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Ight and Wrong Way of Measur
ing Earthly Existence Toward
What Destiny are You Tending
In This World Wo Key Dp the liarp of
a Rapture or Forgo the Chain ol a
Bondage Duties Wc Owe
Wo Should Measure Lite by the Amount
or Goad we can do The Only Bright
View ol Life and Death
TI1K TABEUNACLK SERMON
Special to tlic jatctte
Brooklyn N Y Jan 2 This mora-
ine at the tabernacle the Ksv T DeWitt
Talmage D D expounded some passa-
ges of bcripture concerning tbe longevity
of the patriarchs He gave out the hymn
beginning
My Jays are gliding swiftly by
Ami I a pilgrim sti anger
Would not detain them as they fiy
Those hourB of toil and danger
Ilis text was Genesis xlviii 8 How
old art thou The preacher said
The Esyptian capital was the focus of
the worlds wealth In ships and barges
there had been brought to it
from India frankincense and
cinnamon and Ivory and diamonds
from the North marble and iron from
Syris purple and silk from Greecesome
of the tlnest horses of the world and
some of the most brilliant chariots and
from all the earth that which could oest
please the eye and charm the ear and
gratify the taste There were temples
aflame with red pandstone entered by
the gateways that were guarded by pillars
bewildering with hieroglyphics and
I wound with brazen serpents and adorned
with winged creatures their eyes and
beaks and pinions glittering with prec
iops atones There were marble columns
blooming into white flower beds there
were stone pillars at the top bursting
into the shape of the lotus when in full
bloom Along the avenues lined with
sphinx and fane and obelisk there were
princes who came in gorgeously uphol-
stered palanquin carried by servants in
scarlet or elbewhere drawn by vehicles
the snowwhite horses goldenbitted and
six abreast
DASHING AT FULL RfN
There were fountains from stone
wreathed vases climbing the ladders of the
light You would heav a bolt shove and
j a door of brass would open like a fla h of
J the sun The surrounding gardens were
Saturated with odors that mou ted the
terrade and dripped from the aruors
and burned their incense in the Egyptian
noon On floors of mosaic the glories of
lharoah were spelled out in letters of
porphyry beryl and fl me There were
ornaments twisted from the wood of
tamarisk embossed with silver breaking
into foam There were footstools made
out of a single precious stone There
were beds fashioned out of a crouched
lion in bronze There were chairs spot
ted with the sleek hUles of leopards
There were sofas footed with the claws of
wild beasts and armed with the hpaks of
birds As you stand on the level betch
of the sea on a summer day and look
either way and there are miles of break
ers white with the ocean foam dasbiDg
Shoreward so it seemed as if the sea of
ithe worlds pomp and wealth in the
Egyptian capitol fQT miles and miles flung
tself up into white breakers of murble
emple mausoleum and obelisk
It was to thii capitol and the palace of
haraor thajricob the plain shepherd
came txMnTet hi son Joseph who had
jjecomatprime minister in the royal apart
eifarvlfiaroah tjnd Jacob meet dignity
nd rusticity the gracefulness of the
court and the plain manners of the field
The king wanting to mike the old country-
man at ease and seeing how while his
bhard is and how feeble his step looks
fAmiliarly into his face and savs to the
Jge < man How old art thou
Night before last the gate of eternity
Opened to let in amid the great throng of
leparted centuries the soul of the djing
car Uhd6r the twelfth stroke of the
rorazen hammer of the city clock the
patriarch fell dead and the stars
of the night were the funeral torches It
is most fortunate that on this road of life
there are so many milestones on which
we can read just how fist we are going
toward the journey end I feel that ii
is not an inappropriate question that I
ask today when I look into your faces
and say as Pharaoh did to Jacob the
patriarch
tOW OIDD ART THOU
leople wno aru truthful on every other i
subject lie about their ages so thit I do
not solicit from you auy literal response
to the qaestion I nave asked I would
put no one under temptation but I
simply want this morning to see by
what rod it is we are measuring our
eartnly liistence There is a right way
and a wrong way of measuring a door or
a wall or an arch or a tower and so
there is a right way and a wrong way of
measuring our earthly existence Is is
with reference to this higher meaning
that I confront ycu this morning with
the stupendous question of the text
and a = k How old art thou
There are many who estimate their life
by mere wordly gratification When
Lord Dundas was wished a happy New
Year he said It will have to be a hap-
pier year than the past for I hadnt one
happy moment in all the twelve months
that have gone But that has not been
the experience of most of us We have
found that though the world is blasted
with sin it is a very bright and beautiful
place to reside in We have hid joys in-
numerable There is no hostility between
the Gocpel and the merriments and the
festivities of life I do not think that we
fully enough appreciate the wcrldy
pleasures God gives us When you re-
count your enjoyments you do not go
far enough back Why do you not go
back to the time when you were an infant
in your mothers arms looking up
into the heaven of her smile to
those days when you filled the house with
the uproar of boisterous merriment when
you uhouted as you pitched the ball on
the playground when on the cold sharp
winter night mullled up on skates you
shot out over the resounding ice of the
pond Have you forgotten
ALL THOSE GOOD DAYS
that the Lord gave you Were you never
a boy Were you never a girl Between
those times and this how many mer-
cies how many kindnesses the h ird has
bestowed upo n you How many joys
have breathed np to you from the flow-
ers and shone down to you irom the
stars and chanted to you with the voice
of soaring bird and tumbling cascade and
booming sea and thunders ihat with bay-
onets of fire charged down the mountain-
side Joy Joy Joy If there is any-
one who has a right to the enjoyments of
the world it is the Christian for God has
given him a lease to everything in the
promise All arc yours But I have to
tell you that a man who estimates his life
on earth by mere worldly gratifications Is
a most unwise man Our life is not to be
a game of chess It is not a dance In
lighted hall to quick music It is not the
froth of an ale pitcher It is not the set-
tlings of a wine cup It Is not a banquet
Into the skies or the first step on a road
that plunges Into a horrible abyss So
that in this world we are only keying up
the harp of a rapture orforging the chain
of a bondage And standing before you
to day with life on the one side and death
on the other song on the one side and
groaning on the other mansions on the
one side and dungeons on the other
heaven on the one side and hell on the
other I put to you the question of the
text How old art thou Toward
what destiny are you tending end how
fast are you getting on towards ii
Again I remark that there many who
estimate their life on earth by their sor-
rows and their misfortunes Through a
great many of your lives the plowshare
hath gone very deep turning up a terri-
ble furrow You have beeu betrayed
and misrepresented and set upon and
slapped of impertinence and pounded of
misfortune The brightest life musthave
its shadows and
THE SMOOTHEST FiTTl ITS TIIORNS
On the happiest brood the hawk
pounces No escape from trouble of
some kind While glorious John Milton
was losing his eyesight he heard that
Salmasius was glad of it While Sheri
dans comedy was being enacted in Drury
Lane theater Cumberland his enemy
sat growling at it in the stage bi > x
While Bishop Cooper was surrounded by
the favor of learned men his wife took
his lexicon manuscript the result of a-
long life of anxiety and toil and thiew it
into the fire Misfortune trial vexation
lor almost every one Pope applauded
of all the world has a stoop in the shoul-
der that annoys him so much that he tas a
tunnel dug so that he may go unobserved
from garden to grotto and from grotto to
garden Cano the famous Spanish ar-
tist is disgusted with the crucifix
that the priest holds before him because
it is such a poor specimen of sculpture
And so sometimes through taste and
sometimes through learned menace and
sometimes through physical distresses
aye in ten thousand ways troubles come
to harass and annoy And yet it is unfair
o measure a mans life by his misfor-
tunes because where there is one stalk
of nightshade there are fifty marigolds
and harebells where there is one cloud
thundercharged there are hundreds that
stray across the heavens the glory of
land and sky asleep in their bo
som Because death came and
took your child away did you
immediately forget all the five
years or the ten years or the fifteen
years in which she came every night for a
kiss all the tones of your heart pealing
forth at the sound ot her voice or the soft
touch of her liana Because in some
financial Kuroclydon your fortune vent
into the breakers did you forget all those
years in which the luxuries and extrava-
gances of this life showered on your path-
way Alas that is an unwise man an
ungrateful man an unfair min an un
phllosophlc man and most of all-
AN UNCHRISTIAN MAN
who measures his life on earth by groans
and tears and dyspeptic lit and abuse
and scorn and terror and neuralgic
thrust
Agiin I remaTk that there are many
people who estimate their life on earth
by the amount of money they have ac
cumulaed Thevsay The yar 18G0
or 187C or 1SS6 was tt anted Why
Hide no money Now ic is all cant and
inslnceritv to talk against m mey as
thongh it had no alue It is rtfinement
and education and 10000 blessed sur-
roundings It is the spreiding of the
table that feeds your childrens hunger
It is the lighting of the furnace that keeps
you warm It is the making of the bed
on which you rest from care and anxiety
ft is the carrying out at last ol you to de-
cent sepulture and the putting up of the
slab on which Is chiseled tie story of
yoiir Christian hope It is simply hypoc-
risy this tirade in pupit and lecture
hall against money as though it had no
uses It is hands and feet and sails
and 10 000 grand and goriour nterpnes
But while all this is so fe t ho us s
money or thinks of money as anythirg
but a means to an end will Had out his
mistake when the glittering treasures
slip out of his nerveless grasp and he
goes out of this world without a shilling
of money or a certificate of stock
He might better have been the
Christian porter that opened his
gate or the begrimed work
man who last night heaved the coal into
his cellar Boors and mortgages and
leases have their use but they make a
poor yardstick with unich to measure
life They that boast themselves in thrir
vreslh and trust on the multitude of
their rKhis none of tlum can by ary
tin ans rtdcem his brother nor give to
God a rauson for him that he should hot
see corruption Wise men die like-
wise the fool and the brutish person per-
ish and leave their wealth to others
But I remark There are many I
wi > h there were more who estimate
their life by their
MORAL AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
It Is not sinful egjtism for a Caristia
man to say I am purer than I used to
be I am more consecrated to C Tist
than I used t > be I hive got over a
great many of the bad habits in which I
used to indulge I am a great deal bit-
ter man than I used to be There is no
sinful egotism in that It is not base
egotism for a soldier to say I know
more about military tactics than I use
to before I touk a musket in my hand
and learned to present arras and when
I was a pest to the drill officer It is
not base egotism for a sailor to say I
know how better to cluctluwn the ruizzen
topsail than I used to before I had ever
seen a ship And there is no sinful g
tism when a Christian man fighting the
battles of the Lord or if you will have it
voyaging toward a haven of eternal rest
says I know more about spiritual tac-
tics and about voyaging toward heaven
than I used to Why there are thoe
in this presence who have meanred
lances with many a foe and unhorsed it
There are Christian men here who have
become swarthy by hammering at tbe
forge of calamity They stand on an en-
tirely different plane of character from
that which they once occupied They are
measuring their life on earth by golden
gated Sabbaths by pentecostal prayer
meetings by communion tables by bap-
tismal fonts by halltlujihs in the tem-
ple They have stood on Sinai and heard
it thunder They have stood on Pisgah
and looked over into the promised land
They have stood on Calvary and seen the
cross bleed They cau like Paul the
Apostle write on their heaviest troubles
light and but for a moment The
darkest night their soul is irradiated as
was the night over Bethlehem by the
faces of those who have come to pro-
claim glory and goodenter They are
only waiting for the gate to open and
the chains to fall off and
THE GLORY TO BEGIN
I remark again There are many and
I wish there were more who ere esti-
mating life by the amount of good they
can do John Bradford said he counted
that day nothing at all in which he had
uot by pen or tongue done some good
If a man begin right 1 cannot tell haw
many tears he may wipe away how many
burdens he may lift how many orphans
he may comfort how many outcasts he
may reclaim There have been men who
have given their whole life in the right
direction concentrating all their wit and
ingenuity and mental acumen and
physical force and enthusiasm for Christ
They climbed the mountain and delved
with intoxication and roystering It Is into the mine and crossed the sea and
the first etep on a Udder that mounts I trudged the desert and dropped at lost
THE WEEKLY GAZETTE FORT WORTH TEXAS FBLDAT JANUARY 7
into martyrs graves waiting for the
resurrection of the just They measured
their lives by the chains they broke off
by the garments they put upon nakedness
by the miles they traveled to alleviate
every kind of suffering They felt In the
thrill of every nerve in the motion of
every mu6cle in every throb of their
heart in every respiration of their lungs
the magnificent truth No man liveth
for himself They went through
cold and through heat footblistered
cheeksmitten bickscourged tempjst
lashed to do their whole duty That is
the wa they measured life by the
amount of good they could do Do you
want to know how old Luther was how
old Richard Bixter was how old Pnilip
Doddridge was Why you cannot cal-
culate the length of their lives by any
human arithmetic Add to their lives 10
000 times 10000 years and you have not
expretseu it what th y have lived or will
live O what a standard that is to meas-
ure a mans life by There are those in
this house who think they have only lived
thirty years They will have lived
1000 they have lived 1000 There
are those who think they are eighty years
of age they have not even entered upon
their infancy for one must become
A BABE IN CHRIST
to begin at all Now I do not know what
your advantages or disadvantages are I
do not know what your tact or talent is
1 do not know what may be the fascina-
tion of your manners or the repusiveuess
of them but I know this There is for
you my bearers a field io culture a har-
vest to reap u tear to wipe awiy a soul
to save If you have worldly means con-
secrate them to Cnnst It you nave elo-
quence use it on the side that lml and
WUberforce used theirs If ou have
learning put it all in the poorbox of the
worlds suffering But if you have none
of these neither wealth nor eloquence
nor learning you at any rate have a
smiie with which you can encourage the
disheartened a frown with which you
may blast injustice a voice with w ich
you may call the wanderer back to God
O you say that is a very sanctimo-
nious view of life It is not It is the
only bright view of life and it is the only
bright view of deatn Contrast the death
scene of a man who has measured life by
the worldly standard with the death
scene of a man who has meas-
ured life by the Christian stand-
ard Qulnn the actor in his last
moments said I hope this tragic
scene will soon be over and I hope to
keep my dignity to the labt Malherbe
said in his last moments to the confess-
or Hold your tongue your miserable
st3le puts me out of conceit with
heaven Lord Chesterlltld in his last
moments when he ought to have b ° en
praying lor his soul bothered himse li
about the propricie of the sick rgfiro
and said Gve Diboles a chair
Godfrey Kneller spent his last hoars on
earth in drawing a diagram of his own
monument Compare the silly and hor-
rible departure of such men with the
s < raphlc glow on the face of EJward
Pavson as he said in his last moment
The breezes of heaven fan me I float
in a sea of glory Or with Paul the
Apostle who raid in bis kst hour I
am now ready to be offered up and the
time of my departure is at ho d I
have fought the good fl ht I have kept
the faith Henceforth there is la d up
for me u crown of righteousness which
the Lord the righteous judge wjll give
me Or compare it with the Christian
deithbed that jou wimessed in your
own household Oh my friends this
vorld is a fulso god It will consume
you with the blaze in which it accepts
your sacrifice while the righteous shall
be held in everlasting remembrance
and when the thrones have fallen and the
monuments have crumbled and the
world has penhed they shall banquet
with the conquerors of earth and
THE I1IERARCH9 01 HEAVEN
This is a good day in which to begin a-
new siyle of measurement How old
art thou You see the Christian way of
measuring life and the worldly way of
mtasuiiigit I leave its to you to say
which is the wisest and best way The
wheel of tirc has turned very swiftly
and it hashurled us on The old year
has gone ihe newyear has come For
what jou and I have been launched upon
it God only knows
Now let me ask you all nave you
made any preparation for the future
You have made preparation for time my
dear brothtr have you made any prepar-
ation for eternij Do you wondfr that
when that man on the Hudson river in
indignation tore up the tract which was
handed to him and just one word landi d-
on his coat sleeve the rest of the tract
being pitched into the river that on >
word aroused his soul It was that one
word so long so broad so high si deep
eternity A dying woman in her last
mnments said Call It hack They
said Whatdoyou wan > Tme she
said call it back Ohit cinn > t be
called back We might loeour fortunes
end call them back we might lose our
health and perhaps recover it we might
lose our good name and get that back
1 but tice gone
IS GONE FOrEVKK
Sime of you during the past year
made preparation for eternity and it
makes no difference to you really as to
the matter of ssfty whether you go now
or go some othr year whether this yejr
or he next year Both your feet on the
ri ick the waves may dash around you
You can say God is our refuse end
f tietig h a very present help You are
on the rock and you may defy all earh
and hell to overthrow you I congratu-
late you I give yon great joy It is a
happy New Year to you
I can see no sorrow at all in the fact
that our years are going You hear some
people say I wish I could go back
again to boyhood I would not want to-
go back again to boyhood I am afraid I
might make a worse life out of it than I
have made You could not afford to go
back to Doyhood if itwere possible You
might do a great deal worse than you
have done The past is gone Lookout
f r the future
To all Chritians it is a time of glad-
ness I am glad the years are going
You are coming on nearer home Let
your countenance light up with the
thought Nearer h m
Now when one can sooner get to the
center of things is he not to be congratu-
lated Who wants to be alwajs iu tbe
freshman clas We ttudy God in this
world by the biblical photograph of Him
but we all know we cau In five mmues of
interview with a friend get more accurate
idea ot rim tbaii vv can by studying him
fifty years through picturss or word
The little child tba died at six months of
ige knows more of G > d than all Atidover
and all Princeton and all New Bruns-
wick and nil Edinburgh and all the theo-
logical institutions of Christendom Is it
not better to go up to the very headquar-
ters of knowledge
Does not our common sense teach ns
lbit it is better to be at the center than
to be clear on on the rim of the wheel
suddenly ushered into a land of everlast-
ing health where the inhabitant never
says I am sick
What fools we all are to prefer the
circumference to the center What a
dreadful thing it would be if we should
be suddenly ushered from this wintry
world into the Maytime orchards of
heaven and if onr pauperism of sin and
sorrow should be suddenly broken up by
a presentation of an emperors castle sur-
rounded by parks with ppringing foun-
tains and paths np and down which an
gels of GodWALK
WALK TWO AND TWO
We are like persons standing
cold steps of the National Picture
in London under umbrellas in th
r
A50TIIEU
Ulakney Mrs J >
11 j the Mary
Hire Ellou
Ilenn it iridic
Cool > Mrs II
Collier Ellen
Clafe MlesSMlleW
Caeey Mr I mra 2
Dickey Mrs Marian
llowdes Jessie
Dennis ffl
Dlckcreon G T
Dlllard Ih mas
Iivldon Nat
Daniel I E
Edwards Elizabeth
Osier Mrs S A
Fot r Mrs M mie E
roter Miss Lou
Grtn iT May E
larhani Douglas
Jreene Mrs J A
Hughes MrsN K
Httrtn Hvlra
Him n Mar ah
II ililnrctr Uri
Henderson MruM J
Hatnd Molllo
II 11 La an
II Tidtrson Mrs S A
Juliiison Mcrul
JretoaMIs Ada
1 nuary 11 nma
I ster Mt s Caarlle
s CoT7
EFFORT
jallery
raln
afraid to go in amid the Turners ad the
J
Titians and the Raphaels I cotpe tp
them and say Why dont you go inside
the gallery O they say we dolift
know whether we can get in I say fe
Dont yon see the door is open
Yes they eay but we have
been so long on these cold steps
we are so attached to thein
we dont like to leave But
I say it is so much brighter and more
beautiful in the gallery you had better get
in No they say we know exactly
how it is out here but we dont knof
how it is in there O let us be glad
ihat we are one year nearer the scene tha t
explains all and irradiates all
In 1S35 the French resolved that at
Ghent they would have a kind of musical
demonstration that had never been heard
of It would be made up of the chimes
of bells and the discharge of cannon Tne
experiment was a perfect success What
with the ringing ot the bells and tbe re-
port of the ordnance the city trtmbled
and the hills shook with the
triumphal march that was as
strange as it was overwhelming
With a more glorious accompaniment
will Gods dear children go into their high
residence when the trumpets shall sound
and the last day has come At the signal
given the bells of the towers and of the
lighthouses and of the cities will strike
their sweetness Into a last chime that
hall ring into the heavens and float off
upon the sea joined by the boom ol
bursting mine and magazine augmented
by all the cathedral tov rs of heaven
the harmonies of earth and the symphon-
ies of the celestial realm making up one
great triumphal march fit to celebrate
the assent of the redeemed to where they
shall shine as the stars for ever and for-
ever With such anticipations we can
look back without a siuglc regret upon
the flying years and fo ward with exul-
tation to the time when the archangel
with one foot on the sea and the otner
foot en the land shall ssv ear by Him that
liveth for ever and everyilrat time shall be
noj onger >
1 afllicted with ap eyes < BSe Dr
Is sc Thompsons cjetfater Bfugglstiifc
25 cents T I r >
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Cltiverlus Makes au Appeal to Lc lslatorg
for Aid
Richmond Va Dec 30 Cluvcrius
the condemned murderer of Fannie Lil-
lian Madison has sent out circulars to
the members of the general assembly for
toe purpose of getting them to sign a pe-
tition asking the governor to graut him a
reprieve until that body convenes When
the legislature in et > > Cluverins hopes that
taey will leso amend tne governor to
commute his sentence to life imprison-
ment
LIST OF LETTERS
itemainlnc in the nostolhce at Fort Worth Tex
Monday Jan 318 7 To obtain any of these
letters the applicant must call for aavcrtiscd
letters and give the date of this list
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AdamEonIydla loyd Taltle
Harbank MIssMC iovc Minlia
Gents List
Arnod K il
Anson Henry
AlixandtrJVm G
Alhoeld M
lila ion Wilt
Itcath LewisAnn
UurdittTl t
ISnKe Jamc3B
liurkliarct Ed ft
1 urge JO
HrowutIiarleslI
liyron W K >
BowinCS
Itoswcll George A
lilectinpr JTne1 A
ISIankensblpAR
Illion Wal er
IiiddlcM
I 1 shop mark W v Mod Jo >
Rell W Kpalnter Srilolllns J J
I alchJlI ftJIeverJH
Haidger Jacob
1 arue t V J
IlarzJohn
ClookJtdo d
Crumb T K
Conway II 2
O cfcam
CapleJE
Clancy Ed
Cbrk W F
Chancellor W F f2
Cunningham W II
Cut lngA II
Curt Jcs0
Calawi 11 J A
Caiaway James
Carter r < 1
Carroll 06
CauailvW K
C uipbejr M D
Clo Jobniy
Eyu s6co
Evans it H
Evai jDivId W
Ermlqn II u
hmniohs Wm H
Elxnat Franz
E n 11M
hergus > n IU
Folds V
FraItr Marshall
Kcaiherston IVi
Farmer Co
Fa mcr it II
Fatr t rank II
lioocc ol J 5
Goadolf Fred It
Ht dfcy William
Gordon Liuls
Graves PA 1
eoclron J L
Hnnter Frank
iiims J V
IIlH Wm
ilerincton John
Hern ton A L
Htiuirt WS
lLirrhonnichsrd
Ifsndv W11 2
lUrtliyE
holding nervonsl fast to the tire lest we Hunter J W
be suddenly hurled into light and eternal JudaM rris
felicitv Through all kinds of optical in K unS Isfah
struments trying to peer in through the Ksunt Cnis
cracks and the keyholes of heaven afraid
that both doors of the celestial mansion
will be swung wide open before oar en-
tranced vision rushing about among the
apothecary shops of this world wonder
if this la good for rheumatism and
ing
that is good for neuralgia and something I
GHMaseeyCo
Ward Avert
else Is gooil for a bad cough leat weJjeJ J i u E T
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JIaree Bob
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Loyd Mra ol N
Marsh ill J 11
Marllu Ioiiba
JUrtl 1 ylvla
Mood c L E
JucO icen Harriet
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SECEEfAKY LAMAE
An Interesting Story of Secretary
Lamnr Wooing the Rich Widow
Jlrs Holt
Ilmublo Rnllrond Clerk
Proved an Obstacle In-
Former Years
Who
Loulsvillo CornierJournal
Macon Ga Dec lC The city
greatly excited over the visit of Hon
IS
L
Q C Lamar secretary of the inte nor
He arrived very quietly on Thursday the
23rd inst and was at once diiven to the
home of his friend Col William H IJoss
The secretarys visit has renewed the dis-
cussion as to his rumored marriage with
Mrs Holt and this is the cause of the
excitement
The story connected with the secretary
and Mrs Hols is an interesting one He
was born near Eatonton in Putnam
county She was born in Bibb county
about twelve miles from Macon He was
a handsome manly young fellow when he
first met Mrs Holt and she was the
belle of Georgia He wa infatuated
with her charms She heard him
deliver an eloqnent speech in
a debating society while she
was visiting friends in Kitonton and fell
in love with his intellect They were in-
troduced to each otLer by the late W H
Sparks a prominent min of letters of
thia stac Their acqa lintauce soon rip-
ened into love and they became engaged
Traaition has it that they wuuld
iiBvebeen married within six months
after their engagement had it not
been for the iuterfireree of a joung
railroad clerk named Holt Young Holts
parents lived near the parents of the sec
retarys lady love Oa a visit home
youug H < lt met her at a Sundayschool
iicmc He was at the time clerking in
tne ofiice of the Southwestern railroad
lie instantly succumbed to her charms
and at the first opportunity made hot
love to her She repul = ed him inform-
ing him that she was engaged to another
Who is tne man asked young Holt
Mr L Q C Lamar of the county of
Putnam sne replied in the precise and
formal languace of the time
What exclaimed young Holt who
had met the eecretary while visiting his
cousin Col Pulaski Holt of Eatonton
are you engaged to that blackfaced
longhaired Lamar I am shocked at
your taste
The lady was offended but the persist-
ent gallantry of young Holt eventually
won her over She eccepted tne most
devoted attentions from mm and as sub-
sequent events proved learned to love
himThe
The secrrtary was informed of young
Holts attention to his sweetheart and he
became very angry He wrote ner a bit-
ter letter suggesting that it would be
wel for her to mirry the pert railroad
clerk Her pride was wounded and she
replied that she would rather marry a
railroad clerk than mate with a man
whose hair was as long as a womans
the
The result was breaking of the en-
gagement
About a year after youn nolt married
the lady and took her to his humble apart-
ments in this city As years passed he
was promoted finally being elected rres
identof the Southwestern railroad and aNo I
of its bank He made money rapidly and I
invested it carefully At the beginning
of the war he was worth nearly a million
dollars When the war closed he stsli
had a large property
He joined Senator Joseph E Bro wn in
leasing the Western Atlantic railroad a
line built and still owned by the state
This venture proved wonderfully re-
munerative It enriched him as well as
the othtr lessees Young Holt servtd in
the stae militia during the war
and was commissioned general by
Senator Brown who was at that
time governor Tnree children were
born to him and his wife two daughters
and a son the latter dying about 1873
The older daughter married Mr W U
Virgin a wealthy patentmedicine pro-
prietor of this city and the other married
Capt K E Park a well known land-
owner and capitalist also of this city
Gen Holt died very suddenly a few years
ago while on a visit to S iratoga
Although middleaged when left a
widow Mrs Holt was still a beautiful
woman About a year ago while visiting
Washington she met the secretary
who had not long before lost his
wife The old acquaintance was re-
newed not only this but the love
each had felt for the other in youth was
also rSnewed List summer the secretary
came to Macon and asked Mrs Holt to
marry him She consented and they
would have been united last fall had it
not been for an nnlookedfor obstacle
The daughters objected ft is said they
had no objection to the secretary but
they did not wish their mother to marry
anybody They did not wi > h her to
change her name the Holts being noted
people in this state
She yielded to their opposition and
told the secretary that she could not
marry him He returned to Wasnlogton
much disappointed The secretarys
present visit to Macon is due to a letter
he rtceived two weeks ago It was from
Mrs Holt and informed him that th < ob-
jections of the daughters micht be re-
moved Not more than a dozen people
knew that the secretary was here until
today
It has now leaked out that the mar-
riage will proably take place tomorrow
It Is said that if It does not it will be be-
cause Mrs Holt has given her word that
she will not marry without her daughters
consent The probable marriage has
been the topic of conversation here all
dsv Your correspondent arrived In the city
early this morning and the first thing
said to him was Have yougcfihiV tQ
theweddins Mrs Holt haS St VgeJ
fortune which she uses jnst asvtfrfl
pleases Should she ga to Washington
as the wife of the secretary she will b
a brilliant addition to that cltys sWil
circle I
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33 St Charles street New Orleans
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Prows Dry Plate mmonsolrte
any one c and a small
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elftcr to mane monger merely f r amusement Boys joudr men andHadYs annot cncaROin
Ktt ProStehle business than photography Hundreds wnijTnTuloy jou fo photc
boucs landscapes resfiWes
family groups farrr Bto k ehurehes iactorlcs etc Yon start
out in the morning with a > ood stook of dry plates and camera InMik allweighing but a few
pounds approach a rsfupce and the novelty of bajWg a phntograpner with
full qnlument appear unejmectedly at the very door at onc excites cminsity the
whIc family cnnot resist th temptation to 1 avoaphotograph of themselves or
fomo favorlie article and it Is so cw to have it dene right at home no fixlngnp to do Every
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ITER HiSBEBSii S 00 3S a 37 coriianbs
tJJMI MIIUILKJ1H
Dr Bet I EsW
Medical and Surgical
m
38 ST CHARLES STREET
Opposite St Charles Hotel
N evv Orleans iLa
3a 3S > b ooox
UN Slock Gpissi Ofife
TKOPIUETOR OF THE
Maddoxin Stock Farm
Importer Ilrefider Feed and Dealer in
Fine Horses > Jacks an1 Jennets
Cattle and Hogs
I wlli conirsejf ard deliver either inYiorteri
or Texas ralaedS6ck to any pari of tbeOui
Stntcs I o riJdrnlsa anj thing youSay
sire in the wayjgfj
Power tui Uterine
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for the cure of all FebUIe Complins
f Jritics For sale by alt druggistsi r < j > f > IHai
calAtar mailed Free on M rftcarbtn to C
V < 50 LqSr
if IJlOMGOOLJiiJ
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lerntnry given ratuw on B 2J
Horses Builsich
Cows and Hog sy
I am veil prepared to feed anil p smre j our
stoclc at verv reaouablu rhts lj lovers of
good horses and the diHAy > ublr J ne all 1
Mi ire to bUte 1 am havtriWin barntxcmodccd
jfirtj put in Iir6tcfiis3 ccfrWutonftti will have
vuliofltjjwcniy lirgo boi rtallsWiJ i dlrtllois
Thihe stalls will be kept exc UblTUy for board
rig horttp llorsc4 > ulU not do Well standing
jiXjdrnk locrs it eo acia tneiruluclesand
H Vtry injlvrloua to thtjlr lcct It ftmwsiH a
koou crf5calilu ac ly Jiorje kcjpphlmlna
good box stafj on a dlr fliJ0Cylvi lA keep on
hand gvod laud a en lveMiostJfrs with one
H icl 3hKhUltrof norsis am wllllive tx
erci cd eWkfOdLuble or sine c horse LcIcnK
mg tj regaErjfc iitomers free of charge No
lurgc will be irrfaibirftakjjifcgulir enstomrr
tor medical atiflMIO td nwta rAs I hav no
II cry In connncytun > rith my uuStaeas lam
licrtforn Setter prepared to take cnie of the
hoarding horses y r i-
To thu S oca Ililrs and nrcedcrsof firrant
and ndj ililng olidnftes I desire to caltybur at
enllon to thu fsct tirit I will k ep at uv barn a
firstclass stud fltintf for j oar cspecKk benefit
in which tlicicSrileiic ono thortugjipircd slal
llunone trottlarSliilJIon one sadiTC stallion
one draft stallion aSJionejac Jfa ono thor-
oughbred Holsteln BlKLandftpjBfhtirmghljicd
Jersey ball This 8teejsr flnv > > or the best their
ureedinir not being excelled in any country A
full description wlltjfcxtemled pedigrees and
terms of season vvftl be xlren in due time
itock yards and barn centralis located corner
Ku s nn i Fourth streets Ollce at barn Fort
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