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\ ? ? i.ca-fte. Eoe. is a tall, broad* ?r^ inaa, -with a fall flowing Iwts?fk^ yet one that is full termination and a high djvetill further heightened by Se is still in the prime been born in 1838 in Ir^-RtY^ on: the banks of the i>Ki.]^;5tndied for the ministry, 18^2 was made chaplain of the 2d 'orli^r^^^ i be ^aa appointed by President oqd'bf the chaplains of the hos ^^riiresa Monroe/ Returning 'WaT/^hft'b^me'rpastor of the a? Chnidi at Highland Falls, *#????fli of WestRoint. His ?^^^'.ipcAlit^" furnishes ifbrDoelof the most charming %a"ture'8 Serial Story.'' i^e^ajinng^ of 1874 he removed to " n%0rT^^ began the of 'small froits, acqniring a j^ua? this Msine38. ^yie xjanio to be an author is as is hfeAsoecea* since has been. *^(i^iis-own words: "The ?^(?^O;'ia."i871; Impressed as rf^y^an|^Menlr to impulse, I atfeieS days among its smoking *&wjfej 'my first; novel,''Bar ^ took' possession of :?n)B^;^i>^d;npt. [manufacture the grew' #na$OErt.jv as do nis-r-v-foodsi some: may suggest? Raj.Yara'. ;~In the intervals of a busy. ica?K%:?nd also when I onght l^eepinft -my imagination, r ^nJOst undirected,' span f jfi^roof or the tale and wove lloge>h(Br^ Xhad noprepjiration for. : rf^carefoVsto^y of iDe' tbpog (Chicago' and the incidents of v$t?y~E??f nesrly^year my chief W wai;to' dwell apart among tho g^g^eaJfedhy my fancy, and I wrote tt anywhere ?eould--on- steamboats "^iroa^^e well as in my atudy^ iel^; "?orhed Away" was his first . He- never before had written a \ sfery, encT^had scarcely enter ;the;^baght of constructing one. [f^fiestheialeoded to write only a short jAboty, but as; he wrote it grew ander his ihano^- from ? seven or eight to fifty two (chapters. - Doubts of its merit tempted -him more than once to throw it away, and had it not been for the favorable Jgment Of ? dear friend, it probably _ jgT-never hav^e reached the publishers. c'T am. not sure," he whites, "but the ?mpnlfe to write would have carried me ?onward/and that" I should have found sample return for all the labor in the free ?iphj ofmy fancy, even though editors Lnajjgiilisbere scoffed at the result.". (K?ut &e story' was not determined for tjte waste basket. The first eight chap* ? tere.of it-were read one day to Dr. Henry Field, editor of the New York Evangcliat. ^Th^fragment," says the author, "was all that then existed,'and, as I stumbled through my rather blind chirograpby, I often looked" askance at the glowing grate, fearing' that ray friend in kindness would BUggest tb at I drop the .erode pro? duction on the glowing coals, where it could ao - neithiar me nor any one else farther harm, and^theu go out into the i'm^?z^i^y^wclothedin my right ^br^r- Ingead of this Dr. Field very wisely secured - the manuscript for serial issue, andhb good judgment was. shown ^4jr^';^^:'?i?t, its publication materi ^aliyib?^ of the -^ft;:la^y''thiD'g; was to secure a pub 't:i^ir'iM^.hook-. For'information on this pointfthewriter is indebted to Mr. Dodd, senior member. of the firm of - 2Dodd,' Mead & Co., who have from the ?^i^'yi^^te^;:.Ut\' Roe's publishers. ^Mnthe manuscript to us yvue' fotf^ "I have for? gotten whether that was before he had ^own it tp DR Field or afterward, bnt I yam inclined to think it was afterward. We read it and made him an offer. At v.that time we looked upon the venture as ' purely experimental. Mr. Roe accepted ^\oar offer and we announced the book. In > short time letters began to.poor in on .;w^-*fronv.^'jpe<^>le who bad seen one ^^announcement, and bad also read as y.ia?ch of thestory as had appeared in the Svdngdik, asking us wbon the book *oula^e'pnblished.'These letters were i'^e firatindication we had of the story's ^|*^lj?^{'Ht>-they were a very sure JsigU.^^ >An edition was issued; and it sold arapidiyi and the sale since has been very large and steady." ; :: '?Hd^ about your - original contract ^ith^Roe.r ? -V.We?,;*p a matter of fact," said Mr. 2T>oddt pleasantly, "the original contract pwas torn up, and 'another made on a dif rf^at b^sls^bywhich Mr. Roe is largely the gait er.: From that we have publish ?<wi' everything that he has written, and our ;-reiatiojMi^fiaVe-.always been very pleasant and very close." :5WlwtWfiiamos work ?". .V- 'Barrkra Burned Away' has bad the 'largest saleV* Without a Home' stands ? second on the list, and, considering the fact that it was published ten years later, Is the most' popular. 'Opening of a Chestnut Burr' stands next on list, 'Near to Nature's He?rt' has had a very large sale,^cMh^othere follow very closely. There is hot-one of bia novels that has not liad &:wide. circulation." "Have ryou' any idea of the extent to . whk-b his books have been sold abroad?" "All have been pr.blishod in England and th^VCoI?Dies. Mr. Roe has, in almost every "Instance;- arranged with .'Boglis^^'publishers for an authorized edition from advance Ineewi, and receives compensation.' His stori<s - are also translated into German and French." - "How^ frequently does Mr. Roe get out rl^RWi^??nef'-OT two - exceptions he has w rit^|ne 'every year.'' Some of them -.are firsipublish?d-(serially, while others i boor form." )f;Mr. Roe's.success is as ry to himself as to any one xrgljie remark of a; geh i'4?asi difficult'to account Y & CO. he replied "I am heartily in accord with the gentleman. I fully share in hia surprise and perplexity; it may be that we at last have an instance of an effect without a cause." Of course this is not the case. Perhaps the solution of the secret is to be found in Mr. Roe's meth? od of work, and the key to it is the title of one Of his most popular stories? "Near Nature's Heart," "It appears to me that the true impulse toward author- J ship does not arise Aom a desire to please j any one, but rather from a strong con sciouseess of something definite to say, whether people will listen or not. I can honestly assert that I have never manu? factured a novel, and should I do so I am sure it would be so wooden and life? less that no one would read it. My stories have come with scarcely any vo? lition on my part, and their characters control me. If I should move them about like images, they would be but images. In every book they often acted just in a manner just the opposite from that which I had planned. Moreover, there are unwritten stories in my mind, the characters of which are becoming almost as real as the people I meet daily. While composing narratives I forget everything and live in an ideal world, which nevertheless is real for the time. The fortune of the characters effect me deeply, and I truly believe that only as I feel strongly will the reader be interested. A book like a bullet can go only as far as the projecting force carries it" His subject takes possession of him. He has something to say and he-puts his soul into the saying of it, and when an author.does.this he is sure of bis audi? ence. Of cqurse he makes elaborate studies after he has once conceived his story, and with conscientious efforts gath? ers a wealth of material. Years were spent in ? collecting the material for "Without a Home," and when nearly completed It was wholly re-written and broadened in-its scope. . Speaking of this work, he says: "I have visited scores of typical tenements: I have sat day after day on the bench with police judges and have visited the station-houses | repeatedly. There are few large retail shops that I have not entered many times, and I have conversed with both employers and employees." ; He has studied the people as he studied nature, with a warm and sympathetic heart. He makes his characters clear as ^most people in real life might be, and as very many are. And herein lies one secret of his success. His pictures of life are pure and elevating. His books arouse, insensibly it may be, the better feelings in each reader, the subtle mag? netism of a power for good permeates his writings and makes itself felt in ever widening circles. Many of Mr. Roe's readers undoubt? edly know that a few years ago he sus? tained severe financial losses, but prob* ably only a few know the cause and his subsequent efforts to make that loss good. His failure was due to generous indorse* meat of his brother's paper. He .has since, by the aid of his pen, satisfied freely all claims against him. There is no connection whatever, as some have supposed, between his financial losses and his writing. He was not driven to writing: he wrote becase he wanted to, and had something to say. An Ancient Trade. . The practice of stretching the tanned akin on a wooden frame, as is the custom of European saddlers, and the semicir? cular knife in vosrue with the curriers of the present day, are both distinctly rep? resented at Thebes. It is a singular circumstance that the Chinese have no acquaintance with the process of tanning by vegetable juices, but use only mineral and animal Bub stances; hence the inferiority of their prepared skins. In addition to sandals the Egyptian curriers made the coverings of seats of sofas, bow cases, quivers, the furniture of war chariots, and the decoration of harps, and shields. Stamped and beautifully embossed leather straps have been fre? quently found fastened round the mum* mies. Many pieces of skin and leather from the Egyptian tombs still exist in a state of perfect preservation which passed through the hands of the tanner more than thirty centuries ago, and which, but for the invention of this process, must have perished in a few hours after they had left the carcass from which they were stripped. . The myriads of victims slain in the Jewish sacrifices must have afforded the skin market a copious supply. The scar* city of glass, pottery and earthen-ware would, however, cause a constant de? mand for leather bottles and drinking vessels, and these, by reason of climate, defective manufacture and by exposure to the fermentation, were very perishable ?perhaps even more so than tbe brittle vessels of glass and clay. Tbe shoe-makers are one of tbe very lowest castes in India. Leather is. con? sidered unclean by tbe Hindoos, and consequently those who work in it are defiled. It is alleged of the shoe makers that they eat the flesh of domestic an? imals that die a natural death. They drag or carry away the carcass to their own part of the town or village, cut it up in pieces, and distribute it among themselves iu sufficient portions, and clean tbe hide and put it away for sale or to be manufactured into something. Only one tanner is mentioned in the I Bible?the Simon, who was iu all proba? bility, a member of the church at Joppa, in whose house Peter found a temporary home when the messengers of Cornelius were informed: "He lodgeth with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by tbe seaside." There are numerous wells of water in close proximity to the town of Joppa. This w< uld render in a suitable locality for a tannery, and tbe adjacent port would facilitate tbe shipment of a cargo in great request, not only through' out all tbe-Mediterranean coasts but far up tbe Nile and among tbe semi civilized dwellers of Northern Europe. Several .tanneries of great antiquity still exist near the shore, one of which is said by tradition to have been that of Simon the tanner. -? The. man who procrastinates strug? gles with ruin. PROHIBITION. Mr. Editob : At a regular communi catiou of the WilliamBtou Division Sons of Temperance, the following article was read by Miss Lizzie Alexander, and on motion the papers of our County were requested to publish the same. (Signed) D. W. Hiott, G. W. Anderson, W. A. Betts, Committee. Rev. J. W. Rogan, in Christian Observer. "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken.''?Hab. 2: 15. When it was known that I proposed to speak this evening upon the subject of Prohibition, I was asked by a Christian man, if I thought this was exactly the right kind of a subject for a Sabbath's discourse. I doubt not but that the one who asked this question expressed not only his own sentiments, but perhaps the eentimeuts of others, who are now befoiw me. I have to say, if there are any of you who are troubled with any scruples as to the propriety of my subject, I hope, before I am through, by' the blessing of God, to satisfy you on that score; and if I do not, to relieve you of all anxiety, I now announce that I assume all respon? sibility, aud will cheerfully meet it at that bar to which we are hastening. If Prohibition is not a proper subject for a Sabbath's discourse, then pray tell me what is ? Is it not the business of the pulpit to preach down evil of every kind, and to preach up every thing that has for its end the moral and spiritual elevation of mankind? Are we not commanded, "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their I transgression, and the house of Jacob [ their Bins?" I I ask you, then, to point me, this even? ing, to any one form of evil that is ouch a curse to our race, and stands so much in tbe way of its elevation and redemp? tion as the evil of intemperance. Suggest to me, if you can, anything short of its being brought absolutely to the feet of the Saviour, that would b? such a blessing to our country as that of the complete abolition from it of the liquor traffic. Tou may talk about the many evils that afflict us in this world. They are all dwarfed into comparative insignificance when put by the side of the giant evil, Intemperance. Iu proof of this statement, let me summon on the witness stand some whose names are known throughout the world, and whose testimony cannot be impeached. Declared Lord Bacon, more than 250 years ago: All the crimes ou earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as intemperance. A little more than a half century later, Sir Matthew Hale, one of the Chief Jus? tices of England, testified that four-fifths of the murders, robberies, riots and other enormities, which had happened during his service of twenty years on the bench, were the product of strong drink. Dr. Guthrie, tbe great Scotch divine gave utterance to the following language Before God and man, before the Church and the world, I impeach intem? perance. I charge it as the cause, what? ever may be the source elsewhere, of almost all the poverty, and almost all the crime, and almost all the misery, and almost all the ignorance, and almoBt all the irreligion that disgrace and afflict mankind. Wrote J. G. Holland: Men dread the cholera, the yellow fever and the small pox, and take expen? sive precaution against tbem, while the ravages of them all in 'a year do not produce the mischief that intemperance does in a mouth. Gladstone declares: We suffer more year by year from in? temperance than from war, pestilence and famine combined?those three great scourges of the human family. Hon. Noah Davis, Chief Justice of New York, says: Among all the causes of crime, intem? perance stands out the unapproachable chief. Cannon Farrar's testimony is: . There is one most potent enemy at work against all that we achieve in the spread of knowledge and enlightenment. I need hardly name it. Every judge, every magistrate, every clergyman, every philanthropist every policeman and gaoler known it well; and not one of these will hesitate for a moment to say that this enemy is intoxicating drink. These are only a few of thousands of similar testimonies. Intemperance is the curse of curses. It enters the home of affluence and hap? piness, and casts over it its dark and de? structive shadow, turning it into a per? fect hell. It takes the crown of man? hood from off the honored head of the family, and drags him down to a level with tbe brute. It steals away the natu? ral affections and implants in tbeir stead the passions of demons. It takes the bread out of the mouths, and the clothes from off the backs of the children, and leaves them sitting in wretchedness and want. If it does not hurry its victim, as it often does, to the commission of some disgraceful and dreadful crime, it gradu? ally undermines his constitution and deadens his intellect, until finally it sends his body to an untimely grave, and sinks his soul to perdition; for tbe Book de? clares, No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of God. Intemperance fills our poor houses, our inBaue asylums, our jails, aud our peni? tentiaries. It takes the laborer from his vwork, the mechanic from his shop, the merchant from his counter, the physician from his practice, the lawyer from his office, the judge from his bench, and the ambassador of God from his sacred desk. We talk of the ruin such conquerors as Alexander and Napoleon wrought, v, hen, in order to reach tbe goal of tbeir ambi? tion, they waded through tbe blood of their slaughtered victims. These, how? ever, were benefactors of our race when compared with king Alcohol. He as a proud and heartless monarch has stalked down the ages, felling incalculable num? bers before bim, treading ruthlessly on tbe skulls of bis victims, spreading de? vastation in his way, filling the world with heart-aches, and sighs, and groans, and shrieks, and causing rivers of min? gled blood and tears to flow after him. I might stand here and talk till morn? ing dawns, telling you of the evils this monster hath wrought, and when I had ?.NDERSON, S.C., 1 ! finished the half would, not have been ! told. Unhappily, though, it is not neces | sary that I should dwell on the evil. Alas I the most of you are too familiar with this phase of the subject. The I more important thing for us to consider is the remedy. N I wish I had the time to recite in detail the history of the temperance re? formation. It has been by a very gradual evolution that it has reached its present advanced state, affording a striking il? lustration of a saying quoted from Her? bert Spencer: People never go right till they have tried all possible ways of going wrong. To give a very hasty resume of it, all general effort at first was directed against the too free use of ardent spirits. The opinion was, if people would only use them in moderation, they would be a benefit to tbem. They bad yet to learn the lesson, which has long since been learned, that poison is in any portion of spirits. One of tbe early pledges read somewhat as follows: I hereby pledge myself not to use to excess.ardent spirits, and if I should be found intoxicated (Fourth of July and muster days excepted), I promise to pay the sum of 25 cents. It was oot a great while, however, till it was found people could, or would, not use ardent spirits in moderation and so a step iu advance was taken, and men were pledged to abstain from all distilled liquors. At this stage, they believed alcohol was not to be had by brewing or fermen? tation, but was the result of distillation alone, and hence beer and wine were not put under the ban. But again, it did not take long to demonstrate that men could and wonld get as drunk on wine and beer as on brandy and whiskey. Hence, temperance societies took another step in advance, and absolutely prohib? ited to their members the use in any de? gree of all distilled and spirituous liquors. They worked bard to reform drunkards, but finding this, iu most cases, a hopeless task, they turned their attention to the effort of saving the young. Yet, in spite of all they could do, the liquor traffic in? creased, and drunkenness increased. The first legislation was in the form of laws forbidding its Bale to minors and to intoxicated persons. Next they began, in some places, to try the effect of high license, and in others, that of local option. Last of all there sprang up the prohibition movement, which has as its ultimate object a national prohibitory amendment to the constitution, forbid? ding the manufacture and sale of tbe accursed stuff, in any form, in any of the States or Territories of our government. I am glad we have reached this highest point at last, for this is tbe only way possible to render obedience to the spirit of the text, which cries, "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that put test thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken." In coming now directly to the discus? sion of the prohibition questiou: 1. I raise the question, Is the principle a right one? There are those who gravely tell us that a State has no right to forbid the sale of liquor within its bounds. If, by right, they mean the legal right, the question is one that is not debatable, for again and again has it been decided by the highest courts of the land, There was a test case made as early as 1845, when, in a number of towns in Massachusetts, the civil author? ities refused to grant license for the sale of spirits, and the dealers, claiming they could sell under authority from tbe gen? eral government, carried tbe matter to the Supreme Court of the United States, retaining Hou. Daniel Webster and Hon. Bufus E. Choate as counsel. If any two men of the country could have carried their point, it would have been Mr. Web? ster and Mr. Choate; but tbe decision was unanimously against their clients, and I now give you some extracts from the opinions of some of the judges. Said Chief Justice Taney: If any State deems the retail and inter? nal traffic in ardent spirits injurious to its citizens, and calculated to produce idle? ness and debauchery, I Bee nothing in the Constitution of the United States to prevent them from regulating or restrain? ing the traffic, or prohibiting it altogeth? er, if it thinks proper. - Justice Grier said: The police power, which is exclusively iu the State, is competent to tbe correc? tion of these great evils, and all measures of restraint or prohibition, are within tbe scope of that authority. Justice McLean declared: A State may, in the exercise of that great- and conservative police power, which ,'iea at the foundation of its pros? perity, prohibit the sale of it [liquor]. These opinions, again and again, have been reaffirmed. The tax imposed upon the liquor traffic was not intended, origi? nally, for revenue, but for restriction ; and the right to restrict and control, to any extent, carries with it the right also to prohibit. Therefore, it is folly to talk about tbe legality of prohibition. But even if it is legally right, some seem to think it is morally wrong. They feel it is a species of sumptuary legisla? tion. It is taking away the rights of the individual. No such thing! Dr. Her? rick Johnson has an admirable paper upon this subject, which first appeared in tbe December number of tbe Eomilctic Review, for 1885, and has since been published in tract form. He shows that prohibition is not based on the ground that tbe use of strong drink is an evil iu itself, but solely because of its effects on society; and that its object is not prima? rily and directly the individual, but the traffic. It does not propose to say that A, B, or C shall not drink, but that cer? tain poisonous drinks shall not be sold. It is true, if the law is enforced, a habit of A, B, or C will be interfered with, but their individual rights must succumb to the general good. The author to whom reference is made, cites several illustrations. A conflagra? tion is a bad thing. Prohibition says, stop it. But to repress it, it may be nec? essary to destroy some property that is in the pathway of the fire. Yet the fire is what prohibition is after, ani not the property. A contagious disease is a bad thing. Prohibition says, quarantine it. To do this, it will be necessary to inter? fere with individual freedom. Yet it is tbe disease it is after, and not the free? dom. In like manner the saloon is a bad thing; Prohibition Bayo, down with it. TUESDAY MOKNII To do so, it may be necessary to interfere with some private drinking usages. Nevertheless, the saloon is what prohibi? tion is primarily after, and not individu? als, Says Dr. Johnson: Good citizenship will willingly bear an identical evil for the sake of an essential and universal good. There is not a question about this. Many a man who feels strong drink is getting the advantage of him, will gladly vote when the opportunity is offered, to put it out of his sight, and many another who uses it occasionally and who is not afraid of its effects upon himself, will gladly labor to abolish it for the sake of the general good. IS IT PRACTICABLE ? 2. We come to inquire, Is Prohibition practicable ? "Why not," I ask? "Oh," say some, "it will be impossible to enforce the law if it were passed 1" Now in reply to this I have to say, I do not know of any law that absolutely prevents the crime that it forbids. For example, the law forbids theft; but in spite of it men go on and steal the property of their fellowmen. On this account shall we wipe from the code the statutes designed to protect property? Until you are'ready to do this, do not argue against Prohibition, because it does not entirely stop the liquor traffic. The law forbids murder, and yet in the face of it men continue to embrue their hand" in the blood of their fellowmen. On th. account shall we wipe from the code the statutes intended to protect the life of man! Till you are ready to do this, do not argue against Prohibition, because it does not, at once, abolish the liquor traffic. The truth is, that laws against the sale of liquor are found to be about as easily enforced as any other prohibitory laws. You have heard it affirmed repeatedly, Prohibition does not prohibit. Espe? cially do the enemies of the cause harp on Maine, where it has been on trial the longest. Now in the "North American Review" of October last, there is a very interest? ing article on this subject, by Petroleum V. Nasby (D. R. Eocke), editor of .the Toledo Blade. He made a visit to Port? land to see how the law operates, and testifies that in place of the three hun? dred saloons, this city once supported, he succeeded in finding but three or four. These were hidden away in the cellars of hotels where it was necessary to have a guide to find tbem, and when you got to them they were anything else than attractive places. I hold in my hand a little book of 120 pages, in which there are hundreds of testimonies from the most prominent men, sbowiog that Pro? hibition does prohibit. Some of these have reference to other States besides Maine, but I especially cite those bear? ing on that State. Among other citizens of the State I find testimonies from Gov? ernors Conner, Chamberlain, Dingley and Perhan ; from several judges of the Supreme Court; from Hon. Wolcott Hamlin, Supervisor of Internal Revenue; Hon. William P. Frye, member of Con? gress, and from Mr. Jas. G. Blaine. Among distinguished visitors, who have given their testimonies, find those of Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, missionary to Turkey; Cannon Farrar, and George William Curtis, of Harper's Weekly. If I bad the time I would like to read you some of these convincing and unan? swerable statements. Soffice it to say, the people show they consider the law a good one, fn that, after having tried it for thirty-four years, they have recently, by a majority of 46,000, adopted a consti? tutional prohibitory amendment. Prohibition already prohibits, and as the measure is adopted by more and more States, the public will become more and more educated, and the policy more and more effective. The saloon men are already aroused on the subject. Mr. Crafts, in bis "Temperance Century," quotes the following stirring words from "Champion" an organ of the liquor deal? ers : Saloon-keepers, liquor dealers, brewers, distillers, beware 1 The muster of the Prohibition hosts, at the late election, is your Mene tekel upharsin. Rouse your? selves from yonr lethargy; from your protective phalanxes, fight for your rights, for your business, for your homes, but remember that while a child can easily break a single twig, or a small stick, the most powerful man cannot break a bunch of rods tied together. In union there is strength. Strong as the liquor dealers are, they cannot prevent the edict that has gone forth for their overthrow; 200,000 saloons, with their attaches cannot domi? nate 50,000,000 people. The New York Tribune is quoted on this point as fol? lows : It is true that the capital and influence invested in its (liquor) defence are enor? mous and potent, but God and humanity are invested against it, childhood and womanhood out of the depths lift up holy hands against it, and the irrepressi? ble conflict must go on until our statesmen shall dare to assail in our halls at Washington, any evil or monstrous wrong that is destructive to national wel? fare. We have now looked at the practica? bility of the policy. On a former occasiou, I asked the question if prohibition is lawful. I am now ready to change the ques? tion, and ask: Is anything else than pro? hibition lawful ? I mean by this, is it morally right to slop short of prohibi? tion? I do not hesitate to answer this question in the negative. There are some who are in favor of high, and others of a restrictive license. Now, I am not like some prohibition? ists, who if they cannot get all they want just at once, will not take anything. I am in favor of fighting the enemy with any and every weapon possible. There? fore, I say to the temperance societies go on and get men to pledge themselves against the use of liquor. I have always been in favor of holding the dealers responsible for all damage done by his victim while under the influ? ence of the maddening drink. In addi? tion, I have been in favor of making it a misdemeanor, at the very least, for any man to allow himself to become intoxi? cated. So, if I could not get anything better than high license, I would go for the very highest license possible. The fucts, though, about high license, are these: Unless you get it very high, it will not appreciably decrease the use, STG, JUNE 16, 1887 aa has been shown by the one thousand dollar license in Chicago, while it will increase the revenue, and thus have a tendency to intrench the traffic more firmly in the esteem of cool, calculating, selfish citizens. You double and treble the license, and the saloon keeper will double and treble the price of his beer and whiskey, and double and treble his efforts to draw vic? tims into his den. Moreover, in proportion as the busi? ness becomes a monopoly, iu that pro? portion will the saloon be given an air of J respectability, aud iu that proportion will it become more dangerous. Dr. Howard Crosby, who is a high license man, in a speech in Brooklyn, a few weeks ago, used this illustration: "If a tiger is loose in your streets, is it not better to confine him to one part of tbe city than to permit him to roam at large ?" "Yes," sung out some one in the crowd, "but the best thing :is to shoot the tiger." The fact is, it is just as easy for us to shoot this tiger, the liquor traffic, as it is to confine him. Just as easy to prohibit the saloons as to regulate them by any license law. Prohibition is, I verily believe, the one thing as touching this question, which righteousness to day demands of us, as a people. Do you say, give us high license instead? Just as well might you cry, oh, do not prohibit theft, only stop those who are engaged in the business in a small way, but let bank presidents, and all such, go on their fraudulent practice and thus make it more respectable. Or do not prohibit all man slaughter, only pass a law putting this business into the hands of a few, who are experts and who will do it in a genteel way. No, my friends; the government has no right, for any consideration, to license men to engage in a business that robs tbeir fellow-beings of their wealth, robs them of their character, destroys their bodies and damns their souls. I am not here this evening for the pur* pose of abusing the saloon keeper. Any? thing I say now in reference to him is merely incidental. I am here for the purpose of exposing the position of our government in consenting to remain a partner in such an iniquitous traffic, aud with a view of getting you to see your responsibility as individual voters on tbe question. We can learn a lesson as to our duty as a government from the celebrated re? ply of tbe Emperor of China, when he was urged to license opium. Said he: It is true, I cannot prevent the intro? duction of tbe flowing poison; gain seeking and corrupt men will, for profit aud sensuality, defeat my wishes; but nothing will induce ma to derive a reve? nue from the vice and misery of my peo? ple. When it was proposed to tbe Queen of Madagascar to license strong drink, she likewise replied: I cannot consent, as your Queen, to take revenue from that which destroys the souls and bodies of my subjects. Let me give you a few more extracts along the same line, and I quote chiefly from the Voice. Chesterfield, in a speech against the gin act, in 1743, said : Vice, my lords, is not properly to be taxed, bnt to be suppressed. * * Luxury, my lords, may very properly be taxed. But the use of those things which are simply hurtful?hurtful in their own nature, and in every degree, is to be prohibited. Said Theodore Frelinghuysen, in 1833: If men will engage in this destructive traffic, if they will stoop to degrade their reason and reap the wages of iniquity, let them no longer have the law book as a pillow, nor quiet conscience with the opiate of a court licetse. Horace Greeley, in 1853, said: To sell rum for a livelihood is bad enough, but for a whole community to share the responsibility and guilt of Buch a traffic, seems a worse bargain than that of Eve or Judas. Said Dr. Albert Barnes : A law which assumes that a thing is wrong,and yet tolerates it; which at? tempts only to check and regulate it without utterly prohibiting it; which aims to derive a revenue from it for the purpose of government; which makes that which is morally wrong legal, is one of those things in human affairs with which the throne of God can have no fellowship. Writes Gerritt Smith: If the traffic in ardent spirits is immor? al, then of necessity are the laws which authorize tbe traffic immoral. And if the laws are immoral, then we must be immoral if we do not protest against them. These are only a few of many similar testimonies which might be adduced. "Will you give to man a bill, ' Divorcing him from heaven's high sway, And while God says, 'Thou sbalt not kill,' Say ye for gold, yo may, ye may ?" You will remember when Socrates was before bis judges, his accuser, Miletus, charged him with having taught the doc? trine of strange divinities, and with hav? ing perverted the youth of Athens. The philosopher, in reply, twitted Miletus for having permitted him to go on in his work for so many years. "For," said he, "he who does not prevent an evil when it is in his power, is equally criminal with him who commits it." My friends, it is upon this principle, enunciated by the Athenian sage, that I am compelled, before God and man, to charge you with the sin condemned in the. text, viz., of putting the bottle to your neighbor's lips, and making him drunken. You may tbink this a grave charge, but to the exteut that you have not done what is in your power as a citizen and a voter to overthrow the traffic, it is appli? cable to you. God has committed to you tbe ballot, and as sure aa you are here this evening, you will have to stand at His bar and ac? count for the use of it. I know of two towns in this State where, when tbe question of local option was before them, I am told some of those who were counted tbe best men in them, voted the wet ticket. When they did bo, they voted to let the work of the devil go on to the obstruction of the work of God. The question of prohibition is one which you will each have to face, and, therefore, I counsel you to give conscien? tious study to it. It is a question that will not down at any bidding, but on tbe other hand, is day by day assuming astonishing proportions. It is the burning question of the age. Maj you each so act in reference to it as not to call down the woe of the text upon your head, but by your labor and your vote contribute what ia in your power to the complete overthrow of the whiskey traffic. Then when you come to stand before the Judge you will be able to show that you bad a part in the destruc? tion of the most efficient scheme the devil ever invented in opposition to him and his kingdom, and shall hear from Him the approving sentence, "Well done." Families Securely United. Fayetteville, 6a., June 5.?There was performed here yesterday, before Justice Tomlin, a marriage ceremony, which is the culmination of a remark? able series of matrimonial ventures. The parties thereto were Nathan Starnes and Mrs. Eliza Hamby. In cozy farm houses on opposite sides of the Jones borough road, near the Clayton County line, lived the two families of Hamby and Starnes. For thirty years they have been prominent citizens of that section. To each came an increase of family, equally proportioned, save that the Ham? bys were all boys and the Starneses were girls. The children, ten in number, lived together almost as one family, and it was the most natural thing in the world foi the oldest Mr. Hamby and the first born Miss Starnes to unite in wedlock. This marriage was followed by the next couple, and so on down to the fourth, when Mr. Starnes violently protested against letting the Hambys have any more of his daughters. The marriage was permitted to take place, however, but with the permission was registered a vow that it should be the last tie between the families. Two weeks ago Hamby, senior, passed away, and during the period of mourn? ing greater intimacy sprang up between the families. This was a fatal step for Mr. Starnes, because, Friday night, he missed his youngest and only single daughter, only to learn that the youngest of the Hambys was also missing. Then it was that the truth flashed upon his mind. Mounting his horse he rode over the neighborhood in search of the pair. When he struck the trail it was well on to daylight Saturday. Following it he reached the house of a Justice of the Peace near Jonesborougb, and from that gentleman learned that be had married the young couple and that they could be found in town. The interview when he found them was a stormy one, and he left them in a rage. Beaching home be had bis buggy hitched up and driven in front of the widow's house. "Come, old lady," said he, "let us fin ism up this business. If the Hambys are to have the whole family, I might as well know it at once." The astonished widow did not know what to make of him. "Get in" said he, pushing her by the shoulder, "get in the buggy at once. There must be no more fooling about this matter." Pushing her by main force into bis buggy, Starnes took his seat by her side, and, whipping up bis horse, was in Squire Tomlin's parlor before the widow knew what was the matter. "Marry us quick," was Starnes's em? phatic request. "I am going to put an end to this excitement around this place. I reckon the Hambys will be satisfied then." The couple are now established in the Starnes house, and people from far and near are calling upon them to congratu? late them. The Winged Scavengers of the South. The so-called turkey-buzzard is not a buzzard at all, but a vulture. By insist? ing upon this distinction the buzzard tribe 'could improve its reputation for cleanliness. It is against the law in almost every Southern State to shoot a turkey-buzzard. There are two excellent reasons for this prohibition; the buzzards are the scavengers of the South and there is no telling what sort of a pestilence a dead turkey-buzzard would, bring on if anybody should kill one. The turkey buzzard is a knowing bird. He knows he is not good to be eaten?though his knowing this does not imply that be has superior knowledge?and he is not shy of mankind. He hovers over the market? places in the Soutben cities, waiting for business to close; and when the crowd of purchasers has departed the buzzard descends and feasts upon the odds and ends that have fallen from the butchers' and fish monger's knives. The scarcity of hash, mince pie, and fish chowder in the Southern States is something for which the buzzards should have credit. In Charleston there is a big public mar? ket down by the water, and the buzzards always clean up after business hours. The wisdom of the turkey-buzzard is known also by one of his expedients for getting rid of work, which is fatiguing in the Southern States. He goes to the mouths of rivers, where the conflicting forces of current and tide deposit on the banks a considerable proportion of the carrion and other unwholesome things that are borne toward the sea on .the river's flood, and he accommodates his not very fastidious appetite to the move? ment of the tides. All animals that perish inland are found by the buzzards. It is even said that flocks of these birds will hover for days and nights for a horse or cow that is on its last legs. A North? erner was driven out of Southern Georgia last winter by some one telling him that the buzzards were beginning to keep an eye on him. Last Summer the sheriff of a county in Florida disappeared in the woods after having loaded up a big revolver, and told bis wife he was going to shoot himself. Some little effort was made to learn whether he had kept his promise, but after a day of searching in the cypress swamps the searchers sat down in the shade of their bouses and said they would wait three days, when the buzzards would find him, and then they would find the buzzards. The turkey-buzzard, despite his formida? ble look, is a harmless bird. Not only does he never strike a creature till it ie down, but be hardly ever strikes ii till il is dead.?Georgia Correspondence o/iht New York Sun. Out of season?an empty pepper box, VOLUM] BILL ABP'S LETTER. Hin Weekly Bridget of Wit and Humor. The cook has quit again. Mrs. Sicily Mims departed these coasts yesterday morning. We had a cold lunch for din? ner but we had a good supper?so its all right and no loss on our side. We save the cook's board and her two children's board and her hire and some breakage and lossage and frettage. We will try home rule a while. It was a cloudy morning this morning and I overslept myself and when I do everybody else does and so breakfast was late and the children didn't get off to school until the second bell had rung aud they will be kept in at recess for being tardy and so the sins of tbe father will be visited upon the children which looks hard but is according to scripture. I worked late with them last night untangling four unknown quantities into equations and hunting all over Binghani's Latin to find out the tenses and moods of the verbs we had to translate. There are more excep? tions than rules and I've forgotten my Latin anyhow, and if it wasent for those children I wouldent go to school another day. But they need help and encourage* ment for it is a strain upon their young minds to grasp these obstruse things. School will be out in two weeks and they are counting tfie days and laying tbeir plans for vacation. I am tbe only boy at home now during the day and have to bring water and dig the potatoes, and pick tbe beans and fan up the stove and water the horse, and put the beds out to sun, and be ready for anything that is pertinent or impertinent. I hired a vag? abond chunk of a darky and be stole a coat and vest and run off to Acworth, and then I picked up another and he stole a shirt and a pair of earrings, and drew bis wages and quit. We never missed the things until he bad gone and his mammy strutted around town with tbe earrings in her ears. She gave them up generously but seemed to think she was better than most niggers, "cos she never hide 'em from nobody." She is one of J the crack shoulers in the church and spends her time in foraging around and "sarvin* de Lord." They have no con? science about these little pilferings, and it does look like they can't help it, and so we have to put up with it and get along. The chain gang does not punish, neither does it reform such cases. A good whip? ping is a better remedy. But tbe best protection after all is to not have them around. Let us do our own work if we can. I like to be waited on, that is a fact, but there is a power of comfort in waiting on yourself. It is better for the children to be raised that way. The town has a tendency to demoralize the children, anyhow. There are so many shows and picnics and frolics going on and it takes so many clothes aud so much washing and ironing?so many visits to pay and visits to receive, which is all right and pleasant and social but it don't leave very much time for anything else, does it ? And besides it seems to wean the chil? dren from the parents, and they don't hangarouud us and lean upon us like they did in tbe country. All this is very natural aud it is sad, but I don't complain, for the young birds must quit the nest sooner or later. In the country they had the fields and woods and meadows and mountains, and I frol? icked with them, and we would be pick? ing huckleberries right now if we were there, but the town is cramped and so there muiit be some substitute. They must visit their companions and be visit? ed, and sometimes they would stay all night and they would play ball and cro quet and have a good time to make up for that algebra and arithmetic and Latin and other unknown quantities. Why even the dogs are demoralized since they come to town. They used to follow us around and hunt rabbits, but now they run up and down the pailings and bark at tbe outside dog, and when they are not running they are watching and waiting for one to come along. They kept up such an everlasting racket every night that we couldn't sleep and they wouldn't come when I called them. So the other night about midnight I got des? perate and put on my shoes and hurried out "dishabil," as tbey say, and tram poosed all around tbe fence until I caught one, and I dragged him by tbe nap of tbe neck to a room in the cabin and shut tbe door and mauled him with and old broombandle to my satisfaction, and was going to leave him there till morning, but just as I opened the door wide enough to go out the rascal made a lunge over my shoulders and threw me sprawl? ing on my all fours in a wet place, and my dishabil was a sight aud I was mad enough to have killed him if I could have caught him, and in ten minutes he was running another dog up and down the palings. "For in this town the dogs go round, And many dogs there be; Both mongrell puppy, whelp and hound And curs of low degree." The next morning I saw tbe town dray hauling three dead dogs to the woods and I was sorry that one of them was not mine, but bis turn will come, I reckon, for though every dog must have his day he needent have all night to bark and prowl around. Living in town makes a dog impudent just like it does folks. Even our old mare is getting too fat and gaily for she don't have that five miles to travel now and puts on the airs of a town horse, but she don't sit down. I heard a good story the other day about a horse, and must tell it to tbe children. A man had a horse who would sit down whenever he was touched in the dank. He would just squat down on his hind quarters like a dog. The man tried to break bim of it, but he couldn't, and nobody would buy bim. One day a sportsman came along and made his acquaintance, and they took a ride to? gether to hunt partridges. When they found a covey, the man touched his heels to his horse's flanks, and he eat down "What makes your horse do that?" said the sportsman. "Why, he is a setter,' said tbe roan. "He sets birds just like a dog." So tbe sportsman thought he was a most wonderful horse, and be swapped for him and gave fifty dollars to boot, and he got on him, and after while they camo to a creek that was pretty deep and as the sportsman held up his legs to keep them out of the water his heels touched 5 XXII. -NO. 49. the horse in the flank and down he sat in the water. When he got him np and ont and was all dripping wet, be was as mad as a wet hen and said, "Well, sir, what made this horse do that way in the water?" "I forgot to tell yon," said the man, "that he sets fish just as well as he does birds." Now for another story for the children ?a German story?jost such as Hans Christian Anderson tells. I had a visit; the other day from a German friend and he told my children that "A long time ago a cranky king went to visit one of hl? monasteries, and while there he fell ont with the monk, and told him he. would give him just two weeks to answer three questions and if he didn't answer them correctly he would have his head cut off. 1. "How long," said he, "will it take me to ride round the earth on horse back? 2. "What would I bring if I was put up and sold for my worth ? 3. "What am I thinking about, and I must be thinking wrong at the time." The poor monk was in great distress, and after the king had gone prepared himself to die. His old servant asked him what troubled him so, and when the monk told him the servant said: "Ob, well, don't be troubled. When the king comes I will put on your gown and a wig and play monk and answer the questions." The servant was very biild, but the wig and the gown made him look very much like the monk, and so when the cranky king came and asked for the answers the servant said: "If your majesty will begin to ride at suurise and ride as fast as the sun moves it will take you just twenty-four hours to ride around the earth." "Good; pretty good," said the king; "I will take that.for an answer. Now, for the next." "Our Savior was sold," said the ser? vant, "for thirty pieces of silver. Yonr majesty cannot be worthjmore than our blessed Lord, but would bring about twenty-nine." "Well, that will do, too," said the king "You are smarter than I thought you was, but I will get you on the last ques? tion, and then off comes your bead. What am I thinking and I must be thinking wrong?" "Well, your majesty," said the servant, "you are thinking that lam the monk and you are thinking wrong, for I am only his servant," and he took off his wig and showed his bald head, and the king was too much surprised to get msd, and called up the monk and gave him a ring, and then departed in good humor. . There is a curious kinship among the stories of a race of people. The Persians have theirs, as found in the Arabian Nights. The Brahmins have theirs, as found in "The Old Deecan Days." Hans Anderson gives us samples of the Ger? man and Uncle Bern us of the African. The Greeks bad theirs and the Romans theirs and the Scandinavians'theirs, but what we have got that would make np a book?a characteristic book of the Anglo Saxon race I confess I do not know. It wonld simply be a vast and wonderful variety?that's all. Bill Art. Satisfied, "Did you look under the bed?" in? quired a wifo of her husband, after be bad turned out the light and got fairly settled for a night's rest. "No," was the blunt response. "Well, suppose there's a man there?" said the alarmed woman. "I don't want to see him if there is," was the answer. "Well get up and look; I shall not let yon rest nntil yon do." He knew her of old, and after fum? bling around, found a match, lit it and looked under the bed. Then he threw the match away, got into bed and whis? pered : "My dear, there Is a man under the bed." "Ob, get out!" was the quick response. "You can't fool me. I know better." Then she turned over, perfectly satis? fied, and went to sleep. She had accom? plished her object.? Elmira Gazette. An Accidental Invention. The telescope was an accidental dis? covery. The children of a Dutch spec? tacle maker named Lippershey were playing with some of their father's glass? es before his door, sitting them this way and that, aud peeping through them in curns for fun, when, by a certain acci? dental arrangement of the glasses, they, were surprised to see the spire of the distant church brought, to all appearan? ces, close to their eyes. The spectacle maker was called to witness the pheno? menon, and was filled with a strange delight with what be saw. He from this set about the construction of the telescope, and when it was finished took the instru? ment to Galileo, who improved upon it, and astonished the Doge and the nobles of Venice by one day presenting it to their wondering eyes to look through.? The Romance of Invention. ? In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief?enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. ? The United Presbyterians have voted in general assembly by a poll of 107 to 54 to permit the use of the organ in worship. ? "Paul Gladstone," the celebrated setter dog belonging to the Memphis and Avent kennel, has been sold to the Pitts burg kennel for the handsome turn of $8,000. ? A red-nosed gentleman asked a wit whether he believed in spirits.' "Ay, sir," replied he, looking him full in the face, "I see too much evidence before me to doubt that." ? "Don't look at your boy when he is speaking," writes a father. "It embar? rasses him when he is explaining how he happened to be in school and out playing ball at the same time." ? An exchange is asked the question: "How shall I stuff a deer's head?" It depends upon the party asked. If she is a rich dear, tell her you love her for her? self alono. If she is poor, insist that.-you love her just as much as if she were'/aa heiress,