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THE WEF7”T CONSTITUTION'. ATLANTA, GA-, . TUESDAY DECEJIBER 1 1885.
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
•REACHED IN BROOKLYN TABER
NACLE.
Dr. Talmage Prescribe* •'Medicine for AU Ills,"fin Hie
to on Yesterday Moraine-If You ere
Oppressed, Slendered. Persecuted, or
Tempted. Go.and Tell Jetua.
Brooklyn, N. Y., November 2ff—[Special.'
riierc mi o reception at the Brooklyu taber-
lacJe this morning, ami the Kcv. T. Do Witt
Talmagc, its pastor, gave the right hand of fei-
owslilp to about fifty new members. The
Evening hymn was that beginning:
“Most Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world go free?"
Dr. Talmagc’s sermon, on “Medicine for Ail
11s,” was founded on the text: “Aud his disci
riplcs came, and took up the body, and buried
and went aud told Jesus.”—Mathew xiv, 13.
'ollowing is the sermon in full:
An outrageous assassination had just taken
dace. To appease a revengeful woman, Herod
tad ordered tho death of that noble self-sacri-
Icing, Christian man, Johu the Baptist,
the disciples were in great trouble,
fbere was no court to which they
Could make appeal. But grief must have ut-
ranee, and if there bo no sympathetic car to
bear it, then it must be cried aloud to tho
winds and the woods and tho waters. But
there was an ear ready to listen. What beau
ty of pathos aud what wonderful picture in
the words of my text: “They went and told
He was ready to listeu and Ho was
ready to assuage their grief. We seo Christ
Standing, His own face shadowed with His owu
Borrow, surrounded by a group of disciples iu
lolent gestivulatiou, with many tears and
ithfgrcat outcry of woe. Raphael,with skillful
land putting upon the (wall of a palace a
picture of Bible story, was not so skillful as
he plain hand of tlio evangelist, as he puts
upon canvas tho sketch of the text: “They
went and told Jesus.’
Tho Goths and tho Vandals camo down from
the north of Europe and upset the gardens,
nnd broke down the altars, and swept away
everything that was good and beautiful; and
ever and anon in the lives of men there are
rough-handed despoilers, crusaders who come
down to dctmoil and plunder, and to ransack
the soul. No cavern so deeply cleft in tho
mountain as to allow you shelter from trouble.
The foot of tho fleetest courser is not swift
enough to bear you beyond pursuit. Tho
arrows brought to tho string fly with unerring
dart, and often you have fallen pierced and
stunned.
NSW I am this morning to bring a catholi-
con for all your troubles. I am going to gath
er all your griefs—I do not care what they are
—1 am going to gather all your griefs into a
bundle, and set them on Are with a spark from
God’s altar. Tho prescription of tho text,
. which healed tlio sorrows of theflisciplos, is
i ust as successful a prescription today aud will
ical all your sorrows.
Npw, in the fire place, I commend tho beha
vior of the disciples in tho text to all those who
feel themselves sinful aud uupardoned. There
comesatimo in every man’s life when ho
wakes up to an appreciation of a sinful nature.
The thought may not havo enough heft to fell
him—it may only be like the flash of a cloud at
the close of a hot summer day; but the man
must somehow get rid of that feeling. Ono
man fifes to prayer, another man stimulates
himself with ardent spirits; another man
ilives deeper into secularises. It is
not wonderful when a man secs
his eternity poised on an uncer
tainty, that lie if determined to do something
violent and immediate Now, can it bo that
there is in all this house this morning ono man
who is unwilling to havo the causes of sin
takeu from his soul, when the dlvlno surgeon
is ready to do tho w’ork, and do it successfully ?
1 cannot believe it.
1 think the first thing for you to do if you
aro oppressed, ray brother, if von arc oppressed
with a sense of your sinfulness. Is to go and
_lc!j Jesus. Why. my friends, that is the bnsi-
PMtff Christ. Ho docs othor things, but I
r think the great business of Christ is to pardon.
To relax the grip of death from your soul, and
' to plant your unshackled foot on a golden
throne. Christ allowed tho tortures of tho
bloody mount to transfix him. With the beam
of his own cross ho will this morulng crush
in tho door of your dungeon.
Out of his own thorny crown
he will pick enough gems to mako your brow
blaze with eternal victory. In every tear of
his wet check, in every gash of his wounded
side, in every long and blackened mark of
laceration from shoulder to shoulder, iu tho
gTave-sliattering, heaven-storming death cry,
I hear the words: “Him thatcoraeth unto me I
will hi no wise cost out.” O what a glorious
gospel! Whata gospel to preach! What a gos-
pel to hear. “Where sin nbouudcd, grace did
much more abound.”
“Oh,” says soino man, “why then you pro
pose to cure the wound of sin by making an
other wound—the wound of conviction.” Why,
my brother, that is what every physician docs,
or oil schools. The physicians, when tlioy
find an old rankling wound, they come with
caustic and they bum It out, and then health
and restoration come. Here is the old sore of
sin, and God comes by His convicting graco,
and Ho burns it out, and the flesh comes again
as the flesh of a little child. Well, there is not
anrau in tho audienco bat is ready to
have that process go on in his sonl.
He says: “That’s reasonable, that’s
right, that just’s what I would suppose, and I
mean to have that process in my soul.” When,
my brother, when? “Oh,” you say, “some
time.” Well, I cannot nfford to havo you put
off the sulfiect in that way, and yon cannot
afford to put it off iu that way. I want to know
just when.
1 have heard that'Alfred, the king, before
the invention of timepieces, used to measure
the day by three wax candies. Each wax
uuidlo would bum eight hours, so that when
one candle was consumed, eight hours were
gone; two wax candies, sixteen hours were
gone; and the third wax camllo had been con*
Mimed, then the twenty-four hours, tho whole
day, was gone. Oh. my friends.’ 1 wish instead
of measuring our days and nights and nights
nnd years on earth by a timepiece, we would
measure time by mcrcirs and opportunities,
which are burning down aud burning out,
never to be relighted; lest wo wake up with
the discomfiture of the foolish virgins and
try: “Our lamps are gone out.”
But, in the second place, I commend tliat
behavior of these disciples in the text, to all
the tempted. I have heard people say they
were never tempted—people who have come to
midlife that never have been tempted. Ob.
my friends, it is because they havo never tried
to do right. If a man be handcuffed ami hob
bled anu lie lie quiet, he does not test the
power of the chain or the manacle; but lot him
once try to rise up and break off the handcuffs
and the shackles, then he finds out the {tower
of the chain. If, my dear brother, you do not
know the power of temptation, it is because
you are bound hand and foot of sin and have
never made the attempt to be emancipated.
Why, it is easy enough to go down stream in
a boat. You can lie upon your oars. You go
just as the tide goes. But suppose you turn
around and head np stream, then it is not so
easy making progress. As long as you go doaru
with the tide of sin aud iniquity, it Is easy
enough to go that way; but when you turn
around and head toward God and heaven, then
it is a struggle, an awful struggle.
Can it be that you havo never tested the
power of temptation? You have one kind of
temptation; you,another: you, another. There
is not a person in the house hut what has been
tempted, whether yon realize it or not. I
never like to bear a man say: “O, l couldn't
he tempter the way that man is.” He could
not be tempted the way yon are. A lion can
not understand why a fish should be caught
with a hook, and the fish cannot understand
why tho Hen should be caught with a trap.
You may be free from certain kinds of tempta
tion, but there are other kiudssftcr yon.
You sec some men with a phlegmatic temper
ament. “Why,” you say, ’“that man hasn't any
temptation* at all.” You mistake him. He
has temptations to indolence, tocensorioamem,
to rink down into mere latitude and longitude
ef fettinesr, to He down ou the road of life, to
stop great enterprises. Ho has just as many
temptations in one direction as you, being of
nervous and excitable temperament iiav
temptations in auother direction.
You will see some aged man ariso iu
prayer meeting, a«d at eighty yeartofage 1
talks so so sweetly of Christ and Heaven, you
say: “That man has lived without tempta
tion.” Ask him. He has os man v temptations
at eighty years of ageas he had at twenty.
They are only different styles of temptation,
Ask tlmt aged man whether ho has lived be
yond the reach of the powers of darkuess u
this world, and be will say it has becu a con
flict al> the way through.
Sixtus was a cardinal, and lie wanted 4 the
pontifical chair, and history says he pretended
to I** sick and crippled. He said: “Now, if you
elect me to that chair, 1 shall occupy it and I
►hall not live long anyhow, and then you will
put some one else in tho chair.” Ho was elect
ed to that position. He moved to it
crutches. Getting to the chair he threw aside
the crutches. He said: “While I was hunting for
the keys of St. Peter, it was appropriate I
stooped; but having found the keys of St.
Peter, there is no reason why I should stoo;
any longer." So his crutches were gone ant
he was well. Oh, how suggestive of tempto
tion! It seems at one time to lie wan aud weak
and crippled, hut give it a throne and ft be
comes a tyrant to grind your soul luto ruin.
\Vell, now you say: "All persons beiug tempt
ed, ivhat.arc we to do wiicu we aro assailed ol
temptation? When tho wave dashes agaiust
us is there uotliing to hold on to? Is a man to
go into this war with the world, tho flesh aud
the devil, with uo lieln?” I will tell you, my
friends: The wisest thing for you to do in tho
day of temptation is, like these disciples of tny
text, to go nnd tell Jesus. In the eyes that
wept.with the Bethany sisters I sec shining
hope. Jn that voice that broke tho silence of
the tomb until the widow of Nain got back her
son nnd stupendous sorrow made up in the
nuns of rapture—aye iu that voice—I bear the
command and the promise: "Cast thy burden
on the Lord, and he will sustain thee.’
knows all alwut temptation. Tempted iu all
points like as we are. Go and tell Jesus.
Again, I commend this behavior of tho dis
ciples in my text, to all those who are slan
dered nnd abused and persecuted. When these
disciples saw that Herod had taken the head
of John tbo Baptist, they knew their own
heads were not safe. Every John ha* his
Herrd. There arc people that do not think
overmuch of you. Your misfortunes would b©
honey-comb to them. They iiiss at you
through their teeth, and misinterpret your ac
tions, and would be glad to see you upset,
They would be tho most submissive mourners
at your funeral.
Every ono conics, during tho course of life,
to he pommelled. Sonic nlander conics at you,
horned nnd tusked and hoofed to trample ami
to gore you, and you think you aro peculiar
in that respect. No. “All who live godly in
Christ Jesus must suffer persecution.” If you
arc able this morning to say: “I haven’t an
enemy in all tho world.” it is proof positive
you have not done your duty; for when a man
does his duty, lie challenges all earth and hell,
and that challenge will bring against him oi
position and scorn nnd persecution. It is so i
all circles of life.
Ono would liavo thought that if any mn
ought to have been free from persecution, it
" reat masses of
wearing him-
, . :t tho learned
Dr. Johnson called him a mountebank. Robert
Hall preached about the glories of heaven as no
uninspired man ever preached about them, and
it is said when ho preached about heaven, hi*
face shone like an angel’s, and yet good Chris
tian John Foster writes of Robert Hall, say
ing: “Robert Hall is a mere actor, and when lie
talks about heaven, tho smile on his face is the
reflection of his own vanity.” John Wesley
stirred all England with reform, audyetlio
was caricatured by all the small wits of his
day. He was pictorializcd, history says, on tho
board fences of London, nnd every where ho
was the target for the punsters; yet John Wes
ley stands today before all Christendom, his
name mightier than any other name except
“the name that is above every other name,”
the name of Christ. And can yon expect to
escape hardship nnd assault and abuse and
slander? You will not,
But what aro you to do when -you aro lied
about and assaulted? Aro ypugoing to hunt up
the slanderer? While you are explain
ing one falsehood there will be fifty peoplo who
have just that moment heard of that particular
falsehood. Wliilo you aro not to omit every
opportunity
Mil you of C
said about Him, whose sobriety was disputed,
whose mission was scoffed, whose companion
ship was denounced, who was pursued as a
babe, spat on as a man, and howled at after Ho
was dead. Go to Him with all tho wounds of
your soul.
l)o not go around trying to crush this false-
exasnerat-
d; but take the counsel of tho text. Do as
these disciples of tho text did—go and tell
Jesus. Go into his presence and say; “Lord,
1 sec Thy wounds, tho wounds of Thy head,
the wounds of Thy feet, the wounds of Thy
hand, the wounds of Thy side, and by Thine
own wounds I ask Thee to pity mino.” Try no
longer to carry that burden. Oh, abused soul
go and tell Jcsrof
Again I commend tho behavior of these dls-
iple* to the bereaved. As I stand here Sab
bath by Sabbath, and I look ofiT upon this*audi
ence, how many signals of monrning do I be
hold ! God has his own way of breaking .tip the
family. The emigration from this world to tho
next is so vast an enterprise, that God only can
conduct it. That emigration from earth to
eternity keeps three-fourths of the families of
the world in desolation. Tho child that lay
near the mother’s heart, is taken to lie In tho
cold aud in tho darkness. Tbo laughter freezes
to the girl’s lip and the rose scatters. The boy
conics in from the harvest fields of Shuuam
saying: “My4»ead, my head!” and dies on tho
lap of his mother. Widowhood stands with
tragedy of woe struck into the pallor of the
chi ck, nnd oiphangc cries iu vain for father
and for mother.
Sometimes when we have sorrow our friends
pome in, nnd they try to sympathize with us to
a certain extent: hut they cannot understand
all the grief. They do as well as they can
but they cannot understand it altogether. But,
blessed be God! Christ knows. He has been
all through tho trouble and all around about
it. He has counted the tears, (and counted tho
groans, ami before the tears started, and before
the groans began, he saw tho hiding-place of
the sorrow. Bono of our bone. Flesh of oar
flesh. Heart of our heart. Sorrow of our sor
row. As long ns he remembers Lazarus'*
tomb, he will stand beside us in the cemetery.
As long as he remembers bis own heartbreaks,
he will stand with you in the laceration of
your affections. When he forgets his footsore
way, and his lonely nights, and liis weary
mind, and his exhausted body, and his awful
cross, and his solemn grave, then will ho for
get you; hut not until then.
Sometimes when we have trouble, onr friends
arc far away from us. We write a letter say
ing: “Come right away;” or wo telegraph to
them saying: “Take the next train; cornq im
mediately ;” but it may take hours, it may
take days, before they reach us in our trouble.
But I have to tell you this morning of One
who is near to help, ever near, near before you.
Ix-hind you, withiu you, nearer than the staff
on which you lean, nearer than the cup you
press to your lip, nearer than the handkerchief'
with which you wipe away tbo tears. I preach
llim, an everpresent Jesus. Sometimes when
we have trouble our friends come and they do
till they can for ns; hut they cannot relieve all
tho trouble, they eannot disentangle our
finances, they cannot cure our sick, they can
not raise our dead.
Illi ssi d be God! the One to whom those disci
ples went has nil power in beaveu and on
iartb, and he will, at juilthc right time, balk
our (uhiiuitics: and ut fust the right time, in
the pretence of an applauding earth and a re
sounding heaven, will raise our dead. O, I
preach him, an almighty Christ! The hist
swore! will leap from the srabfxsrtlof Omnipo
tence, and the last resource of infinite God be
exhausted, before God will allow one of his
children to cry for comfort and not get ft. I
hr an! of a child who went to sea with her
father, a sea captain, and when the first storm
came in the midnight the littlechiidawakeoed
and rushed out in great fright, and cried:
“Where’s father? Where’s fisther?" Then
they toUI her the father was on deck, and that
he was guiding the ship, and he was watching
the ►term, and she said: “Well, if fisther** on
deck, then I'll go to sleep.” So she went to
sleep.
O! ye who arc tossed in the storms of this
life, I want to tell you the Lord is guiding the
ship; your Father Is on deck, and Ho will
bring you through into tho harbor. O! yo
whose checks are wet with tho night dew of
the grave, ye whose hearts aro tried with a
sirocco, in the name of a religion which can
wipe every tear, and lift every burdeu, and de
liver every captive, and illumine every dark
ness, I implore you, go and tell Jesus. If you
will not, if you try to carry your sins aud your
burden yourself I will tell you, my brother,
plniuly, your lire will bo a failure, your death
will he u toaster, and eternity a calamity; but
if you will go to Christ with all your sins, and
all your sorrows today, your foot will strike
the upward path, and tlio shining messengers
who tell above what is done here will make the
arches of God resound with tho tidings that you
have gone to tell Jesus.
Well, I look over this audience and I wonder
Whether you will carry your own burdens,
whether you nro going to be so foolhardy as to
take the consequences of your own sin, when
there is a balm, a balsam, for all wounds, and
pardon for all transgressions. Soon you will
be gone, nnd gone forever. ’You remember
how Xerxes felt when he looked at his army-
two million men—perhaps tho greatest army
ever marshalled. Xerxes rode along tliat
army and reviewed it. Two million men! And
after he had reviewed the troops he camo to a
hill, nnd he looked off upon tho great host,
and ho burst into tears. Ono of his
stall' officers expressed surprise that
at a time when ho ought to ho full of exulta
tion and triumph, he should weep; mid asked
him why he wept. “Oh,” ho said, “I weep be*
reuse so soon all Ibis host will be gone.” Anil
this morning I look off upon this audience,
and I re alize that soon you will all be gone-
gone from tlio church, gone from the homo
circle, gone from business circles, nnd gono
forever. Whither? Whither?
Our sgo Is but a falling leaf,
A dropping tear.
Not many lives, but only one hare ire—
One, only oue.
How sacred should that one life be,
That narrow span!’’
Sam Jones In St. Louis.
Messrs. Sam Jones and Snm Small begin today a
union meeting In St. Louis that promises to bo tho
most remarkable religious meeting ever held lu this
country. All the pastors of the city havo united In
the meeting, and 3fr. G. A. Baker, president of the
Continental bank, is head of the committee ou ar
rangements. The exposition music hall has been
engaged by the committee at a cost of threo hun
dred dollars per day, and Mr. Jones has been urged
to give St. Louis a full mouth.
Reporters of the St. Louis papers rale out seventy-
five miles with the committee to meet Mr. Jones,
nnd all of them had extended Interviews with him.
We copy from the Republican a few points about
31 r. Jones:
I would like tonsk you a question or two upon
biblical matters,” suggested the rej*orter, after a
pause. Mr. Jones expressed a willingness to re-
fcj»ond, and tho reporter said :
“There has been much discussion as to whore
Cain, after slaying Abel and Qeelng luto the land of
Nod, got his wife.’’
“That’s easily answered; bo got her from his
thcr-in-law," replied Mr. Joucs, with a hearty
ugh.
“Well, tell me your idea of hell; do you believe
Jn n literal hell?”
Why, of course I do.”
•Well, where is it V”
‘As 1 never expect to go there, I never took the
trouble to find out. I do know where heaven is,
and
IIF.J^DIKO THAT WAY,
but before I’m iu heaven six months I'll know all
these things, aud I'm satisfied to wait until then.
1 think those fellows who arc going to hell had
better find out where it I*. When I cmlgrato ton
Mrnngc country, I always inquire about It.”
How do you defray expenses—by collections?”
Oh, no; by private contributions. When I re
fused the 910,000 house nnd 95,000 in bonds that tho
Nashville people offered to give tnc, it spiked tho
guns ofa great many who said I was doing my work
for money. I was offered 9100 a night by a lecture
agent for a term of three months; that would lie
about 17,500; but they might as wall liavo offered
me 91, as I would pot quit my work for any money.”
The ova Jure) J*t in but JjiJmJUblo way routed an
anecdote which he said was introduced in the
»]>eeeh of Johu Heals, of tho Sunny South, on pro
hibition last week, bnhl Mr. Seals; “The uuttpro-
hlhltlonhts say we are too hard on them in onr
criticisms, though
slaying men and
S iring children. TL.
ong the road In front of a man’s
Itch fork on his shoulder, when
.jmped over the fence and mado fi
cl low stuck tho prongs of the fork
THROl’Oll TIIE DOO.
The owner of the dog come out and demanded:
Sir! What did you stick that fork through my dog
i-llow replied: ‘W
‘Why didn’t yoi
other end of the fork?’ Tho ibllow replied; 'Why
didn’t he come at ino with the other end?’ ”
The reporter called Mr. Jones's attention to tho
editorial paragraph iu the Republican yesterday
morning, wherein he was requested to hump him
self while here. He read it with a smile and re
marked : “That reminds me of that western fel
low’s eulogy of his wife. She died, nnd he couldn’t
get a preacher, so he ftinrrallzcd her himself. After
the neighbor* had assembled lie said amid sob* of
grief: “Sally Ann wasn’t much cddlcatcd; she
didn't know much of Greek or Latin, but when it
reme to darnin' socks and makin' fatty bread sho
ayallcr dorg under n wagon.” A Taller dorg’
bis ideal of fidelity nnd with his audience he
d have tab! nothing more eulogistic of
his wife, ro with the Republican; it would have me
meet the expectations of cultured Ht. J/miIm with
first class pump", j suppose In St. I/ml* that
inruns some great thing. By the way. tho Ht. I/ml*
paper* have been very kind toward mo and my
incut educator from Tennessee, saying that he wiw
low a happy Christian, and was first deeply itn.
pressed by a sermon of mine published in a Ht,
Louis paper n few weeks ago. I receive many such
otters. I shall ever lie gratcfiil to tho press. I care
not whnt they may say in their editorial columns,
if they will but give mu room In their reiairtorial
columns. They sjienk in the editorial ana I In tho
reportorial, J can't tolerate a dull town; stagna
tion is the last stopping place this side of damna
tion.”
It is announced that the Rov. Sam Jones,
who is perhaps best known ft- the great Southern
wlllopiuj-woliopus, is headed for Chicago with a
determination to convert the w hole town to hta or
thodoxy. We venture to! predict that ho will re-
—. d th(|t j, e W |j| tl0
find Chicago much more
orthodox town than ho bclluvcd it Jo be; he
>odisappointed, but the dlsr“ _, ~‘—
Ijc an agrceal
Dijiui nix in inwgXTBi roiJHUuiiiiy mu )nnnvr in-
finenco—broadened, undoubtedly, by experience hi
thl* mighty, busy west, but yankcestill; yes.yankoe
at heart and lu brain aud muscle. For puritan ism
t man is like h aven In u bmf. nnd we bare
fear for him who Is streaked with It.
Ho, cumc to see ns, Ham Jones, ami dwell with us.
We're not Ix-yoml redemption, we know, for run
ning dean through the nnK of tis Is that cvcrhot-
ing streak of jinrilani-iii (lu; jrunkec may at flr.tt
deny, but which he sometime* h ams to glory in.
Our mother* w<u»hl|»cd in purUuulc fanes, and we
.enerate their memory. And we hold ihf* to he au
etc mill truth: That he who remember* mot her, aud
who lias knelt at mother’s shin, cherishes ever in
' i heart an homage for the purity, the iwtolncw
l the goodness of religion!
••You Ware Hie Woman, Were Your*
■aria Letter to the London Telegraph.
A most “lamentable comedy,” which casta a
curious light on certain characteristic* of French
life, has been recently enacted in one of the sub-
urban cemeteries of Pari*, on the occasion of tho
recent animul visits to the (omls of the dead, a
yotmgwUiow arrived at I he monument erected to
the memory of her dead husband, and, not
withstanding the notorious unfaithfulm-i of
departed spouse, which hart of-
been a liorie of contention be*
r them In hi* life time, die pnrparert to place
fresh flower* and coronals on the grave. While
upigid in this meritorious action, she wai sudden-
urprfoed to nee a young woman of about her own
rather |»n ponrettine appearance,
jotrewlt with flower*. The widow, rising sud
denly to the li' fght of the situation, cried out.
Oh ! you were the woman, wen* you?” and lm*
icdhuejy fv 11 ofsiji her rival like a' llooeve
A desperate tooth and nail cwounU-r raged for
onlsbefore the t«atib, during which tho
il Immortelles were scattered to the f*mr
wind*. The piercing tries of the fombotant* a*
they warmed to their work brought the keepers of
the cemetery to the ‘pot, and the two rival*, who In
the meantime considerably damaged each other.
tli Mime difficulty. Then they left
Hi fferr-nt exit*, tnc w idow protesting
loudly against the barefiu'ert Impudence of her do.
parted enemy, who actually graved her at her hut-.
band's grave.
Unprecedented succ'-s* and 'still hrereaping
sale* attend Dr. Bull’* tMigh Syrup. 27 cts.
TOPICS OF THE WEEEK
A Washington special to tlm Chicago Tri
bune says that the first of several eases pending
in tho supreme court of the United Stases, in
volving the constitutionality of several feat
urea of tho prohibition laws, ha* just been sub.
Blitted# It is the case of George A. and Fred
W. Bowman, plaintiffs in error, against the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway company,
Plaintiffs offered to defendant at Chicago to
ship 1,000 kegs of beer to themselves at Mar-
slialltown, In., but defendant refused to carry
this freight because plaintiflk had uo permit
sell beer for mechanical, medicinal, culinary
sacramental purposes from the auditor of tho
county in which Marshalltown is situated, ns
provided by tho Iowa statute. Tlmt law
nirthermore make# It a penal offense for any
common carrier to trausnort liquors in the
state, except a permit for their sale has boon
granted. Plaintiffs claim that part of tho law
to be unconstitutional. They say that it in
volves a restriction of inter-state commerce,
which, by the ct nstitution is under tho solo
control of congrcr*. The lawmakers of Iowa
claimed the right to exclude from tho state all
nnisnnces, and ib-dared spirituous liquors in
tended to bo u*t d ns a beverage a nuisance.
Plaintiffs claim, however, that such liquors aro
not declared to t a nuisance per sc, as they
may be sold anil used for certain purposes
enumerated ab<u •*. A distinction of that kind
they claim, show the article not to be a nuis
cnee, nnd its oxcl ion from tho state is an at
tempt to regulute commerce between tho
slates. Plaintiff. Airthermorc point to that
p.rt of the Iowa iuw permitting tho hringfug
into the state of i ] spirituous liquors imported
from foreign countries. This exception was
made In obeyanc to the federal law's. They
claim that, as Was decided by tlio supremo
court in the ease < f railroad company against
Huscu (05 U. 8., ‘Win, “the state can no more
prohibit or regular* that [commerce] which is
inter-state than they can that which Is with
foreign nations.” Consequently plaintiffs say,
t:s foreign liquor is not a nuisance that can bo
excluded from a .-late, domestic liquors of ii
otherstafrTcnimot be such a nuisance rilht..
Rowinan. in the court below, brought action
for $10,000 damages on the above claims. Judge
Blodgett held the law constitutional and Bow
man appealed.
The forest fire* this season in Arkansas
the most extensive ever known. In soino lo
calities farms havo 1k*cu devastated aud peo
ple forced to flee for their Jives. Tho forests
are ns dry as tinder nnd the fiery tornado
rages with nothing to bar its way. AU over
the state the skies are lighted at night by tho
reflection from the fires, nnd tho spectacle is
phenomenally grand and beautiful.
Thf. investigation of (lie county commission
ers and others connected with tho Chicago in
sane asylum reveals a rotten condition of
affairs. The commissioners, doctors and attond<
nuts nil seem to be » corrupt and drunken set
of scoundrels. The testimony was rich. Clev
enger said he had seen Van Pelt drunk many
times. In reply, Van Pelt said Clevenger was
the blankest liar in America. Mrs. Thumla
said she had seen Clevenger drunk frequently.
Dr. Thumla admitted that the doctors
got drunk but urged that thoy did not all get
drunk at the seme time. Drunken doctors,
drunken commi -doners, drunken attendants
ami drunken visitors dance through tho testi
mony in a Jfm-jr.m whirl. It appears also that
numerous lights < ccurred in tho asylum. The
imtients were treated with great hrutalitr, nnd
rats were allowed to nibble tho sfck und help
lew.
The Chinese minister at Washington
greatly irritated l»y tho western outrages upon
ids countrymen. Ho says that Ids government
may be driven to adopt retaliatory measures.
As this minister will soon return to China it ht
quite probable tlmt ho will excrclso a potent
influence in shaping its foreign policy.
JnxiE William D. Kelley, of Pennsyl
ranis, although over seventy, has recently
done a good, deal of literary work. Sinco June
ht; has written a pamphlet of eighty-eight
pages on Ifcdotlan, an article of 0,000 words
on Lincoln, nnd a number of tariff papers. The
.judge says tho blood is now leaning tl
Ills veins at s faster into than for any
within tho pust fifteen years. Ho ascribes his
present good health to diis stoppage of tho nse
of tobacco. For fifty-A ve years he chewed and
smoked. A cigar wu* always in his month dur
ing the day, and ho went to sleep with a quid
between bh jaws, ills system became satu
rated with nicotine. A cancerous tumor formed
in his cheek, and lm had to give up tobacco or
die. He has cured himself and seems to enjoy
a new lease of life.
JJkke is a new story about Tom Ochiltree.
Tom was in I’ftris once, niul a friend, meeting
hint, asked him whore he was stopping,’“Down
at the Tuilleries,” replied Tom. “You see, Nap
is busy and so 1 take Eugenie out to theaters
nr.d parties. Nap likes it, and I am having
a ii-gulnr Ttxas time,”
Kansas has more than her share of poison
ing eases. A few days ago pretty Mrs. Walkup
was acquitted of the charge of administering
aisciiic to her husband. Young Baldwin was
then fried for chloroforming liissister to death.
The poor fellow was convicted. Tho next ease
is that of Miss Frankie Morris. This inter-
eating young huly is accused of murdering her
mother in order to secure the insurance money.
Mil* Is said to be i»ert and pretty, as well os
wicked, aud her arqnittul is freely predicted.
An explorer who has just returned from tho
Congo region in Africa re(>ortH that tho natives
become drunkurdso* soon as European civiliza
tion reaches them. Perhaps a brass band, a
free lunch stand and a local option law will
straighten them out.
Cremation would lm a good thing in Hesi
co. The mode of burial among tho poorer
classes In (list country is revolting in tho ex
trente. The sccnea at tlio grave aro so on
pleasant that women arc never present. Tho
coffin is not interred with the corpse. It is
rented for the occasion, and is returned to tho
undertaker after the funeral. The gravo is
rented also. The body Is thrown into it with*
eul any covering and quick-lime is shoveled on
it to cause rapid decomposition. When the
tin e for which the gravo lias tieen rented ex
pire s the occupant is shoveled out to make
rocm for a new tenant. The bones aro thrown
outside of the cemetery and left in heaps. Onco
ay<ar they are collected together and burned.
A Mexican cemetery is very far from licing a
thing of beauty.
Ir is difficult to fix the market value of a
in. At church fairs in this country young
ladies have been known to sell kisses at twenty-
rents apiece, or three for half a dollar. An
English judge, however, ban just made a man
jay flfiO for kissing a young lady in a railway
Jilia Smith Parker, who died at Hart-
foul, Conn., the other day. made fame years
ago by refusing to pay taxes. Khe refused on
the ground that she was not allowed to vote.
Ht r row wn* levied on for taxes ami sold, the
woman bidding her in, thns paying taxes with
eckta added. This was repeated year,after
year. When the independent spinster reached
the age of eighty Mr. Parker made her ac
quaintance and propoft-d marriage. He was
tcre j.trd, and the wedding was attended by the
entire | emulation of the town. Tho brave but
unsuccessful fight waged by Jfr*. Parker for
the right of suffrage has attracted the attention
of the country for year*. Death give# bet tho
equal rights which she ban so long clamtuored
for.
TlUBTY-oXJsyeer*ago Leonard Poole,ofllol-
’• ok, Mass., bade farewell* to fits young wife
and infant daughter, and Martre) to raliforni*
to make bis fortune in the gold mines. Year
year the miner worked on.sending his
fatuity Teniitttnnn when he could. .The child
grew to womanhood and married. The wits
waited patiently for tho return of her husband.
Aleut a year sgo she died. A month or two
ago Poole found that he had accumulated suf
ficient wealth to justify him in returning. He
secreted his money about his person and took
train for the east. Crossing one of the West
ern deserts a baud of robbers captured the
tram nnd stripped the paasengers. Old man
Poole lost everything ho had. He was struck
on the head and severely injured. Kind
hearted ‘ **' ' ^
in reach:
ed. His
him in the workhouse, whore he had been sent
as a vagrant. The old man was at once ro«
leased and is now at hia daughter's home,
shattered in health, hut on the road to
covet y.
It is reported that a bogus Bam Jones is try
ing to revive the small towns in Minnesota. It
is not likely that the Imgus article will meet
with much success. The genuine Satu Jones Is
now whooping up St. Lotus, nnd the accounts
of his work cannot fail to reach Minnesota.
The bogus evangelist will havo to skip nnd try
his hand on rural regions remote from tele
graph lines and postoffices.
Northebn people are uuder the impression
that vigilance committees are confined to the
south. Tills is a mistake. At Carthago, New
York, last week, sixty persons handed them
selves together into a committee und notified
five of their neighbors to leave town. The
men thus warned had been couvicted of nc
crime. They w ere simply suspected of mall
riously destroying property. It is possible that
they were innocent, but the vigilance commit-
teo would not give them tho bouefit of the
doubt.
The tramp problem has been partially solved
by tho Rov. Steve Holcombe in Somerville,
Mr. Holcombe gives food and shelter to tramps,
but makes them saw wood eight hours a duy.
Every town should start a wood yard aud give
tho tramps a chance,
Mrs. El'QENk Belt, who recently obtained
a divorce form her hustmnd iu Baltimore, (s no
milk and water woman. Perjured witnesses
were hired to impeach her character. She ex
posed their falsehoods and gained her case, hut
she does not pronooe to let tho matter rest here.
She has already had five of tho purjurera ar
rested, aud will prosecute them to the full ex
tent of the law. It is to bo hoped that this
bravo woman will succeed in landing every
one of the scoundreis In tho penitentiary, it
is to tho interest of society that she should
neither forgive nor forget Itor wrongs. Sho is
entitled not only to revenge, but to something
better, justice.
Sanctification stands no chance out west.
A young lady wlm declined to take tbo oath as
a witness iu an Illinois court because she was
in a state of snitctiflcatiou, was ordered to bo
locked up until she changed her mind.
Howard Griffiths, once a wealthy citizen
of Philadelphia, landed in Jail last week under
peculiar circumstances, He inherited $300,000,
was elected to the legislature and had bright
prospects. By degrees ho gave himself up to
dissipation, lie squandered his fortune, and
reeled through tho streets ht seedy clothes.
Some years ago ho separated from hi* wlfo, and
was ordered by the court to pay her $33 per
month for her support. For sometime tho
money was forthcoming, hut of late Griffiths
has seen hard times. He has bocu employed
os a barkeeper, and his health has broken
down completely. Falling to pay tho amouut
allowed his wife ho was sent to Jail.
The Bengal cyclone of last week laid tho
Philippine storm in tho shade. When 3,000
human beings are swept away by a single puff
of wind the matter assumes a serious com
plexion.
The English have practically taken .posses
siou of Murinuh. A recent writer ou tho sub
jeet says: “Tlio new territory that Great
Britain has now ncquired is ono of the richest
spots on the earth, und o*no of tho most unset
tled. Jt is estimated that thorn Is room in Bur-
malt for thirty million farmers, whilo petro
leum, coal and iron abound, sml it Is the home
of the sapphire and tlio ruby. The soil only
needs to be tickled in order to smile with a
bountlftil crop. More than this, tho annexa
tion of Btimmh gives England a ready outlet
for the overflow of hor Indian population aud
ready access to Chinn. Altogether Uurmah is
splendid prize for England to grab so easily.’
The cold wavo has stirred up tlio eloping
girl In the west. But tho dear creature will
weep when hot weather comes.
The rase of Captain Howgate, tho default
ing signal officer, is one of the most mysterious
in the annals of crime. Tho captain’s escape
nnd his success In eluding tho officers of law
for years mako a romantic diopter, It is now
raid that tho wanderer la willing to deliver
himself up If assured of leniency and a speedy
trial. The fugitive has spent most of his time
in a quiet suburban village near Now York,
Ho has also been engaged in a mining specula-
iri. Tho amount of Howgate’s
The northern statistician* who maintain that
the negroes arc increasing at a more rapid rate
than the whites should read tho statu uows
columns of tho southern papers. Tho number
of babies burned to death in negro cabins this
►Cason is without a precedent.
If Rid hud escaped tlio gallows lie would
•robahly have done very little for the support
of his family. He was too ranch of an aglta
tor to be a useful citizen. Ho delighted to
figuTc in a torchlight procession, white BIrs.
Riel slaved at the wash tub. Now that Kid is
desd the widow stands sonio chance. The
Cnnadians propose to raise a fund and buy her
n cottage. This is much better than raising a
monument to Rid. It is Just as patriotic, and
la tter than all, it is Sensible charity. The
hangman Jms made Mr*. Kid very,comfort*
able,
A demented stranger frightened the people
of Decatur, HI., the other duy, by rushing into
their houses nnd scattering his niouoy right
and left. He stuffed |fl00 In a pitcher in ono
house, and threw a roll of bills under the bed
in another. Tho women were so Indignant
that they assaulted the man with broomsticks
and drove him off
A recent work by Colonel Du Kane on
crime and its punishment contains much cu
rious information. It is not true that tho prison
population Is largest in winter, when employ*
mi nt is harder to find and the comfort of a
prison is desirable. Tho number of criminals
is shout the same in June anti December, ft In
creases from Juno to December, and decreases
from December to June. Tho highest point Is
reached in October, its lowest’in February, and
tho differenco between the two extremes is
,000. In certain yearn the tides of crime run
very ” * * “’ **■ “*
tew.
high; in other years they ran cur
There seem to tie undiscovered
investigations of Colonel Du Kane and men
like him will go far to make such laws known.
To know when criminal years or criminal
months are at hand would he one atep toward
avoiding their perils. And a moral signal nor-
vice may yet ne arranged that will prevent
many human wreck# and a great Joss of cJiar-
actor.
A Washington special to the western press
rays: “The report that Mrs. Christian, nee
Mbs Julia Jackson, the only daughter of fttoue-
waJl Jack‘ ou, is imam*, is denied by her friends
and relatives in this city,”
Ofoaniekd charity is a go*nI thing, but
Errr.etimos it is mightily puffed up. It puts on
uif, Bud, like a cat, must lm rubbed tho right
way. At the Louisville hospital lost week au
unfortunate woman, dying with consumption,
van taken in. Rcinlerird nervous and irritable
>r her disease, she gave trouble and violated
.be rules of the Institution. For this ini tern-
dm* the dying creature w. s forced out on tho
street in a shower of drenching rain. After
being expoatd to the storm several hours, the
woman was thrown into the patrol wagon and
rant to the etatiunhouse to die*
OUR OWN COLUp,
Short Talks With Our Readers
and from Our Readers on Mat-
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Our Ageut's Prizes,
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fur. There are hundreds of agents whose list*
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tory and sends in only small clubs. A little
work during December will win one of tho
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in by one agent’ between now and January lit.,
18W ht Gold.
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l»t., 1M6 •Off.OO In Gold.
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1&*6 One Sewing Machine.
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iwfi A Wuferhury Watch Each.
Tills couiiN-tition is o]>cn to all our agents.
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January 1st to those who have aent tho largest
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can lie uo mistake.
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iu appreciation of its agents. It will be easy
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r from one office. All names gent by anjr
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The Constitution Sewing Machine.
Tlie sewing machine monopolists aro howl*
i ngl The Constitution sewing machine ha*
knocked their monopoly Into doll rags. Foe
years and years they have been charging threo
price* for machine*. When they sec n« sclllbg
u machine la tter than their |4fl machines foe
$18 with tho paper thrown in, they realize that
they will have to cut prices or break np one
arrangements.
They nro now trying to bnlly or bny the toe*
tory into refusing to sell to us, unless we will
agree to charge $40 for our machines. We will
never consent to do this. Wo do not bellovo
they.can buy,or bully the fitetoriss. It will bo
well, however, for every one who wants ono of
our machines, to buy at once, and thc»
they are independent of whatever tho rnonopo*
ly may do,
Kemcmlicr! We noil a machine, modelled af-r
ter the Hingur, hut superior to the ono they sell
for $4. r », for $18 with tho paper—or $17 without;
the paper—to subscribers only. We let you try
this lunch ino ten days, and If yon don't like
ft you can return ft and wo wfff reftmd youc
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read wlmt its subocribem aay about it. IIcto
are some samples of what they say about Thb
Constitution;
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A. II. lit m u, iyArbonno, La.; “You pnblMi il*
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reading tho best for forty-live years.”
office.’
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TION gain* In popularity every day.”
J. 1). Waddell, Meridian, 3
dro. A. Peabody, Columbus, (la.: ”1 havo bant
reading your paper tor yeare-ntotrgnat north*
txm^giismwSBsss.
H\ A. (-tokw, W(M,oi: 'HmtoraiMl-
In,-the I'onirrmino. cv« due. 1 knew limy t»
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rew it. (tit tlio but ever |.rinle<t "
1. It. anil O. Jt. McKncijr, Or»y Roek. I
It. without Th« CwmryrKu- for ten
.licit a kuuA .txl UKtal |M|cr.
B. K. Dnrr, Knoxville”..: I mn well plorort
(la.: Mr machine work. .11
. tried It. My wMh owiho'
wotihl iiotiikcune htmtlretl tlolUn fur it. Them
hem Mlllti* (to Shtjermrohiiw for forty
y ii h not M rood n mine. I
(lollariv .tu) they wy
have jpti liirrc other men to wiitlm, yixjr mei’filrte.
and (toy will give me their inuoe. .ad money next
week,
Mmo K. K. m*T, Knoxville, (1,: The «ewlM
machine I I txigl.l of Joti dferve. .1! the urnlo: llmC
cent. Afltr four tteel« trill I am well ple»f't
ith It; much milter hove the Bmchlno tliui et*lf
teen dollar..
Me*. I.. II. IlAao, Too.range, tit: -Tho sewing
machine ordered of you is at tmnd. UlaJtM tv hat
ht recommended tote, (ilc jwrtect ealishtetl *
every rmpeet. Mom than that: It b m nice, a.nl
u hamlsoine u *py ooe need wmit, with till tho
.tUchmcnt. with II; and I think all who ora iu
need of. machine would do wall to order of yoo.
The i.pcr It worth half the money. Ido not know
how i could do without Tn.Commit)null.
I. there »ny uncertain nnml .bout thief
Did yuli ever rad heartier probe? Mow, if
you have received thlo copy.of Tn* Coxttri ru-
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year? Decry week you tub. will he your
lou! lferol the. above testimony over agdn If
don't think no.
I hill* and carbUBelaa.
Tilt ve arc tlio volcanoes of the hitman »yv
lem. TJn-y proceed from impure blood and
from a rioton. ilenuemlhutiatt of the tlhowtiva
organ,. They nr* annoying, painful, and
(sometime* dengermn; They etut be driven ont
by toning up the eyetem. and thb eon te nt ha
■lone, by tho us of Brovnt’e Iran Bittern.
Meerra. Handy * Bui I man. drnggbt, Annapo
lis Mil., ,ay, “We aril lota of Bimm’a Iron -
Bitten. Allwhonardit acem pleated. Wo
hear nut one complaint.”