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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION'. ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY JANUARY 12 x886-
TALMAGFS SERMON
ON THE "CHOICE OF A WIFE” YES'
TER DAY.
Bbooki.tk, N. Y„ January 10.—[Special.]—
The Ecv. T. Do Witt Talmage preached this
morning In the Brooklyn tabernacle, the first
of Miseries of aermona on “Tho Marriage
Bing,"the subject being "The choice of a wife.'
In the series will be treated the following sub
jects, of the greatest importance to every per
son: “The choice of husband and wife;” “Clan
destine marriages and escapade,;” “Duties of
husbands to wiser," "Duties of wives to hus
bands;”. “J[n matters of religion, should tho
wife go with the husband, or the husband go
with the wife;" ‘The wrong ways of women;'
"Costume and morals;" “Competent house
wifery;” “Sensible young womanhood;” “Worn'
en who will pass lifts single;" “Influence of
sisters over brothers;” “The mddera novel end
woman;” "Boarding house and hotel life;”
“Threatment of manservant and maidaorvamt'
Tito hymn sung on the occasion was:
“The morning light is breaking,
The darkness disappears.''
An organ solo was rendered by Professor
Henry Eyre Browne, who selected tho first
sonata in D minor by Bitter, for his .musical
theme. After expounding a passage of
Scripture, Dr.Talmage took for histext, Judges
xiv, 3: “Is there never a woman among the
daughters of thy brethren, or among ell my
people, that thou gocst to take a wife of the
nncircumcisod Philistines?” Dr. Talmage
said:
Samson, the giant, is here asking the con
sent of hia father and mother to marriage with
one whom they thought unfit for Mm. Ho
was wise In asking their counsel, but not wise
in rejecting it. Captivated with hor looks tho
big son wanted to marry a daughter of one of
the hostile lhmiUea, a deceitful, hypo-
critical, whining and saturnine creature who
afterward made for him a world of trouble till
she quit Mm forever. In my text his parents
forbade tho banns, practically saying: ''When
there aro so many honest and beautifhl maid
ens of your own country, are you to hard put to
for a life time partner that you propose Conju
gality with this foreign flirt? Ia there such a
dearth of lilies in our Israelitish gardens
that you must wear on your heart a Philis
tine thistle? Do you take a crab
apple because there are no pome-
granites? ‘Is there never a woman among
the daughters of thy brothron or among
all my people, that thou goeet to take a wife
of tho uncucumoised Philistines?’ ”
Excuseless was be for such a choiee in a
' land and amid a race celebrated for female
loveliness and moral worth, a land and a race
‘ *' ‘ id heroic Do-
pious Esther,
ho hugged to
her heart tho blessed Lord, were only magnifi
cent specimens. The midnight folded in their
hair, the lakes of liquid beauty in their eye,
the graceflilness of spring morning, in their
posture and gait, wero only typical of the
greater brilliance and glory of their soul.
Likewise excuaeless is any man in our time
who makes lifelong alliance with any one who,
because of her disposition, or heredity, or
habits, or intellectual vanity, or moral twistlfi-
cation, mar bo said to be ortho Philistines.
The world never owned such opulence of
womanly character or such splondorof woman
ly manners or multitudinous instances of wife
ly, motherly, daughterly, sisterly devotion, se
it owns to-day, I have not words to express
my ad miration for good womanhood. Woman
la not. only man's equal, bqt In aflbctlonal and
religions' nature, which la the beat part ‘of ua,
■he is seventy-five per cont hia superior. Yea;
during the last twonty years through the in
creased opportunity opened for femalo educa
tion, the women or the country are better ed
ucated than the majority of men; and if they
continue to advance in mentality at the pres
ent vatio, before long tho majority of men will
have difficulty in finding in the opposite sox,
enough ignorance to make appropriate oo
derstnud, if I say 1
blng that see:
' disgruntled.
There is in almost every farm-houso in the
country, in almost every home of tho groat
town, conscientious self sacrificing
holy women, worshlplbl men, lit-
numerabio Murys, sitting at the feet of
Christ; innumerable mother,, helping to food
Christ in the person of hia sufibring disciples;
a thousand capped and spectacled grandmoth
ers Lois, bending over Biblea whose precepts
they have followed from early girlhood; and
tons of thousands of yonng women that are
dawning upon us flrom school and seminary,
that aro going to bices the
woild with good and happy
homes, that shall eclipse all their predeceaeort,
a fiict that will be acknowledged by all mon
except those who aro struck through with
moral decay from toe to cranium; and more In
excusable than the Samson of the text is that
man who amid all thla unparalleled munifi
cence of womanhood marries a fool. But some
of yon are abroad ■ofi’eriog from anch disaster,
and to halt otbors of you from going oyer tho
aame precipice, I cry out in tho words of my
text:, “Is there never a woman ..among, the
dangbtersoftby brethren, or among ail my
people, that thou gocst to take a wife of the
nndrcumciaed Philistine*.
There on thousands of American pulpits,
among them this pulpit, guilty in the (act that
on some oftho subjects on which men and wo
men need practical advice they have been si
lent ot teaching them only in forceless circum
locution. About the choice of a lifetime com
panion, aquation in which (0 much of time
and all of eternity are Involved, what almost
universal silence In the church, so that there
are not ten people in this house who have ever
heard a discourse upon this theme; and the
first one I have ever heard is tha one I ant
preaching. Wo leave to tho flippant novel, or
the spectacular play, or the Jingle of a dogger
el rhyme, that which ought to burden the moet
tremendous sermon a minister ever preaches,
fram the day when he take! ordination to tho
day when In Judgment ho ueeta Me God.
And so, in thla coarse of sermons, I am going
to hitch up my best ts am to the wbiifietree, and
put the coniter of the plough clear np to the
boom, and go straight on nom (knee to fence,
however many Beet* of moles and serpents may
be ripped up by the farrow, and however
many alarmed people may cry “Whoa!”
That marriage is the destination of the hu
man race-if a mistake that I want to correct
before I go further. There are multitudes who
never will marry, and still greater multitudes
who arenot fit to marry. In Great Britain to
day there are M8,fi00 more women than men,
and that, I understand, is sboot the ratio in
America. By mathematical and inexorable
law, yow see, million* of women will never
marry. The supply for matrimony is greater
than the demand, the .first lesson of which is
that every woman onght to prepare to take
care of herself If need be. Then there aro
thousands of men who have no right to msrry,
because they have become so corrupt of charac
ter that their offer of marriage is an insult to
any good woman. Society will have to bn
toned np and corrected on this subject, to
that it shall realize that if a woman who has
sacrificed her horn.-to unfitted for marriage,
sols any man who has ever saerficed his purity
What right have yon, O masculine beast! whose
life has been loose, lo take under yout care
the spotlcssness of a virgin reared its tho sanc
tity ofs respectable home.'Will a bamxnl dare
to coart a dove?
But the majority of you will marry and have
S tight to marry, arid as your religious teach
er I wish to ssy to the*e men, in the choice of
a wife first of all seek divine direction. About
35 yean ago when Martin Farquhar Tapper,
the English poet, urged men to prsy before
they decided upon matrimonial associations
people laughed. And some of them have
lived to laugh on the other aide of their
month. The need of divine direction I argue
from the net that to many men, and some of
them strong and wise, have wrecked their
lispes at this Junctors. Witness Samson and
this woman of Timnsth- Witness Socrates
pecked or the. historical Xantlppe. Witness
Job, whoeo srife had nothing to prescribe for
Ms carbuncles, but allopathic doses of profanity.
Witness Ananias, a liar, who might perhapa
have been cured by truthful spouse, yet mar-
1* as great a liar aa himself—Sapphtra.
John Wesley, one of the beet men that
ever lived, united to one of tho moet outrageous
and scandalous of women, who sat in the City
Bond Chapel making months at him while ho
preached. Witness the once connubial wretch
edness of John Buskin, tho great art essayist,
and Frederick W. Kobertsou, the great preach
er. Witness a thousand hells on earth kindled
by unworthy wlvee, termagants that scold Uko
a March northeaster; female spendthrifts, that
put their husbands into fraudulent schemes
to get money enough to meet the lavishment
of domestic expenditure; opium-eating women
—about 400,000 of them in the United States—
who will have the drag thongh It should
canoe the eternal damnation of the whole
household; heartless and overbearing; and
. ' * •• yet
men.
, ,— ...— club
houses, where the husbands and sons go be
cause they can't stand it at homo. On this soa'
of matrimony, where so many have wrecked,
am I not right in advising divine pilotage?
Especially Is devout supplication needed be
cause of the fact that society is so full of arti
ficialities that men are deceived aa to whom
they aro marrying, and no one bnt tho Lord
knows. After the dressmaker, and the milli
ner, and the jeweller, and the hair-adiuster,.
and the dancing master, and tbo cosmetic art,,
have completed their work, how is an unso-
ls what makes so many recreant husbands. They
make an honorable marriage contract, but the
goods delivered are so different from the sam
ple by which they bargained. They were sim
ply swindled and they backed ont. They mis
took Jezebel for Longfellow's Evangeline, and
Lucretia Borgia for Martha Washington.
Aye, as the Indian chief boasts of the scalps
be has taken, so there are in society today
many coquettes who boast of tbs masculine
hearts they have captured. And theae women,
though they may live amid richeat upholstery,
are not so honorable as the cyprlsns of the
street, for these advertise their infamy, while
the former profess heaven while they mean
hell. There la so much counterfeit woman
hood abroad it is no wonder that some cannot
tell tbo genuine coin from the base. Do yon
not realise yon need divine guidance when I
remind yon that mistake is possible in this im
portant affair, and, if made, is irrevocable?
Tbo worst predicament possible is to be urn
roked together. Yon too it is Impos
break tho yoke. The more yonpnll
apart tho more galling the yoke. The minis
ter might bring you up again, and In I
presence read the marriage ceremony l _
ward, might put you on the opposite side of
the altar from where yon were when yon
were united, might take tha ring off of tho
finger, might rend the wedding veil asunder,
might tear ont the marriage leaf from tho
fiunily bibio record; bnt all that would fall to
nnmarry you. It ia bettor not to makotho
mistake than to attempt its correction. But
men and women do not reveal ailjthelr charac
teristics till after marriage, and how are yon
to avoid committing the final blunder? Then
is only one Being in tho universe who can
tell yon whom to choose, and that it
the Lord of paradise. He idade Eve
for Adam, and Adam for Eve,
and both for each other. Adam bad not a largo
* women from whom to seioct hia wife,
fortunate, judging from some mlstakos
which she afterwards made, that it was Eve or
notMng.
There U in all the world some ono who
made for you, si certainly as Evo was made
for Adam.
All sorts of mistakes occur because Evo was
madeontofarib from Adam’s side. Nobody
knows wMch of his twenty-four ribs was ta
ken for tho nnclens. If yfitt depend entirely
upon yourself in the selection of a wifo, there
aretwanty-threo possibilities to one that yon
willMleot the wrong rib. By tha fiato of Anab,
whose wife induced him to steal: by the fisto
of Macbeth, whose wife pushed him into mas
sacre; by the fate of James Ferguson, tbo phi
losopher, whose wifo entered tho room while
he was lecturing and wllftilly upset hia astro
nomical apparatus, so that ho turnod to tho
audience and said: “Ladles and gentlemen, I
have the mbfortunoto be married to this wo
man”’ tar the fate of Buiwcr, the novelist,
whose wife’s temper was so incompatible tbs
lie ftirnisbed here beautiful boose near Lon
don and withdrew from her company, leaving
ber with the one dozen don whom she enter
tained aa pets; by the Date of John Milton,
who married a termagant after he was blind,
and when someone called ber a rose, the poet
said: “I am no lodge of colon, bnt it may bo
ao, for I feel the thorns dally;” by the fate of
an Englishman, whose wife wu'io determined
to dance on his grave; that ho was burled in
the eea; by the fiato of a village minister
whom 1 knew whoso wifo threw a cup of hot
tea across the table because they differed in
sentiment—by all these scenes of disquietude
and domestic calamity, wa implore yon to bo
' irayerfnl before yon enter upon
state, whlcb|decldcs whether a
man shall have two heavens or two hells, a
heaven here and heaven forever, or a hell now
and a hell hereafter.
By tho bibs of Pliny, whose wife, when her
husband was pleading in court, had messen
gers coming and going to inform her what im
pression he was makiog; by tho (oy of Urotl-
us, whose wifo delivered him from prison un
der the preteoso of having books carried ont
lest they bo Injurious to hit health, aha send
ing out her husband unobserved in one ot tho
bookcases,'; by thcfgood fortune of Bolsnd, In
Look's time, whose wife translated and com
posed for ber baaband, wkile secretary of tha
interior—talented, heroic, wonderful Madam
Boland; by the happiness of many a man
who hu made intelligent choiee of one capa
ble of being prime counsellor and companion
in brightness and Ia grief—pray to Almighty
God, morning, noon and night, that at tho
right time ana in the right way, Ho will tend
you a good, honest, loving, sympathetic wife;
or Jf the is not tent to you, that you may bo
senlfto'ber.
At this point let me warn you not to lot A
question of this importance be settled by tho
celebrated matchmakers, in almost every com*
inanity. Depend upon your own Judgment
divinely illumined. These brokers in matri
mony sro over plsaning haw .therein unite
impecunious innocence to an helresa, or celi
bate woman to millionaire or marquis, and that
in many eases makes life an unhappiness. How
can any human belag. who knows neither of
the two parties t*God knows them, and who
is ignorant of the future, give snch direction
as yon require at such a crisis.; Ttke the ad-
vlcs of the earthly matchmaker instead of the
divine guidance, tnd you may some day bold
to use the words of Se lemon, whose experience
in Come life was « mcLtncholy-ss it was mul
titudinous.
Ono day hia palace, with its great wide
reems and great wide doors apd great wide
hall,was too saudi for Mm and the loud tongue
of a woman belaboring him about tome of bis
neglects, and he retreated to tho honsetop to
get relief from the lingual bombardment. And
while there he saw a poor man on one corner
of the roof with a mattress for his only furni
ture, and the open sky his only covering. And
Solomon envies him and cries ont: "It is bet
ter to dwell in the corner of the honsetop than
with a brawling woman in a wide house.”
And one day during the rainy season, the
water leaked throngh the roof of tho palace
and began to drop In a rail or pan set there to
catch it. And at ena side of him all day long
the water went drop, drop, drop, while on tho
other aide a female companion quarrelling
about this and quarrelling about that, the acri
monious and petulant words Calling on Ms ear
in ceaseless pelting-drop, drop, drop, and ha
seized his pen and wrote: “A continual drop
ping in a very rainy day and a contentions
woman are alike.**
If Solomon had been aa prayerful at the be
ginning of Ms life u ho was at the close, how
much domestic infelicity he would have avoid
ed. But prayer about this will amount to no
thing unlea yon pray soon enough. Wait until
yon aro tuclnatea and the cquilibrii
uation for the voice of God.
If you have this prayerful spirit you will
sorely avoid all femalo scoffers at tho Christian
religion; and there aro quite a number of them
in all commnnltlea. It most be told that,
though the only inflnence that keeps woman
from being estimated and treated as a slave-
aye, as a brute and beast of burden—Is Chris
tianity, since where it is not dominant she Is
so treated, yet there aro women whs will to
far forget themselves tnd forget their God,
that they will go and hear lectur
ers malign Christianity and scoff at the most
sacred things of the ton). A good woman,
over-persuaded by her husband, may go onoe
to bear moh a tlrtde against the Christian re
ligion, not lMly knowing what she is going to
hear; bnt she will not go twice. A woman,
not a Christian bnt a respecter of religion,
sold tome: “Ins persuaded by my hus
band to go and hear an infidel lecturer ones,
hut going home, I said to him: 'My dear
husband, I would not go again thougn my
declinature should result in our divorcement
forover.’” And the women was right Ifaf-
ter all that Christ and Christianity have done
for a woman ehe can go again and again to,
hear such assaults, she b an awful creature
and yon had better not come near such a
reeking leprese. She needs to bo washed, and
for three weeks to bo soaked in carbollo acid,
and for a whole year fumigated, before
she is fit for decent society.
While it b not demanded that a
woman he a Christian before marriage, the
must have regard for the Christian religion or
she b a bad woman and unworthy of being
your companion in a life charged with soon
hat yon want, O man! in a wife, b not a
butterfly of tho sunshine, not a giggling no
nentity, not n painted doll, not a gossipping
gad-about, not a mixture of artldcialnos which
leave you in doubt as to where the humbug
ends and the woman begins, bnt an earnest
eon!, one that can not only langh when yon
laugh, but weep when you weep. There will
be wide, deep graves in your path of life, and
yon will both want steadying when you come
to the verge of them, I toll you! When your
fortune fails yon will want some one' to talk of
treasures in heaven, and not chargo upon you
with a hitter, "I told you so.” As far os I
can analyze it, sincerity and earnestness aro
the foundation of all worthy wifehood. Get
that and yon get alt Fail to gettkat and you
get nothing but what you .will wish you
never had got.
"Don't make the mistake that man of the
text made In letting hb eye settle the ques
tion in which coolest judgment directed by
divine wbdom, an all Important. Ho who has
no reason for bb wifely choice except a pretty
free, la like a man who should bay a farm be
cause of the dahlias;in the front ilooryaid.
Beauty b a talent, and when God gives it Ha
intonds it as a benediction upon a woman’*
Aco. When the good princess of Wales db-
mounted from the rsiltrain last summer, and
I saw ber radiant face, I could understand
wbat they told me tho day before that, whon
at the great military hospital where are now
tho wonnded and tho sick from tbo Egyptian
and other ware, the princess passed throngh,
sllthe sick were cheered at her coming, and
those who conld bo roused neither by
doctor or nurse) from their stupor, would getup
co their elbows to look at her, and wan ana
wasted lipe prayed an audible prayer: “God
bless the pnnccas of Wales! Doesn't the look
beautiful?”
Bnt how uncertain b the tarrying of beauty
in a human countenance. Explosion of a ker
osene lamp turns it Into scarification, and a
scoundrel with one dssh of vitriol may dbpel
it, or timid will drive' his chariot whoela
zeroes that bright free, cutting itnp in deep
ruts and gullies. Bnt then b an eternal beau
ty on the free of some women whom a rough
and nngslltnt world may criticise aa homely,
tnd thongh theirfestures may contradict all
the IawsofLavater on physiognomy, yet they;
have graces of soul that will keep thorn At
tractive fortimo and glorious through all stab
ility.
There are two or tbreo circumstances in
which the plainest wifo is a quoen of beanty to
her husband, whatever ber atotnre or profilo.
By financial panic or betrvyal of bualneee part
ner, the nun goes down, and retnrlningto
Ms home that evening ho saya: “lam rained;
I am In disgrace forever; I care net whether I
live or die.” It is an agitated atory ho fa toll
ing in the household that winter night. He
uya: ‘The furniture must go, tho house must
{ [o, the social poaltlon must go,” and from bo
ng sought for obsequiously they most be cold-
shouldered everywhere. After he ceases talk-
whon I married yon, and yuu have only come
back to when yon started. If yon think that
my bapplnesa and that of tbo children do
nend on theae trapplngi, you do not know me
ighwe kayo lived together thirty years.
is not dead, and the National Bank of
Htaven has not suspended payment, and if
yon don’t mind I don’t earn
cent. What little wo need of food:
_ 1 raiment tho rest of onr lives we can get,
and I don't propose to alt down and mope and
man. Maty, band ma that darning needle.
And John, light one oftho other gaa burners.
And, Jimmy, open tho register for a little more
beat. Fanny, fetch yonr father's slippers. I
declare! I have forgotten to set tho rising for
these cakes!” Ana while ahe ia busy at It bo
hears her hamming Nowton's oli'. hymn, 'To-
Morrow.”
as throng!
Who fire* the lilies clothing
Will clothe hb people too:
Beneath the spreading heavens
No creature but b fed;
And he who feeds the rerena
Will give hb children bread.
“Tbongh vine hot fig-tree either
Their wonted fruit should bear,
Though all the fields should wlthor
Nor Bocks nor herds be there:
Yet God the same abiding.
Hb praise shall tune my voice;
For while In Him confiding
I cannot but rejoice.”
The hnsband looks np In smaaemtnt tnd
aaya: “Well, well, you are tho greatest wo
man I over saw. 1 thought you would bint
dead away when I told you.” Andaa helookt
at her, all tho glories of physiognomy in the
court of Lonit XV on tho modern fashion
plates, are tame as compared with the super
human splendor of that woman's face. Joan
of Arc, Mary Antoinette and La Hollo Hamil
ton. the enchantment oftho coart of Charles
II, aro nowhere.
There is another time when the plainest
wife ia a queen of beauty to her husband. Bhe
has done the work of lire. Bhe has roared her
children for God and heaven, and though
some of them may boa little wild, they trill
S et come back, for (led has. promised. She is
ying and her hiisband stands by. They
think over all the years of their companion
ship, the weddings and tho burials, the ups
and the downs, the successes and the failures.
They talk over the goodness of God and bb
frithfulneaa to children's children. Bbo hu
no fear about going. Tbo Lord hat sustained
ber so many yean ahe would not dare to dis
trust him, now. Tbo Bps of both of them
tremble aa they say good bye, and cocoa rage
each other abont au early meeting in a better
world. The breath b feebler and feebler, and
slops. Are you sure of it? Jnst hold thst
mirror at tbo month, and too if there is any
vapirgathering on the surface. Gone! As
one of the neighbors takes the old man by tho
Brm gently and says: “Corns, you bad better
go into the nezt room and restbo atyt;
“Wait a moment; I must take ono more look'
at that face and at those bands!” Beautiful!
Beautiful.'
My friends, I hope yon do not call that
death. That Is an automnai sutuot. That Is
a ciystallluo river pouring Into a crystal sea.
That b the solo of human life overpowered by
halleluiah chorus. That is a Quoen'a corona-
lion. That is Heaven. That is the way my
father stood at eighty-two, seeing my mother
depart at seventy-nine. Perhaps so your fa
ther and mother went. I wonder if wo will
die as well. _
'•The bottlee used for Dr. Boil's Cowgb Syrup
would fill a whole railroad train.”—Ex.
TOPICS OF THE WEEK.
It b not an unnsnal thing to piagarizo from
Talmage, bnt the dbtlngnbhed Brooklyn di
vine was not e little surprieed to learn the tone
of Mi sermons bad been the rain of A brother
minister. The Bov. W. H. H. Snyder hts for
twenty-two years beta the pastor of the Salem
Beformed Presbyterian church at Harrisburg,
Pa From a very small beginuiug he hu made
Ms churob one of the moet flourishing In that
city. Wealthy and prominent citizens ware at
tracted by his prea filing, a splendid enurch
edifice wu bnllt tbr him, and both pastor and
people were in a moet flourishing condition.
Borne time ago the Bev. Ur. Snyder felt too
sick to prepare a sermon of hb own, tnd he
preached a very eloquent discourse by the
Bov. Dr. Tilmage, supposing that no ono
wonld know the dlflhronce between hb own
style and that of tho eminent Brooklyn preach
er. “Be sure yonr tin will find yon out,” how
ever, is true of sermon stealing u well aa other
kinds of larceny. The congrerstlon were de
lighted with the sermon, and thought Mr. Sny
der even more eloquent when feeling unwell
than when in hie meet robust condition. It 1*
E ohable that if he could hare gone on preach-
K Dr. Talmage'* sermons Ms salary would
have been doubled and a new hood put on tho
church steeple. Bnt a curious and carnal per
son in tho shape of a yonng lawyer happened
to he in the audience, and mentally made
somo habeu corpus reflections on the body of
tho sermon. The more ho thought of it tbo
more bo became satisfied thst ho bad heard
it before. On reaching home he happened to
take up a volume of Dr. Tslmage’s sermons,
and there sore enough wu the iden
tical sermon which had produced such an
awakening effect upon the Boformod Presbyte
rian church at Harrisburg. Instead of thanking
Mr. Snyder for giving them the very best ser
mon he could find, bis congregation havo re
solved to cast him down headlong from his
pulpit elevation. After twenty-two yoars of
effective preach " ‘ '
down and out.
Tint vice of opium smoking seems to be
making rapid headway in this country. The
other day a fashionable young lady wu arrest-
ed in tho back room of a Chinese laundry In
St. Louis on snaplcion of vialtlng tho place for
the purposo of smoking opium. Sho admitted
that a young gentleman had tanght her how to
smoke, and mid that ber desire to indulge in
tbo habit wu so strong that ahe had hunted up
au opium den.
On New Year’s morning tho Charleston News
and Courier gave Its readers a summary of tho
butinem gains made by Sooth Carolina in tho
lut five yean. The state hu Increased tho
annual value of it* manufactured products
121,500,000, of its agricultural products $8,500.*
000, of its live stock *9,000,000, of its agricul
tural implements *1,500.000, and hu spent
*2,500.000 in building railways. During the
samo five years tbo aggregate of tho stuto and
county debts hu been Aimlntohed by *500,000.
The News and Conner says of this advance:
“Having accomplished to much, whon tho
very fates seemed against us, how great, how
strong, how rich will Sooth Carolina become
when the elements are suspicion* and the
whole people, regaining confidence In them-
selves, are filled with frith and hopol”
Victoria Mokisini, who married bar fath
er’s coachman, to now ono of tho most popular
women in New York. Her firm loyality to
tho interior man she married hu attracted the
attention of the on tiro city, and the beat peo
ple are anxious to show their respect for tho
girl in a substantial manner. At present Vic
toria to singing in an operatic tronpe. She to
Iq a position to bo tempted, bat ber affection
for her husband to shown in an unmistakable
May.
Tnx recent pardon of T. J. McAfee, a Mire
ncsota bigamist, recalls a littlo. romance. The
wpman McAfee married tho lut time Was tho
Gonntiss Von Mutzenbacb. The eonntem wu
the daughter of Commodore Meade, of tho
United States navy. When In her totna the
married Charles K. Landis, tbo founder of
Vineland. Sho wu under age, tnd herfrtber
tried to make it lively for Laodia. Tho son-in-
law, however, wu too sharp for tho old man.
Ho locked him np in a lunatic uylum, and had
a bill rushed through tho New Joreey legisla
ture making Ms marriage legsl. Unfor
tunately Mrs land to dovelopod certain montal
weaknesses and a Vineland editor named
Carruth, bad the bad tuto to show thorn np in
print. One day Landis walked into the edi
tor's office and put a bullet in bit bead. Undor
the circumstances it wu Carruth’s duty to
kick the bui'kct, but he persisted In living,
much to the snnoysneo of Landis tnd tho
perplexity of tho doctors. When Landis un
derstood that Carruth could not got well with
an ounce of lead in hto brain ho paid him a
‘ mey to compromise tho matter,
lied and Laudls wu triod for
murder and acquitted on tbo ground of in
sanity, Mrs. Landis continued to. make
herself so disagreeable that a divorce wu se
cured. Sho afterwards married the Count Von
Hutrenhacli, who died, leaving her an Income
of $10,000 a year. Her nsxtmarriago wasto
McAfee, who had awife in Ireland. The Irish
wife came over to this country and bad McAfee
tried for bigamy. Since tho prisoner's pardon,
ho hasJoincd|hu second wifo and tho two sum
to bo living together veiy happily.
It to said that abort necked people think anil
act qnlckly. Long necked people are slow.
The distance oftho head from tbo vital contor
doubtless hu something to do with this. In an
emergency the abort necked man make* a good
lesder. When there to Urns for plotting and
planning, the long nocked man Is first class.
On New Year’s eve Henry Ward Beecher’
for the first tlmo in hto life, led “a watch meet
ing" in Plymouth church. It wu a unique
affair and a memorable three hours to tha largo
congregation assembled. As the hand* of tho
clock neared midnight Mr. Beecher walked to
tbo edge of the platform and said In a solemn
voice:
•The Urn to coming when tbo new rear will lie
dead on our bands. There are only* fow. minutes
more. Thla to the moment when two ships meet
onlheocetn. One hu been s faithful end stanch
vessel: it hu carried us safely along, but It Is old
and worn, and Us time hu oorat. To* other Is nsw
ep gladly aboard and watch
■' — 1 - a on*. Wo watch
watch
■UU Hlllll) AIIU IW HJUV UH WHIfi • *-
and found, and wcutcp gladly aboa:
In »Hence the destruction of the old <
it as it kinks out of suht;
waters cloae plainly over ft, a
gin to look about and examine o
and then tie-'
, T oar new craft.".
While Ur. Beecher spoke bells began tolling, a
hoarac whistle near bjr p bricked otif the sat Unc
tion of iU owner, and every conceivable noUe was
let loo«c on land and on water to celebrate the
birth of the new year. Mr. Beecher ahook hU
fuaer fcolcmnly at the MethodfaiU and tho teat, and'
told them that tho kinking tiilp was the old and
the >onud craft the new year. Then he went for
them
person out of (he way. Cobh pretended lo fall
in with her dceiroL and introduced har to a
man named John Ball. Mr*. Cool-
ldge told Ball that Ur. Adrian
L. Mellon, of Baltimore, had u daughter-in-law
in Boston, and that bo wlabodto hava her
killed become his soothed disgraced tha fam
ily in marrying her. Ono thousand dollars
would bo paid to tho man who committed tho
murder. Boll agreed to do the job, and waa
paid some money in advance. He obtained
certain letter* and telegram* exchanged be
tween tha Coolldgo woman and Mellon, and
then exposed iho wholo butinem tothe
police. Un. Coolldgo wa* arrested;
and a requisition was sent
to Baltimore for Mclicn. For some reason it
was held thst Mellon could not be arrested,
but ho immediately disappeared from the
city. The feet that ho is now living in
Mexico and is making arrangements to go in
ti-business there Is considered protty strong
proof of hia guilt. There U some talk of kid
napping him and bringing him back for trial.
In the no-lloense towns of Connecticut
peppermint toddy is all tho rage* Men take
four or five ounces of the fiery ataff at a drink
and pronounce it superior to whisky. After
two or three drinks a fellow Cools hilarious
enough to paint the town red end then tear it
down. The temperance people are now trying
to restrict the aale of peppermint.
William Steven*, the Detroit murderer,
will be lucky if he succeeds in being triod and
hung In a decent and orderly feahlon. Btevcns
killed his sweetheart, and has shown himself
to be such a cold-blooded radian that his fel
low citieens are determined to lynch him if
they get a fair chance. Tho first day of the
trial waa quite exciting. Yells and hoots went
up from a thousand throats. Men with clench
ed fists and livid feces danced about tho officer
and his charge. "Hang him!" "Lynch him!’
shouted tho crowd. “Lynch mo if you date! •
exclaimed Btevens, raising his right hand with
an apparent Intention of defending himself
even against inch fcnrftrl odds. Other officers
came up, atrd with difficulty the party pushod
their way to the city hall. There tho main
body of tho mob was met. Tho yells were al-
mobt deafening a.4 the prisoner was takon to
tho elevator. Ho was pushod Into the car and
the barred door slid between him and the
crowd.
A itRioiiT and pretty girl at Elmira, How
York, went two hundred' miles last week to
see a man who advertised for a wife. Sho
found a rod-beaded, pug-nosed and squint-
eyed man, and at onco backed out of tho ne
gotiations.
The foM&wing peculiar item is going the
rounds oftho press, but very littlo seems to bn
known about tbo matter:
A ilugular report comes from Louisiana that an
ex-mayor of Baton Kougo has succeeded In pro
ducing a hybridised cotton plant that promises to
revolutionize tho south's great staple. It Is to the
eflect thst alter experimenting with cotton for
some time, he has succeeded in procuring aiipecloa
of the plant which grows to a height or fourteen
feet and produoes a staple that is Tong and silky,
and can be made to yield four ImIqs to the amt.
Tho plan by which this species of cotton was de
veloped Is described as follows: The stamens
of the cotton bloaroms were removed esrlv
in the morning before tho bloom was oponocL
end the pollen of an okra blossom was inserted
therein. The blossom thus hybridized is then pro
tected by cloths to prevent Insects from harming
It. and os soon as this bolUare formed the cloths are
removed. In this way the experimenter has suc
ceeded In securing a supply of seed sufficient to
sow an aero, and will be enabled next year to con
tinue bis experiment on a much larger scale. ““
fully test Its practical utility. Reports of such
departures an theseimust always be received '
considerable credulity. It will^b remembered that
a few yearn ago It was reported that some ope had
discovered a new species of cot
ton ’which promised | to , revolutionise
the culture and manufacture of tho staplo, and
the story created considerable excitement But
the alleged new plant turned out to be a myth, and
which soon came to bo understood as a buss Joke.
Ibis latest reported dlscovtnr, however, has at
tracted the attention of the Arlentlfio American,
which thinks It ofsufficient consequence tobe
worthy of Investigation, H
fiin GiconaK Biupwood says that opium Is
ions in its effect* than alcol
A Common Cold *
Is Often till beginning of serious nffco*.
lions of tho Throat, Bronchial Tubes,
and Longs. Therefore, tho importance of
early and effective treatment cannot b«
overestimated. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
. may always bo relied upon for tho spoedy
euro ot a Cold or Cough.
‘ .East January I was attacked wit!: a
severs Cold, which, by neglect and fro-
quent exposures, became worse, finally
icttllng on my lungs. A terrible cough
toon followed, accompanied by paint m
the chest, from which I suffered intensely.
After trying various remedies, without
obtaining relief, I commenced taking
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, and wu
> Speedily Cured.
I am satisfied that this remedy saved my
life.—Jno. Webster, Pawtucket, B. I.
I contracted A severe cold, which sud
denly developed Into Pneumonia, present
ing dangerous and obstinate symptoms.
My physician at onco ordered the use of
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Hto Instructions
were followed, and the result was a rapid
tnd permanent cure.—H. E. Simpson,
Bogera Prairie, Texas.
Two years ago I suffered from a sever*
Cold which settled on my Lungs. I con.
suited various physlelnus, and took tha
medicines they prescribed, but received
only temporary relief. A friend Induced
me to try Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. After
taking two bottles ot this medicine I wa*
cured. Since then I have given the Pec
toral to my chlklrtn, and consider It
„The Best Remedy *
for Colds, Coughs, and ill Throat and
Lung diseases, ever used In my family.—
Ilobert Vanderpool, Meadvlllc, Pa.
• Some time ago I took a slight Cold,
which, being neglected, grew worse, nnd
settled on my lungs. I hwl a backing
cough, and waa very weak. Those who
knew mo best considered my life to bo
in great danger. I continued to suffer
until I commenced nslng Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral. Leu than one bottle of this val
uable medicine cured me, and 1 feel (hat
I owe the preservation ot ray life to fta
curative powers.—Mrs. Ann Lockwood,
Akron, New York.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Is considered,
here, tho one great remedy for all diseases
of the throat and lungs, and Is more
In demand than any olher medicine of it*
chut.—J. F. Boberto, Magnolia, Ark.
>' Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral,
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer k Co., Low«||, Maw.
Bold tv DruggUU. lllre tl; alx boUlre. *A
no more Iqjuriou* i
.ho),
ho
ChrtuUii and ull right. "What will you do for
your fellow man?" he Inquired of one of Ithoun-
(negation who appeared to have plenty of caili.
“And what kfiulnca* and charity will you abow to
your Inferior*?” waa hurled at a roan with aahort
heard who own* a itreet car line. Then he waved
hia arm at the wholo room and faired himself and
paid:
"The year to dead. A. you abandon it throw off
your old .Ins; lake off your filthy rsipq take off
your lufeclwt ra**, and pray God to mako this a 1
happier, more Christian and more sunshiny year
than y ou have ever known."
Stxvk Bznfsox, the Alabama conviot who
made hto escape at Birmingham some weeks
ago, to leisurely traveling through tho south
west on hto way to Central America, He ha*
written a few cards for nahlication, stating
that be feels secure. lie ad rises the officer*
not to attempt hto capture as it will be useless.
Benfroe Is a plucky criminal and In hu tussle
with the law bids Mr to come out on top.
Public Interest In the Mollen-Coolldgecase
in Boston aod Baltimore has been revived by
the discovery that Mellon to hiding at Tope
Chico, Mexico. It will bo recollected that this
ease came to light through tho eo*fssalon ot
one of tho parties to it. Mrs. Coolldgo to tho
wifo of s respectable policeman In Boston. Ono
day ahe went to Bate Cobb, the proprietor of a
law resort frequented by criminals, and told
him Ihxtihe wanted a man V) put a certain
end that the worat result* aro fait only Jiy
those who by somo woakneas of tho bra In f or
chronic disease are predisposed to oxccsi.
Tux Princess of Walts waa not always abl#
to dren rogardlesa of expense. Bhe hat known
the evil* of genteel povorty. tnd If ahe has
forgotten all about It others havo not. When
ao American once remarked that the princem
was always well dressed, a great lady replied:
“Sho learned how to dress when ehe made ber
own bonnets and gown* on a hundred a year,
before her father wa* king of Denmark.” It
wns indeed a atrenge fortune that railed the
daughter* of Christian IX, to two of the proud-
cat position! in Christendom. Ouo to already
empresa of all tho Bumtoa, and tho other to
mated to the man who will ono dav -bo aov-
rrigu of England. Bach matches have
not often boen made by portionless
maiden*. Bnt tho helraapparenttolhesogreat
monarchies both wanted consorts who wart
not Catholic, and marriageable princesses an
swering the demand wero scarce when tha
cxarowlteh and tho princo of Wales arrived at
their majorities.
Tax remarkable atory which w* print from
the New York Bun about a visitor'sudronjurci
in Florida showa that tho northern corres
pondent hasn’t qnlt lying about tho south.
The wonders of electrieity are just being
unfolded. In tbecoursoof another quarter
of a century electricity wiU do all of our
work, except thinking. A correspondentglvaa
tho following account of a visit to tbo home of
William Hammer, tho eminent electrician, In
Jersey City:
When each new-comer triad to alt down tha
chair either doubled up or started for tho door pro-
pelted by somo unseen hand. If he touched a eofe
and queer phosphorescent figures pern* up. No
one koev wheu bs was safe, for electricity was
everywhere. After they had adjourned lo the
diningroom one of the number worked, up ooor-
_ ‘
welcome obonographlcalljr. He w -
light* forflurt stud*, a bibulous red
*■
von rang a bell on It
to IM, hour » glare of
dcM-ent and roll of fli
yonr apoon Into * ditto of cream
'Sam Jones's" Paper.
Tho January Hamper of
“The Southern Evangelist,"
(BEV. BAM JONES'S PAPER),
to out, and has an Elf ht-Paga account of tho
GREAT ST. LOUIS MEETING
-AND-
REV. SAM JONES’ SERMONS.
The Cron in or SI or Sam Jones’s Scr-
ntons—Incidents of tho Mccting—TUo
Attack on St. Louis Society—On Missouri’s
Governor.
THE BE8T ISSUE OP A RELIGIOUS PAPER
ever seen. TWENTY FULL I'AOES of
3am Jones’s Fight Against Sin.
"The Ernnffellat" will be sent ono mr for
only no rents,; The Cheapest and Best of Keif,
clous ltpera. The next number will describe tho
Cincinnati meeting, which opened January 10th.
if you want
Fifty cents will got the " E v an g e 11»t” i/who I <
Jones. He asks his Mew
EJESL
A STANDARD MEDICAL WORK
FOR TODKO AND MIDDLE-AGED KR.1
ONLY SI »> HAH. POSTTAaD.
KNOW THYSELF.
A 7 Great Medical Work on Manhood
Exbanxtcd Vitality, Nervous and Physical Do-
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resulting from lndiacre*
for every man, young,
It contains US prcuorlp-
L „ . J ehron Ic rt Im'ilh**, each ooo
mHchtetiivsluable. Ho found by tbo Author,
ssswwsst
country
ixist nil'!, lb
r! (tol'l mntl&l
■Md bewltdP
eking sandwich and
> when moat oofhl
and It waslnean-
tle clock twinkle! out 12, uiherlnst lu the new
year, (pandlmoolnm seemed to here chanted
places with the quiet dlnlnf-room. Uttlocsnnnus
rolled lu through the door apparently, unaided, a
xeiif rounded under every chnir, tho llahis went
out. and I he piece was In tn uproar. I: lasted ter-
eral mlnulca and worked the (ueste up to such a
uervous sure that they left the housean bour al-
forward, feeling that smtehow they baa boon Hv
log a half a ccnlury ahead of the times.
John C. Fxxuoxt ia still living. Ha is a
•Un, lean wtll preserved man as straight aa an
Indian, and while bit head to frosty hto cheeka
are a pinky white. Htofriende claim that ha
waa really elected president In IBM, hut wal
defeated by :J,000 fraudulent vote* In Phila
delphia. Afterwards Fremont wont to Porto
where ho became Involved in some litigst on,
the result of which wu an indictment against
him. Latov Jndga Jera Black had
tko judgment of tbo court . re
versed. Fremont did hto duty
op the unicnaido during the war, and since
bps hern engaged In a variety of *peentottva
enterprise*. But ha hat made no money for
hlmeeif. In hie old age he lives with hie wife
op Btatcn island In a tort of genteel poverty.
He to now almost forgotten hy the men who
were hto alltoe thirty years ago.
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