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PLAGUES OE THE CITIES
; THE IDLE RICH, THE IDLE POOR, THi
DESPERATE, DANGEROUS POOR.
Dr. Talmage's Graphic Sketch of the Dan
gerous Elements in City Life?Life ii
the Jails, Cellars and Hospitals?Th
Lara Seething Below.
Nkw York, April 12.?Dr. Talinage
in continuance of the coarse of sermon
on 'The Ten Plagues of the Cities," to
day preached to large audiences in th
! Brooklyn Academy of Music in th
1 forenoon and at The Christian Heral*
service at the New York Academy o
Music in the evening on "The Plagu
of Crime." He took for his text Exodu
j vii, 20, "All the waters tliat were ii
i the river were turned to blood."
^ Among all the Egyptian plagues non*
: could have been worse than this. Th
] Nile ft the wealth of Egypt. Its fisl
J the food, its waters the irrigation o
garden and fields. Its condition de
] cides the prosperity or the doom of tin
i empire. What happens to rhe Nil*
\ happens to all Egypt. And now ii
1 rivor iv inowmml inaH
} V1IC 155AV VXiMH. vv*v *? VI t? WM Mv.v?...wv.
; 11 is a red gash across an empire. Ii
I poetic license we speak of wars whici
j turn the rivers into blood. But rn;
text is not a poetic license. It was i
fact, a great crimson, appalling condi
fion described. The Nile rolling dee]
of blood! Can you imagine a tnor
j awful plague ?
j The modern plague which neares
: corresponds with that is the plague o
! crime in ail our cities. It halts not fo
; bloodshed. It shrinks from no carnage
; It bruises and cuts and strikes dowi
and destroys, It revels in the blood o
j body and soul?this plague of crime
pant for ages, and never bolder o
; more rampant than now.
! HORRORS OF THE POLICE COURTS.
1 Th? anniift! nnlicft renorts of the?
. cities as I examine them are to me mor<
; suggestive than Dante's Inferno, ant
| all Christian people as well as reform
; ers need to awaken to a present ant
| tremendous duty. If you want thi
j "Plague of Crime" to stop there an
| several kinds ef persons you need t<
j consider. First, the public criminals
j You ought not to be surprised tha
: these people make up a large portioi
! in many communities. The vast ma
jority of the criminals who take shij
j from Europe come into our own port
j In 1869, of the forty-nine thousand peo
: pie who were incarcerated in the pris
| ons of the country thirty-two ihousam
j were of foreign birth. Many of then
j were the very desperadoes of society
1 oozing into the slums of our cities
3 jOfnirinsy f:. y to riot ATlf
q - -
} steal a**d debauch, joining in-, l^jvr;
' cmT}<r ^American thugs and cutthroats
BEWf "P jr.. this niu?/nr of_nitie^
5 iiew Yo^k, Jersey City ana broo^yo?
] four thousand people whose entire bo'si
! ness in life is to commit crime. Tha
; is as much their business as jurisprud
I ence or medicine or merchandise ii
j your busings. To it they bring ai
their energies of body, mind and souj.
and they look upon the intervals wlitei
they spend in prison as so much unfor
tunate loss of time, just as you look
! upon an attack of influenza or rheuuia
< jiao which fastens you in the house foi
| A few days. It is their lifetime business
to pick pockets and blow up safes anc
i shoplift and ply the panel game, anc
! they have as much pride of skill in
| their business as you have in yours
when you upset the argument of an
| opposing counsel or cure a gunshot
i franfcnre which other surgeons have
| given up, or foresee a turn in the mar
| ket as you buy goods Just before they
: go up 20 per cent. It is their busi|
ness to commit crime, and I do not
j suppose that once in a year the thought
of the immorality strikes them.
Added to these .professional erimj
tnals. American and foreign, there is a
| large class of men who are more or less
i industrious in crime. In one year the
i police in this cluster of cities arrested
! ten thousand people for theft and ten
thousand for assault and battery and
| fifty thousand for intoxication. DrunkI
enness is responsible for much of the
t theft, since it confuses a man's ideas of
property, and he gets his hands on
! things that do not belong to him. Hum
| is responsible for much of the assault
; and battery, inspiring men to sudden
| bravery, which they must demonstrate,
; though it be on the face of the next
. gentleman.
Ten million dollars' worth of property
I stolen in this cluster of cities in one
. year. You cannot, as good citizens, be
I independent of that fact. It will touch
: your pocket, since I have to give you
the fact that these three cities pay about
| eight D'iilion dollars' worth of taxes a
| year to arraign, try and support the
i criminal population. You help to pay
the board of every criminal, from tha
! sneak thief that snatches a spool of
j COIWU up IU 3UIUC IU1UJ \y <t\)cimps >1
bank. More than that,: Mies your
; heart in the moral depi .^on of the
; community. You might as well think
| to staud in a closely confined room
i where there are fifty people and yet not
i breathe the vitiated air as to st;md in
' a community where there is such a
i great multitude of the depraved with!
out somewhat being contaminated.
What is the fire that burns your storfj
; down compared with the conflagration
; which consumes your morals? Wliat
: Is the theft of the gold and silver from
j your money safe compared with tho
i theft of your children's virtue?
CA>* THE CKIIILN'AL BK ilKFOHilEL* ?
We are all ready to arraign crimii
rials. We shout at the top of our
voice, ';Stop thief!'' and when the
j police get or; the track we come out,
, hatless and in our slippers, and assist
! in the arrest. We come around the
; bawling ruffian and hustle him oft to
! Justice, and when he erets in wison
I w *
what dc we do for lilm ? With great
gusto we put on tl?? handcuffs and the
hopples; but what preparation are we
making for the day when the handcufff
| and the hopples come off? Society
seems to say to these criminals, 4 "Villain,
go in there and rot," when it
ought to say, 4'You are an offender
against the law, but we mean to give
you an opportunity to repent; we mean
to help you. Here are Bibles and
tracts and Christian influences. Cltrist
died for you. Look, and live."
Vast improvements have been made
bjr iniaroducing industries into the pris
' on, but we want something more than !
) '
' i hammers and shoe lasts to reclaim these j
I>eople. Aye, we want more than ser- I
E ' mons on the Sabbath day. Society !
| must impress these men with the fact j
j that it does not enjoy their suffering,
and that it is attempting to reform and j
| elevate them. The majority of crim- j
i inals suppose that society lias a grudge '
against them, and they iu turn have a j
j grudge against society.
, 1 They are harder in heart and more j
s i infuriate when they come out 01 jail ;
k ' than when they went in. Many of the j
Q people who go to prison go again and
again. Some years ago, of fifteen hen- J
, j dred prisoners who during the year had j
l>een in Sing Sing four hundred had !
been there before. In a house of cor-?
e j rection in the country, where during a '
s j certain reach of time tiiere had been j
1 j five thousand people, more than three j
j thousand had been there before. So, j
e i in one case the prison and in the other '
e j case the house of correction left them i
J j
1 j just as bad as they were before.
The secretary of one of the benevo- i
lent societies of New York says a lau j
? | of fifteen years of age had spent three j
s : years of his life in prison, and he said !
1 : to the lad, ''What have they done for ;
; you to make you better?" "Well," re- j
1 j plied the lad. "the first time I was j
1 | brought up before the 'judge he said, j
Y j 'You ougiit to be ashamed of yourself.' I
1 j And thenri committed a crime again.
and I was brought up before the same j
? ' iudce. and he said. 'You rascal!' And !
e I after a while I committed some other j
crime, and I was brought before the j
* : same judge, and lie said, 'You ought to I
* i be hanged.'" That is all they had i
r ; done for him in the way of reformation I
* i and salvation. "Oh," you say, "these i
a people are incorrigible," I suppose j
* | there are hundreds of persons this day
'? ! lying in the prison bunks who would
r leap up at the prospect of reformation
i if society would only allow them a way
i into decency and respectability. "Oh," I
~ ! you say, "I have 110 patience with these
d I rogues." i ask you in reply, how much
* j better would you have been under the
" I same circumstances?
Suppose your mother had been a i
8 i blasphemer and your father a sot. and |
- ! you had started life with a body stuffed ;
3 ! with evil proelivitjps. and you had |
* | spent much of your time in a eeiiaf I
j amid obscenities and cursings, aud it '
1 | at ten years of age you had been com- j
pctieq to go out ana stear, Datterea ana i
5 banged at night if you came in without ;
* i any spoils, and suppose your early man- {
j hood and womanhood had been coy- I
| ered with rags and filth, and decent so i
* ; ciety had turned its back upon you ;
i | and left you to consort with vagabonds i
' ; and wharf rats ? how much better |
' | would you have been ? I have no sym i
* j pathy with that executive clemency ;
! which would let crime run loose, or j
| wltioJi would sit in the gallery of a '
* " eOUi-1 "room weeping because some hard j
J hearted wretch is brought to justice; i
| but I d.Q say that the safety and life of I
* j the community demand more potential j
| influences in behalf of public offenders. j
FOULNESS OF PRISON LIFE.
| In some of the city prisons the air is j
j i like that of the Black Hole of Calcutta, i
! I have visited prisons where, as the air
j swept through the wicket, it almost ;
' j knocked me down. No sunlight. !
r j Young men who had committed their j
5 first crime crowded in among eld of- i
I j fenders. I saw in one prison a woman, |
I | with a child almost blind, who had '
. j been arrested for the crime of poverty, I
3 j who was waiting until the slow law j !
: could take her to the almshouse, where j ]
. ; she rightfully belonged; but she was ! 1
, ; thrust in there \yith iier eLmi amid the
| most abandoned wretches of the town. 5
. i Man7 of the offenders in that prison ;
j slept o11 the floor, with nothing but (
. j a vermin covered blanket over them. (
I 1
j Those people crowded and wan and
wasted and half suffocated and infuri- j (
ated. I said to the men, "IIow do you 1
stand it here?" '"God knows," said one (
man, "we have to stand it." Oil, they *
will pay you when they get out. Where 1
they burned down one house they will ?
| burn th?e-o. They will strike deeper J
| the assassin's knife. They are this nun- J
| ute plotting worse burglaries.
: Some of the city Jails are the best 1
1 places I know of to manufacture foot- 1
i pads, vagabonds and cutthroats. Yale
| college is not so well calculated to 1
i make scholars, nor Harvard so well
j 7
! calculated to make scientists, nor
i Princeton .so well calculated to make c
j theologians as many ot our jails are 5
! calculated to make criminals. Ail that 1
| those men do not know of crime after \
j they have been in that dungeon for r
| some rims Satanic machination cannot
t teach them. In the- insufferable stench j B
j and sickening surroundings of such a
i places there is nothing but disease for
I the body, idiocy for the mind and t
j death for the soul. Stilled air and q
| darkness and vermin never turned a s
j thief into an honest man. c
Wo wapt men like John Howard and i %
! Sir William j31aeksto;ie arid women t
i like Elizabeth Fry to do for the ptis- ..
! ons of the United States what those
I people did in other days for the prisons t.
j of England. I thank God for what e
! Isaac T. Ilopper and !? '. Wines and 1
! Mr. Burls and scores of others have s
' done In the way of prison reform; but i v
i we want sometliing more radical before f
! will come the blessing of him who said, I
! "I was in prison, and ye came unto i
; me " 1?
Again, in your eiiorL to arrest this t
! plague of crime you need to consider t
| untrustworthy officios. "Woe unto t
j thee, 0 land, when thy king is a child v
; and tliy princes drink in the morning."
j It is a. great calamity to a city when t:
I bad men get hito public authority. ri
j Why was it that In Mew York there c
i was such unparalleled crime between f;
| 1SG6 and 1871 ? It was because the fi
j judges of police iu that city at that o
j time, for the most part, were as cor- 3]
| rupt as the vagabonds that came be- tl
: foro them for trial. Those were the ti
I days of high carnival for election frauds, p
; assassination and forgery. We had all w
j kinds of rings. There was one mall S
i during those years that got one hun- tl
! dredand twenty-eight thousand dollars t<
j in one year for serving the public. In s<
a few years it was estimated that there
; were fifty millions of public treasure a
; squandered. In those times the crlin- y
j inal li&d only to wink at the judge, or it
i his lawyer would wink for hire, and the a:
t 1. ? J .1 n
j i^uHfuuu wua uecueu ior uie ueieuu- r
! aut. it
I Of the ekjht thousand people arrest- h
od in that city in one year only three 18
thousand were punished. These iittie
matters were "fixed up," while the in- bl
terests of society were '"fixed down."
You know as well as I do that one vil- U1
lain who escapes only opens the door 81
for other criminalities. When the two ^
pickpockets snatched the diamond pin ^
from the Brooklyn gentlexnan in a 01
Broadway stage, and the villains were
arrested, and the trial was set down I
for the general sessions, and then the
trial never came, and never anything a*
more was heard of the case, the public Nv
officials were only bidding higher for i Vl
more crime. !
WHEN THK WICKED RULE THK PEOPLE
MOURN.
It is no compliment to public nuthority
when we have in all the cities of the ^
country, walking abroad, men and i ^
women notorious for criminality un*
sc
whipped of justice. They are pointed
out to you in the street dav bv dav. 86
IU
There you find what are called the
' fences.'' the men who stand between '
the thief and the honest man, shelter- s?
ing the thief and at a great prieo hand- j
ing over the goods to the owner to i
whom they belong. There you will , ^
find those who are called the "skinners,"
the men who hover around Wall
street, with great sleight of hand in i
bonds and stocks. There you find the | Y
funeral thieves, the people who go and i in
sit down and mourn with families and j st
pick thei? pockets. And there you find i tl:
the "confidence men," who borrow ! w
money of you l>eeau.se they have a dead j tl:
child in the house and want to bury it, i sii
when they never had a house or a fami- j a
ly; or they want to go to England and j of
get a large property there, and they j n<
want you to pay their way, and they ro
will send the money back by the very bi
next mail, tlj
There are tbG :'harbor thieves," the sv
"shoplifters," tiio ''pickpockets," fa- w
mous all over the cities. Hundreds of M
them with their faces In the "rogue's ai
gallery," yet doing nothing for the laat ar
five or ten years but defraud society P*
and escape justice. When these people a
go unarrested and unpunished, it is ce
putting a high premium upon vice and ar
saying to the y'onng crlrnuifj.L= of this P*
country, "What a safe thing it is to be
a great criminal!" Let the law swoop th
upon them. Let it be known in this ea
country that prime will have no quar- su
tor, that the detectives are alter if. that P*
the police club is being brandished,
that the iron door of the prison is be- th
inrr nnon<vl thst. inrtrrA 5>j r>A?rt\r Ia th
call on the case. Too great leniency to 01
criminal'; is too great severity to socv ne
ety. th
Again, in your effort to arrest this UF
plague of crime you need to consider an
the idle population. Of course I do Gr<
not refer to people who are getting old, th
or to the ei?^k or to those who cannot
t T till a i > ^
those athletic men and women who ^
will not wo*.'k. When the French no- WI
bleman was asked why he kept busy Tl
when he liad so large a property he ho
said, "I keep on engraving so I may da
not hang myself." I do not care who do
the man is, you cannot afford to be hr
idle. It is from the idle classes that T1
the criminal classes are made up. fa*
Character, like water, gets putrid if it ?f
stands still too long. Who can wonder ^
that in tliis world, where there is so *h<
much to do, and all the hosts of earth 'a*
ttud heaven and hell are plunging into
the conflict, and angels are living and m*
? .1 i-i. J i . urn
ljwu ix at v>ur*v. aiiu tnc uiuverbo is ,,M
si-quake with the marcliing and counter- Ju
inarching, that God lets his indignation ^
fall upon a man who chooses idleness? wa
J have watched these do-nothings who as
spend their time stroking their beard,
md retouching their toilet, and criti- I-'0*
;ising industrious people, and pass theif ua
lays and nights'in barrooms and oiub vo
mouses, lounging and smoking and ho
mowing and cord playing. They are da
aot only useless, but they are danger- an
jus. IIow hard it is for them to while tin
iway the hours! Alas for them! If It:
bey do not know how to while away su<
in hour, what will they do when they wa
lave all eternity on their hands? <
rhese men for awhile smoke the best da,
:igara. and wear the best clothes, and of
uove in the highest spheres, but I h&vq tin
noticed that very soon they come down ha
o the prison, the almshouse, or stop at da;
he gallows. ha:
DTYDi'ClBIiB LAZXMOSB. hit
The police stations of this cluster oi 03,1
die
lities furnish annually between two ^
md three hundred thousand lodgings.
Tot the most part, these two and three ^
mndred thousand lodgings are fur- , "
\lcK t/\ r? Kl/% IA/^ rr? AM nM/1 ?nA?MAv\ *
LL^LICU tW uUIC L/VU.1CU. UiUii CLL1VJL WUUiCU I
-people as able to work as you and 1 i
Lre. When they are received no longer' j ^
it one police station. because they are j tjl?
'repeaters," they go io soiue utQec su^r j (
ion, and so they keep moving around. ! '
Phey get their food at house doors, j ^
tealing what they can lay their hands . ^
>n in the front basement while the ser- ! ^ ,
-ant is spreading the bread in the baok { (
>asenient. Thev will not work. Time ! ,
. I str<
tn(4 in cnti country uistncte^ j
hey have wanted hundreds and thou- wo
ands of laborers. These men will not ^ie
:o. Thev do not want to work. I
nig
saye tried them. 1 have set them tq
awing wood in my cellar to so6 j
vhether they wanted to work. I of- ^
ered to pay them well for it. I have Ler
leard the saw going for about three
uinutes, and tlien I went down, and
o, the wood, but no saw! They are ^
he pest of society, and they stand in
ho way of the Lord's poor, who ought .
o be helpeu, and must bo helped, and ; .
rill llfilruw) ^ I
txik K/\? UW^VV4. j
While there are thousands of indus- j anj
rious men v. ho cannot get any work, i <jaj
ha<e men who do not want any work I
oine in and make that plea. I am iu j OU{
avo* of the restoration of the old j m0
ishioned wliipping post for just this me<
ne class of men who will not work, ^yQ
[eeping at night at public expense in ^ r
lie station house, during the day geting
their food at your doorstep. Iinrisonment
does not scare them. They j anj
ouldlikeit. BiaokwelTs Island or Sing | a6ft
ini would he a comfortable home for
jem. They would have no objection ^ia.
) the almshouse, for they like thiu !
>up. If they cannot get mock turtle. j j
I propose this n>r theui: On one sldt> j gCO
f them put some healthy work; on the | futt
ther side put a rawliide, and let them j t^l6.
ike their choice. 1 like for that class ! vtfo,"
f people the ?eant bill of fare that ! un
aul wrote out for the Thessaloniau ! SI^
infers. "If an v work not. neither should I _ *?_
| rrnc
e cat.'' By wiiat law of God or iuau
s
s
it right that you and 1 should toil ,
xy in and day out, until our hands are j 5
:isten>d and our arms ache and our : *
rain gets numb, and then be called ' <
x>n to support what in the United i
tates are about two million loafers! j (
hey are a very dangerous class. Let 1
le public authorities keep their eyes j
1 them. I ,
Again, among the uprooting classes i [
pi aw the oppressed poor. Poverty | (
> a certain extent is chastening; but ; <
iter that, when it drives a man to the I ^
all, and ho hears his children cry in | ?
tin for bread, it sometimes makes ; ^
;m desperate. I think that there are j ?
lousandscf honest men lacerated into I t
igabondism. There are men crushed J ?
ader burdens for which they are not j ]
ilf paid. While there is no excuse j r
>r criminality, even in oppression, I ; E
ate i as a simple fact that much of the i t
oundvolism of the community is con- ! t
que^l upon ill treatment There are i
any men and women battered and v
raised and stung until the hour of de- ?
>air iias come, and thov stand with ?
ie ferocity of a wild beast which, pur- j
led until it can run no longer, turns '
rand, foamlnar and bleeding, to tkrht i 1
? - " W f 4
ie hounds. ^
LIFE IN TIIE CELLARS.
There is a vast underground New 1
ork and Brooklyn 11/6 that Is appall- j c
,g and shameful. It wallows and j
eati& Fjth putrefaction. You go down J t
ie stairs, which arp wet find decayed I a
ith iilth, and at the bottom you find j a
ie poor victims on the floor, cold, v
?k, three-fourths dead, slinking into '
stiil darker corner under the gleam J
' the lantern of the police. There has v
5t fc>en a breath of fresh air in that ^
orn for five years, literally. The
oken sewer empties its contents upon
iciu, and they lie at night in the n
rimming filth. Thero the)" are, m,oq, z
omen, .children; blacks, whites; Mary s
agdalene without her repentance n
id Luzarus without his God. These 0
e '"fhn dives" into which the pjpk- 8
>ckets and the thieves go, as well as t
great many who would liko a differ- 0
it hie but cannot get it. These places ?
? the sores of tlio city, which bleed ^
srpetual corruption. a
They ftre tlio pn4erly|r}g yolcano v
at. threatens us with a Oaraccas s]
xtl^uake. It rolls and roars and ^
rgei and heaves and rocks and blasler.ies
and dies. And there are only
r*o outlets fqf, it?the police court and
e Potter's field. In other words,
ev must either go to prison or to hell,
b, vjou never saw it, you say. Vo" ^
reps'.will see it until on the day when
ose>. staggering wretches shn 11 come
> i/j|^^^h^)^hqjudgiuent tiirouo,
d J
.helpless. You hear the -fi&essaot n
u!jiig for bread and clotiies and fire.
eyes are sunken. Their cheek *0:
stand out. Their Lands are it
:Ll" with slow consumption. Their
Vi puffed up with dropsies. Their
eati\ 1{t jj^that of tiiecliarnel house.
iey ">ear the roar of the wheels of
slnon overhead, and the gay laughter
mer^W'^-*-%4f]ens, and \vonder why
1 m <a -iiers so me ll aQ(f D<
am B&r Soin" them thrust e?
<0 ?ike that of the poor
tnna^HB^who, when told in the
dst her wretchedness that God ec
s good, said: ?,No, no good God. ai
st look at me. No good God."
[n this cluster of cities, whose cry of -tt
nt I interpret, there ere said to be?
far a-i I can figure it up from reports h*
iboat three hundred thousand honest h<
jt who are dependent upon individ cl
1, city and itate charities, fl ail theip U1
ices could come up at onoe if would
a groan that would shako the foun* 01
tions of the city, and bring all earth m
d heaven to the rescue. But. for cb
i most part, it suffers unexpressed. ^
sits in silence, gnashing its teeth and
iking the blood of its own arteries, nc
.iting for the judgment day. th
3h, I should not wonder if on that
y it would be found out that some
us had some things that belonged to
'ni; some extra garment which might ^
ve made them comfortable in cold in
ya: some bread thrust into the ash
rrel that might have appeased their
ager for a, .little while; soma wasted
idle or gas jet that might have kintd
up their darkness; some fresco on
; ceiling that would have given them
oof; some jewel which, brought to Q.,
it orphan girl in time, might have
pt her from being crowded off the
icipicesof an unclean life; some New
stament that would have told them '
him who "came to seek and save
it which was lost
)h, this wave of vagrancy and hun
and nakedness that dashes against ^o:
front doorsten 1 If the roofs of all se
! houses of destitution could be lifted rG,
we could look down into them, just :
(rod looks, whose nerves would be ^
:>ngenough to stand it i And yet there an
iy are. The fifty thousand sewing te]
men in these three cities, some of
m in hunger and cold, working ^
ht after night, until sometimes the
od spurts from nostril and lips. rei
low well their grief was voiced by Ju
,t despairing woman who stood by gc
invaiid husband find Invalid child,
1 said to the city missionary: "I am
vnhearted. Everything's against us;
1 then there are other things." th<
rhat other things?" said the city Qr
aaouary. "Oil," she replied, "mv ,
"Wliat do you mean by that?" ao
rell," she said, "I never hear or see thi
"thing good. It's work from Men- p?
r morning till Saturday night, and ^
u when Sunday comes I can't go
, and I walk the floor, and it. makes
tremolo to 1-tiiijJs. that \ have got to up
it God. Oh, sir, h'sso hard for us. Sll
have to work so, and thou we have ^
nuch trouble, and then we are get- 1
; along so poorly; and see this wee P1"1
e thing growing weaker and weaker;
[ then to think we are not getting
rer to God, but floating away from
i. Oh, sir, 1 do wish I was ready to ]fa
" . for
DUTY OF CHURCH ASD SOCIETY.
should not wonder if they had a
d deal better time than wo in the
ire, to make ud for the fact that AT
y had sucbj a bad time her.?. It
ild lie jtiist li(ke Jesus to say: ' 'Come
and take t[he highest seats. Von
ered with mfi on eanh; now be ulo
d with met in heaven." 0 thou
|
cveeping One of Bethany! 0 thou dying
One of the cross! Have mercy on
:hese starving, freezing, homeless poor
>t these great cities!
I have preached this sermon for four j
>r live practical reasons: Because I
vant you to know who are the uproot- j
ng classes of society. Because I want j v
rou to be more discriminating in your j 11
harities. Because I want your hearts j
^pen with generosity and your hands , s
)Den with charitv. Because I want n
? _ , r
- ou to be made the sworn friends of i
ill city evangelization, and all news j c
x>ys' lodging houses, and all children's ; c
lid societies and Dorcas societies, unler
the skillful manipulation of wives ^
md mothers and sisters and daughters,
jet the spare garments of your ward
obes be tltted to the limbs of the war*
md shivering. I should not wonder if
hat hat that you give should come ^
jack a jeweled coronet, or if that gar \ a
nent that you hand out from your c
vardrobe should mysteriously be whit j
ned and somehow wrought into the a
Javiour's own robe, so in the last day j tl
le would run his hand over it and say. a
'I was naked, and ye clothed rue." \
That would bo putting your garments ! p
o glorious uses. ! r(
But more than that, I have preached gj
he sermon because I thought in the ;
# I
nntriv^t. vnn utaiiIH qaa Haw Lrirwl.
w-#w/v ^ - ^ wvw } xj
y God had dealt with you, and i ,
bought that thousands of you would ,
o to your oomfort-able hoiues and sit
,t your well filled tables and at the !
earm registers, and look at the round
aces of your children, and that then s<
ou would burst into tears at the re ?
lew of God's goodness to you. and !
hat you would go to your room and n
3ck the door and kneel down and say: j d
"0 Lord, I have been an ingrate; ! ?
aake uie thy child. 0 Lord, ttytfo&re
0 :&any hungpy aud unclad and un ; ti
heltered today; I thank thee that ail j a:
ay Life tliou hast taken such good caro 9.
f me. O Lord, there are sp many j
ick and crippled children today; i i gj
hank thee mift6 are well, some of them | e
n earth, some of them in heaven. Thy '
oodness, 0 Lord, breaks me down,
'ake me once and forever. Sprinkled I .
s I was many years ago at the altar, j 19
diile my inpthef helU ine, now 1 con- ei
aerate my soul to thee in a holier bap s(
ism of repenting tears.
"For sinners, Lord, thou cani'st tc bleed, \
And Pm a sinner vile indeed;
Lord, I believe thy- grar.e is tree,
pi}, magnify that to rue."' J a;
Gross Carelessness. ?
Miss Breezy?That statue you made u
>r us, Mr. Graver" C1
Graver?Oh, yes?it}a copy of the w
enus pf MII05 dp you like it' v
Miss Breezy?Yes, but isn't it un- I ^
' ^vonder what ! must do tAppear ] v?
on I r?
CUT ~"V **
!'Quite simple; drop a threepenny ii
it on the floor and don't stoop to pick n
uo."?De Sohremesa. . ci
* 1 a
Des^pp^C^t "be Cured h
By local applications, as they ca*i- ^
it re^ch the diseased portion of the | a
ir. There is only one way to euro J I
iafness, and that is by constitution- j
1 remedies. Deafness is caused by j 11
j r?
1 inflamed condition of the mucous j fr
ling of the Eustachian Tube. | d
'heu this tube gets inflamed you j ^
ive a rumbling sound or imperfeot j tj
taring, and when it is entirely ! e1
osed, Deafness is the result, and ; w
lies the imflammation can be taken i
it and this tube resorted to its nor- ! d!
!
al condition, hearing will be ! j;
jstroyed forever; nine cases out of j m
n are caused by catrrh, which is j *1(
>thing but an Inflamed condition of | J*
.e mucous surfaces. V(
We will give One Hundred Dollars lil
r any case off Deafness (caused by ^
itarrh) that we cannot cure by takg
Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for ^
rcular, free. 0.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., a!
Toledo, 0. sa
Sold by druggists, 75 cents. 23 t?
< til
et
overnor TiXlmaa Commended. j ia
I w
Beaufort New Sonth (Oolored Or^au.} j ex
I pc
The aotion of Governor Tillman in lf)
e matter of the application to him a <
r the commutation of the death w
I
ntence in the case of Fred Brown, I j '
cently convicted of murder at Lex- r f]
gton C. H., to life imprisonment, is if
other of the political straws which ^
11 unmistakably which way the
llman wind is blowing. In taking pi
e action he did the Governor dis- Y<
garded alike the opinion of the
idge who tried the case and the
licitor who prosecuted the defend- la
t. *
lc
It matters little to us what may be aj"
e motives that prompt such acts, va
the nuroosfis for which thev are ! eJ(
A A " 1 |t
no. It ia enough for us to know j 00
. I w<
it it is extremely beneficial to our j
ople and tend largely to mitigate j w:
9 severity with which the criminal j be
vs are enforced against us in the j
country. The Governor, we are j SUl
re, has tbe hearty thanks of every J
gro in the State as well as the apDval
of all right thinking people
. . . ? p&
Col. Ben. Terrell, of Texas, the ne.]
' ' evi
rmers' Alliance orator, is booked tri
a large number of speeches before am
3 County Alliances in North Caro j tll(
a. The President of the State I
] tin
lianee invites the public "to turn j ou
t at these meetings and learn what I gr
[iance doctrines aie.*' ! seJ
Aci
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Cough drops, atthe Bazaar. | St.
ODDS AND ENDS.
From 90,000 to 120,000 hairs grow in
. human scalp.
On July 0 the earth is farther away
rom tlic sun than at any other time.
Patti is preparing her autobiography, I
rhich will be published simultaneously J
i Paris and London.
Iiave at least two pair of shoes of the
line weight, and do not wear the same
air two days in succession.
A man never knows how much he <
an do till he tries?or how badly he 1
an do it either.
<
The Visiting Nurse association oi '
liicago employs and pays four trained
urses to visit the sick poor free of t
barge. s
A white pitch has been discovered 1
tiat can be run into deck seams hot,
nd will stand the sun's heat in any
[imate. 1
Twenty-six people named Mahoney c
re employed in various capacities by r
le city and county government of Chi- ^
Mrs. Arthur De Vahl, of New York,
. . _ C
ossesses a necklace ol priceless pearl j
3pes containing; 190 pearls of large
20. f
Mrs. Philip R. Armour, the wife of t
le Chicago millionaire, is a notable
ousekeeper, and prides herself upon
er culinary successes. "
Some rcccnrlv published statistics 13
low that Canada is the proud posses- f
3r of 3,021 lawyers, of whom nearly ^
ne-half belong to Ontario. c
The discussion of the aHairs of one's 1
eishbors is an evidence of a nrvinc e
? r-y?o
imposition and a mind occupied c
itb trifios. g
Convulsions in children should be p
eated with cold bandages to the heat
nd heat to tho body. A t ilk of warm
rater and mustard is good. ?
Friends of the morbidly irritable ^
lould guard against increasing the i.
vil by their own conduct, and general a
r should takecounsel with a physician. ^
A recipe for driving awuy cockroaches ^
t'? meal up several of the insects in an
avelope and drop it in the street un- a
ien. The remaining roaches will all go g
> the finder of the parcel. *]
How One Woman Manages.
She was a slight, delicate little worn- p
11, with a determined, foar nothing look ft
n her youthful faco. Uer jacket was
nfastened, her bang tossed back in a
ireiess manner, and altogether there c
as a brisk, breezy look of the ad 0
anced woman about the slim little ,
ody. "I've been a business woman
>r three years," she said decidedly. 0
^^^^^^^^riablyfound men in g
o:can makes in lier ^relations
ten is in letting them **.- w
idependent. Now, when I am witfi a
ten I am the most helpless, clingiug ?(
reature on the footstool, and they are
Iways lovely to me. c
"Men don't like smart, clever women c.
alf so well as gentle, timid creatures c:
tat appeal to their sense of chivalry,
ud tho Nineteenth century man has as
mch of it as a mediaeval knight if you 11
olv know how to tiud it. Now, when
was first married and my husband
sked me jf 1 was afraid to stay alone
t the evening, I almost laughed, for I zi
ially thought nothing at all of going ?
om Staten Island to Yonkers after
inner on business; but I managed to f'
eep my face \-ery serious while I told u
iiu thar i was a perfect coward, that ^
le dreadful sliivers laa down my back ^
L*^rf tivie T "noaivl a lirtlo rx-iico I
as alone. **
"R^uit: Re stays in every evening, o
id there isn't a queen on the globe p
lat has as nice a time as I do after the
inner is over. l>on't bo too smart is
v advice to women, or, if you can't a
Dip being clever and capable, never e]
t the man you iove know you are able ti
? pick your own handkerchief up wbeu ?
)u drop it if you want to be treated
ie a princess royal all your life."?New
ork Sun. n
XVorklpg Jeweled Girdles.
A favorite occupation for those who p
ad a gay life, and so have plenty of p
jportunity for displaying such
ihievenients, is the working of girdles. U
tchels, belts, epaulettes and fillets for 3]
le hair. These are made almost en
rely of jewels, mixed in between gold ^
i and tinsel threads. The fillets are
adc up on a foundation of bonnet S(
ire, the bands being double or triple tl
suit the coiffure of the wearer. The p(
nbroidery is executed on strips of ,
>lored satin ribbon only wide enough
cover the wire easily, allowing about it
quarter of an inch to turn over to the ,[
rong side, where it is held in place by
itches of stout threads carried across
lacing fashion from edge to edge, j ei
lie bands may be lined with sarsenet p<
desired, but this should not be done ]\\
there is any chance of its making the Z(
let at ail bulky, for it should set closeto
the head, the hair being lightly
iffed up between the bands.?New
:>rk Home Journal. si
f V
She Cleaned the Pictcre.
A prominent, ufethodist of the High in
nds secured some time ago in New hi
:>rk a valuable pointing of John Wos- ^
y, which he valued highly. In the
>seiice of his family one day the ser- cc
mt girl undertook to do some house- st
waning or. her own account. She <ic
rdingly took the pictures from the
ill and treated the gilded frame and
e sainted Wesley's face to a thorough
ishing with water and soapsuds. Not ci
ing an expert at cleaning pictures. m
e maiden left her marks on the pie!
e, which, although not ruined, wa
cily defaced.?Springtleld Homcyo-ad d<
ci
You are In a Bad Fix. g.
But we will cure you if you will
y us. Our message'S to the weak, ^
rvous and debiltated, who, by early "
1 habits, or later indiscretions, have I
tied away their vigor of body, mind I
d manhood, and who suffer all j w
)se effects which lead to premature j lij
cay, consumption or insanity. If j S]
s means you, send for and read J G
r Boon of Life, written by the | R
eatest Specialist of the day, and j su
it (sealed) for 6 cents in stamps. C<
idress Dr. Parker's Medical and M
rgieal Institute, 151 North Spruce fie
,, Nashville, Teen.
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT
P T. BRODIE. - - EDITOR.
To Make Good Citizen:.
^
- M. E. GATES, LL. D.
In a country where the people gov j
?rn, it is too obvious to need argu
nent that all the people should know
something about government. Either
here arf. certain principles of which
vise men arith?practical men **
igrced, and such ^prliieijrres can be
earned and should be taught, or gov
l-nment is a matter of chance to be
nanaged at hap-hazard. Does any>ne
believe that affairs of governnent
are the only occupation in
vhich rational men engage where
tudy and the experience of others
ire of no value to learners ? %
We get our supply of new citizens
rom two sources?immigration and
he growing up of American children.
Ve are all keenly alive to the
tangers that threaten our Governn
Anf TL'Vizvn i rrn o r>rl
MVMV uv AA UVJICUib UiiU ai
oreigners are made citizens by hunIreds
and thousands. Our United
states laws are explicit in requiring
vidence of fitness for citizenship,
efore naturalization papers are A
panted. "It shall be made to ap- 1
>ear to the satisfaction of the court
dmitting such alien?(a) that he ^Hj
.as resided in the United States at
jast five years, * * * (c) and
bat during that time he has behaved
s a man of good, moral character,
i) attached to the principles of the
Jonstitution of the United States (e)
nd well disposed to the jpeace and
ood order of the same." This is
he law.
How safe we should be from the
ernicious effect of much ignorance
nd vicious anarchism which now
rouble us, if committees of good
itizens had attended at our courts
f naturalization and ^had forced
cme upon the consciousness of all
fficers of the law who have power to
s any one knowswhohaa sat for a
aw hours in any one of our large
ities and has seen the purely mehanical
method of making American
itizens out of foreigners, ignorant,
eckless, too often manifestly imloral
and besotted.
THE SCHOOLS AS CITIZEN MAKERS.
But the great majority of our citiens
come to us not from the immirant
steamships but from the publio
:hools. TThat are our schools doig
to provide the "United States
itli citizens intelligent enough upon
latters political, and patriotic enough
) secure the permanent 6ucces- b of
ur form of sfovemment "by the
eople ?"
The obligatioi of the State to
laintain the school we hear often
Qough emphasized. Is the obligaon
of the school to support the
tate bv using all right means to
rain good citizens as frankly reccg
ized and as fairly met? In our
;hool system is there a large enough
lace made for those studies which
romote intelligent patriotism, vol
ntary obedience to law and public
pirited interest in public affairs?
In America, we have been slow to
lake room, in the curriculum of our
ihools and colleges, for the studies
lat emphasize the demands which
opular self-government makes upon
le citizen, as well as the blessings
confers. "Give us fuller instrueon
in the studies that fit men for
tizenship?in the principles of gov- j
nment; in the ethics, the motive
Dwers and the economics of social
le: in the dutie s of American citim
ship."
All colleges which deserve the
ime now furnish full instruction on
ich themes. But important as is
te influence of liberally educated
en upon the life of America, it is
rt a small percentage of our voters
ho in their school studies reach the
fllege course, or even the high
:hool. It is most important that all
dure citizens, girls and boys alike,
all our schools, should have
CHJCliiai J liloLI uV/UULL IJLL 4JL1C jjl 111pies
of good citizenship. It is the
others of our boys and the early
hool-life of our boys that largely
?termine the life-basis toward good
tizenship or bad citizenship, for the
:eat mass of our voters.
CONTINUED.
A Drink Fit For Ye Gods."
Lovers of a fruit juice beverage
ill find a pure, wholesome and de^htfully
refreshing drink in tlie jllaB
pecialty Co's Apple and Peach cider,
rape and Florida Orange Juice, wj||||fflB
aspberry and Pineapple Julep. Be
ire that you auk for the Specialty
:>'s goods The Specialty Co., Cider
ills, 28 and 29 Williamson St.; Ofre,
107 Bay street, Savannah, Ga> JdmsaOEm
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