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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY JANUARY 19 1886
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
PREACHED IN BROOKLYN TABER
NACLB Y ESTER DAY*
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Unmarried Lair Would Stsd.
Brooklyn, N. Y m January 17.—flSpsq!*!.]—
The Bev. T. DsWitt Tslmtgc, D. D., pitched
today in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, tbs second
«fhis series of sermon* on 'The Marriage
Bing." Haring spoken last Sunday on “The
Choice of a Wife," be today preached on “The
Choice of a Husband." The organist rendered
- the sonata in C minor, by Ithelnberger. Con-
areaational singing, lod by Professor All's cor
net, included that of the hymn beginning:
"Awake, inyeoul tolcrful lays,
And Mug thy great Redeemer's praise/’
Meeting his text from Kuth 1. V: "The Lord
giant you that ye may find rest, each of you,
iu tbe hoaso of her husband,” the eloquent
preacher aaid:
Thia was the prsyerof plows Naomi for Buth
and Orpab, and is au appropriate prayer
in behalf of unmarried womanhood. Naomi,
the good old soul, knew that the devil would
take tlicir cases in hand If God did not, so she
prays: 'The Lord grant you that ye may find
rest, each of you in the house of her husband.'
in thin senes of sermons on “The marriat
ring," 1 last Sabbath gave prayerful and C'hrl
Uau advice to meu In regard to the selection of
a wife, and today I give the Mima prayerful and
Christian advice to women in regard to the se
lection of a husband, hut in all these sermons
saying much that I hope will be app
for all ages and all classes.
1 applaud the celibacy of a iflultituilo of
women who, rather than make unfit selec
tion. have made none at all. It has not linen
a lack of opportunity for marital contract oil
their part, but their own culture and refine
incut and tlicir exalted idea ns to what a hus
band ought to be, have caused tlicir declina
ture. They have seen so many women marry
imLccilcs, or ruflinns, or incipient sot*, or life
time incapablcs, or niaguifleent nothings, or
men who before marriage were angelic and
afterward diabolic, that they havo been
alarmed aud stood bock. They saw so.many
/ Inuts go into the maelstrom Unit they steered
into other waters, fatter for n womsii to
lire alone, though sho live u thousand years,
than to be annexed to ono of thoso maaciUfno
failures with which. society is surfeifaL Thn
pation saint of almost every family circle h
aomesnrh Unmarried woman, and amohg all
the familica/if rouslna she move* around, and
her rotulug in each house is the morning, and
her going away is the night.
In my large circle of kindred, |>erliaps
twenty fkmilles in all, it was an Aunt Phasbe.
Paul gave a letter of introduction to ono
whom be calls “I’bmbc our sister," asshe went
up from <'euchre* to Itomo, commending her
for her kindness and Christian service, and
imploring for her all courtesies. I think
Aunt Pbtrlto was named after her. Waatbaro
a slekncaa in an; of tho households, she was
there ready to ait up and count out tho (Irons
of medicine. Was there n marriage, sho
helped deck the bride for tho altar. Was
there a new soul incarnated, sho was there to
rejoice at the uativity. Was there a sore be
reavement, she was there to console. Tho
children rushed out at her first appearance
crying, “hero comes Aunt Phoebe," nnd hut
for laicutal interference, they would havo
pulled her down with their carcases, for sho
was net very strong, and many severe Illnesses
had given her enough glimpses of tho next
world to make her heavenly inindod. Her
table was loaded up with Laxter’s “Batata*
Best," Doddridge's “Bl*e and Progress,” and
Jay's “Morning and Evening Exorcises," and
John Lnnynn VTilgrim’s Progress," and like
hooks, which have fitted out whole generations
for tho heaven upon which they have already
tntrrod. i
“DfWItf," she raid to me ope day, “twice fn
my life 1 have been so overwhelmed with tho
ievo of God that 1 havo fainted away nod
could hardly be resustUntcd. Don't tell mo
there is no heaven. 1 havo seen it twice.” If
yf u would know how her presence would
soothe an anxiety or lift a burden or chcor
si now, or leave a Idesaiug on every room in
cma of the Lord God Almighty. In addition
to the anguish with which he will All yon*
life, there is great danger that be will despoil
your hope of heaven and make your marriage
relation an Infinite and eternal disaster. If
yon have made such engagement yonr first
duty is to break It. My word may come
In time to save your aoul.
Further, do not unite in marriage with a
man of had habits, in the idea of reforming
him. If now, under the restraint of your
tl.e bouse, oak any of tho Talmages. Hho had
tarried at her early home, taking care ofsn
jj* valid father, uutil the bloom of life bad
H im what faded, hut sho could interest tho
young folks with some three or four tender
E u sagea in her own history, so that weal
iii w that it waa not through lack ofopportu
liity that she was not thn niiocn of
ot.e household, instead of noli _
Ih-iudiction on u whole circle of
households. At about seventy yearn of ago sho
made her Inst visit to my home, and when sho
sat in my Philadelphia church, 1 was more
embarrassed at her presence than by all tho
audience, because I felt that iu religion 1 had
got no ftirthcr than the n b r, while sho had
lea turd tlio whole alpha tat. nnd for many
yean had finished the ▼ nnd y. When she
went out of this life into the next,what a shout
there mult havo Iteen in heaven,from tho front
door clear up to tho hack scut in tho highest
gallery I I saw tho other day in tho village
cemetery of Homervilln, New Jersey, her rest*
lug place, the toiubstoun bavin.” on it the
words which thirty yean ago -die told me she
would like to have in-ritafi ibore, uaiucly,
“The Horning Cometh.'
P Had the a mission in the world? Certainly,
As much as Caroline Horschcl. Ant arnsnueu
ais for her illustrious brother, and then hh iw
aistaut in astronomical calctilatious, aud than
discovering worlds for heraelf, dying at uiue-
IToreuco Nial ...
Grace Darling, the horn woman of the
hth.
Longhtouc Lighthouse; or Marv Lyou, the
teacher of Mount Holyoke l Yinnlo Seminary;
or Haunah Moore, the Christian authoresi oI
England; or Dorothea Dix, the angel of met'*
nr lor the iusaue: or Anna Etheridge, a
the wounded of Blackburn’s Fort:or Margaret
Breckcuridge, at Vicksburg: or Mary Shelton,
dLtiibuttag roses, and grapes, aud cologne, in
Western hospital; or thousands of other glori
ous women like them, who never took'the mar*
riage sacrament. Appreciate all this.' my sis*
ter. aud it will make you deliberate before you
rush out of the single state into auothcr, un
less you are sure of betterment.
Deliberate and may. Pray n
A* I showed you iu my former sermon, a nun
ought to supplicate divine guidance in such
crisis; how mnek more important that you
•olldt it! It is easier for a man to find an ap
propriate wife tbau for a woman to tiud n
good husband. This b a matter ol
arithmetic, as I showed iu mv funner dis
course. .statistics show that In Itaua-'husctU
and New York states women have a majority
of huudreds of thousands. Why this is. we
leave others to surmise. It would scent that
woman is a favorite with the*l«ord, and that
therefore He has made more of that kiml.
Frotu the order of the creation in paradise, it
is evident that woman is an improvi-d edition
of mau. But whatever bo the reason for it,
“ i fart is certain, that she who selects a lint*
id has a smaller uuuihcr of
from than hs who selects a wil
woman ought to hs especially careful in
Iter choice of lifetime companionship.
Bite cannot adord to make a mistake.
If a loan err in his st-lcctiou. lie can spend hit
ownings at the rink and dull his sensibilities
by tohaevo smoke, .but woman has no club
room for refuge, and would find it difficult to
habituate herself to cigars. If a woman make
a had job of marital selection, the probability
ia that nothing but a funeral *au relieve it.
Divorce eases in court may interest the public,
hut the loro letters of a married couple are
poor reading except for tho*c who writo them.
1‘rsy God that you be delivered from irrevo
cable mistake!
Avcli sffiianrr with a dispttor of the Chris
tian religion, whatever else he may have or
may not have. 1 do not my he must needs be
a religions man. fur Paul says the unbelieving
husband is sanctified by the wife; hot marriage
with a man who hates the Christian religion
will insure you a life of wretchedness. He
will caricature year habit of hurtling in prayer.
Hs win spsak depreciatingly of Christ. He
will wound all the most mend feelings af your
well
plant a violet in the free of a northeast ptonn,
with the idea of appeasing it. Yon might os
well run a schooner alongside of a burning
•hip with the idea of saving the ship. The
consequence will be schooner and ship will be
destroyed together. The almshouse could tell
the story of a hundred women who married
men to reform them. If by twenty-five
yean of ago a man has been grap-
E ied by intoxicants, be is under mu k
cad way that your attempt to stop him Would
be very much like running up the truck with
a wheelbarrow to stop a Hudson river express
train. Wliatycu call an inebriate no-a-dny.-t
is not a victim to wino or whisky, hut to
logwood and strychnine and mix vomica. All
these poisons have kindled their toft* in his
tongue and brain, aud nil the tears of a, wife
weeping cannot extinguish the flames.. In*
stead of marrying a man to reform him, let
him reform first and then give him time to m o
whether the reform Is to be permanent. Let
him undcrotand that if he cannot do without
his bad habits-for two years, he roust do 1 with
out you for ever. r
Avoid union w ith one atipremcly selfish, oi
so wound up in his occupation, that he lias no
room for ansthcr. You occasionally find a
man who spreads himself so widely over tho
path of lire that there is no room for anyono
to walk Itesfde him. He is uot the one blade
of AKciiscni incomplete without the other blade,
but he is a chisel made to cut his way through
life alone, ora file full of roughness, made to
be drawn across society without any affinity
for other flics. Ills disposition is a lifelong
protest against marriage. Others are f*o mar
ried to their occupations or professions that
tbo taking of any other bride is a case of biga
my. There nie men ss severely tied to their
literary work as was Chattcrton, whoso essay
win not printed because of the death of tho lord
mayor. Chattertou made out the following
account: “Lost by the lord mayor’s death in
this essay, one pound eleven shillings and six
pence. Gained in elegies and essays, five
pounds and flro shillings." Then be put
what be bad gained by the lord mayor's death
op|NwJto te what lie had lost, and wrote under
it: "Aud glad he is dead by three pouuds, thi
teen shillings and sixpence.” When a man
as hopcli-Mly literary ox that, lie ought to be
|K.-rnctunl celibate; Ills library, his laboratory
Jiis Looks are all the compauionship needed
Indeed, some of the mightiest men this w’orld
ever saw have not patronized matrimony.
C.’ovvper, 1’ope, Newton, Swift. Locke, Walpole.
Gibbon, Hume, Arbuthnot, were single. Homo
of there marriage would have helped. Tire
light kind of a wife would have cured Coir*
per’s gloom, ami given to Newton more prac-
ti<ability, nnd tacn a relief to Locke’s over
tasked brain. A ('brixlbin wife might have
convuted Hume and Giblmu to u belief iu
'hristiaiiity. But Deuu Swift did not deaorvo
i wife, from the way iu which Ire broke the
heartof .lane Waring first,nnd Esther.fnliusoti
afterwards, and Iasi of all “VanesNi.” Tho
great wit of his day, lie was outwitted by hh
own cruelties.
Amid so many possibilities of fatal mistake
am 1 not right in urging you to seek the interr
ing wisdom of God, ami before you nro infatu
ated? Because most marriages are fit to be
made convinces us that they are Divinely ar
ranged. Almost every cradle has an affinity
towards some other cradle. They may he on
the opposite sides of tho earth, but onh child
gets out of this cradle and another child ' gets
out of that cradle, und with tlicir first steps
they start lor each other. They may diverge
from the straight path, goiug toward* the
north, or south, or east, or west. They may
Call down, but the two rise facing each other.
They are approaching all through »nf*uoy.
Tho one all through tire years of boyhood is
going to meet the ono wlm is coming through
toe yfrara of girlhood, to meet him. Thq de
cision of parent* ns to whnt is best conccrnii
them ami the chnngo of fortune, may for
time seem to nrrest the two
jourucyr; hut on they go. . They
may never have seen each other. They may
never have lieanl of each other, llut tho two
pilgrims who started at the two < radios, arc
mating. After eighteen, twenty, or thirty
years, the two conic within sight. At the first
glance thev nmy foci a dislike and thov maj
slacken tlicir step: yet something that thi
world calls fate, uml that religion calls provi
deuce, urges them ou uml on. They must
meet. They come near enough to loin hands
ill social acquaintance, after u while to join
hands iu friendship, utter u while to join
hearts. The delegate from the ono cradle comes
imi the east side of the church with her father.
The delegate from the other cradle comes up
tire west usle of tho church. The two loug
journeys cml at tho snowdrift of tbo bridal
veil. The two chains mude out of many years
are forged together by the goldcu link which
tho groom puts upon the thinl finger
left baud. Olio ou earth, may they bo
heaven.
But there are so many exceptions to tho gen
oral rale of natural atlluity, that only those are
safe who pray,'for a heavenly baud to load them
they/
will wound Ail the most sacred feelings of your will not find him.
•cnl. He will put yoar home under ueanaih-I But do not become
. ,'for a heavenly baud to
Because they depended ontheuiselvos aud not
on God there are thousands of wouicti every
vear going to the slaughter. In India women
leap on the funeral pyre of a dead hushaud,
We have a worso spectacle than that in Amer
ica—women innumerable lea
ncral pyre of a living husbanu.
Avoid all proposed alliances through news
paper advertiseuionts. Many women, just for
fun, havo auswored such udvortisomout\ and
have been led on from step to stop to catastro
phe influite. All the men who write such ad
vettlmucuU are villains and lepers—all, with
out a single exception. All! All! IX* you an
swer them just fur tan ? I will tell you a safer
and healthier fliu. Thrust your hand through
the cage at n menagerie, and stroke the back
of a cobra from tbo East Indies. Put your
bead in tbr mouth of a Nuinidian lion to see if
he will bite. Take a glassful of Paris green
mixed with some delightful henbane. These
are safer ami healthier tan than answering
newspaper advertisements tar n wife.
My uuvirc is to marry a man who is a for
tune in himself. Houses, lands and large in
heritancc are well enough, hut the wheel of
fortune turns so rapidly, that through some
investment all these in n few years may l*o
gone. There are some things, however, that
are a perpetual fortune-good manner*, genial
ity of soul, kindness, intelligence, sympathy,
courage, perovenrarr, industry and whole-
heartcdurt». Marry such a oxre nnd yon have
married a fortune, whether he have an iucome
lew of fifty thousand dollars a year or au in
croc of five hundred dollars. A tank is se
cure according to its capital stock, aud not to
he judged bv the deposits for a day or a week.
A man is rich according to hi* sterling quali
ties, and not according to tho vacillation of
circumstances, which may leave with him a
large amount of resources today and withdraw
the m tomorrow. If a man is worth nothing
but money, he is poor indeed. If a man have
upright character, he is ri« h. Property may
come nud go. he is imlei*eudeut of the mar
kets. Nothing ran buy him out. nothing can
sell hint out. lie may have more money one
year than another, hut his better fortuues never
vacillate.
Yet. do r»ot expect to find a perfect man. If
ou find ouc without any fault*, incapable of
nistakcs, never having guessed wrongly, hi*
patience never having been perturbed, immac
ulate in speech, iu temper, iu habits, do uot
matry him. Why? Because you would enact
a swindle. \Vha| would you do with a perfect
mau, who are nut perfect yourself.’ Aud how
dare you hitch your imperfection fast on such
supernatural excellence What a companion
yon would make fer an angel! In other words,
there are no twrfcrt men. There never waa
hat one net fat pair, aud they alipped down the
latils of Patadlro together. Wo occasionally
find a man who say- lie uever sins. Wo know
he lies wheu he says it. We have had fiuan-
cial dealings with two or three perfect men,
and they cheated tu woefully. Do uot, there
fore, look for an immaculate husband, for you
cyuica! on this subject.
Society has a great multitude of grand men
who know how to make men happy. When
they eomc to be husbands they evince a nobil
ity of nature and a self-sacrificing spirit that
surprise even tbo wife. These are the men
who cheerfully sit in dark and dirty business
offices, tea feet by twelve, in summer time
hsrd at work, while the wives and daughters
aro off at Saratoga, Mount Desert or the Whit*
Hulphur. These aro the mm, whe never hsv
tag had moth education themselves, have
their sons at Yale and Harvard and Virginia
university. These are the men who work
themselves to death by fifty years of age, and
go out to Greenwood, leaving large estate and
generous life insurance provision for their
fsmflies. Their aro husbands and Cithers
here by the hundreds who would die for their
households. If outlawry should ever become
dominant in our cities, they would stand in
their doorway, and with their ono arm
would cleave down, ono by one, fifty invi
ders, faccto fare, foot to foot, and every stroke
a demolition. This is whnt makes an army iu
defence of a country fight more desperately
than an army of conquest. It is not so much
the abstract sentiment of a Hag as it is wifo
and children and home, that turns enthusiasm
into a fury. The world has such men by the
million and the homunculi that infest ail oui
communities most uot hinder women from ap
preciating the glory of true manhood.
I was reading or a bridal reception. The
young man had brought home the choice of
his beait, in her elaborate and exquisite ap
jrtrel. As she- stood in the gay drawing room
und amid the gay group, the young man's eyes
filled with tears of joy as lie thought that she
was his. Years passed by, aud they stood at
the same parlor on another festal occasion.
Hire wore the sumc dress, for business had not
opened ns brightly to the young hiuband
lie had expected, nnd he had uover tacn able
to purchase for her another dress. Her'face
was not as bright and smooth ns it had been
▼ears before, and n careworn look had made
its signature on her countenance. As the hus
band looked nt her he saw the difference be
tween this occasion and the former, ana
went over where she sat. ami said : “You
member the time when wo were here before.
vo the same dress on. Circumstances
have somewhat changed, hut you look to mo
far more beautiful than you did then." Thoro
is such a thing as conjugal fidelity, and many
of you know it in your own homes.
But, after all tho good advice wc may give
you, we come back to the golden pillar from
which we started, the tremendous tmth that
hut God can guide yon in safety about
this matter, that way decide your happiness
for two worlds, this and the next. Ho, my sis
ter, I put your caso where Naomi put that oi
Ruth and Orpali when alio said: “The Lord
grant you that ye nmy fiud rest, each of you
in the house of her hushaud."
I imagine tho hour for which yon pledged
your troth has arrived. There is much mcr-
remaking among your young friends, but
there is an undertone of sadness in all the
house. Your choiro may have been the glad
dcst nnd the best, and the joy of tho wholo
round of relatives, hut when n young eaglet is
about to leave the old nest and is preparing to
nut out into sunshine and storm for itself, it
reels its wings tremble somewhat, Ho
she has a good try before leaving home,
and nt the marriage father and moth
er always cry, or feel like
it. If you think it is easy to give up a daugli
ter to marriage, though it he with brilliant
prospects, you will think differently when tho
day comes. To have all along watched her
from infancy to girlhood nnd from girlhood to
woinauhood, studious of her wclfurc, her
slightest illucss an anxioty, und her presence
in your homo tin ever increased jor, and then
have her go nwny to some other homo—aye,
all the redolence of orange blossoms, and all
the cliimeof marriage bells, and all the rolling
ofiiwrdding march in full diapason, and all tho
hilarious congratulations of your friends can-
boY hiako you forget that you aro suffering a
lotf irreparable. But you know it i* all tight,
and have a remembrance of an embarkation
just like it twenty-five or thirty years u^>. in
which you were ono of the parties, and] sup
pressing ns far as possible your saduc^sj you
ray, “Good-bye.”
I hope that you, tliodepartingdauglitod will
not forget to writo often home; for whatever
tatide you. the old folks will never loso their
Interest iu your welfare. Make visits to them
nfay gs often and atay as long ns you eta, for
f jferawill be changes nt tho old plaeo after a
while. Every time you go you will find more
gray hairs on father's head, aud more wrinkles
on mother's brow, and, after a while, you will
notice that the elasticstcp bas bccoiuo decrep
itude. And some day one of tbo two pillars of
your tally homo will full, and after a whilo tho
other pillar of that home will fall, and it will
ta n comfort to yourself if, when thoyaro
f one, you can feel that while yon aro faithful
u your now home, you never forget your old
home, nnd the first friends you ever had, and
those to whom you are more indebted than
you ever can l*o to anyone else, except to Clod—
I mean your father and mother. Alexander
I*opc put it in effective rhythm when he said :
With lenient art* extend a mother's brent h.
Make languor smile nnd smooth the uulordcath;
Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,
And keep awhile one parent from the sky/’
Aud now 1 commend this precious und
splt-tidid young womanhood before mo today
to the “God “who setteth tho solitary iu fam-
Hies.”
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"GOOD OI.DTIMES/’
Frt m the Conyers, Ga. South.
We hear much talk of the “good old times"
wheu “mountain dew” was free nud svery
nmw twisted his own tobacco. Thoso days nro
now worshiped as tho ideal days of America
nnd they would havo you believe that thoso
Were tho “palmcstdays of tho republic." Thou
the‘‘moonshiners'’ made tlu-ir ‘‘corn aud ap
ple juice" umlisturtad by the “bully” revouuo
officer, or the gruff deputy United States mar
shal. They sold it unmolested to any in all
parts of the country.
Those days are gone, gone forever aud we
have uo regrets. These are truly tho hotter
days of the republic and the couditinn of tho
better off today thriu ever before.
Almaud. who is administrating on
the estate of Tom Yalatidinglmui, col., in
Walton county, found nt the salo last Saturday
a day hook that gives an insight to the “good
old times.” The ln*ok was kept by William
A ROMANCE OF TOOMBS.
HOW ROBERT TOOMBS MADE ONE
NEW YEAR HAPPY.
Tbe OucMt That Drtned to tb# Home of tbo Orsit
Statesman sud tbo Treatment Ha Bocalvad-^
The atory of Latin «hooklay-An
Intereating Sketch. Etc.. Etc.
‘‘Observer" in New York Times.
A New Year's story in which old Bob
Toombs^turdiest of rebels and stanchest of friends,
is tbe central figure delighted rac the other day. A
southerner, still a partisan of the old school, still
filled with the religion of Mate rights and secession
was its nat rotor. He was an old man, this story
teller, and he waxed earnest even to eloquence as
he raid tribute on tribute to the manhood aud he
roism of the great Georgia fire-eater whose mem
ory he teemed almost to worship.
"Ahout a dozen years ago"—thus my entertainer
began—"there drifted down to Bob Toombs’s
i.elghborhood an old man apparently without a
friend In the world. He was penniless and ho was
worn out: he would do nothing for himself, and
yet he was too proud to tag. Starvation stared
him squarely In the face, and the poor outcast was
lalrly dying when, by the veriest sort of an acci
dent Bob Toombs stumbled on him. Then he was
rc-c-ued: that big-hearted fellow, with all his
victivc aud all his outspoken bitterness, never saw
one human being suffer a single minute that he was
not anxious to make some sacrifice to give relief.
Hut In thcCAK: of this old mau there was even ex
traordinary activity, aud the few neighbor* who
discovered Toombs's attentions to the stranger
w ere all convinced that he had come across some
fpct-lal reason to provoke his interest. What that
rearon was none of us ever rightly surmised till -
long while afterward, when, urged h“ **—
force of circumstance!', Bob Toombs u
Ills close! 1 ! friends something of the ca.<
had in another way the chance to lean
than he divulged. It was to hh own
hat wc found out, and that it was „ .
t-avon lie chore to ho mysterious, for there never
n all the world was a man who more dete-t
pcr-oual prahv than he. I kucw a farmer on
whom he befriended, aud the fanner presumed
profess profuse thanks In public whenever, and
wherever he chanced to meet his tanefactor.
Tootnbs couldn't stand It. He asked the farmer to
Mot. it, but the farmer looked upon this request
«.niv ns a sort of masked indorsement, aud ou ho
streamed with his suj*erlativc adjectives ou eve
jusMble occasion, Then Toombs brought him
•rdcr in double quick after a fashion very much tils
iwn. Ho dropped in at the country store where
that (farmer dealt, bought the storekeepers bill
against that person, aud wlthout'the slightest ado
t-ued the offender for It and made him pay a bill *
costs. It was a sure cure.
" It doesn’t matter much how Bob Toombs came
to know this feeble old man." wcut on my story
teller, coming back from tbe adulator *
to tho mysterious stranger whoso untol
Mi suddenly awakened sympathy. "He didn'
want for anything after Bob Toombs discovered
him; the best wasn't too good for him:
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that money could buy for him
" uibs'a ow n doctor staid by him. Bob
i home supplied him with sick-room luxtt
... , Bob Tombs'a own time was given up to r.71;.
him. Had that man, a stranger and a pauper,
been Bob Toombs's own brother or Bob Toombs's
own futher, not a bit better could ho havo
fured. It was uo wonder that wo who
looked on were curious minded and made wild
guesses over the afl'uir that landed us always fur
ther and flirt her from the truth. It was tbo gener
al taller that the old mau was some old friend,per-
ha|*s one who bad been devoted in confederacy
days. He wasn't. Instead of being an old friend
lie wasan old enemy; instead of havlngstood with
the 5outh in the war he had been with the north.
Of all the men on earth he was among tho last who
would have been picked out by anybody as likely
to receive consideration, much less kindness, from
our very high priest of secession.
"levin HhocKley—that was the stranger's name
-tarn of a southern father and mother on the Del-
nwarc-Matylnud peninsula, should have been with
the Miutli in the war, but, for tho reason that de
prived us of a good mauy others, lie threw Ills lot
o itli New York and Pennsylvania. HcwasAMcth-
enlist pnrM)u. and whnt he believed was his con-
-lenco pul him against our side. Ho was over 60
Liir* old when the war broke out,and lmda
barge' somewhere in Virginia. In those days he
could talk w Ith a \\ hirlwlnd i*ouor:all through his
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Rich
Cities besought
them, bt
cyml
lffcl
lc perhaps his most earnest effort might
r field prove hut tbe vanity of tinkling
Bo loug as he could get the necessaries or
o should heed no tcmptatioi
famed for his eloquence,
southern cities be:
coroe to them,
that conscience was always standing In the way.
Ik could do good, he :-aid, among the Virginia far
mers, whilo perhar * ' * * '
In another field pr
yrnbals. Bo long
fc he should heed no temptations in tho way of
Ig salaries. From lit* early manhood ho had been
„ disbeliever in tbe institution of slavery, but after
be became a preacher he maintained tno strictest
silence ott that issue till just about the time Bob
Toomta made his last famous seccwlon speech In
the senate ami gave notice of his withdrawal. Then
Levin Shockley was of a sudden a changed man.
On his way home from Washington Toombs
Mopped over Sunday with nn old family friend in
Shockley’s Virginia town, and rode with the fami
ly to .snocklcy's church, little dreaming of tho
s. enc that he was t«» witness ere the morning
patted. There was almost n k-owI on the preach-
r'afavvaa he tlnxle Into the little cabin of a
htirch and made his way uo the main aisle to tbo
dpit. He elulched a newspaper In his hand, and
> lightly did he clinch It Hint not onco daring tho
wiling hymn.nor through the Scriptural reading.
i*r yet while he prayed, did ho relinquish it. Had
cd signs or astonixhmcut at the carest pleading that
‘tisucd like the cry of a parent for a loved qne lost '
low lull or patriotism was every wont breathed'
It was—mi said Toombs to me himself—It was ai
ivtal prayer. But this was but the hint of what
as to come. Levin Shockley never before preach
i as he preached that day. His text I have for
9tU-ti; it matters little whnt scriptural passage he
! .. in that paper, tight clutched In Ids hand,
a* the real text—and that pa|*cr contained a re-
. i*rt of Bob Toombs's mo»t recent utterances. Wen
dell Phillips was that day in a Virginia pulpit:
Levin Hhocklcy had risen to a new height: he was
•ratory ablaze: he declared tar himself openly the
reed of rankest abolitionism. Men rose to lutur-
inpt, but they dared not: Ids words were dynamite.
He with w horn Toombs had come to church trlod
to protest against what he regarded as not merely
ln*ulM*ut treason to state rights and disloyalty to
all that was best and sacred to tbe south. What bo
allied was confusion. Invective burst in a hun-
Itfd thousand thunders, and Levin Shock-
ley’s eloquence blazed fiercer and fiercer,
like crackling llames that scorn light
sprays of w att r. and ou and on be went denounc
ing tbe souths leaders as the south’s chief foes.
Then solemnly he stopped, and suddenly,ns a score
of the foremost of his old supporters aud closest
friends strode angrily from the little meeting house
in company with Bob Toombs and his host, upon
their rars falling the preacher's fat wards—a
•rophccy with only evil In it for them who would
'dopoilthe nation." It was wonderful that there
s not serious trouble. Men were hot tempered
slavery nnd the right!* of the state In those days
nnd iu that section; much was forgiven Levin
Shockley; men touched tuelr fore
heads significantly and wbLpcrcd by
ay of excuse for tlicir old friend that he late-
-/ bad suffered a grave domestic afitietion. Some
gossip there was whore* tone was not helpfol to faith
in womanhood, not a matter that much iuterested
tlie homeward going statesman—gossip, however,
that did not spend Its strength in that little town-
in the year 1S07. It can 1
i nt the store
Below we give a few articles showing tho
difference tat wee u the cost then and now:
In 1MJ7 corn sold for GO cents a bushel now
GT», cotton 3 to 1 cents per pouud now sttg ir
30 cents now 71, coffee 50 cents now 1*21, calico
aud plaids 76 routs per yard am! now 0 to 7,
tagging 75 cents now 101, shot 20 cents and
powder $1.00 per pound now 10 and 3d cents,
tumblers $1.25 per set now 30 cents, la
dies hose $2.00 now 25 cents, tea $1.00
salt $2.50 a bushel, now 50 cents, rum >2.00,
hrandy $2.00, and giu $3.00, now you au got
them at any price, twist tobacco 50 cents a
pouud, now 15.
IIORHrnUD** ACID rilOSl’IlATK.
Admirable Result* In Fever*.
Dr. J. J. Ryan, St. Louis, Mo., says: “I in
variably prescribe it iu fevers; also iu conva-
tesceucc from wasting and debilitating dis
eases, with admirable results. I alio find it a
tonic to an enfeebled couditiou of the genital
organs.”
Or the memtars of the now British parlia
ment l to are oxforel men. and TO were graduated
ttom Oxford’s rival on the hank* ot the Cam.
AN006TURA BITTERS are indorsed by all
she leading physicians and chemists, tar their
mrity and wholesomensss. Beware ot coua-
•rfeita and ask your grocer and druggist for
the genuuinwartkle, prepared by Dr/J.G. B.
Btejcert k Bona.
forgotten
- . aded there, a history th _
eager life* when before that eventful Sabbath
night wm> over all the county had heard that the
wife of the hamlet'* parson had tied with a shame-
fend lover, am! that in the same night the pardon
had unit the scene* of his life’* best endeavor.
• Toombs uever heard again of the man who af-
fronted him m> boldly till by accident he fell upon
him u vagrant, and dying at hi* very gate. Because
I loved tab Toronto, because i know what his real
nature was, and know. too. how fal*e!y hi* motives
and manner have been read, for such reason I am
glad of the chance to tell this story. Could a more
g!ortou> M-iumi mary ta written on any heart than
enough of Robert Toombs- against all
indicativIHHQHMMHMHMPMHNW
calumny that ha* dared attribute unmanllne** to
him. Have I told all? No. Levin Shockley Uhl|
i.ot wander routli without au incentive.
The war left him a cripple and des
titute. He had not been a union orator only: lie
shouldered a mu*kct in good lime, and he had
fought bravely, falling, I believe, at Gettysburg In
an onward charge at the head of h!» comj*any. Atul
now. finally dying from the effects of tattle field
exposure, ho had waadcred away dowu Into Geor
gia- MVhyT you ask. Why* To seek that recreant
w ife of x c ars before. A letter somehow had got to
him trout her: she was in a southern almshouse:
herein had demanded heavy wages: he who hail
led her into crooked paths had ended lilt wicked-
ful letter: |*athot was in every line, and Its mlsdon* ■
v a* fulfilled. At once and w ith all the energy of a 21
tailing life the wronged husband started toward ■ g|
her w note memory needed in hi* heart no resur
rection. That letter w as in hla hand and he lay
feinting at the roadside when tab T*»ombs found
him. and that strange day lathe old time came
Ibai x all * lcarly to his remembtance. But
8 m ntle nursing did not suffice to bring back
Health to Levin Shockley. He died one New
Year's day. but death wax happiness. The wire
vra* found, she, to**. wa« «*lek unto dea.lt. Bob
ToomU *tood iu the room when tbe two long and
cruelly parted were finally met again. lie carried
In xx Ith life arms her wasted figure from hi* car
riage that had brought her to the dying husband.
It w as not a scene to vulgarize by gaxlna. Ktiougn
It ts to know that there was onlv Joy and peace and
all fergtrene** there. The old tire wa» revival,
but roc for existence In this world: heaven B for
reunions so sacred, ao joyful, aa was this on that
New Year* Day when Bo* Too mb- gave hspplae*
in all iu brightest perfection to two souls."
OFFICIAL DRAWING
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY!
Single Number, Class "A.”
Drawn at New Orleans, Louisiana, on
Tuesday, January 12,1880,
—TULL PRIZES.—
Mi*!
*0 50727
f*0fi07S&......
109M92U
5051020
10051228
5051301
100,5131a
Prize.
20t 79m......
fit 7EM5...W.!
10T 80117
10( «M0»..,
lOt 30512...
50 90665,....
60 60788.....
HI
Wi
1113
12P0
134P
1521
1535
1730
ItMtt
•joop
2188
*512
2713
3171
87<M
3780
3880
fin 32032.
fioFO&i
10002
10006
10269
10295
10027
10050
108*20
10020
11027
11121
11857
U:iG9
11100
11127
11531
117*1
11714
13083
13218
S238
18270...
100,51562
1000 51760
30052185
80 52583
50 62866
50 52800
5052902
200:53103
100,53300
UHSXfiQ
100 539*8
50 55177
100 63555.
100 53003
60153631
10058755
600 55872
100 53893
100 539-27
200 55.158
60 55119
50 55537
8085827
50 53681
50 55662
100 65781
50 55815
1001558,80
100056010
60 56095
6050657
10066086
20050760
5067071
10057200
100,57221
5067291
50 57152
200 67563...;..
60057611
57073
00 WHO
20058362
£0 58874
50 58418......
100 58502
50 50771
100 58779
500 58821
5059076
100 KOTO
. 60 59162
I 1
100 ...
10060651..
0«0721...
9 WMO...
0 60887
—0 610*1
200 61123...
61138...
75393...
7540.’*....
•MU
751*98
200 30053... 2000
900 80908
£4) IUXX)
100 10013
61667.. .
61696.. .
61720.. .
50 61881...
100 62198 f,ou
5063233,
60 63281
5062394..
50 62511.„
100
62630...
62815
03008
60 63173
- 63228
63277
63113
68110
50! 42191
60' 1258!
50 42586
100 42830
50 12978
200j42!K4
60 41200...
200 14410...
50 44480...
10044191...
50 44569...
60 11708...
100 41771...
voiidb... GOOOi 43«v"
100 63178...
5o 03612:::;::
03660....
63700
63717
03701
1(M 63991
100 03970
50 ***087
0 64302
0 51305
0 64418
0*1*91
5°6o»»::::::
100 6«»i02
10W 1.VM9
60M&P97
100140035
100 46111
100. I<*‘217
5011622*
200j46S45
?<X>o'692«:
50W2? 100 69451...
IOoU*'') ,00 !?E}f
100I4SW
0O;«9O£».. . W.SSS*-
109U9221 60 •***!...
500]19001 lOTlZSS-
aoirdii iooToiw.
2iW4t«t.'. 50 M)IW
noUMTa* I00.7MW...
84819
84187
7584)0... 3000 54445......
184487
• 84522...
8456s
206 -
5084811
60 81971
200 85016
0 85419
_D 85479.
6086539
“* 85833
86836
85861
80187......
Prize.
SO 90792
' 60 90975
600 91020
6091050
100 91181
5G 91272.
60 885S1
200 83655.
50 83740
1000 63848
100 64084
84331... 83000 93737
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
aoLJi
500 /1
70665
70656
•0067
10CO numbers ending with 45—being tho two •
fat figures of the number drawing the
capital prize of $75,000. 025
he subscribers haring supervised the Single
Number Drawing. Class "A," Louisiana State Lot
tery, hereby certify that the above are the numbers
w hich were this day draxrn from tho 100.000 placod
in the wheel \vlth the prizes corresponding tothem.
Witness our hands at Next Orleaus, La., this
’ ,1886.
G. T. BEAUR1
J. A. EARLY,
Commissioners. ’
ratzFx Cask an ik Full Without Reductiok.
No. 21945, draws capital nmo, 075,000, sold in
New York and Kansas city, Slo. No. HI821, draws
second capital prize. $25,000, sold in Boston, Mass.,
Chicago, 111., Point Pleasant, W. Y. and East Hick
ory, Forest county, IW. No. 70658 draws third cap
ital prize, 610,000, sold in San Francisco, Cal., and
Houxton, Texas. No. 20509, draws 06.000, sold in
San Francisco, Cal. No. 56258, draws 0*5,000, sold in
Kansas City, Mo. Nos. 4171, 39953. 48882, 75806,
71X551, draw each 02000. sold in 8an Francisco. Cal.,
1’rovidcncc, K. I.. West Bay City, Mich., Petra,
Bracken .county, Ky., Cleveland, O., Watertown,
Dak., Bradford, Ark., Frngmorc, ta.* Cincinnati.
()., Washington. D. C„ Cairo, 111., Augusta, Ga. ana
^CAPITAL PRIZE, ■75,000.-«l
Tickets Only 90, Share* In Proportion;
I..SL.
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY CO
“We do hereby wrtliy th»t *» merrUe the »r-
Inaiemcnt, tor all the monthljr and qnartarir
drawing* ot the Jxmblana State Lotteir Compang,
iand In peraoa manage and control the drmwtnje
ItheniKlrea, end that the tame are conducted wlu
bonntr, falmni, and In good faith toward aU oar- I
tachcd, la its advcrtlamcnts."
COMMISSIONERS.
WethensdeatgnedbangiaadbankanwlU pay
11 prtiei drawnTn The LouUtana State tottertee
rhlcb may be presented at our cannier*.
J. II. Ooi.nnY. Prei'tLaaUlana Nat’lBank.
8. B. Kekneot. Prn't Sute National Bank.
A. Baldwin, Pres t New Orltana Xat'l Bk.
100 a capital orgl.OOO.OO-to which a rexerre load ot
orer gUOiOW ba* ilnca been added.
By an orcrwbclming popular rote It* (ranohlM
wt* made e part of the prewnt State OonaUtntlon
‘ ted December 3d. A. I)., 1S73.
jc only Lottery ever Toted on and Indoend by
tbe people of any atate.
rr xitir acALB oa yoarrowB.
Ita Grand Single Number Drawings Taka
Place monthly, aud the Extraordinary Draw
ing. regularly every tinea months 1 intend ot
Semt-Annnady aa heretofore, heglenlng
March, 1880,
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FOR
TUNE. SECOND GRAND DRAWING, cr-ASS H*
IN THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC NEW ORLEANS.
TreMbi), February O, 1880—180th Monthly
L tawing.
CAPITAI* PRIZE, S75rOOO.
100,000 Tickets at rive ?)oIlan Each, mo
tions, tn Fifths, in Proportion,
usTorraou.
1 CAPITAL HtIZK — I1M0J
1 ss ss ===== as
2 PHIZES OF 06000. U.000
. e. — moot
amoxiMATiox ratzxs.
0 Approximation Prises of 0750
do do OOO... mH ....«
do do ....
1947 Prizes, amounting to^.^m..^ee^. J965J08
Application for vales to clubs should hs —la
^CTPmmtaamm*af 18and upward* at oores-
Mghe P. 0. Money Order* panMe and gd-
Registered Letters te
OBIJtAltg unoiu BASS.
KewOrleaa*,Iai.
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