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ELLAVILLE PUBLISHING CO, C, D. ADAMS, Editor.
THE FATAL CYCLONE.
v UTH-nKALlJiO ARKANSAS. STORMS IN
SOUUI ANV
IIOttSM .............. and Their Innm.es
Killed- Whole Fauilllea Slain liy
I nllinfi Timbers.
Dispatches from Nevada, Mo., confirm
the reports that a fatal cyclone swept
over the northern part of Vernon county
Friday night. The cyclone seemed to
SiX
” WM •gSttSCtftf Osage and Blue Mound townships. 2S
Metz, barns and in
Fences, houses, everything
the line of the_ storm, which was about
half a mile wide, were picked up, rent
into splinters and cast down hundreds of
yards away. Trees were torn up by the
i. eighteen
ed and about persons killed.
SE 3 11,1 ' he h “ ”
been oouineu.
Their were five members of the Miller
family, foul of whom Tivcre killed* lhe
baby, aged two years, was found unhurt
Saturday ‘ morning. Miller
Parts of the house and furniture
ire found strewn over the fields fora
mile from where the house formerly
stood. Reliable news has been received
from Osage township and it is thought
that the death roll will be swelled to over
twenty-five. through
Thc cyclone swept a part of
Vernon countv Mo dointr creat aamatre ”
to property . ana gj , killing a number of t peo-
pie. Thirty houses are known to have
been destroyed, and fifteen persons are
snid to have been killed nelsons
There there were were four four persons killed killed out-
right and several so dangerously wound¬
ed that they will probably die. Many of
the hailstones weighed from three to five
ounces and some of them measured nine
inches in circumference, The path of
the wind was from three hundred to
four hundred yards wide and the track
left desolation.
A great many reports have been re¬
ceived of miner damages and the escapes
of those whose homes were ruined are al¬
most miraculous. The heavy rain was
attended by an interesting phenomena in
the northern portion of the city of Neva-
da, Mo. Balls of fire seemed to be fall-
ing at au angle of forty-five degrees,
struck the ground aud bursting in¬
myriads of fiery flakes rebounded to¬
ward the east and died away, The ex-
hibition continued for several minutes.
General fencing, damage blooming was done to outbuild¬
ings, immediate orchards,outside
the track of the cyclone,
while inside, nearly everything is a total
wreck.
A special from Clarksville, Ark., says
a terrible cyclone swept over that county
from west to east, from two to three
miles wide, at seven o’clock Saturday
morning, passing north of Clarksville
and doing fearful damage, killing five
persons and badly wounding twenty
others. The houses of nil these parties
were blowu down and scattered fur and
near.
A tornado, originating due in the Indian
territory and moving east, passed
through Rock, the country north the line of Little
Ark., and along of the
Little Rock nnd Fort Smith railroad. It
was between a quarter nnd a half mile
wide, und near Ozark, Franklin county,
houses began doing great damage to trees,
nnd fences. Farther east, near
the coal hill and Clarksville aud Johnson
county the damage injured. was very serious and
many persons were
Four miles from Clarksville John
Reed’s child, G. 1). Croerle v’s daughter,
und a child of Mr. Pettit were killed. A
man named Phillips near Ozark was se¬
verely injured by falling timber. Loss
to the farmers in buildings, fences, stock
and growing crops is heavy but it cannot
be estimated.
The Gazette’s Ozark special says that
currents met in the valley and passed up
the canyon east of town, about the head
of which the funnel appearance of the
cyclone was first seen. A track 300 yards
wide was laid almost hare. Timber and
all sorts of impro' ements were blown in
every direction.
In Ohio the storm was also severe, nnd
much damage was done to property, but
no Kentucky Jives are reported lost.
also suffered to a considera-
| We extent.
At Blossom Prairie, Texas, nearly cv-
erv I nisi,less house in the place was
moved from jt s inundations by the cy-
donc, but nobody was killed.
ARCTIC EXPLORER DEAD
Snli-i* p Driiliiwant lliim-nhower, ol lire
Arctic Exploring Party.
Lieuteimnt John W. Danenhower, of
*Vcdnesdiq c iu fame, was discovered at 10 o'clock
M the naval [ y rooming dead in his quarters
with * “ullet hole academy, Annapolis, Md.,
n in his right temple.
oftr s found on his rug in front
a rc lb with tied his
hmt i ace a tag to
to n, v brother at Washington.”
, 21 lle . ,las had trouble
tinena mental
1 “horned from the Arctic regions,
tholr: wh>» ie( ! i,lt 1 lcfl it
« ? to the suicide
ins nf mve * )een *be recent ground-
o CoosteUatiun Its
Norfniv , hlrh on way to
whj. "' be had charge of, and for
i® death 11 ,°*roa, and whom lie saw
.
BUgm,,,.', ls supposed that, this death
fo&e 1 ,, ls s T Sloan, lc t0 of him New His York, wife, is
aw Dan'cih av •. ,'. j 1 r Parents. Lieutenant
*** a ' ld abort 35 I?/®* , 0 n ' 1 W “ ° n<i<in f hU< ? , ren “ tel,, ' . « ent }fe
Polished officer
F MMJltE8 muring
tiie week.
„ busmcBs ---
,
failures, occu.ring throughout
Sicv ,luri "S the last,week .as re-
' G 0un & Co.’s mercantile
<7. number for n ie United States,
Wweek" X °failure""* "' ? 8; 228 totnl the > 199 week - "g ainft previous. 175
New Y<,-i’ • <:ouse 9 uen ce occurred in
miiki.,, cit y and in the eastern and
-wla , -Sypa
*
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
; T1IE IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS
SECTIONS OE THE SOUTH.
•»t> Booming—New Railroads. n "'W*"* Ktc.
i A barrel factory is being erected by
Chicago parties at Chattanooga, Teun.
building Arrangements have been made for
a furniture factory at Florence,
Ala.
gaiKte S ct ^rX n f y aX“ jRff
Th r, ,ta V' n 'S*wr*
w | l J. e ‘^ se ^°'> Rt Greenville, Miss., is
wlGO,UOO.
Ga ™ er & Son, of Tampa, Fla., con-
template erecting a steam laundry at An-
niston, Ala.
The «3«>o, Rayides Compress L» orgooij Co., capital
.lock lu. «,
Alexandria, La.
wards the erection of fl. a S hotel receive,I to cost
$ 0 0,000, ut Americus, Ga.
* uju p, ld nrnr cre ^t ,f n a Taylor compress
Americus, ha. They will probably
erect 6everal other compresses.
Allen Fort has organized a company to
build a cotton factory at Americus, Ga.
The capital stock will be $100,000.
The mayor of Anniston, Ala., will re-
ceive bids for the erection of the city
hall. It is to be two stories, 120x120.
r ^ p ftmild u u a > nf 01 r«V» Helen, Hoi™ J? pi„ la., is * to
build a 9-story building on Decatur
street, Atlanta, Ga., to cost about 1150- ’
qqq
‘ ‘ le Montgomery ,. Iron Works, of
Montgomery, have contracted to furnish
mac hinerv for a 15-ton ice factorv tactory at at Lu-
iauia, Ala. Ale
A national bank with a capital of
$ SI00 100,000 000 nas has been oeen organized organized in m Anniston, Annkfm,
Ala., ana a aime savings bank, with a
capital of $30,000, has been formed.
Arrangements have been made for run¬
ning a regular line of steamers between
Brunswick, Ga., and European ports, to
commence on or before the 1 st of August.
Works are to be erected in Birming-
ham, Ala., to manufacture sad irons,
The capacity will be 10 tons daily. The
Last Birmingham Land Co., are later-
ested.
The Atlanta, Ga., Cotton Compress &
Warehouse Co. have changed their name
to the Atlanta Compress & Warehousing
Co., and have increased their capital to
$500,000.
The Catawba Falls Manufacturing &
Improvement Co., capital stock $200,000,
has been incorporated at Catawba, S. C.
The object of the company eventually is
to purchase the Catawba falls and build a
cotton factory.
A Western syndicate purchased recently
through a local real estate broker, thirty-
four thousand acres of timber in Escam¬
bia county, Ala. It is the intention of
the syndicate to commence at once the
erection of a large saw and planing mill.
RESTLESS INDIANS.
Tlie Ktowns eml Sioux on the Wnr Path.
Advices from Anadarko Indian agency,
in the vicinity of Fort Worth, are to the
effect that there has been great excite¬
ment there owing to the action of the
Iviowas. A band of them roamed over
the cattle country, visiting residences
and greatly frightened the women and
children. They made such
tions throughout the territory as to ter
r lize the children. Troops were at
once sent to regulate them aud went into
camp on the Wichita, eight miles from
the Indian position. They advanced to
tiie base of the mountain on the follow¬
ing night. After three days’ parley the
Indians agreed to give up the offending
Indians to the soldiers located near the
fort, where they could be watched. The
troops returned to Anadarko with the
prisoners. Indians, covered with paint
The war
and armed with Winchesters, mounted,
followed the troops. A company of the
latter, reinforced by a mob of Indians,
proceeded to carry out instructions. Half
Breed Gillam, a scout, fears trouble with
the Sioux, and reports them quietly leav¬
ing the Big Sioux reservation.
KIDNAPPING A SENATOR.
A Hold Plan (o Golibln t.earral Slnroni'i
Brother.
It has just .... leaked , out, . that *i,.,f a u party ,\artv nf or
kidnappers or outlaws, comprising much
of the dangerous elements ol Cuban ban-
ditti ol had arranged to capture Senator
John 11 Sherman oil his rtceut visit visit to to Cuba l/iiba.
The project only failed by a notice in
tune. The plot was well arranged, and
flw. the banditti band itti were w e iu sufli cent force to
capture bherman s party, but taey leit
tlie plantation intended ns the scene ol
the outriure just five minutes before the
outlaws outlaws atmeared appear It is thought ” the
of the plantation a party . to .
owner was
the scheme. While in Havana, Senator
Sherman took occasion to congratulate
the thp captain emtain general general on the peace 1 prevail- I
ing throughout the islands. W hen tbe
senator, however, plantation expressed in the a desire interior, to
visit the sugar
the the milita-v mnita.y guaiu guard was sent as an escort, >
and the entire party barely escaped an
unpleasant surprise.
FATAL CYCLONE IN VIRGINIA-
Koiiim Hlown Down and Keviwnl l.tvc*
East.
Monday night a cyclone visited Suffolk
Va., section with fatal and destructive
_ Its track was about one hundred
wfowide The house of John Wright,
'six miles north of Suffolk, on the Norfolk
an d Western railroad, was completely and
demolished. Wright and his wife
young sister and James Luke were in the
house at the time. Mrs. Wright and
Sir. Luke were killed, the young girl
fatally injured and Mr. Wright serious done to y
hurt. Much other damage was the cyclone.
property along the path of
fikb in MIDIH.ETOWN. ky
The business portion of north v Middle- win
town, Ky., was almost totally burnt:, ’ 1
lust Sunday. Loss |#6,000.
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. APRIL 28, 1887.
REV, DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE 8 SUN-
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “What Is ilie Morel Effect of St*
cret Societies t 9f
f “/Wsconer not a secret to
, n'Zr’ “Tu
j people suta^S^riJdfot'SworldTliere too much disposed , all
j P to tell theykraw
£«
j comosfrom no opacity the keep fact that so many people have
j to their mouths yoT^ut shut,
j u./fli^dirty what somebody L^t to ^ 8 1f°! you
, you lias said against you,
j and then go out and tell everybody else what
what SX.’Sw and tel ! Othe
story and others to hunt ;l £.“<&£ it down, s ,S o
a, we shall '!S get
there will bo 3 S*SJS
band Modoc* as many haS scalps 5® taken “ as B though
a of «
tillage* Wo have two ears but only one
ought tongue, to a hear physiological a good deal suggestion than that tell. wo
more we
that wi i* It 11
mlt‘be , suchawfu/need *.
of iU, and then there will
sermons on Solomon’s words: “Discover
not a secret to another ”
tions to^TrUer^ysTA^eryT^us^- about and 'polygamy,
his multitudinous monogamy associates and
iu the matrimo-
nial state kept him too weU informed as to
what was going On to Jerusalem. Theygath-
eredup all the privacies of the city and
i K ’ ur<( i them into his ear, ami his family be-
came 700, discussing a Horrisis, or female debating society of
ties between husbands day after day all the difficul
and wives, between
( ™I! ! °ye r s ami employes, between ruiei-s and
subjects, volubility until Solomon, in my text, deplores
about affairs that do not belong to
us and extols the virtue of secretivenesg.
, By P°"' 01 ' o£ a secret divulged families,
By ™ u the 5 ches, neighborhoods, of nations fly apart,
socialities, power reformatory a secret kept great chanties,
tian movements and Chris-
gregarious—cattle enterprises may in be advanced. Men are
birds in flocks, in herds, fish in schools,
men social circles. You
may Hock by of the quails, discharge of a gun scatter
the a anchor send or by the plunge of
apart the denizens of the
sea, but they will gather themselves together
again. It you, by some new power, could
break the associations in which men now
stand, it they would again adhere. God meant
shrubs so. He has gathered all the flowers and
into associations. You may plant one
forget-me-not or heart's-ease alone, awav off
upon the hillside, forget-me-not but it will soon hunt
up some other or heart’s-
ease. Plants love company. You will find
them talking to each other in the dew. A
galaxy of stars is only a mutual life insure
anee company. Y'ou sometimes see a man
with no out-branchings of sympathy. His
nature is cold and hard like a ship’s mast
ice-giazed, could which the most agile sailor
never climb. Others have a thousand
roots and a thousand branches. In-
numerable tendrils climb their hearts,
and blossom all the way up, and the fowls
of heaven sing in the branches. In eouse-
together quence of in this tribes, tendency in we find men coming
in societies. Some gather communities, together in churches,
to culti-
vate the arts, some to plan for the welfare of
the State, some to discuss religious themes,
some to kindle their mirth, some to advance
their craft. So every active community is
divided into associations of artists," of
merchants, of plasterers, bookbinders, of carpenters, of
inasons, of of shipwrights, of
plumbers. Do against you cry out against it? Then
you cry out a tendency divinely im-
ant-hill or bee-hive a long sermon against
secret societies.
Here we find the oft-discussed question
whether associations that do their work with
closed doors and admit their members by
passwords, and greet each other with a
secret grip are right or wrong. I answer
that object it depends which entirely they on the nature of the
for meet. Is it to pass
the hours in revelry^ talk, wassail, blasphemy
and obscene or to plot trouble
to the State, or to debauch the in-
noeent, then I say with an emphasis
that no man can mistake: No: But is the
object the defence of the rights of any class
against mind, the oppression, enlargement the of improvement the heart, of the
the ad-
vancement of art, the defense of the govern-
ment, the extirpation of crime or the kind-
ling with of just a pure-hearted much emphasis: sociality, Yes then I say,
as
There is no need that we who plan for the
conquestof world right.overwrong intentions. should General publish
te all the our The
of an army never sends to the opposing
troops information of the coming attack,
Shall we who have enlisted in the cause of
God and humanity No! expose our plans to
the enemvt we will in secret
plot Satan the ruin' and of his all' the enterprises
of cohoits. When
they expect us by day, we will fall upon thorn
by night. While they are strengthening
their left wing we will double up their right,
By a plan of battle f< rnrd in secret conclave
wo will come suddenly upon thorn crying:
“Tfco sword of the Lord and of Gideon.”
Secresy of plot the and object execution aro wrong
only nefarious. when Every family and ends are
is a secret
soctety, every business firm and every
banking and insurance institution. Those
men who have no capacity of to keep a
gewet a|v ur gj t f or positions trust any-
w |, ( ,,. e There are thousands of men whose
vital need is culturing much, a capacity and to keep too. a
secret. Men talk too women
There is a time to keep silence as well as a
tiniotospaak. Although not belonging to of the great
any has been
secret societies about which there
so much violent discussion, I Uave only words
of praise for those associations which have for
tll object the reclamation maintenance of of inebriates, right against
n-rong, or the or,
like the score of mutual benefit societies,
called by different names, that pro
vide temporary ‘ f. relief for widows and
h;uis a 1(1 f Q incapacitate! livelihood, by sick-
n ,, s , or accident from earning a
Hail ii, not been for tlie large number of
secret labor organizations in tins country
monopoly ',. would long ago have, under lU
l|i(J olls wheels g roU nd the laboring
( , iasses into au intolerable servitude
The men who want the whole earth
to themselves would have got itl*-
.. .. . . . n0 . lKH)I1 f or the
ten ,i inR Author of great deplore secret organiza things
tions. And while we many
that have been done bv them, their existence
is a necessity, and their legitimate sphere dis-
their association all members in favor or
anardiv and so dal chaos. tvramiy They will gradu
ally cease anything like over their
nuwnVrs and will forbid violent interference
with any man s work whether he belongs to
in FmrlMid bv the'Manchester Bricklayers’
Association Which says anv man found run-
Tiing slia’I or lie - fined rkin « ZSrSJlZrttk five shil-
Im. f thl , t | rsti offense, the
s for the S". O ld. ten shillings for |
hird and it still p irsjsting shall lx- dealt with
as the
Irf the (ire'-k re K nh.hab.-t „iL- for tto-ir the nomenclature, very front in
Abolarehiu^and j * i- ., rp
irreproachable in morals,
sfis? white thare ar- vst others the scone of carousal,
and they F ra “ ua ' Ajvjsa do of
tiroes s ' . mm oSer rhev geonie-:
toy-and.W^^uals, Xn words aearet so-
are good or boil, are 1
tt)8 nM ^, na 0 f moral health or of temporal an
eternal damnation. All good people reyig-
mze ttie vice of slandering nn individual, hut
many do not are the sin of slandering an or-
gu nzatnm.
I hero are old secret societ ies in this and
other countries, some of them centuries old,
winch have been widely denounced as im-
moral and damaging itl their Influence, vet t
have hundreds of personal friends who belong
to thonj. friends who are eonseeratel to
God, pillars, in the church, faithful
in all relations Of life, examples of
friends virtue and piety. They are tlio kind of
whom T would have for niv executors
if I am so happy os to leave nnytliing for mv
household at the time of decease, and they are
the men w hom T would have carry me oiit to
the last sleep when 1 am dead. You cannot
make nit believe that t hey would belong to
had institutions. They are the men who would
certainly stamp on everything ather take Iniquitous, their and I would
gard l testimony to re-
to such societies than the t< stiihony of
those who, having been sworn in as members,
bv their assault upon the society confess them-
selves perjurers. the One of thi*e secret so def ies
gave for relief of the sick in 1873. in this
Country, it,490.374. Some of these societies
have shine poured and Umediciion a very heaven of sun-
into the home
of suffering. Several of thorn are founded
on I have fidelity to good citizenship and the Bible.
They never taken one of their degrees,
might give me the grip a thousand
times, and T would not recognize it. I am
ignorant of their pass words, and I must
judge Christ entirely from the outside. But
lias given us a rule by
which we may .judge not only all individuals,
but societies, secret and open. “By their
fruits ye shall know them." Bad societies
make bad men. Good societies makegood
men. A bad man will not stay in n good so-
ciety. Then A good man will not stav in a bad so-
Piety. three try ~ all secret societies by two or
niles.
Test the first: Their influence on home, if
you have a home. That wife soon loses her
influence over her husband who nervously
and foolishly looks upon all evening absence
as an assau It on domesticity. How are the
great enterjirises beneficence of reform, public and art, and lit-
erature, and and weal to be
carried on if every man is to have his
w-crld bounded on one side by his front door-
dow, step, and knowing on the other side by hisbackwin-
attic, lower nothing than his higher than his own
or own cellar? That
wife who becomes jealous of her husband's
attention charity is to breaking art, or literature, her or religion, or
ju<ra! 'power. 1 know own sceptre where of con-
an instance a
wife thought that her husband was
giving too mauy night* to Chris-
flan service, to charitable service to
prayer-meetings, and to religious convoca- ! |
tion. She systematically decoyed him away
until now he attends no church, waits upon !
no charitable institution, and is on a rapid
way to destruction, his morals gone, his j
money gone, and I fear his sou! gone. Let j
any Christian wife rejoice when her husband ;
ity, consecrates evenings to the service of human- I
and of God, or charity, or art, or any-
thing elevating. I
no man life to secret
society life, as many do. I can point out to
you a great many names of men who are
guilty of this sacrilege. They are as genial
as Ugly angels at the society room, and as
all as sin at home. They are generous on
fast, subjects of wine suppers, yachts and
wives' horses, but they are stingy about the
dresses and the children’s shoes. That
man has made that which might be a health
fill infiuenoe, a usurper of his affections, and
lie has married it, and he is euiitv of moral
bigamy. Under this process, the wife, what-
ever her features, becomes uninteresti
and homely. He becomes critical
her, does not like the dress, does
not like the wav she arranges
her hair, is amazed that hi e ever was so un-
romantic as to offer her hand and heart.
There are secret societies where membership
always involves domestic shipwreck. Tell
me that a man has joined a certain kind, and
tell me nothing more about him for tan years,
and I will write his history if he be still alive.
The man is a wine guzzler, his wife
broken-hearted or prematurely old, his
fortune gone or reduced, and his
home a mere name in a directory.
Here are six secular night* in the week.
nights to the improvement and entertainment
of my family, either at home or in good
neighborhood. I will devote one to chart-
table institutions. I will devote one to my
lodge.” 1
congratulate ‘‘Out you. Here is a man who
says: of the six secular nights of the
week l will devote five to lodges and clubs
a 111 * associations and one to the home, which j
night I will spend in scowling like a March
squall, have wishing I was out spending it as I
spent the other five nights. ” That man’s
fbnt obituary is written. Not one out of 10,(XX) j
ever gets so far on the wrong will road
ey er stops. Gradually his health fail !
stimulants through late hours, mid through too much
he will be first-rate prey for ery-
sipelas doctor and rheumatism of the heart. The
coming in will at a glance see it is not
onl y present disease lie must fight, but
years the sake of fast ot living. tlie The feelings clergyman, of the for
family, ^ligious on gwieralities the funeral day The will men only who got talk his in j '
obsequies. yacht in the They eternal have rapids will not be at the J
that They will pressing engagements
day. send flowers to the coffin,
will send their wives to utter words of sym-
pathy, where but They they will have engagements Bring else- [
never come. me mallet
and chisel, and I will cut on the tombstone I
that who die man's in the epitaph: Lord.” “ “ Blessed No," are the “that dead j I
appropriate." you Let say,
would not be “ me die the
'hath of the righteous and let. my last end be
like his. No, you say, that would not
be appropriate." Then give me the mallet
and the chisel and I will cut an honest epi-
toph: associations.” “Here lies the victim of dissipating
Another test by which you can find whether
your effect secret has society is right secular or wrong is the
it upon your occupation. I
can understand howthroughsuchaninstitu-
tion a man can reach commercial success. I
know some men have formed their best busi-
ness relations through such a channel. If the
orable secret society calling lias it advantaged good you in an hon- But
is a one.
ka* your credit failed? Aro bargain makers
more anxious how they trust you with a bale
of goods? Have the men whose name were
down in the commercial agency A 1, before
they entered the society, been going down
since in commercial standing? Thenlookout.
You and I every day know of commercial
establishments going to rum through the
social excesses of one or two members, their
fortune beaten to death with ball player’s
bat. or cut amidships with the prow r.f tlie
regatta, or going down under the swift hoofs
ofthcfarthorses.ordrownedinthelargepo- Monongalieto^ That
tations of Cognac or so
cret society was the Loch Earn. The business
was the Ville de Havre. They struck and the
Ville de Havre went under! ’
whether soiety which you msy belong
the to you is
good or l«d is this: What is its effect on your
* n» of moral and religious obligation? all Now,
if I should take the names of the people in
this audience this morning o^ and put them
jS. “f thlT ^d*^
hundred yeare from now some one should
taxe that roll and call it from A to Z there
would not one of you answer. I say that any
society that makes me forget that fact is a
bud society. YV hen I go to Chicago I am
I suppose
many travellers are, as to whether it is
better better to to take take tho the Lake Lake Shore Shore route route
or or the the Michigan Michigan Central, Cenfatil, equally equally their expeditious expeditious destination
and rlhett equally ^. safe, getting Ke BSt'*np^ to r th2?nSS that I hear
that on one route the track is tom torn up, up, the the
bridges are down and the switches are un-
locked, it will not take me a great while to
f^the 0 ^ S
the un-Christian, the safe and the unsafe. Any
institution or any association that confuses
my ideas in iegarel to that fact is a laid insti-
tution and a l*d asso lation. I had prayers
fore 1 comiectcd myself with that union, do I
absent myself from religious influences?
Which would you rather have in your
, " car ^ i 1 "’ or v Which* wosOd
you closing rntlicr moment—the have pr(*sod to of vour lips in the
cup Hclehnzzarean
wassail or the chalice of .Christian oommun-
ion? Who would you rather have for your
pall-liearers-the ofders ol a Christian church,
or the companions whose conversation was
full of slang mid innuendo? Who would you
rather have for your etenialcompaniona-
those men wlio siieinl their evenings
betting, gambling, swearing. carousing
and telling vile stories, or your little
child, that bright girl whom tlie
Lord took? Oh, you would not have been
away so much nights, would you, if you had
known she was going away so soon? Dear
me. your house has never been the same place
since. Your wife has never brightened up.
she has never got over it. She never will get
over it How long the evenings are with no
one the to put to bod, llible and no one to whom to
hdl beautiful stories,
What a pity it is that you cannot sjiend
more evenings at homo in trying to help her
bear that sorrow. You can never drown that
grief in the wine cup. You can never break
away from the little arms thut, used to be
flung around your neck when she used tosay:
“Papa, do stay with me to-night. Do stay
with me to-night." Y ou will never be able to
wipe away from your lips the dying kiss of
your little girl. The fascination of a bad se-
cret society is so great that sometimes a man
has turned his back on his home wdien his
child was dying of scarlet fever. Ho went
away. Before Tie got t>aok at midnight
eyes had been dosed, the the undertaker
had done his work, and wife,
worn out with three weeks’ watching, lavun-
conscious in the next room. Then the re¬
turned father comes upstairs, and he sees the
cradle gone nnd the windows up, and says:
“ What if the matterf" On the
Day ho will find out what was the matter,
Oh, man astray .God help you! I am
ma a very stout rope. \ ou know
sometimes . ropemaker will take small
a very
ttirf I ni ls and wind them together until
a while , they become ship cable. And I
going to take some very small delicate
and them to £ et “ er until th *7 niak « a
very stout rope. I will 1 take , all the memories
of thread the marriage light, day—a thread thread of laughter, thread
a of a of music, a
of banqueting.!! thread of congratulation,and
I twist them together and I have one strand.
Then I take a thread of the hour of the
advent in your house,a thread of the darkne*
that preceded, and thread and u thread of the of the light that fol¬
lowed; a beaut Ifni scarf
little child used to wear when she
out at eventide to greet you; and then
thread of the beautiful dross in which you
laid her away for the resu erection; and then
I twist all there threads together, and I have
another strand. Then I take a thread of
the BCarlet robe of the suffering Christ.
an<£ a thread of the white raiment
o£ y° ur loved ones before the throne, and a
string of the harp cherubic, and a string of
the £ harp £ have seraphic,and third strand. Itwist them “Oh,” altogether,
an ! a you say.
“either strand is enough to hold fasta world.”
No: I will take these strands and I will twist
them together, and one end of that rope
I w iH fasten, not to the communion
table, for it shall be removed; not to a pillar
of the organ, for that will crumble in the
a £ f ‘ s ? but i wind it round and round the
cross fastened of a sympathizing end of the Christ, and, having
one rope to the cross, I
throw the other end to you. Lay hold of itl
1 ull for your life I Pull for Heaven!
LATEST NEWS.
The Pope lias sent confidential notes to
the French aud German governments of-
fering to act as mediator in the Schnae-
blea affair.
Conies P ‘ of the French n “Vie Vle Parisienne” * ®
. been confiscated . Berlin
uave in on ac-
count Pm , n t nf 01 nn an illustrated illustrated article article ridienlintr ridiculing
the German imperial family,
i he silversmiths employed at the Gor-
ham Manufacturing * compauv t J works at
Providence, R. I., have voted to disband
*• ••«**<—»** k-w*** °< ***«•
Arrumremeuts ° are being made to
. “Old , , meeting Victoria , . park, ,
a mass in
London ’ Eng on May / 21 ’ to protest v
against . the bill. thirteen . Irish .
crimes
constables, ’ who have recently J resigned, ° ’
have sailed . for America, .
John W. Franklin, who ran for mayor
once on the labor ticket, summoned sev¬
eral members of the Bricklayers’ union
to the New York police court, charging
them with conspiring to deprive him of
work and to prevent him from earning a
living.
A dispute has arisen between the Bcl-
, government and the Vatican, . which
““a*
threatens to lead to serious trouble. The
■
Belgian , cabinet wanted the Vatican to
in m8trucl S t r „et f'athnliea 1 at " oUCS t0 »,. vote vi.io fnr ,or the tn nrmv ar,n v
-
bill, which makes religious students liable
, t0 mllltar military y service service. The 1 tie Vatican Vatican natiy flatlv
refused to do so.
A great j meeting was held in BlackneaU
Common, ’ London, > England o to protest *
against , the coercion bill. Fully 10,000 /, „„„
persons npr - on , were w ..,.„ present, c,. bcvcral vprH i members members
of parliament were in attendance. Heso-
lutions denouncing b coercion were adopted
by an almost unanimous vote.
In the enforcement of the excise law,
in New York City, the police prevented
the sales of liquors in all the leading
hotel bar-rooms and cafes, ns well as in
the less important saloons and restaurants
on Sunday. Among the places where the
law was observed to its full extent were
Delmonico’s, Fifth Avenue hotel and the
Hoffman house, the Astor house and
other prominent hostleries.
Patrick H. Hcnnessy, a prominent and
former wealthy merchant of GalvestoD,
Texas acted as sergeant-at-arms of the
state senate which adjourned April 4.
He was dismissed, charged with forging
sundry vouchers, He was indicted by
the grand jury and convicted in the dis¬
trict court, and was sentenced to ‘.wo
years’ imprisonment. When the verdict
was read, Hennessy threwup his hands and
fainted.
DROPPED THE BOODLE
............- -.
A repentant thief dropped his boodle
j n 8 Philadelphia, Pa., confessional re-
<*«}?■ / mysterious stranger entered
Bt. John s Roman Catholic church, going
into Father D. L. Broughal s confession-
a p an( j told a tale wliic'.i the priest, nat
"ally, will not divulge. But when the
repentant sinner toftthe church thirteen
pieces of rich silverware, which, as the
stranger told the priest, found had been in miss-
j n( r for five years, were a corner
*. »#*.
are a teapot marked “I. B. IS . two
l ar £ Je spoons 4 marked “B.. ’’ a butt, r-knife
m) ke -Carrie,’ and a number of other
articles similarly engraved.
TEMPERANCE.
Strength, Beauty and Gladness.
Oh I do we wish for txsauty? bloom?
What makes the flowers
What sprinkles all their loveliness
With varied sweet perfume/ evening’s close,
The dew that creeps at
The pearly raiiHlropw bring
The perfume and the beauty spring.
That glad the bowers of
is strength the gift we long for?
What roars the proud oak’s form,
Whose brawny arms brave sturdily
The tempest and the storm?
He quail's the pure, fresh moisture
By rootk't and bv leaf,
Amt stands up in his greatness,
That stout old forest chief.
Oh! do we wish for g lad ness ?
What makes the w Lid birds sing?
Their drink is but tbe running brook,
The flower-clad cry stud spring.
Then do we wish for beauty,
That mirth and strength be ours?
Our drink should be the heaven sent drink
Of birds, and trees, and flowers.
—Q. Lawso n.
Dangers of Alcohol.
In a recent lecture before his class, Dr.
William Tod Hclmuth, of New York,
said: Now shall I tfll you what, id* my
opinion,has blighted more brilliant minds
in the profession than anything else?
What has wrecked the high hopes and
noble aspirations of hundreds of bright
men, such as you are ? It is alcohol! I need
not enter here upon t he physiological ques¬
tion as to action of alcohol as food or in
disease. In my opinion, especially in
surgical practice, it is necessary; what
I refer to now is the use of alcohol as a
beverage, as a stimulant taken by healthy
young men to excite their nervous
systems. Let me illustrate this to the
point. Every mau nnd woman in this
assemblage I am sure knows of some
friend, some relative, some one perhaps
near and dear to them, whose lives have
been samticed to alcohol. Fix such an
one in your mind and ask yourselves the
question, what was the character and
temperament of that man? Was he a
fool, a dunce, a man whose mind worked
slowly, whose perceptions were obtuse,
whose intellect was plodding, whose
affections were cold? Oh, no! It was
the bright boy, the loving lad, the youth
at the head of bis class, the boy who loved
his mother, whose capacities of mind
were large, whose heart was big, whose
aspirations were high, the idol of his
household, the admiration of his friends
—who allowed this monster to take out of
him all that was good and honest and true
and noble and brave in life’s battle; that
smothered his morality, killed his mind,
diseased his body and sent him, perhaps
disgraced, to a premature grave, or, what
is ten thousand times more deplorable,
made him an outcast and u wanderer on
the face of the earth.
There is a predisposition, and perhaps
an hereditary tendency to alcoholism,that
renders alcohol dangerous to tempera¬
ments such as I have described, and when
we remember that nearly eight-tenths of
all the crimes that are committed in this
country can be attributed either directly
or indirectly to strong drink, and when
you are made aware of the seductive na¬
ture of the habit, you will sec that to
some alcohol is the rankest of all poisons,
the very bane of existence, the smotherer
of all nmnly sentiment, the desolalor of
home, the ruiner of reputation, the father
of poverty and shame, u disease-producer
and a soul-destroyer. Auil you will agree
with me when I say to y??tt that such ab¬
stinence is far easier than temperance—
the former being possible, the latter alto¬
gether impossible. If you desire any
proof of such assertions, look around this
great city to-day and you will find con¬
clusive evidence of every word 1 speak.
Uqnor Drinking' in France.
The French Academy of Medicine has
lately rounded au alarm concerning the
prevalence of alcoholism ns a public
danger in that country. The Govern¬
ment is urged to take strong measures to
prohibit artificially alcoholized wines, to
reduce the number of taverns and wine¬
shops, and to strictly enforce the laws
for the repression of drunkenness.
An official voice of this fciud from a
scientific body of so influential a
character is in itself striking testimony
that, though France is a wine country,
the “wine cure” for drunkenness, which
America is from time to time urged to
adopt, is a signal and disastrous failure.
The free use of wiue in France has but
prepared the way for a largely-increased
consumption of the stronger liquor*.
—National Adeocate.
Temperance Notea
Twelve hundred of the dram shops of
Holland have been abolished by law.
A veteran politician gfvw this advice to
young men: “Don’t drink and lon’t go
into politics. Neither has done me any
harm, but while I have escaped, hun¬
dreds have been ruined by them."
Queen Victoria has expressed much
pleasure in receiving a Woman’s National
Jubilee Memorial from the Liverpool
Ladies’ Temperance Association, request-
ing her Majesty to use her influence for
enforcing a bill for Sunday closing of
P bH “ n h ° U8e8 -
When the Maori King of New Zealand
wa8 j n England 6 he promised ^ the friends
of temperance that he would, upon hi*
return, cast _. in his influence against the
.».* ***. »,
kept his promise so well that 11,559 of
his people have become teetotallers, aud
now wear the blue ribbon.
VOL. II. NO. 31.
The Pearl of Peace,
A bivalve feeding in the warm salt tea eandy j
Draws inward with the wave a
grain.
Which, not returning with the ware
again, grief ba
Remains henceforth its secret to
Day after day, the aoa- wise folk agree,
The creature hides it in a dew-like rain
Of ceaseless tears, till, hardened oat of
. pain,
A precious ; earl is fashioned perfectly.
From outer seas of passion, was of strife,
There drifta at times upon the human
heart
A secret rankling grief that day by day
We cover with the bitter tears of life,
Till wrought of pain, from out our noblar
part
The [iearl of peace remains with as always.
-[W. W. Martin
HUMOROUS.
The stenographer thinks that talk
will never be cheap.
The tail of a fox is called a brush, but
that doesn’t, make a rabbit’s tall
hare brush.
The Cardiff giant is stored away in •
garret of a house in Texas. Ho has been
at last pronounced stone dead.
In murder cases whore there is dangw
of hanging the prisoner the de¬
fense makes every eft art to hang the
jury.
“I have a theory about the dead lan¬
guages,” remarked a freshman. ”1
think they were killed by being studied
too hard. ”
It is stated that a powder company in
New York has stopped business,but it is
nothing new to hear of a powder mill
“going up.”
When a man boasts that ho mores in
the best of society, it may not be im¬
pertinent to suggest that it is probably
because he is not permitted ?o stay in it.
“I have such an indulgent husband,"
said little Mrs. Doll. “Yes, so George
says,” responded Mrs. Spiteful, quietly;
“sometimes he indulges too much,
doesn’t he?” They no longer speak to
each other.
A correspondent thinks that there is
something in the American air that
inclines people to chew. Men chew to¬
bacco and women chew gum. It is
probably because America is a free
country, where people do pretty much
as they chews.
Rannlng a Mile on tbe Ties.
"Talking about peculiar railway ac¬
cidents,” said a freight conductor on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, "let
me tell you of a queer one wo had a few
weeks ago up near Lanark. It was just
about three tniles east of that station that
our caboose jumped the track and began
bumping on the ties. We had a long
train ahead, and were just going into the
valley, running at a lively rate, and it
took a long time to stop the train. My
brakeman got scared the first thing and
juin|)ed, while I went ahead and began
setting brakes, and trying to attract the
attention of the engineer und of tlio head
ljirakeman, who was in the engine cab.
We had several passengers in the ca¬
boose, one a man with a little boy, and
they were were afraid to jump. The
caboose bumped and rattled along on the
ties fully a mile. In going that dis¬
tance we passed over one high embank¬
ment and across one short bridge. The
caboose clung to the ties all the way,
though sometimes, as we afterward saw,
the wheels were within an inch of the
end of the sleepers on one side or the
other, and thereby saved the lives of the
passengers, The man who had the little
boy with him was almost in a faint when
we finally brought the train to a stand¬
still, and no wonder, for it must have
been a frightful experience.—[Chicago
Herald.
Their Names in the Papers.
“Time after time havo I heard
that old chestnut ‘Don’t put my name
in the papers,’ ” said a reporter the other
day, and “an experience Iliad of another
kind was refreshing. I was reportings
large meeting of an association, and
teeing a lady with whom I was ac¬
quainted and who was a leading mem¬
ber of the association, I approached
her and asked if she would give me the
names of a few of the most prominent
persons on the stage. She scanned the
group thereon seated, and replied
quickly: ‘There’s pa!’ and I put his
name down. It reminds me of another
incident. I was reporting a struggle
over a will, and I asked one of the con- 1
testants her name. She replied, ‘Don’t
put my name in the paper, please. My
name is Mary Ann Smith; but if you’d
put It in, do you think it will get in all
the papers?’ she added, sweetly.’’—Phil¬
adelphia Call.
An A musing Mistake.
A very amusing mistako recently oc¬
curred in one of tho public schools. The
reading class was up, and a bright little
fellow was reading away with decided
vim. The teacher was listening with
admiration, but presently was startled
when she heard : "And he garnished hie
teeth with rags.” "What’s that? What
did you say?” she quickly asked. The
answer came in childlike simplicity:
“He garnished his teeth with rags.” The
teacher could not refrain from laughing
outrig t wheu she saw how her pupil
had distorted the sentence, “lie gnashed
hi* teeth with rage.”—[Richmond State,