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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 ” # * 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. ” # * 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. One of the principles of deraocrftU jov«rpm#nt (wg n^ean pure deiuoprfiR t m % f & 'A \y if* m V o & 4 ^ lY :/ P S. 2 'JO V, (< ' x } ; -M ^Vv 3&t# 1 * f \ WPi a me a /* § M < 1 > By the National Reform Press Association. t 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?” i “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 _____ 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. -— 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 We«c£ P hftS.u 4 Connt y 68, ?. d : rb ° "° Q T Lon * r * * "f* Islan ** d farms iarms iar far Dftter than the nom rb granates and o ",m 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 Mini nr 11; » ,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»* .