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Wol LI) YE lilUNG -THEM
I s A CI v At S'JL IX'..
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,!!. t; tin' land of life im light,
"J'hiiv- whoni-we lovt-dWtliis fatal v
i-.-n t mansions fair areFbriglit,
in iioiis eternal si;ht.
iTlioi! whom we held si)Idear so 1.
W'tiiit- have they left us? jtIemories deep.
.Mfinories noiy ana lH?tt-r ami true
Vt-a were death an enMtlss sleep.
i ,-- ivould not slumliehft.lH'se would keep
ale;iroin (leeay tlie lorcis we knew
! . nililess in (Jol"s divintit,sj)liere
lluut and serene our' hived ones dwell.
i oinpU-te in the bliss thej-grayed for
iVrhitj ill love, in vi.sioiiicjear
I j Win! of their stieredjo j -in tell ?
Viiom and peace and ti-dtli are theiijs,
K ti U ledtje that deepeifejj'aeh jiassin hour,
; 1 rititi.tn to iaitli, and an.Wtrs to pravtr.-,
: .o coiiniei oi soul, no weary.-cares
-j I ii that high hie of liiiiwortal joweij.
Si ill ye tleinand tlieir refcVrn affiiin
1 1 H-aij as tliev were to liv strife once
more
( a!! tlif m ba' k to the grtej ami pain,
I'-iM-k to the toil, the iretlih- stain.
I!aeK to the world froniAijatl)eautifiil
! S l t
No! witli the blessed letiiiem le
jSafeiand saved in ther'jstViovir s smile,
14-uuint; to iinji ineauofing Knee
Siau'iiiii; to us from the crystal sea
-Here with ns in a littfoiwhile."
lit: Talinage's SeriUoh, Preached
Sunday, .July f5d, I SSI.
Text : u Througir A window in a
basement; was . I lef;;down by the
wall. ' 2 CoriHtlna-j-xi, 3
said:"- v- hi? ' ,
He
! : Sermons on I'aul in Jail, Fatal on
Mars Hill, Paul in the shipwreck,
I'aul before the SanlHlrini, Paul be
finv Felix, are plentiful, but i 1 my
text we have Paul in iibas"ket. Da
mascus is a city of wf ate and gl. sten
ing architecture', soulelimes galled
"the eye of the Eat,f; sometimes
:all'd "a earl sunbiinded by tnie'r
alils,"' at one time dyiinguished for
svv.rds of the bestnatcrial tailed
liaiuascus blades, and upholstery of
richest fabric, called?; damasks. A
)rse"ii'iari by the nanuiof Saul, riding
wards this city, had been thrown
tin' the saddle. ijie horse had
upped-under a flash from th.sky,
hich at the- same trnte was so 1 right
hlindtd the riler for. manv llavs.
iinl, I think, so pernianentlv in-
red Ins evesight, that this defect of
V
h
sion became the thorn in themesh
afterward speaks of. lie started
r Damascus to butefier Christians,
b it after that hard;; fall from his
hkirse'j ilie was a changed man, and
iiieached Christ in Damascus till
ie citv was shaken. tto its founda
tion. M .' -:r
The mavor gives. if ;tjthorit; for his
f sf, and
m: 1'irt'n.Ai: i;y.is ikh.i. nfM ;
Kir.i.
'llio citv is
surrounitcd
by
a
hi-
wall. Inid the gates; i'tre wntched, by
the iiblicejcst tlie Civilian nrencher
escape; Many of the lumsesare
mi the wall, and tlieijf balconies liro
jerted " clear over and. hovered j)ihove
tie gardens outside, jjtt was custom
ary to! lower baskcir out of . these
"baleoi'iies and pull up. fruits! and
tlhwers. from the narden. To this
iv visitcrs at t!ie;iai)iiabtry at Mt
Sinai are lifted and
ts. 1 1 Detectives- brdwled arount
l'r m house to housfe " looking lor
l'JiUl, but his tVii lids.iliitl him, now
hi .one mace, now in ianomer. i lie
is dii cowari, as mu3 incHK-nis m
ils hie (leinonstrates.1 Jut he
h; wink lis not diiie yet, ani
1 so
tvailes assassinattfri.- - Is
that
l.ifi aelier iiere : tne toaniing
rthob
out at one house dolor. I
that
it at
s oh
biiticlhere?'' the
ilice sho
another house door.
Sonietinid
t!
e street incognito ho passes through
a
c:rowil ot ch-ncheel tots, and sonie-
ti hies he secretes iTimselt '.oi the
lUsetops. At last ' the iiifurjatei
iM'iiulace set on sum-track ot lam.
I Itev haw oositive evidence that he
ill til
e".liouse of oi1.;of the Chris-
i-iis, the balcony -oF-i whose 1
mine
aches over the wail.:; Here l
ie I:
ere
ie is
' The vociferation
and
pur-
ispl
iemv ana nownng ot. the
ers
a re at the f rod t d oor.
Thev
ak
in. l etch out that gqsiiel-
r, ami let us harig IJis head oh the
city gate. here is he? Thorimer-
gqncvj was terrible. Providentiallv
tf
ere was a good stliijin )aket in the
house
Pauls fnendsj' fasten a rope
the
ie b
basket. Paul.teps into it
isket is lifted to the ease of
e balcony on the; wall, and
then
lilt
Paul holds on to the rona with
bilh hands his friends lower away,
jrefullv and cautiously, slowly but
ilrelvy further dbwfl .and: further
. dlvnJ until the basket strikes the
irtn, ana tne aposue steps out ana
affot, and alone starts on that fa-
i
in nous
missionary tour, the story of
M i b 1C O d All 1 .l,i..l
neaven. iinoi)iiaie:emrv in i am s
1: L. . : . x- : A., i: i n.
dlarv of travels: Ihrouirh a win
dow in alnisket wars ll. let down bv
tlie wtill."; ':'t
Observe, first, "
OX WHAT A SLEXDEK-TKNI UK ORKAT
i I I REJTLTS HAKiii
;rii( iopemaker avIio "twisted that
cord fastened to that loweringbasket
n
ver i knew how much would de-
ipeh'd Upon the strength of it
How
if
lit htul been broken and the
apos
out? tl
ie;s ine had tecn tiasnea
n h , , i -t i x - . -V 11
What
would have ! become of the
tristian church ? All that ni
ignif-
ieent inissionary Avofk in Pamphilia,
Cjipnadocia. Galatia and Macedonia
wliuld never have beeii'accomplished.
All his writings that-inake upjso in
diiipensablfe and enchanting a part of
the iew Testament i.woufd j never
have been written. The st6ry of
tl e resurrection woukl nevet have
bcn so gloriously told as he told it.
That example of heroic . and trium
phant endurance at 1 hilliDU m the
editerranean Euroclydon,
under
igel
ation and at his beh
euuini;
oul
not have kindled tlie cburage
thousand martyrdom sL' But
ten
that rope holding that basket, how
much; I depended on it ! So.
and again, great results, have1 hung
SCRIPTION: i 1 i " -
VOL. XVI. NO. 28,
on what scHiiod slender circum
stances, i
Dil ever ship of many thousand
tons crossing the sea have such im
portant passenger as had once a boat
of leaves from tafl'rail to stern, onlv
three or four! feet, the vessel made
watherproof y a coat of bitumen,
and floating r.in the Nile with the in
fant lawgiver of fha-Iews on board ?
hat ifsomejerocodile should crunch
it ? What ifj sonie of the cattle wad
in in for a drink -sliould sink it?
t ssels of v ar sometimes cany forty
guns looking through the port holes,
ready. to open battle. JJut that tiny
craft on the Nile seems to be armed
with all the! guns of thunder that
bombarded Hinai at the lawgiving.
On how fragile craft sailed how much
historical importance!
The parsonage at 'Epworth, En
gland, is on fi. e in the night, and the
father rushed through the hallway
fort lie rescue of his children. Seven
children aro( out and safe on the
ground, but one remains in the con
suming builtling. ..That one wakes,
and findiiifr'his bed on fire and the
building crumbling, comes to the f
window, and two peasants make a
ladder of their bodies one peasant
standing oi the shouMer of the
other, and down the human ladder
the boy descends.Iohn Wesley. If
you would know how much ' '
DKI'KNDKD ON THAT I.APPKK OF 1'KAS
A NTS
ask tlie millions of Methodists on
both sides of the sea. Ask their mis
sion stationsj all around the world.
Ask their hundreds of thousands al
ready ascended to join their founder
who would jiave perished but for
the living stairs of peasants' shoul
ders. An English ship stopped at Pit
cairn Island, and right in the midst
of surrounding cannibalism and
squalor the passengers discovered a
Christian colony of churches and
schools and beautiful homes and
highest stvlejof religion and civiliza
tion. For fifty years no missionary
and no Christian influence had
landed there. Why this oasis of
light amid a desert of heathendom ?
Sixty years before a ship had met
disaster and one of the sailors, una
ble to save anything else, went to
his trunk and took out a Bible which
his mother had placed' there, and
swam ashoreL the Bible held in his
teeth. The book was read on all
sides until, the rough and vicious
population were evangelized, and a
church was started and an enlight
ened commonwealth established, and
the world's history has no more bril
liant page than that which tells of
the transformation of a nation bv
one book. It did not seem of much
importance whether the sailor con
tinued to hold the book in his teeth
or let it fall in the breakers, but up
on what small circumstance de
pended what mighty results!
Practical inference: There is no
insignificances in our lives. The
minutest thing is part of a magni
tude. INFINITY IS MAI.iK 11"' OF INFIMTKSI-
: MAI.s.
Great things ;an aggregate of small
things. Bethlehem manger pulling
on a star in the eastern sky. One
book in a drenched sailor's moutli
tlie evangelization of a multitude.
Christendom j in a basket let down
from a window on the wall. What
you do, do well. If you make a rope
make it strong and true, for you
know not how much may depend
on your workmanship. If you iash
ion a boat let it be waterproof, for
you know -holt who -may sail in it.
If you put a ! Bible in the trunk of
your boy as lie goes from home, let
it be heard in your prayers, for it
may have a mission as far-reaching
as the book which thefsailor carried
in his teeth to tlie Pitcairn beach.
The plainest man's life is an island
between two eternities eternity past
rippling against his. shoulders, eter
nity to come pouching his brow, lhe
casual, the accidental, that which
merely happened so, are parts of a
great plan, and the rope that lets the
fugitive apostle from the Damascus
wall is the cable that holds to its
mooring the !ship of he church in
the northeast storm of the centuries.
Again, notice unrecognized and
unrecorded services. Who spun that
rope? Who tied it to the basket?
Who steadied the illustrious preacher
as lie stepped into it. Who relaxed
not a muscle 6f the arm, or dismissed
an anxious look from his face, until
the basket touched the ground and
discharged its magnificent cargo?
Not one of their names has come to
us, but there was 110 work done that
day in Damascus or in all the earth
cofnpared with the importance of
their work. jWhat if they kad, in
the agitation tied a knot that could
slip ? What if the sound of the mob
at the door had led them to say :
''Paul must take care of himself, and
we will take care of ourselves?"
NO, so! THEY. HELD THE ROPE,
and in doing so did more for the
Christian church than any thousand
of us will ever accomplish. But God
knows and has made eternal record
of their undertaking. And they
know. How exultant they must
have felt when they read his letters
to the Romans, to the Corinthians,
to the Galatians, to the Ephesians,
to the Philippians, to the Colossians,
to the Thessalonians, to Timothy, to
Titus, to Philemon, to the Hebrews,
and wdien the' heard how he walked
out of prison with the earthquake
unlocking the door for him, and took
command of the Alexandrian corn
ship when the sailors were nearly
scared to death, and preached a ser
mon that nearly shook Felix off his
judgment seat I hear the' men
and women who helped him down
through the window and over the
wall talking in private ever the mat
ter, and saying : " How glad I am
that we effected that rescue! In
11 HERE SHALL THE PRESS
coming times others may get the
glory of Paul's work, but no one
shall rob us of the satisfaction of
knowing that we held the rope'
. Once -ibr" thirty-six hours we ex
pected every moment to go to the
bottom of the ocean. The waves
struck through the skylights and
rushed down into the hold of the
ship and hissed against the boilers.
It was an awful : time ; but, by the
blessing of God and the faithfulness
of the men in charge, we came out
of the cyclone and we arrived at
home. Each one before leaving the
ship thanked Capt. Andrews. I do
n6t think there was a man or woman
that went ofl' that ship without thank
ing Capt. Andrews, and when years
after I heard of his death I was im
pelled to write a letter of condolence
to his family in Liverpool. Every
body recognized the goodness, the
courage, the kindness ot Capt. An
drews ; but it occurs to me now that
we never thanked the engineer. He
stood away down in the darkness
amid the hissing furnaces doing his
whole dutv. Nobodv thanked the
engineer, but God recognized hi
heroism and his continuance and his
fidelity,1 and there will be just as
high reward for the engineer who
worked out of sight as for the cap
tain who stood on the bridge of the
ship in the midst of the howling
tempest.
There are said to be about G9.,000
ministers of religion in this country.
About 50,(X)0 I 'warrant came from
earlv homes which had to struggle
for the necessaries of life. The sons
of rich bankers and merchants gen
erally become bankers and mer
chants. The most of those who be
come ministers are the sons of those
who had terriflic struggle to get their
everyday bread. The collegiate and
theological education of that son
r"
TOOK EVERY LUXIRY FROM THE PA
RENTAL TA RLE
for eight years. The other children
were more scantily appareled. The
son at college every little while got
a bundle from home. In it were the
socks that mother had knit, sitting
up late at night, her sight not as
good as once it was. And there also
were some delicacies from the sister's
hand for the voracious appetite of a
hungry student. Tlie father swung
the heavy cradle through the wheat,
the sweat rolling from his chin be
dewing every step of the way, and
then sitting down under the cherry
tree at noon thinking to himself: "I
am fearfully tired, but it will pay if
I can once see that boy through col
lege, and if I know that he will be
preaching the Gospel after I -am
dead." The younger children want
to know why they can't have this
and that as others do, and the mother
says : "Be patient, my children, un
til your brother graduates, and then
you shall have more luxuries ; but
we must see that boy through."
The years go by, and the son has
been ordained-and is preaching the
glorious Gospel, and a great revival
comes, and souls by scores and hun
dreds accept the Gospel from the lips
of that young preacher, and father
and mother, quite old now, are visit
ing the son at the village parsonage,
and at the close of a Sabbath of
mighty blessing father and mother
retire to their room, -the son lighting
the way and asking them if he can
do anything to. make them more
comfortable, saying if they want
anything in the night just to knock
on the wall. And then, all alone,
father and mother talk over the gra
cious influences of the .day and say:
"Well, it was worth all we went
through to educate that boy. It was
a hard pull, but we held on till the
work was done. The world may. not
know it, but, mother,
WK IIEI.I) THE HOl'K, DIDN'T WE?"
And the voice, tremulous with joy
ful emotion, responds: "Yes, father,
we held the rope. I feel my work is
done. Now, Lord, lettest thou thy
servant depart in peace, for mine
eyes have seen thy salvation."
"Pshaw!" says the father, "I never
felt so much like living in my life as
now. I want to see what that fel
low is going on to do, he has begun
so well."
Something occurs to me quite per
sonal. I was the youngest of a large
family, of children. My parents were
neither rich nor poor; four of the
sons 'wanted collegiate education,
and four obtained it, but not without
great home struggle. We never heard
therold people say once that they
were denying themselves to effect
this., but I remember now that my
parents always looked .tired. I don't
think they ever got rested until they
lay down in the Somerville ceme
tery. Mother would sit down in
the evening and say : "Well, I don't
know what makes me feel so tired !"
Father would fall immediately to
sleep, seated by the evening stand,
overcome by the day's fatigues. One
of the four brothers, after preaching
the gospel for about fifty years, en
tered upon his heavenly rest. An
other of the four is on the other side
of the earth, a missionary of the
cross. Two of us are in this land in
the holy ministry, and I think all of
us are willing to acknowledge our
obligation to the old folks at home.
About twenty-one years ago the one,
and about twenty-three years ago
the other, put down the burdens of
this life, but they still hold the rope.
O, men and women here assem
bled, you brag sometimes how jrou
have fought your way in the world,
but 1 think there have been helpful
influences that you have never fully
acknowledged. Has there not been
some influence in your early or pres
ent home
THAT THE WORLD CANNOT SEE?
Does there not reach to you from
among the New' England hills, or
from western prairie, or from south
ern plantation, or from English, or
Scottish, or Irish home, a eord of in-
THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UN AWED P,Y INFLUENCE
DURHAM N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1887.
fluence that ha s kept you right when
you would have gone astray, and
w
ich, alter vou had made a crooked
track, recalled you ? The rope may
tie as long as
hundred mile
thirty years, or five
long, or three thou
sand miles long, but hands that went
out of mortal sight long ago still hold
tlie rope. You want a very swift
horse, and you need to rowel him
with sharpest spurs, and to let the
reins lie lose upon the neck, and to
give a shout to the racer, if you are
going to ride iut of reach of your
mother's prayers. Why, a ship cross
ing the Atlantic in six days can't
sail away from that. A sailor finds
them on the lookout as he takes his
place, and' finds them on the mast
as he climbs the ratlines to disen
tangle a rope in the tempest, and
finds them sw inging on the ham
mock when he turns in. Why not
be frank and acknowledge it the
most of us would long ago have been
dashed to pieces had not gracious
and loving hands steadily, lovingly
and mightily leld the rope.
But there must come a time when
we shall find out who these Damas
cenes were who lowered Paul in the
basket, and gret them and all those
who have rendered to God and the
world unrecognized and unrecorded
services. That is going to be one of
the glad excitements of heaven, the
hunting up and picking out of those
who did great good on earth and got
no credit for it. Here the church
has been goin
turies, and yet
THE WOULD HA
l on for nineteen cen-
- NOT RECOONIZED THE
ERVICES
;i that Damascus bal
of the people i
cony. Lharle.-? u. r mnev said to a
dying Christian : " Give my love to
St. Paul when you meet him."
hen you and
I
meet him, as we
i i in to introduce
will, 1 shall a.-
k
me to those people who
ot him out
pf the Damascene peril.
Let us pass on round the circle of
thrones. Win) art thou, mighty one
of heaven? "I was for thirty years
a Christian invalid, and suffered all
the while, occasionally writing a note
of sympathy to those worse oil" than
I, and was general confident of all
those who had; trouble, and once in
a while I was strong enough to make
a garment for that poor family in
the back lane." Passion to another
throne. Who art thou, mighty one
of heaven? 'T was the mother who
raised a w'hole family of children
for God, and they are out in the
world Christian merchants, Chris
tian median cs. Christian wives, and
and I have had full reward of all
my toil." Let us pass on in the
circle of thrones. 'T had a Sabbath
school class, and they all entered the
kingdom of Gjod, and I am waiting
for tlieir arrival."
But who artjthou, the mighty one
of heaven on this other throne? "In
time of bitter persecution I owned a
house in Damascus, a house on the
wall. A man who preached Christ
was hounded from street- to street
and I hid hinl from the assassins,
and when I fOund them breaking
in my house and I could no longer
keeji him safely, I advised him to
flee for his life,! and a basket was let
down over the
wall with
it and
the mal-
treated man in
I WAS ONE WHO HELPED HOLD THE
ROPE."
And I said: "Is that all?" And he
answered: "Thjat is all." And. while
I was lost in -alnazement I heard a
strong voice that sounded as though
it might once have been hoarse from
many exposures and triumphant as
though it might have belonged to
one of the martyrs, and it said : "Not
many mighty, not many noble are
called, but God hath chosen the
weak things of the world to confound
the mighty, and base things of the
world and things which are despised
hath God chosen, yea, and things
which are not to bring to naught
things which I are, that no flesh
should glory iri His presence." And
I looked to see from whence the
voice come, and lo ! it was the very
one w ho had said : "Through a win
dow in a basket was I let down. by
the wall." I
Henceforth think of nothing as
insifinigcant. J A little thing may
decide your all. A Cunarder put
out from England for New York. It
was well equipped, but in putting
up a stove in jthe pilot box, a nail
was driven too near the compass.
You know how that nail would af
fect the compalss. The ship's officer
deceived by thbt .distracted compass,
put the ship two hundred miles off
her right courjse, and suddenly the
man on the lookout cried : " Land
ho!" and ship was halted within a
few yards of her demolition on the
Nantucket shoals. A six penny nail
came near wrecking a Cunarder.
SMALL ROPES HOLD MIGHTY DESTINIES.
A minister seated in Boston at his
table, lackmg k word puts bis hand
behind his head and tilts back his
chair to think,) and the ceiling falls
and crushes the table and "would
have crushed him. A minister in
Jamaica, at night by the light of an
insect, called the candle-fly, is kept
from steppingOver a precipice a hun
dred 'feet. F. W. Robertson, the cele
brated English clergyman, said that
he entered the! ministry from a train
of circumstances started by the bark
ing of a dog. )Had the wind blown
one way on a terrain day, the Span
ish inquisition would have been es
tablished in England ; but it blew
the other way, and that dropped the
accursed institution with seventy
five thousand tons of shipping to the
bottom of the !sea, or flung the splin
tered logs on the rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life
or mine. Three noughts placed on
the right side of the figure one make
a thousand, arid six noughts on the
right side of the figure one a million,
and our nothingness placed on the
right side may be augmentation il
LIFE IN NEW YORK.
AMOS ,J. CI'MMISGS IX WASH
INGTON' 'ST A IS.
Seaside Resorts ot the Great Me
tropolis The Mysteries of Co
ney Island How Xew York's
Citizens Keep Cool.
Every twenty-four hours from now
until cooler weather comes, a daly
average of 50,000 or more Xew York
ers will leave the city to get fresh air
at the neighboring seaside places.
Coney Island, the most famous of
American seaside resorts, will get the
majority of this immense traflic.
The iron steamers, each capable of
carrying 2,(JO0 passengers, make
seventeen trips a day. The Bav
Iiidge route half steamer and haif
rail -transports its immense comple
ment of pleasure-seekers, and lines
of railway from Long Island City
and Brooklyn take thousands of ex
cursionists through paradises of gar
dens and green trees to the cool
shores of the island. It is remarka
ble that so few accidents occur on
these many lines of-travel. Steam
boats densely crowded and rushing
at full speed through the" dense fog
that rises so suddenly on the waters
of the bay traverse the track of scores
of vessels, and train's of open cars
peopled with passengers as thickly
as the7 can sit, run at the rate of
thirty to fifty miles an hour over
the confusing labyrinth of tracks
leading to the island, but about the
only deaths on these-avenues of traf
fic that have occurred since the great
watering place of. Giney Island was
opened in 1S7S, have been those o!
littlechildren in anijis who have ex
pired' from the suffocating heat ol
the great crowds. Another notable
fact is the absence in' -'Miter years of
drunken fights :on the lines of travel
to and from the lland. Any om
who has fifty cents on hand can
make the trip, and the ehe;iness of
the luxury invites a miscellaneous
crowd, but there seems to be a cer
tain salutary eileet in the salt sea air
that quells the quarrelsomeness (f
the "tough." Yet one is constantly
reminded thai , the tough is abroad.
This was exemplified a few even
ings ago by an incident that hap
pened in on" of the coaches that ply
between the iron piers at one end of
the island and; the Brighton Beach
Hotel, about half the distance up
the beach. Th-e Coney Island hack
man hasn't yet learned the system
of exorbitant chargcs that distin
guished the Niagara; .Jehu, and the
fare is only 5 Cents..: On the night
in question the conductor came
around with his usual call of "Fares,
please !"' A young man with keen,
restless eyes, said : "J paid you my
tare." To the astonishment of the
other passengers the conductor
called the young man a liar and
said in forcible manner: "Oh, I
know your game ! Fork over or I'll
throw ye out. The young man
forked over. , Later one of the force
of Pinkertonjs detectives, who guard
the more aristocratic end of the Is
land, drove jthe yoiing man away
under pain of arrest -as -a suspicious
character. He sought refuge on that
part of the shore patroled by the
eighty police of the Gravcsend force,
and they compelled thim to take a
train and return to New York. He
is a famous sneak thief and pick
pocket. The police .surveillance of
Coney Island is now -.-so perfect that
dissolute characters have in the main
been' driven away, and all the gam
bling hells, which last season dis
graced the place, are closed.
Nowhere in America can such a
cosmopolitan crowd be seen. On
one of the steamers bound to the is
land a few afternoons 'ago was an In
dian, two Turks, wearing their red'
turbans and smoking cigarettes of
Turkish tobacco; a well-to-do China
man, glorious in a lavender-colored
robe, black trousers, land gaily-embroidered,
wooden-soled shoes ; an'
Italian band of musicians, several
Hebrews talking in1 their native
tongue, no end of Germans, and
Americans and. Irish" almost innu
merable. At the rear of the steamer
sat two dark-featured, marvelously
handsome ladies, .with great blazing
black eyes. They were dressed in
exquisite taste and were earnestly
talking in a peculiarly musical
tongue with a dark:complexioned
young man. They were Creoles
from New Orleans, and the ladies
were voted the most: beautiful ever
seen at Coney Island.:!
Four big hotels on the island serve
an average of 5,(XK meals each day,
to say nothing rof the vast quantities
of cheap luncheons sold at the lunch
booths. Even an old habitue of the
resort cannot quite discover how all
these provisions reach.it. The steam
ers seenyxo carry little or no freight,
and noone ever sees a freight or ex
presstrain carrying goods to the
greaiVcaravansaries. Nevertheless
tons of fresh and very palatable food
go down daily from New York, and
it appears to reach its destination as
if by magic. Gallons of champagne
of the finest brands, barrels of beer
and thousands of cigars are con
sumed there daily: One hotel sold
$9,000 worth of meals- on the Fourth
of July, and three pf the largest
houses get not less than 81.50 for
each meal served. j
It is a matter of mystery, too,
where all the waiters, that scamper
through the dining rooms are found.
The old habitue of prominent hotels
will discover,howevertthat they have
been drafted from houses all over
the Union. They are an oddly as
sorted lot, ranging all the way from
the short jacket waiter from a West
. era restaurant to the benign, elderly
appearing, old servitor from an up
town New. York hotel.' They are
inclined to be independent and to
take the guest's most liberal fee with
out so much as "Thank you." Some
of them have been going to Coney
AND UNBRIRED BY GAIN."
Island ever since it became a popu
lar resort, nearly a decade ago, anil
several of tliem are reported to be
well-to-do as the fruit of their tips.
Thousands of concert singers,
shouters for shows and photograph
galleries and employes of the six
merry-go-'rounds and other catch
penny devices live constantly at
Coney Island during the season.
The lodging accommodations, aside
from the bjg hotels, are limited, and
one is led to wonder where this vast
army of outsiders sleep. That they
are not given to devotional exercises
or literature is proven by the absence
of churches or book stores, but that
many persons have to take drugs to
counteract the affects of the violent
liquors sold at the resort, and the
imprudent eating so prevalent there,
is attested by the several little circu
lar drug stores scattered along the
shore. Each of the principal hotels
has displayed in its office the sign of
a resident physician, and the prac
tice is so lucrative that skilled doc
tors crave the appointment which
comes at the hands of the-- hotel
manager. Coney Island is a great
place and it has great hotels, but at
least one of the merry-go-'rounds is
accredited with making more clear
profit than any house on the shore.
Amos J. Cummings.
Something to Think About.
Now York Herald.
Immigration to this country
has
within a few years suffered "a sea
change."
The men who have come from Ire
land fit into the American grove and
run along by our side very smoothly.
They take kindly to our institutions
and appreciate and support them.
In the course of a generation or two
they become 'quite, as American as
any of us.
Of the Germans the same may be
said. They are a thrifty, busy, in
dustrious set of fellows, who are
happy to find here a great many op
portunities which their native land
denied them. They are good me
chanics, good farmers ; they manage
to scrape enough dollars together to
give them an interest in our repub
lican stability and in the preserva
tion of law and order. .
A great . number of Italians arc
coming to this country just now.
Heretofore they have poured into
the Argentine Republic, but within
a few years the current has turned
against our shores. As a general
thing America finds them hard to
digest. They are clannish, they
learn our language with difficulty,
and in many cases not at all, and
they take very little apparent inter
est in our politics or our institutions.
The Russians, Bohemians and
Poles, large numbers of whom have
lately flocked to America, are not
only restless and discontented, but
they exhibit quarrelsome tenden
cies. Their hatred of the home gov
ernment is transferred to our govern
ment, and, without knowing any
thing about it, they make the air lu
rid with execrations of American
tyranny or oppression. They fill the
ranks of anarchism and talk loudly
In an unknown tongue about dyna
mite and all the other "resources of
civilization." They want to blow us
all up, though for what reason they
cannot tell perhaps on general
principles. They do not take root
with us, but are making the tour of
the world for the pickings. There
are exceptions to this rule very
honorable ones but the rule holds
good; nevertheless.
This change in the aspect of affairs
is beginning to attract the attention
of the people, and it presents a prob
lem which it is worth their while to
consider very seriously.
AVorkinirmen ami Drink.
T. V. Fowilerly i" Journal of I"niteJ l.a)wtr.
In the city of New York alone it
is estimated that not less than $250,-
000 a day are spent for drink ; 81,
500,000 in one week ; $75,000,000 in
one year. Who will dispute it when
1 say that one-half of the policemen
of New York city are employed to
watch the beings who squander 875,
000,000 year ? Who will dispute it
when I say that the money spent in
paying the salaries and expenses of
one-half of the police of New York
could be saved to the taxpayers if
875,000,000 were not devoted to
making drunkards, thieves, prosti
tutes, and other subjects for the po
licemen's net to gather in? If 8250,
000 go over the counters of the rum
seller in one day in New York
city alone, who will dare to as
sert that workingmen do not pay
one-fifth, r $50,000 of that sum ? If
workingmen in New York city spend
S50,000 a day for drink, they spend
8300,000a week, leaving Sunday out.
In four weeks they spend 81,200,
000 over twice as much money as
was paid in the General Assembly
of the Knights of Labor in nine
5 ears. In six weeks they spend 81,
8X),000 nearly three times as much
money as that army of organized
workers the Knights of Labor, have
spent ffom the day the General As
sembly was first called to order up
to the present day ; and in one year
the workingmen of New York city
alone will have spent for beer and
rum 815,G00,000, or enough to pur
chase and equip a first-class telegraph
line of their own ; $15,G00,000
enough money to iri vest "in such co
operative enterprises as would for
ever end the strike and lock-out as
a means of settling disputes in labor
circles.
Not a Lady's Day.
Ohhkosh Northwestern.
Fourth of July can hardly be
called the ladies' day, although its
principal features are powder and
bangs.
The "Favorite Prescription" of Dr.
Pierce cures "female weakness" and
kindred affections. By druggists.
$1.50 PER ANNUM.
AMERICANS ABROAD.
THE PLANT'S LETTER FKOM
THE OLI WOULD.
How Representatives of the
"Greatest Republic the World
Ever Saw" Deport Themselves
in Foreign Lands.
When one is far away in a land
where he seldom meets one of his
countrymen, he is much less' fastid
ious in his sociability than when he
is at home. j"EVen an inveterate snob
could not persist in his snobbishness,
under such circumstances, with any
thing like self-satisfaction. Of course:
in a large foreign city where there is
an American colony, one can not so
thoroughly appreciate the luxury of
meeting a fellow-countryman. In
fact, I imagine one would soon learn
to avoid on? of his own nationality,
if he were obliged to live in one of
these colonics for any length of time;
as the worst traits of American char
acter seem to ripen more rapidly and
to become more offensively promi
nent in a foreign atmosphere than
they do at home. Why this is so I
do not pretend to explain, though I
presume it is owing to either one or
the other of the two following causes:
Some Americans chiefly men
believe America to be better than the
rest of the world in ever particular
and make themselves offensive, and
sometimes ridiculous, by intruding
this opinion on every possible occa
sion. Other Americans chiefly snobs
and weak-minded voung ladies
think that the rest of the world is al
ways better than America, and are
ready at any time to apologize for
their native country and its "vul
gar" democratic principles.
The apologies of this latter class
are either direct or implied. I can
forgive even a snob for being hon
estly ashamed of his country, for
then I know that his country is, or
ought to be, even more ashamed of
him, but when the apology is only
implied by a sigh of regret that we
have no ruined castles and equally
ruined barons, counts or other such
small deer ; or when I see a smile of
tickled vanity raised on the face of a
sturdy American girl by a careless
attention or a silly compliment from
some sprig of a decayed nobility, I
doubt the capacity of such persons
to appreciate sensible, democratic
doctrine otherwise than in a merely
sentimental way.
But I am becoming severe, per
haps, in my judgments. I do not
mean to imply that all our country
men and countrywomen abroad are
injudicious, or, to put it plainly, ill
bred ; simply because many of them
act in a manner which has brought
discredit on us as a nation.
To-day I was hurrying home to
dinner when I saw in the distance
an exceedingly black object whom I
recognized as a fellow-American cit
izen. He stood in front of a win
dow examining something intently
and evidently, deliberating seriously
in regard to it. Crossing the street
I approached unobserved and said,
as I pretended to pass by, "You leave
that iie alone ! First thing you know
you won't know anything, if you
eat these .European pies."
The man turned quickly on hear
ing himself addressed in English,
and grinned from one honest black
ear to the other as he said, " 'Scuse
me, boss ; I ain' gwine ter buy dat
pie ef I knows it. W'y boss, I seen
it in de window las' week. I knows
it fur sure by de crumb dats broken
off de corner; an' Iain' gwine ter
eat.no dried apples like dem, dat am
de fackr I wants some apple pie,
but -I'm, gwine ter 'nother cake shop
down de street. Dey ain' gwine ter
git off no stale pies on dis nigger, no
sirree !"
I applauded this patriotic senti-;
ment and bade him good-day. I
like to see a man who won't be im
posed upon. The other day I was
sitting in a little depot-restaurant in
Southern Prussia with a fellow
countrymen, lie said to the Kellner,
or waiter :
"How much does this cost?"
"Seventy pfennigs," was the re-
vhT- -
"Oh, but for all?" my friend said.
"Eighty pfennigs," said the waiter.
"With the bread?" queried my
friend.
"Eighty-five pfennigs," was the
reply.
f "Oh, but the salt and pepper ?"
said my friend, sarcastically.
The waiter fled. Another Kellner
coming up accepted seventy pfennigs
and even said, "I thank you beau
tifully," which is a sure sign that he
was getting more than the true
amount of the bill. As we left the
room, my friend made some remark
about "schwindlers" which sounded
more expressive than elegant.
American children are looked up
on as prodigies by foreigners. Mark
Twain has expressed his astonish
ment at finding that even the chil
dren in France could speak French
fluently. The wonderful familiarity
of American children with the En
glish language may perhaps increase
the wonder of the Germans at their
precocity.
But, still, it remains a fact that
our American children are brighter
and quicker than German children
of equal age. This is owing chiefly
to their greater natural intelligence
and, in a smaller degree, in the way
in which they are brought up. An
English or German child lives in the
nursery and is practically an infant,
while its American cousin listens to
the conversation of its elders and
thus absorbs much information and,
at the same time, unconsciously falls
into the habit of using its reasoning
powers. X. X. X.
He who has too good an opinion
o( himself is apt to waste a great deal
of valuable time in wondering why
the world does not appreciate him..
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
The President smokes but one ci- -gar
a day.
Mr. J. R. Tucker is now spoken .
of in connection with a Cabinet ap
pointment. While the Blaine cat is away the
Allison and Sherman mice wijl play.
Philadelphia Time.
Brother Blaine is pursuing the
tarbaby policy. He "ain't savin'
nothin". ' Atlanta Constitution.
Sherman is trying to do the strad
dle act with a banana peeling under
each heel. Hit hmond Dinpalvh.
It looks as though Jay had been
feeding Cyrus Sage tea and it did
not agree with him. Jiuj'a.'o Time.
Gov. Fitzhugh Lee, of ' Virginia, "
delivered the' Fourth of July address
before the Tain many Society in New
York. "
Ex-Governor II olliday, of Virginia,
is now "doing" California on his
"way home from a trip around tlie
world.
Queen Victoria has reigned fifty
years and is live feet high ; that is
the long and short of her. Martha''
Vineyard Herald.
The greatest of us have our trou
bles. Mike Kelly juuis hissed at a re- :
cent baseball match. I'hiladeljJiia
North Ameriean.
George W. Childs, who has a com
plexion like a fresh apple, never eats
anything at the big dinners he gives.
Har'ford Tune.
When the President goes to St. .
Louis he will have to go by way of -Chicago
or there will be a row.
Philadelphia Luptirer.
If Mr. Gladstone should come to
America he would receive the great
est ovation ever accorded a public
citizen. Jh.lon Herald.
Gov. Taylor, of Tennessee, has
been presented with a new fiddle.
He ought to be able to preserve har
mony now. Portland Anjux.
It is now the belief in Washington
that Senator Colquitt- will get Secre
tary Lamar's place. Senator Butler,
among others, is of that opinion.
It will be hard on the bloody shirt '
organ and oratof when Jeff. Davis
dies, as he must at-some day in the
early future. 'HLebarre PJaiinlealer.
1 When Queen Victoria's family is
all together there are fifty-nine of
them. And not a mother's son o"i
them earns his living. Harlfnl
Post.
M rs. Cleveland will not accompany
the President to St. I,ouis, smd now
there does seem to be reason for fear
ing a riot in that city. .SV. Puul
Glof.
Ex-Speaker Keifer is doing what
he can to dispel anxiety as to Mr.
Blaine's health. He is insisting that
Mr.'Blaine is a very sick man. N.
Y. Time. Mug.
Uncle Thurrnan's beloved bandana
is the only red flag that can wave
unmolested over the land of the free
and the home of the brave. Louis
ville Commercial. .
The war record of Gen. Tuttle is
to be investigated and the chances
are it will be discovered that the
windy warrior commanded a sutler's
wagon.- -New Orleans State.
John Sherman will be more deeply
pained at the commercial idea than
ever when he finds that he and his
issue are utilized for a shirt adver
tisement. Sf. Louis liejnihlican.
Secretary Whitney has invested
81,500 in dogs. There is probably
no disputing that his dogs could af
ford more protection to the country
than his navy. Oshkosh Nortliues
tern. G. A. R. is now supposed to mean
Great Asses of the Republic. It is .
easy in view of this to understand
'why Fairchild is id the head of the
organization. Maeon ( da.) letetjraph
Post. It is said the New York Republi
cans will nominate Colonel Fred
Grant for Governor. Why they
should have given up the contest al
ready does not appear. St. I'aul
GhJif.
The Emperor of China is about to
mairy. Before biking this impor
tant step His Imperial Majesty
should reflect that China is a very
long distance from Chicago. P.ur
linrjton HauLeije.
Ve were mistaken in Senator Pas
co's rank in the Confederate army.
He went in a private and came out
a private. He will be the only pri
vate in the United States Senate.
Jackx(m rille News.
Is the Cleveland administration
responsible for the doings of the '
Washington baseball club? If it is,
Mr. Cleveland should know that
beating the Chicagoes is no '"way to
get the Illinois delegation, Chicayo
Time.
Senator Beck's chances for re-elec- .
tion are excellent. He ought to be
returned to the Senate for he has
made a most industrious, faithful,
perpendicular, able Senator. Jjn
honoring such a man Kentucky hon
ors itself.
Mrs. Kalakaua should have re
mained at home ; but perhaps she
did not fully appreciate how thor
oughly necessary her presence in her
kingdom was for keeping her royal
husband within due bounds. Bun
ion Traveler. !
Mr. Randall should be driven into,
the ranks of the opposition, where1
he rightfully belongs. The Demo
cratic party has no need of men of
his ilk, who are neither Democrats
in doctrine nor in principle. Flint
(Mich.) Democrat.
Since the arrival of Mr. Blaine in
England the great American com
moner has not made the stir antici
pated by his admirers, and in some
quarters there is a feeling that he
ought to have begun more promptly
the twisting of the British lion's tail.
Philadelphia Record..