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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 : SSit&i* BIOS OUR STOCK is FULL AND COMPLETE , Business and Dress Suits as® -1 EQUAL TO GUSTOM MADE GOODS AND AT t ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. HIRSCH BROS,, 42 and 44 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga. “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. 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