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©lie' JJloittgomerji Monitor.
D. 0, SUTTON, Editor and Prop'r.
DR. TALMAGES’ SERMON.
'‘MONOPOLY AND COMMUNISM
STRUGGLING FOR THE POS
SESSION OF THIS COUNTRY. ’
Text: “Tho Lord delighteth in thee and
tliy land shall be married.”—-Isaiah, lxii, 4.
As the greater includes the less, so does
the circle of future joy around our entire
world include the epicycle of our own repub
lic. Bold, cxhilarant, unique, divine im
agery of the text. So many are depressed
by tne labor agitation and think everything
in this country is going to pieces, I preach
this morning a sermon of good cheer and
anticipate the time when tho Prince of Pea o
and tho Heir of Universal Dominion shall
t ike possession of this nation and “thy land
shall he married.”
In discussing the final destiny of this na
tion it makes all tho difference in the world
whether we are on tho way to a funci al or a
wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this
subject. In pulpits and on nlatforms and in
places of public concourse, I hear so many of
th ? muifled drums of evil prophesy sounded,
a- though we were on t lie way to national
interment, and beside Thebes, and Babylon
and Tyre in tho cemetery of dead nations
our repub!i • was to be entombed, that I wish
you to understand it is notto be obsequies,but
nuptials; not n ausoleum, but carpeted altar;
not cypress, but orauge blossoms; not re
quiem, but wedding march, for “thy land
snail be married.” I propose to name some
of the suitors who are claiming tho haml of
this republic. This laud is so fair, so beauti
ful, so affluent, that it has many suitors, aud
it will depend much upon your advice
whether this or that shall bo accepted or re
jected.
In the first place I remark: There is a
greedy, all-?rasping monster who comes in
as suitor seeking the hand of this republic,
and that monster is known by the name of
monopoly. His sceptre is made out of the iron
of the rail tra k and tho wire of telegraphy.
He dees everything for his own advantage
mid for tho robbery of the people. Things
have gone cn from bad to worse, until in tho
three Legislatures of New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, for the most part,
monopoly decides everything. If monopoly
favors a law it passes; if monopoly opposes a
law it is rejected.
Monopoly stands in the railroad depot put
ting into his pockets in one year two hundred
mil lie ns of dollars in excess of all reasonable
charges for service. Monopoly holds in this
one hand the sto im p.nver of locomotion, and
in the other the electricity of swift commu
nication. Mon ply decides nominations
a d election—-city elections, State elections,
national elections. With bribe > he secures
the votes of legislators; giving them free
passes, giving appointments to needy reJa
ti\ to lucrative positions, employing them
as attorneys if they are lawyers, carrying
their goods fifto m per cent, less if they are
merchants, and if he finds a case very stub
born, as well as very important, puts
dow n before him tho hard cash of bribery.
But monopoly is not so easily caught now
os when,dm ing the term of Mr. Buchanan,
the legislative Committee in one of our
States exp’ored and exposed the manner in
which a c trtain railway company procured
a donation of public land. It was found out
that thirteen of tho Senators from that State
received $175,000 among them. Sixty mem
bei*s of the) lower house of that State re
ceived $5,0 >0 and SIO,OOO each. The Gov
ernor of the State received $50,000, his clerk
received $5.0 >O, the Lieutenant-Governor re
ceive 1 SIO,OOO, all the clerks of the Legisla
ture received $5,000 each, $50,000
were divided amid tho lobby agents.
That thing on a larger or smaller
scale is all the time goiDg on in
some of the States of the Union, but it is not
so blundering as it used to be, and therefore
not so easily exposed or arrested. I tell you
that the overshadowing curse of the United
States to-day is Monopoly. Ho puts his
hand upon every bushel of wheat, upon
every sick of salt, upon every ton of coal,
and every man, woman and child in the Uni
ted States feels the touch of that moneyed
despotism. I rejoice that in twenty-four
States of the 1 uion already anti-monopoly
leagues have been established. Clod speed
them in the work of liberation. 1 wish that
this rue Uion might bo the question of our
rresid ntial elec!ions, and that we compel
the political parties to recognizo it on their
platforms.
I have nothing to say arainst capitalists.
A man has a right to all the money he can
make honestly. There is not a laborer in the
laud that would not be worth a million dol
lars if he could. I have nothing to say agairst
corporations as such; with mt the n, no great
enterp ise would be possible. But what Ido
say is that the same principles should be ap
plied to cap tal.sts and to corporations that
aiv applied to the poorest man and the plain
est laborer. What is wrong for mo is wrong
for great corporations. If I take from you
your property without any adequate coin
pen-a tion 1 am a thief, and if a railway
damages the property of the people without
making any adequate compensation, that is
a gigantic thief. What is wrong on asn a'l
scale is wrong on a larges*-ale. Monopoly in
England has ground hundreds of thousands
of her hot people into semi-starvation, ami
in Ireland has driven multitudinous tenants
almost to madness.
Five hundred acres in this country make
an immense farm. When you real that in
Dakota Territory Mr. Cass has a farm of
15,000 a res and Mr. Grandon 25,000 acres
and Mr.Jlarymple 40,000 acres, your eye i
dilate, even though these farms are in great
regions thinly inhabited. But what do you
think of this which I take from the Dooms
day Book, showing what monopoly is on the
other side the *ea. I give it as a warning of
what it would do on this side the sea if in
EO.no lawful way the tendency is not re
sisted. In Beotian IJ.G. M. Heddle owns
50,400 acres; Far! o s Weniy**, 52,003 aor s;
Sir J. Riddell. 54,500 acres; Sir C. W.
A. Tb«s, 55,00') acres; E. H. Scott,
59,700 a'res; Mr. J. Baird. GO, OOO acres:
Sir J. Ramsvlrn, 00,000 acres: Earl of
Dunmore, 00 030 acres: Duke of Hoxburgbe,
Co,obo a*JG;: Farl of Moray, 61,700 acres;
Countess of Home, 62,000 acres; Lord Mid
dleton, 63,000 acres: Karl of Aberdeen, 63.-
503 acres; Mackenzie of Dundonnell, 63,000
acre-; Mr. J. J. H. Johnston, 63,000 acres;
Eart of Airlie 65,00) acres; Sir J. Colquboun,
67,000 acres; C. Morris on, 67/100 acres: Duke
of M< ntrose, 68,000 acres; Meyrick Bankcs,
70,0. acres: Grant of Glenmorriston, 74/ <K*
acres: Marquis of Ail-a. 76.000 acres; Bar
oness Willougby d'Kresby, 76.000 acres: Mr.
J. Mai olm, *o.ui>o
80,0uu a res: Balfour of Whittinghamc. M,*
000 acres; Sir J. O. Orde, B!,(#*> a r -s: Mar
quis of Bute, 93,0 0 acres The Chisholm,
94,500 acres: Mr. E. Ellice, 9.3,500
Sir G. M. Grant, 10:1.600 a res;
Duko of Portland. 106.003 acr-js;
Cameron of L chiel, 109.503 acres;
Sir C. W. Ross, 110,4X1 acres; Earl of Fife,
113/00: The Ma kiutosh, 124/:o) wren: Lord
Macdonald, 136.000 acies: Karl of Dalhousie.
136,000 a**res; MaJeod, of
Sir E. Ma kenziV. of Gairlock, 164,-
<ißo Duke of Argyle, 175/XX) acrea:
Duke of Hamilton, 183,030 acres: Duke of
AthoTo, 194,000 a'Te-?; Duke of Richmond,
255/X33 acres: Karl of Stair, 270,0j 0
Mr. Evan Baiiiie, 30\000 m*res; Earl« f Fea
field, 306,000 acres: Duke of
183 acres: Earl of Brea/albane. 4:77/>.*♦. a'-r-s;
Mr. A. Matheson, 220,433 acres*. and Sir J.
Mathcson, 406,070 acres; Duchess of Bother-
Mm). 1 aero.;, nnl Pu!:e of Sutberlau.l.
' 1,1.0 >V> acres
Such monopolies imply an inlinitc acreage
of wnt ho.'ii ' -s. Tluro is no povorti in tin*
Unit <1 State* like tlrnt in England, Irelaud
nud Scotli'mi for the simple reason that in
those lamls monopoly liu* had longer and
I la get* swr.y. l.ast sunnier ill Edinburg:*,
Scotland, after i reaching in Synod Hull. I
stool on a (lia r in front of tho hall an I
! proa bed to ni audience of 20,0;H) people,
j standing in one of tho mo t prosperous par 1 f
! of the city, and r. aching out toward the cas
tle as fine an array of strength an! h'alth
an 11 eauty ns one ever sees. Tnreo hour
after 1 i reached t * tho wretched inhab tatits
of the Cowgate an 1 Ca'inongnt - the midion «
! exhibiting the squalor aud stckliness and de
spair (hat remains in one's mind like ouo ol
tho visions of Haute's Inferno.
Groat monopolies in anv laud imply great
privation. Tie time will come when our
government will have to limit the amount
I of Accumulation of property. Unoonstitu
t.i.nal d > you say? Then constitutions will
l have to 1 o changed until they allow such
j limitnt on. Otherwise the work of absorption
will t o on and the large lishes will oat up tho
small fishes, anti .the shad will swallow tho
minnows and the porpoises swallow the shad
nrd the whales swallow the porpoises, an a
thousand greedy men will own all the wo '4
and rOh of these will eat up the other 500 an
one hundred cat up the oth-r -400, and llnnlli
there will ho only 50 left, and then 40 an *
then M 0 and then MO nud then 10 aud then two
an d then one.
But would a law of limitation of wealth bo
unrighteous? If I dig so near my neighbor’s
foundation, in order to build my house, that
I endanger his, the law grabs mo. If I have
a tannery or chemical factory the malodors
of which injure residents in the neighbor
hood, the law says: “Stop that.” If I drain
off a river from its bed nnd divert it to turn
my mill-wheel, leaving the bed of the river a
breeding place for malaria, tho law says:
“Quit that outrage!” And has not a
government a right to say that a few
men shall uot gorge themselves oa the
comfort nnd health and life of generations?
Your rights end where my rights begin.
Monopoly—brazen-faced,iron-fingered, and
vulture-hearted, monopoly—offers his hand
to this Republic, He stretches it out over
the lakes and up the Pennsylvania and tho
Eric and tho Now York Central Railroads,
and over tin* telegraph polos of the continent
and says: “Here is my heart and hand; be
mine forever.” I.et the millions of the peo
ple, North, South, East and West forbid
tho banns of that marriage, forbid them at
the ballot box, forbid them on the platform,
forbid them by great organizations, forbid
them by the overwhelming sentiment of nn
outraged nation, forbid them by the protest
of the church of Goil, forbid them by prayers
to high heaven. That Herod shall not havo
this Abigail. It shall not be to all devouring
monopoly that this land i * to bo married.
Another suitor claiming tho hand of this
Republic is Nihilism. He owns nothing but
a knife for universal blood-letting nnd a
nitio-glvcerino bomb for universal oxplo
s on. Ho lo’ievcs in no God,no government,
no heaven, nnd no hell except what ha can
mnko on earth! He slew tho Czar of Russia,
keens Emperor William, of Germany, prac
tically imprisoned, kille-l Abraham Lincoln,
would put to death every King and President
on earth, and if he liad the power would
climb up until he could drive the God of
heaven from his throne and take
it liimseif, tho universal butcher.
In France it is called Communism; in the
United States it is called Socialism; in
Russia it is called Nihilism, but that last is
the most graphic and descriptive term. It
means complete and eternal smash up. It
wou'd make the holding of property a crime
and it would havo a dagger through your
heart and a torch to your dwelling and turn
over this whole land into the possession of
tlrdt and lust and rapine and murder.
Where does this monster live? In Bt. Louis,
in Chicago, in Brooklyn, in New York, anil
in all the cities and villages of this land. Tho
devil of destruction is an old devil, and ho is
to be seen at every great fire where there is
anything to steal, and at every shipwreck
where there is anything valuablo Heating
ashore, and at every railroad accident where
there are overcoats and watches to be pur
loined. On a small scale I saw it in my col
lege days, when, in our literary soci
ety in New York University, wo had
an exquisite and costly bust of
(Shakespeare, and one morning we
found a hole bored iiTto the lips of tho marble
an 1 a cigar inserted. There has not for the
last century bee i a fine picture in your art
gallery or a graceful statue in your parks or
a fine fresco on your wall or a richly bound
album in your library but would have boon
despoiled if the hand of ruffian sm could have
got at it without peril of incarceration. Some
times the evil spirit shows itself by throwing
vitriol into a beautiful face, sometimes by
wilfully scaring a horse with a velocipede,
sometimes by crashing its < artwlieel against
; a carriage.
Tho philosophy of the whole business is
that there is a large number of people who,
] either through their laziness or their crime.
own nothing, and nro mad at those who
j through industry and wit of their own or of
j their ancestors are in possessions of largo re
sources. The honest laboring classes nevir
i ha l anything to do with such murderous en
: terprises. It is the villainous classes who
j would not xvork if they had plentv of
J work offered them at large wages. Many
| of these suppose Ihat by the dornoli
| tion of law " aud order they would bo
advantaged and the parting of the ship of
state would allow them as wreckers to carry
off some of the cargo. It offers its hand to
this fair republic. It proposes to tear to
pieces tho ballot box. tho Legislative hall,the
Congressional assembly. It would take this
land and divide it up, or rather, divide it
down. It would give as much to the idler as
; to the worker, to the bad as to the good. Ni
| hi ism—-this panther—having prowled across
other lands has set its paws on our soil, and
it is only waiting for the time in which to
| spiring upon its prey. It was Nihilism that
massacred the heroic policemen of Chicago
and St. Ixniis a few days ago nnd that
burne 1 the railroad property at Pittsburg
during the great riots; it was Nihilism that
slew black people in our Northern cities dur
ing the war; it was Nihilism that again and
again in Han Francisco aud New York
mauled to death the Chinese; it is Nihilism
tint glares out of the windows of tho drunk
. cries upon sober people as they go by. Ah!
its power has never yet been urea. It would,
if it had the power, have every church,
chapel, cathedral, school hot s, college and
home in ashes.
Let me say it is the worst enemy of the
laboring classes in any country. The honest
cry for reform lifted by oppressed laboring
men is drowned out by the vociferations for
anarchy. The criminals and the vagabonds
who range through our cities talking about
their rights when their first right is the peni
tentiary—if they could lie hushed up, and
the downtrodden laboring men of this
country could be heard, there would
bo more bread for hungry children.
In this land riot and bloodshed never gained
any wages for the pieople, or gathered up any
prosperity. In this lan 1 the best weapon is
not the club, not the shillelah, not fire arms,
but the ballot. Let not our oppressed labor
ing men be beguiled into coming under the
bloody banner of Nihilism. It will make
your taxes heavier, your wages smaller,
your table scantier, your children hun
grier,your suffering greater. Yet this Nihil
ism. v ir v feet red with slaughter, comes forth
and off rsitshand for this repiublic. Bhall
Lie banns be p roclaimed) If so, where shall
the marriage altar be; And who will be the
officiating priest? A-nd what will be the
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music? That altar will Hive to be whlta
with bleavhed skulls, the music must lie tho
smothered groans of imiltitu linous victims,
tho garlands must bo twisted of nightshade,
the fruits must be apples of Sodom, the wine
must be the blood of St*. Bartholomew 1 s nias
sacre. No! R is not to Nihilism, the snn
guinital monster, that this land is to be mar*
no
Another suitor for tho hand of this nation
is infidelity. Mark you that all anarchist*
arc infidels. Not one of them believe* in the
Bible,anil very rarely any of them believe in
aGo I. Their most conspicuous leader was
Ihe other day pulled by tuo log from und r
a bed :n a liou*o of infamy, cursing an 1 blas
pheming. The police of Chicago, explor ng
Hit* dens (*f the Anarchists, found dynamite
nml vitriol and Tom Paine’s Age ot Reason
ami obs eue pictures and complimentary
biogi aphies of thugs anil assassins, but not
one t 'stamout, not one of IV esley s hymn
books, uot one Roman Catholic breviary.
There are two wings to Infidelity. The one
calls itself liberalism and appears in highly
lit *rary magazines nnd is for the educated and
retinol. The other wing is in the form of
anarchy and is for the vulgar. But both
wings belong to the same old filthy vulture.
Infidelity! Elegant infidelity proposes tc
conquer this land to itself by tho ixm. An
arch" piropjses to conquer it by bludgeon
and torch. , „ . ..
When the midnight ruffians despoiled tin
grave of A. T. Stewart in St. Mark’s church
yard everybody was shocked But infidelity
proposes something worse than that -the rob
bing of all the graves of Christendom of tli<
hone of a resurrection. It proposes to chise
out from the tomb .tones o. your Christian
dead the words “Asleep in.lpsus” and to sub
stituto the words “Obliteration, annihil i
tion.” Infidelity proposos to take the letter
from the world’s Father inviting tho nations
to virtue nnd happiness, nnd tear it uo into
fragments so small that you cannot
read a word of it. It proposes
to take the consolation from the broken
hearted and tho soothing pillow from
tho dying. Infidelity proposes to swear
in tho President of tho united Stales
and the Supreme Court and the Governors of
States and the witnesses in tho court room
with their right lmntlon Paine’s “Age of Rea
son” or Voltaire's “Philosophy of History.”
It proposes to take away from this country
tho book that makes (he difference between
tho United States aud the Kingdom of
Dahomey, between American civilization and
Bnrnesian cannibalism. If Infidelity could
destroy the Sci iptures it would in 200 years
turn the civilized nations back to semi bar
liar sin and then from semi barbarism into
midnight savagery, until tho morals of a
menagerie of tigers, rattlesnakes and chim
panzees would be bettor than tho morals of
the shin wrecked human race.
The only impulso in the right, direction
that this world has ever had has come from
the Bible. It was the mother of Roman law
and of healthful jurisprudence. That book
has been the mother of all reforms nnd all
cliaritios—mother of English Magna Clmrta.
anil American Declaration of Indendenee.
Benjamin Franklin hold that holy book in
his hand, stood before an intidel club at Paris
and read to them out of the prophecies of
lialiakkuk, anil the inside’s, not, knowing
what book it, was, declared it was the be<t
poetry they had ever heard. That book
brought George Washington down on his
knees in the snow at Valley Forge, and led
the dying Prince of Wales to ask some ono
to sing “ Rock of Ages.”
I toll you that tho worst attempted crime
of the century is the attempt to destroy this
book; yet infidelity, loathesome, stenchful,
leprous, pestiferous, rotten monster,stretches
out its hand, ichorous with the second death,
to take the hand of Ibis republic. it
stretches it out through seductive magazinos
and through lyceurn lectures and through
caricatures of religion. It asks for all that
part of tho continent already fully settle !
and the two-thirds not yet, occupied. It
savs: “Give me all east of tho Mississippi,
with tho keys of the church and the (‘hrixtian
printing presses—then give mo Wyoming,
give me Alaska, givo me Montana, give mi
Colorado, give me all the States and Terri
tories west of tlie MDsixsippi, and 1 will take
those places and koop them by right of poses
sion Ling before the Gcs >el can be fully en
trenched.”
And this suitor preses his case appallingly.
Sba'l the banns of that marriage bo pro
claimed? “No!” say the home missionaries
of tho West, a mnrtyrbnndof whom tho worljl
is not worthy, toiling amid fatigues and
malaria nnd starvation, “no! not if wo can
help it. By what, wo and our children have
suffered, vi e forbid the lmnns of that mar
riage!” “No!” sav all patriotic voices, “our
institutions were bought at too dear a price
and were defended at too great a sacrifice t,o
be so cheaply surrendered.” “No,” says the
God of Bunker Hill and Independence Hall
and Gettysburg, “I did not start tbs nation
for such a farce.” “No,” cry ton thousand
voices, “to infidelity this land shall not lie
married.”
But there is anothersuitor f hat presents bis
claim for the band of this republic. He is
mentioned in the verse following my text,
where it says: “As the bridegroom rejoiceth
over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over
thee ” It is not, my figure, it is the figure of
the Bible. Christ is s i desirous to have (bis
world love him that ho stops at no humilia
tion of simile. He compares Sis era/-e ti
spittle on the eyes of the blind. He com
pare) Himself to a bon gathering tho chick
ens, and in my text Ho compares Himself to
a suitor begging a band in marriage. Does
th's Christ,, the King, deserve this land? Be
hold Pilate’s Hall and the insulting expecto
ration on the face of Christ. Behold the f 'al
varean massacre ayd the awful hemorrhage
of five wounds. Jacob served fourteen
years for Rachel, but Christ, my Lord, the
king, suffered in torture thirty three years to
win tho love of this world. Often ffrincosses
at their very birth are pledged in treaty
of marriage to princes or kings of earth, so
this nation at its biith was pledged to Christ
for divine marriage. Before C jlurribn* and
his 120 men embarked ori the Santa Maria,
tho Pinta and the Nina, for their wonderful
voyage, what was the last tiling they did?
They sat down and took the holy sacrament
of the Igircl Jesus Christ. After they
caught, the first glimpse of this country
and the gun of ono ship had announce I
it to the other vessels that land
had been discovered, what, was the song
that went up from all the three decks ?
“Gloria in exeelsis.” After Columbus and his
120 men hail stepped from the ship's deck to
the solid ground, what, did they do ? They
all knelt and consecrated the new world to
God. What did the Huguenots do aftz-r they
landed in the Carolina* ? What did the
Holland ref ugi es do after they bad lande 1 in
New York ? What did the Pilgrim Fathers
do after they landed in New England ? With
bended knee and unfitted face and heaven
besieging prayer they t/xik possession of ties
continent for God. How was the first Amer
ican Congress opened ? By prayer, in the
name of Jesus Christ. From its birth this
nation was pledged for holy marriage with
Christ.
And then see ko w good God has lieen to us!
Just open the map of the continent aud m e
how it is shaped for immeasurable prospei i- 1
ties: navigable rivers, more in number and
greater than of any other land, rolling on all
sides into the sea, prophesying large man u
faotures and easy commerce. Look at the
great ranges of mountains timtiered with
wealth on the top and sides, metalled w,th
wealth underneath. One hundred and eighty
thousand square mile* of coal, 180,000 square
miles of iron. The land so contoured that
extreme weather hardly ever lasts more than
three days—extreme heat or cold. Climate
for the most part bracing and favorable for
“SUB DEO FAOIO FOKTTTER."
brnwti ntul brain. All fruits, all min
erals, nil harvest*, Scenery dis
playing an autumnal pageantry that
no land on earth protends to
rival. No South American earthquakes. No
Scotch mists. No London fogs. No Egypt
ian plagues. No Germanic divisions. ’I ho
people of the United States ate happier than
any people on earth. It is tho testimony of
every mail that has traveled abroad. For
the poor, more sympathy; for tie* industrious,
more opportunity. Oh, how g.s'd God was to
our father and how good Hellas been tons
and our cnildren. To Him—hies 0.l lie His
mighty name!—to Him oflcross nnd triunq h.
to ililit who still remembers the prayer of
tie* Huguenots nnd Holland refugee* and the
Pilgrim Fathers*—^to Him shall this land lie
married. Oh, you Christian patriots, by
your contributions nml your prayers hasten
on the fulfilment of the text.
We havo during the past six or seven
vent s turned a new leaf in our national his
tory hv tho sudden addition of foreigners.
At. Kansas City 1 was told by a gentleman
who tin 1 opportunity for large investigation,
that a great multitude hail gone through
there, averaging in worldly o-tate jstr.i. 1
was tolil in tho city of Washington
by an officer of the Government
who had opportunity for authentic
investigation that thou anils and thoustnds
bad gone, averaging SI,OOO in possession of
each. 1 was told by tha Commission of Emi
gration that twenty families that had arrived
at Castle Garden brought $85,000 with them.
Mark you, families, nut tramps, Additions
to tin national wealth, not suhtra tons
therefrom. I saw some of thorn reading their
Bibles and their hymn books, thanking
Go 1 for his kindness in helping them
(■loss the son. Some of them had
Christ in the steerage ull acres * the
waves and they will havo Christ in the
rail trains which every afternoon start for
the great West. They are being taken by tho
Commission of Emigration in New A ork,
taken from tho vessels, protected from tho
Shyloeks and the sharpers, and in tho name
of God aud humanity passed on to their des
tination ; nnd there they will turn your Ter
ritories into States and your wijdernoss intt
gardens, if you will build for them rhurchos
nml eit iblisii for them schools and send to
them Christian misdonarios.
Are you afraid this continent is going to
be overcrowded with this imputation? Oh,
that shows you havo not beon to California 1
Unit, allows >'oil i.avo no*, ixien to Oregon
that shows that you have n it been to Texas,
A fishing smack to-day, on Lake Ontariu
might as well be afraid of lieing crowded by
other shipping before night as for any
ouo of the next ten generations ol
American* to lie afraid of being
overcrowded bv foreign population!
in this country. The one State of Texas ii
far larger than all the Austrian empire, ynl
til l Austrian empire supports 85,000,0J0 peo
pin. The one State of Texas Is larger than
all France, and Franco support* 1111,000,001
p ?oplo. The one Slate of Texas far surpasses
in size tho Germanic empire, yet tho Ger
manic empire supports 41,000|000 people. I
toll you t he great wantof the Territories anil
of the We item States is more population.
Whilo some muy stand at the gates of tho
city, saying: “Stan l back!” to foreign pop
ulations, I press out as far beyond those
gatos us 1 can press out beyond them and
beckon to foreign nations, saying: “Come,
come!” “But, say you, “I am so afraid that
they will bring their prejudice! for foreign
fovernmants and plantthem here.” Absurd!
'iiey are sick of the governments that have
oppressed them nnd thoy want free America!
Give them the great gospel of welcome.
Throw around thorn all Christian hospitali
ties. They will add tbofr industry and hard
earned wages to this country, and then wo
will dedicate all to Christ, “and thy land
Shall bo married.”
But whore shall the marriage altar bel
Lot it bottie Rocky Mountains,when, through
artificial and mighty irrigation,all their top
shad be covered, as they will bo, with vine
yards and orchards and grain fields. Then
let the Bostons and the New York* and tin
Charlestons of the Pacific coait, come to the
marriage altar on one side, and then let the
Bo items and the New Yorks aud the Charles
tons of the Atlan'ic coast come
to tho marriage altar on tho
other side, and there between them let, this
bride of nations kneel: and then if the
organ of tho loudest thunders that ever
shook the Sierra Nevada* on the ono side or
moved tho foundations of the Alleghenies it
the other side, should open full diapason ot
wedding march, that organ of thunders
could not drown tho voiceof Him who should
take the hand of this bride of na
tions, saying: “As a bridegroom rejoiceth
over a bride, ho thy Cod rejoiceth over thee.”
At that marriage banquet shall lie the plat
tors of Nevada silver nud the chalices of Cali
fornia gold arid tho fruits of Northern
orchards nnd spices of Southern groves
and tho tai>estry of American manufac
ture und tho congratulations from all the
free nations of earth and from all the tri
umphant urmies of heaven. “Anil so thy
land shall bo married.”
(lobbied.
1 Cl h t f' ■ ! in. v I :L "
“Ain’t it?”— Life.
A Nice Gentleman.
“I say, Molly, I met such a nice g< n
tiemau in the park. He spoke to me and
I’m to meet him again to-morrow.”
“Iteally? Did he tell you his name,
Kate?”
“Yes; he said it was Mr. John Smith.”
“Oh, pshaw! that's the name they all
give. ” — iiiJ'tirt/ji.
Pit kerb;, shooting has become a favorite
sport at I-ake Whitney, near Now Haven.
The sportsman with hi* rifle walks along the
hank, and when a pickerel darts out irsn
near the shore aud stops an instant near the
surface he fires, and, if he is a good shot, kills
the fish.
THE “ALABAMA.”
The Confederate Cruiser’s
hast Engagement
How Sho Was Sunk by tho “Koirsarge"
Off tho Fronch Ooast.
From nn account of “Life on tho Ala
bama,” by one of her sailors, in tho Cen
tury, wo quote tho following: “Wo got
everything ship-ahapo nml loft Cherbourg
for our last cruise on a bright Sunday
morning, June 10th. Wo were escorted
by a French armored vessel, nnd when
wo got outside we could sec the Kcnrsargo
awaiting us, about four miles away.
Captain Semmes made us a short speeeli
which was well received, though it scorned
o<ld to mo that an American should ap
peal to mi Englishman’s love of glory to
animate him to light tho sjM'ukcr’s own
countrymen. But we cheered, and the
French ship leaving us, wo strained
straight for tho Koarsargo. There is no
doubt that Homines was flurried and com
menced firing too soon. We were, I
should say, nearly a mile away, and I do
not think a single shot told. The enemy
circled around us and did not return our
lire until within seven or eight hundred
yards nnd then sho let us have it. The
first shot that struck us made tho ship
reel iyul shake all over. 1 was serving on
one of tho thirty-two pounders, and my
sponger was an old mnn-o’-war’s man,
who remarked, after a look out of tho
port, ‘We might a* well flro hotter pad
dons as these pop-guns: a few moro bills
like that last nnd wo may turn turtle.’
110 had scarcely spoken when n shell
burst under our pivot-gun, tilting it out
of range and killing live of the crow.
‘What is wrong with tho riflo-guu?’ was
asked. ‘Wo don’t seem to be doing tho
enemy any harm,’ while with slow preci
sion came tho crash of the heavy shell of
tho Yankee. One missile that seemed as
big ns a haystack whizzed ovit our heads,
taking a section of tho port bulwarks
away, fortunately missing a man that
was handling shot. He only remarked
that ho believed tile Yankee was tiring
‘steam-b’ilers’ at us. Another shell
struck us amidships, causing the ship to
list to port so that our gun weighing
three tons raced in, pinning ono poor
fellow against the port-sill. He died be
fore we could get him clear. This was
the missile that sunk the Alabama.
‘Hlic’s going down!’ was the cry, uml ull
was confusion. Another shell struck
about tho water-1 1 uc,and the vessel reeled
liko a drunken man. Tho dead and
wounded were lying about the deck,
which was red with blood. Our officers
did their duty and the men at once be
gan to get up tho wounded. The cutter
and launch were in the water, und the
officers were trying to keep the men back
till the wounded were all in; but certain
ly many of them were left, for I saw sev
eral on the berth-deck when I went be
low, and the boats were then full and
pushing off. When it was certain tlint
the ship was sinking, all order was at an
end. I had £lO und a watch in u lock
er between decks, and 1 ran below, but
they wefe gone.
“ ‘All hands on deck—ship’s going
down I’ was called, and I had just got
on the upper step of the forward compan
ion-way when the water, entering the
berth-deck ports, forced the air up and
utmost carried mo off my legs. I east
my eyes around for a moment. Old Gill,
with bis head crushed under the carriage
of the eight-inch gun, was lying there,
his brawny bunds clinching the breast of
his jumper. Just as the water came over
the stern I went over the port bulwarks.
J was a good swimmer, and had not been
in the water five minutes when a French
pilot-boat came running past, and a
brawny fellow in petticoats and top-boots
dragged me out of the water.”
G’liorolnle.
There is no reason why Monroe County
should not afTor*l a large portion of the
chocolate which is consumed in the Unit
ed States. We have a climate and soil
which is admirably adapted to its pro
duction, and it will certainly pay a hand
some profit upon any proper investment
made in its cultivation. The name is de
rived from the Aztec chocolati, and it is,
os we know, a nutritious drink, and is
prepared from the cocoa, which is the
fruit of the theobroma cocoa. The tree
is found in Central America, South Amer
ica and Mexico, and in the West India
Islands. It is a beautiful evergreen,
growing to the height of from twelve to
twenty feet; produce.** both fruit and
flowers during the entire year, nnd is one
of the handsomest plants known. The
fruit is about live or six inches long, nnd
about two and a half in diameter, and is
shaped like a pod of okra. It turns yel
low when ripe, and contains generally
from twenty to thirty beans in the fruit.
These are arranged iu rows in a rose col
ored pulp, which is sometimes eaten.
VOL. I. NO. 10.
The fruit ripens in Juno and December
at which time tho beans, which are abou
tho size of shelled almonds, are separated
from tho pulp and dried in tho sun, when
they aro ready for the market. They aro
then roasted like coffee, which causes tho
shells to separato from the beaus. Theso
shells aro sorted by winnowing, and form
an inferior cocoa. Tho seeds thus pre
pared aro sometimes used for food after
.being boiled a long time, but if they aro
to be made into chocolate they nre ground,
mixed with starch, sugar and other sub
stances, and mado into cakes. The best
chocolate, however, is simply made from
shelled beans, which aro parched and
ground like coffee. Tho irregular pieces
1 into which the seeds separate after being
shelled aro called nibbs, and are tho pur
est form in which cocoa can bo bought.
Collector Harris is now experimenting
with sotno of tho seeds, with a view of
starting n cocoa farm. It takes about
threo years for the plants to como into
bearing.— Key Went (Fla.) Democrat.
Canned Hoods,
In the testimony brought forward in
tho recent Kolycr-Thurbcr ense, much
light was thrown by export and other
witnesses upon tho methods, in some in
stances, of tho canning trade. Besides
tho copper boiling and zinc soldering
practices, other reprehensible modes of
manufacture were testified to. One wit
ness, who said that he had been in tho
cnnniug business for thirty years, guve a
simple means of distinguishing spoiled
from wholesome fruit. It is understood
thnt when air can get at the contents of
tho can decomposition will ensue. Tho
wholosomencss of tho goods, therefore,
depends entirely upon the nir-tight con
dition of tho can. Tho witness asserted
that when a can is perfectly air tight
there will be a hollow in tho heads- that
is, they will cave in. If they are level,
and spring back when pressed upon, they
are known to the trade as “spring bot
toms" that is, air has got in and the
contents are in a state of fermentation.
Tho cans have been badly soldered or
sealed up. If the “spring bottoms”
stand long enough thoy become what is
known ns “swell-heads” -that is, the
bottoms have become convex and swell
out, a condition due to the generation of
gases by the process of fermentation. In
order to sell these goods unscrupulous
dealers resort to what witnesses called
“reprocessing.” That is, the dealers
make a hole in the bead of the can, heat
the fruit and solder it up again; or, as
this trick is easily detected, shrewder
manufacturers melt open tho original
vent-hole, heat tho fruit and then resol
dcr the cun at the old place. This leaves
no murk, and therefore removes all evi
dence that the can has been tampered
with.—j New York, Commercial.
Hair for Wigs.
The hair for making wigs comes from
all parts of the world. Tho natural
blonde comes from Norway and Sweden.
Dealers in the south of Franco supply
great quantities of dark hair, and thou
sands of pounds of black hair arc brought
from Italy to New York every year.
China sends us the cheapest hair, but
it is rather course, and is used in manu
facturing low-grade theatrical wigs
and back-pieces, braids and bangs for
ladies' street wear. By bleaching anil
dyeing, Chinese hair can be given any
color that is desired. But it assumes
auburn shades best, and an enormous
quantity of it has been used. Tho
Hwcdish hair is rarely longer than
twenty-two inches, and when received
here it is always dirty and teeming with
insects. French hair is generally clean,
but the Italian hair, which comes to
New York in 100-jiound bundles, is ex
ceedingly filthy, and the workmen who
clean it before it is purchased by the
wig-makers sometimes contract diseases
from handling it. Dyed hair is called
“dead,” and becomes harsh after being
worn a short time. Chemicals are used
to give it a glossy appearance. Besides
the tmman hair large quantities of yak
and angora goat hair and jute fiber aro
used.
War Prices In llio Snutli.
A few days ago a party of gentlemen
were discussing high prices in the South
during the latter part of Lite civil war.
“I paid S3O a yard for a suit of gray
cotton jeans,” said the first speaker, “and
the suit of clothes cost me S3OO after be
ing cut and made."
“The biggest trade I made during the
war,” said No. 3, “wass3o for a spool of
cotton thread.”
“And I,” said No, 3, “paid sf.» for a
shave."
“llow could a man carry enough
change in his pocket to buy anything?”
I ventured to ask.
“They stuffed it in their hats, boots,
pockets, or most anywhere it would
stick, rt plied No. I.— Darn,grille, Co.,
Mail.