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4 Clay County Reformer , 8. R. WEAVER, Editor. VOLUME the 1 senate tarifp bill is BROUGHT INTO COURT AND SUBJECTED TO TRIAL. Democratic \Vi(u«m«i on the Stand. The ea*e is the Senate Tariff bill, ■ lias the Wilson bilk It is charged with being a protec ionist measure. The New York Sun (democratic) will take the stand. U* Mr. Sun, are you acquainted with the defendant in this chhc, Sen¬ ate Tatiff Bill, alias Wilson Bill? A. Yes, sir. *2- M 111 you please state to the jury how you regard its general character. A. Looking back from this elevation of enlightenment to the proceedings since December of last year, they will now sec that since tho President's ini¬ tial betrayal of the democratic prin¬ ciple of revenue only, in his last an¬ nual message to congress, down to hi* siibrnhsion of those last amend¬ ment* to the senate bill, through the medium of the financial officer in his cabinet, Secretary Carlisle, all tariff business, whether steered by Wilson or Voorliec.", lias been mere protec¬ tionist rough and tumble in which no professing democrat over showed his head. Talk about a tariff bill that should “conform with the Chicago pisiform,” or * redeem the pledges of the democratic party,” has been hum bug from the start. There has been nbthmg but a squabble in the protec o n nest between its owner and the cuckoo about the disposition of tho ■tufling, and nothing more or differ ent has been visible at any stage of the game of fraud and bluster set a going by the last annual message from thewhltehmi.se. 'J hat will do, step down. The Baltimore Nun will now take the witness stand. Q. Mr. Han, what is your polities? A. Democratic. Q. State to the jury if you are act (juuintcd with the defendant. A. 1 am. y. Tell the jury what you think 4bout iu A. '1 he 400 amendments proposed to the Wilso-* tariff bill which h id already beeu subjected to important modification* in the interest of con ciiiation and harmony will, if they are enacted into law, bo, with a string of exceptions inserted as a blind, a virtual abandonment of the Chicago platform of 1H92. They can not be defended on any other principle than the same which underlies the McKin ley tariff itself—protection pure and simple; not such moderate protection as may be properly givon to American Industries as an incident in tho ra is ing of neoded revenue, but protection for protection’s sake, regardless o revenue. The passage of such a tariff bill as a fulfillment of tho pledges of tariff reform which the democratic party has given to the people in every national campaign for twenty years past, and which it renewed with more explicitness and emphssls two ago than it had | ■ ever pre.io«»ly (riv*n them, will bo st ooco a legislative fiasco, a party humiliation and a national misfor¬ tune. Tho Louisville Courier Journal will 1 please take tho stand: Q. Mr. Journal tell the jury whatf you think of tho Senate Tariff bill. A. Intrusted with a mission whose fsithful performance meant the poli¬ tical policy and material welfare of 75,000,000 of people; directed by a chart as clear as sunlight and as au¬ thentic as their own commissions; em¬ powered by a popular verdict as regu¬ lar os a court of law and as sovereign ts a revolution, these senile or in vertebral agents of the people will shrink at every 6lmdow, dodge at every shape, and cannot surrender too quickly whatever or whenever a demo era tic renegade or a protection free¬ booter demands. The result is weary months wasted to the business world and to the party, and, after it all, in¬ of a bill redeeming the pledges they were commissioned to redeem, a mongrel pie-bald of patches and pusillanimity, a grotesque hodge podge of pretence and pettifogging, a i nondescript abortion of inoompeteney, Iflelfishnesa, cowardice and treachery. 0- What is your politics, Mr. Journal? P A. Democratic. will do, take your seaL The Chicago Times will take the Avitness stand. <Q» Mr. Times, what is your poli f A. Democratic. # What do you know of this 8en Tariff bill,once known as the Wil¬ son bill. A. The Wilson bill has emerged from the senate committee on finance las battered and unrecognizable con- ! ditkn. All that was democratic in it has been pounded out of recognizable form. It was not an object to be en thoniftatic over when It went to the committee, but upon reappearance it suggests nothing so much as a crazy quilt fabricated by an epileptic. That will do. The St Louis Post Dispatch will now take the stand. Q. Mr. Dispatch, what is your poli¬ ties? A. Democratic. Q. Kindly state to tho jury what 1 clc c 01010 r&Z&A 'tff *J r V/ws J 1 O- jC. r /~ w QJ * cn a t ’ j. I 3 ,-o 3© ZJZ 71 40* - ' WfilAT- 8: -V» -"i rw CRJLtm Of vt ML 0 K* V Air VWCIUL Ci =// v« I’Ly 1 , r I f - Jw ^fi\ VX— .... ...... —. J l GWMHCW.’ItVMM) i/L p » Lie Jjjfj ML UM. 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Murphy, Hill, Caffery and White have cast in their lot with the plutocracy, abandoned democratic principles, and propose to yield noth j np to the public which costs them a penny or diminishes in the smallest degree the illegitimate profits of the interests they represent. Take your seat Roger Q. Mills will now step forward and occupy the witness stand. Mr. Mills, you arc a man who Knows a K^e^t deal about the tariff family, will you please state to the jury what you think of the present Nenate Tariff bill? A. No man can torture me into the admission that the bill pending before this body is in any respect a response to the pledges made by the demo¬ cratic convention to the democratic people of the United States. * * * Running along through the bill wo have had to surrender at discretion at every point until it is a question now between the McKinley protec " ! a " ,» Bd h » P rMeDl teetiye tariff bill, with a very little margin of difference between the two. Judge. Tho sheriff will now take the jury out and allow them to join the torch light processions, hear the brass band, and be talked to for three months by the candidates for salaries, after which they will render their decision as follows: “Guilty, but innocent” The Ohio republicans indorsed free silver and John Sherman. The Mis¬ sour * democrats indorsed free silver ond Grover Cleveland. Both, how ever ' are °pon to a proposition to “re af Li us C’ the ratios. It is our own Niiver Dick that suggests this basis ^ or un ' on the forces of Sher man, Cleveland and the silver demo¬ crats against the People's party and its unwavering demand for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Will the free sil ver democrats be lead into th .s trap? Nok much Such c «ckoos as Bland aml I,a11 arul their unthinking dupes will be taken in by it, the former for pie and the latter for—what? Can you tell what the dupes will get? We know that they have hard times and they will probably get some more of the same medicine. The pie is for the cuckoos—Mo. W orld When the Kansas Populists were members of the republican party they were intelligent, progressive citizens of a great state, The moment they ceased to vote the republican ticket they became wild cranks of a wooly western community. It is remarkable that their true nature was not dis¬ covered while they were faithfully TOkin|f * or republican men aud meas¬ ures.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. If “stepping on the grass" which grows on an infinitesimal portion of the public domain be a crime equiva¬ lent to high treason and justifies the dragooning of the people of Washing¬ ton, what crime and what punish¬ ment is invoked in voting away hun¬ dreds of millions of acres of grass and the ground on which it grows, all equally portions of the public domain? —St* “The Voice of the People is the Voice of God.” FORT GA.. FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1894. VOTE AS YOU SHOT. TO THE OLD SOLDIERS WHO SAVED THE UNION. Capital Was an Enemy Then and It Is an Enemy Now. When the dissolution of *the Union of states was threatened in 1861, and the tocsin of war was sounded, the workingmen left their plows, their hammers, their picks and their ma¬ chines and responded promptly, bravely and nobly to the call of Uncle Sam. At the same time a call was made for money to carry on the war. Mark how different the two calls were responded to. The workingman, with an unselfish patriotism and devotion to his country’s cause that dims the bright luster of the world’s past his¬ tory, sprang to the front. He never stopped to ask or consider what the government would pay him, nor even to count the sacrifices he was making or the danger he was braving. With devotion to bis country, he kissed his wife, his mother or his sweetheart, donned his uniform and went out to battle. There was no selfish thought of how much money he was going to make out of the transaction, or of driving a bargain with Uncle Sam. His only thought w as of home and his duty to save the But it was not so [with the_cap talist. The bankers £ who had gold and silver was the staple, sound and honest quickly discovered that this “sound” money would not do to fight battles of the country. They at contracted to loan the govern¬ S150,0u0,000, but after paying one-half of the ^lo'an m coin, bank in tho country suspended payments and they kindly of¬ to loan the government their Then came the trial of the govern¬ to get money to pay the troops carry on the war. “Sound cur¬ “honest money,” “the money the world,” had failed in the very of the trouble. But the Lincoln and Stevens, solved problem, t Let the government money to carry on the war. A was introduced for this purpose. soldiers were in the field bravely for the flag and the preserva¬ of the Union. Up against the mouth of the confed¬ cannon, that belched death and from their iron jaws! Now marching in the rain, wading the mud, hungry, tired and cold. Now in the dreary hospital, waiting health to come to be able to go again to meet death. Now burying a dead comrade, or the pain of a wounded com¬ Following the flag wherever went Storming a rampart or wasting in sickness by the inaction of a siege. Always to the front murmuring,marching, suffering, for what? For Human Liberty! Where was the capitalist? Besieging congress to prevent the of money to pay the soldiers! Demanding a chance to grow rich of the blood of the nation! Crippling the money that was pay¬ ing for supplies and munitions of war, and which was intended as only poor pittance at best for the man who placed his life in danger to save the republic. At home, and when drafted hunting a substitute as cheap as possible, to serve his country by proxy. .At home plotting treason by crip¬ pling the finances of the government The confederate soldier who risked hislifeinan open field in defense of what he had been taught was right Is entitled to a thousand times more re¬ spect than the miserable, traitorous capitalists who went to the very seat of government and plotted treason by demanding an opportunity to get rich off of the necessities of the government. And they did get rich. They inlluenced congress to pass laws by which they were enabled to get rich. Through their / influence the war was prolonged and its cost increased. These miscreants were aiding and abetting the south. They were traitors, deep-dyed trait¬ ors to their country. Capital never contributed one cent to put down the rebellion. On the other hand it made it the opportunity to grow rich. The soldiers put down the rebellion and then came home and went to work to pay capital a tribute it had laid on them while they were busy fighting, and without surrendering anything itself. That tribute is be¬ ing paid to-day. * The capitalist is still at the seat of government demanding more tribute and further privileges. He is a traitor to the government be¬ cause he is a traitor to the interests of the people. He is a more dangerous traitor than the man who faced you with a musket in his hand during the war. You shot against the traitor then. Why don’t you vote 1 against the traitor now? The man you vanquished in the field has laid down his arms. He has sworn his allegiance to the government. But the traitor at the capital whom you did not vanquish is still plotting his damnable treason against you. He has both money and bond. You have to buy the money of him to Pay the interest on that bond. “He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like him.” The false lights he holds out to you are “honest money” and the “nation's credit.” He never made an honest dollar in his life. He did more to ruin the nation’s credit than the southern confederacy did. It was your blood and brain that saved both the nation and its credit. You did it not with his help, but in spite of his damnable and dark plotting against you and the noble sacrifices you were making. He has demonetized silver. He has established gold as the god of worship and as the one thing only in which you can pay him his semi annual tribute He owns congress. He controls legislation. The courts do his bidding. He controls the po icy aud the can didates of both the old parties. \ r ou shot at traitors from 1861 to 1865. If you want to vote as you shot, then vote against this worst of all traitors—the money king. --— The New York Nun, which more than any other one paper was re sponsible for putting him there, says: “Life lasting, Grover Cleveland will hold the most powerful office on earth for nearly three years Jonger, and the possibilities of havoc and disaster to our institutions involved in the cir cumstances of a socialistic President are beyond all human calculation. ”— Inter Ocean. The salaries of 500 railroad presi¬ dents in the United States aggregates $?2,000,000 per annum. Pretty big ex¬ pense, but the sugar trust made a clear profit of $35,000,000 last year, and had less than that sum invested in sugar refining machinery, build¬ ings, etc. Railroad salaries are not the largest evil in this country.—Pro¬ gressive Farmer. Tk* disputes between Senators Hill and Harris did uot settle whether the manners of the Bowery or those of the Tennessee plantations are the best for use in the senate chamber.— Kansas City Mail. THEY COST. WANTON EXTRAVAGANCE OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESS. Average Farmer Don’t Sell Enough to Pay for the Stationery for One Member. There is nothing like examining the books of those who handle our public It may have the effect of our partisan ardor, but in end it will be money in our pock ets. A short time ago we examined the accounts of a republican sen¬ No wonder they have been with reckless extravagance. But now, dear reader, go with us while we turn over the leaves of the official report of the expenditures of a democratic house—and one, too, that was intensely democratic—148 majority. 5, Beginning with July 1, 1891, ending with December 7, 1591, a period of five months, we find the pay for clerks, messengers, doorkeepers, postmasters, laborers, etc.,to amount to $139,332.21. Then we paid the police during that period to keep the cows from eating our congressmen, $10,128.22. Then comes a little stationery bill of $7,325. One month’s extra pay all round for this economical democratic congress cost the people over $37,000. On down a little further we pay the po¬ lice some more, only $3,269.30 this time Then comes some more stationery, $39,971.33. Gewhillikins! isn’t that a lot of stationery for congress to use? Let’s see, that is $120 each. would be 20, ooo sheets of paper, the same number of envelopes, half a cord of penholders and pens and forty gallons of ink. It would buy your wife fifty calico, ten lawn, tea ging¬ ham, five alpaca and five cashmere dresses, enough aprons to last her five years and a suit all round /or the children. But you don’t want to raise any racket about this little item. Just raise the allowance for stationery for your farm hand, cut down the number of dresses for your wife, and vote tho same old ticket. It is not supposed that the door¬ keeper would have much use for sta¬ tionery, but he has $563 worth charged to his account. He must have bedded the dogs with it. This stationery business with congress is a pretty big thing. It would be most interesting to know just what articles are cov¬ ered by “stationery.” The expenses for running that 148 democratic ma¬ jority house from Dec, 8, 1891, to June 20, 1892, a period of seven months, was as follows: Salaries of members........ $1,685,000 Extra for Mr. Speaker....... 3,00 0 Mileage of members (about). 400,000 Salaries of officers and em¬ ployes ..................... 265,023 Police....................... 3,269 Commutation for stationery. 39,971 Fuel......................... 3,430 Furniture................... 11,034 Materia's for folding........ 7,050 Miscellaneous items......... 22,957 Stationery for committees... 4,985 Ditto for members.......... 7,611 This sums up to nearly two and one half million dollars. This does not include the expenses after June 30, which continued until August. The last thing which this 148 ma¬ jority democratic congress did was to vote each member a clerk at an ex penseof$100 each per month, to be paid out of the hard earnings of the taxpayers. This additional expense for 356 members, amounts to $35,600 every month that congress is in ses * on ’ or aljout $400,000 a year. Think a con & ressInan using up more “sta tionery than the crops sold by the avera o e farmer would buy. The report shows that a man was appointed deputy sergeant-at-arms ind sent to Chicago after an absent member whom wa s necessary to arres ^ anc ^ take to Washington by to him to attend to the busi for which he was elected. What you recken it cost? The legitima e of the trip would have been $60 to $75. But this deputy yon $223.75 for his expenses bringing your man in. He had his are > boar d, his bus fare and all Then he puts down $53.05 r incidentals. “Incidentals” must come pretty high on that trip, or he bought lots of ’em. This is way your money is being spent. can know all about it if you want You can get the official report of these expenses. But if you don't to go back on your old party n u better not do it If all the people just what their representatives doing up there at Washington, would fire the whole thing out We believe that the people are about make their last grand stand for liberties. They have, lor cen¬ past, been fleeing from tae iron of tyranny and oppression. from Asia, the birthplace of and traveling westward until the of the Pacific ocean calls a they discover that they can fly the enemy no further; the room all taken; so they must turn and it out in some way and it must a fight to the finish this time. Will we be able to peaceably hail the ap proach of a diviner civilization, or will we go down beneath the iron of the oppressor of human liber (Neb.) Headlight ONE DOLLAR PER NOT TRAMPS BUT MISSIONARIES, A new plan has been devised to set at work the most intelligent among the unemployed people of this abused and suffering country. It is to turn the tramps into mis¬ sionaries. These tramps, as Gov. Lewelling recently said, are “the product of our economic conditions.” Judge Kelly said the same thing the tramps of twenty years ago. Hugh McCulloch was the father of those tramps. He “hamstrung the nation,” as Judge Kelly expressed it, by con¬ tracting the volume of money after the civil war, and converted 2,000,000 of soldiers and toilers, who had saved the Union, into beggars, while he tied and held down the south by the same process. Whal Hugh McCulloch did from 1866 to 1876 John Sherman and Grover Cleveland have done in 1894, only on a larger scale with more con¬ summate wickedness. By demonetiz¬ ing silver and otherwise conspiring against their country, these traitors have brought us to our second era of tramps. Let us not blame the tramps; the traitors are the men to hate, and kick and spurn. The average tramp of to-day knows, much more about political economy than the average reader of the sub¬ sidized press, and will make a very good missionary to that kind of heathen. Some of the so-called tramps, indeed, are able as well as excellent men, and could get work, as is sometimes charged against them, if they would throw others out of work to get it. But they ses this point as it is and decline to be as mean as the “upper classes” would try to make them. Mr. Morris of the “Coxey army” is one of the most in¬ telligent, temperate and conscienti¬ ous men in the United States. Some months ago he constituted himself an economic missionary in Pennsylvania, distributing literature and beginning a work of which is now “in the air” and which hundreds of people evi¬ dently “have in their heads’’ all over the country. This “tendency of the times” has been organized and has become the formal purpose of a strong and active organization. It is called the American Economic Re¬ form society. ItThe circular of the society bears the motto: “More Money and Less Mis ery for the People.” It says: “The American Economic Reform society was organized on the 8th of June, 1894, a meeting being called for that purpose at the rooms of the so¬ ciety, 1202 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington. 11 While recognizing the need of po¬ litical and economic reform in many directions, the meeting instantly de¬ cided that the panic in this country, with the present hard times, had been directly precipitated upon the people by a strangulation of their money vol¬ ume, partly through the demonetiz¬ ing of silver, partly by the sudden withdrawal of circulation and credits by the national banks, and owing' in general to the British-American bank system, which issues some ten credit dollars to every one actual metallic dollar, yet promises to ‘redeem’ its ten I. O. U’s. (of discounts and bills) in that one gold piece that can never go around when really needed. The immediate purpose of the Amer¬ ican Reform society was therefore-de¬ clared to be the enlightenment of the people in regard to this great confi¬ dence game, which must be understood and abandoned before any other economic reform can possibly be achieved. For a brief statement of its general purpose the society adopted the fol¬ lowing “declaration:” “To relieve distress and secure pros¬ perity for all the people we favor more money, and believe it should be issued by the government and its volume controlled without the inter¬ vention of corporations. Thus believ¬ ing and teaching, relying upon peace¬ ful and lawful methods, we call upon all who thus favor more money and less misery to unite with us for politi¬ cal action to secure these results,” Steps have been taken to put into the field at once several groups of speakers and organizers to furnish them with supplies of suitable litera¬ ture, and to connect them with other groups in the different states. Here is the inception of a movement that is destined to become national. The American Economic Reform so¬ ciety may be sure of support and co °P era fi°n on evey hand. I he times are r *P® * or J usk f'hing and the gold bugs have made us so poor that the work will be self-supporting. Men will do their best in this direction for a bare subsistence, if only that the next generation may not be slaves. The Arena says the unemployed number fully 5,00o,003 people which, marching four deep, would make a column 300 miles long, while the women and children, the aged, sick and infirm dependent upon them would trail along for 1,200 miles in the rear. —Labor Advocate. 9 “The theory of intrinsic value has been abandoned by the best writers and speakers. ’’—Encyclopedia Brit annica. “Metallic money, while act* ing as coin, is identical with paper money, in respect to beiog destitute of intrinsic value.”—North Review. NUMBER 9. RELIGIOUS READING. rOOR HEARING. I have heard much formerly Rnd lately,and At all times, about poor preaching, so that I have not doubted there is such a thing in the world. But I have wondered something has uot been said about poor hearing. I believe there is a reality too. And as I believe more has been said about poor preaching than poor hearing, I will cast a mite into tho lat¬ ter scale, thinking that if tho pulpit feels the lash, the pews ought to at least hoar the mapper! You 1. Drowsy hearing is poor hearing. yourself shall have a case, rather, and see for what you think of it. Enter into a tale to your friend, that deeply interests vour heart. While in the hot haste of your own interest, you be hear your What friend gunping, hearing and do «oon after call snores. kind of you that? In sorrow I say it, there is not a little of just such hearing about those days in the sanctuary; and if you do not call that poor tion bearing you can help yourself io any appella¬ for it you like better. If you wete in the pulpit, ami there were no more than these men in the ark, hearing after their fashion, you would soon take vengeance on the thing, by some suitable epithet, if you did not on the perpetrators. hearing, 2. Attention with the eyes only, is poor that is, they give their eyes to the speaker, but their thoughts and imaginations are pilgrimaging the wholo creation. The natuial eye is in the right direction, but the mentalin the wrong. “I go, sir, but went uot.” However, a half a loaf is better than no bread. Even looking at the preacher is better than nothing.—For if he has the eye he can but hope ho has the ear. 3. Captious hearing is very poor hearing. Some pt ople always hav-*their net sproad for the worst llsh that swim. They seldom catch any other. They think they are excellent fishermen. Ami so they are in their way. Successful they most certainly arc. If the preacher faltois anywhere, the keen eye trained sees itthe acute ear hears it; tho well memory retains it, and tho tongue is set on fire to lot others know what a rich specimen their course presents of poor hearing. 4. Hearing for other people is a bird of the same feather. “I am thankful the’Bquiro is hero to hear that; and Miss 1’. may take that, and I think the colonel will hear the whistling of that shot, and if Mrs. Bubbletongue is not quieted now,” etc. It is a comfortable thing to get the mind so trained that, unwounded ourselves, vve may look about us and sco where the preacher’s artillery takes eiToet.— llut if this is not one of tho ways of offering “the sacrifice of fools” in tho house of God, I will take meekly any man’s rebuke who will point out my mistake. But one tiling about it I shall not take back for anybody, viz.,that this is poor, very poor hearing. 5. Prayerless hearing is. so also. Let tho husbandman cast his seed upon unsoftened ground, and who would commend such hus¬ bandry?—And what thankless sol? is the unsoftened human heart. Cast the good seed of the word upon it and it would be nothing but madness to look for a harvest. But humble, fervent prayerdoes wonders with the heurt. It waters tho ridges thereof, it settles the furrows thereof; it makes it soft as with showers.” Prayer opens tho heart so that the great sun of righteousness can penetrate shut it. heart, But and oh, pruyerlcss a prayerless hearing heart is a hearing. up is poor It follows! 1. That poor preaching is not thp only poor thing to be found in the sanctviary. 2. T he subject sheds some light on the ori¬ gin of poor preaching. Poor hearing does not account for all of it, but that it does for no small amount of it, I defy any man would to deny. Were there a now roform there be a pulpit roform. Let the hearers eschew all drowsiness, llx their eyes in deep and solemn attention on the speaker, be downright captious of caviling no longer, hear in honest earnestness each one for himself, and do all this in the spirit of humble and fervent prayer both for themselves and the preacher, and if they would not then hear excellent preaching, from that same preacher, too, I will sit down submissively in the shame of my mistake. And if that preacher under so delightful a reform in his congregation, does not get a new and powerful impulse to good preaching, yea the very best in his power, then let another take his bishopric, and all the people shall say, Amen! WHAT FRUIT HAD VK IN THOSE THINGS? has Lord Chesterfield, the celebrated testimony worldling, the borne as emphatic a remember to have van¬ ity of this world, as we to read. Says he, “I have run tho silly round of business and pleasure their of futility, the worid, and and consequently know do not regret their loss. I appraise them at their real va’ue, which Is is in truth, very low; whereas, those who have not They experienced only them, always overrate them. see their gay outside, and are dazzled with their glare. But I have been behind tho scenes; I have seen all the coarse pulleys machinery. and dirty ropes, which moves the gaudy I have seen and smelt the tallow candles which illuminate the whole decoration, to the astonishment and admiration of the igno¬ rant multitude. When I reflect upon wliat I have seen, and what I have heard and done, I can hardly persuade myself that all tho frivolous hurry, and bustle, and pleasures of the world had any reality; but I look upon all that has passed, as one of those romantic dreams which opium commonly occasions; and I do by no means wish to repeat the nau ceous dose for the sake of the fugltivedream.” Lord Byron declares, that, upon the most carclul recollection of his childhood experience oj life, of joy and sorrow from onward, he could not recall but eleven days in which he enjoyed himself, and which he could wish to live over again. There can be no doubt of the entire sincer¬ ity of these declarations of Byron and Ches te. field. aDd as little reason to doubt their truth. When, then, we reflect upon the emin¬ ent opportunities this world, of these and witnesses enjoy to make the most of it to their heart’s content, nve must see the < overwhelm ing force of their conclusion, that the world, taken as a portion, is very vanity and delu¬ sion. It is a very observable fact that they mourn the most about the delusiveness of the world, who have gone deepest into it and had the largest share of It. Not your beggar, with his bone and rags; but your Byrons, Chesterfields and Solomons, who have from infancy had ev¬ ery temporal good to satiety. These are they who in the bitterest spirit cry out, “Yauity of vanities.” Equally true and worthy but* of reflection Is it, that those who seek little here below, find much. We suspect that there has been very few lively Christians who have found this world so this barren world as Byron found it. They have found to answer a very good purpose, and yield of this them has many been, enjoyments. But the secret that they sought the kingdom of God first, and the world last, in its proper place and for its legitimate uses.—Mother’s Magazine, REOBKT EXHORTATIONS. “Let me in love urge the question home— what are you doing with your pound? If there is a soul who hears me ‘ t that has laid his away In a napkin, giving as excuse for lack of service that God is austere—and oh! how many do give just this reason for their niggardly service, neglecting holy living because tney mink events have taught them God is hart’. — if there is such s soul hearing rae, I warn you this hour of the hour of reckoning and I urge you pound. to begin at once trading with your - Maybe you can increase it three-fold, use'd if not five, or ten. The napkin should be to wipe the sweat of service from your forehead, and not to hide the gift of God. To us all the words come, not as the lash of a task-mAster, but as trumpet blast calling onward to fresh victories, new tri umpbs while remaining and increased renown. In the little some of us may please our Lord the by surprising gains, and in heaven en¬ joy lie sovereign rewards for that good we ought all the to cities enjoy, which and over y He desires us to rule,”