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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION’, (ATLANTA. GA~" lTUESDAY JULY 27 18f 0
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TALMAGE’S SERMON.
DBLIVBRBD AT ASHBVILLH, H.
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or recti* Bear tha on at Dlrlna.
Asheville. N. C., July 25.—[tpccUI.]—
The Hot. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D.. ia hero at
this great aummer watering place spending a
few days. Vaat thronga from all the arrronud-
log rerlona came in to attend the religions
■ervice today. After singing and prayer and
Scripture exhortation, Dr. Talnage preached
a sermon on the subject, ‘‘Measured by Yonr
Own Yardatlclr." The text was from Mat
thew ril., 2: “With what measure ye mete, it
ihail be measured to yon again.” Dr. Tal-
mage said.
In the greiitalt sermon erer preached—a ser
mon about fifteen minutes long, according to
the ordinary rate of speech—a sermon on the
Mount of Olires, the preacher, sitting while
Be rpokr, according to the ancient modo of
oratory, the people were giren to understand
that the same yard stick that they employed
opon others would be employed npon them-
eelrcs. Measure others by a harsh rule, nod
yon will be measured by a harsh rule. Meas
ure others by a charitable rule, and yon will
lie meheured by a charitable rule. Give no
mercy to others, and no mercy will be giren
to yon. “With what measure yo mete, it shall
be measured to yon again.”
Thi re it a great deal of unfairness in the
criticism of human conduct. It was to smite
that unfairness that Christ uttered the words
cf the text, and my sermon will be a re-echo
Of the divino sentiment. In estimating the
misbehavior of others we most take into con
sideration tho pressure of circumstances. It
ia novi r right to do wrong, but thero are de
grees of culpability. When men misbehave
or commit some atrocious wickedness wears
disputed indiscriminately to tumble them all
over the bank of condemnation. Sudor they
ought and sudor they must, but in difference
of dcprcc.
In the first place, in estimating the misdo
ing ot others we must take into calculation
the hereditary tendency. There is such a
thing as good blood and there is inch a thing
aa bad Wood. There aro families that hare
had a moral twist in them for a hundred years
family record in that regard. Thero
been eicapadea and maraudings and acoun-
drelltms and moral deficits *11 the way
back, whether you call it klep
tomania or pyromania or dipsomania,
or whether it bo in a milder form,
and amount to no mania at all. The atrong
probability is that tbo present criminal
started life with nerve, rnusclo and bone con
taminated. At some start life with a natural
tendency to nobility andgenerality and kind
ness and truthfulness, there ate others who
start lifo with just the opposite tendenoy, and
they aro horn liar*, or bora malcontents, or
born outlaws, or born swindlers.
There is in England a school that is called
the Princess Mary school. All the chiidron
in that school are the children of convicts.
The school Is supported by high patronage. 1
had the pleasure of being present at one of
their aurnvoraaries in 1S70, presided OTOr by
land, after parents had committed a cortati
number of crimes and thereby shown thorn-
“’ to bring up their
solves incompetent rightly
pernicious influences and pnt in re
formatory schools, where ail gracious and
kindly influences shall be brought upon them.
Of course the experiment is yonng and it has
got to be demonstrated how large a porcentsgc
of the children of convicts may be brought up
to respectability and usefulness. But we all
know that it is more difficult for children of
bad parentage to do right than for ohlldren of
goodparentag*.
ration of American independence, that all
people are born eqnai. Thero never was a
greater misrepresentation put in ono sentence
thau in that sentence wbich implies that wa
are all horn eqnai. Yon may at woll say that
flowers are born eqnai, or tract are born equal,
or animals aro born eqnai. Why does ono
hone cost $100 and another horse cost
$5,COO? Why docs one sheep coit $10
and another sheep coet $500? Difforonco
In blend. Wo aro wlsu enough to recognize
the diU'cranco of Mood In hones, in cattlo, in
sheep, l,ut wo are not wieo enough to mako
allowance for tho difforonco In tho human
blood. Now I demand by tho law of eternal
falli cis that you be mure lenient in your crit
icism cf those who were horn wrong—in
wbote a neutral line there wai a hangman'*
knot, or who cime from a treo tho fruit of
which fir conturtee haa boon gnarled and
and worm eaten. Dr. Barrie, a re
former, gave some marvelous statistics In his
atory of what he called “Margaret, tbo Moth-
>fCi r ' -
l Till
was act only poor
1 pro
cr of Criminal*."
in a village in
. ow York state. Sho
it eho was vicious. Sho
was not well provided for. Thora were no
almshouses there. The public, however,
aomewbat looked after her, but chiefly eeoffed
ether, and derided her, and pushed hor
farther down into hor crimes. That wae
in that ancestral line, two hundred ol
criminals. In ona branch of that family thore
wete twenty, and nine ol them have Men ia
etato prison, and nearly all of the others havo
turned out badly. It ia estimated that that
family cost tha county and auto $100,000, to
•ay nothing of the property they do-
'—’ ' * not witling, as sen-
atroyed. Aro yon not willing, as son-
aiblo prcplo to acknowledge that it is a fearful
disaster to ho born in inch an ancestral line?
Docs it not mako a great difference whether
one drreenda from Margaret, tho mother of
criminals, or frem some mother in Israel ?
Whether you an tha son of Abab.or tho aon
of Joshua? It ia a vary different thing to
swim with tho current, from what it ia to
swim agalnat tho current, as some of yon hart
no doubt found la your summer re
creation. If a man find himself
lain ancestral current when then is good
blood flowing smoothly from generation to
■carnation, it ia not a very gnat credit to him
& ha turn oat good, and honest, and pan, and
noble. Ha coaid hardly halp it. But i
now bq ia bora ia an ancestral Una, in a
neredlti
dltary lines when tha indnenew havo
been bad and thi
hero Lai boon a coniine down
over a moral declivity, if the man surrender to
OTOri UlOWUCUITlIJi li IUD UI»U gUUDUUGI tv
tho influence* ho will go down nader the
overmestering gravitation nniess some super
natural aid be afforded him. Now, such a
person deserves not yonr excoriation, bat
your pity. Do not sit with tho lip carled ia
scorn, end with sn neenmed air of aagolic
innocence looking down opon snob moral pro*
ciplteticn. You bad better get down on your
knees aid first pray Almighty God fer. their
. - wR!f*t
have not bean thrown nadar tha wheals of
that fuggernanf.
In Great Britain and la the United States,
in everv generation, them an teas of thous
ands ot poraona who at* rally developed
criminals and incarcerated. I lay, ia avery
generation. Then, I suppose, there are tens of
thouraiifla af peraona not found oat in their
criminality. In addition to thaw than aro
tlvaly br coming criminals, nevertheless
a criminal tendency. Any ona of all
these thousands by tfco grace of God may
become Christians and resist .the anceetrat in
fluence. and open e near chapter of behavior;
but the vaat majority of them will not, and it
beromr v all zuen, professional, unprofessional,
minister* of religion, judaee of courts, philan
thropists and Christian workers to recognize
tho me that there era these Atlantie and Pa
cific turgta of hereditary evil rolling on
thranfh tha centerte*.
I lay, of coarse, a man can resist thi* tan-
dency. just aa in tha ancestral line mentioned
lathe lint chapter of Matthew. You eee in
the same lino ia which then ww a wicked
Bebotooas tad a doperate Manwice, than
aftarwaid coma a plena Joseph sad a glorious
Christ. Bat, my frtands, yaamnst racogniss
tha fact that than Infineacn go on from na
il to generation. lam glad to know,
however, that a river which has produced
nothing but miasma Air a hundred
mile*, may after awhile tarn
tho wheels of factories and help
support industrious and Tirtuons populations;
and there are family lines which were poisoned
**«*!»• a benediction now. At the last day
it will be found out that thora aro men who
havo gone dear over into all forms of iniqui
ty aid plunged into other abandonment, who
before they yielded to the first temptation
resisted more evil than many a man
who has been moral and up
right all his lifo. Bat supposing now,
that In this ago when thore are so many good
people, that I come down into this audience
•nu select the very beet man in it. I do not
mean tho man who would stylo himself the
best, for probably he is a hypocrite; but I mean
the man who before God is really the best I
will take you out from all yonr
Christian surroundings. I will take yon
hick to boyhood. I will put you
in a depraved home. I will pnt yon in a cra
dle of Iniquity. Who is that bonding over
that cradle? An intoxicated mother, who it
that swearing In.thc next room? Your fether.
arc unclean. There is not in tho homo a Hi-
hie or a moral treatise, but only a few scraps
of an old pictorial. After a while yon are
old enough to get out of tho
cradle, and you are struck
a ’loss tho head |for naughtiness,'but novor in
any kindly mannet reprimanded. After
awhile youare old enough to go nbroad, and
you aro rent out with a basket to steal. If you
come bonro without any apoil you are whipped
f age
until the blood comes. At flftccu years of age
battles in this
yon go out to fight your own
world, wbich seems to care no more for yon
than the dog that has died of a fit
usder tho fence. You are kicked
and cuffed and buffeted. Some day. rallying
yenr courage, you resent some wrong. A man
iixi: “Who im wnn'i T Vnnw ...
siji: “Who are you? I know who you are,
Your father hid freo lodgings at Sing Sing.
Year mother, the was np for drunkenness at
tbo criminal court. Get out of my way, you
low-lived wretch!*' My brother, suppose that
bad been the history of yonr ad
vent,** and the history of four earlier
surroundings, would you have been the
Christian man youare today, seated in this
Christian assembly? I tell you nay. Yon
Ing and the lost,
Again, I have to remark, that in our esti
mate of tho mladoiog of people who have
fallen from high respectability and nsefulneif,
ist take into consideration the conjunc-
we must
tion of circumstances. In nine cases oat of
ten a man who goes astray does not intend
any positive wrong. He has trust funds,
risks a part of these ‘ *
Ho risks a part of these fund* in in<
vestment? He says: “Now, if I should
lose that investment I havo of my own prop
erty five times as much, and if this invost-
mentahould go wrong I could easily make it
up; i could .five times mako it up;" With
that wrong*reasonlng he goes ou and maaes
tho investment, and it does not turn ont quite
as well as he expected, and he makes an
other investment, and strange to
uy at tho time all his other •flairs
g< t entangled, and all his other resources fail,
and his hands are tied. Now he wants to ex>
f. Hogi ‘
trirate himself. He goeaa little farther on
in the wrong investment. He takes a plungi
ils wifi
farther ahead, for he wants to save h.
and children, ho wants hie homo, he wants to
aavo his membership in the church. He takes
one moro plungo and all Is lost. Some morning
at ten o'clock tho bank door is not oponod,
and thore ia a card on the door signed by an
officer of the benk, indicating thero is trouble,
and the name of the defaulter or tho defraud
er, beads the newspaper column, and hun
dreds of men say; “Good for him;” hundreds
of other men say; “I’m glad ho’s found ont at
last;” hundreds of other meu say: “Just as I
told you;” hundreds of other men say: “We
couldn’t possibly havo been tempted to do that
—no conjunction of circumstancot coaid ever
have overthrown me;” and there is a super
abundance of indignation [but no pity. Tho
heavena fell of lightning but not one drop of
dew. If God treated us as society troats that
man wo would ail have been in hell long ago!
Wait for the alleviating circumstances. Per
haps he may havo been the dupe of others.
Before you let all the bounds out from
their kennel to maul and tear that man, find
ont if ho baa not been brought up In a com
mercial establishment whoro thero was a
wrong system of ethics taught; find out
whotherthat man has not sn extravagant
wife who is not satisfied with his honest earn
ings, and In tho temptation to please her he
has gone into that ruin into which enough
another man swear. Yen pride yourself on
your Imperturbability. You say with your
manner, though yon havo too mnch good taste
to say it with your words: “I havo a groat
deal more sense than that min has; I have a
great deal more equipoise of temper then that
man has; I never could make each a puerile
exhibition of myself as that man haa made."
My biotber.youdo not realize that that man
was bora with a keen nerrous organization,
that for forty yean he has been under a de
pleting process, that aiekneea aod trouble
havo been helping undo what was left ot orig
inal healthfelneea, that muoh ot his time it
has been with him like filing eawe, that his
nerves have come to be merely a tangle of dis
order*, and that he is the meet pitiable object
look sick and nobody aympat
see. Did you not say that y<
tempted to an
lizes. Let me
Did you not uy that yon could not Ira
ebullition of temper? Some
September you com*
watering-place and
back in your li
homa from your (umoter
inside, away
to make a procession or many miles. Perhaps
■oroo sudden sickness may hare touchod his
brain, and hla Judgment may bo unbalanced.
Ho is wrong, ho la awfully wrong, and
he must bo condemned, bat there
msy bo mitigating circumstances. Perhaps
uniter the atm temptation you might have
fallen. Tho reuon some men do not steal two
lraudred tbonund dollars is becauto they do
not got a chant s. Have righteous luc ignition
you must about that man's conduct, but tem
per it with mercy. But you say: “I am so
■otry that the Innocent should suffer.” Yea,
I am too—yorry for tho widows and orphans
who lost their all by that defalcation. lam
aoriy also for tho hosineu man, tho honest
bustneu men, who havo had their affairs all
crippled by that debicatlon. I am sorry for
tho venerable bank president to whom the
creditor that bank was a matter of pride.
Mutuu. ouui, Itjiuuuuii. uvkycu, an
the Mae.nem of darkness forever.
Yon dedantly say: “I could not ha tempted
in that way.” I’erbapa you may be tested
lie. “ *
alter awhile. God has a very good memory,
and ha sometimes sums to uy: "This man
feel* so strong in his Innate power and good
heehall bo tested; he la to fail of bittsi
invective against that unfortunate It shall be
•hown now whether be has the power to
stand.” Fifteen yun go by. The whoel of
fortune turna.uvcral time*. and
1 you are in n
crliia that you naver cookl have anticipated.
” *■ tho powers of darkness coma around,
Now, all
and they
chucklo, nnd they chatter,
ana racy uy: “Aha! hero ia tho
old fellow who was so proud of hla Integrity,
and who bragged ha couldn't ha overthrown
by temptation, and wig so uproarious In hi*
demonatrettonq of indignation at the detaloa-
H Let ns eee.” God lets
tion fifteen yean ego.
the min go, God. wl
under nS protecting cere, lets'the men go
end try for himself the m*|eety of hla integ
rity. God letting the man go, the powers of
derkneee pounce upon' him. I see you some
deyin yonr office In groat excitement. One
of two things yon can do: Be honest end be
pauperized and have yonr children brought
home from school, year family dethroned In
social influence. The other thing la, yon can
step a little aside from that which la right, you
can only jut go half on Inch eat of"
path, yon can only take a little risk,
wtii, juu oiu uui/ tano ■ muo n», muu $uou
on have ell year fiinncm fair and right. Yon
nave a large property. Yen can lure a for
tune fervour children, and andow e college,
and build a public library in year native town.
Yon belt and wait, end halt end wait nntil
yonr llpe gat white. Yon decide to ritk it.
Only n few etroku of the pen now. Bat oh,
and moat awfel conjunction
any one could bars imagined you ere prof'
tnlcd. Bankruptcy, commercial annihilation,
rime. Good men mourn
hold carnival, and
xposure. ci
td devils
you have ,
. liver or spleen, what
we call in our day malaria,
but what the old folks celled chills and
fever. You take quinine until your can are
first buezing beehive* and then roaring Ni
agaras. You take roots and herbs; yoa take
everything. You get well. But the next
day you feol uncomfortable, and you yawn,
and you stretch, and you shiver, and yon
consume, and you suffer. Vexed more than
you can tell, you cannot sloop, yon cannot
rat, you cannot bear too see nnythiog that
congress of exi
lewepaper
clams tion
points: and while yon
and editorial paragraph. it occura to you how
mnch this story is like that of the dedication
fifteen rear* ego, and a clap of thnadav
shakes the window-sill, mying: "With what
measure ye mete, it shall be measured te you
again!”
Yoa look In another dinctioo. There it
nothing like aa abnUItien of temper to put*
man te d lead van tag*. Yoa, a man with calm
ia temper by an lal at teelmal annoyance. You
ay “I coaldn’t be unbalanced ia that way.”
Perhaps yo* smila at a provocation that makas
IJKPISTIgCT PRIhD;
is asleep in tho sun. Your chiidron’* mirth
was once music to yon; now it
is deafening. You sty: “Boys, stop that
racket!" You turn back from June to March.
In the family and in the neighborhood your
popularity is ninety-fire per cent off. The
world seye: “What ia the matter with that
dicngrecablo man? What a woe begone coun
tenance! I can't bear the light of him.” You
have gat your pay at last—got your psy. You
fecljuet as tho man felt; that man fer whom
you bad no mercy, and my text comes in with
marvellous apprdtonrse: “With wbat measure
ye mete, it enall be mesiured to you again.’
In the atndy of society I have come to thla
conclusion, that the moet of tha people want
to make it out. They make enough
olutions to lift them Into angelhood. The vest
majority of people who fait aro the vic
tims of circumstances; they aro captured by
ambuscade. If their temptation! should come
ont in a regiment and fight them in n fair field
they would go out in the strength and the tri
umph of David agalnat Goliath. But they do
not see the glints and tbry do not seethe
regiment. Suppose temptation should coma
np to a man and aay: “Hero is alcohol; taka
three tablespoonsfel of it a day until you got
dependent upon it; then after that
n glam throe times a day nntil
you get dependent upon that amount, thon go
on iucreanngthe amount until you are aatur-
ated from morning until night nnd from night
uutii morning.'' Do you suppose any man
‘ la that way? Oh,
would become a drunkard 1
‘Take
thtso bitters, take this nervine,
to digestion, take thie night-cap.” The vast
majority of men and women who are destroy.
ed by opium and by mm first take them as
icinea. In making up your diah of critl-
cism iu regard to thorn, take from the caster
the cruet of sweet oil and not the cruet of
cayenne pepper. Bo easy on them. Do yon
>w that physician, that lawyer, that
knowhow _ „ m
onrnallst became tho victim of dissipation?
Why, the physician was kept up night by
light on professional duty. Life and death
hovered in the balance. Ilia nervous system
was exhausted. There came a time of opl
drmlr, and whole families ware prostrated
and bis nervous strength was gone. He wea
all worn out in the service of the public. Now
public.
ho must brace himself up. Now he atimn-
lutes. The life of this mother, the life of this
child, the life of this father, the life of this
whole family must be saved, and of nil theso
families mart bo saved and ho
stimulates, end he dooe it again and
•gain,. Yon may criticise his judgment, but
remember theproceee. It wes not naaldsh
remember tho process. It wee not naolllah
process by which ha wentdown. It was msanlfl-
cent generosity through whloh he fell. That
attorney at the bar for weeks has boon stand
ing to tho testimony and contesting In tho dry
technicalities of the law, and now the time
haa come for him to wind up, and he must
plead for the life of his client, andhia nervous
stem is all gone. If he
that speech his olient
JONES IN MISSOURI,
syster
fella
He must keep np. He says: “I must keep
np.” Having n large practice you sec how ha
ie enthralled. You may criticise his judgment,
bnt remember the proem*. Do not be herd.
That Journalist has had exhausting midnight
wotk. He hat bad to report epatehm and
orations that keep him up till a very late hour.
up tome case of crime In company
a detective. lie site down at midalght to
write out bia notes from a memorandum
scrawled on n pad under unfavorable clreum-
itaucri. Hla strength ia gone. Fidelity to
.. fidelity te
the public intelligence, fidelity te his own
livelihood demand that be keep up. He must
keep up. He stimulates. Again and again ht
does that, and ha goes down. Yon may criti
cise hla lodgment in the matter, bat have
mer.y, Remember the process. Do not bo
hard.
My friends, this text will come to fulfill
ment in some case* in tbit world. The
huntsman in Farmataen was shot by some un
known person. Twenty yean after tha son
of the huntsman was in the tame forest, and
ho accidentally shot n man, nnd the man in
dying, anid: “God is just; I shot yonr father
just hero twenty years ago.” A ^bishop laid
— - - ««.’ - ■
to Louis XI. of France: “Make an iron cage
fer all those who do not think as wo do—an
Iron cag* in which tha captive can neither lie
down nor stand straight up.” It was feels-
ioned—the awfel instrument of paniohment.
After awhile the bishop offended Louie XL,
and for fourteen years he mi in that Sana
saga, and could neither li* down nor stand np.
It Is a poor rnla that will not work both ways.
“With what measure j* mates it ahall bo
measured to yon again.”
Ob, my friends, let tube resolved to scold
less and pray more! That which in tha Biblo
is used a* tha symbol of ail gracious influence*
lathe dove, not tha poreaplno. Wo may ao
nnsklUfnliy manage the lifeboat that wa ahall
^■down those whom w* want to
tho
t preparation for Christian nscfnlneaa Is
rm hearted common sense, practical
trot
warm _
sympathy for these whom ws
to eeve. What headway will we
make is the judgment if ia thil world we
have bean bard on those who have gone
■stray? Wbat headway trill you and I nuke
io tho lest great J adamant, whoa wa mast
have mercy or perish? The Bible says:
“They ahall hava judgment withont mercy
that showed ao mercy.” I see the scribes of
heaven looking np into th* face of aneh a
mao, saying:.“What! yon plaad for mercy,yoa,
whom in all yonr lifo never had any mercy
on ycur fellows? Don’t you nmembar bow
id
bull yoa wore in yonr opinions of thoe* who
were litre}? Don't yoa
given
when yoa ought te hava
a helping hand yon employed
a bard heel? Mercy! Yoa mast mis speak
S ourself when you plead for mercy here.
Itrvy for others hat no mercy far yoa.
"Lock,” soya the scribes of hesvas, “look at
that inscription over the throne of jadf most,
the throne of God's judgment.” See it com
ing oat letter by letter, word byword, sea
ts see hy Matinee, until your startled vision
read* It end yonr remorseful spirit appropri-
•tra it: “With whet measure ye mete, it
ihail be measured to you again. Depart, ye
cursed!”
We accidently overheard tha following dia
lect e on th* street yesterday:
J. nse. Smith, why don't yoa stop that dis
gusting hawking and spitting ?
Smith. Hew con I? Yoa know I am a
J. Do as I did. I had the diaaaaa la Its wont
form bat I am wall now.
8. What did yoa do fer It?
J. I used Dr. Sag*’* Oaten
and me end It wtu canyw.
Catarrh Baroodv, I
cured me and It willr»rar»u-
8. rta hoard ofit, aad tar Java IT1 by It
J. Dots. You'll Sad
■teres in town.
all thadrng
He Founds tha Liquor Hen In Hla Vault For
cible Manner.
Cliktok, Ha, Jaiy 24.—Bev. Sam Jonea
apoke twice here today, Sn the afternoon
lecturing on prohibition, end st night delivering
a sermon. Twenty-live cent* admission to both.
Thousand* of persons assembled in a grove, whloh
waa fitted up on a big scale, as usual with Citato-
Mans. He began hla lecture b» Hying: “We aro
all of one blood, the seme kith and kin. Whatever
makes a toed citizen wlU make a good husband,
brother*jfither, and what we,want are good hus
bands. There nave been two grand epoolu In our
The first wee when oar Independ-
fro®. foreign _tyr»nny —
history.
, *nd the ~"second ' was when
Abe Lincoln sUpied the proclamation of emanclpo*
UcnpfC.000.005 slaves. But the grandest epoch
s, 1 ? fiiOOO.OOO slarcs. But the grandest epoch
will be the next when 00.000.000 are treed from the
thraldom of strong drink. There are 700.000 stares
to srr«tlte in oar prisons whose fate is worse than
that of thnto whom bloodhounds tracked in other
£•7?; A bar room bully Is on a dead level with
bis little brother, a bull dog. One to a brute and
the other isia bruter. One u a dog and the other la
ftdogter, The one haring a little mbre hair and
tail. The speaker’ll life had been threatened but
he always felt like Raying, ’Kill me, you low-down
dog, and I will be in heaven before you get home,
and the result would be I would get to heaven be*
fore my time.’”
He told or how a St. Louis newsman claimed to
have made him, and was asked why don’t you
make another. Because, said the editor, there
was hot any more of the same sort of dirt. You
aii mi Dig ne, you oiu nouuci. you. And he added,
that If the officials of Clinton had backbono
enough prohibition would prohibit In Clinton. He
shouted, “Why don’t you throw your hat* up? Be
cause each one of you is getting a dig In the ribs,
ar.d you have enough to do to tote your own akll*
He said he.was democratic from his head to his
heels, but he no longer belonged to tho democratic
patty. When the party came out with a non*
sumptuary plank It withdrew from him. Non-
sumptuary meant consumptuary and friendship
to 1 i<inor and enmity to prohibition, and thedlrty
digs had deserted Jeffersonian principles, which
wt re sa aacrcd to him as the Ten Commandments,
and were racking around on a whisky barrel. The
was so he would like to preach its funeral, and be
JONES ON rBOHlniTION.
How It Has Increased the Value of Property
Everywhere In Georgia.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat reports Sam
Jonr* as saying at Maryville, Mo.:
tome people say. fay, our town will go down
unless we Rell whisky, and our taxes will go up.”
Law. me! wbat a good pull yoa can get on a poor,
se)/}*h. sordid, old devil with an argument like
that—“my taxes uill go up and our town down. '
ALIVE IN HIS COFFIN.
The Astonishing Experience of George Wel
lington, Fanner, of Indiana.
From the New York Sun.
On the evening of June 18, 1888, George
Wellington, an Indiana farmer, had a gathering o
friends at his house. Ho was a man forty-two
yean of age, and of robust health, and on this
evening It was noticed that he was la particularly
good spirits. After the guests had departed ho ro
sed ..dancing than going to bed. They retti
about half-past 11 o'cloek, and she waa asleep |bc-
foie miduJgbt.
The fanner waa always out of bed at flve o'clock,
but on the morning following the party the wife
awoke at six and found him still sleeping. When
»bc attempted to arouse him, the discovered that
of heait disease. He said the man had been dead
remarked that — „ — —,.
ucarancc, and that none of the limbs grew riL...
but tbo two other physicians called In vigorously
combated the Idea that he waa In a trauce aua
days ahead. During the Interval the corpse wi
comtantly watched for signs of returning antmi
tion, but uotblng occurred to delay theiftinen
ngementa.
e burial was to take place In a country grave-
1, and most of the vehicles gathering at the
n -
house belonged to farmers. The usual ceremoulea
took place over tho dead, and the coffln was
brought out and placed In the hearse. While the
proctnlon was forming, a team attached to an
empty wagon came down the road, runu
The wagon collided with the heane.aud
vehicle waa upset and the coffin flung out. Four or
flve men ran to pick it up, but beforea hand had
touched It, a voice waa heard, s u
“For Hod's Nike let me out of fl
The people at lint moved back In affright, but
was righted and opened, and We
found snuggling to get out. Wfth a
tance he pulled nlmself out of the bo:
MlgH
XI
tfall
I
r
i
asleep until sometime after mid
night, \vhen i awoke the clock was striking flve.
*—------- bat* *
great deal of weening, and I failed to satisfy mf*
a-U aa to the cause. I bad died, but It did not
*e*m as If this was a sufficient excuse. When my
wife bent ovar the coffin and sobbed and grieved,
and refused to be comforted, I did not reel bad
with her. On the contrary, her action surprised
me. \\ hen the two other doctors pronounced me
dead I made tip my mind that I was dead and that
the end bad come. I had been taught to be Hava
that the spirit oft&e dead ascended to heaven, and
that the dead were dead in mind as wall as body.
H was a base deception* I felt Indignant that U
“As an instance of the acuteness of my hearing,
let me explain that after I waa maced In tha coffin
the receptacle was moved over to an open window
In Ibe parlor, where It was supported on saw
ns lyi
In the barnyard, ftiUy tvreh_ _ _ .
away, and for an bent conversed of my death In
ordinary tones of voice, 1 Old not miss on# single
conversation, aa both afterwards ad*
clock, and much of tha conversation c. .. _
men in the upstairs room. On the night,
previous to the ftjnerai, about half past io >'dock,
and while fire two men sitting np with the
corpse were reading, 1 beard two men climb tha •
fence into tha barnyard, cross the yard tad enter
the bam. After n few minutes they came out* and
I heard the Jingle of something carried by one or
the pair. I could not make out what was going
on, but learned afterward. The two men stole n
horse from a field opposite my barn, and they en
tered my premises In search of a bridle.
”l heard the people assemble for tha fonsral,
and as J caught a word from this one or that one
I Identified them by name to myself.. I listened
clotely to the sermon, hut when the minister spoke
of me I could not take it as personal. It wai as If
the name and person belonged to some one I had
known years before. I knew when I was carried
out and placed in the hear**, and I am eartala
that I heard tha clatter of the team running away
before sn) body righted them. \S hen the paoptn
began to call out iu a fright I felt that same fear
of being hurt that any live man does,
them trying to hack the hearse outoftb
let l be team go by, but they were not quick
As the collision came my eyes opened
restored, and from that moment I wax
I made a more to get out of bed, but
amazement, I could stir neither hand
had (ho full me of my ears, but I con
my eyes. 1 argued at first that I was
I
I
by name, and I could not respoud by
an eyelid, I became satisfied that I was In a trance.
My mind was never clearer, aud my
beating was painfully acute. I mads
effort after effort to throw off the great
weight which Reemed to be holding mo down, but
I could not bend a too or crook a finger. However,
It waa only after the doctor had pronounced me
had seemed to me that I could soon manage to get
rid of the weight. Had a pistol been fired in the
room I am sure the spell would have been broken.
After the doctor’s ultimatum I felt that! should
tion. k be buried alive. “ ‘
"Wtrat tttn It profit you It you rats tho whole • thh qo*ry Da , .
woild and Ioh your uol?* * Aod no drunlrard 0 troubled more than I can tall you. Aalbodnerct
.ball outer the kingdom of heaven.” | diid before, bow waa I to know Fie scnutloos?
— • id think? Wa. the mind
reputation and character, and more —
It was Jcaus Christ himself that asked theques-t
) I
Facts About Lightning,
The reiearchea of Profeeeora Von Petrojd
Kirsten, Weber and others have proved that th#
number of damaging strokes of lightning hae coa-
sldirably Increased during the last fifty yean.
Ibe ratio of damaging or other strokes to'h#
number of buildings In a certain district, cal'ed
by the German naturalist* ••MUzgefahr” (danger
from lightning), Increased In the kingdom of
Bavaria from ml to 1882 thieefold.
During the last fifty yeare of factories, rallroadi,
ateamboats-in short, of all construction* filling
the sir with smoke, vapors, particles of dustof
every description—thousands of locomotives,
thorn suds of steamers go around the earth, thons-
snea of factories of all kinds dally emu enormous
"ties of smoke, vapor and dust into tire ak;
rep’tto&r ta’cttlc*! 'ureVuio jumbos'*
prodticrfpunuse qnaiUtf —
«««
bundled Umoatha dust, mol
produce immense i
(he abortion will u
certain)f a bundle
[Silence and smllea gave assent tor the question.j
ibe grandest, proudest and highest spot that Goa
Almighty has located In America is this county
ighty has located In America Is'this county
and this town. I never have seen inch a country,
an 0 after God has blessed you wlibths most fertile
coll and tho grandest blessings lu this world, you
cannot rest without steeping it in liquor and
. * nd
debauching
you lire? down on ' {lie bare L „
Georgia, where we can’t mako more then three
or four bushels ol corn to the aero, and where we
can't mako bnt two bushels of wheat to the acre, I
could understand how you would need a little li
quor to help you keep up. fLaughtor.1 But in this
God-favored land, with all the blesslugs of provl-
without debauching your families and your homes
with this accursed stuff called liquor. Bo ashamed
les and your homes
country to decent people. [1
HOW OKOQOIA STANDS.
Why. down in Atlanta and In Georgia, you can
ess
t go Into Georgia and
property, to Rave your lire, at aa low figures ns you
could buy it before we out whisky out of the coun
ties In that state. Everywhere property, hs*
R oue up-a-every where. That's a fact. And then I
sll you another thing, and that* Is this: When
tbofe old barkeepers and liquor men have moved
ont of our state, somehow or other, Just as soon as
they get moved out, the atmosphere gets clearer
laughterj and things look better. They do, sure,
md things quit smelling like they did. [L
1 things quit smelling like they did. [Laugh-
....) And after wo get them all out wo won't
need any disinfectants down thero from this
time on. [Laughter.] Now, let me tell you,
ir a man has roc but one boy, he wants him
to bo sober, don't he? If ho hasn't got but
two hoys, he wants them both to be. sober.
IfhebARgot ten boys, how many of them to
he willing shall he drunkardgr How many?
If a o wero to have but one cltlxen In Missouri, we
would want him a sober man, wouldn’t we? If we
were to have but ten cltixens we would want them
all ten sober men. wouldn't we? And If we have
two and half million wouldn’t we be better off if
they were all sober men? What Is tCihat produce*
, brother,
Do you catch the Idea? .
•very voter In this country is responsible for ev
ery drunkard In this country until you have done
your level best to Stop this sowing of whisky In
Dawn, with flush foot upon the mountain tops,
Bianda beckoning to the Bun-god's golden car,
While on her high, clear brow the morning star
Grows fainter, as the silver misty oopae
And rosy river bend and, village white
Feel the strong shafts of light*
M „ _nair surprise
he meadows maalwd with fairy web,
—Mortimer Collins.
A worm bretncomH from Urn Hath
And ktsao* the zero's mouth,
\\ horo red le*rc* trombla and part
Ai If from tbo tbrob of a boast.
unseen thorn:
For"tbo fa/'brearo oowaid fora,
AndhtatteoroU tborrro.
Could the dead hrar and t
1 could t
layer ol vapor conitontlj hororlngiOTor luem—
the rtrlsflltowltb feMaMotoud ororo objMJIJ,.
more or less covered wfth the settling particles ol
dUkt. This csu«es total lightning strokoi.
Dr. Ploreo'a "Farortte Froacrtptlo*" to th
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