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VOLUME XVI.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1884—TWELVE PAGES.
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TALMAGE’S SERMON.
THE THEATER AND
TON*.
ITS MORAL
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Special to The Constltntlon.
Brooklyn, May 4.—Dr. Tolmage preached
to-day in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on the
enbject "Are the theatera improving in high
moral tone?" The opening hymn was
"Let our lips and livei express
The Holy Goipel we profesr."
Dr. Talmage,read and expounded.the stirring
passages which describe the wagons going to
fetch Jacob np to the palace of Pharaoh.
Tne text was Isaiah xxl. 11: "Watchman
what o( tbe night.” Following is the ter*
mon in fall:
As near os I can tell it is about hall. past
foot in the morning. There are aignsoi
dawn all around tbe eky. Though the
caverns are still dark, the mountains are be
ing transfigured. The aun is evidently
coming up, although be comes very slowly.
The world is advancing. Since the armios of
civilization and Christianity* began to march
they have never fallen back one Inch, Here
and there a regiment has played tho coward
and retreated£ut ip evmr arm^Jhore are'
wo are lo look today mtbsomeorthe recre
ations of the people. Yon have already
learned that I have no sympathy with ecle-
slaatical strait-jackets or with that attempt to
ignore all amnsements and recreations os
though they were something not fit for Chris
tians to enjoy. A book came out some
time ago discussing this subject and saying
that 11 a man returned at nightfall from
business and felt weary ana desired some
recreation and he should put on slippers and
so into his garret and walk atonnd‘lively
Tour or five times, there would be uo harm
in that, bat farther than that frowning upon
all recreations and amusements.
I think one of the ghastliest mistskes ever
made by Cnristian men is the attempt to
pnt down tbe sportfnlness of youth and
drive out the desire of amusements and recre
ation from the people. Bo I have known
znen of such morbid etato and of such twisted
theology that they were opposed to ball-play
ing end hated puzzles and denounced
charades and despised tableaux*, and cried:
“Away with all parlor amusements,” and
when young people full of exuberance and
vitality asked, "what shall we do by way of
recreation they were answered “prayer meet
ings!” I have noticed, however, that the
people do not know how to play, do not
know how to work. I have noticed that the
mightiest men in the Cnurch of Cod in all
axes have joined in hilarities and recreations,
William Wilberforce tumbled hoops with
hia children, Martin Luther helped to dress
the Christmas tiee, Helen Chalmers told me
that her father, Thomas Chalmers, in the
days when be wts most overworked in tbe
awful hour of Scottish history when the free
church was about to come out from the es
tablished church, and good men were at their
wits end—almost every day Thomas Chal
mers played kite with his children on tbe
commons.
But are the enterluinments and recrea
tions ofthe world keepiog abreast with the
grand march ol tbe ages? Are tbe novels ol
this day better than their predecessors? Is
the dance of this day an improvement on
other decades? Are tbe opera houses render
ing higher style of music? Do parlor garnet
become more healthful? Have the theaters
of our time arrived at a higher moral tone?
To tb s last question, I this mnrotng give
reply in this aeries of sermons wherein 1 am
answering some of the absorbing questions
of tbe day, mark you I am not this morning
to diacnas whether the theater is right or
wrong. I am not making a wholesale attack
on tragedians and comedians. 1 am not
disensaing whether Henry Irving and Edwin
Booth and McCullough and Joseph Jeflenon
are great acton or honorable men. I believe
they are. I am not dlicusalng any of the im
portant questions which I have already dis
cussed, bat I come from a new standpoint to
this whole subject.
I have three reasons lor thinking that tbe
tbeaten ol America are not improving in
moral tone.
Fuat, became ol the universal testimony
ol all the leading secalar newspapers of the
United States. There is not a newspaper
ol power in this country which
has not witbln the put few yean,
both in editorial and reportorial columns
deprecated the styles of play most frequent
in American theaters. It u against tbe in
terests of the nesrspapen to severely criticize
the playhouses because a vast amount of ad
vertising patronage comet from them. I am
told that the papers receive more from that
source than any other source—many thou
sands of dollars a year. When therefore the
secular newspapers, contrary to their finan
cial intercut, denounce the theatera for
frivolous and unclean epectacniar their evi
dence ie to me conclusive. 1 roll np on the
negative aide of this question ail the respect
able printing presses of the continent.
A second reason for thinking that the
tbeaten ol America are not improving In
moral tone, I find in the show windows and
on the bulletin boards and board fences from
ocean to ocean. I suppose that these are
honest pictures and representations of wha
actually occurs night by night in such
places, Are these theecanea to which fathers
and mothers take their daughters and young
men their afiUnctd? Would you allow iu
your parlor such brazen indecency as in
maDjr nf tbe theaters of the United States
must be dramatized if the board fences and
the show windows are not a libel? If there
pictures are genuine their work is damnable.
What is wrong in the parlor is wrong on tbe
stage. It ought to take just as niucu com
pleteness of apparel to be honorable in one
place as to be honorable in another. I de
clare 11 you fathers and mother! who take
yonr children to see such Sodomic lack ol
robe afterward live to see your families
ploughed np with libertinism and profiigacy,
you will get what you deserve. As though
a surplus of sanctity had been gained by
lenten service throughout the United States,
right after Etatcr, north,south, cast and west,
the streets of America become picture caller-'
ies tlmt rival the museums of Pompeii which
are kept under lock and key. Where are the
mayors of the cities and the judges of the
courts and the police that each things are
permitted. Judging from their depraved
advertisements that Dlotch np our cities to
day. I conclude that many of the theaters
are not on their way to millennial excell
ence.
Another reason for thinking that the thea
ters of America are not improving in moral
tone is that the loreign Importation of bad
morals during the past few years been eo im
mensely popular. France sent to thia coun
try her queen of the atage, one whose in
famy was not a shame, bat a boast. A more
popular actress or one more dloolnte never
never appeared in America. England aho
sent to os delectable specimens of ineffable
sweetness commended by a prince not as
good as his mother. From some ol the noto
rious foreign importations of onr American
stage, I conclude that if many of onr thea
ters are advancing in high moral tone the
advance is imperceptible.
Another reason Jot thinking that the
American stsge is not improving it that the
majority of tbe plays in onr time are degrad
ing in their tendency. I will not mention
the names of many of the modern plays that
are very popular lest I advertise that which
I condemn and beaido that their very names
are too suggestive of perfidy.
If I mention any of these objectionable
plays it must be those that are a little past,
but will come back again no donbt te de
bauch the pnblic taste when its appetite de
mands a change of carrion. Take the manu-
s ripts of tbe plays for the last fifteen years
and admitting that one-tenth ol them are
free from objections, the other nine-tenths
ere unfit to be witnessed by the families of
America. Subtract from these nine-tenths of
improper plays the libertinism and the do
mestic intrigue and the innendoes and the
vulgarities and marital scoundrelism and
yon would leave Ihom power .ess in the dra-
matld market. You who went to aee “East
Lynne” and took your families with you
now in yonr cooler moments read that pity
with its fesdd and. malodorous chapters
which chase tho dishonest wife from ini
quity to Iniquity and ask if that is an im
provement on the former drama. You might
as wqlvgq and alt down in a bar room with a
bevy o( village loafers and expect to got
morel'aiePMtlou from them aa from the popu
lar phkp’/ '^Hnket-ol Leave Men," with IF
>ictajr**o/Ylllstoy aud low slang. "A Naw
Vay to Few Old Debts'! is e uracuoal ealogy
m -'.ebeptioa if it ha pMcucefi upon the baa,
lud.iSe men and tha-jrooien wno go into a
b'.-J&r andsna i"Sir Oma’’Duma. uvtuK
So pilfa »TiWh tndyYdt: ^ r 8n»
Conquer" is aa full of moral malaria as llonun
campagna of typhus fever on an August
night. Writ* Oliver Goldsmith name at tbe
top of it and at the bottom of it and at the
close of each act and you cannot cover the
S rofano and salacious. Tne "School for
candal" is rotten clear through with lasciv
iousness and if a man should go into your
house aud take that play from under hia
arm and read certain passages to your
family the bones in his body which were not
broken would not be worth speaking of.
Bat wno would have the heart even to
mention the "Don Ceaars,” the "Barinalda
and the "Peg Woffingtons" and "Lady Gay
Spankers" and the “Coortlya" and tne pol
troon! and the scapegraces and the people
minua all excellencies plus all abominations
that gather men, women, boyi and girls by
tens of thousands, night by night into tho
lzzrretteol the average American theater.
An average ol a thousand boys ol this city
every nignt breathe this pestilence. Hear it,
parents who let yonr boys stay out ’till 11
o'clock without finding where they have
been I Hear it, philanthropist who want tbe
coming generations to be better than this.
Ouce in a while a great tragedian renders
King Lear or Hamlet or Merchant ol Venice
in the presence ol entranced audiences, but
tbat style of play ie In as small proportion to
tbe imbecile and depraved plays ol America
as the few dropi of good blood are to the bad
blood in a man who passed out of yellow
fever Into Asiatic cholera and is now winding
up with first-class smallpox. From the
atyle of theatrical plays whioh have been in
majority for the hut ten years, I conclude
tbat tbe American theater is not improving
in high moral tone.
Now I demand that there be a conspiracy
to rescue the drama from 111 vile surround
ings. Let all reformers and philanthropises
and Christians attempt this dlsenthrallment.
The drama is not the theater. The theater
is of human creation. Tne drama is tbe lit
erary expression of a feeling which God put
in the tinman eonl. Borne people apeak of
tbe drama a: though it were aometbing
built up auteide of ourselves by tbe
Congreves and tbe Goldsmiths and the Shale-
apearea and tbe Sheridene of literature, and
that then we attune our tsates to correspond
with human inventions. Not at all. The
drama is an echo from something divine
empianted in onr immortal souls. It is seen
liras in tbe domestic circle among tbe chil
dren three oc four yean of ege playing with
their dolls and their cradles and their carta-
teen ten years after in the playhoaiee of
wood—ten yean after in the parlor charades
—after that in the elaborate impersonations
in the academies of music The»pti and
.K<chylus and Sopbociei aud Euripides
merely dramatized whet was in the Greek
heart, Terence and Plautus and 8eneca
merely dramatized wbat was in the Iloman
heart Congreve and Farqnbir merely dra
matized wbat was In the English heart.
Kxcine, Corneille and Aifiere only drama
tized what was in the French and Italian
heart. Sbakspcare only dramatized what
was in the groat world’s heart. Tbe dlthy*
ramble and clinic drama, tbe sentimental
drama, the romantic drama were merely
ecboea of the human sonL
I do not speak of tbe drama on the poetic
■keif nor of the drama in the playhoute; bat
I speak of the dramatic element in your soul
and mine. We make men responsible for
it. Tney are not responsible. They are re
sponsible for the perversion of it but not for
tne original implantation. God did that
work and I suppose He knew what He was
about when He made ns. W* are nearly all
moved by tbe spectaenlar. When on thanks-
giving day we assemble, and the cbnrch it
decorated with the cotton, and tbe rice, and
the apples, and the wheat, and the rye, and
the oats, onr gratitude to God Is stirred.
Every parent likes to go to the sohool exhi
bition with its recitations, and Its
dialoues, and its droll costumes-
Tne torchlight proctaion of tha political
oempaign is merly a dramatlzttion of the
principles involved. No intelligent man can
rook in any secular or religious direction
without finding this dramatic element re
vealing, unrolling demonsuratlve itself.
Wbat shall we do with it?
Shall we suppress it? You can as easily
suppress the Creator. You mey direct it,
you mey educate it, you may purify it, you
may harness it te luuttipoteut usefulness and
that it is your duty to do. Just as we cul
ture tbe taste for tbe beautiful and the sub
lime by bird-haunted glen and roystering
stream and catarac's let down in uproar over
the mossed rocks, and the day lifting its ban
ners of viqtory in the east and ■ then setting
everything on fire os it retreats through the
gates of tne west, an Austerlitzand Waterloo
of an August thunder storm blazing their
batteries into a sultry afternoon, aud the
round glittering tear of this world wet on tbe
cheeks of the night as in this way wo cul
ture onr taste for tbe beautiful ana sublime,
so iu every lawful way wo are to culture the
dramatlo element in our nature by every
staccato passage in lttcr.itur-; by antithesis
and synthesis, by every tragio passage iu hu
man life.
Tha plainest man has in his plainest day
something hiatrlonie. This dramatlo ele
ment in all our natures, or nearly all our
natures, is exceptionally strong or weak in
aothe, jnat as there may be a million men
who admire poetry whirs there is only
one poet, one Tennyson to every land, or
one Longfellow to America. Just us there
may be a million people who admire music
where there was only one Ole Bull to Nor
way and one Wagner to America.
Now I have to tell you not only that God
bos implanted this dramatlo element in our
natures, bat I have to tell you iu tbe scrip
tures he cultures It, he appea's to it. He
develops It. I do not care where you open
the Bible your eye will fallfttpon a drama.
Here It Is in the Book of Judges: tba fire
tree, the vine, the olive tree, tho bramble—
they all make speeches. Then at the close
of the scene there is a coronation and the
bramble is proclaimed king. That is a po
litical drama. Here it is in tbe Book of
Job: enter Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar, Elihu
and Job. Tbe opening act of the drama
all darkness; the closing act of the drama
all sunshine. Magnificent drama is the
Broke! Job. Hera it is In Solomon’s song.
The region, an oriental region—vim-yards,
pomegranates, mountain of myrrh, flock of
sheep, garden ol spices, a wooing, a bride, a
bridegroom, dialogue after dialogue, intense,
gorgeous, all-suggestive drama is the Book
of Solomon's Bong. Here it Is in the Book of
Luke: costly mansion in the night. Alt the
windows bright with the illumination. The
floor aquake with the dance. Betnrncd eon
in costly garments which do not very well
fit him, perhaps, for they were not made for
him, but ha past swiftly leave off his old
? »rb and prepare for this extemporfxsd levee,
■outing son at the back door, too mad to go
in because they aro making snoh a fuss.
Tears of sympathy running down the old
man’s cheek at tho story of hisaon'ewan-
dering, and suffering tears of joy at bis re
turn. Hear Murdock rccito tho prodigal
sou In one of his readings and you will not
know whether to aob or shout. Revivals of
religion have started just under the reading
lof that Hotil-revulutioulzing drama of tbe
Prodigal Sen. Here it la in the Book of
Jtevelai-'u:i: crvstaline sea, pearline g*t. r
opaline river, amethystine capstone, thoW"
•ring coronets, one vial poured out incar
nadine the .watera; cavalrymen of heaven
galloping on white horses; nations in dox-
ology, hallelujahs to the right of them, lia|-
lelnj*ha to the feft of them. As the Illblb
open.-, with the drama of the first psradlse
bet the God who starts you will help you f
through and great will be the eternal r.s-1
wards lor the assiduoue and tho plucky, 1
wards lor the assiduous and tbe plucky.
What we want, ministers and laymen Is
to get our sermons aud our exhortations and
our prayers out ol the old mt. . Isee a great
deal of diaciusion in the rellgioui papers
about why people do not eonie to church.i
Tbey do not come beoause they are not in-l
ten-ted. The old hackneyed, religious]
praises will never arrest the masses. What
we want to day la to freshen up. Wewant to
drive out tbe drowsy, and the prosaic, and
the tedious, and the humdrum, and intro
duce tbe brightness, slid the vivacity, and
tbe fire of religious zeal, and I do not know
of auy way of doing It as well as through the
dramatic.
As to the drams of your life and mine it
will soon end. There will be no enoore to
bring us back after tbe curtain ha3 dropped.
Atthe beginning of tbat drama of Ufa atood
a ehulle, at the end of it will atand a grave.
Tbe first act, welcome. The last act fare
well. Tho intermediate acie, banquet aud
bailie, procession, bridal and funeral, songs
and tears, laughter and groans. It was not
original with Bhakapeare when he said "All
tne world’s a stage and all the men and wol
men merely players.” He got it from Stl
Pan I, who fifteen centuries before that had
wriiten: “We are made a spectacle onto the
world, and to angels and to men." A spec
tacle in u coli.-eum fighting with wild beast*
ie an amphitheater, the galleries full, look
ing down. Here we destroy a lion. Here we
grapple, with a gladiator. When we fall]
devils shout. When we rise, angels sing.
Gallery above gallery; gallery ol our depart
ed kindred looking down to aee if wo are
faithful and wertry of our Christian ances
try, hoping for our vlotory, wanting to throw
us a garland, glorified children and parents
with cheer on cheer urging us on. Gallery
ol the martyrs looking down. The Poly
carps. and the Ridleys, aud the McKaila, and
tbs Theban legion, and the8cotch covenant
ers, and they of the Brussels market-place,
and of Piedmont—crying down from the
galleries,“Gqd gave us tbe.vlctoryjand He will
give It you.” Gallery of angels looking
down—cherubic, scraphlo.archangelic—clap
ping their wings at every advantage we gain.
Gallery of the king from which their waves
a sacred hand and from which there comes a
sympathetic voice saying, “Be thou faithful
unto death and I will give thee a crown of
life." Oh the spectaclo in which you and
I ere the aotorsl Ob, the piled-up galleries I
looking down!
among; thk jerseys.
BILL ARP.
HIS WEEKLY PHILOSOPHY TAKES
A BUCOLIC TURN.
He UOBgratulates Hlau-ir l'o»t IS. are Jlouaaboid
Has 8fcV.lv IPs e-d tba winter and Mike. JO*
Berne Allusion, to "Sweet Mav"-Ita
unset oa the onudr-n, Eto., Era
$*e*eie.
Captain Jim Ecgllth received on Friday two
bcariiHul Jersey heifer calvna from tho heard of
Mnowe, of Frcdcrlckabuig, Md. They are flnoly
bre.lt exquUlto in color and ahape and cost Cap
tain about 1300 each.
1 It a fact beyond dliputo tbat the Jersoya aro on
the blrgest sort cl a "boom," not only In Georgia
hoi,all over tho United Btatci.
'Khava now nearly five hundred A. J. G. 0, reg-
lsupld Jorseys fh our stato, yet we uo behind both
-Bls'jftma and Mlnlulppt, but an fut cloning In
On Jkth. ThiB number will be augmented by cor-
a rag hundred before '85 rolls around.
VI learn that Mr. Geo. T. Hodgson Is negotla-
tin. (or a farm near Atlanta, with tbe view of
■ Uklmi a largo herd. There are several gentle-
rLlMtgagi'd lu gelling together email herda that
l-'aLvwj»jr> V’fi-lcyi" of tha.*1 yira- <’.':.«V.bhnately be Inoreaiwd. Among thoae we
dlraT ’ mention tho following: Messrs, W. W. Boyd, W.
A. Hemphill, W. H. Thomson, W, I, Hey wood and
A. J. Ormc.
Mind yon, when Iaay drama I donot mean
myth or fable, for my theology la of the old-
eat type—500 years old, thousands of years
old, aa old as the Bible. When I speak of
tho drama at tbe beginning or close of the
bible, I do not mean an allegory but I mean
tbe truth so stated tbat iu grouping and in
atar .llng effect it Is a God given, world-re-
sonudtng, heaven echoing drama. Now, if
God implanted this dramatlo element in our
natures, and if He has cultured and develop
ed it in the scriptures, I demand that you re
cognize 1L Because tbe drama has again
and again been employed for destructive
purposi s Is nothing against tbe drama, auy
more than musle ought to be accursed be
cause it has been taken again ami again into
the saturnalian wiasxila of 4,000yews. Will
you refuse to enthrone mualo on the church
organ because the art hu been' trampled
again ami again under the feet of the lascivi
ous dance? It is nothing against painting
and sculpture that in Corinth and Heroula-
neitm tney were demonstrative of vul
gar, ty and turpitude. The pollution of
painting shall throw no discredit on Power's
"Greek Slave,” or Church's “Heart of tb*
Amies,” or Bnben’s "Descent from the
cross,’’or Angelo'e “List Judgment." The
very faot tbat again and again the drirna
hts been dragged though tbe sewen of In
iquity ie the reason why we ahonld snatoh
ii np and stlrt itont on a grand and a boly
ann a magnificent mission.
Tbe dramatic element may be forced into
the service of our holy religion. Yon Sab
bath school teachers ought to have mors of
tbe element in yonr inatruetlons. By graph
ic aerpture scene, by anenlote, by descrip
tive gesture, by impersonation urge your
claaaea to right action. Yon had in your
International aeries of lesions tbe story of
Mary in Bethlehem. Tnose teachers who
most graphically presented tbat gospel hero
ine got tbe firmest grip upon the a ten lion
of their listeneri. We want in all our
schools, and college*, and prayer meetlnn,
and In all our attempts at reform, and in
all our churches to nave less of the style
didactio and more oi the atyl* dramatic.
Fifty fssays about tbe sorrow of the poor
could not effeot me as a little drama of acci
dent and suffering 1 aaw one slippery morn
ing in tba streets ol Philadelphia. Just
ahead of me was a lad, wretched in apparel,
hie limb amputated at the knee; from the
pallor of the boy’e cheek the amputation had
been not long before. He bad a package of
broken food under bis arm—food he bed
begged I suppose at tbs doors. As he pawed
on over the slippery pavement cautiously and
carefully I steadied him nntil bis cratch
slipped and he fell. I helped him up as well
as I could, gathered fragments as
a ell as I could, put them under
oue arm and the crutch under
the?other arm; but when I saw the blood
run down hia pale cheek I burst into tears.
4 i(ty essays about the sufterings of the poor
could not touch one like that little drams
of accident and suffering.
Ob. we want in our differant department*
of usefulness—and I address hundreds oi peo
ple who are trying to do good—we went
more of tbe dramatic element and leu of tbe
dietetic. Tbe tendency in this day is to
drone religion, to whine religion, to cant re
legion, to moan religion, to croek religion, to
• rpulchriz* religion when w* ought to pre
sent it in animated and epectacular mea
ner.
Bankstb morning by Babbath morning I ad
dressed many theological students who are
mooring for the ministry. They come in
n here from tbe different lnetttutione. I
say to them thia morning: if yon will go
home and look over the history of tha church
yon will find tbat thue men have brought
most souls to Christ who have been dramatic.
Kowiand Hill, dramatic; Thomas Chalmers,
dramatic; Whitefield, dramatic; Bonrda-
lone, dramatic; Kenelon, dramatic; Dr.
Knott, dramatic. When you get into tbe
ministry ii yon attempt to culture tbat ele
ment and try to wield it for God you will
meet with mighty rebuff and caricature and
eccleUstieal counsel will take yonr caw in
charge and they will try to put you down;
By tho success attalnod by eomo
ol onr brecdois, wo aro led to oxpect
great results from our Urargla raised Jerseys.
Mr. J. B. Wade bu Just completed a coven days’
test ol Tciiclls 2d, who mtdo tho wonderful record
of 18 pounds 4 ouccex For a three years nfco
months' belter thia Is high up on Ibe list, as few of
this ege have ever been able to equal It. Mr. Wada
thinks ibe will t4kt her dam's record of 22 pounds
throo ounces. He also tested Romping Less, same
age, who made U pounds 10 onncea, which Is bud
ta beat
Mr. Richard Peters bu mtdo a valuable addition
to tbe Jersey stock by Ibe purchase ol a largely
Inbred Bt. Heller null, 78 per cent He Is Ibe Arst
representative oi this family ever brougnt south
and bu lew equals and no snperlar in all of old
SL llcller's descendants.
sirs. Yancey and Hunntcutt, of Atbons,
have rendered good service in tho promotion of
this business by tbe purchase of Itubana Rioter,
one of tbe closest bred ball* In Ibis country to Uro
celebrated cow Mery Ann of HU Lamberts, (record
27 pound! v,i ounces, 7 days). lie is ono ol the
Ancst bulls in tbe United Biatce, and etaudi with
out an equal In tbe sonib. He wu bought at an
enormous prlco to bead tbelr herd, and la well
worlb a trip to Athene loses.
Judge Hopkins bujuet brought south some very
Ano belters of this same strain (Hoke Pogis) to be
bred to bis Ano young bull Prospects Rioter. We
may well expect some valuable additions to tbe
choice animus bo now possesses.
Moists. L. J. and O. W. Hill bought at tbe Kellogg
Importation ulo In New York two besutilal heifers
that aro now on a visit to Prospects Rioter. II
good breeding la any Indication wo certainly
will cbtaln lino results from this crow,
Messrs Hodgson Bros, of Atbons, have bought
and recently brought south a Klgnsl, Grand Duke
Alexis bull, with which thev ezpeot greally to In
crease the value of tbls strain. He pememet 75 per
cent of tbe blood elements ol TenoeUa (record 22
ponndx I ounces In 7 days) and with tho exception
of Slgnalda in Tonneseee, 1a the highest brod bnU
of this popular cross In tbe south.
Mr. Wlmblsb, of LaOrange hu bought a son of
Mr. Walker's celebrated bull, Explrdeo, with
which he extracts lo elevate tbe>tandard ol Jerjeyi
In Troup. [
A Latter frew JlVirns Darla.
The Keokux (Iowa) Constitution prints tbe fol
lowing:
Beauvoir, Mias, April 10, 18M.-W. W. Dodge.
Dear Bit: I have reoelved yonro of tbe Hth lasL,
Informing me that you would, with others, pese
through Mlulsalpp I on tb* Jiduou route to New
Orleans, to reach that place on the 22nd lust., end
klndlysay that the Kulgbur of Pjlhlss and mauy
ctUzeas of your commonwealth dealre to meet
meat some i<olnt upon that IIb* of travel. I
do not reside near the New prietui
and Jackson railroad, but upon tba New Orleans
•ad Habile railway, about midway between those
dtice. I could hardly venture to ask so large a body
to turn tbua far out of tbelr MUta merely for the
purpoeeot honoring me with a visit, but not will-
leg to deprive myselif of the pleasure of meeting
those who so graciously exoreoa tha wMs toeej me,
I will 10 to New Orleans. Wednesday, April_**, tha
day altar your arrival, and be happy to meet you
and other* at ibe Ht. Charles howl, ebout noon
of tbat day. It would be a sincere groUAcatlon
in me to meet the eon of my dear and honored
friend, GeWral A. U Dodga, and tbe randron of
iffy old commander and much esteemed auoclaw
of many yeero. General Heavy Dodge. While de
laying to answer tbe last letter t received from tout
father, tbe sad intclllg-rnro of bts death reached
me. He area a great foes, not to bts family only,
but to bis country alao,and I trait hi* views in
reward to the geuerml policy of our country wlU
Uv» and bear tho Irnlt he dyelrod. .
With sincere regard end beet wishes lo too and
your*, lam, faithfully. Jarraarow Davis.
Afc.Tk.r tlse* Mae lieee.
From tb* Otl City Derrick.
Oue o( oar yoang men went Into a cigar store
Uu other day for a few of hta favorite brand, aad
aj the German countess handed turn bis "Henry
over tbe counter he observed:
ifeorr cIat ii dct4-"
lib dot soP' replied Hi* tender hearted girl, "I
vo* so sorry, for ho did make gout cigars.”
Daniel Webster, begun a great speech by
saying that when a vessel had been otorm-
tossed for many days in cloudy weather and
Ioat her reckoning the first thing to do when
sunshine came was to figure up and find sat
where ebe was, or words to tbat effect.
The agricultural department sends men
circular and asks "how did yonr cattle come
out of winter quarters?"
It hat been a hard winter and a miserable
•pring, and we farmers have been demoral
ized and disheartened, anil now when tbe
storms and floods and cyclones have ceased
to afiliet us, and tbe blessed inn oi this bless
ed month of May is warming np onr hearts
and homes, it is natural for ns to sum it all
up and see where we are and wbat we hare
lest, end be able to say how we have come
out of winter quarters ourselves. We went
into those quarters on the heel of a stingy
crop, and take it ail in all, have had a hard
ttme; but, nevertheless, we are lively and
thankful, for it might hove been worse. The
elements have been on a fearful rampage,
end the floods have furrowed the fields and
carried onr best soil awsy down into tbe gnlf
of Mexico, and left tu more bottom land than
we wanted. Tha oorn we h»d planted has de
parted three coasts, and the compost with it,
and the work is all to be done Aver again.
Fenors and rails and water gates have gone
uu a ccunhlon, and there's work to do—Iota
of work—but there’a nobody dead or hurt,
nobody lick but me, and I've got only the
rheumatiam. and nobody carealint me—that
is—except Mrs. Arp, and she says she does
care a little. I've tried moit everything that
everybody lias told me, except poke berries,
which a preacher said was a sure cure, and
I'm wailing for them to come; for I don’t
want to go granting around like I was only
half a man and prematurely superannuated.
It is bad, very bsd, and jerks me around
lively, and makes me get up away in tiro
night and hunt liniment ami sit by the fire;
bat it ia a friendly disease, tbat stlcketh to
you like a b‘o)her, for It dodges from tbe
shoulder to the cellar bono, and from there
to the arm, and then to the back of the neck
and then to the ahonlder again, and seems lo
aay. I’ll play aronnd a little jnat fora ehange,
bnt I will hover leave tbee or foruke thee.
So its all right, and I'll compromise with
fate and fortnneon rheumatism. It ta not lo
be compared to war, or peatllence or death
in the family, or long lingering disease.
So f think that, take it ait iu ail, we have
come out of winter quarters pretty well, and
as tbe good old Methodiat preachers say In
their prayers, We thank Thee, Oh Lord, that
it ia aa wi ll with ua aa nlmt it ia. 1! i-iainga
on the return of Bpring, the time when tbe
littlo chaps can go barefooted ami paddle in
the branch aud fish for minnows, and the
older onos can ramble ever the fields and
marshes and gal bar wild bowers aad make
bcquels for tbe parlor and the dining room
I gu ebout with them most everyday and en
joy it. i liuve lo get fishing poles and make
whistles, and cut tho rough twiga from tho
crabapplcs that have such lovely blooms,
and I havo to balttbo hooks for Mrs. Arp
and the girls, for they don’t llko to handle
the little cloan wiggling worms, and when
they catch a fish I nave to got the hook out
of bis mouth, and I have to watch out for
snakes and (lizards, and hlezo out tire way
generally, and of course it makes me feel
proud and consequential, sorter like a rooster
who gives warning qf the hawks, and makes
a powerful to do, and when lie finds a bug,
calls all tbe hens and cats it himself just be
fore tbey get there.
May hu come with all her sweet memo
ries and maiden ways. Tho children don’t
bare to bu penned up in tbe house now.
They are ever so happy. Lut night it was
•plendid to hear them singing their littlo
songs, so aa to get a little grand child to
sleep, and it took "Dixie," and "There was a
frog who lived In a pool" and "We’ll pa;s
over Jordan," and "Shinbone alley," and
several more, but the little thing surrendered
when they (truck up "Kcotiamla burning,"
andehe wu soon in the land of happy
dreams. These little grandchildren were
born for tbe country, and they all ought to
be there. Of course tbey can’t be exhibited
to vlaltora very often, and don't have to dress
in their fine clothes, but they are the better
oil for it
GEORGIA SPECIALS.
CanriRsviLLX, April 28.—Saturday lut Mr. w
C. Brooks, an Old citizen <4 tbls county, living
near Stamp creek, brought to town a wegon load
of meat, consisting of sides, cbonldero and hams.
It wu killed la 1882.
HAWXnfiriua, April a.-Tbe recent heavy rain
and cold weather hu very materially retarded the
Brow* Of our growing erope. both of cotton and
corn Tho cotton In eome plscea looks as Hit wu
d Fi“f,»nd*auch of It doubtless will die. Corn Is
smad for this lime ol the year, and he* that yellow
unhealthy appearance, which-requiressnuihine
and general showers to bring it out. lhe rolling
land are badly wanht-d. In tome ptaces tom up m
great snlleyt, which bu injured it badly. 1
Macks. AprilA Ire occurred In Hawkins
vllle early to day. It originated in the hallding
occupied by 8. J. Shepherd, and consumed an en
tire blccb on the cast tide of Jackson strecL Tbe
ltmn are about 115-000; Insurance 910:000.
Nashviux, Aprils:—A told wave has visited
onr accilon tho lut teyr days, and making vegeta
tion look rather pale, after two and a half lushes
rainfall Monlay, the weather became very cold
Jbr this aeclicm. Tho little cotton Ie djlng- and
want! tome hot cun Crape are, however, looking
well lor so backward a spring Tho oat crop la boi
ler than onr must sanguine expectations early in
the season, aud early varieties In full head, and we
are cafe la tho way of horse .‘nod. Block of all kinds
look well. Wo have experienced not mere than
the usual mortality with sheep, hogs and cattlo.
Aumista. April 23-.—Tho superior court Is now
engaged tho third lime with- the oue of Goorgo R.
Dorsey vtthe street railroad, a suit lor damage*.
Hit leg wu cut off several years ago by an cngtno,
Dorsey obtained u high a* ten thousand dollar*
damage* and hMaecounssl James C. C. Black, H.
B. D. Twiggs and Fred Lockhart.
Daoikn, April 29-—John Turner, a negro raft
hand from Liberty county, entered tho residence
of Mrs. DeLagal In tbe morning about OX o'clock
and when ordered out by Miss Ratio DeLagal,
vvhoio mother wu abacol front homo on a visit to-
friends In Florida, not only refuaed to leavo the
home, but In a most lmnudeut manner, aakcl that
ho mlsht bo favored wlthsomemualc on the piano.
T Marshal Hopkins was sent for and with the-
■tanceol Deputy Marshal Guy ton, made the-
necessary arrest. Justice Kenan heard thecaseand
bound Turner ovtr for bit appearances! the sups-
rlorcourt, Axing tho bond at 85CO.
Macon, April so.—Tho grand lodge ol Royal.
Arch Masons convened lu tho grand lodge hall In
Ma-oulc building thia morning at 10 o'clock.
Tho grand high priest delivered hle>
annual addrou. The following lodge* aro
represented:
Augusta,OF Lewis, prosy; Georgia, Thoa Bal-
iautlnc, H P; Constantino, J R Wells, M P; Dar
ter. H Mlddlobrooka; Glenn, J W Taylor, U P:
Pythgoras, U C Burr, U P; LaFayetto, W It Gra
ham. U P; Albauy, C Wemlowsky, king; Mount
Zion, c L Wilson, H P; Fort Valley, D L Rots, U
P; Tilon.O O Bryan, HP; 3jhomuton, THBhar-
mon, H P; Schley, J M Mobley, II P; Nownan, W
Mitchell, H P, O McLen-
on king; Adoneram, TBurry, HP;Stephen A
Bordtx king; Laurent. K BellAowers. II P; Mys
tic, A M Uawhreu, U P; Jackson, E R Pound, H
P; Henola, J P Taylor, king; Trenton, J W Ku>«y,
UP; CM Tatum, ioribe: Perry, J B Smith, H P;
Haynes, U N llotllAold. II V.
l'ut Grand uigti Prlost Lambdln announced
that u Ire had held that potlllon for three years.
The folloalug officer* wero elect d: W A Gra
ham, grand high priest; A W Nollham. deputy
graud high prleM; J w Taylor, grand king: Thos.
llallantyue.graun sertbo Joo K Wu" ~ ‘
It ii curious how cully folki change their
opinions. Home of my oltler children used
to think the younger ones were awful bsd
anti ought to have lots of whipping, and If
tbey had children they shouldn't do such
things and so forth. Well, tbey have got
children now, children of tbelr own, and
they are about u bad as the common ran,
but tbey don't get r ny whipping, and are not
likely to get any, and they are most too pre
cious to be scolded, and that is always the
way, and it Is right, too, I reckon, for if tbe
mother wu not blind to the faults of her bad
children they wonld’nt get a good word from
anybody. Sickness and badness run togeth
er now. "Tbe little darling is tick, or she
wouldent be so crosa.” "When he is well he
is jnat u good u be can be.” Tbat is tbe
modern philosophy, and so when tbe child
is bad and cats up. and disturbs the general
tranquility, It is sick and must have come
carminative or cherry pectoral, or aomeotber
hail tuted staff, and that gets up more
(quelling and doe* lest good than a little dose
ol carminaliv* with the palm of tbe handon
eonie tender place that wu made for counter
irritants.
But May hu come atlut and tbero ie no
excuse for anybody to be croe* or gloomy
now. From time immemorial May bu been
honored and sung mors than any other
month, for it la* type of Ibe new birth of na
ture. The ancient Britons danced around a
May pole and forgot tbelr troubles. Tb*
first May queen was Maid Marian, and Kobin
Hood crowned her. The old Romans bad
ffstivitle* moat all tbe month, and the Utb,
13th and 15th were dedicated to decorating
the graves of the dead with flowers, and no
body ever married on thoae three days for it
wu believed that one of tbe wedded pair
would die before tbe end of the year. How
like those people our people are. Full of
superstitions, and decorating the graves of
the dead M they did. Tbe May day of tbe
modern* came down to ua from the Romans
celebrating five daya in honor of Flora, god-
(lets of flowtn. l'hoae day* were from April
2»tbto May 2d; but tbe busy modern*
couldent spare so much time and reduced the
festival down to one, and a good many are
too busy or too poor to tak* even one bolli-
day. Wbat a glorious thing It would be if
all the poor children who live in scanty
bouses m crowded cltiu could get out in tbe
country for even one day, and breath* the
breath of spring, and gather flowers and be
happy. Tbe good things ol ibis life are not
for ail, and it is ud and pitiful, but tis true.
But may be tftalr time will come—will come
in a laud where flowers aud green fields and
sunshine and happy boars can be had with
out money and without price—I hope eo.
Bill Asp.
KSSSK.
n olegtnt It
n oue of much 4**tweet aud ip*..
legaot lunch wae aet all day, together with
rcfreahmeutH which wm greatly enjoyed by the
merntMT*. Thu next wmIoi* of tho lodgo will bo
held In Atlanta, m the twocltiea, Macuu and At*
Irtit'R, alternate.
_ maulers of twenty-seven for the state of
Georgia, annum bled In convocation In Maaonlc
hall tO’davat li in. The following graud officers
vrero re-elected:
Mod 111. G F I.ewR most illustrious grand mas
ter; Right III U G Burr, deputy graud master;
Right 111. H K Moore, priucipal c inductor of the
work; Right III, J K we IK grand treasurer; Right
111. A M WollhlOi grand recorder; Right III. H
Middle brook*, grand captain of the guard: Right
III. Johu F otiUwoll, grand chapUlu of work;
Right 111. Jtocb Morris, sentinel.
McVu.lx, April 80.*—A G McLean, of this place
hu thirty acres In watermelons. They are Just bo
ginning to run aud aro looking fine, considering
the cold, backward spring. Tho woather Is very
warm now, and tho7 will grow vigorously.
Buchanan, April 30.—M. Y. Darnell, of Talla
poosa, whllo handling what ho supposod to be an
unloaded pistol, shot himself In tho hip on Friday
lut.
LuxrxiN, April 30.—Charles Darby, agod seven
teen years, tbe son of James Darby, a farmer, re
siding two miles north oi Lumpkin, wu drowned
In a small pool of water near his residence yester
day. It appears tbat tho deceased, In company
with two other lads, wero standing on the brink of
the pool, whon, walking on a place somewhat in-
dined towards tho water and which had been
made slick by tho deposit of mud In a recent rain,
bla feet slipped and he fell la. Gao of his com-
pan lor n plunged In after him, but wu reccued
nlmsolf, by his brother, after a struggle.
Bomg, April 30 — Mayor King to-day wrote a let*
ter of Invitation to the New England editors to
visit Romo during nbelr southern tour, lo case
they accept our citizens will make every effort to
make tbelr stay pleaAant nnd agreeable.
Rev <i. A. Nannally, rocreUry of the building
department of tho Baptist church, states that
tweutythree ct arches have been built lu the
soutborn aisles during lhe past six.months with
aid rendered by tho department.
Uommmviujc, April 10—HMrriag the recent rain*,
which set onr farmers back somewhat, the crop
pmspect Is fair In thlsscctton.
Numbers of our citizens are being snmmonod
before the Gutted Slates court la SAvannah as wit*
peseta !• tho mo t trivial nutters. Ah Investigation
of the officials there would do good.
Butlkr, April 80.—Mr. Rufus Bullock, of this
place, went down t) the factory ono week ago to
day in a two-mulo wagot to boy a load of fodder,
and hu not returned nor been heard from sli.ee.
Some think be hu gone to Florida.
Brunswick, April 30.—Kaiser's new brick block,
comprising five handsome stores and large room
for the First National bank, hu Just been com*
pleted. It is one of tho handsomest brick build*
their money here, and spend It freely for the ads
ran cement of Brunswick.
Brunswick will havo a grand county fair on Jane
lOtb. llth and 13 b. J>. f. Dunn hu been elected
E rchldcut, vice A. J. Crovatt resigned lu success
Matured, and It Is hoped and expected that it
will be the beat f*lr ever bold here Due notice
will be published In Tjir Constitution.
Athens, April W —George Long broke jail again
in DanleUvlUe, after being securely cbslned with
log chains to the floor and wall.
Katqkton. April 80.—Memorial Day wu appro*
prletely observed hero on the 28th Instead of the
2fth- Hon. John G. McHenry, of Madison, wu tbe
orator, and delivered a feeling address.
Valdsrta, May 1.—The district conference of the
Methodist church bu been In session here for sev
eral days, A large delegation of ministers and lay
members wero la attendance, among them some
prominent officials of tbe church.
Truck acd vegetables are growing finely, and the
planters ere pleased with the outlook.
Athens. May L—A great many people living
arouLd Athens are suffering with pneumonia, and
many deaths from the fatal dliease have taken
place.
Eastman, May 1.—George Fuller, who was ar
rested for the murder of Ed Curry on the 27th of ,
February, says a letter received yesterday evening,
bad * preliminary trial before Justice Ryals, of
tne Pond Town district and wa« discharged,
having proved aatUNctorlly to the I usUce that ha.
was elsewhere at the time the murder wu sUegeA
to have been committed.