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FEITON-GOHDON.
The following extracts from tbe
proceedings of the coavcotion of in*.
dependents at Rome, Ga., that put
nlll Dr. W H. Felton as an opposing
candidal to Mr. R. M. Everett, the
ri „ n ,lar democratic nominee, will be
instructive reading for Alliance**
men that are inclined to endorse
(* v ,v. Gordon for the United States
SenHere > 3 what this inde-
JI(M)
lent nominee said in his address
„ul the Alliance:
•< Dr. Felton accepted the nomina
tion in a two hours’ speech, in which
he ripped the sub-treasury scheme
U p the hack and thrust a twosedged
gnord into the body of the Farmer’s
A 1 in nee organization, likening it to
tin: Star Chamber, the Spanish In*
quisiiion and the Venetian Council
of Ten. He advised all the farmers
to quit an organization that refused
ad Hi ii lance to city preachers as mcm*
hern.”
This insult to and slander upon
the Farmers’ Alliance was loudly
applauded.
The convention adjourned and
then resolved into a mass meeting,
unanimously endorsing Gordon for
the Senate and putting tts foot
squarely down on all opposition to
him.
N"W, we would like to ask, bow
can any self-respecting Allianceman
support Gov. Gordon for the Senate
in the lace ot this defiance. To do
so would bo equivalent to an en
dorsement of Dr. Feltou’s tirade
against this organization, and ren
del it an object of contempt and rids
icule.
Although a week has elapsed
since this independent pow-wow was
held, and its proceedings were tele**
graphed and published all over the
slate and Union, Gov. Gordon has
:toi uttered a word of protest, and
neither has he repudiated the en
dorsement given lum by those 7th
district independents. '
We would like to ask, with what
The fight against the Alliance is
waxing hot and heavy, but Tub
Banner will stand by the farmers
to the end. We have the almost en
tire press of the state arrayed . gainst
us, but we say to our oppoueutp:
*Lay on McDnff, and damned be lie
who first cries hold, enough'” Our
little battery will pour hot shots of
democratic truths into the ranks of
the enemy, and we will remain at
our post until the last ballot is
polled.
There seems to be an infamous
coalition now on foot between capi
talists, politicians and* independents
to break down the Farmer’s Alii*,
ance movement, even if it disrupts
the party in Georgia and restores
the political supremacy of the negro.
Leading daily papers, that have here*,
tofore been staunch supporteis of the
democratic nominees, are silent on
the break in the 7th district, and fill
their columns with booms for Dr.
Felton. The hope of our party is
now in the farmers of Georgia. Let
them stand together and vole togetli
er, and we will yet defeat this mon
grel and disgraceful coalition.
consistency can he
ship for the Almui
le profess fiiend
Ince, with Dr. Fel
ton’s abuse of that organization yet
ringing iu his cars, and claim that
tie delivered his Alliance speech to
prevent disruption in the democratic
parly, when he is the declared nom*»
iuee of independents?
ATHENS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 9,1890?
Alliancemen oT Georgia, bear in
mind that the same crowd of old po
litical sore-heads that have brought
out Felton against the regular dem
ocratic nominee, are also hurrahing
for Gordon for U. S. Senator ; and
the papers that are fighting thcAUi
ance and championing the cause of
Gordon, are filling their uulumns
with Felton booms. Can you now
cndoise Gordon lor the U. S. Senate?
Assuredly not.
The proper definition of “Jeffer
sonian Democrat,” is a cross be
tween a sore -head kicker and a re**
publican.
VOL. 58—NO. 194
If Judas Iscariot or Benedict Ars
nold could live in Georgia now, they
would iloub'.iess demand to be cata
logued as “Jeffersonian Democrats.”
It is now in order for Thad Pick
ett to enter the areua as a “Jeffer
sonian Demociat."
ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
GEORGE T. MURRELL. Ewtoa.
GEN. GORDON AND THE
TREASURY.
SUB-
Tliere is no uiau iu the State of Geor
gia whom the farmers would more de
light to honor than Gen. John B. Gor
don. His private character and public
record stand high before liia people. As
soldier and citizen he is the peer of any
man. Uis magnetic powers as a man
and itis acknowledged ability as utiora
tor eminent li lit him for a high posi
tion as a stump speaker before the pop
ulace. Tub scar upo i his noble face
points our memories back to oih.*r days
when the souls of man were tried to
their utmost endurance. When we re
member how bravely be stood, liow he-
- ■ '■ ■■ roically he fought and ho w gallantly ho
From tilt 7th dutrict standpoint i St'ttJ*
Reed, and Ingalls are fine specimens ‘ feelings of admiration for him whenever
A preacher that deserts t e fo .
of Christ for the mud puddle of p >1-
itics, should hereafter be defined as
a '-Jeffersonian Democrat ”
of “Jeffersonian Democrats.’
and wherever he appears upon the pub
lic rostrum? Is it any wondfct* that we
8bould lose ourselves in the realm of
n c . : - ogviuu ivao uui oci tco All tuc D3UHU Ul
Emory opeer is what you might: hero-worship when his God-bke form
call a
crat.”
retired 'Jeffersonian Demo*
THE COTTON MARKET.
The Market Is Still Lively and the Re
ceipts are Large.
The cotton market yesterday was de-
cid**dly lively and the prices were still
very good when the circumstances of
the market were considered.
The receipts were very heavy, and
many thought that t’ e Monday market
would bo depressed considerably in con
sequence of it.
The receipts in the city were very
1 *rge and numbered nearly a thousand
bales.
So far it was the busiest day of the
season.
Money matters are beginning to as
sume a brighter aspect, and it is
thought little difficulty will be expe
rienced after this.
COL. C. M. WITCHER
We would like to usk those sow
called democratic papers in Georgia
—that are so approvingly smiling at
Dr. Felton’s candidacy against Ev.**
crett, tlie regular nominee—if there
is any difference between the posi
tion of tbe old independent bclU
wether now and when lie opposed
Clements ? These Gordon-Felton
organs have simply decided to ap
peal to the negro in order to break
down and defeat tbe Farmer’s AH?
liance.
Is Endorsed for State Senator by the
Elbert Alliance.
The following resolution was unani
mously adopted by the Elbert county
Alliance at its last meeting:
Resolved, By Elbert County Alliance
that we consider Mr. C. M. Witcher, of
Oglethorpe, every way, fitted to fill the
office of State Senator from the 30th sen
atorial district and believing that it is
Oglethorpe’s time according to the ro-
ition system to furnish the Senator,
we do unanimously endorse his candi
dacy for the same and we request that
the papers of the district publish these
resolutions.
MR. JOHN TEMPLE CRAVES.
We are surprised that the editor
of the Rome Tribune should have
halted one instant between two opin
tons, as to whether he should give
his support to the regular nominee
of his party in the 7ib district, or to
Dr. Kcltqn, the independent candi
date. The questions that Mr. Graves
propounded to Mr Everett should
have been settled before he was
made tbe standard-bearer of his par
ty, and after the organized dem<c
rucy had placed its seal upon him,
the nominee should at once be giv
en the suppoet of every true demo
crat.
We would like to ask Mi. Gravts
what possible claim .could Dr. Felo
ton have on a democrat? Has be
not betrayed his party time and
again; and after being twice brand
ed with defeat, sneaked back into
the organized ranks, to again be»
come an apple of discord?
The idea of “Jeffersonian Dem
ocrats” supporting Wm. H. Felloa
Against the parly nominee! If you
designate a vile attempt to override
a nomination made by white dem
ocrats with negro votes if Jefferson
democracy,” God save the country
born Jeffersonian democrats!
Mr. Graves did right when he
tame into the Everett ranks, but he
added no fresh lustre to his fame
w hen he saw fit to halt, even for
an instant, on the brink ofindepend-
entism.
The charge that the Alliance con
gressman will refuse to go into a
democratic caucus is a slanderous
on this noble organization—one of
l ho thousands of falsehoods being
hatched and circulated by its en»
tmits. The Alliance within it*
is the democratic party—only it
>S last,
and p,
*ho arc figgiing Mr. Everett and ev-
tr > other nominee, unless 1 e wears
’be yoke of Gordon, of the Atlanta
liu g and of Wall street.
The day an Allianceman vo'es for
a legislative candidate announced to
support Gordon for U. S. Senator, he
grounds his arms to Wall Street, and
drives a rivet into the shackles that
the Alliance is loosening from hie
limbs.
Why don’t our leading dailies run
the Dames of Felton and Gordon at
their mast-heads ? They are evi
dently in sympathy with both can
didates.
A NEW SIGHT.
Mr. John Biggs, of Oconee, Sees the
Pare For the First Time.
In this advanced age it isn’t often
that oue hears of a man who has never
seen a railroad train. Such however, is
the case with Mr. John Biggs, of Oco
nee county.
Mr. Biggs is a farmer, and lives near
High Shoals, which is in about four
miles of the Covington railroad; and
yet he never saw a railroad train until
yesterday when he came to Athens for
the first time and boarded the cars for
Bishop.
lie has lived on his farm quietly, all
his life, and has amassed a very neat lit
tle sum of money. He decided to see
something of the world recently, and
came to Athens to see the sights.
Mr. Biggs is an intelligent gentleman
and talks well on almost any subject.
The Atlanta Journal—a paper that
has always professed great love and
friendship for the farmers—heads its
account of Dr. Felton’s independent'
candidacy in the 7th district: “The
Old Man Eloquent attacks the Alii
ance.” And yet the Journal does
nit utter one word of defence for
this slandered and abused organize
tion. Ii such papers as this are
friends to the Alliance, that order
should exclaim, *' God save me from
my friends !”
That tired feeling now so often beard
of, is entirely overcome by Hood’s Sar
saparilla, which gives mental and bodily
strength.
IT WAS A JOKE
The At(j&n'a Journal is closily
alligned with Gov. Gordon, and is
supporting him for the Senate. Ai d
while that p*iper gave great promi
nence to Dr. Felton's abusive attack
on the Alliance, it did not utter a
word of dissent. “ Straws* show
which way the wind blows.”
Anti Was Gotten Up Merely to Scare
the Sheriff.
It was simply a joke.
There was no intention to hang Mor
rison in Danielsville last Wednesday
night.
A party of mischievous horse swap
pers succeeded in spreading the report j
that the negro was to be lynched in or
der to scare the sheriff, who was very
much afraid such an attempt would be
■made.
There was a gentleman from DaRiels-
*ville in the city .yesterday who partici
pated in the joke.
The residents of Danielsville are law-
emerges into sight? Is it a matter of
amazement that we should scream our
throats sore, stand up and throw onr
hats iu the air when in a public ball we
are honored by bis presence? With
what circumspection ought such men
to walk? *
With General Gordon’s powers of
personal magnetism and his well-merit
ed influence over his fellow-country
men he is destined to be a valued friend
to whatever cause be sees proper to es-
pouso and a dangerous foe to any meas
ure that lie may oppose.
When our ga laut Gordon marched
through Georgia in the Gordon—Bacon
campaign, he swept all opposition in the
rural districts from before him with
the manifest interest he took in the far
ming class. While the cities opposed,
the fanners upheld him with their toil-
worn hands. He claimed to be tbe
friend of the struggling masses and no
man doubts the sincerity of his devo
tion to them at that time. The power
ol the press and as many leading politi
cians of the State as could be mustered
into service against him shelled the
woods with public and private attacks
on his character as a business manager
and many uncomplimentary things were
said about his giving place to Hou.
Joseph E. Brown in the_ United
States senate. Under all this 1 , galling
fire of the opposition he kept
steadily forward, being borne along in
the arms of the farmers to the most sig
nal victory that was ever achieved by
any man in the political circles of the
State of Georgia. The farmers had an
abiding faith in his friendship for their
interest and could not be moved to cast
their ballots against him. Since that
time the General has, on various public
occasions, portrayed in eloquent words
the embarrassed and down- trodden con
dition of the farmer, denouncing in un
measured terms the devilish machina
tions of their opnressors. He has in
sisted that we should keep out of the
hands of the speculators and valiantly
oppose the power of money to oppress,
lie has, on more occasions • Alan one,
before Alliance assemblies proclaimed
his unswerving allegiance to Alliance
principles and Alliance movements.
To this end he has insisted that we
should act as one man. That perfeet
unity should prevail among us. Tell
ing us that, in order to break down all
opposition to our best interest and gain
tbe great objects we have set out to ac
complish, we must see to it that
there should be no divisions in our ranks
on the great questions of the day. How
our hearts burned within us and our
eyes brightened with becoming pride
when this grand and eloquent man com
pared us to the union of rain drops upon
the mountain side that formed the rills,
then the creeks and the rivers, by the
mighty coming together of which the
great Mississippi, the father of waters,
was formed, moving in resistless cur
rent to join hands with the mightier
gulf bearing upon its bosom a nation’s
commerce! And so we come on down
to bis address to the Agricultural con
vention at LaGrange, just one week be
fore his famous speech before the
Alliance convention in Atlanta, atid we
find him advocating harmony and unity
iu the ranks of the farmer.
In referring to the Sub-Treasury
at LaGrange he begged that
tnose of our brethren who* opposed it
should not fall out with those who fa
vored the measure, that the object un
derlying the Sub-Treasury plan was
good one and cotild only be attained by
pressing forward to the same given
point. That we should by no means op
pose those who preferred the Sub-Treas
ury route. He wound up by expressing
declaration that he would give bis un
swerving allegianee to Alliance princi
ples and movements. Again, he urged
us to stick to the Democratic party, and
at great length pointed out to us the
arils of going over to tbe Republicans.
How will this do to put in tbe same box
with ‘•itis abiding faith in our loyaity
to the Democratic |Arly ?”
What had cao*ed the General to
weaken iu his laith in our loyalty to
Democratic principles in tbe shortspace
of a -ven days ? If the General .or any
body else, objects to the Sub-Treasury
plank in our plat-form, why in the
name of heaven is it, that some other
plank is not presented that is better,
that we may Like nut and put in? Wc
are not wedded to the name, we arc
wedded to the principle that underlies
the plank, give us another name that
will pass muster aud carryout the prin
ciple, and we will lake it, and thank
you for it. Tell us how to keep out of
the hands of produce s|>ecu!aiors, and
help us to do it and we will have aSul-
Tre isury fuueral next day.
If you can’t subscribe to tbe Sub-
Treasury plan, subscribe to something
that will give us a living price for the
food and clothes we give you to eat and
wear, and please don’t be long about it.
Be iu a hurry, or we will starve before
you reach us!
Why is it that our gallant Gordon’s
popularity is thrown in the face of ev
ery man that favors the Sub-Treasury.
Why is it that these men about tbe cit
ies aud towns, who never could be made
to s6e why Gen. Gordon gave place to
Gov. BroWn, can so easily see now why
Governor Browu should give place to
Gen. Gordon? Why is it that the Sub-
Treasury issue is made at this time, and
why is it that the most popular man iu
this statu should be chosen to carry it
through ? Why is it that the towns ami
cities are solidly arrayed against the
Sub-Treasury? There must l.m a reason
for it. is it because all the intelligence
of the land is to be found there? Do
they know the needs of the farm ng
class better than the country people do
themselves ? Who can better tell how
hungry a man is, the one who feels the
pangs of an empty stomach, or the man
that sits by after a good square meal and
looks at him ? W by is it that the mer
chants, the lawyers, the marnca turers
the trading world and tbe professional
gentry ate all on one side of this ques
tion, while the farmers, as a rule, are
on the other, and our noble old chief
tain, having the opportunity to do so,
should prefer to leave the cause of the
farmer and join the ranks of the oppo
sition ? A speculator said to me uot
many days ago, we’ll down your’Sub-
Treasury hopes with the General’s pop
ularity and magnetic power. Now, if
the General wants to put his popularity
and magnetism in the scales with the
justice of our cause,and thinks that will
be sufficient argument to settlo tbe
question, wc will say to him once and
for all: Sentiment and love for him
must and yfill go down before our ur
gent neecU and necessities. /*
IS IT A GORDON
MOVE? I
THE RUMOR THAT GENERAL GOR
DON’S FRIENDS ARE RE
SPONSIBLE
RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT.
Da. C. W. LAKE, Editor.
j THE WISE AND FOOLISH BUILDERS
For the Fights Being Made by the In
dependents Against tne Alliance-—I
Alliancemen True and Loyal Demo
crats—Mr. winn Says Ho Is a Jeffer- {
sontan But Not of the Felton Stripe.
JANE SPEA
Anc
abiding men and would not attempt to j an adding faith in our loyalty to the
lynch Morrison when they were almost democratic party.
sure what course
with him.
th% law would take
The Augusta Chronicle fills its
editorial columns with abuse copied
from the New York Sun against the
Farmer’s Alliance. And the Chron
icle is now one of Gordon’s warm
est supporters. Tbe Alliance will
cot be caught with such sugar-coat
ed words as Gov. Gordon’s Pfitnatn
county speech.
The.present charter of the Louisiana
State Lottery Company, which is part
of the constitution df thestate, aud by
decision of the Supreme Couit of the
United States, is an inviolable contract
between the state and tbe Louisiana
State Lottery Company, w-ill remain iu
force, under any circumstances, five
years longer, or until 1898. The Louis
iana Legislature, which- adjourned the
other day, voted by two-tbirds majority
in each house, to let the people decide
whether the Lottery shall continue from
1896 untiM919. The general impression
is that tbe people will favor eontinu-
THEC.&M.
By the way, is there anything in
consistent in Buck, Pledger or Matt
Davis writing “Jeffersonian Demo-
. crat” after their names? They are ,
being purified of tricksters j , ,., n „ „ , • • change bands no one doubts, but the
•lUiciia This is the class « n R a « ed w,th Dr ' FeltOD and . Georgia, Carolina aud Northern will bo
* lowers in the same work—that is, try the purchaser. Cur reason for making
• . 1 _ I, ,ho Samncraiii* 1 this statement is, that the Browns, oi
mg to break down the democratic Baltimote> ^,^,1 the bonds of both
Belief that It Will be Benight by the G.
& N.
It is not believed in Athens that the
■Richmond & Dauvillc road will^secure
theC. &M. That this road will soon
party in Georgia, and placing black lines, as also a majority of stock in th
i f i Covington & Macon, it is not reason
white necks. 1 ^ ^ they wouW pt . rmit s riva i ] in
We learn that certain men in Ath-
ens are denouncing The Banner for
Polishing that reported bribery stO'
! -' Suppose the honor of a friend
^■elative was impeached, would it
)e r *ght to give consent to' tbe
* tani, al by silence? Next to a man’s
aiDiiy he owes devotion to his.couu-
r i’ aod to his party. If the democ-
^ ta ey of the 8th district is corrupt,
e 118 purify and redeem it.
Shades of Thomas JetfcrsopJ Sup
pose he should rise from hi** grave
and see the miserable abortion
pdlitics perpetrated iu his honored
name? •
.to get possession of so important a feed
er as the C. & M., and which is thei
only outlet. Besides, the G. S. & F. i
but a conticua ion of this new system,
and it will be necessary for the G. C. t
N. to get control of the line from Aih ■
ens to Macon to take advantage of it.
.... - , Will be sold at auction, nex
Dp. Felton ebjeetoto toe Al '“°“ b at ui liay at 10:30 u’clock, on.
becauae it don t allow c ty pr “; t ” Uo Saw Gia, in front of th
ere m toe,r make. If ear .harehes I ^ Sto , e ,
would draw the line oa political f
preachers, tbe cause of religion
wobM be greaU, beeefMO. J Auct,oncer.
party
On account of these generous words
and the many expressions of good Alli
ance doctriue inculcated in his address,
he was unanimously endorsed by a ris
ing vote—the writer standing his full
height (6 feet) and on this occasion
little upwards of that.
Now then, on the following Wednes
day night in Atlanta, before the dele
gates of the Alliance Convention the
General, we fled, has changed his
views a little and shifted bis position
from that taken on former occasions
This is the thing we cannot understand
and we sincerely trust that he will do
the Alliancemen, who think well of the
Sub-Treasury plan and at the same
time admire and esteem him, the favor
to explain.
We cannot reconcile the position he
took in Atlanta with that taken on for
mer occasions.
In referring to the Sub-Treasary
“8 hsme” as he now calls it, he said
“ that he could not and would not en
dorse it though it should cost him for
ty elections.” How will that db to go
along with thp urgent admonition given
us on former occasions‘-not to oppose
those of our brethren who preferred the
Sub-Treasury route to freedom from
speculators?
Tue General has known for a long
time—he knew that night that one of
the planks in our national plat-form
adopted by the St. Louis National Al
liance convention was the Sub-Treasury
plank, and that it bad been ratified by
the Georgia Alliance. Subs., counties
and State Alliances bad endorsed it.
And yet, with this knowledge before
him be sought to convince us, the rep
resentatives of our Sub-Treasury breth
ren at home, that we were all wrong or
else to array brother against brother,
and thereby creating a division among
us. How will'this do to keep company
with his former advocacy of harmony
and unity among us?
He knew that night as he had known
e-Afflrms His Statement Con-
rnlng Mr. George B. Lurppkln.
Athens Ga., September 5, 1890.
Editor Banner: In answer to the
cards of Mr. George D. Lumpkin ap
pearing in you issues of 3rd and 0th in
stant, I beg to say that when Mr.Lump
kin denies the facts as l have stated
them, it will be time for me to “speci
fy.” Until ttaeh I deem it unnecessary
to Jo so.
In this connection allow me to say in
justice to Mr. Colley and his delegates
and to Mr. Olive and his delegates that
none of them had any knowledge of or
connection with this transaction except
Mr. Geo. D. Lu.mpkr
ET
J NARROltf ESCAPE.
From Being Hurled Into Eternity.
Special by News Telegram Association.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 0 —Ten passen
gers on the Blue ltivlgc and Atlantic
railroad train, among them Parson
Pickett, the congressional candidate,
hail a narrow escape from death yester
day morning.
They were on their way from Tallu
lah Falls to Cornelia, where the Blue
Ridge railroad connects with the Rich
mond and Danville.
The train on which the passengers
were, was what is known as a mixed
train, being made np of a number of
freight boxes with a passenger coach in
the rear.
As it went rumbling over the moun
tainous road yesterday it approached
one of tbe steepest trestles on the line,
the distance from the creek to the tres
tle being seventy feet.
When within twenty feet of the tres
tle the front wheels of tbe engine jump
ed the track, and the ponderous ma
chine lumbered on, bumping over the
cross ties as it dragged tbe cars behind
to an awful fate. The engineer reversed
bis engine and then jumped to the
ground with his fireman just as his en
gine passed on the trestle
Special by News Telegram Association.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 6.—It is consid-
eieil uy observers a rather remarkable
coincidence that wherever there is an
independent movement for the legisla
ture or for Congress that a very promi
nent feature of the movement is a de
claration for Gordon. Is General Gor
don responsible in any way for these
i ndepe tide nt movements ?
That is a question Alliancemen are
asking. It is a very interesting ques
tion and these independent movements
are invariably against Alliance candi
dates and the impression seems to be
gaining ground that General Gordon’s
friends are responsible for them and
that this is a part of their anti-Al-
liauoe policy. The politicians may
think themselves cute enough to cover
their tracks and hoodwink the farmers,
but they might as well kuow right now
that they are being wat hod.
One feature of their tight is that upon
the members of Congress. The hope of
creating strife or this kind to help Gen
eral Gordon. The Felton race is indi
rectly at least, due to this Gordon
movement. They propose to put every
Alliance candidate for Congress oh the
rack in the hope that they may bo able
to put these candidates in an attitude of
opposition to the Democratic party.
“Will you abide by the democratic
caucus in Washington?” is to be the
test question, it has not been formally
put to Colonel Livingston yet,but when
l asked him, he said without equivoca
tion that he would; that he is a demo
crat,and all efforts to make him out any
thing else came from his euemies. John
Temple Graves asked Mr. Everett the
same question, and wiien answered in
tbe affirmative, Colouel Graves was) too
good a democrat to oppose him, and so
comes down and out of the Tribune.
Mr. Winn, too, talks in nO uncertain
terms. In the Journal today he is quo
ted as saying:
“I am a democrat, warp and woof,and
of the Jeffersonian type, f have always
been and 1 will continue to be such;
and, if efectedjto congress, I will abide
by tbe action of the caucus in all things
necessary for the success, inaintenanee
and unity of the democratic party, its
principles and purposes.”
So they must see that all these at
tempts are abortive. There is no inde-
pendentism iu the Alliance.
Matt 7: 24-29
This is a wilderness of sand.
With driving winds on every hand;
How many build tbeii houses here.
Nor seem the coming storm to fear!
There is a sure Foundation-Stone :
May I be boilded there upon!
Tuen shall I stand the last dread shock,
Bale on the Everlasting Rock.
_ -Bel
BE CONTENT.
Be content with such things as ye have.
Some people have better things, others
have worse. You, perhaps, cannot have
the better, and yon have no desire for the
worse; then be content with what you
have. You may have had better things
in the past; you may have worse things in
tbe future; be tbankfal for tbe present,
•nd be content. If your lot is a hard one,
you may improve it, but not by murmur
ing, fretting, or repining. Just hero to
day learn the lesron of contentment, and
wait on God for brighter days, for richer
fraits, for purer joys.
No blessing comes to the murmuring
complaining, duconteucd heart When
once this evil demoa of discontent has en.
tcred into the soul, nothing is right. Even
the “angel’s food* was not good enoogh
lor the murmering Israelite), and ‘ tbo
corn of heaven’’ could not satisfy those
whose souls were filled with the discon
tent of earth. But when once tbe heart
has found its rest in God, and all Us mur-
murings are hushed in sweet submission to
bis will, there is peace in believing and joy
in the Holy Ghost, and a hallowed confi
dence iu me kind providence of Him who
bath done all things well.—The Christian.
SHUTTING THE DOOR.
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One of, the wonderful things about our
Lord Jesus Christ’s words is that the
meaning of them deepens and widens
just as our heart and >'<ves deepens and
widiens. Not long ago a ydhng Christian
fell into great distress about not being
able to pmy more earnestly; he went
olten upon uis knees, he used full peti
tions. He knocked loudly at Heaven’s
door, and then went away empty, unsatis
fied.
“Have you followed the Master's rules ?”
asked an old preacher, to whom he told
his trouble. The young man said he
thought he had. “You entered into yonr
closet? Did yon shut out ail your busi
ness worries ? all your plans for pleasure ?
all your telf-esteem? Was all your earth
silent before God when you soaght in
>lm liUk Ho—t tsMplu ?” —
The young Christian felt with a thrill
that the speaker had found out Che secret
of bis discomfort iu prayer.
Dear young readers, I need hardly re
mind you that your first daily duty is to
“enter into thy closeibut, when there,
let your first petition be, “Now UCvonly
Father, help me to shut the door.” Anu,
having shut it, watch and guard it, for
just as surely as you enter that closet, your
great enemy begins by clamor or by wiles,
by force oi by craft, to break down the
door and put to rout all your devotional
thoughts and feelings.—Forward.
“HESHALLREIGN.”
Rev. D. Downie, D. D., Nellore, India,
writes joyfully ol the coming of Cnrist to
victory;
“Whether you or I live to see the per
sonal coming of onr Lord in glory or not,
of one thing we are certain, 'He shall see
of the travail of his soul and shall be satis*
lied.’ Ours is the glorious privilege of do
ing well the part he has assigned us of
pushing the glad tidings, of training weil
those who believe, of never for a moment
relaxing oar efforts till tbe Muster bids us
come up higher. There is no theory of
the Lord’s coming that can retard this glo
rious work. Whatever does retard it can
not be of God. It must, it will, go on un
til the ends of the earth shall know that
be is God and beside him tbero is none
else. The gods of the heathen must crum
ble before him. And, as you say, if we do
not see with these moral eyes the glorious
consummation, we shall see it by-and-by ia
the blighter world.” ^
prayeraSbwered.
Abraham prayed, “O that Ismael might
live before thee;” aud God s*id, “As for
Ishmat l, I have heard thee.” Lot prayed,
The engineer and fireman who looked
upon the thrilling scene, expected to see
Lintless Cotton.
Columbia, S. C., September 5.—The
general reader will doubtless remember
the reported discovery about a year ago
of a lintless variety of cotton in Spar
tanburg county, this state, the subse
quent denial and ridicule of the story,
and its final verification by the exhibi
tion of bolls of the curious plant. In
terest in the discovery has now been re
newed and additional verification given
it by tbe fact that lintless cotton has
this year been grown sporadically on a
plantation hear Action, about fifteen
miles from this city. Two bolls are now
on exhibition in the office of the Ban
ner correspondent. ’ One of them is
nearly mature and open, showing twen
ty-four large, black, shining seeds,
packed as closely as green peas in a pod*
There is not a fiber of lint abont the
seeds or the boll. The other boll is w
ning to change their color. There is no | while Sodo n and Gomorrah were con
sumed. Jacob prayed, and his n<tme was
changed to IsraeL HU descendants cried
gine from tbe trestle's dizzy heights
to the stream beneath. The draw-head
of a flat car containing lumber pulled
out, bowever,>'ben it was banging h ilf
way off the trestle, throwing the lum'
ber out into air and sending it broad
cast over the valley.
The passengers r somewhat alarmed at
the sudden stopping'of the train, hur
ried out of the coach, and their faces
paled when they saw how near to death
they had been.
Deputy United States Marshal Camp
bell, of Atlanta, was among -them, and
he says it was a very ticklish feeling
that came over him when he saw the
flat car suspended in the air, the scat
tered lumber and the engine damming
up-the creek into which it h-.d fallen,
and where it lay hissing and almost
lovered from view by theshattered frag
ments of the two box cars.
from tbe
movement of the A
ning to change
lint in this ball either, and the seeds fie
pressed againsteach other three, four
and five in a row. The seeds in these
two bolls are fully twice as large as the
average cotton seed, and are from two
to three times as numerous, ordinary
cotton pods containing not often more
than a dozen seeds. Tbe appearance of
the plant is precisely tbe same as its
lint-bearing fellows.
Experienced planters say there can
be no doubt that this sporadic growth
can be developed into a distinct variety,
and next year experiments will be
made on a large scale. If the expecta
tions are realized the cultivation of cot
ton for seed alone will be very proflta*
able, and tbe cotton-seed oil business be
revolutionized.
DIFFERENT ARRANGEMENTS*?
to God in their bondage, and he stretched
out tbe right band of bu power for their
deliverance. Moses cried unto the Lord,
and the wateis gushed from Horeb. Han
nah prayed, and then testified “The Lord
k>8 given me my petition.” Samuel be
sought Jehovah in Israel’s behalf ^nd great
thunder discomfltted the Philistines. Sol
omon bad a wise and an understanding
heart, beceuse he bad asked this thing.
Elijah on Carmel prayed, “Hear me, O
Lord, hear me.” Soon the multitude ex
claimed. “The Lord he is God! the Lord is
God!" Elijah prayed, and toe Shurnsnite’s
son breathed again. Hezekiab prayed, and
the shadow went backward ten degrees on
the dii l of Abaz, Asa cried unto the Lord
and the E,hiopan& fled before him and Jn-
I Hereafter the Teachers In the • Public-1 dab* Jehosapliai prayed, and Judah and
The New Discovery.
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Schools Will Be Paid In Advance-
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school teachers.
Hereafter they will not haye to . wait
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missioner Hook, but will be paid up at
that tbe great
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Last year they were compelled to wait
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ture to make sufficient appropriation to
pay them for their labors, and this year
it the same way.
School Commissioner Bernard recent
ly informed a reporter that ah effort was
now heing iuade to procure the appro
priation in advance, and that there was
a strong probability of the motion being
made a law in the next legislature.
Jerusalem saw tbe salvation of God; N*--
hemiah made prayer unto God amid tbe
tauntings of enemies,and saw them silenced
under the power of Jehovah. David, in
trouble, colled unto the Lord, and deliver
ance came to him and mercy to bis seed
forevermore. Jeremiah cries within our
hearing unto the Lord, ‘.Thou hast heard
my voice.” Gabriel came with swift wing
to Daniel to assure him that his supplica
tion was not in vain. From the billow aad
the wave Jonah sent np his cry, 4 and the
Loid beard. Zacbaiiaa prayed, and an an
gel front the presence of Gal cime with
ghd tidings. Bartemius cried aloud, and
glorified God for sight restored. The dving
thief uttered one prayer, andB’oradise
This is indeed good news to the teach- opened its gates to receive him.--Christian
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