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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. ' —■ * 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. m rv 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.