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VOLUME 11.
MO SUItIDE 111 MACOB, 01,
THE R J. FITZ
(•IBitON, SHOOTS IIIMSILI'.
Tin* Caoßi* not Definitely Known, but
I inanriftl EmbnrraHKincnt Supposed to
Hove Li*d to It.
About 8 o’clock Saturday morning Mr. E. J.
Fitzgibbon, the well known court stenographer,
of Macon, Ga., committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with & pistol at his
home.
Mr. Fitzgibbon was a young man about 25
years old, and for the paßt five years has been
the official stenographer of that and other
judicial circuits, embracing twenty-two coun
ties. He resided with his wife and two little
daughters, aged two and four y< ars, in one of
Mr. A. B. Small’s residences on the Columbuß
wagon road, half a mile beyond Mercer uni
versity.
for several days past Mr. Fitzgibbon has
been in a de-pondent mood consequent upon
financial embarrassment. It appears that he
owes several sums of money aggregating about
one thousand dollars to various parties, and
his inability to pay appears to have harassed
him considerably during the past week. Aside
from this there are no other surmises as to
the incentive to the horrible deed.
The house in which Mr. Fitzgibbon resided is
a two-storv frame structure and he and Ids
family occupied one of the rooms in the second
story. That morning Mrs. Fitzgibbon arose
ns is her custom and went down stairs to assist
the cook in the preparation of breakfast.
When she awoke Mr. Fitzgibbon was asleep,
and she did not disturb him on leaving the
ro om. On another bed in the same room their
two little children were sleeping. Mrs. Fitz
gibbon had been gone a half hour, perhaps,
when Mr. Fitzgibbon, it is supposed, arose,
and without dressing himself went to the
mantle, and taking therefrom a 38-calibrt
Smith A. Wesson pistol, placed the muzzle to
his head, just above the right ear, aid fired.
A young lady who waß on a visit to the fam
ily occupied an adjoining room. She heard the
report of the pistol and rushed in to ascertain
the cause. As she entered the room, Mr. Fitz
giobon, with the blood spurting from the
wound, and w T ith the smoking pistol in his
right iiand, was reeling in front of the fire
place. and a moment later sank to the floor
about th centre of the room.
Mrs. Fitzgibbon hastened to the room,where
she discovered her husband lying in a pool of
biood on the floors She knelt beside him. and
grasping his hand in hers beseeched him to
speaii to her. But death had set his seal upon
him and half an hour later Mr. Fitzgibbon
breathed his last. Tin bullet was protruding
through the top of hiH scalp and was easily re
moved.
Mr. Fitzgibbon was a wonderfully brilliant
and highly talented young man. It is said that
"'ith the exception of liev. Sam Small, he had
no superior in Georgia as a stenographer.
PERSON A.. MENTION.
The second volume of Mr. Blaine’s “Twenty
Years in Congress” has just been issued.
Edison, the inventor, took his second wife,
the daughter of an Ohio millionaire, a few
days since.
Not less than seven German generals will
complete their fiftieth year of active service
during 1880.
The widow' of General Santa Anna is in
Mexico, spending her declining years in a
rocking chair, smoking cigarettes.
Thomas P. Dudley, of Lexington. ICy.,
the oldest Baptist preacher in America, is
ninety-four yearns of age and blind.
Parnell’s friends say that the Irish leader
is absolutely penniless, having given away all
‘his cash and realty to the Irish cause.
Whittier, the poet, is color blind. He
says that yellow is his favorite color because
this is the only one he can distinguish.
Miss Lydia Bull, of St. Louis, has been
appointed stenographer to Attorney-General
Garland. She is the niece of his deceased
wife.
The widow of ex-Governor John Hubbard,
of Maine, still lives in Hallowell in the same
house where he died seventeen years ago. She
is ninety years old,
Captain Boycott, whose experiences
originated the term “boycotting/’ has been
appointed agent for the Plixton Hall estates
of Lord Wavgney, in Suffolk, England.
Sam Small, the Rev. Sam Jones’ coadju
tor, is tall and slender, with dark hair and
a browm mustache. He wears spectacles,
although not yet thirty-five years of age.
His maimer is nervons, earnest and attrac
tive,and his voice strong and clear.
The late Muzzafer Edin, the Emir of
Bokhara, had at his death one of the largest
domestic establishments in Asia. His house
hold consisted of seven sons, nineteen
daughters, 280 wdves, 290 female slaves, ten
female barbers, nine female cooks, twenty
two needle-women, and fifty washerwomen.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Jennie Lind is announced to appear in
concert next season.
United States Senator Hawley is said
to play very w ell on the piano.
Henry Irving prefers the Bible and
Shakespeare to all other books.
Carlotta Patti will presently give up
singing and go to Florence to live.
John Owens, the famous comedian, who
has been so long an invalid, is slowly conva
lescing.
Minnie Maddern, the actress, has taken
to writing for Western magazines, in addi
tion to her dramatic duties.
Ellen Terry, the English actress, gets
$375 a week fifty-two weeks of the year, with
a vacation whenever she chooses.
Louisa M. ALCOTT.author of “Little Men,
Little Women' 1 and the rest of a popular ser
ies of books, is reported at work on a comedy.
The law and order league, of Cincinnati,
has finally triumphed over Sunday theatri
cals. A vigorous war on the concert halls
has begun.
Miss May Tift, the daughter of a New
York banker, has made a brilliant success at
private soirees in Paris, and has been offered
au engagement at her majesty’s theatre in
London.
J. L. Toole, a prominent English actor,
has placed a fine monument and otherwise
adorned the long-neglected grave of H. J.
Byron, whose plays have made much merri
ment for the English speaking world.
Miss Elmira Strong, who is traveling
with a theatrical troupe in the Eastern States,
is a great-granddaughter of Caleb Strong,
eight times governor of Massachusetts, and a
great-great-granddaughter of President John
Adams.
Schurmann, the impresario of Patti, says:
*‘After Naples we are not certain of our des
tination. I have proposed Brazil to Patti,
and offered her $200,000, also a steamer all to
herself. She w r ants $300,000, but Ido not
doubt that we shall come to terms. ”
Charlotte Crabtree, better known on
the stage as Lotta, is undoubtedly the wealth
iest woman in the world who follows the pro
fession of the stage. Most of the _ money’ is
held in the name of her mother,who has been
her manager ever since she first appeared as
a little girl in California. They are not far
wrong who estimate Lotta s possessions at
a good deal over a million dollars. A ear af
ter \ ear she has earned from $50,000 to
$70,000.
A teacher in one of our schools
asked the class which was the longest
day of the year, and promptly got the
answer : “Sunday.”
THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT.
THE NEWS.
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Interesting Happenings from all Points.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATE’S.
A train running between Nunda ana
Rochester, N. Y., ran off the track, and the
forward coach tipped over and was burned.
Eighteen persons were more or less seriously
injured.
Four men and a boy were crossing the
Susquehanna river near Hanisburg, Penn.,
when their boat capsized and the four men
were drowned.
Mayor Grace, of New York, lectured in
Boston a few nights ago before an immense
audience on “Irishmen in America.”
David Wilson, an ex-fireman of Pitts
burg, Penn., discouraged through poverty
and lack of employment, killed his wife and
mortally wounded himself.
H undreds of unemployed miners and
their families are suffering for the necessa
ries of life at Ebervale, Penn.
The employers in the Pennsylvania coke
region have finally aeceeded to the demands
of the strikers. The strike resulted in fatal
collisions and numerous arrests, and the
Hungarian workmen refused to return to
work unless those of their number in jail
were released.
Workmen have been attempting to recover
the bodies of the twenty-six miners entombed
alive by a sudden cave-in of a mine at Nanti
<oke, Penn., some time ago. It has been
proved almost beyond doubt that the men
were not overwhelmed by the cave-in and
flood, but found their way to the higher
workings in the mine, where they met a
lingering and horrible death by starvation.
The late John B. Gough’s estate is estimated
at less than $75,000.
Governor Abbett has sent to the New
Jersey legislature a special message concern
ing the recent decision of the supreme court
declaring the railroad tax of 1884 unconstitu
tional. He said that the State would not
suffer even if the legislature did not pass a
law at this session, and he considered it use
less to lengthen the session on that account.
He suggested a passage of a bill authorizing
the governor, comptroller and treasurer to
dispose of so much of the State’s securities as
may be necessary for the maintenance of
the government by reason of any deficiency
that may occur on account of the adverse de
cision of the supreme court, and declared
himself to be firmly opposed to any direct
State tax.
It is estimated that 2,105,000 tons of ice are
stored in the 125 ice houses along the Hudson.
Lillie and Susie Lilly, twin sisters, aged
six years, were caught by their cloth ng in
the machinery of their father’s mili at Hha
rnokin Hill, Penn., and mangled to death.
Mrs. Thomas Loughlin, of New York,
attempted to throw a can of vitriol at her
husband, but in the struggle the liquid w r as
spattered over her own lace, and she was
frightfully burned, losing her eyesight The
two had been living apart
- SOUTH AND WEST.
Clarence J. Sears, of Homer, HI., over
eighty years old, hail a dispute with his wife
upon religious matters, and becoming en
raged, killed her w r ith a saw.
Prosecutions and convictions of Mor
mons for polygamy continue in the Utah
courts.
A Chinese mandarin interested in a large
importing firm at Han Francisco was refused
permission to landed and return, to China.
The steamer City of Mexico arrived
at Key West, Fla., the other day, in
charge of Lieutenant Elliott, from
tlie United States steamer Galena.
There were thirty filibusters on board the
steamer. It was the intention to land the fili
busters at St. Andrews, but the United States
consul at Panama interfered, and the City of
Mexico w r as captured by the Galena and
taken to Key West.
A fire at St. Paul, Minn., destroyed a
large dry goods store, causing an estimated
loss of $200,000.
The schooner Itidianola, engaged in the
gulf trade, Captain Bloom and a crew of six
men on board, has been given up as lost.
A convention of coal mine operators and
miners, at a me?ting in Columbus, Ohio,
agreed upon a scale of wages to go into effect
May lin five States. A board ot a”bitration
to settle all disputes was also appointed.
George A. Ward nek, city bookkeeper of
the National Exchange bank, Milwaukee,
shot and mortally wounded Abbott Law
rence, the assistant cashier. Wardner is be
lieved to lie insane.
WASHINGTON.
Chairman Bland, of the House commit
tee on coinage, weights and measures, has
prepared a minority report, signed by him
self and two other members, on the bill to
provide for the free coinage of silver, w'hich
was reported adversely by a majority vote of
the committee. The report strongly favors
the free coinage of silver.
Forty-seven ladies, representing twenty,
three States of the Union, appeared before
the House judiciary committee on the 20th,
and delivered addresses in behalf of woman’s
rights.
The Senate in executive session has con
firmed, among others, the following nomina
tions: W. J. Black, of Dela ware, to be con
sul, Nuremberg; D. J. Partello, of District
of Columbia, to be consul, Weisseldorff; Jas
per Smith, of the District of Columbia, to
be consul, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, W. H.
Parker, of District of Columbia, to be consul
general, Corea; Stephen A. Walker, attor
ney, southern district of New’ York.
The President has sent the following nom
inations to the Senate: Henderson M. Jaco
way to be receiver of public monies at Dar
daelle, Ark. Postmasters: Ferdinand Yan
denveer, at Hamilton, Ohio; Jason K. Wright,
at Marinette, Wis.; John H. Shaffer, at
Kankakee. 111.; Henry P. Grant, at Helena,
Ark.
Solicitor General Goode asserts that
the charges understood to ha ve been filed
against him before the Senate Judiciary com
mittee are utterly false. He says he had no
connection, directly or indirectly, with any
election frauds in Virginia or elsewhere, and
indignantly denies that he has ever been
guilty of bribery or other corrupt practices.
A statement prepared by the United
States treasurer shows that out of 222,739,761
standard silver dollars coined up to February
20, 51,627,889 were in circulation on that
date.
Surgeon-General Hamilton, of the
United States marine hospital, says that we
w ill probably be able to keep America from
cholera this summer, as we did last.
FOREIGN.
A meeting of socialists in Hyde Park,
London, was attended by 50,000 people and
4,000 policemen, but there was no dis
turbance.
Yokohama. Japan, has suffered from a
large fire, the Windsor hotel and adjoining
buildings succumbing to the flames. United
States Consul General Denny, who was stop
ping at Yokohama on his way to Corea, w’as
obliged to jump from a second story win
dow, but received no injuries.
The Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, the cele
brated Baptist preacher, has died in Eng
land, at the age of sixty-three years. His
greatest success was as a lecturer, and every
unday L-ternoon he collected audiences of
2,000 or 3,000 artisans. He had lectured in
this country and Canada.
A young commercial traveler on his bridal
tour ruined himself at the gaming table Or
Monte Carlo, and committed suicide.
Great commercial depression exists at
Stockholm, Sweden, and numerous failures
are announced-
The Dublin board of guardians has adopted
a resolution declaring that only home rule,
land reform and the stoppage of evictions
will satisfy the majority of the Irish people.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1886.
NAVY IMPROVEMENTS.
FIVE IEW STEEL-A SHORED CRUIS
ERS TO BE BUILT.
Fifteen Million Dollars to be the Mam for
Construction Purposes.
A Washington dispatch says that the
House committee on naval affairs has nearly
completed the bill for the improvement of
the navy. Arguments have been made
by the secretary of the navy, Admiral Por
ter and other prominent naval officers,
and the testimony given by all of them
will accompany the report of the committee.
The committee estimate that $15,000,000 will
be a proper sum for this Congress to appro
priate as a beginning, of which $7,500,-
000 will be provided for in the bill
shortly to be reported, with the
understanding that a like amount shall
be appropriated next year. It was
decided not to adopt the idea of the heaviest
ironclad of England, as vessels of that size,
so Admiral Porter .told the committee, draw
so much water that there are probably only
two harbors on our whole Atlantic coast
w’hich they con’d enter— Portland, Me., and
Port Royal. S. C. Admiral Porter said that
England had more than one ironclad which,
w’hile it could not get into our harbors, could
lay off Coney Island and utterly destroy
Brooklyn, if not New York. To meet such
vessels as this it would be best to provide for
torpedo boats which make their attacks under
cover of darkness. The determination not to
recommend the construction of vessels of the
heaviest class, was also influenced by the con
sideration that such vessels have no other
capacity than to fight—their movements are
slow and speed is lost sight of.
Secretary Whitney, in his remarks to the
committee, favored the creation of a plant
at one of the navy yards sufficient to produce
heavy ordnance, armor plates, steel shafts,
etc. This idea the committee will, in all
probability, adopt and recommend a lib
eral appropriation, say, perhaps, of $250,-
000. for this purpose. Five large vessels
will be recommended to be constructed, one
at a government yard, hereafter to be deter
mined upon, and four to be given out by
private contract. These five vessels are to be
from six to eight thousand tons,to be heavily
armored and equipjied with the most power
ful armament attainable.
THE WHEAT PROSPECT,
A SUMMARY OF ITS CONDITION
THROUGHOUT THE WEST.
The Outlook Sold to be Very Favorable
In Most Sections.
The following crop summary appears in the
last Chicago Famers’ Review: The
returns from the winter fields are almost
uniformly good. Tney present an outlook
very nearly as favorable as those sent in ear
ly in 1885, w hen the prospect w r as exception
ally good for a large yield. The snow has en
tirely disappeared from the fields, enabling
a very clear understanding as to the condi
tion of the plant, and from nearly every
county in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois,
Missouri, Kentucky and Kansas it is re
ported as looking strong and healthy. The
utter disappearance of the snow covering
is the only serious menace now threat
ening the growing grain, and with
another general fall of snow the outlook could
hardly be 1 letter than is presented in the re
ports of the correspondents. A prolonged
season of severe cold weather, with the fields
still unprotected would, undoubtedly, cause
damage which might completely change the
tenor of the reports.
The latest reports from California, Oregon
and Washington Territory are generally
more favorable than at the same time last
year. Out of twenty counties of Kansas
eighteen i*eport the crop in good condition,
while unfavorable returns are made
from Ottaw r a and Wyandotte counties,
where the plant show’s injury from freezing
w’hile unprotected. With the exception of
How’ard and Hendricks counties, in Indiana,
the outlook is reported to be very favorable.
The reports from Ohio are uniformly favor
able. In Southern Illinois two counties report
a poor outlook, but the remaining counties
make a very good showing. From Central
Illinois the returns are uniformly good. The
returns from Kentucky and Missouri are gen
erally of a glowing character, and in the
former State the outlook is considered brighter
fora good crop than before in many years.
The Michigan reports do not indicate any
larger yield than last year, but the reports
are generally favorable. In Tennessee the
reports indicate an average outlook. While
it is not yet possible to give anything like
positive data the average in all the States,
with the possible exception of Michigan, will
show a falling off as compared with last
year.
The exports indicate that the stocks of old
wheat in Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, Ken
tucky, Teenessee, and Illinois are pretty well
exhausted, while considerable wheat is still
held in farmer’s hands in Minnesota, lowa
and Michigan.
The War Begins.
THE MENATE CALLS FOR PAPERS-AN
ADVERSE REPORT.
In executive session of the Senate on the
23d Mr. Edmunds reported a resolution from
the committee of judiciary authorizing that
committee to send for persons and papers
in the case of John Goode, Jr., of
Virginia, Solicitor general. Mr. Ed.
munds stated that charges of a very serious
character had been preferred against Mr.
Goode relating to elections in Virginia, and
before the committee could report on the con
firmation it would lie necessary to send for
persons and papers at Norfolk'and elsew’here
and conduct an inquiry. The resolution was
adopted.
The committee on finance reported against
the confirmation of McGraw, a collector of
internal revenue for West Virginia, and that
report was also adopted. Tbe cause of the re
jection of McGraw was the refusal of Secre
tary Manning to furnish the papers relating
to the suspension of McGraw’s predecessor.
The Senate finance committee afterward
agreed to report adversely on the case of Mc-
Graw.
Powder Explosion
TWENTY PERSONS INJURED, THREE
FATALLY, IN A STORE.
A powder explosion occurred in W inehes
ter, Ky., the other afternoon, in which a
number of person vere injured, some fatal
ly. Mary Willis' eating house and grocery
store as crowded at the time by
country people who came in to at
tend tbe ° county court. At noon some
party came into the store to buy powder, and
while the clerk was weighing it out a person
present struck a mat -h to light a cigar. A
portion of the ignited '-uiphur flew into the
powder, which exploded and tore away almost
the whole side of the room About twenty
person were in the room at that moment,
\ nearly all of whom were more or loss injured
®u,j thre Q at least fatallv.
There is one thing to be said in favoi
of coasters. They don’t want thejsarth.
DEVOTED TO TEETH, HONESTY AND PATRIOTISM.
DB. TAIME’S SERMON.
DUTIES OF WIYES TO HUS
BANDS.
The seventh in the series of Dr. Talmage’s
sermons on the *“ Marriage Ring” was
preached upon the subject of the “Duties
of Wives'to Husbands.”
The text was: “The name of his wife was
Abigail, and she was a w oman of good un
derstanding and of a beautiful countenance.”
—I. Samuel, xxv., 3.
The ground in Carmel is white—not
with fallen snow, but the wool from
the backs of three thousand sheep,
for they are being sheared. And I
heai* the grinding of the iron blades together
and the bleating of the flocks, held between
the knees of the shearers while the clipping
goes on, and th? rustic laughter of the work
men. Nabal and his wife Abigail preside
over this homestead. David, the warrior,
sends a delegation to apply .lor aid at this
prosperous time of sheep-shearing, and Nabal
peremptorily declines his request. Revenge
is the cry. Yonder over the rocks come David
and four hundred angry men with one stroke
to demolish Nabal and his sheep-folds and
vineyards. The regiment march in double
quick and the stones of the mountain loosen
and roll down as the soldiers strike them with
their swift feet, and the cry of the commander
is Forward! Forward!
Abigail, to save her husband and his prop
erty, hastens to the foot of the hills. She is
armed not with sword or spear, but with
her own beauty and self-sacrifice, and
when David sees her kneeling at the base of
the crag he cries to his storm of men, “Halt!
Halt!” and the caveons echo it, “Haiti
Halt!” Abigail is the conqueress! One
woman in the right mightier than 400 men in
the wrong. A hurricane stopped at the sight
of a water-lily. A dew-drop dashed back
Niagara. By her prowess and tact she has
saved her husband and saved her home, and
put before all ages an illustrious specimen of
what a wife can do if she be godly and pru
dent and self-sacrificing and vigilant aud de
voted to the interests of her husband,and at
tractive.
As Sabbath^ before last I took the responsi
bility of telling husbands how they ought to
treat their wives, and though I noticed that
some of them squirmed a little in their pew,
they endured it well, I now take the re
sponsibility of telling how wives ought to
treat their husbands. I hope your domestic
alliance was so happily formed that while
married life may have revealed
in him some frailties that you did not sus
pect, it has also displayed excellencies that
more than overbalanced them. I suppose
that if I could look into the hearts of a hun
dred wives here present and ask them w’here
is the kindest ana best man they know of, and
they dared speak out, ninety-nine out of a
hundred of them would say “at the other end
of this pew.” Though sometimes you may
have snapped each other up a little quick, I
think the most of you are as well paired as a
couple of whom I have read. The wife .said
to her husband: “I have made up my mind
to be submissive notwithstanding all the mis
fortunes that have come upon us.” They had
lost their children, he had lost his health, and
hence the income of his profession, and the
wife had temporarily lost her eyesight.
“Yes,” said the husband, “we ought
to be submissive. Let me see what
we have to submit to: First,we have a home;
we can submit to that. Then we have each
other; we can submit to that. Then we have
food and raiment; w r e can submit to that
Then we have a great many friends; we can
submit to that. We have a heavenly Father
to provide for us—” “Stop! Stop!” said the
wife, “I will talk no more about submis
sion.”
I hope, my sister, you have married a man
as Christian and as well balanced as that.
But even if you w’ere worsted in conjugal
bargain, you cannot be worse off than this
Abigail in my text. Her husband was coarse
and ungrateful and inebriate, for on the very
evening after her heroic achievement at the
foot of the hill where she captured a w h le
regiment with her genial aud strategic tie
havior. she returned home and found her
husband so drunk that she could not
tell him the story, but had to
postponed it until the next day; so, my sister,
I do not w r ant you to keep saying within
yourself as I proceed. “That is the way to
treat a perfect husband,” for yon are to re
member that no wife w’as ever worse swindled
than this Abigail of my text. At the other
end of her table sat a mean, selfish, snaring,
contemptible sot, and if she could do so well
for a dastard how’ ought you to do with that
princely and splendid man with whom you
are to walk the path of life.
First I counsel the wife to remember in
what a severe and terrific battle of life her
husband is engaged. Whether in professi* >nal
or commercial or artistic or mechanical life
your husband from morning to night is in a
Rolferino if not a Sedan. It is a wonder that
your husband has any nerves or patience or
suavity left. To get a living in this next to
the last decade of the Nineteenth Century is a
struggle. If he come home and sit down pre
occupied you ought to excuse him. If he do
not feel like going out that night for a walk
or entertainment remember he has been out
all day. You say he ought to lea ve at his place
of business his annoyances and come home
cheery. But if a man has been betraye Iby
a business partner or a customer has jock
eyed him out of a large bill of goods, or a pro
tested note has been flung on his desk or
somebody has called him a liar and every
thing has gone wrong frqm morning till
night, he must have great genius at forget
fulness if he do not bring some of the perplex
ity home with him. When you tell me he ought
to leave it all at the store or bank or shop,
you might as well tell a storm on the Atlantic
to stay out there and not touch the coast or
ripple the harbor. Remember he is not
overworking so much for himself as he is
overworking for yon and the children. It is
the effect of his success or defeat on the
homestead that causes him the agitation. The
most of men after forty-five years of age live
not for themselves but for their families.
They begin to ask themselves anxiously the
question: “How if I should give out, what
would become of the folks at home ? Would
my children ever get their education ? Would
my wife have to go out into the w’orldto earn
bread for herself and our little ones' My
eyesight troubles me, how if my eyes should
fail; Mv head gets dizzy, how if' I should
drop under apoplexy?” The high pressure of
business life and mechanical life and agricul
tural life is home pressure.
Some time ago a large London firm decided
that if any of their clerks mar
ried on ' a salary less than
150 pounds, that is $750 a year, he should be
discharged, the supposition being that the
t?m tation might be too great for misappro
priation. The Targe majority of families in
America live by the utmost dint of economy,
and to be honest and yet meet one’s family
expenses is the appalling question that turns
the Me of tens of thousands of men into a
martyrdom. Let the wife of the overbourne
and exhausted husband remember this, and
do not nag him about this and nag him about
that and say you might as well have no hus
band. when the fact is he is dying by inches
that the home may be kept up.
I charge also the wife to keep herself as at
tra tive after marriage as she was before
marriage. The reason that so often a man
ceases to love his wife is because the wife
ceases to be lovely. In many cases w’hat elabo
ration of toilet before marriage, and what
recklessness of appearance after. The most
disgusting thing on earth is a slatternly
woman. I mean a woman who never combs
h< r hair until she goes out or looks like a
fright until somebody calls. Thata man mar
ried to one of these creatures stays at home
as little as possible is no wonder. It is a
w ouder that such a man does not go on. a
whaling voyage of ihree years and in a leaky
ship. Costly wardrobe is not required, but,
oh. woman, if you are not willing, by all that
ingenuity of refinement can effect to make
yourself attractive to your husband, you
ought not to complain if he seek in other so
ciety those pleasant surroundings which vou
deny him.
Again I charge you, never talk
to others about the frailties
of your husband. Rome people have a wav
in banter of elaborately describing to others
the shortcomings or unhappy excentrieities of
a husband or wife. Ah. the world will find
out soon enough all the defects of your com
panion: no need of your advertising them.
Better imitate those women who.having made
mistake in affiance, always have a veil to
hide imperfections and alleviations of con
duct to mention. We must admit that there
are rare cases where a wife cannot live longer
with her husband, and his cruelties and out
rages are the precursor of divorcement or
separation. But until that dav comes keep
the awful secret to yourself. Keep it from
everv being in the universe* except
the God to whom you do well to tell your
trouble. Trouble only a few’ years at mo.-t.and
then you go up on the other side
of the grave and say: Oh Lord, I kept the
marital secret. Thou knowest how well I
kept it, and I thank thee that the release has
come at last. Give me some place w’here I
can sit down and rest awhile from the horrors
of an embruted earthly alliance before I be
gin the full raptures of Heaven. And orders
will lie s nt out to the usher angels saying;
“Take this Abigail right up to the softest seat;
in th’' best room of the palace, aud let twentv
of the brightest angels wait on her for the
uext thousand years!”
Further, I charge you let there be uo out
side interference with the conjugal relation.
Neither neighbor, nor confidential friend, nor
brother, nor sister, nor father, nor mother
have a right to come in here. The married
gossip will come around and by the hoar tell
you how she manages her husband. Yon
tell her plainly that if she will i t end to th >
affairs of her household you will attend to
yours. What damage some people do with
their tongue! HMture indicates that the
tongue is a dangerous thing by the fact that
it is shut in, first by a barricade of t and
then by the door of the lips. One insidious
talker can keep a whole neighborhood badly
stirred up. The apostle Peter excoriated
these busy bodies in" other people’s matters,
and St. Paul, in his letter to the Thessa
lonians and to Timothy, gives them a sharp
dig. and the good housewife will be on th -
ookout for them and neve” return their cel’
la id treat them with coldest frigidity. For
this reason better keep house as soon as m s i
hie. Rome people are opposed to them,
but I thank God for what are
ca led flats in these cities. They put a
separate home within the means of nearly all
the population. In your married relations
you do not need any advice. If you and
your husband have not skill enough to get
along well alone, with all the a Ivi i e y< u oar;
import you will get along worse. What you
w’ant for your craft on this voyage is plenty
of sea room.
1 charge you also make yourself the intel
ligent companion of your husband. What
with these floods of newspapers and books
there is no excuse for the wife’s ignorance
either about the present or the past. If you
have no more than a half hour every day to
yourself you may fill your mind wuth enter
taining and useful knowledge. Let the mer
chant's wife read up on all mercantile
questions and mechanic’s wife on all
that pertains to his style of work,
and the prof essional man’s wufe on all the
legal or medical or theological or political
discussions of the day. It is very stupid for
a man, after having been amid active minds
all day, to find his wife without information
or opinions on anything. If the wife knows
nothing about what is going on in the world,
after the tea hour has passed or the husband
has read the newspaper he will have au en
gagement and must go and see a man. In
nine cases out of ten when a man does not
stay at home in the evening unless positive
duty calls him aw ay it Is because there is
nothing to stay for. He would rather talk
with his wife than any one else if she could
talk as well.
I charge you, my sister, in every way
to make- your home attractive. 1 have
not enough of practical knowledge
about house adornment to kndw jusWwhat
makes the difference, but here is an opulent
house containing all wealth of bric-a-brac,
and of musical instrument, and of painting,
and of upholstery, and yet there is in it a
chill like Nova Zambia. Another house with
one-twentieth part of the outlay and small
supply of art and cheapest piano purchasable,
and yet as you enter it there comes upon
body, mind and soul a glow of welcome and
satisfied and happy domesticity. The holy
art of making the most comfort and bright
ness out of the means afforded, every wife
should study.
At the siege of Argos Pyerhus was killed
by the tile of a roof thrown by a woman, and
Abimelech was slain by a stone that a
woman threw from the tower of Thebez,
and Earl Montfort was destroyed by
a rock discharged at him by a
woman from the w r alls of Toulouse. But
w’ithout any weapon save that of her cold,
cheerless household arrangements, any wife
may slay the attractions of a home circle.
[A wife and mother in prospered circum
stances and greatly admired, w’as giving her
chief time to social life. The husband spent
his evenings away. The son, fifteen years of
age, got the same habit, and there was a
prospect that the other children, as they got
old enough, would take the s tme turn. One
day the wife aroused to the consideration that
she had better save her husban 1 and her boy.
Interesting and stirring games w’ere intro
duced into the house. The mother studied
up interesting things to tell her children. One
morning the son said: “Father, you ought
to have been home last night. W e
had a grand time. Such jolly games and
such interesting stories.” This w’ent on from
night to night, and after a w’hile the husband
stayed in to see what was going on, and he
finally got attracted and added something of
his own to the evening entertainment, and
the result was that the wife and mother saved
her husband and saved her boy and saved
herself. Was not that an enterprise worth
the attention of the greatest woman that
ever lived since Abigail, at the foot of the
rock, arrested the hundred armed warriors?
Do not, my sister, be dizzied and disturlied
by the talk of those who think the home cir
cle too insignificant for a woman’s career,
and who want to get you out on plat
forms and in conspicuous enterprises.
There are women who have a spec
ial outside mission and do not dare to in
terpret me as derisive of their important mis
sion. But my opinion is that the woman who
can reinforce her husband in the work of life
and rear her children for positions of useful
ness is doing more for God and the race and
her own happiness than if she spoke on every
great platform and headed a hundred great
enterprises. My mother never made a mis
sionary speech in her life and at a missionary
meeting 1 doubt whether she could have got
enough courage to vote aye or no, but she
raised her son John, who has been preaching
the gospel and translating religious literature
in Amoy, China, for about forty years. Was
not that a better thing to do?
Compare such an one w ith one of these die
away, attitudinizing, frivolous, married co
quettes of the modern drawing room, her
heaven an opera box on the night of Meyer
beer’s “Robert le Diable,” the ten command
ments an inconvenience, taking arsenic
to improves her comulexion aud her appear
ance, confused result of belladonna, bleached
hair, antimony and mineral acids, until one is
compelled to discuss her character and won
der whether the line between a decent and
indecent life is, like the equator, an imagi
nary line.
What the world wants now is
about 50,000 old-fashioned mothers,
women who shall realize that the
highest, grandest, mightiest institution
on 4 earth Si the home. It is not necessary
that they should have the same old-time
manners of the country farm house or wear
the old-fashioned cap and spectacles and
apron that her glorified ancestry wore, but I
mean the old spirit which began with the
Hannahs and the mother Lois and the Abi
gails of scripture days and was demonstrated
on the homestead where some of us were
reared, though the old house long ago was
pulled down and its occupants scattered
never to meet until in the higher home that
awaits the familes of the righteous. While
there are more good and faithful wives and
mothers now than there ever were, society
has erot a wronsr twist on this
subject and there are influences
abroad that would make women believe that
their chief sphere is outside instead of inside
the home.
Hence in many households children instead
of a blessing are a nuisance. It is card case
versus child’s primer, carriage versus cradle,
social popularity versus domestic fidelity.
Hence infanticide aud ante-natal murder so
common that all the physicians, allopathic,
hydropathic, homeopathic and eclectic are
crying out in horror and it is t m > that the
pulpits joined with the medical profession in
echoing and re-echoing the thunder of Mount
Rinai which says “Thou shalt not kill.” and
the Book of Revelations which says “All mur
derers shall have their plat esin the lake which
burneth with fire and brimstone.” And the
man or the woman who takes life a minute
old will as certainly go straight to hell as the
man or woman who destroys life forty years
old. And the wildest, loudest shriek of the
judgment div will lie given at the overthrow
of those who moved in the high and resjieeted
circles of earthly society yet decreed by their
own act as far as they could privately affect
it. the extermination of the advancing gener
ations. Mighty God! Arrest the evil that is
overshadowing this century.
1 charge you, my sister, that you take youi
husban 1 along with you so heaven. Of
course this implies that you Vourself are a
Christian. I must take that for granted. It
cannot be possible that after what Christiani
ty ha-* (lone for woman and after taking the
infinitely responsible position you have as
sumed at the hed of the household that you
should bo in a positi n antagonistic to Christ.
It was not a slip of the tongue when I spoke
of you as being at the head of the household.
We men rather pride ourselves as being at the
head of the household, but it is only a pleas
ant delusion. To whom do the children go
when they have trouble? When there is a
sore finger to lie bound up or one of the first
teeth that needs to be removed to make way
for the one that is crowding it out, to whom
does the child go. For whom do children
cry out in the night when they get fright
ened at a bad dream? Aye, to
whom does the husband go, when he has a
business trouble too great or too delicate for
outside ears? We, the men, are heads of the
household in name, but you; oh, wives! are the
heads of tbe household in fact, and it is your
business to take your husband with you into
the kingdom of God and see that house pro
pared for Heaven.
You can do it! Of course God’s almighty
grace alone can convert him. but you are to
be the instrument. Some wives keep their
husbands out of heaven and others garner
them for it. If your religion, oh, wife, is
simply the joke of the household, if you would
rather go tc the theatre than the
prayer meeting, if you can beat
all the neighborhood in progressive
euchre, if your husband never sees you knoel
at the bedside in prayer before retiring, if
the only thing that reminds the family of
your church relations is, that on communion
day you you get home late to dinner, you
will not be able to take your husband to
heaven, for the simple reason that you
will not get there yourself. But
I suppose that your religion is
genuine, and that the husband realizes there
is in your soul a divine principle, and that
though you may be naturally quicker tem
pered than he is, and have manj’ imperfec
tions tnat distress you more than they can
any one else, still you are destined for the
skies when the brief scenes of this life
are over. How will you take
him along with you? There are'two oars to
that boat—prayer and holy example.
“But,” you say, “he belongs to a worldly
club, or tie does not believe a word of the
Bible, or he is an inebriate and very loose in
his habits.” What you tell me me shows
that you don’t understand that while you
are at the one end of a prayer the omnipotent
God is at the other end. and it is simply a ques
tion whether Almightiness is strong enough
anil keeps his word. [I have no doubt there
will be great conventions in Heaven called
for eeUbrative purposes, and when, in some
celest al assemblage the saints shall be telling
what brought them to God, I believe
that ten thousand times ten thousand
will say, “My wife.”
I put beside each other two testimonies of
men concerning their wives and let you see
the contrast. An aged man was asked the
reason of his salvation. With tearful emo
tion he said: “My wife was brought to God
some years before myself. I per
secuted and abused her because of
her religion. She, however, returned
nothing but kmdness, constantly manifesting
anxiety to promote my comfort and happi
ness, and it was her amiable conduct when
suffering ill-treatment from me that first sent
the arrows of conviction to my soul.” The
other testimony was from a dying man:
“Harriet, I am'a lost mac. You opposed our
family worship and my secret prayer. You
drew me away into temptation and to
neglect every religious duty. I believe mv
fate is sealed. Harriet, you are the cause of
my everlasting ruin.”
As you stood in the village or city church,
or in your father’s house, perhaps under a
wedding bell of flowers, to-day stand up,
husband and wife, beneath the cross
of a pardoning Redeemer, while I
proclaim the banns of an .eternal
marriage. Join your right hands. I pro
nounce you one forever. What God hath
joined together let neither life, nor death, nor
time, nor eternity put asunder. Witness men
and angels, all worlds, all ages! The circle is
an emblem of eternity, and that is the shape
of the marriage ring.
Railroads Everywhere.
The activity railway building in
other than civilized countries is tealiy
remarkable. England is hard at work
on an iron route from the Arabian sea
to Afghanistan. The railway has reached
the Quetta plateau through the Bulan
pass. The Russians are working night
and day on their trans-Caspian railway,
w hich is approaching Merv, and will, in
time, be carried to Buckhara and Tasli
kecd. The transportation lines are to
be in readiness for the tremendous con
flict soon to take place for the possession
.f Herat. South Africa has now 1.562
miles of railway, all owned by Cape Col
ony, which pay a handsome revenue to
he government. The iron horse has
reached the diamond fields and is on its
vay to Zambesi, which will open up the
heart of Africa. If the Tory adminis
tration is continued in England it would
build the 200 miles which separates the
Soudan from the Red Sea. Scuth Amer
ica is alive with railway projects; they are
so numerous that it would be tedious to
recount them The Chinese are laying
the r plans for immense transportation
lines. It has been found that caravan
traffic is 150 times more costly than
railway freightage. —From Dcniorest'x
Monthly .
Questions.
Why is it that a man whose lunch con
sists of a piece of pie and a cup of coffee,
when he pays for it himself, will, when
you pay the score, eat every article on
th ■ bilfof fare and then remark that he
“doesn’t see what gives him such an
appetite ?”
Why is it that the lining of your over
coat’s off sleeve always catches in your
cuff just when your sweetheert is helping
you with it, and you want to be particu
larly easy and graceful ?
Why is it that prettiest girls always
have the ugliest pug ?
Why is it that cynical persons who are
always railing against the parvenus of
mushroom aristocracy always jump for
joy when they receive invitations from
these same parvenus?
Why is it that the youth who walks to
his office “for exercise” cannot steel his
heart against the invitation of an ac
quaintance who offers to give him a lift
in his dog cart ?
Why is it that a girl’s best friend
usually tells you more to her disadvan
tage than her avowed euemy ?
Send answers to the Department of
Home Missions, Rambler office. — Rambler.
NUMBER 5.
A Tragedy on lee.
‘‘Them’s Halgernon’s legs, if heve
Halgernon spoke. I see it hall; he
growed jealous o’ my thinkin’ so much o’
the butcher-boy!”— Pack.
Why He Paid in Advance.
A traveler in Shasta county. Cal.,
being belated, stopped at a country hotel
and put up for the night. After eating
his supper he asked the landlord how
much it was:
“What yer have?”
“Liver, ham and eggs, potatoes, bread
and coffee.”
‘ ‘Three dollars. ”
“Here you are. Ahem! Have you any
bolts to your bedroom doors?”
“Yes, bolts and keys, too.”
“I guess I better pay you for my lodg
ing and breakfast now. I always eat a
hearty breakfast, and if you charge for it
like you did my supper i won’t have any
thing left for any one to steal if they get
into my room.
Knights of the Bath.
A few days ago a well-known young
man shocked one of his lady friends by
his ignorance of history. It was after a
dinner party at his house and she was
telling him what she had learned in her
private history class. One thing led to
another, and all the time he was getting
into deeper water. At last she surprised
him by inquiring: “Now, tell me, Mr.
He stammered for awhile, and finally
blurted out: “Why, Saturday knights,
I suppose.” —Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Society Elephant—A Transfor
mation.
I.
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A Wonderful Solvent.
“Mrs. Dusenberrv, you remember the
case of a man who swallowed a silver
dollar last summer?”
“Yes, my dear.”
“Well, he’s rid of it. A chemist gave
him a solvent. A month afterward he
threw up the dollar in pieces.’
“In pieces, Mrs. Dusenberry?”
* ‘Yes, my love. In ten-cent pieces.
Philadelphia Call.
Li Aor of the Professor.
Professor —“Ah, that picture is ele
gant. Has it been long in the family ?”
Hostess—“Oh, yes, father secured
it when I was a girl of sixteen.”
Professor—“ What? As long ago* as
that? You astonish me.”
Hostess—“ Yes, professor, and lam a
little astonished myself.”
The professor took in the situation when
it was too late. —Boston Beacon.
Poor Encouragement.
ill I a L<^gz
“Come! step up and take something,’
said a reveler to a solemn looking man.
The latter shook his head.
“Come on. Brace up. My motto is
‘live and let live.’ Never say die."
“You are one of those who want tc
break me up in business.”
“What is. your business?”
‘ T nder t aker. ” — Siftings.
Not the Cook.
Ned Nestell has returned from Oregon.
“Anything new, Ned, coming down?"
asked the paternal Mesmener.
“Nothing,” replied Ned, “but a great
deal coming up. They threw the best
meals overboard.”
“Oh, awful!” commented the old man.
“The cook ought to l>e reported.”
“It was not the cook,” said the man
with heavy hair. “It was the passeu
gers,” — California Maverick.