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CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY MARCH 28, 1891.
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tfHE PLAGUE OF LIKS.
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WFTH SEHMON IN THE SERIES ON
THE CITY'S PLAQUES.
t. Tlmc I'rritrtira it Kiirrlltl !!
rnnrno Wtilrli Wilt Apply K(Hy Wo 1 1
la Country unit Oltjr "II ihall Mot Hnrs
Ijr Dlr," Mutsn Talil Kvc.sml IIi l.liul.
Nkw Yoiik, March 84 "Tho I'lnstiia of
lien" wan Kclrctoil Ity Dr. Tiiltunm for the
lJct of tlio (lflh (if lil Um n
The PlitKUM of Thcmi Tlnw CltlrV which
M prrnolirtl KmIajt. Hot lint tliti morning
err Ice In Brooklyn nutl nt tlm evrnlBK
eTTlco uixlvr the mmplcrH of Tlio ClirUtlan
IfernM In Now York tliu viwt IhiIIiIIiik
were not lartro ciioiikIi to hold inorti thnn
OBo-lmir the crowd who enmo lo hear the
ernion. Ill text win (lenraU 111,4, "Ye
hall not mirrly tile."
Thnt wm a point hlank llo. Satan told
tt to Kvo to Imlur her to put lit-r niMitlclr
cle of while, lienutlful troth Into h forlild
den apricot or pltun or Hitch or applet.
He practically wild to her, "Oh, Kvo, Jiut
toko ft lilto of thin nnd you will lw omnipo
tent ntnl omniscient. Yon ulialt 1h im
gede." .lift opiohh wo thu re ill It, It
wm the lint lie thnt won ever told In our
world. It opened thoKiito for nil the fnloc
hoodi thnt hnvn over alighted on thla
planet. It Introduced a plauo thnt cover
nil nation, tho plaKuu of lion. Fnr worxo
thnn tho pliiKiiei of Kypt, for they worn
on tho banks of tho Nile, hut thin on tho
(winks of the Hudtou, on tho banks of tho
Rant river, on the bntikn of tho Ohio, nnd
tho Mlwdmlppl, nnd tho Thnnien, nnd tho
Rhine, nnd tho Tltor, nnd on both nldw of
nil river. Tho Egyptian plague Inntvd
only ft fow week, but for nix thounntid
ycjim )mn raged thin plaguo of lien,
Theru nron hundred way of tolling ft
He. Anmn'n cntlro life mny ho n fnlNO
hood, whllo with hln lips ho mny not nnco
directly falsify. There nro thono who ntato
what Is iKmltlvcly untrue, but Afterward
nay "may bo" noftly. TIicno departures
from tho truth nre calif d "white lien;" but
there in really no auch thing n white He.
. .A (UK MAT UK TOLD tN MiNV WAYS.
The whilst llo that won ever told waana
black as perdition. No Inventory of pub
lit crimen will Im auftlclent that omlta thla
gigantic abomination. Thcro arc men
high id church nnd atato actually uneful,
adf denying nnd honeat In ninny thing,
who, upon certain aubJecU nnd lu certain
pheree, are not nt nil to be depended upon
fnr veracity. Indeed, thoro are many men
nnd women who have their notions of
truthfulness so thoroughly perverted thnt
they do not know when they are lying.
With many It In n cultivated sin; with
some It seems n natural Inllrmity. I havo
known peoplowho seemed to havo been
Iwrn liars. Tho falsehoods of their lives
extended from cradle to grave. Prevari
cations, misrepresentation and dishonesty
of speech appeared In their first utter
ances, nnd were as natural to them as nuy
of their Infantile disomies, nnd were n sort
of raeral croup or spiritual scarlatina.
Hut sway have been placed in circum
stances where thla tendeucy has day by
day and hour by hour been called to
larger development. They have gone from
attainment to attainment and from class
to clasa until they have becomo regularly
graduated liars.
The air of the city la filled with false
hoods. They hang pendent from the
chandeliers of our finest residences; they
crowd the shelve of some of our merchant
princes; they fill tho sidewalk from curb
stone to brown stone facing; they cluster
around the mechauio'a hammer, and blos
som from the end of the merchant's yard
stick, and sit In the doors of churches.
Some call them "fiction." Borne stylo them
"fabrication." You might say that they
were subterfuge, disguised, delusion, ro
mance, evasion, pretense, fable, deception,
misrepresentation; but, as I am ignorant
of anything to be gained by the hiding of
a God defying outrage undor a lexicog
rapher's blauket, 1 shall call them what
ray father taught me to call them lies.
YAUIOUB SORTS Of UKS.
I shall divide them Into agricultural,
mercantile, mechaulcal, ecclesiastical and
social lies.
First, then, 1 will speak of those that are
more particularly agricultural. Thero Is
something In the perpetual presence of
natural objects to wake a man pure. The
trees never Issue "falsa stock." Wheat
Held are always honest. Hye and oat
never move out In the night not paying
for the place they have occupied. Corn
shtoks never make false assignment?
Monntain brooks are always "current."
The gold on the gralu is never counterfeit.
The sunrise never flaunts in false colors.
The dew sports only genuine diamonds.
Taking farmers as a class, I believe they
are truthful and fair In dealing nnd kind
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 tho market
houses farm wagons that have not an
honest spoke in their wheels or a truthful
rivet' from tongue to tailboard.
During the last few years there have
been times when domestlo economy has
foundered on the farmer's firkin. -Neither
high taxes, nor the high price of dry goods,
nor the exorbitancy of labor, could ex
case much that the city has witnessed in
tho .behavior of the yeomaury. By the
qtaWAreaides In Westchester and Orange
."cehnUes'Vhope there maybe seasons of
deep refection and hearty repentance
Rural districts are accustomed to rail at
great cities as given up to fraud and every
form of unrighteousness, but our cities do
not absorb all the abominations. Our clti
seas have learned the importance of not
always trusting to the slse and style of ap
ples la the top of a fsrmer's barrel as au
indication of what may be found farther
down. Many of our people are accustomed
to watch and see how correctly a bushel of
beets Is measured, and there are not many
honest milk cans.
Deceptions do, hot all duster round city
halls. When bur cities sit down nnd weep
ovsr.thelr lns, sl the surrounding coun
tries ought to come In and weep with them.
There is often hostility on the part of pro
ducers against traders, as though the niau
who raises the corn was necessarily more
.honorable than the grain dealer who pours
It Into his mammoth bin. There ought to
bs no such hostility, Yet producers often
think it no wrong to snatoh awny from the
traier, and they say to the bargain maker,
"You get your money easy." Do they got
it easyr let those who in the quiet field
and barn get their living exchange places
with those who stand today amid the ex
clfssBont of commercial life and see it
tbejr lad it so very easy.
While the farmer goes to sleep with tho
aessjanos that his oorn and barley will bo
fsrowing all the night, moment by moment
toflsT lis sleen oonsoleas) that that1 moment
Ifeeawvo' ay be -broken en tbs-rocks or
by tho wave that sweeps clear
I the hurrleaa deck, or that reckless
T that very boar bs plotting
monetary revv'ution or the burglar
Ik prying neii hln safe, nr his debtors flee
I IK tlm town, or hln landlord raining the
rent, or the fires kindling on the Mock that
contains all hln estate. Konyl In Itf Qod
help the merchants! It In hard to have the
pal tun of thq hnndn blistered with outdoor
work, hut n more dreadful twice whoa
through mercantile anxieties tho brain Is
consumed.
MllltOANTIl.K UKS.
In tho uoxt pint wo notice me rcuit'ls
Ilea, those More tho counter and liehlnd
tho counter. I will not attempt to specify
tho different forms of commercial false
hood. Thoro are morcbnnU who excuse
themselves for deviation from truthful
ness because of what they call commercial
custom. In other words, tho multiplica
tion and universality of a sin turns It Into
a virtue. There havo been largo fortunes
gathered whero thoro was not one drop of
unrequited toll In the wine; not one spark
of bad temper flashing from tho bronxa
bracket; not one drop of ncedlo woman's
heart blood in tho crimson plush, whlls
thero nro other great establishments in
which thero Is not ouo door knob, not one
brick, not ono trinket, not one thread of
laco but linn upon It tho mark of dishonor.
What wonder If, some day, a hand of toll
that had been wrung and worn out and
blistered until the skin camn off should bo
Iilacod against tho elegant wall nnwr,
caving Its mark of blood four flngern and
athiiml or that some day, walking the
halls, thero should bo n voice nccontlug ths
occupant, saying, "Six cents for making a
shirt," and, flying tho room, another voles
Nhould say, "Twclvo cents for an nrmy
blanket," nnd tho mnn should try to sleep
nt night, but aver nnd anon bo aroused,
until, getting up on ono olbow, ho should
shriek out, "Who's theror"
Ono Sabbath night, In tho vestibule of
my church after sorvlco, a woman fell In
convulsions. Tho doctor said she needed
medicine not f J mveh an something to cat.
As she began o revive In her delirium, she
said giiKplugl) t "Klght cental Kight cental
Kight cental I wish 1 could gut It dono; I
am so tired I I wish I could get noma sleep,
but I must got It donol Klght cents! Klght
cental" Wo found afterward sho was mak
ing gnrmentn for night cents npiece, nnd
thnt sho could make but three of them In
a day! Three times eight an twenty-four!
Hear It, men nnd woman who have com
fortable homes!
Somo of tho worst villains of tho city nre
the employers of theso women, They boat
them down to tho lost penny, nnd try to
cheat them out, of that. Tho woman must
deposit n dollar or two before sho gets the
garments to work on. When the work Is
dono It Is sharply lunected, tho most in
significant flaws picked out, and tho wages
refused, nnd sometimes the dollar deposited
not given back. Tho Women's Protective
union reorts a case whero ono of these
poor souls, finding a place where sho could
get more wagon, resolved to change, em
ployers, and wont to get her pay for work
done. Tho employer says, "I hear you nro
going to leave mo." "Yes," sho said, "and
1 am como to got what youowa mo." He
made no answer. Sho said, "Are you not
going to pay mof" "Yen," ho said, "I will
pay you;" and he kicked her down the
stairs.
Thero nre thousands of fortunes made In
commercial spheres that nro throughout
righteous. God will lot his favor rest upon
every scroll, every pictured wall, every
trnceried window, nnd tho joy that flashes
from tho lights, and showers from the mu
slo and dances In the children's quick feet,
pattering through the hall, will utter the
congratulation of men and the npprovnl of
God.
THERE 18 KO NEED OF FALSEHOOD.
A merchant can, to tho hut Item, be
thoroughly honest. Thero is never any
need of falsehood. Yet how many will,
day by day, hour by hour, utter what they
know to bo wrong. You say that you nro
selling nt less than coit. It so, then it is
right to say it. Hut did that cost you less
than what you ask for It? If not, then you
have falsified. You say thnt thnt nrtlclo
cost you twenty-five dollars. Did ltr If
so, then all right. If It did not, then you
hnvo falsified.
Supposo you are a purchaser. You are
"beating down" the goods. You say that
that nrtlclo for which 11 vo dollars Is charged
is not worm more than tour. Is It worth
no more than four dollars? Then all right.
It it be worth more, nnd for tho sako of
getting It for less than Its value, you wil
fully depreciate It, you have falsified. You
may call It a sharp trade. Tho recording
angel writes it down on tho ponderous
tomes of eternity, "Mr. So-and-so, mer
chant on Water street or in Elahtli street
or in State street, or Mrs. So-nnd-so, keep
ing house on Beacon street or on Madison
avenue or Rlttenhousc square or Brook
lyn Heights or Brooklyn Hill, told one
falsehood." You may consider It Insignifi
cant because relating to an Insignificant
purchase. You would despise the man
who would falsify In regard to some great
matter In which tho city or tho whole
country was concerned; but this Is only a
box of buttons, or n row of pins, or n case
of needles. Bo not deceived. Tho nrtlclo
purchased may be so small you can put it
in your vest pocket, but the sin was bigger
than the Pyramids, and tho echo of the
dishonor will reverberate through all the
mountains of eternity.
You throw on your counter some speci
mens of handkerchiefs. Your customer
asksi "Is that all silk? No cotton in Itf"
You answer. "It la all silk." Was It all
sllkr If so, all right. But was It partly
coiionr -men you nave raiiitieti. More
over, you lost by the falsehood. The custo
mer, tnougb he may live nt Lynn or Doylea
town or Poughkeepsle, will find out that
you have defrauded him, and next spring
when he attain comes Bhonnlnu ho will
look at your sign and say: "I will not try
there! That is tho place whero I got that
handkerchief." So that by that one dis
honest bargain you picked your own
pocket nnd insulted the Almighty.
Would you dare to make au estimate of
how many falsehoods in trado were yester
day told by hardware men and clothiers
and fruit dealers and dry goods establish
ments aud importers and jewelers and
lumbermen and coal merchants nnd sta
tioners nnd tobacconists? Lies about sad
dles, about buckles, about ribbons, about
carpets, about gloves, about coats, about
shoes, about lints, about watches, about
carriages, atiout books about everything.
In the uame of the Lord Almighty, I ar
raign commercial falsehoods as one of the
greatest plagues in city aud town.
MECHANICAL UK8,
In the next place I notice mechanical
lias. There is no class of men who admin
ister more to the welfare of the city than
artisans. To tneir hsnd we must look for
the building that shelters us, for the gar
ments that clolfhe us, tor the car that car
ries us. They wield a widespread Influ
ence. There is much derision of what is
called "Muscular Christianity." but in tho
lattar day of the world's prosperity I think
that the Christian will be muscular. Wo
have a right to expect of itaosa stalwart
men ot toil tho highest possible integrity,
Many if them answer all our expectations,'
and stsad at the front of religious and
philanthropic enterprises. But this class,
Ilka tho others that I havo named, has in
It those who lack In tho element of vorno
Ity, They cannot all bo trusted. In
times when the demand for Inhor In great
It Is Imposslhlo to meet tho demands of tho
public, or do work with thnt promptness
nnd ierfectlon thnt would nt other times
Iks possible.
Hut thero nro meclianlcH whoso word
cannot bo trusted nt nuy time. No man
him n right lo promise mora work than ho
can do. Theru nro mechanics who say that
uioy win como on .Mommy, nut tliey tin
not como until Wednesday. You put work
In their hnndn thnt thoy toll ou slinll Ihj
completed In ten days, but It In thirty.
Thoro hnvo boon houses built of which it
might bo said that every nail driven, every
foot of plastering put on, ovory yard of
pipe Inlil.avury nhluglu hammered, every
brick mortared, could tell of falsehood con
nected thurowlth, Thoro nro men attempt
ing to do ton or llfleen pieces of work who
have not tho time or strength to do more
than five or six pieces, but by promises
never fulllllod keep all the undertakings
within their own grasp. Thin Is what they
call "nursing" tho job.
How much wrong to his soul nnd insult
to God a tucchaulo would navo If ho prom
ised only so much an ho exacted to bo able
to ilo. Society has no right to ask of you
Impossibilities. You cannot always oil
culato correctly, and you mny fall ItccntiHc
you cannot, get tho help that you antici
pate. Hut now I nin sieaklng of tho wil
ful making of promises that you know you
:autiot keep. Did you say that that shoe
ihould lie mended, that coat repaired, those
bricks laid, that harness sowed, that door
grained, that spout fixed or that window
glazed by Saturday, knowing that you
would neither Im nb!o to do It yourself nor
get any ouo clno to do It? Then, boforo
God nud man you nre n liar. You mny Bay
that It makes no particular difference, nnd
thnt If you had told tho truth you would
hnvo lost tho job, nnd that peoplo expect
to bo disappointed, but that excuse will
not answer. Thoro Isavolcu of thunder
rolling among tho drills and planes and
shoo lasts aud shears which says, "All liars
shall havo their part In tho lake that burn
etii with lire and brimstone."
KCCI.ERIA8TICAI. I.IKS.
I next notice ecclesiastical lies that is,
falsehoods told for the purpose of advanc
ing churches and sects, or for tho purpose
of depleting them. Thoro In no una In
luklng many nCalvinlst what art Armtiilnn
believes, for ho will I hi apt to tell you that
the Ariulnlnti believes that a man can con
vert himself; or to ask tho Armluiau what
tho Calvlntst believes, for ha will tell you
that tho Calvlulst believes that God made
wine men just to damn thorn. Thero Is no
need In asking a pa-do-Baptist what a Bap
tist believes, for ho will Im apt to say that
the Baptist believes Immersion to bo por.l
tlvely necessary to salvation. It is almost
Impossible for ono denomination of Chris
thus, without prejudice or misrepresenta
tion, to statu tho sentiment of au opposing
sect. It a man hates Presbyterians, and
you ask him what Presbyterians believe,
ho will tell you that thoy bcllovethat there
nre Infants In hell a span longl
It In strange, alno, how Individual
churches will sometimes make misstate
ments about other individual churches. It
Is especially no In regard to falsehoods told
with reference to prosperous enterprises.
As long as a church Is feeble, aud the sing
ing In discordant, and the minister, through
the poverty nt the church, must go with a
threadbare, coat, and hero and thcro a wor
shiper sits in tho end of u pew, having nil
tho seat to himself, religious sympathizers
of other churches will any, "What a pity!"
But let a great day of prosperity come, and
oven ministers of the Gospel, who ought to
bo rejoiced at tho largeness and extent of
tho work, denounce and misrepresent and
falsify, starting tho suspicion In regard to
themselves that tho reason they do not
like the corn Is because It Is not ground in
their own mill. How long boforo wo shall
learn to bo fair in our religious criticisms!
The keenest jealousies on earth nro church
jealousies. The Held of Christian work is
so largo that thero Is no need that our hoe
handles hit.
SOC1AI, LIK3.
Next I speak of social lies. This evil
makes much of society Insincere. You
know not what to believe. When people
ask you to come you do not know whether
or not thoy want you to como. When they
send their regards you do not know
whether it In an expression of their heart
or an external civility. Wo havo learned
to take almost everything nt a discount.
worn Is sent "Not at home," when they
aro only too lazy to dress themselves.
They say, "The furnace has just gone out,"
when in truth they have had no fire In it
all winter. They upologizo for tho un
usual barrenness of their table when they
never live any better. They decry their
most luxurious entertainments to win u
shower of approval. They apologize for
their appearance, as though it wero un
usual, when always at homo they look
Just so. They would make you believe that
somo nice sketch on the wall was tho work
of n master painter. "It was au heirloom,
and once hung on the walls of a castle,
nnd a duke gave it to their grandfather."
When the fact is that painting was made
by n man "down east," and baked so as
to make It look old, aud sold with others
for ten dollars a dozen. People who will
llo about nothing else will llo about n pict
ure. On a small Income wo must make
the world believe that we aro. ufHucnt, nnd
our life becomes n cheat, a counterfeit and
a sham.
Few iersons nre really natural. When 1
say this I do not mean to slur cultured
manners. It Is right that we should have
more admiration for the sculptured marble
tnnn lor tne unknown block of tho quarry.
From many circles In life Insincerity has
driven out vivacity and enthusiasm. A
frozen dignity instead floats about the
room, and iceberg grinds against Iceberg.
You must not laugh outright; It is vulgar.
You must smile. You must uotdash rapid
ly across tho room; you must glide. There
is a round of bows and grins and flatteries
and ohsl aud ahsl and slnierlug and
nambypambylsm a world of which Is not
worth ono good, round, honest peal of
laughter. From such a hollow round the
tortured guest retires ut thu close of the
evening and assures his hot that ho has
enjoyed himself!
What a round of Insincerities many peo
ple run In order tow In the favor of the
world! Their life is a sham and thelrdeath
an unspeakable sadness. Alas for the poor
butterflies when the frost strikes them!
A COMPAKISOX OF LIVES.
Compare the life and death of such a one
with that of some Christiau aunt who was
once a blessing to your household. I do
not know that sho was ever oifered tho
hand In marriage. She lived single, tlmt
untrnnimeted nhe might be everybody's
bletsing. WhUliver -.he sick were M be
visited, or the poor to Im provided with
bread, she weut with a blessing. Sho
could pray, or slug "Rock of Ages" for any
sick pauper who asked her. As she got
older there were days when sho was a lit
tie sharp, tbut for, the most part auntie was
sunbeam just the ouo for Christum
vs. She knew better than any one else
how to fix things. Her every prayer, as
God beard it, was full of everybody 'who
had trouble. Tho brightest things in nil
the house dropped from her fingers, Sho
had peculiar notlonn, but tho grandest no
tion she avcV had wan to mako you happy.
Sho dressed well auntlo nlwnys dressed
well; but her highest adornment was that
of n meek nnd quiet spirit, which, In tho
sight of God, in of great price. When she
died you nil gathered lovingly about her,
and as you carried her out to rest tho Sun
day school class almost covered tho coflln
with jaiMintcan, and tho poor people stood
nt tho end of tho alloy, with their aprons
to their eyes, sobbing bitterly; and tho
man of tho world said, with Solomon,
"Her price was nlwve rubles," nnd Jesus,
as unto the maiden in Judca commanded,
"I sny unto thee, nrlset"
But to many, through Insincerity, this
Ufa is a masquerade ball. An at such en
tertainments gentlemen and ladies appear
in tho dress of kings or queens, mountain
bandits or clowns, and nt tho close of the
dnnce throw oft their disguises, so in tills
dissipated llfo nil unclean passions mova
in mask. Across tho floor thoy trip mer
rily. Tho lights sparkle along tho wnll or
drop from tho celling a cohort of fire I
Tho music charms. Tho diamonds glitter.
Tho feet bound. Gemmed bunds stretched
out clasp gemmed hands. Dancing feet
respond to dancing feet. Gleaming brow
bonds to gleaming brow. On with tho
dnucol Flash and rustle nnd laughter and
Immeasurable merry makingt Hut tho
languor of death comes over tho limbs and
blurs tho sight.
Lights lowerl Floor hollow with sepul
chral echo. Music- saddens Into a wnll.
Lights lowerl Tho maskers can hardly
now bo seen. Flowers exchange their fra
grance for n sickening odor, such as comes
from garlands that havo lain in vaults of
cemeteries. Lights lowerl Mists fill the
room. Glasses rattle tin though shaken by
sullen thunder. Sighs seem caught among
the curtains. Scarf falls from tho shoulder
of Iwmity a shroud! Lights lowerl Over
tho slippery boards, lu danco of death,
glide Jealousies, disappointments, lust, do
spulr. Torn leaves and withered garlands
only half hldo the ulcered feet. Tho stench
of smoking lamp wicks almost quenched.
Choking damps. Chilliness. Feet still.
Hands folded. Kycsshut. Voices hushed.
Lights out!
.Story of a lllack Hiiske.
Mr. Louis Merlgold, a well known New
York caterer, Is fond of telling of a largo
klack suaku that was a fast friend of lilt
for many months.
"Mv first ncniinlntniira will. Mm mmln
said he, "enmo nbout when I went on a sol
itary iisuingoxcursioii. i was In tho habit
of takiuir n small mint on h Hinuim In !,,.
northern part of tho state. After fishing
mo stream i always moored tho punt In
tho same place, and stepping ashore pro
ceeded to clean tho fish that I had caught.
Whllo thus engaged this black snako came
from beneath a rock, nnd nfter quietly
looking mo over proceeded to mako a menl
of tho refuse from tho fish. Ho then re
tired. Tho next dny I found him waiting
for mo when I returned, and nfter that we
beenmo if reat friends. It wm nnt. lnn lu.
fore ho would glide into tho punt, and coll
ing nimseir up go nsiiing with me. I
nover did anything to offend him and ho
evinced no fear of me.
Ono day I was unable to goon tho stream,
but gave directions to two friends who de
sired a day's fishing where to find tho punt,
but neulected to mention mv frlnl tt,..
snako. As they approached the boat they
were iiornucu to see ino largo reptile glid
ing toward them. In fear and anger ono
of them raised a largo stono, nnd dropping
it crushed tho llfo out of my whilom com
panion. When I heard of It I was angry
nnd sorehonrted for a long tlmo over tho
loss of my curious pet." New York News.
flaming In a Cemetery.
A cemetery seems n queer placo in which
to set up n gambling hell, but those who
woo fortune at Squirrel Hill, Pa., evident
ly caro little for their surroundings. At
any rnto Robert Walters, sexton of the
Gorman Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery,
Is in jail for tho offense of maintaining a
gambling house in the graveyard. Walters
lives In the dwelling at tho cemetery gate.
For months past ho has been using his
house as n resort, permitting such games
as faro, ioker and n strictly German pas
time styled "hip." Ho was paid a percent
age of tho money handled, nnd lu addition,
it is alleged, disposed of strong liquid re
freshments to his guests. Often there
were a score or more of players in the
house.
The existence of the "game" was discov
ered In a peculiar manner. Ono Sunday
there was n dispute and somo of Walters'
customers bought their own supply of
beer, and tnkiugup a place on the cemetery
proierty proceeded to have a good time.
Wnlters called tho police, who arrested the
men. Upon lielug arraigned they were
fined and overheard to remark that if
Walter's didn't pay their fines thoy would
tell something to his disadvantage. The
ofllcers kept quiet until Walters came for
ward aud settled. He was arrested, aud
In default stood committed.
llnmtiless unil In l'rUon.
When a woman gets started on the down
ward way she gets many kicks and few
boosts. If tho tale told by Annie Jones, of
New York city, Is true, sho is more sinned
against than sinning. Sho said that she
could not pay her rent, and that tho land
lord, to save the cost of eviction proceed
ings, got an officer to arrest her. She was
charged with disorderly conduct and sent
to work for ten days at Bellevue hospital.
When liberated she found her home occu
pied by strangers nnd her furniture gone.
Another arrest followed, tho charge this
time being ono ot theft preferred by a
Bellevue ofllclal, who missed property val
ued at ono dollar. A woman who said sho
saw Annie take the goods failed to testify,
but tho prisoner received another sentenco
of ten days nevertheless.
Cost of Stan's Outfit.
"What does It cost to lit a man out now?"
I asked ot a dealer In gentlemen's furnish
ing Koods.
"Well, that Is hard to say. A man who
buys a lino necktie may Ilka cheap sus
penders, and another will like something
else cheap. That Is the way It is w ith most
purchasers. A man who wants to stock
his wardrolw Just beforo ho gets married
spends unywheie between W5 and 9150 and
more. A man of tho ultra elite may repre
sent eighteen dollars' worth of gentlemen's
furnishing goods from his hosiery to hit;
collar." lxjulsvillo Post.
Ills First lllbl.
A down caster purchased a Bible, which
was quite an event In his llfo aud that ot
his neighbors He Informed his friends of
his purchase, stating that "ho had got a
Pollywog Bible with the Hypocrai y in it."
It was quite a time before his friends de
cided that lie meant n Polyglot coi'tnliilng
the Apocrypha. Providence Journal.
Within the past fifteen months mora
than 4,000 tenants have been evicted, many
bv force. In the city of London.
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