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~ " BANNER die fa""' " Ul ‘ , i D jviiit-ns. 2s o man can deny ^illicit sale of liquor exists to an patent in our city, and was on To enforce prohibition atlflV must be exposed and de- ^j.arnl all the machinery used ipres.-ion. In our county the is! this elft'8 are not stringent tJ j 1 _ Itjecuis impossible to convict M*» before the col ^ t ’ uo Uto this great end. v, iiow conclusive the evidence itHEHS BANNER/ ^ K.morarnl Proprietor, ^^Tv^orTdeUvcredby „ 1 , l TP*>>r B c ity, or mailed ^bas^ss* ',yeanf 0r one week. ?&$£$***** * 1-00 ** y ' « Mta ^11 be inserted at W^Sefwtbe flrst insertion, insertion, ex- wUlUh fipCCial when special rates fif llP made by express, postal check8 « (IBITION IX ATHENS. i r RiNNER’s expose of the r . TH i..irs in Athens there has 22 gratifying decrease ih^ this ^While we still have these * am oug us, they are not Cbrszen in plying their trade rtlenUon was directed to % Oliver will bear us out in 3, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 5,1883 rF?i /t insinuation that our paper i 8 seeking to stab prohibition in th£wv is slanderously false. W« are not ac customed to making fights under cover anil if we ever decided to advocate fc£h license, or any other measure o Ur c -;?i zens will hear from The no uncertain Bound. So far as we know, there is no move ment to bring back liquor to Uhens But there is a strong andVrowing sentil ment in favor of a better enforcement of our prohibition laws, and it is the duty of every good eitizen to lend this move ment his aid. FOGIES TO THE REAR. There are a few men in Athens who are doing a great deal to retard the pros perity of their city by opposing every thing that requires any money to con summate. This class has ever been clogs to the growth and advancement of the place, and now that our progressive and enterprising citizens are making a desperate effort to keep their city apace with the spirit of the age. these fogies are doing every thing in their power to defeat them. They have comfortable homes, their selfish interests do not require the building up «f the business of the|place, and just so their pocket- Coi this paper did every- £ power to do away with the Sk in Athens, and now pro- ft' irk just as hard to suppress \ teas he did to close the li ft!,,,. It is ridiculous to try it “Iji'evil by disguising facts. Si be just as much sense in a 0 f the Gospel igonring the in liis sermons, and perfect. it (C Of HB m that every mail is Zm would only give eudorse- Li encouragement to the evils 7 yd one would be deceived, ■e,'ors continue to flourish , . b( !(m.louence of these whose l is toco: obut them. the blind tiger matters not to thaur an books are let aloue them if Athens is never more overgrown country village. But we are glad to knovy that this NT BENS. What the Flash Light and Cam era Disclosed in New York. CRUfcADE AGAINST LAWBREAKERS Some of the Places an Officer Most Visit In the Discharge of His Duty—Filth and Vermin Plenty—Work of the Board of Health—The Interior of a Chinese Den. mitted that this was his only room. Its , appearance was sufficient proof that it was ! kitchen, bedroom and dining room for a fam ily of at least seven. One of the inspectors made a note in his book and said: “All right, John, you may go back to yonr six or eight beds, but first we’ll have to fumigate this place a little.” The flash light was adjusted, two cameras made ready, and presently John Cell! thought lightning bad struck him. Proof of his guilt having been thus accurately recorded, John Celli was bidden good night, with assurances that the atmosphere of his tenement was now a great deal clearer than it had been. Of all the torn shells to be encountered in a large city those that hang about a tenement house occupied by the lowest class of foreign ers ore certainly the foulest. It is not their poverty that is most impressive, for many of them have considerable sums of money hid den away among their rags, but their utter disregard for cleanliness. The policemen’s lanterns only dimly lighted the halls of No. S5 Mulberry street, and on every floor some one of the party stumbled over a bucket of putrifying garbage. The floors and. stairs are rough with irreg ular layers of condensed and hardened filth, and toward the top of the building the air was so fall of nauseating vapors that one of the party was compelled to return to the street. In the rear tenement on the top floor, where the air was so bad that the flames of the policemen’s lanterns actually wavered as if half suffocated for lack of pure oxygen, class is now in a hopeless minority, and their opposition to progress will amount to naught.’ The paving ordinance was a big step fbr advance, and our citi zens owe our Mayor find council and Hon. II. C. Tuck, representative in the Legislature, a vote of thank’s for secur ing its enactment. That bill is now as irrevocable as the laws, of the Medes and Persians, and it is like darting straws against the wind to attempt to evade it.. Any good lawyer will tell you this. From this day on the foggy must take a seat in the rear. He is no lon ger the ruler of Athens Our progressive citizens have stripped toft sutoh mistle toes. These old high kickers and in- junetibnists will be made to keep up with the procession. They will no lon ger be permitted to keep our city in the background. Athens is now on the sure road to pi*ogress, And every citizen will be required to contribute his share two VERY month or so, at midnight^r later, the ten ement dwellers of Mul berry street, New York city, of Hester street, of half the ill kept, frowsy, bad smelling streets that lie between Center street and East river, the frowsiest and worst smelling of which are those in the neighborhood of Essex market every month or so, in the small hours of the morning, these tenement dwellers are rudely awakened by officers of the board of health, escorted by a squad of police. There is no ceremony, no apparent consideration of the principle that “every man’s bouse is his cas tle;” there is a heavy rattling of clubs on bolted doors, gruff demands for admittance, the which, if not speedily acceded to, are followed by a heavier rattling of club3, the breaking in of bolted doors, and, may be, the arrest of the offending tenant, his family and his “guests.” little Italian children, not more than 4 and 6 years old; lay naked on a bundle of rags sleeping peacefully. The glare of the lanterns awaken ed them presently, and they smiled roguishly on the invaders and looked quite as happy and healthy as many children do who have pure air to breathe and dean food to eat. It was difficult to accept such marvelous evi dence of one’s eyes, so I asked them: “How do you feel, babies! Do you feel sickl” m > .. . 4 For answer they laughed heartily and punched each other in the stomachs. “Do you have enough to eat!” Again they laughed and indulged in sac h infantile antics as could betoken nothing but good health and full stomachs.*• The police sergeant explained: Mtheni. aow step lias recently been taken ldll do much to enforce our pro- jjmlaws. We refer to the bill to eseiiie penalty in our Mayor’s Sow. let this officer visit on tamsgressor brought before him Otreiue penalty. Teach these tigers “at when they disregard tarso!ilmir county that they will ide to stiller for it, and sufter aiy, too. A $50 line or thirty days streets amount to nothing move isrnail license to the liquor seller. Ii&not charge any of the drug- mtireity with violating the pro- tea laws for the purpose of gain— imlerthe present rulings they have plrigiit to sell spirituous and malt Ms to their patients. They should hfliDfounded with the blind tigers, while they doubtless sometimes vio- tke intent end spirit of the law, warts have more than once decided %are not legally guilty. This tdepartraent of their business is t source of vexation to druggists, are beseiged from morning to itfordiinks, and are often forced ®ltr sell or give it away. The calls of friendship aud other are made upon them. We be- lliat it would really be a kindness ** gentlemen to give them more •ttion against this army of thirsty ■ Besides, stronger laws *hting the sale of liquor by drug- i will be necessary to prevent this ‘‘business being taken advantage . unscrupulous men to engage in whiskey traffic. * i'Quor license is issued by OGLETHORPE COUNTY. The last issue of the Echo contains a criticism on The Banner’s report of the excitement in Lexington durixgthe trial of the negro murderer Huff. The letter was sent us from a correspondent, and was published as a communication. Several other daily papers in Georgia contained similar reports of the matter and we cannot see why the Echo should single out The Banner to correct, when the Atlanta Constitution and Augusta Chronicle’s correspondents made almost the exact statements as our paper. So far as our article injuring the standing of Oglethorpe county, her people well know that the editov of this paper is their friend, and has for long years proved his devotion to their interests. AS BAD AS A TRUST. This is proceeding which the tenement dwellers bring upon themselves by their neg lect to obey the law, which prescribes that every man, woman and child must have at least 400 cubic feet of space to eat and sleep in. This means that a room fifteen feet long, ten feet broad and eight feet high may serve as the abode of three persons, and no more. Daylight inspection is of no avail, for most of the dwellers will b|e in the streets, and those who are not are much too cunning to be caught telling the. truth. The only re course of the board of health is to pounce down on them in the dead of night, when husband and wife, children and lodgers are sound asleep, and too suddenly for them to take warning aud fly to the roof or down the fire escapes. The effect of these midnight in cursions has been to greatly remedy the evil; but, in order to insure obedience to the law, it has been found necessary to keep up the practice at irregular intervals, aud not infre quently a flagrant case of overcrowding brought to light. The latest of these crusades against law breaking tenement dwellers was headed by Mi*. Charles G. Wilson, president of the board of l^alth. It was an occasion of more than ordinary interest, for a flash light and two cameras had been included in the record ing equipment, and promised to perpetuate some startling scenes. One of the cameras was in the hands of Dr. Martin, chief chemist of the health department, and the other was the inseparable companion of Julius Cham bers, of The World, who is one of the editors to a druggist, enact an ordi- Jbat he keep a record of all sales daring th e month, with the name a customer and the amount of his 1<et this report be sworn to -. month and laid before the Mayor ncil for their inspection. Then j/ &een " bo are the patrons of rn S stores, and whether they '“e an unnecessary quantity of P'nts. If a druggist is detected Jr J* U,| u&nal amount of whiskey kicH • let tilc ci *y officials, take _ , ninthe Premises as they deem ttw * druggist makes a false re- "thii n be ‘“dieted for perjury, a. “^estion is adopted we wager *thet,2l be a 8ur P risin g falling ttn w “uiber of drug store patients. ** 1 desire to have his name . have his name . „ Public unless he needs *1111*! yfor m ®dicinal purposes, tets a protect >°n to all honorable *hWH«* 8 ? ain8t anoyance from inenf? er8 ’ w insure to the tilt;K me v nt of the nnderstand- which physician’s licenses are The Alliance will be called upon .to combat a set of extortioners almost as oppressive as the jute trust. We refer to these Southern mills that have taken the contract to supply them with cot ton bagging, and that are making profit even greater than the jute men Very little of tills bagging is coining up to the contract entered into with the Alliance, for instead of weighing three fourths of a pound, as stipulated, a great deal goes but little over half a pound to the yard. Besides it is a flfinsey, rotton stuff, made in the cheapest man ner, and not worth as much as osna- burgs, that are sold at about half the, price. Vast sums will this year be made off the farmers by the manufac turers of this cotton bagging. There is no sense in fighting one set of extor tioners by building up another. It is true that this year our farmers were forced to adopt any and every means to eombat the jute trust, and ac cept the best .trades they could get. This fact was taken advantage of by certain mills to extort a most usurious price for cotton bagging, which the farmer had to pay. Take the Sibley mills bagging, for instance. Parties well posted as to the value of such goods say that ,9 cents per yard would be a high price for it, yet the Alliance is made to pay 12>£ cents. This is wrong, and we hope that by next year some arrangements wiU be made to down the cotton bagging as well as jute trusts, We believe that the solution of this trouble will be for our farmers to cover their cotton with the fibre from the stalk of the plant. In another column we publish an interesting article on this subject. - ted. one tat itprohihiH 1 the f act !u mo h ra ! OI ! 1 1Se ! f0rced ifc wiU ** ‘for an* , nd reformatory movo- When is disre- i,a force. ‘ e avv flagrantly violated •ttr C j!! lf * R Jesses to see it enforced ** fookinJ 1 *! any move- T 18 »Pp0?t CUd th ® SamC that 14 accorded when tase tn w aged. But we do not a d,8 creet silence _^ e ry opened on near- ^gniae an1 and %uor sold under 5 , n vi °l:itiou of law. Ner ahtoS better to have it ^veiiiaQ^ 1 bceoso and. strict po- AN ENTERPRISING”JOURNAL. frock, trousers of the same and cork soled shoes as white and clean as a sheet of paper. He Conducted his visitors through a narrow passage way, carpeted with matting, into a room probably eighteen feet square. Part of the way around the stones of the basement walls was visible between sections of pine wainscotting, but ■ it ,was brushed clean of dust, and not a cobweb could, be seen any where. The floor was covered with matting, as were also seven or eight low conches scat tered about the room. “You see no bugs or vermin here,” said the sergeant, triumphantly. There were no bail smells either. The at mosphere of the room could not be called fresh and pure, though there was nothing disagreeable about it, although a pungent odor oppressed the senses from the moment of entering. This odor was presently ex plained to the uninitiated, for the place was an opium deu in which four Chinamen were lying in a state of. stupefaction. The man who had admitted us resumed his preparations for a smoke, cooking the opium over the |ilaze of a fantastic little lamp and testing the con dition of the complicated pipes used by opium smokers. A smile of pleasant anticipation lighted up his sallow face, and thus the flash light and the cameras caught him. Du the faces of those who were fully under the influence of the drug were smiles—smiles of realization. They were not all pleasant smiles. Some of the sleepers grinned and writhed, with twisted and strangely working features, telling of unnatural sights and sounds experienced in the weird land of their dreams. On such a figure the cameras were focused and the flash light blazed up again. The Beene is not an easy one to forget. There was no evidence of uncleanliness in the room, but the smell of the burning opium, the sal low faces of its willing victims, who perhaps had never known an hour of healthy sleep, the Oriental dress of the dreamers and the surrounding objects' all unfamiliar in a Christian household, ‘told of an Unwholesome barbarism even more destructive of physical and moral health than the filth and degrada tion of the lowest Italian tenement dwellers. Curtis Dunhah. RUINED BY A WOMAN. END OF THE WORLD. The It THE BOSS EXPLAINS, of great New York dallies who has never lost the taste for personally getting at the bottom of thlnga which distinguished him as a re porter. The accompanying illustrations are reproduced from four of Mr. Chambers’ most successful flash light negatives. Our descent was swift and silent on a swarm of old offenders who inhabit No. 63 Mulberry street. An old Italian, nodding over his fruit stand, woke up and grinned at the advance guard of officers as the expedi tion turned into Mulberry from Canal street. The purpose of the invaders was equally pin.in to a dozen stout loiterers. They shrugged their shoulders disapprovingly, and ono darted in at the open door of No. 65 and up the stairs like a flash. “Come on,” said the police sergeant in com mand, plunging through the same doorway; *“in two minutes this fellow will have half the brood roosting on the roof.” An officer was sent hurriedly to the roof to guard the scuttle and another was left at the street door to oppose the entrance of the crowd that was rapidly gathering. There was already a commotion in the second floor^ rear tenement, which one of the officers in-' ited with the remark; COOKING THE OPIUM. “Oh, they have plenty to eat. They would grow fat in the streets where a dog would starve. They are so used to bad smells that pure air would stifle them.” The secret is explained by the mortality lists. Only such children of these Italian tenement dwellers as possess the most extraor dinary vitality at birth live through the sec ond week. On the third floor we found a man and wo man ahead of us making energetic efforts to open the door of a tenement. They succeed ed before we reached them, and out passed fully a dozen Italian laborers half dressed, talking volubly and gesticulating. The offi cer made another note in his book. “They are old offenders,” he said—“Pietro Gueciardi and wife. They have no children, and are so avaricious that they sleep on the stairs outside, and give up their rooms to as many lodgers as can be crowded into thfem. This is the third time we have caught them in the act.” On the fourth floor we found another chance to use the cameras to good advantage. The occupants of a rear tenement "had forgot ten to bolt the door, and we marched In upon them before the “boss”—as the bead of the household is called—could remedy this neg lect. He stood in the center of the floor, dressed in nothing but his shirt. All Mxmt him, so close together that we stepped on several sleepers, lay four men, three women and three children. The room was not more than tan feet square. Without wasting any time the cameras were adjusted and the flash light illuminated the room like a sudden flood of sunshine. The “boss” was terror stricken and his hair stood on end. “What-a yon do?” he demanded, trembling. “That’s all right, we’re purifying the air,” replied the police sergeant. “What’s your name!” “John BuzzL” “You’ve got too many people in this room, John. Are you the boss!”. ‘ Yes, I the boss, but-a you see,” said the man, cunningly, “these-a people come-a here last night-a from the ship. To-morrow all go away and-a no come back-a.” “I happen to know that he lies,” said the sergeant, as he made a note of what the cam eras had recorded. In the rear of No. 65, is another tenement building of the same size, separated from it by a court yard full of bad smells and rub bish. Drains were stopped up and overflow ing; one would hate to see a cow stabled there. Bat as we stumbled on In the gloom the head and body of a man rose up in our path. The lanterns being turned on him it was observed that he was one of a family of six who had made their bed on the floor of this horrible inclosure and were sleeping ^ith no other roof than the star spangled sky over their heads. the fire escape.” The officer pounded on the door with his blub. There was silence within instantly. Again the officer beat on the door a rattling devil’s tattoo that awoke the echoes. No Police- The Charleston News and Courier has long been widely recognized as one of the leading newspapers of the South. It is prompt and accurate in its publi cation of news, and never swerves in its expression of editorial opinion. The News and Courier is an enter prising journal. Under the manage ment of Mr. J. C. Hemphill it has in creased in circulation until now it has a very great list of subscribers all oi ei the South. The publishers are u > thei now of fering handsome prizes to their sub scribers, who happen to draw lucky numbers, Among them are sucli exti a- ordinary presents as follows: A trip to Europe and return. One of Emerson s finest upright pianos, an elegant suit of parlar furniture, gold watches, etc. answer. _ .. . , “Open the door! Open the door! man, open the door or you’ll bo arr«tedl Which threat, emphasized by another terrifio rattling of clubs, produced the desired result. The door was thrown open, and by the light ©f the policemen’s lanterns the president of the board of health saw a guilty looking nest from which every bird bjut one had flown. Through the open window a convenient fire escape told the story. The man who stood insido with his hand on the door latch, sullen- lv trying toccnveythe impression that lie was newly awakened from sound slumber, was the only person in the room; but in every corner, at the sides andm the middle of the floor were suggestive piles of rags and cheap mattresses, with fragments of blankets thrown over them. “What’s your name?” demanded the police sergeant. “John Ceffi.” “What have you done with your lodgers. “Got—a no lodgers.” “Your wife and children, thenf «*No wife, no children.” , <• Who sleeps in all them beds, then. ^ The man shrugged his shoulders. He ad- ‘Millerite*,” of Virginia, Located in October. The.“Millerites” have been at it again. In deed there has scarcely been a year since man advanced far enough'to hope for or dread the fntnre that they have not in some part of tha t world been at it. Their first general sensa tion in the United States was in 1843, when a large congregation gathered on a hill in southern Indiana to ascend together; and their second in 1844, the plea having been made that a minute error had misled them a year. In the west there remained a scattered few, who finally concluded that the last day and great judgment was to coma in 1857. “Millerite,” by the way, must be carefully distinguished from Second Adventist, though many confound them. The Second Advent ists are really doing a work of some value to Christianity and do not pretend to set the date of the “second coming,” though they maintain that it is nearer than is generally believed. A “Millerite” may be defined as a Second Adventist who has become fanatical enough to believe that he knows the day, and they are so named from Rev. William Miller j' who scared many thousands, of people be tween 1835 and 1850. In 1840 he was directing , the publication of the Signs of the Times, and a little later of the Advent Herald, Mid night Cry and Millennial Harbinger. It ia impossible to convey to the present genera tion of readerp any fair conception of the awful reality with which he clothed his ad dresses. A reporter of the period who at tended his noted Second Advent camp meet ing at East Kingston, New Hampshire, says: Suspended from the front of the rude pulpit were two broad sheets of canvas, upon one of which was the figure of a man with head of gold, breast and arms of silver, belly of brass, legs of iron and feet of clay—the dream of Nebuchadnezzar. On the other were depicted the wonders of the Apocalyp tic vision: the beast, the dragon and the scarlet woman, Oriental similes translated into staring Yankee realities and exhibited like the beasts of a traveling menagerie.” And this queer chart has been imitated or parodied by all succeeding bands of “Miller- ftes.” The latest form of it appeared in Michigan two or three years ago. But the men who organized the late “ascension camp meeting” in Virginia appear to have outdone all their predecessors in grotesque folly. The very name of the place is suggestive, for they met at Screamersville, V^., to “go up” on some day between Oct. 5 and 22. Dickens could not have invented a better name. Here is part of their address: The forty-fifth anniversary of the going out of the church to meet the Lord in October, 1844, will Ono of tho Most Remarkable Conspiracies i Ever Brought to Light. A drama in real life, which combines tho distinctive features of the Diss Debar and Flack sensations, with a touch of tragedy added, had been slowly worked out almost to the last act in New York city when an unex pected interruption not long ago pat tho principal actors to flight! Tho facts of the case have been published in The New York Sun. The comedy had advanced to this point: An adventuress, who has other wealthy New York victims, had estranged a rich contractor from his wife ar.il family; she had secured from him prbperty amounting to almost a million; a secret divorce and mar riage had been considered; the real wife had bandy escaped an assassin’s bullet. The real came of the woman in tho case ia Caroline F. Wells. She was once, and prob ably still is»‘the lawful wife of Emmet Wells, a hop commission broker^ of New York city. Her principal victim is. George F. Woolston, a contractor well known throughout tha west as a builder of railroads and water works. Previous to 1883 Mrs. Wells, as far as is known, was a dutiful wife and a good woman. About fifteen years ago she married Em met Wells. So far as is known she was faith ful to him during the eight or nine years they lived together. In 1882 she left him, going west with the intention of engaging in the cattle business. She had about 211,000. It is said that Mr. Wells consented to her de parture. Years rolled by, and there was no word from the would be “Cattle queen,” and her friends looked upon her silence as evi dence of defeat. She invested her money and lost It, and be came reckless. Womanly virtue was appar ently thrown to the winds, and she soon be gan to. live in greater luxury than if she hqd remained with her husband. She went out west as Mrs. Wells, and has since been known by many aliases. She has always been a favorite with men. George F. Woolston is 43 years old. His income has averaged between $50,000 and $75,000 per year. Mrs.. Wells and Mr. Woolston first met to the west about six years ago. She was intro duced into Mr. Woolston’s family as Mrs. E. A. Willard, Of Boston, and he took pains to spread the report that she was a wealthy widow who wanted to invest -her money to western property. It became necessary for the “widow” to leave Mr. Woolston’s house, but he continued to spend most of his time in her company in other places. Mrs. Wool ston could not be blind to the situation, bub her remonstrances w^rq of no avail. Indeed, Woolston deliberately proposed that he main tain two households, treating both women precisely alike financially. The wife failed to consent. Finally Woolstpn spent almost ■ his entire time with his mistress., They trav- eled all over the country, registering as hus band and wife. Woolston was lavish in hi3 gifts to his com panion. He made her an allowance of $500 a month and all expenses, and she received to addition magnificent presents. be observed by tbe Adventists of Oct. 6 to Oct, 23 (inclusive), 1889. from meeting word Warrant us in expecting our Lord’s return at this time. Tbe meeting will be held in Scream ersville, Va., where the Virginia mission tent is now pitched and will remain. All our brethren who are looking for the Lord and desire to meet with us are invited. Any one' wishing to help this meeting with money (and it is needed), can correspond with A A Oanaday, Fredericksburg, Va. We hope to have a grand meeting, and believe^t to be our lost before Jesus comes. Lord Jesus 1 help us to be ready, Is our prayer. A A Canada?, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OT THE DRUG. It was now past 8 o’clock In the morning. The work of the expedition had been accom plished, and all of its members were more or less‘overcome by the bad air that had filled their lungs for more than two hours. “Less than a block from here,” said the sergeant, “in the basement of a tumble down shanty, M show you a3 clean and neat a place as you would wish to see. You have had enough of the Italians; come and com pare them with the heathen Chinese.” “Chinese 1" ejaculated an inexperienced member of tho expedition, with a shudder, “why, they eat rats!” The policemen laughed and led the way to a basement door near by, on which they knocked with their clubs. It was opened by p. pmiling Chinaman dressed in a purple silk Hiram l. Crawford, Wyatt A Clark, B. T. Pendleton, R. O. Brown. Like Father Miller they were disappointed, but unlike him they did not rise grandly to the occasion. On the 14th of March, 1844, he closed his labors, stating that he had given 3,200 lectures on the subject since 1832. A little later he announced, that a failure to allow for the error of ;the Roman. calendar had misled him, but his belief remained un shaken that October would fetch it. “Breth ren,” he said and wrote, “the Lord will cer tainly, leave the mercy seat on the ISthand appear visibly on the82d.” Once more, the Speedy Adventists” gave up secular busi ness, but in the next issue of The Advent Herald the editor had to admit that the promise of his valedictory in the preceding one had failed. And poor old Father Miller, now shaking with palsy, but with his mag nificent voice as strong as ever, cried aloud in public places: “I am fixed—another and a near time is set—and here I mean to stand until God gives me more light, and that is today, today and today until he comes.” People who have not made a special study of the subject would be surprised to learn how many “last day” movements there have been in the United States and Canada. In 1885 John Nickerson, of Cor’inna, Me., set April 29 as the finality and gained over 100 converts. They spent many weeks in most fantastic methods of “driving out pride,” “crucifying the flesh” and purifying them selves generally. Some women crawled the whole length of the village through the mud and slush., One man had himself buried to the neck in the earth. Many paid old debts w^ich time had outlawed, and a country editor, whose humor rose superior to the terror of the impending day, announced that an “old hake in had paid up a nine years’ delinquent subscription, and the most hardened agnostic cannot doubt his conver sion.” It is worth noting that there was at the same time another excitement in progress there, its promoters insisting that 1889 was the year, and that furious debates took place between the two. THE WOMAN IN THE CASE. f [From The New York Sun.] Woolston aud his companion, early in July of the present year, went to board with Pro fessor Houston, at Wray’s cottage. Sheeps- head Bay, under the names of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Walton. Mrs.. Woolston beard that they were there, and went to see for herself if the rumor was true. It was late Friday afternoon, Sept. 20, when she reached tho place. It was evident that “Mrs. Walton’* did not expect callers. She was expecting her “husband,” however, and as the carriage drove np to the cottage she rushed to tho door to welcome him. But it was the in jured wife who faced her. “Mrs. Walton** was the first to speak. “I don’t know you!” she exclaimed, load em you h for Mrs. Heuston to hear. “Oh, yes, 1” replied Mrs. Woolston. The bogus wife turned to Mrs. Heuston and said: “This woman claims to know who I am. I never saw her before, but I know who she is. She is crazy. £he was divorced from my husband seven years ago, and she has been following os ever sMce. I shall not stay here another minute I” Then she rushed to the railroad station and boarded an outgoing train.. Mrs. Woolston put detectives upon her track and then turned her attention to ths tranks which had been left behind. She secured a search warrant and they were opened in the presence of several wit nesses, and a mass of evidence was revealed.' There were letters from Mr. Woolston which established his guilt even without hi3 confes sion. ;* The most serious evidence found was in ra- cooked tha lation to a divorce which was being up in order to secure a separation legal wife. 1 Tha flrst evidence that such a course was to be pursued was found in a letter from a law yer named C. Harold Fife, of Vicksburg, Miss., and addressed to F. L. V. Walton. As It was found in her trunk, and as she had gone by the name of Walton, it was presumed to be to answer to one written by her on that subject. In the letter Lawyer Fife said ho could get a divorce quietly in six weeks with out Mr. W.’s presence. The fee would be $25 at flrst and $75 additional if the divorce was obtained. i The real wife, of George F. Woolston was seen by a Sun reporter in Boston, where sho lives with her two sons. The story which she told was a long and painful one, and in cluded the details of a plot to have her con fined as a lunatic. She also said: “An attempt was made to shoot me last August when I was on my way to join my. husband in the west. The train was just leaving Pittsfield when a bullet crashed through the window. It came just as J; stooped forward to pick up something, and : burled itself in the opposite side of the car. If I had not changed my position the bullet would have gone through my temple. I did! not think it was anything more than an ac cident at the time, but when I was overhaul ing this woman’s trunks I found a scrap of j paper that bad evidently been torn _ from some letter in which that shooting at fair was mentioned. Then I concluded that the bullet! was fired more through design than by acci-: dent.” j II