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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION-. ATLANTA. GJU TUESDAY" DECEMBER 15 1885. TALMAGE IN THE WEST, SERMON PREACHED YESTERDAY AT DETROIT. KoQnent Discourse Delivered Yesterday Morning the Subjoct; "A New Scroll or Martyrs???*-The Heroes of Toll of the Blok-Boom, and of Common Erery-Day Life-Etc. Detroit, Mich., December 13.???[Special.] The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., the cele brated Brooklyn preacher, arrived here yester day morning. The Jefferson avenue Presby* . tcriari church was crowded this morning, when he delivered an eloquent sermon. The hyuin 'sung was: "Jesus, lover of my soul. Let me to Tbjr bosom fly!??? The subject of Dr. Talmage???s discourse was: ???A New Scroll of Martyrs,??? and tho text, ??? Timothy 2, 3: "Thou therefore enduro hard ness.??? Dr. Talmage said: ??? Historians are not slow to acknowledge tho merits of great military chieftains. We have the dill-length portraits of the Cromwells, the Washingtons, the Napoleons and tho Welling tons of tho world. History is not written in black ink, but with red ink of human blood. Tho gods of human ambition do not drink from bowls made out of silver or gold or pre cious stones, but out of the bleached skulls of tho fallen. Bat I am now to unroll before you a scroll of heroes that tho world has never acknowledged; those who faced no guns, blew no bugle-blast, conquered no cities, chained no captives to their chariot-wheels, and yot In the great day of eternity will stand higher than those whoso names startled the nations; and seraph and rapt spirit and archangel will tell their deeds to a listening uuiverso. mean the heroes of common, everyday life. In this roll, in tho flVat place, I find all the heroes of tho sick room. When Satan had failed to overcome Job ho said to God: "Put forth thine band now. and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.??? Satan had found out what we havo all found out, that alckncrs is the great test of one???s character. A man who van stand that can stand anything??? to be shut in a room as fast as though it were a hostile; to bo so nervous yon cannot endare the tap of a child???s foot; to have luxuriant fruit which tempts tho appetito of tho robust and healthy excito our loathing and dis gust when it appears on tho platter; to have the rapier or pain strike through the sido or across the temples like a razor; or to put tho foot into a vice or throw the whole body into a blaze-of fever. Yet there havo boon men and women, more women than men, who havo cheerfully endured this hardness. Through years of exhausting rheumatisms and excru- ??? dating neuralgias they havo gone, and through bodily distresses that rasped tho nerves, and tore the muscles, and paled tho cheoks and stooped the shoulders. By the dim light of the sick room taper they saw on thoir wall tho pic tures of that land where tho inhabitants aro never sick. Through the dead silence of tho night they heard tho chorus or the angels. The cancer ate away her life from week to week, and from day to day, and aho became weaker and weaker, and every ???good bight??? wis feebler than tho "good night??? before; ye< never rad. Tho child looked up into her me and saw suffering transformed into a heavenly smile. Those who suffered on the battlefield amid shot and shell, were not so much heroes and heroines as those who in tho field hospital mW in tho asylum had fever which no ice coflldcool and no surgery gcould care. No shiut of comrade to chccr them, but numbnoss and aching and homesickness; yet witling to suffer, confident in God and hopo of Heaveu. Heroes of rheumatism, heroes of neuralgia, heroes of spinal complaint, heroes of sick heah- ache, heroes of lifelong invalidism, heroes and heroine^ they shall reign forover and ever. Hark! 1 catch just one note of tho eternal an them: ???There shall bo no moro pain.??? BIi God for that!. i . . In this roll I also find tho heroes of toll, who do thefr work uncomplainingly. It is compara tively easy to lead a regiment into battle, when you know that tho whole nation will applaud the victory; it is comparatively easy to doctor tho sick, when you know that your skill will bo appreciated by tho large company of friends and relatives; it is comparatively cosy to ad dress an audience, when in tho gloaming eyes and flushed checks you know that your senti ments aro adopted; but to do sowing wheroyou expect that tho employer will como and thrust his thumb through the work to show bow imperfect it is, or to havo tho wholo gar ment thrown back on yon to bo dono over again; to lmild a well and know thero will bo no one to say you did it well, but only a swear ing employer howling across the scaffold; tc work until your eyes are dim, and your back aches, and yonr heart faints, and to know that if you stop before night your childron will starve! Ah, the sword has not slain so many as the needle! The great battlefields of cur fast war were not Gettysburg and .Shiloh and South Mountain, Tho great battlefields of tho last war wore In the arsenals and in ttie shops, and in the attics, where women made army jackets Cor a six pcuco. They toilod on until they died. They had no funeral culo- glum,but in tho namo ofmyGod thismoraing I enroll their names among those of whom the world was not worthy. Heroes of the needle, heroes of the sewing roachiuo. heroes of the attic, heroes of the cellar, heroes and ho mines. bless God for them! , In this roll I also find tho heroes who havo uncomplainingly endured domestic injustice. There aro men who for their toil and anxioty have no sympathy in their own homos. Ex hausting application to business gets them a livelihood, hut an unfrugnl wife scatters it. Ho la fretted at from the moment no enters tho door until he goes out of it, the exasperations of business life augmented by the exaspera tions of domestic life. Such men aro laughod at, fcnt they have a heart-breaking trouble, and they would havo long ago gono into appalling dissipation but for tho grace of God. Society today is strewn with the wrecks of men who under tho northeast storm of domestic infelicity have been driven on the rocks. Thero aro tens of thousands of drunkards in this country today made such by their wives. That is not poetry; that is prose. But tho wrong is generally In the opposite direction. You would not have to go nr to And a wife who is a perpetual martyr. Some thing heavier than the stroke of tho fist, un kind words; staggering* home at midnight and constant maltreatment, which have left her only n wreck of what % he was on that day when in the midst of a brilliant assemblage, vows were taken and full organ played tho wedding march, and the carriage rolled away With the benediction of the peoplo. What was the turning of Latimer and Bidley at the stake comjum**! with this? Thoso men soon became unconscious iu the lire, but hero is a fifty years martyrdom, a fifty years patting to death, vet uncomplaining. No bitter words when the rollicking companions aft two o'clock In the morning, pitch the husband dead drunk into the frout entry. No bitter words when Wiping /rum the swollen brow tho blood struck out in a midnight carousal: bending over tho battered and bruised form of him who, when he took her from her father???s home, promised love and kindness and protection, yet nothing but sympathy and prayers and forgiveness, before they are asked for. No bitter words whep the family Biblo goes for rum, and the pawnbroker???s shop get* the last decent dress, borne day, desiring to evoke the story of her sorrows, you say: "Well, bow are you getting along now???? And rallying her trembling voire and quieting her quivering lip, she says: ???Pretty well. I thank yon; pretty well.??? She never will tell you. In the delirium of her last sickness she may tell all the secreta of her lifetime, hut elic will not teli that. Not until the books of eternity are opened on tho throne of judgment, will ever be known what she has suffered. (SO ye who are twisting a garland for the vi<* tor, put ft on that pale brow! When she is deed the neighbors will l>cg linen to make her a thread, and she will be carried out in a plain box with no silver plate to tell her years, for the ha* lived a thousand years of trial and anguish. The gamblers, the swindlers who destroyed her husband, will not come to the frmeral. One carriage will be enough for that ftmeral, one carriage to carry the orphans sad the two Christian women who presided over the obsequies; but there is a flash, and the opening of a celestial door and a shout: ???Life up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let her come in;??? and Christ will step forth and say: "Ccmein;ye suffered with me on earth, bo glorified with me in heaven.??? What is the highest throne In heaven ? The throne of the Lord God Almighty and the lamb. No doubt about it. What is the next highest throne in heaven? While I speak it seems to mo that it will be the throno of the drunkard???s wife, if she with cheerftil patience endare all her earthly torture. Heroes and heroines! I find also in this roll the heroes of Christian charity. We all admire the George Peabodys and the James Lenoxes of the earth, who gave tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars to good otyccts. But I am speaking this morning of those who out of their pinched poverty helped others???of such men as those Christian missionaries at tho west who are living on $J50 a year that they may proclaim Christ to the people. One of them writing to the secretary m New York, rays: ???I thank you for that $25. Until yesterday we have had no meat in our house for three months. We have suffered ter ribly. My children have no shoes this win ter.??? I am speaking of those people who liaVo only a half loaf of broad, but give a piece of it to others who aro hungry; and of those who have only a scuttle of coal, but help others to ftiel;and of those who havo only a dollar in their pocket and give25centsto somebody else; and of that father who wean a shabby coat, and of that mother who wears a faded dress that their children may be well apparelled. You call them paupers, or ragamuffins, or iml- grants. I call them heroes and heroines. You and I may not know where they live or what their name is: God knows, and they havo more ongels hovering over them than yon and I have, and they will havo a higher seat in heaven They may have had only a cup of wator to give a. poor traveler, or may havo only nicked a splinter from under tho nail of a child???s fin er, or put only two mites into the treasury, ut the Lord knows them. Considering what they had. they did more than wo have over done, and their faded dress will become white robe, and tho small room will bo an eternal mansion, and the old hat will bo a cor onet of victory, and all tho applauso of oarth, and all the shout ing of heaven, will bo drown ed out when God rises up to give his reward to those humble workers In His kingdom and to say to them, "Well done, good and ffiithful servant!??? You havo all seen or hoard of the ruin of Melrose abbey. I suppose in some re spects it is tho most exquisite ruin on earthy aud yet looking at it I was not so improved??? you may set it down to bad taste, but I was not so deeply stirred???os I was at tho tomb stone at tho foot of that abbey. tho tombstone placed by Walter 8cott over the grave of an old man who had servod for a good many years in his house???tho inscription most sig nificant, and I defy any man to stand there and read it without tears coming Into hlsoyos; tho epitaph, "Well done, good and faithful servant!???* Ob,when our work Is over,will It bo found bccanse of anything we havfl dono for God, or tho church, or snfforing hu manity, that such an inscription npnroprlato for us? God grant Who aro those who were bravest and de served the greatest monument???Lord Clavcr- house and his burly soldiers, or John Brown, the Edinburgh carrier, and his wife? Mr. At kins, the persecuted minister of Jesus Christ in Scotland, was accreted by John Brown and his wifo, and Claverhouse redo up ono day with his armed men, and shouted in front of the house. John Brown???s littte girl carao out. He said to her: "Well, miss, is Mr. Atkins hero???? She made no answer, for she conld not betray the minister of the gospel. "Ha!??? Claverhouse raid, "then you are a chlp.of the old block, are J ou ? I havo something in my pocket for yon. t is a nosegay. Some peoplo call it a. thumb- screw, but I call it a nosegay.??? And ho got off his horse, and he put it on the little girl???s hand, and began to torn it until the bones cracked, and she cried. P cry ! This is not ????? muuiiiKion. uuta u?? ?? ii-jsu- ly.??? And they heard the child???s cry, and the ithcr and mother came ont, and Clavorhouso raid: "Ha! It seems that you threo havo laid your holy heads together determined to die, like all tho rest of your hypocritical, 'anting, ehi veiling crow. Bather than glvo r ood Mr. Atkins, pious Mr. Atkins, you woul _ I have a telcscopo with mo that will im- pane. Go to tho window and you will ffnd is the beak of a raven, and open tho Window and there will fly in the messenger that fed Elijah. Do you think that the God who grows the cotton of the south will let you freexe for the lack of clothes? Do you think that tho God who allowed tho descipfcs.on Sunday morning, to go into the grainfield, and then take tho grain and rub It in their hands and eat??? do you think God will let you starve? Did you ever hear the experience of that old man? ???I have been young and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous fbtsaken, nor his seed begging bread.??? Get up out of your discour agement, O troubled soul! O sewing women! O men kicked and cuffed by unjust employers! O ye who aro hard beset in tho battle of life, and know not which way to turn! O you be reft one! O you aick one, with complaints you have told to no one! como and get the comfort of this subject. Listen to our great captain???- cheer: "To him that overcomcth will I give b. eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God!??? TOPICS OF THE WEEK. prove vour vision,??? and he pulled out a pistol. "Now,??? he raid, "yon old pragmatical, lest yon should catch cold in this cold morning of Scot land, and for tho honor and safety of the king, to say nothing of the glory of God and tho good of our souls, I will procoed simply, and in the neatest and most expeditious manner, to blow your brains out.??? John Brown foil upon his knees and began to pray. "Ah,??? raid Claverhouse, "lookout! If yon are going to pray steer clear of the king, tho council and iiichard Cameron.??? "O Lord,??? raid John Brown, "since it seems to bo Thy will that I thou hi leave this world for a world whore I can love Thee better and servo Thee more, I put thispoor widow woman and these helpless, fatherless children into Tby hands. We havo been together in peace and good will, bat now wc must look forth to a better mooting in heaven; and for these poor creatures, blind folded and infatuated, that stand before me, erm fort them before it bo too late, and may they who havo sat in judgment in this little place, on this blessed morning upon mo, a poor defenseless fellow creature, may they in tho last judgment find that mercy which they have refused to me, thy moot unworthy but faithfiil servant, amen I??? Ho -rose up and raid: '"Isabel, tbo hour is come of which I spoke to you on tho morning when I proposed hand and heart to you, and aro you willing now for the love of God to let mo die???? She put her arms around him and said: "The Lord ,vo and tho Lord hath taken away. Blessed tho name of tbo Lord l??? "Stop that snivel ling,??? raid Claverhouse; "I havo had enough i, mu vutcniuuK) x tiuvu unu uuuuxh it. Soldiers, do your work. Tako aim! Fire!??? and tho head of John Brown was scat tered on the ground. While tbo wifo was gathering up in her apron the fragments of her husband???s head, gathering them up for burial, Claverhouse looked into her fuco and d: "Now, my good woman, how do you feel w about your bonnle man Y??? "Oh,??? sho said, always thought well of him; he has boon very good to me. I had no reason for think ing anything but well of him, and I think bet ter of him now.??? O, what a grand thing it will be in the last day to see God pick out hlshoroeaand hero ines! Who are those paupers of eternity trudging off from the gates or heaven ? Who are they? The Lord Claverhouses and the Hcrods, and thoso who had sceptres aud crowns and thorns, but they lived for their own aggrandizement, and they broke tho heart of nations. Heroes of earth, but paupers in eter nity ! I beat tho drums of their eternal de spair. Woe! Woe! Woe! But there is great excitement in heaven. Why those long processions? Why the boom ing of that great bell in the tower? It Ls coro nation??? day in heaven. Who are those rising on the throne with crowns of eternal royalty ? They must have been great peoplo on earth, world-renowned people. No, they taught in a ragged school. Taught iu a ragged school ? Taught in a ragged school! Is that all? That is all. Who are those sonls waving sceptres of eternal dominion ? Why, they were little chil dren who waited on invalid mothers. That all? That???s all. She was called ???Little Mary??? on earth; ahe Is an empress now. Who are that great multitude on the highest thrones of heaven ? Who are they? Why, they fed the hungry, they clothed the naked, they healed the sick, they comforted tho heart-broken. They never fonnd any rest until they put their head down on the acpnlcbre. God watehed them. God laughed defiance at the enemies who put their heels hard down on these. I tig dear children; and one ds7 the Lord struck his hand so hard on His thigh that the omnipotent sword rattled in the sjab- bard as ???lie raid: "I am their God, and no weapon formed against them shall proiper.??? What harm can the world do you when the Lord Almighty, with unsheathed sword, fights you? preach this sermon this morning in com fort. Go home to the place where God his pat yen to play the hero and the heroine. Do not vy any man his money or his applause, or ?? social position. Do not envy any woman wardrobe or her exquisite appearance. B? hero or the heroine. If there be no Hoar the bouse, sod you don???t know where yonr children are to get bread, listen and you will The Medical Becord publishes the following communication by Dr. C. C. Burke, of Texark ana, Texas, who vouches for tho accuracy ol tho facts: "I witnessed on our streets a few days ago what seemed to me to be an impossibility, a human being eating glass, I might ray by the wholesale. I had heard of tho negro before he reached our town, and I, like all others, dispu ted his ability to eat tho glass without its do ing him serious injury. When he arrived our city I witnessed liis exhibition, both in privato and public, and I am now thoroughly satisfied, from care fill examination of his mouth and throat, before and while eat ing the glass, that he eats it fairly nnd square ly. He is not very particular to chew It fine. I raw a piece in his mouth, after ho had chewed it, one-quarter by one-half inch long, made into all klnda of shapes and aizes by crushing it with his teeth, lie informed me that he had been at it for twenty years, and had never bad the least discomfort from its effects, lie eats it in any quantity, from a small piece to wholo lamp chimney at a time, and keeps it nn during the day, making his living by ex hibiting his extraordinary power of eating lx Paris, the other day, M. Helm charged Dr. Blanch with bewitching |[and magnetizing him. Ho raid that he hod traveled all over tho world trying to escape from the doctor???s electric shocks. Daring tho trial Helm rat on a gutta perch cushion to avoid being magnetizodby the defendant. The j udgo heard the evldenco and dismissed tho case. Onjc of tho most remarkable suicides re ported lately is that of Mr. John Webster, near Shelby, N. C. Mr. Webster was a very modest young man. Last Friday evening whou ho returned from a dance tho room which ho had occupied for months had been given for the night to three young ladles. Unaware of this he entered the room and fonnd two of the girla disrobed. This greatly confiiscd him. Ho made profiiso apologies and retired. Tho blunder weighed upon his mind to such an extent that he determined to kill himself rather than live to face the young ladies and tho community. The friends of;Mr. Webster aroinclinod to think ho carried his modest scruples a littlo too far. Tnx Florida craze is worthy of notice. It is an undisputed fact that many new towns have sprung up within the past few years. Some of the old towns have doubled their population. Thousands of new settlors have located in dif ferent parts of the state. All this keeps up a perpetual boom, but recently tlicro IishIhmmi h disposition among the Florida sotticr* to cross over tho Goorgin lino nml sock new homes, The final result of tho Florida booip will bo a decided bonoflt to Georgia. Oxancock, Va., is cloying** little mystery. Borne timo ago Captain George Dix died at an advanced age. Ho had led an adventurous life. For years he would bo absent and nothing would bo heard of him. Suddonly ho would reappear, but make no explanation beyond the statement that he had bcon visiting foreign countries. The nephew of tho old man recently opened a scaled box belonging to his nncle and found $16,000 in confodorato money. Tho box was sealed by a notary in New Orleans in 1863. This, together with letters and other facts, leads to tho boliof that Dix made his headquarters in New Orleans several years and acted as a gulf pilot. It seems certain from the letters that ho owns ex tensive property in Now Orleans, Cuba and other parts of tho world, but as ho left no will the final settlement of his estate will causo much troublo. A Lake Erik town tarred and feathered a Toledo reporter who slandored tho people. The reporter now wants $25,000 damages. It would have been cheaper to have kilLJ him. IIebe is a sensation right in the heart of New England. At Dlghton, Mara., young Dr. Baker purchased the practice of tho retir ing physician and hod a good thing of it for a time. Bnt an interloper came in, one Dr. Pierce. Tho latter began to absorb Dr. Ba kcr???s practice. One night Pierce was called to bis door by a man wbo???oskod.bim to go to seo a sick lady, six miles distant Tho doctor started off. In a short time he came to a dense wood While passing through a bullet whizzed near his head, and a man rushed up to tho buggy and fired two pistol shots. The doctor escaped and made his way to tho house of tho alleged patient, who turned out to be perfectly well. A reward was offered for tho would-be assas sin, but without effect, Decently Dr. Pierce???s house was burned by an incen diary. The doctor now feels completely discouraged. He believes that it is the purpose ot his unknown enemy or enemies to drive him out of town. _ Blaibsville, Go., December 0.??????[Special.]??? Saturday was the coldest aud the most un pleasant day we have had in. a long time. A continuous snow storm lasted all day, and at this time our mountains are white with the beautiful snow.??? Fort Worth, Texas, is excited over the disappearance of Mr. B. Sanguenit, a promi nent architect. Banguenit was doing well and had a fine businc nn. Suddenly he left the city, and wrote to a friend in 8an Francisco that he owed several hundred dollars in Fort Worth, and bis indebtedness had worried him to such extent that he had decided to leave. One of his debts was for a fine suit of clothes in which he was to have been married at an early day. Many do not believe that he left on ac count of financial troubles. Bonkers ray that they would have loaned him all the money he needed. A wealthy citizen has telegraphed Banguenit, offering to pay his debts If he will cone back. _ Ir Sir. Pound-Jackson could have died In two places bis two widows would have been much better satisfied. As it is Mr. Pound was known l>y that name in London, but in another city he wa* called Jackson. In each place where he lived he married. lie informed both >f his wive* that be was a commercial traveler and was compelled to be absent from home a pood deal. No suspicion was aroused, and Mr. Pound-Jackson went on leading this double life for twenty years. A few days ago he dkd, dividing his estate between tbo two widows. The senior widow tried to break the will in favor of the junior, but the court sus tained it. A POET???S HOME. JOAQUIN MILLER'S LOO CABIN IN WASHINGTON. ATJ.lt to th?? Fort of the Sierra. In HU Queer Abed. -Comm HI. Xeflectlon. and Opfnlom-IIl. Surttinnw. ud HI. Whlnu-m> To. nuudnw-IU. EccentrfclttM. WAmtHGTOw, December 12.???[Special.] Not on. of the splendid m unions crowning tho iqburbnn height, which look down on Wash ington attracts more attention or provokes moro comment than a rough log cabin, built In grnulno backwoods stylo on tho crest of a beautiful eminence smtd palaces of bride and stone. It is due to this characteristic of human na ture, perhaps, that the log cabin in whlcu JOAQUflT MILUESt, tho poet of the Sierras, resides, is accounted one of tho "Sights??? of Washington, while hardly anybody inqairca concerning tbo elegant homes of acorgo Bancroft, tho historian; Mrs. Bnmct, the novelist; or Professor Alexander Graham Boll, tho inventor of tho telephone. On tho brow of Meridian hill it stands???this rudohomeof tho author of "Songs of tho Sier ras,??? "Tho Ship of the licsert,??? ???Tho Dsnltes.??? aud other productions hardly less famous. It ls a plain, one-story log cabin, similar to thoso scattered all over Georgia, overhung by hugo oaks, sitting well hack in an nnkompt yard, through whoso ragged woods a footpath strag gles to tho entranco of the queer abode. The front window of tho cabin givea one... the finest views to bo had In tho vicinity. Tho city in Its wealth of marhlo cdltlcso, broad parkland stately homos Ilea like an amphi theatre encircled by the surrounding hills. Tho broad, shining Potomac, flecked hero and there with thd white sails of fishing smacks, or blurred with the black breath of panting steamers, sweeps between tho observer and ths noblo heights of Arlington and tho dimly descried spires of quaint old Alexandria; As I stood by tho poot and looked on that secno from Ills favorito window ho said os with the enthusiasm of ono to whom tho beauteous vision hid been revealed for tho first time. "All mine! Tho silvor river 1 Tho distant hills! Tho blue, sweet sky! Tho wholo iccne ofnsturo???s beauty and man???a creational It la mine, and thank God no man can farm out or lake it ITom mo.??? Thopoct???awelcomotothe stranger catches its glow of cordiality from hia actions???not fTcm his words, lire tho visiter has time to rap on tho pine door, tho latch la lifted and a grulf voice says ???comoIn I??? os the rustic por tal swings open. There stands the "poot of the Sierras.??? A tall, tawny haired, beardless man, apparently forty-five year* of old, with thin features and a clear hluo oyo, stands before you, and In his perfect, unaffected case amid Ills surrounding challenges tho concession that ho has earned tho right to build aa bo pleafos in wood and iron who has raised so many fairy structures out of sky, and broozo and golden sunsblno. The a' ??? ??? nothing est mountaineer. Tho floore aro bare. The loga are as nature modo them, with no orna ment but their fractured hark, and hero and there a common print of an Illustrated news paper. A heavy oak table near the center of tbo room la covered with loom pages of manu script. In frout of the bright hickory wood fire stretches a superb buflklo robo and another rests upon n couch near by. A big saddlo swings by a stirrup Rom tho trail. No hooka, no pictures; not glimmer of art or omomont??? nothing but a perfect homo of a nanny uouxrAiNESR. I ventured to remark upon tho absence of those things in tho bouse of a poot. ???I havo hut ono book,??? said he; reaching from a rough shelf a woll worn copy of tho Ulblo. ???Hero it 1st Tho grandost posm In tho world t??? As ho turned tbo leaves I conld seo that al out every ono of them had some marginal notes written In pencil. Mo had evidently been all through it. ???I have some pictures, too,??? From n cheat to drew quito a collection of tho bast photographs of popular actresses mid handing them to mo raid: 'There they aro, and, thank God, there la not a man among ???em.??? It arousca suspicion of aflcctotlon or of tbo proverbial madness of genius that a man ???hould live In a great city In this primttlvo style, who has Rom four plays alone, to say nothing of bis books, royalties which daring tbo dramatic season amonnt to $100 a week. But thorn who know Joaquin Miller boat say ho Uvea in this way Means. bo loves to. I confers that I was converted tc that belief after seeing and talking to tho man. Around s homo similar to this In tbs far Sierras ore clustered all tho tender recollec tions of his lifo. Mo grow to a passionate love of such a lifo, and since his lot has boon cast far from its native elements, he claims the right to preserve and cherish as much of It as ho can. Uo told mo that ho loved to livo where ho could hear the acorn???s thud and ths rain patter upon the roof. "Every tlmo I hoar an acorn fkll,??? he said, I think of Its dropping as a period made by nature In her ceaseless work.??? Nature ls his lovo. Him comes to him In all shapes and guises; sings or laughs to him In all hrcrsrr, rippling waters, and sunshine, and stirs hia soul with her gloom and storms. Mis love of nature In a poetic sense has affected deeply his judgment on matters of government and society. Mcnry Georgo Is his ideal politi cal economist. Ho believes that ths rights of he individual extend no moro over land than hey do over snnshlne and air. That opinion appeared to mo to Involve an Inconsistency In one who was himself a landed proprietor, and looked; 'Do yon not own real estate???? I own this,??? ho answered somowhst defi antly, referring to his cabin and the aeraahont It. ???I owned a cabin and fourteen seres In Oregon when I was a Judge ont thoro. I loft] though, and told my old washerwoman to ft there sod live when I como away. Igneaisho owns the concern now. I own an acre and a half In Washington???down thoro it tho foot of the hill. Yousee I have putsomo cheap bouses on It. I hesitate to offor them to white people, for fenr It would insult them; to I told tomo niggers to go thoro and llvo.??? ???Do you like negroes???? I asked. ???No; I can???t say that I do, especially, but Moons ukx homes, yon know.??? Mo bates dogs. A friend who visited him with mo was followed by a very faithful dog, hut ono whose lovely character woe seriously effect by physical homeliness. This dog was tailless from hi* birth, was stuntyand very brood between the forelegs. Miller looked savagely at tho dog and sald: ???Tho Greeks hod tho only proper Idoa of tho destiny of dogs. They mode them sentinels at tbegatesofhell. That dog remind* me of an old fellow in Mississippi who went croay after tho war and lived alone with a est as hit only com pany. Tho cat had a tail as short a* that doffs When I tsked the old fellow how it came to he told me that tho eat used to be subset to fils and ho had learned that the way to care thorn was to cut off a piece of her tall every time aho hod a fit. Me said the Just bad enough tall for one more fit.?????? The best illustration of tho poet's extreme seniUlveneai Is fonnd In tho character of "Billy Piper,?????? In bis famous play, ???The Dan- Ites.??? Mr. Miller says that he originally In tended that character as s portrayal of his own adventures in the west In Ite wildest days hut that he saw bow much hotter the dremat- would Im if be made ???Billy Piper??? a woman mosculino disguise, and so threw sway or postponed tho thought of representing hi* own experience. Hr. Miller was recently tendered s flattering appoint ment by the secretary of the interior, but be declined it. Ills present literary work Ip a I- cm that la Icing published aa a serial In ???Literary Life,??? a Chicago magazine. H- wrltea for the newspapers often and Is always well paid. Mr la not a reclaim. A nicer of his who lew spent nsvenl yean At on the continent nnder hia patronage :Ss recently been appointed translator of for eign languages In the department of the inte rior. Since her return she live* with the poet In the cabin on Meridian Mill, to dispel its anil- trde and lighten itsfloDllnowwith her cheerful presence and her active attention to the duties of that (.???Bf ulsr household. P. M. B. OUR STOCKING HANGING UP. ZVo week* ago The Constitution hung its Mocking up for Christmas. We told our readers of this fori, and urged every one of them to remember it. We did not ask them to give ue money, but simply a little work and good will. We asked each one to get us ONE NEW SUBSCRIBER before Christ mas, and drop it in our Christmas slocking. Hundreds of them have already reported an have our gratitude. Thousands have not, and they have our hopes. There are ten days left. Jf you have not sent us in your ???Christmas gift,??? trill you do so, so it trill reach us by CHRISTMAS EVE t You can do it if you trill. Won't you t Bid you ever think of THE IMMENSE POWER our readers could exert if each on tcould only speak one word for tis? If every subscriber sent in one new one, (and how easily they can do it,) we could make the paper 50 per cent better, and would be 1,000 per cent hap pier. Our stocking is hanging"up ! May your stockings all be filed, and your homes bebright, and your folks be.happy, whether our stocking is JUled or not, and may the blessed spirit of Him who gave us Christmas as an everlasting festival of peace and good will encompass you and yours forever and forever. Tl??e Incurable Cured???A Plain Statement Facts* Feelings of deepest gratitude prompt me to make the following statement of my mother's case, and the consciousness that It will do others good by bringing relief to some poor creature tortured as she was. I consent for its publication. Mv mother Mrs. Feathers, has had a cancer ortho womb for many months. Last winter tho doctor told us it was cancer, and could not be cured. Five different physi cians in private practice -havo raid the same thing. Wo took her to tbo woman???s hospital of this city, and thero they repeated tho same story, thoro Dr. Emmett told tts it was cancer, and she must die. We then took her to the New York collcgo hospital, and they told us the same thing there, that she had cancer and Could live but a very short time. She was then carried to my house when she awaited patiently tho coming of death os her only relief. Wo saw tho aavertisemont of tho Swift Specific Company, and as "a drowning man grasps at a straw,??? me went to tho offico of tho company atlB7 West Twenty-Third street, and the physician told mo to try It, that it could do no possible harm, and that It would cure her. Sho had lost a great deal of flesh and strength, and it seemed folly to give her medicine in tho face of what wo had been told. However, wo com menced the 8. S. S. and kept It up for a month before we began to see any improvement. From that timo on hor general health improv ed, and sho was soon raised from bed. The discharge increased so much that it frighten ed us, but we kept on and tho cancer camo away in great sloughs and lumps. For two months now there nas bcon no hemorrhage, no sign of a discharge. Thank God, my mother Is well. If any ono wishes to call on us or write to us, wo will bo glad to tell them all about this miraculous cure, lily mother is still at my house, and will bo glau to speak for herself at any time. Mbs. RF.nr.co\ Cramer? 278 7th Av., N.Y. Dec. 2,1880. ' Politics too.Sfach for Him. A lady on Fifth avenue, Now York, quLfcly summoned a doctor: "Oh. doctor, my husband is nearly dead. ITr attended a caucus last night. Ho made four speeches and promised to bo with his fellow- citizens again today. But oh, doctor, he looks nearly dead.??? IIS** 116 In politics long???? No, only last year. He worked hard for *J??mcs McCau lay???s election.??? -a get well, madam. Ho has a stomach for any disease, if ho worked for him!??? Political life, of short or long duration. Is ver Z wjMHUfinfc m i* evident from the groat mortality which prevails among public men. Ex-United States Senator B. K. Bruce, who has been long in publio lifo, raya: "The other day. when stopping Into a car at a crossing, I found Dr. within, whr eyed me up and down in a surprised way, re marking: " ???Why, senator, how well you look!??? " ???Well, I feel pretty well/1 answored. 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