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JOHN 11. HANCOCK, Publisher.
PROFANITY.
God’s Name Blasphemed All Over
the Land.
A Vile Habit Which Grows find Strength
ens With Life—Avoid It in YOutli
ir You Would be Free—
Ta linage’s Sermon*
One of the hymns sung atthe Tabernacle
Sundays morning begaii with the words:
“ So let our lips, and lives express
The Holy Gospel wo profess.”
After reading appropriate passages of
Scripture, He v, T. Pc Witt Tu imago, D. D.
preached on the habit of xutsing and
swearing. His text was front the Book of
Job, chapter ii., verses 7, Sand 9. “So went
Satan forth from the presence of the Lord,
and smoto Job wTUj soru itoils from tfio
sole of his Ktdt unto his crown. And he
took him a potsherd to scrape himself
withal; a. id he sat down among the ashes.
Then said his wife unto him: ‘Dost thou
still retain thine integrity I C'grse Uod,
and die.’ ”
A story Oriental and marvelous. Job
was the richest man in all the East. He
had cornels and oxen, and asses aud sheep,
and, What would have made him rich
without any thing else, seven sons and
three daughters. It was the habit of
these children to gather together for fam
ily reunion. One day Job is thinking of
his children as gathered together at a ban
quet at the elder brother’s house.
While the old man is seated at his tent
door he sees some one ruqnitjg, evidently
from his manner bringing bad news.
What is the matter now} “Ob,” says the
messenger, “a foraging party of Sabeans
have fallen upon the oxen and the asses,
and destroyed them, and butchered all the
servants except myself.” Stand aside.
Another messenger running. What is the
matter now! “Oh,” says the man, the
lightning has struck the sheep and the
shepherds, and all the shepherds are de
stroyed except myself.” Stand aside.
Another messenger running. What is the
matter now} “Oil,” he says, “the Cha’-
deans have eaptured t he camels, and slain
all the camel-drivers except myself."
Stand aside. Another messenger run
ning. What Is'the matter now. “Oh,”
he says, “a hurricane struck four corners
of tho teat where your children were as
sembled at the banquet, anu they arc -all
dead.”
But the chapter of calamity Has not ond
,ed. Job .was smitten with elephantiasis,
or black leprosy. Tumors Cjobi head to
foot; forehead ridge® with tubercles; eye
lashes fall out; nostrils excoriated; voice -
destroyed; intolerable exhalations from
the entire body, until, with none to dress
his sores, he sits down in tho ashes with
nothing but pieces of broken pottery to
use in tho surgery of his wounds. At this
moment, when lie needed all encourage
ment and ail consolation, his wife comes
in in a fret and a rage and says: “This is
intolerable. Our property gone, our chil
dren slain and now you covered up with
this loathsome and disgusting disease.
Why don’t you swear? Curse God, aud
die!”
Ah, Job knew l ight well that swearing
Would net cure one of tho tumors of his
agonized body; would not bring hack one
of his destroyed camels; would not restore
one of iiis dead children. Ho knew that
profanity would ouly make the pain more
Unbearable, and the poverty more dis
tressing, and tho bereavement more ex
cruciating. But judging from the profan
ity abroad in our day. you might come to
tho conclusion that there was some groat
advantage to he reaped from profanity.
Blasphemy is all abroad. You hear it in
every direction. The drayman swearing
at his cart, the sew ng girl imprecating
the tangled skein, the accountant cursing
the long lino of troublesome figures.
Swearing at tho sloro, swearing in tho
loft, (Wearing in the cellar, swearing on the
street, swearing in the factory. Children
swear. Men swear. Women swear! Swear
ing from the rough calling on the Al
mighty in the low restaurant clear up to
the reckless “Oh, Lord 1” of a glittering
drawing-room; and the euo is as much
blasphemy as the other.
There are times when we must cry out to
the Lord by reason of our physical agony
or our mental distress, an 1 that is only
throwing out our w'enk hand toward the
strong arm of a father. 11 was no profani
ty when James A. Garfield, shot in the
Washington Depot, cried out: “My God,
what doos this mean}” There is no pro
fanity in calling out upon God in the day of
troub e, in the day of darkness, in the day
of physical anguish, in the day of bereave
ment; but I am spoaking now of the trivi
ality and of tho recklessness with which
theliauio of God is sometimes managed.
Trie whole laud is cursed with it.
A gentleman coming from the far M est
eat in the car day alter day behind two
persons who were indulging in profanity,
and he made up his mind that he would
make a iecor-1 of their profanities, and at
the end of two days several sheets of pa
per were covered with these imprecations,
and at the c.ose of the journey ho handed
tho manuscript, to one of the persons in
front of him. “Is it possible,” said the
man, “that we have uttered so many pro
fanities, the last few daysl” “It is,” re
plied th* gentleman. “Then,” said the
man who had taken the manuscript, “I
will never swear again.”
But it is a comparatively unimportant
thing if a man makes record of our impro
rietles of speech. The more memorable
rons deration is that every improper word,
eve; v oath uttered, has a record in the
book of God’s remembrance, and that tho
J a , xvi ii conic When all our crimes of
speech, if unrepeuted of, will be our con
demnation. 1 shall not to-day deal in ab
stractions. 1 hate abstractions. I am
going to have a plain talk with you, my
about a habit that you admit to
in the community in the
' ’ think it manly to
’dier, hardly abli to
street, yet have
-once to let you
♦heir own
souls or damning tho souls of others. It
is an awful thing the first time the little
feet are lilted to have them set down on
the burning pavement of belli
Between sixteen and twenty years of
age there is apt to come a time when a
young man is as much ashamed of not be
ing able to swear gracefull.v as he is of the
dizziness of bis first cigar. He has his hat,
his boot und his coat of tho right pattern,
aud now, if he can only swear without
awkwardness and as well as jjis comrades,
he believes he is in the fashion. There ard>
y'oung men who walk in an atmosphere of
imprecation—oaths on their lips, under
their tongues, nestling in their shock of
hair. They abstain from it in the elegant
drawing-room, but. the street aud the
club-house ring with their profanities.
They have no regard for God, although
they luvve groat respect for tho ladies 1 My
young brother, there is no manliness in
that. The most ungentlomanly thing a
man can do is to swear.
Fathers foster this great crime. There
are parents who are very cautious not to
swear in the presence of their children; in
a moment of s widen anger they look
around to see if the children are prosont
when they indulge in ibis habit. Do you
notjrmow, O fattier, that tho child is aware
of tho fact that yon swear! Ho overheard
you in the next room, or some one has in
formed him of your habit. He is practic
ing now. In ten years ho will swear as
well as you do. Do not, O father, be un
der the delusion that you may swear and
your son not know it. It is an awful thing
to start the habit in u family—the fattier
to he profane, and then to have the echo of
hfs example come bock from other genera
tions;. so that generations after genera
tions curs > the Lord.
The crimo is also fostered by masher me
chanics, boss carpenters, those who are at
the head of men in hat factories, and in
dockyards, and at the head of great busi
ness establishments. When you go down
to look at the work of the scaffolding, and
you find it is not done right, what do you
say? It is not praying, is it? The employer
swears—his employe is tempted to swear.
Tho man says: “I don’t know' why my
employer, worth $5'),000 or SIOO,OOO, should
have any luxury I should bedonied simply
because I am poor. Because lam poor
and dependent on a day’s wages, haven’t
I as much right to swear as he has with
his largo income ?” Employers swear, and
that makes so many employes swear.
The habit also comes from infirmity of
temper. There are a good many people
who, when they are at peace, have right
eousness of speech, but when angered
they blaze with imprecation. Perhaps all
the rest of the year they talk in right lan
guage, but now they pouf mft the fury of a
whole year in one red-hot paragraph of
five minutes. I knew of a man who ex
cused himself for the habit, saying: “1
only swear once in a great while. I must
do that to cloav myself out.”
The habit comes also from the profuse
use of bywords. The transition from aby
word, which may be perfectly harmless to
imprecation and profanity, is not a very
large transition. It is “my stars!” and
“mercy on me!” and "good gracious!”
and “by George!” and “by Jove!” and
you go on with that a little while, and
then you swear. These words, perfectly
harmless in themselves, are next door to
imprecation and blasphemy. A profuse
use of bywords always ends in profanity.
The habit is creeping up into the highest
styles of society. Women have no pa
tience With flat and unvarnished profan
ity. They will order a man out of a parlor
indulging in blasphemy, and yet you will
sometimes find them with fairy fan to the
lip, and under chandeliers which bring
no blush to their cheek, taking on their
lips the holiest of names in utter trivi
ality.
Why, my friend*, the English language
is comprehensive and capable of express
ing all shapes of feeling and every degree
of energy. Are you happy? Noah Web
ster will give you ten thousand wcyrds
with which to express your exhilaration.
Are you righteously indignant? There
are whole armories in the vocabulary—
righteous vocabulary—whole armies of
denunciation, and scorn, and sarcasm,
and irony, and caricature, and wrath.
You express yourself against some mean
ness or hypocrisy in all the oaths that ever
smoked up from the pit, and I will come
right on after you and give a thousand
fold more emphasis of denunciation to the
same meanness and the same hypocrisy in
words across which no slime has ever
trailed, and into which the fires of hell
have never shot their forked tongues—the
pure, the innocent, God-honored Anglo-
Saxon, in which Milton sang, and John
Bunyan dreamed and Bkakcspere drama
tized.
There is no excuse for profanity when
we have such a magnificent language
such a flow of good words, potent words,
mighty words, words just to suit every
crisis and every case. Whatever be the
cause of it profanity is on the increase, and
if you do not know it it s because your
ears have been hardened >y tho diu of im
precations so that you art hot stirred and
moved, as you ought to bq by profanities
in these cities which are enough to bring
a hurricane of fire like that which con
sumed Sodom.
Do you know that this tiival use of God’s
name results in perjury? Do you know
that people who take tie name of God on
their lips in recklessnessand thoughtless
ness are fostering the crime of perjury?
Make the name of Goda foot-ball in the
community and ft has 10 power when in
court-room, and in Legitlature Assembly
it is employed in solemi adjuration ! See
the way sometimes thi.v administer the
oath: “B’belp you Goi —kiss the book!”
smuggling, which is rfways a violation
of the oath, becoims in some cir
cles a grand joke. x ou say to a man:
“How is it possible hr you to sell these
goods so very cheap? 'can’t understand
it.” “Ah!” he replies with a twinkle of
the eye, “the custom louse tariff of these
goods isn’t as much a it might be.” An
oath does not mean .s much as it would
were the name of Gtd used in reverence
and in solemnity. Why is it that so often
jurors rendsr unacceptable verdicts, and
judgeJ give unaccouitable charges, and
useless railroad schemes pass in our State
capitals, and there are most unjust
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 13. 1888.
changes made in tariffs—tariff lifted lrom
one thing and put upon pnjßhd - ?
What is an oath? Any thing solemn?
I Any thing that calls upon the Almighty?
Any thing tiiat marks an event, in a man’s
history? Oii.no! It is kissing the hook !
There is no habit, 1 fell you plainly—and 1
talk to hundreds and thousands of meu to
day who Will thank me for my utterance
—I tell you, my brother-*-1 talk to you not
professionally, but just us one brother
talks to another on some very important
theme—l tell you there is no habit that so
depletes a man’s nature as the habit of
profanity. Y r ou might as well try toraise
vineyards and orchards on tho sides of
belching Stromboli as to raise tiny thing
good on a heart from which there pours
out the scoria of profanity. Y'ou may
swear yourself down; you can not swear
yourself up. When the Mohammedan linds
a piece of paper he can not read he puts it
aside very cautiously, for fear the name
of God may bcou it. That is one extreme.
Wo go the other. Now what is ibo cure
of this habit? It is a mighty habit. Men
hnvo struggled for years to get over it.
There are men in this house of God who
would give half their fortune to get rid of it.
An aged man was in the delirium of s fe
ver. He had for many years lived a most
upright life, anil was honored in all the
community, but when ho came intcatne
delirium of this fever he was full of impre
cation and profanity, and they could not
understand it. After ho came to his right
reason he explained it. He said: “When
I was a young man I was very profane. I
conquered the habit, but I had to struggle
all through life. Y'ou haven’t for forty
years heard me say an improper word, but
it has been an awful struggle. The tiger
is chained, but.he is alive yet.”
If you would get rid of tills habit, I
want you, my friends, to dwell upon the
uselessness of it.. Did a volley of oaths
ever start a heavy load? Did they ever ex
tirpate meanness from a customer? Did
they ever collect a bad debt? Did they over
cure a toothache? Did they over stop the
twinge of tho rheumatism? Did they ever
Help you forward ono step in the right
direction? Come, now, toll me, ye who
have had tho most experience in this
habit, how much have you made out of
it? Five thousand dollars in nil your life?
No. Ono thousand? No. One hundred?
No. One dollar? No. Ono cent? No.
If the habit be so utterly useless, away
with it.
But you say: “I have struggled to over
come the habit a long w hile, and I have
not been successful.” You struggled in
your own strength, my brother. Hover a
man wants God, it is in such a crisis of his
history. God alone by His grace fifth
emancipate you from that trouble. Call
upon Him day aud night that you may be
delivered from this crime. Remember
also in tho cure in this habit that it arouses
God’s indignation.
The Bible reiterates from chapter to
chapter, and verso after verse, the fact
that it is accursed for this life, and that it
makes a man miserable for eternity.
There is not a sin in all the cataloguo that
is so often peremptorily and suddenly pun
ished in tliis world as the sin of profanity.
There is not a city or a village but can
give an illustration of a man struck down
atthe moment of imprecation. Acouplo
of years ago, briefly referring to this sin
in a sermon, I gave some instances in
which God had struck swearers dead at
the moment of their profanity. That ser
-mon brought to mo from many parts of
this land and other lands statements of
similar cases of instantaneous visitation
from God upon blasphemers. My opinion
is that such cases occur somewhere every
day, but for various reasons they are not
reported.
In Scotland a club assembled every week
for purposes of wickedness, and there was
a competition as to whicli could use the
most horrid oath, and the one who succeed
ed was to be made president of the ciub.
The competition went on. A man uttered *n
oatli which confounded all his comrades,
and he was mado president of the club.
His tongue began to swell, and it protrud
ed from the mouth, and he could got draw it
in, and he died, and tho physicians said:
•‘Thisis the strangest thing we ever saw;
we never saw any account in the books
like unto it; we can’t understand it.” I
understand it. He cursed God and died.
At Catskill, N. Y., a group of men stood
in a blacksmith’s shop during a violent
thunder-storm. There came a crush of
thunder and somo of the men trembled.
One man said: “Why, I don’t see wiie*.
you are afraid of. lam not afraid to go
out in front of the shop and defy the Al
mighty, I am not afraid of lightning.”
And he laid a wager on tho subject, and
he went out, and he shook his fist at
the heavens, - crying: “Strike, if you
,darel” nnd instantly he fell under a
bolt. What destroyed him? Any mys
tery about it? Oh, no. Ho cursed God
and died.
Oh, my brother, God will not allow this
sin to go unpunished. There are stylos of
writing with manifold sheets, so that a
man writing on one leaf writes clear
through ten, fifteen ortwoity sheets, and
so every profanity we u-,ter goes right
down through the leaves of the book
of God’s remembrance. It is no excep
tional sin.
Do you suppose you could count the
profanities of last week—tho profanities
of tho office, store, shop, factory ? They
cursed God, they curse! His Word, they
cursed his only begotten Son.
One morning on Fulton street, as I was
passing along, I heard a man swear by the
name of Jesus. My hair lifted. My blood
ran cold. My breath caught My foot
halted. Do you not suppose that God is
aggravated ? Do you not suppose that God
knows about it? Dionysius used to have a
cavo in which his culprits were incarcer
ated, and he listend atthe top of that cavo,
and he could hear every groan, ho could
hear ivory sigh and he could hear every
whisper of those who were imprisoned.
He was a tyrant God is not a tyrant but
He bends over this world, and He hears
every thing—every voice of praise apd ev
ery imprecation. He hears it ail. The
oaths seem to die on the air, but they have
eternal echo. They come back from the
ages to come.
Listen! Listen! “All blasphemers shall
have their place in the lake which burneth
with fire and brimstone, which is the sec
ond death." And if, according to the
theory of some, a man commits in the
next world tho sins which ha committed in
this world—if unpardoned, unregener
ated —think of a man going on cursing in
tho namo of Uod to all eternity!
Hie habit grows. Y'ou start with a small
oath, you will come to tho large oath. I
saw a man die with an oath between his
teeth. Voltaire only gradually came to
his tremendous imprecation : but the habit
grew on him until in the last moment, sup
posing Christ stood at the bed, he exclaim
ed : 4 crush that wretch! Crush that
wretch !” Oh, my brother, you begin to
swear and there is nothing impossible for
you in the wrong direction.
Who is this God whose name you avo
using in swearing! Who is He? Is He a
tyrant? Has He pursued .you all your life
long? Has He starved you, frozen .you,
tyrannized over you? No. He has loved
you, he has sheltered you, ho watched
you last night. Ho will watch you to
night. He wants to love you, wants to
help you, wants to savo you, wants to
comfort you. Ho was your father’s God
and your mother’s God. He has housed
them from the blast, and He wants to
shelter you. Will you spit in His face
by an imprecation? Will you ever thrust
Him back by an oath?
Who is this Jesus whose name I heard
in the imprecation? Has He pursued you
all your life long? What vile thing has
He done to you that you should so dishonor
Ilis name'! Why, Ho was the Lamb whose
blood simmered in the fires of sacrifice for
you. He is the brother that look off His
crown that you might put it on. He has
pursued you all your life long with mercy.
He wants you to lovo Him, wants you to
serve Hirn. He comes with streamingoyes
and broken heart aud hiisterod feet to save
you. On tlie craft of our doomed human,
ity He pushed out into the sea to take you
off the wreck.
UTILITY OF VOLCANOES
Value of the Solid Substances Ejected
During Eruptions.
The solid matter thrown out by volcanoes
is the most important contribution to the
materials v'hich the sea has at its disposal
for the nourishment of life and for the
formation of Btra n. The quantity of the
pumifieous and finely pulverized materia)
is enormous. When it fails upon the sea
it either floats for a time or at once sinks
into the depths. In either cise It is,
to a great extent, dissolved in the ocean
waters, and so contributes to the stor«
of materials w'hich may bo appopri
ated by the orga,nio life of the sea. When
it fnlls on the land, it is generally so inco
herent that it is easily swept away by the
rains, and so cora»» quickly into the ocean.
The importance of this contribution to
marine sediments has been overlooked by
geologists, bnt it is easy to see that it may
amount in muss to something like as much
ns the earthy matter which is brought to
the sea by the rivers. The volcanoes of the
Java district alone have within a century
thrown out a mnss of this fragmentary
rock amounting probably not less than ono
Lundred cubic mijos, and perhaps to twice
this quantity. N y, the Mississippi river
carries out in the form of dissolved matter,
mud and sand about one cubio mile in
tw-enty years, or five cubic miles in a
century; thus these volcanoes of the Java
districts have brought up from the depthn
of the earth and contributed to the sea
many times as much detrius as has been
conveyed to the ocean by tho greatest rivoi
of North America Allowing for the porosi
ty of the volcanic dust, it still seems un
likely that the ejections from a b »lf
dozen great volcanoes of the East Indian
archipelago, in the period of little moro
than a century, from 1773 to 1883, far
exceeded that brought into the ocean by
all the rivers of North America in the same
period.
Although the volcanoes of this district
are by far the most powerful which are
known, v r e still can not fairiy reckon that
their ejee ions represent anywhere near
tho half of the total quantity which came to
the earth’s surface from such vents during
the »love-named period of 111 years. For
during this time some scores of great cra
ters were in eruption, including Skaptar, in
Iceland, Vesuvius, A! na, various volcanoes
in South America and elsewhere. It seems,
therefore, not unlikely that the solid ma’er
ials contributed by volcanoes to the sea
floor, may, on the average, amount to as
much as that taken by the rivers from the
land. Among these solid substances which
are ejected by volcanoes we find some of
the most indispensable elements of or
ganic life, including phosphorus, soda,
potash nnd other materials. The value of
these materials to vegetation may be judged
by the fertility which so often characterizes
the regions in the Immediate vicinity of
volcanic cones which cast forth large
amounts of ash. If the rainfall be sufficient
this ash quickly decomposes into a fertile
soil, which tempts the hunbandman to re
plant the fields as fnst as they ere ravaged
by tie explosions.— Scnb.M'e Magazine.
Wiso Forgetting,
Helps to memory ore fought and ore prof
fered on every side. Men are asking how
they can be aided to remember things
which they want to keep in mind. And
men who say that they can give assistance
in th s line are sure of willing pupils. But
there, is a duty of forgetting which is quite
as pftsitive and quite zs practical os any
duty of remembering. If only we could
forget those early lessons of evil which
abide with ns re if they were a part of our
very nature; if only we could forget those
injuries! und unkind nesses which, in spite
of our efforts at keeping th6tn out of
mind, are as a barrier between us and
those whom we would fan remember with
unfailing pleasantness; if only we could
put out of memory forever those things
which ought never to have a place there--
what a blessing it would be to us! Whc
will promise to teach n sure method of wise
forgetting in five lessons—or in live ban
dre I?— S. H. I'iinex.
A —♦ •
The man who, being in ordinary health
and basing the usual powers of our com
mon humanity, seeks to sponge the means
of subsistence out of others, without con
tributing any tiling to the good of
others, deserves a whippine-poet; and if
it were not barbarism, should favor
lash ng him to exertion. — X. Y. Independent,
It is not true that love makes all things
easy; it makes us choose yvjjafc is difficult
—George Eliot ,
FROM THE POPE
To the Illustrious President of the
United States.
Handsome Acknowledgement of the Jubi
lee Present—Document Delivered in
Person l>y Cardinal Gibbons.
Baltimore, Mo., April 9.—Cardinal Gib
bons lias received the following from
Home: “To Ova Beloved Son James
Gibbons, Cardinal Priest of the Holy Ho
man Church, Archbishop of Baltimore -
W«U Ueloveil Aon, I/ealth nnd Ajioetolir Betu
<iietxon: Among the countless congratula
tions which we have receivod from all
. parts of tho world upon the occasion of
the fiftieth anniversary of our elevation
to tho priesthood, we have, as was natural,
set most store by the evidences of
courtesy nnd regard sent by the
rnlcrs of the Nations. For by these
marks of their good will toward the head
of the church they manifest (and this wo
irdently desire) their kindly disposition
reward their Catholic subjects. Since,
then, the Illustrious President of the
United Slates has, through you, our be
loved son,seen fit to exhibit a like courtesy,
accompanying the expression of tho samo
with a gift of a superb copy of the Consti
tution of that most powerful Re
public, he has, in so doing, afforded
us a most peculiar pleasure and satis
faction. Moreover, as it is fitting that wo
should return to His Excellency the expres
sion of our gratitude, wo commit tho dis
charge of that duty to you, both on ac
count of your exalted rank in tire hierarchy
of the Republic and the personal esteem
in which His Excellency holds you. In
fulfilling this duty we desire that you
should assure the Presidentof our admira
tion for the Constitution of tho United
States, not only because it has enabled in
dustrious and enterprising citizens to
attain so high a degree of prosperity, but,
also, because under its protection your
Catholic countrymen have enjoyed a liber
ty which has so confessedly promoted tho
astonishing growth of their religion in tho
past, and w ill, we trust, enable it in the fu
ture to be of tho highest advantage to the
civil order as well. You will be p’eised to
add that we will pour forth fervont pray
ers to God for your coun
try’s constant advance in glory anil
prosperity, and for tho health and happi
ness of tho President and his worthy house
hold. Finally, to you, beloved son, and to
the faithful intrusted to your pastoral
care, we loving, in the Lord, impart our
Apostolic benediction. Given at Romo,
at St. Peter’s, the 4th day of February, in (
the year of our Lord 1888, and tho tenth of
our Pontificate. —Pope Leo, X!II.’“ Tho
epistle was in Latin. The contents were
translated and road by the Cardinal for the
President to-day.
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> FOURTEEN HUSBANDS
In Thirty-Eight Years—A Woman Is Said
to Have This Record and lie Legally
Correct.
| Bradford, Pa., April 9.—McKean Coun
ty sees Dr. J. M. Chaplin, of Findlay, 0.,
the champion married man of the Buck
eye State, and goes him four better. The
doctor has succeeded in transferring his
name to ton wives, seven of whom are re
ported as living. McKean County’s re
cord-breaker is a she, and her experience
1n the “silken bonds of matrimony” would
fill a book as big as a dictionary. She
lives in Smithport, the county seat
of this county, and is known os
Mrs. Ida Hoosted. Her chief attraction is
her Juno-like form. She is tall and
magnificently proportioned, and looks ns
if the winds of thirty -eight winters, moro
or less, might have toyed with her abun
dant dark brown tresses. When scarcely
out of her short dresses she contracted
her first marriage. She lias been after
meu ever since, and is now living with
husband No. 14. The other thirteen hub
bies are all in the flesh, and all are on good
terms with tho marrying woman. She
has been legally - separated from all her
alliances, and was only married a few
months ago to No. 14.
Dehorned Cattle Craze.
BloomiNOTo.v, 111., April 9.— Thousands
of cattle have been dehorned in this sec
tion since tho outbreak of the craze, a few
months ago, and with but few exceptions
the animals rapidly recovered from tho
operation. Yesterday, however, news
came that several droves of recently de
horned cattle ou farms west of Blooming
ton are in a most pitiable and serious con
dition. Their horns were removed March
1, and the wounds have not healed, and
mortification is reported to have set in in
the flesh of the head. Something like 100
animals are reported to be thus affected.
Strange and Fatal Accident
Albuql'ekqi'E, N. M., April 9.—Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Reynolds, of Las Vegas, camo
hero yesterday. While thoy were walk
ing along the street, Mr. Reynolds carry
ing an overcoat on his arm, a loaded re
volver fell from one of its pockets, struck
on the hammer and was discharged. Tho
hall cutered Mrs. Reynolds’ badv on her
leftside, ranged upward, passing directly
through tho heart, killiug her iustautlv.
Lock-jaw From a Trivial Cause.
Wheeling, W. Va., April 9.—Last Fri
day Carry Baiswonger, while scrubbing,
ran a big splinter under her thumb
nail. A physician remove 1 it, but the ar.u
swelled badly, and to-day lock-jaw set In,
and it is said the girl can not live till morn
tng.
Conklin in Dangerg.
New York, April 10. —At an early hour
this (Tuesday) morning Ex-Senator Ros
coe Conkling was hovering between life
and death. An operation was performed
on the Senator, and a portion of the tem
poral bone was removed to ascertain if
pus is lodged on the brain. The operation
was successful, but grave doubts ara ex
pressed as to his life being prolonged for
ty-eight hours.
Woman Suffrage Rejected.
Albanv, N. Y r ., April 9. —Tuj Assembly
to-nigat rej?ctei tho bill for municipal
suffrage fqr woman,
VOL. V.-NO. 7.
KIS FIRST EiRUNK.
The Troubles of a Young Man Who Kissed
a Girl Against Her Consent.
Frederick, Md., April 10. —Goo. O’Neiil,
a Very highly esteemed young man of Mid
dletown, this county, was 10-duy held in
SIOO bail for his appearance at the next
term of court. Tho offense for which
young O’Neill is to nnswor is the hug
ging and kissing of Miss Grace YN>ung,
a pretty girl of this town. O'Neill had
gone to Frederick on EasteA Mon
day to see tho festivities and indulged a
little too freely with intoxicants, to which
he is unaccustomed. While in the store
of M. E. Got zendauner he met Miss. Y'oung,
who was with her mother. He begau toy
ing with tho girl's handkerchief, then
tried to take it frifm her, his conduct be
coming more and more free until he final
ly wound up by throwing his arms around
her neck, huggingl.cr and impressing two
kisses on her Jips, according to the
testimony of the young lady, which was
admitted to bo true by O’Neill. Miss
Young was highly indignant. So was
Mr*. Y'oung. The mother’s wrath increas
ed as she nursed it,and she finally resolved
to have the young man nrres!cd on tho
charge. O'Neill mada no denial. Ho
stated that it was tho first tme ho had
rllowod himself to become intox;c.,ted,
and that he would never have acted as ho
did ii sober.
CAUGHT IT ON THE FOURTH.
A Gotham Oleo Dealer Gets a Term iu the
I’euitenl iary.
New York, April 10. — Thomas Hcholes, a
grocer, pleaded guilty before Recorder
Fmythe in the General Sessions yesterday
of selling oleomargarine in place of butter.
The Recorder said, after musing over his
papers, that he remembered that three
suspended sentences for-the same offense
were hanging over Scholos. Ho sentenced
him to three months in the peniten
tiary. Seholes had expected to be fined
and he burst into tears. “This is pretty
hard. Recorder, to send a respectable man
to prison to assoeiato with criminals and
thieves,” said Schoies’ counsel. “It is
harder for decent people to bo swindled.
I am going to send every one of the cart
grease butter dealers'to prison now. This
business must bo stopped. I have warned
them and no more pleading ignorance of
the law or of the character of the buttor
will ho accepted.”
A Sad Case.
New York, April 10.—Yesterday afler
noon little Annie Forster returned to her
home from school, where she had
just been promoted to the head of her
class. Her father on ' learning of her
brightness when she came to dinner gave
her an extra penny. She spent tho coin
for a toy balloon, and on reaching the
door leading to her residence placed
tho toy in her mouth while si o
searched in her pocket for the latch-key.
A moment later she fell to tho flagging in
a strangling condition. The child was
taken to a physician, who pronounced tlio
case one of heart disease. The child died
in a drug store. A post-mortem exam illa
tion was hold, when it was discovered that
the child had partially swallowed the toy
balloon, and that it had lodged in tho
throat, causing death.
A Chance for Conkling.
New York, April 10.—Dr. Barker bad a
consultation with Dr. Bunds between 8:15
and It o’clock at Mr. Conlding’s home.
Tho patient’s condition is greatly im
proved, and there is no danger of his
death to-nig'.it. The physicians say that
if Mr. Conkling can be kept alive for throe
days he will recover. A reporter askol
Dr. Barker tho blunt question: “Can Mr.
Conkling recover?” The doctor cautiously
roplioJ : “It is a treacherous disease, and
I can not speak for tho future. All tha
changes that have taken place to-day are
in the patient's favor. But very little pus
has been discharged since the operation
was performed.”
John A. Logan Released.
Cleveland, 0., April 10.—At Newcastle,
Penn., to-day John A. Logan, who was ar
rested for shooting a riotous Italian at ttie
Carbon limestone quarries, was released
from custody. The magistrate held that
as Mr. Logan acted under tho sheriff’® or
ders he could not bo held for the shooting.
Tho Italian was not badly hurt.
Miners Threaten to Strike.
Altoona, Pa., April 10. —The soft coa
niiners on tho mountain between Ga'lit
r.in and Bouth Fork, 4 000 to 5.000 in num
ber, still say they will refuse to accept a
reduction of 10 jer cent on the price of 45
cents per ton net for mining. Thcv will
doc id' formally on Wedneslay and a
strike is imminent.
A Bloody Collision.
Chattanooga, Tens. April 10.—A special
from Knoxville says to-day a fight occur
red between the strikers at Cumberland
Gap'Tunucl,on the Powell’s Valley railroad,
and the mountaineers, which resulted in
the killing of five men and wounding of
twelve. Further trouble is feared.
The Fire 0u!.
Calcmet, Mich., April 10. —The Calumet
<K; Hecla Mine will be opened Wednesday,
as the management is convinced that the
(Ire is out. Tho great copper smelting
works and rolling mill* just completed at
Dollar Bay have commenced operations
with everything working well.
A Murderer at Nine Years.
Coit’MniA, 8. C., April 10.—Laney
Walker, a boy nine years old, and L;bl>ie
Ashe, a girl of twelve, had a fight 3'esier
day in Union County, during which
Walker plunged a knife into the girl’s
breast, killing her instantly.
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The Hullinan Mjrderers.
Ravenna, 0., April 10.—Blinky Morgan
is to bo hanged June l for the Hulligau
murder. Rob nson is granted a new trial,
and Coughlin’s case is now under consul
ration by the circuit court bore.