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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY JANUARY 2d, 1886.
TALMAGE’S SERMON
Dr. Ttlutf* Mifm tb* Third of Bit terlM of
Scnoona on “tt»* Kirrlifi Bing*'—"OtaadM-
tint Manures sod Escaped**”—A tor*
monfor tbo Younc of Both Baxes.
Brooklyn, N. Y., January 24.—[Special.]—
The Rev. T. DeWItt Talmagc, D.I)., preached
today in the Brooklyn tabernacle, the third of
his m ica of lennona on “The Marriage Ring/’
The hymn sung by the congregation begin*:
“My soul, be ou lb>* guardJ
Ten thousand focii arlro,
And hosts of >ln arc- prewing hard
To draw thee from the Rkicn.“
TrofciMir Browne rendered on tlic organ tho
eenata No. 1 in D minor, by Guillmaut. Tho
lobject of Dr. Talm.ngc'i sermon wag "Clan-
destine Marriagea and Escalades,” and tho
text, l’roverba ix, JT-1H; “Stolen waters are
awcet, and bread taken in secret ia pleasant.
Rut he knoweth not that the dead are there.”
1 he preacher raid:
The garden of Eden wo* a great orchard of
fiuit bearing trees, bushels and bushels of
round, ripe, glorious fruit, but the horticultu
rist and his wife having it in charge, hankered
for one special tree simply because It was for*
bidden, starting a bad streak in human nature,
so that children will now sometimes do some
thing simply because they arc forbidden to do
it. This kink in the human race is not easily
unsnarled. Tell a company that they may
look into any twenty rooms of a largo house
except one, ami their chief desire is to hoc that
one, though ull the others were picture galle
ries and that a garret. Jf there were in a re
gion of miners! springs twenty fountains, but
the proprietor had fenced in one well against
the public, the one fenced in would bo the chief
Uuiptalicn to tho visitors, and they would
rather latte of that than of the other nineteen.
Solomon recognized this principle in tho text,
and a bo the disaster th.it foil own forbidden
conduct, when he said : “Stolen waters are
sweet, and hrettd eaten in secret is pleasant,
but he knoweth not that tho dead arc there.”
In this course of sermons on 'The Marriage
Ring,” I, this morning, aim a |»oint-hlank shot
at "Maudes Jnc Marriagea and Escapades,”
Yonder comes tip through the narrows of New
York harbor a ship having all tho evidence of
tempestuous passage: Halt water mark reach
ing to tho top of the smokestack. Mainmast,
fori mast, inimnniait twisted off. Bullwarks
knocked in. I.ifcWts otr the davit. Jib-
sheets and lee-bowlines missing. Captain’s
bridge demolish! d. Main shaft broken. All
the pumps working to keep from sinking be
fore they i an get to wharfage. That ship is
the institution of Christian marriage, launch
ed hv tho Lord grandly from the banks of the
Euphrates, and floating out on the seas for tho
admiration nud happiness of all nations. But
Frce-lovriam struck it from one side, and
Mormon inn struck it from another side, and
hurricanes of liWrttnisiu have struck it on all
sides, until the old ship needs repairs in every
plank and beam and will and boll * *
anti transom and stanchion.
In other words, the notions of modern soci-
eiy must be reconstructed on the subject of
the maniage Institution. And when wo have
got it back somewhere near what it was when
Clod built it in paredise;thc earth will bo far on
toward resumption of |>aradisalcal conditions.
Do you ask wlint is the need of a course of ser
mons on this subject? Tho mail or woman
who asks this question is cither ignorant or
guilty. In New England, which has been con
sidered by many the most moral part of tbo
United States, there are two thousand di
vorces per year. And iu Massachusetts, tho
headquarters of steady habits, there is ono di
vorce to every fourteen marriages. Tho state
of Maine, considered by many almost frigid In
proprieties, basin one year 47H divorces. In
Vermont swappiug wives is not a rare transac
tion. In t'onncctlcut there are women who
boast that iliey have four or five times boon
divorced. Moreover, our boasted Protestant
ism Is, on this subject, more lax than Roman
Catholicism. Roman Catholicism odmts of no
divorce except the reason that Christ admitted
as a lawful reason. But Protestantism is ad
mitting snythlug and everything, and tho
larger the i>roi>vrt:on of Pro testa uts in any
part of the country, tho lurger tho ratio of di
vorce. Do you not then think that Proto*-
tantiuii needs some toning up on this subject?
Aye, when you realize that the atcrcd and
divine institution is being caricatured and do-
fumed by clandestine marriages and escapades
all over tho laud, does (hero not seem a call
for such discussion? JIardly a morning or
evening paper comes into your possession
without reporting them, and there are flfty of
these occurrences where ono is re
ported, because it is the interost
of all partita to hush them up. The
victims arc, all hours of the night, climbing
down ladders or crossing over from state to
state, that they may reach laws of greater laxi
ty, holding receptions six months after mar
riage to let the public know for the first time
that a half year before they were united in
wedlock. Ministers of religion, mid Justices of
the peace, end mayors of cities willingly join
ing in marriage runaways from other states
and neighborhoods; the coach box and tho
back seat of tho princely landau in flirtation;
telegram* Hashing across the country for tho
arrest of absconded school misses who started
off with armftill of l>ooks, and taking rail
trains to meet their iifliaucedin the snow
drifts of the great storm that has recently
iwstcd over the country. **>me of them, I read,
have jx risked—-thousands of jH'ojdoina mar
riage whore Ittiius have never been published ;
precipitated conjugality; bigamy triumphant:
marriage a Joke; society blotched all over
with a putrefaction on this subject, which
one but the almighty (Sod can arrest.
We admit that clamlcatinity and escapade
nn.v nutinus authorized and made right by
iwicnui tyranny or domestic serfdom. Those
have been exceptional eases where parents
have l ad a monomania in regard to their sous
ntm dnughtrrs, demanded their celibacy or
forbidding relations every way right. Through
absurd family ambition parent* have some-
times demanded qualifications and equipment
of fortune untratonable to expect or simple
Impw.'ible. Children are not expected to
marry to please their parents, but to please
themselves. Given good morals, means of a
livelihood, appropriate ago and quality of so-
«»** ration, aud no parent has a right to pro-
hlbit a uni<u tliut seems deliberate and a mat
ter of the heart.
Rev. Phillip Henry, eminent for piety and
good ren»c. used to say to his children: "Please
-Hod and please younclve*. and you shall never
displease me.”
During our civil war a marriage was about
to l*e celebrated at Charleston, South Carolina,
between Lieutenant de Rochelle and Him
Anna, the daughter of ex-Govcrnor Pickens.
ceremony was about to be solemnized,
a shell broke through the roof and wounded
ume of the guests, and the bride fell dying,
and, wmjined in her white wedding robe, her
betrothed kneeling at her able, in two hours
‘ K X / w ^i ^ n A Ibere has been many as
A 1 '"** ** ,hM M»i>°«<l. that
possibilities are that she may bo rescued bnt
the probability is that she will not. Read
the story of the escapades iu the newspapers
for the past ten years, and find mo a half doz
en that do not mean'poverty, disgrace, nban-
don men t, police court, divorce, death and
hell. "Stolen waters arc sweet, and bread eat
en in secret is pleasant But he knoweth not
that tho dead are there.” Katan presides over
tlic escapade. He introduces the two parties
to each other. Ho gets them to pledge their
troth, lie appoints where they shall meet.
De shows them where they can find officiating
minister or souirr. Ho points out to them tho
ticket office for the rnil train. Ho DUts them
aboard, and when they are going forty miles
an honr, be jumps off and leaves them in the
lurch; for while HuDiu has a genius iu getting
people into trouble, he has no geulus for get
ting them out. He induced Jonah to take
ship for Tarek ish, when Cod told him to go to
Nineveh; but provided for the recreant proph
et no better lundingpluccjllinu tho middle of the
Mcditcrsneaii sen.
The modem novel Is responsible for many of
there absconding*. Do you think that young
women would nit up half the night reading
novels in which the hero ami heroine got ac
quainted in the usual way and curry on'their
increased friendliness until with the consent
of tsircnts the day of marriage is appointed,
and amid the surrounding group of kindred,
the vows arc taken ? Oh, no! There must be
flight and pursuit and narrow escape and drawn
dagger, and ending in sunshine and parental
forgiveness and bliss unalloyed and gor
geous. lomany of the cases of escapade tho
Idea wss implanted in tho hot bruin of the
woman by a cheap novel, ten cent’s worth of
unadiiltcratrdpcraition.
There evasions of tho ordinary modes of
marrisge arc to l>c deplored for tho reason that
nearly all of them arc proposed by bail men.
If tho man bchavo well he has a clmra>‘ter to
which he can refer and he can say: "If you
want to inquire about mo tlicro is a Jist of
names of people in tho town or neighborhood
where I live.” No; the heroes of escapades uro
marly all .either bigamists, or libertines, or
dmnkards, or defrauden, or Unit-class scoun
drels of some sort. They have no character to
lore. They may bo dressed in tho height of
fashion, may be cologned and iMimutumcd and
padded and diamond-ringed and flamboyaiit-
ernvutted until they bewitched the eye and
intoxicate the'olfactories, but they are double-
distill# d i \tracts of villainy, moral #llrt and
blasphemy. Beware of them. “Stolen waters
are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is picas
nnt. But ho knoweth not that the dead
there.”
in it, and have no moro clandestine meetings
either at the ferry, or on the street, or at the
house of mutual friends, or at the corner of the
woods. Do not have letters come for you to
tho postoffice under an assumed address. H&vo
no correspondence that makes you uneasy lest
someone by mistako open your letters. D<
not employ terms of endearment at the begin
wing and cjose of letters, unless you have a
right to use them. That young lady is on the
edge of danger who dares not allow her mother
to see her letters
If you have sensible parents toko them into
your confidence in all tho affairs of the heart.
They will give Jyou moro good advice in one
hour than you can get from all tho world be
side, in five years. They have toiled for you
so long nml prayed for you so much, they have
your best interests at heart. At the same time
let parents review their opposition to a projKM-
td marital alliance, and see if their opposition
is founded on a genuine wish for the child's
welfare or on some whim or notion or preju
dice or selfishness; fighting a natural taw and
trying to make Niagara run up stream. 51r.
Titt, the prime minister of England, was al
ways saying wise thing*. One day Sir Walter
Farquhar called on him in great perturbation.
Mr. Pitt inquired what was the matter, and
Sir Walter told him that his daughter was
about to he married to one not worthy of her
rank. 5Ir. Pitt said : ''Is the young man of
respectable family?” “Yes.” ‘‘Is ho respec
table in himself ?” “Yes.” “Das he an estima
ble character?” “Yes.” * Why then, ray dear Sir
Walter, make no opposition.” The advice was
taken and a happy marric#l life ensued. Let
ministers and officers of tho law decline offici
ating at clandestine marriages. When they
are asked to date a marriage certificate back,
as we all are askei), let them peremptorily de
cline to say that the ceremony was in Novem
ber instead of January, or decline to leave the
#Iate blank lest others fill out the record erro
neously. Let a law be passed in all our states,
as it has already been in some of the states,
making a license from officers of the law acces
sary before we can unite couples, and then
make it necessary to publish beforehand in tho
newspapers, ns ft used to bo published in tho
New England churches, so that if there he law
ful objection it may be presented, not swinging
the buoy on the rorkmiftcr the ship has struck
and gone to pieces. And here it might be well
for me to take all the romance out of an escap
ade by quoting a dozen lines of Itobcrt Pollock,
tho great Scotch poet, where he describes the
erazied victim of one of these escapades:
'** • * * Yet had *he many days
Of sorrow In the world, but never wept.
MR. TILDEN AT HOME.
A Description of Orayitone-Xta Broad Piazzas and
JfsMJvo Towers—Th# Beautiful Grounds sad
Green Bouses—Bis Herds, Bis Stables
sad Bis Doss-Other Points.
wounded „ d wddiln.
lithe baud offered in m.rri.KOb«blotched
of iwemperaoce, lithe life of tho marital can.
dM.tcbu been debouched. Ifhohuno vist-
ble mean, of support, and poverty and .ban-
doument seem only a little way ahead, if the
twain teem entirely unmatched In dlspodtiuu.
PS* forbid and reinforce your opinion
by that of othen. and put ail lawful ohOacle.
iu the way; but do not join Ihnt company of
pnmita who have rained tbolr children by a
plutocracy of domestic crankiness which has
rauaed more than one elopement. I know of
a few ease* where marriage bat Iwen under
the red-hot anathema of parents and all the
aeiyhbon. bnt find approved and the homes
esjahjished have been beautiful and poaitivcly
But while we have admitted there are real
eases of justifiable rebellion in ninety-nina
cate* out of a hundred, yea, In WOcaace out
of a thousand, theae unllocuord departurea
end decampments by moonlight, are rain tem
poral and eternal. It Is safer for a woman to
jump off the docks of the Hast rin-r amt de-
pend on Wing able to swim to tho othor
•hortey get picied.up by a ferryboat- The l
Fugitive innrn.igc is to be deplored because
it alinott always implies woman's descent from
a higher social plane to a lower. If tlic m
was not of a higher piano, or the niarringo u..
an rqality, there would he no objections, and
hence no inducement to claudeatinity. In al
most all fvsrs it means the lowering of woman
hood. i >brervo this law: » man marrying a
woman lx m ath him in society, may raise her
to any eminence that ho himself may rean
hut If a woman marry a man beneath her l..
society, nIio always goes down to his level.
That Is a law inexorable, and there are no ex
ceptions. Is any woman so high un that she
ran afford to plot Air her own debasement?
Tlicro is not u state in the American union
that lias not for tho last twenty years furnish
ed an instance of tho sudden departure of
some intelligent woman from an allluent
homo to spend her lifo with
some ono who can make
tbrco dollars a day provided he keeps very
busv. Well, many a man lias lived on three
dollars a day and been happy, Imt he under
takes a big contract when with three dollars a
day he attcmpU to support somo one who has
lived in a borne that cost twenty thousand per
nnuum. This 1ms been about the history of
most of such conjunctions of simplicity and
extravagance, tho marriago of ox aud eagle.
The first year they get on tolerably well, for
it Is odd and romantic and assisted by ap
plause of people who admiro outlawry. The
second year tbo eouplo settle down into com
plete dislike of each other. The third year
they separate aud seek for divorce, or, as is
more probable, tho man becomes a drunkard
and the woman a blackened waif of tho atret.
"Htolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in
secret Is pleasant. But bo knoweth not that
the dead are there.”
These truant marriagea are also to bo de
plored, because in most instances they aro ex
ecuted in deflanro of parental wisdom aud
kindness. Most parents are anxious for tho
licit welfare of a child. If they make vehe
ment and determined opposition it Js largely
because it in a match unfit to bo made, and
they can seo for theb daughter nothing hn
wretchedness In that direction. They liavu
keener and wiser appreciation, for instance, of
tho certain domestic ucmolitiou that cotucs from
alehoholhm in a young man. Thoy realize
what an Idiot a woman is who marries a man
who has not brains or Industry enough to earn
a livelihood fora family. No bureau of sta
tistics tun tell us the number of women who,
after marriage, have to support themselves
and their husbands. If tbo husband becomes
invalid, it is a beautiful thing to sco a wife
uncomplainingly, by needle, or |K»n, or yard
stick, or washing machine support tbo home.
But these guest, lazy masculine louts that stand
around with hands in their pockets, allowing
the wife with her weak arm to fight the battle
of bread, need to lie regurgitated from society.
There arc innumerable instances in these cities
where tlio wife pays the rent, and meet* nil
Hie family expenses, and furnishes tho tobacco
and the beer for the lord of the household.
No wonder parents put on ull tho breaks to
stop such a train of disaster. They have too
often seen the gold ring put on the finger at
the altar, turning out to l»e the iron link of a
( bain of domestic servitude. What a farce it
is for a man who cannot sup|>ort himself nml
not worth a cent in the world, to take a ring
which he purchased by money stolen from his
grandmother's cupboard and put It on the fin
ger of the bride, snying; “With this ring I
thee wed and with nlliny worldly goods 1 thee
When any oskea the cuufu, she smiled
They were her sinter**, and wouldluomc
Her grave when she was dead. Stic nc
Of her deceiver, father, mother, home;
Or child, or heaven, or hell, or God, but still
fflf-
and watc
ver spoko
plflr
iver gazed
them
But now I turn cn this subject nn Intensor
light. Wo have fifteen hundred lights iu this
(hurcb, and when by electric touch they aro
kindled in the evening service, it is almost
startling. But this whole subject of “Clandes
tine Marriages and Escapades,” I put under a
more Intense light than that. The headlight
ef a locomotive is terrible if you stand near
enough to catch tho full glaro of it. As it
sweeps around the “Ilorsoshoo Curve” of the
Allcgbauies, or along the edges of tlio Sicrrra
Nevada*, how far ahead, and bow deep down,
and how high up it Hushes, and there is in
stantaneous revelation of mountain peak and
wild benRts hieing themselves to their caverns,
and cascades a thousand feet tall, clinging in
white terror to the precipices! But more in
tense, more far-reaching, more sudden, swifter
and more tremendous is the headlight of nn
advancing Judgment Day, under which all the
most hidden affairs of lifo shall come to dis
covery and arraignment. I quote an over
whelming passage of Scripture in which I put
tho whole emphasis on tho word “secret:”
“God shall bring every work into judgment,
with every secret thiug, whether it bo good or
evil.”
What a time that will bo in which tho cover
shall bo lifted from every homo aud-every
heart. Tho Iniquity mar huvo bee#soslv
that it escaped all human detection, but It will
bo aa well known on that day ns the crimes of
Sodom and Gomorrah, unless for Christ’s sako
it has been forgiven. All the fingers of uni
versal condemnation will be pointed at it. Tho
archangel of wrath will stand tbero with up
lifted thunderbolt ready to strike it. The
squeamish ness And prudery of earthly society,
which hardly allowed some sins to be men
tioned on cat ill, are past, and tho mail who wai
unclean and the woman who was impnro will
under a light brighter than a thousand noon
day suns, stand with the whole stoi y written on
a# nip and forehead and check and hands and
feet: the whole resurrection body atlamo and
dripping with fiery disclosures, ten thousand
sepulchral aud colstial and infernal voices cry
ing: ‘Tnclean! Unclean! Unclean!”
All marital intriguesaudall secret laiqnitios
will be published, ns though all tho trumpets
inoke them and all the lightnings capitalized
them, and all tho earthquakes rumbled them,
O, man, recreant to thy marriage now! O.
woman, in sinful eolluslou ! What then will
become of tby poor soul ? Tho tumbling Alps
aud Pyrenees and Mount Washington canuot
bide thee from tho consequences of thy aocrct
sins. Better repent of them now, so that they
cannot be brought against thee. For the chief
of sinners there is pardon, if you ask it iu
time. But I leave you to guess what chance
there will be for those who on earth lived iu
clandestine relations, when on that day the
very Christ who lmd such high appreciation of
the marriage relation that He compared It to
His own relation with the chnrch, shall appear
at tlio door of the great hall of tho last assize,
and alt the multitudes of earth aud hell aud
heaven, shall riso up and cry out from the three
galleries: “Behold the bridegroom comcth!”
JAMES TAKES IT EASY.
On the !>th of February Mr. Tilden will cel
ebrate his seventy-second birthday. Seven
years ago he determined to enjoy that repose
whh-h years of arduous labor in public and
private affairs entitled him to have and which
an ample fortune enabled him to find. His
physical strength was impaired r.ud his health,
never robust, was, with increasing age, becom
ing precarious. His vital organs were, how
ever, sound. He needed and longed for unin
terrilpted quiet. Jfe had always a fondness for
the country. He loved auimils and took a
real pleasure in watching the rearing and ma
turing of
A herd of beeves, fat oxen and fairkluc.
Horses, sheep, domestic fowls and even dogs
were to him something more than useful and
ornamental appendages of a country establish
merit. They were objects of study and
sources ofintellcctual recreation and enjoy
ment.
In B*7 u he bought Gray stone, one of the
stateliest country places on the Hudson. The
houre flands on a natural kuoll, the Hurnmit
being J-J) feet above tho level of the river at
high water. The grounds towards the river
arc in six terraces, fushioned by the band of
nature.
A broad piazza extends tho length of the
western side of the house, and you look down
upon the broad Hudson through • openings cut
in tho forest trees. A prominent object in the
grounds towards tho river is a grand old oak,
whoso wide spreading branches shade several
thousand sqnaie feet of ground. It li
named the Tilden oak.
The dwelling, built of graystono, Is a grand
pile. The nmssivn towers, buttressed walls
and crowning turrets give it n stately appear
ance, which Is, however, somewhat marred by
a mansard roof—a vagary of the architect. A
noble hull 20x70 feet runs through the center.
Midway on the. north side, in a sub-hallway,
rises the grand stairway, lighted by a stained
glass skylight, and on the tho first* landing by
a screen of medhrval gloss. On tho west side
of the stairway is tho dining room. 40x25 feet,
endow.
It is nmhzing to see how somo womeu will
niarrv men knowing nothing about them. No
merebnut or mcrehaiitess would sell a huu-
dred dollar* worth of goods on credit, without
knowing whether the customer waa worthy of
being trusted. No man or woman would buy
a houio with eiicumbrnnrcs of mortgages uud
liens and judgments against it unranccllcd,
and y«t there is not an hour of the day or
night for the Inst ten years that tlicro havo
not been women by hasty marriago i ntrusting
their earthly happiness to men about whose
honesty they know nothing, or who are on-
eumhrrcd with liens and judgment* and first
mortgages and second mortgages and third
mortgages of evil luibita. No wonder that in
such circumstances partuta iu conjugatiug tho
verb in question, puss from tho subjective
uiocd to the indicative, and horn tho iudicativo
to the ini)>cniUvc. In uearly all tho coses of
escapade that you will hear of tho rest of
your lives, there will bo a headlong leap over
the barrieta of internal common sense aud
forethought. “Htolen waters are sweet, aud
breud eaten in secret is pleasaut. Hut he
knoweth not that tho dead are there.”
We also deplore these fraudulent espousals
and this sneaking exchange of
single life for marriage life, be
cause it is deception, and that is a corroding
and damning vice. You must deceive your
kindred, you must deceive society, you must
deceive all but God, and Him you caunot de
ceive. Deception does not Injure others so
much as it Injure* ourselves. Marriage is too
important* crista in one’s life to be decided by
sleight of haud or a sort of jugglery which
»»ya: Presto change! Now you see her and
now you don’t.” Better wait for years for
( ifrunutances to improve. Time may remove
all obstacles. The candidate for martsil pref
erences iuay change his habits, or get into
some trade or buaiucs* Hut will support a
home, or the inexorable father and mother
way be promoted to celestial citizenship. At
the right time have the day appointed, stand
JJ.J5S f nd " r lb * room in tho house with
ioined hands and minister or religion before
you to challenge the world that “if they know
of any reason why these two pereons shall not
be united, they state it uow or forever hold
their peace,” and then start out with the good
wishee of all the neighbors aud the halo of
the Divine sanction. When you can go out of
harbor at noon with all flags flying, do uot trv
to run a blockade at midnight.
In view of all this I charge you to break up
clandestine correspondence if you are engaged
Ht. Loris, Mo., January 20.—A pleasant
looking gentleman of medium height, drawn!
plainly, but neatly, in a suit of black broad
cloth, with high standing collar aud wcarlug
lull silk hat, walked up to the clerk’s desk
Hurst's hotel. “I haven’t seen you for
quite a while,” said ho to the clerk, Mt^jor
Dean, at the same Ume extending a loug, slen
der haud in the clerk’s direction.
“Well, I’m blessed if you haven’t tho advan
tage of me,” answered the major, as he sqtieoz.
ed the stranger's haud in his customary atla-
Me inaritier. “Your features do look a trifle
familiar though,” he coutiuurd, gazing search-
ingly at the pale countenance high cheek
J dark brow drooping mustache, aud
keen, gray eyes before him.
“Just one moment, please,” said the un
known; “J knew you during the war. Here's
nature.” Taking up a pen he wrote:
; W. James ami wife, Kansas City, Mo.,”
large, bold letters on the register. It was
the famous bandit, sure enough. 5tr. James
and his wife were assigned a room on the
[uirlor floor, to which they immediately re
in'd. They took their meals in the ladioa*
ordinary of the hotel, aud received no visitors
duriug tlic day, and lei! on last night's train
for Mltan, Tcnn. Mr. James says that his case
of consumptian is not bothcriug him very
much. He says that he take* three drinks of
whisky every day, and thinks that he is in uo
danger of dying very «oon.
A Mitnilrrou (tie Applejack Mute.
From the California Maverick.
New Jersey is excited over a ghost that
kltfes the women and climbs the lightning rod*.
A sbo^t that will ktiw a New Jcney woman will
climb almost anything to take the taste out of hi*
toouth.
How Six Went Into S35.0OO Once.
One-fifth of ticket No. 4d,7»>, which draw
the Capital Prize of $7.\00i), in the Louisiana
State Lottery, November lOtb, was held iu
Traverse City. Six persona sent together for
fifths of tickets. When they came each took
one, and that held by Mr. Joseph Pohl, a
worthy young salesman with Hamilton A MilU-
keu, drew one-fifth of the Ckpital Prize of $73,-
000, and U waa collected through the First
National Bank of this city— $15,000—and di
vided. All of the lucky ones will make good
use of the mobey.—Traverse City (Mich.)
Eagle, December 2t». '
oi me stairway is roc «unrig room. iuxv» feet,
and to tlio right a* you enter tho hall i3 tho
office sud work room for the secretaries.
The south half of the first floor is divided
into reception and music rooms, saloon, parlor
and library. Above tbeso aro 5Ir. Tilden’s
suite of sleeping, dressing and valet’s rooms.
An original elephant folio edition of Audubon V.
Birds fill* a special plush lined ease. Ono room
is devoted to books on agriculture, horticul
ture, aiboriculturc,dairy farming,horses, sheep,
(logs and poultry. Ono of Mr. Tilden’s pecu
liarities is to exliau8ttho literature of whatev
er subject he may be inclined to investigate.
Few specialists have more complete collections
of books relating to agriculture and kindred
subjects than you will find in this library. Tlio
third story is divided into eight spacious cham
bers, tho windows of each commanding a view
of great extent. From those on tho north,
west and south sides of tho house you look
upon the most picturesque portion of the scene
ry of the Hudson river.
The grounds north, sonth and cast of the
house aro broken by natural knolls, affording
opportunity for landscape gardening on a froo
seal® without danger of stiff artificial effects.
North and northeast of the house two
rounding knolls arc covered with a natural
growth of several varieties of forest trees, over
which wild grape and other vines are climbing.
The winding carriage road, lined with choice
fir trees, runs between these swells in the sur
face of the grounds to the stables, the roof of
which is barely vlalblo from the house. The
stable* are upon the same liberal scale as the
mansion house, affording room for eleven
horses, a dozen vehicles, With quarters for
thite coachmen and a groom.
A little further uorth Are tho ranges of
green houses erected during the present year.
Tluy are exceeded in extent by few private
establishments in tho country. Tho fmit
houses aro designed to supply grapes and
peaches during ten months out of twelve. Tho
store, tea and hybrid roso houses will mako a
display rivalled only by those of 5Ir. Jay
Gould, at Irvington. Tho palm and aquatic
houses are upon a like grand vale, and will bo
filled with all thattasto can KUggcstnnd money
command.
The grounds about Graystono arc sixty acres
in extent and tho farm across North Broadway
contains about ninety acres moro. Tho housos
of the farmer and gardener, tho stables for
draught horses, cows, sheep, the chicken house,
run- ways for ducks and geese and tho dog ken
nel are hidden from the mansion house by ris
ing ground. Tho herds of Jerseys and Guern
seys are from stock imported by Bfr. Tilden.
The daily yield of milk is carefully tabulated
by one or Air. TiMen’s clerks and tho tablo
snowing the record of each cow Is carefully
scanned every month by the owner before it
ia filed away.
In all that pertains to his herds, his garden,
his stables, his grccu houses, his dogs, Air. Til-
den manifests not only a litely interest, but,
wiuteror summer, when the weather is fair,
he personally inspects them. He is methodi
cal and thorough in everything. Two secrc-
taiies lcok after tbo details of the vast business
interests, conduct his correspondence and
supervise the establishment at Graystono, but
everything, even to the minutest details, is
under the direction of the master. Order and
system prevail everywhere, and papers, ac
counts, documents aud books must beat instant
command.
Air. Tilden was in his younger days a famous
horseman. Ho was proud of his seat, and al
ways kept it under the most adverse circum
stances. His favorite saddle horse, Topic, a
thoroughbred, is now retired from service and
t qjoys well-earned repose. He has a luxuri
ous box-stall during the fall and winter, and
special paddock of grass in tho summer.
During four or five months Afr. Tilden’s
yacht, the Vtkiug, with fires banked, lies off
tbo dock at Yonkers ready for use at a half-
hour’s notice. She is I3S feet long, sloop rig-
S cd, can steam nliout fourteen miles an hour,
i elegantly fitted up and has a complement of
fourteen officers and men.
Two valets wait on Mr. Tildeu by day and
uiglit. the ouc or the other always being with
in call. There are six domestic servants, three
coachmen and a stableman, a head gmrdncr
aud five assistants, a fanner and eight farm la
borers.
The magnificent house completed a few
years ago on Gruincrcy park has not been oc
cupied by Mr. TUden since its completion,
save for a few months. The great bnlk of his
library remains there and fill.* five large rooms.
The collection of illustrated books is ono of
the finest in the world, and includes several
unique and unrivaled works which cannot be
duplicated. . . .
lie likes house pi ts and has a variety of
them, including Alaltese cats and kittens, pugs
and St. Bernard dogs. One of the pretty
sights fs to ice the present lot of beautiful St.
inquiries and investigations and gives his
views and suggestions whenever they are ask*
cd with the old time vigor, terseness and per
spicacity.
In addition to his economic and political stud
ies, Afr. Tilden covers almost the entire field of
recent literature.Theie U scarcely intermission
in the reading when he is not asleep. An in'
telligent and accomplished young lady, Afiss
Anna Gould, a sister of Airs. Henry Tilden, is
Mr. Tilden’s principal reader.
Fond of travel and Incapacitated by feeble
health to enjoy it, Mr. Tilden has found en
joyment and solace in the narratives of those
fortunate enough to be able to wander about
the world. Few men who have been travelers
all their lives know as much of tbo by ways
and highways of the world as tbo invalid at
Graystcnc. His methodical habits, his thor
oughness of investigation and his retentive
memory have given him an encyclopedical
knowledge of all lands.
If Air. Tildcn’s rest is undisturbed byuuii
iuj'1 ailments becomes down to bis library
about 7:30 iu the morning aud bus bis break-
fust immediately. Whilo he breaks his fast
(he morning papers are read to him, tho World
coming first, and tho Sun next. Ho reads, or
i* lead to, until Air. Smith, his private secre
tary and tiuf.tcd business manager, arrives,
which in usually about nine o’clock. If buxi-
Biss of impoitance requires his attention it is
(lisi.oscil of in tho lucming. I'nlcs3 quite ill
an hour or tw o each day Is devoted to the de
tails of his vast affairs. At ten o’clock ho
lunches, and at regular intervals of tlireo
hi ms and a half his meals are served. Ho oats
spmingly, nml only of such dishes as experi
ence has proved to be grateful to his weak di
gestive organs. He usually retires at okven
o’clock. Twice during tlic clay he takes short
naps. Jf the weather is not too inclement he
rides a short distance every day.
The perfect self-coutrol which Mr. Tilden
can exercise over himself, aud the boyishness
with which he enters into recreation uro
characteristics. During tho days of tho St.
Louis democratic convention in 187fi, tho reg
ular work of tho executive office at Albany,
went on as if the governor was not .in the least
concerned about the result of the deliberations
of the national convention. During tho day
the nominations were made ho was. in addi
tion the regular duties of his office, engaged
with Air. James (!. Charter preparing au elabo
rate answer in a great railroad ease. When
the hour for his daily horseback ride came, a
messenger brought u telegram from St. Louis
which announced that tho first ballot was
in progress. Merely glancing at the dispatch
he left the executive office, mounted Topic aud
■ •ent off for a three hours' ride.
In 1880, the day when tho Pennsylvania
democratic convention met, the writer was
with Air. Tilden, and from early in the morn
ing till late in tho afternoon the time
was spent in watching tho planting of
ornamental trees. The contest which was do-
cided at Harrisburg that day was oue of tho
fiercest political fights tho democrats of the
keystone state had fought for roanyycara.
was impatient, restless and anxious to get tho
news, bnt tho man most interested took a long
sleep and did not learn tho rcsnlt of tho con
vention till he came down to 7 o’clock dinner.
On other occasions I have known him to bo
so impatient to know tho details of the prog
ress of campaign work when a frieml was tho
candidate that ho would drive down to Liberty
or Fine street twice during the clay.
Tho great secret of Air. Tildcn’s success as a
political manager and organizer in Now York
was the thoroughness of his system and his
aptness in presenting issues. He had a list of
the active democrats in every school district
in the state, with their postoffice addresses.
Th Is list was corrected every year. In dis
tributing political documents each ono of
these workers would receivo five copies at*
timo with a request to circulate and report
the effect. It was waste of good material, ho
system of the federal government needs com*
prehen^ive remodeling and reformation. Tho
evils of mal-administration are difficult to
eradicate when the system of transacting
the public business is effete, inade
quate and not symmetrical. The business of
every d epartment of the government has out-
growu tho methods originally devised for con
ducting it. The Accounting system is imper
fect, and tho disbursement of vast sunn of
money without tho proper safeguards against
peculation and fraud is all wrong. The trae
field for reform in federal affairs is in devising
and inaugurating an administrative system
which will bo commensurate with the
vast a flairs and the innumerable details there
of of our government.
Jefferson, Mr. Tilden believes, summed up
the requisite qualifications of the civil em
ploye and covered the whole field of civil
service reform in his letter to Ellas Shipjnon,
in reply to the remomtrances against tho re
moval of Elizer Goodrich from the collector-
ship of New Haven and tho appointment of
Samuel Bishop thereto. Integrity, capacity,
fidelity are tho three requisites demanded of
fideial officials.
For five years, save at brief intervals, Air.
Tilden bos betn unable to speak above a whis-
er. This is caused by the relaxation of tha
oral cl.oids. His heating is perfect and hi
eye tight good. Hoi* almost deprived of-the
use tf both bonds. He walks well aud his
gem ml health is fair. At times he suffers
from his (Id cnerov—indigestion—caused by a
weak stcc acb, and occasionally does not get a
good night’s rest. But on tho whole his phys
ical condition at the age of sevonty-two is re
markably geed, considering the fact that from
infancy he Las never enjoyed a day of perfect
health,
Tbo inability to converse, save in a whisper,
disinclines Mr. Tilden to attempt the enter
tainment of those who aro not old-time frienda.
But all who do not visit Graystono out of idle
curioeity are made welcome. The grounds are
open to the public.
Air. Tilden is quite clever at repartee. Dor-
sheimer on one occasion ?nid quite boastingly
to the governor: “Aly majority os lieutenant-
governor was 51,488, while yours wa3 only 50,-
215.” “Yes, but you forget,” retorted tho gov
ernor. “that X gave you the 50,000 and you got
the 1,488 votes.”
“Wouldn't do Without It for IW."
-. L rvsrxixuuxM, Byrd. (}*.- • Would not be
a Utoui it for li ia the best m Ataenca.”
Bernard puppies. „
The daughters of the late Air. Henry Til
den, Min Ruby and Miff Susie, live at Gray-
stone. They are handsome, bright and attract
ive, and their pretence adds a charm to the
place. Mr. Tifden likes to see young, bright,
chcerftil and happy face* about him. Ho is
fond of children. 4 J
Mr. Tilden has always been a student and
will remain one to his dying day. He mani-
feus the same interest in [nblic affairs that he
did forty years ago. a* his recently published
letter on coast and harbor defense* shows. |
That was not a hasty production, but was the
summarizing of investigations, examinations
aud mearehe* made during the past summer
and fall. All the information that could be
obtained on the sutycct was gathered from ev
ery source, even the elaborate reports of army
engineers having beencarefrilly studied
The finances of the country have always
been a favorite study with Mr. Tilden, and
since the democratic administration came into
power he has devoted much Ume to the con
sideration of the problem* the treasury
department baa to deal with. He has been
kept frilly informed ef the results of special
-- ftuw uimciuii. uu
always said, to send oat documents in bulk to
county chairmen. Letters would be written
by his own hand in lithographic ink and the
fac simile sent to each one whose name ap
peared on tbo list
He had the journalistic instinct in seizing
and making prominent the issucs upon which
MptasUd a campaign fuu*rht. Jfo prcinrcd
tho ground in advance as tho thrifty farmer
doc* his wheat land. He never Intermitted
the making of public sentiment He managed
in advance of party conventions to direct the
people's thoughts towards certain issues and
tho men whose character and services most
fitly illustrated them. He trusted very little
to chance and still less to combinations on tho
eve of conventions. Of the young men who
were his lieutenants David Bennett Hill Rooms
to have learned his lemons best. Air. Tilden
regards Governor Hill as a very bright and
co pable jiolitician.
For forty years Mr. Tilden’s time and mon
ey were unselfishly devoted to the cause of his
party and of good government. Ho had a
larger personal acquaintance with tho rank
and file , of tho dompcratlc armv of
tho empire state than any man over haa. He
has asked no favors for himself, and his ener
gies and means were directed to building up
the party. The result was that ho never & li
ed to have a ticket selected that combined all
the elementa or its strength, lie not tinfre-
qucntly defrayed out of bis own pocket, the
entire campaign expenses of candidates who
otherwise could not havo afforded to givo
the ticket the strength of their names. Ho
was especially anxious that 8anford E Church
should be a candidate for the court of
appeals, but Air. Church’s circumstances wore
»uch that he wan reluctant to allow his name
to be used. The chances, he thought, wore
greatly against success, and he was not able to
contribute anything to tho expensea of the
campaign, Air. Tilden tried to Induce him to
consent to the use of his namo and assured him
that his nomination would bo practically
unanimous and his election certain. Air.
Church finally consented, and Air. Tilden not
only arranged for the nomination but conduct
ed the canvass, which resulted In the trium
phant success of the whole ticket. The campaign
did not cost Judge Church a penny.
In effecting reconciliations, adjusting polit
ical and personal differences and rivalries and
iu managing delegates to *t*te conventions
Air. Tilden was always eminently successful,
(imply because he was known to have no am
bition himself and to be anxious only for party
success. His political judgment and foresight
and thorough knowledge of men were uni
versally recognized.
Beginning his political work before ho wjis
eighteen years old us the personal frieud and
confidant of Martin Van Buren, it is a great
pity that Air. Tilden lias not made a record of
his recollections of the public men and im
portant occurrc nces of his time. To a certain
exteut bis correspondence will supply valua
ble material for the future historian of state
and national politics, but many gaps which his
retentive memory could have filled.will re
main unfilled. Throughout his lifo Air. Tilden
has been methodical in the preservation of
tapers. It haa been an inexorable rule to
have everything preserved, and his collection
of the literature of political campaigns during
the hut fifty year* is the most complete ono in
the United States. There will be no lack of
material for an interesting and instructive
biegropby.
For twenty-five years Gramcrey park and
Graystcnc have been the centres to which the
lcsdmgmwi of the democracy of the United
States have resorted for counsel, advice and
Interchange of views. The young men of tho
p*rty have been welcomed along with tho
tsgrs. Tho zeal, the enthusiasm, the activity
of the yonng democracy in championing the
rauro of Air. Tilden have been due to the fact
that he Las always bad a fondness for tho
company of earnest young men, an apprecia
tion of their services, and has, as a rule, se
lected thim as his co-laborers and aaaistanta iu
bis public work.
THE GREATEST STATESMEN.
The tbne greatest of American statesmen,
in Air. Tilden's judgment, were Samuel Adams,
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Their
teachings, their achievements, their wisdom,
and their administrative genius were far above
all the men who have figured in American
politics. Adams and Jefferson wets the great
rounders and builders, and Jackson the great
i conservator of our free institutions. They
were men of the people. They championed
the cause of the%a«es against the few. They
believed in the capacity of the common peo
ple, in their patriotism, in their general good
tense.
Mr. Tilden believes that the administrative
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Many excellent planters have said It Is tho
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Letter* from nearly every southern stAtc report
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