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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA.;' TUESDAY FEBRUARY 23 1886
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FF.BIU’AIIY -51.1835.
The Tide Rolling On.
This week The Consthttion' prints for
tlic first time 60,000 copies. I! has been just
<i month since wo renclietl 50,000, anti just
one yearkince we reached 20,000.
This growth is simply unparalleled. By
/he first of Hay we expc-i t to reach 75,003—
»n«l then the way to 100,00u is' clear and
open. Tun CoxsTlTfTioN is established in
every htatc as the ltcst family newspaper in
America. 'Wherever one copy yocs, others
are sure to follow. K ah copy of the paper
niition involves new questions of an econom
ic cr pnuxteal nature, and probably more or
less disintegration in both of the old parties
—certainly from the one that sprang lrorn
and has since lived npon the war.
The Eleetric Eight.
l’atcnts of electrical illumination continue
to multiply. The new light ia used in vari-
rions ways and places. An eminent surgeon
of Vienna has succeeded in passing a small
electric light, affixed to a long, flexible han
dle, info a stomach that he was endeavoring
to searelf for disease.
Inpublic places electricity is rapidiysu
perseding all other methods of lighting.
Thirty tlieaters in this country and over titty
newspaper offices are illuminated in this
way. In New York there are 5,<KH) electric
lamps in nightly nse, and Boston, Chicago
and Philadelphia have each alx.nl 2,000
lamps.
Electricians everywhere are confident that
a way will lie found to generate electricity
without the intervention of the dynamo, and
if this can lie done,.through some process of
dreomjio.sitiou cf the hydro-carbons, elec-
tt icily will heroine the cheapest known light,
ind gas making will lie only a memory.
The land will at i fght lie made as day by
the wonderfnl light. Eveiy house.will have
it, and the streets and byways will lie ren-
dcrid safe anil pleasant.
they are not hnng, let them have a reserva
tion sevens' hundred miles from the section
they are familiar with. The truth is, they
should liav c no other mercy than a fair trial,
and the verdict of the conrt should he exe
cuted. This is all the justice or leniency
that such a lot has any right to demand.
Central Crook out of obstinacy of opinion
may be inclined io accept their promises of
geed behavior again, but it isplainheshonld
not again lie permitted to give the Apaches
freedom of action, or even immunity from
punishment.
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The Spring Tratlo.
“I am confides't,” says a Boston mer
chant, * that bnsinc ; ; is gradually picking
up.” AnoUier Bosto businessman thinks
the indications are favorable lor a large
trade this spring. This is the prevailing
opinion in New England, where wages have
recently been g, ncrnlly advanced,where the
mills arc again bray.
In the northwe: i business is not active lte-
rnusc the ronds'nte impassable and the price
of wheat is remarkably low. There is much
interest taken in that qnnrtcr of the ccmnlry
in the next crops. In some districts the
farmers are at work in the fields preparing
the soil for seeding, and if winter slips away
soon, as is anticipated, there will he large
preparations for spring wheat.
The fontli, like the west, is also looking
lorwaid to the crop season. In spite of low
pines, the planters arc fully as forehanded
as tiny have been at any time since the
war, and nothing toil favorable weather is
neede d to ensure large crops. The number
of failures is rapidly lessening in the south;
and in a fhort time cveryliody in the. conn-
try will be in the fields, and cveryliody in
town will lie waiting to sec what lliconttarn
of the crops promises to he.
Kail road construction will he revived
throughout the south this year, aud in
nearly every southern stale new lines will
ho built. Th- south kids fair to furnish
one-half of the eon-.tmetion of the country,
•.-.lid some ofthe pap. ra estimate that ten
thousand miles will behnilt this year in the
country. The locomotive works are ‘full of
orders, and the price of steel rails is very
will maintained.
Cur exploits are killing off, however, and
unless there is a change in our Civor very
soon, more gold will have to he sent to Eu
rope. In the seven months ending with
January wc shipped lint $02,400,000 worth
of breadstnfik, a falling off of $33,000,000; in
the three months ending with January there
was a decrease of over $>‘‘,000,000 in the val
ne of beef and pork products exported; in
the nine months ending with January
there was a decrease of $4,000,000 in the
value of dairy products exported: and in the
single mouth, of January the exportation of
cotton was less by $5,000,000 th:.n in Janu
cry 1685, while in breadstuff* the falling oil
in the same month was $$,170,000. This is
the only serious drawback in the general
trade situation; lint a month’s time, or the
prospect of war in the Balkans, or a fall
pi ices on this side cl the water, or an
looked for deficiency in the European
markets, may change the face of our for
eign trade, and then the entire situation
would he promising, and a feeling of confi
dence would spread over the country.
Another Political Generation
In the coni c of pbout six months four
presidential candidates have passed away :
Grant,who lead tbe union armies and served
in the chief civil office eight years; McClcl
Inn. who was the idol of the chief union di
vision and afterwards of tlio democratic
party; Hancock, who won distinction at
Gettysburg, and Seymour, who was twice
governor of Kcw York, and a trusted leader
for nearly fifty veal's.
The death of these men so close together,
r<calls the fact that a new ‘‘.scL” of public
men are in position—that the men whoso
eureers ante-date the war arc either dead or
shelved, ami that the new generation is one
that 1ms f mall personal relations to tbe great
tivil struggle. <)f all the presidents or pres
idential candidates hefi.re i860, only Fre
mont mm Ives, and lie is no longer a power
ill politics. Of Hr. Lincoln's cabinet, only
Simon Cameron remains, and be is in com
plete retirement. The “war governors”, are
dead physically^or politically, and in con
gress scarcely one of the old leaders are in
place and power. John Sherman and Joim
A. Logan aio still strong, but two out of at
least two hundred, is a small percentage.
Sir. laimar’s career goes back of the war,
lint that of.no other member of the admin!.*-
trntiondoes. In the south, governors, legisla
tors ami members of congress arc with few
exceptions men who have become powerful
since the close of the war. The country in
brief, has in the course of twenty years
parsed into the hands of aunt In r generation,
and Piesidcnt Cleveland is a type of the
jgjen who have succeeded the war leaders.
No inconsiderable part ofthe voters of
3666 will he young men who were even
born alter the late outbreak of the civil war
—men without war memories, war emotion*
«• war prejudices. Can war politics ha nuin-
tained among such voters? Can tin- war be
Aught over when the war politicians have
passed from the stage? A new era in our
politics las been ushered in, and the re
cent deaths of Grant, Hancock, McClellan,
Oxd Seymour only ejupbasize the movement
%;■ that has been swelling in proportions fully
kJTv“i..,. A - _ - wikinAil lit the Tvfi-t At' tlio
Tlie lllair Educational Bill.
The lllair bill wliieb has been tbe theme
of long speeches in the senate during the
present week, is not wholly like the lllair
bill that passed the senate last year. The
ricw.liil] provides that tor eight fiscal years
next alter its passage there >lrall lie annually
appropriated from tbe money in tbe treasury
the following stmts, namely: The first year
the sum of $7,000,000: the second year, $10,-
OCOjCOO; the third year, $15,000,000; tbe
feartlrycar, $13,000,000; the fifth year, $11,-
000,000; tbe sixth year, $9,000,000; tlio sev
enth year. $7,000,000, and the eighth year
,000,000 to secure the benefits of common
school education to all the cliildfen of the
school age living in the United States;
that these funds arc to be distributed anion:
the several states and territories on tbe basis
of illiteracy. The design of the measure is
not io establish an independent or national
jstciu of school, but rather to aid, for tlio
lime being, in tlic development and mainte
nance of tlsc schools established by local gov
ernment, and which -must eventually be
wholly maintained by the slates and terri
tories wherein they exist. It is further pro
vided that co greater part of tbe money ap
propriated shall be paid out to any state in
any one year than the sum expended out of
its own resources or out of moneys raised
under its authority in tbe preceding year for
the maintenance of common schools; so that,
while the apportionment of money appropri
ated is to lie made among the states on the
basis of illiteracy, the actual yearly distri
bution to each, after the first year, is not to
exceed the amount each state shall annually
expt nd out of its own resources, or out of
moneys raised under its authority for tli
support aud maintenance of the common
schools, exclusive of the sum expended in
Ihe erection of srhool buildings.
The allotment of the first year is to ho
made on the ba.-aa of illiteracy; but to secure
the allotment of the second year on this
basis a state mnst lie prepared to show
through i Is chief executive officer that the
money of the previous year furnished by tlio
government has liecn applied in accordance
with the law, and that the state has ex
pended oui of its own resources during the
year, an equal or larger amount. The gov
ernor of the state is required to tile with the
secretary of war a certified statement of such
facts, together with a report as to the general
condition of tlic common school system of his
state. Separate schools for white and col
ored children arc permitted under the terms
of the act; hut the spirit of the act look* to
the education on equal terms of the entire
scholastic- population.
Agents Wanted Everywhere.
We want agents at every poutolllcoIn Amer
ica where there Is not an agent already. Is
there one at your office? If not, write »* at
oner, and we will send you outfit and specl-
nirns. We want an agent everywhere.
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
PREACHED YESTERDAY IN BROOK
LYN TABERNACLE:
The Seventh ft nts Berios ot Bcrmons outtus “Mar
riage Hine,” The Subject Being “Duties of
Wives to Husbands"—How to HaZo
the Home Pleasant and Happy.
BrooKLYN, N. Y„ February 21.—[Special.]
Kcv. T.DcWittTalmagc.D.D., prcachod in tlio
Brooklyn tabernacle, the sevonthof his series
of sermons on “Tho Harrises King,” tho sub
ject being “Duties of Wives to Husbands.”
Before the sermon he read and expounded tho.
last chapter of Proverbs, descriptivo.of a pru
dent and sensible wife. Professor Browne ren
dered on the organ a soccato in D minor by
Bacb. The congregation united in singing
the bym:
Next Week's Constitution.
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Don't fail, or you will regret it.
A Bit of Warning.
The New Orleans Picayune calls the at
tention of cotton planters to the low prices
that the staple commands, to the depression
in trade prevailing throughout the world,
and to the fact that the present crop has
overstocked the market. And then it adds:
“The policy to he pursued relative to plant
ing this spring ought not to lie a matter of
dculit. Nothing but force of habit aad ob
stinacy tan induce largo cotton planting this
year. The risks of loss arc so gTcat that
planters should, one and nil, determine to
reduce their cotton act cage and devote more
land to home supplies. Any commercial
crop—that is, one that has to he shipped to
market and sold at current rates—is hazard
ous in the extreme *11111 trade in its pres
ent condition. And we candidly confess
we ran see nothing on which to base any
hopes of an early miction. It i3 a time
above all others when planteis should risk
as little as possible and tum their attention
more to those products of the soil which
they can consume at home. If they cannot
make money, they can at least avoid a loss;
and unless there should lie a vast improve
ment in tlic general business situation, a
large cotton crop in 16Sfi, sneh as could lie
made on the usual acreage with a nominal
increase in the area, might put prices to
figures never known before.”
The Pan-Electric Scandal.
The Constitution, in discussing the dis
closures made in regard to tbo Pan-Electric
candal, has held and still holds that there
is not the lightest evidence going to show
that the southern men holding stock in the
concern aic open to tho criticism that has
been passed, ou them in various quarters—
some of them very suspicions quarters. For
instance no responsible person or newspaper
bos charged Attorney-General Garland with
dishonesty in acquiring or in holding certain
shares of the 1‘an-Electiic concern. The at
tacks that hove been made upon him amount
to this—that, being a shareholder in a con
cern that has sought the aid of tho govern
ment in establishing its supposed rights,
he ought either to dispose of his shares or
retire from tlic cabinet.
Now, the fact of tlic business is, a news
paper editor, when be is critical, is disposed
to be very critical. In view of this, per
haps it would be well to allow our readers to
form their own opittionsin regard to Sir.
Garland’s case. Tho facts in tbe ease are
as follows:
Hr. Gnrlaud was one of the original
founders of tho Fut-Electric and Telephone
company. In February, 188:5, at the sug
gestion of an old friend, bo became one of
a number of persons who formed a compa
ny to acquire and operate the patent for a
telephone claimed to have been invented by
the Rogers family. As one of the original
corporators, Mr. Garland bccauietlie owner of
5,tOOshares, tbe par value ofwhich w:is$l00
a share, lie left 500 shares intbetreasnry of
the company for the nse of the concern, and
received -1,500, on which he paid, in tho
shape of assessments, about $300. As the
general attorney and connsel of the compa
ny, Air. Garland gave a written opinion to
the effect that the patent of the Rogers fam
ily did not infringe the Bell patent, bat be
gave no opinion in regard to the validity of
the Bell patent.
The Fan-Electric Rogers company was
sued by the Bell company, but Hr. Garland
took no part in tbe delense, and wa3 not r<
lied on to give it shape. In July last, some
gentlemen called on Air. Garland at the de
railment or justice, and, in the course of an
interview, said they desired the use of tho
name of the United Slates to lir'ng a suit to
repeal or vacate the Bell patent. One of
these gentlemen was a member ofthe Fan
Elottir -rimpatty, aud, judging from thu
tact that the suit was brought in tho inter
est of that concern, Mr. Garland stated
that be could not receive tbe application,nor
entertain it in any form,'nor look at the pa
pers.
Nothing was said in regard to Mr. Goode,
the solicitor-general, nor did Air. Garland
call hie. attention to tho matter. It was
supposed that the gentlemen whocallcd were
aware of tbe fact that tbe solicitor-general
is empowered to act ill cases in which tbe at
torney general is disqualified. Air. Garland
went to Arhansas for his vacation, and,
while there, learned that a suit had been
brought in the name ofthe United .States
against tbe Bell telephone company. N< t
only did Air. Goode, the solicitor-general,
not know that Air. Garland had been spo
ken to about a suit before he left Washing
ton, but he did not know, and had no means
of knowing, that Mr. Garland was inter
ested in a company that might possibly be
benefited by such a suit.
When Air. Garland relumed to Washing
ton he made a statement to the president
and to tlic cabinet, and this statement was
given to ihe public. Tho president ordered
a discontinuance of the suit brought by tbe
jolicitor-gcner.il, and referred the wholo
matter to the secretary of tho interior. Air.
l.amar gave an impartial bearing to all par
ties at interest, the Bell company being rep
resented by aide connsel, and finally de
cided that suit should he brought. This
suit has be en instituted, and llie result of it
is that various newspapers throughout t be
countiy me attacking tbe administration for
allowing the suit to be brought, and nbnsc-
ing those democrats who bold stock in tile
Pan-Electric.
AVc have given as briefly as possible a
narrative ot Hr. Garland's connection with
the allair, and wo repeat here what wc have
insisted on from the first, that no one whose
gccel opinion is worth anything has the
slightest doubt of the attorney-general's
honesty and integrity. At tlic same time,
it is true that the position is a most unfortu
nate one. It is unfortunate for biin ami
for tlic democratic parly.
“Blow, yc, the trumpet! Blow.
The Kindly solemn sound;
Let nil the notions hear -
To earth’s remotest bound
Tho text was I Samuel xxv, 3: “Tho natno
of his wife, Abigail; and she was a woman of
good understanding, and of a beautiful coun
tenance.” Following is tho sermon:
Tho ground in Carmel is whit©, not with
fallen snow, hut the wool from tho backs of
tlirco thousand sheep, for they are being
sheared. And I hear the grinding of tho iron
blades together, and the bleating of tbo docks,
held between tbo knees of tho shearers
while tlio clipping goes on, and tbo
rustic laughter of tbo workmen. Nabal and
bis wife Abigail presido over this homestead.
David, the warrior, sends a delegation to ap
ply for aid at this prosperous time of sheep-
shearing, and Nabal peremptorily decline.* his
request. Bevengo is tbe ory. Yonder over
the reeks come David and four hundred angry
men with one stroke to demolish Nabal and
bis sbecpfolds and vineyards. The regi
ment march in double quick, and tlio stones of
the mountain loosen and roll down, ns the sol
diers strike them with their swift feet, aud tho
ci y of the commander is “Forward! Forward!''
Abigail, to save her husband and his prop
erty, hastens to the foot of the hill. Shots
aimed, not with sword or spear, but with bar
own beauty and self sacrifice, and whcuDivid
sees licr kneeling at tho base of the crag, ho
cries: “Hold! Ilohl!” Abigail ii tho con-
quercss! One woman iu the right mightier
than 4C0 mon in tho wrong! A
hurricane stopped at tho sight of a water,
lily. A dew-drop dashed back Niagara! By
her prowess and tact she bas saved her hns-
baud, aud saved her home, and put before all
ages an illustrious specimen of what a wife
can do if she bo godly aud prudent aud self-
sacrificing and vigilant and devoted to the in
terests of her husband, and attractive.
As. Sabbath before last, l took tho responsi
bility of telling husbands how they ought to
treat their wive3—and, though I notice that
some of them squirmed a little in their pew,
they endured it well—I now take tho respon
sibility of telling how wives ought to treat
their husbands. I hope your domestic alliance
was so happily formed that while married life
may have revealed iu him some frailties that
you did not suspect, it has also displayed ex
cellencies that more than overbalanced
them. I suppose that if I could look into tho
heart of a hundred wives hero present and aslc
them where is the kindest and best man they
know cf, and they dared speak out, ninety-
nine out of a hundred of them would say: “At
the other end of this pew.” Though some
times you may have snapped each other up a
little quick, 1 think the most of you are as
well paired as a couplo of whom I have read.
The wife said to her husband: “I have made up
my mind to be submissive notwithstanding all
tho misfortunes that have come upon us.”
They had lost their children, ho had lost his
health, and hence, the income of his profes
sion, and the wifo had temporarily lost her
eygtfsht* '‘Yes,” said the husband, “wo ought
tyff-yitunifxive. I,et mo see what w» have
to -submit to. First, we have » homo;
we can submit to that. Then wo have each
other; wc ran submit to that. Then wo havo
food and raiment; wo can submit to that. Then
wc have a great many friends; wo can submit
to that. \Yc have a heavenly Father to pro
vide for ns—” “Stop! Stop!” said tho wife,
I will talk no more about submission.”
I hope, my sister, you have married a man
as Christian and as well-balanced as|tlmt. But
even if you were worsted in conjugal bargain,
you cannot be worse off than this Abigail in
my text. Her husband was coarse and un
grateful. an inebriate, for on the very evening
after her heroic achievement at tho foot of tho
hill, where sho captured a wholo regiment
with her genial and stragctic
behavior, she returned home and found her
husband so drunk that she could not toll him
the story, hut had to postpone it uutil the next
day. So, my sister, I do not want you to kcop
saying within yourself as I proceed: “That
is the way to treat a perfect husband;” for yon
arc to remember that no wife was over worse
swindled than this Abigail of my text.
At the other end of her tablo sat a
mean, selfish, snarling, contemptible sot, and
if she could do so well fora dastard, how ought
yon to do with that princely andspleudid man
with whom you are to walk the path of life?
First, I counsel the wife to remember iu what
a severe ar.d terrific battle oflifo her husband
is engaged. Whether in professional or com
mercial or artistic or inceiiauical life, your
husband from morning to night, is iu a Solfcr-
ino if not a Sedan.
It is a wonder that yonr husband has any
nerves or patience or suavity left. To get a
living in this next to the last decado of tlio
nineteenth century is n struggle. If he romo
home and sit down preoccupied, you ought to
excuse him. If ho do not feel like going out
that night for a walk or entertainment, re
member be nas been out all day. You sty ho
ought to leave at his place of business Ids an
noyances and come homo cheery. But if a man
has been betrayed by a business partner, or n
customer bas jockeyed him out of a largo bill
of goods, or a protested note has been flung on
his desk, or somebody has called him a liar
and everything has gone wrong from morning
to night, he must have great gcuins and for
getfulness if ho docs not bring somo of tho
perplexity home with him. When you tell mo
he ought to leavo it all at the
store or bank or shop, yon might as well toll a
stoimon tho Atlantic to stay out there and
not touch tho coast or ripple tho harbor.
Kcmc-mbcr be is not overworking so much for
himself ns he is overworking for you and tho
children. It is the effect of his success or de
feat on tho homestead that causes him tho
agitation. Tho most of men after forty-five
years of age live not for them
selves but for their families. They
begin to ask themselves anxiously tho
question: "How if I should give out,
what would become of the folks at homo?
Would my children ever get their education?
Would my wife havo to go out iuto tlio world
to earn bread for herself and our little ones?
My eyesight troubles me, bow if my eyes
should fail? My head gets dizzy, how if I
should drop undernppoploxy? Tlio high pres
sure of business life and mcchauieal life an 1
agricultural life is homo pressure.
Some timo ago a largo London firm decided
that if any cf tbeir clerks married on a salary
less than 150 pounds, that $750 a year, lie
should be discharged,: tlio supposition being
that the temptation might bo too great for
misappropriation. T ho large majority of fam-
such a man docs not go on a whaling voyage
of three years nnd iu a leaky ship. Costly
wardrobe is not required; but, O woutan, it
you are not willing, by all that ingenuity ot
rtfincinriit. rim to make VOUrSClf ttt*
ten year*. The new period in the life of the
The Hostile Apaches.
Gcionimo ar.dhis ent-throals arc no longer
hostile because they are very hungry and
very tiicd. The murderous lot have sur
rendered, or rather they arc trying to sur
render on their own terms. No redskins of
(he Fame number ever did somncli mischief.
'! l.ey kept two territories in terror and con
fusion, and they were brought to terms only
:>ftcT n campaign of great hardship, in which
Captain Crawford and several soldiers of bis
command lost tlicir lives.
Gcronimo and bis band should not bo
11listed farther. It may not lie necessary to
bang him far his numerous crimes, but he
should at lea.-t be placed where he can be
f< < nrely kept, and so should the rest of his
htflid. Whenever the love of murder becomes
strong within Mm ho has taken to the war-
path. Let him be placed where be can not
find a wr-pnth. General Crook adopted a
policy that- involved (rust in the Apaches,
and Gcronimo and bis band deceived him.
None of them sl’onJd lie trusted again. If
Jefferson Davis’s Retreat,
Letter in the Philadelphia Times.
Major Sutlioriin furnished the confederate
president and his cabinet a home during the few
short hours that tbe capital ofthe fading govern-
nicntrvnsnt Danville. Tlic last time Mr. Davis’s
entire cabinet was together was around tbe table.
It was the day they left Tor Charlotte’. During tlic
section tlic question of the final dissolution of
tho confederacy was canvassed nail Ids prospect*
of getting out of tlio country were freely
disclosed. It was agreed that in case tho
worst came an effort should be mado
to reach the sen coast and there secure a vessel to
take Mr. Davis and bis cabinet to some foreign
port. 1 lie question of tlic ready means to pay for
this service was also considered, and cacti cabinet
officer began to take an account of stock to see
how much gold or silver lie could command. Mr.
Btcckcurldge had something like S500 in gold, Mr.
Beagan had something like the same amount, and
ever* one bud a greater or smaller amount. Mr.
Davis looked on in silence at tbeir Investigations
and wa- the Inst to speak. When the question was
asked what his condition was ho 'aid:
“Gentlemen, 1 have not a )ic»ny put confedemto
money and only the amount of inytast mjuiii's
salary, which I drew the day before General Lee': i
Puts wc-te broken.”
Ol c urse all were ready to divide with him, but
i.... .i .. .ii,>.,stv rt.ivtv Mfiiiir rtiithorlm s
wife, who had laid by an amount .if specie, took a
thou-and dollars in gold and hire .led it to her bus-
hand, with directions to Kive it to Mr. D*vi* offer
he had ii fl the house, lint when they reached the.
railroad, ana Major ffluherlln pres e t the money
upon tbo cnnftderatochlcf.be returned it with u
Bicnt show of feeling, raying:
“No. I will not take it. Something may happen
in which you will need it worse tluin 1, bat title
evidence of devotion on the part of your wife
touches mo deeply, liod bless tbo WOTWh of the
CWiftCeiacy.”
refinement can effect, to rnako yours
tractive to your liusbaud, you ought not
to complain if ho seek in other society thotc
pleasant surroundings which you deny him.
Again, I charge you, never talk to othors
about tho frailities of your husband. Somo
people havo a way, in banter, of elaborately
describing to others tho shortcomings or un
happy eccentricities of a husband or wife. Ah,
the world will find out soon enough all the
defects of your companion. No need of your
advertising them. Better imitate thoso women
who, liaviug made mistake in aliiineo, always
have a veil to hide imperfections and allevia
tions of conduct to mention. Wo must admit
that there arc rare cases where a wife cannot
live longer with her husband, and hiscrueltics
and outrages aio tho precursor of divorcement
or separation. But until that day come*, keep
the awful secret to yourself. Keep it from
every being in tho universe, except tho God,
to whom you do well to tell your trouble.'
Trouble only a few years at most, and then yo+
can go up mi tho other side of tho grave
and say, “O Lord, I kept the marital seorct.
Thou knowest how well I kept it, and I thank
thee that tlio release has como at last. Give
mo some place whero I can sitdown and rest
awhile from the horrors of anembruted earth
ly alliance, before I begin tho full rapture!
of heaven." And orders will be sent out to
the usher angles saying: “Take this Abigail
right up to the softest seat in tho best room of
tho palace, and let twenty of tho brightest
angels wait on her for tho next thousand
years.
Further, I charge you let there bo no out
side intorforcnco with the conjugal relation.
Neither neighbor nor confidential fricud, nor
brother nor sister, nor lather nor mother hdvo
a right to conic in here. Tlic married gossip
will como around and by tho hour toll yon
hew sho mauages her husband. You tell her
plainly that if sbo will attcud to tho affairs of
her household you will attend to yours.
What damage some people do with their
tongues. Nature indicates that the tongue is
a dangerous thing, by the fact that it i3 shut
in, first by a barricade of teeth and then by
tlic door of the lijis. One insidious talker can
keep a \?k))lo neighborhood badly stirred up.
The Apcstlo Deter excoriated theso busybodies
in other people's matters, and St. Faul. in his
letter to tho Thcssalouians and to Timothy,
gives them a sharp dig, and tho good
housewife will bo ou the lookout
for them and never return theirealls and treat
them with the coldest frigidity. For this reason
better keep house as soon as possible. .Some
people are opposed to them, hut I
thank God for wlmt are called Hits. in
these cities. They put up a separate
home within the means of nearly r.ll the
population. In your married relations you
do not need any advice. If yon and your
husband have not skill enough to get along
weil alone, with all tho advice you can import
you will get along worse. What yon want for
yonr craft on this voyage is plenty of sea room.
I chargo you, also, make yourself tho intelli
gent companion of your husband. What with
these floods of newspapers and hooks, there is
no excuse for the wile’s ignorance cither about
the present or the past, if you have no more
than a half hour every day to yourself, you
may fill your mind with entertaining and use
ful knowledge. Let the merchant’s wifo read
up on all mercantile questions aud the
mechanic’s wife on all that pertains to his
style of work, and tho professional man’s wifo
on all the legal, or medical, or theological, or
political discussions of the day. It is very
stupid for a man, after haviug, been amid ac
tive minds all day, to find his wife without in
formation or opinions ou anything. If tho
wife knows nothing about what is going on iu
tlio world, after tho tea hour has passed and
the husband lias road tho newspaper, ho
will have an engagement, and must go and see
a man. In nino eases out of ten when a man
docs not stay at home in tho evening, unless
positive duty calls him away, it is bqcau e
ther e is nothing to stay for. Ho would \ n-W
talk with his wifo than any one else if she
could talk as well.
I chargo yon my sister in every way
to make your home attractive. I have
not enough of practical knowl
edge about house adornment to know
just what makes the difference, but hero is an
opulent house, containing all wealth of bric-a-
brac, and of musical instrument, aud of paint
ing. aud of upholstery, and yet there is in it a
chill like Nova tfembla. Another homo, with
one-twentieth part of tho outlay, and small
supply of art, aud cheapest piano purchasable,
and yet,as you enter it,there comes upon body,
mind aud soul a glow of welcome and satisfied
aud happy domesticity. The holy art of mak
ing tho most comfort and brightness out of tho
means afforded, every wife should study.
At the siege of Argos, Pyrrhus was killed by
the tile of a roof thrown by a woman, aud
Aliimclcch was slain by a stone that a woman
threw from the tower of Thcbcz, and Earl
Montfoit was destroyed by a rock discharged
at him by a woman from tho walls of Touiou-e.
But without any weapon save that of her cold,
cheerless household arrangement, any wifo
may slay all the attractions of a home circle. A
wife and mother in prospered circumstances
and greatly admired, was giving her chief timo
to social life. Tbo husband spent his evenings
away. Tho sou, fifteen years of age, got t ro
same liahit, aud there was a prospect that the
other children as they got old enough would
take the same tu rn. One day the wife aroused
to the consideration that she had better save
her husband mid her boy. Interesting au l
stirring games were introduced into the house.
Tbe mother studied up interesting things
to tell her children. One morning tho sou
said: “Father, you ought to have been home
last night. \Vc had a grand time. Such jolly
games and such interesting storiis.” This
went on from night to night, and after awhile
the husband stayed iu to sco what was going
on, and he finally got attracted aad added
something of bis own to the evening enter
tainments; and the result was that the wifo
and mother saved her husband aud saved her
boy and saved herself. Was not that an en
terprise wortii the attention of tho greatest
vvernau that ever lived since Abigail at the
foot of the rock • arrested the four hundred
armed warriors?
Do not, my sister, he dizzied and disturbed
by tLc talk of those who think the home circle
tco insignificant for a womau’s career, and
who want to get you out on platforms and in
conspicuous enterprises. There are women
who have a special ontsidc mission, and da not
dare to interpret me as derisive of their im
portant mission. But my opinion is that
the woman who can reinforce her
husband iu tlio work of life and rear her chil
dren for positions of usefulness, is doing woro
for God and the race and her own hupDincss,
than if sho spoko on every * great
platform am! headed a hundred
great enterprises. My mother never mala
a missionary speech iu her life, aud at a mis
sionary meeting I doubt whether she could
have got enough courago to vote aye or no, but
she raised her son John, who has boon preach
ing the gospel and translating religions litera
ti) to iu Amoy, China, for about forty years.
Was not that a better thing to do?
Compare such an ono with one of these dio-
away, attitudinizing, frivolous, married co
quettes of tho modern drawing-room, her
heaven an opera box on the night of Mey-
ftlliPfr’s “Rftllprt 1ft THfi1»7n ” thn it>r» I'Amnron.l.
this subject, and there are influences abroad,
that would make women believe that their
chid'sphere is outside instead of inside tho
home.
Jlencc in many households children instead
of a Messing area nuisance, it is card cate
versus child’s primer, carrisge versus cradle,
social popularity versus domestic felicity.
Jlcnco infanticide and auto-natal murderaa
common that ail thc^pliysicians, allo|iathie, hy
dropathic, homeopathetic and electro, are cry
ing out in horror and it is timo that the pul
pits joined with the medical profes-tan in
echoing aud rc-cchoiug tho thunder of Mount
8inai, which says: ’Thou shalt not kill.” and
the book of Revelation which says’Ail murder
ers shall have their place in the lake which
burnetii with fire and brimstone.'’ And the
man or the woman who takes life a minute old
will ns certainly go straight to hell as the man
or woman who destroys life forty years old.
And the. wildest, loudest shriek of Judgment
Day will bo given at tho overthrow of choso
who moved in tho high and respected cir des of
earthly society, yet decreed l*y their own
act, as far as they could privately effect
it, the extermination of tlic advanc
ing generations, abetted in tho horrid rimo
by a lot of infernal quacks with which modem
medicine is infested. When, on the !
the criers of the Court shall, witli re*
“Oycz,” “Oyc/.V’ declare tho “oyer at
tier” of the universe opened, and tii
with gavel cf thunderbolt shall 1 "
nations iuto tilcncc, and tho trial n
fratricides, and parricides, and matrici
patricides, and uxoricides, and rc
lay,
io diug
) 1 ti'rm-
icJudgo
tic ■ tho
; r.!l tlio
des and
do*, and
A ho
iono
dcicidc.*, and infanticides of tho earth shall
procud, none of my hearers or rev levs eau
t»y that they knew not what they were doing.
Mighty God! Arrest tho evil that :: over
shadowing this century.
I charge you, myshtar, that you ! .ho your
but bond along with you to heaven. > ; - coarse
this implies that yott v ourrclf
I mnst take that for grar.te.
pojsiblo that after what < iirist
lor woman an : afar taking tl
spoutiblo position you have
head of tho household, that yt>
position antagonistic to t'iiri:
slip of ti,o tongue wh< n f spol
iogatthc licadof the hoc...
rather pride muse Ives a» heir
ihe household, but it is only s
su n. To whom do tlio children go w
have trouble? When
finger to he bound up or ono
; at tn
pie
0 men
tead of
1 deta
il they
soro
t teeth
that needs to bo removed to make Way ter ono
that is crowding it out, to whom <! > * tho
child go? For whom do children • ry out in
the night when they get frightened at a bad
dream? Aye, to whom docs tho husband go
when he has a boslin ss trouble great or too
delicate for outs.de ears? Wo, tho i ron, are
lirads of tno household in namre but you, O
wives! arc the heads of the household in fact,
-bauds
ee that
•mighty
i arc to
:n their
ilics in America live by utmost dint of
economy, and to he honest and yet meet
one’s family expenses is tiic ap
imi'iiig questions that turns tholife of tens of
ihoiiscudsof men into martyrdom. Let tho
wife ofthe overborne, am! exhausted husband
remember this, '.led do not nag him about that
and any you might as will have no huihand,
when the fact is he is dying by inches thai tbo
home may lie kept up.
I charge also tbe wifo to keep herself as at
tractive after montage as sho was beloro mar
riage. The rcflM.ii that so often a rn»u ceases
to love his wife is because the wife ceases _ to
be lovable. In many case* what elaboration
of toilet before marriage and what reckless-
nets of appearance after. The meat disgusting
thing on earth is a slatternly woman, t me m
a women who never combi her hair
until she goes out, or looks like a fright
until somebody calls. That a man married to
ouc of these creatures stays at homo as little
ns possible is no wonder. Jt is a wonder that
erbeor’s “Robert la Diablo,” tho Ion command
ments an inconvenience, taking arsenic to im
prove the complexion, and her appearance a
confuted result of belladonna, bleached hair,
antimony and mineral acids, until ouo is com
pelled to discuss her character and wonder
whether the lire between a decent aad inde
cent life is, like the equator, au imaginary line.
What the World wants now is about fifty
old-fashioned mothers, women who shall real
ize that the highest, grandest, mightiest insii-
ittt’en ou earth is the home. It is not nscos-
r.irv that they should have tho sen s o’d-traio
u aimers of tlio country farm-house, or wear
the old-fashioned cap and spectacle, and apron
tint tier glorified ouccAtry wore; but I mean
the old spit it which began with the Hannahs
ra! the .Mother Lois and t!:o Abig tils of S rip-
ir<’ days, and was demonstrated on the Imma
ture
stead wlicro romo of us wore roared,
though tbo old house long ago w.m pulled down
and it? occupants scattered never tu meet until
ill the higher home that awaits tho families of
the righteous. White there arc more good and
faithful wives and mothers now than there
ever were, society has got a wrong twist ou
would
com-
you.
vour
But r
ol that
soul a
may ho
is and.
>.■$ you
L*ou aro
ucs of
c him
boat—
V.1,1
lder-
ayer
ud it
ar.d it is your business to take your
with you into the kingdom of God am
home prepared for heaven.
You can do iti Of course Coil’s :
grace alone can convert him, but ye
lie tho instrument. Somo wives ):e
husbands out of heaven and otiiet
them for it. If yonr religion, O wift-
ply tho joke of the household, if yo
rather go to the theater than the prayer me
tag, if yon can beat,all the neighborhora
progressive euchre, if your husband never si
you kneel at the bedside in prayer before
tiring, if the only thing that reminds tin
ilv of your church relations is that mi
reunion day yon g-.t home late to dinmu
will not bo able to take
husband to heaven, for tho simp’o :
that you will not get there yonrscift
suppose that your religion is genuine an
the husband realizes there is in yonr
div'nc principle, aud that, though you ,
naturally quicker tempered than be
have many imperfections that dish*
reoio than they can any one else, still ;
destined for the skies when tho brief
this life aro over. Jfow will you tak
with you? There are two oars to Unit
patyer and holy example.
But you say ho belongs to a worldly
he docs not believe a word ofthe Bib: *,
is au inebriate and very looso in his ha
What you tell tuc shows that you d >n’l n
stand that while you are at one end of a p
the omnipotent God is at the other cm!, :i
is simply a question whether almightine
strong enough and keeps his word.
I have no doubt there will bo great Conven
tions In Leaven railed for eclebrativo pu rt oscs,
and when iu somo celestial assemblage the
saints shall he telling wliat brought t
God, I bcliovc that ten thousand timer ;»n
thousand will say. “My wile.”
I put beside each other two testimonies of men
concerning their wives, aud let yon s. ‘ tito
contrast. An aged man was asked tire reason
of his salvation. With tearful emotion he
said: “Sly wifo was brought to God some years
before myself. I persecuted and abused her
because of her reltgK n. She, however, re
turned nothing but kindness constantly,
maintaining an anxiety to promote ray com
fort and happiness; and it was heramV.blc con-
cue l when suffering ill-treatment from me til it
first sc nt tho arrows of conviction to my soul.”
The other testimony was from a dying man:
“Harriet, I am a lost man. You opposed our
family worship aud my secret. prayer You
diew me away into temptation aud to neglect
every religious duty. I believe ray fate is
staled. Hat riot, you are tho cause of my ever
lasting ruin.” How many glorious married
couples in Leaveu—Adam and Eve, Abraham
and Sarah, Lapidoth aud Deborah, Isarc and
Eebekah, Jacob aud Rachel, Zaeliarias ami
Elizabeth, Joseph and Mary, and many w-hoor
we have known as good as tho most of tbom!
As once you stood in tho village or city
church or in your father's house, perhaps un
der a wedding hell of flowers, today si ud up,
husband and wife, beneath tho cross of a par
doning Redeemer, while I proclaim tire bans
of : ii eternal niatringc. Join you.- right
hands. I pronounce you onejforcver. What
God bath joined together let neither life nor
death nor time nor eternity put asunder.
Witness men and angels, all worlds, all ages’.
Tlio ctrclo is an emblem of eternity, turd that
is the shape of tlic Marriage Ring.
THE BURIAL OF SBYMOU
Laid
Tho Ctrcat War Governor or X
Away.
UltcA, N.4\, February 1G.—Tho funeral of
ex-GovcmorHoratioSoyuiour took pi -a from
the Old Trinity church at two o’clock to-day.
_ At ti o'clock a.m.jthe doors of Senator Eon k-
Iiug[8 mansion were thrown open for tho public
to view the remains of the illustrious dead.
The casket was placed in the center of tha
main ball .’so that the public could pass oo cacir
side and depart by tho rear outran ■ Tho
clouds and rain that had prevailed sin :c tho
night of Governor Seymour's death were sup-
plantcd by cold winds and driving snow flur
ries this morning. No more aissgrbfahlo
day has occurred this season. The sun shono
at intervals, hut the blunting snow continued
almost without interruption through tha
morning. From nine o’clock until noon aud
after, crowds of residents of Utica nnd sur
rounding towns took their last look npon car tit
at the man who gave inspiration to statesmen
end aid, encouragement and cheer and to tho
humblest citizcu of tho commonwealth. Men,
women and children entered tho mansion and
passed slowly around the casket, gazing at tha
features of the dead man. Tho body was dad
in a black suit, Seymour’s naualgarb, rested
in an easy position with arms crossed . ti '.ral
ly on his breast. In his hands were sprigs of
hemlock and pine from the grand old
JtlCtS about tho governor’* collr.' y home,
placed there by hi: faithful and long-tried
r tn c and coachman, itar.ahoo.
t’n either sidoeftho last drive
sixty dtphan eirti with font sistc
and she u roe number of boys fi
cci t * in tertory. When the
the little boys raised their hats i
keen cold wind that- prevailed.
• -.v< rc formed
rs of charity,
o:n St. Yin-
hearse. passed
n spite of tho
■ speett-
Mn. fiEOBOB W. Pnri.r.trs, a i
Inter iu Chicago, lias something to think about.
His life is Insured for $20,000, and hi* wife,
who is living apart, fri t.i him, recently wrote
to hint that if lie should 1 e found dead in bed
some morning, sho w dd bo $20,000 richer.
Oi c Rice, the lover of Mrs. Phillips, also seut a
musosc to tho wretched husband, threatening
to scatter him into so many pieces that tha
cov, r or would he unaldo to hold au tnqU03k
M r. Phillips tltiuks this is a wicked world.
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