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1 IWUfLPi The N?t?4 Wtthlngion Divine1! Sunday Discourse, An Eloquent DlfMrtatlon on th? Sin 01 Omnbllnc?An IuldUttt Vice Whloti f If amber* Ite Victims by the Thou ennde?May be S?r?d by Ornee of Ood Text: '"Woe unto thom that sin, as It won < With h cart rope."?Isaiah v., 18. There are some iniquities that Only nibble ht the hoart. After a lifetime of their work ? the m?a still stands upright, respected and honored. Those vermin have not strength enough to gnaw through a man's oharaoter Sot thero are other transgressions that lift themselves up to glgantlo proportions nnd seise hold or a man and bind him with thongs forever. There are soino lrflqultle? that have such great emphasis of evil that he who commits them may be said to'sin as with a cart rope. I suppose you know how thoy make a great rope. The stuff out of which it Is fashioned is nothing but tow which you pull apart without any exertion of your Angers. This Is spun into threau^. Say of which you could easily Bnap, but ii reat many of tbeso threads are lntorwound? then you havo a ropo strong enouirh to hind m ? -K1- *- - w_ w? V* uv?u a ouiji 1U U tempest. I speak to you of the sin of gnm^ltng. A cart rope In strength Is that sin, and yet I wish more Especially to draw your attention tt) the small threads of innuonoe out o? Vrhlch that mighty Iniquity is twisted. Klits orime is on tho advance, so that it is well not only tiiat fathers and brothers and tpons be interested lp suoh a discussion, but that wives and mothers and sisters and . .. aktSB look out lost their present home sacrificed or their intended home be blasted. No man, no woman, can stand aloof from sucii a subjeot as this and say, "It has nq practical bearing upoh my life1," for there.may be in a short time in "your history an oxperleuco in whioh you will And tuat the discussion involved three \jorUfcj? earth, heaven, hell. There are 'gambling establishments by tho thousands, i Thoro are about 6500 professional gamblers. Out of nil the gambling establishments how many of thein do you suppose profess to bo honest? Ten?these ten professing to be honest because they are merely the antoehainber to thoso that are acknowledged fraudulent. There are first-class establishments. You step a little way out of Broadway, New York. You go up tho marblo stairs. You ring tho bell. Tao liveried servant introduces you. The walls are lav wunr uutcu, 1110 mauteis are or Vermont marble. Tbo pictures are "Jenhthah's Daughter" ami bore's "Danto" nml Virgil's "'Fror.cn Region of Hell," a most appropriate selection, this Inst, for the place. There is the roulette table, the finest, costliest, most exquisite piece of furniture in the United States. There is tho banqueting room, where, free of charge to tho guests, you uiay tin I tho plate and viands and wines and cigars sumptuous beyond purallol. Then you come to the socond class gambling establishment. To It you ure Introduced i>y a card through somo Vtopor in.'' Having entorid, you must either gamble or light. Banded cards, dice loaded with quicksilver, poor drinks mixed with more poor drinks will boom help you to get rid of all your money to a tune in short meter wit i s.accuto passages. You wanted to see. You saw. The low villains of that place watch you as you come In. Does net tho panther, squat In tho grass, know a :eV whv \ she sees it? Wrangle not for yoov rights in that place, or your body will lie thrown bloody Into the street or dead int/j the river. ^ You go along a lUtlo farther and (lnd tho policy establishment. In that place you bet on numbers. Betting on two numbers (sailed a "saddle;" hotting on three numbers is culled a "gig;" betting on four numbers is called a "horse," and there are thousands of our young men leaping into that "saddle" and mounting that "gig" and behind that "horse" riding to perdition. There is always one kind of sign on the door, "Exchange," a most appropriate title for the door, for there In that room a man exchanges health, peace and heaven for loss of health, loss of home, loss of family, loss of immortal soul. Exchange sure enough and imlnito enough, w Now you acknowledge that Is a eartVope of evil, but you want to know what are the small threads out of wlitch It Is made. There Is In many a disposition to huznrd. They feel a delight in walking near a precipice because of the senso of danger. There are people who go upon Jungfrau, not for the largeness of tho prospect, hut for tho fooling that thev have of thinking, "What would happen if I should fall o(T?" There are persons who havo their blood lilllped and accelerated by skating very near an airhole. There are men who Mnd a positive delight in driving within two inches of the edge of a brldgo. It is this disposition to hazard that llnds development In gaining practices. Here aro i'600. I may stake them. If I stake them, 1 may lose them, hut I may win $500(1. Whichever way it turns I havo the excitement. Shuffle the cads. Lost! Heart thumps. Head dizzy. At it again?just to gratify this desire for hazard. Then there are others who go into this sin through sheer desire for gain. It is oh Specially so with professional gamblers. iMiey always keep cool. They never drink enough to unbnlunce their judgment. Thoy do not see fho dice so tnuuli ns they see tho dollnr beyond the dice, and for thnt thoy watch as the spider in tho web, looking ns If doml until the fly passes. Thousands of young men in the hope of gain go Into these practices. Thoy say: "Well, my salary is not enough to allow this luxury. I don't get enough from my store, ofllco or shop. I ought to have liner apartments. I ought to have better wines. I ought to have more richly flavored cigars. I ought to ha able to entertain my friends moro oxiiensivoly. 1 won't stnnd this any longer. can with one brilliant stroke maxo a fortune. Now, hero goes, principle or no principle, heaven or hell. Who cares?" When a young man makes up his mind to live beyond his income, satan has bought him out and out, and it is only a question of time when tho goods nreto be delivered. The tiling is done. You may plaut in tho way all the batteries of truth and righteousness; but man is bound to go on. When a man makes $1000 a year and spends $1200, when a young man makes $1500 and ^pends *1700, all the hnrples of darkness cry out, "Ha! ha! we have him!" And thoy have. How to get tho extra $500 or tho extra $2000 is the question. He says: "Here Is my friend who started out the other day witp but little money, and in one night, so' grent was Ills luck, he rolled up hundreds and thousands of dollars. If he got it, why not I? It is such dull work, this^adding up of long lines of figures in thoT'ouuting house, this pulling down of a hundred yar<l? of goods and Rolling n remnant, this always waiting upon somebody else when 1 could put j"100 on the nee and pick up *1000." This sin works very insidiously. Other Ins sound the drum, and Haunt the Hug, and gather their recruits with wild huzza, but this mnrches its procession of pale victims in dead of night, In silence, nnd when they drop into the grave there is not so much sound as the click of dice. Oh, how many have gone down under it! Look at those men who were onoo highly prospered, Now their forehead is licked by a tongue of flnmo that will never go out. In their souls are plunged the beaks which will never be lifted. Swing open the doorof that man's heart and you see a coil of adders wriggling their indescribablo horror until you turn nway and hide your faeo and ask (tod to help you to forget it. The most of this evil Is unadvertlsed. The community does not hear of it. Men de| ? 'k frauded in gambling establishments F M ftro n?t fools enough to tell of it. anu " Once in awhile, however, there is an i] people exposure, as when in Boston the police ' swooned upon a gaming establishment and found in it tly?eppresontntlvosof all classes 1?? ^ the first merchants on . .. \ i State street to the low Aon street gamble?) I as when Bullookt the oashler of the Central Railroad of Georgia, was found to have I stolen $109,000 tor the purpose of dairying ;! on gambling practices, as when a young man in one of the savings banks of Brook- | ton many years ago was found to have Stolen 040,000 to carry on gaming practices; r as when a man connected with a Wall street i insurance company was found to have , stolen $106,000 to carry on his gaming prao* 1 tloee. But that is exceptional. II Generally tho money leaks silently from 1 , i he merchant's Mil Into the gamester's wal- I let. I believe that one of the main pipes ! leading to this sewer of Iniquity is the ex> cltement of business life. Is it not a sig| nifloant fact that the majority of tbo day I gambling houses in New York are In proxi Unity to Wall street? Men go into tho ex- , , cltement of stock gambling, end from that > they plunge into the gambling houses, as, I when men aro intoxicated, they go into a l. liquor saloon to get moro drink. The agi- i i tation that is witnessed in the stock market j when the ohair announcod the word I "Northwestern," or "Port Wayne," or I ' "Hock Island," or "New York Central," and tho rat, tat, tat, of the auctioneer's hammer, and tho exoitement of making i." "corners," and getting up "pools," and *rrvlnr? ofnob "nn<l n^Krunb" ts/\?? aI<vK4m 1 i to seventy, nnd the excitement of rushing Around in curbstone brokerage, and the sudden cries of "Buyer throe!" Buyer ton!" Take 'em!" "How many?" nnd the ' making or losing of tlO.OOO by ono opera- , tion, unfits a man to go homo, and so he goes up the flight of stairs, amid business j oifyeee, to the darkly curtained, woOdenshuttered room, gayly furnished inside, ' and takes his placo at the roulette or tho -?faro table. But I cannot tell all the pro- ' oess by whioh men get into this ovil. A ninn wont to New York. Ho was a Western j merchant. Ho wont into a gaming bouse on Park place. Before morning he ! had lost all his money save il. ana he moved around about with that dollar in his . ' hand, and after awhile, caught still more 1 powerfully under tho infernal infatuation, ] 1 no came up and put down tho dollnrand ' cried out until they heard him through tho ! \ saloon, "One thousand miles from home, j ; and my last dollar on the gaining table." j Many years ngo for soriuoulc purposes nnd in company with the chief of police of t New York I visited ono of the most brilliant gambling houses in that city. It was j night, and as wo came up in front all ; ; seemed dark. The blinds wore down, tho , door was guarded, but after a whispering ' 1 of the oflicer with tho guard at the door wo , wero admitted into tho hall, and thenco into tho parlors, around ono table finding eight or ten men in midlife, well dressed?all the ' work going on in silence, save the noiso of the ra'tllng "chips" on tho gaming table in ono parlor and tho revolving ball of tho roulettotablo in the other parlor. Home of , these men, wo were told, had served terms ! in prison, some wore shipwrecked bankers 1 and brokers and money dealers, nnd somo were going their llrst rounds of vice?but all intent iij on tho table, as large or small fortunes moved up and down before them. Oh, there was something awfully solemn lu j the silence?tho lutonso gaze, the sup- ; pressod emotions of the players. No ono looked up. Thoy all had money in tho ! rapids, and I liavo no doubt somo saw, ! as tliov snt there, horses and car- I ringes, and bouses and lands, u11 t home aud family rushing I down into the vortex. A man's life would not have been worth n farthing in that pres- i enoo ha<l ho not l?een accompanied by the ' polloo if ho had been supposed to bo on a ! Christian errand of observation. Some of j these men went by private key, some wont . in by careful introduction, some wore taken in by the patrons of tho establish" , ir.ont. The officer of tho law told me, | "None gets in hero except by police man- ] dale or by some letter of a pntron." While j we wore there a young man enmo in, put | his money down on tho roulette table and lost; put more money down on tho roulette table and lost; put more money down on the rouletto table and lost; then feeling In his pookets for more money, finding none. In sovere silence he turned his back upon the scene and passed out. While wo stood there men lost their property aud lost their souls. Oh, merciless placel Not onoo in all the history of that gaming house has there been one word of sympathy uttored for tho losers at the game. Sometimes these gift enterprises nro carried on in tho name of chnrity, and some of you remember at tho close of our civil war how many gift enterprises were on foot, ' the proceeds to go to tho orphans nnd j widows of the soldiers and sailors. What , did tiro men who had charge of those gift I enterprises care for the orphans and j widows? Why, they would have allowed ! them to freeze to death upon their steps. I have no faith in a chnrity which for the sake of relieving present suffering opens a gaping jaw that lias swallowed down so much of the virtue and good principle of tho community. Young man, have nothing to do with these things. They only sharpen your appetite for games of chance. Do one of two things?be honest or die. , I liavo accomplished my object if I put you on tho lookout. It is a great deal easier id hiii mini 11 is 10 gei up again. Tho trouble is tlmt when men begin to go astray from the path of duty they are apt to say: "There's no use of my trying to get bark. I've sacrificed my respectability, I OftU't return." And they go on until they are utterly destroyed. I tell you. my friends, that (tod this moment, by His Holy Spirit, can chnngo your entire nature so that you will be a ditTorent'wnnu in a minute. Your great want?what is it? More salary? Higher social position? No, no. I will tell you the great want of every man If he has not already obtnined it. It is the grace of (tod. Are there any who hnve fallen victims to the sin that I have been reprehending? You are in a prison. You rush against the wall of this prison and try to get out and you fnil, and you turn around and dash against the other wall until there is blood on the grates and blood on your soul. You will never get out in this way. There is only ono way of getting out. There Is a key that can unlock that prison house. It is the key of the house of David. It is the key that Christ wears at His girdle. If you will allow liiui to put that key to tho look, tlio bolt will shoot back, and tho door will swing open, and you will bo a freo man in Christ Jesus. Oh, prodigal, what a business this is for you, feeding swine, when your father stands In the front door, strnlning his eyesight to catch tho first glimpse of your return, nnd the calf is as fat as it will be, and tho harps of heaven aro nil strung, and the foot free. There are converted gamblers in heaven. The light of eternity (lashed upon the green bnlne of their billiard saloon. In tho iavor wi iiuu ? lur^iu'urw tuny wn^uuu uu itiA tlioir sins. They <|iiit trying for earthly stakes. Thoy tried for heaven and won it. There stretches a hand from heaven toward the head of the worst offender. It is a hand, not olinohod a* if to smite, but outspread as if to drop a benediction. Other seas have a shore and may bo fathomed, hut the sea of Ood'a love? eternity has no plummet to strike the bottom, and immensity no ironbound shore to confine it. Its tides arc lifted by tho heart of infinite compassion. Its waves are tho hosannas of theredeomed. The argosies that sail on it drop nnchor at Inst amid tho thundering salvo of otornal victory. lint alas for thnt man who sits down to the llnal game of life and puts his Immortal soul on the ace, while the angels of God keep the tally board, nnd after kings and queens, and knaves, and spades aro "shumed" and "cut," and the game is ended, hovering and Impending worlds discover that he has lost it, the faro hank of eternal darkness clutching down into its wallet all the blood stained wagers. Demand For Small Notes. The increase in the business of the country is shown by tire great demand at the Treasury Department, Washington, for small notes. Tho Department ofllcials an) fairly overwhelmed with applications for small notes, evidently required by business ] men in commercial transactions. THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUGUST 8. Lesson Text: "Iforklag and Waiting for Christ," I Then. It., 0-18; v., 1-8? Ooldoo Text: John xt?., 8 ? Commeuhuy bjr Rev. I>r. D. M. Stearns. 0. "fcut a? touching brotherly lore, yo need not that T^rrite unto you, for yevourBclvos are taught of God to >ove one another." The epistle is addressed to the ohuroh of tlie Thessalonians In Qod the Father and the LordJeeus Ohrlst, those who, Jin heard tho gospel, received the wofil aud turned from their idols unW> God, to serve tho living and true God and to wait for His Son from heaven, even Jesus who delivered them from the wrath to oomo (chapter 1., 1, 5, 6, 9, 10). He exhorts thorn to walk worthy of God, who has called them to His kingdom and glory, and to seek In all things to please Goa and not man (chapter 11., 5; lv., i). 10. "And Indeed yo dolt toward all the brothen which are in all Macedonia. Hut wo beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more." There Is always room for increase in love and In all the fruit of tho Spirit, for wo can never manifest tho fruit as fully as Christ did, and yet He is Olir Oulv nXAinnln. Ho In nviir aniiklnw mi.nl. more fruit, for no branch Is bearing all that It might. 11. "Anil that yo study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands as wo oommtnded you." in a lator epistle he said that If any would not work neither should they eat fll Thoss. 111., 10). The word horo translated "study" (nhilotlmooma!) Is used only throo times. The othor two places are Bom. xv., 20; II Uor. v., 0. The late Dr. A. J. Gordon lovod to cn'l attention to the truth that the word dgnillos "to be ambitious," or to v? one's utmost endeavor to accomplish a thing,and that in theso three passages wo have ? lawful threefold ambition for every believer? viz., to mind one's own btislnesA, bo well pleasing to God. and preach the gospol where Christ has not yet been named. 12. "That yo may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing." We are to provide things honest in the sight of all mon (Horn, xti., 17), but we should tako special pains to be In every sense upright bofore unbelievers. They will not read the Bihlo, but they will and do read people, and iliey ought to be able to read something of the Bible In the life of every Christian. Ono has said that a Christian ought to be a largo print, clear type Bible that any ono can rend easily. 8uch upright people cannot lack any good (Ps. Ixxxtv., 11). 13. "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which nre asleep, that yo sorrow not oven ns others which have no hopo." While teaching them how to llvo on the earth as Christians tho fact was ever before them that some were passing away. Death was doing his Cruel work. And what about those who .5 J 1 ? T ?? IO lit Ull.. T??-. ?*o> l ui?j 111 me uurur it iiiiu nov. aiy., io, nus special reference to thoso who in tho days of tho manifestation of satan's greatest power will rather dlo than deny Christ, yot it is always truo, "Blessed are tho dead who die in the Lord." There is the gain, and the very far better f Phil. i., 21, 28). 11. "For If we believo that Jesus died and roue again, even so thoin also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Ilim." To die is gain, and to bo with Christ is far bettor. But that is not tho whole of it, for after tho r-- urrection of the righteous nil the saints nnoomiug back with Him when he comes t > judge tho Nations.savo Israel and begin ills reign on earth. 15. "For this wo say unto you by tho word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of tho Lord shall not prevent them which are aslooi)." The It. V. says In the lost clause of tnis verse, "Shall in r wlso precede them that are fallen asleep. ' Rotherhnin says that we shall "in nowise got beforo" them which are fallen asleep. It would seemthnt the Christians thoug.it that their friends who had died had lost somewhat by not being allowed to remain until tho Lord should come, but the assertion here is very emphatic that thoso who are n'livo en tho earth when Christ shall come shall have no advantage over those who have died in Christ, and who have been some time absent from the body and present with tho Lord. 10. "For tho Lord Himself shall doscond from heaven with a shout, with tho voice of the archangel and with tho trump of <iod. ami tho dead in Christ shall rise first." As at the (Irst coming of Christ, In humiliation, to suiTer and die and rise from the dead, there were many events covering ninny years, at least thirty-throe, so at His s 'cond coming to reign there will be many events covering many years. Tho coming with Him of verso 14 and chapter ill., 18, and Uov. xlx., 11-16, is the last stage of His second coming and must be preceded by t he events of verses 16, 17. Ho cannot I.ring us with Him until He gets us all with Him. 17. "Then we which aro alive and roniain shall lie caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the ?<_ .....1 .... ii .... ....... ii... i ... i I liko to fancy tills as actually occurring, ami often say to my congregations, "Let us now imagine it taking place." Tlio Lord Ilimself, not an angel, nor the Iloly Spirit, but this same Jesus (Acts i., 11), shall leave tlio right liaml of the Father and descend to tlio air. I.ike a mighty magnet Ho will attract to Himself all tlio members of His body. The dead in Christ shall rise They who have been with Him absent from the body shall reinliabft their bodies risen from the grave and made liko unto His glorious body. 18. Wherefore comfort one another with those words." I tliiuk there Is no other verso just liko this in the llible. In Isa. xl., 1, 2, the prophet Is told to comfort Jerusalem and Israel, and it is in connection with the coming of tlio Lord. II Cor. 1., 8, 4, tho Qod of all comfort comforts us that we may comfort others with our comfort, whatever It is. Hut hero are the very words with which we are to comfort those who are bereaved. Wo are uot to say, liko David, I shall go to them, but thoy cannot come to me. On tho contrary, wo aro to think of the possibility of their bein with us In their resurrection bodies any moment, and we instantly changed and caiaght away with them to moot and be forever with the Lord (v., 1, 2). "Hut of th? times and the seasons, brethren, y? lur o no need that I write unto you, for yourselves know perfectly that tho day of tho Lord so cometh as a thief fn the night." Ho now passes to another topic, or rather another phaso of our Lord's second coming. Wo do not know of any event that must necessarily intervene between the proscnt moment and tho taking away of tho church. Hut before the coming of Christ with Ills saints there must sol in moro fully the groat apostasy, and b<; manifested tho man of sin referred to In II Thess. 11., 1-4.?Lesson Helper. Spalding Found Ouilty. At Chicago, the jury in the third trial of Cliarlea W. Spalding, treasurer of the Illinois State University and president of the (ilohe Savings ltank, returned a verdict of guilty, Ihe present trial was on an indictment charging Spalding with hypothecating P i ?,000 in oountv bonds. Spalding's punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary. Tie will mako a strong tight before he goes to the penitentiary, and will carry the case up to the last court. The duration of his sentence will be settled by the prison board of the State. JOHN P. I.OVELL DEAD. Founder of Famou Oompaaf Sao- . carob* to Paralyslp. The venerable John BrtSSyHJ, founder of ' the arms company banting his ostne, a oom- 1 pap/ known nil ov?J the world, has just . aleo at his summer home, Cdttagc City, j Mass. He suffered e paralytto shook from } whloh it-was poped for a time he would, re- i cover, but a vigorous constitution was not a j match for the encroachments of advanc- . ing years. John" Prlnoo Lovell was born . in East Braintreo on July 82, 1820, smd was therefore in his 7dih year. He was an instance of a roiling stone gathering no moss, for, be tried several trades before finally settling down to gunsmithlng, at whiob he became one ol the rqo?t export and finished workmen in the World. He apprenticed himself to'A.H. Fairbanks, a Boston gunsmith, who In 1840 gays TBI t<ATB JOK> P. LOVELL. Mr. Loved a l>*lf interest In the businoss. Mr. Fairbanks died the following year. Mr. Lovell took another partnnr, nut In 1H41 bought out the latter. Me later added sporting goods of all descriptions to his stock,and tlio company has steadly grown to Its present mammoth proportions, Mr. Lovell successfully weathered every panic, nevor failed and never was sued. As hts sons bco&mo of age to enter business they wore taken Into the firm. Mr. Lovell was connected with numberless soorrt and charitable organizations. He was the llrst man to buy a tlolcet on the South Htaoro (later tho Old Colony) railroad wlion It was buflt, and had been a continuous ticket holder over since. 116 has long been tho only suivlvor of tho original ticket holders. Mr. Lovoll,at tho completion of his 60 years In business, was gtven a golden business jubilee anniversary which was one of tho notablo events, of East Weymouth whore he has lived for more than half a -....t.ir.r II - T .nvnl I .. ... IA 1 vvuvwt j> i"? i . ajvi v>i iviavvp a n ih'mt nuu live sons, three of whom are members of the company. ALASKA'S GOLD FIELDS. The Government Sends an Expert to Make au Examination. Expert Kainuel G. Dunham, of the Federal Bureau of Labor, at Washington, left on July 81st for'the gold belt of Alaska, where he will make an investigation and report in time for the proi'ected spring migrations. Mr. Dun" lam is well equipped for the work, hav ing spent much time in the mining camps of the West, andforeieveu years ho has been one of a corps of experts of the Labor Bureau, engaged in the investigation of spooial promblems. He has been instructed b|y Commissioner of Labor Wright to mako a oritioal inquirj' into the opportunities for business, for investment of capital, employment of labor, wages, cost of living, climate, best means of reaching the gold fields, and kindred subjects. He will go direct to Han Francisco and will sail from there August Oth, taking the .iuneau overland route, and reaching the Klondike about the middlo of September. Ho will watch the wintor and early spring work, and is expected to send material for a special report, which, it is hoped, will be published about March. A Dunk Quits Business. The First National bank of Asheville, N. C., lias closed its doors owing to the inuhiiity to collect, and the stringency of tho times, and will go into* voluntary liquidation. Tho last statement, made on May 14th, showed loans and discounts amounting to $803, 2(57.114; overdrafts $10,823.28; deposits $70,851). 8">;capitnl stock $100,000; surplus $20,000. Tho three other banks in tho city are doing business as usual. XT.. ... 1 1 .41 l-.l -3 xl .xi luu nun iicruu auumpieu, auu mere is no excitement. Flanagan Found Guilty. At Decatur, tin., Edwin Flanagan was found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Nancy Allen and Miss Ituth Slack on the evening of the 81st of last December, and immediately sentenced by Judge Candler to bo hanged Wednesday, August 25th. News Notes. The next annual .prison congress will moot in Austin, Tex., October 1H-20. On account of the stoppage of the coinage of silver, thirty-two men have been discharged from tho Han Francisco mint. Tbero is a movomont on foot in Charleston, S. C., to erect a monument to Major Robert Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame. James P. Daw, of South Carolina, lias boon reinstated in the Supervising Architect's oflice as chief of the technical division, at Washington. Senator John W. Daniel gives as his opinion that the democratic convention at Roanoke will indorse tho Chicago platform as a whole and emphasize the tree silver plank. Me thinks the party will carry the State by an increased majority. At Montgomery, Ala., fire destroyed tho roundhouse of the Western railroad. There were sixteen first-class engines disabled. The damage cannot he stated, hut it will amount to thousands of dollars. A Now University. At Providence, It. I., Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews who recently resigned the presidency of Brown University, has accepted the presidency cfa new university to he founded by John Brishen Walker, and to be known as the Cosmopolitan university. It is to be modeled after the Chataiiqua school and will i he conducted by correspondence. Near Talladega, Ala., a 14-year-old I oy shoots and kills his 8-year-old , brother, i I \ BILL ARP'S WEEKLY LETTfR. BURLESQUE ON A POEM BRINGS ON A DISCUSSION. MRS. ARP EXPRESSES HERSELF. William lUallxM That Ha la Only a Plain, Unrnflnad Spaclman af tka Genua Homo. I The last letter I had about the poem was anonymous. Of course it. was, for it read? "Man wants but little here below, So Young and Goldsmith say; But woman wants It all,;you know And wants it right away." Mrs. Arp was sewing on some infantile garment as I quietly laid the missive on her lap. She neither smiled nor frowned nor stopped the play of her needle as she remarked, "^laybe they do, but they don't get it nor expect." "I reckon," said I, "that some Stingy old benedict wrote that; some fellow who would spend more money pn his horse than on his wife." "No," *pid Mrs. Arp, "it was some old bachelor whose rejected addresses have made him cynical and like Byron he vents his revenge in doggerel. When you go down town I wish you would see Mr. Hicks about that dining room chair. Maybe he can put a new cane bottom to it. We need it sometimes when we have company, and that old sideboard ought to be revarnished and have new knobs. Do you know how old that sideboard is?" "Yes," said I, "Jim Sumter made it in 1852. He was one of the best men itim Dest woritmeu l ever Knew. I paid him $50 for the sideboard. He was a well-read, well-bred man, a good neighbor and a good citizen, and I have respect for the sideboard. It is like an epitaph on his tombstone and seems to read, 'Sacred to tho memorj of ?' Yes, I will see Mr. HickB about tho sideboard. Is there anything else in his line that you want?" "No," said she, "but you know we arc obliged to have another extension table. We gave ours to Jesse; when sho was married, and have been using o"io that was left here \ three years a.co, and now the owner has settled down and wants it. Yen had better attend to this right away;" "Right away, right away," I mused. "But woman wants It all you luiow, And wants It right away." Mrs. Arp looked ot me and remarked, "I want these things for you and the childron. It's precious! little that I want for myself now." ! I don't think she admires the song or tho sentiment. "I know it, I know it, my dear," I said I. "There was a time when you wanted a good deal for yourself niul il pleased me to gratify your every wish and more than you asked for. Nothing was too good for you when I had the money. Silks and sables, lawns and muslins, a carriage and horses, Wilton carpets and damask curtains, and sc forth, and so on, et. cetera, o pluribuf , unum. Rut anno domini kept rolling on and tho war came and I discovered j that you were gradually losing youi concern for yourself, and all your care was for your children, I was xumi nating about this while you were stitching away so earnestly upon tha< little garment, for now your love and care have lapped over to anothei generation. The little grandchildren have come in for a share of youi maternal love, and your persona wants havo come down to a minimum Of course you must be clothed ai becomes tho maternal head of nu merous and lovoly offspring, for i you are not a queen you have reignei in our home nearly as long as Queei Victoria has in England and?" "Well, that will do now," said raj wifn 1 'V/iti Vio/1 KaHao /?a a~ ..??/ "W'4 UOVTO1 W Aunt Ann Kays the rice is out and cowfeed too." "I was ruminating," said I, 4'ho^ fortunate it was that your ambitioi surrendered about the timo my mone; did. You ceased to crave as finethingi as I used to get you. You adAptei your wants to our misfortunes. Why forty years ago I would not have le you go about in that grizzly gray mus liu. I had a contempt for cheap things especially for you; didn't I, my dear?' "You o<!rtaiuly did," she said witl a kind of sad, reminiscent smile ii her tone of voico, "but this muslin i good enough now. But you had better go to town. There are four little grandchildren hereto dinner,and Aunl Ann wants the rice right away." "And wants it right away," I hummed to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne." Somehow I can't get that refrain oul of my mind?"And wants it righl away." Sometimes I think that men don'! understand nor appreciate woman'e nature. She was created with a love for the beautiful, for ornament, foi gems, jewels and gold and silverware and damask and fine linen. Aftn'f Vtnln har nnfurn orwl Mnc very nature proves that she is nearer heaven than wo are. What do I care for diamonds? Not a cent. I wouldn't give a dollar for a bushel of them. An old-fashioned tin waiter with flowers painted on it is as good as a silver one to me. I wouldn't wash the window glass more than once a year, and a wash-pan suits me as well as a china basin. But I recognize the fact that 1 am a man with an unrefined nature. The twelve gates of the new Jerusalem that are made of precious stones are no attraction to me; neither are the gold-paved streets that St. John saw in his vision. But still I have hope of getting there and becoming more refined, for I do love flowers and pretty birds and orange troes and luscious fruits and beautiful scenery and mountains and the great waters of the mighty sea. My wife and my daughters can spend half a day in looking at the beautiful things in the show windows in Atlanta, but I never stop to gaze or to admire, except, perhaps, to look at the photographer's display or the life-like models of lovely women that seem smiling at my three-scoro and ten. Reading and observation teach me that all good men have reverence for womankind and aro conscious of her better nature, her better morals and emotions. .{Shakespeare and Hoott write of women as ministering angels. Wadsworth says of lier creation: "A perfect woman nobly planned. To warn, to comfort aiul command." No great poot save such a rako a3 Byron would have written: "As well bellovo a woman, or nn epitaph, Or any other thing that's false." Even Solomon in all his glory with his wives and concubines said: "Young man, rejoice with the wife of thy youth, and be thou always ravished with her love." Edward W. Bok says iu The Ladies' Home Journal. "No economy is so false and misguided as that which i seeks to withhold one pleasure from j the life of a good woman, a true wi'e . or a loving mother. The best home a I man can give her becomes tiresome if | she is asked to live in it and stay in it ! 365 days in a year. The Lord known | that woman's life is hard enough. Sho ' travels a path of endurauce and suffering to which the average man is nn , entire stranger. Then let us mako 1 that path as pleasant, as easy and as , bright as possible. Every dollar that , a man spends on his homo for the ; happiness und comfort of his wife will ! oome back to him four-fold." That is true?all true... Bettor tuond the broken pane or that sash cord or , that gate latch and sometimes take nn . hour off from business and take her to ride. The Odd Fellows and Masons and Knights of Pythias are good insti- . tntions,but should notcOme in between 1 a man and his wife. The mother wants help with the children, for I tell your . my brethron, there is no care nor ; anxiety like nursing nud cariwg for a 1 little child, and nobody but a mother will do it willingly.' A mother who, ; has reared eight or ten children from infancy to maturity, and four years of ' the time during a pitiless war, when : she had to flee from the foul invader i with her little ones and hide them, half clad and always hungry, c&u say . with Pa'ul, "I have fought a, good i fight; I-have flnished-m'y bourse." Yes, ; Paul said t'.at, but ho was an old : bachelor, and knew nothing of what a mother suffers. The most pathetic , line in all'pootry is tllatof Fitz-Greene Halleck, where he apostrophizes death: ' "Come to the mother wheh ?ho fools ?l For the flrit tlmo hor first-born's breiath." The death of ayoung mother in childbirth is the saddest of all nature's calamities. . j .j Maternal love?maternal interest! What is it that so inspires a woman to r bear her fate?to suffer and bo strong? | ?BiiiL Ant in Atlanta Constitution. I ALBERT G. PORTER, j > DtetlaenlBhrd lloonler Who Uedenlly I Died ut liidiunepolin. J j Hon. Albert G, Porter, one of. Indl[ aria's distinguished soils, who had served his' country faithfully in- high . j place's, passed away :'at Indiana polls . cecentJy: * , ^ Born ait 14lwretieeborg, Ind.-, in 1824, t lie graduated f nun As'tnuy Mill versify i I and became a,lawyer lu Indluuupolis , r at 21. 'Within n few years he was h i leader'In Republican polities and held : r various' in tut IcLpn'l positions. Next lib1 1 became Kuprouic Court rei>orter and in ; 1M&S was sent to Congress, holding ids 5 seat two terms. Then lie returned to i . Indiana and became eminent as a law? f yer. After Ilie war Gen. Benjamin 1 Harrison was lits parlfier for mdny i years. In 1-878 he was appointed conip- 1 troller of the treasury, by President j Ilnyes and in. 1880 was elected Governor of Indiana by 7,000 plurality, af- , j though Indiana was ordinarily acoouuted Democratic by 14,000. Ho filled the r otllce with distinction. t -It was Gov, Porter who nominated lion. Harrison for President in the ChiP engo convention of 1888 . and one of | ... _________ .. " ALBERT O roIlTF.n. President Harrison's first acta wijs to appoint his learned friend minister to Italy* Since Ids rot urn In 1803 be bad lived In retirement. .. It Is Raid Hint u yOtlife woman ci*<*6 asked Chief Joseph kf lie had Over scalped any one. When t\io <piestiop was translated to hlin Joseph looked at the fair questioner Intently, then walked around behind her and viewed the knot of bair only half hidden by her bonnet. "Tell her," he snkl to the Interpreter, "that I have nothing In my collection as fine as that." Several physicians In Atlanta are to be prosecuted for allowing their pictures to l>o printed In dally papers. If the pictures were as bad us this suggests why not sue the papers? WEtKLT REVIEW if TBUBt. I Dun's Explanation of the Shutting N ^ Down of Big Cofton Mills. COAL AND IRON DIFFICULTIES. 1 ' l'vj ( cneral Improvement Reported?The Foreign Demand for Wheat and the Advance In Price. *?~ ' - ., ' $ R. (1. Dun & Co.'b Weekly Beview of Trade for the week ending July 81ft, nays. Didpatollefe from almost every Northern city of importance, report without exception, improvement in business, uud from Detfoit to Seattle aud Portland splendid crop prospects. The task of adjusting the business and industries of the country, to condition created by a .new tariff law, has progressed with gratifying rapidjty and ciise. Even the increasing 'sftrength of l. Iri bi?r? nnal mlnnrii farria mhuiii^ v wbj luiiivi o j/ivvnufj ivinaiua t ho adoption of the uniformity plan. which promises to remove most of the causes of such struggles. Some ooutusiou is caused by events 'Seemingly contradictory by closing of large ootfoti mills when many other works ere etarting, and by a decline in sortie prices when others are advancing; but the bnlance is unmistakably on the right Bido. "* ft . -v The most important events sinoe the passage of the new tariff, which was. generally anticipated a week ago, has been the marked iuorease in foreign demand and advance price' for wheat, which lias risen cents during the week, ^ with Western receipts for the iirst time oxcoedtog' 'last year's, with Western railroads besieged, for oars, and with Atlantic exports of 1,718,780 bushels of Hour included for the week, und 0,851,178 bushels in four.weeks, against 0,917,880 last year, with heavy contracts for shipment, ..exceeding I, '200,000 bushels ou a single day. Liverpool reports a shipment from America to Northern Bohemia and French markets. Exdlted '^speculative sales ha.vo little influence. ' .. The fact lhat corn exports exoeed last year, altboiigh'the price "has' ftdvanced t to HA 8,7 cents, is further proof that foreign demands are not subsarttul. With crop news still * favorable; producers may . probably realize somethjipg like 000,000 more than lastyefcron wheat, .which.means a . greet diffetenseih purchases by agricultural States. Corn also advanced' 1.25 oenfsiantr ootton a .sixteenth, th?Rgli reports. as-,fc> yield are good. | *The!industrial sky-is partly Clouded by coal.and iron difficulties,. ami by the closing of aomb large cotton mills. Having run for iiionthefaitaUeadTMfbonaamiug demand, on cotton bought at comparatively high prices,' 'the mills see ahead:a large arop ikndclmap cotton, and it ia but the ratioha) way to halt the ; production; and clear oft" acfcfthiulated I stocks, at.the season whenjvacetioneare common and begin the new year on its o?nb?sia. * ' * ' , The woolen mdnjifa^tn^exlKanswsr J wholesomely and aapderatjy to tba-aew ?' tariff conditions, aAa while'tilobpenT^^^, of light weufhts below.abou^.gl :n oost ** has met a Very encbnragihg 'flimand, t.Lioadvance in prioes askeddS'not large. t Delay in the iron industry is pertly bccauso a steady rising 'demand does not yet raise prices. In some products prices are a shado lower notwithstanding a 1 arger demand, owing t6 bom petition between wQrks,. but, Bessemer is a '*** V sliado higher. In structural work, plates, sheots and-bars :for tho enormous operations of agricultural implenu<rrt> works; tl?e de|nftfrH increases, as it also does for rolling stock. owing to the. abundance:of>crops:- / The failures for the .week liaye been 225 iii-thd Uhitfed 'Strftes,' against 281 last.year, and 28 iii.Canada, .^against 40 last year. DIJfGLEY VERSUS WII^ON. A Comparison of the NCw: Tariff Law WiththoOia,, . /^k Tho comparison of tho present tariff lull/ .villi Mia WiIbah A .?f aiiM.a.vja.1 1 \.. Iiit it vi*vu vuu ii uouu Avi nuuiviiiivu mj Congfess lias been completed. ' 'It was I qiode bv Ghas. H. Evans, whoihasbeen ' engaged iu the preparation.,of. all tbe tariff bills with whioh Congress has dealt sfuce' 1872. The ' comparison is mado.in rates oxnressed in '?d valorem : terms botween the present law and the Wilson law. The statement plrfdes the average duty rate mxleiy-the naw law at 54.08 per cent, ad valorem, as against an average of 40.10 under the-Wilson law, the average beiug. figured upon the basis of values In :8Ph ' / Tbe statement shows the following increases in percentages:, Chetuioals *" from 28.53 to 80.(57;'Woola hnd woolens frym 47.62 to 86.64;-silks from 46.06 to 582.41; earthenware and glassware 80 to .12.'47; metals 88.11 to 40.24-; sugar 40.0-1 to 74.10; tobacco 109^-06. tci 124.00; agricultnral prodnots 22.44 to 88.42; spirits, etc. , 61.64 to 08.88; cotton'-manufacturers .42.75 to 53,88. ...,, i Home of the inoreasas exneeied in revenue are its follows: Chemicals from $.".,019,289 to $8,428,084; earthen and glasstvare from W.008.869' to $12,808,148; metajs from $18,1^0,416.to $1 7,487, 4K2; woods from $006,749 to $2,489,580; < sugar from $29,'910,708 tb $54,207,642; v. agricultural products from $7?727,614 to $14,587,000. J These estimates are based upon the supposition that the value and, volume of imports \vill remain the satoie. Trencher Sentence? to Penitentiary. \V. M, Dubges, a'Baptist preacher, Mason and. politician,t at Bfadon^Oa., was sentenced to Ave years in the penitentiary 'or embezzling'Of school funds. . . ? Taken to Ralelfh for' Bsftty. ? . ,At Kittroll, N.;, O.,. a. ne$xo- named (leorgo ISodie made a. criminal assault ..Av. ? \r:i? ?wit i|n>u m lumo VW?!??, WHIM), lO-yBHTIold, and bad to be \aken to Raleigh for safety. In the meantime the Governor was telegraphed as follows: "Terrible ^ l ape on white woman has been committed. Negro is in iail. Will jrop order special term of oourt upon request h of commissioners ana petition from oiti-. gS /ons?" (Governor Russell at onee or- .*j dered a speoial term of oourt to begin * August 16th, Judge Brown to preside* *