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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA., WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1 1884.
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DR. TALMAGE???S
SERMON ON GOVERNOR PONTIUS
PILATE WASHING HIS HANDS,
Ter Every Kind o! Sin, Great or Small Conscience,
Which is the Voice of God, is a Reproof If ore
or I4ts Emphatic???The Large Crowds
Who Sear Dr. Talmage Preaeb.
Brooklyn, September 28.???[Special.???Im
memo crowds continue to throng the Brook
lyn tabernacle Sundaj after Sunday to hear
Dr. Talmage preach. Among them arc many
foreigners, especially Englishmen, attracted
by his world-wide reputation. Indeed Dr,
Talmage???s sermons are extensively published
in England. The Christian Age, of London
says of them: ???We believe that for original
ity, power and Aplendor, these sermons will
bear'comparison with the greatest pulpit pro
ductions of any ago or country. But for
knowledge of human life and the adaptation
oi divine truth to the whole being of man
intellectual, emotional, moral, practical???and
for the power of applying that truth we know
not his equal.??? The opening hymn at to-day
services wss:
???Oh, could I speak the matchless worth,
Ob, coijjdl sound the glories forth!???
The subject of tho sormon was, "Governor
Pilate washing his hands,??? and the text was
taken from Matthew xxvii. 24: "Ho took
water and washed his hands before the multi
tude, saying, ??I am innocent of the blood
this just person.??????
About 8 o???clock in the morning, said Dr,
Talmage, up the marble stairs of a palace and
across floor of the richest mosaic, and under
a ceiling dyed with all the splendors of color,
and long snow-banks of white and glittering
sculpture passes a pale, poor, sick young man
of 83, condemned to death by one court and
on his way to be condemned by another
Jesus of Nazareth is his name. To meet Him
on the tesselatcd pavement comes out an un
ernor Pontius Pilate. Did ever two such op
posites meet? Luxury and pain, selfishness
and generosity, sin and holiness, arrogance
and humility, midnight and mid-noon, Pilate
and Christ. The bloated-lipped governor
takes a cushioned seat and leans back at his
case. Tho prisoner stands, His wrists man
acled. In semi-circle around Him are the
fiery Sanhedrists, their eyes flashing and their
fists brandished, prosecuting the case for the
lake of religion; for in all ages religious per-
" * t of all persecutors, and
secutors ore the fiercest
when the devil does get pos'session of good
men he makes up bv intensity for brevity of
occupation. And if you have never been in
an eeclesiastieal court where they had some
one on trial you cannot understand the foam
ing infernaliim of those old Jewish Sandedrlsts.
Governor Pilate begins to cross-question tho
prisoner and finds Ilim innoceht, and wants
te let Him go. To add to bis caution in tho
matter somo one comes up and whispers in his
car. ???"What's that???? says tho governor, his
hand behind his ear to catali the words al
most inaudible. It is a message from Claudia
Procula, his wife, who has had a dream about
the prisoner's innocence and the danger of ex
ecuting Him, and has just awakened from this
morning dream to send news of it to the gov
ernor at that very moment on the judicial
bench. And what with tho protest of his
wife and the voice of his own conscience and
the entire failure of the Sandedrists to make
out a case, he resolves to discharge the prisoner
from custody.
But that announcement let loose on tho gov
ernor an equinoctial storm of indignation.
They would get him recalled bv the ??mperor
Tiberius, at Boms, and ho should no more bo
8 overnor of Judea, and how would he feel
ien in disgrace and perhaps bo hanged for
treason. Ho had already excited the old em
peror's suspicion, which rested not until it
finally did effect his banishment and auicide.
8o Governor Pilate, to comnromise the matter,
proposes tho whipping or Christ instead of
HI* assassination. He was tied to a pillar
near the ground and on His bent and bare
back came the tbongs of leather with chunks
of Ifcad and bone intertwisted to augment the
force and horror of the stroke, and when He
waa led up from that with flushed cheek aud
torn and quivering and bleeding flesh He pro
sented a spectacle of suffering in which Rn
bens, the painter, found the theme for his
I tuo MUIUlCf, IUUUU mo u.w
mnstcrpieco. But tho Sanhedrists wore
still unsatisfied. They wanted not only part
of his nerves lacerated, they wanted all of
them lacerated. They did not want a part of
His blood, they wanted all of it down to the
last corpuscule. 8o after all His morciful
hesitation, Pilate surrenders to the demonia
cal cry of ???Crucify him!??? But Governor
Pilate, seated in the presence of the people,
sends a slave to fetch him something. Tho
constables are impatient to lead out the crimi
nal to execution, and the mob in the stroot are
waiting to glaro on their victim. But a pauss
is necessitated for a few moments. Yonder
comes a wash basin. The clean, bright water
is ponred into it, and Governor Psntms Pilate
puts back the sleeves of his robs and thrusts
nis soft, delicate hands into the water and
rub* them together and then lifts them drip
ping for the towel fastened ts the slave???s girdle,
anasaid, practicallp: "I wash my hands of
this wholo homicidal transaction. I will take
none of the responsibility of this prisoner???s
death. Yon must assume all of it.??? My
friends, that is the meaning of the text when
it says: ???He took water and washed his
hands before the multitude, saying, ???1 am in
nocent of the blood of this just person, see ye
to it I' ???
Behold how ceremonies amount to nothing
without correspondencies of heart. It is well
that the hands be washed. When God made
three-fourtha of the world water, He com
manded cleanliness, and as the ancients did
not take tho hint Ho put a whole world under
water. The Jewish religion made hand
washing a law. By minute direction the
hands must be plunged three times up to the
wrist and the palm of one band rubbed by the
closed fist of the othen The Jewish Miahna
gives elaborate rule on this subject. A!1 well
as a *mbol. But here in my text Governor
Pilate proposes to wash off a guilt which he
doea not quit, and of which he makes repent
ance. Pilate's wash-basin is a failure. Cere
monies grand and good in themselves may
mean no more than this hypocritical ablution.
We may be sprinkled in childhood at baptis
mal fountains, and in manhood may wade
into solemn immersions and fcever reach moral
purification. We may kneel without prayer
and bow the head without revereuce andsiug
without acceptance. All the creedj and all
the liturgies and all the sacraments and all
the genuflections and ell the religious convo
cations amount to nothing unless the heart
and the life" go into them. When the bronze
slave of thfe palace carried out Pilate???s wash*
basin he carried out none of Pilate's cruelty or
cowardice or wickedness. Nothing against
creeds, we all have them either written or
implied. Nothing against ceremonies, they
are infinitely important. Nothing against
sacraments, they are divinely commanded.
Ko objection to the rosary if there are as
msny heartfelt prayers as beads counted. No
objections to incense floating from censers
among gothic arches if the devotion it typi
fies is as the aroma ascending. No objections
to Epiphany and Lent and Ash Wednesday
and Aster and Whitsuntide and Palm Sun
day if the forms are only symbols of real
penitence, snd of holy reminiscenee and con
secration. Ceremonies are only the sheath of
the sword, only the shell of the kernel, only
the lamp of the flame, only the body of the
spirit. But the outward must be only typical
of the inward. Most surely wash your hands,
Lut more surely wash your heart.
Behold, also, as you see Govern *r Pilate
thrust his hands into this wash-basin, the
S ower of eonscienee. He felt that already
iere waa blood on bit hand and it needed to
be removed, the blocd of an innocent pris'
oner, the Mood of One whom ha might have
set at liberty had ha only poeseaaed the cour
age to do so. Poor Pilate! His eonseionco
was after him, and he never could wash off
that stain either from his right hand or his
snas stain either from his right hand or his
left hand, and to the day of nis death, though
dipped in all the lavsri of the Roman empire,
there would be eight fingers and two thumbs
red at the tips. Oh, the powor of conscieuce
when fully aroused 1 With what whip of scor
pions, over what bed of spikes, into what
iitchy midnight it chases the guilty I Are
there ghosts? Yes; but not of the graveyard;
ghosts of the mind not at rest with itself.
???Thus Brutus, amid his slumbering host
Startled bv (???n'SJtr'E Itiilwirt chnst'*
Startled by Ca'sar???s stalwart ghost. 1
Macbeth looks at his bands after he has
committed midnight assassination, and says
d? No, this my hand wlU
i numr
Jhe multitudinous seas Incarnadine,
Making the gTeen???one red.???
: For every kind of sin, great or small con
science, which is the voice of God, is a reproof
more or less emphatic. Charles IX, who or
dered the 8t. -Bartholomew massacre, was
pursued by bitter memories until the last, and
in his dyiag moments said to his doctor, Am
brose Perry: "I know not how it is, but the
last few days I feel as in a fever. My body
and mind are both disturbed. Ob, I wish ???
had spared the innocent and tho imbecile. 1
Rousseau confessed in old age that a deed com
mitted by him when he waa young had given
him many sleepless nights. Charles II, of
Spain, did not dare sleep unless he had in his
room a confessor and two friars. Catiline was
haunted at his evil deeds and waa atartled at
the least sound. Richard III, after slaying
his two nephews, would, in the night, leap out
of bed and clutch his sword and strike at ap-
S aritions. Cardinal Beaufort, who had taken
io life of the Duke of Gloucester, sometimes
would cry out: ???Away, away I Why do you
look at me???? Professor Webster, of Boston,
while in prison waiting for his doom on the
scaffold, complained to the sheriff that other
prisoners kept charging him with crimo
through the walls of Tho ]
prison, although it
waa only the voice of his own conscience.
From whom did Adsm and Eve try to hide
when they had all the world to themsolves?
From conscience. What made Cain???s punish
ment greater than he could bear? His con
science. What made Ahab cry out to the
prophet, ???Hast thou found me, 0 mino ene
my???? Conscience. What made Felix quake
before his chained prisoner, Paul, tho littlo
vv.ui o VUIIUCU iiruuuor, *UU??, WlU u.wu
missionary? Conscience. What made Bel
shazzar???s teeth chatter with the chill when a
finger came out of tho black sleove of the
midnight and wrote on tho plaster? Con
science.
What makes that man yonder in this audi
ence who has all the marks of prosperity upon
him seem so agitafod whilo I preach???now
flushed, now pale, his breath uneven and the
beads of perspiration coming on his brow,
and all the features of his conscience written
over with a strange unrest, rising into horror?
I don???t know, but he knows and God knows.
i don't know, but ho knows ana uou knows.
Perhaps he despoiled some fair lifo with a
deed that turned innocenco into a waif and
the smile of hope into tho brazen laughter of
despair. Or perhaps he has in his possession
that whiph belongs to others, and by acutest
stratagem-lie holds it according to???law bat
knows that it is not his own, and realizes that
** his '* heart should this inomont
stop its* beating he would
hell forever. Or perhaps ho is
responsible for a great mystery, tho disap
pearance of somo one never heard of again
The detectives were baffled and all the tracks
were covered up. The swift horse of tho rail
train got him away, and thero are only two bo-
ings who know his guilt, God and himself.
??? at the time of the tragedy and
God was present ??? ???
is present now at the retrospection and con
science, conscience with sting, conscience with
S incere, conscience with fail, conscience with
irnaces, is upon him.
What mode a farmer after his conversion to
Christ go to his infidel neighbor and say: ???I
have four sheep that belong to you ; they came
into my field six yeais ago and your mark was
* '* * * it to mine ; I want you
on them but I changed _
to have those sheep and the increaso of tho
flock and the interest of the monoy they were
worth, and anything you ask, and if you send
me to prison I will not complain.??? ???Well,???
said the infidel, ???if you hevo got them sheep
you can have them$ I don???t want nothing of
you if you will only go away. Sornothing
must have got hold of you I don r t understand.
But the newly-made Christian declining to
let matters stand that way, the infidel said:
???Well,??? if you must, you can pay me for what
the sheep were worth when they got into your
fold and six per cent interest on the amount
and go off and let me alone. What woe the
matter withJthe two farmers? A convicted
conscience, calling tho one to be honest and
calling the other to quit his infidelity.
Thomas Olivers was ono of John Wesley???s
E ronchcrs. The former part of Oliver???s life
ad been spent recklessly, and in making
debts wherever he could borrow or buy with
out payment, till he owed money in all direc
tions. When converted ho started out to
preach and pay his debts with some money ho
bad inherited. He rode a great distance to
pay a sixpence, and before no got thero he
attested in???s conversions, not only by his ser
mons but by paying all the money he owed,
principal end interest, although to squaro his
accounts with God snd his fellow man ho had
to sell his horso and saddle and bridle. Work
of e converted conscience I
When Frank Thibaut, the rum seller, was
converted he had a large amount of the best
liquor on band. He put all the barrel* and
jugs and kegs and decanters on wagons and
drove them down and emptied them in front of
the old meeting-house where he had been con
verted. Now that is what I call genuine re-
ig ion.
What is tho meaning of the large sums of
money going every year to Washington,
United 8tatca treasury, called conscience
money. It seems that a great many eolleetors
and post-masters and attorneys end govern
mental officials have retained money that did
not belong to thero, and they are convertod or
their conscience gives them some terrible
fright and they maze restitution. The feet is
thst if all the moneys stoleu from state and
national treasury under some great revival of
conscience were returned to the rightful ex
chequers oil the steto debts and tne United
States debts would be paid* by day after to
morrow. A man???s conversion U not worth
much unless not only his heart Is converted;
but bis pocket-book converted and the ledger
converted and the fire-proof safe converted
and all his pigeon holes of bills and cor
respondences converted, and tbc fact of his im
provement is discovered by tho canary bird
that sings in his parlor and the cat that licks
the platter offer meals and tbc dog that comes
out to greet him from the kennel in the back
yard. A man half converted or a quarter con
verted or a thousandth part converted is not
converted at all.
What will be tbc book of judgment in the
last great day ? Conscience. Conscience bring-
up misimproved opportunities, conscience
rsfelii
roarsbeling uuforgiven transgressions, con
science recalling all the past. There will bo
no need of a great and ponderous book with
lids so heavy that two mighty angels With
great strain of strength must open it. Wc
shall take the leaves of the book out of our
own meraory, and confidence will bo there
I ntent and tremendous to echo tho welcome or
ix.m. There have been great days of soldiery
review in France and England and America,
but the greatest day of review will be when at
tbc roll of archangel???s trumpet, all tho unfor-
iven sins of a man???s life come up and tako
.beir places in companies and regiments end
brigades and all facing the one way, and with
shouldered arms that shall wait the command,
and Conscience mounted on the white horse
of judgment shall ride along with sharp spur
and uplifted sword aad bid them ???March l???
end bid them ???Take aim!??? and bid them
Fire!??? What can stand baforc that charge of
_11 the batelions of a sinful aud unimprove-l
past? Not one of us unless wc have had some
thing better than Pilate's wash basin to
cleanse our hands and cleanse our souls.
A Isa, for the agitated Judean governor that
night after the court had adjourned and the
Sanhedrists were gone and only'the tread of
the sentinel at bis door waa beard. I think he
rose from bis tapestried and sleepless eoueh
and went again to tba laver and throat his
binds up to the wrist in the wgter and ertei:
???Got! Oat 1 Then crimson spoil How thou
stickcst fait telling the story io me snd the
night and God I Is there no alkali that can
remove this dread Ail stain? Is there r~
chemistry to dissolve this carnage? Must
livo and die with the blood of a martyr on my
bands and the blood of .heavenly Innocence
upon my immortal soul? One of the worst
woes is that of an evil conscience and ono of
the greatest blessings what Paul calls a good
conscience. But are all our attemps at moral
f urification like that ot Governor Pontius
ilate to be a dead failure? If a man is a am
ucr once must he always be an unforgiveu sin
ner? Is there no laver in which we can sue
cesssffilly wash? We havo all had conscience
after us, but do you teU me thst all the
thoughts of your heart and all tho words of
our"mouth and all the actions of your life
xactly perfect? Then you don???t
have been exactly perfect? Then you
know yourself, and I will take the mild ro
sponsibility of saying you are a Pharisee, you
are a hypocrite, you are a Pontius Pilate and
don't know it. You' have done by your heart-
lessness what a Roman governor did at the
start. You have re-crucified the Son of God.
But 1 think that if nine-tenths of this au
dience are made up of earnest and thoughtAil
people, then nine-tenths are beginning to
awake under the power of aroused conscience
if there is not something for the cleansing of
the soul bettor than Governor Filate???s wash
basin. Yes! yes! yes! Tell it one to another.
Tell it in song. Tell it in sermon. TeU it to
the hemispheres. David, the Psalmist cried
out for it when he said: ???Wash me thorough
ly from my own iniquity and cleanse me from
my sin??? and again ???wash me and I shall be
whiter than snow.??? Job deplored his failure
when ho said: ???If I wash myself with snow
water and make my hands never so clean, yet
sbalt thou plunge me in the ditch and mine
own clothes shall abhor me.??? What, then?
Where, then? How, then! Behold the laver
of the gospel filled with living fountains. Did
you ever see a picture of the lavers in the
ancient tabernacle and tho ancient temple?
The one in the tabernacle was made out of tho
women???s metallic looking glasses contributed
by them, n round basin on a pedestal and it
was filled with water. But when the temple
was built the laver was an immense affair and
was called the brazen soa. Deep wero the
floods thero gathered. Besides this there were
ten other lavers, five to the right of it and five
to the left of it, each holding 300 gallons of
pure water, and the outside of theso lavers
was carved and chased with palm trees so de
licately ent the leaves scemeu to quiver, and
with lions so true to lifo that you could almost
see tho throb of their nostrils, and cherubim
with wings ready for flight. Magnificent
laver of the old dispensation, feeble type of the
greater lav^r of our sunlit dispensation, a laver
filled from rivers ofsalvation, its pedestal the
Rock of Ages, carved with figure of the lion of
Judah???s tribe and palm trees of victory, and
wings suggestive of the soul???s flight heaven-
xvnnl tv 1 inn vn wnnhlmm) IliA anint??* (lirdti
ward when we worship and the saints' flight
heavenward when we die. Como all ye audi
tors and wash off all your sins however aggra
vated, and all your sorrows however agonis
ing. Come in tho furtherest, tho deepest, the
worst I
"What an opportunity 1 That is a joy enough
to swallow all natious. It will stand on the
Alps and bsckon Italy on tho Pyrenees and
call Spain on tho Ural and enchant Russia
at the door of heaven and gather in tho na
tions. Ftrdon for all and comfort for all who
will accept them through Christ Jesus. 'Why
did you not tell me how beautiful tho earth
and sky are,??? said a little child, whoso oyes
by skilful surgery had been opened. ???I did
tell you over and over again,??? said the mother!
???but you could not understand it.??? Would to
God that all of us might havo our eyes opened
and ice for ourselves tho one altogether lovely.
The half has not been told us. The army ef
Godfrey marching towards tho ennturo of the
city of Jerusalem ga\oa great shout at the
first sight of tho towers so tuat tho very earth
nuskea under the sound, and eagles flying in
iiuhkuu uuuur wju euuuu. uuu vngiua u vim; ut
the air dropped under the atmospheric per
cussion. And if we could this day catch a full
view of the towers and domes of this gospel
temple into which you are all invitod to come
and wash and bo dean, the hosannas would
bo jubilant aud rebounding at the New Jeru
salem scene, and the New Jcrusalera.taken
end the anthems of higher worlds, flying mid
air, would fold their wings and drop into our
doting doxology. Against tho ineffectual and
disappointing lavor of Pilate???a cowardice and
sin 1 place the ???raoltou sea??? of a Savior???s
pardoning mercy.
WILL VICTORIA SING?
Nrw Yobk,September 23.???Edward Gilmore,
ono of the lessees o( Niblo's G&rdcu theater,
seems to be very cortain that his offer to Mrs.
llulskanip to sing at his theater would be ac
cepted. ???The contract which I have already
drawn up, and which only needs Mrs. Huls??
kamp???s signature to sottle,??? he said, ???is in ev
ery way favorable to her. I agree to pay her
$500 per week to make her appearance and
sing twico at every performance. Sho will alng
first in tho rose scene, and again between
the acts. That Is all she will Be required to
do, and, in my opinion, it is a very easy way
to make money. I also furnish her wardrobe,
which, it is needless for me to say, will be a
magnificent one, and if ahe accepts my offer
sho will mako her first bow to an audience on
next Monday night. As it now stands, she
will sing continuously ot the garden until
thanksgiving, when 1 will take her away, and
* predict a splendid success for her.???
BMK SrUBXH tiza PATHKB.
Mr. Edward Connor, a friend of Mr. Morosini,
was sent to seo Victoria, wffh proffers for a -i
adjustment of tho whole matter. Mr. Connjr
reasoned with the plain, blunt senso of a
farmer. In an interview he says i
???I told her that her father, broken-hearted,
intended to sail for Europe on next Wednes
day; that her conduct had shattered hie
health and had forced him to leave forever a
country in which ho had expected to end his
days. He wishes to soe his daughter before
his departure, but sho would have to moot
him half way.???
??? 'He has not treated me with proper re
spect,??? retorted tho young woman arrogantly.
???Tell my father I defy him. I do not care
whether he is dead or alive, in Europe or
America. I will not leave my husband. We
don???t wont any money. Our plans are all
made out for the future.???
??? *Wcsc can get along,??? chimed in her hus
band, who was silting by her side. ???I don't
ask no odds of no one/
1 then told Victoria that I win sorry to see
tolling mo
her in that spirit. She replied by t
to cay to her father from her: ???Regard mo os
tr meet again.???
dead, for ho aud I wl 1 never meet again.??? I
d the pair good-night and left thorn.???
???Then it is true, Mr. Connor that, Mr.
Morosini will goto Europe????
???Yes. His furniture ot Yonkers will bo sold
privately on Monday. On Wednesday his
business will be closed up and he will sail for
Europe. I do not think he will ever return.
1 have an appointment with him to-morrow,
when I will tell him what success I have hau
in my mission. I don???t think ho will ever
tnke in llulskamp. The coachman has not
the sense of a common insect. It is all true
about the commission that was appointed to
sit in judgment on him. They found out that
he was a poor excuse for a man.???
BETSY HAMILTON.
Old OXiis Green and Old Mies rreehoure, the Neith-
borbood Prattlers. Meet at Betsy???s Ha???s
House and Tell All They Know About
the Singletons-Jealously, Etc.
Thor???s a big family of tho Singletons. They
moved here to the mountings on account of tho
ole 'oman???s bein??? sickly. They are monstrous
nice, good folks; they lost a power, liko every
body else, by the war, and they don???t fly quite
as high as they useter, but they are proud and
allcrs puts the best foot foremost and holds
they-sef abovo trash, aud for that reason some
folks is jealous of ???em and don???t want to see
???em prosper.
They rides in a Buggy and dresses nice, and
the two oldest gals, Nancy and Annetto???they
call her Nettie???has been to tho big bug school
away off yander somo???rs, and thoy???vo get a
plenty of book lamin???, and they dress fino
ond pretty when they go anywhara, and that
makes .some of the gals in this
settlement farly hate ???em. But
thoy dress nice and clean
homo too. ???Why,??? says Mol Freshouri,
???Nancy and Nettie Singleton and tho ole
'oman too, all sets up thar at homo every day
same as if it was Sunday. In the weeky days
mind you, when they hamt got no compauy
author, and wears a collar, a white collar,
Monday same as Sunday.??? They say every
time old Miss Green sees ???em pass her houso
in a buggy she farly fries she???s so mad, its tho
buggy that makes her so mad.
Her and old Miss Freshours together has
talked scanlus about them Singletons to try to
make agin ???em, aud fetch ???em down. Old Miss
Green ???lowed over thar at quarterly
neetin??? right in a gangof women folks,
save she; ???The Singletons and Haskinses is
folks I dont wasto my time a runnin utter; if
any of ???ems sick they thinks theyself abovo
sending otter me to doctor ???om, and so I lets
???em alone, they thinks they are mado outen
-~tld, and that they???re bettcr???n tother folks;
at???s tho reason I was glad when old man
Singleton???s cotton got burnt, and bless you
when them Haskinses niggers was sot free I
jist ris a shout you could er hcarn to tho Cross
Roads, and clapped my hands, I was so glad.
???Now,??? says I, they ore on a level with tother
1 nSr??? ??? *??? -
folks,??? and right then I???d er been glad to or
seed old Miss Haskins drap dead over the
wash tub.???
Nancy Singleton, she happened to go to
Tcnnysy to see sorao of her kinnory. and them
ak-uujbj w mvo Bviuu vi ucr Kiuiiur/, uuu vuoiii
old women had it a singing around that aho
married whilo sho was gone and her old man
quit her, and now thoy aro trying to say sho is
a gwine to marry agin, aud to a feller that I
know in reason sho haint nover spoke to. I
I ist think they had ortcr bo tuck to tbo court
louse.
Tother day I was monstrous tirod; bad been
a heppin??? buddy pick cotton in tho five acre
feel tother side of tho truck patch, and I cropo
in the back entry and went in the shed room
and flung myself down on the trundlo bed and
went to sleep. You mought have toted mo
bardaciously off bed and all and I wouldn???t
havo knowed it. Thar haint no sleep half so
souud and sweet as when a body is tired from
ood, honest work. If they work and tend to
heir own business Uier mines is inginnerly
easy, and if thoy aro well and hearty thor
haint nothin to hendor ???em from drappfnoff to
sleep timo thoy striko the bed. 1 slept mon
strous good and it rested me, and when I rii
up on side of the bed aud rubbed my oyes I
hcarn talk in a gwine on. ???Fetch lotne cneers
out here in tho entry,??? aays maw, ???itsooolor.???
Flurridy Tcnnysy, sho dragged tho ehoora
utter her and 'lowed:
???Ifffnow in reoson wc???uns has done wore out
enough khoo leather a totin??? of cheers to a
bought moro???n enough to do us.???
wo'uns has had a plenty qf cheers In our
time says maw. ???but they???vo all boon stolt.???
???Them that has muss lose,??? says old Miss
Green. ???And the mighty shall be fotchod
low,??? says old Miss Freshours, thinkin??? she
was quotin??? of scriptur.??? *???I reckin??? I am ono
ef the mighty then,??? stye Flurridy asshotuek
a scat on tho steps.
???What do it all mean?,??? thinks I to myself.
???As I was gwine on to say,??? says old Miss
Green, ???I hearn It, 1 never made it.??? Jist
then old Sister l???inkncy habblad in on hor
stick and Hung down her bonnot. ???Fetch
that ar shuck bottom cheer, outen tho kitchen
wsin't nothin??? good or she wouldn???t be so keen
to tell it. ???1 beam it,??? says she, ???and I never
made it.??? ???Which one of tho gals did you
say it (was Sister Greon???? says old Miss
Freshours. ???was it Nancy or that or stuck up
Net???? ???1 disromember, says sho, I dont
know one from tother no how, for I nevor
turn* my head to look at 'em when thoy are a
sailin??? by in that ar top buggy; it would do
???em too much good.???
They say old Miss Singleton is a takin??? of it
monstrous bard, but she is so proud sho is try-
in??? to hide it, but ah I law, <tbo top knot muss
come down,??? says tho scriptur,??? aud ???him that
huroblcth hisso???f shall be ris.??? I dont know
as 1 bid ortcr tole it,"she went on,???and I dont
know as I would cr told it unly you???uns axed
me tho news, and that???s tho tallc. Pass me your
snuff box Sister Freshours.??? ???Thar haint a
blessed dust in it Sister Green, I???ve done swob
bed the last grain outen ft, and my teeth all on
aige, I was jilt a fixin* to ax somo of you ???uns
for a dip.??? ???I say it I??? says old Miss Pinkney
???snd I'na smack and smooth outon snuff and
backer too, and bad jist startod to tho Cross
Roads to swap somo aigs for some.??? Old Miss
Strong tuck out her box and passed it around,
old Miss Freshours tuck a big dip. and it pear-
ed to loosen her tongue. She was bent on not
lutin' tothers out do her.
'Its the talk,??? says she/spitting spang over
'* ??... ??? , ft g Wln8
Till; ALA IS ASIA CANVASS.
Ylgorfous Campaign to be Opened Imme
diately.
Moxtconkbv, Ala., September 22.???(Special]
The democratic state executive committee met
in this city to-day. with a very luU attendance.
Reports received from all eight congressional
districts ere of *thc moot encouraging nature.
The only hard fight the democrats will have
will be in the 8th, where General Joe Wheeler,
the nominee, is making a lively canvas*
against L. W. Day, republican. It was re-
j\ery county in the stats immedi-
otely. The four candidates for electorsknd
two for congress. Herbert end Sadler, with a
number of other distinguished gentlemen, met
with the committee. Colonel Dawson, the
chairman, was instructed to place in the field
the best speokers. Tbc canvass opens next
week all over the state.
Da If as Gone to the HUtes,
Mo mar At, September 23.???A Dickson, Insur-'
ante agent and promoter of public companies, is
miming and Its believed he has gone to the states.
the steps, that Nancy Singleton is
marry that ar trifling Monk Simpson. He???s
tho one they call Monk kase ho favors a
mooki y.???
Now I knowed well mid good that them
Singletons wouldn???t notice nairy one of them
Simpsons to save they lifo.
???You uns may not believe it,??? she wont on,
???but I???ll tell you what I hcarn rcckly alter
harvest. The wheat was mighty sorry, it was
timo my Becky Ann had her star quilt in the
frames, and Jane Simmons bad that ar spell of
the swamp fever and went distracted. It was
the day Clerrindy Malone???s little gsl died with
the mineral jetua or sumpen, and old man
Winthrope was buried. Tho Loftises, they
was all a moving on tother sider tho creek '
jar ferneni old Kelly's
blacksmith shop tbsr in tbatpond ofold Lotus
es whir Belsory Haskins come so nigh a
drownin???time of that freshet. Belsory you
know has done moved away off to Massyaip
and they say she driv her ducks to a poor
market when she tuck thst 'possum tnoutk
Bob Coats???gimme another din. Sister Strong.
???Dont talk to meebout???thera Haskinses,??? says
eld Miss Green, ???Pride goes before a fall, ef
Belsory is po* she deeervee it, and I???m glad of it.
I???m alien glad for every lick of work them
sort has to strike; but laws, old Miss JIaekins
right now would starve rutber???n uot have that
ar red rose on her Sunday bonnet, end her
Comedy would rather die as to not dress
finer???n my gals. But I tells my gals all of
???em eon be tarrypina that???s a mind to, but
they sbsnt.???
Miss Gooden btd sot thar and hadn't opened
her month. She come in the shedroorn whar
I was and lowed, ???Betsy, I kin tell you the
upshot of it all. I got tired a waitin??? for old
Min "Freshours to come to the pint, for I
knowed ft wasn???t so, no how. The upshot of
it all is this Sift it down to the bran and its???
jealousy???nothin* but jealousy. "
Brrsv Hamiltoy.
Shot Dead by a Tramp.
Dcveoit, September 25.???J. A. McLain, liv-
ZSBTBUIT, CCJMCUiVai V ??? A. MVMHI,
ing six miles north of Coopersville, Ottawa
county, was shot dead last night by a tramp
at his own bouse. The tramp badjireviouily
been ejected from the premises. The assassin
U still at large, but a party is in pursuit of
GEORGIA JERSEYS.
Inducement * nt New Orleans???Appointment
of a State Dairy Superintendent.
Georgia has a great many things besides hor
iron, geld, copper, lead, slate, marble, granite
and precious stones; besides her varied ci
crops
and her great trees; besides hor many manu
factures aud curious inventions, to show to tho
world at tho New Orleans exposition. In tho
wide Scope of that great enterprise it seein-i
that every interest of a complex civilization is
to be considered and tempted to display itself.
The dairy department will bo one of tho great
divisions of the exposition, and tho propriety
of making it so is fully
appreciated by those persons in the south who
have token a progressive view of tho dairy
as a source of profit as well as of luxury. It is
not a generally known fact, but it is ono
which tne statistics prove to bo true, that the
dairy products of the United States aro annu
ally worth
MOBR TIJAY TUB COTTON CBOP,
though wo havo not yet ceased to call cotton
king. The grandest dairy <*"
will be mode at New Orleans;
view to secure tho co-operation of Georgia
dairymon that Mr. Charles E. Marvin, the
general superintendent of this department,has
appointed Mr. Mark A. Hardin, of this city,
dairy {commissioner for the state of Georgia.
Mr. Hardin received his appointment yester*
day and will at once enter on tho discharge of
his duties. He will lay before dairymen of
this state the splendid inducements offered
New Orleans and is confident that an exhibit
woitby of Georgia's advanced position in this
industry can be obtained. Tho management
of tho exposition to encourago breeders of
dairy stock and manufacturers of dairy pro
ducts and appliances have set apart
8IXTKK1T THOUSAND DOLLARS
To be offered in premiums in this deportment.
Of this sum six thousand dollars
is in premiums for dairy stock and $10,000 in
* iluma for dairy produets, etc. The ex-
E rvjuiuius ??ur uniry jiruuucis, cic. AIIO OX-
ibits are to bo nuulo for each section separ
ately, so that the south, for instance, is not to
be brought into competition with sections
whero the dairy business is older aud con
ducted on a larger scalo. The premium!
will be for exhibits from foreign countries,
from the eastern ond middle states, from tho
southern states, ond from tho western states
and territories. The prises from theso va
rious divisions will be thrown into appropriate
classes tq compete for tho grand sweepstako
S rises. The premiums (or dairy produets are
ivided for summer products, including
all manufactured before September 1st; for
fall products, including all manufactured
between September ls^ and November 1st,
and for winter products ineluding all manu
factured between November 1st and January
1st. Trizea are offered for creamery butter
and factory cbocse, packages of butter, dainr
butter, roll and ornamental butter, and all
other dairy products. Liberal premiums are
also offered for essays and lectures on tho
manufacture, care, packing and transporta
tion of dairy products.
| Also for essays on the diseases and treatment
of domestic cattle. These essays aro' to bo
reed before tho dairy and stock convention to
be held in connection with tho exposition.
All entries for dairy machinery and appli
ances must be made by November 15th and
rooda received by December lit. AH entries
ror dairy products must bo mado by Decem
ber 15th and goods received by January 5th.
TUR STOCK SHOW
will probably prove of special interest in Goor-
S ia whsre some of tho finest hords of Jerseys
i the country aro to be found. Within fitly
miles of Atlanta thero could be collected somo
of the rarest specimens of this beau
tiful breed and it is not iraprobablo that
ths liberal inducements at New Orleans
will attract some of thorn to tho oontosts thero.
Thero are In and near Atlanta sovoral gontlo-
men who havo gone into tho Jersey businoss
extensively, and thoy could collect from thoir
wou id mt ke Georgians
BILL ARP
REJOICES BECAUSE THE SCHOOL.
HOUSE IS FINISHED.
H. Oort So... ao.ernor Brown with ni.b-Flown
Lui...... ??nd tbo aoT.rnor Zton.tH Fifty
Dolton- Tho Ironvlllo Ac.deray Now
B??dy for Bonne.., Etc., Etc.
Our country school houso ii finished, and wo
aro proud. The teacher has been installed
and the children are gathering in. That
achool houso may be hiitorie in time to come,
for somo ono or more of tho soholers may
wako up to tho world about something, Thero
is a heap to learn yet. Tbo mystericiaro not
all unfolded. That school house nloy bo tbo
alma mater of somo wonderful genius, and
then we who havo stock in it will be proud.
It la no log cabin???no sordino???but a good,
large, alylish academy. Wo wero all poor itj
monoy, though rich in children, and ao wo
foraged around for holp and wo got it. There
1a nothing like atrategy about doing theso
things. Wo strained ourselves first, and then
wo foraged on the town and got a ltttio hero
, foragei m
and a littlo there, and it counted up.* I used
rort
to livo in a town and tho country foraged on
me end ao I am just playing for oven. Judge
Underwood used to ear that ha had stock In
all the country churches and country achool.
from Tugalo river to tho Tallapoosa. Well, It
iiuiu lu^muiivDi hi tuu a uuu innsaiie it cm, lb
ia bread cait upon tho watera, I reckon, and it
will return to ua alter many days. I don???t
know how many, but after many days. I
don???t mind begging for a church or a school
house. When we found wo eouldont mako up
tho money wo sat down and wroto a letter to
(lovernor Brown anil Haltered him up about
his great seal in odseating tha people, and wo
??? Id it on pretty thick, but dclicato???rerv
delicate???and I mentioned hla iron mines that
he ia operating close by, and how ho waa
building up a thriving settlement and wo
looked to him for aid in the good entorpnao,
aud I told him what wo lacked, and sura
enough he wrote back forthwith and thanked
uo for our compliment* and regretted that ho
could not help ua, and laid ho bad already
contributed all he could to auch things, and
waa still receiving just auch letters overy day
from all parta of tbo country and ho had to
put them in tho waste basket unanswered or
clac biro an extra clerk to answer them, and
it waa his advleo fur ns to cut down tba bouse
to tbo money, and hla observation was that
Ihoeo people who dopended upon themselves
got along the best, aud ao ho wound up his
letter with an asiuranee of bis peraonal regard,
ate., etc., and signed bis name. But after ho
bad signed it I reckon he read over tbo cotn-
8 ]iiiLcnts again, for a man will do that, and
ten he added a postscript saying t ???On ra-
so wo dident mind about bis locluro and bis
advico. Tb. achool houso waa wbat wo wero
after.
and aomo pipe, and wii
the other uuy, I visited those groat and
men, Hunnicbtt k BclHngrath, and c
, w opened up
to their generous minds" distant views of a
broad philanthropy and what a luxury it was
to make those investments that contribute so
much to tho comfort of littlo children, and
how futuro generations would riso up ana call
them blessed, and so thoy surrendered it. It
was a quick way of gettiug rid of mo, aud so
niiD i?? gtuiuu ituvi iuu. uuu bv
they gavo us tho stovo, and thoy did it graco-
ftilly and clioorfully, and our people aro grata-
tul and will make returns allor many (lays???.
herds ah exhibit w'
proud to seo at Now Orleans. Mr. Hardin in
tends to bring this wholo subject fairly boforo
tho people of Georgia. All who fool an iuter-
est in it can address him at Atlanta, caro of
D. G. Bacon, United States commissioner.
THE LOUISIANA REGISTRATION.
Impede tbo
Nzw Oblbams, Sopterabor 23.???State regis
ter of voters, Kobeft Brewster, was arrestad to
day on an affidavit inode by G. V. Davis and
L. A. Adams, charging him with hiudoring
and preventing them from full attendance at
the place of the registration of voters in tbo
mrish of Orleans, and from tho fulf examina-
ion and inspection of the record book of suoh
registration, and from making true and cor
rect lists therefrom, and from verifying
the same, and from performing the
acts required of them as such supervisors of
election by the laws of the United States, con
trary to the statutes of section 5.622 of tho
United States. Mr. Brewster was taken before
United States Commissioner Hunt and requir
ed to givo bail in $5,000 for bis appearauco be
fore tho United States court. Brewster says it
was not his purpose to refuso the supervisors
any privileges given them by law, but
that when thev cams to his
office yestsrdav and domanded the books for
scrutiny, and to maka copies of all
tha ragistration since 1880, he explained-to
him that the books were thon being used in
registering the voters, and that thero was not
room enough at the desk for any othor besides
the sixteen clerks employed there. Ho stated
that it Chief Supervisor Norton would call at
his office they could make soma arrangement
satisfactory and affording the euficrvisors
every facility required. They then withdrew
and made affidavit as stated. Brewster further
says it is now impossible to mako complote
copies of the registration sinco 1880 in timo for
the November election, but that tbo United
States supervisors will be accorded every fa
cility to make an affort. He cannot, however,
allow them to imped the work of registration.
Mr. Brewster has callod tho attention of Uio
says
for falco imprisonment and maliciously at-
of hlsniticial duties.
GOING HACK TO TEXAS.
An Old Atlanta Hnj Arroiited for a Murder
Committed Three Years Ago.
Sheriff Tatbam, of Cherokee county..Texas,
passed through Atlanta yesterday, carrying
with him Robert Usher, who is wantsid in
Cherokee county. Texas, for murder.
Usher is an old Atlanta boy. Ha was born
in the city about thirty-five years ago, but
when yet a child, led with his psrents for the
v'hristian lady, who, not long ago, looked up
over her spectacles at mo and said, ???Major,
what kind of a man is $Ir. Jay Gould????
I told her 1 dident know him, but 1 reckoned
licwiiH n right clever hum; and aho lln-ii lob!
mo sho baa written him a loiter moro than n
mouth ago asking him to givo tho chnrch ton
dollars lor a chandelier and a enrpot, and,
M!)'s she, iih ??bo laid her knitting in he/ lnj??,
???Major, ho lrosont even auswered my Jotter.
Do you reckon ho over got it. Governor Brown
sent us ten dollars, and thoy suy that Mr.
Gould is richer than ho is.???
Well, wo aro all right now and tho Ironvillo
acqjjcmy is open to tho community. Our
tem-hciH are going t<?? tench rudiment.! and
good behavior ana good manners aud music,
and bascbnll, too, 1 reckon. Thoy aro not yet
l'K jiined to tench high reinum.
That < \oliition bu-dne.H acnmfl to Eavo broke
out in a new place, and is vexing our wito
men mightily. Bcicnco Is a good thine, and I
feel a great interest in knowing all about
Adam, for 1 reckon ho is my ancestor, but it
is more import how hi i diwcndauf l bo-
hnvo themselves in this subloonary world.
We have a big meeting going on here, aud I
beard a man say, *<WelI, I'm not going. 1???vo
f it no confidence In these proachers. What
want to know first of all is where did Cain
get his wife. That???s what bothers me.??? And
so he is going about loose, and every time any
body talks to him about religion hejiays:
???Wuere did Cain get bis wife.???
But 1 think tbo new doctrine of evolution
sudden and oil at once, puro and
beautiful and lovely, and had no monkey an
cestors, and 1 reckon that is tho reason why
woman is to this day bo much bolter than
man. There ih no gorilla blood in her???no
taint ot tho bruto or the beast to crop oat liko
It docs in a man. What a pity that aho vrxn
yoked on to auch a feller as Adam. What a
s|d?? ndid Mock would have filled the world if
Adam badent evoluted, and had been created
fresh liko Eve. Aa it Is wo have got a graded
stock that is a sort of a cross between nngcls
and monkeys, and it keeps up a powerful com
motion. But tbo troublo about the wholo busi
ness is that wo can???t holp it, aud what troubles
i*??? *??? in--r- than nil in that I mil one of ???em. X
always knew there was some devilment iu mo,
sums original sin that mado mo meaner than
I wsnt to be, and now I know just where it
come from. That apple eating business had
Will'll /cm I'UIIU, Hill w,w. Ml- |'??i^aa??? i-??a Hiw
lone star stats. When Usher reached his ma-
, erity he married a Texas lady, and soon after
hat event entered ths msrcsutile business in
Rusk, a small town in Cherokee county. He
was a good business man. and waa succeeding
finely whan ho got into the difllsulty,
for which bo is wanted. About
three years ago Usher killed a man named
Agnsw. It appears from what Sheriff Tatham
says, that Agnew was a desperate man, and
had a difficulty with Usher previous to the
killing. On the day of the killing Agnew
went to Usher???s store and asked him to walk
outside and settle the old trouble. Usher de
clined, end ths quarrel continued until Usher
shot Agnew dead. After tbo shooting
Asher went to tbs county seat of Cherokee
county snd gave himself up. Subsequently
he bad a preliminary trial and waa released
upon bond, but before bis trial was called ho
left Texas and cams to Georgia, lie located
in Crawfordville and soon started a small
stare, but about a week ago his whereabouts
was ascertained and be was arrested. When
inted, but when Sheriff Tatham freed him
tbs Crawfordville prison Sunday, ho admit-
I everything. Usher???s wife and two chfl-
peared quite satisfieif and were confident of an
easy acquittal. Even tbs sheriff declared
that Usher would be acquitted.
Thirly-Se vsn Horae Thieves Hanged by VIg-
1 lasts.
ViasiHtA Citt, Montana, September 25.???
The bodies ot two horse thieves were discov
ered suspended from a tree on Poplar river
reeterday. This makes thirty-seven thieves
' ynehed by vigUaata this season.
come from. That apnlo rating business had
nothing to do with it, but it is in the stock???
the babboon cross???and ever and anon it crops
out. AH my good desire* and noblo aspira
tions, all my amiability and tenderness comes
from mother Kvo, and my meanness from
Adam. Tho old rascal. 1 wish she Indent
have married him, and then may bo I would
havo been a better man.
lint still, notwithstanding and nevertheless,
I would like to know, just as a matter of curi
osity, what became of old Adam???s brothers
snd sisters and all the rest of the old monkey
stock that evoluted, for I reckon he dident just
evoluta by hirnself. May bo they didfent
marry angels, but just kept on in the pure
monk* y breed, and that accounts for the other
races???the Hottentots and Indians and such
like. There is a difference, a great difference,
and it bad a beginning somewhere. Science
has a jiower of work to do in unraveling these
questions, sad I hope she will do it, but she
bssent done it yet to my satfrfaetionVMtd I???m
going to wait patiently. , Asr.
THE DELAWARE DEMOCRATS.
They Pledge Fealty to the Party and are
Confident of Nucc*m.
Doves, Del., September 23.???There it a largo
attendance at the democratic state convention.
The platform adopted pledgee steadfast ad
herence to the principles and policy which havo
guided the democratic party of Delaware in its
wise, reputable and economical administration
ol tne government for more than a quarter of
a century, declares that in the candidates for
pr**i<lcnt and vice-president, dominated by
tbc national democratic convention at Chicago
and the platform of principle enumerated by
said convention.
We hereby pledge and guarantee that Rio sncecM
of tbc democratic party fu tho event of their elec
tion will insure reform in the administration,
economy to the expenditure of public money, a
ridii' tiou la taxation, prosperity to the country
??n??I bapplnem to the people ol every section.
Resolutions were also adopted approving ef
the ratification of the pending amendments to
provide for an increased representation from
New Castle county to the general assembly,
and for a change In the judicial system. C* ???%-
grmman Lore was renominate*! by acclama
tion. After selecting presidential electors and
a state committee, tne convention adjourned,