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CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, i8go. ' h; SERMON BY DR.TALMAGK. TREATMENT OF PARENTS THE 8UD JEC1 OF HI9 DISCOURSE. "A IfM.IIli Son I tlin IlravlnrM of I'll Mnllier" llm Text Chllilrrn Cannot Do Too Muoli to Honor Ootlljr, Upright I'r nU. HiiooKkYii, March 10. Tlio following nor mon wns preached this morning by I)r Till ningo In tlio Acnilotiiy of Music, In which Ills church Is worshiping during tlio rubulltllng of tlio llroukl yn TiiWiioclo, mill vv bleb will oontlniio to lm ho occupied until tlmt edllleo la comptotiHl. Aftur oxKutiillug a chapter describing Absalom' carriage toward hU fothor David, mul tho singing of mi appro printo liyinii, Dr. TahnRgo announced an hU text tlm words, "A foolish sou is the heavi ness of his mother." 1'rov. x, 1. He wild: PAllKNTH' HUt.tCITUIlK Kill THKIIt CIllt.llUKM. All pal cuts want their children to turn out well. However poorly father and uiothor may Imvu dono themselves, thoy want tholr sous and daughter to do splendidly. Up to forty yearn of ago wirent may havo ambi tions for themselves, after that their clilof ambitions are for their chlldrai. Some of tho old time names Indicato this. The iiiiuia of Aimer means "his father's lump." The naino Abigail means "her father's Joy " And what a wircntal delight was Huliiiunu to David, and .Samuel to llatmah, and Joseph toJacobl Ami tho liest enrtlily stair that father has to lean on Is a good son, and tlm strongest arm a mother has to help her down tho steep of years Is that of a grateful child. But It Is not a raro thing to llud msI un filial, and often tho parents mo themselves to blauio. Aged erins sometimes Ihsmhiio querulous nnd snappy, and tho children havo tliolr hands full with thuold folks. Iloforo entering my profession I was for throo mouths what is called a colortcur. Olio day In tho country districts I stopped at tho house of n good, intelligent, genial farmer. Tlio hospitality of such a country houso Is especially pleasing to mo, for I wan born In tho country. This (armor and his wtfo wero Imrdwoikiug coplo, but tried to mako their homo agieeablu and attractive. Tho farmer'H father, about slxty-lh o years of ago, and his grandfather, about ninety, woro yot alivo and with him. Indeed, there wero four generations In tho houso, for tho farmer hud little children playing about the room. Vto gathered at tho dining table After tho blessing was asked tho farmer put somo of tho meat tiou his pi a to and courteously passed it to mo, when his father of slxty-ilvo Years of ago cried out to his sou, who was at least thirty years of ugot "Why do you not pass tho meat as you always do, and let us tako it olf tho pinto ourselves! you aro tr. Ing to show oir liecntiso wo have voni'miiy." Meanwhile his grandfather of ninety sat with bis hat on at tho table, his faco unclean, and his apparel untidy. Still tlio farmer kept bis patience and cquiolso, and 1 never think of him without admiration. Ho must havo bad more grace than 1 over hud Because pcoplo aro old they havo no right to bo either migentlemauly or uncanny. There are old ooplo so disagreeable that they havo nearly broken up somo homes. Tho young married man with whom thungedouo lives stands It because ho has lieeti um.iI to It all his life, but tho young wife, coming in from another household, can baldly eudiiru It, and sometimes almost cries her even out. And when little children gather in tho house, they aro afraid of tho venerable (Hitriareli, who has forgotten that ho ever was a child himself, and cannot understand vvh children thould over want to pluy "hide and seek," or roll hoop, or lly kite, and ho becomes impa tient at the sound from tho nursery, and shouts with an cxpotidlturo of voice that ' eeps him coughing llftceu minutes after wards, "Hoys! stop that racket!" as though any boy that over amounted to anything in tho world did not begin life by making a racket I HOMK PAKKNTH AIIE NOT W011TIIY Indeed, there aro children who oho nothing to their parents, for those parents have been prolligates My lamented friend, good and Christian and lovoly Henry 'llon, vtco president of tho United States, In early life changed his uamo. Henry Wilson was not bis original uamo Ho dropped his father's name because that father was a drunkard and a disgrace, and tho son did not feel called upon to carry such a curcass all his life. While child! en must always lie dutiful, I sympathize with all young eoplo who have disagreeable or unprincipled old folks around tho house. Somo of us, drawing out of our memories, know that it is possible, after sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety years of ago, for the oid to be kind and genial; and the grandest adornment of a homo Is an aged father anil an aged motho-, if tlio process of years has mellowed them. Besides that, if your old parents aro hard to get along with now, you must remember there was a time when the had hard work to getaloug with you. When you wero about ft1 vo or seven or ten or twelve years of ago what a time they had with ou! If they had kept a written account of your early pranks and misdoings, it would make a whole volume. That time when you gave your little sister u clip; that time when you explored tho depth of n Jar of sweet things for which you had no permission i that havoc you one day made with your Jack knife; that plucking from tho orchard of uiirio fruit; that day when, lnstoad of being at school, as your parents supposed, you went u-flshlug; and many a tlmo did you luieril your young llfo hi placesi whei o you hud no business to climb or Bwlm or venture. To gut you through your first flfteeii years with our llfo and your good morals was a fearful draft iioii paren tal fidelity anil endurance. Indeed, It uiuy tw that much of this pres ent physical and mental weakness in your parents may havo lieou a result of your early waywardness. You made such largo and sudden draft upon the bank of their patlenco that you broko tho bank. Thoy woro injured in being throw n while trying to break tho colt. It is a mutter of only common honesty that you pay back to them somo of tho long suffering vv hich thoy paid to you. A father tuid to his son: "Surely no father over had as bad a Imy as I have." "Yes," said tho son, "my grandfather had." It is alout tho tamo fioui generation to generation, and parents need to bo patient with children, I and children ilutllul to tliolr parents. Tak ing It for granted that those who hear mo to day havo had a good lutreiitage, I want to urge upon all tho young tho fact that tho happiness and longevity of parents much de pend iiKin tho right Itehavlor of their chil dren, and I can do this no more clfi dually than by demonstrating tho truth of m text, "A foolish sou Is tho heaviness of his mut her." HOME TIIIKOH AUK II1CST. Perlraps somo young uriu astray may bo brought buck by a thought of how they feel about him at homo. A IVeuch soldier lay wounded and dying in tho hospital at (iuievn, Switzerland. His father, at home, Mtvuity years of age, huaid of his son's sillier Ing, and started, and took the long Jour noy, and found the hospital, and as ho en tered tho sou cried: "O father, I am so glad you havo coino to seo niodle." "No," aid tho father; "you aro not going to die; your uiothor Is waiting for ou, anil lam going to take you homo; I havo brought you m.iuoy and evil thing you need " "No," Mid the soldier, "t ie glvo me hero every thing that is ulco to eat. but I havo no apio tlte, and I inutdle" Then tho father took from his kuiips.iel( a loaf of iu bread, such os the plain peoplo of his country ale, and wild, "Heiois a loaf of hro'id our mother made, and I am sum you can wit this, shu etit it to vou." Then tho soldier brightened up, and took tho broad mid ate it, and said, "It Is so good, tho bread from home, tho bread that my uiothor model" No wonder that in a fow days ho had recovcicd C) young man, wouudist In tho battle of life, nud discouraged, given up by yourself, and given up by others, tho old folks at the coun try llrwido havo not given on up I bring oti bread from home. It iniiv 1 plain broad, hut it is that broad of which if a man eat ho ueveragalimhall hunger llre-ul fioin homo! llread from home! IXI NOT UTAH TIIK KAMII. NAME t'arrlng out the Idea of mi text, liemnrk tlmt a reckless or dissipated sou makes a heiiv heal led parent liecnuso It hut ts the family pride. It Is not tho given name or the name which you i-i ivisl at the christen Ing that Is Injuiisl by your prodlgallt You cannot hurt oiir name of John m Ooorgoor Henry or Mary or Frances or Rachel, bo cause there have been thousands of people, good and bad, having those names, and ou cannot Improve or (Icpitsuiito t'u rcicctii lilllly of those given names. Hut it Is your last mime, uur fiunll name, that is at your mercy All who lieor that miinii are IhiiiuiI, befoie Ood and man, not to damage Its happy slguilleanco You are charged, by all the geni rations of the past and all the genet a tious to come, to do our share for the pro tcctinu and the honor and the integrity of tlmt name You have no light, my oiiug ft lend, by a bad life to blot tlio old family Itlble containing tho story of tho mariuiges and hlrlhs and deaths of the c-irs puic by, in to cast a blot UHin tho family Ibhles whose lis'oids ale et to lie owmiis1 There me in our Amei lean clt v ibrectoi les n imes that always suggest ciiuiuicreinl ills Iniiiestv or libertinism or cruelty or mean ness, Just lieeaiiso ono man or woman licuriug that naino ciumsI It forever by miscreancy liook out how you stab tho family name! It Is esxsMolly dear to your mother. Shu was not born under that uauie. She was hoi n under another name, hut tho years pusssl on and she came to young womanhood, and she saw someone with whom she could trust her happiness, her llfo and her Immoi tnl destiny; and she took his name, took it while the orange blossoms were filling tlio air with fragrance, took it with J im.xl hands, took It while the heavens witucsstsl Sho choso it out of all the family names since the world stood, choso it for Uiter or worse, through sickness and through health, by cradles and by graves Yea, she put oir hor old family name to take tho family uamo vou now wear, and sho has done her part to make it an honor ah!" name How heavy a trouble you put upon her when, by misdeeds, you wrench that name fiom its high sigmllcouco! To haul It down from your mother's forehead and trample it in tho dust would lie criminal. Your father's name may not bo a distin guished name, but I Iiohi it stands for some thing good It may not bo famous, like that of Homer, tho father of eplo poetry, or Iaak Walton, the father of angling, or iKschIus, the father of tragedy, or Kthul wold, tho father of monks, or Herodotus, tho father of hlstorv , or Thomas Aquinas, tho father of moral philosophy, or Abraham, tho father of the faithful, but your father has a name in a small elrilu as precious to him as theirs In a huger circle Ijook out how you tarnish it! Further, tho recklessness and dissipation of a young man are a cause of paicntul distress at a time when tho parent Is less able to bear It. Tho vicissitudes of life havo loft their iin precision upon thoso parents Thoeols not as clear as onco, nor tho hearing as acuto, nor tho nerves as steady, nor tho step as strong, and with the tide of incoming years conies the weight of uullllal behavior You tako our parents at a great disadvantage, for thoy cannot stand ns much as they onco could. Thoy have not the elasticity of feel ing with which onco thev could throw oh" trouble. That shoulder, now somewhat bout, cannot boar us heavy a burden as onco it could. At the time when tho machinery is getting worn out you put iiou It tho most terrllle strain At sixty and seventy yours tho vitality is not so strong us at thirty or forty. Surely thoy are descending tho down grade of llfo swiftl cuuugli without our increasing tho momentum Thev will bo gone soon enough without our pushing them awn. Call In all tho doctors who over llvisl since Hippocrates raised medii'lne fiom a siijht tltiou to a sci ence, and they could not cuio the heartbreak of a mot her over her ruined boy. There may lo, as somo suppose, enough bet lis on earth, If discovered, to cure all the ailments of tho liody; but nothing save a leaf from tho tree of tho heavenly l'aiadise can euro a wound mado by a foolish sou who is the heaviness of his mother. KUI'THEll HUmilUNQ HAVKI) II V DEATH. I'erbops It is a good thing that cruel treat ment by a child abbreviates a parent's lite; for what is there desirable in a father's life or a mother's life if its iuco is gonef Do you not think death is something benellcont If it stops tho mother's heart from achlii.; and her eyes from weeping, and says: "You nss not U'ar the excruciation iinv longer. (Jo and sleep. I will put the defense of a marble slab between you and that boy's outrages do now whero the wicked cease from troubling and the weiry aio at rest!" At the depart ure of such mothers let the music l an an them Instead of a dirge. While you and I iiear no sound, et there are at this moment teusof thoUMiudsof parental hearts breaking. All caro was taken with tho boy's schooling, all good counsels given, and the ispiipmont for a sober and earnest and useful life was provided, but it has all gone, and the foolish son has become tho heaviness of Ids mother. Much of tho siiguancy of tho arcntnl grief arises from tlio Ingratitude of such ls havior. What an undertaking It is to con duct a family through tho ailments and ex posures of early life! Talk about tho skill demanded of a soa captain commanding a ship across tho ocean 1 Thatreipilies less skill than to navlgaton young soul in safety across the infantile and boyhood years Tho sick nesses that assault, the temptations that en trap, the auxiales that ai'eeeitisl Young man, you will never know what vour mother has suU'crcd for you. Vou will novel know how your father has toiled for ou. You havo been In all their thoughts, in all their plans, in all their prayers, from tho time otir first breath wasdrawn to this moment's lespiratlou. What they could do for your health, what the xiulddo for )oiir happi uess, what Uiey could do for our mind, what the could d for our soul, have hceii absolving ipiestloun To earn a livelihood for oii has not always been an easy thing for mil- father lt what fatigue of body anil wlmt disturbances of mind, and long years of stiu.'gle, in which soue'tunes the loss.., wi'io gi eater limn tho gains, he got In cad for nii, paving for it in the sweat of his own brow and the i"d droi of Ids own li"'iu t's blood! He looks older than he ought to look at his vears, for It has bs.n work, vtork, work. .Many a tlmo he felt like giving up the buttle, but then ho lookisl at your hi-lplessiiiss and the helplessness of the house hold, oiel t I le uervi.l hl-Jl-W uuaiis-l nud mill 'By tho help of (but I will not stop; my children mtmt have homo and (silica (Ion and advantages, and a comfort able stai ting In the wot Id, and I must get a little something ahead, eo that If I am takou own these helpless onos will not bo turned out on tho cold cholines of the woild " Yes, your father has Ixcniigood friend to you. He has ucvot told any one, and bo never will tell any one, of tho suerlllceH he has made for you. And he is ready to keep right on until unto that baud that has Imsmi tolling for you all these ears shall come tho very uumhucMS of death. You cannot adord to lueak bis heart Hut ou are doing it. Yes, oii nro. You have ibiveu the dagger clear in up to the hilt. And vour mother I warrant she bus never told oii much about the nights when you well" do.Mi with scarlet fevei, or diphtheria, and she slept not n wink, or, falling into drowsiness, vour llrst crv uwakcmsl her, and brought the wonls, "What Is It, nn dearl" Oh, if the old rocking chair could sicitkl Oh, If the ciiulle could only tell its story of years And when ou got Ivttcr, and wero fretful and hard to please, as Is usual In con valescence, she kept her patience so well, and was as kind as you weio unreasonable and cross. Oh, midnights of motherly watching, how can on keep silence! Heuk out and tell that wandering young man tho story that he so much needs to hear WHAT HAH 1IKOOMK OP TIIK 01.11 I'llAtll.lCl By the live, I wonder what has Us-ome of our old cradle In which all of us chlldieii were lockisl! I must ask my sister when 1 svo her next time. Wo were a large family, and that old cradle was going a gissl many yea is. I tcnicmhcr just how It looked. R was old fashioned and had no taHstry Its two sides and canopy all of plain wood, but theie was a gloat deal of sound shs'plug in that cradle, and mull aches and mlnswcic sixit hut by It as it inovtsl In mul fro b da and night. Most, vividly 1 icmcmhor that the rockers, which came out from under the ci. idle, weio on the top and side very smooth, so smooth thatthey actually glWenisl. They must have been worn smooth bv u foot that long ago ccasisl its Join lie) llow tliisl the foot that piessisl it must sometimes have gotl Hut It did not slop for that. It went right on and rocked foi I'liels) the (list, and for Do Witt tho last. And it was a cradle like that, or ieihapsof modem nnik'- and i Ichly uphol stensl, in which our mother rocked you. Can it ho that for all that cuio and devotion vou aie paying her buck with harsh words or neglects or a wickisl life! Then I must tell vou that you aio the "foolish son who is the heaviness of his mother " (letter go home and kiss liei , and ask her lot give uess. Kiss her on the lls that have so often pra.visl lor vou. ICiss her on the forehead that so often ached for you Kiss her on tho eyes that have so often wept over you. Bet ter go i ight awa , for she w III bo dead before long. And how will you fisd then after you realize It is vour wa.vwaldliess that killed hcrf Romulus made no law against patri clde, or the slaying of a father; matricide, or tho slu iiu of a mother, Ihs-uuso ho consid cnsl such cilmes Impossible, and for six hun dred vears theio was not a crime of I hut soi t in Rome. Hut then ciiiuo Lucius Ostitis and slew his father, proving the crime Misslblo. Now do .vou not think that the child who by vvioug In havior sends his father to a prema ture grave Is a putiiclde, or who by iniscon duct hastens a mother Into the tomb is u iu.it riciilo The heaviness of pal cuts over a son's do piuvity is all tho gi eater Usmuso it means spiritual dismter andovei tluoiv That is tho wortd thing alsiut it In the sinsloii regula tions a Nildler receives for loss of both haniU or fts-t fT'J For loss of ono bund and one foot $::i! For loss of a hand or foot f:i() For los of both oes $rj. Hut who can calculate the value of a whole man ruined bod, u 1 and soul How can parents have an happiness alsiut our futuiodes tiny, oh voting man gone astray! Can Mich opKisito lives as you and the aro living come out at tho same place Can holiness and dissipation enter the sumo gate! Whero Is tho little piayer that was taught you nt your mother's knee! Is the Uod they loved and worsh!Hsl vour (lislf It Is your soul iilMiut which lh")' are most anxious, your soul that shall live after the earth itself shall begirdlisl with Humes, and tile Uuuies, d) ing down, will leave the planet oulv a live co.il, and the live coal shall havo Iss-oiuo ashes, ami then tho ashes shall bo scattered by tho whirl winds of the Almighty HKHI-KCT YOUH l'AUKNTS, TIIOUOII TIIKY Ilk di:ai). "But," Bays some joiing man, "my mother Is gone; my behavior will not trouble her any more." Oh tlmt those lljis hud language! Life has vissisl With mo hut roughly since 1 heard thee last What! Is she dead How vou startle me! Is sho dead Then icrhiips vou have her picture Hang It up in your room in tho place vv hem you oftenest loo',, (1 i and study her feutures, and while you uie looking the past villi come buck, and you may hear her voice, which is now so still, spouk again, say ing: "Fioui my heuveuly home, my dear boy, I solicit your leformutiou iindsnhu tlon. (Jo to tho Christ who pardoned me, mid he will pardon you My heaven will not hocomplote till I hear of your changing Hut I will hear of It right away, for there is Joy up here when ono slunor rooutoth, and oh, If the next news of that kind that comes U) here might come up nvurding ou, oh my child of many tears and anxieties and prnors! Come, in iKiy, do you not hear your moth er's voice O my son, my sou, would (J.kI that I could dio for thee! O in son, my sou! Young ni'tiil what news for heaven woiild Iw your conversion. Swifter than tclogiuphic wile ever curried congratulations ton wed ding or u coronation would lly hcavciiwanl the news of your deliverance, and whether tho ono most Interested In our salvation wero on river lunik, or in tho temple, nr on tho liuttlemouts, or in tho great tower, tho message would bo Instantly received, and ls foro this service is closed angel would cry to angel: "Havo you heard the news! Out under Is a mother who has just hcuid of hei wayward Isiy's redemption. Another prodi gal has got liomu. The deud Is alive again, and the lost is found Hulleliijahl Amen!" The Dully 1,1 f.i of un Actress. Oirls win. long for tho adulation, Hatter ami amusement commonly supposed to lie in seiurable from llfo upon tho stage can prollt ably study the words of an aclu-ss who has succeeded in making a uamo for hoi self. "My llfo Is very uneventful," she su)s. "It is full of hard and monotonous work. Kxcitt-mcul VIW. Ill llii'tit Villi. II I iitii l.f... tl... ....1.11... but for the rest of the day no At tl o'clock in the morning I ring for my bouillon. After I have llulshid it 1 tuku a cold bath and then in breakfast Unless I am duo at tho then tiofor a long, tidiotis rcheaisal of four or live hours, 1 attend to my conesKindeiico, sorting and answering various luttcis. After that is Ihiishcd and my household duties aro looked after, I go for my constitutional walk of two or thus) hours I cat no luu.-heoii, and when 1 letuin from ni txucisoitli heai I tune for my dinner, for I dine at I .ill) o'clock After this meal is over I have Just a little time to lest U'fore the real btl-luess of thotwent four hours Uljuk, I must U-at tho theatre nt 7:.'!0 o'clock nharp. At mid night I mil home again, and uftei supper I go to issl N ivv , this is n fair sample of m v lite Huiy horn has H.diities " Tuionto Kmpire HE LED A DOUULX LIFE. The Hl;'il of reller 1'opr, nt l.iniisvlllr, III lugs IIU Itreord to I.IljIiI. The w long doing of one man geneiallv cat siiplclou on many, and the its-cut Might of William It. l'oK, telhruf the luilsillle City Niitlonal lunik, with tV),(KiO or the Institu tion's funds will prolmhly fuiiiUh evcue for the luini' rl.ts iigaln to turn their attention to bank olllelals as mihjts'l fm wlttv para glaphs The violation of such a tliit as that teposisl in a li'ller Is, however, more a theme for sci Ions couslileiatloii than for a Joke The Unci does not really lob the bank, he robs the honest tolleis and professional and business men who are tho ilesillois, and who ili''inl usui their savings to nsmiik their flit in fiom want. I'eller I'omi Is a uutlveof Kentucky, and was Itolll tlili tv -eight )euisago on a farm Ileal Louisville Re lis-ilvisl u good education ami I n issl inletisl the sei vice of the Citv National bunk us a c I e r k h u v Ing charge of eolhs--tlotis. S"Vciulpio motions followed ill due course of time, mul tw iv ears ago he was made teller The bank I tfl1lIllll Illtll till kllH plclon of I'omi, and k i.... 1.1 1.1... - III.-, l.-illinsi iiiiii i nsiiHtson without bud habits, ami thrift in dlsposi wn.t.iAvi it. roi-ic tlon, Ids thrift Indissl bordeimg on jieiiurl ousness At hisapartiiienisou (ltavsoiistns.it and to his bushiiiss acipiiiliilanis-s he was a model of sobliet. Hut III another niitou of the citv he liud a dilfeieul kind of dwell ing place uud an cntlloly dlllVlcnt suit of leputution To his shady companions ho was known as a man of bad morals, who guuiblisl heavily mul drunk ihsiply In a word, he was .Mr. llilo at night and Dr .lekvll In dil. I l n h iilis. nee from tits diisk ono mot ulng cicatcd suspicion, and a count of the cash showed Unit fCO.IHH) In bills was gone I'om was hniidtsl for '.1).IHH) by the Fidelity Casu alty and Tnisl company of New York. SHE WAS AN HONOR TO HER SEX. Cnlllllllilii C.illige l'ci pi'tlml! s Hie Vlemorj ol ll.i I'lisl rniiule Uliiilniile. Hull In Maieh therowus place I in the east end of tin- Columbia College libiaiy at Now York a meiuoiial vvliidovv in honor of a wo man the late Miss Maty I'm sons Ilankey, daughter of .tames Ilankey, of Totts Hill, Staten Island This meiuoiial is to Nirsitu iite Hie meinorv of the fact that Miss Ilankey vvus the III si lemiile .Indent whoever recelvisl theiligiis ni It u-helor of Arts from Colum bia. She giuduutisl with the highest honors In 1S87, mid imuiisllately enteiisl on the cu l cor of a teacher at tho Now Yolk ladies' school with which Miss Rose Rllubeth Cleve land vvus once identified. One day she met with an accident, but insisted on leturuhig to Wolk plematurely. Theiesiill was tvphold fever, and death came six mouths after her leavlug college. Miss Ilankey giaduuted when ii'lcais of age, and at that time I'lcsi dent Buriiurd said of her: "I have novu I TUT IIANKKY .MKVtOHIAt. VVINIIOVV. known a hi iter example of a llnely propor tioned and well rouudisl educatioii for a wo uiau, and that woman a lad , than Mary po sevses " Thodi-slgu for the window Is liy Professor Hlaiui, of Munich Tho subject Is treated hi an allegorical wuv, nud represents tho stu dent kneeling, with wreaths of forme! tri umphs at her fis-t, and reaching for the fur ther honois t.-ii'liT.sl bv ktiowhslge nr k'I ence At tlio sumo time the student's face Is turiKsl towiinl an angel who Iss-kous her to an immortal crown. Appropriate luscrip tions apHaratthe feet of tho figures the class motto, tho family coat of arms, Miss Hiiukey's favorite motto, and therecotd in Iat in of tho young lady's scholastic stand lug at Columbia and tho date of her death, which was Jan. 1, 1S.V- Artful Swindle of h Clllliiiliiuu. Mis Kendal, the uctiss, says that "a girl's flrsl lovo Is her rcbgli n." It might also tw remarket thut a Cliluainaii's llrst love is his cash, ami tho person w o gets It from him must liouitful Indissl. Ris-ently a New Yoik Celestial Joints! hi fortunes with those of a w liitii girl, but failisl to contribute much to her supjxirt. Sho bought ajiithy and juilmtsl it olf on him as their clllliflly this means sho succisshs-l in getting seveial hunilrtsl dol bus from him, with which she lied. Tho Chlnaiuuu Hist dts-ldtsl on killing himself, but thought better of that and sworo out a wan ant for the fugitive. Sullivan lllsugiei-.tlil) SurprUeil John I,. Sullivan, the champion pngUUt, iK-ciisioiially llnds that he cannot have every thing his own way. Reccutl be eutensl a New York drinking place ami t.-i roriwd all tlio patrons s.ivn one, an uukiiowu oung man. who lesentisl iiiists.inlv f.uoiiiarity om the lighter's part w ith a blow w lm h sent Sul livan spiuvv ling on the Moor. The abashed and mttixicnttsj champion was then led uwu liv hi f I lends. On tho continent of Kort the iiilluciirn mis Us n succeeded by a strange muluih calleil la uuiiii. Sulleieis ns-ovi i ing from the gnpisi fall into a state of coma for two or t hi is dus If they wuke up tliomughl, 110 sel Ions eoiiMspienco follow , but if they sink into another sleep death ouMies within a few bonis. Iullui'iiiii, while abating in Kn it ipo, is now luging vlruleiitl m Central Asia. It will cost next ear, as at present itl miite.1, f lOO.UTO.tMK) to pa) the iensitns giunttsl by the United States gov-ernuwvit to urvivoisof the late wnr, ami thedi''ii lent elutives of those who are dead V- Iv S-T5L ' ffiNKft -it-) I . 'j a y 7"f ' ff ?&$) V '' 1 1' I v iift,ii V ,71 i A PRENTICE MULFOIIU LETTER. I'eti rirtuie of Hie Sun rmnrlscii Chliirun Qiiutler. Hst'il CorristtMiiiiliiiicii.1 Han 1'itvst'lHUo, Miin-li 111. Twenty yniirtngo I lliotiglit myself pretty well iiPiiiiilnti'i vvllli (his town; but tiiiluy u gotnl li-al nl it hint grow ti nut only out of my leiiii'liililiincc. but glow ii hlnco fit tciiHitilliimici'. l-'or liistiinci-, (bo Chi iicsc iiiiuler Is ivvo-tlilids linger tlinn In IHTll, vvlien I left. Ari-lillectiitally It Is glci'tuif, liiotnilliigoti llldi, tiKil o nilciiliil. Tho Hluii's nro hugor uud moio preten tlnliH, Most of llieiii mo nenl, or ilctlv mul well in inligctl. Thoy tiso tlio hit go winilovv- piittoH. Thoy Imiig out nlgtfi bulb In l-higllsli mul ClilncHe. TIiiim, "Yung Nncii, (Icnlcr In cliinis." "Wong llm, tiiiintifiu-liirei of vvlilli' HlllltH," "luig Hihmi, mtiiiiifucluii'i- of blooms, New Yoik brunch." "Hung Tho, I'iiiic) (IooiIh, Step iniitid examine for ouiHiivcH." They keep ready iiiuilo clothing In pattein AinerU'iiii mul Chi iicko. In thoso nIiois) I observed whllo llieli b.llgulllillg for pillltillooliH. Till' llUVli illVUilctl mill IIKIIKlplllleil stlccl lifter Htlcet, win lo tiolin of their lace dwelt mul i-iiiiicil on lillHlneHH I went Jimitm ago. Thoy stielch ulotig tluw t Inn i nigh fin oh for miles. When yon look up a sheet mul unto In i-iilnr u mlxtiin of gi cell, vclliivv mul gilt Hpotted with red bieioglvplih-H oii uiuy know the C.liincHo mo llteio iii fin co, (hi'en mul vcllnw hcciii llieli fnvoiile t'oloru fur Iioiiho fiiuitH, i-speclilllv gicen. Tho Chliimiiuti piiintH only mmli pint of llm bouse iih bo iK-i-tiplca. The ii'Kt of tlu fiiinl lio leiiveH In the original lino. In San l-'ruiii-lsco HiIh Ih iihiiuIIv iltiht or mud color. Their six i iMih of drv Niiiiiincr weather glveH the ilimt (lino to hcttlc, tlilvo itself Into tlio wood mid leave its lingo llieieon. S.in l-'rulii-isco Is hugely us vet u wooden city. If the ( '1 1 1 till II III II OCfllpics! U HCCilllll Hoor, bo HtienliH itH flout gieen or yellow mul leuves it H.iliilw Icheil between llm tin paititeil llrst mid lliiul hIoi-Ii-h. It is Hiig gesthoof boV phi vvlien the liuvofull nccesH ton paint pot. It is on his huge ii-Htmitmit fionlH that ho most piles on paint, gilding. curvliigH, vermululm fiom boltoin to lop, glass globes, colored paper Imiti-iuH, lingo mul small, mul diminutive stutucH. Ills tllHpla.vH In this respect meglmingmid pyiotci-bnic. Oil line, of ciilltse, (-onileiniis Ills luMtf I like H. Il isiiovii,if ghn ing, mul breaks the iiionnt-inv d our Ameiii-mi dull lined htieutH, It is liko tlio IiIk Klinllovver In u bed of pinks, or UNpotied leopard inn lliM'k of sheep. Hail l-'runulsco's t'lilnn (loin is mi opeiiHtieet sbow, n iiiiiik iiiu of Ollllcisilli-H in tilings ilispltiyeil in the vvindowHof which ikiiio but the ('Inn i mini knows llm use, iiuil things lo cat m bis piovision HtoreH vv bleb, il uhuiiiiiinhh to us, mo cniioiiH. He bus upon ulr stnnils of haul win (i, tools eh-,, like the New Yoik outbreaks of neb vvaies In Viwy Htieet. His ft lift Mauds abound vvllli long htullcH of sugar cane. Tho Chinese little Isty, uriityeil in fashion just like his rattier, but in color inoro liixin iaiit, is also fur mom numerous than in "'70." These seemingly little obi men go ulxillt ill pink or led silken lot ho trousers, up per garments of red or yellow, n led or blue button on their lint like bead gi ir cillhroiilcicil Chinese shoes, mid vmitu fill pigtail extended into silk biaid So attired the im-e ulxillt tho stleel mid H(llcnl Mptillively in their Hugos iih our Ikivs s(tteal III theirs. I'eiiiulcs lit Ml bl lull be seen chattel illg oil Ilic paveiin Ins gorgeoiisl (liessed in lobes of pud, tiimined with many colors. If vuiiuii in certain ncigliboi hoods ut night, tin Chinese limn will dog uu fur blink mul Kiur most hei ions Hiiggestions into your em- legmding tho pussibilitiea ul Heeiug utielilal ftunale societ. John Is nut ut nil u giMid mail, lie seems In cum-h c-oiruptible, but bow iniicli be was cor rupted before be came hole, mid how liltli'li bo gullied ill cul riiplKiii after, is more than 1 know. This glare mul color is confined to what seems tho fashionable center of the Chinese (juarter. Reaching lur beyond on its outskirts is block on block, reach ing high up the hills un which flic- iitv Ih built mul far (low u to tho wharves no tho level made land, all IIDcd with (.'bin i ineuulvvork. lillililings which vve.iltu mul fashion onco occupied mo lull ol tin-lit. Ramshackle sheds Kitten vvilii ilecil lire ttlll of tlieui. The all l celts with tho peculiar odoi of u Chinese population. What makes it I don't know. It is not as fragrant .n a rose, neither is it so piouotiuced us tin vvblirs New York gets when tho vv ind blows from tho Hunter's Point uo.il ml relluurii-H. I am not defending China (loin; but in heeiug mul U-ing veiy much ulivo to till) fllllllsof utlier races, it seel lis to me tlmt woilo vet htraiunt some go. its and nwiillow a few camels. A dtiiiil.cn Chinaman is rare. An tin clean one III pel son ditto. Isik at their builds and linger nails ami compare them with thoso of sonic other races among us. He was the Hist washer man California had, something a little less than forty yeuis ago, and sho then ttmltal linn badly, for a dirtier pupulu Ron hart rarely been Hccutluui that in tin city in Wi'i. It was a suit ol foiccd un cleanliness. There wan hurdh linn-( wash. Tbero wero fow conveniences, Tho pioneei hotel often ran but ono tow 1 1 for ll hul (le of guests. It paid lietter t buy a new shut than expend an hour n washing it. Hut tinder these ciuu stanies vou c,m imagine bow lung s i t men would wear somo shiits. At tl jtiuctuic the Cliiiiammi came, juiui into huapstuls and cleaned the H-tph at least outside. l'ltlUSTRK Mu.Kiltl) Ijnl) rillllii't'liile. I.ul I'.iuiii efoto, of the Hmi-.li U,a lion, is wiumiig pupuhuitv by hi i l.u lor it is the most open loveof evei tlm Aiiicm-mi .she is not a bit olllslior l.i . Iis.li, and every one is taken by hei niiiskfd ilesiic tn kutivv the pts.ple .iinv vvlmm she will live. "I like Ann l mid Auici leans," she said vv lu-ii askt I l.er iiupic-siui! of tliis ii itn'rv mid tin way hlie gt es sight ts-in; and imtestl. w rid to i. ill i.n, , Hi ,i l,,,!, ote sim ,lks III gnu I fault JDSTJDDED wis iiavk just Ri:ci:ivi:i) a HUAUTIKIM. hIN'H Ol-' . Card Cases In nil (hi veiy Intent shnpes nud lln. Ishcs. Then goods weio bought per sonally by our Mr. WuMol while in New York, nud Include cvurvlhlng (Icshublc fiom a Genuine Seal Skin, OOZE CALF And Ibc best down to tho cheapest. Cull and sec us. Wossol Printing Co. Courlor Offlco. I 132 N St. WESTERFIELD'S Palace Bath Shaving PARLORS. Ladies - and - Children's - Hair - Cutting AS.' X'.AI.TY. COR ii'Ar O STi., NIJW ItURU IHK EllED. E. THOMAS, UNDERTAKER M- - I'uneral Director. 121S,12tliSt,3 Lincoln, Neb HMHHHHliliMliHBS A