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The Montgomery Monitor.
D. C. Button, Editor and Proprietor.
REV. 1)1!. TALMAGE.
THE BROOK LYX HI VINE’S SI’N
DAY BEUMOX.
Subject* “Tile Swelling of Jordan.”
Text: “If thou hast run with the footmen,
mul they ha>X' t reuried thee, then how eonsi
thou contend with hor.-u ■mol if in the lain!
of jwoee, wherein thou trust <I.J, then wearied
Owe, then how wilt thou do in the wellhi'j i J
Jon Unit" —Jeremiah xii., 5.
Not in a petulant, but in kindly terms T
must complain that a wrong has h.-eu douo
luo and tho cause of honest journalism liy a
pretended sermon that is going the roil si Is of
hundreds of papers with my luuno appended;
u sermon entitled: “Frauds ! -tix-ted;” te.u.
Numbers, Ch. 32, v. 23: “Ihit if yo will not
do so, behold, ye have sinned a.;ai.i>t the
Lord; and be sure your sin will tind \ ou out. ’
Notone sentetiee of that pretended n enra
did I preach. It this were the only otTi so
of tho kind I would not speak of it. Such a
fraud is not only a wrong to me but to the
gentlemen who, at tiiese tables, Sabbath by
Sabbath, take accurate report of what ; 1
And done; ami is a gross wrong to the two
thousand liewspajx rs which give my sornto i
in full to their readers, and often at great ex
pense to themselves. The only fault J have
to And with the newspajier press of this coun
try is that they treat me too well. But I
caunot be made responsible for entire ser
mons, not one word of which did I preach!
But now 1 turn from pels uial explanation to
tho more imixirtant subject of the text.
Jeremiah hail become impatient with his
troubles. God says to him: “If you cannot
stand these small trials andpe.:. • ut:ous,wli:it
are you going to do when tho router trials
and persecutions come:- if you have been
running a race with footmen "and they have
beaten you, what clianr- is there that von
will outrun horses?” And then the lx.m eis
changed. You know, in April and May, the
Jordan overflows its banks, and the waters
rush violently on, sweeping everything bef< >re
them. And God says to the prophet: "If
you are overcome with smalt r trials and
vexations which have assault d you, what
will will you do when tho trials and annoy
ance and persecutions of life come in a
freshet?” “If in the land of peace when in
tliou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how
wilt thou do in the swelling oi Jordan?’
I propose, if God will help me, in a very
practical way to ask, if it is such a difficult
thing to got along without the relx ion of Je
sus Christ, when things are comparatively
smooth, what will wo do without Ctiri-d amid
tho overpouring misfortunes and disasters of
life that may come upon us; If troubles,
slow as footmen, surpass us, what will wo do
when they take tho feet of horses? And if
now in our lifetime we are beaten back and
submerged of sorrows because we have not
the religion of Jesus to comfort us, what will
wo do when we stand in death, and we le-.-l
all around about us “tho swelling of Jordan?’
The fuct that you have come here,my brother,
my sister, shows tiiat you have some
things you believe in common with
myself. You believe that there is a God.
There is not an Atheist in all this house. I
do not believe them ever was a real Ath Bt
in all the world. Napoleon was on a whip's
deck bound for Egypt. It was a bright
starry night, and as bo paced tho deck, think
ing of tho great aflaits of the State and of
the battle, lie heard two men on the deck in
conversation about God; one saying there
was a God and tho Other saying there was
none. Napoleon stopped and looked up at
the starry heavens, and then ho turned tvi
these men in conversation, and said: “Gentle
men, 1 heard one of you say tliero was no
God; if there is no God, will you please t > tell
me who made all that?' Ay, if you had not
been persuaded of it before, you are
persuaded of it now; for tho shining heavens
declare the glory of God and the earth shows
His handiwork. But you believe more than
that; you ts-hove tiiat there was a Josh ; you
believe that there was a Cross; you believe
that you have an immortal soul; you believe
that it must lie regenerated by the spirit of
God, or you call never dwell in bib eternal.
I think a great many of you will say that you
believe it is important to have the religion of
Jesus Christ every day of our life, to smooth
our tempers and purify our minds, and hold
us imperturbable amid all the annoyance and
vexations of life. You and i have seen so
many men trampled down by misfortunes
because they liad.no faith in Jesus, and you
say to yourself: “If they were so easdy
overcome by the trials of life, what will
it be when greater misfortunes como
upon tliem heart-breaking calamities, tn
mendous griefs?’ Oh, if we have no God
to comfort us when our fortune goes, and wo
look upon the graves of our children, and out
houses are desolate, what will become of us?
What a sail thing it is to sec men, all un
helped of God, going out to fight giants of
trouble; no closet of prayer in which to re
treat, no promise of mercy to soothe the soul,
no rock of refuge in which to hide from the
blast. Oh, when the swift coursers of trouble
are brought up, champing and panting for
the race, and the reins are thrown upon their
necks, and the lathered flanks at every spring
feel the stroke of the lash, wliat < ail we do o ,
f<X)t with tliem? How con we compete with
teem? If, having run with the footmen, they
wearied as, how can we contend with li rs A
AVe have all yielded to temptation. We
have been surprised afterward that so small
an inducement could have decoyed us from
tlie right. How insignificant a temptation
has sometimes captured our soul! An-1 if
that is so, my dear brother, v. bat will it 1-
wlien we come to stand in tli pi -.■■cnee of
tcmiitaUon that prostrati 1 D 1, i •
Moses, au-1 a Peter, and some of the mightiest
men in all God's kingdom; Now v. are
honest; but suppose we were pla -- l in s- m
path of life, as many of God'- childr: ; b . -•
been, where ail the forces of earth and toll
combine to capture th" :s-'ill' Wii' on - J. i>
we would go down under it. If all-, ady v.x- ha o
been beaten by insignificant footmen, wi
would to distanced ten thousand l-.-.gu shy
the horses. Ah, J don't lik : lolc- .r a .non
say: “I could not commit such a ski as that.
I can’t understand how Minn con Id Ik--cm
riod away lilt*- tint.” You don't know .-. hi t
you could do if tho grace of God b ft you. You
know what John Banyan said when !:-■ saw .
man staggering along the treet,!
etnbruted in his habits. II - .-ft 1: -Th. .
got* John Human, but for the gi x •ofG- -
J can say when I see on-- utterly fall :i;
“There g'«-s BeWift Tabling -, Lu. for tli •
grace of God!” If we Lav: l»--n doii - d
from temptation it is hocaus ■ ito strong .in
of the Lord Almighty has B n ul -. .;
us. and not because were any 1 •' -r t! .
they. It is a great folly to i.o:v t,i<.
If we can meet the misfortune ■ X to-* 1 .v,
will lie able to moo t the troubl- of to-mo:
row; but sujiiKi.se now if through ala. ; of
tli** religion of Jesus, wn are overthrown by
small sorrows, does not our common
teach us tint wo cannot state I up again. :
great ones; If we cannot cun y a pound. -an
we/arryatli'iusand iK.un-ls; If v. .o-.-dis :-i
--lit'l cooing u,; - battle wi t
brigade will nt us to pi ■■ -t. If u , unfit
to cope with one small trial, • ’ w- b
overcomo by greater oiks? If t. foottr i n
are too much for as. won't tin -- : i l- mo-.-
fearful ag iiiiKt as when v . <o ■ : 1 w:;h
horses? I thank G'ri that oi.--.-o; ji d--:ir
children has - to.-n dofivere 1. i- :*
that Paul ild -ay: ' .son-: '., il. ; : six
rejoicing; ikk-r, y r et making many i-i—*.: i
ing notliui:--. yet iris . - ing ali ti An-1
David, tin psjd.ni.st. .-oars up into tb -o--k --r
God’s strength and becoia ,tu /roughly -ui
posed amid all his sorrows, saying: “God is
our refuge and strength, a very present help
ill the time of trouble; therefore "ill not wo
tear though the earth be removed, though tho
mountains be cast into the midst of the sea,
though tho waters thereof roar and lie trou
bled, though die mountain shake with tho
swelling thereof. Selah.”
But my t ‘xt suggests something in advance
of anything I have said. We must all quit
this life. However sound our health may he,
it must breakdown; however good our title
may he to houses, land, and estates, we must
surrender them. We will hear a voice bid
ding us away from all those pin vs. We will
h ive to start on n pilgrima from which wo
can never come ha -k. We will have siv.i for
the last time the evening star, and watched
the last summer eloud, and felt the breath of
tile spring wind tor the last time. Hands of
loved ones may bo stretched out to hold us
back, but they cannot —go we must. About
all other exits and chances we may trifle, but
not about this. Stupendous moment of life
quitting. Oh, when the great tides of
eternity arise about us, and till the soul
and surround it, and sweep it out toward
rapture or woo, ah, that will be the swelling of
Jordan!” I knowpooplosometiiunstalk very
merrily' about the departure from this life. 1
am sorry to hear it. But men do make fun of
the passage from olio world to another. Byron
joked a great deal about it, but when it came
ho flavored with horror. Many on infldel has
s-tolled at the idea of fearing a future world,
but lying upon his pillow in the last hour his
t-.vtli’have chattered with terror. 1 saw, in
Westminster Abbey, an epitaph which a poet
ordered to be put upon his tomb:
“ Life is a jest.
And all things show it,
I thought so once,
But now 1 know it.”
I thought liow inapt that, in a place of sep
ulchre, men should try tlioir witticisms. A
groat German having rejected Christ,, in his
last moment said: “Give me light, give me
light!” Oh, wo may be smart with our witti
cism about the last hour; but when it comes,
and the tides arc rising, and tho surf is 1 (rak
ing, and tho winds are howling, we will each
one, my brethren, find for himself that it is
“tlie swelling <>f Jordan!” Our natural courage
won’t hold out then. However fumiliar wo
may have been with scenes of mortality,
however much wo may have screwed our
courage up, we want something more
than natural resources. When the north
east wind blows off from the sea
of death, it will put out all earthly lights.
The lamp of tie- Gospel, (tod lighted, is the
only lamp that can stand in that blast. Tho
weakest arm holding that shall not be con
founded ; the strongest one rejecting that shall
stuiill do and die. When the Jordan rises in
its wrath, the iir.st dash of its wave will
s-.vamp them for over. Wo fed how sad it is
for a man to attempt tliis life without re
ligion. We see what a doleful thing it is
for a man to go down into tho misfor
tunes of life without Christian solace; but
if that be so, how much more terrible when
that mail 'Minis face tofa'-o with the solcmni
ti'\s of the liu.t hour! Oh, if in the bright sun
shine of health ami prosp rity a man felt the
need of something bettor, how will ho fool
when the shadows of the last hour gather
above his pillow; If, in tho warmth of
worldly prosperity, he was sometimes dis
mayed, how will lie leel when the last chill
creel): over him; If. while tilings were com
paratively smooth lie was disquieted, what
will ho do in the agonies of ili volution? “If,
in tho laud of pe iee in which ho trusted, they
wearied him, what will ho do amid the .swel
ling of Jordan?’
Oh, i rejoice to know that so many of God’s
children have gone through that pass without
a shudder! Borne one said t.» a dying Chris
tijiu: “isn't it hud for you to get out of this
n orld?’ "Oh, no,” he says, “it is easy dying,
it is blessed dying, it is glorious dying;” and
then lie pointed to a clock on the wall, and lie
said: “The last two hours in which I havebcon
dying, I have had moio joy than all the years
of ill; life.” A general came into tho hospital
after tho batt le.and there were many seriously
wounded, and there was one man dying, and
tho general said: “Ah, my dear fellow, you
seem very much wounded. lam afraid you
are not going to get well.” “No,” said tli i
soldier: “1 am not going to get well, but 1
ft"! very happy!” Oh, I have seen tii'-m, and
so have you, go out of this life without a tear
ou their check! Them was weeping all round
the room, but no woeping in tho bed; tho
checks were dry. They wore not thrown down
i:iio darkness, they were lifted up.
We saw the tides rising around them,
mid the swelling of tho wave. It
washed them elf from the cures anil toils of
life; it washed thorn on toward the Ikvw-Ii of
heaven. They waved to us a farewell kiss as
they stood on dock, and floated down further
and further, waited by gales from heaven,
until they were lest to our sight—mortality
having become immortality:
“Life's duty done, as sinks tho clay,
Light from its load the spirit files;
While heaven and earth combine to say,
How blest tho righteous when ho dies!”
What high eoiisolation to you that your de
parted friends were not submerged in tho
swelling of Jordan! Tho Israelites were just
as thoroughly alive on tho western banks of
ilio Jordan: as they had Ik on on th i eastern
banks of the Jordan; and our departed Chris
tian friends have only crossed over not sick,
net dead, not exhausted, not extinguish'-1,
not blotted out, hut with healthier respira
tion and stouter pulses, and keener eyesight,
and better pro p -ti, cross'd over, their sins,
their physical and mental disquiet,, all left
cl nr this .xi-le, an eternally-flowing, imjiama
b!r obstacle b itweeii them and all hunrin and
Satanic pursuit. Crossed over I Oh, J
hau ls of congratulation withall the ton-avo-l
in the consideration that our departed Christ
ian friends are safe!
Why was tliem, years ago, :n much joy in
certain circles in New York when poopiu
heard from their friends who were on board
the City of Brussels! It was thought that
vo: ■ : had gone to the bottom of the s -a; and
w!:e*i the frien'ls on this si lo ll'-a|XI that the
' a,our had arriv'd safely in Liverpool, had
we not the right to congratulate the 1' »}»!•-
in New York that thoir friends ha<l got
■rifely acrossf And Is it not rigtit this
luoni.i'ig that 1 congratulate you that
your departed friends an- safe on the
shore of heaven.' Would you liave them back
again; Would you have those old ijarontx
b-'/.-k again; You know how hard it was sour
i inu f>r t!i im to get their breath in the st isled
atmi/sphere of the summer; would you have
them back in our earthly summers, or chilled
>t our wintersi Would you have your children
back again; Would you have them
take the risk of temptations which
throng every human pathway; Would
vou nave them cross the Jordan this/:
tini'-s. In addition to iiaving cri/iJRI it
alc-a lv, cross it again \*> gri--t you now, and
t:- -ri cross ba/-!: afterward; For certainly you
would not want to keep them forever out of
heaven. If t ! ie.y had live-1 forty or fifty years
long* r, would they have been >tfe; i'i-rlri;(S
so, jierhajw not.
"i’au ami wo ip, not for thofrrd from
pain,
But that th - sigh of love would pull them
back again.”
I.askaqu ion, and th re s..- us to com
ba<-k the answer in li'-av-iljwhc “W hut!
will you nelk.-.sick again? ' “Never — i'x;
—again.” What! will you never Jr: tire-1
again;'' “Never—bird— again.’ -What! will
you never -o again;” "N* nr-w-.p
—again.” “What! wall you never (lie again;'
“Never—lie—again. " G.h, ye army of <le
mart • i i;i:i-i['■-1. we hail you from hank to
t/i.ik! Wn't for us wle-u the Joi lan of «• -it.'i
iall |R»>t f-.r us. Coin • down and mod as j
i.... wj v b-: w li th" willow.-1 bank -f cart.’i
mil .. a: : g-nVesoi t.-aiSVU.
M i l . VERNON, MONTGOMERY CO., GA., \\
“ On 1 irdan’s stormy banks I stand,
And cast, a wist fill eye
To Canaan's fair and happy laud,
Whore my pn- -essions he.
O, Hi • trnuq>oiling, rapturoussoeno
That rises on my sight!
Sweet fields arrayed in living given,
And rivers of delight."
But them is oil" si ep still in advance sug
gcsi-slliy tills subject, if this religion of
Christ is so important, in life, and so imjHirt
aut in t !i" last, hours of life, how much morn
important it will Ik> in the great eternity l
luv.i not stand here and argue it. Thom is
soniethiii'g within your soul that says now,
while I speak: “lam immortal; tho stars
shall die, but I am immortal.” You fool
that vmir existence on earth is only
a snuil picco of your being. It is only
a mile up to the grave. _ but it
is ten thous iud mile-? b-.-vond. This slab of
Ihe t om!) is only tho milostoiio on which wo
lx- 1 ! of infinite liistaneo yet t,> Is' traveliM 1.
The world itself will grow old and die. The
stars o our night will burn down in their
so -k--ts nu-1 expire. Tin' sun, like a spark
struck from an anvil, will flash and go out.
Tne winds will utter (heir last whisper, and
ocean heave its last groan; but you
and 1 will live for ever! Gigantic
immortal. Mighty to suffer or enjoy.
Mighty to love or hate. Mighty to soar
or to sink. Then, what will Ih> to
us th ■ store, tho shop, tho ofli -e, the applause
of the world, the Scorn of our enemies, thu
things Him lifted us up, and the things that
pres.■•-ed us down* What to John \\ eeley lire
all the mi bs that howled often him* What to
Voltaire arc all the nations that applauded
him? What to i'aul, now, the dungeoa-i that
(hilled him? What to Latimer, now,
the flames that consumed him? All those
who through the grace of * Jhrist reach
tiiat land, "ill never !>' disturliod.
Nolle to tli [Site their throne, t hey shall reign
forever and ever. But, alas, tor those who
have made no preparation for the future!
when the sharp shod lie- >fs of eternal disast t
como up panting and swift to go over tin in,
hew will they contend with horsosJ And
when tho waves of tli- irw letcbodness rise tip,
white and foamy, under tlie swooping of eter
nal storms, and the billows become mom
wiwthful and dash liiore high, oh what will
they do “amid the swelling of Jordan?’
If l could come into your heart this morn
ing, I would soe that many of you, my dear
friends, ha I vowel to Ixi the Lord's. I know
net what sickness it was, or vvliat trial; but l
\ ,-rilv believe, there is not u man ill tho house
but has sometime vowed lie would be the
Gird s. If might have at the t ime when your
child lay sick, vou said: “Oh Lord, if thou
Wilt, let. this‘child get well, I will boa
Christian.” Or it might have been in some
business trouifl", when you have said: “O
l.oi-d, if thou will, let me keep my property,
I will lie a Christian.” V«>u kept your prop
erty, your child get well, tho peril passed.
Am you a ('hrisliaii? History says that long
... , j) had been announced that tho World
was coming to an end, and there was great
t g-iteiuent in L (ml'm. it was said that the
world would perish on a certain Friday,
(in Tues lav, Wednesday, Tlmrsday and
Friday the’ people were in tho rathe
dral, praying and ive ping. It seemed »»
if the whole English nation was l> ing con
verted to (1 ul, for it wasanno ine. • 1 iiseertaiu
by philosophers that on that coining Friday
tile world would perish. Friday eaine, and
them were no portents, no fires in the air, it <
earthquak'-s. Tho day iiasnsl along just like
every other day, and when it was past and
t he night rani -, it is said tiiat in London them
was a scone of riot, and wassail, and
drunkenness, and deliain-hery such as Imd
n >ver h ■ m witnessed. They forgot their vow.
they forgot their rejr-nt nn->, they forger,
tlieirgooil msolut ions. (>, how much human
nature in that! Wliit- trials and misfortuiKH
come to us, and wo are down deep in dark
no is and trouhki we make vows. We nay:
“(l Lord, do so, and 1 will do so." Tlio dark
ness passes, tln peril go s away. Wo am as
v. wore before, or worse; for oh, how often I
have seen men start for the kingdom of Gol,
com-- up hi within arm's mooli of it, and then
go book farther from (to 1 than they ever
wore before, dropping from the very mount
of their pri it g - into d.arkii'. ss forever! <Hi,
hew ungrateful we have been! Do you know
how mu -h God li,as don-- for you and for ni"?
1 lave you never felt it? How much Undid
for- you today! Who spread the t ilile
for you! Who watched you last night?
Who lias been kind and good to you all your
lifelong; Oh how ungrateful we have linen!
M--thinks the g(KMlnes.-( of (tod ought to leal
this whole audience to ro|X‘tit.aneo. I know
not your individual history. Koiii" of you I
never saw lieforn, some of you I will never
so.' again; but I know that God lias Ik--ii
•good to you. What return have you mat'?
iThcro was a st--am.-i- oil one of tho West rn
lakes heavily In I n with passengers, and
there was n little child who stood oil the side
of I he ta.lVr.uil, leaning over and watching the
water, wh' ii sli" lost her balaii'-e andilropjxvl
nto tho waves. The lake was very rough.
The Mother cried: “Save my child! Save
iny child!” Them S'-'-iU' 1 none disjitKied to
li-.-ii' into the water. There vvxs u Newfound
land dog on deck. lie looked up in his mas
ter’s fie-e, as if for orders. Ilis mas
ter said: “Tray, overhoard, catch ’mnl"
The dog sprang into the water, caught
the child by the garments, and swam
line!: to the steamer. The child was picked
up by loving bands, the dog was lifted on
deck, and the mother, ere she fainted away,
in utter thanksgiving to that dog, threw her
arms around its ii'vk mi'l kissed it; but the
d x; shook iiii"seif off from her embrace, and
went and laid down a ; though he had aeeom
)>l i 11- i nothing, f-diall a ni'>ther Iki grat/fl'ul to
a d-)g that eaves Icr child, and Ik- iingrute
ful to the Boa of God who, from the heights
of heaven, plunged Into thu depths of darlc
n x. and i.ijiV. ring, and woo tiiat he might lift
us up out of our sin and place us on Hie rock
of lig "i' ()! i, the height, this depth, the length,
tin- infinity, the horror of our Ingfatitiidul
Don', you treat Jesus like that uny more.
D n't you thrust Him b.-p-k from your mini,
! 1 ha > h -*ip ti." b: t friend you ever had. You
will want Him alter awhile. When the
world i > going away from your grasp, and all
fir jigho-i that -Inn- on your soul are going
on . and the friends that stand around you
c.-iii do you no good, and you foci your feet
slipping from Ik ii xt-h you -oi'i, then you will
want Him —the loving J<- ais, I t," sympathetic
Jesus, the pardoning .Tonus—to stand i-pisa by
vou. and toll you up “amid tto swellijug of
Jordan!”
Trrr. annual rcjiort of tho State Board
of Kdu' ation shows that there are 7J 7
jitiblic schools in the State of Massachu
setts, an inert's.se for the year of 270.
They are attended by scholars.
There are 9,070 teachers, male and fe
male. The report states that eve ing
schools have become much more popular
than formerly, with a steady increase in
attendance. 1 lie increa.so in pupils of
all b“(.*h in the public schools is 9,303.
'} h: increase is considered remarkable,
Mini is attributed to the operation of tho
free book law.
A raif:bk near Quincy, 111, sava
while feeding his chickens one morning
four wild geese came flying toward his
barn/ard, and after circling above him
several tic.es li among the fowls. He
caught one of them, whereupon the
other attacked him viciously, but he
managed to secure a second one, and
to drive o.T the other two.
*'SUE3 DEO FACIO FORTITER."
DEVIL FISII.
MONSTftns WHO Cltrsir MiJN AM) POATI
IN Tll'ilU I,OXO, BTUONO AIIMS.
“Some of the biggest ‘squids’ ot
devil fish that have ever boon caught,'
saSd tin old sailor, “have been found j
iiixiuml 'West India islands in thegulf ot !
Mexico and tlio Caribbean sea. 1 was
first mute on a little chunk of a sugar
drougher, as tho vessels in that t-raile
are called, and was bound from N w
York to Jamaica. There was fever at
the time, so we laid oil' in tlio roads and
the hark was loaded by coolie < with
lighters. As we could not go ashore,
wo rigged sails in the long boat and
used to cruise around through the little
islands hunting for turtles and eggs.
One day we towed the dingy behind the
long boat, intending to sjilit. the partv
atone of tho islands. When wo reached
tho big island, we separated, part stay
iug on the island and some of the men
taking tho two boats and going to other
islands. 1 and two men stayed on Dev
il’s rock and hunted around for what
ever we could find. About 100 yards
oil’ was a small rock, where tho dingy
and her crews had gone. We could see
tho boat tied up and tho men loafing
around the island. Wo got tired and
sang out to them to como over and get
us. They started to the boat and push
ed her oIT, wading out a little way to
kecj) clear of the rocks just covered at
high tide. All of a sudden one of them
uttered n fearful scream and something
bluish rose out of the water and encir
cled his body and nock, lie drew his
knife and slashed at it, when another
arm arose. It. was a ‘squid.’ Tho
other fellow was nearer the shore and
was just stopping out of the water wlieu
two long feelers wriggled up and around
his legs and in another minute lie, too,
was being drawn under the water.
Their shrieks and cries were pitiful, but
we could do nothing. We hud no boat
and the other party were not in sight
The men fought bravo y but to no ond.
What could they do against fifty arms,
from ten to toenty feet long, each with
a grasp of steel. Slowly but surely they
were first crushed to death und then
dragged down. Their lighting seemed
to liave maddened the creature, for
shortly after tho men disappeared 'ho
lon blue arms wound themselves
around the little boat and crushed it
ns you would a nutshell between your
lingers. The horror we felt at the bare
sight of the poor fellows' agony nearly
drove one of tho men crazy who wav
with me. When the long boat came
b.-. k we reported the matter, but after
thrift we were never allowed to go over
to the islands. Several times we hunted
for the devil fish with guns and har
poons, but ho was ne er seen again by
any of our crew.— C'/tici(/u Herald,
HUS HAM I) AMD WIFE INSANE.
Frlalitcncd Out at Her Hits hy lliUKlurs
illukuN Him Cru/y.
A Chicago paper says: Tho Insane
Asylum at, Indianapolis Did., lias con
fined for nearly a week a husband and
wife whoso pathetic story has been sup
pressed until recently hy friends in that
city and Chicago. 'The couple are Mr.
and Mrs. W. \V. Kauhb. 'I he husband
is hopelessly insane, and Mrs. liaulib is
not only demented, but violent, though
there is a bare chance that when she iH
delivered of a now unborn babe her rea
son may return. She is thu daughter of
Cyrus W. Allen, a commission merchant
in Chicago. Kaubh has until recently
been a dealer in real estate and an extern
sivc stock raiser at Chalmers, Did. La t
November Mr. Kaubh came to Chicago
to purchase cattle. He left his wife
alone at home. Two nights afterward
tramps entered the house and what, fol
lowed is not precisely known. It is be
lieved tlio gang threatened to murder
Mrs. Kinbb if she did not disclose where
her husband’s money was concealed
Early next morning she was found a
mile distant wildly beating upon tho
door of her brother in ladf’s house. The
poor woman was via t only in anight
dress, was numb with cold and was a
raving maniac. There was a sad scene
when the husband returned in answer
to a telegram. He brought Mrs. Kaubh
to her father's home in Chicago, where
she was apparently recovering, when
one night she managed to escape from
the house. Meeting her husband, she
ran at him like a wild beast, biting him
fearfully on the hand and shoulder.
For a time after the paroxysm tlio wife
seemed better, but tins shock was too
much for the distracted husband, and
two days later he became insane. Jlc
was not violent, however, and was un
molested. Two weeks ago lie caused
i tjic arrest of his wife and mother for
insanity, but dismissed the case a few
moments before the trial was called and
then disappeared. Some days subse
(juently he was discovered in Danville,
a physical and mental wreck. Me wai
conveyed to Indianapolis, found to he
hopelo i.-.ly insane and committed to tin
asylum, where his wife wus taken the
succeeding day.
Tjib annual report of the State Sold
iers’ Home at Bath, N. Y., for the year
ending September 30, shows the total
number of inmates at the close of the
year was 930, of whom 70! were pres
ent. The average number pre“ent dur
ing the year was 739. The cost of pur
chase of rations was 14J cents per day,
and the cost of clothing $23.24 per man
oer year.
MVSTEIUES OV THE TOir.ET.
“Here’s vo’ collah, Mithcr Hopkinth,
on my mah say site'll like dat fob cents
fer dat yar collah she done wash las’
v.eck fer de big ball.”— Uazar.
A SECRET OF THE CONFESSIONAL.
Itevelnf !<v>s tlmt startled l*(-oi»to unit
Hlnland the i’oliop.
A sensation was created in Milwaukee,
by tlio publication of a statement by tho
Ucv. Father Anton J. Decker, pastor of
St. Anthony's Church, in that city, sun.
posed to boa deathbed confession made
to tho clergyman.
About midnight on tho 11th of
November, 1883, a street ear driver
named Urotho was attacked by two high
wayman in a lonely spot outside the
city limits. They fired upon him and
one bullet fractured his skull. He es
caped with his money, but for a time
was thought to im mortally wounded.
Ilia wife was so overcomo by tho affair
that she became, and still remains, a
raving maniac. Tho Htrect Railway
Company offered a reward of SSOO for
tlio arrest and conviction of the high
wayman, and a few days later detectives
arrested a nineteen year old boy, named
William I’uetz. known among his com
rades as “Wild I ill,” and Mahlon Mc-
Cullough, a member of a prominent
family there, but known as a wildyoung
fellow. On the day following the arrest
McCullough was alleged to have made
n confession to the police, in which ho
was said to acknowledge that he and
Buet/, planned and executed the attack,
but ho charged i’uetz, with filing tlio
shots. I’iictz, was said to have made a
similar confession.
They wero tried in May, 1884. Twenty
witnesses testilied to ail alibi, but they
wero convicted. Puotz was sentenced
to three years and amt mouth's imprison
ment and McCullough to three years.
Both wore released from the Penitentiary
within a few days of each other,
McCullough broken down in health and
apparently dying from consumption.
I’uetz, is now living with relati'cs in an
interior town in Michigan, and McCul
lough is with relatives near Bay View.
At the time of the trial it was stated
in thoir testimony by tho defendants
that their alleged confessions were forced
from them. They swore that during
their confinement of ten days at Police
Headquarters they were starved, beaten,
hung up by their thumbs and otherwise
illtreatcd in order to force them to make
a confession. Puetz swoio tiiat lies fin
ally confessed to keep from starving.
Tho following card is published:—
OAtll) TO Till? JPUIU.IO.
I have boon authorized to slate, for tlio In
format ion of tlio public a*MI for I lie purpose of
restoring the moral rt-pitl.tlioii of Mahlon Mc-
Oullougli and William I'm Iz, that they wero
entirely innocent of tlio attack upon mnl shoot
ing of tho street car conductor, August Grotho,
on November 11, 1833, at Bay View, for which
alleged crime saifl port-text wero convicted und
sentenced. This ilcelaralion and n presenta
tion is made hy roquest and upon the authori
ty of the party guilty of tho assault and shoot
ing of the street car conductor.
No further information will ho given and no
iiuestions answered.
1 ANTON J. DECK Elt,
Pastor of HI. Anthony’s Church, Milwuukeo,
Wis.
A correspondent called upon Father
Decker, but tho clergyman remained
steadfast in the purpose stated m the
cloning words of his card, and it docs
not appear probable that it will ever be
known who the guilty parties were. Im
mediate steps will bo taken to secure n
formal pardon from Governor Husk for
I’uetz and McGill lough in order that they
may be restored to the rights of citizen
ship.
THE 13AHITS OF PRIVJ i KS
Tlio Way They Iluvo oi rtpt-ndiiiK Their
Money*
Printers, as a rule, arc not a provident
class, although they receive wagesequul
to those of nearly any skilled mechanic,
und larger than many. A type setter on
a morning paper, if he boa “fast” man,
usually ‘ pastes up a string” at tho end
of the week that will measure him all
tho way from $lB to S2B. Tho expert
morning newspaper printer seldom
works over live nights a week. lie gen
erously contributes one ot his nights to
the “sub” who is posted on the fore
man’s list, and who Is either unable to
secure regular “eases," or who is “carry
ing the banner'’ from town to town.
The “regular” who lays off in this way
is rarely other than a generous fellow.
He is anxious that his less fortunate
craftsman may have a chance to earn a
few dollars, and while he is idle is not
(infrequent ly found spending his money
with a lavish hand. This, however, was
more strictly the case in days gone by,
when a printer was not a printer until
ho hud circumnavigated tho globe or
travelled at least over the English
speaking part of it. The printer nowa
days who wanders from place to place
is regarded with more or less suspicion.
A printer whose eyes liave become
dim from following the boxes, and
whose shoulders have been bent until
liis chin rests almost upon liis chest,
from his lifelong toil at the “case,” told
me the other day that he had been set
ting type for thirty years. “During
that time,” he said, “I have held cases
in every city of over 100,090 inhabitants
in tho United States, und liave earned
from sls to $75 a week. In tho days of
tho rebellion I worked in Philadelphia
for awhile, and earned so much money
in four nights that rny time during tho
succeeding three days of the week was
fully occupied in getiing rid of it. Other
printers were like me, in fact, there
were not half a dozen who saved any
thing. Hince the war, however, prices
for composition have dropped to forty
and forty-five cents per 1,000 cms. I
can think of a great many of my old
chums who have struck a money saving
gait, built comfortable homes and got
down to business. There are quite a
number of compositors on the New York,
Chicago and St. Louis papers who are
worth a good deal.
VOL. 11. NO. 2.
FIGHTING A BANK
A I’ONton Ulan Wlio Ifud Lofn of Fun With
Silver llollnrn*
An amusin'' encounter between one of
the banks uud a prominent business
man is being told at the clubs with some
unction. Mr. X., the gentlemun iu
question, was called from home on busi
ness and left with his clerk a blank
cheek for any contingencies which had
not been provided for. During his
absence a messenger from the bank ap
peared with a draft, and although offer
cd (he check declined to receive any
thing but tho money. Tho matter
caused tho clerk somo inconvenience,
and his employer, on his return, was
deeply indignant at tho affair. Ho
waited a few days until another draft
came through tho same bank, when ho
went, to the Sub Treasury, procured tho
amount due in silver dollars and turned
tho coin over to tho bank. Soon another
draft came along, this time for $15,000.
This was also paid in silver dollars, tho
bank being pretty well tilled up with
the sacks of specio. When the third
draft was duo Mr. X. applied to tho
Hub-Treasury for the amount in silver
and was refused. lie was naturally In
dignant, perceiving plainly enough that
the refusal was instigated by the presi
dent of tho bank, and he protested that,
ns un officer of tho Govermcnt, tho Bub-
Treasurer had no right to refuso to sell
him as many stiver dollars as ho wished
to buy ut any time. The refusal was
persisted in, however, and Mr. X. im
mediately sent a complaint to Secretary
Manning, ut Washington, the answer to
which urrived in due course of time,
stating that tho action of the Hub-Treas
urer was illegal and unauthorized. In
the meantime, as tho draft of course had
to be paid at once, Mr. X. had gone to
different banks, collected the amount of
silver that ho wanted, piling it up
loose in cotton baskets lie ascertained
that ho was not obliged to tako tho
money htnisolf to tho bank, and when
the messenger appeared with tho draft
ho presented him with the immense pilo
of silver, remarking that as ho had not
been able to procure tho money from
tho Sub-Treasury in sealed an stamped
sacks, he supposed it would have to be
counted.,
‘•l!ut how am I to carry all that,” tho
messenger cried in dismuy.
Mr. X. replied that ho really could not
Hay, und that wliilo a hack might sorvo
his visitor’s turn, lioreully did not regard
the matter as any affair of his. Tho
messenger bad a hack called, and with
assistance got his precious baskets to
the sidewalk.
“What is aV'tliatJT demanded tho
hack man, cycling Iho heavy baskots.
“Why that's silver.”
“Do you tako me for an expressman,”
asked the driver. “Hi, there, get up!”
and away he drove, leaving the unfortu
nate young man in u worse dilomma
than ever.
The messenger manngod, however, to
get the H|Micio to tho bank, where it was
presumably counted; and in due timo
still another draft upon Mr. X. camo to
delight the officers of the bank, Onco
more Mr. presented himself at tho Hub-
Treasury, and once more, despite Hecro
tary Manning's lutter, his demand for
silver was refused. Tbiff time he sent a
telegram to Washington, atid with great
promptness there came back a dispatch
peremptorily ordering the delivery of
tho dollars. The money was paid to the
bank, and feeling by this timo a little
weary of tho affair, and probably satis
fled that, lie fiad amply revenged the
discourtesy shown to him in the original
transaction, Mr. X. let tho matter drop
here, after notifying ull his correspon
dents that he did not wish to receive
any paper through the offending bank.
A Hint to the Boodlers.
And now O’Neill, another of the New
York boodle aldermen, goes to prison as
r. reward for his misdeeds
The first thought that occurs to O’Neill
must be that he is in good company.
Borne have gone before, but there are
many others who will yet see the inside
of prison walls, when the whole truth
comes out.
Still, it must be galling to a boodle
alderman to find his fellows pointing at
him in virtuous horror. He must feel
very much as Massena felt when ho was
charged with peculation. Massena had
been recalled from Italy by Bonaparte,
then first consul, and iu tho presence of
several general officers ho was sternly
reprimanded for his corrupt practices
At the conclusion of Bonaparte’s talk
Massena bowed and said:
“I am a thief I”
“Then fixing his eye on Bonaparte,
with another bow, he said:
“Thou art a thief.”
Booking next at General Murat, h
continued:
“Ifc is a thief.”
Then regarding the whole brilliant
circle of officers, he exclaimed:
“We are all thieves.”
He then quietly retired, saying to
Bonaparte:
“Yes, citizen consul, they are all
thieves; such is the character of the re
public! ’
It is said that this singular defence
saved Massena from further prosecution.
Tho next boodle aide: nan who finds
himself in trouble would do well to
profit bv the Frenchman’s audacity.
I Inder cover of the smoke arising from
the explosion it would not be difficult
for him to escape scot free —Atlanta
((institution.
Tot Quick. —Mrs. Charles Glloway.
of Winchester, Va., was so overcome
by the receipt of a telegram that she
dropped dead. Had she waited to open
j it she would simply havo found that her
i sister was coming on a visit. —Detroit
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