Capital city courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1893, November 12, 1892, Image 2
CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATUKAY, NOVEMBER 12, 189? ,1 t ATTHETAMKNAOIjK. 1 A SERMON ADDRESSED TO VOT ERS JUST BEFORE ELECTION. TIik Hniiilrn f JSIrr(i, llMliylmi, Tyre, Nlilnn mill Many Morn Wnru U Thl Nnllmt l Attn IIitiiiiiIiik Corrupt mill I.lrlillon "Krriinn U NiTcmnrr," HltooKl.Yfl4 ,Jov. (I Unv. Dr. Talmnun txlity At'loctWl for hi Mrlnon it ftiihject Mif uYlently nppmprinti for Ihrmi tlini,Vflii'n throtiKutiulUio United State ureal pollt leal iplrntlnnx nru Im'IiikiIIshinmM and the nntlou In about to k to thn Imlliit box anil decide who Klmll rule hi tliu neighborhood, (own, city nml imtlnn. Tlio text chovti wm Itovplntlon xvlll, 10, "Ainu, nlnn, Hint Kivnt rlty Hithyton, Hint mighty city, for In one hour 1 thy Judgment cornel" Modern xclcnllut nru doing it nptrudld work In excnvittltiKthotomhof itdoadMii plrti hnldluK In It nrniH ndend city moth or mill child of the Minis unins, Ilnhylnn. Tim nnclriit tiioiinil Invite tho ipitdcfl.nud Miovrlft nml rrowbiir while tho unwiuhrd native look on hi nurprlno. Thimo kcIi-ii-lint thiil yellow brick nt 111 Improved with tho n n in o of Nuhiichiiilni'iixnr, nml tliry ko down Into tho unrcoplniKUn of n iiinnnrchy tmrltnl nioro thiin two thouiuinil ?rnr no. Mny tho exploration of Haw Inoon nml Lnynrd nml Chevalier nml Op itcrlo nml 1-ofHm nml Chrmixy ho eellpMil by tho prrieut nrchivoloKlrul uncoverluKl TIIK AWKUI, IIUIN. Uut in It )ohmI)Io thl Is nil Hint roinnhii of Jlnhylon it city onco flvo tliiu-n turner than liomlon nml twelve Union Inrwr thiin Now Yorkf Wiilln threo hundred nml mv-enty-thivc feet IiIkIi and ninety-three feet thick. Twonty-llvo burnished nates on ench aide, with MrtrtN running clear throuuh to corrt-HpomlliiK K'lte tho otic cr Mile. Hlx hundred nml twenty-live MiiArpN. Mora pomp and wealth unit npUm dor mid nlu than could bo found In any llvo modem titles combined. A city of induces ami temples. A city hnvltiK within It h gnrden on mi artificial hill four hun dred feet hlKh, tho sides of tho mountain terraced. All this built to keep tho klnx' wife, Aniytls, from In-comlng homesick for the motintiitnou rental In which hIio IiiiiI (pent her girlhood. The waters of tho Luphrntea spouted up to IrrlKnto this nreitt altltudo Into fruits nnd flours nnd urlio reacence unlnitinlnitblu. A nroat rlvor run titan from north to south clear throunli the city, brldues over it, tunuels under It, boat on It, A city of bncnnrs nnd of market places, unrivaled for nronmtlcs nml tiunticntM, nml high mettled horses with Krooms by their aide, anil thyme wood, nml African ever green, ami KKyptlmi linen, and nil styles of costly textllu fabric, and rarest purples extracted from shellfish on tho Mediter ranean coast, nnd rarest scarlets taken from brilliant Insects lu Spnlu, nnd ivorta brought from successful eleplinnt hunts In India, nml diamonds whoso flush war it repartee to tho sun. Fortress within for tress, embattloment rising above embnt Moment Great capital of the ages. Hut one night, while honest cltltem went sleep, but all tho saloons of snturnnlla were In full blast, and at tho king's cnstlo they bad filled tho tankards for tho tenth time, and reeling ami guffawing and hic coughing around tho state tahlo were tho rulers of the land, General Cyrus ordered hla besieging army to tako shovels nnd padea, nnd they diverted the river, from Its usual channel into another direction, so that the forsaken bed of the river liecama the path oa which tho besieging urmy en tered. When tho morning dawned tho conquer ors were insldo the ouUldo trenches. IJaby Ion had fallen, nnd hence tho sublime threnody of the text. "Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city, for in ono hour is thy judgment cornel" Hut do nations dlof Oh, yes; thero is great mortality among monarchies and republics. They nro like Individuals in th fact that they are Iwrnj they have it middle life; they have a decease; they hnvo it cradlo nml a grave. Soma of them nru OHSusst tinted, some destroyed by their own hand. Let me call tho roll of Miineof the dead clvlll.a tlons ami some of tho dead cities nnd let tomo ouo answer for them. A8 roillITOLU UV TIIK rilOlMIKTS. Kgyptlan civilisation, atuiid up. "Dendl" answer tho ruins of Knrnak nnd Luxor, nml from seventy pyramids on tho east slduof tho Nile thei e comes up n great chorus, cry lug, "Dead, deadl" Atyrluu empire, Maud up nnd answer. "Dead!" cry the charred ruins of Nineveh. After nix hundred years of magnlllcentoppoitunlty, dead. Israel itlsh kingdom, nt and up. Aftor two hun dred and fifty years of ill vino Interposition, and of miraculous vicissitude, and of heroic behavior, and of appalling depravity, dead. riKi'iitcIa, stand up nml answer. After in venting tho alphabet and giving it to the world, mid sending out her inerclmtit earn vans in miH fltivctttin in p.iirrul .tut., n.t.1 M-ndiug out her uavlgutora to I ho Atlantic ! ocean in another direction, dead. Pillars of Hercules nnd rocks on which the. Tyrlnn fUhoruinii dried their neUwill Mistier, "Dead lMiwulcln." Athens, after I'lddlus, after Demosthenes, after Mil tisdes, dead. Sparta, after lA-ouldas, nf Ur Kurlblndes, after Sabimls, after Ther mopylae, dead, ltoman empire, stand up nnd answer empire, onco bounded by tho British channel on tho north, by tho Kit phrates up tho east, by the great Saliar.t desert In Africa on tho south, by tho At lautlo ovwt'u on the west; homo of three great civilisations, owning nil tho then dis covered world that was worth owniug itomsn umpire, answer. Gibbon In his "Rise and Fall of tho Homan Um pire" says, "Demit" and tho forsaken ents of tho ruined Coliseum, mid the skeleton of the aqueducts, and the miasma of the Cainpagim, and tho fragmenU of thu marble, baths, ami the useless piers of tho Hrldgo Trlumphalls, and the Mauier.tlne prison, bidding no mora postollo prbipuen,anil the silent Forum ml Basilica of Constuutine, and the arch o( Titus, aud the Pantheon como in with frreat chorus, crying, "Dead, dead." After Horace, after Virgil, niter Tacitus, after Cloero dead. After llorattus on thu bridge, and Cinchiiintus, the farmer oli garch, after Pompey, after Sclplo, ufter Casslus, after Constnutlne, nrter Cirsar dead. The war eagle of Itouie Hew so high lt was bliajkavMif tthn mu and camu whirl log down tl.Miugh thu heavens, mid tho owl of desolation nml darkness built i(s eat in tnt fi rwtkeu eyrie. Mexlcau em piredead, t-'rcueli empire deail. WB, TOO, AKK TllllKATKXKU. You see, my friends, It Is no unusual thing for a government to perish, and in tbe'aanie necrology of dead nations mid lu (ha same graveynrd of expired govern ments will go tho Upitcd States of Ameri ca unless there be somo potent voice to call a halt, arid tint ess Uod lu his mxrey Inter fere, and thioiigh a purified l.-tllot Iwx aaVwidekpiead nuhliu Christian seiiti cnaat ibecatiMtiophu bo averted. TIiIhiih tioa is about to o to the ballot bov to ex erciso tho right of r.ulVnige, id I propow to net befoiv you thu evils that threateu to destroy thu A iiierlcaii goverumrnt nml tf nnnlhllatti Ameileaii histlliitlons, mid ( GimI will help inn I will show you before I get tliniugli the lundo In which each nnd every ono may do something to arrest that uppnllhig calamity, And I shall plow up the whiilii Held, The flint evil Hint threatens tho mini hllatlon of our American Institutions Is tho fact that political bribery, whlch.ontii wnscoiisldeiisl aclinic, has by innnycouui to he coiisliliiriij a toterabln vlrtucv Thorn Is a legitimate iimi of money lu elections, In tliu printing of Mll!lra! trncts, mid hi thn hiring of puhllo ImlU; nml In the ob taining of rmiipaluu oratory, but Is them any liomunrnliis who supposes that this vast amount of money now lielng wised by tho JMilltlcal part les Is going lu it legltlmatn dlrectlonf Thu vast majority of It will go to buy votes. Hundreds nnd thousands of men will hnvo set Itcforo them so much money for I a Republican vote, mid so much money for n wuiinMTiiuu Tine, mill ill" superior iiiiaii- clal Inducement will decide the, notion. You want to know which party will carry tho doubtful states day after tomorrow? I will tell )ou, Thn party that spends thu most money, This moment, while I speak, thu peddlers carrying gold from Wall street, gold from Third street, gold from Htato street and gold from tho Brew ers' association, are In nil tho political headquarters of the doubtful states, deal lug out tho Infamous Inducement. There used to Im bribery; but it held its head In Minnie. It was under tho utmost lecrecy that ninny years ago n railroad company bought up tho Wisconsin legls .'ature anil many other puhllo ofllclaU In that state. Tho governor of tho statu at that time, received ttO.onO for his signa ture. Ills private secretary received M.OOO. Thirteen inemliers of thu seuato received 17.0XI among them in bonds. Sixty members of tho other house received from tAOOO to tl(),(XK each. Tho lieutenant gov ernor reeelvtsl f 10,000. Tim clerks of thu house, received from .1,000 to 110.000 ench. Tho bank comptroller received 110,000. Two hundred and lltty thousand dollars woru divided among thu lobbyists. You see tho railroad company was very gen eroiis. nut all that was hidden, nnd only through the severest scrutiny on tho part of n legislative committee was this in iquity displayed. Now political bribery defies you, dares you, Is nrrognut, nnd will probably decide tho election next Tuesday. A TF.IItlllll.K IIANOKII. Unless this illalxillsin ceases hi this coun try Bartholin's stnlnuon Bed loo's island, with uplifted torch to light other nations Into tho harbor, had better bo chaugisl mid the torch dropped us it symbol of universal Incendiarism. Unless this iiurchaso mid salu of sufTrima shall ceaso tho American government will expire, ami you might asjrcll bo getting ready tliu monument for another dead na tion nml let my text Imtcrllx) upon it these wonts, "Alas, nhis. for Babylon. Hint urent city, Hint mighty city, for lu ono hour Is thy Judgment cornel" My friends, If you have not noticed that political bribery Is ono of thu ghastly crimes of this day, you navo not Kept your eyes open. Another ovll threatening tho destruction of American institutions is thu solidifying of thu sections against each other. A solid north. A I'MId south. If thlsuoes on we shall after awhile have a solid east ngulnst asoiiu west; wo shall have solid middle states against solid northern states; we hall have a solid Now York against n olid Pennsylvania, aud it solid .OhlongnliiKt a solid Kentucky, It is twotity-suven yenrs since thn w arcloud, ami yet at every presidential election thu old antagonism is aroused. When Garfield died nml nil the states gathered around Ills casket In sym pathy and in tenrs, and as hearty telegrams of coudolenco came f nun New Orleans nnd Charleston as from Boston ami Chicago, I said to myself, "I think sectionalism i dead." But, alas, nol Tho dlfllculty will never bo ended until each statu of the na tion Issplltuplutotwoor threo Kreat po lltical parlies. This country cannot exist unless It ex ists as onu body, the, national capital, he heart, sending out through all thu nrteiles of communication wtiimth and life to the very extremities. This tuition cannot ex ist unless It exUU as ono family, and you might as well hnvu solid brothers against solid sisters, ami a solid bread tray against a solid cradle, mid a solid nursery against a solid dining room, and you might as well have solid ears against solid eyes, mid solid html ngiiinst solid' foot. What is tho in terest of Georgia is tho Interest of Mas snchUKctts; what Is tho inturcst of New York is thu 'intenvst of South Carolina. Does tho Ohio river change its politics when It gets below Louisville? It is not possible for these sectional aitttiKonisms to continue for it great many years without permanent coiiiMiuml fracture. HAS THIS NATION FOIKJOTTKN (lOllf Another evil thn'utrnlog thu destruction of our American Institutions is tho low itatoof public, morals. What killed Babylon of my text? What kilWil I'liwuleinr What killed Home? Ihelr own depravity, ami thu fraud, and tho drunkenness, and tho lechery which nave iiestroyeii other nations will destroy Diirs unless n merciful (iod prevent. To thowjou tho law statu of public morals I have to call your attention to the fact that many men nominated for offices hi differ ent states at different times nru entirely unlit for thu positions for which they have been nominated. They linvn no mora qualification for them than a wolf has qualification to be, professor of pastoral theology In a Hock of theep, or a blind molubas qualification to lecture a class of eagles on optics, or than vulture has qualification to chaperon a love. Tho mere pronunciation of some of their names make it demand for carbolic kcld and fumigation! Yet Christian men will follow right on under thu political itaudards. I havu to tell you what you kuow al ready, thul American politics hnvu sunken to such a luw depth that theru Is nothing beneath, What wo see in some directions we see in nearly all directions. Tliu pecu lation aud tho knavery hurled to the sur face by the explosion of banks and busi ness firms are only speclmuus of great Co topnxis and StroinbolU of wickedness that boil and roar and surge beneath, but havu not )et regurgitated to thesurfoce. When me iitavuu tiehcuutletl Democratic party enacted the Tweed rascality It seemed . to iclipsu everything, but after nWIille tliu heaven descended Republican party out witted pandemonium with the star route Infamy. My friends, w e havu In this country people who say thu marriage Institution amounts to nothing. They scoff at it. We have people wul king hi pulitu parlors In our day who nro not good enough to be scavengers .ii Sodom! I went over to San Francisco ten or fifteen years ago that beautiful city, that queen of thu Pacific May thu bless ing of God como down upon iter gieat' churches and her nohlu men and women! When 1 got into lliu city of Han Francisco the mayor of tliu city ami the preMitent of the board of health called on mo mid In listed thul 1 go And sis) Hie Chinese qtiur Ur, no doubt m that on my return to the Atlantic coast I mlglit tell what dreadful people tho Cliluee are, But on thn last nlnhtof my stny In Smt Francisco, before thousands of pcnpln In their gieat opera house, I said, "Would you like inn to tell joii Just, w hut I think, plainly and Imni-stlyf" They said, "Yes, yes, yes" J said, "Do ou think you can stand It nllf" Thoy snld, "Yes, yes, yes'." "Then," I said, "my opinion Is that thn curse of Sail Francisco Is not your Chlnejii quarter) hut jour uiljlloiialry libertines!" l,tHK!ITINIB IN 111(111 PI.ACKH. Ami two of HieuiMit right before piu Felix mid Drtisllla. And mi It Is In nit thu c(tes. I never swear, but when I sro n man go iiuw hipped of Justice, Inughhig over Ids shame nml calling his ihiuiuuhlo ileedi gallantry and peccadillo, I am tempted to hurl redhot anathema ami tocoticludu thai If, according to kudu peoplu's theolog), there Is no hell, theto ought to bo I Them Is enough out and out licentious ness In American cities today lo bring down upon them thu wrath of that God who, on tho IMth of August, 79, burled Ilercubineillii mid Pompeii so deep lu ashes that thu eighteen hundred and thir teen subsequent yenrs have not been ahld to complete thu exhumation. Thero urn In some of thu American cities today wholu blocks of houses which thu authorities know to Ins Infamous, and yet by purchaso they are silenced by hush money, so that such places are as much under thu defense of government as puhllo libraries aud asylums of mercy. These u leers on the body polltlo bleed and gangrene away tliu life of thn nation, and puhllo authority lu many of the cities looks thn other way. You cannot curu such wounds as these with a silken bandage. You will hnvo to euro theut by putting deep lu the lancet of moral surgery, mid burning them out with tho caustic of holy wrath, and with most decisive amputation cutting off tho scabrous and putrefying abomination. As the ltninans were after tho Celts, nml as thu Normans werunfter thu Milton, so there are uvlls after this nation which will attend its obsequies un less wo first attend theirs. NATIONAL f'.OT TllltKATKNINO. Superstition tells of a murine reptile, tho ccphaloptern, which eiifolilisl mid crushed nshlpot war; hut It Is no superstition when 1 tell you that thu history of many of thu dead nations proclaims to ipt tliu fact that our ship of statu is In danger of being crushed by thu eepluiloptura of national depravity. Where Is tliu Hercules lo slay tills hydra? Is It not time to speak by pen, by tongue, by ballot box, by thn rolling of thu prison door, by hangman's halter, by earnest prayer, by Slmiitlo detonation? A. sou of King Croesus is said to have been dumb mid to have never uttered a wonl until he saw his father being iut to death. Then he broku tho shackles of slleiieu nnd cried out, "Kill not my father, Cruutusl" When I see tliu uheatery and thu wantonness and thu manifold criiuu of this country attempting to commit, patri cide yea, matricide upon our institu tions, It, seems to nietbat lips that here tofoio have been dumb ought to break tho slleiieu with caiioioustoucH of fiery protest. I want to put all of thu matter Wfont you, so that every honest, man ami woman will know Just how matters stand, mid what they ought to do It they vote, and what they ought to do if they pray. This nation Is not going to perish. Alexander, when ho hcant of thu wealth of tho Indies, divided Macedonia among, Ids soldiers. Some onu asked ill in what ho had kept fur himself, nml he replied, "I am keeping hope!" And that Jowol I keep bright and shining in my soul, whatever else I shall surrender. Hope 'thou In God. Hit will set back these occlude tidcs'of moral dev astation. Do you. know what Is the pri.u for which contention is made today? It is the prize of this continent. Never since, according to John Milton, wnen "satmi was hurleil, headlong flaming from thu ethereal skies lu hideous ruin and combustion down," hnvu thu powers of darkness been so determined to win this continent as they now are. What, a Jewel it is a Jewel curved lu relief, thu cameo of this plauetl On onu slduof us tho Atlantic ocean, dividing us from thu woruout gov ernments of Hunipc. Oiithuothersltle the Pacific ocean, dividing us from thu super stition of Asia. On thu north of us tliu Arctic, sea, which is thu gymnasium hi which tlie explorers anil navigators develop their courage. A continent, 10,500 miles long, 17,000,000 hqtmre miles, and allot it but about ouu-suveiith rapahlu of rich cul tivation. Till: OltlUT NATION. One bundled millions of population on this continent of Noi th and South America one bundled millions, ami room for many hundred millions more. All tloia, and nil fauna, all metals, ami all precious woods, tind all grains, ami all fruits. Thu Appa lachian raiiuu thu backlioiio and the rivers thu ganglln, carrying llfo all through and out to tho extremities. Isthmus of Darlen thu narrow waist of a giant continent, all . to bu under ouu government, and all free. nml All Christian, and thu scenuof Christ's personal lelgu on earth If, according totbo expectation of many people, hu shall at last set up his tlirnnu in this world. Who shall havu this hemisphere? Christ or Mitanf Who shall havu tho shore of I her inland seas, tho silver of her Nevadas. thu gold of her Colorado, thu telescopes of her observatories, thu brain of her uni versities, tho wheat of her prairies, thu rlcu of bur savannahs, thu two great ocean beaches thu ouu reaching from Ballln's bay to Terra del l'tiego, and thu other from Behriug straits to Capo Horn and all thu moral and temporal and spiritual aud uvurlastitig Interests of a ixipulatioii vnst beyond all computation save by him with whom a thousand years aro as onu Jay? Who shall hnvu thu hemisphere? You and I will decide that, or help ro tie cldu It, by conscientious tote, by earnest prayer, by maintenance of Christian Insti tutions, by support of great philanthro pies, oy piuiiug iKHiy, mum ami soul ou thu right sidu of all inoia), religious and outional movements. Ab, it will not be long beforo it will not maku any diflerouce to you or to mu what becomes of this continent, v far as earthly onitort Is concerned, All wo will want of It will bo seven feut by thn'e, and that will tuku lu thu lurgest, ami there will bu room Mid to spare. That Is all of thlspouuiry wo will need very soon, tho youngnst of u. Hut wo have an anxiety about thq.welfare tud thu happiness of tho generations that ire coming on, uiuHtwilt bu a graud (hlng if, when tliu 'archangel's trumpet aouuds, we find that our sepulcher, llku:theouo Joseph of Arimathca provided for Christ, is in thu midst of a garden. By that tliuo this country will bqttll pnrndlsu or all dry iortugus. Kternal ,(iod,.t(i thiu "wo com Jilt thu destiny of this people! ' , Light from Celestial llmllxs. ' Light travels at the rate of 213,000 miles i second, it velocity which cause tho rays trout the moon to reach us iu a llttlu less than a second and irqiutrier. Thu rays of Jupiter nro flftj-tw'o minutes hi reaching us. It would tako millions of years for1 thu tame beams to reach us if their starting point was from ouo of Hta fixed stars. St. trills Republic. OR. ALBERT SHAW. Tim llrllllnnt Vnuiiv Killtor of Tim Re view of Uut lew. Imperial ('orresHinilciica. Nkw Yoiik, Nov. 10. Dr. Albort Sluiw, who turn scored such it brilliant success us editor of Tlio lloviuw of Uic vlows, was born in Hutler county, O., July ,2:1, 1857. Ho was graduated from Iowa (c'ollcgi), (Jrlmiull, la., in 1870. Soon aftor leaving collego lio entered loonl JonVimllsiii in Iowa for tlio pur poso of learning tho mechanical nful business brandies. HltMitroiigest tuMtos King for ixdltlcul and LTonoiuiu- sciences, lio took long leaverf from bin newspaper work to go to tilling Hopkins university for post grud jjmtti study in history and political sci ence.1 In I88!l lie did editorial writing o'n tlio Mhnujuixdls Daily Tribune, but returned to Johns Hopkins to complete liis courso thero and received in 1884 thu degreo of I'll. D., having accomplished work of n high order in constitutional history, international law and ixjlitlcnl economy. Ho returned to Minneapolis ns chief of tlio editorial stall of Tlio Tribune, hold ing that position until tlio closo of 1800 with tho interval of over a year spent in Europe In tlio ineniitiiuo Wq. hnil earned it distinguished roputatiou by his contributions to Tlio Contemporary lie viow and Fortnightly Heviow in Eng land, treating of various phases of west ern constitutional nnd legislativo experi ence. His stay in Europe in 1888 anil 1880 was spent in tlio study of municipal gov ernment In Urent Drltuin nnd in tho lurgo cities of tho continent, nnd in study of European constitutional systems nml general iolltlcal conditions. When lio returned lio resumed editorial charge of tho Minneapolis Trlbuno nnd gave lectures at Johns Hopkins, Cornell and Michigan universities upon municipal government in Europe. Ho nlso wrote, by invitation from The Century, a num ber of articles on tho government of the principal cities of Europe, which nro to bo published in lxok form. Tlio Chautauqua Magazine printed a series of interesting and Instructive arti cles from his lien on tho political and social conditions of the Servians, Turks, Bulgarians, Greeks anil other nations tho result of tils travels and researches. During his residence in Minneapolis he wroto it monograph called "Co-opcrntion in n Western City" afterward enlarged ami reprinted as n part of tlio "History of Co-operation in tho United States" which excited admiring attention Irotb at homo anil abroad. His thesis in 1881 at Johns Hopkins was entitled "Icaria: A Study of Communistic History," aft erward translated and published in Ger many. In tho year 1888 lio edited a volume entitled "The National Rovenuos," to which a largo number of leading ecouo- DIt. AI.HKUT SHAW. mists contributed. IIo was elected in 181)0 professor of political and munic ipal institutions and international law by Cornell university, having frequently declined most fluttering invitations from other institutions. IIo did not accept tho call to Cornell, but was induced by Mr. W. T. Stead, the eminent London journalist, to found Tho American Heviow of Reviews, to be 1 dished and edited in closo association ivitll Mr. KtonilV P.lioliuli imiirn-rliwi of tll0 8ill0 Ilnlll(, Tho ,iew Roviuw ,,. peareil in 1801. edited by Mr. Shaw in Now York, and in a year's timo hud gained it circulation of 70,000 copies, a most unprecedented triumph in serious periodical literature, and it goes with out saying that Mr. Slmw is entitled to a largo sharo of tho credit for its re markablo success. IIo till holds lectureships at Johns Hopkins aud tho WiucouHiu Statu uni versity's school of historical nnd politi cal science, and frequently lectures on his favorito topics in other institutions. Ho contributes to leading periodicals nnd does a large amount of work every month for his own magazine. Mr. Slmw is unmarried, and seems wedded to his aspirations nnd work for reform and progress. Mkl R. Colquitt. Poet Illley's Practical Jokes. Many amusing stories aro told of tlio practical jokes tlio celebrated poet James Whitconili Riloy used to play on stran gers to draw them out. Ono was to enter a town us it blind painter, led by a boy, nnd do sign painting that nnuized tho natives. Tho blindness part of it was I only half it joke, for without powerful glasses iMr. Riley's vision is mostly limited to a ioiv roils. Ho says Unit if rho detects any signs of apathy in an audience lib simply takes off his glasses, und then ho sees no audience "they may be cnthusiu like till possessed for all'Iknow." t i ''Matches Made of Compreiued IVat. 'Jn consequence of tho growing difti onlty of procuring wood sttltiiblo for tho manufacture of mutches, German fac tories are now making tluvi of com pressed pent, which is said to bo an ex cellent substitute. i , No Iltniicr, No Drink. illy u liquor law recently put in forco in" Capo Colony no tiavclercan boBup pJ,vl with drink unless with a bona tide diaiiur or luncheon. V 1 I I 1 H H PALL 1892 -- BEFORE BUYING YOUR Carpets and Curtains See our JLeire Li:ne. A. M. DAVIS & SON, 1112 O STR96T, Ot"Special Inducements to Cash Buyers. "rJm Recently opened in the new V M. C. A. Building on N Street. Mr, Voclker is pleased to announce that Ills business lias steadily increased since the first day he opened, that his trade is of the very best character, and is receiving the best of workmanship and standnid tallies in Furs and Kur (lOotU of all kinds. Tailor-Made Fur Garments made on the pieuilses fiom mntcrlnl all lu stuck, and guaranteed to he a perfect lit and o.itlxfnctorv In every particular. Whv, then, send out of town for SiA.Sh'iV iAC.XH'iS, Afl'WS, CAP US, A'Olil'iS, CLOAKS, HTC, liTC.t Repair Work of All Kinds You are hit ited to call and see my stock of (ootU, nnd jjet inform, ition as to tailor made older'- and repair work. F. E. Practical Furrier For Pure Ice Cream and Delicious Fresh Oysters ! JAI.Ii The Bon Ton Telephone 1G7. '20'2 P Street Geo. JVLeicfeirleine, Propr. BHKERY S GONFCTION9RYS Coifeo ami Light Lunches nt all Hours MILLER-Grocer J43 S. 1 1th Street. '.' hns just received llahah Qwoat DirkUc t w nuuuu unuvi, tivniuu, Imported Chow Chow, Sweet Blossom Peas, Fancy Queen Olives, Fancy Smalf Olives, M, Y. Fall Cream Cheese, -Extra F'cy Sliced Pineapples, A FULL LINE OF FRUITS AND X3TORDER EARLY Sewing Machine and run We have just employed n skillful workman from the hnst, who Is fully compntcc to make all rcpnlri in the iibdVe Hiich T. J. THORP & CO., 3:0 South Eleventh ftree SPECIAL SALE -OK- ROCKERS Coinpiciu-Jng Monday, Nov. 14th and continuing for onu week. 50 UphoUteFcd'Kockcrs at 3 5 ill 40 3 00 3 89 This is only one-half of their orlg hull value. Come early and get (list choice. Ucm mlicr this price will only be iod one week. Rudge & Morris Co. 1118 to 1122 N Street. It Supplie5 a "S - Cor pelt Uapt VORLaKER'S NEW FOR STORE VOELKER, Y. M. C. A BWff. AT- Telephone 398. lot of pew - - 25c qt. ' 25c can , 40c qt. 20c " 20c lb, 25c can ft VEGETABLES. J, 7UV IUL.BR. Repairing ! T