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Clay County Reformer. S. R. WEAVER, Editor. VOLUME I. ONLY TWO WAYS. IT IS A UNION OF THE WEST AND SOUTH OK REVOLUTION. Tb« (Cast Has No Trouble tn Handling tho Two Old Partlea The situation is serious. Every patriot wiil visw with alarm the naves of discontent and revolt that are rising higher and higher all over the land. The question on every body’s lips s “how is this all going to end?" There can be but one answer. Plu¬ tocracy must take her hand off the throat of labor; the money power must loose its grasp on the industries of the country or there is going to be trouble. It is urged that the matter can bo settled by the ballot But how? No one claims for one instant that the present congress is carrying out tho policy which it was elected to do. No tine doubts that tha reason is members have been bribed, either with office or money, to betiav the interests of their onstituents. Since 1878 there lius been no expression of the people at the V»a lot box that did not demand an increase of the currency, and that direct from the government. Yet with systematic regularity tho will of the people, aa expressed at the ballot box. has been set aside and the de¬ mands of Wall street complied with. The pe< pie, disappointed with one party, have gone over to tho other, like two balky horses, but never with any belter success. It has been the same to Wall street whether the peo¬ ple supported the demo, ratic party or the republican party. Within the past ten years both old parties have experienetd a political cyclone that almost swept them out of existence But disappointed again the jeoplo have returned atid resurrected the corpse of their former love, only to meet again sad disappointment. The trouble is that neither one of the two is any longer in the hands the people. They are represented by two machines and those machines are controlled by politicians that are in the pay of Wall atreet. It is ho longer asked is this measure what the people need, but bow will it affect the party? Whether it be a fact that a minority in each party dictates its policy, or whether it is a majority that does so, it is evident that the people no linger do. Under these conditions what are we to do? The people will never submit to the injustice that is being heaped upon them. The money power is arming itself to carry on Its usurpa¬ tions by force, if necessary, and tha people are arming for fr- resistance. Revolution, with all its revolting hccnes, its sufferings and devasta ion, is staring us in the face. The two old parties cun give no relief. They are di¬ vided within themselves m Bitch way that Wall street can use fragments of either to help the other. Tho demo¬ cratic party n ith 80 majority is power¬ less to pass any measure of relief. The republican party would not if it could. The men who control the two old jartlei are either wealthy or drawing good salaries. Hard times •for the producers is a harvest with them, l ow prices is money iu their poekets. They are not producers. They are consumers. There is no hope of relief in that direction. But there are enough earnest and sincere men in the west and south to control legislation if they will unite. Thej' will never do it under either the democratic or republican banners. It is unreasonable to expect it The People's party ts a common ground on which they can meet. In that way revolution can bo prevented. It is theouly way. With the west and south a unit relief could be had quick and sure. The man who still con¬ tends for democratic success or repub¬ lican success is either a demagogue or blind to his own au.l to his coun¬ try’s interests. As a rule the men who do so are either drawing a good salary as a result of talking for their party or expect to do so. The coun¬ try ia being led into i he vortex of de¬ struction by spoilsmen instead of statesmen. Let the west and south unite. * — The Bank of Venice was the longest continuous financial system known in history, and the most successful. It did business by a system of credits, not redeemable in coin. Wilh this system contraction was impossible. It existed and flourished for about six centuries (until the downfall of the republic), and-never knew a panic, Not so with the “cash office," a branch which was opened for a part of this tinoe, ai d whose credits were redeem able in coin. On two occ sions It was compelled to Suspend payments, and jts credits fell below par. It was “tided over” by the aid and influence of the main bank, whose credits (re Bt< mber, not redeemable in coin—in fact, never to be redeemed at all, ex cept the constant redemption of cur rent business) for the last four centu riee of its existence were 20 per cent above current coin value. Contrast this with the numerous and disastrous panics in this and other countries still persisting in a metal basis. Hr oub currency is so “honest” how Is it that the dishonest men have got of it? “ >• rV O f yy 1 / / *- i \ tebrr •/ / ■s. > / sr * i tff'v... ■ MB 'Ml ST\ L V/ 1 A 7A yJL i \ j o\ fjf 'i 7*^ 1 C-<ry^ /Lf&, V m< mi iv, y I'S r __-A //llW HrC //O. SU dMd r. r'tjA. S—* Ssfim % sr 6f tha National Reform Press Association. WE ARE STILL, HIS SUBJECTS. So lonar a* the United States lives under the English Gold system, just so long do American Producers remain lhe slaves of British Imperialism. I.et us shake off the British yoke (Gold) once more by establishing a currency (Silver) the basis of supply of which Js not in British possessions.—People’s Party. FINANCIAL TRUTHS. The difficulty with bimetalism is that it requires a less valuable metal to be maintained at par with a more valuable one. This unnatural condi¬ tion can not be indefinitely main¬ tained except at constant expense. The objection to the recen t bill for coining the silver seigniorage was not that it would add fifty-five mil¬ lions to our coined money, but that it necessitated the additional burden of ma'ntaining fifty-five millions more of silver at par with gold. Issuing gold bonds to meet this expense does not cure the difficulty—it only post¬ pones it, together with adding to our indebtedness. Along these lines thero is nothing but difficulty and disaster A circulating medium for tho ex change of commodities should consist, not of a substance naturally scar,e, which can not be made to increase with tho increase of population and the growth of business, but, on the contrary, it should be capable of adjustment to these conditions. Our ^ couutry l> , comparatively . , a new o^e, with population increasing rapidly by immigration as well as by natural increase, and rapidly increas¬ ing wealth by the development of vast natural resources. Shall our vast in¬ terests be crippled by a meagre medium of exchange? The natural basis for a medium of exchange is population and wealth, and not dia¬ monds, rubies, gold or silver. Popu¬ lation, with wealth in its various forms, is the source of need of a medium of exchange and should be he basis of supply. Considering the ast material wtalt h of this coun tr, many think , . , that ISO par capita is the amount required for the best re¬ sults. The evils of insufficient (and improperly distributed) circulating medium have been seen during the past nine months in the shape of idle hands and silent industries. Gold has arbitrarily been chosen as a money metal on account of its scarcity and the difficulty of getting ifc. It has very little intrinsic value above other metals; its is - use as money the chief thing that gives it v*lue; take that away and it will decrease in value as much if not more than silver, by limiting its use as money. The sup ply of gold does not increase with the growth of population and the increase ot other forms of wealth; therefore, it is not a rational medium or basis of exchange of wealth between man and man. Population is the natural basis of a medium of exchange, the amount issued per capita bearing a reason able relation to the total wealth of the community or nation. One of our greatest needs as a remedy for the present depression.and as a basis for future prosperity, is a paper money issued directly by the government, not based upon any metal, and not a promise upon the part of the government to pay, but. instead, a promise to receive, as taxes, revenue, customs and all other obliga tions to the government, and a legal tender for all obligations, public and private. Of course, sufficient guards as to quantity would be necessary, That could be a limited amount per capita, the total amount increasing according to the showing of the cen sus every ten years. Also a certain amount extra every year, to make up fer reasonable contraction caused by accidental destruction, as by fire, etc.; the entire amount to be kept in con stant circulation by being immediate ly reissued as soon as received by the government. Let the present coin circulation remain jnstas it is, to take care of itself according to natural laws. The fact is, the metals would find their natural places iu the arts 1 “The Voice of the People is the Voice of God.” FORT GAINES, GA.. FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1894. SOMETHING TO SELL. If there is any one thing that is cal¬ culated to make us tired more than anything else it is this sensele-s twaddle about having “something to sell.” Only a few days ago the writer heard a farmer make the remark that if the people only had something to sell they could get the money for it. Y'es, we replied, they can get money for it, but how much? Cotton raisers can get from 2 to 4 cents les-s for their cotton than it takes to raise it. Wheat growers can obtain less 'for the r wheat than it takes to produce it. Labor can sell its products at prices that make the producer poor and the speculator rich. Millions of men and women can not even sell their labor at any price. But government Ronds can be sold at a good premium, And why? ’lbe bond is not good to eat nor to wear. There is no in trinsic value in it. Yet for it the m i s e r will part with his gold. For it usu >rer will give up his cash, Why, we repeat, is tins true? Be cause with every bond goes the privi lege of levying tribute on labor. Be c „ use „ wU1 gather in the earnings of generations yet unborn. For the men who have the gold, bonds are issued that the purchasers may levy tribute on labor. How different is it when men pro¬ pose to swap their labor for bonds? Men, too. who are out of employment and whose families are suffering from the pangs of hunger. They propose to give something of real value, their labor, for bonds, and don’t ask that the bonds shall bear interest or be a burden on future gen¬ erations. But no, these men are Urar.lts. True they have something to 8e U-thelr labor-but that will not do. It takes gold, precious gold, to buy bonds, and the bonds must bear interest—gold interest—so that the purchasers can get their gold back and still have the bonds with which to levy tribute on labor. A great scheme this, and a great government thatper mits it. Great also is gold! You can’t eat it or wear it, but it is great be cause, because—because most of the fools whi m it is robbing, say it is great. That is the only reason under the shining sun. The curse of all government is that governs too much. At the present rate G f legislation we are approaching the point where the masses will be mere*'jumping jacks.” Another dec ac j e i n the modern evolution will take us back to where Darwin traces the beginning of the human race— the ape! And, having no further op portunity for the exercise of our brains—no use for our arms in work —and when tramping nas been made “illegal,” cur progenitor will still have the advantage over us of b?ing able to “hang on” by the tail! Twentieth Century. The United States is operating sixty-seven railroads now, including such gigantic systems as the Union Pacific, Northern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fe. That is all right, for they are being operated for the benefit of the stockholders. If they were operated for the benefit of the people, it would be all wrong.—Popu¬ list, Utah. lhe wealers say they can not wait for a new congress. They will doubt less have to wait But their agitation has gone a long way? toward making the new congress the right kind. Nothing has done so much to set the people in the cities and in the east to thinking about government affairs as these pea ce armies.—World . The'south and west have all begun to talk one way. Now if they will only vote one way “the enemy is our n.”—Spirit of Reform, Belm'ut, N. J. * POLITICAL • HASH. Served Hot and Cold to Salt Our Readers. One of the metropolitan papers makes the statement that it is gener -illv ally belie-iTeri believed, ir, in Wo W ashington, ; v, that it * 4 . was a mistake, putting Coxey in jaiL W'e ue are are somewhat somewnat of of 4 .hat bat. onininn opinion mir our selves. We have been laboring assiduously for a long L time endeavor imr mg tn to imnress impress nmn upon the minds of the people that a poor man in this coun try y had no J rights 5 wmcnine which the plutocrat* niutocrata were V bound to respect, and this ulus tration of our idea has done more to convince them than all the reform edit tors could have done in a thousand years. A few more object lessons and the people will begin to arouse them selves to a sense of the danger which surrounds them. * * TT, ne , miner r . n tounty Democrat , of South Dakota sizes up the situation as follows* “The recent strikes and the dozen or rn oxey ______ armies marching 1 .*___ on . to Washington’have caused many an intelligent person to ‘set up F a terrible + thmkm . * ,, But ,, . will ... the ,, millions .... of , . voters attribute the r reverses and miefartnroc imsf i tunes tn to the true causes. Tt It is • not McKinley tariff nor the proposed changes in the schedules provided for by the YYilson bill; it is not because Cleveland and the democratic party are in power; it is one or all of these things combined which have brought the country into its present perilous condition and filled the land with idlers and tramps. The toilers are re quired, like the children of Israel in the time of Pharoah, ‘to make brick without straw.’ “We had hoped that democracy would take the bull by the horns and be true to themselves and to the prin¬ ciples and traditions of the party, but we confess that the prospect of arrest¬ ing the downward course of the party we love is very gloomy. The leaders are jealous of each other. Inordinate personal ambition is leading some to min, and while they are digging ; own political graves, they are | dragging down with them to disgrace and ruin those of their own household. There is no truer axiom than that a ‘ house divided a S ainst itself can not stand -’ “The democratic party is now di v ided into wairing factions. They are more hostile toward each other thsIn they are toward a common ene my. T here is manifest discontent, hear t-burning and jealousies in the republican party. Chronic hatred of democracy and a love of spoils are the principal cement which holds the ! ,ea ders together. The leaders of both P arli * 8 are deserving of the condem nation of the masses of the people. The times indicate a disintegration and reformation of the political ele¬ ments.” * * * The only thing which the democrats had left to make themselves safe on all their promises made in last cam¬ paign was the Wilson tariff bilL Figuratively speaking it was their . ; tail-hold on a further lease of power. i That is now so badly mangled that all hopts in that direction are gone glim mering. The thing is mangled so ' that its father would not know own it, and, if it don’t come to a vote pretty soon, some good democrat cught to moTe to adopt thaMcKialay law in the interest of tariff reform. Senator Vest says: "We might as well be can did with ourselves. There’s no good in trying to humbug the people for a month or six weeks, and then have to admit that we are humbugging them. The Wilson bill now, as it stands, is a McKinley bill, with a short reduction It is a bill on the same principles. It is protective from start to finish.” * * * We have heard of “cheek” in our time, and have seen a pretty fair arti¬ cle of it among local politicians and lightning rod agents, but it remained for Grover Cleveland to exhibit a spec¬ imen that kno ks the persimmon without any pole—just standin’ flat footed. In a letter to the president of the National Association of Demo cratic clubs, he says: “It seems to me that its best service has been an en foreement and d^ monstration of the truth that oub party is best organ : ?~a nrir i most powerful _____i when it .. strives for principles instead of spoils,” etc. Then, as if he had not said enough to iaj make iuiiK.e an an nrmp array mni« mute BHisb oiumi f ioi n „ stiame, t i, om „ «Q continued: "The National association of demo .ratic clubsandeieryother democratic j ,. agency should labor unceasingly and parneRtlv earnestly to x,o sstp save nn»- our nm-iv party, in in n,to tins time of its power and responsibility, from the degradation & and disorace oi a « r„,*i„„ iauure t to redeem . the ,, pledges , , upon which our fellow-countrymen en tmstAJ I 1 » will, tho 1 6 contro1 °f rUo?.. then I government. Of course, his Royal Fatness having ■delivered himself thus the little squir¬ rel-tailed lawyers, doodlebug politi¬ cians and liver pad editors can eat their crow and relish this dish. Sicli ia democratic politics. * # * I Men are leaving the old parties as rats do * a slotting sinbino- snip. shin A a few f oro a days a „ c ago ex-Congressman W. II. Kitchen of North Carolina published a card in which he stated that the democratic party would do very well as a minor! - tv ty nartir party, but- but was a failure as a ma jonty party. A dispatch from Gil man ’ Wash ’ savsMavnrP ^ Y • V • lln-pie » & prominent . republican, renounced his party and joined the Populists. About the same time a a half dozen aozen men men left left the old parties . and , joined the Popu lists, among whom was Geo K liar ttenstem, „ a member v of . the ,, state cen- 1.ral committee of Colorado. In a let ,ter to Chairman firman t. F P P. Arbuckle, ArVm,.b-i« Mr. n Hartenstem A said: “I am sorrv to nait enmr.nr.Tr mpany m*tv, wnn Q u i d political , friends, , . but I not can follow Cleveland democracy 1 and until tne party leaders return to democratic ,. principles and politics, I will refuse to follow “ nr ° snrmnrt support, th tnem. D m t l 1 have ,..,,^ not changed my opinion concerning democratic principles as taught bv ^ ° our aistinguisnea . , , founder , and former leaders of the party, and I find that there them is is more mnro true democracy __. m the ,, Peoples party at the present time than in the so-called democratic y partv t I „ am sorry ,, that , you still .... stand , , by the party with all its treachery to the npnnl»«nfl P P iic.,« ts un- emocratic policies. . ,* - I hope it Will not be long until you see your way clear to ioin the only _ q party now in . existence . , th , it will .,, and can give the country much needed relief” eI * A NATION’S DISGRACE. The imprisonment of Coxey by the authorities of the District of Columbia condemned by the people of all par¬ ties. That he should be manacled an d thr0Wn in jail for an alleged . outrage. or ' me ari His right to go to Washington ana P resent his petition is a right that is guaranteed by the constitution. r l he assembly the capitol grounds on was peaceful. The commonwealers were unarmed. Were in no manner threatening and the law under which he was convicted had been almost for¬ gotten. Nearly every week proees sions pass through the capitol grounds yet are not molested by the police. Every day people walk on the grass and are not disturbed. Every day men may be seen wearing badges as conspicuously as were those worn by Coxev and Brown, yet no objection is raised. The ordinance has been violated millions of times and will continue tc be violated without notice, but in this case it was adequate and served tc send an enemy of plutocracy to serve a sentence behind the bars. The expediency of his plan is not the question with the peopla The infamy of his" persecutors is the ques tion that the people have in mind. Those who do not indorse his march DOr e ven believe that his demands were tbe p roper remedy for the popu lar unre8tf the hunger and distress of the unemployed thousands, do not argue that now. They look on this outrage from a different standpoint entirely and with a unanimity that is remarkable, it is denounced by men of all parties.— Express. r If you owe a man 810 and have but to . it .. with, ... how , do j expect . pay you *° P a y debt? Youcrive him the 51, but you can pay him no more till you have borrowed it back or sold him some property. It is estimated that the total indebtedness in this country has now reached the enormous total of $40,000,000,000. We have put £500, 000,000 in gold. That is 81 in gold tc *90 of debt Will our soup-house, cheap-abor, gold-cure friends tell us how, on a gold basis, we can ever pay that debt?—Sledge Hammer. -•—— We should remark! There s a few candidates in the land. Somebody else besides Populists want office. ONE DOLLAR PER YEaR. REV. DR. TALMAGE. ™K SUX ’ Da\1 0|LIy.uUM» Subject: “The Excited Governor.” Toxt: “Felix tremble l an l answered, Go thy way for this t ime. When I have a eon ^‘ en J sensou 1 wiU 01,1 fur thoe. ’-Acts 5 A city of marble was Camroa—wharves o! marble, lions-s of marble, temp’os of mar hie. This being the or Hilary architecture ol the place, you may imagine something of the splendor of Governor Felix’s rrsi lenoe. In a room of that palace, floor tessellated, win flows curt nine,1, ceiling fretted, tho whole $eene afflu >nt with Tyrian purple and sfat ues and pictures and carvings, sat a very dark lix, and complexioned beside him man a woman oi the of name extraordi- of Fa- j nary beauty, whom he had stolen by break- ' fng up another ilonmstio circle. She was only eighteen years of age, a princess by j birth, and unwittingly waiting for her doom —-that of being burled alive in the ashes aud scori® of Mount Vesuvius, which in sudden eruption one day put an end to her abomi nations. Well, one afternoon Brasilia, seated in the ! p:i iace, weary with tho magnificent stupidi- j ties of the place, say* to Felix: “You have a very distinguished prisoner, I believe, of | the name of Paul. Do you know he is one of my countrymen? I should very much like to see him, aud I should very much llko to hear him speak, for I have heard so much about hj s eloquence. Besides that the other day, when this.palace ho was being tried in another room of and tho windows were open, I heard the applause that greeted tho speech of Lawyer Tertulius as ho denounced Paul. Now, I very much wish I could heat Paul speak. Won’t you let me hear him speak?’’ him “Yes,” said Felix, “I guardroom.” will. I will order up now from tho Clank, clank, there comes a chain up the marble stairway, and is a shuffle at the door, and in comes Paul, a little old man, prema turoly of age, old but through looking exposure, as though only he wereeighty. sixty years j 1 Ho bows very courteously before the govor nornud tho beautiful woman by his side, They say: “Paul, we have heard a great deal about of your speaking. eloquence.” Give us if now a sped* , men chance your Oh, there Paul ever was a for a man to show off, i had a chance there! Ho might have hnr- i i angued them abcut Grecian art. about the wonder r u i waterworkshebad seen at Corinth, about the Acropolis by moonlight, about prison life in Philippi, about “what I saw in Thessalonioa,” but “No!” about tho old mythologies, the Paul said to himself, “I am now and on way to martyrdom, dead, and and this this man woman will soon be is my only opportunity to talk to them about the things of eternity.” I And just thero and then there broke in ' upon the scene a peal of thunder. It was the voice of a judgment day speaking through the words of tho decrepit apostle. As that grand old missionary proceeded with his re marks lhe atoop begins to go out of his shoulders, and he rises up, and his counte nance is illumined with tho glories of a future life, and his shackles rattle and grind as ho lifts his fettered arm and with it hurls upon his abashed auditors tho bolts of God’s in dignation. Felix grew very white about tho hand ijpg. His heart boat unevenly. He put his to his browns though to stop tho quickness ana violence of his thoughts. He drew his robe tighter nbout him, as under a sudden chili. Ilis eyos glare, and his knees s hake, and as ho clutches the side of his chair in a very paroxysm of terror he orders the sheriff to take Paul back to tho guard room. for this “Felix trembled»andsaid: When have Go thy way time. I a convenient season. I will call for thee.” A young man came one night to our ser vices, with pencil in hand, to caricature tho whole scene and make mirth of those who. should express any anxiety about their souls, but I m( * him at the door, his face very white, tears running down his cheek, as he said, “Do you think there is any chance for me?” Felix trembled, and so may God grant k may be so with others. I propose to give you two or three reasons why I think Felix sent Paul back to the guardroom and adjourned the whole subject of religion. The first reason was, ho did not Wi)nt t0 g j ve up his sins. He looked around. There was Drusilia. He knew that when he became a Christien he must send her back to Azzius, her lawful husband, and ho said to himself, “I will risk the destruction of my immortal soul sooner than I will do that.” How many there are now who cannot get to be Christians because they will not abandon their sins ! In vain all their prayers an 1 all their churchgoing. You cannot keep these darling sms and win heaven, and now some of you will have to decide between the wiuo cup and unlawiui amusements aud lascivi¬ ous gratifications on the one hand and eter¬ nal salvation on the other. Delilah sheared the locks of Samson.* Sa¬ lome danced Herod into the pit ; Drutilla blocked up the way to hoavau lor Felix. Yet when I.present the subject now I tear that some ol you will say : “Not quite yet. Don’t be so precipitate in your demands. 1 have a few tickets yet that I have to us-*. I have a lew engagements that I must keep. I vvunt to stay a little longer in the whirl of con¬ viviality—a low more guffaws of unclean death, laughter, a few more steps ou the roa l to an 1 then, sir. I will listen to want you say. ‘Go thy way lor this tim *. Wnen I huvo a convenient season, I will call lor thee.’ ” Another reason why Felix seat Paul to tho guararoom and adjourned this su bject was he was so very busy. Iu ordinary times he found tho affairs or state absorbing, hut those were extraordinary times. The whole land was ripe for insurrection. The Sicarif, a hand of assassins, were already prowling around tho palace, and I suppose he thought, “I can’t attend to religion while I am so pressed by affairs of state.” It was business among other things that ruined his soul, and I suppose there are thousands of people who are not children of Goi because they have so much business. It is business in tho store losses, gains, unfaithful employes. It is business ia your law office—sub poenns, wrils you have to write out, papers 3 *ou have to file, arguments you have to make. It is your medical profession, with its broken nights and the exhausted anxie¬ ties of life hanging unou your treatment. It is your real estate office, your business with landlords and tenants and the failure of men to meet their obligations with j-ou. Aye, with some of those who aro here it is the an¬ noyance of the kitchen, andtho sitting room, and the parlor—the wearing economy oftry ing to meet large expenses with a smalt in come. Ten thousand voices of “business, business, business” drown the voice of the eternal Spirit, silencing the voice of the ad vanning judgment day, overcoming the voice of eternity, and they cannot hear; they can¬ not listen. They say, “Go thy way for this time." Some of you look upon your goods, loo!{ ^P 011 5' oar profession, you look upon your memorandum books, and you see the d e man(l8 that aro made this very week upon Your time and your patience and yonr money, and while I am entreating? you about your soul an i tho dnnurer of procrastination the*-” iTave a' eon'C-enS^.^aio^ I "wifi e 'calMor fairs Ob, Felix, wliy be bofbereJ about the at of this world so much more than at-out l^whern death com^ you wiahave to^t™ business, though it be in tho most exacting niSa™Uo h r‘ > th P o a SEa? 1 ' 4ha moment he comes you will have to go. Death waits for no man, however high, however your sK ircompaSou^ffi’ the'affaKf an eternal world, affairs that Involve fou put p J}!? 203 ce9 acres ' dorn of , inion9 around eternal? against Will 1m measity? Will you millions put forty or fifty years of yonr life against of ages? Ob, Felix, lor do you NUMBER 4. of Tyrian purp’c H vm** m!i»i will |.i,, an*! the marble blo.u* (Vo uv.t w.u crumble, and the breakwater at tinl-nob, made of great" blocks of slon> siviv fee: long, mint give w iy >ofore tno per¬ petual Paul wash of the s *a, but the redemption that offers you will bo forever? A id yet and yet and yet you wave him back to the guardroom, saying. “Go thy way fot this time. When I have a convenient season. I will call for tliee.'’ Again, Felix adjourned this subject of re¬ ligion and put off ufrtlHnToifW Paul 'Mfrgr ?.tncnt because ne couUt not give sof the world. He was afraid somehow ho would ho com* prornised himself in this matter. Remarks he made afterward showed him to bo In tensely favor of ambitious. men! Oil, bow ho hugged the I never saw the honors o( this world in their hollowness aud hypocrisy" wonderiui so much as in the life and death of that man, Charles Bumper, As ho went toward the place Philadelphia, of burial, oven Independence Hall, in asked that his remains stop there on their way to Boston. The Hags were at half mast, and the minute guns ou B iston Common throbbed after his heart had censed to beat. Was it always so? While he lived how censured“6f legislative resolutions . how caricatured of tho pictorials ; how charged with every motive mean and ridiculous; how all the urns of scorn and hatred and * billingsgate emptied upon his head; how, when struck down in Senate chamber, there were hundreds of thousau !s of people who said, he “Good for him; serves him right;” how had to put the ocean between him and his maligners that he might have a Ut tie peace, and bow, when hearted he went off sick, they said ho was broken because lie could not get to ba Fred lorn or docroUryof State 1 O, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who is that man that sleep* in your public hall covered with garlands an l wrapped in the stars and stripes? is that the man who, only a few months before, you denounced as the foe of republican aud democratic institu tions? Is that the same man? Yo Am‘dean people, eulogium ye could not by one week of funeral and newspaper loaders, which tho dead senator could neither road nor hear, atone for twenty-live years of maltreat incut an l caricature. When I see a man like that, Iteuuei pursue 1 by all the hounds of the political so loug ns ho lives ami then burled uu ier a great pile of of whole garlands and amid the lamentations unutterably a nation, I say to myself* What an npp'anso and hypocritical nil tiling invert is nil You human fools fmurm down twenty-five years in trvin * to pu l lib fame and then take twenfy-fivo years in try ing to build his.monument. My friends, wnt there ever a better comment ary on the hoi. lowness of fill earthly fnvmff If there are young men who rea l this who are po«tpou ing religion 111 order that they miv have the favors of this world, let me persm d« them of their complete folly. If you are looking forward to gubernatorial, senatorial or pn*. idential chair, let me show you your great mistake. Cl 'n it bo that there is now nnv young man snyinc: “Lot me have politic d offl-e, lot mo have some of the high positions of trust and power, and then f will attend to religion, but not now. ‘ Go thy wsy for this time. When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee!’” -And now my subject takes n deeper tone, and it shows what a dangerous thing is this leforring tfown of religion. When Paul’s chain rattled tho marble stairs of Felix, that was Felix’s last chance for heaven. .Tu 1glug from his character afterward, ho was re probate silla. and abardoned. Aul so was Dru trembling One day In the southern Italy thero was a of the earth, and the air got blank with smoke Intershot with liquid rocks, add Vesuvius rained upon Drusilia and upon Her s °n a horrible tempest of ashes and fire, They did not reject religion. They only put it off. They did not understand that that day, that that hour when Paul stood before them, was the pivotal hour upon which ever.v thing was poisod, and that it tipped tho wrong way. Their convenient season came when Paul and his guardsman entered the palace. It wont away when Paul and his guardsman loft. Have you never seen men waiting for a convenient season? Thera is such a great fascination aboutdt that, though you may have groat respect to tho truth of Christ, yet somehow thero is in your soul the thought: “Not ouito yet. It ’ is not time for me to become a Christian. I say Ion boy, “Seek Christ.” He says, “No. Walt until I get to ho a young man.” I say to the young man, “Seek Christ." Ho says, “Wait until I eomo to midlife.” I most tho same person in midlife, and I say, “Seek Christ. " He says, “Wait until I g>*t old.” I meet the same person in old age and say to him, “Seek Christ." He says, “Wait until I am on my dying bed.” I am called to his dying couch. His last moments have come. 1 bond over the couch and listen for his last words. I have partially to guess what they are by the motion of bis lips, he is so feeble, but rallying himself he whispers until I can hear him say, “I—am—waiting—for—a— more—convenient—season,” and he is gone 1 I can tell you when your convenient season will come. I can tell you the year. It will be 1894. I can tell you what kind of a day it will be. It will bo tho Sabbath day. lean tell you what hour it will be. It will he between 8 and 10 o’clock. In other words, it is now. Do you ask mo howl know this is your convenient soason? I know it be¬ cause you aro hero, and because the elect sons and daughters of God aro praying for your redemption. Ah, I know it is your convenient season because some of you, like Felix, tremble as all your past life comes upon you with its sin, and all the future life cornea upon you with its terror. This night air is aglaro with torches to show you up or to show you down. It is rustling with wings to lift you into light or smite you into de¬ spair, and there is a rushing to and fro, and a beating against the door of your souls with a great thunder of emphasis, telling you, “Now, time.” now is the best timo, as it may tyy the only May God Almighty forbid that any pf you, my brethren or sisters, act the part of Felix nnd Drusilia and put away this great sub¬ ject. If you aro going to bo saved ’ever, why not begin to-night? Throw down your sins and take the Lord’s pardon. Christ has been tramping after you many a day. An Indian and a white mifn became Christians. The gospel, Indian, almost as soon ns he heard tho believed and was saved, but the white man struggled on in darkness for a long while before he found light. After their peace in Christ the white man said to tho Indian, “Why was it that l was kept so long in the darkness ami you immediately “I found peace?” The Indian re¬ plied: will tell you. A princo comes along, and he offers you a coat, Yuii look at your coat, and you say, ‘My coat is good enough,’ and you rofuso his and offer, he but the prince comes along, offers me tho coat, nnd 1 look at my old blanket, and I throw that away and take his offer. You, sir,’” contin¬ ued the Indian, “are clinging to your own righteousness; you think you aro good enougn, and you keep your own righteous¬ ness; but I have nothing, nothing, an i so when Jesus offers mo pardon and peace I simply take it.” My reader, why not now throw away the wornont blanket of your sin and take tho robe of a Saviour's righteousness—a robe so white, so fair, so lustrous, tUat no iuiler ou earth can whiten it? O Shepherd, to-night bring home the lost sheesp ! Q Father, to¬ night give a welcoming kiss to tho wan prodigal! 0 triend ot Lazaru«, to-night break down the door of tho sepulcher und say to all these dead souls as by irresistible fiat i “Live! Live!” Strikers Burn a Bridge. A dispatch from Bridgeport, Ohio, says: A mob of striking miners was driven from bridge No. 2 on the Cleveland, Lorraine and Wheeling railroad by tho Ohio militia Saturday night and retreated to bridge No. 4. Shortly afterward the bridge was din- ’ covered to be on fire. It was com¬ pletely destroyed. m