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in one so-tence: People do not go to
church because they can' ot stand the
humdrum. The fact i* that most people
have to much humdrum in their worldly
calling that they do not want to have added
the humdrum of religion. M e need in ail
our sermons and exhortations ands mgs
and prayers more of what Queen Baikis
brought to Solomon. namely, more spice.
Thibet is that the duties and cares of
this life, coming to us from to time, are
stupid often, and inane, and intolerable.
Here are men who have been bartering,
and negotiating, climbing, pounding, ham
mering for twenty years, forty years, fifty
years. One great long drudgery has their
life been. Their face anxious, their feelings
benumtied, their days monotonous. What
is i.ece-sary to brighten up that mail’s
life, and to sweeten that acid disposition,
and to put sparkle into the man’s spirits?
The spicery of our holy religion. Why, if
bet ween the losses of life there dashed a
gleam of an eternal gain; If between the
betrayals of life there came the gleam of
the UDdying friendship of Christ: if in dull
times in business we fouud ministering
spirits flying to and fro in our office, and
store,and shop, everyday life, instead of be
ing a stupid monotone, would be a glorious
inspiration, peaduluming between calm
satisfaction and high rapture.
How any woman keeps house without the
religion of Christ to heip her is a mystery
to me. To have to spend the greater part
of one’s life, as many women do, in plan
ning for the meals, ill etitehiog garments
that will soon be rent again, and deploring
breakages, and supervising tardy subordi
nates, and driving off dust that soon again
■will settle, and doing the same thing day in
and day out, and year in and year out, until
their hair silvers, and the back stoops, and
the spectacles crawl to the eves, and the
grave breaks open under the thin sole of the
shoe—O. it is a long monotony! But when
Christ comes to the drawing-room, and
comes to the kitchen, and comes to
the nursery, and comes to the dwell
ing, then how cheery become all
womanly duties. She is never alone now.
Martha gets through fretting and joins
Mary at the feet of Jesus. All day long
jpoborah is happy because she can help Lapl
dotb; Hannah, because she can make a coat
for young Samuel; Miriam, becauso she cau
watch ber infant brother; Kachel, because
she can help her father water the stock;
the widow of Sarepta because the cruse of
oil is being replenished. O woman, having
in your pantry a nest of boxes containing
all kinds of condiments, why have you not
tried in your heart and life the spicery of
our holy religion? “Martha! Martha! thou
art careful and troubled about mauy things;
but one thing is needful, and Mary hath
chosen that good part which shall not be
taken away from her.”
I must confess that a great deal of relig
ion of this day is uttorly insipid. There is
nothing piquant or elevating about it. Men
and women go around humming psalms in a
minor key, and culturing melancholy, and
their worship has in it m to sighs than rap
ture. We do not doubt-their piety. O,
no. But they are sitting at a feast where
the cook has forgotten to season the food.
, Everything is fiat in their experience and in
their conversation. Emancipated from sin,
and death, and hell, and on their wav to a
magnificent heaven, they act as though
they were trudging on toward an
everlasting Botany Bav. Religion does
not seem to agree with them. It
seems to catch in the wind-pipe and beoome
a tight strangulation instead of an ex
hilaration. All the infidel books that have
been written, from Voltaire down to Herb
bert Spencer, have not done so muoh dam
age to our Christianity as lugubrious
Cbristians. Who wants a religion woven
out of the shadows of the night? Why go
growling on your way to celestial enthrone
ment? Come out of that cave, and sit
down in the warm light of the Sun of Right
eousness. Away with your odes to melan
choly and Hervey’s "Meditations among
the Tombs.”
Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry;
We re marching through Emanuel’s ground
To fairer worlds on nigh.
I have to say also that we need to put
more spice and enlivenment in our
religious teaching; whether it be in the
prayer-meeting, or in the Sabbath school,
or in the church. We ministers need more
fresh air and sunshine in our lungs, and our
heart, and our head. Do you wonder that
the world is so far from being converted
when you find so little vivacity in the pulpit
aDd in the pew? We want, like the Lord,
to plant in our sermons and exhortations
more lilies of the field. We want fewer
rhetorical elaborations, and fewer sesquipe
dalian words; and when we talk about
shadows, we do not want to say adumbra
tion; and when we mean queerness, we do
not want to talk about idiosyncrasies;
or if a stitch in the back, we di not want
to talk of lumbago; but, in the plain ver
nacular, preach that gospel which proposes
to make all men happv, honest, vict irioui
and free, in other words, wo want more
cinnamon and le-s gristle. Let this bo so
in all the different departments of work to
which the Lord calls us. Let us be plain.
Let us be earnest. Let us be coinmon-sen
sical. "When we talk to the people in a ver
nacular they can understand they will be
very glad to come and receive the truth we
present. Would to God that Queen Baikis
would drive her spice-laden dromedaries
into all our sermons and prayer-meeting
exhortations.
More that that, we want more lifo and
■pice in our Christian work. The poor do
not want so much to be groaned over as
•ung to. With the bread, and medioiues,
and the garments you give them, let there
be an accompaniment of smiles and brisk
encouragement. Do not stand and talk to
them about the wretchedness of their abode,
and the hunger of their looks, and the
hardne-sof their lot. Ah! they know it
better than you can tell them. Show them
the bright side of the thing, it there be any
bright side. Tell them good times will
come. Tell them that for the children of
God there is immortal rescue. W ake them
up and out of their stolidity by an inspiring
laugh, and while you send in help,
like the Queen of Hheba also send
In the spices. Thera are two
waya of meeting the poor. One
is to come into their house with a nose ele
vated in disgust, as much as to say: “1 don’t
see how you live here in this neighborhood.
It actually makes me sick. There is that
bundle —take it, you poor miserable wretch,
and make the most of it.” Auother wav is to
go into the abode of the poor in a manner
which seems to say: “The blessed Lord sent
me. He was poor himself. It is not more
for the good I an. going to try to do you than
it is for the good you can dome.” Cuming in
that spirit, the gift will be as aromatic as
the spikenard on the feet of Christ, and all
the hovels in that alley will be fragrant
with the spice.
We need more spice and enlivenment in
our church music. Churches sit discussing
Whether they shall have choirs, or precent
ors, or orga s, or bass-viols, or cornets; I
say take that which will bring out the most
inspiring music, if we had half as much
*eai and spirit in our church as we have in
tua songs of our Sabbath schools, it would
not be long bef re the whole earth would
quake with the coming God. Why, inmost
churches, nine-tenths of the people do not
sing; or they sing so feebly tuat the people
at their elbows do not know they are sing
ing. People mouth and mumble the praises
of God; but there is not more thau one out
of a huudred who makes “a joyful noise”
unto the Hock of our Salvation. Sometimes
when the congregation forgets itse f, and is
all absorbed in the goodness of God, or the
glories of heaven, I get an intimation of
what church music will be a hundred years
from now, when the coming generation
shall wake up t > its duty.
I pruiu.be a high spiritual blessing to any
•ue who will sing in church, and who will
sing so heartily that the people all around
cannot help but slug. Hake up! all the
cburc; es from Bangor to San Francisco,
and across Christendom. It is not a matt*r
of preference; it is a matter of religious
duty. Oh, for lifiy times more volume of
sound. German chorals in German cathe
drals surpass us, and vet Genua iy has re
ceived nothl g at the hands of Gol com
pan and with America; and ought the acclaim
la Berlin be louder than that In Brooklyn I
Holt, long-di awn-out untile, is appropriate
for the drawing-room and appropriate for
theconeert;but St. John gives an idea of ttie
sonorous and resonant congregational sing
ing appropriate for churches, when, in
listening to the temple service of heaven
he says: "I heard a great voice, as the voice
of a great multitude, and as the voice of
many waters, and as the voice of mighty
thunderirgs. Hallelujah, for the Lord
God Omnipotent reig eth.”
Join with me in a crusade, giving me not
only- your hearts, but the mighty uplifting
of your voices, and I believe we can,
through Christ’s grace, sing fifty thousand
souls into the kingdom of Christ. An argu
ment, they can laugh at; a sermon, they
may talk down; but a vast audience joining
■ a one anthem is irresistible. Would that
Queen Baikis would drive ali ber spice-laden
dromedaries into our church music. “Nei
ther was there any such spice as the Queen
of Sheba gave King Solomon.”
Now I want to impress this audience with
the fact that religion is sweetness and per
fume, and spikenard, and saffron, and cin
namon, and cassia, and frankincense, and
all sweet spices together. ‘ ‘O.” you say,
“I have not looked at it as such. I thought
it was a nuisance; it had for me a repulsion;
I bel lmy breath as though it wore malo
dor, I have been apjialleii at its advance; 1
have said, if I have any religion at all, I
want to have just as little of it as is pos
sible to get through with.” O, what a mis
take you have made, my brother. Ihe
religion of Christ is a present and everlast
ing redolence. It counteracts all trouble.
Just put it on the stAnd beside the pillow
of sickness. It catches in tho cur
tains, and perfumes the stifling air. It
sweetens the cup of bitter medicine, and
throws a glow on the gloom of the turned
lattice. It is a balm for the a-lHrg side,
and a soft bandage for the temple stung
with i ain. It lifted Samuel Rutherford
into a revelry of spiritual delight, while he
was in physical agonies. It helped Richard
Baxter until, in the midst of such a eompli
catiou of diseases as perhaps no other man
ever suffered, he wrote, “The Saints’ Ever
lasting Rest.” And it p ured light upon
John Bunyan’s dungeon—the light of the
shining gate of the shining city. And it is
good for rheumatism, and for neuralgia,
and for low spirits, and for con
sumption; it is the catholicon for all
disorders. Yes, it will heal all your
sorrows.
Why did you look so sad to-day when you
came in? Alas! for the loneliness and the
hiartbreak, and the load that is never lifted
from your soul. Some of you go about
feeling like Macaulay when he wrote; “If I
had another month of sach days as I have
been spending, I would be impatient to get
down into my little narrow crib in the
ground like a weary factory child.” And
there have been times in your life when you
wished you could get out of this life. You
have said: “O, how sweet to my lips would
be the dust of the valley,” and wished you
could pull over you iu your last slumber the
coverlet of green grass and daisies. You
have said: “0, how beautifully quiet it
must be iu the tomb. I wish Iw .s there. ”
I see all aroundfabout me widowhood, and
orphanage, and childlessness; sadness, disap
pointment, perplexity. If 1 could ask all
those to rise in this audience who have felt
no sorrow, auil been buffetod by no disap
pointment—if I could asit all such to rise,
how many would risj? Not one.
A wid iwed mother, with her little child,
went west, hoping to get better wages
there; and sh-was taken sick and died.
The overseer of the poor got her body and
put it iu a box, and put it in a wagon, and
started down the street toward the ceme
tery at full trot. The little child—the only
child—ran after it thr ugh the streets,
bare headed, crying; “Bring me hack my
mother! Bring me back my mother!” And
it was said that as the people looked on and
saw her crying after that which lay in the
box in the wagon—all she loved on earth—
it is said the whole village was iu tears.
And that is what a great tnanv of you are
doing—chasing the dead. Dear Lord, is
there no appeasement for all this sorrow
that I see about me? Yes, the thought of
resurrection and reunion far beyond this
scene of struggle and tears. “They
shall hunger no more, neither thirst any
more, neither shall the sun light on them,
nor any beat; for the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall lead them to liv
ing fountains of water, and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes.” Across
the couches of your sick, and across tho
graves of your dead; I fling this shower of
sweet spices. Queen Baikis, driving up to
the pillared portico of the house of cedar,
carried no such pungency of perfume as
exhales to-day from the Lord’s garden. It
is peace. It is sweetness. It is comfort. It
is infinite satisfaction, this go-pel I com
mend to you. Someone could not under
stand why an old German Christian
scholar used to be always so calm, and hap
py, and hopeful, when he had so many
trials, and sicknesses, and ailments. A
man secreted himself in the house. He said;
“I mean to w atch this old seh >lar and
Christian;” and he saw the old Christian
man go to his room and sit down on the
chair beside the stand, and open th i Bible
and begin to read. He read on and on,
chapter after chapter, houraf.er hour, until
his face was all aglow with the tidings from
heaven, and when the clock struck twelve,
he arose, and shut his Bi le, and sail,
“Blessed Lord, we are on the same old
terms yet. Good-night, Good-night.” O,
you sin-parched and trouble-pounded, here
is comfort. here is satisfaction. Will you
come and get it? I cannct tell you what the
Lord offers you hereafter so well as lean
tell you now. “It doth not yet appear
w’bat wo shall be.” Have you read
of the Taj Mahal in India, in some
respects the most majestic building on
earth? Twenty thousand men were twenty
years in building it. It cost ab >ut sixteen
millions of dollars. The walls are of marble,
inlaid with cornelian from Bagdad, andtur
quois from Thibet, and jasper from the
ruujaub, and amethyst from Persia, and
all manner of precious stones. A traveler
says that it seems to him like the shining of
an enchanted castle of burnished silver. The
walls are two hundred and forty-five feet
high, and from the top of this , springs a
dome thirty more feet high, that dome con
taining the most wonderful echo .he world
has ever known; so that ever and anon
travelers standing below with flutes, and
drums, and harps, are testing that echo,
and the sounds from below strike up and
then come down as it were the voices of
augels all around about the building. There
is around it a garden of tamarind,
and banyan, and palm, and all the
floral glories of the ransacked earth. But
that is only a tomb of a dead empress, and
it is tame compared witu the grandeurs
which God has buildod for your living and
immortal spirit. O, home of the blessed!
Koundat ons of gold! Arches of victory!
Cap-stones of praise! And a dome in which
there are echoing and re-echoing the halle
lujahs of age-. And around about that
mansion there is a garden—tho garden of
God—ana all the springing fountains are
the bottled tears of the church in the wil
derness, and all the crimson of tho flowers
is the deep hue that was caught up from the
carnage of earthly martyrdoms, and the
frabrauce is the prayer of all the saints,and
the aroma puts into utter forgetfulness the
cassia and the spikenard, and the frankin
ceus*, and the word renowned spices which
the Qu-en Balkis of Abyssinia flung at tho
feet of King Solomon.
Wheu shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls
And pearly gates behold
Toy bulwarks, with salvation strong,
An l streets of shining gold;'
Through obduracy on our part, and
i through the rejection of that Christ who
| makes heaven possible, I wonder if any of
ius will miss that spectacle? I fear 1 1 fear!
The queen of the south will rise up in judg
ment against this generation and condemn
it, because she catne from the uttermost
| parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of
! Solomon, and behold, a greater than Solo-
I mon is here! May Grd grant that through
yourown practicalexper.e oe you muv (lui
that religion’s ways are ways of pleasant
ness, and that all her paths ar > p iths of
| isiaee —that it is perfume now and perfume
j forever And there was an abundance of
j spi'-e; "neither was there any suoh soioe as
the Queen of fill-ba gave to King Bolo
inon.
It is i si.KHrjooi. (list Joseph Pulitzer's
yacht ( surma cost him
TIIE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY. MAY 4, 1891.
THE MONEY MARKET.
A Wall Street Brok ris Review of the
F nancial Situation.
New York, May 3. Banker Henry
Clews reviews the stock market as follows:
Favi rable conditions still predominate in
the stock market. Prices have risen fairly,
and the reactions wbicn accompanied the
advance simply served to strengthen the
situation by encouraging new buying and
giving the market a more substantial basis,
i he outside interest is now larger than seen
for many a day, and shows a confidence
which the attacks of traders and profes
sionals were unable to weaken. There is
no question about present conditions justi
fying the higher range of values. As al
ready shown in advices, the crop
situation is strongly in our favor;
and the effect of full crops
here, with a shortage abroad,
is now beginning to be appreciated. That
gene al trade is duli is no argument against
stocks, for experience shows that activity in
both is rarely coincident. Wuen business is
on the rush merchants find more lucrative
employme it for their funds than in Wall
street. In the coal and iron trades, how
ever, there is au improved tone, aDd this
necessarily strengthens confidence in that
class of stocks. The averting of the threat
ened miners’ strike for eight hours is also
reassuring, as it indicates a more temperate
polu-v on the part of labor leaders. For the
last three or four years the whole country
has been thrown into a state of
apprehensiveness about May 1 by
immense labor demonstrations, but the
condition of the coal trade was
unfavoru’ le to the demands made this year,
and the leaders showed their wi-dotn in
waiting for a better opportu ity. Railro id
earnings display very satisfactory gains,
considering the heavy totals of last year,
with which they are compared, aud several
imp rtant systems are expected to make
better net comparisons in the future, owing
to a reduction iu expenses lor betterments.
London has again become a purchaser of
American stocks, and tho continuance of
thi Bunk of England rate at 3}per cent.,
in sp.te of expectations to the contrary, had
a stimulating effect upon this market.
Gold shipments continue, over $4,000,-
000 having been shipped this week,
but the foreign demand for
stocks serves to somewhat counteract this
movement. Thursday’s meeting of railroad
managers was entirely satisfactory and har
monious. Under these circumstances lam
inclined to the belief in well-sustained prices.
At the same time, values have already ex
perienced a considerable advance, and
realizing movements are to be expecte i.
The market is still very susceptible to un
favorable influences; so that buying must
be conducted with prudence, and on all good
rallies it is advisable to secure profits.
THE FLTIRK OK TIIE MONEY MARKET.
A go and deal of foolish talk about the
future of the money market has been excited
by the probable demands upon the treasury,
resulting from the extraordinary appro
priations of tho last congress. Attention to
the mutter was emphasized by Secretary
Foster’s action in discontinuing the purchase
of •?’.< per cent, bonds for the avowed pur
pose of “reserving the residue of 4% per
cent, loan for adjustment within the fiscal
year which begins on July 1 next.” This
action on his part was simply a precaution
ary measure, and one to bo emphatically
indorsed. In theptesent condition of tho
money market, there is no occasion what
ever of the treasury buying bonds to satisfy
currency demands. During the next fiscal
year sinking fund requirements will call for
about $40,000,000, and it is certainly prudent
on the part of the Secretary to strengthen
his resources against future demands at a
time when, like the present, such action
will be least felt. Moreover, there are
about $51,000,000 of these 4% per cent
bonds outstanding, of which over $24,000,-
000 are held by national banks as a basis
for circulation, and a uumber of prominent
bank officials have taken particular pains to
impress the secretary with the advantage
of exteudiug these bonds, temporarily at
least, at 3 per cent.; thus saving the banks
the necessity of further contraction in cir
culation, and relieving the treasury of the
obligation of redeeming all or part of tho
$.51,000,000, should such a course be deemed
convenient to the government. These con
siderations alone are sufficient to justify the
temporary suspension of bond purchases.
GROUNDLESS APPREHENSIONS.
The appiehonsions, however, that the
treasury will be unable to meet its obliga
tions are altogether groundless, and can
only be attributed to ignorance, else to
rumors circulated for speculative and politi
cal effect. The fear of any intrenchment
upon tho traditional 6100,000,00 J gold re
serve arises only from lack of knowledge as
to tho treasury’s real condition. At the
present time there is in the treasury over
$142,000,000 cold in excess of gold certi
ficates outstanding. The banks hold 628,-
000,000 of government deposits; in addition
to which the treasury holds about $20,000,-
000 fractional silver and about 315,000,000
ogai st which no certificates have bee i
issued. Excluding the 6100,000,000 gold
held for redemption of United States notes,
hero are resources available of net less
than $105,000,000. It is quite true that the
demands upon ihe treasury will be enormou
at a time wbon its income will be curtailed
by the abolishment of sugar duties. It is
quite true, also, that those demands will
oblige prudent management of the nation’s
finances; but tho resources of our fiscal
machinery are varied and ample enough to
meet every ditlicultv. It should not he over
looked that many of the liabilities incurrel
by recent legislation, enormous as they arc,
cannot all become duo in a single year.
Payments upon many of these appropria
tions, particularly those upon public works,
necessarily exteud over a considerable
period, aud are not made in a lump; besides,
the government can aud always does con
sult its owu convenience iu respoct
to meeting a large portion of
its current obligations. Differences of
opinion may exist about the wisdom and
extravagance of a congre-s which imposed
such a burden upon the treasury. and in
certain quarters efforts are certainly being
made to exaggerate the changes in policy
thus imposed; but all fears respecting the
latter’s ability to meet every probable de
mand are too absurd to deserve considera
tion. A g >od deal of speculative capital
will be made out of any new departure in
treasury policy w hich circumstances may
requre, but these who are banking upon the
possibility of tho United States entering the
market as a borrower next fall are likely to
fiud themselves very much deceived.
A LITTLE BEST
Is Sometimes Good for a Hard Worked
Woman.
Brooklyn, N. Y., May 2. —The follow
ing letter from Charleston explains itself,
and if my friends enjoy it half as much
as I have they will be richly rewarded
for reading it:
“I am a southern woman, and like many
another was not brought up to work; on the
contrary, I was taught that all domestic
service was menial and tv be avoided. In
consequence of t his early education I was
entirely unprepared to ad ninister the
affairs of my family when I found myse f
witaout a servant and w ithout mouey. My
hauds.v-re white and undisciplined.my back
was weak and my pride and disgust too
strong for exp ession I had never cooked
a meal, never washed dishes, never brushed
my own clothos, never mu sed my ouildrer.,
but the time came when all tneso things ha-I
to be done with my own bauds. There wn
no way out of it. If there had boen i
should have availed myself of it, for tbt
degradation and humiliation burned int
my sul day and night. My husband—the
best man that ever lived—used sometime
to try aud give me bis definition of “belp
mee:,” but it is very little use to talk to i
woman whoso soul is tided with protest and
| indignation against, her lot. He had totals
up work for winch lie had us much disdui
| ns 1 bad for the labor of the household, bu
j his misery did not help me any. Instead i
i drove the hot iron deeper and doe; er int
I my soul.
j “liut the inevitable 'must' finally brought
my haughty spirit to terms. Food had to
be cooked, and cooking utensils had to be
washed. Sweeping, and ironing, and mend
ing, aud making, and washing children’s I
faces, all fell to my lot. In short, I was j
obliged to do all the menial work of the !
family except the weekly washing; that I
dared not attempt. As time wore on I grew I
very particular and conscientious about the j
performance of this work. Everything I
was done on time and I did not spare my
self in the least. My mother declared me j
the victim of heredity, for my great grand
mother. born in New Hampshire, had been
noted for her executive and housekeeping
talents. I really became a model house
keeper, if that is a proper name for a
woman who spends all her time and more
than all her strength in the management of
her domestic affairs. The reaotion was a
strange one and seemed destined to last as
long as I did.
“At last I was able to have a servant, but
I had become so wise in my own conceit that
no one, however competent, could please
me, and it was almost easier to do every
thing with my own hands than to fret be
cause my work was not done to suit me.
One day not very long ago my servant was
taken ill aud had to go home for a few days.
I bad not been well for a week or more,
and my physician had warned me against
any extra exertion. But here was the iron
ing, the sweeping, the cooking, the dish
washing—the everything. At this particu
lar crisis, with my mind made up to be
mistress of the situation if it killed me, my
husband came across one of your letters
and began to read aloud to me. The article
had special reference to my case, bing In
tended for the women who undertake to
perforin killing tasks. ’Skip as much of
the work as possible that you do not feel
like doing,’ my husband read. ‘Buy some
food already cooked, and do not fret about
the dishea. Lie down iu tho midst of it and
read a novel.’
“Tnis was indeed heterodox doctrine, but
the next morning I was so tired and nervous
that I actually wept at the thought of the
things waiting to be done, and most impul
sively I decided to take your advice. It
was sweeping day. 1 let the sweeping go.
The meals consisted of canned stuff aud
supplies from the baker’s. I did not wash
one dish that day. I read a novel and
lounged every available minute. The next
day the work did not assume such colossal
proportions, and 1 skirmished a little
around the edges. Tho next day I was still
farther improved, and 1 swept and dusted a
little. I told this story afterward to my
doctor, a wise old gentleman, who declared
to me that this forced rest undoubtedly
saved me from a course of fever, and
begged me to use my influence with my
friends in this matter of work and rest. I
feel now that I have got hold of the very
best way of doing things, and that is not
to do them when lam too ill or too tired if
it can possibly be prevented. For this 1
thank you from the bottom of a grateful
heart.”
The above I consider valuable testimony,
and it is certainly most encouraging. I
once heard a very neat and very fussy
woman, one who in her desire to make peo
ple comfortable could stir up more discom
fort than any ot! er human being lever
met, make this remark about her own
daughter:
"She is not in the least afraid of work.
She can lie right down beside it and go to
sleep.”
This condition seemed so much more pref
erable than that of the mother who never
had a moment’s peace nor allowed any one
else under her roof to have, that I feel like
recommending ali of my friends who are
harassed and driven by work to teach
themselves to lie down and go to sleep be
side it. It is a sin agamst God and the hu
man constitution for women to so exhaust
themselves by physical labor day after day
and month after month as to be unfit for
the enjoyment of home and friends and
books.
Ido not need to be fold that there are
some instances when the drudgery of house
work cannot be lessoned, but I verily be
lieve that these cases are more rare than is
generally supposed. Housekeepers with
large families and small means often get
into ruts from which it seems impossible to
climb out of. Iu the effort tn economize
and to look as well as tneir neighbors they
come to exaggerate the situation and to feel
a3 if they were stealing whenever they are
compelled to take a moment’s rest. Ambi
tious and conscientious women almost in
variably work too bard, and it is not al
ways because they aro obliged to. They
simply get in the habit of it. One of the
most overworked women of my acquaint
ance is the widow of a millionaire. She
boasts that she never retires until midnight
aud always breakfasts by 8 o’clock. She is
president, vice president and lady patroness
of several societies, besides being at the
head of a social clique whose requirements
are many and varied.
“Why, I don’t have a moment's time for
my own family even,” she told me one day.
“Isn’t it a very exacting world?” she added,
pathetically.
“Yes, if we allow it to be,” I replied.
“But you must get unbearably weary
sometimes?” my companion speculated.
“My chief weariness comes from seeing
others weary,” 1 could not help saying. ‘ I
learned a long time ago to stop before I
reached the uu earablo point, and if I had
your wealth I would convene large audi
ences of women all over the country and
teach them how to prolong their lives, and
improve their physical, mental, moral and
spiritual condition by the economy of la
bor.”
“But what of the lazy ones? Wouldn’t
that be a mischievous doctrine for them?”
the skeptic inquired.
“1 am not acquainted with half a dozen
lazy women,”! told her, and this is the
literal truth, and two of these are the most
delightfully restlul creatures I ever knew.
Wnea I want to get a breath from the very
depths of my spiritusl lungs I call upon
these friends. May their lazy shadows
never giow less. Eleanor Kirk.
A RA I,ROAD TSAOIDY.
A Robber Kills Two or Threo Fe low
Passengers on a Russian Traiu.
Vienna, May 1. —A passenger traveling
from Cracow to Lembergin a night express
train suddenly drew two,revolvers, and,
with one iu each hand, demanded of his
three fellow travelers in the same carriage
their money and valuables. A frightful
struggle ensued in the narrow compart
ment. The ruffian used his revolver-* with
elfect,killing two of the men in sun f*s on.
Tue third passenger grappled closely * ith
assassin, who fired in vain, being unable to
touch him. Having emptied all the cham
bers of his revolvers, the assassin tore him
self from the grasp of his antagonist, burst
open the car door aud jumped from the
train while it was going at full speed.
As soon as tho alarm could be communi
cated to the engineer the train was stopped.
The survivor was barely able to inform the
horrified passengers and guards what had
happened. The train was backed to the
vicinity of the spot where it is supposed the
assassiu jumped out. A search was made,
but without avail. No traces of the mis
creant could be sound.
FOND OF A CIRCUS.
The Venerable Senator Morr.ll Clings
to the Love of His Boyhood.
Washington, May 3. —The venerable
Senator Justin S. Morrill of Vermont has
ail through his life made it a sort of religi
ons duty to take in a circus whenever it was
within reach, and notwithstanding the fact
that he was SI years old on April 14, he at
tended Forepaugh’s yesterday afternoon,
accompanied by his private secretary, aud
appeared to enjoy tho performance with tho
uthusiasm of youth. Mr. Morrill is rapidly
growing feeble, however, and hit friends
fear ho will be forced to resign the Sena e.
to w hich he was re-elected last fall, and
thus leave two senatorial vacancies in Ver
mont.
Gh.wooi.y This world is full of misery The
ispplesl until it the one who U never b ,rn
Hot elier iinois Yes, bul there Isn't one
u i million that has such a streak of luck.
J'tsai fit/fiuys.
BATTi.ES WITH THE BAT.
Results of the Ball Game* Between the
Country's Big 1 Clubs.
Washington, May 3. To-day’* ball
garnas resulted:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
At Cincinnati r. b.h. e.
Cincinnati ....5 8 1
8t Louis 2 6 3
Batteries—Vaughn, Keeley and Crane; Boyle
and Stivetts
At Columbus— r. B.a. e.
Columbus 4 8 1
Louisville .5 IT 4
Batteries—O'Connor and Gastright, Rvan and
Daily.
Monticello Mention.
Montxckllo. Fla., May a—There has
been no rain here for the past three or four
weeks. The farmers sav that the cotton
which has j ust come up is literally dying on
account of the drought.
B. VV. Partridge, the agent of the Florida
Central and Peninsular railroad, will leave
in a few days for a trip to the north and
west.
Monticello is growing gradually but
surely. Six flue new residences are now
nearing completion.
Miss McDonald, who has been visiting
Miss Lizzie Pasco for the past few weeks,
left for her home in Washington Tuesday.
MEDICAL.
COMPOUND ECTfttCT/f
MM,
The importance of purifying the blood can
not be overestimated, for without pure
blood you cannot enjoy good health.
At this season nearly every one needs a
good medicine to purify, vitalize, and enrich
the blood, and Hood’s Sarsaparilla is worthy
your confidence. It is peculiar in that it
strengthens and builds up the system, creates
an appetite, and tones the digestion, while
it eradicates disease. Give it a trial.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists.
Prepared by C. I. Hood & Cos., Lowell, Hass.
100 Poses One Dollar
SPECIAL. NOTICES
DR. HOISTOUN
HAS RETURNED AND RESUMED HIS
PRACTICE.
Limited to the Eye, Ear, Throat and Nose.
Office: Harris Street.
DR. M. SCHWAB fc SON,
. GRADUATE OPTICIANS,
No. 23 Bull Street, Savannah, Ga.
If your eyes are not properly fitted with eve
glasses or spectacles, we desire the opportunity
of fitting them with glasses which will correct
any visual imperfection that may exist, or can
b • corrected by scientific means As specialists
we have fitted ourselves by a practical course of
study, graduating from Dr. C. A. Buekiin’s
School of Optics, New York. We are practical
opticians, and make our own goods. New lenses
put in old frames while you wait. Oculists'
prescriptions a specialty, and carefully filled.
No charge for examination.
•‘DO YU MEAD RASH!”
Yure “Unkel Adam" kin borrow yu the
‘‘Geld" on yure Dimonds; yaller or wite Time
keepers. kloding. Tales, Ac. Open from 7
a M. to 9 p. m , Saturdays to 11 P. M.
NEW YORK LOAN OFFICE,
ADAM STRAUSS, .Manager.
20 Jefferson street, cor. Congress street lane.
BAY LEAF.
PEARLY TEETH ARE CRAVED BT ALL.
BAY LEAF TOOTH POWDER
IS THE CREME DE LA CREME,
thoroughly antiseptic, 25 cent3,
at
BUTLER'S PHARMACY.
BULL AND CONGRESS STREETS.
WILL SELL o.\ EASY TERMS.
Desirable residence next to southeast corner
New Houston and Absrcornstreets. Address
D. C. BACON.
City.
DR. PAIGE,
OFFERS HIS SERVICES AT
137 PERRY STREET.
Practice limited to Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat.
NOTICE.
Savannah, (la. April 30, 1891.
The firm of McCauley, Stillwell Cos. has
been THIS DAY dissolved by mutual consent.
geo. si mccauley.
C. B STILLWELL.
w. f McCauley.
We will continue the business as heretofore,
und r the firm name of McCauley, Stillwell
& co. geo. m. mccauley.
EWRV ARTICLE
NEEDED FOR THE SICK ROOM
AND NURSERY
Can Be Had at Solomon & Co.'s
TWO DRUG STORES,
IS3 Congress Street and 92 Bull Street.
At our Bull street store we have a list of
Trained Nurses for the Sick which is at the serv
ice of the public.
USE I*H. ULMER S LIVER COHR ECTOR.
FOR INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA,
AND ALL
LIVER COMPLAINTS.
SILVER MEDALS AND DIPLOMAS
Awarded It over all Liver Medicines.
TRICE ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE.
Freight Prepaid to Any Address.
FINE HORMK*.
Extra Driv.ng, Combination, Carriage and
1 Family Broke Hornes and Mares just arrived.
OUILMAKTIN A CO.
Telephone 2 31
SALE AND LIVERV STABLES.
M ERTINRS.
GEORGIA HISTORIC A iTSOCIETY.*
The regular monthly meeting of this society
will be held at Hodgson Hall THIS EVENING
at 8 o'clock.
BEIRNE GORDON.
Recording Secretary.
SPEC IAL NOTICES*.
On rind after Feb. 1. 18W, the basis of meas
urement of all advertising is the Monicrso
Nxws mil he agate, or at the rate of Si 40 an
inch for the JM tneertion. Xo Special .Yoftce
inserted for less than $1 00.
NOTICE TO W ATER TAKERS.
Office Water Works, )
Savannah, May 4th, 1891. f
The water will be shut off at nine <9i o'clock
THIS (Monday) MORNING, in the dis
trict between Jones and Roberts, an Invest
Broad and West Boundary streets, for the pur
pose of connecting extensions, and will be off
several hours.
JAMES MANNING,
Superintendent,
SPECIAL NOTICE.
I will sell my half interest in the saloon, cor
ner Broughton and Drayton streets, at the same
time and place, MAY 5, as ordered by the Court
of Ordinary in the matter of estate of E. L.
KIRKSEY.
JAS. LANE.
CARD OF THANKS
The Sisters in charge of St. Mary's Orphan
Home return their thanks to Col. Gordon and
the officers and men of the Fifth Georgia Cav
alry for their present of provisions which they
were so good as to send to the Home on the
breaking up of their camp on Saturday.
JTc. c
Vanilla and Strawberry to day.
SHERBETS !
I have something new in strictly Pure Fruit
Syrups for Sherbets, Ices, Sauces, etc. I invite
your attention to them. They surpass any
thing on this order that I have ever seen. I
have
Cherry Glac j. Peach,
Raspberry, Pineapple,
Cherry.
IR tiOj intcXs^cuttl n^Lorctoi!
AN ORANGE WINE,
7 years old.
Made From Sweet Oranges,
—ALSO—
RASPBERRY" VINEGAR.
LIME JUICE.
LEMON JUICE.
—SEND FOR OCR—
WINE AND LIQUOR LIST,
Fancy Grocery and Table Luxury List.
JNO. J. REILY.
'Phone to I BN.
EXTRACT OF VANILLA,
The same as I use for making my Ice Cream,
may be had by the pint or quart. Altogether a
different article from that you buy put up in
small bottles. It is Pure. Old, like an oil, has
a delicious perfume and flavor, and a few drops
suffice.
THE SEASON’S DELICACIES,
—AND—
EVERYTHING ELSE GOOD TO EAT
—AT—
FRIED & HICKS' RESTAURANT.
Open Day and night.
A FEW MORE MEN WANTED
TO FORM A SYNDICATE TO PURCHASE
A splendid piece of property, exactly adapted
to the wants of a club or military company.
The grounds are large and supplied with arte
sian water. The houses are in prime gcod con
dition, having splendid wide piazzas, a dining
room 32x60, twenty eight bedchambers, twenty
six bath rooms and pavilion 30x50.
This elegant property is completely furnished
and ready for immediate occupancy, and can be
purchased furnished or unfurnished.
The property has achieved an enviable repu
tation with the public and has been a great
financial success, but the owner's time is en
tirely absorbed by other business.
As but a small portion of tne purchase money
is required in cash, and long time at a low rate
of interest for the balance will be acceptable,
this affords an admirable chance to obtain a
club house at Tybee ready for use at once.
It is a well-known fact that satisfactory sites
on Tybee are very scarce and obtainable only at
very high figures.
Furber's Point House, the property referred
to, is the first reached from the city, has very
superior bathing, and in addition to the ocean
view in front has a splendid view of the Savan
nah river ship channel, and is the least of all the
hotels troubled by the shifting sands.
Very easy terms can be secured, so that if
purchased by a club the installments of mem
bers would meet the purch ise money.
Further particulars can be had from
C. H DORSETT.
Real Estate Dealer.
Marion banking and indisirial
COMPANY OF MARION, N. C.
CAPITAL @1,500.000
SHARES SSO EACH-PAR VALUE.
PAYABLE
85 per share cash and $2 50 per share for
eighteen months when stock becomes full paid
and non assessable.
PAID UP STOCK
This company will sell paid up stock at 850
per share cash and
GUARANTEE
6 per cent, interest for eighteen months, and in
addition is entitled to full dividends.
PROFIT
The companies controlled by the Marion
Banking and Industrial Company earned a div
idend last year of 110 per cent., and will, from
present indications, exceed that the ensuing
year.
For further information, call on
MAX L. BYCK, tot Broughton street.
GEO. W. DRUMMOND 41)4 Bull street.
C. Y. RICHARDSON, at J. F. LaFar's.
C. P. MILLER, 131 CoDgress street.
V. E. ST. CLOUD, at T. A. Mullryne & Co.’s.
H. J. WINKERS, 150 St. Julian street.
—or address—
W. HENRY ROBERTS, President.,
Marion, N. C.
NOTICE.
The draw in Lazaretto Creek Bridge will be
closed to navigation for a period of two weeks
commencing April 30. 1891. in order to make
necessary repairs to this bridge.
SAVANNAH AND ATLANTIC RAILWAY,
By Cecil Gabbett. General Manager
TIMBER AMI Tl RPESTINE MI LES
To suit the business just arrived.
GUILMARTIN & CO.
Telephone 231.
SALE AND LIVERY STABLES
GLYCERINE Mill*, IO CENTS A 818.
This Soap is usually sold at double the above
price. Supply is limited.
It OW L 1 Kt>K 1, Pharmacist,
Broughton an 1 Drayton Hti.
Telephone 1(13.
HUTELa.
PULASKI HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Managsmsnt strictly first-cla^
Situated In the badness neater,
w. soovnxa,
THE
DE SOTO,
SAVANNAH. GA, 7
One of the most elegantly appointed hotel*
in the world.
Accomodations for 500
Gruests.
OPEN ALL YEAR.
WATSON & POWERS.
THE MARSHALL
By request of my numerous catrons I will
from this date on conduct
THE MARSHALL
on both the American and European methods.
RATES: 50 and upward per day.
ELROPEAN RATES. Rooms 50 cents, ?5
cents, 31 00 per person.
H. N. FISH, Proprietor.
THE MORRISON HOUSE
/“CENTRALLY LOCATED on line of street
V ) cars, offers pleasant south rooms, with ex
cellent board. New baths, sewerage and venti
lation perfect, the sanitary condition of the
house is of the best.
Cob. Broughton and Drayton Streets,
SAVANNAH, GA.
SHOES.
W. L. DOUGLAS
g** Fto B i! g*“ and other 9pecial
fa . JB" ties for Gentlemen,
or wl ■ oste Jaa Ladies, etc., are war
ranted, and so stamped on bottom. Address
W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Muss. Sold by
BYCK BROS., Whitaker street.
E. S. BYCK & CO. , 169 Broughton street
~ BANKS.
jSsW-Weed” ™"
President. Vice President.
JAS. H. HUNTER, Cashier.
SAVANNAH BANK A TRUST CO.
Savings Oep't
allows 40/ 0
Deposits of $1 and Upward Rewired.
Interest on Deposits Payable Quarterly.
DIRECTORS:
Joseph D. Webd, of J. D. Weed 4 Got
John C. Rowland, Capitalist.
C. A, Reitzs, Exchange andlnsurious.
John L. Harder, Capitalist.
R. G. Erwin, of Chisholm. Erwin A duMgnoo.
Edward Karow. of Strauss & 00.
Isaac G. Haab, General Broker.
M. Y. Maclntyre, of M. Y.iD.l Msclnlyr*.
John Lyons, of John Lyons A 00.
Walter Oonet. of Paterson, Downing A 00.
I). C- B-vook, Lumber,
PUBLICATIONS.
FASHION BOOKS FOR MAY
ESTILI'S NEWS DEPOT,
21% BULL STREET. Price.
L’Art de la Mode 35°
R* vue de la Mode . 35c
La Mode de Pahs
Album of Modes. 350
laP Bon Ton ;^c
The Season
Y oung Ladies' Journal •j** 3
Uemorest Po tiolio of the Fashions and
What to Wear for Spring and Summer, 1H91.2nc
Butterick's Fashion Quarterly for Spring
and Summer, 1891
Oodeys lady’s Book
Demorest's Fashion Magazine
Peterson's Magazine - 250
New Yoric and Paris Young Ladies' Fashion
Bazir 2?°
The Deiineaior J;* 5
The Ladies' Home Journal
Harper's Bazar • • •
Mme. Demorest Monthly Fashion Journal IOC
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BL.AKK BOOKS.
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necessary TOOLS end MACHINERY,
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OIL MILL".
Gotten Sesd Oil Mills-
We are making various si*e. ft*'® ®
50 ton m per day capacity. Our !„ JJJV
brace all the modern improvements in nn
chlnery and will give the best rwsulw.
will erect the mills and turn them over com
plete and guarantee their capacity
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Steam Power. Not liable to get out or
order, and are very durable.
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