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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION! ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY AUGUST , 1884. TWELVE PAGES.
THE NEEDLE.
DR. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE ON
DORCAS.
Hc.SbaU Bite Before Them, and In the Presence or
All tho Glorified in Heaven Ho Will Say. ??????Well
Hone; Good and Faithful Servant,"
Horeaa la Heaurreoted!
Sermon by Rev. T. Dewit Taimage, D. D.
Subject: ???The Needle.???
Te.???ct: ???Now thero was at Joppa a certain
disciple named Tabitha, which, by interpre
tation, is called Dorcas.'
There is in Joppa, a seaport town, a woman
with her needlo embroidering her name inef-
facebly into tho charities of the world. I
her sitting in the village home. In tho door
way and around about tho building and in tho
room where she sits are the pale tacos of tho
poor. She listens to their plaint, sho pities
their woe, she makes garments for them, she
adjusts the manufactured articles to suit tho
bent form of this invalid woman and to the
cripple that comes crawling on his hands and
knees. She gives a coat to this one, she give!
sandals to that one. With tho gifts sho rain-
gles prayers and ears and Christian encour
agement. Then she goes out to be groeted
the streot corners by thoso whom sho has
blessed, and all through the street tho cries
comes ???Dorcas???is corning.??? The sick Mtk up
gratefully in her face as sho puts her hand
the burning brow, and the lost and tho aban
doned start up with hope as they hear her gen
tle voice as though an angel had addressed
them; and ns sho goe3 out the lano eyes half
put out with sin think they scan halo of light
about her brow and a trail of glory in her
pathway. That night a half-paid shipwright
climbs the hill and reaches homo and sees his
little boy well clad and says: ???Whore did
these clothes come from???? And they tell hi
???Dorcas has been hero.??? In another place
woman is trimming a lamp} Dorcas brought
tho oil. In another place a family
that had not been at a tabic tor many a week
are gathered now, for Dorcas has brought
bread. But tbero is a ccrtaiu pause in that
woman's ministry. They say: ???Where is
Dorcas? Why, wo haven???t seen her for many
a dry. Where is Dorcn?????? And one of tne3e
pc-or people goes up and knocks at tho door
and finds tho mystery solved. All through tho
haunts of wretchedness tho new comes, ???Dor
cas is sick I??? No bulletin flashing from tho
palace gate, telling tho stages of a king???s dis
ease is more anxiously awaited for than tho
news of this sick benefactress. Alas for Joppa!
There is wailing, wailing. That voice watch
has uttered so many cheerful words is hushed;
that hand w???hich had made so many garmonts
for tho poor is cold and still; that star which
had poured light into the midnight of wretch
edness is dimtnod by tho blinding mists that
go up from tho river of death. In every God
forsaken place in that towu; wherever thorois
a sick child and no balm; whorever there is
hunger and no bread; whorovor thero is guilt
and no commiseration; wherever there is a
broken heart and no comfort, there aro de
spairing looks and streaming eyes and frantic
gosthulotions os they cry: ???Dorcas is doodl???
They tend for the apostlu Petor. IIo urges his
wsy through tho crowd around the door and
stands in tho presence of tho dead. What ox*
postulation and grief all about him 1 Hero stand
some of the poor people who show tho gar
ments which this poor woman had mado for
them. Their griot cannot bo appeased. The
apoitlo Peter wants to porformja miracle. IIo
will not do it amidst tho exoitca crowd, so be
kindly orders that the whole room bo cloarod.
The door is shut against tho populace. Ono
.apostle stands now with tho dead. Oh, it is a
serious moment you know, whon you aro alone
with a lifeless body! Tho apostlo gets down
on his knees and prays, and tnon ho comes to
tho lifeless form or this ono all roady for tho
sepulchre, and in tho strougth of Him who is
the resurrection hf exclaims: ???Tabitha. arise!???
There is a stir in tho fountains of life; tho
heart flutters; the nerves thrill; tho choek
flushes; tho eyes open; sho sits up!
Wo sco in this subject "Dorcas, tho disoiplo,
Dorcas, the benofactrcss, Dorcas, the lamonted,
Dorcas, tho resurrected.
If 1 had not seen that word disciplo in tho
text I would have known this woman was a
Christian. Such music ns that nover came
from a heart which is not chordod and struug
by divine graco. Boforo 1 show you the neodlo-
work cf this woman, I wont to show you her
regenerated heart, the source of n pure lifo aud
of all Christiau charities. I wish that wives
and mothers and daughters and sisters would
imitate Dorcas in her discijdcship. Before
you sit with tho Sabbath class, before you
crots the threshold of tho hospital, before you
cony u pack of tracts down tho street, before
you enter upon tho temptations and trials of
the day, I charge you in tho namo of God, and
by the turmoil and tumult of tho judgment
slay, 0, woman, that you attcud to tho first,
last and greatest duty ofyour life???tho Booking
for God nml being at pease with Him. Now,
by the courtesies of society, you aro deferred
to and He wero less than u man who would
not oblige you with kind attentions; but when
the trumpet shall sound thero will bo uu up
roar and a wreck of mountain and continent
and no human arm can help you. Amidst
the rinjng of tho dead and amidst tho boiling
of the sea and amidst tho live, leaping thun
ders <f the flying hcavena there will be no
chanto for courtesies. But on that
day, calm and placid, will be overy woman's
heart who hath put her trust in Christ; calm,
notwithstanding all the tumult as though the
lire iu the litavens were only the gildings of
an outomi a* sunset, as though tho peal of the
trim ptt were only tho harmony of an orches
tra, fc* though the awful voic ???* of the sky were
hut n gi oup of friends bursting through a
cutaway ut eventime with luughterand snout
ing. Duress, tho disciplo! Would to God
tlmt < \ ery Mary and every MaHha would this
day sit down at the feet ot Jesus!
Further, we see Dorcas, tho benefactress.
History has told the story of tho crown; the
epic poet has sung of the sword; tho paitoral
poet, with his verses full of tho redolenco of
clover toj>e, and a rustle with the silk of the
corn, has rung the praires of the plow. I toll
you the praises of the needle. From the fig
leaf robe, prepared in the Garden of Eden, to
the last stitch taken, the needle has wrought
wc ndera of generosity, kindness and bonotac-
t.OL. It adorned the girdle of the high priest;
it frsbicned the curtains in the ancient taber
nacle; it cushioned tho chariots of King Salo
mon ; it provided the robes of Queen Eliz&bffh
end in high places and in low places by the
^???<1 n* tli..' lionlr 1 r.ir nml 1imli>t*
fire of the pioneer???s hack log, and under tho
loshoftjio chandelier, everywhere it has
, {. ilud nakedness, it has preached tho gospel,
it Us c vercomc hosts of penury and want,
w th the war-cry of ???Stitch l Stitch! Stitch!???
# ik?? eperativea have found a livelihood hr it,
ai:d through it the mensious of the employer
1 sve been corltructed. Amidst the greatest
t; iim.j u in all ages and lands I set down the
quests of the needle. I admit its crimes.
1 (dir.it its cruelties. It has had more martyrs
tl an the f re. It ha* butchered more souls
tl an the inquisition. It has punctured the
c??c. It has pierced tho side. It has struck
weski ess into the lungs. It has sent madness
into ti e brain. It has tilled the nottar???s field.
It ho* pitched whole armies of the suffering-
into cr.me aud wretchedness and woe. Bit
new that I speak of Dorcas and her ministries
to the poor, I shall relate only the charities of
tlctcollf.
Tl is w* man was a representative of all those
women who make garments for the destitute,
who knit cocks for the barefooted, who pre-
{ cie bandages for the lacerated, who fix up
cxc* of clothing for western m:s-
Hontriet, who go into the asy
lums of the suffering and destitute,
bee ring that gospel which is sight to the blind
wed hearing tiur the deaf and which makes the
]*n-e men leap like a heart and brings the deal
to life, immortal health bounding in thoir
pulsif. What a contrast between the practical
L r.*.vdcnee of this woman and a great deal of
the charily of this day! This woman did not
spend her time idly planning how tho poor of
Joppa were to he relieved; she took her uecdle
and relieved them. Sho was not like thoso
persons who sympathize with imaginary sor
rows and go out iu the street and laugh at the
hoy who has upset his basket of cold victuals,
or like that charity which makes a rousing
speech on the benevolent platform and goes
out to kick tho beggar from the stop, crying:
???Hush your miserable howling!??? Tho suffer
ers of the world wont not so much theory ns
practice; not so much tears as dollars; not so
much kind wishes as loaves of bread; not so
muck smiles as shoes; not so much ???God bless
you!??? ns jackets and frocks. I will put ono
earnest Christian man, hard-working, against
5,000 mere theorists on the subject of charity.
There ore a great many who have fine ideal
about church architecture who never iu their
life helped to build a church. TU?re are men
who can give you the history of Buddhism and
Mohammedanism who nover sent a furlhin,
for their evangelization. Thero are woms:
who talk beautifully about tho suffering ol the
world who never had the courage like Dorcas
to take the needle nml assault it.
I am glad that there is not a page of tho
world's history which is not a record of f smile
benevolence. God says to nil lands and peo
ple, ???Come now and* hear tho widow???s mite
rattle down into the poor-box.??? Tho princess
of Conti told nil her jewels that sho might
help the* famine-stricken. Queen Blanche,
the^wifeof Louis VIII., of France, hearing that
there were some persons unjustly incarcerated
in the prisous, went out amidst the rahblo and
took a stick nml struck tho door as a signal
that they might nil strike it, and down went
the prison door and out came tho prisoners.
Queen Maud, the wife of Henry I., went down
amidst the boor and washed their sores and
administered to them cordials. Mrs. Itotson,
at Matagorda, appeared, on tho battlefield
while the missiles of death were* flying around
end cared for the wounded. But why go so
far back? Why go so far away? 14 there a
man or woman who has forgotten the women
of the sanitary and Christian commissions, or
tho fact that before tho smoko had gone up
from Gettysburg and South mountain tho wo
men of the north met the women of the south
on the battlefield, forgetting all their animosi
ties while they bound up tho wounded and
cicsed up tho eyes of the slain? Ilav
forgotten Dorcas* tho benefactress?
1 come now to speak of Dorcas, tho lamonted.
When death struck down that good woman,
oh, how much sorrow there was in Joppa. I
suppose there were women there with larger
fortunes; women perhaps with handsome faces;
but there was no grief at their departure like
this at the death of Dorcas. There was not
more turmoil and upturning in tho Mediterra
nean sea dashing against tlio wharves of that
seaport than thero were surgings to and fro of
grief in Joppa because Dorcas was dead. Thero
arc a great many who go out of lifo and aro
unmissed. Thero may ho a very largo funeral;
thero may bo n great jaany carriages and n
plumed bearso; there may be high-sounding
eulogies; tho boll may toll at tho cemetery
gate; thero may bo qvery fine marble shaft
reared over the resting place; but tho whole
thing may bo a falsehood and a sham. Tho
church ol God has lost nothing. Tho world
hr.n lost nothing. It is -only a nuisance
abated; it is only a grumbler ceas
ing to find fault; it is only an idler stopped
yawning; it is only a dissipated fashionable
ported irom his wine-cellar; while on the
other hand no useful Christian leaves this
world without being missed. The church of
God cries out like tho prophet: ???Howl fir-
tree, for tho ccdor has fallen l??? Widowhood
conies and shows tho garments which tho do-
f ;ortcd hod made. Orphans aro lifted up to
cok into tho calm face of tho sleeping bene
factress. Reclaimed vagrancy comes and
kisros tho cold brow of her who charmod it
away from sin and all through tho streets of
Joppa there is mourning, mourning bocauso
Dorcas is dead. I suppose you havo read of
tho fact that whon Josephine was carriod out
to tho gravo there were a great many men
rjid women of pomp and pride and position
that wont out alter her; but I am most affect
ed by tho story of history that on that day
thero wero 10,000 of tho poor of Franco who
followed her coflln, weeping and wailiug until
tho air rang again; because, whon they- lost
Josephine they lost their last earthly friend.
Oh, who would not rather havo such obsequies
than nil tho tears that wero ovor poured in
the lachrymals that havo boon exhumed from
ancient cities? Thero may bo no inass for tho
dead; there may bo no costly sarcophagus;
there may bo no elaborate mausoleum; but in
tho damp collars of tho city and through the
lonely huts of tho mountain glon, thero will
bo mourning, mourning, mourning, bocauso
Dorcas is deadt ???Blessed are tho (load who
die in tho Lord; they rest from their labors
and their works do iollow thorn.???
I speak to you of Dorcas, tho rcsurroctad.
Tho opostlo como to whero sho was and said,
???Arise,??? and sat up. In what a short com
pass tho great writer put that ???sho sat up!???
Oh, what a time thero must have boon when
the apostle brought licr out among her old
fritnusl How tho teors of joy mu??t have
started! What clapping of hands thero limit
have been! What singing! What laughter.
Bound it oil through tho lane I Shout it down
that dark alloy! Let all Joppa hear it!
resurrected! You and
same thing many
Dorcas
I have seen
a time; not a dend body resuscitated but tho
deceased coining up again after doath in tho
good accomplished. If a man labors up to 50
ycors of age serving God and then dies we
opt to. think that his earthly work ft done.
No! His influence on earth will continue till
the world censes. Bcrvices rendered for Christ
never stop. Hero is a Christian woman, she
toils for tho upbuilding of a church through
many anxieties, through many self-denials
with prayers and teors and then sho dios. It
is 15 years since she wont away. Now tho
spirit of God descends upon that church; hun
dreds of souls stand up and confess tho faith
>( Christ, lias thqt Christian who wont away
15 years ago nothing to do with these things?
I sco the flowering out of her noble heart. I
hear the echo of her footstep* in all these songs
over sins forgiven, in all the prosperity of the
church. The good that seemed to bo buried
has come up again. Dorcas is r??3urroctad.
After awhile all those womanly friends of
Christ will put down their needle forever.
Alter making garments for others, somo ono
will make a garment for them; the last robe
wc ever wear???tho robe for tho grave. You
will have heard tho last cry of pain. You
will have witnessed the hut orphanage. You
will have come in worn out from your last
round of mercy. I do not know where you
will sleep, nor what your epitaph
will be; but there will be a lamp burning at
end through all the long night no rude foot
will disturb the dust. Sleep on, sleep on!
Holt bed} pleasant shadows, undisturbei re-
peso! Sleep on!
tional air, and thcLpeoplo wltjt streaming eyes
joined iu the song:
???God savo our noble queen!
Long live our gracious queen!
God savo the queen!???
And then they shouted, ???Huzza! Huzza!'
Oh, it was a proud day for thoso returned war
riors ! But a brighter, better and gladder day
will come when Christ shall gather thoso who
hove toiled in His service, good soldiers of
Jesus Christ, lie shall rise before them, aud
in the presence of all the glorified in* heaven,
He will say: ???Well done, good and faithful
mirvnnl I" Ami Hiaii TTa will iliatrihntn the
Then one day there will be a sky-rending
and a whirl of wheels and the flash of a
l egeant; armies marching, chains clanking,
banners waving, thunders Dooming, and that
Christian woman will arise from tho dust and
sh*e will be suddenly surrounded???-surrounded
by the wanderers of tho street whom she re
claimed, surrounded by the wounded souls' to
whom she administered! Daughter of God, so
strangely surrounded, what means this? It
means that reward has come, that tho victory
has been won, that the crown is ready, that
the banquet is spread. Bhout it through all
tbe crumbling earth! Bing it through all the
flying heavens! Dorcas is resurrected!
In 1855, when some of the soldiers came
back from the Crimean war to London, the
teen of England distributed among them
autiful medals called Critueau medals.
Galleries .were erected for the two houses of
parliament and the royal family to ait in.
There was a great audience to witness the dis
tribution of the medals. A colonel who had
lost both feet in the battle of Inkermann was
f ml led in on a wheeled chair: others came in
imping on their crutches. Then the queen
of England arose before them in the name of
her government and uttered words of com
mendation to the officers and the men, and
distributed these medals, inscribe i with the
four great battle-fields, Alma, Balaklsra, In-
kermann and Sebastopol. As tbe queen gave
these to the wounded men and tho wouadel
officers, the bands of music struck up tbs na-
servant!??? * And then Ho will distribute tho
medals of eternal victory, not inscribed with
works of righteousness which wo have done,
but with those four battlefields, dear to earth
and dear to heaven, Bethleheml Nazareth!
Gethscmnuc! Cnlvury!
AN ATLANTA WONDER.
Sirs. Coleman, an Atlanta ???Electric??? Won
der, in Now York.
The red old hills of Georgia no longer claim
ns their chief products, ???corn, cotton, pota
toes, rice, etc.???
Electric girls, walking matches and snake
stories aro now her staple!
Not content with having given to tho world
nt large Mies Lula Hurst, tho clectrio maiden
of Collardtown, and Miss Mnttio Loo Prieo,
tho electric wonder of Bartow county, sho has
sent forth a third wonder, a lady whfl appears
iu the New YorlqTimes as Mrs. Charles F
man, of Atlanta.
That is tho stage namo of Mrs. Coloman,
whoso fonts after tho fashion of Lula Hurst
attracted somo attention hero a few weeks ago.
Mrs. Coleman???s husband is superintendent of
tlio Atlanta cotton factory. Her foats caused
no special wonder among II1030 who saw her
and had seen Lula Hurst, ns tho ???power??? was
not nearly so strongly developed In Mrs. Cole-
luou as in tho Collardtown young lady.
But she has been interviewed by a Now
York Time man. The Times says:
???It is a lamentable circumstance, but unfortu
nately a /net. that^New York is to bo without a
Georgia wonder lor two long, dreary weeks.
vnuitiu uuuuvr wr mu lung, uivuiy uwa???.
Scarcely had Lulu Hunt faded from tho rapt
Metropolitan vision, when thero caino ruraora of
another phenomenon in the person of Miss Price,
atat 15 years, likewise of Georgia, who was allege j
to twist up hickory sticks In her gentle fingers.
But Mbs Price was weighed iu the balance at th
Bijou 'ihcatre. one week ago, and found wanting.
Public sentiment, however, demanded another
phenomenon, nnd the clamors of the public for a
Georgia wonder became so,great that Charles
Krolipinn dispatched his agents to scour that state,
with "orders not to return or draw for money until
their quest was accomplished.
Vox Kroliman vox poptill. Ills myrmidons
spread over Georgia and ransacked tho stnto from
north to south niul from east to west, aud a few
dnys ago a dispatch was received stating that Mrs.
Charles Freeman, of Atlanta, Gn., had been en
gaged to fill the long-felt want in tho .breast of
anxious New York, and was en route for the me
tropolis. She arrived yesterday with her husband,
aud they took apartments at the Hotel Royal.
faced, blue-cycd young woman ui mirvr jem*.
whose countenance Imre tho marks of
recent illness. By her side was a crutch, and ono
foot was thrust into her husband???s slipper.
???Ah,??? she said with a sight forelgu accent. ???I
have been unfortunate. In descending from tho
railroad train In Washington on my way hero I
sprained my anklo severely, and my doctor tells
me that I cannot hope to leavo my room or to use
my foot for perhaps two weeks. It Is vory vox*-
lions! for 1 had hoped to appear at \Yattack???a on
Monday.
???No, I have not given a public exhibition any
where before. I havo only shown ray renivrkable
power to my friends m private, and my debut at
Wollack???swiU bo my first appearance on any
stage. What Is tho nature of tho force? Ah, thero
ou have mo at a loss. I do not know mysolf. I
list began to rcallzo that 1 possessed peculiar
. y father???s family was composod of flvo boys
nnd six girls besides myself, and whon I played
with my brothers nnd sisters I found ttint
if I simply touched them they wero thrown
to the ground. This becimo
so common that I was frequently punished for
It, although I protested that I did not mean to.
be rude. It was the samo way nt school, an r
after a time the other scholars refused to play
with me. bccauso I unwittingly hurt them ut
our childish games, and I was almost flebirrel
from any assolcntion with other children becattso
of this remarkable power that I could not control.
When ray child was born, seven years a?o, I
could not hsndlo it or bathe It, because my
touch seemed to hurt it. My doctor could hotmx-
plnin why this was so, and. ho brought in other
physicians to witness the operation ofthc strange
force. It was a source of great annoyance and
anxiety to me, ns you may well lmaglno, not to
be able to handle my own child.
idUtvuriug her with my husband nnd somo
friends I said that I believed I could do all ,
did myself. My husband got a broom to try tne
experiment with, and I found that my power was
even superior to iiers. Sho only moves tho stick
which a man holds, but when I touch a cane hold
by a roan it at once flics from his hands. I havo
and the mysterious power I possess has, bean at
tributed in magnetism, electricity, spiritualism
and a hundred other things, but what It really is
I am In utter Ignorance of mysolf.???
Mrs, Freeman was born In Franco, near Toulon.
Her father was Nnrcisse Belgeron, who camo to
th s country when sbo was a mero child. Sue has
Lot n married twelve years and has one son.
Tata Bp ring,EaetTcnn. ts Georgia???s favorite resort.
IS THE WORLD BETTER?
Pastor Spurgeon States Home Encouraging
Features of Ills Experience*
From the Pall Mall Gazctto.
'Now, Mr. Bpurgcon, at the end of fifty years'
experience, do you think tho world has grown
better or tvorse since you camo into H???? ???That Is
a large question,??? said Mr. Bpurgeon. "In somo
respects, worse, Tho strugglo for life Is harder
now; it is more difficult to mako a living and tho
destitution is more appalling, I think, thin it
has ever been. But, ou tho other hand, there
have been many improvements, especially
direction *^of temperance. A
whole class of men who were very numerous
when I first came to London have become ex
tinct. I refer to those good and respectable gen
tlemen who never gotdrunk, but wero in tbe habit
of yetting???well, let us say tolerably mellow. You
never come across one of those now-a-dayj. At
least I never do. Tho question of teinperotici
has taken giant strides, aud although what Lor i
Hhuftcsbury says concerning the growth
of Immorality consequent upon over
crowding may be perfectly tru?, I
think there has also comu about an Improve
ment in the attitude of respectable people towards
licentious literature. Our grandmother* r.*ad
books which our daughters would b3 asham
ed to open. And iu man/ other raspects, espe
cially in that of open vice? and lawlessness, Lou
don ho* greatly improved. People did thin,???*
AMERICA???S MONTE CARLO
Plunger walton and his life
AT LONG BRANCH.
The Upe and Downs or Mortals Who Take Heavy
Biekt-.General Grant at the Seaside???A Sad
Picture???Wonderful Lula Hurst, the *
Georgia Girl, at tho Beach???2to.
thirty years Ago without fear or restraint which
they would never dream of doing now. There
*??? *??? ??? ??? *??? Ttd
has, in fact, been great progress, auA I am delight
ed to btar ytu tell me that Lord Shafteffiury *ald
we have only to have a stout heart and a firm faith
and we will get the better of the devil yet.???
THE FOUL BEEF
Which Chicago Threaten* to Palm Off on
the Country Creating Alarm.
New York, August2,???The problem of the pov
slide danger* from Chicago dressed beef that ar
rive* In this city dressed, by the train load, ha* re
ceived the thorough consideration of the board of
hcsltb, since tbe report of the existence of Tcxai
fever at Chicago and elsewhere In the west have
been confirmed. The whole*omen<??* of these
Hie butchery interests of New York, has been open
to question. The health officers bavcdccidsd to
settle it for good, and to-day they dispatched a
meet Inspector to Chicago, with order* to thor
oughly investigate the cattle disease In all It*
i>h*K* as presented there, and to make a setreh-
iug inquiry Into the mode of killing beef that is
hut to this city and sold at a low figure. Lik>
wbi- the circumstances under which the cattle so
k I lied is kept and fed. The meat Inspector's com
mission is not limited as to the time an 1 scope,
hfsim tractions being to get at the truth and pre
sent it on his return. *
Th* Coopers* Strike.
St, Lor??, August 2.???About 250, or nearly bai
of the cooper* in this city, have struck tor on ad
vance from eight ??? o ten cents per barrel. The
towessay they can???t pay the advance atked, while
the men assert that they have not averaged more
thin seven dofiara a week this year, and mu it
have more money. There being a ???urpiai o.
coopers In the eUy It i* not thought that 11:
movement will be
r^mlSTlNCT MUNI!
Special Correspondence of Tho Constitution.
New York, July 30.???On tlio way to Long
Branch, which is intimate enough in distan
and population to bo considered a sumtnor
suburb of tho Metropolis, I saw n thing char
acteristic of tho speculative sort of busiuoii
men who eo largely make up tho soason???s
multitude nt tho famous seashoro resort, L mg
Branch is distinctively tho hot weather place
for our stock, produce and money-brolcors,
cud it hardly requires saying that thoy do
not leave their gambler-minds in tho city, on
taking boat or car in tho afternoon. A dozen
of us, Jacking room in tho smoking car of tho
crowded train, wont to burn our cigars in tho
koggngo car, hero was a baby carriago laying
,on its side, thus bringing ono whool upper
most and horizontal. Not a minute had
elapsed before a broker wrapped a bit of pa
per 'roundgi spoke.
???Now, gentlemen,??? ho said, ???stand around
tho.wheel of fortuno^yhilo 1 whirl it, thus,???
nnd lie gave tho wheel a turn. ???It costs you
twenty-five cents apiece, and tho man in f.ont
of whom the marked snoko stops takes tho.pot.
Make your game while tho wndoi is revolv-
ing.???
During tho ride of an hour nnd n half, tho
impromptu game did not for nn imtnnl lag.
The incident shows how-instinctive it has be
come for tho speculative mnu to gamble cm tin
slightest provocation. Both pastime nnd bus
iness arc with him thoroughly permeated with
tho mnniu for taking chances.
You lmvo read frequently of Walton
tho plunger, whoso nick namo means in
English slang, a wild and furious bettor on
horse races. Ten years ago ho was tho keeper
of a big nnd fashiomiblo hotel in Now York???
tho ono in which tho actor McCullough has in
vested his savings, with, it is said, a somawliat
losing result. Walton was nn excellent land
lord, with a lurking for fust trotting horses,
nnd steadily growing riches sufficient for in
dulging it. lie became by rapid progress a
turfman nnd inordinately heavy hotter. Ho
retired four years ago from tho hotel and went
o England, whero his fame was spread worbl-
wldo ns a phenomenal winner. His
subsequent career is public matter. Rovo
caught him last year, and it was thought t'rat
ho lost nearly, if not quite, as much at ho had
won, but it was amistako to boliovo that ho
was beggared. I camo across him at tho cost
liest hotel in Long Branch, and tho rooms oc
cupied by his family aro as good as any in tho
house. Ho is thero becauso tho sumtnor races
aro in progress; but thoy aro run only on alter
nate dnys, nnd so on tho otliei days ho journeys
to Coney Island to attend to tho racoitlioro.
Ho is a roundod man of forty-five, with his
head as well as his logs fat; his face is good
looking in its jovial but unintollcctual way;
his auburn mustache is long aud his hair short,
and ho dresses liko an American sporting mail,
for ho lias not acquired in England any of tho
fashions which wo often sco imported to our
raco tracks.
An exponent of that British sort of thing
now wears a long Frinco Albortcoatof light
gray or drab, buttoned closoly from navel to
chin nnd fitting liko tho corsage of a worn in;
while on his head may bo any sort of hat, pro
vided it is uncommon. It happened that a
hatter set next to mo in tho grand stand at
Long Branch.
???Where do those follows find such hats?"
asked, os a qunrtatto ol imitation Englisnmon
pasted by.
Possibly thoy import thorn,??? was tho roply,
. ut ns a general thing thoy havo them ma'io
to order in Now York. Nothing that is kept
in stock will answer tho purposo, and so thoy
describe to us what they want. Of course wo
charge thorn well for their nonsonso. I havo
known a dandy to pny twonty dollars for tho
construction of a uniqtio hat. IIo brought a
drawing of tho stylo bo desired???a ground
plan, Bido and front olovations. and a scoMonal
view, just ns if it was the architectural s jhomo
for a house.???
Walton, as I havo said, is freo from then
affectations. His costumes aro commonplace,
and ore worn as though ho was quit* uncon
scious of them. Somo turf gamblers aro reti
cent and rather secret in their operations.
Not so is tho PJungcr. Ho. doos his hotting,
his gathering of information, his
talking, as openly nnd loully ns
though engaged In something above tho
slightest reproach. But I began to writo about
him for tho purposo of using him to illustrato
tho fact that tho passion for gambling, when
onco it pot seises a man, loaves him freo In no
hour out of tho twenty-four. Ho had
returned from tho races a win
ner to a small extent, 1 be
lieve, and eaten dinner with his family, with
whom he went to tho public parlor, whero
accompanying him
ing was Gcorgo W.
tho Philadelphia Ledger, l
tho children wero enjoying the part of tho
evening allotted to them for dancing.
early
For a few minutes Walton evidently took an
interest in tho animated and pretty acono. A
hundred youngsters, mostly girls, ranging in
age from tho toddler in baro knees atm black
locks to the miss who will in one moro sohson
sedately resolve herself into a woman, wore
engaged in tho bullet-liko heel and too
polka. Tlio bright costumes, tho gen
erally graceful movoments, tho brilliant lights
and the entrancing music, composod an on-
tertainment which satisfactorily filled tho
eyes and ears of nearly all tho specta
tors. But Wulton toon bocatno distraught.
His gaze waudered from the scono in which
his two children wero taking part. His ro.
plies to hfs wife???s remarks wero plainly ab
sent-minded. Then ho withdrew. I guossoa
that ho was bound for tho gambliug hall near
by, and followed him to sec If I was right. I
whs.
Long Branch continues the Monte Carlo of
America. Tho bouse to which Walton wont,
is big, fine, and stands in tho best ad jrnod
grounds anywhere along tho beach. A
streamer flying from a staff atop of tho cupola
bears an inscription indicating tho purposo to
whk-li the premises arc devoted. Tho gat js
end doors nro open, nnd their liveried guardi
do not stop or question, oa iu a city gamb
ling place, but bow and H.wile
tho visitor in without parley.
The interior is sumptuous, A man can hero
f o to the devil with rapid and luxurious cose.
oulette is the favorite game. Wftlton walked
directly to ono of tho tables, drew ton twenty-
dollar notes from his pocket, used ^ them in
making an equal number of bets, (instead of
buying ???chips,???) lost in every instance, n id
retired In teu minutes,with .equanimity un iis-
turted.
Wandering this morning down the oc.-an
avenuo past this somo gorgeous gambling
house, and idly viewing the succession of sum
mer villas, I was four times rerninc^ed of tho
violent ups and downs which fortune bring* to
mortals who take heavy risks???once by the
dwelling from which Tom Murphy, Grant???s
collector of the port of New York, retired
when his prosperity come to an end:
onco by that of Conmodore 0*ri-
rison, who has only a million or so left
out of ten; onco by that of General Horace
Porter, projector of tbe ninety-million-dollar
West Bbore railroad, already bankrupt; and
once by that of ex-I'rc-sident Hlyssis ??. Grant,
which is still occupied by some of tbe finan
cially and socially humbled family. Aa t
stood looking at the house, and recalling the
ping adulation when Grant first moved here,
the veteran himself camo along.
He hobbled on crutches, for
to has not recovered from the hurt to his hip
received by a fall lest winter, and probably
never will. His crippled condition made ft
impossible to discriminate between physical
ana mental deterioration, bat ft seemed to me
that be wsa worse broken ih mind than in
bddy. He looked like a complete wreck. He
is no longer valuable os a public attrac
tion. Property owners who, through self-
interest, gave to him the bouse which he still
arc now trying to lodge gratis the possi
ble presidents, Blaine nnd Cleveland, both of
whom havo resisted such temptations as lie
in furnished villas rent free.
However, Grant is not without many raid
worm personal frionds, The rotund, blaad
viraged and badly wigged man
| him this morn-
Childs, owner of
,...... . but not tho rightful
poisesaor of the middlo namo ???Washington,???
which by a blunder was applied to him by
the Now York Sun, to permanently adhere.
Ho is Grant's???next door neighbor at Long
Branch, and, ro it is understood, his financial
sustaincr in this dismal passage in tho goue-
ral???s career. ^
My contemplation of tho man whoso nurse
had been suddenly emptied was diverted to a
?? irl whoso purse had quite ns unexpectedly
con filled. A carriage rolled by. It was
not many years ago when the only equipages
to bo hired in Long Branch wore composod of
ramshackle antiques ns to both vehicles ami
liortes; but now establishments ns glossy, as
high-headed,as bung-tailed, as stUl-ariveti as
the private ones, from which they aro not to
be by strangers distinguished, may bo owned
by tho hour. It was ono of these that held a
man whom an expert student of Americans
would havo no trouble in identifying as a
backwoods Georgian, a woman as
clearly his wife and the clumsy,
roreatc, milk-maid daughter. Tlio
fid couple were in rural garb, but the girl was
gaily bedecked in such finery us her honn
neighborhood had approved, mixed with such
as she had found to bo fashionable in New
York. 1 recognized her as Lula Hurst, tho
Georgia wonder. Her power to jerk and
sprawl stalwart antagonists about the stage of
n theater has been unmistakably' exposed ns
merely physical and tricky, but it lias sowed
to fiirWaliack???a theater, fourteen tiinoj with
people who paid an aggregate of
nlcut ??? nine thousand dollars. It
is said that Lula has thus fur earned over
$12,000 within tlireo months. But there nro
good reasons why she shouldn???t count on an
income of $48,000 per year. Firstly, it is un
likely that her attractiveness ns a show will
Inst long. Indeed thero nro doubts whether
sho will hold out ns a curiosity while in B>j-
ton, v hero s)io next* exhibits. Secondly/two-
tliirds of the money sho draws is absorbod by
the s< vcrnl managers who control the venture.
"What shall I write of tho American girl as sho
appears at Long Branch in a comoiior aspect
than Lulu Hurst? In the first place, she can
not be treated us un individual, except in the
matter of clothes, for it is only in ller fashion-
ablcnrss that sho is representative. In true
inwardness she has by no menus tho'finiformi
ty that somo recent novelists havo ascribed to
lier. Sho ranges widely from tho true, warm
hearted, intelligent, loveable creature to that
frivolous, shallow, nonsensical pitiable ono who
libels real Americanism in tho pages of mis-
representing novols. Nevertheless, sho 1ms
somo new nnd curious freaks of conduct,
instance, thero is a stubby girl from Fhiladol.
phia who rolls somowhat nauticnlly in her
gait nt eighteen,inconscauoncos of plumpnoss
nnd will inevitably wadulo at forty. Sho half
this season, taken to walking tho hotel voran-
dn with strides that immensely aggravate her
shortness nnd thickness of physiquo.
???What makes you tako such long stops????
sho was asked.
???I do it . quite unconsciously,??? sho replied,
ly'ngwith feminine neatness and dispatch:
???I've been n month at West Point, you know,
and tho military step lins been lengthened to
tliirtv inches. I got used to it, don???t you soo,
and keep it up without thinking.???
Then sho strodo away, serenely conscious
that tho only inferonco to bo drawn was that
sho had dono a vast umount of walking arm
in arm with a cadet.
an inch thick and from
six to eight inches long. Tho malarial is
glass, cloborately cut, and soinetimos trimmed
with gold or silver. It gives its possessor
a >mcthing to do with her hands, and In that
way serves tho purpose of a cane, or a crush
hfit. in the grip of a dandy. Sho carries it
uuii ill iuu ui u iiuiiu/., duo unuitu iw
with her nt tho dinner table, In tho surf bath,
in tho ball-room, nnd I havo no reason to
suppe so -that sho doesn???t tako it to bod With
her. ,Sho lliiIn with il as with u fun; she
sniffs daintily at its unscrewed top, to givo nn
impression of extreme sensibility aud fragil
ity; sho poses with it liko tho fairy quoon of a
burlesque with a wand; and sho could, on oc
casion, use it as a club to brain him who
would do her harm. Altogether. I think it is
more man-subduing in tho ham/s of tho lrivo-
lous bollo that a cano or cue hold by tho stal
wart Georgia wondor, and a groat deal moro
magnetic. York.
Tlio Illooinlng Country,
From tho Dublin, Goorgla, Gazette,
Ono has no idea of the boauty of tho country
just now. The rnins havo put tho crops in a
blooming condition and they prow so fwt that
you may almost seo thorn. Tho writor Jm
boon over a section of tho country, and every
where tho farmer' is tho happiest man in tho
land. Ho is now in ecstnaius ovor tho pros
pects, but notwithstanding this, thoy havo not
forgotten ho* suddenly tho crops wero cut off
last year by a drought about this leaiau of
tho yenr. The pencil crop is going to be
heavier than for many years. Evory littlo
so ub and switch by tlio roadsido ana in tho
orchards is laden wuh tlm groon fruit. The
apple crop, tho farmers say, is not so good as
it has been. In our rido a largo section of
wiregrass'country was takon in, andcatUo
and sheep uro looking fat and sloek. Ou every
hand were marks ol prosperity now, nnd If
tho season will hut hold out. what a harvojt
there will be. Tho land will literally How in
milk nnd honoy. Tho very young arc so
elated over tlio prospect that politics
are strangers to them. You can scarcely find
a man who wants to discuss thoso at nil. aud
iu many cases tho first question is, ???Who is
running???? They actually are so disinterested
that they don't keep posted. Thero is a very
small amount of sickness in tho section that
we traversed. Tho public schools aro lust
opening at every cross roads whero there is a
house, whon nono, thoy aro building. It doos
ono good, wo say, to shako off tho dust of tho
office and get out and talk with tho best class
on earth???tho farmer.
Foreign Note*.
TltR aCKTKXCK or TKR rRXUMS.
J.ondos, August 2.???Before sentence w/u pro-
not need upon Daly at Warwick yesterday be In
dulged in ??? violent speech. He attacked tho crown
for tho manner in which the prosecution had boon
prepored. Daly and Began received their sen
tence* with apparent Indifference.
fjORDON ONLY BILIOUS. -
Lohdoh, August 2.???Henry M. Stanley exprrase*
the opliiloff that General Gordon requires no help
fr<-m England, and ascribe* Gordon???s despmding
niCRUge* to biliousness. Manley 1* farther of the
opinion that in order to crush tbe slave trade tho
mW.vc dealer* will have to bo approached from tto
Crngo. f t
An fnrrea** of Fnlluro* in the Fnclfie Mates
Reported.
Nrw York, August 1.???Tbo business failures
of (be last week throughout tho country o?? re
ported to R. G. Dun &Co,, number for the Uni
ts??! States, 233, and for Canada eighteen; total
251 against 234 lost week, showing an increase
of seventeen failures. The whole Increase ap
pears torise in tbe Pacific states and territo
ries.
The Mutinous Crew.
I'liiLAPELmiA, P*., August 2.???The owner* of
the schooner Julia Baker, now at Key Welt, aro
advised that the second mate, Walker, of that
mcr, ha* been personating CaptaKt LewU;
that Lewis died seven aays aro. The entire crew
* IB mohabJy be arrested and the nutter invosti-
RZUO.
Fire In XMttsburg.
PnTsBi???BOr August 2.???The glass work* of .King.
!>n & Co., on Bouthsldc, together with the faruace
bouse, the selecting end packing houses, the cut
ting shop, storage shed and content* and mould
Loucc. full of valuable moulds, were burned this
morning. Lot* 160,000.
A Heavy Fire,
KypoBirsr, Pa., August 2.???A fire broke out here
Ibis afternoon, which destroyed tbe most of the
best business portion of tbe town. Twenty bus!
PLOTTING FOR BLAINE.
THE STATE-STEALERS IN?? WES
VIRGINIA.
A Electing of theFuiionlstasnd Soreheads, Who a
Entertained by Dig Oteva BUtins-Blalno to
Visit th*8Utoln* Pow Woeks-ASig-
nlfloaqt Gathering???Othor News.
Dekr Park, Md., August 2,???About thirty prom
inent republicans and grecubackers, ol West Vir
ginia, gathered at tlio Deer Park hotel hercjto-
day, it is said, at tho instance of Stephen B.
Elkins, of tho republican national committee, and
held a cuufercnce with doors closed and curtains
down, which lasted about three hours. Among
thoso present wero Ell:ins, who presided; Con
greeman Goff; Messrs. Maxwell, fusion candidate
for governor of West Virginia; Flick, canJIdato
for Attorney general; Gibbons, of Charles .oa;
Smith, of Berkley springs; Stone, of Fairmount;
Raymond, of Clarksburg; Dcalc, of Wellsburj;
Hart, of tlio Wheeling Intelligencer; Dunniruton,
of the Grafton Sentinel; Peterson,of tho Hunt
ington Republican; Powell, of Fairmont, Virginia:
Dormer, Scofield, aud others of Wheeling, a< wolf
ns gentlemen from Point Pleasant, Austin, West-
more, mid Hninliu.
A PLAN AGREED UPON,
A plan of operations and tho general eondu???tof
tlio campaign was decided upon, Elkins, it b3!nx
understood, representing Blaine. Several ropttV
prevailed throughout, and much good feeling wa*
manifested OVCr tho prospect of u very liujr.il
contribution from tho national committee to aid
Iu the campaign. Tho belief prevails among tlio
gentlemen Iu attendance at tho conference t???i??6
i ??? in ...i...... 1.1.. ..i.i....*... it...
Golf will withdraw Ills objection to becjiuio
AN ADJOURNMENT FOltVflNB.
Succeeding neon adjournment, Mr. Elkins en
tertained tho whole party nt tho Ue>r
Park hotel, where au elegant
i another sira???.ort
Blaine is expected at Elkins cottage at Dcjr
Park, during the month, whero ho will pio???nbly
meet fcveral of those who participated In to day???s
conference.
THK DEMOCRATS REST EASY.
Prominent tlcmoerntinmong tha guests at Door
Park profess no uneasiness over what they term
the characteristically loud professions of t*.ia
Blnino mrnngcrs to capture thn state, nnd insist
that ail tho money spent by Elkins, Jones,
others iu West Virginia will leave so much lose to
combat In tho oilier nnd really doubtful state:.
Postmaster General Gresham arrived from tha
Stephen B. Elkins 1ms resigned tho presidency
of the First National bank of Hsnto Fo, N. M.,
widt h he has hold for thirteen years, in order t >
give more timo to tho duties ol the campaign.
THE LEISURE HOUR.
Hour Fopulnr Actresses While Away tlio
Time nt Their Hotels,
From tlio Chicago News.
???Actresses lmvo peculiar ways of passing thofr
timo at tlio hotels," said a lady who has pasted tlio
hotter part of her lifo in different Chicago caravan
saries, ???Mrao. Patti delights iu renting tho
whole sidoof the house, nnd Is bonton getting
as much sunshluofor her money os possible. Her
rotinuo consists of a Hpunish nurse, a French
maid, Nicollnl, his valet and secretary, a parrot,
and a lap dog. Ilor door is guarded day and
night by a colored attendant, whoso duty it is to
dhmiss autograph hunters, refuse visitors, and to
provont callers from disturbing the vocalist. Yo
would bo s^.,
taxes to grindry to got her namo for
cosmetic, perfumoand similar inventions.
Christine Nilsson is strung ou tho constitution
al, and between eleven and tlireu was always t??
bo found solitary nml alone walking out on Multi
gati avenuo. Her maid accompanied her to a dm r
store on Jackson ami Wabash, where sbo awaito I
Her return. Littlo Hcmbrlch used to sing nml
play l??y tho hour. Poor tiling! Him had
u ployed. 1 ha
lUgClSL. . . ???
seen Imr titling In tho window of he
cd in Turkish slippers, can and gown, tho
picture of contentment. Sho is tho only w<
I ever saw that could moko rings of tho s nt
It was puffed from her mouth. Sho was u
band to givo littlo supper parties, nnd nli
tvery night during her stay somo littlo gather!u;
took plat e iu her rooms.
???Modjcska is niways busy. That talented netroi*.
who does not weigh over ninety pounds, is aglani
??? * -w ??? ,,,L " sho nsed to study, play tho pfair
nt labor. .. .. ???
and sit nt tho window and rktdcli cloud
by tho Hour. Bho always looked tired am
languid. A Imco spent a part of her time In study
wordsaimuarl.. ,
orthography ana .definition. Tho. Iiit jnnlu lu^
hero, hear, sow, sow, so, sense, cents, scents. J:t
wiiiW. blue, flour, flower. Thoxo wero r> il
words ou tho list, and It almost mado her silly.
1 lint was tho intention, I bellavo, for tho ???JoIIo
pHifumcmo??? had refused a wine supper with him
only a short time More.
I remember what a furor Clara Louise KclIo?;???i
arrival at the Tu rnout created mi her first visit
to Chicago. Thi* wo* a good manjr year* ago.
won n big card for tbo house, uml Mr. WHojx, wh??
was tlit???ii tlio proprietor, spared neither euro nor
ixpensnto fccvp her. When the Amcricin .sou-
bird arrived shown* shown to tho bridal suit).
Bho turned up her noso and concluded tho roo n i
would not do. Bho mind havo her room oponin<
off the parlor and iu direct
tfon wllli her mother???s. Mr. WJlco
bis hands together. Jta said that we
simple matter, nnd if Mbs Kellogg ???
room till 10 o'clock p* in. tho connection should
bo made. Sbo went off to slug tho ???Flying Dutch-
mail,??? and tho moment she ??;tepp*-d into tho ??-!cvn-
mallet nnd bar; cut through a two fo
brick wail, put In tho casement, carried off tho
debris In a wheelbarrow, Jmulcd qnt thy oilcloth
spreads, and tho fastidious lady found tho tliroa
rooms connected when aha returned from tho
opera. Mb* Kellogg wo* very exclusive, held her
self so far above tho common that sbo lo.it ??U her
friends. Bhe Worked hard, however, was alway* tv
good buslnc** manager, and a hard stude.it of art
uml belles letters.
"Her rival, Miss Anulo Louise Cary, wo* dia
metrically opposite???plain, unassuming, Jovial,
good-naturco, whole-souled, and a stranger to
whirrs. Bho mode tbe acquaintance of clumber-
ins ids, waiters, laundresses, bellboys, porters, mid
clerks.spent fully one-tenth ol her salary in tin*
rju iu uiiijr ui tier nmtmif i
???nd alms, and was idolised wherever she .
Mir. Thomas Barry was nt the house last wc
looking awfully sad. You know fate Jus not he
kind to her. Bho is a great Boston favorite,
zealous Kpbmpal, and It breaks bar heart '
baby, who sit* at tbe head of the table in a high
chair, bests the afr with a long bread <
crows *t the colored attendant* a* they rush pu
The proud mother I* still pretty, wears quaint lit
tle bonnets, somber dresses, And Aiway* lm* a largo
fichu folded over her neck end breast. I admit
,._.._j??*,' but she is p
she docs know how to dre*s, and shoe
the credential* of a lady
cttjr.
t every
feature, movement, and garment. Ad* Behan ul-
v.*ys enjoys. herself when she come* to town???
caia the randies and fruits, and goes out riding
wit 1 * the North 8ide dude*. Daly don't like it,
but submits because he regards It *% a good
throat, end carted her o
???Bar* Jewett usually stay* at tbeflbermvi house,
receive* her friend*, studies some, and writes a
gtcat deal. Bho is exceeding well rend, mu l m ike*
verse, Mint* some and is popular wherever .ho
goes* In manner >*helain libel to be romrvid,
and times her friend* no little anxiety oyfuv
I??difference to tha society of nntl.'jieu
Bho differs from Neill* McHenry in
a s rorg aversion of bulsuen 1 matters, bates to by
truramt led, and get*off a* early at posfibl * Im??
making her mother, to whom tic it devotedly nt-
trr'bed, tcrouhlcr. Mary Auderaonlsadcalmblo
From* Abbott Is aa whimsical n* a full fledged
???plttkicr. The first thing Km mu does when -he
secures the top room a way from everybody H b??
ring for r??.rue olaufcet* with wl.b !t she lit* all the
doors and windows Rung to keep out the light
and nol-o. Then she takes out asui&I! card which
run*; ???Engaged between ft a.m. and 7 p.r
Thane do not knock. Guests will pic i..- nut maJ
a df^tiubanco in this boll." When this tilu-ird
nailed out she gets a paper of pins, pulL- the
rttttd out in the renter of the room, g ????? * loan
her knee* and pin* all the b>l clothe- down to ti
ra&ttrctf, caving Just the wi ith of ??? ; i'i * v '
w Hie li to it ter. whi
t own on en iumU up agi
lei* hers' i in fe??.l Aral