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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- '~o In Man, Errors of Yoothg 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. Dolma' tan Can Month Wath Dtnlifrlcc. ENT FREE-Samples of wall paper and hoot How to Apply U. M.1L MAWS, Atlanta. 0*. Sawing Made Easy. tfflTmran flAWDTO MAOMJMM SENT 02* OO TEST TRIAL* 93SggSWK x7SienKtefit..c : (orxf-t. For r GOLDKYi OCtg) Wk tf 185 Knee HL, Cincinnati, •Sinsw’MSSSSICj iSj| r$vr**‘v • «u K$*l teop* •• • - INDISTINCT PRINT I