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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