CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY APRIL 18, :S9i.
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TIlEDANaKKOUSCfiASSKS
DR. TALMAQE
THE HIGH
FINDS THEM AMONG
AND THE POOR.
The Man of UViitlli mill I.eUurn U'lm
"KIIUTIme" In Dnlnii Nullilng ,l tlm
Otlirr lltlrnim Are tlm (Jrlinliml I'mir,
thu llmperrttft mill lrimh hitf.
Nkw YoiiK, April IS. -Dr. Tnluwtgo, In
coiittiiimnre of the course of sermons nu
"The Ten Plagues of tlm Cities," today
preached to largo audiences In the llrook
lyn Academy or Muslo In the foreiinon,
mid at The Christian Herald nervlco at tlm
Now Yoik Academy of Music In tlm even.
ItiKiOH "The Plagtioof 'rlnu." lie took
for hU text KxuiIun vll, S, "All tlm waters
that wen In tlm river were tnrneil to
blowl."
Anions nil tlm Kgyptlan plagues nonu
could hnvo been worMithnn thN. TlmNlhi
in the wealth or Kgypt, IN IIhIi the food,
It waters the Irrigation or garden and
field. Its eontlltlon decides t he prosperity
or the (loom or tlm empire,. What happens
to tin) Nil u happens to all Kypt. Ami
now In tlm text that groat river Is Incarna
dined. ' It Mured gash across an empire.
In poetla license wo Hcnk or wars which
turn the river Into blood. Hut my text Is
not a poetic license. It was a fact, a great
otltusoiv appalling condition described.
The Nile rolling deep of blond. Can you
Imagine n more awful plagueF
The miMleru plague which nearest corre
ponds with that Is tho plague of crlmo In
Ml our cities. It halts not ror bloodshed,
It shrinks from no enrungo. It bruises
And cuts and strikes down nnd destroys,
Itrovols In tlm blood or I tody and soul,
this plague or crime rampant ror ages, and
never bolder or moro rampant than now,
Thu annual police reports or theso cities
aa I examine them are to mo morn sug
gcstlvo than Dante's Inferno, and all
Christian jiooplo as well an reformers need
to awaken to a present ami tremendous
duty. If you want this "Plague or Crime"
tostop there uro several kinds of persons
you need to consider. First, tho pulillo
criminals. You ought not to bo surprised
that these penplo make up a large portion
In many communities. Thu vast majority
of tho criminals who tako ship from Mil
ropocoiuu Into our own port. InlWKi, of
tho forty-nlno thousand people who worn
Incarcerated In tho prisons of the country
thirty-two thousand were or foreign birth.
Many of them wero thu very despera
does of society, oozl n Into tlm slums
of our city, waiting ror an opportunity to
riot and steal and debauch, Joining tlm
largo gang or American thugs and cut
throats. Thoronrulu this cluster (if cities New
York, Jersey City and llrooklyu four
thousand woplo whoso entire business in
life Is to commit suicide. That Id its much
tholr business as Jurisprudence or medicine
or merchandise is your business. To It. they
bring nil their energies of body, mind and
oul, and they look upon tlm Intervals
which thoy spend In prison ns so much un
fortunate loss of time, Just as you look
upon an attack or liilluonr.il and rheuma
tism which fastens you in thuhouso forn
row days. It Is their lifetime business to
filck pockets and blow up safes and shop
1ft ami ply tho panel game, and they
hnvo ai much pride or skill In their business
aa you hnvo In yours when you upset tho
Argument of an opposing counsel, or euro
a gunshot fracture which other surgeons
have given up, or foresee a turn In tho
market iu you buy goods just before they
go up 90 per cent. It la tholr business to
commit crime, and I do not suppose that
onco In a year the thought of tho Immor
ality strikes them.
Added to theso professional criminals,
American and foreign, there are a largo
doss of men who aro moro or less Indus,
trlous In crinio. In ouo year the police In
this cluster of cities arrested teu thousand
people ror theft, and ten thousand for no
aault and battery, and fifty thousand for
Intoxication, Drunkenness Is responsible
for much of tho theft, since It confuses a
man's ideas of property, and ho gets his
bands on things that do not belong to htm.
Hum Is re.sMiuslblo for much of the assault
and tmttery, Inspiring men to sudden brav
ery, which they must demonstrate though
It be on tho face of tho next gentleman.
BOCtKTT TttltKATKNKI) ON AM. 8IIIK.9.
Ten million dollars' worth of property
stolen in this cluster of cities In one year!
You cannot, as good cltlaena, bo Indepen
dent of that fact. It will touch your
pocket, slnco I have to give you the fact
that these three cities pay about eight
million dollars' worth of taxes a year to
arraign, try and support the criminal pop.
nlatlon. You help to pay the board of
every criminal, from the sneak thief that
snatches a spool of cotton up to somo man
who swamps a bank. More than that, it
touches your heart In tho moral depression
of tho community. You mluht ns well
think to stand In a closely confined room
where there aro fifty people and yet not
breathe tho vitiated air, as to stand In a
community where there is such a great
multitude of tho depraved without some
what being contaminated., What Is tho
fire that burns your store down compared
with the conflagration which consumes
your morals? What is tho theft of the
gold and silver from your money safe com
pared with the theft of your children's vir
tue f
We aro all ready to arraign criminals.
We shout at the top of our voice, "Stop
thlefl" and when the police get on tho
track we como out, hatless and In our slip
pers, and assist In tho arrest. Wo como
around the bawling ruffian and hustle him
off to justice, and when ho gets iu prison
what do wo do for hlmr With great gusto
we put on the handcuffs and tho hopples;
but what preparation aro wo making for
the day when the handcuffs and tho hop
ples como ollr Society seems to say to
theso criminals, "Villain, go in there and
rot," when It ought to say, "You aro an
offender against tho law, but wo mean to
give you an opportunity to reent; wo
mean to help you. Hero aro lllbles aud
tracts and Christian Influences. Christ
died for you. Ijok, and live."
Vast Improvements have been made by
Introducing Industries into tho prison; but
we want something more than hammers
and shoo lasts to reclaim theso people. Aye,
we want moro than sermons on tho Sab
bath day. Society must imprest these men
with, the fact that It does not enjoy their
suffering, and that it is attempting to re
form and elevate them. Tho majority of
criminals suppose that society has agrudgo
ugalust them, aud they in turn have it
grudge ogaliibt society.
They uro harder iu heart and more infurl
itte when they como out of jail than when
they went iu. Many of tho people who go
to priaou go again aud again ami again.
Some years ago, of fifteen hundred pris
oners' who during the year had been In
Sing Sing, four buudred had been there
before. In n house of correction in the
coaiitry,.wbire durlug acortutti roach of
tine there bad bean live thousaud people,
h iuiw iiuiumuii uiii ucuu mere
So, in oo ca the prUou, aud la
tlm other Hie homo of correction, loitthm
jutt Hi hail n they weiii Iteforo. .
Tim mi'ietiirviir one or tlm benevolent '
societies of Now York sajs a lad fifteen
years of ago had spent three years of his
Ilfn III prison, and he said to Dm lad,
"Wliiil. have they done ror you to make
you better" "Well," replied tlm lad, "thu
first Unit) I was brought up before tlm
Judge he said, 'You ought to bo ashamed
or yourself.' And then I committed a
crlmo again, and I was brought up Iieforu
tlmsaum judge, and ho said, 'You raseall'
And after a while I committed somo other
crime, and I was brought before thu sainii
Judge, ami ho said, 'You ought to In)
hanged.'" That was all they bad done
for hlin In the way of reformation and sal
vation. "Oh," you say, "these peoplo am
Incorrigible." I suoso there am hun
dreds of persons this day lying In thu
prison hunks who would leap up at tho
prospect of reformation if society would
only allow them a way Into decency and
respectability.
TDK UNCIIAIItrAlll.r. JtnxiKH.
"Oh," you say, "1 have no patience with
these rogues," I ask you In reply, how
much Inner would you have been under
tho H.i mo clrcuuistaucesf Suppose your
mother had been n blasphemer aud your
father a sot, and you had started life with
a body HtulTed with evil proclivities, aud
you had spent much of yourtlnm Iu n collar
amid obscenities and cursing, ami If at ton
yea rsof ago you had been compelled tngoout
ami steal, battered and banged at night If
you came In without any spoils, ami suppose
your early manhood and womanhood had
I icon covered with rags ami tilth, ami ilo-
lent society had turned Its back upon you.
ml left you to consort, wit': vagaimutis anil
wharf rats bow much Iwttcr would you
have been? I have no sympathy with that
oxecullvo clemency which would let crlmo
run loose, or which would sit Iu tlm gallery
of a court room weeping hecnuso somo
hard hearted wretch is brought to justice;
but I do say that tlm surety aud life of thu
community demand moro potential Influ
ences In lmhalt ol pulillo oiremiera,
Iu some or tlm city prisons tho air Is like
that or tho Illack Hole or Calcutta. I havu
visited prisons where, as tlm air swept
through tlm wicket, It almost knocked me
down. No sunlight. Young men who had
committed their first crime crowded iu
among old olTcmlers. I saw In one prison
a woman, with a child almost blind, who
had been arrested for tlm crime of poverty,
wlio was waiting until the slow law could
tako her to tho almshouse, where she
rightfully belonged; but slm was thrust In
there with her child amid tlm most aban
doned wretches of tho town, .Many of tho
olTendors In that prison slept on tho
floor, with nothing hut a vermin covered
blanket over them. Those peoplo crowded
ami wall ami wasted and half sulTocated
and Infuriated. I said to tlm men, "How
do you stand It herur" "God knows," mild
ouo man, "wo havu to stand It." Oh, thoy
will pay you when they get out. Where
they burned down ouo house they will
burn three. They will strike deeper tho
assassin's knife. They aro this minute
plotting worse burglaries.
Sumo of tho city jails aru tho best places
I kuow of to tunuiifucturo footpads, vaga
bonds ami cutthroats. Yalu college Is not
so well calculated to make scholars, nor
Harvard so well calculated to make scien
tists, nor Princeton ho well calculated to
make theologians, as many of our Jails aro
calculated to make criminals. All that those
men do not know of crlmo after they have
been In that dungeon for some time, Sa
tanic machination cannot teach them. Iu
tho lusutTerablo stench and sickening sur
roundings of such places there Is nothing
but disease for the body, Idiocy for tho
mind, and death for tho soul. Stilled air
and darkness aud vermin never turned ii
thief Into au holiest man.
Wo want men like, John Howard and Sir
William Hlackstono and women like Eliz
abeth Fry to do for tho prisons of tho
United States what those peoplo did in
other days for tho prisons of Kngjaml. I
thank God for what Isaac T. Hopor aud
Dr. Wines and Mr. Harris aud scores of
others have done In tlm way of prison re
form, but wo want something more radical
before will como tho blessing of him who
said, "I was in prison, and yo canio unto
mo."
TIIK CIIIMK or MISaoVKUNMKNT.
Again, in your effort to arrest this plague
of crlmo you need to consider untrust
worthy ofllclnls. "Woo unto thee, O land,
when thy king ia a child, and thy princes
drink in the morning." It Is a great
calamity to a city when bad men get into
public authority. Why was it that in New
York there was such unimralleled crime be
tween 1800 and 187U It was becauso the
judges of police in that city at that time
for the most part wero as corrupt aa tho
vagabonds that came before them for trial.
. Those were the daya of high carnival for
election frauds, assassination and forgory.
We had all kinds of rings. There was ouo
man during thoso years that got one hun
dred aud twenty-eight thousand dollars in
one year for serving tho public.
In a few years it was estimated that
there wero fifty millions of publlo treasure
squandered. In those times tho criminal
had only to wink to tho judge, or his law
yer would wink for him, and the question
was decided for tho defendant. Of tho eight
thousaud peoplo arrested In that city In
ono year only three thousand were punish
ed. These little matters wero "fixed up,"
while tho Interests of society wero "fixed
down." You know as well as I do that one
villain who escapes only opens tho door for
other criminalities. When tho two pick
pockets snatched tho diamond pin from tho
Brooklyn gentleman In a Broadway stage,
and the villains were arrested and the trial
was Bet down for tho general sessions, and
then tho trial never came, and never any
thing moro was heard of tho case, tho pub
llo officials wero only bidding higher for
moro crlmo.
It Is no compliment to publlo authority
when we have In all tho cities of tho coun
try, walking abroad, men aud women no
torlous for criminality unwhlpped of Jus
tice. They aro pointed out to you in tho
street day by day. There you find what
aro cnlleil tho "fences," tho men who stand
between tho thief and tho honest man,
sheltering the thief, mid at n great price
handing over tho goods to the owner to
whom they belong. There you will find
thoso who aro called tho "skinners," the
men who hover around Wall strict, with
great sleight of hand in bonds ami stocks.
There you find tho funeral thieves, tho
peoplo who go ami sit down and mourn
with families and pick their pockets. And
there you find tho "confidence men," who
borrow money of you becauso they have a
dead child iu tho house ami want to bury
It, when they never had a house or a fami
ly; or they want to go to Kuglaml aud get
a largo property there, and they want you
to pay their way and they will send the
money back by tho very next mall.
There aro the "harbor thieves," the
"shoplifters, " the "pickpockets," famous
all over the cities, Hundreds of them with
the(r faces In tho Rogues' gallery, yet do
ing nothing for the lout Ave or teu years
but defraud' society aud' escape justice.
Whc these people go unarrested und un
puuibed It la putting a high premium
inu vtr mill tctyniK " "ho yotuiu crlmi-
'""I f this country, "What, u nafti thing It
In to he a gloat criminal!" a'1 tliu law
swoop upon them. I .el It lie Known In
this country that crime will have no quar
ter; that the detecthes lironflerlt; that tlm
police club Is being brandished; (bat thu
iron door of the prison is lielng opened;
that the Judgo Is ready to call on thu case,
Too great leniency to criminals Is tjo great
severity to society.
llll.KNI.si ISVITIM 1IIH IlKVIL
Again, III your effort to arrest this plague
or crime you need to consider tlm Idle pop
ulation. Of course I do not lefer to people
who aro getting old, or to tlm sick or to
those who cannot got work, but 1 tell you
to look out for those athletic men mid
iMiuieu who will not work When the
Krench nobleman was asked why bo kept
busy when ho bad so large u propel ty he
odd, "I keep on engraving so I may not
hung myself," I do not euro who tlm man
h, yuu cannot nlToid to be Idle. It, Is from
he idle classes that tlm criminal classes
ire made up. Character, like water, get.s
putrid If It stands still too long. Who can
wonder tl it In this world, where t hero Is
m much to do, ami all the hosts or earth
mil heaven aud bell are plunging into the
'iinlllct and angels are Hying and God Is at
work and tlm universe Is a-quaku with the
marching and counter marching, that (!od
lets Ids Indignation rail upon a man who
mouses Idleness!1
I have watched these do-nothings who
ipenil their time stroking their beard ami
retouching their toilet and criticising In
lustrlous people, aud pass their days and
nights lu barrooms ami club houses, loung
ing and smoking and chewing aud card
playing. They aro not. only useless, but
limy aro dangerous, How hard It Is for
them to whllu away tlm hours! Alas, for
tbeiul H they do not kuow how to while
'way an hour, what will they do when
they have all eternity on their hands?
Theso men for a whilo smoke tlm best ci
gars ami wear thu hc:t clothes and move
iu the highest spheres, but I havu notlcisl
that very soon they como down to the
prison, tho almshouse, or stop at tlm gal
lows. The polleu stations or this cluster or
"It leu furnish annually between two and
'hrce hundred thousand lodgings. Fort In
most part these two null three hundred
thousaud lodgings ate furulshisl to able
'milled men ami women people as able to
.vork as you and ! are. When they aro ie
;elved no longer at onu polleu station he
can so they uro "repeaters" they go to
40UIO other station, and so they keep mov
ing around. They get their food at house
doors, stealing what they can lay their
hands on In thu front basement while the
servant Is spreading tlm bread iu tlm back
basement. They will nut work. Time und
again, In tho country districts, they havu
wauled hundreds and thousands of labor
ers. Thesu men will not go. They do not
want to work. I havu tried them. I have
set then) to sawing wood lu my cellar to
seo whether they wanted to work. I of
fered to pay them well for It. I have
heard tho saw going fo.' about tlireu min
utes, and then I went down, ami lot thu
wood, but no saw I Thoy aro the pest or
society, and they stand lu thu way of tlm
lird's poor who ought to bo bellied, aud
must bo helped, ami will lie helped.
While there aruthoucaudsof industrious
men who cannot get any work, theso men
who do not want any work come lu ami
make that plea. 1 aiu In favor or tho res
toration of tho old fashioned whipping post
for just this ono class of men who will not
work sleeping at night at publlo expense
lu tho station house; during tho day get
ting their food at your doorstep.. Imp. Is
onment does not scare them. They would
like it. lllackwell's Island or Sing Slug
would bo a comfortable homo for them.
Thoy would havu no objection to tho alms
house, for they llko thin soup, If they can
not feet mock turtle.
I propose this for them: On ono side of
them put somo healthy work; on tho other
side put a rawhide, and let them tako their
choice. I llko for that class of peoplo tho
scant bill of faro that Paul wrote out for
tboThessaloniau loafers, "If any work not,
neither should ho eat." Hy what law of
Uod or man Is It right that you and I
should toll day lu and day out, until our
hands aru blistered and our arms ache and
our brain gets numb, and then bo called
upon to support what In tho United States
aro about two million loafers. They aru a
very dangerous class. Let tho publlo au
thorities keep their eyes on them.
TIIK ILL TliKATKD 1IKCOMK DKSI'KIIATK.
Again, among thu uprooting classes 1
place tho oppressed oor. Poverty to n
certain extent is chastening, but after that,
when it drives a man to tho wall, and ho
hears his children cry in vain for bread, It
sometimes makes him desperate I think
that there aro thousands of honest men
lacerated Into vagalwndlsm. There are
men crushed under burdens for which they
aro not half paid. While thoro is no ex
cuse for criminality, even In oppression, I
state it as a simple fact that much uf tho
scoundrellsm of tho community Is conse
quent upon 111 treatment. There aro many
men, and women battered and bruised and
stung until tho hour of despair has come,
and they stand with tho ferocity of a wild
Ix-ast which, pursued until it can run no
lunger, turns round, foaming and bleeding,
to tight tho hounds.
There is a vast underground Now York
ami Brooklyn life that Is appalling and
shameful. It wallows and steams with
putrefaction. You go down tho stairs,
which uro wet and decayed with filth, and
at tho liottom you find tho poor victims ou
tho floor, cold, sick, three-fourths dead,
slinking Into a still darker corner under
the gleam of tho lantern of tho police.
There has not been a breath of fresh air In
that room for flyo years, literally. Tho
broken sewer empties Its contents upon
them, and they Ho at night In the swim
ming tilth. There they are, men', women,
children;' blacks, whites; Mary Magdalen
without her repentance, and lizarus
without his God. These aro "thu dives"
Into which tho pickpockets aud tho thieves
go, as well as a great many who would like
a illlTcreut life but cannot get It.
Theso places aro thu sores of tho city,
which bleed perpetual corruption. Thev
aro thu underlying volcano that threatens
us with a Cameras earthquake. It rolls
ami roars ami surges and heaves and rocks
and blasphemes and dies, ami there are
only two outlets for It thu police court
and the Potter's Held. u other words,
they must either go to prison or to hell,
Oh, you never saw It, you my. You never
will s) It until on tho day when those
staggering wretches shall como up lu the
light ef tho Judgment throne, ami whlluall
hearto aro being revealed, God will auk
you what you did to help them.
There Is another layer or poverty and
destitution not so squalid, but almost us
helpless. You hear tho lucesMiut walling
lor bread ami clothes aud fire. Their eyes
are Miukcu. Their check hones stand out.
Their bands aro damp with slow consump
tion. Their flesh Is pulled up with drop
sles. 'j'helr breath Is llko that or the char
uel house. They hear the rour of tho
wheels of fashion overhead aud tho gay
laughter of meu and maidens, aud woudcr
why Qod gave to others so much and to
them so little. Somo of them thtust Into
nn Infidelity llko that of tlm poor German
girl who, when told lu tlm midst of her
wretchedness tluit God wiu) good, said:
"No; no good God. Just look at mo. No
good God."
Ot'lt ilOO.OOO MlflKIIAW.Y I'OOIt.
Iu this cluster or cities whoso cry or
want I Interpret them are said to be, as far
as I can figure It up from tho reports,
nlxiut tlireu hundred thousand honest
poor who are dependent upon Individ
ual, city aud statu charities. If all their
voices could come up at onco it would
bo a groan that would shako tho founda
tions of tlm city ami bring all earth
and heaven to tlm rescue, lint for thu
most part It sutlers unexpressed. It
sits lu silence gnashing its teeth and suck
ing thu blood of Its own arteries waiting
ror thu Judgment day. Oh, I should not
wonder iron that day It would ho round
out that somo or us had somo things that
belonged to them, somo extra garment
which might have miidu them comfortable
lu cold days; somu bread thrust into tlm
ash barrel that mlht havu appeased their
hunger for n little whllu; somo wasted ixiu
dloorgas Jet that might havu kindled up
their darkness; somo fresco ou the celling
that would havu given them a roof; somo
juwel which, biought to that orphan girl
In time, might havu kept her from being
crowded oil' tlm precipices) of an unclean
life; somo Now Testament that would
have told tlieui of him who "catim to seek
ami save that which was lost."
Oh, this wavu or vagrancy ami hunger
and nakedness that dashes against our
front door slept If thu roofs of all tlm
houses of destitution could bo lifted so wo
could look down Into them Just as God
looks, whoso nerves would bo strong
enough to stand Itf And yet thoro they
nro. Tho llfty thousand sowing women lu
theso three cities, somu of them iu hunger
ami cold, working night after night, until
sometimes tho blood spurts from nostril
und lips.
How well their grief was voiced by that
despairing womat. who stood by her Invalid
aiudmuil and invalid child, and said to tlm
city missionary: "I am down hearted.
Everything's against us; ami then thero
aro other tilings." "What other things?"
said thu city missionary. "Oh," situ replied,
"my hln." "What do you mean by tlmtr"
"Well," slm said, "I never hear or sen any.
thing good. It's work from Monday morn
ing till Saturday night, ami then when
Sunday comes I can't go out, ami I walk
thu lloor.uud It makes mutreiublu to think
that I huvo got to meet God. Oh, sir, It's so
hard for us. Wo havu to work mi, and then
wo havu so much trouble, ami then wo aro
getting along so poorly; and seo tills weo
little thing growing weaker ami weaker;
ami then tothlnk we aro not getting nearer
to God, but tloatiug away from him. Oh,
sir, I do wish I was ready to dlo."
1 should not wonder if thoy had a good
deal bet tor limo than wo In tho future, to
make up for tlm fact that thoy had such a
bad time here. It would lo Just llko .lesiiti
to say: "Como up ami taku tho highest
seats. You suffered with mo ou earth;
now bo glorified with mo In heaven." O
thou weeping Ono of Ilethauyl O thou dy
ing Ono of tho cross! Have "mercy on the
starving, freezing, homeless poor of theso
great cltle.il
TIIK UPIIOOTIXU CI.ASSK3.
I have preached tills sermon for four or
(lvo practical reasons: Because I want you
to know who aro tho uprooting classes of
society. Becauso I want you to bo moro
discriminating In your charities. Becauso
I want your hearts open with generosity,
and your hands open with charity. Be
causo I want you to bo made tho sworn
friends of all city evangelization, and all
newsboys' lodging houses, and all chil
dren's aid societies, aud Dorcas societies,
under tho skillful manipulation of wives
and mothers aud sisters ami daughters;
let tho spare garments of your wnrdrobes
bo fitted to tho limbs of tho wan ami shiv
ering. I should not wonder If that hat
that you give should como back a jeweled
coronet, or if that garment that you hand
out from your wardrolsj should mysteri
ously do wuuoneii, ami somehow wrought
into tho Saviour's own robe, so in tho last
day ho would run his hand over It and say,
"1 was naked and yo clothed mo." That
would bo putting your garments to glori
ous uses.
But moro than that, I have preached tho
sermon becauso I thought lu tho contrast
you would seo how very kindly God had
dealt with you, and I thought that thou
sands of you would go to your comfortable
homes and sit at your well filled tables
and at tho warm registers, und look at tho
round faces of your children, aud that then
you would burst Into tears at tho review of
God's goodness to you, nnd that you would
go to your room and lock thu door and
kneel down and say:
"O Iionl, I have been an Ingrate; mako
mo thy child. O Lord, thero aro so many
hungry and unclad and unsheltered today,
I thank thee that all my life thou hast
taken such good jgiro of mo. O Iortl, thero
aro so many sick am! crippled children to
day, I thank thee mine aro welt somo of
them ou earth, somo of them in heaven.
Thy goodness, O Ixml, breaks mo down.
Take mo onco ami forever. Sprinkled as 1
was many years ago at tho altar, whilo my
mother held me, now I consecrate my soul
to thee lu a holier baptism of repenting
tears.
"For sinners, Lord, thou cam'st to bleed,
And I'm a sinner vllo Indeed;
Iml, I believe thy grace Is free,
O magnify that grace to me."
A Cur llrlvnr's Story.
"Yes; I'd rather bo a car driver than a
private coachman In a swell family," said
a stout, rosy faced young man on a Broad
way car. "It's just this way: I know my
hours now, ami I can say Just when I'll lie
home with my wife nnd babies, and when
I won't. When I was driving for the G.'s,
up on Madison avenue, I never knew a
minute's peace. When I had nothing to
do I must lie always lu tho stable, subject
to orders. I had iR-aiitlful clothes and all
I could eat, but thu work came that hard
on mo sometimes that I nearly died.
"When thero wero visitors I was going
all thu time; every night I was out till 'J
or 3 in thu morning at balls and parties,
nun un "in imn iiisl iiuwii aiming mc
shops ami then out through thu park. At
last my woman said she'd run away from
mo U I didn't keep lietter hours. I spoke
to tho mistress about it, and sbu said If I
didn't llko my place I could leave. That
night thero was a big ball at Delmnnlco's
and I didn't get homo until 4 lu tho morn
ing, after waiting nearly two hours iu tho
coldest wind that ever blow.
"I gottlowuto my house Justus tho wom
an was getting up to light thu lire for
breakfast. I deserved u different kind or a
warm reception from .ho ouo I got. There
was no usb of explaining about tho ball,
l had to tnko my scolding, and it was that
bad I muds up my mind to leave my place
that very day. I did so, and gotajobon
thu railroid bare. Now I'm all right. I
ain't tony and I can't look down on poor
Iicoplo the way I could from my high Ikj.y,
iut 1 can get homo at night aud not get
luy bead howled oil me. Met ween you und
me, a car company is pretty tough ou its
servants, but it isn't a marker to a swell
old society woman." New York Letter,
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