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A DELICATE SUBJECT,
How It Was Handled by Hot. T.
Do Witt Talmage, D. D.
••In ths Matter of Church Attendance,
Should the Wife On with the Husband,
or the Husband Oo with tha
Wife?”—A Creat Question.
Broorlts, N Y.. Nov. 28 —Mr Talmage
preached this morning on the subject:
“Should the Wife Go to Church with Her
Husband, or the Husband with His Wife I’’
He took for his text Genesis 13: 8-9: “Let
there be no strife, I prav thee, between me
and thee, and between my herdmen and thy
herdmen; for we be brethren. Is not the
whole land before thee?” The sermon wa»
as follows:
Uncle and nephew, Abram and Lot. both
pious, both millionaires, and with such
large flocks of bleating sheep and lowing
cattle that their herdmen got into a fight,
perhaps about the tjest pasture, or the best
water privilege, or because the cow of one
got hooked by the horns of the other. Not
their poverty of opportunity, but their
wealth, was tho cause of controversy be
tween these two men. To Abram, the glo
rious old Bedouin sheik, such controversy
seemed absurd. It was like two ships
quarreling for soarooni in the middle of the
Atlantic Ocean. There was a vast reach
of country, corn-fields, vineyards, harvests
and plenty of room in Illimitable acreage.
“Now,7' says Abram, “Let us agree to dif
fer. Here are mountain districts, swept by
the tonic and 9ca breeze, or with wide reach
ing prospect, or there is the plain of the
Jordan, with tropical luxuriance. You may
have either.”
Lot. who was not as rich as Abram, and
might have been expected to take the sec
ond choice, made the first selection, and
with a modesty that must have made
Abram smile, said to him: “You may
have the rocks and the fine prospect; I will
take the valley of the Jordan, with all its
luxuriance of corn-fields, and the river to
water the flocks, and the genial climate,
and the wealth immeasurable.'7 So tho
• controversy was forever settled, and great
souled Abram carried out the suggestion of
the text—“Let there be no strife, I pray
thee, between thee and me, and between
my herdmen and thy herdmen. Is not tho
whole land before thee?'7
ill i ii m, tut iiiai 4 uui it i i uu iuih7
teenth century, and in this beautiful land,
which was called America, after Americus
Vespucius, but ought to have been called
Columbia, after it* discoverer, Columbus,
we have a wealth of religious privilege and
opportunity that is positively bewildering.
Churches of all styles of creeds, and of all
styles of governments, and all styles of
worship, ami all styles of architecture.
What opulence of ecclesiastical opportuni
ty ! Now, while in desolate regions there
may be only one church, and it must lie
that or nothing, in the opulent districts of
this country there is such a profusion that
there ought to be no difficulty in making a
selection. No fight about vestments, or
between liturgical or non-liturgical adher
ents. or os to baptismal modes, or a handful
of water as compared with a riverful. If
Abram prefers to dwell m the heights,
where he can only get a sprinkling from
the clouds, let him consent that Lot have
all the Jordan in which to immerse him
self. “Let there be no strife. J pray thee,
between me and thee, and between my
herdmen and thy herdmen. Is not the
whole load before thee!''
Especially is it unfortunate when families
allow, at the breakfast, or dinner, or tea
table, angry discussion as to which is the
best church or denomination, one at one
end of the table saying he could not endure
the rigid doctrines of Presbyterianism; one
at the other end responding that she never
could stand the forms of Episcopacy; and
one at one side of the table saying lie did
not understand how anybody could bear the
noise in the Methodist Church, and another
declaring all the Baptists bigots. Thero
ore hundreds of families hopelessly split on
ccclesiasticisin, and in the middle of every
discussion on such subjects there is a kind
ling of indignation, and it needs some old
father Abram to come and put his foot oil
the loaded fuse before the explosion takes
place, and say: “Let there be no strife,
I pray thee, between me and thee, and be
tween my herdmen oral thy herdmen. Is
not the whole land before tiieel"
I undertake a subject never before under
taken in any pulpit, fur it is an exceedingly
delicate subject, and if not rightly handled
might give serious offense; but 1 approach
it without the slightest trepidation, for I
am sure 1 have the Divine direction in the
matters I propose to present, It is a tre
mendous question, asked all over Christen
dom, often asked with tears and sobs and
heart breaks, and involving the peace of
families, the eternal happiness of many
souls: In the matter of church attendance
should the wife go with the husband, or the
husband go with the wife!
First, remember that all the evangelical
Churches have enough truth in them to
save the soul and prepare us for happiness
on earth and in Heaven. I will go with
you into any well-selected theological
library, and 1 will show vutt sermons from
ministers in all denominations that set
forth matt as a sinner and Christ as a de
liverer from sin and sorrow. That is the
whole Gospel. Got that into your soul and
you are fitted for the here and the here
after. The world has twenty-six letters in
its alphabet, and there are only two letters
in the Gospel alphabet—K and C'; S stand
ing for our sin, C standing for Christ, our
rescue, blessed be His glorious name for
ever! in any church where you can
thoroughly'learn these two letters, and all
they stand for, ycu ought to be edified and
happy.
i acre are umercnces, w e uuiriii, aim
some denominations we like bettor than
others. But suppose three or lour of us
make solemn agreement to meet each other
a week from now in Chicago on important
business, and one goes by ttie New York
Central railroad, another by the Erie rail
road, another by the Pennsylvania rail
road, another bv the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad. One goes this way, because the
mountains are grander; another lakes this,
because the cars are more luxurious; an
other that, because the speed is greater;
another takes the other, because he lias
long been accustomed to that route and all
the employes are familiar. So fur as our
engagement is concerned it makes no dif
ference if we only get there. Now, any
one of the innumerable evangelical denom
inations, if you practice its teaching —al
though some of their trains run ou a broad
gauge and some ou a narrow—will bring
you out at the city of the New’ Jerusalem.
It being evident that you will be safe m
any of the evangelical denominations, I
proceed to remark, first: If one of the mar
ried couple ue a Christian and the other
not, the one a Christian is hound to go any
where to a church where the unconverted
companion is w'illing to go, if he or she will
go to no other. You, of the connubial part
nership, are a Christian; you are safe for
the skies; then it is your first duty to se
cure the safety of your life-time associate.
‘Is not the everlasting welfare of your wife
impenitent, of your husband impenitent, of
more imjiortunee than your church rela
tionship! Is not the residence of your com
panion for the next quadrillion of years a
mightier consideration to yuu than the
gratification of your ecclesiastical taste for
forty or fifty years I
A man or a woman that would stop
half a miuute to weigh preferences as to
whether he or she had better go with the
unconverted companion to this or that
church or denomination has no religion at
all, and never lias had. and I fear never
will have. You are loaded up* with what
you suppose to be religion, but you are
like Captain Frobisher, who brought back
from his voyage of discovery a ship load of
what he supposed valuable minerals, yet,
instead of being silver and gold, were noth
ing but common stones of the field, to be
hurled out finally as useless. Mighty God!
In ull Thy realm is there one man or
woman professing religion, yet so stolid,
unfitted, so far gone unto death, that
there would be any hesitancy in surrender
ing all preferehoes before such an oppor
tunity of salvation and heavenly reunion?
If yon, a Christian wife, are an at
tendant upon thia Brooklyn Taber
nacle, and your unconverted husband
does not come here, because he does not
like its preacher, or its music, or its arch
itecture. or its uncomfortable crowding,
and goes not to any house of worship, but
would go if you would accompany him
somewhere else, change your church rela
tions. Take you hymn-book home with
you to-day. Say good-bye to your friends
in the neighboring pews, and go with him
to any one of a hundred churches, till his
soul is saved and he joins you in the march
to Heaven. More important than that
ring on the third finger of your left hand it
is, that your Heavenly Father command
the angel of mercy concerning your hus
band at his conversion, as in tiie parable of
old: “Put a ring on hi« hand.”
No letter of more importance ever came
to the great city of Corinth, situated on
what was called the Bridge of the Sea.”
and glistening with sculpture, and gated
with a style of brass the magnificence of
which the following ages have not been
able successfully to imitate, and overshad
owed by the Acro-Cerinthus, a fortress of
rock two thousand feet high—I say, no let
ter ever came to that great city of more im
portance than that letter in which Paul
puts the two startling questions: “What
knowesl thou, oh wife, whether thou shall
save thy husband? Or how knowesl thou,
oh man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?”
The dearest sacrifice on the part of the one
is cheap if it rescue the other. Hotter go to
the smallest, weakest, most insignificant
church on earth, and be co-parttiers in eter
nal bliss, than pass your earthly member
ship in a most gorgeously attractive ciiureh
while your companion stays outside of
evangelical privilege. Better have the
drowning saved by a scow or sloop than let
him or her g.< down while you sail by in the
gilded cabins of a Britannic or a Groat
E istern.
K.vond: If both of the married couple bo
Christians, but one is so naturally con
structed that it is impossible to enjoy tho
services of a particular denomination, and
the other is not so sectarian or punctilious,
let the one less particular go with the other
who is very particular. As for myself, 1
feel as much at. homo in one denomination
of evangelical Christians as another, and l
think I must have been born very near tho
11,,.- [ liL-n tlm uilimin rnll 111- Fms.’O
pal lilurgy. ami I like tlio spontaneity of
tin- Methodists, and I like the importance
given to the ordinance of baptism by the
Baptists, and 1 like tin* freedom of t he (.'on
greg.iannalists, and I like the government
and the sublime doctrine of tin* Presbyte
rians, and 1 like many of the others just as
good ns any I have mentioned, amt 1 could
happily live, and die, and preach, and ba
buried from any of them.
But others are born with so stout and un
bending and inexorable a liking for som”
denomination Unit it is a positive necessity
they have th ■ ndvantage of that one. What
th”V were intend.' I to he in occlesiasticisir
was writ ten in tin sides of their cradle, if tin
fuller and m ither ha l eyes keen enough tc
s it. Tl; y would not stop crying until
they had put into their hands as plaything!
a Westminster Catechism or the Thirty
nine Article*. The whole current of theii
t- mperaircmt and thought and character
rum into one sect of religionists as uat
ura'.ly ns the James river into the Cliesa
peak It would Ini a torture to such per
il .ns to bo any thing outside of that one
church. Now.let the wife or husband who is
m i s . ci'ii •! reeled sacrifice the milder prof
,.. > f<.i- the tinomore inflexible and rigor
oas. 1.. . 111 - grape vine follow tli ? rugosities
i: ’..I *'Densities of the oak or hickory. Abram
t'. ' I- A A i- r in flocks of Christian grace
sh " I ' say to I. it, who is built on a smaller
relic: *• Let there he no strife. I pray
tli ■ .''a nit mil thee, and between
lay riCr tin- .! an 1 illy herdliieii. Is not the
whole hind before time?'’ As jam can h«
cd f t and happy miy where, go with youi
C‘ mp.ii i .• t » tlie church to which he r.i
So ■ must go nr be miserable.
'f i1 rd : li ti ithth • married oonple are very
str. rig in t!i or secturiani ims, let them ut
ten.l th •itiff went, churches preferred. It
is not n "t'l'vui'y that you attend the sam a
church. l’t'oeion is between your con
s': u'o and your (t el. Like Abram ami
1. t. agree to diif-r. When on Sabbath
in. , ing you eotr.e out of th? door of your
li ..i i-tg ■; for, nn I one g >ei one way ami
the «t'; r tii- other, heartily wish each
oiii 'r a g i d s Tin in and a tim ? of profita
ble de, 'A m, an l v.'Y’ii ym ;* • t again at
tic* iiot.o'l.iy repast 1 ' it heevident each to
e.i di. an i to you • cUddiv i and to th ? li re l
h" p. • ha- i ou have both Ii ;en on the Mount
of Tran oigu rat ion, although you went by
diff■•rent p itlis, and that, you have both
been fca by th? Bread of Lite, though
lai.';? led by diff'rent hand*, in different
tray • and bake i in diff irent ovens.
‘•But how about tlio children?” 1 am
often ask -u bv hundreds of parents. Let
them a iso make their elton • , Tli y will
grow up with reverence for both of the de
nornimt'ions represented bv father and
mother, if you, by holy lives, commend
tie ;o itcmi.oinations, tf the lather lives
tli • it «tt "' 1 te. they will have the more fa
orebl - i pinion of his denomination. If the
tc :h ■ l'.vt r. the b -ttcr life, they will have
the in t'. '.'or.iliie rpinion of her denom
ination. And softie day both the parents
will, lot at least one service, go to the
same • him h. The neighbors will say: "I
v. i.'b r w hut is going oil to-day, for i saw
our i. ■ ghbor and Ids wife, who always go
to different churches, going arm-in-arm to
tic same sam tuarv?”
i » « i1, j r. in i' \ ''u \s iiiit nan i u tnr.iii
tli in together, arm-in-arm, to the same
alii'.r. Something very important has hap
pened. Their so.i is to-day uniting with
the church. He is standing in the aisle
taking the vows of a Christian. He had
been somewhat wayward, and gave father
and mother a good deal of anxiety, but
111 ir prayers have been answered in his
conversion, and us lie stands in tlie aisle and
Ha- minister of religion says: ‘-Do you con
secrate yourself to Hod who made oral re
deemed you. and do you promise to servo
Him all your days;” And with manly voice
lie answers: ”1 do.” There is an April
shower in the pew where father and mother
sit, and a rainbow of joy which
arches both their souls, that makes
ail differences of creed infinitesi
mal. And the daughter, who had been
very worldly, and gay, and thoughtless,
puts her life on the altar of consecration,
and vs the sunlight of that Sabbath streams
through the church window and falls upon
her brow and cheek, she looks like their
other daughter, whose face was lumined
with the brightness of another world, on
the day when the Lord took her into His
Heavenly k op ng years ago. I should not
wonder if, after all, these parents pass the
evening ol their life in the same church, all
dirl'iTPnees of church preference overcome
by the joy of being in the house of Hod
where 111• •;r children were prepared lor
usefulness and Heaven.
But 1 can give you a recipe for ruining
your children. Angrily contend in tie
hou sehold that your church is right and the
church of y .mr companion is wrong. Bring
sneer and caricature to emphasize youi
opinions, a id your children will make up
their minds that religion is a sham, and
they will have none of it. In the northeast
storm of domestic controversy the rose of
Sharon an I the lily of the valley
will unt grow. Fight about apos
tolic slice -ssion; light about election and
free agency; tight about baptism;
light about the bishopric; light
about gown and surplice, and the
religious prospects of your children will be
left dead on the livid. You will bv as un
fortunate as Charles. Duke of Burgundy,
who in battlo lost a diamond the value of a
nation, for in your fl ight you will lose the
jewel of salvation for your entire house
hold There is nothing against the advo
cacy of your own religious theories. Use
all forcible argument, bring all telling il
lustrations array ail demonstrative facts,
but let there bi uo acerbity, lip stinging
retort, no mean insinuation, no supercil
iousness, as though all others wore tvroug
anil vou infallibly right.
*
T»Vo a hint trim astronomy. Th«
Ptolemaic system made the earth the cen
ter of the solar system, and every thing
was thought to turn round the earth. But
the Copernican system came, and made
the sun the center, around which the
planets revolved. The bigot makes his
little belief the center of every thing, but
the large Christian makes the Hun ol
Righteousness the center, and all denomi
nations. without any clashing, and each al
its own light and in its own sphere, re
volving around it.
Over the tomb of Dean Stanley, in West
minster Abbey, is the passage of Script
ure: “Thy commandments aro exceeding
broad.” I.ot no man crowd us on to a path
like the bridge Al Sirat. which the Moham
me-Ian thinks leads from this world ov<-t
the abyss of hell into paradise, the breadth
cf the bridge less th in the web of astarved
spider, or the edge of a sword or raror.
off the edges of which many fall. No; while
the way is not wide enough to take with us
any of our sins.it is wide enough for all
Christian believers to pass without peril
into everlasting safety.
Hut do not any of you depend upon what
you cull a sound creed for salvation. A man
may own all the statutes of the State o!
Neiv York, and yet not be a lawyer, and t
man may own ail the best medicine treat
ises, and not be a physician; and a man may
own all the best works on painting and
architecture, and not be either painter or
architect; nud u man nuy own all the
sound creeds in the world, and yet not be a
Christian. Not what you have m your head
or on your tongue, but in your heart and in
your life, will decide every thing.
In olden times iu England, before the
modern street lamps were invented, every
household was expected to have a lantern
susp'Midetl in front of his house, and the
cry of the watchmen in London as they
went along ut eventi lo was: “Hang out
your lights!” Instead of disputing in your
house about the different kinds of lantern,
as a watchman on the walls of Zion I cry:
‘ I, -t your light so shino before men that
thev, seeing your good works, may glorify
your Father which is in Heaven.”
llang out your lights! You may have a
thousand ideas about religion, and yet not
the great Idea of pardoning mercy. It is
not the number of your ideas, but the
greatness of them. A mouse hath ten off
spring in her nest, while the lioness hath
one in her lair. All ideas about forms and
ceremonies and church government put to
gether are not worth that one idea of gob
ting to H 'aven yourself and taking your
IIH.I JUU.
llur do not reject Christianity, as mativ
do, because there are so many sects. .Stand
ing in Westminster Hotel. London, i looked
out of the window and saw three clocks, ni
ne.ir as 1 can remember—one on tho Parlia
no nt House, another on St. Margaret'
Chapel, another oa Westminster Abbey,
and they were all different. Ono san
twelve o'clock at noon; another said 11:55;
another said 12:00. I might as well have
concluded that there is no such thing ns
time, because the three tituc-pieces
were different, as for you to conclude
that there is no sm-h thing as pure Chris
tianity, because the churches differ in tlieii
statement of it. It is about twelve o’clock
noon of the glorious Gospel dispensation
although the church clocks somewhat dif
for, and under the present light you have
no excuse for neglecting your duty beeausi
you do not like this or do not like that
"How shall we escape if we neglect i
great salvation?”
But let us all rejoi-’O that, although part
of our family may worship on earth in one
church, and Jpart in another church, or.
bowed at the same altars, it must be in a
compromise of preferences, we are. if re
deemed, on the way to a perfect church,
where ail preferences will he fully grati
tied.
Great cathedral of eternity, with arches
of amethysts, and pillars of sapphire, and
floors of emerald, and windows aglow with
the sunlight of Heaven! What Wide aisles
spacious enough to allow empires to enter'
What amphitheaters of piled-up splendor,
gallery above gallery, Princes am
Princesses, Kings and Queens 1 ending
over them ! What stupendous towers,wit!
chimes angel-hoisted and angel-rung!
What myriads of worshipers, white- j
robed and coroneted! What an officiate! !
at the altar, even the "Great |
High Priest of our profession!” What j
walls, hung with tho captured shields and !
flags, by the church militant passed up to j
be til" church triumphant! 'What doxologies j
of all nations! Coronet to coronet, cymbal!
to cymbal, harp to harp, organ to organ!
Puli out tho tremuleut stop to recall the
sufferings past! Pull out the trumpet stop
to celebrate the victory !
“ When shall these eyes thy Heaven built walls
And pearly gates behold;
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong,
And streets of shining gold?"
AFLOAT IN A CRATER.
—
HHi-orery of flu* Ileepest ISmly ox X rein
iVutrr in the Country.
[Science.]
Captain C. E. Hutton, of the U. i>
Geological Survey, has boon recently en
gaged in nmking a study of Crater Lake, iu
Oregon, and the latest advices received
i'roai him show thut ho lias discovered
probably the deepest body of fresh water
in the country. Leaving Ashland, Ore.,
liis party, escorted by ten soldiers, pro
vidod through the courtesy of the General
commanding the military department ol
the Columbia, reached the brink of the wall
of the lake after a, six days’journey, having ■
brought with themboatsso mounted on the
running gear of wagons as to bear
transportation over a hundred miles of
mountain road without injury. The boats
bore the transportation without strain 01
damage, and preparations were at once be
gun for lowering them 909 feet to the
water. The steepness of the wall was very
great, being at the place selected about 41
degrees or 4'1 degrees, and the descent
partly over taius, above covered
with snow, and rocky, broken ledges
lower down. The boats entered the water
quite unharmed. The process of sheathing
them, rigging the taeklecnd lowering them
occupied four days. A couple of days were
occupied in making journeys around the ;
walls uf tin1 lake by boat—the only possible
way—and iu examining the rocks and
structures of the wall in its various parts. '
N< xt followed a series of soundings; The '
depth ot the lake considerably exceeded the
Captain's anticipations, though the ah- ,
scnce of any thing like a talus near the |
water line already Indicated deep water
around the entire shore. The depths range
from ;5i feet to 1,5)96 feet, so far as the !
soundings show, and it is quite possible
and probable that depths both greater and j
shallower may be found. The average
depth is about 1.490 feet. The descent from
the water's edge is precipitous; at -i'JO or
odd yards from shore depths of 1,500 to
1 son feet arc found all around the margin.
The greatest depths will probably exceed
1,009 feet, for it is not probable that the
lowest point has been touched. The
soundings already male indicate it as be
iug the deepest body of fresh water in the
country.
Remedy for Damp Houses.
[Decorv-tor and Furnisher ]
People who are unfortunate enough tq
live in dump houses, particularly near un
drained land, are apt to think that there is
no help for them save iu removal. They
are mistaken. Successful experiments
have showu that it is quite possible to ma
terially improve the atmosphere for such
neighborhoods in a very simple manner—
by the planting of the laurel and sunflower.
The laurel gives off au uDundauee of ozone,
whilst the sunflower is potent in destroy. ]
ing the malarial condition. These two, if |
planted on the most restricted scale in a
garden close to the house, will be found to
siieedilv increase the dryness and salubrity
of the atmosphere, and rheumatism, if it
does not entirely become a memory of the
past, will be largely alleviated. Few peo
ple are aware of tbo anti-malarial proper
ties of the sunflower
Thehe rail not be a more worthy im
provement of friendship than in a fervent
opposition to the sius uf t hose we profess to
love.—ii’cAue ■/. Halt. '
BUZZARD DEN.
A ffMt Virginia Cavern Which Harbor* a
Flcrrr. sheep-Eating Serpent.
[Milton (W. Va.) Special.1
There I* a place on Big Two Mile creek,
•bout three and a half mile* east of this
place, known as "The Buzzard Den.*' It
Is a large rave in the point of a ridge
which extends down between two
branches to the rock gorge which incase*
the creek for nearly its whole length. This
rave is entered by a small doorway, which
extends down an inclined plane for about
twenty feet, there opening into a large
rugged room, which has not been explored.
On last Sunday morning as Melsear
Braley, a young man of about twenty
years, was passing that place en route to
his brother’s, about a mile below on the
creek, he heard a sheep bleating piteously
as if io groat distress. Upon going nearer
he found the bleating proceeded from the
mouth of the cavern. He approached near
er the place, when, upon suddenly turning
the corner of n huge bowlder, he beheld a
eight which sent his blood iu an arctic
flood up his bnck and standing his hair on
end. Ho beheld tho head of a huge ser
pent protruling from tho entrance of the
cavern with the bin l quarters of a sheep
in his mouth, swallowing it gradually,
while the sheep was emitting its mournful
Sound. Braley, lieing a brave young lad,
thought to relieve tho sheep, so hurrying
up the hill above the cavern lie rolled a
bilge bowlder down upon tho monster.
This maddened him tosuch an extent that
lie let the sheep go with a terrific snort,
which could be heard a half mile, and
rushed from the cove like a huge tree. It
was about forty fo't long, with large
bind; and yellow sfripes running length
wise of its body. Tho head and neck were
1 lack nn l sleek, and the tail for several
feet from the end was of a dull brown
color. The sudden appearance of the
monster so frightened the lad that he
rushed for home at a 2:40 gait, where he
soon arrived out of breath, and told
his exp«rionce, whereupon his father,
elder brother and brother-in-law, together
with two or three neighbors who had been
summoned, armed witli all the fire-arius
that could be had, started for the cavern
preparid to make an invasion of tho ene
my’s country.
iiiiiviii-, nt mt? I'inu? iiuiuiii^
could be seen of tbo snake or the sheep, but
upon approaching the mouth of the cavern
n sickening stench met them, such as that
r. ming from a maddened snake, and its
li ice Mowings r.nd hissings could be
heard. They could do nothing with him,
s had to roturn to their homes. A search
will be organized to hunt up tbo monster.
No one knows where he came frcm, as this
is his first appearance. The country for
several miles around is heavily wooded,
and he may have been around for some
time. It is to bo hoped ho will soon be
killed.
HOMELY DAVE.
flow This Noted Train-Butcher Won th«
Patronage of Senator Evarts.
1 St Louis Globe Democrat. 1
"It takes an artist to sell books on the
railroad cars,” said u news agent, and then
hr: went on to recite how “Homely Dave”
—red headed and ugly as a hedge fence—
once plied his insinuating art on Senator
Evarts. It was when Mr. Evarts was Sec
retary of State under Mr. Hayes. He had
been out to California, and was coming
back with a number of officials. They
struck Dave's run at Council Bluffs. Before
lie had gone ten miles Dave had looked the
party over and determined to sell them
some books. lie decided that he would
make lbs first assault upon Secretary
Evarts. Mr. Evarts was not feeling very
well ilia" day. and when he saw Dave com
ing tie turned away impatiently and mo
tioned the porter to put him out. ”1 have
been bored to death by news agents and
book peddlers ever since I left »San Fran
cisco. anl I atu heartily sick of it.”
“Homely Dave" was not frightened in the
least. He said, with a bland smile: ‘ Ex
cuse me, Mr. Serrptary, but I don't want
to sell you auy thing; 1 just want to read
you a page or two out of a book just is
sued. Have you seen it!” Mr. Evarts
glanced at the title page and said he hadn't.
“Now just let me beguile the tediousness
of the journey by reading the first page to
you.” So Dave, who -had a remarkably
clear and sweet voice, read on. not only
the first, but the second and third pages,
with Mr. Evarts a deeply interested listen
er TV hen “Homely Dave” stopped Mr.
Evarts simply said: "I'll take that book.
Name your price. Now, what else have
you got?” That book was “Edwin Ar
nolds Eight ef Asia.” It had just come
Out then. After Mr. Evarts had picked
cut a lot of other books and Dave had read
to him from them, he called the Senators
ami Congressmen, introduced Dave to them
and made them sit down and listen while
Dave read a lot of things. He sold more
than two hundred dollars' worth of books
to those people before they got to Chicago.
When a Alan Weighs Most.
[Chicago Tribune.]
■According to the experiments carried
out by the Belgian savant Quetelet a man
attains his maximum weight towards his
40th year, and begins to lose it sensibly to
wards his (58th year. A woman, however,
does not attain tier maximum weight until
her 50th year. The age at which people at
tain their maximum weight and the weight
itself differ in the different classes of so
ciety. In tiie affluent classes the average
maximum weight is 17*2 pounds, and is at
tained at 50 years of age. In the artisan
class it is 154 pounds, attained at 40.
Amongst farm laborers it is 171 pounds,
attained at 00. In the general classes it is
104 pounds, arid is reached between forty
and 50 years of age.
THE MARKETS.
New York. Nov. 27, 1384.
CATTLE—Native Steers.i 3 75 to 5 10
COTTON—Middling. 9.'; to 9'4
FLOCK—Good to Choice. 3 15 to 3 75
4\ HEAT—No. 2 Ked. 8i'7 «' f«74
CORN—No. 3. 46', a 47*4
OaTs—West rn Mixed. >1 to 35
I’OUiv—New Mess. 14 50 to 11 U0
ST. LOUIS.
COTTON—Middling. to 8*4
REEVES—Good to Choice.... 4 10 to 4 25
Fair to Medium... 3 65 to 4 in
HOGS—Common to Select_ 3 '35 to 4 05
SHEEP— Fair to Cnoice. 3 0) to 4 00
FLOUR—Patents. 4 00 to 4 35
Medium to Straight 3 00 to 3 83
WHEAT-Xn. 2 Red Winter. to 76.'4
CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 31?, a 35‘i
OATS-No. 2. 26 , to 26*4
RY E-No. 2. . 51 ‘4 a 1114
TOBACCO -Lugs. 2 (.0 to S oj
l.c tl—Medium... 5 00 to 6 oo
I1AY —Choice Timothy. 11 50 to 12 0)
BUTTER—Choice Hairy. 2! to 25
KGGs—Fresh. IS to 1854
PORK—New .Moss. ... 10 0) to 10 12'4
BACON—Clear Ulh. t‘4 » 614
LARU—Prime Steam. 5?4'to 6
WOOL—Fine to Cuo.ce. 57 d 30
CHICAGO.
CATTLE—Shipping. 3 31 to 5 05
HOGS—Good to Choice..*.. 3 7) to 4 00
SHEEP—Good toChoice. 2 75 to 4 00
FLOUR—Winter. 4 00 to 4 50
Patents. 4 30 to 4 60
YV11EAT—No. 2 Spring. 74*4 to 74‘4
CORN—No. 2. 36 '4 to 36 *4
OATS-No. 3 White. 26*4to 36’4
PORK—New Mess. !» 62to 9 65
KANSAS CITY.
CATTLE—Shipping Steers... 3 55 to 4 55
HOGS—Sales at. 3 so to 3 mo
WHEAT-NO. 2..*.. to 62K
CORN—No. 2. 31 to 31 ‘4
OATS—No. 2. 25‘, to 25*4
NEW ORLEANS.
FLOUR—High Grades. 3 50 to 4 85
CORN—White. 49 ® 50
OATS—Choice 'Vestera. 33>4 to 36
HAY—Choice.14 0) to 15 00
FORK—New Mess.... to 10 25
BACON—Clear Rib. to 7
CVIION-Middling. 8 4 to 8Hi
l.OL’ISVi LLE.
WHEAT—No. 2 red.. to 73
CORN—No. 2 Mixed. ,... to 30
OATS—No. 2 Mixed-. « 28
PORK-Mess.. to 10 26
BACON—Clear Rib. • 7 '4
v'OTTON—Middling. 9 »
A STORY OF A FORTUNE.
How an Atlanta Man Mad* a Half Million
in n F*w Year*.
(Atlanta Constitution]
Let me tell you about the easiest Fvm.oOA
that a good man ever earned About
twelve years ago Major Campbell Wallace,
Of this’ city, invested IC.OOO cash in the
stock of the Elyton Land Company. The
total capital was $100,000 cash—whirb was
increased to FJuO.OUU in stock The com
pany bought 4.000 acres of land, the site of
the present city of Birmingham. Permis
sion was soon granted the company to issue
$100,000 in bonds for improving the proje
erty. The bond* were sold, but almost
immediat«)y were rcbought by the com
pany and retired. The proceeds of land
sales were largely put into improvements.
Major Wallace has drawn over $100,000 in
cash dividends on his $6,000 investment.
He has drawn $17,000, or three times
his investment in dividends this year,
with four months to hear from. Besides
paying such dividends the company has
over $2,000,000 in cash assets, exclusive of i
its land, which has hardly been touched.
The shares are now worth $4,000 each.
Major Wallace received for his $6,000 cash.
$12,000 in stock, or 123 shares, worth now
in open market $4,000 a share. He has dis
tributed the most of his stock among his
children, and Mrs. M.vnatt has just re
ceived and refused an offer of $90,000 for
her share.
This reads like a fairy tale—an invest
ment of $0,000 paying over $100,000 divi
dends in twelve years and then being
worth $480,000 cash. The Elyton Company
on a paid in capital of $100,000 has paid
over $1,900,000 in dividends, has $2,000,000
assets, besides its land, and its stock is
worth $8,000,000. This stock was hawked
Shout Atlanta a few years ago ut eighteen
cents on the dollar.
United States Senator Beackbtrn says
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Can anybody tell why popular subsirip
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