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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1884.—TWELVE PAGES.
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME, NOW
IS THE DAY OF SALVATION,
METROPOLITAN MEN.
AU Manner or Bin and Blsspbsmy Shall bo Forgiven
Unto Men; but the Blasphemy Against the Holy
Ghost Shall Not be Forgiven Unto Men.
I tween 30 and 401 They get or lose their for- he will say: “You mind your biipine**. and .
tuuea between 10 or 20. When you tell me thnt I'll mind mine.” But there lina beta affliction I
I a man is just beginning life I tell you that he in the household. Ills heart is tender. lie is J
is just closing it. ’The next fifty years will n«»t looking nrouiid forsympathy and solace. Now IN POLITICS, FINANCE AND MUSIC
be of as muon importance to him as the first is your time. Speak, speak, or forever hold CIRCLES,
twenty. Now, whv do I say this? Is it for your ponce. There is a time in farm life when
wlin hmxrm aiiI* » K^^aii ni...* At* —>• -Kaii vam th« aeed. ^raldent Arthur, Now York’s Only Republican Can*
didst*—Ills Habits and Associates In Years
Past—Aronson, tho Musician—Ills
Dream and His Nightmare, Etc.
the Auitoyancc of those who have only a bale-’ you plant the corn and when you sow the seed,
ful retrospection.? You know that is not my Let that go by and the farmer will wring his
way. I say it for the benefit of these young men hand* while other husbandmen are gathering
mid women. I want them to understand that in tho sheaves. You arc iu a religious meet-
« t i rcrir> .inii n, eternity U wrapped up in this hour; that tho lug, a n d there is an opportunity for youto
Brooklyn*, June 1.—[Special] Dr. Talmage sius of youth we never get over; that you are speak out for God.' You say: “I must do it.
preached this morning in the Brooklyn Taber- i now fashioning the mould in which your great Your ( >heok Hushes with embarrassment. You
nacle on the subject, “Is it possible for us to future is to run; that a minute instead of beiug hn i f wny> but you cower before men whose
- ' uavlt. .oAAiiild l.itirr la mflilA I, fl fif nVii|*llliltlllI, I _. . I. • ... . I • ...ImiI. ..n.l vaii dllflllK IlftCK.
S«» York, M»y 29.—New York atate,
which h «• generally regarded a. tho pivotal
nacie T" " : aixtyV^ondaTongfa made up of everlaeting breath Ya Fn tbdruoa'triU and you .brink book, state in tho coming national election, and New
coinnut the nnpardonahl age.. You see what dignity aud importance and the opportunity 1. gone and all eternity York city, whieh has «o often decided the vote
thlagivoa totho life of all our young folks, will feel the effect of your •ilenee. Try'o get , n U)() ,. mpir0 , tat( . p„, ent , on | y 0 «e
Whv. in the light of this subject life is not bade that onnortunitv! You cannot find it. • r r . ..
something to be frittered away, not something y ou m ;»bt ns well try to find tho fleece that candidate for nomination by tho republican
to bo smirked about, not something to be Gideon watched, or take in your hand the dew j eonv*nliou of June 3rd next; unless it has a
danced out, but something to bo weighed in the *h n t came down upon the locks of tho Betblc- Terv ••■lurk horse” in reserve. Until a very
linl.i,... I k viiiiiiw man IKabiii nf . ... , .... 1 .t... nl (lift - *
two text.. The firnt waa from Matthew xii. .11
and 112: “All manner of .in and blasphemy
.hall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy
against the Holy Gho«t .hall not be forgiven
unto men. And whosoever .peaketh a word
against the Son of Man, it .ball be forgiven
him; but whosoever apeaketh against the Holy
Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in
this world, neither in tho world to come.” Tho
second text was from Hebrews xii. IT: “He
found no place of repentance though he sought
’ it carefully with tears.”
bet it be understood at tho outset, said Hr.
Talmage, that the Protestant pulpit has no
revelation not given to the Protestant pew.
The minister of Christ has no right to lord it
over the consciences of men. When wo preach
we do not utter edicts; we only offer opinions.
In this Taud eu<l in this age where the Bible is
in almost every baml and in almost every
house, let every man understand that lie has a
right equally with other., to interpret the word
of God for himself, asking only divine illumi
nation. As sometimes you gather tho whole
family around in the evening to hear sonic in
terestiug book read, so to-day wo gather
great Christian family group to study this text;
and now may one and the same lamp east its
glow on nil this vast oirclo of immortal souls
You see from the first passage that I read
that there is a sin against the Holy Ghost for
which a man is never pardoned. One having
committed it, he is bound hand and foot for
the dungeons of despair. Sermons may bo
preached to him, songs may be sung to him
prayers may be offered in hi. behalf, but all *•
no purpose. He is a captive for this world ni
a captive for the world that is to come. Ho
you suppose that there is any one in this house
that-has committed that sin? All sins are
against the Holy Ghost, but my text speaks of
one especially. It is very clear to my own
mind that the sin against tho Holy Ghost was
the ascribing on tho works of the spirit to the
agency of the devil in the time of tho n pieties.
Indeed the Bible distinctly tells us that. In
other words if a man had sight given to him,
or if another was raised from the dead, and
some one standing there should say: “This
mull got his sight by Satanic power, the Holy
Spirit did not do this. Bccltehub accomplished
:» o or H'pjji, man raised from the dead was
danced out. but something to be weighed in tuc (hat Came down upon tilts looks or Ine neinie- , e rv--dark horse in reserve. Uqlil a very
balances of eternity. 0, young man, the sin of |, e „i shepherds, or to find the plume of the first fcw ' . mtny „ ill( .,, r ,,| v thought
yesterday, the sin of to-day, the ain of to-inor- ro bin that went across Paradise, It is gone s it y , ' ... °
row will reach over 10,000 years—aye over th« I, £ 1)]u . Ibrevcr. When an opportunity for J that General Grant might yet appear
a compromise candidate but none think
great and unending eternity. You may after 1H > r J ona | repentance or of doing good pOSSC* ■>. nvwuijqwuim snuuiuntu uut mint- uiissn cw
while say: “l am very aorry. Now l have * nm y hunt for it, yoy cannot find it. ||npe hifl recent financial trouble-; and IW-
does that amonut to? God may pardon you; Kemeiiiber what I tell you on this, the fintt, only metropolitan whose nanto will be men-
but undo those things you never will, you „ moTOillK j„ Juno, 1884, thnt there are
never cau. i and sins that can never bo corrected;
In this snniQcategory of irrevocable mistakes urlvileaea lly not in circles, but in it
We begin the edu- J, r ViZline t£t"be lightning! have not ns
the time t " , our privileges when they we gone,
mid let an opportunity of salvation go uy
I put all parental neglect,
cation of our children too late. By the t
they get to be ten or fifteen we wake up to
raised by sntanic influence,” the man who said
that dropped down under the curse of the text,
aud hos committed the fatal sin against the
Holy Ghost. Now I do dot think it possible iu
this day to commit that sin. I think it wns
possible only in apostolic times. But it is
very terrible thing ever to say anything against
the Holy Ghost and it is a marked fact that our
race have been marvellously kept bock from
that profanity. You hear a nion swear by the
Eternal God and by the name of Jesus Christ
hut you never heard a man swear by tho name
of the Holy Ohost.There are those in thishduse
who fear they arc guilty of tho unpardonable
ain. Have you such anxietyT Then I have
to tell you positively that you have not com
mitted that sin because the very anxiety in
the result of a movement pf the gracious spirit,
and your anxiety is proof positive, ns certain
ly as anything that can be demonstrated in
mathematics that you hove not committed
the sin that I have been shaking of. I can
look off upon this audience and feel that there
is salvation for all. It is not like when they
put outewith those* life-boats..from*.tho Loch
Earn for the villa du Havre. They knew there
was not room for all the passengers, but they
were going to do as well ns they could. But
to-day wo man the life boat of the Gospel aud
wocry out over the sea: “Itoora for all.'Oh that
tho Lord Jesus Christ would, this hour, bring
you all out of the Hood of sin and plnut you on
the deck of this glorious old Gospel craft.
But while 1 hove said I do not think it Js
possible for us to commit the particular sin
spoken of in tho first text, I have by reason of
the second text to call your attention to tho
fact that there are sins which, though they
may bo pardoned, ore in some respects irre
vocable and you can find no placo for repen
tance, though you seek it carefully with tears.
Esau had a birthright given him. In olden
times it meant not only temporal but spiritual
blessing. One day Esau took this birthright
and traded it off for something to eat. Oh, tho
folly. But let us not be too severe upon him.
After ho had made the trade he wanted to get it
back. Just as though you, to-morrow morn
ing, should take ull your notes and bonds and
government securities, nnd should go into a
restaurant and in a fit of recklessness and
hunger throw all those securities on tho coun
ter and ask for a plate of food, making that ex
change. This Mas the one that Esau made.
He sold his birthright for a mess of pottage
and ho was very aorry about it afterwards; but
“bo found no place for repentancef though ho
sought it carefully with tears.” There is an
impression in almost every man's mind that
somewhere in the future there will be a chance
where ho can correct all his mistakes. Livens
we mav, if we only repent in time God will for
give us and then all will be as well as though
we had uever committed sin. My discourse
shall come in collision with that theory. I
shall show vou, my friends, as God will help
ine, that there is such a thing ns unsuccessful
repentance; that there are things done wrong
that always stay wrong, and for them you may
seek some place of repentance and seek it care
ftilly but never find it. ...
Belonging to this clsss of irrevocable mis
take* is the folly of a mispent youth. We may
look back to our college days and think how
we neglected chemistry or geology or botany
or mathematics. We may be sorry about it all
our days. Can we ever get the discipline or
the advantage that we would have had, had
we attended to those duties in early life? A
man wake* up at 40 years of age and .finds that
his jouth has been wasted, and he strive* to
get back his early advantage. Doe* ho get
them back—the nays of boyhaod, the day* in
college, the days under hi* father'* roof? “Oh
he says, “if I could only get those times bock
again, how I would improve them!” My
brother, you will never get them back. They
are gone, gone. You may be very sorry about
it and Goa may forgive so that you may at least
reach heaven; but you will never get over some
of the mishaps that have come to your soul as
n result of your neglect of early duty. \ou
may try to undo it; you cannot undo it. When
you had a boy's eyes and a boy’* arm* and a
bov's heart yon ought to have attended to those
things. A man says at 50 yearn of age: “I do
wish I could get over these habits of indolence.
When did you get them? At 20 or 25 years of
age, you cannot shake them off. They will
June to you to the very day of your death. If
a young man through a long course of evil
conduct undermine* his physical health and
repents of it in after life, the Lord may pardon
him but that does not bring back good physical
' l to a minister of the Gospel
condition. I said . .
one Sabbath night at the close of the service:
“where are you preaching now?” “Oh,” he
says,"I am not preaching; I am suffering from
the physical effects of early sin; I can't preach
now; I am sick.” A consecrated man lie now
is and be mourn* bitterly over early sin*, but
that doe* not arrest their bodily effect*. The
simple tact i* that men and women often take
20 years of their life to build up influences that
require all the rest of their life to break down.
Talk about a man beginning life when he is 21
mistakes and try to eradicate this or tfiat bad ” " ‘],1!!^'Vhe mie-liunSredti 1 partef an inch, tho
habit of the child; but it is too late. That IthoiSSdth uart of an inch, the millionth
parent who omits iu the first ten years of the t ot - i nc h, and no man can overtake it.
child’s life to make an eternal impression for jjj rc . winff0< i seraphim* cannot come up with
Christ, never wakes it. Tho child will proba-1 to. 25mhEi Ilimtdf cannot ciUtli it.
bly go on with all the disadvantage* which 1 \ , , b 0 f nrc those who have a glorious
might have been avoided by parental faithful-1,. . . t ; y u » a wn * no t so rich as yours. Sell
ness. Now you see what a mistake that father ; Il'^^.^d vou seU It forever, the world
or mother mokes who puts off to late life ad- . . buvTt. tiatan wants to buy it. Listen
hereuee to Christ. Here is a man who at fifty f mnnioiit to these brilliant offers and It is
years of ago says to you: “I must 1* a ! *^hy do I tell you these truths? I have
Christian,” and he yields his heart to Got! and K . | vou year after year, telling you
sitA in the house of prayer to-day a Christian. | t j |CWS things. Some have yielded their hearts
None of us can doubt ft. Ho goes homo and , . » -J c i or i 0 u* crop of souls has been
ho says: “Hero at fifty years of ago I have . but this audience of immortal men and
given my heart to the Savior. Now I mu’ rcapeu; uui in.* au * "~ f
establish’ a family altar.” What? Where a
your children now? One In Boston, nnotli
in Cincinnati, another in New Orleans. And
you, my brother, at your 50th year going to
" nily altar. ‘ Very well {better
establish your family.. , .
late than never. But alas, alas, that you did
not do it twenty-five years ago. When I was
in Chamouni, Switzerland, 1 saw in the window
of one of the shops a picture that impressed
ray mind very much. It was a picture of an
accident that occurred 011 tho Hide of one of the
Swiss mountains. A company of travellers
with some guidos went up some very uteep
place*—places which but few* traveller* at
tempted to go up. They were, as ull travellers
are there, fnstohed together with cord* at tho
waist so thnt if one slipped the rope would
hold him, the rope fastened to the others.
Passing along tho most dangerous point 0110 of
the guides slipped, and they all slipped down
tho precipice; hut after awhile one more mus
cular than the rest struck his heels into the ice
and stopped; hut tho rope broko and dowft
hundred* of thousands ot feet the rest went
And so I 'seo whole families bound together by
ties of affection, and in many wise* walking on
slippery places of worldlincs* and ain. The
father, knows it nnd the mother know* It, nnd
they are bound all together. After awhile they
begin to slide down, steoper nnd steeper, nnd
the father becomes nlnrmed aud lie stons,
planting hi* feet on tho “Itock of Ages.” Hi
stop* but the rope breaks, nnd those who were
tied fast to him by morn! aud spiritual influ
ence* once, go over the precipice. Ob, there is
such a thing a* coming to (,'lirUt soon enough
to save ourselves, but not soon enough to save
other*. IIow monv parents wake up in the
latter part of life to find out tho mistake I The
parent says: “I have been too lement,” or “I
nave been too severe in • tho discipline of my
children. If I had tho llttlo-onc* around mo
again how different I would do!” You will
never have them around again. Tho work i»
done, tho bent to tho character is given, the
eternity is decided. I say this to youug pnrrfnts,
those who nro 25 or 30 or 35 years of ago. Jinvo
the family altar now. How do. you suppose
thnt father felt ns I10 leaned over tho couch of
ibis dying child, nnd tho. expiring.son said tp
him: “Father, you have been very good to
mo. You havo given mo a fine education mid
you have placed me in a fine social position;
you havo done everything for me in a worldly
sense, but, father, you never told me how to
die. Now I nra dying, and I am lost.
In this category of irrevocable mistake* I
placo also tho unkindness done to the departed.
When I was a boy my mother u.*«d to say to
me sometimes: “DeWitt, you will be sorry for
that when I nm gone.” And I remember just
how she looked, sitting there with cap and
spectacle* ami tho old Bible in her lap; and
»he never skid a truer thing thou that, for I
have often been sorry sinco. While wo have
our friends with u» w. «ny unguarded thing,
that wound tho feeling, of tho*u to whom we
ought to give nothing but kindness, l'erhops
tho parent, without inquiring into tho matter,
boxes tho child’s ears. TI10 little 0110 who has
fallen in tho street, comos in covered with dust,
and as though the first disaster were not enough,
she whips it. After awhilo tho child is taken
or the parent is takeu, or tho companion is
taken, and those who nro loft say: “Oh, if we
could only get bock those unkind words, those
unkind deeds; if we could only recall them.”
But you cannot get them back. You might
bow down over the grave of that loved one and
cry and cry and cry. Tho white lips would
make no answer. The stars shall be plucked
out of their sockets, but these influences shall
not lie torn away. The world shall die, but
there are some wrongs immortal. The moral
of which is, take care of your friends while
you have them, spare the scolding, be economi
cal of the satire, shut up in a dark cave from
which they shall never swarm forth all the
words that have a sting in them. You will
wish you had some day—very soon you will—
lerlmps to-morrow. Oh, yes. While with a
irm hand vou administer parental discipline,
also administer it very gently, lest some day
there he a little slab m Greouwood aud on it
chiseled “Our Willie,” or “Our Charlie;” and
though you bow down prone to the grave aud
seek a placo of repentance, and seek it careful
ly with tears, you cannot find it.
There is another sin that I pb“*« in the class
of irrevocable mistakes, aud ttiat is lost oppor
tunities of getting good. I never come to a
Saturday night but I can see during that week
that I have missed opportunities of getting
good. I never come to my birthday but I cau
see that I havo wasted many chances of getting
better. I never go home on Sabbath from the
discussion of a religious theme without feeling
thaCl might have done it in a more successful
way. IIow is it with you? If you take a cer
tain number of bushels of wheat and scatter
them over a certain number of acre* of land,
you expect a harvest iu projwrtion to the
amount of seed scattered. And I ask you now,
have the sheave* of moral and spiritual harvest
corresponded with the ail vantage* given? How
has it been with you? You may make resolu
tions for the future, but past opportunities are
gone. In the long procession of future years
all those past moments will march; but the
archangel's trumpet that wake* the dead will
not wake up for you one ^ of those ^privilege*;
Esau ha* sold * ' “ * 1 1
his birthright, and there -is not
wealth enough in the treasure houses of heaven
to buy it back again. What does that mean?
It means that if you ore goinjpto get any ad
vantage out of this Sabbath day you willhave
to get it before the hand wheel* around on the
clock to 12 to-night. It means that every
moment of our life has two wings, and that it
does not fly like a hawk, in circles, but in a
straight line from eternity to eternity. It means
that though other chariots may break down or
drag heavily, this one never droj»* the brake
and never cease* to run. It mean* that while
at other feasts the cun may be passed to us and
we may reject it, and yet after awhile take it,
the cup-bearers to this feast give u* but one
chance at the chalice, and, rejecting that, we
shall “find no place for repentance, though we
seek it carefully with tears.”
There is one more class of sin* that I put in
=; are they pr^mra-l for U,o great ^rej
I could .land hero aid pUy » ' ^ "
eoultl talk of the Rule. l> f ,Ccro« n . of lie"
of preclou, .tones and the cronn» tiiBU
What i. the use of talking of tho.o th ue. t
those who have no preparation for that land,
and who are on tho
stand hero Sabbath »^rB.bbMh endeavoring
to persuade you to give up your ain and twex
after God, nnd he at peace with Him. t re
member the story of the lad on tin An tic «omo
vear. ago—the lad, Stewart Holland. A ' ■ «»->
crashed into the Arctic iu the time of a ft g,
end it was found thnt the .lop Ji***. *
Home of the passenger. g*oiTJn ti><niMa»ta
acme got off on raft.; hut 300 w«rt to tha
tom Purine nil th MB hours of enlntmiy
Stewart Holland stood at tho signal gun, and
it sounded across the sea, hoo.nt iasmri The
helmsman fomook.his place, the englnear »»
liclniHinon forsook ms piac^» * ,
gone, and some fainted and some I’raycd aml
some blasphemed, and the
■ • could no more let off the signitl gun.
iroke in tho jnnensino nm! brought
powder, and ngnm the gun hrwmcd
o, my fri-'ml., 1 behold many
nnd they could no m». e. ".i,.
The lad broke in the Jnnpitino ami jwjjg*
out more
of^ou'in’tmmortal perii: ShdtnMa will JJJj*
down after awhile upon you, death wd come
upon you, judgment wdl come “P®" > " ir
nuy will come upon y»u. Hoim-t ha'r ing tink.
tho 7 warning, have gone ofl in the hfvboat and
they are safe, but others aro »”t " »Wn* any
attempt to escape. So I stand at this signal
gun of the Gospel sounding the alarm. Now
is the accepted time; now is the day «f «» l '»
tion." That is what you want, sinful, ‘™‘I' l ' d r
bruised and dying soul. May the I-ord hel
you to accept the mercy and. the solace am
the salvation of the gospel I Hear it that) our
soul may llvel
THE STOCK LAW IN ROCKDALE.
How No-Fence Works Where It Ha. Keen
Tried—An Interesting Dlaouaalon.
The Honey Creek agricultural club, organised til
1*73,met May 17,1884, l-resldcnt MadLsun Tucker In
the clmlr. Question for the evening: -What nro
the advantages growing out of the stock law?”
Mr. J. O. McNair Mid Bockilalo coqnty was one
of the first In the state to adopt this law, ami It Is
right that we should consider IU advantages and
publish them to our more unfortunate sister
counties, who aro still laboring
der tlie old mistaken Idea of fencing.
I oposed it at Out, hut after two years actual t rlol-
and trial I. the test of facta—lOnd many Important
advantage, growing out of It.
First, it promotes lwnnony nnd peace between
neighbors. We no longer fence our crops with
dogs. We hear ho more of Injured .lock amt ruin
ed crops. Second, a vast nmoudt of hanl labor l«
saved. Thcdnldgeryof spllttlngand hallungrails,
hanging water racks, repairing and building
fencea, and fixing up after big rains aro now all
dispensed with. It la easier to fcnco In my own
.lock than to fence out every body else'
Third. It Improve* our land, lsmd allowed to
retain all the vegetable matter that grows on It
wilt rapidly Improve In fertility, while land con
stantly graxed and trodden by stock, deteloratea in
nnallty. Fourth, we arc not forced to have m»
much timbered laud. Fifth, It h an advantage to
fruit growing, and alxth, it N an ad
vantage to stuck raising. Good stock arc
superseding poor, because it will not pay to keep
aorry stock. Oue good cow well attended will pro-
duco more good milk and butter than three ordi
nary cows ordinarily kept. Tho fear of not being
able to raise hogs was entertained even by the**-
who tavorvd ita adoption. Morn lows now In the
»e Rockdale coimty lL?y5JW? SS
|, Mi! jl’tffii[oUlngswSrtb^'l did not vote for tho
inwr at first. 1 am now well plettscjl wlth It. rim
till three acre* of got*] laud without fonrlng
twenty-five or thirty; have more milk am! butter;
a general improvement In utoek; they are belter
taken care of. The old Idea that* row rwulre* an
entire county to graze over I* exploded. A cow
will do better In an old-fieldupland i«sturc ol
two or three acre* thun she will in a twenty acre
field, llogs do better reasonably, confined than
when running at large. 1 havo had no bog cholera
since Its adoption. ...» »
Mr. J. K. Rower: I think the law ha* proved
even more than wa* claimed for it by It* most ar
dent ailvocatcs. A prominent merchant said to
me to-day: “We buy more and better tatter now
than at any other time In the previou* history of
Cony era.” It prevent* the spree© of cholera among
hog*—have heard of none since it* adoption two
year* ago. The bennude gra»* make* much the
bc*t pasture for tbl* section; orchard gnu*next.
WmT Richardson, opposed the law at
first, as much a* any one could; am now
highly pleased with It; ' - - -
tioned at Chicago by the republicans. As for
tho demoerfits it is generally believed that Til
den, Hewitt and Flower, nil resident! of New
York city, will ho talked of by enthusiastic
frienda in tha same city at a later convention
There arc few figures boiler known hi this
city tlmn that of President Arthur, hut ho
remembered here not ns “our aristocratic pn
.rare of are; talk about a woman beginning this category of irrevocable offence, and that
Ilf. when sh. is 18 years of age! Ab, not In . is lost opportunities of usefulness. There . .. , , , ,
many respect* that u the time they close life. I comes a time when yon can do a good thing
In nme caaea out of ten all the mjeationa of I for Christ. It cornea only once. Your botines. F.^ ^e „ ln w py, w
eternity are decided before that. Talk about! partner is a proud man. In ordinary riri-nm-; j^ket. and glong wharyou gwlne.”
a majority of men getting their fortunes be- stances say to him; “Believe in Christ, and The negro promenaded.
to 7
head of rattle on a 7 acre pasture; do better than
when they ran at huge. My p
old field land-no graenowpl.
Mr. J. II. Holllnsworth:-I oppoaol the law at
first, but If I were now deprived of it I would go to
where it Is. Wc have our itock under control; ran
select and Improve our breed at will; Is the grand
est labor-saving Institution yet offered to the far
mer. Many other advantages, which at first thought
appear trilling, add coiuldertbly to theconvrn-
icniv and pleasure of the farmer. It Is truly the
farmer's friend. J. I. C.
He Didn’t Want It,
At the passenger depot the other day. a well-
dressed negro approached Uncle Plato and offered
It him a watch. It appeared to be a very good
watch, but the old .gentleman looked _at ft bus
pfclously.
Vouk’n take her for five dollars,"^Mjd the
darkey.
Wa’t I gwlne do wld a watch!” asked Uncle
Plata
Wear her *roun\ Glmme.de money an- taka
her -long."
-Wat dear-
-Deo aba's yourin.”
-I say so.”
-go you does, so yon does; but w’at I gwlne do
cn de man come 'long alter da watch? W’at I
gwlne tell 'lm. 1 say I batter do mo- talkin' for
ter keep dat watch dan w'at yon done for ter git
lm. Don't you come wallin' jro' eye-balls at me,”
exclaimed Uncle Plato In a loud and angry tone;
-don't yet do IL Idonebfnknowln' niggers loog fo’
i you -ux boraded. Wen I buys watebee, I'm gwlne
There I whar dey makes nm at. You keep dat watch.
arUatapayou.ln ue chatn^sny,
watch In yo.
rBKStmiST snTiii'a,
ident,” but ns ono of the most democratic,
free-and-easy, unpretentious of individuals.
His position here for tnnny years before lie be
came president would have developed this
trait if he had not possessed It by nature. T
bo the successful local political manager of
minority party In a great city Ilka this,
casting over 200,000 votes in presi
dential years, requires a go#d many quslifi
cations happily combined. Ho must be, as
Arthur was, not merely affable but sociable
with everybody. Ho must possess, as Arthur
did, the happy faculty of not only inducing
others to do ns ho wishes, hut thnt more un
common faculty ofconvinclng them thnt they
arc having their own wny all the time. He
must not only be ready at all times to see ev
ery new comer without ceremony, hut be nble
also, as Arthur was, to put n visitor at onen at
ease, nnd to hastily dismiss him with the idea
in hia head, thnt in going, tho visitor Is act
unlly conferring n favor on his host,
A lady onco .reported to
the result of a mission on which she had
to Mr. Arthur with a note of introduction from
me,—UiBtageurrcd long .before bo won prcai
Ident.
“Isn’t ho so nice,” sho said 011 returning,
“He spoke so pleasantly, bowed inn to the door
when I came away and opened it for me.”
“Well, but wbnt did he proniiso to do?” 1
naked.
“Ohl notbingl He refusd me; said it was
-impossible;’ that ho'wni so bound by obliga
tions Hint it could not bo done; but lm waa so
very nlco about it.”
Tho report was not unexpected, for I hud
teen Arthur treat much more sanguine and
pretentious claimants for politicul favor iu the
same delicate way.
1 onco heard Hharidan Shook sny to a gcntl-
man who waa urging tha npjmlntment of a
man to a place nt Arthur’s disposal, which
placo Shook wanted fur a friend of hia own,—
“Well,” ha said, “You beat me, Arthur jutl
your name on,—and ha sdemnrat. tool”
“And your man,” asked the other.
“Ho took him off to make room for yours,”
said Shook, “And ho was a good republican,
too.” But never mind, added Shook, “Arthur
told my man to wait, It was all right,” and
both the man and his hacker were satisfied.
This faculty of satisfying everybody waa
something of Arthur’s strength when he was
the local "boss" of the republicans here. He
could coax more harmony out of tho locnl
leaders than any man who was over In control
of tlm organization 1 and the proof of his pop
ularity is that he has a solid delegation of
them, notwithstanding there are now wldu
differences betwen them as to local |mllcy.
This local strength may prove
a national weakness, for some repub
lican palter* havo ridiculed nnd others abused
the local republican leaders in this city into a
notoriety, which is In many cases undeserved.
There are a number of these among tho Arthur
delegate* to Chicago. For instance, John J.
O'Brien, Johu II. Brady, J. I>. Lawson, Ilob-
ert 0. McCord, Jacob M. I’atterson, Bernard
Biglive, John K. Lydeeker. I know them all
personally, and they aro a very clover set of
follows, as politicians ran, nnd far smarter
than tho average. Yet a hundred mile* from
this city some of them aro regarded among
country folks ns monster* of political iniquity.
Mr. Arthur’s democratic manners extended
to bis habit*. Ha hns always been a good
“diner out,” “a bon vivant,” but ho does not
always go to Delmonicoe’ to supjicr. 1 have
supped with himjtt three o’clock atjnight on an
uncovered table at Brown’s English chop
house on Welsh rarebits and London stout. I
ought to add in explanation and apology that
it was during a heated local canvass.
“The business boom” of Arthur whieh was re
cently gotten upliere waa mismanaged to soma
extent nnd the selection of a time was linfortu-
nate as it wax close on the heels of a panic of
the millionaires and bank men who called the
m James D. Fisb.on being arrested has endear-
ered to convince tho public that Grant and
Arthur profited by the blind poola on govern
ment contracts which Ward conducted. No
body believes that Arthur’s name was used
with bis knowledge by the conspiring fiuao-
ciers, „ . .
A sign of summer now generally accepted
in this metropolis as infallible is the opening
of the summer garden on the roof of to* Ca
sino. We no longer have to depend on the an
nouncements of watering plar* proprietors to
know positively that summer ha* eome. At
the firxt indication of tha seaaon tha Caaino
roof is thrown open and crowda on it nightly
and an extra crush on Sunday accept the
grateful omen.
The Casino is a unique place of amusement
in almost every respect. It gives an enter
tainment unlike that of any musical resort in
the city, at novel as are Daly's among the
theatrical attractions mu - c ‘‘ ““ ,llr “
n a manager, conductor nnd projector, nil retain him in his sorvioe. Of
combined in the one person of young Rudolph
Aronson.
If ever there was nu enthusiast it is this
young raau. He may be & musical genius.
Timo alone will confirm that claim of his
friends. Hia minor compositiona
familiar to many households. His
compositions are frequently on the pro
gramme* of public eourert* not only here hut
in other cities. He hns privately played some
* that is all
RtMHH.ri! ARONSON,
of hi* more ambitious operatic scores in my
hearing, nnd though I know nothing of music
nnd could not turn n tune with a crank, I re
cognised tunny charming melodies in his “Cap
tain Kidd,” for instance. He hns been before
this public ever since lie wn« u mere boy t .and
1ir* met chiefly with ridicule by the musical
critics. I think pretty nearly nil of them,
exeept conscientious John R.U. Hnssnrd of the
Tribune, linvc had something rude to sny of
him. Ihit he appears never to hnve been dis
couraged, however much ho nmy have been
depressed by whnt was w ritten of him. With
out much money hilt with abundant faith in
himself, he has on two occasion* personally
jone nhnut town and raised tho money to
mild two theaters. One is now cnlled the
Cosmopolitan. Ho built it as n concert
hall, and a very elaborate structure it was.
Barn like nnd destitute of color it
was an uncomfortable place nnd it failed, ns it
deserved to do. Not nt all disheartened lie
went among the »uliscrihers to his first project
nnd raised naif a million dollars to build tho
Casino. The Cosmopolitan wa* Aronson’s
nightmare; the Casino, hi* dream, nnd all who
hnve seen the latter realize that it is a very
beautiful nnd faneiftil conception. It is ai
nearly an Oriental palace as Now York is likely
to see in many years, or until Aronson carries
out the idea already in hi* active brain of an
opera house somewhere about Fifth avenue
and the entrance to Central park.
Amid all the financial confuaion whieh ex
ists here, .lay Gould sit* smiling. He laugh*
when told that the recent panic i* attributed
to hi* selling bis own stock* short, and sny*
that whether he did or not i* whnt no fellow
can find out. Ho laugh* when told that it i*
supposed thnt ho must hnve lost millions by
tho depredation of Western Union, Wabnsh
etc., nnd replies, “but l hold the stocks still."
Ho shrug* Iiia shoulders when told thnt ho
sold out tinge, nnd goes off to lunch with tho
old fellow; nnd he smiles when told thnt it is
reported he loaned tinge $5,000,000 “to help
him'pull through.” You enu learn nothing
from Gould’s look* or talks; everything he
snys may bo construed two ways, and hi* fac
ial expression roveaU nothing. He i* abso
lutely sphinx-liko; Gfnnt is candor nnd loq
uacity combined compared to Gould.
But Jay Gould hns near him n financial
weather-gauge, which all men who know him
rend with accuracy. He is Gould's factotum:
his man Friday:*his confidential clerk and
cashier, Signor Mnfrlsini. He is an Italian,
lander. Wall street wolves never thus
upon each other, except when there are no
lamb* to devour.
I’F.nvmL poi.vth.
I am told on good authority that tho
Second National hank, whieh John C. Elio
came so near to wrecking, hns paid an aver
age of twenty per cent to it* ten stockhrSTcrs
on their eupital for twenty year* past. It was
therefore well worth saving.
The death of Charles Delmonico appear* to
have been a severe blow to the uptowu restau
rant of that fa mou* house. The successor to
its business, rharh-sCrist, ha* sought in vain
to retain the old popularity by changing his
name to Delmonico. But tho
oldest habitue* of the place
have deserted it tbr the more freshly at
tractive Iloffmnu house across the wny. Since
the trouble* which have come tijwm tlie Eno*
of the Fifth Avenue hotel, compelling tho
mortgaging of th;;t vast building, much of ite
transient trade hns also gone to the Hoffman
cafe, also, just across the way. In fact the cir
cumstances and Its genera! gorgeousnes* havo
made n* the IlolVmnn the central jioint of at
traction, so far ns hotels ure considered; and,
every day and evening the most important
people of the city may bo found grouped theto
n* at no other house.
The sale of tho Truth newspaper and tho
passage of the law regarding polhto
papers takes the most sourrilloujof Now York
Journal, out of profitable circulation. Tho
Truth i* hereafter to lie conducted a* a lively,
spicy, clean rival of the highly auece*sfiil
Morning Journnli the purpose being, however,
to make it •something more of n newspaper
than the Journal, Herald men appear
most prominent in it* conduct uuder the reor
ganization, and this give* currency to the
idea that it is to be furnished with the sinew*
of both money aud telegraphic new* through
the Herald. It is largely circulated by the
Herald newsmen and boycotted by the other
newsdealer*. *
The origiilal iirojector* of tho Truth in ite
scurrilous form nave beep scattered far and
wide, nnd are quarreling among themselves.
They were never a happy company. The paper
was originally started, it was some time since*
alleged, for the pur|>o*Q of plunder, aud n
jury being npi>cnfed to to punish the person
so declaring, con timed the idea by refusiug sub
stantial damage*. It very early became the
organ of tho Ixniisiana lottery company, t«sit
its effort* in behalf of thnt concern resulted
in the driving away of tlie lottery men and
the indictment nnd conviction of the two prin
cipal owners of the paper. The paper
wa* always tho organ of two notorious
blackmailing lawyers, one.of whom was dis
barred for corruption, the other of whom i* an
esrnned English convict, nnd both of whom were
tried on eharge* of blackmail and escaped only
through the good offices of a district attorney,
who proved u defaulter, and whose embezzle
ment Chester A. Arthur paid out of his own
>ocket. Tho Truth wns little knowu outside of
'few York, nnd wa* held in contempt it*tho
city. The publisher is defendant in several
tuft* for torts, nnd the judgments must noon bn
mid in money or by imprisonment.
Iis experience bus been so rough
that it will lm a long time before
another ns equally reckless pnper seen the
light of New York city.
It i* currently believed here that John C.
Eno sailed for Europe ns long ago ns Wednes
day week last, and that he is safe from thrt
irosecution begun by the United State* dis-
rict attorney. None of the directors of the
hank were parties to this action; hi* father
having made goml the defalcation they wero
qlling the son should escape.
Ulysses R. Grant. Jr.'s, Arabian steed, Lin
den Tree, apjemred in the horsn show on ,tho
same day that the schedulo of liabilities of tho
Grant family waa publi-h«>d in the papers.
Tho publication of Grant's letters to Fish wa*
made, by Grant himself, not Fish. They nro
generally regarded a* indiscreet hut not in
criminating. The ono written by hi men If is
looked upon ns n plain assumption of responsi
bility and liability in n house of whose opera
tion* ho could have known nothing improper,
r he would never huv<
letter which now npp
dictated by Ward, wa*
quite a skillfully drawn
linv
in adroit i
letter of Fi
bee
ply to ns
ish which
ply which
failed
Fish‘and Ward d
king to p*tnbli*h that this lust letter wns used,
not merely to justify Fish at this crisis, but to
enablo Ward to draw other persons into hfs
financial trap.
Legitimate trade is beginning to feel the ef
fects of the recent panic in the withdrawal of
ninny million* from the hanks by frightened
* monitor*.
George I. Bcney’* picture gnllery ha* not
been broken up, but transferred for tho consid
eration of $350,000 to the Metropolitan hank
which he and 111* sneculn’tive house so badly
damaged. He owned about one hundred ami
thirty paintings, of which there were only two
by native artists—Houghton nnd Delian*. He
owned it “Madonna nod Angels” of the most
approved orthodox flesh tint, by Ilotigereau,
which Ed Rtokcs want* for the Hodman liouio
afeas a companion to his $10,000 “Xynipha
and Hatyr,” by Bougrrenu. There was also in
Beney’s collection a Mis«onicr, “The Hmokeri”
n landscape by Turner; two examples of Zam-
acois; n Rosa Bonhcur, nnd no less than six
teen works of Diaz.
Augustin Daly, whoso company ia playing in
rook I vn, tells nm that his business in the
cities tnus far visits*! on his annual summer
tour, has been unprecedented. Thia la doubt
less largely owing to the prominence given to
the fact that his company gnea to England a*
the representative stock companjr of Ameoira.
Daly has played thus for this season in oppo
sition to WaBack on one hand, and Jutnbo and
the white elephant on tho other. The circus
hs* not suffered.
Tho chc/ip cubs have become ao popular that
they are allowed in Central Bark, notwith
standing an old regulation prohibiting any
vehicle with n name indicating its public uso
from entering.Willmu F. (J. Hiuxzs.
GOtTSD'a MAX FRIDAY,
youth. He dancca in and out of Gould'a offi
ces in tho Western Union and at No. 71
Broadway with an opera bouffo air, with ono
hand filled with bond* and tho other twirling
at his moustachios as if to tear them up by tho
roots; and all the timo amilinr, grinning with a
Mephistophelian look, and shrug of hi*
shoulders. Yet ho ia too mercurial of temper
ament, too nervous, to bo able to conceal bis
exaltation when the market U his way or hi*
depression of spirits when it is going the
! other
wsy. This is why sagacious men in the street
uietly study Morrislm's feoo with success; and
the opw
l> r lira oppo.il. rearer: tha/ do not a'tud/
Gould’a immobil. countananr.. Morriaini
more rloa.1/ reprmanta Gould than hia own
firm of William E. Connor A Co. dona; morn
m arl/ than «r*n hia aon, G«org«; for Gould
hia com. to treat Morriaini more than ho
treat, an/ other living man. Thia ia a./ing
laaa than tho familiar axprea-lon •■rmiha-
•iaoi; for Gould haa boon too tuocreaful tn have
treated manv man, and h. fa too rich tn repoao
entire confidence in »ny one tnan, inatitution,
bank nr a took. Morriaini bu been with Gould
ever vine, the day. of Flak and the Erie road.
He WM auditor of that romnuny atone time
made to by Gould—and he rewarded hi.
The nouoe i. unlike benefactor by faithfully remembering every-
anything in thl. country devoted merelv te thing about the roud whieh GouM
plraaure, or probably in any other (and, | wanted to know, and1m faithfully
hough it elainu to be huaed on Mooriab nrehl- forgetting everything which legielntive
teetural tnodele. It revereee the ordinery rule. , or congreeaion.l eommitlere or,other obuoxioue
of theatrical architecture in aa much and inoiaitive bodice aought to learn. He i.
aaitputa the auditorium up two fllghte of aaid to hare grown rich acveral tirnee b Y*P«-
ataira, reached by an eleratorl Itgirea two illation on the knowledge he had of Gouldal
ataaea to a aingle auditorium; and pute the etoek operation., and to have been a. many I
pl.uHure re-kern out of doom on the roof, for timea impoveriabed by Gould giring him fake J Fennaylronlaooal mining wdl be
P iagreateat enjoyment, It ha. a norelty, too, point* in order to keep him poor that he might twelfe days in June.
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