VOL. 1.
PLYMOUTH, N; C, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1890.
NO. 45.
THt NEWS,
Buck Murray, who killed a Detroit police
trfUcwr, was arrested in Cleveland, Ohio.
' -The Lirned State Bank, of Lnrned, Ks., hat
fcrapendod payment--Mr. John Blunt, of
Atchison, Ks., overcome by the death of ber
child, committed suicide. Six prisoners es
caped from the count jail at Minneapolis,
. ' Minn. One thousand employes in tba
great Loris mine la Ashland, Wis., Lave
struck.- Jacob Fuller, . librarian of tho
Washington and Lee University, is dead.
Uoorgo W. Tarry ford, who waa shot at Lee
i moat, Va., is dead. A passenger and a
v freight train collided on the Chicago, Xtook
I!and and Pacific Railroad. John Berry, a
brakemao, was killed, and some of the pas-
sengers , severely bruised. Mrs. Cynthia
.; Hathaway of Sevoy, Mass., is dead, nged
one hundred and one years. Clarenco J.
Toor, the missing ; United States Expresi
Company's caihler, at Grand Rapids, Mich.,
. "who ran away with the company's money,
,L has been board from. ' lie is coming home.
: -r-The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad has bought a controlling interest
: in the Cbioago, Burlington and Northern
road.--Deputy Sheriff David McGorigle
, nd Warden James T. Keating', of Ludlow
; w.reet jail, New, York, hare been indicted
; and arrested oh the charge of bribery. .
The late Rev. Christian Beard, of Waynes
' boro, Vs., bequeathed $10,000 to Roanoke
Co lege. The B. C, Clark Crockery Com-
pony's warehouse at Kansas City was burned.
,y Loss about 1 100,000. --Frant Hanson, ot
; Norristown, Fa., has been ssntonced to otght
years in the penitentiary for oatraginz the
saven-year-old daughter of Philip Simons.'
... -The will of A. C Harem oyer, the wealthy
' suar refiner of New York, gives $350,000 to
charitable institutions. -Fire in a Ludlow
; street tenement, New York city, caused a
' panic, and many persont. mads narrow es-
capes. -Two thousand shirtmskers, mostly
women of New York have struck against
working fourteen nours a day. T wo thou-
. sand miners and their families attended re
quierri service In the Catholie church at
. Wilkesbarre.Pa.,tn memory of the entombed
miners in the South Wilkeabar re shaft.
Ou of tho Mississippi river levees broke at
Arkansas City, flooding the Tensas basin of
Louisiana, consisting ot f oar or fi vo par lube.
Franz Jobusch, who had long boon
mourned as dead by bis relatives, astonished
. thoin by his appearance at his old horoe.Oih-
kosh, Wi., after an absence, of thirty years.
' Charles Williams and his tWoWe-y oar
old son of Kansas City, were found murdered
in their Led. The body of Bornhard Jung
haus, a Gjrrain horse buyer, of Peoria, 111. ,
who is supposed to have been robbed and
murdered, wai found lodgol against a Bnag
in the Illinois river. Frank Mlngus, of
Lagrange, lad., murdered his mother-in-law
, for refusing him permission to see hU child,
which bad been placed in the care of his di-
- vorced wife An overrated furnace set
fir'o to the second reformed.' Jburcb, at Grand
Haven, Mich., causing a loss ot' $3,000.
Three hundred men rode inco Spartanburg,
S. C, with a small cannon, and determined
to attaok the jail and lynch George S. Tur-
ner, who shot and killed bis brother-in-law,
El ward Finger, but the mob' was repulsed
and the cannon spiked. ,
A trial of the dynamite guns of the cruiser
7 Ves'njlus jtogk place on theDilasmre river.
,'.'; Jaines Hamilton Howells Jonai, a youns
- : man who bad tried in vain la ob lain a nosl-
; ' - tion in New York, committed st tioids on a
- c mroh, steps. Henry S. Hel lard, aged
: ' sixty-three years, the newly eppo kited post
i' ' mister, at R xnester, N..(Y., diedL of pneu-
. inoniai Now it is reported that an En
. g ish syndicate is tryiug to bqy ttie Colum
bia river salrcon canneries, Involving $1,000,"
OCa Toe United States steamesr Iroquois
arrived at Pvirt Townsend,. Washington,
. s TT ! .. 1 , 1 .11... TPhA l.itw.
- ii uni uuuviaiu, iu uiowi csi.' .li. & u
, clothing house of Stern, Mayer & Co., Cia-
.cinnati, was destroyed by Are. Loss on
:- .(.uiMiiijt IWO.0JO; on stock $33OD0. Fire
itss buildings entailing loei atTgnegatins
$35,000. Eighty per cent ofj over- nlna
hundred immigrants landed in -one day at
Cas;le Garden were Unns , and Silesians,
goitite work in ' tbe -Pennsylvania mines.
At the annual meeting of tbe "Pennsyl
venin Haf.ro id stockhoklers the' directors
w re aathortzid to issue from time to time
400,000 additional shares of capital stock.
Thj Central Pennsylvania E rungelical
Church Conference adjoarnod at. York to
meet neit year at Berwiak, Pa. The In
vestigation of thi charges against Comman
der Bownian IL MoCalla, of tha sloop-of-war
EntMrprise, was begun by a naral court
of Inquiry at the Brooklyn Nary Yard.eleven
men appearing against the commander.
Nora Wooten, who had been adjudged in-'
sune, shot Dr. H. A. Sims, of Roanoke, Va,,
in the race.- J. B. Petdbone; aged thirty
two years, of Wilkesbari-e, Pa., committed
stiicids by snooting himseif through tbe head.
A MINER'S HORRIBLE DEATH.
X Ttje i'tUr of (ieTouillothcrleaaCh.il-
. clress Craahed to JDctt.
i V Michael Malia, 'a former member of Com
v.Vmou Councit, Scrunton, wasiborribly killed
- - at the C iyuga shaft, where'h3 was employed
IS a jump runner. . . ' ' '
The ilUi isoailng when be sbonld descend
la the mine to see how the water stooJ, be
rot to the surtaoe landing, and Head Man
.Uo-ers cll-d to hitn from above if he was
" r9 iJY Malta rllid that be-was, bm before
' the CMrringe reacal hiua be tripped and fell.
A bearuii waguiaJaan-it ni"1 orp.a
wjd foutil ct tue bottom of tu shaft, IjcIow
, thBO.u rla lamini, orustned Into a shape- '
eiahaa"deviryUonebrokea.
A 'portion ot tae ekatl was found fastened
in u I'UtiK at tbe side of the saalt, whore the
lo )y struct in its desoint
iaiMr.T working iu the gangway near
' Ilia i-ump w,i' spattered WlUlblooi hu
tue tolv M.iuok. '"' . ,, . .
ila ! (' was roiled up in a iiHDfiS
su'i fH--ri i i.oiue to seven orpnau dui.in-L.,
.- ' ;'r s nlw Uval.
THE TALLIAGB SBRHON.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE YOUft
Preached In tit Academy efMnsIc,
llrooktyn, Mew York.
' Text i UAU that a man hath will he give
for Ms fie.w Job. ii., 4. - .
That is untrue. The Lord did not say it,
but Satan said it to the Lord, when the evil
one wanted Job still more afflicted. The
record is: "So went fiatan forth from the
presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore
boils." And Satan haa been the author of all'
eruptive disease since then, and he hopes by
poisoning the blood to poison, the soul. But
the result of the diabolical experiment which
left Job victor proved the falsity of tbe
Satanic remark" All that a man hath
will he give . for bis life." , Many a
captain who has stood on the bridge of
the steamer till his eassemrers rot off
P and he drowned; - many an engineer who
um Kepi, , nis nana on me tnrottie "vaive
or his foot on the brake until the most of the
train was saved while he went down to death
through the open drawbridge many a fire
man who plunged into a blazing bouse to get.
a sleeping child out, sacriflomg nis life in the
attempt, and thousands of martyrs who sub
mitted to fiery stake and knife of massacre
and headsman's ax and guillotine rather than
surrender principle, proving that In many a
case my text was not true, when it says:
''All that a man hath will he give for his
life."
J3ut Satan's falsehood was built on a truth.
Life is very precious, and if we would not
Eive up all there are many things we would
surrender rather than surrender it. We see
how precious life is from the fact that we do
everything to prolongit. Hence all sanitary
regulations, all study of hygiene, all fear of
draughts, all waterproofs, all doctors, all
medicines, all struggle in crisis of accident.
An admiral of the British navy was court
racrtialed for turning his ship around in time
or. clanger and so damaging the snip. It was
proved against him. , But when his time came
uo be heard he said; "Gentlemen, I did turn
the ship around and admit that it was dam
aged, but do ypu want1 to know why I
aimed it? . There ':, was f a man . over
board, and ii wanted to save - him, ; and
Z did save him, and I consider the life of one ,
sailor worth all the vessels of the British
raavy." .no wonder he was vindicated. Life
ir, indeed very, precious. Yea," there are
.ccse wno deem life so precious thev would',
;ike to repeat it, they would like to try it .
cgzzn. . Tney wnuia iiite to go bade from ;
seventy tosiity. iromsiity torirtv. from,
Jft7 to' forty, from forty to thirty, from.
JiirtTto twentv; 4 ' 1 miTDosa for verv nrae.
,-icai ana useiui purposes, as will appear be-
- 1 A - - - r m r
Lore iget tnrougu, to aiscuss tne question
we have all asked ot other 3, and others have
again and axtda asked of us would you like
30 live your iife ovor tgain? 7
The fact is that no intellint and right
'earing man is satisfied with his past life. We
iiare ail made so many mistakes, stumbled
into so many blunders, said so may things.
znat ougnt not to nave Decn said and done so
yafiy things that ought not to have been
c one, that we can suggest at least ninety-five
-337 , cent, ot imororemeiit. How would it
uoi be srrand if tho good Lord would say to.
.toil: "You can go back and try it over
ligain.1 I will by a word turn your hair to
b;own or. black or golden, and smooth all
v.he ' wrinkles out of your temple and
cheek, and take the bend out of your
nhoulders, and extirpate the stiffness from
he joint and the rheumatic twinge from the
; oot,and Vou shall bo twenty-one years of
acre and just what you V-wers when .you
reached that point beforo.?; If the proposi
vion were made, I think many thousands
would accept it. That feeling caused the
ancient Rearch for what was called the Foun
tain of Youth, the waters f which taken
would turn the hair of the octogenarian into
the curly locks of a boy, and however old a
person who drank at that fountain he would
1x3 young ai?ain. The island was said to
belong to the group of the Bahamas, but
lay far out in the ocean; v The great Span
ish explorer, Juan Ponce de Leon, fellow
voyager with Columbus, I have no doubt
felt that if ho could discover that Fountain
of Youth he would tlo as much as his friend ,
had done in discovering America. So he put
out in 1512 from Porto Eico and cruised,
nbout among the Bahamas in search of that
fountain. I am glad be did not find it.
There is no such fountain. But if there
were and its waters wore bottled up and sent
abroad at a thousand dollars a bottle, the de-'
znand would be greater than the supply, and
many ' a man who has come through a
life of uselessness, audi perhaps sin, to
old age ' would Le shaking . up the po
tent " KquidV and if he ;were directed to"
take only a teaspoonful after each meal
would be so anxious to make sure work he
would take a tablespoonf ul, and if directed to
take a tablespoonf ul would take a glassful.
But some of you would have to go back
further than to twenty-one years of age to;
make a fair start, for there are many who
manage to get all wrong before that period.
Yea, in order to get a fair start some would
have so go back to the father and mother and
get them corrected; yea, to the grandfather
and grandmother and have : their
life corrected, - for some of you are
suffering from bad hereditary?- influ
ences .' which ' started a hundred . years
ago. Well,' if your grandfather
lived his life over again and your father
lived bis life over again and you lived your
life over again, what a cluttered up place
this "world would , be, a place filled with .
miserable attempts at repairs. I begin to
think that it is better for each generation to
have only one chance and then for ; them
to pass off and give another generation a
chance. 1 . ,".
, Beside that, if we were permitted to live
life over again, it would be a stale and stupid
experience. . The zest and. spnr and enthu
siasm of life come from the fact that we have
never been along this road before, and every
thing is new, and we are alert for what may
appear at the next turn of the road. Sup
pose you, a man in mid-life or old age, were,
with your present feelings and large attain
ment, put back into the thirties, or the
twenties, or into the teens, what a nuisance
you would be toothers and what an unbap-
piness to yourseu. x our contemporaries
would not want you and you would not want
them. ' Thinjrs that in your previous journey
of life stirred your healthful ambition, or
gave you pleasurable surprise, or led you into
happy interrogation, would only call forth
from you a diusted J'Oh, pshaw f You
would be blase at thirty and a misanthrope
at forty and unendurable at fifty. ; The most
inane and stupid thing imaginable would be
a second journey of life. It is amusing to
hear people say: I would like to live my Ufa
over again, if I could take my present ex
perienco and knowledge of things back with
me and begin under those i m proved auspices."
Why. what an uninteresting boy you wonld
be with vour present attainment in a child's
mind. No one would want such a byy around
'the house: A philosopher at twenty, a scien
tist at fifteen, an arcW3oIogit at ten and a
domestic nuisance all the timo. An oak
crowded into an nooni. ' A Rocky Mountain
eac;le thrust back into thj t'Cg shell from
which it was hatch:!. 1 '-'
' Besides that, if vou took life over again,
you would l'sve tu tnk i;x deep badnesses
over again.. WovU yvt v ;..it to try ugnUi
the griefs and the heart break and the be"
reavenicnts through Which you have goner
What a moitsy that we shall nevei4 b colled
to suffer thern again I We may have Others
bad enough, but those old bnes never agaim
Would you Want to go through the process
Of losing 5'our father again or your mother
again or your companion in life again or
your child again? If you were permitted
to stop at tne sixtieth : milestone , or the
fiftieth milestone or . tho , fortieth mile
stone and retrace ' your steps to the
twentieth, your ' experience would be
something like mine one day last November
in Italy. 1 walked through a great city with
friend and two guides, and there were in, all
the city only four persons and they were those
, of our own group. We went up and down
ithe streets, we entered tho house, the
1 museums, the temples, the theatres. We ex
amined the wonderful pictures oa the "walla
and the most exquisite mosaic on the floor.
In the streets were the deep, -worn ruts of
wagons, but not a wagon in the city; On1
the front stem of mansions the word "Wel
come' ln Latin, t but no human leing to
greet us. The only '' bodies of any of
the citieens - that we saw were petrified
and in the museums at the gates. Of
the thirty-five thousand people who
once lived in those homes and worshiped in
those temples and clapped in those theatres,
not on left! , For eighteen hundred years
that city or Pompeii had been buried before
modera exploration scooped oat of it the lava
of Vesuvius. . Well, he who should be per
mitted to return on the pathway of his
earthly life and live it over again would find
as lonely and sad a pilgrimage. . It would be
an exploration of the dead past. The old
school house, the old church, the old home,
the old play ground either gone or occupied
by others, and for you more depressing than
was our Pompeian visit in November,
v Beside that, would you want to risk the
temptations of life over againr From the
fact that you are here I conclude that though
in many respects your life may have been
unfortunate and unconsserated you have got
on so far tolerably well, if nothing more than
tolerable. As for myself, though my life has
Deen far from being as consecrated as I
would like to have had it, I would not want,
to try it over again, lest next tune I would do.
worse. ; Why, just look at the temptations wei
have all passed through and just look at the
multitudes who have gone completely under.
Just call over the roll of : your school mates
and college mates, the clerks who were' with
you in the same store or bank, or the opera
tives in the same factory with just as good
prospects as you, who have come to complete
mishap. Some young man that told you
that he was going to be a millionaire and
own the fastest trotters on Westchester turn
pike and retire by the time, he was thirty-five
years of ageyou do not hear from for many,
yearn, ana Know nocaing eDOUt mm Until
some day he comes into your store and asks,
for five cents to get a mug of beer. You, thej
. good mother of a household and all your
children rising up to pall you blessed, can re
member when you were quite jealous of the
belle of the village who was. so transcendly.
fair and popular. But while you have these,
two honorable and queenly names of wife and
mother, she became a poor waif of the street,
, and went into the blackness of darkness for
ever. Live life over again? Why, if many
of those who are now respectable were
permitted to experiment. the next
' journey would be demolition. :- You
got through, as .Job says, by the skin of the
teeth. Next time you might not get through
at all. Satan would say: "I know him now
better than I did before, and have for fifty
years been studying his weaknesses, and I
will weave a stronger web of circumstances to
catch him next time." And Satan would
concenter his forces on this one man, and the
last state of that man would be worse than
the first. Mv friends, our faces are in the
right direction. Better : go forward than
backward, even if we , haf the choice. ; The
greatest disaster I can think of would
be far you to return to boyhood in 1890, ' Oh,
if life were a smooth Luzerne or Cayuga Lake,
I would like to get into a yacht and sail over
it, not once1, but twice yea, a thousand
times. But life is an uncertain sea, and
some of the ships crash on the icebergs cf
cold indifference, and some take fire of evil
passion, and some lose, their bearings and run
into tha skerries, and some are never heard
of. Surely on such a treacherous sea as that
one voyage is enough. 1 ' a , .
Besides all this, do you know if you could
have your wish and five life over again it
would put you so much further from" reun
ion with your friends in heaven? - If you are
in the noon of life or the evenin&r of life vou
are not very far from the golden gate at
which you are to meet your transported and
emparadised loved ones. . You are now, let
os say, twenty years or ten years or one year
off from celestial conjunction. Now suppose
you went back in your earthly life thirty
years or forty years or fifty years, what an
awful postponement bf the time of reunion!
It would be as though you were going to San
Francisco to a great banquet, and you got to
Oakland, four or five miles this side of it, and
then came back to Hoboken or Harlem to get
a better startles though you were going
to England to be crowned and having come
in , sight t of the mountains of Wales
you put j back to . Sandy , Hook in' order
to make s better voyage. The - further
on you got in life, , if a Christian, " the)
nearer you are to the renewal of broken
up companionship. No; the wheel of
time turns in the right direction, and it i'
welt it turns so fast. 'Three hundred and,
sixty-five revolutions : in a year and for
ward, rather than three hundred ' and
sixty-five revolutions in a year and back
ward. But hear ye! hear yet while I tell
you how you may practically live your life
over again and be all the better for it. You
may put into the remaining years ? of
your life all you have learned of wisdom
in your, past life. You may make - the
coming ten years v worth ' the preced
ing forty or fifty years. When a man says!
he would like to live his life over again be
cause he would do so much better, and yet1
goes right on living as he has always lived,
do you not see he stultifies himself? He
proves that if he could go back he would do
almost the same as he has done. If a man
eat green apples some Wednesday in cholera
time and is thrown into fearful cramps and
says on Thursday; "I wish I had been more
prudent in my diet; oh, if I could live Wednes
day over again," and then on Friday eats ap
ples just as green, he proves that it would
have been no advantage for him to live
Wednesdav over again. And if wo, deplor- 1
mg our pw uie ana wim in 9 iaea 01 im
provement, long for an opportunity to try it
over again, yet go on making the same mis
takes and committing the same sins, we only
demonstrate that the repetition of our exist
ence would afford no improvement. It was
green apples before and it would be
green apples over again. As soon as a ship
captain strikes a rock in the lake or sea he
reports it and m buoy is swung over that reef
and marines henceforth stand V off from
that rock. And . all our mistakes
in the past ought to be buoys warning us to
keen in the right channel. There is no ex-
cut?e for us ic we split on the same rockf
where wo. split before. Going along the
sidewalk at night where excavations are be
ing made, we frequently see a lantern on a
framework, and we turn aside, for that lan
tern says, keep out of this hole. And aili
along the pathway of life lanterns are Bet an
warnings, ana oy tne time we come to mid-.
lif wo on" lit to know where it is safe to walk
and wlwe it is unsafe.
llemdo th.it. we have all these years bryn
learning now to bo useful, and iu the next
and the church and the world than itx any
previous four decades. . The best way to
atone for past indolence or pant transgres
sion is blr future assiduity, Yet you often
find Christian men who were not con
verted until they were forty or fifty,
ai old age comes on, saying! "Well,
my work is about done and it is time for me
to rest." They gave forty years of their life
to Satan and thj world, a little fragment of
their life to O-d, and now they want to rest.
Whether tha'j belongs to comedy or tragedy
I say not. 7. he man who gave one half of his
earthly exUtence to the world and of the re-,
mainuig 'wo-quarters one to Christian work'
and the other to rest, would not, I sup
pose, get a . very brilliant reception in
pea en. If. there are any dried leaves
in heaven they would be appro
priate for bis garland; or if there is any
. hrone with broken steps It would b? appro
priate for his coronation; or any harp with
. relaxed string it would be appropriate for
his fingering. My brother,- you give nine
tenths of your life to sin and Satan and then
get converted and then rest awhile in sancti
fied laziness and then go up to get your heav
enly reward, ana I warrant it will - not take
the , cashier of the royal banking house
a , great . while to count out to you all
your dues. He will not ask you whether you
'.will have it in bills of large denomination or
T 1 A i;i . A.w.
.BU2BU A 1VUU1U MS pu.il UUO HIIKUgo VI
my sermon in italics, and have it under
scored, and three exclamation points at the
end of the sentence, . and that sentence is
this : A we cannot live our lives over, again.
'the nearest we can come to aumofor the past
is by redoubled holiness and industry in the
'future.
- It this rail train of life has been detained
and switched off and is far behind the time
table, the engineer for the rest of the way
must put on more pressure of steam and go
a mile a minute In order to arrive at the
right time and place under the approval of!
conductor and directors. 1
As I supposed it would be, there are multi
tudes of young people listening to this sermon
on whom this subject has acted with the
force of a galvanic battery. Without my
saying a word to them, they have soliloquized,
Baying: ' "As one cannot live his life over
again, and I can make only one trip, I must
look out and make no mistakes; I have but
one chance and I must make the most of it."
My . young friends, I am glad you
made , this ; application of , the ser
mon . yourself. When a, min
ister toward the close of his sermon says:
"Now a few words by way of application,"
people begin to look around for their hats
and get their arm through one sleeve of their
overcoats, and the sermonic application, is a
failure. I am glad"ybu have madeyour own
application and that you are resolved, like a
Quaker of whom I read years ago, who, in.
substance, said : ' " I ii; shall e De along
this path of life but once and so I must do
all the kindness I can and all the good I can."'
My hearers, the mistaken of youth can neve'
be corrected. Time gone is gone forever;
An opportunity passed the thousandth part
of a second has by one leap reached tha
other side of a great eternity... In tha
autumn when tho birds migrate you look up
and see the sky black with wings and , tbe
.flocks stretching out into many leagues of
air, and so to-day I look up and see two
large wings in full; sweep. They ara
the wings of the flying year. That Is fol
lowed by a flock of three hundred and sixty
five, and they are the flying days. Each of
the flying days is followed by twenty-four,
and they are the flying hours, and each of
these is followed by sixty, and these are the
flying minutes.: Where did this great flock
start from? Eternity past. . Where are they
bound? Eternity- to come.' You might
as well go a-gunning (or tha quails that
whistled last year in the meadows or
the robins that last 1 year caroled in
the sky as to try to fetch down and bag one
of the past opportunities of your life. Do
not say, "I will lounge now and make it up
afterward." Young men and boys, you can't
make it up. My observation is that those
who in youth sowed wild oats, to the end of
their short life sowed wild oats, 1 and that
those who start sowing . Genesee wheat al
ways sow Genesee wheat. And then the
reaping of tbe harvests is so different. There
is grandfather now. ' He has lived to
old , age because his habits have been
good. His eyesight for this world has got
somewhat dim, but his eyesight for heaven is
radiant. ; His bearing is not so acute as it
once was, and he must : bend clear over to
hear what his little grandchild says when she
asks him what be has brought for her. But
he easily catches the music raised from su
pernal spheres. Men passing in the streets
take off their hats in reverence, and women
say: "What a good old man he is." Seventy
or eighty years all for Ood and for making this
world happy. Splendid 1 Glorious I . Mag
nificent I He will have hard work getting
into heaven because . those whom he helped
to get therr will fill up and crowd the gates
to tell him how glad they are at his coming
until he says: "Please to stand back a little
,till I pass through and cast my crown at the
feet of Him whom having not seen I love."
I do not know what you call that. I call it
the harvest of Genesee wheat. ' ,
Out yonder is a man very old at forty
years of age, at a time when he ought to
be bouyant as the morning. He got bad
habits on him very early, and . those habits
have , become worse, lie is a man on
lire, on fire with alcoholism, on fire
with' all evil habits, out with the world
and the world out with him. Down and
falling deeper. His swollen hands in his
threadbare pockets and his eys fixed on
the ground, he passes through the street,
and the quick step of an , innocent child or
the strong step of a young man or the roll of
a prosperous carriage maddens him, and he
curses society and he curses God. Fallen
sick, with no resources, ha is ; carried to the
almshouse. A loathsome spectacle, he lies
all day long waiting for dissolution, or in the
night rises on his cot and fights apparitions
of what he might have been and of what he
will be. ; He started life with as good a
prospect as any man t on , the ':" Ameri
can continent, but there he is a bloated car
cass waiting for the shovels of public charity
to put him five feet under. Ha has only
reaped what he sowed. ; Harvest of wild
oats! . "There is a way that seemeth right to
a roan, but the end thereof is death." Young
man, as you cannot live life over again how
ever you may long to do so, be sure to have
your one life right. . There is in this august
assembly I wot not, for we are made' up
of all sections of this land and from many
lands, some young man who has gone away
from home and perhaps under some little
spite or evil persuasion of another, and his
parents know not where he is. My son, go
home! Do not go to seat Don't go to-night
where you may ba tempted to go. Go home!
Your father will be glad to see you and vour
mother. I need not tell you how she feels.
How I would like to make your parents a
present of their wayward boy, repent
ant and in : his right mind. I would
like to write them a letter and you , to carry
the letter, saying: "By the blessing of God
on my sermon I introduce to you one whom
you have never bbcii before, for he has be
come a new creature in Christ Jesus." My
boy, go home and put your tired head on the
bosom that nursed you so tenderly in your
childhood years. A young Scotchman
was , in battle taken captive by a
band ' of Indians, and he learned' their
language and adopted tlioir habits.
Years passed on, but the old Indian
chieftain never forgot that b had in his pos
session n young man who did not bf-lonsj to
bun. WelL one dav tv.w tribe of Indians
caiue in sibt cf th- C
r ''-yy.i'.s from
whom this young man had been captured,
and the old Indian chieftain said: "I lost
my son in battle and I know how a father
feels at the loss of a son. Do you think your
father is yet alive?" The young man said: "I
am the only son of my father, and I
hope he is still alive." , Then said the
Indian chieftain : "Because of the loss of my
son this world is a desert. You go free.
Return to your countrymen. - Revisit your
father, that he may rejoice when he sees the
sun rise in the morning and the trees blos
som in the spring." So I say to you, young
man, captive of waywardness and Bin; Your
father is waiting for , you. , Your mother is
wailing for you. Your sisters are waiting
for you. s God is waiting for you. Go home !
Gotomel . - - v . . "
DEATH OF MR. TAULBEE.
Ybe End Was Palnless-Klacatd Art-rated
Again.
i Ex-Congressman William Preston Tanlbee,
of Kentucky, who was shot in the head by
Charles E. Klncaid, correspondent of tbe
Louisville Times, while they were descending
the east staircase in the Hons wins of the
Capitol on the afternoon of Friday, February
23, died at 445 o'clock A. M. , at the Provi
dence Hospital.whither he had been removed
an hour or so after the shooting. Mr. Taul
bee had been unconscious for some time be
fore death came, and the end was painless.
He had been rapidly sinking, and his death
had been expociei at anytime. His family
had been summoned, and when he passaa
away his brother, Dr. Tanlbee, bis eon, a
young man about nineteen years of age; nis
brother-in-law : Dr. Bay oe, tbe attending sur
geon, and Major Blackburn, ot Kentucky,
were aroud his bedsides " -
Tbe dead man was a native Kentuckian.
He was born in Morgan county in 2851, and
received his earlv education in private schools
near his home. Oa reaching the age of -
twenty-four be studied for tbe ministry tor
three years,- and then, having been elected
clerk of tbe Magoffin County Court, he began
tbe study ot the law. In 181 be was admit
ted to the bar. He was elected to tbe Forty
ninth Congress from the Tenth district, and
was re-elected to tne following Congress.' In
appearance Mr. Taulbee was tall and power
ful, with a large-boned frame, devoid of sur
plus fieeb. He bad one of tbe strongest voices
of any member of the House, and the tumuls
was never' so great but that be could make
hinself heard above the uproar as he walked
bastly down the aisle on tbe Democratic side
and shouted to attract the attention of the
Speaker. He was a free talker, and was on
his feet taking part in the debate as often as
any of tha younger men in Congress.
Mr. Kinoaid, who has been under the eye
of the police sinc3 it became known that Mr.
Taulbee's Case waa well nigh hopeless, was re
arrested. He was asleep at his boarding-'
bouse, when a poliee officer aroused him at
six o'oiock and informed him ot Mr. Taulbee'
death. - 1 ' ;
- Within an hour after his arrest, Mr., Kin
caid was so prostrated with nervous exhaus
tion that it was found necessary to call hit
regular physician, Dr. Harrison, who re
mained with him modt of tbe day. - Mr. Kia
caid's condition is serious, and it is tbe opin
ion of many of bis friends that he will not
lire to stand his trial . .
VICTIM OF HALLUCINATION.
Twenty-Are Yours of Life Wasted by
l'rak of H10 Mind.
W-HyLtlly oueof the earliest settlers of
Livingston county. Mo,, has for twonty-five
years been the victim of a queer hallucina
tion that has kept him conQned tohis bed. Iu
18G5,during a slight illness, he was seized with
a fear that he would die of heart disease if
he attempted to stand up or to raise his
bead above n certain level. Every possible
means was resorted to by bis family to drive
the idea from bis miud, but without sucoess.
He ft nbbomly stuck to bis couch and refused
to t c axed or I Tightened out of it.
On oue oocA!ioa bis wife had a lot of straw
piled near the house and then set on fire. Tbe
wind blew tbe sinoko towards tbe bouie and
tho f amil v beiran shouting flroand carrying
out the furniture. Lilly was told to run for
his life, but he never stirred out ot bed. At
another time his favorite daughter, Minnie,
was sent away, and Lilly was told that she
bad been hurt and was dying at a neighbor's
house, and that she bagged him to come to
her. Tears welled from tbe afflicted man's
yes)and his lips twitched with emotion.but be
did not move.
After, this signal failure no further at
tempts were made to arouse him, and it waa
thought he would never leave bis bed except
for tne grave. One day last week, however,
,tbe dormant energies ot Lilly reasserted
themselves as suddenly and mysteriously as
they had departed, and be raised bis head
above tbe supposed danger-line. Dumf ounded
At finding no serious results, be raised it still
ibigber and finally sat bolt upright. He haa
now apparently fully recovered and is super
intending some improvements on his farm.
During his wife's administration of affairs
tbe farm has trebled in value, and Lilly is
to-day $40,000 better off than he waa when be
took to hit bed twenty-fire years ago,
: FLAMES IN DETROIT.
. Several Itlannfnrtnrlnsr Establish
meult Are Destroyed. .
Fire waa discovered in tna rear of Gray &
Baffy's b!x story brick furniture factory, on
Concord street Tbe fire was on tbe fifth
floor, and before thedepartmeat got t work
had gained headway among very dry mater
ials. Although a general alarm was turned
in soon after, the flimes spread rapidly to
tbe roof, and then downward, until thereof
and upper floor fell, carrying tbe fire to th
ground. . Carroll fc-Huat Chair Company
establishment on tbe west, went next, and
the Ostler Printing Company and Carroll
Cigar Manufactory, occupying two numbers
oa tbe east followed. At midnight tlie tire
was under control butstili burning furiously.
This is tbe largest fire Detroit bas experienced
since the D. M. Ferry seed store fire in Jan
uary, 1S86, when tu loss ran into the mil
lions. The total loss is estimated at ? 250,000,
Cartially covered by Insurance. The burned
ulldings were tbe proper tv of Sanator James
McMillan, and valued at 470,000, . .
A DESPERATE CRIMINAL,"
Train Kobber llolxhay's Fingers Shot
OIT While Attempting to i.senpe.
Rabnund Holzhay, the traiu robber and
murderer, sow serving a life sentence at the
branch prison, Uarqaetta, Mich., will never
pull a trigger again. All four fingers of his I
right hand bavo been 6hot away, j
The prison authorities 'suspected that Hoi-
shay meditated an escape, VVhen an attempt
was mad to search him, he sou.xl another
convict, named Ueseroy, and, drawing a
knife, threateusd to kill him if be was ino- 1
lested. s After two hour vain ondeavor to i
reason with him, Warden Tompkins succwd-
ed in getting a suot at tbe convict's band, m
whioh" he f i t! ' the knife. The heavy bvl- j
let t-1'9 :';..! cf b:s right ha:id !. ; .1 '
''it" ' ' ; ' - r-srpai r cue
TOIL
Happenings of Interest at tho
National Capital. '
A Fire Alarm From the Box aft (ho
White House Pay of BoTcrnmtnt .
PrlnterM Otucr J' ws.
A test was made the other morning of the
new fire alarm apparatus in the White
House and ot tbe efficiency of the district
fire department Both were highly satisfac
tory. In two minutes from tba time tho
alarm hook was pulled, a stream of water was
flowing from a hose in front of tbe house, and
in seven minutes and fifty seconds four en--gines
were on the spot and at work. A hook
and ladder truck and a reserve squad of po
licemen had also made their appearance and '.
ladders were raised to the roof. The alarm
was a complete surprise to tbe fire compa
nies, who made wonderful time in getting to'
the house. One engine made eleven squares .
in three minutes and forty seconds,
Baby McKee turned on tbe alarm and
waea the engines arrived, Mr. Harrison, Mr.
McKee and the baby. Private Secretary Hat
ford, and -other members of tba household,
wc r at tbo front or Southern window
watching tho proceedings. Tbe test was sat
isfactory, and tbe President and family con
veyed their thanks to the firemen for their
promptness, . The placing of the firs alarm
system in tho W bite House and test were re-:
suits or tne recent aisastrous ure at secretary
Tracy's residence. . .
; Fay of Government Printer.- V
The House Committee on Printing has re
ported favorably, a bill providing for tbe fol
lowing scale of wages to employes in tbe Gov
ernment Printing Office; Printers, book bin
ders and pressmen, fifty ceats per hour, tho
same rate as was paid prior to March 3, 1877,
for exclusive night work, an advance of ten ,
cents per bnur over the above rate; piece
work on the Congressional Reeordtnxty cents
per thousand em. An accompanying report
on the bill says that, wbile the pi ivateastab
lisbments of tbe country have generally in
creased or restored wages of printers during
the last ten years, the wages of I ho printers
in tbe government office have remained as'
reduced by the act of February 18, 1887.
Material for the JVext Census
Many of tbe thousands of regimental asso-
nlal inn. nf ci.r.i.im. onl -4 ioo tt . 1. a
tbe rebellion aim to keep, as nearly as possi
ble, correct rosters of their living comrades,
and to that end they revise tbe lists at each
recurrirg annual nieetfeg of tbeir organiza
tions, v Tbe snperiirteudtint ot the census is
very d sirous tbat the officers of these asso
ciations should forward to him at ones tbo
latest copies of tbe rosters referred to, which)
be believes will be. efficient aids to the pre-
HmifiAi-v fvnrlr tt t h A Hnnmrstinn In tvMinau.- '
tion with tbo eleventh Odtisun of the names. '
organisations and length of service of sur
viving soldiers, sailors and marines, and tho
widows of such as have died. ., 1 ;
Salaries for U. H. metric. Judges. .
The House Committee on tho Judiciary
agreed to report a substitute for tha Senate
bill fixing a uniform salury or -fo.OOO for
United States district judges. The substitute
will provide for a system of graded salaries. -and,
according to its terms, tne judges of tbe
Southern district of New York and tbe judxe
at Chicago will receive G. 000: t It use at Hhil. .
adelphia, San Francisco, St. Louis, New Jer
sey and the Northern and Eastern districts of
New York 15,000, and the remainder of tho
judges $4,000, except in the case of the judge
at New Orleans, who Is allowed to retain hw
present salary of f 4,500. , : ' :
Still II anting for tbe lNk
Sen. tor Dolph's special investigating com
mittee continues iti search for tba source
from which newspaper correspondents ob
tain information in regard 4.o tbe executive
sessions of tbo Senate, Ail of the Senators
wno are in tne city nave oeen examined, a
number of tbe Senate employees were also
examined. .
- Tto Chlnrse Can Cone. V
Acting upon tbe advice of the Attorney-.
General, Secretary Windorn bas decided that
Chinese merchants coming to this country
for the first time cannot be permitted to land,
rothw'ths anding tbe fact tbat they are not
laborers. -
WHIPPED BY WHITE CAPS.
Three Men, Wear Covlnsrton. ; ly".
Beaten lor Their Petty Thieving. -
Tbe most serious white cap raid In Ken
tucky for years occurred on w&u& js known
as Buttermilk Hoad, eibt miles from Cov
ington. At that point there is quite e col-'
lection of houses occupied by poor and often
not too honest people. The neighborhood is
filed with well-to-do farmers who have lately
suffered . severely at the hands of petty
thieves. Recently soma amateur dot?eUve
work fixed tbo blame for a good deal of tho
j u umar caaicsea on
the three Crane men, who, though grown,
still reside with their parents. Tbe were
several times warned to leave the vicinitj.
but gave no heed to tho warning. About
twantr-flva men nnriafnllv iii.rni.A.l .t
j j ' ft " uv VUO
to the Crane dwelling. Tbe feutof tba boreea '
were muffled with old raga and pioc.-s of
blankets aud tbe Cranes were completely
surprised.
The three men were secured and taken to
a woods, half a mile away, a guard remain
ing with the old folks, to see that they did
not give an alarm. ' In tbo woods the allegod
culprits were stripped to the waise and tied
to a tree. ' Each was then given thirty lashes
on the bare back with a black snakw whip,
which brought bloo tat every blow. . Tbe
men screamed in agony, but tbo whipping
went on, and ono of theiu, John, the eldest,
fainted undor the pain. At the conclusion
of the punishment the backs of the victims
were carefully washed, a aalvo and baudagos
were applied and they were conducted to
their boine and it ft with a warning to leave
tbat neiguborbood.
THEY HAD NO PIED PIPER. .
Hew. Milton, Iowa, Ciot Itld of Its
V Vnrse of Ita.i,
Tiie cstisons of Miiton have suffered so
much from tha ravage ot ruti that a great
rat bunt was organised. Captains were chosen
and they selected sides. E.ioh consUtet of
105 men and boys over 15 yaars old. Wbik.
boys under 15 w-re allowed ooj cant for tneir
rat The bunt began Friday, l'siruiry ai-t,
'and cosed Marcu 7ta, wjlu a grand su-tet
(parade and supper which w paid for by th
(sale showing the least nurawr of ra .s killfi.
1 Atome barns as many a 1 r kuu.-d.
twbile on man killed about " n bin i. .;
jy-tturdii, March lit;, tra' -l '.' i u: t' lirit
jtiroe ware counted and si i tnuaa ibat a ,
J:tl was S,6?6 aud t.-.m. n. .. .jri'.