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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 Broiling Door, Swinging Uearthplate. 8winging Fluo 8top, itoYcnlble Gas Burning Long Crew Pieco, Doublo Short Centers* Heavy Ring Covert Illuminated. Fire Doors, Nickel Knoba, Nickel Panels, etc. Unequ&led in material, in Flnlah, aa4 in Operation. fiend for Descriptive Clrcr*v to HUNNICUTT & BELUNGRATH Cor* A*eucixtrco and Walton Htreat* 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 Pi*?????** of th?? .'o'Sf/ToM SbWsS? lag from axavocs Dmiutt. Loot Vrtiurr, wLrim Wciunog ami all there direaare of a PxaaoTix Katvre. rmoltlat from arcus ul Ores* Cacsu. Bpred/ rtllet ao4 rompfeto r??*f.,r*'!GO M HKAtia, VigsuB lot &33SR* yXL2 ~~ *?? lC571 tOl.TAlU BP.IT <0., W.eabalt. !m<*a Pfay???s celebrated 5 WATER-PROOF ^ MANILLA ROOFING art for Koob, OWIdi *11". and Iruid*? in irfaca of plretrr. Very _ ???mu* and durable. Catalomie with tattimo- I jjrJrvrei 'M.wzwr.'rirr.i SOLID SILVfcR STEM WINDING FULL JEWELED GENTS' SIZE WATCH FOli .$i2.5C FCLLT OPA(Akmi>. This offer mad* for to days only. Goods tenth evptwsC. O. D,, subject to InipccUoa before put Jf. I'.KTKVESN A CO., JEWELERS, ATI.,STA, OA. DON???T Sno. M Phot R*r??ar.r fair SI B, ?? VIO Urte-vh I.-*???.,!.< Unn f..r SIU, a SIW Coartra Orfftactta U* ST.aSSa MasM Mo- CL??? v A marina DWUm tarn yatiran aiart abaoln*** that vlU Igg gg m nana EHSWrVM-V.' ??? WANT NM trfWurtm t fclfwk'nr BaroU II HIV I vvra.Epy UUiiae. T*l**<-. r??*.Telarrapb fettrnmant*. Or ran Arfa.rH'Mt*. W,; ??? ??? - - Mr* ""pWlWORLD MANUFACTUWINC CO. ware*. | ;22 Naasou Street, New York. $250$r sT