OBIGON
FRIDAY. -
- - APEEL10, 1891
LOCAL AND PKBSONAL,.
Peach trees are blooming in favored
' localities. '.
The river is six feet above low
mark and falling.
water
The Hon. G. W. Johnston of Dofur
was in town Thursday.
A. J Brigham the well-known "S. B,
man from Dofnr was in town . Saturday.
Mr. V. C. Brock, the county clerk of
Sherman county was in the city Saturday,
Mr. David Bens, wife and daughter
left for the east via Portland on Tuesday
. last.
We had the pleasure of receiving
pleasant call from J. F. Ellis president
of the Pacific University at Forest Grove,
Saturday.
It is the proper caper now to call the
city of Spokane Falls simply Spokane, so
the people decided at an election held
there last week.
C. W. Haight of Cow Canyon has sold
his Clydesdale stallion Black Prince
Sam H. Douglas of Tygh Valley for one
thousand dollars..
. Mr. Henry Stroud and Messrs. Rod
- man and MacMicken of Prineville, were
in the city after merchandise for mer
chants of that central city, last week.
. Mr. A. - S. Macallister ' received the
' model for the new steamboat Friday
' and it was on exhibit at the stockholders
meeting today at . the board of trade
rooms. '
Mr. Perry Watkins was in the city, and
informs us the railroad surveyors have
passed his place on lower Fifteen Mile
and report fine . grades and an easy road
to build.
. The month of March has been the
coldest and the most unfavorable one for
our farmers for years. The difference in
temperature for the month exceeds any
for the past eighteen years, it being six
degrees colder on an average.
. P. P. Underwood, of Boyd, was in the
city Friday. He reports farming opera
tions in fair progress, and the farmers
. all hard at work. Mr. Undewood will
commence to teach a term of school at
the liberty school house Monday April 6,
Mrs. C. E. Dunham accompanied by
Mrs. G. W. Phelps left on this morning's
freight train for Sufus, where Mrs.
Dunham's parents reside, she is gain-
ing strength very rapidly and it is hoped
' the change will result favorably for .her,
The first annual meeting of the stock.
holders of the Columbia Portland and
Astoria Navigation company was held
. Friday in the board of trade rooms. A
report of the proceeding will be furnish
ed our readers in Monday's Chronicle
' - A. W. Fargher has 'returned to the
' city after a six weeks absence with his
band of sheep at Bake Oven. He thinks
lambing will average about seventy five
per cent. Grass is backward on the
' range about Bake Oven as the snow lay
on the ground late.
Messrs. Tillman and Bendel, leading
wholesale grocers in San Francisco, have
. guaranteed one of our leading merchants
in this city that there will be no decline
- in sugar during the., month of April
' Those of us who expected to till our
sugar tooth with cheap sugar, will be
left. Verily the sugar kings have it.
, Three' six and eight horse teams
were being loaded with freight for
Prineville, -on Friday of last week
These. teams brought down 200 pelts,
while one of them last year on the same
trip brought down 1500. The roads are
in inn i v kuuu ixiuuiuuu lui n tr 1 111
j 0
year.
The time was when the State Insur
ance company, of Salem, did not have
the best reputation in the world for
settling losses. We are assured, however
that in the matter of settling with Ike
Young, whose dwelling and household
effects were lately destroyed, the co myany
has acted promptly and liberally.
The Goldendale Sentinel says, "The
man who stole Colonel Pike's uniform
-atTekoa last February., was sentenced
to two years penal servitude. Sandy
Olda the notorious Portland murderer
was sentenced for one year. What does
this mean? Ye Gods? Is it poesible
that stealing is worse than murder?"
The Oregon Agricultural Experiment
' station at Corvallia has sent to Mr. D.
J. Cooper of this city a limited quantity
of sugar beet seed and Mr. Cooper has
left the seed at this office for distribu
tion to all who are willing to experiment
with the plant on. our Eastern Oregon
soil. ' It is believed that a very large
proportion of the lands of the Inland
Empire is adapted, and specially so, to
the successful raising of the sugar beet,
and we shall be pleased to distribute the
seed freely as long as it lasts. -
The U. P. company are having trouble
with the Mosier school district about
school taxes which the company refuses
to pay. The district, through the sheriff,
levied an execution on the company's
property and the sale was to come off to
morrow but the company has served no
tice on the sheriff to stop the sale and
the end is not yet. The Chroniclk had
hoped to buy out Jay Gould's interest
and add the road to the many other at
tractions of this journal but is, for the
present, disappointed.
The directors of the Eastern Oregon Dis
trict Fair Association held a meeting in
this city Friday and decided to hold the
agricultural fair in September, commenc
ing on Tuesday the 22d, and ending
Saturday 26th. Pamphlets and speed
programmes will be published as soon as
possible. The premium list will be put
in the hands of the state printer and
hurried through without delay. Let
everything possible be done to make the
coming fair a success. The Chronicle
may be relied on to do its share.
. Mr. Norton's surveying party has
. reached Dufur where they are camped
today. Mr. Norton was obliged to visit
The Dalles to procure a new level. He
reports being verv much pleased with
the grade so far. No difficulties worth
naming have been met with in locating
the road. It is an easy gradual grade of
37)4 feet average to the mile. The road
from Arlington to Heppner, Mr. Norton
informs us averages 60 feet to the mile
and is in some places 85.- There will be
no greater rise than Mr. Norton has
already met with till the summit of the
elevation between Dufur and Tygh val
ley is reached, and Mr. Norton is coafi-;
THE DALLES, - - -
j.i,iaa prcTitJrTrt; .--"A"-"'aurfrjjca"
Friday from the Wasco warehouse for
the Prineville country.
The Klickitat Leader says that the
Farmers' Transportation company which
has the right of way on the Washington
side of the Celilo rapids intends to begin
the construction of their transportation
road from Columbus to North Dalles at
once, in order to have it finished in time
to haul this season's crop of grain.
Alex Fargher, well known in this city
and county, T. G. Kelley, familiarly
known as "Top," late of Kingsley and a
man named Faucett have formed a joint
stock company with a capital stock of
$150,000, for developing a coal mine
lately discovered by Faucett and Kelly,
near Chehalis, Washington. They have
two ledges, one ten feet and one six feet.
At the meeting of the share-holders of
The Dalles, Portland & Astoria Naviga
tion eompany, held in this city today,
242 shares out of about 300 taken were
represented and the following officers
were chosen for the ensuing year : E. B.
McFarland, chairman, C. L. Phillips,
secretary, and B. F. Laughlin, D. M.
French, A. S. Macallister, M. T. Nolan,
Hugh Glenn, Kobt. Mays and O. Kiner
sly, directors. The further proceedings
of the meeting were under wav at the
hour of going to press Saturday.
Geortre P. Mortran and Colonel E. W.
Nevius, who are doing business together
at uarretson sold stand on becond street,
as land office attorneys, desire to state
to their clients and to the general pub
lic as well, that it is now definitely
known that specific written instructions
as to filings on the forfeited railroad
lands will De received bv the land office,
by the first of next week. Thirty days'
notice by publication is required before
filings will be accepted at this land
office. After such instructions are re
ceived it will be well for all those who
intend to enter this land to come in at
once to have their papers made out and
all the preliminaries settled, thus avoid
ing the inevitable rush and securing the
first chances at the land office bv beine
ready.
The New Steamboat Company.
The Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navi
gation company organized Saturday
evening and elected the following
officers: Kobt. Mays, president; M. T.
Nolan, vice-president; H. M. Beall,
secretary; G. V. Bolton, treasurer.
The new company will let the contract
for the first steamboat immediately and
will push things. It is suggested and
favorably considered too by the board
that the new boat be christened the
Gov. Pennoyer." The idea is a capital
one, and surely no one is more worthy
of the honor than his excellency, as he
has been untiring in his efforts for an
open river from the first of his official
iife. He will leave nothing undone that
that the portage road may be in readi
ness for the steamboats when completed.
. Economy and Ethics.
The fruit of speculation and gambling
are being reaped over on the sound by a
whirlwind of seductions and murders.
A dav does not pass without some of the
boomed cities furnishing a victim of the
depravity which follows the decay aris
ing from excessive thieving, commonly
described as over-booming and over
speculation. Men cannot take some
thing for doing nothing without suffer
ing the penalty attached to injustice and
robbery. East Oreyonian.
These "seducers and murderers are
badly in need of instruction in "economy
and ethics," if the philosophy of the
East Oregonian is to be believed. A
great many of us would administer the
'economy and ethics" hypodermically
at the end of the muzzle of a shotgun.
AdTertlaed Letters.
Following is a list of unclaimed letters
remaining in the post office at The Dallas
Oregon, April4, 1891. Persons calling
for same will please say "Advertised."
Almblade, Oscar
Davis, Miss Helen C
Uenmson, I) U
Forinan, George
Harris & Tim by
Munsey, John
Pickel, Florence
Rice, Mrs E
Forrest, Arthur
Hansen, Laura
Hanel, Miss Grace
McClure, J M
Phillips, John H
sawyer, vv r
Snow, 1 r
Taylor, Kay
Tottingham, Albert Waterman, A B
Wright, Wm P Wood, George B
M. T. Nolan, . M.
A -Good Horse.
Mr. S. H. Douglas of Tygh Valley has
bought the horse Prince and will keep
him at Wamic ai.d Tygh Valley for
breeding purposes in future. Mr.
Haight has owned and kept Prince at
Cow Canyon for the past five years and
he is authority for the statement that no
horse in the state can show a better rec
ord than his during that time. Prince
is eight years old and weighs 1,850 lbs.
He will be a valuable addition to the
part of the country where he will be
kept henceforth.
Seeking Information.
Goudyville, S. D., March 27, 1891.
Dear Sib. Will you please send me
by return mail all the information of The
Dalles and the neighboring county, I re
main, Yours very respectfully,
R. 8. Frayne.
The above letter was received yes
terday by the secretary of the board of
trade. It was naturally handed to this
office and we promptly sent Mr. Frayne
copy of the Chronicle.
A committee consistfng of Paul Mohr,
E. G. Hughes, Osburn, J. K. Gill, J.
Lang, H. S. Rowe and J. R. Allen, from
the Portland chamber of commerce, vis
ited The Dalles yesterday to examine the
north bank of the Columbia in connec
tion with the location of the portage
railroad there. The ccinmittee informed
some of our citizens that they expected
to have the road finished within the
next six months. Work is to be
menced immediately.
The forces that held up the price of
of sugar on the Pacific coast are too
potent to yield to any such trifle as the
removal of a two-cent duty. The price
of raw sugar in the east fell two cents
per pound the moment the sugar in the
custom house was released from bond
yesterdajr, and all other grades promptly
followed it. Though San Francisco re
finers pay the Hawaiian planters the
price of Cuban sugar laid down id New
York, prices here did not follow the de
cline irk New York, falling off only three
fonrths of a cent. Sugar is now nearly
three cents per pound higher here than
. i . I
in the east. That is curious.
Why are two young ladies kissing each
other like an emblem of Christianity?
Because they were doing to each other
as they would men should do unto them.
"Have you ever been a member of the
California legislature?" is now the dis
trict attorney's first question to a crimi
nal." Helena Independent.
Whist seems to be on its way to be
come the national game. .
Oregon Weather Bureau,)
Central Office,Portland, Oregon. )"
REMARKS,
This bulletin is made up from reports
received from 173 correspondents. The
various conditions and prospects as re
ported are given. Statments made are
from written reports of reliable men in
every section of the state.
weather.
Cool temperatures, frosty nights,
showers, fresh winds and two cloudless
days have been the weather character
istics for the week. While the temper
ature has been below the normal for this
season of the year, yet there has been a
gradual raise, but slow, in the heat
each day. The frosts were general and
frequent, but owing to the retarded state
of fruit buds and vein tat ion there was
no dainatre done. The showers helped
to keep the soil wet, thus delaying
spring seeding, the dampness and cool
winds have not been favorable to yonng
and some loss therefrom is reported
Light hailstorms doing no damage, oc
curred in many sections on the 26th and
27th ulto. Snow fell in Lake county to
depth of two inches on the 2(th.
CROPS.
While the weather conditions are not
favorable to a rapid advancement of
vegetation, yet it is rather beneficial, as
it allows the roots to gather strength
and gives a slow but healthy growth
Fall wheat is reported to be better
stooled and rooted than for many years
Spring seeding in bouthern Oregon is
well along. In the Willamette valley it
is greatly delayed, except on the higher
land. In .hastern Oregon in some sec.
trons it is half done, in others just com
mencing. The acreage of spring sown
grain will be larger than last year.
The cool weather continues to check
advancement of fruit, hence is beneficial
to it, as it is less liable to be injured by
late frosts. Fruit is farther advanced In
Jackson, Josephine and Benton counties
than in any other sections of the state.
The snow is gradually leaving the , foot
hills and in the Coast range it is nearly
all gone. Warmer weather seems ap
proaching, the grass is growing and
stock are getting along very well.
HEALTH.
The general health conditions are re
ported to lie good. Colds are less fre
quent and no unusual sickness prevails.
n. S. Fagub,
Observer U. S. Signal Service.
Is -Disease a FnnlRbmeat?
The following advertisement, published
by a prominent western patent medicine
house would indicate that they regard
disease as a punishment for sin :
Do vou wish to know the quickest
way to cure a sever cold? We will tell
you. To cure a cold qickly, it must be
treated before the cold has become set
tled in the system. This can always be
done if you choose to, as nature in her
kindness to man gives timely warning
and plainly tells you in nature's way,
that as a punishment for some indiscre
tion, you are lo be afflicted with a cold
unless you choose to ward it off by
prompt action. The first symptoms of a
cold, in most cases, is a dry, loud cough
and sneezing. The cough is soon followed
by a profuse watery expectoration and
the sneezing by a prosuse watery dis
charge from the nose. In severe cases
there is a thin white coating on the
tongue. What to do? It is only necessary
to take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in
double doses every hour. That will gTeatly
lessen the severity of the cold and in
most cases will effectually counteract it.
and cure what would have been a severe
cold within one or two days time. Try it
and be convinced." Fifty cent bottles for
sale by Snipes & Kinersley, druggists.
Forfeited Railroad Lands
We are now ready to prepare papers
for the filing and entry of Railroad
Lands. We also attend to business be
fore the U. S. Land Office and Secretary
of the Interior. Persons for whom we
have prepared papers and who are re
quired to renew their applications,, will
not be charged additional for such papers.
THORNHURY HUDSON,
Rooms 8 and 9, Land Office building,
The Dalles, Oregon.
The Best Cough Medicine.
"One of my customers came in today
and asked me for the best cough medi
cine I had," says Lew Young, a promi
nent druggist of Newman Grove, Neb.
"Of course I showed him Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and he did not ask to
see any other. I have never yet sold a
medicine that would loosen and relieve
a severe cold so quickly as that does. I
have sold four dozen of it within the
last sixty days, and do not know of a
single case where it failed to give the
most pefect satisfaction." 50 cent bot
tles for sale by Snipes & Kinersly, drug
store.
fc FOBSALK.
A choice lot of 'brood mares ; also a
number of geldings and fillies bv "Rock
wood Jr.," "Planter," "Oregon Wilkeg,
and "Idaho Chief," same standard bred,
Also three fine young stallions by
"Kockwooa Jr. out oi nrst class mares.
For prices and terms call on or address
either J. vv . Condon, or J. H. Larsen,
The Dalles, Oregon,
On Hand.
J. M. Huntington sc (Jo. announce
that they are prepared to make out the
necessary papers for parties wishing
to hie on so called railroad land. Appli
cants should have their papers all ready
before going to the land office so as to
avoid the rush and save time. Their
office is in Opera H"se Block next to
main entrance. -
Merino Sheep for Sale.
I have a fine band of thorough bred
Merino sheep consisting of 67 bucks,
about dw ewes and about 200 yonng
lambs, which I will sell at a low price
and upon easy terms. Address,
D. M. French,
The Dalles, Or.
Stock Strayed.
Three 3-year-old fillies (2 sorrels and
one bay,) two 2-year-olds (both bays) all
branded i on the left shoulder. I will
give $5 apiece for the recovery of the
same. J. -W. Rogers.
Boyd, Or.
Improve Tour Poultry. -
If yon want chickens that will lay eggs
the year round without having to pen
them up to keep them from setting, get
thepure bred Brown Leghorn. Mrs. D.
J. Cooper on the bluff, near the academy,
has the eggs for 75 cents per setting.
Horsemen Attention.
The spring rodero for horses will meet
at Bake Oven on the first day of May.
'- R. BOOTEN,
Chas. W. Haight,
J. N. Burgess.
The American Market.
The best stand in the city will be
UUCIOU IVI MID 1U1
FT, .l rAW ..la 4l.
next ten days.
Good chance for a live man to make
I money.
New Addition.
For one week I will sell shade trees.
elm, maple, ash and box elder, also sur
plus fruit trees at half price.
. J. A. V ARNEY.
City Treasurer's Notice.
AH City Warrants registered prior to
July 6, 1889 are now due and payable.
Interest ceases on and after date. -.
J. S. Fish.
February 7, 1891. CityTreas.
DISCOURSE PREACHED BY
T, DE WITT . TALMAGE.
Baleful AmnaeaaMts the Sotyx A
Great Coaoonno Present The Speak
er Specifies Amusements That Are
Harmful and These That Are Not.
New York, March 3 The aeries of ser
mons Dr. Talmage is preaching in this city
and Brooklyn on "The Flagues of the
Cities" is attracting general attention.
At the morning service in Brooklyn and
at the evening services held - under the
auspices of The Christian Herald, in this
city, the number of persons who come to
hear the sermons is far larger than either
of the buildings can accommodate. The
sermon to-day, which is the fourth of the
series, is on "Baleful Amusements." The
text was II Samuel, ii, 14: "Let the young
men now anse and play before us.
There are two armies encamped by the
pool of Gibeon. The time hangs heavily
on their hands. One army proposes a game
of sword fencing. Nothing could be more
healthful and Innocent. The other urmy
accepts the challenge. Twelve men against
twelve men, the sport opens. But some
thing went adversely. Perhaps one of the
swordsmen got an unlucky clip, or in some
way had his ire aroused, and that which
opened in sportful-iess ended in vtorence,
each one taking his contestant by the hair,
and then with the sword thrusting him in
the side, so that that which opened in in
nocent fun ended in the massacre of all the
twenty-four sportsmen. Was there e
better illustration of what was true' then,
and is true now, that that which is inno
cent may be made dealt uctivef
What of a worldly nature is more im
portant and strengthening and innocent
than amusement, and yet what has count
ed mora victims? I have no sympathy with
a traitjacket religion. This is a very
bright world to me, and I propose to do all
I can to make it bright for others.
YOUTH'S SFOSTTVENESS SHOULD SOT BE BUT
FBS8SBD.
I never could keep step to a dead march.
A book years ago issued says that a Chris
tian man has a right to some amusements,
For instance, if he comes home at night
weary from his work, and feeling in need
of recreation, pats on his slippers, and
goes into his garret and walks lively
round the floor several times there can be
do harm in it. I believe the church of
God has made a tremendous mistake in
trying to suppress the sportfulness of
youth and drive out from men their love
of amusement. If God ever implanted
anything in us he implanted this desire.
But instead of providing for this demand
of our nature, the church of God has, for
the main part, ignored it. As in a riot, the
mayor plants a battery at the end of the
street, and has it lired off so that every
thing is cut down that happens to stand in
the range, the good as well as the bad, so
there are men in the church who plant
their batteries of condemnation and fire
away indiscriminately. Everything is con
demned. But my bible commends those
who use the world without abusing it, and
in the natural world God has done every
thing to please and amuse, us. In poetic
figure we sometimes speak of natural ob
jects as being in pain, but it is a mere
fancy. Poets say the clouds ween, but
they never yet shed a tear; and the winds
sigh, but they never did have any trouble:
and that the storm howls, but it never lost
its temper. The world is a rose, and the
universe a garland.
And I am glad to know that in all our
cities there are plenty of places where we
may find elevated, moral entertainment.
But all honest men and good women will
agree with me in the statement that one ot
the worst plagues of these cities is corrupt
amusement. Multitudes have gone down
under the blasting influence never to rise.
If we may judge of what is going on in
many of the places of amusement by the
Sodomic pictures on board fences and in
many of the show windows there is not a
much lower depth of prongaey to reach,
At Naples, Italy, they keep such pictures
locked up from indiBcriminate inspection.
Those pictures were exhumed from Pom
peii and are not fit for public gaze. If the
effrontery of bad places of amusement in
hanging out improper advertisements of
what they are doing night by night grows
worse in the same proportion, in fifty years
New York and Brooklyn will beat not only
Pompeii, but Sodom.
To help stay the plague now raging
project certain principles by which you
may judge in regard to any amusement or
recreation, finding oat for yourself whether
it is right or whether it is wrong.
BY ITS FECITS KXOW IT.
I remark in the first place that you can
judge of the moral character of any amuse
ment by its healthful result or by its bale
ful reaction. There are people who seem
made up of hard facts. ' They are a com
bination of muKiplication tables and sta
tistics. If you show them an exquisite
picture they will begin to discuss the pig
ments involved in the coloring. If you
show them a beautiful rose they will sub
mit it to a botanical analysis, which is only
e post-mortem examination of a flower.
ey have no rebound in their nature.
y never do anything more than smile.
here are no great tides of feeling surging
from the depths of their soul in billow
r billow of reverberating laughter.
ey seem as if nature had built them by
tract and made a bungling job of it.
But, blessed be God, there are people in
world who have bright faces, and
hose life is a song, an anthem, a paean of
victory. Even tbeir troubles are like
the vines that crawl up the side of a great
tower, ob the top of which the sunlight
sits, and the soft airs of summer hold per
petual carnival., They are the people you
like to have come to your house; tbey are
the people I like to have come to my house.
If yon but touch the hem of their gar
ments you are healed.
Now it is these exhilarant and sympa
thetic and warm hearted people that are
most tempted to pernicious mmummt
In proportion as a ship is swift it wants a
strong helmsman; in proportion as a horse
is gay, it wants a stout driver; and these
people of exuberant nature will do well to
look at the reaction of all their amuse
ments. If an amusement sends you home
at night nervous so that you cannot sleep.
and you rise up in the morning, not be
cause you are slept oat, but because your
duty drags you from your slumbers, you
have been where you ought not to have
been. There are amusements that send a
man next day to his work bloodshot, yawn
ing, stupid, nauseated; and they are wrong
kinds of amusement. They are entertain
ments that give a man disgust with the
drudgery of life, with tools because they
are not swords, with working aprons be
cause they are not robes, with cattle be
cause they are not infuriated bolls of the
arena.
If any amusement sends yon home long
ing for a life of romance and thrilling ad
venture, love that takes poison and shoot
itself, moonlight adventures and hair-
bceadth escapes, yoo may depend upon it
that you are the sacrificed victim of
anctified pleasure. Our recreations are
intended to build up, and if they poll
down as to our moral or as to our physical
strength you may come to the conclusion
that they are obnoxious.
There is nothing more depraving, than
attendance upon amusements that are full
of innuendo and low suggestion. The yonng
man enters. At first he sits far back, with
his hat on and his coat collar up, fearful
that somebody there may know him. Sev
eral nights pass ov He takes off hia hat
earliar and puts his coat collar down. The
blush that first came into his cheek when
anything indecent was enacted comes no
more to his cheek. Farewell, yoong man!
You have probably started on the long road
which ends in consummate destruction.
The stars of hope will go out one by one,
until you will be left in utter darkness.
Bear yoa not the rush of the maelstrom, in
whose outer circle your boat now dances,
making merry with the whirling waters?
Bat you are being drawn in, and the gen
tle motion will become terrific agitation.
Yon cry for help. InvainI You pull at
the oar to put back, but the struggle will
notavaUl You will be tossed and dashed
and shipwrecked and swallowed in the
whirlpool that has already crushed im its
wrath ten thousand bulks. t
YOCNQ MAS BE OS TOOB SUAE.
Yoong men who have just come from
to city rec-dejace all do
STRONG
REV.
be
all around.
' Still further. Those amnsemunts art
wrong which lead you into expenditure be
yond your means. Money spent in recrea
tion is not thrown away. It is all folly for
bs to come from a place of amusement feel
ing that we have wasted our money and
time. Yoa may by it have made an in
vestment worth more than the transaction
that yielded you hundreds or thousands of
dollars. But how many properties have
been riddled by costly amusements.
The first time I ever saw the city it was
the city of Philadelphia I was a mere lad.
I stopped at a hotel, and I remember in the
eventide one of these men plied me with
his infernal art. He saw I was green. He
wanted to show me the sights of the town.
He painted the path of sin until it looked
like emerald; but I was afraid of trim. I
shoved back from the basilisk I made up
my mind he was a basilisk. I remember
how he wheeled his chair round in front of
me, and with a concentrated and diabolical
effort attempted to destroy my soul; but
there were good angels in the air that
night. It was no good resolution on my
part, but it was the all encompassing grace
of a good God that delivered me. Beware!
beware! oh, young man. "There is a way
that seemeth right unto a man, but the end
thereof is death."
The table has been robbed to pay the
club. The champagne has cheated the
children's wardrobe. The carousing party
has burned up the boy's primer. The
tablecloth of the corner saloon is in debt to
the wife's faded dress. Excursions that in
a day make a tour aronnd a whole month's
wages; ladies whose Uleume Dusmess it is
to "go shopping;" large bets on horses
have their counterparts in uneducated
children, bankruptcies that shock the
money market and appal the church, and
that send drunkenness staggering across
the richly figured carpet of the mansion
and dashing into the mirror and drowning
out the carol of music with the whooping
of bloated sons come home to break their
old mother's heart.
A SAD BTOKT.
I saw a beautiful home, where the bell
rang violently late at night. The son had
been off in sinful indulgences. His com
rades were bringing him home. They car
ried him to the door. They rang the hell
at 1 o'clock in the morning. Father and
mother came down. They were waiting
for the wandering son, and then the com
rades, as soon as the door was opened.
threw the prodigal headlong into the door
way, crying: "There he is, drunk as a fool!
Ha, hal" When men go into amusements
they cannot afford they first borrow what
they cannot earn, and then they steal what
they cannot borrow. First they go into em
barrassment, and then into lying, and then
into theft; and when a man gets as far on
aa that he does not stop short of the peni
tentiary. There is not a prison in the land
where there are not victims of unsanctified
amusements.
Merchant of Brooklyn or New York, is
there a disarrangement in your accounts?
Is their a leakage in your money drawer?
Did not the cash account come out right
last night? I will tell you. There is
young man in your store wandering on
into bad amusements. The salary you
give him may meet lawful expenditures,
but not the sinful indulgences in which he
has entered, and he takes by theft that
which you do not give him in lawful
salary.
How brightly the path of unrestrained
amusement opens. The young man says:
Now I am off for a good time. Never
mind economy. I'll get money somehow.
What a fine road! What a beautiful day
for a ride! Crack the whip, and over the
turnpike! Come, boys, fill high your
Drink! Jong life, health, plenty
of rides just like thisl" Hard working
men hear the clatter of the hoofs and look
up and say: "Why, I wonder where those
fellows get their money from! We have to
toil and drudge. They do nothing." To
these gay men life is a thrill and an excite
ment. They stare at other people, and in
turn are stared at. The watch chain
jingles. The cup foams. The cheeks
flush. The eyes flash. The midnight hears
their guffaw. They swagger. They jostle
decent men off the sidewalk. .. They take
the name of God in vain. They parody the
hymn tbey learned at their mother's knee:
and to all pictures of coming disaster they
cry out, "Who cares!" and to the counsel
of some Christian friend, "Who are you?"
Passing along the street some night you
hear a shriek in a grog shop, the rattle of
the watchman's club, the rush of the po
lice. What is the matter now? Oh, this
reckless young man has been killed in a
grog shop fignt. Carry him home to bis
father's house. Parents will come down
and wash his wounds and close his eyes in
death. They forgive him all he ever did,
although he cannot in his silence ask it.
The prodigal has got home at last. Mother
will go to her little garden and get the
sweetest flowers, and twist them into
chaplet for the silent heart of the wayward
boy, and push back from the bloated brow
the long locks that were once her pride.
And the air will be .rent with the agony.
The great dramatist says, "How sharper
than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thank
less child."
HFX AH KST THUfO.
I bo further, and say those are unchris
tian amusements which become the chief
business of a man's life. Life is an earnest
tiling. Whether we were born in a pal
ace or hovel, whether we are affluent or
pinched, we have to work. If you do not
sweat with toil, you will sweat with dis-
You have a soul that is to be trans
figured amid the pomp of a judgment
day; and after the sea has sung its last
chant and the mountain shall have come
down In an avalanche of a rock, you will
live and think and act, high on a throne
where seraphs sing, or deep in a dungeon
where demons bowl. In a world where
there is so much to do for yourselves, and
so much to do for others, God pity that
man who has nothing to do,
Your sports are merely " to an end.
They are alleviations and helps. The arm
of tail is the only arm strong enough to
bring up the bucket out of the deep well of
pleasure. Amusement is only the bower
where business and philanthropy rest while
on their way to stirring achievements.
Amusementsare merely the vinesthat grow
about the anvil of toil and the Uoasoming of
the hammers. Alas for the man who spends
his life in laboriously doing nothing, his
days in hunting up lounging places and
loungers, his nights in seeking out some
gas lighted foolery! The man who always
has on his sporting jacket, ready to hunt
for game in the -mountain or fish in the
brook, with no time to pray or work or
read, is not so' well off as the greyhoand
that runs by hia side, or the fly bait with
which he whips the stream.
A man woo does not work does not know
how to play. If God had intended us to
do nothing but laugh he would not have
given us shoulders with which to lift, and
hands with which to work, and brams-with
which to think. The amm-BmentB of life
are merely the orchestra playing while the
great tragedy of life piunges through its
five acts infancy, childhood, manhood, old
age and death. Then exit the last earthly
opportunity. Enter the overwhelming real
ities of an eternal world!
I go further, and say that all those
amusements are wrong which lead into
bad company. If you go to any place
where you have to associate with the in
temperate, with the unclean, with the
abandoned, however well they may be
dressed, in the name of God quit it. They
will despoil your nature. They will un
dermine your moral character. Tbey will
drop you whi-n .you are destroyed. They
will give not one cent to support your chil
dren when you are dead. They will weep
not one tear at your bunaL They will
chuckle over your damnation.
I bad a frk-nj at the west a rare friend.
He was one -.f the first to welcome me to
my new home. To fine personal appear-
auce he added a generosity, frank nes ntul
ardor of nature that made me love hiiu
like a brother. But I saw evil people gath
ering around him. They came up from
the saloons, from the gambling hells.
Tbey plied him with a thousand arts.
They seized upon his social nature, and he
could not stand the charm. Tbey drove
him on the rocks, like a ship full winged.
shivering on the breakers. I used to ad
monish him. I would say, Now I wis.i
you wo a Id quit these bad habits and be
come a Christian." "Oh," he would reply,
I would like to, I would like to, but I
around her pictures and toys and every
thing that could make her happy; and
then, as though hounded by an evil spirit,
he would go out to the -nflmiT,pr cup and
the house -of shame, like a fool to the cor
rection of the stocks.
A DEATHBED SCEXX.
I was summoned to his deathbed. I
hastened. I entered the room. I found
him, to my surprise, lying in full everyday
dress on the top of the couch. I pot out
my hand. He grasped it excitedly and
said, "Sit down, Mr. Talmage, right there."
I sat down. He said: "Iast night I saw
my mother, who has been dead twenty
years, and she sat just where you sit now.
It was no drem, I was wide awake.
There was no delusion in the matter. I
saw her just as plainly as I see yoo. Wife
I wish you would take these strings off ol
me. There are strings spun all aroond my
body. I wish you would take them off of
me." I saw it was delirium.
"Oh," replied his wife, "my dear, there
is nothing there, there is """"g there."
He went on, and said: "Just when you sit,
Mr. Talmage, my mother sat. She said to
me, 'Henry, I do wish you would do bet
ter.' I got out of bed, put my arms around
her, and said: 'Mother, I want to do bet
ter. I have been trying to do better.
Won't you help me to do better? You
used to help me.' No mistake ahoot it, no
delusion. I saw' her the cap, and the
apron, and the spectacles, just as she used
to look twenty years ago; but Ido wish you
would take these strings away. They
annoy me so. I can hardly talk. Won't
you take them away?" I knelt down aud
prayed, conscious of the fact that he did
not realize what I was saying. I got up. 1
said, "Good-by; I hope you will be better
soon." He said, "Good-by, good-by."
That night his soul went to the God who
gave it. Arrangements were made for the
obsequies. Some said, "Don't bring him
in the church; he was too dissolute."
"Oh," I said, "bring him. He was a good
friend of mine while he was alive, and I
shall stand by him now that he is dead.
Bring him to the church."
LAST SCENE OF AJL. j
As I sat in the pulpit and saw his body
coming up through the aisle I felt as if 1
could weep tears of blood. I told the peo
ple that day: "This man had his virtues,
and a good many of them. He had his
faults, and a good many of them, butfif
there is any man in this audience who is
without sin let him cast the first stone at
this corns lid." On one side the pulpit sat
that little child, rosy, sweet faced, as beau-
tuui as any nttie cnud that sat at your
table this morning, l warrant you. She
looked up wistfully, not knowing the full
sorrows of an orphan child. Oh, her coun
tenance haunts me today like some sweet
face looking upon us through a horrid
dream. On the other side of the pulpit
were the men who had destroyed him.
There they sat, hard visaged, some of them
pale from exhausting disease, some of
them flushed until it seemed as if the fires
of iniquity flamed through the cheeks and
crackled the lips. They were the men who
had done the work. They were the men
who had bound him hand and foot. They
had kindied the fires. They bad poured the
wormwood and gall into that orphan's cup.
Did they weep? No. Did they sigh re
pentingly? No. Did they say, "What a
pity that such a brave man should be
slain?" No, no; not one bloated hand was
lifted to wipe a tear from a bloated cheek.
They sat and looked at the coffin like vul
tures gazing at the carcass of a lamb whose
heart they had ripped out! I cried in their
ears as plainly as I could, "There is a God
and a judgment day!" Did they tremble?
Oh, no, no. They went back from the
house of God, and that night, though their
victim lay in Oakwood cemetery, I was
told that they blasphemed, ami tbey drank,
and they gambled, and there was not one
leas customer in all the houses of iniquity.
This destroyed man was a Samson in phys
ical strength, bnt Delilah sheared him, and
the Philistines of evil companionship dug
his eyei out and threw him into the prison
of evil habits. But in the hour of his death
he rose up aud took hold of the two pil
lared curses of God against drunkenness
and uncleaaness. and threw hhnaBtf tor
ward, until down upon him and hia com
panions 'there came the thunders of an
eternal catastrophe.
Again, any amusement that gives yon a
distaste for domestic life is bad. How
many bright domestic circles have been
broken up by sinful amasemental The
father went off, the mother went off, the
child went off. There are today the frag
ments before me of blasted households. Oh,
if you have wandered away, I would like to'
charm you back by the sound of that one
word, "home." Do you not know that
you have but little mere time texgive to do
mestic welfare? Do you not see, father,
that your children are soon to go out into
the world, and all the influence for good
you are to have over them yoo must have
now? Death will break in on your conju
gal relations, and alas! if you have to
stand over the grave of one who perished
from your neglectl
AT HIS WINK'S DXATHB-EO.
I saw a wayward husband standing at
the deathbed of his Christian wife, and I
saw her point to a ring on her finger and
heard her say to her husband, "Do you see
that ring?" He replied, "Yes, I see it."
"Well," said she, "do you remember who i
put it there?" "Yes," said he, I put it
there," and all the past seemed to rush
upon him. By the memory of that day
when, in the presence ot men and angels,
vou promised to be faithful in joy and sor
row, and in sickness and in health; by the
memory of those pleasant hoars when you
sat together in your new home talking of
a bright future; by the cradle and the joy
ful hour when one life was spared and an
other given; by that sick bed, when -the
little one lifted up the hands and called for
help, and you knew he must die, and be
put one arm around each of your necks and
brought you very near together in that
dying kiss; by the little grave in Green
wood that you never think of without a
rush of tears; by the family Bible, where,
amidst stories of heavenly love, is the brief
but expressive record of births and deaths;
by the neglects of the past, and by the
agonies of the future; by a judgment day,
when husbands and wives, parents and
children, in immortal groups, will stand to
be caught up in shining array or to shrink
down into darkness; by all that, 1 beg you
give to home your best affections.
Ah, my friends, there is an hour coming
when our past life will probably pass be
fore us in review. It will be our last hour.
If from our death pillow we have to look
back and see a life spent in sinful amuse
ment there will bo a dart that will strike
through our soul sharper than the dagger
with which Virgmius slew his child. The
memory of the past will make us quake
like Macbeth. The iniquities and rioting
through which we have passed will come
upon us, weird and skeleton as Meg Mar
rilies. Death, the old Shylock, vt-ill de
mand and take the remaining pound of
flesh, and the remaining drop of blood.
and npou our last opportunity for repent
ance and our last chance for heaven the
curtain will forever drop.
The Scotch Bemdto.
Of course he was fond of hia snuff, and
made free with the "mull," aa the Scot
terms his stiuff box, right and left. An
old beadle himself tells of having got a
sharp reproof from the pulpit because of
his too devoted attention in this particu
lar. "When the minister was preaching,"
says he, "a neighbor asked a snuff, and I
gave him my box. The minister saw us
and just leaned over the pulpit, looked
straight in our faces, and said, "There are
some of you more concerned about your
noses than abont your souls' salvation.
After that I was very careful never to pass
my box in church again." Gentleman's
Magazine.
Two Opinion of 8outliT.
One year when I was up in the lJ:e
country I was sketching at Rydal Water,
when a gentleman came up behind me.
and after watching me as I painted for
some time said, "The man who can do that
should have a name" I answered just as
he moved away, "The man who can see
that ought to have a name, too." He looked
very peculiar, and 1 asked some men whe
were working in a stone quarry close by
if they knew who be was. "Oh, yea," thej
said; "why, that's Souther, the poet. He's
funny fellow." "How funny." I askrd.
Why, he's mad," they answered. . a. ,
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