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THE WEEKXY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1881.—TWELVE PAGES. 'Trrrw TALMAGE’S SERMON. I stood looking at him 1 C hope to spend eternity * bruised limbs. They brush back the tangled {'doing the same thing I must see Him. I ! hair from the brow and then they pass around | must look upon that /ace ouco clouded with ; to look upon tlie calm countenance of him THE CHARACTER AND CONDUCTOF J iny sin, but now radiant with my pardou. I j who had lived for the pojr and died forth© THE MARTYR DEACON* j want to touch that hand that knocked oil* my ! truth. Stephen asleep J I have seen Hie sea shackles. I want to hear that voice which pro- ! driven with the hurricane until the tangled Why the Mob 0toned Stephen to Death—Five Thrill- I Bounced my deliverance. METROPOLITAN MEN. WHO ARE PROFESSIONAL PHIL ANTHROPISTS. takeu the form of a decidedly practical iem-! mere, who published a newspn perauco crusade. It has been directed nlmos ; of n lottery which lie wi entirely against the 8,000 or more retail linuor i yet when the chief •hops of the city. Ilis organization is ealled ’ hellers, who had been the New York society for the prevention of' Comstock's complaint, was on trial h .. „ Behold Him, little foam caught In the rigging, and ware ri.jng n.„ry Berth, How.rd croebj. Blend,, o. o.rr T . loB Scene* In a ZXartyr'a farcer Grouped Into eliddren, for if you live to three score years above wave seemed as if about to storm the Anthony Com* toe* and Othor«-Tho Qood pud ten you will see none so fair. Him, ye aged ones, for He only Behold shine through the dimness of your failing eyesight. Behold Him, earth. Behold Him, heaven. What a moment wli^n all tho nations of the saved shall gather around Christ I All luce that way. All thrones that way, gazing, gazing on Jesus. “His worth If all the nations knew. Sure the whole earth would love Him too. I pass on uow and look at Stephen stoned, The world has always wanted to get rid of good men. Their very lifo is on assault upon wickedness. Out with Stephen through the gates of tho city. Down with him over the precipices. Let every man come and drop a stsne upon his head. But these men did not so much kill Stephen as they killed themselves, Every stono rebounded upon them. While these murderers are transfixed by tho scorn of good men Stephen lives in the admiration of oil Christendom. Stephen stoned but Stephen alive. So all good men must be pelted. All who will live godly in Christ Jesus must sutler persecution. It i«* no eulogy of a man to say that everybody likes him. Show me any one who is doing all his duty to state or church and I will show you scores of men who utterly ab hor him. If all men speak well of you, it is be cause your are either a laggard or a dolt, If a steamer makes rapid progress through tho waves water will boil ana foam all around it. Brave soldiers of Jesus Christ will hear the car bines click. When l sec a man with a voice ami Brooklyn, June 15.—[Special].—Dr. Talmoge preached a very interesting sermon tho othor eveniug on the subject “The Martyr Deacon.” The opening hymn of the service was: “In the Christian's home in glory There remains a land of rest.” The text was: Acts vil. 56-00: “Behdld I ace the heavens open and the son of man stand ing on the right hand of God. Then they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their cars and ran upon him with one aecord and cast him out of tho city and stoned him; and tho witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God> saying: “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And ho kneeled down and cried with a loud voice. Lord, la.{ not this sin to their charge, and when he had said this he fell asleep.” Frl lowing are Dr. Talmage’s remarks in full: Stephen had been preaching a rousing ser mon and the people could not stand it, resolved to do ns men sometimes would like to do in this day, if they dared, with some plain preacher of righteousness—kill him. The I money and iutlueuce, all on the right side nird only way to sifoncc this man was to knock tha | »omo cari<,ature liim, an<l aomc 8naar flt him breath out of him. So they rushed Stephe: w ,, « out of the gates of the city, and with curse and j cripple him, to east him Out, to destroy* him, I whoop and bellow they brought him to tho j say: Stephen stoned. When I see a man in cliff as was the custom when thev wanted to *»"» greet moral or religious reform battling . . , . . _ r ? . . , I against grog shops, exposing wickedness m take away life by stoning. Having brought j hTgh places, by active menus trying to purify him to the edge of the cliff they pushed him I the church and better the world's estate, and I ofi*. After he had fallen they came and look- find that tho newspapers anathematize him ed down and seeing that ho was not yet dead I »" d ,nou - * von *°°' 1 men > “W™ >»"> «*<» dc " they began to drop stones after stone, stono alter stone, h'is’L^L^^Mrh^'h&s w n htrh’e I Xl , w him they did not succeed really in killing him. r^himuir^.nSniuf fi!r R hl» I You may nranult» good man but you cannot K \ , f r .nl , meifn mv kill him. On the day of his death Stephen That f.V* MimS?’ 'tnrd* l.v'^not I spoke before a few people in the Sanhedrimi J-."?-''- h-d-'j-fjw-; aa.'-gsftyj&iiydia&as I and men, even good men, opii J nounce him, because, though 1 he does good. ho . ‘Z.IHthU w“ doe. not do it in their way, I say: “Stephen ®* ouV.'.i.nl-^** J 1 „„ I atoned." The world with Jufinit© spite took heaveus, and then I havo seen the tempest drop nitd the waves crouch and everything become smooth and burnished us though n camping place for the glories of heaven. 8o I have seen a man, whose life has been tossed and driven, comiug down at lost to an infinito calm in which there was the hush of heaven’* lullaby. Stepheu asleep I I saw such an one, Ho fought all his days against poverty and against abuse. They traduced his name. They rattled nt the door-knob while he was dying with duns for debts ho could not pay, yet the pence of God brooded over his pillow, and while the world faded heaven dawned, ami the deepening twilight of earth’s uight was only the opening twilight of heaven’s morn. Not a sigh. Not a tear. Not a struggle. Hush! Stephen asleep I I have not the faculty of telling tho weather, I can never tell by tho seetiug sun whether there will be a drought or not. I cannot tell by the blowing of the wind whether it will bo fair weather or foul on the morrow. But I can Tfcoy Have Accomplished-Other Char acter* in the Orest City. crime; Its purposes ure purely local, and its theory is that intoxication is the great source of crime in large communities. Dr. Crosby does not propose tho absolute suppression of « 1 r , nr-ibn Methodism. Booth’s bullet vacated tho presi- enmughln heaven^o fosop i» gSg. 1 A niaii *»* of largo wealth may have .ternary in tho hall >>"° ™“ “~ r ’,* * anil paintings in the sitting room and works of S?5,** but Steuben nliv. art if nil parts of the house but he has the ^Z^Z^XJXphtn'u, hi. dying hour al'ter hour, you walk *jth^ cateh.gu. and S/hurt hte head m.fwhI“wS!li.l h b!l!JmS ^ii^^'a^m ^h^'^w^le I •pMt. ^ “^ort/.Vesus’receive^inv'spirU*/^The the chief treasures of his realm. The w hole V , tondlng 0 ’ u tll0 tr#p tho black universe Jf s . palace n this « « being ,, J Ter hi , he ad befi^o U ,o exe- X? T R h,L ^ crown. The^ «»> abashcdTibfore an audience, not because I to nmrcS undo? '‘^kAp’.teS te the°»”nd n^Mlh^uTolequlef^lll he'd ™c,d flame' 0 of a con.umlng wnrbf ««5 all heaven < S^!^^ta^a£SSS? , SS5»Sa , turns out with harps and trumpet* and myriad I JjV 1 ”,,?**!{** 1.;i t Wlmt mii/le wdll voiced aeelamatie/of angeliedo,ninion to w-el- ^r^aTpte wS!^ bn/nAnVthrte^ efnrs^Ln it f)o What cloud will fo deft for its pathway f After bring their h nr g • I j t j mH t t j |0 0 f our sun will you wonder thalffood• there l7e torelics lighted for it tho rest of the Htephcn, liking into heavon/ ® ® *■ I way? Will the soul havo to travel through ^reat many friend . .. - I tong desorts beforo it reaches tho goo«l land? L'l^nlTra™! whh'U'em hot^hJh hand.. A, ® 11 X n t /® , i 0l «L th ~Siv er mum! theilty? Oh, this my.terL. spirit with!- celestial om tninta ‘ / P > I usl It has two wings Cut it is in a cage now pl.es. We have not had 0 »«* 11 "U”. 0 ‘ h *" | t is locked fast to k7,„p It; hut let the .lorn- ol aince tho night wc klwed^ them Iind I it, cage open th« least, and tho soul is off they went away, but still wo »t» id easing « l J Kaele's wings could not catch it. Tho light- heaven. A. when .ome of,onr frmn, bgoKjw. J , ,f t .Jftcnough take up with it, the aea we .tend on the deck or ori the, .team Wh e n the «.u! leave. Ihe body it takes fifty tugand «“^ thc m,andafterawh iethe hu k worWiatbomi(| And hav {, , n0 nllxi ,, t ' of the vessel ^.appears and then there U onlv I ubollt 1Uvo yon 110 Bnx[ „ ty a bout it ? gone mid «“y mo all ou/nf sight, and yet wo m,t ™. r0 w,mt Y"",«'ith mjr body . when stami l'Kikinc in the ionic direction, so when I our friends go away from us into tho future I " r '""JJ"!® 1 '' world we keep looking down through tho nnr-1 S. „ “JlL^S, rows and gazing and gazing ns though wo ex- I , , .. . ,® , peeled that thev woufd come out and stand on l l .« ^ la j. Thank «od for the ii.ti.na some eve,nl,« eloml an 1 givern» one glimpse oI * * thnt whon w0 dio j MU , tok< „ their blissful and transfigured faces. While I prophesy and will prophesy what weather will bo when you, tno Christian, come to dio. You may havo it very rough now. It may be this week one annoyance, the next week an other annoyance. It may be this year one toe reavemeut, the next another bereavement, Before this year lias pnssed you may have beg for bread, or ask for a scuttle of coal or pair of shoes; but spend your death couch amid tlie leaves of tho forest or make it out of tho straw of a paiVper’s hut, the wolf in the jungle howling close by, or inexorable credi tors jerking tho pillow from under your dyinj head—Christ will coino in aud darkness wil go out. And though there may be no hand close your eyes and no breust on which to rest your dying head, ami no candle to lift the night,'the odors of God's hanging garden will regale your soul and at your bedside will halt the chariots of tho king. No more rents to pay, no more agony because /lour had gone up* no more struggle with “the world, the llesh and tho devil;” but pence—long, deep, everlasting sleep. Stephen asleep, ••Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep, From which none ever wake to weep; A calm, undisturbed rc|M>se, Uninjured by the last oi foes. “Asleep in Jesus, far from thee. Thy kindred and their graves may be; But there Is still u blessed sleep, From which none ever wake to weep.” You have seen enough for one servlc one can successfully examine more than five pictures in a day. Therefore wo stop, having seen thistdustorof divine Bophnels—Stephen gazing into heaven; Stephen looking at Christ; Stephen stoned; Stephen in his dying prayer; .Stephen asleep. THE WEEK IN CONGRESS. malion or inhumation. I .hall sleep just as of sackeloth as in satin own. But my soul—before I leave this house I will find out where it. is Thank God for the intimation trnnwgurod j j leir companio year. »,,,1 the .lays KO with .uch timum that j couTdVomoV. them. Wliai SsriS .C ,r hc?Zc^t'tcm ,cr c L?*** 4w «"f* -"“SS v r : 1 , urk,1 . < *"i i r uik»i..i. I That answers all questions for me, that though you l«n* tojoln_theb com^n i m..h p, aml thc lhcru W(iro nm , slv ‘, ba „ bolwccn i,, ru SIld ,f 10 anuni inai | ij*k* i M „. .«».«*• \vi.«# iperofpsin and sorrow aud bereavement keeps gnawing goring into You wonder ifthey have chntiKcd ..nee you zaw thorn laat. Yon wonder were chas ' m> to cr09l> Hi , h n„d ( , uul d transport their .Bonhiar unner ym.r tmraen.. »«. | has^ven ,«tili.mrCh™ Inay'b^ wonder if they look any older and> I f«ble even to .Jy the infant prayer our m the cvcn.ns-tidc when the house is all nuict , h } t i hich j uhn .p.i.'ey-Adn.,,., vou wonder if you should call them by their I ?0 f * i,,. first name ifthey would not answer; and per- willow f haps sometimes you do make the experiment, 1 1114 lloa 1 \ , and when no one but God and yourself are V^v'.te^m^.ntuX’on-- there vou distinctly call their names and listen I I pray the laird my soul p. and wait aud .it aid gaze into heaven. We may be too feeble to employ either Pas. on now and sec Stephen looking upon these familiar forms; but this prayer ot Hte- Christ. My text snys he sow the Son of mull I pb'-' 1 is so short, so concise, so euniest; Is so nt the right hand of God. Just how Christ comprehensive, we surely will be able to say looked in thi. world, just how he looks in I ‘list: “Lord Jesus, receive my spint. ’ Oh, heaven, wc rannotsny. A wriler in the lim,'| ,'f thatpmyerisan.werislhow sweet it will of Christ says, describii apponrance, that He he complexion, and a very graeciui mature, nut i | /*» T suppose it wa« all guess work. The painters P illo ,7 there »hall break the light of that of thedifierent nge* have tried to imagine the I better world, we shall have no more regret features of Christ, and put them upon canvas; I about.leaving this Ufefor the next than a man but we will havo to wait until with our owu I **egreU leaving a small, dark, damp house for eyes we see Him, and with our own ears we I one large, beauliful and capacious. That dy- cun hear Him. And vet there is a way of see-1 J n £ nnluster in _ I hiladclphia some years ago ing and hearing Him’now, I have to tell you I beautifully depicted it when iu the last mo- that nnless you see and hear Christ on earth I t** e bt he threw up hi* bauds and cried out* I vou will never woe and hear Him in heaven. I move into the light. Lookl There He is. Behold the LainbofGvl. I . Pa *' on now and I will show you one more Can vou see Him? Thenprav to God to take I picture, and that is Stephen asleep. With a the scales off your eyes. Look that way—try I P**b» ? n ' 1 »i»pHcity peculiar t*» the Bcript- to look that wav. His voice conies down to I urea, the text says of Stephen: He Ml vou, comes down lo the blindest, to the deafest I ®*leep» “Oh, you say, what a place that soul saying: “Look unto me all ye ends of I was to sleep. A hard rock under him, stones earth,a'nd be ye saved, for I am God, and there I fallingdown upon h****, the blood streaming, is none else.” Proclamation of universal cm- I t | le howling. What a place it was t»> emancipation for ell slaves. Proclamation of uni- I , And yet mv text takes that symbol versal amnesty fer all rebels. A-hazuerus of slumber to describe bis departure, so sweet S there*l the Babvlonish nobles to his table; I was it, so contented was it, so lieautiful was it. or ge I. entertained the lr rds oft England at a I Stephen had lived a very laborious life. Hu banquet; Napoleon III. welcome the czar of I chief work had been to cure for the poor. How Russia and the sulUn of Turkey *ohis feast; I many loaves «f bread he distributed, how the emperor of Prussia was glad to have our I many bare feet be had sandaled, how many minister, George Bancroft sit down with him I co J*.°f ? ,c xnets and distress he bless^l with at his table; but tell me, ye who know moat of I ministries of kindness andl love, I do not know, the world’s history, wbat other king ever I but from the way he lived, and the way he asked the abandoned and the forlorn ami the I preached, and the way he 'bed, [ know he waa wretched and the outeoat to come and .it down I • Iaborfoo.Chri.tteB. But that i. all over beaide him? O, wonderful invitetion! You I ">»■ IIeha»i.rej«dthecu I .tothela.ttemt- ean take it out and .tend at the headof the I [’‘X Bp. He ha» taken the la*t m«ult from darkeit alley in nil thi. city and .ny “Come, I hl. enemie. The lmt-.fone towhme ertubing clothe, for your rage, .alve for your mre., n | •>? j* zmcepetible ha. been hurled, throne for your eternal reigning. A Chrut j Stephen « dead I Toe di«eiple. come. They that talk, like th.t and acte like that and I take him up. They wa.h away the blood pardon, like lhat-doyou wonder that Stephen from the wound.. They itraighten out the In tho senate tho Mexican pension bill was discussed at length. The consular and diplo matic appropriation bill passed. Senator Brown's bill authorizing tho payment of the Trezcvant claim was recommitted. In tho house the nppropiation of $250,000 for tho im provement of Galveston harbor was stricken out of tho river and harbor appropriation bill, Tho river nml harbor bill passed with no in crease iu tho Georgia items, Savannah getting $150,000 and Brunswick only $10,000. Quito n number of private jicnsion bills passed ACROSS THE WATER. El Mnhdi lias retreated to tho almost inac cessible stronghold of Tebnl Godir, England has addressed a friendly note to tlio government at Washington, urging tho sup pression of the dynatnitistfl. Brndlnugh has writtou a letter to tho priuco of Wales urging him as a brother mason to support an,atheistical propaganda. .Tljo prince was greatly annoyed and tent tho letter to Lord Carnavon who it is thought will move to expel Brndlaugh from tho grand lodge. Tho femalo suffrage bill has been defeated iu tho houso of commons. El Mnhdi has boen crushinglyjdefeatcd by tho TnkaJn tribe. It is believed that Berber has fallen with great slaughter. London*, June 1Egyptlsi! advices state thnt an Arab has arrived at Korosko, who claims to bo tho sole survivor of the Berber garrison. He says he was present when the rebels attacked Berber on May Zt. The garrison defended tho town for three hours of severe lighting, but the rebels were too strong for them, and forced their way Into the city, where they Immediately lnnssiicrucd 1,500 men of the garrison and 2,000 the male poputlon. The women and children were spared. This story Is believed by Major Kitchener, and tha son of Uussen 1’asha Khalifa, governor of Berber. The governor of Dougola announces that Berber has fallen, and that K! Malidi's army Is advancing upon Dougola. Tho governor propose* to evacuate that city. Liter.—The fall of Berber Is official. The Ball Mall Gazette says; We must now add 3,500 more to tho thousands nlrcudy butchered to mako a holiday for Uludstonimi principles, inanity revolts at such a state of things, and some how or other a stop should be put to U. THE JAMES SETTLEMENT. Prospects of an Knrly Adjudication Upon tho Terms Adopted, Colonel Albert II. Cox yesterday stated to a re porter of Tim Constitution that there was little now In the way of a speedy settlement of the James bank affairs. What Is the condition of tho assets in the 1 Nkw Yoei, Juue 12, 1884.—One of the large, if not oho of tho learned, professions of this city, is that of philanthropy. There are hun dreds of it* professors here, and every imagi nable form of human and animal suffering mental or physical, has its professors going about for its amelioration by doctrines and theories which are preached, medicines which are administered, and ducats which nro col lected of the charitable. Tho main purposes of most of the professors is to collect these ducats. Of the many hundreds of them few deserve to bo commended or even to bo no ticed in denunciation, so small is tho good one class docs and so insignificant tho swindle perpetrated by the othor. I do not pretend to say that all who deserve praise receive it in this letter; nor do I think that such as are criticised get their full share of it, for some of tho evil they do must be overlooked for the sake of tho good they accomplish. Henry Bergh is a familiar figure iu streets oftho metropolis, and at nearly all pub He gatherings hero. He is a “first-nighter cvjery theater on tlie production of a new pla t aud it is to his credit that he pays for his seat. He is not caricatured iu the accompanying drawing; on tho contrary, it gives a very cor- jve on hand $35,000 fn cash ami they have other assets that can !>e realized ii|mn almost any day aud in ample time to make the proposed settlement. I moan, they will hare enough rash to tiny tho 10 per cent to all the cred itors nml the additional per cent to the pre ferred creditors. How much cash will tlmt require?" About $100,0u0. Then wc can organize the tank block company under the charter which will bo p..«ay j n time. ’ low many persons havo signed the terms of settlement?” *'WoU. out of about 1.300 creditors there are only about ninety who have yet to sign. A few of these are holding off in the hope that they will be bought up, but they are mistaken. The assignees have no money with which to buy up claims. All they have In hand Is the common property of the creditors." “Wlmt amount In dollars Is represented by those who have already signed the agreement?” “Over tourtlfthn of the total amount of Indebt edness Is represented by the signers.” “Do you think all will finally agree to the term*?” I do. It Is undoubtedly the best compromise that is the costly and inevitable result I they will come along with us." Other parties interested in tho affair express Failure of (ildere, Day A Co, New Orleans, June 14.—Gldcre, Day Co„ cotton factors, lwve suspended and asked lor an exten sion. The assets art stated lo bet&*),000 and the liabilities $280,000. In addition to the assets of the firm, Mr. Oiderc has $130,000 In real estate. We wish to sav to our readers that Dr Price's Special Flavoring Extracts of Nectar ine, Vanilla, Lemon, etc.,arc the finest, purest and most natural flavors we have ever used. They are made from the true select fruit and aromatics. The common Savoring ex tracts in the market bear no comparison for fine flavor to Dr. Price's. HENRY flKRGff. rect idea of tho man ns be mny bo seen daily on our streots. Ho is quite as Quixotic in np- peuraneo ns in ideas, and strango as it mny scfcnr^he Is quite convinced In his own mind thnt his is a handsome figure and face. It is part of tho man’s vanity which ho makes no effort to conceal. Ho dresses with the greatest oare, in the newest stylo, and in tho most exe- crable taste. And he is fully as dogmatic in clinging to hh outre ttylo of costume ns to his Kscuiinr ideas. Ho is a man of wealth and can hcreforo afford to be eccentric in both man nors and ideas. Mr. Bergh is universally known by tho Idio- syncraoy, amounting, as many think, almost to idiocy, of his lovo of the dumb brutes and his horror nt the cruelties practiced on them It is a perfectly sincere mania: it is not n sen timent which ho has cultivated, either for the purposu of imposition or in order to appear strange. Hu tnav dress as lie does out of a love of eccentricity, but there is hardly a doubt that his heart really is torn with sincere nn (uish at tho sight of animal suffering. I firm y believe that it is only animal and not liu man suffering with wlueli ho heartily sympa thizes, for lie advocate* the severe * physical torture, even nt the whipping-post, of those men who maltreat their animals or their wives, giving the animal tho preference always. He tikes little children into his sympathies much ss he does brute animals, because they cannot protest vigorously against the tortuo inflicted on them, and he ha* always been a warm Hup- porter of the society for tho prevention of cruelty to children; but it is perhaps nearest gh is a humanita Flies and Hugs. Flies, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, chipmunks, cleared out by “Rough on correct to any that Mr. Berj rianwho professes love not for humanity but tho animal kingdom. I can bear witness tier- sonally to tho great good he has done si net ho established his American society for tho prevention of cruelty to animals. This was about 1867, shortly after his return from St. Petersburg, Russia, where he hail h tion during Mr. Lin> Over twenty such societies now exist in ns many different states. New York streets were then tho daily scenes of cruelties little thought of then bcentiso sc familiar, but which if witnessed by tho pres ent generation would shock tho strongest nerves, so unfamiliar have they become. The violent and shameful beating of horses; the transportation of other animius through the streets to slaughter, in the most painfql |H*»i- tiontf brutal dog fights and chicken matches; t he useless and not at all skillful killing of •itds by so-called expert marksmen as a pub lic sport; the public slaughter of cattle in crowded thoroughfares before the eyes of chil dren ; all these were of daily aud nightly oc currence. They are never seen now, in this county and seldom in this state, and it is large ly dde to Mr. Bergh’* exertions that these of fenses are seldom committed and are promptly punished when they are detected. All the magistrates have cotnc to recognize the pure motives of Mr. Bergh, and his appearance as a complainant Is almost sure to result in I he conviction of an offender. But at the same time, Mr. Bergh attends boxing matches be tween inon and is said to rather enjoy the ex hibitions. His love of animals Is the only trait of Mr. Bergh’a peculiar mind which has attracted general attention to him, but he has other |*e- culiarities. He once determined u|ki« a Quixotic crusade against hoop skirts, and he wrote a poem to portray the danger to woman’s health and person from the use ot the odious garment. It was in heroic verse, and was sev eral cantos long. I recall reading an much of the manuscript as I could endure when it wan K bmitted to Harper A Brothers, I think, in 18. Later on he conceived the idea of severe ly satirising the mania of American mothers 1or marry ing their daughters to worthless Euro pean noblemen, and he wrote a poetn which he called “Married Off” in furtherance of this Idea. It was by no means lacking in merit, but it was a palpable imitation of William Allen Butler’s “Nothing to Wear.” He pub*' lisbed it, only to have it torn to pieces with ridicule, and subsequently read it to fatigued audiences. He further pursued this object by footlights, I believe. The philanthropy of Howard Crosby has REV. HOWARD CROSBY, /ho liquor traffic, but tho regulation by law. Ho does not advocate teetotal ism, and «loe* not himself, personally, nlmtaiii from all liquors, taking a glass of wine occa sionally for the stomach’s sake. He does not believe in tho possibility or e/licacy of sudden reformation of greut evils, and expects to ac complish kia purpose by gradually drawing around the liquor tr rn/lic tho firm and restrain ing hand of tfio law. Ho lins certainly made his influence felt here, and since his society canto into existence the number of saloons lias been much reduced where it was natural to expect an increase; and the laws have been so amended ns to restrict tho traflio iu a grout many other respects. The operations of an army, even though they required a year to complete, which would result in the relief of 40.245 children from a state of slavery, would probably command many colunint'of narrative in tho daily papers of this country. Tho same end was accom plished in this city during last year by the so ciety for the prevention of cruelty to children, but I don’t think the results were noticed nt all, I don’t remember to havo seen even a synopsis of the society’s report published in tuo daily papers. Tho bald ftgurcs given above,showing the work accomplished in 1883, give no idea of the character of tho re form. The society, which is only in its tenth year, nml yet is the oldest of the forty-soven societies of the kind in this country, has really reduced tho work of child-saving to a practical science. It has completely broken up a system of child-slavery by which Italian musters com pelled mere infants, whom they lmd purchased horn their parents and iuniorted to this coun try, to play on musical Instruments in tho streets at all hours and in all kinds of weather. There formerly existed several resorts where mere boys were de bauched with liquor aud thrown into inter course with the vilest of the other sex. All of these which were known to tho society have been broken up and tlio proprietors of the principal one* are now serving term* in prison. No less than seven women who made a bus! ness of enticing young girls, daughters of chanics who were nbseut from their homes nt work, into their vile dens for purposes of de bauchery, were convicted and sent to prison last year through the efforts of this society. Scores of licenses of liquor saloons were revoked on tho proof furnished by this socioty that liquor was sold to minors. A child-beggar or nn in fant in tlm arms of a beggar, is a most u common sight in New York now, whereas, few years ago. tho child was almost always tho object with which beggars sought to cronlu ed to testify to his good reputation. everybody thought that Mr. Comstock had been “bulldozed” or blackmailed Into taking the absurd position. The newspapers ndlly broke up the lottery business by constant ex posure of it, and claimed no particular credit lor doing it; but a legislative investigating committee being in scssiou Mr. Comstock appeared before it nml not only claimed the credit of the work, but denounced the police force for not uiding him in it. He has shut up the shops of reputable merchants for having photographs of tho Pictures of tho Paris salon in private stock for artist’s use, mid yet allows the worst of cheap papers to flourish their bawdy pictures on tho public news-stands. Such contradictory acts create suspicious of the motives of the door. It is not surprising to (iud Comstock* taking credit for the passage of a law against the circulation of this class of journals, and soliciting money for his society in order to “further check” this particular means of corrupting youth i Don't imagine, notwithstanding what I havo said, that Mr. Comstock does not dcservo credit for what has been done in suppressing various forms of gambling, the publication of obscene literature, etc., in this city. On tho contrary, the metropolis is a great deal tho cleaner for his efforts. But it is to bo wished that, for his own sake, Mr. Comstock had a little more knowledge to guide his energy, a •leal more discretion combined with his seal, and considerable more public credit for tho absolute purity ot hi* purpose*. William F. G. Shanks. The ltaee Postponed. Boston, Juno 14.—The Hamm-Hosmcn race wsa }M>xlponed until Tuesday next on account of rough uter. Absolutely Pure. sympathy. There is a so-callod “crank” at tho head this society who is not unliko Bergh in ninny respects. He is of-ono of tlio oldest families o m tho city—-Klbridgo T. Gerry by name, a- law yet by profession, a philanthropist by nature and a millionaire two or three times over by inheritance. Ho has many eccentricities of mnnner and speech nml nppearnneo. 1 think I never saw him, suiumer or whiter, without a fur cap which ho habitually wonr*. JJnt of his sincerity in bolmlfut little and helplesschildrei nobody Jins tiny doubt, and if nt times his eti thusiasm or sentiment carries him to excess in demonstrating tho power of his society^ body thinks of questioning his motive. His liberal donation* to tho causo, hi* nhnostentire abandonment of every other work for this, nnd his great wealth, absolve him from any suspi ions of mercenary motives. Ilis modesty ii o manifest that nil acquit him of seeking no oriety by his eflbrts in behalf of chil dren. 1 think life only criticism which he has over been subjected has been when exercising his power in behalf of children employed in the theaters; hut these criticism* have been so evidently ill tlm interest of tlm theater managers us to fall shwrt of their purjH>«c. Only a short time ago Mr. Gerry supprested nn amateur porforinanci by children, given at the Coainopolitnn the atcr, under the management of one of the life members of his sociuty. From this it was made quite evident that Mr. Gerry moans to bo just in his actions, Anthony Comstock, tho secrctmy and about all there is beside* of tho society for tho sup- ircssion of vice, combines in himself sornn of he beat nnd nearly all tlio lmd qualities of tlie reformer. He hates sinners for the lovo of virtue, and would like to huru them lit the •take of righteousness solely for the .sake of truth. He hns all the energy of animosity, and all tho zeal of the new convert. Alike fearless nnd reckless, lie ist at the same time ignorant and assuming (as ignorance alwsys is,) and can no more bcliuvo that'one who dif fers with him in theory is honest than that who disagrees with him as to a fast is truthful With him suspicion is proof and accusation Is ANTHONY COMSTOCK, conviction. He would strive harder to see ac cused innocence sentenced than to have the punishment of convicted guilt carried out. He is a bundle of prejudices and a whole mass of contradictions, lie has labored for rears to suppress a wrong, nnd thrued up inaliy in indorsement of the wrongdoer. lie has co-operated for years with other forces, snd then gone on the witness-stand to de nounce his associates. He is egotistical to the point of always being prominent iu the public doings of his society, but yet shrewdly Keeps himself from promotion in that society’* offices, lie is nobody in its ranks, and yet yields all the power of his organisation. The man has, nevertheless, in his blunt, blundering, ignorant way, done a great deal of good, but in the doing of it has made so many false steps and such ’ absolute blunders that he has come under constant suspicion. He gets raps every day in newspapers which chronicle his good work. For years be wss abused by an organized band of public defa- compctltlon with Bros., Atlanta* Qa. A POINTED POINT ATLANTA, June5,18SI. BLOOD BALM CO. I take pleasure In making the following state ment. For four year* I have been a great sufferer from Malarial Blood Poison, and for six month* have had llhcuinatlsm to such nn extent, that I was forced to uso quitches «i portion of the tlino and could not misc my left arm to my head. I used all the lending Blood remedies of tho day, be sides tho attention of suvcral first-class physicians, all without benefit. I became qulto feeble and emaciated, having very little appetite nnd poor digestion. Calling ht your office one day, I secured two bot tles of B. B. II. nnd commenced its use at oucc, nml before one bottle luul been used, I felt a most won derful change. Two tattles hnro given me almost entire relief. Rheumatism relieve# andean use my ann as good ns ever, cured tho neuralgia of my head and nil mnlsrlsl poison Is being rapidly re lieved, and I feci tatter than I have for six years. To tell you the truth I never used such a wonder ful medicine hi my life, as the affect hns been ma gical.. It hns acted na a splendid tonlcjgnve a good appetite and imparted quiet slumbers. I cheerfully recommend It as a quick Blood remedy. W. P, MCDANIEL, MERIT WINS HONOR. Hclenre luu. Indelibly on.tempcd; Its wonderful working, upon the tnblcU of memory, nnd to-day Its emblazoned biasing, arc proudly acknowledged by thouzanib whow poboiml blood havo been purtjlcd, and Ite crlmwmed ztrcams lloehcd tlio I alio cheeks by tlio lira of that wonder-working scientific pagc.it II. II. II.—Botanic lllood Halm I One great featuro ul till, remedy Izlho rapidity with which It cougncn the—, blood p'.lsai.i. he h a new departure In the treatment and euro ol con- ■tltutlnnal dbcaoee. It eliminate! tho vitiated blood through tho porea of tho .kill and all the ac creting gland.. Tho modus operand! of thi. concentrated blood remedy I. exactly as leading ecloxtlllcinodleal gen tlemen ray that It thould bo In order to effect cure* One bottle will convluco any otto of lta power to cure. Trtthful evidence from hundreds ol penon. ot unqucitloned veracity relative, to tho wonderful ellleaey nl II. II. II. Iu the euro ol all Mood and Hkln Macaw. fumUhcd on application. IMime bot tle. 11. Addrow. JILOOC It A LM CO, Atlanta, Oa. Cure of Aztb.nn nnd Hplnnt Wenkne.M* 230 W«1T 22o Htrzzt, Nzw York, May 17, 1883. Though it may bo irregular for a phyiician to give a certificate in favor of a proprietary medicine, .till, In tho cause of humanity, I venli.ro to aay a word in favor of Allcocz’h Poaoi-a I’LzgTiw, which I c.teem the moet re markable external remedy of this century, I have known thera Plaster, to cure Spinal Wcakneu where the patient had been confined for month, to hia bed. A black.mith of my acquaintance waa .overely injured in the back by the kick of a hone; four Aibcocx’a Poaoi-.-i Plastcis quickly relieved him of excruciating agony and cured him in a week. Another pa. tient .ufiering with Neuralgia of the Heart, was completely cured in four houn. In Aitb.ni, 1 know of actoe where they were worn for three months and fully restored tho health, in another rase where a patient had Sporadic Cholera, nothing relieved him until be put on three Allcock’. I’o.oca Pumu; in twelvo hours all pain, in his cheat amt stomach disappeared, I know that these Plasters, applied on the pit of tho .tomach, are sovereign remedy lor Ly.pep.ia and Consti pation. Finally, if penon. once use Allcock's Po- got-.s Pnsrras they will never use any other; they nro so pleasant, quick and painless—na ture'. balmy assistant. II. C. VAN NORMAN, M. D. “Allcock V’ f. the only Genuine Pc ter.