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. ^ GEN. HANCOCK'S DEATE
r
Expiring Suddenly at His Home
on Governor's Island.
Details of His Last Hours, and a
Sketch of His Life.
Major-General Wiufield Scott Hancock
commanding the military division of the Atlaatif
deDartment of the E&<it, died on the
aftermon of the 9th at his home on Governor's;
Island, in New York harbor, from
diabetes, aggravated by malignant carbuncle.
He had been ill only a week, and it was not
until the previous Monday that a fatal
termination of his illuess was apprehended.
On January 27 General Hancock went to
Washington on private business, and while
then* a boil appeared on the back of his neck.
The boil afterward developed into a carbuncle,
and until Thursday, the 4th, General
Hancock was quite ill, but on that
day ho was feeling better and next
day attended to official business.
During Sunday night he alarmed Mrs.
Haiv-ock by suddenly appearing in her room,
to which she had retired but a few minutes
before. He was fully dressed and equipped
for a .^curnev, and asked where his traveling
bas was. He was delirious.
Kidney troubles, which had not been susSscted,
showe I themselves on Monday, and
r. .Tanewav, attending surgeon at division
headquarters, called in Colonel Sutherland,
medii ai director of the division of the Atlantic.
Tlicy decided that the condition of
their patient was serious, and warned Mrs.
Hancock that death might be near at hand.
Mrs. Hancock was in and out of the room
during Monday night, and about 4 o'clock
Tuesday morning noticed a change in the
f;eneral's condition. She at once sent
or Dr. Jane way, who found the General
almost comatose. He sent for Colonel
Sutherland and for Dr. Daniel M.
Stimson of the city, and at once gave hypoinSoft.irvnc
nf hrnnrK- whiabv othpr
ancl carbonate of ammonia, separately and
combined, for the purpose of restoring the
sufferer's strength.
Mrs Hancock was terribly unstrung by
the sudden change in her husband's condition.
and could not remain in the room. As
she loft the bedside General Hancock awoke
for an instant. '"Oh, Allie?Myra," he said
in a weak voice. "Good?" He could say
nothing more, and relapsed into the state
from which he had for a moment emerged.
Dr. Stimson reached Governor's Island
shortly after nine o'clock, and the three doctors
held a consultation. It was then learned
definitely that the general suffered from diabetes.
The depravity of the blood caused by
this disease had developed the boil into the
carbuncle from which the general suffered.
The combined forces of the two diseases had
so weakened the patient that his case was
toneless.
" Gen. James B. Fry, an old friend of Gen.
Hancock's, came to Governor's Island in the
morniug, and was admitted to the sick room.
The general was then in the comatose state in
which he had remained since his attempt to
epeak to Mrs. Hancock. Dr. Stimson returned
to the city at 1 - o'clock, the other physicians
remaining, simply waiting for the end which
they were powerless to put off. Dr. Jane way
was in attendance upon Mrs. Hancock, who
needed his presence more than her dying husImnd.
General Fry called the attention of
Xieutenant Griffin to the twitching of the
nerves of General Hancock's mouth, and
they were bending over the bed tofether
when the general drew his last
reath, a very feeble one, and was dead.
This was at 2:58 p. m. He had
not come out of the diabetic coma. He died,
as Dr. Janeway said, "quietly like a man
who had done his work,and as easily as a man
going down a flight of stairs."
At the time Gen. Fry sat in a chair between
the general's bedside and the west window of
the room. Around the b?d stood Lieut. Eufene
Griffin, aide-de-camp, and nephew
y marriage to the general, Col. buth
erianu, nospnai steward JttoDinson,
and Orderly "Ward. In the adjoining
room were Mrs. Hancock, her cousin,
Mrs. Lmma Bouvier, her niece, Mrs. Griffin,
her grandson, Gwynne Hancock, son of the
general's only son, "Russell, and Dr. Janeway.
The news of her husband's death was at once
* "broken to Mrs. Hancock. She remained in
her room all the rest of the day, constantly
attended by her family and by Dr. Janeway.
The flags on the island were at once set at
lxalf-mast; the Castle Garden flag next was
hoisted halfway up the staff. The Produce
Exchange flag and the Washington building
flag passed on the news, and the New York
postoffice and the city hall announced it
with their flags. It had traveled over ,
the continent in a few minutes more, and ,
dispatches of condolence began to pour in on
Lieutenant Grffin and on Adjutant-General i
Whipple. Among: them were the following:
Executive Mansion', Washington*. 1
To "Mrs. W. S. Hancock: ,
Accept my heartfelt symaathy in your ter- ;
rible bereavement. The heroism and worth 1
Of your late husband have gathered to your
Side in this hour of affliction a nation of mourners.
Grover Cleveland.
A second dispatch from President Cleve- 1
land asked what Mrs. Hancock'sjwishes were !
about the funeraL
Washington, Feb. 9. !
Mrs W. S. Hancock: <
I have this moment learned of the death of 1
General Hancock, and wish to express to you,
my dear madame, my dejp svmpathvand '
condolence. The army has lost a very dis- <
tinguished and faithful officer, and the country
one of its best citizens.
P. H. Sheridan.
St. Louis. Feb 9
Gen. W. D. Whipple: 1
Gen. Mizner has been here, and says Hancock
is dead. Is it possible? I must go to
the Burnett House, Cincinnati, to-night. 1
Telegraph me there. Can I do anything to .
Hianifest my love for him and his widow?
Sherman.
Richmond, Ya? Feb. 9. ]
Commanding Officer Governor's Island:
All parties and all classes in Virginia de- ]
^plore the death of Gen. Hancock. The country
mourns the loss of a sui>erb soldier and a :
noble citizen. I personally grieve that a dear
friend has gone. Fitz Hugh Lke. i
Please let me know when Gen. Hancock [
will be buried. I desire, impossible, to attend
the services. Fitz Hugh Lee. '
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb.
To Mrs. Winfield S. Hancock:
. I am pained beyond expression to hear of
your husband's death. The loss to yourself
is irreparable, and to the countiy and his
Bumerous friends scarcely less. I tender you :
any "heartfelt sympathy.
Wm. H. English.
When the news of General Hancock's death ;
reached Washington the flag on the White j
House was put at half-mast, and the President
soon after issued the following executive ,
order: j
Executive Mansion ) i
Washington, Feb. !?, 188(5. 4 p. m. ? i
Tidings of the death of Winfield Scott '
Hancock, the senior major-general of the 1
army of the "United States, have just been
received.
A patriotic and valiant defender of his
country, an able au heroic soldier, a spotless
and accomplished gentleman?crowned alike
with the laurels of military renown and the
"highest tribute of his fellow-countrymen to
his worth as a citizen?he has gone to his reward.
It is fitting that every mark of public respect
should be paid to his memory.
Therefore, it is now ordered Ay the Presiident
tkat the national flag If displayed at
l^alf mast upon all the buildings of the executive
departments in this city until after his
, funeral shall have taken place.
Daniel S. Lamont, Private Secretary.
Sketc h of General Hancock's Career.
General Hancock and his twin brother? !
Hilar}', were born on St. Valentine's Day,
February 14, 1824, in the little town of Mont- ,
gomery Square, Montgomery county. Peun.
That was about the tune General Winfield
Scott's name was on everybody's tongue, and
Benjamin Franklin Hancock, the general's 1
patriotic father, gave one of his new-born ?
sons the name of the sturdy old hero of
X.undy's Lane. General Hancock's father j
was a school teacher, who afterward studied g
law and became a sound and respected mem- <
ber of the bar. He personally suj>er intended
the education of his sons for some time after
they became old enough to receive book in- J
$truction, but subsequently sent them to Nor- t
Tistown academy, where they remained until 1
ffanfield was appointed to the militar}- academy
at West Pomt. t
r Hancock entered the academy July 1, 1840. i
S. Grant, Geo. B. McCl?llan, Kosecran^, 1
? I
Lyon, Longstreet and "Stonewall" vacicson
wore cadets there at that time.
As a brevet second lieutenant of the Sixth
Infantry he was stationed at Fort Tawson,
near the Red River on the border of Texas.
In 1S4<> he received his commission,as second
lieutenant to a company of his regiment statioued
on the Mexican frontier. On the break- i
ing out of the war with Mexico, instead of be
ing sent to the front as he desired. Lieutenant
Hancock was ordered to Newport, Ky., barracks
to do recruiting duty. After repeated
applications he was at last ordered tj the
scene of the conflict and landed at Vera
Cruz in time to take part in General Pierce's
advance to reinforce Scott at Puebla. In
this campaign he was in three engagements,
and in one of them was slightly wouuded.
For his gallantry on the field at the battle of
Molino del Rev he was breveted first lieutenant.
On his return home after the war Hancock
was ordered to the unper Mississippi, and remained
there until 1849. In 1850 he was ordered
to St. Louis, where he remained five
yeai-s and where ho married his wife,
who was a Miss Russell, the
daughter of a St. Louis merchanl.
In 1855 Lieutenant Hancock was appointed
quartermaster with the rank of captain, and
was sent to "Florida, where the trounie wun
the Seminole Indians was beginning. He remained
at Fort Myers in that State until 185",
and it was in this year and at Fort Myers
that his daughter. Ada Elizabeth, who died
in 1875. was born. His son, Russell Hancock,
was bora in St. Louis in 1850.
From Florida Hancock was sent to Kansas,
where the troubles over the slavery question
were iu progress, and from Kansas he went
with the expedition iu 1858 against the Mormons,
who were manifesting an ambition to
throw off allegiance to the government at
Washington and setup for themselves. From
the latter part of 1858 until the breaking out I
of the civil war, Captain Hancock was sta- I
tioned at Los Angeles, Cal. He was still act- I
ing in the capacity of quartermaster, as he
had done uninterruptedly since he went to
Florida.
When the news of the really critical state
of affairs had made its two months' journey
by way of Panama to California, Captain
Haucock at once asked to be called East
and was gratified. He landed at New
York on the 4th of September, 18H1, and proceeded
at once to Washington,
not even stopping to see his
parents, who were near his route, and from,
whom he had been separated for many years.
General Hancock was then thirty-eight years
^.1/1 orirl 1?Q ViarJ lionti cr> civmtliflll in his fid
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ministration of the quartermaster department
that he was at first appointed a
quartermaster - general and assigned
to General Robert Anderson's command
in Kentucky. But General
McClellan knew the young officer's
fitness for duty of a more active kind, aud
personally urged that he be made a brigadier
general, which was done by order of President
Lincoln, his commission being issued on the
23d of September, 1861. Gen. Hancock at
once set about the task of aiding to organize
the confused masses of volunteers
who were then the nucleus of what
was afterward the army of the Potomac into
something like military shape. The taleat he
displayed in this quickly attracted attention,
and when in the spring of 1862 his brigade
landed on the peninsula between the James
river and Che<ay>eake bay, which was the
scene of the first grand operations of the
army of the Potomac, it was by far the most
complete and effective of any in the army.
The first serious struggle in which General
Hancock engaged was that of "Williamsburg,
where he won distinction by his tact and personal
courage. By a feigned retreat he led the
enemy in pursuit, and then turned on them
with a furious musketry fire. It was here that
he gave his oft-quoted command. "We must
give them the bayonet, gentlemen." and it
was here that the first colors captured by the
army of the Potomac were taken General
McClellon personally thanked the regiments
of Hancock's brigade for their gallantry on
this occasion.
From this time on General Hancock followed
the fortunes of the army of the Potomac
under McClellan, Burnside, McClellan
again, aud then fighting Joe Hooker, steadily
growing in prominence until, at the
<vF flottrcV?ir(r Ho Inning nn
as one of the most conspicuous figures
among those whose coolness and courage
saved that great Union victory from the
disaster of being a great Union defeat. General
Hancock was severely wounded in the
thigh in this conflict. A musket ball passed
through bis saddle, bending a wrought iron ;
nail about it as it went, both ball and nail i
penetrating General Hancock's body, j
This wound was a source of seri- J
our trouble to General Hancock during his
campais^i under General Grant, and during
the battles of the Wilderness compelled him
at one time to retire temporarily from command.
This was the onlv injury General
Hancock received during the war, though he
book part in the fiercest engagements of all
the sanguinary Virginia campaign. At
Ream's station be had a horse shot under him.
The engagement at Bovdton was the last
which General Hancock fought with the Second
Army Corps, of which he had long had
command. After that engagement he
received orders from Secretary Stanton
to report at Washington, where he
was assigned to the duty of organizing
the first veteran corps, composed
of men who had served two years. He was
subsequently put in command of the army of
the Shenandoah, 10i),000 men, at Winchester,
in which command he remained until
the assassination of President Lincoln, in
April. 18<55. On the 2od of that month
Sen. Hancock took command in Washington
and remained there during all the exciting
times that followed up to the hanging of Mrs.
Surratt. He was in command of the division
of the Atlantic in 1868,v when his name was
first prominently mentioned in connection
with the presidency. The Democratic conranti
ivViifVi nnminntoH Spvmnnr (rnvp nn
Dne vote 144 voices for Hancock. In 1ST>0 Gen.
Hancock was relieved of the command of
the division of the Atlantic and assigned to
the division of Dakota, where he remained
until 1872, when he was again put in command
in New York. In 1S78 his headquarters
were removed from New York to Governor's
Island, where he afterward resided.
InlSSlHie received the Democratic nomination
for the presidency against General Garfield,
and had 135 votes in the electoral college,
a gainst Garfield's 214.
General Hancock's last appearance in publie
was when, under the orders of the secretary
of war, he directed the national ceremonies
attendant upon General Grant's funeral,
and commanded the United States
military and naval forces taking part therein.
No one figure was more striking in the
great procession that marched to Riverside
cemetery than that of the soldier who was so
soon to" follow his old commander to the
grave.
General Hancock's son. Russell Hancock, ,
married Miss Gwynn, of Louisville, Ky., and
became a cotton planter. A year ago he died 1
most unexpectedly. General and Mrs. Hancock's
affectious became centered in their
grandchildren, of whom there were three. 1
one boy and two girls. In the dead hero's 1
home these youngsters reigned supreme, and ,
the boy especially, bearing his mother's
family name, was the very "apple of his
eye."
General Hancock leaves no property, real
r>r personal, of any great intrinsic value, having
always lived generously and spent his
annual pay of ?7,5<H> as a major-general. It
is supposed, indeed, that his wife's estate has
become so reduced that it will amouut to
comparatively little. !
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
General "W. T. Sherman has decided to
to move to New York city.
M. Pasteur's latest notion is the compulsory
inocculation of all dogs.
Mrs. Hendricks is putting her husband's
papers in shape for his biographer, who is
still to be selected.
Governor Houser, of Montana, is one of
the richest men in the West. His income is
said to be $501) a day.
Secretary Robert Howard, of the
Spinners' Union, represents Fall River in. the
Massachusetts Senate.
T#e new address of General Secretary Fred
Turner, of the Knights of Labor, is ^o. 500
Locust street, Philadelphia. <
Ex-Senator Davis, of West Virginia,has !
;iven $10,000 for the establishment of a high
ichool at Piedmont, in that State. j
Congressmen Reed, of Maine, and Lout
t, of California, were once respectively I
school teacher and blacksmith in the same !
California village. i
Thaddeus Fairbanks, the veteran in- (
mentor of the Fairbanks scales, still lives at (
St. Jahnsbury, Vt., where he recently cele- ,
>rated his ninetieth birthday. I
The late Beunet Smith, of Halifax, was j
he richest man in Nova Scotia. He was a I
uiser, and cut off his son Tom without a dol- 1
ar, and left twenty dollars a month to sup- '
>ort his family.
I|gj V;H||
1 TALIAGE'S mm.
DUTIES OF HUSBANDS TO
WIVES.
The theme of Dr. Talmage's fifth sermon in
the series upon the "Mar-riage Ring'' was
"Duties of Husbands to Wives." The text
was:
"And Isaac went, out to meditate in the
field at eventide, and he lifted up his eyes,
and saw, and beheld, the camels are coming."
?urtJiiesib A.vi v. iw.
A bridal pageant on the back of dromedaries.
The camel has often been called the
ship of the desert. It's swaying motion in the
distance reminds one of a vessel rising and
falling with the billows. Though awkward,
how imposing these creatures as they move
along through aucient or modern times,
carrying 400 or 4,000 passengers from
Bagdad to Aleppo, or from Basara to Damascus.
In my text there is a caravan. Yon
notice the noiseless tread of the broad feet of
the camel and the velocity of the mot '\, and
the gay comparison of saddle and gi , and
the green awning that shelters the travelers
from the hot sun, and the hilarity of the
mounted passengers, and you cry out, "Who
are they.-1' Isaac has been praying for a
wife, and it is time he had one, for he is forty
years of age. His servant has been sent out
and has been divinely directed and has selected
Rebekah, and with her companions
and her maidens she is on the way to her new
home, carrying the blessing of all her friends.
Isaac is out in the field meditating on the proposed
passage from celibacy to monogamy,
and he looks up and he sees a speck against
the sky, and then he sees a group of people
advancing, and then he finds out that the
greatest earthly blessing that ever comes to a
man is coming in that gay caravan. The
drivers shout to the camels, "Kneel!" and the
camels kneel, and the bride puts her foot on
the neck of the stooped beast and dismounts
and gi eets Isaac, who was as worthy of her
as she was worthy of him. "And Isaac went
out to meditate in the field at eventide, and
he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and behold,the
camels were coming."
Tn this fift.li dispnursft on Thfl Marriae'S
Ring having spoken to you among other
things about the divorce of a lifetime companion,
I shall this morning take it for
granted, oh, man, that your marriage was divinely
arranged, and that the camels came
from the right direction and that they arrived
at the right time, and have brought <b
you your intended consort, the one intended
for you as a consort, a Rebekah and not a
Jezebel. And I shall proceed to give you advice
as to how you ought to treat your wife, and
my ambition is to tell you more plain trath
that you ever heard in any previous threequarters
of an hour in all your life. First of
all, I charge you, realize the responsibility in
having taken her from the custody, the care,
the homestead in which she was sheltered.
How much courage you must have had, how
much confidence m yourself, to have practically
said to her: "I will be to you more than
?rour father or mother, more than all the
riends you ever had or ever can
have. I feel myself competent to
take you through life. I know
you are" an immortal being. I feel myself
competent to defend you and to make you
happy. Come with me. Though your
present home is bright and comfortable, and
though in one room is the arm-chair in which
you were rocked, and in the garret the cradle
in which you were hushed, and the trundle
bed in which you slept, and in the sittingroom
are the father and mother who got
wrinkled-faced and stooped-shouldered and
dim-sighted in taking care of you, come with
me. I will be to you more than all the world
beside. You can trust me." It is annoying
that any of us had the sublimity of impudence
to ask such a transfer from a home established
to one con jectured and unbuilt. Would
not I be considered a daring and hazardous
adventurer if I should go
to one of the piers in the North river, and
without any knowledge of navigation, and at
a time when there was a lack of shipcaptains
and offer my services and propose to take a
vessel across the ocean to Havre or Glasgow,
saying: "All aboard ! hanl in the plank,
swing out now into the darkness and the
tempest." With no knowledge of navigation
that ship would never be heard of. But that
is the boldness of every man who proffers
marriage. He practically says, "all aboard
now for a lifetime voyage. 1 will take you
through all the cyclones and the tempests
and the hurricanes of life in safety. I
will run clear of all the rocks and icebergs.
I have no experience, I have no sea chart, but
I will see you through all the voyage of this
life. I know there have been ten thousand
shipwrecks on this very route, but don't hesitate.
Tut, tut, now, no crying; brides mustn't
cry at weddings." In response to all that,
the woman practically says: "I have but on a
life to live, and I entrust it all with you. My
arm is weak, but I rely on the superior
strength of yours. I have but little knowledge
of the world, I depend on your wisdom.
I put my body, my mind, my soul, my time,
my eternity in your keeping. I
make no reserve. Even my name I
surrender for yours though my name is
suggestive of all that was honorable in my
father and all that was good in my mother,
and all that was pleasant in my brothers and
sisters. I join you in a journey which shall
not end except at the edge of your grave or
mine. Ruth, the Moabite, was not more
thorough in her self abnegation than I am
when 1 take her tremendous wordsthepathos
r\f Vi ioil onnt-nrioc! l>ava nr\f r>Ar\Wl 4 TTnfi'no 4
VI ? U1VU V-VUtUl AV-O U?f O UVU UliUltUU
me uot to leave thee, or to return from following
thee, for where thou goest I will go,
where thou lodgest I will lodge, '.hy people
shall be my people arid thy God my God.
Where thou diest will I die, and there will
I be buried. The Lord do so to me
and more also if aught but
death part thee and me. Side by side in life,
side by side in the burying ground, side by
side in heaven. Before God and man, and
putting my immortal soul into my oath, I
swear to you eternal fidelity." Now, how,
my brother, ought you treat her ? You ou^ht
to treat her well. You ought to treat her
better than any being in tho universe except
your God. Her name ought to be to you
sweeter music than anything that Chopin, or
Bach, or Schumann ever composed. Her
eyes, though swollen with three weeks1 of
night watching over a child'in scarlet fever,
onglit to be to you more attractive than a
May morning. After the last rose petal has
faded from her cheek, after the
last feather has dropped from the
raven's wing in her hair, after her face is
crossed aud recrossed with as many wrinkles
as there are graves over which she has wept,
you ought to be able truthfully to say to her
in the words of Solonlau's song! "Behold,thou
art fair, my love, behold, thou art fair," and
perhaps she may answer in the words of
matchless Robert Burns, the onlv man wlin
ever had pen or ink or head or heart ihat
could write it:
John Anderson, my Jo John,
We climb the hill together, i
And many a canty day we had with one an <
other. i
Now we must totter down John, i
But hand in hand we'll go,
And sleep together at the tort,
John Anderson, my Jo. ]
If anyone assail her name you will have 1
hard work to control your teinj>er, and if you i
strike him down the sin will not be unpardonable.
AVith as much surrender as the uni- i
verse has ever seen, except that of the Son oi '
God for your salvation and mine, she has e 1
first mortgage on your body, mind aud soul,
and the mortgage is foreclosed, and you nc (
more certainly own your two hands and 1
your two eyes than she owns you. 1
the longer the journey Rebekah makes and i
the greater the risk of the expedition cm the <
back of the camels the more certainly is Isaac '
bound to be loyal aud sympathetic and true, i
Now gentlemen, pay your debts. You be
lieve in force of a contract,and you are ready <
to meet a contract after 3*011 have made it. If,
you pledged kindness and attention and faithfulness
aud have not fulfilled those promises, | ;
those pledges inducing one into conjugal I
partnership aud failing in your promise, you 1
deserve to have suit brought against 1
you for obtaining goods under 1
false pretences, and you deserve <
bo be mulcted in a large amount of damages.
Review all the fair aud beautiful aud splen- '
did and glorious things you promised before *
marriage and reflect to-day whether you have 1
kent vmir faith. " Oh." vou sav. "t,hnt wn? v
all romance and sentimentalism and a joke; t
that's the way they all talk." My brother, i
how would you like the plan tried upon you.' f
Suppose I am interested in Western land, and
[ ful your mind with roseate speculation. 1 '
tell you that the farm I want to sell you is i
already laid out for a city, and that there is ;
i depot near by, so that all the crops may be 1
jasily transported, and that eight or ten capi- *
talists are about to put up splendid buildings \
aear ths spot,and that the climate is delicious, 1
md that tne land is so high there is no room t
for malaria, and that every dollar you plant 1
will grow up into a bush containing ten or c
twelve dollars, and my speech glows with
enthusiasm until you rush out with me to an
attorney, and we have the papers written,
and we have the cash paid down and the
whole thing finished. You bid good-bye to
your friends at tbe East; you leave your attractive
home here; you take a railtrain and
ride many days; you get out at a quiet depot
and then by wagon you go thirty miles
through a wilderness and you arrive at your
new place. You see a man seated on a wet
I log a swamp, shaking with his fifteenth
attack of chills and fever. You ask
him who he is and he tells you he is the real
estate agent for that region. You say,
"Where is the new depot?" He says, "It
will be built out here if the company secure
their right of a tract in next winter's legisla ?
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twenty capitalists who are going to build
splendid houses? Where are they going to
put those houGes?" He says, "They are going
to put thera in the low land next to the woods
after the water is drained off." You say to
that real estate agent, "Where is the city
laid out in this quarter?" and with chattering
teeth he says, "If you'll wait
till this chill's off I'll show it to you
on a map in my pocket." You lodge
that night in the hut of the real estate man
and you pray for everybody except for me.
More for tunate than most people who go out
on such expedition you have money enough
to get back. You come up to me all out of
breath with indignation and say: "'You?you
swindled me out of everything. What do you
mean by deceiving me about that Western
property?" "Oh," I say, "that's all romance,
that's all sentimentalism, that's a joke, that's
the way they all talk!" I would be more
excusable in deceiving you than the
man is who takes a woman from
comfortable surroundings and puts her amid
surroundings which he has never taken any
care to make attractive, giving up her father's
house for a dismal swamp of married experience,
treeless, flowerless, shelterless, comfortless,
godless. It would not be so baa in me to
cheat you out of a farm as it would be foi
you to cheat a woman out of the happiness of
a lifetime. Have you fulfilled your contract?
Men of business have in their fire-proof safes
a pack of contracts. Sometimes they take
this pack of contracts out and read over what
the party of the first part and the party of the
second part bound themselves to do. Have you
fnrn-otten voiir contract? Then vou had bet
ter buy or borrow an Episcosal prayer book,
for though all denominations of Christians
have different forms of marriage ceremony,
the marriage ceremony in the Episcopal
prayer book is the essence of all intelligent
ceremonies when it says: "I take thee to be
my wedded wife, to have and to hold from
this day forward for better or for worse, for
richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health,
to love and to cherish until death us do part,
according to God's holy ordnance, and thereto
I pledge thee my troth." Have you
kept the contract? Gentlemen, fulfil
Eour contracts. Think of what you promised
efore marriage, and whether or not you have
fulfilled your promise. Do not get mad, but
just make comparison in your own mind
now. Before marriage perhaps you spent
your evenings with your betrothed. Since
marriage perhaps you spend all the evenings
away, except when you have the influenza
or some other sickness, and the doctor tells
you it is not safe to go out. Before marriage
you were full of interjections of adulation,
and since marriage you think it is silly to say
anything in praise of her, though she
ought to be more attactive to you now
than ever, since the struggle of life has become
more severe and your relation is the
more sacred by the baptism of tears?tears
over losses, tears over graves. Compare the
way you used to go into the house before
marriage with the way you go into the house
after marriage. In the former state when
you went into the ho use you were a dstillation
of smiles, you were all politeness, you
were as pleasant as a peach orchard in
bloom week. Now some of you go into the
house and you put your hat on the rack and
with a scowl you say: "Lost money to-day."
You sit down at the tea table and begin
to criticize the way the food is cooked, and
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JfUll 5UUVO UttUlV 11U111 LUC WlUiO L?OiUl C LHO ICOb
are (Iodci and snatch up the evening newspaper
oblivious of all that has been going on
during the day. Tbe little children are in
awe at the domestic autocrat. Bubbling
over with fun they are, but they must be quiet,
or with healthful curiosity, but they must
ask no questions. The wife has had annoyances
in the nursery, in the parlor, in the
kitchen until her nerves an full of nettles
and spikes. You provided the money for the
food and wardrobe and you feel you have
discharged your obligation, doing nothing
for the good cheer, for the intellectual
improvement, for the moral
entertainment of your home, although
at the longest it will last only a little while.
My brother, you have no appreciation of the
fact that your children will soon be grown
up,or in their sepulchres,and you will have no
mors opportunity to influence them, and the
wife will soon be through with her earthly
mission and the heme in which you live will
go into other hands, and you yourself will be
gone. Do you realize that what we do for our
omes we must do in a very short space of
time? Marriage is an affectional bargain.
In some lands people purchase their wives j
with dollars, or cattle, or sheep. In one land j
a man mounts a horse and rides :
swiftly down to where there is a group of
women and he seizes one by the hair and lifts
her struggling and resisting to the horse's
back, and if he gets to the jungle before her
brothers come up she is his lawful wife. In
another land the man is beaten by the proposed
bride with a club, and if he resists the
beating and if he cries out he is rejected, but
if he endures the pounding and clubbing with
out auy resistance, or wnnouo a.uy couipinmi>
she is his lawful wife. By courage, by skill,
by absurdity, marriage is decided in some
lauds; but here in this Christian land
marriage is an affectional bargain in
which the man promises protection,
support, companionship aud
love. Are you fulfilling your bargain? I tell
you what you all know that soma men seem
more interested in the wives of others than
in their own. How inauy a man there is who
will allow his wife to carry upstairs a heavy
scuttle of coal and then clear the width of the
parlor with one bound to pick up some other
lady's pocket handkerchief. There is an evil
I have seen under the sun and it is common
among men, namely, husbands in flirtation.
The care and attentions and kindness they
ought to put upon their wives they put upon
the wives of others. They smile, they are
coy and are arch, and with a manner that
seems to say,"Oh,if I was only free from that
okl drudge at home. What an improvement you
would be on my present surroundings!' And
iate at night the man goes to his prosaic home
whistling and hilarious and finds his wife is
jealous. There are thousends of men who are
not positively immoral whq need correction
in that direction. Oh, it is meanness immeasurable
for the husband by his behavior
to practically say: "You can't help yourself.
I will admire whom I wish to admire and I
will go where I wish to go, and I will stay
as long as I wish to stay and I defy
your criticism." That is devilish. Why did
you not put it in the bond, you domestic Shylock
! Why did you not have it understood
before you were pronounced husband and wife
that slje should only have a part of the divi
aeim or yonr aneaiom adu wneii nineeraseu
some of "the bright lines from her face, and
?rased some of the litheness from her form
you would have the reserved right to pay
abeisence to cheeks more rubicund and figure
lither or mo*e agile, and when you demanded
he lost pound her patience and her endurHj'-e
you coul^ th^n have tapped with the
lupbasis of an Edwin Forrest or a Mac ready
>11 the eccentric marital contract, and said:
it is in the bond, it is nominated in the
bond." If this modern Rebekah had understood
where she was alighting she would have
ordered the camel drivers to turn the caravan
jack towards ?. Flirtation is always the
foundation either of dishonesty or licentiousness.
A married man who indulges in it is
ither a fraud or a rake. I care not how high
up such au one may be in society, or ho?v
much sought after, I would not ^ive a three
. ent piece, though it had b.;eu three tinier
dipped, for the virtue of a masculine or n
feminine flirt. The best thin? for a multitud
f men in all parts of the United States is t >
;o home and apologize fo.* past neglects an '
brighten up their old low. Take out th*? (-1
'amily Bible and read the record of the mar
iag? day. Go to the drawer of the burt-ai
outlining the r.dics and take outthebov
ontainiug the trinkets of your dead child
l'ake the yellow letters that were written be
'ore you were one, review the joys and the
sorrows in which you have mingled, and then
)ut all these on the alter for fuel, and with
i sacred coal from heaven, rekindle the ov
inct light. It was a blast from hell that blew
t out. It will be a gale from heaven that
a us it into a blaze.
Oh. you broken marriage vows, speak out.
My brother, take her whom you have promsed
to love and protect, take her into all
your hopes, your plans, your successes, your
lefeats, your ambitious. Tell her every;hing.
Go arm in arm into places of amusenent
and over the piaaza of summer waterng
place, and up the rugged path of life, am
lown into the aark caverns of trouble, am.
vhen the one trembles on the way let th
>ther be reinforcement. Do not pass your4!
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self off as a single man practising gallantries.
After fifty years of age
do not in women's society try
to appear young mannish. Interfere not
with your wife's religious nature, and put
her not in the awful dilemma in which hundreds
of Christian wives are put by their husbands
when asked to go to places or to do
things which they cannot conscientiously do,
and be compelled to decide between loyalty to
God and loyalty to husband. That is an
awful dilemma. "Within one week I have it
propounded as a question: "What shall I do
under such circumstances. Shall I be loyal
to God or loyal to my husband?" I said,
"you tell your husband that that is the
dilemma, and if he be the right
sort of a man you say he is, he
will say, 'be loyal to God aud then you will
be loyal to me.'" Do not ask your wife to
compromise herself by going to any place
which she cannot conscientiously go to. You
do not want to make your wife less or a
Christian. My brother, there will be a time
when you will want the help of all her
Christian resources. "When you remember
wnas mnueucB your inoiuer nau over y uu,
certainly you do not want the mother of
your children to set a less godly example.
Oh, it pleases me beyond my capacity
to state it when I hear an unconverted,
worldly man say of his
wife, not thinking it would ever come
to her ears, "that is the mo3t godly woman
alive; her goodness is a perpetual rebuke to
my unholiness; you couldn't get her to do a
wrong thing; I hope the children all take
after ner and not after me; if there is any
heaven at all she will go there sure." Ah I
that is a eulogy worth telling of on earth
and in heaven, and there are more men
brought to God by just such faithfulness
than by almost any other
influence. It is not the dinzdonging
about the subject of religion that brings
a man to the kingdom of God. It is the fact
that he knows in his own soul that his wife is
inspired by higher motives and consoled
by higher consolation, and moved by
: higher principle than those that console and
help and move him. There is no arguing
that down, there is no ^scoffing that down,
there is no caricaturing that down. You
need not tell that man there is nothing in religion.
He has it at his own table, he has it
in every room in the house, the reality of the
Christian religion. It has lived there as well
as professed there. Oh, my brethren?for we
are having a plain talk this morning?I am
not speaking perfunctorily, but as a
brother to a brother; you are here for an
honest purpose and I am here for an honest
purpose?do you not really think it would be
better for you to join your wife on the road
to heaven ? You have a happy home you tell
me. How mufch happier it would be if you
were ootn religious. 111 sicKness wnac a comfort.
In reverses of fortune, what a wealth.
In death, what a triumph. God intended you,
my brother,to be the high priest of your home.
Go to your home to-day and take the family
Bible, and gather all the family that are living
around you, and those who are not living
will hear of it in a flash, and as ministering
spirits will hover, father and mother deEarted,
child, all your celestial kindred will
over/ and then having read a chapter of the
Bible, kneel down and pray. If you cannot
think of any prayer I will give you one:
Lord God, I surrender myself to Thee and
this beloved wife, and there ctear children; for
Christ's s ike forgive all the past and help us I
for all th9 future. We have lived on earth
together, may we live forever together
Amen, and amen!" Dear me, what a stir
that would make among your best friends on
earth and your best friends in heaven. Joseph
II., the emperor, won the unbounded love of
his subjects by his kindness and his philanthropic
behavior. He abolished serfdom. He
established toleration and he lived in the
happiness of his subjects. One day, he was
going to Ostend to declare it a free port. He
was at the head of a great procession. He
saw a woman at a college door ia
great dejectment. He dismounted and he
went to her and asked the cause of her grief.
She told him that her' husband had gone to
I Ostend to see the emperor and had decliued
to take her, he being an alien and not understanding
her loyal enthusiasm and how that it
was the great desire of her life to sse the ruler
whose goodness and greatness had won her
unspealuible admiration. She said; "The
d isappointment is simply to me unbearable
that I can't see the emperor." The emperor
took from his pocket a box set with diamonds
around his own picture and he gave it to
her, and when she saw the picture it revealed
to her to whom she was speaking. She
dropped on her knees in reverence and clapped
her hands with joy, for that she had seen the
emperor. men tne emperor mquireu mo
name of her husband and where he would
probably bo in Osteni, and that man was imprisoned
for the three days of the emperor's
visit at OstencL So when the man got back
to his cottage he found that his wife
had seep, the emperor and he had not
seen him at all. Oh: my
friends, in many of the homes of Christendom
through the converting grace of God the
wife has seen the king in His beauty and He
has bestowed upon her the pearl of great
price, while the husband is an alien from the
covenant of promise, without God, without
hope in tho world and imprisoned in worfdliness
and sin. Oh that this day they would
arm in arm go aud visit the king?the one
not only higher and greater than any Joseph
of earthly dominion, but * high over all m
earth and air and sky. His touch is life. His
voice is music. His smile is heaven.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Charms strike the si<?ht, but wins the
soul.
Deprive the people of the means of
proper subsistence, and you enslave and
destroy tne nation.
The most delicate, the most sensible
of all pleasures consist in promoting the
pleasures of others.
It is poor wit who lives by borrowing
the words, decision, mien, inventions
and actions of others.
Every man who cannot run his own
business will be found trying to control
the affairs of his neighbor.
"We should nevor grumble at those
things we could have prevented, nor at
those things we could not have prevented.
Learn the value of a man's words and
expressions, and you know him. Each
man has a measure of his own for everything;
this he offers you inadvertently in
words. He who has a superlative for
everything, wants measure for the great
or small.
TWn wor wpnlfh is <v.q ril-iin !is thft
way to market. It depends chiefly on
two words, industry and frugality; that
is, waste neither time nor money, but
make the best use of both. Without
industry and frugality, nothing will do,
and with them, everything.
Pain itself is not without its alleviations.
It may be violent and frequent,
but it is seldom both violent and longcontinued,
and its pauses and intermissions
become positive pleasures. It has
the power of shedding u satisfaction over
intervals of ease which I believe few enjoyments
exceed.
Forgery Made Easy.
David N. Carva4ho, a handwriting expert
of the district attorney's office at
New York, says that forgeries by amateurs
are increasing, and that they are
? ? --'I Krtrl ^\i?. nficno fliof
cocourugcu uy tiiu uau L11C41/
have grown uj) in the commercial
houses?the uso of stylographic pens aud
aniline inks. Many large houses,he says,
recognizing the lack of character in a
signature written with a stylographic
pen, have di.-cardcd them altohetherin
signing checks and papers of similar importance,
and the surrogate's office at
New York requires paper to be signed
with a steel or quill pen. A stylographic
signature is easily imitcd, and when it
comes to identifying the genuine signature,
a difficulty is met, arising from the
effect of the movement on the essential
characteristic features. Aniline inks are
still more dangerous, because thpy can be
copied exactly by the use of copying
pads, on the principal of the hektograph.
Dr. Susanna Rubinstein has received
at Leipsic the highest diploma in philosophy
it is in the power of the university
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I, Wanted.
) "Wanted?in places of folly and sin,
Courage, these wayward souls to win.
Voices, to tell them of Jesus'love,
Faith, that points to the rest above.
Wanted?yes, in the homes of the poor,
Christian love, to open the door;
Gentle hearts to soothe the pain,
That to the needy comes oft and again.
Wanted?in the business hours of man,
The "golden rule" in each trade to plan,
In all that we say, whatever we do,
That the love of God may shine all through.
"Wanted?grace to bear each loss,
Trials, to burn the gold from the dross;
Will, to bow in obedience mild
To the rule of Christ, as a little child.
Wanted?wisdom, peaceable, pure?
To know the soul's deep sin and curePerfect
trust in a loving God,
w?n.; xu- ci . i J
?? uiiuiig mo puuj uur oaviour troo.
Wanted?to be kept from evil here,
To live in His love without a fearNothing
to know but His will Divine,
And that I am His, and He is mine!
?Nashville Banner.
RELIGIOUS READING.
Be Specific.
When prayer is sought for a particular
object, or for cases in which some hearts
have a deep and tender interest, then is
the tfime to be specific. A pastor in the
midst of revival services sometimes reads
such requests, and he knows that behind
them arc some anxious hearts, longing to
see the salvation of God, and deeply concerned
for a friend, a son, a brother. Let
the intercessions which follow be direct
to the point and brief. Let the regular
formula, the set phrases, go, and carry
the request presented with special emphasis
and loving importunity to the
throne of the heavenly grace. Do not
wander out into generalities?let the
burden of the request be the burden of
the supplication.
Aptness to teach is required of those
I who are.called to be the instructors of a
flock. Aptness in prayer should be the
aim of those who are called to lead the
assemblies of the people to God. To
voice the desires of the hearts bowing
before the mercy seat is the office of him
who leads their devotions. It is an art
greatly to be coveted to do this .simply,
earnestly, and with specific mention oi
the expressed desires which have been
revealed. The great pressing burdens
which rest upon some souls are to be
borne , before God by the leader in
prayer.
A ugel-Voices.
"0, my baby, how beautiful you are!"
said Ada Leslie, as she lingered beside
her sleeping child. "I wonder if you
will be as happy as your mother is?" The
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young una nappy moiuer, wiuiu waning
her husband's return, knew of no better
way to pass away the time than to watch
her baby in his sleep and to dream of his
future. Ada was but twenty-one years
of age. It was only two years since she
had been a thoughtless girl, with no
cares; she was a woman now, with a
home of her own, and she felt the responsibilities
of her position very much indeed.
She could no longer think only
of her own pleasure; her time and her
heart were filled with new duties. Yet
she was lovelier than ever as she sat there,
and the smile upon her face proved that
her dreams were undimmed by fears.
Two angels drew near and whispered suggestive
thoughts that gave direction to
her musings. One stood close by her
side, and his smiling glance followed
hers. His wings were folded, and his
whispered words were of earthly honors,
it 1. J 1. _ XL1_. 1 Li "X1"
earcniy tnumpns, eartiuy iove. " ius,
your child is beautiful," he said. " He
will be brilliant; he may be rich; he
may be great; he may be popular among
men." But the other angel barely
touched the earth, and his wings were
restless, as though he were ready for instant
flight. His voice was sweeter, softer,
clearer. Ilis eyes were raised to
heaven, as he added: " Yes, all this is
true; but your child may also have a
glorious immortality in the presence of
God. Train him for this. Never forget
that he was born for this high destiny.
Pray for him, pray with him;
teach him to pray for himself. See to
it that your own example is such as to
help him. He is one of Christ's little
ones; he is only lent to you for a season.
If you cheat him of his birthright you
will do him.harm rather than good. If
you teach him to seek only the things of
this world you will be faithless to your
trust, and no aftcr-repentance can undo
the consequences of your wrong-doing."
The young mother listened to these
voices, and her musings ended in a prayer
that God would grant her grace and
strength and wisdom to know and do her
duty. The prayer was answered, and it
soon became evident to the friends who
loved her that young Mrs. Leslie was a
changed woman since the birth of her
child. "I hardly know how it is," said
one of her most intimate friends, "but
Ada is different. She is as merry and
light of heart as ever, but she is more
earnest, more tme, and she is so very
careful what she says. It seems to me
that even the expression of her face has
changed." Ada did not hear these remarks;
but, if she had heard them, she
could have told of hours of sweet communion
with God which daily made her
earthly life more delightful, while it
brought the heavenly life nearer. The
earthly love and the heavenly love are
whispering to each one of us. Let us
listen to the angel voices.?Forward.
Temperance Notes.
The superintendent of the Detroit
(Mich.) and Bay City Railroad has issued
the following: "The lives and property
entrusted to our care are of so great
value that the use of intoxicating liquors '
cannot be allowed, and anv one known ro
use them will be discharged."
Canon "Wilberforce recently said that in ^
the United Kingdom were 000,000 families
who through drink alone "never 1
knew the meaning of that word of sweet- *
est cadence, 'iiomc'," i
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TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. |
The Cry of the Poor.
As mists unseen arise and silent float,
To seek the dwelling-places of the rain,
So from the earth ascends the cry of pais
Until it finds the hills of God remote,
To be transformed as its own antidote,
And come again as torrents on the plain,
To storm the evil, and remove its stain,
And realize what prophets long since wrote.
Ye curses of the ages blistering long >;S
The souls of men, and held for publfe ' >
greed, ;
And ye whose hands extort from human
need \
The treasures won by love and toil, your .
wrong
Shall forge the thunderbolt of your di?may,
And snnteyour walls and sweep your * ?
towers away.
?Diciqht Williams, in Union Signal: '<??
Lions That Never Hoar.
The temptations of life assume a great }A
variety of forms.
We commonly speak of Satan, the /' ^
great tempter of mankind, as a roaring v ^
lion, ever going about seeking whojn he :;|J
may devour. But we wish to warn you,
friends, against even another enemy, a
wild beast that never roars?namely, '
strong drink.
When a lion roars we have notice of
his approach, and make for a place of f
safety at once. But the one great danger
ever connected with that rapacious mon-t -Vt
ster, drink, is its apparent harmlessness. h
Unlike the roaring lion of Southern
Africa, it never comes to us in a way calculated
to excite fear, but on the con-v .r.t'j
trarv, appears before us in the most ' ; /Jg
friendly and inviting form possible. >
Herein lies its chief power to mislead '
and ensnare. Foes that wear the appearance
of friends are the worst kind of / ^ yJ
enemies that can beset our path.
The wild beasts in King Alcohol's king. $,fjz
dom fascinate and entice all who come ,
within the reach of their alluring infla
ence.
The king of wild beasts is the lion;
the king of evil is drink. The king of <
wild beasts is a lion that roars; strong
ariHK, uie King 01 evil, is iuii 01 tne ...< <??
sport and playfulness of the kitten, and " V
tries to appear as harmless. He has not > *|||
the honesty of the shaggy monsters that
roam the forests of far-off lands, for-they
roar out their approach before advancing1
upon their prey; they never by any deception
or disguise profess to be the
friends or companions of man. But that
wild beast, strong drink, has a deceptive *'
and ensnaring manner suited to every
occasion and circumstance of life, and lH
would have you believe that he is the j
greatest friend to health and happiness
that man can ever know.
He is food to the weak, health to the .
sick, joy to the sorrowing, and rest to th?
weary?that is, if his word is worth/ of
belief, which it is not, for it wouVl be T.' l
difficult to tell from whence poverty, / ."'y$
sickness and sorrow could come if this -|v
great disturber of the world's peace could '
be banished from our midst.?Youth's
Temperance Banner.
Declined the Honor.
"Mrs. Henry Yillard, who is now stay. .; ^
ing in Berlin, having gone abroad with '
her husband a year and a half ago for a .
Inn nr rncf woo ropon+ltr ooVr>r1 ViTT ttiA
IV/U^ i V/w HUM AVVVUV1J UWUVVA MJ VUV
crown princess of Germany to take the
part of an English barmaid at a fancy
fair in which that lady was deeply '
interested. The princess and Mrs. Vil- f
lard are on intimate terms, and the *
former meant to offer her friend a compliment
by the invitation, not knowing
that the daughter of "William Lloyd Gar- ,|j
rison, like her father and her brothers,
is devoted to total abstinence;. Mrs. Vil- <
lard, although conscious that requestg v '
from the royal family are considered
commands, peremptorily declined the intended
honor. She expressed her cheerful
willingness to aid the fair, which was
a charitable object, but not in that way.
The princess on' learning the America*!
lady's feelings, expressed regret, and offered
an apology for her involuntary dii>
courtesy."?Inter- Ocean.
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A Deadly Serpent.
Some time ago a party of sailors visited
the zoological gardens. One of them,
excited by the liquor he had taken, and
as an act of bravado to his companions,
took hold of a deadly serpent. He held
it up, having seized it by the nape of the
neck in such a way that it could not
sting him. As he held it, the snake unobserved
by him, coiled itself around his
arm, and at length it got a firm grasp,
and wound tighter and tighter, so that
he was unable to detach it. As the pressure
of the snake increased, the danger
<rrew, and at length the sailor was un
able to maintain his hold on the neck of
the venemous reptile, and was compelled
to loose it. What did the snake do? It
turned right around and stung him, and
he died. So it is with . the appetite for
strong drink. We can control it at first,
but in a little while it controls us. We
can hold its influence in our grasp for
awhile, so that it will be powerless, but
afterward "it biteth like a serpent and
stingeth like an adder."?Philadelphia
Methodist.
A Sure Cure.
We have heard of various cures for
drunkenness recommended for person8
who are trving to cure themselves o
drinking habits. Some of them are very
bitter and bad to take. Here is one, ...
however, which is to be recommended at
all times, which is sure to cure if the
person has the will to stick to it. It is
recommended by a doctor, and has an almost
unpronounceable name. The doctor
says he has been keeping it for- a
quarter of a century. It is don'tdrink*
alcoholatallatall. Will you remember it?
? Children'8 Banner.
Francis Murphy, the temperance
evangelist, is conducting a revival among
the iron-wprkers of Youngstown, Ohio.
Over one thousand men. have signed the
pledge.
The Educator is the name of a new and
svell-filled monthly, devoted in part to
;emperance, which comes to us from
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