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THE WEEKLY TELKGRRPH; TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 13'8.~TWELVE PAGES.
STAGE MYSTERIES.
Actresses as They Appear in
the Dressing Room.
:HOW THEY ADORN THEMSELVES.
jfon« of Thrill j-nce Tightly and Some of
Them Only YV.nr Stays—How to t'ro.
duco ttie Ktfect of the Small
\Vol»t—Their PaeullorlU**.
for llini, hot th<
watched her firsts and make up* She is so | TBULV, A LAZY tkami*.
delihcrate. yet so quick: she never makes > „ , .. . „ ,
I a motion that .s not mwesary. Jhej Work ' tal
‘ superb Worth coRtumes were all mafii- ..
without a whalebone and all worn over wiS®. r 7„ SUn i 1 "t , ,•
what women will recognise as a haby waist. ,”*?£! ,ank », rafcis.h-lools.ntr f «-I;
«. „ „ i, * i , | ' • low, with an unkempt beard that reached
bhe never wears iier dresses low in the 1 r i ■ . i i •
„ .au . , j j to the middle button of his vest, and hw
nock, or the sleeves so short that she needs
to tuck awav the alcove of he* underwear , H - ls .?
as many arc obliged to do. Gen-! ? Ilch *? ! ’ 1"'“''
evieve \Vard has a peculiar method of
making up her face; when she is all dressed j
TABERNAOTtE TALKS rhere arc some churches m which the
ixujIJIU'IAIjllb AJ1UIYU. j unirousable look is so chronic, ro heredi-
I tary, so perpetual that
A WONDHtltl, WATCH.
never want to
It Tc!!-:
8pecl»l Correspondence Macon Teloarnnh.
VVasihuoton', D. C.,_ April 7.—For
some years past I have made it a point to
call upon every prominent actress who has
visited the capital city in her dressing
room. To me there is no particular spot
in that unknown region behim^fce foot
lights toward which my thoughts turn
with greater curiosity titan the dressing
toom of the star, and I think this is true
of most women who entertain any interest
in the dramatic art. This curiosity is
oven shared by the first lady in the land,
who, I am informed, visited the dressing
room of a great artiste during her engage
ment at one of the principal theatres of
this city.
These little rooms are considered
luxurious if the mirror is in its en
tirety, and if the lavatory arrange
ments are sufficiently ample to
permit of taking off the paint
and powder more than once during the
performince. The way these bright lights
go through thtir toilettes is very charac
teristic and varied ns their appearance be
fore the footlights and the roles they fill
Some of them are passive in the hands of
their maids, but most of them are far more
independent than anyone would suppose,
tod recpiire little of their attendants save
to hand them the different articles of their
costumes; occasionally these stars even go
so far as to pull down from their pegs,
where they rest against the bare wall, their
trailing dresses or fluffy skirts. If ever
they want help at all in dressing it is for
the feet; very few of them like to stoop
to pull on silk stockings and clinnge
their walking ehoes. Strange to say,
that part of their toilette, which
one would most naturally suppose act
resses would leave to their maids—the
hair-dressing—they alwas do themselves.
Whether it Is the arrangement of their
Aon It.ir nr ill A mlill^t in.inl nf n win I Haw
seem never to wuut any hands but their
own to touch their heads. That was my
greatest surprise in regard to the hair
dressing of artistes; the second was the
rapidity of their movements, and the few
hairpins to whose strength and tenacity
they confide their coitlitrc during the
most trying and literally energetic scenes.
I have seen a heavy crown trustingly
placed on a pyramid of hair which but two
or three pins held in place, and that, too,
when the wearer of the towering head
gear expected to sing and go through
some most effective business in the way of
being pulled ncross the stage on her knees,
and (blown hum ilie embraces of her lov
er in none tpo gentle n manner.
MarieBore was the one who first in
vited me to enter her dressing room while
she was dressing. As every one knows
she j abenutifnl woman, and when, in re
sponse to her husband’s knock she had the
door opened for me to enter ns she stood
with a bright red shawl thrown over her
bare shoulders and arms, 1 thought
•he was more beautiful than on the stage.
She is known as a woman of lovely d is po
rtion, and unlike must singers not at all
given to small vanities and iarge jealousies.
When her husband had gone sne threw off
her shawl and without apology or com
ment went on with her dressing. Her
arms and neck were perfectly bare, as for
the next scene her dress of Grecian dra-
pery required that not even a hand should
coyer W shapely' arm, apd to be
able to use her arms unrestricted,
she was obliged to finish her
coiffure without more dressing, and as her
white hands gleamed in her dark hair,and
the pretty month rolled out in soft I’aris-
accent her native language, I could
not hut think that the entrancing picture
•he made was that niuch more striking in
that she was utterly unconscious of her
charms.
Singing and speaking bare a’ wonderful
effect on the chest; after long observation
•nd thought on the subject I would cer-
tunly recommend to all who desire a finely
oeveloped bust to take in singing or elocu-
non lessons. I have never seen any great
* tr *« or singer—and I have seen scores.
5 **• stages of deshabille—with -ontracteu
cnest or scraggy neck.
“ is a misliiKcu notion that people gen-
"•fiy have that actresses and singers draw
me lacmg of their corsets too much. More
cl them wear no stays at all than pull the
•ring, even moderately: theeffeet of small
i» produced in nearly every instance
J the artistic dressmaker, who cleverly
dark and light shades so as to make
•mailt a PP oar layger and the waist
There are quiet dresses and nervous
tlTl’ am ? n 8 lire great artistes of both
cvlramatic and oi>erntic stage.
An Epidemic Among Books K\fe e ^mb‘a^ e in 0< ^A^ Sld or° nr
for tli
t name w;i-
I ^ 0 __ t to gentlemen
from the other Hide of the water, it ,-hould
| be stated that he first saw the light of day
' many years ago in this country. He was
and Starved Ministers.
TO ENCOURACE THE MINISTRY.
Ur. Tnlmnge Snys That CIo»lng tt\e
•nd Looking Stupid At Divine S
vice Acts ms a Wet Blanket on
the Preacher** Ardor*
with a few strokes she is made up; in put- rost ’ /1:£ n | n ', ( ? SI1 •, ..
ting her hair up or in fastening 1 er vig, I Z U T?. Ure l’? bab , 1 * •
her dingers seem scarcely to touch her i , 1 ,e 1“ wt
i head, and her hair dressing is done. When ! ?' l,erL ‘ he . n , ,a - v
' al! is ready for the next act she goes on to i ?i'.| ,i.„' nt ’ °- a WW ?f ' e
the stage, suggesting a slight change here, I ,here r ' Mna,ns ,la "S ht els '-‘ for hlm t0
“Up again?” 6aid the mayor.
“Up again,” said the lank Michael, de
liberately, as he shifted from one foot to
the other, took a hitch to his pantaloons
and then complacently braced himself
against the desk.
“How long have you been out?” queried
the mayor.
“Last Saturday, and ” after a mo
ment's hesitancy, “had to walk <1<
Came in the lock-up the same evening to
spend the night.”
“Well, thirty days.”
“Mayor,” 6aid Delaney, as he leaned
wearily against the desk, “couldn't you
make it ninety? Every, time I get out I
have to walk all the way to the city, and
or putting a vase or picture there, or
throwing Borne bits of drapery over chair
or table, thus nutting the last touches on
the settings of the scene; then in ample
time she walks deliberately back to her
dressing room before the curtain goes up.
Another independent, almost indifferent
dresser is Minnie Maddern; she waits on
herself even to putting on her stockings
and shoes after she is all dressed; her
(lyesses are what most women would call
“frightfully loose,” but they might well
imitate her in that respect if at the same
time they could acquire her grace of move
ment. She snatches her pretty hair in her
two hands, rams a hair pin on each side,
and then pulls away at it slinost savagely.
f h T 0W " T it’s too hard work. I would like it, Mayor,
JR. t n „ ;. 'V U ;’ rCS5ln? 6b ?, if yon could make it ninety, ft’, too much
bj C ,'i. a V“- r trouble going up and down so often.”
from her role aa the north pole .a from the, gX in Detective Murphy,
south and will even stand at the wings and | ’ j b g00 d job and von
enrerelhe T" a “ d 8I ’ C! ' k ' ,er liDM 15 6,16 droIIci1 D^«S. as 1 e cl.Liged 'off on' th
enters the stage. other foot to rest.
“Yes, I can get it for you right away,"
said Detective Murphy. '
“Well, is it an inside job,” asked Dela-
nej, the words rolling out w th restful
pauses between each.
“No, an outside one,” answered the de
tective.
“Weii-I-guess-tiien-I-can’t takc-it. I
don’t want any outside job. It’s too hard
work—too hard,” added Delaney, retlee-
tively. “Too hard." And he looked around
for one of the office chairs.
“I’ll make it ninety days, then,” said
Mayor Pearson, and before Delaney could
reach for the chair the detective was lead
ing him down stairs.
Glanders In Ponies*
From the Albnny News.
Mr. J. M. Tilt bout lit five Texas poi ies
lost fall and put them out on his Sand
Hill plantation. He vas delighted with
bio b.,i£..iu, «• ilie muiuu| nfier being
broken, proved tractable under kind treat
ment, and promised to be serviceable and
durable. Being impressed with then
t Brooklyn, April G.—Speaking to his
people at the Tabernacle this evening the
Iti-V. T. I '.-Wilt Talmagc said :
Yesterday, walking through the streets,
I saw piles of neglected hooks for sale
Whether it be Asiatic cholera or the tri
china that has gnt among the bonks WF
know not, but most certain it is they are
dying a hundred a day. The second-hand
hook stores are the morgues where thou
sands of them arc laid out. Many of them
died after doing their work, and their end
was peace. But many of them from the
start were aillicted with a marasmus that
never allowed them to take a healthy
breath. The mortality of novels is some
thing fearful Three-fourths of them never
paid the expense of their publication. The
entire enterprise was a dead loss. Most m*n
need to publish one book in order to find
what an expensive and unsatisfactory
business it is in most cases. 'We had a
friend who had given birth to a religious
poem. He thought it would rival “Para
dise Lost” and shake the nations. He
kept the secret under lock and key for a
long while, showing it only to a few special
friends, and that under promise of secresy.
He grew thin in calculating at what time
the world could best endure the exhilirn-
tion of its publication. At last the manu
script was In type, and the proof was read,
and the hook put upon the market. He
banqueted his friends on publication day,
in anticipation of a large fortune. He
figured up how many would be sold. First
he calculated on disposing of 20,000; but
as he reviewed the importance of the work,
and the fascination of the style, lie put up
the figures to 50,0()0. Afterward, bethink
ing himself of the fact that it is impossible
to keep a rare thing on this side of the At
lantic, and the certainty of its world wide
distribution, he concluded it reasonable
to expect tbe circulation of 100,000.' The
fact was, that of the first edition of 500
copies 150 were sold, and the rest
were given away. Its rivalry did
not hurt John Milton’s reputation a bit.
Moon mul the Tides.
Mr. John Huntington is agai
session of the wonderfully-!-
watch stolen from him more
% cell, tne
“Hallelujah,” it would create a panic in
the audience and make the reading of the ;
riot act appropriate. That church is a - vt :ir '’ ®8°i “J’ 8 *“* Cleveland Leader. This
pond frozen over, smooth and good for i w arv ,t olls . t,,ne -l” ec c L said to have cost
skating, but no warm tides of life, no meet- ***%Hnntin**°n *2,500 in gold, and wa.i
ing of preacher’s earned eye with bearers’ m 55f ln Switzerland,
intent stare. Every Siiinlav humdrum _ Joe case is of plain gold, _but the inle-
tho extract of poppy, and ecclesiastical i rior represent* the most delicate and intri-
morphine. Come, come, church pew you i workmnnsliipjknown to the liorologist.
must share with the pulpit in the re-Vdii-1 ! )n , ' ace , , 1 , eI P 08ed ‘*' a ' *- s a aeem-
sibility of a lethargic service. \V e w ;nof hands moving in every direc-
•I.., „r .i._
try to fire up at our end of the |
column, but you must fire up ai *
your end of the column. We will
divide the blame and then share in
the improvement. We will furnish and
shovel in the coal, but you must furnish
the kindling wood and open the damper*.
An eager, intent pew, will make a resound
ing pulpit.
And in this connection I might reply to
the criticism which the pews of this coun
try are making on the pulpits, that one
reason why ministers do not preach with
more animation is because thousands of
them are kept on a low diet through the
parsimony and meatiness of their congre
gations. I, who have more than enough,
through the generosity of my church, can
say it without embarrassment. Consider
ing the amount of work they do, the cler
gymen of America are more poorly paid
than any other class of laborers. Mechan
ics strike when they have to work eight
hours a day. Many of the clergymen I
know work fourteen liotirs a
day. Railroad engineers, bricklayers, (
plumbers, carpenters and masons strike
because of the smallness of their wages.
The ministers of America average iess
than $400 a year salary. When a friend
sent an extra contribution to one of our
Western missionaries, the missionary re
turned a letter of thanks, saying that’ they
had, through that donation, meat on their
table the first time in three months, and
that the children had been compelled to
wear their summer clothes all the previ
ous winter.
One reason why the apostles preached
power]illi_v was that tiny liail healthy
food. Fish was cheap along Galilee, anil
this, with unbolted bread, gave them plen
ty of phosphorus for brain food. These
early ministers were never invited out to
late suppers, with chicken salad and
doughnuts. Nobody ever embroidered
slippers for the big foot of Simon Peter,
the fisherman preacher. Tea parties, with
hot wailes, at 10 o’clock at night, make
namby pamby ministers; but good hours
and substantial; diet, iiini fur
nish nitrates for the muscle, and phosphates
for the brain, and carbonates for the whole
frame, prepare a man for effective work.
When the water is low the mill wheel goes.
THE I.EA III NO LADV’s DKKS.srXO-ROOM.
The most characteristic, intercstin]
son in her dressing-room is perhaps oi an IlBrd nalure he was’surprhwd when one
I have known, Emma Abbott. If there is ! sicU / nc d and died with some disease that
' “* TTi slow; but a lull race and how fast the grists
nan spoken oflt. l ‘ e . fou . r ’ d . ia l ,or ° are ground! In a man the arteries are the
levelation: “I took the little book out mi ..® „„ n ,„i
little wuinan is at home, and altogether
her vlitliUoittativ oclf, it is in her
room. She always begins by saying she is
not going to talk, that slie is going to
hurry and dress, because they arc always
growling if she is not ready on the minute,
especially Jean (Mr. Wetherill); then
begins by hurrying so fast she turns
around two or three times, picks up just
what -he doe-, soi want • she then warns J
her maid to hurry a little for her; then
mokes another dash after .something on
the wall which she cannot get down and
then laughs and scolds at herself, and de-
dor* s she is not going to get herself worked
up with her dressing any more: then she
finds *he is getting on so fast she takes a
pause and pours out a half dozen questions
at once, picks up her silver whistle, sounds
the note she wants and then while waiting
for the answers to her questions takes up
her diamonds and selects whnt she will
wear, thus putting off to the last minute
the putting on oi one of her gorgeous cos
tumes; when lo! a warning knock, and
Kmma, are you ready?” causes the little
woman to suddenly start.
“In a minute, in a minute, no, no; you
can’t come in.”
“Well, if you are ready, why can’t I
come in?”
“Now just wait a minute, just a min
ute,” and the last of the costuming is done
in that amount of ■ haste which iiad she
kept up all along would ghre her a breath
ing time before she goes on the stage.
This is when she must go on early in
the act; when she does not soon appear
and she can have a longer time to dress,
she has some one knock five minutes be
fore she is wanted. You can always
count on her bursting out into a thrill,. or
a cadenza at any instant in her dressing formance. HU private trial
but lie did not suspect the nature of tin
disease, and took no precaution to isolate
it from the rest of his small herd. A few
weeks afterwards the other four were simi
larly attacked, and apprehending that it
might prove a contagious disease, he call
ed in a veterinary doctor, who proLOuuc-
ed it to be glanders, the most a U tress ing
and fatal disease, perhaps, known among
hordes.
Air. Tift had already taken the precau
tion to separate the diseased animals from
the rest oi his stock, and has given them
since every attention and care that judg
ment or sympathy could suggest, hut in
stead of improving they have steadily de
clined. Mr. Tift iias therefore wisely de
termined to kill themj lest his mules he at
tacked by the disease.
One irregular fact connected with the
disease is that it does not destroy the ap
petite in the least, hut the atllieted animals
eat with all the greediness and apparent
relish that characterized their appetites
when in tho soundest health.
The
°*W1J5VI WARD MAKf.VO I'P.
moat deliberate, quiet dresser is
Ward, and one of the moat in-
Accuhtomed all her life to a
“alls upon one in th** dressing
d n*nd«-
tni ’ hl ‘” cam upon one in the ilresiung
to iUi? rc ^- v all, and leave* her little
thr ° V 1 * P a< k her costumes when *he is
3&MS the
, ll,e time batw
Ipn anil
()ne evening f «p
art* in her dressing
and that seems the one thing that, nev
detain her or causei a break in her
thoughts and attention. She never needs
to make up for shoulders or. arms; when
she tucks the possibly rebellions hands of
her undergarment in her nonet, or gets
ready for a boy’s costume, there is no
woman living could resist the temptation
to pinch her arm; they arc more like a
baby’s in color than a woman’s and are as
smooth as marble; she has all her under
clothes made after ideas of her own, so
that even when she is reduced to two gar
ments, and is ready for her boy’s costume,
in “Mignon,” she is perfeetlv modest in
her appearance although her neck and
arms and marble-like bust are bare.
Once during one of our engagements
Emma Abbott wus in a dressing room only
partitioned oft* from the others so that any
one coulti call u»ci iuc lup w tuunc m tint
other rooms. Then her trills would be
answered by snatches of song from some
one of the company, and the business of
dressing would ho retarded by the facility
for the communication of sentiment and
song. Emma Abbot was in great good hu
mor then; Taglipietra was with her, and
she and Soguin had just “made up ” She
lent me with a vocal introduction over the
top of the partition into Seguin’i room.
There I found the great contralto dre- ed
for the next act; on her head, the iaunti-
est little can, all covered with bangles, her
arms jingling with a wealth of bangle
bands, on her neck strands of bangles,
and even on her . skirt the merry
music lav bidden in its folds* Yet
there she -•».! with a candle on tho tn.
hie, not “making up” fair reader, not tak
ing a last good look at her face before she
went on the stage; no indeed; she nt there
stringing beads for a tidy. You can scarce
ly imagine the contrast of nppvnrancc and
occupation and could not appreciate it un
til you had watched her waiting to put on
a few more beads before calmly ri-ing,
taking her tambourine in hand nml \< ' the I
transformation. In another in-taut -be
was singing and dancing in that charming .
duet in Kigo'etto. '
Soguin told me she was always binv, j | ,
thought it wicked to Ik* idle, ami wa- ever j
at work with her fingers, unlesM she had a
new i ire to Ivarn, and then sh«-..;j: hi 1
<arc»*ly eat or sleep till she had learned it. : \>
.The Kentucky Derby,
From the Mall and Express.
The Kentucky Derby which will be de
cided in May, is beginning to excite atten
tion. In the books Sir Dixon and GalUfet
are equal favorites at G to 1 against each.
These, of course, are ridiculous figures, at
this time, for neither horse h likely to see
the post in the Derby rac e. Sir Dixon will
in all probability be in the East, and Gal-
lifet, unless he improves, will be in bn sta
ble. Even with this uncertainty a large
amount of money has been pIaced*on the
two colts. Next in favor comes The Lion
at s t" I. Tlii-colt ha- never shown any
merit on a race track during a public per-
' ‘ highly
spoken of, but private reputation i
certain quantity in any judgment of a
horse’s ability. Mr. Baldwin’s colts, Cali
fornia and Wonderland, are in the dark
division. They are untried, hut are cer
tainly, because of thtir breeding, entitled
to a* much consideration as The Lion and
Gallifet. Wonderland is a brother to
Volante.
A llit* Bawurd.
From the Covington Enterprise.
The relatives and friends of Mr. John
Hollifield, who was reported murdered in
Florida, on or about the 15th of Novem
ber, 1884, have offered rewards to the
amount of $21,000 for his restoration to
them alive and well. The parties who are
accused of his murder have always pro
tested that thev could produce Mr. Holli
field alive. His nUhVM and fridtwU La.
liev«* he was murdered, and hence have of
fered this big reward for him. Mr. Holli
field lived in Covington before ho went to
Florida, and is .still remcml>crcd by a large
number of our people. If he i« Mill alive,
some one can get the largest reward for
producing him to his friends that was ever
offered for any one in this countrv.
Biff Money in Jerseys.
From the Amcrirug Pally Republican.
Capt. C. W. Felder, of this city, has
demonstrated, beyond a doubt the fact
that there is big money in a good Jersev
cow.
•Several years ago he M*nt to Kentucky
and bought a young Jer>« v heifer for sev
enty-five dollars. Since that time he has
•old over me thousand dollars worth of
calves from this cow and has a beautiful
cue in his lot at home now. Besides, this
cow yields from six to wen gallon* of rich
milk per day, and the sale of milk and
hotter, over and above what i- mnsumed
nt home, amount.- often t<> as much as six
dollar- a week. Many <>i our < itizens own
th**-e mil l eved lieautie-, but tbit* record is
iy we have yet lo an! of.
of the angel’s hand and eat it up; and it
was in my mouth sweet as honey, and ns
soon as 1 had eaten it my belly was bit
ter.” My friend died in chagrin. YVe
once had a cross old relative who believed
ini war, because he thought the best way to
reform the race was to keep killing it off.
While wu reject that theory, we really be
lieve that this epidemic among books is
fortunate. If one-half of the hooks which
have been printed in the last thirtv yea
had continued to live, our libraries and
tables and book-stands would have been so
crowded ihai ihu world would uave had
room to turn around. If all the snow that
had ever fallen had continued lying on the
ground, we should have had hanks of it
reaching well on up towards the moon;
but, fortunately, the crystals melt, and the
only reason that our wav is not entirely
blocked by snow storms oi literature is be
cause through the paper mills the material
6oaks away. Long life to all good books,
ami honorable sepulture to those that die
early.
My attention has recently been called,
ith, l * V
rrh He
mure vBpeurauy m religious newspapers, io
much excellent advice given to tne pul-
pit*. Long series of articles in papers
and magazines written by the pen for the
benefit of the pu!ffit. The laity are say
ing many true things in regard to the
arousal of ministers. They want more
animation, more snap, more directness
and more fire. This demand on the part
of the pews has had its good effect, and
dry bones have got up and shaken them*
selves, and worn-out manuscript sermons,
after having been preached ten or twenty
times, have been thrown into the stove or
put on a back shelf as fossiliferous speci
mens to be examined by the following
generations. Now, as the pews have been
so successful in waking up the pulpit, and
as “(urn about is fair play,” it is time for
the pulpit to wake up the pews. YVe sus
pect that much of ,• the former
(lullnc-6 of the pulpit was inherit
ed from the pew. We know not
why a religious audience should not look
as bright as any other audience; but how
often it is that people who at a concert or
lecture looked animated, seem to feel it
their duty, as soon as they come into*a de
votional assembly, to look stupid. Some
hearers shut their eyes and so extinguish,
as far as the preacher is concerned, the
chief light of their face. What is the mat
ter with your eyes? Is it emotion? Oh,
no! It i- easily seen when that is the
reason. Y’ou are probably trying to re
view your account at the store, or calcu
lating the prospects for the o)>ening busi
ness season. 0;K»n your eyes and look the
preacher in the face. Your manner is a
wet blanket on the preacher’s enthusiasm.
Others listen with an inanimate look,
lou are a sonhoritic in the house oi God.
If .a speaker negin.s a sentence with power,
and hap|>ens to see your face about the
middle comma, he will, in the last half of
the sentence, drop to imbecility. Have
you ever seeu a preacher in the midst of
his sermon get bothered and subside
from eloquence into inanity? He saw
two or three intelligent men look
ing as indifferent as dolts. The sun rose
clear, but a fog went up from your counte
nance and beclouded it. It is a-tonishing
how much the manner of listening has to
do with the fotce of the preaching. We
will take the contract of rousing the dull
est minister that ever addressed an audi
ence if you will give us twenty alert, wide
awake hearers, placed at proper distances
from the pulpit, so that in whatever direc
tion the preacher looks he shall by clash of
eyes strike tire. How much spirit would
you have in conversation if in yonr parlor
vour guc-ts should demean themselves as
in church, one of your friends in the arm
chair cloning hi- evt*-. another lying hack
upon the sola as it he were asleep, another
putting his head down on the back of the
j cli.iir in front of him? Y'ou would quit
talking and wish they would take their
I -tupulity out of your parlor and go home.
( Hut the stolid and unconcerned manner
which von would not endure from your
friends you every ,sabbath inflict on your
up, or if you are awake, as you
v ‘ire, do not let your manner belir
mill race and the brain the wheel, and the
practical work of life is the grist ground.
The reason our soldiers failed in some of
the battles was because their stomach had
for several days been innocent of every
thin'* but “hard tack.” See that your min
isters have full haversacks. Feed them on
gruel during the week and on Sunday they
will give you gruel. What is called the
“parson’s nose,” in a turkey or fowl, is an
allegory setting forth that in many com
munities the mini-tor comes out behind.
Eight hundred or $1,000 fur a minister
is only a slow wav of killing him. and is
the worst kind of homicide. Why do not
the trustees and elders take a mallet or ai
ax, and with one blow put him out of hi
misery?
The damage begins in the college board
ing house. The theological student has
generally small means, and he must go to
a cheap boarding house. A frail peao
of sausage trying to swim across a river
of gravy on the breakfast plate, but
drowned at last, “the linked sweetness
long drawn out” of (lies in the molasses
cup. tho gristle of a tough ox, and measly
biscuit, and buckwheat cakes tough as
the cook’s apron, and old peas in which
the bugs lost their life before they had
time to .escape from the saucenan, and
stale cucumbers cut up into small slices of
cholera morbus, are the provender out
of which we are trying at Princeton and
Yale and New Brunswick to make 6ons of
thunder. Sons of mush! From such de
pletion we step gasping into the pulpit,
and look so heavcnlv pale that the moth
ers in Israel arc afraid wc will evaporate
before we g< t through our first sermon.
Many of our host young men in prepara
tion for the ministry are going through
the martyrdom. The strongest mind in
our theological class perished, the doctors
said afterward from lack of food. The
only time he could afford a doctor was for
his post mortem examination.
I give the financial condition of many
of young theological students when I say:
Board nt W per week-cheap place —
ClolblDS—ihoililjr -
Book*—nq morocco — ->
Traveling cximmcs - - —
$1101
Here you see a deficit of $51.. As there
are no “stealings” in a theological semi
nary, he makes up the b&lnnMi by .tiling
books or teaching school. He comes into
life cowed down, with a patch on both
knees and several other places, ami a hat
that has been “done over” four or five
times, and so weak that the first sharp
wind that whistles round the corner blows
him into glory. The inertness you
coni plain of in the ministry t t art ’‘
rlv. Do vou sunnose that it 1 aul had
spent seven years in a eheap boarding
house, and the years after itt a poorly sup-
f
le
ha
K) minister
plied parsonage, lie would have madt
rolix tremble? No! The first glance o
the Roman procurator would
him apologize for intrusion.
Do not think that all your:
leeds is a Christmas present of an elegant
ly hound copy of “Calvin’s Institutes. ’ It
* a poor consolation if ill this way you re
mind him that he has been foreordained to
starve to deatli. Keep your ministsr on
_rlicbokes and pOTtlaln, and be will be fit
to preach nothing but funeral sermons
from the text, “All flesh is grass.” 1 would
like to thunder it so loud that it would be
heard from here clear across the Rocky
mountains and the Sierra Nevadas, let
churches do better by their pastors and
pastors will do better by them.
Wliat the Weekly Itnhtntl Propose, to Do.
From the Green si >oro HcraM ami Journal.
The Atlanta Constitution calls the At
lanta Evening Journal the Evening Rag
tag, and the Evening Journal calls the At
lanta Constitution the Morning Weather
cock. Very well. And the Atlanta Con
stitution eaP.s the weekly pre-- of Georgia
the Weekly Bobtail. Very well, too. On
thi.-, the Evening Journal a*k* what
the weekly pre» i> going to do shout it.
We wiil undertake to answer for the
Weekly Bobtail that it is going to wag the
frevwfiiikf dug all over Georgia in the
elections that I»egin with the primaries
bile within the circumference
lews than lour smaller dials are to l>e
counted. The one at the head or beneath
the noon mark is a tiny firmament of lapis
lazuli, studded with golden stars. As the
moon revolves in her course in the heav
ens a counterpart wheels its way on the
watch’s dial, showing every change.
Advancing around the circle the next
dial is that showing the leap year, the tiny-
hand moving around the circumference
once in four years, aud an auxiliary show-
ing each month. The next dial is the sub
divided second, a hand splitting it into
quarters and moving with corresponding
rapidity. Moving on this same dial is a
hand showing the day of the week.
On the next dial a hand points out the
standing of the tide as it ebbs and Hows,
another shows the day of the month.
Around the watcli dial moves a second
hand dividing the minutes into seconds.
Besides the minute and hour hand is still
another, an extra horse-timer. The me
chanism is so arranged that two horses
could be accurately timed, and the distance
between them at the finish at once noted in
quarter seconds.
By prising n small button a fairy chime
of bells strikes t[ie exact time. One deep
Joned bell strikes the past hour, a more
silvery mate chimes the quarter, and a
rapidly beaten companion tinkles off the
minutes. This wonderfu) piece of mechan
ism is wound am\ set by a wheel at the
stem, instead of a variety of keys, as is
usual in complicated watches, one spring
furnishing the motive power for all the
various devices.
GOV. SEAY I)KUOURHEDi
Sheriff Foils to Save n Prisoner, Hut “Sits
Down" on the Governor.
8ppe!al to the Timea-Democrat.
Montgomkky. April 4.—The following
spicy correspondence between the Govern
or’s private secretary and the sheriff of
Lowndes county, Ala., where the negro
Collowav was lynched last week, speaks for
itself:
“Chief Ereentivo OfRiv* MQQtSQBiSZT.
,m ' Ala.. Mnroll :tl, isw. li, K. Brinson,
Sheriff of Lowndes County, llayn&ville,
Ala.: Dear Sir—We are very much
shocked to-day by an account published in
the uunsj/ayvio ui the uiiirucr vt one Callo
way, who, it is alleged, was n prisoner and
in your custody. The Chief Executive of
the State regards with horror
that a prisoner in the custody of the
law, without any trial and disarmed,
should be made the victim of a lawless
mob. and he asks of you an account of
your responsibility for the safe keeping of
this man. The Governor desire* to know
if you had any reason to apprehend this
attack, and, ii so, what steps you took to
resist it; but he takes occasion to say that
it is unlikely you wifi ever find a better
opportunity to lay down a life, which at
best can only he prolonged, than in an ef
fort to enforce and vindicate the laws of
which you are the chief magistrate in the
county of Lowndes*
“We must all die, and n man cannot die
better than in the discharge of a trust.
The Governor does not mean to impute to
vou any failure of duty in this matter.
To do so would he in line with the crime
committed by this mob—that of condem
nation without a hearing. On the con
trary, he indulges the hope that ii shall
appear that the executive t»rm of Lowndes
county was overwhelmed, and that no dis
honor ui inches to it. Ke communi
cates with you for the purpose of
obtaining an account of this alleged out
rage, and with the hope that you may be
inspired with the determination to bring
the perpetrators of this great crime to jus
tice. It is important everywhere on earth
that the law should reign supreme, and if
it is more important in one condition than
in another it is where mere numerical and
brutal forces may lie organized against law
Itself. We are held by every considera
tion of justice and of expediency to uphold
the law. Answer.”
“Office of R. E. Brinson, Sheriff of
Lowndes county, Jlaynesville, Ala., April
1SSS. His Excellency, the Governor of
Alabama: Dear sir—Y r our favor of March
31st is at hand* My understanding is that
section 8, of article o, of the constitution
of Alabama requires that the Governor
shall take care that the laws be faithfully
executed. There is no legislation which
gives force, effector direction as to how he
shall carry out this requirement. Investi
gation into violations of the law reposes in
the grand juries of the several counties.
Hence, as ihe sheriff o»* Lowndes county,
I beg to deny to your excellency the
authority to inquire of tne as to the mat
ter referred to in your ictlar of Msrch 31,
and, on personal grounds, 1 object to any
lecture in respect to the duties the law im
plies or the conscience imposes. I beg,
also, to say, that 1 am not of that heroic
mould which would make me a certain
sacrifice to any cause whatever, except
that of my wife ami children. As the ex
pression of the opinion of the Governor os
individual, your letter of March 31, ia
acknowledged. * 1 am, with great respect,
h. r*. imi.Nsow.
PecLllern Corn* to Grief.
on the Qaltman Free Pre**.
•Several dozen silver (?) knives, forks
ami s|K>ons and a few tablecloths wiil he
bold at the court house on next Saturday
to the highest bidder. The nay this came
to be thus i“ this; Two peddlers came to
town the early part of last week, and, tak-
out a town license, proceeded to dispone
of their wares. All would have been well
for the peddlers but for the fact that they
overlooked taking out a county license.
This oversight caused them to dispose of
their stock at one deal. Their trunks were
arrested and put in jail, awaiting the ac
tion of the countv commissioners. These
officials met on Wednesday and caused an
execution for the sum of $100 to issue
against the peddlers. Not having the
requisite amount to pay this fine, their
Mt>ck in trade was confiscated and will be
sold on next Saturday to the highest
bidder.
One of the Argonauts.
From the New York Evening World.
It is not generally known that Phil Ar
mour, the Chicago jiork man, was one of
the Argonauts wno crossed the plains in
’40 iu search of the golden Heece. He re
mained in California for several rears and
iaid the foundation of his fortune in ISoi
by establishing a water-works for th*
miner*, lie came ea*t to Milwaukee in
iHo7, and remained there until he removed
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