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2 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 Pelerkin Cotton Seed, FORTY PER CENT OFNETLINT.. ton, yields abundantly, bears drought better than other sort*, largo boll*, easy to gather, small seed well llnted, staple eoum to ben upland.*, and J.250 to l.SOOpounds yields 500 pounds net lint. Many excellent planters have said It Is tho ONLY REALLY IMPROVED COTTON. Letter* from nearly every southern stAtc report uniformly In favor of every claim mndo for this reed, many over 40 per ctut of lint, none lc** than 37 to 58. SEND FOR THE CIRCULAR and ree the statements of yield per acre, and yield of lint, made by men who have tried it. Every sack bears the brand of J. A. Peterklu and hi* ship- ping agent, R. E. Clark. TAKE NO OTHER, Frlco, $1.50 per bushel. J. n. ALEXANDER, General Agent for Georgia and all Points West. K Ji. 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