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? i CLA . w * Wj. . ■. - » - D I v 17E'ADlV/ft?D i\ r vJrvIVimA. 8. H. WEAVER, Editor. VOLUMK I. POLITICAL HASH. SERVED HOT AND COLD TO SUIT OUR READERS. to lint I* lIHnft Ml«t and Done Hero Thero mid liverywhere. The Populist have always charged that tlw leaders of both old pnrtles were controlled by the money power of tho country, nod that upon matters affecting the interests of banks, corpo i at ions and trusts the representatives of those parties would be found vot¬ ing together. Since the democratic party has had control of affairs the truthfulness of these charges has been demonstrated. <»n tho question for the demonetization of silver a majority oLbolh parties voted to strike down silver. • The democratic party has fostered the interests of trusts tho same ns the republican party. It has Bcceodod to the demands of bankers as did the republican party. It has sided with railroad corporations as did the republican party. Iu Oregon tho demo¬ crats voted with the republicans against the Populists, and in Alabama tho strong rcruihlicnn counties (negroes) gave the democratic candi¬ date for governor tho la g.st ma¬ jority. And now comes tho chairman of the republican state committee of Wiscon¬ sin who explains the whole situation and lets the political cat out of the bag. lie says: “The present unsettled social non economic conditions make it necessary that the PopulistB should bo driven oni of public life. Th'e Populists are a dangcious menace to law and order and good government. * * * I had rather sco a decent democrat in the house than an indecent Populist, and to far as their principles are con¬ cerned they arc all indecent howevet agreeable may be their personality. “bu tho gr. at vital questions when the honor and dignity of the Ameri con people are concerned we will al ways find the democrats voting with the republicans for the common good. '1 he democratR have the same feeling ao far os tho republicans arc con¬ cerned. They dislike our financial and economic systems, but they know we are sound on all the great ques t ons of tho day. So far ns I can con* trol it there will be no alliance be tween the republicans and the I’opu lists in the hope of defeating the democrats. From what I hear the gentlemen who are managing the democratic congressional campaign entertain tho same aversion to those unholy alliances, and i am glad of it. If this program is faithfully carried out by both sides we shall soon see the la-t of a Populistic representation in the home.’’ # # » Tho country is wondering now what the democrats made their Chicago platform for. While their declaration on the silver question was a straddle, it u as interpreted in tho west and south to mean the repeal of tho 8hor man law with a law providing for free coinage. Instead of that the party demonetized froo silver. The platform declared explicitly in favor of repealing the state bank tax. W hen the question came up the party vo^ted it down. The platform declared in favor of local self government. That principle was never so ruthlessly violated as when Cleveland sent United States troops to Chicago against tho protests of both the mayor of the city ami the governor of the state. The plalfoi m declares its hos¬ tility to trusts, yet it is known to all tl at tho potty conceded to tho ex¬ actions of the sugar, eoa', iron and other trusts in the formation of the tariff hill.’ Tho platform declared its devotion to tho interests of tho people, yet their petitions havo been ignored and tho demands of corporations and banks been acooeded to as they never were before In the history of the country. With professions of economy still ringing in the ears of tho people jt-hey havo voted themselves extra pay In tho way of rai’eage and clerk hire that ought to shame the devil. The cries of the workingmen have £one unheeded. Tho distressed condition of the coun¬ try lias been ignored. It seemed to have been the sole object of the pres¬ ent congress to look after and foster the insvrests of Wall street, the trusts and cerporations. If the people do not repudiate the action of this congress, then indeed aro we nearing that stage of paralysis that foreshad¬ ows a nation of aristocrats on the one hand and venal slaves on tho other. • • • to I In a constitutional convention re¬ cently hold in Albany, New York, J. J. T. Brooks, vice-president of the Pennsylvania railroad company ap¬ pealed to that body to embody a pro¬ vision in the constitution prohibiting public officials from receiving passes from railroad companies. He claimed that he was unnecessarily annoyed by by requests for passes for representa¬ tives, senators and oven Judges of the Supremo Court and their friends, and, if he did not comply the interests of the company jeopardised by the introduction of hostile billa by the parties refused. for a “constitutional pro this subject, and one broad § K S 5 WSJ E’S i I ‘ i vf/ & v—A* a I | 1 \ 18 I. ! CjC'- T5.* \y ' - \ m lUIIIUlh a f/M si j ty' a * i i I ti J ! )] I >—*. Mmmi • •" v: wpm — rt'vl r £Pi;8*~H*N 'At>\ til JUESBw Pt'MOCliA rAP. _ 7 't ’ rj : mm I J\ > / \ IS Wm ■^V ' ii. m TTRUM m 3S-- ! ?#/ / . £ A vO t rr 8 % L’L’iw. m liiiill? xf 1 & >V i !E M m X4H 7 -x-szz I bV' y l, 7 j M m a 8 & IZZZ ; // \ &/ 'a. gr .sss — £ . g rr % By Ike National Reform Press Association sjrf t/'. ( t/C XA . enough to make it a misdemeanor for any person elected or appointed to any position in the service of the public to ask or receive for himself or nny other person free transportation.” Here is another “straw” which shows that the railroad companies aro obliged to look to tho government for protection from that very corrup¬ tion which is urgel as one of the ob stae’es in the way of government ownership. The fact is that when¬ ever a railroad corporation becomes so corrupt, or the object of abuse by public officials or its own officers as to bo unable to sustain itself, the only alternative is to resort to the govern¬ ment to aid and assist in purifying its management. DEMOCRATIC FRAYER. NO. Xlt. Most adorab'c and ever to be rever¬ enced Grover: Thou who art alwaj r s great, whether trampling tadpoles on Hog Island,catching bats at Buzzard’s Bay, or making congress tremble in its boots at Washington. We come to thee once more to thank thee for all thou hast done for our party and for the people. Our most esteemed politi¬ cal father, thou doest all thiugs well, and we arc willing that thou shalt be glorified therein. If congress is stubborn, thou takest it by the napo of the neck and the >eat of the pants and thaketh it until Us free silver teeth rattle in its head, i hat is right. Make them squirm. Bid they not vote for thee? Hid they not nominate thee? D d they not stump the country and advise every¬ body to vote for thee? Verily they did. Now, most adorable Cleveland, make ’em too the mark. Make ’em pass resolutions praising thy ad¬ ministration. Hold their noses to the' politcal grindstone while the Populists and-the republicans ride on their backs. Give ’em the gold cure nntil they puke up every ’“time honored principle” they ever knew. Take their 6haggy locks in the right md left hand of thy wrath and bump their heads together until they prom¬ ise to kiss thy big toe. Most worthy master, we commend to thy especial rare the southern congressmen who advised everybody to vote for thee, who swore by Adam's off ox that thou wast the right stuff, who shared the swag, and now are trying to re¬ pudiate thee and profauo thy great name, Our worshipful master, don't let them do it Drive ’em away from thy pie counter. Follow them home and defeat their renoraination. Sit down on them with the importance of thy political w’eight. Mash the ever lastin’ atuftln out of them forever and forever. As to us poor common peo¬ ple who voted fora thee, take no thought whatsover. Thou knowest our uprisings and our downsittings. Thou canst tell it by the patch on our pants. It ia glory enough for us to see thee rule with an iron rod. We are but the mud sills of society. Put thy feet an us and mash us into the earth. We fear thy name and thy mighty power. We shall never ask thee for any¬ thing that will bring displeasure to thy fatness. Coxey and Browne tried that and, !o! they did languish in jail. They rose up in the morning and went forth with a banner the size of % Columbian postage stamp. Tho? bearded the lion la hie den. “The Voice of the People is the Voice of God.” FOR’f' GAINES, GA., FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14 , 1894 . They stepped on the grass. They offended thy fatness and the servants of thy fatness. And the servants of thy fatness swooped clown upon them and gath¬ ered them in. They smote them hip and thigh. So be it. most gracious master, in all thine enemies. IVhat business has a poor man to want that which he has not? If he is not satisfied let him get off the earth. There are too many of them here anyhow. We thank thee, most gracious mas¬ ter, that they are being starved out and shot and killed. It will make more room for thy fatness. Now take us into thy care. Tut us in the seat of thy pants and sit down on us whensoever thou wilt. Tie us in a knot and throw us to the dogs, but we will continue to praise thy name forever and forever.—Amen, No Pinkerton, . marshal, militia¬ man or any one else has been con¬ victed for the hundreds of murders they have committed while in the service of corporations. Women and children have been killed in their homes and yards, women and men have been killed walking the streets, bombs have been thrown into their houses while the family were asleep and women and children killed by them, and in no instance save one has ever one of them been arrested and tried, and in the case tried the corporations defended the accused who were ocquitted because they could not be identified as the ones who did the murder. These murders were committed by men in the service of millionaires, who are democrats and republicans, and who give thou¬ sands to the campaign funds of both old parties. Will some of their party speakers tell the people why none of these murderers have been punished? Why is not Cal Brice Carnegie, Vanderbilts, Goulds, Sage, Frick and others as much guilty of murder when they hire men, arm j them, and men, women and children are killed by them, as Parsons, the anarchist, was who was hung for ap¬ proving of a crime not knowing it was to be done and not being present when it was committed. ^Have the rich corporations or individual the right to kill and slay any more than the poor worker? If both kill had ought not both be punished? Where does the Pinkerton company get their au¬ thority to hire and arm men to fight for corporations—uniform them and number them so thateven their names are lost? W hen one of them is ar¬ rested, as many of his comrades as are necessary are on hand to swear he is innocent. They are assassins hired to kill—and to kill without fear of punishment. Americans, to this condition has the old parties who are owned by the cor¬ porations brought you. How long will you support parties who allow bands of assassins in times of trouble to kill at w’ll? Vote them out! “Am I my brother’s keeper?” spake Cain, but his excuse was overruled, and despairing, he cried, “My punish¬ ment is greater than I can bear.” The plutocrats of to-day say to their brothers of earth, “Say! we are not your Veepers. You be d—d,” and as God rules the nation their punishment li THE SILVER QUESTION. The silver question is very simple. This question of ratios and dollars of the same intrinsic value is one of Wall and Lombard street's modern in ventions. There is not enough gold and silver mined in the world each year to furnish money sufficient to keep pace with the increase of popu¬ lation and business, Thera is not gold and silver enough in the United States to do this if not one dollar went abroad, Now how can we check the fall in the price on any¬ thing? Why, by increasing the de¬ mand, of course. But when we Btrike silver down as money wo don’t in crease the demand for it, but decrease it. If we want to increase that de mand we want to increase its uses. In other words let governments say to every man who has silver, I will coin it into dollars of 417% grains each free of charge and silver at once is placed on a parity with gold. No man can show that as long as this or any other government had free coinage of silver that it was noi worth as much as gold. Suppose that the government should say to the mine owners I will pay $10 a ton for hard coal and $5 for soft coal. Don’t you know that everybody else would have to pay that price as long as the gov ernment continued to buy? Free coinage means that legal and the com mercial value of the silver dollar shall be the same. And this will be true so long as the product of silver doe3 not amount to more than we need to coin each year for money to keep pace with . , the business of , the t country. It is true that the mine owners will profit by this, but not more so than will the wheat and cotton growers, and other producers in the land. Besides this objection can be urged with equal 7 pro- l priety , . against . , gold, because free . coin age increases the value of gold. If the government should make those prices on hard and soft coal does any one suppose that those prices would change—thus changing the ratio? That is, would it be likely that Eoft coal would only bring $3 while hard coal would bring $11? Voters should remember that gold will leave this country as long as cot ton is below eight cents per pound and wheat below $1 per bushel. The money exploiters will, under o’d party management keep the United States treasury busy selling gold bonds to get gold for them as long aB they hold power. The fight between the tweedle-de and tweedle-dum tariff parties has ended for the present It is now in order for the liars to come home and speak for the free silver they would not vote for. Gek. Warner makes the assertion that there are more daily papers in this country owned by foreigners than there are in England. At this rate England will be making onr school books, and George the Third will take the place of George Washington. Men* who produce all wealth have a right to what they create, and all laws, customs or means that deorive them of the use of the products of their labor must be abolished before before full justiee is done to the la borer, AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. Do We Need More Judges on Onr Supreme Court ? At the October election the people will vote on a proposed amendment of the Constitution, increasing the number of Supreme Court Judges from three to five. Is this a good thing for the people as a whole? What are tho facts? By them let this question be decided. The people will vote right if they know the facts. The more work there is to be done, the more workmen thero Bhould bo to do it. The more cases there are to be decided, the more Judges there should be to decide them. The two great causes of litigation nro population and property. The following parallel columns will show a comparison between the causes aild sources of litigation in the Supreme Court at the timo of its creation, nnd those existing now: In 1846. In 1894. Number of counties Number of counties and superior courts, 93 | I nnd 137. superior courts, | Increase, 47 per cent. Number of city I Number of city courts, none, courts, 17. Total courts from Total courts from which ca-es wont di- ! j which cases go direct rect to supremo court, to Supremo court, 154 91. Increase, 66 per cent. Number of judicial ! I Number of judicial circuits, 11. circuits, 23. | Increase. 110 per cent. Population, exclud- 1 Population, estima ing slaves (who could ted, 2,000,000 (in 1890 not litigate)459,5591 1 it was 1,837.000.) Georgiacitizens litigat#- who Georgia citizens who could whites—............. only | could All; both litigate........ white and | black. j Increaso in popula- litiga tion sources of I tion, 335 per cent Figures showing the assessed value of property in 1815 are not at hand, but tho following comparison between 1856 and 1894 will aid in showing how much larger aro the property sources of liti¬ gation now than then. in 1836. In 1893. for Properly taxation, returned exclud- j for Property taxation, returned exclud¬ ing slaves, $271,538,- I j ing slavos, $152,614,- 322. 907: I Increase 67 per cent. Tho increase in wealth and popula¬ tion, in connection with tho well known increase in variety of indus¬ trial pursuits, meane an increased va¬ riety in litigation nnd a consequent in¬ crease of the number of difficult and practically new legal questions. Take railroad record litigation—the kind of cases ■whose iB nearly always long and difficult of digestion. Railroad mileage in 1846 is not known, but was very small; but In 184 a In 1894. Railroad corpora¬ | Railroad corpora¬ tions in Georgia, 5. tions in Georgia, 1 about 60. Increase, 900 per i cen'. Number of mdes of | Number of miles of railroad in Georgia, railroad in Georgia, 603. : 5,225.' ! Increase, 764 per cent. A comparison of the 1st and 90th Volumes of Georgia Reports will show a great increase in amount and variety of work to be done by the same nurn her of Judges; for instance, Firdt Ga. Ninetieth Ga Number of cases, 93. j Nuirffnr Increase,58per of cases, cent. 147 Criminal cases, 8. | Criminsl cases, 33. Iucrease, 312 per cent: Damage suits, 3. I Damage Increase, fu9r, 37 | | 1,133 per cent. So, while the 90th Georgia has 58 p C r cent more cases, yet the kind of cases, criminal and damage, which re¬ quire most time and labor in reading and digesting records, has increased ^y ft vastly greater per cent. The following shows the number of cases decided in tho last seven years by ihe Supreme Courts of the States known ns the Southeastern States—a g roU p selected because of their simi ] ftr jty to Georgia in social and com mercial conditions and in kinds of liti gation : West Virginia, 710. | Georgia, 3,050. Virginia, 1,038. i Which is about 240 South Carolina, 1,343. I per cent more than North Carolina, 2,199. the average of the Average in theso by each four j other four states. court ; 1 states, 1,322. But the vastly greater amount of work thus imposed upon each Georgia j uc i ge is shown from the fact that West Virginia Supreme Court com prises four Judges; Virginia five Judges; North Carolina, five Judges. Therefore, the average number of cases decided by each Supremo Court in these . States, omitting , . frac Duns, is as o ^y 8 * ?JjS n i£ g,ma ’ 207. Georgia, North Carolina, 439. 1,016. y<jU,h Carolina * 447 * Avera :e for each Judge Average for each Geor¬ in these four States, gia Judge, J.0I6: 317. Which is 322 per cent, more than average for each Judge in the other four States. Everybody knows the importance of an opinion in each Snpreme Court case, giving the reasons on which the cas 8 decided. These opinions should be written slowly and carefully, lest they be imperfect and by their imper¬ fections and uncertainties produce more litigation. With so few Judges to write so many opinions, the Court is obliged in most cases at present, to simply decide a case by head notes, without giving opinions. The conse¬ quent iDjnrv to the particular litigant is comparatively trifling. But the in jnry done the public by the uncertain¬ ty of the law, caused by crude or har¬ ried decisions without opinions, is in¬ calculable. Not only does the Court hear argu¬ ment in each case, but they meet for consultation, read the records, make Q P the judgments, and each also written,' sub; mita to the full court, when ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. his opinions which are revised and cor¬ rected till they meet the approval of all. But where there are so few Judges in proportion to the number of*cases, it is impossible for them to do the work as thoroughly and well. these Comparatively little of the time of Judges is spent in hearing-argu¬ ment. By far the greater labor is-in reading the record, discussing and de¬ ciding the cases, preparing head note's and opinions, and investigating legal authorities. In 1877 the present Constitution was adopted. It fixed the number of bupremo Judges at three. But in 1877 Georgia had not two-thirds as many people nor two-thirds as much wealth as now. These two things— both sources of litigation—have nearly doubled in this period. Comparison of 58th volume of Geor ¬ gia Reports, containing cases heard by Supreme Court just before the present Constitution was adopted," with 91st volume, tho last published, shows: 68 th Vein mo. 91st Volume. Criminal Oases, 22 Cr minal Cases, 47 Increase, 114 per cent. Railroad Cases, 14 j Railroad CVrs, 25 I Increase,78 per cent. These are two kinds of cases which generally are long and tedious, and are samples of the greater labor re¬ quired of the court at the present. An increase of the number of judges at tho same average per cent, would give nearly six judges instead of three, ns now. All the Northern nnd Western States, except those small ones lately admitted, have from live to nine Judges on their Supremo Court bench. Sev¬ eral of them have also intermediate courts, which largely decrease tho la¬ bors of their Supremo Courts. But some might think it unfair to compare Georgia with wealthier and more pop¬ ulous States. So in the following we take only Southern States, and a few Nor thorn States smaller in wealth and population than Georgia. States having each five Supreme Court Judges—Virginia, North Caro¬ lina, Alabama, Louisiana and Arkan¬ sas. States having not less than six nor more than nino Supreme Court Judges each—Maryland, New Jersey, Dela¬ ware, Maine, New Hampshire, Ver¬ mont, Connecticut. States having four Supreme Court Judges—West Virginia. Every ono of theso States has less wealth and Joss population than Geor¬ gia-most of them a good deal less. The only Southern States, besides Georgia, having only three Supreme Court Judges each are South Carolina, Florida and Mississippi. But Geor¬ gia’s Supreme Court decides as many cases pier annum as the Supreme Courts of these three other States combined. Two successive legislatures have by large majorities voted in favor of in¬ creasing tho Supreme Court from three to five Judges. They did this after full investigation of all the facts. The last legislature voted almost unan¬ imously that way. The increased expense is only six thousand dollars a yenr. This means an increase of taxation amounting to one oent in three years for each citi¬ zen in the State. In other words, it would cost a man worth a thousand dollars one postage stamp once in three years. In the decrease in litigation conse¬ quent on better considered and more carefully prepared decisions, the tax¬ payers will save a hundred times as much, probably, ns the salaries of the two additional Judges would cost. Some fear an unworthy man might get on the bench. If this is a good roason for refusing to consent to more Judges, when they are needed, it is equally as good a reason for abolishing all judgships and having no judges, for we might get a bad man on the bench as it is now. In all offices we take the chances of get¬ ting competent men to fill them. If the wrong man should chance to slip in, he will soon show what ho is and the people will see that he is left at home next time. INDICTED FOR MURDER. The Grand Jury at Memphis Returns . Indictments Against Lynchers. . A Memphis, Tenn., special says:. The investigation into the lynching of the six negroes, near Millington, in this county, is being pushed with vigor, and the grand jury returned indict¬ ments Thursday afternoon against De¬ tective W. 8. Richardson, who arrested the negroes and led them into the hands of tho mob; A. Atkinson, tho man who drove the wagon on the night of the lynching; Jeff Laxton, a mer¬ chant of Kerrville, supposed to have been the leader of the mob; Mike Strickfadden and James Sisselly, members of the vigilante. Richardson, Laxton and At¬ kinson were out on $5^000 bail each, but were rearrested and jailed imme¬ diately after the finding of the indict¬ ments. Ed A. Smith, a farmer, living near Kerrville, has also been arrested charged with the same crime. Reports from Kerrville and Milling¬ ton state that the lynchers have be¬ come alarmed over the firm stand taken by Governor Turney and Judge Cooper, and are making preparations to leave the country. Died from Yellow Fever. A Baltimore special says: Second Engineer Cornelius Watson, of the British steamship Samuel Tyzack, who was taken to quarantine hospital suf¬ fering with yellow fever, died Sunday. The other two victims are in an im¬ proved condition. The vessel, with her crew aboard, is anchored at quar-. antine, and every precaution has been taken to prevent the spread of the dis¬ ease. It is better to wear out than to rust out, but thero is no necessity for doing •ither, NUMBER 16 ".■■aa s a RELIGIOUS READING; { IK DIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY. A oorrespondet of the Puritan, in stating the impressions made upon his mind at tha late anniversaries, among others, says: “I was impressed with tho necessity of a new' and individual consecration to Christ. If the events working, which constitute the glorious progress of the church, are the re¬ sult of individual and obscure efforts in lim¬ ited spheres.then I cannot roll off the respon¬ sibility of doingjthis work on others, ft is not the speakers of anniversaries; it is not the secrelnries of societies and the ministers and churches in the citlts. It is I that must do thp work, and the aggregate of results will be greater or less according to tho fidelity of every individual Christian in Ids humble sphere. Let us. then, understand what God through his church Is actually doing.and con¬ secrate ourselves anew to its accomplishment. I have thought much, while listening to the recital of faithful .efforts of God's children ail over the world, of the preciousness of those \jords to him that is permitted to hoar them. ‘Well done, good and faithful ser¬ vant.' After all our anxiety whether wo aro' in the path of duty, all our fears lest \v« ac¬ complish discouragements, nothing good, all our difficulties, tern pi at ions to have the great Master scrutinize our lives, and then to say, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant’— Oh, there is a bliss, in the very anticipation of it makes the heart overflow. What, in view of this, are the toils end pains of self-denial to be regarded? And if, by our selfish toils, of we the heap up wealth and gain all the honors world, what is it all compared with tho crown which God will give to him that has lived to do good? No. He that in a day like this dares to take tho name and vows of a Christian, must trample on selfish , gains and cousccrato himself with anostolio fervor to doing good. He must be a laborer, and a laborer with God in carrying on the gieat work in which the hearts of the really godly are now throbbing and their hands toiling. Earth’s little “Why should I regard store of borrowed sweots? I sure Have hsd enough of bitter in my cup, To show that never was It His design Who placed mo here, that I Should livo at (ase. Or drink at pleasure’s fountain. Henceforth thi n It matters not if storm or sunshine be My future lot, bitter or sweet my cun; . I on : y pray, ‘God lit me for the work, For God the make me holy, and my spirit “ nerve stern hour of strife.’ COMMIT THY WAYS TO OOD. Reflection will teach a man that he shouK trust himself to tho guidance of some supe rior being; and reason thy unites with revelation the Lord. to toll us to commit ways to Human life is such a journey that man needs a guide and provider. It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. Men nro entirely ignorant of the future; hence, since we know not what our circum¬ stances will be, ourselves cannot form tho plans which shall be best to bo adopted. Every man may say in verity, “Thus far in life hath the Lord helped me.” Our own present condition and that of all others, is utterly and entirely a way that was unknown to ourselves. The great and blessed God has been our conductor, though unseen, and it may be acknowledged. Ought we not, then, to acknowledge him and commit our ways to liim? Time is an ocean, and each person’s life a voyage. Its tossings and heavings, its tem¬ pests tell and innumerable that perils, himself should plainly to each voyager cannot steer his frail tempest-tost bark. He needs a pilot, if he would, make the port of safety; he needs a helmsman other than himself. Let him commit his ways to God. The world is a wiJderness—a dark and thorny desert. Shall the traveler attempt to tread its wilds alone? Let him remember, it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. He has need not been that Fellow-traveler, way before, and does only he not a guide? the proper guide is God; to him let us commit our ways. It is rational and safe. Voyager, traveler, by prayer commit thy ways to God. .Venture not alone upon such an ocean, through such a wilderness. Thou canst not guide thine own bark—thou canst not guide thine own God." steps; every morning and ask wisdom of he is OUT. ‘See there, he is out!’ ‘But how did ho get out,’ said the other? While the they were thus discussing the matter, creature out was rapidly running off, and it was soon seen that such a discussion would not suspended, bring him back acain. It was therefore and the whole attention was directed for the time to the recovery of the gone one. When ho was secured and placed once more within the en¬ closure, did he the out?’ ‘question There eamo up a'difference again, ‘How in opinion get entertained this was subject. One said on he* must havo gotten out underneath. ‘No said the other, he could not lrnve gotten out there. He must have jumped' over.’ They ended the discussion, however, by resolving to stop up below, to put on more above and to guard all around, and thus make it sure that he should get out no where again. This occurrence is brought to remembernnee sometimes, when I hear brethren discussing the question relative to tho causes which havo produced church. Ardent the low piety state has of evidently religion in tho gotten out of our hearts and how is running off. The in¬ quiry is often raised another, another. happened it? all One says one thing, back Let But this it does not bring it again. us get back. Let our whole attention and efforts bo directed to that, aryl when back let us stop up beneath and elevate above, Yes, and guard every part and keep it back. keep it back, by keeping our hearts with all diligence.—Watch¬ man. * In illustration of Mills tho possibilities related of moth¬ er’s prayers, Mr. a story about a sister and two brothers in New Jersey, who, about to start out one night for a party, were spoken to by their mother, who said: “I think, children, that there must be something wrong with me that you are not more anxious about the things of God. I ask you to for¬ give mo. I do not want to rob you of your joy, but when you are at the party to-night, remember that I wdilbo praying to God for you.’’ They went the to figure the revelry the words but they could not banish or of the mother. And sure enough when they re¬ turned they saw the light in the mother’s room, and heard the mother’s prayer in their behalf. Next morning when the mother wefit up to the daughter's the room, she heard a sob. Opening door she found the girl crying bitterly. What was the matter? The girl was deeply convinced the mother of sin. Tutting her arms around hef, preached Christ to her. and she was converted. “And where is your brother?” asked the mother. “Out in the woodshed, I think,” was the reply. And that where tho mother found was the boy. on bis knees behind a pile of wood, cry¬ ing for mercy. He, too, was savingly con¬ verted. The third boy was found in the hay mow, convinced of sin. and imploring pardon, And he found tlie Saviour. Now, one of these young hetold men was engaged to be married, and when bis betrothed, she saM she would give her heart to God, too. and did. In course of time thev were* married, and had three eiiLdren, of whom one was Dr. Tadmage, who has preached the Gospel by tongue and pen to more people than any other m m in the world.” “There was a most affeiting word about Mr.^Mill’s him. He own mother from aud home. her inliucnceover was away He seemed to be away from God. In a room where be was stopping in a big city, he felt one night the influence of a mother’s prayers to God on his behalf Jp a sudden glory whfeb seemed fill the He felt that “ to room. ho had to go back light at once to mother and to his mother,'# Gcd. Ills mother had Lien on her knees that vciv night pleading for him at the throne of grace, lie had to eoitje Laefc to Go’.