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Clay County Reformer.
8. It. Editor.
VOLUME I.
POLITICAL HASH.
Nerved Hot mid Cold to fcuit Our
Headers.
One of the pledges made by the
democratic party two years ago was
to use rigid economy in the adminis¬
tration of govei nment affairs. Much
was said about the •‘blllion-dollar”
congress in which the republicans
bad a majority. Tho first year of
pure undefiled and unfettered demo
cratic rnlo l as just ended. Like nil
their other pledges this one has been
most outrageously ignored. While
they claim to have reduced the pen¬
sion disbursements something like
$30,000,Odd, the total of other appro¬
priations has been increased, speak¬
ing of these expenses Congressman
Cannon o? Illinois says:
“Mr. Cleveland, by liis estimates,
a* ked congress to appropriate for the
public service for the coining year,
including permanent appropriations,
?53n,002,84u, and congress has appro¬
priated for such service $400,008,300.
This, in round numbers, is £80,000,
ooo less than the President asked for
tho public service. A large part of
this $30,000,000, however, will be ap¬
propriated next winter by way of
deliciencics. A comparative state¬
ment of appropriations made at
this congress for the fiscal
year ending Juno 30
with appropriations made at
the first and second sessions of
last congress (the Fifty-second con
gress), and at the first and second
sessions of the Fifty-first, commonly
known as the ‘‘Reed congress,”shows,
and such is the fact, that the appro
priations this year are greater by
8-8,807,858 than woro those made by
the first session of the Fifty-first or
“Reed congress.”
'there have been many increases in
I ho salaries of democratic officials,
especially in tho diplomatic and con
sular service. The salary of the first
assistant secretary of stato is in¬
creased from tV>00 to $4,500. The
minister to Belgium is increased from
$7,500 to 910,oOO. The ministers to
Nwltzei land and Portugal, Messrs.
Caruth and Ilroadhead, are in¬
creased from $5,000 to ?tS,5i»0 respec
tively. Tho minister to Mexico,
who receives an annual salary of
$17,500, has tho salary of his secretary
ot legation increased from $1,800 t )
$2,(550. The ministers to Nicaragua
and Costa Rica, for the first time, are
allowed secretaries of legation at
$1,800. each, while tho Bureau of
American Republics is cut down from
130,000 to $10,000. The auditors of
the treasury department are increased
from $3,(500 to $4,000 each ”
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Capt. J. G. Waters, one of the
leading attorneys of the state of Kan.
sas, in an interview bays that he is an
Abe Lincoln republican, lie denounces
the Kansas republican party as owned
and controlled by the railroads and
will not vote for any man on the
ticket Among oilier tilings he say-;
m I am opposed to the railroads urn
ning and owning both Supreme courts,
and the republican machine in this
state. I know one man who dispenses
passes for a railroad in this state,
that is the uncrowned king, he has
dictated to governors, legisla tures and
the judges of the Supreme court aud I
am only exercising my right to help
give them a black eyo this year, for
they deserve it. I am no ilopper. As
1 do not want office, I c m eritic se
and here is my criticism. There are
now two judges on the Hupreme bench,
Horton and Johnson, who have taken
and used passes ever sinee they have
been on the bench, and they hear and
decide cases where these railroads are
on one side and a lone widow, orphans
and one legged bratceman on the other
This is a crime, it needs for plain
apealdng to break this custom up.
The suitor who has a case against a
railroad would never try it before
twelve jurvmen who each had a pass
m his poeket and no honest and up¬
right judge would require it. Nor
ought any one to be handicapped by
baring the entire members of the
court of last resort, all armed with
passes, finally determine his case.
Men are human, the railroads give
naa«.es under tho head of courtesy to
the bench, but it is not for health or
philanthropy. They are intended to
be sent where they will do the most
good. ”
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T he radicalism of to-day becomes
ihe conservatism of to-morrow, and
will be used as vigorously against to¬
morrow's radicalism as the radicalism
of the last century is used against the
radicalism of to-day. To-day's Utopia
is to-morrow’s reality. Opposition to
the kidnaping of native Africans and
selling them into perpetual slavery
was the radicalism of the latter part
of the eighteenth century, the conser¬
vatism of the first half of the nine¬
teenth century, and the philanthropy
of to-day. Fifty years ago opposition
of African slavery was radicalism.
Now it is conservatism. So with op
pos tlon to debt slavery and the en
croachments of capital. To-day it is
called radicalism; to-morrovr it will
be called conservatism, and future
generations will call it patriotism.
Let us bear our burdens.- prosperity
will bless our efforts, aud perpetuate
our memory.
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THE WORKINCMAN HAS SHAKEN THE TWO OLD PARTIES FOR GOOD.
government) is that “the people shall
rule. ” That is to say, a majority of
the people. It seems, however, to be
the purpose of the modern leaders of
the democratic party to create ma¬
jorities where tliey are needed to keep
said leaders in power.
$*. 1*. Mcllwain writes the Noncon¬
formist from Alabama concerning the
frauds practiced by the democratic
w.ng of the plutocratic party in that
state. In Mr. Me 11 wain’s county,
Dallas, he gives the following figures
giving the actual votes cast and the
number counted at some of the pre¬
cincts:
Votes Official
Cast. Count.
Runnnerfield........ .....85 210
Woodlawu....... 24 150
Mnrtine............ .. 71 077
Orrville............ .. 27 4552
Lexington.......... 45 iS I -
River.............. 2 .) ** s
(Kdtotvn............ ltd t
l’leasant Hill....... 85 ^ £
Union.............. at »
Liberty Hill........ 20 £
Marion Junitica.... V 117
Browns............. -! 81(5
Hmy leys............ -! 182
Boykins............ jr 110
Mitchells.......... 400
Heltna.............. 710 2,( 83
Three-fourths of the people in the
county are negroes and the reform¬
ers had prevailed- on them not to reg¬
ister, thus hoping to defeat the bood
lers. But the negro votes were
counted whether registered or not.
And the organs of such law violators
call Populists “anarchists.”
It seems to be tho deter¬
mined purpose of the bourbon
bosses of the south to overthrow the
very foundations of free government
if necessary to carry ou", their own
selfish plans. If the government is to
be i-aved it is high time that honest
people were pi.tt ng a stop to such
abominable methods. It is a blow at
every man's liberty.
THE INDUSTRIAL LEGION.
If you want a thorough organiza¬
one in which the work continues
along after the election's over,
should organize an Industrial
If you want to beat fusion;
If you waut to raise money;
If you want a fair ballot and an
honest count:
If you want a recruiting station for
People's party;
If you want a drilled army of
do what the national com¬
says. erganize the Industrial
in every voting precinct in the
For full particulars send to
Paul Van Dervoot,
Omaha, Neb.
The Money Power.
The money power has made its
in the nation's capitol, and
tho protection of both the
and democratic leaders,
of whicn has the power to crush
it has depreciated the values of all
multiplied the burdens of
debts, paralyzed the industries of
, 000,000 people, gorged the nation's
with half-starved citizen
and filled the land with por
murmurings of a coming rev¬
Why Is It Thus?
Here are five timely questions pro¬
the Union of Minneapolis,
‘Why is it that those who produce
are hungry?”
“Why is it that those who make
are ragged?”
“Why is it that those who build
are homeless?"
“Why is it that those who build car
go on foot ?”
“Why Is it that those who produce
hftvs npne of it?”
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“The Voice of the People is (he Voice of God.”
FORT GAINES, GA • * FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28,
WHY DON’T THEY?
During Cleveland’s first terra the
democrats had control of the house.
'1 he r excuse then for not enacting
some measures of relief was that the
republican senate was in the way.
That it would not permit the passage
of such measures as the people needed
and demanded. The failure to do
anything again put the republicans in
power in 1888. Harrison was elected.
In 1S82 apolitical “landslide” gave the
democrat* the house by 148 majority.
Again their ciy was they had no
“chance” to do anything. They
cavorted around about how quick they
would give the people free silver if
they only Lad the chance. They coul i
hardly keep their shirts on when they
talked about the “robber tariff.” If
tliey only had “a chance” they would
knock out the trusts and throttle the
greedy corporations. They fairly
foamed at the mouth against the en¬
croachments of capital on the rights
of labor. They swore eternal friend¬
ship to the men who made their
living “in the sweat of the r faces.”
Then came the election of 18‘.i2. The
people trusted in the promises of the
democratic leaders. They gave the
democratic party complete c ralrot of
everj’ department of government. We
held our breath. Now all these mighty
promises would he fulfilled. We
imagine! the trusts quaking before
this mighty power. We could see in
our imagination the corporations
cowering before it. We thought we
saw justice putting on a new dress
and brightening up her scales. Now
labor was to be enthroned and capital
taught to know its bounds. But lo,
what bitter disappointment!
Justice appears in her same old
dirty garb.
She has the same old “loaded” scales.
Cleveland appoints a corporation
lawyer to prosecute the corporations
and trusts, ilis cabinet is made up of
lawyers, most of whom represent
corporations. Then follows the
record. The things they said they
would do they did not do. The things
they said that ought not to be done
they did.
Now, they arc wringing their hands
and pleading for more time—for
another “chance.”
But the question arises: Why did
they not do something when they had
the chance?
Why did they not remonetize silver,
as they said they would.instead of de¬
monetizing it?
Why did they not give us a real,
genuine reform tariff bill as they
promised?
Why did they not wipe out the
trusts and the national banks?
Why, oh, why, did they not do
something to show their regard for
the people?
They have lied.
They have deceived the people.
Shall we trust them again?
CAPITAL TIMID.
They tell us capital is timid. Yes,
and it has good cause to be. There
was a time before the war when capi¬
tal grew timid. The popular feeling
against chattel Elavery interfered
with the African slave trade. No new
vessels were fitted out to steal negroes
from their native soil and bring them
to this “land of the free” to be sold
into perpetual slavery. The eloquence
of such men as Sumner, Garrison and
Phillips had touched a chord in the
public heart that was vibrating all
over the land. The popular heart be
gan to see slavery in all its disgusting
details. And capital grew timid. It
feared to invest in tbe institution.
Many men. foreseeing tbe coming
storm. »old their slaves. Others
nixing the tvil gave tham their free*
dom, Ig the same lease capital
is now growing timid, The sys f eras
in tli is country have fastened
upon the people a debt that makes
them wage slaves. The annual tri¬
bute they pay to their creditors
(mast vs) is over two thousand million
dollars—a sum that would have bought
every black slave at the rate of $500
per head. The plan is to make this
debt payable in gold. As thi* would
be impossible the debt would be per¬
petual. This would mean perpetual
industrial slavery. This means that
the annual tribute on the industries
of the country is to be levied on our
children and on our children’s chil¬
dren. Tho popular rniud is revolting
against it. New Phillipses, Sumners
and Garrisons are firing the public
heart against this new form of
slavery. The masses are moving.
And capital that seeks to fasten this
condition on our people is “gi’owing
timid.” Well it might. Let it learn
from the past. If the people are not
given an opportunity to pay these
debts on the basis of equity and jus¬
tice, they will be repudiated as was
the institution of slavery.
A Money War.
Huger drives men mad and tbe com¬
ing winter is likely, if not sure, to
witness more suffering and distress,
and consequently more disorder and
violence than the country has ever yet
dreao ed of.
We have had some rather strong
demonstrations of disregard for pro
erty rights during the past few
months, which, though feeble and iso
lated, ought to teach us a lesson in
possibilities. But these were only the
gentle zephyrs preceding the coming
cyclone.
If cougress does nothing to give the
people work or to feed tne hungry
multitude, a standing army of 200,00.
men can not maintain order or keep
the public peace. The President and
the governor may cry “peace! peace!”
but there will be no peace.
The spirit of spo iation once in ac¬
tivity, and before it can be sated or
checked many thousand lives will be
sacrificed, and many millions of prop
erty forcibly taken from its posses
sors or destroyed.
England was confrontel with a
similar condition of the public wel¬
fare from 1819 to 18:25. The army was
doubled and the soldiers kept busy
night and d iy tn maintain the public
peace, but they failed, and so will any
armed force under such conditions.
All England seemed to be wild and
anarchy inevitable. In this emer¬
gency Lord Castlereaugh,under a sus¬
pension of the rules, persuaded parlia¬
ment to pass a law for the expansion
of the currency by an increase of pa¬
per money. The effect was magical.
In six weeks the mines and factories
i became again active; labor was every¬
where in demand, andthepeoole were
fully employed at fair wages and were
contented.
It is true relief came to England in
this instance partly from the migra
tion of a large per cent of her citizens
as well as from the expansion of the
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currency. But one lh-ng ° was dem
onstrated. ibe remedy of force by
military power litera ly fa led.
Will our rulers try the remedy thai
failed or the one that succeeded and
brought peace to a distracted land 0
We shall see.—Kansas Commoner.
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David Hume ou Falling Prices.
FaDrag’ prices and misery and de
stniction we inseparable companions.
The disasters of the dark ages were
caused by decreasing money and fall
lDg P ltee ^ with the me iQersiiP nl
“oney, l^bpr and jnduetrv galjj new
Hfe.
REV. DR. TADIAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIYINK’3 SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “Holy Compulsion.”
Luk^xxL ! *23 1 C0IDPCl them t0C ° mein - ,, -
Th „ . . Pf°T . lc »tt . °ur day , have , luxn
nes which the kings and queens of olden
times never imagined. I walked up and
down the st ars of Halyroo l prince—a pa
tace that was considered one of the wonders
ble thaT?h ^ “v U n,l -T Sald: ”Gun of th it i s be reput possi- « a
wonder'n wonder.in place/ ni , And mm this s is the case in
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farms iarms iar far Dftter than the nom rb granates and
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friends to eomo and appreciate it, and it was
a laudable thing when the wealthy man ot my
text, happy himself, wanted to make other
people happy. And so tho invitations went
out, *»“ but something went eSb,mCei.S|: very much wrong
<•»’■ the
™» wlio hn provide,!» Brand tenet when he
finds out that tho truest a invited do not
intend to come. There is nothing that so
provokes tlio master of tho feast as that.
banquet Well, these people invited to this great
of the text made most frivolous ex
discs. Tho fact was I suppose that some
of thorn were olUmded that this man had
eucceedod so much better in the world than
t ions and professions ? wlm° consider 0 it^a
vance 1. I suppose these people Invited to
the feast said n“minister araon-’ themselves • “We are
rot going to ?z&!s-J' to that man’s 3& van
IS- aw v
l«™; land «M ImSrtfe .-.“'look at«." S hS
was a speculator and had no businew
to Luy land until he knew about it, A
frivolous excuse. Another man said, “I
have bought five yoke of oxen ” The
probability live stock. is that ho was a speculator in
n e ought to have known about
the oxen before he bought them. Besides
the that, if ho had been very anxious to get to
and feast, ho could have hooked them up
driven them on the road there. An
other frivolous excuse. Auother man said,
“Oh, I have married a wife, and I can’t
come,” have when if !io had said to his wife, “I
an invitation to a splendid dinner. It
is highly complimentary to me. I should
very much like to go. Will you go along
with mo?” she would have said, “To be sure,
I Will go.” Another frivolous excuse. The
tact was that they did not want to go.
“I “Now,” said the groat man of the feast, i
will not be defeated in this matter,
have with an honest purpose provided a
banquet, and there are scores of people who
would like to come if they were only in
vited. Here, my man, here j you go out,
and when you llnd a blind man give him
your arm and fetch him in, and when you
find a lame man give him a crutch and fotch
him in, and when you find a poor man tell
him that there is a plate for him in my man
*!on, and when you find some one who is so
ragged and wretched that ho has never been
invited anywhere then by the kindest ten
derness and the most loving invitation any
one ever had compel him to come in ”
Ob, mv friends, it requires no acuteness
aff.iir on my part or on your part to see in all this
that religion is a banquet. The table
wi\s sot in Palestine a good many years ago,
and the disciples gathered around it, and
they thought they would have a good time
all by themselves, but while they sat by this
table the loaves began to grow and spread,
and one leaf went to the east and another
leaf went to the west until the whole earth
was covered up with them, and the clusters
from tho heavenly vineyard were piled up
on the board, and the trumpets and harps of
eternity wine made up the orchestra, and as this
of God _ is differing',’ pressed _ to dylngrgroaning the lips of a sin
ning, bleediDg,
world a voice breaks from the heavens, say
ing : “Drink. O friends. Yea, drink, O be¬
loved O blessed Lord Jesus, the best
friend I ever had, ths best friend any man
ever there had, was there ever such a table? Was
ever such a banquet?
From the cross uplifted high,
w here th Saviour deigns to die,
What mfJo ii us s ainCs I hear
Bursting on th * ravished ear!
IF aven's redeeming work is done,
Com and welcome, sinner, come.
Religion is a joyous thing. I do not want
to hear anybody talk about religion as
though body it were a funeral. I do not want any¬
to whine in the prayer meeting about
the kingdom of God. I do not want any
man to roll up his eyes, giving in that way
evidence of his sanctity. The men and
women of Go;1 whom I happen to know for
the most part find religion a great joy. It is
exhilaration to the body. It is invigoratioa
to the mind. It is ramure to the soul. 7 _ ■i;
Is balm for all wounds. It is light for all
darkness. It is harbor from all storms, and
though God knows that some of them have
trouble enough now, they rejoice because
they are on their way to the congratulations
eternal.
tiful Ob, the Lord God has many fair and beau¬
daughters, but the fairest of them all is
lbs whose ways are pleasantness and whose
paths are peace. Now, ray brothers and
sisters—-‘or I have a right to call you all so
—I know some people look back on their an¬
cestral lin? 1 , and they see they are descended
from the Puritans or Huguenots, and they
rejoice in that, but I look' back on my an¬
cestral line, and I see therein such a ming¬
ling and mixture of the blood of all nationali¬
ties that I feel akin to all tne world, and by
the blood of the Son of God, who died for
all people, I address you in the bonds of uni¬
versal brotherhood,
I come out as only a servant bringing an
Invitation to a party, and I put it into your
hand, saying, “Come, for all things are now
ready,’ and I urge it upon you and continue
to urge it, aud betore I get through I hope,
by the blessing of God, to compel you to
come in.
We must take care how wo give tho invita¬
tion. My Christian frien 5s, I think some¬
times we have just gone opposite to Christ’s
command, and we have compelled people tc
stay out. Sometimes our elaborat'd instruc¬
tions have been the hindrance. We gradu
ate from our theological seminaries on stilts,
and it takps five or six years before we can
come down and stand right beside the great
masses ot the people, learning their joys,
sorrows, victories, defeats.
We get our beads so brimful of theological
wisdom that we have to stand very sir fight
lest they spill over. Now, what do the great
m? sscs of the people care about the tech
nloallt ‘f 3 r ® , ‘f io n? Wbat do they care
about the hypostatic . union . or the difference
between subiapsariaa and supralaps triau?
What do they care for your profound ex¬
planation*!, clear as a London f<v<? Wnpn n
man is drownins?, he does not want you tc
stand by the dock an l describe the nature ol
the water info which he has fallen and tell
him there are two parts hydrogen gas and
one of oxygen gas, wit a a common density
of 39 F., turr ing to steam under a common
atmospheric pressure of 212. He does not
want a chemical lecture on water. He want*
a rope.
ehwibTJtSSlto physics. We 1
sp-ak in an unknown tongue
assemblages, awl in our pulpits, and bow
can people u»? We be saved unless they can under
fct an1 put ou cur official gowns, ani
the we think elbows the of two preacher silk balloons give happing him at
Sanctity. The a GoTi flows great
r.yer <q irmh dovrs
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
before us pure and clear as crystal, but rve
take our theological stick auJ stir it up and
stir it up until you cannot see the bottom.
Oh, for the simplicity of Christ in all our in¬
structions—1 ho simplicity He practice! when
standing among the people He took a lily
and said, “There is a lesson of the manner I
will clothe you,” nnd pointin’ S> i • v *u,
said i “There is a lesson of tho way i will
feed you. Consider tho lilies—behold the
fowls.”
I think often in our religious instructions
t they inland
t llnd things angular and cold and stiff.
and they go away, never again to come,
when the ohnroh ought to be a grant home
circle, half everybody having a hymnbook, giving
| of it to the one next him ; every one
Who has a hand to shake hands shaking
/mnds-the church architecture and the
church surroundings saving to the people,
‘Come in and be at home ” lustead of thaf
the Tthink people all these to stay surroundings Now, let often compel
out. usallre
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,Vbo <?“.V » Holy life. We m»« be better
XeijaSfe r&l? ttTcomti C r?^° ^ntn^thT lnto tbH u' kingdom U ,° 0!npi of ‘i
I 5 ten in t hi,t " l , * ' i&tXC0 i‘V b d . ein f e * *
! 1 te , H vou tlie best argument in be
^ iTA'.rU? ° v7 3’ i\ “. n » “ •
jO jurist, Iso Jnfidnl can unssvor it. O
So ’ cm* ' eX impl ° C0:np;1 the poople
r - . . . ^oapMwho
very fond "J nL of e-i C ,7-,? K wong th " «wlss was
?, u u ' One day h he was climbing . among
very dangerous , places and thought himself
Pathe?“ Sf*” loo horn for t backhand ^
Rm ,oUowin An 1 ‘ ie looked ho
l \, l : lke th J 5,1 s;i, ° pnth m T' ! a 0ur ’ chi,,lre ‘nn b u ”
7 4 follow,n ? 011r Partners in business
m ” are
rir^
l ”' r f oa i “‘ L '’ L ous “
LV , r and lT | other,y rann 5 ie L‘ w ® ul d
. to listen. t If you are rebuffed, l it , is
OBOj'nse you lack in tact and common sense,
' 01 ’ how much offectivo work there is
• r » of kindly admonit ion ! There
{« housaQfls e way ° f m en around about you wno are
‘, av0 lievor bacl ° ao pers on! l1 invitation to
tb ?,7, 0S f‘ GlV<J ‘I 1 '* 011 ® , invitation, 1 and you
™ lld bo surpr 130,1 tbo alacrity with
w ” oa thoy , would , accept it.
£ hnve a f f ien,3 > u Christian physician, ...
who one day became very- anxioiismbout the
salvation of a brother physician, and so lie
® ft bls office, went down to his man s offiaa
m* 7 , IT , the doctor m. T 7, No, do replie ®*»* 13 l
aot In ' W ®‘ ; 1 b l 3 P'^ieinn, , “when
^72,!?’ Cjuristtan tel love. i L hln J, 1 Lb.s worldly ,m . « ,v doctor ® hlm
^me home after awhi e, and the message
7 y\v? 1° ’ i' 8ald ^ lthl tt l,i ,?r
77’,‘,7.7, ybrl m sthm love d , °T for U ‘ J raef T, a, \ And bi i i ho e iv ‘, . became n - hl9
very much awakened and stirred in spirit,
Rn ' 1 he 6akl aft «r awhile, “Why, that man
must moau iny soul,” and he went into his
back 1; uelt down and began to pray,
1 llHU he look nis hat aa 1 went out to the
office of this Christian physician and said,
“ Wi)at < - , «n I do to be save!?” and tho two
dolors knelt iu the office an l commended
1 beir sou,s to God - A11 f he o so l in
that casn wa8 oulyrhe voice of one good
man > Ray *n^. “Give ray Christian iovo to the
doctor.” The voice of kindly admonition,
Hrv0 you uttered it to-day? Will you utter
, 11 to-morrow? Will you utter it now? Com
p,jl t j 1(vn t° come in.
^ think there is a great work also to he
done in the way of prayer. If we had faith
enough to-day, we could go before Go 1 nu 1
HSk for tbe salvation of all the people in our
churches, and they would all bo saved There there
aad then without u single exception.
1 might there, bo professional worldly men there, there, political who had
men mem men
n °t heard the gospel for twenty years, men
who are prejudiced against the preachers,
mea wbo « ro prejudiced against the music,
i men men who wh o are are prejudiced prejudiced against against the the church, church,
men who are Projudjced ^against God—I do
not ~ care—they ”..... might ‘ ‘ be ~ brought * in “ by ...... fer¬
vent prayer—you would compel them to
come in.
, Oh, for such an earnest prayer People
.
of God, lay hold of the horns of the altar
now and supplicate the salvation of all those
who sit in the same pew with you—yea, the
redemption ot all who sit in your churches.
I toll you to-day, my iriends of a great sal¬
vation. Do you understand what it is to
have a Saviour? Ho took your place. He
bore your sins. He wept your sorrows. He
is hero now to save your soul. A soldier,
worn out in his country’s service, took tothe
violin as a mode of earning his living. Ho
was found in tho street ot Vienna playing
his violin, but after awhile his hand became
feeble and tremulous aud lie could no more
make music. One day, while ho sat there
weeping, a man passed along an l said
“My iriend, you ure too old and feeble. Give
me your violin.’’ And he took the man’s
violin ana began to discourse most exquisite
music, and Jlie people gathered aroun l in
larger and larger multitudes, ami the aged
man held his hat, and the coin poured iu un¬
til the hat was full.
“Now,” said the man who was pockets.” playing The the
violin, “put that coin in your
coin was put in the old man’s pockets.
Then he held his hat again, and the violin¬
ist played more sweetly than ever and played
until some of the people wept and some shout¬
ed. And again the hat was llllod witn coin.
Then the violinist dropped the instrument
and passed off, and the whisper went, “Who
is it. who is it?” and some one just entering
the crowd said “Why, that is Bucher, the
great violinist, known all through the realm.
Yes, ihat is the great violinist.” The iuct
l i was, he had just taken that man’s place,
and assumed his poverty, aul borne his bur
j livelihood, den, and played and made his music, sacrifice and lor earned the poor his
I the Lord Jesus Christ
i oid man. 8o comes
down, aud He finds us in our spiritual pen¬ His
ury, and across the broken strings oi
own broken heart Ho strikes a strain of in¬
finite music which wins the atttention of
earth and heaven. He takes our poverty.
He plays our music. He weeps our sorrow.
He dies our death. A sacrifice for you, a
sacrifice for me.
Ob, will you accept this sacrifice now. 1
do not single out this and that man and this
and that woman. But I say all may come.
The sacrifice is so great ali may be saved.
Does it not seem to you as if heaven was
very near? I can feel its breath on my
cheek. God is near. Christ is near. The
Holy Spirit is near. Ministering angels are
near, your glorified kindred in heaven near,
your Christian father near, your glorified
mother near, your departed children near.
Your redemption is near.
I»AA( Hood, colored, sixty-eight
years old, of Philadelphia, laughed so
heartily at an alleged joke that he
dislocated his jaw. He was sent to
the Pennsylvania Hospital, where the
doctors, after much difficulty, put
the bone back in its place. Hood,
who is generally known by the soubri
quet of “Pop.” is a good-natured old
man, and when Sam Johnson came
along and said something funny Pop
started to laugh and could not stop
until his jaw bone g&t out of place,
At the hospital Pop told the doctors
he could not remember exactly what
the joke wm, but eald that It vaa
mighty funny tnyhow,
NUMBER 18
’ttDMEN
The gauzes are very popular.
Midland, Mich.,has a female barber.
Morrow- County, Oregon, has a ladj
stage driver.
A Marie Stuart, of fancy basket
straw, has an edging of geranium vel¬
vet.
Ringlets, real, old-fashioned riug
lefcs, are said to be a feature of com¬
ing coiffures.
The Queen of Siam has the smallest
loot of any titled lady iu tho world.
She wears H in boots.
New stylo studs are dead white
enamel with the tiniest of tiny dia¬
monds sunk in tho center.
The death of Dr. Emmy Lange
leaves Copenhagen, Deumark, with
only six female physicians.
Mrs. Marks, aged almost ninety
years, was baptized iu the sea, near
Rockland, Me., several days ago.
Vests of chinchilla, seal and astrak¬
han are made for wearing with open
jackets, and are considered a uovelty.
Mary E. Wilkins’s new novel,
“Pembroke,” has made a great hit in
England, and critics say of it that
George Eliot never did anything bet¬
ter.
Sun’ bonnets, genuine, old-fashioned
ones, have been much affected by
young women in tho couutry this sea
son. Thev are warm, but they do
protect, which is more than many
sun hats do.
Professor Mary Roberts Smith, «
graduate of Cornell and formerly con¬
nected with Wellesley College, has
been appointed to a position in the
social science department of Lelaud
Stanford University.
Although Onida, the novelist, is re¬
ported to have made over a quarter of
a million dollars by her writings she
is now in financial straits and was re¬
cently forced to sell her books and
curios. What she has done with this
large sum is a mystery.
“Sunshine” is the appropriate name
of a new material for draperies, and
is particularly pretty for pillows.
Against a solid background is woven a
damasse figure, which changes its tone
ol‘ coloring as it variously catches the
light, in true “sunshine” fashion.
There are now three women physi¬
cians on tho sanitary corps of the New
York Board of Health—Drs. Alice
Mitchell, Helen Knight and Frances
G. Deane. They are under the same
rules and are required to do the same
amount of hard work as their mascu¬
line associates.
There are many straws which show
the reaching out in these days of the
feminine mind. Here is ono. ' In
Hallowell, Me., the free library sta
tixtics for last month show 1141 books
given out. Of these women took 407,
girls 410, against 151 taken by men
and 173 by boys.
A certain paper is envying the out¬
ing girl her cool and attractive-look¬
ing shirt waist, aud mourns that men
may not step abroad in similar attire.
This is only feeble compensation, and
scant revenge that women should at
last have hit upon one style of dress
which comfortably clad men may
envy.
Red slippers are not so much worn
as they were. The tau suede low
shoes aud slippers are beiug a trifle
superseded by the smooth kid of the
same shade. The smooth kid ones are
not nearly so pretty, being cut with
straps to cross over the instep and
with both straps and fronts embroid¬
ered with beads.
Etna, N. J., can boast of the strong¬
est woman iu that State. Her name
is Kate Kuhn, aud sho is styled the
female Sandow. She is ouly nine¬
teen, but has a handsome and sym¬
metrical form, and her muscles stand
out like those of a trained athlete.
Some wonderful stories are told of her
phenomenal feats of strength.
One of our country’s bravest hero¬
ines died the other day at Bellevue
Hospital, New York City. She was
Mrs. Juliet Henshaw, one of the first
to come forward at the call for volun¬
teer nurses to care for cholera patients
at Swinburne’s Island. She was a
King’s Daughter, aud her skill, to¬
gether with her devotion and bravery,
were evidence to many how faithfully
she served.
Miss Elizabeth Banks, who was once
private secretary to the British Minis¬
ter to Peru, is going to try to per¬
suade the women wage-earners that
domestic service is preferable to shop
and factory letters work. She will publish a
series of in a London daily,
describing her own experiences as
parlor maid and house maid in Eng¬
lish families. “In Cap and Apron’
is the title of her letters.
There are eight womeu colonels in
the German army. They draw their
swords but seldom, it is true, but they
make up for this by drawing their sal¬
aries with unfailing regularity. They
are the Empress of Germany, the
Dowager Empress, the Princess Fred¬
erick Charles, of Prussia; the Queen
Regent Sophia, Queen Wiihelmiuaj ol
the Netherlands; the Duchess of Con¬
naught, the Duchess of Edinburg!:
and Queen Victoria,
a rival iu favor of old-fashionec
nftme s for girls is taking place. For
long time past few parents would
have thought of calling'their children
(jy any such hoinelv cognomen as
Mary> Martha, Jane, Sarah or Ann,
preferring prettier names, such as
Ethel> Blanche, Maud, Dora, etc. But
the latter have now become so com
mcm that it ie propo9 ed to go back to
old World names in which our grand
mo ther# and grwt-gruDdmothers d»*
.