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OUR STORY CORNER.
SEALED UNTO HIM.*
A STORY
EARLY DAYS OF MORMONM.
By JOAQUIN MILLER.
ACTHOB or ???SOKG3 OF TBB SIERRAS,??? ???TH*
BARITES,??? "MEMORIE ASD RIME," BTC,
CHAPTER II.
BY THE DEAD BRA.
It vos called the dead sea In the old days
by thoee who passed that way. The river
Jordan still holds its Biblical name, as do
many of the passes, springs, valleys and
mountain peaks surrounding Salt Lake.
My father was more puaiied as to who this
strange man might be, after taking his hand
and hearing him talk in bla quiet, unselfish
and learned fashion, than ever before. Was
he indeed a Danite, or only some poor Mon
mon. a sort of Insane man, doing penance as
he professed ?
Ilia a great mistake to aay that only dis
honest, ignorantand impure men are fanatics
in religion. I frequently recall, when think
ing of these things, the gaunt, lean lignre of
the old learned Caliph who sat on his red
camel outside the gates of Jerusalem, de-
manding the keys of the doomed city. I see
him dine, as be site there, on two dried Hgs
and a drink of water from the leathern botue
at his belt. I see him die at last, after all
the wealth of the east has passed untonched
through his hands, witn face lifted radiant
in hope to the gates of heaven. Tnat his fol
lowers were ignorant, bad at heart, is true.
They could not even plead redeeming indus-
^'ardon this digression. One is tempted
into noting parallels of religious fanaticism,
folly and madness by the singular similarity
of the physical characteristics of the two
lands???Syria and this Mormon region now
kDOwn as Utah.
It was a tired, dusty, disheartened little
party that touched the salt-white shore of
the dead sea in the heart of the great desert
and wildernfR; qf this continent more than
thirty yedrs ago. , ???
The silent and melancholy mad IQ tf>o
long, black barrow was quite well enough,
after the night's rest wnich followed my
father's visit, to creep on after his coflln the
next morning; and be kept up, hovering on
our Border, keeping only a little way In the
rear, camping only a little way off, living hie
singular life all by himself, as before, till we
reached the shores of the loland sea.
It is to he confessed that there was not one
of our little train that did not hope, expect,
almost pray that here this man would leave
ns???thla nightmare, thadow and cloud; tills
bird of evil omen, rise at last and fly away.
Not so.
The coflln took up position not Are hun
dred yards away on the bank of the brawling
little stream which swept into thegreat black
lake, with its gleaming border of crystal-
wbito salt. Tbe grass was long and strong
here. Some willows cast n cooling ahailo.
Here tbe tall and bideons giant with tbe
hollow eyes sat and read all day stone. But
where was he at night? We children did
not fish in that stream once during tbe whole
week of rest here, while purchasing fresh
supplies from Balt Lake City, only a few
miles away to the sooth. Wo stepped bigb
and hurried in tbe tall grass if by chance any
of tbe cattle went too close to that monstrous
shape, and we had to go there to drivo them
back andnearer camp.
lly father had been very anxions all the
journey to bear from tbe Lanes. He often
asked men who bad blow teams like oar own
if they bad seen this party pass. .They bad
been seen < ften. At tbe settlement of Salt
- .Lake he asked for them In vtln.
slue day be ventured 10 approach the watch
ful and silent gltnt who rested by h|?? coffin
as be read in the shade of the willows, and
asked if he had bad any information about
tbe Lanes.
Tbe man only lifted the lids of bis hollow
ever, looked a moment at my father, let
them fall and again went on reading. But
eeelng that nty fa'her still stood respectfully
by and was disposed neither to ask again nor
even to grow angry and pass on in silence,
he again lifted bis eyes for a second and
looking at in r father, said, in a deep, eoiemn
and nevci-io-bs-forgotten tone:
"Maybe they have been judged; and ara
not!???
And again be went on reading and said no
word more, while my father, with pale lips,
silently took my hand and returned to camp.
He knew wbst that awful sentence meant
very well.
But tbe beautiful, black eyed girl, so full
of yonib, health, affection, devotion???what
monstrous creature in all this world could be
found miserable enough to murder her?
Barely her purity, her sweetness should be
as ten thousand swords to defend her. Her
beauty should have been si an army with
banners. What had happened? We shall set.
One morning before sunrise two long haired
men on horseback, bearing longrlllea before
them, dashed np to the grim black shape
half hidden in tbe rank rye, grass there by
the bauk of tbe little troni stream, and the
booy giant was seen to sit suddenly bolt up
right in bis cofllD.
The conference did not last long. Only a
few words passed???orders mainly???brief,
short, sharp, and mostly made up of mono-
sylables and gestures; and then tbe long
haired men on horseback, with their long
rifles before them, wheeled suddenly and dis
appeared in and behind the grove of tbe cool,
leaning willows np tbe atieam.
Then it was that the certain conviction set
tled down upon ail as to who this monster
was. Men and women too, in the many
camps scattered here and there, up and down
tba willow-lined stream, began to question
themselves with pale lips if they bail aught
to answer for, to these sadden, swift, and
merciless "judges??? of tbe tribe of Dan.
Tbe terror tbac now possessed us, and lay
steadily and still overall, was painful, pitiful.
No one dared to speak to bla neighbor. No
one knew who bis neighbor was. Tbere was
somewhat of that awful slillnrasand sad pity
over the face of nature whicb is to be ob
served when an earthquake Is about to break
the heart of oar mother, earth.
On the next day ton' other men, similarly
mounted, iquolly abrupt, sudden, and swift,
swept np tbe little stream from tba (bores of
tbe white-lined sea, and looked up and down
and right and left, as if for some one wbo was
lest or bad escaped. They did not speak to
any one, or even come near to tbe silent man
up tbe stream, above our camp. Bat they
beckoned him, end he answered back. Tbey
then dashed on up Ibe mountain-side which
sloped to tbs stresrn, end, climbing st a steady
gallop to tbe high gray snmrait, sat tbere In
a group a long time, looking to tbe east, to
the west, everywhere, long end eagerly.
Then tbey rode on down tbe greasy bill to
ward tbe head of tbe stream, ai.d we saw
them no more. But a darker shadow than
ever ask over us now; a shadow lay behind
them like tbe shadow of death.
We coaid not enriare tbe strain any longer.
And then, In fact, we were almoet ready to
aetont at once more or the long, long jour
ney still before ns. Father made excuse that
he wanted to catch tbe cool of the evening.
And this give him tome pretence of reason
to baste. And so be set oat, ts tbe sun went
down, to move bit little train on, on, on, on
ward over tbe great white border of this
black sea of death???any where, indeed, to get
rid of 'bis nightmare that hovered over,
suffocated os.
Borne *f onr men had made a host here ont
of an old wagon-bed. By tbe help of a
frLndly Indian tbey bad rowed far ont to a
little island with three green trees on it.
Tbere was s rock jnat visible shove tbe block,
heavy waters here close to this island,
u^e of the men wbo went in bathing on
THE WEEEX*^A/??TSTITUTION: TUESDAY, MAKCHil8,1884.- TWELVE PAG-Eft
the edge of the island swam toward this rock.
The Indian was horrified, and with wild
yells beckoned him back. But the roan vrnp
already taming back throagh tbe black,
heavy water, and making for the island and
the boat with all bis might. He bad seen a
dead body tbere with log chains about it???the
work of tbe Danites. And yet no man dared
say eo, or even speak of it.
You mast know that the water of Salt Lake
is so dense and heavy with salt that you can*
not possibly sink in it, unless great weights
are attached to your body.
I may mention that this rock and this
island are no longer visible. The shores of
Bait Lake are at least ten feet from their old
white line of thirty years ago. And that is
land and rock in the heart of the great blAck
sea of death are hidden entirely. The
ploughed lands have been washed into the
lake, and its pores and outlets have been
choked np. Away to tbe south side of the
lake last year I rowed my boat over miles
and miles of fences that had been swallowed
up by tbe rising waters. The Pacific railroad
company attempted to build close to the bor
der of this lake on tbe north side at first.
The gradually rising water drove it to the
hills.
As our little train began to atretch out and
start with its creaking wagons on down and
around the white rim of the great lake to tbe
west, in the gorgeous moonlight, we felt sure
that we should not be followed by that haunt
ing and horrid spectre that bad so Ions pushed
its black shape silently after us. We drew
out upon the broad, white salt border, and
began to strike away toward the west. He
was not with us, not following us, thank
Heaven! Everyone there took in a long
breath, and felt better, freer than for weeks,
months.
Other trains bad not broken camn. And
so it began to be hoped that we would not be
missed by tbe sudden and swift horsemen
wbo claimed jurisdiction here, and asserted
and maintained the right of their elders to
sit in judgment on the world. Word was
J iassed up and down the line to hasten on as
ast as possible, to put os much distance be
tween them and us, between that hideous
black box that had haunted us so long and
persistently, as possible before dawn.
We had made two miles, perhaps, before
taking breath. We bad climbed a little hill.
Here we paused; and looking back, tbere
came creepingacrofs the gleaming white road
of salt, right on our track as before, that
frightful leader of the Danites. He was push
ing, with all his show of humility and penance
as before, the long black coffin, across tbe
broad white border of salt in the matchless
moonlight.
(TO BE CONTINUE rj
"Copyrighted by C. H, Miller,
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
Mr.. Sullivan, the distinguished hitter
from Boston, has made $8,000 on tho Pacific coast.
Miss Kate Field ia the Joan d???Arc who
now leads the Gentiles against tbe Mormons In
Utah.
The president's little daughter Nellie is ten
years old. She is dressed very simply, and sho Is
attended by a stout, cspablo Irish girl.
Bonanza Mackey has given his old Aloe
gulch friend, Ike IlArdenheimer, now in Texas,
1200,000. Bomo years ago he gavo him $100,000
Ulysses 8. Grant, Jr., has invested $105,-
000 In apArtment liouso property covering six
lots on tho north side of Seventy third street, Nsw
York.
Dr. J. Marion 8ims will be honored by two
memorial statues in Now York???one in Central
park and the other In tho grounds of tho Woman's
hospital.
Weston finishes his live thousand mile
tramp this week. He was escorted from Croydon
to tho Victoria coffee pilaca by mounted constables,
amid gtcat cheering.
Mr. Thomas Nast celebrates bis return to
Harper's Weekly by ornamontlng the first ptgo of
tho paper with an elephant and a caricature of
hlmtolfasaDlme Museum Midget.
Mrs. Langtry, the actress, yesterday re
cti ved an amtgument of a mortgage for 9120.000
upon realfjttate lq New York. 8hb is already the
osrner of Several houses in that city.
M. de Lksseps appears to keep a running
account with nature.Ho often ileops for twonty-four
hours or more at a strotch. aud then goes a whole
week without even a momout's dozing.
A Si???Mziufield man wrote to Governor
Koblnson, of kfaesAchusetts, to inquire if the law
would permit him to marry a cousin. The reply
was: '*rho law u 'willin???,' If the cousin is."
Wendell Phillips did notbelievo in modern
Improvements appertaining to household comforts,
a* d when he removed to Common itroet evon bad
Flipper, tbe ex-lieutenant, colored, bes
been in trouble sgaln. He was arrested at Miope,
in Chihuahua, Mexico, the other day for publish
ing a letter la which libelous charges against a
S riost were made. Flipper patsed a night injtll r
ut Is out now on bail.
Mb. H.B.Clawson, the Scandinavian Mor
mon, who hu had four wives???three of them
living???aud twenty eight children, should be In
vited to come ??Mt and lecture on "Hew it Feels to
be Colonel of Your Own KcalmenL"
It is stated that Captain 8. K. Wright, late
of the City of Columbus, has been oflured com
mand of a large steamer on Puget sound, but ihe
revocation of his 11 jense prevents hi* acceptance.
Toe revocked license was to run until next August
and at that time. If CAptaln Wright should apply,
the luspcconi will have the authority to grant him
a new license.
Tom Hughes writes from England regret
ting that he will aot be able to vLilt the Tennessee
Rugby colony this year, but feels well represented
there by his two sons, four nephews aud auy quan
tity of cousins. He mnaus to fouud a real Ilugby
school there which will draw In tne sous of Kuk*
IDhuien who now are buying southern lauds in
large sections, and tbere will be room lu tbe school
for as many Amerlcin boys as chooso to attend.
Wales's few feeble remarks on the homes
of the poor, the ether night, were hU tint attempt
it nuking a speech In the bouie of lords. Home
ears aso he pre ( en???ed the deceased wife's sister
TALMAGE???S aERMON.
A DISCOURSE ABOUT THE PREVa
LENT ABUSE OF TRUST FUNDS
Dcaprrate Things Done Every Day latte Persuttof
Etches-No Man Hss a Moral Bight to Lose
Bis Own or Win Another's Money-
Timely Oosp-1 Truths. Kto* Etc.
Lev. Dr. Talmage preached in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle tbe following sermon, called forth
by recent cates of the malfeasance in office.
Subject??????Abnse of Trust Funds.??? Text-
Exodus xx., 15: ???Thou ahalt not steal.??? I am
glad that I am to discuss a great question ot
public morals. One of the crying evils o( to
day is the abuse of trust fnnds. Almoet
every one, on a larger or smaller scale, during
the course of his life is entrusted with
moneys belonging to others. For a time he
becomes the safety deposit. He is an adminis
trator, and has in his hands, the interests of
tbe family of a deceased friend; or he is an at-
torney, end through his custody goes tbe pay
ment from debtor to creditor; or he isaflnan
oial agent and collects fora house who com'
pensate him for the responsibility taken; or
he is tho treasurer of a charitable institution,
and holds the amounts contributed for the
raaintainence of the charity; or he is an offi
cial of city, state or nation, and taxes,[or sub
sidies, or salsries, or supplies are in bis keep
ing. Such trnsts are as sacred as God can
make them. They hold the concentrated
and multiplied confidence of others. Upon
the faithfulness of such holders of trait funds
rests the support of bereaved households of
the morals if dependants on tho rightmovlng
of a thousand wheels of useful mechanism.
A man may do what he will with bis own.
but he who abuses trust funds * commits In
that one act theft, falsehood, perjury and be-
comes In all the???inteniily of that word a mis
creant. Tbero are widows and orphans in
nuraerable, with nothing between them and
starvation but a sewing machine or held at
vortex of destrnction by nothing but the
thread of a needle, red vith their own hearts'
blood, who were left at the death of the hus
band and father with a competency. What
became of It? The administrators or execu
tors sacrificed it, runningrisks with it which
they would not have dared to encounter in
their own affairs. Some roan by the sweat of
his brow gets enough to support bis family
then dies, and in six months all has gone
down in the stock speculating rapids of wall
street. It is eo safe to gamble with other
people's money I If unsuccessful, you have
put nothing In of your own and yon can i
round end apologize to the Innocents wl
know nothing about business affairs; while
you gain you pocket all or most of tbe result,
ten percent, twenty per cent., lift
soventy-flve per cent., and they wl
fled with six per cant., the lawful interest of
the stato of New York.
Again and again administrators bavo with
drawn money from savings bank and trust
companies and have disposed of the home
stead so that all might be pat In the vortex of
Wall etreet. There is not a city in tbe United
States whicb has not suffered from tbe abuse
of trust funds. Where is tbe court house, or
tbe jail, or the post office, or tho city hall, or
the hospitel, in which there has not been
what is called "a job???? Long before the
new court house of New York bad been com
pleted it had cost $12,000 000. Five million
six hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars
for furniture. For plastering and repairs,
$2 070.000, For plnmbing and gas works,
*1.231,817. For awnings, $23,552. Tho bills
for threo months amounted to tbe little snm
of $13.151108. There.was pot an honest
brick, or stone, or lath, or nail, or foot of
plumbing, or inch of plastering, or chair, or
inkstand, in the whole establishment Such
a set of thieves were a discouragement to all
other cities aspiring to villainy. Brooklyn
sat modest aud overshadowed. Bat we are com
ing np at last. Only give ns time and oppor
tunity and we will steal as well as New York.
It Is a fearful thing to accuse innocent men
and afterwards find that you were mistaken,
bat too lata to correct the wrong done. Wo
must hold all men Innocent till tbey are
proved guilty. But no man In public or out
of it has a right to lot tha crime Itself go with
out arraignment and wnatbema. There are
two or three things that make this iniquity
especially aggravating. The first worng la to
all tax-payers. In the great straggle of life
the tax bill comes to many an. overworked
man and many an invalid woman as a tor
ture. All tbe year round It Isa matterof cal
culation how to meet that crisis. But, i< it
"dsv. or be sold mis ??? "pay, or give up your
. .. .. - ???Jriflce nil you have
previously gained.??? It teems at tha eollec
tor's office an easy thing as toe money la
handed through the business window and the
receipt returned, but God only knows the
anxieties and Ihe tug and the eweat and the
pang that made that payment possible.
Another aggravation is in the fact that tbe
public school teachers have been pushed and
crowded In their livelihood. Enough moneys
have been appropriated for educational ser
vices, but that which ought to have gone to
tho support of tbe men and women who are
putting brain and nerve and life into the
education of the young has gone into the
hands of tbe tcciindrelly, the salaries of
teachers lowered and lowered into positive
sulLring because the treasury was in tho
hands of plunderers. It will never he known
how much eome of the families of this city
have suffered in consequence of the neceser
tated economy in fixing teachers' salaries. It
is, of coarse, in many cases, true that the
young teacher has supported invalid parents
on a small stipend, and, when that was cut
. .... , , ???, . , down, it meant domestic tragedy. If one-
W52 OT&???tm&ISUSS raon< > r *
be favored It. Ii la more than likely that hie Hot ???be board of education bad been appropri-
??? ??? ??? ??? ated to tbe aalariea of onr teachers, there
would have been better work done in tbe
school roams and less privation in many of
the homes of Brooklyn, and leas Injustice to
speech will be bis laat though there's uutalag lut
tug la what ho said.
A sxR.tKOR case of suicide is reported from
Parts. A man-wililng la tho Place <lea Iavalldes
on Sands/. February 10, atw a mad dog rash at a
group of Children. He throw himself upon the
beast, end after a hard straggle. In the ciurae of
which he was lepeatedly ottisn. succeeded In
throwing It Into ths seine. In answer to luqulrles
ne afterwards give this short aud pathetic sue rant
of blma-lf: ???1 was born on ihe??ld of March, ISIS:
married tbe 6th of February, 1872; I hare three
children. Mr wife baa broken my heart, and I am
now happy to hare within me the pofaou that will
???end me to Ibe grave.???
A cobresfokDbbt of the Hartford Times
writes that Stewart, of Texas, Is the tallcatman In
Ihaboute of representatives, measuring alzfeet
seven Inches; Tillman, of Sooth Carolina, never
wean an overcoat: ???Rfchi-llfU" Robles to, of New
York.has not out bla hair since fast session and aaya
says It la not to ctr again until Ireland U'-free:???
McAdoo, tf New J-r??ey. wean the tightest Hiring
clothe* in the bouse: John H. Wise, of Virginia???
boro fn Br.ail-parts bla hair the middle; aud Can
non. of Illinois, lathe only repreaenutlvs wbo si-
wa)i gmicn'alea with hla left band.
Bcdd Doiii.e, the turfman, was gratified to
a high degree when he visited Ooldimlth Maid In
Trenton me other day. "Did she know me???? uid
Mr. Doble "Bins your soul, tbe minute I entered
her suit ihe came np to me aid rubbed her bead
against my arm aud face- She neighed and frisked
around the aullliae a colt and did everything hut
???peak. Von remember, ibe had an unusually loug
ut!. I used to leech her to tiedown ao that her
mil would be clear of everything I asked her in
lie down thla title, and yuu would havu laughed
with It tatendad oo the e can straw. ???
By contracting a severe cough and cold, I
is compelled to give op my daily work and
keep to the boute. A neighbor recommended
me to try (bottle of Dr. Ball's Coagb Syrap;
it was procured and used; to my astonish-
ment relief was instantaneous. .1
Edw. W. Cuvtoi, Waverly, M<ll
answer for in the day when God will bring alt
to anconnt.
This event which hsa dazed and (tunned
the city leads us to two or three remarks.
First, there it something awfnlly wrong in a
management which makes it pomible for a
man to ileal hundreds of thousands of dollars,
and to carry on ths work year after year and
not be found out tooner, than this fraud wu
discovered. Tbere mntt have been quite ???
group of men cognizant of thla malfeaasance
and a good many baoda enlisted in it. It is
my bop* that ihe officers of the law may track
these official monsters to their den and haul
them ont into the aonlight of pnblic inspec
tion. Bot there la ne*d of anew style of do
ing business in the different departments of
public aerrlce, closer inspection and lets
opportunities afforded for embezzlement.
Lest a man ahalt take a lire cent piece that
does not belong to him, the belt of n conduc
tor on tbe city railroads most be sounded at
every payment, and basilicas life it full of
caution against small offense* Bnt plenty
of openings are left wide enough for a nerg
on a large scale to mike easy escape. Forthe
boy who steals a loaf of bread from the corner
grocery a prison, bnt for defaulters who take
a half e million a castle on the Bhine till tbe
world forgets it, and then a castle on the
Hudson.
Another remark I am led to make ia, let no
man pat himself In a position where tbe
temptation may be stronger than bia charac
ter. He wbo has large turns of money pirn-
log through bis bands ought to be sure of bit
integrity. Do not pat oat Into the cyclone
within nnseawortby vessel. Fly the posi
tion for which yon bare not tha moral endn*
ranee. A young man can tail by the feeling
of weakness or strength in the pretence of
bad opportunity whether he ia inn sale place.
Barents often make sad mistakes in putting
tbelr children in places of responsibility for
which they bavo no fitness. To trust them
with money for which you expect uo account
may open the way for them to do wrong
easily, and you may allow upon them a pres
sure to crime that they can not stand. How
many boys are put in stores and in banking
bouses and in offices withont any discussion
as to their erpacity to resist. Many men will
take Dositions fall of temptation, considering
nothing but ths fact that it ia lucrative.
I ad (frets many who have in their keeping
the moneys or tbe property of others. lets
a high compliment that you have been so
trusted. I oharge yon before God and tbo
world, be scrnpulously faithful. Bs as care
ful of that which beloogs to others as of that
which belongs to yourself. Keep your private
accounts separate tram your accounts as trus
tee. At that point, thousands of men wbo
seem to be as good as you havo made ship
wreck. Going into great enterprises, tbey
have invested their own and that of others,
and, defeated In their undertaking and ltaing
all, have not been able to make up what they
have lost of the property of others. Then
came the explosion, and the money market
was shaken, and the press denonnerd and the
cbnrch thundered its expulsion. You bavo
no right to nso the property of others for sny
purpose than their profit, nor without their
consent. Though In your possession, it is
no more yonrs then the property ot entire
strangers. If, with the consent of those who
trust you, you make the investment the best
you can, and it turns out ruinous, then you
are not to blame. But In no wise bo deluded
with the idea that because a thing is in your
posstssion It Is therefore yours. It is a
solemn trust, and God and society will hold
S ou solemnly responsible. In a large assent-
ly like this there arc probably some wbo are
misappropriating trust funds, l???ut them
back I If you have already hopelessly in
volved them, con ft ss the whole thing to those
whom yon have wronged, and yon will sleep
better nights and vour soul will be more safo,
Suppose yon should die before you havo ad
justed that matter, and yonr administrators
should find ont by tbe books and a lack of
vouchers that yonr estate was bankrupt and
your sonl lost? If all tho abused trust funds
of our cilies should suddenly fly to their
owners, crash into fist destruction would go
all our American cities. My friends, are you
not all impressed by what wa are constantly
seeing, that this is a most unsafe world to
dwell in without divine protection and
guidance? A man whom you supposed com
pletely invulnerable collapses under wbat
seems slight allurement. They notonly brave
tlieir own conscience, but, knowing they will
found ont, brave tbe execration of all tbe
bo
good. The only safety for business men is in
God. He knows all the temptations and all
tho shocks, and He will bring you ont safely.
It is an authentic statistic that ninety eight
out of every hundred business men fall finan
cially. I wonder what proportion of them
fail morally. They need God before tbe
counter and behind thoconnier and every
day. Then they will buy right and sell right
and bo right. If you havo tbo Interests of
others Intrusted in your hands???If you are
secretary or treasurer or agent or executor or
administrator or as-ignee or cashier???yon need
God'a help and God's control. Do not at
tempt to conduct yonr responsible work de
pending on yonr strength, lest it fall; de
pending on yonr own wisdom, lest it turn to
folly; depending on yourown conscience, lest
it be perverted. One of the grandest sped-
mens of Christian integrity was seon in the
life of the duke of Wellington. While he
was moving with the army in France, and
they Usd abundant opportunities of pillage
anil plunder, he would not allow anything to
bo taken in plunder. Willing bomo he says:
???We are overwhelmed with debts, and I can
scarcely stir out ol rny house on account of
pnblic creditors waiting to demand payment
of what Is due them.??? A writer says In re
gard to this: ???Nothing can bo grander or
more nobly original than this admission
Tbe old soldier, after thirty years' service,
this iron man and victorious genoral In an
enemy???s country at the head of an immense
army, is afraid ot his creditors.??? This is a
kind of fetr that has seldom troubled the
minds (if cooqaernVa and invaders, and I
doubt if tho annals of war could present any
thing comparable to tqlseublime simplicity,
This honesty well accords with the scene en
acted when tbe duke of Wellington knelt at
tho chance! to receive tha sacrament, and
some one seeing n very nlsln man kneeling
beside the dnke, intimated to the plain man
that ho had no right to kneel so near the dis
tinguished personage, Tbe dnko of Welling
ton, noticing wbst was going on, said:
"Don't disturb this man's devotion; we are
all equal here.???
Moreover It will be well at such times to
temper onr criticism, of the recreant with
great mercy. Tbere are two kinds of people
'or whom we ought to feel profound sym
pathy. First, the innocent, when they are
wrongly overhauled and maligoed and per
secuted. We ought to feet sympathy for
them because tbey do not deserve such mal
treatment. But there Is another class of per
sona toward whom we ongbt to feel still
g reater pity, and that is tha guilty. They
ave not only tha assault of tha world, but
the hard blows of their own conscience. Yon
giro a noor reason for not pitying any ono
when you say be is guilty. Wham did Christ,
the great example, coma to save? Tbe
guilty. Let the law be executed, and for tbe
good of society let the vicious bo punished,
but let tbere be no barsbneae in the judge???e
charge. Let tbere be no exhilaration over
tbo culprit's fate. Lot there be no clipping
of hands when the yerdiot of condemnation
Is rendered. I wonder how much better you
and I would hare been then some of those
fallen ones if we bad been tempted in Ibe
same way. Sometime* God late go of these
merciless critics of tbe fallen and then
tumbled Into the same crimes thalttiey repre
hended, Just about tbe time I entered my
protection I beard a prominent minister ot a
aider denomination, with a blast of merciless
Indignation, denounce tbe crime of a fallen
minister of the gospel, declaring In whak
seemed 'o me a self-righteous air that be
conld never be - led into such sin. Before
three years had passed he was expelled from
the ministry far tbe same sin and died of a
broken heart. Batter temper your wrath
with charity. Do not let us say we conld not
be tempted to do this or that. If Ood'sgrace
let go of ns we conld do anything. The sim
ple fact is that some ot the most magnificent
natures that God ever created have fallen.
Tbey bid one weakness and that slaw them,
or they made one misstep and could not re
cover from it. I have seen so msny kind,
genial, generous, talented, potent natures
overthrown while others neither kind nor
genial nor generous nor talented nor potent
bare been unmolested In their mediocrity
,hat I must lift warning, long, loud and start*
; lng to those who have special ability and
special sttractiveneat. You can no) afford to
be dishonest, whether you are found ont or
the secret is forever kept. Dr. Livingstone
said hie anceeton were bighlanden, and one
ol these old highlanders on his death-bed call
ed bis children around him and uid: "In
my lifetime I have searched most carefully
through all tbe traditions I conld And of our
family and I never conld discover that there
wu a dishonest nun among onr forefathers.
If. therefore, any of yonr children sbonid
Uka to disboneat ways it will not be because
it runs in our blood. It does not belong to
you. I leave thia precept with yon???be hon-
Stlll further, let tu be the friends of the un
fortunate. Howard for the orisons, Florence
Nightingale for the?wonnded. Miss Dix for tbe
inune, and Christ forell tba suffering and
the abandoned. Let ns follow tbe good
example set. I like the behavior of tbe two
Eoglisb sailors in Paris. They were on their
way borne from Spain, and one day, pissing
along the street, uw a hearuon the way to
Montmartre, the cemetery. Nothing wu
following, not eo much u a dog. Tha tailors
were touched by the sad and lonely spectacle
and one uhl: ???Poor wretch, no one follows
him! Let ns two follow.??? Tbey took off
their hats and walked bareheaded after the
beane to tbe cemetery. Tbey bad big hearts
in their coarse jackets. May Ood make us
the friends of the friendleasl The spirit of
pursuit Is the spirit of the devil. The spirit
of help is the spirit of Christ. In that last
spirit let ns go out among the tempted. There
arc in the swift pursuit of riches desperate
things done every hour of every day. Yon
der is a man with a fraudulent document in
his pocket. For what purpose wu that man
practicing tbe writing of his employer's
name? Whose money is that in your pocket?
Is that a pool ticket yon are carrying? Where
were you lut night? Are your habits as
good as the day you left your father???s bonse?
How rapidly are some of you going on tbe
wrong road!
Lutauminer there wu a terrible night of
tempest ont west. The river rose and the
wind was so strong that a part of tbe railroad
bridge wu blown down. A freight train
came along and with frightful crash wentinto
the water. Engineer and conductor per
ished. A girl, living in her father's cabin
near by, bethought herself that in a few
momenta the express train, laden with pas
sengers, would be along, and she started with
a lantern toward a telegraph office,where the
train did not stop, so that tbe Oenger might
be telegraphed tu the depot further on, where
tbe train did stop, walked over one of the
beams still standing from the wreck of the
bridge, got lo tbe main part of it, which was
open trestle work, and one misstep would
have dropped her Into the raging torrent.
Amid the thunder and the lightning, and
across the wild river, somotlmes walking and
sometimes crawling along on the slippery
rails, she got to the other side, but her light
had gone out. In five minutes the train wsa
due,and the telegraph office wase mile away.
Fortunately tho train was a little late. The
girt sped along like the wind, with feet cut
and bruised, and, panting in almoet deathly
exhaustion, she reached the telegraph office
in time to shout, ???The bridgo down I" and
then fell into an unconcciousnees Irom which
it seamed ns if she'would never be resuscita
ted. The telegraph mrssage reached the next
station in tlnio to warn the train, and so that
brave little girl bad saved tbe life of a multi
tude of passengers. Every street Is a track,
overy style of business a track, and even? day
it a track and every night is a track, anamul-
tltudes under power of temptation sweep on
or down toward perils raging and lerrlflo.
God help us to go out aud stop them. Let us
throw up some signal, carry eome message
through some lightning influence from the
tlirono of God, arrest the downward progress.
Beware I The bridgo is down, the chasm is
deep, while the lightnings of God set the
night of sin on fire with this warning: ???He
that being often reproved liardenetli ills neck
shall be suddenly destroyed, and that with
out remedy."
From Ueml???to Foot,
The postmaster nt North Buffalo, Fa., Mr.
M. J. Green, says St Jacobs Oil, tbe great
pain-conqueror, cured him of pains in the
head, ana also of frosty feet.
On to tho Mnrilt Ura* .Festival.
Tho 105th Grand Monthly Drawing of the Louis
iana state Lottery took placo tho tecond Tuesday
of February, st NcwOrlcsni, La. Oenemls Q. T.
Beauregard, of La., snd Jubsl A. Early, of Vs.,
'Supervised It. Ticket No. 7l.8t2drew First Capital
ol *76 000; II was sold In fractions of fifths st >1
each, aud Mr. Uoraco N. Hatch, a plumber of No.
180 Wist Broad way. Booth Boston,Mass .sol *16.000:
another portion went to Messrs.Lazard Fierri.of Ban
Francisco,fist .well known hankers there: anmher
to Frank Faelolte, Jacksonville, Fla. No. 00 863
draw the Becood Prlso of 126 000, also sold In flfiha
???one to H. B. Hicks of Monieulou, Brooke Co., N.
C., collided through r aok ol Asheville. N. C.,and
elseivhero. No. 80.I2S drew tho
Third Capital ol tlOOCO, sold In
Washington City, D. C,and elsewhere. Every
where. every time, every one has a chance to win a
fortune fora trifle. Any information can Ire 1m,l
of M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La., bcloro April,
ejukssrinlriiijii^
THE BEST (N THE MARKET!
17 Different Sizes and Kinds
LEADING FEATURESl 4
Doable Wood Door*, Patent Wood Grate, Adhut*.
tlo Damper, Interchangeable Automatlo Bbelf
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Pieco, Doublo Short Centers* Heavy Ring Covert
Illuminated. Fire Doors, Nickel Knoba, Nickel
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fiend for Descriptive Clrcr*v to
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ATLANTA, CA.
Tiionaands Hastened to Their Gravel
Untying on testimonials written in vivid,
glowing language of soma miracnlons enrols
made by some largely puffed-np doctor or
patent medicine has hastened thousands to
their graves; believing in their almost insane
faith that ths same miracle will be performed
on them, and that these testimonials mtk.
the rares, while the eo called medicine ia all
tba time hastening them to their graves. We
have avoided pnbilsbing testimonials, os tbey
do not make the enres, althongh we have
THOUSANDS LTOfl THOUSANDS
of them, of the roost wonderful cures, vol
untarily sent nt. It is onr medicine, Hop
Bitters, that makes the cares. It bos never
tailed and never can. We will give refer
ence to any one for any disease almllsr to
Ibeir own if desired, or will refer to any
neighbor, as there is not a neighborhood in
ihe known world bat can show its cures by
Hop Bitters.
a Losing joss.
A prominent physician of I'iiubnrgssld to a lady
r??ruist ???mi iistii me umcry, inun woico ane OB-
mined permanent health. Hhe now laughs at ???the
doctor for his Joke, blithe is not to well pleased
with It, as it cost him a good patient*
rtu or doctors.
Tl>?? fee of doctors is an item that very
many persons ara Interestad in. We believe
(be schedule for visits is $3 #0, which would
tar a man confined to his bed for a year, and
in need of a daily visit, over $1,000 a year
for medical attendance alone I And ono
single bottle of Hop Bitters taken in time
would save tho $1,000 and all the year???s sick-
sese.
a lady???s wish.
"Ob, how I do wish my skin wu ts dear and
???of11 as yonrs," said a lady to her friend "You can
easily make it so." ant ' **-- ' * ' ?????? ???*
inquire*! tho first lat
that makes pure, rich L -
It did It lor mo, as you observe."
GIVEN Ur BY THE DOCTOKE.
"Is it possible that Mr. Godfrey is up and
at work, and cured by so simple a remedy?"
"I assure yoa it is true that be fa entirely
cured, and with nothing but Hop Bitters, ana
only Jen days ago his doctors gave him np
and said he most die, from kidney and liver
trouble I"
WHAT STRUCK AN OLD SOLDIER
"It will soon be twenty yean since the war
dosed."
Under the hot snn of August, 1882, the village of
Dover, N. J., lay still as the sphinx in Egypt, while
Xlijih Sharp, of that place, slowly and softly spoke
of the past. "Yes," he said, "I wu In tho army
and saw many of the sights of thoso fearful years.
1 was finally discharged from disability, resulting
from sunstroke. I camo homo, misorablo In health
and spirits; so enfeebled that I took cold on the
slightest exposure. Life seemed worthless tome;
Hived only in memory."
"That wsssad enough," I said, dividing my last
twodgsrs.
"That???s so," responded Mr. 8barp; "bat 1 got
over It. Outgrew 1 ? Not exactly. When in that
condition I began taking Parksb???s Tonic, and my
health c< mm meed to improve right away. I wsa
astonUhtm *i It, and so was my wlfo. I piled on
tha flash and could oat anything. My ambition
blss>Mlup. I could attend to business, and now.
excepting that I havo to take care about exposing
myself to thn hotsun. I am as well as I was the day
enlisted. What differences thero are In things???
runs and bayonets kill: Parker's Tonic saves 1 "
This preoeratlon, which ha* been known as Par*
ksesGinoek Tonic, will hereafter bo called sim
ply Barker's Tonic. As unprincipled dealer*are
constantly deceiving thslr ouitomers by substitut
ing Inferior articles under tho nnmoof ginger, and
fSRinjrer Is really an unimportant ingredient, we
drop tho misleading word.
Tnsre Is no change, however, in tho preparation
ltac-lf. and all bottles rcmalulug in tho hands of
doalers, wrapped under tho namo of I'akkkr???s
GfNass Tonic, contain the genuine medicine If the
facsimile sJguatnre of Uiacox it Co. is at the bot
tom (t the ontaldo wrapper.
1JAMOND SPECTACLES,
SMITH???S
EXTRACT OF MAY FLOWER,
The Cap Sheaf of the Chemist???s Skill.
The Croat Romody for all Disonsos
of tho Bladder and Kidney*.
Thi?? Remedy hat atood the ie??t of time, hai
been weighed in the icalet of public opinion, end
to-day hat an army of men, women and children,
who 9ver their own tignaturet bear testimony tu
Ut curative properties. Some have been cured of
Diabetes of Bright ??? Disease, some of In.
damnation of tn; Bladder, some of Catarrh of the
snd ire called DIAMOND on aoooant of tbclrtasrd'-
ncMind brill finny.
Hiving bf cn trared with ths polarfacops. tbo dia
mond lsnics hive besn foand to admit llttcon pet
rent I??s bested rays than sny other pehblo
They are ground wllb great aclsnttllc sccuncy.
are freo from chromatic sbeiaUona, and produce a
brightaeuind dl.ilnctnrMof virion not before at
tained In spectacles. Manufactured by tho
BPENt'l R OPTICAL MAN???F'NQ CO.. NEW YORK
Unt?? n* fl *?? rcl P?? n| I b ^?? asents In every city f n tbs
??? FREEMAN & CRANKSHAW,
Jewelers and Opticians, aro solo agents for At-
Bladder, some of Incontinence of the Urine, soma
of Leucorrhwa, or Whites, some of pains In tht
Back and Loins, some of diseases of the
Gland.
For all MieaBtoarUlngfrom n d (if a ted
ttnto of </*?? llltttiiler mid Kidneyt, (hit
Jtemnly itando without a rival.
Without a rival in the number of cures effected;
without a rival in the purity of its composition;
without a rival in number of bottles sold. The
annual sale of Smith's Extract of May Flower ex
ceeds the sales oT all other Kidney Kcmtdiea com
bined.
DR. ELI IVES,says: "That In many aggra*
rated cases, whcreaH???ichu had failed to produce
my benefit. May Flower has effected a speedy
DR. J. H. BIRD, aaya; " I have found Mat
Flower to be a remedy for all Kidney complaints
Ur superior to Bucbu or Juniper."
DK. H. F. MARTIN, says: "May Floweret
gore promptly in all diseases of the Bladder ??ik
Kidneys than any remedy which has come under
ment of females.
DR. VISC. D HUYVF.TTER, aaya: "With,
out doubt May Flower is destined to work a revo
lution in the treatment of disease- peculiar to the
Urinary organs."
DK. KING, in compiling hit dispensatory, has
paid a merited tribute to this remedy. Sea pace
)9* King's Dispensatory.
A number of authorities might be quoud, but
there are none more eminent than the names
above. Ia addition to these authorities, a living
host off whose certificate* are oo file In the
cdficc of the proprietors of this remedy, bear testfc
???bony to ita virtues.
FOR SALE BY AIL DRUGGISTS.
Manufactured only by S. B. SMITH t BR0..
Corington, Ky.
JOoso.
County, ..... ...... ...luor *ll.l mien DO
MU?? st may hereafter be oaaoolsteil with thrra O
???f.ro.tnbelncprporattnjun'tortbo ittmo and sty!
of ???Tbe Fulton County Land snd improremei
Company,??? that tbs obJKt of said a* .trillion st:
(ho particular bualnrea to bo carriod on by them
to buy, improve and sell misstate fa slid Fulto
odlrafy.that the smoiiutot capital tohe.mplors
Is one hundred thousand dollars, dlrtded Ini
-barn of Are thousand dollars each, of wblc
smount ton peroeui h??t b,rcu sent stir pild lu, bn
your petitioners pray thst tboy be allowed toft
crease raid capital atock loon* million dollars. I
inch amount* snd stanch Umrassthey may tie
-De; that tho plsce of doing bu-lnetw Is la rat
Fulton oouoty with principal offloo In tho city c
Atlanta, said stato aud county. Vour petitlou.i
prey that raid company havo tha tifht to elect auci
omreia and inch directors to msnsgo the strain o
'???Id company, os they may deem nerearary togiy
???nd tike mortgagrasad Isnis boadsunder.uch ret
uUllonsss tho company may prracrlba, tone snd
btiutd. to have sod to ns* a common seal, ti
make bylaw., binding 00 Ita own members, not In
(font latent with the laws of thla stato orof tbe Unite,
Htatea.10 trorchaae and hold such property, ml (at
personal, salanecemry for me onrpoae of Ita or
Ksnlzstlon. or to secure debts due the company
and to make all inch contracts and do sllothei
???ots ss are neerarary to tbo legitimate esecnUeo ol
the butpose of Its organisation, lomlbsr withal
rights and prirlleg's granted such corporations
Mlldt-r Ihrt nf allH sldtA lhat fh..w .la.I... I. Ks
Atorncys for petitioner!.
A true extract from tho mlnntm ol FnUc
superior court. ii H. HTROSG Clmrk.
.. u . n ???I* ^ jwor *ddrn* to S. B.
Smith ft Bro., Covmgtoa, Ky., for a tretliu ca
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