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Mother’s Rights In Children.
“The Massachusetts legislature has
passed a bill.” says the Boston Herald,
•‘and received the approval of the gover
nor. which is a step forward in the line of
justice and humanity, one which has been
•advocated with much earnestness in the
-past by those who are commonly classed
,as ‘woman's rights people.' but hereto
fore always without success. This year
•'the goal of long effort has been won. . .
It gives the mothers a joint right with
(fathers tn the care ant custody of minor
children. Heretofore mothers have had
;no legal right at all—fathers having the
laxdusive care, custody and control un
ifier the law in accordance with the prac
tice in times when women had no inde*
I pendent status of rights, being simply
'the dependents of their husbands or of
gome male relative. . . . Massachu
i setts is now the twelfth state in the
Union to concede this right. Thirty-three
states yet cling to the former ideal of the
family, as an institution in which the
’husband and father is the sole head, so
far as the custody of children is concern
ed That such power is often used arbi
trarily. tyranically and oppressively there
’can be no question.'*
The change of the law In Massachusetts
grew out of a horrible occurrence, where
a hard working woman had supported
her five little ones for years, while a bru
tal husband had been debauched by drink.
Bhe kept these children together by the
most heroic self-sacrifice. while he lay
around a rum hole and made a beast of
himself. Her extremity became so great,
and her poverty so severe, she consented
to go to the alms-house if her children
might go with her. When she found- she
was tricked and her children were to be
taken from her. she became violently in
sane and butchered all five to' keep them
away from the beas tof a father, who de
termined to make her and them still more
wretched. A prominent minister took
hold of the case, obtained all the facts
concerning thia poor mother’s strivings
to bring up her children to clean lives, and
made such a presentation of that mother's
helplessness under the law, which gave
the control and custody of her children
into the bands of a beastly inebriate, that
the bill to protect mothers became a law.
A woman in Massachusetts cqn now claim
Joint custody of her own children.
I never shall forget the heart-breaking
Bobs of one of the best women I have
•ver known when she told me. years ago,
that her twelve-year-old son had been
taken from school and hired to a saloon
by his no-account father, over her pro
tests, tears and prayers. This occurred
here in Georgia, in a city I could name,
but will not. That child of tender years
was hired to pour out liquors and wash
tumblers and wait on the dram-drinkers
generally, in an open saloon, and his no
account father did the deed. That moth
er went to the saloon and plead with
such power for her child that the saloonist
agreed to dismiss her boy. That father
turned to live on that child's earnings in
the dram shop, and Georgia law gave him
the power to do It, over the entreaties of
the mother, who would have laid her own
faithful head in the grave to have kept
this child of her love In paths of peace
and uprightness.
The scamp of a father should have been
tarred and feathered and tied to nearest
lamp post for this endeavor to debauch the
little boy. who was cursed with such an
unfeeling parent. How any legislature
can hesitate for a single moment to give
the mother joint control of her own child
I cannot comprehend.
The time is coming when public opinion
will pass quick sentence on either parent
that corrupts or degrades the offspring.
No license to marry should be Issued to
a man of dissolute or debauched charac
ter. Somebody should vouch for him and
security should be given before little hap
less children, are spawned upon the world
to be battered and banged about by un
worthy parents.
That poor Massachusetts mother should
have been shielded from the brute that
made her home a place of torment. There
should be some refuge provided for the
Innocent and helpless under such condi
tions.
The brute should have been sobered on
the rock pile, and kept sober until his
senses were recovered.
I pity such poor mothers from the bot
tom of ray heart, and these dear little
ones had a terrific experience at the hands
of both their parents. It there is any
thing more deplorable than to die by vio
lence at the hands of a crasy mother it
would be to Hve under the control of a
bestiallzed father until of age. Death
was in truth their friend.
Poor, Debt-Ridden China.
The Chinese government has made a
piteous appeal to the United States gov
ernment to assist the Chinese taxpayers
In their direful extremity.
An immense indemnity fund has been
demanded by the allied forces that were
corralled within the walls of Pekin, after
the foreign ministers were rescued and the
way made open to peace. We all recol
lect the excitement which prevailed when
It was thought Minister Conger and his
family were massacred, but really were
not hurt at all.
The British government demands that
this indemnity fund shall be paid tn gold.
The Chinese ask the United States govern
ment to take silver coin. How it will end
this deponent knoweth not. The “powers
that be are all gold bugs, and if England
holds out for gold, gold It is likely to be.
The Chinese declare that the extortion
of gold will infuriate the people who must
endure terrible privation and confiscation
of property to raise the gol/1. Silver being
cheaper these petitioners » beg for relief
•nd .the opportunity to pay in silver. But
how can they help themselves?
This Is the condition of affairs just now.
•nd I desire to illustrate by a state of
affairs here in Georgia that inclines me
to be very sympathetic with China.
A few days ago a superior court judge,
tn a charge to the grand jury of Bartow
county, informed them that the tax rate
for state and county would be 119.25 on
every dollar's worth of taxable property.
The county has been in straits for some
time. X he county chain gang proved to
be ar enormously expensive affair, and
this year there is scarcely any wheat crop
at all. hardly any peaches and a four
months’ drought has ruined early corn
•nd cut off the cotton fearfully. The out
look is ominous. Our authorities con
cluded to build a most expensive court
house, although we have a court bouse
built since the war. and as good a struc
ture as any building in Cartersville, the
churches not excepted. It is supposed
that the new one will approach century
figures before it is completed, and it is to
be erected by convict chain gang negroes
•nd poor whites, because the present sys
tem has become so expensive and unpopu
lar that well to do people will try to set-
tn time, gnid l>y dn>g»t»’ *■ EH
tie out of court to keep out of the toils.
A reputable citisen informed me today
that such was now the understanding.
This 219.25 tax rate does not Include mu
nicipal taxation which Is laid on without
mercy.
The people held a mass meeting before
dirt was broken for the new court house,
and demanded a halt. The county com
missioners replied by digging dirt and go
ing ahead.
The Indignant taxpayers sought to stop
them by an injunctipn, but the people dis
covered that their limbs were shackled
while they were asleep. The money has
to come, and 230,000 is demanded for the
court house this awful hard year on farm
ers, •
We know how poor China feels today.
We are prepared to sympathise. We are
taken by the throat and made to stand
and deliver! It is not a good feeling.
We do not know what our bosses will
do with the present court house. We are
prepared to see them do anything that
may please their majesties, even to giv
ing It away to some of the camp followers.
They have not signified yet.
But a fellow feeling makes us wondrous
kind to China. We have nothing to offer
the Orientals but our sympathy, but we
will give them a carload of sympathy, for
we are full of wrath. I’d rather be cheat
ed. robbed and banged about by the
enemy than so-called friends.
Let China keep the enemy in remem
brance for it is a long lane that never
turns. Their time will come after awhile.
Bartow county still has a memory.
We, in Bartow county, have no other
consolation. The court house will not add
a quarter of a dollar to the value of a
farm tn the county, outside of Cartersville.
We are satisfied on this point.
But. we have two court houses to look
at and a debt to pay that no man in the
county ever supposed possible to be laid
on a suffering people In Georgia, unless a
clval war was raging. The late civil war,
however, never touched such a tax rate
as the present one In time of peace.
China—poor China—has still one comfort
—the enemy does it! Bartow county is
robbed by its own officials, and has no’
alternative.
Died Cursing Everybody.
The wretched young man who was exe
cuted in Mississippi a few days ago, was
certainly a demented creature or he would
have been more considerate of other peo
ple’s feelings, if he felt he was doomed
to torment and certain to go there.
I am sorry such a story had to be told
of a southern born man. I feel mortified
that such a creature was not executed in
his cell and his ravings kept a secret, at
least from the general public. It has done
no good to blazon his blasphemy abroad.
It has made his devoted mother and sis
ter suffer more keenly, and the morbid
appetite for abnormal horrors has been
violently Increased.
His crime was cold blooded and admitted
of no palliative measures, but it must
never be forgotten he was drunk, drunk,
drunk!
That tells the tale! His brain was on
fire. The poison filtered Into his brain
and he was a desperado that was too
dangerous to be suffered to go at large.
Every feeling heart sympathizes with the
poor mother, but nobody could bear her
agony for her. The story is told that his
father taught his sons to take nothing
from any man, to "die game.” Poor boy;
he died, but not game; he descended below
brute creation, and had to be punished
out of life, because he was unfit to live in
it. When the secrets of this life are made
known in eternity it may appear that a
maniac was put to death in the person of
the condemned felon. May God help the
suffering women who did all they could
to comfort the wretched criminal.
A BLUE ROSE HAS
BEEN GROWN AT LAST
New York Times.
The announcement was made a few days
ago in a London paper that a perfect blue
rose had been received from America at
Kew Gardens. There was nothing in the
short notice aside from the mention that
the rose was considered a botanical curi
osity, to indicate that the flower, a perfect
blue, marks an epoch in rose culture.
Among the faddists in the growing of
the rose it has been for ages the sought
for color. Not that there would be any
particularly large money reward, but
there seems to be some allurement in the
hope that their name may go down in
botanical history trailing after a Latin
prefix as the grower of "a perfect blue.”
In other countries and in bygone years
things were different as to the monetary
rewards for successful growing of floral
monstrosities. This was notably the case
in the Netherlands during the early part
of the seventeenth century. The country
went mad over the tulip, and large bo
nuses In cash were offered for the produc
tion of perfect specimens of the different
varieties, especially a true black. And one
instance is recorded where 13,000 florins
was paid for a single plant.
While the growing of these floral freaks
has always been a matter of much inter
est to botanists, it has been a luxury with
which the commercial florist, no matter
how enthusiastic, could not afford to toy.
He is mostly concerned In the successful
raising of varieties for which there is a
well known public demand. Thus experi
mentation has become a monopoly enjoyed
by private botanical students and those
at the head of botanical gardens and the
conservatories attached to private estates.
And. like the preliminary work on in
ventions in other lines, the experimental
botanist surrounds his work with a shroud
of secrecy, seemingly fearful of the loss
of his idol or that some one may steal the
secret of its rearing. Thus, while the
announcement states that the rose came
from this side, its existence in this coun
try was not suspected by any of the ex
perts in rose culture interviewed.
The cultivation of the blue rose has long
been considered an impossibility. "A
seeker after blue roses” Is an old phrase
signifying the unattainable. But such won
derful things have been done with the rose
in the way of cultivation, enlargement,
beauty, and fragrance that it is not sur
prising that ambitious rose culturists
should strive for this high goal.
One head gardener. In speaking of the
matter, said that it did not surprise him
that the blue rose had been grown at last.
There have, according to him. always
been some few enthusiasts working to that
end. Probably their patience had at last
been rewarded.
"For you must understand,” he contin
ued, "that the perfection of such a rose
means much—the work of a lifetime. Even
the attempted cultivation of such a mon
strosity presupposes a premiership in the
ranks of botanists. It involves an age of
personal experience and a knowledge of
the continued experiences of others along
the same line.
"Years and years of individual experi
ment. grafting and regrafting, budding
and rebudding, crossing and recrossing
with endless varieties, all the while keep
ing minute records of the habits of the
plant in its different stages, its varying
color, this time a nearer approach to the
cherished blue, and then again a casting
off; at times in the seventh heaven of ec
stacy over some slight Indication of ad
vancement toward the goal, only to be
cast into the nethermost depths of despond
by the contrariness o f the next cross.
The Snare.
Daughter—l have an invitation to the theatre
and have no chaperon.
Mother—You must have one, of course, or you
shan't go. It's from Mr. glimpurse, I suppose?
“No. It's from Mr. Fatpurse.”
•'Um—never mind about the chaperon.”—Tit
Bits.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1902.
| Journal's
Saturday
Sermon
Almost every day we meet those who
cannot understand why God creates men,
and then allows them to be finally lost.
"Can God be just and cause such suffer
ing?” is a living question.
In order to reach a reasonable, scriptu
ral conclusion, we must first find out so
far as we can the beginning and nature
of sin. also its immediate results; and tn
the next place we must learn of the king
dom and power of satan and who it is that
works for him and makes up his force
of co-laborers: then I think we shall be
able to comprehend clearly the justice
of God's punishment.
Where did satan come from, and where
does he live? In the 28th chapter of Eze
kiel we have the description of a strange
being who seems once to have been beau
tiful "In the Eden of God” and "upon the
holy' mountain of God.”' but because of
unrighteousness he was “cast to the
ground” and has "become a terror.” Who
was this man and when did he live?. He
seems once to have been in the very.pres
ence of God. There is room for the terri
ble destruction of a race between the
first and second verses of the first chap
ter of Genesis. The first verse reads: "In
the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth.” The second verse says:
"And the earth was waste and void.’ In
Isaiah 45:18 we read that the earth was
not first made In that chaotic condition;
"He created it not a waste, he formed it
to be Inhabited." must we con
clude? We see God did not create the
earth a “waste." and then we find it a
"waste and void.” Chaos Is always the
result of sin; unrighteousness brings aw
ful destruction in every instance unless
atonement is made. Babylon sinned and
today it is a place for bats and owlfc:
Sodom and Gomorrah sinned greatly, and
today their .former glory is in the bottom
of the Dead Sea. Here we have fearful
chaos as the direct result of transgres
sions against God. Then what do you
think brought the “waste and void” de
scribed in the second verse of Genesis if
God made the earth to be Inhabited as
Isaiah .says he made it? If He made it
to be inhabited, how transcendently beau
tiful’it must have been! Indeed it was so
beautiful that those who inhabited it be
came haughty and sjnned; so brought a
blighting state of chaos, as it seems to
have been. . ‘
Let us go a step further. When Adam
was put in Eden. God told him to dress
and keep the garden. This WoiM keep in
Genesis 2:15 is the same-in Genesis 3:24.
where it evidently means to ‘‘guard.
Why should Adam keep guard? Who was
there to trouble him? God lets Adam
know that there are two tremendous
forces in the world—evil and good. God
loved Adam and wanted him to do right
eously: so he warns him against rebel
lion. In Genesis 1:27 he told Adam to ’ I*-
plenlsh” the earth; the same word is used
In Genesis 9:1 when God had almost de
stroyed man on account of nls slna, and
tells Noah to "replenish” the earth. Man
was first commanded to "replenish the
and when by hla sins he brought
total destruction. upon himself, he is
again commanded to "replenish.”
So we have found a most formidable
enemy in the world, and we shall next
study his kingdom and his power.
In Matthew 12:26 wo find Christ's ac
knowledgment that satan has a kingdom,
and Paul tells us in Ephesians «;12 that It
is divided into principalities and powers.
Three times in John's gospel; Christ
speaks of the “prince of this world.” But
to get a still more comprehensive view of
his king<4’tn. refer the reader to
Ephesians 2:2. where he Is called the
"prince of the power of the air.” and to
Ephesians 6:12. where his "spiritual hosts
are in heavenly places.” Thus we see
three places he now occupies; the eartn.
the air and the heavens. Thia gives him
room fbr a mighty kingdom, and that Is
Just what he has. He claimed the king
dom of this world when he was tempting
Christ; He said in Luke 4:6: "To thee
will I give all this authority and the glory
of them; for it hath been delivered unto
me.” When was it delivered unto Jiim.
and how did he come to get lt?» (Jhrigt
did not deny it. Is it possible that he re
fers to a time when God allowed him to
rule righteously over the world, and when
he sinned he carried with him all the
forces of his kingdom and turned them in
to evil doing? If satan has a kingdom, he
must have subjects under hlm.<
This brings us naturally tb the next
point to be considered. Satan tries his
best to be like God in.his plans. Let us
notice for a moment the workings of both
kingdoms. God has angels doing his ser
vice. for Psalm 84:7 tells us that "The
angel of the Lord encampeth round about
them that fear film.” Luke 22:43 says
when Christ was suffering in Gethsemane
"there appeared unto him an angel from
heaven, strengthening him;” Next we
think of the Holy Spirit. Who can com
prehend the fullness of his mission?.
He is to "convict the world df sin, of
righteousness, and of judgment," "to
bring all things to our remembrance,” and
“to make Intercessions for us with groan
ings that cannot be uttered.” In the third
place, every redeemed soul has part Ih
God's kingdom. Christ told his disciples
that they were "the light of the world,”
and Paul says they are "heirs of God and
joint heirs with Christ." Christ says in
John 20:21, "As the Father hath sent me,
even so send I you,” and again John 15:8
reads: "Herein is my Father glorified that
ye bear much fruit.” Hence his great
commission in Matthew 28:l!U20, "Go ye
therefore and make disciples of all na
tions . . . and 10, I am with you al
way.” Lastly we shall speak of Christ,
for upon him all the other co-workers de
pend for strength and guidance; for the
angels rejoice over the souls that are
saved through him; he “sends”'the Holy
Spirit; and all men whb enter the king
dom must come in by means of his sacri
fice. Tremendous are the forces at Work
in God’s kingdom.
Satan has a corresponding force for
each of God's co-laborers. First he has
angels, as we read in Revelations 12:7,
"And there was war in heaven: Michael
and his angels going forth to wax with
the dragon; and the dragon warred and
his angels.” In Matthew *25:41 Christ
speaks of "the devil and his angels." Cor
responding to the Holy Spirit, Satan has
his demons, all sorts of demons, disem
bodied spirits. Christ cast a legion of
them out of one man, and they were so
anxious to be in some living being they
asked him to send them into a herd' of
swine. What do you suppose became of
them when the swine were choked in the
sea? What became of all the devils Christ
cast out? No where is it recorded that he
destroyed them. They must still be in the
world, with possibly hosts of others, seek
ing to get possession of men? Do ybu
suppose they are all failures in thetr ef
forts? Could it not truly be said of many
today. "He hath a devil, or she hath a
devil?" And is it not also true that some
seem to have a “legion” of devils? These
demons know their doom for they cried
out when they saw Christ, and said:
"Why hast thou come to torment us be
fore out time?" Keep in mind the subject.
Here are two classes of beings that are
doomed, fallen angels, and demons.
Now we come to that whlcn troubles
men, their own punishment and its jus
tice; but since unregenerate men form a
third band who work for the devil they
must suffer with his other co-workers.
If they do the of the devil they
must live with him hnd the others who
work for him. In John v11;44 we hear
Christ speaking with great fofree to the
"high blood,” tradition keepers, Abra
ham's seed: “Ye are of your father, the
devil, and the lusts of your father it Is
your will to do.” Every one who is not
at work for God is at work for the devil;
there are just two kingdoms in this
mighty conflict for the mastery. Unfor-
THE JUSTICE OF ETERNAL PUNISHMENT.
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tunate is he who falls in with the evil
forces.
But the devil himself corresponds to
Christ. He has a peculiar work of his
own, that of reigning in high places. He
does not work in the slums in person,
as we are able to find, but In places of
distinction and great pomp. In Zecha
riah Uitxl we find these words: “And he
showed me Joshua, the high priest,
standing before the angel of the Lord
and Satan itaqdlng at his right hand
to be hfs adversary.” Ephestans vi:l2
epeaks of the 'world rulers of this dark
ness," and the "spiritual. hosts of wick
edness in heavenly places." Os course
Satan must direct all these. Notice the
term “world rulers” and then read Dan
iel x:13: “But tho prince of the king
dom of Persia withstood me one and
twenty days.” What does this mean?
Has Satan princes who assume the names
•f tho world rulers? The one here men
tioned had great power, for he kept
back the one speaJ'lng with Daniel twen
ty-one days and finally Michael had to
come to hla aid. But Michael himself
waa not able to overcome the devil when
he came tn person. Jude 9 reads thus:
“But Michael, the archangel, when con
tending with the devil over the body of
Moses, durst not bring against him a
rattling judgment, but said, “the Lord
rebuko thee." Notwithstanding these
fearful statements of Satan's power, in
these days men and women speak of him
In a silly, jesting way. Not long ago I
heard a preacher say: "I have just had
a big tutsle with the old devil, but I
Whipped him.” Michael must greatly
need such men to help him In times of
fierce conflict with Satan
In the next place of authority we find
Satan in the ministry. II Corinthians xil.
13-14 gives us this view of the devil's
fifeacbers: "For such men are false
apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning
themselves into the apostles of Christ.
And no marvel: for ever Satan fash
loneth himself into an angel of light.”
Then Satan is in the churches Did you
ever think what a vast number of en
rolled church members there is today
calling Genesis a myth. Jonah an alle
gory and saying that Christ's miracles
are a fak{? They give a little something
for foreign missions, then go home to
agree with some godless editor that the
missionaries do more evil than good. Are
not these they, to whom Christ refers in
Matthew xxv:44. where they say: “Lord,
when saw we thee an hungered or athirst,
or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in
prison and did not minister to thee?”
The is looking after the literature
of the age. There is much in modern
literature Which tends to make men
haughty against God. Human intellect
is made everything and to de everything.
I believe God is pleased with a fine mind,
if it is not arrogant with pride. The
thought of today !s :“Be!leve in yourself
and you can do anything;” This makes
infidels. God's thought is: "Humble your
selves and ye shall be exalted," for "that
which is exalted amoiig men is an abom
ination in the sight of God.” Luke xvi:ls.
Thus we see Satan’s character, his king
dom, and his power, and the relation his
co-workers sustain to him. We see three
classes of beings that will at last be doom
ed with him; fallen angels, demons, and
unregenerate men, and for no other reason
Willed Her Mono 10 leoidei:
Wen m 11 women’s neon
EHIN® the announcement of the
forthcoming marriage of Gdorge
Eismann, a young farmer of Ja
maica, L. 1., to Miss Lizzie
B
Schmidt, of the same place, lies a prob
lem that for centuries has baffled stu
dents of human nature who have sought
to solve the mysterious influences that
dominate a woman’s heart.
The person who arranged the marriage,
“who made the match,” as the neighbors
of the prospective bride and bridegroom
say, is dead. She was Mr. Eismann’s
wife and on her deathbed she bade her
husband promise that after she had been
laid at rest he would adopt as her success
or in his affections the woman friend
whom, next to her husband, she loved
more than any one else.
Mrs. Eismann was dying and knew it.
She had made all her preparations for
leaving the world. She had seen her
shroud made ready. She had settled her
affairs—settled all but one question, and
tftat was one, apparently, that had been
preying upon her mind for some time. In
her illness • she had sent for her friend,
Miss Schmidt, to nurse her. The. young
woman had been her companion in all her
waking hours when her husband was not
a,t her bedside. It was to Miss Schmidt
she confided the last secret of her heart.
A very brief time before she died she said
to».her: , . . , . ,
“When I go my husband will marry. I
cannot bear to think of his being the hus
band of a strange woman. I want him to
be the mate of a woman I know. I love
him dearly, and I hope the woman he
marries will care for him as well as I
would have done if I .had lived. It is my
dying wish'that you. my dearest and best
friend, shall take my place.”
Miss Schmidt gazed at her friend and
patient in astonishment.
"Do you want me to marry , him?” she
asked. "I had never thought of such a
thing." ,
“I want you and no one ejse to be my
successor,” the dying womrA replied. "If
I imagined for a moment tlat a stranger
would take my place I wclild not die in
peace. 1 want you, to prc%nlse me that
you will marry, him. I know he can
love you, for any one that I can love
he can love.”
Miss Schmidt said no more at the time,
bin the.dying woman evidently lenew that
she had won'her consent to the marriage.
She sent for her husband. He went to
her bedside and she expressed to him the
same sentiments that she had uttered to
her nurse. Eismann promised as she
wished. He said there waa only one con
dition attached to his promise, and that
was that the wedding would take place
provided the proposed bride acquiesced.
Mrs. Eismann said she felt certain Miss
Schmidt would consent to marry her hus
band after her death, and she added that
she felt happy. She died some two months
ago.
Consequently, George Eismann and Liz
zie Schmidt are now preparing their wed
ding plans, and everybody in Jamaica is
talking about the forthcoming event and
the odd request on the part of a dying
woman that led up to it. Both the pro
spective bride and bridegroom admit that
their coming marriage is the direct result
of the promise exacted from each by Mrs.
Eismann as she lay on her deathbed. Eis
mann admits that he loves the young wo
man whom he is about to make his wife,
but regards it as highly improbable that
their wedding would ever have come about
hau not his late wife Insisted upon it be
fore she died.
Those who know the late Mrs. Eismann
in Jamaica say that she was always no
ted for her apparent unselfishness and
that was perhaps the reason why she
could bring herself to choose for her hus
band the wife who should be her suc
cessor. Women neighbors of hers who
knew her quite intimately, and who yes
terday discussed the coming marriage of
her husband, told me that her strange re
quest of both her husband and her friend
could be explained only on the ground of
unselfishness and an unconquerable regard
for her husband’s welfare.
Perhaps the statement will be made
that Mrs. Eismann did not really love her
than they have all rebelled, and worked
against God. trying to set up the kingdom
of Satan. “But how do you account for
the justice of marl's punishment?" many
are asking. Well, if man was in the image
of God, and God told him about these two
powers, and warned him because He loved
him, to guard against knowing both good
and evil;, and man, disregarding all that
God had told him, joined himself to God’s
enemy, the serpent, then what could
God do but drive them out together? And
let, me ask you this: If men God so
loved that he gave His only begotten Son
to redeem them from their fall, deliberate
ly refused to accept what God has done for
them, choosing rather to become drunk
ards, liars, thieves, hypocrites, and mur
derers, in the name of justice what ought
to become of them? Is any man who does
hot love God fit for heaven? Do you
think they wish to go there? They are so
far from such a thought, that in the end
the presence of God will be such a terror to
them, they will say to the rocks and moun
tains: “Fall on us to hide us from the
face of Him that sitteth on the throne."
If they ask for this, 'do you suppose it
will be denied them, and instead they will
be carried into heaven, where their agony
would be multiplied a thousand fold, be
cause of the presence of God?
Where else would sinners go but to hell?
So we must conclude that it is right for
rebellious, ungodly men to suffer punish
ment; hence justice is recorded in the
text: "And in Hades he lifted up his eyes,
being in torments.” Here is where every
one will lift up his eyes who Jails to ac
cept what God has done for him through
Christ. We must accept Christ for salva
tion or be eternally lost. He Himself
says: “He that believeth not shall be
condemned,” and again: “He that be
lieveth not hath been judged already, be
cause he hath not believed on the name
of the only begotten Son of God." The
way to destruction is through a wide gate
and down a broad way, as Christ tells us
in Matt. 7:13: "Wide is the gate and broad
is the way that leadeth to destruction and
many be they that enter in thereby.” But
how faithfully and lovingly He warns us
against this: "Enter ye in by the narrow
gate,” “Cbme unto me all ye that labor
and are heavy laden,” “I am the way,
the truth, and the life,” "Him that com
eth to me, I will no wise cast out,” and
“He that llveth and believeth on me shall
never die.” How He loves sinners! Thank
God for the victory we have had in him:
The fight is long and hard, but Christ will
finally overcome the devil and all those
who array themselves, with him. Then we
shall fully understand the record in Eph.
1:19-23 of “the exceeding greatness of His
power to us ward who believe, ac
cording to that working of the strength of
His might which he wrought in Christ
when He raiseth Him from the dead, and
made Him to sit at His right hand in
heavenly places, far above all rule, and
authority, and power, and dominion, and
every name that is named, not only in this
world but in that which is to come, and
He put all things in subjection under His
feet, and gave Him to be the head over
all things to the church, which is his body,
the fulfillment of him that fllleth all in
all." ,
husband, and therefore, that there was no
self-sacrifice, no self-abnegation in tha
thought that must have been caused by
the mental picture of his clasping another
in his arms, of his bestowing upon an
other the fond caresses of a bridegroom.
Those who knew the woman, however,
assured me that she loved her husband
with an affection that could not be sha
ken, and that her sole desire in life ap
peared to be to secure his happiness.
What impressed me as I talked to her
husband is the fact that he apparently
sees nothing odd" in the whole affair. He
takes is as a matter of fact that his wife
should do exactly as she did.
When I saw Mr. Eismann, and asked
him, when his marriage to Miss Schmidt
would take place, he declined to tell me.
IHe said that the circumstances of his
wife's death, and the general knowledge
in ' the community in which he resided
that, the engagement was the direct result
of his wife’s dying wish, had brought
about such publicity of the whole affair
that he did not desire any more, and he
was determined to keep the date of the
wedding a secret if he possibly could.
“Then your engagement to‘Miss Schmidt
is the direct result of the promise you
made to your dying wife?” I asked.
“It certainly is; but I must say that I al
ways had a deep regard for Miss Schmidt
when my wife was alive, and I was able
to promise my wife before ahe died that
I could joyfully contemplate the prospect
of our wedding.”
"Would you have asked Miss Schmidt
to. marry you had not your wife made
you promise to do so?” I queried.
After a minute's hesitation he replied:
"I don't know whether I would haßfe had
the courage to do so. But my wife made
it; so easy for the two of us. She called
us into the room at different times, and
she must have known that we could like
one another pretty well or she would
never have made us promise to marry.”
I asked Mr. Eismann's sister about the
affair. She said she had known the late
Mrs. Eismann pretty well, but did not re
gard the arrangement which she had
made for her husband's wedding as any
thing of a very extraordinary character.
Like her brother, she seemed to think that
it was the very thing she would expect
her sister-in-law to do. Mr. Eismann's
sister, however, did not appear to think
that a hasty marriage was the proper
thing. if
In order to complete, if it were possible
to do so further, the arrangement she had
made to secure the happiness of her hus
band and her friend, Mrs. Eismann, on
her deathbed, bequeathed all her personal
property, such as her jewelry and articles
of fancy clothing, to Miss Schmidt. She
said she desired her to take her place
in every sense of the word.
Mrs. Eismann was inclined to be a very
religious woman. She was an Episcopa
lian and usually went to church twice
every Sunday. She had been acquainted
with Miss Schmidt for about seven years.
When she first tried to exact the promise
from her that she would be the second
Mrs. Eismann she requested her to keep
the matter a secret until she had seen
her husband.
* Unless I see that he loves you and
will be happy with you,” a friend of Miss
Schmidt told me .the woman said to her.
"1 will not ask my husband to marry you
at all. I do not want him to marry any
woman whom he could not love or with
whom he could not be happy. If I knew
for a fact that you two loved each other
and would live happily together, I would
ask for no more joy.”
It is a remarkable story, although it
does not appear to seem so to the living
principals in the drama now. It is a re
markable exhibition of unselfish love and
devotldn on the part of one woman, who
can so cheerfully and with willingness
surrender to another that which she must
have held so dear—her hearth, her home,
her husband’s love.
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and night fer 150 years.
The world's record for steamships is 560 miles
a day, and for sailing vessels 325 miles.
One out of every twenty-one Danish emigrants
to the United States becomes a Mormon.
In China probably more wood is used for cof
fins than for any other purpose. The coffins
are made of lumber from 4 to 10 Inches thick.
It is not a high estimate to say that from
8.000.000.000 to 10.000.000,000 feet of lumber are an
nually thus utilized.
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BABY BUSINESS
Flourishing in New York Thrown ?he
Mail Order System.
New York Commercial.
New York does a flourishing bustnese
in the same line that the “Little Butter
cup” of Gilbert and Sullivan once follow
ed. There is a good, brisk demand for ba
bies right now—hot as it is.
To begin with, at least 100 foundlingo
that is, technically; children ’ess than five
.months old to whose parentage there is
no clew—are picked up every year In the
streets of this city. They used to be ship
ped off to the Infant asylum on Randall's
Island, and there they .died off as if a
pestilence raged in the place.
All that has been changed now. As the
result of the Investigation instituted about
three years ago by the State Charities
Aid association and the Society for Im
proving the Condition of the Poor, the
babies are now left in care of institutional
charity no longer than is necessary. They
are kept in Bellevue hospital under treat
ment only till homes are found where
they can have proper nursing and almost,
a mother's care. . z
In the first year after the change was
made the death rate among the babies
fell'more than 53 ;er cent; the next year-
It fell 31 per cent more. Now less than 1£
per cent of these waifs of the street die.
Little difficulty Is found in providing
homes for the babies. The State Charities
Aid association and the Guild of the In
rant Savior, which have this work in
charge, do quite a rushing mall order bus
iness in babies. Inquiries for healthy eligi
ble foundlings come from all over the
country. *
One recent applicant for a girl baby
came from the mayor of a Massachusetts
town, and it described exactly whdt -kind
of baby was wanted. It—or rather she—
was to have blue eyes and fair hair and
she might be of any age from 15 montti* to
two years. The mayor got the baby.
From as fat* west as Denver and as far
south as Alabama have come the re
quests for babies. Here is one order from
a colored family in Pittsburg, which is
still waiting to be filled.
"Boy, anywhere under two years old.
not black. Must be light colored."
Odd Cure For Deafnese.
London Globe.
One of the most singular cures for deaf
ness ever recorded is quoted by the Inde
pendance Beige from the Dutch papers.
Art old man of seventy living at From
meme, who had been deaf for twenty
years, got involved in a dispute . With
some neighbors, and became literally
transported with rage. In this senjl-de
mented state he suddenly recovered his
hearing, which he has retained ever
since.
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