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THE PLAGUE OF LIES. 'FIFTH SERMON IN THE SERIES ON THE CITY'S PLAGUES. w Tklmage Freschea a Forcible Di- aoane Which Will Apply Equally Well . ! Country and City "He Shall Not Sure ly Die," Satan Told Eve, and He Lied. ' Nsw York, March 23. "The Plague of xses-- was selected by Ur. Talmage for the , saDject of the fifth of his discourses on The Plagues of These Three Cities" which . he preached today. Both at the morninir srrice in Brooklyn and at the evening service under the auspices of The Christian : Herald in New York the vast buildings were not large enough to bold more than soe-halj the crowd who came to hear the wrmon. ' His text' was Genesis iii.4, "Ye soau not sareiy die." That was a point blank lie, Satan told It to Eve to induce her to pat her semicir cle or white, beautiful teeth into a forbid- -den apricot or plum or peach or annle. jrovbubjijr muu Ul ur, UU, live, J USb take a bite of this and you will be omnipo tent and omniscient.. . You shall be as Soda." . Just opposite was the result. ..'It was the first lie that was ever told in bur world. . It opened the gate for all the false--boods that nave ever-alichted on this Dl&net. It introdnnvl a nlumii fr.hu-. U nations, the plague of lies. Far worse than the plaguusof Egypt, for they were MM Ka hank. t.A 1 U I . 1 " vaults l vim HilC, UUb villa MIX . Panics of the Hudson, on the banks of the -Jfawt river, on the banks of the Ohio, and y the Mississippi, and the Thames, and the Koine, and the Tiber, and on both sides of all "rivers. The Kcvntjan nlnonm l.iatvari Valj a few weeks, but for- six. thousand Tears has raged this plague of lies. There are a hundred ways of telling a lie. A man's entire life may be a false hood, while with his lips he may not once . i.IIPII I u fn . I 1 . . what is positively untrue, but afterward ssy "may be" softly. These departures from the truth are called "white lies;" bat there Is really no sach thing as a white lie. V. The whitest lie that was ever told was as' Mack as perdition. No inventory of pub lic crimes will be sufficient that omits this ' gigantic abomination. There are inen -high in church and state actually useful. ! 1 1 . .- who, upon certain subjects and iu certain spheres, are not at all to be depended upon far veracity. " Indeed, "there are many men -and women who have their notions of truthfulness so thoroughly perverted that mj iyj uul Auuw waen Liiey are lying. With many it is a cultivated sin; with same it seems a natural infirmity., I have . known people who seemed , to have 'been born liars. The falsehoods of their lives extended from cradle to grave.. Prevari cations, misrepresentation and dishonesty or Bpeecn appeared in . their first utter ances,' arid were as natural to them as any . of their infantile diseases, and were a sort of moral croup or spiritual scarlatina. ' But many have been placed in circum stances ' where this tendency has day by lay and. .hour by hour been called to larger development. They have gone from attainment to attainment and from class to class until they have become regularly The air of the city is filled with false hoods. They hang pendeut from the chandeliers of our finest residences; they crowd the shelves of some of our merchant princes; they fill the sidewalk; from; curb-, atone to brown stone facing; they cluster around the mechanic's hammer, and " blos som from the end of the merchant's yard stick, and sit in the doors of churches. Some call them "fiction." Some style them fabrication. " ; , You , might say that they were 'subterfuge, disguised, delusion, ro mance, evasion, pretense, fable, deception, xsisrepresentation; bat, as I am ignorant X anything to be gained by the hiding of a God defying outrage under a lexicog rapher's blanket, I shall call them what my father taught me to call them lies. VARIOUS SOBT8 OF LIES. .. I shall divide them into agricultural, mercantile, mechanical,' ecclesiastical and social lies. . ..... .. ,. r First, then, I will speak of those that "are score particularly agricultural. There is something in ' the perpetual: presence i of natural objects to make a man pure. 1 The trees never issue "false stock." ,; Wheat fields are always honest. Rye and oats sever move out in the night, not paying far the place they have occupied. . Corn shocks never make false assignments. .Mountain brooks 'are always .''current. '! The gold on the grain is never 'counterfeit The sunrise never flaunts ia false colors.. The dew sports only genuine diamonds. Taking farmers as a cluss,' I believe they AMtmt.hfnl a r. rl f.i.tn 1 : i i . u umuug JUiU.UWl hearted. But the regions surrounding our cities do not always send this sort of men to our markets. Day by day there creak through our streets and about the market r souses farm wagons that have not an konest spoke in their wheels or a truthful sivet from tongue to tailboard. . . . ; , ; During the last few. years there have seen times when domestic economy has foundered on the farmer's firkin. .Neither high taxes, nor the high price of dry goods, saw the exorbitancy of labor, could ex cuse much that the city has witnessed in the behavior of the yeomanry. By the quiet firesides in Westchester and Orange counties I hope, there .may be seasons of -deep reflection and hearty repentance.. Rural districts are accustomed to rail, at great cities as given up to fraud and every farm of unrighteousness, but our cities do not absorb all the abominations. Ourcitl sens have learned, the importance of 'not always trusting to the size and "style of ap ples in the top of a farmer's barrel as an i wrli r-m f 4 r n rf -mli a t- m,. Iu. .1 w AwuAiu inniivr' down, JManyrof our people are accustomed ; o watch and see how correctly a bushel of beets is measured, and there are not many . honest milk cans. . i r ' . .. -' , . Deceptions do "not ai cluslwrouna'aty" sails. When our cities sit down, and weep er theit ms, all the-' surroundiegjeoun tries o'ughi tocome in and' weep with them. There is often hostility on the part of pro ducers against traders, as thpugh h m . who raises the corn was' necessarily ' more honorable than the grain dealer, who poors it into his' mammoth bin. There ought to be no such hostility.- - Yet producers often think it no wrong to uiuitcli-away from the trader: and they say to the barerain maker. You get your-money easy.'" Do they get 1 It easy r IasX, those who in the quiet field, omiu ihuu gcir bunr uviug ejrca&oge places "with those who stand today amid the ex citements of , commercial life and see if they find it so very easy. x -i - iV '"' While, the farmer goes'; to sleep -with the assurance that his corn, and barley will be kftnmiu(s mi Due uiKuh muiueub uy luumeUb Adding to his revenue, the merchant tries t ? go to sleep conscious that that moment lk' cargo may be broken on the rocks or bunaged by the wave that sweeps"clearT across the hurricane deck, or that reckless aiwculators may that very hour be plotting some monetary revolution, or the burglars I j iryiut; nprii nis ssTe, or nis aeMora Cite , ing the ovcn. or his landlord .raising he rent, or me ares Kinaiing on the block th.-it contains all his estate. Easy! - Is it? God help the merchants! It is hard to have the palms of the hands blistered wit h outdoor work, but a more dreadful process when through mercantile anxieties the brain is consumed. - . MERCANTILE LIES. In the next place we notice mercantile lies, those before the counter and behind the counter. I will not attempt to specify the different, forms of commercial false hood. There are merchants who excuse themselves for deviation from truthful ness because of what they call commercial custom. In other words, the multiplica tion and universality of a sin turns it into a virtue. There have been large fortunes gathered where there was not one drop of unrequited toil in the wine;; not one spark of bad temper , flashing from ' the bronze bracket: bot one (Iron of -needle wnmnn'u heart blood in the crimson plush, while there are other great establishments in which there is hot one door knob, not od brick, not one trinket, not one thread of wee out nas upon it tne mars: or dishonor. What wonder if, some day, a band of toil that had been wrung and worn out ami blistered, until the skin came off should be rjljVWl' Otiinkt ' tl"m -Jllhmint ..... 1 1 r..,, i -. n u.ucuw n un . ,K.jyv, 1 , leaving its mark of blood four fingers and a kuuuiv or mat some uay, wanting tne halls, there should be a voice accostimr the occupant, saying, "Six cents for making a suin, anu, nying the room, another voice should say, "Twelve cents for: an army blanket." and the man shmlri fro t-i bIh at niijht; but : ever' and anon be aroused, uuiu, getting up on one eioow, be should shriek out, "Who's theref" ' One Sabbath night, in 'the vestibule' of mv church after fwrvirw. a wAmnn. fall .. convulsions. ' The doctor: said :'she needed medicine not so much an wnYr.t Kinf. , AO, As she began to revive in her delirium, she saiu gaspingly; "Hiignt cents! Bight cents: Eight cents! I wish I could get it done; 1 am so tired! 1 winh T rvtnlrf m.-. aimo but I must get it done! Eight cents! Eight cents!" We found afterward she was mak ing garments for eiirht rants nn inj that she could make but three of them in atlayl lbree times eight are twenty-four! Hear it, men and; women Who have com fortable homes! " Some of the worst villains tne employers or tbese women. They beat them down to the nnt. cheat them out of that. The woman must deposit a dollar or two before she gets the garments to work ;oiu . When the work is done' it is sharal'inanisjtev? t ' mf w. K rf 'fwvwif Vuv AU significant flaws picked out, and the wages rciuseu, auu sometimes tne uoilar deposited not given back. The Women's Protective union reports a case where one of these poor souls, findinir a nlarai whnm aha get; more wages, resolved to: change em ployers, and went to cet her tor mirb done. The employer savs. "I hear von are going to leave me." "Yes," she said, "and l am come to get what you owe me." He made no answer. She RAld. "Are vnh nnt going to pay me?" , "Yes," he said, "I will pay you; and be kicked her down the stairs. There are thntiftnnHa tf fiwt-nna ; commercial, spheres that are throughout righteous. God will let his favor rest upon everv scroll, even nirt.nm) mil traceried 'vHnd'owa'hd the. joy that flashes i rum tau iignts, aau s no wars xrom the mu sic and dances in the children's nnixir foot- pattering through the hall, will utter the ixuKruuiiuug oi men ana tne approval of J tfiEKk IS Q Jf EKD OF FALSBIIOOD. ' A merchant f-n ti tx f ho iDaf i m thoroughly honest. There is never 'any need of falsehood. Ver hnitf non n-sn day by day, hour by hour, utter what they know to be wrong. You say that you are selling at less than cost. If so, then it . is right to say it. But did that cost yon less than what you ask for it? If not, -then you nave laismea. ion say that that article cost vou. twentv-fivA dnllsrs niH in Tf so, then all right. If it did not, then you . Suppose you are Is purchaser. You are "beAt.inir f?nwrt" ta immla r-1 VAn . 1 . .. . rrt ww oaj buai that article for which five dollars is charged s not wortn more tnan lour. Is it worth no more than four dollars? Then all right. If ' it be worth more. anH fnr t.ko nf getting it for less han its value, you wil- luiijr ueprrciate it, you nave lalBlneo, : xou may call it a sharp, trade The'-recbrding angel . writes it down on the ponderous tomes of eternity, "Mr. So-and-so; mer chant orf Water street or in Eighth street or in State street, or Mrs. So-and-so, keep ing house on Beacon street or on Madison avenue or! Kittenhouse square or Brook lynJ HeightS'-or Brooklyn -Hill,, told one falsehnrwl ' Vlll Tnann....;... t I 1 ; a . -.. " J mu0uc& 4 M lUBI lilll' cant because relatipg to an insignificant purchase. .You would despise the man -v. - . .aokcuu HM,mJnis great matter in which the city or the whole country was concerned; bat this is only a box of buttons, or a row of pins, or a case Of . needles. 1 Be not dnwimil Th purchased may be so small you can pat it iu vuur pucicet, doi tne sin was bigger than ,the. Pyramids, and the echo of the dishonor will J reverberate ' through all the mountains of eternity. lou throw on youc counter some sneci- mens of. handkerchiefs. Trair asks: Vis that all silk? No cotton in it " You answer. "It is all silk." Was it-, nil silk?. If so, all. right. But was it -partly cotton? ' Then' you have falsified. More over, you lost by the falsehood. The custo mer, though he may live at Lynn or Doyles- town or IPnucrhlreenaie urill finl .v.... . . o 1 , - - " .uu wuu bum, you have defrauded him, and next spring ucu iin agaiu comes snoppmg ne will look at vnnr aicrn anH oav. "T wfll . . - nu uw HI J theref That is the place where I got that handkerchief.-" So that" by that one dis honest bargain you . picked your., own pocket andinsulted the Almighty. , ' t vv ouia you uare to mae an estimate; of day told by hardware men and clothiers and f riiit daaler .niTflrTr mxHa .ki;.. ments-and Importers- and jewelers and lumoermen ana coal mercnants and sta tionera and tobacconists? Lies about sad-' A lu Ltwvnlf KnWf V. . V. V. - . . . carpets, About gloves, "about coats, about i i . , . . . . aumai, auouii. xuus, aoou. watcues, about carriages,' about boolurtbOut-everything. In the name of the Lord Almighty, I ar raign commercial 'falsehoods as one of the Kxroi.miL jing;uc in dty ana town. - . .r MBCTAMCAL LD13. " " ( . In thc.next la'ce h notice mechanical lies. There is.no classbf'men who admin ister mora to the welfare of the city than artisans. " Te their band we must look for'' the building that shelters us, for the,, gar ments that uslothe us, for ihe car that car ries us. They wield ia widespread influ ence. There is 'much, derision of what is called "Mnscular Christianity," but in the latter day of the world's prosperity t think that the Christian will be mnscular. We have a right , to expect of those stalwart., men' of toil the hicrhest nnsaihle intAmntv lsiivrtf them answer nil rtitr ii-m ; - vw. .AV.Mw&JUS, and stand at the front of religious and. pniiantnropic enterprises. , But this class, like the others that I have named, has in it those who lack In the element of verac ity. They cannot all be trusted. In times when the demand frw lakn, io " . . u l, i ca, it is impossible to meet the demands of the public, or do work with that promptness and perfection that would at other times oe possiDie. But there are mechanics whose word cannot be trusted at an v time . XI m,... has a right to promise more work than he can do. There are mechanics who say that they will come on Monday, but the-- do not come until Wednesday. You put work in their hands that they tell you shall be completed in ten days, but it is thirty. There have . been houses built of which it might be said that every nail driven, every font nt nlsstrino- nt,t-.'nn J ... t - " siwij jrwu Ul pipe laid, every shingle hammered, every murutreu, uuuiu ten oi laisencod con nected therewith. There are men attempt ins to do ten or fifteen ' nieras nt n-v n,hn have not the time or strength to do nor; tu&u nve or six pieces, out by promises never fulfilled keen all the nnHortuVin within their own grasp. ' This is what they can "nursing" the job. TTntir mnf.h rnnifrtji Mo .. 3 i n. to God a mechank wnnhl nave if - v. n.nm ised only so much as he expected to be able to bo. society nas no ngnt to ask of you impossibilities. You cannot always cal culate . correctly, and you may fail because jrvi oiuw t"" netp tnat you antici nate. Rnt nrtur T am' ,noabin Af I ; l f ul making of nromises that von lr rimer vmi cannot keep.' Did yott say that that shoo snouia oe mended, that coat repaired, those bricks laid, that harness, sewed, that door grained, that spout fixed or that window tcuuwu uy oaturaay, Knowing that you would neither be able to do it yourself nor get any one else to do it? Then, before God and man' you are a liar. You may say wiat it mates no particular difference, and that if vnil . hnt nM fhn tWitk 1 .J have lost the job, and that . people expect to be: disappointed, but. that excuse will not answer. There is a voice of thunder rolling among the drills and planes and Shoe lastR and shears whirh anva A 11 I : shall have their part in the lake that bnrn- ein with lire and brimstone.": . ... KfidJCSI AHTinAT. I ICQ I next notice ecclesiastical lies that is, falsehoods told forthAnnmntuinf rl ........ ing churches and sects, or for the purpose oi uepieting xnem. ; xnere is no use in askinir manvaCalvinisl-. whnt-. un Anv,inson believes, for he will be apt to tell you that the Arminian believes that a man can con vert himself; or to ask the Armiuian what tne uaivinist believes, lor he will tell you that the Calvlnist believes that God made some men just to damn them. ' There is no peed in asking a peedo-Baptist' what a Bap tist believes', for he will be apt to say that the Bantist helieves1 -i mYTieminn tr h.iwai. lively necessary to salvation. It is almost impossible ror one denomination of Chris tians, without "prejudice or misrepresenta tion, to state the sentiment of an-nnnonintr sect.' If a man-hates 'Presbyterians, and you ass: nun wnat Tes by tenans believe, he Will tell VOtl that thpv halwnthat tkJ are infants in hell a span long! ; It is strange, also, how . individual churches will sometimes make misstate Tnent. Ahnilt. nf hP iniliviilnul T - - - ..... .uukucs. lb is especially so in regard to falsehoods told wita reierence- to prosperous enterprises. As long as a church is feeble, and the sing ing is discordant, and the minister, through the poverty of the church, must go with a threadbare coat, and here and there a wor- ahiner sits in I.Ha orwl nn... 1. n n -it 1 . . . , uaui an the seat to himself,- religious sympathizers w. uvuw cuurcnes win say,: . w nat a pity!" But let a ?reat dnv nf nrmnAntvAAma ...i even minintAraf t.h fnanal fl.n nnnV. . - v " liv, W be rejoiced at the largeness and extent of .1 a , ue wuri, uenounce. ana misrepresent and falsify, starAng the suspicion in regard to themselves that, the reason they do not like the corn is because it is not ground iu their own mill r' Mnnr Inni, Wna ma .. u .. 1 1 - " ' " avu wu.v&v - ouau learn to be fair in our religious' criticisms! The keenest jealousies on earth are church jealousies. .The field of Christian work is so large that there is no heed that our hoe t. at li. - n uuiuiea uit. ",': SOCIAL' LIES. - ' ' ' 'Next ' f ''sneak nf sninl ' ' V,..; 1 makes much ' of 'society' insincerel Vnn know not what tq, believe. When people asK you to come you do not know whether or not thev want vnn tjV mma ' wtian send- their ' regards I' yoa . do" not know whether' it is an expression of their heart or an external civility.' We have learned to take almost everything at a discount. Word is sent "Not at home," when they are' 1 only 'too 1 lazv ' to dress thnnisel v They say,'"The furnace has just gone but," when in truth they have had ' no fire in it. all winter. Tbev aDolocrize for the nn. usual barrenness of their table when they never live: any better. 'They decry their most 'luxurious entertainments' to win a shower of approval. ' They apologize for their appearance, as though it were nn nsual. - when alwavn nt- hnme V:!,' IA.i- just so. They would make you believe that some nice saetcn on tne wall was the work of a master painter: "It was an heirloom, and Once hunor on the wn1la-if - n : Msttn - and a duke gave it to their grandfather." w nen tne tact is that painting was made by a man '"down east," and baked so as to make it look old. and sold with., others for ten dollars a .dozen. People who will lie about nothing else will lie about a pict ure. On a smnll fnnnme wa m ti at. mota the world bels;ve that we are affluent, and our lue oecomes a cheat, a counterfeit and a shams ' Few persons are reallv natnraJ. When l say this I do not mean to slur cultured manners. It is right that we should have more admiration fnrtKABPnlntnM mKiA than for the unknown block of the quarry. From many circles in life insincerity has driven out vivacity and. enthusiasm. "A frozen' 'dignity .instead', floats about1 the room, and iceberg .grinds against iceberg. You must not laugh outright; it is vulgar. You must Kittile. YOu must not flash ramrt-' ly across the room; you must elide. ''There is a round of bows and grins and flatteries and obs! and' ahs! and ' simpering and nambypambyis'm a world' of Which i not worth one - eoodv''rou'nd. ' honest heal nt laughter; Prom such a hollow round the tortured' gto'b retirea- at th nf -' evenine" ' and admires his Wt. tk.t-'iw. l- enjoyed himself! What a rouncjl of insincerities many peo ple run in order ' to win the' favor of the work! I Their life is s shahi and their death an unspeakable sadness. :cAlas for the poor mwenues wneu me irost son&es tbem!L 7'. COMPAIUaON Or ,UVE8. , I. ! J ' Tn'rUnare'the life a.tA naU'a4:iAk&' Z once, a bTefming in vnti lMiwhAU T not.know that she was'ever offered the imuu iu uiocTuigQ. one nvou ngie, tnat untrammeied' she 'mbzht he eva-rfaiWlvn blessihfr. Whenever the sink- wmi - Vu visited, Xtf' "the- poor to be provided with uimu, aire wtuib w ii.il a Diessmg. one could pray, or sing "Rock of Aires" for anv sick pauper who - asked ' her. As' she. got older ', there were days when she was a lit tle sharp, but for the most part auntie was a sunbeam just the one for Christmas eve. J She knew" better than any one elan how to fix things. Her every prayer, as God beard it, was full of everybody who had trotfVie. . The brightest things to all the house dropped from her fingers. She had peculiar notions, but the grandest no tion she ever had was to make you happy. She dressed well auntie always dressed well; but her highest adornment was that of a meek and quiet spirit, which, in the sight of God, is of great price. When she died you all gathered lovingly about her, and as yon carried her out to rest the Sun day school class almost covered the coffin with japonicas, and the poor people stood at the end of the alley, with their aprons to their eyes, sobbing bitterly; and the man of the world said, with Solomon, "Her price was above rubies," and Jesus! as unto the maiden in Judea commanded, "I say unto thee, arise!" ' J But to many, through 'insincerity, this life is a masquerade ball. ( As at such en tertainments gentlemen and ladies appeal in the dress of kings or queens, mouutain bandits or clowns, and at the close of the dance throw off their disguises, so in this dissipated life all unclean piiiitiious move in mask. Across the floor t hey trip mer rily. The lights sparkle alou.r t he wall or drop from the ceiling a cohort of fire! The music charms. The diuinoixiu flitter. The feet bound. Gemmed hands stretched out clasp gemmed bunds. Dancing feet respond to tianciarr feet. Gleaming brow bends to gleaming brow. On witii the dunce! Flash and rustle and laughter and immeasurable merry making! Bat the languor of death comes over the limbs and blurs the siht. ' Lights lower! Floor hollow with sepul chral echo. ..Music saddens into a wail. Lights lower! : The maskers can hardly now be seen.' Flowers exchuiige their fra grance for a sickening odor, such as comes from garlands that have lain In vaults of cemeteries.' Lights lower! - Mists fill the room. Glasses rattle as though shaken by sullen thunder. Sighs seem caught among the curtains. Scarf falls fmm the ahmtM.. of beauty a shroud! Lights lower! Over . 1 . .. .. 1 : i i ' - , .... supper,)' uuarus, id uance oi death, ttlide iealousiea. diaamuiintmonta 1at- .1.. - ' IT I ...J, vu spair. Torn leaves and withered garlands only half hide the ulcered feet The stench of smokine lamn wicks al Choking damps. Chilliness. Feet still. Hands folded. Eyes shut. Voices hushed. Lights out! - - : Story of a Black Suake. ; , Mr. Lonis Meritrold. a Well trtMn U.n, York' caterer, is fnntl nf tolling nf . i "n ie;5 black suake that was a fast friend of his ior many montns. "Mv first ArailntntAnni witk T. - 1. 1 " ' " VUO BUdKC, said he, ''came about when I went on a sol itary iismng excursion. : i was in the habit of taking a small punt on a stream in the northern part ' of the state. After fishing i,u stream x always moored the punt in the same nlnse ttnH utunnini.) u . i , cuuurv pro ceeded to clean the fish that I had caught. rv uiie tuus engaged tms black snake came from beneath a rock, and after quietly looking? me nver nrnratrliM4 t-. n,niA , " - " w uhuo ujeoi of the refuse from the fish. He then re tired. The next day I found him waiting for me when I returned, and after that we became great friends. It was not long be fore he would glide into the punt, and coil- inif himself tin' m flahinr . T never did anything to 'offend him and lie , One dav I wm nnahla ts o-nn v, - : but gave directiqpis to two friends who de- uaJ iibuiuwnere to nna the pant. CT aai u aaVU AAA J 11 1CUU llllt? snake. As they approached the boat thev yvC uuraucu to see tne large reptile glid ing toward them. ' In fear 'and anger one of them raised a large stone, and dropping it crushed the life out of my whilom com panion. When T heard of it I was angry and sorehearted for a lnnir time i loss of my curious pet." New York News. " Ciamini In a Cemetery. - A cemetery seems a nneer nln in k;.k . - ; X .u nuivu to set up a gambling hell, but those who woo fortune at Squirrel Hill, PaV evident ly care little for their surroundings. At any ' rate 'Robert'-Waltero - .u -- .awu yji LUC German Evangelical Lutheran' Cemetery lilin -l..tl !1 - a jimi itji tut uuense oi maintaining a gambling house in the graveyard." Walters lives in the dwelling at the cemetery gate. For mouths past he has been using his house as 'a resortl'nermitt.inc .,.k . i o ouu amcB as faro, poker and a strii-tlv Oermw time styled "hip." He was paid a percent age of the money handled, and in addition, it is alleged, disposed of strong liquid re freshments to his iraestn Often t-K.. were a ; score or more of flayers in' the ' The existence of thn 'Vumo" ered ih a pecaliar manner. - One Sunday uuci-B was a uispute ana some or Walters' customers bought their own 'supply of beer. and takinir iirva nlimnn tk proijerty proceeded to have a good time. rr tutcrs uuiea tne ponce, who arrested the men. Upon' beiiig 'arraic-tted thev fined and ' overheard to - remark that if Walter's didn't naV their fine, tw wnnu tell something to his disadvantage. The officers kept auiet until Waltem ward and settled. He was arrested, and in default stood committed., . s ; Hameleaa nl ta Prim.., When a "woman c?-etn stnw-Ari . i. . .t n c vuvu ..UVUVW11- Ward Way. She: irptM mnnv Irinb- r - - 1 J r-. nuu ictf boosts. If the tale told hv A nnie Tnn New York city, is true, she is more sinned Binniug.- csne said that sh" could not Dav her rant " I w AaUU" lord, to save the cost of eviction proceed ings, got an officer to arrest her. ) She was chanced with dianrrlerlir to work for ten days at Bellevue hospital. u.wiuai bu . loaoa ner Home, occu pied by strangers anil linr tn.in Another arrest, followed,; the Charge this wdiier ui tueit : preierred . by. a Bellevue official, who mi DUO1 Tl 1 1 i I i i it , ued at one dollar. -A woman who said she saw Annie take the goods failed to testify, but the nriannar mwtviul omuA. - . wvrem MUWJUCts of ten days nevertheless. . , v , '"-,' r-. :.T:;-i-!:-:f: Cot or a Mas's Ontnt. ; ; "What does it mat t-rtftt . mn.. . . -- UU. UUW I 1 asked of a dealer in mintln.n. ju' ing goods. :: !. ;-.'.' : ..; t-:'..T.-! t...fd-..'ii " WeiK that is Kartl hn. ;-. A- .! buys a fine necktie may like cheap sus nendern. iuMl-ftnnth-wUL.i:v. - . else bheap1. That is the way it is with most ' purchasers, o A man who wants' to" stock his wardrobe iTmt . nefnTri .4...i spenas anywhere between 465 and $150 and mau oi ine ultra elite may repre sent feiorhteen dnllnrc mv. n i.. furnishing goods- from his hosiery to bis enll t T : m t. . . ; I ;.i : " ' '""' "-HU Flrat Bible. 1' .-'.5 wix A down easter purchased a Bible, which was quite an event In 1 his life and that of his neighbors. ' He informed his friends of his purchase, stating that "he had got a PoIIywog Bible with the Hypocrat-y in it." It was quite a tune before his friends de cided that he meant a Polyglot contain in e the Apocrypha. Providence Journal. -- - Within the nast fifteen mnntl.a mnm than 4,000 tenants have been evicted, many oy iorce, m tne city of London. The is here and has come to stay. It hopes to win its way to public favor by ener gy, industry and merit; ana to this end we ask that, vnn i c fo-; j it satisfied with its sunnort. - The Daily i four pages of six columns each, will be issued every eveniner. exepnt. RnnHn and will be delivered in the city, or sent by mail for the moderate sum of fifty cents a month. Its Obi will be to advertise the resources of the city, and adjacent country, to assist in developing our industries, in extending and opening up new channels for our trade, in securing aii open river, and in helping THE DALLES to take her prop er position as tne, , Leading City of The paper,, both daily and weekly, will be independent in politics, and in its criticism of political- matters, as in its nanaiing pi local affairs, it . will be JUST, FAIR AND IMPARTIAL "We will endeavor to eive all tWp lo cal news, and we ask that your criticism of bur obj ect and course: be formed from the contents of the -" m . , .sr. rasn assertions ot outside parties. THE WEEKLY, sent to any address for $1:86 per year. It will contain from four to six eight column pag'es, and we shall ' endeavbr to make it the equal of the best: Ask your Postmaster for a, copy, or address. THE JRONICLE PUB. CO. Office, N. WCor. THE DALLES. The Grate City of the Inland Empire is situated at the head of navigation on the . Middle Col-amhia, and is a thriving, prosperous city,- -. - ::-r-:i : :- its termtory.' ;. It is the supply city for, an extensive and rich agri cultural an t grazing country, its trade reaching as far south as Summer Ijiake,' a, distance Vof oyer twe hundred. miles,,;;'- ,V "" r. -7 .;;,, ,: : ...... i , THE LARGEST WOOt MARKET. . ,a The rich grazing country - along the eastern slope of the the .Cascades : furnishes pasture for thousands of sheep,, the wool fromr which' finds 'm here: "i The Dalles1 js;; the largest; original -wool shipping point in- America, , about .5,000,000 pounds being shippedst;y;ear; .; - - q r The salmon fisheries, are the.flnesrt on the ColTi-mbin. yielding this year a revehue of $1,560000 which can and "will be inore' than dbubled in; the near future. . f The products of the beautiful' Klicfcltal ' valley find market here, ad;the has this year filled the warehouses, places to, overflowiiLg with. : T v:.ri;.viTS;WEAirH-1 : . v It is the richest city of Its size OrttlLe coast.7 and its money- is scattered oyer and more farming country than crcy m niastern uregorij, ; : r.: -j -wc.: , -''Its situation is; unsurpassedl Its climate "delight ful! ; Its possibilities' incalculable! Its resources un limited! And on these corner stones she stands. course a generous eets Eastern Oregon. .1. D paper, and" not from .! -0-. 7: andall available storage their products. . . s-.; :: is being used to develop, is tributary to any other.