Richmond Palladium (Weekly), Volume 44, Number 25, 2 September 1874 — Page 1

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From the New York Observer.1 THE SERPENT IN THE CUP. BY MBS. L UCY E. SANFORD. Aeenca from a Real Ilfe. TA gentleman, in a position of hon-

.ftM rt' r n M. ma flKrillt i to be etated. He consents , to their publication in tne earnest nope oi tncir usoluiues.H.J I. The first snow of winter lay new on the earth, and gave back the tmnliirht dazzlingly, and a group of boys filled the crUp air with the lifht balls and their merry shouts, J? In tlie midst of their glee, and as if in contrast to their fresh young lives, the white earth and pure air, an old man, in battered hat and ragged clothes (just routed from the steps on which he had slept), came zifz&crimr down the street. The boys turned their balls upon him. and leer ed at his impotent threats and maud-1 KDACmoilier saw it all. called her tft hef aad told him that that old man. so poor, so low, was yet a human being, a thing to pity, not pelt; to raise up. not knock down. "Fred, at your age he was his parent's pride, and no more dreamed that he would ever be so fallen, than you dream that Son will One i day . be.? "I was trad hat Tny mother should imply even a remote possibility that i could ever be like that old drunkard I so loathed and despired, he said to me. H. fk-ron- (Via Annr ripll r r - r iitll, nn tA the, riilinir. VteA rr pr pr pretty vice to gi give a fel fei low" hie "when the rail 1 ling ew ings at this rate." But his boon companions have gone, and his mother, aged, but not with years, stands before him. 4,G good eve ning, m mother hie. Havn't drank a dr drop toniffht. 1 1 told you I w wouldn't." tine look ot bitter sorrow, and the widowed mother' 'plncfcl her " steady 1 arm around her unsteady son. One clutch at the balustrade. ".What aails this h house? Ha Wving atf -carti--iua-n JJut a loot in his mothers stein, sad face, sobered him a little. "Ha have n't dr--drank a d drop to-ni niht hie pon honor I-I havn't." .Seating him in an arm chair, his mother bade him "sit there and not try tolrise," and he went up where fvaUe, a lqveTy girl of seven tee nry RaSg.3f Weketbrt her a mnietV Could she disturb her? Could she roll a portion of the great sorrow, that was eating out her very life, on that young and happy heart? She turned away. Should her son, her only son, biSfe h corj3f he servant the talk of the kitchen, the gossip of the stranjupi? , Co4ild Jvatie be ket in ignorance mq5b 4oiiger? - Ohf if sha but might be! but could she? She turned iiack fhe tamed away again, he, the clear-headed woman, was bewildered by her creat sorrow: she, the firm of purpose, wavering, as her love for one balanced her love for the other. But if her boy were disgraced, if he lost all his self-respect, Katie must know;.. better that lte should when perchance her sorrow would appeal to all that was noils' and good in her brother. She turned firmly now; but her voice trembled as she said. "Katie!'' "Why! mother; areyousickr "No!., but your rotbei -r-" She cooid Tint- speak" that woTQv'"Come down and help me get him up stairs." "Is Freddie sick?" v , The mother led on, but at the top of the stairs she stopped "Katie, your brotheHias fallen into bad company to-night," and she passed to where ho etill Bat, his head swayinr from tide to side. hHWt-mother?" -"Arerorii hurt h reddie 4yixt , j - lie leered into her tace with bis red eyes and with ! ,"Hic, Katie, e got t ready for a par party! I'll g go in a--a ttiinmin ute. 'Ha-pvn't d dra " J drop to-nighU,'.VPon hon htf6ic I i ha havn't.'? '. This from heT darline: her only brother, her pride, her ilol. was too much. 1 he light ot her lite was darkne.and shq threw out her hand as if i to clutch- happiness tsjefbre it should vanish' for everthen, as hope died, the fell ns one dead.- - 4 He tried to riser and offer. maudlin ! sympathy; but the mother, sternly bade him sit still, and then, with ; cologne and kisses and tears, bfought her back; but not to be the joyous, lisrht-hearted girlhood of an hour be- , fore, but to , sorrowing, suffering womanhood, y..ii ' "Thank God there is a world where ty.' he 8aiatd-W.,i -rf ' It was useless to try to get him up stairs, and so they just helped him to I the far lor sola, and there those two women, one now as never before, sat down to wait and weep. Is this the hrst time, mother? ! Yes! the first time he has ever been helpless, but not the first time he has f taken too much 'And to spare me, you have sent me to oea wnen ne nas Deen out alone.' ' - "Yes. dear, and I ara sorry I woke vou to-niiht. I thought we could get him to his room, , , J , "Mother, you ought ' not to hav. borne it alone so long. I have often wondered what made you grow old so fast, but thouaht it was mourning for our dear lather. : Ub! it he were only here?" "How maay times have I said that to myself. , Fred needs a father's hand." "How long hat ha been falling into this habit?" "While in college, and this led vour lather to bring- him home at the end of the third year. - "I am glad you told me that. It seemed so strange' that father . could so change all his plans for Fred, and dash all my hopes ot seeing him a diaas . I -J ! l "It was a great trial to your father hut he hoped that an entire change of scene and associates might save him, but be has found as bad at home as he left at college, tiave you never seen that he drankr "Yes. I have.' ;But not more than others... I thought a gentleman .might drink some, and never for a moment I dreamed .that he would even take

enough to injure himself ia the -least. "Poor Mary." "YeB; poor Mary!" in. And the while Mary slept, or waked to gently soothe her fragile restless sister, and her sleeping dreams and waking thoughts, full of hope and love and happiness, clustered around Fred as a centre, and not one doubt or fear

threw its dark loresbadow on tne bright picture. And at breaktast the kind parents felt sad and anxious for the sweet, Sale young girl, so soon to lie in her aviour's arms and hear the songs of praise-and, lyres around the throue; but felt no eare or fear for that merry. healthy girl, so 60on to lie in a drunk ard's arms and hear a drunkard s oaths. But not long waR that father to bo at ease. Soon after he went to hia office, his brother (whoee-'Soirwas-one who helped Fred home) came to him m4 toll him of the last flight's carouseThat lather kaci that Fred was called "fast'', in college; but he knew, too1", that he was a'ydunglhan of wealth, education and good family, and "young folks will be young," and "wild oats" must be sown; and so he gave him his daughter, and then, like many another good father, gave the best of his time and; thoughts to his office duties.; j j. ix But now he went direct to see Fred, and see for himself how true or false the story. - And that calm man wept with that stricken woman over the hope, the idol, the disgrace of three loving hearU, And then he turned sadly .to his own hotnefhe heard-hi child 'playing and singing; he met her bright, happy smile how could ho dash her hopes, darken her life? He ank down into the great chair always waiting for him; but there was no ease to him in the soft cushions, for the strong man was weary, bearing for an hour the great weight of grief which that young girl must bear for a life! n ildry saw the ait and look, and ran to him, and with quick, loving tone, What has happened?'' lie took her in his lap, and stroking her blonde bairi said very geatlyf : "IlotV much do you love Fred? "Withall.my heart.", Then, startled by- that sad Tace, ishe asdeed ftickly: "What has happened to him?" "Nothing that you fear, my child. Did vou know that he drinks?'' "Yes! but all the young men of our set do more or IcpS IIcdes"ot drink any mbrif he tfdesjas much, as thOtoCdAJtenmen: have wino and drink sometimes. There is not the least danger of his ever drinking enough to hurt him." "Yes, Mary, there is danger of his drinking to excess, to drunkenness not an elcgaut,Tbut the true word." w'Why,v fatfcetr - Fred " never, never did or. will. Do pot listen to any such atories." Its beneath yy lo let people gossip to you about him." . "I thave Je jayself feel that way too longJ.v-Ttis no idle gossip now: I saw him myself, Mary, this morning. I saw that young, strong lcantheifdave of an appetite; that brilliant, wide awake one, nxi dull, urunKen sleep; that dainty in perfumes befouling the very air with his breath!" "Father, how can 3"ou tell such horrible Stuff P'- ; U !; K ' A "Because1 it is horribltv disgusting, even in kind words from untainted lips. What must it be then in very truth? You can 'rust your father's eyes, and may ; your own never look upon it!" . "There is some mistake, some accident about it, I know there is. He has -Licn Jed astray; unintentionally. It is the first time, and I know it will hi the last." V "I wish it might be, but I have no hope that it will. He has been talked to again and again by his mother, and yet he goes steadily downward." "And every one now.will.try.io give hTm a nush': I. for one will hijL As a friend of M dead tainct andW widowed mother, I (should think Vou WUU1U IU laawv ui wia aajLau back."-- m "Your life, your hapmncitl-rlire2l j-et to be, are too. dear a price tapajr for a fouI that loves itsell, yotfund heaven, less than the wine cup: she burst into. teaVUh, lather. tear"Uh, lath! rou do "not kugiW- J. "touch l?red oves Tuc, and" I BhoiiTd.. ufrorthy oi his love if I could ffrr3tlf him at his first offense "without so much as asking for or listening to one word of explanation That scene this morning, that mofiber's long pent-up sorrow and overwhelming grief explains itself." His mother has been low-spirited ever since his father's death, and everything looks dark to her. For her sake as well as his I ought to refuse to give him up. ' ' " The fat hex kissed her again and er.V ? i "", "cu s lie paidI know you leel you caiiuUlg-? - him up; but, my dear, child, look about you, ee the miseries of some drunkard's families! Not one of those suffering women but Joved as you. love, and ' trunted Vaa you trust, and : their love and happiness have heen drowaed in the dark gulf on whose 6hore you stand." "Father, hoif .can you talk so.", ;t "BecausaI "can not see you with shut eyes walk out into the black waters which will swallow you up. A small party went from here to,: my wedding. Williams, handsome and a good singer and lull of fun, was the life of the party, and his bride w?s pretty and very happy. He drank some, but we thought nothing of it. You know that last week your mother heard Mrs. Williams was very sick and went to see her, and found her unable to raise herself in bed, and her only attendants, her husbind and her son, dead drunk on the floor of her room. Can you, dare you, look on iuch a possible future." ' "No, father, of course I cannot; but there is not the slightest resemblance between Fred and old Williams and his low, rowdy son. If you were not my father I would not listen to such a comparison.'' 1 ,M1 am your father, and I tell you truly and in lovo that Fred is in no way auperioi to Williams, Sr., at his age. Have pity on your future self, and break off this engagement now; do not com pell me to break itj without your consent." " .1. "Father you will not, must not. Only think, this U hia first offense.",; "No man turns a grand somersault I 'Accurately. true, y , , , i s j : :. ,.vt

from the top to the bottom of a gladder; he comes down step by step."

Let me hear what he has to say tor himself." . "He will have enough to say; but 1 shall not believe him and you will. So I know it is best that I break this engagement for you." Jiy tears, caresses and coaxina sne won from his affection what his judgmeut disapproved. But when Fred, sobered by his long sleep and some strong coffee, dressed with fastidious care, came, the father saw his mistake; saw how impossible for Mary's loveMind eyes to see the inner man. x rea was very penitent, and Mary believed him, and he believed himself, and her father consented to one more trial, and for a time all went well. Then came another spree, and her father reasoned and commandpd; her mother weot; her uncle advised; her cousin scolded. Fred promised, and she . married him. IV. Very happy were Fred, and Mary, and Kate, as tbey started on that bridal tour, and many places of interest and beauty, new to them, were visited, but not one was found too large, not one too small for the wine cup to have a home in it. With a temple within and a temple without, where in all the world shall a man find freedom from temptation? And when Katie would throw her arms about his neck, press her lips to his cheek, and whisper a gentle remonstrance in his ear, he would say: ' This travelling and sight-seeing tires me, and I need a little stimulant, and it is alwarc at hand in these hotels, you know. a( have not forgotten any pledges or the lessons I have learned, and I shall never again drink more than a gentleman may. Not enough to affect my standing on the pavement or in society." "I am sure you never will; but you ' do drink enough to dull your brilliant intellect; to blind your delicate perceptions, and to injure your splendid constitution. In t that too much, brother Fred?" , ' Yes! it is too much, and I will stop when I get home, and do not see it and smell it in every spot I go to And, Mary, we will settle down into the soberest and most approved old married folks kind of life. And Mary laughed cheerily as the said: "What a pattern home we will make; and we'll teach our teachers how to be happy." - V. ' Thirteen years have passed. Mary's father and mother, and Fred's mother are dead. Kate is married and gone to a vestern city. His own property and his wite a property -nave been 6pent, and she is compelled to support herself and their two children. shall copy now some notes taken down from f red s own lips: "And I was a bummer." "A what?" lasted. "You 4o not know what I mean. Bummers are of three classes ? i ... i i j jno is Kept wen aressea as a aecoy: one gets up games and amuses; and one doc3 low work. I was for some time kept dressed and in liquor, to pay me for inviting my friends and acquaintances, in a word, to act as decot. Then I fell to the second class; then to the third, for drunkenness is a down grade; and then 1 was too low to use at all. When compelled to be sober I grew frantic, and as my hie had become a torture to me and I knew it had long been to my wile, L determined to commit suicide I got holl of some morphine an went lo my wile s door and took it and lay down to die, feeling that I was doing her and ray children great kind ness in thus taking myself off, and letting her know I was gone. I heard her sing a lullaby to the little one. and I could not resist the longing to kiss them all once more, and to ask her forgiveness-" before going to that world to which-1 knew she would never come. She called for help and thy brought me back to life, and for -three days she watched over and waitupon mc with Tlua i-' fnnA V woman s u naue n c li ne wept as he said it) and I swore never, never aaain to taste or smell liquor and I meant it. 1 But when I woke the fourth morning and found my wife, tired out from watching over, me, was sleeping sound ly, the craving tor liquor o maddened mc, that I got up stealthily, dressed myself, and crawled under the bed and took her only pair of boots and car ried them out, and sold them for ten centf to get my morning dram!" In the dregs of that cup lay selfloathing and despair, tne very strength it gave him strengthened his remorse, and he went back to the man and begged to be allowed to do any thing in any way for him to buy back those shoes. But he turned mm out of the store with a cause. And he felt the curse was on him, that he was too low, too mean, too base, ever again to see his wite and children. He slept on layoff? vinguard houses, under boxes, sold them for liquor, and "dnefligW. (1 copy again), I watched while another as degraded as I knocked a shoe off a horse that was tied, and we sold it for a glass of liquor, of which I was to have one half, but the last half of a drunkard's glass does not amount to much. 1 1 "Another night there , was a fire, and 1 snatched a hreman s cap off his head and ran, and putting it on, went into a saloon and called for a glass quick. It was given me at once. I didn't go. "Coma pay up." '1' m waiting."Vhat are you waiting for?' Waiting to be kicked out?' " - So it ran on about a month. Some scenes from which were so black and blasphemous that his voice trembled as he told them, and my pencil refused to copy them. Then, f Vou; some impulse he went to see his wife. (I copy. , "Why, Fred. I am glad to see you. Come and have a cup of tea. "1 sat down on the floor and cried aloud, aud asked her if, she had any shoes. - . ,. "Never mind the shoes. Come try again. .,....,. -- "It's no use for me to " try. - You ought to have let me die.. You know you wanted me to. -. "Why, Fred; 1 pray all the time that you may live and reform and I know you wU. - , ' "You pray for me! Pray on. pray on. I "She kneeled right down and prayed, and I prayed too, then I laid my rum, and my tobacco, and my profanity at my Saviour's feet and began anew in His strength, and when the next morning the old craving eame I woke Mary and begged her to pray, and she

did, and then made me a strong cup of coffee, and kept me by her to help ' her she said, and when I would start 1

to go out she would take up the couee , w auvi biuiic, auu ten uic ui uij and tell me oi mother's prayers, and her parents, and her own, and how God was so good to answer them, and she knew they were rejoicing over me now, and so with wonderlul tact she taught me self-respect and trust in God." I So rau a week. VI. Then came delirium tremens. Snakes crawled along the floor, glared from the wall, suspended themselves from the ceiling and with forked tongues crept up the bed; he called for help, and no help eame for no one saw what he saw. He covered his eyes and they coiled around him hissed in his ears; ue opened his ' eyes, ha! they were lydra-headcd now. He trembled until the bed shook. Then they took form; young and evil-eyed; old and hideous, and they grinned upon him, and he knew they were demons, and he shrieked, and they yelled in joy at his terror. Then in giant size they towered above, around, beside him, and with long whips otmany lashes flayed him. He rolled and writhed in agony. Suddenly the whole room lit up with ightnmg flashes; then a glare of light ning filled it and the demons spoke, told him they had come for him; that these lurid lights were but a lew little rays from hell, the door of which was open that he might go in, and bade him listen, they were singing hia welcome, and he heard a million voices shout, ha! hal ha! ha! . He screamed1 and causrht hold of his wife and begged her to hold him close, that they might not get him. The paroxysm ended., But he could not drive from memory the fearful aai.s .1 . M-ra scene, andlelt in tho words ot jonn ' Vine Hall, that "Hell was yawning wide to swallow , up its victim and devils anticipating their infernal joy." ; llis physician seeing that he wished to reform, but would not be . strong enough to &rappel with the temptation : sent him to an inebriate asylum, where he was wisely cared lor until it was thought he could be trusted. The first money he earned after coming out, he took to Mary. She turned the five dol lar bill over and over, and laughed as she told how many things it would buy. until he felt he might be a real joy and blessiug to his wife, and that -1 P .. 1 A mere is a mine 01 weauu m uonesi labor. And when 'she turned to him with "What shall we get with this mouey Fred?" (I copy), "I whispered hoarsely, tor I could not speak the words, 'A pair of shoes.' She looked down at her feet and said cheerily, 'My shoes are rather shabby, I declare; I will buy a pair with this, and get that calico dress with your next earnings.' And then she kissed me and ran to make me an extra nice cup of coffee, as she said. Oh! the brave; true woman I had beggared and neglected, and well I haven't told you of that scar 1 kiss every time I see her." And he walked the room 6ome minutes before he went on with his story. "I will tell you about my first temperance lecture," he commenced as he sat down. In the same buildirgwith us was a good woman whose history was not unlike my wife's though her husband did not start as high nor had he fallen so low as I. On my return from the asylum I had a long talk with him and he pledged hinxelfto reform. He kont sober and worked six days for $1.50 per day, his wile needed coal, but no one would trust him for a barrel, and my wife lent them some. Saturday at half past ; five 0 clock he was paid off, and start ed for the coal. On his way he passed a drinkine saloon. A decoy stood in the door, llow do you dor I haven t seen you for a long time. What's been the matter; "I have been at work. "Walk in.' '"No, I can't stop.' Oh! yes, come in a minute.' , "No; I am after some coal.' Uh. let me treat you to a trlass tor auld lana; syne, and then go and gut vour coal. ' 1 11 get my coal hrsr, so as to nave it sent round, and then I'll come .. ... . m .1 back.' "Nonsense; it won t detain you two minutes.'. "He went in, took his glass, and started for the door, met the owner, 'How are you, glad to we you. Shak ing hands. 'What'U you have?' "Nothinc: I have had. a class. "You have been a aodd customer. I must treat you when .1 you call.' He didn t need so much persuading this time. One glass makes a man feel good, a second makes him generous and a third makes him own all the city, so he in turn treated all his old cronies, and at midnight being noisy and penniless he was turned out into the street. "That uicht a child was born to him and after a few hours died. Too well his wifo knew what nnlv ..c.ovVi, . . : . . n v. ulna. 1 I loosed to eo and bring him back, but dared not trust myself to go among them. "In the early morning he came home and toiuid his little girl crying. "Oh father! mother and baby dead.' are "He cauzht her by the hair and shook her with. 'You lie, you hussy "A woman took hold of him and led him to his wife. The sight of that white, haegard face maddened him. He called her to come back to him; he cursed God, and then seeing the can of milk and loaf of bread my wife had taken in- for his children s break fast, he caught them up and went out and sold them for liquor. They all called him a brute, and worse than a brute, but I knew he was crazy, and my wife went lor him, and brought him to our room, and we kept him until at ter the burial, and then he went to the asylum I had been in. To-day that man is an honest, industrious temper ance Christian, and one ot the kind est ot fathers, but he never forgets that night; and with his whole soul he hates a liquor saloon. .1. a 1 W tr w . a And so ao l. let one . lighted up brilliantly at night fascinates me, and I always stop aud pray for strength to pass by and then look the other way, and walk, fast, for I" tell, you that Alcohol is a sweeter perfume to . me than Cologne can he to you." xii us 1 11 is units ci', uu cuuiu caeiiy n.-.. i:.i 1 1.1 m have crushed, seemed so innocent and harmless.that he took it to his bosom, and warmed it into life, until it coiled around his heart, and soul and spirit, ciushing out all that was noble aud

proud and true in them. And though the Saviour had unloosed the coils, the fang still "biteth like a serpent

and stmgeth like an adder. ' LETTER FROM CHICAGO. : 7 CtaealM Career a ins; ska City-"Tivall Garden" Faleva'a Billiara Baaaa, and ttae Way They Keep tae Sab bath. Correspondence of the Courier: . Chicago, August 21st, 1871. .Thackeray's "vanity" fair" would j pale its ineffectual fires besides Chi cago s grand oriental and peculiar "Tivoli Garden." It i3 a mixture of all styles of ornamentation, as it is a place lor all nationalities to gather. The Switzer may sit and drink his beverage a while he contemplates the grand mountains of his native land piled up in gorgeous lrescoes and capped by everlasting snows. , : The swarthy Italian may Took out acrots the bay oi Naples and fancy himself a comfortable lazzarone. . There . is a red sunet and a blue sea, and a gondo las so natural as to make us think ot the tinkle ot the sweet guitar across moonlit waters. There the bland ce lestial may fancy himself entirely at home, and the only mau-dar-in. The pagoda uauuts its thousand flags and crescents, and the traditional China woman with almond eyes , and club feet is parading under a very flat urn berella. Tivoli takes them all in and makes it lively while they remain Don't be horrified that a lady went there. I assure you it is quite the tasnion in t nieago, and as l was as fortunate as to have a jolly nephew-in iaw wno nas tne eniree to an tne nice 1 1. .1 places, Iiimprovcd the golden opportu nity. All around the sides of the vast room are Vases of rare plants, ferns aud vines, and lrom the ceiling and graceful hanging baskets of flowers, cages 01 sweet singing birds, and beau tiful statutete3 abound on every hand, fountains of crystal water play over basins ot white pebbles and shining gold fish, cunning little turtles crawl up on the rock work and . sprawling crawhsb play as naturally as in the creeks ot ludiana. And what do the people do in all this fairy land? Va rious things', mostly1 in drinking beer ;t the neat walnut tables you may see all sorts ot people and all varieties of lunches, the tall pale glass of Weiss beer clinks m friendly touch with the ruby lager, and the aristocratic mint junp cdds . its ute' away through a straw m company .with a whisky straight," and the dainty chocolate cream nnds ltselt in company with the notorious switzer zase. xne Diras chirp, the music-hoxes - tingle - the 1 .ml n.F V " ..J ik. It. band plays the "Muligan guards '! tho glasses rattle, the white apron waiters rush frantically around, carrying in some mysterious fashion what looks like twentr-five classes of beer at once, and the rural visitor sits in open mouthed -wonder at the wickedness and georgeousness of city life, and thinks that it is enough: to ruin any body, but he rather wants to be ruin ed. .-' From Tavoli it is only a short dis tance to the great Clark Street Bit Hard Room, where the match games are played. We go - up the broad stairs from the street, through a hall, and enter a gallery which runs around three sides ot the immense room, and where we find such inviting ' rest as makes us rather enjoy the "music of the spheres." We look down upon a large square room with oiled walnut floor and beautifully .' frescoed waifs. We count thirty tables, and under each one is a handsome ru- where the gentlemen deposit their coats while they play with the pretty ; red and white ivory balls. We look on for a while and mentally wonder what there is in it to cause men to frisk around and posture in su.:h extravagant style. We tall into a ' tram ot tho ight which runs us along very far into regions of speculation. We think of all the dissertations about women ind their weakness; we wonder if Junius Henri Browne plays billiards and wonder what he and other sapient philosophers would say if women even did such nonsensical things as men do. But we know what - his answer would be, we have heard him talk. They say "we don't expect anything better ot men, but it is altogether dif ferent with women you know,'1. - Ono would naturally suppose that a separate commandment had been giv en to Chicago like this, "Six days shait thou labor and do all thou hast to do; but on the seventh you may do what you please. 1 be people turn out and make a rejoicing of the day, all the public parks are thronged, and as we went toward .Lincoln park we might have imagined ourselves in CiOgland going to Derby races. 1 he band is playing, the flags flaunting its colors over green trees and everybody ia iu holiday attire, gay groups are to pe seentinaer tbe shady arbors, pret1 . m . . winding stream, are feeding the white swans, and baring the heat and the peculiar airs the band is playing, we miglrt imagine ourselves iu raradise. It has always been a childish weak ness of ours to wish that there might be a first-class band in Heaven, but it seems wicked, perhaps, to say that we should enjoy a solo on the cornet by Arbuckcl even inside the shining walls. And yet, why wicked? We can't help it. We never hear a hand strike up a spirited, heart stirring air without feeling the very best impulse of nature quickened. And we hope if we are ever so lortunate as to reach the better land, to find "all the best musicians, with same sort of spiritual horns and cymbals, drums and fiddles. The child who said will they sing hymns all the time ma? because if they do, I don t want to go there," is a fair sample of what many grown people feel, but don't express. From Lincoln Park it is not far to Graceland Cemetery, and we entered a car drawn by a dummy. By the way. a dummy is a horrible looking, condensed locomotive, without the nose and T screaming. It has the look of a sentient creature, and ' I would not come up on one after night unexpectedly for anything. We found the bier and the beer were running in partnership. Opposite, the entrance of the cemeterv were a dozen saloons and several cheerful marble yards, with monuments waiting for names not yet eligible. The public vaults stood wide open, as if welcoming any who might wish to vault into the places ..Six or eight lively funerals came in, on a swinging i trot as they

neared the "home stretch," the gates;' and the mourners looked out compos edly at tlie dust, which rose in a cloud from the road; dust in the plumed

hearse, dost in the eyes of the weep-' era, dust everywhere, (dost like the picture) 1 hey live fast m Chicago, and tbey have no time to waste over the dead, they hurry them out to the cemeteries and pile heavy marble ever them with quaint old inscriptions we read "Hier Rhuet" and Inpace." We dont know what.it means, but it is supposed to mean consolation to the friends of the deceased.1' After the clods have been decently placed above the dead, tho friends usually take a lunch and lager at the cool retreats across the' way, they literally 'take it cool." and the .next day they may have to move out from a coming ore so tbey fortify the inner man and women, with something less than forty five glasses. I did not intend to say so much, but I trust I have not trespassed on your space too much. 1 see that you have foreign corresponden te and letters from adjacent towns, why not' have . a letter from Chicago too? Echo answers "go to," D.M.J. THE "OLD MAN." , . BY EENBV WARP BEECHES. Old men are the ugliest and handsomest of mortals. If serene. pure, and noble of heart, their beauty is far superior to the mere sparkle of eve and color of cheek that make youth attractive. 5 If they : 5 .15 1 XL .( ! are mean ana seinsu, tue oiu man a face is a corrugation of snakes. The passions have . hardened into permanent expression. "But of all ugly men, there is not one other half so ugly as that one of whom Paul speaks: "Lie not one to another; seeing ye have put off the old uan, with his deeds, Tin 8 old man was tho devil of lying. The swarm of lying devils . must have been immense, since there is enough ' to furnish almost every man with one. And such riders as they are! " " u . They ask no . saddle, no rein, no seat They can bestride the ' back, or 6it on the shoulder, or mount the head,' and they can ride on the eyelash, or the smooth lip, without slippiner or sliding. They nestle m the hair, swing in the curls, peep out Qf ribbon bows, hang by the -ai- ru AA at the txanhi in IB" : " " short, no circus rider ever was so nimble, so expert, so various as are these 1 lyinp . devils. Each mai seems by nature : to own one. At first the old man is annoying; but he soon breaks in his subject &nd scon rides without being perceived. If he only rode for his own pleasure a kind of parasite, sucking . his good out of men hia presence would be more tolerable. But his only ' pleasure seems to consist in the mischief T and wickedness which he urges hia victims to do. . . Now and then men get tired of this old man, and sling him off. This usually happens after some misadventure into which the ma licious rider has urged his dupe.. But he has been flung off too of ter1 to be troubled by it i In a few moments he is quietly up, and in hir saddle again. At length men not only get used to this load, but come to like it lheydonot feel easy without their old man. They conceive a high opinion of his skill and wisdom, and they trust him to secure success and to extricate them from dificulties ; and that too. though every day he is the cause of disgrace to them, and loss and annoyance. , , But now and then one succeeds in putting off the old man, and it is to be hoped that it is done so. as to break his neck. '- This "old man" deserves no favors It is the one that should receive no mercy. 1 ' '-1 But all are not so lucky. Men often throw him off. for a while, an 1 then take pity and let him ride a while, j They often carry him ; over difficult places. They keep him for emergencies, and think that thej have done well in getting rid of him for even half their time. ' ' . But h- how much easier it is ' go , single than double! No one who has not tried it can conceive how much pleasanter life is with tha "olt map" .ff th-. fl - - W&3$S' febeWrid of him is to save a world of anxious thought and calculation. The Span iard say -and if there is anything about lying that they do not know, it is hardly worth knowing that "a bar should have a good memory. . But when ' once a man has learned to "speak the truth, every man with his neighbor," he need not bo anxious. Truth always takes care of itself. - A lie needs two watches, one for day and one for night and then a hundred to one but it will be detected. -, , I dreamed the other right that I had power to bring things out to the sight iost as they were. 5 I shall not tell what sad things I saw, nor what transcendency beautiful ones. But as I was going down Broadway to wall street it occurred to me that I would see how men looked. 'And so I commanded the old man on every one's shoulders to appear. . And appear they did. Such a sight was never before imagined out of bedlam. -All sorts of sprites, of goblins, of imps, of deformed dwarfs, of ' grotesque and hideous faces,' all sorts of keen and sharp faces, all sorts of ngly and demoniac faces, grinned at me from shoulder and back and head till I farily shuddered. ; By the same power which' had evoked them I commanded that every man should See what was on everybody's back

but his own.; In an ) instant the

whole street was in a furor. Such ibesand laughter, such noiBtinfs of the finger, and ridicule and de nunciation, . never , ? ; were r heard! Every man saw an old man on somebody else a shoulder! v I then commanded that men should see their own ugly "old man," as well as their neighbor!, and in an instant there was such a howl as was never heard: und men rushed out pell niell1 Such 5 tacit g- and cnasing were, never seen in Wall street, but not a man of them all could run faster than his "old man" could ride; some ran. into biding places, some plunged into the East river, and so wild was the confusion that it waked me, and there was nothing of all the scene before me," but only an open Bible, and the simple words : . , . . , ? "Lie not one to another; seeroer ye have put off the old man, with ms deeds." ... Sabbaih Sefcoal Maale. We want, to see a revolution in this field of Sabbath school music. There is no end of . new books. It is so easy to get them up and palm them off upon an unsuspecting, easily deceived public, that men who know scarcely more than the first rudiments of scanning and the foundation , of . a common chord flood the ' market with their rhythmical and musical -platitudes. We want,, less m .quantity- . but, a very decided advance in quality. ; The church music of the future is to be congregational, and if we would have it first class, the education in the Sunday school ' must be thorough. ,..- r ;-...' .'; '' To this end the Sabbath school should be the happiest place in the church. ' The room should be light and cheerful, comfortably furnished, well equipped with, sufficient good singing books, one for each child, and a melodeon or. piano. . A small pipe organ is a luxury which only a few churches "are able to supply to the school, .though a little less waste on towers, chimes and superfluous external , adornments would leave ample ' means ' to make " the lnsiqe appurtenances, more, complete. !S We protest against' the disregard of 1 the rightful claims of children by architects and ' church committees in respect to construc tion - and equipment of ; Hunday school rooms Although land costs nothing upward, .basements are usually deemed good . enough for school reothauand. hard, stiff back ed, uncusmphotf. seats the proper accomodation for the "young idea." Basements are sepulchres, in which to bury youthful enthusiasm ' and silence young voices. It were as wise to shut up a canary in a daik cellar and ask" it to pour ont its brilliant pssan of joy to the sun,1 as to expect - children, buried in t the gloom of a half submerged room, to sing with spirit and, enjoyment. When a school has other of the needful adjuncts , we have . named. let it be careful to select a singing superintenaent, or at least one who is so imbued with tlie spirit that if he can not conduct the musio' suc cessfully himself, he will have '.the "gumption to select from his assistants some one who can.' There are some superintendents and many ministers, who regard : the singing as a merely formal part of the service, interpolated to fittrup the time and give a little variety to the., exercises.-:7 Avoid, all .such. They are as much out of - place in the pulpit and on the platform as a bull in a china shop or a hen in' a robin's neBt Singing is worship just as much as ;praying. ? u : - So we say. in conclusion, it you want your children to love - the Sabbat 1 1 school and church, and - all its religious services',-. fill i them with that lively, joyful Christianity which breaks i out into ' song and makes, every nook and corner of the bouse of worship resound with melody, A silent Suday school is a sure-precursor of a dying church. And,' per ' contra, a church can not go to . sleep so long as it has a livoly, wide awake, jovful, singing u x) uuui. a ne .iiaixiv tui 0p4omKx . t . !.... TbePiC-Bjr m Bay. The pig was thus written up by a Georgia boy, whose composition was published , in .. hU , local paper, the Griffin News, and was as follows: , ' "The pig is about as big as a sheep, only a pig's 'wool isn't as good for making stockings or. w by is a pig like a tree? . Because he roots.. That ia a conundrum. . A , pig washes himself in the mud. A pig has four legs, one under each corner of his body: They pickle pig's feet, but not till the pig is goWaone using 'em. A pig squeals awful when it rains, also wheu you pull his tail. ' A pig has got a firstrate voice for squealing, and he grants when he feels good. You can t mke a whistle out ot a pig'a tail, 'cos it is crooked. Why is a pirfike Tom my Grant? 'Cos he's got his nose into everybody's business." This it anether conundrum, which ia all I know about a pig." m : .. . , ' !;..' ' ? :' ''Bill" Eaton, United States1 Sen, atbr-elect from Connecticut,' says that it is the duty of the Democratic party "to harmonise all conflicting optsiobs.' If that be so, it has undertaken the heaviest jobs American politics ever knew- " ' """"'. "I'- -T'--" ':,r Petty and mischievous contests for office between ambitious ; men, reckless of the . party's unity and of the general interests and principles that arc involved in the "ultimate result should be i discountenanced, n and promptly "nipped ia the hud" by the rank ana file of the nartv. "Princi ples, not; men," is still a political motto worthy of all acceptation.;

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