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VjSSr at alltin;es.
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S-ret.btwcvn Pcindejater and Wator.
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Land surTtyin? a srvc:l;y. VIjs
furnbhei un aiphcation.
Bay Vie w House,
New. . Clcsnly, . AttentlfC . Servants.
War the Court House
Columbia Hotel,
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J. E. HUGHES,, - j - Proprietor
tAhlZ Aupl, ftaU-sJand -l:- The
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alifactioa assured. !
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IVnas: SOc. per rata, or $1.75 per day.
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itid. Satisfaction aSS:rca.
X. BRABBLE! - l'roprietor.
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MAHTEO N. C. -
A. V. EYANS, -j. . PropiKtor.
First cla-'s ia erery par.Iculsr. Tab!e
npnlicd with, ettry delicacy, risr,
jsien and Game in abundance in season.
When ym want ai overcoat for your
boy from 8 to 12 years old see Pi? Ike.
He will sell you an all wool for $ I oO.
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CLowan. tiatt. Herl!.rl Vhirptr.n j
at I Tyrtill ouofu, and lu upn:6I
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DIRECTORY.
di-j OTiffT. Mayor (. A
Tanks.
Attorr.ey Itr.nc N. llt-tklt's.
Comiui:our.'rs i'alenoa John, Tho.-;.
.. Coiamaniler. John A. Krani'-r H;
rrai'.k fi;-nce RnJ Win. V. (irip?.
i-itrk 'vim, uuiriin; iivaiurer
flVo v. coib; cumtabi. wi chu-r
" lili;e Win C. Brooks: .Street Com-
m!-ioiier Hviulon W. Berry; Fir
t!i:uini.Biontr Allen Kramer
C" lector of Customs Jas. C. Urools.
Postmaster K. F. Iainb.
Examining Surpeori? cf Prisons
Drs. J. K. Wood, W. AY. firiRirs and
W. J. Lumsden. Meet on the Ut uiid
3rd Wednesdays of ach inonth at the
corner f Raa and Church f-tm-te
Churcfu Methodist, Rev. J. ii. Hall.
Paior; services every Sunday at 11 a.
m. and 7 px in. Baptist, i alvin K.
C!'kwt!!, ptor; frvicps every
iiri lay at 11 a. in.. and 7. p. Pros
bytrrtan, Rev. F. H. Johnston, n.tor;
erviceH every Sunday tit 11 a. in. and
7:1" p. in. Episcopal. 1 J. Wil-
lian:i. rector : services every Sunday at
11 ti in. nrd 4 i. m.
I.'a'jc Masonic: Eureka Eo.lt;i' No
317. ti. W. Brothen,. V,'. M ; J. H
(r:K?, S. W.: A. L. Pendleton J. V.;
B. F. ivMice, Tresurf r; 1). B. Bradford,
5-e'ty.; T. B. Wil?on, S.D.; C. W.
Grir,-, J. I. ; J. A Hooper and T.J.
Jordan, Stewards; Rev. E- F. Sawyer,
Chaplain; J. E. Sheppard ; Tyler.
Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesday nights.
Odd Fellows: Achoree Lodge No 11
C. M. Cursvss. N. (.; W. H. Pallanl,
V. (1. II. o. Hill, Fin. Secretary;
Roval Arcanum: Tiber Creek Coun
cil No. 12j'J; 11. O Hill Regent; I). A.
Maut ice Wescott; Trea.urer". Me?ts
?Vvry Triday at 7:30 p. m. ,
Morgan, Vice Recent; C, (fturkia,
Orator; W. II. Zoeller, Secretary; P.M.
Cook Jr., Collector; W. J. V oodley,
Treasurer. Meets every 1st and 3rd
Monday night.
Kniirbts of Honor: R. B. White, Die
tutor; J, II Engle, Yice Dictator; T.
J. Jordan, Reporter; T. P. Wilson, Fi
nance Keporter; J. C. Benbury. Treas
urer. Meets 1st and 4th Friday in
each month.
Pasquotank Tribe No. 8, 1. O. R. M.
J.P.Simpson, Prophet ; W. H Sanford.
tiaehem; Will Anderson, Sr. Sagamore;
B. C. jjine, Jr. Sagamore; James
Spirt s.C. of R.; S. H. Mrtrrel K.of W,
ieet every Wednesday night.
County Officer. Commissioners , O.
R Kramer. Chairman; F. M. Godrrty,
J. Williams. Sheri.T. T. P. dcox,
Superior Court Clerk. John P. Over
man; Register of Deeds, M. H. Cr iep
per ; Treasurer, John S. Morris C jnty
Health Oflicers, Dr. J. K .
Boord of Education, J T- Davis, J. '
Fulmer, N. A Jones,
fjuiierintcndant "I. N. "Meekins
School Atlantic Collegiate Insti
tute, S. L. Sheep, PresSdeut .
Select School, LN.Tiilett. Princi-
liizabetirCity Public School, W. M.
Hinton, Principal.
State Colored Normal, P. - Moore,
Principal.
B.:nJc. First National: Chas. II.
Robinson, President ; J no. is. ) onl,
Yice-Presidcntl Tfm. T. Old. Cashier.
M. R, (iriDln, Teller. Directors: h . K
Lamb.D.H. Bradford. J. K r Ira.i. II .
White. Jno. G. Wood, J. B. Blades, U
H. Robinson.
(iuirkin&Co.
KUeiric JqH Co. 3. Y.. Blailes. Presi
dent, ti. M. ici.tt, Vice Pre-ideiit, D.
B. Bradford, Sec'iy, Noah L.urfoot,
Treasurer.
Ttphone Co.V. 15. Bradford, Pre-i-d.nt;
Ij. S. Blades, Vice-President;
Fred. Davis, Secretary and Trt usurer.
2Ve Improvement Co. K. F. Aydlett,
Preident;T. . Skinner, Vice Presi
dent ; C. H. Robinson, Secretary and
Treasurer.
K. Ciiu CotUm MtV. President, Dr.
O. .HcMullau, Vice President, tiw. M.
Scott, Sec and Trea., D. P. Bradford,
S:int. H, F. Smith. Directors: Dr. O.
MeMullan.G. M. Scutt, '. K Avillrtt.
J. W. Sharber, Jas. P. b.ades, i .. II .
Robinson, Thos. O. Skiuurr. C. i'-.
Rsamer. J. B. Flora, II . F. Smith and
D. B. Bradford.
X.ttjl IlerTs. W. J. Uriffln. Li(
tenant commanding; J. B. l-r-ree.
Lieutenant Junior Gnu!-; E- A. Uxn
,ler, Ensign. Regular Prill eac.i Tues
dav night. Arms: 10 Magazine Rifl-s;
12 "Navy Revolvers; 12 Cutlasses; 2 12
Pound Howitzers.
Cithern Erprtu Couj-V j- il. H.
Snow Jen, Agent.
. Eadroad and Siiamb-yiiUW train
rth leaves -8 ti. m. nud
n - - - -t - -
: 45 p. m.,
going South, 11:40 and
V. vr .... . ,
Steamers for Newberne leave at r.
p. iu . Steamer Newton. l 'ves E.ua
beth City for Cress.vell on .doi d.iys
and Turstlays at 0 : 3",a. m.; Jw
turning will leave Elizabeth City ibhw
ine day at 2. CO p. m.. Steamer Har
binger, will leave Eizabeth City for
Hertford WelneS4lays and Saturdava
at 9. 30 a. m : Elizaboth City f.r Nor
folk Thursdays and Monday-1 P uj
Shoes, shoes and tioots. F.mlrr &
Co bought before the advance and
will give you the benefit.
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ELIZABETH CITY,
MENACING CLASSES.
REV. DfL TALMAQE ON. DANGER3
THAT THREATEN SOCIETY.
lit Paklle Criminal Prison Reform Tba
Ii21 ClaMoa TX OppreaaeJ Poor XMa-
crtmlsatlon la Clarity rnttloar Gar-
tnenta to Glorlooa Faea.
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Coryr!sbt. 1&S7. by American Press Asso
Hation.J WArrcfaTOx, Nor. 7. In this ser
mon Dr. Taltr.nge, in a startling way,
rpeaks - of the dangers threatening onr
great towns and cities and shows how
the f lumbering fixes may bo pnt out.
His text ii Psalm Ixxs, 18, !lThe boar
o-.t d the wood doth waste it, and the
wild beast of the field doth devour it "
By tLis homely but expressive figure
David sets forth tho bad influences
vhicb In clden times broke in upon
God's Jxrltag?, ts . with rwine's foot
trampling, and as with swing's snout
c:ccotlng the vineyards cf prosperity.
Wi pt tno then is trua now. Chero
L ivo been csorirh trees of righteousness
pbutci to overshadow the whole earth
h:d it. not teen for tha amen who
b'.vfed tbem iovrix. T!'e topple of truth
v.'oiH ! on;; a have been completed had
it not ! eui for tho iconoclasts vho de
frl th.rt va!ls and bsttcred down the
pillars. The whole earth wotild have
Ken an Echol cf ripened c Inst ers had
it net been that "tho boar has wasted
it and the wild beast of the field de
voured it. '
The rvttrartlTo C!a?tes.
I propose to point out to you tho.ce
whom J consider to" bo tho destructive
classes of society. First, the public
criminals. You ought not to bo surprised
that these people make up a large pro
portion of many communities. In 18G9
cf the 49,000 people who were incrrcef
ated in the prisons of the country 32,
C00 wtre cf foreign birth. Many of
then were the very desperadoes of eo
c!cty, oczing into the slums of our cities,
waiting for an opportunity to riot and
steal and debauch, joining tho lar.78
gcg cf American thugs and cutthroats.
Thero are iu cur cities pecple whose en
tiro businers iu llfo is to commit crimo.
Tht is cs much their business as juris
prudence or medicino or merchandise is
your business. To it they bring all their
energies of body, "mind and soul, and
they look upon tho interregnums which
they spend in prisoU cs sd much unfor
tunate loss of timciust as you look up
on n:i attack of influenza or rheumatism
which fattens you in the house for a
few days. It 13 their lifetime business
to pick pockets and blow up safes and
s!iop lift and ply the panel game, and
they have us much prido of skill iu their
buinc-s as you have in yours when
you 'upset tho argument of an opposing
counsel or euro a gun shot fracture
which other surgeons have given up or
foresee a turn in tho market so you buy
goods just beforo they go-up 20 percent
It is their business to commit crime,
and I do not suppose that enco in a year
the thought of tho immorality strikes
them. Added to theso professional crim
inals, American and foreign, there is a
lrrro class of men who aro more or less
industrious in crime. Drunkenness is
responsible for much of the theft, since
it confuses a man's ideas of property,
and ho gets his hands on things that do
not belong to him- Rum is responsible
for much of the assault and battery,
inspiring men to sudden bravery, which
they must demonstrate, though it be on
tho. face of the next gentleman.
You help to pay the board of every
criminal, from tbo sneak thief who
snatches a spool of cotton up to some
man who enacts a "Black Friday."
iloro than that, it touches your heart
in tho moral depression of tho commu
nity. You might as well think to stand
in a closely confined, room where there
are CO poopla and yet not breathe the
vitiated air as to stand in a community
where thero aro so many of the depraved
without somewhat being contaminated.
What ii tho Cre that burns your store
dov.-i compared with the conflagration
which consumes your morals? What is
tho the ft cf the geld and silver from
your mc'iiey solo compared with the
theft cf your children's virtue? We are
all rcuJv to arraign criminals. "We
shout at tho top cf our voice, Stop
thief H and when the police get on the
track wc como cut haticss and ia our
slippers and assist in the arrest We
come around tho bawling ruffian and
hustle Lim oil to justice, and when he
gets in prison what do we do for him?
With great gusto we put on the hand
cuffs cud the hopples, tut what prepara
tion cro wo making for the day when
tho handcuffs and hopples come off? So
ciety si ems to say to theso criminals,
"Villain, go in thcro and rot," when it
"tught to -say, "You aro an offender
agaiut th." "l.iv?. tut we mean to give
you au'oppori unity to repent; we mean
to help ycu. Hero are Dibles and tracts
and Christian influences. Christ died
fcryou. I3ok and live." Vast improve
ments have been made by introducing
industry mio- the prison, but we want
something mere than hammers and"
shoe lasts to reclaim theee people. Aye,
we want more than sermons cn the Sab
bath dav. Society must impress these
men with tho fact that it does not enjoy
thi'ir sufferingand that it is attempt
ing to reform and' elevate them. The
majority cf . criminals suppose that so
ciety Las a grudge against them, and
they in turn have a 1 grudge against so
ciety ' '
Llf In Prteoa.
They are harder in heart and more infuriate-
when they como out cf jail than
when they w ent in. Many cf the people
who go to piu.m go again and again
and again. Scrae years ago of 1,500 pris
oners who during tho year had been in
Sing Sing 400 had been thero befora In
a house of correction in the country
whero during a certain reach of time
there had been 5.0C0 people more than
3.000 bad teen there before. So in one
case tho prison and in the other case the
houso of correction left them just as bad
as they were before. The secretary of
cce of the benevolent societies cf New
York saw a lad 15 years of agQ tfbo .ba
N. O., FRIDAY,
pent three-years, of his Uf o in prison,
and be dd to the lad. "Whit have
they done for you to make you better?"
"Well." replied tho lad. "the first time
I was brought np before tho judge he
said. 'Ton ought to be ashamed of your
self. And then I committed a crime
again, and I was brought up before tho
gome judge, and he said, You rascal!'
And after awhile I committed some
other crime, and I was brought before
the'samo judge, and he said, You ought
to be hanged. " That ia aU they had
done for rdrn in the way of reformation
and salvation. VOh," you say, "theso
people are incorrigiblo. f' I - supposo
there are hundreds of persons this day
lying" in the prison bunks who would
leap up at the prospect of reformation
If society would only allow them a way
into deceucy and respectability. "Oh,"
you say, "I have no patience with these
rcgues. " I ask you in reply how much
better would you have been under tho
same circumstances? Suppose your moth
er' had been a blasphemer and your fa
ther a sot and you had started life with
a body stuffed with evil proclivities and
ycu had epent much of your time In a
cellar amid obscenities and cursing and
if at 10 years of ago you had. been com
pelled to go out and steal, battered and
banged at night if you came in without
any spoils, and suppose your early man
hood and womanhood had been covered
with rags and filth and decent society
had turned its back upon you and left
you to consort ;with vagabonds and
wharf rats, how much better would
you have been? I have no sympathy
w-ith that executive clemency which
Would let crime run loose or which
wjould sit in the 'gallery cf a"courtroom
weeping because some hard hearted
wretch is brought to justice,' but I do
6ay that the safety and life of the com
munity demand j more potential influ
ences in behalf of these offenders.
The American Jail. -I
stepped, into one of the prisons cf
cno cf our great icities, and the air was
like that of the Black Hole 'of Calcutta.
As the air swept! through the wicket it
almost knocked mo down. No sunlight.
Young men who had committed their
first crime crowded in among old offend
ers. I saw there one woman, with a
cliild almost blind, who had been ar
rested for tho rim9 of poverty, who
Was waiting until the slow law could
take her to the almshouse, where she
rightfully belonged, but sho was thrust
in there with her child, amid the most
abandoned wretches of the town. Many
of the offenders in that prison sleeping
on' the floor, with nothing but a vermin
cofcred blanket over them. Those peo
ple, crowded and wan and wasted and
half suffocated and infuriated. -I said
to the men, "How do you stand it here?"
"God knows," said one man; "we have
to stand it " Oh, they will pay you
when they get ontl .Where they burned
down one house they will burn threo.
They will strike deeper the assassin's
knifo. They, are this minuto plotting
worse burglaries. Many of the jails are
the best place 1 know of to manufacture
footpads, vagabonds and cutthroats.
Yale college is not so well calculated to
make scholars nor Harvard so welj cal
culated to make , scientists nor Prince
ton so well calculated to make theolo
gians as the American jail is calculated
to make criminals. All that these men
do not know of crime after they have
been in that style of dungeon for some
time satanio machination caunot teach
them. Every hour these jails stand they
challenge the Lord Almighty to smite
the cities, I call upon the people to
rise in their wrath and demand a ref
ormation. I call upon the judges of our
courts to expose the infamy. I demand
in behalf of those incarcerated prisoners
fresh air and clear sunlight and in the
name of him who had not where to lay
his head a couch to rest on at night In
the insufferable stench and sickening
surroundings of some of the prisons
there is nothing but disease for the
body, idiocy for I the mind and death
for the soul. Stifled air and darkness
and vermin never turned a thief into an
honest man. We want men like John
Howard and Sir William Blacksone
and women like Elizabeth Fry to do
for the prisons of the United States
what those people did in other days for
the 'prisons of England. I thank God
for what Isaao T. Hopper and Dr.
Wines and Mr. Harris "and scores cf
others have done in the way of prison
reform, but we want something more
radical before upon our cities will come
the blessing of him who said, "I was
in prison and ye came unto me. "
Untrustworthy OCScials.
In this class of uprooting and devour
ing population are untrustworthy offi
cials. "Woe unto thee, O land, when
thy king is 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
ia New York thero was such unparal
leled crime between 1S66 and 1871? It
was because the judges of police in that
city for the most part were as corrupt
as the vagabonds that came before them
for trial. These were the dayJ of high
carnival for election frauds, assassina
tion and forgery We had the whisky
ring and the Tammany ring and the Erie
ring. There was one man during thpso
years that got ? 1 2 S, 000 in one year for
serving the public. In a few years it
was estimated that there were $50,000,
000 of public treasure squandered. In
those times the criminal had only to
wink to the judge, or his lawyer would
wink for him, and the question was de
cided for tho defendant Of the 8,000
people arrested in that city in cno year
only 3,000 were punished. These little
matters were "fixed up," while the in
terests of society were "fixed down."
You know as well as I that a criminal
who escapes only opens tho door of ether
criminalities. It I is no compliment to
public authority when we have in all
the cities' cf ' the country, walking
abroad, men and women notorious for
criminality, unwhipped of justice. They
are pointed out to you in the street day
by day. There you find what are called
the "fences," the, men who stand be
tween the " thief and the honest man.
sheltering the thief and at great price.
NOVEMBER .12, 1897.
banding over. thoj goods to the owner to
whom they belong. There- y ya will find
theso who are cfclled tbo "skinner?,"
the men who hovjer around WaU , s$re?
and Stat street and Third s&&. With
great sleight of hand in bonces an
stocks. There yiou find the funeral
thieves, the people who go and sit down
and mourn with families and ptfck thehr
pockets, and thero yon find he confi
dence men, who borrow raoner of you
because they have a dead child in the
house and want o bury it, when they
never had a bous or a family;, or they
want to go to England and get a large
property there, aijfd they want you to
pay their way, and they wiU bend- the
money back by thei very next mail. There
are the harbor thieves, the Bnppliftera,.
the pickpockets, jfamons all Over the
cities. Hundreds! of them with their
faces in the rogups gallery, yet doing
nothing for the lat five or ten years but
defraud society and escape justice. When
these people go uncirrested and unpun
ished, it is putting a high premium up
on vice and saying to the young crim-j
inals of this cohtry, "What a' safe
Lung it Is to be a?reafc crlmmaL 'f Let
the law swoop upon them. iLetjlt bo
JJ 1 IUAJU jiJCl Ik
known in this country that crime will
have no quarter; that the detectives are
after it; that the 'police club jis being
brandished; that jjtho iron door of tho
prison is being opfn'ed; that the judge
is ready to call th case. Too great le
niency to criminal is too great severity
to society: ' j:' . -.';":.!
The Iclo .Cla. -Among
the uprooting and devouring
classes in our midst are the idle. Of
course I do not ref ejr to the people who
are getting old or to tho sick or to those
who cannot get wqrk, but I tell you to
look out for those Athletic men and wo?
men whd will njjt work. When the
French nobleman j was asked; why he
kept busy when he had so large a prop
erty,' he said, "I keep on engraving soI
may not hang myself. " I d6 not care
who the man is, he cannct afford to be
idlo. It is from thd idle classes that the
criminal classes are mado up. j Charac
ter, liko wator, gets putrid if j it stands
still too long. Whp can wonder lhat in
this world, whero J tli ere is sa much to
do, and all'the hosf 3 of earth1 and heav
en and hell aro plunging intcAhe con
flict, and angels are flying,! aid God is
at work, and the universe is a quake
with the niarchingj; and countermarch
ing, that God lets his indignation fall
upon a man ; whp' choose idleness? I
have watched, theso ,do nothings who
spend their time 'stroking their beard,
and retouching thfeir toilet, and criti-;
cising industrious People, and pass their
days and nights iiif barrooms and club
houses, lounging; and smoking
lounging; and
and
chewing ana cara; playing, j xney are
not only useless, but . they are danger
ous. How Hard it Is for them to while
away the hours I . j: i '
Alas, for them! j jf they dojnot know
how tcwhile awaylan hour, Hfhat will
they do When they. pave all eternity on
their hands? These men for awhile
smoke the best cigafs and wear the best
broadcloth and mve in the highest
spheres, but I hate noticed j that very
soon they come down to the prison, the
almshouse or stop at the gallows, j
The police stations of two of j our cities
i v t mi
furnish annually 200,000 lodgings. For
the most part these 200,000 lodgings
are lurmsnea to apienoaiea
men and
women, people as able to wrk as you
and I are. When hey are received no
longer at one police statioii because
they are "repeaters!" they go to some
other ' station, and so they keep moving
around. They get their foodj at house
doors, stealing what they caji lay their
hands on in the front basenient while
the servant is spreading the bread in the
back basement T$ey will hot work.
Time, and again in the country districts
they have wanted ! uundreds tod thou
sands of laborers. ;These men will not
ga They do not want to work. I have
tried them. I-havei set them j to sawing
wood in my cellar to see whlefher they
wanted to work, fljoffered to pay them
well for it. I have fieard the jeaw going
for about three minutes, and then I
went down, and, lie, the wood, but ho
saw 1 - They are tlio pest of society, and
they stand in the jway of the Lord's
poor, wno ougnt t;o pe neAPet anu vnx
be helped. WhiU jthere are! thousands
cf industriou3nien svho cannpt get any
t t 1 A. 1 1 3 JI III
work, these men who do not
want any
work come in and make that p
ea. Sleep
ing at night at j public expense in the
station house. During the day getting
their food at your doorstep. "Imprison
ment does not scare jthem. They would
like it "Black wel l 'a island or jMoyamen
singv prison V.ould! be a cpmfortable
home for them. They would have no ob
jection to the almshouse; for they like
thin soup if they cannot get! mock tur
tle, i j: M . ;!.:.,"
I like for that class of people the scant
bill of fare that Paul wrote put for the
Thessalonian loaferi "If any work not,
neither should he eqt " By what law of
God or man is it jright that you and I
should toil day Un and day out until
cur hands are blistered and our arms
ache and our brain jgets numb and then
be called upon to Support what in the
United States are aicut 2, 000, 000 loaf -ers?
They are aj vdiry dangerous class.
Let the public authorities keep their
eyes cn them. ; .f . " f j
The Opprefeaed Poor.
Among the uprooting classes I place
the oppressed poor! Poverty to a cer
tain extend is chastefiing, but after that,
when it drives a mjan to the wall and
he hears his children cry in vain for
bread, it sometimes makes him desper
ate. I think that there are thousands of
honest men lacerated into vagabondism.!
There are men cruihed under burdens
for which they are nt half paid. While
there i3 no excuse fo criminality, even
in oppression, 1 stat it as a simple fact
that much of the scoundrelism of the
community ia consequent upon ill treat
ment There are many men and women
battered and bruiseki and stung " until
the hour of despair ia3 come, and they
stand with the ferocity of & wild beast
which, pursued untif it can run no lon
ger, turns round, foaming and bleeding,
to fight the hounds,
There la a vast underground city life
v"; i-P'.yoy R
Surely if the word REGULATOR is not on a package
it is
Nothing eise is the same.
been put up by
1 if. H
And it can be easily told
n
j THE RED 2.
FOR SALE BY OR. W. W. CRICCS A, SO I.
that is ancallinff and shameful It wal-1
Iowa and stftama vclth nntrftityn ' Vnn
go down the stairs, which are wet and.
decayed with filth, and i at the bottom
'Trio fitw! ffto Hflrri nn fVn
; coia, slckt three-fourths dead, slinking
I inffl Kt.Nl: rirV mpr tuw: tfcv
J LElO '&
rleam
of tho lantern of the twlico.
There has not been'a breath of fresh air
in that room for five years literally.
There they are, men, women, children,
blacks, whites, Mary' Magdalcno with
out her repentance and Lazarus without
his God, , These are the "dives" into
which the pickpockets and the thieves
go, as well as a great many who would,
like a different life, but cannot get it
These places are the sores of the city
which bleed perpetual corruption. They
are the underlying volcano that threat
ens us with a Caracas earthquake. It
rolls and roars and surges and heaves
and rocks and blasphemes and dies.
And there are oaly two outlets for it
the police court and tho potter's field.
In other words, they must either go to
prison or to hell. Oh, you never saw it,
you say. You never will see it until on
the day when these staggering wretches
shall como up in the light of tho. judg
ment throne and whilo all hearts aro
being revealed God will, ask you what
you did to help them. ,
There is another layer of poverty and
destitution not so squalid, but almost
las helpless. '.You. heir their incessant
wailing for bread and clothes and ifire
Their eys aro sunken. Their cheek
bones stand out Their hands are damp
.with slow consumption. Their flesh is
puffed up with dropsies. Their breath is
like that of a charnel house. They, hear
the roar of the wheels of fashion Over
head and the gay laughter of men' and
maidens and wonder why God gave to
others so much and to them so little.
Some of them thrust Into an infidelity
liko that of the poor German girl who,
when told in the.midst of her wretched
ness that God was good, said? "No,
no good God. Just look at me. No good
'God." ,-.y .-j V
. M The Christian Duty.
In these American cities, whose cry
of want I interpret, there are hundreds
and thousands of honest poor who are
dependent upon individual, city and
state charitiea If all. their voices could
come up at once, it would be a groan
that would shake the foundations of the
city and bring all earth and heaven to
the rescue, but for the most part it suf-,
fers unexpressed. It sits in silence,
gnashing its teeth and sucking the blood
of its own arteries, waiting for the judg
ment day. Oh, I should not wonder if
on that day it would be found out that
some of us had some things that be
longed to them, some' ? extra garment
which might have made; them comfort
able on cold days, some bread thrust
into the ash barrel that might have ap
peased their hunger for a little while,
some wasted candle or gas jot that
might have kindled up jtheir darkness,
some fresco on the ceiling that would
bavo given them a roof, some jewel
which, brought to that orphan . girl in
time, might haye kept ber from being
crowded off the precipices of an unclean
life, Borne New, Testament that would
have told them- of him who "came to
eeek and td save that which was lost"
Oh. this wave of vacrrancy and hunger
tknd nakedness that dashes against our
front doorstep I wonder if you hear it
and see, it as much as I hear it and see
it. I have been almost frenzied with the
perpetual cry fori help from all classes
and' from all nations, knocking, knock
ing, ringing, ringing. If the roofs of all
the houses of destitution could be lifted
so we could look down into them just
as God looks,whose nerves would be
strong enough" to stand it?. And yet
there they are. H
Tbe'sewing women some of them in
huiiger and cold, working night after
nifht until sometimes the blood spurts J
. -1 . J ,i TT II Un-i
rrom noscru ana up. . uuw u wcu
grief was voiced by that despairing wo
man who, stood i ;- i.er invalid husband
and Invalid ch:'. i r.ud said to the city
missionary : "I r.
ery thing's agaii;
arej other things '.
said: the city u.
Jowh hearted. Ev
as,1 and then there
Vv hat other things?"
iouary. "Oh," she
' What do you mean
she said, "I never
replied, "my sin
by that?"
"Welb
heir or see anything good.
from Monday morning to
It's work
Saturday
night, and then when - Sunday comes X
can't go out, and I walk the floor, and
it rnakes'me tremble ' to think that I
have got to meet God. r Oh, sir. it's so
hard for us. ' We have to work so, and
then we bave4so much'troutle, and then
we are getting along so poorly, and see
this wee . little thing growing weaker
and weaker, and then to. think we are
getting no nearer to God, but floating
away from him oh, sir, t do wish I
was ready to die.." I
I should not wonder if they bad a
good deal better, tbme than we in the
future, to make, up . for the fact ' that
they had such a bad time here. It would
be just like Jesus to say: "Come up
and take the highest seata You suffer
ed with me on earth, now be glorified
with me In heaven. " Oh, thou weep
ing One of Bethany! Oh, thou dying
One of the cross! Have mercy on the
starving, freezing, homeless poor of
these creat citiea. 1
t
xo. ;ji.
EVES. ; OEEfV! !
not
fo)(
It cannot be and never has
any one except
by their Trade Mark
wnt JOtt' to kUGW.Wllu
arw the up
1 want, you
rooting - clafc of uty
i tn mora uisrn inin it ink' in" vonr cluir- f
itiea 1 want your hearts- o;eii with
generosity au.t your bunds o; y with
charity 1 want 'yon.tt iuojIo ib
worn friend. of nil city v.ui;v!i:titn.
and all tiawslHiya'" I. h -and
all Christian aid Kson ti a Ayu, I want
you to send t!.o Dcreua s-vuty all the.,
cast off clothing, that, UM(i r tJiokill
ful mauipuIutK u cf the wesntid nielli-,
ers and sibteri and d.iught rs, these gur
ments may be -Lttei on tuo coul, tan
foe t and on the fhtveriug linibs of tin
destitute 'ahould uut wi nd r if that
hat that you givo ahoulJ como' buck a
jeweled cortoiet or t hat-gurni'ent. that'
you this week habd rut frt;u yi ur ward
robe should in3t(iri"r..sy tni-whitem-d:
and somehow wroul.t in tJ Saviour V.
own' robe, m in ttho tt .hy bo would!
run his baud over it uuU Vay, f'l wh
naked and ye clothe. 1 irto. " That '.would;
:.be . putting your, ganuentj to . gloriouj
uses. : ..
Besides all thix I wart you fo appre
ciate in the con trait how very kindly
God has dealt with tyon in .your com
fortablo homes, at your .'well fill d
blesand at tho warm reViter.s auI to
have you look, at fho round fucva f
your children, and then,' at' tho ruview
of ; God's goodness to ycu, go to your
rojom and lock the door and kneel dnvn
and say: "O Lord, I h:iy bee'U an in-l
grate. Make mo thy child. O Lor 1. ;
there are so many hungry and uuelad
and unsheltered today r I thank tlieo
that all my life thou bust taken such!
good care of in o. O Lord;' there are
many sick said cirppled children today!
I thank thee miuo are well, 6omo of
them on earth, some of them in heav-
en. lny goouuoss, u Lora, nrvan urn
down. . Take- mo onco and forever.
Sprinkled as I. was many years ago at
tho altar, while my mother ; held nic,
now I consecrato my soul to theo.in'.a'
holier bajitism of repenting tears. '
j "For elnnors, lord, thou cam t to LK.1,
And I'm a Binocr vilt) irylfed. ! - j.
! Lord, I bellova thy grace IsSrist.
Oh. magnify that grneo in me"
Alumiuluut Itroif. j 'i "
For certain jiurporfos aluminium .
bronze Is. superior to hteel, jnw it ap
pears littlo subject to fatigue..'.. Cur.
tridgo fchella of thinl nmteruil h.ie',! -it
is stated, been itred' 00 times in ; '
jBqcceseion,. and a riHo. firing pint
struck 12.0,000 hlowa, without a
change occurring in itH.niolcciilar
condition. It can be drawn into ;
tubes, but is as difhcult to devil with !t
as steel. The strength of tiid drawn
tube cot nnnealcfl reaches 0G,(0
pounds j)or square inch.
SatUuod tli AntU-nc.
The young woman on tho stao
who was submitting to the test sud
denly assumed an expression of in-.
tense suffering. Her features weio
rigid and distorted and her eyia
fixed on vacancy with a horrib'o
stare. - '' ,
Tho hypnotist, alarmed at tho
manifestations, hastened to reinovo
the spell. -
Before doing so, however, lie re
lieved the. concern tf it ho audienci
and securcil tumultuous applaune
a witness-of his .''successful effort.
- "Now," he said Tw.rh
smile, "sho thinks she is ridii,a
bicycle." Detroit Free l'resi.
Wuwhd'i i:totiHW i
. She Why do you get ro irofiirie?
Why can't you content yourself with
"Good gracious me," as 1 lu( f"
He I couldn't bo so fgotihtiCal as
to talk that way about mys elf.
Boston Joiinml. " j
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