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
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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.