The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, September 11, 1891, Image 13
_F8he is dead. Where
are aTT"^H ■iting and salutary in
fluences They do not touch
him. some one long ago in
the case undeKtand that there was an op
portunity for the exploit which would be
famous in heaven a quadrillion of years
after the earth has become scattered ashes
in the last whirlwind? Why did not the
district attorney take that young man into
his private office and say! “My son, I sea
that you ars the victim of circumstances.
This is your first crime. You are sorry. I
will bring the person you wronged into
your presence, and you will apologize and
make all the reparation you can, and I will
give you another chance.” Or that young
man is presented in the courtroom, and he
has no friends present, and the judge says,
“Who is your counsel?” And he answers,
“I have none.” And the judge says, “Who
will take this young man’s case?”
And there is a dead halt,and no one offers,
and after awhile the judge turns to some at
torney, who never had a good case in all his
life and never will, and whose advocacy
would be enough to secure the condemna
tion of innocence itself. And the profes
sional incompetent crawls up beside the
prisoner, helplessness to rescue despair,
where there ought to be a struggle among
all the best men of the profession as to who
should have the honor of trying to help that
unfortunate. How much would such an at
torney have received as his fee for such an
advocacy® Nothing in dollars, but much
every way in a happy consciousness that
would make his own life brighter, and his
own dying pillow sweeter, and his own
heaven happier—the consciousness that he
had saved a man!
So there are commercial exigencies. A
yery late spring obliterates the demand for
spring overcoats and spring hats and Spring
apparel of all sorts. Hundreds of thousands
ol people say, “It seems we are going to
bare no spring, and we shall go straight
out of winter into warm weather and we
can get along without the usual spring at
tire.’’ Or there is no autumn weather, the
heat plunging into the cold, and the usual
clothing which is a compromise between
summer and winter is not required. It
makes a difference in the sale of millions
and millions of dollars of goods, and some
oversanguine young merchant is caught
with a vast amount of unsa'able goods that
will never be salable again, except at prices
ruinously reduced.
The young merchant with a somewhat
limited capital is in a predicament. What
shall the old merchants do as they see the
young man in this awful crisis? Rub their
> hands and laugh and sayy “Good for him.
He might have known better. When he
has been in business as long as we have he
will not load his shelves in that way. Ha!
Ha! He will burst up before long. He had
no business to open his store so near to ours
anyhow.” Sheriff’s salol Red flag in the
window: “How much is bid for these out-
of-fashion spring overcoats and spring hats
or fall clothing out of date? What dc
I hear in the way of a bid?” . "Four dol
lars.” “Absurd; I cannot take that bid oi
four dollars apiece. Why, these coat*
when first put upon the market were offered
at fifteen dollars each, and now I am offered
only four dollars. Is that all? Five dollars
do I hear? Going at that! Gone at five
dollars,” and he takes the whole lot.
The young merchant goes home that
night and says to his wifej We 11, Mary,
we will have'lb move ouFof this'House" arTo
sell our piano. That old merchant that
has had an evil eye on me ever since I
started has bought out all that clothing,
and he will have it rejuvenated, and next
year put it on the market as new, while we
will do well if we keep out of the poor-
house.” The young man, broken spirited,
goes to hard drinking. The young wife with
her baby goes to her father’s bouse, and not
only is his store wiped out, but his home, his
morals and his prospects for two worlds—
this and the next. And devils make a ban
quet of fire and fill their cups of gall, and
drink deep to the health of the old merchant
who swallowed up the young merchant who
sot stuck on spring goods and went down.
That is one way, and some of you have tried
it.
But there is another way. That young
merchant who found that he had miscalcu
lated in laying in too many goods of one
kind, and been flung of the unusual season,
is standing behind the counter, feeling very
blue and biting bis fiuger nails, or looking
over his account books, which read darker
and worse every time he looks at them, and
thinking how his young wife will have to be
put in a plainer house than she ever ex-
ie, and tell them 1 sent you.
The embarrassed aud humiliated woman
seemed to give way to Christian confidence.
She started out with a hopeful look that I
think must have won for her a place in
which to earn her bread. I rather
think that considerate and Christian gen
tleman saved a woman. New York and
Brooklyn ground up last year about thirty
thousand young women and would Jike to
grind up about as many this year. Out of
all that long procession of women who
march on with no hope for this world or the
next, battered and bruised and scoffed at,
and flung off the precipice, not one but
might have been savel for home and God
and heaven. But good men ani good wom
en are not in that kind of business. Alas
for that poor thing! Nothing but the thread
of that sewing girl’s needle held her, and
the thread broke.
I have heard men tell in public discourse
wbot a man is, but wh&t is a woman? Until
so* ^ne shall give a better definition, I will
tell you what woman is. Direct from God,
a sacred tnd delicate gift, with affections so
great that no measuring line short of that
of the infinite God can tell their bound.
Fashioned to refine and soothe aud lift and
irradiate home and society and the world.
Of such value that no one can appreciate it,
unless his mother lived long enough to let
him understani it, or who in some great
crisis of life, when all else failed him, had a
wife to re-enforce him with a faith in God
that nothinT could disturb.
Speak out, ye cradles, and tell of the fee,*
that rocked you and the anxious faces tha
hovered over you! Speak out, ye nuroerie
of all Christendom, and ye homes, whethei
desolate or still in full bloom with the facei
of wife, mother and daughter, and help mi
to define what woman is. But as geograph
ers tell us that the depths of the sea corre
spond with the heights of the mountains 1
have to tell you that a good womanhood ii
not higher up than bad womanhood is deep
down. The grander the palace the more
awful the conflagration that destroys it.
The grander the steamer Oregon the more
terrible her going down justoff thecoast.
Now I should not wonder if you trem
bled a little with a sense of responsibility
when I say that there is hardly a parson in
this house but may have an opportunity
to save a woman. It may in your case tie
done by good advice, or iiy financial help,
or by trying to bring to bear some one of a
thousand Christian influences. If, for in
stance, you find a woman in financial dis
tress and breaking down in health and
spirits trying to support her children, now
that her husband is dead or an invalid,doing
that very important and honorable work—
out which is little - appreciated—keeping a
boarding,house, where all the guests,accord-
ing as they pay small board, or propose,
without paying any board at all, to decamp,
are critical of everything and hard to please,
busy yourself in trying to get her more
patrons, and tell her of divine sympathy.
Yea, if you see a woman favored of for
tune and with all kindly surrounding finding
in the hollow flatteries of the world her chief
regalement, living for herself and for time as
if there were no eternity, strive to bring her
into the kingdom of Gocl, as did the other day
a Sabbath-school teacher, who was the means
of the conversion of the daughter of a man of
immense wealth, and the daughter re
solved to join the church, and she went home
and said, “Father, I am going to join the
church, and I want you to come.” “Oh,
no,” he said, “I never go to church.”
“Well,” said the daughter, “if I were going
to be married would you not go to see me
married?” Andhesaid, “Oh, yes.” “Well,”
said she, “this is of more importance than
that.”
>''o he went and has gone ever since, and
loves to go. I do not know but that faith
ful Sabbath-school teacher not only saved
a woman, but saved a man. There may be
in this audience, gathered from all purts of
the world, there may be a man whose be
havior toward womanhood has been per
fidious. Repent! Stand up, thou master
piece of sin and death, that I may charge
▼ou! As far as possible make reparation.
Do not boast that you have her in your
fower and that she cannot help herself.
When that fine collar aud cravat, and that
elegant suit of clothes comes off and your
uncovered soul stands before God, you will
be better off if you save that woman.
There is another exploit you can do, and
that is to save a child. A child does not
seem to amount to much. It is nearly a
year old before it can walk at all. For the
first year and a half it cannot speak a word.
For the first ten years it would starve if it
had to earn its own food. For tbe first fif
teen years its opinion on any subject is ab
solutely valueless. A^d then there are so
yes, my friends, let usstart out to save some
one for time and for eternity, some man,
some woman, some child. And who knows
but it may, directly or indirectly, be th<
salvation of one of our own kindred, anc
that will be an exploit worthy of celebration
when the world itself is shipwrecked, and
the sun has gone out like a spark iromt
smitten anvil, and all tbe stars are deadl
Whatever else may be said of the
marriage of Mr. Parnell and Mrs.
O’Shea, nee Wood, it was an honor
able and courageous act, though the
relations of the two were such that no
other coarse remained open to a high-
minded man. She had sacrificed her
self for him, and he has sacrificed
much for her. As they were partners
in distress, it is well for them to face
the world together, and if there be any
marital comfort left for them to share
it together. Mrs. O’Shea stands in
finitely higher than her late husband,
and comes of a better family, as social
standing is measured in that country.
At the time of their divorce it was said
that he had not lived with her on the
average a month in the year. The
rest of his time he spent among the
dissipations of the clubs and pursuing
pleasure on the continent. Under such
circumstances it was but natural that
they should cease to have any respect
t>r each other. They pulled apart, and
>hen the divorce was obtained both
Jrere satisfied. The legal time has
^lapsed since the divorce, and both
Mr. Parnell and herself being free,
they married. Their previous rela
tions have weakened Mr. Parnell’s
position as leader to such an extent
that it is doubtful if he can recover it, J
for offenses such as were charged
against him are not easily condoned.
But bo far as his domes-ic relations
are concerned gossip must now be
closed and the whole matter dropped.
Accorping to the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat a fiend in human guise has
invented an electrical alarm that will
run for two hours after getting started
unless its victim gets out of bed and
turns it off. The old-fashioned alarm
clock would run for five minutes or so
and then a man could turn over and go
to sleep again. It allowed its ownei
to set it at night and then to change
his mind in the morning. But the
new device is inexorable. The man
who sets it must get up at the hour
specified, unless he has previously
died in his sleep. A well-known prin
ciple of ancient justice should be ap
plied to its inventor. He should be
compelled to have one of his own
clocks setting at his bedside every
night, set for 4 o’clock in the morning.
Now that the esteemed Judges oi
the Federal Court of Appeals have 1
been tricked out in Mother Hubbard
gowns, let all good citizens who can
keep from snickering endeavor to emu
late the laudable example of the law
yer who said: fc No, your honor, I am
not trying to show contempt for your
court; I am trying to conceal it.”
A fui.i<-grown crocodile from Flor
ida escaped from its cage somewhere
in New York a few days ago and near
ly killed a man before it could be per
suaded to go back. It takes some
Bontherners a long time to learn thatfc
tbe war is over.
TWO CAUSES
The drink curse ij
which come in the ordinary operat
and which, if guarded against,
greatly abated. These are prospj
-adversity.
"I have known,” says an ea
clergyman, in this city, “more
drink on account of discourazec
from any other cause, unless it oe
cess and prosperity. Both are scf
temptation to drink.” j
When a man's spirits are very
on account of adversity in bi siilB
life it is too often that he tries to
up by the use of ardent spirits; bi
does not remove the cause it must t
to over and over again, and wnen
in too freely it adds to the difficult
ducing a physical depression in rea<
in temporarily relieving the depi
eventually multiplies it.
A young man m the city lost tv
at the same time. In niscouraf
drank. Whiie intoxicated he lose i
he sobered up and tound that he h
$60 he became intoxicated again,
kept up for four months. At the •
time he found that in trying to get
his spirits up by pouring spirits dow
used up everything that he had acc
when sober, pawned most of his!
lost all his front teeth, spent a mo
island and lost his wife. The youn]
not inherit this tendency from hisj
nor contract it from b ;d companio.j
was simply an effort to get overi
couragements.—New Yor ; Heraldm
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TEMPERANCS NEWS AND NOj
It is thirty-two years since the fl
ing fountain was opened in Londoj
The aggregate quantity of w.nej
by the vineyards of Franc?, in
416,327 hectolitres, or 723,791,033 fan
The Indiana Grand Lodgs of
has decided that “members now el
the liquor traffic must quit either
or the Order of Oddfelio.vs.”
In France, from 1S27 to 1833,aboi
persons committed suicide. U: tl
15,000 men and 1100 women were ii
and intoxicated at the time of deatl
A liquor dealer in Iowa had as a
his business “The Road to Hell.” J
be credited with an honest expvl
opinion and teiling the truth if noi I
An exchange states that brandy N
is the latest device of the devil fo*i
the youth. It is made of to'oacc^J
been soaked in brandy, an l the
enabiei to be intoxicated without
a drop of liquor.
AU Victorians in Austrilia
pride to Mildura, the beauty spot,']
development of the irrigation sch^
Chaffey Brothers from San Fi]
making the wilderness blossom a‘G|
No public houses (saloons) havtVJ
censed. Atter prosperity came, ®f
cense was sought and granted, buii|
such disaster that it was soon revc
district policeman testifies that he.j
had to arrest a drunken man.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is a liquid ad
internally, and acts directly on the
mucous surfaces of the system,
testimonials, free. Manufactured 1 T
F. J. Cheney & Co
The raising of ostriches has been<i
New Zealand with considerable sue?I
A physician recently said, “probjJ
E. Pinkham has done more for
than all the doctors combined; a '
derstands those matters better that"
Can You E<
Heartily, with relish, and without dii
ward? If not, we recommend to you '
sapartlla, watch creates a good appetlt
tame time so Invigorates the stomach
that the food Is properly digested and all 3
assimilated. '.I,
“I have bs-en taking two botttles of ^
sapartlla for weakness and no appetite..
pleasure I will say that I think It has don3
good been use 1 am now able to eat like a|
C. B. Cue*chill, Richardson Hotels
K. R. When you ask for
Hood’s Sarsai
Don't be induced to buy any otberL
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