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t % 1 f H V ' k -i THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1*1 BURIED GOLD, OR HE OLD INDIAN’S SECRET. A Reminiscence of the Border. Bv ALBERT POWE. CHAPTEB XtV.—THE TWO LETTERS. jiTBe, P.rk*r bid now tarried at tola place a week, std titer ttotgeut’a story bad been dis cussed fur a wttle Ha Inlormed bis host that oni tne following mornlag be wou'd leave lor tbe Canadian • Very well.” »ald the latter. ‘'I would lns.st npoa°your »«»>! ■« loog-r, but I kuow jou wm flod mucb uto-e ui-a-ant company at M™- Howard s ranch Ha r * would ftdrise you *o loot out. Mias Hu« ••rdts a. ttr more cnogerom woman :Uan the Prairie Q .een, and she may take yon captlva, Tlie yourg mAU blushed, but answered wl.h a I know her very well, and d jn't think snch^cap- tlflty a,*.a, Aouid he hard to hear; at any rate I ghou.d nor make any very determined resistance.” 4 Nether womi I.” returned the agent, and really I think a much worse fate might befall you, for the Is a beautiful, blgi spirited glrL You must gl?e them ray kindest regards, for they are both very Rood fdec's of mine. 1 . The) then separated for the night. J xmes Parker made up a neat package of the bead work and wampum string he had bought on the day of his arrival and addressed It to Miss Laura Steadman at Fort Smith. He then wrote a short letter to the same person. _ .. "I trust,” be wrote, "that you will pardon the liberty I take In sending yon a small package of Julian bandlwork which I have picked np at tblj place, l hope they will please yon. You know bow anything pertaining to tne Indiana In terests me. and bow, npon tbls subject, I think yonr thoughts are In sympathy wltb in ne. Tbe bead work Is only pretty and unique, but tbe string of wampum, wltb Its psarl beauB ls> rare talisman, and wben presented by tbe Indian lover to tne maid ot bis choice, posesses un told virtue, and so long as she wears It evil spirits can bave no power over ber and she bear, a charm ed life, and knows notbtng b it happiness until ber lover comes lo claim ber, then It loses all ot its protecting aid. I know not If ft may bold Its charm wben presented to a maid of another race, bat If so, I could wish that all Its virtues might be intensified In your behalf. I bave not seen Hiss Howard yet, bnt will go there to-morrow as It Is but a day’, ride irom infs plac 3, Sincerely your friend. He then wro e a somewhat lengthy epistle to Mrs. Grey In teat same banterlog style be nsed wben talking to ber. A few day, later wben L «nra Stead man received this package and read tne accompa nying letter, sbe was very macb pleased and ber heart grew wonderfully happy and light. ‘ He has time not only to think of. bnt write to me” she though , ‘-and I believed be was thinking of noone tut Mlsi Howard and be bas not even Deen to see berjyet. Wha! a beantlfal fancy It Is of tbe talisman, and It Is a loverj gift ton,” and at tbe thought a sllgb' Dlusb suffused ger cheek. "I won der what be was ’blotting about when be wrote this letter,” and sbe abtently placed tbe string wltb which sbe was toying aror.nd bar neck, and again picked up the letter. She was reading Its contents for liio twentieth time, wben me door opened softly and ber aunt entered tbe room. She looked 9'lzs tbls, tbefirst moment I could find nothing else to do, to send yon my address for tbe next ten days so that ycu can forward tbe forgiveness.” ‘Dj yon bear that,” exclaimed tbe llrrie lady again, * be kindly condescends to take the fl-st mo ment ne finds tmposuble to use otherwise to send me bis address, st that I can forgive him. It Is simply preposterous,” The others were all tango ing heartily, more at her matter of fact construction of Its language tban at toe oddity or t ne letter Itself.” ••To my addressyon bad best label tbe package •handle with care,’ for it It Is In the least cracked I’m afraid It won’t fit,” “Toeri, ’ she ex italmed again, “don’t that show that nei, out of b sraind? Whoever heard of cracked forglreats-?” “Yon bad bettei do tbls at once ” “I wooldn’t wi 1 e blm a wold If It was to save him from being banged which be deserves.” “For I am apt to take a deadhead pass for tbe happy banting grouuds at any moment, as I live In a very atmosphere of pistol balls, which arc ex tremely careless as to whom they select tor mark ” Here followed a vivid description of tbe dnel boy. or me boras ot An irate steer, there are still more a’ tractive dangers In store for me ; Not far distant from here a wells a woman wbo from all veritable account, appears to be a perfect Bine Beard In petlcoat,. Hoe nas bad a score of husbands and is now on tbe look out for another, as ber pres ent one bas unfortunately fallen nnder tbe ban of tbe law, and Is liaely to leave her a sorrowing widow at any time. Tbls persons name at present Is 8:arr, an appropriate cognomen Is It not? consid ering ber great popularity, and success In securing husbands f 8he also sometimes passes under tbe sobrlq let of tbe Prairie Q leen. In my bumble opln Ion a more appropriate nomdeguerre would be ‘Me tAnr > na aha fronnanflw fuuro.nu. a teor,’ as sue frequently becomes a shooting 8:arr. However as she seems to be in no wise partlcolar, yon can fix ber op a name to suit yonr own fancy. Hhe is represented as being so very expert with ber rifle and pistol, that she can pat out the light ot a fire fly on a dark night at a distance as yet not accurately stated, and yet not bare the fly.” •*I don’t believe she can do anything of tbe sort,” exclaimed tne Do stor’d w»le Impatiently. “Pat uc _ Pat up that stupid letter and let’s talk;’’ but the others in sisted upon having the balance of it; so the Jadge resumed: "She scorns to mount any borse that has ever boen backed before, and rides with perf-ct ease. In up. •*8ee Aunt,” sbe said, “what a nice present Mr. Parser has sent me,” and she held up the different articles of b ?ad work. * and he has written ine such a nice leit< r to.?. Would you like to read it?” Mrs. L. took th« letter from her outstretched haud and glanc *d over I s contents. ‘ It Is very nice,” she said; "and Is that the tails man he speaks of whlcn you have around your neck?” “Yes,’ sb? replied,blushing furiously as she took It hastily <IT Kit* bad totally forgotten having placed it there. He: aunt sin'led. ‘Well, my dear, 1 think both the letter and the ier to send them I did not tulnk be would forget his friends here at home In spite of tbe attractions of the B. 1 T. But bring vonr present and letter down to tbe eltting-room. Uncle will be glad to see them.” She gathered them up and they went down the Stairs fnqttlber. The D >ctor’s wife had also received her letter that afternoon; It was a much lengthier one than Miss Steadman s. and shn read aud re read Its closely written pages, full of vague hints and wild vagaries, which the writer well knew would worry her no little, until she had worked berself into a fever o! lmpatlei.es; and when her husband entereJ tbe house at supper-lime, she greeted him impetuously with “Dr.Grey, whit do you think ought to be done with a person who is out cf his mind?” “Bend him to tha mail hause,” answered that wor thy briefly. “I think then that James Parker should ba sent there right away. Here he has written me four pages of tools-c »p about horrid murders, hideous Indiana and a wild woman whom he Is going to see, who rides wild horses and carries a guu, aud yet says not one word annul the real obtc; of hl9 trip nor ot his friends here, nor when he Is coming home, uor any thing; aud tue tone, too. Is downright disrespectful. He writes to me J J»t as if I was a great big senool girl who wanted io t>e amused,” and the llitle lady •Well iru uo ei would J ist cut hls acquaintance, maybe jto write w you any more men. Let meSem/TT* it She ha> ded It to him In some surfis e , rot often ne p bowed so much Intent tn’A wltn other folks ai letter.” jr l r was r affairs Is a very interesting and am/iAir f epistle,” - was his comment when he h*u fialsi she is a desperate character and he maz piy for his the horrid murder, as you call It, It was a very neat kilting, though tney might have saved some ot their powder, as any one of the wounds he speaks of would have done the work; Rsallylt Is splendid,” His wife shuddered • What, Djcior Gr^y, the way those two men shot each other to pieces? 1 ’ •• Well that was very neat too, but it was the letter I had reference to, aud 1 think the youQg man was very far from being out of his mind when be wrote It. But then as I said my dear, if you don’r like It you can tell him so, and I dare say he will not worry you with another one.” After this unusually long speach the doctor re lapsed Into silence, and nothing was said by either ot them for some time, but flnaiy she broke the quiet with. Do you really think then that he is In danger from this visit?” "I fear so,” he answered abs jacteldy, "there was fever in the bouse wben he was there, and I do not like the present symptoms at all,” aud he shook his bead gravely. “What on earth are you talking abcut,” she ex claimed ?*’ “ Why about Johnnie Brown, of course. He went visiting where there was fever several days ago. and was taken 111 tbls afternoon. Who did you suppose J was talking ab ort? ’ • I asked you it you really thought there was any danger apt to come from James Parker’s visit to this Atari woman.” ‘ Oh, be may get killed, or married to her daugh ter, who is, I have been told, a very discreet and charming young woman. In either event he will not be apt to write you any disrespectful letters. But I must see Johnnie Brown again belore bed- Urn*;” and be arose lo go • Very weil, 1 shan’t stay here by myself,” she said, rising also. *1 will go as far as Judge L’s wl b you, aud you can call there lor me a9 you re turn. 1 should bj sure to see spooks If 1 stayed here after reading that letter; bot I do wish he wasn’t going to see th u woman.” Ten mlDutes later she entered the sitting room at Ja’ge L’s ana found them all examining Miss Bteadmao'a present. “Where In the world did yon get these?” she ex claimed her utual Impetuosity. '‘Aren’t they lovtlj? It *al ludlan werk, too. 1 never saw any thing . 4 o pretty in my life. Ah! and that reminds me,’ as If she had ev.-r for a moment forgotten it, “I received a letter from James Parker to-day, wfcl;h i tuiafc is Jist perfectly awful;” and sue raced into a rtcual of l s contents ana flnaliv pro duced the letter itself frera her pocket. "There, i ou may read It.” she continued, tossing lr to Judge ,. -it won’t Interest any one, any way;” and sne paused to recover Lerself. They were ail used to ter headlong style cf conversation, so did not lu- ieriupt her. "Where oil you say yon got these things?” she resumed,addressirg Miss eteadnuu, but jjst then her qjlck eye, failing upon the open letter which was i>fng upon the table, deteettd James Parker's signature. “Ah,” she exclaimed, lifting her brown eyes, *‘lha: is where they came from, is it? Well, I'm giad rhat he has seen fit to remember some of bis friends Does he say when he is coming back, nocent of either bridle or saddle, the wildest mas tangs. In add! Joa to these accomplishments, she Is sail to be sarpasslngiv beautiful, well educated, a dutiful wife and an affec'donate mother. Sae al ways avenges the death of her husbands—those who have been banged, on the deputy marshals; those who died natural deaths, upon the doctors; while to soch as she has slain herself, she erects hand some monuments. Thus you see that besides being something of a novelty among women kind, she Is also a paragon of excellence; and if she could only beperfcuadrtd to cod A ie ber marksmanship to fire flies auu ber husbands, she mignt become a shining light to society. But ’tl9 said when husband-* are scarce, she shoots unoffending and harmless p-r- sons—just to keep ber hand la. This person lam golDg to visit belore I return, and If I escape being snot by, or m irrled to her, I shall still ever retain an exalted opinion of yourself and pray for your eternal forgiveness. Yours most respectfully, The Judge laid down the letter, aud wl.n ms wife and niece laughed so heartily that the Doctor’s wife forgot her comical indig larion and j lined them. "It is really too had.” she said, that he should wrl>e to me like that, and then sign himself most re spectfuily. It Is oreclous little respect he shows la his letter, and I just believe the whole thing Is a hoax and not a word of It true "A portion of it is true at any rate,” replied the Jufge. I remember reading in tbe dispatches an account of the duel at the time, and this woman I have seen myself, for she was arrested and brought here some years ago ou a charge of larceny; and while I thlak the stories tola about her—of which this le’ter is a very comical bur let q le—are vastly exaggerated, she 19 wlchout doubt a very remarka ble and dangerous woman, and is guilty of more tnau one man’s blood. But there Is little dan ger for blm. and the tone of these letters leads me to suspec. that th« real ohj »ct of bis visit bas been accomplished, for I do not balleve be is a p rson to idle away bis lime wben there Is work to be done ” "And what Is the real objact of hls visit?” asked the Doctor’s wife. ‘•Why, to secure evidence lu a murder case,” he answered. Her face brightened visibly. Heretofore sbe bad no thought but that he had gone solely upon a visit to Miss How ud. ‘ On,” sbe said, "I supposed that he had gone to gather evidence in a very dlff areot sort of a case. I shall write to him to-morrow and Rive him a good scolding for treating me with so little respect.” "I thought you had decided to give tbls very Im pudent young person the cold shoulder and cut hls acquaintance altogether,” said a voice which caused them to look towards the door, where stool the Dictor, who had entered unperedived. ‘ At least such was the determination I haard you ex press »n hour slnc u . Miss Laurel, what do you think,” he continued seating himself in the easy chair she n*d wheeled on; for him. "should be done wltn a young man who wiffeg ugly letters to a lady friend?” Aud he laughed as he stroked her golden hair, for she had seated herself upon a low s r ool at hls feet, ghe was a great favorite with the D c'or, Laura?! I "Nj; you may read my letter,” she replied, hand ing it to n*r. * It is short enough, conscience knows,” was hrr comment when sne bad read It, “out It is a much nicer one than in r *. Where is ihe talisman he speaks of? This 1/ Well, I must say K is ugly tnough lo possess almost any virtue, and I should want it to have tvery one that Is claimed for It be fore i suould consent to wear it around my neck.” ••Perhaps,” Said Mrs. L., considerably amused, "it you were an Indian maiden yon would be proud encash to wear such a necklace.” "O j. 1 dare s&y 1 would and wear eagle feathers In my hair, a big ring la my nose, and a bear skin »u UIJ uau, a ui( uu&iu iuj uusc, auu a UCA( BAIU skirt cut longituillaally short, and trimmed with scalps presented me by my reasklnned aaorer, but then you see I ain’t a tqiaw and don’t intend to The little lady’, picturesque costume and her earnest manner o! porlra,tu< l: aroused a laugh at Her expanse, hut she was not at au put out and J >ln.a in it with as much z sst as auy. “Now what do you th na of sum a letter?’’ sh8 askec, when tne Judge bad laid It down. ■■wny. 1 tnlnx It capital,’’he replied, “I found it rery amusing indeed.” “1 see that yon are all determined to side against me" she declared; "that Is Just what the D.ctor said ahout it, but i thing It downright stupid, so Ih6re." At Mrs. L’s. suggestion the Judge consented to read It aloud for me edification ot the others and wetniaE that we can do no better than to give the reader a portion of this epistle, which provoaed lhs Isugnter of the Judge and Doctor, ana tne Ire of tne lady, so here ft li with tne latter’s comments thrown in as It was read. “Most esteemed friend,” It commenced, “ever since my departure from Fort Hmlm I nave been uuahle lo quiet my conscience or forgive myself for me very unceremonious faretreil wh;ci 1 dll not Uke of you.” •■He d,dn - t even h .vo the grace to tell me he was going, muon less tell me goou-bye.” “ana ever since • trouoied and ghostly vHloas “Jour displeasure have haunted the ulsused cor ridors ot my mind.” “Notice, it was only the disusstl corridors of hls mine that were tiouhied i that moans none of them— bat go on.” “until I bare come to feel were I to die nnlor- given, yon would uevar have au opportunity to make me such reparation.” mJE***-’ Indeed, he speak, as If I were tbe dwJu^?i7« alnCf Tta'.n I wouldn’t, for >we will sctan.L°«? sr ? nt clllae3 after death and my con science win allow me to defer it no longer, so I aod her very pretence always seemed to make him lorvet hls cares and become cheeiful and pleasant. •Oi,” she said, flushing sllghilv, “if I had re ceived sneb a letter, the worst Pnnls'iment I could think of lLfl-ctlog would he to require him to write me another J ust nke It. We have Just been reading p, and It was so amnstng.” ‘Yes, Interrupted Mrs. Grey, unable longer to re- stralo her teasing propensities, ’ but she don’t receive such letters. Here’s the kind she gets;” and sbe tossed the Doc lor the string of wampnm. “Ah I” he said, examining It closely, “this Is a treasure. I have one precisely Uke it, without the heads Before tbe Indian was contaminated by civil zitlon and all the superstition and romance knocked out of him, such strmgs as these were common enough tn some of the tribes. They were prepared by tbe prophet or medicine man of tbe tribe, and by blm were supposed to be endowed with wonderful properties. You see It Is differently made and colored from the ordinary wampnm which they once used for money and they were very costly. A string like this In those days would have cost two pontes at least sHthout the beads that were placed npon It by the yonng brave who Intended It fur hls sweetheart.” “Mr. Parker writes some'blng of this” Interrupt ed hls wife; “show the Doctor yonr letter Lsnra.” The letter was banded to him and after reading it be ountlnned: “Yes, that Is the true signification of tbls string supposed to possess the power of shielding the owner from the machination of the evil spirit, wbo and misfortune, and 1! It was lost grevlons were tbe consequences which wou'd follow, tor If the evil spirit found It then In hls hands all Its former vlitnes became evils which he could Inflict at will upon lu former owner. 8o you can Imagine they took v-ry great care of them. Besides this, wben the yonng brave went forth to batt'e or for the chase, hsb'und bis talisman aronnd his arm and It wonld strengthen It greatly and add swiftness and accuracy tc his arrows. After he gave It to bis sweetheart, as long as she was true to him, be did not need Its protection, as the same good spirit that kept watch over her k-pt him also from svll, but It was no easy mat car to secure one of these strings, as besides the two ponies chb medicine man demanded for one, he would also require ihe applicant to perform some arcu us task lopiove that be was worthy of so great a noon. This was usuly some long Jiurney to orlng a rare plant or mineral, which was only to be found la distant places. Wueu l was a young mau 1 once heard a story from the lips of a friendly Indian ah ju: this wire., wl l Dear repeating If you would all like to hear it. It will not rtqalreabuveauhoarfof Its recital.” (To be Contimced.) Valuable for the Ladies. Evary lady effl cted with Womb Diseases or Pain ful Msnstrual Irregularities is req tested to send her name and address to Mri Miry A B-annou, No. 6. Pulliam at., Atlanta, Ga., aud get information now to he cared. Don’t neglect It. It has been figured out by some statistical official that there are thirty-one criminals to every 1.0C0 bachelors and only eleven criminals to every 1,000 married men. From this show ing he argues that matrimony restrains men from crime, and ought therefore to be encour aged by legislation and otherwise. Oir young men may take warning from the above statis tics. Enjoys a Qood Reputation. We wish to Impress upon yon the fact that Dslec- talave Is tbe only dentrlflce on tbe market which Is recommended by dentists, physicians, druggists and consumers. It Is an article ot genuine merit. Try a bottle for SO cents at dragglsts, or sent on receipt of price by mall by Asa G. Candler A Co., general agents, Atlanta, Ga. Weak will power, from physical causes de ranges a man’s life in every direction. Every one will strengths i his will powers as well as his bodily powers, by using Warner’s Log Cab n Sarsaparilla. It is guaranteed the bear. Slid by your druggists for £1 • Contains 1”0 doses. Taks no other for it. The Philadelphia mint coined cents in Jaly. o 000,000 The many remarkable cures Hood’s Sarsa parilla accomplishes are sufficient proof that it does possess peculiar curative powers. Miss Mary A. Green is tbe second Massa chusetts woman lawyer, She will be a mem ber of the Suffolk County Bar, State Geologist Proctor, ot Kentucky, says that tbe most valuable pearls in America are to be found in the limestone streams of that State. TALMAGE’S SERMON, Brooklyn, October 7.—Although no build ing has been large enough to hold the audi ences attracted by the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D D.. in any part of this country or Great Britain for the last twenty years, tbe throngs in and aronnd the immense andience room of tbe Brooklyn Tabernacle seem to ba increasing as the years go by. Tne opening hymns this morning were heartily sung by the congregation. D.\ Talmags chose for his sub ject; “Throe Greatest Things to Do." His text was Daniel xi:32: “The people that do know their God shall be strong and do ex ploits.’’ Following is the sermon: Antiochns Epiphanes, the old sinner, came down three times with bis army to desolate the Jews, advancing one time with a hundred and two trained elephants, swinging their tranks this way and that, and sixty-two thou- sand infantry and six thousand cavalry troops, and they were driven back. Then the second time he advanced with seventy thousand armed men and had been again defeated. Bit the third time he laid sncoessful siege until the navy of Rome came in with the flash of their long banks of oars and demanded that the siege be lifted. And Antiochns Epiphanes said he wanted time to consult with his friends about it, and Popilius, one of the Roman embassadors, took a staff and made a circle on the ground around Antioohns Epiphanes and compslled him to decide be fore he came ont of that circle, whereupon he lifted the siege. Some of the Jews had sub mitted to tbe invader, but some of them re sisted valoroosly, as did Eloazsr when he had swine’s flosh forced into his mouth, spit it out, although be knew he must die for it, and did die for it, and others, as my text says, were enabled to do exploits. An exploit I would define to be a heroic aot, a brave feat, a great achievement. “Well,” you say, “I admire snch things, but there is no chance for me; mine is a sort of humdrum life. If I had an Antiochns Eoiphanes to fight I also could do exploits.” You are right so Porcelain shot are now mads in Munich, de signed for cleaning wine and medicine bottles Toe advantage over the lead Bhot often nsed for this purpose is that the p.'rcslaiu is en tirely free from contamination and is not acted npon by either acid3 or alkalies. right far as great wars are cincerued. There will probably be no opportunity to distinguish yourself in battle. The most of the brigadier- generals of this country would never have baen heard of had it not been for the war. General Grant would have remained in the useful work of tanning hides at Galeoa and Stonewall Jackson would have continued the quiet col lege professor in Virginia Aud whatever military ta'ents you bave will probably lie dor- mant forever. Neither will you probably be come a great inventor. Nineteen hundred and ninety-nine ont of every two thousand inventions fonnd in the patent effite at Washington, never yielded their authors enough money to pay for tbe expenses of securing the patent. So you will probably never be a Morse, or an Edison, or a Hum phrey Davy, or an Eli Whitney. There is not much probability that you will be the one out of the hundred that aobieves extraordinary success in commercial or legal or medic >1 or literary spheres. What then? Can yon have no opportunity lo do exploits? I am going to show you to-day that there are three epportu- nities open that are grand, thrilling, far-reach ing, stupendous aDd overwhelming. Tney are before you now. In one, if not all three of them, you may do exploits. The three greatest things on earth to do are to save a mao, or save a woman, or save a child. Dorirg the coarse of his life almost every man gets into an exigency, is caught between two fires, is ground between two millstones, aits on the edge of some precipiece, or in some other way comes near demolition. It may be financial or a moral, or a domestic, or a soc al. or a political exigency. You sometimes see it in court rooms. A young man has got into bad company aud he has offended the law, and he is arraigned. All blushing and con fused he is in the presence of judge and jury aud lawyers. He can be sent right on in the wrong direction. He is feeling disgraced, and he is almost desperate. Let the district attor ney overhaul him as though he were an old offender, let the ablest attorneys at the bar refuse to say a word for him be cause he can not afford a considerable fee, let the judge give no opportunity for presenting the miti gating circumstances, bnrry np the case aud hustle him up to Auburn or SiDg Sing. If he live seventy years, for seventy years he will be a criminal and each deoade of his life will be blacker than its predecessor. In the inter regnums of prison life hs can got no work, and he is glsd to break a window-glass, or blow np a safe, or play the highwayman, bo as to get back again within walls where he can get something to eat and hide himself from the cruel gaze of the world. Why don’t his father oome aud help him? His father is dead. Why don't his mother come and help him? She is dead. Where are all the ame liorating and salutary influences of society? They do not touch him. Why did not some one long ago in the case understand that there an opportunity for the exploit which would be famous In heaven a quadrillion of years after the earth has become scattered ashes io the last whirlwind? Why did not the district attorney take that yonng mac into his private office aud eay: “My sen, I see that yon are the victim oi circumstances. This is yonr first crime. You are sjrry. I will bring the person you wronged into yonr presence and yon wili apologize and make ail the reparation yon can, and I will give you another chance.’’ Or that yonng man is presented in the court room aud he has no friends present, and the jadge says: “Who is your counsel?’’ And he answers: “I have none.” And the judge says: “Who will take this young man’s case?” Aod there is a dead bait and no one offers, and after awhile the judge turns to Eome attorney who never had a good case in all his life and never will, aud whose advocacy would be enough to secure the cundemnation of innocence itself. And the professional incompetent crawls up beside the prisoner, helplessness to rescue de spair, when there ought to be a straggle among all the best men of the profeesion as to who should have the honor of trying to help that unfortunate. Hew much would such au attor ney have received os his fee for such an advo cacy? Njthing in dollais, but much every way in a happy consciousness that would make bis own life origater and his own dying pillow sweeter aud his own heaven happier—the con sciousness that he had saved a man! So there are commercial exigencies. Avery late spring obliterates the demand for spring overeats aud spring hats and spring apparel i f all so.'ts- Hundreds of thousands of people Bay: “it seems we are going to have no spring aud we shall go straight out of winter into warm wea:h9r, at d we can get along without the usual spring attire.” Or there is no au tumn weather, the heat plunging into the cold, and the nsnal clothing, which is a compromise between summer and winter, is not required. It makes a d fference in the sale oi millions and millions of dollars of goo Is, and some over- eangnioe yonng merchant is caught with a vast am unt of unsaleable goods that never will be saleable again except at prices rninonely re duced. That young merchant wi Jh a some what limited capital is in a predicament. What shall tbe old metchants do as they eee that yoUDg man in this awful crisis? Knb their hands and laugh and say: “Good for hm. He might have known better. Wnen he has been in business as long as we have, he will not load his shelves in that way. Qai hsl He will burst up before long. He had no business to open his store so near to ours anyhow.” Sheriff’s salt! Red ffig in the window: How muck is bid for these out-of-the- fashion spring overcoats and spring hats or fall clothing out of date? Wnat do I hear the way of a bid?” “Four dol lars?’’ “Absurd, I cannot take that bid of four dollars apices. Why, these coats when first pat upon the market were off-red at fif teen dollars each, and now I am offered only four dollars. Is that all? Five dollars do I hear? G sing at that! Gone at five dollars! ’ and he takes the whole lot. The young mer chant goes horns that night and says to his wife: “Well, Mary, wa will have to move oat of this house and sell cur piano. That old merchant that has bad au evil eye on me ever since I started has bought out all that cloth ing, and he will have it rejuvenated an 1 next year put it on the market as new, while we will do well if we keep oat of the poor-house ” The young mm, broken-spirited, goes to hard drinking. Tne yonng wife with her bsby goes to her father’d house, and not only is his store wiped ont, hat his home, his morals and his prospects for two worlds, this and the next. And devils make a banquet of fire and fill their cups gall and drink deep to the health of the old: merchant who swallowed np the yonng merchant who got stuck on spring goods aud went dowD. That fs due way, and some of von have tried it Bat there is another way. T oat young mer chant who found that he had miscalculated in laying in too many goods of ons kind and been Haag ot the unusual season is standing behind the connter fse.iag very bine and bit ing his fi eger-nails or looking over his account books, which read darker and worse every time he looks at them, and thinks how his yonng wife will have to be put In a plainer honse than she bas ever expected to live in, or go to a third-rate boarding-house, where they have tough liver and Boar bread five mornings out of the seven. An old merchant comes in and says: “Well, Joe, this has been a hard season for youog merchants, and this prolonged cool weather has pat many in the doldrums, and I have been thinking of you a great deal of late, for just after I started in business I once got into the same scrape. Now, if there is anything I can do to help you out, I will gladly do it. Batter juBt put those goods out of sight for the present, and next season we will plan something abont them. I will help yon to some goods that you can sell far me ou commission, aud we wnl go down to one of the wholesale houses and tell them that I know you and will b tek you up, and if you want a few dollars to bridge over the present, I can let you have them. Ba as economical as you c«n, keep a stiff upper lip, and remember that yon have two friends, God and myself. Good morning.” Tne old mer chant goes away and the young mau goes be hind his desk and the tears roll down his cheeks. It is the first time he Nw’iJied Dis aster made him mad at every! *1, and mad at man and mad at God. But this kind ness melts him, and the tears seem to relieve his brain, and his spirits rise from ten below zero to eighty in the shade, and he comes ont of the crisis. And about three years after this, the yonng merchant goes into the old merchant's store and says: “Well, my od friend, I wss this morning thinking over what you did for me three yt* s ago. Yon helped me on; of au awful cri«; in my commercial history. I learned wisdP*o and prosperity has come, and the pallor hajg^bue out of my wife’s cheeks, and the roses that were there when I courted her in her father’s houie have blsomed again, and my bnsiness is,'splendid, and I thought X ought to let you know that you saved a man.” In a short time after, the old merchant who had been a good while shaky in his limbs and had poor spells is called to leave the world, and one morning after he had read the twenty-third Psalm abont “The Lord is my Soepherd,” he closes hie eyes on this world, and au angel wbo had been for many yeaes appointed to watch the old man’s dwelliag, cries upward the news that the patriarohrs spirit is about ascending. And the twelve angels who keep the twelve gates of Heaven unite in crying diwn to this approaching spirit of the old mau, “Come in at any of the twelve gates you choose! Ceme in and welcome, for it has been told all over these celestial neighborhoods that you saved a man." There sometimes come exigencies in the life ot a woman. One morning abont two years ago I saw in the newspapers that there was a young woman in New York whose pocket-book containing $37 33, had been stolen and she bad been left without a farthing at the beginning of the winter in a strange city, and no work. And although she was a stranger, I did not allow the nine o’clock mail to leave the lamp post on oar oorner without carrying the thirty- seven dollars and thirty-three cents; and tbe case proved genuine. Now I have read all Shakspeare’s tragedies and all Victor Hugo’s tragedies and all Alexander Smith’s tragelies, but I never read a tragedy more thrilling than that case, and Bimilar cases by the hundreds and thousands in all oar large cities; yonng women without money and without home and without work in these great maelstroms of metropolitan life. When such a case cumes under your observation, how do you treat it? ‘ Get out of my way, we have ne room io oar establishment far more hands. I don’t believe in women anyway; they are a lazy, idle, worthless set. JohD, please show this person ont of the door.” Or do yon compliment her personal appearance and say things to which if any man said to you r sister or daughter you would kill him on the epot? This is one way, aud it is tried every day in these large cities, and many of those who advertise for female hands in faciorie&and for governesses in fam ilies have,prnvtt'C^emselfes unfit to be iu any place outside bLheli. But there iB another way, and I saw it tbe other day in the Methodist Book Concern ia New York, where a yonng woman applied for work and the gentleman ia tone in manner said in substance: “My daughter, we employ women here, but I do not know of any vacant place in oar department. Yon had better in quire at each and such a place, and I hope you will be successful in getting something to do.” The embarrassed and humiliated woman seemed to give way to Cor eiim confidence. She started out with a hopeful look that I think mast have won for her a place in which to earn her bread. I rather think that consid erate and Christian gentleman saved a woman. New York and Brooklyn ground np last year about thirty thousand young women, aud would like to grind np abont as many this year. Out of all that long prooessiou of wo men who inarch on with no hope for this id braised and world nor the next, battered and scoffed at and flung off the precipice, not one but might have been saved for home and God and heaven. But good men and women are not in that kind of business. Alas for that poor thing! nothing but the thread of that held her, and the thread broke. ing-giri’s needle hi " have heard men tell iu pub ic discourse what man is, but what is a woman? Until some one shall give a better definition I will tell you what a woman is. Direct from God, a sacred and delicate gift, with affections so great that no measuring line short of that of the infinite God can tell their bonnd. Fashioned to refine and soothe and lift and irradiate home and so ciety and the world. Of snch value that no one can appreciate it, unless his mother lived long enough to let him nnderet-and it, or who in some great crisis of life, when ail else failed him, had a wife to reinforce him with a faith in God that nothing coaid disturb. Speak out, ye cradles, aud tell of the feet that rocked you and the anxious faces that hovered over yon! Speak out ye nurses of all Christendom, and ye homes, whether desolate or still in full bloom with the faces of wife, mother and daughter, and help me to define what woman is. If a man during sll his life accomplish nothing else except to wm the love and confi dence and help and companionship of a good woman, he is a garlanded victor and ought to bave the hands of all the people between here and the grave stretched out to him in congrat ulation. Bit as tha geographers tall us that the depths of the sea correspond with the heights of the mountains, I have to tell you that good womanhood is not higher up than bad woman hood is deep down. The grander the palace, the more awful tbe canflagratioa that destroys it. The grander the steamer Oregon, the more terrible her going down jist off the coast. Now I should not wonder if you trem bled a little witl a sense of responsibility when I say that there is hardly a person in this house but may have an opportunity to save a woman. It may in your case be done by good advice, or by financial help, or by trying to bring to bear soma ons of a thous and Christian iLli lenccs. You would not have to go far. If, for instance, you know among your acquaintances a young woman who is apt to appear on the streets about the hoar when gentlemen return from bueiness and you find her responding to the smile of entire strangers, hogs that lift the'.r ha’, goto her aud plainly teil her.tint nearly all the destroyed womanhood of tha world began the downward path with that very kind of behav ior. Or if, for instance, yon find a woman in financial distress and breaking down in health and spirits trying to support her children, now that her husband is deal or an invalid, doing that very important and honorable work bat which is li ,tie appreciated, keeping a boarding house, where all the gaes .s, according aa they pay small board, or propose, without paying any board at all, to decamp, are critical of everything and hard to please, bus/ yourselves ia trying to get her more patrons, and tel. her of divine sympathy. Yea, if yon eee a woman favored of fortune and with all kiodiy sur roundings finding in the hollow *1 itteries of the world her chief regalement, li7.ng for her self and for time as if there were no eternity, strive to bring her into the kingdom of God, as did the other day a Sabbarh-echool teacher who was the mean3 of the conversion of the daughter of a man of inmease wealth and the dsughter resolved to join the church, and she went home and said: “Father, I am since, and loves to go. I do not know but that faithful Sabbath-school teacher not only saved a woman but saved a man. There may be in this auditnoe ga hi red from all parts of the world, the most cosmopolitan.assembly in all tbe earth; there may be a man whnee be- havior toward womanhood has been perfidious. Repent! Stand up, thoq masterpiece of sin and death, going to jcia the church and I want you to come,” “Oi. no,” be said, “I never g * to church ” “Well,” ■f*''! the daughter, “if I were going to bs cateeied, wonffi you not ge tn eee me married?” Aud he said: “Oh, yes.” “Well,” said she, “this is of more importance than that.” So he went and css gene ever that I may. charge yon! As far as possible, make reparation. Do not boast that yon have her in yonr power and that she can not help herself. When that fine collar and cravat and the elegant suit of clothes comes off, and your uncovered soul stands in judg ment and before God, yon will be better off if you save that woman. There is au exploit that you can do, and that is to save a child. A child does not seem to amonnt to much. It is nearly a year old before it can walk at all. For the first year and a half it cannot speak a word. For the first ten years it would starve if it had to earn its own food. For tte first fifteen years its opinion on any subject is absolutely valueless- And then there are bo many of them. My! what lots of children! And some people have contempt for children. They are good for nothing but to wear out the carpets and break things aud keep you awake nights crying. Wei, your estimates of a child is quite dif ferent from that mother's estimate wbo lost her child this summer. They took it to the salt air of the sea shore aud to the tonic air of the mnuDtains, but do help came, and the brief paragraph of its life is ended. Suppose that life aould be restored by pur chase, how much would that bereaved mother give? Sae would take all the jewels from her fingers, aud neck aud bureau, and put them down. And if told that that was not enough, she would take her house aud make over the deed for it, and if that were not enough she would oall in all her investments aud put down ail her mortgages and bonds ; and if told that were not eoough, she wonld ssy : “I have made over all my property and if I can have that child back I will now pledge that 1 will toil with my own hands, and carry with my own shoulders in any kind of hard work, and live.in a cellar and die in a garret. Oily give me back that lost darling." I am glad that there are those who know something of the value of a lost ohtld. Its possibilities are tremeodius. What will those hands yet do? Where will those feet yet walk? Toward what destiny will that neverdying soul betake itself? Shall those lips be the throne of blas phemy or benediction? Come, all ye sur veyors of the earth, and measure if you can its possible possessions. Come, all ye astron omers of the earth, with yonr telescopes and tell us if you can see the range of its eternal flight. Come, all ye chronologiets, and calcu late tbe decades on decades, the centuries on oentnries, the cycles on cycles, the eternities on eternities of its lifetime. Oh, to save child I Am I not right in patting that among the great exploits? Yea, that beats the other two, for if you save the child yon save the man or the woman. Get the first twenty years of that boy or girl all right aud I guess you have got manhood or womanhood all right, aud their entire earthly and eternal career all right. But what are you goiDg to do with tnoee children who are worse off than if their father and mother had died the day they were born. Tcere are tens of thousands of such. Their parentage was against them. Tieir name is against them. The structure of their skulls agiinst them. Tneir nerves and mnscles contaminated by inebriety aud dissoluteness of their parents, they are practically at their birth laid out on a plank iu the middle of the Atlantic ccean in au equinoctial gale and told to make for shore. The first greeting they get from the world ia to be called a brat o: a ragamuffin or a wharf rat What to do with them is the qaestioo often asked. There is another question qai e ss per tinent, and that is, what are they going to do with us? They will ten or eleven years from now have as many votes as the same number of well-born children, and they will hand this land over to anarchy and political damnation just assure as wa neglect them. Suppose we each one ns save a boy or a girl. Yon can do it. Will you? I will- Take a cake of per fumed soap and a fine-toothed comb and a New Testament and a little candy and prayer and a piece of cake and faith in God and common sense, and begin this afternoon. Bnt how shall we get ready for one or all of these three exploits? We shall make a dead failure if in oar own strength we try to save a man or woman or child. But my text suggests where we are to gat equipment. “Toe people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” We must know him through Jesus Chr-et iu our own salvMfion and then we shall have his help in the salvation oi jothere. And while you are saving strangers you may save some of your own kin. You tb nk your brothers aud sisters and children and grand children all safe, but they are not dead aud no one is safe 'till he is dead. On the English coast there was a wild storm and a wreck in the offiag and the cry was: “Man the life boat.” But Harry, the usual leader of the sailors’ crew, was not to be found, and they went without him aud brought back all the shipwrecked people except o le. By this time Harry, the leader of tbe crew, appeared and said: “Why did you leave that one?” The answer was: “He could not help himself at all and we oould aot get him into the boat.” “Man tbeti(e-boat,”|ehouted Harry, “and we will go for that one.” “No," said his aged mother standing by, “you most not go. I lost yonr father in a storm like this, and yonr brother Will went off six years ago and I have not heard a word from Will since he left, and I don't know what has happened to him, poor Will, and I cannot let you also go for I am old and dependent on yon." Hie re ply was: “Mother, I must go and gave that one man, and if I am lost G ed will take care of you in your old days.” The lifeboat pat oat, and after an awfnl straggle with the sea they picked the poor fellow out of the rigging jnst in time to save his life, and started to the shore. And as they came srithin speaking dis tance, Harry, jnst before he fainted from the over exertioD, criel out: “We saved him, and tell mother it was brother Will.’’ Oh, yes, my friends, let us start out to save eome one far time and for eternity, some man, eome wo man, some child. And who knows bnt it may, directly or indirectly, be the salvation of one of oar own kindred, and that will be an ex ploit worthy of celebration when the world itself is shipwrecked and the sun has gone out like a spark from a smitten anvil and all the stars are dead! 0^6 you tSicn? ins about the chest and sides,™ : Do you have pains and sometimes in the back ? Do you feel dull and sleepy ? Does your mouth have a bad taste, especially in the morn ing? Is there a sort of sticky slime collects about tho teeth? Is your appetite poor? Is there a feeling like a heavy load on the stomach, sometimes a faint, all-gone sen sation at the pit of the stomalfi, ■ , Tvhich food does not satisfy ? Are your eyes sunken? Do your hands and feet become cold and feel clammy ? Have you a dry cough ? Do you expectorate greenish colored matter ? Are you hawking and spitting all or p.art of the time ? Do you fee 1 tired all the while? Are you nervous, irritable and gloomy? Do you have evil forebodings ? Is there a giddiness, a sort of whirling sensation in the head when rising up suddenly? Do your bowels become costive ? Is your skin dry and hot at times? Is your blood thick and stagnant? Are the whites of your eyes tinged with yellow ? Is your urine scanty and high colored ? Does it deposit a sediment after standing ? Do you frequently spit up your food, sometimes with a sour taste and sometimes with a sweet ? Is thiq frequently attended with palpitation of the heart ? Has your vision become impaired? Are there spots before the eyes? Is there a feeling of great prostration and weakness? 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