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YEAR’S MEMORY.
flfAN WAS BOWED IN
f an OJjO
vinced fils Wronit-Dotn* nnd
roll o- Reparation.
Is in Time to Make
Arrif* 8
hoir of the Street Church
Tiiec service of song on New Year’s
Lve &
bBO m it Witt that beautiful and
S>bie prajer petitions o( the age*, embody wh«e the
Jrf , „a simple Father, who art
.11 souls, “Our
.geaven.” chanted it in a tender minor
They rd distinctly articulated,
eacli WO dew of Heaven into
filling like the
hearts bowed there. At a certam
in the melodious recitative, they
[ace
Ineated: ive-us—our—trespasses—as
r, L For __ g
f or give those who trespass—against
f. L man sat in a prominent head the soft-blended place there,
P whose silvered the chan
j rom ff ie stained glass of
P ■ lows fell like rays of glory. As
( soft monotone
he choir in that sweet,
’ peated the petition of the
r re
this man’s proud head sank lower
ed er touched his breast in
lower, until it
' f jas ernent of anguish or humiliation,
m ‘ l ‘ simple word an
to bim each was
r
OW of conviction.
i ‘Forgive—us — our — trespasses — as
e forgive those who trespass—against
a „ He ^1^(3 himself a Christian, yet
,t that very moment his own flesh and
lood W as perishing for want of help,
hich he could give. He called himself
F liberally to the
Christian, and gave
ause of Christ, but here he failed to do
ne of His first commands. He had
I rued from his door in this time of
Ceaceand lio reconciliation his left only him child, to
a few years ago had
tarn-the E man of her choice. He had
Eer 0f ed his dor and his heart against
and when she humbled a pride as
itro’ng and rebellious as his own, him, which with
fcdeed she had inherited from
ler hair and eye, and begged for help
lor from her dying child, he had spurned her
him with these cruel words:
j “Go! you have made your bed—now
hie in it 1”
1 He had said to himself that he was
right; he had recalled high-sounding ex¬
amples to aid him—had written on the
fly-leaves of the books she had left:
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child 1 ”
Poor Nellie ! as if she had not suffered,
too!
And now all other thoughts—all vin
| l dictive resolves—were overwhelmed in
that softly surging sea of melody.
I “ Forgive—us—our—trespasses—as—
I we — forgive — those—who—trespass—
against—us!”
It was New Year’s eve. In a squalid
[part of a great city, in the most miser¬
able room of a most miserable tenement
[Louse, [white lay a little dying child. Its
and wasted face shone among the
I lew dark rags of poverty, like the even
King stars, and the dark eyes, soon to
I close on earthly trouble, were fever
r bright in the rays of the flickering
j caudle. A woman, young, pallid, dis¬
hevelled, with a sort of reckless resolve
dawning in her set face, knelt by the
! baby sufferer, and now and then wet the
parched lip3 with all the nourishment
they had tasted for many hours, a drop
of cold water.
“Mamma ! Mamma I” rang out the
little voice strong and shrill with pain,
“I tan’t see ’ou.”
‘ I’m right here, darling ; no one shall
separate us. ” With a fierce shiver the
woman added : “Not even m death !”
A peal of bells rang out, it was mid¬
night. All the good church people were
getting up from their knees, shaking
hands and wishing each other a happy
New Year!
‘Yling out the want, the care, the sin,
Kng out the grief that saps the mind.”
“Mamma !” cried the little quivering
voice of the child, “I ’ant to say my
P’avers befo’ I die.”
The mother took the waxen hand in
ers, and knelt by the miserable bed,
and soon the two voices blended in their
&%htly recital of the loved petition,
h. y neither of them noticed when the
°or opened, and they had reached the
m ‘ se , “forgive us our trespasses as
° r give those who trespass against us,”
when a loud firm voice responded,
Amen!” and Nellie rose and was
^ped I hope in th her father’s arms.
Street Church choir
chant that prayer this New Year’s
ev e Indeed, I have good for
. reason
kc owing that they have been privately
> v ised that it will be expected of them.
! e ^ e her father and that sweet
c i ofid will
t be there, the happiest trio in
B C 1 ^’ when the wild bells “ring
0 ) ? °^ in
be the new,” they will
k ° :i ^eir knees, hand clasped in hand,
weie° , jjj
me tbeir new year of peice,
all vtSDrml? t^ DeS8 1 an< ^ thankful P ros P er hearts ity, but above
in a silent
her ^ ^ at Pathetic and remem
red a Petition to both
:
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“For—give—us—our trespasses—as—
we—forgive those who trespass
against os.” M. Quad.
The Gorilla.
The gorilla of western Africa, fortun
atelv for the human race, rarely intrudes
upon the haunts of man. M. du Chaillu
tells us that the tales of the gorilla sit
ting on a tree, shrouded in the gloom of
the forests, and fishing for the hinder¬
most negro of a party, hooking him up,
and deliberately throttling him, are ah
fables, and that the brute, though
deadly in its attack, had to be hunted
out. Of course, if the traveler goes
after the gorilla with the full intention
of killing it he cannot complain if it
kills him instead.
It must eertainly be as nice a party as
anyone could wish to meet on a sum
mer day’s stroll. An African traveler
once related that nothing ever made such
an impression on him as the awful
silence of one of these deep forests, and
the unearthly effect of the apes and
baboons climbing up and down the trees
with such prodigious activity, and with
out the least noise. The sight of the
gorilla at such moments must be appall
ing. The old pictures of the Evil One
are far behind the actual brutishness of
this creature, particularly an old male,
which, like the Australian devil, seems
to be always boiling over with rage.
No proper explanation has been given
of its vast strength. The size of the
muscles is certainly inadequate to ac¬
count for it. The gorilla is not nearly
so high as a man, and M. du Chaillu
measured his specimens to the tips of
the toss. Except in the vast length of
his arms and the girth of the chest,
many of our athletes equal it, or very
nearly so. Among wrestlers and acro
oats the length of the arm bears no pro¬
portion to their strength. Richard
Chapman, who was for a long time the
hero of the Cumberland wrestling ring,
and a man of great physical strength,
and James Ward, once the champion,
and one of the strongest men in Eng¬
land, were both rather short-armed.
Yet it is very doubtful if either of these
men could have coped with a moderate¬
sized baboon, an animal not half the
size of a gorilla. Man is, in point of
fact, inch for inch, one of the weakest
animals created, resembling Vne horse
and sheep in this respeot. All sorts of
stor>§ s have been told of the strength
and swiftness of foot man might and
sometimes does attain to in the wild
state; yet no wild race has been found
which even equals the European in these
points. All we can learn teaches us that
man is by nature a weak, slow-footed
animal, a bad climber and swimmer, and
that but for his cunning he might
starve. An ape of the same size would
easily master a lion, but then the mus¬
cles of the wild man are never hard and
vitalized like those of the ape.
A Senator’s Little Romance.
The election of Judge Wilson as Sen¬
ator of Maryland is well regarded in Wash
ington. He has had his romance, says
a letter from the capital. He was an in¬
veterate snuff taker many years after
the practice had been tabooed in good
society, but finally compromised by giv¬
ing up his snuff box and making an ar
rangement with a deserving woman who
kept a shop in Snow Hill, to get a pinch
whenever he called At the shop for it.
Mrs. Knox, who had been in better cir¬
cumstances before she kept the shop,
had a pretty and refined daughter, who
had been educated and was a lady in
manners and deportment. The mother
died. Thinking Judge Wilson a staid
old widower, and adapted to looking
after a pretty and friendless girl, she
had left her property in the Judge’s
hands, asking him to look after it, and
to be mindful of her daughter, left an
orphan.
The Judge settled up the estate, se¬
cured her little patrimony to her daugh¬
ter, and finally succumbed to her beauty
and merit and married her. The match
turned out most happily
Hexbt VTllabd in an evil moment
gave up being a newspaper reporter and
went into railroads, and failed for §4, 000,
000 No reporter would ever fail for
.
84, 000 000 -—Philadelphia Call.
, .
PAfBmT LlNIMWl
PfprUtori, Atlanta, 0a.
l^-jLak tto-clx Xsx-a-creri-*v fox it.
Far all lnj arte* In man or bea*t nothing aq unfit
Hajuntm Unxwa
REPORTORIAL ENTERPRISE.
The Anxiety a l.ondon Journalist Caused
the Police.
The London Echo newspaper was in
a London police court as an interested
party to one of the most ludicrous cases
which ever convulsed a court. The de¬
fendant was arranged upon two charges.
The first accused him of being a “va¬
grant, without visible means of support,”
and the second alleged that there was
good cause to suspect that he was also a
“suspicions character,” perhaps a Fenian
or dynamite conspirator. He had ab¬
solutely refused to give the police who
arrested him any information concerning
himself and had declined to give his
name. When the Court demanded to
know the latter the prisoner said it was
“Hugh MacLaughlin, ” and insisted
upon being addressed as “Mister, be¬
cause he was a real gentleman.” The
grave sincerity with which this clafm
was put forth by the ragged and be¬
grimed unfortunate made the court roar,
and the police significantly alluded to
the “Irishness of the name.”
The testimony against “ n0 prisoner
was that he had betjp detected prowling
about Hanover square and placed under
“shadow,” When he first attracted
police attention he was disguised as a
match peddler, in which character he had
secured entrance to many of the aristo¬
cratic residences of that neighborhood.
He was subsequently tracked in move¬
ments under several other disguises and
was finally arrested while tramping
around collecting tribute as a troubadour
with a good voice and a very bad banjo.
A SECRET MISSION.
The prisoner listened to the testimony
with mingled consternation and despair,
but made no defence. He, however,
pleaded, with choice and eloquent rhet¬
oric, against being committed, but the
contrast between his accomplishments
and the rags prejudiced his case. Final¬
ly, in desperation, the tramp admitted
that he had been engaged in a secret
mission, but claimed that he could prove
his respectability by persons in the office
of the' Evenino Echo. Sure of their
game now, the detectives lost no time in
procuring the attendance of the chief
editor of the Echo. He failed at first to
recognize the prisoner, but after a more
careful scrutiny exclaimed. “Why,
Mac! is that you ?” and satisfied the
Judge that the prisoner was no other
than Mr. MacLaughlin, of the Echo
staff, one of the best known of London
journalists. He had been absent from
the office for several days engaged in the
task of gathering data concerning the
profits of London beggars, and, unknown
to his superiors, had chosen to secure a
standard by playing the beggar himself.
After a hearty laugh around “Mac” was
HrtiABio Balsau, the Fbenchmas
who came to America last summer for
the express purpose of doing what poor
Webb lost his life in attempting, and
who, after visiting Niagara, wisely went
away, is now said to have announced his
purpose to swim the whirlpool rapids in
the spring. The French diver is full of
confidence; but as he has obtained a safe
occupation in the leather business, he
would do well to stick to it. He will
find nothing like leather m the rapids.
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Repairing of Carriages, Wagons and Bugg es, Pamt.ng and Trimming
of all grades done on short notice.
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JJ-grl have now on hand the largest and best stock of waggons, of my own
make, bugies homemade aim of western build that I have ever carried. It
you want bargains you had better call. Ali who owe me for work are ear¬
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must have it. These who do not pay promptly will be given but short
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MORE POPULAR THAN EVER.
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