Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 30, 1899, Page 2

set close to the edge of the table by me. Jist then, Jim Green began to cry. And it wasn’t a drunk, maudlin’ swashy cry that makes one tired, but ‘a great, man, heart-breakin’—heart full cry, not loud nor noisy, but low and heavy with bitterness and _ re- morse and the useless wishin’s that you hadn’t done some things. And while Jim cried we all looked away and kinder above each others heads and I sneaked my cup of whisky from the table and emptied it without mak- in’ any splashin’ in the pail where |DEATH OF MR. MOODY THE FAMOUS EVANGELIST PASSES PEACEFULLY AWAY. t The Merali--Beview. MINNESOTA, GRAND RAPIDS - Cause of Death Was a General Breaking Down Due to Overwork The self-made man always venerates his creator. -—Family Realized for Several That the End Was Near— He Was Conscious Almost to the Last and Conversed With His Days Courage is the thing that enables us to forget our fears. Family—Was Almost Free From L The most successful misstatements Hank tempers his hoss shoes. After Pia ni the Bad are half truth and half falsehood. a spell, Jim got where he could speak, bs i ae neat and we was all willin’ he should have Time and patience will enable a per- the floor. He said he didn’t know how| East Northfield, Mass., Dec. 24.— Ba son to conquer almost any obstacle. many houses he had helped to build,| pwight L. Moody, the evangelist, } . SE SRETe : but expected he had done his share, whose fame is world-wide, died at his ~ The movement against feminine but he did know, with a sad certainty home here at noon . yesterday. His veils certainly possesses unblushing of one heart he had broken by his Pt wicee sinds ante lis: bedside effrontery. wayward wicked ways, Jim didn’t] ~* ee cre porber a: § ce One i say whose heart it was, but we all and the dying man a last moments Che unexpected happens occasion- knew it was his mother’s. And she| Were spent. in comforting them. ally, but not so often as the expected had died alone and neglected jist a| arly in the day Mr. Moody lized _ fails to happen. year ago. So many things happen just that the end was not off and talked arama = a@ year ago! Then Jim begun again,| with his family at intervals, being Success is a crown that transforms (he could talk like his father I sus- | conscious to the last except for a few a murderer into a hero, especially it pect) and said that while he knew he | fainting spells. Once he revived, and the shield of patriotism protects him had tan eyone who loved him hee with wonderful display of strength in from the law. and the one that he loved best in the ‘ald: io & Hanis a —— world, killed her with cruel shame and ad pare Tae going } Chicago policemen are complaining sorrow—with God’s help he was re-| on here? a it over the frequent “assess- solved to make her glad in heaven to- One of the children repli¢ levied upon their scanty pay, night, that he would never touch an-| you have not been quite so we j 1 ert that Inspector Heidelmeier other drop of liquor as long as he | 8° We came in to see you.” { reatens condign displeasure toward lived. ‘ A ae a or Mr. Moody af oMicer Ww ho falls to hand in'his pro Mints! was: atiliness for. atime: and i Mave: aleras ee vane er ta share of the sapere fee civil the edges of the old blanket flapped / man, not ambitious to lay up wealth, See ne ae at eke Ait like big, ragged evil wings and the | but to leave you work to do. Are you hour off and give the inspector & fa uncorked jug sent out a smell that put | going to continue the work of the explanation of the laws which are sup- one in mind of venomous snakes and| Schools in East Northfield and Mount H posed to govern the police as well as | close by danger. while ae smutty, | Herman and of the Chicago Bible in- other departments of the public serv- : 74 ger, a : 52 | stitute?” creacked lamp flared up and then al As the noonday hour drew near the ene Seer, | most went out as if even that little} watchers at the bedside the According to his own story, Sol Van | puny, crippled light was ashamed of approach of death, Several imes his Praag, the noted Chicago statesman, is its company, Pretty soon, Jim Cam- lips moved winlivchigr sts felis the at & much-wronged person. At the time eron pulled his legs out from under | Hculation was so faint that the words the grand jury indicted Mrs. Van the trembling table, and straightening | COW Vl VT ody. awoke as if from ‘ his wife, for keeping a “panel himself up as best he could, bein’ 80/ Quimper and said with much joyous- ’ the sorrowful Sol declares she tall and standin’ as he did right under | jogs: _ was at an afternoon tea and that at the eaves of Hank's shop—said, “Boys, I see earth receding; heaven is precisely the same hour he was busy I have a notion that amounts to dead | opening od is calling me.’ and a directing a political meeting. This is certainty, that my wife and I will| moment later he expired. 4 certainly a deplorable condition of move back to our old home before long, | The death of Mr. Moody was not un- things, and must necessarily cause a We are both homesick for the grass pacaaaaed although bis eGned tae re falling off in attendance at pink and and geraniums and big trees in the hie eclntiven pee Me aed other teas held in the afternoon. The front yard, and the stone dog on the| of qoath was a general breaking down idea that a lady should bee abe by door step, and the little room where | of his health, due to overwork, His the grand jury because she was absent ta Al ni ame wear the memory of them disgraced | like a livin’, lovin’ thing to Jim—had | our babies died. I think we shall go} constitution was that of an exceed- from her whisky-row saloon pouring at A NEW YEAR 8 STORY. and wicked dave anoat us as sl an- | moved into a little old mntiay frowsy | back pretty soon, because you see with ly strong man, but his untiring Ia- atea! ——— cient sailor or some old salt, wore a | house with a bowed in roof and anglin’ | God’s help and God for a witness and bad gradually onder his re are By S, B. McManus. dead goose about his neck as a keep- | shutters, in a part of the town where | Hank Harmon and my neighbor, Wil- § mnt at oe oe sa ied It is all right that the English lan-| y want to tell you this New Year's | sake that he had been low down and | self-respectin’ folks didn’t generally | tam Wren, for witnesses, I now sol- ipec ent eal, fe iy Seat zuage should be employed in legisla- | night, what happened jist a year ag0 | sinful, try to get, And Jim knew, and we all] emnly promise—with my dead chil | yicpin DELahe ithe écisits andthe tive proceedings, in courts of law, and |in Hank Harmon’s blacksmith shop. But a Peer) *tainl knew that he and the rest of us and a collapse came during the ries of as a basis of school instruction. But | »pain’t much to tell, nor over much for ; Mw drunkards as we 2 ce vee lot more had built Joe's house in the MERSTLIGE ate SanBAS Cie teat ae { American civilization cannot afford to | gn outsider to harken to, but it means was, and what is more, vergin’ clos park, and that every nail in it if it a change for the wor red im- | postpone direct efforts for the moral| 4 mighty sight to me and the boys, | Oto bein’ bar-fer-keeps, old drunks Fe aN erated se cantie tidiea, “wouldn't mediate friends for;what was to come. and spiritual culture of that first gen- | an’ 7, for one, jist like to think of it ards as was no likely salvation for, we count up as many ner a tenth as many This week. however, the patient im- eration of immigrants who will never | an’ talk it over and kind of hug and| Wa’n’t any of us so very happy and as the tears shed fer its puttin’ up! proved steadily until Thur: when “ learn the language of this country. | emprace the words, expressin’ it as it comfortable and easy into our minds, at ‘We callated that one of us had hand- he appeared avery nich eg : The multitudes of Scandinavians, | were, and hold the sentences like a the beginnin’ of that night a year ago) 5 enough hard earned money over his ASME Fe aac ek as Slavs, Italians and Germans whose | hitter sweet morsel under my tongue. in Hank parmou's: blacksmith shop counter to pay for the grand stairway, ; Rh iaae gnxiously watching the children pass into our schools should | yyy strength don’t in any wise lay in ini the valley: Het of the Rudy, some: every inch of which was the premium sufferer. Thursday” evening Mr. hear in their own tongue the lessons | reiatin’ things and incidents, and it | thing, bullygard in the city of Sardiy- | york of an artist and a man as made Moody appeared (o realize that he which the republic has to teach 4nd | ¥i1) pe a good precaution, when I warn | 2Polis, where we boys lived. We put} 104 stairways for @ livin’ and never could not recover, and he so informed the higher lessons of religion. This you not to break in into me and ac- the hoss blanket over the gapinest |) toned, and T’Penkoned| jist makin’ a his family. During the night the: pa- is the growing conviction of some of cordingly intertupt me, for it will take cracks to keep the wind frum flarin’ radish aaneusin’ catiinate that I had tient had spelis of extreme weakness | the churches and of that tireless and fine-haired and top sawyer work to | Cut the smutty lamp that stood smokin’ traied Beet with Fou eke Hanosend and at 2 o'clock yesterday mor devoted band of workers who make up make my story look as if it had any and wobbly on an old table where anbther: toes anuch,ormay be ea eat Wood ws salted ay the requ i the Woman's Christian Temperance aakee or meanin’ at all, except to me } Hank writ his accounts, amongst, a lot thei pay fonithe alets Sane a indben ania ip oe nee ee They. ‘are looking among’ the and the boys as understand it com- | of nails and bolts and rivets and small not mentionin’ the stained ones, that tion of strychnine caused the heart to immigrants themselves for persons plete: gearin’, with a jug of Joe Howard's looked like flower beds set into his beat stronger. At 0 yesterday competent to instruct, inspire — and Jist a year ago tonight we met in | Cheapest, hellishest whisky in the mid- walls, with wreaths and roses and movning Dr. Weod was called again guide these millions toward the higher | 5... yarmon’s blacksmith shop to | dle as a kind of devil center piece. O. | young children and blue sky and grass and when he arrived he found the pa- wf levels of life. celebrate the day by gettin’ so para- | can’t I, and can’t all of us cronies jist aaa fangs ay thors’ waa: my suite Men in gent consclag one } F -$ lyzin drunk, that we could disremem- remember exactly, how that jiggly, | 214 youngsters at home—if such a th poe Rs 4 oh Saeki hele oa a ? It is related; on the suthority. of DF: ber the miserable homes we had | trembly, dirty old table looked and I place as we had finally got to could be 7 SEW oY , 7 ached ie i : 4 Edward Everett Hale, that a wealthy | °° 07 away tram and the heart- |am bound that it had the delirium | Poy. nome with the windows filled THERE WAS NEW YEAR'S DIN-|til the end cames gentleman, known to him, has for sev" | 1 en and down-lookin’ wives and | tremens, if anything in the world bar- tere old quilts and cushions and not NERS Opa D INTO THE SHA. iy eral yea™s pat ese nites re oe children we had left in them. We hung | Tin’ a man can have them. I can smell | enough in the cupboard to eat to much | dren to hear, too—that I, like our | ,. AL DEER. expenses of various young women who | a hoss:blanket over the ‘blegest cracks the oil that Hank spilled when he th t ace teondo eho hi iebdati-ue. will 4 Terrible Disaster at Amalfl. on the had no claims upon his bounty other | © a i Lats: pees 1 ae Aga Vad dee than, prevent them from goin a ep end who has Jj z oi newer Gulf of Salerno. fa sity i in the sides after Hank had fastened | filled the lamp wi is nervous, | }.4 hungry. And this was New Year’s | touch another drop of intoxicating Eee aa: srrible isa than those his generosity prompted. the door, and then we was in shapeful | shaky hands and it run along amongst | iont: It wasn’t a cheerful, glowin’ | liquor so long as I live.” And he] , Rome. Dec. 24. — A terrible disaster ahey were selected—presumably at his | eonaition to guzzle and pour down | the old iron and under Hank's day | oyttoox, no odds how perseverin’ one | picked up his ‘hat ‘and went away. hae pasted real u ponnlag desire—from. those pupils of the pub- our red-hot, thirsty throats, jist as | book and dropped over the edge onto | (104 ike Ghirksgleeful'cver tt ae p pedis aeons tourist rt on the Gult of Salerngs lic schools, who, in the opinion of their much of Joe Howard's red-hot, pizen- | the floor and went down a crack. And Hishie Hermon veniarksd! ashe. tookt|'r S date ar cer ; le E re About ay ‘clock : an ae ous a instructors, were most worthy and best | .0¢° wnisky as we could manage to get | there was the white jug with the blue | yi, place at ‘the table, with his back | en omen ees ais | LN hich stood the Capuccini hotel, fitted to pursue:a college career. This with our tremblin’ hand®, to our weak, "letterin’: “1 gal.,” with a sheaf of blue aglinthe dog 46 Samat atu aa troin rane ae panel nH Hank, as = ned slid bodily into the sea ee a deafen- J yeal several ot them graduated at waterin’, disgraced mouths. After this, | Wheat below to make it look tasty and arhanhit invonckpestedGthat Wkewiee! bases noah ae pra bbatyaenoled ie ne yi ant x bag ‘8 pone ; ake nua ey are fe ie we know what would most likely hap- cone makin’ a rough, uneducated callation, | the agen old table ie while fig put Nie ‘plc pat PT euaaten ~ pelawl ot hee poset hiss Da i teie pen, -judgin’ of course by what had And this was our New Year's table! | he hed helped Joe Howard in the build- | on his ragged overcoat, kind of care-| the Hetel Santa Calerina and several Bh ose S eaeaciaaa anal neat in. | DAaDDened. before—way would fall over | Four men—made in the image of God! | in’ of his mansion, as the newspaper | jess remarked—only anyone that nee credible. IPayithat thoucoweat Cai an amongst the Cn and hoss hoof And men for their folks and neigh- | called Joe’s house—quite a consider- | towed Hank would have known that - Anu Peon yee ao d in ths injunction tas a. wider”: appiicaiion: jealins and ie wagon tings and drag- | bors to be proud of—except they was | able, even to the pinchin’ of his fam- | he was in solemn, awful earnest—that | jj), Neblon ie ne moe dente thei “ than to mere monetary indebtedness seen ee ee ee where we would | drunkards. There was Jim Cameron, | jly for provisions and clothin’. Hank | jt didn’t look neighborly nor civil to} crews. The mass of "th which . i “ees | sleep like hogs—hogs as had lost their | one; me, two; Jim Green, three,— | callated he had done as much toward | jeay y like thi bi h ipped 1 000 cubie yard and benefits forgot and unpaid in | gejf-respect—until the cold a a th u ” 5 eave company like is, ut . e | slipper rbout 50,000 ew dic yards, My nm © | whose father had been a preacher— | the house, as the puttin’ in of the | guessed—no, I'll be damned if 1 The pepulation is in a state of ter- gratitude, proclaim niggardliness of soul, as well as lack of high principle. ‘Newspaper correspondents writing from Berlin state that two more re- markable cures of ‘blindness by means ef electricity as applied by Professor Stein are reported. A man who for fourteen years has been totally blind fs now able to read coarse print. A girl of 18 who has been blind for five years is now able to walk about and recognize friends. Several other cases hhdve been reported where persons partly blind have been enabled to see perfectiy. Professor Stein has been working on the idea for thirteen years, and eight years ago imvented an elec- trical appliance by which the blind can je made to see lights. Since then he bas been experimenting with more uncomfortableness would wake and sober us enough to crawl home to our wretched houses, which we would make wretcheder and miserabler by our comin’, We talked of this tonight, and we all | when he has no call to. and Hank Harmon, as owned the shop, As I said we wa’n’t over happy and comfortable that night, considerin’ we had such a reckless layout and an early start. I have frequent noticed, that you can’t always kick conscience }} under the table or settee as you can an unruly dog that whines and barks And some- how conscience has a habit of gettin’ around and in the way on such doin’ days as New Year’s, Christmas and the like. And four consciences as hadn’t had their just deservin’s nor innings for many a month, slipped their halters that night a year ago and managed to make things unpleasant for their own- ers. I suspect the troubled waters mentioned in the scriptures means somethin’ like this. But any way we plumbing — pipin’ — chandeliers, with the furnace ‘hrowed in for fair meas- ure and good feelin’. And speakin’ of the furnace, Hank happened to recol- lect that there wasn’t a stick of wood or a pound of coal in his house, and guess—(Hank wasn’t a swearin’ man, never) he said, I know I must do as Jim Green and Jim Cameron have done, and with God to help me and God and you, William Wren, to be my witnesses, I, Henry Harmon, will never drink another drop of intoxicating liquor so long as I live. And ihe rick- ety old door dragged back to its place and he was gone, and I alone. There was but one decent, manly thing left for me to do, and by this time it was the only thing I wanted to do and standing up with only God for witness—and He was enough—I promised as the other boys had prom- ised, and then, with a thread of a prayer that would tangle itself with my other thoughts, I took the jug and smashed it upon the anvil. ror, fearing fresh calamities. ‘Troops haye arrived upon the scene and be- gun rescue work, is believed that the loss of life is number of of the hotel. yet it‘is ascertain the exact number, Amalia is a small but lively town of 7,000 inhabitants situated at the en- trance 01 p ravine, surrounded by impes ns and rocks of the most picture © forms. The Capu- chin monastery was founded in 1212, by Cardinal Pietro Capucino for the Sisterians, but came into poss: on of the Capuchins in 1588. The building, which stood in the hollow of the great rock that rose abruptly from the sea to a height of 258 feet, contuined. fine cloisters. apants fe to ow Eseape. Gallipolis, Ohio, Dee. 24.—The home practical results. The appliance which was troubled onaccountably. * + * of Luke Darst of Cheshire, was 4) the professor claims to have invented Not so onaccountably either, for we While it come to us unexpected that | Purved jaat nent Darst and eight at once makes the biind see. He then wasn’t so old and hardened and crusted we should begin a new and decent life Clay Pier ce uaa gos sn adjusts a glass of proper focus, as one in sin and drinkin’, but what we all —jist like a message from God, almost, | fatjer rushed from the house A ae does an opera or field glass. Though Professor Stein has spent a fortune in developing and verfecting his inven- over frequent, because it was not clost by us, though, and was always in! were rescued in wanner, but tion, he deciares ue will cure the poor agreeable, reach when we most needed Him, [1 | t1--- a ten -old boy, wag # free and look to the rich for his fees. PUT THE HOSS BLANKET UP. One thing that made us feel a trifle was a hard won victory, but we won it | burned to death. ‘ ¥ remembered everything that was done | down and dismal was that. the keeper SIM BEGAN TO CRY. “In conclusion,” as they say in story Fire in Her Hold. i Mme. Sembrich made her first ac- quaintance with the college yell of lusty football players recently at the Auditorium in Chicago. She affirms re Regie Sea jon acme ber that night—the night when God-or | 80me new residence frontin’ the park | down-hearted and some of us—it was | with them, and there is another baby bat lares rata ue Fou ne time. , some of his shinin’, holy angels come | and the library buildin’. It was the | me—for I needn’t pretend to confuse | in the house whose name is James G. ing, and seventy bales of catton have - such fame, is a spray of laurel for the chrysanthemum songsters. A Chicago doctor has been diagnos- ing the “wheelman’s hunch.” As an all-round curiosity a wheelman of the seorcher variety is probably without an equal. “None but himself can be bis parallel.” es and said, as if it was writ on the black walls of the shop with white heat run- nin’ iron from the forge, and we ali agreed too, never to try to disremem- down to us and shamed us into bein’ decent, sober, Christ-lovin’ men. “There is recollections,” Jim Cam- eron said, “that allers cught to be recollected and kept like a blazin’ torch in front of us. Some of them fer safety sake and some fer shame sake,” and Jim furthermore gaid we ought to could think when we give ourselves a chance, which we made sure not to do of the Happy Home saloon, Joe How- ard, had jist moved a day or so back, out of his old house down by the gas works and the tannery, into his hand- prettiest, tastiest, imposin’ist house in the Cirele and he had made every dol- lar of it out of such fellows as me and the rest of us. And then Jim Cameron had moved that very day—New Year’s day—from the home his father had given him and every brick ané board in it was his wife was sick and his children not sweatin’ with bein’ overclothed or overfed. And reminescening along this line, we naturally got dismal and or forget anything that happened that night—moved that we unanimously take a drink and I accordin’ pulled the cork from the white stone jug, with the blue letterin’ and wheat sheaf. But Jim Cameron nor Hank nor Jim Green held up their cups, but I filled mine in a manly, don’t-care way and it was put upon us to help ourselves, jist all that was possible. God stood books, it is only fair to mention that Jim Cameron and his wife have pos session once more of their stone dog and geraniums, and Jim Green lives Cameron. There are no blankets in the windows of my home today, and Hank Harmon is as happy and pros- perous as a decent, hard-workin’ God- fearin’ man can well be, and in every one of our homes there was New Year's dinners today, that makes my mouth water to even think of now. his children to jump froin the high windows into his arms. Seren of them London, Dec. 24.—The Eritisn steam- er Vulcan, Capt. Nailo, which arrived at Hamburg Dee. 18, from Gal on, via Fayal, where she was towed in been damaged. At Binghamton, N. Y.. John Edgar Gardiner, in order to get his picture in print. shot his young wife and t killed himself. He was sixty years age. his wife twenty-nine, f