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Banks County Gazette.
VOL 2.—NO. 22.
TWO SONGS.
The sun Is gone from the valleys.
The air breathes fresh aod chill;
On the barn roof yellow with lichen,
A robin ts singing shrill.
Like & tawny Jeaf is his bosom.
Like a dead leaf is his wing;
He is glad of the coming winter
As the thrush is glad of the spring.
The sound of & shepherd’s piping
Cornea down from a distant fold
Like the ripple of running water.
As tuueiesa anti sweet and cold.
The two songs mingle together;
Like and unlike are they.
For one sounds tired and plaintive.
And one riugs proud and gay.
They take no thought %if their music.
The bin! and the shepherd lad.
But the bird voice thrills with rapture.
And the human not© is sad.
—Graham K, Thompson in Ixjngraan’s Maga
zine.
Re-l imported Whiskies.
To those republicans and demo
crats who are so much opposed to the
farmers demand for a loan on real es
tate and non-perishable farm products
we commend the following, taken
from a catalogue and price list of a
wholesale liquor house at Kansas City.
Read it carefully and see how the
government came to the relief of
the liquor manufacturers when they
lias au over-d rod notion and become
embarrassed. After aliowihg them
to keep their product three years
without paying the tax, they grant
still another favor and permit them
to export their whiskies and hold
them as long as desired, or as prices
suit them. There is nothing paternal
about that! But when the farmer
wants to he put on an equality with
the liquor manufacturers, in the way
of financial aid, the monopoly press
all over the land and many of their
blind followers to go into hysteties
over the idea of the government aiding
farmers to hold their grain for higher
prices. But if the government would
treat the farmers as they do the bond
holder, the silver bullion speculator,
the liquor manufaciuer, steamship
lines and railroad w reckers, and loan
them money at a low rate of interest
or no interest at all, as they have
done in many cases, that would de
stroy the usurer’s occupation, and the
chance for a rich man to gather in the
wealth of the country without em
ploying labor would be forever gone.
This is whv the monopoly parties so
bitterly oppose the sub treasury plan
and stigmatize the proposed measure
as class legislation. We admit for
the sake of the argument that it is
class legislation to a certain extent,
but we are in favor of the “greatest
good to the greatest number,” and on
that principle it would be right. For
there is about 50 per cent of our
population engaged in agiiculture,
besides there is 22 per cent employed
as mechanics and mines that could
receive the benefit of such a measure
by getting a loan on their dwellings
at a rate of inteiest that would not
eat them up. But this is not the great
est advantage to he gained by the pro
posed measure; the increased demand
for labor and, consequently increased
wages brought about by an increased
volume of currency, would soon set
every idle man at work at remunera
tive prices, and then the demand for
clothing, furniture, building material,,
in fact, for all the necessaries and
many of the luxuries of life would
soon be increased. Because people
could purchase and pay for what they
need. Tramps would soon become a
t hing of the past, and you would not
hear this continual complaint of hard
times with the business men and
farmers. But we have digressed from
our subject; when we commenced to
write our intention was to make some
explanation of the article in question,
but we have run out at considerable
length. Here is what the govern
ment done for whisky men: “In 1880
there was an over-production of
whiskies all over the United States.
The distillers and wholesale dealers
were gTeatly embarrassed, their pro
duct being permitted by law to re
main in bond only three years. Con
gress, in order to relieve their distress
and remedy the difficulty, enacted a
law permitting the exportation of
whisky to foreign lands, to remain
there as long as desired by the own
ers; then to be reimported to this
country subject to the same taxation
as if they had remained at home and
been taken out of bond at the end of
three years. These whiskies hat e
made two sea voyages and are greatly
benefited by them. We recommend
them to the trade as strictly pure,
well matured and desirable for med
ical purposes.”—lndependent.
Victory Ahead.
Even though the senatorial con
test, now drawing to a close, should
be decided against the sub-treasury
and financial reform, the supporters
of Alliance principles have every
reason to be proud of the gallant tight
they have made, and every encour
agement to promptly renew the
struggle with increased determination.
In this first onslaught the Alliance
forces which, at the outset, were as
an army of raw militia, ridiculed,
jibed and sneered at as a pack of lu
natics pursuing an ignis fatuus, have
made the very strongholds of the op
position waver and tremble. Old po
litical bosses have been stricken with
horror and consternation because the
people will no longer bow in abject
reverence to their authority and fol
low in unquestioning obedience the
beaten path marked out by Wall
street and monopoly. The reform
army will henceforth be a fijiting
army, from the commander in-chief
at the head of the column down to
the humblest private in the ranks.
This year’s contest has purged tlie
ranks and eliminated the traitors and
camp-followers, the sutlers and ten
derfoots. The men and papers that
slipped into the Alliance for personal
gain, with the idea that they could
serve God and mammon and make a
corner on both, have revealed their
true character and fled to the enemy
or the rear at the first shock oi'bat.lc,
and only the true soldiers who can
“endure hardness” will hereafter be
found on its muster roll. It is a
significant fact, full of encouragement
to all members of the reform army,
that not a single battle has been lost
in any county in Mississippi where
the Alliance had an outspoken news
paper to champion its principles and
candidates, combined with aggres
sive, intelligent leadership. On the
other hand, in several instances, nota
bly in Carroll, Tallahatchie, Rankin,
Scott, Clarke and others, signal vieto
ries have been w<>n timer the inces
sant fire of a hostile press and the
machine politicians combined. In
Copiah, where all three of the county
papers had their batteries trained for
weeks on the sub-treasury, assisted
by all of the professional politicians
of the county, and where the support
ers of that measure did not begin
aciive work until ten days before the
primary. George was pulled through
only by the niggardly- majority of 77
votes.
With “raw troops” and an insuffi
ciency of newspapers and experienced
leaders to cover the field, tlie Alliance
has met the trained and disciplined
cohorts of the opposition, well cap
tained by tlie machine press and party
bosses, stormed their works and all
but captured their citadel. No cause
not founded on principles of justice
and righteousness could have made
such a record under such disadvan
tages, and the results achieved are a
prophecy and inspiration for future
effort. Wherever unprejudiced and
fair minded men men of other callings
have the opportunity and take the
pains to study the Alliance platform
and principles, they are making the
farmers’ cause their own. Let us
educate and piess oil. —Brookliaven
(Miss.) Leader.
Can’t Fool the Congregation.
The members of a congregation,
as a rule, are quick to discover indif
ference and laziness on the part of
their pastor in the preparation of his
discourses. 31any an able and once
highly appreciated minister lias al
lowed his grasp on his Church to be
come loosened, and his usefulness to
be largely destroyed by indulging in
the luxury of idleness during the
week, and then bringing ill-considered
badly- formulated and poorly ex
pressed extemporaneous stuff into the
sanctuary- on Sunday-, instead of the
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well beaten oil to which his people
were entitled, and with which God is
honored. Nor can he compensate for
this lack of preparation by loud and
fierce declamation. The occupants
of the pew are much too- shrewd and
penetrating to be fooled in this way
niore than a few times, if at all. One
of Lyman Beecher’s daughters said
to him one Sunday as they were going
home from church, "Father, you
preached extemporaneously to-day,
didn’t you ?” “Yes, but liow did y-ou
know it?” he asked. “Why, by the
way you shouted,” she laughingly- re
plied.—Christian Union.
The Watchword.
“lie that believetli on the Son hath
everlasting life; and he that believetli
not the Son shall not see life; but tbe
wrath of God abideth on him.” Jno.
iii. 37.
One bright summer afternoon, some
years ago, a little party of ladies and
children stood upon the wharf at a
fashionable watering place, awaiting
the arrival of a steamer that would
bring them husbands and fathers
As they waited there, enjoying the
refreshing breeze, their attention was
suddenly attracted by- a loud splash
in the water, followed instantly by a
piercing scream. As the startled
crowd turned, they saw a young man
struggling in the water. He could
not swim, and in his frantic efforts to
rescue himself he was at each strut*-
O
gle getting deeper and deeper into
the water and farther from the shore.
The ladies ran hither and thither to
find help; they found only one person
near that could render any assistance;
ha was an old sailor, who was stand
ing metionloss, watching the poor man
down before his eyes. 'The entreaties
of the ladies could not move him,
until be saw the young man cease
trying to help himself. As his hands
fell helplessly at his side, his face
told plainly that he had given up in
despair. As he arose the first time,
a look of horror came over the little
company, who were to be the unwill
ing witnesses to his death. When al
hope was gone the brave sailor leaped
into tbe water, and, ns the drowning
man arose for the last time, seized
him and bore him safely to shore. As
the ladies gathered around him, he
said, “I was compelled to wait until
he ceased trying to save himself: for
1 could save him only when lie was
without strength.” So the blessed
Christ can never save a soul until
that sou! ceases trying to save itself,
and gives up solely to the power of
Christ to rescue it from its sin. Oh,
how willingly he then reaches out his
great arm, and lifts the soul out of the
pit and the miry clay, and tenderly
washes and purifies it in the blood of
tbe Lamb, that taketh away every
stain of sin.—Demurest Times.
Quench Not the Spirit.
The Rev. I)r. Duryea relates that
on one occasion while on a journey,
and resting for the night at a small
town, he followed the sound of the
church bell and found himself in the
weekly prayer-meeting. Not having
any special duty—either to “lead” the
devotions or to “fill up the time”—he
was interested in observing- some
characteristics of the people and the
meeting. The leader announced the
familiar hymn, “Come, Holy Spirit.”
Why just then it set mo to thinking,
I cannot tell. But I said to myself,
How many of these persons are sing
ing with the understanding ? They
are asking the Holy Spirit to come to
l them. Whence do they expect him
to come? The prayers aud the talk
make the impression that the Spirit
seemed to them to be far off, that
they needed somehow to call him to
them. In some real way God must
send him, and he must draw near if
their petition was answered.
The visitor went away in a thought
ful mood and the words of Jesus
spoken after the Supper came with
great force to his mind: “I will pray
the Father and he will give you
another comforter [or helper] that he
may be with you forever, the Spirit of
truth.” And again, “He shall be in
you.” Presumably many, perhaps
all, of those who were gathered to
gether at this meeting, were true
disciples assembled in the name of
their Master; and if this were really
the case, that same Holy Spirit whom
they were invoking had already come,
and was already in their hearts.
The thought of this indwelling
Spirit in the Church through its indi
vidual members is everywhere as
sumed as a truth by the Apostle Paul.
“Know- ye not that ye are a temple of
God and that the Spirit of God
dwelleth in you?” “Your body is a
temple of the Holy Spirit which is in
you.” The Church budded by living
stones is spoken of as an habitation of
God through the Spirit. Of himself
he says, “Christ liveth in me.” To
his disciples, “Christ is formed in
you.” Hence the emphatic exhorta
tion to let the Spirit work: “Stir up
the gift that is in thee;” “Quench not
the Spirit,” and much more to the
same purpose. The New Testament
is full of it. The divine fire is not a
mystic something which is far away.
It is here, in the heart of every true
Christian. It can be smothered by
neglect. It can bo choked by world
liness and sensuality. Give the Spir
it utterance by word and deed, and
his power will grow in the soul. If
the disciple will but put himself in
sympathy with the aims of the Holy
Spirit and work together with him
for the redemption of men, the prom
ise is that he shall be “filled with all
tlie fulness of God.”—Presbyterian
Review.
Wliat a Fault-Finder is Good
For.
In the village of lived a man
who was a bold leader of all opposi
tion to religion, and always ready to
publish abroad the inconsistencies or
slioif.comings of am who were pro
feasors of religion. Alter a time be
concluded to remove from the place
:.o a distant part of the country, and
meeting the leading minister of the
village one day, after the usual saluta
tions, he said, “Well, I suppose you
know that I am going to leave town
soon, and you will probably be very
glad of it.” “Glad of it ? Why no,’
said the minister, “you are one of our
most useful men, and I shall hardly
know how to spare you.”
Taken aback by such an unexpected
reply, the other immediately asked,
“How is that? Wliat do you mean
by saying I am useful, or that you
will miss me when I am gone?” “Be
cause;” said tlie minister, “not one of
our sheep can get out of the fold but
you bark from one end of the town
to the other, and so show yourself one
of the most useful watch dogs that I
ever knew. I don’t know where we
shall find any one that can supply
your place.” The rebuke struck home,
aud the fault-finder, with a crestfallen
look, went on his way.—lllinois Chris
tian Weekly.
Trust iu God.
Sometimes we have an experience
in life that seems like walking through
a long, dark tunnel. The chilling air
and the thick darkness make it hard
walking, and the constant wonder is
why we are compelled to tread so
gloomy a path while others are in the
open day of health and happiness.
We can only fix our eyes on the
bright light at the end of the tunnel,
and we comfort ourselves with the
thought that every step we take
brings us nearer to the joy and tlie
rest that lie at the end of the way.
Extinguish the light of heaven that
gle. Ais in the distance, and this tunnel
of trial would become a horrible tomb.
Every week a pastor has to confront
these mysteries in the dealings of a
God of love. To the torturing ques
tion, “Why does God lend me into
this valley of the shadow of dark
ness?” we can only reply: “Even so,
Father, for so it seemed good in thy
sight.” We are brought into the
tunnel, however we may shrink back.
There is no retreat; we have nothing
left to us but to grasp the very hand
that brought us there, and push for
ward.
When we reach heaven we may
discover that the richest and deepest
and most profitable experiences we
had in this world were those which
were gained in the very roads from
which Ave shrank back with dread.
The real victory of faith is to trust
God in the dark and through the
dark. Let us be assured of tins, that
as the lesson and rod are of his ap
pointing, and that as bis all-wise love
has engineered the deep tunnels of
trial on the heavenward road, lie will
never desert us during the discipline.
The vital thing for us is not to deny
and desert him.
Life's Opportunities.
Someone has said that “every
face ought to be beautiful at forty;”
and another that “no old person has
a right to be ugly, because he has had
all his life in which to grow beautiful.”
That is to say, life’s opportunities of
nobleness, of even forty years of op
portunity, if well used, are enough to
make so much beauty within that it
cannot help coming through to the
surface in graceful habits of the
nerves and muscles. The tsansfigu
ration of a pleasant smile, kindly
lightings of the eyes, restful lilies of
self-control about the lips, pure shill
ings of the face as great thoughts
kindle inwardly—these tilings no pa
rent makes inevitably ours, and no
fitful week or two of goodness gives
them, and no schooling of the visaae,
either; but only habitual nobleness
and graciousness within; and this
will give them all. Nor does a wise
man think lie knows another till lie
lias watched the quick expressions
tli.it flit across the face unconsciously.
The truth will out, and in these flash
ing motions sometimes we catch the
rascal under a handsome mask, and
sometimes catch the angel where we
had l ot looked for one.-—Rev. W. C.
Gannett.
Total Abstinence Increasing.
Among the resolutions adopted at
the annual meeting of the National
Temperance Society were the follow
illg:
“Resolved t. That we rejoice in
the encouraging progress of the past
year in the direction of total absti
nence from the beverage use of all in
toxicants, and in the numerous and
pronounced testimonies of all the
leading religious bodies of the land,
Protestant and Catholic, against tbe
injurious social drinking usages, and
the wasteful and destructive drink
traffic.
Resolved 2. That the license meth
od of dealing with the liquor traffic
fails to lessen the consumption of
strong drink; that, by legalizing, it
perpetuates the drink temptation;
that it is both wrong in principle and
injurious in results; that the entire
prohibition of the manufacture, impor
tation, transportation, and sale of all
alcoholic liquors for beverage pur
poses, by appropriate state and nation
al legislation, is the only true and
effective legal remedy.
Resolved 3. That we greatly regret
the failure of the United States Sen
ate, in the dosing days of the fifty
first congress, to ratify so much of the
general act of the Brussels conference
as provides for the prohibition of the
liquor traffic in a large territorial
area of Africa, and we earnestly ask
that by the early action of the senate
of the fifty-second congress this most
desirable and beneficent end may still
be accomplished.”
The rain-making experiments last
week at El Paso, Texas, are not re
reported as a striking success. Kites
with dynamite on tln-ir tails flung in
vain their defiance at Jupiter Pluvius.
The sleepy god only blinked. Bal
loons filled with gas vainly soared
and bellowed in his tars. Rack-a
rock powder joined in the charivari,
but with as little success as the fol
lowers of Baal had when Elijah
made himself so disagreeable. A
few clouds gathered in curiosity, but
shed no tears. That night, howerer,
an unusually heavy dew fell, so we
are told, and the rain maker, acting
on the political advice of James G.
Blaine to “claim everything,” prompt
ly filed a claim on the dew. They
SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS,
have an advantage in that no one ap
pears to dispute their claims. Even
the cowboys of Texas, who are rarely
backward in making claims to all the
earth and backing them up promptly,
are singularly modest in contesting
General Dyreaforth’s claims on every
rain-storm that comes within a radius
of 100 miles. The failures so far re
corded indicate not that the experi
ments are useless, but simply that
under some atmospheric conditions
the explosions will not succeed in
oringing rain. The successes re
corded have already redeemed the
experiments from absurdity and made
them of world-wide scientific interest.
—The Voice.
Spendthrifts.
Some persons have no idea of the
value of money, or what it costs.
They want it, and will have it. Nor
are they content with a moderate
priced article they must have the
ver) best. So they dress in tbe cost
liest of silks, wear the mo'll precious
of jewels, partake of the most sumpt
uous of faros, travel in the most ex
pensive of equipages and live in the
finest of style, going to the very ex
treme of their means, and beyond
their ability, iu tbe hope that the
purse will somehow hold out and be
refilled in due season. They have no
just conception of what economy
means, never look ahead, live merely
in and for the present, and think not
of the day of settlement. They pilo
up accounts, and when pay-time ar
rives they feel the pressure, but some
how think they will do better in the
future; yet the days and months
and years roil by, and no improve
ment appears, ami at last the threat
ened catastrophe occurs, vvm-n the
splendid furniture, imupdSeeu: - an
sion,* and extensive possess) ’i* are
sold at a sacrifice and pnss’into other
hands. Spendthrifts soon consume a
colossal fortune. Many, left million
aires, iu a few years are peniless.
Numbers who have become suddenly
rich in speculation have been in a
short period reduced to want. What
comes easy goes easy. Extravagance
speedily pulls down “the great rev
enues.”—Presbyterian.
Preach the Word.
This is Paul’s command, written
under the guidance of Holy Spirit.
But while preaching the word, there
is a wide latitude in the manner of
doing it. It will be found that tin
word will be preached most acceptably
and effectively by prea-hing it with
simplicity, with freshness, with con
ciseness, and with pointedness. The
doctrines of the word should be stated
as fundame ital to all godly practice,
as moulding the thoughts, motives,
words, actions, and aims. The prin
ciples of the word should be brought
to bear upon all the duties, sins, rices,
and recreations of the age. The
promises of the word should he un
rolded to cheer, encourage, and win
souls to walk m the paths of holiness,
peace, and pleasantness. Nothing
should be kept back of all that God
has revealed, that sinners may be
converted, the wandering reclaimed,
souls saved; and God honored—•
Treasury.
Some men of ability are accident
ally brought into prominence bv a
fortuitous circumstance or peculiarity
that strikes a popular chord, and
causes them to be universally quoted
or discuss-d. Jerry Simpson ii a
striking example. In a moment of
excitement he made a humorous allu
sion to his apparel which has been
quoted more than the wisest expres
sions of the ablest minds of the cen
tury. This is liable now to prove a
public, calamity, as same men of
small mental caliber seem to have
embraced the erroneous conclusion
that Simpson's only title to greatness
is his lack of socks, and that it will
la: an easy matter for them to compen
sate for their lack of brains by sim
ply curtailing their wearing apparel,
lfon Geo. 1). Tillman seems to he a
striking example of this class, as the
newspapers report that he now asserts
that lie wears no underclothes at all.
If tins idea should ever take posses
sion of Congressman Gats, he will
probably eschew all his clothes.
Cheap iimniiation ! —Citizens Alliance