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THE ATHENS WEEKLY BANNER ■ F*l INS4, I r«BKelidatrd with the [ Athena Bnnnrr, Bat. 1831. ATHENS; GA., TUESDAY MORNING^ JANUARY 27; 1891. VO!,. .59—NO. 10 HAHRiSON ON VETO POWER. It is told by the Washington cor respondent to the New York Tri- Nido that when questioned upon Lis conception of the veto power, Presi dent Harrison said: *• I often sign b ill„ passed by Congress for which I wou ld not have voted if in Congress. 1 hold that it is not sufficient for a President to be opposed to a mea« tone to venture to interpose bis veto. I bdieve the veto-power is only pro perly exercised when some act hsB been done by Congress without sufU tic cut deliberation or care, or where some manifest errr has been com» inittcd. I know that a different view has prevailed at times, and that the vetoes have multiplied within recent veiM . But I do not sec that the We don’t want, nays the New York Herald, the bloody scenes of recon* strnction days repeated. We now have pesce within our borders. The whiles of the South are developing their own resources. The negroes are being slowly prepared for the duties of citizenship. Everything is moving along serenely, and the pro mise of the future is brighter than ever before. We have no wish to exchange that condition ef affairs tor chaos. As we would not fora moment tolerate the intervention of Federal troops in New York, so we declare that troops shall not be sent to Richmond or Charleston. We can take care of our own State affairs, and stand ready to tell Mr. Harrison or j any other President to .keep his President has any right to set up hands off. There is no reason why MR. GANTT’S RETIREMENT FROM | stockholders as he well knew and the THE BANNER. his judgment against the manifest will of C 'Ugress. when that will has been expressed in a thoroughly de liberate manner, after careful cono sideration of the subject, and where no manifest error or encroachment upon constitutional rights has been made ” Now this gives President Harrison cl, ar away. It shows that he has a low conception of the dignity and impoitarfce of the office of President of these Uuiteil Slates—in other worii», that he concedes-with humble good-will that he is a figure bead. The Memphis Appeals Avalanche very correctly says: “if this view bs errect, the office of President has not neatly the dignity or importance that the peopl^ supposed it had The Constitution says that all bills shall be submitted to the President for his approval, and, in order to emphasize the presidential power, further declares that a twoothirds v ue is necessary to override h,im It is dear 'hit the makers of the C institution regarded the President as a highly important official,ag linst whom C ingress could not # ruo with impunity. Being charged with the' execution of the laws and with »h« dtt y of making suggestions to Con gress,'lie founders oftue government gave him power to assert his will in a formidable manner. They «ti d< ully desired that be prove a posi live rather than a negative quantity. Hu President Harrison, evidently with a desire to lake life as easily as possible, m I, mayhap to soothe his couscience, prefers to think the President merely a clerk with the power of certification. Andrew Jack- son did not regard the PrestiK nt as that kind of c Ulcer. Neither 'did a^y of the others up to Harrison the Second’s lime It is probably, ot course, that Mi. Harrison is endeav oring tr reconcile himself to an approval of the free coinage bill, to which he is really oppose!. He is a very curious sort of President, in- devd, bat fortunately for the country he is not for long. 1 he country in 1892 will show that it prefers a President who signs bills out of au honest, sincere and intelligent con* victiou that they will make good 1 w ." S.»uth Carolina should be treated otherwise than New York is treated Therefore Democratic senators and a few among the Republicans are try ing to render the passage of the force bill impossible. If they fail, after Itavit g done their utmost, they will still have the consciousne -s that they did what they could to avert the in evitable disaster. Mr. T. L. Gantt’s connection with The Banner as editor having been lately discontinued and an abusive arti cle having appeared over his signature giving, what he calls, the reasons for that action, the board of directors deem it proper to make to the public this reply. ■' , With his charges against some of the individuals connected with the paper,of course we have nothing to do, uor do we propose to indulge in any charges against him, bnt to give a short, digni fied and business like statement of the case. On the 1st of December 1889, the Ban ner-Watchman, owned by Mr. Gantt, and The Athens Chronicle, owned . by Messrs. Stone &. Christy, were, by these gentlemen, consolidated into a stock company, the balance of the stock being taken largely by the business men of Athens and the farmers of the adjacent country. Mr. Gantt was the owner of one-fifth of the capital stock. At the suggestion of himself and Mr. Slone a SLAPPED HER FACE. Marshall Horne, a Lunatic, Deals Very Ungallant Blow. The white man, Marshall Horne, who was recently confined in the Clarke county jail and who secured his release on the condition that his mother would send him to the country, is still a disturbing element. Horne, after his release, accosted Mrs. Snipe, in East Athens, and asked her for his pist >1. On that lady’s, de claring her "ignorance of the wherea bouts of his weapon, he dealt her a stinging blow on the face. This man’s mind is in such a de ranged condition that he should be confined until room can be made for him in theasyluni. If WAS RUMORED That Two Spans of the Q., C. & N Bridge Across the Savannah Had Fallen. Vagne rumors were afloat yesterday that two spans ef the new bridge on the G., C. A N. in progress of construction across the Savannah river had fallen The cause assigned was heavy water. The Savannah is up considerably from the rains that have fallen recently and we suppose the incomplete condition of the spans caused them to yield to the increased pressure of the water. The prevailing impression doesn’t accord much credence to these rumors though they may be true. MR. GANTT RETURNS. election was held this year in precisely | the same way. Mr. Gautt intimates that the failure | to re-elect him will take from bis fam ily their “daily bread” when he boasts I in private that he can always make by j his pen more than we were able to pay, but whether be could or not, I** I Banker is not carried on as a charita- | ble institution and no appeal was made to help Mr. Gantt as an object of I charity. Moreover, Mr. Gantt, as is well known to the people of Athens, resides on real estate which cost him.ten thousand dollars and hit* recently sold I other real estate for more than six thousand dollars and he has property in Athens which he thinks will yield him ] an income sufficient to support him. The business manager, Mr. Flanigen, I as above stated, was selected by the board at the earnest solicitation of Mr. Gantt, and throughout the year Mr. Gantt has asserted time and time again | that no better man could be found for I the position. The business, manager CONFEDERATION- PLAUSOUTLINED By A COMMIT TEE AT WASHINGTON. A BAD WRECK. board of directors was selected and I haa nothing to do with the politics of | the only change ever made in the Board I tbe P a P* r > but 11 he had » we ret * T was the substitution of Mr. Burnett in Mr. Gantt’s own editorials in which be the place of Mr. Geo. T. Murrell, who | wa rmly eulogised Mr. Flanigen’s well known democracy. Mir. Flanigen, since early youth, has become a citizen of Athens, identified with its people and was uuable to serve. At the first meet ing of the Board Mr. Gantt was employ ed as editor A a given salary for' One year ending December 1890, and at his I ito int * rertB » and if the boanThas made suggestion Mr. Flanigen was made Bus- a mistafce in 8e, « 5tin * bim ’ < w ‘ ,iuh ^ey iness Manager, It was further agreed den » ^mistake is largely attributa- that Mr Gantt should have the power to employ such assistance as be needed ble to Mr. Gantt. Mr- Gantt is oorrect in the statement in the editorial department and have en- | tflat prohibition nad nothing to do with the change in the editorial manage ment. The Board of Directors are themselves divided on the question. tire control of what appeared in the pa mper without any attempt te control his 1 own views After a few months of service Mr. Gantt took the position that his health would not permit bis working at night on the paper and his supervision of the work of the local editor. At his request, Mr. Flanigen undertook, as far as his Mr. Gantt has within the last year been [ on both sides of the question and the Board is not a present advised which i side he advocates. The Board of Directors eiqpbatically &• Meeting la Conformity 'With tbo Ocala Conference—Terrell of Texas Made Chairman and Gantt of Georgia Seer*, tary—The Confederation of the Different Labor Orders Effected. Washington, Jon. 24.—There was no meeting in the morning of the repre sentatives of the committee on confeder ation of the National {Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union, on account of the non-arrival of 6ome of the delegates. Late in the afternoon some' of the missing delegates arrived, and a meeting was held to discuss the objects for which they were called together. ' The meeting of the committee is sim ply in conformity with the instructions of the Ocala conference. Grand Master Workman Powderly and his executive committee have arrived. Organization was perfected by the election of Ben Terre ll of Texas, as chair- mau, and G. T. Gantt, of Georgia, as secretary. The organizations represented are the Knights of Lattor, the ttolored Farmer/ Alliance, the National Farmers’ Alliance, Farmer/ Union and the Citizens’ Alli ance. Representatives from three other organizations are expected. A committee on business was appoint ed, consisting of Livingston of Georgia, Wright of Pennsylvania, Humphreys of Texas, and Wild of Washington city. After a long discussion,, a formal agreement looking to the.confederation of the different organizations was Soached on'the following basis: First—A confederation. Second—A joint Committee on Con federation'of tire from each organization, who shall represent this confederation. Third—Each organization shall he en titled to as many votes as it iias men.* bers, who are legal voters in a State or fta ional election. Fourth—The St. Louis platform shall be the basis. Fifth—Each shall stand pledged to as sist, when jiossible, in ail local efforts to better the condition of our people. Sixth—Fraternal delegates or corre spondence shall never be denied to one by the other as long as the confedera tion exists. Seventh—The joint Committee on Confederation shall hare the power, by a majority vote, to admit other organi zations with similar objects upon appli cation. Eighth—When plans are agreed upon by the joint Committee ou Confedera- assert that Mr. Gantt’s advocacy of other duties would allow, to select and A H ,ance principles had no sort of infln- (j on f or mutual co-operation, each or- aid ip the supervision of the local re . euce upon their action. The honesty | ganizatioa shall be beund to support porter, and the Board supposed, until the appearance of bis card, that it was and truthfulness of tbeTHrectors them selves need not be appealed to,to sustain 1 this statement—the outside facts sub said plans fully and cheerfully. Ninth—Expenses accruing on account of the joint Committee on Confederation shall be defrayed by their respective or- <» « carry “• »" I lUnUot. them. If hi, .spoos.l ef Alii- I fSC*™’ “ ^ G„„„ advertis S'2tZ A few weeks ago Mr. Gantt advertis I tbe Q oar( j Q f Directors Jhey would long such by-laws for the government of the edfor sale at public outcry on the I ^ gouJ(ht a of hiacoa _ | joint committee as they may deem be^t streets of Athens, his entire interest in nection * itb paper as editor; the paper and the day before the time whereaB| they made ^ complaint to Augusta’s gay week was a brilliant success. Sleet, rain, ice—whew ! This is winter in dead earnest. Few persons kuow that the State University has a most interesting museum., There was a time when the United States Senate had some dignity and some power of intellect. He Speaks of Building a New Hotel for Athens—He Is WeU and Happy. Mr. T. Larry Gantt was iw Athens yesterday. Mr. Gantt is just back from his visit to Atlanta, Washington and New York where has been arranging the* pur chase of the majority of stock in the Sou them Alliance Farmer. He says the thing is fixed and talks most cheerfully about his future plans. He will do the greatest part of the edi torial work for the Alliance Farmer and Harry Brown will assist him, be sides running around a great deal ma king Alliance speeches and the like. I am going to build a hotel for Athens” said Colonel Gantt, “and its going to be a Sandy, too. I have al ready given out the plans for tfce build ing. It will be a three story building ing with twenty rooms, with every ap pointment common to the best hotels of the land.” There’ll be two stores under the hotel.” The Colonel was never looking better and has thoroughly recover, d from his late illness. He will spend muql^of his future time in Athens. Pencil Xn His Eve. New Yoke, Jan. 24.—Four-year-old ills etockthus severing his connection j but j et continue in the service for I foot-stool in the dining room, with a , ■ .. .. .. . I slate in his lap and a slate pencil in his nearly two months after the time for J ^ j n the afternoon. His mother which he had.been employed had ex pired. Moreover when his successor was chosen the Board of Directors went with the paper as a stock holder and having no further I interest in its financial success. He as serted time and again that he would All honor to the Grady Cadets, Atlanta’s gallant company. Their generosity is only exceeded by that of him for whom they are named. It does seem that the country is gradually forgetting Mr. Cleveland for Mr. Hill. Cleveland went wrong on the silver question,and that seems to have settled his haa*\ Major Fitzsimmons and Col. Demp sey have shaken bands over the bloody chasm, and Major Fitzsim mons says be will challenge the world’s champion next time. The Courier-Journal says: As the sister of the dead King of the Sandwich Islands is married to an Englishman, and Englishmen are said to rule their wives, the Island will come very near to having an English King. The Tribunesof-Rome says tha Senator David Bennett Hill, of New York, is still a presidential possibil ty. Iudced, be is a presidential pro* liability. 1 he country might go for ther and fare worse, for Senator Da. Vld Bt nnett Hill is » democrat. conduct the paper after his own fashion I j nt0 tbe editorial department of the At- if it lost to the stockholders every cent | , anta CoD8tUut ion, a paper recognized of their investment. For more than half of the last year Mr. ‘Gantt’s only work on the paper was to write one or two columns of editorial matter and be declined to do .any work in the way of local or general new. The financial condition of the paper did not author ize the employment of two editors and.it I as a matter of necessity with the paper | that an editor-in-chief should be selec ted whf would overlook, correct and guide the work of fibe entire paper. I g ANNER 8 hall always be the firm friend When Mr. Gannt’s contract expired, I and cbam pj 0n of the alliance and all December 1st, 1890, he was at perfect I otber principles and measures looking liberty to make any other contract be tbe re jj e f an d improvement of the ag saw proper and the Board had the like ^cultural and material interests of the right. He made no application to the I coun j ;r y. There can be no permanent Board of Directors for a renewal of the I and luting prosperity save that wrought contract or a continuaueq of the ser- | by tbe Ellers of the soil; tradeincreases HE BRANDISHED A KNIFE. Sut he Will Spend Some Time In Da ranee Vile. Will Lay, a white man, an attaelte on the G., C. & N. road, proceeded u> paint the town red last night much to the dismay of all quiet citizens. His first manoeuvres were at the store of Mr. Autry, near the upper bridge, where he made himself peculiarly unde sirable. He next went to some negro tene ment houses on the hill in the vicinity of the G., C. & N. cut, and locking some negro workmen up in an old shanty he began to flourish an ugly looking knife in semi-circles around bis bead. The officers appeared on the scene sbout this time and Policeman McKie grasped him aronnd the waist, while Policeman Moon fitted a pair of hand cuffs on his arm, It was with the greatrst difficulty that be was taken to the lockup where he now is. He was crazy from drink and created considerable disturbance. His Honor will give him a bearing on Monday and decide on the merits of his case. • And Now Comes a Drug 1 rust. Special by News Telegram Association. Detroit, Mich., Jan. 24.—A ding trust with a proposed capital of several millions is a matter which it it is re ported has been submitted to some of Detroit’s wholesale drug manufacturers recently by promoters, from New Yot k representing capitalists tiom both New York and London. called to him. from the front room, aud he ran to her, holding the pencil in his hand. He stumbled and fell over the sill of the parlor fioor, and the pencil penetrated the brain through the inner corner of the right eye, producing death in a short time. A Passenger and a Freight Collide on the Central. Atlanta, .Jan. 23— (Special).—A bad wreck occurred on the Cent! al at Clarks’ Cove, seven miles from Atlanta, at 2:25 this afternoon. -The passenger train left here for Macon at 2:15. At the point of- accident a switch engine and eight cars attached, loaded with guailo, was standing on the sidetrack. The switch was displaced, and passen ger going forty ifiiles ' an hour crashed into this. Passeuger engineer, Ed .Waterhouse, stuck to his engine, having just enough time to reverse the lever and jam on the brakes. He wasjthrown into the air, falling between the boiler of the epgtne and the front of the next car. rfe was scalded on the leg and thigh and his head jyas badly bruised. Fireman J. JR. Prater jumped, escaping with left band and-arm sprained, and severely bruised. Both engines were completely demolished. The roof of the passenger car was torn oft' entirely and hurled against a telegraph pole several feet away, breaking it down. The engineer and fireman jumped in time to save their lives. Two freight cars were thrown down the embankment and the passenger mail car derailed. Conductor Ennis, of the passenger, w'as thrown against a seat and his knee joint painfully injured. Henry Beatie, a negro train hand,was badly bruised. George A. All, of Hampton, Ga., was thrown against the stove and injured about the bead and chest Rev. C. E. Davis, of Atlanta, was se erely bruised about the chest. Nobody injured fatally. The track was not torn up,but will be blocked until morning. INGALLS ON THE FIELD. Kansas Senator Leads His Own Fight, Special by News Telegram Ass ciation. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 24.—Senator In galls arrived in the city last night, and although it was then midnight a num ber of the leading republicans were*at the Copeland hotel waiting. The town waa swarming with old sol diers, who have appeared for the pur pose of working upon their fifty com rades in the-legislature, and it is plainly apparent that a last determined effort is going to be made in behalt of Ingalls Elder held a caucus of his followers last evening and twenty-seven AUi ance members pledged their unfailing allegiance to him. Elder by'no means considers himself defeated and ts pre pared to squander a few of bis bard arned dollars upon his prospects. Col. Harris can control to-day thirty- five votes, including the straight demo trutic contingent, and there is no ques Hon chat his candidacy meets with fa vor among the more' conservative of the Alliance. However the wholesale invasion of the grand army set upon the scene has somewhat upset calcula tions, aud uo one can now tell what day will bring forth as the pressure bearing upon the opposition is almost superb a man. Religious Department. as in full sympathy with the Alliance. Again, the new editor, Mr. Crawford, j was asked by the Board his views on this subject before his election and^ie was elected after he bad assured the | Board that his sympathies were j with the Alliance and bis be-1 lief • in its. principles was no less pronounced and emphatic than Mr. Gantt’s. In this connection the Board of Directors desire to say th it the I Money Made Her Crazy Evansville, Iud., Jan. 24.—Mrs. Eliz abeth Krone, an old German woman committed suicide by jumping into a cistern. She worried over financial mat ters till she iost- her reason, and believed that she would be sent to the poor house. Her husband died recently, leaving ber and two children an estate valued at 110,000. Cheering Newi Indeed, Paris, Jan. 24.—The Siecle states that Mr. Wm. O’Brien has received from Ar nold Morley, the Liberal whip on the part of Gladstone and bis colleagues, such guarantees for a measure of home rule as. are sufficient to meet the condi tions upon which Parnell will retire from the leadership of the Irish parlia mentary party. • Freight Manager Mack Hu Resigned. Atlanta, Jan. 24.—Mr. E. P. Black, who lias been with the Western and At lantic railroad since Governor Brown s | - i and his associates leased it, twenty years vice but .announced, without secrecy, I wealth and glory of the country but ago, as freight manager, * has resigned, that he hi.il been offered and thought of ^ refd wealth and 8tamina muse ^ Mr^L >. Jackson, of Nashville, is his accepting connection with another pa- I {rQm prosperou8 agric alt U re. per which tl,e Board thought would | Adoptin<? the motto of the A]nance , not leave his undivided attention to the interests of The Banner. For “measures, not men” shall guide the policy of The Banner. We ask the the first four, months, during I th e]?ap e rin thofntffre which time Mr. Gantt gave his entire by itg Qwu coljmn8 and not by I county, GaTi the boy will be sent back attention and interest to the paper, the ^ made by U3 or by others i Walton ' . ■ -d * ■- circulation of the daily and weekly , il rrested on a Bench Warrant. Atlanta, Jan. 24.—Charlie Sigmore, a young white hoy, was arrested in this city, charged with disturbing Divine worship by smoking and drinking. He is the son qf a police officer in Walton showed a gratifying increase, whereas, ] for the last eight months the increase | was scarcely perceptible. Mr. Gantt complains that he was summarily dismissed by tb% Board j without conference with the stockhold- | ers. So far frbm this being accurate, Ht was not dismissed at all. His term of employment bad expired nearly two months before action was taken by the I A mostdangerous thing is to allow ..... I catarrh to run on. Use at once Old. Board to fill the vacancy. There was I Catarrh Cure and get well. nobody to turn out«r. dismiss but an Price only 25 cents, office to be filled by an election and the I The “baby’s best friend” is Dr. Bull’s Respectfully, George Dudj-ey Thomas, President. C. G. Talmadge, W. D. O’Fabrell, E. R. Hodgson, M. MyehP, * j W. B. Burnett, Directors. The Defaulting Cashier, Atlanta, Jan. 24.-‘-{Special.]—J. E Morris, the absconding cashier, is back in Atlanta again. He arrived this morning in charge of Officer Jesse Jordan, and for the pres ent is making his headquarters at the station house. He was arrested in New Orleans last Tuesday Morris will not talk until advised by hie lawyers. He was brought back from New Or leans on the charge of larceny after Dr. C.’W. LANE, Editor. FROM TALMAGE. •ATLANTA AND WEST END Are Discussing the Matter of Annexa tion. Atlanta, January 23.—[Special.— There seems at last a probability that West End will consent to become a part of Atlanta; About a year ago the people of that delightful little town voted down a prop osition to become a part of the city, their objection being that Atlanta wanted the earth. That election, if I remember right, was brought about by an act of the legislature and some of the opposition wa6 due to Atlanta’s attitude of trying to force them in. Our friends at West- end are, you must know, decidedly inde pendent. They constitute a separate corporation and they hold the whole mater of coming in in their own hands. They propose,. therefore, to dictate the terms -of the coalition—or absorption. The advocates of the an nexation have started onadifferent lay. Mayor Hemphill is at the back of.the movement. His plan is to have a com mittee of six Atlanta gentlemen and six- West Eaders get together ;and try to agree upon some terms that will, suit ail concerned. The Atlanta committee has been appointed. Mayor Nelms, of West End, is favorable to this arrange ment and will call th5 West End coun cil together m a few days. The outlook for annexation is decid edly good. ‘ A Forger Assemblyman. Nyack, Jan. 24.—Democrats here as sert that Frank If. Demarest will re sign this week as a member of the as sembly. Thomas Finnegan, a Haver Straw, beer bottler, who was beaten by Demarest by one vote in the nomi hating convention, wants to fill bis chair at . Albany. Ex-Assemblyman trust, a true bill having been found iDiokey is also said to be'a candidate. If against him by the grand jury. A snug reward was offered for his proceeded to tteYoo '^|2S^»SKS«S?SS‘ii: V***,*?*.^ *r***‘. Who would give his entire time and tal- ic, diarrheea/ete. charges against ^im, which the^ New ent to the service of the paper. This I action was reported to the stockholders TO HOLD YOUR COTTON. ■ ... . We have plenty of room in onr flrst- m convention a hour later, there was I c i aBg covered warehouse. We are ad- | no dissent and the same board was re-1 vanning liberally on cotton instore; .,*.*:*,*.,*i» u„ our charges are most reasonable. We elected unan o sly. Mr. -Gantt *was j ^j ve j nd ivldual personal attention to elected editor a year ago by the Board of Directors in accordance with the By laws without consultation with the weighing and selling cotton. Consign raents solicited. Davison & Fargo* Cotton Factors, 739 Reynolds St. (next to Cotton Ex change) Augusta, Ga. wkSc Orleans official will get for capturing him. . During the morning Captain Clifford Andereon, who will prosecute him. callen to see him and had a long talk with bnp* * Morris will endeavor to'secure the seivices of Judge Dorwsy, Finnegan runs he will probably be op posed by Ex-Assemblyman Torjpkins AN OVERSTOCK OF STOCK. - .Holman & Nicoll have .every pen full of mules and horses and. new lots ar riving daily. They are doing a tremen dous rushing business and -can meet anybody’s wants lor farm, town or city use. * Yesterday they received a car of extra floe brood mares, ail of them well broke and in good order. Tbey.haye two hundred head of mules fresh from the West, all of them ready and willing The many friends of Mr. Hiram Pro nifAf/i nlnflCAll fA ffPOaf film ftllf 1 SOlle G/&11 &DU SGC UOllD^D & VtlCOll, SSi»S?.t“bifSK b "". I «>.<*bb.mdy to TOO CHEAP. .1 NEW TORE OBSERVER. Rats may; sink a ship. One lucifer ma’fib may send destruction through a bldck of 'siore-Uouses. Catherine de Med ici g >t her death from smelling a poison ous rose. Oolumhue, by stopping and ask- ng for a piece of bread and a drink of water at a Fracciscau convent, wan lead to the discovery'Of a new world. And there is an intimate connection between trifles and immensities, between nothings and everything8. We h ive plenty of state, ins’pid, lelha*- gic, balr-and-bulf re'iaious lile The Church needs more caloric. The stove must have the damper open and the grate shaken ; and the dull heap of darkness must bicom: a bright illumination. it: — A dissipated life soon stops. The ma chinery of life is so delicate that it will not endure much trifling. As the herds man throws a p< ck of corn to the swine to be crunched a d devoured, so di-sipatiou is throwing the bod es and souls of men, by the scores, into the maw of death. Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is S tUn's own muse for man’s perdition — Cheevtr. Preserving unbelief is the only sin that wiH prove the ruin* of a soul.—Dr. Cold stream, Man’s prayer and God’s mercy are like wo buckets ia a wed—while one ascends the other, descends, ON TRUTHFULNESS. “Above *11 things, tell no untruth, no notin triflts. Toe customs ef yi; is uauzhte, an 1 let yit not shuffle yaw that for a time the hearers take it tor trn he,for . after yii will be known as vit is, to your ‘ shame. From a letter of Sir Henry Sid-. uey’s to his little Puiilq pe. * Jennie and I were renting together the life of Sir Puilip Sidney, and we camvto .i the passage which 1 have quoted above in a quaint, ana beautiful letter which was written to Sir Puilip when he was: a iittle boy at school by his father. When I had rend to the end ot the sentence I paused. y “1 wish," said I> “that I-could print that sentence in letters of gold upon the walls of every school mom in the land. I wish I could tell it to every boy and girl whom 1 know, and make them teel its force.” “Why,” 8aid Jennie in a surprised way. ‘D i you think that boys and gilds are so untruthful?” “I am sorry to say wP I answered, '‘but I think a good many of them are not per fectly truthful.” •*I uever told a lie in my life." said Jen nie proudly, and I know plenty of other tiiria wuo m-yt-r did, either.” “I am sure, Jennie," I answered, “that J you discovered that you had made a mis-staL-imunt about anything .you would at once correct i< ( but was if not you who * gave M.iggie Upjohn no less thao five cor rect dates in her history examination, and helped her on two examples, and let’her copy from your defininions beside?" . i “ iVelli ’said Jennie, “yes, 1 did, but I don’t call that anything.” ‘ “Did Mrs. Amersiey know it?" I then asked,. “Of course not." “•Would' Sife have' allowed Maggie’s ex- * ami nation to pass if she had?” . ,. “Certtiiuly not,” answered Jennie, “I ’see . what you are aiming at, Miss Margaret; of course I would not accept any hej^ on my, examination, but the girls would have thongiit me awfully mean if I bad refused . to help Ma'gie." . , • Tioit is where a reboot girl’s code of morals is often, defective,” said I. “You't helped Maggie to do what you kne.v to be rung, and what you would not do your self, because the girls would think yon mean if you didq’t. To put it in plain. English, you helped Maggie, todteeive your teacher, and what is that but untruth- tuluess? liis not always that one can trace the consequences of such a deceit, but in this case the effect is very plain. Miggie did not gain her pr-itno.ion by .hon est work, and therefore she . will not be' able to k< ep her - position in ber Class. Mrs. Amersiey was speaking to me of-her^ yesterday. S ie said Maggie bad tieen so idle that she was surprised at h er being able to win a promotion, and that site wca evidently unable to. keep her new position now that she had it, and she should be obliged to put ber back where she was be-, fore. That will be a just punishment for Maggie; but,” said, pausing and speakibg gently, “how will the girl who helped her to commit the fraud be puniahed?”-G’hurch Year. A preacher of the gospel bad gonedbjvfi into a coal mine, during the noon hour, to - r tell the miners of that grace add truth which came by Jesus CbrisL -After telling them the simple story qf God’s love to lost sinners—man’s sfate and God’s remedy—h full and 7 free salvation offered—the timn came for the men to resume work, and tbo lireacher came back to the shaft to ascend i; i the world again. Meeting the foreman, he asked him what be- tbought'Gf God’s salvation. The man replied: . . Ob, it’s tdo che»p. ' 1 cannot believe' in such a religion as. that.” • • , ' ,J Without an immediate answer to bis re* mark, therpt'eacher asked r: f t “How do you get out of this place?” , > “Simply by getting into the cage,” was the reply. * ; - 1 * ’ . “Does if take , vet y long to get to the ,. , ^Oh; no; only a’ few seconds ” “W^ll, that is very easy and simple; bnt do you nqt neefi to help ■ raise yourself ?” asked the'preacher. ‘ .it .. Of cdurse not,” replied the miner: “4* I' havq said, you- have nothing to do but get into the cage.” . ' * But what about tbe people who sunk the.shaft and perfected all this arrange ment ? Was there much labor or expense about it?” ' *' *' ;i - i8 “Indeed,-yes ; that was a laborious and expensive work. Tue .shaft , is eighteen hundred feet deep; hnd it - was suok-dt a great est to the proprietpr; but it is opr only way out, and , Without it we should never be able to get to the surface.” ■i “Ju*t so. And when G-id tells you that whosoever believeth on the Son ,of Gdd . b»th everlasting life, you at once sUV, •Toocbesnl too cheap!—forgetting . that God’s wnigt to bring you and; others out of the pit of destruction and death was ac complished at a vast cost, the: price being the death of his ow;n Sou.’’—B tplisiTeach* er . ' '..’.“viifi® • - ‘ : O'.' ."i! I o The many frietlds.in Atpe.ns of Mr. Al- bin Dearing will be pleased to learn , of bis success in Savannah, where he d* go to work ip earnest for the next crop, embarked into tbe cotton business, ag-