The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, August 06, 1897, Image 5
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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
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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
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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
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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* *