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' BONANZA KINGS.
THE RISE OP FOUR MODERN
MONTE CRISTOS.
From Humble Surroundings They
Achieved Fame anil Fortune?
The Great. Comstock Lodo
and the Bi?? Bonanza.
There were four Monte Cristos in the
United States. Now there are but two.
The reccnl death of James Clair Flood
in Heidelberg, Germany, reduces to a
p^r the four bonanza kings of the
Pacific Slope. These are ex-United
Spates Senator James G. Fair and John
W. Mackay.
y The career of this quartet of favorites
of Fortune, the sorry old jade who gives
ipost men more kicks than she does
smiles?is the most remarkable record of
a rise from poverty to a fluence in this
cpyntry of quickly acquired fortunes.
These four quick-witted Irishmen went
to California with thousands of other
men who, when they started in the race
for riches had every advantage of them,
but their competitors never overtook
them after they were once started.
To the people of San Francisco?
where tho four men were best known?
Mr. Flood was the embodiment of everything
omnipotent in financial speculation.
It has been said that he was bora
in Ireland. This is not true. He was
himself authority for the statement that
he was born in New York, October 25,
i826, and that he received a common
school educatin in the metropolis. In
u,. ?4- PolifAmio rliri Qfimn
XO'tV lie ncui lu v-umuiuiu, v....
placer mining on the Yuba liiver, but
fret with indifferent success. In 1851
he bad accumulated about $4000, and returned
to New York. He found that
liis modest purse did not constitute a
fortune, and he returned to the West.
Iq San Francisco he, with William S.
O'Brien?afterward his bonanza partner
^-engaged in the saloou business. Their
ealoon was dubhtd the "Auction Luuch
Bar." At that time the business of Sau
Francisco was transacted within the area
of half a dozen squares. The ships were
discharged, ihe political speeches were
Daade, the merchandise of the town sold,
the <james of chance run, the theatres,
the dance halls, the duels and the hangings
by the Vigilance Committee?all
were carried to a happy consummation
within the six bustling blocks of wooden
snpnties.
Thither on occaslous came John W.
Macltay, a bright, alert miner from the
Comstock, and James G. Fair, another
fine but entirely different type of the
sthrdy Nevada gold-seeker. O'Brien
was intimate with Fair; Fair had the
confiden.eof Mackay, and in course of
? $ime a social friendship and financial
combination were formed which afterward
made the four men interested the
post notable possessors of suddenlyacquired
wealth in the West.
Flood was the financier of the copartnership
then as later on. O'Brien
was the good-natured, easy-going, neverBpeakrill
Irishman, who had more good
pature than ability, and who served to
cement the friendship of the remarkable
quartet. Fair was the shrewd, cautious,
SUpicious adventurer who never lost
xpore than five cents of any dollar that
got into his vigorous grasp. Makay
t^as the same John "W. as now. only on a
less princely ?cale. He aspired at that
early date only to control the great ComStock
lode on which the ill-fated Ralston,
Alvinger, Hay ward and other magnates
held imperious sway.
Flood, the balancewhsel and superconservative
financier of the copartnership,
was satisfied with the pros
pect of controlling one mine for a
starter, and jo eventually the quartet
got the stock of the Little Kentuck
where they wanted it, and "The Auction
Lunch Bar" was able to loom up
in a new coat of paint, a fresh dress of
cut g.as3 and other evidences of prosperity.
Jim Fair put his profits away in the
Eibernia Savings Hank, Hood bought a
modest two-story and basement wooden
house uptown for the wife and daughter
Jennie. O'Brien laid in & stock of elegant
clothes and brought over three relatives
from Irelaud, and Mac'xay went
back to the Comstock and fastened his
eye on the Hale ?!c Norcross mine.
Jim Fair was figuratively watching
the dump of the Hale A: Nor-rois with a
microscope, and every ton of ore passed
tinder his critical eye. Mackay was
flying between Virginia City and San
Francisco, giving po nts to Flood how
to corner the stook and as to who held
it. Finally the able c.uartet got the game
in proper shape and, to the astonishment
of f'alston aud other magnates,
walked in at the annual election and
boldly took possession of the board of
directors with a full majority of the
Stock. The sequel to this proceeding
was a cleverly-executed deal in IIa!e &
Norcross, which made the four partners
millionaires, attracted the respectful
attention of mining operators to the new
copartnership, and completely prostrated
all the gin-sellers withiu four
blocks of the Auction Lunch Bar.
It was not until the discovery of the
"Big Bonanza," however, that the
bonanza kin s attained the great
notoriety which afterward distinguished
them. It is not generally known exactly
Tfliat part each of the partners had in
the development of the bonanzas. It is
generally believed in the West that to
Fair's sagacity and wonderful knowledge
of quartz mining were due the first interest
taken by the bonanza firm in the
Consolidated California & Virginia
mines.
Finally,when everything was in readiness
for a deal, in February, 18S3, the
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tonished world.
The body of ore revealed seemed to
Stirpes in extent the wildest dreams of
modern gold-seekers, and the people of
California, as well as some of the Eastern
cities became bereft of their prudence.
The bonanza?which is the miner's
idiom for a chimney or chute in which
the sulphurets have gathered aud settled
?was cut at a point 1107 feet below the
surface, and pierced a^ain as the shaft
^qht down to the 1200-foot lev?l. This
ttas a great thing in its way, even for
the rich Comstock I.ode, but it was only
a beginning. Another 100 feet showed
the DOr.an/a widening and the ore becoming
ri her. At the 1500-foot level
the assays ran higher than ever and the
width of the immense I ody of rich ore
had racreased from 1.10 to 22 ) feet.
Then Califoru a went inad and San
Francisco abandoned a!l legitimate
pursuits and became an asylum of raging
monomaniacs. Everybody who had
taken Consolidated Virginia California
stock at a few dollars a share, and
held it, was getting rich at the rate of
thousands a day.
Crops of millionaires sprang up like
grasshoppers in a hay field. Palace3 of
t&e newly mr.de rich began to climb
flljyward. It was argued on scientific
j^rinciples that the "13ig Bonanza" must
continue to widen as it went down, and
that for all time the holders of stock
tfonld collect dividends.
Contrary to the predictions of sciecce,
the "bonanza did not widen m it went
down. On the contrary it "pinched'!
all at once, and the visions of perpetual
dividends vanished. There wqs a sud]
den collapse of the market and t^ie pub?
lie of San Francisco was poor, but
Flood, Mackay, Fair and O'Brien were
rich beyond all anticipation.
It is estimated that the bonanza yielded
$111,000,09C, and it ha* been stated
that the income of the four mon was at
one time .fSOi'.OOO a month each. Theii
wealth has been estimated at variolic
sums, the most generally accepted being j
$20,000,000 apiece. Air. Flood's death ,
j leaves his family $10,000,000 to divide, j
j At one time he was worth at least $50,- |
j 00',000. But the big wheat deal of j
I 1837 depicted his treasury and under- I
mined his health.
October 5, 1875, the Nevada Bank was i
I opened by the bonnnza firm, and they I
designed it to take the place which had
been occupied by the Bank of California, j
which, under the extraordinary manage- j
ment of William C. Ralston, had oxer- j
ciscd great power and amassed and lost j
immense wealth.
1 Flood's sagacity as a financier showed j
him the immense advantage a bank i
would be to him in San Francisco, where 1
. mining stocks were such an important I
factor, and where other banks looked j
j with suspicion upon raining stocks as J
collateral. Results justified his ideas, i
Before the Nevada Bank was opened j
Flood one day suddenly made a demand
for cash upon the California Bank which
it was unable to meet. The result was its J
collapse and the sensational suicide of j
?Vein York Journal.
Flibustiers.
The West Indian pirates were com- j
monly known by the name of flibustiers ;
or freebooters, which some authorities j
refuse to trare to "free" and "booters," '
(or plunderers,) and find its original in i
the Flemish wlibot or flibot, a kind of
small swift boat, spccial y adapted to
piratical <ruising. The earliest flibus!
tiers were English and French hunters,
j who lived by the (hase and by their
plundering excursions in the sea of the
Antilles. In order to provide themselves
with a common rendezvous and asylum
they made a descent in 1G30 on the island
of Toituga.two leagues to the north
of San Domingo, and captured it. The '
j settlement whi h they formed there in- I
crcased rapidly in numbers, and was di- !
vided into three distinct classes?the
buc aneers, who were engaged in hunting
oxen and boars, the hides of whi h
| they sold when sun-died, or buccaned;
1 the inhabitants, who labored at the till.
lage of the ground, and the flibustiers,
who pursued the avocation of pirates.
The last-named were recruited to a great |
extent from the Fren h marine, and ob- !
tained their chiefs among the Knights j
of Malta. But there were large bodies j
of Knglish seamen engaged in the illicit I
trade, and some of the most sue essful J
and notorious buccaneering ? hiefs were j
English Captains. Their snips, at an
events in the early years of the West In- 1
dian piracy, were small and badly pro- I
visioned, and a I'otilla of three or four
would not carry more than 130 men.
They took up their position at the
mouths of the rivers, lying in wait for
thi Spanish trading vessels. When one
appeared they threwo.it their grapp'ing !
irons and < arried it by boarding. Then
they repaired to the nearest island and
divided the booty; or, if their prize
proved to be a vessel of importance,
armed it as a ship of war, appointed to
it a Captain, and, with the assistance of
half a dozen of the foremost men, arranged
a plan of voyage, and, having
settled everything, each man's rights, i
the partition of prize money, ana the
extra allowances in money or slaves foi
wounds received in combat, hung o it
their canvas to the wind. In this way
the Hibustiers gradually (and even rapidly;
replaced their tiny craft by wellfound
ship3 of goodly size and equipment.
? Gtn'.lem-tn'* May teine.
The Bottle-Trick Fakir.
There is no more ingenious fakir than
the dapper little man with the bottle
trick. Now that he has grown wealthy
on the quarters of the impecunious
young men of a speculative turn of mind
who think they can get a gold watch
without working for it, he begius to
thirst for fame. "Why," said he, 'Tm
the ouly one of the profession who
hasn't been written up in the papers.
The other fcliows. who work the pea and
thimble games and other chestnut fakes
are well advertised, but I'm left to hustle
for myself. This bottle trick is something
of my own invention. I built it
with an eye to my own pocket, and as I
still have the two prize watches I bought
when I started the game, I've succeeded
pretty well."
The trick is very simple. A wooden
bottle is plated on a little folding table.
A scatfold, from which hangs a little
chain with a ball at the end, is then suspended
over the bottle. The trick is to
throw the bull and knock the bottle
down with the ball as it returns. I'nless
the bottle is hit square in the middle it
won't fall. The ingenuity of the trick
is apparent when it is seen that the ball
always curves as it Hies back and just
scrapes the outside of the bottle. The
man himself has the curve down fine, and
can knock the bottle over every shot.
He takes great delight in showing every
Moses who comes to the fair how easy it
is to win a gold watch for a quarter.
But he never lets on that he is the only
man who can knock the bottle down.?
JS'ew York Sun.
i An Audiencc Gauged by Moistnre.
,4I can tell you how large an audience
there is in the house auy evening without
looking," suid the leader of a Broadway
theater orchestra the other day.
"How?" interrupted a St<tr reporter.
".My violin bow tells the tale. When
the hou e is full the moisture coming
from the audience lessens the tension oi
the hairs on the bow, and I am compelled
to tighten them many times dur
ing an evening. If the air is dry, of
course, this is avoided. You have no
idea how the sound of a violin is affected
by the weather. Damp atmosphere will
loosen and flatten the strings, and the j
result is a screeching sound from the
instrument. The body of the instrument
is also affected by the atmosphere.
Moisture gets into the wood and the
violin give-i forth an unnatural tone. The
moisture thus lowers the pitch, and it 13 1
exceeding di licult to keep the instrument
rightly tuned on a damp evening.
The vrintl instruments are affected in au
opposite way. Dampness contracts the
metal, and the result is a higher pitch.
It frequently happens that there is a
ditVereuce of au entire note between the
wind aud string instruments in playing
a selection.''?Neic Y< rk Star.
Gladstone's Affection for Old Clothes.
Mr. Gladstone is said to be so partial
to old clothes that his valet has the
greatest diiliculty in persuading him to
don a new suit when it is ready for him.
Although the servant carefully lays the
clothes out in the morning, ths "grand
old man" persists in donning the old
ones. It is only by removing these at
night and leaving nothing but the new
ones in his room that Mr. Gladstone carj
be persuaded to discard clothing that
has become positively shabby.?JSan,
Franciito C'ironic.e.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: "Wrong Uses of Money."
TEX?: "They that will be rich fall into
teihptation and a snare, and into many
foolish and h,urtful lusts,which drown men
in destruction and perdition."?L Timothy
vi., 01
That is tho Niagara Falls over which rush
a multitude of souls, namely the determination
to have money anyhow, right or wrong.
Tell me how a man gets his money and what
he does with it, and I will toll you his character,
and what will be his destiny in this
world and the next. I propose to speak this
morning about some of the ruinous modes of
getting money.
We recently passed through a national
election in which it has been estimated that
thirty million dollars were expended. I think
about twenty million of it were 6pent in out
and out bribery. Both parties raised all
they could for this purposa But that was
only on a large scale what has been done on
a smaller scale for fifty years and in all departments.
Politics from being the science of good
government has often been bedraggled into
the synonym for truculency and turpitude.
A monster sin, plausible, potent, pestiferous,
has gone forth to do its dreadful work in
all ages. Its two hands are rotten with
leprosy. It keeps its right hand hidden in a
deep pocket. Ine left hand is clenched, and
with Its ichorous knuckle it taps at the door
of the court room, the legislative hall, the
congress and the parliament. The
door swings open and the monster
enters, and glides through the aisle of the
council chamber as softly as a slippered page,
and then it takes its right hand from its
deep pooket and offers it in salutation to
judge or legislator, if that band bo taken,
and the palm of the intruder cross the palm
of the official, the leprosy crosses from palm
to palm in a round blotch, round as a gold
eagle, and the virus spreads, and the doom is
fixed, and the victim perishes. Let bribery,
accursed of God and man, stand up for trial
The Bible arraigns it again and again.
Samuel says of his two sons who became
ludges: "They took bribes and perverted
judgment." David says of some ot his pursurer8:
"Their right hand is full of bribes."
Amos says of soma men in his day: "They
take a bribe and turn aside the poor in the
gate." Ellphaz fortells the crushing blows
of God's inaignation, declaring: "Fire shall
consume the t ibernables of bribery."
It is no light temptation. The mightiest
have fallen under it. Sir Francis Bacon,
Lord Chancellor of England, founder of our
modern philosophy, author of "Novum
Organum." and a whole library of books,
the leading thinker of his century, so
precocious that when a little child he was
asked by Quefm Elizabeth: "How old
are you?' he responded, "I am two years
younger than your Majesty's happy
reign;" of whose oratory Ben. Johnson
wrote: "The fear of every man that hoard
him was lest he should mukeanend;" having
an income which you would suppose
would have put him beyond the temptation
of bribery?thirty-six thousand dollars a
year, and Twickenham court a gift, and
- 1_ TT?dm*.
pniiceiy rauit? in nei uviuiuuo cmi? v?\?. |
hambury?3*ct under this temptation
to bribery faliing flat into ruin,
and on his confession of talcing
bribes, giving as excuse that all
his predecessors took them; he was fined
two hundred thousand dollars, or what corresponds
with our two hundred thousand
dollars, and imprisoned in London tower.
So also Lord Chancellor Macclesfield fell: so
also Lord Chancellor Waterbury perished.The
black chapter In English, Irish, French and
American politics is the chapter of bribery.
Some of you remember the Pacific Mail
subsidies. Most of you remember the awful
tragedy of the Credit Mohilier. Under
the temptation to bribery Benedict Arnold
sold the fort in the Highlands for
$31,575. For this sin Gorgey betrayed
Hungary, Ahithophel forsook David and
Judas kissed Christ When I see so many
of the illustrious going down under this
temptation, it nlakes ma think of the red
dragon spoken of in Revelation, with sevon
beads and ten horns and seven crowns,
drawing a third part of the stars of heaven
down after him. The lobbies of the legislatures
of this country control the country.
The land is drunk with bribery.
"Oh." says some one, "there's no need of
talking against bribery by promise or by
dollars, because every man has his price." I
do not believe it. Even heathenism and the
dark ages have furnished specimens of incorruptibility.
A cadi of Smyrna had a case
brought before him on triaL A man
cave him five hundred ducats in
j bribery. The case came on. The
briber had many witnesses. The poor
B)ftn on the other side had no witnesses. At
1 the close of the ense the cadi said: "This
poor man has no witnesses, he thinks: I shall
produce in his behalf live hundrod witnesses
, against the other side." And then pulling
i out the bag of ducats from under the ottoj
man, he dashed it down at the feet
! of the briber, saying: 4'I give my
| decision against you." "Epam|
Inondas, offered a bribe, sail: "I will do
j this thing if it be right, and if it be wrong
j all your goods cannot persuade me."
i Fabricius of the Koman senate was offered a
| bribe by Pyrrhus of Macedon. Fabricius
j answered: "What an example this would bo
to the Roman people: you keep your riches
| and I will keep my poverty mid reputation.''
I The President of the American Congress
I during the American Revolution, General
' Peed, was offered ten thousand guineas by
foreign commissioners if he would betray
thi country. Her plied: "Gentlemen,I am
a very poor man, but tell your King he is
! not rich enough to buy me." But why go
60 far, when you and I, if we move in
! honorable society, know men and women who
. by all the concentrated force of earth and
! hell could not be bribed. They would no
| more be bribed than you would think of
j tempting an angel of light to exchange heaven
for the pit. To offer a bribe is villainy, but
it is a very poor compliment to the man to
whom it is offered.
I have not much faith in those people who
eo anout bragging how much they could get
If they would ouly sell out. Those women
who complain that they are very often insulted
need to understand that there is something
in their carriage to invite insult.
There are men in Albany and at HarHshurg
and at Washington who would no
more be approached by a bribe than a pirate
boat with a few cutlasses would dare to attack
a British man-of-war with two banks of
guns on each side loaded to the touch hole.
JLHTfj m O 4UCUI1 UjlblUIO 111CU) atiu yuuj I
the few men who are to save the city and
save the land. Meanwhile, my advice
is to all people to keep out of politics
unless you are invulnerable to this style of
temptation. Indeed, if you are naturally
6trohg, you need religious buttressing.
Nothing dud the grace of God can sustain
our public men and make them what we
wish. I wish that there might come an
old-fashioned revival of religion, that
it might break out in Congress and in
the Legislatures and bring many of the leading
Republicans and Democrats down on the
anxious seat of repentance. That day will
come, or something better, for the Bible deClares
that Kings and Queens shall become
nursing fathers and mothers to the church,
and if the greater in authority, theu certainly
the lets.
My cliarg# also to parent* Is, remember
that this evil of bribery often begins in the
noma cirole and in the nuhsery. Do not
bribe your ohildren. Teach them to do tltat
whioh is right, and not because of the ten
cents or the orange you will give them.
There isagreatdifferenoe between rewarding
virtue and making the profits thereof the
Impelling motive. That man who is honest
: merely because "honesty is the best policy"
j Is already a moral bankrupt.
My charge is to you, in all departments of
| life, steer clear of bribery, all of you. Every
; man and woman at some time will be
tempted to do wrong for compensation. The
| bribe may not be offered in money. It may
bo offered in social position. Let us re;
member that there is a day coming
when the most secret transaction of pri;
vate life nnl of public lifs will come up for
> public reprehension. "We cannot bribe death^ |
; wo CRnnoi orine sintnens, ne \mmuv
i the grave, we cannot bribe the judgments of
(hat God who thunders azainst this sin.
"Fie!" said Cardinal Beaufort, "flo! can't
deith be hired? is money nothing? must I
die, and so rich? if the owning of the whole
realm would save me, I could Ret it l>y
policy or by purchase?bv money." No,
death would not be hired then; he will not
be hired now. Men of the world often regret
that they have to leave their money here
j when thev go away from the world. You
| ran tell from what they nay in
their last hours that one of their
i chief sorrows is that they have to leave their
rnoney. I break that delusion. I tell that
bribe taker that he will take hit money with
' him. Gcd will wrap it ap in your shroud, or
eat It In the palm of your hand In resurrov
tion, and there it will lie, not the cool,bright,
ihlning gold as it was on the day when y?u
lold your vote and your moral principle, but
there it will lie, a hot metal, burning and
consuming: your hand forever. Or, if there
be enough of it for a chain, thon
It will fall from the wrist clankin
tr the fetters of an eternal captivity. The
bribe is an everlasting possession. You take
Vt for time, you take It for eternity. Some
day in the next world, when you are longing
for sympathy, you will feel on your
cheek a kiss. Looking up you will find it to
be Judas, who took thirty piece? of silver as
a bribe and finished the bargain by putting
an infamous kis3 on the pure cheek of his
Divine Master.
Another wrong use of money is seen in
the abuse of trust funds. Every man during
the course of his life, on a larger or
smaller scale, has the property of others
committed to his keeping. He Is eo far
a safety deposit, he Is an administrator, and
holds in his hand the interest of the
family of a deceasod friend. Or he is an
attorney, and through his custody goes the
payment from debtor to creditor, or he is
the collector for a business hous3
which compensates him for the responsibility:
or he is a treasurer for a charitable
institution and he holds alms contributed for
the Buffering; or he is an official of the city
or the State or the nation, and taxes, and
subsidies, and salaries, and supplies are in
his keeping. It is as solemn a trust as God
can make it. It is concentred and multiplied
confidences. On that man depends
the support of bereft household, or the
morals of dependents, or the right of movement
of a thousand wheels of social mechanism.
A man may do what he will with bis
own. but be who abuses trust funds, in that
one act commits theft, falsehood, peijury
and becomes, in all the intensity
of the word, a miscreant. How many
widows and orphans there are with
nothing between them and starvation
but a sewing machine, or held up out of the
vortex of destruction simply by the thread
of a needle, red with their own heart's blood,
who a little while ago had, by father and
husband, left them a competency. What is
the matter? The administrators or the executors
have sacrificed it?running risks
with it- that they would not have
dared to encounter in their own private affairs.
How often it is that a man will earn
a livelihood by the swe.it of his brow, and
then die, and within a few months all the estate
goes into the stock gambling rapids of
Wall Street. How often is it that you have
known the man to whom trust funds were
committed taking them out of the savings
bank and from "trust companies, and administrators,
turning old homesteads into
hard cash, and then putting the entire estate
into the vortex of speculation. Embezzlement
is an easy word to pronounce, but it
has ten thousand ramifications of horror.
There is not a city that has not suffered
from the abuse of trust funds. Where is the
court house, or the city hall, or the jail, or
the postofllce, or the hospital, that in the
building of it has not had a political job?
Long before the new Court-House in New
York city was completed, it cost over $12,000,000.
Five millions six hundred and
sixty-three thousand dollars for furniture.
For plastering and repairs, $2,370,000.
For plumbing and gaa works,
51,231,817. For awnings, $23,553.
The bil'g for 'three months coming to
the nice little sum of $ 13,151.193.39. There
was not an honest brick, or stone, or lath, or
nail, or foot of plumbing, or inch of plastering,
or ink stand, or door knob in the whole
establishment.
That bad example was followed in many of
the cities, which did not steal quite so much
because there was not so much to steal.
There ought to be a closer inspection and
there ought to be less opportunity for embezzlement.
Lest a man shall take a five cent
piece that does not belong to him, the conductor
of the city horse car must
sound his bell at every payment, and
we are very cautious about small Offenses,
but give plenty of opportunity for sinners on
a large scale to rscape, For a boy who stea's
a loaf of bread from a corner grocer to keep
his mother from starving to death, a prison;
but.for defrauders who abscond with half a
million of dollars, a castle on the Ilhine, or,
waiting until the offense is forgotten, then a
ca tie on the Hudson!
Another remark needs to be made, and
that is that paople ought not to go into
places, into business, or into positions, where
the temptation is mightier than their
character. If there be largo sums of money
to be handled and the man is not sure of bis
own integrity you have no right to run an
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man can tell by the sense of weakness
or strength in the presence of a bad opportunity
whether he is in a safe place. How
many parents make an awful mistake when
they put their boys in banking bouses and
stores and shops anil factories and daces of
solemn trusts, ^without once discussing
whether they can endure the temptation.
You give the boy plenty of money and have
no account of it, and make * the way
down become very easy, and ycu |
may put upon him a pressure
then he cannot stand. There ar^jnen who
go into positions full of temptation, considering
only the one fact that they are
lucrative positions. I say to the young
people here this morning, dishonesty will
not pay in this world or in the world to
come.
An abbot wanted to buy a piece of ground
and the owner would not sell It, but the
owner finally consented to let it to hitn until
be could raise one crop, and the abbot sowed
acorns, a crop of two hundred years!
And I tell you, young man. that the dishonesties
which you plant in your
heart and life will seem to bo very insignificant,
but they will grow up until they will
overshadow you with horrible darkness,
overshadow all time and all eternity. II
will not be a crop for two hundred years,
but a crop for everlasting ages.
I stand this morning before many who
have trusted funds. It is a compliment to
you that you have been so intrusted, but 1
charge you, in the presenco of God and the
world, be careful; be as careful of the
property of others as you are careful
of your own. Above all, keep your own
private account at the bank separate
from your account as trustee of an
estata, or trustee of an institution.
That is the point at which thousands of peo?
pie make shipwreck. They g?t the property
of others mixed up with thoir otfh property,
t.iey put it into investment, ar.d away it all
goos, aDd they cannot return that which
they borrowed. Then comes the explosion
and the money market is shaken
and the press denounces and the
church thun.iers expulsion. You have
?<-, f Jori-if. fcn inn t.h? ni'onertv of others except
for their advantage, nor without consj'rit,
unless they are minors. If with their consent
you invest their property as well as you
can, and it is all lost, you aro not to blame,
you did the best you could; but do not come
; into the delusion which has ruined so
many men, of thinking; because a
thing is in their possession, therefore
it is theirs. You have a solemn trust
that God has given you. In this vast assemblage
there may be some who have misappropriated
trust funds. Put them back, or,
if you have so hopelessly involved them that
you cannot put them back, confess the whole
thing to those whom you have wronged, and
you wi 1 sleep better nights, and you will
ve tho better chance for your soul. What
a sad thing it would be "if, after you are
dead, j-our administrator should find
out from the account books, or from the lack
of vouchers, that you were not only bankrupt
in estate, but that you lost your soul. If alt
the trust funis that have been misappropriated
should suddenly fly to their owners,
an 1 all the property that has bsen purloined
should suddenly go back to its owners, it
would crash into ruin every city in America.
A blustering young man arrived at a
hotel in the West and he saw a man on the
sidewalk, and in a rough way, as no man
has a right to address a laborer, said to
him: "Carry this trunk upstairs." The man
carried tho trunk upstairs and came down,
and then the young mail gave him a quarter
of a <1 >llar which was marked, and iustead
of heing twenty-five cents it wns worth only
twenty cents. Then the young man gave ,
his card to the laborer and said: "you uiks
this up to Governor Grimes; I want to see
him." "Ah," said the laborer: "I am
Governor Grimes." "Ob," said the young
man, "you?I?excuse ine." 'ihen the Gov* (
ernor said: "I was much impressed by
the letter you wrote me asking; for a
certain oflice in my gift, and I bad made up
my mind you should have it; but a young
mun who will cheat a laborer out of five
cents would swindle the Government of the
I State if he got his hands ou it. i don't want
you. Good morning, sir." It nev-sr pays.
Neither In this world nor in the "world to
[ come will it pay.
i do not suppose there ever was a better
specimen of honeety than wae found in the
Duke of Wellington. He marchai with hi?
army over the French frontier, and the army
was tutfering, and he hardly knew how to
get along. Plenty of plunder all ^bout, \>uthe
commanded none of the plunder to
be taken. He writes home these remarkable
words: " We are overwhelmed
with debts, and I can scarcely stir
out of my house on account of public credit- |
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ors waiting to demand what is due tfc?m.n
Yet at that v#rv tlma the French peaaintry
were bringing their valuables to him t? keep.
A celebrated writer says of the transaction
: " Nothing can be grander or
more nobly original than this admission.
This old soldier, after thirty
years' ser vice, this iron man and victorious
general, established in an enemy's countrv
at the bead of an immense array, is afraid of
his creditors! This is the kind of fear that
has seldoji troubled conquorors and invaders,
and I doubt if the annals of war present
anything comparable to its sublime simplicity."
Oh! is it not high time that we preachrd
the morals of the Gospel, right beside the
faith of the Gospel? iMr. Froude, the celebrated
English historian, has written of his
own country these remarkable words:
"From the great house in the city of London
to the villago grocer, the commercial
life of England has been saturated
with fraud. So deep has it
gone that a strictly honest tradesman
can hardly hold his ground against competition.
You can no longer trust that any article
you buy is the thing which it pretends
to be. H'e have false weights, false measures,
cheating, and shoddy everywhere. And
yet the clergy have seen all this grow up in
absolute iudifference. Many hundreds
of sermons have I heard in England,
many a dissertation on the
mysteries of the faith, on the
divine mission of the clergy, on bishops
and justification, and the theory of good
works, and verbal inspiration, and the
efficacy of the sacraments; but, during all
these thirty wonderful years, never one that
1 can recollect on common .honesty."
Now, that may be an exaggerated state*
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certain that in all parts of the earth we need
to preach the moralities: of the Gospel right
along beside tho faith of the Gospel.
My hearer! what are you doing with that
fradulent document in your pocket? My other
hearer! How are you getting along with that
wicked scheme you have now 011 foot? Is
that a "pool ticket" you have in your pocket?
Why, 0 young man, were you last night
practicing in copying your employer's signature?
Where wore you last night? Are
your habits as pood as when you left your
father's house? You had a Christian ancestry,
perhaps, and you have had too many
prayers spent on you to go overboard.
Dr. Livingstone, the famous explorer, was
des"ended from the Highlanders, and he
said that one of bis ancestors, one of the
Highlanders, one day called his family
around him. The Highlander was dying; he
had his children around his death-bed. He
Baid: "Now, ray lads, I have looked all
through our history as far back as I can find
it, and I have never found a dishonest man
in all the line, and I want you to understand
you inherit good blood. You have no excuse
for doing wrong. My lads, be honest,"
Ah, my friends, be honest before God, be
honest before your fellow men, be honest before
your souL If there be those here who
have wandered away, come back, come home,
come now, one and all, not one exception
in all the assemblage, come into the kingdom
of God. Come back to the right
track. 1 ha door of mercy is open and the
infinite heart of God is full of'compassion.
Come home! Come home! Oh, I would bo
well satisfied if I oould save some young man
this morning, some young man that has been
going astray and would like to get back.
I am glad some one has set to music that
scene in August of 1881, when a young girl
saved from death a whole rail train of passengers.
Some of you remember that out
wost, in that year on a stormy night, a hurricane
blew down part of a railroad bridge.
A freight train came along and it crashed
into the ruin, and the engineer and conductor
perished. There was a girl living
in her father's cabin near the disaster,
and she heard the crash of
the freight train, and sho know that in a
few moments an express train was due.
She lighted a lantern and clambered up on
the one beam of the wrecked bridge on
to the main bridge, which was trestle work,
and started to cross amid the thunder and
the lightning of the t9mpest and the raging
of the torrent beneath. One misstep and
it would have been death. Amid all that
horror the lantern went out. Crawling
sometimes and sometimes walking over the
slippery rails and over the trestle work, sho
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wanted to get to the telegraph station, where
the express train did not stop, so that the
danger might be telegrapehd to the station
whei-o the train did ptop. The traj
was duo in five minutes. She wa? one
Ipaile off fronj the telegraph statioii,
but fortunately the train waa late.
With cut and bruised fe?t sh,? flew
like the wind. Coming up to the telegraph
station, panting with almojt deathly exbauii
tion, sho ha<J only strength to shout, " Th#
bridge is down," when shte dropped uncon-<
scious and could hardly be resuscitated. Th4
message was sent from that station to tt}d
next station and the train halted, and that
night tint brave girl saved the lives of butt*
drods of passengers and saved many homes
fio.n de-ol.ation.
But every street is a track, and every style
of business is a track, and every day Is a
track, and multitudes under the powej- of
tomptation coming sweeping on ana sweeps
ing down toward perils raging and terrific/
Cpd help us to go out and atop thd
train. Let us throw some signal. Let
us give some warning. Bv tljie throna
of God let us flash some influence to stop the
downward progress. Beware! Bowarel The
bridge is down, the chasm is cfaep, and tkp
lightnings of God sot all the nignt of sin orl
firs with this warning: "lie, that being
often reproved, hardenoth his neck, shall
suddenly be destroyed, and th at without
remedy." ^ ,.
Nearly five years ago tHe steamship
Germania, of the Lloyd Line, departed
I from Tlie Hague, bound for New York.
On board were over 1,000 passengers
and a highly valuable cargo. The
steamship never reached port. No
tidings of her were ever heard, and,
although given up for lost several years
ago, the particulars of her fa^te were
never known. The other afternoon,
while walking along the beach of
Hassler's Haven, southeast of Melbourne,
Fla., Frank P. Hassler found
a wine bottle lying on the sands. It
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mos3. On picking it up be found it
had been securely corked. Scraping
tbe slimy moss off tbe bottle, two pieces
of paper were 6een inside. Tbe neck
of tbe bottle was broken off and tbe
papers withdrawn. One was a blank
bill of lading of the steamer Germania,
Lloyd Line, printed in German. The
other paper was simply brown wrapping'
paper, one side of which was covered
with writing in German, the characters
being almost illegible. After much
trouble the following translation was
made: "The steamship Germania is on
fire and sinking. Gale blowing and
all boats swamped. All hope is gone.
Johann Weinbergg, Stuttgart, Gei>
many, April it. iaoi.'
In Greece it is not jet recognized
that women have the privilege of working.
An enormous petition has beeE
addr. sscd to the House asking foi
secondary education for women and foi
the foundation of lyceums for girls.
The Pennsylvania Senate kasknocked
out the House bill requiring every
school house in the State to fly o
United States flag while the school is
in session. Might as well require eveiy
school to fire a cannon at its opening.
The Eiflel tower, Faris, will be finished
April 1. The elevator trip will
take five minutes. The tower is now 82ifeet,
and weighs 7,800 tons. There is
to be added 800 tons more.
Dvrins the y?ar 1887 the Bussian
tobacco factories turned out 2,692,756,865
cigarettes
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[ RELIGIOUS READING.
By and By.
By and by the path shall brighten.
And Its outlines rise to view;
As the moving mists shall lighten,
And distil the evening dew;
When the gems of gold shall glisten,
In the cloud supported sky;
While the soul shall look and listen,
By and by, yes, by and by.
By and by a fringe of beauty,
Shall appear beyond the line,
Whore the upward path of duty
Meets and melts in love divine;
There the Lord shall rise in glory,
Through the star depths drawing nigh;
Crowning thus redemption's story,
By and by, yes, by and by.
By and by shall come the ringing
Of the music from the throne,
As the seraphs in their singing,
Chant the marvels they nave known;
And the azure heights shall thunder
With the chorals of the sky;
'Till the soul shall wait and wonder,
By and by, yes, by and by.
By and by the city golden,
Shall in broad perspective stand;
All its massive bulk upholden
In the hollow of God's hand.
Then the templed heights shall glisten,
Near the throne exalted high;
While the soul shall look and li-ten,
By and by, yes, by and by.
?Wm. Alfred Oay.
The Revival aDd It8 Cost.
There can bo no advance in spirituality
without self-denial. The history of the
church is a continued illustration of this.
There are so many things to lead the minds
of men away from Christ and religion, that
a revival, a living, again, is necessary to
gain the attention of souls to the importance
of salvation. Ail worldly excitements are
unfriendly to religion and direct the mind
from spiritual th ngs. It has been God's
plan in. the history of the church to awaken
the people to a sense of their condition by
means of revivals. In this way backslidden
Christians have been awakened
to a sens2 of duty and filled with a longing
dedre for the salvation of the world.
We all know that God's egency in saying
men is His Spirit, and in all true revivals
the work of the Spirit is clearly seen. It will
be admitted that a revival of religion is desirable,
and if it could be purchased b> paying
a good, fair price, there are some
churches that would be sure to have one.
There are various things that stand in the
way of revivals in our churches. There is
the worldly spirit, for instance. The members
arc conformed to the world, to its display,
its amusements and its tins. There is
the unconcern of professors who do not seem
to be at all troubled at the
irreligion of the unconverted, and
Viott clocri tjpVh'1 -> sinnprs nra unsavfid.
Now wo undertake to say that the reason
why churches do not enjoy reviva1 influences
is they are not willing to pay the price in
self-denial and consecration to God. In
every church there are some earnest
souls who by faithfulness have power at the
throne of grace. But there is a large
measure of tho spirit of the world in our
churches, and this paralyzes the power of
prayer and puts its cold hand on every pulse
of the church. There are scores of churches
in Connocti ut in just this condition.
Nothing can be wcrse than the deadening influence
of a cold church. Many have the
feeble signs of life, but are in the slumbers of
death. How shall these churches
be awakened? Lot Christians flsk God to
have their faith renewed, and pray that the
power of sin and the world over us mav be
broken. We have never known a church to
be nwnkened to a higher state of
Christian life and no conversions
to follow. It is tho worldly spirit in
our hearts that 1 locks the onward course of
the kingdom of Christ. Every unconsented
professor is a lump of ice, to whom
the burning realities of eternity are nothing.
We have often had our heart pained, at the
great lack of consecration on the part of
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us just i?s far as it is possible to do so, and
the cost of spiritual blessings will be the consecration
of ourselves to bis services.?Hart.
Bel. Herald.
True Prayer.
It is neither wise nor right for God's people
to be too persistent in pressing particular
requests in prayer; or rather in' showing a
wilful disposition in prayer. No matter how
much we want to obtain some fancied good
thing or to avoid some fancied trou! Te or
calamity, our petitions ought always to be
accompanied with the feeling and expression
| that the Lord's will, not ours, may be done.
This is the lesson taught lis in Christ's ever
memorable struggle in the garden of
Gethsemane, and it is a revelation of the
nature and effectiveness of true prayer. It
is only when the ignorant and weak human
soul submits itseif to the guidance of infinite
intelligence and perfect love; only when the
wayward and sinful human will bows to the
righteous Divine Will that there is any real
communion between man and God.
Nor will God answer in the best sense any
other kind of petition. He does indeed at
times answer wrong petitions pushed by the
wilful believer to the extreme and in a wrong
spirit; but the very answer is an infliction of
His displ-. asure and sure to end in disastrous
results. For example: when the Israelites
prayed in a murmuring and rebellious disposition
lor flesh, whilst sighing after the "flesh
pots of Egypt,' God replied by sending flocks
of quail which, though wonderfully gratifyhe
nation back into 38 years of wre tched
ing to tho appetite, bred nevertheless a
plague that destroyed the eaters by thousands.
Ko again He yield d to tho demand
of the tribes to send spies into Canaan,wlii-h
displayed a lack of faith and obedience; but
the conflicting reports of the returned spies
divided the camp, threw tho majority into
doubt, fear and despair; and in fact burled
wanderings in the wilderness. In the same
way the wish and determination of tho discontented
people to have a king was^ a real
rebellion against tho theocracy. Well, Jehovah
granted the rebellious request and
himself selected tho king, had him anointed
nnd crowned; but the result was that the
people suffered all sorts of evil from their
Icing, s j that he became a rod of Divine
wrath rather than au instrument of mercy
and blossinc.
The writer of these lines once knew a
mother who was most remarkable in her
persistence in praying for the restoration
from perilous sickness of her son. She was
warned that she should say: "The Lord's
will be done," but replied that "she could
and would no', if that will meant the
death of her on. v and d irling boy." Here
was a sinful re s'lion of heart and will.
Her pruyer, hot ever, was answered. The
boy seemed rescued from the jaws of death;
but alas, he grew up to b.* a wick* d, drinking,
gambling, remorseless wretch! The
heart-broko:i mother often recalled with
penitential sorrow her own stubbornness of
will in having refused to b:>w to what
see i ed a call from G d for her boy as
clear as tho call onco given to Abraham;
and wished, tf.o late, that God had taken
him fro n earth while yet in the beauty
and innocence of childhood.
The thoughtful ami judicious disciple w ill
always remember, and in remembering this
will find all his comfort and joy, that God
knows best and will do best, that as his own
truth declares: "All things work together
for the good of iheni th it lovo Him." He
will therefore snv as Jesus did when contem*l
nn,nj.
j piaiing me uiijiuiniig stcuo ^
| fixion: "0, Sfy Father, if it be possible, let
this cup pass from Me: nevertheless, not as I
will, but as Thou wilt."?Christian at Work.
"We are wanting the strength we need for
the discovery of truth as yet unknown, because
we do not rest enough in truth that wo
know. "Rest in the Lord." Tho greatest
things are known already.
Cider and Temperance
A Boston paper remarks that the new
amendment propo ed to he added to the Constitution
of the )3ay State [to prohibit the selling
of cider as a beverage, we infer], wi'l not
hinder the manufacture of ci'ler by the farmers
in case it is engrossed an 1 improved by
the people. The farmers may manufacture
cider ju^t as they ilo to day, an 1 after converting
it into vinegar can make two and a
half or three cents a gallon more than if sold
as a beverage, it is quite probable that thib
amendment will be given by the Maseaehusfttte
Legislature to the people to act upon,
and it is decidedly important that they act"
intelligently.? New York
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TEMPERANCE.
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True Heroism.
Let others write of battles fought
On bloody, ghastly fields,
Where honor greets the man who wins.
And death the man who yields;
But I will not write of him who fights
And vanquishes his sins?
Who struggles on through weary years
Against himself and wins.
He is a hero, true and brave,
Who fights an unseen foe,
And puts at last beneath his feet
His passions base and low;
And stands erect in manhood's might,
Undanted, undismayed?
The bravest man who drew a sword
In foray or in raid.
It calls for something more than brawn
Or muscle to o'ercome
An enemy who marcheth not
With banner, plume or drum?
A foe forever lurking nigh, - , VS
With silent, stealthy tread;
Forever near your board by day,
At night beside your bed.
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All honor, then, to that brave heart,
Though poor or rich he be,
Who struggles with his baser part,
Who conquers and is free.
He may not wear a hero's crown
Or fill a hero's grave, '^k
But truth will place bis name among
The bravest of the brave,
What Became o( a Drink.
In the year 1840, on the third day of October,
a traveler from Richmond, in Virginia,
to Philadelphia got out of a train at the rect.at.inn
at. Baltimore. He was
tired with tbe journey, and still had some
distance to go. A friend whom he met there
invited him to take a drink. What harm
could there be in that? Was it not the part
of good-fellowship to do so? Who but a
churl, a fellow who ought to be treated with
contempt, some bigoted, miserable teetotaller
could raise an objection? The two friend*,
with good intentions went to the bar. Had a
drink. What was tbe result?
The gentleman who was thu3 tempted w&f
a poet of the very highest promise. His
career had been wild and bad. His name
was Edgar Allen Foe. His tales bad revealed
rare gonius. One or two poems he had
written were radiant with promise. Every
literary critic was assured that if he would
jecome steady and settle down to a good life
be would be ono of the brightest stars of
Americau literature. And the counsels of
wise men and tbe influence of good friends
had no effect. While in Richmond he had
been brought to penitence for tbe post, and
rowed reformation. He signed the pledge
and joined a temperance society to enable
him to resist his great foo, strong drink. Ha
gave a lecture on total abstinence, which was
attended by the best people in Richmond!
who rejoiced at the change and were full of
hope. A lady whom he had long loved now
consented to an engagement, and arrangements
were made for the wedding. All his
friends were satisfied that the man had
changed, and meant to work and live a
good life. Before the marriage took place
he bad an invitation to rnuaaeipnia icr
some literary work. Life was bright, and
all promised welL But whilst staying for a
few minutes at Baltimore, a well-meaning
friend persuaded him once more to
open the door to the demon who had
blasted his life up to that boor,
but was now subdued. What induce- ? %
aients were used, what strong asseverations
that one glass could do no harm
were made, what jests at being a milk-sop
were employed, what sneers at teetotal
fanaticism were indulged in, we cannot
tell. At length Poe just turned tho key in
the lock. Id? took a drink. There are
foolish persons who say they have no
sympathy with a man who cannot take just
one glass or two, perhaps, and stop there.
No wise lover of his fellows will say that.
Some of the very best men cannot. It is ? / ?
often tho finest brains that are driven
into insanity with a few drops of alcohoL
which speedily destroys the equilibrium of
the system, as a little snake poison will do.
Poe could not stop at one glass. At Havre
de Grace he was found so disorderly that he >
was taken back to Baltimore in the custody
of the conductor of the Philadelphia train.
There he did what others have done?ran
riot in drink, completely mastered by the
demon he had. been foolish enough to set free.
In the course of a few days he was taken to
the hospital in an insensible state. Sunday
morning. October 7, he awoke to consciousness.
"Where am I?" he asked. A kindhearted
doctor who was by the bedside said:
"You are cared for by your best friends."
After a pause Poe solemnly replied:
"My best friend would be the man
who would blow out my brains.".
In ten minutes he was a corpse.
The next day he was interred iu the burialground
of Westminister Church, and
America lost one of the most promising and
brilliant writers she ever possessed. What
became of the friend who induced him to
take that drink at the Baltimore refresh- / ""
ment-room? What did be think of it when
he learned the results? What will he think
of it in eternity? If angels have any insight
into futurity, what must they have felt if
gsrmitted to witness at the refreshment bar?
urely some demon sent a thrill of hellish
joy throughout the pit as it saw the man lift
I the gloss! Oh, it is terrible to think what a
I brilliant light in English literature that glass
j quenched! And one is reminded of a certain
poet, who lived many centuries previous,
! who said, possibly seeing a similar evil in his
I day: "Woe unto Hra that giveth his neigh|
bor drink."?J. Hunt Cooke, in the Frec?
j man. .
A Boy's Terrible Inheritance.
The most striking illustration that is in
my recollection at the present moment was
in one whom I knew from his birth until he
met his death by tho most tragical of suicidal
acts, and who was as peculiar in some respects
beforo the fatal inllueuco of drink had
I actually seized on him as afterward. On his
| paternal side this boy diroctly inherited the
alcoholic taint: 011 his mother's side, indirectly.
He was a boy not wanting in a certain
"ahilty, and not wanting in a certain
! beauty of build: hut he had about him no determination
of purpose. Ho was restless
without object, capricious, and often melancholy.
He was not intentionally cruel, bflt ?
as if without knowing it he was suddenly
and often desperately cruel with animals and
playfellows alike. >io he grew up, not making
much progress in anything, and caring
less for play than a healthy boy
should. At last, when he was under
age, the taste for wine, and almost instantly
for stronger fluid of tho same
spirit-class, was acquired. Then as it
were, with a bound, he pawed into dipsomania.
There were no preliminary stages of
gayety, of occasional intoxication, with
periotis of reformation; no relapses under
anxiety or urgent lempwuuu, uut u wupleta
transformation or the whole man?or,
rather, tho whole youth?into drunk madness.
He did not, would not, could not
reason ou the matter. He was as conscious
of the evil as was anyone who looked at him
in his worst phases. He had no desire whatever
to reform. It was his confession that
he cared for life only so far as it gave him
the opportunity to indulge in drink. Having
no pity for himself, he had no pity for others,
. \nd disregardful of his welfare, tlrajge 1 all
who approached him, as far as he could, into
his own course; not, lie it observed, from
any desire to do them wrong, but from an
actual indifference, or, it may be, ignorance
of the relations between right and wrong;
and so, for many years, nis distorted way of
life, accursed, as ha himself said, and accursing,
progressed, until in mere freak, and
practising iu the actual act of killing himself
an awful cruelty on others, he came to
his untimely oaA.?lJioneer.
A "Professor" Who is Not Wanted*
Among the arrivals in New York by the
North German Lloyd steamer Trave, on the
:>d ult., was a champagne "professor,"
Professor F. P. Hofmeist*r, of Wurtemburg,
inventor of a new systsm of making
champagne from .still wines. He and his
assistant, Dr. Gotte, it is announced, have
come to this country in response to the invitation
of New York wine merchants, with
a view to applying his process to California
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America can become an extensive exporter
of champagne and still wines. Any increaso
in champagne and wine-making in this
country is to be deplored. We are in no
sense in need of champagne "professorship"
on this side of the Atlantic, and it would uo
well for investing capitalists to take note of
the signs of the times in various States
wherein Prohibition already obtains, and
others wherein Prohibitory constitutional
amendment campaigns are now pending.
Like breweries and distilleries, wine-producing
vineyards and champagne inventions
are certainly destined, in the not distant; (
future, to become poor paying property oa ?
American soil.?Temperance Advocate.
The Bristol Gospel Temperance Union of
Edinburgh, sinoe its organization in lttS2,bas
influenced between four and five thousand
persons to sign the total abstinence pledge.