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THE CONSTITUTION.
WINNY:
A Love Story Beginning in the OW World and
Ending in the New.
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r cti took pl»0*-» mumUm »hU;k no
. i.e *••• hu not felt it .sn imeriee tn tSe
]nti—ead we knew that the Antarctic ha-1
ntrack. . ... . . *
H’a a fearful iking, if you come to think ©t
51_. crest atenmer filled with imog toald in
ilhnloli; w of lit* nno henllh, nnd in one
aaoment tie call coming to et«*h ol them to
die. Briore you could have struck a match
Ike whole ship waa a panic—criee, terror, con
duce, eg'-ny. <'b, it wm awful 1 I truat
never to me auck a acene again. I mada my
gray through it all as it I had neither eyes nor
ear*, ai l rot to the stateroom i had lent ago
goutd oat wae the one which belonged to my
wirl. 1 knxked at the door with a heavy
Latd. Even attbst ftwft’l wenieit a thru!
Stranger to Canada, I thinkyoi
Visit to Ontario? Well, you are 1
cemo to Indian Creak. Take a the
piazza till dinner’! ready—we dine early m
thcee new world parte.
I’in- !crm? Well yes, Indian Crock is a
Dice place, it I do own It. All, as far as yon
can see—gkass lands, corn fields, woods auct
creeks—all belong to it. Stock too—they call
H the best stock farm in Ontario, I beliore.and
I daro say they’re right. All mine, and jot I
came to Canada t /elre years ago, without tho
traditional half crown in my trouser’s pockst.
You look surprised. Would you like to hstr
tho st« r\ V There's a good half hour to din
ner time yot, and It’s a story I never tiro toll
ing, k n.chow.
I begun life as the son of a village carpenter
in tho south of England. Von know that class
pretty well, I dare say, and what a gulf was,
fixed between me and the vicar of the parish.
And yet—and yet—from the time she was!
ncye* years old and I eleven, and she fell
down in tho dusty road outside the carpenter's
Bhop, rrd cried, and t picked her up, and
Smoothed the little crumpled pinafore and
lusted the dust oat of her golden curls, I loved
hut one girl in the world, and that was the
Vicar's daughter, Winay Braaacome. ' i
Madness, you’ll say. Well, porhaos so, and
yet a man is but a man, and a woman a
'woman: and love comes, whatever one mejr do.
There's ^ class distinction recognized by
child heed, and we were playmates and
friends till she went to boarding-school. If
Mica Wfnnj had had a mother, no doubt
ihing? would have been very diJTorent; but wo
were alike in never having 'known a woman's
-caro, and tho old vicar was blind to every
thing but his theological treatises.
But when she came back from her London
Losrdicg-ichool, a beautiful young lady, all
nmilca and laces and littla lovely ways, then 1
'knew. I had tried my best to study and work,
and ruako myaelf moreliko the men the would
meet, hv.t what can a lad in an English vil
lage do? I had just enough* education to
make every other lad in tho plaeo hate mo,
and hesido tho men of her world I suppose I
cut rather an astonishing figure. Yet the lorn
of her v cs ao far beyond all else in mo that
snail, he rcleas as I felt if, I had no power over
myself, and the first time I caught her alone
5n tbe woods—she avoided me, X saw, and I
liad to watch for a chance—1 told her tho
whole story, and waited for lior answer. Sho
crew scarlet—a rush of color that diod hsr
fair, sweet face—then deathly white.
’'Pick,'’she Mid, and tho was trembling
from head to foot, “yon know it can never,
never bo: you know yon are wrong even to
dream of such a thing. Some girls would
think it an iuftili; I know you better; but if
sir lath t r baaed of this he would tar you had.
Ued4lr ‘
^^Viremrr, nnd I guessed that if I had been Mr.
Xoftu3, the young squire, instead ol Diek
Jfawtry, the carpenter's son, her aqfwer
might nave been different. A great resolve
eprsng up in my soul, nnd I took a sale nan
vow in thoae June woods. That very night I
Bold the old shop (my father was dead, and I
had taken to the business, and with tho
money 1 bought an outfit and started straight
lor Canada. It waa pretty tough at first, but
3 worked like a galley slave—starved and
pinched and saved, and never spont a penny
bn myself except for tha books I sat up half
the nir ht to read tnd study.
Wei], in thA country, the man vhe works
and doesn’t drink, is sure to-get on, and l had
a mighty purpose in my head. By and by I
boughtedroe land dirt cheap and sold it for
three times what I gave for it—then I began
to make money fast. I should call my lnok
fronderful if I believed In luck, and didn't
prefer to think that I was helped by a power
Jar grottcr than my own. At last, ten years
to the very day after I set foot on Canadian
noil, 1 bought Indian Creek farm and began to
build this nouse. AJZ the neighbors thought
any good fortune had turned my brain, for I
•tilted it up and furnished it for a lady, down
lo a little rocking chair by my study tabic,
mud a vri rk.basket with a liny gold thimble
in it. And when that was all finished 1 look
Abe first ship for Liverpool.
Ten veers build a city over here. It doesn't
make much change in a Devonshire village.
The very gates were atilt half off their hinges,
ns I left them, only the people were a little
older atd a trifle more stupia, and totto was
a tow vicar. -Old Mr. Branicomc had been
dead six months; died very poor, thev told
rue; there was nothiagleft for Mias Winny.
My heart gave one great leap whou 1 heard
that. And Miss Wmnj? On, she had g?ft«
govern eisicg Vrllh some people who wire jast
S oil to Canada, and tho ship sailed tomorrow
from Liverpool.
The Liverpool express never seemed to
crawl io alowlv before., I got there to find
every berth taken on board the Antarctic, acd
She captain raging at tho non-appearance of
two of the crew, w ithout a second’s pause I
©flared ler one of the vacant places. I was as
BtroEgai a horse, and active enough, and
thought the esptain eyed me rather askance—
1 had hren to tho West End tailor on my way
through London—he was too vied to get me,
to ask tty questions. So I sailed on the ship
•with my girt, little as she knew it. I saw her
the first day or two looking so pale and thin
ibst ate waa like the ghost of her old self, an 1
wet sweater to_my eyee than ever before. The
children she had charge of were troublesome
little creatures, who worried and
her till I longed to cuff them well. But there
nn% a gentleness and patience about nor quite
maw to my idea ol Mias Winny, and I only
loved her the more for it. After the second
day cut tho wind freshened, and .1 saw no
spore other.
We bid an awful passage. It was late in
2sov< ruber—an early winter—and the cold was
interne. It blew one continuous file, and
acme of oar maohinery was broken—tbe
•crew damaged—and we could not keep our
cou rs e. Ae we drew near the other side M the
Atlantic we got more and more out of our
hearing*, sad at last the fog* told ae we were
aouieWMM ofl the banka olNewloundlau-l,but
where io one wee quite aura. It seemed to
«c it had all happened before, or I had read
of it or dreamed it. At all events, ft wsi
hardly a surprise to me when, on. the hjjtth
ighl.mstafter midnight, ‘ w -
ran through me at the thought of standing
face to laco with her again. - ; ^
"Winny t" I cried, "come out! Make haeto;
there is not a moment to loss!”
The door opened as I spoke, and she stood
just within, ready drawod, even to her ltttlo
black cap. Tho cabin light had boon loll
burningby the doctor’s orders, and it feU full
on me as I stood there ia my sailor’s jersey
and cap. 1 wondered if she would know me.
I forgot tbe danger we wsro in; forgot that
death wae waiting close at hand; forgot.that
tbe world held any one but just her and me.
"Dlckr'ebe rried—“Oh# Dick, Diokl”.pnd
she fell forward In a dead faint on my
shoulder.
All my sc uses came bark then, and I throw
her over my arm* and ran for tho deck.' A
great for-lined cloak had been dropped by tho
door of the ladies’ cabin. There was no light,
but I stumbled over it as I ran. I hastily
enalchcd it up and carried it with mo.*
Up above nil was In the wildest chaos, .the
boats overfilled end pushing off: tbe ship set
tled rapidly; people shouting, crying, swear
ing. One bears talcs of calmness and courage,
•iten enough at such times,which makes one's
heart glow as one reads them, but there waa
not much heroism shown in the wreck of tho
Antarctic. The captain behaved splendidly,,
and so did some of the passengers, bat the j
majority of them and the crew were mad with!
terror, end lost their heads altogether.
I saw there was not a chance tor the over
crowded boat* in that sea, and I sprang for
the rigging. .1 was not a seoond too soon; a
eoore of others followed my example, and with
my precious burden I should not have had a
chanco two minutes Ulcr.. As it was «I
scrambled to the topmast and got a firm hold,
there. Winny waa juat coming to herself. l‘
bad wrapped her round like a babe in the far
cloaks and with my teeth I eponed my knife
to eut a rope which hung loose within reach.
With ibis J lashed her to mo and fastened us.
both to the topmast. The ship sank grad a-
telling you the story now; she settloddown,
just her deck above water, but the great seas
washed over it every second and svrept.it
cleag. Tire boats had gone.
One or two of tho crew, \ floating on looee
•pars, wero picked up afterward—no more.:
Tlie rigging was pretty full, at loaat in the
er par t; do wn below tho sea was too strong. ;
captain was near mo. I felt glad to think!
ho had been sua*—he was not a coward like 1
tome of the otffff»r .
How long was tbe longest night you ever
knew? Multiply that by 1,000 end you will
hove tome Idea of that night’s length. The'
cold was awfnl. The spray froze on tho shoots
whero it fell; the yards were slippery with Ice.
I stamped on Winny’e feet to keen them from
Iretzirg. Did you notice that 1 limp a little?
I shall ws)k lumens long as 1 livo. Some
times there was a splash in tho black water
below, as some poor fellow's stiffened hold
relaxed, mil he fell from hie place in tho rig-
Thero was not a bro'ath ot wind—
% but the bitter, bittpr tog. How long
could we held but? Ajfliri w+ro wo? How
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Pathetic and Comic Icssn Among Emi
grant!.
New York, October 10.—[Special Correspon
dence. ]—Scenes pathetic andicenes^comiosuc
ceed one another rapidly at Castle Garden,
where the emigrants are landed.? An exam-*
f ile of etch kind came under my observation
u an afternoon’s visit. A Swedish girl, with
hair of tow and complexion of roselear, was
weeping in a corner. A city missionary was
talking to her in the language of her homo. I
asked him what w as the matter. He said that
he had found her almost in the hands of a
woman who would have plunged, her into a
vicious lifo; that, when ho informed her of the
character of this wretch, ‘ahe roplied
that she esred nothing about it. This reck
lessness was to uusuafin a girl from Sweden
- that ho became interested, and by persistence
learned that she came to America to moot a
young Swede, who had sent the money to nay
her pa*sage, for ahe was to marry him ou her
arrival;buUmtoad of finding him here to
meet her, there was a letter tolling that he
was dehd; Nothing teemed blacker to her tbsn
this frustration of her love, and that was the
i caron for her b c • diesen**a of her fate.
There were twin sisters and a Mormon in
the funny second episode; and It was tho man
who grieved. He was a hoary, old polyga
mist, and ho had for ten years been e prose-
iyter in Europe, but tbe dismay ol the saints
undar thcprceent prosecutions had caused his
recall. With forethought for his own house
hold, be^hsd wooed-and secured thsse
twins—young German women, as alike
in their healthy bloom at two
pennies. He said that he had loved oaaat
eight, and on finding,that thero was a dupli-
DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON.
PREACHED IN BROOKLYN TABER*
NACL* yesterday.
IS* Orest Dlvia* Pr*aoS«* an Bloqusnt Stmooc
th*Br.bifot: “Shall wa Hav* Anothar Ofcanca
lu tbaKail Worur-Th* importance of
Rapintanoa m tbla world.
cate of* her
doubled
but
ftfsiavrte ndYnswcr. ‘-Death Stared us in the
lace; we acernad to live ages of agony in every
minute. And yet, will you keliavo mo, that
all seemed Hrtle in comparison to tho thought
that after all tha struggles and tho sorrows,
after all those ten long, weary years, I held
my girl in my arms At last.
fiho had pulled one corner of tho cloak
around Trv'nrck (1 stood on a level just below
her), and ner hand.lay there with it—it was
the hand that warmed me more than the
rloak- and har cheok rested against my own.
Often I thought its coldness was tho coldness
of death, and almost exulted in the thought
that we should dls together. And theu (
would catch tbe murmur of tho prayors she
was uttering for ns both, and knew that lifo
was still there, and hopo lived too.
Well, well! Why should I dwell on. such
horrors, except to thsnk tho mercy that
brought us through them all? Day dawned at
last, and there was the there near by. and soon
rocket* were fired and ropes secured, and one
by one the half dead living were drawn from
their awful suspension between the sky and
sea, and landed safely on shore. They had to
take Winny and me together, just as w« were,
•nd even tnen they bad hard work to undo
the claps <1 iny atiflcned|arros about her. I
knew nothing then, nor for a long time after,
end it is wonderful that Winny was the first
to recover, and that It was she who nursed me
bsck lo life.
And bow did I ask her to marry me? Upon
my word, now you ask It, I can’t remember
that 1 ever did. That seemed utterly unnec
essary, somehow. Caste distinctions look
amall enough when you have been staring
death in liie face for a faw hours, and words
were not mugh needed when vro had
been t<gather in the rigging that
night. Somehow I was glad
it was ro—glad my girl had taken me, in my
cap and jerrey, for a common sailor, and yet
loved the old Dick through it all; gled sbo
never dreamed 1 was owner of lidian creek
farnfand the richest man in thfit end of On
tario, and hid wealth and a position higher
than Mr. Loftui, tho young 'squire st home.
The people she wss with had all gone down
on that awfnl night; she had no one in tho
world but me. we were married at Montreal
— the captain < the Antarctic gavo her awiy
—and then 1 brought her homo to Indian
Creik. To see her lace when she saw the
rocking ebair, tho work basket and the
thimble! Heaven bless her! X
There she comes, with her baby on her
shoulders. Come into dinner, friend, and you
will see tho sweetest wife in the new country
or tbe old; the girl 1 won amid tho ocean's
waves.
SEPTEMBER COTTON.
Waib/xctox, October U.—Tbe chief of the
bureau of statistics reports the total exports
of domestic cotton from the United State* for
the month of beptember, ISfej, and for the
two months ended the seine, as compared with
the corresponding periods of the preceding
year, were as follows:
Customs district. Bales.
New York. N.Y... &N37 *
Boston, &.TW
Bbt*adc:pbU Pa.
Baltimore, MO...
New Orinn*. l.». J
CbsriestoD, w c. llMp
1/cticdt.Mleblg'n m
Calvttton Texas ,! 2!
Pounds.
XtWLBOf
* Sol -I.
3C*i “M
4,vu:n.i
,8M,27i
IN. OIj
M iW
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6.257,2*;
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8SRS®« Jr
Tol.li— la.Wl , M.uo.va
I*Hunter, 6J,3»l,6i*
T.o n iLk it*
IDg Hi’P 166,116 OO.OM/CO
Punishing th* Mormons.
ffAiTLiaxCTTT, Utah, Odtntcr 13,-Hoyt wti
sentenced toOsj for the fourth time for murder.
He will he shot on November 2ltb.
Andrew fiulth, Emil Olson and John Nicholson,
editor of the I)tN*wi, were sentenced today
le six mao the In the penitentiary and a fine of
•wp each, for nnlawfiU cohabitation, til having
refuted to pUfge obedience to the law*
entire bereavement, by winning
both to Mormoiiism and himself. It was not
until he read n oowsraper on U>o day of his
arrival at Caatle Garden that he learned the
seriousneaj of poJygamT’e condition In Utah,
and became convinced that plural wedlock
waa a bygono institution. The suddon convic
tion that be must forsgo his dual sweetheart
crushed him grotesquely.
THE WIFE OV GENERA!. RORERT ANDKRBOX.
One women whom I saw stopped by a gnng
cl shouting ticket venders as she prissed a the
-ster could not hare been induced, as I hap
peted to know, to enter a theater on any terms;
and thin, j;ot because of any strong condemna
lien of tbe acted dsama, but by reaeon of the
death of General Robert Anderson, the hero of
Fort Sumter, many years sgo. She was tha
devoted wife of that conspicuous figbtor in the
early stage ol the w&r. Sno has never ceased
to vividly mourn the loss o: h im. Most of her
time is spent, in this oRy. vory quleOvy»in
the companiccehip of her daughters. She ba«
a grievance in tho charge, onco made pub
licly, that Andereon was undecided whether
to cost hie lot with tho north or the south, nnd
only reluctantly decided to defend Sumter
iuetead of voluntarily surrendering it, Mrs.
Anderson has accumulated ample evidence
that this accusation had no foundation. A
mutual friend tolls me that the. error agose
from a division in tbe Anderson lamU/ oq the
secession question, a brother of the general
going ever with the south. She had bg^n to
sco Grant’s tomb, on which she had placed a
bunch c/flowers.
“The soldier on sentry duty declined to 1st
rr.e psse,” the said, “and was polite but firm ,
in carrying outwbnt he asserted were his tr ■ »iM>*
ler^oet to to let any person, go to
^ ttfTciplToo, ai^y
general. ” r
“What vfM his name?” the scntinol askod
“Anderson, of Fort .Sumter,” I said. “Then
it won't take me ten seconds to let you pass,’
he exc/ainicd; “tho officer of the day was in
Fumtor under Anderson, nnd it’s tho pride of
his life.” IIo brought the veteran who sccmod
overjoyed to do me a service.” *
AX AUTOMATIC RKAt'TIFlE*.
The latest nonsense set dowu to the dls.
credit offemininc frivolity does not actually be-
long to the belles, and so 1 hasten to describe
il. Tho placard, “Faces beautified in rs-
j>rcseicn,” caught my eyes ia tho district of
retail trade, and I wont up etaira to the room
occupied by Professor Plausible, as I christen
him. He waited for no questioning, but with
voluble vehemence said:
“The facial lines in a human being depend
principally on bis or her mind. My moan
ing is that If the corners of the mouth be
habitually drawn down in t
frown, acd the brows wrlnk
itdr^ ‘ ~^ ~ ~
Rrooklvxw, October 18,—[8pecial.]—
Professor Henry Eyre Brown opened tho ser
vices in the Brooklyn tabernaole this morn
ing, with the organ solo sonata In C minor, by
I’.hcinberger. Dr. Telmage rea<l nnd ox
pounded tbs thirty .first chapter of the first
book of Samuel, showing that the old grudgo
between the Philistines and the Israelites was
kept good, and that people g.-nernlly die as
they live. Tho hymn sung was:
Vhrn thou, my righteous Judge, shall conic
To take Thy ranaomed people home,
Sbnll 1 nmoni them stand? •
i'ballsucb * worthless worm mI,
Who wunetlmfs am afrnld to die,
Be fotna at Thy right hand ?
The subject of the sermon vra*: “Shall wo
bare another chance in the next world?”
The tc xt waa from Ecclesiastes xf, 31 “If the
trie fall toward the south or toward th« north,
in the place where the tree falleth there U
stall bo.” Following U tho sermon In full:
There is • hovering hope In the minds of &
vest multitude that there will be an opportu-
mty in the text world to correct the mistakes
of \faiii| that, if we do make complete ship-
wr ck of our earthly life, it will be on ft shore
vp which ws may walk to a palace: that, as
e defendant may loso hit case in the circuit
«i rt and carry it up to the supreme court of
< 1 Wncerr* nnd get ft reversal oLjudgment in
bis behalf, ail the costa being thrown
over on the other party, so if ws nil in tho
caithly trial,we mar in tho higher jurisdiction
ol tternity have the judgmeut of tho lower
rcuit set aside, all tho costs remitted, and wo
be vlrtorkus defendant* forever.
My object in this sermon is to show that
common sense, as well ss my text, declares
that such on expectation it chimerical. You
*9j that tLo impenitent man, having got into
the next world and sseing the disaatcr, will,as
a result of that disaatcr, turn, tho pain tho
cause of his reformation. But you can find
Un thouitnul instances in this world of men
who have done wrong and dittrese overtook
tlum suddenly. Did the distress heal th'-ra?
No: th<y went right on.
That man was flung of dissipations. “Yon
mutt stop drinking, said the doctor, “and
quit the fist life you are leading or il will des-
in y you.” Tho patient autUrcrs paroxysm
afU. parcxynn-but-under skillful medical
lrcetn.ciit he begins to ttt up, begins to walk
about the room, begins to go to business. And
)< ! Jie goes beck to tbe same grog shops for
hit morning dram, and hi* evening dram,
rit’d the drams between. Flat down again.
F#rr e doctor. Fnir.c physical anguish, same
medical warning. Now tho illness Is
more protracted, the liver is moro
stubborn, the stomach moro irritable and the
rii&tttivo organs are moro rebellious. But at*
ler a while he is out again, goes back to tho
ss/lo dram shops, end goes tho seme round of
lege against his physical health. He
ihis downward course is rumini *
sv his life _ .
ihpt 1
In perplexity, thoee features will gradually
nine a fixed ••!>«<• t of repellent seriousness,
the other hand,the countenance that smile*
a great deal will get a pleasant shaping,
have invented an apparatus to be wo. a at
night, end X warrant it net only to induce a
pleasing expression in a face that has not yet
bc< c me set, but also to displace, obliterate ai»4
rearrange the line* that time and circutnttsn-'
of* havo already established.”
I requested him to show the machine to me.
“I would do that,” he explained, “but for
tbe fact that I have not ret obtained a patent,
and therefore cannot safely exhibit it, except
lo persona of whose probity 1 have had proof.
The priee is foity dollars, and on payment of
that sum I deliver tho apparatus complete,
with full directions for use. It is plftoed on
tbe feet ongoing to bed, end it holda the mo
bile fratures, espociallv the mouth, in a shape
calculated to improve liie expression. I am a
skilled artist, and 1 adept
tbo eontrivasco to each particular
case Tho improvement is wonderful. , I
have cultivated the sweetest i magi mild •; mouth
in & woman whose lips had previously known
no beauty, and in the cases of njen I ntve fre
quently changed a heavT. frowning visage to
one of light end urbane dignity.”
I did not buy, and inquiry h*» convinced
me that few, il any, of ths •(•posU* in have
pot their countenances under o^echanical
treatment. . Ktso. ■
DEALING'WITH THE PR'H’HKOIEB,
l':i m tie Cedartown, Ga., AdvertK«r.
Elder L. R. Burst is On grandfather of Mtsi
Lola Hurst. Hie hair is new tilv«rsd with
age. being ?6. He has given |he prophecies a
study ol sixty years. He ft now engagod io a
work on the times ol prophecy, tbe first chap
ter < f whi«:h we have be<-n permitte-l to in-
apcct. By a process of com puling peculiarly
■"his own, and tbe accuracy
ol which he claims is
icrcntrcvcrtit}l6, he has figured out the ful
fillment of the Biblical prophecies. He takes
up the prophecies of Daniel, Ezekiel, Jeremi
ah, laaieh and the vision ol John, locates ful
fillments rest and to come. Ths battle fought
by Titus Closer at the fall of Jerusalem corro-
sponds with the filth sound and aecon 1 woe,
and met a fulfillment sixty-liveyearsafter the
birth of Christ and the seventieth year of tho
present crt. Ths battle under the sixth
teued is to mee t a fulfillment in l-v» of the
present ere, when, according V> Revelation,
“the sixth vial of wrath will be paired out
upon tbe gmt Euphrates,” and out of
which the ••threo unclean spirits like frogs
will go out of th' mouth - 1 the drsgjn,and
cut ot the mouth of ths beast, and out of the
mouth of tho false prophet, which go forth
unto tho kings ot the earth, and to the whole
world to gather them to ftthe battle of
ths*. great q? day
mighty.” To be gathered “together
into ft pl#ce called — -
Aimti
f
Into a pljce called -in the Hebrew t«:.gue
Atmtacdm-n.” He then place* this Ar
jnsgeddr-ifballle in th#'y#*r -nineteeL bun-
dr# d *c«i thirty-two ef 2%e*j resent era, to
wbt;e the times of the Gentses .will be ful
filled, where Michanl, ”thb. gr^at priftce
which Ataudeth forjth# ehilirem.of Daniel’s
people.” (the Jewsb will stand »»h, and the
Jews will be'dellvered, d the begvvung of
the‘millennium.
at her
rnrktf _
) hia eons arc t-) be tnunted
a lifetime by the father's drunkenness, that
iho daughters are to pass into life undor tho
jcarifioation of a dirn-jmteblo ancestor. Hoi.
drinking up their happiness, their pr«ipects
u t this lilo and perhaps for the lifo to come,
fciMutinies an approbation of what is doing
ccrncs upon him. Ui» nervous system is all n
jerglf. Frrm crown ot hoed to solo of foot he
is one aching, rasping, crucifying, damning
torture. Where is he? Iu hell on earth.
Decs it reform ? After swhilo he has delirium
imiie&B with a whole jungle of hissing
reptiles let out on his pillow, and his reams
horrify tho neighbors a» ho dashes out of hit
bed. crying: “Take theso things ofl of moF
As lie sits, pale and convalescent, tbe doctor
rays: “Now 1 want to have n plain talk with
vou, my dear fellow. The next attack of this
kiz.il you will have, yon will be beyond all
modlcal skill, and you will die. lie gets bet
ter and goes forth Into the same round again.
This time medicine tekee no edect. Consults-
lion of physicisns agree in saying there is n->
h( pc. Death ends the seene.
That process of inebriation, warning and
diisolutun is going on within stone’s thrpw
of’this church, goiug on iu ull the neighbor-
foods of. Christendom. Tain does not cor
rect. Buffering docs not reform. What U
true In one senee is true in el: semes, end will
forever beso, and yet men ere expecting In
tl o next world purgatorial rejuvenation.
Take up tho printed reports ot ths prisons ol
Iht I ailed bt*!c», and you will find that tbe
vssl majority of tbs incarcerated have bssn
there Itfore. some of them four, five, six
With a million illustrations all work
ing the other way in this worM, people are
crpcctls z that distress in the next state will
l< ralvable. You cannot Imagine any worse
torture in any other world then which some
wen havo auiltred here and without any sal-
utsry .consequence.
Furthermore: The prospect of a rslormn-
ticn in the next world is more improbable
than a reformation here. Iu thi* world tho
lifo started with iur.oceaco of infancy. In Uio
■ no euppotid the other lifo will open with all
the accumulated bad habits or many rears
upon him. Surety it is cesior to butld ft
ttrrng ship out of new timber than out of an
.fid bulk that has been ground up
in tho breakers. If with innocence to
uteri with in this life, n man
cot become godly, what prospect is there
list in the next world, starting with nin, a
»tr*ph should be evoluted. Bursly ths sculp •
for has more prospect of making a fin* statue
(Uiofannld black rock seamed and cracked
with the storuis of a half century. Huraly
iin white sheet of paper It is easier
ileed or a will thin upon a sheet of
japer all rcribbled and blotted and torn from
np to bottom. Yet men seem to think that,
though tbe life that began hiaft comparatively
t erfect turned out badly, the next life will
iccrcd though it start* with a dead failure.
But,” says some one, “1 think we ought to
chance in the uexi life becauss this
hort it allows only small opportuni
ty have time to turn around be
tween cra ilc end tomb, tbe wood of tbe out
•Imcst touching the marble of the other.” But
I ron knew what made the i-ncient dclugs a
irsity? It wss in* longevity of thcsuledi-
iaes.' They were worse jn the sec .nu cea-
: (■( their lifetimethAn in the tint han-
i yctrt, and s*iil worse in the third cectu-
ftcdstill worse ail tho way on to sevea,
it and cite fauLdrcd year*, ted the earth
tote washed and scrubbed and soaked
anchored clrur out of sight for more than
CLtb before it. -uld be made fit f>r decent
B people to liv*- in. L'.ngcmy never cures im-
nileccy.| All the picture* of Time represent
tn with a r. ytb** but 1 never sew any
pietnze cf Time with a • aae of medi&inca to
heal. Hcncra says that Nero for the first five
years of bis public life was set up for an ex
ample of clemency atd kindness, hut b.s path
all the way deac*nd«r«i until at aixty eight he
became a aulcide. If eight hundred years
iid cot make antediluvians any better, but
l!v uiado thou w«rte f the sges ol eternity
•ould have no c fleet except ^prolongation of
Jcj ravily.
“But,'’says someone, “ift tho tutor# state
tv-! surroundings will be withdrawn nnd ele
vated influences substituted,. and hence ex-
“But,” is
have a ehu
lifo is eosh
... Well
Ig htoous, all their sins torgiven, have
passed on into a beatific state and consequent
ly the nnsnved will be left alone. It cannot
bo expected that Dr. Dull’, who exhausted
himself in teaching Hindoos tho way to heaven,
and Dr. Abeel, who gave his life in the evan
gelization of Ohlna, and Adoniram Judsou,
who toiled for the redemption of Borneo,
should be sent d >wn by some celestial mis
sionary society to |c<lucate those who wasted
all thei- earthly existence. Evangelistic and
mieeienary efforts aro onded. The ontire
kingdom of tbe morally bankrupt bv them
selves. where aro tho salvabfe influence to
come from? Cnn one speckled and bad apple
in a barrel of diseased apples, turn the other
apples good?
Can those, who are themselves down, help
others up? Can those who have themsolvos
failed In tho business of the soul, pay tho
debts of their spiritual insolvents? Can a:
million wrongs make one right? Poneropolis
wss a city where King Fhilin of Thracia put
all the bad fpeoplo or his kingdom. Il any
man had opened a primary school at Ponero
polis 1 do hot think the parents from other
cities would havo sent their children there.
Instead of amendment in the other world,
all (he associations, bow thnt the good
aro evolved, will bo degenerating and
down. You would not want to send a man to a
eUvlera or yellow lever hoenitnl for his health,
sort tho great Iizsrotto of tno next world, con
taining tno diseased and plague-struck, will
be a poor place for moral recovery, a! the
•urrenndioga in this world were crowded ol
temptation, tho surroundfngs la the next
world, after the righteous have passed up and
on, will be a thousand per cent more crowded
of temptation. The count of Chateaubriand
mads hi* lilt lo son sleep at night at the top of
a c&sHe turret, whero the winds howled and
whero spectres wore said to haunt the place
sad while tho mother and sisters almost died
with fright, the soci toll- us
that iho process gave him nerves that
could not tremble nnd a courage that never
faltered. But I don’t think that towers of
darkness and the spectral world swopt by Bi
rr oco snd Euroclydon will ever fit one fortne
lend of eternal sunshine. 1 wonder what is
tho curriculum of that coljpge of Inferno,
where.' after propsr preparation by the sins of
this life, the caiulidaU enters, passing on
ft Gin .Fresh man clsss. of depravity, to Sopho
more ofsbendonmont, and from Sophomore to
Junior,*and from Junior to Senior, ami day of
graduation cornea, and with diploma signed by
Satan, tha president, and other profossorial ,
demoniacr. allotting that the candidate ’
has been long enough under thsir drill, he
passes up to enter Heaven. Fandsnoninm a
proforstivs course for heavenly admission.
Ah, tuy /riends, Be tan and bio cohorts hare
- fitted uncounted multitudes lor ruin, but
.scttir fitted onc’soul for happiness. Further
more: It would not bo safe for this world
if men had another chance In the next. If
It had been announced that however wickedly
a roan might set in thin world, he could fix ft
up nil right in tbe next, society would h* tor-
rioly demoralized and tho human raoe de
molished in a few years.
Ths fear that if we are bad and uoforsiven
here it will not be well for us in tbe uext ex-
iiter.ee, is the < hici influence that keeps civil
ization from rushing back to semt-baroarism,
atd sstni barbarism from rushing into mid
night savsgtzy. and midnight savagery from
extinclion, for n is the astringent impression
ol sll nations, Christian aha heat 1 — lt *‘
form of stupendous Issues, and makes all eter
nity whirl • round this hour. But one trial
for which all the preparation must be made
in this world, or never, nsvnr
made at all, Thai pile*, up all tho eta-
pharesand all the climaxes and all the desti
nies into life here. No other chancel Oh, how
that augments the value and tho importaace
ol this chance! Alexander with bis army used
to surround a city and than would lift a great
light in token t* the people that, If they sur
rendered before that light went out, all would
be well, but if once the light went out then
the battering ram* would swing against the
wall, and demolition and disaster would
follow. Well, all we need to do for
our present and everlasting safety,
is io make surrender io Christ,
tbe king snd conqueror, surrender of oar
hearts, surrender of our lives, surrender of ev
erything. And he keeps a groat light fiuru-
Irg, light of Gospel invitation, light kiadlod
with the wood • of the crosa and flaming up .
against the dark night of our sin and sorrow.
Surrender while that great light continues to
burn, for after It goe« out, there will ha no
other cpittrtunity of rnnkieg j-esoo with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ. Talk of anoth
er chance! Why, this is a supernal ch&neot
In tho time of Edward the Sixth,
at tho battle of Muisolburgh, a
private soldier, seeibg that the earl ol Hunt-
Joy hid lost his helmet, took off his own hel
met and put It upon the head <>f the earl, and
the head of the privato soldier uncovsred.hu
wssiMB slain, whilo hrs commander rode
safely out of the battle. But in our esae, ia-
(dead of a private soldier offering helmet to
sn earl, it is a king putting his crown upou
an unworthy snbiect, the king dying that we
might live. Tell it to all points of the com
pass. Tell it jo night and dey. Tail ii to all
earth and heaven. Tell it to all centuries, all
nge«, all millenniums, that we have such a
magnificent chance in this world that we
need no other chance In the next.
A dream: 1 am in the burnished judgment
hell of tho lost day. A great white throne is
lifted, but tbe Juogo baa not yet taken it.
While we are waiting for his arrival, I hear
immortnl spirits in conversation. “What are
jou waiting here for?” says a soul that want
up from Madagascar to a soul that ascen lsd
frem America. The latter pays: '•! came
irctn Amerioa, where forty yvnre 1 beard
the gospel preached, and Bible read, and, from
the prayer I learned in lafuno/ at otf
mother's knee until my last hour,
1 bad cstpel advantage, but for some
reason 1 did not make the Christian cheiae,
ted I am hero wsiliug for th* Judge to gif«
me a new trial and another change,”
“.Strange,” says the other. W I bad but mi*
Gospel call In Madagascar, and I accepted Is,
snd J do sot need another chance.” “Why
are you b*rs?” soys one who on earth had
feeblest intellect to one who had great brain,
and silvery tongas, and sceptres ol influence.
The latter responds: “uh. I knew more
(bun my fellows. I maiterod libraries, and
had learned titles from colleges, and
my name was s rynonym for eloquence and
power. And yet I neglected my soul, and
1 am here waiting for an<>w trial.” “Btraagal”
says the <>ns ol tbe feeble earthly capacity,
“1 knew but little o! worldly knowledge, but
I ktew Christ and made him my partner, snd
1 have no neod of another chanee.” Now the
ground trembles with the approaching
«hsriot. The groat folding doors ol the Hall
swing open. "Bland took1” cry the ostsattal
nd baek, and let the Judge ol
sad pass through t”
e throne, sad-looking ever thf
— “Gome te Jodg*
t*thacnfyJndgbuitt!’ f
aoDtualitie*
Lo ajutewhat shortened
lufoo(M, but that will o:
diflf rLCCfl on a larger scale th* sooner possible
J will overtake the saints st last, and will en
ter tho Heavenly Temple only a little later
thim those who behaved themselves here. 1
v ill on wj way to benren fake n little wider
< xrursion than those who were on earth pious,
in.'d 1 will go to heaven via Gehenna and via
Sbcol.” Another chance iu the next world
utenc* free license and wiid abandonment fa
this. Suppose you were a party to an impor •
tsnt csso at law, and you knew frem consulta
tion with judges snd attorneys, that it won Id
l.» tried twice and the first trial it would he of
littleimpertsree, hut thatthe second wculd
decide ever; thing, for which trial would you
make tbo most pieparatlon, for whloh retain
the eldest attorneys, for which be meet anx
ious about the attendance ot witnesses? You
w«-uld put all ths sirens upon ths second trial,
sll the anxiety, all the expenditure, laying,
“1 he first Is nothing, the lest is everything.”
Oita race assurance of
second snd mors important
trial in the snbfrqiient lifo, and all the prepa
ration for eternity would be post-mortem,
P»*t fuaeral, post-sepulchral, and the world
wiih one jerk be pitched off Into impiety and
ged Icssn* w*
Furthermore* Let mo ask why a chance in
lira next world ii we have refused innu
merable chau<-ee In this? Suppose you give
a b*i'Jutland you Is vile a v»»t number of
fi tends, but one man declines ttx omsor treat#
your invitation with indiflerance. You iu the
oourse of twenty years give twenty banquets,
ebtl Iho tame man it Invited to them *11,
ai d ticats them ail in the same obnoxious
wn*. After a whilo y« u remove to another
home, larger and hotter, and you again invito
jour fticnoB but send no in viutfon to tkerata
who declined or neglected tbe olhsr invite-
iM.i.r. Aie you to blame? lias ho n right to
(xpcct to bo invited alter all the indignities
Lr bis d- ce y< u'! God, in this world, has ia-
\ Atd uh all t«> the banquet of his grit :e. He
Inviud us by bis Providence and his aplrll
Jfi days of erery jeer lie™ we knew our
right hand from r-ur left. If w» defined it
tver time, or trailed the invitation within-
dlflerence, snd gavo twenty or forty or fifty
§ of Indignity on oar psrt toward the
_ )uctcr, and at-last he aprsadt tbe banquet
In a more luxuriant and kingly place, amid
the heavenly gardens, bate we a right to ex -
ptet him to Invite us again, and have we a
rijjht lo blatnehiin if be docs not invite us?
If twelve gates ol salvation stood open
twenty years or fifty years *for «ur admis-
(ion, md st ths end of that time
they are closed, , esn wo complain
ndsay: “These gates ouv-bt to be open
. Give ns another '-bnnre,” If tbe
t>tcamer is to sail for Jiambur/, and wswani
to get to Germany by that Due, and we read
m every evening \nd every moraine news-
per that it will rail on a certain day, for
o week wo have that a4verti*emsnt before
our eyes acd then we go down to tbe docks iif-
Utn mitulcs ifur it h«* ilioved ofl inti the
stream and tty “Come bsck. Give m# au-
cbance. It ii not fair tv treat me in this
Hiving up to the d ^k^s^ain, and throw
cut'tbe planks, and let me come on bjard.”
.-uch behavior would invite arrest as a mad-
trh n. A Bd If, after the gw pc I ship baa lain
ebor-before our eyes for years and years,
aid j«ar*, Kt.d nil the benign .--ices pf earth
i ii bteef.L have urged us t< gel on board as
e might sail away aay mun.'-ut, and after a
hile the sails without us, is it common sense
> expert ber to come back? You might as
*11 go out ot tbe highlands at Ncversink
od call to tho Aurtnis after she has been
three days C’.t, and expert her to return, os to
all baeft an opportunity for He*^ven when it
ct has aped awav. All Heaven ottered us
a gratuity and for a lifetime we refuse to
take it, and then rush on Ike bosses of
Jehovah’s bu 'kJer demanding another cbacce.
Tke.-e ought to be, there can be, there will be,
so such thing a« posthumous opportunity.
Thus <mr common sense agrees with ray text:
“If the tree fall* towards the south or towards
the north, la the piece where ths tree falleth
there it shell be.” '
'i cu see that this idea liita this worVl up
from an unimportant «sy atetioft lo a plftt-
I ft*. Jodg-
■11a i ill
assembly. “PfYldel” echo tba walls.
• Divide I” cry i he guards angslle. And ftow
the immortals separate, rushing this wsy and
that, snd slier awhile there Is a great aisle
b«lwc«n than), and a great vacuum widening
and widening, and tho Judge turning to the
ihroog tb ouo aide xays: “Jfc that is right*
««.u* let him be righteous still, snd he that
is b«.ly 1*1 him bn holy still/' end then
turning toward the throng on the oppoalte
side, he says; “He that is unjust, let him be
us just still, and ho that is filthy, let him be
filthy still,” snd thsn lifting on* head toward
csch group ho declares: “If the tree fall to
ward ths loath or toward the north, in the
p'ace where the tree falleth there It shall bs.“
And then I hssr oomsthing jsr with a graft!
sound. It is the olosing ot ths hook ofjndg-
n ont. Th# judge aveends the stairs behind
ths throne. Ths hill of ths last assize is
ofonrsd siut shut. Tha high court ol eternity
udjcur&sil forever.
QROIfiU OEOIM.
What (be Monthly lie port pf the Depart-
meat of Agrtcultare tltewe.
The report of t}e department ot agriculture
just cut an*-w* that
thp coxniTiux m tmk cotton caoi*
has been constantly falling oil aince tbe lint
of Beptember, Material injury baa rsaulUd
from the rainatorma of this month in all parti
of the state, and much local injury has re
sulted from rum'and ths ravages of tbscater-
pillars. Bouthweit Goorgia, where all
these caus«a have united in im
pairing the crop, has suataJnsd ths graateet
injury, nmouutinx to s depreciation ot about
U per rcut. Tn' 1 condition for the whole
&• otc !• eigl^t poikte bolow the report of last
month, uincunting to a discount of about 'J
per rent on the condition of the crop at that
date. The condition and prospect in the
sti le for August 1st was reported 07; fer Sop-
It mbtr 1st, v:!; and for October 1st, *3,
Till WKATUEK Kta SKJ'TKVSCa.
7 I.e rainfall tor tbe month of Beptember baa
b*rn excessive nnd damaging to the crops in
aJJ parts of the state. Iu middle and south-
(as! Georgia there has been about three times
ths usual amount for Reptember. On tbs 19lh r
at Ht. Mary’s, there was a fall of over live and
a half iacha; on ths 2'fth, at Brunswick, four
nnd three-quarter inches; and on the 20th
three and a ball at LaGranfe, and four inches
*.n Lookout M*'Untilin. At Ht. Mary's a total
rainfall of 2.' (lichen waa recorded for the
month.
The total mean (or the month In iachea in
north Georgia ia 7.01; In middle Georgia, 8 M;
in ftouthwest Georgia, in east Goorgia,
I I? a nd In southeast Georgia, 20.73.
The average orecipitation of rain lor Bep- c
ttmuer, as deduced irons ths ueteerologieftl
obiervstionu of a series of yean, In
north Georgia, is l.'.'S inches; in middle
Georgia 2.71: in southwest Georgia, 4 20; In.
cast Georgia, 4 0"; in southeast Georgia, 7
at«l the av*rag* lor the state, 4.4j.
Thssrttioni on fho first of October ere re
ported sa follows -. North Georgia, 25; middle
Ge< rgia, -V; southwest Georgia, HO; east Geor
gia, hi. and southeast Georgia, M).
TH K C.)E\ caoi*.
The c< rn crop is reported one per cent above
sn average crop for the state. The yield,
compared to an average in north Georgia, is
1C*.: in middle Georgia, 104; in southwest
Georgia, i'flj in east Georgia, 103; and in
(ontheast Georgia, p.h. This vans* hut little
in tbs general average from ths report of last
n cath, being one point higher for the state,
• ilh o slight falling ofl in the estimate* for
north, middle and southwsat <<eorgls, and an
increase in east eud southeast Georgia.
A iUid Oft**.
From tbe ArSanras Traveler. •
7**x* ego there lived la Little Boot ft
biuiltt jouni msb, but wbe. IU« many bright
joDDg nun of his d#;. wo* sadly addicted tft the
exce^stve use cl wbusy. Ona day nf» bwtber
went to him *ud mid; _ „ . .
“Bretber John. 1 see fete yen are determlised
U> kill youraslf drillMne. w>I mm te ,«#■»•
room, put« barrel of waiaky sod s barrel of water
Int# it a»d ohu| you eyin U until yo^ Ml year-
"«i«hrr*LIH». • lb* J*u.f ktsjftHf*.
■ nntimita fiww.ltrt »ul lu lwo b<ui»l« «
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