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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, CA. TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17 188»
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
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Bkooeltn, N. Y., Novambsr 15.—[Special.]
Thera *ii AH overflowing ntlondnnco sttha
tnbernecle thie morning, tni the i.rvieo wu
intensely intereeling throughout. Mutleal
eelectlone included »n organ lo'.oby Prolouir
Henry Eyre Brown, nnmely, »on»t» No. 1, In
D minor, by Gullmnnt. An ImpreMive chnr.
nctorietic of the voonl mmio at Dr. Talmago'a
tabernacle ia the singing by the entire congre
gation. Bin thousand voices blended, those of
ion, women and children, make a noble cho-
The opening hymn was:
"Am I a xoldlcr ol the cross,
A follower of ue Lamb!"
Dr. Talmage expounded the chapter in the
book of Samnel, where David is called, while
watching sheep, and annointed king, the
(preacher remarking that God alwayscalls
; busy people and never calls idlers, and that
there were fishermen yawning in the sun on
the bank of Galilee, too lazy to move, and got
no divine recognition, while the honors of
discipleship came to thole who were mending
their nets. The text was taken from Judges,
xiv, 1: "And Samson went down to Tim*
nath.” The subject of the sermon was "Brawn
and Muscle.” Dr. Talmage said:
There are two sides to the character o! Sam
son. The one phase ot hie life if followed Into
particulars would administer to the grotesque
and the mirthful; but there Isa phase of hie
character fraught with lessons of solemn and
eternal Import. To these graver lessons we
devote this discourse. This giant no doubt in
early life gave evidence of what he was to be.
It ia almost always so. There were two Na
poleons—the boy Napoleon and the man Na-
S ‘ ion—but both alike) two Howards—the
Howard and the man Howard—but both
e; two Samsons—the boy Samson and the
man Samson—but both alike. This giant was
no donbt the hero of the playground and noth
ing could stand before hie exhibitions of
J outhful prowess. At eighteen years of age
e was betrothed to the daughter of a Philis
tine. Going down towards Timnatb a lion
came out upon him. Although this young
giant was weaponless, he seised the monster
by the long mane and shook him as a hungry
hound shakes a March hare, and made
its bones crack and lelt it by the
wayside bleeding under the smit
ing of his fist and the grinding of
his heel. Passing along, after awhile, the
same place, ho turned into the thicket to see
the remains of the monster he had slain.
Under the hot climate all the perishable par
ticles of the lion had. disappeared, and under
the rain and the sun the skeleton had been
washed and bleached until It was as pure and
as white as a vase of porcelain. Into this
skeleton the bees had gathered their honey
—the sweetaess of grass tops, the juiceof the
pomegranite, the aroma of the wild flowers
which had stood In the gloom of the thickets,
pale nuns in nature’s oonvent On the wed
ding day Samson had propounded a riddle—
a riddle so foolish that it has been regarded
as a warning for those who, without talent for
facetiousness, attempt it. By the treachery ot
his wife the riddle was easily guessed bytho
Philistines, and Samson in hts indignation
slew thirty r---’- ”—*■— ‘
wrongdonanl
foxes, and these terrified creatures in their
alarm rush into the corn shocks and vlneyarde
until the whole land Is ablaze with the deso
lation. Surrounded one day by three hundred
men, this giant picks up a jawbone from the
- ^wayside and mows down armed men, ns in a
harvest field the full head grain tumbles un
der the awing of the sickle.
There he stands looming up above other men
a mountain of flesh; his arms bunched with
muscle that can lift the gate ol a city, taking
on attitude defiant of everything. His hair
had never been cut, and it rolled down in
seven great plaits over his shoulders, adding
to his fierceness and terror. The Philistines
want to conquer him and therefore they must
find out where the secret of his strength lays.
There Is a dissolute woman living in the
valley of Sorek by the name of Deli
lah. They appoint her the agent in the ease.
The Philistines are secreted In the same build
ing and then Delilah goes to work and coaxes
Samson to tell what is the secret ot his
strength. "Well,” he says, -"If you should
take seven green withes sueh as they
fasten wild beasts with, and put them around
me I should bo perfectly powerloss.” So ehe
binds him with the seven green withes. Then
she claps her hands and says: "They come—
the Philistines I” and he walks out as though
there were no Impediment. She coaxes him
again and says: "Now tell me the secret of
this great strength)" and he replies: "If you
should take some ropes that have never been
used and tie me with them, I should be juit
like other men.” She ties him with the
ropes, claps her hands and shouts, "They
comc-the Philistines I” He walks out as
easily as he did before—not a single obstruc
tion. She coaxes him again and he
says: "Now if you should take theso
seven long plaits of hair and by
this house-loom weave them into a
web, I could not get away.” Bo the house-
loom ia rolled up and the shuttle flies book
ward and forward, and the long plaits of hair
are woven Into a web. Then she claps her
hands and says: "They come—the Philis
tines I” He walks out aa easily as he did be
fore, dragging a part ol the loom with him.
But alter awhile the persuade him to tell the
truth. He sayai "If vou should take a razor
or shears and cut off this long hair, I should
be powerless and in the hands of my enemies."
Samson sleeps and that she may not wake him
up during the process ot shearing, help is
called it,. You know that the barbers of the
East have such a skillful way of manipulating
the head to this very day, that Instead or
waking up a sleeping man, they will put*
man, wide awake, sound asleep. I hear the
blades of the shears grinding against each
other, and I see the long locks falling off.
Tho shears or razor accomplishes what
I ireen withes and .new ropes and house-
oorns could not do. Suddenly she claps
her bands and says: "The Fhillsuues be upon
thceSsmsonr’ He rouses up with a struggle
but his strength is all gone. Ha Is la the
hands of his enemies. I hear the groan of tbs
giant as they take his eyes out, and then I sss
him staggering on In blablindnsasJMUng hie
way ta ha goat on towards Gate. The prison
deer is open and the giant ia thrust In. He
aita down and puta hit handa on the mill,
erank, which, with exhausting horizontal mo
tion, goat day altar day, weak after weak,
month after month—work, work, srorkl Tho
consternation of the world In eiptrotr, hie
loebe shorn, hit eyes punctured, grinding corn
inGtsel
First of all behold In thie giant of the text
that physical power ia not an index of moral
power. He waa a huge man. The lion
found it out ind tho three thousand peo
ple whom ho slow found it out.
Yet ho was Urn subject of petty revenges and
ontgianted by low passion. I am far from
throwing any discredit upon phyaieal stem,
ina. There era these who seem to have grael
admiration for delicacy of and slskusu of
constitution. I never could see any glory in
weak nerve* or sick headache. Whatever ef
fort in our day is made to msk# tho men and
women mor* athletic should have the lavor ot
every good eilicen ta well aa of every Chrla-
tian. Gymnastics may b* positively religious.
Cord people someliose* arerib* to a witked
heart what they ought to ascribe to a alow
liver. The body and the soul are inch near
neighbors that tbsy often catch each other'a
diseases. These who never saw a sick day
and who, like Hercules, show the giant in the
cradle, have more to answer for than
these who are the subject* of lifetime
infirmities. Ha who can lift twice as much
as you can and walk twice as far and work
twice as long, will have a double account to
give in the judgment. How often Is it that
you do net find physical energy indicative of
spiritual power. If a clear head ia worth
more than one dizzy with perpetual vertigo)
if muscles with the play of health in thorn
are worth more than those drawn up la
chronic rheumatism) If an eye quick to catch
passing objects is better thauone with vision
dim and uncertain,then God will raquireot us
efficiency just in proportion to what bo ha*
given ns. Physical energy ought to bo a type
of moral power. We ought to have just as
geed digestion of truth as wo have capacity to
assimilate food. Our spiritual bearing ought
to bo aa gcod as our physical hearing; our
•pirltual taste ought to be as clear ai our
tongue. Samson* in body, wo ought to bo
giants in moral power. But where
you find a great many men
who realize that they ought to use their money
aright end nsa their intelligence aright, how
few men you find aware of the fact that they
ought to see their physical organism aright.
With every thump ot tho heart there is some
thing saying: "Work! work I” and lost wo
shemd complain that we have no tools to work
with, God gives ua our handa and feet with
every knuckle, and with every joint, and with
every muscle, saying to ua: "Lay hold and do
something I” But how often it is that men
with physical strength do not servo Christ.
They are like a ship full-mannad and fail-
rigged, capable of vast tonnage,ablt to endure
oil stress of weather, yet swinging idly at the
decks when these men ought to be crossin,
and recrotsing the great ocean of human snf
bring and sin with God’s supplies of morcoy.
How often it is that physical strength ie uasd
In doing positive damage or in luxurious
care, when, w ith sleeves rolled up and brons-
ed boiom fearless of tho shafts of opposition,
it ought to be laying hold with all its might
to lift up this sunken wreck of a world. It Ii
a most shameful fact that much of the bust
nets ol tho church and ot tbe world must be
done by those comparatively invalided.
Bicbard Baxter by reason of his diseases all
his days silting in the door of the tomb yet
writing more than a hundred volumes and
sending out an irfluence for good that will
endure ea long aa the "Saints’ Everlasting
Best.” Edward Psyson never knowing a
well day, yet how be preached and how ha
wrote, helping thousands ot dying souls liks
bimselftoswim fusses or glory I And Rob
ert MeCbeyne, a walking skeleton, yet you
know wbst bo did in Dundee and how ho
shook Scotland with seal for God. Philip
Dcddrldge, advised by his friends becausa of
his illness net to enter tho ministry,
yet you known wbat he did for tho "Rise and
Progress of Religion” in the ehureh an 1 in
the world. Wilberforce, told by bis doctors
that be could not live a fortnight, yat at that
vsry lime entering upon philanthropic enter
prises that demanded the greatest enduranco
and persistence. Robert Hall suffering ex
cruciations, so that sometimes while preach
ing he would have to stop and real a little,
and then getting up sgafn would preseh about
heaven until the glories of the celestial city
dropped on the multitude, doing moro work
ptrnsps than almost any well man in his day,
Oh, how often it ia that men with great physi
cal endnrance are not so groat in moral and
spiritual stature I While there are achieve-
meats for tboss who are bent all their days
with tickneae, achivemonta of patiencs,
schivements of prayer, achievements of self-
dtnitl, •chlavsments of Christian endurance,
1 call upon men of health, men of muscle,
men of nerve, men ot physical power, to de
vote themselves loth* Lord, Giants in body,
yon ought to bo giants in soul.
Behold also in this story of my text illustra
tion of the fact of the damage that strength
can doff it be misguided. It ssems to mo
that this man of my text epant a great deal of
bis timo in doing evil. To pay a debt which
be had loet by tbe guessing or his riddls ho
robs and kills thirty people. He was not only
glgactie in stringth nut glgsntie ia mischief,
and a type ol thoeo men in all ages of the
world who, powerful in body or nrind or in
sty faculty of social position and wealth,bavo
used their strength in iniquitous purposes. It
is not the small, weak men of the day who do
the damage. These small men who go swear
ing and loafing about yonr stores and shops
and banking houses, befouling the air
with their breath and insnltiug your
floor with their iniquitous saliva,
smiling Christ ind the blble and the ohurch.
they do not do the damage. They have no
influence. Bnt it is the giants of the day, the
misguided giants, giants in physical power,
or giants in mantel acumen, or giants in so
cial position, or giants in wealth, who do the
damage) the men with sharp pan that stab
religion, or who throw their poison aU through
our literature; the men who use the power ot
wealth to sanction iniquity, and bribe justice
and make truth and honor bow to thair golden
sceptre. Misguided giants! Look out for
them. In the middle of tho latter part ol the
lest century no doubt there were thouians of
men in Peris and Edinburgh and London
who bated God and blasphemed the nam*
ol tho Almighty. Hut they did but lit
tle mil chief. They were small men. But
there were giants m those days. Who can
calculate the soul-havoo of a Rousseau going
on with t very enthusiasm of iniquity, with
fiery imagination seising upon all the Impul
sive natures of his days or David Hume, who
employed his fits as a spider employs his
summer, in spinning out silken wsbs to trap
tho unwary | or Voltaire, marshalling a great
host ot i Coptics and leading them out In tho
dark land ot Infidelity; or Gibbon, who
showed an uncontrollable grudg* against re
ligion in his history ofono ot the most fotcin-
ating period's of the world’s exlateoeo, tho
_..ng ,
Decline and Fall ot the Roman Empire, a
book In which with all Ur* splendor* of his
genins ho magnified tho errors of Christian
disciples, while with a sptrentsa ot vole*
that never etn bo forgiven, he treated
of the Christian heroes of whom the world
wee not worthy- 0, men ot stout physical
health, men of giant mental stature, men of
high social position, men of great strength of
any eort, I want you to understand your
S ower, f want you to know that that power
svoted io God will bo a crown on earth to
you typical of a erown in heaveul But mis
guided, bedraggled in sin, administrative of
evil, God will thunder against you with his
condemnation in the^day whenjmillioneiro and
pauper, master and slave, king and subject,
•hall stand lid* by aid* In the judgment, and
money bags and judielal ermine and royal
robca •hall b* riven with lightnings.
Behold sleo how a giant may b* etain of a
eorccrcis. Delilah slotted the train of clrcutn-
■taneea that pulled down tho temple of Logon
about Sempeon’a ears. And tone of thousands
of tiuti have gont down to dtath and boll
through the same Impure foaeiustiont. _ It
feema to mo that ilia high time that
pulpit and platform and printing press speak
out against tbe impurities of modern society.
Fastidiouineu and prudery say: "Batter not
•peak, you will reus* np adverse sriticiim;
you will make wore* what you want to make
better: better deal in glittering gansralltisa:
tba subject is too delicate for polite earl.”
But there comet a voles from Heaven ovar-
S waring the mincing lentimanlaHUes ol the
y, saying: "Cry aloud, spar* not, lift up
thy vote* ilka a trumpet and show ray people
thair transgreselons and the bouse of Jacob
their iizs.” The trouble ia that whan people
repulsive. Lord Byron in "Don Juan” adorns
this crime until it smiles like a May quean.
Mlekaltt, the great French writer, covers
it up with bewitching rhatoria until it
glows likotb* rising sun, when it ought tab*
madeloathescme ss a smsll-pox TuapitsL
Thenar*today inflaanea* abroad which If
unresisted by iha pulpit and tha printing-
press will turn New York and Brooklyn into
Sodom and Gomorrah, fit only for the storm
of fin and brimstone that whelmed the cities
of tba plain. You who an seated in your
Christian homes, compassed by moral and r*.
lifloo* restraints, do not nails* tbe gulf of
iniquity that boutds you on tho nottnatd
tbs nulhand the asst and th* west. Wait*
I speak then an tens ol thousand* ot men sod
wsmsu going over th* awfol plug* of sn Ira-
pur*lUataaa whllalcryto God for mercy
open their souls, 1 call upon yon to marshal
in ha defense ol your home*, your ekateh and
ycur nation. There is a banquette* hall tort
yon have never heard described. Yon know
all shoot th* feast of Ahaaocru* whan a
thscaand lords sat. You know eU about
Belshazzar's carousal, where th* blood ol
the murdered king spurted into the laces of
the banqueters. You may know of the aeons
of riot and wassail when there waa set Delon
Esopus one dish of food that cost four hun
dred thousand dollars. But I speak now of a
different banenoting hall. It* roof is fretted
with fire. Iti Aeons tesseiated with fin. Its
ohslices ar* chased with fire. Its song is a
song of lire. Its walla era buttresses of fire.
Solomon refers to it when ho layer "Her
gueeta ere in tbe depth! of hell.’’
Our American communities an suffering
from Ur* gospel of free leveism, which, fiftaeu
or twsnty years ago, waa preached on tha
platform and in some of the churches of this
country. I charge upon tree loveism that it
has blighted innumerable homes and that it
has sent innumerable souls to ruin. Free
loveism ia bestial t it is worse—it is
internal. It has furnished thie land with
stout 1,000 divorcee annually. Ia one county
In the state of Indiana it has famished eleven
divorces in one day bsfon dinner. It ha*
reused up elopements north, south, oast and
west. Y ou can hardly take up a paper but
yon read of sn tlopoment. As far aa I eau
understand the doctrine of freo loveism ft is
this: Tbst every man ought to have somebody
elea’s wife, and every wife somebody olio’s
husband. They do not like our Christian
organisation of society, and I wish they would
all elope, tha wretches of one sex taking the
wretches of tho other, and start tomorrow
morning for tbe great Sahara desert until the
simoon shall sweep seven feet
of sand *11 over them, and not
one passing esravan for tho next 500
year* bring back one miserable bone of tbsir
carcasses. Free loveism! It Is tha (liable
distilled extract of nux vomica, ratsbane and
adder’s tongue Nevsr until society goes
back to tbe eld Bible and heart itseulogvof
purify and Its anathems of uncteannoss, never
until then will this evil be extirpated.
Behold also in tho giant of tho text that
great physical power must crumble and ex
pire. The Semion of tha text long ago went
away. Ho fought tho lion. Ho fought tho
Phifistiuee. He could fight anything. But
death waa too much for him. Ho may have
required a longer grave and a broader grave,
buithetombnaverthelesawee hie terminus.
Ah, if tho giant of the text oculd net finally
succeed in the contest against death, we of
leeier libra and leeeer strength, I think, will
hnvoto surrender! Whatl Do you tell mo
that tho muscle of tho arm must be ehruukou,'
that th* tons
foot must hoi
Yes, If the giant of the text surrauderad, wo
shall surrender. By prudence, by
good habits, by tho enthrono.
meat of moral principle, wo may postpone th*
hour, but come It must and oome it will: It
then we era to bo compelled to go out of this
world, whore are wo to go to? Thie body and
soul must soon part, what shall be tha doe-
tiny of tha former? I know. Dust to duet.
Bnt what shall bathe destiny of tbe I .tier?
Shall It rise Into tbe companionship of tho
while-robed whose sins Christ has slater Or
shall it b* down among tho unbelieving who
tried to gain the world and sav* their soul*
but wars swindled out oi both? Blessed
bo God we havo a champion. He i< so styled
is tbe Bible, a champion whoso has conquered
death and halt and Is ready to fight all oar
battles from tho first to th* last. "Who Is
this that cometh from Edom with dyed gar
ments from Bcsrab, mighty to save?’' If wo
fall in th* wake ol that champion, death has
no power and tho grave no vlctrrr, Tho
wont man truitiogin him ahail hsveblsdyiag
pongs alleviated and his future illumined.
In the light of thie subject I want to oall
ycur attention to a fact which may not have
been rightly considered by firs men in this
house, and that ie that wa must be brought into
judgment for the employment of our physical
organism. Shoulder, brain, hand, foot—wo
must answer in judgment for the use w* bar*
made ol them. Have they been used for tho
elevation of soeiety or its depression? In pro-
portlcn, as our arm ia strong and our atop
oiasllo, will our account at last be intensified.
Thousands of sermons era preached to inva
lids: I preach thie eermon to stoat man and
healthful women. Wo must give to God nn
account for tb* right use oi this physical or-
ganiim. These invalids have comparatively
little to account for. Parhapa
they eonld not Hit twenty pounds.
They could not walk hair a mil*
without sitting down to rest. In the prepara
tion of this subject I havo said to myself, hew
•hall I account to God In judgment for the us*
ofabedy which never knew one moment of
real sickness, rising up in Judgment, •tending
beside the men ana women who had only lit
tle physical energy and yat consumed that
’ns conflagration ol religious onthn-
How will wo feel abashed! Omen of
the strong arm and the stout heart, what use
yon miking of; our physical forces? Will
you he able to steed the test el that day when
we mail newer for Ure use of every talent
whethsr of physical energy or mental aoumen
or spiritual power?
Hark, it thunders I Tbst day advanoes and
I see soma one who in this world wu an in-
valid, and aa she stands before th* throne ot
God to snswer, shassys: "I wu siekall my
ds;s, I had but very llttla strength, bnt I did
as well u I could ta being kind to these who
were more sick atd more snflerlog.” And
Christ will soy: "Well dene,faUhfnl servant.”
And then there will came up one who wilt
•ay i “1 want on crutches ell my days. It wu
very hard for me to get along, and I triad h
be pa'lent under all my infirmitlts,and though
I have not msny stars In my crown I rejoice
that I have been abio to‘do something for
Jeans.” "Weil done, faithful servant."
leys Jesus; "well done.” And then a little
child will stand up before th* throes,and aha
will say: "On carihlbad a curvature of th*
spin* and I wss verv weekend I was very
" out at il gather flowers
end bring them to my
sick mother, end the wu comforted when ehe
sew the eweet flowers out ot tbe wild wood. 1
did not do much but I did something.” And
Christ shall uy, as Ha takes her up in Hi*
arms atd kissu her: "Wall dona, well doae,
faithful servant, enter thou Into tbs joy ot thy
Lord." Wbat then will be said ol ua, to
whom the Lord gave physical strength and
continuous health ?
Hark I It thunders again. Tb* judgment!
The judgment 1 I uid to an old Beaton min*
Mar who wa* on* of tho boat friands I ever
had: 'Doctor,did you over know Rabsrt
Pollock, tb* Scotch poet who wrote the
■Course of Time?’ ” "On, yea,” he replied,
"I know him well) I wu his e lass mate.” And
then the doctor went on to tell mo hoar tho
writing of tb* “Court* of Time” oxbeuetod
the health of Robert Pollock, and ha expired.
Tba fact wu that no man could have euah a
glimpse of tho day for which all other days
wsr*madeu Robert Polloek belaud long
survive thet (limps*. In the description of
that day ha says among other things:
n tbs woe
I winds;
olclul wl:
ass BOWllns bins moan so luvuumu raise:
And dismal valesstgh to tecsorrowing brooks:
And sorrowing biooka weep to the weeping
And weeping stream asrake tba groaning deep.
Ye BsswgJgnM archway of tea universe pat
oeesn rob* thyself In garb'ot widowhood,
gather all thy wavsa Into a groan and altar
Short Talks with Our Readers, Which it
Will Par Everybody to Road,
Wbat Robert Pollock aew in pootie vision
; rou and I will see In positive reality. The
j odgment f the judgment 1
An Advance In rah Culture.
Cctenca says: Heretofore, In planting salmon, It
has been customary to pise* th* Utile fish to tb*
streams and allow them to case for themselves,
bntthe new Idea of placing them lu protected
pi metres, when they can h* eased ios by thopco.
flellvtagnsaratbaud, sad Ibelr growth to th*
xopersrs* assured, will, no doubt, revolutionize
U A°>°aUarnB«rDnnt has lately baas mad* at
wKuSastosei tpaCtesdosbraskewtotoat
__ u , „ .j■ itni river
_ lo tea awwthwssd, trill be
a matter ol conalderabl* interest.
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Our Four I’ago Xfremlam List.
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next weak. It will ba mailed to every sub-
icrtber wfth his next waak’e paper, and aunt
ont to tganfi as reqnMlad-
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Oar Rawing Unehiat.
Tu* Cosstitctiok has dona many good
things. Th* best thing ft aver did if giving
ill subscribers a *40 sawing raaohfns at *18
with tha paper thrown In.
Our reputation It more than everything
alia. W* Invaatlgatrd these machines before
we consented to handle them. Wo had them
put to tha aavarut test* and compared with
tha *1S Singtr, wbloh is considered tha beat.
When eatleled that they war* equal to any
machine sold for *48, In quality and work
manship, wa offered them to our readers.
Remember, w* agll every sewing maohlna
with our district noAsAETEE that if it la not
found to ba, after Hr* dey’s trial, ns good u
any *46 maohtea—yes, better—that w* will
rafnnd th* money promptly. This shows
our confidence In th* machine. Wa hav*
sold hundred* and have bad only on* ma
chine return sd.
If yon want to save *80 buy our maohlna
at (18 and gat lbs paper, If you have mon
ey to watte, ba footed into paying *14 for a
machine not a* good u ours. Other papers
offer cheap msoblnes, Imitations of ours.
Don’t ba fooled by them. Buy tha old rail*-
hi* Coubtitdtio* machine whlohyouoan
try five days and gat yonr money bask If
yon don’t Uka It. Hcraaraafowspaclmsnaof
th* letters received daily:
'J.C Jonxsox,PalukftGa.: "My
reived. It is perfect In everything
It can be ereelled. .Illseverything
It, and 1 am gratelul to TbeCoestitotioh tor their
promote res in buaftreu. You will have several
'ideta for machines aoon. Band ma two snort
raleibuiy watches.
J. n. Lima.: "Yonraswlng machine has barn
received and lull* rated. Qlvea sattauetloo te
•vary respect. All who sea Kara folly convinced
that there is non* better.
D. A. Poarsa, Silver Greek, Floyd county, <3a.-
Th* sewing machine ordered oiiou lo at bend,
it is Just what It Is recommended lo be, O’res
perfect laUsIacilon In every respect, more lhaa
says
think will order through yon.
Our Agent's Prize*,
In order to show our npprecla'ion ol our
agents wa offer them tha (ollowtag cash
1 lit? l or th* largest number ol inhscrlheTf sent
In by ona agent between now and January 1st,
f-aa aao no la Gold,
2d. For tb* second largest number of sabecrib-
til sent to by ou* agent betwaoo now and January
Izt, IMS — **8.00 la Gold.
Sd. For tbe ihfrd lariat number ol lubailbers
snt In by oh tract between now and January
lit,, nil. —SIS O# I* G»14.
4th. For lb* fourth burnt Dumber of sateerlb-
C rent Is by one agent between now end Jennery
,Utt- *10 00 la Oetd.
Sib. For tbe filth tersest list ol subscriDsts suit
in by ou agent between now end January tel.
lie one Hewing Machine,
(th. For tbe Hath largest hat sent in by
one egeut between wew end Jennery lit,
— The Ooostltutten Library,
•ent In by every egent and will award the
prises on January lit to those who hay*
sent tha largeat lists. Only money sent af ter
October lit. will ba credited on tha prise
lists.
Agents will do well to keep in thair hand
books tbe ltet of names lent In so that then
cob be no mlstaka.
Go to work at once now for these prizes.
They are offered freely by THrCojuririmo*
in .’appraoUtlon of its agents. It will be easy
for any activ* man or woman to get one of
theee prizes.
Names nsed rot be sent In oil at once,nor
for from ona office. AU namea sent’ by any
ona rgent, from any p-.int, between now and
January let, 1886, will be credited tohlalist.
The CorietUmlun Waterbary.
A watch mafia by band, would take a man
a lifetime and would coat aa much aa a house.
Bo perfect la the maobinery for watch-mak
ing that we are enablod to offer a perfect
lime-keeper—our Waterbary—for *3 AO with
The Constitution for ona year, thrown In.
The Waterbary* are wonnd np by machin
ery in the factory. A thousand watohec
an made there every day, and every watch
wound up and teeted for a week. It takes
two minutes to wind eaoh watch by hand.
So there ia machinery into which • hundred
watches ar* plaoed at onoe and whirred round
like a top and the hundred art wonnd up In
less than two seconds.
Thousands of farmers an wearing onr
Wateiburya—and yet we liave thousands
lsfi for those who want them. It Is the mi
racle of tbte cantary In cheapness and accu
racy. Bend and gat yon one—*3 CO postpaid
with the paper one year, or *2.50 postpaid
without tho paper.
DURBNO THE WRECK.
7th. to 12th. For IH next fire largest Rite sent
to by one egeut between now end January let,
80— — ...A Waterbary Watch Bacb.
This competition Is open to all onr agents.
Wa will keep account ot every subscriber
Tuesday, November 10.—A regular exodus
ot Founders from the Shenandoah, r* . region
bsa began... .Rial bss been respited until tho 17th
instant AU tbe gambling houses In Cincinnati
were raided lest night, and aeveral patrol wagon
loads of men ware taken to the station house—
Out ef about fin thousand miners lu the Hocking
Valley and Ohio Central region less than two hun
dred are at work.
Ill tub Cirt.-James Simmons, of Plcksus,
charted with working In an UUcltdlitUlny. plead
inlllysnd wsssvntt j Jell for one month—The
striking cpsretlvrs at tha Fulton Cotton Spiraling
company'! mill have returned to work Virgil
Bone, a rmall white hoy, wu lockod up yeeterdiy
(or the larceny ot a watch, tba property ot Mr. R.
L. Regere.
Wednesday, November tl.—In a fight la *
saloon on Bouth Ashland avenue, Chicago, IU.,
among ora shovclcrs, Cornelius Hanley wu shot
fourtlmesln the heed, andls dying....A letter
received In Qusbre from point Aux, Esquimaux,
in the golf of Bt. Lawrence, tells a harrowing tale
ot misery at that place.
In tub Crrv.'-TUo basement floor o! tea now
Capitol his been completed, sad the Iren far the
floor of the main story Is new reedy to he put In,
—. News wss raMlvsd In theelty yesterday ol lha
allure ol Georg* Schaeflbr, oi Hamptoii lot Ills,
000—Jnle Wyly was irres ted on achsrgeofa
unit with Intent to murder....Mr. John Harris
on Wire street, found an Infant on hla doorste
yerterday morning.
Thursday, November IS -The govsr lor o
Indiana bar Issued a proclamation to prevent th
shipment of diseased cattle fruo that stele—Th
wages of all tho employes ol tha Calshrookdel
iron works, Pennsylvania, have been reduced 10
per cent— Tba number ol deaths from smallpox
to Montreal, Canada, since the oath reek of lha
dlsesre Is 2,041 The salt for libel brought by
Louis C. Wilson, of Fredericksburg, Va, against
the New York Herald, claiming 150,000 damages,
has been terminated by tho Herald's counsel offer
tog to settle at once.
1h mi Cirv.—Tha grand Jury hu adjourned for
the week—This week Is a barreat forthooouoty
tax collector. Atlanta la aoon to have street cars
to ran by elcctrlefty.—.-A collision ol two freight
trelna occurred on the atat* road last night, near
Bolton—The select Called Staler seasto commit
tee ou InitaisUt* commerce will be to Atlanta os
the lSIh instant.... Decatur street supports a col
ored skating rink.
Friday, Novambsr 13. -The work ol uniting
tka Oklahoma boonera la going ou rapidly—
Nineteen enweof brakemen on the Illinois Gen.
trsl railroad havo struck for an tacrau* of fire
dolluipcr month Inrs'ary, and lha psyment for
all over Ume and Sunday work ...Gaorga W.
Gllcx bat been appointed to b* peorlon sgert at
Topeka, KmWi
I* nn Crrv- Clam Ford, a young carpenter, let
from a build tog on Hunter street yesterday and
broke a coltes bona and dislocated his lelt hip....
Lest sight a lamp exploded at tha reildenco o
Mr. a H. S warts, on Luekte street, and came near
destroying tho homo llarr’et Wilson, an aged
colored woman, died very suddenly yesterday
A largo amount ol tho cotton received to Atlanta
this if uon le of poor quality,
Saturday, November 14-Business failures
throughout tbe United States for tbe put wook
ar*IN....Wcdnudsynight during* storm,near
EnusvUte Ind., Frank Johnson's homo war
blown down, killing blmiell and wlloand terribly
Injuring their child Collector Hodden hu nom.
totted John W, O'BiIen u weigher on tho Brook
lyn, N. Y„ docks—Hr. 0. W. Smith, now general
manager ol the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, nu
beta elected Tic* preddooto! the Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe railroad,
In Till Crrv.—Tho governer hu designated
Thursday, Novambsr :cib, u a day of public
thsnkrglvtogand praise Yeilcrday Mr. Harry
Beery hilled a sixteen pound wild turkey on
Petchtrae creek, about six mile* from tho city—
Sandy Borgan, a colored hand on tbe KutTen-
netsee railroad, had hla right foot horribly ernabv
ed yesterday near the Jones itract bridge—
Several firs alarms were sounded yesterday, bnt
nothing wu damaged much Judge O. A. Loch-
rsne delivered a prohibition speech at tha big tent
lut night to an Immense crowd.
lasday, November IS.—TUres Italian mur
derers were hung In Chicago yesterday—The
llqnor permits of all the druggists fn CJffsy coun
ty, Kansu, with but one exception, hero bean
ranked on account ol alleged violations et the
liquor law—Th* strike on tha Illinois Central Is
apparently ut an end Horace B. Claffln, tbe
dry goode merchant, ol New York, died yesterday
afternoon.
la tea Car.—A fire wu discovered to Jaraeef
hank block yesterday morning-damage slight*
Fred Cote waa Jailed again yesterday tor
swindling a conntryman......Mr. iLStumpke, en
graver at Meurt. Freeman A Crankrhaw’e, has
mysteriously disappeared, and hla friends an vary
anxious about him.
The Atlanta Prohibition Fight.
A full history of the famous antt liquor
fight in Atlanta, which Is usequaled lo ft* inter*
(St and fiercer:eta, wfth Bam Jones's great temper-
dod, delivered lo 10,000 people, to hie
text, a pot trait of Eev Bam Jonea and a history ol
the peel Bltaatogbam revival, tho moil remark*,
bltrelfffoae meetingmrkeen to the south, will
he printed In "The Southern Eveegellst,” ol Do-
rentier (tb, 1AS5.
Two copies et th* Evangelist, with this rich ta
ble ol contents, will be sent to coy ouo who send*
a two cent stamp lo Mr. W. A. Hemphill, the pub-
Usher. Mr. Hemphill Is oae of tbe proprietors,
end the bostons manager ol Tut Atlanta Con-
mnCTion. end entirely rsllab’ei Seed jour stamp
et once, I! you want ihla toUretUog paper.
Bone/ in pour pocket bp reading our four page
pnmium list. Out with ruzt ‘week’s paper.
X 9
TOPICS OF THE WEEkJp
Taa terror ot Daniel Webster’s boyhood wuhli
brotber-ln-lew. John Oolby. This men Colby wu
noteriouily wicked. He did not lcera to reed
untllhe wu eighty yean old. At the age ot
eighty fire he wu converted. At this tlmeWeb-
ter had not aeeu him to forty yeart, but when ho
heard the newa he rods orer to talk wfth hi a.
Old Colby wu glad to aea hla vlaltor, and congrat
ulated him upon btaauccasa to life. Then hu
aald: "You an a gnat man;ara you a Christian
man? That fa the only question worthy uktog
or anawerlng.” To thla the great atateaman re*
plied wfth all the earneatnesa ot which he
waa capable. Ho raid, “John Colby,
you hare asked mo a very Important question,
end one which should not ho answered lightly.
I. utend to give you a truthful answer. I hope I
am a Christian; I profess to he one, bnt I uy It
wfth ahame, that I am not suchaChrlaltaauX
desire to be. I have lived to the world, surround
ed by fta honors and Ita temptations; and I am
afraid, John Colby, (hat I am not so good a
Christian u I ought to be. Iam afraid I havo net
your faith and your hopes; but still I hopo and
trust that I am a Christian, and that tho same grace
which hu oonverted you and made yon an heir ol
saltation, will do the same for me. Itrustltrand -
I also trust, John Colby—and It won't ho loug ba-
fore our summon! will oome—that we shall meet
to a better world, and meet thoee who have gone
. before ns, whom we knew, and who trusted to
that seme divine free grace.* It won't be long.
You ceunet (ell, Jehu Colby, how much delight ft
gave me to bear ot yonr conversion, The bearing
ol that te wbat hu led me hen today; teams here
to see with my own eyee, end huv with my own
eerr, tho etory from a min that 1 know and re
member so well. What a wicked man you uied
to he I’ When he left Mr. Webster uld lo • friend
who witnessed the Interview; " ’I should like lo
know wh-1 the enemlw ol religion would uy to
John Colby's conversion. Thera wu e man u
unlikely, huminly speaking, to become a Christ
ian si any man I ever saw. Us wu recklem, heed
less, Impious;never attended church, nevevex-
pcrlenced the good Influence of usoclstlng wfth
religious people. And here he hu been living on
to thet reckless wry until he hu got to he an old
m*n; until a period of life when you naturally
would not expect hie habits to change; and yet he
hu been brought lute tho con
dition to which wo btvo seen
him lodey, a penitent, trailing, humble be
liever. Whatever people may uy, nothing,' added
Mr, Webster, 'can convince me thet anything
■hortolthegnoe of Almighty God could make
such a change u I with my own eye* have wit-
nosed In tho life of John Colby.” 1
Tut Cubans are an Interesting people. A re
cent letter eeyi: "1 have never seen a Cuban
wfth a dumb face ar an uninteresting eye. Thla
man Is a dindy, Ho wean Jewelry like a woman,
sad like a woman is. Ho pinches hie email feat
Into agonizing shoes. A Cabin town to full at
such figures, and fow ot thorn work at anything,
The men go to halls to black dreu suite, white
necktlea and green shtrte. They let their nails
grow loug and trim tucm to a point. Lots ot Cus.
bane are named Jesus, and they hare a passion
for ulntshlp, at tout to tbsir shop signs and has*
lncss advertisements.”
Boston Is miking a (bad reputation for kidnap
ping. A young girl waa decoyed Into a house and
kspt Imprisoned there for months, A well drees-
ed man was seen quietly convening with three
men on Court street at nlno o'clock at night,
when lie was suddenly pushed Into a cloee curl-
•ge and driven ofl, No clue to his disappearance
bubeen secured, and It la believed that ho bag
been foully dealt with.
Bcua yean ego Er. Bchwcnlnger eaved Bis*
march’s lilt. At that time tho doctor wuundec
the ben. He we* a felon, having served* brief
term to prison forsomevlolalionof the law. Elf
march askid lilsphyslclsu how ha could remuner
ate him, "RsbAbliJlaSo me,” w«a tbe reply.
Echvrcnlnger was appointed prolessor ol medicine
Intbeunfvcillyo! Berlin to a post created pur*
posely for lilmiclf.wftb a reputation alrMdy wide*
spread and the protection of the emperor and
Diimarck. At hla flrst lecture not one Undent wea
present. Bering tho hall empty, hcjdld not oven
walk to his duh. According lo usage, ho lelt hla
card! cn all the other prolcison, end they were
not Illumed. When lie ventured to send them to
their wives they wero coolly gent beck,
FrofiiilonelJy, Dr. Echwenlngcr has con
quered. His Immense personality
liMMlirlld nil'll. The undent*, iccosnUlng*
master, have rallied round him, and ho la found
fogtschool. Tho moil IllUilrlom psllenuiook
his advice, summon him lo their bcdsldee, or wait
putiii tly ,'or their turn !o enter hi« co.uultlng
room Fortune flows almost unhidden to hlscof*
firs, hut socially he Is Hill a failure, Ho Is not ra>
cilvul, not visited, not hlf den to any gathering -
or admitted Into any house. However, he la a
pmtige, cr rather tho Independent friend of the
chancellor, lie liei, a lltetlmc before him to liny
prejudice wfth the wcapona ol sclenco.and to bury
tho shameful past under tho glory ol succes*.
Abovoal), ho In apparently Indifferent and cal
lous; so It may be lately predicted thst the Intura
1s his to Isihlon slier his wilt.
Oil flection day Roderick Lsndrraon got full ot -
mean whisky to New York, and was Istsllylnv
Jurcd to e row. Hs waa well known to the east,
although most ol his exploiting was dono to the
west, to his earlier years ho was a border ruflaa
to Ktnias, w hero one ol hla Iieaka wu the routing
ol the severed bead ol t beautiful young girl to
hla camp fire, after ho had emptied hla revolrsr
Into her bosom. More than a score ol murders
werecbergrdtohlm. Finally his Indiscriminate
horse-Atcellng earned him to he
inn out of Ktmav, Ho went to
California, but as Judgo Lynch held him
to check be made hie way to Texas. For six
jeans he and his usoclalea terrorized tho people.
Drifting (ojOelreston he formed ea tllfesce wfth s
teeullful femolo hither named Adeline Bey. This
woman was ** vile ai khu was handaoue, au.l the
two punued a swindling career to the western
cltlss for several years. Bandenon belonged to s _
family ol criminals. Three of his brother* were
hinged for murder, end ouo Is now * convict toe
British prison. Another who wu e renegado
chief under Sitting Bull, was bnrned at the itaka
u a traitor. The father, grandfather and great
grandfather of these men were all murderers, and
their mother strangled her twin children when
she wu sertnleea.
ASIANS*! Justice Is not to ho trifled with. A
man et Clarendon wu charged wfth selling the
produco of land for which he had not paid rant.
The trial occupied several days, and resulted to «
conviction. Th* prisoner wu sentenced to one
mfnnfo’sImprisonment. Affrrthejndgmeut the
sheriff marched tha culprit to lall end locked him •
up lor preclselyjflaty tecmnli.
3lugs Geckos w. Wand, of Abingdon, V*, wa*
conflnsd to his room on election day by the
weuuds received to his encounter with Dr. White.
The voting place wu ICO yard* away, but the
Judgo placed himself ate window to sight of tea
poll*, ti, d hla ballot to e key, and let It slide eleuff
* string attached to the ballot box. The cslet
recognised him, cried bis vote, and the ballot wa*
deposited to tee box. . ,
AccoKoroo to the Rev. Justin D. Fulton, Gener
al Grant abandoned his drinking habit early to
the war. Thla is perhape a mistake. Thoso who
proteis to he correctly Informed uy that General
Grant became * teetotaler when to Madrid on hla
tour round the world. He there indulged freely
•St banquet, end wu elterwerd told by a femoui
English doctor thatllke freedom with spirits In
India would bo very dangerous, probably fatal.
tthcrenpcnGrantqnlstlyuld: "PR qull;”ana
be nevir kite: ward* turned up his gleu at dinner,
norclicwhcietook stlmylailngdrink uahevese
■so. Ou the other bend, It fs i atd that the general
nevsr reached the point 0' total abstinence. Ho
conquered bis appetite for liquor, hat 11 report!
are true, indulged 1>. Itviry modesatalj tote*
lari, amldaowony cosfllcUng rustonltladfiti
cult to get at tee truth.