eva Hamilton at Atlantic City last month, has joined the noble army of freaks. A museum has allured her, she says, for a two neeks’ engagement 'at a salary of 1150 a week, with the privilege of a renewal, aud she will begin on next Monday to hold receptions daily in Curio hail from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. She arrived in town from At lantic City this morning in company witn Manager Hoffman, of tue Globe dime museum, who has succeeded, after two weeks’ coaxing and i airing his propos and cash consideration, to induce her to be viewed by tno multitude, tine finallv, she says, yielded to the persuasions of Mrs. Rupp and her sister and tbegradml rie iu l utes, aud has a copied the engagement, which she is now confident opens for her a brilliant curAer upon the stage. This afternoon she went there incog, os nn apparent vl itor, a id nobody would have suspe ted tbe short, stout, mi idle-aged woman, dressed in black, who wandered around the place, as the person wtio rad play and so prominent a part in the Hami ton sti .dal. At her daily reception tbe will sit between Dolly Leona, the Circassian girl, and Maida Kennedy, the Albino, ana be ready to answer any questions she may be asked with reference to the domestic affairs of the Hamilton family, tihe toid a re po. ter to-day all she knew, and even went so far as to show him the wound in her side—iu a kind of rehearsal—made by Mrs. Hamilton’s knife. it was originally purchas'd, she said, by Mr. Hamilton from a Norwegian sailor whom he met in his trivets. Mrs. iiamilioa had always taken a great fancy to it. Tbe management of tbe museum tins also secured t e whisky bottle from w .icn Mrs. HamiliSfa imbibed so freely ou the morning of the tragedy, and it will form a part of the ex hibit. The telegram seat from Atlantic City by Manager Hoffman a mounciug tne engagement of Nurse Donnelly, together with her picture, is pasted up iu front of the museum, and is stared at by crowds. Live Oak’s First Bale. Live Oak, Fla., tiept. 29—Tho first bale of cotton received here this season was b ought in Friday. It was shipped by Mclntosh Bro*. to W. W. Gordon Sc Cos. of tiavanuab, aid weighed 330 pounds. It was sea island cotton. , DAILY, *lO A YB4R. ) J 5 CENTS A OOPY. V j WEEKLY 31.45 A YEAR. ) CRANKS AT THE RACES. FEMININE PLUNGE Od ONE MEETS AT THE TRACK. The Girl Who Lays la Her Winter Stock of Gloves and Hosiery on. Lucky Wagers—The Lady Who Beta a “Century Cold"—A chronic Loser and tue Girl Who, Somehow, Always Wiu3, Whether Her Oolors Come In or Not. (Copyrighted 1530.) New York, Hapt. 3*l.—Jockeys, from time immemorial, have been dear to the fe niuino ruciug crank. If there is tiny thing about a race-track the turf-wo nan worships, next to an invinoible horse that will win her unlimited pocket money, it is the trim Little follow wiio bes rids* the win ner and coaxes him ulong to Victory, like some occult “whisperer" who possesses a charm which the equine* alone cau under stand. And the man in miniature is usually quite conscious of tie admiration heevo as, for as he stalks from the paddock leading hit Idauketed racer, he looks proudly about him and archos .ds head as high asu tihaug hai does hu crest before tie sails into the flgiit withs uno less blue- I .olid rooster. He known, too, that the smallest motion of hit finger will he construed by vigilau# feminine eyes as a “tip.” and rewarded by a shower of smiles, tio lie wisely econo* mizes the opportuuit ies for flirtatiou be fore the horse* g> to the post, for well he knows the malign aspect of the female turfite when she has played his “tip" and lust. The feminine racing crank is by no mean* indigenous to Americans .11, for she is found abroad at Epsom and Pimlico, ut Chantilly and other continental tracks, betting with a splsudid reckle-s ices that prove* her aga .bier at Heart. But tia occidental bruud ha* developed new fea tures unkn iw.i in other o uintries. Bettiug on the turf is with the woman of Europe a rare pasume, an occasional indulge.ice, wnile there are thousand* of young and middle-aged ladies wh . find their principal recreation iu the puro .ai of Frsnc i mut uals ami 32 iloiieis during tne racing sea son. Even shop girls, earning small s.la riea, pinch and savo to get a few dollars togetner to bet. the majority of the regu lar female |>atrous, however, belong to the middle Class. . The racing crank may be seen in all her glory, almost may day, at Brig .to i or Gravesend, I .net fumlay was a field day, and she attended tue poumg of the Brook lyn Jookey Chib at Gra.essod in unusual number*. Dressed iu tho most prououuoed toilets and ric ; in colors that wo dd make even a balky bor>e start, she enlivened the grand stand and kept the messengers run ning to aud from the pool boxes at a great rate. Enthusiasm a lit embonpoint are her most striking characteristics, a das long as her purse holds out sue Is willing to bet On anything that ruas with for legs. But a woman is rarely a philosopher, .nd whoa she loses a bet her spirits forthwith tumble to zero. • She wiil bug or borrow wnat cash she can and pluugu recklessly, regardless of record, pedlgiee and snoer probabilitv. Guo elegantly dressed worn in bad no eooner arrived on tne grand stand aud looked over her lists than she bsgan betting Upon the opeuin - event, tihe wa aopar eutly about 80, and wore little abort of (1,000 worth of diamonds oil ner fingers and in her small, pairioian earn. A petty hit encouraged her to a bigger vo iture iu Iho second event, when sbo il opped. Then, with true feminine recklessness, she began to plunge, ad finally, oa tue third, fourth and fifth races she discovered that her re sources had run dry. tihe stood wuiching the ruum g, like au augry tigress, showing her white teetn, and with li ei eyes and clenched hands. Right in front of tier was a ba dsomu you ig girl—b rely 20— who had risked several bets and won handily. As she stood up ia tho general excitement at tne close of the fifth race and watened the winner sweep past under the wire, she was u striking contrast to the loser. Her fair face beamed witn pleasure, aid she unco sclouuly joiaod in tho general shout, Wnile t .e mad creature bauind her shrieked something that sounded wufully like an exec atioo. An interesting pair occupied a seat a little distance from tne grand stand. “That’ six dozen pairs you owe me now, Mr. Tibbius,” sue said, after the third race. “There were two dozen I won on Reclare aid one oa Volunteer aid two m ire on Kingston, inakus five—” “Ya-as, Miss Milly, and one oa titwide ;*y. i kujw. tiix dozen, bah Jawvel You’re right.” Aud Mr. Tibbitts adjusted his monocle carefully and gazud in tue face ol t..e charming gambler at his side. Sue s.k with her sunshade poised gracefully aslant her left shoulder aud just under : er round-d chin, while the haudle toyed with Mr. Tibbitt*’silk muuchoir, which stuck out of his pocket. One little French shoe was tilted up iu air while the other played a rat tat accompaniment upon the board walk in time to tho freakish motions of tne sun shade. A dainty and plump piece of hu man bric-a-brac, she looked as she returned his gazs with the.archness of a victorious coquette. “You know my number, Mr. Tibbitts, don’t, you?” sue sweetly i .q lirej. “Ah, ya-as; I b l:eve I ’ave it in my memowaadum book, yo know,” he said va cuously. Tibbitts was repeating an experience he had undergone at least half a dozen ti cue during tile sea-on. He had rashly taken Miss Milly to tue races and af-or imtiati g her into the mysteries of betting, as he supposed, ths cuto little witen had male a number of wag us und won almost every time. She owed him one slight bet, it is true, bu. it was more than otfse by hi* larger debt, and beside hu believed she had forgotten all about it already. The girl had (leveljjied i tear.* ing crank with as tonishing rapidity, and c >uid uow talk horse with the bout of them. Tibbius, whose eyes wero weak, was fain to rely upon her to Soli him wh;se colors wore t> the fori in every race. Ho Lai a shrewd suspicion that her eye. som 'tiius< did her go- and service, mid that she uad dolibor .tely planned to lay iu her winter supply of guilts de Suede and Parisian hosiery out of hur winnings at the meeting and at Tibbitts’ ex,;e.is-!, of ouarsa. But like a true cavalier he took his defeat Praveiy. One bright little girl, over opposite tho starter’s box, leaned lightly on the arm of a dapper looking a;d sporting man, as she watened the horses omia to toe post in each •tlccMsi o race, tine was trimly dressed, in a close-fitting jacket, none too' warm f r the breeze that was blowing fresh from the sea. Her field-glass was siuug by her side, ad her" little felt hat hid a jaunty twist which, in a man, would have been regarded as indicating gay proclivities and a settled disposition to plunge. Her diseug ige l hand held a racing card aud a book, ad she kept chattering—womanlike—about every thing she s*w. “Dear, how long they are about it. There; that’s the third false start they’ve made, too. I woudor wuo t ost little darkv jockey is, over there with the red cap. I like the bright color of bis suit, aud Ido