Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 60, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1885 — Page 9

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rhio Babbath 1T Sacrrd to Kt. 'Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep ! It Uoij"-"Veril? My Sabbaths j Ye Shall Kep." ili Diji Shalt Thou Labor and Do All t Thy Work, but the seventh U Hin; Ou It Ye ball Du No Work.' I ;Booklt. Feb. 22. Dr. Talmsge preached j tbe Brooklyn Tabernacle to day on the sijbjeet. The War on the Sabbath." The opening hjmn ai: ' ! arm of the Lord Awake! awake I j Pat ou thy strength, the nations sbake! Vibe text nuUlen from Exodus xxxi , ll; Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep." illawln la Dr. Talmage's sermon In foil. ije said: The wisdom of cessation from hard labor oh day oat of the seven Is almost universally acknowledgad. The world 3 has found o'ltthatit can do less work in seven dajs tanln six. and that the fifty-two days of tlie year devoted to rest are an addition rrjther than a subtraction. Experiments have been made in all departments. The gfeat Caatlereagh thought he could work his btain 365 days In the year, bat after a while h'oke down and committed suicide, and vhlberforce said of him: "Poor Caatlereagh I This U the result of the non-observance of the Ibbath,' A celebrated merchant declared : should hare been a maniac long ago bat fdr the Sabbath." The nerves, the brain, the mmcles, the bones, the entire physical, intellectual and moral nature cry out for the flnbbatie reiL What is true of man Is for ttje most part true of the brüte. j TRAVELERS UAV FOUND out that they come to their place of destine tioo sooner when they let their horses reet bMha wavontbs Babbath. What is the nlstter with thoee forlorn creatures harnessed it cone of our city cam iimK1a mnii time rar And 111? Why do they It U for the lrjckoftbe Sabbatic rest. In w.hen the herdsmen drove their other days, iheep and cattle from the far West down to the sea bWd. it was found out by experiment that m-,-. K4.mn ni HriT.n whn hkiUxioTDr i tKa tayenth day got down sooner to the seabfard than thoee who passed on without tbe orcervance of the holy öabbatn. Tne usher nn off the coast of Newfoundland declare tht thoee men daring tbe year catch tljs mo it fish who stop during tne Lora s ITy. When i asxea tne kjokj aaoaniaau iucu troUve engineer why be changed locomotives wqen it seemea to ds a siraj" ruui, ue

rfld: "We have to let the locomotive stopsullty Qf olKn treason against the maker of aid cool off, or the machinery would soon Heaven and earth. Thty have in our cities

bjaak down." Men who made large quantit&aof salt were told that If they allowed tüeir kettles to cool oyer Sunday they would etjojeci laemseiTes mj rvi. ub ui uiuBXa -roe experiment was meue, some ooeeryiug tcebAODAin ana some not uoserriag tue &tbbetb. Thoee who allowed the nres ta go dwn and the kettles to cool once a week wjsre compelled to spend only a small sum for repairs, while in the cases where no Sabt4th was observed many dollars were dexrlanded for repairs. I In other words intelligent man and dumb beistund dead rxachinery cry out for the L-ord's day. I A PR0M12IENT M ASCFACTCRER

Uld me that he could see a difference be-lei

tMn the roods which went out of his es - tfblishment on Saturday from the goods that! vjtnt out on Monday. He caid: "They were ykrr different indeed. Thoee that were made 14 the former part of the week, because of tne rest that had been Breviouslv given, wkre better than thoee tbai were made the lattar cart of the week when the men Ware tired ont" The Sabbath comes and It bathes the soreness from the limbs, quiets tHe a ilia ted brain aod puts out the nres of anxiety that have been burning all the week, Our bodies are seven o ay clocks, and unless ou the seventh cay they are wound up they run dowu into the g?ave. The Sabbath was ä tended as a savings back; into it we are to ther the resources upon which we are t) da all the week. Tbat man who breaks the Babbath robs his on nerve, his own muscles, his own brain, his own bones. He dtpe up the wine of his own life aud throws it away. He who breaks tbe Lord's day givis cV mortgage to disease and death upon his en tire pbysiral estate, and at tbe most nnexMcUd moment that mortgage will be fore closed and the soul ejected from tbe pre mles. Every gland and pore and cell aud Ga rer call demands the seventh Cay for repose. The respiration of the lungs, the throb ot the pulse in tbe wrist, the motion of the bone in the socket, decare, "Keraemoer ins caboatn aay to xeep it holy. There are tnoutanas ot men wno have had their lives dashed out against the reldsn gates of the Sabbath. A prominent London merchant testifies that thirty years co he went to London. He says: "I have dnrlnipthat time watched minutely, and l have noticed that the man who went to bust netaon the Lord's day, or opened their eonntins houses, have, without a single ex ception, come to failure." A prominent r wl " v.w n ' Christian merchant in Boston says it don't nav to work on Sunday, a ooy i noticed out on iong wnan mere vre merchants who loaded their vessels on tile Sabbath day, keeping their men busy. from morning till night, and it is my observ ation that they themselves came to nothlnt; these merchants aod their children came 4o nothing. It doesn't pay," he says, "to nork.on the Sabbath." 1 WHILE THE ATTEMPT TO KILL the Cabbsth by the stroke ef ax and Hail and the Yard stick has beautifully failed. It Is Drnnosad in our dsy to drown the Babbathi by opening all the grog shops. An organized movement is on foot to get the New York Legislature to repeal the present law which Drobiblti the sale of intoxicating liquers on tLfUhhth It I said that this law is not executed Ten thousand men in the city of Brooklyn, in behalf of law and order, are abou to see that the law is executed. The Eibbath bas been sacrificed to tbe rum traf T . . . fi Tnminff AfAnrriMn itr.ihfit (1ST In tk.Mk inha bani itaV.r mnnt kn Ctir shopes closed on the 8abbam. It In dancerous to have loaves of bread going out! Oh Banday The shoe store ts closed : seveze rnaltr will attarh to the man who sells boob th fiabath. Hot down with th window Unttara of tha rotr-thAna Onr la Ml ccaftr particular ban ort unca the ram SUUtn. A.U nthtr tradara mnit lunn m .k . Ide for these. Let our citizens whn have

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and hosiery and hardware and lumber aod

coal take off their bats to the ramseller, elected to particular honor. It is unsafe for any ether class of men to be allowed license for Sunday work. But swing out your slgDS, 0 je traffickers in the peace of families and In the suuls of immortal men! Let the corks fly and the beer foam and the rum go tearing down the half consumed throat of the Inebriate. Ood does not see, does he? Judgment will never come, will it? They would bury the Sabbsth very decently under the wreath of the target com pany and to the music of all Strakoach's braten instruments There while the attempt to kill the Sabbath by the stroke of sxe and flail and the yardstick has beautifully failed, it Is proposed in our day to drown the Sabbath by opening all the grogshops. An organized movement is on foot to get the New York Legislature to repeal the present law which forbids the tale of intoxicating liquor oo the Sabbath. There are today in tbe different cities ten thousand hands and ten thousand pens busy la attempting to cut out the heart of our Christian Sabbath and leave it a mere skeleton of what it once was. The effort is organized and tremendous, and unless the friends of Christ and the lovers ot good order shall rouse up right speedily, their sermons and their protests will be uttered after the castle is taken. There are cities in the Jand where tne Babbath has almost perished, and every Sabbath is night those cities are in full b!azs of theatric and operatic entertainment, and it is becoming a practical question whether we who received a pure babbath from the harjdsof our fathers sball have pletyand pluck enough to give to our children the ams blessed inheritance. The Eternal God helping us, we will. 1 PROTEST AOA1NS? TIIIM INVASION of the holy Sabbath, in the first place, be cause it is a war on divine enactment. God ays, in Iealah: "If thou tarn away thy foot rum doing thy pleasure en My holy day. thou sbalt wa'k upon tne high pieces " What did He me a a by "doing thy pleasure?" He referred to eecu'ar aod worldly amuse ments, a. man teld me he nai never so much frightened as in the midst of an earth quake, when the beasts of the field bellowed in fear, aod even the barnyard fowls screamed in terror. Well, it was when the arth vi as shaking and the sky was full of fire that Ood ma Je tbe great announcement "Remember tbe Sabbath day to keep it holy." Go along through the streets where the theaters are open on a Sabbath night; go upon the steps; enter the boxes of these places of entertainment and tell me if that is keeping the Sabbath holy. "Ob," lays some one, "God won't be die pleased with a grand sacred concert.' A gentleman who was present at a '"grand ta cred concert" said that daring the exercises there were comic and sentimental songs, Intergpersed with coins jokes; and there were dances and a farce and tight rope walking sad a trapeze performance. I suppose it was a holy dance and a consecrated tight rope. I am not certain about that, however; but this 1 know, it waj a "graud sacrtd cju cer We bear a goel deal er talk about tbe lrfrhtnr th iinta'' trt ha inat inch j have. I wonder if the Lord has any rights y0a rule your family, the Governor rules the 8tatö. the President rules the whole Und; I wonder if the Lord has a mtht tj rule nations and make tbe enactment: "Re member the Sabbath day ta keep it holy," iand it there Is any appeal to a higher court from that decision aod if the men who are warring against that enact ueat are not but God on trial. It has been the theatres d the ODra houses of the land nlantiffr varsAS the Lnrd Almicrrttv Hefanrfant and the (suit has been begun and who shall come out ftneÄ(i 7 0a know. Whether it be popular or unpopular 1 now announce it as my opin ion tQ.t th neoole hare no rlzhta save those hich the irreat Jehovah elves them. He has never given the right to man to break Uis holy Sabbath and as long as Ills throne stands He will never give that rigkt. THE PROPHET A6KS a question which 1 can easily answer, "Will a man rob God? ' l es, they robbed him last Saacay night at the theateis and at the Opa -house, and I charge upon them the infalmonsaid high handed larceny. I believe with the allor. Tbe crew had been dis charged from the vetsal because they would not work while they weie in port on the Lord's day. The Captatn went out to get sailors. He found one man. and he said to

inlhliu. "WiU you serve me on the 8abcath7"

"No." "Why not?" "Well," replied the old tailor, "a man who will rob God Al mighty of his Sunbath, would rob meoimy wages if he got a chance." (Jo. It is dashardly mean when we break the Sabbath. I Supposj yon had seven oranges, una you gave to vour child six of them putting tne other oiaoge in your pocket for youielf. I and you should find that the child had not been satisfied with the six oranges and had come aod stolen your seventh. That is pie ctsely wtat men do when they break tbe Sabbath. Suppose rou were poor and yon rame to a dry goods merchant and asked for some cloth for garments aod he should say: "VI give you six yards." aad while he was on from the counter binding up the six yards you should go behind the counter aid steal one additional yard. Thatiswbat every roaa does when he breaks the Lord's dahcath. God gives us six davs out of seven, reserving one for himself, and you will not let Htm have It. It is mean beyond all computation. I am opposed to the desecration f the because Sabbath by secular entertainments, it is a war on the statutes of our State. Ine law says: It shall not bs lawful to exhibit on the first day of the week, commonly called Sun day, to the public, in any building, garder, ground?, concert rcom or other room or I place within the city or county of New York lntaln4a TMirav AniAf w nnara bllle pUyt (arcJt nr0 injtreiaj, nPgro or othtr dancing, or any other entertain ment of the stage, or a iy part or parts thereoa, or equestrian, circus or drsmatic perform . . .frtrrn-nft-l of inr,rm trm acrobots or rope-dancing." Was there ever a plainer enactment than that? Who made the law? You who at the ball Jt-bex decided who should go to Albany and sit in the Legislature. They made the law for you and for your families, and now I say that any man who attempts to override that law lcsults you and me and every man who has the right of sunrage in the titate of New York. Still farther I protest against this invasion of the Sabbath because it is a foreign war. Now if vou heard at this moment the boom ing of a gun in the harbor or a shell from some ioreign xrigate snouio arop mro oar streets, now long wouia you aeep your seat in the tabernacle! ion would want to race the ioe, an o every gnn inan oooja oe man- - aged would oe Drought in use, ana every I a t a I J Vk.. V at.aaj ik M 1 SniO IQat COUld OS oroUKU UUt Vi US UBTJ I rard would swing from bar anchorage and tba question would be decided. You do not want a forelm war and yet I have to tell you that this invasion 01 uou noij oay is aioreign war. Ai among our own native bom I DODulation there axe two classea, the good m I and the bad. SO it IS Wlin the peOPie WHO 1 come from other shores there axe the law .a as.. i rrk A s I BDlalDI lOU lul lawless. Aue luriutr vi I welcome here: the more of them the better

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SUNDAY MORNING, itAECH I, 1885.

are representatives of all lands. I bel.eve God Intended our national heart to throb with the blood of all peDple. But let not the lawless come from other shores expecting to break down our Sabbath and Institute In the place of it a foreign Sabbath. HOW DO TOl? FEEL, ye who have been brought up amidst the hills of New England, about giving up the American Sabbath? Ye who have spent you childhood under the shadow of the Adi rondacksor the Ca skills; je who were born on the banks of the Teennese or the Savannah, how do you feel abent giving no tbe American Sabbath? You ray, we snail not give it up. We mean to defend it as long as there U any strength left in our arm or any blood in our heart!" Do not bring your Spanish Sabbath here; oo not bring your French Sabbath here; do not bring your German Sabbath here. It shall be for us and our children forever a pnre, conse crated, Christian, American Sabbath I will make a comparison between tne Sabbath ai some of you have known it. and the 8abbath of Paris 1 speak from observa tion. One Babbath morning I was aroused in Paris by a great eound in the street I said: What is this? "Oh," they said, "this is 8nnday." An unusual rattl of vehicles of all sorts. The voice i seemed more boist erous than on other days. It seemed a ir all the vehicles of Paris had turned out for the holiday. Tbe Champs Elysses, one great mob of pleasure seeking people; balloons flying, parrots chattering, foot-balls rolling, peddlers hawking their knick-knacks through the streets, hand-organs aod every kind ot racket, musical and unmusical. When the evening came down all the theaters were in full blare of music and fall blaze of light The wine stores and saloons were thronged with an unnsual Dumber of customers. At eventide I stood and watched the excursionists coming home, fagged out meu, women and children; a gulf steam o' fatigue, irritability and wretchedness; for I eliould think it would take three or- four dtys to get over tbat miserable way of Sandayioe. It seemed more like an American Foarth of July than a uoristian bddiq. Now, in contrsdt, I present one or the earbaths in one of our bst American cities. Holy sllirjc coming down with the day dawn. Business men more deliberately iooklrg into the facts of their children, and talking to them about tneir prseni ar.u iu turewel'are; men sit longer at the table in the morning because the stores are not to oe opened and the mechanical toos are not to be taken up. THERE AKE COSÜ8ATCLATIOX9 aad good cheer all ihroogh the house. Houses of Gcd vocal with thanksgivings for mercies received, with prayers for romfort, with chsritiis for the poor, rest f r h- bedy , rest for the soul, the nerves qnieted, the temples cooled, the mind cleared, the s)ul strengthened, and our entire population turned out Monday morning tn years younger, better prepared for the daties of this life, better prepared for the life that s to come, which do yon like best, the American Sabbath or the Paris'aa Sabbath? Do you know in wbt bat the Sabbath rsme acrss the seas aod laDded on cur shores? It was in the Mavflower. Do you know in what boat the Sabbath will leave us.if it ever goes? It will be la the ark that Moats over a delage of national iniquity. Still farther: I protest against the invasion of the Lord's day because it wrongs a vast multitude of employe of their rest. The bar-tendir in case of the grog-shop, and in the case of the theater the scene-shifter, the ballet-dancer, the call-boys, tbe innumerable attendants and supernumeraries. They are paid small salaries at the best You see them on tbe stage in tinsel and tasse),or you see them in tbe gauze whirling on toe-tortures, and you mistake them for faries or queens; but after 12 o'clock at night you may see them drudging through tbe streets in faded dress's, shivering and tired, seeking their homes in the garrets and cellars of the great city. Now you propose to take from thousands of these employes throughout this country, not only all opportunity of moral culture, but all opportunity of physical rest. Let the crushing juggernaut stop one day in seven! I oppose this invasion ot the Christian Sab bath because it is a war on the spiritual welfare of the people. You have a soul? Yes Which of the saloons or theaters on the Sabbath dry will give that soul any culture? If you gentlemen of the restaurant or the opera have six days in the week in which to exercise your evangelical and heavenly influence, ought yon not to allow Christian institutions to have twenty-four hours? Is it unreasonable to demand that if you have six days for the body and the intellect, we have one dsv at least for our immortal soul? Or, to put it in another shape, do you not really think that our IMPERISHABLE FOUL is worth at lesst one-seventh a much as our perishable body? You most kot forget that ninety-nine one hundredths cf all the Christian effort of this country ar put ionh on tbe Lord's day. That isthedvrin which the asylums, and tbe hosoita s, and the prisons are visited by Christiau men. Tbat is the day when the youth of our country get their chief religious informatico. Tbat is the day when the most of the charities are collected. That is the day when, under the b'astof 50,000 American pulpits, the sin of the land is assaulted aud men are sum moned to repent. When you make war noon nov part of God s day you make war upon the asylums, and the peniteniianes, ; and the hospitals, aoi the reform associa tions, and the homes or the destitute, and the Church of the living God, which is the pillar and the ground of truth. I am opposed to the invasion oi tne banbath, because it is a war upon our poll teal nstitutions. When the Sabtath goes d3wn tbe lie public goes down. Men who are not willing to obey God's law in re?ai4 to Stb bath observances, are not nt to g ivern inem selves. Ssbbath breaking means dissoluteness, and dissoluteness is incompatible wi'li self-government What is the matter with republicanism in Italy ana opainr io öadbath. France never will have a permanent republic until she quits her roystring Sab baths. Let the bad work go on and you nave he commune and you have tbe revolu tion and you have the sun or national prosperity going down in darkness and in looa. r rom taai reiga ui lonut iuajr iuo God at Lexington and Gettysburg deliver us. Still farther: I am opposod to this invasion of the Sabbath because it is unfair, it is par tial. Why has it been during the past lew weeks that some of tbe theaters have been allowed to be open and others have not? Why not have ail opanT Uo lurther aud see how unfair it is. While operas ana the tun in different cities are allowed to be ooen on the Sabbath day, dry goods estab lishments must be closed, and plambers establishments, and the butchers, and the bakers and the shoemakers, aud the hard ware stores. Tell d e by what law of justice you compel me to shut the door of my store while you keep open tne aoor ox your tnea ter? May it please your honors. Judges of the SuDreme Court, when you give to tbe jpcra and toe theater the right to ne open on the Sabbath day, you ought to give at the same time the right to an commercia, establishments to be open. What is ugh In the one ca;e Is right in all the cases. But coma now and be hoatst, you(men who manage THEATERS AND OPERAS, and confess that you do not care anything at all about the moral welfare of the people,

but you only want more dollars. Indeed.

the leader of one ol the operas esys in the public prints that unless he can have the theater open on the Lord's day he can not a Hold to keep It running. We are told by the operatic and theatrical leaders that they must get monev on Sabbath nights in order to pay the deficits of the other nights of tbe week. Now. in answer to that I say, that if men can not manage our theaters withou brraklng tbe Lord's day, they bad better all go into bankruptcy together. We will never surrender the Christian Sabbath for the pur pose of helping thoee violators pay expenses. While there may be a difference of opinion amorg some people about tbe propriety of kaving theatricals during the week I think all lovers of goood order must unite in one solid, unanimous retistance to this infernal atte'üpt to massacre the Christian Sabbath. 1 congratulate our city that, so far we have almost entirely escaped the invasion, and my conhaence is in our Mayor and our Judges and oar polic officers that tbe laws of the State of New York will be executed. Above all, my onfidence is in the good baud of God that has been over this city since its foundation. But I call this day a pin all those who be trend Christian prin riples, and those who love our political free dam, to s'and in solid phalanx iu this Ther mopylaeof American history; fori believe. as certainly as 1 stand here, tbat tbe tri umph or overthrow of American institutions depends upon tie Sabbath contest. Bring your voices, your pens, your printing presses and yoar pulpits into the Lord s artillery corps for the derense ot our holy day. De cree before n'gti neaven mat this war on your religious rights, and the cradles of your children shall bring Ignominious defeat to the enemies of God and tbe public weal. For those who die in the contest battling for the right we shall chisel the epitaph: "These are they who came out of great trib nlation arid bad their robes washed and made white in tbe bbod of the Lamb." Bat for that one who shall prove in this moral crisis recreant to God and the Church there (ball be no honorable epitaph. He sball not be worthy even of a burial-place in all this free land; but perhaps some steam tug at midnight may csrry out tbe poor remains r,nd drop them in the sea, where the law less! winds, wbichkeep no Sanday, will gal lop over the grave of him who lived and died a traitor to God, the Chnrch and the free institutions of America. Long live Chribtlan Sabbath! Perish forever all tempts to overthrow it! the at What Ue Matd. The old thin snored on bis corn hask bed, And dreamed of rails and fodder and grain. But his daughter watched by her wlaiow-sill for tbe gsy young man to come pp tbe laut. Ob. love is mighty and bolts are :mk To retrain h fellow tbat believes In cheek. "Hither, rov dove," In oft toaec csnje From under her wlndew. Oat in the night She slid on a clothes-Hue all prepared. And la lens thai a minute was out of sltbt, While the rowdy old owl s&ot out "too-too!" As iney both skedaddled to Kalamazoo. The ma was up and tbe old man wole -He missed his daughter arid saw tne racket, A he pt d a note la her acaut room (Stuck in tne crack of a walnut bracket, lie read it !owly and quietly said: "Doggou good thing that I went to bed." Lirrxis FOLKS Alice (who has been taught that God sees everything) I don't sink even Pod's ere could see ze butter on dat bwead. Life. "Are jou a little French girl?" they asked of a dark-eyed miss who was tripping across the steamer's deck. "No," said she; i'ui a Methodist." "Pa. are we going to have any glrlvanlzed iron on our new honse?" "Any what?" "Any pirlyunized iron?" "Galvanized, yon mean, don't you?" "Yes pa; bat our teacher says we mustn't say gal; it's girL" 'If yon could get whatever you wished, what would you wish for?" was asked on Christmas day of a little girl who had just finijhed her plum pudding. She eye4 tbe remuantsof the feast reflectively for a mo ment and then replied decisively: "I'd lust wish that I could be very hungry again. A mother took her little three-year-old ron to an afternoon concert, and when the first encore was given he was frightened, and ektd his mother why they did so. She said pUyfully: "Perhaps they are glad she is oor'e singing," and thought no more about it He seemed to be satisfied, and sat the rest of the time reasonably well. Tbe next niornttig. after his father had asked tbe blas s'ng, the little boy clapped his hands in a very vigorous ma on er, and when askad wby he did so said: "I'm dad he's done; I want some fis'." Johnnie Idea. ' Ma," asked young Johnnie Jarphly, "if you were Ll Mahdi, would yon go around dressed in a shirt and sword?" "I would undoubtedly have to conform to the custom ot the country," with some be;! tancv replied Mrs. Jarphly. "Well, tell me, ma, would you wear the sword in front or behind?" "Do not ask such ridiculous questions, Johnnie." That ain't ridiculous, ma. Would you wear the sword nnder tbe shirt or the shirt ander the sword?" "Stor talking. Johnnie, and scour those knives!" "Bat I want. to know, ma. Us fellows are eolng to have a masquerade ball, and I want o represent :i Alandi," Johnnie and tbe Egyptian Question Chicago He raid. 1 "Pa, what is England sending more troops to Egypt for" Äi "To rescue woiseley, my son." "What is Welseley there for?" "To rescue Gordon." "What for was Gordon sent there?" "Torestore peace." 'Who was fighting?" "Well, nobody was. The Mahdi had an army raised, though. "Pa, do the British own that country?" "No, ray son." "Then they are campaigning in the wrong ward, ain't they 7" "It looks that way. Johnnie, .now rnn along and carry in that coal for your mother. You're too inquisitive." This and That The little ones continue to do and say smart things. A three-year-old boy, sst Ender, objected to being left with the eer vant while his father and mother went to the theater. The last time they went they bsd practical demonstration of this fact. ftsr the evening meal, the lady was max tne her toilet for the theater, when the boy pulled at her dress and said: "Mamma, let rwftj t SAAS- M m m m ft . ape go; you stay." ids mue reiiow saw that this was of no avail and went away, and nothing more on the subject was immedi ately heard from him. As papa pulled on his overcoat ana tout out his gieves. he mitsed bis coupon tickets. He hunte4 htgh and low for them, but could not find them, In the midit of the fierce hunt and many ex cla mat iocs, the hopeful toddled up and held out one ticket to his father saying: "You can go: mamma can stay with us." The other ticket was soon found, where he had hidden it. That boy's Identity will not be lost In the life tusle.

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

An Account of the Birthday Reception (iiven to Octogenarian David Dudley Field. An Astonishing Array of the Famous Men tt the CJonntry Vmj their Kespecta to the Old Lawyer. Pioneer Press New York Letter. The event of the week has been tbe recep tion given to Dav.d Dudley Field, In honor er his eightieth birthday, by bis brother, Cyrus W. Field, at the letter's residence on Oramercy Park. The odd thing about it is that no dtscription of the affair basyot been published in any paper. The local dailies, being crowded with thrilling details of the usual Friday hangings and the various rounds of slugging matches that had eluded the police, were compelled to content them selves witn a snort paragraphic announce i t.a . ment of the Field reunicn and a fragmentary list of guests. Gramercy Park is a nest of Presidential poeslbllilits. It occupies less than a square of land, but around it are the residences of the Fields, Peter Cooper, Edward Cooper, Samuel J Tilden, General McClellan, Horace Forter, F. B. Thurber.Clarkson Potter and Courtlandt i'almer. Totter and Peter Cooper have been withdrawn from the rivalry by death, and Tilden by age. General McClellan has left this nest of celeb rities, but Joseph Pulitzer has moved into the house, so it may be said to hold its own in the line. The assembly at the reception was far the most distlnguirhed I have ever seen. Everybody seemed to feel that the chance of meeting four such rnu it kable brothers, each conspicuous in a aeerete way, was like being invited by Cornelia Sempronins to a dinner of the Gracchi. Mr. Cry us Field's spacious house, at the toot of Lexington avenue, and the mansion ad joining, stood like two over-grown elephants a flatting the promised repast, and (ach of them stuck a long proboscis of saU cloth out upon the sidewalk. Into thece the guests silked, from 9 o'clock ta 12, and out of them, to a veld congestion, they were from time to 1 me ejected a thousand or two In all. I got there early. The proboscis was empty ana expectant. jn the cloak room half a dozen bats ana overcoats were already piled under chairs, where they coa'd (perhaps) be found again. While 1 was stowing away my goloshes" in my overcoat pocket, Roger A. I'm r cs me in and went through similar motious. General Pryor's bair still sweeps his shou.ders, and it is about as black as when, nearly thirty years ago, be was regarded as tne typical fire-eater of Congress. We ex changed Opinions about its being possibly too early, concluded it wasn't, and went down stairs. Just Inside the door of the great parlors stood the hero of the Atlantic cable, receiving ruesta as they came, and passing them to bis brother, David Dudley, who stood at his left. At the other end of the inner room, aeventy-five feet away, was eery4 the collation .a pqnch bowl of lem onade au naturel, two porcelain tanks of champagne, which, during the evening, were rapidly emptied aud filled, and a table spread with substantial and dainties, served by yfgilat attendants. The guests began rapidly to arrive; and it was curious to observe ttat, though they were very numerous, almost everybody was samebody. Of leading law yers, Chauncey Depew and Clark Bell were among the earliest. The latter is president of the Saturday Night club an affable man, eyes of Irish gray, melodious voice, and a broad lace iramed in f.ccadiiy whiskers He told me once that in youth he was made strong by being apprenticed to a blacksmith. and that he graduated frjin the anvil to the bar. Then came in three or four of the great unknown! then August Belmont lame fiom a duel he feucht fifty years ago. Short in stature, with a typical Jewish face, nea giantee que, and soowl ready to discbarge itself. He is one of the most bitter, cynical quarrel some, arrogant, uod best hated men in the city. What on earth did he come for? SOME OF TUS CLERICAL. De Witt Tal mage is talking with Bishop Potter, when Henry Ward Beeaher appears In the doorway : then the Tabernaclo man pulls his laughing face down Into tpbriety. f they happen to encouuter each other durng the evening they will probably how and say "H'are ye I" bat they are not friends.and heir congregations are in a state ot armed neutrality. Kaoh chnrch regards the other as the support and refuse of au ungodly sensationalist an ad captandum trespasser on holy ground. Presently I met another of he Field brothers, Ilev. Dr. Henry M.,whom . saw at his pleasent country home at Stockbridge one recent summer. He comes down he room, glowing with tbe enjoyment of the occasion, drags me to a lounge and presents me to tbe rest of tbe fraternal quartet, Judge Stepben Eleld, of the United States Supreme court. A good deal younger than his taller brother, David Dudley, he looks about his age. perhaps because of his full grey beard. Roecoe Conkling comes along and salutes the judge. He looks even tiller and atraighter than ever, and ta he bows be seems a yeritabla Ieenan. Iiis hair has turned grey, and tbe famous byacinthine curl above his forehead has entirely vanished. His voice is rich; his words are measured and deliberate, carrying the weight of a special personal authority. But he evi dently does not feel good, and does not glow with love lor tbe hurxanrace; for when a journalist from Boston is presented and says. rather enmiteiy, "Senator: I bave known and admired you so as a public man thutl have very much wished to meet you, the great Koecoe answers, supeicllliously : Ah! there was a time when that confes sion would have deeply movpdme; but now am impassive, and have scarcely any longer, as the Declaration cf Independence says, 'a decent regard for the opinions of mankind.'" It Is spoken as if it were part of an oration slowiy, Impresalvely. with orotund inton ing, and the enthasiastic Boston man giggles as if be were quite self-composed, and sneaks away crushed. The parlors srs cow crowded. Well-known heads Kocued everywhere, many of them familiar from their carica tures. There is an awful jam In the vicinity of the scalloped oysters and salads, the pates aod the creams, and the champagne tanks are the centers of solidity. At the end of the first hour. Monsignor C.nel makes bis appearance, covered with some sort of an ffi-Hal j'gter o! gold and red the robe of tha roi. i household, I suppose. He is au i uncommonly handsome man, Ul as a grenadier and graceful, with blue eyes, red cheeks and symmetrical mouth. He takos his stand, back to the wall, in rear oi the chief guests, and there holds a levee on his own hook. A score of people are taken up and introduced; he smiles on them blandly, fives them pleasant words and lets them so. fiends he slaps on the back familiarly, and

one or two he embraces, after the manner of Central Europe, in spite of the scarlet collar tbat spans his shou'ders ititlly. A OUMPSI or CAPkU Russell Sage is Introduced, probably saying to himself, "Let me see wbat this man is like who so fascinates the women," and Capel eefzes him by the hand as if he were a long lost brother, probably saying to himself, "This is the clear-headed boy who nas scraped together fifty nrlllons and has ten millions in the bank this minute!" They exchange some commonplaces about the occasion, when Mr. Sage, whose hand the prelate holds, saysT "Well, I will take my leave and give some-j

ooay eise a chance to speak with you." "Xo.no! My time is yours. Don'tgo. Ihave long waited to meet you, and I wish to talk with you more." And the monslgnar ho'da "Old Puis and Calls," as Potiphar's wife held Joseph. Ten minutes later a distinguished bevv rathers around, and Mr. Sage manages to escape. The newcomers are Tal mage. Heber. Newton, Governor Rill. Henrv Ward Beecher and Robert Coll ? er, who happen to close about at tie same time. ueecner, "come over any Sunday, and preach to my folks. Cime tn vour canon! cais auu preacn a gooi aocrrinai sermon. i x l .... . snowing mem wny they ehould all be Ro lfs a . . . . S man uatholics." "You don't mean tbat!" said the monsle nor, laughing and turning a b -ighter pink. "Don't I?" answered tie Plymouth church man: "l do, though, mean everv word. Uome and preach a straight Catholic ser mon. And I challenge you to reclpiate with a similar invitation!" The speech was greeted with a loud laueh at the eipeHse of the robed ofiiclal, who presently protested. lint you know I haven't any chnrch. even if I wanted my people to hear you." "Uh, I wouldn't be so hard on vou and them as that," explained the eminent nil grim, "but my invitation holds good I shouldn't think much of raj self if I thought couldn't onset one Uumisy's talk during ne otner nitv one cmndays. Uome overl I'll give vou a splendid audience ef intelligent heretics, and i don't believe you cau do beterr Then they drifted apart Henry C. Brown. the publisher of the Independent, the unforunate man who was expelled from Plym outh church for telling the truth, holds a sort of levee across the room, and seems to know everybody. "Galad to see you and Urother Beecher here!" laughed Dr. Cuvler. as they shook hands. "Oh. yes! We con cluded we'd come," retorted Brown. Governor Abbett of New Jersey and Gov ernor Hoy t of Pennsylvania are chatting on a lounge. Near them stand ex-Secretary Windom and ex-Postmaster General Thomas j. James in earnest confab -about how to get back, I suppose. The President of the Senate and' the Speaker of the House are both here. 80 are Mayor Grace and three former mayors of this city. Iloswell Smith, of the Century, moves about, a striking figure. There are a dcen college professors, and every judge in the city is present during the evening. Henry Bergh, equine laureate, leans against a pillar near a bank of roses, his long, serious face relaxing with a smile as he looks cn the multitude and lis tens to ' the racket. Judge Brewer, of the United Rtates Circuit Court ot Kansas, has come all the way to hoLor the compiler of the common law to-night; James Parton has come from Newbury port, and Edward Everett Hale from Boston; and Professor Bui mer, of the law school of Hallfax, N. a, has traveled all this distance to pay his respects to one who, he says, "has done more for the referm of the law than any man since Jeremy Bentham." A SCARCITY 0F TOCRXAUSTS. None of tbe conspicuous editors of the city are present except Parke Godwin neither George W. Curtis, Polltser. Read nor Dana; but ualstead is here from Cincinnati; Ellis Roberts, from ütica; Bleicher, of the Albany Evening Journal; the Paresen tera, of the froy Pres and couple from Massachusetts. General X. P Banks is here, looking materially older than during war times white, bristly bair; white, bristly moustache, and white, bristly eyebrows. He stands straight , hia hand is still steady and his eye still clear, and he assures me that bis general health was "never better." While we are talking, Russell Sage squceses gently through the crowd, bland and uuweailed, and looking like a well-to do farmer, rather than likj the Ajax of Wall street. They shout a aalut and seize each other's hands, This is the man," said General Banks to me, "who made me speaks? during thoee hot weeks in 1S.5 that ii, he did (or me more than anybody e,se. Every evening during the five r;eeks of that contest we were together I pave him carte blanche, ana the result justified. He's got a head on him. If he hadn't got this put and-call craxe on him, he would have made a great politician." They both laughed, and Mr. Sage modestly stammered his thanks. "I was a young fellow then," he explained, aud that's what made me act so, I suppose. I was thirty-two the youngest man in that Congress, I think; but I look back at tbat fight with a good deal of pleasure." Daring this notable evening I fj.ll in with another notable group, talking together, and with the ladies of the Fiald family in the parlors of the other house three gallant Arctic explore js; Lieutenant Melville, who we,s in the ill-fated Jeannette; Lieutenant Berry, who commanded a rescue expedition in the Rogeis, tbat was burnt in the "pale and crystlc sea;" &ad Lieutenant richwatka, whose expedition experienced the greatest cold evar recorded, and who aet the Ameri can flag on tbe magnetic pole of the earth. They are all men below middle life; Schwatka, especially, eeema capable of great endurance. He tells methat people who be lieve in him bave subscribed f 10.000 for his exploration ot Alaska. Thomas A. Edion! is present, too; he has g lined thirty or forty pounds in the last four or fire years, and is no longer the cadaverous slave of the lamp that haunted the bucolic groves of Menlo Park. Colonel Long, for some years Gordon's chief of staff in Egypt, chats with the ladies, and express the opinion that if Gordon has been tilled it is because of his own ob stinacy and fanaticism, aud of his constant de Lance of orders from home. A BE L1C. Another man is here to night who is worth meeting an old man, eighty-odd, somewhat bowed, his hair iron-gray, his face bearing the tinge of sunny lands, his eye black but mild and beaming, his head square and solid. Yes, I remember him now, though I have not seen him in twenty jears Hannibal Hamlin ! Never a great man, but always faithful, tound-headed e,nj honest. I recall mjtelf to him by reminding how, when he was Vice Preaidest, he went and mildly bullied Profeascr Henry and induced aim to let us Lave the tacred hall of Us Smithson ian for our sacrilegious canrs of anti-slavery lectures in 1861. He remembered it. "Rut' be said, "timid in politics, Joseph Henry was bold in acisc.ee, and a really great man.1' Mr. Hamlin, Is troubled with rheumatism a little, like most oU men, but on the whole says his health is suxpriai&g'.y good. Amos ti Eoo is here to,-nigbt-f ether of the Quebec (agittve and billiard player: and John Bige low and Krastua Brooks and a hundred other men whose names would be recDgnired by a'mott every reader of this letter. Jay Gould is a center of attraction wherever he moves, ana surrounaea oy a crow a ox sycoj phants whowant shaJe.hicby tbe hajad

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and talk to him. He seems always holding an impromptu levee. Among the men who talk with him is Fred Vanderbllt or rather among the men who talk to him for Jay Gould only listens. If I were Fred I would keep away from Gould. The old Commodore left his grandson Fred two million dol lars. and Fred, through all tbe vicissitudes of stock jobbing has kept iL William U., Cornelius and William K. lost in tbe aggregate some sixty or seventy millions this last year,' but Fred held his own and added to it. Somebody asked him, it is said, how he kept from loes when he owned so much Lake Shore. "Well," said the filial financier, "we talked it up at home, and concluded that it was a good stock to bug: then I unloded the old man!" Bat it Fred gives Gould his con die nee, Gould will get away with him, as he got away with William IL and the other "boys" last summer, and thus partly retrived his losses by increasing theirs. 1 stand and look at Mr. Gould, yie.'ding to the general fascination. It is a most interesting face for an artist to study. He speaks oniy in monosylables. He casts furtive looks about him, then retires behind his black beard with a suspicious shudder, like a hermit crab trying to back into a shell that doesn't fit him. You look into his eyes, and he isn't there at ail; he is in ambush, fifty miles beyond But it is time to go. William M. Evarts has just come in, deserting his own reception atthe Union League Club, where people will be dropping iu for au hour yet (it is only 12), and wondering where is the new senator they came to honor." 1 could not stay away," eald Mr. Evarts to Mr. Field. "I can sleep better now that I have clapped your hand. Then I know father would wish to have me here. The "father" alluded to was Jeremiah Evarts. He li red in Madison. Conn, near the Field homestead, and in 171K3. he entered Ya'e college with David Dudley Field, father of David Dudley, who is now the guest of this evening. They roomed together throughout the college coarse, and always kept up the warmest affection. "We occasionally visit Madieon yet," said Rev. Dr. Field to me during the evening. "Four years ego, May 20, 18S1, we four Dadley, Stephen, Cyrus and I went up there and visited the old house where 100 years before, during the Revolutionary war, father was born. His father was Captain Timothy Fidld, of the Revolution. Then we went to the parish grave yard and saw three headstones, side by side. of three immediate ancestors, aud. near by the ancestors cf Mr. Evarts." At 12.30 David Dudley Field stood, as he had stood for hours, as straight and tall as a wild Indian, A profane person might have thought "what a fine pel iceman was forever lost to the world when he became a law--yer!" He has had three wives, all of whom arediai. Tne first was a cousin of the fa mous Mark Hopkins. He attributes his firm. heuth to temperance, regularity of habits, and exereiße in the open air. Daily he walks eveH or eight miles from Thlrty-eigth street to his oince aad ba:k. Mr. Field la now a Demcciat, but he was originally a Free Soller, heloed organize the Ke publican party, and Thurlow Weed taid: "Field aad Greeley bave nominated Lincoln." Other members of tbe rield family have won prominence beside these four brothers. An other brother, Timothy, not now liring, wuV an cmcer in the United States navy, and helped put down piiacy in the Greek archipelago; and a nephew, Stephen D. Field, la m eminent electrical engineer, his latente covering the motor to be used to propel the trains on the elevated and other railroads. David Dudley's only surviving child. Jeannie, was married fifteen years ago to 8ir Anthony Musgrave, an English publicist, aad there is no finer 6ght than to see the grand children hameta him up with twine and drive him around the summer lawn al Stockbridge. . W. A. CaorruT. lie Took Gladstone ror a Farmer, I Leisure Heara.1 About forty years ago several hauler were employed in carrying pig iron from Brymbo to Queen's Ferry. Among the number waa William Griffiths, who one day was accosted, by a stranger, wba chatted freely with him. Among other question!, the stranger asked how much he gat per ton for carrying the iron. "Six and sixpence," said the carter. "How are you goiag to get up the hill?" asked the stranger. "Oh, I man get me shuder and push up here." "I'll help you a bit," said he, and at once put his shoulder to the cart, and pushed up the hill. When they reached the top the hauler said: "You an me's been as good as a chain horse." "Well, well," said the stanger, "don's know how the horses' legs are, but mine ache very much, indeed. I suppose you can manage now?'' "Yes, thank you," said the hauler, and, wishing him good day, they separated. As soon ai the stranger was gone a tradesman asked Griffiths if he knew who had been helping him. "No," said he. "That was Mr. Gladstone." "Mr. Gladstone." responded the hauler, "I dun know what he'll thine o' me, theo, for I never sir'ed him, nor nothin'. f thought he was some farmer." One of Ueechera Stories. IFrom the Citizen. When I was pastor at Indianapolis, a celebrated preacher came there.a Geneva divine, who naturally spoke English with variations. It was in the year 1837, when the country was covered with ruin and the homes and property of half the citizens of Indianapolis were in the sherilTs hands. One Sanday he took my pulpit ana wound no a thrilllnz discourse with the tender peroration: "If you win Dear witn resignation ana fortitude the misfortunes which have fallen on yon for a briet time here Deiow, the time will come when you will be borne up aloft to a heav enly land by the cherubim and sheriff im" (sic, for seraphim). "Oh. dear," groaned a yoice, "are we to find sheriffs there, too?" The Vexed Juestton Settled. Max' Mcslngs.) Two drummer were diaputir.tr verr hotlr one night in a smoking-car. One insisted that either and neither were correct, while the other stoutly maintained that only dades and Anglomamacs would so pronounce the words, and that either and neither were the proper pronunciations. Finally they agreed to leave it to the man in the next seat. Thty woke him up and stated the case. "Now, then, which is right,' asked one ef the drummers, "neither or neither?" "Naytber," responded the Irishman, and settled back to sleep, while the rest of the car accepted an invitation to take BomeUiinz out of the drummers' Masks. Shed llurn, Anyhow. The real true-blue orthodoxy seems to get hold of some of the little folks with a fascinating sort of grip. Heaven and the "other place" are related to them. Said Johnnie the other day, as he picked up his sister doll and looked at It earnestly: "I'll kill you, and then you'll go to " Vohnnle, Johnnie!" said his mother, "That's very wicked. You shouldn't eend the doll to the bad place.' 'She'a ehnrk fnll o' mtinn and born, anyhow. '

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