Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1885 — Page 9

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TWELVE PAGES. ACCELERATION.

"My Days aro Gliding Swiftly, Hfrifcly By, and I a Pilgrim Htrauger, 44 Weald ot Detain Themas They Fly Those Hours of Toll and Danger." 4 Tho King's Business Requires Haste' Quoted Dr. Talmage for His Text. worn Unto lie. All T That Labor and 'Arm ULmm-rj Lado, and I Will Give Ton Best." liooLTi, Jaa. 4. Dr. Talmage preached this morning In the Brooklyn Tabernacle on the subject, "Acceleration." The opening hymn wu; 'My days are gliding swiftly bj. And 1. a pilgrim stranger. Would not detain toem as they fly, l note dais ol toil and danger." Before the sermon Dr. Talmage read pas" saga a of Scrip tare, contrasting ancient Ion gerity with the brevity of modern human life. The text was L Samnel xxl., 8: "The King's business required baste." The fol lowing is the sermon In fall: The cradle of 1885 rocked on the grayed 1834. All intelligent people, whether Chris tian er unchristian, thoughtful about the closing of one volume of time and opening of another. The striking of a clock is always tusgeMiye, but the most tremendous stroke the clock eyer giyes is when on the night of the 31at of December It strikes twelve. 1 think all of us, wno bave anything to do, feel that we must swiften our pace. Acceleration! In my text Da rid appears before Abimelech without sword or food, or usual attendants, and gives as his reason for this unseemly appearance.that he was on urgent, imperial basinees, and had no time to prop erly accouter or equip himself. "The King's business required baste." My friends, we are all intrusted with some part of the King'i business; and oar great need is to haye our speed accelerated. Ood seems to be a Being of infinite leisure. He sometimes takes 2,500 years to do one thing; though, in six days he put on the world the final - touches that made it inhabitable for man. Geologists tell us that uncounted ages passed between the laying of the cornerstone of the earth and its final completion. Gcd took this unimaginable reach of time for work that he could have done in three months. He has plenty of time for every thinj. With an eternity behind Him and an eternity before Him, there is no flarry, no precipitation, no haste. But so far as we are concerned, what we do must be dona in briefest time and in quickest way. "The King's business requires haste.' Cjj&IST OUR KISGDO. Christ is our King Kin of Glory, King of Zion. King ot balnts. King over all the earth. King over Heaven. He is a King that shall never die. Where is Louis XIV.? Dead. Where Is Richard III ? Dad Where is Ferdinand? Dead Where is Peter th e Great? Dead. At the door of the grave lies a whole sheaf of sceptres. Death sits in the palace of the sepulchre and the potentates of earth are his cupbearers; and, as the old blind monarch staggers around his palace, ever and anon he trips on some new fallen coronet. They set up Charlemagne in his grave ana pat a crown on his pulseless temples and a sceptre in his lifeless hand; yet that could not briog bad his Kingdom. But our Emperor lives. He existed before the world was made He shall continue after it is burned up. King Immortal! The French Government thought itself rich In having so many palaces St. Cloud and the Talleries and the Yen allies and the Palais Ro j aland the Luxembourg; but our King has the whole earth for his palace the mountains its picture gallery, the ocean its fountain, the sun its chandelier, the midnight heavens its candelabra, Illimitable for ests its park, the glories of the sunrise and sunset the tapestry about the windows, the storms the lightning hoofed coursers dash ing up and down the heavens, all the glories of the land and sea and sky His wardrobe all the flower of the field His conservatory, all the Gib, ot the sea His aquarium, all the birds of the spring morning His orchestra; but. better than ail hewj. the hearts of His people on earth and of His saints in Heaven are the palaces in which He delights to reign King universal. Like other Kings He has His army and navy. Fighting on His side are the hurri canes ot the greet deep as in the breaking ot the Spanish Armsda; the volcanoes of the earth as in the burial of infamous Hercalaneum; the fire as when Sodom was deluged with onflsgration; the rocks as when they crashed their terrors about the crucifix'on. The Psainiiit counted theflo ing artillery of Heaven, as it came rashing down the sky, and cried: "The chariots of God are twenty thousand." Etijah'sservants caught a glimp of them among the mount aina-a cavalcade i f flame. The cherubim on His side; the seraphim on His side: the archangels on his side; King Omnipotent! WeAPFED 13 OCE W UFA EX. Oar King is wrapped up in the welfare c Hie subjects. The Saltan of Turkey had i rule that when riding out on horseback any ot his subjects might approach him and state their wrongs and sufferings, and the people pressed eo close up to the stirrups that it was sometimes Impossible for the Holten to pro ceed. Bat we ha?e a more merciful King we do not have to wait for public occasions. Any hoar of the day or night, without in troduction. we may press into His palace tell our wants and secure his help. Going before other Kings we meat have a court dress, rigntly cut and rightly adorned; bu berzara may come before this King in their rts;and the prodigal, filthy from the Swines nerd, is immediately ushered in. A pardon tnsKiog! A condescending King! Amer cifal Ktnz! O Jesus, live forever! It is cn the business )f such a King the r3 cro eiltrnt. It is the basinet of bring :ri tts trcrd to God. Compared with it. aU c r?t Cecals nenesy and a cert If 3 13 Lit czj du ccrrUca by

which he loes 11 00 000. and his house and

his estate drop oat of his possession, and his f allere upset the next man and his the nex aod the next, until the whole land quails under tne panic, the disaster is losigmhcan compared with the ruin of that man who dee polls his own soul, and by example takes down another and another, until all the worlds feel the defalcation. William the Conquer pulled down forty-six of the church es of God, in order that he might enlarge his park for games. 8 men sweep away spirit ual things, that they may advance their amusements and worldly gains. Bat the great day of eternity will reveal the fact that the most im; ortant of all basinets ou earth and in Heaven is the Kings business The King's business is not only important, but immediate. If we do not attend to it quickly we will notattend ;to it at alL Here is a Christian roan expecting some day to be thoraugbly concerted After a while he will become diligent in searching the Scriptures and in prayer. Meanwhile the day of grace is gone. It will soon be gone. Oat with tout Bibles and begin to read. Down on your knees and begin to pray. For the business of the store and the shop and the held you are neglecting God's business. Your soul is losing its best, perhaps its Jast, chance. Up. i Tri i i -. . Uiaui me xwiug a uuaiuesa requires uasie. In the day of the world's aoom, what will become of that man who had a thousand Sabbaths and 10.000 opportunities for use fulness and a million chances of being made better, but comes to the gate of Eternity a pauper In Christian experience, and with but one sheaf, tbougb all his life he wae walking in golden harvest fields. Yon have postponed your higher life until God tells me you will not come to it if you postpone it any longer. The King's business requires haste. A OBEAT WORK TO BE POSE. There is a great work of comfort to be done. It it is not done speedily, it will never be done. Yonder is a heart breaking. jnow is the time to say the healing word Go next week with your balsam and it will not touch the case. A man yonder came under your influence, and you might have cap tured him for God. Yon will never have another chance at him. To morrow another man will be under your influence. Ytu wfll have but one opportunity of saving him It may be at 10 o clock, at z o'clock: or at o'clock; miss that and you miss it forever. Do not ety, "Wair until the next time." Next time will never come Be prompt and immediate. The King's bus! ness requires haste. In the city of Basle, Switzerland, it was the custom to have all the clocks ot the city an hour ahead of time, lor the folio sing reason: Once an enemy was moving upon tbe city. and their stratagem was to take the city at 12 o'clock, noon; but the Cathedral clock by mistake, struck inst-ad of 1-': and so the enemy thought that they were too late to carry out the stratagem and gave up tbe assault, and the city was saved; and, therefore, it was arranged that for many years the clock struck 1 when it was 12, and 12 when It was 11. u, man ana woman ot God engaged in Christian work, set your clocks on if you want to save the city! Bet ter come to jour work too early toan come too late. The King s business requires baste. We aieexro sing a fatal deliberation. We sit calmly iu chutco. meditating about bow to save the world. Meanwhile, six millions of people will die this year. You might

start the millinnlum next year, bat it wouldjdetective agency was now employing a great

do them no go od. What you do for them you will have to do within the next twelve months. What you ao lor mem yoa win have to do this month aye, tbis week, aye, this day I Have you never heard that a neigh bor was sick aod said to yourseir, "l must go acd talk to him about his soul, for I kuow that he is nit prepared to leave tne world.' But that day you were busy, aod the next more busy, and the thitd day you went to see him. You pulled the door-bell; a ser vant came out. and you said, "How is he to day T" The answer was. He is dead! ' ion ?av. It can't be possible I now long nas he been dead?" Sbe answers, "Five min utes." Ood have mercy upon that Christian man who comes to his work five minutes too ate. The King's business requires hsste. I pray to Ood that mv text may be brought home with special power to these in this audience who have never yetsought Christ As many of the cauies that come up in court Are adjourned, sometimes because tbe witnesses are not ready and sometimes because the pi an tiff is r ot ready and sometimes be cause the Judge is not ready, until the bill of cost is ruinous and bard to pay so then are men and women who have adjourned the cause of tbe soul's salvation from youth c middle life and adjourned it from health to sickness, and adjourned it from prosper. y to adversity, until there will be an innnit bill of costs to pay. O, procrastinating. deliberating, halting soul! Let me tell you that tbe King s business requires haste. Before yoa attend to it your mental faculties may fail. Your intellect works admirably now, but in this country the ratio of Intel ects that are giving out is larger every m a 9 -a year, oometnmg in tne climate urges men on to such extremes and the pressure on active men is so great, that before they are aware of it the brain soften, or, more sud denly, the mind drops dead from its throne. VOW IS THE ACCXPTID TIME. Pythsgoras, studying philosophy, wa so anxious to keep awake and improve all hi. lime that with a string he tied the hair of his head to a beam above, so that the very moment he nodded io sleep the pain wou'd awake him. Sotkere are men now who have such morbid and unhealthy notions about hew much work it is neceesary to do, that they never take any rest. They can not stand the stress. Tne most brilliant are in the most peril. What if the mind, that Ood has eiven you for high and holy use. should perish before yoa have foundCbristl A heavy fall, an accidental stroke on the bead, a sadden afil ction for which yoa are not ready may kill your intellect aod sj your last chance ot ueaven pass avay, tho igh you should live on for many a year. In the great populations that occapv the asylums ot the country or are carefully gnarded in private dwellings, are hundreds of men and women who expected some dav to be Christians. They had abundance of time, they thought; but mental disorders dropped upon them before they had decided the matter, and aitnouien now tney ara irrespocs ble aud shall not be brought to ac count for anjihiLg they di under this men tal eclifse. yet they sbill at last be cal'ed into jadgment for the long years of mental health when tbey neglected the Gospel What win become of theui I leave yoa to lodge. While your reason acts, pat it to the grandest use. Look out how you csrry the magnificent torch of your intellect, let God pat it oat in darkness forever. The King's bnsinets requires baste. I would have yoa regard the text because you may have come near to the end of God's patience. There can be no doubt that some men In youth or mid-life or old age so aggra vaticgly reject the Gospel that God lets then alone. They olam the door o( their sjul in God j face and tell Him to begooe; then. vrben they call after Him to come back, He will not come. Eternal affront has been riven, and in that book where no erasures are made the man's name is put down among tue doomed. Cross the line that di vides God's mercy from His wrath; step but one inch over and you are as badly off as if yon went ten thousand fui longs. . Before the iron bolt fastens the door asaiDSt you wA.n Ka4 Ka ft.. twA (n Ta. f .A tha last Krvst tills fox Heaven yea bit! bstUr get on beard.

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11,1885.

Haste thee nut of thy sin into the pardon God. The King's business reauires haste. PREPARE rOB THE WORST. of Have reran! to the suggestion of the text, bedause your life may unexpectedly termi nate. We are trading on a borrowed capita of years that may in a moment be called in There is no rosp of the great future into which we are traveling. No explorer has been ahead and come back to tell us how it is Each one feels his waa along the path not knowing what moment a devouring lion may come from tne jungle, mere are sj ruauy ways of getting out of life by fall, by slip, by assassination, by malaria, by over exertion, by insidious disease, by misplaced switch, by rotten bridge, by fractious horse, by falling wall o man goes when he expected, nor as be expected. Suddenly the pulses stop drumming the life-march. Sad demy the cartaln falls and the lights are put out. We chance worlds quieter tnan l can drop a handkerchief from one hand into an other. At one tick of the watch we are in time; the next we are in eternity. What f we die before we are ready I What if, with sll our sins nnforgiven, we rush into the pretence of the omnipitent God. before whom sin is utterly loaihesome! Can you imagine the chill of that moment or the horror of that undoing? WhatI Twenty, thirty, forty years to repent in and yet not tave attended to it! Beyond the dead line tbere la no rectification of blunders, in the grave there is no place to pray. The rider on the pale horse spurs on his steed, and in a moment he may be pounding at the gate for admittance. What thy hand findeth to do. do it with all thy might - Do it now. The King's business requires haste. there is a sea dower called the "opelet whicn spreads abroad its petaa b antifully, but Is very poisonous, and the little tih tha touches itttraggles but a mo 1 6 tatd then die, and other petals of the same Ho er, floating on the water, wrap around the fish and pull it down into the deadly bosom of tbe iljwer. That is what is the matter with some of of yoa. 8in is an attractive flower, and it glows and waves beautifully before the soul; but no sooner do you touch it than yoa are poisoned and mutt be swallowed up unless we may sweep you away and sweep you up in this net of tne Gospel. Don't yoa see that 'he tides of worldlinees are setting against you? Don't you see tbere are Inda eucesat work to destroy if ou forever 7 Haste ye to Jems, the only refuge. The next mo ment may be worth to tbte an an eternity. Tbe King s business requnes haste. Hear this mu-ic that dro..a straight from Heaven: "Come unto me all ye taat labor arnd are heavy laden, aud I will give you rest." "Art taou weary T Art thou languid? Art thou sore distressed? Come to me, s-tiih one and coming, be at a111 1 &4c him to receive me, win lie ay me j I oi till carta and not till Htaveu pas away. Finding, Io.ioing, keep.ng, snuggling, is Be kure io bietsr Saint. i'Obtlei, prophets, martyrs answerYes!" low Ther Are Uaed la Secret Pulle und Uuw an Work- Mia rit. Ojr, l'iajed Jt In Nathvtlle Nishvllle American. An old chief iu the detective service in this and uuauv other Stated told an Auierican reporter that the Pinker ton natiunal many women as operatives, olten Bending them as far as New Mexico and the far outhwest to get eyidence of the most diffi cult natura to ascertain. He says, in fact, that the Pinkertons have found in their long experience in this business, that there are tuauy cases in which the patient search, uutinng energy, and almost fruitless sagacity of the most experienced detectives avail nothing, while an experienced woman operative, with the use of a little tact and fiueaess, can readily ascertain tne clew and proof desired. The methods of female detectives vary entirely with the circumstances surrounding the case, and none bat those who have been thoroughly tiled and proven are ever em ployed by the Pinkertous. "Now." eaid tbe old chief, "speaking ou the subject reminds me of something I have to launa about. There was in this city a short time since a lady who called hereelf, if I remember aright, Angeline St. Cyr, or something of that sort. She was dressed to a queen's taste, aud wore a pair of 2 0C0 diamond ear drops, and jewelry enough to show she had plenty ot money at her command. She had ahand some figure, and her clothes fitted so elegantly, and she dressed in such perftct taste, that no one who saw her doubted that she wa" some wtalthy gentleman's daughter. She boarded at a ",uiet house on one of the side streets with a highly respectable family, and conducted herself in the most ladylike manner, observing all tbe proprieties "What I am going to tell you now will cansf an interest Ij be taken in the matter locally, for there are many in this city who will recognize the portrait of Mies Angeline iu Cyr. Sbe was a very tali, stylish young lady, wore a piofusion of baos and bac& hair, bonnet of the small, close-dtting variety, and was generally dressed for the street in a French gray silk walking drees and a tippt t or cape (l don't know the name of it exactly ) that teemed to consist almost en lirely ot jet black beads. She generally car l A A. riodaiarge pocket boot in ner nana, or wore it swung from around her shouldt r with a strap. ' Now, plenty of people who know this la dv well will read this artic e. and if any one of them ever ascertained her business in Nashville, or saw her do anything unbecom lug a perfect laiy, 1 would be surprised to hear it; and yet 1 bad enoaeh business with her to know jast ab at what she was doing jt withstanding this. ne came here in the employment of some very prominent parties, sot the mfuruiatlon she drsireJ. communicated her progress to her employer from day to day, aod whe.i she lest her kissed ail her ady friends good bv, telling them she was going to Chicago They have never heard roui her since, and never will, unless in tha ciurse of her employment she is sent here agatu. "I want to cite one Instance of this wc mau's ingenuity. After she had succeeded in obtalnrug tne apparently casual iutro duction to a gentleruau she had to tec some of irmatlon from, tho som became quite fa miliar with him. Iu the course of events he took her to the theater. After that he took her to other plays. One night, after the play, tbey bad supper at Mooney's, and were walking home, wben the gentleuaa unexpc edlv C3mmeucd to be very cbuimunicative on the subject that she hid been compelled t studious y avoid bridging to his attention because it was tbe very thing sbe was most idtertsted in, and wa afraid, .sh uld sbe broach the eutject, that her compicion might be put ou his guard so that a future re'erence to it would make hi tu datnb as en ovster. bbe taw in a m-jmeut tnat ner time had come; that she was about to learn what she had beeu spendiag money for freely and working for a month to rind out. "The climax was reached, and she must avail hertelf of it or she might never have ar other chauce. How do you think she came to it? Sbe simply spit on tbe ground This astonished the vuuug man, because "it wss such an unladylike proceeding, and she bad to spo'ogiz-. 'Oh, excuse me,' she said: 'do excuse me, but my tnroat was so parched and fevered I was forced to do that or choke. I think I shall faint' The young man wanted to know hat he could do to relieve

the lady's distress. She said that wher

she was about to be affected with throat paralyses a elas of wine generally brouzbi her around all right again. Cut where war he to take a lady to get wine? A saloon w al dose at baud, but it would never do to taki Müs St. Cyr into a ealoon. "The young man suggested that he would go into tue saloon, get tbe win, hand it t her, aud let her drink it on the street. That would never do,' she replied in aialnt voice; l will go into the shadow in the alley aLd wait for the wine. Pleabe come back as soon as possible; I shall turely faint ' "a. Dome oi wine was nrouent out on a waiter and tossed ofl" by tbe lady and gentle man, and then Miss St. Cyr insisted on pay ng for it. Thu the young man refused to let her do. The time was near midnight sn continued to act unreasonably, auc said the won!d not g3 until l;o drank a brt tie of Piper IleidsiecK at b 'r expense. II had nothing left to do but comply with her requffct. After this they took a long walk and be came confidential. By and by they starten back to the ealoon where they had booght the wine, and, to tbe bar-keeper's surprise, tne lady came into the Ealoon and drank with ber companion another bottle. "Miss St. Cvr trot home at 3 o'clock in the morning, and apologized to the lady who kept the boarding house for being out so ate; but sbe had hmshed her work. In the long walk she had taken with her companion, between the second and third bottles of wine, she had found out all sbe wanted to know. "I understood." said the old chief, "that she got $300 reward, iu addition to her $4 per diem aud expenses, for that job, and don t believe tbere is a man or a lean clever woman, who could have worked up tbe cee at aw. Sbe is in rew Mexico now. and I un derstand she is successfully follow ice her occupation." My KnUht. In days of old tbe warrior knight To tourney rode sfleld In brzen greaves and corselet dl&ht, With f word aod helm aod fMeid; . Els trUfty Ihdco in rest be bore. And favor of bis lady wore. High coarftite on the battle plain. In tilt aud loyal quest. Ilaireu of fear acd com of fain Hts Viliaot soul pos'ttsed; Dying beouly wished to feel A fueman worthy of hia fcUeL Be tbine such royal meed to gain As kiilhibool never kuew. Such lofty Durpoe to a uin, 8uch noble q itst purue. While armed uosts in dicad array And ambufcüed loth betet tby way Be strong of heart, of purpose urong, as purred and armoiea knight, Be brve to tit against tLe wrong, And loal to tbe rttbt. And nobler tnumpes tbine hall be Than ever knight a of cblvalry. Let Vice throughout her broad domain t Petore tny i-ruwts flee. An 1 Virtue wlin her uiodes; train A i hampiuu find in thee. And bean and arm and brain be strong; To htrJp tbe wrak and right tbe wrong. Mrs. E. M. uriewcid, is a. s. t'ime$. LlTTLli FUI.K2J. Interested guest to precocious child: "And what are you going tobe wben you et b;g7 lioy of six "I am going to be a father." "Mamma," said little Mabel on a rainy day. "you saia it was wicked to waste water, didn't you?" "es. my dfar." "Then why don t uca be more care lai r ' "Marion," asked a big brother of his little sister. "Marion do you know the earth turns round? ' "Of tos I does," answered Marion; "that's the reason I tumblts cut of bed." Herbert's mamma took htm to Sundayschool the other day, and the lesson being on the depravity ot the human heart, the teacher diew a large hearton the blackboard by way of illustration. "Mamma," eaid Herbert, with a nudge, "will sbe draw a spade next?'' Tha; bov evidently knew wtat was tramps. A fond father preren ted his four-year-old boy with a trumpet, with 'which he wa? greatly infatuated. All day the be y tooted awav deliebtedlv. and at bedtime, when his grandmother told him to put the trumpet down and say his prayers, tbe little fellow said: "Oh.no; I'll tell you what let's do. grandma you pray and I'll keep on blow ing." lujariiiM Lata Suppers. Chicago News, I ' "Mamma, be late suppers bad?" "Yes, my child, very bad." "What make 'em bad?" "Why, it injure the health to eat ju9t before going to bed." "Oh! I thought may be it injured the health to go to oe i right after supper." Johnny wasu t hustled otf to bed as early as usual taat night just the same. Iler New aianiua. Hattie, the daughter of a Boston clergyman, was permitted to a. tend the ceremony of her father's second marriage, and under the care ot her auntie traveled a part of tbe way with the newly-wedded couple, who had determined that no one should suspect the recent cermony by any act of omciousae.3 ou.their part. In the meantime the terrible child had left her seat, unobserved, and as tbe train caaie to a standstill, amid the usual silence at such a tiae, the shrill small voice wa heard from the end ot the car: "I've got a beautiful new mamma. I've got her to day 1 Waat ti see her? She's over there (pointing with fearlul exactness to tbe bluauing bride.) That's my beautiful new mamma: tne old one a dead, and gone to Heaven s pose this one'll bs dead pretty e on, and then 1 11 have two of 'em up there!" At this point the small informant was suddenly arrested, and taken to the seat by the mortified auntie in cbaree, while the last wurds audible to tbe passengers were, A'hy, auntie, you needn't feel o bad! I KUtss they're glad enough to hear 'bout beautiful new mamtua! ' my It was in a pleasant town in 'the Genesee Valley that a party ot boys made niitht, or the ?arly part ot it. hideous to the residents of a quiet street. Particularly afflic'ed b? tue uprcar of tbe urchins was a good woman, who wa at her wits' end to discover any fe;ible methed of relief. From tad experience she knew that entreaties were in vain, ana sco dings were wortethan useless ai applied to the juvenile roisterers. Finally, la sneer deapra iou, sie hit upju a bipy expedient. Oillkg the boys to her door, the and: "Now, boys, if you will eo quietly away and not make any more noise I'll give you all the apies yon cau eat " They greedily assented to tbe terms of the compromise, and filled themselves with the pr tfered fruit. That night the ingenious lady slept the sleep of the jutt; but to her horror acd amazement, on the following evening the small boys aain mustered in force in front of her house, with luugs redoubled in enirgy by the slight rest they bad taken. "Boys," she cried, in the shrill falsetto of despair, ""attar yourprcmise of last night, what do you mean by again disturbing me in this way?' "More apples," was all they said. Harper's Bazar.

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

New Year's Day In the Kreat Metropo lis How the Laws Aro Systematically Defied. The Conflict Between Labor and Capital New York Letter Boston Herald-l V ell, nere we are in 1SS5, and a dirty start we have made of it A eea of sluph. a muck of mnd Hnminiu,) Vau- Ynrk nH rc-r.nfcliTi ... . on tne nri ci tnis giaa new year, until terooon, wnen a ouzzara uiew, masirjg an attempts at celebration absurd aDd iutile. Th t..r ..ntnnt in tnnmnri .ilnro ana me new year came in witn a caiatnumplan serenade. From the Battery to Harlem Lane, the town PÄPniPd to h on vast horn, Every tug in the harbor has a whistle, and

. it. . , . twentv. It would be difficult to tav where all the blowers came from, but it is shrewdly surmised that BrookKn and Jersey City, Hoboken and llimapovfurmshed each its quota. Tbere never was such a hurrahing concatenation of inharmonious dietmbanre since the Dutch took: Holland. New Year's H.ff It ma A .iiIa 9. as a rule, devoted to makinp tproIii . i ubt jc, o3 a j uir, I. . a. . . . I .m -.-., . n4 n .a.i. 'aid aside for a more suitale occasion. In all parts of the city locomotion was dißi cult, and in all the streets wheeling was at tended with en barms men t and labor Fifth avenge was mushingly dirtv from end to end. and little basins of slush filled every side street. The great avenues of travel were lined on either side by win rows of mud, with ash barrels for variety and tomato catB, hTop skirts, dirt and refuse for orna mentatioo. In spite of sundry well-intended efforts to convince the people of New York that they really wanted to make calls, it was eviden that the nentle hoat-ewives didn't believe sacn to be tbe case Oa Fifth avenue. Mad ison avenue and hundreds &f blocks ou in terfectiug streets, a majority of the house, were provided witn card baskets In otber wo'ds, the men and lads of Gottam wtre expected to u.ake pro tern postmen of them selves, and push from stoop to stoop for the 8ole purpose of exercising their legs and de positing pasteboard in the baskets. It s w.se theory to live by that other people are jutt as wite and cunning as ourselves. The men of New York were not ti be caught in such a flimsy wicker trap. Sj they SENT THEIR CBD3 THRSUUH TUE MAI LP, greatly to the annoyance of the earners, acd the chagrin of the lad.es of the house. Al inteuious advertiser had several thousand cards struck, on, narrating the marvelous quaiit es of his soap, aud hired messenger bo s to put them In all the baskets hun2 out up town. Bad boys stole baskets; othereich&r&ed cards. It is not likely the card cns'oui, io far as dcor baskets are concerned, will ever obtain in this city. There is too tnucu pnvsicai outlay, ana net sumcieLt compensation. there is nothing stickler or more ruinous to clothirg than the mud of Gotham. If to this be added dirt and fait from the car tracks, dripp ngs from the L roads and a thcusacd and cne indescribable element4, toere is provided a mixture the like of which was never dreamed of uotl this extraardi nary age. as driving about the siusu cov errd street was an impossibility, a few thou sand fellow citizens undertook to walk fhey turned up their tronser l-gs at the bottom aud sturdily strode alonz. Boots were soon plastered thick with slimy slush and cut through by salted ice water, while trousers half way to the knees were coated and spattered and made untightly by the mixture above described. Treacherous piste brought many a man to his knees, and, while backs were sprained, clothes rulbed and boots plastered, tempers became sour nd profanity jarred harshly ou the ambient New 1 ears air. It was a "nasty" day. Livery stable people had counted cn a rich harvest on one or the other horn of possi bility, expecting either sleighing or great demand for cupe, broughams and car riages. There was no sleighing, and the few slush pushers who attempted it in the Para excited the risibilities of all who caw them. And it was more than folly to attempt to utilize a coupe to advantage. The streets were in no mood for the proper celebration of the Way. Hence disappointment in all the great btables. Itinerant umbrella men and bootblacks had a good time of it, and so did the fionsts. In fac the most noticeable feature of the day next to the fish horns and steam tooters was the almost universal display of choice flowers. All the florists in the city worked ail of Wednesday night and far into Tburtdav's forenoon, putting up their orders and arranging their attractions. Although there was bat little drunkenness oa the streets there was A VAST AMOUNT OF PRINKING ih saloons, restaurants and cafes. A great many Brooklyn and Jersey City men, 'disgusted with the. filthy condition of tueii own towns, came to New York to make a day of it. And tbey succeeded. Near the ferries there are many drinking places, all of which did a thriving business. The New York end of the big bridge is about ai dirty and ill kept a spot as can be found. In fact, it is almost as foul and unkempt as the City Hall park and Poftolhce street. Near it are sreral rum shops also, and they, too, were filled all day long. The bar rjoms of the great hotels along Broadway, and the cafes oi tbe chief restaurants up towu. d d a tremendous basiness, vastly more than had tht day bten pltasant or the sleighing oten hue. Several dinner parlies were given in DclUiOulcos, the Brunswick, tbe Hotel Uam atd the Cas.no in Central Park, and from 5 in the alternoon ou thioonh li e eariy and laier hours of tbe evening. when the electric fp&rs aud tbe blazing gas imparted a bright &u6 Cheery louk to homes ar.d windjwf, a more teasonabl face appeared upon the New York scene. Matintes were not particularly wel patronized, but in the evening the vast boarning-house e eiuent sought refuge in the p ay house, with the strangers witniu our totes. A number of sanguine drivers es saved sleighing in the park and along tbe boulevards, but it was sorry eport, aud roao houses coined no fortunes, lhe strangers element, which u looked to for bridge pat ronae, was conspicuously abeut, a;.d tbe ferryboats made maLy trips with but two or three passengers ou board. Tne dismal day wore slowly along, and no one was sorry when tne sunset gun an nounced Its clote. In every element of dls eruntled and disatuned hamanity the first day ot the "glad new year" was an unqc ttonable success, but in every, essential of holiday recreation and physical enjoyment it was about as near a fizzle as any known to any cit'ztn of Gotham in this or any other century. This, as you know, is the metropolis of tbe continent, a great b;g city with a little mite of a bead, and VERT LITTLE 15 IT. We are subjects absolutely under the domi-

tnoEe on tne rivers rxaae noise enoucn ionia,? fwinlr

nation of an autocracy against which indi

vidual protest is futile, and combined against which there can never be sutücitnt public forces to accomplish public god. Sj-stem is a b'g thing. We have a law hexe whici f it bids the st'rinkllng of dirt or tbe use of alt ucon our streets save at switches. Anothtr law directs that snow thall be shoveled oil within a few hours after iu failing, aud that tue gutters be kept ciar, and that each householder who fails to clear awav te snow and keep his gutter open thall be lia d e to a nne. vuer every iau oi snow tut streets through which our surface rails run are filled with an ice-cold muth, composed or snow, water ana salt. Alter every snow fall tho fctreAfa thrriifr-h -jchirh ihu curfur roads run are winnowed on either side by tremendous piles of slow, the center of the P'reel Deiog inuaoy ana s.usuy. aconipjuta of dirt, enow-water ard fait. Where do the I dirt and fait come from? After every snow fall there is run alorg tLete iron-bound streets a huge saow-plow, drawn by eight oi ten horses, which throws the snow on eithei KaMa riftho trarir filling fha ontttro tti heaping it in front of every man's do r, Immediately after that follows a huge cart, running on the railioad tracks, drawn bv six or eight horses: from tb:s laborers f hotel dirt and palt. But isn't that ftpaintt tho I w The elevated roads are managed iu the paw- awv fiame av They deliberately tccupi? our aveuues lur a ruau ucu; tuey py Bit-uiisaiij ignore tne tax assessor? and cety tne tax col lectors; they utilize certein portions of tbe track as store houtes, end dciice many hours of the cay, and all hours of the mht people living iu thtss tectiong of the city ait compelled to look out upon a loug line of unoccupied cars. Tbey throw the si ow which gathers upon the street; it breaks the law, but tney DSFY THE LAW SYSTEMATICALLY. They have miles of platforms built high in he air, on which are stores, in whicn are sold books, newspapers, all maucer of peri odicals, toys, checkers, cigais, c'garettec, cr.ewing tooacco straps for luggage, games ol every kind, playing cards and cutiery. The j law says that they shall provide seats for IpasärLters Thev da not do iL The law ex I pressily declares that any employe who starts la tram, or causes it to be started when buy jerson In the car desires to get out of the car. or any person on tbe piatform desires t et cn the car, will be deemed guilty of mie demeanor, and ball be punUhed by fine or imprisonment, or boih This law is ejtte maticaily athed It is systematically broken Loug ago observation taught me that auj man wnh brain enough to plan, withaudoc ty sufficient o execute, may do any act be d. sires with the law or against the law. in h'scitv; for It uLdei any straintd eir cumstences the law thould be invoked against him, his motiey will enable him to carry it from court to court, ti that, auring the six or e'gbt or ten yarj. pending an ultimate settlement, he can de rive all the desired profit possible from tbt breaking of the law. Now, it has occurred to me that Mr. Goa d, by systematic follow ing of a pre gran, me, ran make and brtat thousands ot n.en, arid accumulate a for tune, variously estimated ou psier at from ri fiui ftfii . .- ton c ti i i u ii k . r.. . j . olit cau to n auipu'ate tue rati road property le't him by his lamented father as tu duplicate the enormous torture left by tbe old commodore; it sayings banks and life insurance compauies can, by systematic adherence toan investment progiainne accumulatr assets ranging from ten tc nore than a bun dred millions of dollars; it railroad corpora tlons can have tbtlr own way by ptrsittent effort then it must be' possible lor individuals iu humbler life and in less conspicuous occupation. BY SYSTEMATIC EN PEA TOR to attain any desired ecu; and if it is poe-i ble for individuals, then, surely, it ehuu!d be possible for aggregations of individual?, particularly when the dtsired end is one whicn loots to tne bettering of the condi tions of a race, the elevation of fellow met and the extension of an all embracing love of humanity. I wi&n it was possible to put a grain of sense into the heads of our working people, o that, instead of everlasting bnekinzagaibet their natural )ly, capital, they would strike nands and work with in elivtnt industry for a common weal. Apparently it is not fo their universal food to resort to force and pbysical resistance with a certain fizzle in the end. They have to sutler as much txs their employers, but it is useless to talk with them. They &ee through their cwn tlaas darkly, and prefer to die in their own silly way. I have repeatedly referred to tue anomalous condi.ion under which New York men and women are living, tome too rich because tbey are lucky, many uh poor, because they are lazy, and I have predicted that, unless common eeLte takes one and the other by the hand, aLd brings them together in friend, y at titude on a plane cf common interest, it is great and beautiful city will sutler in the future as it has in the past. There is no netti of it. The times ohould prevent it, but is the man who photographs a scene of disaster responsible for its repulsive features? Is a doctor who warns a patient, in time, that certain symptoms preface 6erioiis trouble, an enemy cr friend? Ar,d is a pcblicUt, who in time of apparent peace and quiet oetf ctt indices of distress, trouble, w nut and com ing disruption, to be blamed because he faithfully paints that picture? Ia it not bet ter to give an ounce of prevention to daj than to be compelled to find a pound ot cure to morrow? Surely in describing the terrible destitution iuto which Vanderbilt threw over a thoutaud families when he dU c barged his men is not discreditable to nim whose quick sympathies feels these evi dences of uilering, and, by calling attention of the puRlic to them, seeks to bung to best a moral pressure upou an autocrat 'wboer word can make tears to fl jw like rike rivere or cause smiles to ma a tie a miliuu cbeeks And. oa tue other hand, dues he not do well who suggeftts a comproruise to thtotrikers? What woud be thought of a tnan b), kEOwng tbat there was hrein his clüset, deliberately closed tbe door tbat he in gm not see it? Wbat would be thougbt 1 1 the patient in a Lospit&l wbo, cveriLg a huge eore with planters, boastt-d of h e beattb? .Now, there is no guod to he gained bj deny ing that from one end of tbis cou itr? t tne other the reat mountain is Jabering. t-La t tue delivery be a mou-e or a lion? Sha 1 we oy the happy utilization of couimon tense aud compromise ir-sure the coming of a mouse of trouble, or by IgnoriLg it sbal. w mate certain the treu endous out spring and revenues gnashing of a lioil? tne new- from Fait River is discoaraioz. so is that from Lowell and from ail the co aud iron States, while in the south it country dconteut, grumbling and iunrmurings ar the rule, sj n, perbap, to o tbe rum. Tar derbilt was asked the ott er dav why these people were His reply was, "that it wai discouraged. A PA ET CF HIS SYSTEM. i Well, that is all right, but hov about the system of the men that were discharge t? öappose they operate on system? We have had railroad wars before which made the country lurid from end to end. We have bad railway strikes which cost millions of money, many lives and great inconvenience and annoyan. e to the traveling pub :c Fo-tanaieiy-for tue community and fortuoat'.iy for the railroad compauies, tbere was very little systm ia strikes, and no programme for the war; had there been, there is no tell

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ing what the harvast might haye been. If the strikers had been reasonable tney cculd have secured a compromise, bnt they wanted all or robe. Dj you suppose the terrible riots of 103 could hrve been put down by two or three thousand undisciplir.ed nuen? We were fortunate in having 2 600 exper enod policemen under coniiuand of eyttematic cantains. They worked harmoniously and on b stem, but suppose tbey had been met by equal harmony suppose there had been eaders to these ternoie creatures, ana they had worked on system too? Ubnt would have becoxe of the 2.Oj men ofrv stem w ben Ofpjsed by 2 5u0 men of system? The party of law and order to aay, we win suppose is represented by the police and the moral force of the comu.unity, backed here and tLere by regiments armed and competent. That means a creat srmy, aod under ordinary circumstances no force, pbysical or mental, whieh was unsyetamized a d undigcipiliced could hope to cope successfully with them? Here ii the danger. Scattered broadcast throoghout this country is trades' unions and ledges and brotherhoo.s are men of will, who are giadually learning tbe power of unity, ßupnose tbey learn aso tbe tower of moderation then they would be m re influential They save money in time of plenty; they hold meetir.es, secret and public; they are working for an end. It requires no expert eyes to detect differences between these foolish men and these who employ tbeuj, and tbe one question for newspapers to discuss and for statesmen to ponder Ip, stall we bring these two, capital and labor, toeether, etting the wiee membeis on either side consult with the wise men on either side, or shall we cloee our eyes deliberately to the waving of the flag and let matters drift along until the tiiue of certain collision? I have rio sympathy with iconoclasts, and none with revolutionists And I quite ap preciate tny lack of ability to succeed in wbat ruany abler men have endeavored, ' an.ely the outlining of a system which can make TWO ENDS OF A COMMUNITY HAEMOKIOCS, elevating tbe low without necessarily bring ing down the high. I do believe, however, that there is a common gronnd cf common wealth, and when that is found both sides will be happier. Professor Felix Adler, sod other active movers in tha 8-ciety for Eth ical Culture, have an idea tbat capitalists can be lLduced to invest la'ge amounts of money in improved tenements, for which tbey will charge reasonable rentals. A few days ago, the IVcles-or, in response to a nustiou, said he thought capitalists could be induced to invest with a certainty of 3 per cent return, and insisted that there is a tare amount of capital which brings nc beter intere-t than that, and that millions are licked up In OuvernmeLt bonds at no better rate. He further said that he acd hia co workers were endeavoring to build a model tei.emeiit bouse, which would give the in mates sufficient light, proper ventilation and gO'jd pluinb ng. and that the actual earnings of the house, which, at a low estimate, wuuld r.e G per cent, would be divided between tbe capitalists who fornished the original outlay, and t) whom would te paid 3 per Ce, and bu insurance fund to pretect tenante sgsir.&t hard times. Further, it is their intention tu credit such tenants a give tbe iwner satisfaction by tneir nenavior witnan nmount in proportion to the reut they pay each vear. the idea belne tbat these credits would in time accumulate at compound in terest, so that eventually the tenants might pay ofl the or.ginal outlay, and tbe buildinus wruld then pass into tbe poc session f those who live iu tberu. We all know Felix Adler to be a good and hentat man, but it seems to me that he evinces in this, if correctly reported, an extrordmary ace of information as to both rich aud poor. Men who build tenement house?, as a rule. are as fond of money as the rest ot us. Ot-e of tnem the otber day eaid;to me that a Sjuth American friend oi his had writ en him con - cernn k the investment of a large amount of money, aud had, in response to a request for advice, suggested that he should build tene ment houses, from which the largest possible return would be received. Continuing, be said: "I havn all kinds of tenants, verv rich, medium, and very poor. I would TV finitely prefer to deal with the pocic:t, who are compelled to be content with whet they have, and whete very existence is the best guarantee for prompt payment of comparatively large rents. They never compla'n of ventilation, cf light, of plumbing, of a thouand and one things which men accustomed to comforts insist upan. They TAKE WHAT TILEY PAY FOB, nd are glad to get it" In other words, ex perienced capita let- understand that a huge enement huu-e in which cau be packed from 50 to 10) families is certain not to exceed minimum sum for annual repairs. These men will find that iu this, as in every other cae, it is much eaier to lay plans for other people s expenditures than to secure their adoption. It is equally well ' nown that tenement hoose people a a rule are quarrel some and improvident It would rutz'e tbe most experienced detective to find fifty ell born, well bred, well-to do families in this city who could live for any number of years under a common roof as tenants, and still mure difficult to find an equal Lumber of families who culd or would live together under a corrrnon not ss owners. What ll;en shcnld be expected from the emigrant . class? Of hurnblt birth, utterly unedu cated cafe ess in habits, herding like pies. uuued to the decei c:es cf life, how could they live together in any considerable natuoers peacefully as tenants cr aa owners? the idea is Utopian, and no amount of sys tem, iu my jadgment, cau ever maze it feasible. Education appears to be tbe nor mal and m.iSt effective fever iu civilization. and in this connection we are confronted in fi's city by a very pecu iar state cf affairs. New York: is signally lacking in publis ouillina cf beauty, and peculiar. y deficient in cjuveniences for its officials Oar courts ire overcrowded, and heavy rents a.-e paid Ok sundry important departments, but as s ou a? any member of the buard of a oerojen sngges's tbe erection of a suitable Duudii fwraccummoda ioa i f tnete departments, which are at pre-eut unprovided save as tenants, critics poat.ee upou Liu, denounce Dim as a jobber and hold him aud his -cneojes up to pabl c execration It is a lalie n tab e fct that oar schools are overcro wded, that the forcing 83 stem as applied is injudicious, and tbat thousands of chilli reu are precluded from attending school fjrJackof accom modation. Education is tbe kejs one of our sec al arch, if the com11. g generation are taugui common sensu, indutry, frugality and respect for law and irder, it wid be much easier to man p this l:ificuit prob em of capital and labor iu the cluing fifteen years than It can possibly be if the run ? eeneraiion are tree to roam the street-, smoke cUaretUs and visit cneap theatres as ti-ey now are. Te:nj eon, in QI lono," lays: "Self reverence, self knowie. g, self control thesa three aione lead Me la sovereign power." Men, ixi6chanic8 and laborers, with families, nave na self reverence when, forgetful of tboee wbo are dependent upon them, they strike, reckless as to conseqer crs. and still le?s have they self-central, when they ao act aa to tear down the bridge if compromise, between their employers and themselves. Supple in thes eariy days ol we think of these things Then our cordial greeting of a "Laituv new Tear tn trn" mit rru r. 4 w 4 w ac nif thiLe to aomehdv.

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