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TflE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 31,1384.
LABOR NG FOR POLYGAMY
AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE ALL MORMONS
MARRY MORE THAN ONE WIFE.
Cannon Predicting the Overthrow
istltutlonal Government—Snr<
itm Aimed at New England
—a Mormon Girl Elopes.
Salt Lake, October 14.—Every
movement by the Mormon church indi
cates that the old men, the fathers in
Israel, who have from three to a dozen
wives, are in the ascendancy, and that
hereafter the non-polygamists are to
take a back seat. The revival of sen
timent favorable to plural marriages
began several months ago, but it now
assumes large proportions.
At the recent semi-annual conference
in this city the burden of all the
speeches was condemnation of East
ern and Southern enemies and vehe
ment advocacy of polygamy. In spite
of conservatism shown by many young
men, the old leaders have succeeded in
developing a spirit amounting almost
^ fanaticism. Tho recent assassina
tions and persecutions in the Southern
States arc gloried in. In one of Joseph
Smith’s revelations occurs the prom
ise: “Whosoever lays down his life
in my cause shall have eternal life, for
in all things shall the people be
proved.”
"Blood would flow in streams in all
these Ivalieya of Utah if certain men
had thoir way 1” yelled Apostle Cannon
the other day. “And why?” he con
tinued. “Because certain men believe
that ours is a false religion. Can we
deliver ourselves from this attack?
Notour hope and our strength is in
God, and He will deliver us. He has
never yet failed. I know just ns well
as that I stand here that the Latter
Day Saints and this church will be de
livered, and wilt roll forth in mighty
power. The day will come, and Ft is
not far distant, when we will have a
civil strife in this country, and men
will flee to Zion for peace and safety.
God predicted this forty-nine years ago,
and it will assuredly come to pass. I,
and many of you present, have been
taught Irom boyhood that the time
would come when this constitutional
government would be overthrown. It
seems that the time is fast approach-
tog.”
In discussing the necessity of putting
polygamists at the front, nnd keeping
could conjure up. Old wives have
been pleaded with, coaxed and threat
ened, and the brethren past middlo
life who have been slow to set on the
suggestions of the eldersTiavc been
spared the trouble of picking out wives.
Young and attractive damsel* have
been selected for them and appropri
ately introduced. The aim of the
church authorities is to band the whole
community together in a common
cause. Some being under the ban of
tlie Federal law, the determination is
to bring all into that attitude. The de
serters have been quiet nbout their
movements, except in one or twocases,
selling out and leaving the country
without a word.
One couple who were interviewed
here last week had come in f Am the
southern part of the Territory. They
were country people who had had few
advantages, but they were honest, de
ceit, and full of affection for each
other. As they sat in the depot hand
in hand, the wifo’s face aglow with
health and happiness, and the husband
looking comfortable, they talked freely
of their past and future. They had
come from Indiana six or seven years
ago, and had promised each-other that
they would have nothing to do with the
polygamous feature of the faith.
“ We kept our agreement,” the wo
man said, “didn’t we Josh?”
“Every time,” observed the man,
grimly.
“And old Injianny is good enough
for ns, ain’t it Josh I” she continued.
■“It is that, ’Mandy, if we kin ever
make for to git back thar.”
“Oh, we’ll get there, never you fear,”
she observed. “It’s us what has bin
away. Old Injianny is there just as
we left it.” .
They were not more than thirty years
old, and when they boarded the train
they were as happy as two children
just delivered from some greatly dread
ed punishment.
Over in Brigham City a polygamous
Mormon named George llarkness lias
a daughter by his first wife, who is de
scribed ns a young woman of more than
average beauty and intelligence. She
is now twenty-one years old, and has
had ample opportunity to witness all
the horrors of plural marriages in her
own home. Some months ago she met
a handsome young Gentile named
Browning, who took a great fancy to
her. He found her pure minded and
lovable, nnd, seeing that her position
was an unenviable one, he pressed liis
suit, nnd was accepted. When her
parents discovered the situation of af
fairs they locked her up and refused
Browning permission to enter the
house. Through the connivance of an
other young woman he got notes to
her, and at length she effected her es
cape, and the pair were married at the
Episcopal Mission. When the girl’s
father heard of tho marriage he sum-1
rnoned some of tho saints and’ threat-
A POWERFUL ARCUHENT FOR LIFE IN
SURANCE OF THE RIGHT OTAMP.
Tore* Point*, at the End of Which I* a
Moral—A Needful Leieon on the
Subject of Economy8u*.
section* to Consider.
HOWARD’S EXPERIENCES
$300 every year on rum and tobacco,
and I ran across, by a singular coinci
dence, this very morning, a calculation
which shows how little things count up,
which I give you.
Three drinks per Car. at ten cent! each,
for one year 1109.30
Three cigars per day, at ten cents each,
for one year 105.50
One spree per rear, ranging from flu to
4si each, average at least _ 20.00
i early eo.t
Call It |-joo. This sum per annum, be*
.4209.00
at tlie rear “men without manhood B U .H I BL
enough to embrace all the gospel and cning her with the torments of perdi-
live tip to the higher law that had been tion, they so terrified iter that thev got
delivered to tlie saints,’ Angus M. her once more in their power and loek-
Cannon said that Mr. Caine, the dele
gate to Congress, who is not a polyga-
i pfa
mist, was not a fit man for the' place.
“Personally,” he continued, “I think
Mr. Caine lias done as well In Congress
as any man could do under the circum
stances, but he does not represent us.
He does not represent the people. I
feel it an insultheapedupon Mr. Caine
to ask him to go to Washington as our
ilelegato, because he will have to tell
Congress that he believes in the high
est law known to God and man, but
lias not had tho courage to live up to
it. I hope he will soon see the error
of his ways and embrace the whole
gospel. I had rather see a colored man
sent to Washington, because lie is not
capable of receiving tbe highest priest
hood, and can never resell tho highest
celestial eloiy of the kingdom of God,
whereas air. Caine ii and can, but we
must liavo somebody who will repre
sent all tbe kingdom ol God.”
Saint Penrose, one of the disfran
chised polygamists, laid the yonng men
ought to take counsel of the elders in
Israel, and not Ignore them altogether.
The old men ought to he represented
in all the political affairs of the church
Ho felt that the time was fast approach
ing when tbe higher law ol tlie king
dom would have to be obeyed, and he
wanted young men against persisting
in any foolish opposition to plural mar-
President John Taylor read many
statistics of crime in the Eastern States,
at whicli tho brethren were greatly
shocked, some of them giving vent to
exclsmstions of horror. “Oh, Lord
God of Israel, have mercy on them!”
yel'ed nn old sinner when tbe figures
relative to infanticide in New England
were being read. “Let the devil fly
away with them,’’ observed another.
“These are the people,’’said John Tay
lor. with withering sarcasm, ‘‘who aro
so horrified at the Immoral situation
of affairs in Utah, and from whom
come our would-be reformers. Boston
is the centre of this debauched popula
tion, whoso civilization brings forth
more child murderers, adultetcrs,sedu
cers, paupers, and idiots than that of
any other people on the globe, and it
is from these that you may exoect the
men and women who are to regenerate
and Christianize you.”
The ioves ot the saints continue to
embroil them in all manner of troubles.
George Cheshire, who has lived twen
ty years with one wife took home an
other the other day, and wife No. 1 be
gan to cry. He thought the storm
would blow over, but it did not, and
tbe newcomer was at length removed
to another house. Tbe first wife lias
brooded over her sorrow until alio ap
pears to have lost her reason. She is
an object of commiseration to all her
neighbors, who do what they can for
her, but her husband and tlie new wife
appear to ha indifferent to her woe.
John Birmingham livea about ten
miles out. He hail onlv two wives
until tbe other day, when lie spied a
handsome widow who lived on the road
which he had to travel to reach tbe
city, and they were married at once.
Hia three wives now live in separate
houses along this road, and as they are
all pretty good tanners, be ia doing a
land office business. I le does the mar
keting for all, and though they never
meet, they do not appear to be in any
way hostile.
Edward Brain, an official at the
Tabernacle, married bis fifth wife.
ed her up. The young husband im
mediately gotout a writ of habeas corpus
and tho girl appeared incourt. As she
showed that she was of ago and elected
to go with her husband, she was taken,
by order of the judge, from the custody
of her parents, and borne off in triumph
by the young husband. Her father
and his wives were beside themselves
with rage, for they had expected that
her beauty would secure for her alms-
band high in the faith.
TOBACCO AS A REMEDY.
Various Complaints In Which it Has
Proved Efficacious.
General Cllngman.
1 ought at the ontset to state that 1
never smoked, chewed or snuffed to
bacco; I believe, however, that it on
several occasions It has saved my life,
and in other respects was of great ser
vice to me and many of my friends. Tbe
firat instance I can remember ot its use
as a remedy for inflammations was see
ing Tom Kelly ,when I was a small boy,
apart its juice from his month into the
eyo of a horse very red with inflamma
tion,
Ho stated that he was curing it in
that way. While carelessly riding a
wild horse the animal sprang against
a fence and knocked roe off. so that I
lit on the ground with so much violence
that a* to sprain iny ankle very severe
ly. After enduring severe pain for
Borne hours I thought of trying tobsc
co.
Few men are better known in journ
alistic circles in this country than
Joe” Howard, at present an editorial
writer for tho New York Herald. He
is a veteran journalist, having been
identified with tlie New York press for
many years; he was a writer for it in
tlie days of the elder Bennett, Horace
Greeley and Henry J. Raymond, and
has been intimately acquainted with
nil the prominent journalists, as well as
with the reportorial corps, for the past
thirty years. No one ,s better qualified
to write about tho newspaper men of
the metropolis than the versatile How
ard, who. in addition to his editorial
duties, finds time to correspond for sev
eral journals in other cities.
The following leaf from his experi
ences constituted a letter to tlie Boston
Herald, and was printed in full in that
journal:
I have had one or two experiences
and social encounters yesterday and
to-day, which prompt me to write a
letter of advice to young men in gen
eral and professional men in particular.
I will enumerate the points which,com
bined, make my text. First, a sub
scription paper was presented to me
yesterday, the object being to raise
money sufficient to buy a sewing ma
chine for a woman, and to provide funds
sufficient to insure the support of a
family for the ensuing two mouths,dur
ing which time the woman, a widow,
hones and expects to find employment
sufficiently remunerative to enable her
to be independent oi tlie world. The
woman is the widow, and the family
are tho children of a man who worked
side by side with me and my generation
fifteen years, part of which time ho
was ns well known in metropolitan
journalism as any hard working regulire
could be. The remainder of that time
he was in poor health, consequently
poor in pocket, and oftentimes in dis
tress for the common necessities of life
for himself and his little family.
That’s point number one.
Night before last, I was the guest of
the Clover Club in Philadelphia,'an
organization of bright, clever, indus
trious, successful journalists and their
friends, comprising some of the ablest
and most accomplished literary men of
Philadelphia. Part of the evening I
talked with a gentleman who started
life in an humble laborer's hut on tbe
line of an interior Pennsylvania rail
road, his earliest days being spent in
carrying water for the workmen on the
road. Tlienca he entered the employ
of nbnnkinxflrm,where he ran errands,
swept the floor, washed the windows
and generally made himself useful.
To-day he Is senior partner of one of
the wealthiest houses in Pennsylvania,
a triple millionaire ami but two years
older than myself. Part of the same
evening I talked with a writer of dis
tinction, who has enjoyed for ten year*
a more than handsome income, and has
for twenty years been regarded as one
of the clever men in journalism. Dar
ing the conversation, born of a refer
ence ot mine to the destitute condition
of tlie family of my dead friend in New
Tabernacle, married his tilth wife, a
girl of 20, last week, and when his first
wife, an elderly lady, was introduced
to her, she hit the young woman over
the head with a wet mop, and then
chased her half a mile, screaming like
a Comanche.
Thomas Parker has three wires, two
of them tiring in the aerne bouse. All
are women under 36. Both of the wives
who lived together had foor children,
but tlie tittle ones of one of the mothers
sickened and died one after another.
ABfirtUa titan was • disagreement
between the two, and the silent (offer
ing of the childless mother has become
tin- talk of the neighborhood.
Several desertions from the faith
occurred during tlie last two months,
d» to the pnnan that baa
I brought to bear upon the selata
with one wife to induce them to take
ot! -: wives. So ootaider can easily
understand thefory with which these
mslanglits bare been made. They
have been fortified by all the terrors
which the church and its masters
I sent for some leaves and had them
wet and wrapped around the ankle,
and placed the ponlticc over them to
keep them moist. Within an hour tho
pain ceased and I slept through the
night. The next morning on examin
ing the ankle,instead of being swollen,
appeared rather less than its natural
size; the skin had a wrinkled appear
ance, and was very white. My next
application of it was to a severe gun
shot wound. A bullet ranged through
my leg, from near my ankle, so a* to
come out on the opposite oiue, jusi. be
low tlie knee, catting tho muscles and
nerves, and making a long and painful
wound. I lost so mncii blood that 1
was carried from the field in an insen
sible condition. I sent my servant af
ter somo tobacco, enveloped my
wounded leg in it, and kept it wet with
the clothes over it. In an hour or two
the pain subsided, and the heat and
the throbbing ceased, and I rested
more easily than I hnd been doing. I
heard of a number of coses where
erysipelas has been cured by persons
whose attention I had called to the nse
of tobacco.
I also, lost summer, whon in New
York, by applying large poultices of
tobacco to my bip, cured myself of a
terribly painful attack of sciatica,which
had been greatly aggravated by the
treatment of two physicians.
One evening, in Washington, I found
two of my friends sitting with their boots
off. They both were suffering from
bpnions of long standing. I advised
the use of tobacco, and they sent for it
and applied it. Application for a sin
gle night made a permanent care, as
they have assured me, though two or
three year* have elapsed. About two
years ago one of tbe North Carolina
members of Congress, on my sugges
tion, relieved himself in the same man
ner, and says there has been no return
of the soreness. Corns on the toes can
be cured in tike manner.
York, he said: “Well, if my present|
health contlnnes, it will be some time
before the subscription paper will be
presented for my benefit; bat if I were
jo die to-day I declare I don’t know
what my family would do, for I spend
all I make, and am cramped at that.”
He and the successful banker are of the
same age, of the same temperament so
far as love of life is concerned, with the
same spring of industry at workin their
breasts; but the family of one will llvo
in aliluenco after his death; the family
of tlie other—God help them! How
I will they live? m
And that makes point number two!
I I have just come over from l’hiladel
pliia, and in tha wretched apartment
vouchsafed us by the Pullman mana
gers, crowded to excess, dusty, dirty
and uncomfortable. My companion]
was a clergyman of the Church of Eng
land. A trifling incident made ua ac
quaintances, and in the course of onr
two hours and a half ride we became,
as poor Garfield used to say, “quite
chummy.” He told mo that twenty-
I seven years ago, whon nn humble la-
jborer in tho vineyard of the Lord, he
insured his life for tho benefit of his
wife, whom he had just married, fori
tlie modest sum of $2,000, and tliat he
had paid regu'arly his premiums untill
six months ago, at which time thecoma
paay failed, and he and his were left
Lit Ell ALLY OCT IN THE Olt.O,
man enters upon net]
'ty, when his business ■ „
are, are should be, established, Is A\SOO.OO
By the process of compounding on
tho original sum as practiced by the
savings banks, where tho money
squandered might have been deposited,
this sum,when the man attains the age
of fifty years, would amount to ten
thousand and somo hundred dollars.
Now, without taking tlie rum and to
bacco business into account at all, it
surely ought not to annoy the average
writer to put away the $4 a week,which
is atl tiiat is necessary to secure this
result nt tlie age of fifty years. With
out any temperance lecture, without
any nicotine suggestion, but on the
common sense view, isn't it the duty
of every man to put away something
every week, so that when ho reaches
tlie turning point of fifty years tie will
be at least so far independent that if a
rainy day, a rainy month or n rainy
year comes upon iiim and his he will
not be
DEPENDENT UPON CBAI1ITY,
but can take at liis own expense needed
rest, which may insure him years of
useful occupation tlierafter ? The other
way in which men can look out for
themselves in their later life and for
their families thereafter, is divided into
two views of life insurance, one of
which provides for the payment of a
certain sum of money to the mahhitn-
self when lie shall have attained a cer
tain period of life, and is also payable
at his death,whenover that may occur,
and tho other is the simple ordinary life
insurance plan. Peter Cooper told me
once that he never allowed a day to
pass without saving something—no
matter how small the compensation
made, he always put away something.
Now,there are not many Peter Coopers,
and there are not many who are able
to resist daily temptation to spend all
they make, nor many who, for the sake
of tlie comfort of their families hereaf
ter, are strong enough mentally todeny
them luxuries to-day; and for that rea
son—and I judge a majority of my
readers by myself—I favor for all liter-
i.ry men,whether clergymen or authors
or newspaper writers, this system of
provision for the future, which, under
the benign laws of tlie present day and
generation, is hedged about by statu
tory provisions which the most expert
Hnd ingenious minds here find it diffi
cult to evade.
I may be pardoned here for calling at
tention to a system of so-called co-ope
rative life insurance which has come
into vogue, and attracts many persons
by the cheapness with which insurance
payable aft r death can he lind. We
tried to do something of that kind here
among the writers; but with a lofty
spirit of disregard for all sound princi
ples which should govern sucli busi
ness, no provision was made for tho ac
cumulation of assets to guarantee tho
fulfillment of our contracts to meet
these obligations as they might occur,
and our sole reliance was upon assess
ments to bo made upon survlvlngmem-
bers. Now, that's ail very well for tho
first few fellows who dio This, mind
you, is n kind of saving that tho man
tas to die to win in, and in no way takes
hold of hia own future comfort. I
joined several o' these associations, and
we did a great deal ot good to others,
bnt the condition of no one of the asso
ciations which I entered is such as to
show me any great evidence that my
claim, which woo'd be rathe* large,
would or even could be met. Take a
class o( 250 men, each one of whom
agrees to pay $10 at tho death of any
one. It is reasonable to suppose that
the assessments would be mat for tlie
first fifty or sixty deaths, although that
ia stretching the point somewhat, bnt
who is there among ail tho 230 suffi
ciently interested in tbe matter to keep
up the class to Its full number? Be
cause if, in on organization of 250 men,
ten were to die in any specified period,
the levy could be met by 240 only, and
unless there were some one to canvass
among people of the same occapati-n,
and approximately the same age, so os
to keep the full number 250, up, don’t
you see, that atter a while the net re
sult would be very small, and by the
timo my death notice appeared In the
columns ol our esteemed contempora
ries, there might not be more than
seventy-five of the 250 left, so that I
and mine would very decidedly be left.
And what is true of these professional
ass NMations I greatly fear i* true of the
half dozen co-operative nseoclations
which are advertised throughout tho
country with much high-flown elo
quence, and hold out Inducements very
flattering, but, it seems to me, very
As an individual I was in-
aiso-
and one to bo turned over to me when
I arrive at a specified age, or payable
to my heirs in case I die before that
period is readied. In view of the mul-
titudinosity of cases brought before my
eves every day, in view of tho subscrip
tion papers rammed under our noses
every month, in view of the uncertain
ty of life and tho equal uncertainty of
death, don’t you agree with mo that it
is a good scheme to make some kind of
preparation for the future in this world?
I can find you in Boston to-morrow a
hundred dominies urging you to make
provision for the world to come, and I
bet a hat I will be the only one who
goes before the young men and middle-
aged men of Boston to-morrow urging
them to make preparation for tho life
that is. First, make up your mind
what you can afford to pay; second,
select some one of the great mutuals of
the day, indirect to the agent and say:
“Here, I have got so much money; I
am so many years old; what' will you
agree to pay me in return for tho use of
it, nt the expiration of ten or fifteen
years?” according to vour probable
needs. If you cannot do any better,
make arrangement for $5,000; bnt I tell
you, when a man reaches tho ago oi
fifty-five or sixty a tittle check for $10,-
000, signed*by a competent authority,
is a very welcome and delightful addi
tion to the modest stipend lie draws
from the treasury of his church, or the
weekly salary paid him by tlie cashier
of the journal for whicli he writes. Mr.
William Orton, formerly president of
the Western Union Telegraph Cora-
pano, died thinking he was worth a
-rent deal of money, but if it hadn’t
>een for this preciso provision liis fnm-
ily wouldn't have had a dollar. All
that Horace Greeley’s family had to
live on for a long time, while bis prop
erty was unprodnetive, was tbe money
received from this source. There ia no
use talking about it. AVo are. very val
uable members of society while wo are
alive, and peoplo of mark, but tbe mo
ment we lose our grip we become a
nuisance, if living, and our families a
burden upon onr friends, if dead. I
can imagine the cheerful smile that
illuminates the countenance of the
average reader as he puffs a cigar and
sniffs at this advice, but I can’t help
that. I feel it isadutythatevery man
who has the ear of his fellows owes to
his brother workers, and, whatever
maybe tho effect,I,at least, have done
my duty by you, as I intend to do it by
myself. Howard
Ol,,M0 “ Th » Moat” , Remnr^ka- CDt ’
nble Cure on Record.
I have been afflicted for one
month, with wh.t the doctor. eJll?J SS, 8 ***
we. taken with dreadful pal". ffSj I
body, rnyfeet became so swollen Vh'ira RI11 '
safes? SffoJSlte!
IMPORTED BARMAIDS.
Ion, after trying various nmedii c °ndi-
two homeopathic phy.l’lan,
—and was under their treatm«m n d
and a half, and failed to get etaPtfiLi?***
relief. My dtiease grew worst-
became terrible. I tried “flU enfe
wn.unsucces.fut. Kind frtrnta «??£’» P®*lt
get me into tho city hoepiuu biit th to
Tutendent, after seeing mcdecHucdtoJ^f'
.uchaca.ee.mine tEerc, and sit* lifc'i
not111;*1* week, unlci, i wa. relieved 0,114
On the 20th of April last. I sent foJn-»
Blodgett, of Bottom Be e ime, u&ui *•
examination pronounced my casetlV»*5
hopeless he bed ever wltne„cd v, .BS?
grepu, which waa then taken at hi. iW* 0-
whfio I lay propped up in bed, shows tbife
ease at it appeared an uy iace* hat *15**.
tore could possibly indicate bow mM?
and Buffering I endured. The eruntfoiA J
increased to great burrowing, loff y
■ore., from which a rodi.U mittercoSSSS
poured, forming crusts of gnat tJlekSS
Other .ore. appealed on various pin. of St
leavemy d bed. CCame *° Weak
In thl. condition and by the advice
Blodgett, I began tho n.c theCuttcnn2!®(:
die., Ike Resolvent Internally threat
At tlie age of sixty, it is a pecuniary *«•*"•*. “V„ftwo of‘thc^
in ISH? t ri£w tit each of which I bed a »!0.
very'far 3e downhnf STifi“h.1a 000 P° lic ?’ 0,1 c » ch of whtch L h,d P flid
very tar on me down mu ot me, tie is w , VB ‘ ral jjeath assessments, because a
decision of the Supreme Coart o! tho
State imparted some very important
soil startling information, convincing
mo that I had very carelessly assumed
obligations which nn prudent min
would do. The practical effect of this
decision is to make each of tlie mem-
very W( uu me Uim u um vi me.
compelled to strugglo on, honing to
save a little something to keep tlie wolf
from tbe door, the second the breath
leaves his body.
And that is point number three.
Now, the text T draw from these
three incidents, that came straight
home to me within a few hours, ia the
necessity laid upon industrious, well
bora of the association a general part-
meaning men, oi economy, and’ some ner ln the bu * lne “ ol > n *“™nee.hold-
A Ramarkabl* Eseapa.
lira. Min A. Dailey, of Tnnkhannock,
Pa., was afflicted for six year, with aathma
and bronchitis, during which time the beat
physicians routd girt no relief. Her life
wae deipired of, until in lent October .he
procured a bottle of Dr. King's
king . New Discovery, when Immediate
relief wae felt, and continuing Ua dm for
a abort Urns ahe waa completely cored,
gaining in flesh fifty pounds, in a few
Free trial bottles of this certain care of
all throat and long diaaiaea at Lamer,
Rankin A Lamar's drag store. Large bot-
tiesfLOO.
PaXNATra* loaa of the hair may be en
tirely prevented by the nse of Burnett’
Tag superiority of Buroett'e Flavoring
Extracts consists ln their perfect parity
and strength.
system of saving which will provide
for their own latter years an easement
from excessive labor and be a
bar between poverty and distress to
tho families they must sooner or later
leavq behind them. I drew you a por
trait a few weeks back, of a once noted
newspaper man new little bet er than
a tramp. I told you tbe sad story of
the rise, progress, itines?, destitution
and hospital death of another, who, in
his time, filled with entire satisfaction
tbe highest chairs in journalism. I can
find in the make of the ministry and
writer* not scores alone, hut hundreds
of worthy, industrious, respectable old
men, the flames of whose fire have long
since died away, but whose necessities
remain, and who are compelled by
hunger, by thirst, by nakedness of
themselves and those dependent upon
them, to lung upon tbe edges of this
busy world in the vein hope that their
feeble scratch may obtain for them that
which in other daya their vigorotu
blows secured in great abundance. 1
am not a very practical man, and it is
no easv task to make suggestions that
will meel
a earefni
come to tbe conclusion that there are
two ways in which men who make
money as rapidly as successful writers
do, and who receive such comfortable
compensation as th« average clergy men
set, may provide, to a certain extent,
for their own future, and tolerably well
also for those whose comfort and ease
and security are dearer to them than
life itself. The first plan is the ordina
ry savings bank. I don’t intend to
render myaelf liable to hypercritical
misjndgment in talking about nun and
tobacco, but the tact of the business is
that thousands of men spread $200 or
ing him liable to the extent ol his pe
cuniary ability to respond to all obliga
tions which may occurduringbismem
bership. A cose in point was made by
a member who.aiter paying two assess
ments,was notified of fonrothers,which
lie refused to pay, be claiming that his
refusal to pay waa equivalent to his
withdrawal from the aasociution. Un
fortunately, however, tho court decided
that while the neglect to pay an assess
ment in fact canceled the membership
of the delinquent, yet he was liable for
all the assessments previously made,
and also for all losses happening prior
to tho timo when he ceased to be a
member, although no assessment had
then been made; and when an action
waa brought by the attorney-general,
judgment waa given against him, tor
tlie amount of the assessments, togeth
er with interest from tbe dev they were
imposed. Well, that settled
THE CO-OPSSATITE BUSINESS
with me, and it ought to settle itfor all
intelligent men who join hand* honest
ly and earnestly with several hundred
other* in an agreement to stand by each
Quite the Accurate Thins, Ye Know,. But
They Can't Mix American Drinks,
New York Sun.
Tlie enterprising proprietor of a li
quor saloon has at last introduced genu
ine English barmaids in New York. It
has been along-threatened innovation
Tho girls have been at work now for
several days, and tlie result is so satis
factory thnt it is said that tlie custom
will be generally followed in tbe Broad
way places up-town. Four regular
professional English barmaids were
imported lor the purpose. They are
all square-shouldered, erect, and pleas
ant women, who smile upon the cus
tomers with discrimination, and who
know nothing about American drinks.
Tho saloon in question receives tho
patronage of tbe audiences ot soveral
theaters,'and it is necessary for the
customers to lie Availed on rapidly.
When the first-nighters and tbe gener
al run of loungers drifted into the place
Monday, they were rather surprised at
the four women vtho stood smilingly
behind tbe bar. Not only were the
four barmaids on hand, but one or two
traditional barmaid worshipers, whom
English novelists have mode familiar
even to Americana, stood chatting with
them. The men in question were very
English in appeoranco, and they lean
ed over tho bars and chatted with tbe
girls with anairot subdued familiarity.
After a girl had served her customer
she usually went back and spoke fora
moment witli a worshiper. As tbe
crowd surged up to the bar two men on
tbe lower end succeeded in attracting
the attention of perhaps tlie prettiest
of the quartet. She rested two dimpled
and jeweled bands on the bar, leaned
over and said: “What is it, gentle
men?”
“Whisky and sherry, ploase.”
“Whisky nnd sherry, . re|ieated the
pretty barmaid, briskly reaching un
der the bar. Then she added, witli a
still more business-like air: “Do you
want them together!”
“Together?” asked the elder of the
two men, “what do you mean?”
“I meant did you want them mixed,
you know.”
“Who in the dence ever heard of
mixing sherry and whisky ? Of course
not. 1 want the sherry and my friend
the whisky.”
"Ab,” said the girl, showing a set of
white teeth, “these American drinks
are eo peculiar, youknow.” Then she
got the whisky before the first man
and tlie sherry boforo tlie second,
smiled ineeniioualy once more, and
said: (
“ Perhaps you’d like a little bitten?”
“It’s a go,” said the customer, and
she sot a bottle of bitters before them.
They got tlie drinks straight at last,
[ and the elder man was about to pour
out the sherry, when site took tho bot
tle away from him and said:
“One moment, please. I believe
this is my duty.” Then ahe poured it
out daintily, slammed the cork in,
handed each of the customers a nap
kin, and they tossed off the drinks to
tier health. ■ A thorough ' American
bartender wonld by this time have
»re.lM lobs' abteto go alone
gallery and .it for my phmolr.rO,
show, more than wor.!i fan ifo Ph«
wonderful cure, there remedies have
In le.a than nine weeks, rbe .ore, W
disappeared from my face and bodr mV.^
petite and .trength Save retnrnedTi Sa
Irom pain, ray u»h la Increasing, and l?tn££
P bo .1 t, V.1 FI! 0 * hie. My rcitoretton toji?
led health Is now only a nutter oriKi
wee Vv Mr./rien 4 * think mv Sure ralreeStoS
-and I .hall Dover ceare to feel that the CnS!
ir* Remedies h»vo saved my life. uu
IlOtNTON,
Boston, Man , Jnly 17, S& h,pm “ 8 '™*-
Knowing tho compoililon and curative rel-
B of the t.uticurft Remedies, I recommended
them to ML. Boynton, with reiult.abore
described. I Indorse her etatement a. a ft th-
ful and true account of her .uffbrlngs uid
cure. F. M. BLODOKTT. N D *
Hotel Pirthlaa
Sold everywhere. Price, Cntlcun, 50 ceSe
So*p, 25 cents: Resolvent, FI.
Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Boston,
LECAL NEWS ANO NOTES.
Prepared for the Telegraph nnd Messen
ger by W. B. Hill, of the Macon Bnr.
THE CODE or 1803.
In connection with the fact that the act
of 1700 put Georgia ahead of tbo ether
S ates in simplifying common law plead- M, “ Roynton'a Cine of Skin
logs, it is Interesting to note that Georgia
was the fint State in the Union, by marly
20 years, to codify her laws. Louisiana is
not to be regarded In this comparison, be
cause her jurisprudence alone is baaed on
the civil law, which was codified centuries
ago.
California Is the only other State which
has a code. New York baabeen struggling
for one for years. The object ot codifica
tion la to reduce to precise statement the
general principles of the law, and to re
move u icertalnty by settling disputed
questions. It is a singular proof of the
success and ability with which the code
was constructed in 18U3that It eeltlcs four
out of five questions which tbe American
Late litctew for October selects ss illustra
tions of tbe value of codification.
suiaa THE STATE.
Tho Federal constitution provides that
citizens of one Stale cannot sue another
State in the Federal Courts. But Judge
Hughes, in tbe Circuit Court of Virginia,
has recently thrown out a strong intima
tion that citizens of a State can sue that
State in the Federal court, provided their
rights arise under the constitution and
laws of the United States. (20 Fed. Rep.
j 18 *!, Ht is only a question of time how dies, tee Ketoivcnt lnternaliv tw'.7i7“ tln e
]°l|f lt will be before each State will imi- day, and theCutlcura and Ouucnri SoFn
tate the example of the national govern- tcrnally. In just sixty day., I.
mentnml oi England, and provide a mode w.aref.r rccovsred as to be abletoimi&f
by which citizens having claims against It *® 1 *J*?d
may secure a hearing upon them before a wmc - n
raore satisfactory tribunal than a commit
tee of a legislature.
BUSINESS URIXCIPLES.
Governor Cleveland compressed the
whole subject of ;>oliticnl reform into one
sentence when he said that the country
demanded that the government should be
administered on business principles. The
tvhole subject of law reform is embraced
in the simple idea of administering the
law on business principles—directness,
promptness, efficiency, economy. It
seems strange that the lawyers, gener
ally. do not realise how great a pecuniary
interest they have in promoting tlie
efficiency ot the courts, so as to make
them auxiliaries ot the business of the
country. The profession is losing money
very day which it might make ii tho law-
id its work better and with some sort of
speed. “Great is Diann of the Ephesians
for by this craft we have our living.” can
not lie said much longer unless the use
fulness of law to modern business and
civilization is increased.
“AH OVEtt-TAXID juror"
sends me a note complaining that, with
tlie jury list reduced by exemptions nnd
the omissions made by the commissioners,
he is too utterly “put upon” in the matter
ol jury duty. It is easy enough to seo the
remedy, but until “that pleasing*hope,
that fond desire of (official) immortality”
shall ceare to sway tho legislative inlmi.
no one need l-.opo to see it “materialized.”
I can only advise him for consolation to
read two hooks: (1) -Tho Wasps.” by
Aristophanes. There he will find that in
ancient Athens, jury duty was so eagerly
.“Might that tho great satirist of the day
(elt impelled to ridicule the anxiety to
rerve. A son was forced to look up his
father, who had n mania for tho courts.
(An Athens juryman got* free ticket to
the theatres.) (2) “Lord Broughsiu’s I’o-
I'tleal Philosophy," showing Unit everv
citizen ought to prize jury service as ah
opportunity of learning tbe la* of the
land. This reading will show him how
great a privilege he enjoys.
INSURANCE LAW.
The recent epidemic of fires will cause
many a man, who never did so before, to
read the fine print In his insurance policy.
A late caae rules the following point*: 1.
In warranties or representation, the appli
cant only aasnmes responsibility for their
troth so far as the fact* are known to him
and material to his risk. Z When a ques
tion la notanswarad, tt la to be interred
that there was nothing which required an
answer. 3. Conditions that wurk a for
feiture are to be con.trntd most liberally
for tha assured: 4. The materiality ot a
representation is a question of fact. The
tint lathe probable effect of the represen
tation upon the judgment of the lnsnrer.
5. The Insurer cannot take advantage of
the minority ot the assured. 0. When an
insurer has notice of a breach of a con.
dltlon which would avoid the policy bnt
fails to cancel It and receives money there
on, the breach la waived.
MISOILLAXY.
Cattle In a public highway, in charge of
a boy thirteen years old. are not running
at large. 18 Itaporter, 501.
Under the powar to make rales for Ua
own government, either house of tlie ia-g-
islature may grant to its members leave*
ol absence, excuse them from voting and
reeogolas pairs. 13 lb. 906.
Obliterations and interlineations in a
will changing the disposition ot property
are void, unless authenticated In the man
ner prescribed by tbe statute. 30 Albany
L.j:318.
It waa a maxim of Lord Stowell: “A
dinner lubricates business.”
Until tecently, tbe French law did not . -
allow divorce at all. The result of this |y|Qy TH WASH and DENTIFRICE
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fact and of tha custom of negotiating mar
riant lot convenience caused the wit
ty Sophie- Arnoald to say that in France
nags was only tha sacrament of adul-
The reaction It as extreme as the
former fact. Tha new divorce law la more
lax than that which prevail! in tha United
Stale.. It la a ground cf divorce tf one
party apeaka insultingly of tbe relations
of tb* other. This most refer to mothers-
Inlaw.
"Are yon guilty or not gnllty, Pat.”
asked tbe Judge. “Bare, an that a what
ini II'hlul b put lucre to nnd oat."
In Husiey vs. tbe Btste, indictment lor
keeping open tippling house on Baa-
day, the defense waa that the bar wa*
covered with a canvas from ceiling to
floor, with a sign thereon of "bar closed,”
bat the proof showed that tbe “roey”
could be got behind the canvass. Chief
Justice Jackson, writing of this, says:
“The fact that tnt ostrich thui kid hi*
bead in tb* sand and thereby imagined
that bit body was all corered, Is abeolnti-
ly assigned as the legal reason why ha waa
not visible to the keen eye of th* law,
which penetrate* and despairs all subter
fuge and deoeiL” Speaking ot thl* trench
ant etyle, th* Albinr law Journal says
that the Chief Jn.Uc* “has anch a way
leLCleaaM* 1
I iu name
LE UJMI. I’hVi HitES
One xnd Two Yuri Old. for a
RUSHING & CO.,
at ThjmaavlUe, Thomas Ucuutv, Osorfla.
NOT OKI GRAFTED TREE IN TBS LOT.
waited upon at least ten men. The of patting things that we suspect h* muit
girls seemed to enjoy tbo fun as much be descended from 'Old Hickory.' ’’
meet with general favor, bnt after other In tbe hoar of death,
refnl study of the situation I hare because each man ia responsible to the
‘ ' extent of hia pecuniary ability for all
obligations which may accrue daring
bis membership, no matter whether tbe
others pay anything or not In other
words, it a mao has anything be can be
compelled to pay op for other*, aa well
as for himself, according to this deci
sion of the Supreme Court. Bo I hare
concluded, aa far aa I personally am
concerned, to try the saving* bank bus
iness. Bnt in view of the fact I am ap
proaching • period in Ufe where rest
wonld at least do mo no harm, I have
arranged for two kind* of life policies,
ooe to be paid to my heirs when I die,
as tlie crowd that came to aeon them,
and the opinion of a genial old clnh
man who was present seemed to meet
with a general acceptance by the
crowd. Hia words were somewhat as
follow*:
“A drinking place ahonld be attract
ive in every sense. That is why the
extensive decorations in the gorgeout
saloons up-town here get so much pat
ronage. Now, gentlemej, can you tell
me what adds more to the—horn-
beauty, the—er—attractiveness, and so
on than tbe presence of the fair *cx?”
He stretched out his righthandwith
mock eloquence, and one of the pretty
girls dropped a napkin into it mis
chievously. lie turned toward her and
said: “WhatI at it already, my
dear?” and began to teach her bow to
mix a cocktail. After the crowd had
drifted away he still stood leaning
over the bar chatting with her, famil
iarly, while the traditional imported
barmaid-worshipers stood off in a cor
ner and regarded him with sullen Brit
ish suspicions.
Young Men—Read Thl*.
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—George Eliot said that half the
women of England die prematurely old
for want of an aim in Ufe.
Ifor Georgia than the orange has for Florida.
Our experience leeches os that U Is far ahead
of th* orange as a source of profit. It never
blights, no insect disturbs It, grows luxuriant
ly In clay or sandy .oil, and as (sr north
as Virginia to our knowledge, tnd
has two very treat sourcasof pmOt mmislly-
from fruit aud young tree* for market. II
never (alts to beer every ytar, the old tree*
tarnish ZS to 40 huehele annually, and ttrtUa
MtJAO per bushel at home and Uoo to U00
per bushel iu Northern markets. No finer
fruit la th* world for preeervtnz, canning and
drying. This pear will keep three to four
weeks alter It U gathered, and can be tblti-od
to any pelt ot the Uwasd fiats* bsfors fi e*
cornea mellow.
The other source of profit from this tree Is
young trees ral.ed annually frem the ruttlnxv,
aUt'-u Is equally as remunerative as the fruit.
Weshlw..-,! from a stogie tier tniv season 42
bushels Le Coots Pears, art 1 all tire old trees
will average ncarav much.
Don i delay i
in..,' rn.in-> nt run l.verj !
Kta rbr
rdering tt you want to begin to
t once. Kv, ry fattucr in rleor*
itch
. Popll
JURE HOLLU
tnd Fourth >nv. l, Macon, <
nr JOHN r, III - HI N ■.
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U U InTXloabte for PUeve* peculiar to
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It «loc« not lnji*re the teeth,cameLe»4xchc^r
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