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THE WEEKLY TELKGftRPH; TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1888.-TWELVE PACES.
THE TELEGRAPH.
ItVKTD XVEP.Y DAY IN TH* YKAB AN» WEEKLY
A Good Moil Gone.
Yesterday morning at 0:30 Mr. William
W. Corcoran died at his home in Wash-
1,, tb6 1 ington. He wan nearly 90 years old.
£elaccr*yh noil 'ten.tinker Publishing Co., Kor several days it had been almost ccr-
Bt Mulberry street, Macon, Oa. j ta ; n tbat ) ie could not recover from his
The Dally Is dellveredby"c»rrlen In the dty | reee-t severe sicltnesi.
It mailed postage tree to subscribers for 75c. a J The announcement of his death will
nanth, *2 for three months, Jt for »lt months, J caUB0 regret in every portion of this coun-
*r *7 a year. | trv, for few men ever did so much to win
The Weekly Is mailed to suUcribere. postage , ^ ^ q{ ^
the regular line of their procession past istence of a protective tariff, which forces
the home of the noble old man. j him to buy high-priced goods.
Though he had hardly any school train-' The farmers of Georgia and their famil-
ing, Mr. Corcoran was a man of liberal ies make up two-thirds of its population,
culture. His private library is one of the 'flic term “average farmer,” to be true,
OUR OWN AFFAIRS.
j by the cheerful faces of scores f'l
Dr. Talmage’s Suggestions!liftour < hwtaFn # pme^’i ) „ 0 ,V„ ^
(tm, u |l a year and 50 cents for si* months.
Transient advertisements wlll’be taken for the j
In many respects Mr. Corcoran was a
Patty at tl per squate of 10 lines or less, for the j nlos t remarkable man. He was born in
first Insertion, and 60 cents for each subsequent
j5>-»«i,)n, and for tho Wisely at tl for each in-
ssrUon
Death, funeral, marriage and birth notices tl.
■ejected communications will not be re*
arsed.
Georgetown, D. C., of poor parents and his
youth was passed in very humble circum
stances. About the first work lie did was
that of a newsboy. Then he became a
clerk, and afterwards a merchant on a
J^SuZ'm3'o. 1 Zuc.l?b” small scale. Early in life hisfine business
moat bo brlel and written upon but one aide ol sense asserted itself And lie began to make
money. After he had acquired a
good start he met reverses and
CUA8. E. CAMPBELL,
Manager,
CM paper to have attention.
TCemittanccs must be made by express, postal
, and j failed for a considerable amount. He was
a0 money orders, checks, etc., be made payable to soon on his feet again, however. His first
ambition then was to pay off every dollar
of his indebtedness and he did it in a short
"this Sheridan boom lived and flourished time. Hy continued successes and fortu-
for three short weeks, and when it seemed nale investments in Washington real estate
most in love with life committed suicide, he amassed sufficient capital to estab ish a
, , I bank in partnership with Mr. George W.
President Nobthen has great plans for jjj who (1 } e( i only B few weeks ago.
the next State Pair. The beauty »>»“l The b , nUing hon «, 0 f Co rcoran * K iggs
Tl — — — • .1 am t M,\etlion a ill anti la flint flirt ay flPn I _
finest in the country, and his home is beau
tified with many rare gems of art.
For many years lie had been regarded in
Washington witli a respect which amount
ed almost to veneration: Everybody, from
the Senator to the gamin, knew his "noble
figure, his bearing of dignity and grace, his
kindly face, and his “hoary head,” which
to him was indeed “a crown of honor.”
He will be sadly missed and his memory
will long he cherished as that of one who
made the world better for having lived
in it, who became famous because he was
good, who left loving gratitude in many a
heart, end wlto established useful institu
tions that shall remain permanently to
bless his fellow-mon.
must describe at least half of their num
ber. It will be distressing news to the
thousands of visitors to the Cotton Exposi
tion of a few years ago, wlto looked upon
the spiuning-wheel then exhibited as a
curiosity from the moonshine mountains,
to learn from a newspaper of the Constitu
tion’s large sources of information that
hundreds of thousands of Georgia’s hard
working farmers have been forced,under the
operations of our tariff laws, to revert
to the humble implement discarded hy
for the Lenten Season.
■*nu mi our uetirts in pruver; but t„ 11
I some secret place where, day by dav JaI
j at morning, or at noon, or ,, t „(X Uh J
kneel down before God, no one i£, ’.*■
i *in,i tin iU«A si.: *t ‘totenml
THE EFFICACY OF SECRET PRAYER.
and for scores of years—that is not'A' 1
a thing to do. It wants some l"
MilliouH Are in n Penitential Mooil, While {
Others Are Working to Save
Souls to the Neglect of
Their Own.
their fathers, because they are too poor to A verbatlm ’ t , oMowg:
bny clothing, even though it be cheaper 1
than in 1860. The Telegraph acknowl-
Millions of people in all parts of Chris-
, , , .... i tendom are hy reason of Lent iu peniten-
edges a degree of surprise that the farm-1 mood Th#nk Qod that for forty
President Northen's plans is that they are
generally carried out,
soon became famous and made both part
ners rich. Their greatest financial stroke
'Mayor "David R. Francis, of St. Louis, I was made during the Mexican war. The
is suspected of having an eye on the vice-1 government had offered several millions of
presidency. Mayor Francis is young I bonds to raise money for the prosecution
enongh to endure disappointment.
More than usual care will bo taken in
of the war. The bonds went begging. It
was found impossible to place them in the
. . , , . , United States at any figure which bad
the election of members of the next Geor-1 ^ , t { , A
■gin legislature. The people will have a
.hand in that election.
been authorized by the act. Corcoran &
Riggs agreed to take the entire issue.
They advanced every dollar they could
Mu. Corcoran a few years ago wrote to I raise and Mr. Corcoran went to England to
his grsndehildren that the best legacy he I negotiate the remainder of the bonds.
Soon after his arrival in Liverpool came
the news of the final victory of the United
, States army. Government securities rose
In Louisiana the two factions of tl.c rap[dly) and Mr . CorC()ran returned to
Democratic party are co operating heartily Waah}ogU)n ^veral hundred thousand
with the purpose of administering a stun- dn „ arH richcr , ban hc was when he startc d
ning defeat to their common enemy. And , or EnR , and . From that time his finin-
conld possible leave tletn was a good
name. Few men ever left a better one.
they will do it.
cial operations were large and almost in-
Georoia is probably the only State in variably successful. The valne of thercal
the Union that can show a county wherein I estate he had bought at low figures was
not one foot of land is under mortgage, greatly increased hy the growth of Wash-
That county bears the appropriate name, I ington. Mr. Corcoran continued his bank-
Liberty.
ing and real estate business unti.1 a year or
two after the war when he retired, the
Protection Nonsense,
The Chicago Inter-Ocean refers to Con-1 r ‘ c * le,t nian " ashington.
gressman Turner’s graphic illustration of
Long before that time hc had begun that
the burdens imposed upon tho farmer I series of magnificent charities which are
by the tariff and attempts to 1 known of all men. lfcgave a large por-
ridicule it. In doing so it falls tion of the land which is occupied by the
into a ridiculous error, or else deliberately I beautiful Soldiers’ Homo at Washington.
■ attempts to deceive. Mr. Turner said: lie founded the Corcoran 5rt <Mh-rr and
When the farmer rites from his bed in the I endowed it with an original gift of £900,-
mornlogbe puts on bis common tlannol shirt, I 000. The institution lias received from him
texnl W per cent: his coat, Uxed 67 per cent; I auhscqucntly gifts of taoucy and treasures
bis shoes, taxed 55 per cent: and bat, taxed #2I , .
per cent, and washes bis face and bauds In a tin I ... , , , ,
bowl, taxed. .64 per cent; drlea them on acheap ln memory of a beloved daughter he es*
cotton towel, taxed 45 p«r cent. Ho sits down to I tablishcd and endowed the Louise Home
his bumble meal and eats from a plate, taxed j n Washington, for indigent old ladles. It
££ I ^*<1 -»-“‘m000 from hlm.lt w„
Cent; uwom his fowl \|ith Halt, taxed GO per I ‘ 1 * lt custom for many yean to tnke Thanks-
cent; pepper, taxed 61 fur cent, llo looks I giving dinner at the home, and to preoide
Around to his wife and children all taxed la the I the well supplied table. The people of
as»e wap: snd evsti the sunlight from heaven , h SoQtb llavc es^cial reason for loving
tluU pours Into hla dwelling must come through I , , .
window glasses, taxed 66 percent; and yet he I Corcorans memory. He was their
thinks he lives In the freest government under I friend always, even in those dark hours
Then ho starts to work; puts on a I w hen the profession of Hotithern sympa-
bridle taxed Wpe, cent, on hlshorae, and takes , th hm friend , and tho en .
his horse that has * been sood—tbel w . ,, . .
nails used In shoeing being taxed 60 per cent, I durance of suspicion in » ashington. Af-
driven hy s hammer taxed a) per eeut. and I ter the war he contributed royally to the
hitches him to s plow taxed i» per cent; chalus, 1 rehabilitation of the University of Vir-
he reads s chapter from hla Bible taxed25 per I him. Several other \ lrginia colleges en-
cent, snd kneel* to pray on a humble carpet! joyed Ids bounty
The Internal Revenue Again.
A few days ago, the Telegraph, refer
ring to the interview with Congressman
Candler, in which he was reported to have
declared in favor of the abolition of all
the Federal internal taxes, asked: "Is
Mr. Candler in favor of taking the tax off
whisky before the taxes on the necessaries
of life ure reduced?” Our esteemed con
temporary,’ tho Atlanta Constitution, as
sumes to answer for the Congressman, say
ing that “he is in favor of just that thing
and would, no doubt, be perfectly willing
to ‘come down to business’ on sncli an is
sue.”
Mr. Candler represents a district which,
perhaps more than any other in the United
States, lias been infested by .men who have
sought to make money dishonestly by
frauds upon the revenue, and which, con
sequently, has seen more frequently than
any other the armed force of the govern
ment exerted in efforts to protect its rights.
The men guilty of those frauds have suf
fered, as wrongdoers always suffer, and
their acts have brought discredit and loss
upon the community. A reputation for
lawlessness, undeserved but for these men
has stood in the way of its advancement.
Vigilance on the part of the revenue offi,
cials has not succeeded in extirpating
thisclass of lawbreakers, who seem ever
ready to balance their liberty and the
happiness of their “humble homes,” to
which the Constitution so frequently al
ludes, against the chance of making a few
dollars hy cheating the government.. It is
a-sort of gambling game in which they cn
gage, and, like other gamblers who lose,
they are entitled to very littlo sympathy,
It is natural that the people of. the die-
trict should desire to get rid oi -j', Se ft-
er’s, progress toward the direst poverty
has been so rapid.
stitution’s statement that the average farm
er’s tariff" taxes would buy no more than a
paper of needleq. As the tariff averages
45 per cent., it will perhaps be conceded
lows, whose,
the commhnltjT HTnuMti*!!'
have been successful, the evils’^
, . , s some perseveranJ
some high appreciation of dutv "
grand Christian determination,
mighty help. No one can pray i n pil ,
Ins whole prayer. Take the best _
the world, and let him rise up |, t ,[ or ,, ,,|
Brooklyn, February 24.—The Friday in tmblitf assemblage, and tell all hi 8 ♦ 1
night talk of this date at the Tabernacle. ! lahona and sorrow’s and annoyances •
by tbe pastor, the Rev. T. DeWitt Tal-! ."" ll ,1 . oficit,- > »■>•> he »„
mage, D. D., was on “Our Own Affairs.” would say: '“We* didn^S^inS (
days we are called from the outside world
to the important work of introversion.
This poverty is emphasized in tl.c Con-1 ThecbHreb at Callticlei aayi . “They have
made me tbe keeper of vineyards, but my
own vineyard have I not kept.” So there
are a great many Christians now who
spend their chief time in looking after
that it raises prices to half that extent. othc „ whik thcir
Then the poor farmer would only have to
buy a 25 cent pocket knife to contribute
his share to the support of the government
and the manufacturers. He must indeed
be very poor.
own vineyard
goes o waste. They are! raising very fine
grapes on the other side of the fence, but
house of prayer to-night to have our al
and hearts insulted.” W e knew an
lent Christian man who had the habit I
prayer meeting, of telling the most’
founding things of what he used to d„ ,
whence he used to go. We all bdieval,
him as a useful man; hut we all wished]
would not go so much into particulars '
edified no Christian car, it advanced n
Christian heart. And yet there is a r,y
where a, man ought to able to tell ever
thing to his God, to review ail his past M
to count tip all the wonderful deliverancj
and take all the annoyances and ■
grievances of the present moment bef«
(loti; hut if he lias no closet of secret i,rt
er, where shall he do that? There i
h thing as a stalwart Christian cin
the property dora not belong to them, nor ter except that which grow, i nr"
the cranes. We know Christiana who are t * nTI
the grapes. We know Christians who are
lenn ns skeletons in religious experience,
taxedbl percent;and Iben ho rot* his weary
llmt* on a sheet, uxed 46 per cent, and cover*
He contributed largely to the funds for
himself with a blanket that has jmbl UM pi t the erection of the Washington monument,
cent. Nor do the .rasping manufacturers stop I anil was president of the association from
here, but even the broom with which hi* good I i,,, foundation until the work was com-
wife sweeps the floor U taxed 65 per cent. au<l
the cooking vessels used In preparing her hus
band's frugal meals are taxed tl per cent, and
plcled.
The Lee memorial societies at I-cxing
the soda used to lighten bis bread, taxed 50 per toa aIld at Ri c l uuom l received thousands
I of dollars at his hands. Gen. Lee was his
«>L Tj«b she sits down to her sewing with a
needle uxed 25 per cent, and a spool of thread,,
taxed 73 per cent., to make a calico dress, taxed I warm personal friend, and he
SS per rent; or if the wishes to knit warm socks I cherished
to protect her husband and children from the j , a ; n
hitter cold. She uses yarn taxed 12D per cent.;
and that dally and hourly must tbe hard carn-
for the great chief-
enthusiastic admiration.
Eighteen months ago Mr. Corcoran had
Inga of the laborer go to satisfy the manutactuf-1 the remains of John Howard Payne re-
er, and add to hit tll-gotten wealth.
moved from Tunis and buried beneath a
In reply to this the Inter-Ocean is not 1 beautiful monument In Georgetown ceme-
astramed to say: I lory. Hc gave thousands of dollars to
Kow the farmers can buy a very good com- j relieve .the yellow fever -ufferersin the
mon flannel ablrt for GO cent*. Many “city j South in 1878. He uent $5,000 to Charlea*
ortatocrat* wear comfortable flannel uiulerwear ton a f ter |lie earthquake. Only a few
that coat* only 9t per full RUlL Thu*, if 92 per 1 , . aaa . ,
«UL be deducted the suit cost, only «rents I ^ he ,** Te *5,000 tot he Confede-
whlletf It be destnctol from tbe CO rent shirt! Soldiers Home at Richmond. This
the origins! cost must be less than 5 rents. I is but an im|ierfcct enumeration of his
It will be observed that in reaching these j many public benefactions. Ilut who can
extraordinary results th# percentage Is tell the story of his private charities? His
calculated on the sum of the cust and the whole life was devoted to his fellow men,
tax, not on the cost alone, in an effort to! thousands of whom were helped by bis
make Mr. Turner's statement absurd. The j kindness in time of distress. The unwrit-
simplest mind will we that, leaving out ten record of the good he did in secret is,
the question of the merchant’s profit, the! |>erhap*, a more beautiful evidence of the
price paid by the “city aristocrat” in-! grandeur of his nature than tbe splendid
eludes the original cost of j story of his public benevolence,
the shirt and the tax upon it. If he During his life hc gave away millions,
pay $1, the tax will not be 92 cents, as the , and yet he died the possessor of millions
Inter-Ocean says, but about 48, and the! more. Providence seemed to prosper him
the cost of the article about 52. If the j according to his dewrts. Mr. Corcoran
cost were bnt 8 cents and the tax 92, then was a man of strong personality and of
the rate of taxation would be about T150 1 high intellectual power*. He was identi
per cent, instead of 92, as authorized by fied with Washington almost since the be-
law. ' ginning of its existence, ife had seen
Koch an exhibition of silliness, ought to every President of the United States ex,
have satisfied the Inter-Ocean, for one edi- cvpt Washington, ami had a personal ac
torixl. butii did not. It follows with a quaintance with sit of them since Wash,
anil free whisky; who have bconthc occa
sion of armed raids by Federal officials,
sometimes accompanied by bloodshed;
and who have iu many ways injured the
business of the community and Its good
name. The government having failed to
suppress them entirely, the people know
one infallible remedy remains—the price
of whisky can be mail# so low by remov-
ing the tax that the moonshiner can no
longer distil it. This is a heroic remedy,
hut the people of Mr. Candler’s district
may be ready to resort to it, and that gen
tleman may think it wise to aid in admin-
iftering it.
The difficulty about this course of treat
ment, however, is that the moonshiners of
the Ninth district cannot be drowned out
with cheap whisky without subjecting the
whole of the United Htates to a Uood of the
same stuff. If it were followed, the people
of the Ninth district would be little better
off than now, but they would hare the
satisfaction of knowing that the rest of the
country was in the same condition,
That Mr. Candler is willing that such an
experiment should be tried, though easily
explained by the peculiar circumstances of
his district, is to be regretted. Such will
ingness is not a matter of serious con
cem, however, when it is con
sidered in connection with his
declaration, made at the time such willing
ness was expressed, that he was a Demo
crat and would follow the judgment of
his party. The judgment of his party is
in favor of retaining the tax on whisky
and lessening the cost of the necessaries of
life. The Telegraph most therefore
decline to believe tlist the Constitution
speaks for Mr. Candler by authority, and
until better informed will count him in
the ranks of faithful Democrats.
In the same article, the Constitution at
tempts to show that the Georgia farmer
not oppressed by the tariff taxea, and in
tbe attempt is reduced to the necessity of
using some very absurd argument*.
The first iz thst manufactured articles
are cheaper than before the war.
Second, that the average Georgia farmer
is not affected by the tariff on materials
which go into his clothing, because his
clothe* are spun, woven and made by the
hands of bis wife, who, it must be supposed,
also spins, weave* and make* her own
clothing and that of her children.
Third, that the average Georgia farmer
“could hardly buy a paper of needle* with
the amount of the annual tax that he bas
to pay on account of the tariff.”
It i* true that manufactured articles arc
It is to be hoped that the Constitution «'ho are running hither and thither look-
If it be made plain to the people everlasting, ferment about other people,
that the largest and most ini- but have no anxiety about themselves,
portant class of our population is not only I They cut the wool off" somebody clsc’s
not advancing in wealth and the comforts sheep, und spin it on somebody else's
I,, i . wheel, and weave it in somebody else *
of civilization as the world advances, hut , oom ’ for TOmebod y eWa bacU / Mean-
Uactually moving backward, they will while, their own souls are shivering to
shake things up in such a fashion that I death.
those poor people will be given a better I So there are women busy collecting mon-
, n " , - I ey for benevolent institutions and manag-
chance. Our esteemed contemporary I , mb l ic ^airs, while their own ehildrm,
should not halt in so useful and unselfish a g„ with faces unwashed,and stocking un
work. AVe promise hearty support. I darned, and minds uneducated and souls
I unsaved. Busy everywhere but in their
Our President. ownviueyard.'
The Atlanta C0istiiution of Friday says: Now, the first thing for one to do is, to
Grover Cleveland is the greatest President this j take care of his or her own _ heart. How
country has had since Abraham Lincoln. I was it that the old saints, with less oppor-
We endorse this statement heartily, bnt ‘“"‘‘y, ‘ han have, were better men?
. * i I They hau more time lor contemplation,
to us it appears out of place in the edi- Chr f gliana no w seldom sit down to think,
torial columns of our Atlanta contcmpo- I H jn drive, am! push and pull. Their only
orary. Only a few weeks ago President quiet time is when they are on an express
Cleveland sent to Congress a message de- I S°* n 8 at Fifty miles an hour, watch
.... .. , . • ... I in hand, wondering why they don t go
daring h.s policy on the great issue of the B ; xly . j„. t | )c , f „ rc „„„m„nion they fed
day, the reform of th^tariff. The Constt-1 called upon for special self examination,
tution then asserted that tho man whom it and so take the ten minutes in which they
now eulogizes as “tho greatest President walking to church to think what mis-
, ix t t*I t* ruble offenders they have been, itow,
this country has had since Abraham Lin* I vuU have no right to give so much time to
coin” had mode a blunder which might I your neighbors’ crops that you let your
lead to tho defeat of his party. President »»wn suffer. Besides, if our own piety be
Cluveland.it said “had walked into * thin, our work will inefficient.. If we
„ • . , „ • . I have l>een much with Christ, and have
trap. Now, groat men do not walk into j dta .p personal experiences, wo will do more
traps. They arc capable of taking care ot I good in one month than" with
fhumsuVves. tu' !>• , outlier the Constitu.4 a shallow experini,'.; wo coulil do
tiou attempted to prove that President I j™. 9 nt '"" a ^ , ™
. ,, , Christian effort of to-day is mere gab; tbo
Cleveland is stupid, in Febrna-1 wor j d straight through It; while soiuc
ry the Constitution places him man who says hut little yet feels much
the pinnaclo of greatness, get* hold of the heart of an audience, and
Bnt both in December and Februi
Constitution stood in opposition to W® I always makes n great racket. Christians
President’s policy of the federal taxation. I seeking no advancement In personal piety
This is not a “petty issue,” as the Const!- own very tl monstrntive, as atearn-
tntlon characterises the .mints on which it *
. . ... i noisy you cannot hear yourself speak,
diflers with the President. It is a cardinal A man 0 f deep religious experience is
principle. President Cleveland and the I always effective. We care not how |*ior
great bulk of tho Democratic partv stand I ki* voice is, or how uncomely his counte-
„ .... ,t i„ w. ’ nance, or how awkward his gestures, or
on one side. We regret to Say that the how „{ mbby |,ls clothes, or how lame his
Constitution is on the other side. | grammar. By taking good ctire of our
_ .. . vineyard we learn how to help others in
The young New Yorker whose wife was the care of their vineyard. If you cannot
in the habit of locking him in his room I raise grapes in youi garden, you uannot
cheaper than they were in I860, and .
list of import.duties im farm product* to ington except Mr. Have*. Hc was the in- ( would If wonderful if they were not, when
show that the farmer get* his share of pro- tfmate friend cf John C. Calhoun, Daniel j the immense improvement* in labor-sav-
tection. Thus there arc duties on wheat,' Webster, Henry Clay. Howell Cobb, Kobert! ing machinery and rneth ids of Iran*porta-
corn, oats, hotter, cheese, • tc. It will oc- Toombs and msny others of the great j tU, n are considered. But they are not
car to the intelligent farmer to ask how statesmen of the republic,
these dntieaean raise the price of bis pro-! Itt polities Mr. Corcoran was a Democrat
4i>et* when an immenstiqdus of them is of the old strict construction schisil. He
sold every year in foreign markets, where loved the party and contriliuteil iilierally
the price is fixed. Would it advance the to the expense* of its campaigns. When
price of cot to
it?
they are
enough cheaper. The decline in price hai
been gn ater in oilier countries, anti the
Georgia fanner is entitled to Ids fall share
in the benefits of an advancingcirilixali,
He has a natural right to obtain tbe m
when shewent toa dance will probably I ruisethem in mine,
„,w,u ss-u-s., on ,s.
and which starts from secret comrouoij
with God—an out and out unlimited u
anee such as man cannot give in a tiubl
religious assemblage. 1
There is a mightiness in prayer. Get
Muller prayed a company of poor i
together, and.then he prayed up an ,
Inin in which they might be sheltni
lie turned his face toward Edinburg ■]
rayed, and there came a thoussnd poo 1
Ie turned his face toward London i,
irayed, and there came a thousand |k,ok
tfe turned his face toward Dublin >>
prayed, und there came a thousand potto]
The breath of Elijah’s prayer blew alitl
clouds oft" tlie sky. and it was dry weailJ
The breath of Elijah's prayer blew all tl
clouds together, and it ruined. Prayer,|
Daniel’s time, walked the cage as a lif
tamer. •
We have all yet to try the j
prayer, The time will come when tL
American church and the English clu;r.|
ami all the churches, will pray with tin
faces toward the West, and all’tlie prairi
and inland cities will surrender to (id
and will pray with their faces toward tl
sen, and all the islands and ship, will|L
come Christa in. Parents who have «a
ward sons will get down on their kneettj
say, “fxrrd, send my hoy home,” and tl
hoy in Canton shall get right up from
gaming table and go down to the £
find out which ship starts first for i
or Britain.
Not one of us knows yet fully
pray. All wc have done as yet h*< b
pottering, nnd guessing and experimer.
A boy gets hold of his father's n<
hammer, anti tries to make something: ij
it is a poor affair that be makes
father comes and takes the-aroe w
.hammer, and builds the hoti-e or tin-!
ln tlie childhood of pur Christian
wc make hut [>oor work witli these «n
of prayer; blit when we cutue pi i
stature of men in Christ, then, «a
these implements, the temple of tied*
rise, and the world’s redemption *iU|
launched.
God cares not for the length of our p
ers, or tlie number of our prayers, i
beauty of our prayers, or the place i
prayers; hut it is the faith in them
tells. Believing prayer soars higher I
tlie lark ever sang, plunges deeper t-J
diving hell ever sank, darts quicker tsj
lightning ever Hashed. Though we
used ouly tlie back of tills weapon iu
of the edge, what marvels have
wrought! If saved, we are all the
lives of some earnest prayer. Would 1
that, in the desire of tbe rescue of »
we might in prayer lay lioltl of the iu!
hie resources of the Lord omnipotent.
occasion hc ventured to slide down a rope | „f vintage will come. When the grapes in
from tbe window, and was shot at by an 1
alarmed neighbor, who mistook him for a
ldon times were gathered, there was
•qwrting through all the land, and the
, , , • i, _ . i sound of musical instruments. What
burglar. Tills woman* rights movement I jtimj 0 f clunterMshall we l»e nl>le to show,
must be looked after nnd crushed in its in-1 at least, in our vineyard? Will they be
fancy, or after awhile there will he no I stunted and sour, or ripe and large? if
man’s right*. We will all have to slide M ai ‘hful in the planting,_and tho trimming,
, . . . . .. I anu the watching, the vintage will be ulo-
down a rope to get out at night. I r j mHi (lie messengers of God put tlie
i i- d in ,r. I foR clusters into the wine press, and then.
leading Republican editors I w j tb a j| tb( , banqueters of heaven, the in-
in Minnesota have spoken out in favor of I struments chordetl to the right pitch, we
tariff reform on the line advocated by will drink new wine in our father’s king-
President Cleveland. Minnesota elected I l * om ’ /’?‘l ° , ' rs "hould I* the
* . .... I lamcntatien: “1 hey made me keeper of
three tariff reform Democrats to the pres-1 vineyards, but my own vineyard have I
ent Congress, and they are the first Demo-1 not kept.” lfuw nuieh private talk have
crats that have gone to Congress from Min-1 you every day with God? That decides all,
nesota since the war. Tariff reform is
whooping in the West.
Tlit-re is an art in everything. If, when
the harvests are ripe, we should go iuto
the field, we would find that while one hus
bandman goes over the field, cutting down
Governor Him. is said to have been | j bc ara ; n great exhaustion, halting at
very anxious that the Democratic conven- j the end of the first swath before lie has
tion should meet in New York/ but that strength again to strike into the grain, an-
■*. - ;!SL?a,K-~jz^sjsz
some of the newspa|ierH wlio see in the ac-1 ment—goes from one side of the field to tlie
tion of the committee an “administration other without any special fatigue. What
defeat” say something about the contemp- » the difference? In the onecasc the man
, . i I knows how to swing the scythe, ami in tlie
tuoos treatment the wishes of Mr. d*re-1 olber hpJoea no ,‘ B ()tK , m»„ViIl go out
land’s chief rival received? ...... ... .
with a fishing nuparaltu that has cost him
S5U and catch absolutely nothing tlie live-
Belva Lockwood, who hss been out j long day, while another man, with an ap.
among the Mormons, says they are the I paratu* prepared with his own jackknife,
most frugal people in the"world. A great " 1 ' 1 “*f h , “ “[“"f <> f ‘fn T*!?,
« h i , n ibat In* basket will bartllv bold
many men who have only one wife have them> W hat is the difference? In the
gradually acqniretl frugal habits, in order I one case the man knows how t
to keep out of debt, and no doubt the] fish; in the other he does not. W.
Mormon finds it absolutely necessary to do I ackmmledge that there is an art in every
™ I thingTls there any art in religion ? Why is , , . ,oi
“ I it that one man start* out in the Christian Cans! thou now rerall the.toad o*J»
Thr Greensboro Herald and Georgian | “ “fc.JL C
< unit thou Himmon u|» iBjbJ
The charm* of our lore lilTio**
Wbctt You mere two
Aud i wm three humln-l *** *» De '
A tstronic tHtliii
Krnni the New York World.
(Seldom ha* Harper’s Weekly pnalu
better drawn or more effective and
cartoon than that of “The Modem
neers,” in tills week’s Issue. The
ship “Monopoly,” with the tilibu
certificate holders of the modem "1
crowding its upper decks, a scorpion o»l
(lag and a skull nnd cross-hone* u I
figurehead, is tiring into the disnHO'l
ami sinking vessel "Competition.” D a >
deck of the wreck is the mangled coT
laibor, ami “Fort legislation”stsnihu
background, with Uncle Ham dancing I
the rrHif and seeking in vain to hrv
toy cannon pointed toward the ssvtge n
cancer. Tlie picture is a most telling S
at this time.
C.eorKLn All Hiuot- *
From the l/iulsvltlc Conrier-Journsl
Let us never despairof the great»
Georgia. Her people know "h**" [
and she must not bejudgeil hy th* I
of a few capitalists, who care more to'
Ia>cket* than for her good name.
Eixty-roui- yuall* In » I, ”7'
From the NcW Orleans Ttme» l>stn'«'r» l -
Andy Meadows, the crack bun « _
Nashville, Tenn.. was in
a few days ago, anti bagged sixty-* 00
in one day’s hunt. lie saystM '
about Tallahassee abounds wit" 1
which are easily got at.
Mf-ttlllsrlull lo Jlr*. 5t et ” I! ’ J
Ob, dost thou reiw,jabei**>“r >«ut ll, “ 1
When I wav ihv bnmbte -. ..
When we Uwthe.l and *lsbc<t In tbe »
ers
Eight bumlcrcit years ago?
When the brightest of future; before®
One hopeful, delicious Iraek;
When 1 was a iluile. uol a Ml blase.
Nome trifling centuries twesr
1 he v.reensnoro ..era,., .ou I fct< ., ua , H WJ ,j k Mcn ^ a thc fri|m
remarks that thc people of Georgia under-1 1)ne jjgwe grace to another, getting
stand what is back of the cry for the re-1 stronger anil mightier in the Christian life,
peal of the internal revenue. We should with no especialdrawback, his misfortunes
say to. Tbe thing back of it
too had to be concealed from
an intelligent and honest constituency,
of it U tor. big and •nd hi. trial. becoming his coadjutor* so
. . #1 nl the end of thirty year* he can look
from the eye* of | anii ^ that he bw #iade one Ion-,
Abl then iww our love
How we dwelt In mut'.Al brnv’"’.
, lieu Ton wen* thro hunatw un i
complete triumph; while another man When yon were thro hun<
I will Ire thirty year* in the church of God! An ' 1 ' wa * ,ou, hu, “ Iro
amt etten-
Mr. Arthur Gory as’* hearty endorse-1 and achieve nothing, standing where he And ran you remit In your present
ment of President Cleveland's administra- ** ‘« a «. »■" *«»«"* retrwited not n^ffifm.SdSdSrfS**'^
>v~ls{WrasE!Wi."* ^fa.’iciaaaa.wr.
tion at tbe meeting <
critic Convention, falls radly on the ear* j tllu . , nan goes "ahead and tlie other gora And how on my tuck yorr
of those disgruntled Democrats who iinag- hock? Is there any art in religion? There i^i^tiSSw^rMtV'JcIf
inerl that thc Maryland Hcnator’s head w» No.man gets on in the CliristUn life And of mine ulna bun I
' by accident. Tl»er»» u no such llunu a* „ . . .-,,,0^.1 m
haphazarel. If a man advance In the ''vv^*L‘KVlre(r"h^i'«if“ 0 ’
to put an im|*-rt duty oa Mr. Cleveland was electrsl thousand* of f or t be rm ulb, of hi«lats>r.
Iknonats m Washington marebrel not of'
1 not dnin.
Tin
low is ,
broke the *
lime, 1
I lucrtsr f» -UUt h “f‘' .
And "of mine iilue hundred an t
"‘ Uoao "- I haphazard.” If "a ' man"advan« “i't'r ihH ^ tVmwl " *
Savannah has again distinguished her- i Cirristian life rapidly anti mightily it is old age Is hStt'nulnjc to tell. 1 fe * r '
tlf. The Jasper Fmtieal was in all n-! Wanse he employ* certain mean*.and do*. And we ran not llu*er loo*.
* certain things in order to gam those Alt those happy .lays ore forever
achievements. The u.|.oi.st bsrds have *an*.
The one great secret of advancement in *y!J'u*radioI
religious experience is secre*. prayer. It is * —Froi
Jssper
spect* one of the most delightful events in
recent Georgia history. Savsnnah is a no
ble city and Georgia is proud of her.
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